help needed with Samsung 900NF trinitron monitor and X11
Does any Debian user out there have a Samsung 900NF monitor and got the X server to work? My video card is a geforece 4MX and I will not even attempt to try to get the NVIDIA drivers to work, I know from red hat that the vesa driver works if the video card is specified as geforce2MX. If you have my setup or similar, please can u give me pointers on how to setup the x11config file, etc. thanks - Vic __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: help needed with Samsung 900NF trinitron monitor and X11
I'll try this... Keep u posted. -Original Message- From: Aaron Isotton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 1:05 PM To: Victor Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: help needed with Samsung 900NF trinitron monitor and X11 "Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does any Debian user out there have a Samsung 900NF monitor and got the > X server to work? My video card is a geforece 4MX and I will not even > attempt to try to get the NVIDIA drivers to work, I know from red hat > that the vesa driver works if the video card is specified as geforce2MX. > If you have my setup or similar, please can u give me pointers on how to > setup the x11config file, etc. thanks I don't think the monitor is the problem; probably you haven't properly configured your graphic card. Run 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' as root and choose the 'nv' driver, and take the parameters for the monitor from its manual. > > - Vic > > __ > Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Aaron Isotton http://www.isotton.com/ My GPG Public Key: http://www.isotton.com/gpg-public-key __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nvidia kernel driver source compilation - error when make install due to different kernel compiler version/current installed compiler version
- nvidia kernel driver source compilation - error when make install due to different kernel compiler version/current installed compiler version - Hello, this question has been clearly addressed in the README file on Nvidia's website, but what should I do? Get the old gcc that is the same version as the one used to compile the kernel, or get the new kernel and install the graphics drivers after I installed the new kernel? Which kernel do you suggest Debian be used with? - vic __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
booting from floopy imposible - redhat grub gets in the way (i think)
I have just made a sbm floppy for debian from their latest stable relase cd, but when I insert into the system's floppy drive, GRUB always loads over it for some reason, how do I get to startup from the floppy or to get grub to start up from the debian cd? - vic __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unable to install netscape
OK, I've installed Potato 2.2.r2, X window, Gnome, Window Maker and Enlightenment and, finally, I've been trying to install netscape 4.76 unsuccessfully. Using the three original CDs I've issued the command apt-get install netscape it starts installing netscape3 to stop after a while saying that: the netscape archive must be in /tmp under the name /tmp/netscape-v304-export.x86-unknown.linux.elf.tar.gz ... dpkg:error processing netscape3 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned exit status 1 . What does it mean and how can I install netscape 4.76 at last? Thanks for the help (I didn't know to find so many packages not working correctly under Debian)
Re: A fact & a problem
Sorry for my being so insistent but HOW I can do it? Vittorio On Monday 19 March 2001 16:35, Norman Schmidt wrote: > Hi! > > I have more than one realtek card in my computer (Debian 2.2r2 potato). > > While installing Debian, you have to load the realtek module for the > card. Later, I have compiled my own kernels (so far 2.2.17 and 2.2.18) > with the realtek driver compiled into it (monolithic). No problems > whatsoever. > As sources for that I took the original ones from ftp.kernel.org and > didn´t do it the debian way. > > This is imho totally inependent of the distribution, since the realtek > code is in the unpatched kernel source. > > Hope this helps, Norman. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > Yeah Sean, > > I know, but unfortunately in the 2.2.18pre21 potato kernel there's no > > support for Realtek NICs whilst there is even in the older versions in > > RedHat & Suse. Again, my question is: how can I overcome the snag and > > compile the source module rltk3189.c in the best way under potato? > > Vittorio
Re: A fact & a problem
Hi Norman sorry for being so insistent but HOW I can do it, step by step I mean. Thanks Vittorio On Monday 19 March 2001 16:35, you wrote: > Hi! > > I have more than one realtek card in my computer (Debian 2.2r2 potato). > > While installing Debian, you have to load the realtek module for the > card. Later, I have compiled my own kernels (so far 2.2.17 and 2.2.18) > with the realtek driver compiled into it (monolithic). No problems > whatsoever. > As sources for that I took the original ones from ftp.kernel.org and > didn´t do it the debian way. > > This is imho totally inependent of the distribution, since the realtek > code is in the unpatched kernel source. > > Hope this helps, Norman. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > Yeah Sean, > > I know, but unfortunately in the 2.2.18pre21 potato kernel there's no > > support for Realtek NICs whilst there is even in the older versions in > > RedHat & Suse. Again, my question is: how can I overcome the snag and > > compile the source module rltk3189.c in the best way under potato? > > Vittorio
Re: FW: A fact & a problem
THANKS for the many suggestions Finally I made it The problem was that I didn't check the presence of rtl3189.o in /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net. I simply found it there. Then I tried two alternative succesfull solution: 1) in the file /etc/modules.conf I added a line "alias eth0 rtl8139" and, of course, depmod. 2) I simply added a line "rtl8139" in the /etc/modules file. They both work great, but #2 seems more "complete" because I'm able to start and configure eth0 at boot time manipulating the /etc/network/interfaces. Thank you again Vittorio On Monday 19 March 2001 22:18, David Carlile wrote: > Oops! I typo'd the name of the mod. It's rtl8139.o > > -Original Message- > From: David Carlile [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 2:09 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: FW: A fact & a problem > > > Hey Bob, > > It sounds like we are trying to install the same module. I have the same > kernel build as you (2.2.18pre21) if I'm not mistaken. Check the following > path: > > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/rtl1839.o > > if it's there, try > > insmod /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/rtl1839.o > > Let me know if that works for you because I get an error from insmod when I > try it, but it may work for you. > > -Original Message- > From: Bob Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 10:55 AM > To: Victor > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: A fact & a problem > > > If that modules wasn't compiled in the default debian kernel, you have > two choices, either recompile your kernel or compile the module. If > you install the 'kernel-package' Debian package, you can use it to > create a .deb package for either approach. You will also need to > install the kernel-source package for your kernel version and the gcc > compiler (also bin86 if you have i386 hardware). Read the documents > that will be installed in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package and also the > Kernel-HOWTO (in the doc-linux-text package). These should answer your > concerns. > > Bob > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 05:42:21PM +, Victor wrote: > > Sorry for my being so insistent but HOW I can do it? > > Vittorio > > > > On Monday 19 March 2001 16:35, Norman Schmidt wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I have more than one realtek card in my computer (Debian 2.2r2 potato). > > > > > > While installing Debian, you have to load the realtek module for the > > > card. Later, I have compiled my own kernels (so far 2.2.17 and 2.2.18) > > > with the realtek driver compiled into it (monolithic). No problems > > > whatsoever. > > > As sources for that I took the original ones from ftp.kernel.org and > > > didn´t do it the debian way. > > > > > > This is imho totally inependent of the distribution, since the realtek > > > code is in the unpatched kernel source. > > > > > > Hope this helps, Norman. > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > > > Yeah Sean, > > > > I know, but unfortunately in the 2.2.18pre21 potato kernel there's no > > > > support for Realtek NICs whilst there is even in the older versions > > > > in RedHat & Suse. Again, my question is: how can I overcome the snag > > > > and compile the source module rltk3189.c in the best way under > > > > potato? Vittorio > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen > IOTA NA-065, USI WA-028S > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.230 / Virus Database: 111 - Release Date: 1/25/2001 > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.230 / Virus Database: 111 - Release Date: 1/25/2001 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.230 / Virus Database: 111 - Release Date: 1/25/2001 > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.230 / Virus Database: 111 - Release Date: 1/25/2001
Re: printer setup
I've the same problem! Coming from RedHat with its magic "printtool" I'm somewhat distressed about setting up a printer under Debian (e.g. epson 640 stylus color, which is surely supported). Please help the both of us Vittorio On Thursday 22 March 2001 07:58, Eric R Cheney wrote: > Any advice on documentation or where to look for documentation about > setting up a printer in debian? I've got an O'Riely book and the debian > web page doesn't seem to have a talk about setting up a printer where it's > easy to find. Can any one point me in the right direction? > > Thanks, > Eric Cheney > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not configuring the kernel from scratch!
Once I've installed a new-brand potato 2.2r2 from CDs, I'd like to rebuild the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. I know that I can dpkg the source kernel from my CDs and then configure and compile it but you know in this case -if you use "make menuconfig" - Debian proposes a very basic standard configuration which doesn't look the same as that installed automatically from the original CDs. I want to start from the configuration file (.config or whatever) which has generated the image contained in the standard distribution. Where can I get this configuration file? Vittorio
i810 problems
I've installed potato 2.2r2 on my desktop, a Celeron Compaq Presario, endowed unfortunately of an Intel 82810 graphic card which I would use with X and kde. I've read all the extremely poor and distressing pieces of "Documentation" about i810 both under the various /usr/doc and www.debian.org/branden and downloaded the required tar file. I've installed X86Free 3.3.6 and the server xserver-svga which according to dselect supports i810 (how? ;-( ) I've compiled agpgart.o and then I've felt lost & miserable: what does the cryptic sentence in the tar file documentation "Then recompile the glx module: ./configure --with-mesa= --enable-agp && make make install (as root)..." mean? Where is that glx module, I couldn't find it!! Is there anybody out there able to explain in a straightforward way (step by step) how I can set the i810 graphic card? Ciao Vittorio
Easy-going backup software
Hi Friends, I've set up and tailored a wonderful debian 2.2r3 in 1.4 GB of my laptop. It ticks wonderfully!! Having a wide free 4GB linux partition on my desktop at home under SuSE 7.1, to be on the safe side I'd like to back up my debian laptop connecting the two boxes through ethernet and a crossed cable. Therefore I don't need anything sophisticated and difficult to manage but a light and friendly backup software for a total and incremental backup. Please suggestions Ciao Vittorio
Re: docbook & xml in Italian
Me, again! No one using docbook & xml out there? Vittorio Vittorio [debian-user] <22/06/01 18:08 +>: > Hi, > > I've installed docbook and experimented it with XML to build a > tiny book. I'm enthusiastic about the way it builds well structured and > nice-looking documents. Less enthusiastic instead about the dispersed > and confusing documentation! > > Unfortunately the various 'Chapter', 'Paragraph', 'Index', etc. are > written in English. > > How can I tell xml (or docbook?) that I want the Italian equivalent > "Capitolo", "Paragrafo", etc.? > > Thanks in advance > > Vittorio > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
script
I'm editing a bash script but I need to execute in the given order each command to completion. E.g. ifup eth0 /etc/init.d/./samba start /etc/init.d/./hylafax start Unfortunately putting this lines in a file, while the script is still executing ifup eth0, samba and then hylafax are executed, messing it all up. What shall I do? Vitttorio
Changing user
I wonder if there's any command under debian enabling to change the name of a user to another one modifying -in doing so- everything under the home dir of the 'old' user to the 'new' one. Vittorio
Re: Anacron job 'cron.daily'
Thanks Jimmy for your extremely detailed answer. As a matter of fact I don't need any Apache on my LAPTOP; so I simply dpkg --purge htdig, and now it is all ok. Anyway I'm sure your answer will be very helpful to other people. Ciao from Rome Vittorio Jimmy Richards [debian-user] <25/06/01 08:36 -0600>: > > Hello Vittorio, > > I'm not real familiar with htdig, but it says it's a Intranet > indexing and search system. You can see the description by using the > command 'dpkg -p htdig'. Or 'apt-cache show htdig' if you don't have it > installed. If you have htdig installed and want to know what htmerge > does then type in 'man htmerge'. I believe that htdig will create a > database that indexes either your entire linux system, or maybe it just > does directories that it been configured to index, such as where all > your web pages are stored. I suppose it also creates a web page that you > can pull up in your web browser enter in what you want to search on and > then hit enter(or click a search button with your mouse) to perform the > search. But I'm not sure about that. Like I said I'm not that familiar > with it. I have installed it but haven't actually used it, yet. But I do > know that I got the same message as you posted, until one day I decided > to let a daemon run that I also do not make use of at this time, but > have installed, which is the http daemon, or apache(I did 'update-rc.d > -f apache remove after it was installed). That day, my hard drive > started going off. I thought, 'Oh, it's running an updatedb." But it > kept going, and going, and going. So I realized something more was going > on and had a look. Htdig was running. It obviously needed apache to be > up and running to create the '/var/spool/htdig/db.wordlist.work' > database that's in your(and was in my) cron job message. If you want to > use htdig and let it make the database, you'll need plenty of room on > your /var partition. I have a 20 GB hard drive, about 12 GB's of that is > used, and it used 480 MB of space for it's database files on my var > partition. Like I said, I don't know exactly what it indexed, so if I'd > had a bunch of web pages in the directory where there are normally > stored for apache to serve up, it may have even needed to make make a > bigger database than the 480 MB's. From the description of htdig it > seems that it can index several systems. So, if you have htdig installed > I think it can be set up to index other machines that are networked > to your machine. It'd probably make a real big database then! > To wrap this up, if you want the database to be created, install and > run apache(or another http daemon other than apache might work also) at > least on the day that cron kicks off the htdig job. Or, as I saw another > reply suggest, purge the htdig package with 'dpkg --purge htdig'. Or, if > you want to leave the htdig package installed, but don't want to see the > cron job message "htmerge: Unable to open word list file > '/var/spool/htdig/db.wordlist.work'", then move the cron job file into a > temporary holding directory with something like the following... > > cd /etc > mkdir temp_removed_cron.daily > cd cron.daily > mv htdig ../temp_removed_cron.daily > > Or maybe edit the /etc/cron.daily/htdig file so that it doesn't run by > making every line a comment. > > > Hope that helped Vittorio, > > Jimmy Richards > > > --- Debian gives me a Woody --- > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Description: PGP Key 0x0062D7A7.
Latex and hyphenation
I've read a lot of latex enormous, fragmented documentation and still I can't make head or tail of how I can say latex that I want the Italian hyphenation and how to use the \hyphenation command (I mean, what packages are needed, what setting and so on). Is there anybody out there able to gimme plain straightforward instructions? Thanks and ciao Vittorio
Oracle, perl & DBI under debian
Willing to use my laptop as a client of an oracle DB on an NT server and network, to start with I've just begun to read the book by Alligator Descartes and Tim Bunce on "Perl & DBI". Being at my very first steps on this field there's something somewhat obscure to me and I wonder if someone could answer this easy question of mine: To use perl and DBI:oracle do I need to install perl and the DBI stuff for oracle from the DBI site only OR perl, the DBI stuff for oracle and A SERVER (PROPRIETARY) CLIENT FOR ORACLE? Thanks Vittorio
What's wrong with debian site?
In my sources.list I've the following line: deb http://http.debian.org/debian Debian2.2r3 main contrib non-free working smoothly for a long stretch. Now updating under dselect it says that it cannot resolve http.debian.org. What's the matter with this site? Has anything changed since a couple of weeks? Ciao Vittorio
upgrading to kernel 2.4.5
I've a wonderful debian 2.2r3 laptop, almost perfectly set up and working greatly and stable. The present kernel is 2.2.19 and I compiled to tailor it (usage of memory, needless devices, etc.) to my needs. It's all OK! My simple question is: Is there any advantage to upgrade my box to kernel 2.4.5? Ciao Vittorio
Re: upgrading to kernel 2.4.5, again!
Thanks to all for the many replies! What I'm actually worried about is the stability issue of the new kernel 2.4. Bunk, the author of debs for 2.4 kernel, warns that there's no guarantee about stability because he had to use packages from unstable to make the needed debs. Besides I noticed that when you dpkg or dselect the source code and headers for 2.4.5, other deb packages are required to substitute the existing ones from stable. In a nutshell, do you believe for you direct experience that upgrading all those packages to install kernel 2.4 doesn't bring about a real risk of instability of the system? Ciao Vittorio Victor [debian-user] <04/07/01 16:03 +>: > I've a wonderful debian 2.2r3 laptop, almost perfectly set up and > working greatly and stable. > > The present kernel is 2.2.19 and I compiled to tailor it (usage of > memory, needless devices, etc.) to my needs. It's all OK! > > My simple question is: > > Is there any advantage to upgrade my box to kernel 2.4.5? > > Ciao > > Vittorio > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: Lazy panel under Gnome
Still no answer to this question of mine [EMAIL PROTECTED] [debian-user] <06/07/01 08:52 ->: > > I use the standard debian 2.2r3 distro and gnome. > > I've noticed an irritating behaviour of gnome's panel. At start up it doesn't > show all the applets but only the standard ones. Clicking repeatedly with the > mouse on the panel in its empty area, in the end it shows the few applets > I've added (a couple of launchers and the monitor for modem). > > What's going on and what should I do? > > Ciao > > Vittorio > > > > - > > messaggio inviato con Freemail by superEva > http://www.supereva.it > > - > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
gdm slight differences
When in a console I log in as user the file ~/.bashrc -tailored to add ~/bin to the path directory - is executed. Booting the PC up with gdm and logging as user it looks as though ~/.bashrc isn't executed because under Gnome terminal I can't use any script in ~/bin unless I issue the command ~/bin/.script-to-be-run. Am I right and what should I do? Ciao Vittorio
PPP dialup utility
While as root I'm able to define new accounts and use them as root with PPP dialup utility under Gnome, I can't even see the accounts and define new ones as a user. What should I do? Ciao Vittorio
Re: PPP dialup utility
Hi Jaye, As a matter of fact I regularly use PPPconfig, pon & poff both as root and as user with no problem at all, of course, in a console or in a terminal under gnome. I thought that the PPP dialup utility resorted to the same definitions of PPPconfig, but it doesn't seem to be that way (if I define under this utility a new account I cannot find it under /etc/ppp/peers). Is it possible that the PPP dialup utility of Gnome be corrupted? Vittorio Jaye Inabnit ke6sls [debian-user] <08/07/01 08:55 -0700>: > > use pppconfig and select your user! > > On Sunday 08 July 2001 10:20, Victor wrote: > > While as root I'm able to define new accounts and use them as root > > with PPP dialup utility under Gnome, I can't even see the accounts and > > define new ones as a user. > > > > What should I do? > > > > Ciao > > Vittorio > > -- > > Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls\/A GNU-Debian linux user \/ http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls > If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. > Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions
Having a wonderfully stable debian 2.2r3 box with kernel 2.2.19 compiled & tailored to my laptop's needs, I wonder if it is worth my while upgrading to kernel 2.4.5. My specific focus is on stability. What's your experience on this? Ciao Vittorio
Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions
Thanks Charlie for your reply, and, by the way, I'm not that much younger than you are (51) even though still in production :-)! What I want (and I have now with kernel 2.2.19!) is a *STABLE* linux laptop (a) to use also at work (b) to run hylafax as a server when it is needed, (c) almost invariably to be connected with samba to the LAN, (d) to use mutt as my pet mail-reader together with exim and procmail, and, finally at home, (e) to listen to music and to use my webcam. Upgrading to 2.4.x would be that advantageous to my case (remember the stability issue which is a key factor in a production environment)? Ciao Vittorio olgnuby [debian-user] <09/07/01 06:46 -0500>: > Victor wrote: > > > > Having a wonderfully stable debian 2.2r3 box with kernel 2.2.19 > > compiled & tailored to my laptop's needs, I wonder if it is worth my > > while upgrading to kernel 2.4.5. > > > > My specific focus is on stability. > > > > What's your experience on this? > > > > Ciao > > Vittorio > > I've seen two or three takes on this this morning. About all I can do is > echo the sentiments of the respondents to the previous and share my own > experience. > > It's going to be dependent on your own personal needs and wants. > > On this AMD 1.2 gig machine, running 2.2r3 I run the 2.4.5 with the ac18 > patch and a patch for the Lexar JumpSHOT flash memory card reader. The > ac18 patch is the only practical way I could figure out to get the se401 > driver I need for my Kensington vidcam unless I run a 2.4.3, or write my > own patch or what ever and I'm not quite that advanced yet. I've also > run into problems getting my particular flavor of sound to work properly > on the earlier kernels without some gymnastics with alsa. > > Don't try to compile and run a vanilla kernel from kernel.org unless > you're a hell of a lot more advanced than I am. The upgrades at > > ../people.debian.org/~bunk > > are necessary, but are simple using dselect if that, like me is, your > method. They do the necessary upgrades on modutils, ppp, etc, that you > would normally have to do on all the other distros I've tried, puts your > kernel sources in place and then you can do your config, compile and > install from there. > > As someone said a posting or two back, unless you need a lot of exotic > usb stuff etc. You would more than likely be best off with the generic > kernel. > > Me, hell, I'm 60 retired and not dependent on my computer for much other > than a toy, so I can afford to blow it out and be down if I screw it up. > ;-) > > Charlie > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions
Dear Friends, thank you very much indeed for all your valuable answers. In this very moment on another console I'm just downloading the DEBs of kernel 2.4.5 from Bunk stuff via apt-get dist-upgrade. By the way, I didn't imagine to start that nice side-thread on the age of Debian users which IMHO deserves a deeper survey. As a matter of fact I don't feel that old (as I said 51 y.o.) for dealing with linux of whatever else SO. For all my working life I've been using various SOs and systems not as an information technology man but as a(n advanced) user only, from IBM main frame to PCs. Therefore the skill with linux, poor in my case because I'm a one-year user only, is a matter of mentality acquired over time. In any case I find that the Debian distro suits older people needs better than other slick distros about. Ciao (In Italian means both "Hello" and "Bye-bye") Vittorio Victor [debian-user] <09/07/01 17:08 +>: > Thanks Charlie for your reply, and, by the way, I'm not that much > younger than you are (51) even though still in production :-)! > > What I want (and I have now with kernel 2.2.19!) is a *STABLE* linux > laptop (a) to use also at work (b) to run hylafax as a server when it > is needed, (c) almost invariably to be connected with samba to the > LAN, (d) to use mutt as my pet mail-reader together with exim and > procmail, and, finally at home, (e) to listen to music and to use my > webcam. > > Upgrading to 2.4.x would be that advantageous to my case (remember the > stability issue which is a key factor in a production environment)? > > Ciao > Vittorio > > olgnuby [debian-user] <09/07/01 06:46 -0500>: > > Victor wrote: > > > > > > Having a wonderfully stable debian 2.2r3 box with kernel 2.2.19 > > > compiled & tailored to my laptop's needs, I wonder if it is worth my > > > while upgrading to kernel 2.4.5. > > > > > > My specific focus is on stability. > > > > > > What's your experience on this? > > > > > > Ciao > > > Vittorio > > > > I've seen two or three takes on this this morning. About all I can do is > > echo the sentiments of the respondents to the previous and share my own > > experience. > > > > It's going to be dependent on your own personal needs and wants. > > > > On this AMD 1.2 gig machine, running 2.2r3 I run the 2.4.5 with the ac18 > > patch and a patch for the Lexar JumpSHOT flash memory card reader. The > > ac18 patch is the only practical way I could figure out to get the se401 > > driver I need for my Kensington vidcam unless I run a 2.4.3, or write my > > own patch or what ever and I'm not quite that advanced yet. I've also > > run into problems getting my particular flavor of sound to work properly > > on the earlier kernels without some gymnastics with alsa. > > > > Don't try to compile and run a vanilla kernel from kernel.org unless > > you're a hell of a lot more advanced than I am. The upgrades at > > > > ../people.debian.org/~bunk > > > > are necessary, but are simple using dselect if that, like me is, your > > method. They do the necessary upgrades on modutils, ppp, etc, that you > > would normally have to do on all the other distros I've tried, puts your > > kernel sources in place and then you can do your config, compile and > > install from there. > > > > As someone said a posting or two back, unless you need a lot of exotic > > usb stuff etc. You would more than likely be best off with the generic > > kernel. > > > > Me, hell, I'm 60 retired and not dependent on my computer for much other > > than a toy, so I can afford to blow it out and be down if I screw it up. > > ;-) > > > > Charlie > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Kernel 2.4.5 at last! Problems
After extreme deliberation (see my previous thread) I've installed bot the kernel-image-2.4.5 and the kernel-source & headers 2.4.5 from the Bunk's stuff. The standard kernel 2.4.5 from kernel-image is working great, whilst after compiling my tailored kernel 2.4.5 (which I obtained using the config file for my previous kernel 2.2.19 with minor changes) the following error pops up stopping the boot: .. NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for linux NET4.0 request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root devic "302" or 03:02 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs 03:02 .AND DIES!! What shall I do now? Ciao Vittorio
Squid - a bit off-topic
Sorry for this question somewhat astray. I've convinced my Information Tech Dept. to adopt a linux proxy server (instead of Win NT stuff!!) and they're thinking of Squid. Now the problem they are dealing with as newbies with linux is about user authentication. In a nutshell, because only few of us (100 people out of 650) are allowed to connect to the web, the present Win NT proxy server connect to the PDC server where a group of users authorised to connect to the Internet is defined. Of course the users don't need to provide their account and passwords. They now wonder if this same group on the PDC server can be used with Squid for the same purpose without dismantling that magnificent :-( NT server or - which is worst - duplicate list of users? Any suggestion? Vittorio
Re: Kernel 2.4.5 at last! Problems
olgnuby [debian-user] <10/07/01 10:52 -0500>: > Victor wrote: > > > > After extreme deliberation (see my previous thread) I've installed bot > > the kernel-image-2.4.5 and the kernel-source & headers 2.4.5 from the > > Bunk's stuff. > > > > The standard kernel 2.4.5 from kernel-image is working great, whilst > > after compiling my tailored kernel 2.4.5 (which I obtained using the > > config file for my previous kernel 2.2.19 with minor changes) the > > following error pops up stopping the boot: > > > > .. > > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for linux NET4.0 > > request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted > > VFS: Cannot open root devic "302" or 03:02 > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs 03:02 > > > > .AND DIES!! > > > > What shall I do now? > > Good morning. > > May be something simple like inadvertently having the > > root = > > and > > boot = > > statements out of kilter in /etc/lilo.conf > > Hope that's all. > > Charlie > > Here it is my lilo.conf # lba32 boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map # delay=20 vga=normal # default=linux image=/lin-2.2# kernel 2.2.19 label=linux read-only image=/lin-2.4# kernel 2.4.5 from kernel-image WORKING root=/dev/hda2 label=lin2.4 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.5-686 read-only image=/lin-2.4-vic01 # my kernel 2.4.5 NOT WORKING root=/dev/hda2 label=prova initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.5-686 read-only Bye Vittorio
Re: Again problems with Kernel 2.4.5
Victor [debian-user] <10/07/01 17:35 +>: > The standard kernel 2.4.5 from kernel-image is working great, whilst > after compiling my tailored kernel 2.4.5 (which I obtained using the > config file for my previous kernel 2.2.19 with minor changes) the > following error pops up stopping the boot: > > .. > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for linux NET4.0 > request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted > VFS: Cannot open root devic "302" or 03:02 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs 03:02 > > .AND DIES!! > Dear Friends, now I'm at a dead end! I cannot get rid of the above message of kernel panic. Even if I compile the kernel with the original /boot/config-2.4.5-686 -coming with the debian package of the kernel image- the error is the same. So, help me please understand which of the two following hypotheses is true: Hyp. A (utterly probable): I'm doing something wrong with the compilation of kernel 2.4.5. I follow the same procedure I'd been following for the 2.2.19 kernel, that is, after executing #make menuconfig and loading the /boot/config-2.4.5-686 config file, I issue #make-kpkg clean #no problems! #make-kpkg --revision=vic kernel_image #no problems Then, under /usr/src/, I issue #dpkg --install kernel-image-2.4.5_vic_i386.deb (Sometimes, not always, dpkg complains about missing dependencies) Reconfiguring lilo and rebooting the above panic message pops up. Hyp. B (Utterly incredible to me): There's something wrong in the original config-2.4.5-686 file PLEASE HELP Vittorio
Re: Again problems with Kernel 2.4.5
Shriram Shrikumar [debian-user] <11/07/01 06:06 -0700>: > had similar problem. before comiling, open th makefile in vi or your > fav editor and uncomment the > > export INSTALL_PATH=/boot > > line. > > good luck > No, Shriram! I'd a go at it but it still doesn't work :-( Ciao Vittorio
Kernel 2.4.5 Problems
Victor [debian-user] <10/07/01 17:35 +>: > After extreme deliberation (see my previous thread) I've installed bot > the kernel-image-2.4.5 and the kernel-source & headers 2.4.5 from the > Bunk's stuff. > > The standard kernel 2.4.5 from kernel-image is working great, whilst > after compiling my tailored kernel 2.4.5 (which I obtained using the > config file for my previous kernel 2.2.19 with minor changes) the > following error pops up stopping the boot: > > .. > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for linux NET4.0 > request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted > VFS: Cannot open root devic "302" or 03:02 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs 03:02 > > .AND DIES!! > After various attempts I found that the problem is connected to the RAM drive. As a matter of fact I had deactivated this support while configuring the kernel with no other action on the filesystem section of the configuration file. What's more, if I boot the standard 2.4.5 kernel as it comes from Bunk's stuff, it works greatly. If I boot it with the option ramdisk=8000 or whatever more than 4096 it works greatly all the same, whilst If I boot the standard kernel with the option ramdisk=0 *IT GIVES ME THE SAME, IDENTICAL ERROR AS ABOVE* and dies. In your valuable opinion, is this a bug? If not, what actions should I take? Vittorio
Starting with postgreSQL and pgaccess
I'm now having a go at using postgresql, the version included in debian 2.2r3. Now, while I've been able to create my first db and tables using psql under postgres user, I'm in trouble using pgaccess. After trying to open the same db giving its name and postgres as user it invariably answers: Connection to database failed ConnectDB().Connection refused: Is the postmaster running (with -i) at localhost and accepting connections on TCP/IP port 5432? I've checked in /etc/services for port 5432 and it is there for postgres. What should I do to make pgaccess work? Ciao Vittorio
Re: Starting with postgreSQL and pgaccess
Joost Kooij [debian-user] <17/07/01 21:55 +0200>: >Just create a valid user with your id, grant priviledges > to create new databases and then after that you can do most or all things > as regular user. First of all, thanks Joost, it now works for the postgres superuser only, not for other users I've defined. Now the problem of this absolute beginner is the definition of ID when using createuser. What exactly should I input at the prompt for it? My user ID as a linux user (the one I find in records in file /etc/passwd) or what else? Thanks again Vittorio
I did it a mess with perl
Hi Friends, I'll be a long reading for you! As an absolute beginner with Perl I've been having a go at using Perl & DBI to connect to an Oracle server. therefore I neede to download and install from www.cpan.org the DBD::Oracle and the new DBI... *The Sad Story* Reading the poor documentation under my debian potato 2.2r3 and the copious documentation on Perl (www.perl.org), perldoc and CPAN, and following the advice in dbi-users@perl.org list, not finding the command 'cpan' in my potato installation, I finally issued: perl -MCPAN -eshell which (unfortunately) started a brand-new compilation and installation (using, upon my silly declaration, /usr/bin and /usr/lib) of perl (5.6.1), and of the DBI and DBDs I'd asked for. *The bottom line* So, now I have that strange, confusing mixture of a perl 5.005 coming from a deb package and a perl 5.6.1 compiled from tarballs in CPAN under the same /usr/bin and /usr/lib. Obviously the perl command was overwritten during the compilation by version 5.6.1. *Your suggestion for a way out* Minimal: Because I need various DBDs which are not included in the deb files, is there away to fix perl as it is now in my PC? Tiresome: I luckily did a complete backup of my system tarring all the main dirs on another linux box via NFS. Therefore I could have a chance to recover my initial, working greatly, stable configuration. But what should I do to install a new DBI and many DBM and whatever else stuff from CPAN which are not included in the deb packages? Ciao Vittorio :-((
Optimizing fron source
I've installed debian potato 2.2r3 and compiled my own 2.2.19 kernel to take into account my real hardware. I see that deb packages are built for a generic i386 processor. If I want to optimize for my i686 processor can I compile debian sources packages or are they packaged to be i386 compatible only? Vittorio
Re: I did it a mess with perl
Joost Kooij [debian-user] <21/07/01 14:05 +0200>: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:22:19PM +0000, Victor wrote: > > Install dh-perl-make && rtfm && build your own libperl-dbd-foo.deb. > > dpkg -p dh-make-perl > Package: dh-make-perl > Priority: optional > Section: devel > > Cheers, > Joost Hi Joost, I'm unable to find dh-make-perl && rtfm under deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian Debian2.2r3 main contrib non-free Where can I find them? Vittorio
Re: ... a mess with perl: End of the story
Steve Kowalik [debian-user] <23/07/01 19:30 +1000>: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:47:06AM +0000, Victor uttered: > > I'm unable to find dh-make-perl && rtfm under > > > > deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free > > deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian Debian2.2r3 main contrib non-free > > > > Where can I find them? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ madison dh-make-perl > dh-make-perl |0.8 | testing | source, all > dh-make-perl |0.8 | unstable | source, all > > Ergo, dh-make-perl only exists in woody or sid. > > -- > Steve > Synthetic Transforming Entity Viable for Exploration and Nocturnal Killing So, in a nutshell: Not willing to do a mess with my potato 2.2r3 *JUST SUCCESSFULLY RESTORED* installing anything from testing or worse unstable I wonder if it is possible simply to add the needed modules simply compiling with the usual: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Should this work? Vittorio
Optimizing potato
I've a wonderful, terrific debian potato 2.2r3 installation on my portable but I'd like to optimize some pieces of software (samba, hylafax) for my actual hardware as I already did with kernel 2.2.19 recompiled to my needs. This because the precompiled packages are prepared for a generic i386 while I have an i686 processor. Starting from debian sources is it possibile to tailor the programs or do they come in a 'rigid' configuration? If yes, how? Vittorio
Re: TOT Re: Optimizing potato
Andrew Dixon [debian-user] <23/07/01 11:58 -0400>: > Victor wrote: > > > > This because the precompiled packages are > > prepared for a generic i386 while I have an i686 processor. > > > > > This is totally off topic but I was just wondering. . . > > What is an i686. i586 is the generic family of processors that the > Pentium belongs to if IIRC but I didn't realize that there was another > processor family beyond that. > > just curious as to what i686 signifies. > Hi Andy, I meant to say that I have a Pentium III 700 Mhz that usually is referred to as 686 in many linux documents. Ciao Vittorio
Cameras for linux: the million $ question
I've a laptop with debian potato 2.2r3 and like to buy a digital camera to use with it and the Gimp. Any suggestion about cameras and their compatibility with debian? Vittorio
Software for Webcam
I'd like to buy a linux compatible usb webcam of the kind of Philips. My question is as simple as that: What are the X (gnone or kde) software in debian potato 2.2r2 CD's or web sites which I should install to look at the images generated by the webcam and to stream them through the internet? Vittorio
Re: Setting up a usb scanner
Hi Thomas, at last it works! Thanks for your invaluable help. By the way, how the hell did you know that in sane.d you should've put a "usb /dev/scanner" line in epson.conf. It took me something like three endless hours of surfing the net to find a clue, a hint of something like that and not in the sane site. Anyway, thanks again. Ciao [Ciao is very informal and means both hello and byebye. It comes from the Venetian dialect word "sciao" , a distorsion of the Italian word "schiavo" (slave). In the splendid period of the past when Venetians met they salutated each other with "sciao", meaning "at your complete disposal" (like a slave)] On Monday 09 April 2001 19:57, Thomas Wegner wrote: > Hi! > > On 09-Apr-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Under debian potato 2.2r2 I've installed the Gimp and sane together > > with > > xscanimage and the sane plugins for gimp. > > Now I'm trying to set my epson 1240U usb scanner. I've followed the > > instruction given in linux-usb.org. step by step > > 1) I've issued mknod /usb/dev/scanner0 c 180 48 > > I think you mean /dev/usb/scanner0! > > > 2) insmod usbcore, uhci (I've also a usb-uhci??? what's for?), > > scanner > > giving as options the product and vendor I can see listing > > /proc/bus/usb > > devices > > 3) starting sane it complains "no device etc." and stops loading. > > I had the same problem because installing the device under > /dev/usbscanner. But your configuration seems to be correct. Do you > have configured /etc/sane.d/epson.conf? You must ad an entry like: > usb /dev/usb/scanner0. > > CiaoThomas > --- > Diese Mail wurde mit XFMail unter Debian 2.2 erstellt
Changing some settings
When my potato boots it warns me of a modprobe problem (char-major-10-135). I've tried to modify modules.conf putting an "off " at the end of the relating line. It works for some boot but "a thing" (I know that in debian potato "it" exists, but I cannot figure out where/what to manipulate!!) changes automagically my hand settings and restores the previous situation. How can I permanently modify a configuration file? Vittorio
Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group
Trying to unpack devscripts by means of dselect I've got the following error and the package has emained unconfigured: . (Reading database ... 85443 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking devscripts (from .../devel/devscripts_2.5.8.1.deb) ... Setting up devscripts (2.5.8.1) ... chown: root.root: invalid group dpkg: error processing devscripts (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: devscripts E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. .. Setting up devscripts (2.5.8.1) ... chown: root.root: invalid group dpkg: error processing devscripts (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: devscripts installation script returned error exit status 100. . I came across the same problem while unpacking lprng What does it mean and how can I fix it? Ciao Vittorio
Re: Shutting down as a user
Of course it works but it reboots the system, doesn't shut it down. That's what I want. Ciao Vittorio On Friday 27 April 2001 08:26, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > does an ordinary ctrl+alt+delete not work? > > Greetz, > Sebastiaan > > On 27 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Using debian on a stand-alone laptop I usually work as an ordinary user > > and find somewhat awkward the fact that I have to su in order to shutdown > > the PC. Is there a way to power my PC off as a user? > > > > - > > > > messaggio inviato con Freemail by superEva > > http://www.supereva.it > > > > - > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shutting down as a user
Dear friends, thanks to all of you for the many helpful suggestions. In the end I've complied with the method of Francisco Neto which is IMHO the tidiest. Here it is enclosed. Ciao Vittorio - Forwarded message from francisco m . neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - » I suggest a different approach. Still lon /etc/inittab, you can put another entry, for the keyboard request: kb::kbrequest:/sbin/shutdown -h -a -t0 now (Remember to comment out the existing kb:: etc line) The '-a' option tells shutdown to use an authorization file at /etc/shutdown.allow. In this file, you put the usernames you want to be allowed to reboot/halt the machine. When logged in, press Alt+ to halt the system with the Keyboard Request. -- []'s, francisco m. neto (a.k.a Fujikuro) "Toke au kokoro ga, watashi o kowasu." -- Ayanami Rei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - End forwarded message -
Re: Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group
Any suggestion? I'm reproposing my previous message. By the way, when it all happened I was either root or sued from a user login. Vittorio -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:21:53 + From: Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Trying to unpack devscripts by means of dselect I've got the following error and the package has emained unconfigured: . . ... (Reading database ... 85443 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking devscripts (from .../devel/devscripts_2.5.8.1.deb) ... Setting up devscripts (2.5.8.1) ... chown: root.root: invalid group dpkg: error processing devscripts (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: devscripts E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. .. Setting up devscripts (2.5.8.1) ... chown: root.root: invalid group dpkg: error processing devscripts (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: devscripts installation script returned error exit status 100. . . ... I came across the same problem while unpacking lprng What does it mean and how can I fix it? Ciao Vittorio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Problems with printing
I've installed lprng and apsfilter duly configured for my epson sc 640. Now it doesn't print anything (whilst the test with apsfilterconfig was ok) and invariably gives me something like that debian:~# lpr /etc/printcap debian:~# lpq Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'y2prn_printerLR.upp ascii' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: removing job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' - ABORT at 21:59:34.900 What does it mean and what should I do to make my printer work? Ciao Vittorio
Does apsfilter work?
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Problems with printing Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:56:29 -0400 From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problems with printing Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:59:34AM - In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Well, Wayne, I don't really think a Debian potato distribution fails in a > strategic and basic piece of software such as apsfilter. I rather think > there's something wrong in my configuration relating to authorizations but > I don't know where and what to manipulate. Perhaps I missed to define some > special group, or whatever else. What strikes me is that the test which > apsfilterconfig suggests works great, while any following attempt to print > dies unexpectedly. Any suggestion to fix it before eliminating apsfilter? > Vittorio Well I messed with it for a few hours and could never get it to print anything as nice as the test page (which was really nice). I read all the docs but could not get the results I wanted on the printer. I am sure that it is a good package as many people do use it. I just could not get it working correctly. That said, maybe someone else can point you to what need fixing. Magicfilter took less then 5 minutes to get working and another few minutes to set up a2ps and i was up and runing. I needed a working printer so I took the path of least resistance. BTW, you should set your lines to a 70-72 char length for this list. Good luck! You should be getting responses from those who did get apsfilter running. regards -- Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught how __not to. So it is with the great programmers. ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
A mess with startx, xdm and gnome
I had installed gnome and xdm under potato 2.2r3 and XFree86 3.3.6 on my workstation . Sometimes I used startx and some other time xdm to launch gnome and all had been working great. Yesterday, because I wanted to install the Gimp 1.2 resorting to the debian unstable site packages, I issued the "apt-get gimp1.2" command which, as well as downloading and installing the required program, has installed many other libraries and, above all, the entire set of programs relating to XFree86 4.0.3. It all worked fine, all the pieces of software were configured BUT now I don't have any longer both startx and xdm. The only thing I can do is start "XF86_SVGA" which shows me a "useless" graphic display (the same when you start for instance startx) . Please HELP! Is there anyone able to explain how can I have the all thing fixed in order to have startx, xdm and finally gnome working. Ciao Vittorio
A mess with startx, xdm and gnome
I had installed gnome and xdm under potato 2.2r3 and XFree86 3.3.6 on my workstation . Sometimes I used startx and some other time xdm to launch gnome and all had been working great. Yesterday, because I wanted to install the Gimp 1.2 resorting to the debian unstable site packages, I issued the "apt-get gimp1.2" command which, as well as downloading and installing the required program, has installed many other libraries and, above all, the entire set of programs relating to XFree86 4.0.3. It all worked fine, all the pieces of software were configured BUT now I don't have any longer both startx and xdm. The only thing I can do is start "XF86_SVGA" which shows me a "useless" graphic display (the same when you start for instance startx) . Please HELP! Is there anyone able to explain how can I have the all thing fixed in order to have startx, xdm and finally gnome working. Ciao Vittorio ---
Startx error with XFree86 4.3 & i810
I was compelled to download the unstable XFree86 4.3 in order to use the new Gimp 1.2. Now when I issue the command startx the following error pops up and the hraphic display doesn't start: . (II) Module ramdac: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.3 Symbol VBEInit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol vbeDoEDID from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o is unresolved! (II) do I need RAC? No, I don't. (II) resource ranges after preInit: [0] 0 0x4020 - 0x4027 (0x8) MS[B] ... (==) I810(0): Write-combining range (0x4400,0x200) (II) I810(0): Setting dot clock to 49.5 MHz [ 0x1f 0x6 0x30 ] [ 33 8 3 ] (II) I810(0): chose watermark 0x22009000: (tab.freq 49.5) Fatal server error: AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 ... Is there anyone out there able to explain what do those VBEinit and vbeD0EDID symbols mean and how I can fix the problem? Ciao Vittorio
Printing with the Gimp
I've installed the Gimp 1.1 under debian 2.2r3 and set my printer up by means of magicfilter. Now, I'm at a loss for printing with Gimp. When I ask Gimp to print, it shows a menu in which the buttons "File*" and "setup" are present. Because I don't want to print to a file I choose setup and I'm presented with a "postscrit2" or my printer. Then Gimp asks me the PPD () file Taking into account my venerable age (51) and the fact that I'm an absolute beginner with the Gimp could you please tell me STEP BY STEP how can I print with the Gimp? Ciao Vittorio
Hylafax probs
I've just installed Hylafax under potato. When I've launched faxsetup the program has complained about the absence of the courier definition under /usr/share/enscript/afm, while there are many afm files under that directory. I've tried to add the line "FontDir: /usr/share/enscript/afm" and now faxsetup is complaining that the program etc/hylafax/vgetty-link is missing, which is true! How can I fix the problems and where can I find that vgetty-link file? Ciao Vittorio
Re: Printing with the Gimp
Well, Ethan, I tried the same solution and it worked but, let's face it, it's a somewhat makeshift solution! Is there anyone out there able to give the right hint? Vittorio On Monday 14 May 2001 12:44, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:15:06PM +, Victor wrote: > > I've installed the Gimp 1.1 under debian 2.2r3 and set my printer up by > > means of magicfilter. > > > > Now, I'm at a loss for printing with Gimp. When I ask Gimp to print, it > > shows a menu in which the buttons "File*" and "setup" are present. > > Because I don't want to print to a file I choose setup and I'm presented > > with a "postscrit2" or my printer. Then Gimp asks me the PPD () > > file > > i have the same problem, both with potato's gimp 1.0 and 1.2 from sid > compiled on potato. i have yet to find out a solution. and i have > installed gimp-print, made no difference. > > > Taking into account my venerable age (51) and the fact that I'm an > > absolute beginner with the Gimp could you please tell me STEP BY STEP how > > can I print with the Gimp? > > this is how i do it: > > let gimp print to a file, say /tmp/gimp.ps > lpr /tmp/gimp.ps > > annoying but it works. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
A philosophical one
What's the relation(ship) between the list debian-user@lists.debian.org and the newsgroup linux.debian.user? I mean messages posted to the latter are shown also in the former or not? How about the fact that in this list you are compelled to subscribe while in the newsgroup no?
Booting under a user login
I succeded in convincing my wife to use StartOffice for her work abandoning M$ Word. In order to make it easier the access to a user login to a newly acquired absolute beginner to linux, I'd like to set her PC's boot up so that it goes automatically under a certain user login (I mean without being prompted for a username and , possibly,password). Is that possible and, ABOVE ALL, how? Ciao Vittorio
Re: Booting under a user login
Yes, but you know, with 64 MB of memory, choosing kdm (and kde as a desktop) StarOffice runs very slowly. For my experience on my laptop I prefere to start StarOffice by means of startx putting these two lines in .xinitrc: icewm # a much ligther window manager than any gnome or kde /home/user/office52/./soffice # In so doing I spare about 15 Mb of memory in favour the CUMBERSOME StarOffice. Any other console-command option? to put in a bash script? Vittorio On Tuesday 22 May 2001 11:50, Ilya Martynov wrote: > V> I succeded in convincing my wife to use StartOffice for her work > abandoning V> M$ Word. > V> In order to make it easier the access to a user login to a newly > acquired V> absolute beginner to linux, I'd like to set her PC's boot up so > that it V> goes automatically under a certain user login (I mean without > being V> prompted for a username and , possibly,password). > V> Is that possible and, ABOVE ALL, how? > > AFAIK kdm has support for autologin. I've never used autologin myself > but according kdm documentation it does what you want.
First step with Mutt
I'm accustomed to use graphic email reader such as kmail or balsa. Now I find very interesting the opportunity of adopting a console email reader such as Mutt in terms of memory requirements, quickness and flexibility. But I understand that Mutt is only a mere reader and in its documentation I haven't found any clue on how to set it up in order to receive & send the mail. Therefore I suppose other programs are needed to make it work (think of something hostile like exim, send-/fetch-/mail and so on). Could someone show me how I could configure e.g. exim to reach my ISP and my smtp and pop3 servers ? Vittorio
Re: Unsent mail under exim
Not exactly! I mean when you send a message but the dialup connection is not on by your misfortune, I think that exim takes care of it and queues it somewhere waiting to send it out later on. Anyway, Matthias, I did not know of the postpone feature (resembling more to the "draft" folder of graphics readers) which is interesting all the same to me. Thanks Matthias Richter [debian-user] <12/06/01 11:33 +0200>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue Jun 12, 2001 at 08:35:00AM: > > I'm using exim as my pet MTA and mutt as a mail reader on my laptop. > > Now, I've set up a .forward file to filter entering messages and it > > all works great. > > But I don't know how to tell exim to put the unsent (because there's > > no dialup connection) mail in a folder like 'unsent-mail' or > > 'queued-mail' (I can read with mutt) and keep it updated. > > If I understand you correctly: you are rather searching the postpone > feature from mutt than some let-me-see-my-mail-queue feature from exim: > "Postpone" lets you store, view and edit already composed but still > unsent mails. > > Matthias > -- > Matthias Richter --+- stud. soz. & inf. -+-- http://www.uni-leipzig.de > -->GPG Public Key: http://www.matthias-richter.de/gpg.ascii<--
Querying Oracle
I'd like to query a database on an Oracle NT server from my laptop using the LAN at my office. What should I install to this end on my linux-box laptop? Ciao Vittorio
Starting with XML
Hi, In my job I now need to transfer data between application using XML. As an absolute beginner in this field I'm asking you the very very basic of XML. As far as I know having leafed through debian documentation XML as a tagged language is a subset of SGML therefore: 1) What deb packages should I install to build and view XML documents? 2) Where can I find documentation both on the packages themselves and, above all, on XML? Ciao Vittorio
Rokon keresés
Nyugat Kanadában Kelowna városban lakok. Nejemmel jó barátságban vagyunk Dési Markával aki Dr. Maróti özvegye. Megkért, hogy kutassam fel a Benák családot. A következő adatokat adta számomra: Három tesvér, István, János és Klári Nagyszülők, Janő és Margit Apa neve, István Szegedi lakósok voltak 1948 és 1950 körül Kecskéstelep-en laktak. Mivel Benák István nevet találtam a "Search Engine"-en, gondoltam, hogy megkérem legyen szives válaszolni és közölni, hogy jó nyomon vagyok, vagy esetleg ismerik a fenti családot. Marika egyedül él és szeretne felvilágositást a családról. Kérem az Email cimemre elküldeni hogy továbithassam. A Posta cim fontos lenne, mert Marikának nincsen számitó gépe. Köszönöm előre a felvilágositást. Viktor Hrussóczy-Wirth 887 Mount Royal Drive KELOWNA, B.C. V1Z 3M3 CANADA
Debian sarge - raid
I have one hdd and I inserted another to make a raid1. On short when I tri to start raid md_i, raid md_i-1 starts instead. So I do "raidstart /dev/md3" and /dev/md2 starts. In the log appears the following message when I do raidstart: Sep 22 12:36:31 xchange kernel: md: can not import ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7, has active inodes! Sep 22 12:36:31 xchange kernel: md: could not import ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7! Sep 22 12:36:31 xchange kernel: md: autostart ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 failed! Sep 22 12:36:31 xchange kernel: md: could not import ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part7! Sep 22 12:36:31 xchange kernel: md: autostart ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part7 failed! Thank you. This is the /etc/raidtab file: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 chunk-size 64k persistent-superblock 1 nr-raid-disks 2 device/dev/hda1 raid-disk 0 device/dev/hdc1 raid-disk 1 raiddev /dev/md1 raid-level 1 chunk-size 64k persistent-superblock 1 nr-raid-disks 2 device /dev/hda5 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc5 raid-disk 1 raiddev /dev/md2 raid-level 1 chunk-size 64k persistent-superblock 1 nr-raid-disks 2 device /dev/hda6 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc6 raid-disk 1 raiddev /dev/md3 raid-level 1 chunk-size 64k persistent-superblock 1 nr-raid-disks 2 device /dev/hda7 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc7 raid-disk 1 raiddev /dev/md4 raid-level 1 chunk-size 64k persistent-superblock 1 nr-raid-disks 2 device /dev/hda8 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc8 raid-disk 1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian sarge - raid
The problem is like this: One hdd has ext3 "partitions," the other hdd has "linux raid autodetect". Could this be the rason for what is hapening? But how can I sincronize these 2 hdd's(I don't want to format the hdd with ext3)? Alvin Oga wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, victor wrote: The kernel is version 2.4.26. The module md is loaded. cat /proc/mdstat returns: md2 : active raid1 ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part7[1] 44335744 blocks [2/1] [_U] sounds like oyu're missing the 1st disk md1 : active raid1 ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part6[1] 4882624 blocks [2/1] [_U] sounds like oyu're missing the 1st disk md0 : active raid1 ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part5[1] ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1[0] 4882624 blocks [2/2] [UU] sounds like the 1st disk worked... ( whacky ) - if the disk is bad ... all /dev/mdxx should look the same ... did you do raidhotremove, raidhotadd of the /dev/hda from each partition ( /dev/md0 ... /dev/md2 ) c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Emacs tutorial [was: Extracting tabular text from a pdf]
Le 29 Nov 2019, Richard Owlett a écrit : Any recommended Emacs tutorial? If retirement isn't for learning, what use is it ;} I learned a lot on ergoemacs.org. It has a practical emacs tutorial: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs.html There’s also the Emacs guided tour on gnu.org: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ And then, of course, there’s the full Emacs manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/ One of the nice things with Emacs is that all its functions, variables, shortcuts are well documented. That documentation can be accessed with Ctrl-h ?. Stackexchange (https://emacs.stackexchange.com/) and reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/) are active resources for information about specific aspects/problems one might encounter. Cheers, Victor
Re: RFC Debian and Xfce daily desktop on Dell Latitude 54XX
Le 03 Dec 2019, David Christensen a écrit : debian-user: Is anyone running Debian and Xfce as a daily desktop on a Dell Latitude 54XX laptop? If so, please comment. I’ve been using xfce for the last 3 or 4 years on a latitude E5440 (bought seconhand). - Worked seamingless right after installing Dein. I don’t remember having made any software customizations related to the hardware except for the fancontrol. - The fan went on too often and too hard to my taste. The temperature was kept around 35°C. Safe, for sure, but also a bit noisy and draining on the battery. I used i8kmon (from the repos) to tame it. It is specific for the Dell laptops. - I changed the mechanical HD for an SSD one. This increased significantly speed and battery life. - I changed the 4 cell battery for a bigger one (9cell I think -> the ones that stick slightly outside the mainboard). I now get roughly 9 hours of real working time between charges. - I changed the screen once (because I broke mine accidentally). It was an easy operation and the replacement screen was affordable on the internet. If you have the choice, I’d recommend a matte screen (not a glossy one as it is significantly more difficult to read under bright conditions). Cheers, Victor
alternative to avidemux?
Hi, I’m looking for an alternative to avidemux. I need it for two specific tasks: a) cut and remux videos without reencoding (so you can cut a 30min chunk in a 3h video without loosing quality) b) burn in .ass/.ssa subtitles (this is the Substation alpha format, where you can do fancier things than with srt) + It should have a gui, especially for the (a) task (to locate precisely the in/out cutting points). I used to do this with avidemux when I was on ubuntu and it worked all right. But avidemux is not part of the official Debian packages. It is on deb-multimedia, but I’d prefer not to enable a whole repo just for this. I did compile avidemux successfully in the past, and it worked. But now it’s broken probably due to some upgrade I did meanwhile… So before I set to recompile it, I was wondering if maybe some other program in debian (Jessie) includes the above features. Thanks for reading! Blue skies, Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54f17feb.2050...@svictor.net
Re: alternative to avidemux?
On 28/02/2015 10:23, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/28/2015 03:44 AM, Victor wrote: Hi, I used to do this with avidemux when I was on ubuntu and it worked all right. But avidemux is not part of the official Debian packages. It is on deb-multimedia, but I’d prefer not to enable a whole repo just for this. I enabled deb-multi and had various problems with VLC after. I REALLY wanted avidemux, too, but played merry hell purging the deb-nultimedia packages after. If you can compile avidemux from source, please let me know what packages you had to install. Ric Build dependencies are listed here: http://avidemux.org/admWiki/doku.php?id=build:install_2.6 However the supplied build script fails if you give it the --deb option. It complains about something related to fakeroot. After some searching I found that other people experienced that problem too and solved it with two edits in bootStrap.bash. 1) comment out the line $FAKEROOT_COMMAND make package DESTDIR=$FAKEROOT_DIR/tmp || fail package replace it with fakeroot make package DESTDIR=$FAKEROOT_DIR/tmp || make package DESTDIR=$FAKEROOT_DIR/tmp || fail package 2) comment out the block that says export FAKEROOT_COMMAND="fakeroot" CMAKE_VERSION=`cmake --version | sed "s/^.* 2\.\([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\).*/2\.\1/g"` echo "CMAKE Version : $CMAKE_VERSION" case "$CMAKE_VERSION" in 2.8.8|2.8.7|2.8.9|2.8.10|2.8.11|2.8.12|2.8.13) echo "Cmake version >=2.8.7 doesnt need fakeroot" export FAKEROOT_COMMAND="" ;; esac This builds and installs ok here. The resulting qt4 version works fine. The gtk one doesn’t. It just displays a window with "Glade Cannot load glade file". That being said, I’m still looking for an alternative to burn .ass/ssa subs and to cut a video without reencoding… Cheers, Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54f19c16.9010...@svictor.net
Re: alternative to avidemux?
On 28/02/2015 23:26, Ric Moore wrote: Whew! I had to install "all the things-dev" and it finally completed successfully. Thanks! Glad that it worked ! So does anyone know of another gui tool which could do at least one of the following: a) cut videos without reencoding b) burn ssa subs into a video? I can’t believe Avidemux is still the only gui way to do that (and that it’s not part of Debian)! At least (a) is quite a common need, isn’t it? Cheers, Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54f5ad8b.7060...@svictor.net
Re: alternative to avidemux?
On 03/03/2015 18:05, Dan Ritter wrote: subtitles: - gnome-subtitles (1.2-4 in Wheezy) - aegisub (2.1.9-1 in Wheezy) - subtitlecomposer (0.5.3-3 in Wheezy) These are for editing the subtitle files. I use aegisub, and it’s great. But none of these software can burn the subtitles into the images. lossless cuts: - gopchop (1.1.8-5 in Wheezy) - MPEG2 only - possibly OpenShot, if you stay in the right format I didn’t know about gopchop. Sounds interesting. However nowadays my main need is to cut mp4 videos (h264/aac) and occasionally some avi (xvid/mp3). Last time I checked, OpenShot didn’t have a direct copy/remux function (without reencoding). I still can’t find it in 1.4.3. Did I miss something? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54f6381a.2020...@svictor.net
Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools
On 03/03/2015 18:13, Hendrik Boom wrote: What free software is there in the way of organizing lots of documents? To be more precise, the ones I *need* to organize are the files on hard drives, though if I could include documents I have elsewhere (bookshelves and photocopy files) I wouldn't mind. They are text documents in a variety of file formats and languages, source code for current and obsolete systems, jpeg images, film clips, drawings, SVG files, files, object code, shared libraries, fragments of drafts of books, ragged software documentation, works in progress ... And I'm not looking for one single solution that will do everything I'd like. Indeed, I suspect that's impossible without building an entirely new OS. Which I'm not likely to find off the shelf, nor am I likely to be able to do it myself in the few decades I may have left in my life. And even if it were feasible, there's probably a lot of research to be done before we even know what such a thing should actually do. Of course the files are already semi-organized in directories. But I haven't yet managed to find a suitable collection of directory names. Hierarchical classification isn't ideal -- there are files that fit in several categories, and there are a lot files that have to be in a particular location because of the way they are used (executables in a bin directory, for example) or the way they are updated or maintained. Of course the taxonomists would advise setting up a controlled vocabulary of tags and attaching tags to the various files. I'd end up with triples store or some other database describing files. But how to identify the files being tagged? A file-system pathname isn't enough. Files get moved, and sometimes entire directory trees full of files get moved from one place to another for various pragmatic reasons. And a hashcode isn't enough. files get edited, upgraded, recompiled, reformatted, converted from JIS code to UTF-8, and so forth. Images get cropped and colour-corrected. And under these changes they should keep their assigned classification tags. Now a number of file formats can accommodate metadata. And some software that manipulates files can preserve metadata and even allow user editing of the metadata. But more doesn't. Much of it could perhaps be done by auttomatic content analysis. Other material may require labour-intensive manual classification. No I don't expect to see any off-the-shelf solution for all of this. But does anyone have ideas as to how to accomplish even some of this? Even poorly? Does anyone know of relevant practical tools? Or have ideas towards tools that *should* exist but currently don't? I'm ready to experiment. -- hendrik For tagging your files, have you seen tmsu (http://tmsu.org/)? The homepage says: TMSU is a tool for tagging your files. It provides a simple command-line tool for applying tags and a virtual filesystem so that you can get a tag-based view of your files from within any other program. TMSU does not alter your files in any way: they remain unchanged on disk, or on the network, wherever you put them. TMSU maintains its own database and you simply gain an additional view, which you can mount, based upon the tags you set up. The only commitment required is your time and there's absolutely no lock-in. Never used it myself. I’m not sure how it handles moving/renames of files, which is one of your concerns. Maybe there’s something planned in it for that. At least it makes the tagged filesystem available in any program, which is quite convenient I think.
Re: alternative to avidemux?
On 07/03/2015 02:37, Anil Duggirala wrote: Im using avconv to do this, it is a part of libav-tools package, and its probably faster if you are doing this on a regular basis, use the -ss option along with the -t option. Thanks. Indeed avconv can do it. But as I said, I’d prefer something with a gui. The reason is that I have to also teach my wife and my students how to do it. Commandline would seem too complicated to most of them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54fadef6.4060...@svictor.net
Prevent apt/dpkg from automatically enabling services during the upgrade process.
Dear Debian friends, I use Debian Sid as my home distribution, and I have an annoying problem. If I disable some services with "systemctl disable service", it happens that whenever an upgrade of any service's package appears, apt/dpkg will automatically enable the service during the upgrade process. Is it there a way to avoid that behaviour? I don't want to disable the services every time that there is an upgrade of my disabled services. Thanks in advance. Éter.
must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)
Ok, so 2 days of RTFM and nothing. First let me make sure we have it set straight - LILO and GRUB are NOT an OPTION! Why, doesn't matter (cuz I'm fancy like that), what I want is a simple kernel on a floppy that I stick in and boots my Linux machine simple, no frills. Found some good tutorials, made the floppy, boot the kernel, then says like no root at "" I'm like, "no SHIT??" I took a screen of the stuff, (dunno if this list allows attachments.) anyway, if u can help me please do so, (it means a lot to me) thanks. - Vic (details) kernel from unstable I think 2.4.20 or something boot dev = /dev/hda7 P.S. Why is Debian so retarded on simple boot floppies??? Red Hat is like: makebootdisk And done! WHY WHY WHY? <>
RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)
Here is what I get if I do mkboot, a lost and found folder and a vmlinuz file. I tried this before, it doesn't work, but in the man it says something about if lilo is in use it des something with lilo??? I don't want anything but a simple straightforward way to make a simple straightforward boot disk that is all. How exactly, does Debian do it when it installs itself? It asked me if I want a boot floppy and then it made one simple as that. Why does that application/script not exist now when everything is in place? OR, here is another avenue; I already have the old original 2.2. floppy and it gives me a boot: prompt (for like 3 seconds!) can I put any stuff in there that will allow me to boot the new kernel? Or can I somehow modify that boot floppy so it works with the new kernel? I would like a way in which I don't have to edit or add anything to the old floppy since its trustworthy... -Original Message- From: Rus Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:31 AM To: Victor Stan Cc: debian Subject: Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage (simple boot floppy qveshtion) On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Victor Stan wrote: > Ok, so 2 days of RTFM and nothing. > > First let me make sure we have it set straight - LILO and GRUB are NOT an > OPTION! > > Why, doesn't matter (cuz I'm fancy like that), what I want is a simple > kernel on a floppy that I stick in and boots my Linux machine simple, no > frills. > Have you tried mkboot? (see man mkboot) Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "More bits for your bite" Lifetime FreeBSD + Linux Hosting and Shell Accounts Please respect RFC1855 and don't top post <>
RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)
I will try this, but can I give it a specific kernel? Like: cp /vmlinuz-2.4.2.00.etc.etc. /dev/fd0 -Original Message- From: Don Hayward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:57 PM To: Victor Stan Cc: Rus Foster; debian Subject: RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage (simple boot floppy qveshtion) On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Victor Stan wrote: > Here is what I get if I do mkboot, a lost and found folder and a vmlinuz > file. I tried this before, it doesn't work, but in the man it says something > about if lilo is in use it des something with lilo??? I don't want anything > but a simple straightforward way to make a simple straightforward boot disk > that is all. Something I used to do -- haven't done it lately -- but it used to work. cp /vmlinuz /dev/fd0 Don Hayward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mote Marine Laboratory Office: 941.388.4441 Cell: 941.302.4982 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway Fax: 941.388.4312 Sarasota, FL 34236 See: http://www.mote.org Independent, non-profit, marine and estuarine research and education facility. For PGP public key do: http://www.mote.org/~don/donpgp.asc use "DISCLAIMER"; # We run Debian Linux Taxes feed the starving and clothe the naked. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)
Actually I WANT something that only does one thing with no options whatsoever, as long as it boots my new kernel that is all I care. -Original Message- From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage (simple boot floppy qveshtion) Victor Stan said: > Why is Debian so retarded on simple boot floppies??? Red Hat is like: > makebootdisk And done! WHY WHY WHY? I think debian 2.2 had the mkbootdisk program. I don't see it in 3.0. I really didn't like it. Main reason was that it seemed to use SYSLINUX and created a boot disk which I was unable to pass kernel parameters to at runtime. e.g. different root partition, scsi driver options(most often used is aic7xxx=no_reset), memory options(mem=XXXM), init options (init=/bin/bash) ..maybe the redhat version is different in this regard. Second, because of the above the bootdisk was generally tied to a specific system, since my root device is usually different on most every machine I have. Looking at the mkbootdisk manpage on my redhat 7.3 makes me think of this tool I used on debian 2.2, not 100% sure but it looks the same ..looking at the /sbin/mkbootdisk script(bash script) itself I think confirms it, it uses a MSDOS filesystem on the floppy and uses syslinux to make the disk:( ugh. The syslinux package description on debian 3.0 even says: "SYSLINUX is probably not suitable as a general purpose boot loader. However, SYSLINUX has shown itself to be quite useful in a number of special-purpose applications." so, I make my boot disks manually using lilo, there seem to be some boot/root disk tools(apt-cache search bootdisk). Gives me the flexibility I need. Haven't tried making a bootdisk with grub(very little experience with grub myself). nate (happy debian user since 1998) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)
"dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192" Ok, I see something here that I have seen before and I need some clarification (the nubie that I am) everyone saiz vmlinuz, but currently I run and boot into the old one, the new one is vimlinuz-2.4.20-686 or something similar and is located in the boot folder, together with the old one and others. Now I want to make sure that I use the new one, will your instructions or anybody's instructions of doing something with vmlinuz going to assure that whatever that command of option or flag (whatever) that is going to - I'm repeating myself- use the new kernel? - Vic -Original Message- From: Todd Pytel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:35 PM To: debuser Subject: Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage (simple boot floppy qveshtion) On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:00:21 -0500 "Victor Stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why, doesn't matter (cuz I'm fancy like that), what I want is a simple > kernel on a floppy that I stick in and boots my Linux machine simple, > no frills. OK, easy provided that your kernel has filesystem support for the root filesystem compiled in (not as a module). Otherwise, you need initrd and it ceases being easy. > kernel from unstable I think 2.4.20 or something > > boot dev = /dev/hda7 OK, do this, substituting your kernel location as appropriate fdformat /dev/fd0 dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192 rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda7 rdev /dev/fd0 (just to check... should report the correct root partition) That's it. --Todd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tar ate my symlinks
I backed up my debian installation with the following: tar --preserve -cv / | ssh 192.168.2.10 'cat > linuxbackup.tar.bz2' And attempted to restore it with the following: ssh 192.168.2.10 'cat linuxbackup.tar.bz2' | tar -jxv Both commands were run as root. However, I now have a *lot* of broken symlinks, which show up like this: --1 root root0 Mar 17 13:19 xdvi.bin --1 root root0 Mar 17 13:19 xmlproc_parse --1 root root0 Mar 17 13:19 xmlproc_val --1 root root0 Mar 17 13:19 yacc Fixing the rc*/* symlinks allowed me to boot, but the system is still practically unusable. Is there something I can do or should have done to preserve the symlinks? And failing that, how do I get the system back into a usable state? It seems that /var/cache still contains all the debs I've ever downloaded, and network access is working. Thanks in advance to anyone who helps make my machine usable again. -- Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tar ate my symlinks
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:53:26AM -0800, nate wrote: >Brian Victor said: >> I backed up my debian installation with the following: >> >> tar --preserve -cv / | ssh 192.168.2.10 'cat > linuxbackup.tar.bz2' > >may I ask why? I have never heard of someone attempting such >a task in that manor. As I mentioned in another email, cat should have been bzip2. It was the only way I could find to store a compressed backup without running a network file server, which seemed to be more trouble than it was worth. >Checking tar's manpage reveals no mention of the preserve option either. Mine says: --preserve like -p -s >You probably do not want to try to tar up the entire root partition as >that includes /proc which is generally a real bad thing to try to backup. Indeed. I've already made a note to exclude it and /dev next time. Though it was fun watching it try to pack up /proc/kcore. ;) However, it does sound like a reinstall is in the cards. Thanks for the ideas. -- Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tar ate my symlinks
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:43:09AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: >* Brian Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030317 07:52 PST]: >> I backed up my debian installation with the following: >> >> tar --preserve -cv / | ssh 192.168.2.10 'cat > linuxbackup.tar.bz2' > >That .bz2 extension on that file is misleading. The usual extension for >uncompressed tar archives (which is what this line creates) is .tar . Oops, s/cat/bzip2/, as you figured out. >> Both commands were run as root. However, I now have a *lot* of broken >> symlinks, which show up like this: >> --1 root root0 Mar 17 13:19 xdvi.bin >> --1 root root0 Mar 17 13:19 xmlproc_parse >> --1 root root0 Mar 17 13:19 xmlproc_val >> --1 root root0 Mar 17 13:19 yacc >Very strange. What type of filesystem are you running on? Any peculiar >mount options? /dev/hda4 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) >Can you tell if the tarball actually has the symlinks in it but the >restore messed up, or if the files are stored incorrectly and restored >correctly? I don't know; is there any way to tell that in a compressed (or even a decompressed) tarball? >Then, in order to preserve them, you'll probably need another debian >installation to figure out what they're supposed to be. Another thing >you could try is to reinstall all of your packages. I would guess that >this would take care of most of them. Yes, but it's difficult when some fundamental programs like awk, csh, and yacc are broken. It's hard to tell what needs to be reinstalled first. Also, as far as I can tell, I have to uninstall before installing again, which can cause dependency messes. I do have another debian box in a similar state, so the manual method may indeed be the best. Thanks! -- Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tar ate my symlinks
Kevin, you are a life saver. On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:36:37PM -0800, Kevin Buhr wrote: >Sure, use: > >tar tvfj linuxbackup.tar.bz2 | less > >and you'll get an "ls -l"-style directory listing. That's very nice. Takes a long time on a 3GB bz2'ed file, but it works. :) >I believe you've been bitten by a queer bit of "tar" behaviour. [explanation snipped] I believe you're right. It was "exiting now" when untarring /proc, which apparently prevented it from finishing the job. >tar -jtvf linuxbackup.tar.bz2 | egrep '^l' | \ > perl -lane 'print "ln -snf $F[7] $F[5]" if (@F == 8 && $F[6] eq "->")' \ > > FIX_MY_SYMLINKS This gave me warm unix fuzzies like you wouldn't believe. I had totally forgotten about the -a flag to perl, and hadn't even thought of doing it this way. I was on this track, but I was using another debian box instead of the tarfile as my source of information. This is clearly a much cleaner solution. At any rate, I did this, and *poof*, it booted and ran without complaint. Thank you so much. One last question. I'm planning on doing a similar procedure to my other machine. Is there anything other than /proc that I need to exclude? I was surprised to find that /dev made it through intact. (In case you're wondering, I partitioned the drives into many pieces because I got them while ext2 was the stable choice. Now that I have ext3, I'd rather have one large partition, hence the backup/restore.) Thanks again! -- Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?
I would certainly like to vote for the WP import/export in OO.org. Do I need to e-mail someone else? On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, James D. Freels wrote: > > I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered > > that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. > > Hi James, > this might be a little OT but people in my local lugs met with the OO.org > guy (sam heiser) and mentioned that folks in law offices and some other > would switch to OO.org if and when they add WP inport/export. It would be > good to get one more person to rally OO.org for this. > -Kev -- Victor R. Cain (865)435-5084Fax:(865)435-9709 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.vicsfamily.net Quote of the Hour "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libfam0c102 kills 182 KDE3 packages
Running KDE3 woody debian packages downloaded from kde site. Works great. In order to run nautilus and yelp in gnome2 I need libgnomevfs2-0 and libgnomevfs2-common which depends on libfam0c102. When I execute "apt-get install libfam0c102 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common" these would all install OK however they would also remove all 182 kde3 packages. How can I keep kde3 installed and still run nautilus and yelp? Wassup? Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libfam0c102 kills 182 KDE3 packages
Thanks to all who replied. Will stick with KDE3.1 for now until the GCC 3.2 C++ recompiles are completed. Will be on the lookout for kde 3.1 in unstable. Victor * Joerg Wendland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Michael Wardle, on 2003-02-04, 11:19, you wrote: > > I notice that the libfam package name was recently changed (I think from > > libfam0 to libfam0cxxx). I suspect that your KDE 3 packages depend on the > > old package name (libfam0) and the GNOME 2 packages depend on the new package > > name (libfam0c102). I also suspect that the new package superseeds or > > obsoletes (or whatever the Debian package term is) the old one, so installing > > libfam0c102 is attempting to remove libfam0. > > That is correct. We are currently in a transition to GCC 3.2 as default > compiler. As the C++ compiler introduces a new ABI in contrast to our > previous (2.95) compiler. That brings in the need to recompile all C++ > libraries and applications depending on them. Because the new libraries > are incompatible with the old ones we have to change the packages' > names. Please see [0] for more information on this. > > > If this is the case, you might like to see if there's a flag you can use to > > dpkg or apt-get to make it install them side-by-side (of course this is not > > an ideal solution). You should probably confirm whether what I have stated > > is correct and then inform the maintainer of the KDE packages that the > > dependency name has changed. > > One should wait until fresh KDE3 packages hit unstable. Unstable is not > stable btw. so that dependency breakage is not that unusual. > > Hope that helps, > Joerg > > [0] http://people.debian.org/~rmurray/c++transition.html > > -- > Joerg "joergland" Wendland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apt-get removing perl libraries
I'm running Debian SID and normally update packages daily. The last update removed ten perl libraries and about 90 other packages dependent on them. I have two questions: Is there any thing I can do to fix this, or is it something that I just have to wait for? Second, if this is a know problem, how could I have found that out without asking on this mailing list? TIA. Here's what happens when I try to re-install those libraries (Note that I have perl 5.8.1-1 installed): -> apt-get install libfinance-quote-perl libhtml-format-perl libhtml-tree-perl libnet-perl libnet-ph-perl libwww-perl libxml-grove-perl libxml-parser-perl libxml-perl libxml-twig-perl Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libfinance-quote-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libhtml-tableextract-perl but it is not going to be installed libhtml-format-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not going to be installed libhtml-tree-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libhtml-parser-perl but it is not going to be installed Depends: libhtml-tagset-perl (>= 3.02) but it is not going to be installed libnet-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not going to be installed libnet-ph-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not going to be installed libwww-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libdigest-md5-perl Depends: libmime-base64-perl (>= 2.1) or perl (>= 5.8) but it is not going to be installed Depends: liburi-perl (>= 1.10) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libhtml-parser-perl (>= 2.20) but it is not going to be installed libxml-grove-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not going to be installed libxml-parser-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.0-19) but it is not going to be installed Depends: liburi-perl but it is not going to be installed libxml-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not going to be installed libxml-twig-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.0-21) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Any help appreciated. -- Victor R. Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange problem with Mozilla/xpdf
Probably this would be a better question for a Mozilla or xpdf user
list, but maybe someone here has a clue.
I have woody installed, and Mozilla, xpdf packages from the standard
release.
I'm uploading to my web site a series of pdf files, chapter from a book
I'm writing. I'm replacing some of the chapters with newer versions. To
see if everything is right, I open mozilla and click on the links to see
if they download the correct versions. Of eight chapters, named cap1A.pdf,
... cap8A.pdf, everything is Ok, except for cap1A.pdf and
cap8A.pdf. Mozilla opens
xpdf to view the files, and for some reason, instead of the new version
pointed at by the link, it opens a local version, named /tmp/cap1A-7.pdf,
which is the old version (renamed by Mozilla probably, because all
versions were always named cap1A.pdf), so I cannot read the new version
with the browser. Instead, I have to download the file and see it locally
(with either xpdf or acroread). Likewise with cap8A.pdf, where a local
version /tmp/cap8A-1.pdf is opened. There are several pdf files in /tmp,
with today's date, so they were probably generated during the various test
downloads I've done, but it's definitely strange that 2 out of 8 files
were selected to show a strange behaviour (all lines in the html code are
the same, so there should be no problem there).
Anyway, I closed Mozilla, the /tmp/*.pdf files disappeared, and when I
started again the new versions were always downloaded.
Comments?
Thanks in advance,
Victor
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Re: Anti-virus for Linux at an ISP
Try f-prot, the linux-version is not licensed in this way. See: http://www.f-prot.com/products/fplin.html Victor On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 14:15, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi all, > I want to install an anti-virus for Linux for an ISP with 400.000 email >accounts. > I see a lot of anti-virus but they are licensed by user. This is not >compatible for us. > Anyone knows any good anti-virus that is not licensed this way? > Much Thanks,Paulo Henrique > > -- > Paulo Henrique B de Oliveira > Gerente de Operações - Linux Solutions - http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br > O maior conteúdo de Linux em língua portuguesa - OLinux - http://www.olinux.com.br > (21) 2526-7262 ramal 21 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Missing packages on CD?
Hi. I downloaded CD images of woody last month, to take them home and
install new packages as needed. I used jigdo. I also use woody at my
office, where I install via internet connection. This weekend I noticed
there are three packages that don't seem to be in my CDs, but which are
part of the distribution of course: font3d, blender and povray. They don't
appear with dselect, or with something like: find /cdrom -name
'*pov*'. Could this be some problem with the jigdo files? Has anyone
noticed something like this.
Regards,
Victor
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Re: Missing packages on CD?
>
> Those three packages are in non-Free which is Not Part Of Debian(tm),
> tho Debian does package them and put them up on it's mirrors. I'm not
> sure where they fit on the CDs tho. Do you have 7 CDs?
>
I have 7 CDs, taking care of downloading the non-US
version of the first one. But of course, non free is
not the same as non-US...
Victor
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Galeon crash (continued)
Hi. I posted a related message a few days ago, but no one seemed to
reply. This is not to complain, but to add further information in case
someone has a clue. After a few weeks with no problems, galeon has started
to crash when first launched in my woody machine (nothing but sofware
in the official distribution). If I try a second time,
nothing's wrong.
I receive a message like this:
Application "/usr/bin/galeon-bin" (process 325) has crashed due to a
fatal error (Segmentation fault).
And today I noticed I also get a message in standard output, if I have a
terminal open:
Gtk-CRITICAL ** file gtkmain.c:line 582 (gtk_main_quit): assertion
main_loops !=NULL failed.
Anyone has had similar problems?
Thanks,
Victor
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XEmacs/GKB Keyboard Switcher
Hi. I'm having little problems of coexistence between XEmacs and the GKB
Keyboard Switcher. I have the XEmacs21 package installed, with mule
support, not the gnome version. My machine has woody installed.
The following sequence of events gives problems:
- Open XEmacs and open a file within it.
- Change the keyboard clicking on the GKB applet (in this case, from the
default, US english, to Spanish).
- Move the mouse back to the XEmacs window.
- When the mouse enters the zone of the editor window, the following
warning appears:
(1) (key-mapping/warning) XEmacs: Mode_switch (0x71) generates both
Mod2 and Mod3, which is nonsensical.
I also tried the xemacs-gnome version. But it was
worst, because I didn't even needed to change the keyboard to have this
warning. At least in the present situation I don't have to deal with this
every day. I don't remember if the nomule versions gave problems (I also
tried them), but I dropped them soon because I didn't really wanted them.
Which application could be really responsible (xemacs, the switcher,
anything else) and how could this be fixed if possible?
Thanks in advance,
Victor
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Re: Use many graphics in LaTeX document. Configuration files ofLaTeX.
This post is rather old, but I thought there was one further point that
could be addressed and was not discussed, and in case the original poster
has not solved his problem yet:
Besides using [!h] in the figure environment, and besides getting rid of
the figure environment if not really needed, it's better if figures are in
eps format, so they have a bounding box. This way TeX will know which size
the figures are, and size could be easily manipulated by options to
\includegraphics. If figures have a bounding box, and fill a reasonable
small portion of the page, I don't see why floats could be moved to the
end of the document.
Regards,
Victor
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Egor Tur wrote:
> Sorry.
> I have next document in tex:
>
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \begin{document}
> ...
> some text 4 pages
> ...
> \begin{figure}[h]
> \includegraphics[some_options]{file1.ps}
> ...
> \end{figure}
> ...
> some text 5 pages
> ...
> \begin{figure}[h]
> \includegraphics[some_options]{file2.ps}
> ...
> \end{figure}
> ...
> some text 10 pages
> ...
> ...
>
> \end{document}
>
> I compile tex file, obtain ps file
> and my graphics locate end of document
> I want that graphics locate on places when I place them in my tex file:
> figure_1 after 4 pages, figure_2 after 5 pages etc.
>
> I think that latex have not enough size . I change values of size
> in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and reconfigure tetex (texconfig init) but this don't
> help my.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
> Thanx.
>
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Re: XEmacs and Gnome Terminal copy/paste
> > > > xemacs -q which starts the editor of the gods without an init > > file > > > > or > > > > xemacs -vanilla no init file, no site start stuff, etc > > > > > > > > Nope, it doesn't help, can anyone reproduce this? > I remember I had a similar problem when I started using woody. Now I checked again and I see I don't have it anymore, so something must have changed. When I installed woody, I started with XEmacs 21.4 (patch 6) as you, without mule support, and compiled for gnome. I was using Gnome Terminal 1.4.0.6. Eventually I switched to the mule, non-gnome version of XEmacs, and I also installed Gnome Multi Terminal. Now I don't have this copy/paste problem, either with the usual Terminal or the Multi Terminal, so I guess the change in XEmacs might be responsible. You could try that. (I tried several combinations of mule/non-mule, gnome/non-gnome, maybe more than one works.) Regards, Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Corrupted Partition Table
Hello, I'm trying to use the OS/2 3.0 bootloader to select Debian/GNU Linux, DOS or OS/2 upon boot-up. The OS/2 fdisk does not work. It works OK on another hard drive. If I hit control/alt/delete to reboot, bios gives me a corrupted partition table error. How can I clean up the partition table so the OS/2 fdisk will work and I can get on with installing Debian/GNU Linux on this 6.4G Western Digital drive?? I can use debian to work on the drive with the bad partition table. What docs might tell how to clean up a partition table? Regards, -- Victor Torrico -- Wildflower Hill, Head Waters, Virginia --
SLRN woes
Hello all, Using the latest potato version of SLRN. No matter which news server I use, when I do a slrn -create, it only creates a tiny version of the entire news list into ~/.jnewsrc_XXX. How do I get the full list from the news server? slrn -d works fine. slrn_getdescs works fine. Perplexing. Best regards, Victor -- Head Waters, Virginia USDA Zone 5 at 2100 feet Near the head waters of the James and Potomac Rivers
