Re: hardware...
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: ) On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 12:43:18PM -0500, Don Custer wrote: ) > To the good folks at Debian... ) > ) > I have two short questions which I hope can be answered with two short ) > answers. I failed to find pertaining answers in the FAQs. ) > ) > 1. I am going to buy a new computer (to replace my 1991 dinosaur). ) >I want it to be powered by Debian Linux. Are there any particular ) >brands that are more friendly toward Linux? If it would make this an ) >easier question to answer... are there any particular brands to stay ) >away from? I don't want to end up with a pile of incompatible junk. ) Stuff to consider: ) * drivers don't exist for sound cards with Aureal chips ) and the new Soundblaser Live. Drivers do exist for the SB Live. I haven't checked out the latest versions which are supposed to add /dev/audio and /dev/dsp, but the old version did work w/ CD audio. The Creative site has these drivers: http://support.soundblaster.com/files/download.asp?OS=Beta&prod=sblive Check the emu10k1-0.3b.tar.gz link. ) * video cards: stay away from 3dfx stuff, I'd recommend Matrox or ) NVidia based products because both companies are actively working on ) 3D drivers for Linux and have been open about specs The Nvidia RIVA chipset drivers work very well. Go to: ftp://ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/riva-tnt-tnt2-vanta/linux/ and check the FAQ. Evan Day| "These people looked deep into my soul and assigned SMTP->[EMAIL PROTECTED] | me a number based upon the order in which I joined"
Re: Riva TNT
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Samantha Summers wrote: ) I have a Velocity 4400 which uses the Riva TNT. ) ) I thought this was built in the SVGA X server, but if it is, XF86Setup ) doesn't see it. ) ) I think I have the most current XF86Setup and SVGA server offered in stable. ) They are both 3.3.2.3a-11. Check the NVidia web site for instructions on building a TNT-enabled SVGA X server. You'll need XFree86 3.3.3.1 and a library from their ftp site: ftp://ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/riva-tnt-tnt2-vanta/linux There's an FAQ there with some info on setting things up. -Evan Evan Day| "These people looked deep into my soul and assigned SMTP->[EMAIL PROTECTED] | me a number based upon the order in which I joined"
Re: ftp can build data connection - masquerading problem?
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: ) Hi there, ) ) Lately I've been facing a strange and very annoying problem... When ) I try to do FTP from a site, it will almost surely drop my connection ) out when I try to build a data connection (either through a 'get', ) 'retr' or just a harmless 'dir') with a message like: ) ) ftp> dir ) 200 PORT command successful. ) 425 Can't build data connection: Connection refused ) ) On other systems I've had a 'address already in use' or something, so I ) felt it could have to do with the IP Masquerading... I can't say for ) sure if it started just after we set our Linux router to do IP ) Masquerading or not, but I feel it was 'almost at the same time', so ) maybe I've just overlooked something when I did that... HTTP connections ) AND apt-get run just fine, though... It probably has to do with IPmasq. I got 500's (Illegal PORT command) all the time after moving my dialup to the linux box and setting up masquerading. I have two suggestions: 1) Try running FTP in passive mode. This forces the client to initiate the connections, which masquerading allows. Once I had my FTP clients (whether Linux or Win9X/NT) running in passive mode, FTP worked fine. 2) Look into the ip_masq_ftp module in the kernel (it's experimental). Installing this module should let you run FTP normally (it did the trick for me). You'll have to set the kernel config to prompt for experimental drivers and then look in the networking section if you use menuconfig or xconfig. You'll also need to load the module by hand (or specify it to load at boot time), as I haven't seen it get loaded by the kernel yet (running 2.2.10 kernel). Good luck! Evan Day| "These people looked deep into my soul and assigned SMTP->[EMAIL PROTECTED] | me a number based upon the order in which I joined"
Re: Cannot connect to a website from debian linux box
> ... > > If I do the same thing, from my linux box, it just does not respond. > Now if I run "telnet dcu.fi1.net 443" on sun box, it connects. If I run the > same thing on linux box, it does not. Check your kernel - do you have TCP ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) enabled? Try: # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn If it comes back 1, do this: # echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn and then hitting the site. I added a couple lines to my network startup scripts to do this until the internet at large can handle ECN properly. You can also recompile the kernel with ECN turned off.
Re: Disk mirroring
> Hi, > > I'd like to mirror the harddisk of my running system to another disk. > What is the best route to do it? What I have in mind is to mount the > second disk under /mnt and then copy all the files into it. Can rsync do > it? Of course, I'd like to do it periodically; every night at 11:59, for > example. You might look into the kernel software RAID if you're running kernel 2.4.x. It supports RAID-1, which is mirroring. Although mounting a disk and doing a manual copy would work, in the event your system disk fails you'd be stuck with an unbootable system. With a RAID, you can failover to the second disk and continue running while you work on replacing the failed disk, then resync everything automatically. -- Evan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG: 1024D/237C1C84 FP: 1615 E312 A6D1 542B C4A6 38B5 69B1 2844 237C 1C84 "My bologna has first name, it's H-O-M-E-R..."
Re: cp binary cd to hd
> Question, how does a disk that can only hold 750mb of data fill a 5gb > partition? :| I'm completely at a loss. It just *seemed* so simple. Two things: 1) Lots of the files on the CD are in fact symbolic links, and when you run CP it will not copy the symlinks, but the files themselves. Check the cp man page for a switch you can pass it that tells it not to copy the linked files, but recreate the links instead. 2) Depending on the block size of the CD and the HD, small files may take up much more space on your HD than on the CD. I wouldn't expect this to account for 4+ GB of space, but it can be significant. -- Evan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG: 1024D/237C1C84 FP: 1615 E312 A6D1 542B C4A6 38B5 69B1 2844 237C 1C84 "My bologna has first name, it's H-O-M-E-R..."
Re: gdm not starting
> Greetings, > > I just did a fresh potato install for a friend, including X 3.3.6, Ximian > Gnome 1.4 and the ~bunk updates for 2.4.4 and gdm doesn't start on boot, > although it starts fine with `/etc/init.d/gdm start' as root. > > I checked the permissions on the file and compared the file to my own and > all seems well. > > Can anyone suggest something else for me to check? Have you checked the symlinks in /etc/rc?.d? /etc/rc0.d/K01gdm -> ../init.d/gdm /etc/rc1.d/K01gdm -> ../init.d/gdm /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm -> ../init.d/gdm /etc/rc3.d/S99gdm -> ../init.d/gdm /etc/rc4.d/S99gdm -> ../init.d/gdm /etc/rc5.d/S99gdm -> ../init.d/gdm /etc/rc6.d/K01gdm -> ../init.d/gdm -- Evan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG: 1024D/237C1C84 FP: 1615 E312 A6D1 542B C4A6 38B5 69B1 2844 237C 1C84 "My bologna has first name, it's H-O-M-E-R..."
Re: rc.d question about S and K
> I was wondering if someone could tell me the > difference between files starting with S and files > starting with K in the /etc/rcx.d directories? Scripts with an S are started when entering run-level x. Those with a K are killed upon entering run-level x. (Starting/killing is handled by sending either start or stop as the argument to the script.) For example, most systems default to run-level 2, so at boot time all scripts in /etc/rc2.d that start with 'S' are executed in lexographical order, so S001startmefirst gets executed before S999startmelast. -- Evan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG:1024D/237C1C84 FP:1615 E312 A6D1 542B C4A6 38B5 69B1 2844 237C 1C84 "My bologna has first name, it's H-O-M-E-R..."
