Re: apt-question

Bradley wrote: > I have run into a problem doing apt-get updates. > woody/main Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) I saw the same thing last night, using unstable. After that, I just backed slowly away from they keyboard, with my hands in the air. It may just be a problem

Weird keymap problems in NEdit

Hi When I use NEdit these days, most control characters don't do what they are supposed to. For example, if I type Ctrl-S to save, I just get what I assume is a Ctrl-S printed in the document, as . Oddly copy and paste (Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V) work fine. I assumed at first tha

Re: Freshly compiled kernel too big?

Hi > bzImage? Thanks for the suggestion. I thought that was the default, but I'll check when I get home tonight. - Brian

Freshly compiled kernel too big?

Hi I just compiled a 2.2.17 kernel. I've got plenty of RAM and disk space, so I generally chose to compile everything in rather than add modules. However, when I did "make-kpkg kernel-image" it complained about the image being too big. Sure it's big, but not over 5MB. What's goin

Re: How to purge and reinstall XFree86 [woody] ? SOLVED

Hi folks This was solved by Marc Wilson's answer to someone else's problem...they asked about problems that were fairly similar. Both task-x-window-system and using dexter instead of xf86cfg were useful bits of advice. - Brian Marc's respons was: You do

Re: xserver-xfree86 4.0.1-9

Charles > Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-9) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.config: [: -eq: unary operator expected I saw this too, but it did not end up being a problem. B

Re: xserver-xfree86 4.0.1-9

> Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-9) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.config: [: -eq: unary operator expected I've been getting that too, but without the hang. And my X Window system is completely screwed up, which I suspect may be related, so please let me know if you get the solu

How to purge and reinstall XFree86 [woody] ?

Ouch I've gotten myself into a real dill of a pickle. I run woody, but around Thanksgiving I hadn't upgraded for weeks. I did "apt-get upgrade" which screwed up KDE and X. After "apt-get dist-upgrade", uninstalling and reinstalling KDE (from 1.x to 2.x), and making a symlink from

Re: How to convert multiple pages html doc to other formats?

> but the info > command - I much prefer man pages to be quite honest. Amen, brother. Whose bright idea was it to make everybody learn some mysterious set of keystrokes just to read documentation? If I'm enough of a newbie to need the man pages, then maybe, just maybe, I'm enough of a new

Cannot ssh from woody --> slink

Hi I have a slink-based machine (running the Linux Router Project, actually) that I use as a server, and a workstation I dual-boot with Win NT and Debian woody. I can ssh to the server from (1) itself, using ssh 1.2.26 (2) my workstation in Win NT (using SecureCRT)

Current sources.list entries for KDE?

Hi All my usual suspects for sources.list entries capable of finding KDE .debs are stale. Even the reliable rkrusty!! Has anybody got anything current? - Brian

Re: cable modem and LAN

Hi Matt The following link: http://linuxrouter.sourceforge.net/documentation/LRP-2.9.4/ has documentation on doing this, for the Debian-based Linux Router Project. For various reasons, you might want to set a machine up with that instead. - Brian

Re: Woody: missing parse-xf86config? /etc/init.d.xdm wants it!

> > Something blew away a program called parse-xf86config this weekend. > > I suspect it was when I did my apt-get upgrade. This is a problem because > > /etc/init.d/xdm won't run properly without it. > > According to the docs, you don't need that any more. > Just remove the line 'check-local-xserv

Woody: missing parse-xf86config? /etc/init.d.xdm wants it!

Hi Something blew away a program called parse-xf86config this weekend. I suspect it was when I did my apt-get upgrade. This is a problem because /etc/init.d/xdm won't run properly without it. Any clues as to how I can get it back?

Re: firewall

> Why don't you take a look at http://www.linuxrouter.org/? I think it > should fit your purpose, and it's based on Debian :) I second the recommendation, but you should know the main website lacks the documentation. See http://linuxrouter.sourceforge.net and http://lrp.c0wz.com for the goo

Re: ssh and stuff

Andrew You can probably get the behavior you want by using the RSA login and ssh-agent. That is, if you use ssh-keygen to generate .identity and .identity.pub files locally, then on the remote machine append the contents of .identity.pub to a file named

Re: Has anyone gotten TechExplorer / MathML for Netscape working?

Hi Gerhard Well, I'm not really qualified to test the plugin. For the standalone, I put the recommended shell variables in ~/.profile, but that did no good. If I don't hear from anybody soon, I may appeal to IBM. Basically, the way the install is supposed to work is you run

Has anyone gotten TechExplorer / MathML for Netscape working?

Hi I've got a system I keep up with unstable. I'd like to view MathML in Netscape. Yesterday, I tried to get IBM's TechExplorer (it's a standalone and plugin) for Linux working. The standalone just exited each time I ran it, and the plugin for Netscape either didn't instal

Solved: Boot off non-BIOS SCSI drive - can I use LILO or SysLinux?

Hi Well, Her Majesty's empire really came through for me! Thank you to David and Frank for your help. Frank was right about booting off the non-BIOS SCSI disk...for some reason, it does work (and, as he hinted, the magic incantation to LILO seems to be "linear"). I did not

Boot off non-BIOS SCSI drive - can I use LILO or SysLinux?

Hi I have a system with Windows 95 on an IDE drive, and Debian potato on a SCSI drive, hung off of an old DPT PM2021/9x controller. This controller does not appear to be mapping the SCSI disk to D: like I had hoped and expected. Presumably, I cannot use LILO to dual-boot th

Re: ssh pam

> However, AFAIK, you'll have to hand out some $$ if you want > a Windoze (95/98/NT) ssh client. TeraTerm SSH is free, and works prety well. B

Re: xxx.tar.gz on Windows.

Hi EasyZip is a very nice freeware clone, and I'm pretty sure it does .tar.gz. - B Marcus wrote: > Unfortunately I don't know of any freeware for windows that will read > tar.gz. HJ-Zip is freeware. I'll ask the developer if he's adding > xxx.tar.gz support som

Re: Make a network firewall with real IPs

Hi Paulo You might want to try the Debian-based Linux Router Project, at http://www.linuxrouter.org/ The whole thing runs off a write-protected floppy, so you can't be hacked as badly as with a HD. The docs on the official site are not too good, you can find good ones a

Re: How to savely copy a disk?

> dd --- diskdump --- is what you want. Byte for byte copying. I'm not so sure this would work around bad sectors on the hard drives. - Brian

Re: Linux as a router

You wrote: > I have an Intel/486 and want to set it up as a router. You might want to try the Debian-based Linux Router Project, at http://www.linuxrouter.org/ The whole thing runs off a write-protected floppy, so you can't be hacked as badly as with a HD. The docs on

Solved -- Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

Hi Everybody First off, a very big thank you to nate, Brian, and Bryan for all your help. Just 3 more pillars of the Debian community. The Problem With a monitor capabale of achieving (even exceeding) 1600x1200 resolution, a Diamond FireGL 1000Pro with 8MB VRAM would not ex

Re: Alsa problem - can't locate module sound-slot-0

> Anyone know a fix > to this and/or how this module gets generated? Whacks with a clue-bat would > be appreciated, TIA. This is what eventually worked for me, with a different card: http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/alsa-pci128.html it's part of a whole collection of ALSA driver docs at

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

nate wrote: > keys are here > > (**) GLINT: Cannot support interlaced modes, deleting. > (**) GLINT: Cannot support interlaced modes, deleting. > (**) GLINT: Cannot support interlaced modes, deleting. Hi Thanks, Nate. I worried about those messages, too, but decided it was not the prob

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

OK, using startx >& X.log I get the following: XFree86 Version 3.3.5 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: August 23 1999 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

Through a telnet session, I followed Brian's suggestions. Basically, I have an xdm.log but no kdm.log. But kdm is what is runnning. Below is what I found. I'll try to get more tonight when I am at console. - Brian mass % psgrep kdm root 269 0.0 0.8 5552 2244 ?

Re: window managers

You wrote: > debs, > > how do i prevent twm from automatically being my window manager when i > type "startx"? This is determined by the file: /etc/X11/window-managers. The first one is what gets used. - Brian poe % cat window-managers

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

aphro wrote: > What is the full output of X when you start it ? use startx >& X.log and > print the X.log to the list ..What version of X ? Dang. I knew I was leaving something out. Thanks for responding. I've had to leave the machine for the afternoon, but I can say that the X ver

Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

Hi I have a Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro 8MB AGP, which I've generally been pretty happy with. But I've spent 6 MONTHS (on and off) trying to get the darn thing to give me 1600x1200. I can do it in WinNT, and the card and monitor are both able to take it (even should be able to handle

Scrollback default in terminal emulators?

Hi I've been spoiled by the OpenStep UI, and Terminal.app. I would love to set a (large) default scrollback buffer for a decent terminal application -- something like rxvt or kvt. Is my best option here to find and compile the appropriate sources, or does someone know of a se

Re: how to compile packages optimized for Pentium or Pentium-II?

Ingo wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 05:08:04PM +0100, Robert Varga wrote: > > > > How can I recompile the packages so that they be optimized for running on > > Pentium or Pentium-II or else? According to the docs, this Replaces gcc, cc, and g++ with scripts that build with penti

Solution: SB PCI 128 sound card and ALSA 0.4.1 on 2.2.x potato (revised)

(revised with a forgotten step) Hi It was a terrible pain for me to get this card working with my potato system, so I for the benefit of any future souls clever enough to search the archives for help, here is (my understanding of) how it worked: - Compile a new kernel with OSS native

Solution: SB PCI 128 sound card and ALSA 0.4.1 on 2.2.x potato

Hi It was a terrible pain for me to get this card working with my potato system, so I for the benefit of any future souls clever enough to search the archives for help, here is (my understanding of) how it worked: - Compile a new kernel with OSS native sound support. It does not matt

Re: Help with this simple makefile

Hi How about this? eps_files = fig1.eps fig2.eps all : $(eps_files) %.eps: %.fig fig2dev -L ps $< $@ - Brian You wrote: > Hello, > > I have this simple makefile: > > eps_files = fig1.eps fig2.eps > $(eps_files): %.eps: %.fig > fig2dev -L ps $< $@

sources.list entry for KDE - how to construct?

Hi I'm not stupid, but I feel that way sometimes; I seem to be unable to get my sources.list right for KDE. Examining the lynx -dump command (see below), we find that the Packages.gz file resides in the same place as all the .deb files. According to my understanding, apt-get looks

Backup -- what directories are important?

Hi I've got a CD-RW drive, and a hankering to back up. I'm using a few GB of space with my potato distribution, but most of that is packages that I could easliy fetch again from the web if my HD crashed. Are there any comments on the following list of directories to backup? /home

XEamcs -- how to assign keys to Cut, Copy, Paste?

Hi How can I assign keys to Cut, Copy, and Paste in XEmacs. Ideally, they would not be lots of keystrokes combined. On a related note, my frien Bill Bumgartner once gave me the included function for my .emacs file...it causes the paste command to replace the selection. Ho

Re: multiple-file search & replace

Guilherme Soares Zahn (IEN) wrote: > I was wondering if there is a tool to help me search & replace a given > keyword in all files inside a directory (and its subdirectories)... For > instance, imagine that I wanted to change, in ALL makefiles of the Linux > kernel source, the name of the compiler

Help! Hang on boot, with letters LI

Hi I can no longer boot into Debian! I installed IE5 in my WinNT partition, and after that Lilo would boot WinNT at the prompt, but hang on trying to boot Linux. Then after some fiddling it broke completely, giving me the letters LI (in the same position as I previously saw a whole

Install IE5 on WinNT partition, kill LILO

Hi On Sunday, I booted into my Windows NT partition, downloaded Internet Explorer 5.0, and installed it. Later that night, I discovered that LILO would no longer load my Linux partition. I still get the LILO boot prompt, and if I hit Shift and type WinNT for my NT partition

alsa starts, then disappears; play works, aplay fails

Hi I have a weird problem where ALSA appears to start, but then remains unavailable. When I try to use "aplay", it doesn't work. But when I use "play", (through "sox") it does. Check this out: mass ~ > sudo aplay Aplay: version 0.3.2 by Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Err

Copy, paste keys and clipboard like Mac/NeXT/WinNT

Hi For better or worse, over the last 15 years, I've become accustomed to having a clipboard, with key combinations to access it. I can deal with Command-C, Ctrl-C, Alt-C, whatever. But despite my most enthusiastic efforts, I can't get used to the X-windows mouse-button paradigm.

Re: Netscape .debs conflict with perl5.004?

Everybody, Thanks to Bob and Brian for the help. Bob is right about the safety -- a late-night session with dselect over the weekend totally screwed up my system (which I had pointing to unstable in order to fetch some drivers I needed). I recommend removing unstable from your sour

Netscape .debs conflict with perl5.004?

Hi I seem to have some incompatible dependencies in trying to obtain Netscape version 4.6 from the .debs. My problem is that, according to the dependency resolution screens (I copy and paste from various conflict readouts here): navigator-smotif-461 depends on netscape-base-4 (

Re: Debian hardware vendors

Two vendors I've been happy with are http://www.tdl.com/~netex/ and http://swt.com/ Both are quite Linux-aware. - Brian

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

John Hasler wrote: > Brian Boonstra writes: > > For what it's worth, my OpenStep machine at work has command line > > directives "copy" and "paste", so you can do things like > > > paste | wc > > > or > > >cat myfile.t

Re: apt's sources.list

Hi All Jason wrote: > man sources.list ? There are several examples at the bottom and the exact > line syntax is given in the section title 'The deb type'. Yeah, it's the only available resource, but it's really too obscure to be useful unless you already know the answer! Take it from

Re: apt's sources.list

Hi there Ben Collins and Jason Gunthorpe have helped me work out how to run apt to FTP debs from unusual places. Thanks guys! I'm an old Unix hand, but way too new to Debian to figure this out. Reading the documentation made me wonder: (1) Is the required format for such ta

apt through unusual FTP proxy?

Hi I want to specify ftp sites for apt from behind my company's proxy, but I can't get it working. Does anyone have experience with "USER no PASS" proxies? The relevant portions of my sources.list and /etc/apt/apt.conf look like the following right now: Begin

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

For what it's worth, my OpenStep machine at work has command line directives "copy" and "paste", so you can do things like paste | wc or cat myfile.txt | copy - Brian

Re: Debian installation - list of things that make it hard

Christensen wrote: > Now I feel foolish! I had no idea I was supposed to use disk 2 for > dselect. Could that be why there seem to be pieces missing from my > installation, like the mouse driver? After getting a helpful email from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I added "psaux" to the /etc/modules file, and

Debian installation - list of things that make it hard

Hi I'm experienced with Solaris and NextStep/Openstep -- I've even installed OpenStep from scratch on several machines. I have the official silk-screened 2.1 CD's. My system is pretty standard, with the exception of having SCSI rather than IDE. Now I've decided to check out Linux. I