Re: X4.1.0-10 disaster

2001-12-10 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:00:42PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > The fact that X 4.1.0-10 replaced your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. That is *not* the problem in my case. I have restored my original config file, so that X finds the correct driver (Matrox in my case). Now, loading that driver cau

Re: X4.1.0-10 disaster

2001-12-10 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:16:25PM -0500, Eugene Tyurin wrote: > Symbol XAA_888_plus_PICT_a8_to_ from module > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o is unresolved! > Symbol fbPictureInit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o is > unresolved! Now, I'm tot

X4.1.0-10 disaster

2001-12-10 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, I upgraded my machine to the latest X version, and now X doesn't start anymore: (==) MGA(0): Write-combining range (0xdc00,0x100) Symbol XAA_888_plus_PICT_a8_to_ from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol fbPictureInit from module /usr/X11R6/li

konqueror does not open text files

2001-11-25 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, During one of the recent KDE upgrades, konqueror (.deb 2.2.1.0-6) stopped opening plain text files or even "document source" - instead it prompts for an application. What should I do to restore the old behaviour? Thanks, --ET.

Re: Newbie compiling kernel...

2001-11-18 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:41:01PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: > 2. Getting sound to work. I just want to be able to play an occasional >audio CD and listen to web presentations(flash, etc). > > I have a generic Ensoniq 1371 PCI sound card. First I compiled > support directly into the k

Re: G400 vs. DRM

2001-11-18 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 12:23:23AM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > > Eugene, > > To my untrained eye this log doesn't really show if dri was loaded. I > had the same log, but dri didn't work on my G400. I apologize if I > needlesly reiterate what you've already done, but I believe that in

Re: fetchmail error?

2001-11-18 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 09:15:49PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Oddly enough, I had exactly that same problem today. I think it's a > Yahoo problem, not a fetchmail one. I fixed it by logging into Yahoo > Mail with a web browser and deleting the first message (which wasn't > anything I needed,

G400 vs. DRM

2001-11-17 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, I'm having trouble with this strange error message from bzflag (.deb 1.7e2-1) and GL in general: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bzflag libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering loading fixedbr... loading panel... At the same time,

Re: Galeon + Junkbuster /= Ture

2001-11-14 Thread Eugene Tyurin
--- Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mozilla and Galeon does not play well with junkbuster. Does anybody know > of an alternative to junkbuster that works with mozilla/galeon? My problems went away when I installed squid caching proxy in addition to junkbuster. --ET. ___

*total* switch of CapsLock and Ctrl

2001-10-11 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, I would like to remap CapsLock and LeftCtrl keys on my system - not only for X, but also for console system-wide. Obviously, I have to do better than .Xmodmap. I tried using loadkeys(1) with /usr/share/keymaps/i386/include/ctrl.inc but it didn't seem to change anything... What should

MGA G400: DRI vs Textures

2001-10-08 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, Running up-to-date woody with Matrox G400: kernel 2.4.10 and X 4.1.0-6. It seems that I have to choose in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 between DRI and textures: (**) MGA(0): Option "TexturedVideo" "on" (EE) MGA(0): Textured video enabled, not initializing the DRI The issue here is playing bzfl

Re: mandb gets stuck!

2001-08-30 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Ok, man-db is version 2.3.19-5 mandb -d -c >>/tmp/mandb.log 2>>/tmp/mandb.log seems to get stuck at this point: free_hashtab: 2090 entries, 1302 (62%) unique done. catpath: /var/cache/man, manpath: /usr/share/man Testing for existence: /usr/share/man/man1/strace.1 Testing for existence: /usr/sha

Re: mandb gets stuck!

2001-08-30 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:04:13AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:31:40PM -0400, Eugene Tyurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > What's /usr/local/man look like? My /usr/local/man is empty - does not even have manN subdirs. > Have you tried runnin

mandb gets stuck!

2001-08-29 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, A few weeks ago, perhaps, I upgraded something on my woody box - and now I can't satisfy the mandb gods. Mandb runs through cron.weekly until I kill it - for a few days. I tried to run it manually to create a db from scratch, but the same thing - it gets stuck. Here's the tail of the lo

Re: Kdm, no keyboard input

2001-08-09 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Actually, this problem (no keyboard input) has been in kdm for a while (I think since the last kde upgrade). The solution is to hit the button "Restart X Server." After re-start everything will be fine. --ET. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make internatio

Re: KMail filters -> Procmail rules

2001-08-07 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 07:04:19AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > # Exim filter [ ... snip! ...] > much easier to grok than procmail syntax. How is *that* easier than *this*?? :0: * Resent-From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian/user :0: * ^Resent-From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian/security Ver

rpc.statd puzzle

2001-07-29 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, I found this in my syslog: Jul 29 13:50:39 daBox rpc.statd[25571]: my_svc_run() - select: Bad file descriptor I don't have any NFS services running, nor do I mount any NFS filesystems. Any ideas and/or suggestions? I have nfs-common version 0.3.2-2 and 2.2.19 kernel with the reiserfs

Re: What kind of attack is this?

2001-06-26 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:23:56AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I've gotten the same sort of message. It appears in the lpr.log and > syslog. I think it's an internal problem and not an attack from outside. Portsentry didn't detect anything. I briefly looked at the config files for lprng, and

fetchmail chokes on large files

2001-06-25 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, I have fetchmail-ssl 5.8.4 and every time I need to download a large email message from a POP server (say, larger than 30k) it just stops in the middle of the download: Jun 25 17:42:53 daBox fetchmail[244]: timeout after 300 seconds. Jun 25 17:42:53 daBox fetchmail[244]: client/server syn

What kind of attack is this?

2001-06-25 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, I've got 868 lines in my syslog with strange binary data (see attached file) that go on for about 17 minutes. This looks very strange, and I am not running any services open to the outside world (except through portsentry). Any ideas/suggestions? --ET. Jun 24 17:52:58 daBox SERVER[182

kdm keyboard input problem

2001-06-20 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, Strange thing is happening to my newly upgraded kdm (deb version 2.1.1.0-10). After I reboot the machine, it would not accept any keyboard input unless I restart the X server. After that, everything seems to be fine. Any ideas? --ET.

Help: squid on a dial-up machine

2001-06-02 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, I have a problem with squid (2.4.1-5) seemingly ignoring the '-D' during the startup. When booting, squid dies because it cannot find nameservers (of course! I'm on a dial-up!), despite being told (per man page) to "disable initial DNS tests" with the '-D' option. Any suggestions? --ET.

Re: Tripwire

2001-06-01 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Long time ago I was told that read-only floppies are not exactly safe. Early fd drives used read-only tab as a physical circuit-breaker, but nowadays everything is done through BIOS. So, theoretically, one can write onto a write-protected floppy. Is this correct? --ET. On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 a

Re: Free mail a/c that allows download of mail

2001-05-28 Thread Eugene Tyurin
I don't recall yahoo.com asking for my family secrets. It's been awhile, but I recall the procedure being relatively painless (and it's not like they can check if I really live at 100 Wall St., NY while earning less than $5000/year). You have to accept their spam email in order to use pop/smtp

need to kill a package...

2001-05-27 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, There's this package smpeg-xmms that is apparently no longer available, but it's sitting in my dpkg database and screwing things up with its dependencies. I tried deleting the entry from /var/lib/dpkg/status, but it didn't do me any good. I'm perplexed... --ET. __

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-26 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:18:46PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > Presumably you meant "into testing" because it's not in stable. You can't > install the testing version in stable easily, either, because of dependency > problems. How about such compiling portsentry from scratch? Novel idea, eh? :-

CMU lisp problem

2001-05-25 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, I installed all the woody cmucl* packages on my machine (all version 2.4.22): cmucl cmucl-clm cmucl-clx cmucl-defsystem cmucl-graystream cmucl-hemlock cmucl-normal cmucl-safe However all attempts to run lisp results in a core

Help! Exim+mutt problem

2001-05-25 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, I'm having a problem with my setup - all the non-local emails sent with mutt fail (illegal From), while /usr/bin/Mail is working just right. My .muttrc doesn't change any of the use_from and use_domain. The system-wide config is the default one. My only additions to the exim configurati