I'm having dumb problems with sdr, not sure if it's me or sdr being
dumb though...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sdr
SDR: getaddrinfo failed, couldn't resolve 'spoon'!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ grep spoon /etc/hosts
128.30.28.19spoon.csail.mit.edu spoon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ host spoon
spoon.csail.mit.ed
To point out the obvious...
are you sure you flipped the kernel-autoconfig bit in networking and
the allow nfsroot bit (somewhere else I forget, probably network
file systems)
have the right NIC driver builtin to the boot kernel
I presume you're getting a can't find init message or a panic a
http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/
yes you can run Debian on MIPS based Indys
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:42:20PM +1000, john wrote:
:2) We upgrade to testing.
:
:Is it safe? . Who is running production servers
:on testing? what if any issues have arisen?
Well, not production servers. I do have a mix of workstations some
testing, some stable, and a few I've pulled tricks
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:34:34PM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote:
:Hi all,
:
:I would like to copy a huge file from one server to another.
:but because it takes a long time, I would like to exit
:my remote shell that I used to login and run the scp command.
:
:I have tried with the " & " symbol afte
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:31:41PM -, David S wrote:
:Hi, I recently got a copy of debian 2.2r4 through one of the official vendors
on the debian website and i'm having trouble accessing the x window system
:
:this is the error message i get when initx or startx command is used:
:
:_exec of u
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 06:43:25PM +, Jason Wood wrote:
:All I need to do now is to figure out how to mount the root partition as read
:only, so that I can run fsck on it manually, back to google I go...
mount -o remount,ro /
after fsck either reboot or:
mount -o remount,rw /
HTH,
-Jon
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 04:03:00PM +, Jason Wood wrote:
:# ln /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17 vmlinuz.old
:ln: creating hard link `vmlinuz.old' to `/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17': Invalid
:cross-device link
Not clear on your larger problems, but this bit I can. You're trying
to make a "hard" link whi
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 07:26:48AM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote:
:If you're removing dri and GLcore from XF86Config-4, is there still any
:hardware acceleration?
yes, the glx extention as provided by nVidia does this. There's a FAQ
on their site that doesn't seem to come in the tar ball (atleast
Seems fixed, of course I did a few things not sure which was the magic
bullet of if all were required.
* Upgrated the nVidia stuff to 1.0-2313 (from 1.0-1541)
* removed 'Load "dri"' and 'Load "GLcore"' from XF86Config-4
much happier now, though not as stable as the nv driver.
-Jon
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 07:07:19AM +1000, Peter Good wrote:
:Using framebuffer (nVidia Riva support) in your kernel? That's what gave me
:all my probs with console lockups. Soon as I took it out of the kernel,
:everything worked great.
I did, I took it out (prior to posting), and it solved the
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 03:55:57PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
:I have a TNT also and no probs (single CPU though). I use the debs for
:both glx and kernel.
There's .deb's! now I really feel like a fool...
-Jon
Hi,
I admit it, lured by the promise of a faster screensaver I installed
the closed source nVidia GL libraries and modules, and now I'm
suffering for it.
My GL screen hacks are running 4x faster, but I can't switch virtual
terminals and am limited to a single running Xsession (I usually have
thre
To a previous question about /dev, I don't usually use devfs on this
machine but to findout what the kernel was seeing:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jon]$ ls /mnt/sound/
dsp dsp1 midi mixer
Now to see what of this is really in /dev:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jon]$ ls -l /dev/{dsp,dsp1,midi,mixer}
ls: /dev/midi:
Hi,
I'm having weird problems with sound using the emu10k1 module. The
system bell is coming out through the speakers, but other sound (xmms,
gcd, etc..) seems to play (ie no complaints about devices,
visualization shows levels) but no sound comes out.
Adjusting mixer levels affects the system b
Hi,
Some of my "testing" machines won't run MATLAB6 unless java is
disabled. I've made sure the broken machines are running the same
versions of X, gcc, and libc as the ones that work, but no change...
Now I'm not fool enough to "officially" support the testing branch,
but does anyone know why t
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:50:55PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
:On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:24:30PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
:i've already got a server running potato with 2.2.17. I figured
:woody was stable enough to be used on a server by now.
You can still get bit hard by a stray typo, but I've
Hi,
I wish I had numbers for you, but I don't.
I do remember we had to build our own patched ssh binaries for the
last voulnerability 'cus RH didn't have 'em for a day or two.
Debian had packages out withing hours of the patch being posted.
Never been able to upgrade a RH box on my network (too
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 11:33:44PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
:Quick question:
:
:Did you update the /etc/exports file to allow the hosts to mount and
:then run exportfs?
yup, other machines mount it fine.
The IP block it's exported to covers my whole /16 , I've mounted
from machines in th
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:20:56PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
:Can you mix and match 802.11(b) gear and expect it to cooperate?
Yes, that's the point. Expecting and it actually happenning
I've seen a mix of cards talk to Lucent/Oronoco (sp) card, so I'd be
optimistic about that.
There ar
:I don't see any reason why he can't. MSN is just another ISP like
:Earthlink or Mindspring. Exim will get your email from mail.msn.com and
:Konqueror accesses the web just fine. All you need is the MSN DNS IPs
:during your setup of your Debian network.
Because it's M$ and they break things on pu
Hi,
I'm baffled.
I have and NFS server (ishmael) which serves /fs/deb as a local
apt-repository amoung other things. It also serves /fs/deb/nfsroot as
a seperate export used as part of my local autoinstaller.
After making some changes to the installer (don't think I touched
anything related, sa
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 04:19:58PM -0700, Ron Steinke wrote:
:When I look at the link, I just get binary garbage. Is this supposed
:to be an executable,
It's a .tgz file, you'd need to download and unpack it. It's an
axample, not much in the way of documentation, though if you were me
this is a
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:36:02PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
:Look at the setup I used to use:
:
:http://home.pages.de/~lufthans/unix/
:
:See the link about "security, testing and unstable updater for debian".
:They're just calling apt-get with options and alternative dirs in /var.
Mmmm, that hits t
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:33:02PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
:> Once you've figured out what exactly you want to do, you can try to
:> find something in the usual places (like sourceforge), or write a bunch
:> of cron + ssh + perl + CVS scripts to do what you want.
:
:I'm gonna as on the SAGE mailing
Hi,
I want to have apt-get to fetch from a single repository for a
scripted update.
in pseudo commands:
apt-get -o="Apt:repository:file:///com/debian/dists/stable" update
apt-get -o="Apt:repository:file:///com/debian/dists/stable" upgrade
apt-get update # to reset things to a normal state
I th
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 07:27:33PM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote:
:X is not listening. So even though I changed /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc and
:removed the "-nolisten tcp" stuff X is still not open a TCP port to listen
:on.
:
:I have installed "xfree86-common 4.0.2-1", could it be that it is a compile
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:16:42PM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote:
:ssh is not an option as the hosts I actually need to use don't have ssh and
:I am not an admin on all of them.
That sucks :(
You can run sshd on a high port as joe_user, if you configure the
client to accept that weirdness. But cl
My $0.02 on make-kpkg,
for one off kernels on my home machine I prefer the old
fasioned/standard way of make bzImage. I have a lot more control over
the build process that way.
for kernels that will be distributed to many machines make-kpkg r0ckz.
-jon
Hi,
Sounds like you've checked everything I would, any reason not to use
ssh which does automatic forwarding of X (well if it's config'ed to
else "ssh -X ").
Given the private numbers I'm assuming you trust the local net and
wan't to avoid the encryption overhead, but seems worth a shot.
-Jon
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:27:58PM +0200, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote:
:see here:
:
:http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/
:
:or, if you're feeling adventurous:
:
:http://cpbotha.net/building_xfree86_4.1.0_debs_on_potato.HOWTO
Excellent, Thanks.
-Jon
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:16:33AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
:When I did this, I went to ftp.xfree86.org and found a tarball
:containing just the server binary and things you absolutely needed to
:run the X server, and installed this under /usr/local. Worked like a
:charm. (Though at this point,
Hi,
I know this has come up before, but my searching skills aren't up to
the task of finding it in the archives apparently...
I have about 20 workstations on the way for incoming students and They
all have GForce2 cards (AFAIK this requires XFree86 4.x), what's the
best way tho keep these machine
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 09:42:31PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
:On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:30:18PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
:> what's the command to convert .wav files to mp3 format?
:
:You want "lame" for that.
Perhaps that's what I want, but I'm 99% certain I
Hi,
what's the command to convert .wav files to mp3 format?
this is a dumb question 'cus I was doing it a week ago and after 3h
with apropos,dpkg -l,apt-cache search,and ls /usr/bin |less, I still
can't find it :(
TIA,
-Jon
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:01:07PM -0700, Nick Jennings wrote:
: You are missing the point, installing software and it's dependencies is
: one hurdle debian has cleared. But there is much more than that. There
: is getting your video card working, your monitor sync set right, your
: sound and peri
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 07:04:19PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote:
:> From: "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:> ...
:> Except for maintainence, you're reading the best tech support I've
:> ever gotten, bar none. Most stuff gets atleast some response w
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 07:43:20PM +, Robin Gerard wrote:
:hello,
:I have succeded compile kernel-2.4.4, but
:Y have yet a problem :
:I want read my boot diskette, I do :
:mount /floppy
:and I get the msg :
:fatfs : bogus cluster size
:VFS:can't find a valide MSDOS filesystem on dev 02:00
:( I
Hi,
exim doesn't accept unqualified sender|recipients despite the
following lines in /etc/exim/exim.conf:
qualify_domain = ai.mit.edu
qualify_recipient = ai.mit.edu
I'm still getting:
mail from:
501 : sender address must contain a domain
mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is s
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 01:04:30PM +1000, Tom Tsaknakis wrote:
:i will give anyone my first born if you can help me with converting this
:\'/sbin/ipchains -A input -s 10.96.8.1 -p IGMP -j ACCEPT\'
I have all the kids I need :)
But I have this working:
iptables -A INPUT --proto icmp -s 10.9.1.1/32
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 06:48:49PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote:
:Sounds like you have some valuable insight into the task at hand! But
:consider the fact that this system I propose would not be trying to cram
:infinite permutations on a disk. Instead, it would create a communal
:reference library,
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 06:42:39PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote:
:machine take care of itself, without ever having to worry about missing
:DLL's, or corrupt registry files. That's the whole idea behind this proposed
:system.
Though I take your point, I encourage you to get Debian up and running
so y
Hi,
My initial reaction was a shudder, basicly 'cus I teak everything to
within an inch of it's life and hate the limitations of GUI interface
for system configuration (you can only stick in so many options).
But, upon reflection something like this could have a place, but it's
a huge undertaking
Hi,
I've been having NFS locking trouble on my sid system for a while, but
never got around to really looking at it. Based no your mail I did a
little debuging and discovered statd was dying here too with:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jon]$ sudo /sbin/rpc.statd -F -d
06/20/2001 12:19:25 rpc.statd[6177]: V
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 01:52:02AM +0100, mark wrote:
:Hi,
:Iam finding it very hard to even get looked at by
:empolyeers.Basically i have made a career change 1 1/2 years ago
:from being a factory worker to supporting pc's (sadly win9x/win2k
:for a uk comapany,name withheld to pro
Hi,
I'm a sysadmin at a computer science research lab. I'd say C is
probably the least important part of my job, noone in the group is a
"real" C or C++ hacker.
You should be able to build programs from packaged source and be able
to tweak a Makefile and library path, but for actually building
a
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:19:32PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
:Which model are you getting? I've got a 3650, and am running Familiar
:on it (http://familiar.handhelds.org). Feel free to come downstairs and
:talk to me about it (NE43-234). There are a whole mess of people in LCS
:who have iPaq
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 04:29:32PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:I have been trying to install Debian on my Toshiba 2180CDT laptop.
:But I just can't get X server to work.
I'm not familiar with your hardware but you might look up info on your
laptop at http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html
Hi,
Machine one:
I forgot to copy over the isapnp.conf from the machine I did get
working, oops. Perviously I didn't need the isapnp stuff.
Machine two:
not a cs4232, but an ac97. Still not working, but I haven't RTFM'd
yet.
-Jon
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 06:21:34PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 2180CDT laptop.
Laptops are notably strange, have you tried making the boot floppies?
A quick look on the web shows that this Toshiba model doesn't seem to
boot from CD, see:
http://www.
Hi,
This is definately premature, but...
I'm getting an iPAQ early next week, and was wondering if anyone out
there's wedged debian onto one yet?
It's meant to come with Linux, which I can only assume means Dead-Rat,
or perhaps a Compaq sepecial mini-distro...
-Jon
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 12:50:41AM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
:Did you compile in Sound Support as a module?
Yup, AFAIK sound_core.o is no longer used in 2.4. On the working
machine I don't see it.
re: where I compiled, one of the soundless systems was where I did the
build using make-kpkg.
T
Hi,
Sound, my personal blind spot...
When I upgraded to kernel 2.4.x some time ago I lost sound, and
haven't been able to get it back on two out of three machines.
We have a bunch of demos monday and it would be nice to put something
flashy on the kiosk system (which is one of the sound less one
Hi,
I haven't been following this closely, so my appologies if this isn't
relevent.
I remeber when setting up tftp for our routers, we had a problem
because tftp won't create files so we had to "touch /tftp/foo" before
we could download foo. This caused much frustration untill we
stumbled across
Hi,
I'm trying to sort out an automated apt-get update/upgrade script.
My plan thus far is running an apt-get upate and -qq -y upgrade against an
NFS repository from cron so that I can be sure what is being
installed.
I'm currently looking for a way to add a bit more security to the
mix. Does/
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:14:56PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
:> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:09:51PM -, Em Huynh
:> wrote:
:> Hi all,
:>
:> I got a little network (100baseT w/switch) going with win2k
:> and debian. When I transfer from my debian box (p3 566
:> w/ultra 66 hd) it seem to peak at
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:24:27AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
:Right Answer: LaTeX2e is intended to be a mostly-compatible successor
:to LaTeX 2.09.
Thanks, I'll try that first, this is all complecated by the fact that
I know *nothing* about TeX of any flavor...
:(I know that LaTeX2e isn't 100%
Hi,
Don't ask me why 'cus I don't know, but my fearless leader has decided
he needs an ancient version of LaTex on his spiffy new Debian laptop.
Since this is from Dec 1989, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess I
can't get a .deb for it :)
Anyone have a clue where I could find source, and wha
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:34:56PM -0300, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote:
:Hi all.
:
:I have a problem with my X configuration.
:When I try to start the server from command line with
:startx, the X server don't work; when I try to start it
:with xdm, the server starts, I fill the username/password
:fields
Hi,
I installed 2.2 from floppy onto a pair of ibm thinkpad 750's (486sx
16M RAM), so the 486 chip shouldn't be an issue.
If you're having trouble with a lomem install, I still have some 2.1
CD's I've been dying to donate to a good cause (I belive I wedged
debian onto a 386 4M system with the flo
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:10:40AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
:That is a topic of much debate. In general, I fall on the "sudo is evil"
:side of the fence, but the basic arguments are:
:anti-sudo: It allows you to give limited root access to certain users
:without requiring that they know t
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:25:23PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
:I've never used sudo. Whenever I need to do something as root, I use
:su. What's the difference? Is one better/more secure than the other?
I find that if I use "su" for an X application I need to meddle with
my display security (xhost
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 01:50:16PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
:This started the installation program I put it in
:/usr/local/bin/soffice52. After the installation finished, I then
:logged in as an unpriviledged user, and ran:
:
:$ /usr/local/bin/soffice52/program/setup
AFAIR, if you run "soffi
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:22:48AM -0300, xgnu wrote:
:Hi all.
:2: The kernel version is 2.2.17. I want to compile 2.4.5, but
:I have a tar.gz file, not the deb pkg and I had not installed
:development tools. Which packages I need to compile the new
:kernel?
the package "kernel-package" contains
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:03:02AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
:Sean Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>OK, the two messages previous posts kind of play off eachother so I'm
:>going to reply to them in one go. First off ext2, it has a really bad
:>habit of losing files in hard crashes and power ou
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:29:51PM +1000, Ian Perry wrote:
:I have been running Linux 2.0.36 for the past year on 3 sites and have had
:ext2 go down on each of them after a power failure.
I'd guess the nonbootability was the result of a head crash, and had
nothing to do with the filesystem softwar
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 10:24:53PM -0400, Chris Hoover wrote:
:Is woody/unstable currently in a state to do a apt-get dist-upgrade to? If
not, is there a eta on that time frame?
I've been running it for months and that's how I got there :)
But I don't think I'm releasing it on my users yet, wha
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 10:24:56PM -0400, Margarete Hans wrote:
:If you wonder why I don't use a rescue disk to boot:
:I get a message that the disk is not bootable.
:I tried redownloading the rescue disk files, tried more than 5
:different floppies, same message.
:When I tried the compact version
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:42:18PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote:
:The situation I'm reffering to here is that of someone who might see a
temporary
:interface slowdown or crash(happen quite often in office suites of any kind),
:and having no knowledge of how linux works, just hits the reset button(th
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:20:00PM +0100, R. Jorge wrote:
:I have install debian GNU/Linux.
:
:I type login - root then I type the password and after that the next line
comes like that:
:
:debian:~#
:
:I don't no what I have to do can you please help me?
That's the command prompt, you do
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:04:11PM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote:
:just a quick question for those adminning large networks out there -
:
:what software package do you use for notifications etc? I am a junior admin
:in a large network of linux/freebsd machines, and looking at implementing a
:system ba
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:13:27AM +0200, Tobias S. Hofer wrote:
:hello people
:
:i'm interrested in installing an unstable version of debian.
:what's the best way to do this. i prefere to download the
:packages from ftp servers.
:it seems to me that an unstable package tree does not contain
:all t
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:03:40PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote:
:What are the next steps to move to reiserfs as root filesystem? Is
:there a good howto around?
:
:Can I just cp -a the whole root to another spare filesystem,
:reformat / to reiserfs and then copy it back?
Hmmm...
I haven't done this
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 10:22:39PM +0200, HawkY wrote:
:Hi!
:
:I'm new to Debian and to Linux too. (I've just (tried to) installed Debian
:Potato next to a Win2k.) And I have questions:
:
:How can I get a list of my installed packages. ( dpkg ???)
This is rarely necissary, but if you want to use
Hi,
after reading some recent posts about apt-get -b source and
pentium-builder, I'm toying with the idea of optimizing the hell out
of my ppro system.
Brief testing of a rebuild of the sysutils package got me a 6%
decrease in the time to run memtest (I picked this because it takes a
non-trivial
Hi,
I haven't used junkbuster, but assuming it's a normal proxy server
(atleast it's interface the browser deals with)
set the environment variable http_proxy="http://proxy.host.name:port";
This works for my squid proxy, apt-get will also respect this variable
as will wget and probably other com
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:03:30AM -0400, Jonathan Freiermuth wrote:
:Short answer - yes.
:Real answer - yes, if you are willing to learn.
:
:I've never personally used Corel, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess
:that Corel did its best to hide the complexities of Linux from the user.
:
:Deb
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 04:36:58AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote:
:Thanks to Steve Kowalik, who wrote the following, the problem if not the
:solution is becoming clear.
:I have Windows on partition hda1, Redhat on hda6, and Debian on hda8.
:Because of what Steve wrote, I did uname -a for Redhat and
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 10:06:17PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote:
:I have tried samba but it is aparently blocked at the
:cable co.
Apparently because it doesn't work or because the cable co. said
they're blocking it?
You can use "nmap" to determine if bits on ports 137-9 are filtered
between the ho
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 07:21:30PM -0500, ktb wrote:
:Every .xinitrc I have put together has exec lines for each line in the
:file. If I understand it correctly all exec does is execute the
:program. The tricky part is when back-grounding programs with "&" there
:has to be one, usually the windo
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 04:06:55PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
:think you'd end up with snmp and/or perf tools
:
:- a nice link i found ... nothing that helps you ??
I liked the link :)
I agree snmp to get the info. There's plenty of tools command line
and otherwise to view it.
We use snmp with cr
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:28:58PM -0500, ktb wrote:
:Try -
:exec xscreensaver &
:kent
NO DON"T DO IT!
This will stop processing the file and make the screensaver the last
thing that executes (ie no window manager) and if you close the
screensaver you Xwindows session will exit.
Only "exec" a wi
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:55:05PM -0300, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote:
:Well so far it fairly works for almost everything except for http :(
I had a similar problem when I put in my DSL. Not the same, it only
affected boxes behind my Debian box that was runing NAT to share the
connection, the machin
Hi,
I accidently deleted the post this answers (oops).
Someone needed to add some more chattiness after connectig to their
ISP to select PPP rather than SLIP or some other things...
After going through the regular set up, it shows what you've selected
for connection settings and allows you to ch
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:19:58PM -0400, Yea Right wrote:
:
:How do I setup a dual head Matrox G400
:with 2 17" monitors.
You'll need XFree4.0 (but you know this). Then "man 5x XF86Config"
Essentialy you make multiple "Device" sections for each SVGA port (one
card or many, doesn't matter), you g
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 06:15:02PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote:
:I know that I am connected because the log says so.
Please post the log out put as others have suggested. At one point it
will say connected when the modems start talking to each other, later
it will give the local and remote IP add
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:43:57PM -0300, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote:
:
:i've jsut fixed it i downgraded from xbase-clients_4.0.3-4_i386.deb 2
:xbase-clients_4.0.3-3_i386.deb
did you file a bug report? see http://bugs.debian.org for howto info
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:55:37PM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
:If sshd has been compiled with libwrap support (Debian's has) it will use
:hosts.allow and hosts.deny . I think the default hosts.deny in Debian is
:now 'ALL: PARANOID', at least that was the setting when I installed
:Debian (in S
Sorry I missed the start of this...
I'm very near a solution for my Lab to do this very thing. It would
be working (I think :) except that I broke the custom kernel I want so
that one of the important NIC cards 'round here doesn't work.
The concept works (aslong as you have a 3com or eepro card
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:07:11AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote:
:Thanx for your trouble
:I checked /var/log/auth.log on advise of H.H.Gebel
:Changed an host entry (casesensitivity)of the FREESCO router.
:More importantly, added client in host.allow.
So it works now? Hmmm. on my system hosts.
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:05:20PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote:
:
:On Thu, 31 May 2001 20:49:29 -0400
:"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
:>
:> Hi,
:>
:> "know" is too stong a word but, you'll need XFree4.0
:Thanks for the reply, but
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:09:40AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote:
:Hi,
:
:I'm having trouble setting up a SSH-connection to my Debian box.
1) Are you logging in as "root"? this is disabled by default in Debian
systems for security reasons (look in /etc/ssh/sshd_config)
2) Check /var/log/auth.l
Hi,
"know" is too stong a word but, you'll need XFree4.0 then RTFM for
XF86Config. I was poking through for my multi head setup and there
seems to be away to add multiple input devices which I *think* can be
bound to a specific display.
Both displays will have the same login (UID).
Multi head s
Hi,
Sorry if I'm coming into this late, I've been away from the list for a
while and blew away the 3k messages I hadn't read so only caught the
last post of this thread
I've been working on an NFS root installer, which starts off
essentially diskless so it can repartition the harddrive(s).
O
Hi,
I'm looking to play around with video conferencing and I have a Matrox
Meteor Pro (SAA7116 chip acording to scanpci) and an ATI all-in-wonder
128 to play around with.
I'm running a 2.4.4 kernel and trying to figure out what module to
load (and with the ATI if it's supported at all).
The Mete
Hi,
I just upgraded NIS on my machine (unstable w/2.4.4) and now it won't
bind to the domain, so I'm basicly screwed...
Anyone know what happened?
-Jon
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:17:13PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
:> [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img bs=72k
:
:I'm not sure where you're getting your bs= value.
Ok, I admit it's just what we use here, I don't know if there's any
particular reason for it. To an extent the larger the
Hi,
I've set up XFree86 4.0.3 to run four monitors off an Appian Graphics
JeronimoPro card, which is incredibly spiffy, but...
When I close my window manager or CTRL-ALT-F1 the system hangs
(unpingable, reboot time).
I have it working fine with XiGraphics Xserver, but being a good
little free so
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:48:35PM -0500, B Thomas wrote:
:Hi,
:I have dos and debian installed on my system . I would like to backup the
ddevice drivers that came on dos floppies with my system. I know I need to use
the dd command to make a binary image of the floppy. But I do not know the
exac
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:12:21AM +0200, Alberto Cabello S?nchez wrote:
:
: At LILO prompt, type: linux 1 and press enter. This will cause linux to
start at runlevel 1 (single-user) so you can run passwd. After that, don't
forget your passwd again.
Debian asks for a root password before enteri
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