potato question

Could someone do a "which perl" on a debian system with potato installed? I need to know where it lives. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SCCS question

Does anyone here know of someone sympathetic to free software development who might have access to a machine that runs SCCS? I want to know because of work needing to be done on CSSC, the free equivalent. As you know, a lot of GNU software is useful to Debian users. So, I was hoping someone here

Linking with X

I am getting this link error /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so: undefined reference to `getpwnam_r@@GLIBC_2.0' Does this mean I need an extra library? If so, which one?

Re: debconf problems

Joey Hess > It would also help if you can figure out where that copy of > base.pm came from -- did you locally install it by accident, via CPAN, > or something? You're not the first person to run into this problem. I think /usr/lib/perl5/base.pm is from perl 5.004.04-7 I would tentatively sugges

X and Netscape key problem

I am having problems with the delete key. I can use an xmodmap to map keycode 22 to 0xff08. Although xterm and emacs cope with this, Netscape does not. Thus I can delete correctly in both xterm and emacs. Has anyone any idea what might be causing this? Is this a known X problem? In /var/log/xd

dpkg bug?

I think I have hit a bug in dpkg. I try to install an older version of xlib6g but I get a failure because xlib6g depends on libxaw6. However, I think only the new version of xlib6g (4.0.2) depends on libxaw6. The old version (3.3.6 from potato) does not depend on libxaw6. (Please can someone with p

xdm font failure

Okay, I solved the perl problem and managed to configure debconf. I will explain the debconf resolution after I have got X working... Now, I have a problem with xdm not working. It is xdm version 4.0.2 and it fails with the following output: How can I get xdm (or the X server) working? XFree86 Ve

debconf problems

> Delete the old verson of base.pm that is installed somewhere in the > directories listed at the end of perl -V, but is not part of a debian > package. It would also help if you can figure out where that copy of > base.pm came from -- did you locally install it by accident, via CPAN, > or somethi

debconf problems

I am having problems configuring debconf. I need debconf because I have upgraded X and need to upgrade xdm as well. xdm is currently not working. Here is the output from dpkg --configure debconf. What can I do to fix this? Output: Setting up debconf (0.9.21) ... No such pseudo-has field "name" a

Netscape problems

I am having trouble using the debian website. Could someone use it to tell me where on the debian FTP server I can find the package files (.deb files) for these two packages: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 2.91.66-4 libxpm4 Thanks

Netscape problems

Hello! I installed netscape-base-4_4.76-1.deb and netscape-base-475_4.75-2.deb to try to get the 4.75 Netscape running. However, I have done this and I do not seem to have a netscape executable any more. Are there other packages I need? If so, what are they?

Netscape

Is anyone using version 4.6 of Netscape? I get a crash when downloading http://www.ishipress.com/chess.htm Do anyone else get that? If so, can you email me with your version of Netscape? Does Netscape 6 have this problem? I am considering upgrading, particularly if crashes have been fixed.

recording problems

I have a Blaster 16 PCI card. The rec command does not seem to be working - could it be that playing works but recording does not? I use the play command to play back the file but all I get is some clicking noises. Does this seem like a familiar problem? I have a 2.2.17 kernel. Regards Tim

Re: Sound testing

Krzys Majewski wrote > I use "saytime". For example: I tried running saytime but it did not work. Nothing sounding like the time came out of the speaker. cat /bin/bash > /dev/audio gives white noise from the speaker so something is working. Is there likely to be problem with my installation

Re: Sound testing

Chris wrote > /dev/sndstat was never meant to be relied upon and is now listed as > obsolete in my kernel source (2.4.0-test7). Has it been superceded by something else? If so, what? Tim

Re: Sound testing

I upgraded to a 2.2 kernel and got the sound card working to a limited extent. However, /dev/sndstat is not working. Any suggestions? # cat /dev/sndstat cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device Tim

Re: Sound testing

Michael Merten > It has no amplified output for > speakers, which is what your black jack is (i believe). I use > the green jack with a pair of cheapo amplified speakers Thanks for that. I located the documentation for Blaster 16 PCI and it seems that the green line out is what I need. Howev

List archives

> It's broken. The administrators know about it. Is searching the archives likely to be fixed soon? I have problems when I do not select the latest quarter. If not, is this due to lack of time to fix the bugs? If so, would it be possible to volunteer to help fix the bugs? Regards Tim

Re: Sound testing

Oswald Buddenhagen wrote > not good ... try /dev/dsp > if you miss this one too, then something is wrong with your setup. > then you should have a look at MAKEDEV. I have created audio. Now I get ~> cat /bin/bash > /dev/audio /dev/audio: Device not configured. Any ideas? Is it possible that

Re: Sound testing

Oswald Buddenhagen wrote > cat /bin/bash >/dev/audio :-)=) > this sound really rocks! *lol* What does this sound like? I have no /dev/audio. What do I do? > there are usually tiny icons engraved into the plate the sockets stick out. > my card uses the black one for speaker output. Yes, I ha

Sound testing

I am trying to get my Sound Blaster card working. Can anyone suggest a simple test program that I can run to prove that it is working? I seem to have four different possible sockets for the speakers. black, green, red, blue Any idea which of these is the one to use? Regards Tim

Questions

What is the support status of slink (Debian 2.1)? Will packages for potato install on slink? Will they work on slink? Searching the list archive gives links to cgi.debian.org which do not work. I wonder whether this is actually a problem in my Netscape browswer. Should I report this problem with

Some questions

What is the support status of slink (Debian 2.1)? Will packages for potato install on slink? Will they work on slink? Searching the list archive gives links to cgi.debian.org which do not work. I wonder whether this is actually a problem in my Netscape browswer. Should I report this problem with

Flushing drives

I have noticed that with my new kernel, I no longer get the following when I shut down my machine: GDT: Flushing all host drivers .. Done I use shutdown -h now What is GDT? Is this message important?

possible pppd bug

Sometimes when I dial into my ISP, there seems to be a problem getting fully connected. Is this a known pppd bug? The symptom is that the dialup seems to be working but one part of the process just hangs. Any ideas on this?

Kernel change

Okay - I have solved the xdm problem. I needed to link PS/2 mouse support into the kernel. I found this out by looking at the output of xdm. I have now configured ipchains as I want including running it automatically on reboot. Thanks for the help.

Boot commands

Where is the best place to add commands to be done by root on booting? Somewhere in /etc/rc I guess.

Kernel change

I have just built a new 2.0.36 kernel but, when I boot it, xdm does not work. I switch back to my standard kernel and everything is okay. Am I forgetting to select something related to X or something? Is there a web page detailing standard kernel things? I am looking at /usr/doc/HOWTO/Kernel-HO

securing ports

Is it possible to secure the ports on my Debian machine so that other machines on the internet cannot get through? Is there some way to configure pppd to block packets?

List

Is there a general linux discussion list which is active? (Not usenet)

Mail front end

Can anyone tell me if there is a supported and fairly bug-free front end for mail? Something using an X window (so not mutt). I think someone mentioned exmh. Is that right? Is it supported by people? Are there any bugs? Cordially Tim

Mail front end

Hello. I am trying to get Ishmail to work. If Phillip Deackes or anyone else with experience with using Ishmail, can help me, I would be grateful. Ishmail seems to require popclient to get mail but on my system popclient is just a symbolic link to fetchmail which is quite a different program. Ho

fetchmail problem

Thanks for all the help, people. Your advice about how to fix the clock problem was spot on. Now, another query. If I do a fetchmail and it reports, say, 30 mails, sometimes these mails can be transfered to my spool file in batches. So, I get the first ten and then I have to wait a few minutes

Clock problems

I am having problems with the clock losing time after I have shut my system down overnight. Is this to be expected? I thought that there would some way round this. Or is the only way simply to keep the machine running all the time? Cordially Tim

Mail front end

Hi. Does anyone know of a good front end for email? I do not like elm, mutt or XEmacs. I am looking for something like MS Exchange with folder and such. Please email me off-list if you have any ideas. Thanks.