Re: Console Video Mode
Hi (First message on this list, hope it's alright) On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:28:52PM -0500, Adam Kessel wrote: > I'm using an HP Omnibook 500 running 2.4.7 testing/unstable, but I believe > this > problem effects many systems. > > My screen is shrunk to about 3/4 size when I'm in console mode. I think this > is > because the wrong resolution is being used. Back when I used Windows on a > Dell > Latitude it exhibited the same behavior in full screen DOS mode. > > I tried putting vga=ask in lilo.conf (with CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE compiled into > the > kernel) but all this does is give me a choice of several text modes which are > all still confined to 3/4 of the screen. > > Does anyone know how to set the resolution of the console mode so it will be > 'full screen'? Enter the BIOS setup and see whether you can enable an option to "stretch" or "expand" the LCD. Any resolution displayed that is lower than your physical LCD resolution is then interpolated to fill the screen. If you actually want a higher resolution text mode, compile a kernel with framebuffer support (don't know if your laptop is supported) or install svgatextmode. > Also, a quick off-topic (Samba) inquiry: I can't get samba to mount a Windows > share with group/other writeable permissions, even when specifying fmask=000 > and dmask=000. I tried changing the permissions on the mount point, but as > soon > as I mount the share it switches permissions back to 022. I finally found a > work around by changing the owner of the mountpoint to me, but I'd like all > users to be able to write to the Samba share. What am I doing wrong? Sorry, can't help you there. All the best Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann High on Linux since kernel 1.2.9
Crash on suspend
Whenever I try to enter suspend mode (apm -s) on my laptop, it hangs: the LCD backlight stays on, sometimes text mode characters remain on the screen, and there is no way to get out of this state except through a hard reset. Hibernation used to work fine before I upgraded from a 5GB hard disk to an IBM-DJSA-220 with 20GB: I used to get a nifty set of progress bars during the save-to-disk process. After the upgrade, I created a hibernation partition at the end of the disk and initialized it using lphdisk. However, the system did not make use of this partition, instead it crashed as described. Since the BIOS reports the drive to have 8455 MB only, I thought this might be the problem, so I moved the hibernation partition below that limit and initialized it again. But even with this setup, it still crashes. I switched back and forth between Suspend-to-Disk and Suspend-to-RAM in the BIOS setup - no improvement. Standby (apm -S) works as advertised. /etc/syslog just says how it disables PCMCIA and USB, then 'apmd: User Suspend', followed by the messages from the reboot. I wonder: am I missing a step in between setting up the partition with lphdisk and invoking suspend? Or will it not work at all with an "oversize" disk because of BIOS constraints? - No-name laptop, very similar to ASUS 9000 series - Phoenix BIOS V6 R4 - Pentium III 600 Speedstep - 192 MB RAM - /dev/hda4 with type 0xa0, 222 MB, cyls 305 to 331 (2432 total) - Kernel 2.4.5 with apm as a module (kernel hasn't changed from when it worked with the old disk) Thanks for any hint Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann
Re: Keyboard entry
Hi On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:55:28AM -0400, dude wrote: > > > I am working on installin glinux on an HP 5470 > > I am using debian distr. kernel 2.7 Wow! How did you get your hands on that? Eddies in the space-time continuum? :-) > What we noticed is that when i rebooted into the new kernel > > and get into the login: > > we can not login. > > > What We (my girlfriend and I) think is going on is thatwhen > > a key is pressed it is sending th ewrong data thus the login and password > is wrong. > > It might be the enter key because when i just type that i get a "^]" > > > But when i load up kernel 2.2 i can login in just fine. > > > What is going on with the keyboard in the newer kernel. I'm not sure, but I think your assumption may be correct (although your reasoning probably isn't). Try the following: open /etc/inittab in an editor, find the line that says 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 and replace it with 1:2345:respawn:/bin/bash If you reboot now with either kernel, you should get a shell prompt instead of the login: on bootup. This will let you test your keyboard a little better than the login prompt. If there is indeed a problem with the enter key, try Ctrl-M or Ctrl-J -- they should generate newlines as well. Hope this helps Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann High on Linux since kernel 1.2.9
Re: Crash on suspend
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:13:35PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > > > > I wonder: am I missing a step in between setting up the partition with > > lphdisk and invoking suspend? Or will it not work at all with an > > "oversize" disk because of BIOS constraints? > > > > - No-name laptop, very similar to ASUS 9000 series > > - Phoenix BIOS V6 R4 > > - Pentium III 600 Speedstep > > - 192 MB RAM > > - /dev/hda4 with type 0xa0, 222 MB, cyls 305 to 331 (2432 total) > > - Kernel 2.4.5 with apm as a module (kernel hasn't changed from when it > > worked with the old disk) > > > > Thanks for any hint > > > this is more than likely to be a problem with the BIOS. Are you using > anything like LBA (I think this is more DOS/Windoze fix though), is the > hibernate partition the correct size (however I think lphdisk will tell > you, have you tried using the DOS phdisk instead?). > > those are my first thoughts.. > > if that doesn't help try seeing if there are similar reports in the > newsgroups/web about windoze users problems with a similar setup. I think you're right about the BIOS. Maybe I can get an update for it. I haven't used the DOS phdisk - I don't think I got one with this laptop unless it's on the recovery CD. lphdisk claims to be better, anyway. Thanks for your input Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann Mozilla 0.9.3: Never been so happy surfing the web with Linux
Re: Crash on suspend
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:44:18AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > Unfortunately, I can't help with this problem, but I'm a > newbie with regard to laptops. I just acquired mine, a > (second-hand) Compaq Armada V300, two weeks ago and with my > ignorance on the subject, I partitioned my HD without any > hibernation partition. > > So, my question is: does the Compaq Armada V300 need this > partition? Should I create it with the lphdisk utility or > should I use another one? > > I just read parts of the Laptop Howto, but these questions > where not answered there and I'd love to have my laptop > working as well as possible under Linux. > > I'd appreciate any handholding or directions that people can > provide me. You only need a hibernation partition if you a) want to enter suspend mode (i. e. powersaving without shutting your computer down, b) your BIOS supports saving its RAM state to such a partition and c) you want to give up the necessary harddisk space (RAM size plus video RAM size plus slack). lphdisk is for Phoenix BIOS's only. It won't hurt you to do 'apt-get install lphdisk' and read the docs for it, though. Good luck Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann High on Linux since kernel 1.2.9
Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:37:30PM -0700, Mike Alborn wrote: > > After reinstalled win2k, I can no longer access > > my existing Linux installation. Sadly, I didn't create a boot disk. > > I don't know if this will work out of w2k, but it's worth a shot. Note this > will only work if you can boot the machine from a floppy, and if you know > the location of your root partition (/dev/hda1 etc) > > - First, go to a debian mirror site, say > > http://mirror.direct.ca/pub/linux/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.23-2001-04-15/images-1.44/ > > and get the file called rescue.bin > > - Head to mirror.direct.ca/pub/liunx/debian/tools and get rawrite1.zip or > rawrite2.zip (these are programs to let you do a dd from dos.) > > - unpack rawrite and use it to dump the rescue.bin image onto a blank floppy. > - Reboot the machine from the floppy at the boot: prompt, type > rescue root= hit F1/F3 for help. > > -Once the machine boots, mount the boot partition (if you have a seperate > one), > set up your /etc/lilo.conf (if needed),invoke /sbin/lilo, and restart the > machine from the hard disk. > > I use a similar method whenever my MBR gets trashed, except I have a Mandrake > CD lying around, which works along the same lines. > > BTW, if you don't know the location of your root partition, and you can find > a Mandrake CD or something that works similarly, the CD has a self-contained > installation on it, allowing you to mount filesystems and determine which > one's > the root. > > > thanks a lot for any tip. > > No prob. Hope this does the trick. It probably will - I have been through this exact procedure a few times. However, I recommend having a look at grub. If you create a grub boot disk, you have a fast and flexible way of booting different Linux kernels and other OS's, no matter where they reside on your hard disk(s). Grub will even let you have reiserfs on your root and boot partitions (don't know if LILO is ready for that yet). To Benjamin Zhou: I can make a grub bootdisk image and email it to you if you like (it's 48 kB gzipped). All the best Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann
Re: Crash on suspend
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:05:57PM +0100, Vivek wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > > > You only need a hibernation partition if you a) want to enter suspend > > mode (i. e. powersaving without shutting your computer down, b) your > > Slight correction - you need the hibernate partition to enter hibernate mode > - you should be ablt to suspend just fine without it. I may be confused here - but wouldn't that be standby mode? Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann
Re: Crash on suspend
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:17:31PM +0100, Vivek wrote: > > > Slight correction - you need the hibernate partition to enter hibernate > > > mode > > > - you should be ablt to suspend just fine without it. > > > > I may be confused here - but wouldn't that be standby mode? > > No - standby and suspend are distinct: In standby mode the machine is till > on, the kernel is still ticking away, but some (possibly only fuzzily > defined) power saving things, like spinning the HD down, turning off the > monitor, clocking the CPU down, etc have happened. > > In suspend mode, the machine is almost off - just enough power is consumed > to keep the memory alive, and pretty much everything else is off. [There may > be > a trickle of power to things like the NIC, so wake-on-lan type things can > happen]. > > In hibernate mode, the memory+videomem [as you say] is flushed to permanent > storage, and not even the memory is powered - The BIOS knows how to read the > state back from storage into memory, and the kernel knows how to come back > to life from there. > > You may have been confused by the 'swsusp' project, which achieves something > similar to hibernation. I think it works by having a kernel that can boot > very quickly with a 'memory-image' file: The kernel flushes data to disk and > shuts down - then when it comes back, it detects the file, and instead of > going through the normal boot process, slurps the file into memory and takes > a running jump back to wherever it was when you shut down. > > Same effect as hibernation, but no BIOS/APM/ACPI support is required. > > Standby mode is, AFAIK, not often used, at least not explicitly by the user, > and has little impact on the user anyway, since the moment they start > prodding the machine, it should come back to 'full on' mode. > > I use suspend a lot myself - my thinkpad will last 5~7 days while suspended, > and I generally turn it off if it's going to be out for longer. > > Hibernate doesn't work for me - I ran the IBM utility to create a partition > for it, but I just get a beep and a 'system is invalid' message if I try to > suspend. Not sure why. It'd be nice if it worked, but I don't need it so > it's Ok - I may try out swsusp later. That's a lot of interesting information, especially about swsusp, which I wasn't aware of. If you suspend to RAM, energy use probably depends on the amount you have. Do you think that extending your RAM shortens suspend time? Thank you! Rolf
Re: Debian FDISK vs. Microsoft Format
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:58:32PM -0700, Curt Howland wrote: > I am trying to install Debian and Windows on the same 4GB > drive, and have run into a snag. > > After giving up on Windows, and making backups, I booted > from the Debian CD and repartitioned. After reading the > Multi-OS mini HowTo, I set up 4 partitions: > > 2.5GB FAT32 Primary Boot > 1.6GB Linux Native Boot > 100MB Linux Swap > 100MB FAT32 Logical > > Debian installed fine, no problems. > > Putting in the Win95 CD and floppy, I started to format > the C: partition. > > HOWEVER: Format reported 3.9GB of C: drive. This is very > wrong. MS fdisk (on the floppy, yes I've done this sort of > thing before) reports the correct sized partition of 2.5GB. > > Did I do this in the wrong order? Should I have used MS fdisk > first, to create the partitions, then Debian fdisk to redefine > as the correct partition types? > > That is the only thing I can think of doing differently. But > I would prefer not to loose the Debian install. >From 'man fdisk': DOS 6.x WARNING The DOS 6.x FORMAT command looks for some information in the first sector of the data area of the partition, and treats this information as more reliable than the informa? tion in the partition table. DOS FORMAT expects DOS FDISK to clear the first 512 bytes of the data area of a parti? tion whenever a size change occurs. DOS FORMAT will look at this extra information even if the /U flag is given -- we consider this a bug in DOS FORMAT and DOS FDISK. The bottom line is that if you use cfdisk or fdisk to change the size of a DOS partition table entry, then you must also use dd to zero the first 512 bytes of that par? tition before using DOS FORMAT to format the partition. For example, if you were using cfdisk to make a DOS parti? tion table entry for /dev/hda1, then (after exiting fdisk or cfdisk and rebooting Linux so that the partition table information is valid) you would use the command "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1" to zero the first 512 bytes of the partition. BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL if you use the dd command, since a small typo can make all of the data on your disk useless. End man page quote. I think this is the root of your problem. I would suggest to format the DOS partition from Linux ( apt-get install dosfstools && mkdosfs -F 32 -n MS-junk /dev/hda1 ), then install Windows (if you absolutely have to). You can also change the sequence as you were saying, but then you put your Debian installation at risk. Good luck Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann
Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:32:23AM -0400, Benjamin Zhou wrote: thank you all who responsed. I tried all of them. But none of them work. The problem is how can I mount my /dev/hda2 to /root. when I try this, I got the msg "must be a block device". any more idea? thanks a lot First of all: I don't know how others on this list feel about this, but you would certainly make my life easier if you posted your messages in plain text rather than HTML. The reason you are getting the error message is probably that you don't have a partition /dev/hda2. Maybe you created your root partition as a logical one, in which case it is likely to be /dev/hda5. Type fdisk -l at the shell prompt of your rescue disk. Have you tried grub as well? Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann Debian Fan since the days of bo
Re: plain text rather than HTML (Was: Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR)
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 05:28:45PM +0200, Phil wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 03:56:30PM +0100, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:32:23AM -0400, Benjamin Zhou wrote: > > thanks a lot > > > > First of all: I don't know how others on this list feel about this, > > but you would certainly make my life easier if you posted your > > messages in plain text rather than HTML. > > I agree ! > Isn't it a base on mailing lists ? It definitely used to be. But since nowadays many commercial email clients send HTML messages by default, I thought the rules might have changed or softened. Not that they should have, of course - especially since users of just these mailers are vulnerable to malicious script code that can be embedded in emails. All the best Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann Linux on the Desktop: alive and kicking, if you ask me
Re: Netgear FA511 setup
Hi Paul I have a Netgear FA510 card working with Debian woody and kernel 2.4.9. I, too, tried the kernel support, following the hints in the file README-2.4 from the PCMCIA source package: activating yenta_socket, using the tulip PCI driver and so on. I wasn't able to make the hotplug stuff from unstable work though, and in the end I gave up, disabled kernel PCMCIA support and compiled David Hinds' package as I've always done. It works, and I didn't have to muck about with /etc/pcmcia/config Good luck Rolf On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:11:46PM -0700, Paul Paradise wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 4000 (with the built-in Wireless ethernet) > and slapped Debian unstable on it right away. ;-) Pretty much everything is > working nicely, but I just got a Netgear FA511 card for those cases when I > don't have wireless reception, and I can't seem to get it to work properly. [...] -- Rolf Heckemann Linux user since kernel 1.2.9
Re: Cursor Gets Stuck
Hi Eric Try stopping gpm, and restarting X. If that doesn't help, your mouse settings are wrong. Good luck Rolf On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:05:00AM -0400, Eric Borton wrote: > I am using a Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT. I finally got X to work!! The only > main problem now is the cursor only moves along the bottom of my LCD screen. > Does anyone know what to do? I am using XFree86 4.0.3 and blackbox as my > window manager. Also when you startx does the 4+ version of Xfree86 us a > svga setting? I have the color as 16bpp setting but it does not seem to > look correct. How can I see what my settings are within the X environment? -- Rolf Heckemann
Re: pcmcia soundcard needed
Hi I don't think you will have any joy with this project. First of all, PCMCIA soundcards are not supported by the pcmcia-source package (according to SUPPORTED.CARDS), second, your CPU is too slow to play MP3's in software, at least at sensible bitrates -- unless you use DOS, in which case the situation may be different, but I don't know. You might find it interesting that the German magazine c't ran a couple of articles about building a hardware MP3 decoder that receives its data via parallel port, for which you need no more than a 286 and no soundcard. The issue numbers are 9 and 10/1999. Good luck Rolf On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:27:09PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > I?ll be getting an old 486/40-notebook in the near future which I?d > like to recycle as an mp3-player for my stereo. > > Now, obviously, since the box doesn?t have sound built-in, I?ll need a > pcmcia-soundcard. Does anyone round here > - know of one > - is running it successfully w/ debian? -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London
Re: problem with networking cropped up after upgrading to sid
/dev/tap0 is the node for accessing the kernel ethertap driver. It is used by some programs such as diald. If you have something like that installed, it will probably autoload the kernel module ethertap.o on bootup. You can probably find out when it gets loaded by looking at /var/log/syslog or 'dmesg | less'. Then just remove the program that causes ethertap to be loaded, and see whether your routing problem goes away. Very sketchy, but I hope it helps you anyway. Rolf On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:49:37AM -0700, TShrew wrote: > I don't know if the problem occurred with something in the upgrade, but since > I could upgrade to sid from potato (installed from CD) via > ftp, the problem was not present before the upgrade. Since this hasn't > happened on any of my desktop computers, I can only assume it > has something to do with the laptop. > > The laptop: > Dell Inspiron 8000: Xircom pcmcia nic > > The problem: > I cannot access my gateway computer nor can it access my laptop, but I can > access the other computers on my lan. > Running "ifconfig" reveals a device listed which I have never seen before, > "tap0", assigned the IP address of my gateway computer. I > have tried marking it down, but something on the laptop still thinks a local > IP is the same as my gateway IP even with tap0 down. I have > checked /etc/networks/interfaces, /etc/pcmcia/network.opts, /etc/resolv.conf, > /etc/hosts, and everything else I could think of that could be > defining tap0 and/or convincing the laptop he is, in addition to his own IP, > the IP of my gateway. > > Thank you in advance. I have found the archive for this list very helpful in > setting up this laptop but didn't see anything like this (or just > searched on the wrong thing) > > -TShrew -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London
Re: Unable to handle kernel paging -message
This sounds very much like a hardware problem. If you can't boot from a floppy, you can install the memtest kernel (http://www.memtest86.com/) in a partition and try to boot it via LILO or grub. Good luck Rolf On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:15:48PM +0300, Johannes Niemel? wrote: > Hi, > When I boot my Libretto 50CT i get message like this: > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c301ef4c > current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000 > *pde = > Oops: > CPU: 0 > EIP: 0010:[] > EFLAGS: 00010006 > eax: c02b915c ebx: c201efe0 ecx: c301ef4c edx: 0015 > esi: c301f140 edi: 0282 ebp: 0015 esp: c2019f4c > ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 > Process swapper (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=c2019000) > Stack: ... > Call Trace: ... > Code: ... > > Stack and Call Trace has many addresses which I did not write to this because > my lazyness. Code also has some hex values. > > So the question is, what's wrong with my machine? It can't be a hard drive > because I tested with a brand new drive and I get the same error message. So > is it a memory related problem? How can I test a memory with a machine that > have not a floppy drive? Or where's the problem? > > Computer has 32MB memory and PCMCIA ethernet card. It's running Potato. > Problem rose to my attention about a month ago. X just hung up. Sometimes it > boots normaly and you could use it normaly until it just hungs without any > warning. > > - Johannes Niemel? - > - > Sunpoint.net vihje: > > Tee oma virtuaalinen p?rssisalkku ja seuraa osakkeittesi kehityst? GSM > puhelimella. > http://www.sunpoint.net/SunAds/click.htm?mode=footer&id=48&jump=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sunpoint.net%2F > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London
Re: Very Selective upgrade
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:19:42PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Can someone give me an example of how I would upgrade a specific > package from 'testing' without affecting any of the apt-get libraries? > If I change the sources.list to include 'testing' then I get all > kinds of files selected for upgrade. I really don't want to move [...] I'm not quite sure what you mean by "selected for upgrade". Are you using dselect? You shouldn't, if all you want to do is to upgrade a single package. I can see two ways to solve your problem. I prefer the quick and dirty approach: # echo \ "deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free" \ >/etc/apt/sources.list # apt-get update # apt-get install ssh after which you have to remember to change sources.list again before the next installation from stable. To do it cleanly, you can compile the testing package from source: # echo \ "deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free" \ >>/etc/apt/sources.list # apt-get update # cd /usr/local/src/ # apt-get source ssh # cd openssh-2.5.2p2 # debian/rules build # dpkg -i openssh_2.5.2p2-3.deb but for this to work, you will have to install all the necessary *-dev packages from stable first. Concerning your upgrade problems: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' would probably help avoid your system failures on moving from stable to testing. Just my 2p - there are probably still better ways to solve your problem. All the best Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London
Re: Very Selective upgrade
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:55:00AM +0200, Imran Geriskovan wrote: > Sorry for the cross posting. > But I just wanted to carry the discussion to dpkg list. > > Well... > > For me Tom's point is a very important issue. Albeit a resolved one. Sorry - it's a matter of RTFM. > Now I have debian machine installed by using the "testing" > branch 50 days ago. Now I want to upgrade/install some packages. > In dselect I choose the update option (using method apt). > Now the select says that it will going to upgrade nearly all of the > packages. In 50 days I've done alot of customization > on that machine and I do not want to ugrade most of them. Go to the first line in the package listing (All Packages), press '=' (hold in present state). BTW, have you noticed that Debian goes out of its way to ensure that your customizations are being preserved? > Meanwhile I'm quite satisfied with the system. > And I have no intention for such a big upgrade. > However currently (and sadly) I can not use dselect for > automatic installion of other packages with all their dependent ones > because choosing "Install" will upgrade rest of the system. > > Hence I have no option :( other than manually downloading and > installing new packages with all others that the packages depends on. :( man apt-get > Is it be possible to "freeze" some packages on a machine > an make them immune to later updates/installations? See above or dselect online help. Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London
Re: what module is that?
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:12:11PM +0200, t3 wrote: > hi, > is there a general way to figure out what [bc]-major-minor belongs to > which device ? apt-get install kernel-source-2.x.y cd /usr/src bzcat kernel-source-2.x.y | tar xf - less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt R. -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London
Re: Very Selective upgrade
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:35:04AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Thanks to all that replied. > I know that under dselect I can "hold" various packages. > And if I edit the sources.list I can add a set of 'testing' entries. > > I suppose I can do the .deb download and installs myself but I was > hoping for some manner in which I could use something like dpkg to > specify a network location for a .deb package and have it (dpkg) > download and install that package for me. Your reply makes me wonder whether you have actually read and tried the suggestions made. What you are looking for is apt-get. > I will have to look into the source installations a bit further as > I've found I have wanted to install something myself many times > the Debian way... > > I have noticed that when I create a custom kernel it gives me > trouble with subsequent upgrades from Debian. Example: When the > Debian kernel is 2.2.18 I install my own version of 2.2.19. When > Debian comes out with anything new (>=2.2.19) I can't upgrade it > as the package I created is not in the upgrade path. > Understandable, but ... But what? > I looked in the FAQ, where can I find more information on how to > do this Debian Package management...? http://antiweb.org/translation/debian/appc_05.html Let's end the thread here, it is off-topic. R. -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London
Re: Effective Boot Procedure
Check out the netenv package. It lets you set up scripts for modifying your configuration based on a kernel boot parameter netenv= R. On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:33:54PM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > Hi all! > > Speed is for my old laptop (486, Debian 2.0) essential. > So I want to boot twice: > * With a small kernel without daemons (no ports, no network) > * With a big kernel with daemons (network, modem, printer) > > I have two kernels and decide at the lilo-boot-prompt which one > to boot. > > How can I tell (if possible) lilo to boot with/without daemons? > > So far I deleted most daemon-boot-scripts from /etc/rc2 and edit > /etc/inittab to set the runlevel at 2 (no daemons) or > 3 (with daemons) - than I have to reboot. > > Any help/recommendations to do this more effizient (if > possible with lilo)? -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London
Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser
You can try minimalistic window managers such as wm2, flwm, lwm... I doubt that it will help, though. Your problem is your choice of application software -- I'm surprised that it runs at all :-) Check out galeon (sorry, no .deb yet). If you don't mind non-free, look at opera (.deb on www.opera.com). R. On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:39:53PM +0100, Barry Pretsell wrote: > All, > > I'm running Debian potato on an IBM Thinkpad 365X 24MB RAM, which has a Cyber > Trident 9320 display card (has 1Mb on board). > I have tried fvwm, fvwm2, icewm, and wdm. I have tried mozilla as a browser > and it takes 3-4 minutes to display anything. Of course I could use lynx, but > I really would like to get some graphic browser working. > > can anyone recommend a windows manager/browser which may run faster than the > dog I'm running now. > > Many thanks in advance > > Barry > > P.S. RAM can only expand to a max of 32Mb. -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London
Re: Modem of notebook hp xe3
Find out the name of the modem chipset from the specs or the MS Windos device manager. Then search Google for "linux winmodem chipsetname". R. On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:10:31PM +0200, Roberto Burceni wrote: > Hi! > I'm a new subscriber of this list. I woul like to know if there's a support > form te internal modem of the notebook hp xe3. If so, where I could find > information? > I have Debian gnu/linux 2.2r3 with kernel 2.2.19. > Thanks for help > Roberto > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London
Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:29:11PM -0500, Adam Kessel wrote: > galeon is available as a .deb, most recently: > galeon_0.11.5-3_i386.deb > in non-US/main. Didn't expect it there -- thank you! R. -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London
Re: how to install debian without floppy drive or cdrom-drive
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 05:02:07PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a laptop, it's an acer with a pentium 100 and > 16 meg ram. I want to install debian on it but I have > a problem : I don't have a floppy drive(broken) and I > don't have a cd drive. But,I have an adapter that > enables me to plug my laptop harddrive in my desktop > and this way, I can acces my laptop hard drive with > my desktop and modify it. I also have a cable that > enable me to transfer files by the parallel port. Put the laptop hard drive in your desktop instead of the desktop hard drive. Do a regular Debian install, following the instructions. Put the hard drive back into the laptop. Boot it up and see if it works, chances are that it will. If there are any problems, make sure you search the web first. Don't post problems to mailing lists unless you can be very, very specific about it and the hardware you are using. And don't post the same message over and over again. Good luck Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London
Re: Killed eth0 by switching from 2.2r2 -> 2.2r3.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:01:29AM -0700, Don Werve wrote: [...] > After installing 2.2r3, the Xircom modem still works, but the ethernet > portion of things is dead. The kernel detects it, and it shows up in the > kernel logs and in /proc/interrupts, but I can't ping out or ping in, and I'm > not seeing a LNK light on the NIC in my workstation (it's connected via a > crossover to a second ethernet card). > > I pulled out the new drive, replaced the old drive, booted the > not-quite-right > OS, and was still able to ping/etc (same cable, etc.). The network config > is kosher (identical to the previous setup), and I've tried building a couple ^ You sound very sure, but my feeling is that the problem must be with the setup, unless you have a hardware conflict between the new HD and the NIC, which would be, umm, uncommon. Can you copy both the old /etc/ trees or even just /etc/pcmcia/ and /etc/network somewhere so you can compare them with a recursive diff? That's how I would look for a solution, although I know it's painful swapping hard disks in and out of laptops. > of kernels (2.2.18pre21, 2.2.19pre17, and 2.2.19) with the requisite PCMCIA > utilities, but nothing seems to kick the Xircom ethernet side into gear. I've > checked on my workstation using "mii-diag", and it isn't detecting a link > either. Good luck Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London
Re: Debian 2.2 on Thinkpad A21M (DVD playing)
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 08:56:43AM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: [...] > I've written some documentation about how I got the DVD playback working > at http://people.debian.org/~dsw (it should be obvious which document it > is). [...] Your instructions detail how you use both DeCSS and a patch to make your drive code-free. But DeCSS obviates the need for a code-free drive - at least I'm able to watch various CSS-encrypted DVD's from different regions with xine and the decss plugin, while the pre-installed Windows player software still works. Regards Rolf
Re: X 4.0.1 problem with a Toshiba laptop
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 07:56:27AM +0300, Teppo Hyt?nen wrote: > I have a similar problem, though not on a laptop, but on my normal > desktop PC. When I change to a vc and back, X goes black, and I have to > reboot with ctrl-alt-del - I can't even kill X, or shut it down. This only > happens with 4.1.0 - 4.0.x worked fine. [...] If you can still log in via the network, look at the last entries in /var/log/XFree86.0.log for clues to your problem. If you can't, start X from the console as root using X >/var/tmp/x.log 2>&1 then switch until you get stuck, then examine /var/tmp/x.log after a reboot. Hope it helps Rolf
Re: (no subject)
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:14:12AM -0500, Crespo, Esteban wrote: > I need a TG-8200 sound driver. Please could u help me with that or do u know > where can I find this driver??? You probably have a ES1878 chipset. Try the sb_ess driver. Good luck Rolf
Re: Random crashes with testing on IBM T22
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:28:26PM +0200, Martin Sk?tt wrote: > OK, my machine just crashed again, but this time when it just stood there > running Star Office while I was reading when it locked up. Its starting to get > really annoying. How are your experiences with delivering IBM equipment for > repairs? Do they requiere you to have Windows on the machine? (I do, but in I brought my TP 240 to IBM UK after the system board had been killed (apparently by lm-sensors). I have nothing but praise for the service. I don't think they booted the machine, at least not from my hard drive, so I would assume they can deal with it without Windows installed. Rolf
Nokia Cardphone and Linux
I'd be interested to hear from people who have tried or managed to use Nokia's Cardphone with Linux. Does it work? How are you using it? Thanks Rolf
Re: Console Video Mode
Hi (First message on this list, hope it's alright) On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:28:52PM -0500, Adam Kessel wrote: > I'm using an HP Omnibook 500 running 2.4.7 testing/unstable, but I believe this > problem effects many systems. > > My screen is shrunk to about 3/4 size when I'm in console mode. I think this is > because the wrong resolution is being used. Back when I used Windows on a Dell > Latitude it exhibited the same behavior in full screen DOS mode. > > I tried putting vga=ask in lilo.conf (with CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE compiled into the > kernel) but all this does is give me a choice of several text modes which are > all still confined to 3/4 of the screen. > > Does anyone know how to set the resolution of the console mode so it will be > 'full screen'? Enter the BIOS setup and see whether you can enable an option to "stretch" or "expand" the LCD. Any resolution displayed that is lower than your physical LCD resolution is then interpolated to fill the screen. If you actually want a higher resolution text mode, compile a kernel with framebuffer support (don't know if your laptop is supported) or install svgatextmode. > Also, a quick off-topic (Samba) inquiry: I can't get samba to mount a Windows > share with group/other writeable permissions, even when specifying fmask=000 > and dmask=000. I tried changing the permissions on the mount point, but as soon > as I mount the share it switches permissions back to 022. I finally found a > work around by changing the owner of the mountpoint to me, but I'd like all > users to be able to write to the Samba share. What am I doing wrong? Sorry, can't help you there. All the best Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann High on Linux since kernel 1.2.9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crash on suspend
Whenever I try to enter suspend mode (apm -s) on my laptop, it hangs: the LCD backlight stays on, sometimes text mode characters remain on the screen, and there is no way to get out of this state except through a hard reset. Hibernation used to work fine before I upgraded from a 5GB hard disk to an IBM-DJSA-220 with 20GB: I used to get a nifty set of progress bars during the save-to-disk process. After the upgrade, I created a hibernation partition at the end of the disk and initialized it using lphdisk. However, the system did not make use of this partition, instead it crashed as described. Since the BIOS reports the drive to have 8455 MB only, I thought this might be the problem, so I moved the hibernation partition below that limit and initialized it again. But even with this setup, it still crashes. I switched back and forth between Suspend-to-Disk and Suspend-to-RAM in the BIOS setup - no improvement. Standby (apm -S) works as advertised. /etc/syslog just says how it disables PCMCIA and USB, then 'apmd: User Suspend', followed by the messages from the reboot. I wonder: am I missing a step in between setting up the partition with lphdisk and invoking suspend? Or will it not work at all with an "oversize" disk because of BIOS constraints? - No-name laptop, very similar to ASUS 9000 series - Phoenix BIOS V6 R4 - Pentium III 600 Speedstep - 192 MB RAM - /dev/hda4 with type 0xa0, 222 MB, cyls 305 to 331 (2432 total) - Kernel 2.4.5 with apm as a module (kernel hasn't changed from when it worked with the old disk) Thanks for any hint Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Keyboard entry
Hi On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:55:28AM -0400, dude wrote: > > > I am working on installin glinux on an HP 5470 > > I am using debian distr. kernel 2.7 Wow! How did you get your hands on that? Eddies in the space-time continuum? :-) > What we noticed is that when i rebooted into the new kernel > > and get into the login: > > we can not login. > > > What We (my girlfriend and I) think is going on is thatwhen > > a key is pressed it is sending th ewrong data thus the login and password > is wrong. > > It might be the enter key because when i just type that i get a "^]" > > > But when i load up kernel 2.2 i can login in just fine. > > > What is going on with the keyboard in the newer kernel. I'm not sure, but I think your assumption may be correct (although your reasoning probably isn't). Try the following: open /etc/inittab in an editor, find the line that says 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 and replace it with 1:2345:respawn:/bin/bash If you reboot now with either kernel, you should get a shell prompt instead of the login: on bootup. This will let you test your keyboard a little better than the login prompt. If there is indeed a problem with the enter key, try Ctrl-M or Ctrl-J -- they should generate newlines as well. Hope this helps Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann High on Linux since kernel 1.2.9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Crash on suspend
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:13:35PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > > > > I wonder: am I missing a step in between setting up the partition with > > lphdisk and invoking suspend? Or will it not work at all with an > > "oversize" disk because of BIOS constraints? > > > > - No-name laptop, very similar to ASUS 9000 series > > - Phoenix BIOS V6 R4 > > - Pentium III 600 Speedstep > > - 192 MB RAM > > - /dev/hda4 with type 0xa0, 222 MB, cyls 305 to 331 (2432 total) > > - Kernel 2.4.5 with apm as a module (kernel hasn't changed from when it > > worked with the old disk) > > > > Thanks for any hint > > > this is more than likely to be a problem with the BIOS. Are you using > anything like LBA (I think this is more DOS/Windoze fix though), is the > hibernate partition the correct size (however I think lphdisk will tell > you, have you tried using the DOS phdisk instead?). > > those are my first thoughts.. > > if that doesn't help try seeing if there are similar reports in the > newsgroups/web about windoze users problems with a similar setup. I think you're right about the BIOS. Maybe I can get an update for it. I haven't used the DOS phdisk - I don't think I got one with this laptop unless it's on the recovery CD. lphdisk claims to be better, anyway. Thanks for your input Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann Mozilla 0.9.3: Never been so happy surfing the web with Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Crash on suspend
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:44:18AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > Unfortunately, I can't help with this problem, but I'm a > newbie with regard to laptops. I just acquired mine, a > (second-hand) Compaq Armada V300, two weeks ago and with my > ignorance on the subject, I partitioned my HD without any > hibernation partition. > > So, my question is: does the Compaq Armada V300 need this > partition? Should I create it with the lphdisk utility or > should I use another one? > > I just read parts of the Laptop Howto, but these questions > where not answered there and I'd love to have my laptop > working as well as possible under Linux. > > I'd appreciate any handholding or directions that people can > provide me. You only need a hibernation partition if you a) want to enter suspend mode (i. e. powersaving without shutting your computer down, b) your BIOS supports saving its RAM state to such a partition and c) you want to give up the necessary harddisk space (RAM size plus video RAM size plus slack). lphdisk is for Phoenix BIOS's only. It won't hurt you to do 'apt-get install lphdisk' and read the docs for it, though. Good luck Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann High on Linux since kernel 1.2.9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:37:30PM -0700, Mike Alborn wrote: > > After reinstalled win2k, I can no longer access > > my existing Linux installation. Sadly, I didn't create a boot disk. > > I don't know if this will work out of w2k, but it's worth a shot. Note this > will only work if you can boot the machine from a floppy, and if you know > the location of your root partition (/dev/hda1 etc) > > - First, go to a debian mirror site, say > > >http://mirror.direct.ca/pub/linux/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.23-2001-04-15/images-1.44/ > > and get the file called rescue.bin > > - Head to mirror.direct.ca/pub/liunx/debian/tools and get rawrite1.zip or > rawrite2.zip (these are programs to let you do a dd from dos.) > > - unpack rawrite and use it to dump the rescue.bin image onto a blank floppy. > - Reboot the machine from the floppy at the boot: prompt, type > rescue root= hit F1/F3 for help. > > -Once the machine boots, mount the boot partition (if you have a seperate one), > set up your /etc/lilo.conf (if needed),invoke /sbin/lilo, and restart the > machine from the hard disk. > > I use a similar method whenever my MBR gets trashed, except I have a Mandrake > CD lying around, which works along the same lines. > > BTW, if you don't know the location of your root partition, and you can find > a Mandrake CD or something that works similarly, the CD has a self-contained > installation on it, allowing you to mount filesystems and determine which one's > the root. > > > thanks a lot for any tip. > > No prob. Hope this does the trick. It probably will - I have been through this exact procedure a few times. However, I recommend having a look at grub. If you create a grub boot disk, you have a fast and flexible way of booting different Linux kernels and other OS's, no matter where they reside on your hard disk(s). Grub will even let you have reiserfs on your root and boot partitions (don't know if LILO is ready for that yet). To Benjamin Zhou: I can make a grub bootdisk image and email it to you if you like (it's 48 kB gzipped). All the best Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Crash on suspend
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:05:57PM +0100, Vivek wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > > > You only need a hibernation partition if you a) want to enter suspend > > mode (i. e. powersaving without shutting your computer down, b) your > > Slight correction - you need the hibernate partition to enter hibernate mode > - you should be ablt to suspend just fine without it. I may be confused here - but wouldn't that be standby mode? Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Crash on suspend
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:17:31PM +0100, Vivek wrote: > > > Slight correction - you need the hibernate partition to enter hibernate mode > > > - you should be ablt to suspend just fine without it. > > > > I may be confused here - but wouldn't that be standby mode? > > No - standby and suspend are distinct: In standby mode the machine is till > on, the kernel is still ticking away, but some (possibly only fuzzily > defined) power saving things, like spinning the HD down, turning off the > monitor, clocking the CPU down, etc have happened. > > In suspend mode, the machine is almost off - just enough power is consumed > to keep the memory alive, and pretty much everything else is off. [There may be > a trickle of power to things like the NIC, so wake-on-lan type things can > happen]. > > In hibernate mode, the memory+videomem [as you say] is flushed to permanent > storage, and not even the memory is powered - The BIOS knows how to read the > state back from storage into memory, and the kernel knows how to come back > to life from there. > > You may have been confused by the 'swsusp' project, which achieves something > similar to hibernation. I think it works by having a kernel that can boot > very quickly with a 'memory-image' file: The kernel flushes data to disk and > shuts down - then when it comes back, it detects the file, and instead of > going through the normal boot process, slurps the file into memory and takes > a running jump back to wherever it was when you shut down. > > Same effect as hibernation, but no BIOS/APM/ACPI support is required. > > Standby mode is, AFAIK, not often used, at least not explicitly by the user, > and has little impact on the user anyway, since the moment they start > prodding the machine, it should come back to 'full on' mode. > > I use suspend a lot myself - my thinkpad will last 5~7 days while suspended, > and I generally turn it off if it's going to be out for longer. > > Hibernate doesn't work for me - I ran the IBM utility to create a partition > for it, but I just get a beep and a 'system is invalid' message if I try to > suspend. Not sure why. It'd be nice if it worked, but I don't need it so > it's Ok - I may try out swsusp later. That's a lot of interesting information, especially about swsusp, which I wasn't aware of. If you suspend to RAM, energy use probably depends on the amount you have. Do you think that extending your RAM shortens suspend time? Thank you! Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian FDISK vs. Microsoft Format
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:58:32PM -0700, Curt Howland wrote: > I am trying to install Debian and Windows on the same 4GB > drive, and have run into a snag. > > After giving up on Windows, and making backups, I booted > from the Debian CD and repartitioned. After reading the > Multi-OS mini HowTo, I set up 4 partitions: > > 2.5GB FAT32 Primary Boot > 1.6GB Linux Native Boot > 100MB Linux Swap > 100MB FAT32 Logical > > Debian installed fine, no problems. > > Putting in the Win95 CD and floppy, I started to format > the C: partition. > > HOWEVER: Format reported 3.9GB of C: drive. This is very > wrong. MS fdisk (on the floppy, yes I've done this sort of > thing before) reports the correct sized partition of 2.5GB. > > Did I do this in the wrong order? Should I have used MS fdisk > first, to create the partitions, then Debian fdisk to redefine > as the correct partition types? > > That is the only thing I can think of doing differently. But > I would prefer not to loose the Debian install. >From 'man fdisk': DOS 6.x WARNING The DOS 6.x FORMAT command looks for some information in the first sector of the data area of the partition, and treats this information as more reliable than the informa tion in the partition table. DOS FORMAT expects DOS FDISK to clear the first 512 bytes of the data area of a parti tion whenever a size change occurs. DOS FORMAT will look at this extra information even if the /U flag is given -- we consider this a bug in DOS FORMAT and DOS FDISK. The bottom line is that if you use cfdisk or fdisk to change the size of a DOS partition table entry, then you must also use dd to zero the first 512 bytes of that par tition before using DOS FORMAT to format the partition. For example, if you were using cfdisk to make a DOS parti tion table entry for /dev/hda1, then (after exiting fdisk or cfdisk and rebooting Linux so that the partition table information is valid) you would use the command "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1" to zero the first 512 bytes of the partition. BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL if you use the dd command, since a small typo can make all of the data on your disk useless. End man page quote. I think this is the root of your problem. I would suggest to format the DOS partition from Linux ( apt-get install dosfstools && mkdosfs -F 32 -n MS-junk /dev/hda1 ), then install Windows (if you absolutely have to). You can also change the sequence as you were saying, but then you put your Debian installation at risk. Good luck Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:32:23AM -0400, Benjamin Zhou wrote: thank you all who responsed. I tried all of them. But none of them work. The problem is how can I mount my /dev/hda2 to /root. when I try this, I got the msg "must be a block device". any more idea? thanks a lot First of all: I don't know how others on this list feel about this, but you would certainly make my life easier if you posted your messages in plain text rather than HTML. The reason you are getting the error message is probably that you don't have a partition /dev/hda2. Maybe you created your root partition as a logical one, in which case it is likely to be /dev/hda5. Type fdisk -l at the shell prompt of your rescue disk. Have you tried grub as well? Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann Debian Fan since the days of bo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: plain text rather than HTML (Was: Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR)
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 05:28:45PM +0200, Phil wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 03:56:30PM +0100, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:32:23AM -0400, Benjamin Zhou wrote: > > thanks a lot > > > > First of all: I don't know how others on this list feel about this, > > but you would certainly make my life easier if you posted your > > messages in plain text rather than HTML. > > I agree ! > Isn't it a base on mailing lists ? It definitely used to be. But since nowadays many commercial email clients send HTML messages by default, I thought the rules might have changed or softened. Not that they should have, of course - especially since users of just these mailers are vulnerable to malicious script code that can be embedded in emails. All the best Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann Linux on the Desktop: alive and kicking, if you ask me -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netgear FA511 setup
Hi Paul I have a Netgear FA510 card working with Debian woody and kernel 2.4.9. I, too, tried the kernel support, following the hints in the file README-2.4 from the PCMCIA source package: activating yenta_socket, using the tulip PCI driver and so on. I wasn't able to make the hotplug stuff from unstable work though, and in the end I gave up, disabled kernel PCMCIA support and compiled David Hinds' package as I've always done. It works, and I didn't have to muck about with /etc/pcmcia/config Good luck Rolf On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:11:46PM -0700, Paul Paradise wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 4000 (with the built-in Wireless ethernet) > and slapped Debian unstable on it right away. ;-) Pretty much everything is > working nicely, but I just got a Netgear FA511 card for those cases when I > don't have wireless reception, and I can't seem to get it to work properly. [...] -- Rolf Heckemann Linux user since kernel 1.2.9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cursor Gets Stuck
Hi Eric Try stopping gpm, and restarting X. If that doesn't help, your mouse settings are wrong. Good luck Rolf On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:05:00AM -0400, Eric Borton wrote: > I am using a Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT. I finally got X to work!! The only > main problem now is the cursor only moves along the bottom of my LCD screen. > Does anyone know what to do? I am using XFree86 4.0.3 and blackbox as my > window manager. Also when you startx does the 4+ version of Xfree86 us a > svga setting? I have the color as 16bpp setting but it does not seem to > look correct. How can I see what my settings are within the X environment? -- Rolf Heckemann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pcmcia soundcard needed
Hi I don't think you will have any joy with this project. First of all, PCMCIA soundcards are not supported by the pcmcia-source package (according to SUPPORTED.CARDS), second, your CPU is too slow to play MP3's in software, at least at sensible bitrates -- unless you use DOS, in which case the situation may be different, but I don't know. You might find it interesting that the German magazine c't ran a couple of articles about building a hardware MP3 decoder that receives its data via parallel port, for which you need no more than a 286 and no soundcard. The issue numbers are 9 and 10/1999. Good luck Rolf On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:27:09PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > I?ll be getting an old 486/40-notebook in the near future which I?d > like to recycle as an mp3-player for my stereo. > > Now, obviously, since the box doesn?t have sound built-in, I?ll need a > pcmcia-soundcard. Does anyone round here > - know of one > - is running it successfully w/ debian? -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with networking cropped up after upgrading to sid
/dev/tap0 is the node for accessing the kernel ethertap driver. It is used by some programs such as diald. If you have something like that installed, it will probably autoload the kernel module ethertap.o on bootup. You can probably find out when it gets loaded by looking at /var/log/syslog or 'dmesg | less'. Then just remove the program that causes ethertap to be loaded, and see whether your routing problem goes away. Very sketchy, but I hope it helps you anyway. Rolf On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:49:37AM -0700, TShrew wrote: > I don't know if the problem occurred with something in the upgrade, but since I >could upgrade to sid from potato (installed from CD) via > ftp, the problem was not present before the upgrade. Since this hasn't happened on >any of my desktop computers, I can only assume it > has something to do with the laptop. > > The laptop: > Dell Inspiron 8000: Xircom pcmcia nic > > The problem: > I cannot access my gateway computer nor can it access my laptop, but I can access >the other computers on my lan. > Running "ifconfig" reveals a device listed which I have never seen before, "tap0", >assigned the IP address of my gateway computer. I > have tried marking it down, but something on the laptop still thinks a local IP is >the same as my gateway IP even with tap0 down. I have > checked /etc/networks/interfaces, /etc/pcmcia/network.opts, /etc/resolv.conf, >/etc/hosts, and everything else I could think of that could be > defining tap0 and/or convincing the laptop he is, in addition to his own IP, the IP >of my gateway. > > Thank you in advance. I have found the archive for this list very helpful in >setting up this laptop but didn't see anything like this (or just > searched on the wrong thing) > > -TShrew -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to handle kernel paging -message
This sounds very much like a hardware problem. If you can't boot from a floppy, you can install the memtest kernel (http://www.memtest86.com/) in a partition and try to boot it via LILO or grub. Good luck Rolf On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:15:48PM +0300, Johannes Niemel? wrote: > Hi, > When I boot my Libretto 50CT i get message like this: > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c301ef4c > current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000 > *pde = > Oops: > CPU: 0 > EIP: 0010:[] > EFLAGS: 00010006 > eax: c02b915c ebx: c201efe0 ecx: c301ef4c edx: 0015 > esi: c301f140 edi: 0282 ebp: 0015 esp: c2019f4c > ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 > Process swapper (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=c2019000) > Stack: ... > Call Trace: ... > Code: ... > > Stack and Call Trace has many addresses which I did not write to this because my >lazyness. Code also has some hex values. > > So the question is, what's wrong with my machine? It can't be a hard drive because I >tested with a brand new drive and I get the same error message. So is it a memory >related problem? How can I test a memory with a machine that have not a floppy drive? >Or where's the problem? > > Computer has 32MB memory and PCMCIA ethernet card. It's running Potato. Problem rose >to my attention about a month ago. X just hung up. Sometimes it boots normaly and you >could use it normaly until it just hungs without any warning. > > - Johannes Niemelä - > - > Sunpoint.net vihje: > > Tee oma virtuaalinen pörssisalkku ja seuraa osakkeittesi kehitystä GSM puhelimella. > >http://www.sunpoint.net/SunAds/click.htm?mode=footer&id=48&jump=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sunpoint.net%2F > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very Selective upgrade
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:19:42PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Can someone give me an example of how I would upgrade a specific > package from 'testing' without affecting any of the apt-get libraries? > If I change the sources.list to include 'testing' then I get all > kinds of files selected for upgrade. I really don't want to move [...] I'm not quite sure what you mean by "selected for upgrade". Are you using dselect? You shouldn't, if all you want to do is to upgrade a single package. I can see two ways to solve your problem. I prefer the quick and dirty approach: # echo \ "deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free" \ >/etc/apt/sources.list # apt-get update # apt-get install ssh after which you have to remember to change sources.list again before the next installation from stable. To do it cleanly, you can compile the testing package from source: # echo \ "deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free" \ >>/etc/apt/sources.list # apt-get update # cd /usr/local/src/ # apt-get source ssh # cd openssh-2.5.2p2 # debian/rules build # dpkg -i openssh_2.5.2p2-3.deb but for this to work, you will have to install all the necessary *-dev packages from stable first. Concerning your upgrade problems: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' would probably help avoid your system failures on moving from stable to testing. Just my 2p - there are probably still better ways to solve your problem. All the best Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very Selective upgrade
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:55:00AM +0200, Imran Geriskovan wrote: > Sorry for the cross posting. > But I just wanted to carry the discussion to dpkg list. > > Well... > > For me Tom's point is a very important issue. Albeit a resolved one. Sorry - it's a matter of RTFM. > Now I have debian machine installed by using the "testing" > branch 50 days ago. Now I want to upgrade/install some packages. > In dselect I choose the update option (using method apt). > Now the select says that it will going to upgrade nearly all of the > packages. In 50 days I've done alot of customization > on that machine and I do not want to ugrade most of them. Go to the first line in the package listing (All Packages), press '=' (hold in present state). BTW, have you noticed that Debian goes out of its way to ensure that your customizations are being preserved? > Meanwhile I'm quite satisfied with the system. > And I have no intention for such a big upgrade. > However currently (and sadly) I can not use dselect for > automatic installion of other packages with all their dependent ones > because choosing "Install" will upgrade rest of the system. > > Hence I have no option :( other than manually downloading and > installing new packages with all others that the packages depends on. :( man apt-get > Is it be possible to "freeze" some packages on a machine > an make them immune to later updates/installations? See above or dselect online help. Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what module is that?
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:12:11PM +0200, t3 wrote: > hi, > is there a general way to figure out what [bc]-major-minor belongs to > which device ? apt-get install kernel-source-2.x.y cd /usr/src bzcat kernel-source-2.x.y | tar xf - less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt R. -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very Selective upgrade
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:35:04AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Thanks to all that replied. > I know that under dselect I can "hold" various packages. > And if I edit the sources.list I can add a set of 'testing' entries. > > I suppose I can do the .deb download and installs myself but I was > hoping for some manner in which I could use something like dpkg to > specify a network location for a .deb package and have it (dpkg) > download and install that package for me. Your reply makes me wonder whether you have actually read and tried the suggestions made. What you are looking for is apt-get. > I will have to look into the source installations a bit further as > I've found I have wanted to install something myself many times > the Debian way... > > I have noticed that when I create a custom kernel it gives me > trouble with subsequent upgrades from Debian. Example: When the > Debian kernel is 2.2.18 I install my own version of 2.2.19. When > Debian comes out with anything new (>=2.2.19) I can't upgrade it > as the package I created is not in the upgrade path. > Understandable, but ... But what? > I looked in the FAQ, where can I find more information on how to > do this Debian Package management...? http://antiweb.org/translation/debian/appc_05.html Let's end the thread here, it is off-topic. R. -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Effective Boot Procedure
Check out the netenv package. It lets you set up scripts for modifying your configuration based on a kernel boot parameter netenv= R. On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:33:54PM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > Hi all! > > Speed is for my old laptop (486, Debian 2.0) essential. > So I want to boot twice: > * With a small kernel without daemons (no ports, no network) > * With a big kernel with daemons (network, modem, printer) > > I have two kernels and decide at the lilo-boot-prompt which one > to boot. > > How can I tell (if possible) lilo to boot with/without daemons? > > So far I deleted most daemon-boot-scripts from /etc/rc2 and edit > /etc/inittab to set the runlevel at 2 (no daemons) or > 3 (with daemons) - than I have to reboot. > > Any help/recommendations to do this more effizient (if > possible with lilo)? -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser
You can try minimalistic window managers such as wm2, flwm, lwm... I doubt that it will help, though. Your problem is your choice of application software -- I'm surprised that it runs at all :-) Check out galeon (sorry, no .deb yet). If you don't mind non-free, look at opera (.deb on www.opera.com). R. On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:39:53PM +0100, Barry Pretsell wrote: > All, > > I'm running Debian potato on an IBM Thinkpad 365X 24MB RAM, which has a Cyber >Trident 9320 display card (has 1Mb on board). > I have tried fvwm, fvwm2, icewm, and wdm. I have tried mozilla as a browser and it >takes 3-4 minutes to display anything. Of course I could use lynx, but I really would >like to get some graphic browser working. > > can anyone recommend a windows manager/browser which may run faster than the dog I'm >running now. > > Many thanks in advance > > Barry > > P.S. RAM can only expand to a max of 32Mb. -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Modem of notebook hp xe3
Find out the name of the modem chipset from the specs or the MS Windos device manager. Then search Google for "linux winmodem chipsetname". R. On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:10:31PM +0200, Roberto Burceni wrote: > Hi! > I'm a new subscriber of this list. I woul like to know if there's a support > form te internal modem of the notebook hp xe3. If so, where I could find > information? > I have Debian gnu/linux 2.2r3 with kernel 2.2.19. > Thanks for help > Roberto > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:29:11PM -0500, Adam Kessel wrote: > galeon is available as a .deb, most recently: > galeon_0.11.5-3_i386.deb > in non-US/main. Didn't expect it there -- thank you! R. -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install debian without floppy drive or cdrom-drive
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 05:02:07PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a laptop, it's an acer with a pentium 100 and > 16 meg ram. I want to install debian on it but I have > a problem : I don't have a floppy drive(broken) and I > don't have a cd drive. But,I have an adapter that > enables me to plug my laptop harddrive in my desktop > and this way, I can acces my laptop hard drive with > my desktop and modify it. I also have a cable that > enable me to transfer files by the parallel port. Put the laptop hard drive in your desktop instead of the desktop hard drive. Do a regular Debian install, following the instructions. Put the hard drive back into the laptop. Boot it up and see if it works, chances are that it will. If there are any problems, make sure you search the web first. Don't post problems to mailing lists unless you can be very, very specific about it and the hardware you are using. And don't post the same message over and over again. Good luck Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Killed eth0 by switching from 2.2r2 -> 2.2r3.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:01:29AM -0700, Don Werve wrote: [...] > After installing 2.2r3, the Xircom modem still works, but the ethernet > portion of things is dead. The kernel detects it, and it shows up in the > kernel logs and in /proc/interrupts, but I can't ping out or ping in, and I'm > not seeing a LNK light on the NIC in my workstation (it's connected via a > crossover to a second ethernet card). > > I pulled out the new drive, replaced the old drive, booted the not-quite-right > OS, and was still able to ping/etc (same cable, etc.). The network config > is kosher (identical to the previous setup), and I've tried building a couple ^ You sound very sure, but my feeling is that the problem must be with the setup, unless you have a hardware conflict between the new HD and the NIC, which would be, umm, uncommon. Can you copy both the old /etc/ trees or even just /etc/pcmcia/ and /etc/network somewhere so you can compare them with a recursive diff? That's how I would look for a solution, although I know it's painful swapping hard disks in and out of laptops. > of kernels (2.2.18pre21, 2.2.19pre17, and 2.2.19) with the requisite PCMCIA > utilities, but nothing seems to kick the Xircom ethernet side into gear. I've > checked on my workstation using "mii-diag", and it isn't detecting a link > either. Good luck Rolf -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 2.2 on Thinkpad A21M (DVD playing)
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 08:56:43AM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: [...] > I've written some documentation about how I got the DVD playback working > at http://people.debian.org/~dsw (it should be obvious which document it > is). [...] Your instructions detail how you use both DeCSS and a patch to make your drive code-free. But DeCSS obviates the need for a code-free drive - at least I'm able to watch various CSS-encrypted DVD's from different regions with xine and the decss plugin, while the pre-installed Windows player software still works. Regards Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X 4.0.1 problem with a Toshiba laptop
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 07:56:27AM +0300, Teppo Hyt?nen wrote: > I have a similar problem, though not on a laptop, but on my normal > desktop PC. When I change to a vc and back, X goes black, and I have to > reboot with ctrl-alt-del - I can't even kill X, or shut it down. This only > happens with 4.1.0 - 4.0.x worked fine. [...] If you can still log in via the network, look at the last entries in /var/log/XFree86.0.log for clues to your problem. If you can't, start X from the console as root using X >/var/tmp/x.log 2>&1 then switch until you get stuck, then examine /var/tmp/x.log after a reboot. Hope it helps Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Random crashes with testing on IBM T22
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:28:26PM +0200, Martin Sk?tt wrote: > OK, my machine just crashed again, but this time when it just stood there > running Star Office while I was reading when it locked up. Its starting to get > really annoying. How are your experiences with delivering IBM equipment for > repairs? Do they requiere you to have Windows on the machine? (I do, but in I brought my TP 240 to IBM UK after the system board had been killed (apparently by lm-sensors). I have nothing but praise for the service. I don't think they booted the machine, at least not from my hard drive, so I would assume they can deal with it without Windows installed. Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: naive question: XFree86 4.1 and Debian Potato: after installation
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:22:06AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I have just install Maple 7: > the Windows interface (which use Xmotif) behaves strangely: > all colors change. X Window applications can install what is called a private color map if the number of colors available from the X server is insufficient. You probably have a color depth of 8 bits set up. To change this, open /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and find 'Section "Screen"'. Insert 'DefaultDepth 16' after the line 'Monitor "whatever"', then restart the X server. That will give you 2^16 colors, eliminating the need for private color maps. Valid values for default depth depend on your server. Good luck Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (no subject)
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:14:12AM -0500, Crespo, Esteban wrote: > I need a TG-8200 sound driver. Please could u help me with that or do u know > where can I find this driver??? You probably have a ES1878 chipset. Try the sb_ess driver. Good luck Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nokia Cardphone and Linux
I'd be interested to hear from people who have tried or managed to use Nokia's Cardphone with Linux. Does it work? How are you using it? Thanks Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody: xfree86 hangs thinkpad on suspend
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:41:05PM +, Mark Hindley wrote: > I have just upgraded to woody. All is fine on my Thinkpad 560E > except if the machine suspends with xfree86 on the active console, > it just hangs. Seems to also happen if I hit Fn-F7 (CRT-LCD) switch I had this problem with a Thinkpad 240. I worked around it by suspending via a script that does a chvt 2 before suspending. Nowadays I just don't suspend it any more. Please consider wrapping your lines when you post. Rolf
Re: Mouse setup under X
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:15:54AM +, Paulo Lopes wrote: > Can someone tel me how to setup two mouses on the same device, using two > diferrent protocols? It's probably impossible. Better get a USB or serial wheelmouse. However, you may want to have a look at gpm: it offers a repeater mode (man gpm, option -R, configure /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device in X). Good luck Rolf Heckemann
Re: Mouse setup under X
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:49:07AM -0600, Zane Dodson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:48:10AM +0000, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > | On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:15:54AM +, Paulo Lopes wrote: > | > Can someone tel me how to setup two mouses on the same device, using two > | > diferrent protocols? > | > | It's probably impossible. Better get a USB or serial wheelmouse. > | However, you may want to have a look at gpm: it offers a repeater mode > | (man gpm, option -R, configure /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device in X). > > Check your notebook's BIOS. Mine (an older Toshiba) has a pointing > device section which I can set to simultaneous and use both the > integrated pointing device and an externally connected PS/2 mouse. The important point here is /using two different protocols/. Sure, I can use an internal and external PS/2 pointing device simultaneously -- but only if I run them with the same protocol. Rolf
Re: Mouse setup under X
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:12:47AM -0600, Zane Dodson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:57:55PM +0000, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > | On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:49:07AM -0600, Zane Dodson wrote: > | > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:48:10AM +, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > | > | On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:15:54AM +, Paulo Lopes wrote: > | > | > Can someone tel me how to setup two mouses on the same device, using > two > | > | > diferrent protocols? > | > | > | > | It's probably impossible. Better get a USB or serial wheelmouse. > | > | However, you may want to have a look at gpm: it offers a repeater mode > | > | (man gpm, option -R, configure /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device in X). > | > > | > Check your notebook's BIOS. Mine (an older Toshiba) has a pointing > | > device section which I can set to simultaneous and use both the > | > integrated pointing device and an externally connected PS/2 mouse. > | > | The important point here is /using two different protocols/. Sure, I > | can use an internal and external PS/2 pointing device simultaneously > | -- but only if I run them with the same protocol. > > You are right. I didn't read the original post carefully. I agree with > Rolf that simultaneous use of two *different* mouse protocols over the same > PS/2 interface is probably impossible. I'm probably guilty of the same crime, since Paulo didn't actually say he wanted to use both simultaneously. I think Yoann's is a good answer to the then slightly different problem. I wonder if (and I have no way to test this at present) you could run two simultaneous instances of X on separate consoles, each one using one of Yoann's ServerLayouts. Probably not, because each one will attempt to initialize the psaux interface for itself. Rolf
Re: Mouse setup under X
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:03:22PM +, Vivek wrote: > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 04:58:29PM +, Vivek wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > Trivially worked around. Get gpm to repeat the psaux pointer on > > > > > /dev/gpmdata and have the instances of X use that instead. > > > > > > > > Yeah, but what about the two different protocols? > > > > > > I was assuming the aforementioned 2 mice -> same protocol setup. > > > > With 2 mice -> same protocol, you don't get a problem in the first > > place even when you run two instances of X. > > Really? I would have thought that they'd fight over the psaux device, > since only one process can usefully have /dev/psaux open. I use a set up with two and one with three instances of X routinely. One of the machines has a PS/2 touchpad and an external USB wheelmouse, the other only a USB mouse. No problems there. Rolf
Re: naive question: XFree86 4.1 and Debian Potato: after installation
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:22:06AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I have just install Maple 7: > the Windows interface (which use Xmotif) behaves strangely: > all colors change. X Window applications can install what is called a private color map if the number of colors available from the X server is insufficient. You probably have a color depth of 8 bits set up. To change this, open /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and find 'Section "Screen"'. Insert 'DefaultDepth 16' after the line 'Monitor "whatever"', then restart the X server. That will give you 2^16 colors, eliminating the need for private color maps. Valid values for default depth depend on your server. Good luck Rolf
Re: AlsaOnGateway9550
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:14:21AM -0700, ThomasRatliffDDS wrote: > Every time I boot up this machine the volume (and some other parameters) > in aumix or alsamixer is reset to 0. > > My ~/.aumixerc and the system /etc/aumixer have reasonable defaults and > sound works after I reset the volume. > > Where do I go to troubleshoot this? Make sure the file is called ~/.aumixrc (just in case the files are named exactly as in your message). Good luck Rolf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody: xfree86 hangs thinkpad on suspend
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:41:05PM +, Mark Hindley wrote: > I have just upgraded to woody. All is fine on my Thinkpad 560E > except if the machine suspends with xfree86 on the active console, > it just hangs. Seems to also happen if I hit Fn-F7 (CRT-LCD) switch I had this problem with a Thinkpad 240. I worked around it by suspending via a script that does a chvt 2 before suspending. Nowadays I just don't suspend it any more. Please consider wrapping your lines when you post. Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mouse setup under X
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:15:54AM +, Paulo Lopes wrote: > Can someone tel me how to setup two mouses on the same device, using two > diferrent protocols? It's probably impossible. Better get a USB or serial wheelmouse. However, you may want to have a look at gpm: it offers a repeater mode (man gpm, option -R, configure /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device in X). Good luck Rolf Heckemann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mouse setup under X
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:49:07AM -0600, Zane Dodson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:48:10AM +0000, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > | On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:15:54AM +, Paulo Lopes wrote: > | > Can someone tel me how to setup two mouses on the same device, using two > | > diferrent protocols? > | > | It's probably impossible. Better get a USB or serial wheelmouse. > | However, you may want to have a look at gpm: it offers a repeater mode > | (man gpm, option -R, configure /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device in X). > > Check your notebook's BIOS. Mine (an older Toshiba) has a pointing > device section which I can set to simultaneous and use both the > integrated pointing device and an externally connected PS/2 mouse. The important point here is /using two different protocols/. Sure, I can use an internal and external PS/2 pointing device simultaneously -- but only if I run them with the same protocol. Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mouse setup under X
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:12:47AM -0600, Zane Dodson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:57:55PM +0000, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > | On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:49:07AM -0600, Zane Dodson wrote: > | > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:48:10AM +, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > | > | On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:15:54AM +, Paulo Lopes wrote: > | > | > Can someone tel me how to setup two mouses on the same device, using two > | > | > diferrent protocols? > | > | > | > | It's probably impossible. Better get a USB or serial wheelmouse. > | > | However, you may want to have a look at gpm: it offers a repeater mode > | > | (man gpm, option -R, configure /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device in X). > | > > | > Check your notebook's BIOS. Mine (an older Toshiba) has a pointing > | > device section which I can set to simultaneous and use both the > | > integrated pointing device and an externally connected PS/2 mouse. > | > | The important point here is /using two different protocols/. Sure, I > | can use an internal and external PS/2 pointing device simultaneously > | -- but only if I run them with the same protocol. > > You are right. I didn't read the original post carefully. I agree with > Rolf that simultaneous use of two *different* mouse protocols over the same > PS/2 interface is probably impossible. I'm probably guilty of the same crime, since Paulo didn't actually say he wanted to use both simultaneously. I think Yoann's is a good answer to the then slightly different problem. I wonder if (and I have no way to test this at present) you could run two simultaneous instances of X on separate consoles, each one using one of Yoann's ServerLayouts. Probably not, because each one will attempt to initialize the psaux interface for itself. Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mouse setup under X
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:03:22PM +, Vivek wrote: > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 04:58:29PM +, Vivek wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > Trivially worked around. Get gpm to repeat the psaux pointer on > > > > > /dev/gpmdata and have the instances of X use that instead. > > > > > > > > Yeah, but what about the two different protocols? > > > > > > I was assuming the aforementioned 2 mice -> same protocol setup. > > > > With 2 mice -> same protocol, you don't get a problem in the first > > place even when you run two instances of X. > > Really? I would have thought that they'd fight over the psaux device, > since only one process can usefully have /dev/psaux open. I use a set up with two and one with three instances of X routinely. One of the machines has a PS/2 touchpad and an external USB wheelmouse, the other only a USB mouse. No problems there. Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
