Re: Graphics Board URGENT

[Britton]

The S3 Virge has been supported for a while under Xfree86 and is probably
pretty stable by now.  Most any board should work in generic svga mode,
but you might as well get one which you can use to it's full potential.

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote:

> 
> Howdy,
> 
> quick question:
> 
>   my supplier offers me the following boards:
> 
>   S3 TRIO PCI
>   S3 VIRGE PCI
>   Mystique
>   Millenium 2MB
>   Millenium 4MB
> 
>   no further information is given.  If I don't care about
>   graphic performance and possibilities what should be the
>   safest bet for Linux?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Nico.
> 
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Lockups! - Please Help

[Kevin Traas]

I've got a system that's been running for months (as an Internet
"gateway"/router).  Everything's been great - until just recently.

All of a sudden, the system's been freezing on me - and I'm getting two
different sets of messages which I'm not sure are related.  The most common
problem/error I'm getting, which occurs as many as 15 times in a typical day
is:

Aiee:  scheduling in interrupt 001248c9

The above message fills the console window, but doesn't seem to be repeating
(no flashing from painting anyways...).  The system is locked at this point.
Cold boot or Reset is required.

The other error message I'm getting is a kernel panic as follows:

kernel panic skput:over: 0280e6b4:1514 In swapper task - not syncing

The log files reveal nothing out of the ordinary
This system is pretty basic:  P120, 32MB, IDE drive, 3C905, BB2016,
Kernel=2.0.32

Obviously, the first thing I've been looking for is what has changed on this
system.  The answer is, "not much".  About a month ago, I moved from 2.0.29
to 2.0.32, but these problems have only been occuring for the last week or
so.  Regardless, I'm currently trying to get 2.0.33 built and try that -
along with going back to 2.0.29 (I've still got the old kernel available).

Any help/hints you can provide would be much appreciated.

Regards,
Kevin Traas


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Re: AMD 5x86 and reboot

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 10:53:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The solution was simple! The processor fas (a small one for a 486) was way
> to small. I've replaced it with a modern 586/Pentium fan, and now
> everything works fine. (And the new fan produces less noise too)

Hmmm. My company's 486/133 server at our ISP has been running with
a busted fan (which just twitches back and forth, not moving very far)
since last September without fail.

The problem with using a Pentium fan is that they use a different
mechanism to attach to the CPU/motherboard.


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Re: Setting IRQ

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 02:46:06PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> > Many of these cards require a setup dos-program to change the IRQ.
> > I believe there's a group at NASA working on a parallel computing
> > project (which uses these cards) which has developed a linux program
> > which can do this though. That's all I know though. I can't
> > remember where I read about this. Maybe a web search would net you
> > the answer. Good luck.
> 
> Sounds like the  Beowulf project.  They wrote many of the net drivers for
> linux.  I don't know about any setup programs though.

Donald Becker has a program which can do setup for ATLANTIC based
NE2000 clones. I've seen some of those cards but never tried it out.
It should be at his web/ftp site; atlantic.c IIRC.


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Re: Lockups! - Please Help

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 11:23:20AM -0800, Kevin Traas wrote:
> I've got a system that's been running for months (as an Internet
> "gateway"/router).  Everything's been great - until just recently.
> 
> All of a sudden, the system's been freezing on me - and I'm getting two
> different sets of messages which I'm not sure are related.  The most common
> problem/error I'm getting, which occurs as many as 15 times in a typical day
> is:
> 
> Aiee:  scheduling in interrupt 001248c9

If nothing's really changed software wise, could you be having some
sort of hardware failure? If your CPU fan was not working up to expectations
some weird things can happen. These messages are from the kernel, and the
userspace software Debian provides is (I think) unlikely to cause such
errors.


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Re: shopping cart technology

[Pure Energy]

Try the URL www.scriptsearch.com :) they have some there done in perl,
C and i believe java.



On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Dr. Frank Palmer wrote:

> Hi Listers, Good afternoon!
>   Does anyone on this list know of a shopping cart program with cash
> register and credit card action that runs well on linux?
>   Thanks in adviance.
>   Dr. Bubba
> 
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The Custum CD in the Debian Book

[Madskies]

Can you give ma a list of the software and patches on the Custum CD? I can't
afford to buy the whole package right now. (I would like a complete list of
the contents so
I can download the contents)

Thankyou-

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Kernel Modules...

[Timothy M. Hospedales]

When I recompiled my kernel, I built alot of stuff into it (like PPP
etc), that used to be in modules before. Now when I startup, I get lots
of messages about not being able to find the old modules.  Is there any
easy way to clean up / update the set of modules to be loaded at
boot-time so it doesn't do this?

Thanks,
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Re: bash shell script questions

[David Stern]

On Wed, 07 Jan 1998 21:27:01 +1030, John Spence wrote:
> > I know this isn't a bash shell script news group, but the fact is I 
> > can't find one.  Since bash is the default linux shell, I was hoping 
> > someone could answer a few pretty simple questions.
> 
> Hi David.
> 
> Try this link for an intro to Bourne shell scripts.
> 
> http://riceinfo.rice.edu/Computer/Documents/Classes/Unix/bourne/bourne.html
> 
> There's lots of other good info on that site too BTW.
> 
> --
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That's a very thorough tutorial.  Thanks! :-)  I got my answer to the 
most important question (reassigning variables interactively) here 
first.  You're also right that there are some other good unix docs 
there.  Thanks again! :-)
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Re: Netscape helpers, or replacing /bin/sh

[jim]

[Summary - Netscape fails when launching helper apps under bash 2.0
because of a bug handling nested parens.]

Daniel wrote: 
> This is a known bash bug, and bash 2.01 fixes it.  I have a bash 2.01
> compiled for my bo system - if anyone wants it, it's available in:
> http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/bash/ along with libreadline, etc. -
> unfortunately (because, IMHO, the admins of this web server are being
> annoyingly paranoid in their server configuration) all of the debian
> files have the extension .deb.bin instead of .deb - this is to keep
> the server from sending them as type text/plain.  (Hopefully this
> won't confuse anyone)

I got the files and installed them, and it does indeed fix the
problem. One unintended consequence is that the new libreadline breaks
ncftp, which wants the older one. I can live with this, until I manage
to rebuild ncftp. 

- Jim


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Re: "86open" conformance of debian

[Milan Zimmermann]

Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 09:18:09AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > See http://www.telly.org/86open/86open-faq.html: the 86open initiative is an
> > initiative to standardise the C library API.
> 
> Is that all? Binary compatibility would be super. I think commercial
> companies would like to just target at i386-86open. Impossible?

I just went to the 86open page (http://www.telly.org/86open/). Quoting:

"... hiding the differences between the various operating systems and
allowing the resulting binary programs to run unaltered on any compliant
system. Whenever possible, it will be consistent with The Open Group's
Single Unix Specification."

So it sounds like binary compatibility. Great.


Regards

Milan Zimmermann

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Re: works under Red Hat, not Debian

[Nicolás Lichtmaier]

> #include 
> 
> main()
> {
>   execl("/home/Gandalf/octave_test.mex",
> (void *) 0);
> }

 Bad code. First argument should always be program name:

   execl("/home/Gandalf/octave_test.mex","octave_test.mex",
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PPP not getting LCP

[Bill Vinson]

Guys I hope this isn't out of line but I am posting this little bit of
my log file in hopes someone can help.  I asked about this earlier and
I figured this might make it easier to diagnose...

I've set up LCP-MAX-CONFIGURE up to 1000 and I still can't get logged
in.

Any help is appreciated, and I will talk off the list if anyone is
willing to give more help...

Thanks for everything,
Bill

Jan  7 23:07:25 gandalf pppd[595]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0

Jan  7 23:07:26 gandalf chat[596]: abort on (NO CARRIER) 

Jan  7 23:07:27 gandalf chat[596]: abort on (BUSY) 

Jan  7 23:07:27 gandalf chat[596]: send (ATZ^M) 

Jan  7 23:07:27 gandalf chat[596]: expect (OK) 

Jan  7 23:07:55 gandalf chat[596]: ATZ^M^M 

Jan  7 23:07:55 gandalf chat[596]: OK -- got it 

Jan  7 23:07:55 gandalf chat[596]: send (ATDT9429890^M) 

Jan  7 23:07:56 gandalf chat[596]: expect (CONNECT) 

Jan  7 23:07:56 gandalf chat[596]: ^M 

Jan  7 23:08:25 gandalf chat[596]: ATDT***^M^M 

Jan  7 23:08:25 gandalf pppd[595]: Serial connection established.

Jan  7 23:08:25 gandalf chat[596]: CONNECT -- got it 

Jan  7 23:08:26 gandalf pppd[595]: Using interface ppp0

Jan  7 23:08:26 gandalf pppd[595]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1

Jan  7 23:08:26 gandalf pppd[595]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 
   ]

Jan  7 23:08:54 gandalf last message repeated 9 times

Jan  7 23:08:57 gandalf pppd[595]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests

Jan  7 23:08:57 gandalf pppd[595]: Connection terminated.

Jan  7 23:08:57 gandalf pppd[595]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit
clean:

Jan  7 23:08:57 gandalf pppd[595]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0

Jan  7 23:09:45 gandalf pppd[595]: Hangup (SIGHUP)

Jan  7 23:09:45 gandalf pppd[595]: ioctl(TIOCNXCL): I/O error

Jan  7 23:09:45 gandalf pppd[595]: Exit.


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Re: PPP not getting LCP

[Daniel Martin at cush]

Bill Vinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Guys I hope this isn't out of line but I am posting this little bit of
> my log file in hopes someone can help.  I asked about this earlier and
> I figured this might make it easier to diagnose...
> 
> I've set up LCP-MAX-CONFIGURE up to 1000 and I still can't get logged
> in.
> 
> Any help is appreciated, and I will talk off the list if anyone is
> willing to give more help...
> 
> Thanks for everything,
> Bill
> 

Your /etc/ppp.chatscript is too short.  Earthlink (at least in some
places) uses an actual login prompt, and asks for a password - try to
log in with minicom to check this.  Just modify the stock
/etc/ppp.chatscript - don't rip out the stuff below the connect line
(though you should wipe out the second '\q' in the password line).
pppd is trying to initiate a ppp connection with a machine that's
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Re: Graphics Board URGENT

[Nico De Ranter]

Howdy,

thanks to everybody who replied, I opted for a S3 TRIO since it's the cheapest
and graphics performance is not an issue at all.  I didn't every board could
be run in generic svga mode however, that comes in very handy with my Diamond
FireGL at home :-)

Thanks,

Nico


> 
> The S3 Virge has been supported for a while under Xfree86 and is probably
> pretty stable by now.  Most any board should work in generic svga mode,
> but you might as well get one which you can use to it's full potential.
> 
> On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > quick question:
> > 
> >   my supplier offers me the following boards:
> > 
> >   S3 TRIO PCI
> >   S3 VIRGE PCI
> >   Mystique
> >   Millenium 2MB
> >   Millenium 4MB
> > 
> >   no further information is given.  If I don't care about
> >   graphic performance and possibilities what should be the
> >   safest bet for Linux?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Nico.
> > 
> > -- 
> > --
> > Nico De Ranter
> > Sony Objective Composer (SOCOM)
> > Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne)
> > 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth
> > Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86
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Re: Graphics Board URGENT

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 08:35:08AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> thanks to everybody who replied, I opted for a S3 TRIO since it's the cheapest
> and graphics performance is not an issue at all.  I didn't every board could
> be run in generic svga mode however, that comes in very handy with my Diamond
> FireGL at home :-)

Trio is cheap but still a reasonably good card. I have a couple
of Trio64V+ cards here and they work quite well with X as well as Windows.

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Re: Graphics Board URGENT

[Alexey Vyskubov]

On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 03:37:28PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> quick question:
> 
>   my supplier offers me the following boards:
> 
>   S3 TRIO PCI

I use S3 Trio 64 with 2 MB memory on my home computer with XF86_S3 and have no
problems at all.

>   S3 VIRGE PCI

Probabaly it should work ok too, but I know a man who has some troubles with
S3 Virge under Debian.

>   Mystique

Mystique 220 is not good for X :)

>   Millenium 2MB
>   Millenium 4MB

It's probably good cards, but I guess that the price is too high.


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Re: Kernel Modules...

[E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)]

> 
> When I recompiled my kernel, I built alot of stuff into it (like PPP
> etc), that used to be in modules before. Now when I startup, I get lots
> of messages about not being able to find the old modules.  Is there any
> easy way to clean up / update the set of modules to be loaded at
> boot-time so it doesn't do this?

I had this happen when moduless that no longer existed were mentioned in
/etc/modules.  I think removing the references there should do the
trick.

On a related issue, I noticed that if I install a new revision of a
kernel via a kernel-package produce with kernel-package 3.03, I
sometimes get problems with incompatible modules.  This is usually
avoided if I remove /lib/modules/ before installing the
kernel-package with dpkg.

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Re: Graphics Board URGENT

[Christopher Jason Morrone]

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Alexey Vyskubov wrote:

[cut]
> >   Mystique
> 
> Mystique 220 is not good for X :)

I'm interested to know why you say that?  I have a Matrox Mystique 220
with 4megs of ram and I haven't yet had a problem with X.

The support for the Matrox cards is still in the early stages, but it
hasn't given me any problems yet.  I'm quite happy with it.


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Cheap*Bytes CD Orginazation?

[Hotze]

Hello.  First of all, I would like to thank 
all of the people that responed to my cfdisk help question about a week 
ago.  The responses were all helpful, and almost instant.
    I have another 
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purchased Debian on a CD from Cheap Bytes.  I got through the install 
process easily, and then I was stuck when it came to the CD's 
orginazation.  I tried entering logical entrees, but it didn't accept 
them.  How is the CD orginized?
    Thanks again,
 
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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #31

[ninjaz]

>Please does anyone know of where I can access some speech/voice
>recognition software for my Linux box?

I'm not sure how high quality you're looking for, but there are a couple
on sunsite & mirrors in the apps/sound/speech directory (eg,
ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/linux/sunsite/apps/sound/speech). I've personally used
AbbotDemo, which is better as a source of amusement than for any practical
purposes, and just noticed one called ears.  Hope this helps. :) 

-pete



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Re: KDE rough edges

[ninjaz]

KDE Beta2, which I've compiled and been using on my bo systems has been
quite stable, with none of the problems you've mentioned (there was a
problem with the SuperUser filemanager option because kfm wasn't in the
PATH after the su, but a symlink to /usr/bin fixed that).

However, I did have a variety of problems using Beta1 on accelx (haven't
tried Beta2 w/ it).  If you're using accelx, you should try XFree86.
Also, you should send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED]  The developers who
respond to that address are quite friendly.  

-pete 

>Hi,
>
>Whenever I start KFM the file manager, it seems to insist on having an
>attached terminal. 
>
>When I start up the panel, and try and change the desktop settings I get
>an X error (bad request, trying to access private resources).  And the
>window in question dies, the same thing happens when I try to start KFM
>from the panel menu, I get an echo in a window (KFM CRASH). 
>
>  Since these issues weren't mentioned in the BUG list with KDE, I was
>wondering if others running KDE have the same problems?



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Re: package to morph images

[Frank Barknecht]

Ana Silva hat gesagt: // Ana Silva wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Paul McDermott wrote:
> 
> > Hi Ana, yes there is an animated gif program called whirlgif.
> > hope this helps you.
> > Paul
> 
> Thanks, but what I ment was a thing that automaticly morphes the images,
> but don´t worry, I´ve found xmorph...

Be sure to also check out xmrm. 
URL: http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/ca/mrm/

Much better :)
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Re: Kernel Modules...

[Greg Norris]

> When I recompiled my kernel, I built alot of stuff into it (like PPP
> etc), that used to be in modules before. Now when I startup, I get lots
> of messages about not being able to find the old modules.  Is there any
> easy way to clean up / update the set of modules to be loaded at
> boot-time so it doesn't do this?

Remove or comment out their entries in /etc/modules.



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Re: package to morph images

[Brian K Servis]

Frank Barknecht writes:
>
>Ana Silva hat gesagt: // Ana Silva wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Paul McDermott wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi Ana, yes there is an animated gif program called whirlgif.
>> > hope this helps you.
>> > Paul
>> 
>> Thanks, but what I ment was a thing that automaticly morphes the images,
>> but don´t worry, I´ve found xmorph...
>
>Be sure to also check out xmrm. 
>URL: http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/ca/mrm/
>
>Much better :)

Wow! xmrm is a great program!  It is so easy and fast.  

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DEBIAN does not find my harddisk!!

[Nils Sandmann]

Hi,

I'm a  15-year old unexperienced Debian user and I have a problem
installing it.
I've got an old 386 IBM PS/2 55 SX computer and when I start debian
installation everything works quite well. (there are some error
messages, but I don't know if they are relevant for my problem : 'PPA:
unable to initialise controller at 0x308, error 1' and 'PS/2 ESDI:
Attention error. interrupt status: EF'). After that it  is searching for

the harddisk and it is doing something with it (you can hear it) and it
then it displays the number of sectors and so on.. After that the kernel

is loaded and the installation begins. Everything is fine until I want
to create a swap disk. When the partion-program is loaded it says, that
it can't find a harddisk. Why is this? It had already worked with the
drive and it also told me the number of sectors, clusters and heads. If
someone could help me I would be very thankful!

Many, many, many thanks in advance!!



Nils Sandmann


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Re: PPP not getting LCP

[Bill Vinson]

All the login prompt asks for is Username and Password, and then the
connection starts the terminal lists IP address and MRU? and then it's
supposed to start...

I tried it with minicom and everytime I guit without reset to type
pppd manually the modem would drop connection.

This may be solved today because I am going to try a free offer with
IBM Internet Services who I have heard to be more reliable...

Thanks,
Bill


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> Bill Vinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Guys I hope this isn't out of line but I am posting this little
bit of
> > my log file in hopes someone can help.  I asked about this earlier
and
> > I figured this might make it easier to diagnose...
> > 
> > I've set up LCP-MAX-CONFIGURE up to 1000 and I still can't get
logged
> > in.
> > 
> > Any help is appreciated, and I will talk off the list if anyone is
> > willing to give more help...
> > 
> > Thanks for everything,
> > Bill
> > 
> 
> Your /etc/ppp.chatscript is too short.  Earthlink (at least in some
> places) uses an actual login prompt, and asks for a password - try to
> log in with minicom to check this.  Just modify the stock
> /etc/ppp.chatscript - don't rip out the stuff below the connect line
> (though you should wipe out the second '\q' in the password line).
> pppd is trying to initiate a ppp connection with a machine that's
> presenting a login prompt, not ppp stuff.
> 
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Creative ide cdrom

[Alexandre Simoneau]

Hi!


I was running Redhat but I just bought Debian 1.3.1 Cd.  I want
to be able to install it from the CD but I can't mount my CD.  Its and
Creative labs 4x ide cdrom connected on my sound card.  I know that if I
plug it on the same IDE as my HD it should work perfectly but my HD IDE
cable doesn't have a spare plug so I wanted to know if It's really the
only way to make it work or if there is any other way to do it.  Thanx




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Re: Creative ide cdrom

[Brandon Mitchell]

The cable should be cheap.  Here's how I would do it with your current
setup (assuming sb is acting like your secondary ide slot):

1)  to get a prompt
2) dmesg | more # find the cd
3) mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom # From memory, possible typo
# the hdc is what you are looking for, could be hdd
4)  to get to the install menu again

HTH,
Brandon

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Alexandre Simoneau wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> 
> I was running Redhat but I just bought Debian 1.3.1 Cd.  I want
> to be able to install it from the CD but I can't mount my CD.  Its and
> Creative labs 4x ide cdrom connected on my sound card.  I know that if I
> plug it on the same IDE as my HD it should work perfectly but my HD IDE
> cable doesn't have a spare plug so I wanted to know if It's really the
> only way to make it work or if there is any other way to do it.  Thanx


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Re: DEBIAN does not find my harddisk!!

[jdassen]

On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 04:28:21PM +0100, Nils Sandmann wrote:
> I've got an old 386 IBM PS/2 55 SX computer

It is highly probable that this computer uses IBM's proprietary MCA
(MicroChannel Architecture) bus architectre. Getting Linux to run on a
system with MCA is tricky. Unless I'm very mistaken, you need a special
kernel. A quick AltaVista search on "Linux + MCA" will give you several
websites that deal specifically with getting Linux to run on an MCA system.

Hope this helps,
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Diamond Stealth II S220

[Douglas Bates]

I ordered a computer with a Diamond Stealth PCI video card.  When it
arrived I found that the card was the Diamond Stealth II S220 which,
of course, has absolutely nothing in common with previous Diamond
Stealth cards.  (I hate it when hardware manufacturers use the same
name for fundamentally different devices.)

This card is based on the Verite' 2100 chip.  None of the drivers in
XFree86-3.3.1 support it.  Not even xserver-svga can do anything with
it and SuperProbe can't recognize it.

Are there any suggestions of where to look for alpha-version drivers?
I don't seen anything on the web pages at www.xfree86.org or for the
extended S.u.S.E. drivers.


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Re: DEBIAN does not find my harddisk!!

[Marcelo E. Magallon]

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Nils Sandmann wrote:

> unable to initialise controller at 0x308, error 1' and 'PS/2 ESDI:
> Attention error. interrupt status: EF'). After that it  is searching for
> the harddisk and it is doing something with it (you can hear it) and it
> then it displays the number of sectors and so on.. After that the kernel

The PS/2 uses a different bus: MicroChannel. I have the same hardware as
you do here, waiting for me to find some time to install Debian on it.
I've read a couple of things, and MCA support is present in the 2.1.x
kernels (x arround 30 or 40, I think). I know I have to compile a new
kernel to install this, but I haven't found the time yet. Maybe in a
couple of days. If nobody else has done this, I might try to build
installation floppies for MCA, but I'm not sure about when.

You may want to check: http://glycerine.cetmm.uni.edu/mca

If I get something going here, I'll let you know.

Marcelo


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Problem with X-CD-Roast

[Mathieu Guillaume]

Hi.

It seems I am unable to launch X-CD-Roast: I always get the message
Can't initialize the Tix extension.

I have the xcdroast_0.96-1 and the tix41_4.1.0.6-1 packages installed.
It's the first time I use either one, so I don't know if my problem is
specific to those versions.

Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong ?

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Re: Voice/speech recogintion software for Linux

[hawk]

IBM had an add a couple of weeks ago in the wall street journal which said "It 
understands unix."  However, when I looked at the website, all I saw were 
windows versions.  I've been meaning to look into this, but perhaps it menat 
that "ls" and "cp" are in the vocabulary . . .


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Re: AMD 5x86 and reboot

[dg]

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> The problem with using a Pentium fan is that they use a different
> mechanism to attach to the CPU/motherboard.

It's easy when you use the kind of wire, that is used to bind flowers !!
(grin ;-)

Bye

Daniel Gross


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adduser_trouble

[Richard Sevenich]

I am having a problem with 'adduser'. The behavior is as follows:
Upon entering
'adduser some_name'
entries are created in
/etc/passwd
/etc/group
a home directory is created
and the files from /etc/skel are copied to it.

But error messages are issued
Unknown error
passwd: unknown user: some_name.

The /etc/passwd entry has the character  in the encrypted password
field (I think that's what this field is) and a subsequent login attempt
is unsuccessful.

Yesterday, adduser worked OK.
The system is a tiny one with NIS installed and working (yesterday).

Any hints?

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Re: 'math error' on irq 13?

[Philipp Frauenfelder]

Hi

> While trying (and failing) to get my no-name (well KTI networks)
> PnP PCI Ethernet card to work, I noticed this:
> 
> $ cat interrupts
>  0:   87414006   timer
>  1: 799266   keyboard
>  2:  0   cascade
>  3:6901359 + serial
>  4: 462426 + serial
>  5:  16194   sound blaster
>  8:  0 + rtc
> 13:  1   math error
> 14: 340701 + ide0

This lonly math error occurs during bootup, before the message 
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
apears on the screen. As you could read in an other posting it has to do
with bad cpu design. (That's what I read in the news -- somewhere
sometimes.)

cu
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Re: DEBIAN does not find my harddisk!!

[John Lines]

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Nils Sandmann wrote:

> I've got an old 386 IBM PS/2 55 SX computer and when I start debian
> installation everything works quite well. (there are some error
> messages, but I don't know if they are relevant for my problem : 'PPA:
> unable to initialise controller at 0x308, error 1' and 'PS/2 ESDI:
> Attention error. interrupt status: EF'). After that it  is searching for
> 
> the harddisk and it is doing something with it (you can hear it) and it
> then it displays the number of sectors and so on.. After that the kernel
> 
> is loaded and the installation begins. Everything is fine until I want
> to create a swap disk. When the partion-program is loaded it says, that
> it can't find a harddisk. Why is this? It had already worked with the
> drive and it also told me the number of sectors, clusters and heads. If
> someone could help me I would be very thankful!


I have installed Debian on a PS/2, but it required a little fiddling around.
Here is what I wrote at the time

  (repost of previous message)

I am attempting a Debian install on an IBM PS/2 Model 70, with the standard
1.3 (might be 1.3.1) rescue disk.

The kernel recognises the IBM ESDI disks, but I had to do

mknod /dev/eda b 36 0
mknod /dev/eda1 b 36 1
mknod /dev/eda2 b 36 2

Also dinstall does not recognise /dev/eda as a local drive, so I have used the
second window to do the fdisk and mke2fs

The next problem is that fdisk -l does not recognise eda disks, even though
fdisk /dev/eda does work.

(This is being reported in the order I found it, there may be a better order)

I got round this by doing (in the other window)

fdisk /dev/eda >/tmp/fdisk
and then p, to list the partition table and q to quit.

I then edited the resulting /tmp/fdisk

With this I could enable swap, and eventually mount the root partition
(you have to keep recreating /tmp/fdisk because dinstall keeps overwriting it)

I have now reached the stage where it is installing the base set, so hopefully
everything will be OK from here.


John Lines

 (end of repost of previous message)

Once the base set was installed everything else worked fine, though I have not
tried setting up X windows or anything else very fancy.

Note that there is a Linux on PS/2 page at http://glycerine.cetmm.uni.edu/mca
but that seems to be down at the moment. I seem to remember it was Slakware
based - but had usefull information for all versions of Linux.



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IP-Masq (was Re: ms explo

[Ian Watkins]

JS> I suppose I will have to load specific modules manually as I read
JS> somewhere that kerneld will not auto-load masq modules (true ?).  I
JS> be giving it another bash later tonight as I've just d/loaded and
JS> installed kernel-source-2.0.32-2.0.32-3.deb so that may make things
JS> hopefully.

JS> My knowledge of modules and the loading of them is very brief at the
JS> moment.

I've just been through the same thing with IP Masquerading. I created a 
file in /etc/rc.boot (I don't know whether that was the right place or 
not!) marked it as executable. It contained the following:

#! /bin/sh

echo "Loading ipmasq modules..."
/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_cuseeme
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_vdolive
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_quake

Seems to work for me.

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Hamm upgrade troubles. Help!

[Maria Lynn Jason Rightley]

My system is now unusable.  Before the holidays, I performed the
steps in the libc5 to libc6 mini-HOWTO successfully.  Today, I
decided to try to use dselect to upgrade to hamm.  dselect dowloaded
60+MB from the mirror I pointed to (ftp.cdrom.com).  I went through
a couple of passes of "Install" and then tried "Config" once.
This went through and eventually config'ed xbase.  This restarted
my xdm server.  The problem is that my video card (at times) can
only start X once.  Further attempts to start X lock the machine up
tight (which is why I moved to xdm in the first place).  This was one
of those times, and the machine locked up (that is not the problem).  The 
only solution that I have found to this is to press "reset".  I did
this and then the real probelms started...

The boot started correctly, but then got to this point:
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
INIT: version 2.73 booting
INIT: Cannot execute "/etc/init.d/boot"
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Starting system log daemon: syslogdstart-stop-daemon: nothing in /proc - 
not mounted?

I get many of the "start-stop-daemon" errors.

Later it says:
while opening UTMP file: No such file or directory.

I also get many of these errors.

If I try to log in as root, I get (using the correct password):
Unable to change tty /dev/tty1: Bad file descriptor

I have no idea how to correct these problems.  I have had this system 
going since early Debian 1.1 days and I am stumped.  What do I need to do?

Since I need my machine to read the mail list, could everyone at least
cc: a copy of any responses to this account.

Thanks for any assistance,

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Re: Hamm upgrade troubles. Help!

[Stephen Gregory]

Can you say boot disk?

For a boot disk I use the Debian install boot disk. From dos you can
edit the syslinux.cfg file to mount the correct disk as root. (and you
can disable the ramdisk if you need to.) Useing the boot disk will not
fix things but you should be able to log on and get a look things. You
might even be able to run the filesystem check program (can't remember
the name off hand).

I have done lots of gnasty things includeing pressing reset mutiple
times but I have never had a crash that I could not recover from.

(well actually I did delete everything once. I was going to
repartition two of my drives to give linux a large disk to work with.
I backed up Linux using tar and placed the tar file on an empty dos
partition. I then typed something along the lines of: cd /;rm -Rf *.
Note how I forgot to unmount the dos drive. )

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> of those times, and the machine locked up (that is not the problem).  The 
> only solution that I have found to this is to press "reset".  I did
> this and then the real probelms started...


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Re: adduser_trouble

[Alexander Stavitsky]

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote:

> I am having a problem with 'adduser'. The behavior is as follows:
> Upon entering
>   'adduser some_name'
> entries are created in
>   /etc/passwd
>   /etc/group
> a home directory is created
> and the files from /etc/skel are copied to it.
> 
> But error messages are issued
>   Unknown error
> passwd: unknown user: some_name.
> 
> The /etc/passwd entry has the character  in the encrypted password
> field (I think that's what this field is) and a subsequent login attempt
> is unsuccessful.
> 
> Yesterday, adduser worked OK.
> The system is a tiny one with NIS installed and working (yesterday).

Well, adduser never worked with NIS. What happpens is that adduser adds
new user AFTER the plus entry in /etc/passwd and "passwd" doesn't see it.
I remember several bur reports about this but apparently this behaviour
still is'n fixed. It's probably not too hard to fiddle with adduser (if
you know perl) to make it add users before "plus" entry or to a specified
NIS map. If you do please post a patch and send it to adduser maintainer.
 
> Any hints?
> 
> Regards, Richard
>   
> 
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Re: Diamond Stealth II S220

[Michael Legart]

Hi!

> I ordered a computer with a Diamond Stealth PCI video card.  When it
> arrived I found that the card was the Diamond Stealth II S220 which,
> of course, has absolutely nothing in common with previous Diamond
> Stealth cards.  (I hate it when hardware manufacturers use the same
> name for fundamentally different devices.)
> 
> This card is based on the Verite' 2100 chip.  None of the drivers in
> XFree86-3.3.1 support it.  Not even xserver-svga can do anything with
> it and SuperProbe can't recognize it.
> 
> Are there any suggestions of where to look for alpha-version drivers?
> I don't seen anything on the web pages at www.xfree86.org or for the
> extended S.u.S.E. drivers.

I bought that card too, but after a month I talked to my dealer and he
exchanged it to at Mystiqe. I don't understand the name Stealth II etiher,
because it's not the same chip as on the other stealth cards. I send a mail
to the xfree support team, and got the answer that they had no docs or code
from rendition, and that rendition only cared about support for windoze
Really stupid imho...

Michael



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Segmentation fault

[Catalin Popescu]

Dear folks,

I am quite a begginer of Linux but I enjoy it very much and I really 
appreciate this list. 

I have a small problem: after trying to install gopherd*deb,the installation 
of  which I unfortunately stoped presing Ctrl-C, I found that I cannot 
longer read my man pages. Every time I type man  (man man, man ls, 
etc) I get "Segmentation fault".

What am I supposed to do? I've already reinstalled the man-pages but it 
still does not work? The system  is otherways working fine (IMHO).

TIA,

Catalin Popescu, Dermatologist
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Re: Hamm upgrade troubles. Help!

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Maria Lynn Jason Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
>INIT: version 2.73 booting
>INIT: Cannot execute "/etc/init.d/boot"
>INIT: Entering runlevel: 2

Do the following:

- boot the system with -b added on the LILO command line
  (for example, boot: linux -b)
- Now in maintenance mode, mount the root file system r/w:
  # mount -n -o remount,rw /
- Edit /etc/inittab
- look for the line with /etc/init.d/boot in it
- Replace that with:

  # Boot-time system configuration/initialization script.
  si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS

- save the file
- umount and reboot:

  # mount -n -oremount,ro /
  # reboot -f

Something hosed your /etc/inittab during the upgrade, but I have no idea why.
I think you had a buggy version of sysvinit installed by accident before..
(there have been some troubles in the 2.72 series)

Mike.
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lp/ppa configuration; how to set to use printer?

[Gregory Guthrie]

I have a Zip drive on lp0, and at boot time it is recognized (een if no
disk inserted), and then I cannot use lp0 to print.

The lsmod reports ls module loaded, no ppa module reported.

How can I disable ppa, and print?

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XFree86 setup problems

[Gregory Guthrie]

I have XFree86 setup; but with some problems.

First,
the setup from dselect did not indicate that I neded any fonts to be
loaded, and this (of course) caused failures. THis would be a good
dependency to note!

Also;
 the level of detail for Xsetup that requires refresh rates, dot-clock,
chip set numbers, etc.. is horrendous! I have run several X-win servers
under windows and Unix, and never had to try to input this level of detail..
 I also have a common monitor (Gateway Vivitron 17"), I see only one
Gateway in teh minitors list. The list is very sparse!
-
So, remaining issues:

1) when it boots, I get a big screen with the login prompt partially
visible in the lower right; ^Atl+ reduces resolution so it mostly fits.
login works, but I then get a non-workable screen (a hashed outline on a
gray background). ^alt-^H kills it back to a login, I have to ^alt-F1 to
get a workable console. 
  I disabled the xdm startup now...
  Solutions?

2) I also find the mouse doesn't work; a standard MS 2-button mouse; how to
diagnose the problem?

Thanks for any help.

Dr. Gregory Guthrie
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Re: Segmentation fault

[Daniel Martin at cush]

Catalin Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Dear folks,
> 
> I am quite a begginer of Linux but I enjoy it very much and I really 
> appreciate this list. 
> 
> I have a small problem: after trying to install gopherd*deb,the installation 
> of  which I unfortunately stoped presing Ctrl-C, I found that I cannot 
> longer read my man pages. Every time I type man  (man man, man ls, 
> etc) I get "Segmentation fault".
> 
> What am I supposed to do? I've already reinstalled the man-pages but it 
> still does not work? The system  is otherways working fine (IMHO).

The index files of your man database have been corrupted  (it
happens).  Re-create them by running "mandb -c" as root.


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Re: IP-Masq (was Re: ms explo

[John Spence]

Hi Ian.

This is helpful, now I know where to put my script when I make one. I've
had another play with masq this morning and had great success.  POP3, 
SMTP, News, Browser, ICQ, ping, Freetel and Internet Phone (or Iphone
maybe, it's my wife's prog) all blazing away.

I haven't loaded a module with modprobe yet but I will try it out your way
to see if I can get IRC working.

I'm wondering if running Debian has made this an easier process. I've read
100s of messages lately prior to trying this and practically none of the
users with problems were Deb users.

> I've just been through the same thing with IP Masquerading. I created a 
> file in /etc/rc.boot (I don't know whether that was the right place or 
> not!) marked it as executable. It contained the following:
> 
> #! /bin/sh
> 
> echo "Loading ipmasq modules..."
> /sbin/depmod -a
> /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp
> /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio
> /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc
> /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_cuseeme
> /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_vdolive
> /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_quake

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Re: XFree86 setup problems

[Heikki Vatiainen]

Hi,

If you have not already installed xserver-vga16 package, please do so. With 
the xserver-vga16 package comes a utility named XF86Setup which will make 
configuring X much more easier. You probably do not want to use the VGA16 
server so answer 'no' when the installation script asks you if you want to 
use VGA16 as your default server.

The XF86Setup program also lets you to configure your mouse.

I hope this helps,

// Heikki
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No incomming mail

[Robert Eckard]

I am not receiving any incoming mail.  I can send out, just not
receive.  where should I look to start fixing this?



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Help with a Mail Question.

[Kevin J Poorman]

Hi,

I have installed the latest fetchmail/smail/procmail from Hamm and I use
Pine as my mail reader/composer... When I start pine as a normal user I
get a little message at the bottom of the screen telling me that it
couldn't open the Mailbox normaly and that it is now READONLY so that I
can't delete mail in my inbox... now when I start pine as Root i don't
get the message and I can delete mail ... I think this is a permisions
problem but I cant figure it out as I don't know what files to check ...
this happens with all normal users ... any help/Ideas is very
appreiated...

-Kevin, kc5vxy
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telnet and ftp

[Robert Eckard]

I cannot telnet or ftp into my Debian box.  When attempted, it says
something like connection refused from server.
Again, where should I start to look to try and resolve this problem?



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Upgrade to libc6...

[Michael Legart]

Hi!

Just wondering how to uprade to libc6? Do I just install the libc6 package,
or do I have to reinstall my hole system? ...

Regards, 

Michael Legart
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Re: No incomming mail

[Will Lowe]

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Robert Eckard wrote:

> I am not receiving any incoming mail.  I can send out, just not
> receive.  where should I look to start fixing this?

Send yourself mail from another system,  wait for it to bounce back,  and
examine the headers to see where it bounced and what sort of errors it
returns.
Will


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multiple fs types for user floppy access?

[hawk]

I currently have my floppy set up so that users can mount ms floppies with the 
line

/dev/fd0/floppy msdos   user,rw 0   0

in /etc/fstab

I tried changing "msdos" to "auto", but no dice.  Is there a change so that it 
can automount both msdos and ext2 disks?

rick, who also wonders why linux and 10 year old mac's can read/write msdos 
disks faster than windows


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TCL "Treelink" program on Debian?

[Michael Stutz]

Has anyone ever gotten the TCL program "treelink" to run on their Debian
system? I'm having problems.

(Treelink creates PostScript-output hypergraphs of Web sites:
. It requires
Tcl7.x/TclX7.x/Tk3.x.)

I downloaded the source and tried it on several machines, getting the same
errors:


$ wishx -f treelink-1.1.tcl.html 

Starting up TreeLink 1.1 by K. Gaier


unknown option "-foreground"
while executing
"scrollbar .y_scroll -orient vertical  -command "$w_canv yview"
-background $treeli_priv(canv_bg)  -foreground $treeli_priv(canv_bg)
-activeforeground ..."
invoked from within
"set scr [scrollbar .y_scroll -orient vertical  -command
"$w_canv yview"
-background $treeli_priv(canv_bg)  -foreground $treeli_priv(canv_bg)
-activef ..."
(procedure "display_tree" line 54)
invoked from within
"display_tree"
(file "treelink-1.1.tcl.html" line 1048)





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stutz@dsl.org  :  finger for pgp :  http://dsl.org/copyleft/


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Re: telnet and ftp

[Martin Schulze]

On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 03:17:54PM -0500, Robert Eckard wrote:
> I cannot telnet or ftp into my Debian box.  When attempted, it says
> something like connection refused from server.
> Again, where should I start to look to try and resolve this problem?

What does your ifconfig and route command say?  Are you able to
ping your machine on that ip number?  Is your inetd running?

Gruesse,

Joey

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MagicFilter

[Catalin Popescu]

Thank you very much for the reply on the "segmentation fault" question.
I've got it incredibly quickly.

I have another one: How can I install and setup Magicfilter under debian?
I have a HPLJ4L printer which worked fine under Slackware having the 
Magicfilter installed by hand. Which package should I install now (I did 
not find one called Magicfilter, guess I've done the right search)?

TIA,

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Re: Upgrade to libc6...

[Martin Schulze]

On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 09:20:32PM +0100, Michael Legart wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Just wondering how to uprade to libc6? Do I just install the libc6 package,
> or do I have to reinstall my hole system? ...

http://www.debian.org/devel/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html

Regards

Joey

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Re: Upgrade to libc6...

[Scott Ellis]

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Michael Legart wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Just wondering how to uprade to libc6? Do I just install the libc6 package,
> or do I have to reinstall my hole system? ...

Go read http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/

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Support for Adaptec AHA-2910?

[Raymond Rusk]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me whether the Adaptec AHA-2910 is supported by the
aic7xxx driver.  Adaptec's product literature states that the 2910 has
the same architecture (minus BIOS) as the AHA-2940 and is supported by
the same 7800 Family Manager Set software drivers for Win95/NT, etc.

Thanks,
Raymond

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problem with man- it hangs on Debian-1.3

[David Konerding]

Dear Fellow Debian Users:

(let me know if I've posted this to the wrong place; I don't think
it's a Debian bug per-se, but a local installation problem I can't
solve).

I'm running Debian-1.3 on two machines, my home computer and my
work computer.  My home computer runs man just fine, but on my
work computer, man doesn't work.

If I type man , some disk activity and CPU are used, but
then the man process appears to just hang (no more disk or CPU
consumed).  I know that man is actually a front-end to several processing
steps, so I suspect that one of the intermediate steps is hanging.
I have deinstalled and reinstalled packages relevant to man and
the problem has not gone away.

I can read manpages using the following:

zcat /usr/man/man1/whatever.gz | nroff -man | less

If I hit control-c during the processing of the man page, I see:
 /bin/gzip -dc '/var/catman/cat3/dlopen.3.gz' | \
{ export MAN_PN LESS; MAN_PN='dlopen(3)';\
LESS="$LESS\$-Pm\:\$ix8mPm Manual page $MAN_PN ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s.
.?e (END):?pB %pB\\%..";
 less; } 

and if I enter that into the shell, I can read the manpage.


Here is a tail of the strace of a man that locks up:


Script started on Thu Jan  8 12:39:57 1998

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
>strace man dlopen
execve("/usr/bin/man", ["man", "dlopen"], [/* 35 vars */]) = 0
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40007
000
mprotect(0x4000, 20301, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0x800, 68846, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
stat("/etc/ld.so.cache", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=7501, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)  = 3
mmap(0, 7501, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x40008000
close(3)= 0
stat("/etc/ld.so.preload", 0xb600)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libdb.so.1", O_RDONLY)   = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3"..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 61440, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4000a000
mmap(0x4000a000, 55899, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) = 0x4
000a000
mmap(0x40018000, 3304, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xd000) 
= 0x40018000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x4000a000, 55899, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
open("/lib/libc.so.5", O_RDONLY)= 3



fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6047, ...}) = 0
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40008
000
read(3, ".\\\" -*- nroff -*-\n.\\\" Copyr"..., 4096) = 4096
close(3)= 0
munmap(0x40008000, 4096)= 0
access("./mandb_nfmt", X_OK)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/man/man3/dlopen.3.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2656, ...}) = 
0
stat("/usr/man/cat3/dlopen.3.gz", 0xb3f8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or dire
ctory)
stat("/usr/man/man3/dlopen.3.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2656, ...}) = 
0
stat("/var/catman/cat3/dlopen.3.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2565, ...})
 = 0
stat("/var/catman/cat3", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0
access("/var/catman/cat3/dlopen.3.gz", R_OK) = 0
geteuid()   = 6
geteuid()   = 6
setuid(2899)= 0
sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}) = 0
sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}) = 0
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [])  = 0
fork()  = 2106
wait4(2106,  

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RE: Debian and Setups

[Stephen Carpenter]

I want to thank everyone who responded to my questions both on the list
and in e-mail.
After I recived a response or two, I decided to give it a try.
I dropped into messydos and FDISK /MBR and then fdisked my redhat system

to a nice clean one (without ther Dynamic Disk Overlay that wouldn't
boot Non-MessyDOS OSs)
then I installed debian through FTP...this was only a test install so I
did include some things that I wouldn't otherwise (to play around...this
isn't my serious system I plan to build up slow)
I must say...
I am now a definite fan of debian.
I have seen the light. I almost wish that and a half ago when I first
played with linux..I had installed debian from that Infomagic set rather
than redhat 4.1
Debian is soo nice...
I like ae (anthony's editor) alot a simple editor (emacs is still my
favorite for
source but...when emacs isn't available...ae is better than vi (im not
trying to start an argument...just think vi i hard to learn to use...esp
when you are
using it in an emergency and don't have man pages at your immediate
disposal)
and debian is so cleanRedHat is all hacked up to hell...can't make
heads or tails of things
because all of the files are made to be maintained by graphical software

hell evenm /etc/fstab in redhat has the comment
"So not edit this file. Use the graphical tool"
debian also seems alot faster than RedHat...but...it doesn't have all
sorts of extras running now
I can't wait to get the CD from cheapbytes and start using it at home :)

as for becomming a developer...in time I definitly hope too :)
im working on my C...and my knowledge of Linux...
now all I hafta do is get the CD and work towards becomming 100%
Microsoft-Free
(excpet at work where I still need it)
btw...
does debian have a logo?
(ive always liked RedHat's logo :) )
seeing as I work at the largest WinNT domain in the counbtryid like
to put a BIG logo
on my cubicle :)
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Re: problem with man- it hangs on Debian-1.3

[hawk]

>
> Dear Fellow Debian Users:
> 
> (let me know if I've posted this to the wrong place; I don't think
> it's a Debian bug per-se, but a local installation problem I can't
> solve).
> 
> I'm running Debian-1.3 on two machines, my home computer and my
> work computer.  My home computer runs man just fine, but on my
> work computer, man doesn't work.
> 
> If I type man , some disk activity and CPU are used, but
> then the man process appears to just hang (no more disk or CPU
> consumed).  I know that man is actually a front-end to several processing
> steps, so I suspect that one of the intermediate steps is hanging.
> I have deinstalled and reinstalled packages relevant to man and
> the problem has not gone away.

Have you partially upgraded to unstable?  I saw similar behavior under those 
circumstances

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Re: Upgrade to libc6...

[Tommi Kaariainen]

"Michael Legart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> Just wondering how to uprade to libc6? Do I just install the libc6 package,
> or do I have to reinstall my hole system? ...

Well, something in between, installing a couple of other packages in 
addition libc6 is highly recommendable/necessary. There are instructions 
to upgrade libc6 safely in the "Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO". You can 
find it in:

  http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html


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lilo

[Rainer Dorsch]

I wanted to install Win95 on the slave disk on my IDE system
(/dev/hdb). To make sure, that Linux (on /dev/hda) is not damaged, I did the
following

1. Remove hda
2. Configure hdb as master
3. Install Win95
4. Insert hda again
5. Configured win95 disk as hdb
6. Boot the (linux) system
7. Wrote a lilo.conf file:

boot=/dev/hda1
root=/dev/hda1
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz-2.0.30
  label=Linux-2.0.30
  read-only
image=/vmlinuz
  label=Linux
  read-only
other=/dev/hdb1
  label = Win95  
  loader=/boot/any_d.b
  table=/dev/hdb
  alias=1

8. run lilo

Unfortunately at the last step, the problems started: lilo -v -v -v -v
-v roduced the following output:

LILO version 19, Copyright 1992-1996 Werner Almesberger

[...]

Added Linux

"ro root=301"
fd 5: offset 5120 -> dev 128, head 5, track 21, sector 43
fd 5: offset 5632 -> dev 128, head 5, track 21, sector 44
Boot other: /dev/hdb1, on /dev/hdb, loader /boot/any_d.b
Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 1046 cylinders,
   63 sectors. Partition offset: 62 sectors.
Device 0x0340: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 1046 cylinders,
   63 sectors. Partition offset: 0 sectors.
Device 0x0340: Invalid partition table, 1st entry
  3D address: 1/1/0 (63)
  Linear address: 63/0/0 (62)
Removed temporary file /boot/map~



Note: I could boot a second (outdated) Slackware Linux system from hdb
before, so it should not be a hardware problem.

System information:
Debian 1.3.1


Does anybody have an idea what could be wrong? Or can anybody explain me, what 
the message means?

Thank you.
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Re: telnet and ftp

[Robert Joseph Eckard]

>What does your ifconfig and route command say?  Are you able to
>ping your machine on that ip number?  Is your inetd running?

My inetd is not running, I am using xinetd and isn't running either.
How do I get it started and get it to start with each fresh boot?

What are 'ifconfig' and 'route' commands?

thanks,
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Re: problem with man- it hangs on Debian-1.3

[Heikki Vatiainen]

Are you using bash as your shell and have 'set -a' in /etc/profile or in any 
of your bash startup files? If so, try removing 'set -a' or running man under 
some other shell.

Bash hanging with man when 'set -a' was in use was reported as bug #8390 
during last summer.

// Heikki
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Re: telnet and ftp

[Will Lowe]

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Robert Joseph Eckard wrote:

> What are 'ifconfig' and 'route' commands?
route shows all the routes your system will use to route packets,  and
ifconfig shows the communications devices (ethernet cards,  ppp links,
etc.) that the system is currently recognizing.

They're in /sbin/,  which likely isn't in your path,  so you'll have to
run them as /sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/route.  
Will


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Re: telnet and ftp

[Robert Joseph Eckard]

$ /sbin/ifconfig
loLink encap:Local Loopback  
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
  UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
  RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
  TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

eth0  Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:C0:59:76:79
  inet addr:128.61.40.17  Bcast:128.61.40.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:35143 errors:0 dropped:6 overruns:0
  TX packets:8439 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
  Interrupt:10 Base address:0x310 Memory:cc000-d 

$ /sbin/route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
localnet*   255.255.255.0   U 0  0   29 eth0
127.0.0.0   *   255.0.0.0   U 0  01 lo
default gateway1-rtr.ga 0.0.0.0 UG1  0   77 eth0

..
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Internet access with Debian

[Pierre Dupuis]

Hi guys,

I have expected just a problem,

I want to conect on the internet with my Debian.

I have configured the file /etc/ppp.chatscript, so that i have
writing my provider's phone number, my login and pass
But when i lauch ppp i don't know what i shall do.

Please help me so that i can reach the internet with Linux and not windows
:)
Pierre DUPUIS   Cocon
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Cyberspace is great, discover it and expend it !
Make it real !
Who talk about sensitive-connection ?

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Re: MagicFilter

[Jean Pierre LeJacq]

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Catalin Popescu wrote:

> I have another one: How can I install and setup Magicfilter under debian?
> I have a HPLJ4L printer which worked fine under Slackware having the 
> Magicfilter installed by hand. Which package should I install now (I did 
> not find one called Magicfilter, guess I've done the right search)?

There's a package called:

  magicfilter_1.2-16

it may be available only in the unstable.

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Re: Internet access with Debian

[Brandon Mitchell]

Also modify /etc/resolv.conf (ask your isp for nameserver ip address) so
dns works. Then use pon to start a connection, and poff to bring it down.
Test with "ping www.debian.org".

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Pierre Dupuis wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I have expected just a problem,
> 
> I want to conect on the internet with my Debian.
> 
> I have configured the file /etc/ppp.chatscript, so that i have
> writing my provider's phone number, my login and pass
> But when i lauch ppp i don't know what i shall do.
> 
> Please help me so that i can reach the internet with Linux and not windows
> :)
> Pierre DUPUIS Cocon
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Cyberspace is great, discover it and expend it !
> Make it real !
> Who talk about sensitive-connection ?
> 
> Life is a dream!
> 
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Re: Perl 5.004.04-3 causes core dumps...

[Neilen Marais]

Hello all

I am still having the same problem with perl...

Perl 5.003 works fine, then I install perl-base 5.004.04-3 and perl
5.004.04-3, and suddenly some perl programs work, other core dumps,
such as adduser, and dpkg-ftp

I'd really like to get this problem sorted...  I really don't quite
understand what's going on, because other people can do exactly the
same upgrade, and have no problem...

I'm running the latest hamm stuff.  

Oh, and other little nit-bit, since I updated everything to the latest
hamm stuff as of yesterday (8/12/97) killall dissappeared?  Any idea?

Cheers
Neilen


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Dosemu lredir problem

[Neilen Marais]

Hi all

I can't seem to get lredir to work in dosemu.

I am using the dosemu package from hamm.  I have an msdos partition
mounted on /dos.  In dosemu I type

lredir d: LINUX\FS/dos

And then get error 3c.  And I can't seem to find the meaning of the
errors anywhere in the docs.

If on the other hand I have

device=C:\EMUFS /dos

in the config.sys, I get a d: drive, but it does not contain any data...

I can access /dos perfectly fine in linux otherwise...

Thanks
Neilen

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Re: EQL - all traffic is via ppp1

[Neilen Marais]

>Now, if I go to dual modems (or even three), is the box going to be
>able
>to keep up when servicing three 33K modems and doing DNS lookups and
>running apache, squid, etc all at the same time?
Oh yeah, it will certianly keep up.  A local ISP used to run their
whole ISP on a 486dx4/100, with 32mb, using about 11 lines, running
squid, apache, mail etc server all of it, with the load seldom even
reaching .5.  The point is, that doing these kind of things use almost
no CPU

>
>Lindsay
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>Lindsay Allen   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Perth, Western Australia
>voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj  Debian Unix
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Cheers
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Re: No incomming mail

[Robert Joseph Eckard]

I received this message when I tried to e-mail my computer from acme:

   - The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

   - Transcript of session follows -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Deferred: Connection refused by
r40h17.res.gatech.edu.

When I installed Linux, I made sure my hostname was greyghost and my
domain name was gt.ed.net.  Nowhere did I program my box to be
r40h17.res.gatech.edu.


Rob


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Re: telnet and ftp

[Robert Joseph Eckard]

> 
> Robert Joseph Eckard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > My inetd is not running, I am using xinetd and isn't running either.
> > How do I get it started and get it to start with each fresh boot?
> > 
> It should be automaticly. Check /etc/init.d/xinetd
> 
> At the top, there are two line like:
> 
> test -f /usr/sbin/portmap || exit 0
> test -f /usr/sbin/xinetd || exit 0
> 
> Check if you have portmap or rpc.portmap in /usr/sbin/ and change the line
> if it tests the wrong one. Later in the file there two other calls to the
> portmapper programm. Change these lines as well, if necessary.

I changed the xinet.d file to portmap even though it said rpc.portmap because 
there
wasn't one located anywhere within this box.  I then ran the two 'test' cases 
and
installed the portmap and xinetd.  but when I tried to telnet in from outside my
machine, this is the response I received:

telnet greyghost.gt.ed.net
Trying 128.61.40.17...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

thanks for the help, we'll get it soon enough   :)

Rob


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Re: Debian and Setups

[Martin Bialasinski]

Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> btw...
> does debian have a logo?
> (ive always liked RedHat's logo :) )
> seeing as I work at the largest WinNT domain in the counbtryid like
> to put a BIG logo
> on my cubicle :)

There is a fairly new official debian logo, but not the whole debian site
has been updated yet. But you can see it at http://www.debian.org/news.html
for example.

Read more about the logo at
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9711/msg02823.html 

Ciao,
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pppd and its friends...

[dave mallery]

At 07:34 PM 1/5/98 -0500, you wrote:
>dave mallery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> could someone explain where i can find an explanation for the fields
>> in /etc/ppp.options_out?
>
>Look at what the command pon does:
>
>cush:~$ which pon
>/usr/bin/pon
>cush:~$ cat /usr/bin/pon
>#!/bin/sh
>if [ -r /etc/ppp.options_out -a -r /etc/ppp.chatscript ]; then
>/usr/sbin/pppd connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp.chatscript"
`cat /etc/ppp.options_out`
>else
>echo "You do not have permissions to access /etc/ppp.chatscript or
/etc/ppp.options_out"
>fi
>
>As you can see, pon is just a little shell script that calls
>/usr/sbin/pppd with the following arguments:
>connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp.chatscript"
>and whatever is in /etc/ppp.options_out
>
>So to find out more, look at the manpage for pppd.
>
>
hi daniel

i wanted to thank you for a great answer that teaches.

i came to debian full of frustration at microsoft...  unfortunately
my long (1969) background never included unix by any name
(mostly RSTS and VMS) and i am clambering up a huge learning curve.

i think when i am done, i will write a HOWTO entitled: everything
i needed to know (and didn't) when the install ended...

currently having fits with the modem via the chatscript, but feel
like i am in control.

thanks again

dave



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Re: Dosemu lredir problem

[Mark W. Blunier]

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I can't seem to get lredir to work in dosemu.
> 
> I am using the dosemu package from hamm.  I have an msdos partition
> mounted on /dos.  In dosemu I type
> 
> lredir d: LINUX\FS/dos
> 
> And then get error 3c.  And I can't seem to find the meaning of the
> errors anywhere in the docs.

I get this too.  I read somewhere that this is because I am booting
from a Free-DOS image, and not an MSDos image.

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Mail is Slow to send

[Mark W. Blunier]

I use smail/pine for reading mail.   When I send out a
message it can take a couple of minutes before pine
lets me do more reading.  Is this normal, or do I have
something misconfigured?  I chose option 1 on the smail
config, but do not have a smart host.

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Re: No incomming mail

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

This is because the DNS reverse mapping maps your IP (128.61.40.17)
to r40h17.res.gatech.edu rather than greyghost.gt.ed.net. Note the
following:

chilin$ dig 17.40.61.128.in-addr.arpa any

; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> 17.40.61.128.in-addr.arpa any
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 2, Addit: 3
;; QUESTIONS:
;;  17.40.61.128.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN

;; ANSWERS:
17.40.61.128.in-addr.arpa.  172800  PTR r40h17.res.gatech.edu.

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
61.128.in-addr.arpa.172800  NS  troll-gw.gatech.edu.
61.128.in-addr.arpa.172800  NS  gatech.edu.

;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
troll-gw.gatech.edu.604800  A   130.207.166.251
troll-gw.gatech.edu.604800  A   130.207.244.251
gatech.edu. 604800  A   130.207.244.244

;; Total query time: 5263 msec
;; FROM: chilin to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
;; WHEN: Thu Jan  8 17:49:33 1998
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 43  rcvd: 182

Thus we know that troll-gw.gatech.edu and gatech.edu are the
nameservers which supply authoritative reverse-mapping for
your IP address. If you want them to change that information,
you'll have to talk to the people who maintain those servers.
Here's what we get from 'whois':

chilin$ whois !GATECH-DOM
Georgia Institute of Technology (GATECH-DOM)
   258 4TH St
   Atlanta, Georgia 30332

   Domain Name: GATECH.EDU

   Administrative Contact:
  Herbert Baines III  (HBI-ORG)  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  404.894.0226
Fax- 404.894.9548
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
  Ron Hutchins  (RH2-ORG)  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  404.894.6730
Fax- 404.894.9548
   Billing Contact:
  Herbert Baines III  (HBI-ORG)  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  404.894.0226
Fax- 404.894.9548

   Record last updated on 08-Feb-97.
   Record created on 08-May-86.
   Database last updated on 8-Jan-98 10:36:54 EDT.

So it looks like you'll need to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
if you want to get your reverse-mapping changed.

Robert Joseph Eckard wrote:

> I received this message when I tried to e-mail my computer from acme:
>
>- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>- Transcript of session follows -
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deferred: Connection refused by
> r40h17.res.gatech.edu.
>
> When I installed Linux, I made sure my hostname was greyghost and my
> domain name was gt.ed.net.  Nowhere did I program my box to be
> r40h17.res.gatech.edu.

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What about a "Linux" key?

[Enrico Zini]

Hello PC users!

What about putting a penguin sticker on top of those "Window 95" keys on all 
new keyboards ?

They could come handy as new modifiers, for example to switch virtual consoles, 
leaving Alt free and providing a good alternative for Ctrl-alt(gr)-Fn in X and 
DosEmu; more, one could use them to control X window managers leaving usual 
keys for applications (e.g. Alt-Tab used by Midnight Commander is usually bound 
to some sort of cycling through windows), and we could use a single-key compose.

Their scancodes are already seen by Linux, but I could not find any way to bind 
them to a modifier (it seems there are no extra modifiers to use). Also, I'm 
not good enough to fiddle with xmodmap. Anyway I have been successfull in 
binding the menu-like thing to compose: "echo keycode 127 = Compose | loadkeys".

Is there a way to have a new modifier or we need to hack kernel? How is Linux 
doing on a Sun, since they have plenty of extra keys and modifiers?

Maybe we could build a new keyboard mapping table?

  Bye, Enrico


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