program that play VCD

[a]

I have Debian 2.0. Is there any program that play VCD?

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Re: X Driver for Viper V770D AGP Graphics?

[Greg & Heather Vence]

I'm in the process of getting a V770 16MB going.  I think its the same
driver.  Get the latest stuff from netgod's site by adding the following
line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://netgod.net/ x/

HTH -- Greg.

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From: Duggan Dieterly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 2:35 PM
Subject: X Driver for Viper V770D AGP Graphics?


> i can't find the X driver for my viper v770d agp 32 MB graphics board.
> does anyone know if a driver has been written for this board?  can i use
> anyother drivers?  is this board so new that a driver hasn't been written
for
> it?
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RE: program that play VCD

[Wim Kerkhoff]

See http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/

On 04-Sep-99 a wrote:
> I have Debian 2.0. Is there any program that play VCD?
> 
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Re: Good books

[R. Brock Lynn]

"..." wrote:
> 
>  I'm a total newbie with linux. I downloaded Debian, and put it on my
> second hard drive, total capacity about 435 meg. I partitioned it to
> reserve 100 meg for dos, put about 10% of the remainder aside for swap,
> and the rest is for linux.

My rule of thumb: swap should be no larger than 125MB, (as set using cfdisk,
fdisk, or equivalent) for small harddrives, you might try 64MB, 32MB, 16MB, or
even go without swap. Depends on the amount of physical memory in your machine,
and what level of memory intensive apps you plan to run. Some apps are
intelligent and check for memory before trying to use it, and some apps just
crash (segfault) when the memory runs out. For your system, I'd probably go with
32mb or 64mb swap. Not based on any kind of scientific analysis, just gut
intuition. :)

>  This being kind of small, when I installed Debian, I just installed
> the Standard package, Dialup, and Small XWindows.
>  The "man" command doens't appear to be active, and the /usr/doc files
> don't have a lot of information. Most of it seems to be changelog and
> copyright, so I'm thinking of deleting all of it.

Hmm. Dunno what's up here. Maybe you installed from the first CD only? Somewhere
in the installation process (it's been a LONG time since I installed debian...
which is good, because it says it never crashes. ;) You have to slap in the last
CD in the set instead of the first, which tells the monster you wanna install
from both CD's not just the first.

>   What sort of how-to books would be helpful? I'd like the equivalent
> of the old Understanding MSDOS and Supercharging MSDOS books, published
> by QUE, I think.

"No B.S. Guide to Linux" looked pretty good. A friend let me borrow that book
and it seemed to look well organized, and seemed to have very good info.

There is a book about Debian specifically, called "The Debian Linux Users
Guide". I don't know the web address, but I'm sure you can find it if you
*really* want it. ;)

> I want to learn how to get a color screen at the root
> level

In the file /root/.bashrc :
(for the prompt)
--
export PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\033[1;30m\]\h \[\033[0m\]\\$ "
--
(all on one line though)

Read the 'bash' shell manual page entry to see what other goodies you can do...
"man bash | less"

Also in /root/.bashrc :

(so when you do "ls" you get COLOR!)
--
eval `dircolors`
alias ls="/bin/ls --color=auto -F -C"
--
(two separate lines)

>, set up and optimize FSTAB,

Here's mine:
--
# /etc/fstab: static filesystem information.

#   

proc  /procprocdefaults   0 0

/dev/hda5 none swapsw 0 0
/dev/hda6 /ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

/dev/hda7 /solaris ufs defaults,ufstype=sunx860 0

/dev/hdb1 /dos vfatdefaults,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /2gigext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /6gigext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

/dev/fd0  /a   vfatdefaults,noauto0 0
/dev/fd1  /b   vfatdefaults,noauto0 0
/dev/sda4 /zip vfatdefaults,noauto0 0

/dev/hdc  /cdrom   iso9660 defaults,noauto0 0
--



> and ultimately, if I have enough with
> the system I've got, to install and use Netscape for UNIX and STAR Office.

I'd give up on StarOffice unless you have 144 meg of ram and a FAST CPU. 'cause
my experiences with StarOffice were SLOW and HUGE MEMORY FOOTPRINT.

> Thanx,
> Frank Starr
> http://i.am/franksnewage

Hope some of this helps.

Brock


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printer setup

[sdoerr]

I am a new Debian user and one of the things I haven't been able to set
up yet is my printer.  I don't have a printcap file yet and I am not
sure how to properly create one for my bubblejet 4300 in x windows.
I've got KDE installation instructions but I don't know yet if the
install will allow me to setup my printer.  Does anyone have any input
or resources they could point me to to get my printer going?  Any input
would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Steve

Re: Manually importing Debian menu to WMaker

[Eric Gillespie, Jr.]

On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 01:35:03PM -0300,
Guilherme Soares Zahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> After some months w/ fvwm95, I'm experimenting WMaker, and I quite
> like it (lighter & seems more stable)... but there's a problem: The
> Debian default menus aren't merged w/ WMaker's own menus at
> installation, and I don't know how to do so... Can someone help me?
> 

Read /usr/doc/menu/html/index.html. It's fairly straightforward, and I was
able to make a menu method for the FvwmGtk module in CVS fvwm.

-- 
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"Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss.
 A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back,
 a dangerous shuddering and stopping."
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Re: printer setup

[Hartmut Figge]

sdoerr wrote:
> 
> I am a new Debian user and one of the things I haven't been able to set
> up yet is my printer.  I don't have a printcap file yet and I am not

i would try to run magicfilterconfig.

there`s a lot of such helpful configuration programms in debian, but
i`ve never found a helpfull documentation which one exist.

i use
locate config | grep bin
or
locate setup | grep bin
to find some of these programms.

-- 
hafi

recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init

[Tom Kuiper]

While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or resc1440-safe.bin
disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the SCSI
initialization.  It gets this far:
...
(scsi0)  found at PCI 14/0
(scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 412 instructions.

The same computer boots fine from a previous COL 1.1 kernel on its (SCSI)
hard disk.  In that case the SCSI driver is identified as aic7xxx.

An almost identical machine (more meomory, IDE hard disk) works fine from a
Slackware kernel which is a little over a year old and also uses the aic7xxx
driver.

I would be grateful for suggestion on working around this problem.

Tom Kuiper
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kde packages

[Micha Feigin]

Is there a ftp dir that i can add to source.list so apt can update the
packages automaticly?
ftp.kde.org apprently doesn't have a package file i could file and the dir
tree isn't right for apt (potato/binary-i386 instead of
unstable/main/binary-i386 or the like)
Thanx
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Xemacs21 etc files?

[Micha Feigin]

In what packages are the needed files for etc/xemacs... ?
I installed it, and it worked fine together with xemacs20, but once i
removed it it stoped working (with some error about missing directory
path).
I reinstalled it, only the etc/xemacs.. dir was empty and it still gave
the same error.
Any solution?
Thanx
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dselect problems

[Brad]

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On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, peter karlsson wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Dselect seems to think that there is a conflict in my package selection,
> something that neither apt-get or console-apt thinks.

dselect treats Recommands like Depends. This is probably a misfeature...
apt-get and capt don't have this problem.

Notice that all the problems are with a "X recommends Y"

> Some of the errors:
> 
[[[SNIP
>
> Please advice.

You're using a broken mirror (or an arch that doesn't have all packages
properly ported--if you're not using an i386, please say so and disregard
the below).

All those "does not appear to be available" are available in unstable on
http.us.debian.org, and presumably the other mirrors as well. The perl
conflictions are because of the Great Perl Upgrade, you need to update
whichever packages suggest/recommend/depend on perl to the latest version.

  package version section
  --- --- ---
  lintian 1.7 devel
  speak-freely6.1e-1  non-US/non-free
  libnet-telnet-perl  3.01-2  interpreters
  libgc4-dev  4.14-3  devel
  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.01-7  interpreters
  tidy19990726-1  web

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Re: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init

[David Bristel]

I don't know if this is the source of your problem, but I have found that the
WD7000 auto-probe will die when there is an Adaptec SCSI controller in the
system.  This is a BIOS issue, not a controller issue.  

Dave Bristel


On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Tom Kuiper wrote:

> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:05:21 PDT
> From: Tom Kuiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init
> Resent-Date: 4 Sep 1999 02:12:15 -
> Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ;
> 
> While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or resc1440-safe.bin
> disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the SCSI
> initialization.  It gets this far:
> ...
> (scsi0)  found at PCI 14/0
> (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
> (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 412 instructions.
> 
> The same computer boots fine from a previous COL 1.1 kernel on its (SCSI)
> hard disk.  In that case the SCSI driver is identified as aic7xxx.
> 
> An almost identical machine (more meomory, IDE hard disk) works fine from a
> Slackware kernel which is a little over a year old and also uses the aic7xxx
> driver.
> 
> I would be grateful for suggestion on working around this problem.
> 
> Tom Kuiper
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Re: Manually importing Debian menu to WMaker

[Brad]

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On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:

> After some months w/ fvwm95, I'm experimenting WMaker, and I quite
> like it (lighter & seems more stable)... but there's a problem: The
> Debian default menus aren't merged w/ WMaker's own menus at
> installation, and I don't know how to do so... Can someone help me?

Sanity check: you installed WindowMaker from the debs?

update-menus (as root) should import the menus. Also, make sure you don't
have a file ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu.hook, and that the file
~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu contains only the one line "menu.hook" (with
the quotes).

If you do run update-menus as a user, then nothing will be added to your
menus automatically because the packages only update the global
WindowMaker menu, not a local user one. To correct this, remove the
~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu.hook file.

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Re: ide-scsi emulation problem

[David Blackman]

I don't use the scanbus flag, just do cdrecord speed=XX dev=0,1,0 ISO.iso

--dave

On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, M. K. Honeycutt wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
>   I have an ide/ATAPI cd writer and a cd-rom.  I compiled my kernel
> with scsi emulation and at boot-up they're recognized, but, not
> correctly.
> 
>   This is what's listed at boot-up:
> 
> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
> scsi : 1 host
>   Vendor:Model:36x CD-ROM Rev: 2.F0
>   Type: CD-ROMANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel0, id0, lun0
>   Vendor: MITSUMIModel: CR-2801TE Rev: 1.06
>   Type: CD-ROMANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel0, id1, lun0
> scsi : detected 2 SCSI cdroms total.
> sr0: scsi3-mmc  drive: 2x/24x  cd/rw  xa/form2 cdda tray
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55
> sr1: scsi3-mmc  drive: 8x/8x writer  xa/form2 cdda tray
> 
>   When running 'cdrecord -scanbus', it lists both devices correctly,
> however, it gives a (obvious) warning: "controller returns wrong
> size for CD capabilities."
> 
>   How can I fix this?  I followed the directions in, both, the kernel
> and cdrecord, as far as I know.
> 
> M.
> 
> p.s.  The cd-rom does work.  I can mount and use it.  The cdr doesn't
> work at all.
> 
> 
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> 

Re: trouble with fdisk and activate the swap

[Brad]

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On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Michael Konrad wrote:

> I always set up my swap partition as a primary partition and I don't
> have that problem. I can never read the blocks right, but it looks like
> the swap partition is more than 128MB. You can set up multiple swap
> partitions but they can not be more than 128MB.

The new style swap area (you need a recent kernel and mkswap. 2.2.x and
potato's are sufficient) can support much larger areas, depending on the
arch (sparc64 can use 3TB! i386 can use 2GB)


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Re: Fetchmail not exiting in ip-down

[Damon Muller]

On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 02:18:41AM -, Pollywog was heard to state:
> 
> On 03-Sep-99 Damon Muller wrote:
> > I, like many of us here prolly, use fetchmail to grab my mail when I'm
> > online. As such, I've set up scripts in ip-up.d to start up fetchmail as
> > me to get my mail, and another in ip-down.d to stop fetchmail again when
> > I log off.
> 
> I put 'killall fetchmail' in my /etc/diald/ip-down and have done this with
> PPP's ip-down also and it has worked for me.

Actually, I've recently worked out that another of my files in ip-down.d
doesn't run either. It's just a very small script to play a sound file
to let me know if the modem has disconnected when I don't want it to. It
looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/bplay /dos/c/windows/media/bleep.wav

Pretty simple, and works find when I run it manually, but it doesn't
seem to run when the PPP connection goes down.

Don't know if it's relevant or not, but I usually controll the PPP
connection using the GNOME Modem Lights Applet, which calls pon and
poff.

Cheers,

damon

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Re: more info on dhcpcd problem

[Seth R Arnold]

Well, I managed to get things to work for me -- using dhclient-beta (or
dhcp-beta-client?) included on the slink kernel, using the .99L drivers for
my 3c905b cards.

The only problem is -- I haven't a clue why it works now, and yesterday it
did not work. :(

Thanks to everyone for their help -- constantine, sean (shelah?), and kent
west. Of course, I *know* I forgot someone else :(

:)

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Re: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init

[Gregory T. Norris]

I've got anunofficial installation diskset which is set up specifically
for the aic7xxx driver, that will most likely take care of your problem.
You can find it at .

On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 07:05:21PM -0700, Tom Kuiper wrote:
> While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or resc1440-safe.bin
> disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the SCSI
> initialization.  It gets this far:
> ...
> (scsi0)  found at PCI 14/0
> (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
> (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 412 instructions.
> 
> The same computer boots fine from a previous COL 1.1 kernel on its (SCSI)
> hard disk.  In that case the SCSI driver is identified as aic7xxx.
> 
> An almost identical machine (more meomory, IDE hard disk) works fine from a
> Slackware kernel which is a little over a year old and also uses the aic7xxx
> driver.

-Do you make these mistakes on your computer network?

[links]

Hi!

My name is Ara Rubyan and I was recently on the web looking at 
"computer-tutorial" web sites. The MSN search engine 
gave me a site (I listed it at the very bottom of this note) 
that had your name on it.  So I thought I'd drop you an email.  
Hope that was OK. 

Our web site (http://www.rubyan.com) is a free resource for 
non-technical professional people who need to manage their work 
environment using computer networks.  I know that your site probably 
attracts mostly advanced users.  But please consider placing a link 
from your "Resources" page or your "Links" page to 
http://www.rubyan.com.  We'll do the same for you.

One of our most popular pages is called "Do you make these mistakes
on your computer network?".  Network users of all skill levels 
enjoy this feature because they almost always find out something 
new that they were missing before. 
http://www.rubyan.com/html/no-brainer.html

By linking to our site you'll have a way of supplying less 
experienced people with the pre-requisites they need in order 
to better understand the more advanced services you provide.  
I believe your visitors would appreciate that.   

Visitors to our site will see computer networking explained in 
a direct and easy-to-understand way.  Your visitors will 
appreciate the down-to-earth approach we take. 
http://rubyan.com/html/three_elements.html

Through examples and antecdotes they will see that their network 
is a business tool, not a technological mystery. We focus on 
the business and management issues that their network can 
help solve.
http://rubyan.com/html/hiring_tips.html

Please feel free to put a link from your site to ours.  Your 
visitors will appreciate having a resource to help them better 
understand how computer networking works.  

In addition they will see a new slant on the topic -- a step-by-step 
approach to using the network like a tool to help them achieve more 
in the workplace.  
http://rubyan.com/html/email_mountain.html   

Visit our site.  If you like it, feel free to add a link from your 
site to ours. The site address is http://www.rubyan.com.  I would 
love to hear your comments on it, so please email me back with your 
thoughts.  

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks again.  

Ara Rubyan

P.S. Your readers will appreciate that your site includes a link to 
ours -- it makes your site more useful to them.  

For your convenience you can browse 
http://rubyan.com/html/graphics.html for GIF files that you can 
use to link your site to ours. 

...or if you like, here is some HTML code to make it simple for 
you to include us on your site.

=copy and paste this code into your page==

http://www.rubyan.com/html/no-brainer.html";>
Do You Make These Mistakes
http://www.rubyan.com/html/no-brainer.html";>
On Your Computer Network?

==

P.S. The web page where I found you was called 
 
and the URL was
http://www.tp4.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/info/Linux-HOWTOs/Distribution-HOWTO

Re: Good books

[John Foster]

"..." wrote:
> 
>  I'm a total newbie with linux. I downloaded Debian, and put it on my
> second hard drive, total capacity about 435 meg. I partitioned it to
> reserve 100 meg for dos, 
-
Will you be using DOS applications. If Not you don't need a DOS
partition. If you are using DOS for games or some other needs the
partition proportions you have are about right if you have at least 32
Mb of ram in this system. If you are using less ram you will likely need
about 64 Mb of swap drive space, especially if you are planing to use
StarOffice 5.1 and Netscape 6.1 from the Netscape website. These are
both memory hogs but in my opinion well worth the space.


put about 10% of the remainder aside for swap,
> and the rest is for linux.
>  This being kind of small, when I installed Debian, I just installed
> the Standard package, Dialup, and Small XWindows.
>  The "man" command doens't appear to be active, and the /usr/doc files
> don't have a lot of information. Most of it seems to be changelog and
> copyright, so I'm thinking of deleting all of it.
--
 I may get some argument from others, but I would leave ALL of the
installation files alone. If not you WILL HAVE some installation
dependencies that will show up later especially if you use dpkg, dselect
to remove some of the progs that you installed. I have experienced this!
BTW: I agree that we should be able to remove these without upsetting
Debian's delicate balance.

>   What sort of how-to books would be helpful? I'd like the equivalent
> of the old Understanding MSDOS and Supercharging MSDOS books, published
> by QUE, I think. 
---
I highly recommend "Running Linux" by O'Reilly & Associates. I have the
2nd edition and hope they release the 3rd edition soon as it needs
updating. The value is that you can learn how to set up your system any
way you want it from this primer, as it is a good LINUX tutorial,
without being specefic to Debian. Using it will teach you to be the
master of any system, be it SUSE, RedHat, Debian , or just taking the
bull by the horns and doing raw installs from GNU stuff, right off the
rack.
---
I want to learn how to get a color screen at the root
> level, set up and optimize FSTAB, and ultimately, if I have enough with
> the system I've got, to install and use Netscape for UNIX and STAR Office.

Good Luck and welcome to the adventures of open source software. 
-- 
John Foster
AdVance-Computing Systems
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IBM Thinkpad 560 install problem (debian 1.3)

[John Miskinis]

Hello,

I have been reading much information about the Thinkpad 560 and
linux, but have not come across anything that relates to MY problem.

This is my first attempt to install linux ever.  I only have a 1.3
debian distribution on CD, from "Boot" magazine, from 1996.  It may
be that this version will never run on my system, or perhaps someone
out there can help me.  The kernel is 2.0.29_2.0.29-7

When I boot from the "rescue" disk to perform the install, I
type "linux floppy=thinkpad" at the "boot:" prompt.  I then
see:

Loading root.bin. (I am not sure how many dots)
Loading linux

Then the system resets, just as if I turned it off and on.

Relevent system info is:

BIOS version 04/09/98-IE0ET44
BIOS Part number 97H4075
Machine type-Model 264010U


Any and all help is greatly appreciated, I really want to run linux!
I have a 2.1G drive, that I partitioned with DOS fdisk, to have
1G, 900M, and 112M.  I hope to leave Windows95 on the 1G (for now)
put linux on the 900M, and it's swap on the 112M, if that makes
sense.

Many Thanks in advance,

John Miskinis

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Re: -Do you make these mistakes on your computer network?

[Seth R Arnold]

Please forgive me if this is a FAQ -- but who handles the $1000 (or $1999 :)
donation to software in the public interest when people make postings like
this? :)

On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 08:39:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> My name is Ara Rubyan and I was recently on the web looking at 
> "computer-tutorial" web sites. The MSN search engine 
> gave me a site (I listed it at the very bottom of this note) 
> that had your name on it.  So I thought I'd drop you an email.  
> Hope that was OK. 
> 
> Our web site (http://www.rubyan.com) is a free resource for 
> non-technical professional people who need to manage their work 
> environment using computer networks.  I know that your site probably 
> attracts mostly advanced users.  But please consider placing a link 
> from your "Resources" page or your "Links" page to 
> http://www.rubyan.com.  We'll do the same for you.
> 
> One of our most popular pages is called "Do you make these mistakes
> on your computer network?".  Network users of all skill levels 
> enjoy this feature because they almost always find out something 
> new that they were missing before. 
> http://www.rubyan.com/html/no-brainer.html
> 
> By linking to our site you'll have a way of supplying less 
> experienced people with the pre-requisites they need in order 
> to better understand the more advanced services you provide.  
> I believe your visitors would appreciate that.   
> 
> Visitors to our site will see computer networking explained in 
> a direct and easy-to-understand way.  Your visitors will 
> appreciate the down-to-earth approach we take. 
> http://rubyan.com/html/three_elements.html
> 
> Through examples and antecdotes they will see that their network 
> is a business tool, not a technological mystery. We focus on 
> the business and management issues that their network can 
> help solve.
> http://rubyan.com/html/hiring_tips.html
> 
> Please feel free to put a link from your site to ours.  Your 
> visitors will appreciate having a resource to help them better 
> understand how computer networking works.  
> 
> In addition they will see a new slant on the topic -- a step-by-step 
> approach to using the network like a tool to help them achieve more 
> in the workplace.  
> http://rubyan.com/html/email_mountain.html   
> 
> Visit our site.  If you like it, feel free to add a link from your 
> site to ours. The site address is http://www.rubyan.com.  I would 
> love to hear your comments on it, so please email me back with your 
> thoughts.  
> 
> I look forward to hearing from you.
> 
> Thanks again.  
> 
> Ara Rubyan
> 
> P.S. Your readers will appreciate that your site includes a link to 
> ours -- it makes your site more useful to them.  
> 
> For your convenience you can browse 
> http://rubyan.com/html/graphics.html for GIF files that you can 
> use to link your site to ours. 
> 
> ...or if you like, here is some HTML code to make it simple for 
> you to include us on your site.
> 
> =copy and paste this code into your page==
> 
> http://www.rubyan.com/html/no-brainer.html";>
> Do You Make These Mistakes
> http://www.rubyan.com/html/no-brainer.html";>
> On Your Computer Network?
> 
> ==
> 
> P.S. The web page where I found you was called 
>  
> and the URL was
> http://www.tp4.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/info/Linux-HOWTOs/Distribution-HOWTO
> 
> 
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re: IBM Thinkpad 560 install problem (debian 1.3)

[Koyote]

> This is my first attempt to install linux ever.  I only have a 1.3
> debian distribution on CD, from "Boot" magazine, from 1996.  It may
> be that this version will never run on my system, or perhaps someone
> out there can help me.  The kernel is 2.0.29_2.0.29-7

You may want to make a set of floppy install disks from the current images. (I 
don't know 
how that will work when you get to the CD and start installing packages.)
You can order the surrent distro for only a couple of dollars from 
cheapbytes.com

 
> When I boot from the "rescue" disk to perform the install, I
> type "linux floppy=thinkpad" at the "boot:" prompt.  

I am running on an older 755CE thinkpad and with the current safe.bin disk- I 
did not have 
to do that...

Also- do you need that much swap? Hell, if I had that much hard diak, I'd make 
a big swap, 
too- but is it needed?

Koyote

Re: IBM Thinkpad 560 install problem (debian 1.3)

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser]

On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, John Miskinis wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have been reading much information about the Thinkpad 560 and
> linux, but have not come across anything that relates to MY problem.

Have you read http://www.netsurf.org/~renaud/unix/linux-tp560.html>
which is Debian specific?

> This is my first attempt to install linux ever.  I only have a 1.3
> debian distribution on CD, from "Boot" magazine, from 1996.  It may
> be that this version will never run on my system, or perhaps someone
> out there can help me.  The kernel is 2.0.29_2.0.29-7

It's pretty brutal to do your first ever install with a three-year-old
distribution on a laptop! I suggest using Debian 2.1, the current stable
release. I don't believe that kernel 2.0.29 has the Thinkpad 560 APM
patch. Also, make sure you know what hardware you're dealing with--is it
an original Thinkpad 560, or is it a 560E, 560X, etc?

> When I boot from the "rescue" disk to perform the install, I
> type "linux floppy=thinkpad" at the "boot:" prompt.  I then
> see:

The 560 does not require the floppy=thinkpad option. In fact, that option
will probably make the floppy fail after the first disk is read. Also,
you'll need the tecra disks instead of the standard install disks (I'm not
sure if this was true for Debian 1.3, but it is true for 2.0 and beyond
for certain.)

> Any and all help is greatly appreciated, I really want to run linux!
> I have a 2.1G drive, that I partitioned with DOS fdisk, to have
> 1G, 900M, and 112M.  I hope to leave Windows95 on the 1G (for now)
> put linux on the 900M, and it's swap on the 112M, if that makes
> sense.

Since the original 560 can have a maximum of 40M RAM, 112M swap is
overkill. I use 40M RAM and 40M swap on my 560 which is running Debian 2.1
with kernel 2.2.5 (from proposed updates) and the pcmcia packages from the
unstable release custom compiled. You would probably want to use the
default kernel (2.0.36?) which should work fine with the 560.

Debian is not the easiest distribution to install for a beginner, and the
Thinkpad 560 is definitely not the easiest machine to install it on. It's
going to take some patience and determination.

Thanks. Syrus.

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"import"ing screenshots?

[Harlan Crystal]

I recently reinstalled my debian system, and the command
which i had been using to take screenshots
("import thepicture.jpg") no longer works.
I seemed to remember that import was associated with
"xv" or "imlib" but I have both installed and "import"
still doesn't work.  Does anyone know how I could 
enable Import or some type of screenshot taking
utility?  I'm running all off the newest upgraded
unstable with kernel 2.2.12.

Thanks,

  Harlan

cvs log -d superfluous

[Aaron Van Couwenberghe]

Hi all -

  I've a question about cvs log. I'm writing a web page that will display
log info on demand for a software project I'm involved in.

  the problem is that the repository is somewhat large, and cvs log seems to
want to display log info on *every single file* therein, even if it wasn't
changed during the date range specified.

  At least, when I tell it to get logs from so few as five days ago, I'm
flooded with pages upon pages of useless garbage. I know for a fact that
within this time there have been only a handful of files committed, and a
slightly larger number of files modified.

  Anyone know how to narrow the output?

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Re: CVS problem: cannot open /root/.cvsignore

[Mike Brownlow]

[To [EMAIL PROTECTED],  3 Sep 1999][  81][  3.1K]
> I have CVS server and client, both Debian 2.1 machines except that CVS
> is version 1.10 from potato. I can do cvs checkout from client vendredi,
> but on the server winkiller I can do all cvs stuff without problems
> (then CVSROOT=/var/repository).
...
> The server tries to open /root/.cvsingore, I haven't the foggiest why.
> The user id tapio is valid and works on both vendredi and winkiller.
> 
> What is the problem? Some silly mistake I did?

/usr/doc/cvs/README.Debian

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netbase from potato not configuring

[Seth R Arnold]

Hey guys -- I just did the apt-get stuff to upgrade to potato, but the silly
thing died several times. After restarting it often enough, I got to the
point where netbase was causing eight other packages to not install --
netbase kept returning "hostname: host not found" or something very similar.

The solution to this problem ( after much banging of head..) was to add my
hostname and IP address to /etc/hosts -- does netbase require knowing that
much about /etc/hosts ? am I missing the point?

And, a more applicable-to-the-future question -- how can I view the postrm
and prerm and postinst and preinst scripts of a deb? :)

Thanks :)

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Re: CVS problem: cannot open /root/.cvsignore

[Tapio Lehtonen]

On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 03:04:20AM -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote:
> [To [EMAIL PROTECTED],  3 Sep 1999][  81][  3.1K]
> > I have CVS server and client, both Debian 2.1 machines except that CVS
> > is version 1.10 from potato. I can do cvs checkout from client vendredi,
> > but on the server winkiller I can do all cvs stuff without problems
> > (then CVSROOT=/var/repository).
> ...
> > The server tries to open /root/.cvsingore, I haven't the foggiest why.
> > The user id tapio is valid and works on both vendredi and winkiller.
> > 
> > What is the problem? Some silly mistake I did?
> 
> /usr/doc/cvs/README.Debian
> 

OK, silly me. I can't understand why I did not read that. Thanks heaps
for your mail. 

> -- 
> - Mike http://wsmake.org/

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Re: hardware configuration questions

[Michael Meskes]

On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 09:56:06AM -0500, David Blackman wrote:
> Easiest way, spend 20 bucks buy OSS

But then I prefer free software a lot. Is there no way?

> you need to make a new kernel, disable ide cdrom support, and enable scsi
> emulation & scsi cdrom support

That's what I expected. Hopefully this works as well as the IDE support. :-)

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ftp.de.debain.org status report

[Sven Rudolph]

I extended the disk space for the Debian archive at ftp.de.debian.org.
This took longer than expected. (mkraid wanted seven hours.)

Means that ftp.de.debian.org is fetching all the files that were
missing in the last weeks.

Another problem: there are sporadic network failures. But they tend to
be solved quickly.

Sven
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Re: kde packages

[Mark Wagnon]

On Sat 09/04/99 05:29AM, Micha Feigin wrote:
> Is there a ftp dir that i can add to source.list so apt can update
> the packages automaticly? ftp.kde.org apprently doesn't have a
> package file i could file and the dir tree isn't right for apt
> (potato/binary-i386 instead of unstable/main/binary-i386 or the
> like)

I have:

  deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde kde2 contrib rkrusty

in mine. I got it from someone on the list.

hth
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Re: "import"ing screenshots?

[Armin Joellenbeck]

On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 01:19:25AM -0400, Harlan Crystal wrote:
> I recently reinstalled my debian system, and the command
> which i had been using to take screenshots
> ("import thepicture.jpg") no longer works.
> I seemed to remember that import was associated with
> "xv" or "imlib" but I have both installed and "import"
> still doesn't work.  Does anyone know how I could 
> enable Import or some type of screenshot taking
> utility?  I'm running all off the newest upgraded
> unstable with kernel 2.2.12.
> 

Hi,

The program "import" is contained in the package "imagemagick", at least in 
slink.


Armin

Re: Fetchmail not exiting in ip-down

[W. Paul Mills]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damon Muller) writes:

> On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 02:18:41AM -, Pollywog was heard to state:
> > 
> > On 03-Sep-99 Damon Muller wrote:
> > > I, like many of us here prolly, use fetchmail to grab my mail when I'm
> > > online. As such, I've set up scripts in ip-up.d to start up fetchmail as
> > > me to get my mail, and another in ip-down.d to stop fetchmail again when
> > > I log off.
> > 
> > I put 'killall fetchmail' in my /etc/diald/ip-down and have done this with
> > PPP's ip-down also and it has worked for me.
> 
> Actually, I've recently worked out that another of my files in ip-down.d
> doesn't run either. It's just a very small script to play a sound file
> to let me know if the modem has disconnected when I don't want it to. It
> looks like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/bplay /dos/c/windows/media/bleep.wav
> 
> Pretty simple, and works find when I run it manually, but it doesn't
> seem to run when the PPP connection goes down.


Perhaps the script "/etc/ppp/ip-down" is missing one or more of the
following important lines.

 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
 export PATH
 run-parts /etc/ppp/ip-down.d


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Re: Obscure ethernet/IDE trouble

[W. Paul Mills]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam C Powell IV) writes:

> William T Wilson wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> >
> > > > I get this all the time when I try to access a drive that is in sleep
> >
> > > > mode.  It takes it a minute or two and then it comes back to life and
> >
> > > > works normally.  I have an old '96 era Intel Triton motherboard.
> > >
> > > Okay, but why would my drives be sleeping?  This happens during the
> > > first disk access after a net access, could the net driver be putting
> > > the drives to sleep?  And why does resetting the IDE interfaces kill
> > > my networking ability?
> >
> > They probably aren't, but based on what you have to say here, I'd check
> > and make sure that your network card isn't sharing an interrupt with your
> >
> > ide interface.
> 
> Ahem, from the original post:
> 
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> > [snip]
> > There shouldn't be an IRQ conflict, because the net cards are on IRQs 10
> > and 5, and the ide0 and ide1 are at 14 and 15 respectively.  I tried
> > network stop; ifconfig eth0 down; rmmod 3c59x; modprobe 3c59x; network
> > start but the network is still dead.  It remains dead until I do a full
> > halt and power down, after which it comes back- until the next disk
> > access.
> 
> Other ideas?

Could be ioport conflict.

I've seen times when boot-up messages were incorrect on IRQ settings.
So it is wise to look around in "/proc" to verify everything.


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Xemacs default for root hierarchy?

[Micha Feigin]

I am sorry that i ask this in deferent versions, but i try to find the
problem that someone will know how to answear
I replaced xemacs20 with xemacs21. When i removed xemacs20 (and all its
associated files) I keep get the folowing message when i try to start it
or reinstall it (I tried to reinstall xemacs20-support put it only removed
the worning on instellation of xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn and nothing else).
The message is :

WARNING:
Couldn't find an obvious default for the root of the
XEmacs hierarchy.
WARNING:
Couldn't find obvious defaults for:
doc-directory
data-directory
exec-directory
Perhaps some directories don't exist, or the XEmacs executable,
/usr/bin/xemacs21
is in a strange place?Cannot open load file:
/home/dres/project/debian/xemacs21/xemacs-21.1.2/lisp/auto-autoloads

thanx
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RE: kde packages

[Micha Feigin]

On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote:

> 
> On 04-Sep-99 Micha Feigin wrote:
> > Is there a ftp dir that i can add to source.list so apt can update the
> > packages automaticly?
> > ftp.kde.org apprently doesn't have a package file i could file and the
> > dir
> > tree isn't right for apt (potato/binary-i386 instead of
> > unstable/main/binary-i386 or the like)
> > Thanx
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> I use
> deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde/debian potato contrib
> 
> --
> Andrew
> 
 Thanx for the ftp. I tried it but i got a reply that i can't connect
because i don't have a proper reverse dns entry.
Is there a way to solve this?

Thanx

Re: ide-scsi emulation problem

[M. K. Honeycutt]

David Blackman wrote:
> 
> I don't use the scanbus flag, just do cdrecord speed=XX dev=0,1,0 ISO.iso
> 
> --dave
> 
> On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, M. K. Honeycutt wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> >   I have an ide/ATAPI cd writer and a cd-rom.  I compiled my kernel
> > with scsi emulation and at boot-up they're recognized, but, not
> > correctly.
> >
[snip]

  Thanks for the tips.  Ifinally got it to work.  It still seems
strange that my system thinks that my cd-rom is a 2x/24x cdrw.

  Can anyone tell me why my writer will only mount on scd8?  I
would think scd1 would be the logical choice.

cheers

M.

Re: IBM Thinkpad 560 install problem (debian 1.3)

[Pollywog]

On 04-Sep-99 Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
> 
> The 560 does not require the floppy=thinkpad option. In fact, that option
> will probably make the floppy fail after the first disk is read. Also,
> you'll need the tecra disks instead of the standard install disks (I'm
> not
> sure if this was true for Debian 1.3, but it is true for 2.0 and beyond
> for certain.)

That is what I use on my 560, the Tecra rescue disk.  With the regular
rescue disk, the machine just goes into an endless loop of reboots.

Also, don't use bzImage, just zImage will work.

--
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Re: kde packages

[Carl Fink]

[This message has also been posted.]
On 4 Sep 99 02:29:25 GMT Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a ftp dir that i can add to source.list so apt can update the
>packages automaticly?

Yes.

deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde

Note that a quick archive search would have found this, since I asked
the same question only a few weeks ago.

(Don't use "slink" if you're running a potato system.)

(I installed both GNOME and KDE and then removed them again.  I liked 
KFM, but that was the only redeeming feature of either package.  And I
didn't like KFM as a file manager, only as a web browser.)
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StarOffice 5.1 and libc6 2.1.2

[Julio]

StarOffice 5.1 requires libc6 2.0.7, while potato currently uses 2.1.2 (this 
seems to make SO malfunction). Is there any way to set libc6 2.0.7 for a 
particular application (eg. using LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LD_PRELOAD, etc. and 
installing libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb in a specific dir, with dpkg -x)?

Re: Changing refresh rate in X...?

[Lex Chive]

On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 11:33:08PM -0500, Steve wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>   I have been, for some time now, attempting to change my refresh
> rate to 100Hz.  My monitor's Hor. and Vert. Sync rates are 30-70 and
> 50-120 respectively.  I used to have it run at 100Hz magically somehow,
> but my HD died and I had to reinstall because I am an idiot and never
> backed up anything.  Now my refresh rate sits at 77Hz and I don't know how
> to make it higher.  I run 1024x768x32bit.  My video card is a Diamond
> Viper V330 with 8MB of RAM, all properly recognized.  My monitor is a
> MAG DJ530.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
> 

You need to have a proper mode defined in XF86Config... If you doesnt find a
modeline hanging somewhere you can make your own, I suggest you read the
XFree86-Video-Timings HOWTO, it is nicely explained.

-Lex


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Re: qmail & procmail

[Lex Chive]

On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 02:56:10PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
>   We are using qmail for our machines here. Now I could not get
>   qmail to work with procmail to do the sorting.
> 
>   Basically, I need to fetchmail emails from three pop3 mail
>   servers and then use qmail to deliever them all to the root
>   account.
> 

 Since you use procmail anyway you might as well use it as mda procmail: in
your .fetchmailrc, use the line:
mda "procmail -d root"


 From what you say of your setup that should be enough.

-Lex


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Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

[Lex Chive]

On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:26:28PM +0200, andreas palsson wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I am using Debian GNU/Linux as a nameserver, and I wonder how do I
> modify it to reject all lookups for stupid sites like
> "ad.doubleclick.net" or any other annoying banner-site?
> I've been told to use something called "junkbuster" but I rather not run
> anything extra on the host, I simply would like to change something in
> the bind-configuration.
> 
> Anyone got an idea?
> 

I would say put a bogus address for those sites in /etc/hosts. You can block
packets for this address with something like 'route add 10.0.0.1 lo', I think,
or block them at firewall level.

-Lex


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Re: Good books

[Patrick Olson]

On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, R. Brock Lynn wrote:

> There is a book about Debian specifically, called "The Debian Linux Users
> Guide". I don't know the web address, but I'm sure you can find it if you
> *really* want it. ;)

http://www.linuxpress.com/

click on books, then on "click here for free distribution version."

I must warn you that it's a 375K HTML file and thus takes a while to load.

> > and ultimately, if I have enough with
> > the system I've got, to install and use Netscape for UNIX and STAR Office.
> 
> I'd give up on StarOffice unless you have 144 meg of ram and a FAST CPU. 
> 'cause
> my experiences with StarOffice were SLOW and HUGE MEMORY FOOTPRINT.

I'm afraid I must disagree just a bit.  I tried the latest free version of
StarOffice on a K6 200MHz with 32MB of RAM and it wanted about 64MB.  I
think it would have been happy if I had 64MB of RAM.

To those who remember my "more RAM = more speed" question:  I was going to
throw more RAM in this one instead of my P-133 since SDRAM is cheaper, but
this K6 200 has some kind of hardware problem.  Now I am working on
figuring that out before I do the RAM upgrade.

Saytime stops saying the time.

[Alan Eugene Davis]

Using Potato, keeping up to date.

Saytime now says, "the time is" and nothing more.  I reinstalled, but
no changes.

Alan Davis

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Cannot print from StarOffice

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

(Please CC: me on replied. Thanks.)

I am at wit's end here -- I have a `network' installation of StarOffice 5.1
here at home for use by myself and my wife. It works fine, but just won't
print. I even re-downloaded 5.1 again, and reinstalled, but no luck.  The
machine is current potato with lpd and magicfilter installed and working.

Does anybody out here have an idea?

Thanks,  Dirk

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Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question

[shaul]

You can try:

http://bluesky.ecas.ou.edu/~bfiedler/tips/latex.html
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/
http://sunsite.auc.dk/auctex/
http://la1ad.uio.no/lyx/

and

ftp://granroth.ml.org/pub/Latex/short_intro.ps

If you are more interested in producing some documents rather in learning 
Tex/Latex then I would suggests Lyx.

> Hi all !
> 
> Please tell me (a new linux/Unix user) where to start learning
> about possble text processing apps under linux.
> 
> I've heard such words as "TeX", "LaTeX", "TeTeX", "Emacs" that should
> deal with subj. But where can i find some kind of "introduction" and
> "feature description" for this apps and "general conception" for using them.
> 
> Alex
> 
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Re: Cannot print from StarOffice

[Rick Macdonald]

On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> I am at wit's end here -- I have a `network' installation of StarOffice 5.1
> here at home for use by myself and my wife. It works fine, but just won't
> print. I even re-downloaded 5.1 again, and reinstalled, but no luck.  The
> machine is current potato with lpd and magicfilter installed and working.
> 
> Does anybody out here have an idea?

The following seems obvious now but it took me a while to find it all.
I imagine that you've done all this and it still doesn't work, but maybe
this will help you or somebody else!

I couldn't print either until I found the PrinterSetup icon in the
StarOffice "DeskTop" (I was going through all the menu items looking for
PrinterSetup!). Looking now I can't tell what "driver" I used. Probably
some generic postscript one (probably the existing default), which goes
through magicfilter/ghostscript, etc. You have to "connect" it to "lpr -P
xxx" (where xxx is the printcap entry), and make it the default.

What amazed me is that it even prints color to the HP DeskJet 722c, which
is a windows-only printer on a Win95 box (I use Samba, etc). Color isn't
supposed to work!

...RickM...

Re: Good books

[Brian E. Lavender]

I like The Unix Companion by Harley Hahn. Running Linux which is published by 
O'Reilly
is good too. I also like the MIS Press Slackware series books. The first one
Configuring and Installing Linux is written by Patrick Volkerding. I just 
bought Debian GNU/Linux Guide to Installation and Usage which looks good. THe
CD is screwed up which is included with it. This is a disappointment because it
will probably negatively impact all the work done by Debian developers. 

brian 
 
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 04:39:34PM -0400, ... wrote:
>  I'm a total newbie with linux. I downloaded Debian, and put it on my
> second hard drive, total capacity about 435 meg. I partitioned it to
> reserve 100 meg for dos, put about 10% of the remainder aside for swap,
> and the rest is for linux.
>  This being kind of small, when I installed Debian, I just installed
> the Standard package, Dialup, and Small XWindows.
>  The "man" command doens't appear to be active, and the /usr/doc files
> don't have a lot of information. Most of it seems to be changelog and
> copyright, so I'm thinking of deleting all of it.
>   What sort of how-to books would be helpful? I'd like the equivalent
> of the old Understanding MSDOS and Supercharging MSDOS books, published
> by QUE, I think. I want to learn how to get a color screen at the root
> level, set up and optimize FSTAB, and ultimately, if I have enough with
> the system I've got, to install and use Netscape for UNIX and STAR Office.
> 
> Thanx,
> Frank Starr
> http://i.am/franksnewage
> 
> 
> 
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RE:GNOME menus

[Johan Dewaele]

Try the command : panel & 
in a xterm.

Works for me.

Bye

Johan

reformatting a postscript file from letter to a4 paper size ?

[shaul]

I am getting a very narrow, practically none, right margin for the ps files of 
 ftp://athos.rutgers.edu/runet/tcp-ip-intro.ps and 
ftp://athos.rutgers.edu/runet/tcp-ip-admin.ps. (those files are recommended by 
the NET3-HOWTO as an introductory text.)
The very narrow margin are created both by gv and when printing the files.
Can it be that this is due to a letter vs a4 paper size ?

Can I change the postscript files (and not the source file) so that it will 
have a reasonable setting on a a4 paper ?

Re: Cannot print from StarOffice

[Julio]

On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 12:53:25PM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> (Please CC: me on replied. Thanks.)
> 
> I am at wit's end here -- I have a `network' installation of StarOffice 5.1
> here at home for use by myself and my wife. It works fine, but just won't
> print. I even re-downloaded 5.1 again, and reinstalled, but no luck.  The
> machine is current potato with lpd and magicfilter installed and working.
> 
> Does anybody out here have an idea?
> 

What distribution are you using, slink or potato?
It seems that some StarOffice functionalities hang when running over potato 
with libc6 2.1. It does work fine with slink (libc6 2.0.7) indeed.

Re: Good books

[Seth R Arnold]

I would like to throw in another suggestion for the book by Harley Hahn. I
first read his book on the internet .. dear god, six years ago? Seven years
ago? Wow. In it he suggested his book Unix for Students, or something
similar, and I learned much from that book -- though I don't think it had a
blip of system administration -- just using Unix. :)

On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 11:15:06AM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> I like The Unix Companion by Harley Hahn. Running Linux which is published by 
> O'Reilly
> is good too. I also like the MIS Press Slackware series books. The first one
> Configuring and Installing Linux is written by Patrick Volkerding. I just 
> bought Debian GNU/Linux Guide to Installation and Usage which looks good. THe
> CD is screwed up which is included with it. This is a disappointment because 
> it
> will probably negatively impact all the work done by Debian developers. 
> 
> brian 
>  
> On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 04:39:34PM -0400, ... wrote:
> >  I'm a total newbie with linux. I downloaded Debian, and put it on my
> > second hard drive, total capacity about 435 meg. I partitioned it to
> > reserve 100 meg for dos, put about 10% of the remainder aside for swap,
> > and the rest is for linux.
> >  This being kind of small, when I installed Debian, I just installed
> > the Standard package, Dialup, and Small XWindows.
> >  The "man" command doens't appear to be active, and the /usr/doc files
> > don't have a lot of information. Most of it seems to be changelog and
> > copyright, so I'm thinking of deleting all of it.
> >   What sort of how-to books would be helpful? I'd like the equivalent
> > of the old Understanding MSDOS and Supercharging MSDOS books, published
> > by QUE, I think. I want to learn how to get a color screen at the root
> > level, set up and optimize FSTAB, and ultimately, if I have enough with
> > the system I've got, to install and use Netscape for UNIX and STAR Office.
> > 
> > Thanx,
> > Frank Starr
> > http://i.am/franksnewage
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
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> 
> 
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Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

[Seth R Arnold]

On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 02:36:57PM +0200, Lex Chive wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:26:28PM +0200, andreas palsson wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I am using Debian GNU/Linux as a nameserver, and I wonder how do I
> > modify it to reject all lookups for stupid sites like
> > "ad.doubleclick.net" or any other annoying banner-site?
> > I've been told to use something called "junkbuster" but I rather not run
> > anything extra on the host, I simply would like to change something in
> > the bind-configuration.
> > 
> > Anyone got an idea?
> > 
> 
> I would say put a bogus address for those sites in /etc/hosts. You can block
> packets for this address with something like 'route add 10.0.0.1 lo', I think,
> or block them at firewall level.

Well, that is one way...

If you don't mind setting up squid you can use it with a redirecter (there
are several out there; I found references to them using www.google.com and
search words similar to "squid redirector ad blocker"). I think there are
smaller proxies that are intended just for this purpose, so maybe squid is
far beyond anything you might need.

Basically, those programs change all references to any site on their list to
a transparent gif, or a "this ad blocked" image.. :)

Much nicer than mucking with /etc/hosts :)


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RE: reformatting a postscript file from letter to a4 paper size

[Ted Harding]

On 04-Sep-99 shaul wrote:
> I am getting a very narrow, practically none, right margin for the ps
> files of 
>  ftp://athos.rutgers.edu/runet/tcp-ip-intro.ps and 
>  ftp://athos.rutgers.edu/runet/tcp-ip-admin.ps. (those files are
> recommended by  the NET3-HOWTO as an introductory text.)
> The very narrow margin are created both by gv and when printing the
> files.
> Can it be that this is due to a letter vs a4 paper size ?
> 
> Can I change the postscript files (and not the source file) so that it
> will have a reasonable setting on a a4 paper ?

The short answer is No -- unless you have an advanced knowledge of the
technicalities of PostScript.

I have had a look at the first file, and it seems to have been formatted
with a 1-inch left margin, and ragged-right lines up to 7 inches long,
so you can get a line going to 8 inches across the page. Hence your
margins.

However, with luck you can use the program 'psresize' to do the job,
since it was written with knowledge of the technicalities. You may have to
try various options until you find a combination that does what you want.

I have it from a SuSE Linux installation; I believe it is part of
the 'pstools' or 'psutils' package, but I'm not sure where these can
be found. Try searching a Linux ftp site, if you haven't already got it.

Best of luck,
Ted.


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netscape bus errors

[Thomas Malloy]

Netscape
keeps
closing
with a "
bus
error".
What
tools,
documentation
, and log
files are
available
for me to
help
determine
what that
means and
how to
correct
it..
Thanks

Re: Cannot print from StarOffice

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

  Dirk> I am at wit's end here -- I have a `network' installation of
  Dirk> StarOffice 5.1 here at home for use by myself and my wife. It works
  Dirk> fine, but just won't print. I even re-downloaded 5.1 again, and
  Dirk> reinstalled, but no luck.  The machine is current potato with lpd and
  Dirk> magicfilter installed and working.

  Julio>  What distribution are you using, slink or potato?

"Current" Potato (see end of penultimate line above). 

  Julio> It seems that some StarOffice functionalities hang when running over
  Julio> potato with libc6 2.1. It does work fine with slink (libc6 2.0.7)
  Julio> indeed.

Yes, that's like it. Whenever it attempts to print, it hangs and starts
several soffice.bin processes which I have to kill hard (kill -9, sometime
even xkill). 

So then it's now me but rather glibc and staroffice?  

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Re: Cannot print from StarOffice

[Julio]

On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 04:17:30PM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
>   Dirk> I am at wit's end here -- I have a `network' installation of
>   Dirk> StarOffice 5.1 here at home for use by myself and my wife. It works
>   Dirk> fine, but just won't print. I even re-downloaded 5.1 again, and
>   Dirk> reinstalled, but no luck.  The machine is current potato with lpd and
>   Dirk> magicfilter installed and working.
> 
>   Julio>  What distribution are you using, slink or potato?
> 
> "Current" Potato (see end of penultimate line above). 
> 
>   Julio> It seems that some StarOffice functionalities hang when running over
>   Julio> potato with libc6 2.1. It does work fine with slink (libc6 2.0.7)
>   Julio> indeed.
> 
> Yes, that's like it. Whenever it attempts to print, it hangs and starts
> several soffice.bin processes which I have to kill hard (kill -9, sometime
> even xkill). 
> 
> So then it's now me but rather glibc and staroffice?  

You're lucky - my current potato install doesn't even install StarOffice..
A post in the debian-devel some months ago 
(http://www.nl.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9903/msg01782.html) 
explained how to make jdk 1.1 run over potato bypassing libc problems. I have 
tried to use a similar approach with no success. I'd appreciate any ideas on 
how to make a process run with a different libc than the one installed in the 
system.

Re: Cannot print from StarOffice

[Mark Wagnon]

On Sat 09/04/99 04:17PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> So then it's now me but rather glibc and staroffice?  

Bummer. I just installed SO and have the same problem. My setup is
net install on current potato also. Hmmm. I thought that 5.1 was
supposed to fix some things. I vaguely remember posts on the
subject. Maybe their topic was concerned with getting SO running.

Oh well, it looks and works nice enough.

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What driver do i use for a 3com Etherlink XL pci

[David Blackman]

that's it, what driver do I use for a 3com etherlink XL pci,

it's the card my DSL supplier supports

--dave

SoundBlaster 16 PNP WaveEffects help needed

[Brian E. Lavender]

I am trying to install my SoundBlaster WaveEffects 16 PNP card and I
am having a hell of a time getting this thing going. First I got the
card to configure using isapnp, as you can see below. Then I tried
using modprobe to activate the sb module. Once that failed, I tried the
sound module, but that failed too.  As I understand, these modules will
insert the necessary required dependency modules too. As you can see,
modprobe gives me an error.  I have tried modconf too. It failed with the
same error, but as I understand, all this does is automatically update
/etc/modules.conf and add the modprobe command to a startup script. So,
if I can't get it to work with modprobe, the modconf will not work either.

I checked /lib/modules/2.2.10/misc and both the modules are there. What is wrong
here?

brian

debian:~# isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
lspci not found, so PCI resource conflict not checked
Board 1 has Identity 6d ff ff ff ff f0 00 8c 0e:  CTL00f0 Serial No -1 
[checksum 6d]
CTL00f0/-1[0]{Audio   }: Ports 0x220 0x330 0x388; IRQ5 DMA1 DMA5 
--- Enabled O
K

debian:/usr/src/linux# modprobe sb io=0x220 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 irq=5
/lib/modules/2.2.10/misc/sound.o: invalid parameter io
sound: No such file or directory
sound: No such file or directory

debian:/usr/src/linux# modprobe sound io=0x220 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 irq=5
/lib/modules/2.2.10/misc/sound.o: invalid parameter io
debian:/usr/src/linux#

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Re: What driver do i use for a 3com Etherlink XL pci

[Pann McCuaig]

On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 04:34:35PM -0500, David Blackman wrote:
> that's it, what driver do I use for a 3com etherlink XL pci,
> 
> it's the card my DSL supplier supports

Sounds like 3c59x. Comment from the source:

This driver is for the 3Com "Vortex" and "Boomerang" series ethercards.
Members of the series include Fast EtherLink 3c590/3c592/3c595/3c597 and
the EtherLink XL 3c900 and 3c905 cards.

Luck,
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Clueless Newbie needs Networking Help

[Tor- Simon Law]

Hello.

I'm pretty new to Debian and have been unable to get my network
configured properly.  You see, in a couple days, I will be heading off
to University of Waterloo (Canada) and will want to hook up to their
residence's network.

The only problem is, they've given me settings that theoretically
working for flavours of Windows, but those settings seem to be dodgy
when it comes to the Debian installation programme (dbootstrap).

Now I've sifted through various HOWTO's and I still haven't figured
it out yet.  Perhaps someone could help me.

Here is the information I have:

My host name: (Whatever I bloody please)
Domain name: uwaterloo.ca
My IP address: "Obtain IP address automatically"
My netmask: Well, in Windows, once "Obtain IP address automatically"
is selected, one doesn't have to enter a subnet mask...
My broadcast address: Unknown.  (I assume that the default should be
okay.)
Gateway address: None.
My DNS server: None.

As far as Windows services and protocols are concerned, they want me
to start up: Client for Microsoft Networks, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, and
TCP/IP.  I'm using an ISA D-Link DE250CT card, but I think I've
successfully loaded up the module as dmesg | more, shows it detecting
the right IRQ and the I/O address I gave it.

Thanks for any help you can give me!

Yours,
Simon

Re: SoundBlaster 16 PNP WaveEffects help needed

[Brian E. Lavender]

Ok, I got sound working. In fact I believe I discovered an UNWANTED FEATURE
in 
# modconf 

When I first tried to use modconf to insert the module, I
specified the wrong parameters and the module installation failed. The
modconf utility wrote the parameters to /etc/conf.modules anyway and when
I DID actually specify the correct parameters with modconf or manually
using the modprobe command, the old parameters in /etc/conf.modules were
still in the file. Here is the UNWANTED FEATURE I see in modconf. If a
module installation fails with modconf, it should not write the parameters
to /etc/conf.modules . I suppose I can take a look at fixing it.

Where do I find the source for modconf, and who is the maintainer?

brian

On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 03:30:24PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> I am trying to install my SoundBlaster WaveEffects 16 PNP card and I
> am having a hell of a time getting this thing going. First I got the
> card to configure using isapnp, as you can see below. Then I tried
> using modprobe to activate the sb module. Once that failed, I tried the
> sound module, but that failed too.  As I understand, these modules will
> insert the necessary required dependency modules too. As you can see,
> modprobe gives me an error.  I have tried modconf too. It failed with the
> same error, but as I understand, all this does is automatically update
> /etc/modules.conf and add the modprobe command to a startup script. So,
> if I can't get it to work with modprobe, the modconf will not work either.
> 
> I checked /lib/modules/2.2.10/misc and both the modules are there. What is 
> wrong
> here?
> 
> brian
> 
> debian:~# isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
> lspci not found, so PCI resource conflict not checked
> Board 1 has Identity 6d ff ff ff ff f0 00 8c 0e:  CTL00f0 Serial No -1 
> [checksum 6d]
> CTL00f0/-1[0]{Audio   }: Ports 0x220 0x330 0x388; IRQ5 DMA1 DMA5 
> --- Enabled O
> K
> 
> debian:/usr/src/linux# modprobe sb io=0x220 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 irq=5
> /lib/modules/2.2.10/misc/sound.o: invalid parameter io
> sound: No such file or directory
> sound: No such file or directory
> 
> debian:/usr/src/linux# modprobe sound io=0x220 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 
> irq=5
> /lib/modules/2.2.10/misc/sound.o: invalid parameter io
> debian:/usr/src/linux#
> 
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Re: xterm-menus not working

[Keith Harbaugh]

If you want to do a little further digging on this situation,
try the following:
   xrdb -q | grep -i ^xterm
and post the results back.

And yes, I am using slink, but with some addons.
Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list if you're interested
   deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/
   deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates
   deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
   deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
   deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US

Keith