linux kernel compile

[Vincent & Sylvia Gaines]

First I would just like to thank the people behind the Debian
distribution.
I work with software and have been very impressed with the way they have

organized their system distribution updates. to me ( still a "newbie")
dselect is a vital tool worth it's weight in gold!

1.)  I installed Debian GNU/ Linux 2.1  using floppy images downloaded
from
the internet.
 - My system is Dual pentium 200 Mhz, 3Com 3C905, NE2000 ( linksys-
isa), Diamond Firport HP C310 SCSI-2 , with 96 Meg ram, Acer CD-ROM
 - Install worked great and when I boot up I get eth0 (3Com) and
eth1
(ne2000), all modules loaded perfectly no erroneous messages on boot
 - However no SMP support and driver for the 3Com card does not work

correct (messages in /var/log/syslog problems with irq)
 - DHCPD client daemon started ( I want to use a cable modem) no
inet
address from ifconfig -a for eth1.

2.) I recompile my kernel using "make-kpkg" and kernel-source-2.0.36
 - make menuconfig
 - make dep
 - make-kpkg clean
 - make-kpkg --revision=smp700 kernel-image
 - make-kpkg --revision=smp700 modules-image
 - cd..
 - dpkg --install kernel-source-2.0.36_smp700_i386.deb
 - here I have to mv /lib/modules/2.0.36 to /lib/modules/2.0.36.old
 - then I get prompted to make a boot floppy since I cannot boot
from
my scsi (bios does not see it) I attempt it
 - use your current /etc/lilo.conf? I say yes
 - error testing lilo.confetc
 - re execute dpkg --install kernel-source-2.0.36_smp700_i386.deb
 - create boot floppy and new lilo.conf

3.) When I reboot I lose my eth1 (NE2000) and get multiple messages such
as
cannot find module ne.etc
 - SMP works great, no eth1, eth0 works just fine( 3C905), dhcpcd
has
problems great (no interface..attached to eth1)
 - If i try to boot off an old floppy (not created by compile) I
still
get the same messages but with no SMP support.

I believe something about the way I compiled my kernel is causing me
problems. However I selected "Loaded modules support" and the drivers
required for both ethernet cards. i.e. 3c59x and ne.

What can I do to get both ethernet cards working and all modules loaded
at
boot time and still keep my SMP support?

and help is greatly appreciated.Thank You!


 debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: New Kernel: make-kpkg vs. make bzLilo

[eric k. wolven]

Sal:

The kernel pkg script makes the modules.  The dpkg -i kernel-image (etc) 
installs the modules--and warns you to mv any old modules.

No make_install_modules is necessary with the kpg script.

I tried to install the 2.3.4 kernel from ftp.kernel.org.  My system booted but 
fluttered, so I stuck with debianised kernels.  Others, apparently, have had 
no problem with the later undebianized kernels.

The other stuff you ask I don't know.


Eric

Linux masquerading via M$ proxy

[david . cureton]

I am in a situation where access to the net is via Microsoft Proxy. 

I would like to use my Linux box for net access but I have only seen client
software for the M$ Proxy for wintel workstation. 

>From the advertising blurb it seams that the Microsoft Proxy will do
application proxy'ing and IP masquerading.

My question is:

1) Is the IP masquerading of the Microsoft product proprietary or is it
possible to get a linux box to masquerade via the MS proxy?

2) If the answer to question 1) is proprietary then is there any software in
the Linux domain that is compatible with this MS product?


Best Regards,

David Cureton

Re: Fw: SIOCADDRT

[Bryan Scaringe]

Yep.  Looks like the 2.2.x series is smart enought not to
need them.  Course, I still include them for completion's
sake.

Bryan


On 20-Oct-99 Colin Marquardt wrote:
> * Charles Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>> The way we solved the SIOCADDRT problem (in potato) was to just comment out
>> the route add lines. Apparently they are not needed. Although why they were
>> needed in slink and not potato I don't know.
> --^^^-^^--
> --kernel 2.0.xkernel 2.2.x
> 
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Good News Reader?

[Brian May]

Hello All,

I have been looking for a excellent newsreader. Currently I have yet
to find a excellent one.

I have made comparisons here to non-Debian programs that
(slrn and gnus) that may be out-of-date or wrong for Debian.
Please tell me if you think anything I have said is wrong.

Currently I use mutt for all my mail. It has a number of good
features:
- excellent support for PGP
- adequate support for GPG (could be better IMHO).
- excellent support for MIME:
   - can forward messages as MIME attachments
   - can attach any number of messages.
- can reply to a number of messages at the same time
(saves time replying to each one individually - especially
if messages are from the same thread).
- fast. small. emacs not required or supported (I consider this
a feature ;-) )
- supports threading, but perhaps not as good as trn.
- doesn't die after period of inactive use and/or while entering
messages.
- ability to flag messages as high priority.

However, mutt doesn't support newsgroups :-(

Things I like about trn:
- easy to navigate threads.

Things I hate about trn:
- connection times out while I am writing a message, and crashes
whole program without saving list of read messages. There
is a long standing bug about this. This only occurs with the
Debian version().

- if too many headers are displayed, top headers will scroll of top
of screen. There is another long standing bug against this. A
maintainer told me fixing this would require majore redesign of
the program (from memory).

- Messages marked as read are removed immediately. If I accidently
mark a message as read that was important, it is very difficult
to find again, even if I realize immediately after making the mistake.

- poor support for MIME, and no support for PGP.

- doesn't support one way newsgroups that mirror mailing lists
(in only one direction) very well.  I have a number of these.

- no way to flag messages as important.

Things I like about slrn:
- messages marked as read are not immediately removed.
- supports threading, but perhaps not as good as trn.
- no timeouts.
- can save an entire thread to disk. Although I prefer the cache
feature under gnus.

Things I dislike about slrn:
- poor support for MIME, and no support for PGP.
- no way to flag messages as important.
- doesn't support one way newsgroups that mirror mailing lists
(in only one direction) very well.  I have a number of these.

- while messages that are marked are not immediately removed, I
constantly get mixed up between the keystrokes required for mutt and
slrn, and push q, intending the index of messages to fill the entire
screen. Wrong! q in slrn goes back to the index of newgroups, hence I
have to try and relocate articles that I accidently marked as read.

Things I like about gnus:
- ability to cache messages by marking them.
- ability to mark messages as important.
- supports one mailing list --> newsgroup gateways (one direction)
but I haven't tested it yet.

Things I dislike about gnus:
- last 10 times I tried running it, it always crashed on startup,
without giving any indication of a problem. xemacs completely died (no
response from anything) and I had to kill it. There have been problems
with the news server (ie currupted overview files), so perhaps it caused
my local files to become currupted (not sure).

- can't get PGP support to work. Haven't even tried GPG.

- requires xemacs, and xemacs is huge and slow (I don't have enough
hard disk space to install it on this computer).

- not really sure about MIME support. I read somewhere that it
was limited to processing mail with metamail (which I didn't like
about trn and slrn), but the admit the documentation could be wrong.

- requires memorizing complicated sequence of keystrokes.
- can't forward mail as MIME attachments (not that I have seen anyway).
- can't reply to multiple messages at the same time.
- don't know how to find all child articles for a given parent.

I have seen another package for xemacs, mews. Anyone tried it???

Not strictly related, but:
Things I like about mail --> news gateways:
- automated expiry of articles.

Things I dislike about mail --> news gateways:
- some I use have been configured for one way operation only.
- I can't get cross posts to work.
- removes To: header. Hence, when replying to a message, I am
not always sure who received the original.

-- 
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Fw: SIOCADDRT

[Greg Wooledge]

Charles Lewis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> The way we solved the SIOCADDRT problem (in potato) was to just comment out
> the route add lines. Apparently they are not needed. Although why they were
> needed in slink and not potato I don't know.

It's a kernel issue.  Linux 2.2.x automatically adds the routes for you
when you configure your network interfaces.  Linux 2.0.x does not, so you
have to add the routes manually.

-- 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] |   Red Hot Chili Peppers,
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Re: Can Debian, Novell, Token Ring and DHCP all get along?

[Greg Wooledge]

David Kanter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I'd like to use Debian (Slink) on my work computer because of the free tools 
> I'll need to do some Web page designing. Currently we use Windows NT and are 
> hooked up through a token-ring network using DHCP and Novell's 
> Netware/GroupWise.

> The basic question is: Will I be able to hook my Slink box up to the 
> company's network and have access to the T1 Internet line and networked 
> printers?

> IBM Auto 16/4 Token-Ring ISA Adapter

Good -- you have an IBM token ring card.  The Linux kernel has some
support for IBM token ring cards, so you may be able to get it to work.
(I was stuck with a Madge ISA token ring card for a while, and there's
*no* support for Madge non-PCI tr cards)

The next issue will be Netware.  If you're really lucky, your company
will be using Netware 3, or Netware 4 with the bindery emulation option
turned on.  Or if you're really unlucky, your company will be using
Netware 4 with no bindery emulation (which you will NOT be able to use,
unless you can somehow get the shitty Caldera Netware client to work,
which I never managed to do no matter how hard I tried).

But if it's Netware 3 or Netware 4 + bindery, use the ncpfs utilities
(slist, pqlist, ncpmount, nprint(?), etc.), and good luck.

On the other hand, if all you want from Netware is access to the printers,
and not access to shared file systems, then you may be able to bypass
Netware altogether, and use BSD remote printing to talk to the printers
directly.  But this will only work if the printers have IP addresses...
which may not be the case (depending on how Netware-centric your printer
administrators are).

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Re: MTAs and dialup connected machines

[Greg Wooledge]

Oskar Liljeblad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> When I send email through the local MTA, Exim 3.03,
> a Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is added.
> This should really be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (that's
> my public email address), but it's "usel" because that's
> my local username.

> So how do I solve it?

Tell your MUA to tell your MTA to set the envelope sender to whatever
you need it to be.

I don't know exim, but if it's the same as sendmail, you want to make
sure the sendmail-emulation-wrapper is invoked with '-f [EMAIL PROTECTED]'.

E.g., with mutt you'd want something like this in ~/.muttrc:

  set sendmail='/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]'

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/usr/local

[Bryan Scaringe]

Could someone please tell me the permissions on /usr/local?

mine are:

drwxrwsr-x   8 root staff1024 May 15 18:38 local/

What gives??  Why is this directory setgid?

Is everyone elses system the same way?

Thanks,
Bryan

Re: /usr/local

[Pollywog]

On 21-Oct-99 Salman Ahmed wrote:
>> "BS" == Bryan Scaringe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> BS> Could someone please tell me the permissions on /usr/local?  mine
> BS> are:
> 
> BS> drwxrwsr-x 8 root staff 1024 May 15 18:38 local/
> 
> BS> What gives??  Why is this directory setgid?
> 
> That's a good question. I'd like to know as well.
> 
> 
> BS> Is everyone elses system the same way?
> 
> It seems that way. Here are the permissions on mine:
> 
> @phoenix:[/home/ssahmed] dir -d /usr/local
> drwxrwsr-x  11 root staff1024 Oct 17 20:03 /usr/local/
> 

drwxr-xr-x  22 root root 1024 Oct 16 16:23 /usr/local


--
Andrew

Re: /usr/local

[John Carline]

Bryan Scaringe wrote:

> Could someone please tell me the permissions on /usr/local?
>
> mine are:
>
> drwxrwsr-x   8 root staff1024 May 15 18:38 local/
>
> What gives??  Why is this directory setgid?
>
> Is everyone elses system the same way?

Both my slink and potato disks are the same permissions as yours, but I don't 
know
the rational behind it.

John


>
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan
>
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Re: New Kernel: make-kpkg vs. make bzLilo

[Brad]

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On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:

[[[SNIP quoted details of using make-kpkg]]]
> 
> Some people have mentioned earlier making another target as well : modules
> (or modules_install). Is that necessary ?

Do you mean 'modules-image'? That's used if you have things like pcmcia or
alsa that should be recompiled at the same time as the kernel (they'll be
in /usr/src/modules/...)

> I have followed the above procedure that you mention a number of times
> without any problems, and have had no problems with modules. When is make
> modules_install necessary ??

Only when you have add-ons like alsa or pcmcia. A deb will be generated
for you to install along with the kernel deb (just like the
pcmcia-modules-x.y.zz available on the mirrors)

> One other thing: are there any problems compiling 2.2.12 or 2.2.13 with gcc
> 2.95.2 ?? I read today in the 2.2.13 kernel's release notes at
>  that gcc 2.95 should
> not be used to compile 2.2.13.
>
> Has anyone tried compiling the recent kernels (ie 2.2.10-12) with gcc 2.95
> or 2.95.2 ? Any problems ??

I've done it, no problems here. YMMV.


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sound blaster pnp, please help!

[Jacob Schmude]

Hello

I've finally got my system upgraded to debian potato (don't know how I got
emacs installed). However, my sound card only partially works. Wav and au
files play, but midi and mp3 do not. I'm trying to play mp3 with mpg123.
This worked on redhat with its sndconfig utility. The exact details of my
card settings and the module loading commands follow:

card model: creative vibra 16x pnp
irq: 5
base io: 220
mpu io: 300
dma: 1
dma16: 5

The command I used to load the modules (for kernel 2.2.10) is
modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x300

If it has to do with the pnp (plug&play) fact, how in the world do you set
up isapnp.conf? It looks like a programming language.

Jacob

RE: IBM Thinkpad 560 - (YES, ALL SET FOR THOSE PROBLEMS)

[John Miskinis]

Hi,

Wow, I sent that mail on 9/9/99 (interesting numbers) and since then
I've become a linux nut.  Yes, I ended up using the tecra disks.  I
think it might have been you that helped me way back then.

The problems I was experiencing were due to the PCMCIA-based CDROM
I had, and I thought it was possible to "easily" get that to work.
I finally did get that to work, but I now use my PCMCIA-SCSI host
adapter (Bus Toaster) with a SCSI-based JVC CDROM/RW which is much
more reliable, since it stays spun up, etc..  I think my H45 QuickCD
needs to be repaired, as it was flaky since about day 3 on Win95.  I
needed to make sure I got my other one working before making
arrangements to send it in to be checked out.  It "freezes" now
and then, and needs to be powered off/on.  Plus a tiny screw came
out of it one day, when I noticed some rattle, and tipped it.

I do not think I am using the best capabilities though.  My X Windows
Screen is dimmer than it should be, with the XF86Config I hacked up
to get rid of the flicker.  Also the "fvwm2" window manager is not
usable, as it leaves graphics behind using that config.  The configs
I found on the net ALL have BAD FLICKER but "fvwm2" does work with
them. (40 versus 28.32 dot clock).

Note that sometimes (very rarely) my (flicker free dim) config causes
a pixel or two to be left behind in other apps.  (Like xfishtank, and
only once in xclock).  So I am not blaming fvwm2 for anything!

I'm pretty happy all in all, but still get lost when trying to get
the newer gnome up, or even enlightment-conf.  It appears that there
are MANY dependencies, for enlightment-conf, that require newer
versions of a LOT of things, as soon as you start adding things
like libart2 and freetype2 (I believe).

So for the most part, I'm trying to stay with the stuff on the 2.1
CD.  I just started playing with the GTK widget set today.

Enough disk space wasted for this message,

John

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ash - options to `echo' command

[Gregory T. Norris]

I was just curious about why ash's builtin `echo' command no longer
accepts any options?  It causes interesting (though generally harmless)
output in a variety of places, because I use ash as /bin/sh.  For
example:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] grep -l "echo -n" /etc/init.d/* | wc -l
  35

I haven't filed a bug report because changelog.Debian.gz shows that it
was an intentional change... so I assume that it was done in order to
conform with POSIX (or another such standard).  Is this correct?  If
so, I guess I should start filing `bashism' bug-reports against scripts
which start out `#! /bin/sh' and make use of `echo -n' or `echo -e'?


I hope the tone of this comes across correctly (sometimes difficult to
do via email).  I'm simply curious about the reasoning... don't mean to
whack you on the side of the head with a 2x4 or anything :-) I've CC'd
debian-user, just in case others are curious (since the ash vs bash for
/bin/sh debate turns up periodically).

Thanx!

Re: /usr/local

[William T Wilson]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote:

> mine are:
> 
> drwxrwsr-x   8 root staff1024 May 15 18:38 local/
> 
> What gives??  Why is this directory setgid?

setgid on a directory makes all the files created in that directory
group-owned by the group of the directory.  This allows members of group
'staff' to (more or less) maintain stuff in that directory.  If you're
like most home users and don't have to worry about that sort of delegation
of responsibility, it basically doesn't matter.

Re: /usr/local

[Gregory T. Norris]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] dir -d /usr/local
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root 1024 Aug 15 19:23 /usr/local

I set mine up as a seperate filesystem when I first installed.  Dunno
if that makes a difference permission-wise or not, tho.

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 09:43:57PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
> Could someone please tell me the permissions on /usr/local?
> 
> mine are:
> 
> drwxrwsr-x   8 root staff1024 May 15 18:38 local/
> 
> What gives??  Why is this directory setgid?
> 
> Is everyone elses system the same way?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bryan

Re: /usr/local

[William T Wilson]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote:

> I set mine up as a seperate filesystem when I first installed.  Dunno
> if that makes a difference permission-wise or not, tho.

It does.  Mount points take on the permissions of the / directory of the
mounted filesystem when they are mounted.  But the permissions of the
mount point are retained also, just not used until the filesystem is
unmounted again.

Re: /usr/local

[Pollywog]

On 21-Oct-99 John Carline wrote:
> Bryan Scaringe wrote:
> 
>> Could someone please tell me the permissions on /usr/local?
>>
>> mine are:
>>
>> drwxrwsr-x   8 root staff1024 May 15 18:38 local/
>>
>> What gives??  Why is this directory setgid?
>>
>> Is everyone elses system the same way?
> 
> Both my slink and potato disks are the same permissions as yours, but I
> don't know
> the rational behind it.

I don't remember ever changing mine, but I suppose it is possible that I did
so.

--
Andrew

GTK themes and libpixmap?

[Bryan Scaringe]

I recently picked up the theme "DarkMarble" from gtk.themes.org.
Half of the widgets don't work.  Specificly, the ones with pixmaps.
they are just plain blue.  Also, I get a slew of these errors:

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libpixmap.so",
Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libpixmap.so",
Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libpixmap.so",
Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libpixmap.so",

Ok, I looked, and indeed, I have no libpixmap.so on my system.
Anyone know where I can find such a beast?  What package contains
it?

thanks in advance,
Bryan

X 3.3.3 and KDE

[jason]

anybody remember the servers i can set apt to get

KDE (snowcrash or something like that?)

and X 3.3.3? 
thanks

 

-jason

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.  When you
sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
-Einstein

Re: XF86 probs on IBM Thinkpad 360Cs

[Brant Wells]

Hey Again :)


EGM>I'm gueessing something's wrong with your modelines to producethis 
effect. When you configured X did you use xvidtune to adjust the timings 
(and screen size under various resolutions)? It usually does a pretty good 
job despite the warning.


I don't use FVWM so I can't help you configure it. I'm fond of IceWM,
which would probably work well under your hardware constraints (it's
fairly lightweight). I never liked the mouse at the edge of the screen
popping over to the next virtual desktop -- rather change desktops with a 
pager. But, heh, Linux is about choice!

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++



Out of all the WM's for Linux, I like KDE the best, but when I'm installing 
a system, or a small one like this, IceWM is by far the best!! Right On :)


When I run the XF86Setup prog, I don't get any display at all.  The screen 
goes black while it switches graphics mode, and then, all I get is 
nothing... I can't CTL+ALT+BKSPC to get back to my command prompt, or 
anything... I have to reset the computer :(


I like XVidTune :)... If I could see it... (grin)  Any ideas(?)


I appreciate the help :)

Thanx,
Brant

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Re: Good News Reader?

[Eric Gillespie, Jr.]

On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:11:37AM +1000,
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Things I dislike about slrn:
> - poor support for MIME, and no support for PGP.

I know this doesn't help you now, but the author has stated that he will
add MIME support. As for PGP, see
http://www.ollie.clive.ia.us/jeff/python/anysign/ for a decent method of
signing messages from slrn. Unfortunately, that's the only pgp feature it
supports.

> - while messages that are marked are not immediately removed, I
> constantly get mixed up between the keystrokes required for mutt and
> slrn, and push q, intending the index of messages to fill the entire
> screen. Wrong! q in slrn goes back to the index of newgroups, hence I
> have to try and relocate articles that I accidently marked as read.
> 

All keystrokes are configurable, so this shouldn't be a problem.
See /usr/doc/slrn/examples/slrn.rc.gz for examples.

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 A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back,
 a dangerous shuddering and stopping."
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RE: GTK themes and libpixmap? NEVERMIND

[Bryan Scaringe]

Duh!

The package was gtk-engines-pixmap.  It's late.  I'm going to bed.

Bryan


On 21-Oct-99 Bryan Scaringe wrote:
> I recently picked up the theme "DarkMarble" from gtk.themes.org.
> Half of the widgets don't work.  Specificly, the ones with pixmaps.
> they are just plain blue.  Also, I get a slew of these errors:
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path:
> "libpixmap.so",
> Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path:
> "libpixmap.so",
> Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path:
> "libpixmap.so",
> Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path:
> "libpixmap.so",
> 
> Ok, I looked, and indeed, I have no libpixmap.so on my system.
> Anyone know where I can find such a beast?  What package contains
> it?
> 
> thanks in advance,
> Bryan
> 
> 
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Re: Does exim work with fetchmail?

[Dave Baker]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote:

> I currently use smail which works well with fetchmail.
> 
> I thought I'd try exim since this is becoming standard in potato, but
> although local mail works I can't get any mail via pop3 and fetchmail.
> There's a fetchmail error message saying something like: "Can't even
> send to ac" [my username}.  It seems to be an SMTP problem.
> 
> I imagine there's something I should change in /etc/exim.conf but the
> things I've tried haven't worked.
> 
> Is anyone successfully using exim with fetchmail?

you possibly haven't enabled relaying for the local host.
I use exim and fetchmail with no trouble at all.

try looking in /etc/exim.conf and checking 'local_domains = ' to see if it
includes 'localhost'

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[Fwd: Sound with Debian]

[Kent West]

I believe this was intended for the list; accordingly I've
forwarded it. (No need to reply to me, just to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], and perhaps the list.)

"Dr. Yasha Karant" wrote:
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> I obtained your email from the Debian list on sound.
> 
> Short of recompiling a kernel or licensing-for-fee
> commercial OSS, how do I support a Crystal 4232PNP
> sound "card" (actually part of the Dell mother board)?
> 
> Red Hat comes with executable sound support in the distribution,
> whereas Debian does not seem to come with such support?
> 
> uname -a indicates 2.0.36 .  Does anybody have precompiled
> the needed loadable kernel modules and any related utilities
> for Debian to support this sound device?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Yasha Karant
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (please reply to this email address).

Re: ash - options to `echo' command

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 09:27:48PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote:
> I was just curious about why ash's builtin `echo' command no longer
> accepts any options?  It causes interesting (though generally harmless)
> output in a variety of places, because I use ash as /bin/sh.  For
> example:
> 
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED] grep -l "echo -n" /etc/init.d/* | wc -l
>   35
> 
> I haven't filed a bug report because changelog.Debian.gz shows that it
> was an intentional change... so I assume that it was done in order to
> conform with POSIX (or another such standard).  Is this correct?  If

The change was made in line with the SuS.  Note that it is not possible
to write echo statements portably across platforms because of legacy
shells that do support options.  That is why it is recommended to use
printf instead of echo.

> so, I guess I should start filing `bashism' bug-reports against scripts
> which start out `#! /bin/sh' and make use of `echo -n' or `echo -e'?

Yes, options are not supported under the SuS.
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RE: sound blaster pnp, please help!

[Bryan Scaringe]

man isapnp
man isapnp.conf

generate a basic isapnp.conf file like this:

pnpdump > ~/isapnp.conf

That will create a file called isapnp.conf in your home directory.
When we're finished, we will copy it to /etc/isapnp.conf.

Now, somethings you need to do:

1) Make sure support for ALL ISA PNP cards is in the form
   of modules.  isapnp needs to set up the cards before the kernel
   support is setup.  modules are the only way to put that support
   off long enough for isapnp to do its thing.

2) Go to  http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/
   Try setting up the file from the information you find there.
   If it doesn't work, proceed to step 3.

3) Read the man pages above.  If you're still having trouble,
   go to step 4.

4) post your isapnp.conf.  I can try to walk you through it,
   but I may not be able to till Monday.


Bryan  


On 21-Oct-99 Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I've finally got my system upgraded to debian potato (don't know how I got
> emacs installed). However, my sound card only partially works. Wav and au
> files play, but midi and mp3 do not. I'm trying to play mp3 with mpg123.
> This worked on redhat with its sndconfig utility. The exact details of
> my card settings and the module loading commands follow:
> 
> card model: creative vibra 16x pnp
> irq: 5
> base io: 220
> mpu io: 300
> dma: 1
> dma16: 5
> 
> The command I used to load the modules (for kernel 2.2.10) is
> modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x300
> 
> If it has to do with the pnp (plug&play) fact, how in the world do you set
> up isapnp.conf? It looks like a programming language.
> 
> Jacob
> 
> 
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RE: [Fwd: Sound with Debian]

[Bryan Scaringe]

Hmm.  Since Support for sound cards is part of the kernel,
and the kernel is the same in all Linux distributions,
then I would have to say: if RedHat supports it, Debian supports
it.  Granted, Debian doesn't have the sndconf executable, but
that just builds a line for the modules.conf file, which
you can do by hand.

I have included the file:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/CS4232

Also, I notice you say "short of recompiling a kernel".
Please, please, please: Don't be afraid to recompile the kernel.
You will be doing yourself a big favor if you learn how to do it.

Also note that Debian has its own way of compiling kernels!
make sure you get the kernel-package package.  Then read
the README that comes with it.

Bryan


On 21-Oct-99 Kent West wrote:
> I believe this was intended for the list; accordingly I've
> forwarded it. (No need to reply to me, just to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], and perhaps the list.)
> 
> "Dr. Yasha Karant" wrote:
>> 
>> Greetings.
>> 
>> I obtained your email from the Debian list on sound.
>> 
>> Short of recompiling a kernel or licensing-for-fee
>> commercial OSS, how do I support a Crystal 4232PNP
>> sound "card" (actually part of the Dell mother board)?
>> 
>> Red Hat comes with executable sound support in the distribution,
>> whereas Debian does not seem to come with such support?
>> 
>> uname -a indicates 2.0.36 .  Does anybody have precompiled
>> the needed loadable kernel modules and any related utilities
>> for Debian to support this sound device?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Yasha Karant
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (please reply to this email address).
> 
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To configure the Crystal CS423x sound chip and activate its DSP functions,
modules may be loaded in this order:
  
modprobe sound
insmod ad1848
insmod uart401
insmod cs4232 io=* irq=* dma=* dma2=*
  
This is the meaning of the parameters:
  
io--I/O address of the Windows Sound System (normally 0x534)
irq--IRQ of this device
dma and dma2--DMA channels (DMA2 may be 0)
  
On some cards, the board attempts to do non-PnP setup, and fails.  If you
have problems, use Linux' PnP facilities. 
  
To get MIDI facilities add
  
insmod opl3 io=*
  
where "io" is the I/O address of the OPL3 synthesizer. This will be shown
in /proc/sys/pnp and is normally 0x388.

Re: [Fwd: Sound with Debian]

[Brad]

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> "Dr. Yasha Karant" wrote:
> > 
> > Short of recompiling a kernel or licensing-for-fee
> > commercial OSS, how do I support a Crystal 4232PNP
> > sound "card" (actually part of the Dell mother board)?

It depends on which kernel version you have. Witn 2.0.x, i think you could
compile the alsa modules and insert them (remember, ALSA 0.4 doesn't
support kernel 2.0.x anymore)

For 2.2.x, there is no way.

> > Red Hat comes with executable sound support in the distribution,
> > whereas Debian does not seem to come with such support?

Nope. i don't know the reasoning for sure, but probably it involves saving
space on the installation media and the fact that sound is both
unnecessary for the most part and rather complex to set up.

> > uname -a indicates 2.0.36 .  Does anybody have precompiled
> > the needed loadable kernel modules and any related utilities
> > for Debian to support this sound device?

It'd probably be easier (and more educational) to recompile the kernel.
Look at the list archives for discussions on how to do so, and look into
the kernel-package package. There's even a thread going on currently on
the subject: "New Kernel: make-kpkg vs. make bzLilo"

Related utilities are mostly Debian packages. You'll probably want a
mixer, you'll definately want sox. There are many other apps for handling
various formats.


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Need help for x window

[jh]

Hi. I have recently installed the x packages from cd. When I type startx I
receive:

Could not find file!
Tried
/root/xf86config
/etc/x11/ef86config
/usr/x11r6/lib/x11/xf86config.debian
/usr/x11r6/lib/x11/xf86config

Fatal server error:
No config file found!

-x11TransSocketUNIConnect: Can't connect: errno= 111 Giving up.
xinit: connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to x server
xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error.

My question is how do I find and properly install xf86config? I'm pretty
sure that I installed all the x packages in dselect. Could someone help me
in layman's terms?

Thank you all very much.

Jeff

Re: Good News Reader?

[Brian May]

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:15:29PM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:11:37AM +1000,
> Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > - adequate support for GPG (could be better IMHO).
> 
> Why do you think mutt's support of gpg is only adequate? I use it on a
> daily basis with no problems.

See bugs#47833 for instance. This is only minor, but still is inconvenient.

The biggest problem was with selecting a users public key when encrypting
a message. It wouldn't list the user names I wanted to see. I filled
this as bug #39793, but that has since been closed. I assume that
this means the problem should be fixed in potato, but haven't checked.

FYI, this is from the bug report:

[...]
Now it gives me a menu of keys to choose from:
   1 ?  1024/0x59EF33BD RSA  es  Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   2 ?  1024/0x59EF33BD RSA  es  Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   3 ?  1024/0x70148CF9 RSA  es  Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Note: It key 1 and 2 are both the same key. It doesn't display the
2nd UID of this key, which is [EMAIL PROTECTED], the desired one.
(Look up my key on the Developers key ring if you are not sure).

PGP would display this instead:
   1 +  1024/0x59EF33BD RSA  es  Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   2 +  1024/0x59EF33BD RSA  es  Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   3 +  1024/0x70148CF9 RSA  es  Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

If I try to encrypt the message without signing, it comes up with the
prompt:
Enter keyID for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

but won't accept anything I type - I have to sign the message
as well for it to work.
[...]

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small dselect question

[jh]

Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go
through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so
it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this
question makes sense.

Thanks,

Jeff

Re: small dselect question

[Eric G . Miller]

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:46:02PM -0600, jh wrote:
> Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go
> through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so
> it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this
> question makes sense.
  You *could* do that. But, it would be easier to use apt-get. For
  instance:

  $ apt-get update  # Get the latest package listing
  $ apt-get -s install bind # Tell me what would be done if
# installing bind
  $ apt-get install bind# Actually install/upgrade package

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Digest: TNT2 Ultra and SB Live

[Erich Newell]

Could someone please forward me the digests for the 7 days?

I'm particularly interested in the posts regarding the Diamond
V770 Ultra (TNT2 Ultra) and the Sound Blaster Live...

...or alternatively, if you could point me to a listserv tutorial or 
tell me how to request archived posts...

Thanks!


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-- Confucius

Re: small dselect question

[Brad]

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On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, jh wrote:

> Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go
> through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so
> it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this
> question makes sense.

That's not necessary. Unless there's a new version of the package
available, dselect will realize that nothing needs to be done for the
package and therefore will do nothing with it.

If there is a new version available, [with the default layout] it will
show up at the top under a heading "Updated packages", and unless you take
action (hold, for example) it will download and install the new version
for you. This is generally considered a good thing.


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Re: How to Cc: mailing list with mutt

[Rob Mahurin]

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 01:16:10PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
> I tried that, and it sends to the list and the *recipient* of the message,
> not the sender.
> 
> Do you know how to get it to reply to the sender, instead of the
> recipient?
> 

>From /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz:

  6.3.70.  metoo

  Type: boolean
  Default: unset

  If unset, Mutt will remove your address from the list of recipients
  when replying to a message.

Rob

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rtl8139 in slink?

[aphro]

curious as to why there was no realtek 8139 driver included in slink.  and
it doesnt appear as an option in the kernel that slink comes with (2.2.12
currently -- using the CD from the new O'reilley book) even tho the
rtl8139.c file is there(it failed to compile as a module for some reason)

gonna try again with the 2.0.36, hope i can get the NIC working the only
other machine i got has no floppy drive. dont want to burn a cd with only
10mb on it :/

nate

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Re: netscape 4.7 and download

[d1temp]

On 20 Oct, Brant Wells wrote:
> Jean Yves BARBIER wrote
>> > I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded
>> > (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them)
> 
> Just a quick hint for downloading files... If you click on a link to 
> download a file, and the screen fills up with garbage (ie when I download a 
> .deb file), hit the Back button, and Right Click on the link and choose save 
> link as.  While I'm running Linux, I have just made it a habbit to right 
> click on the files that I want to download...

Shift click is another way to make Netscape download to file...

Also, try editing the preferences (Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator ->
Applications) as netscape sometimes comes configured to try to display
file types it shouldn't...

For instance, if Netscape insists on displaying .tar files instead of
offering the Save As popup: select the line with Unix Tape Archive,
click Edit and change the Handled by to Save To Disk

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Re: small dselect question AND X Window problem

[John Miskinis]

Hi,

   You might not realize yet that CASE matters on Linux/Unix..

   /etc/X11/XF86Config

   I think it can be in a couple other places, and in fact I
   got "hosed" this way a few times, as I had files in two places
   and couldn't figure out why the changes I made were not being
   seen.

   I think the "apt-get" install mechanism only works over the net,
   which I can't use.  I get the impression from your previous
   posts that you use a different computer to get to the internet.
   (I use the same computer, different OS!)

   If I want to install just one (or even more) packages from the
   CD I run "dselect".  After satisfying the questions about ACCESS
   and UPDATE, I choose (the next default) SELECT.  I immediately
   hit spacebar and return, to get to the main list.  Then a "v"
   to get into verbose mode.  Then an uppercase) "I", to get
   the whole "screen".  I then navigate
   down to the package(s) I want with the down arrow.  I use a "+"
   which selects the file for installation (if it isn't already).
   Assuming no dependency problems, after you have selected the
   package(s) you want, hit return.  The next steps are INSTALL,
   then CONFIGURE, then REMOVE (won't do anything unless you used
   "-" to ask for packahes to be removed), then QUIT.  It will walk
   you through these last steps by default.

Good Luck,

John


From: jh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: small dselect question
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:46:02 -0600

Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go
through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so
it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this
question makes sense.

Thanks,

Jeff


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How do I get rid of a package that won't purge

[Bruce Jackson]

I am trying to get of a package using dpkg --purge but it won't saying
package is in a very inconsistent state and must be reinstalled.  Dpkg
can't install the package.  Now I am in a catch 22.  Please help

Bruce Jackson

rtl8139 in slink(again)

[aphro]

2.0.36 kernel works great. (has a rtl8139 module)

i wish i knew why O'Reilley (sp?) chose 2.2.12 to be the default
kernel..the other 2.1r3 slink cd i have (burned from downloaded
ISO) defaults to 2.0.36(i believe)

btw besides this minor hiccup that book/cd combo rules.  even tho i know
debian pretty good..its still a very interesting book, and the CD is the
most "stable" ive had thus far, their mastering process must be much
higher quality then the other stuff i've seen. did not get 1 curropted
file, not 1 I/O error..nothing! was amazed and happy :))

nate

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Re: How to diable mail relaying in smail

[Bob Nielsen]

This is fixed in later versions (i.e., 3.2.0.102-1 in potato).  You
might want to get the Debian source package of that and build your own
slink package.  exim is another possibility. I don't personally think
sendmail would be a step backwards--I use it.

On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:42:04AM -0700, Tom Kuiper wrote:
> I need to disable mail relaying on my system.  I have smail 3.2.0.92-3,
> which came as the default with my Debian system, installed.  We cannot figure
> out how to turn off mail relaying (an institutionally required anti-spam
> measure), since smail does not use a sendmail.cf file.  Can anyone advise?
> 
> The only alternative would be to install sendmail in place of smail, but
> wouldn't that be a step backwards?
> 
> Thanks and regards
> 
> Tom Kuiper
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ensonique?

[T.V.Gnanasekaran]

Hi all,

can i purchase ensonique cards? are they supported very well in 2.2.x
kernels?
what other 32-bit cards are very well supported and cheap. ;)

-gnana

Re: Need help for x window

[Ethan Benson]

On 20/10/99 jh wrote:


Fatal server error:
No config file found!

-x11TransSocketUNIConnect: Can't connect: errno= 111 Giving up.
xinit: connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to x server
xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error.

My question is how do I find and properly install xf86config? I'm pretty
sure that I installed all the x packages in dselect. Could someone help me
in layman's terms?

Thank you all very much.


you want /etc/X11/XF86Config

you do know that Un*x filesystems are case sensitive right?  (that 
includes GNU/Linux)




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Setting default preferences for X

[Alex V. Toropov]

Can anyone tell me how to set default preferences for X using xdm.

Just now I'd like to set DPMS blanking for login screen od xdm.

In user session I've put "xset dpms X Y Z" in Xsession script. But this
script
executed only after login. Where can I place this xset call, so that it
should be
executed on xdm startup? Or may be there is some other way to change X
preferences?

TIA

Alex

Re: New Kernel: make-kpkg vs. make bzLilo

[Ethan Benson]

On 20/10/99 Brad wrote:


> Has anyone tried compiling the recent kernels (ie 2.2.10-12) with gcc 2.95
> or 2.95.2 ? Any problems ??

I've done it, no problems here. YMMV.


with 2.2.12 you had to add -fno-scrict-aliasing to the Makefile CC 
arguments, I am told that 2.2.13 will detect gcc 2.95 and do that 
automagically  2.2.13 is trickling through my slow modem so I do not 
know for sure :)




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Re: Purging mozilla

[Ethan Benson]

On 20/10/99 David Jardine wrote:


It appears that mozilla creates a subdirectory in the user's home
directory with the user's name, eg /home/fred/fred.  I ran
 which according to my understanding of the
manpages should eliminate all traces of its existence - it didn't
say that exactly, but this seemed the most radical option.

However, the directories are still there, so:
Should I have done it another way?
Has mozilla left any other droppings on my system?
If there is no other way to clean up, shouldn't there be?


dpkg will not go into user's home directories and start removing 
stuff, that would just be plain rude! :-)


there is probably nothing left of mozzilla except for the files in 
anyones home directory who used it, but those files belong to the 
user so it is up to them to delete them. (there may be data they want 
to keep, bookmarks for instance.)


now if you are the only user then your the only one with these files 
rm -rf fred should take care of it.  (just make sure you point to the 
right fred :-) )




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Re: ttysnoop

[Ben Lutgens]

On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 12:16:53AM +0100, Kris wrote:
> 
> It would be excellent if I could log all insecure telnet traffic,
> partly as an incentive for my users to use SSH and partly because
> there are a lot of 16 year-old students around. Please just send a
> private e-mail if this is a case of not RTFMing :-)

Aside from a proprietary application (of which I do not know of) you could
always use the a shell script and the comman "script" but I am unsure how you
would differentiate between ssh and telnet If you want people to use ssh add
something to your /etc/issue stating in x number of days/weeks telnet will not
be available; and any users wishing shell access need to obtain and install
ssh. Then have them request shell access. This way you could control who has
shell access by adding thier host to ssh.allow (Or whatever the file is)

Ben

Re: Emacs20: problem redefining umlaut-keys

[Stephan Engelke]

Hi Jonas, 
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 12:46:04AM +0200, Jonas Rathert wrote:
> I've got some problems using Emacs 20 with my Debian/GNU Linux system
> (potato): In my .emacs I have the following lines:
> 
> ---8<--(snip,snip)--8<
>   (define-key c-mode-map [?ö] "[") ; o-umlaut -> [
> ---8<--(snip,snip)--8<

here's an example of what I do on my system, using FSF Emacs 20.4.1.

(defun insert-c-left-bracket () (interactive) (insert "\["))
(define-key c-mode-map (quote [246]) 'insert-c-left-bracket)

Use the keycodes you send to the list (223, 252, 246, ...)

Hope this helps.
Cheers -- Stephan
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Re: XF86 probs on IBM Thinkpad 360Cs

[Brant Wells]

Hey :)


 Sorry, I'm not much of an X'pert. However, if X runs after configuring
 with xf86config, then you can still run xvidtune. Haven't a clue if
 that'll help your problem though.
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Don't worry about it ;)  I read a few things on the net today, I just didn't 
want to try them... I did, and they didn't help :(  Oh, well... He'll just 
have to be happy with a $ prompt for a while (grin).



'Preciate the help!

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Re: rtl8139 in slink?

[Nathan E Norman]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, aphro wrote:

 : curious as to why there was no realtek 8139 driver included in slink.  and
 : it doesnt appear as an option in the kernel that slink comes with (2.2.12
 : currently -- using the CD from the new O'reilley book) even tho the
 : rtl8139.c file is there(it failed to compile as a module for some reason)
 : 
 : gonna try again with the 2.0.36, hope i can get the NIC working the only
 : other machine i got has no floppy drive. dont want to burn a cd with only
 : 10mb on it :/

Dunno why the module isn't on the CD by default.  If you compile your
own kernel you need to say "Y" to "Experimental/Development Drivers" (or
something to that effect.

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Re: Remote printing?

[peter karlsson]

peter karlsson:

> But, when I try to print, it says that "Jobs queued, but could not start
> daemon", which is strange, because lpd is running. And I have added a line
> with its IP number in the "/etc/hosts.lpd" on the machine that has got the
> printer.

I solved the problem now, seems that the printer spool directory somehow got
the wrong permissions, which blocked lpd from doing remote printing. After
changing it so it had the same permission as on the other machine, I got
remote printing to work under Debian as well.

Now, if I can find out how to do remote printing under OS/2, I'd be very
happy... :)

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Re: small dselect question

[Andrew Hately]

jh wrote:
> 
> Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go
> through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so
> it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this
> question makes sense.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
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Wouldn't that mean that should a newer and better version of any ='ed file
be available you would not install it?
Sounds like a bad side effect.
If you know you just want to install one thing and dont want to wait for
dselect to run for an hour, try dpkg.

Andrew

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Re: Need help for x window

[Andrei Ivanov]

There should be a file /etc/X11/XF86Config.
If its not there, run xf86config program to setup X, and it will be
generated. if xf86config does not work, get it. It is now a separate
package, so you may not have installed it.
Andrew

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SED question

[Ben Lutgens]

I am writing a shell script using sed I need to figure out how I can store the
output of 

grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g"

to a variable. roam.db has entries like, one per line.

florida: 555-1212

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Need help for x window

[Brant Wells]

From: jh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



Hi. I have recently installed the x packages from cd. When I type startx I
receive:

Could not find file!
Tried
/root/xf86config
/etc/x11/ef86config
/usr/x11r6/lib/x11/xf86config.debian
/usr/x11r6/lib/x11/xf86config

Fatal server error:
No config file found!



My question is how do I find and properly install xf86config? I'm pretty
sure that I installed all the x packages in dselect. Could someone help me
in layman's terms?

Thank you all very much.

Jeff
Have you tried running xf86config, or XF86Setup?  One of these is on your 
computer, if you installed X right ;)




HTH,
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Re: small dselect question

[Brant Wells]

Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go
through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so
it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this
question makes sense.


If you know exactly where the .deb package is, you can skip making it have 
to go through all the programsGo to the directory where the .deb file 
is, and type:


dpkg -i debianpackagefilename.deb

and it should install the package.  If it comes up with errors, then I 
reccmmend using dselect, otherwise, it should be fine.




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Antwort: Re: staroffice - multiuser? [still prob]

[klaus_drews]

Maybe a permission problem ?
I started adding a new user and group for soffice and installed under his
permission.
Afterwards just add the users you want to this group, verify that all
permission are set
correctly for the group (not only for the user) and thats it. Now you
should get the normal
install-screen from soffice. (Thats the way it worked for me).

K.D.






"T.V.Gnanasekaran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 20.10.99 23:20:49

An:   David Blackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Debian User List
  
Kopie: (Blindkopie: Klaus Drews/D/WestLB-Systems/WLB)
Thema:Re: staroffice - multiuser? [still prob]




David Blackman wrote:
>
I installed as root in /opt/office with ./setup /net
Then, I executed /opt/office/bin/soffice and the install prompted for
worstation
install or local install. I choosed workstation install and some 1.7mb
was copied
into /root/office51 and then on it worked fine.
So far so good.  Now, I logged as myself (gnana) and tried to execute
/opt/office/bin/setup (without /net option). I got this screen saying:
Staroffice 5.1 is already installed in the following directory:
/opt/office
* modify
* deinstall
* repair
these are the options that I was prompted when I expected workstation
or local
install screen! I am going nuts. please help.
-gnana
> about 2 megs
>
> --dave
>
> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote:
>
> > Hi, Thanks for the reply.
> >
> > > Yes, it has changed. The free version allows multiple users to use it
now.
> > > Install it as root with "./setup /net". Any user who wants to use it
> > > should switch to the directory it was installed in and type
"./setup".
> >
> > So, that means every user has to install himself to use it before they
> > really
> > can start using it? I assume it is going to occupy a LOT of disk
> > space! How
> > much will the setup take up for every user?
> >
> > -gnana
> >
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Re: Setting default preferences for X

[Eric G . Miller]

No, set it in XF86Config:

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Primary Card"
   VendorName  "Unknown"
   BoardName   "Matrox Millennium G200 8MB"
   Option  "power_saver"
VideoRam 8192

Of course, your board, video ram, etc... will differ.

You can set the timeouts under the Screen sections. See man X for info
on setting the blanking, standby, etc. times... Not all
server/video/monitor set-up support DPMS though.
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Re: linux kernel compile

[Jonathan Heaney]

Vincent & Sylvia Gaines wrote:

> First I would just like to thank the people behind the Debian
> distribution.
> I work with software and have been very impressed with the way they have
>
> organized their system distribution updates. to me ( still a "newbie")
> dselect is a vital tool worth it's weight in gold!
>
> 1.)  I installed Debian GNU/ Linux 2.1  using floppy images downloaded
> from
> the internet.
>  - My system is Dual pentium 200 Mhz, 3Com 3C905, NE2000 ( linksys-
> isa), Diamond Firport HP C310 SCSI-2 , with 96 Meg ram, Acer CD-ROM
>  - Install worked great and when I boot up I get eth0 (3Com) and
> eth1
> (ne2000), all modules loaded perfectly no erroneous messages on boot
>  - However no SMP support and driver for the 3Com card does not work
>
> correct (messages in /var/log/syslog problems with irq)
>  - DHCPD client daemon started ( I want to use a cable modem) no
> inet
> address from ifconfig -a for eth1.
>
> 2.) I recompile my kernel using "make-kpkg" and kernel-source-2.0.36
>  - make menuconfig
>  - make dep
>  - make-kpkg clean
>  - make-kpkg --revision=smp700 kernel-image
>  - make-kpkg --revision=smp700 modules-image
>  - cd..
>  - dpkg --install kernel-source-2.0.36_smp700_i386.deb
>  - here I have to mv /lib/modules/2.0.36 to /lib/modules/2.0.36.old
>  - then I get prompted to make a boot floppy since I cannot boot
> from
> my scsi (bios does not see it) I attempt it
>  - use your current /etc/lilo.conf? I say yes
>  - error testing lilo.confetc
>  - re execute dpkg --install kernel-source-2.0.36_smp700_i386.deb
>  - create boot floppy and new lilo.conf
>
> 3.) When I reboot I lose my eth1 (NE2000) and get multiple messages such
> as
> cannot find module ne.etc
>  - SMP works great, no eth1, eth0 works just fine( 3C905), dhcpcd
> has
> problems great (no interface..attached to eth1)
>  - If i try to boot off an old floppy (not created by compile) I
> still
> get the same messages but with no SMP support.
>
> I believe something about the way I compiled my kernel is causing me
> problems. However I selected "Loaded modules support" and the drivers
> required for both ethernet cards. i.e. 3c59x and ne.
>
> What can I do to get both ethernet cards working and all modules loaded
> at
> boot time and still keep my SMP support?
>
> and help is greatly appreciated.Thank You!
>
>  debian-user@lists.debian.org
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I know there are some problems with SMP, if you are using SMP I would suggest
upgrading to a 2.2.x kernel (latest is 2.2.13, out today).

You're doing some things with the kernel build that you do not need to do.

Process for building a kernel in Debian -

In /usr/src/linux

1. make menuconfig

*be sure to read the kernel docs for all the hardware you have to make sure 
you
have everything you need selected in the kernel.  Is your network card ISA or 
PCI?
If it is PCI, compile the driver straight into the kernel - not as a module.  
If it's
ISA, it will have to be a module.

2. make-kpkg clean

3. make-kpkg --revision=smp700 kernel_image

***modules are put in the deb image, there is no need for a make-kpkg 
modules_image


4. cd ..

5. dpkg -i kernel-image-2.x.x_smp700_i386.deb

If you use a newer, 2.2.x kernel, you will not have to mv /lib/modules/2.0.36 to
/lib/modules/2.0.36.old.

Reboot your machine, re-run modconf to select the modules you want to load, then
reboot again to verify all is well.

Mail me back if you need any more help...

Jonathan.

Re: SED question

[Eric Gillespie, Jr.]

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:37:26PM -0800,
Ben Lutgens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am writing a shell script using sed I need to figure out how I can store the
> output of 
> 
> grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g"
> 
> to a variable. roam.db has entries like, one per line.

value=`grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g"`

Those are backticks (`), not apostrophes (').

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Debian and Microsoft proxy

[David Cureton]

Hi all,

I have access to the net via microsoft proxy which is capable of ip masq.
However to used it on wintel boxes a client need to be  installed.
Once installed this which works fine.

Is it possible to access the net (ip masq. not proxy web content) via
the MS proxy server using debian. Is it enought to point to the ms proxy box as 
my gateway.

I will experiment when I have some time, Has anyone else tried?

Comments?.

cheers
david

Re: ensonique?

[Matthew Gregan]

On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:51:48AM +0530, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote:

> can i purchase ensonique cards? are they supported very well in 2.2.x
> kernels? what other 32-bit cards are very well supported and cheap.
> ;)

If you mean Ensoniq, then the answer is "probably". I don't know the
full range of cards that they make, but the ES1370/1371 based cards are
supported in Linux, both in the kernel sound drivers, and in ALSA.

The ES1370 card is called Ensoniq AudioPCI.
The ES1371 is the Ensoniq AudioPCI'97.

I actually thought that Creative Labs bought Ensoniq, and were making
their cards under different names now (or does that only apply to the
AudioPCI range?). The Creative Labs cards using the ES1370/1371 chips
are the Soundblaster PCI 64 and the PCI 128.

Your best bet is to find out more about the card, and check out
www.alsa-project.org's list of supported cards.

If you want well supported cards that are made by Linux friendly people,
I think the Trident cards are what you're after, if I remember
correctly.

Personally, I'm using ALSA and a Soundblaster PCI 64 (ES1370 chipset).
It's adequate for what I use it for, and it was cheap. It doesn't sound
as good as my Yamaha Waveforce YMF724 did (which was only half the
price, too), but Yamaha aren't giving out the documentation for that
chipset, so we won't be seeing support for it anytime soon. :-(

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[Robert Waldner]

Hi!

I need above construct for use with procmail. How can I tell exim to accept all 
+ and deliver it to ?

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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1820

[Rune Linding Raun]

hi
xfree86 server for matrox g400max does it exist?

sincerely 
rune linding raun

Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

[Daniel Haude]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote:

> > ljfour and 2400 even though I specified that it should use a 2400dpi
> > printer that I found in modes.mf , supre to be exact. Anyclues would be
>   
> this only concern metafont to produce a dvi. dvips relies on ghostscript
> (either gs or gs-alladin) to do the conversion.

What does dvips need ghostscript for? 

--Daniel

Re: netscape 4.7 and download

[Wouter Hanegraaff]

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 02:10:53PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded
> (especially from ftp) in the netscape cache?
> (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them)
A friend of mine wrote a small script to see what's in  the netscape cache
some time ago, maybe you can use it. However, I don't know if this works
with ftp'd files...

Wouter.

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# parse a .netscape/cache/index.db file

use DB_File;

$DB= "$ENV{HOME}/.netscape/cache/index.db";
$DB= $ARGV[0] if $ARGV[0];

tie(%hash, , "DB_File", $DB, 0, 0, $DB_HASH) || die "$DB: $!\n";

while ( ($k,$v)= each %hash) {
$url= substr($k, 8, length($k)-13);

$file= substr($v, 33);
$file =~ s/\000.*//s;

next unless $file;

print "$file $url\n";
}

Re: Matrox G400 and X (was: debian-user-digest ...)

[Ethan Benson]

On 21/10/99 Rune Linding Raun wrote:


xfree86 server for matrox g400max does it exist?


The SVGA server supports this card,  it is listed in the XF86Config 
program so you should have no problems.  (if you do upgrade to Xfree 
3.3.5)




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Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

[Stephan Engelke]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:00:11AM +0200, Daniel Haude wrote:

> > this only concern metafont to produce a dvi. dvips relies on ghostscript
> > (either gs or gs-alladin) to do the conversion.
> 
> What does dvips need ghostscript for? 

It doesn't.  All one needs ghostscript for is printing on
non-postscript printers and as a backend for gv/ghostview.

Cheers -- Stephan
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Re: SED question

[Ben Lutgens]

On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 09:53:26AM +0200, Andrew Hately wrote:
> What do you want in the variable? Multiple lines?
> Did you try
> set foo=$( grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g" )
> Whats the greater context?
> Andrew
> 
I finally got it with
export GREP_RESULT=`grep $LOCATION $HOME/roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g"`
I had to use the back quotes``
thanx
 

How to shut up dselect?

[Daniel Haude]

Hi,

I have a question related to installing non-debian programs:

When I first installed Debian 2.1, I noticed that it came with teTeX 0.9.
I un-installed that and installed teTeX-1.0 from the CTAN archive. Of
course, the debian package manager doesn't know about this, so whenever I
use dselect, it comes up with this old "some package needs teTeX" line. I
once even didn't notice and let dselect have its way, so all of a sudden
it started installing teTeX 0.9. I hit Ctrl-C to stop that (I know, bad
idea), and now teTeX 0.9 is so fucked up that dselect won't even
un-install whatever fragments it managed to put on the disk. It tells me
to install it first and then un-install it. 

In this case, this is not a big problem because I have teTeX entirely
under its own tree in /usr/local/teTeX, so messing around with another
version will not do any damage. But if I had installed teTeX-1.0 in the
same place as 0.9, it would now certainly be broken. 

Is there a way to tell dselect: "I installed sucha-and-such myself, it's
there, so stop bitching (and remember next time)"? I know that this is
somewhat against the whole idea of packet management. Is making a .tar.gz
into a .deb package the only clean way? What if I don't want to make the
.tar.gzipped source tree the packege, but the "make install"ed result
(with all its files scattered in various places of the system)?

Enough questions for today.
--Daniel

Re: SED question

[Ben Lutgens]

On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 03:36:01AM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> 
> Those are backticks (`), not apostrophes (').
Thanx,  figured it out, and man did I feel like a dummy. About 15 minutes
after I sent off the e-mail. Nevermind that I tried everything for an hour or
two and read and read all day long after that. Suddenly it came to me.
Thanks for the reply though.

Re: How to shut up dselect?

[Paul Seelig]

On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Daniel Haude wrote:

> Is there a way to tell dselect: "I installed sucha-and-such myself, it's
> there, so stop bitching (and remember next time)"?
> 
See "http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/equivs.html";.

You can create any pseudo package with equivs which fools the package
management into believing that the mimicked package is actually installed.

  Cheers, P. *8^)
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Re: How to shut up dselect?

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

On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:28:15AM +0200, Daniel Haude wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question related to installing non-debian programs:
> 
> When I first installed Debian 2.1, I noticed that it came with teTeX 0.9.
> I un-installed that and installed teTeX-1.0 from the CTAN archive. Of
> course, the debian package manager doesn't know about this, so whenever I
> use dselect, it comes up with this old "some package needs teTeX" line. I
> once even didn't notice and let dselect have its way, so all of a sudden
> it started installing teTeX 0.9. I hit Ctrl-C to stop that (I know, bad
> idea), and now teTeX 0.9 is so fucked up that dselect won't even
> un-install whatever fragments it managed to put on the disk. It tells me
> to install it first and then un-install it. 
> 
> In this case, this is not a big problem because I have teTeX entirely
> under its own tree in /usr/local/teTeX, so messing around with another
> version will not do any damage. But if I had installed teTeX-1.0 in the
> same place as 0.9, it would now certainly be broken. 

You should _always_ install non-debian packages under /usr/local.  That
is the only way to guarantee that debian will not fudge with it.
Practically all compilable software you find in the wild will by default
install itself in /usr/local anyway.

> Is there a way to tell dselect: "I installed sucha-and-such myself, it's
> there, so stop bitching (and remember next time)"? I know that this is
> somewhat against the whole idea of packet management. Is making a .tar.gz
> into a .deb package the only clean way? What if I don't want to make the
> .tar.gzipped source tree the packege, but the "make install"ed result
> (with all its files scattered in various places of the system)?

The equivs package was designed to deal with this situation.

HTH,
Eric

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Re: SED question

[Etienne Grossmann]

  Hello,

> I am writing a shell script using sed I need to figure out how I can store the
> output of
>
> grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g"
> 
> to a variable. roam.db has entries like, one per line.
>
> florida: 555-1212

  you mean, in a shell variable? In bash and maybe sh this should work :

myvar=`grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g"`

  HTH,

  Etienne

Re: SED question

[Andrew Hately]

Ben Lutgens wrote:
> 
> I had to use the back quotes``

Back quotes can't be nested, while $( ) does the same job and can be nested


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What does Quality mean?

[Debian Mail]

When I do a lookup of Debian packages on debian.org, I get answers like:

   Release  Quality Package (size)
   stable 100% libc6-doc 2.0.7.19981211-5   (0.7k)
 Dummy package to ease upgrades from earlier Debian versions.

What does this Quality stand for?

Stef

Re: A driver for VIA Technologies, Inc Nile ISA 10 Base T VT86C916 Ethernet controller ?

[Shaul Karl]

> shaul wrote:
> > 
> > What is M-VIA version ?
> > I have a no name NIC. It works with the standard ne module, though it is not
> > perfect. The point is that the box has an attached diskette with a fet916.c
> > file that I currently can not compile, and this file seems to do some 
> > thought
> > of a merge between the standard 8390 and ne modules.
> > 
> Sorry, I saw VIA Technologies and immediately thought of Virtual Interphase
> Architechture. Obviously not what you were talking about.
> 
> I do not remember seeing any drivers distributed with the kernel. As for the
> fet916.c file you got, what problems are you having compiling it? Maybe I 
> could
> help you with that.
> 

[13:02:30 NIC]$ gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall 
-Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -m486 -c fet916.c
In file included from fet916.c:42:
/usr/include/linux/bios32.h:11: warning: #warning This driver uses the old PCI 
interface, please fix it (see Documentation/pci.txt)
fet916.c:1124: macro `dev_kfree_skb' used with too many (2) args
[13:02:46 NIC]$ uname -a
Linux rakefet 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586 unknown
[13:04:32 NIC]$ 

Thank you.




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Re: /usr/local

[Gregory T. Norris]

Right.  What I wasn't sure of is whether the installer sets the directory
permissions before prompting you to mount additional filesystems, or
afterward.

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:45:45PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote:
> 
> > I set mine up as a seperate filesystem when I first installed.  Dunno
> > if that makes a difference permission-wise or not, tho.
> 
> It does.  Mount points take on the permissions of the / directory of the
> mounted filesystem when they are mounted.  But the permissions of the
> mount point are retained also, just not used until the filesystem is
> unmounted again.

Re: What does Quality mean?

[J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)]

On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 12:16:44 +0200, Debian Mail wrote:
> When I do a lookup of Debian packages on debian.org, I get answers like:
> 
>Release  Quality Package (size)
>stable 100% libc6-doc 2.0.7.19981211-5   (0.7k)
>  Dummy package to ease upgrades from earlier Debian versions.
> 
> What does this Quality stand for?

You're not actually doing a lookup; you're doing a search. The Quality is an
estimate of the applicability of the search result, similar to the "score"s
on which web search engines sort.

HTH,
Ray
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it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own.   
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Re: ensonique?

[Christopher Mosley]

On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Christopher Mosley wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > can i purchase ensonique cards? are they supported very well in 2.2.x
> > kernels?
> > what other 32-bit cards are very well supported and cheap. ;)
> > 
> > -gnana
> > 
> 
> The card to get is the 1370, either the ensoniq or the soundblaster 
> 64 pci. These cards are no longer manufactured, and not widely available.
> However they are available at http://www.axiontech.com/ for $23 plus
> shipping. The product # is SOEN1370PCI. They also carry a Soundblaster
> 1373, this is *not* the card to get. I know nothing about linux 
> support for this card.  
>   
>   
> 
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> > 
> > 
> 
> 

Re: Digest: TNT2 Ultra and SB Live

[Antonio Rodriguez]

There is a link in the front web site "www.debian.org" to mail archives. Follow 
it.

Erich Newell wrote:

> Could someone please forward me the digests for the 7 days?
>
> I'm particularly interested in the posts regarding the Diamond
> V770 Ultra (TNT2 Ultra) and the Sound Blaster Live...
>
> ...or alternatively, if you could point me to a listserv tutorial or
> tell me how to request archived posts...
>
> Thanks!
>
> "It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop"
> -- Confucius
>
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Re: How to Cc: mailing list with mutt

[Michael Stenner]

> On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:28:41AM -0400, Michael Stenner wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 07:41:57AM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
> > > Does anyone know how to get mutt to, when replying to list, also reply to
> > > the sender of the message?
> > 
> > If you hit "g" to reply (instead of "r") it will do a group reply.
> > You may want to take some people out the list of recipients this way,
> > but it will default to replying to everyone "involved" in the mail.

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 01:16:10PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
> I tried that, and it sends to the list and the *recipient* of the message,
> not the sender.
> 
> Do you know how to get it to reply to the sender, instead of the
> recipient?

Let me get this straight: Some person (Joe) writes to a list and you
get the mail.  You hit "g" and Joe is not listed as a recipient?

That might be some funky "reply-to" stuff that I haven't run
into. Sorry.

-Michael
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Data Aquisition Cards?

[Alan Eugene Davis]

A shot in the dark.
What are people using with temperature sensors, oxygen probes, etc.,
on linux systems?  Where can I find an IEEE488 card, cheap?

I have been thinking about these things for years, and I have a couple
hundred bucks to buy some hardware to enhance my science classroom,
but haven't a clue where to start.  Apple was using the 1eee488 years
ago.  Why can't I find a simple, cheap PCI ieee488 card?  

I apologize, if (as it probably is) this is off-topic...

Alan 

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"An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need
for one non-existent."---Lord Raleigh

Update on modutils

[Wichert Akkerman]

As a lot of you have experienced, the changes I made in modutils 2.3.5-1
managed to break a fair number of machines. I have just uploaded 2.3.6-3
to fix this. Let me explain what happened:

In /etc/modutils/paths there were a lot of path-statements to set the
default paths where depmod,insmod and modprobe would search for modules.
However with modutils 2.3.5 all those paths were also builtin-defaults,
so those statements were no longer needed. So I removed those since having
them in multiple places didn't seem needed.

Now comes the problem: if a `path'-statement is used in modules.conf,
all the default-paths will be ignored. A couple of packages added those
paths, for example ALSA. This meant that anyone who used such a package
would end up with a broken system.. unluckily this sneaked past my own
tests since I no longer use ALSA on my systems at home.

I have fixed this by adding a file /etc/modutils/0keep, which contains
a `keep'-statement. This prevens the default paths from being ignored
and fixed the just mentioned problems.

I apologize for the problems this may have caused, and hope this upload
will fix all of them. At least it works for me(TM)..

Wichert.

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Re: Sound on Window Maker?

[Pedro Sanchez]

Well, in my case wsoundserver revision 0.2.0-1  doesn't work at all. It
ALWAYS segfaults. I'm using kernel 2.2.12 and the latest wmaker 0.61.1-1
running on Potato.

Could anyone with the above setting please tell me if wsoundserver works
for them? I want to see if I'm alone on this or if this is a real
problem with the package.

--
Pedro I. Sanchez
 
Steve Stancliff wrote:
> 
> Just FYI it mostly works for me.
> 
> There is some strange problem between X and my laptop's sound
> system which makes it not provide sound until I change the
> volume or run a mixer (other's have the same problem with this
> laptop), and even then about 1 in 10 times I run X I get no
> sound.  I don't think I've tried sound with another window
> manager.
> 
> Also I do recall getting the segfault in the past, perhaps
> with an older version of wsoundserver or wmaker, but no
> recent problems with it.
> 
> potato (mostly), kernel 2.0.36, wsoundserver 0.1.0,
> wmaker 0.61.1
> 
> -Steve

Re: netscape 4.7 and download

[Brian Servis]

*- On 20 Oct, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote about "netscape 4.7 and download"
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded
> (especially from ftp) in the netscape cache?
> (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them)
> 
> The only way I found is to watch the modification time of the
> cache directories, and recover the last file, with a scrubby name.
> 
> JY

Right click on the the link you want to download, Select 'Save Link As'.

Or setup your preference to to associate certain file types to
automatically save them to disk


Brian Servis
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Purdue University   |  have walked a mile in their shoes,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   |  because by that time you will be a
http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis   |  mile away and have their shoes.

Looking for CuciPop info

[rsluder]

Hello Sir,

 We are looking for info on Cucipop Y2K compatability.   I have tried
contacting the author, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), but he has not answered.   If you
could please point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.


Thanks in advance,


Rick Sluder
System Engineer
Road Runner
904-619-2740


Never Moon a Werewolf..

Re: How to Cc: mailing list with mutt

[Dwayne C . Litzenberger]

> Let me get this straight: Some person (Joe) writes to a list and you
> get the mail.  You hit "g" and Joe is not listed as a recipient?

Yep, and I am unstead.  (And I don't think metoo is even set, either)

> 
> That might be some funky "reply-to" stuff that I haven't run
> into. Sorry.
> 
>   -Michael
 
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Re: exim and +@domain

[Brian Servis]

*- On 21 Oct, Robert Waldner wrote about "exim and +@domain"
> 
> I need above construct for use with procmail. How can I tell exim to accept 
> all 
> + and deliver it to ?
> 

Add the following in your Directors section above the localuser
director.

suffix_local:
  suffix = +*
  driver = localuser
  transport = local_delivery


Should work, it has worked for me when I used it breifly.


Brian Servis
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Exim and fetchmail

[Richard Clarke]

Hi,
Could someone point me to documentation for exim and fetchmail which is
easier to understand than the "man" files. As I understand, exim is a local
mail agent which uses SMTP? to send mail around the localnetwork. Fetchmail
delivers remote mail, POP3 in my case, to this local network and the users
on it. However, I don't fully understand how it all works yet and my attempt
to get either exim or fetchmail working don't seem to bear any success.

Thanks in advance
Richard

Lynx and ATP with http proxy

[Richard Clarke]

Hi,
    Could somebody please suggest to 
me how I can use APT and lynx when I have to use a http proxy with my 
university.
 
Thanks in advance
Richard

Unidentified subject!

[searchen]

I would like to know how I can configure my Linux-server so that I can call on 
it. The server is not always connected to the internet. I'm using ISDN to call 
in on my provider. So the server has a ISDN (Teles 16.3) card. 
I want to be able to use another computer with a modem or ISDN card to login on 
the server. (I want to be able to login using Linux or Windows). 
Can anybody tell my how I can do this???

Re: ensonique?

[Charles Lewis]

I have an an ensonique 1371, and it works good. I had to enable it (as a
module) in the kernel (2.2), and add 'es1371' to /etc/modules so that it
loads on bootup, but haven't had any problems so far except that I can't
figure out how to get rid of some random DMA timeouts.

===
Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing
Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX
(817)556-4720  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  FAX (360)397-7952
===

- Original Message -
From: T.V.Gnanasekaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debian User List 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 1:21 AM
Subject: ensonique?


> Hi all,
>
> can i purchase ensonique cards? are they supported very well in 2.2.x
> kernels?
> what other 32-bit cards are very well supported and cheap. ;)
>
> -gnana
>
>
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Configuring HP printer

[Micha Feigin]

Is the support for HP printers only using the hp 550 module in
magicfilter, or is there a newer module ?
I am looking to configure a HP 815 (I think its 810 in the states).
How do I use the diferent printer options? (resolution, double sided
printing, printing quolity, etc)
Thanx
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Solution: SB PCI 128 sound card and ALSA 0.4.1 on 2.2.x potato

[Brian Boonstra]

Hi

It was a terrible pain for me to get this card working with my  
potato system, so I for the benefit of any future souls clever enough to  
search the archives for help, here is (my understanding of) how it worked:

- Compile a new kernel with OSS native sound support.  It does not matter if  
you compile it with the specific support for the Ensoniq 1370/1371 or not.   
For a Debian system, I got the kernel source 2.2.12 package and did

# cd /src/linux
# zcat kernel-source-2.2.12.tar.gz | tar xf -
# ln -s kernel-source-2.2.12 linux
# cd linux
# make menuconfig
{ Set lots of kernel choices, a tedious process. Do not
forget to include sound!}
# make-kpkg clean
# make-kpkg --revision=3:custom.1.0 kernel_image
{ This "3:" business is an 'epoch number' that will
later turn out to be incompatible with
ALSA, but I want it for kernel installations }

- Compile the ALSA modules

# cd /src/linux
# make-kpkg --revision=foralsa.1.0 modules_image
{ We cannot use the epoch scheme, so we do a
different revision}

- Install the new kernel and modules

# cd /usr/src
# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.2.blahblahblah
# dpkg -i alsa-modules-2.2.blahblahblah

- Let ALSA configure itself

# alsaconfig
{One mistake to avoid: I was not sure if I needed ens1370
or ens1371 -- even though it autodetected ens1370
I actually thought the latter was what I wanted.
So I chose both.  Big problems.}

- Reboot (we're not finished yet)

# reboot

- Get the driver going

# modprobe snd-card-ens1370
# amixer set "Master" unmute
# amixer set "Master" 100%
# amixer set "CD" unmute
# amixer set "CD" 100%
# amixer set "PCM" unmute
# amixer set "PCM" 100%

- Try playing a CD and some sounds.  You'll probably want to play with those  
volumes a little.


Things I am still trying to figure out:

- Why do I get constant hissing whenever the volume is at an audible  
setting or above?

- Is it better to have the Master volume at high settings and the  
others low, or vice versa?


- Will I need to do anything for the Joystick port?




Yours,

Brian

Re: New Kernel: make-kpkg vs. make bzLilo

[David Natkins]

Salman Ahmed wrote:
> 
> > "ekw" == eric k wolven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> ekw> Ingo: Get the "kernel package" (dselect or apt-get) & install
> 
> ekw> unpack kernel-source. etc.
> 
> ekw> make menuconfig or xconfig
> 
> ekw> then: make-kpkg clean
> 
> ekw> then: make kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
> 
> ekw> then: cd /usr/src
> 
> ekw> then: dpkg -i kernel-image(etc).deb
> 
> Some people have mentioned earlier making another target as well : modules
> (or modules_install). Is that necessary ?
> 
> I have followed the above procedure that you mention a number of times
> without any problems, and have had no problems with modules. When is make
> modules_install necessary ??

with make-kpkg  you don't have to make modules or make modules_install.

> 
> One other thing: are there any problems compiling 2.2.12 or 2.2.13 with gcc
> 2.95.2 ?? I read today in the 2.2.13 kernel's release notes at
>  that gcc 2.95 should
> not be used to compile 2.2.13.
The kernel people have been fixing the problems as they come up.
I used it - boots fine.
> 
> Has anyone tried compiling the recent kernels (ie 2.2.10-12) with gcc 2.95
> or 2.95.2 ? Any problems ??
> 
> I would like to try compiling the new 2.2.13 on my Celeron using gcc
> 2.95.2.
> 
> --
> Salman Ahmed
> ssahmed AT interlog DOT com
> 
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Solution: SB PCI 128 sound card and ALSA 0.4.1 on 2.2.x potato (revised)

[Brian Boonstra]

(revised with a forgotten step)

Hi

It was a terrible pain for me to get this card working with my  
potato system, so I for the benefit of any future souls clever enough to  
search the archives for help, here is (my understanding of) how it worked:

- Compile a new kernel with OSS native sound support.  It does not matter if  
you compile it with the specific support for the Ensoniq 1370/1371 or not.   
For a Debian system, I got the kernel source 2.2.12 package and did

# cd /src/linux
# zcat kernel-source-2.2.12.tar.gz | tar xf -
# ln -s kernel-source-2.2.12 linux
# cd linux
# make menuconfig
{ Set lots of kernel choices, a tedious process. Do not
forget to include sound!}
# make-kpkg clean
# make-kpkg --revision=3:custom.1.0 kernel_image
{ This "3:" business is an 'epoch number' that will
later turn out to be incompatible with
ALSA, but I want it for kernel installations }
# make-kpkg clean
# make-kpkg --revision=foralsa.1.0 modules_image
{ We will not end up installing this one, but ALSA
will want a build with this name }

- Compile the ALSA modules

# cd /src/linux
# make-kpkg --revision=foralsa.1.0 modules_image
{ We cannot use the epoch scheme, so we do a
different revision}

- Install the new kernel and modules

# cd /usr/src
# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.2.whatever_custom.1.0_i386.deb
# dpkg -i alsa-modules-2.2.whatever_0.4.1b-1+foralsa.1.0_i386.deb

- Let ALSA configure itself

# alsaconfig
{One mistake to avoid: I was not sure if I needed ens1370
or ens1371 -- even though it autodetected ens1370
I actually thought the latter was what I wanted.
So I chose both.  Big problems.}

- Reboot (we're not finished yet)

# reboot

- Get the driver going

# modprobe snd-card-ens1370
# amixer set "Master" unmute
# amixer set "Master" 100%
# amixer set "CD" unmute
# amixer set "CD" 100%
# amixer set "PCM" unmute
# amixer set "PCM" 100%

- Try playing a CD and some sounds.  You'll probably want to play with those  
volumes a little.


Things I am still trying to figure out:

- Why do I get constant hissing whenever the volume is at an audible  
setting or above?

- Is it better to have the Master volume at high settings and the  
others low, or vice versa?


- Will I need to do anything for the Joystick port?




Yours,

Brian

XConfig help!

[Tam Ma]

Hi guys,

This will be my second attemp trying to configure xfree86. I am a newbie
to linux and this is my first crack at X window so can you guys give a
little help before hose the whole system..hehe. Anyway the favor is that
if you are not busy, can you send me your "XF86Config" file so I can
examine it and figure out what to do.

Thanx so much...hopefully everything will go well.

Tam.