fstab stuff - rather stupid question, I know!

[addiction]

This is a very newbie-ish question but here it is... I have several
partitions, three of which I want to mount via fstab so that any user can
read (not write) all of the files and directories. These are all ext2
filesystems, currently being mounted in this manner via fstab:

dev/hda8 /mp3 ext2 rw,user,suid,dev,sync,noauto 0 2

etc etc...

The problem is that everything on these partitions was moved by me when I
was logged in as root; the filesystems were mounted rw,default at the time.
I'm not sure what's up but I can't access the 2nd level directories as
a normal user anymore.

I tried changing the group, permissions, etc of the files manually and it
does no good - I get "permission denied" when I try to change directories
within the /mp3 dir at all (same with all the other mounted partitions I
moved stuff on, two others specifically).

Please, someone tell me what my silly mistake is. Is it the options I'm
using in fstab, or did I do something wonky to my permissions when I moved
the files? It shows the current permissions on the dirs as this:

drw-rw-rw-6 root audio4.0k Mar  6 20:58 l/
drw-rw-rw-2 root audio 16k Mar  6 20:34 lost+found/
drw-rw-rw-3 root audio4.0k Mar  6 20:58 miscmp3/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mp3 > cd a
bash: cd: a: Permission denied

(Yes, Haunted is a member of the audio group.)

TIA,
addi

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Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

[Ethan Benson]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:16:14PM +0100, Christian Rishøj wrote:
> 
> I recently visited Storm Linux's (Debian in disguise) homepage and found
> some fancy (not nessecarily usable) features like graphical bootloader and
> (framebuffered?) svga console and boot sequence. See for example
> 
> http://www.stormix.com/products/screenshots/index_html?query_start=5
> 
> ...which has a nice screenshot of the graphical bootloader.
> 
> Does anybody know how these nifty things are accomplished? Are the tools
> available to Debian users as .deb's? Does anyone intend to pack such thing,
> e.g. the graphical bootloader with a Debian logo?
> 
> I think this would be a nice option. What do you think?
> 


I really don't see the point to a graphical bootloader, i mean how
long do you spend screwing with it?  2 seconds?  it seems to me all
the hackery required to accomplish it will only serve to make it
fragile.  lilo works, its stable and reliable, don't mess with it.


-- 
Ethan Benson

Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

[Phillip Deackes]

"Christian Rishøj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I recently visited Storm Linux's (Debian in disguise) homepage and found
some fancy (not nessecarily usable) features like graphical bootloader and
(framebuffered?) svga console and boot sequence. See for example

http://www.stormix.com/products/screenshots/index_html?query_start=5

...which has a nice screenshot of the graphical bootloader.

Does anybody know how these nifty things are accomplished? Are the tools
available to Debian users as .deb's? Does anyone intend to pack such thing,
e.g. the graphical bootloader with a Debian logo?

I think this would be a nice option. What do you think?

Well I now use Storm Linux - I was so impressed when I tried it on a spare partition after having tried Corel Linux. Stormix have 'created' an excellent distribution which must be of interest to members of this list since it is based on Debian. Storm Linux 2000 is currently Slink, but it upgrades to Potato without losing any of the Storm 'enhancements'. The Storm Package manager is a GUI front end to apt-get and is very nicely done. It makes it much nicer to be able to easily see what packages are available and to search for packages which are uninstalled/installed. When you have selected which packages you want installed/removed/purged, Storm Package Manager disappears and brings up an xterm where apt-get is run just like you would run it yourself. When the package has installed, it asks if you want to delete the .deb, and then the GUI reappears. I really didn't think I'd use it, being used to the command line apt-get, but I do. It is very nice. Much better than the Corel or Gnome implementations.

Storm Package Manager is available in potato incarnation from:

ftp://ftp.stormix.com/storm/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/sl-stormpkg_1.0-1_i386.deb

Of course you could add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb ftp://ftp.stormix.com/storm potato main

Then do apt-get update, apt-get install sl-stormpkg

If you are using Slink, the change the line to:

deb ftp://ftp.stormix.com/storm rain main contrib (rain = slink, hail = potato)

They also have the start of an admin utility which currently offers user account management, network management and a dial-up configuration utily. More modules are planned.

Storm breaks none of the Debian features like Corel did. The Debian menu system works as it should, KDE uses the correct libs so can be upgraded, etc..

The install routine is truly simple, but offers fewer custom settings than a Debian install, although there is a text-based install option which I haven't tried.

The nifty graphical bootloader is available to all if you download Storm's lilo 'lilo_21-4.storm.2_i386.deb' from ftp://ftp.stormix.com/storm/dists/rain/main/binary-i386/
Install and set lilo.conf to place the bootloader in the mbr of your first hard disk you will get the nice bootloader when you boot up.

If you get the Storm kernel sources 'kernel-source-2.2.14-storm_2.2.14-2_all.deb' from ftp://ftp.stormix.com/storm/dists/rain/main/binary-i386/ and compile it with framebuffer support for the VGA16 server you will also get sound during bootup through the PC speaker (it says 'Storm Linux 2000') and a very nice graphical border around the boot up messages - an excellent compromise between fancy graphics/no boot messages, and the traditional boot messages.

It is excellent that all the Storm enhancements are available in the downloadable version of Storm Linux, hence a CDROM is available from Cheapbytes at a ridiculously low price.

If anyone wants to try the graphical boot, the kernel settings for the 'Console Drivers' section are like this:

# Console drivers
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
# CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set
CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_MFB is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_CFB2 is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB4=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8 is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24 is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_AFB is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_ILBM is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P2 is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P4 is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P8 is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_MAC is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_VGA is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
# CONFIG_FONT_8x16 is not set
# CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16 is not set
# CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22 is not set
# CONFIG_FONT_6x11 is not set
CONFIG_FONT_PEARL_8x8=y
# CONFIG_FONT_ACORN_8x8 is not set

You will also need to enable PC Speaker support under sound.

Hope this helps.

 -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux 2000 

Re: Potato Broke My X

[Mike Werner]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:20:46PM -0800, Jim Varney wrote:
> 
> Updating my Potato system a few days ago with dselect broke my X windows. X 
> starts up with the herringbone and shows a single shell window and prompt. 
> It never gets as far as the full desktop. I have to use cntl-alt-backspace 
> to close the aborted X session. In my xsession error file it says
> 
> fatal IO error 32 (broken pipe) or KillClient on X Server ":0.0"
> 
> Any ideas where I go from here?

See bug #59656 - it seems that the /etc/Xsession that gets installed
by xfree86-common 3.3.6-4 has a problem somewhere.  Downgrading that
package (xfree86-common) back to 3.3.6-3 fixed it.
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Mismatched libraries

[Robert Kerr]

I have an application using vendor-supplied libraries linked against
libstdc++2.8.0.
I've upgraded to potato, and now my program crashes.  I'm thinking it's
because the default libraries for potato are 2.10.0 etc, and my program is
linking in both versions and having conflicts.  

so:

1) Am I right in thinking this?

2) How can I set up a glibc2.0.7 environment inside my potato distribution
that will allow me to work on my program safely?

thanks

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Re: libbz2 question

[Shao Zhang]

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> On 07-Mar-2000 Shao Zhang wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   It seems that libbz2 does not have a function that similar to
> >   fgets or gzgets.
> > 
> >   Does anyone know how to do it using the libbz2 functions?
> > 
> 
> my understanding is that you do the file reading in your own code (or another
> libraries) and simply pass the input to libbz2.  The headers and what not
> should explain it.  You can also grab the bzip2 source, as it uses the lib to
> do its work.

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. But what I need is to get each line for a
.bz2 file recursively.

I have done this easily with the zlib1g library by using the
function gzgets which is very similar to fgets.

But in libbz2, the only file reading function is:
bzRead(&bzerror, bzFile, buf, 2048);

where it reads 2048 bytes to buf regardless the newline
character. And it would be too expensive to
uncompress the whole file first and then start reading using
standard libc functions.

Thanks for the help in advance.

Regards,

Shao.

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psgml question

[Bob Bernstein]

I was using Emacs running under X to edit sgml, with the 'old' SGML mode.
Today I installed the deb for psgml and lost all syntax highlighting in the
process.

This is a fairly up-to-date frozen potato. My ~/.emacs looks like:

--- snip ---

(autoload 'sgml-mode "psgml" "Major mode to edit SGML files." t)
(autoload 'xml-mode "psgml" "Major mode to edit XML files." t)

(custom-set-variables
 '(global-font-lock-mode t nil (font-lock)))
(custom-set-faces)

(set-default-font
"-Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--12-120-75-75-M-70-ISO8859-1")

--- snip ---

I'm sure I'm missing something *really* simple! 

(The psgml info file says: "The highlighting will only be done if the variable
`sgml-set-face' is non-`nil'." How does one do that?)
  


--
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GRFS? Seagate backup broken with upgrade

[Kent West]

Anyone running the Seagate Backup Exec client for
Unix on their Debian box?

I am, and was getting backed up no problem, but
some time ago I upgraded a few things (don't
remember now), and now my backup client won't
initialize.

There's a line in my /etc/services like:
grfs6101/tcp#Backup Exec Agent

Does this mean that some service is running? If
so, shouldn't it show if I do a "ps ax"? Or is
there some other way to determine what services
are running?

The documentation states that the backup server
must have an entry in /etc/hosts. It does.
The backup client's log states:

/usr/local/bkupexec/agent.be: Using configuration
file: /usr/local/bkupexec/agent.cfg
/usr/local/bkupexec/agent.be: Agent configuration
OK.
/usr/local/bkupexec/agent.be: Workstation Name:
"WESTEK"
Unable to get host address for peter
NRLInit: net/service address not found for
peter/grfs
FindAdvertisementReceivers failed
/usr/local/bkupexec/agent.be: Communication System
Failure:
NRL initialization failed.

I don't really expect anyone to know the answers,
but it's a shot in the dark. (Haven't gotten much
help from Seagate either :-(

Re: HOW DO I Apply debian patch to original source?

[Brian Lavender]

Ok, I got the debhelper package so that when I do 

$ apt-get source wu-ftpd
$ cd wu-ftpd-2.60
$ debian/rules binary

It will build. Now here is the thing. When I look at the rules file
It appears that it has a logrotate configuration on the install. So,
I am thinking that I can comment out that logrotate, and use the way
that slink rotates the logs to have them rotated. Would this be logical?

I commented out the following line

binary-arch: install-stamp
 dh_testdir
 dh_testroot
 dh_installdocs ERRATA README doc/HOWTO/VIRTUAL.FTP.SUPPORT doc/TODO \
 doc/HOWTO/upload.configuration.HOWTO debian/FAQ
 install -m 644 debian/README.config $(tmp)/etc/wu-ftpd/README
 ln -s /etc/wu-ftpd/README $(tmp)/usr/share/doc/wu-ftpd/README.config
 install -m 644 debian/*.8 $(tmp)/usr/share/man/man8/
 cd $(tmp)/usr/share/man/man8 && ln -s addftpuser.8.gz rmftpuser.8.gz && \
 ln -s xferstats.8.gz xferstats.wu-ftpd.8.gz
 dh_installexamples `find doc/examples -type f` debian/*.es
 dh_installchangelogs CHANGES
#install -m 644 debian/logrotate $(tmp)/etc/logrotate.d/wu-ftpd
 dh_installinit -r -u"defaults 50"
 dh_installpam
 dh_strip
 dh_compress
 dh_fixperms
 dh_installdeb
 dh_shlibdeps
 dh_gencontrol
 dh_md5sums
 dh_builddeb

brian

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 02:22:20PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:07:04AM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
> > I am having problems installing the wu-ftpd package from source.
> > 
> > The whole reason I am grabbing the source is that I want to use a more
> > recent version of wu-ftpd than what is available with the slink binary
> > packages. If I can build the package from the source files to give me
> > a slink compatible package, it is all the better.
> > 
> > I update my /etc/apt/sources.list with
> > http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> > 
> > and then I did a 
> > # apt-get update
> > $ apt-get source wu-ftpd
> > 
> > and it retrieved the 2.6.0 wu-ftpd. It looks as if it applied the patch for
> > me. I got an erro with the "debian/rules" binary though
> > 
> > $ cd wu-ftpd-2.6.0
> > $ debian/rules binary
> > dh_testdir
> > make: dh_testdir: Command not found
> > make: *** [build-stamp] Error 127
> > 
> > Do you know what this error indicates? 
> 
> It means that the command "dh_testdir" is not available.
> 
> $ dpkg -S dh_testdir
> debhelper: /usr/share/man/man1/dh_testdir.1.gz
> debhelper: /usr/bin/dh_testdir
> 
> You need to install the debhelper package.
> 
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> 
> 
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Re: vi wrap=?

[Martin Schulze]

Patrick wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there a file I can set margins to wrap at 65 characters for all vi 
> sessions,
> including those in mutt?

.exrc
.virc
.vimrc
.elvisrc
.foorc - depending on the variant of vi you're using.

beware, usually the margin is counted from the right side, which
means that on a text console with 132 colums the calculation is
different from an xterm with 80 columns...

Regards,

Joey

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Re: Getting dialog to work

[Allan M. Wind]

On 2000-03-07 15:21:29, Matheson wrote:

> I'm still trying to get this stupid dialog thing to work, so I tried to
> do this example script.  Unfortunately, if gives me the same output no
> matter what the user chooses.  If anyone could help me, that would help
> me a lot.  Here it is:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> #  Cameron Matheson
> 
> DIALOG=${DIALOG=dialog}
> tempfile=`tempfile`

Use '' instead of ``.

> 
> $DIALOG --clear --title "Snes9x Options" \
> --backtitle "Super Nintendo" --shadow \
> --menu "Choose the ROM you want to load:" 0 0 0 \
> 1 "Final Fantasy VI" \
> 2 "Quit" 2> $tempfile

Dumping the result in the file $tempfile.

> 
> retval=$?
> 
> case $retval in

$retval is undefined, so case will probably not yield anything or
fail.

>   0)
> if [ "$tempfile"="1" ]; then

Compare $tempfile which is `tempfile` with "1", that will always be
unequal.

> clear
> echo "Hey"
> exit 0
> fi
> if [ "$tempfile"="2" ]; then
> clear
> echo "Bye"
> exit 0
> fi;;
> 1)
> echo "Cancel Pressed";;
> 2)
> echo "ESC Pressed";;
> esac

Try again.


/Allan
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Boot problems.

[Nick Smith]

Hi i'm having problems Installing Debian. It freezes during the boot 
sequence. I've tried booting from the CD and from the rescue floppy but it 
always fails.


Boot sequence
detects:
hda - main harddisk
hdb - linux harddisk
hdc - Installation CDROM
hdd - DVD-ROM
ide0 - then linux sets the IRQ and some other HEX.
ide1 - same as above
fd0- it finds the floppy drive
md drive 0.36.3 MAX_MD_dev=4, MAX_REAL=8


sym53c416.c : version 1.0.0
DC390: 0 adapters found


i'm lost any ideas?

my computer is a polywell:

Poly 800K7 ATX Motherboard
Athlon 700MHz 128K L1/512K L2 Cache
128MB SDRAM
Seagate 28GB Ultra DMA/66 IDE 7200RPM Hard Drive
HP 8x4x32 CD-RW 9000i
Toshiba DVD-ROM
Soundblaster Live 256 voice
Nvidia GE-Force 256 4xAGP graphics card
Sigma Hollywood hardware MPEG2 card
LinkSys 10/100 etherfast card


any help would be appreceated.

   -Nick
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USB scanners in Linux

[Matheson]

Hey,

I just got offered a job to program this new device for laptops (you
hook your laptop up to it, and you can get TV, radio, network, etc.),
but they want to do it in Linux (I would be in charge of getting the
Linux to work also).  Anyways, the scanners they want to use are USB,
and TWAIN-compliant (I don't have a model name yet.)  I told them I
wasn't sure if we would be able to get it to work, considering it is
USB.  I know that the new kernels have USB support, but is it good
enough to use with a scanner (preferrably full speed)?

Thanks,
Cameron Matheson

No archive ?

[Irwan Hadi]

Is this mailling list doesn't have any archive ?

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:

::
:::
Date: 7 Mar 2000 15:35:20 -
:
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
:
X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
Subject: archive retrieval: ls volumeold
:

ls -l volumeold
BEGIN---cut here--
total 0
END-cut here-- 

---
AFLHI 058009990407128029/089802---(102598//991024)

Re: fstab stuff - rather stupid question, I know!

[Mike Werner]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 06:03:18PM -0500, addiction wrote:
> This is a very newbie-ish question but here it is... I have several
> partitions, three of which I want to mount via fstab so that any user can
> read (not write) all of the files and directories. These are all ext2

> Please, someone tell me what my silly mistake is. Is it the options I'm
> using in fstab, or did I do something wonky to my permissions when I moved
> the files? It shows the current permissions on the dirs as this:
> 
> drw-rw-rw-6 root audio4.0k Mar  6 20:58 l/
> drw-rw-rw-2 root audio 16k Mar  6 20:34 lost+found/
> drw-rw-rw-3 root audio4.0k Mar  6 20:58 miscmp3/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mp3 > cd a
> bash: cd: a: Permission denied
> 
> (Yes, Haunted is a member of the audio group.)

To cd into a directory, you must heve execute permission for
that directory.  I.E. change:
> drw-rw-rw-6 root audio4.0k Mar  6 20:58 l/
> drw-rw-rw-2 root audio 16k Mar  6 20:34 lost+found/
> drw-rw-rw-3 root audio4.0k Mar  6 20:58 miscmp3/

to:
> drwxrwxrwx6 root audio4.0k Mar  6 20:58 l/
> drw-rw-rw-2 root audio 16k Mar  6 20:34 lost+found/
> drwxrwxrwx3 root audio4.0k Mar  6 20:58 miscmp3/

Though if you want to enforce the read-only settings that you
mentioned above, change it to:
> drwxr-xr-x6 root audio4.0k Mar  6 20:58 l/
> drw-rw-rw-2 root audio 16k Mar  6 20:34 lost+found/
> drwxr-xr-x3 root audio4.0k Mar  6 20:58 miscmp3/

This way only root can write into those directories, while everyone
else can browse them but not write to them.
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Fw: compiling new kernel

[Nick Barron]

ok, so we everyone is clear

i am trying to get the make bzImage command to write this

/usr/src/linux-2.2.x/arch/i386/boot/bzImage

but it doesn't, it gives me an error

make[1]: as86:  Command not found
make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
make[1]:  Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

and doesn't create the bzImage file


why?


- Original Message -
From: John Leget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Beavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: compiling new kernel


> Ughh, just run an additional command ( after youve installed bin86 re
previous email)
>
> make install
>
> does the work of copying and running lilo at the end.
>
> Id suggest you modify "/etc/lilo.conf" to also point to a known working
kernel and
> have a resue disk and maybe even a boot disk handy.
> They come in handy when things dont work out as expected
>
> Ummm, speaking from personal experience of course
>
> cheers
>
> Beavis wrote:
>
> > i am trying to compile the kernel 2.2.14 on to my i386 machine
> > please help if u can, thnakx
> >
> > update:
> >
> > after doing make bzImage, it starts to compile, which takes about 10
mins or
> > so right.
> > then at the end it says:
> >
> > as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s
> > make[1]: as86:  Command not found
> > make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
> > make[1]:  Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/arch/i386/boot'
> > make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
> >
> > why is this happening?
> > i went over a redid the make menuconfig and even checked to make sure it
> > saved properly .config in /usr/src/linux-2.2.14
> >
> > > this is what i am doing:
> > >
> > >
> > > >Once that is all done and you choose "Exit" and save your config
file,
> > you
> > > must >run make dep followed by make clean. And now the fun begins,
type
> > make
> > > >bzImage to build your kernel. This will take awhile (15mins+) so go
> > browse
> > > >our site a little and send us some feedback ;). Instead of make
bzImage,
> > > you >can also do make zdisk which will write your kernel to a floppy
disk
> > > instead.
> > > >Now that it's done, you have to do make modules followed by make
> > > >modules_install and that should be it for the Kernel if all goes
well.
> > Now
> > > it's >time to set up LILO. First you have to move the newly created
Kernel
> > > to >your /boot directory. Do this by typing cp
> > > /usr/src/linux->2.2.x/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.x. Next
> > would
> > > be to move >the System.map file to your /boot directory. Do that by
typing
> > > >cp /usr/src/linux-2.2.x/System.map /boot/System.map-2.2.x.
> > >
> > > ..but i get
> > >
> > > cp: /usr/src/linux-2.2.14/arch/i386/boot/bzImage:  No such file or
> > directory
> > >
> > > any ideas?
> > >
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Realplayer G2 in Debian

[Matheson]

Hey,

I'm trying to get RealPlayer G2 to play sound formats (other than the
Real audio/video format).  I want to be able to play my midis, but it
says that RealPlayer does not have the right support.

How do I get this to work?

Thanks,
Cameron Matheson

source for kernel instruction

[Beavis]

the directions to compile a new kernel 
suck!
 
this link has inaccurate information
http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/lyte/kernel.phtml
 
there is no instruction to make as86 or make 
install
 
anyone know of a good source for directions to 
compile and load a new kernel?

Re: compiling new kernel

[Nick Barron]

ok first off, it is 'I heard Beavis say' not said u nerd!

second, translate this into english please:

#dpkg -S as86
bin86: /usr/share/doc/bin86/examples/as86_encap
bin86: /usr/bin/as86
bin86: /usr/share/man/man1/as86.1.gz

pretend I am a newbie, which i am.please don't tell anybody!
how would you explain this?


>Once upon a time, I heard Beavis said

> as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s
> make[1]: as86:  Command not found
   
> make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
> make[1]:  Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
> >
> >
>  why is this happening?
>  i went over a redid the make menuconfig and even checked to make sure it
>  saved properly .config in /usr/src/linux-2.2.14


#dpkg -S as86
bin86: /usr/share/doc/bin86/examples/as86_encap
bin86: /usr/bin/as86
bin86: /usr/share/man/man1/as86.1.gz


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problems setting up sockd

[Ron Farrer]

I have a Linux box with a dial up modem that does ipmasq. Most things
work fine, but some don't. Like ICQ. (yeah, yeah, icq sucks, bla, bla,
etc.) So I'm trying to setup a socks4 server (socks4-server from
potato). Anyway the only thing in the logs are: 

inetd[287]: socks/tcp/udp: unknown service
tcplogd: socks connection attempt from foo.bar [192.168.1.5] 

(the real system name was replaced with foo.bar by me)

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? 


TIA,

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Re: HELP! Install problem. How to free I/O locked by "reserve=..." in boot params?

[Bjoern Brill]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:56:15 +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:

>Hi All, I have to install potato on a computer which locks with standard
>potato's installation kernel. This machine has a NIC (wd8003) located at
>0x280. During the boot time one of the SCSI drivers (probably sim710)
>included in the standard kernel tries to detect the SCSI controller at the
>same address, locking the machine. The only solution is to use
>"reserve=0x280,0x20" at the boot prompt. In this case kernel initializes
>correctly, however I can not insmod the NIC module later to complete the
>installation :-(. I've read the Boot-Prompt HOWTO, but there was nothing
>about such cases. I can not change the NIC's iobase. Is there any special
>boot parameter to disable the autodetection of particular address without
>blocking it for modules? Is there any way to free such reserved I/O space?

Have you tried to insert the wd module with parameters (io=0x280 etc.)?
I think it doesn't care if resources are reserved or not in this case.

Regards,

Bjoern Brill

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Re: Where to specify fonts for which apps?

[Eric G . Miller]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:30:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Whenever I've got xfstt running, several apps have
> menus, etc that use cursive, hard-to-read fonts.
> For example, when I ctrl-right-click on an xterm
> to bring up the fontsize menu, all the text in
> that pop-up menu is hard-to-read cursive. Where do
> I specify what fonts will be used in this pop-up
> menu?
> 
> Thanks!

Many X apps have Xresource settings you can put in your ~/.Xresources
(or ~/.Xdefaults in some lands...).  For instance, I have this for
xterm:

XTerm*background: black
XTerm*foreground: gray90
XTerm*font: 9x15
XTerm*scrollBar: False

Finding what the "Resources" are for a particular application can be
difficult, although many will list them (and appropriate parameters) in
there manpages.  The worst are the ones that say "The usual Xresources"
or some such -- that isn't much help :). 

Happy hunting and pecking.

Note: I find it strange that you have a lot of cursive fonts.  I don't
think that would be a default set-up. Typically defaults are something
bland like "fixed" or "helvetica" or "courier" -- and roman slant.

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Re: calendar file

[Shaul Karl]

> Hi ther :
> I was just exploring the OS when i noticed that there is NO
> calendar.muslim file available. Although i cant understand the reason
> behind it but if it is non availibilty of data than i would love to be of
> some help. 
> 
> Thanks for your time
> Syed Muhammad Ali Zaidi
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web: http://www.cs.unt.edu/~szaidi
> 

I am not sure this is what you meant but it looks to me close:
Copied from http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor

Muhammad Hussain Yusuf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (he's looking
for a sponsor !) 

hdate - generates Hijra dates from AD dates and prints Hijra (lunar) 
calender. 
Source and debs availavle at: 
http://www.crosswinds.net/~yusuf/hdates.html 

I would also like to maintain the orphaned package 
sysutils. 


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Re: compiling new kernel

[Chanop Silpa-Anan]

Once upon a time, I heard Nick Barron say

> ok first off, it is 'I heard Beavis say' not said u nerd!
Terribly sorry for my bad English, I hope that I get it right this time!

> second, translate this into english please:
I'm not sure whether I could translate this into a good English or not.

> #dpkg -S as86
> bin86: /usr/share/doc/bin86/examples/as86_encap
> bin86: /usr/bin/as86
> bin86: /usr/share/man/man1/as86.1.gz

briefly, it means that as86 belongs to package 'bin86'.

> pretend I am a newbie, which i am.please don't tell anybody!
> how would you explain this?
> >Once upon a time, I heard Beavis said
> 
> > as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s
> > make[1]: as86:  Command not found
>
 
Does this mean that you don't have 'as86'?

Chanop

Re: need missing header file serial_compat.h

[Shaul Karl]

> hello,
> 
>   I was wondering where can I get that missing header file
> serial_compat.h
> 

I can not locate this file on my machine. 
How did you come to the conclusion that you need it? This might be a lead for 
the way to get it.
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Re: HOW DO I Apply debian patch to original source?

[Shaul Karl]

> I am having problems installing the wu-ftpd package from source.
> 
> The whole reason I am grabbing the source is that I want to use a more
> recent version of wu-ftpd than what is available with the slink binary
> packages. If I can build the package from the source files to give me
> a slink compatible package, it is all the better.
> 
> I update my /etc/apt/sources.list with
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> 
> and then I did a 
> # apt-get update
> $ apt-get source wu-ftpd
> 
> and it retrieved the 2.6.0 wu-ftpd. It looks as if it applied the patch for
> me. I got an erro with the "debian/rules" binary though
> 
> $ cd wu-ftpd-2.6.0
> $ debian/rules binary
> dh_testdir
> make: dh_testdir: Command not found
> make: *** [build-stamp] Error 127
> 
> Do you know what this error indicates? 
> 


You do not have dh_testdir which is in the debhelper package.
[04:35:30 /tmp]$ man dh_testdir

DH_TESTDIR(1)   Debhelper Commands  DH_TESTDIR(1)

NAME
   dh_testdir - test directory before building debian package

SYNOPSIS
   dh_testdir [debhelper options] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION
   dh_testdir tries to make sure that you are in the  correct
   directory  when  building  a debian package. It makes sure
   that the file debian/control exists, as well as any  other
   files you specify. If not, it exits with an error.

OPTIONS
   [debhelper options]
  See  debhelper(1)  for  a list of options common to
  all debhelper commands.

   file ...
  Test for the existence of these files.


> 
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 11:37:32PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 06:24:50PM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
> > > I posted this to the list once already, but I don't know if it made it.
> > > 
> > > I am trying to compile a debian package from source. I can go to the 
> > > package's 
> > > web page and get the original source along with the diff. How do I apply 
> > > the 
> > > patch?
> > > 
> > > If I do a 
> > > 
> > > $ tar zxf wu-ftpd_2.6.0.orig.tar.gz
> > > $ zcat wu-ftpd_2.6.0-4.diff.gz | patch -p1 
> > > can't find file to patch at input line 3
> > > Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> > > The text leading up to this was:
> > > --
> > > |--- wu-ftpd-2.6.0.orig/src/ftpcount.c
> > > |+++ wu-ftpd-2.6.0/src/ftpcount.c
> > > --
> > > File to patch: 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I am interested in the wu-ftpd package.
> > > 
> > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/source/net/wu-ftpd_2.6.0.orig.tar.gz
> > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/source/net/wu-ftpd_2.6.0-4.diff.gz
> > 
> > To create a package from the Debian source, you should also install
> > dpkg-dev and download
> > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/source/net/wu-ftpd_2.6.0-4.dsc
> > 
> > Then type "dpkg-source -x wu-ftpd_2.6.0-4.dsc" (as root).  This will
> > unpack the source and apply the patch.  You should then cd to the
> > wu-ftpd-2.6.0 directory which was created and type "debian/rules binary". 
> > This will compile the source and create the Debian package for you.
> 
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> http://www.brie.com/brian/
> 
> 
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Re: Framebuffer console with a G400

[Aaron Solochek]

In light of all this talk, I decided to give my g400 frame buffer
another shot.  I Recompiled my kernel, with support for the g100/g200
framebuffer devices.  I added the lines below to my lilo.conf

append="video=matrox:vesa:280"

That worked.  I got a very nice frame buffer console.  However, once I
started X, and ctrl-alt'ed to another termianl, the video is all
garbled, like its refresh isn't syncing or something.  How do you fix
that?

-Aaron Solochek
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]



"Eric G . Miller" wrote:
> 
> I'm using a G200, but the .config should be only modestly different:
> 
> #
> # Console drivers
> #
> CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
> # CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set
> CONFIG_FB=y   # Gotta have that
> CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y# and that.
> # CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set   # oops, better take that vesa
>   # ref. out of lilo :)
> # CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set
> CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
> CONFIG_FB_MATROX=y
> # CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MILLENIUM is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MYSTIQUE is not set
> CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G100=y
> # CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD is not set   # You might want this for G400
>   # I don't know if it does
>   # anything...
> # CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
> CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y
> # CONFIG_FBCON_MFB is not set
> # CONFIG_FBCON_CFB2 is not set
> # CONFIG_FBCON_CFB4 is not set
> CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y   # You definitely want these.
> CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
> CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y
> CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
> # CONFIG_FBCON_AFB is not set
> # CONFIG_FBCON_ILBM is not set
> # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P2 is not set
> # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P4 is not set
> # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P8 is not set
> # CONFIG_FBCON_MAC is not set
> # CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES is not set
> # CONFIG_FBCON_VGA is not set
> # CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY is not set
> # CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS is not set
> CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y # Don't know if these matter.
> CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
> 
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Sawmill wont stop trying to read debian-menu.jl

[Bryan Scaringe]

I can't seem to get sawmill to stop reading /etc/X11/sawmill/debian-menu.jl.
It's quite annoying.  What I really want is to have a specific user of my
system be able to ignore this file, and be able to define his own sawmill menu.

Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

Bryan

kernel success story

[Beavis]

hello list:
 
thankx for everyone's input
 
a linuxnewbie, myself, was able to upgrade his 
linux kernel from 2.0.38 to 2.2.14 (the latest and greatest slink!)
 
so thank you for your support.
 
machine used:
pentium 200
32 mb
1.5 gig HD
 
do u suggest any logs to view, just to make sure 
everything is dandy?
 
beavis (not butthead!)
 

Re: USB scanners in Linux

[Ben Collins]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 05:32:32PM -0700, Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I just got offered a job to program this new device for laptops (you
> hook your laptop up to it, and you can get TV, radio, network, etc.),
> but they want to do it in Linux (I would be in charge of getting the
> Linux to work also).  Anyways, the scanners they want to use are USB,
> and TWAIN-compliant (I don't have a model name yet.)  I told them I
> wasn't sure if we would be able to get it to work, considering it is
> USB.  I know that the new kernels have USB support, but is it good
> enough to use with a scanner (preferrably full speed)?

Check the SANE project (www.sane.org, IIRC).

Ben

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Re: No archive ?

[ktb]

Check out,
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/

kent

- Original Message -
From: Irwan Hadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 7:16 PM
Subject: No archive ?


> Is this mailling list doesn't have any archive ?
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> :
>
> ::
> :::
> Date: 7 Mar 2000 15:35:20 -
> :
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> :
> :
> X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> :
> Subject: archive retrieval: ls volumeold
> :
>
> ls -l volumeold
> BEGIN---cut here--
> total 0
> END-cut here--
>
> ---
> AFLHI 058009990407128029/089802---(102598//991024)
>
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Re: Boot problems.

[Marshal Wong]

I believe someone mentioned just earlier on the list that you need to
boot using the terca boot images for the Athlon.  Try searching the
archives within the last week or so.

> "Nick" == Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi i'm having problems Installing Debian. It freezes during the
> boot sequence. I've tried booting from the CD and from the
> rescue floppy but it always fails.

> Boot sequence detects: hda - main harddisk hdb - linux harddisk
> hdc - Installation CDROM hdd - DVD-ROM ide0 - then linux sets
> the IRQ and some other HEX.  ide1 - same as above fd0- it finds
> the floppy drive md drive 0.36.3 MAX_MD_dev=4, MAX_REAL=8  this point if i'm booting from the rescue disk, the
> installation>  screen> sym53c416.c : version 1.0.0 DC390: 0 adapters found  i'm booting from CD-ROM it fails here>

> i'm lost any ideas?

> my computer is a polywell:

> Poly 800K7 ATX Motherboard Athlon 700MHz 128K L1/512K L2 Cache
> 128MB SDRAM Seagate 28GB Ultra DMA/66 IDE 7200RPM Hard Drive HP
> 8x4x32 CD-RW 9000i Toshiba DVD-ROM Soundblaster Live 256 voice
> Nvidia GE-Force 256 4xAGP graphics card Sigma Hollywood hardware
> MPEG2 card LinkSys 10/100 etherfast card


> any help would be appreceated.

> -Nick
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Re: Realplayer G2 in Debian

[Dale Morris]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Matheson wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> I'm trying to get RealPlayer G2 to play sound formats (other than the
> Real audio/video format).  I want to be able to play my midis, but it
> says that RealPlayer does not have the right support.
> 
> How do I get this to work?

Check out http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/software/realg2.html


-- dale

"So many idiots, so few comets"
Hank Henry 

Re: compiling new kernel

[ethan mindlace fremen]

Nick Barron wrote:
> 
> ok first off, it is 'I heard Beavis say' not said u nerd!
> 
> second, translate this into english please:
> 
> #dpkg -S as86
> bin86: /usr/share/doc/bin86/examples/as86_encap
> bin86: /usr/bin/as86
> bin86: /usr/share/man/man1/as86.1.gz
> 
> pretend I am a newbie, which i am.please don't tell anybody!
> how would you explain this?

apt-get install bin86 , the package you need.  Alternatively,

http://www.debian.org/Packages/frozen/devel/bin86.html

has the package you need too: download, then dpkg -i bin86*deb where you
downloaded it.

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Re: source for kernel instruction

[ktb]

Go to,
 
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-11.html
 
hth,
kent

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Beavis 
  To: debian list 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 7:34 
  PM
  Subject: source for kernel 
  instruction
  
  the directions to compile a new kernel 
  suck!
   
  this link has inaccurate information
  http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/lyte/kernel.phtml
   
  there is no instruction to make as86 or make 
  install
   
  anyone know of a good source for directions to 
  compile and load a new kernel?

Re: compiling new kernel

[Matthew Dalton]

He means:

Nick Barron wrote:

> second, translate this into english please:
> 
> #dpkg -S as86

as the root user (# prompt) run the command 'dpkg -S as86'

> bin86: /usr/share/doc/bin86/examples/as86_encap
> bin86: /usr/bin/as86
> bin86: /usr/share/man/man1/as86.1.gz

This is the output of the dpkg command from above. Looks as though it
lists all files with 'as86' in the filename that are on the system, and
the package they came from (bin86 in this case).

Matthew

Re: Realplayer G2 in Debian

[Cyrus Patel]

Hey Cameron,

check that your sound card supports midi playback - for example, I have
a SB64PCI which does not feature hardware midi playback.

If your card falls into this category then I suggest using Timidity
which is a software based midi player.

Hope this helps
Cyrus

Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I'm trying to get RealPlayer G2 to play sound formats (other than the
> Real audio/video format).  I want to be able to play my midis, but it
> says that RealPlayer does not have the right support.
> 
> How do I get this to work?
> 
> Thanks,
> Cameron Matheson
> 
> 
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colors change. help

[Steve Winston]

I need help with a color problem.
In slink, when I try to use any graphics program, the overall
colors of desktop change. In xpaint or Moonlight Creator, gray areas 
turn to green or turquoise blue when I move the mouse from the 
menu to the drawing areas. Also, when I try to use AbiWord, I get 
a similar result: Colors changed all over the desktop to hot greens
blues, pinks and reds. Any ideas anyone?
This is an AMD k6-2 400 mmx, 128mb RAM. 
Thanks in advance, steve



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Re: Framebuffer console with a G400

[Eric G . Miller]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:53:12PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> In light of all this talk, I decided to give my g400 frame buffer
> another shot.  I Recompiled my kernel, with support for the g100/g200
> framebuffer devices.  I added the lines below to my lilo.conf
> 
> append="video=matrox:vesa:280"
> 
> That worked.  I got a very nice frame buffer console.  However, once I
> started X, and ctrl-alt'ed to another termianl, the video is all
> garbled, like its refresh isn't syncing or something.  How do you fix
> that?
> 
> -Aaron Solochek
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
> "Eric G . Miller" wrote:
> > 
> > I'm using a G200, but the .config should be only modestly different:

I don't have that problem, so... best I can suggest is try out some
different video modes.

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Re: source for kernel instruction

[Chanop Silpa-Anan]

For Debian user, I suggest install kernel-packge and read
/usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz

then in /usr/src/linux

Do what README suggest.

Chanop

Once upon a time, I heard Beavis say

> the directions to compile a new kernel suck!
> 
> this link has inaccurate information
> http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/lyte/kernel.phtml
> 
> there is no instruction to make as86 or make install
> 
> anyone know of a good source for directions to compile and load a new kernel?

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Re: Fw: compiling new kernel

[Chanop Silpa-Anan]

Once upon a time, I heard Nick Barron say

> ok, so we everyone is clear
> 
> i am trying to get the make bzImage command to write this
> 
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.x/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> 
> but it doesn't, it gives me an error
> 
> make[1]: as86:  Command not found
   
Is this clear enough?

> make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
> make[1]:  Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
> 
> and doesn't create the bzImage file
> 
> 
> why?
> 

You need as86 which is in bin86 package.

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Re: Eterm --console

[Jonathan Lupa]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:36:16PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote:
> Pipe it through a log-colouriser, and it's even cooler.

That sounds just geeky enough to work. :)

Can you point me to some such program? Searching for "log" and "color"
in dselect didn't cut it.

Thanks.

-Jonathan

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Re: exim and spam relay

[Jonathan Lupa]

CAVEAT : I am a programmer - not a sysadmin. This is the best I can
muster, but it may not be good enough. :)

A (clipped) copy of your exim.conf file would have helped...

This may or may not be of help, but since I recently locked down a
mail server, I can at least say it worked for me... This is exim 3
from frozen, but it should be cool for slink.

also, you can test the relaying by telnetting directly to your port 25
and running the commands that were listed below
(HELO,MAIL,RCPT,DATA). Order and spaces are important.

/etc/exim.conf
=
# You don't care
qualify_domain = lupavista.jamdata.net
# You care
local_domains = lupavista.jamdata.net:lupavista:localhost
# This is the doosey
relay_domains =

If you really do need to relay for limited hosts, I would recommend
doing MX records and set relay_domains_include_local_mx.

There are manuals at www.exim.org, and a large section of the manual
talks about locking down relaying.

Good luck.

Jonathan

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Re: Configuration management

[Christian Lynbech on satellite]

I have been toying with the same idea (putting stuf like /etc) under
CVS control, though I haven't gotten round to become serious about it
yet.

My idea towards handling individual machine specifics would be to use
the branch system. If a certain file needed a specific change, branch
off (on that file only) and do it. The trick would be to have a
consistent tag naming scheme that would automate the process in the
other direction. One could then run CVS through some apropriate
scripts that would examine the tag structure and do the right thing.


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Re: fstab stuff - rather stupid question, I know!

[Ethan Benson]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 07:58:04PM -0500, Mike Werner wrote:
> 
> To cd into a directory, you must heve execute permission for
> that directory.  I.E. change:
> > drw-rw-rw-6 root audio4.0k Mar  6 20:58 l/
> > drw-rw-rw-2 root audio 16k Mar  6 20:34 lost+found/
> > drw-rw-rw-3 root audio4.0k Mar  6 20:58 miscmp3/
> 
> to:
> > drwxrwxrwx6 root audio4.0k Mar  6 20:58 l/
> > drw-rw-rw-2 root audio 16k Mar  6 20:34 lost+found/
> > drwxrwxrwx3 root audio4.0k Mar  6 20:58 miscmp3/

yeck if you must have world writable directories you really ought to
use the sticky bit to keep people from nuking files they don't own.  

chmod 1777

drwxrwxrwt  3 root  audio   4.0k Mar  6 20:58 l/

> Though if you want to enforce the read-only settings that you
> mentioned above, change it to:
> > drwxr-xr-x6 root audio4.0k Mar  6 20:58 l/
> > drw-rw-rw-2 root audio 16k Mar  6 20:34 lost+found/
> > drwxr-xr-x3 root audio4.0k Mar  6 20:58 miscmp3/

lost+found should be mode 755

> This way only root can write into those directories, while everyone
> else can browse them but not write to them.
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Re: Who builds YOUR binary RPMs?

[Christian Lynbech on satellite]

I think there is a rather simple reason why .rpms are everywhere but
.debs isn't.

The rpm based distributions are so much smaller that important
functionality is missing, thus forcing many people to go and build
rpms for their favourite software. Since debian is so big, there is
very little software not already presented by a debian developer.

And I disagree that rpms are very simple to do. Been there, done that,
hated it - a lot. Doing a package is no more difficult with dpkg
than with rpm. Doing a *good* package, catering for all the different
and impossible situations it may be presented to is a tough job, no
matter what system you are using. The standards are probably somewhat
higher in the debian world, and that may be what put people off.


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Re: colors change. help

[Eric G . Miller]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 08:44:25PM -0800, Steve Winston wrote:
> I need help with a color problem.
> In slink, when I try to use any graphics program, the overall
> colors of desktop change. In xpaint or Moonlight Creator, gray areas 
> turn to green or turquoise blue when I move the mouse from the 
> menu to the drawing areas. Also, when I try to use AbiWord, I get 
> a similar result: Colors changed all over the desktop to hot greens
> blues, pinks and reds. Any ideas anyone?
> This is an AMD k6-2 400 mmx, 128mb RAM. 
> Thanks in advance, steve

Sounds like you're running out of colors, probably because you're
running X with a bpp depth of 8. Though that can happen with higher
bpps.  Sounds like you've got a new machine, so you ought to be able to
do 32 bpp unless you're video card isn't well supported. Check your
/etc/X11/XF86Config for the "DefaultColorDepth" line.

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Re: Potato Broke My X

[Brad]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 06:16:36PM -0500, Mike Werner wrote:
> 
> See bug #59656 - it seems that the /etc/Xsession that gets installed
> by xfree86-common 3.3.6-4 has a problem somewhere.  Downgrading that
> package (xfree86-common) back to 3.3.6-3 fixed it.

That bug has been reassigned to xbase-clients and merged with a number
of bugs regarding the recent xauth trouble, and will likely be closed
soon as the xauth problem has been fixed. If this was indeed the
problem, upgrading back to xfree86-common 3.3.6-4 should give no
trouble as long as xbase-clients is 3.3.6-5 or higher.

Another important change in the xfree86-common package is that all
support for the /etc/X11/window-managers file has been removed. Window
managers should now use the alternatives system. You may want to check
that the /usr/bin/x-window-manager symlink is valid. The command
"update-alternatives --auto x-window-manager" will reset that symlink to
auto mode if for some reason it is manual (on my system it for some
reason was stuck in manual mode pointing to twm, which had been
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Re: kernel success story

[kmself]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 07:27:35PM -0800, Beavis wrote:
> hello list:
> 
> thankx for everyone's input
> 
> a linuxnewbie, myself, was able to upgrade his linux kernel from 2.0.38 to 
> 2.2.14 (the latest and greatest slink!)
> 
> so thank you for your support.
> 
> machine used:
> pentium 200
> 32 mb
> 1.5 gig HD
> 
> do u suggest any logs to view, just to make sure everything is dandy?

I usually take a quick peek through messages, kern.log, daemon.log,
debug, and auth.  One trick is to do an 'ls -lt ' of /var/log to see
what's been updated recently -- you'll probably want to pipe the output.
Poke through and get familiar with what typical logging
patterns/activity are for your site.

> beavis (not butthead!)
> 

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Link exchange

[Manisha at FAT24]

Dear Webmaster,
Hi! My name is Manisha and I work for FAT24. I'm in charge of identifying 
websites for cross promotion for a new client of ours called Joyo96. I came 
across your website and really liked it. I thought we could exchange links.
Joyo96 is mostly concerned with written Japanese lessons, books and software 
- although there is also Japanese classical music available. It has a full 
144-page course on the Katakana phonetic script, as well as 150 Kanji 
etymologies with stroke order diagrams, calligraphic movies, example compounds, 
and Spanish translations. There are primers on many topics, and links to lots of 
free and commercial software. They have also developed a new "Paper Maker" which 
allows the student to print out writing authentic writing practice paper 
(squares for Kanji and Katakana and circles within squares for Hiragana).
The website was originally on AOL which only had counters for single pages so 
we do not know the total traffic on the old site exactly, but from LinkEchange 
data we know that it was about 700 page views per day, but as traffic is now 
being migrated to the new site of same domain name, traffic has been steadily 
climbing to an estimated 1200 page views per day.
Joyo96 would be happy to see you link to whichever parts you like the most. 
We written some sparse lines that you can cut-n-paste, or edit as you see fit. 
Hopefully your e-mail client will show the full code for cut-n-paste.
Of course we need to install a link to your site. I've tentatively written 
the following for your edit, comment, and approval:

So, please:
1) Cut one or more of the codes below out and add it to your site, or your 
own modification of the code.
2) Notify us of the URL. You can contact me at FAT24 - 24 hours a day via 
live chat at www.fat24.com/Joyo96/ or by e-mail.
3) If there are any questions, discuss them with me right now on live 
Chat.
Thank you and best regards,
 
 
Manisha Gawde
 
and our Joyo96 team at FAT24
Ekta the wector
Beth Ogar
Dean Witter
Sandy Pentland
 

New chipset in X

[Emilio Tejedor]

Hi everybody:

I've read in the release notes for xfree 3.3.6 this:
Support for Silicon Motion Lynx chipsets
I have a laptop HP OmnibookXE2 wich has one of this chips (Silicon Motion
LynxE as reported by win98)
Reading the documentation for the release I wasn't able to find out which of
the servers had support for it.
Right now I'm using framebuffer (with frozen), which works fine but is a bit
slow and I would like to give a try with the new one.
If anybody could help I would be thankful.
Bye

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Re: Apply debian patch to original source?

[Tobias Zimpel]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 04:07:49PM +1100, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote:
>With apt you should be able to
>
>#apt-get souce wu-ftpd
>#cd wu-ftpd_2.6.0
>#debuild -us -us or fakeroot debian/rules binary

apt-get -b source wu-ftpd

That fetches the sources, and builds a binary package automatically from
it.

HTH

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Re: Where to specify fonts for which apps?

[Alexis Roda]

"Eric G . Miller" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:30:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> >
> > Whenever I've got xfstt running, several apps have
> > [...]
> > I specify what fonts will be used in this pop-up
> > menu?
> >
> > Thanks!
> 
> Many X apps have Xresource settings you can put in your ~/.Xresources
> (or ~/.Xdefaults in some lands...).  For instance, I have this for
> [...]
> Finding what the "Resources" are for a particular application can be
> difficult, although many will list them (and appropriate parameters) in
> there manpages.  The worst are the ones that say "The usual Xresources"
> or some such -- that isn't much help :).

Have you tried editres? It only works with a few programs (Xt based I
think), but is very useful for finding resource names.



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xrdb preproccessing linux

[Neilen Marais]

Hi all

I'm resending this messages, as before I seemed to get no reply... 

Perhaps soneone can help me now?

--cut-

Hello

I use the VGA font with rxvt, and to get the high-ascii type chars to
be handled properly, I need to set my termtype to linux.  But it seems
that xrdb translates linux to 1.

If I use the -nocpp option when doing the merge it seems to solve the
problem.  Now would it be safe to set up my global X setup to use the
-nocpp option, or do other things depend on this?  If so, how could I
get xrdb not to translate linux to 1?  

Thanks
Neilen

Re: HELP! Install problem. How to free I/O locked by "reserve=..." in boot params?

[Wojciech Zabolotny]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 03:04:03AM +0100, Bjoern Brill wrote:
> 
> Have you tried to insert the wd module with parameters (io=0x280 etc.)?
> I think it doesn't care if resources are reserved or not in this case.

Hmmm, I used the "insmod wd io=0x280", and it resulted in the mentioned
error.
However I've checked it in my home system. I've append the "reserve=0x300,1"
line to the lilo.conf (I have ne2000 at 0x300).
In this case system starts correctly, then I switched off the eth0
interface and removed the ne module.
After I tried: "insmod ne", I got:

#insmod ne
ne.c: No PCI cards found. Use "io=0xNNN" value(s) for ISA cards.
/lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

However, when I typed "insmod ne=0x300", I got:
#insmod ne io=0x300
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 c0 df 48 fa ef
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 11.

The 0x300 area is still reported in /proc/ioports as:
0300-0300 : reserved
(even when the module is loaded!)

So I can see a few possibilities:
1) The modules ne and wd differently handles the reserved I/O space
2) There is a difference in this subject between 2.0 and 2.2 kernels
   (I use 2.0.36 at home, and 2.2.14 in the failing machine)
3) This is not I/O space, what causes the "resource unavailable" error.
   Unfortunately the insmod gives very poor information about the
   reasons of failure (even the -v switch does not help).

Thanks for suggestions. Tomorrow I'll try to investigate the problem
more thoroughly.
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Re: quick question

[David Wright]

Quoting Tek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Okay, I was confusing LILO and loadlin (I knew what I was talking about, but
> didn't use the right name).  I believe I know now what to do, but I still
> don't know about one thing: should I toggle the "bootable" flag on for the
> root partition on the HDD, or leave it off, if I intend to boot into DOS
> first, then Linux?

I would use a better subject line.

If you're booting into DOS, then make just the DOS partition bootable.

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bin86 missing (was Re: compiling new kernel)

[David Wright]

Quoting Nick Barron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> ok, so we everyone is clear
> 
> i am trying to get the make bzImage command to write this
> 
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.x/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> 
> but it doesn't, it gives me an error
> 
> make[1]: as86:  Command not found
> make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
> make[1]:  Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
> 
> and doesn't create the bzImage file
> 
> 
> why?

It looks as if you don't have the as86 command. This is a fairly common
problem. The kernel source only suggests the bin86 package (which
contains as86) but does not depend on it. This is because only intel
users need it.

I can't understand how so many people seem to "lose" bin86. It's
"standard", therefore it is selected by default during the first pass
of dselect when installing a new system. Where/when does it fade away?

Cheers,

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Re: Framebuffer console with a G400

[Mark Zimmerman]

I got the following information from someone who doesn't like to post
to the list. I haven't had time to try out the suggested mode, though.

> There is no kernel driver for get 'Matrox acceleration' in the 2.2
> kernels yet.  The 2.3 beta has it.  The best you can do right now for
> 2.2 generic VESA is to use mode 315 (decimal) which gets you 800x600
> graphic mode 32 bit color.  

> I also have a G200.  What I don't understand is that the newer BIOS
> upgrades for it are limited like the G400 is in generic VESA modes.
> If you use one of the old BIOS's you get all the hi-res modes.  The
> accelerated  Matrox fb modes work only on the new BIOS's.  

> This stuff is all pretty new, aways changing and official
> documentation is still incomplete.

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:53:12PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> In light of all this talk, I decided to give my g400 frame buffer
> another shot.  I Recompiled my kernel, with support for the g100/g200
> framebuffer devices.  I added the lines below to my lilo.conf
> 
> append="video=matrox:vesa:280"
> 
> That worked.  I got a very nice frame buffer console.  However, once I
> started X, and ctrl-alt'ed to another termianl, the video is all
> garbled, like its refresh isn't syncing or something.  How do you fix
> that?
> 
> -Aaron Solochek
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
> "Eric G . Miller" wrote:
> > 
> > I'm using a G200, but the .config should be only modestly different:
> > 
> > #
> > # Console drivers
> > #
> > CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
> > CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
> > # CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set
> > CONFIG_FB=y   # Gotta have that
> > CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y# and that.
> > # CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set
> > # CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set   # oops, better take that vesa
> >   # ref. out of lilo :)
> > # CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set
> > CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
> > CONFIG_FB_MATROX=y
> > # CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MILLENIUM is not set
> > # CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MYSTIQUE is not set
> > CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G100=y
> > # CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD is not set   # You might want this for G400
> >   # I don't know if it does
> >   # anything...
> > # CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set
> > # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
> > CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y
> > # CONFIG_FBCON_MFB is not set
> > # CONFIG_FBCON_CFB2 is not set
> > # CONFIG_FBCON_CFB4 is not set
> > CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y   # You definitely want these.
> > CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
> > CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y
> > CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
> > # CONFIG_FBCON_AFB is not set
> > # CONFIG_FBCON_ILBM is not set
> > # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P2 is not set
> > # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P4 is not set
> > # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P8 is not set
> > # CONFIG_FBCON_MAC is not set
> > # CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES is not set
> > # CONFIG_FBCON_VGA is not set
> > # CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY is not set
> > # CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS is not set
> > CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y # Don't know if these matter.
> > CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
> > 
> > --
> > ++
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fips won't move hidden

[Brian J. Stults]

I'm having trouble repartitioning a drive with a single FAT32 partition
with FIPS.  I defragged, did a clean boot, and ran it, but it gives an
error that there are hidden or read-only files at the end of the
partition.  I tried disabling the swap file (which I probably should
have done anyway.)  That didn't help.  Then I did "dir c:\ /s /a:h" to
find all the hidden files and change them.  That took forever and still
didn't work.  I don't want to shell out the money for Partition Magic. 
Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks.
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Re: colors change. help

[David Wright]

Quoting Steve Winston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I need help with a color problem.
> In slink, when I try to use any graphics program, the overall
> colors of desktop change. In xpaint or Moonlight Creator, gray areas 
> turn to green or turquoise blue when I move the mouse from the 
> menu to the drawing areas. Also, when I try to use AbiWord, I get 
> a similar result: Colors changed all over the desktop to hot greens
> blues, pinks and reds. Any ideas anyone?
> This is an AMD k6-2 400 mmx, 128mb RAM. 
> Thanks in advance, steve

Each application is using its own colour map because they can each get
more colours that way. I use netscape -install for this reason. So it's
a feature, not a bug. It can be a bit surprising, particularly when you
use the Window Ops menu or the title bar which both belong to the window
manager, not the application.

If you have enough memory on your graphics card, you could run X
with more colour depth. I have to use 8bpp.

Cheers,

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Re: Framebuffer console with a G400

[Aaron Solochek]

Ok, I have a matrox g400, and all I want is the nice looking 1024x768
console.  I can get this using the append="video=matrox:vesa:280" in
lilo.conf.  However, this stops working as soon as I enter X, and then
try to either exit, or switch to another virtual console.  I don't
understant where ther 280 value comes from, for beginners.  This is my
first attempt at learning about frame buffers, so if there is a good
source somewhere, please point me to it.  

I should also mention that I have a viewsonic PT775 monitor, which can
do 1600x1200, and will auto track horix from 30-96khz, and vert from
50-160khz, so I can't imagine I'm out of range.  

Trying to use fbset doesn't work either, I'm missing something
fundemental here.

-Aaron Solochek
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: bin86 missing (was Re: compiling new kernel)

[Bryan Scaringe]

First thing I did after my install was remove all unused packages that didn't
cause dselect to have kittens.  bin86 was one of them.  found that out quick
enough.  The second thing I tried to do after install was recompile he kernel.

Bryan

> I can't understand how so many people seem to "lose" bin86. It's
> "standard", therefore it is selected by default during the first pass
> of dselect when installing a new system. Where/when does it fade away?

Compiling X

[Andrei Ivanov]

Hi all. I recently had to build 3.3.6 version for glibc2.0. Went
smoothhowever, after I replaced video card this morning, and reran
XF86Setup, I ran into problems with users starting X (root can do it
fine):
Fatal Server Error: 
xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root
permissions. You should be using Xwrapper to start server or xdm. We
strongly advise against making server SetUID.

I've recompilied X and turned off all SetUID flags I could find but
nothing seems to work still. And I kinda want to get back into user shell
(for one thing, I can not use netscape and xchat, I'd stay root if not
those things). Any suggestions?
TIA,
  Andrew
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[Viggo]

Re: Compiling X

[Ron Rademaker]

Why are you compiling X??
Do you know debian packages?
To my experience they work a lot easier then compiling yourself
Just download the .deb packages you need (or use apt, you want the newest
x but perhaps you don't want to upgrade your whole system to potato or
woody, in that case you should download) and install them using dpkg...

Ron

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Andrei Ivanov wrote:

> Hi all. I recently had to build 3.3.6 version for glibc2.0. Went
> smoothhowever, after I replaced video card this morning, and reran
> XF86Setup, I ran into problems with users starting X (root can do it
> fine):
> Fatal Server Error: 
> xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root
> permissions. You should be using Xwrapper to start server or xdm. We
> strongly advise against making server SetUID.
> 
> I've recompilied X and turned off all SetUID flags I could find but
> nothing seems to work still. And I kinda want to get back into user shell
> (for one thing, I can not use netscape and xchat, I'd stay root if not
> those things). Any suggestions?
> TIA,
>   Andrew
> -
>  Andrei S. Ivanov  
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Re: vi wrap=?

[Dave Sherohman]

Martin Schulze said:
> beware, usually the margin is counted from the right side, which
> means that on a text console with 132 colums the calculation is
> different from an xterm with 80 columns...

...so you should use the textwidth setting instead if you want the number of
columns to be independent of your terminal.

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Adding more disk-space

[Viggo]

Hi Debian-folks
Finally got Debian running on my old 486/100, using a WDC 2540 hd (540
Mb),
at hda (hda1).
/home is on an old Seagate 213 Mb (hdc).
Running out of space, I've installed another WDC 2540 on hdd (hdb is the
cd-rom).
After figuring out the way around the 1024 cyl-limit (thanks to the
Large-Disk-Howto), I've partitioned hdd with a linux-primary partition.
Now i have two questions:

Why does Linux only report 515 Mb, when the drive is supposedly 540 Mb?
(linux using 524/32/63, drive physically 1048/16/63)

Wanting to move  /usr to the new hd, how would I go about it?
I suppose I have to format(initialize?) and mount the drive, and then
copy /usr with everything "beneath" it to the new hd? (Which is
basically what I would have done back in the DOS-days...)

I've looked at the man-pages for cp, but can't quite make out how to
make it copy everything under  /usr. The list-archives doesn't really
give me much of a clue,
either, though I suppose it must be a fairly common problem.
Thanks for your patience with a *nix-newbie. I'm trying to learn, and
I'll happily
read any FM.
Best Regards
Vitux

Stupid X question

[Hausheer, Geoffrey]

How do I get X to automatically boot to 16bpp (or 24, or 32)?  I have been
using a '-bpp 16' switch on the command line (or soetimes an alias), but
what if I want to use xdm?  I have looked through all of my linux
documentation, howtos, faqs, man-pages, etc, but couldn't find this
anywhere.  Please help.

Thanks,
Geoffrey Hausheer

Re: Where to specify fonts for which apps?

[Kent West]

"Eric G . Miller" wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:30:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > Whenever I've got xfstt running, several apps have
> > menus, etc that use cursive, hard-to-read fonts.
> > For example, when I ctrl-right-click on an xterm
> > to bring up the fontsize menu, all the text in
> > that pop-up menu is hard-to-read cursive. Where do
> > I specify what fonts will be used in this pop-up
> > menu?
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> Many X apps have Xresource settings you can put in your ~/.Xresources
> (or ~/.Xdefaults in some lands...).  For instance, I have this for
> xterm:
>
> XTerm*background: black
> XTerm*foreground: gray90
> XTerm*font: 9x15
> XTerm*scrollBar: False
>
> Finding what the "Resources" are for a particular application can be
> difficult, although many will list them (and appropriate parameters) in
> there manpages.  The worst are the ones that say "The usual Xresources"
> or some such -- that isn't much help :).
>
> Happy hunting and pecking.
>
> Note: I find it strange that you have a lot of cursive fonts.  I don't
> think that would be a default set-up. Typically defaults are something
> bland like "fixed" or "helvetica" or "courier" -- and roman slant.
>

I find it to be odd also. I suspect that the default bland font (whatever it is 
and
wherever it's specified) is somehow broken, and is using the cursive font 
instead.

There's nothing in any Xdefaults or Xresources files (global or user) that seem 
to
have any bearing. I have done some more investigating; here's a snippet from my
XF86Config file:

FontPath   "unix/:7101"
FontPath   "unix/:7100"
FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"

If I comment out the "unix/:7101" line, the problem goes away (of course, so do 
my
TT fonts).

Thanks, Eric, for the response; anyone else have any ideas?

Re: How to add a user to a group on the fly

[Kent West]

Kent West wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 17:31, Kent West wrote:
> > If I want to add my normal user (westk) to the
> > dialout group, I know I can (as root) edit the
> > /etc/group file and add westk to the end of the
> > dialout line. However, I then have to log out (and
> > shut down vmware and NT-on-vmware) and shut down
> > X, etc, then log back in and fire everything back
> > up in order to get the change to take affect. Is
> > there any way I can get the change to take affect
> > without logging out/logging back in?
>
John P. Foster suggested:

Hi!

Im not on the list, but I saw your post on the archives. Have you tried

su westk

This creates a new _login_ shell, but without logging out. If it works, post it to the list.

John P Foster
CompSports Pty Ltd


That does indeed serve as a work-around. It's a moot point for me
now, since I finally went ahead and logged out/back in, but I'm posting
this for future reference on the archives.
 

Re: samba

[Timothy C. Phan]

Hi Jenz,

  The owner of the /etc/samba/smbpasswd is root and the 
  permission is -rw---.

  The /etc/hosts.allow has nothing in there except comment.

  Is the setup correct?  Thanks!


"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote:
> 
> "Timothy C. Phan" wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> >   I did a grep usera /etc/samba/smbpasswd and the usera
> >   is in this file.  However, this smbpasswd file has the
> >   0700 permission, is this the problem?
> 
> Probably not, it needs to have this permission. Who is the owner of the file.
> 
> >   The usera also try to change the samba password using
> >smbpasswd and here is the error message:
> 
> >
> > 
> > read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Connection reset by
> > peer.
> > machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error was : code 0.
> > Failed to change password for usera
> 
> This sounds like you've got a problem with /etc/hosts.allow. You're 
> connecting to the
> service and then it's dropping you. Make sure that /etc/hosts.allow is set to 
> allow you to
> connect to the netbios-ssn service.
> 
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Re: Stupid X question

[Armin Joellenbeck]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 08:23:54AM -0800, Hausheer, Geoffrey wrote:
> How do I get X to automatically boot to 16bpp (or 24, or 32)?  I have been
> using a '-bpp 16' switch on the command line (or soetimes an alias), but
> what if I want to use xdm?  I have looked through all of my linux
> documentation, howtos, faqs, man-pages, etc, but couldn't find this
> anywhere.  Please help.

Take a look in the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers .

Armin

Re: Stupid X question

[Mark Wagnon]

in 03/08/00 08:23AM, Hausheer, Geoffrey wrote:
> How do I get X to automatically boot to 16bpp (or 24, or 32)?  I have been
> using a '-bpp 16' switch on the command line (or soetimes an alias), but
> what if I want to use xdm?  I have looked through all of my linux
> documentation, howtos, faqs, man-pages, etc, but couldn't find this
> anywhere.  Please help.
> 

You can put DefaultColorDepth ## in your XF86Config in the Screen
section. Check out man XF86Config for more info.

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Re: Stupid X question

[Marshal Wong]

You have to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config.

>From my XF86config

# The Colour SVGA server

Section "Screen"
Driver  "svga"
# Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256
#Device  "Generic VGA"
Device  "Voodoo3 (generic)"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 32  <-- You have to add this line.
Subsection "Display"

You can change the number to 8, 16, 24, 32.

> "Hausheer," == Hausheer, Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> How do I get X to automatically boot to 16bpp (or 24, or 32)?  I
> have been using a '-bpp 16' switch on the command line (or
> soetimes an alias), but what if I want to use xdm?  I have
> looked through all of my linux documentation, howtos, faqs,
> man-pages, etc, but couldn't find this anywhere.  Please help.

> Thanks, Geoffrey Hausheer


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Re: vi wrap=?

[Patrick]

Hi,

Discovered that nvi is pretty basic and installed vim.  Created a .vimrc and 
allworks well when I edit files.

Doesn't work in mutt though.  I guess that mutt is still using nvi so better 
read man mutt on how to change this.

Thanks for the advice.

Patrick



On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 10:05:09AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Martin Schulze said:
> > beware, usually the margin is counted from the right side, which
> > means that on a text console with 132 colums the calculation is
> > different from an xterm with 80 columns...
> 
> ...so you should use the textwidth setting instead if you want the number of
> columns to be independent of your terminal.
> 
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Re: Adding more disk-space

[Mark Zimmerman]

Here's how I do it (it's not the only way):

mkdir newdir
cd olddir
find . -depth -print | cpio -pdmv newdir

This should replicate the whole tree with permissions and symlinks
intact. You have to do it as root, of course, to get ownweships to
replicate.

On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 06:19:24PM +0100, Viggo wrote:
> Hi Debian-folks
> Finally got Debian running on my old 486/100, using a WDC 2540 hd (540
> Mb),
> at hda (hda1).
> /home is on an old Seagate 213 Mb (hdc).
> Running out of space, I've installed another WDC 2540 on hdd (hdb is the
> cd-rom).
> After figuring out the way around the 1024 cyl-limit (thanks to the
> Large-Disk-Howto), I've partitioned hdd with a linux-primary partition.
> Now i have two questions:
> 
> Why does Linux only report 515 Mb, when the drive is supposedly 540 Mb?
> (linux using 524/32/63, drive physically 1048/16/63)
> 
> Wanting to move  /usr to the new hd, how would I go about it?
> I suppose I have to format(initialize?) and mount the drive, and then
> copy /usr with everything "beneath" it to the new hd? (Which is
> basically what I would have done back in the DOS-days...)
> 
> I've looked at the man-pages for cp, but can't quite make out how to
> make it copy everything under  /usr. The list-archives doesn't really
> give me much of a clue,
> either, though I suppose it must be a fairly common problem.
> Thanks for your patience with a *nix-newbie. I'm trying to learn, and
> I'll happily
> read any FM.
> Best Regards
> Vitux
> 
> 
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Re: Compiling X

[Andrei Ivanov]

I need to use 3.3.6 b/c of my video card, and only 3.2.11 version is
avaibliel for slink that I use. I dont want to upgrade to potato right
now, until I can get a CD. I don't think I could install 3.3.6 from
potato b/c of the dependencies, unless I upgrade the systemam I wrong
on that?
Andrew


> Why are you compiling X??
> Do you know debian packages?
> To my experience they work a lot easier then compiling yourself
> Just download the .deb packages you need (or use apt, you want the newest
> x but perhaps you don't want to upgrade your whole system to potato or
> woody, in that case you should download) and install them using dpkg...
> 
> Ron
> 
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> 
> > Hi all. I recently had to build 3.3.6 version for glibc2.0. Went
> > smoothhowever, after I replaced video card this morning, and reran
> > XF86Setup, I ran into problems with users starting X (root can do it
> > fine):
> > Fatal Server Error: 
> > xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root
> > permissions. You should be using Xwrapper to start server or xdm. We
> > strongly advise against making server SetUID.
> > 
> > I've recompilied X and turned off all SetUID flags I could find but
> > nothing seems to work still. And I kinda want to get back into user shell
> > (for one thing, I can not use netscape and xchat, I'd stay root if not
> > those things). Any suggestions?
> > TIA,
> >   Andrew
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logged boot sequence a la HP-UX

[Nick Cabatoff]

I'm wondering if anyone knows of work being done to make sysvinit
capable of logging the output of the rc scripts?  HP-UX does this very
nicely, such that instead of seeing what the script writes on stdout
you get a curses-style table of scripts and their results, e.g.

  Starting NIS server  OK
  Starting NFS server  *FAIL*

I don't really think it's worth having as fancy a display as HP-UX
does, since I wouldn't want my boot sequence to fail just because
curses or slang or whatever broke, but you could get almost as nice a
readout without.  And you could still have the script output written
to rc.log, which is what I'm really looking for.

Re: vi wrap=?

[Martin Schulze]

Patrick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Discovered that nvi is pretty basic and installed vim.  Created a .vimrc and 
> allworks well when I edit files.
> 
> Doesn't work in mutt though.  I guess that mutt is still using nvi so better 
> read man mutt on how to change this.

set editor=vim in .muttrc or remove nvi, it may have a higher priority
for alternatives, thus vi == nvi.

Regards,

Joey
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Re: Merging a set of CD's to a local depository

[John Pearson]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:57:34AM +, Christian Rishøj wrote
> 
> DEAR DEBIAN USERS,
> 
> I have multicd set containing an unofficial release of Debian Potato
> made a few days ago following the instructions and tools suplied with
> Debian.
> Now I would like to make a local depository on my hardrive using the
> packages on the CDs. I am thinking about just copying each of the CDs to
> directories on the HD and adding these to /etc/apt/sources.list, but I
> am sure there are better ways to do this. 
> Anyone?
> 

Firstly, you should be able to use the CDs directly with apt by using
apt-cdrom to create entries for them in /etc/apt/sources.list;
just run
# apt-cdrom add
once for each CD.

If you want to store the packages on your hard disk rather than using
the CDs (e.g., to allow you to make them available to other machines
via http or ftp, or to allow "hands-off" package installation with
apt across a network connection) then you can start by just using
cp -a to copy the /debian directories to wherever you want; you must
then generate a valid Packages file containing details of all the
packages on all CDs, as the Packages files on each CD only contain 
the packages found on that CD.

You have two main options:

 Copy the various "Packages.cd.gz" files from the last CD in your 
 set to the corresponding locations in your disk repository and
 then rename them to "Packages.gz", and delete any existing
 "Packages" files;

or

 Use dpkg-scanpackages to generate a Packages file for you; typical
 commands might look like
  $ cd /ftp/linux/debian/dists
  $ dpkg-scanpackages potato/main/binary-i386 /dev/null dists/  > \
 potato/main/binary-i386/Packages  
 Note that the presence or absence of trailing slashes in the parameters
 to dpkg-scanpackages is significant, as some are appended to form
 pathnames.  /dev/null is here used as the location of the maintainer
 override file; if it exists, ../indices/override.potato.gz would be
 a more appropriate value.

Be careful to delete or replace any existing Packages{,.gz} files
when you do this, to ensure that apt finds the correct ones.

HTH,


John P.
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Adding more disk-space

[Viggo]

Please cc: me on replies, I'm having trouble
subscribing to the list...
Sorry for the inconvenience :-)
Regards Vitux

Re: Configuration management

[Jean Pierre LeJacq]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Christian Lynbech on satellite wrote:

> I have been toying with the same idea (putting stuf like /etc) under
> CVS control, though I haven't gotten round to become serious about it
> yet.
> 
> My idea towards handling individual machine specifics would be to use
> the branch system. If a certain file needed a specific change, branch
> off (on that file only) and do it. The trick would be to have a
> consistent tag naming scheme that would automate the process in the
> other direction. One could then run CVS through some apropriate
> scripts that would examine the tag structure and do the right thing.

I'm not sure this would be quite enough.  Typically the
configuration files differ only slightly from one another.  What
I would like is some way of having a way of seperating the local
host configuration from the standard configuration.  Some
packages are already configured this way but most are not.
Cfengine would be one way of addressing this but it essentially
takes over control of the entire configuration process which I
don't care for.

-- 
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rxvt wouldn't run

[Johann Spies]

I want to try out rxvt on my mixed debian/slink system and get the
following error message:

$rxvt
rxvt: can't load color "AntiqueWhite"
rxvt: can't load color "AntiqueWhite"
rxvt: can't load color "Grey25"
rxvt: can't load color "Grey25"
rxvt: can't load color "rgb:ff/7f/5f"
rxvt: can't load color "steelblue"
rxvt: can't load color "#B2B2B2"
rxvt: can't load color "#B2B2B2"
rxvt: can't allocate topShadowColor
rxvt: can't load font "k14"
rxvt: can't load font "k14"
rxvt: aborting

I installed the slink package using apt-get and apt did not complain about
any dependency problems.

Where do I get font "k14"?

Johann

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Re: Adding more disk-space

[Bob Hilliard]

Viggo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why does Linux only report 515 Mb, when the drive is supposedly 540 Mb?
> (linux using 524/32/63, drive physically 1048/16/63)

 All hard drive manufacturers artificially and incorrectly define
1 Mb = 1,000,000 bytes

 524*32*63*512 bytes/sector = 540,868,608 bytes , which is 514.984
real Mb.
 
> Wanting to move  /usr to the new hd, how would I go about it?
> I suppose I have to format(initialize?) and mount the drive, and then
> copy /usr with everything "beneath" it to the new hd? (Which is
> basically what I would have done back in the DOS-days...)

 Make a file system on the new drive (Format) using mke2fs or
mkfs.ext2 (they are the same file).  `mke2fs /dev/hdd1'

 Then mount /dev/hdd1 temporarily on /mnt (or any other mount
point), and cp -ax /usr /mnt/.  Then mount /dev/hdd1 on /usr.  Put a
line in /etc/fstab mounting /dev/hdd1 on /usr.  After using it enough
to make sure evrything works OK, `umount /dev/hdd1' and `rm -fr
/usr/'.  (That last command commits you unequivocally, so make sure
everything is OK first.  Until then your old /usr is OK - mounting
another file system on a directory hides that directory's contents,
but doesn't destroy them.)  You will then have to `mkdir /usr' to get
a mount point for /dev/hdd1.  All of the commands I have suggested
require root privileges.

 You will probably get a number of replies suggesting commands
using find and tar instead of cp.  It is a kind of religious matter.
I don't feel strongly about it one way or the other.  I have always
had good results using cp -ax, and I can remember it, while the
alternates are harder to remember.  Whatever method you use, make sure
you use options that preserve permissions and ownership.

Bob
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Re: fips won't move hidden

[Constantin Vernicos]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Brian J. Stults wrote:

> I'm having trouble repartitioning a drive with a single FAT32 partition
> with FIPS.  I defragged, did a clean boot, and ran it, but it gives an
> error that there are hidden or read-only files at the end of the
> partition.  I tried disabling the swap file (which I probably should
> have done anyway.)  That didn't help.  Then I did "dir c:\ /s /a:h" to
> find all the hidden files and change them.  That took forever and still
> didn't work.  I don't want to shell out the money for Partition Magic. 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks.


I think you should think again about using Partition Magic. I had the
same problem, and solved it by using PM, which did a wonderful job.

Anyway, the probleme is with defrag, try and find another way to
defrag.

Sorry if that doesn't help. 

Constantin Vernicos.
Institut Fourier.
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mysql and imp

[Aaron Solochek]

I'm trying to get imp running on my machine.  I installed apache-ssl,
php3, mysql and attempted to let dbconf do all the work.  I answered all
the questions, but imp won't install, it dies without much of an error
message.



Getting data from debconf
Setting up db file
Verifying Non-IMP config files
No need to fix /etc/apache-ssl/srm.conf
php3 extension for ldap found!
php3 extension for imap found!
Finished checking Non-IMP config files
Configuring MySQL database
dpkg: error processing imp (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 imp
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Has anyone had any luck getting imp to work?  Or, does anyone have a
preferred webmail server that will run under apache, and access imap
servers?

-Aaron Solochek
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Re: vi wrap=?

[Nathan E Norman]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 05:38:57PM +, Patrick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Discovered that nvi is pretty basic and installed vim.  Created a .vimrc and 
> allworks well when I edit files.
> 
> Doesn't work in mutt though.  I guess that mutt is still using nvi so better 
> read man mutt on how to change this.

Huh?  nvi supports word wrapping just fine.

Create a file ~/.exrc containing something like the following:

  :set wraplen=70
  :set ruler
  :set extended

HTH,

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Unisys Terminal Emulation

[Chris Larson]

Is there a Unisys Terminal Emulation Program for 
Linux??

Re: HELP! Install problem. How to free I/O locked by "reserve=..." in boot params?

[Bjoern Brill]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 03:04:03AM +0100, Bjoern Brill wrote:
> > 
> > Have you tried to insert the wd module with parameters (io=0x280 etc.)?
> > I think it doesn't care if resources are reserved or not in this case.
> 
> Hmmm, I used the "insmod wd io=0x280", and it resulted in the mentioned
> error.

What error? I couldn't find a verbatim error message in your previous
postings.

> However I've checked it in my home system. I've append the "reserve=0x300,1"
> line to the lilo.conf (I have ne2000 at 0x300).
> In this case system starts correctly, then I switched off the eth0
> interface and removed the ne module.
> After I tried: "insmod ne", I got:
> 
> #insmod ne
> ne.c: No PCI cards found. Use "io=0xNNN" value(s) for ISA cards.
> /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> 
> However, when I typed "insmod ne=0x300", I got:
> #insmod ne io=0x300
> ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 c0 df 48 fa ef
> eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 11.
> 
> The 0x300 area is still reported in /proc/ioports as:
> 0300-0300 : reserved
> (even when the module is loaded!)
> 
> So I can see a few possibilities:
> 1) The modules ne and wd differently handles the reserved I/O space
> 2) There is a difference in this subject between 2.0 and 2.2 kernels
>(I use 2.0.36 at home, and 2.2.14 in the failing machine)
> 3) This is not I/O space, what causes the "resource unavailable" error.
>Unfortunately the insmod gives very poor information about the
>reasons of failure (even the -v switch does not help).
> 
> Thanks for suggestions. Tomorrow I'll try to investigate the problem
> more thoroughly.
> 

I have just upgraded a machine with an old WD NIC from 2.0.36 to 2.2.14
and tried to reproduce your problem but can't. Situation:

the WD is at 0x300, IRQ 10, mem 0xcc000-0xc. The wd driver is
modularized and gets autoloaded. The important lines in /etc/conf.modules
are:

  alias eth0 wd
  options wdio=0x300 irq=10 mem=0xcc000

Now I boot through LILO and give a "reserve=0x300,0x20" argument. The wd
module loads just fine, using io=0x300 etc. And it really works - the
machine imports /home and lots of other stuff via nfs so I should notice
if it doesn't :)

The io region is still reserved for the kernel (as you said),
"cat /proc/ioports" yields

  0300-031f : reserved

So I'd say the reserve argument is not the problem.

Some ideas about what could be wrong:

* I suppose the WD card connects to the ISA bus (would anybody want to
produce PCI cards with this ancient chipset?). If so, you may have to
tell the BIOS setup the resources the WD uses. They can be taken by
other hardware or disabeled otherwise.

The IRQ has to be marked as "used by ISA card" or the like,
and you have to enable "ISA shared memory" or something like that at the
correct address (0xcc000, size 16k in my case). Look for these options in
the "PnP BIOS Setup" (or similar) section. You may have to disable "auto
config" before you can change or even see any of this.

* Check your /etc/conf.modules (or /etc/modules.conf - the name keeps
changing) for conflicting wd options.

* Try to use modprobe instead of insmod in case the wd module requires
other modularized stuff that doesn't get autoloaded.


Good Luck,

Bjoern
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Re: vi wrap=?

[Patrick]

Thanks for the tip but too late as I've installed vim.  It seems just
like nvi so much so that I think all versions of vi are the same to
someone like me who just edits config files and emails.

Best regards,

Patrick
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Re: tin, leafnode -- news hangs on post

[kmself]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 12:30:33PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> I'm using leafnode and tin for locally-stored news reading.
> 
> I can read groups and articles  but I post.  On submitting an item,
> on the first instance I get a message that there was an error posting
> the message.  If I then resubmit, tin lists on the status line "Posting
> article...", and hangs.  I have to ^Z and kill the process.
> 
> Suggestions appreciated.

Memo to Self:

/etc/tin
disable_sender=ON

...disables generation of a Sender: header if you don't have an FQDN for
your system.


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Re: logged boot sequence a la HP-UX

[kmself]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 01:13:09PM -0500, Nick Cabatoff wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone knows of work being done to make sysvinit
> capable of logging the output of the rc scripts?  HP-UX does this very
> nicely, such that instead of seeing what the script writes on stdout
> you get a curses-style table of scripts and their results, e.g.
> 
>   Starting NIS server  OK
>   Starting NFS server  *FAIL*
> 
> I don't really think it's worth having as fancy a display as HP-UX
> does, since I wouldn't want my boot sequence to fail just because
> curses or slang or whatever broke, but you could get almost as nice a
> readout without.  And you could still have the script output written
> to rc.log, which is what I'm really looking for.

Take a look at recent (6.0?, 6.2) RedHat init sequences.  I believe they
do what you're looking for, even to the extent of color-coding "OK" as
green and "FAIL" as red.  Not sure of logging, though IIRC there was
some discussion of this at the RH site as well.

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ethernet on laptop

[Patrick]

Hi all,

When installing on my laptop, after the network setup I was asked
which interface and selected PCMCIA not ethernet.

The PCMCIA card appears to be working OK but when I run "ifconfig" I
get "eth0 unknown interface" errors.

Did I make the wrong selection during the setup?  Can it be corrected
if so?

Is ifconfig eth0 netmask...etc. the correct command for a PCMCIA card.

Thanks in advance.

Patrick
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AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB video card

[Horacio MG]

Hi,

just installed this video card (AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB) and tried to 
configure it for the X environment, but I can't find the proper sever 
for it.

This is the output from SuperProbe:

First video: Super-VGA
Chipset: S3 (chipset unknown) (Port Probed)
Signature data: e18a1302 (please report)
Memory:  4096 Kbytes
RAMDAC:  Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC
 (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))


which is strange as it doesn't seem to recognize the card and just sees
4MB instead of 8MB.

Which XServer should I use for it?  If this Xfree version doesn't have
support for this cards, which xserver could I safely use until I
upgrade?

The sistem is:

Debian 2.1
Linux 2.2.10
glibc2.1
xfree86 3.3.2.3a-11


Please, Cc: me as I'm only on the digest list (and would like to get the
answer as soon as possible).  TIA.

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Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

[Parrish M Myers]

--- Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Does anybody know how these nifty things are accomplished? Are the
> tools
> available to Debian users as .deb's? Does anyone intend to pack
> such thing,
> e.g. the graphical bootloader with a Debian logo?
> 
> I think this would be a nice option. What do you think?
> 
 
The storm linux boot loader is modified version of lilo called barboot.
Found at:
 http://www-eleves.enst-bretagne.fr/~timbert/soft/barboot.html
>From what I understand storm linux just replaced the standard flame pcx
images with a custom strom linux pcx file.

All you should have to do is get the strom linux deb and replace the
standard pcx file with your own.  Mind you I have not tried to do this
yet, because I am happy with grub for now, but it sould be doable.

---
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installing SCSI HD

[zdrysdal]

Hi

i am having trouble installing an IBM DRHS SCSI disk onto my slink-2.0.36
server.  The adaptec scsi card is found ok but when linux starts to load it
halts at : "Downloading sequence code : 419 instructions downloaded.


more info :

SCSI adpatec adapter found at PCI 10/0
SCSI id:lun is 0:0

thanx

Zane