Re: Can't play audio CDs
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:26:58AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > I have an ATAPI CD-ROM drive (actually a Creative Dxr2 DVD drive), which I > can't get to play audio CDs under debian. > I am new to debian, but have a fair amount of experience wi/ Redhat. I am > currently migrating my system from redhat to debian, dual-booting so I can > keep the useable rh system around until I get everything working under debian. > > Playing of audio cds works fine under redhat (using kscd), but under debian > (unstable, with either the 2.2 idepci kernel or a custom 2.4.5 kernel), I get > no sound. > My drive is showing up as /dev/hdc. kscd tries to use /dev/cdrom, and when I > change that in the configuration, it crashes. grip will use /dev/hdc, and > gets a track listing, but when it plays there is no sound. > > Under redhat my drive showed up as /dev/cdrom. I'm not sure if this is > significant. > > Since I don't own a cd player, I can't switch over to debian until I get this > working. Any suggestions? > > TIA, > Nathan > > G'day Nathan, Are you using ALSA sound drivers ? I can't get my CD to play at all under alsa drivers, but it work perfectly with kernel driver ( I've no idea why ) Cheers Joel
Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem
Jimmy Richards wrote: > Does does /etc/apt/apt.conf work on woody or higher? I figured it > needed to be in the 70debconf file for my sid system since it's the file > that orginally contained the apt options. If so... does the apt.conf > file override the 70debconf file? I'll have a look at the man page(s) > about this. Good stuff to know. /etc/apt/apt.conf is still the canoical location for system-local overrides to apt's behavior. The apt.conf.d directory is so packages can easily drop in apt stuff without having to modify apt.conf. Compare with /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d/ -- see shy jo
No bbox device for ghostscript?
Hi, I couldn't find the answer to this in the archives so I thought I would ask on this list. The Debian ghostscript packages do not contain the bbox device for computing the bounding box of a postscript file. Does anybody know why this device has been excluded? Is there a quick fix to get this device or do I need to remove the Debian ghostscript packages and install ghostscript from source? Any help with this would be much appreciated. Regards, Chris Want
Re: Netscape Plugins
Erik Steffl wrote: > Bek Oberin wrote: > > I'm sync'd to Unstable as of a few days ago. But this is a > > problem that's stayed there through many upgrades of Netscape. > > It won't recognize plugins. [...] > work. read the readme files and shell scripts that come with realplayer > (they will tell you what you need to do, you also need to set up > mime.types) I can't find any shell scripts or anything that tells me what to do with mime.types for RealPlayer. I read /usr/share/doc/realplayer/readme.Debian.gz and that said nothing about it. Where do I look fo ranswers?? bekj -- : Usual state: (e) None of the above. : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of : the damned things is ample. -- Rebecca West
X4 scrolling
After I've upgraded from X3 to X4.0.3 the edges of the screen don't scroll anymore. For example if I set the virtual screen size to 800x600 and the resolution to 640x480, which isn't uncommon, I used to be able to scroll to the 'hidden' bits of the screen by pushing the mouse at the edge of the screen but now I can't. How do I get this function back? bekj -- : Usual state: (e) None of the above. : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of : the damned things is ample. -- Rebecca West
Re: midi problem with on board sound i810
Steve Kieu wrote: >--snip--< > Why kmidi can play (not mention about quality) but > playmidi and kmid can't? > This has to do with how the actual musical sounds are generated. In older sound cards (like the original SoundBlasters) the sound "synthesis" was done with an on-board chip. The most popular method was to use a FM Synthesis chip, like the OPL-2. In newer sound cards this process is now done entirely in software and a "synthesis" chip is no longer included on the sound card / chipset hardware. The original GUS boards always used a software synthesis schema, and the popular program TIMIDITY makes use of this process in a generic way to provide a sequenced MIDI sound stream to the reqular audio input ports of almost any sound card. Timididy has advanced over the years to be able to use other "sound fonts" than the GUS patch set, but the GUS set seems to be the most popular/widespread. Another software sound synthesis engine is the "softoss2" driver found in your kernel modules. I have never had much luck getting this one going. There may be others. KMID and PLAYMIDI depend upon the presence of a properly configured sound synthesizer and sequencer devices. In the older boards, this was done automatically during install. The newer sound cards will NOT set these devices up automatically when you install the card. You have to set them up yourself, generally. KMIDI is a KDE GUI "frontend" to Timidity. When you install this program with the proper patch set, then the appropriate needed devices are sort of "built-in" and you don't need them defined as system-wide devices. In a sense, TIMIDITY (and hence KMIDI) ARE the "/dev/sequencer". The basic point here are that KMID and KMIDI are two entirely different programs that work in different ways. I struggled with this for quite a while before giving up in frustration and using KMIDI for all my midi needs. I has "some" luck by using the Commersial OSS drivers from 4-Front Technologies, but not much.. This is probably more a tribute to my ineptitude than anything else . Cheers, -Don Spoon-
Re: midi problem with on board sound i810
--- "Donald R. Spoon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Kieu wrote: > > >--snip--< > > Why kmidi can play (not mention about quality) but > > playmidi and kmid can't? > > > > This has to do with how the actual musical sounds > are generated. In > older sound cards (like the original SoundBlasters) > the sound > "synthesis" was done with an on-board chip. The > most popular method was > to use a FM Synthesis chip, like the OPL-2. In > newer sound cards this > process is now done entirely in software and a > "synthesis" chip is no > longer included on the sound card / chipset > hardware. So is there anyway to create a virtual device for playmidi or kmid to work?. I would like to know if I can configure kmidi as a netscape plugin too, do you have any information? Thanks very much for your info. > = S.KIEU _ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more!
Re: Problem: 'only root can unmount "/dev/something" from "/somewhere"'
> "Norbert" == Norbert Nemec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Norbert> Hi there, on quite a number of machines I've encountered the
Norbert> problem, that a normal user can mount filesystems
Norbert> ("user"-flag set in /etc/fstab) but when trying to unmount,
Norbert> the above error is given instead. It seems a problem in
Norbert> either kernel 2.4 series or one of the new versions of
Norbert> "mount", since I never had that problem before.
Newer versions of mount have given a different meaning to the `user'
flag. Only the user who issued the mount command can do the umount.
If you want to have the old behaviour, change the fstab flag to
`users'.
(This feature is described in the mount man page.)
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Re: mformat, boot disks
> "R1nso" == R1nso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: R1nso> When i simply type 'mformat' i get a similar error message. R1nso> Should I worry about this? Even if it is not a problem, why am R1nso> i getting this message? It means you don't have the mformat command installed. You'll find it in the mtools package. Superformat formats a floppy and then puts on a MS-DOS file system. R1nso> 2. I have successfully made a lilo boot disk using "mkboot R1nso> /boot/vmlinuz2.2.17pre19". But i have also tried copying the Does this floppy work to boot your system. R1nso> binary to the disk using 'cp' and 'dd'. However, these disks R1nso> are recognized as system boot disks, but the do not R1nso> successfully boot linux. When booting for these disks the R1nso> monitor simply displays "loading" but does not R1nso> successfully load. Am I copying the wrong file, or will this R1nso> method simply not work with Debian? Regardless, how can I R1nso> create a 'normal' boot disk? (one that doesn't use lilo) If you copy the kernel manually, you have to set the root device as well: dd if=/boot/vmlinuz2.2.17pre19 of=/dev/fd0 rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1 # <- fill in your root partition here. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: installation impasse
This belongs to Debian user, debian-boot is for developers of the the Debian installation system. On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:24:46PM -0700, Andrew T. Young wrote: > I'm trying to migrate from a Slackware system with kernel version 1.2.9 to the > current Debian stable release. I downloaded the boot, root, and 11 base > floppies > for the "compact" version, and all went OK until I got to the part (after > re-booting from the boot floppy) about installing and configuring the rest of > the > system, which requires access to the Net. You do not say which version of Debian you are installing. I assume it is Debian 2.2 r3, code named potato, since that is the currently stable version. Easiest way to install Debian is from a CD, if you can use that. > > My connection is a PPP link, and it runs through a funny modem that uses port > 2f0 > and IRQ 2. On the 1.2.9 system, this is simply configured by setserial in > rc.serial. But this does not work on the Debian system, which reports "No > such > device" although I made the /dev/ttyS14 entry with mknod. > And this modem worked under Slackware? And it is not a "winmodem"? Winmodems are not supported in the kernel because their manufacturers provide drivers only for Windows operating systems. > It appears that the serial-port code now lives in a module; but where do I > find > it? > In the kernel, did you include the serial module when you installed the system? Anyway, it should be in /lib/modules//misc/generic_serial.o . If you forgot to include that when you installed, you can use command modprobe generic_serial as root to load it or edit /etc/modules to make it load automatically at boot time. If you think you a missing a file, use command locate filename to see if it is somewhere in your machine. > It also appears that many other people have had similar problems (mostly while > trying to install Winmodems) -- a search for "debian" and "ttyS14" turns up > hundreds of pages of similar complaints, but no solution. This is not > explained > in either the Serial-HOWTO or the Modem-HOWTO. > Winmodems are not supported because there are no linux drivers for those. I know there are efforts to write those drivers but you need to hunt for them ourself. > It would be helpful if the installation program provided the means of setting > up > this special port for those of us who need it. > > It would also be helpful if the instructions on how to do this were included > in > one of the HOWTO documents. > Are you sure it is not in Serial Howto? > Furthermore, it would be nice if the necessary module (which I suspect is > "generic_serial.o") were readily available from the Debian ftp site. > Apparently > it is buried inside a few multi-megabyte kernel packages, but not otherwise > available. And, without having the installation finished, I'm not sure I > could > extract the module from a *.deb package anyway. > > Without getting the modem running, I can't proceed with the installation. Any > suggestions? > -- > Andrew T. Young > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tapio Lehtonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key from http://www.iki.fi/Tapio.Lehtonen Decem yhdistys http://come.to/decem pgpS6Drfc9zVI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 02:54:43PM -0700, der.hans wrote: > Am 14. Jul, 2001 schw?zte Joost Kooij so: > > > Try to run update again from the dselect menu. If you keep having > > problems with the integrity of the /var/lib/dpkg/available file, please > > post again. > > I don't think he can. I think this is the case where debian has no net > access, but can get stuff off another filesystem via duel-boot with an OS > that does have net access. > > While it would seem good to give debian net access :), he apparently can't > for some reason. Before ubiquitous net access became a commodity, debian worked just fine. Why else do you think that there still is a dpkg-split utility in the dpkg package? Admittedly, I wouldn't want to go back and dselect and apt are great improvements, but you can still manage a debian system without them. It's just a bit more harsh. Without dselect and/or apt, you'll quickly be experienced in sed and awk. Maybe that is in fact the only way to really appreciate what the high level tools can do. > So, now we know dselect needs /var/lib/dpkg/available. Is that simply a file > that's downloaded? Is it something that's built from other files? No, it's part of the dpkg database. You should not be modifying that by hand, unless dpkg itself has broken down. > I think he needs to know how to get the content via ftp or http and then how > to build /var/lib/dpkg/available by hand. Download the Packages file, ungzip it, and use the correct interface: dpkg --update-avail Packages I thought earlier that it could be piped to stdin as well, but it doesn't. > Also, could he just edit the one he has and take out one or both of the > offending entries? Sure, as I said, when dpkg is severely broken, you'll have to. But this is not the case right now, if he can still use "dpkg --update-avail" There is also --merge-avail, which works out slightly differently, but in the case of a database corruption, --update-avail is better, I think. Cheers, Joost
Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)
> "Joseph" == Joseph Dane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joseph> one way you might be able to accomplish this is to use Joseph> 'levels'. you can set a mail (or news) group at a certain Joseph> level, and when you check for new mail gnus will only Joseph> fetch for groups at or below that level. the default Joseph> fetch level is 3 (IIRC), so if you set groups at level 4 Joseph> they would only be fetched if you explicitly asked for Joseph> them. Joseph> I have not tried this, so YMMV. Hmmm... Interesting thought. I have not tried it, but my guess is that Gnus will still try to connect to all servers on initial startup though. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)
> "Eric" == Eric E Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eric> Not sure what you want here. You can set it up with a Eric> backend that uses a standard unix mbox format to keep the Eric> mail, which then you could feed to mailsync or something... I seem to remember (from a while ago) that it was strongly discouraged to share Gnus mail data with any other program, as any other mail program wouldn't know how to keep Gnus specific files in sync (eg .newsrc.eld) (or the reasoning was something along these lines). (especially if a copy of Gnus is open at the time). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: several questios
> If you include this, what you did should work.
Thank you, it worked:)
I've got an additional question.
4. How can I adjust my language? All the prgramms are english;(
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Re: [users] NO! chmod strikes!
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:21:51AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Joost, your solution was such an elegant thing, that to > ruin my system to learn it was fair enough. Thanks for the compliment. Don't ruin your system just to try this, because it is not perfect. Consider what happens if you: chmod a-x /bin/chmod > > but anyway, a question for all debianers: how do you get the default > > permissions back on the / tree? > > If you have a clean host with very similar filesystem contents, try this: > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "find / -regex '/\(mnt\|proc\|tmp\)/.*' -prune -or \ > -not -type l -not -type s -printf '%04.4m %u %g %p\n' " \ > | while read mode user group path > do > chown $user.$group $path > chmod $mode $path > done Cheers, Joost
Re: mformat, boot disks
Subject: mformat, boot disks Date: Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 08:38:52PM -0400 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm running 2.2r3 i-386. > > 1. When I run 'superformat /dev/fd0' the disk is formatted. However, when > superformat tries to run mformat to created an msdos file system, I get the > error message > 'sh: error:command not found' > or something similar. When i simply type 'mformat' i get a similar error > message. Should I worry about this? Even if it is not a problem, why am i > getting this message? > VT1 root-2.2r3-prince:~# dpkg -S mformat mtools: /usr/bin/mformat mtools: /usr/share/man/man1/mformat.1.gz Load the mtools package. > 2. I have successfully made a lilo boot disk using "mkboot > /boot/vmlinuz2.2.17pre19". But i have also tried copying the binary to the > disk using 'cp' and 'dd'. However, these disks are recognized as system boot > disks, but the do not successfully boot linux. When booting for these disks > the monitor simply displays "loading" but does not successfully load. > Am I copying the wrong file, or will this method simply not work with Debian? > Regardless, how can I create a 'normal' boot disk? (one that doesn't use lilo) dd if=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync Is how I make boot disks. Floppies are funny tho, so I usually make 2. Seems I find a lot of bad floppies. YMMV Wayne -- A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light. ___
Re: NFS related error; do I need NFS? --Solved!
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 06:09:16PM -0700, Gladimir wrote: > Yea! That's one boot problem out of 5 completely solved! > > I ran dpkg --status nfs-common as suggested and found the name of the > package, which was nfs-common, amazingly enough. I started dselect and went > right to the select screen where I located the nfs-common package and marked > it for purge. This led me to a dependancy resolution screen where I also > marked the nfs-server to be purged. I accepted these changes and let > dselect remove the packages, which it did without error or complaint. > Finally, I rebooted and everything works as it did before, except for the > lack of the rpc.statd error messages. In fact, if you remove the "portmap" package, all the packages that use the rpc (remote procedure call) interface will show up and can be marked for removal. Also try running "netstat -ntap" as root. It will show you what programs are listening on what network ports. Jeremy is completely right that you should disable anything that you do not understand of why it is there. Cheers, Joost
Re: Exim as a LAN mail server [possibly-OT]
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 02:03:29PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > So what you are saying then is: that I could go to one of those dynamic > DNS servers, set up an account, with my computer automatically > updating the address of my IP everytime I connect, and then I could give > out an email address for my machine and receive mail directly? Yep, that's right. But, as explained before, with the added bonus of an increased likeliness of mail delivery failures due to the fact that the sending host might not be up *and* trying in the limited timespan that your machine is up and on the net. -- groetjes, carel
Re: How to write a man page?
Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what formats, Troff, with the man macros. > tools do I need to write A text editor (or better still, *the* text editor, ie. Emacs :-) > and format a man page? groff See "man 7 man" for more information on the troff man macros. If you're new to troff this http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/troff.html> might be of assistance. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Installing Java
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 09:04:45AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:41:40PM -0300, Juan wrote:
> > | HI,
> > |
> > | Which packages will I have to install to run & compile Java? And run Java
> > | Server Pages?
i'm using sun's j2se 1.3.1 (http://java.sun.com/) and jboss 2.2.2
(http://www.jboss.org/) as my j2ee app server. i got the jboss
distribution that they packaged with tomcat (which runs servlets and
jsp).
if you just want jsp/servlet with no ejb, then tomcat
(http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/) will probably serve your purposes.
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RPC services
HI, A novice type RPC/NFS question if someone could advise me please. I have two machine running Debian and I want to share certain directories between them. I installed them in as best as I could a similar fashion. I am able to share directories in one direction, but not the other. I was getting the error on one machine "Mount: RPC: Program not registered". I read it up and have found that I need to run "rpc.nfsd" and "rpc.mountd" and everything is fine. The question though is this, why do I have to do it? One machine clearly loads these daemons at boot time and one does not. When they were installed in a similar fashion why does one machine need these commands entered additionaly, and more importantly, how do I edit it so that it *will* run these at boot time? I told you I was new - Please indulge me with what must be a dummy-type oversight Keith -- +--+ | Keith O'Connell | "That which does not kill | | Maidstone, Kent (UK) | us, usually still hurts. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | That's just life, I'm afraid" | +--+
Re: UUCP+sendmail
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:26:28AM +0400, Alexey wrote: > Hello all, > > I need to connect to UUCP mail service provider. Taylor UUCP Log file: > > ... > uucico dnttm - (2001-07-15 01:47:21.47 520) Login successful > uucico dnttm - (2001-07-15 01:47:22.26 520) Handshake successful (protocol > 'g' sending packet/window 256/4 receiving 64/7) > uucico dnttm mail (2001-07-15 01:47:22.70 520) Receiving rcbmail (38527 bytes) > uucico dnttm uunikaa (2001-07-15 01:47:37.77 520) Receiving rcbmail (13112 > bytes) > uucico dnttm - (2001-07-15 01:47:43.03 520) Protocol 'g' packets: sent 7, > resent 0, received 209 > uucico dnttm - (2001-07-15 01:47:43.03 520) Errors: header 1, checksum 3, > order 3, remote rejects 0 > uucico dnttm - (2001-07-15 01:47:43.22 520) Call complete (23 seconds 51639 > bytes 2245 bps) > uuxqt dnttm mail (2001-07-15 01:47:51.34 525) ERROR: Not permitted to execute > rcbmail > uuxqt dnttm mail (2001-07-15 01:48:51.40 525) ERROR: /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi > -t: Exit status 70 > uuxqt dnttm uunikaa (2001-07-15 01:49:51.45 525) ERROR: Not permitted to > execute rcbmail > uuxqt dnttm uunikaa (2001-07-15 01:50:51.52 525) ERROR: /usr/sbin/sendmail > -oi -t: Exit status 70 > ... I don't use Sendmail, sorry. But for this ERROR: message... rcbmail is an existing program/script? uuxqt won't execute this, if you don't allow it to do so. You might add in /etc/uucp/sys for system dnttm: commands rmail rnews rcbmail command-path /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/local/sbin Or something else to find rcbmail in the path. -- Bye, Dietmar
debian 2.2 release 3 and net connect
Hi, I am new to this list. I am a home user on a dial up line, using wvdial to connect to the net. When I was using Debian 2.2 everything was working fine. But since I have installed Debian 2.2 Rel-3 there seems to be some problem. What happens is when I connect to the net for the first time using wvdial, it gets connected but my dns is not working. nslookup just gives the names of /etc/resolv.conf dns servers along with the error that no servers not found. However if I disconnect wvdial and dial again than everything works fine. Why I have to dial twice to make dns work ? Anybody faced this problem with Release 3. I am wasting my telephone calls here. Please help. My /etc/resolv.conf contains : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 210.212.161.28 nameserver 210.212.161.30 (DNS servers of my ISP here). Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.6,Mutt 1.3.19i,IceWM 1.0.8-6 "Silence is the true friend that never betrays." - Confucious --
Re: How to write a man page?
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:29:06PM +0200, Leonard Stiles wrote: > See "man 7 man" for more information on the troff man macros. And in the groff package: roff(7), groff(7) and groff_man(7) Cheers, Joost
python2 and qt
hi, simple q, maybe hard answer, here goes: how can i work with python2 and qt in debian? TIA
KDE2 kicker not showing up
Hello, I have a problem where I log into KDE, and the kicker panel does not show up. Actually, I see it for a second and then it disappears. It appears to be crashing. I have to log in three or four times before the kicker panel will stick around. Has anyone seen this problem? I am running Debian/Unstable. Thanks, Anthony
Re: keyboard HOWTO
> in my rxvt (thus via X) window, i turn off numlock and my keypad > gives me > > y > x > w > v > u > t > s > w > q > p > > 0 thru 9 gives p thru y -- but each keystroke inserted a new > line above the previous. aha! ^V shows Op which > is escape (vim thinks that means 'stop insert mode') then "O" as > in capital oh (vim thinks 'open new line above') then "p" gets > inserted. In xterm this effect is absent. In rxvt I have the same behavior. > > how can i type an accented e? or a c-cedilla? or a u-dieresis? > There are many ways to do that. If you use xterm, you can get a Meta key working and the 8bit characters are obtained by the 7bit ones with meta key. Examples: n is decimal 110, hex 6e, octal 156, bits 01101110 î is decimal 238, hex ee, octal 356, bits 11101110 so î is Meta-n g is decimal 103, hex 67, octal 147, bits 01100111 ç is decimal 231, hex e7, octal 347, bits 11100111 so ç is Meta-g An other way is to use the compose key. In my system that is Ctrl-K, but some time is the Scroll Lock. If you type Ctrl-K then ^ then i you get î. Ctrl-K then i then ^ is the same. ç is obtained with , and c or c and , and so on. This is from kernel so it should work on many applications. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose can show you more combinations (if you use Latin1 encoding). An other way is to customize your keyboard. You have to do it in two steps because X and the console are using different files. /etc/X11/Xmodmap is for the X, but you may have a file .xmodmap in your $HOME. This file you can generate with xkeycaps, where you have to select your keyboard and customize the keys you want. Click the right button of the mouse on the letter e. Select edit keysym or key and add a value (for instance egrave) in the third position. Make sure you configure a key to be your AltGr. You can select the right key or the win keys. The value for that is Mode_switch. Save the file as .xmodmap and add in your .xsession file the entry /usr/bin/X11/xmodmap .xmodmap Then you get ebreve (é) using AltGr-e. Of course you can edit the file by hand. For console you have to edit the /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz. The mechanism is similar, for instance the line: keycode 18 = e has to be changed in keycode 18 = +e+E +egrave +Egrave and also make sure you configure one key to be your AltGr key. If you have win keys you do: keycode 125 = AltGr keycode 126 = AltGr otherwise your right Alt will do from: keycode 100 = Alt to keycode 100 = AltGr I hope this help. Ionel P.S. If you start customizing your /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz you will loose some options. I had to add manually control alt keycode 59 = Console_1 control alt keycode 60 = Console_2 ... alt keycode 105 = Decr_Console alt keycode 106 = Incr_Console etc. to get back some useful stuff. P.P.S. You can configure your Fx keys to insert some text you need often, by replacing the line string Fx = "\033[[D" with string Fx = "your text here" such as: string F10 = " ăâîşţĂÂÎŞŢ "
Re: midi problem with on board sound i810
Steve Kieu wrote: > So is there anyway to create a virtual device for > playmidi or kmid to work?. I would like to know if I > can configure kmidi as a netscape plugin too, do you > have any information? > > Thanks very much for your info. > The short answer (from me) is "I don't know"! As I mentioned, I have been struggling with just this same problem for over a year on several Debian-related OSes (Corel, Stormix, Debian, Progeny). I am NOT a programmer, and my general approach can best be described as "trial and error" . At one point I had it working, but I can't duplicate what I did :( My card is a Sound Blaster PCI 128, that doesn't have a synth chip on-board. Most modern sound cards fall into this category. There is a dirth of info on how to do this sort of thing, and from what I have experienced the "default" set of pre-defined sound devices is a bit different with each OS. The "best" info source on this process that I have found is from the http://www.opensound.com/pguide/index.html site. There are some code examples there as well as the "OSS Programmer's guide v1.1 (PDF)", which I would recommend as general background info. At best it is somewhat confusing to me, and NOT hardware-specific. The fact that you are using another chipset than I do further complicates the problem. My card uses an ESS chipset that has its own set of hardware "features" to contend with. I know nothing about the i810... The best I can reliably re-produce here is to get KMID (and others) to play a MIDI file, BUT I can't seem to get it to pipe correctly to the audio section of the sound card, so I can hear it. I can see KMID running and playing notes on the GUI, but all I get is silence. The process to do this is to install the "softoss2" driver and also a set of sound patch sets (these are usually present if you have KMIDI or Timidity working), then play around with the various synth selections in the KMID preferences/setup menus. I had the most luck getting to this point with the "commercial" OSS sound drivers. Perhaps someone with more knowledge than me can step in here and give us both a "lesson" . I am real good at identifying "problems"just rather poor at fixing them Cheers, -Don Spoon-
Re: UUCP+sendmail
> rcbmail is an existing program/script? uuxqt won't execute this, if > you don't allow it to do so. > > You might add in /etc/uucp/sys for system dnttm: > commands rmail rnews rcbmail > command-path /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/local/sbin > > Or something else to find rcbmail in the path. I tried to find file *rcbmail*, but it does not exist at all. :(
Re: scaning the mails and attachment before sending out
Peter Kok wrote: > Hi all > > I receive some mails which have the following footnote: > How do I do in my mail server? > > 'scaning the mails and attachment before sending out.' > > Does the debian have this free software > > Many thanks > > B. Regards > Peter > > > Messages and attachments are scanned for all > viruses known. If this message contains password-protected attachments, > the > files have NOT been scanned for viruses by the Psnet mail domain. Always > > scan > attachments before opening them. > *** Not sure, but try looking on freshmeat or sourceforge for amavis... Andrea
Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system
"der.hans" wrote: > Am 14. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Joost Kooij so: > > > Try to run update again from the dselect menu. If you keep having > > problems with the integrity of the /var/lib/dpkg/available file, please > > post again. > > I don't think he can. I think this is the case where debian has no net > access, but can get stuff off another filesystem via duel-boot with an OS > that does have net access. > > While it would seem good to give debian net access :), he apparently can't > for some reason. >From what i've understood, he has installed potato from the boot floppy and the base system, and is trying to install potato packages, so he need to update dselect/apt only one time. > So, now we know dselect needs /var/lib/dpkg/available. Is that simply a file > that's downloaded? Is it something that's built from other files? > > I think he needs to know how to get the content via ftp or http and then how > to build /var/lib/dpkg/available by hand. > > I don't know how. Never done that, but he probably needs to download the file "Packages" you find in every debian mirror and rename it accordingly to the name of the apt source.list, so for the entry "deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free" (correct me if i'm wrong) he need to download the "Packages" file from "http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary/i386/Packages";, rename it as "ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages" and, IIRC, in potato should be put in "var/state/apt/lists", and repeat this for contrib and non-free... > Also, could he just edit the one he has and take out one or both of the > offending entries? I think yes, carefully editing could solve the problem, the file i alredy broken =) Andrea
logrotate error: unexpected text
Anyone know how to fix this? Logrotate produces the following error message. /etc/cron.daily/logrotate error: /etc/logrotate.conf:9 unexpected text. I haven't touched the logrotate.conf, so it's the standard one. -- Kevin C. Smith | I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough [EMAIL PROTECTED] | to handle the job is underestimating. | -- George W. Bush
Re: keyboard HOWTO
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote:
> In Keyboard HOWTO I found this:
>
> ...
>
> 8.5. Composing symbols
>
> One symbol may be constructed using several keystrokes.
>
> o LeftAlt-press, followed by a decimal number typed on the keypad,
> followed by LeftAlt-release, yields the symbol with code given by
> this number. (In Unicode mode this same mechanism, but then with 4
> hexadecimal digits, may be used to define a Unicode symbol.)
>
> ...
>
> I have tried LeftAlt with numbers from keypad and the others,
> I tried RightAlt, windows keys, menu key, anything else I could
> imagine. If press LeftAlt key and I type 123 and then I release
> LeftAlt I don't get {, but instead I get 123 in the same time I
> type it not after I release the LeftAlt key.
>
> I would like to know if this feature is working for someone
> on the list.
>
Thank you all for your answers.
I have the solution to my problem. I simply needed this:
alt keycode 71 = Ascii_7
alt keycode 72 = Ascii_8
alt keycode 73 = Ascii_9
alt keycode 75 = Ascii_4
alt keycode 76 = Ascii_5
alt keycode 77 = Ascii_6
alt keycode 79 = Ascii_1
alt keycode 80 = Ascii_2
alt keycode 81 = Ascii_3
alt keycode 82 = Ascii_0
in my /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz and now leftAlt + numbers
from KP (whatever the status of NumLock is) give the the symbol
coresponding to the decimal ascii code I type.
LeftAlt press KP_1 KP_2 KP_3 LeftAlt release -> {
It would be nice if this feature can be enabled on the X as
well, but from the list of symbols in
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/keysymdef.h and
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
it was not possible to find something equivalent to Ascii_1
from the console.
Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
Re: Error building lm-sensors (can't find i2c headers) - More info
Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JP> :: David Z Maze writes: JP> KSRC:=/usr/src/linux JP> MODULE_LOC:=/usr/src/modules JP> DZM> Can you try locally changing the second line to DZM> 'MODULE_LOC?=/usr/src/modules'? If that works, I can make the change DZM> in the package, too. JP> JP> Yes, that works! I wonder why the behavior was different for KSRC and JP> MODULE_LOC... Probably because the value of KSRC was passed on the command-line, but MODULE_LOC was only set in the environment. Command-line definitions override things set in the Makefile, which in turn override definitions from the environment. ?= means "set only if it's not already set", and a setting from the environment counts here. JP> Maybe the kdist target could call clean before building (and not only JP> after doing it)? Of course, then the whole compilation process would JP> be repeated every time one called make kdist... I'll take a look at that; it seems like it might help with people's compilation issues. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
Mouse Locking up in KDE2
My girlfriend optical intellimouse seems to become useless in the kde2 beta. It seems to happen if there has been no activity and then she starts using it again. any ideas
No funciona...
Primero felicidades por la calidad de la informacion de vuestra Web. Comunico con vosotros, ya que tengo Corel Linux desde hace mas o menos un año y hasta ahora el unico problema que he tenido ha sido que no conseguia Driver para el Scaner y la Camara Digital (USB) cosa que no me importaba mucho, pues usaba Windows para sacarlos.(Si me podeis dar una direccion donde buscarlos ¡¡¡GRACIAS!!!). Mi verdadero problema es que hace poco instale una tarjeta grafica PCI (antigua a falta de un Slot AGP), con el fin de usar un monitor secundario. Cual fue mi sorpresa cuando, arranque Linux y la pantaña empezo a parpadear usando los drivers de la tarjeta grafica PCI (S3 Trio2x) con la tarjeta que tenia antes (Voodoo3), e intentado ajustar los driver, pero, nada. Solo he conseguido cargar Linux cuando en la BIOS puse PCI, como tarjeta grafica primaria. Pense en dejarlo asi, pero Windows no iniciaba la Voodoo como monitor secundario, a si que he estado cambiando la BIOS segun el S.O. (Un rollazo) ¿Es posible usar dos o mas monitores bajo Linux? Si es asi ¿Como?, en caso negativo ¿Como puedo ajustar la configuracion y que no cambie al detectar la S3? Muchas Gracias ChAosJp ___ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger: Comunicación instantánea gratis con tu gente - http://messenger.yahoo.es
Re: Mouse Locking up in KDE2
> My girlfriend optical intellimouse seems to become useless
> in the kde2 beta. It seems to happen if there has been no activity
> and then she starts using it again.
I had that same bug when using X >= 4 and Kde2. It also seems to happen
with any WM with X4. I fixed it by stopping gpm. It seems to confuse X
and I noticed that when gpm is running, I get erratic mouse behavior until
I turn it off.
--
Jonathan Daugherty
Dept. of Computer Science / UCNS Workstation Support Group
The University of Georgia
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Re: python2 and qt
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: > hi, simple q, maybe hard answer, here goes: > how can i work with python2 and qt in debian? Right now, for "stable"... build PyQt and Python-2.x yourself. Sid has python-pyqt, built against Python-1.5.2. - Bruce
A small doubt ..
Is there any way to install Debian potato r3 , on a Win 98 machine , onto an existing partition ? Will the installation process necessarily remove data from a disk ? fips (the partitioner) was telling me that I needed to keep at leaset the last cylinder (on my primary DOS partition) free . But somehow I have not been able to push out sufficient data . I want the existing system intact ... + Debian Linux I hear that this is possible with Debian and not Red Hat. Please help ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam
Re: Mouse Locking up in KDE2
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > > My girlfriend optical intellimouse seems to become useless > > in the kde2 beta. It seems to happen if there has been no activity > > and then she starts using it again. > > I had that same bug when using X >= 4 and Kde2. It also seems to happen > with any WM with X4. I fixed it by stopping gpm. It seems to confuse X > and I noticed that when gpm is running, I get erratic mouse behavior until > I turn it off. I have removed gpm (but ill doule check) but it still seems to lock up G
Re: A small doubt ..
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there any way to install Debian potato r3 , on a Win 98 machine , > onto an > existing partition ? > > Will the installation process necessarily remove data from a disk ? > > fips (the partitioner) was telling me that I needed to keep at leaset the last > cylinder (on my primary DOS partition) free . But somehow I have not been > able to > push out sufficient data . > I want the existing system intact ... + Debian Linux > I hear that this is possible with Debian and not Red Hat. > You can do this. How big is your hard dirve and how full is it? Essentially what you need to do, defrag (i do it at least twice) to make sure that as much data as possible is at the "front" of the hard drive. Then use FIPS (Use the DOS version) to split it into two paritions. THen when you install debian. choose the newly created second partition to install debian on. LEt me me know if you need more help G
Re: startx -- :1, xinit
Please direct questions like this to debian-user. On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:51:42AM -0400, Paul wrote: > Hello branden, I have a question about the startx script that you > modified. Would it affect xhost in any way?? No. > I recently installed the xbase-common package and replaced the startx > with the one you posed to the debian newsgroup, and now I can't connect > to a local xserver using xhost. > > I do this: > # as paul > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xhost +localhost > > # as root > bart:~# export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 > bart:~# kpaint > kpaint: cannot connect to X server localhost:0.0 > > If you have any info plz let me know. Well, if you started the X server as display :1, and there is no X server on :0, that would explain the above quite tidily. -- G. Branden Robinson| Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He makes us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | suffer Christianity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Aaron Dunsmore pgptntc5E2cuE.pgp Description: PGP signature
[OT} Linux and reiserfs
Are there boot images available for Debian that incorporate setting up reiserfs partitions from the beginning, i.e. selecting reiserfs as the partition type during an installation ?? If not, is anyone aware of another distro that can do this ?? Thanks in advance Hall
Re: Emacs frames, text color, and KDE
Daniel Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am playing around with the recent KDE 2.2 packages, and for the most > part I like them a lot. I did, however, find the following problem: > > I start up emacs and it uses the normal colors (wheat on slate). > > I start up another frame of the same emacs session, and the normal > text is all displayed in black-on-white, even thought the background > color of the frame as a whole is still slate. It is only as I write > the text that the black on white comes up -- one character at a time. > > Note that text which is re-colorized via font-locking is fine -- it's > only the plain text (including white space) which is massacred. > > This seems to be a KDE problem; I do not see it under GNOME or XFCE. Look here: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ColorsAndKde> Henrik -- Soylent Green is People!
Re: Mouse Locking up in KDE2
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:01:23 EDT, Dude wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > > > My girlfriend optical intellimouse seems to become useless > > > in the kde2 beta. It seems to happen if there has been no activity > > > and then she starts using it again. > > > > I had that same bug when using X >= 4 and Kde2. It also seems to happen > > with any WM with X4. I fixed it by stopping gpm. It seems to confuse X > > and I noticed that when gpm is running, I get erratic mouse behavior until > > I turn it off. > > > > I have removed gpm (but ill doule check) but it still seems to lock up > > G > If the mouse works properly in gpm, you can make x11 and gpm play nice by setting your mouse device in x11 to /dev/gpmdata. I've not tried this with an optical intellimouse, but it has worked for me in every instance I have had a conflict between gpm and x11. --ptw -- Paul T Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- "Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?" -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: Cannot install kdevelop!?!
Hello! On Saturday 14 July 2001 20:33, Debian User wrote: > I want to install kdevelop, but due to a version problem this does'nt work. > After downloading kdevelop1.0beta1-1_i386.deb I tried to install with dpkg. > But(t) dpkt quits with the error-message: This is quite outdated. It is still from KDE1. Do you use KDE1? Or are you running KDE2 from testing? In the later case you should install kdevelop 1.4 which you'll get by apt-get from the debian site... If you're still using KDE1 I can't help you out of that... Andre
Re: Can't play audio CDs
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Joel Mayes wrote: > Are you using ALSA sound drivers ? I can't get my CD to play > at all under alsa drivers, but it work perfectly with kernel > driver ( I've no idea why ) The alsa driver mute all mixers by default. Did you turn up the volume of the CD channel in the mixer? Walter
Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system
Am 15. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Joost Kooij so: > Before ubiquitous net access became a commodity, debian worked just fine. > Why else do you think that there still is a dpkg-split utility in the dpkg > package? Never even heard of it before :). Cool feature, though. > Download the Packages file, ungzip it, and use the correct interface: > > dpkg --update-avail Packages OK, this is the knowledge we were missing. Now the question is: Is Tommy still out there? Tommy, here's what it looks like you need to do ( wait to see if Joost or somebody else confirms my questionable presumptions ). Download the Packages files from the sources you want. Boot into Debian. Either use "dpkg --update-avail /path/to/packages/Packages", then deselect to decide what packages you want. Inside dselect you can choose to install packages. Before they can be installed you'll need to download the appropriate debs. Joost, at the point they've been dselected he can run "dpkg -l | grep ^in" to get a list of packages to download. Is there a better way? He then puts the debs in /var/cache/apt/archives/? Install via "apt-get dselect-upgrade"? Then again, maybe we should just get Tommy's networking working :). ciao, der.hans PS: Joost, thanks for all the info. I've learned quite a bit. -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # It's up to the reader to make the book interesting. # An author has only the opportunity to make it uninteresting. - der.hans
dumb wav->mp3 question
Hi, what's the command to convert .wav files to mp3 format? this is a dumb question 'cus I was doing it a week ago and after 3h with apropos,dpkg -l,apt-cache search,and ls /usr/bin |less, I still can't find it :( TIA, -Jon
Re: dpkg problem
Am 14. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Joey Hess so: > Only if the package is broken and doesn't tell debconf it is being > purged. Is there a way to get debconf to purge by hand rather than having to wait for the package to be fixed due to the bug report we submit? I have run into something like this before, but didn't realize it was a bug in the package :(. ciao, der.hans -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # Knowledge is useless unless it's shared. - der.hans
Re: dumb wav->mp3 question
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:30:18PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > what's the command to convert .wav files to mp3 format? You want "lame" for that. Look it up on google, also look for "unoffical sources.list". Lame is not on the debian ftp site, because there are patent problems. Better is to use the ogg format instead of mp3. Ogg is free. It is also said to be technically better. Install vorbis-tools. Cheers, Joost
Re: [OT] xumod - undefined symbol error (2nd try)
Hi Andy, Great! I'll give this a try. Sometimes I try to figure out what's by taking a look at the lines referred to in the error message, but I didn't do that on this one. I really appreciate you letting me know how to get it working. Right on! In the future, please make your replies addressed to the debian-user mailing list, so that all on the list can see it! Unless someone has specifically asked that you Cc: to their personal e-mail adddress, usually requested becuse they're not subscribed to the mailing list. No biggie, just an fyi. Thanks again for you're help. I'm off to get xumod working again as per instructions below, Jimmy Richards o _ _ _ __o __o/\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) _`\<, _`\<, _>(_) (_)/<_\_| \ _|/' \/ (_)/(_) (_)/(_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:09:26PM -0500, Andy Wettstein wrote: > I just installed this today. But I didn't install it like they wanted > me to. I did an apt-get install perl-tk libarchive-zip-perl > Then I went into the Tie-IxHash-1.21 directory and built that: perl > Makefile.PL ; make ; make install and did the same in the > Config-Ini-1.06 directory. > > After that I just copied umod and xumod to /usr/local/bin, and put > Umod.pm in /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1/ and it all worked for me > > Andy > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:58:57AM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: > > > > I sent this message a couple weeks or so ago and just thought I'd try > > again. No biggie if no one has any clue or response. > > > > > > > > Greetings and Salutations All, > > > > I have an unreolved symbol when I try to run 'xumod'(an Unreal > > Tournament umod file unpack utility). I was using it just fine until I > > reinstalled Debian a few weeks ago. I reinstalled because I wanted to > > use the xfs journaling filesystem, in case you were wondering. I am not > > sure, but there may have been an update to perl right about the same > > time. BTW, is there a way to tell the date when a package was > > installed/upgraded? Anyway, when I try to run it I get the following > > error... > > > > Can't load '/usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/auto/Tk/Tk.so' for module Tk: > > /usr/lib/libpt_linux_x86_r.so.1: undefined symbol: __ti8iostream at > > /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/DynaLoader.pm line 202. > > at /usr/local/bin/xumod line 19 > > Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/xumod line 19. > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/xumod line 19. > > > > It's no big deal as the command line utility that's included, 'umod', > > works just fine. And, as usual with command line programs, it is more > > powerful and flexible than it's gui counterpart(you can use the * > > wildcard, and it can be used in a script). But it would nice to have > > xumod working. People checking out my Linux box like to see the X-Windows > > eye-candy and stuff. Any insight appreciated. > > > > > > umodpack-0.5b16 is available at... > > > > http://umodpack.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > Thank You, > > > > Jim Richards > > > > > > I herby decree anyone who does not respond to this e-mail shall be > > removed from this world by pain of death j/k!! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Content-Description: PGP Key 0x0062D7A7. > > pub 1024D/0062D7A7 2001-05-02 Jimmy Richards (clone-debian) <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> > > sub 1024g/BF714AB3 2001-05-02 > > bin63LaADDvtm.bin Description: PGP Key 0x0062D7A7. pgpDZeVvzjwB5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:28:53PM -0700, der.hans wrote: > Either use "dpkg --update-avail /path/to/packages/Packages", then deselect > to decide what packages you want. Inside dselect you can choose to install > packages. Before they can be installed you'll need to download the > appropriate debs. Yes. > Joost, at the point they've been dselected he can run "dpkg > -l | grep ^in" to get a list of packages to download. Is there a better way? That would print all the installed or installable packages. You are only interested in the specifically upgradable ones. You want to run from the command line: apt-get --print-uris dselect-upgrade > He then puts the debs in /var/cache/apt/archives/? Install via "apt-get > dselect-upgrade"? I think that should get you a long way. I haven't tested it though. > PS: Joost, thanks for all the info. I've learned quite a bit. That makes the circle round, I learnt most of it on debian-user. Cheers, Joost
[kreutz@inf.ufsm.br: Just one "question".]
- Forwarded message from Diego Luis Kreutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Diego Luis Kreutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Just one "question". Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 16:46:22 -0300 (BRT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm trying to install xlibs-4.0.3-4_i386.deb but the instalation process say that it conflicts whit xlib6g smaller than 4.0. But I couldn't find any version of xlib6g over 3.3.6. I don't now what I can do for this. And the problem is that I've a lot of programs depending on xlib6g and others amount that a needed to install that depend on xlibs. If you could give me any idea about this I'll be thankfull. Congratulations. DLK -- - End forwarded message - -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Exercise your freedom of religion. Set [EMAIL PROTECTED] | fire to a church of your choice. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpAuGjYDScZk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dpkg problem
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:32:10PM -0700, der.hans wrote: > Is there a way to get debconf to purge by hand rather than having to wait > for the package to be fixed due to the bug report we submit? Look at the tools in debconf-utils. Cheers, Joost
Re: [kreutz@inf.ufsm.br: Just one "question".]
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 02:57:20PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > - Forwarded message from Diego Luis Kreutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > From: Diego Luis Kreutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Just one "question". > Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 16:46:22 -0300 (BRT) > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm trying to install xlibs-4.0.3-4_i386.deb > but the instalation process say that it > conflicts whit xlib6g smaller than 4.0. > But I couldn't find any version of xlib6g > over 3.3.6. Did you install xlibs using dselect? > I don't now what I can do for this. > And the problem is that I've a lot of programs > depending on xlib6g and others amount that a needed > to install that depend on xlibs. > > If you could give me any idea about this > I'll be thankfull. You need to give more information. What did you do and what were the error message? Cheers, Joost
nfs problem
Hi, I've got a Debian 2.2 working as a nis server for a Mandrake 7.2 client. I've installed nfs-kernel-server on the debian and configured /etc/exports to export /home/nis (the nis users) to everybody but the Mandrake client isn't able to mount the directory (the nis login works). I've got a "Connection Refused" message on the Mandrake; If I list the messages log file on the server, it tells me that a connection has been refused because the wanted directory was not exported... Here is my export file: /etc/exports: /home/nis(rw,root_squash) If I type exportfs, it answer me that /home/nis is exported to rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd are working. The only thing I don't understand in the server configuration is that when I'm typing exportfs -r, the /var/lib/yp/etab is filled properly but the /var/lib/yp/xtab is empty... Can anyone help me ? Thanks in advance, nomad
Installing Debian Linux
Hi! My name is Jim. Windows is a pain in the neck so i decided to use linux ;o) But i have a problem with the install. I downloaded the three mirror files (.iso) and made myself the debian cds. When i start to install Linux, everything is fine until i get to this spot: Install the operating System kernel and the Device Drivers I choose to install from the 1st cd, but instead of asking me what kind of interface type i want to use (master, slave, ...), the computer checks the cd and then suddenly it wants to install debian from the rescue disk. But even that is not working, because after ca 10 sec of loading i get the message, that it was not possible to load the rescue disk (i downloaded the mirror and made one). Did i do something wrong by creating the cds or the disk? Hopefully u are able to help me! Thanks Jim
Using dselect to update Sid (and failing)
Hello, I can't seem to get my computer to update with dselect. It just fails to find about 30% of the .deb files, with the error "Unable to fetch file, server said 'debian/pool/blahblahblah: no such file or directory. ' My internet connection works fine, so I don't know what's up. It has been a few weeks since I last updated though. -Kurt _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: Using dselect to update Sid (and failing)
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:59:14PM -, Kurt Dresner wrote: > Hello, > > I can't seem to get my computer to update with dselect. It just fails to > find about 30% of the .deb files, with the error "Unable to fetch file, > server said 'debian/pool/blahblahblah: no such file or directory. ' > > My internet connection works fine, so I don't know what's up. It has been a > few weeks since I last updated though. > > -Kurt Hi Jurt, I use Sid and it seems to me the sid pool has been acting strangely lately. I get 'unable to fetch' error, or after a successful apt-get update the apt-get dist-upgrade gives http 404 errors, then I change servers in my sources.list and try again. Sometimes the dist-upgrade says there's no packages to update. I usually try a few times and then it goes. I dunno what's up, but hope that helps. Cheers, Jimmy Richards Is this the party to whom I'm speaking?--Lily Tomlin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] binmLiaXwT6dh.bin Description: PGP Key 0x0062D7A7. pgp15FiGyuDGA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Setting up printing
I have the Epson Stylus color 740 that I am using under usb. I don't know how the "i" model differs. I got myself printer drivers from www.turboprint.de. Works like a charm. The pages come out centered and I can adjust the margins. I tried pdq but wasn't quite satisfied with it. Anyway, that's the only money I have spent on software. By the way, turboprint will list printer types. They have a full-fledged trial version that you can try out and see. -Andy On Saturday July 14 2001 20:50, Brian McGroarty wrote: > I've never configured a printer under Linux. I've got an Epson Sylus > Color 740i hooked up via USB, and I've got it to the point where I can > cat files directly to the device and see them printed. > > I'm a bit baffled by the number of choices of packages which are > available, as well as the number of printing systems to choose from, > from cups to lpr to half a dozen other choices. > > 1. Do all of these printing systems need to be configured for printing >to work in most apps, or are they complementary? > > 2. Is there a standard "Debian way" for configuring printing? I >fetched task-printing which brought in a selection of utilities, >but I don't believe any of them perform any of the configuration >for me. Certainly, none prompted for the type of printer I'm using.
Re: UUCP+sendmail
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 07:18:49PM +0400, Alexey wrote: > > rcbmail is an existing program/script? uuxqt won't execute this, if > > you don't allow it to do so. > > I tried to find file *rcbmail*, but it does not exist at all. :( Could those be compressed smtp batches? bsmtpd ist the package for sendmail to handle those batches. You might take a look at this. BTW, is there a reason to use sendmail? If you would use exim, I might help you a bit more ;) If in doubt, ask your provider what rcbmail exactly is... I'm just wild guessing. -- Bye, Dietmar
kde2 and wmdockapps
Is there an easy way to run wm dockapps in kde2?
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Re: Using dselect to update Sid (and failing)
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:59:14PM -, Kurt Dresner wrote: > I can't seem to get my computer to update with dselect. It just fails to > find about 30% of the .deb files, with the error "Unable to fetch file, > server said 'debian/pool/blahblahblah: no such file or directory. ' > > My internet connection works fine, so I don't know what's up. It has been a > few weeks since I last updated though. ftp.us.debian.org which is also one of the http.us.debian.org round robin servers is having some problems. Try to use another deb uri, pointing to a mirror that is geographically closer to you. If you're not in the us, try http://ftp..debian.org (substitute the iso country code for you contry). If it exists, it probably works much better anyway. Cheers, Joost
Re: usb scanners & printers
I have a Microtek Scanmaker X6. The pro is that the driver is included in the kernel package. -Andy On Sunday July 15 2001 00:08, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:06:48AM -0700, tony mollica wrote: > > Hi. The local computer fair is in town today > > and I'm in the market for a new printer and > > scanner, preferably USB. Any suggestions for > > either of these? The printer should be able > > to print a decent picture. > > Dunno about printers (I have an ancient TI Microlaser > that I got for $A70 at one of our local swap meets) > but I have an Epson 640U USB scanner that can be used > for professional work. > > Sam
Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem
I have recently ugraded from potato. So 70debconf is the new file instead of apt.conf? On Sunday July 15 2001 00:09, Jimmy Richards wrote: > > Sorry, but I guess I forgot to mention that the file would be > apt.conf if your running potato. Glad you found the right file though.
Re: mkfs.vfat? where is it ??
On the other hand try "parted". It's a utility with pretty much the same functionality as Partition Magic. It will even resize your ext2 partitions. I have used it for this purpose and it worked out great. -Andy On Saturday July 14 2001 09:31, Disem wrote: > I was unable to create an *windows* filesistem... > > mkfs -t vfat /dev/myharddrivepartition.. > > mkfs.vfat: no such file or directory > > is there a feature in the kernel config that I have > to enable, or any kind of package that I need in order > to mount/create a win partition ? > > :D > > edward
Re: Can't play audio CDs
> > > > Under redhat my drive showed up as /dev/cdrom. I'm not sure if this is > > significant. /dev/cdrom is a soft link to your cdrom device. It should link to /dev/hdc in your case. -Andy
Re: X4 scrolling
I faced a similiar problem before, but reversed :). Make sure the "modes" line in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 reads like this: Modes "640x480" "800x600" X creates a virtual screen corresponding to the largest screen resolution and uses the first entry as the default startup resolution. -Andy On Sunday July 15 2001 01:55, Bek Oberin wrote: > After I've upgraded from X3 to X4.0.3 the edges of the screen don't > scroll anymore. > > For example if I set the virtual screen size to 800x600 and the > resolution to 640x480, which isn't uncommon, I used to be able to > scroll to the 'hidden' bits of the screen by pushing the mouse at > the edge of the screen but now I can't. > > How do I get this function back? > > > > bekj
Re: kde2 and wmdockapps
Absolutely! "Dock Application Bar" can be accessed from Panel => Add => Extension menu. There is a bug that may not allow you to display all your dockapps. You can resolve this by writing a startup script that will launch your dockapps. -Andy On Sunday July 15 2001 17:31, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > Is there an easy way to run wm dockapps in kde2?
Re: dumb wav->mp3 question
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 09:42:31PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: :On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:30:18PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: :> what's the command to convert .wav files to mp3 format? : :You want "lame" for that. Perhaps that's what I want, but I'm 99% certain I apt-got something that does this, and lame isn't apt-able (well not from normal sources) :Better is to use the ogg format instead of mp3. Ogg is free. :It is also said to be technically better. Install vorbis-tools. I did run across that, where "technically better" == lossless For my current streaming purposes I converted the files to realaudio (even worse than mp3 from a freesoftware perspective), I'll need to review ogg support in main stream clients before comitting... And it hurts my brain that I did this less than two weeks ago and can't find the tool I used. -Jon
Re: Installing Debian Linux
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 04:58:23PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi! | | My name is Jim. Windows is a pain in the neck so i decided to use linux ;o) Great! Welcome to the community. | But i have a problem with the install. I downloaded the three mirror files | (.iso) and made myself the debian cds. | | When i start to install Linux, everything is fine until i get to this spot: | | Install the operating System kernel and the Device Drivers | | I choose to install from the 1st cd, but instead of asking me what kind of | interface type i want to use (master, slave, ...), the computer checks the cd | and then suddenly it wants to install debian from the rescue disk. But even | that is not working, because after ca 10 sec of loading i get the message, | that it was not possible to load the rescue disk (i downloaded the mirror and | made one). Hmm. If you are installing from CDs then you shouldn't need a rescue disk. Depending on which packages you want (and wether you want -dev and older stuff too) you may only need 1 cd, or all 3. I assume by "rescue disk" you are referring to the floppy image (ie rescue.bin that is about 1.4 MB). | Did i do something wrong by creating the cds or the disk? When you put the CDs in the drive, can Windows read them and tell you what files are on them? If so the cds are fine. How about with the rescue disk? If Windows can read the rescue disk, then it is messed up. The image, rescue.bin, is an exact binary duplicate of the bits that should be on the floppy disk. The floppy needs to be created with a program, such as 'dd', that will dump the raw bits to the disk. You will then have a compressed ext2 filesystem on the disk, which windows can't read. HTH, -D
Re: Error building lm-sensors (can't find i2c headers) - More info
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DZM> Can you try locally changing the second line to DZM> 'MODULE_LOC?=/usr/src/modules'? If that works, I can make the change DZM> in the package, too. JP> JP> Yes, that works! I wonder why the behavior was different for KSRC and JP> MODULE_LOC... (This should be fixed in lm-sensors-source 2.6.0-3 now.) JP> Maybe the kdist target could call clean before building (and not only JP> after doing it)? Of course, then the whole compilation process would JP> be repeated every time one called make kdist... DZM> DZM> I'll take a look at that; it seems like it might help with people's DZM> compilation issues. Hmm, none of the other packages I have floating around (ALSA and OpenAFS) seem to do that. If I run into Sam Hartman IRL I'll ask him if he thinks it's a good idea. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
Re: several questios
Martin Bretschneider wrote: If you include this, what you did should work. Thank you, it worked:) I've got an additional question. 4. How can I adjust my language? All the prgramms are english;( Sorry, I don't have a solution for you, but if I may, I'd like to make a suggestion. Create a new thread (Subject: line) for each new question. The list is so busy that if you don't have a *descriptive* subject line, many list readers who might otherwise give you the exact answer you're looking for will simply delete your message without ever reading it. For example, this question might be sent with a subject line of "How to adjust language from English?", and in the body of the message you might be a bit more specific, as to whether you mean in the console, or X, so some specific application, or the entire system, etc. Not meaning to offend, but wanted to help you get better results from your questions . . . . (Not that I'm any expert, but I've been lurking around on this list a while and have picked up a tip or two.) Kent
Re: dumb wav->mp3 question
Jonathan D Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JDP> On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 09:42:31PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: JDP> :Better is to use the ogg format instead of mp3. Ogg is free. JDP> :It is also said to be technically better. Install vorbis-tools. JDP> JDP> I did run across that, where "technically better" == lossless Ogg Vorbis certainly isn't lossless; the claim is that it sounds better at the same bitrate, or equivalently that you need a lower bitrate for the same sound quality. I think MP3 is typically fixed bitrate, whereas Vorbis uses a variable bitrate. JDP> For my current streaming purposes I converted the files to realaudio JDP> (even worse than mp3 from a freesoftware perspective), I'll need to JDP> review ogg support in main stream clients before comitting... Current xmms supports it. It looks like there's now a Windows Media plugin; the FAQ on http://www.vorbis.com/ lists several Windows players, along with xmms, freeamp, and ogg123 for Un*x. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
Re: [OT} Linux and reiserfs
* Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-15 19:40): > Are there boot images available for Debian that incorporate setting up > reiserfs partitions from the beginning, i.e. selecting reiserfs as the > partition type during an installation ?? Unofficial reiserfs install disks seem to come and go quite regularly, the site I got mine from no longer exists... but this site looks like it has pretty much the same disks: http://debianboot.digitaltux.com/ I'd be very wary of running reiser on a production server, but for a workstation like mine, I don't see any problem, and its been running fine for more than 6 months... As always YMMV :) Cheers, Sean -- Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: dumb wav->mp3 question
"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > And it hurts my brain that I did this less than two weeks ago and > can't find the tool I used. Was it by any chance toolame? Glyn -- ** * Here we are then... * * http://members.tripod.co.uk/Christchurch2000uk * **
Re: dumb wav->mp3 question
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 06:34:58PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 09:42:31PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > :On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:30:18PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > :> what's the command to convert .wav files to mp3 format? > : > :You want "lame" for that. > > Perhaps that's what I want, but I'm 99% certain I apt-got something > that does this, and lame isn't apt-able (well not from normal sources) > > :Better is to use the ogg format instead of mp3. Ogg is free. > :It is also said to be technically better. Install vorbis-tools. > > I did run across that, where "technically better" == lossless > > For my current streaming purposes I converted the files to realaudio > (even worse than mp3 from a freesoftware perspective), I'll need to > review ogg support in main stream clients before comitting... > > And it hurts my brain that I did this less than two weeks ago and > can't find the tool I used. You may be looking for 'sox'. (I'm often in the same situation of having difficulty remembering the name of the program to do something.) -- But the individual has no right to use force for any other end. I cannot legitimately force my fellow men to be industrious, sober, thrift, generous, learned, or pious; but I can force them to be just. -- Fr?d?ric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: Using dselect to update Sid (and failing)
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:21:05PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:59:14PM -, Kurt Dresner wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I can't seem to get my computer to update with dselect. It just fails to > > find about 30% of the .deb files, with the error "Unable to fetch file, > > server said 'debian/pool/blahblahblah: no such file or directory. ' > > > > My internet connection works fine, so I don't know what's up. It has been > > a > > few weeks since I last updated though. > > > > -Kurt > > Hi Jurt, Sorry.. mistyped there. I meant Kurt of course! > > I use Sid and it seems to me the sid pool has been acting strangely > lately. I get 'unable to fetch' error, or after a successful apt-get > update the apt-get dist-upgrade gives http 404 errors, then I change > servers in my sources.list and try again. Sometimes the dist-upgrade > says there's no packages to update. I usually try a few times and then > it goes. I dunno what's up, but hope that helps. > > Cheers, > > Jimmy Richards > > > Is this the party to whom I'm speaking?--Lily Tomlin > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Description: PGP Key 0x0062D7A7. > pub 1024D/0062D7A7 2001-05-02 Jimmy Richards (clone-debian) <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > sub 1024g/BF714AB3 2001-05-02
Re: X4 scrolling
Andy Saxena wrote: > I faced a similiar problem before, but reversed :). > Make sure the "modes" line in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 reads like this: > Modes "640x480" "800x600" > X creates a virtual screen corresponding to the largest screen resolution and > uses the first entry as the default startup resolution. No, that's not it. I want to be able to scroll AROUND the virtual screen and I can't. All I can see is the top left hand corner of it and it doesn't scroll like it used to. bekj -- : Usual state: (e) None of the above. : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Questions are the creative acts of intelligence. : -- Frank Kingdom
Re: [OT} Linux and reiserfs
Sean Quinlan wrote: > * Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-15 19:40): > > Are there boot images available for Debian that incorporate setting up > > reiserfs partitions from the beginning, i.e. selecting reiserfs as the > > partition type during an installation ?? > Unofficial reiserfs install disks seem to come and go quite regularly, > the site I got mine from no longer exists... but this site looks like > it has pretty much the same disks: Okay, I give. What's reiserfs? I keep reading it as "Rye Serfs" and giggling. bekj the ignorant apparently unless this is -really- obscure -- : Usual state: (e) None of the above. : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Questions are the creative acts of intelligence. : -- Frank Kingdom
Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 05:42:02PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > I have recently ugraded from potato. So 70debconf is the new file instead of > apt.conf? Hi, Joey Hess sent a response on this explaiing that the 70debconf is a file for programs to use so that they do not have to mess with your apt.conf file. So i guess after the upgrade you need to create your own apt.conf file and add your own options that you want in it. He said it's analagous to the crontab file and the cron.d directory. HTH, Jim Richards I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is? --Paul Merton binhQa1w2SQeg.bin Description: PGP Key 0x0062D7A7. pgpcBFla4cvU0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Docbook, MathML and Debian
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> Informative to the stooped newbie sgml user, eh? I share Joost> the pain. ';-) >> isn't > how you specify '>'? and isn't < how you specify >> '<' in XML? I can never seem to find these documented when I >> need them. Is '&' specified &??? >> >> Jade also gets confused and prints > choice="req">stuff exactly the same way as > choice="opt">stuff. >> >> However, this produces the best results so far. >> >> >> >> I tried with xalan, too, but it couldn't even find the DTD. >> (note: I have deliberately refrained from specifying the XSL >> file). Joost> This might be because you aren't including the preamble Joost> before the xml input file. This gives it a proper sgml Joost> declaration, I think. Later: I changed the command to jade (as the previous command was flushed out of my history, and I can't remember what is was now...), and everything works, using version 4.1.2 of docbook. Wow! jade -o html -t sgml \ -d /usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/dsssl/modular/html/docbook.dsl \ /usr/share/sgml/declaration/xml.dcl guard.xml Only thing is, I would assume this would write its output into the html directory. It uses the current directory instead, This was with this DOCTYPE: I only encountered several errors which really were my fault (used instead of ...). Joost> I am not an expert in these matters, but from my vantage Joost> point, the whole sgml/xml suite appears to be in a rut, Joost> unfortunately. It badly needs some form of revival Joost> operation. Any volunteers? Even documenting what package Joost> combinations are needed for specific aims would be an Joost> improvement. Yes. I think the examples are badly lacking. /usr/share/doc/docbook-xml/, contains examples, but no code to process them (only validate). Other examples I have looked at, and suddenly realized they were SGML, not XML... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> The main limitations of Gnus for me, I guess are: won't Brian> check SSL server key, and won't cache IMAP data (unless you Brian> manually tell it to, but then it won't delete the messages Brian> when they are erased from the server). Also, I should add one extremely annoying and frustrating problem I have recently had in xemacs21-gtk/Gnus: I can select data in another X window, and paste into a Gnus message. That is good, normal, defacto X behaviour. However, if somebody sends me a long command line in a message, I can't copy it to a command prompt. Instead, the previous text that was already buffered gets pasted. So, either I have to retype this long command line, or I have to save the message to a file, and display it using less, and then mark the text for copying. Arrrggg! I filed a bug report, but so far no response. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: A small doubt ..
On 15 Jul 2001, at 14:03, dude wrote: > > > On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Is there any way to install Debian potato r3 , on a Win 98 machine , > > onto an > > existing partition ? > > > > Will the installation process necessarily remove data from a disk ? > > > > fips (the partitioner) was telling me that I needed to keep at leaset the > > last > > cylinder (on my primary DOS partition) free . But somehow I have not been > > able to > > push out sufficient data . > > I want the existing system intact ... + Debian Linux > > I hear that this is possible with Debian and not Red Hat. > > > > > You can do this. > > How big is your hard dirve and how full is it? > > Essentially what you need to do, defrag (i do it at least twice) > to make sure that as much data as possible is at the "front" of > the hard drive. Then use FIPS (Use the DOS version) to split it into two > paritions. Hi dude I would just like to add it might work better with windows defragger. some defragger's like norton's leave some files at the end, whereas window's will more likely move them all to the front. hth Dean > > THen when you install debian. choose the newly created second partition > to install debian on. > > LEt me me know if you need more help > > G
Re: X4 scrolling
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:16:48AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > Andy Saxena wrote: > > I faced a similiar problem before, but reversed :). > > Make sure the "modes" line in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 reads like this: > > Modes "640x480" "800x600" > > X creates a virtual screen corresponding to the largest screen resolution > > and > > uses the first entry as the default startup resolution. > > No, that's not it. I want to be able to scroll AROUND the virtual > screen and I can't. All I can see is the top left hand corner of it > and it doesn't scroll like it used to. Use the "Virtual" directive to force a virtual screen size. SubSection "Display" ... Virtual ... EndSubSection $ man XF86Config ... Virtual xdim ydim This optional entry specifies the virtual screen resolution to be used. xdim must be a multiple of either 8 or 16 for most drivers, and a multiple of 32 when running in monochrome mode. The given value will be rounded down if this is not the case. Video modes which are too large for the specified virtual size will be rejected. If this entry is not present, the virtual screen resolution will be set to accommodate all the valid video modes given in the Modes entry. Some drivers/hardware combinations do not support virtual screens. Refer to the appropriate driver-specific documentation for details. ... -- Eric G. Miller
Re: dpkg problem
der.hans wrote: > Is there a way to get debconf to purge by hand rather than having to wait > for the package to be fixed due to the bug report we submit? echo purge | debconf-communicate -- see shy jo
Re: Floppy Install - Need drivers for scsi raid controller
Whoops; Forgot to add that you can/must edit lilo accordingly with append='smart...mem=$$$M" Make sure that you don't install lilo in MBR AND that you make the CompraQ partition bootable.(via fdisk/cfdisk Bij de weg gij komt uit frankrijk of nie? is on /dev/ida/) Add that partition to Lilo as "F10" in order to be able to access it!! (Just ruined another compRaq on that one) Thanks, Not this Tour - Original Message - From: "Frans Schreuder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bernie Boudet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 2:09 AM Subject: Re: Floppy Install - Need drivers for scsi raid controller > I had same prob... > Get a regular 'compact'-rescue flop and your regular rootflop. > At the bootprompt type# boot: linux(image) smartX=0xY000(where Y=EISAslot > where the smartcontrollerX(is it a smart2?) is) sim710=addr:0xY000,irq:YY > mem=YYYM(Where Y stands for respectivly: Y=memoryaddres(seeCompraQsettings) > Y=irq(seeCompraQsettins) Y=$$$MbYouHaveInYourSystem) > > I know this helps:-) > > www.google.com has a lot of info (not always helpful) on this > > Thanks, > Frans Schreuder > > > - Original Message - > From: "Bernie Boudet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 12:22 PM > Subject: Floppy Install - Need drivers for scsi raid controller > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to do a "vanilla" Debian floppy install (rescue + root + > > driver-1,2,3,4). > > > > The system boots ok from the rescue disk and I get the boot: prompt, to > > which I hit return. Linux loads and I am prompted to insert the root > > floppy, which I do and hit return, the setup program loads and I get as > far > > as the first step to select the keyboard layout. Everything ok so far, > > AFAICT. > > > > The next step is to "Preload essential modules from a floppy". It seems, > > the scsi controller is not recognised. So I must follow this step, and > > insert the driver-1 floppy. After selecting yes, I get a dialog: > "Critical > > Error - Cannot mount the floppy. Stop" > > > > I'm guessing that is isn't the correct install sequence, but after reading > > the install manual (specifically chapters 5, 6 & 7) I still can't see what > I > > did wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > The system I am trying to install to is a Compaq Proliant 4500. It has a > > 5-disk scsi array controlled by a SMART raid controller in slot 1 of the > > EISA bus. There is also a NCR scsi controller embedded on the > motherboard, > > this is used for the CD-ROM and DAT drive. If anyone has done an install > to > > similar hardware, I would be interested to hear about any other problems I > > might expect. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >
Re: python2 and qt
sorry for not saying i have Sid, I've installed that package and can import it with no problems with python (from python-base), but not with python2 (python2-base) So do i have to build pyqt against python-2.x? TIA * Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: > > hi, simple q, maybe hard answer, here goes: > > how can i work with python2 and qt in debian? > Right now, for "stable"... build PyQt and Python-2.x yourself. > Sid has python-pyqt, built against Python-1.5.2.
Re: No bbox device for ghostscript?
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:40:26PM -0600, C Want wrote: > > Hi, > > I couldn't find the answer to this in the archives so I thought > I would ask on this list. > > The Debian ghostscript packages do not contain the bbox device for > computing the bounding box of a postscript file. > > Does anybody know why this device has been excluded? Is there > a quick fix to get this device or do I need to remove the > Debian ghostscript packages and install ghostscript from source? > > Any help with this would be much appreciated. The gs-aladdin 6.50-5 package in woody supports the bbox device. Bob
Re: [OT} Linux and reiserfs
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:18:13AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > Okay, I give. What's reiserfs? I keep reading it as "Rye Serfs" and > giggling. A journalling filesystem for Linux named after its creator, Hans Reiser. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com
Re: Installing Java
As far as java itself goes, there are blackdown java 2 packages at: deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian $DIST non-free where $DIST = either potato or woody apt-get install j2sdk Note that they are non-free. hth, -nicole At 16:41 on Jul 13, Juan combined all the right letters to say: > HI, > > Which packages will I have to install to run & compile Java? And run Java > Server Pages? > > Thanks. > > Juan Jos? Vel?zquez Garcia > Web Development > www.htmlspider.com.br > > >
RE: NFS alternative
Two possible suggestions: - tunnel the NFS traffic over an SSH traffic (similar to remote X sessions) - or set up a VPN j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Message- From: "Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 9:34 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: NFS alternative Hello everyone! Currently, I am using ssh/scp and NFS for syncing data between my woody desk and my FreeBSD thing. My question: is there a distributed fs that combines the advantages of both techs? as there are: NFS: mountable (more via combining with other things?) SCP: quite secure, may compress and crypt data What I want to have is a sys that allows me to mount a remote fs but having data compression and encryption enabled. --> Any ideas how to give NFS the features scp has (tunneling?) ? --> Any comments on or ideas for existing alternatives (heard something of CodaFS etc.) Thanx for a future discussion, greetz, Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X4 scrolling
Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:16:48AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > > No, that's not it. I want to be able to scroll AROUND the virtual > > screen and I can't. All I can see is the top left hand corner of it > > and it doesn't scroll like it used to. > Use the "Virtual" directive to force a virtual screen size. > SubSection "Display" >... >Virtual >... > EndSubSection For the fourth bloody time, I KNOW how to get the right virtual screen size. Imagine my virtual screen drawn here and the bit I can see drawn in 's. __ | | | | | | | | | | | | |_| Got it? This is what I -want- my set up to me and this is what my set up IS. With X version 3, I used to be able to put my mouse at the bottom or side of the XXX'd in section (my viewport) and the viewport would scroll down or across the virtual screen. With X 4.0.3 this isn't happening for me. I want it to happen. I can't, for example, ever get to the menu bar down the bottom of the virtual screen if I can't move the viewport down there! bekj extremely frustrated. -- : Usual state: (e) None of the above. : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : When you find yourself *judging someone*...look for what *in : yourself* you are *not yet willing to accept*...Hold that part : of you more gently! -- Robyn Posin
Re: dumb wav->mp3 question
Clarification ogg does not seem to be installable without a lot of trouble on stable systems. Only on unstable, or perhaps testing. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes: > > Better is to use the ogg format instead of mp3. Ogg is free. > It is also said to be technically better. Install vorbis-tools. > > Cheers, > > > Joost > -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 *
Re: dumb wav->mp3 question
But does not seem to be installable without a lot of trouble unless one is running unstable. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:30:18PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > what's the command to convert .wav files to mp3 format? > > You want "lame" for that. Look it up on google, also look for > "unoffical sources.list". Lame is not on the debian ftp site, > because there are patent problems. > > Better is to use the ogg format instead of mp3. Ogg is free. > It is also said to be technically better. Install vorbis-tools. > > Cheers, > > > Joost > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 *
Newbieish question
Please take pity :) I'm an extreme newbie to debian (having installed it for the first time about a week ago. I was assiged the task of setting up a 50 seat network, and since we're an edcuational institution, we have a really tight budget: the savings of not having to buy a $9 per person liscence are quite hefty. Unfortuantly, we'll still be using w2k clients. Now, not having my head completly buried in my ::cough:: I knew that samba could provide file sharing. Little did I know that samba-tng would provide good w2k access. This is my dilemma: to run samba-tng, I have to upgrade to "unstable." My mandate explictly states that downtime is *BAD*, very, very, very, bad. How risky is running unstable? What shouldn't I do? Should I upgrade to 2.4.6? (I'm running a home box as a testbed for this, so I'll be warned slightly in advance, but...) I'd love any advice or assistance. If anyone wants to help, or discuss this over lunch, I live in LA, and I'll be going to rochester, NY, for 3 days next week. I'd love to actually discuss this with someone who knows what they're talking about. Thank you, -Brian
Re: X4 scrolling
Mr. Oberin, You need to get off this problem and step out into the fresh air. Perhaps it will relieve your frustration :-). Not to mention the kind of trouble one can get into for blowing steam at volunteers. And oh, before you step out, could you please send us a copy of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? Perhaps we can try to recreate the problem for ourselves. Many Thanks, Andy On Sunday July 15 2001 21:45, Bek Oberin wrote: > Eric G. Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:16:48AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > > > No, that's not it. I want to be able to scroll AROUND the virtual > > > screen and I can't. All I can see is the top left hand corner of it > > > and it doesn't scroll like it used to. > > > > Use the "Virtual" directive to force a virtual screen size. > > SubSection "Display" > >... > >Virtual > >... > > EndSubSection > > For the fourth bloody time, I KNOW how to get the right virtual screen > size. > > Imagine my virtual screen drawn here and the bit I can see drawn in > 's. > > __ > > | | > | | > | | > | > | > | > |_| > > > > Got it? This is what I -want- my set up to me and this is what my set up > IS. > > With X version 3, I used to be able to put my mouse at the bottom > or side of the XXX'd in section (my viewport) and the viewport > would scroll down or across the virtual screen. > > With X 4.0.3 this isn't happening for me. I want it to happen. I can't, > for example, ever get to the menu bar down the bottom of the virtual screen > if I can't move the viewport down there! > > > > bekj > extremely frustrated.
pppd redial
Hi, I'm looking for a way to get pppd to try for n times to connect to my isp before giving up. The problem is that quite often, pppd dials, then noting happens for a little while then it stops - with a helpful "alarm" entered in the logs. I *think* this error corresponds to the isp not answering, but I'm not sure, since it doesn't the chat script is set to give a no answer error. anyway - sometimes I have to make it dial two or three times by hand - which is a pain. (btw - I don't mean a persistant connection that redials when it drops out) cheers dc Today people in droves hurry up past Heumoz to Villars on the road to the ski hills, so they can rush down them as fast as possible, so they can hurry up again in order to rush down again. In a way this is funny,... Francis A Schaeffer David Purton http://www.chariot.net.au/~dcpurton/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbieish question
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:11:38PM -0700, Brian Ballsun-Stanton wrote: > This is my dilemma: to run samba-tng, I have to upgrade to "unstable." My > mandate explictly states that downtime is *BAD*, very, very, very, > bad. How risky is running unstable? What shouldn't I do? Should I upgrade > to 2.4.6? (I'm running a home box as a testbed for this, so I'll be warned > slightly in advance, but...) You can compile package foo from source with "apt-get -b source foo", so that you don't have to dist-upgrade everything. Just put these lines in your "/etc/apt/sources.list": deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free Don't forget to "apt-get upgrade" :-) Hope this helps. Stephen Rueger -- Das fortwaehrende Dasein des Menschengeschlechts ist bloss ein Beweis der Geilheit desselben. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
