http_proxy with firefox?
does anyone know if firefox can use the http_proxy einviornment variable? Thanks, C -- "Feel free" – 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: http_proxy with firefox?
Hi!}} does anyone know if firefox can use the http_proxy einviornment variable?I don't know, sincerely, but i can tell you that i use the:SwitchProxy Toolthat is an extension for firefox that allow to change dinamically (without close & reopen firefox) proxy set. Hope it helps you!Bye
Re: Memory card reader on Etch
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 09:59 +0200, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > First of all thanks to all who replied. > Now I try to reply to all messages. I was hoping that you'd found the solution, and the two attachments were kernel patches! I also have this problem (Though I do not know if I have the exact same hardware...), however until the drivers are implemented, I keep a USB adapter and use a "Sandisk Ultra II SD card & USB" as my main SD card, which is an unbelieveably innovative product that allows you to use the same card into your usb port(Which is very convenient) :) (I must admit, it does feel _very_ fragile, but I'm impressed with it!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Odp: Re: Memory card reader on Etch
try to seek in /media/...
I had the same problem with an external
reader ("Trust" shipped with Windows driver only).
After some frustrating searches in "/dev/sdx",
"modconf" and web howtos I found it "just working"
as /media/DC_CANNON. This directory appears automatically when I insert
the stick into reader.
regards
Zbigniew
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Marcum)
2006-08-16 23:05
Do
DW
Temat
Re: Memory card reader on
Etch
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 04:05:50PM +0200, Mirto Silvio
Busico wrote:
> 02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB-710/2/4 Cardbus Controller
> 02:04.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Memory Stick Card
> Reader Controller
> 02:04.2 Class 0805: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Secure Digital Card
> Reader Controller
> 02:04.3 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc FLASH memory: ENE Technology
Inc:
> msb01:~#
> ...
>
> The last four lines seems to indicate that the card reader is working.
>
> Mybe I'm doing something wrong.
>
Do you see anything in /var/log/messages when you insert a card?
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Permission Help(deny others, allow group & Apache+Samba)
Okay need a bit of help, I have a single folder call /folder in my root partition, basically I have created the group folder and added my user and every user that needs access, the perms on the dir are -rw-rw---, This works fine via Terminal or SSH however I also need the Samba daemon to give the same users the same permissions and I also need the apache2 daemon to have full access to the files in /folder, when the perms are changed and the group is added Samba rejects access over a network and apache scripts accessing the folder fail miserably. I am not sure which users to add to group folder and what to modify to fix this problem up, I have googled my heart out and cannot figure this out can anyone give me some ideas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system-dependent variables
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:03:39PM -0700, Jeff D wrote:
> >>>How may this happen that the tiff image format is not supported on my
> >>>system?
> >>>I have installed these packages for tiff:
> >>>libtiff4 3.7.2-7 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library
Sorry for my mistake! I have libtiff4 version 3.7.2-7 too.
> and you might want to check your windowmaker binary:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldd /usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker | grep tif
>libtiff.so.4 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 (0x40336000)
This command give to me nothing:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldd /usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker | grep tiff
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> and you might also want to check out /usr/bin/wmaker , its a shell
> script that sets up the env for WindowMaker, and actually runs the
> windowmaker binary.. could possibly be some mixed up paths ..
I chack that and find the following:
- in $HOME/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/ there isn't Style/ but should
to be there, according to wm_style="$wm_base/Style" line in
/usr/bin/wmaker file.
But this is so mayhap the following command rename it:
rename_dir_if_possible "$wm_style""$wm_styles"
There I find one more thing:
copy_defaults_if_needed WindowMaker
copy_defaults_if_needed WMRootMenu
copy_defaults_if_needed WMState
#copy_defaults_if_needed WMWindowAttributes
Here I don't know what will happened if I uncomment the last line?
Mayhap have to do with my problem the following thing.
I try to reinstall zlib1g, because red from 'apt-cache show libtiff4'
that libtiff4 depend on it, and get error message:
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on
token `(' zlib1g
But, I try this once again, and then reinstalling zlib1g was OK.
I try now again to purge and reinstall wmaker.
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Re: system-dependent variables
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 06:18:50PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > Supported image formats: XPM PPM PNG JPEG > > And now, when there are these .tiff images, WPrefs can't load these > > .tiff images, because wmaker Version 0.91.0 not support tiff images. > Your version of wmaker does not support the .tiff format. > And I am running wmaker on Debian sarge and it has .tiff support. > One thing that I don't understand is that your wmaker is 0.91.0 while > mine is 0.80.2. > As it happens I installed sarge when it was still in "testing". That > might explain why you have a different version. > But in any case these symptoms suggest that: > > 1. There's a bug in the current wmaker .deb .. or > 2. apt didn't find .tiff libs on your system > Maybe not .. assuming that the problem only surfaced after you > installed the tarball version, I would assume that that is what broke > .tiff support. > Maybe it's as simple as the tiff lib's that are active on your system > are not compatible with wmaker 0.91.0. > Did you get any error messages when installing wmaker that might give > us a clue? No, I didn't get any error messages when installing wmaker neither with synaptic, nor with apt-get. > Are you able to open the .tiff's in the WPrefs.app directory using > something like: > $ display whatever.tiff Yes, I'm able to open with display (imagemagick) any image.tiff . -- Regards, Paul Csányi http://csanyipal.info/moodle <<<--- Moodle - Course Management System http://csanyipal.info:81 <<<--- sTeam - Cooperative Learning -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP: mysql_connect() undefined function
2006/8/16, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:24:44PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > Hi, > I am quite a newbie with PHP... > > I get this error message: > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in > /home/paolo/webs/mypic/s_page/guestbook.php on line 19 > > but I can use phpMyAdmin > > The same page works ok on another Apache serve. > > Any suggestion? > Yes. Please don't use PHP. Unless you are a very experienced and very disciplined programmer, it is far too easy to hack together some unmaintainable crap. Please use something more sane like Python or maybe even Ruby (though I know many people who do not care for the Ruby style). Second, please don't use MySQL (or at least MySQL-specific code). If you use Python, I would recommend you make use of the DB-API which allows you access any standard databse from your program (similar to ODBC, which is also an option in Python, though DB-API is actually included in the language now, IIRC). That way your app stays portable across database implementations. Regards, -Roberto Well, on my toy hosting service I haven't python or ruby, only mysql and php. I konw Python and I like it very much, but I think I cannot use any templating system (PSP or Cheetah, or whatever). Any idea about that? Moreover I want something that just works in little time, so PHP seems quite good. Greetings PAolo -- if you have a minute to spend please visit my photogrphy site: http://mypic.co.nr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP: mysql_connect() undefined function
2006/8/16, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:52:46PM +0200 or thereabouts, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > 2006/8/16, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:24:44PM +0200 or thereabouts, Paolo Pantaleo > >> Any suggestion? > > > >I suspect that php4-mysql isn't installed and/or activated. > > > >Therefore try 'aptitude install php4-mysql' or 'apt-get install > >php4-mysql'. > > Well I installed php5 (and php5-mysql), should I use php4 (I have testing) ? No. I find it very strange that PHPMyAdmin will connect to the same host though. This error you've received is indicative of PHP not able to connect to the MySQL socket, so it's very strange that it works with PHPMyAdmin connecting to the same host. Is the database on the same server as Apache ? Sorry, I'm out of ideas. -- Regards Stephen I think the error says that PHP doesn't know the function, not that there is an error executing the function. So, finally googling around I found the solution: in /etc/php/apache2/php.in I uncommented the line extension=mysql.so This is because [so I read] the mysql support is bult-in for version 4, but not for version 5. [I think another solution is to use php4, then] I hope this it could help Kevin too. Thnx everybody for the help PAolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kiosk firefox in debian?
Does anyone know how to set a kiosk FireFox in Debian? I'd like to make FireFox meet the following in Debian: 1) when Debian boots, the screen displaps FireFox with the default webpage; 2) not allow users to close, minimise FireFox; 3) not allow users to open new FireFox tab/window; 4) if there are no mouse/keyboard movements for 5 minutes, the FireFox resets itself to display the default webpage; Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kiosk firefox in debian?
Wei Hu wrote: Does anyone know how to set a kiosk FireFox in Debian? I'd like to make FireFox meet the following in Debian: 1) when Debian boots, the screen displaps FireFox with the default webpage; 2) not allow users to close, minimise FireFox; 3) not allow users to open new FireFox tab/window; 4) if there are no mouse/keyboard movements for 5 minutes, the FireFox resets itself to display the default webpage; Thanks. Check out http://www.neveprise.net/main.do?id=howto-misc-firefox-kiosk looks like it may help also... google Kiosk Firefox Kiosk... Google is your friend when using keywords and there are tonnes of resources from the search I did. Hope this helps. -Anthony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kiosk firefox in debian?
Anthony Hawkes wrote: Wei Hu wrote: Does anyone know how to set a kiosk FireFox in Debian? I'd like to make FireFox meet the following in Debian: 1) when Debian boots, the screen displaps FireFox with the default webpage; 2) not allow users to close, minimise FireFox; 3) not allow users to open new FireFox tab/window; 4) if there are no mouse/keyboard movements for 5 minutes, the FireFox resets itself to display the default webpage; Thanks. Check out http://www.neveprise.net/main.do?id=howto-misc-firefox-kiosk looks like it may help also... google Kiosk Firefox Kiosk... Google is your friend when using keywords and there are tonnes of resources from the search I did. Hope this helps. -Anthony That was google Kiosk Firefox Linux... my bad. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP: mysql_connect() undefined function
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 12:28:22PM +0200 or thereabouts, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: [...] > I think the error says that PHP doesn't know the function, not that > there is an error executing the function. > > So, finally googling around I found the solution: > > in /etc/php/apache2/php.in > > I uncommented the line > > extension=mysql.so > > This is because [so I read] the mysql support is bult-in for version > 4, but not for version 5. Exactly. My Google search on your behalf originally, stated such in much of the responses. Like I said previously, it wasn't enabled. The only difference is that you are using PHP 5, which you didn't detail in your original post. Anywho, good you've got it sorted. I still don't understand how PHPMyAdmin could have connected to it, if it wasn't enabled in the first place, web-server side. -- Regards Stephen + There is always one thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out. -- Joan Didion, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" + signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: PHP: mysql_connect() undefined function
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 12:28:22PM +0200 or thereabouts, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > > [...] > >> I think the error says that PHP doesn't know the function, not that >> there is an error executing the function. >> >> So, finally googling around I found the solution: >> >> in /etc/php/apache2/php.in >> >> I uncommented the line >> >> extension=mysql.so >> >> This is because [so I read] the mysql support is bult-in for version >> 4, but not for version 5. Take a look in your phpinfo. make a file with the follow code: There you can see your PHP-Configuration and which modules are enabled. You can also see the path of the modules. Check the path for your mysql extension and the socket path. PHP is connecting over the mysql.sock with the function mysql_connect(). PHPmyAdmin is connecting directly with the mysql.sock. i hope this can help you. Sorry my English is not the best :( Jan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE5GVRFxoGn/ckUGURAqliAJ9vDs3Dq48KJO1dspqBrz2lYSD3HgCfTLNV 5UpPsb8LX2uBQVaoKD5bQLs= =wxUi -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: http_proxy with firefox?
Von: "Mirco Piccin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi! > > }} does anyone know if firefox can use the http_proxy einviornment > variable? > > I don't know, sincerely, but i can tell you that i use the: > SwitchProxy Tool > that is an extension for firefox that allow to change dinamically (without > close & reopen firefox) proxy set. > Hope it helps you! > Bye I also use switch-proxy, which *is* nice. I have my laptop setup to automatically set the environment variable depending on where I am. KDE does a nice job and allows one to use the environment variables. I haven't figured out how to do it wich Firefox though... Thanks, Chris -- Echte DSL-Flatrate dauerhaft für 0,- Euro*. Nur noch kurze Zeit! "Feel free" mit GMX DSL: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How-to: Internet connection with cellular phone
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the present mini how-to I'm reporting how I connected my laptop to > internet using first a Motorola c350 mobile phone (gprs) > and a then a Nokia 6630 (gprs, edge and umts). The whole report is now present at: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=5016 Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How-to: Internet connection with cellular phone
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the present mini how-to I'm reporting how I connected my laptop to > internet using first a Motorola c350 mobile phone (gprs) > and a then a Nokia 6630 (gprs, edge and umts). The whole report is now present at: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=5016 Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED: Sound problems when using two sound devices
I have found on the alsa website the solution to this problem. Editing /etc/modprobe.d/sound the line options snd-emu10k1 index=0 to options snd-emu10k1 index=-15 did the trick. Sjoerd Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Hi, > > I have a SB Live installed on a motherboard with an on-board audio > device (VIA 8237). When I disable the on-board audio, my sound card > works fine. However, when I enable it, I get an error message during > boot and the arts sound server crashes when booting kde. I also cannot > use the SB live card anymore. > > Does anybody has an idea what is wrong? I have included some output from > dmesg below. If more information is needed, please tell me so I can > provide it. Thanks in advance for any help! > > Sjoerd > That is exactly what I have. In the kernel .config I have: ... CONFIG_SND_CA0106=m CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX=m ... My lsmod looks in part like: Module Size Used by ... snd_pcm_oss31648 0 snd_mixer_oss 13248 3 snd_pcm_oss ... snd_mpu401_uart 5440 1 snd_via82xx snd_ac97_codec 78560 2 snd_via82xx,snd_ca0106 snd_pcm63496 5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 16452 1 snd_pcm snd_ac97_bus1792 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_rawmidi16992 2 snd_ca0106,snd_mpu401_uart snd_page_alloc 6856 3 snd_via82xx,snd_ca0106,snd_pcm ... And my /etc/modprobe.d/sound: alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd_ca0106 options snd_ca0106 index=1 I note that on the via8237 I can play simultaneous sounds but on the ca0106 not. Other than that it works perfectly. H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Permission Help(deny others, allow group & Apache+Samba)
At 1155837967 past the epoch, Anthony Hawkes wrote: > I am not sure which users to add to group folder and what > to modify to fix this problem up, I have googled my heart > out and cannot figure this out can anyone give me some > ideas Apache2 runs as "www-data"; you would have to add www-data to the group which has access to this folder and restart apache. Note however that this means any script on the server that has a flaw in it might be exploited to read or write to this directory. If you need more fine-grained access control for web applications, take a look at the SELinux ACLs. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Built-In Wireless support
I tried the new Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop and it was able to detect and install the Linksys Realtek 8180 drivers for my wireless b card right off the bat. Despite a well polished Gnome Desktop, I still preferred Debian and decided to use Debian Etch since the release is only a few months away (I hope). Obviously, any proprietary drivers are not included with Debian, but I am curious as to how Ubuntu was able to do that? I use ndiswrapper to install the drivers I download from Realtek's website for my wireless card in Debian, but is there a way to create a custom kernel with support/modules for most of the wireless cards out there, even if it non-free? I'm pretty clueless when it comes to the Linux kernel side of GNU/Linux so please correct me if I don't know what I'm talking about. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache2 Manhattan Virtual Classroom
Simo,
Never mind, I found it! I was missing the ? At the end of the images
line. Geez! Syntax errors are a real stinker!
Thanks,
Cary
-Original Message-
From: Cary Pembleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:44 AM
To: 'Simo Kauppi'
Subject: RE: Apache2 Manhattan Virtual Classroom
Hi Simo,
I noticed the "image" does not display when I navigate to
http://www.franklin.pctechhelp.net/manhat-bin/doorstep
Are you able to see the Manhattan VC login graphic?
As far as the other domains, I am not concerned about this right now. I can
fiddle with that some other time. I will probably call the default site
something like marcie.pctechhelp.net or sally.pctechhelp.net, are you seeing
a pattern here? Probably not unless you're a really big Peanuts fan.
My entire internal network uses a Peanuts naming convention. :o) Thanks,
Cary
-Original Message-
From: Simo Kauppi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:58 AM
To: Cary Pembleton
Subject: Re: Apache2 Manhattan Virtual Classroom
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:16:41PM -0400, Cary Pembleton wrote:
> Simo,
> First of all I really appreciate the time, patience and effort you
> have given me on this.
Cary,
No problem, this has been very challenging and a good learning excercise for
me as well.
All this time I have thought that the main problem is to get the Manhattan
VC to work and that's why I have concentrated on that one.
I've been thinking that after your MVC is accessible, we can address the
problem of accessing the site from outside.
Now from this mail I noticed, that the MVC _is_ already working and the
problem is to access the site in general :)
If I point my browser to
http://www.franklin.pctechhelp.net/manhat-bin/doorstep,
I see the MVC login screen as expected :)
If I point my browser to
http://franklin.pctechhelp.net/manhat-bin/doorstep,
the server is not found, because I think it is not defined in any dns.
You should be able to access both addresses locally from the computer where
your apache is running.
Now, you need to decide, what you want to call your virtual sites. Your
configuration files are OK. Just remove franklin.pctechhelp.net from the
ServerAlias directive in the manhat-file. It doesn't hurt but it is
confusing.
Secondly, what you want to call your default site? It cannot be
franklin.pctechhelp.net, because that is reserved for the MVC!
Decide the names and put them into the dns. After that add a line ServerName
whatever.pctechhelp.net into the mydefault-file ('whatever' is the name you
decided to give your site).
Of course you can put the ServerAlias directive there as well. Just remember
that you can use certain name only one time!!
Then restart your apache, and you should be all set.
Simo
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Re: http_proxy with firefox?
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 14:49:37 +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote: > Von: "Mirco Piccin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi! > > > > }} does anyone know if firefox can use the http_proxy einviornment > > variable? > > > > I don't know, sincerely, but i can tell you that i use the: > > SwitchProxy Tool that is an extension for firefox that allow to > > change dinamically (without close & reopen firefox) proxy set. Hope > > it helps you! Bye > > I also use switch-proxy, which *is* nice. I have my laptop setup to > automatically set the environment variable depending on where I am. > KDE does a nice job and allows one to use the environment variables. > I haven't figured out how to do it wich Firefox though... If all else fails then you could tell firefox to use a pac file for proxy configuration. You can use a simple script to change this file (or redirect a symlink) depending on which network is detected. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500
Marc Shapiro wrote: CORRECTION: I just found hp-toolbox, which has a 'Supplies' tab showing the installed cartridges and should have the ink levels. But it does not seem to show any ink in either cartridge. The printer is printing fine, so I obviously DO have ink. Is there something that I am doing wrong? I have the latest HP Toolbox on a Windoze 2K machine and it also shows no ink when the printer is printing just fine. Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is the xserver-xorg configuration system broken?
Celejar wrote: Hi, On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:51:14 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russell L. Harris) wrote: Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm stymied about my inability to properly (re) configure my Xorg X server; I've googled and found people with similar problems, but no systematic solution or explanation. I figure I'll ask here before filing a bug report. # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg Thanks for the reply. My OP wasn't clear; I HAD tried 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' about a dozen times (purging and reinstalling, as the OP mentioned, was simply a more drastic step). The problem, as I mentioned, is that the config scripts don't *ask* any questions about monitor resolution or mouse device. The last time I reconfigured one of my machines I had exactly that problem with the monitor resolution question. I'm not sure if I solved it. It might have had to do with the choice of input level that you are asked the first time which I don't know how to reset. Paul Scott Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Built-In Wireless support
On Thursday August 17, 2006 10:14 am, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > I tried the new Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop and it was > able to detect and install the Linksys Realtek 8180 > drivers for my wireless b card right off the bat. > Despite a well polished Gnome Desktop, I still > preferred Debian and decided to use Debian Etch since > the release is only a few months away (I hope). > Obviously, any proprietary drivers are not included > with Debian, but I am curious as to how Ubuntu was > able to do that? I use ndiswrapper to install the > drivers I download from Realtek's website for my > wireless card in Debian, but is there a way to create > a custom kernel with support/modules for most of the > wireless cards out there, even if it non-free? I'm > pretty clueless when it comes to the Linux kernel side > of GNU/Linux so please correct me if I don't know what > I'm talking about. It's possible that Ubuntu has better hardware detection. I installed Debian Etch on a laptop and it did not detect some hardware, including the "winmodem" and Ralink RT2500 wireless interface. Then I tried Xandros with much the same result. Only Linspire and Freespire detected all the hardware and I did not have to fuss with any kernel modules. 8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is the xserver-xorg configuration system broken?
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 00:30:45 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:44:50 +0200 > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 00:10:16 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:30:37 +0200 > > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:31:41 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:51:14 -0500 Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Celejar writes: > > > > > > > I'm stymied about my inability to properly (re) configure my Xorg > > > > > > > X server; I've googled and found people with similar problems, but > > > > > > > no systematic solution or explanation. I figure I'll ask here > > > > > > > before filing a bug report. > > > > << Snip>> > > > OK, then we have to look at your hardware and which driver is currently > > used. Please post the output of the following three commands: [...] > Here are the command outputs: > > $ X -version > X Window System Version 7.0.0 > Release Date: 21 December 2005 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0 > Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.12-1-686 i686 > Current Operating System: Linux lucy 2.6.12-1-386 #1 Tue Sep 27 12:41:08 JST > 2005 i586 > Build Date: 16 March 2006 > Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org > to make sure that you have the latest version. > Module Loader present > > $ lspci | egrep -i '(vga|graphic|display)' > :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > 530/620 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (rev a3) > > $ awk '/Section "(Device|Screen)"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf > Section "Device" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > Driver "sis" > EndSection > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Default Screen" > Device "Generic Video Card" > Monitor "DXS:1313" > DefaultDepth16 [...] > SubSection "Display" > Depth 16 > Modes "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > I have a suspicion that my monitor's capabilities are being > misidentified, since when I tried manually adding a (gtf generated) > modeline for 1024x768 @ 60khz, the X log said it wouldn't be used > since the horizontal sync was outside the monitor's range - but I was > running 1024x768 before! Is it possible that it could have worked even > if the monitor doesn't officially support it? I have no experience with SiS video hardware, therefore I can only make general remarks: If you are unsure about the capabilities of your monitor you can try to find it on http://www.monitorworld.com/Monitors/ or to google for the model number. If you put the correct ranges for HorizSync and VertRefresh into the "Monitor" section of xorg.conf everything should be "safe". Maybe the ranges are currently specified too small and this prevents you from running at a higher resolution. Maybe the problem is with the ModeLine(s); it is easy to make a mistake there. I would try to comment out all of them and let Xorg pick the values according to the requested resolution and the specified monitor frequency ranges. All the systems I have set up in recent years have worked without any ModeLines in xorg.conf (or XF86Config-4). Then I would add "1024x768" as the first entry of all "Modes" lines in the "Screen" section and hope that Xorg can figure out the rest itself. -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache2 Manhattan Virtual Classroom
Simo,
Darn it! I am definitely suffering from fat finger keyboard syndrome today.
In the /etc/apache2/sites-available/manhat file I was missing the / at the
end of this line. I also had to change the custom.h file to reflect the new
page I created for the login URL's. It has #define EXIT_URL
"http://www.pctechhelp.net/Franklin.htm so all works perfectly now. Yippee!
We did it! Thanks again for all your help, I really did learn a lot about
this, heck I might even teach a class. "Into to Manhattan Virtual Classroom
Installation and Configuration", or "Intro to MVC Admin" for short. :o)
#Images Directory
Alias /manhat-images/ /home/manhat/manhat-3.1.0/images/
^
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride none
Allow from all
Cary Pembleton
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From: Cary Pembleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:18 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Apache2 Manhattan Virtual Classroom
Simo,
Never mind, I found it! I was missing the ? At the end of the images
line. Geez! Syntax errors are a real stinker!
Thanks,
Cary
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From: Cary Pembleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:44 AM
To: 'Simo Kauppi'
Subject: RE: Apache2 Manhattan Virtual Classroom
Hi Simo,
I noticed the "image" does not display when I navigate to
http://www.franklin.pctechhelp.net/manhat-bin/doorstep
Are you able to see the Manhattan VC login graphic?
As far as the other domains, I am not concerned about this right now. I can
fiddle with that some other time. I will probably call the default site
something like marcie.pctechhelp.net or sally.pctechhelp.net, are you seeing
a pattern here? Probably not unless you're a really big Peanuts fan.
My entire internal network uses a Peanuts naming convention. :o) Thanks,
Cary
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From: Simo Kauppi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:58 AM
To: Cary Pembleton
Subject: Re: Apache2 Manhattan Virtual Classroom
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:16:41PM -0400, Cary Pembleton wrote:
> Simo,
> First of all I really appreciate the time, patience and effort you
> have given me on this.
Cary,
No problem, this has been very challenging and a good learning excercise for
me as well.
All this time I have thought that the main problem is to get the Manhattan
VC to work and that's why I have concentrated on that one.
I've been thinking that after your MVC is accessible, we can address the
problem of accessing the site from outside.
Now from this mail I noticed, that the MVC _is_ already working and the
problem is to access the site in general :)
If I point my browser to
http://www.franklin.pctechhelp.net/manhat-bin/doorstep,
I see the MVC login screen as expected :)
If I point my browser to
http://franklin.pctechhelp.net/manhat-bin/doorstep,
the server is not found, because I think it is not defined in any dns.
You should be able to access both addresses locally from the computer where
your apache is running.
Now, you need to decide, what you want to call your virtual sites. Your
configuration files are OK. Just remove franklin.pctechhelp.net from the
ServerAlias directive in the manhat-file. It doesn't hurt but it is
confusing.
Secondly, what you want to call your default site? It cannot be
franklin.pctechhelp.net, because that is reserved for the MVC!
Decide the names and put them into the dns. After that add a line ServerName
whatever.pctechhelp.net into the mydefault-file ('whatever' is the name you
decided to give your site).
Of course you can put the ServerAlias directive there as well. Just remember
that you can use certain name only one time!!
Then restart your apache, and you should be all set.
Simo
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Re: two version pythons in my system
Wei Hu wrote: > my system has both pyton2.3 and python2.4. Is it safe to remove > python2.3 using apt-get remove. Just mark in the aptitude as "installed to satisfy dependencies" (M key) and it will go automagically, when the last python package you use switch to 2.4. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ 132822213 How many Bavarian Illuminati does it take to screw in a light bulb? Three: one to screw it in, and one to confuse the issue. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500
On Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:23 AM -0500, Paul Scott wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > > > > CORRECTION: I just found hp-toolbox, which has a 'Supplies' tab > > showing the installed cartridges and should have the ink levels. > > But it does not seem to show any ink in either cartridge. The > > printer is printing fine, so I obviously DO have ink. Is there > > something that I am doing wrong? > > I have the latest HP Toolbox on a Windoze 2K machine and it also > shows no ink when the printer is printing just fine. AFAIK, I also have the latest HP tools for my OfficeJet5500 on a Win2K box and it does show ink levels, but only when logged in as an administrative user :) Nice tool for some of the people some of the time. This is, by far, the worst printer software package that I have ever used. Aside from things that don't really work, it runs five persistent processes with a total of nineteen threads and takes up 26MB of memory. It was apparently written and (not) supported by their operation in Bangalore. I hope the Linux tools were not derived from this sorry package. On installs of the earlier versions of this software, many other functions only worked for an administrative user. When I called in to report this, they calmly told me, "We recommend all users run as administrator all the time". When I suggested that some people consider this a security issue, she ignored my comment and continued to the next helpful suggestion. This was a recipe for editing the registry to make _all_ items owned by the administrator downgraded to read/write/execute permissions for everyone. OK ... I can appreciate artful deviousness. It took me a while before I figured out she did not seem to understand my replies, except to determine whether I accepted her current suggestion. If I didn't, she just read me the next entry on her script sheet. This explains why it didn't sound at all like a normal conversation. By the end of the call, it was apparent that though she comprehended little English, she could read a prepared script with excellent diction, which was why she got the job. After escalating subsequent calls up the food chain, I learned that there are no tech support people to whom you can speak that have any real understanding of the products for that entire product line. There was no option of speaking to anyone in the U.S. concerning these products, and calls made to U.S. offices were quickly referred back to Bangalore. HP apparently doesn't want to know. -- Seth Goodman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Resend w/o att'ment: [Fwd: My video capture problem: avview requires a specific ffmpeg version]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am having trouble setting up video capture with my ATI Radeon 9200 AGP graphics card, using avview and ffmpeg. The primary reason is a problem with the ffmpeg version required to configure avview, as it requires ffmpeg version 0.4.8. I would be grateful if anyone can guide me through this problem. I have been following the recommendations on http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ installing km, ffmpeg and avview. During the ./configure --with-ffmpeg=/usr/src/ffmpeg-0.cvs20060329 I get the following error: checking ffmpeg version... *** AVview requires ffmpeg 0.4.8 If you are sure you are using correct version of ffmpeg check config.log for details The config.log shows nothing that I could work with (attached below). I have tried obtaining different versions of ffmpeg but the error remains the same. At one point I did try ffmpeg 0.4.8 but it failed to compile. A different source of avview failed to cure my problem. Any help will be gratefully appreciated!! Tim Running Linux debian (unstable) 2.6.17 (self-compiled) i686 GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE5KgDsUUdIDHrdAURArS7AJ9hvZzQ0u6TqzBTIEogC94BrUfjEgCfSUat wVvQ3yYmluvf9owqTc1NkBw= =yS4n -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: slow dns lookup
Hello Tyler, The router I use is the Netgear DG 834 and have had no problems with. Have a look on ebay and you should be able to get one for a good price. Check out the seller history first. In the router config setup I have the options of: Domain Name Server (DNS) Address Get Automatically From ISP : yes or no or Use These DNS Servers: thats the option I take and place my isp dns ip here. The client I use for the mailing list is kmail. I just use "reply" or reply to mailing list" Regards peter colton On Tuesday 15 August 2006 21:16, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi Peter, > > That's exactly what's happening: > > etch:/home/tyler# cat /etc/resolv.conf > # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by > resolvconf(8) > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN > nameserver 192.168.2.1 > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > search no-domain-set.aliant > etch:/home/tyler# > > 192.168.2.1 is the router I'm using, a speedstream 6520. I've used my > browser to poke around inside it, but I don't find anything relating to > dns resolution. Any suggestions? > > On another topic entirely - how do you reply to messages on this list so > that your reply shows up in the same thread in the archives? I'm not > subscribed (the volume is just too much!), so I do all my reading from > the archive site. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to send reply > posts without having them come up as new threads, or just plain disappear. > > Cheers, > > Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mini-DV with sd-card
On 2006-08-16, gustavo halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > My question is about the video format Mini-DV. This format is Linux > compatible? I my camera record the movie in a SD-Card, I will can play > the movie with MPlayer and encoded it to DVD format? > >Thank you, > Gustavo > > Most Mini-DV video cameras have a firewire (1394) port. If you add a firewire card to your computer and install the "kino" program, it can capture your video to a (large) .dv file. kino Help contains instructions on how to export the video and burn a DVD. This works on Sarge. Can an SD-Card hold a whole movie? If it could and the file were in .dv format, then you could bypass the firewire step. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to use d-i b3 with sarge?
Hi! Can I use the new debian-installer (beta 3, netinstall.iso) to install Sarge? The Sarge installer doesn’t recognize my hardware. If I boot in expert mode, I can select or enter a mirror and a proxy, but not a distribution. Or are there any Sarge installers with newer kernels available? Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan SeitzE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: mini-DV with sd-card
Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2006-08-16, gustavo halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello >> >> My question is about the video format Mini-DV. This format is Linux >> compatible? I my camera record the movie in a SD-Card, I will can play >> the movie with MPlayer and encoded it to DVD format? >> >>Thank you, >> Gustavo > > Most Mini-DV video cameras have a firewire (1394) port. If you add a > firewire card to your computer and install the "kino" program, it can > capture your video to a (large) .dv file. kino Help contains > instructions on how to export the video and burn a DVD. This works on > Sarge. > > Can an SD-Card hold a whole movie? If it could and the file were in .dv > format, then you could bypass the firewire step. Most mini-DV cameras that I'm aware of store the video to digital tape and then you can suck the data out via the firewire. As you've indicated, the raw digital video data is typically very large. I'd be highly surprised if the camera is storing the dv data onto the SD card. The SD card is most likely being used to store still shots (using the video camera as a snapshot camera). That's the way my camera works anyway. And I can report decent success in getting the video off it via firewire and being able to process it in kino. I'm using Debian Testing, but I see you've verified that all the pieces are available in Sarge. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Hey, this is the government. You just can't expect five 9s -- Chief Justice, on the Gore/Bush election's narrow margin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where can i get cedega package ?
>Downloaded the WineCVS script and ran it, asking for the bleeding edge user
>install (so I will not override my Sid wine).
>They are using some sort of funny (flex?) preprocessor and the file ppl.l
>"pops out" of this preprocessor prematurely so the c gives errors of stuff
>being undefined, redefined, invalid arguments, etc. The correct declarations
>are now out of scopt so the compile fails. Do not know how to fix.
>(the file has loads of stuff of form regular-expression and any one of
>tese may be at fault. There are also %% %{ %} notations which I thought may
>control the nesting level but I was unable to get anywhere with this.
Replacng flex with flex-old and starting clean will get their stuff to lex out
and the compilation to proceed ... until it gets to freetype.c. Stuff
undefined.
The configuration is looking at freetype2 directories. The first undefined are
apparently stuff no longer needed here. SO I made my own freetype.h (which
they neglect to #include) with the missing typedefs and got past that one.
Now, for SFNT_Interface. Found that one too but one cannot simply add
includes for these "internal" stuff. Got it all to include but the defiition
in the one .h file I have defining this stuff is NOT what they are using.
Looks as if their compile is for freetype-1 but the configuration is looking
in freetype2. I have no freetype1 sfnt.h. (It is on the X11R6 includes!)
Getting more of these (if there are any) must wait unting xwindows-system-dev
is once more in sync with its dependencies.
OK, it's cvs. To be expected. Their script for building it all is very cool
but one cannot tweek the configure using this. Maybe some of the problems
could be solved by configure with appropriate arguments and some CFLAGS
exports env. Maybe not.
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Re: slow dns lookup
Hello again Tyler, There is a way around the problem, you could set the machine up to have a static ip . check out the link http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/254 Or you could apt-get install etherconf "Description: debconf interface to Ethernet device configuration Etherconf is a debconf-based interface for configuring Ethernet devices on your system. It supports both manual and DHCP-based configurations." Regards peter colton On Tuesday 15 August 2006 21:16, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi Peter, > > That's exactly what's happening: > > etch:/home/tyler# cat /etc/resolv.conf > # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by > resolvconf(8) > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN > nameserver 192.168.2.1 > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > search no-domain-set.aliant > etch:/home/tyler# > > 192.168.2.1 is the router I'm using, a speedstream 6520. I've used my > browser to poke around inside it, but I don't find anything relating to > dns resolution. Any suggestions? > > On another topic entirely - how do you reply to messages on this list so > that your reply shows up in the same thread in the archives? I'm not > subscribed (the volume is just too much!), so I do all my reading from > the archive site. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to send reply > posts without having them come up as new threads, or just plain disappear. > > Cheers, > > Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting up the system
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:28:51AM -0300, Iuri Sampaio wrote: > I've installed on my machine a dual boot system, one to debian and other > windows. congratulations. > > > > But I reinstalled my windows OS and now I lost lilo boot loader and I can > boot my linux. > > yup. that happens a lot. you need to prepare in advance for the next time you have to reinstall windows (because you KNOW it will happen). Make your self a boot floppy with copies of the necessary files for your boot loader so that you can recover your MBR after windows destroys it. Your best bet is to make a GRUB boot floppy which you can use to boot into your debian system and then re-run update-grub and grub-install. > > Do you know a way to get into my debian box? Then I am able to install > lilo > over again on the master boot sector or even better to install it on a > floppy disk? > boot with a live cd like knoppix. you can then chroot into your debian environment and fix it up from there. There is lots of documentation in the web about this. try some googling. > I need mount my system up from the boot loader and install the lilo. > > > > > > Any clue? How do I visualize the partitions are one my hard disk and > their > names. if you boot into a live-cd, you can use any number of partition tools to look at your partitions. knoppix includes at least fdisk, cfdisk and qtparted and maybe more. > > I tried to get it through the CD Installation Boot. I ran the expert mode > installation and then the shell command. I ran cat/etc/fstab But I don't > have the devices hda/ and its respectives partitions. I have only the > CDRoom > partitions and names. > use fdisk from the installation cd. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Xorg causes FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO mode init failed if depth>16
I just upgraded from sarge to etch and the switch to Xorg did not work. It converted my config quite well, but it will only work if I set the depth to 16. 24-bit fails with the errors: (==) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument (EE) FBDEV(0): mode initialization failed I'm using the radeonfb driver with fbdev on my ATI Radeon 9800, see my config and full log at http://ir.iit.edu/~ej/xbug/ for details. After some searching, it doesn't seem like this is giving me enough information to debug. I've tried switching UseFBDev, increasing or getting rid of HorizSync or VertRefresh, adding the modeline it reports when I start in 16-bit mode, "CalcAlgorithm" "UseFrameBufferTiming", and depth 32 (which fails with (EE) FBDEV(0): Weight given (000) is inconsistent with the depth (32) ). Does anyone have any other ideas? Thanks, eric. -- http://ir.iit.edu/~ej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug in apt-get or hostapd?
Hi, I was upgrading hostapd from version 1:0.5.0-1 to 1:0.5.3-1 and apt-get says that hostap-modules is a suggested package. hostap-modules does not currently exist as part of Debian, and version 1:0.5.3-1 doesn't suggest it, but version 1:0.5.0-1 does, so I assume that hostap-modules existed when 1:0.5.0-1 was current. But what sense does it make for apt-get to suggest a package that no longer exists? Is this a bug in apt-get or hostapd? Celejar -- ssuds.sourceforge.net - Home of Ssuds and Ssudg, a Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to use d-i b3 with sarge?
On 8/17/06, Stephan Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Can I use the new debian-installer (beta 3, netinstall.iso) to install Sarge? The Sarge installer doesn't recognize my hardware. If I boot in expert mode, I can select or enter a mirror and a proxy, but not a distribution. The new debian-installer (beta3) has no support for sarge install[0]. Or are there any Sarge installers with newer kernels available? Yes, but keep in mind this isn't official! [1] [0] = http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata [1] = http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ regards, -- stratus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pronunciation of daemon
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 23:15, Ryan Tucker wrote: > I found in a pronunciation guide in a Greek dictionary that the > diphthong "ae" is pronounced with a long "e" sound so I think that you > should pronounce it demon. or deeemon even -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian install
Just installed base debian form 3.1r1 iso cdrom. I also installed gcc-3.4 with apt-get install. The /usr/include/stdio.h etc are missing, how do I install the header files. uname -a gives: Linux debian 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17... -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matrox M3D / PowerVR Series 1 - X Acceleration?
Hi, I've recently installed Debian onto my Cobalt Qube 2. I also installed KDE (and VNC) on to it, to see how well KDE would work. As it turns out, it's not too bad at all. The other day I was going through my drawers and amongst the junk, I found a Matrox M3D card. It's a PowerVR Series 1 based board, and was used under Windows as a complimentary 3D accelerator, and has no outputs of its own. As my Qube has a spare PCI slot, I was wondering if it was possible to use the card to accelerate X / KDE and take some load off the CPU / free up some system RAM. Doing an 'lspci' gives the following information for the card... ':00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: NEC Corporation PowerVR PCX2 [midas] (rev 01)' Is it possible to accelerate X with this, even slightly? I did a search of the mailing lists, but nothing turned up for any of my searches :( It would be cool if anyone can provide any advice or assistance (even if it's to put the card back in my drawer ;) Thanks, Owen Watson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.1/421 - Release Date: 16/08/2006 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian install
Hello Ishwar. > The /usr/include/stdio.h etc are missing, how do I > install the header files. Just install „libc6-dev“. Regards, Mathias signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Problem of Synaptic
Hi,When i used Synaptic to upgrade my software, i got the error:Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic as user root.Failed to communicate with gksu-run-helper.Received:Could not connect to databaseWhile expecting:gksu: waitingWhat's wrong. Any one can help me 网 易 邮 箱 带 你 率 先 跨 入 3G 时 代 ！ 3G 海 量 邮 箱 ，20 兆 超 大 附 件 ；网 络 记 事 本 ＋ RSS ＋ 大 容 量 网 盘 ，一 样 也 不 少
Re: booting up the system
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > boot with a live cd like knoppix. you can then chroot into your debian > environment and fix it up from there. There is lots of documentation > in the web about this. try some googling. You can use even installation CD from Debian. Before you get into partition business, 1) switch to other console (Alt+F2) and there you get a root prompt no, in this moment /etc/fstab doesn't make any sense, because you are still just on the ramdisk which Installation CD creates (remember, we are even before partition of the hard drive, so there may be even Windows on the hard drive) 2) orient yourself in the partitions with fdisk -l /dev/hda 2) mount /dev/hda1 /mnt 3) chroot /mnt 4) grub-install Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ 132822213 ..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property. -- John Locke, "A Treatise Concerning Civil Government" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iptables, ipp2p
Did you recompile your iptables too??? Check if exist the file /lib/iptables/libipt_ipp2p.so. Gilberto 2006/8/16, David Siroky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi! I successfully compiled ipp2p, modprobe doesn't print any message but everytime a try to use a rule with the ipp2p (e.g. "iptables -A FORWARD -m ipp2p --ipp2p -j DROP") it prints iptables: match `ipp2p' v (I'm v1.3.3). and "iptables -L prints" empty chains. Does anyone have some experience with this problem? Thank you. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Built-In Wireless support
but the winmodem driver is not open source software so it's against to the debian policyChristos
how can run linux (kernel and gui from ram)
Hello.. im going to buy a new pc with 4gb ram . id like to run whole system from ram : at boot that files will be cpd to ram disk and then the kernal will load from ramdisk : sevrel Question : can i some how change loaded kernal path : after boot remount it from other place. will Kde (or Xfce ) run faster if i run it from mem? (no read/write needed time). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: http_proxy with firefox?
Le jeudi 17 août 2006 16:25, Florian Kulzer a écrit : > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 14:49:37 +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote: > > Von: "Mirco Piccin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > }} does anyone know if firefox can use the http_proxy einviornment > > > variable? > > > > > > I don't know, sincerely, but i can tell you that i use the: > > > SwitchProxy Tool that is an extension for firefox that allow to > > > change dinamically (without close & reopen firefox) proxy set. Hope > > > it helps you! Bye > > > > I also use switch-proxy, which *is* nice. I have my laptop setup to > > automatically set the environment variable depending on where I am. > > KDE does a nice job and allows one to use the environment variables. > > I haven't figured out how to do it wich Firefox though... > > If all else fails then you could tell firefox to use a pac file for > proxy configuration. You can use a simple script to change this file (or > redirect a symlink) depending on which network is detected. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config You can also use a proxy, local to your machine, lightweight : tinyproxy. You can add a parent proxy to it's config (upstream server:port) with a script launched at network start. Configure all your browsers, environment variables and tools to use your local proxy. pgpI6jJcpwhZL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian install
Ishwar writes: > The /usr/include/stdio.h etc are missing, how do I > install the header files. Mathias writes: > Just install libc6-dev. You'll also want manpages-dev. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where can i get cedega package ?
I commented out the error lines.According to googled postings, they are obselete. Needed to comment the two declarations and where the variables would be used (error condition). I should probably put an assert in this place. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Permission Help(deny others, allow group & Apache+Samba)
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 03:10:05PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > At 1155837967 past the epoch, Anthony Hawkes wrote: > > I am not sure which users to add to group folder and what > > to modify to fix this problem up, I have googled my heart > > out and cannot figure this out can anyone give me some > > ideas > > Apache2 runs as "www-data"; you would have to add www-data > to the group which has access to this folder and restart > apache. Note however that this means any script on the > server that has a flaw in it might be exploited to read or > write to this directory. > > If you need more fine-grained access control for web > applications, take a look at the SELinux ACLs. > SELinux ACLs might be overkill for this. Standard ext2/ext3 or xfs ACLs would probably do the trick. He could even set something up to monitor the directory tree for new files or directories and then have it update the ACLs. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Built-In Wireless support
That's what I'm trying to figure out. Are the closed-source drivers for these devices compiled into Ubuntu or FreeSpire's kernels? If so, how is it done? How does Ubuntu get away with using them in their Kernel and yet remain free without any EULA? I know that (Lin)FreeSpire require you to accept an EULA but Ubuntu does not? --- Margiolas Christos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but the winmodem driver is not open source software > so it's against to the > debian policy > Christos > > > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP: mysql_connect() undefined function
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 12:17:11PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > > Well, > > on my toy hosting service I haven't python or ruby, only mysql and > php. I konw Python and I like it very much, but I think I cannot use Then find a better web host :-) Seriously, there are many web hosting providers out there providing Python and other server side scripting languages that are not PHP. Same thing on PostgreSQL versus MySQL. > any templating system (PSP or Cheetah, or whatever). Any idea about > that? > I know that Django works quite nicely for Python, but it requires the presence of a database, which may or may not be a problem for some people. There are many other excellent templating solutions for Python (I have heard), though I have not had much first hand experience with them. > Moreover I want something that just works in little time, so PHP seems > quite good. > And I would argue that Python would work even better if you already know it. :-) > Greetings > PAolo > Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: booting up the system
"Iuri Sampaio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >But I reinstalled my windows OS and now I lost lilo boot loader and I >can boot my linux. > >Do you know a way to get into my debian box? Then I am able to install >lilo over again on the master boot sector or even better to install it >on a floppy disk? > >I need mount my system up from the boot loader and install the lilo. > >Any clue? How do I visualize the partitions are one my hard disk and >their names. ... >I need to figure out where is which partition, for example something to >return to me like a df ËÉ on my hard disk would do it. Go to another machine, make yourself a GRUB boot floppy or a GRUB boot CD, and read the GRUB manual. Using the GRUB boot floppy or CD, you can explore all of your drives and see where everything is. You also can boot the system -- all without installing anything. Once you are ready to reinstall a boot loader, forget about LILO. Install GRUB. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian install
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:38:02PM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > Just installed base debian form 3.1r1 iso cdrom. > I also installed gcc-3.4 with apt-get install. > The /usr/include/stdio.h etc are missing, how do I > install the header files. > Any time you want to know which package contains a particular file, you can use apt-file (which is itself a separate package you must install) or you can browse to http://packages.debian.org and enter a filename (without a leading slash) and select and architecture and distribution and it will tell you which package (or packages if more than one) has that file. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: how can run linux (kernel and gui from ram)
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:51:12PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > Hello.. > im going to buy a new pc with 4gb ram . > id like to run whole system from ram : > at boot that files will be cpd to ram disk and then the kernal will load > from ramdisk : > sevrel Question : > can i some how change loaded kernal path : > after boot remount it from other place. > will Kde (or Xfce ) run faster if i run it from mem? (no read/write > needed time). > I don't mean to be negative, but your scheme makes little sense. The *only* thing that you will accomplish by running from RAM is that read/write times will be reduced. Now, you can't do this for all writes since you really need pretty much all of /var on disk so that a system or power failure does not completely trash every bit of your system state. Additionally, in the grand scheme things, you read from disk much more often that you write. You generally only write when some state is being saved to disk or when you save a file. Beyond that, nearly every other interaction with disk is loading programs, libraries or other files into memory. The Linux kernel has a very good memory manager. When you first start up your machine things like KDE and OpenOffice will probably take a bit of time to load. Now, if you leave your machine running all the time, then Linux will keep everything cached in memory. Since you generally only use a small percentage of what is installed on your system this works out quite well. What you want to do is give up much of your very fast RAM (I am guessing around 3 GB) to store your / and /usr at least) so that when you go to use something is quickly transfered from one part of RAM to another. Of course, you will now have much less RAM and Linux will spend time clearing out things from the remaining 1 GB to make room for other things that are loaded. Then the images for the new programs and libraries must be transferred back and forth. I would argue that you would lose overall performance. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: how can run linux (kernel and gui from ram)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jabka Atu wrote: > Hello.. > im going to buy a new pc with 4gb ram . > id like to run whole system from ram : > at boot that files will be cpd to ram disk and then the kernal will load > from ramdisk : > sevrel Question : > can i some how change loaded kernal path : > after boot remount it from other place. > will Kde (or Xfce ) run faster if i run it from mem? (no read/write > needed time). I don't think this makes sense, since the files must live on the hard drive anyway, for persistence. With 4GB of RAM, there should be very little disk usage anyway (only when you load the apps), which will accomplish your goal, but using a different method. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE5N6ES9HxQb37XmcRAteyAJ9EJ357agZTd2f01ZwEm93CSavyFQCdHEFm qGK+o0XLp3zKV5xPJqRGwJY= =gr4I -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Built-In Wireless support
On Thursday 17 August 2006 20:59, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > That's what I'm trying to figure out. Are the > closed-source drivers for these devices compiled into > Ubuntu or FreeSpire's kernels? If so, how is it done? > > How does Ubuntu get away with using them in their > Kernel and yet remain free without any EULA? I know > that (Lin)FreeSpire require you to accept an EULA but > Ubuntu does not? There is a GPL'd driver for the Ralink RT2400 and RT2500 but I am not certain Linspire or Freespire use that driver. I think the difference between distributions is the hardware detection. http://sourceforge.net/projects/rt2400 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how can run linux (kernel and gui from ram)
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:51:12 +0200 Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello.. > im going to buy a new pc with 4gb ram . > id like to run whole system from ram : > at boot that files will be cpd to ram disk and then the kernal will > load from ramdisk : > sevrel Question : > can i some how change loaded kernal path : > after boot remount it from other place. > will Kde (or Xfce ) run faster if i run it from mem? (no read/write > needed time). Knoppix has a 'toram' option, it will run in 1gb of ram. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system hang
my system has begun to hang momentarily, every .5 minutes or so, e.g., when typing the echo will lag. Another new thing I see in the system is the following message at boot time: Executing: blockdev --setra 256 /dev/hda1 proc not found in PARTITIONS. /proc not found in PARTITIONS. Checking proc against HD because PARTITIONS contains "auto". Considering /dev/hda. Considering /dev/hdb. Considering /dev/hdc. Considering /dev/hdd. Considering /dev/hde. Considering /dev/hdf. Considering /dev/hdg. Considering /dev/hdh. Considering /dev/sda. Considering /dev/sdb. Considering /dev/sdc. Considering /dev/sdd. Considering /dev/sde. Considering /dev/sdf. Considering /dev/sdg. Considering /dev/sdh. sysfs not found in PARTITIONS. /sys not found in PARTITIONS. Checking sysfs against HD because PARTITIONS contains "auto". Considering /dev/hda. Considering /dev/hdb. ETC i also see hdparm being executed in the same messages, although I can't find anything that looks like it is causing the disk to spin down at frequent intervals. also, i ran 'atsar', and it shows what seems to be normal disk activity, e.g., writing to and closing a file in a perl script is reflected in the atsar output as an immediate disk hit. Just prior to the appearance of this problem I installed the suspend2-related software; suspend2 support was in the kernel out of the box, but I had to install other stuff to get the system to acutally suspend. as far as i can tell nothing related to suspend2 happens unless i run a script to do the suspend. Kernel is (2.6.16.4). The machine is a toshiba satellite 1135. Any feedback would be appreciated. Tom Arnall north spit, ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problems while making java package using fakeroot
To install the Java from Sun, I was following the steps given here: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/debianjava.htm When I do the fakeroot command to make the deb package out of the java bin file I had previously downloaded, I get this kind of output: $> fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin .. .. .. inflating: jdk1.5.0_08/man/ja_JP.eucJP/man1/rmic.1 inflating: jdk1.5.0_08/man/ja_JP.eucJP/man1/serialver.1 inflating: jdk1.5.0_08/man/ja_JP.eucJP/man1/idlj.1 Creating jdk1.5.0_08/lib/tools.jar Creating jdk1.5.0_08/jre/lib/rt.jar Creating jdk1.5.0_08/jre/lib/jsse.jar Creating jdk1.5.0_08/jre/lib/charsets.jar Creating jdk1.5.0_08/jre/lib/ext/localedata.jar Creating jdk1.5.0_08/jre/lib/plugin.jar Creating jdk1.5.0_08/jre/lib/javaws.jar Creating jdk1.5.0_08/jre/lib/deploy.jar mkdir: cannot create directory `/etc/.java': Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory `/etc/.java/.systemPrefs': No such file or directory touch: cannot touch `/etc/.java/.systemPrefs/.system.lock': No such file or directory chmod: cannot access `/etc/.java/.systemPrefs/.system.lock': No such file or directory touch: cannot touch `/etc/.java/.systemPrefs/.systemRootModFile': No such file or directory chmod: cannot access `/etc/.java/.systemPrefs/.systemRootModFile': No such file or directory /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 435: /etc/mailcap: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/share/icons/HighContrast': Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/share/icons/HighContrastInverse': Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/share/icons/LowContrast': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/pixmaps/sun-java.png': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/icons/HighContrast/48x48/apps/sun-java.png': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/icons/HighContrastInverse/48x48/apps/sun-java.png': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/icons/LowContrast/48x48/apps/sun-java.png': No such file or directory /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 583: /usr/share/mime-info/java-archive.keys: Permission denied /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 584: /usr/share/mime-info/java-archive.keys: Permission denied /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 585: /usr/share/mime-info/java-archive.keys: Permission denied /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 586: /usr/share/mime-info/java-archive.keys: Permission denied /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 587: /usr/share/mime-info/java-archive.keys: Permission denied /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 588: /usr/share/mime-info/java-archive.keys: Permission denied /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 591: /usr/share/mime-info/java-archive.mime: Permission denied /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 592: /usr/share/mime-info/java-archive.mime: Permission denied /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 595: /usr/share/application-registry/java-archive.applications: Permission denied /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 596: /usr/share/application-registry/java-archive.applications: Permission denied /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 597: /usr/share/application-registry/java-archive.applications: Permission denied /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 598: /usr/share/application-registry/java-archive.applications: Permission denied /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 599: /usr/share/application-registry/java-archive.applications: Permission denied /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 600: /usr/share/application-registry/java-archive.applications: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/share/icons/HighContrast': Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/share/icons/HighContrastInverse': Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/share/icons/LowContrast': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/pixmaps/sun-java.png': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/icons/HighContrast/48x48/apps/sun-java.png': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/icons/HighContrastInverse/48x48/apps/sun-java.png': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/icons/LowContrast/48x48/apps/sun-java.png': No such file or directory /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 583: /usr/share/mime-info/java-web-start.keys: Permission denied /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 584: /usr/share/mime-info/java-web-start.keys: Permission denied /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line 585: /usr/share/mime-info/java-web-start.keys: Permission denied /home/red/tmp/dat/jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin: line
Re: Help obtaining kernel module for video driver [savage.ko]
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 04:29:08 -0400, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: I am running debian-testing on linux 2.6.8 on an IBM T23 laptop. This ... ... I searched the computer and savage.ko is nowhere to be found. What's the best way to obtain this module under debian? I have a full kernel source ... I am on Sid with linux-source-2.6.17 and the savage DRM code is included. When I run "make menuconfig" I find it under -> Device Drivers -> Character devices -> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) -> Savage video cards CONFIG_DRM_SAVAGE: Choose this option if you have a Savage3D/4/SuperSavage/Pro/Twister chipset. If M is selected the module will be called savage. You can check if this option is available at all for your version of the kernel: $ grep -i savage /boot/config-$(uname -r) # CONFIG_DRM_SAVAGE is not set # CONFIG_I2C_PROSAVAGE is not set # CONFIG_I2C_SAVAGE4 is not set # CONFIG_FB_SAVAGE is not set Otherwise you might have to upgrade to a newer kernel. Thanks for your reply. I decided to upgrade my kernel since it was old anyway. I used make-kpkg on the source tree that comes with the debian package linux-source-2.6.16 (My apt-get can't find a 2.6.17 version), which seemed to work. However, my resulting kernel was not bootable. I installed initrd-tools and ran: mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16_10.00 2.6.16 That made an initrd image. Then when I booted into it, I got many pages of the error that /lib/modules/2.6.16/modules.dep was not found, and a kernel panic. Only there is a modules.dep file. Here is a listing of the directory: deepblue:/lib/modules/2.6.16# ls -l total 888 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug 17 18:05 build -> /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.16 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Aug 17 18:05 kernel -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184013 Aug 17 18:05 modules.alias -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69 Aug 17 18:05 modules.ccwmap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 155119 Aug 17 18:05 modules.dep -rw-r--r-- 1 root root813 Aug 17 18:05 modules.ieee1394map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root394 Aug 17 18:05 modules.inputmap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21223 Aug 17 18:05 modules.isapnpmap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 160987 Aug 17 18:05 modules.pcimap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root883 Aug 17 18:05 modules.seriomap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 89576 Aug 17 18:05 modules.symbols -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 249064 Aug 17 18:05 modules.usbmap lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug 17 18:05 source -> /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.16 Googling doesn't help. I'm afraid I don't know what to do next. Thanks again for your valuable help. -Brandon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Matrox M3D / PowerVR Series 1 - X Acceleration?
Hi Owen, Believe it or not, I still have one of those cards and the original drivers CD. Upon investigation I noted it did not seem to have any Linux drivers on it :o(, so my guess is without having the appropriate drivers to make the 3D active, you may as well put it back in your drawer or use it for an old WIN98 ancient gamer box. If I find anything more I will post it to you. Regards, Cary Pembleton -Original Message- From: Owen Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:17 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Matrox M3D / PowerVR Series 1 - X Acceleration? Hi, I've recently installed Debian onto my Cobalt Qube 2. I also installed KDE (and VNC) on to it, to see how well KDE would work. As it turns out, it's not too bad at all. The other day I was going through my drawers and amongst the junk, I found a Matrox M3D card. It's a PowerVR Series 1 based board, and was used under Windows as a complimentary 3D accelerator, and has no outputs of its own. As my Qube has a spare PCI slot, I was wondering if it was possible to use the card to accelerate X / KDE and take some load off the CPU / free up some system RAM. Doing an 'lspci' gives the following information for the card... ':00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: NEC Corporation PowerVR PCX2 [midas] (rev 01)' Is it possible to accelerate X with this, even slightly? I did a search of the mailing lists, but nothing turned up for any of my searches :( It would be cool if anyone can provide any advice or assistance (even if it's to put the card back in my drawer ;) Thanks, Owen Watson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.1/421 - Release Date: 16/08/2006 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing Sarge from source
Hi, All. A crazy idea came to me to install Debian Sarge 3.1r2 from source. I bought that 3DVD set, but found that there is no installer on those disks... Q1: in general, what is the process of installing debian from source? Q2: in the readme on the first disk I read that I should start the installation from Binary CD #1... So I should also have the binary DVD-Set or maybe just the first disk of the set? Q3: can I use my Debian Sarge 3.1r0a binary set for that? Q4: maybe I can just use some mini-distribution like DfS to load the debian-installer and proceed with my source-disks? Thanks alot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VMWare, how to access host share?
Hi How can I access my host shares from under Linux within WMWare? My host's samba and share folders are working fine -- I can access my host shares from win2k guest OS. But I just don't know how to access it from Linux guest. - I used to use "nmblookup \*" to look what's out there, but that failed to show me anything. - I also tried to use "smbclient -L ", but that fails too. - I can't seem to find such simple instruction on the Internet. please help. thanks tong PS. The Linux guest that I used trying to access host is Elive 0.4.2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help obtaining kernel module for video driver [savage.ko]
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 18:34:57 -0400, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 04:29:08 -0400, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> >>I am running debian-testing on linux 2.6.8 on an IBM T23 laptop. This
> >>...
> >>...
> >>I searched the computer and savage.ko is nowhere to be found. What's the
> >>best way to obtain this module under debian? I have a full kernel source
> >>...
> >
> >I am on Sid with linux-source-2.6.17 and the savage DRM code is
> >included.
[...]
> >CONFIG_DRM_SAVAGE:
> >Choose this option if you have a Savage3D/4/SuperSavage/Pro/Twister
> >chipset. If M is selected the module will be called savage.
[...]
> Thanks for your reply. I decided to upgrade my kernel since it was old
> anyway. I used make-kpkg on the source tree that comes with the debian
> package linux-source-2.6.16 (My apt-get can't find a 2.6.17 version),
> which seemed to work. However, my resulting kernel was not bootable. I
> installed initrd-tools and ran:
>
> mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16_10.00 2.6.16
>
> That made an initrd image. Then when I booted into it, I got many pages
> of the error that /lib/modules/2.6.16/modules.dep was not found, and a
> kernel panic. Only there is a modules.dep file. Here is a listing of the
> directory:
[ snip: the directory listing looked normal to me ]
> Googling doesn't help. I'm afraid I don't know what to do next.
First of all, there is one thing to keep in mind if you want to use
newer kernels on Sarge: You need a different version of udev if the
kernel version is greater than 2.6.12 (or thereabouts). This makes
upgrading to a newer kernel a bit nasty, since it is kind of a one-way
street. Before compiling yourself I would recommend to install a newer
kernel for your architecture from www.backports.org. This should take
care of the udev issue automatically because the backported kernels have
the necessary dependency fields. The hotplug package will be removed in
the course of this and it should be purged afterwards. The backported
kernel should already have the savage drm module which you need.
Your problem with your self-compiled kernel is probably an initrd issue.
The kernel package should normally take care of all that automatically
if you make sure you do the following:
1) After you have untarred the linux source, cd to its directory and run
either "make menuconfig" or "make oldconfig". This will import the
kernel configuration of the currently running kernel. (You could also
copy the config file manually from /boot/config-your.kernel.version
to .config in the linux source directory.)
2) "make-kpkg clean" to start from a clean slate.
3) "make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom1 --revision=00
kernel_image" will compile the kernel and build a .deb package in
/usr/src. You can of course choose your own name for "-custom1"and if
you compile more than once (with different configurations) you can
increment the --revision number.
4) Finally you can install the .deb of the freshly-compiled kernel with
"dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.16-custom1_00_.deb". ("" is the
identifier for your architecture.) This will automatically build the
initrd for you and will update grub (or lilo) so that you can select
the new kernel when you reboot. Your other installed kernels remain
available in the boot menu so that you can fall back on one of them
if there should be a problem with the new kernel.
Following steps 1) - 4) I never had to mess with the initrd, the module
dependencies or the bootloader myself; the new kernels always "just
worked". Once you have successfully compiled your own kernel with the
standard Debian configuration you can of course start to optimize the
settings: Remove unused modules to decrease compile time, select options
which improve the responsiveness, etc.
--
Regards,
Florian
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Re: Installing Sarge from source
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:34:01PM -0700, Shadow wrote: > Q1: in general, what is the process of installing debian from source? > Q3: can I use my Debian Sarge 3.1r0a binary set for that? > Q4: maybe I can just use some mini-distribution like DfS to load the > debian-installer and proceed with my source-disks? You will have to have a running copy of Debian sarge to be able to compile the sources; the debianised tarballs will require specific dependencies to build them. So, if you /really/ want to do this, install from the binary CDs, and then compile the sources. Some hints to get you started: apt-get install build-essential apt-get build-dep libc6 apt-get -b source libc6 Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 Linoleum - Linux Programming Resources: http://linoleum.leapster.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dvd rewriter won't burn dvd-r double layer media
hi list, I just bought a new dvd rewriter, lg gsa-4166b. In my first attempts to write dvd's, k3b won't write to dvd-r double layer. I asked k3b to generate rock ridge extensions, as well as joliet. I didn't chose udf. In the advanced dialog, I chose 'allow 103 character joliet...' and 'allow untranslated iso9660...'. It seems k3b recognizes my drive well, and it run a config again, in the first boot with the new device. The problem is, after hitting 'burn', k3b spends some 5 - 10 minutes eating all my cpu, then it starts 'writing', but fails with something like 'drive reports this media as non-recordable'. K3b's error log follows, removed the irrelevant part. I have to try to figure what part is failing, if any, so I can return the drive in due time, if I'need to. The drive is this one: http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/262 http://www.lge.com/products/model/detail/gsa-4166b.jhtml Before changing to this drive, I had a gsa 4160b working perfectly. Support to dvd-r double layer was the main reason for the change, so you might guess how unhappy i am now :(... thanks for any inputs! By the way, this is sarge. More sysinfo goes below. k3b error log: System --- K3b Version: 0.12 KDE Version: 3.5.0 QT Version: 3.3.4 Kernel: 2.6.8-2-k7 Devices --- HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GSA-4166B 1.02 (/dev/hdd, ) at /media/cdrom1 [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM; DVD-ROM; DVD-RAM; DVD-R; DVD-RW; DVD-R DL; DVD+R; DVD+RW; DVD+R DL] [DVD-ROM; DVD-R Sequential; DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential; DVD-RAM; DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite; DVD-RW Sequential; DVD+RW; DVD+R; DVD+R Double Layer; CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96P; SAO/R96R; RAW/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R; Restricted Overwrite] LG DVD-ROM DRD8160B 1.01 (/dev/hdc, ) at /media/cdrom0 [CD-ROM; DVD-ROM] [DVD-ROM; CD-ROM] [None] K3b --- Size of filesystem calculated: 4376021 Used versions --- mkisofs: 2.1-unofficial-iconv growisofs: 5.21 growisofs --- :-( /dev/hdd: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: 10015 growisofs command: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:4376021 -use-the-force-luke=dao:4376021 -dvd-compat -speed=4 -overburn mkisofs ...(removed)... mkisofs command: --- /usr/bin/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -volid 1o_dvd-r_DL_8.5GB_20060817 -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.20 (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher 1o_dvd-r_DL_8.5GB_20060817 -preparer K3b - Version 0.11.20 -sysid GNU-LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-bruno/k3bXvqtrb.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-bruno/k3by3Hxta.tmp -joliet -joliet-long -hide-joliet-list /tmp/kde-bruno/k3brX94ka.tmp -udf -untranslated-filenames -disable-deep-relocation -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-bruno/k3bts0h9b.tmp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help obtaining kernel module for video driver [savage.ko]
Brandon Kuczenski wrote: ... Thanks for your reply. I decided to upgrade my kernel since it was old anyway. I used make-kpkg on the source tree that comes with the debian package linux-source-2.6.16 (My apt-get can't find a 2.6.17 version), which seemed to work. However, my resulting kernel was not bootable. I installed initrd-tools and ran: mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16_10.00 2.6.16 That made an initrd image. Then when I booted into it, I got many pages of the error that /lib/modules/2.6.16/modules.dep was not found, and a kernel panic. Only there is a modules.dep file. Here is a listing of the directory: deepblue:/lib/modules/2.6.16# ls -l total 888 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug 17 18:05 build -> /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.16 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Aug 17 18:05 kernel -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184013 Aug 17 18:05 modules.alias -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69 Aug 17 18:05 modules.ccwmap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 155119 Aug 17 18:05 modules.dep -rw-r--r-- 1 root root813 Aug 17 18:05 modules.ieee1394map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root394 Aug 17 18:05 modules.inputmap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21223 Aug 17 18:05 modules.isapnpmap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 160987 Aug 17 18:05 modules.pcimap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root883 Aug 17 18:05 modules.seriomap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 89576 Aug 17 18:05 modules.symbols -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 249064 Aug 17 18:05 modules.usbmap lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug 17 18:05 source -> /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.16 Googling doesn't help. I'm afraid I don't know what to do next. Thanks again for your valuable help. -Brandon This might be tedious (depending on whether you've cleaned up your kernel compilation or not), but have you run make-kpkg --initrd linux-image since installing initrd-tools, and tried installing the resulting .deb file with dpkg -i and booting into that image? Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Built-In Wireless support
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 22:40 +0300, Margiolas Christos wrote: > > > but the winmodem driver is not open source software so it's against > to the debian policy > Christos Ubuntu is also particularly pedantic in this regard. You may be able to use the Ubuntu kernel packages on the debian system, if you take care in realising that the Ubuntu kernels use udev (While your debian system might not) - Realise also that this is an entirely unsupported configuration! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"/etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied"
(Please first cc to me, if i got a reply i will switch to reading the archive) Hello, This is Debian Sid, and since a few months i got this error message (sent via local mail): /etc/cron.daily/man-db: find: /var/cache/man: Permission denied and i just can't come up with any explanation. Perhaps somone can give me a hint ? This is what i can find so far: /var is mounted as: /dev/hda10 on /var type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro) The permissions are: drwxr-xr-t 17 root root 4.0K 2006-04-02 03:00 /var drwxrwxr-x 26 root root 4.0K 2006-08-12 20:49 /var/cache/ drwxr-sr-x 16 man root 4.0K 2006-08-18 00:06 /var/cache/man The last one contains: drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2004-05-25 02:03 cat1 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2004-05-15 16:49 cat2 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2004-05-15 16:49 cat3 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2004-02-02 10:48 cat4 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2004-05-24 02:25 cat5 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2003-07-23 02:36 cat6 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2004-03-11 07:47 cat7 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2004-05-25 02:03 cat8 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2004-05-17 04:07 cat9 drwxr-sr-x 3 man root 4.0K 2006-08-18 00:06 fsstnd -rw-r--r-- 1 man root 2.0M 2006-08-16 00:15 index.db drwxr-sr-x 3 man root 4.0K 2006-08-18 00:06 local drwxr-sr-x 3 man root 4.0K 2006-08-18 00:06 oldlocal drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2002-03-18 13:08 opt drwxr-sr-x 7 man root 4.0K 2006-05-07 15:58 X11R6 None of the subdirectories of /var/cache/man contains any file, (besides some index.db ). Apparently, manpages are stored in /usr/hsare/man, instead, but that has drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4.0K 2006-05-28 13:00 man/ on all levels. - Which seems a little bit weird to me; but /var/cache/man seems to have been installed by package man-db, too. I can see man-db 2.4.3-3 and manpages 2.34-1 are installed. Well, maybe that's not actually Sid but 'testing' since i downgraded the sources list to 'testing' some week ago, but it will last some more weeks until a full turnover, and the error message was sent afterwards and all the time anyway. The cron.daily script will re-create a missing /var/cache/man with exactly the existing permissions: if ! [ -d /var/cache/man ]; then # Recover from deletion, per FHS. mkdir -p /var/cache/man chown man:root /var/cache/man chmod 2755 /var/cache/man and /etc/crontab has all cron scripts running as root. Maybe this here is the bit of the script which leads to the error ? start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /dev/null --startas /bin/sh \ --oknodo --chuid man -- -c \ "find /var/cache/man -type f -name '*.gz' -atime +6 -print0 | \ xargs -r0 rm -f" I have lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-07-24 18:21 /bin/sh -> bash* The 'man' command is aliased for 'root' by a function here (invoking pinfo) but i assume system calls it always by full path: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2006-08-12 20:50 /usr/bin/man -> ../lib/man-db/man -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 85K 2005-09-21 14:23 /usr/lib/man-db/man So...what ? ° /\/
Re: kiosk firefox in debian?
hello Wei, Below are a few links that should be of help to you with making firefox to suit your situation. The work you need to do is on the browser.jar file for firefox. The bottom link is for a script that will kill firefox and restart it. this is done through xscreensaver. To edit the .jar file I have found that emacs dose the job well. There is no need to unzip the .jar file with emacs and the find option is usefull to tracks down the lines you want to comment out. http://www.unc.edu/~payst/?p=2 http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Writings/TechNotes/firefox.menus.html InactivityScript http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/bin/view/Linux/InactivityScript Regards peter colton On Thursday 17 August 2006 12:37, Wei Hu wrote: > Does anyone know how to set a kiosk FireFox in Debian? > I'd like to make FireFox meet the following in Debian: > 1) when Debian boots, the screen displaps FireFox with the default webpage; > 2) not allow users to close, minimise FireFox; > 3) not allow users to open new FireFox tab/window; > 4) if there are no mouse/keyboard movements for 5 minutes, the FireFox > resets itself to display the default webpage; > Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "/etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied"
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:16:08 +0200 Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /etc/cron.daily/man-db: > find: /var/cache/man: Permission denied Cron likely runs with no (or low level) permissions. > /var is mounted as: > /dev/hda10 on /var type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro) > Hmm. nosuid on mounts may just not honor the set user id for executables. On the other hand, the manual page tells me that nosuid makes it ignore suid bits. (see man mount). So, semantically, those permissions are just rwxr-x-r-x, and even if yuur user is in the 'root' group, he cannot view the directory contents (because 'x' in a directory means permission to enter & view the contents). First, try mounting /var without the nosuid part. > The permissions are: > drwxr-xr-t 17 root root 4.0K 2006-04-02 03:00 /var > drwxrwxr-x 26 root root 4.0K 2006-08-12 20:49 /var/cache/ > drwxr-sr-x 16 man root 4.0K 2006-08-18 00:06 /var/cache/man OK, that's the same permissions that are set on my 'etch' box. And, even though 'dfox' is not a member of the root or man groups, user dfox (that's me) can run 'find man' in /var/cache/, which lists all subdirectories underneath man, or find . inside man, which lists a number of directories where local man pages are kept (that's what the directory is for, by the way). Even so, the permisions would seem correct (the third r-x is "other", and since I am not a "man" :) or a "root", I am an "other", and this is all good, because I can view files (-r) or go into the directorty (-x) but an unable to write anything therein. > drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4.0K 2006-05-28 13:00 man/ > > on all levels. - Which seems a little bit weird to me; but > /var/cache/man seems to have been installed by package > man-db, too. All my man directories (under /var/cache/man) are set like: drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 48 2005-11-12 05:24 cat1 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 48 2005-11-12 05:24 cat2 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 48 2005-11-12 05:24 cat3 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 48 2005-11-12 05:24 cat4 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 48 2006-05-07 06:30 cat5 I don't see that the system is working, for one - see the dates on those directories? The way this ought to work (and I thought it did) was for example, a hypothetical user looks at a frequently used man page (like man ls). Since it takes more time to process the man page than display it, a local copy is in /var/cache/man/ (in this case, cat1) for later perusal. Man would see that a processed page was in the appropriate place, and display it. After a time, the old entries in those cache directories would be deleted. But, I have 0 bytes in all directories, and an overall usage of 1464K, because of a large index.db. (That file was changed 2 days ago.) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "/etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied"
"David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Hmm. nosuid on mounts may just not honor the set user id for | executables. On the other hand, the manual page tells me that nosuid | makes it ignore suid bits. (see man mount). So, semantically, those | permissions are just rwxr-x-r-x, and even if yuur user is in the 'root' | group, he cannot view the directory contents (because 'x' in a | directory means permission to enter & view the contents). I see, some years ago I configured /var in fstab like: /dev/hda10 /var ext2 owner,exec,errors=remount-ro and though i knew i din't think too much about that 'owner' implies nosuid. | First, try mounting /var without the nosuid part. (How do i trigger a normal cron man-db run ?) ... I'll see tomorrow. | The way this ought to work (and I thought it did) was for example, | a hypothetical user looks at a frequently used man page I seem to remember in the past one got asked at installation time if manpages should be cached that way, or not, and i used to asnwer yes. But AFAIKR there wasn't such a question at the last etch install i did (few days agao). Maybe they ditched it altogether. Thanks for your suggestion, i'll report if it worked. micha ° /\/
Re: Help obtaining kernel module for video driver [savage.ko]
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote:
1) After you have untarred the linux source, cd to its directory and run
either "make menuconfig" or "make oldconfig". This will import the
kernel configuration of the currently running kernel. (You could also
copy the config file manually from /boot/config-your.kernel.version
to .config in the linux source directory.)
2) "make-kpkg clean" to start from a clean slate.
3) "make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom1 --revision=00
kernel_image" will compile the kernel and build a .deb package in
/usr/src. You can of course choose your own name for "-custom1"and if
you compile more than once (with different configurations) you can
increment the --revision number.
4) Finally you can install the .deb of the freshly-compiled kernel with
"dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.16-custom1_00_.deb". ("" is the
identifier for your architecture.) This will automatically build the
initrd for you and will update grub (or lilo) so that you can select
the new kernel when you reboot. Your other installed kernels remain
available in the boot menu so that you can fall back on one of them
if there should be a problem with the new kernel.
This was mostly what I did before, with the exception of --initrd. It
works now. Thanks.
Unfortunately, another email to come.
-Brandon
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Disable ACPI on modern kernel?
Recently I was forced to upgrade my kernel. I am now running 2.6.16 with an imported configuration from 2.6.8. My hardware is an IBM T23 Laptop, which does not function well with ACPI. I am running with ACPI in the kernel, but disabled at boot (--acpi=off) and APM as a module. This is identical to the arrangement I was running in 2.6.8. Unfortunately, now ACPI loads anyway and 'modprobe apm' returns "No such device." On boot, dmesg fills with ACPI errors but boots normally. I thought that --acpi=off would disable ACPI, and on 2.6.8, it did. However, now it doesn't. Do I have to recompile my kernel AGAIN? How else can I prevent ACPI from seizing my power management? Shutting down the laptop every day is a serious drag. It took me about 16 hours to solve this problem for 2.6.8-- in fact, this exact problem is the reason I elected to compile the kernel myself, because it was SOLVED-- and I'm really upset that I have to do it again. Thanks for any suggestions. -Brandon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disable ACPI on modern kernel?
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: Recently I was forced to upgrade my kernel. I am now running 2.6.16 with an imported configuration from 2.6.8. My hardware is an IBM T23 Laptop, which does not function well with ACPI. I am running with ACPI in the kernel, but disabled at boot (--acpi=off) and APM as a module. This is identical to the arrangement I was running in 2.6.8. Unfortunately, now ACPI loads anyway and 'modprobe apm' returns "No such device." On boot, dmesg fills with ACPI errors but boots normally. My apologies, everyone. My mistake was as simple as it was pernicious: grub's arguments don't take --dash prefixes. Simply running with "acpi=off apm=on" works. Sorry for the spam. My frustration clouded my mind. -Brandon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to prevent the creation of hardware icons on desktop on boot
Hello... i just install knoppix into my hdd and then upgraded it to debian-unstable. each time i boot my user some icons are created on my desktop : icons for mounting harddisks. i tried deleting the files but each boot they are recreated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
