possible IDE hard disk problem
Hello all.
I am getting the following error messages on my thinkpad (along with
nasty crashes):
hda: dma_intr: Status=0x51 { DriveReady Seek Complete Error }
hda: dma_intr: Error=0x40 { Uncorrectable Error }, LBAsect=35053408,
sector=5184
end_request: I/O error, dev=03:09 (hda), sector 5184
My web search revealed a few people saying this meant someone's hard
drive was failing, so I've ordered a replacement hard drive and am
backing up the entire contents of my hard drive to another computer
(just in case...). The computer (and thus hard drive) is now one and a
half years old, which seems like a short lifetime for a hard drive,
except that I leave it on constantly, and have been using ext3, so it
hasn't been spinning down.
My kernel is 2.4.20, which I compiled just recently, so another
explanation would be that the new kernel is causing IDE problems.
Prior to this kernel I was on 2.4.17, I believe. For the moment I've
turned off my swap, thinking that that should make hard disk errors
less likely to simply freeze up the system. I just won't run X in my
unstable chroot...
Any suggestions, advice or wisdom?
David Roundy (hoping someone can tell me that when my new drive arrives
I can just save it for a rainy day)
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IDE hard disk problem...
Hello everyone. I've been getting the following error message (repeatedly,
but with different sectors):
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2620329, sector=2620256
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 2620256
This has been accompanied by occasional system freezes. My web search came
up with some messages from people advising that this indicates a hard disk
failure, and that the solution is to replace it. However, I also recently
switched from kernel 2.4.19 to 2.4.20, and haven't yet gotten around to
going back to see if the same problem happens with my old kernel.
The computer is a thinkpad x21 (or x20?). I can't think of what other
information would be helpful. I've turned of my swap in the hope that that
would stabilize the system a bit (using the theory that an IDE error on
page fault must be worse than on simple file system access). I'm also in
the process of backing up the whole drive (rather than just home and etc),
just to be on the safe side.
Any suggestions, advice or wisdom?
--
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org
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Re: IDE hard disk problem...
sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > out of curiosity, has the value for > > CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE > > changed between these two kernels? No, it's been unset in all my kernels. > also, have you tried messing around with hdparm at all (perhaps finishing > that backup first is in order:)? I've just tried one change with hdparm, disabling DMA, which had no effect. That is, it didn't fix the problem. I've also now tried rebooting with various old kernels, and seem to see the problem on pretty much all of them. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
error running apt-get update
Hello. Yesterday I got the following error when running apt-get update: ... Fetched 77.4kB in 33s (2284B/s) Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing libscrollkeeper0 (NewFileVer1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. My system is a mixed bag of woody and sid. I'm not sure what other information would be useful here. My version of libscrollkeeper0 is Version: 0.3.6-3.1. Any suggestions how to deal with this would be great. Oh, and I get the same error when I run apt-get upgrade, which isn't too surprising. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [offtopic] latex question (correct question)
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 07:11:14PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Excuse I press the send button accidentally > > > Hi all, > I know that this isnt a LaTeX list but I didnt find in Google nor LaTeX >newsgroup. > I have an document in LaTeX that I put a lot of conf files (/etc/*) inside it. > I'm using verbatim to include these files but it is giving me a lot of > Overfull \hbox > How to fix this? Ignore them would be my recommendation, unless you have a problem with being unable to see the contents of the files. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading kernel 2.2 to 2.4.19
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 12:26:14PM -0400, Srinivas Nyayapati wrote: > Hello > > I just finished net installing Debian 3.0 on my pc. But after > installation I realized that the kernel is still ver 2.2 > How can I upgrade to ver 2.4.19. I know I can do this by editing my > /etc/apt/sources.list file with the location for the the new kernels. > Can somebody tell me where I can point to. When I do a - > > apt-get update > apt-get -u dist-upgrade > > now, I get 0 packages upgraded. apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't upgrade you to a new kernel (and generally you wouldn't want it to, since to upgrade to a new kernel you'd have to reboot... well I guess you can tell I'm used to workstation computers that are always left on). You want to install kernel-image-2.4.19-686 (or whichever processor you have). -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: integrity checkers
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:18:08PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > thanks for the information. 1:0:0:0 for aide it is. i'd be interested > in people with samhain and integrit experience. I've used both aide and integrit. integrit I found a little easier to set up nicely, but aide is also nice. Aide has nicer formatting of the emails of changes which it sends you. I played with samhain for a while, and it has some very nice features, but I never could get it working properly. The problem was that it is so paranoid that it doesn't use any other utility, which means if you want it to email the changes to you, you have to configure its own mailer program. This is where I failed. I never went back to it because samhain isn't in woody. If I remember right, it had the nice feature that it ran as a daemon process and could thus remember what changes it had already reported without modifying the on disk catalog of file hashes. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ msg02034/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sfs-problems
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 02:43:39PM +0200, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > i would like to get a sfs-client running and installed the appropriate > packages. however when i run sfscd i get the following. > NFS: NFSv3 not supported. > NFS: cannot create RPC transport. > > i have nfs-common installed. i read on the sfs-homepage that i need a > newer kernel. i still have an older (from potato) 2.2 kernel, although i > upgraded to woody. is this the problem here? do i have to install a newer > kernel? Yes, that is correct. I think a newer 2.2 or a 2.4 kernel with NFSv3 support included is all you need. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alternatives To NFS?
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 03:06:21PM +0200, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > > just another question. what about sfs? is it a nfs-alternative and what > is the difference to afs? sfs indeed can be used as an alternative to nfs. It is (in my experimence) rather easier to set up that coda (which I think may be comparable to afs). It is also much more closely related to nfs, in that it doesn't try to do any offline availability or caching. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I get my USB mouse working?
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 04:15:09PM -0400, Richard Spillane wrote: > I JUST installed Debian, but can't start X until I have a pointer device. > In slackware it was easy, the install did it for me auto-"magically". Now > for some reason, Debian didn't, so I need to know how to get my USB mouse > working! Help! I would try running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and when it asks about your mouse, tell it /dev/input/mice for the device (rather than the default, which is /dev/psaux). This will also prompt you for a bunch more info on your X configuration, and will overwrite any existing config (after asking, of course), so use it with caution. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sqrt C function
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 12:37:45PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Paul Scott wrote: > > > > > Well that may date me a little even though I am actively programming at > > > this moment. I will research this a little more. My logic would be it > > > would break the rules of the language to assume that conversion. > > > > I don't see how. I see it as a legitimate compiler optimization. If you > > have "double f = 4;", and you compile 4 as a double-precision value > > rather than as an int (which would then require an immediate > > conversion), how could that possibly break a program? > > Very simple: double f = 4 may be converted to eg. 4.01234, > and any test for (sqrt(f) == 2.0) will fail. Of course if your (generic > "you", not personal) code is like that, you probably shouldn't be playing > with floats. Actually, any 32 bit int will be exactly converted into a double with no loss of precision... As far as the language definition goes, if you say double f = 4, the language assures you that the '4' will be converted to a double format. Whether it is done at compile time or at runtime makes no difference. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: shutdown permission to users?
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:49:19AM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: > > /etc/shutdown.allow doesn't seem to work to well, or at > least as you might expect. The easiest thing I have found > is to use sudo and set command aliases in /etc/sudoers to > limit users to the specific commands (and command forms) > that I want to allow. I believe the man pages are pretty > good for explaining, as I recall. Can't you use a file /etc/pam.d/halt, to set permissions for halting? This may be a vestige left over from my previous linuxppc distribution, though... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: booting into xdm
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:20:21PM -0700, bob parker wrote: > I'm very new to Debian (Potato r3) and very impressed > with the stability. My install defaulted to booting > into xdm which I do not want as I prefer using the > command line for a lot of work. > > I got around this by mv'ing /etc/init.d/xdm to > ...xdm.bak. Very much a kludge I think. A better way would be to rename /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm to s99xdm or something. There is a utility to do this, but I don't remember what it is called. This is assuming you boot into runlevel 2. This way you can just switch to runlevel 3 (`init 3`) to get xdm if you want it. > What is the better way? Also how may I get back to the > command line when using xdm? All the way back, not > just using virtual terminals under X. You just type ctrl-alt-fN where N is 1-6. Although I'm not sure what you mean by virtual terminals under X (xterms, perhaps?). This gives you virtual terminals, but they are not under X. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: Debian
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 06:49:29PM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote: > >>>>> "Tandex" == Tandex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tandex> I am new to debian and I wonder what is difrent betven US > Tandex> and non-US debian? > > G'day Tandex, > > The US has some draconion exporting laws. i.e. It's illegal to export > encryption software from the US even if that software was originated > outside the US. More accurately, US used to have these draconian export laws. The laws have changed, but debian still has its crypto stuff in non-US. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: using different mailfolders in mutt
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 06:31:06AM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:52:46PM +0200, stephan kulka wrote: > > Hello all > > > > I would like to filter my incoming mail in different folders in mutt. What > > should I do? (rtfm with an url or document are welcome as well). > > Use procmail. > http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ > http://www.dicas-l.unicamp.br/hotlinks/Correio_Eletrxf4nico/Procmail/ Then tell mutt that you have multiple mailboxes, so it'll know to check for new mail in them. It's very handy. e.g. mailboxes > =debian =inbox =etc... Then you can hit 'c' and then space to rotate through the boxes with new mail in them. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: creating updated debs
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:14:41PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Sometimes it's possible to download the package source from testing or > > frozen and build and install that. It keeps you from having to make a new > > package, and is a mostly automated process. > > I'm using testing right now. Is their a way I could download from sid > w/ apt-get and not edit my /etc/apt/sources.list every time? Well, if you didn't mind compiling (which would probably be a good idea), you could just specify the sid source four dec-src, and then use apt-get -b source to make your debs. It should be relatively easy, as long as the build dependancies are satisfied (which you'd have to do anyways, if you wanted to compile the package by hand). -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: problems with intellimouse explorer USB
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:44:00PM -0500, Juan Antonio wrote: > I have installed debian woody but I still use kernel 2.2.19 (the one > which is installed with floppy disks) I installed Xfree 4.x.x (the ones > that come with woody). And they do not recognize my mouse. So I can?t > execute xf86cfg. When I execute xf86config and asks me for the dev entry > for my mouse I do not know what to answer. And there is no /dev/mouse > entry in /dev dir. I would guess it would be /dev/input/mice. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: X server can't find mouse
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:45:46PM -0700, David wrote: > If problems persist, you may want to consider dumping gpm all together. It > was giving me problems once upon a time, and I've never missed it any time > I've removed it. It doesn't seem to provide much functionality beyond the > ability to use your mouse in console mode, which seemed fairly worthless to > me. Someone can probably tell you a much better use for the thing, but it > never did much for my comp. Well, that alone seems pretty valuable to me! But then, I've got a frame buffer console with pretty nice resolution, and it's so nice to be able to copy between one virtual console and the other. I could live without X pretty easily, with gpm... just my $.02. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: mutt and an nfs mounted home directory
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:29:48AM +0200, Leonardo Macchia wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 21:36:35 -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > > > but when I run mutt on the client machine, it tells me that the > > mailbox is read only. > > Maybe it's a problem of file locking: mutt try to lock the mailbox but > does the server support file locking? Do you use knfsd > (nfs-kernel-server) or nfsd (nfs-server) on server? knfsd provides file > locking, nfsd does not. If you cannot change servers' settings/config, > try to mount nfs with "nolock" option. I've had that problem out work. Our solution was to compile mutt without the 'fctlock' option (or something like that). I don't remember offhand, but you could just try ./configure --help, and should be able to figure it out. This is good if you don't know how to (or can't, in my case) change the nfs setup. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: install problems on an lcIII
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:43:44PM -0500, Troy Elseth wrote: > > Ive ran linux before on an x86, but this has me baffeled. I want to get > linux going on an old Mac lcIII, but i have no internet software on it > and I can't for the life of me get a boot floppy working. I have a > floppy but no cdrom on this thing. The only other computer i have is a > pentium 2 500 running windows 2k. Well an LC III is an old nubus computer, so the standard debian kernel won't work at all. You'll need to look for a kernel that supports your nubus hardware, which may be difficult, I certainly don't know where you'll find one. You'll probably have better luck asking at debian-powerpc. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: Yet another apt/deselect question
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:54:24AM +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: > > > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > > My questions are: > > 1. Why do the unresolved dependancies prevent apt from > > updating other packages that have nothing to do with these? > > apt-get will tell you why, if you force it to install it with > > apt-get install Also, you could find out which packages were not upgraded if you had used apt-get -u upgrade. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: apt-get update problem
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:44:43PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > > I'm doing a simple basic apt-get update and it produces no available > file. This used to work ok but for some reason no new available file is > created anymore. I got rid of the old one with dpkg --clear-avail but it > did not help. The system is potato on intel hw. Some error message should > appear?! Some different sources.list entries were tried with same > results. > > charlotte:/var/lib/dpkg# apt-get update > Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/main Packages > Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/main Release > Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/contrib Packages > Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/contrib Release > Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/non-free Packages > Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/non-free Release > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > charlotte:/var/lib/dpkg# ll available > -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Aug 29 15:08 available It looks to me like apt-get update hasn't found anything new, and thus has no reason to update the available file. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: Detecting Network connections...
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 07:35:32AM -0500, Andrew M. Davenport wrote: > Unfortunately you can't really ping a remote host until after you have > configured the interface, which is what I want to avoid. You could use mii-tool, which when run without arguments returns false if there is no wire plugged into the ethernet (or if the other end isn't plugged in). I'm not sure where you would do the checking, though. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 07:01:40PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote: > > 2, 3 & 4 mean Coda is not suitable for what I want to achieve. I'll just > have to accept the limitations of NFS and replicate all the partition > mounts at the client end. I'm not quite clear on what you want to acheive, but it seems like you could avoid the symlink problem by simply exporting the / directory, and then chrooting into it on the other computer (which would make the symlinks work). Of course, then you'd be chrooted into it, which quite likely isn't what you want... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: working icq client for debian?
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:42:50AM +0100, Andreas Leitner wrote: > > Or is there some other icq client in debian that supports the new > protocol? I've been using licq without any problems. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: CD Writer
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:43:54PM +0900, Howland, Curtis wrote: > I would be interested to discuss things with someone who is using a CD > writer under Debian. > > I don't need anything flashy, a USB connected device would be best from > a convenience standpoint, but are there any non-obvious problems? Here > in Japan, USB CD-RW drives are easy to get, but I would like to > short-cut my search if there are a few Debian-friendly brands or types > to specifically look for. I have an Acer USB CD-RW drive, which works fine for me. The USB mass storage driver pretends USB drives are scsi drives, which seems to work quite well. > Yes, I'm running the 2.4.12 kernel. I had a few problems with an older kernel (2.4.10), as there have been a fair number of USB fixes recently. I think 2.4.12 should be fine, although you may need to move to a more recent kernel (I'm not sure). Anyhow, my guess would be that any USB drive you get will work. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: usb mass storage problem
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 11:25:04AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > > Well, all seems fine! But how can I fdisk the usb storage device and > repartition it? > > It doesn't mapping to /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc Hmmm. I can confirm that it should be /dev/sda (assuming you don't have a real scsi disk as well). But alas, I have no idea what else you could try. Sorry. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: compiling .debs for potato on woody
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:22:22AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > As a last resort you can make a chroot environment on the woody machine > on which you will install whatever is needed to build the deb in > question. With this you'll have a potato environment on which you can > make the potato deb. > > Hopefully there are automatic tools for the job and/or simpler > solutions. There is: pbuilder. It sets up a chroot build environment in which it compiles a package. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ pgpcfpQVAf2LV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Games - A question
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 05:07:28PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: > > I was talking to a friend about the Alpha Centari port by Loki, it is > for payment binary only as I understand it. Is this an anathema because > there is no source code? Could it be that it is sensible because a game > is an end in itself, unlike an editor, compiler or browser which are > tools that it is reasonable to want to modify? > > If the source code is there then in a multiplier game, how can you be > sure that your opponent has not tilted his client to enhance his game > play? I haven't heard of a commonly played closed source online game in which people have been unable to cheat one way or another. I'm not sure how it's done, but I know in all the games I've played (not many) there are always cheaters who give themselves extra minerals, duplicate powerful items or whatever. The problem is when the game designer assumes (usually for speed reasons) to assume that the client can be trusted. Well, if the source code is there, you could check to see if it is possible to modify the client to cheat. But with an open source game, you can at least see where the separation between client and server is, and may not have to depend on trusted clients. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: What's a debian kid look like?
American white male, 28. Hopefully will file my physics PhD thesis today at UC Berkeley. (Theoretical solid state physics, for the curious). Play classical guitar (but not well). -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: mutt setup help, please
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 08:34:38AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm migrating from an HP-UX workstation, as my primary machine to a woddy > box. I'm also migrating from elm to mutt for my MUA. > > I use fetchmail to retrieve my mail, which then hands it to procmail, which > in turn filters the mail useing the SpamBouncer (tm) recipies. Under this > system mail from mailing lists gets stored in ~/mail/list_allias. Using elm > on the HP, when I hit c (fro change folder) I can enter a "=" and see a > directory of the ~/mail directory. I can then move around and select the > desried mailbox file. > > How can I configure mutt to do something similar? With mutt, using the default keybindings, I believe that hitting tab two or three times instead of '=' should do the trick. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: How to enable EXT3 FS on 2.4
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 02:17:00AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I did following to enable ext3 fs on my system. If there are better > way, let me know. (kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp) > > # apt-get update; apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp > ... > # tune2fs -j -i 0 /dev/hda1 > # tune2fs -j -i 0 /dev/hda2 # ... For all EXT2 FS which moves to EXT3 > # cd /etc; mv fstab fstab.old > # sed 's/ext2/ext3/g' fstab I would make this # sed 's/ext2/ext3,ext2/g' fstab So that you can still mount the partitions as ext2 if ext3 isn't available (e.g. using an older kernel or whatever). > # shutdown -r now > ... reboot and, at prompt by initrd image, type RETURN > # insmod jbd > # insmod ext3 # depmod ext3 may take care all > # insmod ext2 > # ^D > ... Now I get system on ext3 fs (/,...) Do you really need to reboot? It seems that you could just insmod ext3 and then `mount -o remount` the relevant partitions. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: usb mouse [added some detail]
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:29:11PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:25:06PM -0700, Jason Majors scribbled... > > How do I get a USB mouse to work? > > I'm running Sid with kernel 2.4.17, and have enabled: > > > > CONFIG_INPUT > > CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV > > CONFIG_USB > > CONFIG_USB_UHCI > > CONFIG_USB_HID > > > > I have an Asus K7VE with the KT133 chipset and a Logitech USB mouse. > > > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > Figured I should actually list my problem... > > I got the kernel compiled and running, but the help under the kernel > tool said the mouse should be available as /dev/input/mouseX. That does > not exist and my guess attempt at MAKEDEV didn't work. > Where is the device? Or how do I create it? Actually, you should use /dev/input/mice, which I believe includes all the mice, just in case you plug in a few of them. $ grep input /dev/MAKEDEV input) echo input ;; $0 $opts input input) mkdir -p input makedev input/js$i c $major $i $mouse makedev input/mouse$i c $major `math $i + 32` $mouse makedev input/event$i c $major `math $i + 64` $mouse makedev input/mice c $major 63 $mouse Thus, MAKEDEV input. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: syntax of interfaces file
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 03:28:01AM -0800, faisal gillani wrote: > Thank you all for telling me about the resolv.conf > file .. > also i want some help on the interfaces file > > well i added an interface after i install linux .. but > now i have to ifconfig manullay everytime i boot .. i > want to put its setting in this interface file which @ > this time only have entry for the loopback interface > .. so anyone share how can i put setting of my eth0 > adapter ? man interfaces In short, you sound like you're missing a line auto eth0 -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: shutdown/halt as user
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:05:27AM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > According to David Wright: > > > Stuff like this doesn't belong in sysvinit. It belongs in an > > > optional package that can call shutdown, not in shutdown itself. > > > Let alone in the halt binary! > > > > Fine, I wouldn't object. > > > > But I would point out that (1) you don't loose any modularity with a pam > > layer, since you can configure pam to require or not require just about > > anything you want > > A PAM layer to do what? Currently, halt doesn't *have* anything > like an interactive dialog built in. It isn't setuid. It's not > meant to be called by users. > > That is the stuff that doesn't belong in halt. You might as well > build an interactive shutdown dialog into /bin/mknod, that would > make just as much sense. PAM can do a lot more than just interactive stuff. I would want to make it so that shutdown can only be run by users on the console (or root, perhaps). Is there some way to do this other than using pam? -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: Mouse Jumps Sometimes
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 03:29:15PM -0800, David Frey wrote: > My mouse (a logitech optical wheel mouse) has one problem. Every once > in a while, the cursor will "go crazy" and shoot into one of the corners > of the screen. It returns to normal after a few seconds. This is > *REALLY* annoying when I'm playing Unreal Tournament because all of a > sudden I'm staring at a spinning ceiling :-) Are you running gpm? If so I would try turning that off, as it can sometimes cause the symptoms you describe. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: spamassassin. CAREFUL ON UPGRADE
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:15:08PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > * Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Feb 15. 2002 18:59]: > > > > [Hey Cam, you're not wrapping at 72, AFAICS. ] > > > I'm using emacs, which is supposed to be wrapping at 70. At least, it > > tries to assure me of this every time I fire it up. :-P > > Surely I'm not the only one seeing the above as a single line? Your > messages aren't wrapped at 70 over here. No, you're not crazy, I see it as a long line also! -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: spamassassin. CAREFUL ON UPGRADE
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:01:52PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 08:07:49 -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > > See auto-fill in help. My .emacs file contains: > > (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) > > "M-x auto-fill" toggles in and out of the mode. You can specify the > number of columns to wrap at or accept the default. I think the default > is 72 columns, but help can tell you more. Or, you can look at the > source. Just so you know, you can also use M-q to rewrap a paragraph, or to wrap one if you don't have auto-fill=mode on. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: ssh and X forwarding
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:28:22AM +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: > And another quick question: is there an ssh setting that > would override my preferences for X11 forwarding? > > ssh -X from i386a->i386b forwards OK. > ssh -X from ppc->i386a forwards OK. > ssh -X from i386a->ppc doesn't set DISPLAY and doesn't create > a listening port forwarder. I'm slightly confuzzled by this. > > Otherwise there might be a ppc bug in ssh... Erk. I'd try taking a diff of the /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the two computers. If the ssh daemon doesn't allow X forwarding, it overrides the ssh client setting. The relevant line (on the ppc computer) probably looks something like X11Forwarding yes or more likely #X11Forwarding no -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ pgpwYOoHoL0Hz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: EASY X11 application development
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 06:15:24PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: > I realize that most developers will laugh at > my request, but that's fine. > > I am not very proficient in C/C++. > > What is the EASIEST, free way to create an > application for Gnome? I would say to use glade with whatever language you prefer. It still requires work, but it's probably the easiest way to make the gui. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: Bastille on Debian?
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:22:39AM -0600, Lance Heller wrote: > > What magic, if any, must be worked to have Bastille run on Debian? apt-get install bastille -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: /tmp size
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 07:36:24PM -0800, Richard Otte wrote: > I recently discovered that /tmp on my machine is rather small, around > 50mb. I was trying to use xcdroast, but was unable to extract an audio > cd to /tmp because it wasn't big enough. This is strange, because I > probably have 50gb empty on my hard drive. I'm wondering if /tmp is a > separate partition (is this my swap partition?) or why it won't use up > the empty disk space. I don't know how to find out the exact limits > on /tmp, except by what xcdroast told me. > > Can anyone explain to me what is going on, and what to do. Thanks, To see if /tmp is a separate partition (and its size, if it is) run df -h (the -h gives you human readable units, which is handy) -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: question about ifup and ifconfig
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:50:54PM +0800, Ren Weili wrote: > i have my laptop so: > /etc/init.d/networkings: > case "$1" in > start) > doopt spoofprotect yes > doopt syncookies no > doopt ip_forward no > > echo -n "Configuring network interfaces: " > echo "please select your environment:" > echo "[1]:home" > echo "[2]:office" > read home_office > if [ $home_office -eq "1" ]; then > ifup -a -i /etc/network/interfaces.home > rm -f /etc/resolv.conf > ln -s /etc/resolv.conf.home /etc/resolv.conf > rm -f /etc/apt/apt.conf > elif [ $home_office -eq "2" ]; then > ifup -a -i /etc/network/interfaces.office > rm -f /etc/resolv.conf > ln -s /etc/resolv.conf.office /etc/resolv.conf > if [ ! -f /etc/apt/apt.conf ]; then > ln -s /etc/apt/apt.conf.office > /etc/apt/apt.conf > fi > fi > echo "done." > ;; > > and it works good. You might try guessnet, which can automatically determine your environment. > my question here is: > 2) how can i use ifconfig to bring up eth0 with dhcp? man interfaces apt-get install pump -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: users choose x-session-manager
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:44:26AM -0800, David Wright wrote: > > Now that KDE is working on sid again, I'd like to let my users choose > between Gnome, KDE, and None. Is there some way to let users override > /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager at the graphical login? If you use kdm they'll automatically get a menu of choices. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: packeges kept back
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:53:25AM +0100, Fran?ois Chenais wrote: > What does message > > The following packages have been kept back means ? It means that there is a new package available for those packages, but they aren't being upgraded for some reason. The most common reason is that the new version depends on a package you don't have installed, and you are doing a simple apt-get upgrade. If you do apt-get dist-upgrade, it will be willing to install new packages. Alternatively, you could run apt-get install the package which was kept back. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: Ext3 filesystem and Woody
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:32:23PM -, Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > Hi > Is it possible to have the ext3 filesystem with woody and if so how do i > go about installing it with the ext3 filesystem? Yeah, but you don't need to bother with it until after the installation is over, since ext3 uses the same format as ext2, but with a journal added. So make your normal ext2 filesystems, and then run tune2fs -j /dev/hda6 (or whatever device) to add a journal. Then you either change the type to ext3 or auto in your fstab. Auto is good if you may boot later with a kernel that doesn't have ext3 support. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: Compiling openssh from source
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:39:00PM -0500, Matt Wehland wrote: > At 11:42 AM 10/14/01 -0500, Colin Watson replied: > > >You need to look in the pool, not dists/unstable. > > Thanks I see it now, I was trying to use the package_name+version, looking > at the sources.gz file, I noticed that its just the package name, openssh. > When I now try > apt-get -b source openssh > I now seems to download ok, and then throws an error while running > dpkg-buildpackage- >dh_testdir: Command not found. > > What is this error and what do I need to do fix it? It looks like you need to install debhelper. > Also do I need to get the latest libraries needed, or is this process smart > enough to do that? No, it's not smart enough, to do that you'd need to run apt-get build-dep openssh > If so do I need to add an apt-get source line for testing-us, to include > the latest libraries that are not in non-us? I don't know, maybe. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: ntp problem
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:04:38PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > > The machine has been up for a good while now, but ntptrace still says it's > not synched. > > Any sugestions? Did you run ntpdate? (which requires you to enter the IP address into yet another config file) -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: X/WindowManager: Mouse jumping around
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:42:24PM +0200, Reto wrote: > When I startx the mouse jumps around wildly. It works for some seconds, > then it hops around, also pressing buttons. This makes working impossible, > of course :( > I have Debian Sid, a Logitech cordless Desktop, so a PS/2 mouse, which is > configured in X as standard "configured" mouse on dev/psaux. > Why does this happen and how can I fix it? My best guess is that you have gpm running, and it's messing with the mouse. Try apt-get remove gpm, and if that fixes it, you could either go without gpm, or at least you'd know where the problem came from, which would help you to fix it. David.
Re: network, ifconfig, symbol link to network
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:15:18PM +0200, Christian Eckert wrote: > for some reasons during the debian (potato) installation > I had to leave out my Ne2000 compatible network-card. > I plugged it in later and installed the module 'ne'. > wonderful,no ioport-problems nor irq-problems. > Now I want to setup the network... > I created the file '/etc/network' whith > commands like 'ifconfig, route and so on' . as an > executable scriptfile. I think it would be easier to install net-base, which would have a directory named /etc/network, and all the other nice config files for you? David
using bootcd with usb cdrw drive
Hello all. I've been trying to use bootcd to create a bootable cdrom for my laptop, which has a USB cdrw drive (and no other removable drive), and I have been running into trouble booting with it. I can burn it just fine, and put on it a 2.4.12 kernel I compiled with USB mass storage compiled in. When I boot off of this CD, the kernel loads just fine, but then I get a kernel panic when it tries to mount the CDROM drive as the root partition (the device being /dev/scd0). :( It claims this device doesn't exist. However, if I use the same kernel on CD, but specify root=/dev/hda6, I can then mount the cdrom just fine. Is there some reason why the usb drive can't be accessed early in the boot process? Does anyone have an idea as to how I can fix this? David.
Re: using bootcd with usb cdrw drive
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:43:33PM +0200, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote: > Just to know, have you devfs compiled in the kernel and mounted at boot ? > are you sure the entry /dev/scd0 exists at boot-time ? > what is the error message ? (i guess it's can't mount root fs on device > XX:XX -> those numbers have a meaning you should try to interpret) Ok, here are what I believe to be the relevant parts of the error message (copied onto and off of paper by hand, so possibly with typoes): VFS: Cannot open root device "scd0" or 0b:00 Please append a correct "root=" boot option. Kernel panic: unable to mount root fs on 0b:00 I checked in my /dev, and 0b:00 (11,0) are the major and minor device numbers of scd0, as explaned by dman. Earlier I got the messages (in the normal boot sequences): Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage registered. I take it this means that the mass storage driver has started up. I'm thinking that maybe this error comes about because the usb mass storage driver is pretending to be SCSI, and maybe that connection between the scsi and the USB has not yet been made, or maybe it hasn't yet scanned the USB port and registered the devices? Any more hints or ideas as to how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. David.
Re: using bootcd with usb cdrw drive
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:31:21PM +0200, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote: > Well, i'm sorry i'm really not an expert, but maybe you should > try a kernel with a initrd option. > With a initrd, you'll get somewhat of a prompt and the ability > to modprobe any module you like, it could help you to debug > your problem. Actually, after some rather extensive web search, I found out that generally one cannot load USB devices as root from the kernel without additional trickery. The problem is that the usb devices are detected asynchronously, so there is a race as to whether they are detected before the root filesystem is mounted, a race which on my computer they always lose. So the trick will be to introduce some sort of delay before mounting the root filesystem. I believe one could do this with an initrd as you suggest (either putting a delay script or just waiting at the prompt manually). The approach I've taken is adding an additional delay into the kernel (copying and modifying some code I found to do the same for a USB floppy). Now for some reason my USB CDRW has stopped being able to write (which is very annoying!), so I haven't been able to test it. Actually, I just realized that I could test it by loading the kernel off the hard drive but specifying the CD as the root FS by root=/dev/scd0, but of course the whole point is to be able to make a bootable CD (which requires writing). :( As per your suggestions, I have been using a monolithic kernel (no modules), and I tried for a while to make one with an initrd, but was confused, and unable to write a CD anyways. It's so annoying! It started out not working and then worked, and then stopped again. Oh well. Thanks for your help! David. pgpDwJ1iQeqzZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: variable ramdisk greater than 4megs
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:38:54AM +0200, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote: > > Has anyone of you an idea? When baking my last kernel (2.4.12), I > somewhere activated "tmpfs", is it that what I may use? That's what I'm doing. It's like a ram disk that can get swapped out. It's not too hard to set is up, and seems to work beautifully. David.
trouble with acer usb cdrw drive and cdrecord
Hello. I've been having trouble with cdrecord on my Acer 4406eu usb cdrw drive. Just as a check, I have verified that it works fine under windows 2k. In fact, for a day it worked fine under linux, and I haven't been able to figure out what changed that made it no longer work. :( It has no problem with reading, only with writing (using cdrecord). I consistently (regardless of the cd image I'm writing) get the same error after the same number of bytes are written (this is using -V output): Executing 'write_g1' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 40s CDB: 2A 00 00 00 02 4D 00 00 1F 00 cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 02 4D 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 1.968s timeout 40s cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 02 4D 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 1.968s timeout 40s write track data: error after 1206272 bytes The usb drive is connected to a thinkpad X21 computer. If any of you have experience with this (or a similar) drive, or have any suggestions as to how I might debug this problem, please let me know. Oh yeah, and I'm running kernel 2.4.12 and unstable, although I've also tested this with 2.4.10. -- David
Re: Mozilla package (was Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes)
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:54:58PM -0700, Gordon Paynter wrote: > On Monday 15 October 2001 09:45, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't > > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, > > As an aside, does there exist an up-to-date Mozilla debian package? > The one I can currently apt-get is the milestone 18 (!) release, so > I've been installing the recent builds by hand. Is there a better way > to do this? I grab mozilla from unstable, which is up-to-date. You'll need to put unstable in your sources.list in order to do this, and probably would want to read the apt_preferences man page. David
Re: Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 01:45:43PM -0500, Doc - KD4E wrote: > I found nothing new when executing the following after running > 'tar -xzf linux-2.4.12.tar.gz' : > > cd / > find -name kernel-image* > > All it found was a bunch of old 2.2.18 stuff in /var/lib/dpkg/info and > other old 2.2.18 stuff in /usr/share/doc and /usr/doc > > What else if necessary to create the necessary 2.4.12 *.deb file I need > to proceed? Read /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: best ac kernel for ext3
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:56:30AM -0600, DvB wrote: > I'm thinking about just downloading and compiling an ac kernel to get > ext3 but Alan's latest sound like they've got some issues. Any ideas as > to which one I should run? Also, has Linus given any kind of timeframe > for adding it to the official kernel? (other than "soon," that is :-) For what it's worth I've been running 2.4.13-ac4 (and using ext3) for a day or two now with no problem. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: Debian as multimedia system - startup and shutdown
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:29:49PM +0200, Meir Kriheli wrote: > Hi, > > I'm setting up a computer as a multimedia center using Debian (Sid). > > The machine is connected to the TV for display and to the receiver for > sound. I have a wireless keyboard/mouse to access it. It'll serve as > DVD/CD/MP3/Ogg player. > > I have no problem setting it up and using it, but the rest of the house > hold (actually my wife and our 2 dogs :-) have problems starting/shutting > it down. > > Is there a way to log in and start a X session (I prefer not to use > KDM/GDM etc. I know I can use them-at least KDM), and when exiting the > session shutdown the machine ? I'm not clear why you prefer not to use kdm, as it does precisely what you want, except for the automatically shutting down bit). You can configure it to automatically log into X without passwords, which sounds like precisely what you want. As far as training your two dogs to turn on and off the computer, I think you'd have to buy some special hardware with a large on/off button. Maybe you could hack one of those apple USB mice, in which the whole mouse is one large button? :) -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: installing on local hard drive, without boot floppies ?
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:51:29PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > I want to install on a local drive, without rebooting with boot floppies > (I want to keep the system running, while installing to a new drive). I > can use debootstrap to set up a chroot, but how can I find out what > other things I need to do, which would have been done by boot-floppies, > but won't be now? I have a good idea of all the ... "important" stuff, > but am afraid I will miss something. I installed a second copy of debian on a second partition using this method, and the only trick that I think I had to do was to copy start-stop-daemon.REAL (in either /sbin or /usr/sbin) to start-stop-daemon, as debootstrap disables start-stop-daemon by replacing it with a dummy. Other than that, installing using debootstrap worked beautifully for me. On the other hand, it could be that there is some other problem lurking beneath the surface... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: Presentation Software...
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:29:01PM +0430, Vikash Kodati wrote: > > I am new to Debian. I have to give a seminar in my University and > hence searching for a presentation sofware on debian. > > Thanks in advance to all those who help me out. I haven't yet used it to do anything useful, but kpresenter looks like it may be nice (and I figure I try it out next time I have to give a talk). -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: Upgrade woes: "These packages have been kept back"
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 02:26:39PM +0100, Gary Jones wrote: > I tried (again) upgrading my 2.1r4 to 2.2r3 today. When I ran > apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade > I was told that "These packages have been kept back", and a list of > about 12 packages, including: login, netstd, passwd, ppp. Most of the > list I didn't really care about too much, but the above seem pretty > important for what I use. I thought the normal reason that packages > were "kept back" was that one or more packages were in a "hold" state > or something similar, yet I don't have anything like that. Does > anyone have any clues as to why I got this result, and what the best > thing to do is, please? Try apt-get install login, and see what it tells you. That should clarify why they are being held back. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: woody and sid
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 06:24:56AM +, ben wrote: > how does one go about upgrading to woody or sid and what are the pros and > cons of either? You just need to change 'stable' or 'potato' to either woody or sid in /etc/apt/sources.list, and then run `apt-get update` and then `apt-get dist-upgrade` (the latter you may need to run more than once). Sid is more up-to-date, but changes quite often, sometimes for the worse. Woody is a bit older in some of its programs, but doesn't change so often, and is perhaps more seldom broken. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: public keys WAS: Re: of the Business Objects, how can the si\-mi\-larity (at the
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 12:44:23AM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 05:43:34PM +0200 or thereabouts, Bas van Gils wrote: > > > > just recently I installed gpg on my machine (that is, after reading the > > article in Linux Journal). It works together with mutt brilliantly. No > > problem there. > > > > Now, I read a lot of debian mailinglists and noticed that a lot (all ?) > > of people in the Debian-organization post with a PGP-signature. Mutt > > "complains" that it can't verify the signatures because it doesn't have > > the public-keys in my key-ring. Makes sense ;-) > > > > I was wondering: is there an (easy) way of importing the keys of these > > people in my key-ring? Or do I have to look-up these keys at a > > key-server and import them 1 by 1 > to do..> > > > yes that's one way to do it assuming they're posting it to those > keyservers. another way is to get it from their websites. just consult > their sig lines. yet another way is to ask them to send you their > public keys. If you set mutt and gpg up right, it will automatically get their public keys from the keyservers (I'm not sure which is responsible for this, gpg or mutt). gpg will still complain, but only because you have no way of knowing if those keys (from the keyservers) correspond to those people. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ pgp9aPC2Opsd3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Newbie dselect questions
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 04:38:36PM +0900, rikiwarren wrote: > > I'd like to run a woody system with kde 2.2 added from sid. What's the > proper way to do this? Should I just go ahead and move everything to sid? I > seem to be having a lot of trouble using dselect, as it often wants to > delete the kde 2.2 files. I have the same setup as you do (testing plus mozilla, galeon, kde from unstable). My solution to this issue was to create an /etc/apt/preferences file with the following lines: Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 101 This makes apt install testing packages by default, but if you've got some unstable packages installed, it won't downgrade them, and will in fact upgrade them if upgrades are available in testing. If you'd rather have them frozen at their current version (until testing is more recent), you could decrease the 101 to 99. I am not entirely certain if this is the 'right' way to do it, but it seems to work from me. If there are any problems with this, I'd love to hear from someone who knows better. Oh, and you'll need both unstable and testing sources in your sources.list. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: offtopic: which text language to use?
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 12:54:07AM +0200, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Julio Merino wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > SOORY, this is completly offtopic... > > > > Well, I've to write a large, large document. I've think to use LaTeX, but > > I don't think it will be a good choice, because it's html output is > > really poor (am I wrong?). > > > > I'm looking for some language that allows me to convert it to LaTeX and > > html, and to customize as much as possible the conversion (output). > > Is SGML a good choice? > > > > Thanks. > > DocBook SGML... I don't know anything about docbook (which quite likely is very good), but latex isn't bad either (and being a physicist I pretty much have to know it anyways). I've looked briefly at some docbook source, and it looked (to my untrained eye) uglier than latex source, and harder to input. But that's probably just because I am unfamiliar with it. latex2html gives reasonably good (but a tad ugly) output. If all you want is perfectly functional output, it should be fine. You can see an example at http://civet.berkeley.edu/paratec/ (just the manual to a code that you don't have access to...). Probably if you don't want to typeset any math, though, you're better off using docbook... but I can't vouch for that. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: tiger reports
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:33:04AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > It can potentially make superuser access easier to crack unless both > > accounts have strong passwords. More generally, I suspect that this > > is flagged because it could indicate that your system has been > > compromised and an illicit superuser has been created. > > Fair enough. Do I really need sash for anything? Does it really need to > have its own account? As I understand it, sash is a minimal shell which is statically linked, so that even if all your importand dynamically linked libraries get hosed, you can always log in as single user mode using sash. In order to do this, sash has to be set as the root shell, which you may not want for every day use, so sash creates a second root account, to use in case bash won't start up. The gist of it is that I would guess that if you can boot off of a CDROM or floppy (and have one available to boot off of) you can always do that in an emergency, and therefore shouldn't need the sashroot account. On the other hand, I am no expert on this, and just got what I know from when I installed sash a few months ago. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: removing xdm??
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 03:21:27AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Dale Morris wrote: > > > > On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Dale Morris wrote: > > > > > Upgrading from potato to woody xdm was installed with X. When I removed > > > it, X starts back up using my .xsession file, but there are no window > > > managers or terminals on the menu in fvwm2. Those selections have > > > disappeared. What can I do to get them back? Is there more recent > > > or more understandable documentation that explains how this xinit > > > process works? > > > > > aaggh!! Now I see that Netscape has also disappeared from the menu, > > too. update-menus does nothing. > > that probably means that the debian menus are not used. > > your problem is not related to xdm, check the configuration of fvwm, > check the menus etc. This sounds right. You might try (if you haven't configured fvwm yourself) running an `apt-get --purge remove fvwm` followed by `apt-get install fvwm`, to reinstall the default debian configuration of fvwm, which gives rather nice menus. BTW I doubt that this is the right way to do this, I just don't know a better way. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: mozilla questions
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:20:14PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > > mozilla _DOES_ support ssl: apt-get install mozilla-psm > > > > Well, thanks :) > > um, seems I was a bit quick there. That package is neither in > > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main contrib > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib > > Is it just in unstable? Or somewhere else? Well, only unstable has a reasonably recent mozilla... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: OT:mutt: skipping deleted messages
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 04:44:49PM +0200, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm experimenting a little with Mutt, and noticed the following problem: > while browsing through a mailing list, I tend to mark messages as "to be > deleted" rather quickly. Sometimes too quickly. Unfortunately, I can't view > that message once it's marked as to be deleted, since it's being skipped > while moving up in the list. > > Can this behaviour be altered? With my (I think default) bindings, the left and right arrow keys allow you to select deleted messages, while the up and down arrows skip them. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ pgpWYsfgwMQtz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:44:05AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I set up my 2 computers with ramfs and put some files in those dirs. > Now, I wanted to test my networking to see how fast it would work with > files sitting in RAM. This way I could tell the capabilities of my > network and its bandwidth capabilities. > > I tried to use scp, but I guess it was caching the info somewhere because > I was getting the same transfer speeds as from HDs. Wouldn't this be because hard drives are fast and the network is slow? Just a guess, but I know I'd be very unhappy if my hard drive had less bandwidth than my network connection. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: How to run testing and stay sane?
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 05:04:17PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Greetings, all. Hello! > * I've heard a couple of things that suggest that it's possible to run > testing, with the exception of a few packages from unstable. Is this > true? If so, how? Obviously, I could do this by manually downloading > the unstable .debs, but I'd prefer to have apt/dselect keep track of all > this for me. (Otherwise, I'm back to RedHat---automatic upgrades were > one of the major reasons I switched to Debian.) You can have both unstable and testing in your sources.list, and then set up apt preferences as so: $ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 101 This makes testing the prefered dist, but if you manually install an unstable package (via apt-get install package/unstable), that package will be automatically upgraded to the lates unstable version each time you upgrade. You could decrease the unstable priority below 100, which would allow you to install an unstable package and then have it remain pinned. Also, you can increase the priority of testing above 1000 in order to get apt to automatically downgrade down to testing. These tricks will only work, btw, with the apt in testing or unstable. This is the way I have things set up at the moment. > Any other advice would be more than welcome. Pay attention whenever you upgrade (via apt-get -u dist-upgrade, or -u upgrade), and if it's going to upgrade a major package (X or libc for example), then wait, and see what people are saying on this list before proceeding. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: PPP question (my DSL is down !!)
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:34:17AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > For as long as I've been using Debian, I've had DSL and never > the need to use dial-up... Last Thursday though, my DSL modem > died and I tried connecting with dial-up. > > Running 'pppconfig' worked fine and I'm able to connect. > Tail'ing /var/log/messages shows everything good, up to > assigning an IP address (and depending on how I have DNS set, > receiving DNS entries). Problem is, I can't do anything...This > includes pinging a website by IP address. That rules out a DNS > problem, doesn't it ?? > > I can ping the address I'm assigned (local) and the remote > address that /var/log/messages shows me (remote). I don't know if this is your problem, but I recently helped a friend troubleshoot his mandrake laptop, and found that to get ppp to work we had to bring down eth0 for some reason. It seems like you shouldn't have to, but you could try that, if you still have your eth0 up. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: apt expectations
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 08:29:31PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > I have a system that is mostly debian testing. But I have apt set up > so that apt-get update fetches information about both the > testing(woody) and unstable(sid) archives. I have /etc/apt/preferences > set up thus: > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 900 > > Package: * > Pin: release o=Debian > Pin-Priority: -10 . > But it seems to me that apt-get did not behave according to > expectation here. I thought that: > >apt-get install mozilla-browser/unstable > > would automatically bring down the packages from unstable that the > version of mozilla-browser in unstable depended on. > > Was I wrong in this expectation, or is there something wrong with the > way that dependencies are calculated for mozilla-browser in the > unstable distribution? I believe the problem is (at least partly) that you have a pin priority of -1 on unstable, which means that apt will never install an unstable package, unless you explicitely tell it to. I suspect you probably want a pin priority of 300 or so. However, I'm still not sure whether apt will pull up the unstable library when there is a testing version available... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: Hairy lilypond compile problem
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:18:45PM +0800, csj wrote: > Using a brute-force dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot on the lilypond > source package results in a build failure. The last three lines of > stdout show: > > bison -d parser.yy > mv parser.yy.tab.h out/parser.hh > make[2]: Leaving directory `/xa/build/debian/lilypond-1.4.9/lily' > make[1]: Leaving directory `/xa/build/debian/lilypond-1.4.9' > > My attempt at diagnostics is crude at best. From the little I learned > from the man page of the command in question, I was able to produce the > following not too helpful error output: > > gamma:/builder/lilypond-1.4.9$ cd lily > gamma:/builder/lilypond-1.4.9/lily$ bison -d parser.yy -v parser.yy > contains 2 shift/reduce conflicts. > > Are there any bison gurus out there. Or is this a mere symptom of an > altogether different problem? Well, the lines you show don't look like an error message to me, they look like normal operation. I'd say the error occurred earlier perhaps? -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
gatos permissions problem (xatitv)
Hello. I have a problem, in that I can only run the xatitv program from gatos as root. If I run it as a normal user, I get an error messages saying something about not being able to access /dev/mem. I've tried adding my user to all the groups that seemed relevant, but to no avail. It seems most likely that I just need to add my user to the right group (although maybe I should make the xatitv program SGID or something), but am at a loss as to which group could be relevant. Any help would be appreciated. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
audio no longer produces sound
I made an unfortunate discovery today that audio no longer works on my laptop (a Thinkpad X21, which is running testing). I had it working a month or two ago, but haven't used audio much since, so I don't know when it stopped working. In fact, I had it working both for recording and playing sound. I've been testing it using both `play test.au` and `cat test.au > /dev/audio`. I also tried running timidity on a midi file, as well as festival (which was how I found out I had this problem). I checked that the devices exist, and I ran aumix to see that the sound output is actually turned on. The sound card is a CS4281, and support for it is compiled into my kernel. Just in case, I tried rebooting with several older kernels, in case something broke recently in the kernel. I am at the end of my rope here, and am very frustrated. :( Any ideas as to how I could go about trouble-shooting this would be greatly appreciated. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: audio no longer produces sound
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 02:01:38PM -0800, David Roundy wrote: > I made an unfortunate discovery today that audio no longer works on my > laptop (a Thinkpad X21, which is running testing). I had it working a > month or two ago, but haven't used audio much since, so I don't know when > it stopped working. In fact, I had it working both for recording and > playing sound. Silly me. I forgot that my computer doesn't have an internal speaker! -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: BTTV
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:23:20PM -0500, Mike Atamas wrote: > I recently put in a Ati TV Wonder card. I installed the bttv module but > whenever I run xawtv it tells me i have a prehistoric driver and that I > need to get a new one. But I cant find the new one. How can I fix my > dilema? I'd try installing gatos and running xatitv (which may require running as root). As I understand it, the ATI wonder cards aren't well supported by the kernel, but gatos is designed specifically for them. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: IRC Client?
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:36:02AM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > apt-cache search irc | grep client apt-cache search irc | grep -i client You missed a couple... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: How to specify default WM (woody)?
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 04:52:28PM +, Martin Edward John Waller wrote: > Hello, Hi! > I just upgraded to woody (easy-peasy, I was > amazed). > > One small issue is that my default wm (fvwm - > yeah, yeah) doesn't start automatically on login > like it used to - I have to start it manually. > > How does one ensure this (or any default wm) is > started on login by default for all users? I > thought there used to be a window-managers file or > something, but I can find no such thing... Are you starting using startx? If so, try #update-alternatives --config x-window-manager -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 02:51:30PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > Personally, I would very much prefer to keep my system as free as > possible. I'd much prefer to use gnucash over some other alternative, > but so far I've found it severely lacking in one area, and that's > importing bank statements via QIF. I use my Discover and American > Express cards quite a bit, and entering each of those transactions into > gnucash by hand would get very tedious very quickly. Other than that, I > love gnucash. Unfortunately, for me at least, that's reason enough to > start looking elsewhere. I have a question about this. I've just started using gnucash, so I haven't gotten to the point of importing my bank statements (since it hasn't been a month yet), but it seems like it has a working import function (I tried it on an old month, but didn't actually do it, since it would have confused things). I've heard before that gnucash has problems when you import your monthly statements, but never understood what that problem is. Can you explain this for me? I'd rather know what I'm up against when I get my bank statements next month... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ pgpXZ2mPn2e8f.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: MUTT Issue
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:45:23PM -0500, Bannerman, Israel wrote: > To all: > > I recently installed Mutt. I am using imap to connect to the exchange > system in the network. Everything is working fine except in order to see > new mail that just arrived, I have to exit out of Mutt and start the > application over again. I keep getting this message that says. > Mailbox was externally modified. Flags may be wrong. > > Other than that, the app is working great. Is there anyone who is familiar > with this type of situation? I think you may want: set imap_passive=no to make mutt keep checking the imap server for changes. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: Help! Stuck in apt-get
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:01:23PM -0500, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > When I try apt-get -f install > > I get > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/ gs-common > trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/bdftops' which is also in > package ghostscript' > > I don't seem to be able to get past this. Fortunately , the system > is still working. There is no package called ghostscript, so I do not > know what package is being referred to. Though gs-aladdin is > reported as being uninstalled, I presume, since the system is working > and gs has not been installed, that the ghostscript part of aladdin > has not been completely removed. The problem is: How do I get it to > instll gs-common so that it can then install gs ? My guess is `apt-get remove ghostscript` will fix things up. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
Re: audiphone?
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 09:50:02AM -0500, stan wrote: > I need to set up 2 way realtime audio communications between 2 wood > machines. > > The NAS man page mentions "audiophone", but I can't seem to find it on my > mahcines. Is it a seperate package? > > Also what other choices do I have for doing this? I recommend gphone. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mutt and GPG
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:27:28PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I am trying to setup Mutt so that it automatically retrieves keys from a > keyserver is it is not listed in my public key. So far, I have the > following in my .muttrc: > > set pgp_getkeys_command="gpg --recv-keys --keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net > %r > /dev/null 2>&1" > > Am I missing something? I grabbed a few of the options from the net, so > I'm not sure if this is right or not... I have no gpg-related options in my .muttrc, but have a 'keyserver' line in my .gnupg/options file, and it seems to work. Presumably mutt is configured by default to work right with gpg, assuming gpg is set up to use the keyservers. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netmeeting clone (not gnomemeeting)
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 08:05:53PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > I'm looking for a netmeeting clone that doesn't have the fourty-thousand > dependancies that gnomemeeting does. Does this exist? Might I ask why you don't just try gnomemeeting? It's in woody, so it isn't like there would be any problems meeting its dependancies. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting time from server at boottime
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 06:19:42PM +0200, Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hi ! > > I have one computer with DCF77 time (=server). I can update my other > computers (=clients) with rdate easily. > > Now I want to do that at boottime. I see there are two scripts for time > setup in /etc/init.d, namely hwclockfirst.sh and hwclock.sh. Which of > them should I edit ? Or should I discard both of them and make an extra > init script ? I would make an additional init script, but not remove the two existing ones. Just make your script run after they do. That way it is much easier to reverse your changes at some later date. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Galeon crashing
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:38:15PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > Galeon has started freezing up and shows the folowing error message if I > call it from the command line: ... > Its only certain sites that cause it to lock - one that always crashes > it is www.mobilestreams.com > > If I run galeon www.mobilestreams.com I get this in top as well as a > frozen browser: Do you by any chance have the macromedia flash plugin installed? If so, I'd try simply uninstalling it. The website you mentioned had flash plugins, so my guess is that flash is at fault here, not galeon. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade to woody
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:32:35AM -0700, David Smead wrote: > > > http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ says . . . > testing's gone mainline! Point apt at the new "testing" distribution > (or the old "woody" distribution) on your favourite Debian mirror. > > knuth:~# apt-get install testing > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package testing > > Does anyone have the real instructions? http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Autologin
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 05:36:43PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi > > I want to set up a really basic debian system wich has only needs for > running X with a basic WM like twm. > > If i start the PC it should start debian auto log in start X and then > Start the Citrix MetaFrame Linux Client. > > My question is: Is it possible to auto log in? If yes how? If no how > could it be made possible :-)? kdm has ways of doing this. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Support for wireless PCMCIA
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:11:56PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I've got a Linksys PCW11 card that works fine under RH7.2 using > the wlan-ng package (prism2_cs.o). > > Unfortunately, the card isn't recognized correctly on a machine > running a recent install of Woody. Cardmgr loads wvlan_cs.o, > which doesn't recognize the card. (There appears to be no > prism2 driver.) prism2 cards are supported by the orinoco_cs driver. You just need a line something like this: card "PROXIM RangeLAN-DS/LAN PC Card" manfid 0x0126, 0x8000 bind "orinoco_cs" in your /etc/pcmcia/config or /etc/pcmcia/config-2.4 file. Mine's in config-2.4, since I'm using the drivers that are in the 2.4 kernel. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:08:54PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > > Doing a dpkg --configure won't work because the > packages have already been configured. dpkg-reconfigure -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Digital camera usb and Debian
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:30:06AM -0400, Quenten Griffith wrote: > Well I think my camera and my usb mass storage module don't get along. > I am running Woody with a self compiled 2-4-18 kernel with the USB mass > storage module, when I plug the camera in it locks up the whole computer > can not do anything to it, could not even ssh or telnet in from > another computer to shut it down nicely. Here is what I see when I > attach the camera > > roothub.c USB new device connect on bus2/2 assigned Device number 2 > USB.c error getting screen descriptor 0 (error=-100) > scsi0: scsi emulation for usb masstorage device > > and then it locks solid. So I don't know if its my kernel/module or it > doesn't like my camera, which uses USB Mass Storage. I am going to have > to try a card reader once I have the time and money to go get one, to > see if its the camera or the usb moudle, unless anyone has an idea of > what I could be doing wrong. 2.4.18 has some problems with usb mass storage. You could try 2.4.19pre7, which has some usb fixes it it. I don't know, but that might help. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Digital camera usb and Debian
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:23:07AM -0400, Quenten Griffith wrote: > > Is the source or even image file for that under Sid? No. You can get the patch for it at kernel.org and apply that to your 2.4.18 source, though. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Packages
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:30:36PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 02-May-2002 Fred Musick wrote: > > 3950 Packages?!?!?!?!? > > > > Is there any coherent webpage that provides info or links to info on > > Debian Packages? > > > > /var/lib/dpkg/available, read it, love it (-: Or apt-cache search keyword, apt-cache show packagename. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Mirror (How To???)
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:22:39PM +0530, Vikash Kodati wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I was trying to make one of my Linux boxes a debian mirror. I was > wondering if I could have only the unstable version in the mirror. I do > have a fillfledged mirror in my univeristy. Please someone help me in > making an unstable mirror from a full fledged mirror. > > Thanking you all in advance. Use the debmirror package. It allows you to choose how much you want to mirror. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB & 2. 4 kernels
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 12:57:38PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > I have a couple of mostly woody boxes. Both have Logitech USB Marble > Trackman for mice. Both mice work well with 2.2.19 kernels. Yesterday > I installed kernel-source-2.4.18 on one of the boxes and built a new > kernel for it. I included all the relevant USB modules when I > configured the kernel. The new kernel boots fine, X and KDE come up > fine, but the Trackman doesn't work. AFAICT, I have the same modules > loaded as with the 2.2. kernel. The only thing I find in dmesg or > kern.log that seem unusual are the following: 2.4.18 was a particularly bad kernel for USB. I'd try again with 2.4.17 or 2.4.19prewhatever. Generally my experience is that my USB mouse and 2.4.keyboard have worked very well (except when using 2.4.18). > My wife is also having usb problems with her Mandrake box running a > 2.4.8 kernel. Are there issues with usb in 2.4? I read everything I > could find about usb in /usr/src/linux/Documentation and poked around > the archives a bit, but didn't find anything specific. The 2.4.8 kernel dates from before I switched to 2.4, so I can't say much about that... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB & 2. 4 kernels
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 05:45:09PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > Thanks for that info. What 2.4 kernel have you had the best luck with, > in general and with USB? Probably 2.4.17. Currently I'm running 2.4.19pre7, which seems pretty nice, but you may not be comfortable with prerelease kernels. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
chroot for other distribution?
I know how to set up a chroot for a separate version of debian pretty easily using debootstrap. I'd like to also set up a chroot for redhat, so I can test-compile my software there, to see what kind of errors my users are getting. Does anyone have any hints as to how most easily to set this up? I was thinking that perhaps I could run a redhat CD image in a chroot using user mode linux, but since I've never used UML, it's a bit intimidating. Any ideas or experiences related to setting up a foreign linux distro in a chroot filesystem? -- David Roundy http://www.abridgegame.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
