Debian on Armada 6500
Hi! I am trying to install Debian on a Compaq Armada 6500 using FTP and this far, I haven't had too much luck. The base system installed OK, but I can't seem to get networking to run (I was planning to use my Slackware router as a gateway). The builtin Xircom CreditCard isn't recognized at all (doesn't show up in ifconfig). That seems to be quite normal. So I borrowed a Kingston EtheRX PCMCIA card. This one shows up as eth0 in ifconfig. But when I try to ping the router, I get the same error over and over again: eth0: pcnet_reset_8390() did not complete. Does anyone know what could have gone wrong here? I'm running out of people that I can borrow Ethernet cards from. TIA, Juergen
Re: MP3 encoder
The only MP3 encoder for Linux that I am aware of (Blade's MP3 Encoder) can be found at http://home.swipnet.se/~w-82625/ . I heard rumours of commercial encoders for Linux, but why bother: Blade's encoder works quite nicely. I doubt that you'll find a .deb package, though. HTH, Juergen "M.C. Vernon" wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Things like cdgrip say "and your favourite mp3 encoder, or default > to lamer" - but I can find to evidence of a mp3 encoder in the archive. > Can anyone help me out? [...]
Problems with mkinitrd-cd / mkbootimg
Hello, I am trying to create a bootable CD with mkinitrd-cd 0.22, but this far, I've had no luck. The procedure looks like this: mkinitrd-cd /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/ initrd.img full mkbootimg 2880 /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 initrd.img boot.img mkisofs -b boot.img -c boot.cat -o ../test.iso . When I burn the resulting iso file, the syslinux screen comes up and it even loads the kernel and the initrd image. After that, though, it prints: --- Gibraltar 0.99.5 loading, searching for CD trying to locate cdrom: --- and then sits there like a dead fish. The kernel that I used here is the one that's installed during the installation of the official Woody. I also tried a handmade kernel, making sure that all requirements mentioned in /usr/share/doc/mkinitrd-cd/README.gz are met. Does anyone have experience with mkinitrd-cd that they would be willing to share? Thanks in advance --j msg04454/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: eclipse install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do you get the same error if you run the startup script from the directory where the jar file is located? If not, it might help to add a 'cd /location/of/jar/file' near the top of the startup script. I have had that happen before. - --j Eduard Pauna wrote: | Hi to all, | | Did somebody succeded in running eclipse on debian? | I got the eclipse-platform-SDK-3.0-linux-gtk.zip package, unzip it and | when I run eclipse I obtain this error | | The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its | companion startup.jar file (in the same directory as the executable). | | but startup.jar is in the same directory... | | Thanks for any help! | | Cheers, | Eduard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBonEpYFE+dpEf2hQRAlneAJ0c5+P+2q0vNxpsbF+nhPuIkwkidQCeLAlI Ic8HD1PrhrT3wrsTmojG7Yo= =sWII -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xprint - why?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wayne Topa wrote: | Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: | |>On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:52:03 -0500 |>Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> |> |>>Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: |>> |>>>On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:17:29 -0500 |>>>Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>>> |>>> |Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: | |>On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600 |>Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> |> |>>* Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]: |>> |>>>Anyway, if someone could explain or point me to a document |>>>or thread(which I couldn't find) that explains why we need |>>>xprint, how it fits in, and what programs it replaces, I'd |>>>appreciate it. |>>> |>>>I'm probably not alone ;-). |> |> |> |>>Since they still depend on xprt I've continued to use the |>>mozilla.org packages. |> |> |> |>Actually, that's not true. "apt-cache show mozilla-firefox" |>reveals that xprt is now only in the recommended line, instead |>of the Depends line. In mozilla-browser it's in the Suggests |>line. I have been following the latest Mozilla browser in Sarge |>while keeping xprt and friends uninstalled. Works great, no |>special tricks necessary. |> | |Just checked and you are correct, so I uninstalled xprt*, |restarted mozilla-firefox 1.0-2, brought up a page, clicked print, |waited ~30 seconds, clicked print, waited ~15 seconds, watched the |'preparing' message appear and the bar scroll, then firefox |crashed. The page had some jpegs on it. Nothing was printed. | |Restarted and watched the same as above on a text only page and it |did print and firefox did _not_ crash. | |Looks like getting firefox from mozilla is a better choice. The |current debian package has some issues. :-) |>>> |>>>Since Firefox is not my primary browser, I usually upgrade it pretty |>>>fast to check out the new features and don't follow the Debian |>>>packages. But I just tried installing it via apt-get to see if I |>>>experienced the same problem and printing worked great for me. Pages |>>>with .jpgs, .gifs, text, it didn't seem to matter - Firefox printed |>>>to cups just fine using the Postscript/default option. Same with the |>>>tarball from Mozilla.org, but then you already knew that. |>>> |>>>Printing has been working great in Mozilla-browser and galeon for |>>>me, as well. No complaints at all. |>>> |>>>I'm running Sarge, btw. |>> |>>It seems that the page I can't print with firefox (with or without |>>xprt) prints fine with mozilla-browser. I tried firefox with xprt and |>>postscript and it continues to crash, without printing. This is with |>>with the Debian package _and_ the 1.0 version downloaded from |>>mozilla.org. A bug report to mozilla.org was submitted. |>> |>>The page is one of mine and I thought it was odd that I had printed |>>copies of it but could not print it with firefox. |>> |>>http://www.capital.net/~brittman/puppypic/puppies.html |>>for those that might want to try it for themselves. |> |>Interesting. Anything special on the page (sorry, didn't look at the |>source)? | | | A small javascript scroll message, which doesn't print with | mozilla-browser 1.7.3-5 (deb package), but I didn't expect it to. | |>It crashed both Firefox (from Mozilla.org) and mozilla-browser (from |>Sarge) on my machine, when I tried to print. Firefox wanted to install a |>plugin, mozilla-browser simply displayed the page. |> | | It is looking for java, for the scroller. I have java enabled in the | deb package but didn't enable it, yet, in the moz.org package. | Doesn't make a difference tho as they both crash when trying to print | the page. | | Gee, maybe I should remove the "Get Firefox" link from the site/ :-> | | Thanks for confirming my findings Jacob. At least I know it's not | something else I configured wrong. | | Cheers | WT | FWIW, it prints fine in my Firefox 1.0 RC1 on a sarge/sid hybrid (Java enabled, xprt-xprintorg 0.0.9.final.001-7 installed). All it does is to omit the ticker and stop the animated GIF - which is probably just as well ;) - --j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBo73iYFE+dpEf2hQRAqNmAJ4lT4/Z72oeSQNEjRxiG6taZ08GuACghlaQ R26uvj6K922KlaT94Y0/G3Q= =3fnP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
building linux-wlan-ng modules for 2.6.9
Hi, I am trying to compile the linux-wlan-ng modules for kernel 2.6.9. The kernel itself was built with kernel-package; the sources for the modules (installed with 'apt-get source linux-wlan-ng') are in /usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0+0.2.1pre21. From rom /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.9, I issue a 'make-kpkg --revision=juergen.1 modules_image'. A lot of text runs by, finally followed by: --- make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.9' CC [M] /usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 +0.2.1pre21/src/p80211/p80211conv.o /usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0+0.2.1pre21/src/p80211/p80211conv.c: In function `skb_p80211_to_ether': /usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 +0.2.1pre21/src/p80211/p80211conv.c:502: error: union has no member named `ethernet' make[6]: *** [/usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 +0.2.1pre21/src/p80211/p80211conv.o] Error 1 make[5]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 +0.2.1pre21/src/p80211] Error 2 make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.9' make[4]: *** [default] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 +0.2.1pre21/src/p80211' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 +0.2.1pre21/src'make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 +0.2.1pre21' make[1]: *** [build] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 +0.2.1pre21' Module /usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0+0.2.1pre21 failed. --- And that is as far as I get. Do those modules not compile with the 2.6.9 kernel or am I doing something wrong. I have to assume the latter and would be very grateful for any pointers on how to get it right. TIA --j signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Sharing dfsbuild experiences.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Watkins wrote: |>I would love sharing the ISO file, too, but with my DSL connection it |>would take hours to download it. | | | I have a bored server on which I could host a bit-torrent for you, so long as | the demand is not too high. How big is the ISO? A bittorrent would certainly be a start. I wonder how much trouble I could get into if I tried hosting that on my machine (upstream ~ 96 KB/s). The file is pretty close to 200MB, being that I am trying to optimally fill a mini CD. Thanks ~ --j - -- Juergen Fiedler JID [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key ID B06D4779 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBxDeQhqmlHrBtR3kRAmYgAJwP0EFlg4EpCHJquN2vLioT/cZ9QwCeOkGT dYfDo5h8SW6apEDFX6fVsNU= =pVwH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sharing dfsbuild experiences.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Watkins wrote: | On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 08:58:41AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: | |>A bittorrent would certainly be a start. I wonder how much trouble I |>could get into if I tried hosting that on my machine (upstream ~ 96 |>KB/s). The file is pretty close to 200MB, being that I am trying to |>optimally fill a mini CD. | | | If you do that, make sure you're running "wonder shaper", or you won't be | able to download anything while your upload link is saturated. Wonder | shaper rocks :) | | http://lartc.org/wondershaper/ | | I can run bt on my server to support it if you like. | (I hate having all this bandwidth which I'm not using !!) Alright... bittorrent is running, wondershaper has (hopefully) done its magic - I should be good. Could you or someone just like you please hit http://www.fiedlerfamily.net/juergen/files/dfs.jf-12202004.iso.torrent and see what happens? Thanks ~ --j - -- Juergen Fiedler JID [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key ID B06D4779 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFByOuhhqmlHrBtR3kRAspVAKCiVkBB/u8N+A468qVMyoCtbCpH3wCeI3MC eODf+v4AS4xZ38VNHVbg3MQ= =F7qx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bittorrent troubles was: Re: Sharing dfsbuild experiences.
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:36:01PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > Alright... bittorrent is running, wondershaper has (hopefully) done its > magic - I should be good. > Could you or someone just like you please hit > http://www.fiedlerfamily.net/juergen/files/dfs.jf-12202004.iso.torrent > and see what happens? Looks like nothing would happen. I noticed that btdownloadcurses (or headless, for that matter) gives me an error after a little while: > Problem connecting to tracker - HTTP Error -1: That's all. I have the tracker running: > bttrack --port 6880 --dfile /service/bttrack/dstate I created the torrent file: > btmakemetafile /home/juergen/bittorrent/dfs.jf-12202004.iso \ > http://www.fiedlerfamily.net:6880/announce I copied it to my web server and tried >btdownloadcurses --url \ http://www.fiedlerfamily.net/juergen/files/dfs.jf-12202004.iso.torrent \ --saveas /home/juergen/bittorrent/dfs.jf-12202004.iso It completes the 'download' and then gives me the aforementioned error every few minutes. What am I doing wrong here? Any input *will* be appeciated. Thanks --j -- Juergen Fiedler JID [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key ID B06D4779 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Whence cometh grove.log
I have a file, 'grove.log' in my root folder: -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 65 Oct 28 22:24 /grove.log It contains just one line: 20041028 22:24:51 grove: client (pid 20227) exited with 1 status Does anyone know where such a file may come from and what it means? Log files in the root directory tend to make me a bit nervous. Any hints would be greatly appreciated. Thanks --j -- Juergen Fiedler JID [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key ID B06D4779 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: A debian-based distro for the New
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [...] > Try Stormix. Its Debian with a easy installer and a great gui > replacement for dselect called stormpkg (which is also available from > woody). The installer will also set up X window for you. [...] Any truth to the rumor that they have declared bancrupcy(sp?)? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6jWrSRioLhcc1F0gRAsd/AJ9q2b6HAzg/Aqc+WOnIqbbE/jKJYwCgzqDe bfaLwpR3Y6rrUCvTJqk250g= =qqpq -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Reinstalling unstable broke cookies
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dumb subject, but I couldn't come up with anything better. The problem is: I reinstalled Linux a few days ago; the only big change that I made was that I replaced Gnome with KDE. Before, I had a CGI script written in Perl that would set a session cookie and another one that would read it. They both worked flawlessly. But now, after reinstalling unstable, I can still set the cookie, but I can't retrieve it. After running the CGI, Konqueror's cookie manager shows me two cookies in the 127.0.0.1 group: Both are named 'auth' - the name I gave to the cookie. Neither one has a target domain specified and both are listed as set by host 127.0.0.1. They do have the value that I set them to. The target path of the first one is '/%7Ejuergen/ldap/auth.cgi', the path of the second one is '/~juergen/ldap/auth.cgi'. So they seem to be there, but the script that is supposed th\o retrieve the cookie just gets an empty string. My question would be: Can anyone please tell me what could have caused this? Or failing that, could anyone please tell me what the proper place to ask this question is? Thanks, j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6ks2QRioLhcc1F0gRAmnmAJ9i244CgHpGzdKlJMkVfFJsMVlwHwCgpuEo oGB4IdIsoDWzTKSpSuj34XI= =AVop -END PGP SIGNATURE-
OpenSSH public key auth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I am running unstable with OpenSSH_2.5.1p2 installed. Now I am trying to connect to a machine that is running Redhat 6.2 with SSH 2 from ssh.com. The regular login works OK, but I am having problems getting public key authentication working. I created a key pair and appended my public key to ~/.ssh2/authorized_keys on the Redhat machine, leaving the 'identity' file in ~/.ssh on the Debian box. ssh-add seems to be adding the key to ssh-agent OK, but when I try to connect to the Redhat server, I am still asked for my password. Does anyone have any idea what I could be doing wrong? Thanks, j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6sPJ5RioLhcc1F0gRAmQzAJ4l2c6nhvJiJ7zHC+ndJ8jaRm4nMQCffCgX 78or9/aP7fi3t7ll/vYi3jo= =BspM -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Reboot only w/ mouse.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 March 2001 17:03, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: [...] > have you really gotten focus back when replugging in a ps2 keyboard? Works with my laptop, but not with my desktop computer. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6sUYKRioLhcc1F0gRArP2AKCVJjc9/NdTufIdOkXCwNKrj8xWiwCeN1Yg js+kZ62sQIa+3CdB7E11WcI= =0t1y -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: OpenSSH public key auth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 March 2001 12:49, Tommi Komulainen wrote: [...] > What you need to do, is extract your public key from OpenSSH in a > format that SSH2 recognizes. Then you just configure ssh2 as it's > supposed to be configured (man sshd on the server.) > > ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/identity -x > id_ssh.pub > scp id_ssh.pub remote:~/.ssh2/ > ssh remote > echo 'Key id_ssh.pub' >> ~/.ssh2/authorization I invariably get a 'load failed' after entering the pass phrase for my private key. Do you know what could cause this? Also, if I create an RSA key and just do a 'cp identity.pub authorized_keys2', I still get asked for a password if I try to ssh to localhost. DSA keys work fine. Any ideas? Thanks, j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6slTSRioLhcc1F0gRAqa4AJ9e2IX8s0cjl0fjy1OaaM6sGa0XgwCg0CQ/ WhzA9rjHAoTBV/5YV7Tumi0= =Zk1M -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: OpenSSH public key auth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, never mind. I just switched to DSA keys and everything worked the way you said it would. Thanks, j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6sljyRioLhcc1F0gRAlwJAJ4hS9USnMPlwDDDll+doSxTJHU/ywCfUnqc sDd/9diRbH6U0ZzudF8TjEs= =WiWJ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: MPEG player suggestions?! anyone?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 March 2001 00:08, Mark Livingstone wrote: > Looking for a good MPEG player.. so far i've tried XINE and PLAYMPEG > and both can't rewing/forward the flick. any other suggestions? I like smpeg-xmms. The picture- and sound quality of plaympeg with the UI of xmms. j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6t36oRioLhcc1F0gRAjXwAJwLQmXO1KqZHL36nA55p/hVQx/vlACggQnL YqGs3xNGJV2pEe2FmHBQbDs= =Likz -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Docs for OpenSSL
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Could someone please point me to some good documentation for OpenSSL? I don't think that what they have on their site qualifies. I am starting to play around with it, and I was just trying to create a new self-signed apache.pem to be used for apache-ssl. I think I have the private key (RSA) and the CSR OK, but the documentation has a huge gap when it comes to creating the actual certificate. Are there any web sites or any supplementary debs I should be aware of? Thanks, j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6t76lRioLhcc1F0gRAgnoAKDUMa0pqo2SHMtt++xnK49Tuq0bogCfUU/p p7Vd6ppTCXtl8lRjnj2FC3Y= =bqqj -END PGP SIGNATURE-
mod_ssl won't load
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I installed libapache-mod-ssl on an up-to-date unstable system this morning. I followed the instructions in libapache-mod-ssl-doc (I think), but mod-ssl won't load. I get this error message: - --- Syntax error on line 242 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_ssl.so into server: /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_ssl.so: undefined symbol: dbm_firstkey - --- Line 242 is the one that says 'LoadModule ssl_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_ssl.so'. Does anyone know what the problem might be? Google brought up nothing. Thanks, j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6uiQ4RioLhcc1F0gRAmd7AKDSZ3LIYdTot2hnEVHN0CnekN5SNwCeJRP7 4qBDllQe+MNzVI9aSSJiByg= =G4oT -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: prompt at startup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 March 2001 12:29, Jason Majors wrote: > On your lilo prompt enter "linux 2" assuming the label for your > preferred kernel is linux and the runlevel for console is 2. Unless > you've changed these, these values will work. [...] In the unstable distribution, the default runlevel is 2 and gdm installs itself in runlevels 2 through 5. To disable gdm in runlevel 2, you could do a 'update-rc.d gdm stop 99 2 .' If you want it back, just replace the 'stop' with a 'start'. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6ujkBRioLhcc1F0gRAvN6AJwMEN4sMPYbax2lIzatOJ1874p/uwCgu5yI 4qx17TcEpEDp9Dm5kmsjpGU= =bFxJ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: printer setup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > If it has driver for your printer, CUPS is probably the easiest way, > since it has a browser based configuration tool. > > Chris Howells I am not the original poster, but I am very interested in CUPS. But I can't even figure out which packages I really need (in unstable). cupsys, I assume. cupsys-bsd? cupsys-client? Anything else? Thanks, j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6unBLRioLhcc1F0gRAmrHAJ0aDr19SJ5Fqsc3GUXilKKzZM/HhwCdEkDo h932ohlS1qzvfV9P6puYmZo= =Hded -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: printer setup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 March 2001 16:40, Chris Howells wrote: [...] > The version in potato is old. Download 1.1.6 from > http://www.cups.org/software.html (get the DEB), and then install it > with: [...] The one in unstable is not quite as old, I assume: 1.1.4-3. Would that do? I tried it and when I connected to the web based admin tool and tried to add a new printer, it gave me only 6 choices for the printer type: file, ipp and the various serial ports. Now, the printers that I need to use are all remote, using BSD style lpd. How would I go about setting up one of those under CUPS? Thanks, j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6unO8RioLhcc1F0gRAi9qAKCkuLNCwbs6t9fyYtzeYKvUpBDsSQCfbzxq j3jUFEJAovtlk7qj2cJM7Vk= =Lba1 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: printer setup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 March 2001 17:08, Alan Shutko wrote: [...] > Are you sure you're running that version? (Maybe you need to restart > cups, though I believe the install does that.) On my 1.1.4-3, > "LPD/LPR Host or Printer" is listed on the web tool right after IPP. > > Check to make sure you have a /usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd file... it's > in the cupsys package. OK, this is freaky: I did an 'apt-get --purge remove cupsys' and then 'apt-get install cupsys'. I did make sure that the backend/lpd file was there. And after going to http://localhost:631, CUPS only offered me the 'Disk File' option and the various serial ports. Not even ipp. And yes, I am pretty sure that I am running version 1.1.4-3. Thanks, j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6unrKRioLhcc1F0gRAkkDAKCbElCxycpG0bKB8L4H8wXIek5a3wCgnPnK oWzGXVL77eBMS9rcff0XJQM= =9WLH -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: printer setup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 March 2001 16:40, you wrote: [...] > The version in potato is old. Download 1.1.6 from > http://www.cups.org/software.html (get the DEB), and then install it > with: > > dpkg -i cups-version.deb > > Worked fine for me. > > Chris Howells Wh! I finally got it working! Thank you so much! j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6uoEwRioLhcc1F0gRAiOQAKDPntSYZhwvQGIHa//4ZPo/O6SfWACghJeM DcVBMNmm018+TePadoK3nXk= =vZL/ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: printer setup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 March 2001 16:13, Chris Howells wrote: > From: jens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I installed 1.1.6 the same way you are suggesting and all went > > fine. I then tried installing kups which is a nicer interface > > as part of > > > > > Did you have the same problem ? Do you use kups ? How did you > > resolve the issue ? > > Sorry, no, I simply use the web interface. I find that quite adequate > for my needs (I generally use it via Lynx, since Konqueror doesn't > seem capable of it). > > Chris Howells Which Konqueror? Version 2.1 works fine for me. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6u8CERioLhcc1F0gRAk4aAJ43bYn47Gq7KmxXPUg9bvLJl14xBQCeI5w1 u/+V6WkHSahzOFWFuospWfI= =/f4E -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Voodoo 3 2000
Hi! I am trying to get a Voodoo 3 2000 to run under Debian 2.2 - with the added bonus that this instance would have to run on a 300Mhz AMD K6. Is there a way to do it or should I just return the card? Thanks in advance, Juergen
Re: Voodoo 3 2000
The first time I tried to install Debian on that machine, I installed the base system from floppies. Then, when I tried to install X by issuing an 'apt-get install task-x-window-system', I got an internal error after downloading the necessary files (if I was still at a download speed <=56K, the machine wouldn't be in one piece anymore, making my question moot). I think I'll obtain a CD and try again. But say, don't you have to specify the card you want to use when you set the X system up? Or did Debian autoprobe your Voodoo card? If you actually had to specify a card, which one did you pick? Thanks, Juergen Colin Watson wrote: > Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am trying to get a Voodoo 3 2000 to run under Debian 2.2 - with the > >added bonus that this instance would have to run on a 300Mhz AMD K6. Is > >there a way to do it or should I just return the card? > > It just works on my Debian unstable box, and worked when unstable was > potato too, when using the SVGA X server. (Although I have lingering > problems with GL support, but as my monitor is in a less than perfect > condition at the moment this is the least of my worries ...) > > I'd say the processor is irrelevant to the graphics card support here, > unless I'm missing something. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Voodoo 3 2000
I meant to ask whether I have to select a specific card during the initial Debian install - if I want to set up X right from the start. I guess I could try to set it up later and perhaps configure it with XF86Setup. I never set X up maunally - and I'd rather wait with that until I really know Linux inside out. Thanks, Juergen Erik Steffl wrote: > use svga server, it recognizes the voodoo card (automatically, you > don't need to specify it), when you run X, it should say the name of the > chip recognized... > > erik > > Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > > > The first time I tried to install Debian on that machine, I installed the > > base system > > from floppies. Then, when I tried to install X by issuing an 'apt-get > > install > > task-x-window-system', I got an internal error after downloading the > > necessary files > > (if I was still at a download speed <=56K, the machine wouldn't be in one > > piece > > anymore, making my question moot). I think I'll obtain a CD and try again. > > But say, don't you have to specify the card you want to use when you set > > the X system > > up? Or did Debian autoprobe your Voodoo card? If you actually had to > > specify a card, > > which one did you pick? > > > > Thanks, > > Juergen > > > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > > > Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I am trying to get a Voodoo 3 2000 to run under Debian 2.2 - with the > > > >added bonus that this instance would have to run on a 300Mhz AMD K6. Is > > > >there a way to do it or should I just return the card? > > > > > > It just works on my Debian unstable box, and worked when unstable was > > > potato too, when using the SVGA X server. (Although I have lingering > > > problems with GL support, but as my monitor is in a less than perfect > > > condition at the moment this is the least of my worries ...) > > > > > > I'd say the processor is irrelevant to the graphics card support here, > > > unless I'm missing something. > > > > > > -- > > > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Voodoo 3 2000
I haven't tried the 4.0 server with my Voodoo card yet - just the Mach64. And unfortunately, I don't quite remember what went on with the config file. As far as I remember, it updated it automatically - but I could be completely wrong here. I'm pretty sure that XF4.0 can't read XF3.3.x config files. The thing that I remember is that XF4.0 expects the config file in /etc/XF86Config (as opposed to /etc/X11/XF86Config) and the installation of XF4.0 didn't move it over automatically. If I were you and wanted to try 4.0, I would definitely make a backup. I haven't had any troubles with my current installation, but some people obviously couldn't get it to work at all and had to revert to 3.3.x. HTH, Juergen robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > Thanks for the URL Juergen, should be a great help for the near > future. > Did the update to xfree 4.0.x destroy your 3.3.6 configuration, > precisely - can I choose between both in the startx script? > > The magazin C'T (www.heise.de) had a article recently about this > subject and reporting > having trouble with the VooDoo (2,3) cards. > Hopefuly they managed a workaround. > If you don't happen to find it on their server contact me - I'll have > a look in the past 7 magazines. > > Robert
Re:
Potato used a 2.2.x kernel, didn't it? You are going to be absolutely fine with that. In fact, last time I checked, Woody didn't even offer 2.4.x. Admittedly it's been a while. The kernel is one of the very few things I installed from a tarball (mainly, no, exclusively for the USB functionality). Anyway: There shouldn't be too many apps in Woody that require kernel 2.4. The only one I am aware of is iptables. Btw, I just checked: kernel version 2.4.0-test5 is available from Woody. Doesn't change the fact that you should be OK with any 2.2.x kernel. HTH, Juergen doppo wrote: > I'm thinking about upgrading to woody, because apt getting on potato dir > jsut find old packages, and there's newer stable packages (like blackbox, it > returns 0.5xx.xx when 0.60.0 is already released). > So, before upgrade I have a question: > What should I do with the kernel? I'm using the original kernel of potato, > but woody works with it too or I'll need to upgrade to 2.4? > > Thanks, > > Daniel > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: runlevel + Serverstart at bootup
It should be noted, though, that you don't actually put the startup files in each of the folders: you create one file for each daemon or set of daemons in /etc/init.d and link to that (symbolically) from the individual folders. The name you give the links represents whether you want to start a daemon or shut it down, i.e.: a link to /etc/init.d/pcmcia named /etc/rc2.d/S20apmd starts APM relatively early after entering run leval 2. HTH, Juergen Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 27-Oct-2000 Hanno Böttcher wrote: Hi all! A friend of mine told me, that serverstartups are configured with the runleves under etc/r.. I used Suse before and there was a central file named rc.config where you could set the server starts. Is there a similar file in Debian? Or do I realy have to make this for each runlevel each? there is no centralized control of the daemons.
Problems installing device3dfx
Hello! I am running potato with the original 2.2.17 kernel and I would like to use my Voodoo 3 2000 with Mesa. I installed kernel-source-2.2.17 and of course device3dfx-source. I untarred both in the /usr/src directory and made a symbolic link from /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17 to /usr/src/linux. After that, doing a 'make-kpkg module_image' complained about a missing linux/moduleversions.h. So I also installed kernel-headers-2.2.17 and moved all files from kernel-headers-2.2.17/include/linux to kernel-source-2.2.17/include/linux. This time, it compiled OK, but 'dpkg -i device3dfx-module-2.2.17_2.3.4-2+Custom.1.00_i386.deb complains aboout unresolved symbols. Trying to do 'modprobe 3dfx' manually returns the following: >-SNIP--< /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: unresolved symbol register_chrdev_Re7d40881 /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: insmod 3dfx failed >-SNIP-< I should probably add that I didn't recompile the kernel itself - just the 3dfx module. Is that the problem? Or what else am I doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Juergen
Re: 3dfx.o -- SOLVED!!!
One question, if I may: Is the kernel that this module is working with installed from the 2.2.17 kernel image deb or did you compile it from the kernel sources? It seemed to me that the fact that I installed the sources, but tried to run the module with the precompiled kernel might have caused the problem described by you (and experienced by me). Thanks, Juergen David Bellows wrote: > [...] > OK, here's what I did. > > 1)I apt-get removed my existing device3dfx-source and also removed > /usr/src/modules/ which is where the source was. > > 2) apt-get install device3dfx-source. > > 3) cd /usr/src/ > > 4) tar zxfv device3dfx-source > > 5) cd modules # This dir is created by the above command > > 6) cd modules/device3dfx > > 7) ./debian/buildpkg # This as per the docs in > /usr/share/doc/device3dfx-source/README.Debian > > 8) This time it compiled. Before when I ran this command it wouldn't > compile, apparently I needed to clean up some stuff but I didn't know > how. Re-installing the whole package provided me with a clean script. > > 9) The module will be located in /usr/src/modules/device3dfx as 3dfx.o > > 10) cp 3dfx.o /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/ # obviously sub 2.2.17 for > wherever your modules are. > > 11) According to /usr/src/modules/device3dfx/debian/README.debian do > the following > A) mknod /dev/3dfx c 107 0 > B) make the group "audio" have rw permissions for /dev/3dfx > C) make sure whatever user you want to use belongs to the group > "audio" > > 12) insmod 3dfx > > 13) Start fragging # hopefully, this worked for me. > > Hope this helps, > David Bellows > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: change login method
If you want to disable it temporarily, you can do a 'rm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm' (assuming that you are booting in run level 2 (which is Debian's default)). To reenable it: 'ln -s /etc/init.d/xdm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm'. Juergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just uninstall xdm: > apt-get remove xdm > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org > 30/10/00 cc: > 13:41Assunto: change login method > > > > in other dist edit the /etc/inittab file can change the loin method > ,from Xwin to console,but debian could not,how can i change login method > in debian?? > //bow > -- > »¶ÓʹÓà 21CN µç×ÓÓʼþϵͳ http://www.21cn.com > Thank you for using 21cn.com Email system > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: I can't compile anything!
Do you have binutils installed? You're gonna need them. Gyulai Mihaly wrote: > I used the 'slink' version and tried to upgrade glibc manually > from 2.0.7 to 2.1.2 . It failed, there was a 'libc-dev' conflict with > 'libstdc++2.9' > > Now I installed 'potato' from CD, I selected the 'libc' packages > and 'gcc' 2.95 . > > If I try to compile a C source (with ./configure) it says: > > "gcc cannot create executable" > > How can it be, if I newly installed gcc and glibc? > > What can I do to correct this miserable situation?? > > -- > GYULAI Mihály http://gyulai.freeyellow.com Rejtõ Jenõ mûvei, Linux > > Élj minden nap teljes életet. Lehet, hogy ez az utolsó napod. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
can't get kbd focus with Voodoo3 2k / Tuxracer
Hi, folks! I finally got my system to run Tuxracer 3D accelerated (I assume that it will work for other Mesa based programs too, then). The only problem is that I don't get the keyboard focus: After I close Tuxracer (CTRL-C), everything I typed during the game shows up in the window from which I started the game. The system looks like this: Debian (Woody) with X 3.3.6 and kernel 2.2.17. I am running Gnome with Enlightenment as the WM. Mesa was installed from mesag3-glide2_3.2.1-1.deb. Does anyone have any hints as to how I could get Tuxracer (and similar programs) running and accepting keyboard input? Thanks in advance, Juergen
Re: new to Debian....
You might want to throw in a 'libncurses5-dev' and a 'bin86', too (if you don't have them yet). kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 06:06:02PM +, wulfie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > although not new to linux. A little bit of skewed logic in places - I > > install C dev system & kernel sources, but the .debs do not include > > libcurses5 as a "recommended" to "make menuconfig". Huh? I'd have thought > > many kernel hand-rollers would do menuconfig & so this would be a popular > > reccomendation. > > Can't explain the lapse, but to fix: > > $ apt-get install libncurses5 > > -- > Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself > Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal >http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org > > >Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
Re: new to Debian....
If I understand correctly, 'make menuconfig' compiles the menu system on the fly - won't work without the ncurses headers. kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Is dev required just to run 'make menuconfig'?
Re: Screenblanking of console
Try 'setterm -blank'. Peter Good wrote: > Ok I'm at a loss, I know this was discussed some time ago on the list. > But cgi.debian.org and lists.debian.org are so damm slow tonight, I > can't search for an answer. Question is, How do I stop the screen from > blanking in console mode. > > Peter. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Joystick troubles
Hi,
I am trying to get a joystick (any joystick) connected to my Woody
system and I was hoping to get some helpful hints from you people.
I have a SB Awe32 and I am trying to get a Logitech Wingman to work with
its gameport. I tried the same with a Sidewinder pad - same result.
I compiled support for traditional and Sidewinder sticks as modules.
I ran the following file through isapnp:
>---SNIP---<
# (DEBUG)
(READPORT 0x0273)
(ISOLATE PRESERVE)
(IDENTIFY *)
(VERBOSITY 2)
(CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
(CONFIGURE CTL00c3/361933426 (LD 0
(INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
(DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5))
(IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0220))
(IO 1 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0330))
(IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388))
(NAME "CTL00c3/361933426[0]{Audio }")
(ACT Y)))
(CONFIGURE CTL00c3/361933426 (LD 1
# Compatible device id PNPb02f
# ANSI string -->Game<--
(IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0200))(ACT Y)))
(CONFIGURE CTL00c3/361933426 (LD 2
(IO 0 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0620))
(NAME "CTL00c3/361933426[2]{WaveTable }")
(ACT Y)))
(WAITFORKEY)
>---SNIP---<
This is supposed to activate the game port of the Awe32 at I/O port
0x200.
After that, I tried an 'insmod joystick' - no problem.
But a 'modprobe joy-analog js_an=0x200,0x003b' gave me the following
error message:
>---SNIP---<
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/joy-analog.o: init_module: Device or resource
busy
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/joy-analog.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/joy-analog.o failed
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/joy-analog.o: insmod joy-analog failed
>---SNIP---<
What do I have to do to get this joystick (or any joystick) working?
Any support would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Juergen
Re: basic xscreensaver question
I don't know about 1. - I'm using gnome-session and it seems to start the screen saver automatically. About 2.: It would probably be best to make the variable available globally. /etc/profile is a good choice for that. HTH, Juergen Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, I have two easy questions about xscreensaver: 1.How can I > make it load automatically (without starting the deamon from the menu > everytime)? 2.I have the GL screensavers turned on, but I get > errors about not setting my MESA_GLX_FX variable. Right now I have it > so that it sets it in my bashrc. What would be a better (global) file > to put that it so all programs could take advantage of > it? Thanks,Cameron Matheson
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade error
Try to install perl-5.6 first. j On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:34:38AM -0600, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Did an apt-get dist-upgrade last night and ran into the following problem: > > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded. > 1 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > > > Setting up debconf (0.5.01) ... > Can't locate XSLoader.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 > /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 .) at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/POSIX.pm line 7. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/POSIX.pm > line 7. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 5. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line > 5. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 22. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 22. > dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > debconf > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Kevin > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: installing packages: can't locate file/glob.pm
A 'dpkg --search Glob.pm' (it is case sensitive) gave me a: perl-5.005: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/File/DosGlob.pm perl-5.6: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/File/Glob.pm perl-5.6: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/File/DosGlob.pm So I guess the relevant package for you would be perl-5.6. Is it possible that yours is corrupt? You could try to reinstall it. Btw, I found that when I am looking for a particular file, the search tool at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages is most useful. Hope that helps, Juergen On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 07:09:52PM -0600, Chris Nestrud wrote: > Hello all. I'm trying to install the mime-support package and am getting > the following error. I recently installed perl-5.6, and also have > perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 installed, as various packages require different > perl versions. I'm running Woody with latest upgrades as brought on by > 'apt-get update'. > > (begin) > Unpacking mime-support (from .../mime-support_3.9-1_all.deb) ... > Setting up mime-support (3.9-1) ... > Can't locate File/Glob.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 > /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 .) at > /usr/sbin/update-mime line 48. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/update-mime line 48. > dpkg: error processing mime-support (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > mime-support > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > (end) > > Any ideas as-to what's broken would be appreciated. > dpkg --search glob.pm' returns no matches. > > Thanks, > Chris > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: X broken after today's woody update
Did the upgrade work OK? Did you get any errors while xserver-xfree86 was configured? A partially configured XFree86 could be troublesome, I guess. Try 'dpkg --configure xserver-xfree86'. If you get an error message, try 'ln -s /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X'. The postinstall script of xfree86 expects this link to be there and bombs out if it isn't. After making the link, try 'dpkg --configure --pending'. Did the trick for me. HTH, j On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 04:14:18PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > After the upgrade I get a series of: > > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. > var: nice_value, value: . > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. > var: nice_value, value: . > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. > var: nice_value, value: . > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. > var: nice_value, value: . > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. > var: nice_value, value: . > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. > var: nice_value, value: . > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. > var: nice_value, value: . > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. > var: nice_value, value: . > > This happens either as root or as a normal user. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: startx problem
I think it just means that if there were any errors, they wouldn't be fatal. I actually had an xkbcomp error recently (tried to use a non-existing key map), but lo and behold, it wasn't fatal (just disabled my backspace key). So I think as long as you don't get any actual error message, you can ignore this. j On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:22:16PM +0100, Pascal THIVENT wrote: > But what about the end of the output ? > > ... > System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm > -m fr -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> " -eml > "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" keymap/xfree86 > /var/tmp/xfree86.xkm' > ... > > what does this mean ?
Re: X at boot time
You could install xdm. It starts towards the end of the boot process and gives you a graphical login that brings you directly into X. HTH, j On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 02:37:10PM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > How can I start a X session at boot time, without typing startx at the > prompt? > Thanks! > > > Marcelo > _ > Marcelo Chiapparini > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Disabling input devices in XF 4.0.1
Hi, I have a machine running Woody with XFree86 4.0.1. It has two input devices: One PS/2 glidepoint and an USB trackball. Now, I would like to take advantage of the new input device dialog in The Gimp. If I disable core events for the trackball in XF86Config-4, it works OK: I set the input mode for the USB device to 'Window' and the cursor movements of this device are restricted to the current window. But: Most of the time, I would like to use the USB device as a regular XWindows input device. And I'd rather not restart X every time I switch the USB device from The Gimp to a generic X input device. So, my question is: Is there any way to turn the sending of core events of for a particular input device under XF 4.0.1 without restarting X? Thanks in advance, Juergen
Re: where is mkfontdir? bleah...
In woody, it is in the xutils package. Btw, for questions like this one, the answer can almost always be found at: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages HTH, j On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 10:37:02AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dear all, > > [...] > the trouble is, there's no mkfontdir on my system. > > where can i find this utility? > > thanks! > pete
Xdefaults being ignored?
Hi, I have the weirdest problem: Whatever I enter into my ~/.Xdefaults seems to be ignored entirely. I tried to make my mouse wheel work with netscape; pasted the relevant lines from http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ to ~/.Xdefaults - nothing. I edited (for test purposes) ~/.Xdefaults to look like this: --- xterm*background: white xterm*foreground: black --- Xterm is still white text on a black background (I tried different capitalizations of 'xterm', also). I really don't understand what's going on. I am running the latest Woody with XF4.0.1 and gnome/sawfish. Any ideas, anyone? TIA, j
Re: Xdefaults being ignored?
Both methods (renaming .Xdefaults to .Xresources or using xrdb) worked equally well. Finally, I can have my xterm black on white. Why did I want to do that again? Thanks so much! j On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:09:15PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > >>>>> Brian Potkin writes: > > bp> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:09:36PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler > bp> wrote: [...] > bp> Try creating the file ~/.Xresources instead. I think this is > bp> used by X on Debian rather than ~/.Xdefaults. > > If that doesn't work, you might need to put the line > > xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults > > in your ~/.xsession. [...]
Re: How do you remove Helix GNOME
apt-get takes regular expressions, so a 'apt-get --purge remove "helix*"' should nuke everything that has the string 'helix' in its name. Note that apt-get does a substring match with the package name, so 'helix*' will be matched no matter where in the name it is. Also note, that you need the quotes around 'helix*', so you the asterisk i doesn't get eaten by bash. HTH, j On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 01:14:04PM -0500, Scott Patterson wrote: > I'm interested in following the Woody releases of GNOME instead of Helix > Code's. > Problem is, how do I remove ALL the Helix Code packages. Seeing they all have > "helix" in their package name, a simple script should easily do this. Too bad > I'm not that familiar with dpkg and apt. Going manually through each package > is > not preferable! > > Scott > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Another newbie question ;-)
apt-get upgrade (without the 'dist-') might be more to your liking. HTH, j On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 02:47:18PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: [...] > What I'm comparing it to is an RPM-based distros method > of "upgrading". I think it looks at what's installed and updates those > packages (and dependencies) at the least. Right ?? I'd like "apt-get > dist-upgrade" to do that. [...]
Re: xlibs error
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:54:02PM -0500, Jens Gecius wrote:
> Gareth Bowker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-10_i386.deb
> > (--unpack):
> > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in
> > package xpaint
> >
> > Any help resolving this would be great as apt refuses to work until I
> > fix this.
>
> Do a `apt-get remove xpaint` and after finishing the dist-upgrade, you
> should be able to reinstall xpaint.
>
You could also install the libraries by doing a
'dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-10_i386.deb'
That's how I did it until yesterday and it didn't seem to cause any
problems - after all we're just overwriting a symlink with a new link
pointing to the same destination.
Right now, I have the following lines in apt.conf:
---
DPkg
{
Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";};
Options {"--force-overwrite";}
}
---
This should force apt-get to overwrite app-defaults automatically.
The only problem is that it will overwrite everything - even things
where it would have made sense to stop the installation.
Before I can recommend this, I'll have to see whether it breaks
anything - I don't expect this to happen, tough.
HTH,
Juergen
Re: v4.0.1 xserver-xfree86 setup
In general, you can reconfigure packages with 'dpkg-reconfigure ' This procedure, applied to xserver-xfree86, should give you a file '/etc/X11/XF86Config-4'. If you want to reconfigure X later on, dexter does a decent job of it. HTH, j On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:30:14PM +, Craig Coles wrote: > I am running Woody, have done for quite a while, and just updated to the > newer xfree86 server, when installing the new 4.0.1 xserver through dselect > it had me go through a simple configuration to set up X. It either didn't > write the file where I can find it, or I somehow have deleted it. How do I > force the same configuration dialog again? And where should the XF86Config > file have been placed after this configuration dialog? ...I still have > 3.3.6 X config files around, so the older XF86Config is there. > > > Thanks for your time, > > > -Craig
Woody: Can't start X as regular user
Hi I noticed the following after upgrading to the latest version of XFree86 4.0.1 under Woody (the one where Xwrapper.config obsoletes Xserver): When anyone but root tries to run 'startx', I get the following error: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. Of course, users can still use X via [xg]dm. My Xwrapper.config file looks like this: --- allowed_users=any nice_value=-10 --- I didn't see anything about this in the archives. Does anyone know what's going on there? TIA, Juergen
Which IMAP server to use
Hi, I am planning to switch my private mail server from Redhat to Woody and at the same time upgrade to a decent IMAP server. But the choices, the choices! There seem to be courier-imap cyrus-imap and uw-imapd. I think I heard good things about Courier. Then again, there is a whole HOWTO for Cyrus. And then there are of course several other servers. Does anyone have any recommendations? I would like to have SSL and it wouldn't hurt if the software was easy to maintain. Thanks in advance, j
Re: Which IMAP server to use
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:03:41PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: I installed it on my test machine, and it couldn't have been easier. Netscape is still bitching because I didn't create a site certificate yet, but it's working. Thanks so much! j > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Juergen Fiedler wrote: [...] > There is now a uw-imapd-ssl package which supports SSL/TLS builtin. > (Previously you had to wrap it with ssltunnel.) > > -- > Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Which IMAP server to use
Thanks for the hint. I would much prefer to use a server that is secure. Even as we speak, I am connected to my current IMAP from work. I'd rather not be restricted to reading my private mail from home. On the other hand, I like the fact that the UW IMAP uses the traditional mailbox format. Cyrus doesn't do that, does it? Is there a way to access cyrus' mail database with a POP server? Thanks, j On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 01:49:44AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:03:41PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > I installed it on my test machine, and it couldn't have been easier. > > Netscape is still bitching because I didn't create a site certificate > > yet, but it's working. > > i would block connections from the world to a UW imapd server. it is > well known to be full of security holes(most of the known ones are > patched however from what i gather on BUGTRAQ the whole design of the > server isn't done with security in mind). or compile UW IMAP with the > stackgaurd GCC compiler. if your imap server is on a private network > then i guess there isn't much to worry about. > > i for one just recently switched from uw imapd to cyrus, performance > increased by about 10 fold. > > nate > > -- > ::: > ICQ: 75132336 > http://www.aphroland.org/ > http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Running latest Mutt w/o SASL
Hi! I did a dist-upgrade today and among the things I got is a version of Mutt that uses the SASL libraries. I use Mutt to pick up mail from a RedHat 6.2 server running RH's default version of IMAP (UW, IIRC). Now, the problem is that I don't have SASL installed on the RH machine (and don't want to, since I am going to convert it to Debian as soon as possible). The problem is that Mutt only tries SASL authentication, although the docs say that it should fall back to other methods. It's a real pain in the neck: I am back to reading mail with Mozilla and I really miss the threading. Is there a way to tell Mutt to use login authentication? And if not, is there another mail reader with threading and IMAP support? TIA, j
Re: cdrom issue
Are you running the default kernel? I had big problems with 2.4.0-test11 and two of my CD drives (one ROM, one RW). For me, installing 2.4.0-test12 fixed all problems. j Rick wrote: > > Hello, > > I got Unreal Tournament for xmas and am now trying to install it, but the > installer is not working happily with my cdrom (generic ATAPI). I have > gotten it to work successful on my lady's potato distro, and I am running > potato as well. The problem seems to be that it is not identifying the > disk label (?) properly. > > Does anyone know if this is likely a hardare issue, driver issue, or config > issue? > > thanks, > rick [...]
Re: Making new tasks known to tasksel (2)
I am not sure whether this has been mentioned before, but running 'Update' from within dselect adds the tasks to tasksel. j Holger Rauch wrote: > > Hi all! > > I forgot to mention something in my last mail concerning this issue. I > didn't run "tasksel" right after "apt-cdrom add". What I did was: > > 1. apt-cdrom add > 2. apt-get update > 3. tasksel > > The question why the new tasks were not available in tasksel still > remains. > > Thanks a lot for your help. > > Greetings, > > Holger > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome MIME types
At Wed, 3 Jan 2001 00:15:09 +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:00:30PM +, Gary Coady wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:16:49AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > I have Netscape 4.76 and Mozilla 0.6 installed on my potato system. I > > > wanted to change the MIME types in the Gnome Control-Center so that > > > html files are viewed with Mozilla by default. [...] > I don't know how viewing HTML files interacts with the MIME types, but you > > can at least get gnome-moz-remote to open mozilla instead by creating > > ~/.gnome/gnome-moz-remote > > and putting in the contents > > > > [Mozilla] > > filename=/path/to/mozilla/bin/mozilla > > Thanks, I thought of something like that but it's not a nice solution. > Phil That actually IS the nice solution. I am running milestone 18 on unstable and the only other way I could do it is to have Mozilla in the path (which it happens to be anyway) and to set the handler for text/html to 'mozilla -chrome 'file:%f''. If I try to give the full path to Mozilla (or any app I use as a handler), I get the same error that you experienced. Besides that, if I call Mozilla with the 'chrome' option, it comes up without toolbars and the popup menus are disabled. Somewhat like a kiosk setting. j
Re: Helix gnome control center freezes
At Tue, 2 Jan 2001 21:08:57 -0500, Seung-woo Nam wrote: > > Hi everyone: > > Since I upgraded my Debian system from 2.2_rev0 to 2.2_rev2, all the Sawfish > menus in Gnome control center wouldn't work (appearance, focus behaviour, > etc.). When I click on any of those the window just freezes and doesn't show > any contents of menus. I know Helix gnome is not a part of official Debian > dist but since it happened after the upgrade, I was wandering ther's any > conflict between Helix Gnome and new Debian. > > Has anyone had the same problem? I had exactly the same problem. Running sawfish-capplet directly from a terminal ought to give you some insight in what is going wrong. In my case (a fresh install), rep was missing. 'apt-get install rep' solved my sawfish problems. HTH, j
Re: Packages
At Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:07:39 -0200, Antonio A. Lobato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Due problems accordant my lasts mail`s, I just win to install packages > manualy: downloading from internet to my windows partition and installing > it from my hard disk ( ! ). > My problem is being to find the dependences packages. To install the the > package "Afterstep", I need 7 dependes packages, but I don`t find three: > libxpm4, libz1, xlib6g. > > Does anybody knows how find it ? [..] The usefulness of the Debian website simply cannot be overstated. Go to 'http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/afterstep.html' and you will get a listing of all packages Afterstep depends on, as well as recommended and suggested packages. You even get links to the download pages for those packages. HTH, j
Re: Installing Debian trouble
At Wed, 03 Jan 2001 10:48:17 -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: > > "Holp, John Mr." wrote: > > [...] > > The system then attempts to extract and then comes up with "File > > error!" > > > > There was a problem extracting the Base System from > > /instmnt/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/base2_1.tgz > > Sounds like a bad CD. If you have high-speed network access, I'd advise > using http instead of CD, or getting a different CD. One little addition, if I may: You don't really want to install version 2.1 anyway, if you can help it(*). It is about 1.5 versions behind the current development. Besides installing Debian 2.2 is actually a bit easier than installing 2.1. If you can wait 3 to 4 days, a 3 CD set is about $6 at cheapbytes.com. j
Re: OT - Virus?
At Wed, 03 Jan 2001 11:39:10 -0600, John Travis wrote: > > I know this is a little OT but this is about the only forum where I > provide the email address that the message in question was received from. > And besides, you gurus should be able to straighten this out :-). I just > got an email (not at this address) warning of a GNU/Linux virus named LinX > that is _supposedly_ going to destroy my shadow password file next month. > It contained an executable that was supposed to scour your computer and > determine if you were infected. But upon looking at it in an editor > certain things just look bad. It looks like it starts a file with the > contents of ls, then cats your passowrd files on, then tries to initiate a > net connection and sendmail the file to an address at yahoo.com? Now I've > been up for a *long* time, so maybe I'm just being paranoid. I know the > files would be encypted anyway, just curious. So has anyone else heard of > this would be virus? > More accurately, you could call it a trojan horse. Sending your password file out by mail is never a good idea. Even though it is encrypted, having a copy of it would give a potential attacker all the time he or she needs to crack it with a brute force approach. Why can't the skr1p7k1dd13z (sp?) stay on Microsoft turf? > TIA, > > jt > > time to sleep... g'night, j
Re: Source list
At Wed, 03 Jan 2001 11:56:01 -0700, Brandeil wrote: > > Hi ! > I am very new to Debian. I have been trying to install some software > using the apt-get, I have had little success with it though. > netscape and ncftp are the only programs I have successfully installed. > GIMP, MC, GTK and others i have not been able too, their is an attempt made > and downloads occure, however the program is not installed, a message says > to "udate" files to add missing files, I have done this several times but > no success. > Some files are NOT FOUND, I dont know how to add a link to the source list > (the attempts that i have tried causes an error and does not run) > > Thank you for your help. Could you please post your /etc/apt/sources.list? Without that, it is very hard to guess what could be going wrong with your installations. j
Serving CGIs from public_html
In a long tradition of asking off-topic questions here, I beg your
forgiveness for the following:
I am running Debian/unstable an I installed Apache and mod-perl today.
Apache is version 1.3.14-2 mod-perl is 1.24.01-2.
My problem is that I can't serve CGIs from the public_html within my
home directory. I always get a
'Premature end of script headers:/home/juergen/public_html/index.pl'.
If I copy the script to /usr/lib/cgi-bin I can call it OK, so it's
probably not a problem with the script itself.
The script looks like this:
---SNIP---
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI qw(:standard);
print header,start_html("hello"),h1("Hello, World!"),end_html,"\n\n";
---SNIP---
I uncommented the following line in /etc/apache/httpd.conf:
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .sh .pl
and the options for the home directories look like this:
---SNIP---
AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
Options MultiViews Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
---SNIP---
The permissions for ~/public_html are 'drwxr-xr-x' and the permissions
for the script itself are '-rwxr-xr-x'.
Static HTML pages work OK from ~/public_html.
Does anyone know what I have to do to be able to serve the script from
~/public_html?
TIA,
j
Re: mail client
At Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:51:21 -0600 (CST), Casey Webster wrote: > > Hello, > > I've noticed debian doesnt distribute pine on its package mirrors, and > as i've only really used pine under unix for mail, what mail clients do > you guys use, so i can check them out. > > thanks > -casey Right now, I use Wanderlust (package wl) with xemacs, because mutt doesn't work too well with my current IMAP server. It's quite versatile. Took me a while to get it set up properly. Besides IMAP, it also supports POP, NNTP, MH folders and a whole bunch of other formats. It also does threading. j
Re: staroffice..
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 24 March 2001 03:22, Roberto Diaz wrote: [...] > Yes but for kpresenter to work I have to install kde 2.x I even > havent installed kde 1.x and since I am using windowMaker I am a > little bit afraid of KDE mostly due to last Nick Croft > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posting about "Subject: Re: kde virus-like menu > masher" [...] FWIW, IIRC, you don't have to install the KDE binaries, just the libraries. Try 'apt-get install kpresenter' and look at the list of additional packages that it wants to install. You should only find library packages there. And those won't try to take over your menu system. Not like I had any problems with the binaries... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6vhRsRioLhcc1F0gRAkZ5AJ9vfCGrwkrts38nSvf5Uz/yf7gUAACg2Xcg dYy5TqtPlLdhPUUp67q00vs= =+XOm -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 27 March 2001 11:17, Alan Shutko wrote: > CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Let me give you today's example: > > Nit: your example wasn't comparing apples and apples. You were > running an up-to-date Debian system and an old RedHat system, which > didn't ship ssh in the first place. With a current RH system, it > would have been something like > > * ftp to favorite rh mirror > > * grovel through directory structure to find the 7.0 updates > > * download openssh rpms > > * rpm -Uvh them [...] ReNit: Your example assumes that the dependencies for openssh are unchanged. If they are not, the hunt is on - especcially since rpm has this nasty habit of telling you that it needs a newer version of a library, but gives no indication as to which package this library is in. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6wM2RRioLhcc1F0gRAhGhAJ9wDXDkR0ntdSdzuCkscq9XCaL2mACgpqio zUP7UXv0NW2ZtXuaVAuWGyE= =36c1 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Java install problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Actually, sun doesn't make a jvm for linux. Instead they signed an > NDA with the blackdown people, and the blackdown people make it > instead. If there is a link on sun's site (wasn't last time I > checked, but it's been a while) it is to the blackdown site. > > -D http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download-linux.html doesn't link to blackdown in any way. It's not much of a secret that the code of Sun's JVM for Linux is Blackdown with minor modifications. But they still keep their own local copy. I like Blackdown Java better, though, because it comes in .deb form. j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6w4e0RioLhcc1F0gRAk+qAKCu8p+D5HtBMVD8NqVRQGxjbFHbwACfWjj4 fCa2sXbSVsf7ysYEqw11Pu0= =PeOO -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: need help with ncurses...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 29 March 2001 13:06, Jake R. Johnson wrote: > how do i install ncurses? Do an 'apt-cache search ncurses', pick out the latest version and 'apt-get install '. In unstable latest-version == libncurses5, in stable it might still be libncurses4. If you want to compile applications with ncurses support, you'll also have to 'apt-get install -dev'. j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6w4phRioLhcc1F0gRAuBYAKCngaP0X8ztrcOWZdYSuAYg912qNACgv2yq MDt901NVEM17U6EgynsDV6s= =UDz2 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Lunar lander game?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 April 2001 10:18, Stan Brown wrote: > Can anyone sugest a good lunar lander game for use on a Debian > system? > > I found Lunar Lander 200, and it looks just perfect, but I can't seem > to get it to compile on my Debian stable machine. What's wrong with good old xlander? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6zfuYRioLhcc1F0gRAu/uAJ9dv1DqfAZimQKD6m3v4rWH2vzy1ACcC7CJ PXPSuORAfNtFooAjSq9aDxE= =ZBbe -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Cupsys doesn't play nice(ly)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am running an up-to-date version of unstable with cupsys 1.1.4-3. My problem is that if I try to print from external programs (i.e. Konqueror , enscript), the print margins come out all wrong. I have set up an HP LJ4000 as an lpd printer called syc2. If I do a 'lpr -Psyc2 test.txt', the file will come out OK. 'enscript -Psyc2 test.txt' cuts off the top and bottom of the page. Same goes for Konqueror and other programs. I tried adjusting the margins in kups. Again, lpr uses the changed margins, enscript doesn't. I tried cupsys 1.1.6 directly from the CUPS web site, but the .deb doesn't fit in well with the related packages. I got it installed, but handling packages that rely on the Debian version is a pain. Does anyone know how I can make CUPS behave? TIA, Juergen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE60zxLRioLhcc1F0gRAt3dAJ4mva1IIFOHcn//YO4ZmWH/zf12lACgxa9m nOJBgkccxWyjYo/rCPCZVCo= =5sj9 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Need help playing mp3 files and /or configuring sound
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sean wrote: | I've attached two files which may shed some light when I try to play an | amp3 file with mpg321. No I don't know if my sound system even works. | Discover detects the es1370 as my sound card and I've installed the os | modules into the kernel using modconf. When I used modconf to do this, | I gave the os module no suplimental arguments. I have libio and mpg321 | installed. The error message you'll see from mpg321 asks if the device | is in use? When I tried to play the file, there was nothing using my | sound card. | See the attached files mpg.log, script output from running mpg321 and | dmesg.log the dmesg output. If don't know if it makes a difference, | these files were created as my user not root. | Sean The first thing I normally do when testing my sound card is to issue a 'cat /etc/passwd > /dev/dsp'. If it tells me that I don't have the necessary permissions (as it often will), I add my user account to the 'audio' group. Have you tried that yet? - --j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBfmHRYFE+dpEf2hQRAjalAJ4sF25rPFgXuCtJjvnQEygJn7AssgCgljpx VQs86nk9uixQEQ8nuh12D54= =gXxF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Playing a wav
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Around here, the play command s contained in the sox package. HTH - --j Michael Satterwhite wrote: | I didn't see this message come through, so I think I had a glitch on my mail | server. If someone does see it twice, I apologize. | | Back on SuSE, I could play a wav file just by entering "play file" from the | command line. I liked this for script end notifications. Play isn't installed | by default, and there are hundreds of hits if I enter "apt-cache search | play". | | Would someone be so kind as to suggest a command line tool for this that's | available on Debian? | -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBfndWYFE+dpEf2hQRApFwAJ46Am2fNyccvvGTIurUZHQBSCQlUgCgjd8P E7kUfpinvzbEdJmIPhkkbZM= =kmX1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and spam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: | William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | |>>Including "nospam" in your email name helps a lot. | | | http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ While I agree that address munging is Not A Good Thing, I find the attempt to draw parallels between spamming and terrorism in that article inaccurate and offensive. I wonder what the author thinks about spam filtering (which happens to be my favorite method to deal with UCE). - --j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBlpDWYFE+dpEf2hQRAqyBAJ9rNwScG2eFAcOVgNB8/xdYHcNhjQCgiCmP kJi4hV5Zojrc49z+NQ0a7us= =w7+b -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge questions on aptitude and GRUB
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been running Sarge (rc2) for quite a while and have little or no problems with make-kpkg created kernels. IIRC, they are inserted after the older kernels in menu.lst, thus retaining the old one as default when rebooting, but that is easily changed. - --j Mauro Darida wrote: | Some questions on coming Sarge release: | 1. I know GRUB will be the default: will make-kpkg support it? | 2. Automatic installing of Recommends and Suggested packages will be | default in aptitude behaviour? | Saluti, Mauro. | -- | On this laptop no Windows system survives and LINUX POWER reigns UNLIMITED. | GnuPG key ID: 28A61681 | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBnclvYFE+dpEf2hQRAsoIAJ9SqbGCT25+Ljfy8GG4/auGhn6CfQCgq90q tgQerMk9gwQuWfdx0D+1Ih4= =8R2X -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:14:10PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Deboo ^ wrote: > >which distro goes in to a USB stick? > > > A quick Google came up with: > > >This open source project puts Live Linux distributions in packages > >ready to load onto and boot from USB flash drives. This includes DSL > >Embedded, Knoppix, PCLinuxOS, SLAX, MiniMe+ SLAX, and Ubuntu! Yes, you > >can run Ubuntu easily from a USB key! > http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/01/26/live-linux-on-usb/ > > I'm sure there are several others also. My most recent Linux-on-a-Stick > is SLAX, as my stick is only 256MB. Before that I had used DSL (IIRC) on > a 64MB stick. I'm missed the start of this particular conversation. Has anybody mentioned grml (www.grml.org) and the Debian Live Project yet? USB support in the latter is rather new and for me it took some fiddling, but in the end it ran just like a real Debian (mostly). --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: static IP
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 02:10:22AM +0100, pobox wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:54:36AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Try it from outside > > your LAN -- use a friends machine or a library machine or get yourself > > a free shell account somewhere and use links from that. > > Where can I get free shell account with enabled newtworking(links)? SDF accounts (available at www.freeshell.org) offer many of the standard tools, including links. For access to some tools, you have to pay a one-time fee of $1, others are only available after you upgrade your membership for $35. I have the $1 membership and get links (but not screen and ssh, and irc only on Sundays (I kid you not!)). Don't remember whether links was accessible before I payed my $1. HTH, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:41:10AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > Hello > > I saw two good firewalls: > - Firestarter wich is easy > - Shorewall wich seems versatile > > Wich is best for a single server pc? Does the complexity of shorewall > worth the effort or is firestarter as good as shorewall? The fact that Firestarter has a GUI tipped the scales for me - towards Shorewall. While it may be nice to do the initial setup in a GUI, being able to make modifications from anywhere over SSH has proven valuable enough to justify the initial learning curve. And once you 'got it', Shorewall isn't actually that hard to work with. Just my 2 cents --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Woody not supported?
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:46:56AM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: > > I get this error when I apt-get update: > > Err http://ftp.debian.org woody/main Packages > 404 Not Found > Ign http://ftp.debian.org woody/main Release > > Apparently, the repository no longer exists? That appears to be so. From http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/: 'Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 has been obsoleted by Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge). Security updates have been discontinued as of the end of June 2006.' And a quick look at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists confirms that there is no woody repository anymore. --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
aptitude and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d
Hello, Does aptitude read /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*? I have seen a few scripts that seem to rely on that, yet it doesn't seem to be the case for me. If I, for example, echo 'Aptitude::Recommends-Important "false";'>>\ /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/recommends.conf and try to install minicom, aptitude will try to also install lrzsz. If I append the same string to /etc/apt/apt.conf, lrzsz (only being a recommendation) will not be installed. This works like that for me on both etch and sid. Is it something I am doing or does aptitude really not read /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*? Thanks, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: sendemail with gmail?
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:21:00PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: >Anyone succeeded using sendemail (its not sendmail) with gmail? I >installed the tls related packages, enabled -tls=yes in the command line, >but no go. And I already did what this guy at >http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/ said, under 'tls >support'. >Other smtp's do work. > >Any help is appreciated! In sid, the following works for me: sendEmail -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ -u test -m "this is a test" \ -s smtp.gmail.com \ -o tls=yes \ -xu my.account -xp mypasswd With the appropriate values for -f, -t, -xu and -xp, the mail is sent successfully and arrives as expected. Good luck, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: sendemail with gmail?
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:59:33PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: [...] >Hi Juergen, thanks for replying. >I tried your line, and here's the output: > >Mar 09 14:58:26 cestudos sendEmail[3111]: WARNING => Name/Value pair >[tls=yes] will be ignored: unknown key [tls] >Mar 09 14:58:27 cestudos sendEmail[3111]: ERROR => Received:530 5.7.0 >Must issue a STARTTLS command first b12sm3710770ana > >Shall I generate a tls key first? How? Are you sure that your version od sendemail supports TLS? It rather looks like it doesn't. The version that I have installed is 1.55-1, TLS is only supported in 1.54 and later. --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Bug in acroread?
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 07:39:09PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mike McCarty wrote: > > Joe Hart wrote: > > > > [snip] > >> > >> Noone is forcing you to use pdf files > >> > >> I disagree about it being forced on us. Many documents on the web are > >> PDF format. Most hardware comes without manuals and the documents are > >> pdf files. > > > > You have an odd definition for the word "force". > > > > If I want to read the manual I have to have a way to view pdf files, > thus that is force by my definition. Perhaps not in the true since of > the word since to don't _have_ to read manuals, it's just that I am one > of the type of people who do. I RTFM and STFW so I don't ask stupid > questions. I wish more people did. For documents on the web I have this inelegant and heinous trick: I google for them. If a doc is in PDF format, Google will give you the option to view it as HTML. The converted version is not always pretty, but more often than not sufficient to get the information I need. Obviously doesn't work all the time, but it has helped me out occasionally. $0.02, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Bug in acroread?
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:12:39 -0400 > Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > For documents on the web I have this inelegant and heinous trick: I > > google for them. If a doc is in PDF format, Google will give you the > > option to view it as HTML. The converted version is not always pretty, > > but more often than not sufficient to get the information I need. > > Obviously doesn't work all the time, but it has helped me out > > occasionally. > > Why not just use a software pdf to text / html / whatever converter, > such as pdftotext (in xpdf-utils)? > > Celejar I typically only use Google on computers that don't belong to me and that don't have a PDF reader installed - and most of those don't have xpdf-utils installed, either. --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: webbased SSH server/client
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 11:39:58PM +0100, Mark wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm looking for a ssh client that runs on a webserver. Something I can > connect to using a regular web browser and then connect to a ssh server > from that server (Instead of the connection originating from the client) [...] ajaxterm works OK for me, and it is in etch, if I am not mistaken. Not like I have to bypass any firewalls, but it is nice to be able to ssh to my home machine from any computer that has a web browser installed. Good luck, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: firefox keeps grabbing huge chunks of my system
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:50:40PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > On Tuesday 11 September 2007 10:55, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:00:09AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > > firefox keeps grabbing huge chunks of my system: 97% cpu, 20% memory. the > > > cpu is 2.3GH and mem is 512M. > > > > more info. what pages? what plugins are installed etc etc etc > > > > A > > i assume by pages you mean what web pages. no pages in particular. after > 10-15 > minutes it's just grabbing most of the cpu. as to plugins, i don't know how > to determine these. as for plugins, are these the items which come up with > firefox's tools/addons choices? You can determine your installed plugins by typing about:plugins in the URL bar. Another question: Do you usually have many tabs open at once? --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: software for making a web site......
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 10:31:01PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, [...] > If I would try to make the web site what software would you guys recommend > using under Debian to make the web pages and road test them? All other aspects having been discussed already, I thought I'd give this one a stab: Personally, I would either go with a text editor like vim or emacs and do eveything by hand or use nvu for a rather decent approximation to WYSIWYG editing. For testing, I hardly ever use anything but Apache these days, unless I definitely know that the final product is going to be deployed on a radically different server (like, for example, Zope). Depending on your needs, you may of course need a bevy of other applications, like an FTP server or BBS software, but that is something you'll have to decide as the project takes shape. Good Luck, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Switching to amd64 - is it worth it?
Hello, This is not really a problem as such, merely a request for input and interesting anecdotes: I am currently running an x86 sid on a Sempron based machine. On one hand, I am happy with it because just about everything I could ever need installs without a problem; on the other hand, it feels like a waste not to run an amd64 kernel. I have used this very machine with an amd64 kernel under Gentoo, but it was a bit of a hassle: I do like things like Flash or the Java plugin and while I managed to get all of them to run, it did turn out to be a bit of a hassle to figure out what compatibility libraries to use and to get everything to cooperate nicely with the 64-bit libraries. I don't do anything that needs vast computing power - I mostly use that machine for web browsing, email and the occasional movie, all of which works quite nicely with the x86 kernel and libraries. Is there any good reason to switch to an amd64 kernel and if so, would I be setting myself up for major headaches? Any input will be much appreciated. Thanks, -juergen signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Remastering LiveCDs - how to keep unnecessary data out
Hi, I would like to remaster a Debian based live CD (grml - www.grml.org, in this case) by copying the system from the squashfs image, chrooting to it, making the necessary modifications and squashing the resulting system back up. It works nicely enough, BUT: All manners of cache files, .deb files and such are left lying around and increase the size of the final ISO quite dramatically. So, the question is this: How do I prevent those files from making it into the squashfs? This far, I have deleted the contents of /var/cache/apt /var/lib/apt and /var/lib/dpkg. That, of course, renders apt and dpkg unusable, but that's mostly OK. I thought about bind-mounting directories external to the directory structure to those directories so the changes I make would be preserved but not written to the CD. Would that be a good idea? And what other files and directories can I leave out of the squashfs to make the whole thing a bit smaller? Any input will be much appreciated. Thanks, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to
Good point. Turns out grml already comes with localepurge - but being that the modified CD would be just for me, I think I can tighten up the locale.nopurge file a bit more. Thanks, --j On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:02:20AM +0100, anticapitalista wrote: > > You could remove some of the locales, man pages and use debophan to get rid > of old libs. > > anticapitalista > > "Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to > change it." > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to keep unnecessary data out
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:11:57AM +, ][ wrote: > On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:15:49 -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > what other files and directories can I leave out of the squashfs to > > make the whole thing a bit smaller? > > >From my personal archive: > > A 'clean-up' script called 'remaster-clean' will be included with this [...] > retrieved from > http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Remaster_From_Hd_Install_HowTo > less than a year ago. > > check out the rest there. Eep. Even after running the cleanup script, the process of doing an apt-get update and reinstalling one package increases the size of the squashfs from 685M to 1.1G. It seems like all it does in terms of cleaning up after apt/dpkg is to call 'apt-get clean' which apparently only removes .deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives - the meta-information sticks around, and that is quite huge in Debian. The cleanup script does provide a nifty tool to build upon, though! Thanks, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to keep unnecessary data out
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:30:59AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:11:57AM +, ][ wrote: > > On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:15:49 -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > > what other files and directories can I leave out of the squashfs to > > > make the whole thing a bit smaller? > > > > >From my personal archive: > > > > A 'clean-up' script called 'remaster-clean' will be included with this > [...] > > retrieved from > > http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Remaster_From_Hd_Install_HowTo > > less than a year ago. > > > > check out the rest there. > > Eep. Even after running the cleanup script, the process of doing an > apt-get update and reinstalling one package increases the size of the > squashfs from 685M to 1.1G. It seems like all it does in terms of > cleaning up after apt/dpkg is to call 'apt-get clean' which apparently > only removes .deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives - the > meta-information sticks around, and that is quite huge in Debian. > The cleanup script does provide a nifty tool to build upon, though! Public service announcement: Unmounting /proc in your chroot before you squash it is probably one of the more useful ways of keeping it small. --j (who doesn't feel overly smart right now) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
OT: Odd traffic on my firewall
Hello, I am seeing an inordinate amount of packages dropped on my firewall - all coming from the same source and hitting a very limited range of ports (as reported by psad): =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mon Feb 19 10:34:03 2007 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Danger level: [1] (out of 5) Scanned tcp ports: [10258: 1 packets] tcp flags: [SYN: 1 packets, Nmap: -sT or -sS] Iptables chain: INPUT (prefix "Shorewall:net2all:DROP:"), 1 packets Source: 65.173.218.96 DNS: maverick14.sans.org Destination: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX DNS: my.firewall.at.home Syslog hostname: firewall Current interval: Mon Feb 19 10:33:58 2007 (start) Mon Feb 19 10:34:03 2007 (end) Overall scan start: Mon Feb 19 08:19:11 2007 Total email alerts: 6 Complete tcp range: [10256-10258] chain: interface: tcp: udp: icmp: INPUTeth0 10 0 0 --- Similar scans have been happening for weeks now, always from the same address. I realize that except for the fact that my firewall is running Debian (Sarge with some packages from Etch) this question is probably off-topic, but if anyone knows why I might be getting all this traffic, I would appreciate any hints. Thanks --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: just some thoughts
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 07:04:43PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] > > Them: Can I run my games? > > Me: Let me see 'em. > > No. > > Them: I guess I'll have to stick with Windows. > > > > You can't imagine how frustrating that can be. > > Point them in the direction of Cedega and ask them why they're still wasting > money on Windows. That would be because Cedega is still far from supporting all games that people want to play. For example, I looked up the next game I am going to get, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. Turns out the installer works OK, but the game doesn't run at all. And no, I am not inclined to limit my choice of games based on mostly political considerations. I guess I'll stick with my tried and true solution: I'll use my game console for gaming and Linux for the rest. Just my $0.02 --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: problem installing tdsodbc
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:21:50AM -0500, kenn wrote: [...] > servertwo:/etc# apt-get install tdsodbc [...] > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > tdsodbc: Depends: odbcinst1debian1 (>= 2.2.11-3) but it is not going > to be installed > E: Broken packages In my opinion, the next step ought to be 'apt-get install odbcinst1debian1' to se what it says. There may be a dependency for odbcinst1debian1 that you'll have to resolve. Good luck, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: problem installing tdsodbc
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:02:55AM -0500, kenn wrote: > Juergen Fiedler wrote: [...] > When I try to install odbcinst1debian1 I get [...] > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems > E: Couldn't find package odbcinst1debian1 Does 'apt-get update' report any errors? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
