Re: dselect --multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set
On February 17, 2003 03:44 am, Colin Watson wrote: > Are "they"? I was under the impression that dpkg-multicd was all but > unmaintained and that one should use apt instead. You're right - the "latest news" from dpkg-multicd is from Oct 2001. I guess I got the impression it was being worked on from something I read in the dselect guide, without realizing how old it was. Perhaps I should send a suggestion to the debian-doc folks to update to what the dselect Beginner's Guide says about dpkg-multicd: "Quite large and powerful, this complex method is the recommended way of installing a recent version of Debian from a set of multiple binary CDs." -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can anyone recomend an application ??? ...
On February 19, 2003 12:22 pm, DvB wrote: > I usually set up cron jobs to remind me of recurring things (man > crontab). This, of course, only works if the computer is turned on when > the reminder time comes around, but you just mentioned "being logged > on." apt-get install anachron the anachron daemon tries to make sure you don't miss cron jobs on machines that aren't on all the time. Sounds like not quite what Dave is looking for though. I like the sounds of the birthday app! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can anyone recomend an application ??? ...
On February 19, 2003 10:27 pm, Richard Hector wrote: > > apt-get install anachron > > anacron perhaps? > > Richard Oops, thanks for correcting my spelling. anacron it is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to duplicate a CD?
On February 19, 2003 10:41 pm, stan wrote: > I posted this a few months agoa, and got an answer involving cdparnoia, and > cdrecord. But I sem to have lost the emails, and I can't seem to get the > mailing list archive search engine to find it :-( I just typed your email address into the lists.debian.org search engine, and selected all the time periods (don't forget to do this), and it turned up your original thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200210/msg01073.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spamassassin - three basic questions
On February 21, 2003 11:24 am, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Maybe not necessary, but, unless your mailserver is horribly slow, > it'll be done so quick that it's not going to hurt anything anyhow. I actually find spamassassin runs pretty slowly on my K6-2/500MHz 384MB machine (I know it's not real fast but not a dinosaur either). It takes about 5-10 seconds per message, so before I started filtering my debian-user messages before processing, it was prohibitive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spamassassin - three basic questions
On February 21, 2003 01:13 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I bet you're not running spamd, which means you're taking the hit for > starting up perl on every message scanned. That would hurt pretty > bad, now that I think about it... You're correct. I'm using kmail to fetch from POP3 mailservers and pipe each message individually through "spamassassin -P -a". I didn't realize that using spamd would be so much faster. I could switch to fetchmail for the sake of spamd, although reading through the documentation I see that the spamc daemon could also improve my performance without changing my mail setup at all. I'll give that a try first, and report back... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash not reading ~/.bashrc
> If what you really mean is that .bashrc is not read when you login on a > text console, then that's covered by bash's man page, which you really > ought to read. .bash_profile or .profile is read by login shells; > .bashrc is read only by non-login shells. If you want .bashrc to be read > by all shells, then you need to put ". ~./bashrc" in your .bash_profile > or .profile to make it happen. I have this in my .bash_profile. I think it was there, but commented out, by default. # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spamassassin - three basic questions
On February 21, 2003 05:26 pm, Levi Waldron wrote: > that using spamd would be so much faster. I could switch to fetchmail for > the sake of spamd, although reading through the documentation I see that > the spamc daemon could also improve my performance without changing my mail > setup at all. I'll give that a try first, and report back... Minor correction: spamc is a command-line client for spamd. Calling spamc does in fact work much, much faster than calling spamassassin (a small fraction of a second instead of 5-10s). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT]: < 10pt in LaTeX?
On February 23, 2003 03:18 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> does anyone know if it's possible to specify a smaller than 10pt font
> size for a LaTeX document without resorting to putting the entire
> document in one big \tiny{}? --which is cool for my purposes ... i'm
> just curious.
See http://old.ait.iastate.edu/olc/packages/tex/pt.question.html for example,
for how to define your own fonts using the \newfont command - it's easy.
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Re: spamc vs. razor-check ???
On February 23, 2003 07:44 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > Replace spamc > with spamassassin and disable spamd if you're not going to use it at > the MTA level, it's a bit more secure that way. However, calling spamc (a command-line client for spamd) seems to be much much faster than calling spamassassin. For me calling spamassassin took 5-10s per message, and spamc instead cut it down to a fraction of a second per message. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading from Stable to Testing
On February 24, 2003 05:15 pm, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > How do the two methods differ? I don't know anything about downreving, > so I wasn't aware that modifying my sources.list as outlined below would > prevent me from doing that... thanks for the response Keeping the "stable" lines in your apt.sources file will just keep your apt-cache aware of the stable packages that are available. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anacron vs cron
On February 25, 2003 03:58 pm, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Just apt-get install anacron. It will Just Work (tm). Yep, and leave cron in place (don't try to uninstall it). anacron "recommends" cron. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Download Problems
On February 26, 2003 10:24 am, hlingis wrote: > ...ok, the ability to download a good copy (either ISO or jigdo) appears to > be a myth, so my question is: if I buy a copy from some vendor, who, and > where, and what hopes do I have to get an error free copy that way? I'm > trying to avoid going redhat or mandrake or whatever... I don't know why jigdo isn't working for you - it worked marvellously for me, and it even checks cheksums for errors in the constructed image. If jigdo finished and said there were no errors, but you still ended up with a CD with errors, then there must be something buggy about your cd burning process. In any case, don't try starting an installation with bad CDs. Buying copy from a vendor is an excellent and cheap alternative. Some vendors are listsed at www.debian.org under "CD vendors". I've had good experiences with www.chguy.net, who's in Canada but is cheap to the US too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing debian
On February 26, 2003 12:11 pm, Carlos Taylor wrote: > I then set my BIOS to boot from the CD.Nothing happens. It does not boot > from the CD. Well, either you had a problem with the downloading and burning process, or your bios isn't really trying to boot from CDs, but there's no way for someone here to tell what happened without more information. Did you do the downloading/burning according to the instructions in the install manual at www.debian.org? You won't be able to get through the install without this manual. When you look at the contents of the CDs, do they show a whole directory structure (right) or just one large .iso file (wrong)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
autologin in console mode
Is it possible to do an autologin into console mode? ie, when turning on the machine a particular user gets logged in every time without entering a username or password? It's for a visually-impaired user, so having to type that stuff in before the voice prompts are activated is a barrier even with a simple username/password. Then with an entry in .bashrc starting "emacspeak -o" the computer will go straight into voice mode every time it boots up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: autologin in console mode
On February 27, 2003 10:12 pm, sean finney wrote: > i just got something kind of like that to work. install the rungetty > package, and then open up /etc/inittab. change the line that says: > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 > > to > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/rungetty -u username --autologin username tty1 -- bash > -i > > > where you obviously replace username with the appropriate user. Thanks Sean! Perfect. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: switching between CUPS and PLIP?
On February 28, 2003 03:04 am, ScruLoose wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm interested in installing woody on this hand-me-down P133 laptop that a > friend's mom is no longer using, and it has neither CD-ROM drive nor NIC, > so I'm thinking I'll try the install-over-plip thing. Now, most of the > process is documented fairly well in a HOWTO that I found, but I'm left > with a couple of questions. Presumably, on my desktop box with its one > parallel port, I'll need to unload lp before loading plip, so that plip can > 'own' the parallel port. > Right? Yes. The only way it can't work is if lp is compiled into the kernel, which is not a standard option. As for switching back and forth between plip and printing, I have the requisite commands contained in shell scripts called plip-on.sh and plip-off.sh. Basically to switch back to printing, it's just removing the plip module and inserting lp again, which can be done with modprobe or insmod/rmmod. I'll give you a reference to those shell scripts in a moment. One fun way you could accomplish your task would be to start with a minimal floppy distro just to get plip going, then just copy an entire filesystem either over the minimal distro or on a new partition. I've done this on a couple old 386's and posted my experience at: http://www.superant.com/cgi-bin/smalllinux.pl?Small_Linux_Notes_By_Levi_Waldron Even if you don't use a minimal floppy distro to get started, this will guide you through the plip process. It's a great way to gain an understanding of the basics of how a GNU/Linux OS works, because a floppy distro is so much simpler than a full distro that things are more obvious. At the end of my smalllinux posting there are links to a couple floppy images that make using that tiny distro easier, and have plip-on.sh and plip-off.sh, which may or may not work "out of the box" for you. The annoying thing about using a tiny distro like that are that because it's so stripped down it may be missing tools you need, and have no easy way of compiling for the old kernel and libraries. I spent a bunch of time finding compatible binaries of those modules and programs, with the contents of those added floppies I made, it's easy. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.
On March 2, 2003 06:43 am, Brian Durant wrote: > The only thing interesting that I found, was with the "dmesg" command. > The response was "eth0: Media Link Off". I have run into this response > with Deb 3 rev. 1 as well. Don't know what it means one of the replies > from the thread stated that it wasn't even in the source code! If your cable is in fact intact, you may be seeing a documented bug in the 2.4.18 version of the sis900 driver. Typing your error message "eth0: media link off" into google, I found: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0203.3/0018.html This message suggests a workaround patch, but I didn't find any bugs reported at bugzilla.kernel.org. -levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto verify burn?
On March 7, 2003 10:51 am, bob parker wrote: > That is easy if you have no subdirectories on the cdr, but gets a little > messy if you do, the files have to be piped to md5sum from find and xargs. Hm? Why wouldn't you just check each file individually by: mount /cdrom md5sum -c /cdrom/md5sum.txt All the Debian cds have md5sum.txt in their / directory. This lists any bad files on the CD. If only packages or files you don't need are corrupted, then there's no need to remake the entire CD. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KNOPPIX and it configure.
On March 7, 2003 02:55 am, Rob Weir wrote: > As far as I can tell, this has absolutely nothing to do with Debian. > Surely Knoopix has a user help mailing list somewhere... Well, it's related in the sense that Knoppix is an auto-configuring Debian live CD. It's a mix of stable, testing, and unstable which can be run off the CD in a virtual filesystem or turned into a "real" Debian OS by copying to your hard drive and, if desired, converting to unstable with apt-get dist-upgrade (although I've never tried this). I've given it to people who've never used GNU/Linux before just for them to boot up without touching their HD and see what a Debian system might look like. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories
I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each input file, the output file should have the same name except ending in .txt, and the output files should be put a common directory. ie, java ImageInfo dir1/pic1.jpg > commondir/pic1.txt etc, repeated over a bunch or directories and jpg files. The subdirectories only go one deep. If this is difficult I could copy all the jpg files into a single directory first with only a little bit of tedium. Thank you, Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories
Never mind, I finished the task. I just first copied all the files into one
directory using:
find . -name *.jpg -print | xargs -i cp \{\} all/
Then wrote (modified, actually) a shell script to run imageinfo on a bunch of
files with a different output file each time:
#!/bin/bash
# run imageinfo on many files
ARGS=2
E_BADARGS=65
if [ $# -ne $ARGS ]
then
echo "Usage: `basename $0` (extension of input files) (extension of output
files)"
exit $E_BADARGS
fi
{
for filename in *.$1
do
java ImageInfo $filename > "${filename%.$1}.$2"
done
}
exit 0
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Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories
Well, I wish I had gone and goofed off for the rest of the evening then come in and used one of these 2-3 line solutions this morning. Still, I learned some things reading them and will use them and the tldp reference for future scripting. Thank you, Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems downloading Knoppix
On February 4, 2003 08:13 am, bob parker wrote: > Well I just completed downloading Knoppix using my steam powered dial up > connection. > > I started on 27 January. That's such a sad story, if you have a hard time fixing the download let me know and I'll mail a KNOPPIX cd to you. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fsck finding thousands of errors
I helped someone install Debian on a new hard drive a couple months ago. They didn't use that hard drive for the last couple months, then tried to boot into Debian and got the following errors during the boot process: -- mount: mountpoint /proc is not a directory ... (swap activates successfully) ... /dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced. (fixes several inodes) Inode has magic flag set unexpected inconsistency, run fsck manually, without -a or -p options. -- So I get him to boot off an install CD as a rescue disk, since /dev/hdb1 is the root filesystem. He runs e2fsck /dev/hdb1 from the emergency shell, and it starts correcting THOUSANDS of inodes, hitting enter one by one. The types of messages that e2fsck reports are: --- -Inode has illegal blocks -Illegal block in Inode -Too many illegal blocks in Inodes -Inode has compression flag set on file sysstem without compression support -Inode is in use, but has dtime set -Inode has magic flag set -Special (device/socket/fifo/symlink) file (inode ) has append-only flag set ___ has immutable or append-only flag set -Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found -Inode ___ was part of an orphaned inode list -Gal block 6 in inode ___ --- inodes are in the range of 1,030,000 and he corrected about 5,000 of them one-by-one before I said to give up. There is also a fat32 partition on this hard drive which had files on it, which are no longer being read by the windows half of the machine. The partition table seems to be undamaged. He doesn't think he's done anything damaging to this hard drive, or even used it since the last time it was working. Do you know what's wrong with this hard drive, or how to troubleshoot it? It's almost brand new, but is it a warranty item? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help needed w/ PLIP connection
On February 12, 2003 03:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all: > > I am having trouble debugging my plip connection. I haven't set up plip for a couple years so my memory is a little foggy. I used the PLIP-HOWTO to set up the following scripts on the machine cedar to connect it via plip to birch; maybe they'll help. I don't have the birch scripts handy, but they were similar. Note: I defined the IP addresses for birch and cedar in /etc/hosts bash-2.05a$ more /usr/local/bin/plip-on.sh #!/bin/sh /sbin/rmmod lp /bin/echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq /sbin/insmod plip /sbin/ifconfig lo netmask 255.255.255.255 up /sbin/ifconfig plip0 cedar pointopoint birch netmask 255.255.255.255 up bash-2.05a$ more /usr/local/bin/plip-off.sh #!/bin/sh /sbin/rmmod plip /sbin/insmod lp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ext3 to ext2 convertion
On February 13, 2003 01:19 pm, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > Hi, > > how can I convert a ext3 partition to ext2? Is it only to change the > type in fstab and reboot? How can I synchronize the modification stored > in the journal file? >From http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/README : How to move back from ext3 to ext2 -- It's quite easy. If you unmount an ext3 filesystem cleanly, then you can remount it as ext2 without any other commands. If you crash and are left with an unclean ext3 filesystem, on the other hand, the filesystem will prevent you from mounting it as ext2: it is not safe to mount it until you have recovered the journal, and the only way to do that for now is to mount it as ext3. However, if for any reason you do have an ext3 filesystem which you want to convert permanently back to ext2, whether it was cleanly unmounted or not, you can use "debugfs" from e2fsprogs-1.17 or later to do it. First, run debugfs and open the filesystem (the -w flag means open for write, and the -f flag forces it to open the filesystem even if there are unknown journal flags set): [root@sarek /root]# debugfs debugfs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 debugfs: open -f -w /dev/sdb1 Now, use "features" to see which feature bits are set on the filesystem: debugfs: features Filesystem features: has_journal filetype sparse_super We want to clear the journal bits, then we can quit: debugfs: features -has_journal -needs_recovery Filesystem features: filetype sparse_super debugfs: quit [root@sarek /root]# debugfs That's it! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck finding thousands of errors
On February 13, 2003 11:42 am, George Georgalis wrote: > anyway, you can use the -y option in fsck to answer yes to all the > questions. I thank both of you for the tips. We're still not sure what caused the catastrophic hard drive failure, although it may become more clear after figuring out whether the drive is now junk or not. I had already give the -y order before reading Alvin's message. I'm still don't understand what there is to lose by fscking the disk, answering "y" to all the questions? Do you think there could be a problem with the bios or memory now that is now scrambling a previously good hdd through the fsck process? Anyways, there's nothing to lose here other than the annoyance of redoing a fresh installation and, he'd already yessed a couple thousand fsck fixes manually. Last I heard, it has been fixing inodes for almost 24 hours at a rate of about one per 2 seconds. I wonder if it will boot again if/when that ever finishes. Question, Alvin: > - if its bad mmory... i dont want the disk touched > > assuming that it was shutdown properly ... > - if your bios time is whacky... so can fsck... > > - if you have bad memory... it will try to fix the drive according to > its bad memory content I'm not sure what these mean. Does bad memory = bad RAM memory bios time whacky = internal clock wrong? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck finding thousands of errors
On February 13, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Do you have IDE disks? Yes. > > Are you using DMA? It's a Western Digital 80G HD. The WD website at http://www.wdc.com/products/Products.asp?DriveID=5&Lang=1 says, among other things: Interface: Ultra ATA/100 Mode 5 Ultra ATA100.0 MB/s Mode 4 Ultra ATA66.6 MB/s Mode 2 Ultra ATA33.3 MB/s Mode 4 PIO16.6 MB/s Mode 2 multi-word DMA16.6 MB/s Does this help answer your question? I didn't do anything outside of a normal stock installation to turn DMA support on or off. > > If so, what kind of motherboard and/or IDE controller cards are you > using? Motherboard: Soyo Dragon - AMD Socket-A Base Via KT266 ATX CPU: AMD 1400 Thunderbird RAM: 256K 266-DDR /dev/hdb1 is 20GB fsck has now been running for 28 consecutive hours, and the numbering of the inodes suggests it has "fixed" 60,000 of them now. Maybe I can get a world record! How many inodes would one 20G partition have? I wonder what order of magnitude of time it might take for fsck to finish? -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT Knoppix installation
Knoppix can be installed on your HD - the main disadvantage I've heard of is that it's a mix of stable, testing, and unstable, which makes package management trickier. For instructions, see: http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html (from google: knoppix install) On February 14, 2003 11:17 am, stan wrote: > I have a new laptop, and I was planing on istalling Koppix to take advantge > of it's _great_ hardware auto detection, then merging back intot the Debain > mainstream. > > Problem is, I can't figure out how to actully install Knoppix. I have a > bootable CD (that was fun because of the size), and everythign works like a > charm when I boot from it, but I can't figure out how to get that image > onto the hard disk. > > One person has told me Knoppix is not intended to install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug? - Boot disks and Kernel Source
On February 11, 2003 07:42 am, Dave Whiteley wrote: > There is not a stable package for kernel 2.2.20! Yes, there are several. I checked first on my machine with apt-cache search kernel-image-2.2.20 then double-checked at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages by searching for kernel-image-2.2.20 under stable, and in both cases got the following hits: stable kernel-image-2.2.20-idepci 2.2.20-5 (1360.6k) Linux kernel binary image. stable kernel-image-2.2.20-compact 2.2.20-5 (1689.8k) Linux kernel binary image. stable kernel-image-2.2.20 2.2.20-5 (5803.3k) Linux kernel binary image for version 2.2.20. stable kernel-image-2.2.20-reiserfs 2.2.20-4 (1669.3k) Linux kernel binary image for version 2.2.20. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deb-List Subject Line Tag?
Even PINE has built-in filtering capabilities, and threading. I don't see how anyone could deal with the debian-user list volume without filtering and threading. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to mount CDROM and CDRW?
On February 14, 2003 01:09 pm, Carlos Jiménez wrote: > I just installed Debian woody and i've had problems to mount the CDROM > (hdb) and the CDRW (hdd). In the fstab file appears the following: > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 > Does it mean that CDROM is mounted? Shouldn't the mount point be in /mnt/? > And if it wasn't mounted, how do i mount it? mount /cdrom would mount a data cd on /cdrom if your symbolic link for /dev/cdrom is set properly. Unfortunately, you probably don't yet know enough to ask the right question to get the answer that will help you. You would almost certainly benefit from some newbie help files, like: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/peripherals/cdrw.html http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Hardware/Adding_an_IDE_CD-Writer_to_Linux.html http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystems/Filesystems_Directories_and_Devices.html Give them a try, and feel free to post further questions here. Hope this helps, Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect --multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set
On February 14, 2003 02:56 pm, alex wrote: > I'll be installing Debian on another computer and would > like to have the 'multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set' to > make things easier. How can I add this option to my > dselect access menu? As root, just type "apt-cdrom add" for each cd while it is in the drive. Then dselect will prompt you for the correct cd whenever it needs it. There is another way with the package dpkg-multicd but this way is much easier. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect --multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set
On February 14, 2003 07:08 pm, you wrote: > Yes, this is how I eventually managed to get packages from the set but > wouldn't it have been easier if the dselect's access menu had the > 'multi cd' option? Supposedly my 3.0r1 Stable CD Official set was up > to date. If you have all the CDs during the installation process then it's taken care of. Otherwise, you have to add them later. They're working on the multicd option for dselect but it's just not very user-friendly yet, which is why it's not a standard part of dselect yet. Try to make sure your replies stay on-list. Cheers, Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)
I had my YMH0800:OPL3-SA3 Sound Board working with the ad1848 driver, isapnp etc under Woody. Then somewhere in the course of installing a stock non-installation kernel, adding second ethernet card, and loading the IP masquerading and iptables modules, the sound stopped working. The symptoms are given below. The Sound HOWTO only recommends for such cases to go "pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf", uncomment the correct lines in isapnp.conf, run "isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf", reload the modules, and enjoy. However I have no idea which lines of the *long* isapnp.conf to uncomment - it is quite non-obvious to me, and I'm not even sure this is on the right track. Any tips? Here is the output showing the symptoms and troubleshooting I've tried. The output of pnpdump is at the end, since it's so long. retro:/music# mpg123 "The Twigs - The Turning.mp3" High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3. Version 0.59q (2002/03/23). Written and copyrights by Joe Drew. Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Title : The Turning Artist: The Twigs Album : Year : Comment: Genre : Playing MPEG stream from The Twigs - The Turning.mp3 ... MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo Can't find a suitable libao driver. (Is device in use?) retro:/etc# cat /usr/share/sounds/irmp3/off.au > /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device retro:/etc# dd bs=8k count=4 /tmp/sample.au bash: /dev/audio: No such device retro:/etc# ls -al /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp retro:/etc# less /var/log/messages Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: isapnp: Card 'OPL3-SA3 Sound Board' Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: ad1848: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... retro:/etc# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 21468604 XT-PIC timer 1: 2 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 3 XT-PIC rtc 10: 178022 XT-PIC eth1 12: 106590 XT-PIC eth0 14: 121560 XT-PIC ide0 15: 0 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 0 retro:/etc# cat /proc/isapnp Card 1 'YMH0800:OPL3-SA3 Sound Board' PnP version 1.0 Logical device 0 'YMH0021:Unknown' Device is not active Active DMA 0,0 Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x220-0x220, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x530-0x530, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x330-0x330, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x370-0x370, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5 High-Edge DMA 0 8-bit byte-count type-A DMA 1 8-bit byte-count type-A Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x240-0x240, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0xe80-0xe80, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x300-0x300, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x100-0xffe, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,10,11 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A Alternate resources 0:2 Priority functional Port 0x220-0x280, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x530-0xf48, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x3f8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x300-0x334, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x100-0xffe, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 3,5,7,2/9,10,11 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A Logical device 1 'YMH0022:Unknown' Compatible device PNPb02f Device is not active Active DMA 0,0 Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x201-0x201, align 0x0, size 0x1, 16-bit address decoding Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x202-0x202, align 0x0, size 0x1, 16-bit address decoding Alternate resources 0:2 Priority acceptable Port 0x203-0x203, align 0x0, size 0x1, 16-bit address decoding Alternate resources 0:3 Priority acceptable Port 0x204-0x20f, align 0x0, size 0x1, 16-bit address decoding retro:/etc# lsmod(potentially relevant parts only) Module Size Used byTainted: P ad1848 20768
Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)
-- Arnt Karlsen said: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp ...is missing on your box, mknod it. -- No, /dev/dsp exists with proper permissions (see further below in my posting). Rather, it seems that the ad1848 sound module is not being given the correct io and irq parameters by isapnp, and I can't figure out how to pass it the correct ones. (see my original message below) (Apologies for the top-posting, I filled up the email account that was receiving debian-user so I had nothing to reply to.) - My original message: - I had my YMH0800:OPL3-SA3 Sound Board working with the ad1848 driver, isapnp etc under Woody. Then somewhere in the course of installing a stock non-installation kernel, adding second ethernet card, and loading the IP masquerading and iptables modules, the sound stopped working. The symptoms are given below. The Sound HOWTO only recommends for such cases to go "pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf", uncomment the correct lines in isapnp.conf, run "isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf", reload the modules, and enjoy. However I have no idea which lines of the *long* isapnp.conf to uncomment - it is quite non-obvious to me, and I'm not even sure this is on the right track. Any tips? Here is the output showing the symptoms and troubleshooting I've tried. The output of pnpdump is at the end, since it's so long. retro:/music# mpg123 "The Twigs - The Turning.mp3" High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3. Version 0.59q (2002/03/23). Written and copyrights by Joe Drew. Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Title : The Turning Artist: The Twigs Album : Year : Comment: Genre : Playing MPEG stream from The Twigs - The Turning.mp3 ... MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo Can't find a suitable libao driver. (Is device in use?) retro:/etc# cat /usr/share/sounds/irmp3/off.au > /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device retro:/etc# dd bs=8k count=4 /tmp/sample.au bash: /dev/audio: No such device retro:/etc# ls -al /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp retro:/etc# less /var/log/messages Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: isapnp: Card 'OPL3-SA3 Sound Board' Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: ad1848: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... retro:/etc# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 21468604 XT-PIC timer 1: 2 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 3 XT-PIC rtc 10: 178022 XT-PIC eth1 12: 106590 XT-PIC eth0 14: 121560 XT-PIC ide0 15: 0 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 0 retro:/etc# cat /proc/isapnp Card 1 'YMH0800:OPL3-SA3 Sound Board' PnP version 1.0 Logical device 0 'YMH0021:Unknown' Device is not active Active DMA 0,0 Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x220-0x220, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x530-0x530, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x330-0x330, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x370-0x370, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5 High-Edge DMA 0 8-bit byte-count type-A DMA 1 8-bit byte-count type-A Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x240-0x240, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0xe80-0xe80, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x300-0x300, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x100-0xffe, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,10,11 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A Alternate resources 0:2 Priority functional Port 0x220-0x280, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x530-0xf48, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x3f8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x300-0x334, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x100-0xffe, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 3,5,7,2/9,10,11 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A Logical device 1 'YMH0022:Unknown' Compatible device PNPb02f Device is not active
Re: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)
On September 21, 2003 11:02 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..where _is_ it? ;-) If you call it /etc/pnpdump, isapnp still has > no idea, unless you play some cool tricks I have no idea about. ;-) It's called /etc/isapnp.conf, and I did some trial-and-error uncommenting of various lines in this file, running isapnp each time. The isapnp output would reflect the changes, modules would reload, but I got the same errors when trying to use sound. I'm not sure what kind of systematic approach to take, or whether any documentation for such exists - I can't find it in the isapnp package or the Sound-HOWTO. > ..keep your custom kernel, but 'apt-get install' a standard kernel and > compare 'lsmod' output, on booting between them. I'm already using the standard kernel kernel-image-2.4.18-386, sorry, that's what I meant by a "stock non-installation kernel", I should have been more clear about that. > ..play with modprobe, it looks like sound doesn't know > what isa-pnp found. The problem I've been having here is that every time I specify any io= option to modprobe, I get an error! For example: retro:/# modprobe ad1848 io=0x220 irq=7 /lib/modules/2.4.18-386/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o: init_module: Invalid argument Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.4.18-386/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-386/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.18-386/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o: insmod ad1848 failed retro:/# modprobe ad1848 irq=7 dma=1 dma16-5 mpu_io=0x330 retro:/# echo /usr/share/sounds/irmp3/off.au > /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device retro:/# rmmod ad1848 retro:/# modprobe ad1848 irq=7 retro:/# echo /usr/share/sounds/irmp3/off.au > /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device retro:/# ls -l /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp > > # Trying port address 0273 > > # Board 1 has serial identifieOPL3-SA3r 0f ff ff ff ff 00 08 a8 65 > > > > # (DEBUG) > > ..bo, never tried this one? Sorry, what do you mean? Are you suggesting I try something here? Many thanks, Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)
On September 21, 2003 11:02 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..where _is_ it? ;-) If you call it /etc/pnpdump, isapnp still has > no idea, unless you play some cool tricks I have no idea about. ;-) It's called /etc/isapnp.conf, and I did some trial-and-error uncommenting of various lines in this file, running isapnp each time. The isapnp output would reflect the changes, modules would reload, but I got the same errors when trying to use sound. I'm not sure what kind of systematic approach to take, or whether any documentation for such exists - I can't find it in the isapnp package or the Sound-HOWTO. > ..keep your custom kernel, but 'apt-get install' a standard kernel and > compare 'lsmod' output, on booting between them. I'm already using the standard kernel kernel-image-2.4.18-386, sorry, that's what I meant by a "stock non-installation kernel", I should have been more clear about that. > ..play with modprobe, it looks like sound doesn't know > what isa-pnp found. The problem I've been having here is that every time I specify any io= option to modprobe, I get an error! For example: retro:/# modprobe ad1848 io=0x220 irq=7 /lib/modules/2.4.18-386/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o: init_module: Invalid argument Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.4.18-386/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-386/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.18-386/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o: insmod ad1848 failed retro:/# modprobe ad1848 irq=7 dma=1 dma16-5 mpu_io=0x330 retro:/# echo /usr/share/sounds/irmp3/off.au > /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device retro:/# rmmod ad1848 retro:/# modprobe ad1848 irq=7 retro:/# echo /usr/share/sounds/irmp3/off.au > /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device retro:/# ls -l /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp > > # Trying port address 0273 > > # Board 1 has serial identifieOPL3-SA3r 0f ff ff ff ff 00 08 a8 65 > > > > # (DEBUG) > > ..bo, never tried this one? Sorry, what do you mean? Are you suggesting I try something here? Many thanks, Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)
I feel so stupid. ad1848 is not the correct module for the OPL3-SA2 sound board. opl3sa2 is the correct module. Arnt, you reminded me with your recursive module loading idea, that that is how I originally figured out which sound module to load: by loading every sound module and seeing which one worked. Somehow, and I have no idea how, the opl3sa2 line in /etc/modules got changed to apl3sa2, and rather than noticing that I went about assuming that ad1848 is was the problem, when in fact it was an unused module. Anyways, "modprobe opl3sa2" makes sound work. PROBLEM SOLVED. In the future, when lsmod says (unused) by a module, I'll remember that it really means it! Thanks for all your help, Arnt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to | to /dev/null?
Easy question, I'm sure: How can I use a pipe to send something to /dev/null? Reason: kmail gives a "pipe through" filter option, ie send the message to "| somecommand". It doesn't have a ">" option. It's time to start sending the 400 some odd #!$@ swen messages/day I'm getting straight to /dev/null, I don't even want to see them in my SPAM folder anymore. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)
I feel so stupid. ad1848 is not the correct module for the OPL3-SA2 sound board. opl3sa2 is the correct module. Arnt, you reminded me with your recursive module loading idea, that that is how I originally figured out which sound module to load: by loading every sound module and seeing which one worked. I ended up with unused sound modules in /etc/modules, then a while ago I cleaned up my modules, but cleaned out opl3sa2 obviously without thinking twice about it. Anyways, "modprobe opl3sa2" makes sound work. PROBLEM SOLVED. Thanks for all your help, Arnt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth1 in router box stopped working
I've been using a P233MMX woody box with stock 2.4.18-i386 kernel as a router for a home network for a couple weeks. Had IP masquerading working using shorewall (also with the IPTABLES rules from the IPmasq HOWTO, but ended up staying with shorewall). Then out of the blue (I at least didn't change any networking settings), eth1 which is connected to the switch and the internal computers stopped transferring any data or connecting to any computers (See cat /proc/interrupts below). Can't ping in either direction, router <--> client; the clients are isolated. Router is still connected to the outside world. I checked the ethernet cards by replacing the original 8139too eth1 card with a epic100 SMC card, and by swapping the 3c59x eth0 into the eth1 position, neither of which changed anything. The Ethernet-HOWTO says that since CPU0 = 0 in /proc/interrupts, there is likely a hardware conflict. I'm confused by the io nomenclature in /proc (ie b800-b81f), which is different than in the Ethernet-HOWTO. So my questions are: Does this look like a hardware conflict problem, or something else? What should I try next? There are added steps in the Ethernet-HOWTO for resolving hardware conflicts, but it would be nice to know whether this is the problem before rebuilding the kernel, adding printk() statements to the driver source code or other time-consuming attempts to resolve hardware conflicts. Is there a simpler way of reloading the network modules then either rebooting or shutting down networking and unloading all the networking modules, if it turns out I should play around with the io= parameters? Notes: eth0 is connected to a DSL modem eth1 to a switching hub and internal computers Using isapnp, all irqs are being assigned automatically "PnP OS" setting in bios is OFF. Sound modules are loaded, but no printer modules or anything using the parallel port. both ethernet cards are detected at boot During these debugging outputs, epic100 = eth0 and 3c59x = eth1 (the culprit!) I've included the output of the following commands, in order: cat /proc/interrupts cat /proc/pci cat /proc/ioports ifconfig -a route -n lsmod dmesg Thank you for any help, Levi retro:~# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 48466 XT-PIC timer 1: 1323 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 2 XT-PIC MS Sound System 8: 3 XT-PIC rtc 10:126 XT-PIC eth0 12: 0 XT-PIC eth1 14: 7329 XT-PIC ide0 15: 0 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 0 retro:~# cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597 [SiS5582] (rev 2). Master Capable. Latency=32. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 1). Bus 0, device 1, function 1: IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 208). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd00f]. Bus 0, device 10, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] (rev 0). IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=8. I/O at 0xb800 [0xb81f]. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Ethernet controller: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] 83C170QF (rev 6). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=28. I/O at 0xb400 [0xb4ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe580 [0xe5800fff]. Bus 0, device 19, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597/5598 VGA (rev 101). Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe700 [0xe73f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe500 [0xe500]. I/O at 0xb000 [0xb07f]. retro:~# cat /proc/ioports -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0100-0101 : opl3sa2 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0213-0213 : isapnp read 02f8-02ff : serial(set) 0300-0301 : mpu401 0376-0376 : ide1 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(set) 0a79-0a79 : isapnp write 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 0e80-0e83 : WSS config 0e84-0e87 : MS Sound System b000-b07f : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597/5598 VGA b400-b4ff : Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] 83C170QF b400-b4ff : epic100 b800-b81f : 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] b800-b81f : 00:0a.0 d000-d00f : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] d000-d007 : ide0 d008-d00f : ide1 retro:~# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:29:24:01:EA UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:83 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:83 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txque
Re: Installation has not created boot properly
On October 3, 2003 08:37 am, dan oram wrote: > from the hard disk it gets as far as displaying the following: > > Booting from IDE 0 > > LI The following is from /usr/share/doc/lilo/README.common.problems . Although if you are able to boot from a floppy, it sounds like you may have forgotten to run "lilo" after modifying lilo.conf. Problem: When I boot, all I get is 'LI' === This means the first-stage loader gained control; it thought it success- fully loaded the second-stage loader; but it never got there. This most often occurs when the second-stage loader, '/boot/boot.b', is not load- able using the BIOS. First, have you tried specifying 'lba32' in your 'lilo.conf' file? On newer systems, this will almost always work, since the loader will now use the newer EDD packet calls, which are not cylinder-limited. Second, do you know your disk geometry? This means, do you know the numbers of cylinders/heads/sectors of all your hard drives; and are these the numbers that LILO is using when it installs the boot loader. Three reports of the disk geometry may be obtained: 1. Run 'lilo -t -v5' and check the geometry reports for each device. 2. Run 'lilo -Tgeom' and see if the same numbers are reported. (This may fail on some systems, where LILO has trouble running BIOS calls in v86 mode.) 3. Create the diagnostic floppy (see README.disk) and check the reported disk geometries. If any of the geometry reports differ, then you may have to specify the disk geometry to LILO using 'disk= heads= sectors='. Use the actual numbers reported by the BIOS: #3 above, or #2. The reports above will also indicate the BIOS device codes used by each disk. LILO uses heuristics to obtain these device codes, and usually gets the codes right on all-IDE or all-SCSI systems. However, systems with multiple IDE controllers, mixed IDE/SCSI systems, and SCSI systems on Future Domain controllers, will require you to tell LILO what disks are assigned to what device codes. This can be done using 'disk= bios=' lines in 'lilo.conf'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian equivalent of .login file?
What's the Debian equivalent of Unix's .login and .logout files? Any user can place these files in their home directory and their commands will be run at login/logout, without having to do anything as root? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian equivalent of .login file?
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Re: ATAPI CDROM can't rip audio discs after Woody upgrade
[snip]
> Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
> Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface
> /dev/scd1 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM.
> Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface
> generic device: /dev/sg1
> ioctl device: /dev/scd1
How do the permissions look on /dev/{sg1,scd1}?
=
Here are the permissions:
cedar:/dev# ls -al /dev/scd1 /dev/sg1
brw-rw1 root cdrom 11, 1 Mar 18 2001 /dev/scd1
crw---1 root root 21, 1 Nov 30 2000 /dev/sg1
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Re: ATAPI CDROM can't rip audio discs after Woody upgrade
Some new info! cdparanoia DOES work kreatecd DOES work (wasn't configured correctly) grip DOES work (ditto) xcdroast DOESN'T work (as described in the first post) I can't seem to find what xcdroast uses as an audio-reading backend, but this seems to be a problem with either xcdroast or whatever backend it uses. apt-cache showpkg xcdroast showed that it depends on cdda2wav and cdparanoia. Anyways I should probably now submit this as an xcdroast bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian equivalent of .login file?
On Sunday 13 October 2002 20:37, Mathias De Belder wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 01:27:36PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: > > > What's the Debian equivalent of Unix's .login and .logout files? > > > Any user can place these files in their home directory and their > > > commands will be run at login/logout, without having to do anything > > > as root? > > > > .bashrc and .bash_logout respectively. .bashrc should be sourced from > > .bash_profile. > Is there any similar things for KDM? I want some stuff ran when I log in > on the machine, and some stuff on logout. I found that commands in my .bashrc file got executed every time I opened a new konsole, but I have commands I only want to run once when I first log in. It seems there are 2 ways to make commands that only run when you first log in, but not every time you open a bash shell: 1) put them in your ~/.bash_login file 2) In KDE, drag and drop programs them into the Autostart folder which should be on your desktop (but wasn't on mine), or put shell scripts in the /home/username/.kde/Autostart directory and make sure the file has execute permission. Commands in the .bash_logout file seem to get run only during final logout, not when you exit from shells. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do debian-users get spammed a lot?
I just started on debian-user this Saturday, then Sunday and today I've been getting more spam email than I've ever gotten before (20-30 per day!). Is this probably just a coincidence, or does debian-user get trolled/web-botted a lot? Should I use a less favourite email address for posting to debian-user? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backing-up
On Friday 18 October 2002 8:10 am, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to backup my system; I have taken a look at amanda and afbackup. > Unfortunately, I didn't find info on how to set the storage other than > tapes. Is there any way to have a loop device which is a "tape drive"? > I use cddump, the only program I could find that does uncompressed backups (the safest way) with dump levels to CD. I modified it a little bit so it would run non-interactively. If you want copy of my modified version, let me know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
potato to woody upgrade problem
> The release notes didn't say there were any problems going > from 2.2 to 2.4. What did I forget to do? If you modified /etc/lilo.conf to add the new kernel, did you remember to type "lilo" before rebooting? Not doing this will lock it up for sure. The bootdisk-HOWTO tells you what various LILO error codes (ie, "L" or "LI") mean and how to fix them: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/a1483.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...
> So, preinstall PCs for people, use Knoppix, or create Live CDs with BootCD > (such as http://asgardsrealm.net/linux/livec1vn) How safe do you think Knoppix is? I would make a pretty bad impression of Linux to my friends if I gave them the demo CD to show them its virtues and it damaged their current OS or wrote over any data. I think I would only feel comfortable using it to show off linux on other people's computers if it were really, really safe in that respect. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to check md5sums of official debian discs
Naively, I tried md5sum /cdrom/* and it locked my deb3.0 computer hard. (maybe because I had a disc burning in /cdrw simultaneously?) I notice each CD comes with an md5sum.txt with the sums for all files on the disk, how can I use it to make sure each disk is perfect? The debian.org download page covers checking the downloaded iso images, but not the burned discs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maximum partition size
Is this an outdated statement from the Debian installation guide? From: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html#s6.4 "Based on limitations in how ext2 works, avoid any single partition greater than 6GB or so. " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maximum partition size
> Is this an outdated statement from the Debian installation guide? > > From: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html#s6.4 > > > > "Based on limitations in how ext2 works, avoid any single partition greater > > than 6GB or so. " > steve@gashuffer:~$ df -H > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 144MB 33MB 104MB 24% / > /dev/hda3 5.0GB 1.5GB 3.3GB 32% /usr > /dev/hda5 2.0GB 211MB 1.7GB 12% /var > /dev/hda6 32GB 4.9GB 25GB 17% /home > hadrian:/usr/share/music/ 40GB 14GB 25GB 36% /home/mp3 > hadrian:/home 13GB 2.5GB 9.4GB 21% /usr/share/Server > > Never had any problems. > > Steve > -- Thanks. I submitted a bug report on the installation guide under "general" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Maximum partition size
> In future please use something like install-doc for these. I'll reassign > this one. Sorry about that, and thanks for the advice. I just used "reportbug" and didn't see an appropriate choice given. I don't see install-doc under www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages either. In this case is there somewhere else I should look, or ask debian-user, or make up an appropriate sounding category? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please Help
On Monday 28 October 2002 12:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am new to this all and i am having trouble making a boot disk to do an > initial install > of debian on a laptop (Compaq armada m700 w/ floppy drive) > please write or call me i need help > 310-792-1934 Here are a few tips I hope will be helpful, without knowing about your problem specifically. If you're new to Linux and not a computer whiz, I'd say just buy an official Debian CD, it'll save you one step and a lot of time if you don't have a fast internet connection. For vendors, see http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ You only really need to buy the first CD, so it will be cheap. You can get the binary-1 CD that you need from www.chguy.net for $5 US, shipping inc. If you really want to download the CD, use jigdo - it's wonderfully easy. http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ Choose the binary-1 with-US CD. Go with the primary mirrors, ie ftp.us.debian.org - I haven't had much luck with the secondary mirrors. Make sure you have your CD drive before your hard drive in boot sequence in your BIOS, so it will boot off the CD when it's in place. Print out a copy of the Debian installation manual, at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install It is your friend, it will help you through. Some others have had success installing Linux on your laptop. See http://www.linux-laptop.net for experiences and specific advice for your model. If you are confused by terminology or get an error message along the way, try pasting it into google.com and google.com/groups - a very quick way to get an answer. If that doesn't answer your question, post as concise a question as you can to debian-user and you will probably get a quick answer. If you can't handle the email volume from the debian-user list, you could read the list archives at http://lists.debian.org for the responses and not actually subscribe. Congratulations on escaping from AOL! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scrolling in Netscape 4.x, .Xdefaults
> Hello, I remember I used to be able to put something in .Xdefaults and > scroll in Netscape 4.x . I forget what it is. Someone still have > those setting on NS 4.x , can you show them to me .. Thanks. > I use Galeon mainly but my online class has this quiz taking script that > only works with IE and Netscape 4.x so I am forced to use it. I used to use Netscape and had to use the imwheel package to get it to scroll - and I regularly had to reload imwheel several times a day. The script you mention might only *think* it needs IE or NS. I use konqueror, which you can set in its preferences to send its browser ID as IE or NS, and this has allowed me to use websites which have been programmed to kick out anyone not using one of the name-brand browsers, perfectly I might add. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sometimes the lilo boot menu does not show up unless one hits shift or something
In lilo.conf, use the `prompt' option to force a boot prompt (without you having to press tab or shift or whatever first). If you want to, specify a message file with the `message' option. This file can contain a "menu" detailing which choices are available. It will have to reside on the low-cylinder boot partition if you have one. 1) add a line that just says "prompt" to /etc/lilo.conf 2) type lilo If you want, you can also specify a message file with the `message' option. This file can contain a "menu" detailing which choices are available. It will have to reside on the low-cylinder boot partition if you have one. For more info, man lilo.conf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Woody Installation Problem
> with various tasks selected. While unpacking stuff from > CD 3 and error occurred: Maybe that CD has errors on it. You can check it by mounting it, going to the directory where it's mounted, then md5sum -c md5sums.txt No output = good, error output=bad If so you'll need to get a new cd or install those packages from http or ftp. > I then ran dselect, but couldn't figure out how to tell it to find the > files on the CDROM. So, now what do I do? Reboot from CD1 > (or my boot floppy)? In dselect, choose "Access" from the main menu, and it has a cdrom option. You could try uninstalling the broken package, then re-installing it from the cd again from an ftp or http source (choose under "Access" again in dselect). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody Installation Problem
On October 31, 2002 02:13 pm, Joe Riel wrote: > I had tried that, but there was, alas, no option for multi-CD. > I have no idea how many packages might be broken. apt-get install dpkg-multicd (I think this should be in the dselect tutorial section of the debian install manual but it isn't - I'll submit a bug report to install-doc unless someone knows why I shouldn't) Then you will have access to the multicd method in dselect. There are instructions for using it in the debian installation manual -> Advanced Package Selection with dselect -> dselect tutorial: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/dselect-beginner You can also add multiple cd's to your sources with apt-cdrom. Just put a cd in and type "apt-cdrom add", or "apt-cdrom -cdrom /mountpoint add" if it can't find your cd. "man apt-cdrom" for more info. Then you could use apt-get remove packagename and apt-get install packagename to re-install packages. > > Is there a way to restart tasksel so that it will prompt for all the tasks > again [not just the ones that weren't selected the previous time]? I don't know about this, but it looks like tasksel only installs packages that aren't installed yet. You might have to remove them with another package like apt-get, aptitude, or dselect before installing them again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody Installation Problem
I don't think this exchange made it to debian-user because there were 2 addresses in the To: header, so I'll resend the whole exchange to the list for the archives. On October 31, 2002 07:39 pm, Levi Waldron wrote: > On October 31, 2002 02:13 pm, Joe Riel wrote: > > I had tried that, but there was, alas, no option for multi-CD. > > I have no idea how many packages might be broken. > > apt-get install dpkg-multicd > > (I think this should be in the dselect tutorial section of the debian > install manual but it isn't - I'll submit a bug report to install-doc > unless someone knows why I shouldn't) > > Then you will have access to the multicd method in dselect. There are > instructions for using it in the debian installation manual -> Advanced > Package Selection with dselect -> dselect tutorial: > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/dselect-beginner > > You can also add multiple cd's to your sources with apt-cdrom. > Just put a cd in and type "apt-cdrom add", or "apt-cdrom -cdrom /mountpoint > add" if it can't find your cd. "man apt-cdrom" for more info. Then you > could use > apt-get remove packagename and > apt-get install packagename > to re-install packages. > > > Is there a way to restart tasksel so that it will prompt for all the > > tasks again [not just the ones that weren't selected the previous time]? > > I don't know about this, but it looks like tasksel only installs packages > that aren't installed yet. You might have to remove them with another > package like apt-get, aptitude, or dselect before installing them again. On November 1 2002, Joe Riel wrote: I tried the first approach, running dselect and chosing multicd, after first installing dpkg-multicd. It was not at all clear what to do after that. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/dselect-beginner implies that using multicd access is a bit tricky; that is correct. I never got it to work. So I changed the access method to apt--- previously I had assumed that that was only for downloads from a web site---and things proceeded much smoother. dselect would now query for the proper CD when it needed to install a selected package. Thanks, Joe Riel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20021102.log Read-only file system
I'm getting the following error during the boot sequence, repeated many times. It doesn't seem to cause any actual problems, but it's worrisome. modprobe: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20021102.log Read-only file system(or the current date in place of 22021102) One thing I found through google seems to be applicable: "I'm not sure why this problem is a show-stopper. Several installation kernels were built without the unix.o module which is kind of unfortunate. But this normally is just a hiccup, e.g." I'm using woody with the binary 2.4.18 for i386 k6-2 kernel. Maybe someone can tell me if to fix the problem I have to download the kernel source and compile and/or net-pf-10 (see below), before I spend the time trying it. Would it be bad to just comment out net-pf-10 everywhere it occurs in /etc? Also, this seems to be reported as bug# 143074 as a minor kernel bug. Would it be useful for me to post my experience as a follow-up to that bug, as my experience is somewhat different? The file /var/log/ksymoops/20021102.log is actually created and contains lines like 20021102 000247 start /sbin/modprobe -s -k -- net-pf-10 safemode=1 20021102 000247 probe ended 20021102 000436 start /sbin/modprobe -s -k -- net-pf-10 safemode=1 20021102 000436 probe ended 20021102 000436 start /sbin/modprobe -s -k -- net-pf-10 safemode=1 20021102 000436 probe ended 20021102 000443 start /sbin/modprobe -s -k -- net-pf-10 safemode=1 20021102 000443 probe ended repeated many times (1032 lines total!) Some other info you probably don't need, just so show what else is in ksymoops and prove that my /var is writeable: /var/log/ksymoops contains a bunch of other files as well: bash-2.05a$ dir /var/log/ksymoops/20021102* | more gives a bunch of files like -rw-r--r--1 root root 1484 Nov 2 14:52 /var/log/ksymoops/20021102145202.modules -rw-r--r--1 root root65762 Nov 2 14:52 /var/log/ksymoops/20021102145259.ksyms all with the .modules or .ksyms extensions, all rw for root. My /var is just a subdirectory of /, which is mounted as: /dev/hdb2 on / type ext3 (rw,usrquota,errors=remount-ro) The directories /var, /var/log, and /var/log/ksymoops are in fact writeable bash-2.05a$ dir /var/log/ksymoops/ | more total 3144 drwxr-xr-x2 root root24576 Nov 2 14:52 . drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Nov 2 01:15 .. bash-2.05a$ dir /var/log | more total 3280 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Nov 2 01:15 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Oct 20 22:28 .. bash-2.05a$ dir /var | more total 60 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Oct 20 22:28 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Nov 2 14:02 .. (all files cut from listings) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrom installation problem
> sounds like the CDs were not burned properly, there are hundreds if not > thousands of files on the cds that are longer then 8 characters, if the > CD was burned in a mode where it truncates the filenames I would just > throw the cd away > > nate Did you use jigdo to download & make the image? It will make a proper image for you. If you're having real problems making good CDs, you could buy the official disks from one of the sellers listed on debian.org for around $5 apiece in US/Canada. See debian.org -> getting Debian for info on jigdo and resellers. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thread Stealing (was: Installing debian via network)
On November 4, 2002 10:55 am, Pigeon wrote: > Thanks from me as well. This stuff is not obvious to those who do not > use a thread-aware mail client. This includes me. I've only just got a And thanks from me. I was previously reading the list archives rather than actually subscribing, til I realized that some email programs (like kmail) are capable of threading like the archives do! With threading the debian-user volume doesn't seem so overwhelming, so I'm a subscriber now and my emails will thread properly. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
encrypting a single file
Is there a simple way to encrypt a single text file on my system, so that it can only be viewed if you know the password? I want to securely store my online username/passwords, bank card PINs, etc that I'm always forgetting. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: encrypting a single file
On November 4, 2002 06:03 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Here is the script for VIM which automate GNUPG. Thank you for all the advice! I went with the GPG in vim - since it's easy as well, I figured I might as well use the strong encryption. That's cool that vim also has a built-in encryption feature. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: choice of software
On November 4, 2002 04:19 pm, Johannes Zarl wrote: > +xmms -- a winamp lookalike I find xmms impossibly hard to read with its blue-on-black and small font, so have been using noatun instead. Has anyone found a way to make xmms a little more readable? -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: encrypting a single file
On November 5, 2002 02:27 am, Rob Weir wrote: > AFAIK, emacs supports this out of the box. Open a .gpg file and it'll > prompt you for the password and decrypt it for you, automatically > re-encrypting it on save. My xemacs 21.4.6-8 doesn't do this, although I have gpg installed now - probably have to load a module. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: choice of software
On November 5, 2002 12:07 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Have you simply tried a different "skin" ?? xmms can use WinAmp skins or > you've got these, http://xmms.org/skins.html, to choose from. > > I know what you're talking about with the default, and many of the > "popular" ones, being so "dark". > > > Hall Wow, there's quite a selection! I'm now using Helix-Sawfish-XMMS and XawMMS - Helix is pretty slick and fairly easy to read, Xaw is the most readable one I saw. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: encrypting a single file
On November 4, 2002 06:03 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Here is the script for VIM which automate GNUPG. > > How to handle in futue? Use VIM. This was posted here few month ago. > > Add attached to ~/.vimrc > > Osamu When I open a gpg file with this .vimrc script, it seems to insert the message from the password prompting into the file. I have to remove the added text with dd. Do you find this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/cdrom
On November 5, 2002 03:33 pm, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, DSC Siltec wrote: > > My cdrom is /dev/hdb. I don't have a /dev/cdrom listed. Is there a way > > that I can create a /dev/cdrom? > > > > - Mike > > ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom Use this one, as root. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thread Stealing (was: Installing debian via network)
On November 4, 2002 08:49 pm, csj wrote: > You mean there are email programs that can't thread? Amazing. I've run > kmail, mutt, evolution and sylpheed-claws (this post). All are > thread-capable. I was already using kmail, it was actually that I didn't realize email programs could do such a thing. I never subscribed to such a high-volume listserve, so never had a need for it before. The threading button in kmail (woody) is blank (no icon) so I didn't realize it was there. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: encrypting a single file
On November 5, 2002 03:40 pm, Levi Waldron wrote: > When I open a gpg file with this .vimrc script, it seems to insert the > message from the password prompting into the file. I have to remove the > added text with dd. Do you find this? Actually, if I scroll so the unwanted text goes off the screen, then it disappears. It's just an illusion that it needs to be edited out, because it scrolls up and down with the rest of the text until it goes off the screen. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: encrypting a single file
On November 5, 2002 06:36 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: > No. > > Easier way: > > Open plain text first and save with gpg extension. > > If you have GPG installed with public key/privateky it will use them. > > Good luck. > > Ask these question on list please Oops, I hit "reply" and forgot it replied to you instead of the list. I have the encrypting/decrypting working fine, I was referring to some extra text being inserted when I open the encrypted file. Not a big deal though, as long as the file is long enough I can scroll off the screen to make it disappear. No need to fix this. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt failure - help needed
Looks like you have to increase the size of your apt-cache. Go to /etc/apt/apt.conf, and add the line 'APT::Cache-Limits xxx', where xxx is the desirable size in bytes. Choose something like 12 or 24 M ( which would be 12582912 or 25165824 in bytes). Hope that helps - This is pasted directly from: http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/debian/user/2002/09/msg01080.html I got this by google.com: Dynamic MMap ran out of room -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting Linux from windows 2000
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On November 7, 2002 11:49 am, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 03:56:48PM +0100, Bruno BEAUFILS wrote: > > I know that this question is not specially relevant to debian, but I do > > not know where to ask it anywhere else :-( > > > > I want to boot a bunch of dual-boot stations which are running under > > Windows 2000 to Linux. I tried loadlin but it does not work because of > > protected mode. > > > > I can modify lilo boot loader since those stations are oftenly cloned by > > Ghost I've heard that win2k won't stand for LILO replacing its own MBR. The alternatives I know of are: 1) Put a boot floppy in when you want to boot Linux 2) Use XOSL http://www.xosl.org - a GPL universal bootloader that's compatible with linux and all wins. 3) I don't know if wintoes will stand for not being on the primary hard drive, but if it will then you could hook it up as secondary (something other than /dev/hdb) and let linux have your MBR. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9yqrQTJSEdOdSWd4RAh1tAJ9SrXSl5A5xWRb9gnYZQFOHe5KB3wCfXh5k hHZvRTmOiZ+YwRURtzGNOx4= =+FFp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
frequent Konqueror signal 11 crashes
Konqueror (Woody version) crashes on me pretty regularly, once a day maybe. A similar looking bug has already been filed as bug #132496, and is marked as unreproducible and forwarded upstream. I also haven't been able to reproduce it, but does anyone have suggestions on how might I get some more useful information to contribute to the bug report? Here is the error message and backtrace. Error message: Short description The application Konqueror (konqueror) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV) What is this? An application mostly receives the SIGSEGV signal due to a bug in the application. The application was asked to save its documents. What can I do? You might want to send a bug report to the author. Please include as much information as possible, maybe the original documents. If you have a way to reproduce the error, include this also. Backtrace: non-network local connections being added to access control list (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... 0x40d51a39 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #0 0x40d51a39 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x40dc8e48 in __check_rhosts_file () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x405964d8 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3 #3 0x40cda6b8 in sigaction () from /lib/libc.so.6 #4 0x41296d0d in khtml::CachedScript::data () from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.3 #5 0x41299870 in khtml::Loader::slotFinished () from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.3 #6 0x402076bf in KIO::Job::result () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.3 #7 0x401ee9bc in KIO::Job::emitResult () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.3 #8 0x401ef7d6 in KIO::SimpleJob::slotFinished () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.3 #9 0x401f1901 in KIO::TransferJob::slotFinished () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.3 #10 0x407ee1cd in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #11 0x401df465 in KIO::SlaveInterface::finished () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.3 #12 0x401db8ac in KIO::SlaveInterface::dispatch () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.3 #13 0x401db5f8 in KIO::SlaveInterface::dispatch () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.3 #14 0x401d9f50 in KIO::Slave::gotInput () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.3 #15 0x407ee48e in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #16 0x4084a578 in QSocketNotifier::activated () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #17 0x40826ea2 in QSocketNotifier::event () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #18 0x40795ef7 in QApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #19 0x404ef1f4 in KApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3 #20 0x4075d91a in qt_set_socket_handler () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #21 0x4075e01e in QApplication::processNextEvent () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #22 0x407983bf in QApplication::enter_loop () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #23 0x40764f23 in QApplication::exec () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #24 0x40f4a265 in main () from /usr/lib/konqueror.so #25 0x0804cc96 in QCollection::newItem () #26 0x0804d8b8 in QCollection::newItem () #27 0x0804dd55 in QCollection::newItem () #28 0x0804ed96 in QCollection::newItem () #29 0x40cca14f in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: encrypting a single file
On November 7, 2002 02:28 pm, Jeff wrote: > emacs asks for the "encryption key", so I enter the passphrase, > because if I hit "return to ignore" is see the scrambled data. After > entering the passphrase, emacs reports "Searching for program: no such > file or directory, crypt". Actually the same thing happens to me, even after apt-get install crypt++el -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: public lending right
On November 8, 2002 04:48 am, Chris Lale wrote: > 4. What printed documentation might be included in the form of a booklet? > - Installation Manual (from Debian Web site). > - Documents from the Newbiedoc Project at Sourceforge. > - Other suggestions please? I think a printed and bound copy of the installation manual and things from Newbiedoc, with an insert containing the CDs (as many as possible) would make a wonderful package for libraries to lend out. Simple binding is very cheap at photocopy stores. (around CDN$3 here). If anyone comes up with a good selection of newbie documentation for this purpose, could you let us know? I think I'd like to make up some of these packages. I bet the total cost of making it would be less than $10(CDN). -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: encrypting a single file
On November 10, 2002 12:08 am, Rob Weir wrote: > Ok, final instructions that work this time: > apt-get install crypt++el mailcrypt gnupg > > Add this line to your ~/.emacs: > (setq crypt-encryption-type 'gpg) > > Recompile your .emacs if you're using byte-compilation. Restart emacs. Thanks Rob! This worked, with some slight modifications for xemacs21: apt-get install crypt++el gnupg (no mailcrypt because this is a module for xemacs21, the package mailcrypt requires emacs20) Add the mailcrypt package through the tools -> packages menu. Add this line to your .xemacs/custom.el: (setq crypt-encryption-type 'gpg) Type this command, whatever it does (I'm not actually sure if this was necessary) M-x crypt-rebuild-tables Exit and restart xemacs. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: obtaining debian
On November 11, 2002 11:44 am, james leclair wrote: > Hello, could someone please give detailed info on obtaining the latest > stable version of woody. Instructions on where to go(FTP preferably)and > what exactly to do would be greatly appreciated:). > Thanks, > James Your best options, as I see them: 1) Use jigdo to locate sites, download, and create images. Debian mirrors don't contain pre-made images because Debian is so huge, but jigdo takes care of this for you and is ported to several OS's. http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ 2) Buy the CDs at a very low cost, if you don't have a fast internet connection or don't want the trouble of downloading http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ 3) download a minimimal installation image then install the rest package by package: http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ You will see more options at http://www.debian.org/CD Debian offers some excellent documentation to help you get started. The faq at http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/ and the installation guide at http://www.debian.org are invaluable. And don't be afraid to ask questions on this list. Enjoy! -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recover ext3 deletion
On November 8, 2002 09:09 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > Can I suggest using revision control for important files? That way, you > have a more convenient centrally-located thing to back up (the > repository), and you get the extra benefit of being able to go back and > look at older versions of what you've done. Also, if you get a second > machine you'll just be able to check files out from your repository > rather than messing about trying to keep home directories synchronized, > and you'll get instant distributed backups. Thanks for the suggestion, I'm going to start doing this. emacs has a version control package to make this simpler and more automated. See: http://www.gnu.org/manual/emacs/html_node/emacs_127.html -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: public lending right
On November 9, 2002 07:35 am, Chris Lale wrote: > Thanks for the encouraging comments Levi. Well, thanks for your efforts! I'd definitely like to keep up with your progress and also do some distribution of a GNU/Linux package to local libraries, friends, etc. I wonder if anyone has put together a slick Debian install package with PGI (http://www.progeny.com/products/enablingtech.html)? Might be good for complete beginners. I haven't done a fresh install for a long time so for all I know this might be unnecessary with the latest default dbootstrap, anyways. > > The initial response of the local (UK) FE college library was very > positive. I thought that I might put together a compendium of > downloadable free documentation on a Web site. Also some guidance for > putting it together, lending strategies etc. > > When I get started, I will post the URL here. Meanwhile, suggestions for > specific documents would be welcome. > > Chris Osamu has a helpful list of URLs for getting started in Debian: http://people.debian.org/~osamu/newbie.html -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PROBLEMS WITH MOUSE'POINTER: the pointer dont select just put it on
On November 12, 2002 11:40 am, Jesus Rios wrote: > I have running debian 3.0 with KDE. > Whem i am a user , for select or expand the menu( in kmail,in the > startaplication.) i have to click on it . I cant select it with the > pointer without click on it. > But when i am root, i can select just with the mouse'pointer. I'm not sure I understand your problem, but if you're talking about selecting a window by just moving your mouse over it, then: K menu -> control center -> Look & Feel -> Window Behavior -> Focus Choose "Focus follows mouse" Also choose "Auto Raise" if you want the focused window to come to the front automatically, but I don't recommend it - it might be hard to get back to the control center window without it disappearing! -- Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PROBLEMS WITH MOUSE'POINTER: the pointer dont select just put it on
On November 12, 2002 11:40 am, Jesus Rios wrote: > I have running debian 3.0 with KDE. > Whem i am a user , for select or expand the menu( in kmail,in the > startaplication.) i have to click on it . I cant select it with the > pointer without click on it. > But when i am root, i can select just with the mouse'pointer. I'm not sure I understand your problem, but if you're talking about selecting a window by just moving your mouse over it, then: K menu -> control center -> Look & Feel -> Window Behavior -> Focus Choose "Focus follows mouse" Also choose "Auto Raise" if you want the focused window to come to the front automatically, but I don't recommend it - it might be hard to get back to the control center window without it disappearing! -- Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a new fix for an archived bug
I had a problem with kmail which was similar to an archived bug, which had been supposedly solved without modification to the package (bug #116184). The advice given didn't help at all for me, but I found another way to fix it. How should I report this to the Debian bug tracking process? With a new bug# or the old one? Or should this not be reported to bugs.debian.org? In case it makes any difference, the fix I found was to correct the setting within "configure kmail" to /usr/sbin/sendmail AND modify the X-KMail-Transport line in ~/Mail/outbox to file:///usr/sbin/sendmail then restart kmail. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for a backup to CD-R(W) program
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:32, Joe Nahmias wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I am looking for recommendations for software to backup my > > debian (sarge) machine to my cd burner. As this is my home machine, I > > don't think I need the client-server functionality of amanda or some of > > the other backup packages... I'm just looking for something that can do > > full and incremental backups of selected filesystems to CD in a quick > > and simple manner. I use a perl script called cddump, available from http://www.joat.ca/software/cddump.html As far as I know, it's the only program for Linux that makes direct, uncompressed copies to CDR(W) with dumplevels 1-9. I like this for a couple reasons: -writing one big compressed file as a backup makes me nervous - one little media error could make the whole backup useless. -backups are very easily accessible - I look for files using find or grep, and can restore files from backup using cp. I would like a backup scheme that compressed each file individually to CD with dump levels, but such a program doesn't seem to exist and I'm not a programmer enough to create it. I have made some slight modifications to cddump so it can be used for unattended backups by cron job, use RockRidge extensions, make the CD readable by any user, and to send me an email if there's a disk error. I could send you a copy of my modified version if you want. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash/cron help
On November 14, 2002 04:57 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I am having a problem with this script. It works fine > if I run it from a command line. If I try and run it > from cron the images that are in ~/bin/Weathermap/images > that get embedded during html2ps do not get embedded. > Also, unless I specify the path the working dir appears > to be /home/lance and not /home/lance/bin/Weatherma Maybe you should explicitly define your working directory $home= in the script, then use $home instead of ~ since when you run it from cron it's not run from the same directory (and maybe not as the same user?) as when you run it by hand. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system will not soft power down
On November 15, 2002 08:46 am, Wayne Brown wrote: > I've been running woody for around a year. Before upgrading my motherboard > / processor (solteck 75drv5 I think, athlon xp2000) it used to soft power > off no problem. Once I had rebuilt the pc using the existing hard disk, now > I just get a 'power down' message and I have to hold in the power button > for 5 secs before it shuts off the power. 1) Do you have apmd running? To make sure you have the most recent stable version: apt-get install apmd 2) Is the apm module loaded? modprobe apm -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: URGENT - How to shutdown Debian 3? - URGENT
On November 15, 2002 03:31 pm, Llies Meridja wrote: > No it does not work, first when I choose GNOME session and do > ctrl+alt+del nothing happens, then when I log to KDE session and do > ctrl+alt+del I get system guard! Did you try Nate's advice? Log in, open a terminal (xterm, for example), then do as he says: > once logged in do 'su' and input the root password when prompted, > then issue the 'halt' command to halt the system. > If you don't like logging in as root whenever you shut down, you could give your userid permission to do some commands as root: 1) Type "su" in a terminal to log in as root 2) visudo 3) move to the bottom of the file, and type "i" to enter insert mode 4) type the line (Replace username with your username): usernameALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/poweroff 5) :wqto exit 6) Now your regular user can type /sbin/halt to poweroff. Additionally, you could put the following line in your user's /home/username/.bashrc file: alias halt="/sbin/halt" OR, alias anynicknameIwant="/sbin/halt" (with the editor of your choice, or using vi filename and the same "insert" and save & quit commands as visudo) 7) From then on, your regular user can shut down just by typing "halt" into a shell. You could even make an icon or menu item to do it. You might want to add other commands in visudo, like /usr/bin/xcdroast (for writing CDs). Hope this helps, Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Converting MS Word to postscript
If you save the file for Word as an RTF, it's alot easier for any other word processor or conversion program like unrtf to read it. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system will not soft power down
On November 15, 2002 01:17 pm, Mark Copper wrote: > This is just what I needed, but it didn't work. apt-get install went > smoothly but "modprobe apm" failed. The message in dmesg was > apm: BIOS not found > I've got an intel d845bg board. Any ideas? Thanks. > > Mark If your bios doesn't support APM (I'm not sure if yours does or not), then use the ACPI equivalent. Remove apmd, then: apt-get install acpid I've never actually used acpi, so let me know how this works. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system will not soft power down
On November 15, 2002 01:27 pm, Wayne Brown wrote: > and I have apm 'compiled in' to the kernel, thanks, anymore ideas anyone? There's a discussion on the linux kernel mailing list about what happens if apm and acpi are both going: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-00/0826.html If you have apm in the kernel and acpi loaded from a module, apm might win and won't work if your BIOS doesn't support ACPI. Try turning apm=off in lilo.conf, and loading acpid and the acpi module. I'm not sure what the acpi module is called, or whether it comes with the default 2.4.18 Debian binary or requires compiling. Anyone else? -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
extra multimedia keys
Is there a way to configure the extra keys on my laptop - play, stop, FF, RW - to work with a software CD player? I have found the funkey kernel patch - http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/funkey/ - but is there a Debian way? (Woody 2.4.18) -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system will not soft power down
A correction to my previous message, for the archives: > If you have apm in the kernel and acpi loaded from a module, apm might > > win and won't work if your BIOS doesn't support ACPI. Try turning SHOULD READ ---> doesn't support APM > > apm=off in lilo.conf, and loading acpid and the acpi module. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: URGENT - How to shutdown Debian 3? - URGENT
On November 15, 2002 07:44 pm, Michael Naumann wrote: > shouldn't that read > alias halt="sudo /sbin/halt" > or even better > alias halt="/usr/bin/sudo /sbin/halt" Yes, good eye. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)
On November 17, 2002 08:22 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > How do I watch the fifo? > > > > The new IDE CD-R has "BurnProof" so I think that will indeed help. > > Also use nice to lower nice of cdrecord (higher priority) > > $ nice --9 cdrecord A testimony: I have a K6-2/500MHz 256MB, 32x cdrw with burnproof. I've burnt data CDs with nice -18, and have opened browsers, kmail, and run md5sums in the cdrom simultaneously. Often have had fifo min fill 0%, but no problems with the disc - md5sums still check out. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)
On November 17, 2002 08:22 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > How do I watch the fifo? > > > > The new IDE CD-R has "BurnProof" so I think that will indeed help. > > Also use nice to lower nice of cdrecord (higher priority) > > $ nice --9 cdrecord A testimony: I have a K6-2/500MHz 256MB, 32x cdrw with burnproof. I've burnt data CDs with nice -18, and have opened browsers, kmail, and run md5sums in the cdrom simultaneously. Often have had fifo min fill 0%, but no problems with the disc - md5sums still check out. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
