Problem with printer Canon BJC 4300
Hi, this printer prints only funny patterns of dots that look like text, but it's definitely not what it's supposed to print. The ghostscript website says this printer is almost fully supportet with the bjc600 driver/input-filter (?). And it actually worked with that driver with suse 6.2. Now when I set it up under Debian with magicfilterconfig there was only bj600 and bj600_draft in the list, no bjc600. First I thought the 'c' wont mean much, and I tried both bj600 and bj600_draft, with the same result. Any ideas? I run Potato r2. Robert
RE: Problem with printer Canon BJC 4300
>:-( Canon is NOT linux-friendly, they got me crying for hours when i >found >out my Brand new D660U scanner is and WILL not be supported by Linux >because >canon won't support such incredibly ludicrous software That's sad. But my printer happens to be well supported, even though Canon probably contributed nothing to it. It works now, I used apsfilter instead of magicfilter.
how to start the commercial OSS driver automatically
I got a script from 4front that is supposed to start the sound driver at boot time. I named it oss and put it in /etc/init.d . Then I made a symlink to it in /etc/rc3.d/S99oss . But it doesn't start the driver. Yes, the script is executable and has #!/bin/sh in the first line. I also tried a script that just has the lines #!/bin/sh soundon in it, because soundon is all it has to execute. It doesn't work either. Below you find the script I got from 4front. Their technical support doesn't know why it doesn't work. But it's specially written for Debian, it's not the one they ship with their driver. I put export OSSLIBDIR="/usr/local/lib/oss" (that's where oss and therefore soundon are) in /etc/profile . Is that correct? It is listed when I type export. I suspect I have to do something else than just put the script and the link in place. But what? Or is there a mistake in the script? Robert #!/bin/sh .. /etc/oss.conf ## # # The first argument tells what to do. ## state=$1 case $state in 'start') if test -f $OSSLIBDIR/soundon then (sleep 45;$OSSLIBDIR/soundon)& exit 0 else exit 1 fi ;; 'stop') if test -f $OSSLIBDIR/soundoff then $OSSLIBDIR/soundoff exit 0 else exit 1 fi ;; esac exit 1 ___ Alles unter einem Dach: Informationen, Fun, E-Mails. Bei WEB.DE: http://web.de Die große Welt der Kommunikation: E-Mail, Fax, SMS, WAP: http://freemail.web.de
Re: Can't make Sound work :-(
On Friday 23 March 2001 04:06, Raymond L. Zarling wrote: > > alsa is installed, but /etc/init.d/alsa start says it can't locate module Did you know that the kernel module and alsa are different things? Either you use the kernel module that you built with your kernel or alsa, which has it's own kernel modules. I stepped into the same trap a while ago, and how is everybody supposed to know that? It should be written in a famous place.
Re: Star Office
> I cannot find it in the 2.2r2 distribution. Is it in there but I am too > blind to see? If not is it available in deb format somewhere, and if so > what would be the correct location to add to my "sources.list" to keep > current? I have a special Debian distribution that contains Staroffice 5.2. http://www.linuxland.de/katalog/01_linuxdistri_bs/debian/liste It's not in .deb format, it's a self-extracting package. Dunno if it's debianized in any way. It's probably the same you can download for free, so this doesnt help much. Robert
Re: sis 6326
On Sunday 17 June 2001 18:11, SuperTek wrote: > Has anybody succeded to configure the sis 6326 video card using > xfree86config on Debian 2.2 (potato)? I need help!!! > > > I think I have to upgrade xfree86, so, does anybody have the newest > sources.list? It works here, but not with 24 bits color depth. Search the archives for more information, there has been a lot of discussion here. Put the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list if you want to upgrade to woody packages: deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
Re: XMMS: root can / user can not listen Audio CDs
On Sunday 17 June 2001 18:12, Thomas Martin wrote: > Hello, > just installed Debian/GNU Linux 2.2r2 and now installed > X, SAWMILL, TKMIXER and XMMS from the official CDs. > > When I start X as root and start then XMMS I am able to > to listen to AudioCDs (also the tracks are not listed in > the PLAYLIST window). > When I do the same as user, I may start XMMS but > when I try to add the content of /cdrom within the "+FILE" Dialogue > (of PLAYLIST) I don't see files like TRACK... in the right part > of the window opened by "+FILE" as I see them when doing > the same as root. > > The CDROM is mounted with the following properties in fstab: > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,user,ro 0 0 Don't mount audio CDs. Add your users to the groups audio and disk so they have permission to access the devices. addgroup user group
Re: XMMS: root can / user can not listen Audio CDs
On Monday 18 June 2001 02:18, Robin Gerard wrote: > Sorry for this supid question : How to remove a user > of a group ? i.e. do the contrary of addgroup. > TIA My Debian book says there is no convenient equivalent to addgroup _yet_.
Re: Ripping MP3s
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 15:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone recommend any package for creating mp3s from CDs (yes, I do own > them :) under Debian? I tried searching the package list but there was > nothing obvious, only players it seemed. Grip is a GUI ripper that uses cdparanoia and you can tell it what encoder to use. I recommend Ogg Vorbis for extra quality and freedom. > For bonus points you might also like to recommend a sound card, as > I'm not sure that mine (Yamaha WF192XG) works too well (or at all) > using GPL-type software. I have this card but I haven't tried to make it work yet. Look in the kernel modules in section sound if you see anything like that, otherwise look on www.alsaproject.org in the list of supported cards. If that fails you can buy a closed source driver at www.opensound.com .
problem with rpm2html
I want to know what's inside some rpm packages. I found rpm2html can generate html pages out of the contents of an rpm package. But everytime I say rpm2html a-package.rpm it says config file a-package.rpm seems invalid I tried this with several rpms for several distributions. Unfortunateley I can't find any documentaion on rpm2html that explains the commandline options. Can anyone help me?
Re: vmware on Debian?
On Monday 25 June 2001 21:54, nico de haer wrote: > I use it on Debian 2.2r2 (kernel 2.2.19pre21) works fine! Can your Windows apps access hardware like USB, soundcard, scanner? This would be interesting. A lot of people could use all their hardware while running Linux.
Re: Problems with modules
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 15:26, Yaba Yaba wrote: > Hello... sorry about my bad "english", I´m a brazilian > guy... > > I had recompliled my kernel (by the 1st time), and, > after that, my comp don´t load the modules > > where file should I look to fix that? Look in /lib/modules/kernel-version-you-built/ There are all the modules of the options you selected to build as modules. You can load them conveniently with modconf.
kernel install - unres. symbols
I compiled a 2.4.5 kernel with kernel-package. I had no problems until I installed the resulting .deb file. I got the error messages you find below. I was running a 2.2.18pre21 kernel. After a reboot the new kernel loaded fine and I don't have any problems. But those error messages don't look good. Especially the one at the bottom with the modules.dep': No such file or directory. Maybe the reason for the unresolved symbols is that I used gcc 2.95.4. In a recent dselect session it wanted to upgrade from a stable compiler to this cvs version, and I let it happen. So, can anyone tell me what needs those symbols and why they are unresolved? Maybe it loaded the modules from the new kernel while installing it, and because the old kernel was still running I got those error messages. But this would be a bug in kernel package or dpkg. It shouldn't make those scary error messages when everything will be fine after a reboot. # dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.5_custom-2.4.5-1_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.4.5. (Reading database ... 37091 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.5 (from kernel-image-2.4.5_custom-2.4.5-1_i386.deb) ... Setting up kernel-image-2.4.5 (custom-2.4.5-1) ... depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/block/loop.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/char/lp.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/net/dummy.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/net/irda/irport.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/net/irda/irtty.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/net/irda/toshoboe.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/parport/parport.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_pc.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/sound/maestro.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/fs/autofs4/autofs4.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/fs/binfmt_aout.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/fs/binfmt_misc.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/fs/isofs/isofs.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/fs/nls/nls_cp437.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/fs/nls/nls_cp850.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-1.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-15.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/net/irda/ircomm/ircomm-tty.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/net/irda/ircomm/ircomm.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/net/irda/irda.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/net/irda/irlan/irlan.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/net/irda/irlan.o Creating /boot/initrd-2.4.5.gz... cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/initrd-mnt.8071/lib/modules/2.4.5/modules.dep': No such file or directory done. Testing LILO configuration... Test successful. Installing LILO configuration... Installation successful.
Re: kernel install - unres. symbols
On Thursday 28 June 2001 20:46, Joost Kooij wrote: > Can you think of anything unusual in your configuration? Maybe your > version of kernel-package doesn't know how to deal with it. Good idea. I have kernel-package 7.20 from Progeny, a leftover from when I upgraded a bunch of packages from a Progeny CD because the network wasn't working and I needed recent drivers. Doeas anyone know if the Progeny kernel-package is different? > If you keep having these "unresolved symbol" errors, then one might say > that installation was not really successful and that kernel-package should > try to trap these errors. But that is an "if", I don't know what is really > wrong. As I said, the kernel boots fine. I don't get these messages when I boot. Or do you mean when I install that kernel again? Should I try? Is it save to install it again?
Re: pcmcia nic confuddelment.
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 20:30, Keith O'Connell wrote: > I had two machines running Debian, not well, but working together and I > was learning as I went. For all sorts or reasons I had to give my wife > one of the desktop machines and she gave me her laptop. > > I partitioned a great chunk of it off and started to install potato from > the cd set I have here. I got to the part about selecting the network > card and got stuck. With the two desktops, I found the cards would work > with "tulip", but I cannot get the nic in the laptop recognised by any > of the options. > > What should I select as an option for a D-Link DE660 PCMCIA card > > I get the impression from other messages that laptops are trickier than > desktops to set up with linux. Did I just change the gradient on my > learning curve by taking the laptop on? > > Keith PCMCIA network cards are dealt with differently than normal ones, because they can be removed. Install the PCMCIA packages.
Re: Who's got a cheap scanner working?
On Monday 09 July 2001 22:40, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I'd like to add a cheap scanner (probably USB) to my machine, running > debian potato. I don't need to do anything fancy, but would like basic > scanning to work. It looks like I can get more than enough power from > something like the Visioneer Photoport 7700 or the UMAX Astra 3400. Can > anyone share successful experiences with a USB scanner? I have a cheap parallel Plustek scanner working here. Most Plustek scanners are supported, but not in Sane yet. I had to compile the stuff myself.
Re: OT Ram upgrade options
On Thursday 12 July 2001 13:22, David Purton wrote: > at the moment I have two 32MB sdram dimms on an ASUS TXP4-X mainboard. > My box is about 3 years old. > > The mainboard manual has this to say: > > Two sockets are available for 3.3 Volt Unbuffered SDRAMs of either 8, > 16, 32, 64 or 128 MB to form a memory size of between 8MB and 256 MB. > > Memory Speed setup is required through "Auto Configuration" in BIOS > Chipset Setup of the BIOS software. If both 60ns and 70ns memory are > used set "Auto Configuration" to 70ns. Do not use memory modules with > more than 24 chips per module. If your memory clock is 66 Mhz (P2 up to 333 MHz and all Celerons had it) you can use PC66 and PC100. If your memory clock is 100 MHz (BX chipset, P2 from 350 MHz) you can use PC100 and PC133. There is always a chance that the module won't work in a particular board, so try to buy with money back guaranty.
Re: Drivers
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 19:24, Luis David Zamith wrote: > Hi > > I'm from Portugal anda i have a Deskjet 710c. I have windows 2000 and i > don't have the drivers for my printer. Can you send me the drivers for my > printer ? > > best regards Did they manage to give you the impression Windows is the only operating system in the world?
Re: Preventing windows from screwing linux up
On Monday 23 July 2001 23:35, Cormac McGuinness wrote: > Hi > I'm hoping someone can help me with my frustrating problem... > I have a laptop, and something installed under windows 98 has now > (twice) overwritten the initial part of my Linux filesystem > which exists in an extended partition. > How can I prevent this (other than by deinstalling windows! - my wife > needs to use our laptop occasionally) Even wives can use GNU/Linux. At least my wife can. Are you sure Windows did not just overwrite the MBR with Lilo in it? In this case you just have to boot with a boot floppy and put Lilo back there. (I'm not subscribed to the list any more.)
RE: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?
There are several things you can try. 1. Try to lower the core voltage. If it's underclocked the CPU might run stable with lower core voltage. This saves a lot of heat because power is proportional to voltage squared. 2. I was amazed how silent a fan is when I hold it in the hand. When it's mounted to the heatsink most of the noise seems to come from vibrations passed to the heatsink and board. I put some rubber between the fan and the heatsink in one machine and it made a difference. 3. With a fan at a lower speed you might still get enough cooling, but without too much noise. Put a resistor before the fan. I have a P2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] running with less than half the fan speed for a year now without any problems. 4. Watercooling. There seem to be a few reliable watercooling blocks availabele ot there. I build my own for one machine. The pump is almost inaudible. I don't know if your CPU or bord have a built in thermometer. I know that Athlons (and probably any other silicon chips) are allowed 90 C surface temperature. Robert
Re: alsaconfig question about Sound Blaster PCI 16
On Sunday 25 March 2001 20:40, Stan Brown wrote: > I am trying to use alsaconfig to configure my soundcard. > > I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 PCI, and I don't seem to see that > as a choice. Which one should I choose? I think there are entries for ens1370 and ens1371. This must be right choice for your card iirc. If it's not there it's because the version of alsaconf in potato is so ancient (1.5 years old!). Then you must get a later version. I got this driver to work by 1. getting the latest alsa driver 2. changing something like card_index_1 to card_index_0 in /etc/modutils/alsa (that's the output of alsaconf, the old version of alsaconf counts cards from 1) Robert
how to access files on another machine in the network
I set up a network and I can ping between the machines, but how do I access files over the network? I want to see them in a file manager and read and write them. I haven't found any documentation on that. Could someone please give me a hint or point me to the right location?
Re: how to access files on another machine in the network
> Read more about it on: > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO Thank you, this was one of the rare occasions when I could just read a HOWTO and it works.
what plays avi videos on linux?
I remember having seen avi files being played on Linux, but I cant remember what application that was. Does anybody know?
Re: Fw: Ogg Vorgis-Potato
On Thursday 29 March 2001 06:55, SoftHome wrote: > I lost the email of the person who sent me this. That was me. > I'm not sure if the quality is really vastly superior to mp3's, or it just > seems that way because of all the politics. There are major improvements to come before 1.0. But most people I know say that it sounds better than mp3 already.
Re: Logitech Mouseman+/Logitech Mouseman Wheel
> Just wondering if anyone has had success getting a Logitech Mouseman+ (aka > Logitech Mouseman Wheel) working under XFree86 v4.0.2, wheel and all? I have a MouseMan Wheel running here with 3.3.6. There's no reason why it shouldn't work with 4.0.2. Your mouse section in the XF86Config should look like this: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Protocol" "MouseManPlusPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection I havent had time to try to make the side button work. You can read about it on http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ Please tell me how you did it when it works. I used to use the side button as 'back' button in the browser in those ancient times when I used Windows. That was very convenient.
Re: Power Management
> When I had RedHat installed, my machine would auto-power off at > shutdown. It doesn't do that anymore. How can I enable this under > Debian? APM? ACPI? Do I need a certain kernel? Can I easily modify the > modules of the current one? If you use lilo as boot manager, you can put a line in /etc/lilo.conf: append="apm=on" Then run lilo on the commandline for the change to take effect.
setting up autofs
I installed autofs. I want it to automount the floppy, the cdrom and a couple directories on another machine via nfs. I just don't want to type mount and umount everytime I access them (is autofs the right choice for this?). Unfortunately the manpages and the HOWTO aren't written for someone who hasn't used it before (who are they for?). Can someone please tell me what to put in what conf file, for instance for the case that I want to mount the floppy drive to /floppy?
how to format a floppy in ext2
I find the truncation of long filenames on MSDOS floppies really annoying. But I haven't found a way to format a floppy in ext2. Fdformat is obsolete, and superformat seems to be unable to format ext2. Is there something that can do it?
Re: HOWTO: HTML cross reference of C code
Once a sysadmin set that up for me. He took hours and then it referenced only a few variables. I remember the ingredients of it, it was lxr, glimpse and apache (maybe I forgot something). There's a relatively good working example on http://vorbis.on2.com/lxr/http/source Perhaps you can ask the author of that website (Erik) to help you, but keep in mind that he's busy like most people.
Re: how to format a floppy in ext2
I formatted a floppy with mke2fs, but when I try to write something to it I get a permission denied. I also added myself to group floppy and changed the group of floppy to floppy, but it doesn't help. I don't have problems as root nor with msdos floppies. Here is the line in /etc/fstab: /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 You see, there's nothing wrong with it. Or is there a hidden secret?
Re: setting up autofs
It was not easy to find out that autofs works out of the box for floppy and cd. It's behavior is not intuitive at all. I also made symlinks from /floppy to /var/autofs/misc/floppy and the same for /cd. But this causes the cdrom drive to rattle everytime I go to / in Konqueror, and ls / hangs. Besides, I still have to type umount if I want to remove the cd or floppy before the timeout for the automatic unmounting. This is not what I wanted. When I had Mandrake I just selected supermount at install and it worked most of the time. For now I returned to typing mount and unmount everytime I want to access a floppy or CD. Maybe I'll shorten it with an alias. Autofs works for the nfs filesystem, so this is at least one plus.
Re: how to format a floppy in ext2
I forgot to mention that I mounted the floppy as user, not root.
Re: how to format a floppy in ext2
> > I think you need to chage the permissions of the /floppy directory... > > > > > > chmod g+w /floppy.if that doesn't work try > > chmod a+w /floppy The chmod did the trick. How could I forget the permissions? I was confused because I could write to msdos floppies without having write access to /floppy, wierd. > You have basicly two options: > > Format the floppy as user, the floppy then belongs to you and you can > mount and write it. (You need to have write access to /dev/fd0) > > Format the floppy as root, then mount as root, chown or chmod the > mountmoint as needed, umount and mount as user. I cannot run mke2fs as user, only as root. I don't know if it's a good idea to change the permissions for mke2fs (I'm connected to the internet = security risk). Anyway, there's no difference in write access to the floppy, regardless who formatted it. Also the permissions for /dev/fd0 seem to have no effect, only those for /floppy.
Re: Compiling a new kernel
> bash-2.03# insmod ./es1371.o > ../es1371.o: kernel-module version mismatch > ./es1371.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.18pre21 > while this kernel is version 2.2.17. Looks like you're not running the newly compiled kernel 2.2.18pre21, but your old 2.2.17. You can check what kernel you're running with uname -r Have a look at /etc/lilo.conf . There should be at least two image entries. Here is what I have: image=/vmlinuz label=Linux ... and image=/vmlinuz.old label=LinuxOLD ... These entries correspond to symbolic links. Check where they point. In my case, /vmlinuz points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21. It should be the same in your case. If so, you can hit shift at boot time when "Lilo" appears, then type Linux (or whatever label entry you have), and it runs /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21. If you make changes to /etc/lilo.conf, you must run lilo on the commandline for the changes to take effect. All this is normally taken care of at the end of the kernel build and install process. It asks you whether you it should run lilo. Maybe you answered no. You can get more information with info lilo and info lilo.conf
Re: XFree
I had similar problems with the mouse. I solved it by uninstalling gpm. You can also try a different mouse protocol, for instance mousemanplusps/2.
Re: mp3 encoding
> I gather mp3 encoders aren't included in the official debian distribution? > > any tips on getting and installing lame (or something that'll work with > abcde)? There are no mp3 encoders in the official distribution probably because of legal issues. You can download lame from ftp://lame.sourceforge.net/pub/lame/src/ but it does not appear to be prepared to build debian packages. Compilation should be easy. If you don't care about mp3 (what's abcde?) you can use the vorbis beta3 packages in potato, save some work and get at least the same sound quality and a free format. Or you can download the vorbis beta4 packages from www.vorbis.com and get even better sound quality. There was a thread about this recently on this list.
Re: Installation problem for a new user
> While installing, when the system tried to switch to Graphics mode, the > screen went blank. The system hanged. Ctrl+Alt+Del didn't work. I had to > reset the system. Ctrl+Alt+backspace is the combination for killing the X server (leaving graphics mode when it does not work). > When I try configuring X server, I get many card options for my card(SiS > 6326).How do I know which one is mine? What are the options in particular that you don't know? Be a little more precise. You should read http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/ or http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2 or whatever version you have. I have this card here and it does not work with 24 bits color depth. Use 16 bit instead. > Sound card : Yamaha 32 bit (I don't know anything else abt the card except The kernel module ymfpci proably works for this sound card. A good way to get information is reading mailing list archives. You can search this list's archive at http://lists.debian.org/search.html Although I must say I often have problems with that search engine. Sometimes it does not return results on words that are in the archives.
Re: icecast system requirements
The icecast mailing list is a better place to ask a question like this. http://www.xiph.org/icecast/list.html www.icecast.org
Re: Problems mounting floppies and cdroms.
> Command [as root] "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy" gets > response "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block > device". I get this error when I forgot to insert a floppy. This won't help you much I guess. If you have a line like this in /etc/fstab: /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 you can just type: mount /floppy (without specifying the device) because it looks up that line and knows what device it is. If you did not compile a new kernel this should always work. Or maybe your floppy is not on /dev/fd0 but fd1? Or it's not properly connected? Does it work with other operating systems if you have any? > And the command "mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom" gets > response "/dev/cdrom: Input/output error > mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, > mounting read-only /dev/cdrom: Input/output error > mount: you must specify the filesystem type". Check if you have a line like: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 in /etc/fstab. The 'ro' is important for mount to know that the devive is read only. But this is not fatal and is probably caused by something else. I got the error: mount: you must specify the filesystem type when I had compiled a new kernel with msdos selected as a module and wanted to mount a floppy. I probably had to put something in /etc/modules for the module to be loaded. But at the time I found it easier to compile the kernel again with msdos support=yes (compiled directly in the kernel). Maybe all this does not help you. Perhaps someone else can help?
Re: Alsa
> I had an old working RedHat version with also installed. I went to move > my changes to /etc/modules.conf over to the new Debian version. I opened > up the /etc/modules.conf and it said, "don't edit me", and directed me > into other files, upon which I got lost trying to figure it out. > > How do I configure Alsa? I know what changes I need, but I don't want to > mess with Debian's upgrade process -- it's too good. I installed the > driver for my sound card in the kernel successfully. I read about "how to mess with modules.conf" somewhere a while ago. Can't remember where. You're supposed to put those configuration stuff in a file in /etc/modutils. The one for alsa should be called /etc/modutils/alsa. Then run update-modules as root. I think update-modules takes everything from all files in /etc/modutils and puts it straight in /etc/modules.conf with a little comment where each section is taken from.
Re: Still problems mounting cdroms and floppies
Next time don't change the subject of your email if you talk about the same thing. It makes it harder to associate emails. > /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 noauto,users 0 2 I have /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 here. I think this is better. defaults and ro belong here. Check if your CD drive is really connected to the second IDE channel and configured as master (this is what hdc means). If /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hdc, you can put in /dev/cdrom. But this is not the problem. > /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos noauto,users 0 2 I have /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 here. It's a good idea to replace the 'msdos' by 'auto', like I have. Again, 'defaults' should be present. The last number means when the filesystem will be checked. You can put a 0 in there because removable media does not have to be checked at reboot. Same goes for the CD drive. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. For more information read info fstab and info mount
Re: Re: StarOffice
>I don't think so as Staroffice is not a free or open source software >and Sun does not give the sources Star Office is GPL. I just don't think there will be a package maintainer for such a monster package. Just today I learned they have 180 people working on it. That's why it's so big and slow :)
Re: XFree 4 and 2-button-mouse
> What´s the magic to emulate Emulate3Buttons from XF/3 in XF/4? Add a line to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 in section "InputDevice" (the one for the mouse, not the keyboard): Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" It's documented in info XF86Config
command for system beep?
I want to write a shell script that beeps on a certain event. I don' want the output from the soundcard but from the system speaker, like when I do something wrong. But it would be nice if I could make the sound shorter or longer than that, or two short sounds. What's the command for that? Btw, my system speaker seems too loud. Is there a way to control the volume in software (I haven't found it in the BIOS setup)?
keyboard layout on the console
I updated a lot of packages from stable to unstable and now my keyboard layout on the console is set to US. I want German. I already installed the package from unstable that is supposed to set the keyboard layout (I forgot the name) and configured it, but I still have US keyboard layout. What can I do?
/etc/hosts.deny
I put the line ALL: ALL in /etc/hosts.deny and tried to mount a directory on this machine from another one, just to see if it actually denies access to all other hosts. /etc/hosts.allow is empty. But I could still mount and access files. What's wrong here?
Re: /etc/hosts.deny
On Sunday 08 April 2001 19:07, Robert Voigt wrote: > I put the line > ALL: ALL > in /etc/hosts.deny and tried to mount a directory on this machine from > another one, just to see if it actually denies access to all other hosts. > /etc/hosts.allow is empty. But I could still mount and access files. What's > wrong here? I forgot to mention that I did not forget to save the file and I rebooted the machine.
/etc/hosts.allow
Thank you all who gave advice on /etc/hosts.deny. I just put in the line portmap: ALL which I found in the NFS HOWTO and it worked. I tried that before I asked for advice and it didn't work. Maybe I had a bad day. Now I can't mount anything on this machine from the other one on the LAN, and I hope this will prevent anyone from the outside world to break into my system, because that's why I do it. To allow the other machine on the LAN access to mine again I put the line portmap: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 in /etc/hosts.allow but the other machine still can't mount anything. It gets the error message mount: RPC: program not registered just like with an empty /etc/hosts.allow. I took this from the NFS HOWTO, section 6.3 again. 192.168.1.0 is the network and 255.255.255.0 is the netmask in /etc/network/interfaces under eth0 on both machines. So how can I allow the other machine in my network to access mine without allowing anyone from the internet to break in?
RE: [OT] jumper for CPU Host Clock
On Tuesday 10 April 2001 17:42, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > This settings refers to the Front Side Bus, that's a the highway for your > computer's mainboard where all other buses are relating to. If you this FSB > to 133Mhz you'll NEED that PC133 mhz Ram. Sorry, this is wrong. FSB and memory can run at different clocks. > -Original Message- > From: jh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: dinsdag 10 april 2001 17:36 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: [OT] jumper for CPU Host Clock > > > Hi. I am building my computer today and have a question about a jumper > setting. I need to set the jumper for the CPU Host Clock Selection and I'm > not sure what this refers to. There are two choices, 100MHz and 133Mhz. the > 133Mhz has a asterisk by it that says Reserved. Does this refer to the kind > of SDRAM I'm using? I am using PC 133 SDRAM 32x64 168 pin DIMM. The > processor is an Amd Athlon 700MHz slot A. Thank you for your time. -Jeff H The 700 Mhz was only available for 100 Mhz FSB afaik. So set it to 100 Mhz. The newest Athlons are available for 100 and 133, that's why it says reserved. Don't overclock the FSB unless you know what you're doing. You can still use 133 Mhz memory with 133 Mhz memory clock.
Re: module sound with potato 2.2 r2
> With potato r0, I have to recompile the kernel to have the sound > on my machine. > > Is there any other way to enable the sound with potato r2 ? Try modconf and look in the misc section if you find a module that matches your soundcard. Selecting a module there loads it and all other modules that it depends on.
Re: "Upgrading" to Progeny ?
On Tuesday 10 April 2001 14:27, Hall Stevenson wrote: > I'm currently running Debian "sid" or unstable and the idea of upgrading > (is it really upgrading ?? :-)) to Progeny has crossed my mind. Is doing > so feasible ?? Can apt-get handle the differences in package version > numbers, if there are differences ?? I heard that Progeny is based on Woody, so this would be a downgrade. And I recently read on this list that apt cannot downgrade a whole distribution. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.) Looks like you best start with fresh formmatted harddrive to install Progeny. If you do it, please tell me and perhaps the list what you think about it, when you're done.
Re: /etc/hosts.allow
> Did you re-start portmap after adding that line? That should fix it. > > noah I'm too lame to find out how to re-start portmap. And rebooting didn't fix it.
Re: [OT] (floppy?? and win 95) two questions
> 2) I'm thinking of not installing a floppy drive. I have a rewritable cd > drive and rarely use a floppy drive. I am thinking less wattage less heat, > more open space in the case. Any thoughts? > There's one case you should consider: If you have to reinstall Windows for some reason, it will probably overwrite the MBR. Then you need a Linux boot floppy to boot into Linux and put your boot loader back in the MBR. A boot floppy without a floppy drive isn't fun :) But maybe you can write the boot floppy to a CD? Try if you can boot from it?
Re: module sound with potato 2.2 r2
> Many thanks I have the sound as root but I have had put the permissions > of the > devices /dev/dsp and /dev/hdd to 666. I don't know if it is suitable > but > I have the sound ! Nice to hear that it works. But changing permissions is usually not nice. The right way to go is to add all users that should have access to the soundcard to group audio (or whatever it's called, can't remember exactly). Just type as root addgroup
Re: /etc/hosts.allow
> The server needs the following daemons running: > portmap, nfs-common, nfs-server > The client needs portmap and nfs-common > > My question is, can you mount the nfs share remotely > when the entry in /etc/hosts.deny is removed, and in /etc/hosts.allow you > put "ALL: ALL"? I can mount if both files are empty. I think this is equivalent to having ALL: ALL" in /etc/hosts.allow, so I didn't try. And the demons are probably started at boot time by default. But this is not the problem. I just wanted to use the other machine to verify that the line portmap: ALL actually denies access to everybody, and now I want to enable access to that one machine in my network again, and from what I read this is done by putting portmap: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 in /etc/hosts.allow Is it not as simple as that? Then the NFS HOWTO is wrong, or I have to learn how to configure Linux for some more years. > I would suggest using ipchains to block nfs and rpc from the outside, like > this, where 192.168.1.1 is your machines **external** interface (i.e., the > one connected to the world): > > ipchains -A input -l -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 192.168.1.1 111 -j DENY > ipchains -A input -l -p udp -s 0/0 -d 192.168.1.1 111 -j DENY > ipchains -A input -l -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 192.168.1.1 2049 -j DENY > ipchains -A input -l -p udp -s 0/0 -d 192.168.1.1 2049 -j DENY > > remove the "-l" if you don't want log entries. I wanted to tackle ipchains and all that later, when I set up internet access for all machines in my LAN via my machine. I don't even know yet exactly what ipchains is.
Re: quick logitech wheel mouse howto?
On Thursday 12 April 2001 07:34, john smith wrote: > I would like to know how to enable logitech wheel mouse so I can use it for > scrolling. right now my configuration in xfree86-4 under input devices Please send all your InputDevice sections and the ServerLayout sections, as well as the exact type of mouse.
Re: corel photopaint
On Friday 13 April 2001 04:10, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. We're playing with Corel Photopaint 9 for Linux on a Debian > 2.2 box, and we're not getting very far. It installed fine, it starts fine. > Unfortunately, as soon as you try to open a new document, it bails on an > unhandled exception. It could be a stupid permissions problem, but that doesn't explain the exception. Only Corel can help you with this. Do you know Gimp? I can't think of a reason to use PhotoPaint when there's Gimp. If you try Gimp, I recommend you get the latest version (1.2.1). The version in Debian 2.2 is quite old and lacks some functionality.
Re: horrible refresh rate
On Friday 13 April 2001 03:44, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. We just put Debian 2.2r2 on my wife's new computer. She's > using an nvidia Aladdin TNT2 integrated video card. I used the SVGA server. > It works fine, but the refresh rate is horrible. It's jerky, lagging, very > hard to use. > Would that just be caused by the monitor's settings, or something else? It's caused by the settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config, which is the product of the configuration procedure you're supposed to do when you install the X server. You can try to configure it again. Or you can upgrade to the latest version of X. It's not hard and maybe your problems will magically disappear.
Re: CD-RW recommendations
> $200 > Iomega 4x4x6 USB CD-RW , part number in ad: 31475 Take the iomega, it doesn't have those stupid rebates attached to it. When I came to the US I was amazed how people jump like a dog when the marketing manager says "hops, here's a rebate". Fortunately this kind of sales practice is not common here in Germany, but how long?
Re: Sane and Gimp - way round?
> The good news is that I've acquired a scanner - the bad news is that when > I try to install the stable version of Sane 1.0.1-1999-10-21-12, I get > the message telling me that Sane conflicts with Gimp 1.1 and that Gimp > 1,2 provides Gimp 1.1. > > Is there a way around this? I tried compiling sane against my own set-up I'm running (X)sane and gimp from unstable. No problems, no compiling required.
Re: can't get volume
On Saturday 14 April 2001 10:00, Glyn Millington wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Looks good. I add her to the audio group, fire up xmms, install > > kmix and crank everything up. Nothing. kmix shows her card, no > > problems. xmms is playing, the power's on, the volume is turned up, > > but we're hearing nothing. > > > > Any ideas? She's using KDE 2.1, but artsd is not running. It > > What are the permissions on /dev/cdrom ? > > Does chmod a+r /dev/cdrom help? I'm not an expert, but what does dev/cdrom have to do with sound if xmms plays? Make sure you set both master volume and PCM volume higher than zero, and then check what ouput is slected in xmms. Should be OSS, but there may be different outputs (Line out...). If it still doesnt work, check your hardware.
Re: My mouse wont work...No X
Connect the mouse to the PS/2 port and put /dev/psaux in your XF86Config. It works fine here.
Re: Debian compatibility with MP3 devices
On Sunday 15 April 2001 16:51, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Hey all. I am considering purchasing some kind of small portable mp3 > player, but I don't want to get one that can only download its songs > > >from a Windows box. I know that there's kernel support for a USB link > > to a Diamond Rio 500 (and later models?). But it seems like there are > better players out there (i.e. players with more memory). Does anybody > here own such a device? Which ones can talk to Linux? Iomega seems very Linux friendly and their HipZip will support Ogg Vorbis in the future. This is one you should check out.
Re: X-server
On Monday 16 April 2001 17:15, Peter Millard wrote: > Dear All > > I have got Debian 2.2r2 Which I have been trying to get it installed which > I have got it installed in text mode but it refuses to get it installed the > X11 going any ideas my card is a SiS6326 and my Monitor is a Samsung > SyncMaster 550b. This card has caused trouble to a lot of people (including me) and you'll find quite a few threads about it in the archive of this mailing list. > Sis6326 8MB card > I put in 8192kb in the memory question Somewhere (I think http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/) I read X can only use 4 MB from this card. You'll also find other useful information there. > I would be most grateful for this as I would like to drop my suse linux and > use the DEBIAN full time If you have X working in Suse and if it's the same X version you can use the XF86Config file from Suse in Debian and it should work. > P.S. Perhaps some got tell me a step by step guide on this xf86config man XF86Config If this does not help and you're trying to get 3.3.6. working, try 4.0.x instead. I have this card working with 4.0.1, but only with 16 bit color depth. If 24 bit does not work put in defaultcolordepth 16
Re: RAM economy tips
> Dont forget that memory is used for caching and suchlike.. > > Why is is so bad to have 90% memory used after all is it > better for it to be unused? you paid for it! ;) So it is used > to speed things up, cache things you might need and re-used > when you request something in particular.. > > Unless everything slows to a crawl, swaps like mad or runs > out of memory you should take it with a pinch of salt (and > maybe wonder why the other 10% isn't made to do something > useful too) In theory, this is fine. But on my system (512 MB RAM) it's not always like that. After a few hours of work with a lot of opening apps and documents and images, it dips into swap, and it does that even when I close most apps. So before I can continue working I have to reboot. This shouldn't be necessary. Is it because I have a 'pre' kernel? I wondered why they made the 2.2.18pre21 the default kernel for potato when they otherwise put software in it that are sometimes not usable because they're so ancient.
Re: RAM economy tips
> What does free say? Are you really out of memory? Does top show anything > that's eating a lot of memory? Finally, do free and top show the correct > amount of memory for your system (512MB)? I didn't know free and top until now, I took the information from KDE system guard, which is probably just a frontend to those commands. I was really almost out of memory, and there already was some swap being used. Yes, they show the corect amount of memory.
Re: RAM economy tips
> The thing is, just because some swap space is used, that doesn't mean > that the pages aren't also in physical RAM. Linux is actually very good > about keeping things efficient, and you certainly don't need to reboot > to continue working. Things were getting really slow because the harddrive was obviously spending all the time in swap. So it was faster to reboot. Maybe in that particular case when it was worst the memory was all eaten by a badly behaving app. I'll look at top next time to find out for sure.
Re: vorbis
On Sunday 22 April 2001 03:37, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > if i want to use og vorbis, is vorbis-tools the only package i need to > install? i've installed it, but oggenc seg faults and i'm having trouble > figuring out why. The vorbis-tools package should tell you that it depends on libvorbis and libogg, and probably that it recommends libao (needed by the player ogg123 for audio output). If not, it's a bug in the package and you should email the maintainer. If it did tell you about the dependencies and you forced installation without installing the other packages, it cannot work. And, as someone else pointed out, you should use the same version of all packages. Either beta3 from potato, or beta4 from woody, which is very easy to install on a potato system and gives better sound quality.
Re: Tutorial for kernel compiling the Debian way, RFC
On Sunday 22 April 2001 11:26, Jesse Goerz wrote: > I wrote a basic document intended to help Debian newbies compile custom > kernels using kernel-package. I'd really appreciate any and all comments, > suggestions, additions, subtractions you may have. (constructive > welcomed, the rest accepted) I followed the instructions and built a new kernel. Here's what you could improve: 1. In the introduction youre saying: Whatever kernel version you choose, try and get one that has a different version then the one you are currently using. It's not always possible to take a different kernel version than people are currently using, and it does not make sense to compile a different version than the one I want (if I want to keep the version) just because there is no elegant way to tell different kernels with the same version apart. IIRC you just have to rename or remove the old /lib/modules/ directory if you install the new kernel. Is that true? If so, you should explain that instead of making the impression it's not a good idea to compile a kernel that's the same version as the old one. 2. Here is something that's not your fault: showmount --version does not display soemthing like NFS 2.2beta40 Instead I get: showmount for nfs-utils 0.1.9.1 You should make a comment for this. 3. A similar thing: chsh -v does not display a version 4. I didn't find where you say to become root. It does not work as a normal user for me. 5. You say: "We will be using the option --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image..." For me this looked like "custom.1.0 kernel_image" being the revision name. I changed that to something else and omitted "kernel_image". I didn't notice it was the target option for make-kpkg. So it compiled fine but did not produce a kernel_image deb file. 6. You say: "Next, you need to get rid of the symlink you created in the /usr/src directory." Is that true? I thought there should always be a kernel-sorce tree in /usr/src/linux.
Re: Tutorial for kernel compiling the Debian way, RFC
On Monday 23 April 2001 12:28, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Perhaps you have mentioned it somewhere, but it may be worthy noting that > you can compile kernels on a fast machine for a slower machine (with the > correct config files), copy the .deb file and install the package on the > slower machine. This definitely does not belong in a newbie doc.
ipmasq
I compiled a 2.2.19 kernel because I want to use ipchains and do IP masquerading. The ipmasq package description on the debian website says one should enalbe CONFIG_FIREWALL, CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL, CONFIG_IP_FORWARD, and CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE. I couldn't find CONFIG_IP_FORWARD in the kernel compile options. I assumed it was obsolete and went on. After installing the kernel and rebooting I installed the ipmasq package from potato. It printed the following error several times: Should I start IP Masquerading? [Y/n] y Initializing IP Masquerading.../sbin/ipchains: invalid mask `' specified Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or '/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information. In between these errors it said IP forwarding is not enabled and I should do echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward The file /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward already contains a "1". Now I don't know what to do. I cannot connect to the internet from the other box. It says unknown host. The internal network runs fine otherwise, and /etc/network/interfaces looks good. The internet connection on this box that I want to use as gatewaw also works. Help would be great.
Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer
The Voodoo 3 is worth being mentioned here. It has very good 3D support in X and they are really cheap nowadays.
Re: ipmasq
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 01:57, Steve Witt wrote: > Have you read the IP Masquerade HOWTO? I thought the ipmasq package has it's own black magic and the HOWTO is not useful here. I was wrong. I looked into it and found the information I needed. I forgot to edit /etc/resolv.conf on the box I want to provide internet access for. For all people who do that in the future: I put the line: nameserver in that file, just like it's in the same file on the box that does the masquerading. Now it works. It was so easy! Sometimes Debian is great.
Re: after dpkg-buildpackage
On Thursday 26 April 2001 01:15, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > i just did a dpkg-buildpackage on a tar.gz i downloaded. it appears to > have worked. my question is, what do i do now to get everything pulled > into a .deb file or get the stuff installed? dpkg-buildpackage creates a .deb file in the directory above the current directory. After building you just do cd .. dpkg -i .deb
ssh prevents login to X
Hi, when I have ssh installed, I cannot log in in KDM any more. I enter my user name and password, then the screen goes black and after a few seconds I am back at the login screen. Stopping sshd does not solve the problem, only uninstalling ssh lets me log in again. I tried different versions of ssh, it was always the same. Ssh does not affect logging in on the console. This happens on only one of my 3 computers. I could look for differences in the installed packages, but that would be a big job. Could anyone tell me which packages have anything to do with this behavior? Or is this a known bug?
Re: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI - module loads, but no sound...
On Friday 04 May 2001 15:04, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Oh, and I'm using kernel 2.4.2.. I'm gonna try alsa now. > > Thanks, > Hugo van der Merwe I have this same soundchip onboard and I also didn't get sound with the oss kernel module. I tried alsa and it worked. Isn't it great that different people make different software that does the same thing so you have a choice in those many cases when something doesn't work.
Re: Image
On Friday 04 May 2001 15:17, Anthony Walker wrote: > I seen a few websites that have been done with linux and linux programs > and I once used corel linux as well, alot of times I notice the image > have a water color like pixel like blending, theres no smoothing or > blending, can you tell me why alot of debian is like this ? Is there > going to be better color option in the future like 64K, 32, 64 bit > display and over a billion colors for the 3d artist and cad users ? This is not Debian specific. You'll find better information on http://www.xfree86.org I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but if you think your screen doesn't look as nice as it could be, it's probably a configuration problem. 24 bits color depth is possible except with some video cards.
Re: Toshiba Satellite 2535CDS laptop
On Friday 04 May 2001 17:55, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I'm trying to install debian on a 2535cds and not having much luck... I have a similar laptop and it likes debian :) I get to the bios setup by holding ESC when switching on. My laptop also cant boot from cdrom. So I made a boot floppy and a root flppy and it worked fine. Dunno what your problem is. But there's a debian-laptop mailing list. People there may know more.
Re: device3dfx
On Saturday 05 May 2001 05:58, Greg Steele wrote: > I am having a difficult time compiling the device3dfx driver. > > Part of the problem, I'm sure, is my lack of knowledge of how to > correctly setup the kernel-header and kernel-source directories > under Debian. > > I am running kernel-2.2.19-ide. > > I have > > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.19 > /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19-ide > and a link from /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.19 I'm not an expert, but I think if you have the kernel sources, you don't need the kernel-headers. The headers are included in the source. I don't know if that's written somewhere. At least you didn't find it. People should be able to use debian even if they don't know what headers and sources are, no?
Re: User permissions for an ext2 partition
On Saturday 05 May 2001 10:48, Viktor Lakics wrote: ... man fstab
Re: xmms and audio cd playing
On Saturday 05 May 2001 10:59, Viktor Lakics wrote: > Under Debian, I cannot play Audio CDs with xmms. (dedicated CD > players work!). Don't mount the CD if it's an audio CD. And put yourself in the group your CD drive (/dev/cdrom, not the directory where you mount cdroms) belongs to, otherwise you don't have permission to access the drive. This is one of those things you're supposed to know if you want to use debian :-))
Re: xserver-sis 0.990907-2.deb
On Sunday 06 May 2001 21:31, peter.millard2 wrote: > Hello Debian > > I have tried many times to get my SiS6326 graphics card on debian 2.2r2 > without success . I was going round the debian site and found that the > driver is not free so is not include in the disks > > xserver-sis 0.990907-2.deb is the correct driver which i saved on download > on to a floppy disk. > > As debian installs only intext mode how do i get the xf86config to pick up > the driver on the install from the floppy Go to the directory where the downloaded xserver-sis 0.990907-2.deb is and type dpkg -i xserver-sis 0.990907-2.deb as root. If you want to know what you are doing type man dpkg If you have further problems, you may find the answer in the archive of this mailing list.
Re: Where's lame
On Monday 07 May 2001 04:52, MaD dUCK wrote: > i guess to be fully honest, i *think* this is the reason that lame > isn't part of the package system. why don't you become a maintainer? It is available as a debian package, I downloaded it recently, but forgot the URL. It was mentioned on some debian mailing list.
Re: help
On Monday 07 May 2001 20:30, barsi wrote: > hello, I am a graduate student in molecular biology and I AM SICK OF MS > WINDOWS! I am installing your debian Linux os on my IBM 600x laptop, but I > still need a couple statistical packages currently only available for MS > windows, my question is: > > Q: Can I have Debian/Linux OS installed on my computer while also having MS > Windows OS installed (god knows I don't want to, but I need it for now). I > was thinking along the lines of a partitioned disk, where each OS would be > on it's own disk...? but how would I solve the booting-up situation, can I > suppress windows and open it on command when needed? Alot of people run Linux and another OS on the same computer, it's really easy. You do it by having them on different partitions and when you boot you have a bootmanager such as Lilo that lets you decide which OS to boot. It's very easy to configure with the Debian installation program. Most things work automatically. Just pay attention to the fact that you can install Win9x only in the first partition of the harddrive (someone correct me if I'm wrong) and if you install it when Linux is already installed it will erase your bootmanager. In this case you must boot with a bootfloppy (create one when you install Debian, you will be asked if you want to) and restore the bootmanager. You may also want to look into the various ways of running Windows apps on LInux. I know 3 Programs that allow you to: VMWare, Wine and Win4Lin. Search the web for more information about them. If you have laptop specific questions, there's also a debian-laptop mailing list.
Re: Where's lame
On Monday 07 May 2001 21:21, Alan Shutko wrote: > MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Personal and commercial use of compiled versions of LAME (or any > >other mp3 encoder) requires a patent license in > >some countries." > > Has anyone compared it's ogg/vorbis output to oggenc? I'd be > interested in what GPSYCHO can do for quality. It might be that it's > be worth packaging a version of lame with MP3 output disabled Versions of Lame that can make oggs don't use Gpsycho for that. They use the same code that's in libvorbis and therefore the same psychoacoustic model as is used when you use oggenc. I'm not sure if libvorbis is statically linked to lame, if yes it might be an older version than the one you can use with oggenc and this means not so good quality.
Re: step by step kernel recompile
There was a thread recently on this list about a new step by step kernel compile guide, seach the archive!
Re: Where's lame
>Are there any hardware > Vorbis players around? Prototypes of the Iomega Hipzip with Vorbis support have been sighted.
Re: Where's lame
On Tuesday 08 May 2001 02:28, Jason Pepas wrote: > you wanted to, you simply cannot buy a portable CDR based Vorbis > player - they dont exist. not yet!
Re: Stereo sound
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 15:23, Cameron Matheson wrote: > I guess I've never had it that way in Linux. Do I need to do something > special to get more than mono sound? Usually not. What soundcard and driver are you using?
Re: Building SPICE3 deb packages.
I recntly compiled the Spice the same way, and it worked. But it doesn't start, it segfaults. I'm talking to the maintainer about it.
Re: SiS6326 problem
Try different configuration programs, and if you have X 3.3.6 now, try 4.0.x. This card works for me with X 4.0.1 and 16 bit color depth. Some options in the config file are necessary to make the screen look good. Read www.xfree86.org/ And search the archive of this mailing list.
Re: Stereo sound
On Thursday 10 May 2001 14:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If the sound is mono, you should still be getting sound from both speakers. > It just will be the exact same sound (i.e. no stereo seperation). Not necessarily. My commercial oss driver for instance outputs mono to only one channel.
compiling pcmcia-source
I want to compile the pcmcia-source package. The documentation says the kernel source must be configured (make config dep). It seems to require a self compiled kernel, but I don't want to compile a kernel. I just want to compile the pcmcia modules for my 2.2.18pre21 kernel, because I need the latest pcmcia version (2.1.25-3), and there's no modules package of this version for my kernel. I don't want to compile a new kernel because it would break a lot of things. What should I do? Can I just copy a .config file to the kernel source tree, and where can I get the .config file that was used to build the kernel-image-2.2.18pre21 for potato? And how about the .depend file?
Re: German keyboard
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 02:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a little question. > After upgrading to woody some special characters > on the german keyboard won't work under X11 anymore. > ö,ä,ü work. > All characters reached through AltGr+"key" don't work. > (for example "@" doesn't work!) > Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? Find the InputDevice section in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 where it says "us" and change it to "de"
Re: Wave Splicer
On Friday 18 May 2001 01:41, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > Does anyone know of a good wave file splicing uitility? I have a > book-on-cd and all the tracks are a minute long, and I'd like to find a way > to easily combine all the wave files into one. By the way, using cat to > put them together does not result in a valid wave file. You can do it with sox. But it'll take hours to find out the commandline options ;). You can also try dd to cut off the wav header (usually the first 44 bytes of each file), then concatenate the files. This gives you a pcm file. Then you just have to attach a wav header to get a wav file. If you take a header of the original files it will have the wrong file length, but otherwise be correct. You can also feed the pcm file to sox to convert to wav again (sox will add a valid header). There might be better tools out there I'm not aware of. If not, it's time someone starts making one.
Re: Progeny install problems
I thought you get access to a progeny support mailing list or something if you buy a progeny box. Is this wrong?
modversions.h
I thought if I compile the kernel with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y it puts modversions.h in /usr/include/linux, but it didn't. Why? I want to compile a kernel module that looks for modversions.h. Sorry if this was answered before but the archive search doesn't work.
Re: modversions.h
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 18:43, ktb wrote: > A search at - > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > shows that modversions.h is in the kernel-headers package. Do you have > that installed? I don't know for sure that will get you were your > going. Of course I have the kernel-source package installed, how could I compile a kernel if I hadn't? And the file is in the kernel source tree, but I don't think I'm supposed to copy it to /usr/include/linux. I thought the kernel compilation copies the file there if CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is enabled, no?
Re: mouseman wheel on X
On Thursday 31 May 2001 08:35, Erik Steffl wrote: > the fourth button doesn't work no matter what I do... anybody got it > working? It works here, but it does the same as the middle button. So not really useful. I'd like to have it do a "back" in Konqueror, and perhaps other useful stuff in other apps. Here's my section: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device""/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" # Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection And I'd also like to be able to scroll with the wheel in Emacs. Does anyone know how to do that? This is one of the things that worked out of the box when I had Mandrake, and don't work in Debian :(
