[Cleared up] Wheezy update wrecks MC graphics?

On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 04:36:39PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 02:43:05PM +0100, godo wrote: > > > > >Thanks, Goran. I don't know how to explain it -- my MC has been fine for > > >a long time, then suddenly this change. (?) > > >

Is there a separate Debian PowerPC list?

Hi, Folks -- Along with my normal 'work' computer, I've also installed Debian on my old iBook laptop (PowerPC) where some different problems apply. Is there a separate list for Debian on PowerPC or is this the one for that? (I checked the listing of mail lists at Debian, didn't see a separate on

Re: Wheezy update wrecks MC graphics?

On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 02:43:05PM +0100, godo wrote: > > >Thanks, Goran. I don't know how to explain it -- my MC has been fine for > >a long time, then suddenly this change. (?) > > > In /usr/share/mc/skins/ are MC skins. > In attachment is default skin try to change it. > Is it your skin same o

Re: Wheezy update wrecks MC graphics?

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 10:47:26AM +0100, godo wrote: > On 2011-12-30 23:01, Jeff Gordon wrote: > >Hi, Folks -- > > > >A recent wheezy update has caused Midnight Commander screens to have those > >garbled characters instead of drawn lines. I'm aware I can use

Wheezy update wrecks MC graphics?

Hi, Folks -- A recent wheezy update has caused Midnight Commander screens to have those garbled characters instead of drawn lines. I'm aware I can use "mc -a" and "mcedit -a" as a workaround, but it would be nice to have the proper lines restored. Anybody know what recent update would have produ

[SOLVED] Squeeze on Acer Aspire 5250, won't transfer files

On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 02:10:20AM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: > Hi, Folks -- > > I'd been asked to attach Xorg.0.log for another problem and ran into this > one. This Acer Aspire 5250 with Squeeze AMD64 sends only a small portion > of a file, and then the connection locks up,

[SOLVED] Squeeze, Radeon HD 6310, black screen on Resume

On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 04:15:30AM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: > Hi, Folks -- > > I'm installing Squeeze on an Acer Aspire 5250 with Radeon HD 6310 as a > Christmas gift for my sister. All went well during install but I get > nothing but a black screen on Resume from Suspend.

[SOLVED] Squeeze on 15" laptop, change aspect ratio?

On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 02:55:37PM +0100, Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: > > Hi, Folks -- > > > > I'm setting up a laptop as a Christmas gift for my sister; it's an Acer > > Aspire 5250 with Radeon HD 6310.  Netinstall of Squeeze went smoothly > > enough, > > but the aspect ratio seems wrong (too wide; k

[SOLVED] (argh) "Could not perform immediate configuration"

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 07:11:40PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: > Hi, Folks -- > > I decided to go ahead and try upgrading to Wheezy on this laptop (Acer Aspire > 5250, gift for my sister) to see if any of the three previously mentioned > problems might clear. Now I'm stuck a

Re: Re: no sound with flash videos....

Hi, Xunhua -- Some possibilities: If you've got alsa installed, and pulseaudio just came in with the upgrade, they may be fighting for control of the audio. That has killed sound for me more than once. My solution is to remove or disable pulseaudio; someone else might approach it differently.

Re: (argh) "Could not perform immediate configuration"

, Dec 07, 2011 at 09:55:27PM -0500, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 07:11:40PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: > > Hi, Folks -- > > > > I decided to go ahead and try upgrading to Wheezy on this laptop (Acer > > Aspire > > 5250, gift for my sister)

(argh) "Could not perform immediate configuration"

Hi, Folks -- I decided to go ahead and try upgrading to Wheezy on this laptop (Acer Aspire 5250, gift for my sister) to see if any of the three previously mentioned problems might clear. Now I'm stuck at "Could not perform immediate configuation on 'libgstreamer0.10-0'." I've gone through the ma

Re: Squeeze on Acer Aspire 5250, won't transfer files

only fix the issue if the card's sending out _too much_ data. > > - hengnu > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Jeff Gordon wrote: > > > > Hi, Folks -- > > > > I'd been asked to attach Xorg.0.log for another problem and ran into this > > one.

Squeeze on Acer Aspire 5250, won't transfer files

Hi, Folks -- I'd been asked to attach Xorg.0.log for another problem and ran into this one. This Acer Aspire 5250 with Squeeze AMD64 sends only a small portion of a file, and then the connection locks up, goes dormant. This happened multiple times as I tried to send the log file as an attachment

Squeeze on 15" laptop, change aspect ratio?

Hi, Folks -- I'm setting up a laptop as a Christmas gift for my sister; it's an Acer Aspire 5250 with Radeon HD 6310. Netinstall of Squeeze went smoothly enough, but the aspect ratio seems wrong (too wide; kinda squashed). Gnome and Xorg are offering only resolutions of 1024x768 and 800x600. B

Squeeze, Radeon HD 6310, black screen on Resume

Hi, Folks -- I'm installing Squeeze on an Acer Aspire 5250 with Radeon HD 6310 as a Christmas gift for my sister. All went well during install but I get nothing but a black screen on Resume from Suspend. Even Power Off and Power On again doesn't clear it -- I've had to remove the battery each ti

Can't boot -- 'shadow RAM' at fault...?

I'm trying to get 'potato' up-and-running on a box that thought it would have Windoze, a Compaq Presario 4660. CMOS says 2 instances of shadow RAM are present, but doesn't provide a way to turn that 'feature' off. Debian gets as far as the line about "freeing unused kernel memory" and then halts,

...hangs at "freeing memory", can't boot....

(help...!) I'm trying to move (copy) my existing 'potato' system to a new hard drive in a -different- box. Working box: Compaq Presario 992 w/ P-120 chip No-work box: Compaq Presario 4660 with PII-MMX-300 ("PIIX4", kernel says; also says "not 100% native mode, will poll for irqs later"...?) With

1024-char block ll_rw error...?

(Forgive me if this is a repost; I subscribed this morning, confirming -after- I'd sent this to the list, and never saw it appear, so...) I'm trying to run a little program, 'pxcsvdump', that extracts the contents of Paradox tables -- but I'm seeing this error: ll_rw error: only 1024-char block

...Mutt / GnuPG...

Since some recent updates, GPG reports it isn't allowed to handle the already-open temp file Mutt points it to...? Anybody else experiencing this; anyone got an answer to it? -- -- Jeff -- "There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to

...error: "only 1024-char blocks implemented"...?

I'm trying to install a little utility program suite, that extracts information from Paradox database tables. All goes well when I run 'pxcsvdump' to stdout -- but when I try: pxcsvdump my_file.db > my_file.txt ...linux produces an error like so: 'll_rw error: only 1024-char blocks impleme

...error: "only 1024-char blocks implemented"...?

I'm trying to install a little utility program suite, that extracts information from Paradox database tables. All goes well when I run 'pxcsvdump' to stdout -- but when I try: pxcsvdump my_file.db > my_file.txt ...linux produces an error like so: 'll_rw error: only 1024-char blocks impleme

...diald.fifo -- can I use this...?

When 'diald' runs, it creates /var/run/diald.fifo and diald.pid. The accompanying X monitoring/control program, 'dctrl', evidently gets its information by way of diald.fifo. Is there some way I can engage in conversation (or eavesdropping) with diald.fifo, so that I can see on a designated tty sc

...free Usenet...?

Have free Usenet sites disappeared? Every one I've tried in the past coupla hours wants authentication and apparently thinks I'm not authentic enough. :-) Do I need to set up an account of some sort, or does the authentication want my momentary dial-up hostname, or...? -- -- Jeff --

Re: no wonder...

On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 01:41:56PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > 1. Nothing's difficult about selecting things from a menu. It's when those > selections > bring up other screens wanting to add/delete other things, which affect other > things, > which makes the user want to get out, and none of the k

Re: No masquerading in stock kernel-image?

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 12:32:03PM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote: > Forgive me if this is a faq > > It seems like masquerading is not turned on in the stock kernel-image > packages. Is this true or am I forgetting to load a module somewhere? If > it's true, does anybody know why that decision was

Re: Unknown problem connecting

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 07:11:16AM -0400, J. Hartzelbuck wrote: > Using Debian, I've installed wvdial and can connect very nicely, but > commands issued don't do anything! Ping doesn't respond, lynx doesn't > respond. I'm new to all this, so don't know where I might be going > wrong. Can anyone gi

Re: how to email distribution lists...?

On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 12:59:04PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Have a look at bulkmail: Thanks, Joachim -- I was skipping right over that one because of its name; sounded like something more "industrial-strength" than I was looking for -- but it does appear simple and straightforward enough

redirect hidden output to screen...?

I have a li'l program I wrote, Mail-Penguin, that retrieves mail for us from our POP box on the web -- it's a home-brewed 'fetchmail', sort of. Normally it sends informational messages to the screen -- but now I have it being launched by diald's ip-up script (which I guess is sending output to its

how to email distribution lists...?

What's the normal/usual method for sending one email to 100 folks who are not local users of the system? Is this commonly handled by a mail reader program or by a separate program on the system? (Not talking about "an interactive mail list", here, but just a one-way "distribution list".) -- -

Re: fresh compile, "unresolved symbols" complaints

On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 10:58:44PM +0100, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > Debian packagers can make more informed decisions about the filesystem > arrangement than the kernel developers and this will always be the case, > so use the "smart" tools provided with debian to ease the brain strain. > > Unless

...second sound/CD card...?

I'm running potato on a P-120 Compaq Presario 992 box that has an on-board sound card. Under OS/2 I could never persuade the system to understand and accept the addition of a second slightly better sound card/CD controller. I'm guessing linux is smart enough to figure this out, though -- how co

Re: ipmasq and howto

- Forwarded message from Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > a connection is something open, it needs (at least) two (active) ends. > otherwise it is only a route. a masq rule is (kind of) a route. >>> Thank you for helping clarify the distinction. > no problem. sorry for the ha

Re: fresh compile, "unresolved symbols" complaints

> - message from George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > How did you install your kernel? Did you use make-kpkg to make a > kernel-image package and install that or did you try to install it by > hand? "make mrproper", "make menuconfig"... like that. > If you installed by hand, is the n

Re: ipmasq and howto

From: Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> (Now I'm trying to figure out what's made the difference -- why it is >> that previously I was seeing specific entries with 'ipchains -M -L' >> and now I'm not...possibly something's been updated, dunno; as long >> as things keep working, I'm planni

RE: (jg) Re: ipmasq and howto

On 01-Apr-2000 matt garman wrote: > But still when I do "ipchains -M -L" I don't get anything. > > Any ideas? I'm now experiencing the same thing. :-) But as long as I can see the MASQ entry in the output from "ipchains -L", things appear to be working. (Now I'm trying to figure out what's ma

Re: (eh?) Perl library shifted...?

On Sat, 1 Apr 2000 03:29:09 +0100, "Paul J. Keenan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Net::POP3 is also part of libnet-perl. I would make sure you have > the -2 version, if it's still a problem, post the exact error msg. > > I ran > > perl -MNet::POP3 -e 'Net::POP3->new()' > > without any proble

Re: ipmasq and howto

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:47:20 -0600, matt garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for all the help! But unfortunately it's not working. You're probably really, really close to succeeding. :-) It -sounds- like all the bits are working, but 'forwarding' is not fully activated; that your room

Re: (eh?) Perl library shifted...?

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 19:02:46 +0100, "Paul J. Keenan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Anybody know where to reach in and change the values Perl sees as >> > '@INC' ...? > The standard @INC is compiled into the binary. You can see the value > for your perl by doing "perl -V". (Thanks, Paul.) The

Re: ipmasq and howto

Hi, Matt -- On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:38:05 -0600, matt garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps I'm not making myself clear. I just want to get IP Masquerading > working on my Linux box. So I read the IP Masquerading howto. But I > believe some steps outlined in the howto would be redundant g

Mahogany / thwarted by dselect

On Potato, I've downloaded and tried to install the (slink) deb package of mail client Mahogany, which apparently has a dependency on libstdc++2.9. "libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1" is in the listings in dselect -- but dselect/dpkg/apt don't see this as the correct item. dselect [I]nstall leads to an appea

Re: Can't mount SyQuest EZFlyer 230 MB!!!

On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:51:21AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > I can't mount my syquest ezflyer zip-type drive. The kernel detects it, > but when I try to mount it, it gives me an error that says "wrong fs > type, bad superblock, or too many mounted filesystems." I trying to > mount it as v

fresh compile, "unresolved symbols" complaints

So I did my very first kernel compile, and all appears to have gone well -- except, I'm seeing a long list of messages during boot (that don't seem to be logged anywhere and are gone from the screen before I can copy 'em down), each line mentioning "unresolved symbol" and naming a lib file. The sy

(eh?) Perl library shifted...?

Not sure, but it looks like a recent Potato update must've rewritten a variable holding the location of Perl libraries -- at least, I've got a little program running here, that can no longer locate a needed module. Anybody know where to reach in and change the values Perl sees as '@INC' ...? --

'line monitor': solved

This worked: tcpdump -a -i ppp0 -l -vvv -w dat.file Later: snort -dv -r dat.file (More info than I needed arrived in dat.file, but it did include the specific info I was seeking. I expect 'sniffit' would've worked, but apparently it needs for a particular SysV switch to have been include

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:48:52AM -0800, brian moore wrote: > > Potato tells me IP Masquerading was not included in the kernel, a fact > > which now has my brother (he's fiftysomething; I'm fifty) from being > > able to reach the 'Net. > > Tell him he got kicked off for downloading too much pr0n

"line monitor" for Linux...?

Under OS/2, a nifty utility called Poor Man's LIne Monitor (PMLM) was included with Ray Gwinn's SIO com ports drivers. PMLM allowed one to watch was passing through the serial port during online conversations -- very useful for debugging connections and for retrieving forgotten encrypted passwords,

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:12:42AM +1030, John Pearson wrote: > Are you using a "stock" Debian kernel, or one which you built > yourself? The stock kernels usually include masquerading > support. Yes--stock 'potato' 2.2.14 is the one telling me "IP Masquerading is not enabled in the kernel." > I

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

Hi, John -- > Um.. in spite of what Andrew said, they're not modules. > ipfwadm is an IP packet firewall/masquerading setup > utility that works with kernel 2.0.x; ipchains is similar, > but for kernel 2.2.x. (Okay.) > # ipchains -L input > for kernel 2.2.x. > > This should list the default p

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 02:31:32PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > No trouble. The other fellow's responses about ipchains &c. may also be > true. I don't know whether the stock kernel comes with masquerading turned > on. Your remarks about what responds to modprobe, though, suggest that you >

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:51:19PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > 2.Also, consider using kernel-package. > If you can do Prolog and Perl, you can compile a kernel. The code for > masquerading is in the kernel, but it needs to be turned on, so you will > need to compile a kernel for yourse

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:46:19PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > Most likely you are trying to use the old ipfwadm stuff and you need to > use ipchains. Either way, "modprobe ipchains" should get you there. Hmm; well, 'ipchains' answers to its name but 'modprobe ipchains' says it knows of no such m

...no Masquerade...?

Hi -- (I'm very much a newbie, though I've just gone through a month-long trial-by-trashed-partitions to get here. :-) Potato tells me IP Masquerading was not included in the kernel, a fact which now has my brother (he's fiftysomething; I'm fifty) from being able to reach the 'Net. Should we be