On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 11:16:08PM +0200, Geert-Jan Van den Bogaerde
wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:06:51AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > Has anyone gotten the evaluation version of win4lin to work with
> > Debian? I'm running potato with kernel 2.2.16 and I applied the
> > 2.2.16 SMP version
apt-get seg faults when I try to install a debian package. The version
of apt I am running is 0.3.18.
Any idea as to what the problem is ?
# apt-get -v
apt 0.3.18 for i386 compiled on Feb 13 2000 01:58:55
# strace apt-get install
[snip]
gettimeofday({961307348, 8428}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofda
I just went through the exact same thing.
Basically you need a kernel with only the 2940 drivers installed.
I had to get the Rescue and Driver disk from the
following location:
http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/slink/5.1.19/
Robert
- Original Message -
From:
Henti Sm
Debian's default exim package does not have perl enabled. I want to
enable it, so I figured this would be a good time to use the source.
I'm writing for two reasons: first, I'm a little unclear what exactly
I should do once I succeed in rebuilding; second, I'm having some
trouble getting the pack
i've just finished building kernel-2.2.15 and i think i've done
everything to make my sound card work - SoundBlaster PCI 128 CT4700.
below is the output of cat /dev/sndstat
**--
yakko:/home/patd# cat /dev/sndstat
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver compiled into kernel
Kern
Joey Hess wrote:
> [ This is not an official announcement of the Debian project, just a
> Debian developer speaking up with his personal opinion. ]
>
> Debian is now well into its second test cycle for the "potato" (2.2)
> release of Debian. Now is an excellent time to help us test the
> distribut
Dietmar wrote:
> Yes, but where should we report our experiences.
> 2 weeks ago I installed potato on my box from scratch: I the boot images and
> the base
> system through ftp and continued with apt-get. As far as I remember there
> were only
> one severe problem. The loopback-device was not con
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There are a number of programs that do the job. Another (the nicest
> in my experience) is mtr.
Wow just got it with apt-get. Mtr is nice. Never heard of that one
before. Cheers.
--
Phillip Deackes
Using Storm Linux 2000
i've been using potato since late january and have been doing apt-get
dist-upgrade at least once a month. potato has been very very good to
me. if not for power outages and the 'init 6' i'm prone to do, i don't
need to reboot my system.
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 10:18:16AM +0200, Dietmar wrote:
>
my sound card is a SoundBlaster PCI 128 CT4700 and i'm having problems
getting it to work. i.e i get the error message '/dev/dsp: No such
device'
does anybody know if it's okay to compile in the kernel the es1370
support for a CT4700 card? or am i just screwed with this sound card?
thanks
pd
Hello
Anyone that's got gnupg / pgp5 installed, could they be so generous as
to assist me in setting it up?
When I have gnupg installed, mutt says /usr/bin/pgp doesn't exist. Do I
need to create a link or so?
Now when I have pgp5i installed, mutt tells me there is not /bin/pgp.
This is kind of f
Hi All,
I've finally got the "almost working" configuration for relaying of messages
from trusted hosts connected through untrusted dial-up ISPs.
On my box, I've created the SSL tunnel with following command:
stunnel -v 2 -d localhost:465 -r localhost:25
On each DIP connected box, I've modified
Hi,
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > section pointer of XF86Config so that XF86 thinks, I have got a 2
> > button mouse?
> >
> > Since this is a Logitech 3 button mouse. Should I perhaps choose another
> > protocol instead of Microsoft?
>
>
> Not necessarily. Take a look at the man
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 05:55:21PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote:
> Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> > What's the corresponding command in Linux to "tracert" from DOS to trace
> > a rout? What package contains it?
>
> The command is traceroute, in the package traceroute. Another utility of
> that same type
Am Sam, 17 Jun 2000 schrieb Félix Almeida:
> Hi.
>
> Does anybody know how to run Quake using a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP card?
> I've followed all the steps described in the linux.3dfx.com site but
> with no success at all... Any ideas?
>
> I'm running X 3.3.6, libc6 2.1 (potato), kernel 2.2.16.
- Original Message -
From: "Félix Almeida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: Quake and Voodoo3.
Hi.
Does anybody know how to run Quake using a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP card?
I've followed all the steps described in the linux.3dfx.com site but
with
Hi,
I had the "glourious" idea to have at the look at the bug reports and
indeed found a helpful hint.
Somebody reported, that he solved the problem in
a) changing in /etc/X11/XFConfig86 the section Pointer back to
Protocol "PS/2"
Device "/dev/psaux"
and b) in downgrading gpm (deinstall new
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 13:03:45 +0200, Mirek Kwasniak writes:
>Also ping has option -R to some interesting route analysis but this don't
>works now. Is it a problem with my router blocking this feature or doesn't
>current kernel support it?
I don´t know about the kernel, but in general:
ping -Rv is
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 09:55:26PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I saw something that may be similar to this before I actally installed
> traceroute. Something in called /usr/bin/traceroute6. Apparently it's
> part of netbase but I don't really know what it does.
It's a traceroute for IPv6.
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 04:19:56AM +0200, I. Tura wrote:
> Does anybody installed a MOSIX cluster over Debian? MOSIX people just
> used
> it in SuSE and RedHat: as a Debianist I am, I'd like to know if you have
> found any differences or trouble when you installed it into Debian.
Take a lo
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 09:24:49AM -0400, t.bedlam wrote:
>
> Hmm. Okay, but what if I use tcsh? I mean, what's the *real* (final,
> technically correct) solution?
Well, I never ran tcsh or its variants and that one caught me! I do
think there is some way to set environment variables in tcsh as
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 09:21:25PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> * "Alberto" == Alberto Meroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Alberto> I added the user to the group dialout and dip and the user
> Alberto> can log to the provider with pon and logout with poff but...
>
> OK, this is good. He s
I'm using rsync and it was chugging along untill it was about 50% done. Any
ideas on what to do to speed things up again?
Thanks,
Andy
I've installed mysql-server with mysql-gpn-client and it seems to
work fine.
However, dselect says that I need mysql-client for mysql-server:
mysql-server depends on mysql-client (>= 3.22.27a)
mysql-client does not appear to be available
and insists on removing the server package even af
Hello!
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Patrick Dahiroc wrote:
> my sound card is a SoundBlaster PCI 128 CT4700 and i'm having problems
> getting it to work. i.e i get the error message '/dev/dsp: No such
> device'
I needed a long to get my PCI 128 to work! At first I also compiled the es1370
support to th
Patrick Dahiroc wrote:
>
> my sound card is a SoundBlaster PCI 128 CT4700 and i'm having problems
> getting it to work. i.e i get the error message '/dev/dsp: No such
> device'
man MAKEDEV
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV
> does anybody know if it's okay to compile in the kernel the es1370
> support for a CT
Hi all
>From other Linux systems, I know about the port scan-logger scanlogd. It
seems that this is not in the debian distro. Are there any (good)
alternatives?
TIA
Sven
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Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
heya,
i have a serial mouse which i am trying to get to talk to my debian
system. thre isn't anything complicated about it, just a mouse on ttyS0.
it used to work with the motherboard i am using, but i moved my system to
a bigger case, and for various reasons when i did that i reinstalled the
O
Hello Keke
On Sun, 18.06.00 23:49 +0900, keke abe wrote:
> mysql-server depends on mysql-client (>= 3.22.27a)
> mysql-client does not appear to be available
Please do an "apt-get update". There should be either mysql-client_3.22.32
in non-free/misc or mysql-client_3.23.16 in main/misc.
>
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(http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/)
presents
Installing Debian, Corel, and Storm Linux
When:
Wednesday 21 June 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Presenters:
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> > mysql-server depends on mysql-client (>= 3.22.27a)
> > mysql-client does not appear to be available
>
> Please do an "apt-get update". There should be either mysql-client_3.22.32
> in non-free/misc or mysql-client_3.23.16 in main/misc.
I did. but still getting the same message.
I'm ru
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 04:55:38PM +, Pollywog wrote:
> Check it out:
>
> http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/scanlogd.html
It seems as though it only became part of debian recently as I
cannot find it in potato / frozen. Hmm... I actually would quite
like to have it on my potato
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Cc: line copied from previous post; sorry if you didn't actually want a
copy by mail.]
>I'm writing for two reasons: first, I'm a little unclear what exactly
>I should do once I succeed in rebuilding; second, I'm having some
>trouble getting the package to
Hello All,
I need some help in configuring my network. I have two DSL connection and would
like to firewall both on one machine. I have my potato box doing that now but I
cant figure out how to divide the network up. I want half of the network to
reach the internet from DSL 1 and the other half
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 04:55:38PM +, Pollywog wrote:
> > Check it out:
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/scanlogd.html
>
> It seems as though it only became part of debian recently as I
> cannot find it in potato / frozen. Hmm... I
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 06:29:27PM +, Pollywog wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 04:55:38PM +, Pollywog wrote:
> > > Check it out:
> > >
> > > http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/scanlogd.html
> I just downloaded it and installed it to Potato.
Can I do that even although it's un
Hi there,
I'm running "frozen", previously with kernel ver 2.3.99pre-7 and now
2.4test-1.
Since I installed a NIS master server a few days ago my system often comes
to a crawl by excessive memory use of the NIS server (ypserv.)
I can (sort of) reproduce it by issuing "ypwhich -m" from the box
Andrew Dixon wrote:
I'm using rsync to get Debian which is causing a
problem because I'm running Win98 (I have to, I have one of those anoying
soft-modems) so my connection to my ISP is set up under Windows.
Rsync, on the other hand, runs in DOS so Windows doesn't know that there
is active trafi
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 10:37:18AM -0400, Roy John Little wrote:
> Dear list:
> I have just upgraded from Debian 2.1 to 2.2 by way of apt-get
> upgrade-dist, and all was upgraded successfully, as far as I could tell.
> I decided to reinitiate the session. The login prompt with the banner
> backgr
pardon the really goofy question, but in order to compile, I need
make,of course...but what else? I'm having a bit of difficulty
compiling cscmail...
thanks!
-t
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 06:29:27PM +, Pollywog wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 04:55:38PM +, Pollywog wrote:
> > > > Check it out:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/scanlogd.html
> >
> > I just downloaded it and inst
I got this message when my computer rebooted.
FATAL: StreamServerPort: bind() failed: Permission denied
Is another postmaster already running on that port?
If not, remove socket node (/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432) and retry.
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster: cannot create UNIX stream port
Hi Tom,
tom writes:
> pardon the really goofy question, but in order to compile, I need
> make,of course...but what else? I'm having a bit of difficulty
> compiling cscmail...
Well, a compiler would be a favourite.
Seriously, what does cscmail complain about? What do the
documentation and inst
Joey Hess wrote:
> So I'm writing to encourage people to upgrade to frozen, and if you can,
> do new installs with frozen. Every report we receive of another clean
> upgrade/install makes us that much more likely to release soon. So if
> you upgrade or install frozen, post a report to the mailing l
I've setup an internal anonymous FTP mirror for potato, but now I need
to add a custom .deb to it. I can't seem to get my sources.list and the
location of the .debs to work together. The syntax for the ftp site
is:
deb ftp://chronos frozen main contrib non-free
and that works just fine. And I
I'm using the Summer 1999 Infomagic distribution cd's and chose multicd
access method.
After going through the initial setup and logging in as root I couldn't
find any X11R6 related files anywhere, just empty directories. I tried
again using dselect.
Here's what I get after selecting:
Get curren
Package: kernel-image-2.2.15-idepci
Version: 1:2.2.15-2
Severity: normal
[23:32:47 /tmp]$ wc /var/log/syslog -l
1316 /var/log/syslog
[23:32:50 /tmp]$ grep "modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6"
/var/log/syslog | wc -l
214
[23:32:53 /tmp]$
Why 15% of my syslog is filled with the er
Hello list
I wanted to know how to most easily use folders in mutt. It'd be even
better if that would include the use of procmail. I am still a mutt
beginner. I have used procmail a bit though.
TIA
Sven
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Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
> Can I do that even although it's under the "unstable" / woody packages?
> Sorry if this is a stupid question. :) What do I need to watch out for?
Not a stupid question at all.
When installing packages from other releases the main thing you have to
worry about is dependencies -- e.g. If I
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 03:10:06PM -0500, Matt Ray wrote:
> I've setup an internal anonymous FTP mirror for potato, but now I need
> to add a custom .deb to it. I can't seem to get my sources.list and the
> location of the .debs to work together.
>
[SNIP]
>
> but I'm banging my head against a wa
Hi all,
does anybody know how rsync works? I keep pointing it to different mirrors
with:
rsync --verbose --progress --stats ...
and it always starts over at (0%). Is this how much it has left to do, or how
much of the file its compleated in total? It will also spike and rip through a
few %
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[23:32:47 /tmp]$ wc /var/log/syslog -l
> 1316 /var/log/syslog
>[23:32:50 /tmp]$ grep "modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6"
>/var/log/syslog | wc -l
>214
>[23:32:53 /tmp]$
>
>Why 15% of my syslog is filled with the error message about that
>modul
I'm installing Debian on an old machine (as soon as I finish downloading all
the files) that runns the CD-ROM off of a sound board. The sound board is a:
CREATIVE LABS SOUNDBLASTER AWE 32
Does anyone know if the driver for this board is in:
resc1440.binor,
drv1440.bin
These are th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I wanted to know how to most easily use folders in mutt. It'd be even
>better if that would include the use of procmail. I am still a mutt
>beginner. I have used procmail a bit though.
Put all your mail somewhere like a ~/mail directory; then tell procmail
(or an exim fi
Hi,
I'm xemacs21 (21.1.10-1), and I find that both my delete key and my
backspace key are registering as the keystroke "DEL" under xemacs.
However, under xkeycaps and xev, the backspace key is generating
"Backspace", and the delete key is generating "Delete".
I'm not doing any Xmodmap remapping.
hiya's
a simple question... why is it that when i use the 'top' command, somtimes
it does not show the list of processes?? does it
have to be running a special vt100 or something??
eg .
10:48am up 11 days, 20:28, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.04, 0.01
71 processes: 70 sleeping, 1 running,
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> hiya's
>
> a simple question... why is it that when i use the 'top' command, somtimes
> it does not show the list of processes?? does it
> have to be running a special vt100 or something??
how long did you wait for the screen to show? Top need one sample
period
Hiya
i can leave it there all day and it still does not come up. I mostly
telnet into the servers so perhaps telnet is not set up properly.
Stephan Engelke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 19/06/2000 11:55:37
To: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64
cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: top
Are there any good tools for writing man pages other than troff?
Thanks for any info!
--
Arcady Genkin
Thanks God I'm still an atheist! -- Luis Bunuel
Hi,
I'd installed Debian on my 486 with not much complications, and now that it
is running, I would like to configure the modem, but it simply doesn't
work... Had tryed pon, minicom, wvdial, with no success... the instalation
I'd made is the Stable version I downloaded on Debian.org. Note that I a
"I am alone in a world of weirdos." wrote:
> heya,
>
> i have a serial mouse which i am trying to get to talk to my debian
> system. thre isn't anything complicated about it, just a mouse on ttyS0.
>
> it used to work with the motherboard i am using, but i moved my system to
> a bigger case, and
Emerson Pereira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd installed Debian on my 486 with not much complications, and now that it
> is running, I would like to configure the modem, but it simply doesn't
> work... Had tryed pon, minicom, wvdial, with no success... the instalation
> I'd made is the Stable version I down
Has anyone done this yet? Could you give details including sources.list
lines used? I want to run potato due to increased apps support. I might
just wait for Storm to release a new distro based on potato.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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Work: 937-253-7610 Double E Soluti
Arcady Genkin writes:
> Are there any good tools for writing man pages other than troff?
Most of us use text editors to write man pages. While I won't say that it
_couldn't_ be done with troff, I certainly don't know how.
As for the question in your subject, if it isn't an nroff source file, it
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Kent West wrote:
> "I am alone in a world of weirdos." wrote:
>
> > heya,
> >
> > i have a serial mouse which i am trying to get to talk to my debian
> > system. thre isn't anything complicated about it, just a mouse on ttyS0.
> >
> > it used to work with the motherboard
Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Are there any good tools for writing man pages other than troff?
You can use pod and convert it to a man page later with pod2man.
Pod is pretty easy to learn. See perlpod(1).
--
see shy jo
I was using Storm for a while, and I just got so pissed off with the fact
the packages were all wrong that I gave up and went back to Debian. But
yeah, they don't really look after the updates etc, so I wouldn't bother
with it.
Mark Thompson
Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web :http://i.need.proz
Tim Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm xemacs21 (21.1.10-1), and I find that both my delete key and my
>backspace key are registering as the keystroke "DEL" under xemacs.
>However, under xkeycaps and xev, the backspace key is generating
>"Backspace", and the delete key is generating "Delete".
[s
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Are there any good tools for writing man pages other than troff?
>
> Most of us use text editors to write man pages.
I was actually going to do something like `cat /dev/audio > file.1',
but now you got me thinking... ;^)
> While I won't say that it _c
Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Are there any good tools for writing man pages other than troff?
pod2man(1p), as already mentioned, or help2man(1) for some cases. The
latter is in the help2man package.
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi guys,
Want to know, does Debian support my display card Sis 620,
which is integrated into motherboard, sharing memory with
SDRAM??
Thank you.
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Tim Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I'm xemacs21 (21.1.10-1), and I find that both my delete key and my
> >backspace key are registering as the keystroke "DEL" under xemacs.
> >However, under xkeycaps and xev, the backspace key is generating
> >"Backsp
I just wrote:
> Further to my previous report, I find that "xemacs -vanilla" *does* give
> me separate BS and DEL keys. I'll have a hunt around in the config
> files which the "-vanilla" option supresses and see if I can find
> what's causing it.
Well, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
In my .emacs
Hello Group,
I would like to install HalfLlife and have no idea how to. Has anybody install
HalfLife and if so how do I go about it?
Thanks you
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Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
http://www.debian.org
Hello;
is anyone there using Enlightenment and sunclock?
I'm using the ShinyMetal theme, and after opening sunclock, I once
tried to close it -- not using the little "X" button on the top left
side of the window, but the "X" button in the little bar that slides
to the side and shows you mor
Hiya
I am not too certain as to the correct way to mount a share from an NT box
onto my linux server.
I have been trying smbmount : //servername/share /mountpoint
however this does not seem to work for me.
Is this the correct way or should i be using smbclient or something
similar?
thank you
Hi Everybody!!
I'm trying to build a new kernel that has IP masqing/port forwarding
abilities and I've followed all the directions in the How-TOs and I just
can't seem to get it to work as after runing make config and setting it all
up, I run make clean;make install; make and after it has been wor
Hi,
I want to install a pci internal modem (56k from lucent tech, tested on
Redhat Linux), following the instructions in the modem installation manual.
The manual says to give the coomand 'cat /proc/pci' and find the IRQ of the
modem. The coomand prints a valid address, but I get a irq of 2
Sven Burgener writes:
> Hello
>
> Anyone that's got gnupg / pgp5 installed, could they be so generous as
> to assist me in setting it up?
>
> When I have gnupg installed, mutt says /usr/bin/pgp doesn't exist. Do I
> need to create a link or so?
>
> Now when I have pgp5i installed, mutt
try:
# smbmount "//servername/share" -c 'mount /mountpoint'
(also: man smbmount)
Matthew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hiya
>
> I am not too certain as to the correct way to mount a share from an NT box
> onto my linux server.
>
> I have been trying smbmount : //servername/share /mountpoint
>
MUS wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Want to know, does Debian support my display card Sis 620,
> which is integrated into motherboard, sharing memory with
> SDRAM??
>
> Thank you.
I'm assuming you're asking if X supports your card. If the kernel supports it,
and if
X supports it, it'll work in Debian.
>F
hi, I've had this problem for a while and can't seem to get around it ...
When a normal user tries to change his/her passwd using smbpasswd or SWAT,
they get the following error:
"machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error was : ERRSRV - ERRbadpw
(Bad password - name/password pair in a T
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 10:48:09AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> Anyone that's got gnupg / pgp5 installed, could they be so generous as
> to assist me in setting it up?
I have gpg with the following in .muttrc
set pgp_default_version=gpg
set pgp_receive_version=default
set pgp_send_versi
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