May 2002 - main - earth.li

Re: [Alug] debian upgrade woes-FIXED! (ish)
by Ricardo Campos 26 May '02

26 May '02

>Unfortunatly, stable softwares are way behind the > latest. So the > path goes like this: > > Stable > Testing > Unstable Can I rename them Stable > ConfuZing > Unusable ???????? teehee ;-) OK, so I'm typing this on my now half-testing, half stable debian box. It's taken me 12 hours!!! I NEVER want to go through that again. Anyhoo, this is what I did: I looked at www.moof.org.uk, it gave me some ideas. It wasn't the config at all. dist-upgrade had removed various packages, seeming almost f***ing randomly. The clue was all the "rc"s dpkg -l gave. I actually totally reinstalled stable, and tried again. This time I just updated bits and bobs, I kept the output of my old dpkg -l on a floppy, and compared to the new (also broken) system. To cut a very long story short, I manually installed all the "rc"d packages beginning with the letter x! It also removed all gnome packages, xdm etc. grrr and humbug. But now I have x working. :D Now to get some apps working... Many thanks to all& their suggestions! -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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OKIOFFICE 84
by Jamie French 25 May '02

25 May '02

Well guys, I am defeated. I found some drivers for GDI printers, OKI4LINUX, but I could not get my printer to even blink. So back to windoze :( Take Care, J

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Mandrake with Nvidia
by Jamie French 24 May '02

24 May '02

Hi All, I heard someone saying they where experiencing issues with mdk and nvidea at the Sylham meeting, I think it may on been BJ's son? I have attached a URL which may or may not help. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/mandrake/mdk_nvidia.html Take Care, J

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Install day 2k2 - first report
by MJR-mobile 24 May '02

24 May '02

We've just counted up & we think we had 12 people. One install took place and there were at least 2 new faces. More when I get home! MJR -- MJR

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RE: [Alug] OKIOFFICE 84
by Jonathan Dye 24 May '02

24 May '02

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jamie French [mailto:jamie.french@talk21.com] > Sent: 24 May 2002 10:47 > To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > Subject: [Alug] OKIOFFICE 84 > > > Hi Guys, > > Well I have finally ditched XP and replaced with SuSe 7.3. > One problem I am > having is with an OKIOFFICE 84 printer. I can't find the > printing languages > it supports thus I can not get it working. I just wondered > if anyone else > out there has experience of OKI printers or some pointers. > As we speak I am > reading through O'Reilly Running Linux, though I better do > some work :) I assume your have checked out www.linuxprinting.org > > Take Care, > > J > JD _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service

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OKIOFFICE 84
by Jamie French 24 May '02

24 May '02

Hi Guys, Well I have finally ditched XP and replaced with SuSe 7.3. One problem I am having is with an OKIOFFICE 84 printer. I can't find the printing languages it supports thus I can not get it working. I just wondered if anyone else out there has experience of OKI printers or some pointers. As we speak I am reading through O'Reilly Running Linux, though I better do some work :) Take Care, J

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LXF28 - iTouch keys?
by Alexis Lee 24 May '02

24 May '02

Hi, Has anyone got their Logitech iTouch keys working? I have, except that they only work if xev has the focus. Graa. Alexis -- "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have" - T Jefferson "It doesn't matter who you vote for. The government always gets in." "Only that in you which is me hears what I am saying" - Baba Ram Dass

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Mindterm/ SSH
by Ricardo Campos 24 May '02

24 May '02

OK. I need to give SSH access to my machine to about 10/20 people. They mostly use windows, some use Mac, and some sensible ones use GNU/Linux. Most are not "technically disposed". My basic idea is to use Java for them to do this- there is no xserver on this machine btw. MindTerm springs to mind... however the source code is no longer available. I would accept a BSD or (l)GPL license, however, looking at the freshmeat page:- "the license of the SSH2 package has not been decided and hence the license of MindTerm v1.99 can't be GPL (or anything else for that matter) until this is decided. The license will be decided before the end of this year, until then the v1.99 will be a demo with a restricted license and no source code will be made available. All code up to and including v1.2.1 is and will of course be GPL." ( http://freshmeat.net/projects/mindterm/?topic_id=913 ) All source code and previous versions have been removed. However, MacSSH is SSH2 only, and has been released under GPL: http://pro.wanadoo.fr/chombier/ I would like advice on this subject. Should I just implement SSH v1 and thus be able to go via the Java route, or should I wait for a Java SSH2 client. Hmm. I'm a little confused. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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RE: [Alug] Mindterm/ SSH
by Jonathan Dye 24 May '02

24 May '02

> -----Original Message----- > From: Ricardo Campos [mailto:corez23@linuxmail.org] > Sent: 24 May 2002 10:44 > To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > Subject: [Alug] Mindterm/ SSH > > OK. I need to give SSH access to my machine to about > 10/20 people. They mostly use windows, some use Mac, and some > sensible ones use GNU/Linux. Most are not > "technically disposed". > > My basic idea is to use Java for them to do this- > there is no xserver on this machine btw. MindTerm > springs to mind... however the source code is no > longer available. [...] Doesn't webmin have a java ssh applet? Maybe it would be worth looking at that as I assume the code for that is GPL along with the rest of webmin. JD _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service

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mmap() question
by Paul 23 May '02

23 May '02

Hi Folks playing around with a PCI IO card that has four seperate blocks of registers on board. One block is mapped to IO space and can be read without any trouble. The remaining blocks are all mapped to memory with the mmap kernel call. Now for the problem - If I try to read from a nonexistant register, the computer locks up completely. Although I have some data on the card, there is holes in the register map for optional plug in modules. Trouble is, I do not know where all these holes are... Question - Is there a nonblocking call that I can use to read from the PCI card without locking up the system ? Regards, Paul.

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