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X server oddity - NVidia drivers installed
by Alexis Lee 03 Jun '02

03 Jun '02

Hi, Ever since I installed the NVidia binary drivers, the X server has flickered for about 10 seconds when it starts up. It looks like it's having to try more than once. (WW) System lacks support for changing MTRRs (WW) NVIDIA(0): Failure reading EDID parameters for display device 0. These are the only warnings I get. I tried to catch /var/log/XFree86.0.log, but although I'd estimate the server only restarts every second or so, the amount of time the XF*log is complete is a tiny fraction of a second, so that isn't too useful. Any ideas? Alexis -- "You got what everyone gets. A lifetime." - Death (Sandman by Neil Gaiman) Why isn't there an information line to ask when your lucky day is scheduled? "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education" - Wilson Mizner

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 03 Jun '02

03 Jun '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Re: [Alug] Partition dilemma!
by Ricardo Campos 02 Jun '02

02 Jun '02

>.. Hard disk upgrade howto will help tho. cp -a .... looks deceptively easy! :-/ Thanks! Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Partition dilemma!
by Ricardo Campos 02 Jun '02

02 Jun '02

I'm running out of space on my /usr partition. What I would like to do is temporarily move /usr to the partition where / lives (I made / a bit too big, and /usr too little). Then resize the /usr partition.Then mount /usr back to the /usr partition. i.e. Currently: hda1 / hda6 /usr Then: hda1 / (cfdisk shenanigans to increase size of hda6) Then back to: hda1 / hda6 /usr However, as /usr contains most my programs, I am unsure as to how to do it. My plan is to boot into a rescue disk (or would single user mode and a normal boot work? if I unmount /usr), change /etc/fstab (to not mount the /usr partition), make a dir called /usr on the root partition, copy the contents of the /usr partition to the /usr on the root partition. Reboot to check, then back into the rescue disk, cfdisk to enlargen the partition formerly known as /usr, mke2fs to create the file system,copy /usr on the root partition to the new one, change the /etc/fstab to mount the new /usr, and reboot. I'm a little concerned in case permissions change... but does that sound right? Am I missing anything? TIA Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Partition dilemma!
by Ricardo Campos 02 Jun '02

02 Jun '02

-snip- > > cd /mnt/usr > find . -xdev -depth | cpio -padlm --sparse /usr -snip- hmmm... I'll have a rethink. I don't like using commands I don't really understand, since I can't fix 'em if something goes wrong. I don't really understand the cpio -p switch or --sparse. (after RTFM) Also, I am not too well up on hard links, I know about softlinks (ln -s)- how can I tell if a file is a hard link? what makes this doubly dangerous, is that I'm doing this because I presently have 2 linux systems on the same box.Due to previous OS's being there, I had to do a lot of jiggery pokery i.e. red hat has /usr on hda, but / on hdb. But as Red Hat is only on there as legacy (while I work out why my debian doesn't play DVD's very well)I want to move Redhat's /usr to it's root partition,and use that space for debian's /usr. *ick* I'm gonna chown Redhat's /home/ partition, that's pretty easy, and the permissions are easypeasy on that too. <gulp> -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Partition dilemma!
by Steve Fosdick 02 Jun '02

02 Jun '02

On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 11:40:07 Ricardo Campos wrote: > However, as /usr contains most my programs, I am > unsure as to how to do it. > > My plan is to boot into a rescue disk (or would single > user mode and a normal boot work? if I unmount /usr), > change /etc/fstab (to not mount the /usr partition), > make a dir called /usr on the root partition, copy the > contents of the /usr partition to the /usr on the > root partition. Reboot to check, then back into the > rescue disk, cfdisk to enlargen the partition formerly > known as /usr, mke2fs to create the file system,copy > /usr on the root partition to the new one, change the > /etc/fstab to mount the new /usr, and reboot. I would certainly make sure of having a recsue disc available just in case this goes wrong, but you can do most of the work from the main system. Here's how I would so it (use at your own risk): 1. Shutdown to single user mode. 2. Mount the old /usr partition to another directory, e.g. /mnt/usr. 3. Make the permissions of the /usr empty mount point directory match those of the mounted /usr partition, i.e. what you see when running ls -l /mnt/usr. 4. Copy the contents of the old /usr partition to the new directory. Ideally you want to preserve: a. permissions. b. times. c. links d. sparese files. Hopefully the following commands would do this: cd /mnt/usr find . -xdev -depth | cpio -padlm --sparse /usr I haven't tried this sequence under Linux, i.e. with GNU cpio so it would be good to test this with a small subset, i.e. create a small set of files some of which have hard links to each other and try copying them so see if the links, modification times and ownership all survive. Another possibility would be tar: cd /mnt tar cf - --atime-preserve -l -p --same-owner -S usr | (cd /; tar xf - --atime-preserve -l -p --same-owner -S) but again I would check that everything gets preserved correctly by running it on a test set of files first. The obvious answer of course is 'cp -a' but that doesn't preserve links. 5. Edit /etc/fstab so the system doesn't mount /usr. 6. Reboot the system and check that is still works. 7. Re-partition the disk - this may require another reboot depending on whether the kernel can be made to re-read the partition table. 8. Make the new filesystem on the larger partition. 9. Mount the new partition to another directory, e.g. /mnt/usr again. 10. Use the same copy command sequence but in reverse to copy the files back to the new partition. 11. Update /etc/fstab again (to refer to /usr and not /mnt/usr). 12. Rename the current /usr (i.e. the files actually on the root partition to something else, e.g. old_usr and create a new mount point directory (suggest owned by root, perms 555). 12. Reboot to check. 13. If all is OK then you can rm -rf the old_usr directory. It would be interesting to find your experiences of how well the command sequences to copy a filesystem preserving just about everything actually work, plus any other interesting things along the way. Steve.

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xdm
by Ricardo Campos 01 Jun '02

01 Jun '02

This is probably really simple.... I wish to display an .xpm in the background of xdm. I put in the line: xpmroot /graphics/front.xpm in my /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 file, but to no avail, it doesn't display it. Is the howto I have out of date, or am I missing something? My default display is 1024x768, and the xpm is that large... could it be anything else? (The file is chmod 666'd) Ricardo (Finally got his debian testing box all hunky-dory!) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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install on 9th
by Jenny Hopkins 01 Jun '02

01 Jun '02

Hi All, Just about to set off for a week's camping in the south of France, so unlikely to make it to June 9th install day - hope it goes well. We had two more enquiries through UK Install Day, to which I sent a response, but as I won't catch email for the next week, perhaps alert Matt Grove to forward enquiries to another alug member for the next week? Cheers, Jenny. Off to stuff passports and toothbrushes into rucksacks now............

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Matrox v NVidia
by Alexis Lee 01 Jun '02

01 Jun '02

I read at http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/windows_gaming-01.html: At this point, the stage was set for WineX. Instead of starting from scratch, TransGaming decided to use the code from the Wine project, and add support for DirectX. The way they do this is by mapping DirectX calls to their OpenGL equivalents. TransGaming also adds support for some propietary interfaces needed by most games that use copy-protection. Even WineX has limitations. Since good OpenGL performance is required, TransGaming only supports Nvidia graphics hardware. This could change if other graphics card vendors improve their Linux drivers, but for now Nvidia is the only game in town. MJR, You were saying that Matrox have libre drivers. Is the above article correct? Are Matrox cards unusable in WineX, or do they just have crud OpenGL performance so they aren't worth using? Alexis -- "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know" - Mark Twain

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Re: [Alug] PPProblems!
by Ricardo Campos 31 May '02

31 May '02

-snip- > mknod -m 644 /dev/ppp c 108 0 > > for future reference, this is char-major-108 (a lot of people inquire about this). I'm sure I saw an error relating to char-major-something on boot- I *was* going to inquire about that too. I'll try it when I get some time at home. Many thanks! Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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PPProblems!
by Ricardo Campos 30 May '02

30 May '02

heh heh. OK so after compiling a new 2.4.18 kernel, I compiled in the ppp parts, rather than as modules. So I rebooted,and modprobe couldn't find ppp deflate (cos they were compiled in! duh!), and ppp wouldn't work. SO I thought what the heck, and moved /var/lib/modules/2.4.18, and recompiled, this time with ppp deflate as a module. So I try to connect... it calls, handshakes, then drops out just at the time it would normally complete the connection. In /var/log/messages I get: tcsetattr:Invalid argument Exit ???? Any ideas? (btw the X locking up when transferring large files thing appears to be an IDE problem- it works fine now in the new kernel... just wish ppp did!) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] KDE.... (bible study?)
by Ricardo Campos 30 May '02

30 May '02

> > I've just noticed that KDE depends on a program called > > "Bibletime". Scratch my previous comment-it appears to be a package called kde-extras, which, after all, is just a bundle of selected apps. In this case, the maintainer has selected bibletime as well. I'll just have to install all the others manually, one-by one! ;) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] KDE.... (bible study?)
by Ricardo Campos 30 May '02

30 May '02

> At the moment, I'm compiling KDE3.0.1 > > Far bloody easier than having to wait for the debs to arrive.... Hey- fancy making some .debs with and without bibletime (choice is a fine thing!) and sticking it on CD? You know you want to! ;o) Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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KDE.... (bible study?)
by Ricardo Campos 30 May '02

30 May '02

I've just noticed that KDE depends on a program called "Bibletime". I am not a christian, I would not benefit from this package. Is there any way of removing this dependency from the KDE download (in debian). It is also a hefty sized app (and it's dependencies), specially for a 56k modem. Of course, it begs the question of why no "Qurantime", "Upanishadtime" etc etc. Ricardo (off to ask kde.org about this...) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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RE: LXF Rune Demo
by Glen Tyler 30 May '02

30 May '02

Adam wrote(29.05.2002): >yeah, that $ prompt looks as though you are not >root... so try installing >it as root and putting it in /usr/local/games/ would >be a more normal >place to put games also, but then /home/games >won't really hurt too much. >HTH >Adam tried as root, but that doesn't seem to make any difference.... full transcript is... "[Root@localhost Rune]# sh rune-demo.run Verifying archive intergrity......OK Uncompressing Rune Demo..... .... ---------------------------- Welcome to the Rune demo ---------------------------- Would you like to read the README for this update [Y/n]: n ---------------------------- Would you like to apply this update? [Y/n]: y Please enter the installation path:[]: /home/glen --------------------------- performing update: ERROR: unable to make path /home/glen/demos/rune-demo The program returned an error code (3) [Root@localhost Rune]#" so that is as far as I can get, I looked up error code 3 and it says ' no such process' - any ideas? glen

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Re: [Alug] initrd, lilo and general weirdness
by Ricardo Campos 30 May '02

30 May '02

> Aside: Only yesterday I had to compile and install >the latest kernel to get NVIDIA's "non-GPL" kernel to >load, but for the chance to run tuxracer faster than >1 frame a second it's worth it! Well, I might consider doing that. Possibly. But first things first. > I just had this same problem yesterday, the trick was to switch the BIOS disk identifiers over(!) I'll try that tonight. > > I had a few problems with a IDE Ultra-2 DMA drive >which wouldn't boot after the debian install (halts >before INIT), but booting a newer kernel (2.4.17) >worked fine. Maybe there's a problem with 2.2.20 and >newer ide controllers? Well, I have my dmesg from the Redhat distro (which doesn't have the problem), so I'll have it to hand whilst compiling, although this is a later kernel than the RH one. I can then compare what's happening. But I do suspect some IDE shenanigans going on. (It's an IDE Ultra-2 DMA drive too) and yes, debian rocks, although it's not flavour of the month until I get this sorted. (note the number of grrrs in my last e-mail!) Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] initrd, lilo and general weirdness
by David Fairey 30 May '02

30 May '02

> 1st off: Adam:- for some bizarre reason, my box booted > into 2.4.18 this morning, even though 3 reboots still > took it to 2.2.19 last night. I simply have no idea why. > > One question: why do people seem to dislike > initrd.img's? I'm gonna have to compile a kernel > anyway cos I got all sorts of unresolved symbols, and > some of the modules I'd prefer to have compiled in > anyway. Not sure why initrd's are disliked other than maybe speed? Aside: Only yesterday I had to compile and install the latest kernel to get NVIDIA's "non-GPL" kernel to load, but for the chance to run tuxracer faster than 1 frame a second it's worth it! > For some reason, lilo won't let me boot to my second > disk. I have a second HD, with a copy of lilo on it > (from previous installation). I would like the lilo on > hda1 to boot onto hdb1, but for some reason it won't > let me do this this morning (it just ignores me-no errors!) my lilo.conf line for it is: > > other=/dev/hdb1 > label=Redhat > alias=2 I just had this same problem yesterday, the trick was to switch the BIOS disk identifiers over(!) Try this other=/dev/hdb1 label=RedHat alias=2 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 > -General Weirdness Section- > > Last night, running on my old kernel, I copied the > kernel source from a CD to my HD. While it did this my > Xserver hung up until it had finished. The same > happened when I un-bzipped it. grrr. > > Adam suggested it might be a h/w problem, so I booted > into RH (which can't do *now*, grrr), and quite happily copied 4gigs from one directory to another, > whilst mucking about with xmms, no lock up. Copied > the kernel source from CD to ~/ and that was fine, > unpacked it, fine. > > Anyone else experience this? I had a few problems with a IDE Ultra-2 DMA drive which wouldn't boot after the debian install (halts before INIT), but booting a newer kernel (2.4.17) worked fine. Maybe there's a problem with 2.2.20 and newer ide controllers? I agree myself that Debian rocks! Cheers David.

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LXF Rune Demo
by Glen Tyler 29 May '02

29 May '02

did anyone ever install the Rune demo from LXF December 2001? My son (6 y.o) found a copy of this mag and was keen to try Linux. I loaded RH7.2 onto our machine, but cannot get this game installed. I'd be keen to encourage him to try something other than Windows, so it'd be nice if he could be impressed rather than put off by his first contact. I usually use rpm's as you might guess.... The readme says run the install shell script (with $ sh rune-demo.run ,) which I do. The install script asks first if I want to read the readme, then asks for the install path. If I write $ /home/games where I would probably want it the error message is $ cannot write to /home/games/loki/rune-demo and install stops If I put "/" as the install path then the install appears to start, but nothing happens. I then killed the process after 20 minutes. anyone help? Glen

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Mandrake install problem X missing
by Russell Ward 29 May '02

29 May '02

I have installed Mandrake 8.2 from the magazine cd. All seemed to go well until the X configuration, when it wouldn't stop scrolling down the list of video cards. I eventually turned the machine off (it was late and had taken hours to get that far) Linux now boots, apparently ok, except that 'startx' gives a message: execve failed for /etc/X11/X giving up xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error Does anyone know what to do to put this right? I am new to Linux, so please excuse if I have missed something 'obvious'. Thanks Russell _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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user management tools
by Ricardo Campos 28 May '02

28 May '02

can anyone recommend any user/group management tools? Preferably using gtk/gnome, and available in .deb ;) (I've always used the deadrat one beforehand) TIA Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] glutton for punishment.... (debian)
by Ricardo Campos 27 May '02

27 May '02

> I've just added some stuff to http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?TipsTricksAndWorkarounds > YAY!!!!! Another contributor! I was just checking about the nv drivers, since I wasn't sure if the deb way was much different, and whether nv was supported in a separate server package (like S3 is). I'm hoping to scp some of the packages from one machine to the new one. In the meantime, I can complain all about it on IRC tonight (haa haa). Now all I have to do is figure out the partitioning and mounting... ick. Do people think it's worth having /usr/ on a separate partition? I already have /home/ on a different one (so I can chown it if I change distro-which is exactly what I'm doing). -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Licensing for possibly orphaned Deb
by Alexis Lee 27 May '02

27 May '02

I've always had a sig generator, but until recently it was raw homebrew stuff. Then I found the Signify package, but it didn't do quite what I wanted, so I hacked another feature into it. I emailed the author to tell him about the change, but he didn't respond. The other thing is that the package is public domain, and I'd rather have my work under a license. My understanding of public domain is that anyone can do anything they want with it, including add their own license to it. So, although I realise this is untenably rude if the author is still out there, I'm considering GPL'ing and adopting the package. Is this legal, first of all? Am I breaking the 'all linked code must be GPL' in reverse? I don't think I am, because his code will be available more freely than GPL. Second, what criteria need to be met for a package to be orphaned? Bear in mind I've only just started USING Debian, let alone packaging, so all advice and webpages welcome. Alexis -- Failure- When your best just isn't good enough. For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. - H L Mencken

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Re: [Alug] glutton for punishment.... (debian)
by Ricardo Campos 27 May '02

27 May '02

> I avoid the stock 2.4.* kernels (but use the kernel-source-) because I'm > not a fan of initrd, and I prefer the serious stuff compiled-in rather > than as modules. make-kpkg is well worth using. I remember compiling from source a while back, and not using a ramdisk. The system wasn't a great fan of that... It would hang indefinitely if I tried to copy large files... yuk. Still, this time I'll have a dmesg from a 2.4.9 kernel to use as a guide. Anyone know which x package a geforce2mx videocard (usually nv driver)will need? (Seeing as it will probably need to be gotten manually). Also, is there a virtual package for gnome? i.e. to set up a whole gnome desktop, without individually d/l loadsa different packages. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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glutton for punishment.... (debian)
by Ricardo Campos 27 May '02

27 May '02

I have decided to completely remove Windows from my machine and install Debian. (yay). Problem: I need a 2.4.x kernel to support my hardware (USB stuff, I also like iptables). I noticed that there is a kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 package, although I'm not sure whether to just d/l the source and use make-kpkg. Anyone have any hints? -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 27 May '02

27 May '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Re: [Alug] OKIOFFICE 84
by MJ Ray 26 May '02

26 May '02

> Oh dear, this does pose a problem. Well tried the generic PCL and PS no > luck, then tried oki4w still no luck. This could be the deciding point of > not using Linux as my desktop :( I will plod on trying to find a solution, > which may be hard as a newbie. Any thoughts guys please shout, and no one > say buy a new printer, it ain't a possibility. Cheers for your time Mark. I assume it's too late to return the thing as "not fit for purpose" or some such? I see you're already active on the linuxprinting.org lists. I guess you probably checked cups.org and found no drivers available there either. Are you able to see on the device or in the manuals if the printer part is the same as any other standalone printer? What bad output did you get with your tests? If no output, are you sure it's actually communicating with the printer? Worst case scenario, does anyone know if it's possible to talk to this thing via a Windows system? It's a shame, but I'd hate to see it stop you using GNU/Linux at all. Actually, it's not a shame: it's a bloody nuisance. You should be very very angry about these devices. It's not like we're short of printer protocols. -- MJR

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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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[craigo@wizball.co.uk: Re: [Alug] debian upgrade woes]
by Craig 23 May '02

23 May '02

(Forgot to stick this on ALUG.. fingers went off and emailed Ricardo instead!) On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:00:22PM +0000, Ricardo Campos said: > Thanks for the help guys, I've been given enough info to > really have a good go at it. I'll keep you posted! > > As an aside, obviously this dist-upgrade thing isn't > very reliable. Is there any way I can gather info and > send it on to the deb developers so they might be able > to sort it out? Please do keep us posted. Btw, this what I normally do on most machines $ apt-get update $ apt-get upgrade then $ apt-get dist-upgrade Works for me 100% all the time for some weird reasons. I must been doing something right... (o_ .----------------------------------------. //\ | Craig Butcher | http://www.wizball.co.uk| V_/_ | - Using Debian GNU/Linux - | `----------------------------------------'

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Re: [Alug] debian upgrade woes
by Ricardo Campos 23 May '02

23 May '02

People on ALUG wrote: >Lots of handy hints! ;) Thanks for the help guys, I've been given enough info to really have a good go at it. I'll keep you posted! As an aside, obviously this dist-upgrade thing isn't very reliable. Is there any way I can gather info and send it on to the deb developers so they might be able to sort it out? -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Printing
by John Seago 23 May '02

23 May '02

Please ignore my request for help, I have recompiled my kernel, deleted the existing /etc/printcap and re-run apsfilter setup, and somehow managed to get everything working. Now all I have to do is work out what went wrong the first time! -- John Seago

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debian upgrade woes
by Ricardo Campos 23 May '02

23 May '02

Oh, it's hard to say where to start on this one.... I upgraded from Debian 2.2r3 to testing (woody) and am having the following problems since my apt-get dist-upgrade. 1st off, it's screwed my keymap, so I cannot seem to find a combination to produce the pipe symobol | (very annoying!) 2nd, it (rather predictably) screwed my X configuration. It seems that X4.1.0 no longer supports the S3 server. (mine's a S3 trio 64+ to be exact). However, dpkg -l shows that I have two xserver-common packages, one 3.3.6, one 4.1.0 . the xserver-s3 package is still version 3.3.6, as is xserver -vga. There may be others, since I cannot dpkg -l | more ! XF86Config brings no joy- it appears to produce a 3.3.6 style config, and XF86Setup segfaults immediately. I'm new to the debian packaging system, so erm... help???? My first choice is to fix the console's keymap. Then I probably want to uninstall X completely and grab Xfree86 3.3.6 of my install CD's again, and then resolving the conflicts this will cause is another question entirely.... *eep* Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] debian upgrade woes]
by Craig 23 May '02

23 May '02

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:40:29PM +0000, Ricardo Campos said: > Oh, it's hard to say where to start on this one.... That's okay.. have a cup of tea. I'm sitting here, dogtired :( > I upgraded from Debian 2.2r3 to testing (woody) and am having the following > problems since my apt-get dist-upgrade. Uh oh. > 1st off, it's screwed my keymap, so I cannot seem to find a combination to > produce the pipe symobol | (very annoying!) I can't remember how to do this one, I remember fixing this ages ago when I installed debian on this new machine last year. > 2nd, it (rather predictably) screwed my X configuration. It seems that X4.1.0 > no longer supports the S3 server. (mine's a S3 trio 64+ to be exact). However, > dpkg -l shows that I have two xserver-common packages, one 3.3.6, one 4.1.0. > The xserver-s3 package is still version 3.3.6, as is xserver -vga. There may > be others, since I cannot dpkg -l | more ! Install either xserver-s3, xserver-s3v or xserver-svga instead. I remember I had that problems on the laptop a while ago. See if that helps. > XF86Config brings no joy- it appears to produce a 3.3.6 style config, and > XF86Setup segfaults immediately. Try running xf86cfg instead in console. I'm sure this should help out.... > I'm new to the debian packaging system, so erm... help???? When you installed Debian first time. You are set to 'stable' version of Debian. Unfortunatly, stable softwares are way behind the latest. So the path goes like this: Stable > Testing > Unstable As you know already you switched to Testing ;) To update to the latest packages, do: $ apt-get update then $ apt-get upgrade (most people do apt-get dist-upgrade, it is sometimes well known to screw up big time..) > My first choice is to fix the console's keymap. Then I probably want to > uninstall X completely and grab Xfree86 3.3.6 of my install CD's again, and > then resolving the conflicts this will cause is another question entirely.... Try my suggestion above. HTH -- (o_ .----------------------------------------. //\ | Craig Butcher | http://www.wizball.co.uk| V_/_ | - Using Debian GNU/Linux - | `----------------------------------------'

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Printing
by John Seago 22 May '02

22 May '02

I made an attempt to transfer my archive to a larger partition, somewhere in the process of which partition was which, I managed to reformat the wrong partition and lost all my data, (luckily my address book was in the process of being sent back to me by Email). Having through incompetance messed things up, I reinstalled tidying up my partitions at the same time. Having got everything back to normal I went through the same process of setting up Apsfilter that I used succesfully last time, but on trying to produce a test page, or print from it I get `deamon not present' . I need to restart the process but despite searching with Google, and reading the manual I can't find a way to do this that I understand, Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- John Seago

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Re: crappy ide for /boot and swap
by tom potts 21 May '02

21 May '02

'by putting in a crappy old IDE disk that contained /boot and the swap partition, and used the raid for everything else. It's been running 3 weeks without problems (well no ones asked me to mend it!)' --------------- you may find that using a crappy old IDE may slow the system down considerably if it starts paging a lot. You might find it interesting to make a swap partition on your big disk and then try doing something that swaps a lot to test which swap is faster - worth an afternoons playing as it can make a hell of a difference! Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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Re: [Alug] ALUG website
by Ricardo Campos 21 May '02

21 May '02

> But feel free to look? > > http://www.wizball.co.uk/linux_article.php?id=17 I've linked to it on the ALUG site. ;) Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Announce digest, Vol 1 #17 - 3 msgs
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 21 May '02

21 May '02

Send Announce mailing list submissions to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to announce-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk You can reach the person managing the list at announce-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Announce digest..." --------------.--------------------------------------------.------------ alug-announce | Newsletter of the Anglian Linux User Group | Weekly(ish) --------------'--------------------------------------------'------------ ** Please send articles for this letter to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk ** *** Please send replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk, not announce... *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's Topics: 1. Fwd: [lugmaster] Birmingham Linux Expo cancelled (MJ Ray) 2. Fwd: Jabber service (MJ Ray) 3. Fwd: [peterboro] May PLUG meeting (MJ Ray) --__--__-- Message: 1 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 00:49:06 +0100 Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: [lugmaster] Birmingham Linux Expo cancelled Subject: [lugmaster] Birmingham Linux Expo cancelled From: Denny <denny(a)btsuck.org> Date: 10 May 2002 22:13:25 +0100 For those who don't read NTK or get the news another way: http://www.linuxexpobirmingham.com/ It's definitely NOT happening now. Regards, Denny -- Don't believe the hype. --__--__-- Message: 2 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 22:24:55 +0100 Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: Jabber service From: Neil Darlow <neil(a)darlow.co.uk> Subject: Jabber service Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:21:58 +0100 Hi All, Those of you suffering Micro$oft-phobia, but who need to converse with their MSN Messenger handicapped buddies, might find this useful. I have a Jabber server, with MSN Messenger transport, running at darlow.co.uk which I would be happy for LUG members to use. The server name is: darlow.co.uk and it accepts plaintext connects on port 5222 and SSL-encrypted connects on port 5223. There are a number of Jabber clients for Linux of which gabber seems to be the most popular but I have had some success using the gaim multi-protocol IM client also. You'll need either a Hotmail/MSN e-mail account or an ordinary e-mail account registered with Microsoft Passport to use the MSN Messenger Transport but for general Jabber IM or use of the chatrooms you only need to create an account on the server. Please feel free to pass this offer on to your LUG members. Regards, Neil Darlow M.Sc. -- Beds Lugmaster --__--__-- Message: 3 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 17:03:48 +0100 Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: [peterboro] May PLUG meeting For more information, join the peterboro LUG list. Lifts available from/to King's Lynn. See some of you there, perhaps. Subject: [peterboro] May PLUG meeting From: Ben Hayes <Ben(a)benhayes.uklinux.net> Date: 15 May 2002 21:35:49 +0100 The PLUG meeting will be held on May 23rd at 7:30p.m. The address of the meeting is as follows: Misys Insurance Management Ltd, 7 North Street, Cavell Court, Peterborough For those whom have never been, we are located across the Westgate parking lot and about 3 doors down from Hobart's Pub (I think this is the name of it). We have secure parking for those attending so there isn't a need to pay for parking. [...] The topic is a continuation of last month PostgreSQL which was hosted by Steve Gallagher. Graham will be giving us an advanced insight into PostgreSQL (and maybe some DBA tips - hint). --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce End of Announce Digest

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Red Hat 7.0 is mad about the number "40"
by Douglas Thompson 20 May '02

20 May '02

Hi all, I've just installed RedHat 7.0 On my 256MB-RAM 1200MHZ-AMD-ATHLON-TBIRD 38.9GB-HDD. When I rebooted, 40 cept on flashing across the screen. Nothing happened after 20mins, so I installed SuSE 8.0 over it. Anybody know how to stop those 40s? (They came up as soon as LILO started). --- DougT

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Video editing with Linux
by Jamie French 20 May '02

20 May '02

Hi Guys, I have a DV camera and looking to edit recorded material via the PC. I have seen many packages within my price range, for instance Pinnacle, though it appears only to be Windoze based. This is ok, but I would really like the option to utilise Linux as well. Software doesn't seem to be a problem under Linux but the hardware does. If anyone has any experience or references I would really appreciate the help. I just don't need any more dependencies on Windoze, especially XP :) Take Care, J

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Syleham
by Jamie French 20 May '02

20 May '02

Hi Guys, It was good to meet with you all at Syleham today and look forward to further meetings. Take care, Jamie

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ALUG website
by Ricardo Campos 20 May '02

20 May '02

I just put 2 tips in the ALUG website, some stuff on disk usage using du and df (cos everyone should have em as opposed to Gnome/KDE specific progs), and also getting a USB CD-Writer to work. I also cleaned up the events page, putting the last two in the "past events section", and indeed the future events part seems a bit sparse! Anyone fancy offering a venue for the Summer BBQ? ;) (tummy rumbles...) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 20 May '02

20 May '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Re: [Alug] Install day 2k2 - first report
by Ricardo Campos 19 May '02

19 May '02

>THE LENDING LIBRARY We have one?! >PUBLICITY COORDINATION >It would be nice to formalise these arrangements a bit more. >I'll give it a crack with PLUG. "I'll link yours if you link mine" A nice easy step is to link each other's websites, so users in east anglia can check events at PLUG, CAMLUG or ALUG and then deciding which event is nearest/most convenient/most possible to attend. >MEETING FORMATS >Following on from that, what format do we want meetings to take? Well, perhaps a timetable structure is in order if we are to have talks or discussions. Perhaps we could do a WIKI that has suggested topics, people could put *'s next to the topic if they are interested, and anyone willing could put their name against it to volunteer. i.e. 5 votes for the subject "The transistion from Windows to Linux ain't all that scary" (a talk for newbies), and the volunteer is me, might look like: NEWBIE: The Transition from Windows to Linux: ***** R.Campos (June 9th) That way we could gauge interest and have a single reference point as to who is offering to do what and when. >FREEBIES > pins, Pin the debian badge on the Beast of Redmond competition? Seriously, though, raffles? Perhaps one for the FSF or similar,or we could do it on a computer to save paper ;), or help out for server costs for the ALUG site or summink. >flame on! I know I haven't sorted linewrap, but you'll be glad that this e-mail was written on a Debian GNU/Linux system. ;) Yay, I gawn debian. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Diskspace usage-any good progs?
by Ricardo Campos 19 May '02

19 May '02

I'm looking for a nice program that displays how much diskspace is used, and how much is left on a particular hard-drive. Something like KDiskFree would be cool, except this is for a gnome-only system, and there's unlikely to be any room for KDE. du gives *slightly* useful results, but perhaps someone has a groovy set of command line parameters that would do this. Yes, I have RTFM. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Please respect mail headers.
by Jonathan McDowell 19 May '02

19 May '02

Can people please respect mail headers when replying to posts to the list? My client (mutt) correctly inserts a Mail-Followup-To header that points to the list *and the list alone*, yet I've had at least 3 replies to mails I sent to the list this evening that were either to me alone or copied me and the list. Don't CC me on list posts. I read the list. It's my understanding that this should be default behaviour unless the poster explicitly requests otherwise and given that I explicitly request replies should go back to the list there seems to be no excuse. Thank you. J. -- jid: noodles(a)jabber.earth.li 101 things you can't have too much of : 41 - Tea.

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is there some problem with our web server?
by John Woodard 19 May '02

19 May '02

As header anybody else having problems with our domain? -- Cheers, BJ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.361 / Virus Database: 199 - Release Date: 07/05/2002

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Re: [Alug] Diskspace usage-any good progs?
by Ricardo Campos 19 May '02

19 May '02

> "df" or "df -h" perhaps? df -h Works a treat. Must go on my list of "really bloody useful commands". Many thanks! Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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please ignore my debian testing post
by Ricardo Campos 19 May '02

19 May '02

I realised I had a : and not a ; at the end of my default release line of apt.conf. All seems to be working properly now! ;) God bless BT SurfTime and Demon! ;) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Debian testing testing, 123
by Ricardo Campos 19 May '02

19 May '02

I have a new installation of Deb 2.2r3. I wish to move it up to Woody (testing) via good old ftp. I have added the line: APT: :Default-Release "testing"; to my apt.conf file. I have used netselect to get the quickest ftp server to me, which is ftp.demon.co.uk. What exactly do I need to put on my sources.list file? When I do apt-get dist-upgrade I downloaded ssh and that was all? That can't be right! ;) I missing something totally here, I know it. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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ADSL questions
by Chris Glover 19 May '02

19 May '02

Hi, I have decieded to take the plunge and get ADSL. What I want to know is , has anybody managed to get the PPPoATM module for PPPD to compile? I've tried and can't make the _______ (insert your own expletive here) work. I was wondering about getting the Zyxel Prestiege 645R ADSL router, as that supports PPPoE and I have software for that. Will this do PPPoE to PPPoATM translation? I couldn't find any usefull information on their website. I want to continue using my existing Linux machine as a firewall, as I also want to be able to access it from certain restricted site. What ADSL hardware do you use, and have you made it work with Linux, and how? Thanks in advance Chris Chris *************************************************************************** E Mail Chris(a)glovercc.clara.co.uk WWW http://www.glovercc.clara.co.uk Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject. -Anon

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Freeshell.org
by Alexis Lee 19 May '02

19 May '02

Hi, Does anyone here have any opinions on FreeShell.org? Alexis Lee -- "But the Emperor has nothing on at all!" cried a little child - Hans Christian Anderson "The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there." - RM Pirsig The more you know, the more you know you don't know. Corollary: Those who know nothing think they know everything.

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Re:[alug] Really off topic!
by Danny Thorp 18 May '02

18 May '02

Having tried most of the available clients I can recommend Pegasus. Far more stable than Eudora (which has been known to corrupt active directory), All the features that you could possibly wish for and supports multiple clients either on one machine or can be configured for a network. Best of all, totally free!

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Latest Debian CD's for Installdays
by Ricardo Campos 18 May '02

18 May '02

Since Debian 3 may or may not be out by June 9th- will anyone have the latest debian CD's (2.2r6?) there? I have just got my USB CD-Writer to work in linux (w00t!), hotpluggable and all (yay!), so I can write CD's at the event if peeps want em. Ricardito -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Really off topic!
by John Woodard 18 May '02

18 May '02

I know this is really off topic but please pander to my whim. Does anybody know of a good free (preferably open source or gpl'd) secure email client for Windows 2k/xp? I'm sick to death of the various flavours of Outlook/OE etc. It would be nice to be able to download mail when I *have* to use Windows without always worring about the gaping holes in security. -- Cheers, BJ

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Linux Installaiton Day 9 June
by David Robinson 18 May '02

18 May '02

I'd like to come along to this. I've been trying to install Debian onto my laptop. I've partioned the disk ok and can dual-boot it and got Linux installed as far as the basics, but can't get X to install. So I need help. Do you need to know anything else from me in the meantime? David Robinson

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Re: [Alug] Really off topic!
by MJ Ray 17 May '02

17 May '02

John Woodard: > Is this a fist? :-) Paging Dr Freud. > I have to run some bespoke software (Open University) sometimes, Not Wine-able yet? > and my Mrs. is locked into the MS Office thingy due to work and its too > complicated and too much agro to get her or her employer to change, > although I'm trying to wean her off it and onto OpenOffice.org 1.0. Heh, good man. -- MJR

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Disassembler
by Ian Thompson-Bell 17 May '02

17 May '02

Does anyone know of a good X86 disassembler that recognises DOS .exe file formats? I need to look at a DOS TSR to try to get sound working on my Linux box. TIA Ian

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RE: [Alug] Re: What the postman brought
by alasdair.i.macleod＠bt.com 17 May '02

17 May '02

Maybe you SuSE vets could cast some light here ... I can't get SuSE to install using ReiserFS partitions. Everytime, at some point during the package copying process the install hangs - I've seen other people report the problem but haven't seen any fixes/explanations. Anyone know anything? -----Original Message----- From: Craig [mailto:craigo@wizball.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:36 AM To: ALUG Subject: Re: [Alug] Re: What the postman brought On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:03:58AM +0100, Laurie Brown said: > I've been using SuSE since 5.3, but all my servers are going Gentoo now. > I'm glad they pushed me into it really, because the bloat in SuSE (and RH, > Mandrake et al) is getting ludicrous. Gentoo takes some getting used to, > but I like it so far. Is it me or everyone is sorta switching to gentoo now? Seems like the reinvented slackware but even better? I'm curious... -- (o_ .----------------------------------------. //\ | Craig Butcher | http://www.wizball.co.uk| V_/_ | - Using Debian GNU/Linux - | `----------------------------------------' _______________________________________________ main(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!

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What the postman brought
by Andrew Savory 17 May '02

17 May '02

Hi, Just received 2 oreilly posters and "oreilly direct" catalogues for ALUG. I'll bring them along to the next ALUG (or pass them on so they get there). Andrew. -- All views are my own .... who else would want them?

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RE: [Alug] RE: SuSe on ReiserFS
by alasdair.i.macleod＠bt.com 17 May '02

17 May '02

Thanks for this. I wasn't sure what state ext3 was in but it does sound like an easy way forward. My logic in asking the question on this thread:

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Help with search & replace
by Paul 17 May '02

17 May '02

Hi Folks I am in need of some help - I have a large number of small text files that need to be scanned and one specific phrase replaced at each occurrence excluding the first line (which may or may not contain the offending words). I suspect that something like perl may be the most suitable tool for the task in hand. But I know nothing about it.... Just to add to the problem, the files are scattered across multiple directories and the key phrase may span two lines. Regards, Paul.

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Re: [Alug] TFT monitor doesn't
by Alexis Lee 17 May '02

17 May '02

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 21:25, Chris Walker wrote: > My Iiyama CRT dies a week or two back and I replaced it with a TFT Iiyama but > now my dual-boot PC doesn't seem to know that there is a new monitor > attached. The result is that despite trying to enter the interactive hardware > setup when the machine boots - Mandrake 7 - it keeps going and continues into > the desktop with the result that the monitor can't cope with what's being > thrown at it and reverts to my other machine - not a Windows/Linux box. > > Any ideas how I can fix this? I have all the Mandrake CD btw but very little > understanding of Linux so far. I'm going to assume that you're running X 4.0.? since this is presumably fairly new kit. I understand that TFT monitors have a fixed resolution - say 1024x768 - and can't scale to anything else. What's probably happening is that X is trying to start with a different res so your monitor ignores it. The solution is to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (same file without -4 is for X < 4.0.0) and make the 'Display' things in the 'Screen' section look like this: SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection You should probably leave in the other depths, but depth 24 is the one you're most likely using. At the moment, you probably have some other res' on the 'Modes' lines - remove all but the one your monitor supports. Bingo! The blind leads the way. Alexis

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"Compiled HTML file" (.chm) ???
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 17 May '02

17 May '02

A certain Windows application has a "Help" resource which, when opened in Windows, shows up as an indexed series of help pages. Its "properties" describe is a "Compiled HTML file", and it has extension ".CHM" When examined, it contains a series of blocks of text interspersed with binary codes. QUESTION: Does anyone know of any Linux resource which can read this? With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 16-May-02 Time: 12:38:13 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Debian discover and CD request
by MJ Ray 15 May '02

15 May '02

Hi all... do the debianites on the list have any hints/tips/links about using the "discover" package to detect hardware? Is it safe enough to use on my next conversion? Also, can someone bring me a debian install CD or two to the install day? I can offer media and/or money in return. i386 and if it includes PGI so much the better... Right, now to install the popularity-contest...

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Can someone help with an audio problem
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 15 May '02

15 May '02

I have just installed KMidi. I can play midi files as Root but if I try as a user I get "Can't open output device". All audio devices in /dev are set rw for owner and rw for group 'audio'. My user is in the 'audio' group. What seems strange to me is that apparently KMidi is a front end to Timidity and I can play midi files using Timidity as a user. I've run out of ideas. Anyone? Barry Samuels

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Redhat 7.3 laptop install problems!
by Simon Jude 15 May '02

15 May '02

Hi, I have been trying to install Redhat 7.3 on my Compaq laptop. However, when I select the installation option I want (e.g. text) the installation fails getting as far as the USB probing. I have taken a look at various sites and they suggest using the option linux nousb when installing, but this fails too as does noprobe etc. Can anybody help me with this or am I destined to use 7.0 that I have managed to install? Simon

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RE: main digest, Vol 1 #285 - 2 msgs
by Andrew Wallis 14 May '02

14 May '02

You don't give quite enough of a spec to choose the best tool but any of "gawk", "sed", "perl" would do it. Decompose the problem into smaller sub-problems & make a tool which will meet each sub-objective - then string them all together in a shell script. Thus using "find" with the appropriate args might well find all of the files you need to act on and pipe their names into "xargs" or a script of your own. My preference would probably be "gawk" for the actual search & replace but I couldn't be quite sure until I'd got the detailed spec and done half an hour's experiments. I'm assuming that efficiency of execution isn't as important as getting the job done but even if it is to become a "production" job, it's probably still woth prototyping it as a little bunch of scripts which you can rewrite in your language of choice later if needed. You've certainly got exactly the right environment for this kind of ad hoc text processing in *N*X - there are loads more text hacking tools than those I've mentioned. Try http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/awkprog2/ for help on awk/gawk. Regards Andrew Wallis Fox Cottage Fox Hill St Cross South Elmham HARLESTON IP20 0NX UK phone: +44 (0) 1986 782283 mobile: +44 (0) 7860 217025 SMS via email: mailto:+447860217025@mmail.co.uk > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul <paul.corner(a)tesco.net> > To: ALUG <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> > Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 23:09:53 +0100 > Subject: [Alug] Help with search & replace > > > Hi Folks > > I am in need of some help - I have a large number of small text > files that > need to be scanned and one specific phrase replaced at each occurrence > excluding the first line (which may or may not contain the > offending words). > I suspect that something like perl may be the most suitable tool > for the task > in hand. But I know nothing about it.... > Just to add to the problem, the files are scattered across multiple > directories and the key phrase may span two lines. > > Regards, Paul. > > > > --__--__-- > > _______________________________________________ > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > > > End of main Digest >

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Request for Sunday
by John Woodard 14 May '02

14 May '02

I could use some help getting a Linux box to talk to a Windows box. I have no real experence with samba so some help setting it up would be great. -- Cheers, BJ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.361 / Virus Database: 199 - Release Date: 07/05/2002

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A few Questions
by David Freeman 13 May '02

13 May '02

Hi peeps, Got a couple of questions I need help with: Why is it every so often the process Kupdated runs for a few seconds and takes 99% CPU usage? If I have a phone with an IR modem built in, How do I use this with a Laptop running linux? Also if the deal I have on the phone gives me free WAP can I use this free WAP as net time via the modem thingy? On the linux install day is there anychance of a webcam being set up? I will be in canterbury on the day and can't get to Norwich (start work next day) and it would be nice to be able to kinda take part, if remotely. Anyone Else going to the Linux Beer Hike? And finally, why did I get a job programming in FORTRAN? AdvTHANKSance D - Mind gone funny

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Re: [Alug] Re: What the postman brought
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 13 May '02

13 May '02

>> As with the other stuff, I'll make sure it gets to the next ALUG. Do we >> want to give away some of this stuff in Install Day competitions, or what? > >Raffles tickets? We could have a "colour the penguin" competition. ;-) Races to see who can network up their computer first at the install day starting from scratch, with different categories for laptop, distribution. Pin the pimple on bill gates? Jen.

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 13 May '02

13 May '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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WineX
by Craig 12 May '02

12 May '02

Anyone here subscribed to them and tested their WineX binaries? What are your views on it? Just the fact I have installed most games like Half Life, Half Life: Blue Shift, Carmaggedon etc in Wine. No problems so far! -- (o_ .----------------------------------------. //\ | Craig Butcher | http://www.wizball.co.uk| V_/_ | - Using Debian GNU/Linux - | `----------------------------------------'

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UEA 9th June
by david casal 11 May '02

11 May '02

Ok after chasing room bookings and the conference office: it seems elizabeth fry is closed at weekends so security wouldn't be happy for us to be in there. common room A at nelson court and constable terrace's main common room were available though, so I booked constable terrace. It's big and close to a car park, and it's ground floor. No network. Final? dc david casal --0+ --- d.casal(a)uea.ac.uk --9+ --- www.ariada.uea.ac.uk/~dcasal --)+

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Install days promotion
by John Woodard 11 May '02

11 May '02

I have announced the install days on the following Usenet groups: alt.uk.local.e-s-s-e-x free.uk.talk.ipswich free.uk.talk.norwich uk.comp.os.linux uk.local.east-anglia uk.local.essx If anybody can think of any others that might be relevant please post the name here. The following is the message that I posted: ********* ALUG LINUX INSTALL DAY(s) * Tired of unstable systems that lock up just when you're doing something really important? * Fed up paying out for software upgrades that don't live up to expectations? * Want more control over your computer? * Heard about Linux but unsure about how to try it? As part of Linux Install Day 2002 (http://www.linuxinstallday.org) Anglian Linux Users Group are holding two days to showcase Linux. We can help you install it on your computer, answer your questions, or you can just come along and see what Linux can do for you. The meetings are:- 19th May at Syleham Village Hall, Nr. Eye Suffolk 9th June at the University of East Anglia, Norwich Please visit our website for more information and directions: http://www.alug.org.uk ********* Cheers, BJ

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Re: [Alug] New Member
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 11 May '02

11 May '02

>I expect I will be asking questions in the main, but i might be able to >answer some ! > >Cheers Phil Shaw 8-) I thought you were telling us you were 8 yrs old then, and was about to be truly impressed ;-) Jenny.

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Announce digest, Vol 1 #16 - 4 msgs
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 10 May '02

10 May '02

Send Announce mailing list submissions to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to announce-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk You can reach the person managing the list at announce-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Announce digest..." --------------.--------------------------------------------.------------ alug-announce | Newsletter of the Anglian Linux User Group | Weekly(ish) --------------'--------------------------------------------'------------ ** Please send articles for this letter to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk ** *** Please send replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk, not announce... *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's Topics: 1. Fwd: clug [sgibson(a)Oxfam.org.uk: [ecampaigning] The Community Linux Mobile Training Centre Proposal] (MJ Ray) 2. Fwd: [uklugs] A question about training....I would appreciate some feedback. (MJ Ray) 3. Linux Install Day 2002 -- Your LUG Needs YOU! (MJ Ray) 4. Fwd: [Alug] Weekly IRC reminder (MJ Ray) --__--__-- Message: 1 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 17:29:56 +0100 Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: clug [sgibson(a)Oxfam.org.uk: [ecampaigning] The Community Linux Mobile Training Centre Proposal] Maybe of interest to ALUG too. Sorry if you've seen it already. ----- Forwarded message from mobbsey(a)gn.apc.org ----- Hi all, I thought I'd alert you to a thing I'm working up with the Free Range Network - "The Community Linux Mobile Training Centre". I thought some you might like to give it a little publicity to help get the project working, and then perhaps even hire it out one day! The project proposal is at: http://www.fraw.org.uk/archive/rangers/cltc/cltc_proposal.html Basically we wanted to develop a mobile ICT training centre that could operate in a community centre, or in the middle of a field at gatherings sich as Glastonbury or the Big Green Gathering. This proposal is what we came up with. We've tried to get funding from funding bodies for four years, but they really have problems funding something as vague as 'training people to do anything they want to do'. If you'd like more details please get in touch. P. --__--__-- Message: 2 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:32:59 +0100 Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: [uklugs] A question about training....I would appreciate some feedback. Can you help this chap with his market research? Thanks, MJR From: "Robert Chapman" <robertc(a)dircon.co.uk> Subject: [uklugs] A question about training....I would appreciate some feedback. Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:12:32 +0100 Reply-To: "Robert Chapman" <robertc(a)dircon.co.uk> I won't be so brazen as to say who I work for but for about 8 months we have been "gently" advertising Linux training courses. Firstly LCA and more recently LPI. However no one really seems at all interested in it. If you go to a search engine and type "linux training" we come out near the top or at the top! So it can't be that people aren't finding us. So my question to the Linux community is (and if your members could be forwarded this email I would be grateful) : Why is this? Thanks for listening and hopefully responding, Robert. --__--__-- Message: 3 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 21:53:43 GMT Subject: [Alug Announce] Linux Install Day 2002 -- Your LUG Needs YOU! Hi Announce subscribers, Organisation for this year's Linux Install Days is going ahead at a furious pace. ALUG is running events on both the 19th May at Syleham near Diss and 9th June at UEA Norwich. Some details can be seen at http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?LinuxInstallDay2002 and the national event site is http://www.linuxinstallday.org/ If you want to see what GNU/Linux can do, please come along to one of the events and introduce yourself to us. If you want help with installing on a computer you're bringing, please fill out the help request form at http://www.linuxinstallday.org/ Also, I'm asking for your help in making this event a success. The first date is now only about ten days away, so we need to start getting information out to libraries, offices, computer shops and local noticeboards. You can download PDFs of posters and leaflets at the web site. Please add a note if you start publicising the event, so we know who's active in each area and try to cover most of them. Help is needed at the actual events, too. If you're good at installing GNU/Linux onto systems, especially if you've experience at dual-booting, then please make yourself known, either on the main(a)lists.alug.org.uk list, or just to the venue organiser. Thanks for reading, -- MJR ,---------------------------------------------------- | Q. Do you need a net-based application developing, | or advice and training about web technology? | A. I suggest you try http://www.luminas.co.uk/ --__--__-- Message: 4 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 22:44:27 +0100 Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: [Alug] Weekly IRC reminder Maybe some Announce subscribers won't have seen this before? From: Neill Newman <neill(a)entora.co.uk> Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 06:00:01 +0100 This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting Monday at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!) --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce End of Announce Digest

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New Member
by Philip Shaw 09 May '02

09 May '02

Hello all I have been playing with Linux on and off for 3 years or so, on older machines in the main. But have now decided to make the switch from Windows, as far as possible! Have just purchased SuSe Linux 7.3 and am slowly getting up to speed. I am currently looking into using as intranet server, for windows networks, i am therfore working with Apache, PHP, Perl, Samba ..... I expect I will be asking questions in the main, but i might be able to answer some ! Cheers Phil Shaw 8-)

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Re: [Alug] What the postman brought
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 09 May '02

09 May '02

MJRay wrote: >I believe this is the start of the Install Day material. With regards to >install day: who's done what for publicity so far? Who can do what between >now and Monday? Please add details to the page at >http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?LinuxInstallDay2002 > >We need to get this message "out there" pronto! Has anyone volunteered the box running "Server tools - Samba, network audio?, should we have 1 linux box being an infrastructure box running things like DHCP, DNS, router etc. etc. to make setup easier? " yet? I can bring my laptop with *working* pc card running samba, but it doesn't run DNS, DHCP or the like. Colleges are probably the best place for postering, I'll put some up at Anglia polytech. Jen.

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Re: [Alug] Allegro Install Howto
by Dryden 09 May '02

09 May '02

To compile an allegro program do this: gcc -c mytest.c -o mytest.o gcc -o mytest mytest.o `allegro-config --libs` Remember there backticks(things below esc on this keyborad). :) Also for stuff like this check out www.allegro.cc ... its forums are very helpfull. Or try to RTFM!!!!!!!!!!! Dennis Dryden -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Simpleman <reknaw_2000(a)yahoo.com> To: ALUG <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 18:01:34 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Alug] Allegro Install Howto I successfully installed Allegro in Windows and got it working just fine. The only problem is trying to install it for linux. Im getting problems when trying to compile the programs. Its like it cant find the libraries needed. A good tutorial might help me out... ...Daniel Simpleman __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ main(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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Red Hat 7.3 is out
by Martyn Drake 09 May '02

09 May '02

Hi folks, You've all probably seen it by now, but Red Hat has officially released version 7.3 of their latest distribution (which they've called Valhalla). Regards, Martyn

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Re: [Alug] Red Hat 7.3 is out
by MJ Ray 09 May '02

09 May '02

Raphael Mankin: > On 07-May-2002 Adam Bower wrote: > > ummm, maybe you didn't know but the Redhat 7.3 CD .isos are *not* gpl, > > they are trying to do nasty things to restrict people selling them on > > cheap. Although user groups are still allowed to distribute them. The > Such restriction are likely to fall foul of various EU directives as well as > UK 'unfair restraint of trade' provisions. As I understood it, the ISOs are GPL, but you can't describe them as "RedHat" because that trademark is being enforced very heavily. I wonder if we'll start to see people offering "a certain RPM-based distribution 7.3" or similar soon. You probably know that I'm not a great fan of that distribution and I'm not exactly unhappy to see its owners doing things to harm its share of the GNU/Linux market. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Perl variables and decimal please... Help
by xs＠kittenz.org 08 May '02

08 May '02

on Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:18:52PM +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > Why not: > > $a = int(100 * $a)/100.0; Because that truncates the number; it doesn't round. Plus seems to be slower than sprintf(), especially with a high enough number of decimal places required. Implementing it as a generic "reduce to n d.p." would probably require one exponent to an unknown, and not base 2, so probably not terribly easy for a compiler or interpreter to optimize. (afaik) > > Which will work, but personally I would try to avoid reducing the > > number of decimal places that are stored in the variable and instead > > do the reduction when the variable was printed, i.e. use sprintf and > > printf for printing the values. Sure, and printf is synonymous to print sprintf(). (It would seem fairly logical for printf to feed the value of sprintf() into print() and not interpret the values itself.)

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Re: [Alug] Perl variables and decimal please... Help-- Sorted, thanks
by Simon 08 May '02

08 May '02

On Wednesday 08 May 2002 5:18 pm, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > Steve Fosdick <fozzy(a)pelvoux.demon.co.uk> writes: > > On Tue, 07 May 2002 11:01:54 xs(a)kittenz.org wrote: > >> on Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:30:22AM +0500, Simon wrote: > >>> It's gotta be easy, but I can't find it... How do I reduce > >>> the number of decimal places in a variable ??? <snip> > > $a = int(100 * $a)/100.0; > > > Which will work, but personally I would try to avoid reducing the > > number of decimal places that are stored in the variable and instead > > do the reduction when the variable was printed, i.e. use sprintf and > > printf for printing the values. > > Indeed. </snip> Perfect... thanks

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Javascript, perl script, anyscript help please....
by Simon 07 May '02

07 May '02

Hi Guys, I'm looking for a method of scrolling a HTML page up and down without user intervention... I know of the window.scroll method in Javascript, but I can only get it to scroll down... The purpose is so a page with monitoring data (MRTG graphs) can gently scroll up so all the graphs are displayed over a period of time... Any ideas ??? Simon

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Perl variables and decimal please... Help
by Simon 07 May '02

07 May '02

Hi Guys, It's gotta be easy, but I can't find it... How do I reduce the number of decimal places in a variable ??? Simon

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re javascript scrolling
by tom potts 07 May '02

07 May '02

window.scrollTo(x, y); with x and y set to 0 should take you back to the top. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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Any "expect" gurus out there?
by Andrew Wallis 07 May '02

07 May '02

I have a shell script which runs an expect script which, in turn, connects to my router and reboots it. I've had something very like it for ages but I've had a problem ever since a recent upgrade to RH7.2. Basically, the script works fine in the foreground; it works fine under "at now +1 minute"; it works fine under "batch" BUT it always fails when run under cron. The relevant output from failed jobs looks like: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- spawn telnet my-router Trying 192.168.0.254... Connected to my-router. Escape character is '^]'. Password: Connection closed by foreign host. send: spawn id exp3 not open while executing "exp_send -s -- $arg" (procedure "send" line 3) invoked from within "send -- "X"" (file "/usr/local/sbin/reboot_router.exp" line 53) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- which seems to show that the telnet session is spawned OK and opens the connection (the "Password: " string comes from the router) but then as soon as expect tries to send the first character of the password, it finds that the telnet session has been closed! Any ideas, please? PS. Yes, I know all of the security risks in embedding passwords in scripts and in using telnet rather than ssh! Regards Andrew Wallis Fox Cottage Fox Hill St Cross South Elmham HARLESTON IP20 0NX UK tel: +44 (0)1986 782283 mobile: +44 (0)7860 217025 SMS via email: mailto: +447860217025(a)mmail.co.uk

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Allegro Install Howto
by Daniel Simpleman 06 May '02

06 May '02

I successfully installed Allegro in Windows and got it working just fine. The only problem is trying to install it for linux. Im getting problems when trying to compile the programs. Its like it cant find the libraries needed. A good tutorial might help me out... ...Daniel Simpleman __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 06 May '02

06 May '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Re: [Alug] Javascript, perl script, anyscript help please....
by MJ Ray 05 May '02

05 May '02

> Thanks Mark, > The links were fine, but there was no scrolling, well not the type I'm > looking for.... Pages like the news stories work by scrolling a frame, I think, but it seems to be broken in Mozilla (again). Not sure if they're using window.scroll, but hey ho, it was an idea. -- MJR

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UEA on the 9th June - Talk on Visual Effects
by Martyn Drake 05 May '02

05 May '02

Hi, I'm able to make it to the UEA on June 9th to do this talk on Linux in the post-production and visual effects industry if we've got a room booked for that date (I seem to remember a room in the ARTS building has been reserved). Is this okay with everybody? Regards, Martyn

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SCSI Install probs
by Ricardo Campos 04 May '02

04 May '02

I'm trying to install Debian on a box with a SCSI HD. Unfortunately, I'm having a few problems... I'm having probs with the HD. I get these messages when I boot from the debian rescue floppy: (scsi0): detects card OK, then says:- scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card) scsi0 <Adaptec AHA-294x Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> scsi : 1 host. (gives correct details of HD) scsi: detected 1 SCSI disk in total. sda: Spinning up disk... not responding sda: READ CAPACITY failed Partition check: sda:SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 28000002 [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:00: sense Key Not Ready Additional sense indicates Logical unit not ready cause not reportable scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table. I have a few jumpers I have not set (i.e off), but could if needed. These are: MTR -RMT Start DLY: Start Delay SYN: Synchronous LED: LED Any ideas? -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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