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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2277

Today's Topics:

  Re: nvidia-glx under Debian 4.0r1     [ Florian Kulzer  ]
  Re: Loadlin under Config.sys -- AAAA  [ "Avid Hunter"  ]
  Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address bein  [ Nigel Henry  ]
  Re: ssh-agent (was: using a remote I  [ Florian Kulzer  ]
  Re: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with  [ Wayne Topa  ]
  Re: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with  [ Wayne Topa  ]
  Etch and Linuxant drivers             [ Marco De Vitis  ]
  exim lost my smarthost port number    [ Celejar  ]
  Re: how to provide extra library pat  [ "Michael Marsh"  ]

Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:59:52 +0200
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: nvidia-glx under Debian 4.0r1

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[ Please don't top-post. It is much easier for others to start participating in an ongoing discussion if everybody posts in-line responses and trims the older messages where possible. ]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 18:42:54 +0200, Bart wrote:
> /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> #
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1
> 20070819-11:33]/ etch contrib main
>
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-3
> 20070819-11:33]/ etch contrib main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-2
> 20070819-11:33]/ etch contrib main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1
> 20070819-11:33]/ etch contrib main
>
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib

I would add another such line starting with "deb" instead of "deb-src".

Do you need help?

> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib

I don't think this line is necessary anymore if you are tracking Etch.

> deb ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable contrib non-free
> deb-src ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable contrib non-free

Here is your problem: Because of the last two lines, module-assistant has built and installed a Sid version of the nvidia-kernel package. This requires the Sid version of the nvidia-glx package as well and this version cannot be installed on Etch because it needs a newer libc6.

I think it is a bad idea to try mixing Etch and Sid like that. If you want a clean installation then you should purge the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-kernel-common packages, change "unstable" to "etch" in the last two lines of your sources.list and install the Etch versions of all nvidia packages. If you are running a stock Debian kernel then you do not even need module-assistant since a pre-built nvidia-kernel package is available.

If you really need the newer version of the nvidia driver then you either have to backport the corresponding nvidia-glx package yourself or you have to use nvidia's installer script instead of the Debian packages. The latter option is probably easier but it means that you have to re-run the installer script if there ever is a security upgrade of the xserver-xorg package.

You could also check out the homepage of Randall Donald, who is the maintainer of the nvidia packages. He might have newer drivers packaged for Etch on his website http://www.khensu.org. (I do not know for sure because the site seems to be down at the moment.)

> I added the last two lines myself to obtain the nvidia-kernel-sources (with
> success)
>
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 21:44:11 +0200, Bart wrote:
>>> I've installed Debian 4.0r1 and now I want 3D support for my Nvidia
>>> graphics card.
>>>
>>> I'm following instructions as can be found on
>>> http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
>>>
>>> I can install the nvidia-kernel-sources, but not the nvidia-glx package.
>>> The error given is:
>>>
>>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>> nvidia-glx: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-5) but 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 is to be
>>> installed
>>>
>>> Is there a way to solve this?
>> You are trying to install the nvidia-glx package from Sid (a.k.a.
>> "unstable", the "bleeding edge, may break at any time" branch of
>> Debian.) You have to install the 4.0r1 (Etch, "stable") version of the
>> package; this one depends on the proper version of libc6.
>> This is probably due to a misconfiguration of your package manager.
>> Please post the content of the following two files:
>> /etc/apt/sources.list
>> /etc/apt/preferences
>> (The second file might not exist on your system; this is OK.)
>> I would also like to see the output that you get from the following
>> command:
>> apt-cache policy nvidia-glx

-- 
Regards,            | 
http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
          Florian   |

Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:19:42 -0400 From: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: NetworkManager help, esp. after suspend Message-ID: <20070829221941.GA8532@panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline I'm a relatively new Debian user, running an up-to-date Etch on a ThinkPad T60. I'm having some trouble getting the NetworkManager app to work the way it seems it should. In particular, after a suspend it takes some time (a few minutes) to acknowledge that there are network interfaces present, and then it is unable to connect to any available network. I'm sitting fifteen feet away from a WAP, and it (and others) shows in the list of available networks, but when I try to join, it just spins for a while before giving up. I was able to get a wireless connection by running network-admin, which connected instantly, but this seems not to work with NetworkManager--my connection didn't show in the status bar on the panel. Interestingly, as I was typing this (having connected with network-admin), the NetworkManager thing started spinning, indicating that it was trying to join a network, and it did successfully join my network. This was perhaps five or six hours after my last suspend. Is there anything I should be doing differently? The docs on NetworkManager are pretty slim. If it works as advertised it would be really convenient, but I do need to be able to come out of a suspend a join a network immediately. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower

Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:10:25 -0700 From: "Avid Hunter" <avidhunter@comcast.net> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Loadlin under Config.sys -- AAAAGH! Message-ID: <000e01c7ea89$6996ad10$0302a8c0@Adam> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000F_01C7EA4E.BD37D510" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C7EA4E.BD37D510 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thank you for the tips, I shall give it a whirl and see what happens. I shall let you know. BTW: There is no floppy capability, not even USB floppy capability since the BIOS was cripled to prevent booting from any external devices, including a network boot. <img src="http://www.danasoft.com/sig/sam_8599.jpg" align="middle" border="0" alt=""> ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C7EA4E.BD37D510 Content-Type: application/ms-tnef; name="winmail.dat" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="winmail.dat" eJ8+Ih4WAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAEIgAcAGAAAAElQTS5NaWNy b3NvZnQgTWFpbC5Ob3RlADEIAQ2ABAACAAAAAgACAAEGgAMADgAAANcHCAAdAA8ACgAAAAMAHwEB A5AGAGwFAAAlAAAACwACAAEAAAALACMAAAAAAAMAJgAAAAAACwApAAAAAAADADYAAAAAAB4AcAAB AAAAKAAAAFJlOiBMb2FkbGluIHVuZGVyIENvbmZpZy5zeXMgLS0gQUFBQUdIIQACAXEAAQAAABYA AAABx+qJZlQ4FmQgn39D1o2llvyCRq8GAAACAR0MAQAAABwAAABTTVRQOkFWSURIVU5URVJAQ09N Q0FTVC5ORVQACwABDgAAAABAAAYOAKxVV4nqxwECAQoOAQAAABgAAAAAAAAASEHgV/d+rEiFedFt JN2ZzsKAAAADABQOAAAAAAsAHw4BAAAAAgEJEAEAAADuAQAA6gEAAF8CAABMWkZ1cnFa1AMACgBy Y3BnMTI1FjIA+Atgbg4QMDMzTwH3AqQD4wIAY2gKwHPwZXQwIAcTAoMAUANU8QIAcHJxDlAQ2Adt AoB2fQqAAAAqCbAJ8ASQYWp0BbFSDeBoCYAB0CAANS40MC4xMS5MMjIOIAKAXHYIkHfSawuAZDQM YGMAUAsDhwu1E5AQ8G5rIHkIYHYgAhAFwHQV8BnABSBzoCwgSSBzEPBsAyAoZ2l2GfBpBUBhILB3 aGlyAyAAcGQagJcJ4BuBFXAgEPBwcAnwaHMuIBpnbBEwGUNrcG5vdy4KogqECoBC+FRXOhjhBJAb IQQgHnDHGYAJABzgeSBjHNABoLsDEBtAeRpQHnAFQGUbEHEDoFVTQiB/INAAkG5GYxnxGeFCSU8F 8He+YQQgBQId4BwQFYAgErDfIfIFQAbgIcALgGcZgANhYxvhINBleHQEkQdAIL8BABdAI9AaQSOx CkBkJkLzG3AVQHR3BbAZMCYCHqvHGBUSEQvwNCA8B3AmYEBzcmM9ImgCQHCQOi8vdyxwLmQAcJUk oG8BgC4FoG0vAJACZy1wYW1fODU5aDkuag4AIhtgIVBnwm4r4G1pZGQd4C6ArwbgCyAEkCvgMC6C dCvgvCI+Kc8Lpx7DFLEAMuAAAAMA3j+fTgAAAwAJWQMAAAADAEBlAAAAAAsAAIAIIAYAAAAAAMAA AAAAAABGAAAAAAOFAAAAAAAAAwACgAggBgAAAAAAwAAAAAAAAEYAAAAAEIUAAAAAAAADAAaACCAG AAAAAADAAAAAAAAARgAAAABShQAAE6ABAB4AB4AIIAYAAAAAAMAAAAAAAABGAAAAAFSFAAABAAAA BQAAADEwLjAAAAAACwAIgAggBgAAAAAAwAAAAAAAAEYAAAAABoUAAAAAAAADAAmACCAGAAAAAADA AAAAAAAARgAAAAABhQAAAAAAAAsACoAIIAYAAAAAAMAAAAAAAABGAAAAAA6FAAAAAAAAAwAMgAgg BgAAAAAAwAAAAAAAAEYAAAAAGIUAAAAAAAALADGACCAGAAAAAADAAAAAAAAARgAAAACChQAAAAAA AAIB+A8BAAAAEAAAAEhB4Ff3fqxIhXnRbSTdmc4CAfoPAQAAABAAAABIQeBX936sSIV50W0k3ZnO AwD+DwUAAAADAA00/TcCAAIBFDQBAAAAEAAAAE5JVEH5v7gBAKoAN9luAAACAX8AAQAAADEAAAAw MDAwMDAwMDQ4NDFFMDU3Rjc3RUFDNDg4NTc5RDE2RDI0REQ5OUNFQzQxMjIxMDAAAAAAAwAGEEdS uasDAAcQHAEAAAMAEBAAAAAAAwAREAEAAAAeAAgQAQAAAGUAAABUSEFOS1lPVUZPUlRIRVRJUFMs SVNIQUxMR0lWRUlUQVdISVJMQU5EU0VFV0hBVEhBUFBFTlNJU0hBTExMRVRZT1VLTk9XQlRXOlRI RVJFSVNOT0ZMT1BQWUNBUEFCSUxJVFksAAAAAIsu ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C7EA4E.BD37D510--

Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:49:46 +0200 From: Wolodja Wentland <babilen@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: NetworkManager help, esp. after suspend Message-ID: <20070829224946.GD4422@kikutani.local> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BRE3mIcgqKzpedwo" Content-Disposition: inline --BRE3mIcgqKzpedwo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 18:19 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>=20
> I'm a relatively new Debian user, running an up-to-date Etch on
> a ThinkPad T60.
Welcome. I am running Debian on a T60 as well and am very pleased with=20 it so far. I guess you know http://thinkwiki.org ? It is a great source for=20 thinkpad related informations.
> I'm having some trouble getting the NetworkManager app to work
[ ... nm not working properly ... ]
> Is there anything I should be doing differently? The docs on
> NetworkManager are pretty slim. If it works as advertised it
> would be really convenient, but I do need to be able to come
> out of a suspend a join a network immediately.
Try editing /etc/hibernate/common.conf and uncomment ### networkmanager EnableNMReconnect yes ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ that might do the trick. That said it is not always working and i have=20 to click "Enable Networking" twice after wake-up occasionally.=20 You did configure nm as stated in: /usr/share/doc/network-manager/README.Debian --- Wolodja =20 --BRE3mIcgqKzpedwo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG1fgKc5LrxXrbkwgRAhIyAJ0QF96OJOjsj8viqTqJcOxV4LMOsgCcDU3S B4hAlFOkMsVa5KrNeXxrFdk= =Inrt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BRE3mIcgqKzpedwo--

Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:39:42 -0700 From: Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: xterm won't start Message-ID: <46D5F5AE.10407@ultrasw.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2007-08-27 23:06:53 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
>
>> I should have made it clear that I am using a (the latest package)
>> stock 2.6.22 (486) kernel. It would seem that I must have made some
>> kind of install mistake to lead to:
>>
>> xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
>> Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys
>>
>
> Do you get similar errors with other terminals
No terminal I have tried will start.
> (in particular rxvt)
> and the same kernel? You should also look at strace output.
>
rxvt fails. The error message is: urxvt: can't initialize pseudo-tty, aborting. Text mode Emacs 21 also fails.
> I also suggest typing
>
> "get_pty: not enough ptys"
>
> (with the quotes) on Google to see if other users had the same problem
> and solved it.
>
I did that as soon as I saw the problem. The only hits seemed to related to already solved bugs several years ago. This may have started when I was upgrading other stuff with aptitude. I don't remember what happened at that time. Thanks, Paul

Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:12:06 +0200 From: Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup Message-Id: <200708300112.06762.cave.dnb@tiscali.fr> Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wednesday 29 August 2007 23:19, Joey Hess wrote:
> Nigel Henry wrote:
> > It obviously didn't work, and appears that
> > if a script is in /etc/init.d, and there are no links to it in the
> > runlevel directories, the script is run anyway.
>
> I think that avahi may be started by /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon,
> when a network interface is brought up. I'd suggest editing
> /etc/default/avahi-daemon.
>
> BTW, there's a persuasive argument that wanting to disable avahi/mDNS to
> improve your system's security is similar to wanting to disable DNS or
> DHCP to improve your systems's security.
> <http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/zeroconf-ubuntu>
Thanks Joey. I've changed it from 1 to 0 in /etc/default/avahi-daemon, and no more messages now. I've also looked at the link you gave. It's a bit late, and will look at it again tomorrow. My 2 machines are on a LAN which access the Internet through my Smoothwall firewall, via a serial modem. As far as I know I havn't been compromised, and being on dialup I'm obviously not running webservers, ftpservers, mailservers, etc, accessable to the Internet. if I was able to, they would be in a DMZ obviously. I'm not being complacent about security. When anything a bit weird happens, I'm always a bit suspicious. Thanks for your help. Nigel.

Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:00:44 +0200 From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ssh-agent (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost) Message-ID: <20070829230044.GB3494@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 20:09:03 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:27:32AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> [...]
> > Method 2:
> > ---------
> >
> > You can set up mutt's sendmail command to use a short script which
> > invokes ssh to run sendmail on myvm directly. This requires that
> > sendmail works on myvm, though. The advantage is that you don't have to
> > do anything else before you send mail (unlike with method 1). It seems
> > that you do not have sendmail fully operational on myvm at the moment,
> > so maybe you will want to stick with method 1 right now. In any case,
> > here is the necessary wrapper script for method 2:
> >
> > ---------- STARTS BELOW (this line is not part of the script) ----------
> > #! /bin/sh
> > # sendmail-via-ssh.sh
> > # wrapper script for mutt to use sendmail via ssh
> > #
> > # activated by this option in ~/.muttrc:
> > # set sendmail="/path/to/sendmail-via-ssh.sh"
> >
> > cat - | ssh myvm "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi $@"
> > ---------- ENDS ABOVE (this line is not part of the script) ----------
>
> [...]
>
> Returning to this, after the essential problem was solved (the presence
> of two dsn settings in my .muttrc), It is time to try method 2. I
> assume this script is intended to address a real sendmail or exim4,
> rather than the msmtp installed for the trial of method 1. As I read
> the manual, the -oem -oi options are not relevant to msmtp.
Yes, it should just be cat - | ssh myvm "/usr/bin/msmtp $@" in the last line. However, I never actually tried this with msmtp, so I am myself curious if it really works. (I always used this approach with a postfix-provided sendmail command running on the remote machine.)
> But, again if I understand Florian's earlier post, Method 2 requires the
> use of sssh-agent. And I cannot see fromt he man page how to use it or
> configure it.
>
> IF I simply let mutt run the script as above, I get
>
> ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory^M
> ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory^M
> ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory^M
> Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
>
> So I think I really need the ssh-agent. Help anybody?
Ssh-agent is part of the openssh-client package. It should be started with every X session by the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent script. (See "ps -e | grep ssh-agent".) However, ssh-agent needs a frontend to handle the interaction with the user when a passphrase for a private key has to be entered. This seems to be what you are missing. Install one of the packages that provide "ssh-askpass": $ aptitude -F '%p' search '~Pssh-askpass' gtk-led-askpass ssh-askpass-fullscreen ssh-askpass-gnome Then you will get a dialog to enter the passphrase. I am happy with gtk-led-askpass and I run /usr/bin/gtk-led-askpass right when I start my X session (via a simple symlink in ~/.kde/Autostart). This means that I have to type my passphrase once and then every invocation of ssh or sftp from within the X session works without me having to type the passphrase again. (You can of course limit the lifetime of the passphrase if your security philosophy requires this.) If you don't use X then you have to start ssh-agent yourself, e.g. in .bashrc or .bash_profile. You don't really need ssh-agent in any case, but it will probably drive you crazy very quickly if you have to type your passphrase anew with every single email that you send. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian |

Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:26:29 -0400 From: "P Kapat" <kap4lin@gmail.com> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: how to provide extra library paths? Message-ID: <daef5be80708291626i4cfd7fd7hc1daf1f8759ae232@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi, Firstly, this is not a Debian specific question, but hopefully the solution should be universal. I have a machine (running RedHat EL4) on which I do not have administrative access, just a normal user access. I have extracted some rpm binaries in my home directory. I want the following paths to be searched for shared libraries (along with the default ones from /etc/ld.so.conf): $HOME/usr/lib $HOME/usr/local/lib How? I have the following lines in .bash_profile (bash is my default shell): export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/usr/lib:$HOME/usr/local/lib export LD_LIBRARYPATH="Nonsense" # just a stub When I log into this machine from a VT or remotely (ssh) I have LD_LIBRARY_PATH as expected (as well as LD_LIBRARYPATH). But, when I login locally (to a KDE session) and start a konsole (or xterm) LD_LIBRARY_PATH is absent, LD_LIBRARYPATH is present though. If I have the same lines in .bashrc, then both the variables are present in konsole/xterm. So, something is "unset"ing LD_LIBRARY_PATH after .bash_profile is executed. What is the right solution? Is there a better solution than using LD_LIBRARY_PATH? -- Regards PK -------------------------------------- http://counter.li.org #402424

Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:50:26 -0400 From: Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 kernel Message-ID: <20070829235026.GA28891@buddy.mtntop.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Paul Scott(waterhorse@ultrasw.com) is reported to have said:
> Laptop with AMD K6 running Debian sid
>
> xterm works w/ stock 2.6.17-2-486
>
> with stock 2.6.22-1-486 attempting to start xterm gives:
>
> xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
> Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys
>
> I have upgraded almost anything that needed it that would have come after
> the 2.6.17-2-486 kernels. Any of that upgrading may have caused the xterm
> problem.
>
> TIA for any more ideas.
>
Paul What do you get from grep -i pty /boot/config-$(uname -r) Wayne -- Using TSO is like kicking a dead whale down the beach. -- S. C. Johnson _______________________________________________________

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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:54:17 -0400 From: Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 kernel Message-ID: <20070829235417.GB28891@buddy.mtntop.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Paul Scott(waterhorse@ultrasw.com) is reported to have said:
> Laptop with AMD K6 running Debian sid
>
> xterm works w/ stock 2.6.17-2-486
>
> with stock 2.6.22-1-486 attempting to start xterm gives:
>
> xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
> Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys
>
> I have upgraded almost anything that needed it that would have come after
> the 2.6.17-2-486 kernels. Any of that upgrading may have caused the xterm
> problem.
>
Sorry, I see you posted it in one of the other threads. Might try fixing up the threading on your mail program. Wayne -- Press any key...no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE! _______________________________________________________

Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:36:04 GMT From: Marco De Vitis <starless@spin.it> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Etch and Linuxant drivers Message-ID: <EpnBi.100732$U01.862510@twister1.libero.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, has anyone successfully installed the Linuxant drivers on an Etch machine, using the official Debian Linux kernel packages? They don't seem to work on my machine, and Linuxant support suggested to download a more recent kernel source and build it, but it's something that I'd prefer to avoid at the moment. Thanks for any clues. -- Ciao, Marco.

Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:38:29 -0400 From: Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: exim lost my smarthost port number Message-Id: <20070829203829.17dbdfb3.celejar@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I use exim on Sid to forward my outgoing mail to Gmail's smtp server as a smarthost. I had exim configured to forward to 'smtp.google.gom::587', and the setup had been working fine for a while. Today I noticed that mail wasn't getting through, and I saw that exim had somehow 'forgotten' the port number and was apparently trying on the default port 25. Reconfiguring exim (through debconf) solved the problem. Has anyone else seen something like this? I don't actually know how long this has been happening, since most of my outgoing mail is sent by Sylpheed. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator

Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:04:50 -0400 From: "Michael Marsh" <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: how to provide extra library paths? Message-ID: <ceb0ad00708291804o5ea233a2o9aeb590fc62423fc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 8/29/07, P Kapat <kap4lin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the following lines in .bash_profile (bash is my default shell):
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/usr/lib:$HOME/usr/local/lib
> export LD_LIBRARYPATH="Nonsense" # just a stub
> When I log into this machine from a VT or remotely (ssh) I have
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH as expected (as well as LD_LIBRARYPATH). But, when I
> login locally (to a KDE session) and start a konsole (or xterm)
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is absent, LD_LIBRARYPATH is present though.
>
> If I have the same lines in .bashrc, then both the variables are
> present in konsole/xterm. So, something is "unset"ing LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> after .bash_profile is executed.
I'd guess the problem is just the opposite. Your .bash_profile is only being executed for login shells. If KDE isn't starting login shells, then only your .bashrc is being executed. Is there a reason that you don't want to set this in .bashrc? If so, you can probably change some resource (I'm not familiar with KDE) so that starting konsole or xterm opens a login shell, rather than the default non-login. For xterm, the option is "-ls". You might be able to set this from X resources as XTerm*loginShell: true Of course, the fact that you're getting LD_LIBRARYPATH set seems a bit odd (to me, at least). Does it have the value you set in .bash_profile? Is that a KDE-standard variable? -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com http://36pints.blogspot.com

Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:16:14 -0400 From: Bernard <bernard.fay@gmail.com> To: "Debian user list" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Garmin GPS on USB port Message-ID: <ab53550708291816xee4855ai76c2b370a15e4ddd@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_3917_9080945.1188436574607" ------=_Part_3917_9080945.1188436574607 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hello group, I try to communicate with my GPS via a USB port but without success. I used to do it with a serial connection without problem. Eventually, I will have to plug my GPS on a laptop with USB port only so I have to find a solution. According to a few things read on the web I have to load the garmin_gps module. I did it with succes but the documentation found said to use /dev/ttyUSB? which device I don't have. Maybe I still have a few things to understand about the USB devices and udev! I would like to know if someone have been able to communicate with a Garmin GPS via a USB port and how you did it. Or maybe someone with a good understanding of USB and udev could help me understand what is going on and what I should do to make it work. Thanks for any help. -- Bernard ------=_Part_3917_9080945.1188436574607 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hello group, I try to communicate with my GPS via a USB port but without success.  I used to do it with a serial connection without problem.  Eventually, I will have to plug my GPS on a laptop with USB port only so I have to find a solution.  According to a few things read on the web I have to load the garmin_gps module.  I did it with succes but the documentation found said to use /dev/ttyUSB? which device I don't have.  Maybe I still have a few things to understand about the USB devices and udev! I would like to know if someone have been able to communicate with a Garmin GPS via a USB port and how you did it.  Or maybe someone with a good understanding of USB and udev could help me understand what is going on and what I should do to make it work. Thanks for any help. -- Bernard  ------=_Part_3917_9080945.1188436574607-- End of debian-user-digest Digest V2007 Issue #2277 ************************************************** Received on Wed Aug 29 21:59:57 2007

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