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Synergy?
by Keith Watson 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

Anyone on the list ever used Synergy <http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/doc-user.html> ? I've just read a short write up <URL tba - sorry> on it and it looks interesting. Keith ____________ A leader is not the leader, therefore he is called leader. D.T. Suzuki (par)

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Sharp Zaurus for less than 300 quid
by Adam Bower 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

Hi all, I just ordered myself a Sharp Zaurus from http://www.expansys.com/ less than 300 quid including delivery, the best price before this was about 350 quid online and you also get 50 quids worth of free accessories atm... although this may be perhaps a stock clearance, or maybe a new model is just around the corner. I have used Expansys before and they seem quite good. Anyhow will report back with how good the Zaurus is soon, although I am going to most likely replace the Sharp Linux OS with a free one based on Debian =) Adam -- "Step away from the Cathedral, This Bazaar is loaded" jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li

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GPRS on Debian
by Andrew Savory 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

Hi, I finally took the plunge and went for GPRS, and thought I'd share my linux configuration experiences in case anyone else has to go through the same pain as I did! * Why would you want to do this? - Faster connection whilst on the road (up to 5x the speed of a dialup connection over a GSM mobile connection) - The geek factor * Why wouldn't you want to do this? - On most networks a GPRS connection is more expensive per mb than a dialup connection (call charges work out less than per mb charges!) - Super high latency link: don't expect to be IRCing from it, but fine for email downloading etc. * What do you need? - A computer running linux (Debian in this example) - A mobile phone with GPRS support - A mobile phone service provider, with GPRS enabled on your account I'm on O2, using a Sony Ericsson T68i over infrared to my Debian laptop. These details should be more or less the same regardless of distribution, network or phone: the only things you need to check are the "APN" (access point name, eg "mobile.o2.co.uk"), username and password, and dial string. * How? Configuring a successful computer-phone connection is beyond the scope of this. Get that working first! Once you have a working connection to your phone (eg you can set up a normal dialup connection using it), you need to configure a new ppp connection with the following two files: - /etc/ppp/peers/o2gprs - /etc/chatscripts/gprs-connect-chat File /etc/ppp/peers/o2gprs: --- begin o2gprs --- # o2 GPRS settings debug hide-password noauth connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/chatscripts/gprs-connect-chat" # The next line is the port you talk to your phone on, and may need editing /dev/ircomm0 115200 noipdefault ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote local novj novjccomp noccp default-asyncmap nomagic # The next line is your telco's username: it may need editing depending on your provider user "web" defaultroute persist disconnect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/gprs-disconnect-chat" remotename o2gprs ipparam o2gprs --- end o2gprs --- File /etc/chatscripts/gprs-connect-chat: --- begin gprs-connect-chat --- ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'NO DIAL TONE' ABORT 'NO ANSWER' ABORT DELAYED '' ATZ OK-AT-OK 'AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","MOBILE.O2.CO.UK"' OK-AT-OK 'AT+CGQREQ=1,0,0,0,0,0' OK-AT-OK 'AT+CGQMIN=1,0,0,0,0,0' OK-AT-OK 'AT+CGATT=1' # The next line is your dial string: it may need editing depending on your phone OK-AT-OK 'ATD*99#' TIMEOUT 42 CONNECT \d\c # prelogin # ispname # isppassword # postlogin --- end gprs-connect-chat --- Finally, edit /etc/ppp/options and comment-out lcp-echo-interval and lcp-echo-failure. Test the connection using pppd call o2gprs and watch /var/log/syslog for details. (eg use tail -f /var/log/syslog) * Other useful details You'll need to tweak your MTA to send outgoing mail via smtp.o2.co.uk (or similar for other providers, check with them for details). * Closing remarks I'd welcome any feedback from others trying to do this ... I'll eventually put this on a page somewhere (eg the ALUG site). And yes, this email is coming to you via GPRS (hopefully!). Andrew. -- All views are my own .... who else would want them?

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security.debian.org
by Paul Tansom 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

On Monday somebody (don't have access to my logs, so can't remember who) was talking about the Debain security update for Apache and not being able to pull it from security.debian.org for some reason. The SSL update, which hadn't been announced, but was expected, was also queried - possibly by the same person --- am I being a little vague here? Anyway, I thought I'd just post to say that both are out now (well, the SSL one came out last night, I just forgot to post) and I've successfully downloaded and installed both. Have you - whoever you may be - had any success yet?! :-/ -- Paul Tansom: - contact paul(a)aptanet.com for more information Internet and Intranet Solutions -- http://www.aptanet.com/

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Still stuck after Sunday ��
by fluff 06 Nov '02

06 Nov '02

Dear Egg Spurts - after numerous reboots, I can't get Deb3 to break out of screen lockup after some sort of resume. At LILO/Right shift the only option in "Linux". When selected, same boot routine results in two mins of screen scrool, with no option to stop, which seems to start from where we left off but followed by same stop/black screen. How do I restart the install process please? Do I need to remove previous? All help gratefully received -- David in Norfolk, UK surrounding the Suffolk peninsula ô¿ô Zippily created with Zimacs 2.12

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Re: [Alug] nvidia graphics card
by MJ Ray 06 Nov '02

06 Nov '02

> Further to this, no the ATI drivers for the ATI Radeon 8500 (also the > FireGL) are non-free So sourceforge hosts non-free software at http://dri.sf.net/ and http://gatos.sf.net/ or are they software ones? If they're software ones, why do they need kernel support? > [...] and for the Radeon 9000 and 9700 there is no support afaict (either > free or non-free) all of these being the fastest ATI cards at the moment. They work via vesa for now, though, but not as accelerated as they could be. I hear talk about code in CVS for them, but evidently that's not end-user stuff now. > [...] were the first company to get all of their mainstream cards working > in Linux with full functionality. [...] For some value of "working" in most cases I've seen. > The other pertinent information is that of course there is much > technology in the drivers which is why Nvidia do not want to open them > to the world at large as they are afraid that ATI et al will steal their > technology and incorporate it into rival products. Of course, this would mean *more* natural selection of ideas, *faster* development of new features (to keep their advantage) and *better* performance for the users, but more *work* for the hardware manufacturers, rather than relying on copyright to get an above-market-value price for their work. We should not have any part of this perversion of copyright to holds back progress. That's the opposite of why it was devised. > [...] What the free software community really needs in the way of support > from the GFX manufacturing community would be the source of the windows > drivers along with the specs of the hardware. I'm not sure this would always help, as it might encourage people to repeat mistakes. Then again, experience does suggest otherwise. Apologies if any questions are stupid, but this is something I'm still learning about by asking. -- MJR

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Sunday
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Not sure I'll make the meeting on Sunday, due to family stuff (Partner's dad's 70th), so have a good one. Most disappointed. I may be able to persuade the immediate family to pop by on our way back (if Syleham *is* on the way back to Burwell from Ipswich), but the very word "computer" brings a glazed unfocused look to Mossey's eyes, so I'm not sure. Enjoy, Jenny. :-(

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Re: [Alug] nvidia graphics card
by MJ Ray 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Adam Bower wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: > > 3d support is still non-free and not recommended. If you want good 3d, > > these are not the cards that you are looking for.</obi-wan> > but they are if you want to play games.... so you have a problematic > choice if games are what floats your boat. Pick a different vendor. > You can buy a GFX card that has open specs and 3d support in Linux, but > you can't play Unreal tournament 2003 (Nvidia are the only people who > support the necessary 3d extensions atm, ATI have said possibly/maybe > (which imho means never) but it isn't here yet) [...] Aren't the ATI drivers open? Then it's not just ATI's choice. You can help make it happen, please. You can contribute to their coding (practially or financially), help test or document them, support them by buying their supported hardware, etc. Then again, is the unreal code open anyway? -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] A tale about Mandrake 9 and a mouse
by Craig 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:43:28AM +0000, Chris Walker wrote: > I have a machine which had previously had Mandrake 7.2 on it but this week > decided to go for version 9. I also upgraded the BIOS on the machine in case > that might make a difference. I chose KDE as the desktop and the first > improvement is that sound now works where it didn't before. The problem is > the mouse. It works when I first start the desktop but if the screen saver > cuts in I can't restart the desktop with mouse and it ceases to function > again after that. It all works again as normal after a reboot. Needless to > say I didn't have this problem in 7.2 so any ideas? > > If there is some error log I should have read prior to posting this then feel > free to point me to it. Probably a GPM related issue? -- (o_ .----------------------------------------. //\ | Craig Butcher | http://www.wizball.co.uk| V_/_ | - Using Gentoo GNU/Linux - | `----------------------------------------'

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Re: [Alug] nvidia graphics card - success
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

MJRay wrote: >"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" should ask you which X server at the >first step. -svga is v3 and -xfree86 is v4. >> Temper is rising. > >Mine too. Are you ignoring me? > >MJR No, no, not at all, I'm sorry - I just fail to understand a lot of the time. I've now seen what you are saying, done "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86"and have rocketed towards using xserver-xfree86, v4.x, having xf86config-4 file, and xwindow is now working as it should. Many thanks. MJRay previously wrote: >I think I've had one of those working fine in 2d with XFree86 3.x using the >svga binary, or 4.x using the nv driver. Both can be configured as you >install xserver-svga or xserver-xfree86, respectively, or using >dpkg-reconfigure afterwards. I did reinstall xserver-svga. I wasn't ignoring this, just blundering about in the dark. >3d support is still non-free and not recommended. If you want good 3d, >these are not the cards that you are looking for. I don't care about the 3d support, the card is not for games or fancy stuff. I've got this card because it is what work gave me. Seriously - I'm sorry if I waste anyone's time on-list. All the pointers are very welcome even if I do digest them very slowly sometimes. Thanks, Jen.

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