Re: Soundblaster Live! Card Not Working

2002-05-20 Thread Benjamin Pharr
No, the card doesn't show up when I do a lspci. Does that mean I've got a bad card? Thanks, Ben On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:15:08AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 13/05/02 Benjamin Pharr did speaketh: I just bought a Soundblaster Live! soundcard, and I can't get it to work. I'm

Soundblaster Live! Card Not Working

2002-05-13 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I just bought a Soundblaster Live! soundcard, and I can't get it to work. I'm running Debian GNU/Linux with the 2.4.19-pre8 kernel. When I do a modprobe emu10k1 it says: /lib/modules/2.4.19-pre8/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused

Gimp - Image resolution is out of bounds, using default resolution instead.

2002-05-02 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Image resolution is out of bounds, using default resolution instead. I get this message when opening photos in Gimp. These photos in particular are ones that have been scanned by Wal-Mart when they process my 35mm film. Any ideas why I'm getting this? Thanks, Ben Pharr pgpspYFSEoj5b.pgp

X Crashing when switching to virtual console

2002-01-23 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I am running testing and when I switch over to TTY1 (or any virtual console for that matter) from X, X nearly always crashes and restarts gdm. Has anyone had this happen to them and does anyone know how to keep it from happening? Thanks in advance. Ben Pharr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dreamweaver-Like Web Site Editor

2002-01-22 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I have everything other than my web site creation migrated over to Linux. I am stuck with Dreamweaver in Windows. Is there a Linux product that offers the template feature of Dreamweaver? Thanks in advance. Ben Pharr

apt-get

2002-01-17 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Is there a way to install or dist-upgrade with apt-get even when there are broken dependencies? Ben Pharr

Re: apt-get

2002-01-17 Thread Benjamin Pharr
-0500, David Z Maze wrote: Benjamin Pharr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to install or dist-upgrade with apt-get even when there are broken dependencies? You need to use 'apt-get -f install' to fix the broken dependencies first. (Or, possibly, generate dummy packages using 'equivs

Re: apt-get

2002-01-17 Thread Benjamin Pharr
any ideas? Ben Pharr On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 04:02:54PM -0500, dman wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:35:17PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: | Is there a way to install or dist-upgrade with apt-get even when there | are broken dependencies? Which dependencies are broken? You may not want

Linux Cooking Software

2002-01-15 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Does anyone know of any Linux cooking software? I'm thinking something similar to Mastercook for Windows. Thanks in advance. Ben Pharr

Exim Adding Sender Header

2002-01-09 Thread Benjamin Pharr
When I send e-mail from my Debian box, Exim is adding a Sender header on the way out. I tried adding my username to trusted_users in /etc/exim/exim.conf, but Exim dies saying it can't find that user. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Ben Pharr

Re: bzip2 is absolutly Amazing!

2001-12-07 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I agree with you for the most part, but you should be aware this works the other way in certain situations. I recently compressed a text file full of numbers with both bzip2 and gzip, and the bzip2 file was ~350MB and the gzip file was ~120MB. I surprised me, too, but in some cases gzip works

Cross Compiling

2001-11-13 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I have a program that I've written that needs to be cross compiled to a machine running SunOS 5.7 on a Ultra Sparc. I also need to cross compile it to Windows. How do I need to go about doing that? If you're going to tell me to RTFM then make sure you tell me which FM. To complicate things

LyX not setting margins correctly

2001-11-05 Thread Benjamin Pharr
LyX is not setting the margins to the values I specified. I tried the hoffset/voffset trick in the preamble, but that just scooted everything. Now my top and left margins are correct, but the bottom and right margins are huge. I tried tweaking the margins under Layout-Document, but it doesn't

Re: v2.4.14 kernel compile problem

2001-11-05 Thread Benjamin Pharr
This is a kernel problem, nothing to do with Debian. It has been posted to the linux-kernel list, but no fix has been posted yet. This may be another case where they fix it and make another release in a SHORT period of time. Commenting out the two references to the function and recompiling

Emacs - LISP Libraries

2001-11-02 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I am running testing, and when I run emacs and do a C-h p, it can't find any of the libraries. It will list them just fine, but when you try a particular one it says: Can't find library *blah*.el Any ideas? Ben Pharr

Setiathome Packet Caching

2001-05-08 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I'm looking for a program to cache Setiathome packets, both incoming and outgoing. Does anyone know of any such program for Linux? If so, is it packaged for Debian? Thanks! Ben Pharr

Booting Problems

2001-04-19 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Hi guys, I'm having a bit of a problem with my laptop. I'm not blaming it on any particular software or OS, but I thought someone might could help me out. My laptop dual boots Win98 and Debian (testing) using LILO. I can boot up into Linux any time I want to, no problem. However, if I'm in

Can't stat /etc/X11/X

2001-03-23 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I ran xf86config to make a XF86Config-4 (which I knew to do, but I thought setup was supposed to do that for me), but now I'm still getting the Can't stat /etc/X11/X message. I was getting it before, but I thought it was just because X was looking at the wrong configuration file. I know

debconf asking Questions

2001-03-22 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Right now wvdial is messed up in testing and everytime I install something else or do a dist-upgrade it asks me the four configuration questions for the package. How can I get it back to only asking the questions the first time? Thanks! Ben Pharr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Windows Acting Funny After Install

2001-03-22 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 11:12 PM 3/22/01 , you wrote: Everyone please jump on me if I'm incorrect, but I think once you've seen the Starting Windows 95 text anything that happens is beyond the control of lilo? I realize it's beyond the control of LILO, but it obviously has something to do with Debian. This is

Re: Debian with read-only /usr

2001-03-15 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 10:22 AM 3/15/01 , you wrote: I'm looking at NFS-mounting /usr for a largish number of machines, with the basic idea that then I can just keep the binaries on the central server up-to date and the workstations will all follow along with (hopefully) a minimum of effort. I'm a little concerned

Upgrading to Woody

2001-03-12 Thread Benjamin Pharr
When lines for woody are added to /etc/apt/sources.list, should the lines for potato be taken out or left in? Thanks! Ben Pharr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gdm login

2001-03-11 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I just did a fresh install of woody and ximian gnome on my laptop. Everything seems to be working fine, but when I try to login using gdm it goes black like it's going into X and then goes right back to gdm. No errors of any kind appear. I've checked all the logs including the

Configuring NTP

2001-03-05 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I'm trying to set up NTP on my Debina server. I installed NTP using apt-get and then added several: server servername.com lines to the /etc/ntp.conf file. It's been over a month, and my time continues to wander and /var/log/ntpstats is empty. I can't find any errors in any of my log files.

Sawfish

2001-02-23 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I added Ximian Gnome to my testing box yesterday, but when I try to use Sawfish as my window manager it justs sits there. It shows the standard X background, but nothing else. There are no errors on the screen and sawfish is listed in a ps aux, but it's sleeping. Anyone else had this

Cat-ting binary files to the console

2001-02-08 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Every once in a while I slip up at cat a binary file to the console. (Or just forget to give mkisofs the -o flag.) This causes the console to use WEIRD characters, just plain gibberish. Is there any way to get rid of this without rebooting? Thanks! Ben Pharr

Security Related Questions

2001-02-01 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I have a couple of security related questions for you. I have no need for sunrpc/portmap, however, I have found it impossible to discern which package these belong to. Second question. I have a mystery service running on port 1024. I fairly certain I haven't been hacked, but, who knows?

Re: Security Related Questions

2001-02-01 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 04:28 AM 2/1/01 , Pietro Cagnoni wrote: Second question. I have a mystery service running on port 1024. I fairly certain I haven't been hacked, but, who knows? When I do a nmap localhost port 1024 shows up as unknown. How can I find out which daemon is bound to 1024? Thanks in

Re: Security Related Questions

2001-02-01 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 07:26 AM 2/1/01 , you wrote: Quoting Benjamin Pharr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have a couple of security related questions for you. I have no need for sunrpc/portmap, however, I have found it impossible to discern which package these belong to. up to potato: /etc/init.d/portmap stop

Upgrading to Woody

2001-01-31 Thread Benjamin Pharr
About a week ago I did a apt-get -u dist-upgrade in order to move from potato to woody. When some of the packages were installing I got an error. I figured some of the packages were just broken so I gave it a few days. Today I went back and typed: apt-get clean apt-get update apt-get -f

Dist-upgrading to Woody (Testing)

2001-01-29 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Late last week I installed potato from a CD onto my test box. I dist-upgraded all the packages in stable, built a 2.4 kernel, and installed modutils from unstable so I could load modules from 2.4.0. At this point everything was still going fine, not a problem in site. Next I add sources for

Re: building pine from debs

2001-01-25 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 01:38 PM 1/25/01 , you wrote: Sorry if it's a usual problem, but I can't find info in the archives. Here it is (it's pine 3-96) apt-get source -b pine fetching data...OK compiling...OK and then: install bin/pine debian/tmp/usr/bin install: cannot stat `bin/pine': No such file or

LILO w/ password and restricted tags

2001-01-24 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Has anyone been able to use passwords with LILO? I've tried the method in the lilo.conf (where password tag is global) and the method on the man page (where password tag is per image) , but neither work. Thanks in advance! Ben Pharr

mkisofs

2001-01-23 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I'm trying to make an iso of a directory structure on my hard drive using mkisofs. I have Rock Ridge and Joliet enabled (along with a few other things), but it gives me an error saying the files with the same name, but in different directories have the same Rock Ridge name. Then it says

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-23 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 12:31 AM 1/23/01 , you wrote: file://c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora mail\attach\Re mkisofs.ems 0880.000260b7b4e.jpgfile://c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora mail\attach\Re mkisofs.ems 0880.0002 Re mkisofs.ems OK, fair enough, I removed the Joliet flag, gave it a try, and I still have the

Re: Problems installing Netgear FA311 Ethernetcard.

2001-01-22 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 11:49 AM 1/22/01 , you wrote: My Netgear FA311 Card was not found at bootstrapping (rescue disk). I were not able to install the recommended 'tulip' driver into the kernel at installation process. I wanted to install the 'tulip' driver as a module, after I build my system, but /dev/eth0 did

crack and MD5

2001-01-21 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I'm running potato with MD5 password hashing enabled. Crack works fine when used on a system that uses standard crypt(). I would like to run crack to test my users passwords. I changed the Crack script to gcc settings and moved and copied the files I was supposed to for MD5. When I did a

pine

2001-01-21 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I'm having a bit of a problem getting pine to compile on Debian. I installed the src and the diffs package and then followed the instructions in the README. It compiles for several minutes and then starts giving errors. os.c:1122 invalid operands to binary == incompatible type for argument2

/etc/alternatives/vi

2001-01-21 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Can anyone tell me which package owns the /etc/alternatives/vi file? Thanks! Ben Pharr

Re: Security Updates

2001-01-18 Thread Benjamin Pharr
You can only get security upgrades for packages that you have installed. You may not have others installed at all. Check non-upgraded packages' status. You are absolutely right. That was just too obvious for me. Thanks! Ben Pharr

Making a copy of a CD

2001-01-18 Thread Benjamin Pharr
What is the easiest way to make a copy of a CD in Linux? Thanks! Ben

SSH

2001-01-18 Thread Benjamin Pharr
While logging into my Debian box using ssh I noticed that it is setup to use SSH version 1 by default. This protocol is widely known to have security problems. Does anyone know why Debian is still using it? Below I have pasted a link from the official ssh.org FAQ.

Security Updates

2001-01-17 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Is there any way I can apt-get the patches for the security updates on Debian.org? Thanks! Ben Pharr

Re: Security Updates

2001-01-17 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 09:47 PM 1/17/01 , you wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:36:06PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: Is there any way I can apt-get the patches for the security updates on Debian.org? Thanks! Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib

XFree86 3.3.6 / Linux 2.4.0 / Intel i810

2001-01-16 Thread Benjamin Pharr
My new desktop is ?blessed? with an Intel i810 chipset that is not supported under XFree86 3.3.6. I have found instructions that make it work with the 2.2.18 kernel and others that make X 4.0.? work with kernel 2.4.0. However, I want 3.3.6 with 2.4.0. ( This is due to the fact that my

cdrecord

2001-01-16 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I have an IDE CDRW drive that I want to be able to use in linux. I have done apt-get install cdrecord. I have read the CD Writing HOWTO and I know I have to enable SCSI emulation, but can anyone who has done it in Debian tell me the easiest way? Thanks! Ben Pharr

cdrecord problems

2001-01-16 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I'm still having difficulties getting my cd writer to work. Here is what I've done so far: Recompiled my (2.4.0) kernel with scsi-emulation and scsi support. IDE-CDROM support is compiled in statically. 1. apt-get install cdrecord 2. Added append=hdd=ide-scsi to my /etc/lilo.conf 3. Ran

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-16 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 09:41 PM 1/16/01 , you wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:21:57PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: When I run cdrecord -scanbus I still get no devices. If I comment out the append in lilo.conf hdd is mentioned once more at boot time, so something is happening, I'm just not sure what. Can

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-16 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 10:49 PM 1/16/01 , you wrote: Mike wrote: Here's his problem: 2. Added append=hdd=ide-scsi to my /etc/lilo.conf Should just be hdd=scsi. Search for =scsi in linux/Documentation/Configure.help for more info. Uhh, you sure about that? Argh,

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-16 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 10:52 PM 1/16/01 , you wrote: If you compile all modules for scsi emulation of CDRW you need in the kernel config: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m for ide-scsi module...scsi emulation CONFIG_SCSI=m scsi-mod scsi support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m sr_mod

Starting Program as non-root

2001-01-15 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I need to start up a program (setiathome) as non-root from the startup scripts. I have access to the scripts, I just want it to run as a regular user. Can anyone tell me how? Thanks in advance! Ben Pharr

Re: Modules Not Loading

2001-01-12 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 11:28 PM 1/11/01 , Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:01:13PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: I have several modules in the /etc/modules file that are supposed to be loaded upon boot. I receive an error message for each one saying that can't be loaded. I know they were built

pump / dhcpcd

2001-01-12 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I finally found the right kernel options for my ethernet card, so now the kernel recognizes it, but I need to setup dhcp support to configure eth0 at boot time. pump is already installed, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything. I tried installing dhcpcd, but it conflicted with pump. Any

init / rc0.d

2001-01-12 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I got my ethernet card up and running. Thanks! Previously I was running Slackware, so I'm used to the BSD style of init, however Taking a look at the symlinks in rc0.d in appears that S35networking would be starting up the network. Can anyone explain this to me? Thanks! Ben

Modules Not Loading

2001-01-11 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I have several modules in the /etc/modules file that are supposed to be loaded upon boot. I receive an error message for each one saying that can't be loaded. I know they were built and installed. I have checked and they are in the right place. I have tried to load them manually with

Odd Restart

2001-01-10 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I have just installed Debian 2.2r2 on my desktop and I other than configuring LILO and installing the 2.4.0 kernel on it I have done nothing. It boots up just fine, but if I let it sit there after booting up it will restart, not reboot, itself. It causes fs corruption and when it gets to the

ncurses / libncurses

2001-01-10 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I can't use 'make menuconfig' when trying to use the kernel because ncurses is not installed. I have tried: apt-get install ncurses apt-get install libncurses apt-get install libncurses-dev all with no luck. I'm not very familiar with the Debian packaging system, so could someone help me

Debian Packaging System and libncurses5-dev

2001-01-10 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I needed to install libncurses5-dev, but it wasn't on the CD and my NIC still isn't working in Linux. (It's a NetGear FA311 if anyone has experience with it.) I switched into Win98, downloaded it, and went back into Linux. I copied the .deb file into /root/ and ran dpkg -A