X11 with different keyboards
I am currently spending quite some time at work travelling back and forth between Denmark and Sweden. I have a laptop that I bring with me and a screen and keyboard at the office in Sweden that I can hook up to. Now the fun part is that the laptop has an american keyboard layout while the external keyboard is swedish, and I would like a more convenient way of controlling the situation than reconfiguring the X server whenever I switch :-) First of all, is there anybody who knows of a way to sample programmtically whether there is an external ketboard hooked up to the laptop? Secondly, is there any other way to switch keyboard layout on the fly under X11 (just like I can with `loadkeys' on the console) other than generating a set of command files for xmodmap? +- Christian Lynbech | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why doesn't alt-x in Emacs doesn't work?
The way emacs sets up the meta key is somewhat a mystery to me. Here is the output on my machine from `xmodmap': xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lockCaps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) mod1Alt_L (0x40) mod2Num_Lock (0x4d) mod3Mode_switch (0x71) mod4 mod5Scroll_Lock (0x4e) So if you get Alt_L bound to mod1, you should be back in business. Strange things happens if you start moving modifiers around to other mod's or have the Meta key bound in somewhere, at least enough that it made my head spin once I tried setting up Caps_lock as yet another modifier key. (can't have too many of these with emacs :-) ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Ericsson Telebit, Fabrikvej 11, DK-8260 Viby J Fax: +45 8675 6881 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +45 8675 6828 | web: www.ericssontelebit.com ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs
Greg == Greg Strockbine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can also browse tarballs, gzips, bzips, gzipped tarballs, bzipped tarballs, and zips as well, providing that the attendant gzip, bzip, tar, Greg well, gee, its starting to sound like emacs :-) Just to make the note: emacs is able to browse tar files, even if compressed, and I believe there is also support for .debs somewhere. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Ericsson Telebit, Fabrikvej 11, DK-8260 Viby J Fax: +45 8675 6881 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +45 8675 6828 | web: www.ericssontelebit.com ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Re: apt-get byte compile problem
What packages are we talking about? (You can use `dpkg -S' to match a particular file to its package). Some of the larger emacs packages has the .el files in separate packages in order not to needlessly swamp the system. This includes emacs itself. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Ericsson Telebit, Fabrikvej 11, DK-8260 Viby J Fax: +45 8675 6881 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +45 8675 6828 | web: www.ericssontelebit.com ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Re: How do I allow empty passwords?
Riku == Riku Saikkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Riku passwd -d guest seems to remove the password for the user guest on Riku my potato system One can also do usermod -p guest Beware, however, that PAM may not be configured to allow empty passwords. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Ericsson Telebit, Fabrikvej 11, DK-8260 Viby J Fax: +45 8675 6881 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +45 8675 6828 | web: www.ericssontelebit.com ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software
Jonathan == Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jonathan I think the best comment over the emacs thing was; someone Jonathan said it's not an editor, it's a virtual machine Now that Jonathan makes great sense! Now someone needs to come up with Jonathan something as clever to explain vi... :) I once heard the quote: UNIX has a better editor than Emacs, but Emacs has a better operating system. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Ericsson Telebit, Fabrikvej 11, DK-8260 Viby J Fax: +45 8675 6881 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +45 8675 6828 | web: www.ericssontelebit.com ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Re: Configuration management
I have been toying with the same idea (putting stuf like /etc) under CVS control, though I haven't gotten round to become serious about it yet. My idea towards handling individual machine specifics would be to use the branch system. If a certain file needed a specific change, branch off (on that file only) and do it. The trick would be to have a consistent tag naming scheme that would automate the process in the other direction. One could then run CVS through some apropriate scripts that would examine the tag structure and do the right thing. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Ericsson Telebit A/S Fax: +45 8628 8186 | Fabrikvej 11, DK-8260 Viby J Phone: +45 8738 2228 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- URL: http://www.tbit.dk ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Re: Who builds YOUR binary RPMs?
I think there is a rather simple reason why .rpms are everywhere but .debs isn't. The rpm based distributions are so much smaller that important functionality is missing, thus forcing many people to go and build rpms for their favourite software. Since debian is so big, there is very little software not already presented by a debian developer. And I disagree that rpms are very simple to do. Been there, done that, hated it - a lot. Doing a package is no more difficult with dpkg than with rpm. Doing a *good* package, catering for all the different and impossible situations it may be presented to is a tough job, no matter what system you are using. The standards are probably somewhat higher in the debian world, and that may be what put people off. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Ericsson Telebit A/S Fax: +45 8628 8186 | Fabrikvej 11, DK-8260 Viby J Phone: +45 8738 2228 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- URL: http://www.tbit.dk ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults
I am no expert on X11 ressources, but here is a few ideas. Beware that this is based on a mental image I have built for myself which may have anywhere between 0 and 100 % resemblance to reality. First note that X11 distinguishes between an applications *class* and its *name*. So you could try writing Emacs.background: Black To set a default for all applications in the Emacs class. I guess that lowercase entries are then referring to actual application names. The (resource) name of an application defaults to the executables name, but may be modified with the standard X11 option of -name. Thus you could also have written: foobar.background: Black and then invoke emacs as emacs -name foobar -title my-foobar The -title is just to set the titlebar of the window. This may also explain why the emacs. setting was working from .xsession but not with fvwm. You were referring to the name, but if fvwm somehow changes this (resource wise), you will be in trouble. You can experiment from a shell. Apparently, emacs looks into .Xdefaults whenever it starts. Just add -q to avoid reading your .emacs. You could also handle this from within your .emacs. You could say stuff such as: (if (eq window-system 'x) (progn (setq default-frame-alist (cons (cons '(background-color . white) '(foreground-color . black) default-frame-alist ))) (modify-frame-parameters nil default-frame-alist))) ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Ericsson Telebit A/S Fax: +45 8628 8186 | Fabrikvej 11, DK-8260 Viby J Phone: +45 8738 2228 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- URL: http://www.tbit.dk ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Lava link-650 high speed serial port?
Does anybody know if he Lava link-650 serial port will work with linux? I have tried looking around on the net, but found no (usefull) mentioning of it (together with linux), nor positive or negative. I do not know much about its internals other than it is supposed to better than the usual 16550A based cards. It may use a 16750 UART, would that be bad? ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Telebit Communications A/S Fax: +45 8628 8186 | Fabrik 11, DK-8260 Viby J Phone: +45 8628 8177 + 28 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- URL: http://www.telebit.dk ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
apt and multi-CD distributions
Is there a way to install via apt from multiple CD's, but from a single drive? And how about mounting the CD. With dselects CDROM method, dselect will take cae of the necessary mounting and unmounting, whereas I have sofar done this by hand with apt. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Telebit Communications A/S Fax: +45 8628 8186 | Fabrik 11, DK-8260 Viby J Phone: +45 8628 8177 + 28 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- URL: http://www.telebit.dk ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Re: ISDN modem problems (SOLVED)
I have now my Zyxel Omni.net plus ISDN modem up and running. The crucial informaton seemed to have comed from the Serial-programing HOWTO and involves IRQ priorities. Enabling `irqtune' in /etc/rc.boot/hwtools seems to have done the trick. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Telebit Communications A/S Fax: +45 8628 8186 | Fabrik 11, DK-8260 Viby J Phone: +45 8628 8177 + 28 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- URL: http://www.telebit.dk ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ISDN modem problems
Jens == Jens B Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jens I use a Zyxel OMNI TA 128U (almost the exact same beast) with a single 64K Jens channel. It has no problems. My server machine is a P90 overclocked to 100 with Jens 40MB of memory. Perhaps you're getting buffer overruns on your serial port. What Jens baud rate are you running your serial port at? I am using 115200 in my pppd options file, and use setserial with the spd_vhi flag on the device. And I am only using a single channel. I have made some progress though. I was using an extra serial port I had installed. Though there should be no IRQ conflicts, removing that board and using the builtin one (COM2) made the whole thing run much better. However, I am still not able to get the ISDN line up when X11 is running (due to massive ppp frame fcs problems). I am suspecting that I am experiencing IRQ priority problems (could be that X increased the latency of some higher priority IRQ), but having spent a couple of hours with my nose in Serial-programming HOWTO did not help much. Irqtune did not seem to make any difference to that problem. Is my PC just too slow? ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Telebit Communications A/S Fax: +45 8628 8186 | Fabrik 11, DK-8260 Viby J Phone: +45 8628 8177 + 28 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- URL: http://www.telebit.dk ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ISDN modem problems
I have just got myself an ISDN line and a Zyxel Omni.net plus modem, but I have problems in getting it to work smoothly. The problem is that I keep getting error messages saying something to the effect of: ppp: frame with bad fcs, excess = 4de9 The more trafic (for instance with ping) I generate, the less packages comes through. The limit seems to be around packet sizes of 2048/4096. If I stress my machine (which is a pentium 75 with 48Mb of RAM, a couple of years old), more packages are dropped. If my machine is only lightly loaded, pppd will only come up if I use the option: kdebug 7 Otherwise it fails rather eraly in the initial negotiations when a ConfReq never sees the corresponding ConfAck. However, if I run a heavy job (such as a kernel compilation), the kdebug is not necessary to get pppd up. It will drop a few packages with ping -s 4096, but now silently. With ping -s 8192, almost nothing gets through. If I run X11, the connection can not get up (with kdebug 7). Does anybody have an idea where and how I should investigate? Should I suspect my serial port? Is my machine simply too slow to handle a 64kps connection? Is there any kernel option I can set? ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Telebit Communications A/S | Fabrikvej 11, DK-8260 Viby J Phone: +45 8628 8176 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- URL: http://www.tbit.dk ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's
I am not sure whether this can help you at all (or whether it has been brougth up before), but the following hack, posted to a debian list a long time ago, works for me in rewriting headers with smail. I am using my university account to connect to the internet, and I want all replies (regardless of who sent it locally) to arrive at that account. This is the smtp entry from my `/etc/smail/routers' file: smtp: driver=tcpsmtp, remove_header=From, insert_header=From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ($sender_name on satellite), max_addrs=100, # limit on number of addresses -max_chars, inet; # use route-addr addresses for routing -use_bind, # resolve MX and multiple A records defer_no_connect, # try again if the nameserver is down -local_mx_okay, # fail an MX to the local host defnames# use standard domain searching Note the remove_header/insert_header lines. I am using smail 3.2.0.92-1. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Telebit Communications A/S | Fabrikvej 11, DK-8260 Viby J Phone: +45 8628 8176 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- URL: http://www.tbit.dk ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?
Carey == Carey Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Carey It is easy to plug in two mice, dodgy to plug in two monitors, Carey but pretty much impossible to plug in two keyboards at the Carey moment, IMO. Wouldn't it be sort of possible to plug in an ascii terminal to the serial port, hide the screen under the table, move the keyboard over to that second monitor and write some fairly simple program that would read characters of the serial port device and forward them to the Xserver? ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Telebit Communications A/S | Fabrikvej 11, DK-8260 Viby J Phone: +45 8628 8176 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- URL: http://www.tbit.dk ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Network audio system
Bill == Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Fatal server error could not create audio connection block info This means that when the NAS tried to start the audio server, it died. Most likley, your kernel does not support sound, at least not in the way that the NAS server expects it to. In order to support sound, you need to compile a kernel with specific options matching the sound hardware on your machine. The standard kernels does not have these options set. Recompiling the kernel isn't that difficult, but you should probably use a second or two to consider whether you need sound that badly and whether your laptop has supported sound hardware. The only effect you get by not having NAS working is that you will not be able to use the NAS tools (such as `auplay' and `aurecord'). ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg-source
john == john [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: john What will happen then when I make patches for use on systems john that don't have this new version of patch? There is no need to worry. First of all, patch files are generated by `diff' and not `patch'. Secondly, the problem with `patch' is only with the command line arguments used to specify the backup file extension. A recent version of `patch' changed that, and `dpkg-source' changed with it, but newer version of `patch' has (should we say: by popular demand :-) reverted to the old (standard) way of specifying this. What all of this means is only that your version of `dpkg-source' must match your version of `patch'. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg-source
There was a message (which I did not keep) saying that the problem was not the patch problem but related to how the ppp-2.3.1 source was packed (pristine sources). I do not remember (or perhaps understand) whether it meant that no dpkg-source could unpack it or whether you had to use a specific version of dpkg-source. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Building dpkg on sparc
I am also trying to build dpkg, both under Solaris and under IRIX. I have found a few patches necessary, largely due to linux-ism I guess. With some quick and dirty, I have been able to build dpkg and dpkg-deb and some assorted utilities under IRIX 6.2. I am currently under ways to see how well my fixes work under other (solaris for one). Give a day or two, I should be able to file a preliminary report to the dpkg maintainers. If anybody else wants to see the patches (they are quick and dirty), send me a note and I'll include you on the CC list. Note that I am working against 1.4.0.19 (unstable), which was a braver decision than i first realised :-) PS My interest in a non-linux version of dpkg is that we here at the departement have initiated a major project of bringing our locally compiled programs under some sort of management. Ufortunately, and much to my regret, the guy leading the project has started out using rpm. Step one in fighting that decision is of course to get a working dpkg. Step two is getting some experience building dpkg packages, for instance starting with some of the prospective packages I keep saying I will make :-) ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list
Mark == Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark __What do we want to achieve?__ As I read Bruce's mail, this is also an issue of organisation. The volume here is getting too much for one list-administrator to read through all mails. Dividing it into two or three clearly orthogonal lists (ie. that cuts the voulme of each, but not necessarily of all together) could make it a lot easier to administer things. Mark __A Proposal__ I like the topics idea very much, if we can get people to use it (at least some of the time :-). It would make it very much easier to filter the group, whether it is visually or automatically. And it is a good idea, regardless of whether the list is split or not. However, I would to extend the proposal by adding the topics [package] ie. where a topic in all lowercase letter should refer to a specific package, by its canonical name. Uppercase topics is then reserved for supertopics, ie. topics combining several packages or without a clear relation to any specific package. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list
George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Christian Lynbech wrote: However, I would to extend the proposal by adding the topics [package] George I think that this is too complicated for people, particularly George newbies, to have to remember. This is only as an option in addition to a set of supertopics, such as HELP, MAIL, X11 and MODEM. To many people asking questions about a particular item, say smail, it shouldn't be too much of a problem. And if we got this topic thing working, it should be a smaller matter to add some support, at least to the more sophisticated mailers (such as emacs), so that the MUA could prompt for the topic. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list
George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George I like this idea. But just so folks know, it probably won't George reduce traffic volume much since most of us are going to want George to subscribe to both lists anyhow (just so we dont miss George something important). True, but it would be easier for the organizers split the responsibility for reading the mails. The rest of us can continue to scan the list for interesting things, such as replies to our own queries. But it is of course necessary that the split produces two or three lists with an (almost) equal amount of traffic. Which is also why I think that the discussion list should be renamed to `discussion' as someone had suggested, to ensure both that the name is more descriptive and that we are deadsure that people are made aware of the reorganization. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
splitting up the debian-user mailing list
I like the idea of splitting up the lists, but I would like to support the suggestions of the following names: debian-discusion: general discussions debian-help: seek and you shall find With a `novice' and a `user' group, I believe we will see crosspostings, since novices, being exactly that, may not really know the difference, and what should they do if there is no answer to a query posted only to `novice'. But saying `discussion' and `help' should be clear, even to a novice (and this is not to say anything bad of novices, I has been one myself). Also it will free the novices from having to decide when they have aged enoough to move their questions to the `user' list. The fewer the choices (three lists are most likely the limit) and the smaller the overlap of overall technical content (ie. do you need help or are you just unsatisfied with dselect or is it X or mail) as opposed to difficult qualities such newbieness or installation-typish. One should also consider very seriously to provide some gentle guidance to people making the three obvious mistakes of crossposting, asking on the wrong list and using old subject lines without changing them. If somebody is meant to read all messages anyway, they might as well send a polite note making the poster aware of the mistake and that it is in the mutual interest of everyone to keep this three simple rules. They do this for instance on gnu.emacs.sources and I think it is rather a success. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ppp-off not stopping dialup-connection
When I was using pppd, I also had a little script, which basically just did what the init.d script was doing, ie. something like: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon --$action --verbose --exec /usr/sbin/pppd -- connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chatscript$long with $action being `start' or `stop'. I have been using diald for some time now, so I do not know if it still works. If all else fails, you could consider just doing an echo ATZ /dev/modem in you script. That should really take care of things. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
rxvt sporadic problem
Peter == Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rxvt Peter rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty rxvt: aborting This could be a problem of running out of pseudo tty's which is a limited ressource. However, I do not remember seeing such a thing on any singleuser computer (ie. in most ordinary conditions; it takes more than a few users to use up the defaults). Are you running a server with lot of users or do you create extraordinary many sessions (xterms/rxvt/login/rsh)? Each session takes a tty, so most X sessions takes quite a lot, though I personally never had problems. However, if a rogue script is executing rsh's or rxvt's in an infinite loop, you will of course run dry at some point. Peter I get this error under a non-root account, and then 10 minutes Peter later the command works again. Certainly sounds like `to few ressources with too many consumers'. Try doing a `who' command. I believe that lists all allocated ttys. I do not know how to enlarge the number of tty's on a linux box, but there is undoubtedly a guru on this list that knows. Peter xterm: unable to find usable termcap entry. Somewhat strange. The xterm terminal definition definitely is in the standard database. Perhaps your environment is pointing to something non-standard. Check for settings of the TERMCAP or TERMINFO environment variables, and unset them if present. You can also try to check the directory: /usr/lib/terminfo/x which should contain a file named `xterm'. If that is present, the database should be ok, I guess. On my system, that directory looks like: x10term x820 xerox820 xterm-color xterms-sun x1700 xenix xl83 xterm-nic x1700-lm xerox xtalk xterm-pcolor x1720 xerox-lm xterm xterm-sun x1750 xerox1720 xterm-boldxterms If you get really desparate, it is a rather small thing to install a new xterm terminfo entry (though you probably want to find out what is going on). You can even have a personal ~/.terminfo directory, complementing the system entries, which just is yet another thing that shows how wonderfull a UNIX system linux really is. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters
Fredrik == Fredrik Ax [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fredrik On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, DANIEL STRINGFIELD wrote: I'm not personally thrilled with the high volume, but I wouldn't Fredrik I couldn't agree more to this. After all this is a Fredrik debian-USER list. Me too. One should not forget that if all non-strictly-debian stuff are banned, it would force even casual users such as my self to start following other forums such as the linux newsgroups, and I believe I would quickly end up with even more volume than we currently are seeing on this list. As it is now, I can get by just reading debian-user and has no pressing need to follow any linux newsgroups. But it seems likely that another debian list or two perhaps could help organizing the volume a bit. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters
Max == Max Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Max Although the creation of a 'Debian-guru' list would have the same Max effect as creating a 'Debian-newbie' list. Everybody would ask Max their questions on the guru list ... A better approach could be to do a functional split, such as a debian-X11, debian-config or debian-dist. This would reduce volume on the main list without having people crossposting all over the place to be sure to get an answer. Of course finding the right split is not easy, but with a little statistic on the distribution of subjects in the past, one should be able to get a sensible partitioning. And there must not be too many; 2-4 max. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: URL for StarOffice is here
Ralph == Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralph One of these days I'm going to have to reverse engineer a Word Ralph to troff perl. You could start from catdoc.c, which will convert word* to text or TeX. catdoc.c Description: Binary data ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Weird emacs autoload question
Colin == Colin Telmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Colin ... However, if I first load the latex file, and then load the Colin bibtex file, bibtex-mode is successfully loaded, but Colin font-lock-mode and auto-fill-mode are not. The *messages* Colin buffer gives me the following: Colin Loading bibtex... Colin Loading bibtex...done Colin File mode Colin specification error: (invalid-function (macro . #[(rest cdr) Colin \300\301BD\207 [function lambda cdr] 3 758067])) The first thing to try, is to run without your .emacs (for instance by starting emacs as emacs -q doing the necessary mode changes by hand). If the problem disappears, you are doing something wrong, and can start outcommenting thing in .emacs to see where the problem is. If that does not help, there is little left than to debug the darn thing, for instance by evaluating something like this: (progn (debug) (find-file test.tex) (find-file test.bib)) and singlestep you through the latter `find-file'. I can't off hand see any problems with your .emacs, though I'm a little unsure on your hook settings. You should consider using `add-hook' (rather than `setq') which works as follows: add-hook: a compiled Lisp function. (add-hook HOOK FUNCTION optional APPEND LOCAL) Add to the value of HOOK the function FUNCTION. FUNCTION is not added if already present. FUNCTION is added (if necessary) at the beginning of the hook list unless the optional argument APPEND is non-nil, in which case FUNCTION is added at the end. The optional fourth argument, LOCAL, if non-nil, says to modify the hook's buffer-local value rather than its default value. This makes no difference if the hook is not buffer-local. To make a hook variable buffer-local, always use `make-local-hook', not `make-local-variable'. HOOK should be a symbol, and FUNCTION may be any valid function. If HOOK is void, it is first set to nil. If HOOK's value is a single function, it is changed to a list of functions. One difference is that add-hook maintain the hook as a list, whereas your hooks are lambda values, at least in some cases. That could make a difference to BibTeX-mode. Hope it helps. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PCMCIA Ethernet/Modem cards..
I have just tested out a laptop, and I recommend that you AVOID the Dell Latitude. They newer ones comes with an unsupported graphic card (MagigGraph or NeoMagic). The result was both that I could not combine X in high resolution (800x600) and text mode (if one was working the other was unusable) and that it needed to run from the VGA16 server, meaning that only 16 colours was available. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Hanging diald connections
Francois == Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Francois Are you using PPP with a dynamically assigned address? Yes I am. Francois I suspect that the first packet gets sent with the FROM IP Francois address being that of the serial device and not the address Francois that was assigned to the PPP link when it came up. Sounds plausible and fixable. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Hanging diald connections
I have encountered a problem with diald. I was wondering if anybody else has seen something similar. I was experimenting to make it harder for diald to connect, and one experiment was to record some specific hosts in /etc/hosts in order to keep diald from brining the line up just to consult the nameserver. But if I subsequently tried to connect to that particular host, the link would start up as normal, but the program would just hang and get nowhere. Killing the application and trying again, or trying the application from another shell (after the link had come up) worked fine, as did connecting to another host, most likely because the nameserver query would bring the link up before the actual communication took place. Doing a trace on the hanging program showed that it was hanging in connect(). I have experienced the problem both ssh (secure shell) and trying to fetch mail via POP in emacs. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ALT+CTRL+BS dangerous to X server
Apparently, the keyboard combinbation of ALT+CTRL+Backspace is set up to kill the X server. Is there any way to rebind/remove this feature? It shadows the handy emacs function of backward-kill-sexp and I have just lost one too many session on this account. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X11 and keymaps on debian 1.2
I've just upgraded from 1.1.something to 1.2 and I have a problem in getting a usable keymap. Before upgrading, there was no problem. The machine booted up with danish keyboard as expected and this was repected also after starting X. However now, even though it still boots up nicely with a danish keymap, X now provides a US layout. I could of course fix it with xmodmap but that shouldn't really be necessary I hope. I should perhaps metion that in the process of upgrading, I managed to almost toast my installation by purging the obsoleted package `base' (looked like a predecessor to `base_files'), so it is possible that something has been reset somewhere (since I rescued the situation from the base disk set possibly using a US keyboard). ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
date and time
The workaround I have been using is to start up windows95 and set the clock and date there. Then it remembers. I guess that DOS and windows 3 has equivalent options. But I would also like to know how to do it from within linux. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Emacs and tcsh
I use the following in my .cshrc: stty -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z which I believe fixes the problem of ^M. However, you may also want to use terminal mode rather than shell mode. If you say: M-x term you get a real terminal. If you type TAB, you get filename completion from the tcsh, and the terminal is in fact advanced enough to run for instance `less' in the buffer. It is not perfect, but it works well enough for me that I hardly use xterms any more. Only hassle is that you have to find out how to install the terminal definition. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting my souncd card
Daniel == Daniel J Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel ...complain about being busy. You are probably running the au server (since auplay works). This daemon grabs the sound device and this is why you are getting busy errors when trying to use via other tools. Try stopping the au daemon by doing a /etc/init.d/nas stop Then you should be able to use the audio device with cat. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
E-Mail address
I have a university account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and a linux box at home. My account name is joe on the linux box, and I want all outgoing mail to say it is from [EMAIL PROTECTED] How would I do this? I use smail, configured as the `satellite' option. I did the following in the `transports' file to resolve the name problem: smtp: driver=tcpsmtp, max_addrs=100, -max_chars, inet, remove_header=From, insert_header=From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ($sender_name on satellite); use_bind, defer_no_connect, -local_mx_okay, defnames which means that on outgoing posts (delievered via SMTP which is not the default I believe), the from header is first removed and a new is inserted. This gives me ordinary handling on local mail (internal on the linux box) and my account name on everything that goes outside. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bad block on disk
I have gotten a bad block on my linux partition, and I need some help in getting the system back on its feet. The system is able to boot, but comes up with the root filesystem (there is only 3 partitions on the system, one DOS, one swap and the linux root filesystem) as readonly. Perhaps due to the `mount' program being one of the files lost. I have run `e2fsck -c', found bad blocks and cleared the infected files. So far the only important loss is the `mount' program. What I need to know is the following: - How do I get rid of the bad block? Running e2fsck a second time gives the same error (though without further modifications to the filesystem) and finds the same bad block. How can I remove the block so that it won't get accessed again. - One way of provoking the read error is by running `df'. Does this indicate that some non-data portion of the disk is hit as well? - How do I get the mount program back. Do I need to boot from the debian floppies and use a shell from there, or is there some lilo magic I can use to get the root up read/write? ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dpkg documentation on paper?
As far as I can tell, dpkg 1.4.0.1 is shipped exclusively with .html versions of the docs. But I would really prefer to get it out on paper. Am I missing something obvious, or do I need to grab the source to the sgml files and work from there? ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LaTeX and 8bit input
How can I get LaTeX to accept 8bit input and display the full isolatin1 character set. Currently, it (seems as it) simply discards the extensions, displaying a word such as t.st as tst (substitute your favorite non-ascii 8bit isolatin1 character for the dot abov). Here at departement, we have a style called `isolatin1' that enables the display of these extended characters. In a previous version of debian (believe it was 1.1 beta), it worked to include the style `t1enc', but doing this under 1.1-fixed, tries to generate some fonts such as dcr1000m, but this process fails rather quickly. I have also tried using the `inputencoding' style giving the `latin1' option, but with no visible effect. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Anyone got a microcom working with diald?
Mark == Mark Warburton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark Recently, I purchased a 28800 Microcom Deskporte 28.8S to speed Mark things up a bit. Now diald will not work. I have such a modem working just fine, though I do not use diald currently. But I have used diald back with 0.93R6 with no problems. I can mail you my pppd setup if it can help. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]
Rob == Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Eck) writes: Rob Well, I'd like to see the code for the infinite loop that'd melt Rob down my processor. I've written a few in my time (accidentally), Rob and the machine's still here. Well, lucky you. :-) The issue of destroying a computer through software was once (probably has been several times) discussed on alt.folklore.computers. It is (or rather was) possible, but only in one known case. I do not remember many details, but some old microcomputer (Commodore of some sort I believe) allowed you to flip a bit in a register on the video chip that would cause power to build up somewhere until the chip eventually died. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Re: Real Audio
Richard == Richard G Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Derek Lee wrote: I have Real Audio working on my debian box. I am running 2.0.0 kernel which contains the appropriate Voxware sound driver. There was no need to install USSLite. Are your other sound utilities working? --Derek Lee Richard I'm having a problem getting anything to do with sound to Richard work. I get this at boot time: Richard Starting the Network Audio System Richard Checking quotas: Done Richard Making quota files sparse: Done Richard Turning on quotas Richard starting /usr/sbin/snmpd ... Richard starting /usr/sbin/watchdog ... Richard Fatal server error: Richard could not create audio connection block info Hmm, which kernel version are you running? I upgraded to 2.0.0 and found much to my pleasant surprise that my soundblaster card had started to work. Then I upgraded to 2.0.6 and it stopped working again (I haven't had time to properly report it yet, so I haven't the error message at hand but it was something about allocating an IRQ). Downgrading back to 2.0.0 fixed things. The Fatal server error you get is just the Network Audio System (NAS) telling you that it can't connect to the sound device. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
