Odd sound issue

1999-12-23 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
Hello,

I'm running a Debian 2.1r4 box with a SB 16 WavEffects (CT4171) sound
card.  It seems to work in some things but not others.  I have support for
it compiled into the kernel and I have 'PnP OS?=No' in the BIOS (Award
4.51pg, I believe).

cat english.au  /dev/audio works fine, but xanim english.au doesn't.
kmedia plays .wav's, but xanim doesn't.  xmcd works fine, but rvplayer 5.0
doesn't.

Any suggestions?

TIA :)

Matthew Thompson   http://mattyt.net
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Re: printing in netscape

1997-09-14 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
  hello, all,
  
  when i try to print from netscape, i get this message in my xconsole:
  
  Sep 12 09:53:40 mattyt lpd[1143]: lp: Daemon filter 'f' terminated (13)
 
 What do you have as print command in the window which pops up in
 Netscape when you try to print?  Just a simple lpr works fine for me.

I had lpr and it still wasn't working.  Turns out I didn't have 'gs'
installed.

*sigh*

All is well now...:)

Thanks for the reply,
matty

Matt Thompson 
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707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420
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printing in netscape

1997-09-12 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hello, all,

when i try to print from netscape, i get this message in my xconsole:

Sep 12 09:53:40 mattyt lpd[1143]: lp: Daemon filter 'f' terminated (13)

???

Matt Thompson 
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707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420
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bash

1997-08-27 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hello,

i downloaded the bash 2.01 source from /gnu and did a ./configure and
make. i then attempted make install, and received the following:

mattyt# make install
mkdir /usr/local/info
/usr/bin/install -c bash /usr/local/bin/bash
/usr/bin/install -c bashbug /usr/local/bin/bashbug
( cd ./doc ; make  \
man1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 man1ext=1 \
man3dir=/usr/local/man/man3 man3ext=3 \
infodir=/usr/local/info install )
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/bash-2.01/doc'
test -d /usr/local/man/man1 || /bin/sh ../support/mkdirs
/usr/local/man/man1
test -d /usr/local/man/man3 || /bin/sh ../support/mkdirs
/usr/local/man/man3
test -d /usr/local/info || /bin/sh ../support/mkdirs /usr/local/info
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./bash.1 /usr/local/man/man1/bash.1
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./bashbug.1 /usr/local/man/man1/bashbug.1
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./bashref.info /usr/local/info/bash.info
if /bin/sh -c 'install-info --version' /dev/null 21; then \
install-info --dir-file=/usr/local/info/dir
/usr/local/info/bash.info; \
else true; fi
install-info: unknown option `--dir-file=/usr/local/info/dir'
usage: install-info [--version] [--help] [--debug] [--maxwidth=nnn]
 [--section regexp title] [--infodir=xxx] [--align=nnn]
 [--calign=nnn] [--quiet] [--menuentry=xxx] [--keep-old]
 [--description=xxx] [--test] [--remove] [--] filename
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/bash-2.01/doc'
make: [install] Error 2 (ignored)

???

thanks,
matty

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Re: bash

1997-08-27 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
sorry, bruce, but i have no programming experience. i grep'd all the files
but couldn't find --dir-file anywhere. where do i change it?

thanks,
matty

Matt well, i know a heck of a lot more that i used to... Thompson 
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 Change the --dir-file flag to --infodir . GNU's install-info has diverged
 from ours.
 
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xdm error on boot

1997-07-28 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hello,

i get this:

xdm error (pid 125): extra arguments on command line:xdm error (pid 125):
startxdm error (pid 125):

...then xdm starts. everything works ok, but it seems like i shouldn't get
this, ya know? :)

???

matty




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mail????

1997-07-25 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hi,

well, i'm sending this message from windoze. :( i can't seem to send 
any mail, only receive it. i ran smailconfig --force twice and still 
the same thing, it says no route to host.

any suggestions?

matty


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xdm error on boot

1997-07-25 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hello,

i get this:

xdm error (pid 125): extra arguments on command line:xdm error (pid 125):
startxdm error (pid 125):

...then xdm starts. everything works ok, but it seems like i shouldn't get
this, ya know? :)

???

matty



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Re: netscape communicator error

1997-07-22 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
when i upgraded to 4.01b6 i no longer got that message.

matty

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Johannes Martinez wrote:

 On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
 
   Netscape error: no valid encryption policy file was found for this
   english language version of communicator.  all encryption and decrytion
   will be disabled.
 
   read the readme that came with the package.  Can't say more cause
 i'm not at my machine( no electricity :( )
 
 
 
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sane

1997-07-22 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hi,

i'm trying to get my umax s6e scanner to work using davidm's sane. i have
a adaptec ava-1505 card working well with my scsi zip drive.

during boot-up, the kernel recognizes my scanner correctly, right down to
the model name ( :)! ). it lists it as generic device sga or some such
(i know it definitely says 'sga' anyway), and yet, there is no device
'sga' in /dev.

should i create a device sga? i know it's not a block device, so what kind
would it be?

any help would be vastly appreciated :) .

matty


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pause

1997-07-22 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hi,

i just installed 1.3.1 and everytime i do anything 'net oriented
(popclient, netstat -r, netscape) there seems to be about a five second
pause before anything happens.

did i maybe enter some info incorrectly or something?

thanks,
matty


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xmix

1997-07-22 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hi,

sorry to be so chatty tonight...

i installed xmix, and it works fine for root, but when i try to run it as
mattyt, i get the error message:

Error opening mixer device: Permission denied

...and yet, when i ls -l xmix, i get:

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root17032 Nov 17  1996 /usr/bin/X11/xmix

umm...isn't mattyt a member of 'o' and shouldn't i then be able to 'x'
xmix?

thanks,
matty


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Re: pause

1997-07-22 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
no, it was working properly, but i had entered the last field as .1 when
it should have been .2 (i ping'd the main server and compared values). 

all is fine now. 

thanks!
matty

On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:

 On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Matthew C. Thompson wrote:
 
  : hi,
  : 
  : i just installed 1.3.1 and everytime i do anything 'net oriented
  : (popclient, netstat -r, netscape) there seems to be about a five second
  : pause before anything happens.
  : 
  : did i maybe enter some info incorrectly or something?
 
 Uh.. My first thought is that the primary nameserver you specified in
 /etc/resolv.conf isn't working properly. Could that be true?
 
 Remco
 
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color xterm (again, *sigh*)

1997-07-21 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
sorry about another color-xterm question, but root seems to have all
colors in xterm (dir=blue,jpg=green, etc.) but my user (mattyt) only has
blue for dir and white for everything else.

???

matty


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adduser

1997-07-14 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
greetings,

so what's the fix for adduser? it's not working for me at all. i am
running 1.3.1 (installed 1.3 and update on a daily basis with dselect).

thanks,
matty


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Re: [gtk-list] Re: sane problems

1997-07-14 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
   these are the errors i received:
   
   gdk.c:31: X11/Xatom.h: No such file or directory
  
  This sounds to me like you need to install the XFree86
  developement package. For RedHat systems, this is the XFree86-devel rpm,
  but I don't know what it would be for your Debian system (although I'm
  sure there is one). Install it and try again.
 
 Yep, xlib6-dev.  I think you need the xpm and xpm-dev packages as well,
 but I could be wrong.
 
 Ian
ok, here's what i went and got:

getting: stable/binary-i386/libs/tk40_4.0p3-5.deb (486302)
getting: stable/binary-i386/x11/xpm4.7-dev_3.4g-9.deb (29020)
getting: stable/binary-i386/x11/xlib6-dev_3.3-3.deb (614682)
getting: stable/binary-i386/devel/tcl76-dev_7.6p2-4.deb (630164)

...and after i did a ./configure, i did make, and got these errors:

../gdk/.libs/libgdk.so.1.0: undefined reference to `XUngrabPointer'
../gdk/.libs/libgdk.so.1.0: undefined reference to `XPutImage'
../gdk/.libs/libgdk.so.1.0: undefined reference to `XCreatePixmap'
../gdk/.libs/libgdk.so.1.0: undefined reference to `XUnmapWindow'
../gdk/.libs/libgdk.so.1.0: undefined reference to `XSetFillStyle'
../gdk/.libs/libgdk.so.1.0: undefined reference to `XCreateGC'
../gdk/.libs/libgdk.so.1.0: undefined reference to `XOpenDisplay'

...actually, there were *way* too many of these to list, these were just
the last ones. 

what else should i get???

thanks,
matty



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Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions (fwd)

1997-07-10 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
 
 Netscape doesn't include any instructions for setting up helper
 apps. w/ unix.  For example, I want to run VRML directly from
 netscape.  Great!  So, I go to preferences/Navigator/Applications
 and create a new mime-type called x-world/x-vrml.  I then tell it that
 this is for extension wrl.  I tell it to execute the shell string
 /usr/local/bin/vrweb -URL '%u' -remote %s.  This is perfect as far
 as I'm concerned.  HOWEVER, what netscape does is truly twisted.
 Instead of just issuing this command string, it genererates
 ((/usr/local/bin/vrweb -URL 'http:/website.com/*.wrl' -remote
 /tmp/MO*.wrl); rm /tmp/MO*.wrl) and issues that.
 
 Now this appears to be fine, however, it doesn't execute.  Netscape
 complains:
 
 sh: -c: line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression
 sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
 sh: -c: line 1: ((command line here); rm /tmp/MO*.wrl)
 
 So to humor netscape, I add an extra ')' at the end of my incantation
 which gets rid of errors 1 and 2 BUT replaces them with an error
 which indicates that the  is too close to the ')' and my shell is
 confused.
 
 WHAT the HELL is going on here???   When they say unsupported, I
 guess they mean truly untested by human hands.  I'm going to start
 downloading .wrl files via amaya and I may just go to using that
 on a permanent basis.
 
 But if anyone can tell what the heck gives with this stuff, I'd
 be glad to fix my end :)
 

This is actually a bash-2.0 bug.  If you try:

sh -c ((pwd);pwd)

you'll see the same errors. But,

sh -c ( (pwd);pwd)

works well.  Bash incorrectly considers (( to be an
arithmetic expression introducer when really, it's $((. 
This is fixed in bash-2.01 which has not yet been
debianized.  You can bash-2.01 from /pub/gnu at your
favorite mirror.

This bug has already been documented.
See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/10598.html

--Bob

***
ok,

i went and got bash-2.01 and did a ./configure, make and then tried make
install and got the following errors:

mattyt# make install
/usr/bin/install -c bash /usr/local/bin/bash
/usr/bin/install -c bashbug /usr/local/bin/bashbug
( cd ./doc ; make  \
man1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 man1ext=1 \
man3dir=/usr/local/man/man3 man3ext=3 \
infodir=/usr/local/info install )
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/zips/bash-2.01/doc'
test -d /usr/local/man/man1 || /bin/sh ../support/mkdirs
/usr/local/man/man1
test -d /usr/local/man/man3 || /bin/sh ../support/mkdirs
/usr/local/man/man3
test -d /usr/local/info || /bin/sh ../support/mkdirs /usr/local/info
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./bash.1 /usr/local/man/man1/bash.1
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./bashbug.1 /usr/local/man/man1/bashbug.1
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./bashref.info /usr/local/info/bash.info
if /bin/sh -c 'install-info --version' /dev/null 21; then \
install-info --dir-file=/usr/local/info/dir
/usr/local/info/bash.info; \
else true; fi
install-info: unknown option `--dir-file=/usr/local/info/dir'
usage: install-info [--version] [--help] [--debug] [--maxwidth=nnn]
 [--section regexp title] [--infodir=xxx] [--align=nnn]
 [--calign=nnn] [--quiet] [--menuentry=xxx] [--keep-old]
 [--description=xxx] [--test] [--remove] [--] filename
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/zips/bash-2.01/doc'
make: [install] Error 2 (ignored)
mattyt# 



thanks,
matty


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Re: Is Your Web Site A Secret? (fwd)

1997-07-09 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
EVERYONE should send these bozos an email telling them how much we DON'T
appreciate it and that we'll tell everyone we know not to use or recommend
them.

Maybe they'll get the message, but probably not. :(

matty

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 Is your web site the best kept secret on the Internet?

Jesusnot even the lists are safe anymore.

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Re: PPP (fwd)

1997-07-08 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
 As root I have no problems connecting to my ISP using PPP.
 However when trying to connect as a normal user the connection
 drops after the serial connection is established.  I've checkde and 
 rechecked file permissions and they seem correct.  Couldn't under-
 stand the ioctl manual page and am not sure what ioctl is or why it
 is screaming.  I've been working at this for about 4 hours now and
 have run out of ideas.  Would someone out there be willing to help
 point me in the right direction?

i'm having the exact same trouble. in Debian 1.2, i had a pon button on
the desktop of my main userid (mattyt). now i have to su to root everytime
to pon or poff.
 
It's simply a matter about group permissions. Put your son's and your
user name into /etc/group making both members of the same group to
which /usr/sbin/pppd belongs to:

   [pseelig]/home/pseelig  v /usr/sbin/pppd
   -rwsr-xr--   1 root dip76072 Mar  2 03:29 /usr/sbin/pppd
   ^^^

So the entry in /etc/group has to be:

   dip:*:30:yourson,hisfather

i had already chowned /usr/sbin/pppd to mattyt, along with all the other
files necessary (messy, i know, but i'm the only user on my machine), so i
didn't think this would work, and it didn't. i still get the same messages
as jess mentioned in my plog after attempting pon as mattyt.

any other suggestions?

matty

p.s. thanks for your reply, paul. :)






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app pause

1997-07-08 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hi, y'all,

occasionally when i start up pine or emacs, the system pauses for 10 to 15
seconds before the apps fully appear. anyone else experiencing this?
this happens even when i have few windows open, and nothing going on, like
compiling or printing.

btw, i have a mmx166 with 32mb edo, so system perf. isn't the problem.

matty


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default fonts and the x server

1997-07-07 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hello, 

i just updated my system (dselect) and several x-related files were
updated, including xbase, vga  svga servers, fonts, etc. i am using
xinside's AcceleratedX with a Matrox Mystique video card.

since i updated, when i attempt startx, i get the following error
messages:

failed to set default font path  (lists 4 font paths which do all exist)

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

any suggestions?

thanks in advance for any comments :) ,
matty


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Re: PnP ( ie: Modem )

1997-07-07 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hi,
don't know if this will help at all, but if you're running an award bios
and can upgrade to the latest version (4.51, i believe) it will initialize
the pnp cards for you. i just built a computer with an asus motherboard,
and it initializes my sb32pnp and usr pnp cards so all i have is the
driver for the sb and everything works great!

of course, you have to choose a non-pnp os in the bios setup. 

hope this helps! :),
matty

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:

 On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Keith Knipschild wrote:
 
  I installed and setup Debian Linux, But I would like to setup my PnP
  Modem.. 
 
 I helped a friend of my with this a couple of weeks ago... I hope I can
 remember.
 
 Install isapnptools (it's in admin). Run pnpdump and redirect it's output
 to /etc/isapnp.conf (I think that's the name, read
 /usr/doc/isapnptools/*). Now come's the tricky part: open that file,
 select ONE configuration for your modem, and run /etc/init.d/isapnp.
 Selecting one configuration means de-commenting one of the possible
 configurations that set IRQ, DMA, and stuff like that. Place special
 attention to properly balanced ('s and )'s (I missed this one the first
 time, and the thing wouldn't work). Now use minicom to test your modem. 
 
 IHTH,
 
 
   Marcelo Magallon
 
 
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