SoundBlaster128
I've read the list archives on SB128 topics and tried both the OSS and Alsa modules. But whenever I try to do anything I get a No such device error like so: frontier:/dev# ls -al dsp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root9 Oct 5 02:00 dsp - /dev/dsp0 frontier:/dev# cat ~/english.au ./dsp bash: ./dsp: No such device frontier:/dev# Any ideas what i'm doing wrong to be getting this? Also frontier:/dev# cat /dev/sndstat cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device frontier:/dev# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [card1 ]: AudioPCI - Ensoniq AudioPCI Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1371 at 0xe800, irq 10 frontier:/dev# lsmod Module Size Used by snd-pcm1-oss 12972 0 (unused) snd-card-ens13712192 0 snd-ens1371 7184 0 [snd-card-ens1371] snd-pcm1 16380 0 [snd-pcm1-oss snd-ens1371] snd-timer 7324 0 [snd-pcm1] snd-ac97-codec 19840 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-mixer 24544 0 [snd-card-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec] snd-midi 12236 0 [snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371] snd-pcm 8620 0 [snd-pcm1-oss snd-card-ens1371 snd-pcm1] snd33292 1 [snd-pcm1-oss snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm1 snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-midi snd-pcm] soundcore 2116 4 [snd] etc Any ideas? Thanks, Tim
Video Board Support?
Hi, my new computer came with an ATI Rage Fury 128 AGPx2 (32MB). I'm not sure which X-server to use for htis, does anyone know, or know whether it is supported by xfree/accelx/metrox etc at all? Thanks, Tim
Databases
Hi, ive been trying out MySQL and PostgreSQL on debian too see which I will use for my database projects. Can anyone recommend: 1. Documentation / HOWTOs or whatever on how to set these up with web interfaces - expecially about how to do so as a database beginner and not compromise the security of your whole system:). 2. What web/software client interface method is best to use and why? - The two clients in unstable/misc seem to be non-free and ide rather use Open Source stuff naturally. Thanks, Timothy
XDM startup?
How can I get apps to start automatically with X if its using XDM? Before I used to use .xnitirc, but this doesnt seem to work any more since apt installed xdm. :(. Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 06-Sep-99 Time: 11:34:46 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Palm Pilot Software
Hi, I was trying to get the pilot-manager and pilot-link packages to play with my new palm IIIx. But things seem to be fried due to the perl upgrade...? SNIP jade:/dev# apt-get install pilot-manager pilot-link Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: pilot-manager: Depends: perl-tk but it is not installed E: Sorry, broken packages jade:/dev# apt-get install perl-tk Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: perl-5.005 apache-common liburi-perl libgtk-perl libhtml-parser-perl apache perl-base autoconf eperl perl-5.005-base dpkg-dev libnet-perl libmime-base64-perl sgml-data libwww-perl The following packages will be REMOVED: libmd5-perl mailtools w3mir dns-browse mrtg makepasswd perl checkbot wu-ftpd-academ webmagick The following NEW packages will be installed: perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base perl-tk /SNIP I cant let it remove stuff that i need like wu-ftpd-academ etc. What does that have to do with perl anyway? But, point being, does anyone have any tips for getting around this mess, or have any other (Preferably debianized) software which wont conflict to suggest? (I played with Pyrite but it doesnt seem to do much beside back up the palm pilot) Thanks, Timothy PS: Which software do I need in order to beable to install downloaded 3rd party apps on the palm pilot? -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15-Jul-99 Time: 09:20:09 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Xemacs
Hello, I have been using Xemacs more and more and begin to realize that it is obviously the single coolest program ever written;). Unfourtunately it is far from easy to learn, and right now I am too broke to buy any more books. So can anyone point me to any online tutorial/manual type resources which are more comprehensive than the included tutorial (from help menu) which doesnt even scratch the surface? (The included xemacs info pages themselves are quite helpfull but a step by step guide through various procedures rather than the command by command approach in the info pages would be nice). Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11-Jul-99 Time: 20:05:02 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Palm Pilots
Which palm pilotswill available linux software work well with? I was thinking of buying a palm IIIx and was wondering if there were any isses with it good or bad stories appreciated! Thanks! Timothy PS:Does anyone know if the later palms with infra red are compatable wit heach other across versions for beaming purposes?
Emacs psgml mode?
How do I get Xemacs to colorize/facerize HTML tags in psgml mode? I did M-x sgml-mode, M-x set-variable, and set sgml-set-face to '1' as specified in the psgml doc files, but html files are still quite normal looking:(. Any idea? Thanks! Tim -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 25-Jun-99 Time: 05:32:48 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Writing Drivers? Info Appreciated!
When people are trying to write drivers for stuff that isnt already supported under linux, how exactly do they go about doing it? I mean, if I want to, say, make a program to grab pictures from my unsupported digital camera. Could I get some program to 'filter' the serial port or whatever in winblows to see what control codes the software uses to control the camera and then try to re-implement such a system under linux? Basically Reverse engineering the software's functionality I guess? (I would, of course, then donate the code to one of the OpenSource camera projects ;)). Anyway, if this sort of thing is possible could someone point me to a winblows program to use to examine what gets sent over a port? Thanks! Tim -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Jun-99 Time: 01:21:42 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Re: Debian applications - where to get them???
3. I wanted to download x11amp (also called winamp in the Windows world) to play MP3 files but could not find it anywhere. Any suggestions on where I might be able to get a copy (preferably in .deb format)? (Any suggestions for a better player are also welcome :-) ). apt-get update; apt-get install x11amp allways works for me! :) x11amp uses the least CPU time of any of the others ive tried, (All!), so its probably the best:) HTH. Tim -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02-Jun-99 Time: 22:02:03 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Re: I worry...
We had a hard time finding someone willing to do our Debian server. All of the ones we contaced to get our web server built told us they felt more confident doing a RH install or they said: RH is pretty strong in this ares, and some of them even had some nifty deals for us if we chose RH. How will the Debian community be able to fight in a market like this in the future? This sounds like all the supposed linux gurus that got interviewed actually dont know what they are doing - if the ABSOLUTELY NEED RH's fancy GUI tools to configure everything! :). -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Jun-99 Time: 01:07:57 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
RE: ICQ programs for Debian GNU/Linux
I have tried most of the ICQ clones available and I find that micq is the most stable! And does the least weird stuff like loosing messages. The command line thing is quite neat also; I found it unexpectedly good to not have to click to recieve messages - saves lots of time! :). Unfourtunately it doesnt look like micq is debianized; but its compiles easily out of the box so thats okay. I forget the URL; but just search on freshmeat and youll find it! However, since micq doesnt do file xfers; I use gtkicq whenever I have to accept file transfers from people who are too clueless to login to me ftp and send it over:) HTH! Tim Hi, I'd like to know what are the good packages for ICQ people use in Debian. I've been using gtkicq for some time, and though I think it is a nice package, I'm not sure as to how reliable it is... looks like I never get to receive some messages while using it... More than that, it looks like gtkicq is no longer in potato (why?), and I can't upgrade some of my gnome slink stuff to potato, because this would remove my gtkicq. Any comments? -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 30-May-99 Time: 23:42:00 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
xemacs + nextawg?
Hi, Is it possible to make xemacs work with nextawg and if so can someone direct me as to how? I tried the usual export LD_PRELOAD thing. And ldd on xemacs binary shows the first library in the nextawg directory. But it still comes up as usual. Or if not. Is there any way to make it look prettier? (Color at least?) The dull black-grey-white thing kind of spoils a pretty windomaker + gnome-themeified desktop! :) Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19-May-99 Time: 13:06:49 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
rvplayer working?
Hi! Has anyone got the RealVideo player to work? I got the .rpm package from www.real.com and debianized it with alien and then installed it. Then I set it up with netscape as per instructions. (It didn't come with the .class files for the plugin; so I had to get those from the .tgz archive). But the only thing it will play is the default in rvplayer's location bar: pnm://video.real.com/welcome.rm. Everything else - EG: the welcome.rm that comes with it wont play, clips from cnn, trailers from movie sites, clips from realguide etc either give the General Error #1, or Error #19? - Unable to connect to server. :(. Errors of the first kind are accompanied by: audio: write error: 706 bytes errno: 0 type messages at the command prompt. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?! Thanks! TiM -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 30-Apr-99 Time: 23:35:41 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Re: kernel 2.2.6
What is the inherent issue which puts a limit on the size max size of the kernel? And what plans do Linus et al have for 3.0+ or whenever even bz Kernels pass this size limit? Root device is (3,5) Boot sector is 512 bytes Setup is 1286 bytes System is 526 kB System is too big. try using bzImage or modules. bzImage does not work and my kernel is in no way bloated. i only included standard stuff and it was practically the same as i had 2.0.36 except for joystick support. what can i do? Make more things modules. And do use bzImage. -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 24-Apr-99 Time: 17:59:13 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
File Processing: Please Advise
Hi! I have a file processing task and would like some advice on how best to go about it! I have afew thousand .jpg files from my scanner and I want to rotate them all and maybe some other things. I forget the exact command but with something like imagemagick -rotate 90 infile outfile where infile[s] are a set of files - file[0001-2000].jpg and outfiles[s] would be created as processedfile[0001-2000].jpg. I cant figure out how to make a bash script to do this easily. I could do it with C but would like to know how to do it in some scripting type langage. So is there a good way to do this with BASH or should I bring Perl up to the top of my TO-LEARN list or what? Thanx! TiM -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22-Apr-99 Time: 22:05:40 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Re: File Processing: Please Advise
With the example echo script only returns: (Despite the fact that there are many .jpgs) $find . -name '*.jpg' | xargs ./Suggestion.sh ./test1.jpg $ Is this how it is meant to work? I was reading the man page for xargs but didnt understand most of it: I get the impression that xargs should do: ./Suggestion.sh find result1 ./Suggestion.sh find result2 etc etc? Thats what it would probably have to do since image magick's convert seems to refuse to convert multiple files on one command line. Further Ideas? Thanks a Mil! TiM --cut here #!/bin/sh #$1 holds first command line argument #do stuff to $1 here... echo $1 #example --end cut Put this in a file, then chmod +x that file. Now, invoke this like so: $ find . -name '*.jpg' | xargs myscript.sh Carl -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22-Apr-99 Time: 23:29:54 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
BASH programming
Hi, Where can I find a bash programming HOWTO? Im trying to make some scripts to make my life easier but I cant seem to decipher the langage by looking at scripts on the system:(. thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11-Apr-99 Time: 15:05:12 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Program Stats glibc2.1
Hi all! How can I tell how much time a program spent running? (Real elapsed time as well as cpu time or something). Also: apt-get install of some things wants to upgrade me to glibc2.1 etc. (from regular glibc2). is this safe yet? ive heard it breaks things!:( Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 09-Apr-99 Time: 12:17:49 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
w3mir and perl
Hi all, When I try to use w3mir on just about any site it says: w3mir: bookc/c21-2.ps, receiving headerCan't locate object method basename via package URI::file at /usr/lib/perl5/URI/WithBase.pm line 41. Is this a problem with w3mir or perl? and how do i fix it? :) These are my package versions: ii w3mir 1.0.5-1w3mir is an all purpose HTTP copying and mir ii perl5.004.04-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Thanks! TiM -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 24-Mar-99 Time: 18:28:43 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows
Could someone tell me how to read info pages / find out what info pages are available? I know this is probably a dumb question, but I don't seem to have an info topic command - so does info use a different kind of syntax to man or is it a special package or what? Thanks! Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've no intention of starting a flame war - but the fact remains, if the man pages are no longer being supported by developers, there's no sense including them in the man pages package. It just adds to the confusion. Not true. If the manpage says this manpage is out of date, see the info pages then I've learned _exactly_ what I need to know from the manpage. If there's no manpage there then I'll just be confused and wondering why there's no documentation. Later, Dale -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22-Mar-99 Time: 15:06:56 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
dia debian package
Hello! I have tried dia (0.30). Its very good, however, when I try to open files that I have saved, it allways says: Error loading diagram filename. Not a Dia file. Does this happen to anyone else? - Would this be bug/unimplemented feature in dia, or a bug in the debian package or something broken on my system? The files seem to be saved allright, as if you uncompress them you can go and read the actual xml. I am running slink with afew things from potato on kernel 2.2.0 Thanks for any advice! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19-Feb-99 Time: 12:19:22 This message was sent by XFMail --
RE: hp cdwriter (where to mount?)
My HP IDE writer works fine with mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom as slave. or mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom when I have it configured as master. Which IDE controller you have it on shouldn't matter: I have my writer and reader on one cable on the secondary. Getting it to write is another story which I am still working on getting SCSI emmulation etc to work :). If it still wont mount some more detail on what it says when you cant mount it would be helpfull! Good luck! Tim On 15-Feb-99 Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I installed an hp ide cd writer. What is the best way to do this? Should I make it the primary cdrom, and use my former cdrom's ide cable? Or should I make it the secondary ide? When I install it together with my cd-rom drive the kernel reads it as /dev/hdd, but then I cannot mount it. For now I'm installing it into my windows box, until I can figure out how to make this work in linux Thanks NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian/GNU Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-Feb-99 Time: 22:58:55 This message was sent by XFMail --
Extreme Security Suggestions?
Hi, I am wondering what is the recommended way to secure a sizeable volume (0.5-2GB ) of confidential data such that it is non-retreivable/unusable even in the event that a hacker has gained user level or shudder root access? I have thought of some kind of encryption; but I haven't seen anything fast enough to make that practical given that I would have to re-encrypt the whole data set after working on it. I also thought of simply having a dedicated partition for the data in question and unmounting it when I leave the machine. But I suppose a hacker with root access could easily remount it. Which leaves the option of having a dedicated physical drive and unplugging it when I leave. But that is annoying since I would have to leave my machine open all the time. :(. So any other suggestions, comments? Thanks! Timothy PS: I have no intention of letting a hacker gain access to my machine; but its nice to be prepared for the worst. ;). -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05-Feb-99 Time: 00:47:27 This message was sent by XFMail --
GNUcash/Libs
Hello! I am trying to get GNUCash to work; the binary distribution (1.1.23); converted with alien from rpm gives libXm.so.1 = not found libXmHTML.so.1.1 = not found libreadline.so.3 = not found Can anyone tell me what packages I need to get these libs? And has anyone successfully compiled the src? After installing lots of libs 1.1.25 nearly finishes but dies with lots of parse errors when it starts to compile perl stuff. If you've got it to work please tell me what relevant packages/versions you have! Thanks alot! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 25-Jan-99 Time: 23:59:09 This message was sent by XFMail --
Printing with 2.2pre kernels?
Hi all! I have been using 2.2pre6 for the last few days and everything works perfectly except this bizarre new parport device which broke my printer. :(. Any advice on how to setup the parport thing properly would be greatly appreciated!!! lpq says this when I try to print: Status: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'Operation not supported by device', attempt 1490, sleeping 60 at 13:16:18 My lilo.conf section for this kernel is like: image=/boot/bzImage3 label=Test3 read-only append=aha152x=0x140,9,7,1 parport=auto lp=parport0 I now have a /proc/parport/0 directory, which reports: $ ls total 0 -r--r--r-- 1 root root0 Jan 19 13:16 autoprobe -r--r--r-- 1 root root0 Jan 19 13:16 devices -r--r--r-- 1 root root0 Jan 19 13:16 hardware -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Jan 19 13:16 irq $ cat autoprobe $ cat devices $ cat hardware base: 0x378 irq:none dma:none modes: SPP $ cat irq none $ -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19-Jan-99 Time: 13:12:28 This message was sent by XFMail --
Re: Printing with 2.2pre kernels?
I still get this when I switch to lp1 in printcap and restart lpd. Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Operation not supported by device', attempt 2, sleeping 20 at 15:00:54 Any other ideas? Thanks! Try to swap /dev/lp0 and /dev/lp1 in your printer setup. The numbers have been swapped for some reason nobody understands (to correct some BIOS error or to provide compatibility with BIOS, dunno). Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19-Jan-99 Time: 15:01:29 This message was sent by XFMail --
CDROM ISE-SCSI: Help please!
Hello! I have compiled my kernel with IDE-SCSI emmulation to try and burn CDs. However, I can no longer mount my CDROM drives using /dev/hd[x]. Can someone point me to the new devices they are being seen as, and|or the relevant manpages? /dev/sd[x], /dev/sg[x], /dev/scd[x] don't seem to work. :(. Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-Jan-99 Time: 21:07:49 This message was sent by XFMail --
Adding ftp users?
Hi, I have what is probably a stupid question. :). How should I add a real user to my wu-ftpd server? I suppose I could just copy my /etc/passwd to the ~ftp/etc/passwd, but is this secure? And will I have to do it again everytime I add a new real user? I can't hardlink to /etc/passwd because /home/ftp is on its own partition...? I haven't seen much about this in the relevant manpages and wuftpd FAQ. adduser and addftpuser scripts don't seem to be much help either. Thanks for all advice! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 14-Jan-99 Time: 16:29:03 This message was sent by XFMail --
X-CD-Roast
Hello, In X-Cd-Roast hard disk setup tab, I am not able to enter anything for Image-Partition 1: it doesn't let you type into the field, and the select button brings up a box with nothing in it except OK and CANCEL. Everything else in setup works fine. Any idea what is going on here / how to fix it? Apparantly it can't work without this field filled in. I have 2.0.36 compiled with SCSI-ATAPI-emmulation, and everything detects fine on bootup as well as on the SCSI/IDE info section of X-CD-Roast. Thanks in advance! Timothy Hospedales -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12-Jan-99 Time: 13:35:50 This message was sent by XFMail --
VCD player.....
I just got my first VCD! Does anyone know of a open/source/free VCD player for linux? All I could find was mpegtv which doesn't do audio unless you pay for it. :(. Thanx in advance! Timothy
WindowMaker/XFMail?
Hi all. I just used apt to get and install WindowMaker, (I was using icewm b4). Now that its installed, my xfmail refuses to do anything that involves opening a new window - Reading Mail, Composing mail etc. When I press compose or something, the main XFMAIL window goes into the background, but no new window appears. Everything works fine again if I start X with icewm. any ideas? Thanks, Timothy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Possibly Off Topic: Fonts gone bananas in X.
Hi, I recently upgraded my X packages to 3.3.2-3. (xlib6g, xbase, xserver-vga16, xserver-svga, xfntbase, xfnt75, xfnt100, xfntbig, xfntscl). I also upgraded my gimp stuff to gimp0.99.26-1, libgimp0.99.26-1, libgtk10.99.10-1. Now when I do text in gimp with any font, say, lucida bright or times, the text is super duper blocky just as if it started off a small fixed size and was stretched to many times its current size. Any ideas how I can fix this? I am guessing it broke somewhere during the upgrades, but I'm not sure. Thanks in advance, Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-Apr-98 Time: 13:35:54 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux article in Sunworl
Incase any of ya'll care, in my inexperienced opinion. Debian is definitely the best distribution. :). I tried Slackware, which as mentioned, was very difficult to maintain and upgrade, eventually I gave up. I tried RedHat which was easier, but wasn't quite as configurable. Then I tried Debian Which has just been great, and i'm going to use it until something better comes out! One thing mentioned in the article was that Linux [supposedly] didn't scale easily, and hence was not very good for enterprise level stuff. Yet, I seem to remember reading in either the linux or debian FAQ that it scaled very well to multiple pentium processors.. What's the real scene with its scalability? Timothy The other problem was that they'd compiled and installed mySQL themselves, and forgotten the on the line in the script to load it, so it seemed to hang. Of course, Debian does all this for you, so no issue. I took the opportunity to bag Slackware. (They are NT and Solaris people anyway.) Slackware seems to be to me almost unmaintainable; removing software completely is difficult, worse than Windows possibly. Although it's possible that Solaris people are used to installing additional software from sources anyway, so it isn't an issue. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mail not getting through....
I have to write all my messages from my old NT system, because for some reason whenever I send mail from my new Linux/X - Netscape, it doesn't seem to get through to the list. Everywhere else I send mail to is fine. Any ideas why its doing this? Thanx, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Fine tuning X.
Can anyone tell me how to, (or just where to start looking in order to): 1. Turn up my mouse sensitivity so it moves faster. 2. Change the font used in xterms and x apps so it's bigger. 3. Make my mouse emmulate 3 buttons. Oh yeah... has anyone tried Linux Explorer succesfully, it claims it needs the 'qt' package, I tried both the stable and unstable qts, and it still claimed that neither of them were good enough. :(. Thanks, Timothy BTW - Do the debian CD's have unstable / nonfree / contrib stuff, or just the regular stable stuff? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian.
Does anyone have an idea of how long it will be until the next release of debian? Thanx, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Ensoniq Soundscape
Following the Sound HOWTO, I just built a kernel with soundscape support (2.0.32), and only the MIDI is working. :(. Does anyone else have a Soundscape, and if so how did you fix this? It says this on bootup: Sound initialization started Ensoniq SoundScape at 0x330 irq 9 dma 3 SoundScape (MPU401) at 0x330 irq 9 dma 3 SoundScape: Invalid MSS IRQ11 Sound initialization complete It looks like the IRQ is wrong, but i'm not sure what to put because I noticed the soundscape uses different settings for things between my DOS and Win95/NT. :( Thanks, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ensoniq Soundscape
Can I (and if so how), change the settings that it's using now, or do I have to rebuild the kernel each time I want to change them? Also - when you say disable the SB compatability under MSDOS, do you mean changing 'SBENABLE=true' to false in the soundscape.ini and then running the batch file, or are you talking about something elese? I take it I should use the regular settings in the .ini file, and not the ones that it uses when its emmulating a soundblaster? Thanks alot! Timothy. Although I don't have a true Ensoniq Soundscape card, I do have a clone made by the now defunct Reveal. One thing I found out was that to use the Soundscape card under Linux I had to disable it's Sound Blaster compatibility mode under the DOS SSINIT program. On a closer note, you will most likely need to force the card into a non PNP mode and adjust it's settings manually to where you want them to be. (Either that or try the ISAPNP tools for Linux.. ). If your card (as mine does) uses the SSINIT program in DOS mode to set itself up, you can use that to determine where your card is trying to place itself. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Question.
Does anyone know if there have been any studies on the cost effectiveness of networks based on linux vs networks based on NT? While linux seems to be cheaper, where I live technical expertise is in _very_ short supply and so linux would probably be alot more expensive to admister.? ( A relation of mine is incharge of an organization of a thousand or so people which is looking to upgrade its LAN and add various internet servers etc.. the NT estimate was many tens of thousands of US. So I promised to find out the comparitive cost of linux networks ). thanx, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian on CD.
My current Debian system is off FTP sites. I am looking to buy Debian on CD when the next version comes out with libc6 standardized. What are the pro's and con's have you guys noticed for the different vendors? Thanks, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Bizarre problem.
Hey guys! I've got a really *bizarre* problem!!! When I am using my PPP dialup connection, I can use everything on the 'net perfectly. EXECEPT, that I cannot access any dialup IP's in my ISP's domain, including my own. Any attempt at contacting, using the IPs directly, or via a dyn.ml.org domain name, with PING's, or various clients fail. My ISP's domain is 196.3.144.*. The first five IP's (196.3.144.1-5), are the IPs of my ISP's domain, web, ftp, etc servers. These IP's I can access fine. Subsequent IP's (6-about 200) are assigned to dialup accounts, I can't access any of these. :(. I've got no idea where to start trying to fix this. :(. Any ideas at all are appreciated. :). Thanx, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
XF86
I asked about this before, but I don't think it got through because I didn't receive the message from the list... What command line options would I use to start X with 24bit color, 1024X size desktop, 75hz refresh rate, and open look window manager? thanx, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dpkg
IS there a dpkg option to list all the installed packages? I looked in the man pages but didn't see anything that [obviously] did that If not, since it keeps track of what is installed, I presume there must be some file somewhere which has them listed in it, anyone happen to know which file that is? Thanks, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mail!
wow! I can finally get online with my linux box!:). Thanx 2 everyone who gave me advice. I'm looking for a mail (perferably X based) program to receive/send email from my ISP's POP3 server. Can anyone recomend a good one for me? Oh yeah Can anyone point me to drivers/setup howtos for my peripherals - a umax astra 1200s scanner, an iomega ditto tape drive, and an HP deskjet printer. thanks, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Oh yeah!
I'm also looking for drivers for an APC UPS, and my Ensoniq Soundscape sound board. Thanx Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mail!
Are you guys using Netscape 3.01? Thats the version that the netscape debian package is. I take it there are no newer versions of netscape for linux? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[no subject]
Does anyone know what the story is with JDK? .According to my packages file, the stable debian packages is ver 1.0.2.. Sun recently released ver 1.2 (For Solaris/Windoze).. Is the package behind because Sun hasn't released any / any stable versions for linux beyond 1.0.2, or because the package hasn't been updated, or what? Thanx, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP dialup. :(.
Thanks to everyone who helped me before!... Now I have a somewhat more complicated looking problem. :(. I'm trying to dial into my ISP using PPP. (At this point I haven't done any extra configuration besides network config info that the debian setup asks for). In X, I startup minicom, dial, and login manually. It then tells me that it has started PPP and to start my PPP, whereupon it starts displaying the usual garbage. I open a bash term and type pppd, and it starts displaying its garbage. I open another bash term, and try to ping my ISP's domain server, and it tells me that the network is unreachable. :(. Afew seconds later, minicom hungup. My ppp.log says Dec 24 22:56:58 jade pppd[325]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Dec 24 22:56:58 jade pppd[325]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 24 22:56:58 jade pppd[325]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp2 Dec 24 22:57:28 jade pppd[325]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Dec 24 22:57:28 jade pppd[325]: Connection terminated. Dec 24 22:57:28 jade pppd[325]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Dec 24 22:57:28 jade pppd[325]: Problem: nothing was received Dec 24 22:57:28 jade pppd[325]: Exit. So, then I follow the configuration instructions in section 6 (Network Installation) of the Debian Users Guide. Putting... (Most of which was there already). /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 jade /etc/resolv.conf domain cablenett.net search cablenett.net nameserver 196.3.144.2 nameserver 196.3.144.3 /etc/host.conf order hosts,bind multi on /etc/ppp/options debug /dev/ttyS0 38400 modem crtscts lock connect /etc/ppp/ppp-connect asyncmap 0 defaultroute Then I try again, going through the same process as described before. This time, my PPP doesn't output anything, pinging the DNS server's IP still generates a network unreachable message, I still get hungup, and the PPP log also says: Dec 24 23:10:28 jade pppd[350]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Dec 24 23:10:28 jade pppd[350]: Device ttyS0 is locked by pid 321 Dec 24 23:10:28 jade pppd[350]: Exit. Something is really weird because, previously, I was using RedHat for a while and the same stuff with network unreachable messages and getting hungup would happen. :(. Can anyone help me? Thanks alot!!! Timothy PS: Merry Christmas everyone! :) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP dialup. :(.
Okay Thanks! I will try the script... one thing though, when I login to my ISP manually, I have to press ENTER afew times before the login prompt comes up, how do I tell a script to send ENTER? Thanks, Timothy You are closer here. ttyS0 is locked by your minicom session. Forget minicom. All the info you need to dial should be in /etc/ppp/ppp-connect. Edit that file and put in the info needed, and then simply type pppd as root at a shell prompt. Tim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)
I made to try out everyone's suggestions for getting my PPP dialup to work. The first thing that happened is t hat when I turned on my computer, for some reason /dev/mouse was linked to my /dev/ttyS0, and so things refused to use ttyS0. So I deleted /dev/mouse, but then nothing would detect the modem on /dev/ttyS0. I then booted off my bootdisk that I made during debian setup, and it was recognized okay.. Any ideas on how to fix this? Now, (having booted off the disk), I check my /etc/ppp/ and am disappointed to find that I have no scripts already there that I can customize. :(. So, I decited to try a program that was recommended to me by another user, wvdial (http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial). It starts to work beautifully, and logs in, detects a ppp, starts my ppp, and then disconnects, and says the ppp deamon exited with error code 2. I check the ppp-errors file, and it says that the /etc/ppp/ppp-connect file doesn't exist. Now, I take out the line 'connect /etc/ppp/ppp-connect' from the options file in /etc/ppp/ and dial again. This time it exits with error code 1. The ppp log file also says: Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xac65824f pcomp accomp] Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 accomp] Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xac65824f pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:24 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xac65824f pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:25 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x70 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp 0b 04 07 00] Dec 25 17:59:25 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x70 0b 04 07 00] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x71 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x71 auth pap] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x72 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x72 auth pap] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x73 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x73 auth pap] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x74 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x74 auth pap] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x75 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x75 auth pap] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x76] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x76] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x77 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x77 auth chap md5] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xac65824f pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: Modem hangup Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: Connection terminated. Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: Exit. Any ideas? Thanx alot! Timothy PS: Assuming I ever get this to work, does anyone know if Apache or any other web servers will work even though I've got a dynamic IP? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xfree86 question
Hi! I am a new Linux user converted from Windows NT. :). I have a 17 inch monitor, but my XFree86 insists on displaying in an approximately 15 inch rectangle of my screen. How do I configure it to fill the whole screen? Also! Is there an equivalent of Microsoft's file manager for X windows? Thanks, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
