Re: How to start OSS/Commercial Automatically + upgrade LD
On 2002.01.07 05:47 Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:11:44AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > I have a few questions, first off how can I run the soundon command to > > start up OSS automatically at bootup? > > I don't know what this means. If you need to load your sound module at > boot time, use modconf or just manually put the module name in > /etc/modules. You don't know what it means 'cause you've never used the commercial OSS. It is inserted into the kernel with a 'soundon' command. Yes, it is started with the "soundon" command, which I put in /etc/init.d/local I don't recall, having not used that product in several years, but I think it does quite a bit more than just insmod or modprobe. Among other things, I believe it checks to be sure that you're licensed to use the thing. It does that too, check for the license file. -- Andrew
Re: How to start OSS/Commercial Automatically + upgrade LD
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:11:44AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > I have a few questions, first off how can I run the soundon command to > > start up OSS automatically at bootup? > > I don't know what this means. If you need to load your sound module at > boot time, use modconf or just manually put the module name in > /etc/modules. You don't know what it means 'cause you've never used the commercial OSS. It is inserted into the kernel with a 'soundon' command. I don't recall, having not used that product in several years, but I think it does quite a bit more than just insmod or modprobe. Among other things, I believe it checks to be sure that you're licensed to use the thing. In any case, to run soundon at boottime, I would copy /etc/init.d/skeleton to a new file in that directory (call it sound or OSS or something) and make the changes there. Then 'cd /etc/rc2.d && ln -s ../init.d/sound .' Or read the manpage for 'update-rc.d'. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpFaQStWkaaD.pgp Description: PGP signature
How to start OSS/Commercial Automatically + upgrade LD
Hello all, I've installed debian and have to say I feel quite a bit more at home with Debian than any other Linux system I've used. I am a NetBSD user for the mostpart. I have a few questions, first off how can I run the soundon command to start up OSS automatically at bootup? Second I'm running a Nvidia GeForce2 MX-400 with linux and am having strange crashes (the X server exits with signal 11 I think) anyhow according to Nvidia this could be because the linker (ld) is of an old version... Can I upgrade my ld to a new version? I'm already running kernel 2.4.16 with many of the tools recompiled from source (all those suggested by 2.4.16 installation) so ld would just be another one. Thanks all! Ben B. Bogart -
Re: How to start OSS/Commercial Automatically + upgrade LD
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 04:27:52 -0500 (EST) Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I've installed debian and have to say I feel quite a bit more at home > with Debian than any other Linux system I've used. I am a NetBSD user > for the mostpart. Good. You might like Gentoo Linux (www.gentoo.org) even more - it has a similar package management system to BSD apparently. > > I have a few questions, first off how can I run the soundon command to > > start up OSS automatically at bootup? I have a small file called oss in /etc/rc.boot: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/soundon Make the file executable (chmod ug+x /etc/rc.boot/oss) and make sure the path is correct for your systen. > > Second I'm running a Nvidia GeForce2 MX-400 with linux and am having > strange crashes (the X server exits with signal 11 I think) anyhow > according to Nvidia this could be because the linker (ld) is of an old > version... Can I upgrade my ld to a new version? I too have a graphics card which requires the Nvidia drivers. I downloaded the tar.gz pacakage from Nvidia, unzipped/untarred it and ran 'make install'. I have had no problems with it at all. Mind you, I run Debian unstable. It might be worth your while upgrading your version of Debian if you are running Potato. Have you made the requisite changes to the XFree config file in /etc/X11? > I'm already running kernel 2.4.16 with many of the tools recompiled > >from source (all those suggested by 2.4.16 installation) so ld would > just be another one. I wouldn't have done that. You will have dependency problems with other packages if Debian doesn't know what is installed on your system, especially with important system files. Debian testing or unstable are very usable and to most Debian users they are more stable than what RedHat might refer to as stable. If you point /etc/apt/sources.list to either testing or unstable and do 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get install xyz' you would get the latest version of that app - the only issue is that other apps and libs would also be upgraded along the way. It is a problem with Debian where the roll-out time for new version takes so long. Potato is rather long in the tooth now and I would imagine a great many Debian users are actually running testing or unstable. I have been running Unstable for a long time and have had few problems. If you subscribe to this list you will be aware when something breaks and know not to upgrade until the issue is resolved. Unless you are running a mission-critical system it is the way to go. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN XAGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS / \
Re: How to start OSS/Commercial Automatically + upgrade LD
Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello all, > > I've installed debian and have to say I feel quite a bit more at home > with Debian than any other Linux system I've used. I am a NetBSD user > for the mostpart. > > I have a few questions, first off how can I run the soundon command to > start up OSS automatically at bootup? Read the ReadMe file in the, created, oss dir. hint: Look for S99 -- A user will find any interface design intuitive...with enough practice. ___
Re: How to start OSS/Commercial Automatically + upgrade LD
Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all, > > I've installed debian and have to say I feel quite a bit more at home > with Debian than any other Linux system I've used. I am a NetBSD user > for the mostpart. > > I have a few questions, first off how can I run the soundon command to > start up OSS automatically at bootup? I don't know what this means. If you need to load your sound module at boot time, use modconf or just manually put the module name in /etc/modules. > Second I'm running a Nvidia GeForce2 MX-400 with linux and am having > strange crashes (the X server exits with signal 11 I think) anyhow > according to Nvidia this could be because the linker (ld) is of an old > version... Can I upgrade my ld to a new version? > > I'm already running kernel 2.4.16 with many of the tools recompiled > from source (all those suggested by 2.4.16 installation) so ld would > just be another one. Normally in Debian, it's preferable to install binary packages from the archives, not to compile from source. Otherwise, you'll miss out on Debian's package management, which is probably the best reason to be running Debian in the first place. If you want to run 2.4.x kernels on Potato, it's best to either upgrade to Woody or Sid, or to use these packages here: http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html If you still need a newer binutils (which contains ld), the latest packaged version is always found in Sid, but note that it requires a newer version of libc6 than the one in Potato. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
How to start OSS/Commercial Automatically + upgrade LD
Hello all, I've installed debian and have to say I feel quite a bit more at home with Debian than any other Linux system I've used. I am a NetBSD user for the mostpart. I have a few questions, first off how can I run the soundon command to start up OSS automatically at bootup? Second I'm running a Nvidia GeForce2 MX-400 with linux and am having strange crashes (the X server exits with signal 11 I think) anyhow according to Nvidia this could be because the linker (ld) is of an old version... Can I upgrade my ld to a new version? I'm already running kernel 2.4.16 with many of the tools recompiled from source (all those suggested by 2.4.16 installation) so ld would just be another one. Thanks all! Ben B. Bogart -
