Re: No sound

2005-08-16 Thread Jeremy Byron
randhir phagura wrote: 'lspci' shows the driver as:ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 'alsamixer' shows the card as: Card: ESS ES1938 (Solo-1) Chip: ESS Solo-1 'alsa plugin' configure shows: default 'default PCM device'. Maybe try entering 'hw:0,0' (without the quotes) into xmms's 'Audio device' f

Re: change permissions on /dev/null

2005-08-16 Thread Jeremy Byron
Jens Olav Nygaard wrote: H. Can this explain the following: I wanted to make a mirror of my installation, and did 'cp -ax / /mnt', the empty mirror root mounted on /mnt. I tried to boot it, but something went wrong rather quickly. Could the reason be that I did not do 'cp -ax /dev /mnt' afte

Re: OpenSSH server not working - connection closed

2005-08-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
If you are able to, you could try rebuilding a kernel without IPv6 to see if it helps. Alternatively, other people in this situation might I did indeed recompile the kernel without IPv6, but I keep getting the same errors. I'm pretty stumped. However, I stopped getting the Bind to port 22

Re: No mailto in Firefox-1.0.6--No links in Thunderbird

2005-08-16 Thread Dan McGhee
Dan McGhee wrote: Using DJ's /usr/bin/{thunderbird,firefox}, I can open URL's from Thunderbird into a new tab in firefox. However, I haven't succeeded in getting 'mailto' to work yet. What I finally did was add a new user_pref to prefs.js using 'about:config'. What's interesting is that the

Re: change permissions on /dev/null

2005-08-16 Thread Donal Farrell
That worked! Thanks again On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 05:57, Jeremy Byron wrote: > Donal Farrell wrote: > > Hi there. How do I change permissions or use mknod to make /dev/null > > back into a charcter device? > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -la /dev/{null,zero} > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117 2005-0

Re: change permissions on /dev/null

2005-08-16 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Matthew Burgess wrote: Well, kind of! It's pretty subtle in the book, but we do actually create /dev/null and /dev/console devices on disk so that booting into single user mode will work. During a normal boot, though, a tmpfs will be mounted at /dev with the apparent effect of "overwriting"

Re: change permissions on /dev/null

2005-08-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
Andrew Benton wrote: If udev is running, won't /dev be a temporary filesystem that will disappear when you reboot? Well, kind of! It's pretty subtle in the book, but we do actually create /dev/null and /dev/console devices on disk so that booting into single user mode will work. During a n

Re: No sound

2005-08-16 Thread randhir phagura
Hi, Jeremy Byron wrote: Note the 'mono' in both cases.. compare below. Yeah!! You are right Jeremy. There is a driver issue here: 'lspci' shows the driver as:ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 'alsamixer' shows the card as: Card: ESS ES1938 (Solo-1) Chip: ESS Solo-1 'alsa plugin' configure shows:

Re: change permissions on /dev/null

2005-08-16 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: > > > Simon Geard wrote: > > > To correct it, remove /dev/null, and re-create it with: > > > > > > mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 > > > > > > I.e a character device, major/minor pair of 1,3, and > > > world-wr

Re: change permissions on /dev/null

2005-08-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: > Simon Geard wrote: > > To correct it, remove /dev/null, and re-create it with: > > > > mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 > > > > I.e a character device, major/minor pair of 1,3, and world-writable. > > > > If udev is running, won't /dev be a temporary filesys

Re: change permissions on /dev/null

2005-08-16 Thread Andrew Benton
Simon Geard wrote: To correct it, remove /dev/null, and re-create it with: mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 I.e a character device, major/minor pair of 1,3, and world-writable. If udev is running, won't /dev be a temporary filesystem that will disappear when you reboot? It would be best to do t

Re: change permissions on /dev/null

2005-08-16 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 20:53 +0100, Donal Farrell wrote: > Hi there. How do I cg=hange permissions or use mknod to make /dev/null > back into a charcter device? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -la /dev/{null,zero} > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117 2005-08-15 20:50 /dev/null > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5

Re: OpenSSH server not working - connection closed

2005-08-16 Thread lfs-user
Dan Nicholson wrote: Hi, debug3: authmethod_lookup keyboard-interactive debug3: remaining preferred: password debug3: authmethod_is_enabled keyboard-interactive debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive debug2: userauth_kbdint debug2: we sent a keyboard-interactive packet, wait

Re: No mailto in Firefox-1.0.6--No links in Thunderbird

2005-08-16 Thread Dan McGhee
Randy McMurchy wrote: user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "path_to_wrapper"); This should work good for Firefox. Thanks, Randy. Using DJ's /usr/bin/{thunderbird,firefox}, I can open URL's from Thunderbird into a new tab in firefox. However, I haven't succeeded in gett

Re: No mailto in Firefox-1.0.6--No links in Thunderbird

2005-08-16 Thread Dan McGhee
Dan Nicholson wrote: By the way, if you edit users.js by hand, it'll be overwritten I believe. prefs.js is overwritten. It's the one the application creates. user.js doesn't get overwritten and its entries override prefs.js. The user must create the second one. Are you running a de

Re: OpenSSH server not working - connection closed

2005-08-16 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > >Device Drivers Networking Support Networking Options The IPv6 > >protocol (EXPERIMENTAL) in the kernel's menuconfig. > > > > The thing is, IPv6 isn't selected in the default x86 config, so it > >looks as if you built it "just in case" (you say an IP