Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
gmix reports all the sound levels are in the middle. play prints 'Playing Chord.wav' and then hangs there just like 'cat sound.raw /dev/dsp' would do and I have to CTRL-C out of it. No sound. I'm beginnning to think I have a conflict but dmesg doesn't report any hardware at the same IRQ (5) as

Re: Kernel v2.4.16 problems

2001-12-12 Thread shock
* Stephen Rueger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:28:28PM -0600, shock wrote: I just downloaded v2.4.16 and am trying to get it compiled. Following is the output from make: [the binutils vs. 2.4.x kernel thingie] Get one of the 2.4.17-preX kernels (X == at

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-12 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 06 December 2001 17:32 pm, shock wrote: So far, it's been *fantastic*. Mail::SpamAssassin is unbelievably accurate, and the filter script behaves exactly as I expect it to. I've been trying to install this module from CPAN with dh-make-perl. The build fails claiming it can't

Re: Kernel v2.4.16 problems

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:57:03PM -0600, shock wrote: Get one of the 2.4.17-preX kernels (X == at least 6), the problem is fixed in this. yep. that fixed it. thanks! (odd that it compiled on my other debian woody machine..) That might have one of the following reasons: a) your

NVidia GeForce 2 and XFree86

2001-12-12 Thread Kirk Cheney
Hi, I have a GeForce 2 video card and Debian 2.2r2, and cannot start X windows at all. I have been looking at some of the previous postings about these cards, but am confused. I looked at the instructions on the NVidia site, and noted that I needed to upgrade my XFree86. I looked at the

Re: evolution

2001-12-12 Thread DvB
Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This list is debian-user, no specific language specified, even if we use much more english Well, there *is no* debian-user-english so I think this probably *is* the English list, even though it doesn't explicitly say so in the list's description. That

does mydql-server require more than loopback interface?

2001-12-12 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, i'm running php-nuke with mysql on potato with apache. at home, i'm running woody. i have the same set up (apache, mqsql-server, php4, the php-sql package)... at home, i only have a lo (loopback) interface, no eth, no ppp. mysqld starts just fine, no errors. i think i've narrowed down the

dopewars on potato

2001-12-12 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, i have dopewars (1.5.2-1 from woody) installed on my potato box. my sources.list points to potato, but i downloaded the deb and: dpkg --ignore-depends=libc6 --ignore-depends=libgtk1.2 --ignore-depends=libncurses5 --ignore-depends=xlibs -i dopewars_1.5.2-1_i386.deb to get it installed. it

Re: evolution

2001-12-12 Thread ben
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 03:20 pm, DvB wrote: Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This list is debian-user, no specific language specified, even if we use much more english Well, there *is no* debian-user-english so I think this probably *is* the English list, even though it doesn't

Re: Difference between APT pin and dpkg hold

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:27:12PM +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote: What is the difference between pinning a package (as described in the APT HOWTO), and setting the ``hold flag'' using dpkg? pin decides priority of archived packages against installed one.

What does xconsole display? (was: Re: proper set-up of xconsole ?)

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:54:16PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've noticed that the default persmissions on xconsole are : ~ $ ls -l /dev/xconsole prw-r-1 root adm 0 Dec 11 22:52

More lm-sensors questions

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
I'm still trying to get lm-sensors working on my new machine. The motherboard in question si a Gigabyte GA-71XE. Here is what I have done so far. I built, and installed a 2.4.16 kernel using kernel-package (with all 12c options slected). The i unpacked the debian source lm-sensors modules

spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ??

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
A new woody machine that I am seting up just started dispaying this on the console. spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Whart's it trying to tell me? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to

Re: Can't find vroot.h

2001-12-12 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 16:32, Stephen Gran wrote: Hello all, I am trying to compile a couple of screensavers, and they call for a file called vroot.h, apparently in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/. I looked at packages.debian.org for which package it comes in (I would have thought xlibs-dev)

Re: emu10k1 troubles...

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Jonathan D. Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm having weird problems with sound using the emu10k1 module. The system bell is coming out through the speakers, but other sound (xmms, gcd, etc..) seems to play (ie no complaints about devices, visualization shows levels) but no sound

Re: NVidia GeForce 2 and XFree86

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Kirk Cheney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have a GeForce 2 video card and Debian 2.2r2, and cannot start X windows at all. I have been looking at some of the previous postings about these cards, but am confused. I looked at the instructions on the NVidia site, and noted that I needed

No GnuCash in woody?

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
I'm building a new woody system. I just tried to add GnuCash using dselect, but searching for cash in dselect did not turn up anything. Am I doing somehting wrong? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n.

Re: /dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA

2001-12-12 Thread Ross Boylan
The things is, I ran snddevices when I did the original install. I think the can't find /dev/dsp message is more of a complaint about nothing functioning being there; /dev/dsp is a link to /dev/dsp0 for me: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root9 Dec 21 2000 /dev/dsp - /dev/dsp0 crw-rw

Re: No GnuCash in woody?

2001-12-12 Thread Simon Wong
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 12:01, Stan Brown wrote: I'm building a new woody system. I just tried to add GnuCash using dselect, but searching for cash in dselect did not turn up anything. I found the same problem the other day too. It has some conflict with libguileXX. Not sure what's happening

Re: A package that does not want to die

2001-12-12 Thread D.
I would suggest doing a dpkg --list |more and see if the package is listed. If not then you might have come configuration files still on your system that were not removed from your last removal. To remove these I would do a apt-get -purge filename. Then I would do the apt-get -remove filename

Re: A package that does not want to die

2001-12-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Dec-2001 Stephen J. Thompson wrote: Hello All, I have a package that does not want to be removed. All I keep getting is the following: ferengi:~/temp# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: The package firebird-classic needs to be

Re: No GnuCash in woody?

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm building a new woody system. I just tried to add GnuCash using dselect, but searching for cash in dselect did not turn up anything. Am I doing somehting wrong? The gnucash package is a mess due to the rapidly changing libs in its dependencies. ATM,

Re: More lm-sensors questions

2001-12-12 Thread David Z Maze
Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SB I built, and installed a 2.4.16 kernel using kernel-package (with all 12c SB options slected). SB SB The i unpacked the debian source lm-sensors modules package in /usr/src. SB The I compiled using the dbian/rules. This all went well. (I tend to recommend

sendmain mail without body text

2001-12-12 Thread Adrian Bolzan
Hi, i hope this is the write forum but... how do i send mail from the command line of a debian box without needing body text? e.g. mail -s test message [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then return to the command prompt thanks for any help. adrian

Re: sendmain mail without body text

2001-12-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya how do i send mail from the command line of a debian box without needing body text? e.g. mail -s test message [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail -s test message [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null or echo any msg | mail -s test message [EMAIL PROTECTED] c ya alvin -- trying to play with ata133

Re: php4 parameter problems

2001-12-12 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I use the php4 debian package from woody. But in this case, I can't print the value of $test_par, which should be aaa If I get php4 source tarball and compile myself, the function is working. I wonder why the php4 shipped from woody can't work. BTW, I have register_globals = On in

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
Tried it. Both 'play sound.wav' and the 'cat /dev/dsp' just hang there with no sound coming out. I don't thing it's a permission problem, I just don't know where to attack the problem from. -D On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 18:31, Courtney Thomas wrote: Didier Malenfant wrote: gmix reports all

Re: Can't find vroot.h

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Bob Underwood: On Wednesday 12 December 2001 16:32, Stephen Gran wrote: Hello all, I am trying to compile a couple of screensavers, and they call for a file called vroot.h, apparently in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/. I looked at packages.debian.org for which package it comes in (I

Re: /usr/bin/studio in two packages kdestudio and linuxvideostudio

2001-12-12 Thread Mark Purcell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:44, Ben Burton wrote: Hmm. I realise this is kind of graceless but I'm going to request that linuxvideostudio change its filenames. :) The reasons being: Hi Ben, Yes I am happy with that. I'll change the filenames in

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Didier Malenfant: gmix reports all the sound levels are in the middle. play prints 'Playing Chord.wav' and then hangs there just like 'cat sound.raw /dev/dsp' would do and I have to CTRL-C out of it. No sound. I'm beginnning to think I have a conflict but dmesg doesn't

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 18:57, Stephen Gran wrote: I missed the beginning of this thread, sorry, but I guess the basics - are the relevant modules loaded? Here's what it started with, the card seems detected (dmesg): es1371: version v0.22 time 19:13:40 Nov 18 2000 es1371: found chip, vendor id

Re: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ??

2001-12-12 Thread hanasaki
Hmmm no clue.. but I get it too. Stan Brown wrote: A new woody machine that I am seting up just started dispaying this on the console. spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Whar?t's it trying to tell me?

VNC

2001-12-12 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, What is the best way to log out from a VNC session when you are using Gnome? Just kill the VNC client? TIA, Oki

Re: No GnuCash in woody?

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:01:22PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I'm building a new woody system. I just tried to add GnuCash using dselect, | but searching for cash in dselect did not turn up anything. It used to be the same version as potato (really old). Get it from sid. Unfortunately gnucash

php4-cgi and php4-cgi-mysql in Woody

2001-12-12 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I installed php4-cgi(Version: 3:4.0.100-1) in my woody then I'd like it to support mysql, so I apt-get install php4-cgi-mysql, but it complains: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: php4-cgi-mysql: Depends: php4-cgi (= 4.0.3pl1-0potato1.1) but it is not going to

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:14:20PM -0500, David Teague wrote: | | Thanks to Aaron, Nate, dman, and Gary, especially for the web page | references. I'll spend some time looking at that before asking | again. | | Your articles were enlightening, but you don't address my question. ... | I have

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... | | | Adding video=vesa made lilo fail to run, I also tried it in an | | append statment, still no framebuffer. | | For lilo both vga= and video= should be in append. I've also read | for

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen Gran
Just redirected to the list - the output doesn't help me, but someone else may have an idea. Just for info, here's the output to the strace of the play program. It hangs on the last wait4 but it seems like whatever was writing the trace info just got stopped in its tracks before that line was

Re: No GnuCash in woody?

2001-12-12 Thread Craig Dickson
Brian Nelson wrote: The gnucash package is a mess due to the rapidly changing libs in its dependencies. ATM, you'd need to pull down the source from unstable and build it against the libraries on your system (the deb in unstable is uninstallable because libguppi13 is no longer in the

Re: does mydql-server require more than loopback interface?

2001-12-12 Thread nate
quote who=Jason M. Harvey hello, anyone ever used a similar setup with only lo? try loading it with the option of --bind-address=127.0.0.1 or --skip-networking. i use the --bind-address=127.0.0.1 for secure mysql servers that recieve client connections from stunnel. you can use

Re: A package that does not want to die

2001-12-12 Thread nate
quote who=Stephen J. Thompson Hello All, I have tried installing the package but it is Fd. Can anyone help me on removing it? if apt-get can't remove it and dpkg can't..id say fuckit and edit the /var/lib/dpkg/status file and remove it from there, then the system should no longer think

Re: sendmain mail without body text

2001-12-12 Thread nate
quote who=Adrian Bolzan e.g. mail -s test message [EMAIL PROTECTED] i usually use cat or echo: echo | mail -s test message [EMAIL PROTECTED] nate

Sharing dotfiles between diverse accounts

2001-12-12 Thread David Z Maze
I have about four completely different login accounts that I use regularly. They may as well be in separate universes; one is on my laptop, for example, while another will let me log in on most of the machines on the main MIT campus (with a fairly non-standard filesystem setup). Regardless,

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Dec 12 22:39:50 2001 dman wrote... On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... | | | Adding video=vesa made lilo fail to run, I also tried it in an | | append statment, still no framebuffer. | | For lilo both vga= and video=

Re: Sharing dotfiles between diverse accounts

2001-12-12 Thread nate
quote who=David Z Maze This seems like a common enough problem that anybody sufficiently geeky (say, who has a Debian machine at home and some Unixy machine at work/school) would have run into it. Are there any pre-canned, or at least not-too-groady home-baked solutions out there? i run

Evolution Conduits

2001-12-12 Thread Dave Steinberg
Hi all, I just installed evolution-ssl_1.0-1, and I'm not finding the configuration applets for Evolution's gnome-pilot conduits (EAddress, ECalendar, and ETodo) The libs for the conduits themselves are there (in /usr/lib/gnome-pilot/conduits), but I can't find anything for configuration. The

Re: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ??

2001-12-12 Thread nate
quote who=Stan Brown A new woody machine that I am seting up just started dispaying this on the console. spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Are you using a SMP kernel on a UP machine? running a quick search came up with this: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0010.1/0420.html another

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:10:42PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | On Wed Dec 12 22:39:50 2001 dman wrote... | On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | | On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... | | | | For lilo both vga= and video= should be in append. I've also read | | for

Re: VNC

2001-12-12 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, It seems that as long as you don't kill the server, everything would be as what you left out. Interesting... It's kinda neat, I think. Next time you logged in to the remote host using the xvncviewer, you'd get your last desktop. Oki

Re: Need help w/ dhcpd and shared-network option . . .

2001-12-12 Thread Jeff
Jeff Vincent, 2001-Dec-12 15:49 -0700: Ahh!! The fog is beginning to lift. Thank's Jeff and Brandon (and others)! :-) /*- From dhcpd.conf ?--- */ option domain-name testlabdomain; option routers X.Y.D.254; option subnet-mask 255.255.252.0;

Re: VNC

2001-12-12 Thread Jeff
Oki DZ, 2001-Dec-13 10:08 +0700: Hi, What is the best way to log out from a VNC session when you are using Gnome? Just kill the VNC client? TIA, Oki I've always just closed the window, which kills the process. You don't want to log out from within the vnc client session, because that

setleds error?

2001-12-12 Thread Curtis Farnham
I, too, prefer my Num Lock key on. I have tried several times to set it that way, but all the solutions I've seen involve a setleds command, from which I keep getting the same error message: KGETLED: Invalid argument Error reading current led setting. Maybe stdin is not a VT?

Re: Sharing dotfiles between diverse accounts

2001-12-12 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, David Z Maze wrote: In my ideal world, I'd like some sort of update system where I can change a dotfile on one machine and everything magically changes elsewhere. You can try Coda filesystem; http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu. But still, you'd need a server machine for the main

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