Odd sound issue

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

Re: printing in netscape

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

printing in netscape

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 MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO

bash

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 ;

Re: bash

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 MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420

xdm error on boot

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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

mail????

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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

xdm error on boot

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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: netscape communicator error

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

sane

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

pause

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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

xmix

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

Re: pause

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

color xterm (again, *sigh*)

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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

adduser

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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: [gtk-list] Re: sane problems

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

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

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.

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

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 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 08 Jul 97 20:20:11 -0500 From:

Re: PPP (fwd)

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

app pause

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

default fonts and the x server

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

Re: PnP ( ie: Modem )

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