Help with sound card - sb ct3600

Hello everyone. My soundcard is a soundblaster CT3600. I can't get it to work. I am getting the following error when I try to load modules touse it as follows: spoke:/proc# modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=10 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen

dhclient-script, debug-enter, debug-exit

Help somebody? I'm using the most recent stable version of woody. /etc/dhcp3/dhclients-script /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/debug-enter /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/debug-exit Are not being installed when I install dhcp3-client. I have uninstalled this

Help with firing up modules on demand

I think I have read all the relevant docs regarding setting up my system to auto load modules but I am still somewhat unsure. I put the name of the module in /etc/modules if I want it fired up on boot. This is not really what I want! I want the modules to start up when they are required (like

Port 766

Can anybody tell me what this port is for? When I nmap myself (localhost) I keep seeing that this port is open. I don't know what software is using this port? Any help would be appreciated. MTY

samba configuration with swat

Hi. I am having a problem with the way the swat package is set up I think. I use netscape to log into swap with the url:http://localhost:901/. This works fine and I get the icons of the different features that I can modify. The only problem is that when I select any of the help pages nothing

depmod -a Please help

Hello everyone. I need some help with this one. I am running Debian 2.2 (Potato) on a AMD K6-2 system. As of late I could not reboot my system because I goofed up with my lilo setup etc. Regardless I was able to get my system back by using the debian rescue disk. (I still have not learn to

Auto load of modules?

Hi. I am running Debian 2.2. I am trying to get my scsi card kernel module to load automatically when I issue a mount command for that drive (or when other software like dselect tries to mount that drive.) My /etc/modules file reads as follows: # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at

FTP problems

Help. I have a small network at home. I have two NIC cards in my Debian machine, a single NIC in my windows machine and a cross over cable linking the two machines. I can successfully telnet from my windows machine to my Debian machine but i can't ftp from my windows machine to my Debian

IP Chains fire up script

Hi folks. Can you help me out with this one? I want to fire up my ipchains set up when my machine boots. I am running IP Masq and I get my internet connection via DHCPCD. My second ethernet card in my MASQ machine is set up using the /etc/network/interfaces as below # Used by ifup(8)

Re: Re: Further to CDROM prob.'s

lilo? I have gone through the kernel compile configuration using make config, and make xconfig and can not find the option mentioned. Thanks, MTY On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:34:03PM -0700 or thereabouts, Yobb wrote: Ah! Further to my Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:34:49 -0700 email regarding my CDROM

Advansys SCSI configuration problem

Hi. I'm trying to set up my SCSI card and CD-R and I need some advice. Below is the output I get when I load my SCSI module. I don't know what sr0-6 are but a get a feeling I only need 1 of them. Once this module is loaded devices /dev/scd0 through /dev/scd6 accesses the same single cd burner

Quake installation

Help. Am I missing something? I downloaded and tried to install the following: quake-lib_1.06-10.deb quake-x11_0.1.1-1.deb I got the following error: # dpkg -i quake-x11_0.1.1-1.deb (Reading database ... 46278 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace quake-x11 0.1.1-1

cdrom error - not playing sound

Help! My CDROM was working yesterday? I don't know what is happening now. I can access data disks on this devices just fine. When I put in a music CD and trying to play it use something like cdplay or Xplaycd the cdrom does not start playing music. cdplay is reporting an error as below when

Further to CDROM prob.'s

Ah! Further to my Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:34:49 -0700 email regarding my CDROM problems the full error message that cdplay outputs is as follows: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} hdc: packet command error: error=0x54 ATAPI device hdc: Error: Illegal request

Setting up color ls

Hi. I have been look at the method of setting up color ls used by people and I am convinced something is wrong with what is being recommended. What seems to be the normal method is to put the following line in ones .bashrc and .bash_profile: eval 'dircolors -b [file]' alias ls='ls

Compilation Problems

Hi, As root I can compile a program using: gcc -I /usr/include/X11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib demo.c -lX11 and get an executable a.out. As a user when I type the same thing I get: ld:cannot open -lX11: No such file of directory Do I have to give this user special privledges or something??? How

Ghost View / .ps viewers

I was wondering if anybody has seen a new version of ghostview that allows you to do neat things like print every second page and other neat things right in the interface. I think I saw this in a SUSE dist.. I have hamm installed. Is this newer version packaged with slink?? Your responce

Re: Debian-Red Hat- yadda yadda yadda

Well thought out. Bravo!

Re: Debian-Red Hat- yadda yadda yadda

Well thought out. Bravo!

Repartition

Can a person repartition an existing linux partition (assuming it is not full) without losing the information on it? If so what software should one use. I repartitioned my original DOS partition without losing anything a long time ago but I am quite sure this was a DOS app. Thanks, MT

Re: Re: Repartition

A rough step by step would help me out a whole bunch. Thanks MT

Re: Linux won't work with RAM 64 MB

You can get Debian to use your 128M of memory by passing a command to the kernel with your boot loader. I use lilo and this is what I put in my /etc/lilo.conf file append=mem=80M I put this right near the top of my lilo.conf file. You would have to use something like this append=mem=128M

User Directories

What do I have to do to move my user directories to a different partition/drive? I have looked around but I can not find what file (?) that user info like home directory is stored. Also I was wonder what the most dependable way to mount a drive on boot was? Can you do this with in a

Sendmail setup.

Hi all. I was wonder if anybody knows if it is possible to have smail change the name of my username in the From: line of my mail when I mail through my ISP. Currently smail takes the name of my currently logged in username (on my system) and I end up with something like [EMAIL

Boot Errors

When I boot I get the following errors all one after the other: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device SIOCADDRTL: Network is unreachable SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable It does not seem to be affecting the performance of my system

Re: Boot Errors

18:05:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 18:05:30 -0700 (PDT) From: George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark Yobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Boot Errors In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-No-Archive

Re: Sendmail setup.

(PDT) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 17:57:53 -0700 (PDT) From: George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark Yobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sendmail setup. In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-No-Archive: yes MIME

Smail help please

Hi. I really need some help here. I have fetchmail working fine. It pops my mail off my ISP's server just fine. I can't figure out how to make smail send mail through my account on my ISP to the internet when I am logged in. If I use netscapes mail it works fine. I have looked through man

Print .ps files.

I am having trouble with printing. I have magicfilter, lprng, and cti-fthp (spelling?) installed. Text files print fine to my local printer (HP LazerJet 5L) but when printing postscript files with ghostscript I just get stepped lines of all these funny commands. I assume these commands

xman

Hi folks! I am running Debian 1.3.1 (bo) and I can't seem to find xman. I know it comes with my CD because I had it installed at one time. What .deb package is xman included in? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

gcc not finding header / library files

Hi. I asked this question once before. Unfortunately I did not phrase the question properly so the answer I got was helpful but not useful. Here goes again. I am running bo and I am have troubling compiling with gcc/g++. The compiler does not find the prepocessor directive header files

$ENV

Hay there! Is there any command that anybody know of that will print to standard output all of the current environment variables? When using korn shell I think it is `echo $ENV`? I want to see what environment variables are currently intialized and there values. I would be cool to see

lpr versus lprng

What is the difference? Please be verbose! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/etc/init.d/boot message?

I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to get the info that scrolls across my screen (on bootup) when /etc/init.d/boot is executing. Is this message sent to a log file or something? How can I look at this after booting? Thanks Ah! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

xv

Hi everybody. I am quite new to this and I think that my previous exposure to UNIX might to confusing me on this one? I always knew xv or xview as a graphics viewing package with alot of cool options. In my current bo 1.3.1 installation xview is included but apparently I just

Compiling with gcc

Hello. I am not sure what is wrong so I will just tell what happened. I wrote a litte C++ with the following preprocessor directive at the top of the file: #include iostream When I went to compile (gcc prog.C) I got the error message: prog.C:1:iostream:No such file or directory. I

Re: Printer (port) Problems

Resent-Date: 10 Jun 1998 01:03:16 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 03:03:58 +0200 From: Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark Yobb [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Printer (port) Problems

Printer (port) Problems

Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 07:35:22 -0400 From: Bob Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Very little, if any. To: Mark Yobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Printer (port) Problems References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Yobb wrote: Hi, I would really appreciate some's

Re: Question about xterm and rxvt

about xterm and rxvt References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Message-ID: XriWiD.A.vR.-W_e1@murphy Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/7952 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Yobb wrote: How do I

Printer (port) Problems

Hi, I would really appreciate some's help. I have been trying to get my linux system working for a long time. I have install Redhat 4.1, Redhat 5.0, Slackwear, etc. I think I have found the distribution I want in Debian but now I have to get my system working right! When I try to

Question about xterm and rxvt

How do I change the colours of these terminals. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]