On Tue 27 Mar 01, 9:38 AM, Alfredo Lopez De Leon Ph.D. said:
> More Failures>
>
> I guess this time I did something really bad to my system. BTW is a laptop.
>
> > > look at the output of dmesg | less - you should be able to discover
> > > more information from that. If you can't, maybe you should send us
> > > the output of dmesg.
> >
> > also, cat /proc/interrupts should show an IRQ assigned to your sound card.
> >
> > what kind of sound card do you have?
>
> I have a Yamaha OPL3-SAx and the output of dmesg indicates that its sound
> modules are being loaded and it is working OK my Joe Satriani CD plays well.
> But it is also loading the SB (sound blaster) dont know why. It is not
> defined in the modules.conf
alfredo, modules.conf doesn't load modules. the *only* thing it does is
provide information for modprobe.
i don't know if this is debian specific, but try looking at the file
/etc/modules. you should see "sb" in there. comment it out with a #.
now, if redhat is anything like suse, there's a canonical control file which
loads various things and sets various variables. no doubt it's in /etc, but
i can't give you the name.
btw, this is exactly the sort of problem that helped me become pretty handy
with linux. this is a nice problem to sink your teeth into.
> However, I just discovered that I have a "tailless cat" inside my computer.
>
> My "cat" and "tail" commands do not work anymore.
more info, please. what's the error?
> I also discovered that my
> "man" wasn't working. It was missing something called grof (?) after
groff is the standard package which provides the interface between standard
old-style unix formatting languages like troff, nroff and tbl into terminfo
or termcap codes.
strange how it disappeared. that should've raised dependency alarms.
> I
> reinstalled the RPM for grof the man "came back" although not completely
> some request are not being handled correctly and all I get is a blank page
> with a highlighted END at the bottom of the page.
my guess is that groff is corrupted.
> The last thing I did to my system was to install a new version of a Sequence
> Analysis program. This program is working OK and as far as I can tell it
> doesn't install anything outside its own directory. All changes to the
> system are done manually and I haven't even started yet.
here's the important question -- did you install it via rpm or tarball? a
tarball knows nothing about what exists where and /may/ happily install
files over system files. rpms and debs will refuse to do this without a
force command.
> This is getting way too weird.
plan on a few hours diagnosing. it'll be a good trial by fire, and you'll
know a LOT more from the experience. if it gets too bad, i'll try to find
time to help out via lert.
pete
ps- please followup on vox-tech so these messages get archived.
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