[techtalk] X emulator for X?

1999-12-27 Thread Sunnanvind

I know that the topic sounds wierd, but here's what I really meant:
Some programs will only run in for example 604x480x8bpp. My screen works best
in 1024x768x16bpp (it's a tft-screen), so is there a way to trick programs and
make them run in a window, while believing that they run in full screen in
their preffered resolution/color depth?
I got Grim Fandango running (with very good speed and sound) with wine; but it
only used the top left 640x480 pixels, and left the unused pixels blinking
wildly. I would rather have it in a window, like quake.x11 does.

Any other workarounds/solutions, like having a virtual extra screen that I can
switch to?

Thanks for reading,
oxo
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Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

1999-12-27 Thread Nils Philippsen

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Sunnanvind wrote:

> I know that the topic sounds wierd, but here's what I really meant:
> Some programs will only run in for example 604x480x8bpp. My screen works best
> in 1024x768x16bpp (it's a tft-screen), so is there a way to trick programs and
> make them run in a window, while believing that they run in full screen in
> their preffered resolution/color depth?
> I got Grim Fandango running (with very good speed and sound) with wine; but it
> only used the top left 640x480 pixels, and left the unused pixels blinking
> wildly. I would rather have it in a window, like quake.x11 does.

You can start Xnest as an additional X server inside your X session,
unfortunately you can only specify its geometry but not the color depth
with XFree86 (I hope this changes with XF86-4.0):

Xnest -geometry 640x480 :1
export DISPLAY=:1
program_you_want_to_run_in_640x480 &

> Any other workarounds/solutions, like having a virtual extra screen that I can
> switch to?

You can easily run a second X server from a virtual console, but you can't
specify a resolution for it (you have to configure /etc/X11/XF86Config to
e.g. run 640x480 with 8bpp):

Xwrapper -bpp 8 :1
# if you want, run a windowmanager:
fvwm2 &
program_you_want_to_run_in_8bpp &

Hope this helps,
Nils
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Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

1999-12-27 Thread Sunnanvind

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> You can start Xnest as an additional X server inside your X session,
> unfortunately you can only specify its geometry but not the color depth
> with XFree86 (I hope this changes with XF86-4.0):
>
> Xnest -geometry 640x480 :1
> export DISPLAY=:1
> program_you_want_to_run_in_640x480 &

Nn... I get the following error:

[root@localhost Sunnan]# Xnest -geometry 640x480 :1
failed to set default font path 
'/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

I hope this is a really silly problem that'll take 2 mins to solve? 

> Hope this helps,

Thanks, and I'll check out the Xwrapper thingee later.
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Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

1999-12-27 Thread Sunnanvind

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Sunnanvind wrote:
> [root@localhost Sunnan]# Xnest -geometry 640x480 :1
> failed to set default font path 
>'/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> I hope this is a really silly problem that'll take 2 mins to solve? 

Err... it was. The embarrassing thing is that I solved it myself.
Xnest has a -fp argument that needs to be set with unix/:-1 on my setup, dunno
why.
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[techtalk] Accessing multiple Samba shares

1999-12-27 Thread Subba Rao


I have defined 2 shares in my smb.conf. When I try to access these
shares from the NT box, I can access only USER1 home directory. For USER2,
I always get the login dialog. I have used smbpasswd to add USER2, but still
can't access it. How do I access USER2 account too?

One other issue, is the umask for all the users on Linux is set to 027.
All I can see for USER1, is some dot files. Nothing else. How do I get to
list all the files in a share?

This is my smb.conf 



# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = TRAMP
netbios name = myhost
server string = myhost
syslog only = yes
log level = 2
log file = /var/log/samba.log
max log size = 5
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY
debug timestamp = yes
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /var/samba/private/smbpasswd
unix realname = yes
[homes]
browseable = no
map archive = yes
map system = yes
map hidden = yes
create mask = 744
[user1]
comment = %U Home Directory
path = %H
username = user1
valid users = user1
writeable = yes
read only = no
browseable = yes
case sensitive = no

[user2]
comment = %U Home Directory
path = %H
username = user2
valid users = user2
writeable = yes
read only = no




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[techtalk] symlinks don't show up under windows...

1999-12-27 Thread Walt

Another question for anybody with Samba experience...

I'm having trouble getting symbolic links to show up
on my windows machines accessing my Samba shares.

I'm also running netatalk+asun and the links show up
fine on my mac as directories and seem to work perfectly.

Any help?

Thanks,
Walt

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Re: [techtalk] Generic Question

1999-12-27 Thread Tech Docs

Folks

How long does it take an average person to become a good systems and network
administrator in Linux?

I have pretty good understanding on general systems and network concepts.
But, I am totally new to this unix world.

I hope this is not a silly question.

The irony is that I have got a job on Linux and I know nothing about it :-)
I tried explaining this to the recruiter but he says he does not find any
other hands and left with no other choice :-)

I have just started off learning something on Linux. Any clues as to where I
start, how I start, hours of work the experts here have put in to to reach
that kind of techno. status?

Cheers!
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Re: [techtalk] Generic Question

1999-12-27 Thread Shirrell


Try Red Hat Linux for Dummies.  It is by Maddog and is useful
even for those if us who do know linux.

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Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

1999-12-27 Thread Nils Philippsen

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Sunnanvind wrote:

> > I hope this is a really silly problem that'll take 2 mins to solve? 
> 
> Err... it was. The embarrassing thing is that I solved it myself.
> Xnest has a -fp argument that needs to be set with unix/:-1 on my
> setup, dunno why.

Are you by chance using Red Hat Linux (if yes, which version? I ask
because it uses the xfs font server by default in recent versions)? It
should be configured to use the font server in /etc/X11/XF86Config, the
relevant snippets are:

--- 8< --- /etc/X11/XF86Config ---
Section "Files"
[...]
FontPath   "unix/:-1"
[...]
EndSection
--- 8< ---

All other font paths are commented out in mine. Xnest should use
/etc/X11/XF86Config as well.

Maybe you use an Xnest from a different version or a differently packages
one (e.g. searching for XF86Config in /etc instead of /etc/X11 or vice
versa).

Nils
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Re: [techtalk] Generic Question

1999-12-27 Thread J B

I have just started off learning something on Linux. Any clues as to where I 
start, how I start, hours of work the experts here have put in to to reach 
that kind of techno. status?


You could try O'reilly's Running Linux and and Administrator's Guide

Both are invaluable books for the newbie and the techno-god.

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Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

1999-12-27 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:06:13 +0100, Sunnanvind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>I know that the topic sounds wierd, but here's what I really meant:
>Some programs will only run in for example 604x480x8bpp. My screen
>works best in 1024x768x16bpp (it's a tft-screen), so is there a way
>to trick programs and make them run in a window, while believing that
>they run in full screen in their preffered resolution/color depth? 

You can probably do this with Xnest.  Would be terribly inefficient,
though.

Kelly


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Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

1999-12-27 Thread Sunnanvind

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> Are you by chance using Red Hat Linux (if yes, which version? I ask
> because it uses the xfs font server by default in recent versions)?

Yep, 6.0.

> It
> should be configured to use the font server in /etc/X11/XF86Config, the
> relevant snippets are:
> 
> FontPath   "unix/:-1"

Yes, that's how I have it in my XF86Config - and that's how I figured what
font path I should use for Xnest.

> 
> All other font paths are commented out in mine. Xnest should use
> /etc/X11/XF86Config as well.
> 
> Maybe you use an Xnest from a different version or a differently packages
> one (e.g. searching for XF86Config in /etc instead of /etc/X11 or vice
> versa).

Yes, probably... didn't have Xnest on my comp, but I installed it from the cd
I installed RH from.

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Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

1999-12-27 Thread Sunnanvind

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote:
> You can probably do this with Xnest.  Would be terribly inefficient,
> though.

That's how I'm doing it right now (hi, Nils!). Inefficient, how come?
Works fine, I get my fave game (the best game ever, in my opinion) in a window,
next to mail programs etc etc...
Although slower in Xnest than it was when it screwed up my screen so how is a
more efficient way of doing it? Only way is to start an Xsession with right
resolution?
I ran a top and wine had most of the percentage - Xnest not so much.
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Re: [techtalk] Generic Question

1999-12-27 Thread Robert Kiesling


"Tech Docs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> The irony is that I have got a job on Linux and I know nothing about it :-)
> I tried explaining this to the recruiter but he says he does not find any
> other hands and left with no other choice :-)
> 
> I have just started off learning something on Linux. Any clues as to where I
> start, how I start, hours of work the experts here have put in to to reach
> that kind of techno. status?

I'm envious... :) I haven't been able to pass an interview for a
computer related job, much less a system administration job, since I
first graduated (must be that my degree isn't EE/CS).

Early on there wasn't much documentation about Linux... so I had to
use the standard Unix books to learn from.  I seem to remember the
Unix System V Administrators Guide by Stephen Kochan et al (I think to
be pretty good)...  A lot of the "Installation and Getting Started,"
the original Linux administrator's (it's on my web site,
http://www.mainmatter.com, for free), deals with GNU/Unix commands,
instead of the GNOME/KDE/Netscape type questions that are more common
now.  Olaf Kirch's Network Admin Guide has some pretty neat stuff in
it, too.  It's on the metalab.unc.edu archive or the LDP web site,
http://www.linuxdoc.com/.

I happen to like the Regular Expressions book from O'Reilly, because
it provides some great examples of how to leverage text patterns to
perform common tasks.  Sort of like a "Tao of Regex's" Most of the
other O'Reilly topics you can find free counterparts of if you look
for them.

Sorry, I sound like I'm rambling.  You can pick up general system admin
from any of the books out there.  Linux is mostly System V-like in its
user interface, with some BSD utilities (like the lpd suite of programs).  
Red Hat et al., have recently been veering of in some of the configuration
details, but the system configurations still follows the System V
conventions, basically.  

There are some skills that I'm not sure where they're documented...
like telnetting in to a jammed-up POP server, or concocting a 
regular expression to adjust every users' ~/.profile.  

For specific, detailed differences between GNU utilities and the
generic Unix counterparts, there are probably many more than anybody
could enumerate... you just have to look at all of the relevant 
manual pages as they arise.  

Hope this gives you a start.  At least you don't have to buy
the whole O'Reilly catalog first.  :)

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Re: [techtalk] Generic Question

1999-12-27 Thread Davida Schiff

http://www.linuxdoc.org/   for LDP website. Hope everyone's Christmas was
wonderful.

Davida


-Original Message-
From: Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, December 27, 1999 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Generic Question


>
>"Tech Docs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> The irony is that I have got a job on Linux and I know nothing about it
:-)
>> I tried explaining this to the recruiter but he says he does not find any
>> other hands and left with no other choice :-)
>>
>> I have just started off learning something on Linux. Any clues as to
where I
>> start, how I start, hours of work the experts here have put in to to
reach
>> that kind of techno. status?
>
>I'm envious... :) I haven't been able to pass an interview for a
>computer related job, much less a system administration job, since I
>first graduated (must be that my degree isn't EE/CS).
>
>Early on there wasn't much documentation about Linux... so I had to
>use the standard Unix books to learn from.  I seem to remember the
>Unix System V Administrators Guide by Stephen Kochan et al (I think to
>be pretty good)...  A lot of the "Installation and Getting Started,"
>the original Linux administrator's (it's on my web site,
>http://www.mainmatter.com, for free), deals with GNU/Unix commands,
>instead of the GNOME/KDE/Netscape type questions that are more common
>now.  Olaf Kirch's Network Admin Guide has some pretty neat stuff in
>it, too.  It's on the metalab.unc.edu archive or the LDP web site,
>http://www.linuxdoc.com/.
>
>I happen to like the Regular Expressions book from O'Reilly, because
>it provides some great examples of how to leverage text patterns to
>perform common tasks.  Sort of like a "Tao of Regex's" Most of the
>other O'Reilly topics you can find free counterparts of if you look
>for them.
>
>Sorry, I sound like I'm rambling.  You can pick up general system admin
>from any of the books out there.  Linux is mostly System V-like in its
>user interface, with some BSD utilities (like the lpd suite of programs).
>Red Hat et al., have recently been veering of in some of the configuration
>details, but the system configurations still follows the System V
>conventions, basically.
>
>There are some skills that I'm not sure where they're documented...
>like telnetting in to a jammed-up POP server, or concocting a
>regular expression to adjust every users' ~/.profile.
>
>For specific, detailed differences between GNU utilities and the
>generic Unix counterparts, there are probably many more than anybody
>could enumerate... you just have to look at all of the relevant
>manual pages as they arise.
>
>Hope this gives you a start.  At least you don't have to buy
>the whole O'Reilly catalog first.  :)
>
>Robert
>
>
>
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>
>




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[techtalk] odd problems

1999-12-27 Thread Emily Cartier

Remember my machine A and machine B problems of a couple weeks ago? I've
got more *g*. Lots more. I'm sleepy, and there are a lot of problems so
if something seems confused, ask. If nothing else, looking at the
problems again with an eye to providing useful details would help me
learn what to look for cause I'm sure to run into this kind of stuff
again.

As a refresher machine A has a modem working under Win95, runs linux,
has an ethernet card that currently doesn't run under linux and now can
mount vfat filesystems under linux. Oh and it runs X handily. Machine B
has an ethernet card that currently doesn't run under linux, is linux
only, and doesn't run X as well as I'd like. The current ultimate goal
is to get these two lovely machines networked so various bits of
software (like the kernel!) can be upgraded. Both systems are using
Mandrake 6.0 on the linux side of the box.

However, there are other goals, and thus other interesting problems.
Machine B has 3 accounts set up (root, my personal account and an
account for my sister to play games on). Root can run Gnome and Nethack
for Gnome. I can run Gnome and Nethack for Gnome. My sister the nethack
addict cannot run Gnome or Nethack for Gnome. This is kind of bad,
because the entire reason I made an account for her is so she wouldn't
pester me so she could play nethack. The original permissions on her
account differed from the permissions on my personal account. Modifying
the permissions to match those on my account did not allow her to play
Nethack or run Gnome. I'm fresh out of ideas, so if anyone has
suggestions, I'll gladly try them. I have a sneaking suspicion the
skeleton files for creating new user accounts might not be set up right,
but I could be totally wrong too. Error messages can be provided upon
request.

Machine B is also refusing to let my personal account access to the
CDROM drive, at least under Gnome. This behavior started after the last
reboot. Said reboot happened because X had a password protected
screensaver up that wouldn't recognize my password, tho it had done so
for several days previously... I switched to a console, logged in as
root and told the machine to reboot properly. Now it recognizes my
password but doesn't let me access the CDROM drive. Somehow, I'm not
sure this is a good tradeoff. I haven't the faintest idea what I might
have changed either... Before yesterday, I probably hadn't touched the
poor machine for 4-6 days. Suggestions that don't result in urges to
bang my head against poured concrete walls are welcome. Even suggestions
on what to test would be useful. Don't tell me to do things like change
setuid bits at random... I'm more interested in advice in tracking down
what exactly is messed up. After all, I would *think* I could type the
password on my personal account, so the screensaver should have let me
in.

Machine A has some problems too. The most pressing is printing. It's
hooked up to two printers, an Epson LQ-570+ which prints beautifully no
matter which printer port it is hooked up to, and a Hewlett Packard
Deskjet 820 CSe which won't print no matter which printer port it is
hooked up to. In fact, Linux does not appear to see the HP at all, and
it seems to be refusing to see more than one printer port at a time.
Under Win95 both printers will print. I've attempted to configure the
printers using Redhat's printtool software (version numbers availible
upon request), and gotten halfway to somewhere cause the Epson will
print. I'd just like to get the rest of the way there. I have a sneaking
suspicion that a) printtool will only handle one printer or b) the HP is
a windows only printer and won't work under linux even like a stupider
printer or c) there's some kind of hardware conflict involving the
printer ports. Since the HP is due for retirement, news that it needs to
be replaced with a not windows only printer will not be taken as cause
for hari-kiri. News that it will work under linux would be nice tho *g*.

I have yet to make any progress on Machine A's modem or ethernet card. I
think I need to track down a manual for the modem. As for the ethernet
card, I probably could use a manual, some sleep, and some time to mess
around with it with the NET-3-HOWTO and Running Linux by my side.
Machine B's ethernet card isn't working either. Some machine downtime to
write down relevant bits and pieces off the card, plus some more of the
same stuff as for the other card should fix it tho.

Emily, who apologizes for the length and lack of organization of this
post


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Re: [techtalk] Generic Question

1999-12-27 Thread Jenn V.



Tech Docs wrote:
> 
> How long does it take an average person to become a good systems and network
> administrator in Linux?
>
> The irony is that I have got a job on Linux and I know nothing about it :-)
> I tried explaining this to the recruiter but he says he does not find any
> other hands and left with no other choice :-)

There's a major shortage of good personell in all computing fields - 
especially the truly technical.

> I have just started off learning something on Linux. Any clues as to where I
> start, how I start, hours of work the experts here have put in to to reach
> that kind of techno. status?

To be able to manage a system on my own: reading a good book on 
it (eg, one of the O'Rielly's) and having it to hand.

To be a /good/ Unix person - to reach semi-guru status? A year 
or three. To reach guru status? Well, several years ago I was
awarded that accolade by other local gurus. But I got sick, 
lost access to the machines, and got all rusty. I can knock the
rust off, probably, but I expect it to take me a year or so to 
get up-to-date and pick up where I was.

Your main tools, other than a good book on Linux administration
(and you're entitled to demand a good small library on it from
your employer!), include 'man -k' and top.  Ping and traceroute 
and tracepath if you're networking (don't forget netstat, 
ifconfig and route!).

A Unix system is designed from the ground up to be a multiuser
system. This makes its core design quite different from basically
single-user OSs. Exactly how is probably beyond the scope of a 
single email!


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Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

1999-12-27 Thread Nils Philippsen

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Sunnanvind wrote:

> > Maybe you use an Xnest from a different version or a differently packages
> > one (e.g. searching for XF86Config in /etc instead of /etc/X11 or vice
> > versa).
> 
> Yes, probably... didn't have Xnest on my comp, but I installed it from
> the cd I installed RH from.

Hmm, what does `rpm -q XFree86 XFree86-Xnest` give? You could also run
strace on Xnest:

strace -o strace.out Xnest -geometry 640x480 :1

(the output will be in the file strace.out)

But don't post the strace output directly to the list, it'll be quite
huge.

Nils
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Re: [techtalk] Generic Question

1999-12-27 Thread Tech Docs

thanks Robert and good luck to u :-)

Cheers!
Sriram


- Original Message -
From: Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Generic Question


>
> "Tech Docs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > The irony is that I have got a job on Linux and I know nothing about it
:-)
> > I tried explaining this to the recruiter but he says he does not find
any
> > other hands and left with no other choice :-)
> >
> > I have just started off learning something on Linux. Any clues as to
where I
> > start, how I start, hours of work the experts here have put in to to
reach
> > that kind of techno. status?
>
> I'm envious... :) I haven't been able to pass an interview for a
> computer related job, much less a system administration job, since I
> first graduated (must be that my degree isn't EE/CS).
>
> Early on there wasn't much documentation about Linux... so I had to
> use the standard Unix books to learn from.  I seem to remember the
> Unix System V Administrators Guide by Stephen Kochan et al (I think to
> be pretty good)...  A lot of the "Installation and Getting Started,"
> the original Linux administrator's (it's on my web site,
> http://www.mainmatter.com, for free), deals with GNU/Unix commands,
> instead of the GNOME/KDE/Netscape type questions that are more common
> now.  Olaf Kirch's Network Admin Guide has some pretty neat stuff in
> it, too.  It's on the metalab.unc.edu archive or the LDP web site,
> http://www.linuxdoc.com/.
>
> I happen to like the Regular Expressions book from O'Reilly, because
> it provides some great examples of how to leverage text patterns to
> perform common tasks.  Sort of like a "Tao of Regex's" Most of the
> other O'Reilly topics you can find free counterparts of if you look
> for them.
>
> Sorry, I sound like I'm rambling.  You can pick up general system admin
> from any of the books out there.  Linux is mostly System V-like in its
> user interface, with some BSD utilities (like the lpd suite of programs).
> Red Hat et al., have recently been veering of in some of the configuration
> details, but the system configurations still follows the System V
> conventions, basically.
>
> There are some skills that I'm not sure where they're documented...
> like telnetting in to a jammed-up POP server, or concocting a
> regular expression to adjust every users' ~/.profile.
>
> For specific, detailed differences between GNU utilities and the
> generic Unix counterparts, there are probably many more than anybody
> could enumerate... you just have to look at all of the relevant
> manual pages as they arise.
>
> Hope this gives you a start.  At least you don't have to buy
> the whole O'Reilly catalog first.  :)
>
> Robert
>
>
> 
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[techtalk] sound woes

1999-12-27 Thread Theresa Radke

Hello, 

Perhaps some of you folks could help me out with my sound issue.  I downloaded and 
installed the latest kernel, and now I have system sound, but I can't get mp3's to 
play.  I can't get anything from any sound application except if I play the CD-rom. 

I've toyed with the settings and can't for the life of me figure it out.  I am running 
corel/debian, and trying with xmms and mp123.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!!

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