Re: Problem getting my Crystal 4237b sound card to work

2004-12-31 Thread Koen Vermeer
Op do 30-12-2004, om 21:53 schreef Alexander Toresson: > then had to configure. Isn't alsa built into the kernel 2.6 and later? The drivers are part of the kernel, the tools (configuration tools, players etc.) are not. > I then tried to use modprobe to install the drivers. Didn't work. > Output o

Re: Problem getting my Crystal 4237b sound card to work

2004-12-31 Thread Alexander Toresson
Op do 30-12-2004, om 21:53 schreef Alexander Toresson: >> then had to configure. Isn't alsa built into the kernel 2.6 and later? > >The drivers are part of the kernel, the tools (configuration tools, >players etc.) are not. > >> I then tried to use modprobe to install the drivers. Didn't work. >> O

Re: Problem getting my Crystal 4237b sound card to work

2004-12-31 Thread Koen Vermeer
Pressed the wrong button and didn't reply to the list... Op vr 31-12-2004, om 13:39 schreef Alexander Toresson: > So my command should be: > modprobe snd-cs4236 port=0x530 cport=0x210 dma1=1 dma2=0 You could try: modprobe snd-cs4236 port=0x530 cport=0x210 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0 isapnp=0 Apart from

Re: Problem getting my Crystal 4237b sound card to work

2004-12-31 Thread Alexander Toresson
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 14:01:13 +0100, Koen Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pressed the wrong button and didn't reply to the list... > > Op vr 31-12-2004, om 13:39 schreef Alexander Toresson: > > So my command should be: > > modprobe snd-cs4236 port=0x530 cport=0x210 dma1=1 dma2=0 > > You could

Re: Problem getting my Crystal 4237b sound card to work

2004-12-31 Thread Alexander Toresson
I didn't know the name of the package I wanted to install, so I searched for it using aptitude. Pressing '+' when standing at the 'alsaconf' virtual package did nothing. Regards, Alexander Toresson On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:27:35 -0400, Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 30 Dec

Re: Problem getting my Crystal 4237b sound card to work

2004-12-31 Thread Alexander Toresson
I think I'll compose a bug-report. But I don't know where to submit it. I'll check the main debian page and google for it. Regards, Alexander Toresson On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 14:07:40 +0100, Alexander Toresson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 14:01:13 +0100, Koen Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Problem getting my Crystal 4237b sound card to work

2004-12-31 Thread Curt Howland
One of the standard packages in Debian is "reportbug". Get to a command line, type "reportbug", and it will walk you through submitting the bug with relevant versions, etc, already included. Curt- On Friday 31 December 2004 09:06, Alexander Toresson was heard to say: > I think I'll compose a bu

Re: Firewall and Laptop

2004-12-31 Thread Bill Moseley
Which of the firewall packages is closest to building iptables rules by hand? I, for one, prefer to have just one file that contains the iptables commands to build the firewall. The front-end tools are nice but I feel like they make me learn about how to run their tool instead of how to work with

Re: Problem getting my Crystal 4237b sound card to work

2004-12-31 Thread Alexander Toresson
I can not even use the snd-sb8 driver! The cs4237b is compatible with the sound blaster pro. It seems like the problem is not with the sound card driver, but with something else. Maybe it has problems accessing the ports/irq? Regards, Alexander Toresson On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:06:29 +0100, Alexand

Re: Firewall and Laptop

2004-12-31 Thread Derek Broughton
On Friday 31 December 2004 10:54, Bill Moseley wrote: > Which of the firewall packages is closest to building iptables rules > by hand? > > I, for one, prefer to have just one file that contains the iptables > commands to build the firewall. The front-end tools are nice but I That's exactly what

Re: Firewall and Laptop

2004-12-31 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 1 Jan 2005, Bill Moseley wrote: > Which of the firewall packages is closest to building iptables rules > by hand? >From my experience, firehol is the tool that gets in the way the least. You can write raw iptables calls with it, in fact, if you really want to abuse it. Then you only get the 't

Re: Firewall and Laptop

2004-12-31 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
Derek Broughton wrote (Fri 2004-Dec-31 11:37:04 -0400): > ... It's not reflexive > though - I don't know of a firewall tool that can take a firewall script as > _input_, so once you modify the script, you can't use the GUI tool any more > without losing the hand edited changes. If anyone does

Re: Firewall and Laptop

2004-12-31 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 07:21:35PM +0100, Marcus C. Gottwald wrote: > Out of curiosity: What features are expected from a config tool? > On a laptop computer, you'd seldom need a lot more than to allow > outgoing, related or established traffic plus incoming SSH, > wouldn't you? A friend forgot hi

Laptop recomendation?

2004-12-31 Thread Mark M
Hi, Apologies if this is OT. I have never bought a laptop before and was hoping for some recomendations. I am hoping for advice on the following: 1. What gotachas are there? eg. I have found out about a partition you should keep intact for hibernation mode. Is this OS independant? Or only for MS

Re: Laptop recomendation?

2004-12-31 Thread Alexander Toresson
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 11:51:16 +1100 (EST), Mark M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Apologies if this is OT. > > I have never bought a laptop before and was hoping for some > recomendations. I personally like dell, though I don't know how they in general are suited for running linux. I'm having a fe

OT Re: Laptop recomendation?

2004-12-31 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 11:51:16AM +1100, Mark M wrote: 1. gotchas / partition for hibernation The extra partition is just for APM. Use ACPI and swsusp. It uses your swap part. Be advised that hiberanation in Linux is extremely problematic. I don't bother with it. 2. Reliability 3. Battery life

Re: Laptop recomendation?

2004-12-31 Thread Alvin Smith
On Friday 31 December 2004 07:51 pm, Mark M wrote: > Hi, Apologies if this is OT. > > I have never bought a laptop before and was hoping for some > recomendations. > What kind of money are you talking? I have a Dell, but if I had my drothers I would have a Thinkpad. -- peace, Alvin Smith htt

Re: Laptop recomendation?

2004-12-31 Thread Michael Marsh
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:32:30 -0500, Alvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What kind of money are you talking? I have a Dell, but if I had my drothers I > would have a Thinkpad. I'll second the Thinkpad recommendation. If you're worried about dropping it, Thinkpads are apparently about the mos

Re: Laptop recomendation?

2004-12-31 Thread Anders Breindahl
On Saturday 01 January 2005 01:51, Mark M wrote: > 3. Battery life: I am hoping to use the laptop for 2 things: 1. video > editing/dvd burning from camera with firewire. 2. Using on longdistance > flights (but not video editing). I guess for video/burning dvd's I want > a fast processor eg the pent

Re: Laptop recomendation?

2004-12-31 Thread adcarlson
Might as well add my 2cents... I recently did a laptop purchase and settled on a Fuijitsu (C-series). Reason was that it was rated highly, one of the very few notebooks still made in quality-central Japan. And it had all the features I wanted (example I may have opted for an IBM, if they still h

Re: Laptop recomendation?

2004-12-31 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 09:34:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So if you buy IBM, get it quick. > > Dell, I've heard mixed reports about. Some like them and some despise them. Mine is a Compaq R3275US -- HP still sells a few products under the Compaq brand. I was very impressed. You may

Re: Laptop recomendation?

2004-12-31 Thread Curt Howland
For my .02 FRN, I am right now using a Sony PCG-GRT170. It's a wonderful machine, but it suffers from all the "unique" aspects of a Sony Vaio machine. Almost none of the special keys work, hardware volume control, stuff like that. It all worked under WinXP, which it came with, of course. But

minipci card for dell inspiron 4100

2004-12-31 Thread Michael Perry
I'm running a Dell Inspiron I4100 and it has a empty minipci slot which could take a wireless card. I've looked around a bit and found a atheros chipset which I think would work with the madwifi drivers and a few others. Has anyone installed a minipci card in something similar to the 4100? I'm j

Re: Laptop recomendation?

2004-12-31 Thread Ed Wiget
not sure who started the thread so I will just reply to the list only I use a Toshiba Satellite 6100 Pro and everything works except the built-in SD card (which may very well work but I have never taken the time to try to get it to work cause I have one of those usb all-in-one card readers).

Re: Laptop recomendation?

2004-12-31 Thread Mateusz Łoskot
User Mark M wrote:: Hi, Apologies if this is OT. I have never bought a laptop before and was hoping for some recomendations. [...] There were some of the Linux-Magazine articles (in 2001 and 2004) about notebooks and linux tests. Here is what I found in the archives (in german only): http://www.lin