Re: SBLive! and 5.1

2002-04-30 Thread David Bellows
does itself (do apps need to be written to take advantage of the 5.1 capabilities of the DVD)? I do already have the SBLive 5.1 working on my 2.2.18 kernel, should this suffice with just adding the digital 5.1 speakers? Thanks again, David Bellows -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

SBLive! and 5.1

2002-04-30 Thread David Bellows
advantage of the 5.1 stuff? Sorry for all the questions, there is much I don't know. Thanks everyone, David Bellows -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SoundCards and Midi Input

2002-03-11 Thread David Bellows
gain. So if you can get ALSA going on your machine (and plenty of people do, I gave up) then the SBLive would be a good option. David Bellows

Re: 3d with nvidia

2002-03-01 Thread David Bellows
According to the README you are also supposed to remove the "dri" and "GLcore" options under the Module section. Good luck, David Bellows n Friday 01 March 2002 02:34 pm, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > I have xlibmesa3(4.1.0-14) as well and xserver-xfree86(

Re: OT: TV Out & DVD

2002-02-05 Thread David Bellows
You might consider getting a good video card without the TV out (save a little money) and instead buying a scan converter. These devices take your normal monitor output and converts to a signal suitable for the TV. The benefits are that you get XV (the video card thinks the signal is going to

Re: OT: TV Out & DVD

2002-02-05 Thread David Bellows
You might consider getting a good video card without the TV out (save a little money) and instead buying a scan converter. These devices take your normal monitor output and converts to a signal suitable for the TV. The benefits are that you get XV (the video card thinks the signal is going to

Re: Debian-Progeny

2002-01-10 Thread David Bellows
nternet connection by typing "pon" and kill it by "poff". I don't remember how I got my printer set up. David Bellows

Lost icons in KDE

2001-12-29 Thread David Bellows
png.c from libpng-1.0.12 libpng error: Incompatible libpng version in application and library This seems to be some kind of critical information here, but I don't know what to do with it. Thanks everyone, David Bellows

OT:programmin questions

2001-12-16 Thread David Bellows
#First kill the CD and then start DVD player d) /usr/local/bin/jac -k; /usr/local/bin/ogle -u cli;; q) /usr/local/bin/jac -k;; esac done exit 0 Thanks everyone. A push in the right direction might be all I need, maybe even just some good online resources that can get me going quickly. David Bellows

Re: Joystick attached to USB port doesn't work

2001-12-14 Thread David Bellows
mlink (ln -s /dev/input/js0 /dev/js0), rebooted, and everything worked. David Bellows

Re: Mouse

2001-02-28 Thread David Bellows
ttyS1, ttyS2, or ttyS3 Good luck, David Bellows

Re: apt-get stuck SOLVED

2001-02-18 Thread David Bellows
Hello everyone, Heh, I solved my own problem with: apt-get --force-remove-reinstreq -r powermanga And it worked! David Bellows David Bellows wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm running potato with a smattering of woody packages. I recently > tried to install the ga

apt-get stuck

2001-02-18 Thread David Bellows
on is how do I tell apt-get to completely forget about powermanga so that I can get back to installing other packages? Thanks, David Bellows

Konqueror help needed

2000-12-29 Thread David Bellows
27;t be messing around with unstable unless I'm ready to break things. Thanks, David Bellows

Re: Device File Permissions

2000-12-28 Thread David Bellows
ver had any problems with that kind of setup, your Loki games will be run by whatever user you add to these groups, so there shouldn't be any problems. On a single-user system this extra security might not seem worth it, but we might as well develop good habits now. David Bellows

Re: MIDI (/dev/sequencer) donĀ“t work

2000-12-26 Thread David Bellows
drivers) as they are getting more and more of the Live Drive stuff working, it that is important to you. Good Luck, David Bellows

Re: 2 linksys NICs

2000-12-16 Thread David Bellows
one? > Hmmm. I really don't know anything about multiple cards. However if you want the driver file that came with my card, contact me privately and I'll send it to you (it's not too big). David Bellows

Re: 2 linksys NICs

2000-12-16 Thread David Bellows
). If your card didn't come with the driver on a floppy then you can find the source at Linksys' site and compile it yourself (easy compile, obviously need kernel sources, etc.). I'm not sure what to do about the second card, however the Linksys driver also comes with a pciscan module that might solve the problem. David Bellows

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-14 Thread David Bellows
ng more complicated than this though so I don't know how the rest of it works. David Bellows

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-12 Thread David Bellows
In any case I personally don't use cdrecord. You should check out cdrdao, it does an excellent job of DAO (as its name implies). The command line options are not all that difficult to use. David Bellows

Re: What package to get konqueror to support https ?

2000-12-09 Thread David Bellows
om the non-US directory Install kdebase-crypto from same place using apt-get will hopefully make all this rather painless (auto-installing whatever else is needed). Good luck, David Bellows

Re: startkde

2000-11-30 Thread David Bellows
Hello, > Sorry, but I must ask again: > How do I have KDE2 and Gnome on a potato system and start either or? > to get KDE I type this whole line: startx startkde for Gnome I type: startx gnome-session Good luck, David Bellows

Re: 2.2.17 kernel and pppoe?

2000-11-24 Thread David Bellows
there's a difference between 2.2.15 and 2.2.17 that you haven't accounted for (PPP module or some such) I have no clue as to what it's not working for you. BTW, I'm using Mindspring (aka Earthlink). Good luck David Bellows Stan Kaufman wrote: > > Could anyone now using th

Re: lost my backspace key - solved, new question

2000-11-05 Thread David Bellows
mmand? Is there a better way to solve the problem? BTW, I discovered that my backspace key had been remapped to delete, giving me two delete buttons. Thanks, David Bellows David Bellows wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Hopefully this will be an easy one. I just installed the

lost my backspace key

2000-11-05 Thread David Bellows
no longer works. I have a basic 101 key keyboard (no windows keys). Obviously backspace used to work for me, what can I do to get it working again? Thanks, David Bellows

Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question

2000-11-02 Thread David Bellows
rc.local" type of file? > The numbers in the second column are in hex. The proper way to specify hex for lilo would be (for you specifically): vga=0x0122 Hope that helps. David Bellows

SB Live and MIDI

2000-10-30 Thread David Bellows
are there .debs available for this program? David Bellows

Re: 3dfx.o -- SOLVED!!!

2000-10-30 Thread David Bellows
the precompiled one available from woody, so installing that kernel deb, along with the sources deb and possibly the headers deb using apt-get (a few other things might need upgrading too) along with a fresh 3dfx-device-source worked for me as I described in my last posting. Good luck! David Bellows

Re: 3dfx.o -- SOLVED!!!

2000-10-29 Thread David Bellows
According to /usr/src/modules/device3dfx/debian/README.debian do the following A) mknod /dev/3dfx c 107 0 B) make the group "audio" have rw permissions for /dev/3dfx C) make sure whatever user you want to use belongs to the group "audio" 12) insmod 3dfx 13) Start fragging # hopefully, this worked for me. Hope this helps, David Bellows

Re: 3dfx.o

2000-10-29 Thread David Bellows
Did you move your module from your old kernel to your new one ? > > If you had kernel 2.2.15, you'd need to move /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/3dfx.o > to /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/. > > Try that. Yep, I had already done that -- still the same errors. Thanks, David Bellows

3dfx.o

2000-10-29 Thread David Bellows
stion is, has anyone got their Voodoo3 working with the woody kernel 2.2.17? And would the compiled module 3dfx.o also work on my machine (AMD K6II-300)? And so, would somebody please send me a copy? Thanks, David Bellows

Massive boot failure -- need serious help

2000-10-21 Thread David Bellows
is going on and is there something I can change somewhere to get my system to some usable state? Please someone help, David Bellows

exim problems with latest version

2000-10-01 Thread David Bellows
* -rw---1 mail mail 22 Aug 27 17:42 ... [same for all the other entries] Something is very wrong. Even if I change the permissions, the errors still occur in /var/spool/exim/input//* Thanks for any help, David Bellows

Re: Exim rewrite question

2000-09-12 Thread David Bellows
solution works for me. http://web.inter.nl.net/users/jws/mysystem.html David Bellows

Re: Solved! - Best place for setserial

2000-09-04 Thread David Bellows
old screwed up configuration) new install. > Sorry I wasn't clear on what I wanted -- I did just want to know where the configuration file was. The other distribution I was using had a more round-about manner of getting this accomplished. Anyway, thanks for your reply -- it worked! Thanks, David Bellows

Best place for setserial

2000-09-04 Thread David Bellows
Hello everyone, I'm using a non-standard IRQ setting for my /dev/ttyS0. Currently every time I boot up I have to run the setserial command by hand. My question is where is the best Debian place to insert this command to have it execute on boot up? Thanks, David Bellows

Re: sound blaster live

2000-08-31 Thread David Bellows
ied this, but this theoretically is the easiest approach. Good luck, David Bellows

Re: sound blaster live

2000-08-31 Thread David Bellows
wnloading the latest .debs from the unstable branch and installing these, then run alsaconf. This worked fine for me. It did take a little patience to get the correct packages installed in the correct order, but Debian always tells you what package it needs first. David Bellows

Re: exim headaches

2000-08-27 Thread David Bellows
onvenience. David Bellows Chris Feist wrote: > > I've been having the same problems... Here's what I did.. In the > rewriting section in exim.. (I'm not sure if it matters where you put it > or not). Put this... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffrs >

Re: exim headaches

2000-08-27 Thread David Bellows
this going. Thanks, David Bellows "Gregory T. Norris" wrote: > > What I ended up doing was configuring two copies of exim, based on > instructions I found in the Exim FAQ at <http://www.exim.org/>. The > primary copy delivers only local mail, and doesn't perfo

exim headaches

2000-08-27 Thread David Bellows
l address: FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] So what I'm asking is how do I get exim to use my email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on outgoing mail but not on local mail? Thanks David Bellows

DSL and Debian questions Round 2

2000-08-24 Thread David Bellows
I'm looking at claims 1.5 Mbps download and 256Kbps upload -- is this fairly normal? Again, I really appreciate all the responses to this and all the other questions I've had. Hopefully this'll be it until the modem gets here and I all of sudden can't install it ;-) David Bellows

DSL and Debian questions

2000-08-23 Thread David Bellows
f the equipment they send doesn't work, I should be able to get my own stuff, correct? And hardware advice here? 6. Any other advice, pointers, etc. Thanks, I know this is a lot of stuff and probably tiresome, but I feel totally lost. David Bellows

Re: crontab and users?

2000-08-22 Thread David Bellows
onto my box. Yep, you're right again. Somewhere I had gotten the impression that users had to be logged in for their crontab stuff to work. But I guess that wouldn't be terribly useful. Thanks for your help it's all working very well now, David Bellows

crontab and users?

2000-08-22 Thread David Bellows
at it will play at 5:38 PM. This same crontab installed by root works! Is there some kind of permission thing to allow users to use cron? Btw, is there a user that I can specify in cron that will work without being logged in (in case power goes out and I don't wake up and log back in)? Thanks, David Bellows

Re: Voodoo3 and 3D stuff

2000-08-21 Thread David Bellows
eird and unusable and I have to kill X in order to get it back. Otherwise UT runs beautifully. The other problem is when I try to run the mesademos, I get no errors but I also don't get fullscreen (even after typing "export MESA_GLX_FX=fullscreen" that's correct isn't it?). Like I said I'm now almost there, Thanks again and now if we can just get these last two bits solved... David Bellows

Voodoo3 and 3D stuff

2000-08-21 Thread David Bellows
it worked perfectly. It segfaults on Debian. Using the SDLGLDrv gets UT to start, but the mouse moves once every 5 seconds and no video comes up and when I manage to tell it to load a game it segfaults. I guess I need fairly explicit directions on what to do. Sorry. Thanks, David Bellows

Voodoo 3

2000-08-20 Thread David Bellows
docs, but I can't find anything yet. Thanks, David Bellows

ALSA and SB Live -Solved!

2000-08-20 Thread David Bellows
installation where I could never get them going. Thanks again everyone, David Bellows

ALSA and SB Live

2000-08-20 Thread David Bellows
rs? Would this entail having to find the driver elsewhere? Thanks everyone for your help, David Bellows

Re: some sound - solved

1999-05-05 Thread David Bellows
. hope this > helped but it IS a shot in the dark. Thanks very much. the MAKEDEV audio was exactly what I needed. David Bellows

some sound

1999-05-04 Thread David Bellows
using in another Linux dist and everything is working fine. So I'm guessing that there is a package I'm missing or perhaps some settings somewhere that need to be changed. Any hints? Thanks, David Bellows