Re: Re: resolv.conf file

The following change in /etc/dhclient-script will strip the \000 from the domain line in resolv.conf make_resolv_conf() { # echo search $new_domain_name >/etc/resolv.conf echo search $new_domain_name | sed -e 's/\\000$//' >/etc/resolv.conf Sincerely, Richard Black http://

Re: loading pcmcia modules in 2.4.9

"der.hans" wrote: > Am 20. Sep, 2001 schwätzte Richard Black so: > > > I am trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.9. Everything seems > > okay, _except_ I have no sound and no network (both work fine with > > 2.4.3). As best as I can tell, the my compil

Re: loading pcmcia modules in 2.4.9

"Thomas R. Shemanske" wrote: > Richard Black wrote: > > > > Hi All > > > > I am trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.9. Everything seems > > okay, _except_ I have no sound and no network (both work fine with > > 2.4.3). As best as I

loading pcmcia modules in 2.4.9

Hi All I am trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.9. Everything seems okay, _except_ I have no sound and no network (both work fine with 2.4.3). As best as I can tell, the my compilation options are the same (or very similar) in both versions. The sound I can tackle later, but the lack

loading pcmcia modules in 2.4.9

Hi All I am trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.9. Everything seems okay, _except_ I have no sound and no network (both work fine with 2.4.3). As best as I can tell, the my compilation options are the same (or very similar) in both versions. The sound I can tackle later, but the lack

Re: Setting locale failed

I had the same problem and was able to fix it by adding the following line to my /etc/locale.alias file: english en_US,ISO-8859-1 I'm not sure why this wasn't there anyway... cheers Richard Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Dear Debianers, > > When I apt-get install some packages I get the

Re: embarrassing X question (PARTIAL FIX)

Joost Kooij wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: > For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and > display stuff on mine!  This started happening last week (with, > possibly, the changes to gdm...) > > I have tried many d

Re: embarrassing X question

Richard Black wrote: > Joost Kooij wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: > > > For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and > > > display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, >

Re: embarrassing X question

Joost Kooij wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: > > For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and > > display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, > > possibly, the changes to gdm...) >

embarrassing X question

For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, possibly, the changes to gdm...) I have tried many different things. Typical is something like: [local machine] xhost + rlogin remote [remote machine] export DIS

Re: XFree86 4

Did you get the correct driver from: http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html I'm not sure that it is in the main stream of 4.x yet--the above site has details on that though cheers Richard Paul Tansom wrote: > I've just pulled XFree86 4 from testing as part of another package update and > as

Re: ntpdate no longer working

I seem to have the same problem...does anyone know what is happening? thanks Richard Robert Waldner wrote: > Hi! > > Sometime this afternoon, ntpdate stopped working. > > Some debugging shows that it doesn´t even send out any packet to the > server. strace´ output doesn´t help me, either: > >

locale problem

My locales seem to be screwed up: nedit NEdit: Locale not supported by C library. NEdit: Using C locale instead. I reran local-gen: #locale-gen Generating locales... en_CA.ISO-8859-1... done en_IE.ISO-8859-1... done en_NZ.ISO-8859-1... done en_US.ISO-8859-1... done fr_CA.ISO-8859-1... d

kernel 2.4.5-1 and pcmcia networking

Hi I just tried to upgrade to 2.4.5-1 from 2.4.3, but when I rebooted I had no networking. While booting there was an error to the effect that my interupts where set incorrectly...although they are fine in 2.4.3. I tried, incidently, to recompile pcmcia-cs, but that dies with syntax errors: make

evolution and syncing

Hi all does anyone know when syncing will be enabled in evolution? My understanding is that it is a compilable option that is not been enabled in the package. thanks Richard begin:vcard n:Black;Richard tel;fax:416-971-4159 tel;home: tel;work:416-217-4350 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Algorithmics

Re: Debian on IBM Thinkpad T20

sc wrote: > Martin Würtele wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:19:52AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > > >>I got an IBM Thinkpad T20 and would like to do my small part to > >>improve the world by replacing the Windows on it with Debian. > > >>Would love to hear any stories from other travelers wh

Microsoft Wheel Mouse

Hi all has any one successfully got a Microsoft Wheel Mouse to work? Whenever I use the imps/2 protocol, my mouse doesn't work (ps/2 is fine, but the wheel isn't recognised). I realize that some people have this problem when they are running gpm, but this is not the case--I am not running gpm.

Weird sound problem

Hi All @[EMAIL PROTECTED] it but my sound has died. All was working fine yesterday, then I updated my (woody) system and now all is silent. I am using alsa and gnome. Everything _looks_ okay--modules loaded, esd running, volume up--just no sound. The only thing that I have noticed is that whe

Re: (linux)how do allow pings (and stuff)

problem, I kind ping to it though. Other suggestions anyone? Please... TIA Richard PS I can ftp to my machine, so it isn't an "obvious" network problem Nate Amsden wrote: > Richard Black wrote: > > > > Hi all > > > > I have too much security on my ma

(linux)how do allow pings (and stuff)

Hi all I have too much security on my machine :-) I want other machines on the network to be able to ping me (and later, to be able to connect via sockets to a server on another machine on the net work). Currently, if I try and ping my machine from another host I get: ping: socket: Permission d

Tool to measure network/connection speed

Hi all, can anyone recommend a tool that will estimate network/connection speed? In particular I want to estimate my upload/download times over my cable DSL... thanks Richard begin:vcard n:Black;Richard tel;fax:416-971-4159 tel;home: tel;work:416-217-4350 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Algorithmics

Re: Kernel-Source 2.4.1

Are you using the kernel-source-2.4.1-2 package for the kernel source? If so it has several problems. I emailed the packager Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and he indicated they woould be fixed in kernel-source-2.4.1-3 cheers Richard Hanno Böttcher wrote: > Hi ! > > I just downloaded the abo

Re: compile error with 2.4.1-1

I am running the latest version of woody. I can compile 2.4.0 no problem. I ran the following: make xconfig make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --revision=rblack.1.1 kernel_image My gcc version is 2.95.3... and all the other packages meet or exceed the necessary versions given in /usr/src/linux/Documentat

compile error with 2.4.1-1

Hi all I'm trying to compile the latest kernel, and am getting a compile error: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.1/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -c -o init/main.o init/main.c In file

Re: XMMS, esd, and 2.4 kernel?

I haven't been able to get a sound out of anything that uses esd (e.g. with xmms) since I upgraded to 2.4.0. I can play sound from xmms directly to alsa (at least, I think that is what I'm doing :-)) when I am root, but that is it. Please let me know if you have more success! Cheers Richard R

Guppi (especially with gnumeric)

Has anyone got guppi to run? All I get is guppi: Symbol `oaf_popt_options' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking Guppi (version 0.35.2) Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 EMC Capital Management, Inc. Guppi comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRENTY. This is free software, distributed under the te

Does esd run with 2.4.0?

Has anyone had any success getting esd and 2.40 running? I am getting the following error when esd (tries) to start: #esd error: Invalid argument: in snd_pcm_channel_params Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16bit failed Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo. I'm not positive the problem is with esd--

esd, alsa, and 2.4

Hi all I have recently (last night) upgraded my debian system to the alsa 0.5.10a-2 and to 2.4 and am now having a bit of a problem with my sound (which use to be fine with 2.2.17). The sound card module is snd-cs461x.o. These are the syptoms: 1) xmms runs when I am root...but doesn't use esd.

Re: Sound problem

Have you checked the permissions on /dev/dsp (e.g. can you play sound under root, but not a normal user?)? You need to make sure you have right access. In debian this is normally done by making users members of the audio group cheers Richard ngillm - Nathan Gillmore wrote: > Hello all, I'm ha

Re: latest wine config

thanks--that worked like a charm cheers Richard Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > * Richard Black ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi all > > > > has anyone had any success with the latest wine version 2001011? When I > > run it I get: > > > > Can't open

latest wine config

Hi all has anyone had any success with the latest wine version 2001011? When I run it I get: Can't open configuration file /home/rblack/.wine/config This error remains if I copy my /etc/wine.conf to /home/rblack/.wine/config and if I do a fresh install (ie delete and reinstall wine) BTW, I not

gnumeric and libole2

Hi all I updated my system (woody/helix/X 3.x) last night and found that my libole2 library has gone (breaking gnumeric): #$: gnumeric gnumeric: error while loading shared libraries: libole2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Has anyone else had this problem? The ve

forwarding messages in netscape

Hi y'all I am having a (recent) problem with netscape 451. When I try to forward messages (via an exchange server) the forwarded message either doesn't make it or arrives encoded (somehow). Has anyone else had this problem? thanks Richard begin:vcard n:Black;Richard tel;fax:416-971-4159 tel;

Weird sound problem

Hi All @[EMAIL PROTECTED] it but my sound has died. All was working fine yesterday, then I updated my (woody) system and now all is silent. I am using alsa and gnome. Everything _looks_ okay--modules loaded, esd running, volume up--just no sound. The only thing that I have noticed is that whe

Re: Menu editor crashes in Helix GNOME

Me too. I reported to gnome as a bug. Martin Weinberg wrote: > I find that the menu editor dies when one attempts to edit > any user menu with the latest Helix version. The system is > Helix + up-to-date Potato. > > Has anyone else seen this and/or know a fix? > > TIA, > > --Martin > > -- > Uns

Re: Wine 20000801

Jonathan Markevich wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:05:48PM -0400, Richard Black wrote: > > > I have just upgrade to wine (my first upgrade of wine for some time). > > I've run into a couple of problems. The first one was: > > > > shared libraries: lib

Wine 20000801

Hi all I have just upgrade to wine (my first upgrade of wine for some time). I've run into a couple of problems. The first one was: shared libraries: libwine_unicode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory which was readily fixed by adding /usr/lib/wine to my LD_LIBRARY_PA

gnome panel + sawfish

Hi all, I have my gnome panel set to auto-hide, which would be great except that when I go to raise it, it raises _under_ other windows (making it a bit tricky to actually use it :-)). Does anyone know how to set it so that it raises on top? I am using sawfish as my window manager, but there doe

tecra bootdisk

Hi all I am trying to make a new boot disk for a Woody system on a Toshiba Satellite. I run mkboot, and all looks good...except when I try to use the disk it just freezes. When I first installed debian (slink) I had to use a tecra rescue disk. Does this mean that mkboot won't work? I have also

Re: Compose key in X 4.0.1? [SOLVFED!]

Cool--I was wondering how to do this. Could any one tell me how to bind it (ie the compose key) to the "Windows Key" rather than an Alt key? thanks Richard Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: On 01 Aug 2000 10:49:11 -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > :: On Mon, 31 Jul 200

Re: run arbitrary program as screensaver?

If you use xscreensaver you can simply get it to run a program by including a line in your .xscreensaver file. Fir example, I get it to run qiv to cycle over a set of images via: more ~/.xscreensaver programs: \ /usr/bin/X11/qiv -sfid 2.5 ~/Slideshows/almworkshop/* \n cheers Richard

Re: wine problem

6, 2000 at 10:37:23AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to use wine--something that I have had no problem doing in > > the past--but all I get currently are exec errors e.g.: > > > > wine WORDPAD.EXE > > Could not stat /floppy, ignoring

wine problem

Hi all, I am trying to use wine--something that I have had no problem doing in the past--but all I get currently are exec errors e.g.: wine WORDPAD.EXE Could not stat /floppy, ignoring drive A: Could not stat /cdrom, ignoring drive D: wine: can't exec 'WORDPAD.EXE': error=0 Any help would be muc

Re: APT or FTP error.

I am getting the same error. It looks as if the FTP server is down. If you try and ftp to ftp.debian.org directly you can't get in: ftp ftp.debian.org Connected to ftp.debian.org. 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection Richard Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > HI all, >

Lastest sawfish debs?

Hi all I was wondering when the latest sawfish (aka sawmill) debs are likely to arrive on the scene? The latest seems to be 0.26 (in woody) but the official release is 0.3. thanks Richard begin:vcard n:Black;Richard tel;fax:416-971-4159 tel;home: tel;work:416-217-4350 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org

world clock

Hi all does any one now of an X clock that can be set to a particular time zone? I would love to be able to show concurrently two or three clocks with the times in different countries. TIA Richard begin:vcard n:Black;Richard tel;fax:416-971-4159 tel;home: tel;work:416-217-4350 x-mozilla-html

Re: Win 2000 smbmount problems

Hi I had a similar problem problem. If I recall it was an issue with the way passwords were being encrypted (ie they are under NT with service pack >= 3). You may want to check this. Also, are you using shadow passwords on linux? If so, has the samba been configured for this? HTH Richard

executing programs on an ntfs partision

Hi all I am running a potato/NT system and want to be able to execute (linux) programs that I store on the NT partition (the partition is way too big, but as the computer is not mine, I can't resize it etc.--I just want to use it as storage) Anyway, I can _read_ the files okay, but I can't execut

mounting samba shares in potato

Hi all I am upgrading my slink system to potato. In slink I was able to mount a samba share using smbmount //samba/homes /mnt -o username=rblack uid=1000 gid=1000 Now when I try with slink and a 2.2.14 kernal I get session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in

Re: libNoVersion.so missing?

> > I am trying to run a piece of software in a debian potato setup and get > > the following error message almost immediately (after which the > > application stops): > > > > error in loading shared libraries: libNoVersion.so.1: cannot open > > shared object file or directory > > > > I was able t

libNoVersion.so missing?

Hi I am trying to run a piece of software in a debian potato setup and get the following error message almost immediately (after which the application stops): error in loading shared libraries: libNoVersion.so.1: cannot open shared object file or directory I was able to get rid of the problem (

(alsa) snd: card is out of range (0-0)

Hi all I've been trying to get my sound card going with alsa. It is a SB32 (pro) and is said to be supported. I'm using 2.2.14. Everythsnd: card is out of range (0-0)ing looks good at the compiling and configuration stages, but when I reboot I get isapnp: Card 'Creative SB32 PnP' isapnp: 1 Plu

(alsa) snd: card is out of range (0-0)

Hi all I've been trying to get my sound card going with alsa. It is a SB32 (pro) and is said to be supported. I'm using 2.2.14. Everythsnd: card is out of range (0-0)ing looks good at the compiling and configuration stages, but when I reboot I get isapnp: Card 'Creative SB32 PnP' isapnp: 1 Plu

imitializing imlib fails

Hi all whenever I try to start enlightenment, I get an error message telling me that it can not initialize imlib (and that this is quite unusual!). Also, no gtk based programs don't work. I'm not sure what to do :-( Every thing was working okay until I upgraded imlib to 1.9.3-3 a few weeks ago.

Setting the time and date is ?broken?

Hi in the past I have had no trouble setting my time and date. Now, alas, I cannot. Whenever I reboot, I my calander is a month off and the time is completely wrong (hours and minutes). A typical attempt is rdate time.nist.gov hwclock --systohc which _seems_ to work. But when I reboot, the t

Strange IRQ conflict with pnp soundcard

Hi I am having trouble getting my sound card (SB 32 PNP) to work using IRQ=5. I can get it working okay with IRQ=10 though. What is kind of wierd (at least for me) is that before I upgraded to 2.2.1, I had it running via IRQ=5. Also (more importantly?), the /proc/interrupts has no mention of an

reconfiguring a serial port -- please help

Hi all I am trying to reconfigure my serial ports and am having no luck. At the moment, I have my mouse on /dev/ttyS0 and an internal modem on /dev/ttyS1. What I want to do is put my modem on /dev/ttyS2 IRQ7 so that I can use the built in serial board (that I presume exists on my mother board) o

video capture--does Snappy run under linux? Other reccomendations?

Hi I am looking for a cheap way of capturing still images from my Hi8 camcorder. Looking around, Snappy ($100), seems to fit the bill. Is there anyway this will run under linux or linux/wine? Does anyone have any other recommendations? TIA Richard

Should I by an microtek X6 scanner?

HI all I am thinking of buying a SCSI scanner and am considering the microtek X6 (has nice features and is quite cheap). Has anyone had any experience with this scanner under LINUX (slink)? In particular, what I want to check is that I should purchase the PC (rather than the MAC) version and tha

Re: sb 32 PnP

Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > From your /dev/sndstat, your midi device is working! Is this > because of the new kernel, or you did some tricks with isapnp tools?? > > Thanks in advance. > > PS. I can never get my midi device working under 2.0.35 > > Shao. I have no idea--

sb 32 PnP

Hi I have got my sound card (a soundblaster 32 PnP) up and running (with the 2.1.125 kernal). Is there a way to check whether the card is just running like a sb16 (if indeed this is a meaningful question) os as a sb32? My /dev/sndstat is below. thanks in advance Richard e: Driver loaded as

backup

Hi I have recently converted from nt to linux and have some tapes, made by ntbackup, that I would like to restore under linux. Any help about how I could do this would be much appreciated! The best that I can think of is via wine, but I haven't looked into this yet. Unfortunately, I have not co