sound blaster live

2000-08-31 Thread Wilson Fung
I have a sound blaster live value card, and guess what, I'm new to linux. I downloaded the ALSA 0.59 driver, compiled it and when I modprobe it, it says unresolved symbols in snd.o and emu10k1.o. Am I missing something? Wil

Re: What are the Essential Packages?

2000-08-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:35:28PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > If you want to learn more, go to > > > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org > > I don't understand what linuxfromscratch has to do with this. Isn't that > about doing without any distribution? Yes. Note that I said "If you want to lea

mutt

2000-08-31 Thread Dale L . Morris
Something overwrote my .mailcap file and I'm receiving the following error message when I use netscape and clik on a text/html link: Netscape subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr) ex/vi: Vi's standard input and output should be a terminal I don't know if this happened when I: 1.) installed 'pl

Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

2000-08-31 Thread Kent Pirkle
I've noticed that all my applications will default to /usr/bin instead of the /home/kmp directory that they should default to. Netscape, Gnome-apps, virtually any application that opens an application to save or load something does this. Any ideas how I can change this? Thanks, Kent

Re: Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

2000-08-31 Thread Nate Amsden
i've only had this happen when i ran 'startx' from somewhere other then my home dir, in which case all x apps will default to the dir you ran 'startx' in. nate Kent Pirkle wrote: > > I've noticed that all my applications will default to /usr/bin > instead of the /home/kmp directory that they sho

mkboot 'No such file or directory"

2000-08-31 Thread Richard Robbie
Title: mkboot 'No such file or directory" I am unable to successully execute "mkboot".  I logged on as "root" and encounter the following problems. Case 1: "mkboot vmlinuz" - produces the following <><><><><><><><><><><><><><>><> robbie:/# mkboot vmlinuz Insert a floppy diskette into your bo

netscape 4.72 problems with gnome

2000-08-31 Thread Kenneth Scharf
All of a sudden Netscape Communicator 4.72 is taking a long time to 'start', and it seems to lock up all of gnome as well. After a few minutes the home page opens and everything else works. While Netscape is 'initializing' the mouse cursor moves, but anything on the desktop that I click on does n

Re: mutt

2000-08-31 Thread Tal Danzig
Hello, I would suspect plugger as the problem. Looks like it overwrote netscape's mime entry for text/html or something strange like that. I've had problems with plugger in the past and ended up axing it. Tal On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:35:19 -0700, Dale L . Morris said: : Something overwrote my .

Re: sound blaster live

2000-08-31 Thread Ray Percival
Go to opensource.creative.com click on the link at the bottom for latest source snapshots download the newest tarbal and read the readme. This is far and away the best way to make a sblive work. -- Original Message -- From: "Wilson Fung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[squadboy@mail.sisna.com: Re: sound blaster live]

2000-08-31 Thread William Jensen
If he's on kernel 2.4.x it's directly supported. That's how I did my SB Live. Though he did say he was pretty new so maybe a new kernel compile isn't something he wants to jump into. Bill - Forwarded message from Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envel

Re: Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

2000-08-31 Thread Kent Pirkle
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 05:43:31PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > i've only had this happen when i ran 'startx' from somewhere other then > my home dir, in which case all x apps will default to the dir you ran > 'startx' in. I double checked...I am starting X from my home directory.

Re: Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

2000-08-31 Thread Bob McGowan
Kent, if the reason for your "default" directory is as Nate suggests, the next level of explanation is that, unless you take some action in the script at startup, it will use the current directory as its "default". As a first cut at "fixing" this, you can edit the 'startx' script in /usr/bin/X11 s

Re: sound blaster live

2000-08-31 Thread Wilson Fung
tried it, same messagesT_T Go to opensource.creative.com click on the link at the bottom for latest source snapshots download the newest tarbal and read the readme. This is far and away the best way to make a sblive work. -- Original Message -- Fro

Re: 3 off. cds = mirror - non free ?

2000-08-31 Thread Shaul Karl
> Are all the files of the distribution (except non- free) contained in > the (three official cds+ the non_us cd)? > According to http://cdimage.debian.org/lastmin.html: Official Potato 2.2 rev0 series Not all packages from section `contrib' are included on the CDs, since they dep

Re: Is monitor flicker a function of video card or monitor?

2000-08-31 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Can I take advantage of a new video card to reduce the flicker I > see in X Windows, or is this strictly a function of the monitor? Both. In your case, it's probably the monitor. Your video card is kind of low-powered too. The thing that determine

last rc. file ???

2000-08-31 Thread Debian Mail
D Ghost here. I have a quick question here. What is the last rc file to run? I need to add a modprobe line to load my sound card. I have the module in /etc/modules but it seems not to load until I do modprobe cs4232 io-0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=3 Basically, I'm looking for something like rc.loca

Re: sound blaster live

2000-08-31 Thread David Bellows
Wilson Fung wrote: > > I have a sound blaster live value card, and guess what, I'm new to linux. I > downloaded the ALSA 0.59 driver, compiled it and when I modprobe it, it says > unresolved symbols in snd.o and emu10k1.o. Am I missing something? > You might also try downloading the latest .deb

speaker volume

2000-08-31 Thread Stefan Nantz
Hello All, every time the PCMCIA gets started it beebs very loudly. how can I change the speker volume from the console ? Best Regards Stefan

Re: last rc. file ???

2000-08-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Type runlevel This will print a number, say 2. So go to /etc/rc2.d. Type ls The last listed file is the last rc file run. Or was that your question. What you want to do is install the modutils package, put the cs4232 arguments in /etc/modutils/options: options cs4232 io-0x534 irq=

Re: Configuring Mouse in X

2000-08-31 Thread Stefan Nantz
I had the same problem, use the X Server ver. 3.3.6-11 rather than 3.3.6-10 which comes with d 2.2 Stefan On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Mark Simos wrote: > most laptop internal mice connect to the "ps2" port in windows and the > hardware > handles whether either or both the internal and external work, s

Re: sound blaster live

2000-08-31 Thread Wilson Fung
That I haven't tried, I guess I will. Thanx for the suggestion, but which debs am I actually looking for. Wilson Fung wrote: > > I have a sound blaster live value card, and guess what, I'm new to linux. I > downloaded the ALSA 0.59 driver, compiled it and when I modprobe it, it says > unr

Re: speaker volume

2000-08-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Console shmonsole. What you want to do is open up the machine, find the speaker, rip it out, and throw it somewhere far. Note the place where it lands though. If your motherboard/memory/cache ever fails you might need the speaker to beep X number of times to identify the problem. I think the ans

sunrpc

2000-08-31 Thread Debian Mail
D Ghost here, I've searched and looked for documentation on what sunrpc is and what starts/stops it in debian. I have checked inetd.conf and it is not started in there. I want to not run this deamon. How do I "turn it off" ? :) Thanks for any info! Debian Ghost 'space ghost on debian'

Re: sunrpc

2000-08-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Debian Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > D Ghost here, > I've searched and looked for documentation on what sunrpc is and what > starts/stops it in debian. I have checked inetd.conf and it is not started > in there. I want to not run this deamon. How do I "turn it off" ? This service is provided

Re: sound blaster live

2000-08-31 Thread David Bellows
Wilson Fung wrote: > > That I haven't tried, I guess I will. Thanx for the suggestion, but which > debs am I actually looking for. > As I mentioned you'll find these in the unstable branch: alsa-base_0.5.9b-1.deb alsa-headers_0.5.9b-1.deb alsa-module

Re: netscape/mailcap

2000-08-31 Thread Dale L . Morris
I've tried: renaming the .netscape directory to .netscape_bak and opening a new netscape moving .mailcap files and opening netscape removed plugger specifying netscape to open html files in applications directory in netscape nothing works. What file is overriding these and causing the error belo

Re: last rc. file ???

2000-08-31 Thread Debian Ghost
Hello Krzys, Thank you for the speedy reply. I have tried your suggestions and still receive a message that basically says I have not passed the proper arguements. I put the entry in the alias file and also put the entry in options. I am unsure why it still is not working. Is there anything else I

Firewall and Security

2000-08-31 Thread Richard Ingram
Hi, I have been looking at setting up a couple of Debian boxes at work to help with our cable modem development and have the following specs for what I need to do. VPN on corporate network joining 2 sites. Machine will be a gateway to corp intranet and internet. Need Samba to support shared files

Re: sunrpc (fwd)

2000-08-31 Thread Debian Ghost
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:21:16 -0500 (EST) From: Debian Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sunrpc Dear Olaf, Thank you for the reply! I am not so sure I understand what RPC servers are. Doe

loony lilo looping

2000-08-31 Thread Malcolm Beaulieu
Hello everyone, I am running Debian 2.2 on an AMD K6-2 400 dual boot system. Things have been great until I tried to recompile my kernel (2.2.15) to include PPP support. Everything appeared to compile fine but I was rushing through things and rather then putting the new one in /boot/ and

GNUCash 1.4.4 ??

2000-08-31 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
Is there a Debianized version of gnucash 1.4.4 or 1.4.5?? Where can I find it? TIA...cwa -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Preferred O/S: Debian 2.2 Potato

Re: sunrpc

2000-08-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Debian Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Olaf, > Thank you for the reply! > I am not so sure I understand what RPC servers are. Same here :-( > Does it have something to do with an NFS type service? Yes, I remember I had to put portmap in my /etc/hosts.allow to get NFS to work. I have A

Re: Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

2000-08-31 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Kent, Quoth Kent Pirkle, > I double checked...I am starting X from my home directory. I had a similar problem once, with every program that I launched defaulting to ~/.gnome-desktop. I tracked down the problem to a gnome-panel setting (all these programs had been launched from the gnome panel

howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-08-31 Thread Jeremiah Hunter Savage
Okay, This is definitely a newbie question. I keep on reading about sending things to /dev/null. So I thought I would give a try: mv file /dev/null Yes I was root. So how do I recreate /dev/null? Jeremiah

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-08-31 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> This is definitely a newbie question. I keep on reading about sending > things to /dev/null. So I thought I would give a try: > > mv file /dev/null mknod /dev/null c 1 3 It will create character ('c') device file /dev/null with major number 1 and minor number 3. Exactly what you need. Do not

Re: last rc. file ???

2000-08-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Oh haha sorry, you gotta run update-modules after making the changes to /etc/modutils/* -chris On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Debian Ghost wrote: > Hello Krzys, > Thank you for the speedy reply. > I have tried your suggestions and still receive a message that basically > says I have not passed the proper

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-08-31 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 08:58:43PM -0700, Jeremiah Hunter Savage wrote: > Okay, > > This is definitely a newbie question. I keep on reading about sending > things to /dev/null. So I thought I would give a try: > > mv file /dev/null > > Yes I was root. > So how do I recreate /dev/null? hmm. i'm

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-31 Thread Brian E. Ermovick
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:27:50AM +0800, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: > Have you guys tried ctrl+alt+backspace to get back to the console instead of > (i) rebooting the box and (ii) telnetting from another machine to issue a > init 1!!! If that doesn't work, try ctrl+alt+FX (where X is the nu

Re: GNUCash 1.4.4 ??

2000-08-31 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:37:37PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > Is there a Debianized version of gnucash 1.4.4 or 1.4.5?? > Where can I find it? Helix Code has 1.4.5-helix1 -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found

Re: GNUCash 1.4.4 ??

2000-08-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cwa> Is there a Debianized version of gnucash 1.4.4 or 1.4.5?? cwa> Where can I find it? Helix has a copy of 1.4.5 available. Add this to your sources.list: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main Plea

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