SBLive! and 5.1
Hello, Does anyone know if the 5.1 capabilities of the Soundblaster Live Platinum 5.1 work under Linux? If so, which kernel do I need or should I be looking at ALSA? How do 5.1 speaker systems hook up to the card? And finally, if all this does work, can something like Ogle or Xine take 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: SBLive! and 5.1
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 03:59 am, you wrote: Search on sourceforge for emu10k1 ... creative's sblive drivers are open source now. I've got a platinum5 and the drivers are really awesome -- they allow you to totally customize the routing, allowing your card to act as multiple sound cards. The beeps, etc for out analog rear, xmms/dvd go out analog front and digital!. :) -Paul Paul, when you say that sound goes out digital does that mean you should be able to get 5.1 sound from 5.1 digital speakers? Does it matter what the application (say, Ogle) 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 PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SoundCards and Midi Input
On Monday 11 March 2002 06:16 pm, Donald R. Spoon wrote: Charlie Grosvenor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have given up with the soundblaster 128. What i want to do is use music software like NoteEdit and brahms, and plug in a midi keyboard into my soundcard and create midi files, when use the software to edit them. The trouble is i am not sure what sound cards linux supports for doing this. I cannot get it to work with my soundblaster 128 so i have decided to purchase another card. Can anybody recommed one that midi input is supported under linux? Thankyou Charlie, At one time I had my SoundBlaster Live using midi inputs with Soundfonts working under ALSA on SuSE. After going back to Debian on the same machine I was unable to get ALSA working again. 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
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(4.1.0-14) installed as well as make install(ed) NVIDIA_Kernel(v.2314) and NVIDIA_GLX(v.2313). Relevant parts from my XF86Config-4 is at the end of this email. Any thoughts as to why I still get only around 10fps (with ssystem -bench) Regards, Shri --XF86Config Extract- Section Module LoadGLcore Loadbitmap Loaddbe Loadddc Loaddri Loadextmod Loadfreetype Loadglx Loadint10 Loadpex5 Loadrecord Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe Loadxie EndSection Section Device Identifier Generic Video Card Driver nvidia EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Default Screen InputDevice Generic Keyboard InputDevice Configured Mouse InputDevice Generic Mouse EndSection Section DRI Mode0666 EndSection
Re: OT: TV Out DVD
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 the one primary monitor) and can control the picture quality from the scan converter (instead of relying on software). The downside is that scan converters run from like $70USD - $180USD (and more). On another note, I can't get my AMD K6II at 500Mhz to play Ogle without dropping frames. Xine plays fine, but doesn't have the mature menu options of Ogle and so is not a good option for me. What kind of system are you putting together? I'm thinking about buying a cheap-o Duron motherboard/CPU to use (also as an Ogg jukebox, CD Player, simple game console). On Monday 04 February 2002 11:32 pm, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: I'm putting together a 500Mhz-cpu machine to sit in my living room, primarilly to play dvd's. Ideally, I'd be displaying to the television there, however I'm not sure what to look for in a video card. In order to get DVD's scaled to full screen, it'd be nice to have some degree of 2d acceleration on the tv-out, to get real Xv-type speeds. I understand the TNT2s that have tv-out are pretty good, but I've yet to hear any confirmation about whether or not they would support Xv on a output-to-tv display. Does anybody have any recommendations?
Re: OT: TV Out DVD
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 the one primary monitor) and can control the picture quality from the scan converter (instead of relying on software). The downside is that scan converters run from like $70USD - $180USD (and more). On another note, I can't get my AMD K6II at 500Mhz to play Ogle without dropping frames. Xine plays fine, but doesn't have the mature menu options of Ogle and so is not a good option for me. What kind of system are you putting together? I'm thinking about buying a cheap-o Duron motherboard/CPU to use (also as an Ogg jukebox, CD Player, simple game console). David On Monday 04 February 2002 11:32 pm, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: I'm putting together a 500Mhz-cpu machine to sit in my living room, primarilly to play dvd's. Ideally, I'd be displaying to the television there, however I'm not sure what to look for in a video card. In order to get DVD's scaled to full screen, it'd be nice to have some degree of 2d acceleration on the tv-out, to get real Xv-type speeds. I understand the TNT2s that have tv-out are pretty good, but I've yet to hear any confirmation about whether or not they would support Xv on a output-to-tv display. Does anybody have any recommendations?
Re: Debian-Progeny
On Thursday 10 January 2002 06:15 am, S.Ghosh wrote: Hello, Could someone please explain how to set up an external modem under Debian-Progeny 1.0. Also how is the printer setup carried out under Progeny. The external modem worked well under RedHat 7.0 7.1. So I am hoping it will under Progeny. I've installed Progeny a couple of times and for some reason it wouldn't install the utility pppconfig. You should definitely run: apt-get install pppconfig After that run the program, answer the questions and you should be set. Start your internet 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
Hello all, I thought I'd live on the edge a bit and installed the latest KDE from unstable. I guess everything is working except there seems to be no support for .png stuff. As far as I can tell all the icons in KDE use .png, correct? I have no KDE icons anywhere from any KDE app (including web browsing with konqueror). I can pull up .png files in the gimp or netscape, just not in any KDE app. This makes using KDE difficult. Here's some more info: # apt-get install libpng2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, libpng2 is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 727 not upgraded. When I try to run the program kiconedit it crashes repeating the following many times: # kiconedit libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.2.1 libpng warning: Application is running with 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
Hello everyone, First off, this is way off topic, but you people are the only ones I know who can program. So to avoid a further waste of this list's bandwidth it would probably be better to send any replies to me and not the list. I have put a computer together that is going to be a Debian based multi-media box -- CD player, ogg jukebox, DVD, and maybe a few games (all with output to my TV -- the hardware is working and XMMS is constantly running, but now I want to expand). Eventually I'll want to have a fancy graphical interface (kind of like TiVo's) but for now I just want stuff to work and so am running a bash script in an Xterm. I have a nice learning remote control that can send keyboard signals to the computer via an IR keyboard receiver. The enclosed program will demonstrate what I have and give a basic idea of what I'm doing. I am not a programmer as you'll quickly notice. My problem is that I have to enter a key followed by ENTER. This is obviously cumbersome when using a remote control. Does bash have a way around this? Should I be using another language? If the latter, I would prefer, for now, a scripting language -- thinking this would be easier to figure out as I need to learn new things. #!/bin/sh while [ $choice != q ] do read choice case $choice in a) /usr/local/bin/jac -P1;; #jac is a command line CD player b) /usr/local/bin/jac -P5;; c) /usr/local/bin/jac -k;; #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
On Friday 14 December 2001 09:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My joystick/gamepad attached to the USB port doesn't work on my Debian (i386). I made my own kernel with USB support (usbcore.o, usb-hdci.o, hid.o, input.o, joydev.o, etc.) and I tested it using: jstest /dev/input/js1 jstest /dev/input/js2 jstest /dev/input/js3 and every time it reported me a message like this device not found , but devices are present in : Your problem isn't exactly like mine -- I didn't have jstest installed and so don't know what would have happened with that. But anyway, everything seemed to be installed and recognized with my USB joystick but no applications would work with it. So here's what worked for me. Most applications look for the joystick at: /dev/js0 not /dev/input/js0. So I added a symlink (ln -s /dev/input/js0 /dev/js0), rebooted, and everything worked. David Bellows
Re: Mouse
Eileen Orbell wrote: Okay I have to ask and I guess Bob wanted me to because he never suggested how!! How do I /dev/mouse a symbolic link to the appropriate serial port. Once again thanks Hello, ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse If ttyS0 doesn't work try ttyS1, ttyS2, or ttyS3 Good luck, David Bellows
apt-get stuck
Hello everyone, I'm running potato with a smattering of woody packages. I recently tried to install the game powermanga from unstable using apt-get. It failed to install, here is the output (sorry, it's long): debian:/home/dave# apt-get install powermanga Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: powermanga-data The following NEW packages will be installed: powermanga-data 1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 584 not upgraded. 9 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/6554kB of archives. After unpacking 17.3MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Selecting previously deselected package powermanga-data. (Reading database ... dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `powermanga' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. 86921 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking powermanga-data (from .../powermanga-data_0.71c-6_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package powermanga. Preparing to replace powermanga 0.71c-6 (using .../powermanga_0.71c-6_i386.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: dpkg-statoverride: command not found /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: dpkg-statoverride: command not found dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/powermanga_0.71c-6_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127 /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: dpkg-statoverride: command not found /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: dpkg-statoverride: command not found dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/powermanga_0.71c-6_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) OK, trying to remove it produces the following: debian:/home/dave# apt-get remove powermanga Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: powermanga powermanga-data 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 584 not upgraded. 10 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 16.9MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `powermanga' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. 87310 files and directories currently installed.) Removing powermanga-data ... dpkg: error processing powermanga (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: powermanga E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The problem is that if I try to install *any* other program using apt-get it first tries to install powermanga and ends in failure (as above) and so will not allow me to install any other programs. This is a real problem. So my question 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
Re: apt-get stuck SOLVED
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 game powermanga from unstable using apt-get. It failed to install, here is the output (sorry, it's long):
Konqueror help needed
Hello everyone, OK, I just had this harrowing experience with apt-get. I wanted to upgrade KDE to the latest version (2.1 I think) from the unstable section. I wasn't paying close attention and doing so broke X -- it replaced my working XF3.3.6 with parts of XF4.0. I managed to get X back to where I wanted it and noticed that KDE is now upgraded to 2.1. Here is where the problem is, everything seems to work OK except I can't get konqueror to start, here is the error I get: $ konqueror konqueror: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/konqueror.so: undefine d symbol: editBookmarks__16KBookmarkManagerRC7QString Also, when starting KDE an error pops up about a program crashing dealing with trying to load netscape bookmarks. I wonder if the two are related (it would seem so). Is there a solution or workaround anyone knows about? I know, I shouldn't be messing around with unstable unless I'm ready to break things. Thanks, David Bellows
Re: Device File Permissions
Andrew Gronosky wrote: Hi, I've been running Debian for a while, but only recently did I get serious about configuring all my peripherals (sound card, printer, etc.). I noticed that some important device files- for example, /dev/dsp and /dev/lp0 - are owned by root, belong to special groups (audio and lp, respectively), and most importantly are *not* world-writeable. Is there an important reason for this, and would it be a mistake to chmod the device files so processes running under an ordinary userid can write to /dev/audio and /dev/lp0? It seems there may be something I'm missing here... I want the devices to work with Debian software and with third-party software such as Loki games and StarOffice. :) Hello, It's done like this presumably so that on a multi-user system not just anyone would have access to these devices which could in turn be used to compromise the system's security. The best way around this appears to be to just add the users you want to have this kind of access to the groups you mentioned (audio, lp, and whatever else you might need). I've never 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) don´t work
Patrick Schnorbus wrote: Hi, i want listening to some midi-files, but it don´t work. I´ve installed the kernel driver for my soundcard (emu10k1, SoundBlaster Live!). When i try to play a midi file there is following error message: Cannot open /dev/sequencer What do I have to do to play midi files? Hello, As of now there is no support for raw MIDI with any of the SB Lives! drivers. Fortunately a pretty good alternative exists though it does use some resources. It is called Timidity (you can apt-get it). You'll have to read the documentation for it in order to get it working. It also does a nice job of handling whatever SoundFonts you want to throw at it. We're all waiting patiently for someone to come out with the appropriate drivers for SB Live! MIDI. You might want to check out www.opensound.com (commercial 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
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hi guys. I just put 2 Linksys NICs in a Slink box that I'm going to upgrade if I can get them working. It's going to be my gateway. Now, the docs say to use the tulip driver, but I just get a device or resource busy error from that indicating it's the wrong driver. So, I tried a modprobe -t on the entire net directory, and finally the 82596 driver found eth0. Now, I'm not sure if that's right, or if I should grab the latest tulip source and recompile. Regardless, how do I get eth1 recognized? I have two cards, identical, but the driver stopped after finding just eth0. I'm using Linsys LNE100TX cards. Hello, I have the same card. The tulip drivers that come with kernel don't work for me either and I tried several different kernel versions. My Linksys actually came with a Linux driver floppy. The driver was called tulip. I compiled this driver and it works. It is disappointing that the standard tulip driver from the kernel doesn't work on this tulip card (no fault of the kernel, the card maker probably screwed up). 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: 2 linksys NICs
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Actually, I went to the linksys site, and I followed their incorrect instructions that don't quite lead you to all the headers you need, and I'm getting a compile error from the latest tulip source. I got it from here: ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/tulip.html along with the associated pci-scan.c/o and kern_compat.h, but I'm getting a parse error from the code when I try to compile it. Do I have to do anything special to initialize two cards instead of 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: cd-burning
paolo massei wrote: Yes, but I've never understood howto use/write the necessary TOC file for cdrdao, and so... I prefer -dao option of cdrecord ;) I'm sure that cdrecord works fine for you, so just for the sake of information, here is how I typically record a CD (for archival purposes, naturally): cdrdao copy --device 0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc This reads a CD in my CDR, prompts for a clean CD and the records it. For this simple procedure you don't have to manipulate the TOC (it is automatically generated ready to go). I've never done anything more complicated than this though so I don't know how the rest of it works. David Bellows
Re: cd-burning
Peter Wollny wrote: I had a look on the docs for cdrecord and found out that it is not possible to burn in DAO, only TAO. How can I avoid the two seconds of silence between the tracks? Hello, Are you sure about that? I could have sworn cdrecord has an option for DAO. 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 ?
Michael Meding wrote: Hi all, what package do I need to get konqueror to support https (I guess that is encrypted html, maybe ssl ?) ? Hello, It took me a while to get it all working and I don't remember exactly what I did, but try this: Install openssh from 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
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?
Hello, I am using kernel 2.2.17 with PPPoE and everything works fine. I am also using version 2.3 of the roaring penguin software. However, I never had kernel 2.2.15 installed, I had the default potato 2.2.17pre6 (everything worked with it as well) and then upgraded to 2.2.17. So unless 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 the latest 2.2.17 kernel and PPPoE confirm that it works for them on an ADSL connection? I've been unsuccessful in getting this combination to work, and I wonder if it's some config I'm botching (seems most likely) or if something fundamentally doesn't work/is broken. Here's the situation: On a potato firewall box, I've been successfully running a *2.2.15* kernel with the stock pppoe from the potato archive (which is a v 1.0-1 Roaring Penguin pppoe driver). However, when I compile a new custom *2.2.17* kernel, what happens is pretty bizarre. I can get a PPPoE connection with my ISP (PacBell), but after a certain number of packets (usually about one web page worth), the connection dies. Thinking that the problem was the old version of PPPoE, I just installed the latest version (2.3) from Roaring Penguin (built from the upstream source into a .deb). This continues to give me a functional, durable Internet connection with the 2.2.15 kernel, but also continues to roll over and die when I boot to the 2.2.17 kernel. I've rechecked several times -- from the IPMasquerade-HOWTO -- the proper kernel compilation configs, so I'm pretty confident of my kernel. So, has anyone seen problems like this? TIA! Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lost my backspace key
Hello everyone, Hopefully this will be an easy one. I just installed the lbreakout game from unstable. It updated a couple of X packages enroute. They didn't look like they were anything critical so I let it go ahead and do it. But now I've discovered a problem, my backspace key 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: lost my backspace key - solved, new question
Hello everyone, OK, I checked out the manpage for xmodmap and figured out how to get my backspace key to work properly. I then inserted the following line into my ~/.bashrc file: xmodmap -e keycode 22 = BackSpace This does work. My question is, is this the best place to put such a command? 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 lbreakout game from unstable. It updated a couple of X packages enroute. They didn't look like they were anything critical so I let it go ahead and do it. But now I've discovered a problem, my backspace key 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
Hello, 7 0100 40x25 8 0121 100x25 9 0122 100x30 a 0123 132x25 b 0133 132x44 I would like mode 9. I tried to put vga=9 and vga=0122 into my lilo file but when I re-boot, I'm told I chose an invalid mode. How can I get the mode that I want w/o using vga=ask and then using the scan command? If this can't be done through lilo, is there some sort of command that could change the video modes after boot up? Something I can put into a 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
Re: 3dfx.o -- SOLVED!!!
Hello, Juergen Fiedler wrote: One question, if I may: Is the kernel that this module is working with installed from the 2.2.17 kernel image deb or did you compile it from the kernel sources? It seemed to me that the fact that I installed the sources, but tried to run the module with the precompiled kernel might have caused the problem described by you (and experienced by me). The kernel I am using is 2.2.17 from woody. Potato comes with 2.2.17pre6. I had to upgrade to the newer kernel in order to get the newest debian ALSA to work with my SB Live!. So anyway, yes you have to get the kernel source (and probably headers) and compile the 3dfx-source against that (I think you have to link /usr/src/linux to kernel-souce). Even going from 2.2.17pre6 to 2.2.17 breaks the 3dfx module. In addition, the kernel image I'm using is 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
SB Live and MIDI
Hello everyone, Has anyone been able to get MIDI working with the SB Live (and preferably ALSA) without resorting to timidity? I think I read somewhere that the same tools that are used to load soundfonts into the AWE series (sfxload?) work also with the SB Live. Has anyone tried this and if so are there .debs available for this program? David Bellows
3dfx.o
Hello all, At one point I had my Voodoo 3 working perfectly in Debian, but then I installed a new SB Live! which is where things went south. In order to get sound to work I upgraded to the latest (unstable) ALSA which in turn required a kernel update, etc. After a few hours I got it all working with the new kernel (2.2.17 as opposed to 2.2.17pre6 -- the default from potato). But when I tried to load the 3dfx module I got these errors: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: unresolved symbol register_chrdev_R06af9881 /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: insmod 3dfx failed As I said before, I did have all this working with kernel 2.2.17pre6. So I attempted to follow the directions and recompile the 3dfx source for my new kernel. No go. I can't for the life of me get anything to work. So my question 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
Re: 3dfx.o
Joel Dinel wrote: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: unresolved symbol register_chrdev_R06af9881 /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: insmod 3dfx failed 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
Re: 3dfx.o -- SOLVED!!!
Hello Peter and anyone else having problems Peter Jay Salzman wrote: dave, this isn't the reply you wanted, but fwiw, i can't get the 3dfx driver to work for the life of me. i've been at it for a couple of days now. i emailed the packager, steve hasam(sp?) twice, and he hasn't replied at all. not even a RTFM. (i'll leave my opinion of his maintainer's status unsaid). i've read a number of people in the same predicament on this list. i'd say 4 or 5 people by now, in the past 2 weeks. one person emailed me and said his driver worked. i emailed him back and got no reply. i also tried using rpm2cpio on the rpms offered on 3dfx's website. they compiled and didn't work either, but i should try that again. if someone here has their voodoo 3 working, a bunch of people would really like to hear from you! OK, here's what I did. 1)I apt-get removed my existing device3dfx-source and also removed /usr/src/modules/ which is where the source was. 2) apt-get install device3dfx-source. 3) cd /usr/src/ 4) tar zxfv device3dfx-source 5) cd modules # This dir is created by the above command 6) cd modules/device3dfx 7) ./debian/buildpkg # This as per the docs in /usr/share/doc/device3dfx-source/README.Debian 8) This time it compiled. Before when I ran this command it wouldn't compile, apparently I needed to clean up some stuff but I didn't know how. Re-installing the whole package provided me with a clean script. 9) The module will be located in /usr/src/modules/device3dfx as 3dfx.o 10) cp 3dfx.o /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/ # obviously sub 2.2.17 for wherever your modules are. 11) 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
Massive boot failure -- need serious help
Hello all, Some bad things just happened to me. I was innocently trying to update a few packages to unstable. Unfortunately doing so broke some things. And then I kept trying to upgrade more and more things hoping it would eventually all work until I ended up upgrading the entire thing to Woody including the kernel. Ok, now when I boot I get the following error that seems to repeat forever without stopping: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/unix.o: insmod net-pf-1 failed /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/unix.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20001020xxx.ksyms Read-only file \ system The xxx keep increasing. As I said, this just keeps going and I can't make it stop to continue to the boot process. I was using the default kernel that came with 2.2 so I wasn't too worried about upgrading to the latest kernel. But something has gone wrong. OK, my original boot disk has died on me though my Debian 2.2 CDs are working, but I really don't want to reinstall. I do have this generic linux rescure CD that is able to boot and with it I am able to mount the partitions that Debian uses, so I can modify things if I only knew what. What I need to know is what the heck 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
Hello all, I just today upgraded my version of exim (I didn't mean to, upgrading kword caused exim and I just let it happen). I did have exim working perfectly, now it does nothing. Here is the error: 2000-10-01 14:46:49 13fp4T-Su-00 Failed to create spool file\ /var/spool/exim/input//13fp4T-Su-00-D: Permission denied 2000-10-01 14:46:49 13fp4T-Su-00 Failed to create spool file\ /var/spool/exim/input//13fp4T-Su-00-D: Permission denied 2000-10-01 14:46:49 13fp4T-Su-00 Failed to create spool file\ /var/spool/exim/input//13fp4T-Su-00-D: Permission denied here is ls -l /var/spool/exim drwxr-x---5 mail mail 4096 Aug 22 01:28 exim here is ls -l /var/spool/exim/input drwxr-x---2 mail mail 4096 Oct 1 14:13 input I added me (as user) to group mail and I still get the same error. Here is ls -l /var/spool/exim/input//* -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
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 06:59:05PM +0200, Christian Pernegger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: How can I prevent exim from rewriting addresses that do not go out over a smarthost? Also try this page (scroll down a little). This solution works for me. http://web.inter.nl.net/users/jws/mysystem.html David Bellows
Best place for setserial
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: Solved! - Best place for setserial
Hello, err... have you installed the setserial package? it DOES run at every boot up. Place your configuration in /etc/serial.conf. If not, try apt-get --purge remove setserial apt-get install setserial to do a complete (as in overwrite any 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
Re: sound blaster live
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 .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: sound blaster live
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-modules-2.2.17_0.5.9b-1+2.2.17pre6-1.deb alsa-utils_0.5.9-1.deb alsaconf_0.4.3b-2.deb alsalib0.3.0_0.4.1e-5.deb asmixer_0.5-6.deb libasound1-dev_0.5.9-1.deb libasound1_0.5.9-1.deb I don't remember which order you'll need to install these in or if you even need all of them. But if you start with one of them and try to install it (i.e. dpkg -i alsa-utils_0.5.9-1.deb), it'll either install or tell you which package you need to install first -- so you install that one first! It takes a little patience, but will hopefully work. You might also try pointing dselect to the unstable branch and going that route so it'll take care of the dependencies for you, but this might cause dselect to try to install a whole bunch of other files -- I don't remember if I ever tried this, but this theoretically is the easiest approach. Good luck, David Bellows
exim headaches
Hello everyone, I've been banging my head against the wall on this one. Here's what I'm trying to do. I have exim installed I want local mail delivered locally like: MAIL TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] In other words all local mail stays local. This is currently working with all the addresses being formed correctly so that a reply stays local. I want outgoing mail to be delivered MAIL TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] # my real email address This is where the system fails. It uses my local address as the origin and REPLY field instead of my email 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
Re: exim headaches
Hello and thanks for your response I read the FAQ you suggested and found myself having a difficult time understanding what it was saying. This has been a common problem for me in trying to get this to work. I know this is a lot to ask, but perhaps a few more details from you would help me get 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 perform header rewriting. Non-local messages are forwarded to the second copy over port 26, which performs header rewriting. If the aforementioned FAQ doesn't answer your questions, let me know and I'll throw together some more detailed instructions. Cheers! On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 05:53:01PM -0500, David Bellows wrote: Hello everyone, I've been banging my head against the wall on this one. Here's what I'm trying to do. I have exim installed I want local mail delivered locally like: MAIL TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] In other words all local mail stays local. This is currently working with all the addresses being formed correctly so that a reply stays local. I want outgoing mail to be delivered MAIL TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] # my real email address This is where the system fails. It uses my local address as the origin and REPLY field instead of my email 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 Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
Re: exim headaches
Hello Chris Thanks for your response. This solution almost works perfectly. There is one glitch, the reply address on local mail is my email address and not my local address so a reply goes out over the 'net instead of staying local. I guess it's not that big of a deal -- mild inconvenience. 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 This re-writes the Envelope From field, From Header, Reply-To Header, and Sender Header, there are other options you can use which are in the documentation under rewriting on www.exim.org. If you want to rewrite all addresses that seem to be coming from you box do this.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffrs Also to test your rules do this exim -brw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. This will list what it will turn that address to according to your current exim.conf file. If you have any further questions feel free to email. Chris On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 05:53:01PM -0500, David Bellows wrote: Hello everyone, I've been banging my head against the wall on this one. Here's what I'm trying to do. I have exim installed I want local mail delivered locally like: MAIL TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] In other words all local mail stays local. This is currently working with all the addresses being formed correctly so that a reply stays local. I want outgoing mail to be delivered MAIL TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] # my real email address This is where the system fails. It uses my local address as the origin and REPLY field instead of my email 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
DSL and Debian questions Round 2
Hello everyone, Thanks for all the responses. I think I'm getting closer to understanding what's going on. So just a few more: 1. After installing an ethernet card and making sure the corresponding module gets loaded do I just runt the pppoe program and it'll do the configuring? Probably more to it than that huh? Do I need to worry about the external modem that comes with the service re: drivers and such? 2. The firewall issue. I've never set up a firewall. Is there a Debian package that will help with this? Any advice? I'm a little surprised that this is any more of a problem with DSL than with a normal dial up connection, anyone want to volunteer a little more info? How secure is the normal Debian installation? I have occasional need to telnet into my box from work, will this still be possible with a firewall installed? 3. The service 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
Hello all, I'm contemplating getting DSL service through my local phone co. Bellsouth (anyone have specific dealings with them re: DSL) and find myself in total ignorance of what's involved, so please bear with me as I ask these questions. 1. The service comes with an external DSL modem. I was under the impression that DSL hooked up through one's ethernet card. Since I appear to be wrong, what does the DSL modem do and is it likely to be GNU/Linux compatible? 2. I installed the default kernel in my system and didn't set up any networking stuff (currently using a dial up connection -- I'm presuming that DSL is a kind of networking thing). Where do I find the information about these things and is there a Debian tool that will help me configure whatever needs configuring? 3. The webpage for Bellsouth DSL mentions three requirements (in addition to MS or Mac) a) USB (probably not currently supported in Debian, eh?) OR b) ethernet card OR c) NIC. My question: what is the difference between ethernet and NIC? Which should I get? 4. Another requirement was that I needed a dial up modem installed, which I do have, but why would I need that? 5. If 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
crontab and users?
Hello all, I'm having problems getting cron to work as a user. I'm trying to get the progam jac (a command line CD player that does work, btw) to run at specific times to act as an alarm clock. As a user here is my crontab: 38 17 * * * /usr/local/bin/jac -P1 Which should mean that 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: crontab and users?
Hello Mike thanks for you responce, Mike Werner wrote: One thing that you must be carefull of is to make absolutely sure that there is a line feed at the end of that line. As an example: This might have been it. I did add some line feeds in the entry (always using crontab -e) but that didn't work. So I fired it up again, erased the existing entry, typed it again with a couple extra line feeds and sure enough it worked. You do not have to be logged in to have a cron job run. The crontab I inserted above works just fine if I'm not logged 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
Voodoo3 and 3D stuff
Hello all, Ok, I'm at my wits end (didn't take long). I cannot get full screen 3D stuff working on my Debian 2.2 box with a Voodoo3 2000. I need help. I do have it working on this same box using a different distribution, so I know it *can* work. Here's what I've done: 1. Installed all the mesa and glide stuff that I can find on the CDs keeping an eye out for 3dfx and voodoo3. Anyone know specifically what I need? 2. I have device3dfx.deb installed but can do nothing with it (what do I do with it?) 3. I have /dev/3dfx with the proper permissions. 4. I installed and compiled the mesa demos and get the following error (after setting the MESA_GLX_whatever to fullscreen) gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board (even as root). 5. Ok, in Unreal Tournament on my other distribution I used the setting for the GlideRender device and 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
Re: Voodoo3 and 3D stuff
Aaron Maxwell wrote: Do you know if the 3dfx module is installed? Type 'lsmod'; the output should include a line with the string '3dfx' in it (eg, '3dfx.o'). If not, good news! That's your problem and it's easy to fix! To fix it, find the module; mine is /lib/misc/3dfx.o, but it could be in /lib/modules. If you can't find it type 'dpkg -L device3dfx.deb' (or whatever the package's name is); the module name is probably '3dfx.o', but may be something a little different. Then install it with 'insmod'. If the module is /lib/misc/3dfx.o, as root type 'insmod /lib/misc/3dfx.o'. If this doesn't work let us know, we *will* fix this. Aaron Hello and thanks for your help! Ok I'm almost there. I didn't have the 3dfx module installed. When I insmoded it I was able to get UT running using the Glide drivers as opposed to the SDL ones (which produced weird black boxes everywhere). However there are problems, there is a second cursor on the screen and when I exit the screen goes all weird 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
ALSA and SB Live
Hello all, I'm trying to get my SB Live to work with Debian 2.2 and ALSA. The ALSA that ships with Debian 2.2 doesn't appear to have the driver I need for the SB Live. So I have a few questions. 1. I directed apt to get stuff from the unstable branch which has an ALSA that has my driver. Unfortunately there were so many dependencies that kept popping up that I gave up -- at one point it just kept showing the same screen over and over regardless of what I selected. Has anybody succeeded in installing ALSA this way and how? Or has anyone succeeded in installing the newest ALSA using just dpkg? 2. Would it be better to just compile ALSA myself from the latest sources? I installed all the development packages that come up during the simple install, is there anything else to watch out for? 3. Or would it be easier to install sound support via the kernel sound drivers? Would this entail having to find the driver elsewhere? Thanks everyone for your help, David Bellows
ALSA and SB Live -Solved!
Hello all, Everyone thanks for your help. I ended up downloading the ALSA stuff from the unstable directory and after some playing around managed to get everything intalled in proper order. The really cool thing is that now my rear speakers are working as they should as opposed to my SuSE installation where I could never get them going. Thanks again everyone, David Bellows
Voodoo 3
Hello all, I'm now trying to configure my Voodoo 3 2000 card for fullscreen mode. As far as I can tell I've installed everything from the Debian CDs pertaining to glide and mesa and 3dfx. Now I'm left with a device3dfx.tar.gz in /usr/src. When I untared and unzipped it I was given a modules directory. I tried to compile anything in there I could, but was given the error missing /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h configure the kernel first. Now I'm stuck. Anyone have any hints? Am I even going in the right direction? I've read several docs, but I can't find anything yet. Thanks, David Bellows
Re: some sound - solved
add|ct|on wrote: hi there... do you have audio devices in your dev dir? i had this same problem, and it was because i had no audio devices defined. i had to do a ./MAKEDEV audio in the /dev dir (hidden executable SHOULD be there, or somewhere nearby). after that everything went fine. also, another thing to check is messages on boot regarding sound... does the sound card initialize properly, interrupts set correctly, any errors? oddly enough, i also had one of my interrupts set incorrectly at one time and i had CD sound but no program sounds. 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
I just finished installing Debian 2.1 the other day and promptly compiled a kernel 2.2.5 for it. Sound is compiled in (AWE 64 pnp) and allows me to listen to audio CDs. However, I cannot get any system sounds (from games or any other sound producing apps). This is the same kernel settings I am 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
