Re: Screen Size
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:57:54PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 15-May-2000 Jay Kelly wrote: Ok Guys, I got X Finally working mouse and all. But and you knew there had to be a butt. How can I change the screen size without going back into XF86Config. I am looking at 640x480 and would like 800x600. Will this be possible to change without going into XF86Config? no, sorry. It loads the first resolution listed for the bit depth you run so: Er, actually, the answer is yes. Ctrl-Alt-keypad-plus to go to next resolution. Ctrl-Alt-kepad-minus to go back. You can't change your ColorDepth, though-- no switching from 16-bit color to 8 bit. SubSection Display Depth16 Modes1280x1024 ViewPort 0 0 means load size at 1280x1024 when at bit depth 16. And it means you can't switch resolutions, because you've only specified one... For more fun with X multi-keypress functions, check the manpage for XFree86
Re: Q:Potato kernel w/APM Pentium support?
On Fri, 12 May 2000 01:02:08 Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, Is Potato already compile for apm and Pentium support or do you have to compile it it? Ben Collins just told me that the .config file for your installed kernel-image lives in /boot/config-* . A cursory examination shows that APM is compiled in but disabled by default (presumeable you'll have to poke at things in /proc to make it go). The processor optimization selection (for IA32 platforms) is still at 386, as it has been forever, for maximum compatability. I've never noticed any performance boost from recompiling for 686, but then I don't play Quake that often...
Re: Q: Potato install tool to config X is?
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 10:00:47AM +0200, Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, Does the install procedure on Potato require you dig up the monitor's frequency rate, etc, or can you just select the resolution an bitmap mode as in 1152x864 and 24 bit? I just installed the frozen potato, and the cold spud tried to make me use xf86config to generate my XF86Config file. I outsmarted the icy tuber by hitting ctl-C and then saying no every time it asked me again, and then I used the bronze tool known as XF86Setup to get a suboptimal but perfectly functional XF86Config file in place. On the way, I had to get rid of the electric yo-yo known as gpm, because it was hijacking my mouse. If I were in charge, I'd drop gpm's priority to optional before releasing 2.2, but then I always purge the dratted package anyway. If I run out of ways to kill time at work, I'll do what other debian users do when they want a thorough X config-- I'll go out on the net and beg users of other distros and similar hardware for relevant snippets of their XF86Config files.
.config file for kernel-image package?
Suppose I wanted to build my own kernel, and I wanted to use the .config file used to build a kernel-image package as a starting point. Where would I find that file (or how would I go about creating it) ? I'm comfortable with make-kpkg, and I've used it to build many a custom kernel. What I'm after here is the .config file that the maintainer uses to build kernel-image-*.deb make-kpkg [config|menuconfig|xconfig] is not the answer to my question :).
Re: email threat
Regardless of what your differences are with Eric this message should not have been posted to this list. May I politely suggest that you reconsider that? Eric should not have written the letter to begin with. An apology to Bruce is long overdue. Every one of Bruce's criticisms of the APSL has been general, civil, and focused on the issues at hand. Eric's rebuttals and articles have been almost entirely ad-hominim, vituperative, and unrelated to the APSL. This is ugly, yes, but Eric should realize by now that he can not assume that his communications with Bruce will remain private, especially if they contain threats made in the name of our entire tribe. Read the full text of the letter. The most ominous part of it is the quote at the end. Let's all hope, for the sake of civil discourse, that it was auto-generated. If it was, then Eric needs to prune his .sig/fortune file, and we can drop this and move on. Full text of message: http://perens.com/Articles/Threat.html Ed
Re: shell scripting
Hello al I was wondering if someone can tell me of some website taht talk aboput shell scripting in great detail thanks Yeah, try www.perl.com Oh, I just crack myself up... I learned to do shell scripting using a copy of Unix in a Nutshell, but I think there's a thin O'Reilly book on bash as well. Shell scripting can mean many things, of course, but I assume you mean bourne shell scripting, which the O'Reilly book will most certainly cover.
Re: Anybody have the time to help a newbie?
On Tue, 30 Mar, 1999 à 01:10:02AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Ok. I have a copy of Debian on disk. I am attempting to install it on an IBM PS/2 386. When I boot up using the rescue floppy, I can set up to the point where it asks me to partition the hard drive. I select next, and I get an error stating Problem - No hard disk drives could be found. Make sure they are cabled correctly and are turned on before the system is started . You may have to change driver setings when you start the system with a command at the boot: prompt, or you may have to load a driver that is in a loadable module to solve this problem. Perhaps you have an MCA bus and/or ESDI harddrive If you have a model 50 or later, then you have MCA and ESDI. There's a page for microchannel linux at: http://www.dgmicro.com/mca/default.htm With links to a few sparse notes on doing a debian install. I've got a PS/2 in the basement, and I've just started research into a Linux install on it, let alone a debian install.
Re: Perl Instruction
Does anyone know if there are any good sites on the web for learning perl? I really want to learn it soon, but don't have any extra money to buy any books right now. Go to your local library and ask for Learning Perl, (Schwartz and Christiansen, O'Reilly Associates, aka The Llama book). It's in the second edition now, but the first will get you up to speed in a week or two. After that, use the web sites that have been suggested until you can afford Programming Perl, 2nd edition (Wall, Chritiansen Schwartz, O'Reilly Associates, aka The camel book). I know a lot of people who write perl for a living, and every last one of them learned from the llama book, and uses the camel book as a preferred reference. If there's no way for you to get ahold of Learning Perl, then get back to me, and maybe I can loan you my copy of the first edition for the price of postage. Ed
Re: Newbie on the verge of trashing thinkpad
O.k., maybe I didn't give enough info on this. I have a thinkpad 755c. After installing I'm getting message memory address conflict at (address) error 0011. Then error 0011 repeats ad infinitum. I have 20 meg of ram and have set up a 40 meg swap partition. The remaining space (320 meg) is divided 40 meg for dos and 320 for linux. I have not gotten this type of message before, so memory config has worked in the past. Coaxing debian onto a thinkpad can be a task that requires a great deal of patience. Please be forgiving if any of the stuff below is too basic-- I'm assuming you don't have much experience with debian, and if that isn't the case, then some of what follows may come off as boring or insulting. I think I've seen a that error on a thinkpad. IIRC, I resolved it by compiling the kernel and making a zImage rather than a bzImage. You have two problems: 1) In the debian installation process, a reboot is required before you can go on to package selection and finishing the installation. If you start your installation from, say, your dos partition, install the (bzImage) kernel and lilo, and then attempt to boot that kernel from the hard drive toward the end of your installation procedure, then you will be stuck. I seem to remember getting around this problem by finding a floppy image that would boot on a thinkpad (some guy in japan had built the image), and then using that floppy for the reboot, using the installation program the second time around only to activate swap and mount my partitions before cancelling (or hitting alt+f2 for a VC) and running deselect. It helps if you've already done a few debian installs... 2) Once you've figured out how to get a full installation onto your drive, you still won't be able to boot from the hard drive-- not until you recompile your kernel. Install kernel-source, kernel-package, and pcmcia-source. Edit /etc/kernel-pkg.conf , adding the line: kimage := zImage Dig that pascal syntax! Anyway. Read /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz (use zmore or zless). Follow the instructions for the impatient, and start your kernel build. While your kernel is compiling, go back and read the rest of the document. There's good stuff in there. Build your modules_image. Now install the kernel-image and modules debs that you've created (you need to do the modules to make sure that your PCMCIA support will still be there when you're done. This is a nasty gotcha if you're doing any sort of pcmcia-requiring installation/upgrade stuff-- like me. I do things over a PCMCIA network card). Then you can move on to fun things like getting X to work properly, mucking about with your sound hardware, getting your APM settings right, etc. I've got almost every part of a tp600 working with debian, and if I knew the first thing about package management, I'd roll up my modifications/configurations and distribute a thinkpad-600.deb This is all from memory. My memory is very leaky. I may have remembered one floppy-install trick, when it was actually a different one that worked. In any case, If you already have a floppy that will boot, then you're halfway there. Debian is still a bit behind other distributions on laptops, but you can usually make things work if you're persistent. Ed
Re: SAMBA help.
It sounds as though you have some confusion about the differences between the smb networking protocol, which SAMBA and windows file and print sharing use, and the tcp/ip network protocol with BIND, which Linux and Windows TCP/IP use. This confusion no doubt is due to the fact that Microsoft decided to call an smb scope a domain, when domain had been used for more than ten years prior to the release of Windows NT to describe a TCP/IP/BIND scope. These two things are different. your internet (BIND) domain will look somethnig like name.foo, whereas your NT domain will look something like NAME (case insensitive). To understand this difference, take a closer look at your win9x network control panel. In the TCP/IP properties, on the DNS tab, you will find boxes for your hostname and domain name. These correspond to the hostname and network name that any Linux distribution will prompt you for when you install. In the Client for Microsoft Networking properties, there is a box for a Windows NT domain. This corresponds to the domain in the various SAMBA config files. There is also a workgroup box on the identity tab in the Windows network control panel. This should match the Windows NT domain mentioned above. This is all explained in much more detail in the SAMBA documentation.
Re: Stumped!! Cdrom not a valid block dev.
What is the output for a particular mount command, e.g.: mount -t iso9660 /dev/gscd /cdrom ? It looks like you have cdrom (a string) instead of /cdrom (a mount point) somewhere. -Original Message- From: Roddie Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 6:21 PM Subject: Stumped!! Cdrom not a valid block dev. My cdrom has worked fine for months - after i figure out it was a goldstar. Now Debian claims it is not a valid block device. On boot, I get the cdrom detected, happy goldstar message. which is good. I try to mount it and I get not a valid block dev. I tried to MAKEDEV and it seem to compile but still not lucky. I even tried mount cdrom, but of course in /etc/fstab it is /dev/gscd. Any help on this one? Roddie Rod 'Man is the greatest cancer ever to be seen' -Entombed 'Contempt' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Install Debian 2 on My ThinkPad
I had a similar problem putting the hamm (2.0) beta on a Thinkpad 600. I remember 2 boot-related problems: 1) I started the install from a floppy, and I remember that I had to go and find a floppy image that would boot-- I think I found it in Japan. The tecra image did not work, but this was during the hamm freeze, and things may work now. 2) The stock kernel would not boot on the thinkpad. From what I've read, some thinkpads can't handle the bzimage type of compressed kernel, and you have to roll your own zimage. (Install kernel-source package, install debian kernel tools (kernel-package), zless the README.gz in /usr/doc/kernel-package, build your kernel, make changes to /etc/kernel-pkg.conf to taste). Don't forget to, er, install your nice new kernel...( I forgot that part once). But you still need to figure out how to get from where you are into your current installation, right? I don't know what boot method you used for the install, but you should be able to boot the same way, mount your partitions, and then cancel out or switch virtual consoles to get a command line, from whence you should be able to do your kernel construction and installation. There's a lot of info to be had at the linux laptop page, and DejaNews has been very good to me in all things linux and thinkpad. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ --Ed PS I'm still waiting for the day that IBM releases drivers or programming info for that DSP-based modem+sound card thingy that lives in the 600 series... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, December 22, 1998 10:06 AM Subject: Install Debian 2 on My ThinkPad To anyone who can help me, I am new to Linux and Debian, now I try to install Debian linux on my IBM ThinkPad 560E, and config is : Pentium MMX 233, 40M memory, Floppy Driver, and IBM Token Ring Auto 16/4 PCMCIA Net Card.(Windows 95 already installed) I installed Debian from My Harddisk, and there are four partition in my HD, for : Windows95, Boot manager, Linux, Linux Swap. During the installation , I did not find any error message or recommondation, it seemed that the system was installing smoothly. But when I reboot the ThinkPad, and select to boot from Linux, there is message on the screen LILO and Loading Linux..., then the computer reboot itself. I tried three times to install it, no error message . So I am very confuse what happend, if you have such experience or know the reason, I appreciate for your kindly help in advanced. Thx and hv a nice day. Y.P. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Summary: Net::SSLeay (perl module) working on Debian (hamm)
There are a few gotchas to installing the Net::SSLeay module on a debian
system. Most of these are due to a presumptuous Makefile.PL
I have a hamm (stable) system, but the Net::SSLeay module calls for a version
of SSLeay that is only available in Slink (or later, I suppose). I went ahead
and pointed dselect at the slink non-us packages rather than the hamm, and
nothing has broken-- most of the packages are, after all, unchanged.
The Makefile.PL really wants you to have everything installed in /usr/local,
and does not handle different installations gracefully. I've attached a
modified, debian-friendly version.
A change needs to be made to examples/makecert.pem in order for make test to
succeed:
Change lines 6 and 7 at the top of the file from
$ssleay_path = shift || '/usr/local/ssl'
$ssleay_path .= '/bin'
to the single line
$ssleay_path = shift || '/usr/local/ssl/bin'
This module will probably be obsoleted by Eric Young's SSLeay perl module, but
until he's done with it, this is a very handy tool for, oh, say, regression
testing your online ordering system :)
PS-- If anyone wants to walk me through packaging this thing, drop me a line.
I'm clueless.
---
Modified Makefile.PL
---
#!/usr/bin/perl
# 23.6.1998, Sampo Kellomaki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Minor tweak by Ed Slocomb for Debian Linux
#
# Configuration script for Net::SSLeay.pm
#
# Usage: ./Makefile.PL [-m|-t] [SSLeay installation path]
# -m and -t will automatically build and test, respectively
$make_it = shift if $ARGV[0] eq '-m';
$test_it = shift if $ARGV[0] eq '-t';
$ssleay_path = shift || '/usr/bin/ssl';
$ssleay_libs_path = '/usr/include/ssl' ;
print Checking for SSLeay-0.9.0...\n;
until (-x $ssleay_path/ssleay) {
print I could not find your SSLeay in `$ssleay_path'\n;
print Please provide SSLeay-0.9.0 installation directory (C-c to
abort):\n;
$ssleay_path = STDIN;
chomp $ssleay_path;
}
$vers = `$ssleay_path/ssleay version`
or die Couldn't run `$ssleay_path/ssleay' ($?)($!)\n;
($maj, $min) = $vers =~ /^SSLeay\s+(\d+\.\d+)\.(\d+)/ or
die SSLeay version test failed (`$vers' was returned, but\n
. couldn't be parsed). Either you have bogus SSLeay or Eric\n
. has changed version number format.\n;
print You have SSLeay-$maj.$min installed in $ssleay_path\n;
die That's too old. Please upgrade to SSLeay-0.9.0\n
. before trying to install this module. If you can't upgrade,\n
. Net_SSLeay.pm-0.04 still works for you.\n
if $maj eq '0.6' $min =1;
die That's too old. Please upgrade to SSLeay-0.9.0\n
. before trying to install this module.\n
if $maj 0.9;
warn That's is newer than what this module was tested with. You should\n
. consider checking if there is a newer release of this module\n
. available. Everything will probably work OK, though.\n
if $maj 0.9 || $min 0;
open F, ssleay_path or die Can't write ssleay_path: $!\n;
print F $ssleay_path;
close F;
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
# See lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm for details of how to influence
# the contents of the Makefile that is written.
WriteMakefile(
'NAME'= 'Net::SSLeay',
'VERSION_FROM' = 'SSLeay.pm', # finds $VERSION
'DEFINE' = '', # e.g., '-DHAVE_SOMETHING'
'DISTNAME' = 'Net_SSLeay.pm',
'dist' = { COMPRESS = 'gzip', SUFFIX = 'gz', },
'LIBS' = [-L$ssleay_path -L$ssleay_libs_path -lssl -lcrypto],
'INC' = -I$ssleay_path/include -I$ssleay_libs_path,
# Uncomment (and edit) following for debugging with gdb
#'LIBS' = ['-L/usr/src/SSLeay-0.9.0 -lssl -lcrypto'],
#'INC' = '-I/usr/src/SSLeay-0.9.0/include',
#'OPTIMIZE' = '-g',
);
exec make test if $test_it;
exec make if $make_it;
__END__
Re: ctx monitors
I'll second that. I've got a large CTX monitor (2085) at home that I've had for several years, and I hate it. Blurry, prone to wavering, severe screen curve. Save your eyes, buy Sony or something you've looked at and liked in a shop. -Original Message- From: Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 12:12 PM Subject: Re: ctx monitors Date: From: Richard E. Hawkins Esq. I'm thinking of buying a CTX PL9 monitor (19, [EMAIL PROTECTED]), what are people's feelings towards ctx or this monitor in paticular? I'm a student on a budget and this will be my monitor for the next 4/5 years so I just wanted to make sure I was making a good decision before I bought one. In a word: don't. The downstairs lab here used to have 48 apex machines with ctx monitors. Gues which component failed on half of them within the first year or two :) Also, don't buy a monitor you haven't seen unless it's labeled sony or apple. Oh, and see the *exact* model; some manufacturors have two different neearly identical models sith a couple of hundred dollars difference in price. With both on, you can tell them apart at a glance. I'd actually take a smaller monitor with better quality over the larger monitor every time. If you have to buy cheap to get the size you're looking at, I'd go for the next size down rick - response: As with everything else, if you ask for an opinion on a brand of hardware some people will complain how they got burned, and some will rave about how great it is. The last computer I had here at work was a Dell with a CTX 17 monitor. Had it for over two years and the monitor worked fine. It even had better focus than the compaq 17 I'm looking at now (which is a much later model). On the other hand the IS dept reports they returned a lot of monitors. So I must have gotten a good one. At home I now have a Digital Research 19 monitor that was bought when computer city went out of business. There was also a $100 rebate on the monitor. The store sample looked good (they had all the monitors hooked up to a dvd movie) but it turned out to be an older version of the same model (I got the newer version. Difference was in the use of push button controls instead of a rotor knob to select functions.) I've had the monitor for a few months now and would recommend it. It's supposed to go upto 1600x1200, but I am running it at 1200x1024. I would have used the 1x8?? setting, but my video card only gives 256 colors there. The monitor knows all the standard settings and can setup 10 user defined settings. Syncs from 50hz-160hz vert, and 30khz-86khz hor. I've seen better monitors, but not at the price ($386 after rebate and discount). My next monitor will be a 17 LCD when the price drops to around $500 (Yes it WILL!) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Sendmail and majordomo
I've got majordom: root majordomo: /usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper majordomo in /etc/aliases on our server (Debian 2.0), so it looks like you've got the right path. Do you have the majordom alias as well? -Original Message- From: Amanda Shuler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 1:01 PM Subject: Sendmail and majordomo Can someone tell me what the alias for majordomo should be for debian? I had it, and I've lost it. :( I know it's in the form: majordomo: |/path/to/majordomo/wrapper majordomo I've put in: majordomo: |/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper majordomo but when mail is sent to majordomo it is returned with a user-unknown error. Obviously, this is not the correct syntax. What should be there? - Amanda Shuler | I don't want to start any [EMAIL PROTECTED] | blasphemous rumours, but... - -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Linux Expertise in London?
Hello. I'm thinking of setting up a linux box for my mother :) My mother, you see, has a small business based in Chicago, with several tiny branch offices in the US, and a tiny branch office in London. Said tiny branch office has four or five workers in it using windows, and they would like to be able to share files and a printer, back up shared files, and maybe share a ppp connection. Enter Linux, yes? I have done this for one of mom's tiny US offices, using an old 486 and Debian 2.0, and I would like to do it for the London office, but the staff there are naturally concerned that I will not be around to do maintainence once I've set things up. If we assume for a moment that something could go wrong with a linux system that is only serving files via samba and running backups, is there anyone in London who might be able to lend a hand in a pinch? Can anyone point me at a list of London-based linux consultants and/or linux-based ISPs? Also: Is there a good place to go for a used computer in London? I'd like to spend money on scsi and good backup hardware rather than a shiny new processor. As a second choice, could anyone suggest a place to buy a new machine in the UK with linux preinstalled? How about networking gear? Any favorite vendors? Please reply directly-- the list may benefit from some of this info, but I can only skim headers these days. Ed Slocomb, System Admin. Sub Pop Records [EMAIL PROTECTED] , among others...
OK, I'm an idiot.
...So I did a chown lp *, but I was in /etc, not in /var/spool/lpd . Oops. Could some forgiving soul mail me an ls -l /etc of a 2.0 system? I think just about all of those files/dirs are owned by root, but I'd like to be sure.
Resolved: I'm an idiot
Ok, I think I've got it. Looks like only smail/ and news/ are not owned by root in /etc . Thanks to Brian (servis) at purdue for the quick response. -Original Message- From: Ed Slocomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, August 28, 1998 2:21 AM Subject: OK, I'm an idiot. ...So I did a chown lp *, but I was in /etc, not in /var/spool/lpd . Oops. Could some forgiving soul mail me an ls -l /etc of a 2.0 system? I think just about all of those files/dirs are owned by root, but I'd like to be sure. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Logging for dselect/dpkg?
Does dselect/dpkg keep a log of the individual package install script outputs? That stuff tend to just go flying past me on the screen, and I occaisionally catch a glimpse of important installation/activation instructions. Where can I go to find out what I'm missing?
Re: diald + ipmasq + samba
I don't have any trouble configuring Samba. It's the combination of Samba, ipmasq, and diald that I'm wrestling with. -Original Message- From: Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, August 23, 1998 10:08 AM Subject: Re: diald + ipmasq + samba On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, debian-user list wrote: Hello. I'm trying to set up a debian 2.0 box as a server in a small office, using samba to serve files to a few win95 boxes, and ipmasq and diald to connect to the rest of the world via modem, intermittantly. I can get each of the parts to work individually without trouble, but various things go wrong when I put them all together. It seems like every fix I try creates a new problem-- getting diald to work raised the problem of SMB paackets being forwarded to the modem. I fixed that only to find that a tcp request from a win95 box would cause diald to bring up the link, but the connect would time out (but a request with the link already up would work fine). I worked on that for a while only to find that my samba server isn't showing up in the win95 browse lists. [snip] This is my configuration: [global] guest account = nobody invalid users = root workgroup = WorkGroup1 server string = Mike's Linux PC hosts allow = 192.168.0. [c] comment = Mike's DOS C: Drive writable = yes path = /mnt/c public = yes I have my DOS drive mounted so that a friend can still get stuff from it, even when I use linux... Anyway, it shows up properly in his browse list. I did have a problem recently with the M$ DUN upgrade, installed on a second friend's PC, it killed the network continuity.. So, use `smbclient -L [host]` on all the machines, and check that your Linux box can see all of the others. I could not see my second friends PC. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - I've got places to go... People to annoy. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: midi software
David Stern wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: Hi, I'm in the middle of learning to play keyboard/piano. I'd like to know if there is any MIDI software on Linux that can help me. I've AWE32 soundblaster card. I'd like to know what driver do I need. Currently, my Debian/Linux box can not play any sound and I guessed that I do not have the driver for the soundcard. So, I would like to know how do I go about install the driver. Thanks! First you need to get sound working, then you can see about midi progs. Indeed. To get sound working,.. If you have the non-Plug-n-Play, you should be able to just compile sound into your kernel. (might need the awedrv kernel patch, below) Do get the AWE patch. Be advised that the debian installation scripts do not actually apply the patch (from deselect, e.g.)-- you will have to run the script in /usr/src/awedrv manually before recompiling your kernel. If you have the Plug n Play version of the awe32, you can either.. get the commercial OSS Commercial driver for $20 (a five day free They price is actually $30 if you include the $10 (50% !) markup for AWE suport. trial) at some web address I forget, something like www.4front-tech.com, (and then you're all done, no patches) or.. [ ...recompile kernel ] I don't have a keyboard recently, so I haven't got any tips on programs that would interest you. Try a search for 'rose' and 'octave' in dselect, though. My current favorite source of sound software links is: http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linux_soundapps.html The page, like Linux, is more for the technician than the musician, so don't expect to find a lot of instructional software. Some bad news: 1) Only a tiny fraction of the available sound software has been packaged for Debian, partially because: 2) Sound applications for Linux have much lower ratio of free software to commercial or restricted software than you might be used to. Many are ports from other unices, especially Irix and NextStep. The licences tend to be of the academic and/or free until you need it for a commercial purpose, whereupon it will cost you plenty type. A lot of this software is also really neat. 3) The AWE driver written by Takashi Iwai does not, as far as I can tell, support the OSS API (e.g.: playmidi and jazz do not work when configured to use external midi and OSS/Free, respectively). I haven't been able to figure out whether or not OSS/Free will fully suport the AWE driver in future stable releases. I have heard that support is included in version of OSS/Free distributed in the current development kernels, but I was under the impression that this support amounted only to the inclusion of Takashi's driver. I don't have the latest word on any of this, though. Does anyone else have rumors to share? Has anyone used the AWE drivers newer than 0.3.3c? Do the OSS people have an NDA with Creative Labs? Programs that use the OSS midi API will all have to be altered to use your card. There are fixes available for some software (plymidi, timidity), but no debian packages of the patched programs are available. No offense to Takashi Iwai is meant here-- quite the contrary. That he managed to write a driver based on what little information was available is pretty amazing. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to multitask in X-windows?
Dave Cinege wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:04:53 -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 07:36:02PM -0400, ImmortaL wrote: : I need to know if there a way in x-windows for example in the shell itself : i would press the alt key and the F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 to open a new window is : there a way to do this in X? Uh, open another xterm. Think you missed him. Under X it's crtl-alt-Fx instead of just alt-Fx to switch Virtual Consoles. And Ctrl-alt-F7 to get back to the X session. (Think of X as running on VC 7). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape 4.03 missing features?
I installed the most recent version of NS Communicator (4.03) using the debian installer from hamm, but it seems that the bloated pig is missing one of the simplest enhancements present in the win32 version: the mechanism for adding a new bookmark to an existing subfolder. Am I missing something here? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I need your help..
Min-Woo Bahk wrote: Hello. This is Minu, working in Nat'l University of mongolia as computer professor. We have freewave wireless modem to connect internet. The modem is connected to router that formed by debian linux system, and server is a sun sparc station5. This network system is consist of 20 computers via 3 hubs. A few days ago, router machine was broke down by electric shock. So I checked all system and made sure for working good. Now all system do well except for modem connections. I wanna know how to make configuration for modem and get more information about modem. I'll send specificatoin of modem. PLS Let me know how to do it! Thanks.. Wireless Modem Freewave Wireless data transceiver FCC ID : KNY-DGR-115 DOC 2329101340A MODEL NUMBER : DGR-155H Serial NUMBER : 570-0801 Hello. This type of hardware can be easily damaged by electric shock. Are you sure the modem is not damaged? Your hardware is manufactured by FreeWave: FreeWave Technologies, Inc. 1880 South Flatiron Court Boulder, CO 80301 USA web: http://www.freewave.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephone: (303) 444-3862 (303) 786-9948 Fax Your modem might have been obtained from NTI in Taiwan: http://www.nit.com.tw/ http://www.nit.com.tw/FAQ.htm#10. This site appears to be chinese language only, and might be helpful. This device is not a modem, but it can use an AT command set. The AT commands are used by modem software such as the debian pon and poff scripts, and the linux diald deamon. I hope this helps... Good Luck! --ed. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
