Re: [linux-audio-user] sequencers in Debian Woody
Juha Erkkila hat gesagt: // Juha Erkkila wrote: > about a month ago i upgraded my system from Debian Potato to Woody, > looking forward to see all the interesting sound applications people > have been writing, and which ones of those have been packaged for > Debian. overall, i've been fairly happy with them, with the exception > of all the four sequencers in Woody: Sted2, Rosegarden, Brahms and > Muse > > there doesn't appear to be any hardware problem, as i can do 'cat > /dev/sequencer' and i get some output, "test audio and midi" in PD > assures me that at least PD can read my midi-keyboard correctly, and > (more convincingly) 'timidity -iA -B 2,8 -Os && aconnect 64:0 128:0' > enables me to drive Timidity with the keyboard. yet despite these i'm > still unable to do any midi-recording with any of these sequencers > while rendering my playing with Timidity > > some info on my configurations: i'm using 2.4.18 kernel and i've > tried using both ALSA 0.5.12a-2 and 0.9+0beta10-6. First I would try removing ALSA 0.5. You can always reinstall the debian packages, but having both installed can lead to subtle errors. It makes it easier to tell, which library is used and which one is the cause of errors. I can't say anything to the other sequencers, as I am very happy to use MusE, the official Debian package at the moment. I also use the Debian packages for ALSA 0.9 beta10. > Muse (0.5.2-1) [ALSA 0.5]: the binaries in Debian won't work with > ALSA 0.5, and there doesn't appear to be a command line option to > switch to use OSS-emulation The problem is, that MusE, if compiled with ALSA 0.9, can't find the right libasound, if you have 0,5 installed. That can't be helped with a command line option, but you might try recompiling MusE from the debian source packages. It will take a while ;) > Muse [ALSA 0.9]: i can create a track, add iiwu-1 instance to soft > synths -list, add it to a midi-port table and then i have to switch > device name to MIDI 0-0 so that i can mark it as a recording source. > i mark the new track as a recording track. while trying to record i > have no luck, recording appears to go forward but nothing gets into > the track. and i have no idea how i could set up timidity with this > (maybe soft synths in muse are okay, i cannot say) Setting up MusE for recording can be tricky and has been a constant topic on the MusE mailing list. Dave Phillips has tried to put an end to this with his MusE Quicktoot at http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/quicktoots/ You should really check this out. > i admit i could look a little deeper into muse, but so far i've > preferred ALSA 0.5, because Soundtracker, Ecasound and Timidity in > Woody are compiled for 0.5, and i'm quite probably going to use these > apps a lot (i know that at least Ecasound can be compiled for ALSA > 0.9, i'm not sure about the other two) You can build soundtracker without ALSA at all, just using OSS emulation. That's what I do. I don't use timidity, but you could check out iiwusynth at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/iiwusynth. It's a gret midi synth for soundfonts, and will work with ALSA 0.9 > so, does any of you have any suggestions what i should try to do with > these sequencers? are there any other apps out there that i should > try out? (jazz?) I would try to get MusE working, it's my favourite Midi sequencer. but of course, I have it running... Ciao, -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [linux-audio-user] sequencers in Debian Woody
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki hat gesagt: // Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > I'm not very familiar with the protocol for asking debian package > maintainers to change things. What would it take to have the > Soundtracker, Ecasound and Timidity debian packages converted to alsa > 0.9.x? I think, but I may well be terribly wrong, that Soundtracker doesn't support ALSA 0.9 yet. The ecasound packages in Debian are build with 0.5, but it's very simple to rebuild them for 0.9: "apt-get source ecasound" will get the source, "fakeroot debian/rules binary" in the source directory will build with whichever alsa you have installed. I never built Timidity. > In genreal, it would really be beneficial to the usability of debian for > working with sound if the audio apps packages in the distribution were > to move away from alsa 0.5.x. As I understand it alsa 0.9.x should be > considered the mainstream release and 0.5.x should only be kept around > for historical reference. That's right, and I'm sure Debian will follow this path. But there still are a lot of apps that don't support 0.9. Not that I would need any of them, but it's another thing if you're in the distribution business... Ciao, -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video CD players?
V.Suresh hat gesagt: // V.Suresh wrote: > Is Xine available as a debian package? If so what should I issue to > apt-get? I tried apt-get install xine, it says package not found. xine is part of debian unstable. Take a look at: http://packages.debian.org/xine/ bye, -- __ __ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: vim tip-o-rama
MaD dUCK hat gesagt: // MaD dUCK wrote:
> also sprach will trillich (on Sun, 06 May 2001 12:32:04PM -0500):
> > gqip
>
> gq}
>
> fewer keystrokes :)
Duh, watch this:
:map Q gq
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Re: Video CD players?
V.Suresh hat gesagt: // V.Suresh wrote: > I am unable to compile mplayer for playing vcds. :-( > Is there any debian package available that can play vcd? >I would love to watch movies under Debian. xine is great. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: XF86Config for X version4.xx
Timothy Walsh hat gesagt: // Timothy Walsh wrote:
> Is there a preferred Debian tool (if any) for configuring
> the XF86Config file? I read that XF86Setup has been
> abandoned upstream and doesnt support version 4 synatax.
I took xf86cfg from xbase-clients for this task, but you can even use
XFree86 itself for this. Just run "XFree86 -configure"!
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Re: Digital music editor?
Michael Abraham Shulman hat gesagt: // Michael Abraham Shulman wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good digital music editor for Debian/Linux?
> I'd especially like one capable of slowing down a sound file without
> changing the pitch. Free is preferable, but commercial would be okay
> too if there isn't a good enough free one.
You can find info about nearly every piece of sound software for linux at
Dave Phillips' Linux Sound and Midi page:
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/
Unfortunatly there still is no SoundForge or CoolEdit clone available yet.
The most powerful soundfile editor is IMO "snd", but it has a horrible GUI
and a steep learning curve. You might also want to give (qt)ecasound a try.
Both can use LADSPA plugins (kinda VST for linux).
And never underestimate the sheer power of the command line tool "sox", the
swiss army knife of audio.
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Are there [maybe unofficial] debs for python 1.6 or 2.0 somewhere?
Hi all, I need a newer Python than the 1.5 included in Debian's potato/woody. Does anyone know if there are some prebuild 1.6 or 2.0 debian packages out there in the net? I don't want to mess up all my dependencies by removing Debian's Python 1.5. Thanks, -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Java support in Netscape 4.73
Daniel de los Reyes hat gesagt: // Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > I get an error saying java40.jar could not be found. How do I solve this? Install the netscape-java-47 debian paket. bye, -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Halt / Reboot: other user
Sebastian Padó hat gesagt: // Sebastian Padó wrote:
> I run xdm as my x login manager and I would like to
> be able to reboot and halt from it (like kdm allows it).
I use a little script at all my home machines that you may like, too.
The trick is: The Xserver is running as root anyway, so if you can get
the xserver to run the shutdown command, there is no need to mess with
sudo etc.
The script inserts two littles buttons in the xdm-screen: One for
shutting down, one for reboot.
Installation is simple. Put the attached tkmgr-script in /usr/local/bin
You have to edit two config files. First put the following at the end of
"/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0"
# snip Xsetup_0 --
# Starting the shutdownmanager:
/usr/local/bin/tkmgr &
echo $! > /var/run/tkmgr-pid
# snip ---
Then put this in "/etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup_0":
# snip Xstartup_0 --
# :0 specific startup commands go here
# Kill the Shutdownmanager:
if [ -f /var/run/tkmgr-pid ]
then
kill `cat /var/run/tkmgr-pid`
rm -f /var/run/tkmgr-pid
fi
# snip --
That's it.
bye
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#!/usr/bin/wishx
# Init stuff
wm title . Chooser
wm protocol . WM_DELETE_WINDOW Quit
# Ganz unten
wm geometry . +1-1
# The buttons
frame .buttons
button .buttons.reboot \
-text "System neu starten" \
-width 19 \
-command Reboot
button .buttons.halt \
-text "System runterfahren" \
-width 19 \
-command Halt
pack append .buttons \
.buttons.halt {left expand fill} \
.buttons.reboot {left expand fill}
pack .buttons -side top -fill x -expand true
# The Functions
proc Quit {} {
exit 0
}
proc Reboot {} {
exec /sbin/shutdown -rt 15 now < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2> /dev/tty1 &
}
proc Halt {} {
exec /sbin/shutdown -ht 15 now < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2> /dev/tty1 &
}
Re: Cant find bzImage
David Gisborne hat gesagt: // David Gisborne wrote: > Sorry for my igorance, but what exactly does installing the kernel-package > do... Does it set it up for recompiling? Hi David, kernel-package greatly simplifies the process of compiling a kernel. You just configure the kernel, call make-kpkg, that builds a Debian-package with the new kernel-image. After that you just install that package with $ dpkg -i kernel-image-2.2.16_???.deb and all is fine. I have found that a lot of the errors people have with compiling and installing the kernel disappear if they use make-kpkg. make-kpkg might be the second most useful debian tool besides apt-get ;-) bye -- __ __ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Cant find bzImage
Jay Kelly hat gesagt: // Jay Kelly wrote:
> I am upgrading my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and after selecting the
> option I want, I type
> make dep;make clean;make bzImage;make modules;make modules_install
> then it starts to compile and when its done I cant find the bzImage.
> I looked in the /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot but nothing. What am
> I missing here ? I installed bin86. Oh yeah Im running potato if
> that helps.
I would recommend to explore the beautiful world of make-kpkg delivered
as part of kernel-package:
$ apt-get install kernel-package
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Re: AWE64 making loud noise on bootup
Paulo J. da Silva e Silva hat gesagt: // Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: > Hey, could anyone explain (or point me to an explanation) what is the main > diference between ALSA and OSS sound drivers? ALSA is the linux audio professional's choice. OK, seriously: ALSA is much more than just a driver for your soundcard. It is an development architecture (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) with these goals: 1.Create a fully modularized sound driver which supports kerneld and kmod. 2.Create the ALSA Kernel API which surpasses the current OSS API. 3.Maintain compatibility with most OSS/Lite binaries. 4.Create the ALSA Library (C, C++), which simplifies ALSA application development. 5.Create the ALSA Manager, an interactive configuration program for the driver. More at http://www.alsa-project.org/ bye -- __ __ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: AWE64 making loud noise on bootup
Maciej Kalisiak hat gesagt: // Maciej Kalisiak wrote:
> Has anyone experienced their AWE64 soundcard making a loud
> clash/crash/explosion noise during bootup? Is there a fix?
>
> I'm using a mix of potato/woody, with a hand-rolled 2.2.16 kernel. The
> problem was also present with previous kernels I think.
>
> Help! It's going to give me a heart attach one of these mornings... :)
Just a wild guess: Could it be that you have esd installed an that esd makes
this noise on start up? I sometimes get an explosion-like sound from my
AWE, too, but I have normally disabled esd. And normally if I use esd, it
just beeps, which is bad enough...
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Re: compatible sound cards
Rogerio Brito hat gesagt: // Rogerio Brito wrote:
> On Jun 02 2000, Oliver Hingst wrote:
> Are you using the alsa packages that come with Debian or are
> you using the stock packages? I'd like to try the stock ones
> to use a card from Trident (it's Trident 4DX something) and
> the only kernel releases that come with drivers for it are
> those from the 2.3 series... :-(
>
> I wouldn't like to use these 2.3 kernels but as I understand I
> can't use the Debian ALSA packages/modules if I compile my own
> kernel (can I)?
No, you can use the debian packages with kernel 2.2.xx, but you should
take the ones from woody. You may need to compile them from the source
(with dpkg-buildpackage). As for the modules, you just install the deb
package alsa-source and when you have built and installed a kernel on
your own (with make-kpkg) you just run "make-kpkg modules_image" to
compile the matching alsa-modules.
(Read /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/debian/README)
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Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?
Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Shao Zhang hat gesagt: // Shao Zhang wrote:
>
> > The worst case that I have seen in vim, is the multiline regexp
> > with quotes in it. And it is even worse if I only want to match
> > the beginning quote. See example below:
> >
> > $hello =~ s{
> > \"hello world
> > }{
> > hello
> > }gex;
> >
> > Anyone have a solution for this? This really prevents me using
> > this nice perl feature.
>
> Uhhm, well, this indeed is a big problem even on my Vim. Further
> investigation needed...
OK, investigation done! The problem Vim syntax has with the above code lies
in the syntax file /usr/share/vim/vim56/syntax/perl.vim
(Maybe there is a newer one.)
It just looks for s///, s### and s[][] like the following excerpt shows:
" Last Change: 1999 Dec 27
[...]
" Substitutions
" caters for s///, s### and s[][]
" perlMatch is the first part, perlSubstitution is the substitution part
syn region perlSubstitution matchgroup=perlMatchStartEnd start=+/+
end=+/[xosmigecd]*+ contained [EMAIL PROTECTED]
syn region perlSubstitution matchgroup=perlMatchStartEnd start=+#+
end=+#[xosmige]*+ contained [EMAIL PROTECTED]
syn region perlSubstitution matchgroup=perlMatchStartEnd start=+\[+
end=+\][xosmige]*+ contained [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So if you rewrite the sample code to
$hello =~ s[
\"hello world
][
hello
]gex;
it gets colorized correctly. Or one could change the syntax file to include
{} pairs in substitutions also.
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Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?
Shao Zhang hat gesagt: // Shao Zhang wrote:
> The worst case that I have seen in vim, is the multiline regexp
> with quotes in it. And it is even worse if I only want to match
> the beginning quote. See example below:
>
> $hello =~ s{
> \"hello world
> }{
> hello
> }gex;
>
> Anyone have a solution for this? This really prevents me using
> this nice perl feature.
Uhhm, well, this indeed is a big problem even on my Vim. Further
investigation needed...
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Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?
Steve Lamb hat gesagt: // Steve Lamb wrote:
> Vim. I've not seen a problem with its highlighting that didn't also
> improve the readability of my code when I got in the habit of getting it to
> colorize right. The /only/ perl construct I know of that doesn't work is
> something like this:
>
> if ($foo =~ /bar\/blam/){
> }
>
> Vim would see the \/, see a / and mess up the colorization right there.
> However, this fixes it:
>
> if ($foo =~ m/bar\/blam/){
> }
>
Hey, no problem here with highlighting that code snippet using
VIM - Vi IMproved 5.6 (2000 Jan 16, compiled Feb 10 2000 17:28:27)
(official wichert debian package)
Regardless if you set or omit the "m" Vim colorizes this fine. Even some
old syntax bugs with here docs have been fixed for some time now. So I
would really recommend VIM for perl, too.
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Re: libfltk-dev: which "config.h"
Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Johann Spies hat gesagt: // Johann Spies wrote:
>
> > I am trying to compile the programs in /usr/share/doc/libfltk1/examples/.
> >
> > After copying the files to /tmp and gunzipping the .gz files I get the
> > following error when I run "make":
> >
> > c++ -I.. -g -fPIC -Wall -Wno-return-type -I/usr/X11R6/include
> > CubeMain.cxx -cCubeMain.cxx:26: config.h: No such file or directory
> I tested this here and I found, that you do not need any config.h at
> all.
OK, further investigation: There indeed is a config.h file that gets build
if you compile libfltk from the source. The debian packages do include this
config.h, I think this is a bug and I will file as one it if nobody has done
this already. Anyway I attached the file but you will have to edit it, as I
use the GL stuff.
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config.h.gz
Description: Binary data
Re: libfltk-dev: which "config.h"
Johann Spies hat gesagt: // Johann Spies wrote: > I am trying to compile the programs in /usr/share/doc/libfltk1/examples/. > > After copying the files to /tmp and gunzipping the .gz files I get the > following error when I run "make": > > c++ -I.. -g -fPIC -Wall -Wno-return-type -I/usr/X11R6/include CubeMain.cxx > -cCubeMain.cxx:26: config.h: No such file or directory > In file included from CubeViewUI.h:12, > from CubeMain.cxx:28: > CubeView.h:28: config.h: No such file or directory > make: *** [CubeMain.o] Error 1 > > There are no config.h in the fltk-packages and there are many > > [...] > I thought just typing "make" was supposed to work :( I tested this here and I found, that you do not need any config.h at all. So you can remove or uncomment every line with "# include config.h" in it, e.g with this perl oneliner: $ perl -pi.bak -e 's+#include +// #include +' *.h *.cxx There is another error in the Makefile. It looks for libfltk in the directory "../lib" and it does not find it. Just replace every "../lib" in the Makefile with "/usr/lib". After this repairs, just typing "make" did indeed work. bye -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: dd and Playstation CDs
Greg Baker hat gesagt: // Greg Baker wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to use dd to make an image of a Playstation game? You'd better use cdrdao: Get the source of cdrdao. Look into the directory contrib. Make the psxcopy tools. bye -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Tk-Skript for shutting down the box [Was: Re: rebooting as user]
Mullins, Ron hat gesagt: // Mullins, Ron wrote:
> C-A-Rubout drops me to a console, yes. Using xdm/wdm/gdm that console isn't
> logged in. This then leaves me with, "Ok, honey...now that you've killed the
> window manager, you now have to login again, then you can hit C-A-Del. (me
> gets blank stare, then "Why?")"
>
> Hmmm...this is turning out to be more than I thought.
I use a little script at all my home machines, that requires no
gnome, no [kd]wm just tcl/tk an plain xdm. I found this on this
list some years ago, but I don't know the author anymore.
The trick is: The Xserver is running as root anyway, so if you can get
the xserver to run the shutdown command, there is no need to mess with
sudo etc.
Anyway here is the script (slighly modified and translated to german by
me ;)
Installation is simple. Put the attached tkmgr-skript in /usr/local/bin
You have to edit two config files. First put the following at the end of
"/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0"
# snip Xsetup_0 --
# Starting the shutdownmanager:
/usr/local/bin/tkmgr &
echo $! > /var/run/tkmgr-pid
# snip ---
Then put this in "/etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup_0":
# snip Xstartup_0 --
# :0 specific startup commands go here
# Kill the Shutdownmanager:
if [ -f /var/run/tkmgr-pid ]
then
kill `cat /var/run/tkmgr-pid`
rm -f /var/run/tkmgr-pid
fi
# snip --
That's it.
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#!/usr/bin/wishx
# Init stuff
wm title . Chooser
wm protocol . WM_DELETE_WINDOW Quit
# Ganz unten
wm geometry . +1-1
# The buttons
frame .buttons
button .buttons.reboot \
-text "System neu starten" \
-width 19 \
-command Reboot
button .buttons.halt \
-text "System runterfahren" \
-width 19 \
-command Halt
pack append .buttons \
.buttons.halt {left expand fill} \
.buttons.reboot {left expand fill}
pack .buttons -side top -fill x -expand true
# The Functions
proc Quit {} {
exit 0
}
proc Reboot {} {
exec /sbin/shutdown -rt 15 now < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2> /dev/tty1 &
}
proc Halt {} {
exec /sbin/shutdown -ht 15 now < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2> /dev/tty1 &
}
Re: HELP! How to use ISDN in debian?
Hi,
Robert Varga hat gesagt: // Robert Varga wrote:
> What do I need to do to make an ISDN card work in Linux?
>
> What modules do I need to install?
> What do I need to do to configure the ISDN card?
> Can I use the two 64kbit channels separately and how?
> What other packages support the ISDN channel?
> Etc...
You will need the isdnutils Package:
Description: ISDN utilities
This package includes all the utilities to get an ISDN system up and
running.
After that the usual procedure:
Read the docs in /usr/share/doc/isdnutils especially
/usr/share/doc/isdnutils/HOWTO.isdnutils.gz which includes *all* you
need to know.
You might need to compile a new kernel. I don't know if the stock debian
kernel images have support for your hardware.
Before configuring the new kernel, make sure you read the ISDN-docs in
the kernel source tree.
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Re: ALSA Mixer Trouble
Terry Hancock hat gesagt: // Terry Hancock wrote: > However, when I run "amixer" to unmute the card, > according to the INSTALL instructions and the > online FAQ, I get: > > peregrin:/proc/asound# amixer set Master on > Can't access mixer 1/0 > Failed to open mixer device > > # Modules setup for ALSA Sound driver > # Set up by Terry Hancock, 2000-3/26 > # based on ALSA install instructions > > #ISA PnP support > options isapnp isapnp_reserve_irq=9,10,11,12,13 > > #ALSA native device support (Avance Logic ALS120 --> Avance Logic ALS100 > driver) > alias char-major-116 snd > options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 > alias snd-card-0 snd-card-als100 > options snd-card-als100 snd_index=1 snd_id="ALS120" Just a guess: Could you try "snd_index=0" ? At least, that's what I have here. For setting the mixer you can also use "alsamixer" which is a bit friendlier to use. bye -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Oh no, not another AWE64 question
brian moore hat gesagt: // brian moore wrote:
> > So my next step was to try ALSA drivers.. I've successfully installed
> > these before when I ran slackware. I believed I followed the instructions
> > accurately.. anyhow, here is some info..
>
> No idea.. I see no reason to use ALSA with this card. AWE64's are as
> common as dirt and well supported by OSSfree.
One reason is: ALSA supports the full duplex mode in AWE64 cards while OSS-free
doesn't (at least the last time I checked)
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Re: Oh no, not another AWE64 question
brian moore hat gesagt: // brian moore wrote:
> > So my next step was to try ALSA drivers.. I've successfully installed
> > these before when I ran slackware. I believed I followed the instructions
> > accurately.. anyhow, here is some info..
>
> No idea.. I see no reason to use ALSA with this card. AWE64's are as
> common as dirt and well supported by OSSfree.
One reason is: ALSA supports the full duplex mode in AWE64 cards while OSS-free
doesn't (at least the last time I checked)
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Re: Oh no, not another AWE64 question
Charon hat gesagt: // Charon wrote: > So my next step was to try ALSA drivers.. Good. ALSA rocks! I am using an AWE64 with ALSA here, so maybe I can be of help. But first a question: What ALSA version are you using? Some things (module options etc.) changed between 0.4 and 0.5, so this is important to know. Second question: Did you use the ALSA Plug'n'Play method or do you use a /etc/isapnp.conf file with the isapnp-tool? Third and most important question: I'd like to see your module options for alsa (in /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modutils/alsa). Could you post them here, please. The right module configuration is crucial for ALSA to work and it is _the_ hottest topic on the alsa-user mailing list. > I've successfully installed > these before when I ran slackware. I believed I followed the instructions > accurately.. anyhow, here is some info.. > > underworld:/home/charon# lsmod > Module Size Used by > fat30304 1 (autoclean) [vfat] > snd-card-sb16 4976 0 (unused) > snd-mpu401-uart 3300 0 [snd-card-sb16] > snd-rawmidi11352 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] > snd-seq-device 3788 0 [snd-rawmidi] > isapnp 27156 0 [snd-card-sb16] > snd-opl32628 0 [snd-card-sb16] > snd-sb16-csp 17332 0 [snd-card-sb16] > snd-sb16-dsp 18472 0 [snd-card-sb16 snd-sb16-csp] > snd-pcm36696 0 [snd-sb16-dsp] > snd-timer 10688 0 [snd-opl3 snd-pcm] > snd-hwdep 3756 0 [snd-opl3 snd-sb16-csp] > snd-mixer 29552 0 [snd-sb16-csp snd-sb16-dsp] > snd44684 1 [snd-card-sb16 snd-mpu401-uart > snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-opl3 snd-sb16-csp snd-sb16-dsp snd-pcm > snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-mixer] > this is after a modprobe snd-card-sb16 as instructed in the alsa install > howto .. I am using the module snd-card-sbawe for the AWE64. Strange thing is: You seem to not have loaded any OSS compatibility modules from ALSA. I have this after I do a mpg123 some.mp3: snd-pcm-oss16744 0 (autoclean) snd-pcm-plugin 12840 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 4244 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] snd-card-sbawe 4012 0 (autoclean) snd-sb16-csp 15124 0 (autoclean) [snd-card-sbawe] snd-sb16-dsp 15304 0 (autoclean) [snd-card-sbawe snd-sb16-csp] snd-pcm28600 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-sb16-dsp] snd-mixer 22608 0 (autoclean) [snd-mixer-oss snd-sb16-csp snd-sb16-dsp] snd-opl31988 0 (autoclean) [snd-card-sbawe] snd-hwdep 2604 0 (autoclean) [snd-sb16-csp snd-opl3] snd-timer 8032 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm snd-opl3] snd-mpu401-uart 2212 0 (autoclean) [snd-card-sbawe] snd-rawmidi 8920 0 (autoclean) [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 3392 0 (autoclean) [snd-card-sbawe snd-rawmidi] snd34572 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-sbawe snd-sb16-csp snd-sb16-dsp snd-pcm snd-mixer snd-opl3 snd-hwdep snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore 2372 4 (autoclean) [snd] You see the snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss? They are responsible for sound in OSS applications like xmms. Normally you configure this in /etc/modules.conf (or /etc/modutils/alsa + "do an update-modules as root" for Debian) For alsa-0.5 make sure you have the following lines there: alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss [plus all the other stuff of course] > underworld:/home/charon# cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [card1 ]: SB16 - Sound Blaster 16 > Sound Blaster 16 at 0x220, irq 5, dma 1&5 This looks OK. > underworld:/home/charon# amixer set Master 15 > Group 'Master',0 > Capabilities: volume > Channels: Front-Left Front-Right > Limits: min = 0, max = 31 > Front-Left: 15 [48%] [on] [---] > Front-Right: 15 [48%] [on] [---] > > Playing a cd in grip works though.. > > Trying to play an mp3 using xmms gives me an error telling me 3 things, > the most significantly being that my sound isn't configured properly. I am > at a loss, and am uncertain how to proceed. I would very much appreciate > it if some kind soul could offer some assistance.. I think this has to do with the missing OSS compatibility. One more test you could do is to try some ALSA native sound tools like aplay. bye -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: XEmacs use 'Alt' as 'Meta'
Brian May hat gesagt: // Brian May wrote: > Is it possible to use the windows key as meta in XEmacs for text mode > sessions? I don't like this inconsistency... Some combinations work, > others don't. Tested: > > text mode console: alt --> meta > gnome-terminal:alt --> meta > xterm: windows --> meta Yeah, this bothers me, too, since I dist-upgrade'd to potato. I'm not using Emacs but I like the "yank-last-arg" command in the terminal, which is Meta-. but now Meta is the Windows-Key. I'd like to have my Left-Alt back, please, but how?? -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
pdmenu refuses to start with the default config
Hi all,
I would like to use pdmenu for some UI stuff but I am always getting this
error if I start pdmenu:
$ pdmenu
pdmenu error: if tty|egrep -q "tty[0-9]|vc/[0-9]|console"; then
args="$args#define vc\n"; fi;
if [ "$DISPLAY" ]; then
args="$args#define x11\n";
fi;
if [ -f /var/lib/pdmenu/pdmenurc_auto ] ; then echo -e
"#define text\n$args" |
/usr/lib/pdmenu/cpp.pl -
/var/lib/pdmenu/.pdmenurc_auto; fi:228 Invalid or misplaced keyword,
"Press [ENTER] to exit...'; read AKEY"".
I am using Version: 1.2.59 freshly installed, purged and reinstalled.
It has this config file /etc/pdmenurc, there are no ~/.pdmenurc's anywhere:
- start pdmenurc -
#!/usr/bin/pdmenu
#Note that the above bang-path isn't required, but it lets you run this
#file directly as a sort of pdmenu script.
#Set a pleasing color scheme.
color:desktop:white:blue
color:title:yellow:red
color:base:yellow:red
#Define the main menu:
menu:main:Main Menu
# This ties in with Debian's autogenerated Apps menu.
show:_Debian Menus..::/Debian
exec:_Change your password:p:passwd
exec:_Directory listing:display:ls -l
exec:_Change directory:edit,setenv:echo PWD=~set to?:~
exec:_Who's online?:truncate:echo "These users are online:";w
nop
exit:E_xit
# If you edit this file, you will probably not want to remove the following
# section, which makes menus of Debian apps available.
#
# What this does is run a simplistic cpp-like program (you could use cpp
# here, but there are side effects that make this undesirable). The cpp clone
# reads in standard input and /var/lib/pdmenu/.pdmenurc_auto, and outputs a
# pdmenurc file tailored for the cirrent display. If X is available,
# "#define x11" is passed to the cpp clone as part of its stdin. If we are at
# the linux console, "#define vc" is passed, and "#define text" is always
# passed, since plain text mode will always work (or pdmenu wouldn't be
# running!).
preproc: \
if tty|egrep -q "tty[0-9]|vc/[0-9]|console"; then \
args="$args#define vc\n"; \
fi; \
if [ "$DISPLAY" ]; then \
args="$args#define x11\n"; \
fi; \
if [ -f /var/lib/pdmenu/pdmenurc_auto ] ; then \
echo -e "#define text\n$args" | \
/usr/lib/pdmenu/cpp.pl -\
/var/lib/pdmenu/.pdmenurc_auto; \
fi
- end pdmenurc -
So, if someone knows where the error is, please help.
Thanks in advance,
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Re: crontab + "xset dpms"
Seth R Arnold hat gesagt: // Seth R Arnold wrote:
> I would like to set my monitor power off times to be different during
> the night than during the day. To this end, I have added the following
> lines to my crontab (output with crontab -l):
>
> 0 10 * * * xset dpms 3600 0 0
> 30 0 * * * xset dpms 300 0 0
>
> Other lines in my crontab file get run (two include an Esetroot to
> change my root background in X every two hours) -- so I am rather
> mystified why this won't change the timeout values. Using these commands
> by hand works just fine.
Maybe try with the full path:
0 10 * * * /usr/X11R6/bin/xset dpms 3600 0 0
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Re: What format are the gnome-sounds??
Bruno Boettcher hat gesagt: // Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> BTW what program should i use to inspect soundfiles to extract the relevant
> information? i noticed that i couldn't get this sort of info from sox...
"file" from the debian-package of the same name is good at giving quick
info about files, even sound files, e.g.
$ file dsound
dsound: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo
44100 Hz
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Re: OT: Free-Quake
Lars Weber hat gesagt: // Lars Weber wrote:
> Question: Is someone already doing this? (AFAIKT this is out of the
> scope of the Quakeforge project, but I'm not sure)
"Open Quartz is a project to supply GPL'ed artwork in the form of PAK
and WAD files to create a fully GPL game based around the GPL'ed quake
sourcecode. This includes models, maps, soundfx and textures."
(from http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1760 )
> btw: What are this data files all about? Maps, graphics and sound
> files I think, but maybe (much??) more?
Plus models and textures ;-)
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Re: APT 0.5.x debian packages anywhere?
Vesa Kaihlavirta hat gesagt: // Vesa Kaihlavirta wrote:
>
> Are there any Debian packages for Alsa 0.5.x yet? I've got a SB Live and I'd
> like to test it with them, so if there's a developer with a staging area,
> please come forward...
There are some packages in project/experimental on your trusty debian ftp
server. But I had no luck with them so I used the original source. Maybe
they do work for you.
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Re: Sound Troubles
Cameron Matheson hat gesagt: // Cameron Matheson wrote: > I mailed a little while ago, but I did not explain myself well enough. I > have sound with CD and in Enlightenment, so I know it works. None of the > games that Debian came with have sound. Why not? What games are you trying to play? Is the enlightenment sound daemon runnig (ps aux | grep esd)? If so, try killing it (killall esd) and check if the games have sound now. bye -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: reading rtf files
Blazej Sawionek hat gesagt: // Blazej Sawionek wrote:
> > Is there any utility/program in debian that assists in _reading_ rtf
> > files? I only found a few that can generate them.
> Oh really did you? Could you please send me the names of those few...
>
Abiword is a great "Wordpad" for Linux, and growing to be more. It can read
and write RTF, can read Word's .doc format and comes close enough for me
regarding the Layout. Try it out.
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Re: igerman-package with new german spelling
Jan Ulrich Hasecke hat gesagt: // Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
> I just downloaded igerman from potato, to see that it does not
> support the new rules.
It's called "ingerman" and "wngerman".
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Re: Debian <-> ISDN ?
Friedemann Schorer hat gesagt: // Friedemann Schorer wrote:
> Palnning to install Debian, I'd like to know if slink or potato are
> capable of using an ISDN card (AVM Fritz! Classic) type of easily
> or if it is quite hard to get that running ?
No, it isn't. Just check that your kernel has support for hisax and isdn,
install the isdnutils package (and ppp if you haven't),
read /usr/doc/isdnutils/HOWTO.isdnutils.gz, run /usr/sbin/isdnconfig and
edit all files in /etc/isdn/
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Re: cd-rw's
Robert Marlow hat gesagt: // Robert Marlow wrote: > if ur using atapi there's a little more to do before going straight to > the howto. first you need to recompile you're kernel so it supports > generic scsi devices, turn off ide cdrom support and turn on ide-scsi > emulation. this should make your atapi cd burner appear to be scsi. Turning off ide-cdrom support is not really necessary if you give lilo the boot option: append="hdd=ide-scsi" # try to use scsi emulation for my ATAPI-cdrom (Replace "hdd" with your ide cdrom port) I have an ATAPI CD-ROM (no writer) that I use as a generic-SCSI device in this way to let cdrdao do audio grabbing :) > note: once you do this you'll have to configure any programs that > point toward cdrom devices such as /dev/hdc (also /dev/cdrom points to > a /dev/hd* file) to point toward scsi cdrom devices such as /dev/scd0. > once that's done you can go to the howto doco and go from there. > you want to know more, make sure your cd-writing howto is the latest > since the old one that comes with slink doesn't cover atapi/ide very > well. I found this lilo-ide-ignore-trick in the newest CD-Writing-Howto: http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/ bye -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: That old /usr/include/linux linking thing...
Jonathan Lupa hat gesagt: // Jonathan Lupa wrote:
> But I've been considering giving the OSS (pay money version) audio
> drivers a try since they support full duplex for my SB card. In thier
> documentation they want me to do the linking.
What SB Card? If it's an AWE, you could try the alsa drivers. They support
full duplex with AWE cards and a lot others. Puls they are GPL.
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Re: Voodoo3 recommendations?
Dave Sherohman hat gesagt: // Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Oh, I like 3dfx. It's STB I'm a bit sour on. But if they've (semi?) merged,
> then that pretty much seals it, doesn't it?
They have indeed merged. You only get newer Voodoo-Cards by STB. No
taiwanese Voodoo clones anymore, I'm sorry.
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Re: Alsa on CS4236
Jonathan Markevich hat gesagt: // Jonathan Markevich wrote:
> I have the above card, and I know it works. For the life of me I can't get
> it to accept the values. I had it working before, and my drive went
> kablooie so I forgot how I set it up.
>
> Does anyone have this card with some tips? Should I post my isapnp.conf and
> my /etc/modules/alsa file for inspection? I hate rebooting to play MP3s,
> it's just so WRONG.
There have been two long threads about this chipset on the alsa-user
mailing list recently. Maybe you can find some info on the mailing list
archive at the project homepage:
http://www.alsa-project.org/
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Re: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'
aphro hat gesagt: // aphro wrote: > netscape uses the command 'lp' to print..which does not appear to work at > the command line..when i lp a file ..i get ..: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] lp notes.txt ; lpq > request id is 638 > Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'HP Deskjet 500' > Queue: 1 printable job > Server: pid 30639 active > Unspooler: pid 30641 active > Status: printed all 1666 bytes at 17:21:56 > Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size > Time > active [EMAIL PROTECTED]A 638 notes.txt 1666 > 17:21:56 > > > but nothing ever comes out(the printer doesnt do anything) Are you sure the command is "lp", not "lpr". lp is the name of the printer, but the command to print from the command line is "lpr". At least I do not have a command named lp: $ lp bash: lp: command not found -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'
aphro hat gesagt: // aphro wrote:
> i had a hellva time getting printing to work..to this day i still cannot
> 'lpr filename' or 'lp filename' but printing through samba, or through
> netscape or wordperfect or staroffice works fine.. odd too because
> netscape shows the command it's using as lpr filename, and it works fine,
> but it wont do shit at the command prompt ..ohwell
We will get this fixed, too!
But we need some more info:
What printer do you use? What's your printing filter setup, do you use
magicfilter? I had some problems printing text files from the command line
until I found out, that my printer can only do postscript, not pure text.
So I had to convert every text file to PS with mpage or enscript. Maybe
yours can also only do PS.
What happens when you do "cat textfile.txt > /dev/lp0" and
"cat postcriptfil.ps > /dev/lp0" ?
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Re: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'
David Densmore hat gesagt: // David Densmore wrote: > here is an exerpt from the status.lp file in the spool dir: > > opening device '/dev/lp0' at 1999-12-20-04:28:07.270 > cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device', attempt 1... > > I see this in the boot messages: > > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2] > > I have these files on my system: > > /proc/parport/0/autoprobe > /proc/parport/0/devices > /proc/parport/0/hardware > /proc/parport/0/irq > > but they are all zero bytes. Should they contain some information? Yes, if the parport and the lp modules are loaded. > If so could someone please send me examples of these files so I can > configure them? They get filled with some info by the kernel if it finds the devices or the hardware. You do not edit them. > Did I not compile something into the kernel that I should have? > I did not add plug and play support, should I have? Do you have the lp.o, parport.o, parport_pc.o and parport_probe.o (last one is maybe not needed, the others are essential) in /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc ? > Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Hope so. Check your modules settings. You need to have: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc in /etc/modules.conf and maybe: options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 also. If you load the parport module, lsmod should show something like this: Module Size Used by parport_probe 3204 0 (autoclean) parport_pc 5828 2 (autoclean) lp 4644 0 (autoclean) parport 7048 2 (autoclean) [parport_probe parport_pc lp] -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Alsa and 2.2.13
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Frank Barknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Debian packages of alsa-modules depend on a specific revision number of > >your debian package of the kernel-image. You should just recompile the > >alsa modules when you recompile the kernel. If you're using make-kpkg > >(preferred), make sure that you use the same revision number for the > > Are there docs for this kernel-related stuff ? > > I find the debian way annoying with respect to kernel versions, modules > and so on. > I had the same problem as the original writer with alsa, and reverted > to compiling everything myself. I have no kernel-related > packages installed that dpkg knows of, and all is fine that way. /usr/[share/]doc/kernel-package has an extensive README and alsa-source also has /usr/src/modules/alsadriver[-unstable]/debian/README , that explains all, that is to do for compiling and running debian packages of the kernel and the alsa-modules. Kernel modules do depend on a specific kernel, unless you have CONFIG_MODVERSIONS set in the kernel configuration, but how can dpkg or the package maintainer know, if you have this set? So a "depend" or "conflict" on a kernel revision seems resonable. You can always force an installation over this, if you want and you know what you're doing... bye -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Alsa and 2.2.13
Mark Blunier hat gesagt: // Mark Blunier wrote:
> I'm trying to recompile the 2.2.13 kernel with alsa. My custom
> kernel conflicts with alsa-modules-2.2.13, and I've tried
> the kernel-image-2.2.13_2.2.13-2.deb, but it also conflicts,
> (>> 2.2.13-1). Is an old version of 2.2.13 available, or
> better yet, what do I need to do to be able to compile a
> kernel package that doesn't conflict with alsa modules?
Debian packages of alsa-modules depend on a specific revision number of
your debian package of the kernel-image. You should just recompile the
alsa modules when you recompile the kernel. If you're using make-kpkg
(preferred), make sure that you use the same revision number for the
kernel-image and the modules-image.
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Re: streaming audio? (Re: wav <-> conversion utility)
aphro hat gesagt: // aphro wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, byoung wrote:
>
> b- >i tried to get the LAME, but wasn't able to. i'll try that again.
>
> its a good player, and check into not-lame its a breakoff(?) of lame,
> and has a different homepage, although the lame page links to it.
The fastest LAME-spinoff I know is http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shigeo/soft/gogo2/";> GOGO ,
that is optimized by using 3DNow, MMX and ISSE assembler. About 4 times
faster than LAME at the same quality.
> There is another option, ICECAST (http://icecast.linuxpower.com/)
> It is a open source project that aims to do the same as shoutcast i
> believe. Havent tried it myself yet.
Icecast rules! There even is a debian package in potato, but you can
easily compile this for slink from the debianized source.
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Re: Joysticks
Tom Allard hat gesagt: // Tom Allard wrote: > It works now, but I still can't get it to work with xmame. I've got > the joystick module loaded and working in XFree86, and I can even do > "xsetpointer joystick" and use the joystick instead of the mouse, but xmame > just doesn't see it. My /etc/xmamerc has all of the following: > > # Use joystick if available > joy 1 > > # Is your joystick analog? > analogstick 1 What version of xmame are you using? Here xmame 0.36b6.1-1 runs without problem, but the xmamerc has another syntax than earlier releases. $HOME/.xmame/xmamerc: # INPUT OPTIONS ## # # Use mouse if available mouse 0 # what kind of joystick to use, if any # 0 No joystick # 1 i386 style joystick driver (if compiled in) # 2 Fm Town Pad support (if compiled in) # 3 X11 input extension joystick (if compiled in) # 4 new i386 linux 1.x.x joystick driver (if compiled in) joytype 4 # Is your joystick analog? analogstick 0 # If using X11 based joystick enter name of joystick device # Use provided "xlistdev" command, to see which one are availables # on your system x11joyname Joystick Maybe you want to upgrade? bye -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
alsa-modules-unstable and unresolved symbols
Hi all, being the risky type I tried alsa-cvs, but failed miserably: Installing a freshly compiled alsa-modules-unstable-package results in this: linux # dpkg -i ../alsa-modules-unstable-2.2.13_0.5pre+cvs19991129+1445-1+custom.1.5_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package alsa-modules-unstable-2.2.13. (Reading database ... 70819 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking alsa-modules-unstable-2.2.13 (from .../alsa-modules-unstable-2.2.13_0.5pre+cvs19991129+1445-1+custom.1.5_i386.deb) ... Setting up alsa-modules-unstable-2.2.13 (0.5pre+cvs19991129+1445-1+custom.1.5) ... depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.13/sound/snd-mpu401-uart.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.13/sound/snd-seq-midi.o Starting sound driver: snd-card-sbawe failed. I used make-kpkg as described in the debian/README for alsa, and built a fresh kernel with only soundcore in it. I was thinking of some problems with modversions.h and because of this I did compile the kernel with and without CONFIG_MODVERISION set. No luck with either. Then I tried to ckeck out alsa-CVS by myself, but even then the modules would not work. Any help is welcome. bye, -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: ALSA modules have unresolved symbols
Alisdair McDiarmid hat gesagt: // Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> I'm trying to get my dodgy old ISA SB16 to work with ALSA instead
> of OSS/Free, and having difficulty with the alsa-modules-2.2.13
> package.
>
> I have sound support built into my 2.2.13 kernel:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/doc/alsautils] # lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> soundcore 2788 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> rtl813911840 1
>
> But inserting any ALSA modules complains of unresolved symbols,
> and so does depmod:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/linux] # depmod
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.13/sound/snd.o
>
> Do I need to compile anything else into the kernel, or is
> something more important wrong?
Your alsa-modules don't match your kernel. I would suggest to start from
scratch. Install this current deb-packages:
alsa-base
alsautils
alsaconf
alsa-headers
alsa-source
alsa-source ist the most important. You will find an alsamodules archiv in
/usr/src which you should extract. Please read through the file:
/usr/src/modules/alsadriver/debian/README
because it contains a step-by-step guide to installing the alsa-modules for
debian. One important thing is: If you use isapnp to configure your card
you must tell alsa not to use its own plug and play tools.
bye
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Re: vrml
Micha Feigin hat gesagt: // Micha Feigin wrote: > I need a good program for vrml, both a viewer for netscape and an editor. > any sujestions? freewrl is quite a good viewer. Editors? Well, maybe VIM ;) -- __ __ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Where is cfdisk gone?
Cliff Rice hat gesagt: // Cliff Rice wrote: > On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 01:51:39AM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Martin Fluch wrote: > > > > > does anybody know, where cfdisk out of util-linux has disapared suddenly? > > > > (Ops, I forgot to say, I use potato) > > > > Martin > > > > I think something is amiss with the util-linux package. I just > found out it had rdev missing as well. I do have an older > version I saved which is OK. The maintainer made a mistake, but corrected it in the next version: util-linux 2.10-3 has all those important tools again. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Why use Enlightenment?
E.L. Meijer Eric" hat gesagt: // E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote:
> Does the current incarnation of E already have a desktop pager with the
> same functionality as fvwm2? Some time ago it didn't, and for me it is
> one of the features I like most (and use heavily) about fvwm2.
Yup, that was one of the reasons I never used E for long ... until now!
E-0.16 has a really good pager with lots of tricks that are easy to
configure (meaning: to shut them off) I was very impressed with the new
release and I am using it daily now. It's not only eye candy, but really
usable now, stable and - well, for the first time, I like *working* with
E, not just looking at it!
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Re: Sound support enabled in 2.2 kernel deb package?
Chia-Sheng Chang hat gesagt: // Chia-Sheng Chang wrote:
> I am considering installing ALSA Sound drivers for my Ultrasound
> MAX card. However, ALSA drivers require the "general sound support" be
> enabled in the 2.2 series kernel (I personally use 2.2.10). So is there
> anyone can tell me if this "general sound support" enabled by default in
> the 2.2 series kernel deb package? Thanks in advance.
I don't know, but you can have a look in the Config-Files under /boot
e.g /boot/config-2.2.13
Search for CONFIG_SOUND!
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Re: What packages are installed?
Brian Servis hat gesagt: // Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 29 Sep, Ben Collins wrote about "Re: What packages are installed?"
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 02:37:08PM +, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > I suppose this is a *very* basic question, but is there an easy way
> > > to find out what packages are installed?
> >
> > dpkg -l | less
> >
>
> Or if you don't want to know the version and don't want long package
> names truncated:
>
> dpkg --get-selections | grep install | awk -F" " '{print $1}'
This also gives you packages that are deinstalled.
I'd suggest:
dpkg -l | grep "^.i" | awk -F" " '{print $2}'
or
dpkg -l | grep "^.i" | less
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Cannot remove the 3dfx.o module
Hi all, I am using an old and trusty Voodoo-I-Card for the ususal stuff (quake, gsnes9x etc). Problem is, I can only use the card once as a non-root-user. After that I always get the message that something is using /dev/3dfx. But there is nothing using the device... Also lsmod shows the 3dfx-module, that never gets autoclean'ed. Even rmmod or modprobe -r does not remove the module. It is possible, though, that root starts another app using the voodoo card. I am using kernel 2.2.10 and the module 3dfx.o from Dev3Dfx-2.7.tar.gz Thank you, -- __ __ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: parport0 has no irq.
Marius Aamodt Eriksen hat gesagt: // Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote:
> Hi, I've set up my system for PLIP, and when I try to load the plip module, I
> get an error message that parport0 has no IRQ. When trying to load the
> module with parameters (i.e. insmod plip irq=5), the system complains that
> irq is an invalid parameter.
>
Don't know about plip, but I think you will have to give the parport module
an irq.
Quoting the kernel-docs:
Parport as modules
==
If you load the parport code as a module, say
# insmod parport.o
to load the generic parport code. You then must load the
architecture-dependent code with (for example):
# insmod parport_pc.o io=0x3bc,0x378,0x278 irq=none,7,auto
to tell the parport code that you want three PC-style ports, one at
0x3bc with no IRQ, one at 0x378 using IRQ 7, and one at 0x278 with an
auto-detected IRQ. Currently, PC-style (parport_pc) and Sun Ultra/AX
(parport_ax) hardware is supported; more is in the works.
bye
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Re: V toolkit
Micha Feigin hat gesagt: // Micha Feigin wrote:
> How is the V toolkit for writing graphical apps?
> Is it better to use it to write apps under gnome to maintain portability?
AFAIK gnome is not yet ported to Windows. So if you want your apps to run
under Windows also, you will not gain anything by using the gnome libs.
V applications however can be compiled for Windows, too. They even run on
OS/2 if I remember it right.
> Any other toolkits that are also portable to windows?
You could give WX-Windows a try. I would strongly recommend V for
beginning GUI programmers, though.
> Is it also portable to other unix platforms?
> Can the code be staticly linked so it will run on platforms not having it
> installed?
Check out www.objectcentral.com, the V homepage, for more answers.
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Re: most: cannot display *.gz files
Matthias Murra hat gesagt: // Matthias Murra wrote:
> If anyone out there is running a slink system, has the version of "most"
> installed that came with it (or could install it for a few seconds :->) and
> would be so kind to tell me if "most .gz" works, that might help. :)
> If it doesn't, I'd try installing the unstable potato version to see
> whether that gives an improvement.
Hi, I tried this now and did get the same error with gzipped files:
$ most /usr/doc/lyx/README.gz
/usr/doc/lyx/README.gz: failed to open for reading.
I had version 4.8.1-0.1 of most. I upgraded most to 4.9.0-1.1 and now
everything works again.
I still use less though...
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Re: STABLE graphical FTP clients?
Bryan Scaringe hat gesagt: // Bryan Scaringe wrote:
> IglooFTP is somewhat more stable, but still not enough to be useful.
> This morning, it kept dying of a "broken pipe". I had to boot to
> Windows and run CuteFTP to find out that the site I was uploading to
> was full. I can't believe that IglooFTP couldn't handle that gracefully.
wxftp is a clone of WS-FTP, that's stable enough for everyday use and has
bookmarks. But it lacks some features one might need.
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Re: gcc does not find stddef.h
J.H.M. Dassen hat gesagt: // J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 09:37:36 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > make: *** No rule to make target > > `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3/include/stddef.h', needed by `main.o'. > > Stop. > > > So I suspect somehow my gcc setup is broken. > It looks like xracer is using a Makefile with automatically generated > dependencies (e.g. in a ".depend" file) and that those dependencies are out > of date. Try regenerating the dependencies (often, there's a "realclean", > "distclean", or "maintainerclean" target in a Makefile that removes the > generated dependency file(s), and a "depend" target with which they can be > regenerated) prior to doing the regular "make". Thank you, Ray. make distclean did not help, but 'rm -rf'ing the xracer directory and unpacking it again did indeed get along the error. xracer still does not build because of some glut library hassles, but I will hopefully figure this out by myself... bye -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
gcc does not find stddef.h
Hello all, trying to compile xracer, I get the following error: make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3/include/stddef.h', needed by `main.o'. Stop. xracer's main.c starts with some usual stuff: #include #include #include #if HAVE_UNISTD_H #include #endif [...] So I suspect somehow my gcc setup is broken. I only have: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.91.66/include/stddef.h which is in the gcc package Version: 2.91.66-2 Do I need to install some other packages? I do have a fairly complete set of *-dev packages installed, this is the first time such an error occured. Thanks for any help, -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: GTK VIM debs
Patrick Colbeck hat gesagt: // Patrick Colbeck wrote: > Does anyone know the address of the site that has VIM debs compiled > against GTK ? http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/debian/stuff/ -- __ __ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: why isn't vim building
richard hat gesagt: // richard wrote:
> I'm trying to build the vim sources to use gvim. I did it a while ago
> but have since rebuilt my machine.
> The problem is that I'm happily copying the three vim files to
> /usr/src/vim and extracting them with
> dpkg-source -x vim vim_5.0-0.2.dsc, changing the debian/rules file to
> remove the two no X switches
Why don't you use the newer vim-packages? They now have X support
compiled in by default (except vim-tiny).
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Re: /etc/environment
Brad hat gesagt: // Brad wrote: > i think the original proposal was that /etc/environment would only contain > name=value pairs. Each shell would parse this file (via a script in > /etc/profile or whatever default) to insert all those pairs into the > shell's environment. This way, /etc/environment would work with any shell > instead of just bash. There is this in Xsession: # If /etc/environment is present, source it. It's useful to put default # environment settings in this file, and then source it both here and in # /etc/profile. if [ -f /etc/environment ]; then . /etc/environment fi But if you just put: PAGER=less in /etc/environment $PAGER gets set, but not "export"ed (or "setenv"ed). The result is useless, unless you do a "export PAGER" again in /etc/profile or Xsession. I would like to have those settings in one file and /etc/environment seems a natural place. Maybe a wrapper for the shell would be a solution. The wrapper should scan /etc/environment for NAME=value pairs and then it should do an "for NAME in $FOUND_NAMES; do export NAME;done" or the eqivalent with "setenv". Just "source"ing /etc/environment does not work, or does it? bye -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: /etc/environment
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What if /etc/environment comprised of a series of variable=value statements
> that each shell would read and use to set the environment? Doing it that
> way would require each shell maintainer to modify some of their scripts once
> and only once and for someone to write a reasonable default /etc/environment.
> We could quite easily expand it to allow for ~/.env[ironment] in order to
> make user specific changes centralized as well. Of course someone would have
> to write a policy guideline to issure that any new shells would conform to
> this new standard, but it wouldn't be that big of a deal, IMO.
I would like to add that ssh also reads /etc/environment and expects
name=value pairs there only. So if you have lines like:
PAGER=less
export PAGER
in /etc/environment, ssh complains about a bad syntax with this:
Bad line in /etc/environment: export PAGER
So even though I only use bash on my system, I can't easiliy keep
environment-vars in /etc/environment without getting ugly warnings by ssh.
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where is the colored man?
Hi all, from my old slackware days I remember that manual pages paged with /usr/bin/less had color titles, keywords and so on. RedHat still has this. I wonder if it is possible to have a colored man-output with Debian, too. Any ideas? thanks -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: SVGAlib and Riva TNT card?
Raymond A. Ingles hat gesagt: // Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > > I've got a Riva TNT card, and I'm using the X server and OpenGL lib from > nVidia. Everything's fine in X, but SVGAlib has problems. I upgraded to > SVGAlib 1.3.1 from unstable, but still there are issues. > > I sometimes run zgv and Maelstrom, but the main reason I want SVGAlib is > to try to run GLQuake. The Quake-HOWTO says I need SVGAlib to get there. > > If I force VGA-only, everything's fine, but the resolutions and colors > are, um, limited. If I force NV3 (Riva) mode, I get a blank screen. It > still responds to keypresses and I can telnet in, but until I > CNTRL-ALT-DEL the screen is hosed. > > I tried VESA mode this morning and ran Maelstrom. It came up and looked > okay, but when I quit, my monitor complained that the signal was out of > range: 28.something hsync, 60Hz vsync. Again, no screen until a reboot. > Switching VC's does nothing. > > I have seen claims that SVGAlib will work with a TNT, but I haven't made > it happen yet. Anyone have any suggestions? Correct me, but I don't think you can run hardware accelerated OpenGL quake with a Riva card under SVGAlib. The Riva GLX module only works if you are running X, I think. You will need SVGAlib if you want to run Quake with Glide on a Voodoo based card, though. Glide-Quake uses SVGAlib to manage access to the mouse and stuff, but soon after you typed "glquake" the Voodoo-Card takes control. I have a Riva 128 here, which is not very good supported by SVGAlib, but enough to start GLQuake on the console with my old Voodoo I card. The new Riva X-Server can start quake2 with the OpenGL-Renderer, but then the framerate is only about 1 frame every 70 seconds. I'll never frag anyone this way ;( -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: su problems with xdm
Jason Willoughby hat gesagt: // Jason Willoughby wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > [root%letdown /home/alisdair] # xmcd > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 > > Yeah, xdm is more paranoid than startx. You can disable access controls > by running, as alisdair, "xhost +". Check the man page for more info. I would not recommend this if your connected to a network like the internet. Better read "man xauth". I suggest you write a little shellscript for root, that automates xauth-authorization like this: #!/bin/sh # xauth4root - sets Xauthority the way I want it export DISPLAY=:0.0 xauth -f /home/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/.Xauthority extract - $DISPLAY | xauth merge - $* Then you can start e.g gvim with: % xauth4root gvim -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
dh_link: Command not found
When compiling debs from potato for my slink debian system (to avoid the libc-upgrade for now) I sometimes get this message in dpkg-buildpackage: dh_link: Command not found So a newer debhelper has a new helper app, am I right? Is it possible to build debs that use dh_link on a slink system. What is required for this? Upgrading debhelper? many thanks bye -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: VIM questions
Steve Lamb hat gesagt: // Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 03:15:05PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote:
> > 1) For some reason vim inists on showing file stats at the bottom of the
> > screen whenever I edit a file. It isn't too bad normally, but when I
> > invoked from mutt it waits for me to press a key. Very annoying. How do I
> > get rid of that behaviour?
>
> I'd love to know how to shut that thing off as well. Completely unneeded
> and annoying as all hell.
One solution is hidden in the VIM-docs. See options.txt.
*'shortmess'* *'shm'*
'shortmess' 'shm' string (default "")
global
{not in Vi}
This option helps to avoid all the |hit-return| prompts caused by file
messages, for example with CTRL-G, and to avoid some other messages.
It is a list of flags:
flag meaning when present~
f use "(3 of 5)" instead of "(file 3 of 5)"
[plus more flags...]
This gives you the opportunity to avoid that a change between buffers
requires you to hit return, but still gives as useful a message as
possible for the space available. To get the whole message that you
would have got with 'shm' empty, use ":file!"
Useful values:
shm=No abbreviation of message.
shm=a Abbreviation, but no loss of information.
shm=at Abbreviation, and truncate message when necessary.
Plus you will want to read message.txt's explanation of |hit-retrun|
messages:
*hit-return*
> Press RETURN or enter command to continue
This message is given when there is something on the screen for you to read,
and the screen is about to be redrawn:
- After executing an external command (e.g., ":!ls" and "=").
- Something is displayed on the status line that is longer than the width of
the window, or runs into the 'showcmd' or 'ruler' output.
To reduce the number of hit-return prompts:
- Set 'cmdheight' to 2 or higher.
- Add flags to 'shortmess'.
- Reset 'showcmd' and/or 'ruler'.
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Re: wordperfect
Matt Kokidko hat gesagt: // Matt Kokidko wrote:
> I apologize if this has already been beaten to death, but this is my .
> first post and first few minutes in this newsgroup. I was trying to .
> run wordperfeft 8 on slink. I originally had a library problem which .
> hours of research has fixed. I installed old libraries, libc5, xlib6,.
> and xpm4.7 Wordperfect runs, but the pictures and banners and icons .
> are all scrambled. When it is starting up the banner that is supposed.
> to have a pen on it and say Wordperfect is just a scrambled mess of .
> vertical lines. Once it starts, all of the icons loook the same way. .
> And the window in the corner of screen that stays open to open new .
> documents is scrambled as well. I'm rather new to linux and my friend.
> is telling me to give up on debian and go to redhat. I'd rather hack .
> out solutions. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated .
wp8 runs fine on my slink system. Maybe you need to install some more
libc5-compat packages. Wp8 needs the following:
$ ldd /usr/local/lib/wp8/wpbin/xwp
libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000e000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4005)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x400ee000)
libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x400fc000)
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40105000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x401c3000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x401cc000)
These are found in the following packages:
xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6
xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6
xpm4.7: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4
libc5: /lib/libm.so.5
libc5: /lib/libc.so.5
xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6
xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6
Tell us if it helped!
Don't switch to Red-Hat!
Bye,
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Re: Quake2, x11amp, sound probs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am running Slink, kernel 2.2.5, on a P200 overclocked, SB16 Sound
> card etc. My problem is that after a game of Quake2 I can no longer
> play mp3s on x11amp, I get "can't open audio" If I use mpg123 or
> anything else I can play sounds fine. I am at a loss, ps aux shows no
> errant/zombied processes that are causing this and I am at a loss.
Try to look for the process that is still using your /dev/[audio|dsp] with
fuser /dev/audio (fuser comes with package psmisc) and kill this process.
Maybe it is not yet a Zombie.
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Re: Printer stopped working with Kernel 2.2 [SOLVED]
Printing now works again, after I disconnected the cheap parallel port scanner attached to the same port as the printer. Seems the parport module handles this in another way than the old 2.0 kernels because they did not have problems to shuffle the print data through the scanner first as the 2.2 has. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Printer stopped working with Kernel 2.2
Wayne Topa hat gesagt: // Wayne Topa wrote: > In reply to:Frank Barknecht > > Have you changed /etc/printcap entries to reflect the change from > lp1, as used in the 2.0.34 Kernel, to the lp0 used in the 2.2.x > kernels? Yes. > > Quoting Frank Barknecht([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Hi all, > > > > I upgraded from kernel 2.0.34 to kernel 2.2.4 which came on my > > Debian-CDs. Now printing has stopped. I compiled lp and parport > > as modules, changed the printcap to point to /dev/lp0 instead of > > lp1. > > [...] > > I did not change the formerly working lpd setup in other places except > > the lp-device number: > > > > # printcap > > lp|nec|nec|Nec Silentwri:\ > > :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/nec:\ > > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ > > :if=/usr/sbin/psonly300-filter:\ > > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: > > -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Printer stopped working with Kernel 2.2
Hi all,
I upgraded from kernel 2.0.34 to kernel 2.2.4 which came on my
Debian-CDs. Now printing has stopped. I compiled lp and parport
as modules, changed the printcap to point to /dev/lp0 instead of
lp1. The printer (Nec Silentwriter2 S60P - Postscript) seems to
get some data because it displays a "PROCESSING" message when I
try to print something with lpr or by cat'ting a postscript file
to /dev/lp0. But there is no output.
All this parport stuff is very new to me. I don't have any /dev/parport
devices just this:
$ ls -l /dev/par*
crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 0 Dec 9 1996 /dev/par0
crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 1 Dec 9 1996 /dev/par1
crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 2 Dec 9 1996 /dev/par2
crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 3 Dec 9 1996 /dev/par3
Should I make parport devices, how do I do this?
I did not change the formerly working lpd setup in other places except
the lp-device number:
# printcap
lp|nec|nec|Nec Silentwri:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/nec:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/sbin/psonly300-filter:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
/etc/conf.modules has this
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278
If I manually insert the lp module with:
$ modprobe lp
a line like this appears in syslog:
Apr 30 14:34:03 fliwatut kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Does anybody know what might be going on here? The machine acts (in fact:
it doesn't) as a print server for my SOHO office. Now I have to boot Win95
to print, which is a pain in the a**
Thanks for any help in advance,
yours
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Printing Textfiles [Was: Re: Unidentified subject!]
Jason Winters hat gesagt: // Jason Winters wrote: > how do you format a page of text to print properly when using lpr? Install enscript or mpage. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Children Linux and Wine....
Person, Roderick hat gesagt: // Person, Roderick wrote:
> I'm at work and my 10 year old just called me to find out how to shutdown
> Debian and boot Win95. This brings a question to mind. Has anyone
> successfully or half-successfully gotten a Win95 game for Kids to work?
I think www.linuxgames.com has a page devoted to games under wine.
> I have gotten wine to run notepad and such, but being there is nothing I
> really use in windoze that was just for the learning. I really would like
> the kids to learn linux but, without games like Barbie and Math Blaster it
> pretty tough. Any help or suggestions.
There are games for linux, too :) I don't know Barbie, but there is a very
popular (in Japan) doll clothing game called fkiss available from the
Debian-JP project.
(http://www.debian.or.jp/index.html.en)
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Re: NEED GUI for MySql, Solid, Postgres, Oracle
John Foster hat gesagt: // John Foster wrote:
> I really need a strong GUI for MySQL. Any one know of a good one. I have
> already looked at PHP3AdMin and was not impressed. I have been used to
> Lotus Approach and want something with that equivalent robustness. I
> could also switch to any other DataBase such as Solid, Oracle Postgres,
> etc. I just don't know where the best support is
Maybe you like PostgreSQL's pgaccess. It comes within the pg-tcl package.
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Re: No DBD perl module for Postgresql?
Keith G. Murphy hat gesagt: // Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> I've noticed that there doesn't seem to be a DBD perl module for
> Postgresql in the online distributions. There is libpgperl, which is
> not DBI/DBD, therefore (I assume) won't work with Apache::DBI to afford
> me handle persistence. Am I overlooking something entirely here, or
> should I just quit whining and get the module from CPAN? :-)
You should quit whining ;-)
Just install this or newer:
Package: libdbd-pg-perl
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: interpreters
Installed-Size: 77
Maintainer: Tom Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 0.73-4
Depends: libc6, libpgsql (>= 6.3.1-1), libdbi-perl (>= 1.02)
Description: a PostgreSQL interface for Perl 5 using DBI.
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nobody's homedir [WAS: junkbuster]
Wayne Topa hat gesagt: // Wayne Topa wrote: > Quoting Frank Barknecht([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Bruce Sass hat gesagt: // Bruce Sass wrote: > > > > > nobody's home dir is /home on my slink box. > > > > But not on mine: > > $ grep nobody /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.dpkg-dist > > /etc/passwd:nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/tmp:/bin/sh > > /etc/passwd.dpkg-dist:nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/tmp:/bin/sh > > > > And on mine > VT1 root-Deb-Slink:~# grep nobody /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.dpkg-dist > /etc/passwd:nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/home:/bin/sh > grep: /etc/passwd.dpkg-dist: No such file or directory So this brings up the question: Where shall nobody's homedir be? I just upgraded base to slink and in my /etc/passwd.dpkg-dist nobody lives in /tmp as said. Has this changed, why and should I change it here as well? Bye, -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: junkbuster
Bruce Sass hat gesagt: // Bruce Sass wrote: > nobody's home dir is /home on my slink box. But not on mine: $ grep nobody /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.dpkg-dist /etc/passwd:nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/tmp:/bin/sh /etc/passwd.dpkg-dist:nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/tmp:/bin/sh -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: package dependencies
Bogus User hat gesagt: // Bogus User wrote:
> If I download the source code for something, compile it, and install
> it, how do I get dpkg to know that it's there? I downloaded a new
> version of qt from trolltech's web site and installed it on my
> machine. Then I downloaded kde debian packages and tried to install
> them. dpkg complained that qt was not installed.
You should install the debian version of qt ;)
If you compile it on your own, you are on your own, as far as dpkg is
concerned. You could of course try to make a debian package of qt yourself.
Install all the debian developer stuff and read the docs.
Or you could just override the dependencies, but don't complain if this
breaks your setup.
Making debian packages is not that hard and well documented. But I would
start with a simple app and not with an important library.
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Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?
Ben Messinger hat gesagt: // Ben Messinger wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > > > I get those annoying MAGIC COOKIE warnings when I su from a regular user and > > this even happens when I use vim after 'su'. I am still able to edit stuff, > > and the only problem is when I need to run some X program as superuser. > > I saw somewhere how to deal with this Xauth stuff, but I don't remember > > where. > I am also having the same trouble. I didn't see a reply to Andrew's > question, so I wanted to add that I am also interested in solving this > one. I never encountered this problem when I was using other (lesser) > distributions. Please help if you know the answer. There are some tools > like gnome-apt that I would like to use without having to end my > x-session and start a new one as root. Some of this is described in this HOWTO: /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Remote-X-Apps.gz When you log into X, be it with xdm or startx, and then "su" to root, root is considered kind of remotely logged in and she is *NOT* allowd to mess your screen with windows. That's a feature. The most simlpe solution is to use ssh instead of su. Usage of xauth is described in the HOWTO. You also can search the mailing list archives at www.debian.org, as this question came up often in the past. Bye, -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: junkbuster
Robert V. MacQuarrie hat gesagt: // Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote:
> I just re-installed junkbuster and during the install/start-up it gave
> this error. I've seen this error (shell-init:...) when a users
> home/parent dir does not exist but I notice junkbuster is run by user
> nobody and nobody's home dir is /tmp which does exist. Any ideas what the
> problem could be?
Does the /tmp-dir have the right permissions? They sometimes change if you
unpack a tar-file without subdirs as root.
/tmp must be like this
$ ls -la /tmp/
total 25
drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 3072 Apr 9 15:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1024 Oct 15 12:07 ..
Check for the t in the first line.
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Re: vi in Debian (slink)
E.L. Meijer Eric" hat gesagt: // E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote:
> >
> > However, vim is not standard. I routinely work on HP-UX these days
> > and doubt that vim is installed there, for example.
>
> It usually is not too hard to go to a debian site, download the original
> source tarbal, and compile it for personal use. I just did that with
> procmail on SGI.
Another great advantage of VIM is its availability for lots of platforms.
I even use it under Win-NT/95 at work (and sometimes at home)
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Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?
Daniel Mashao hat gesagt: // Daniel Mashao wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> > I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and
> > AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any
> > other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the
> > goals is being able to read and write MS Word files.
> StarOffice is the closest you will get to MS look and feel. And then there
> is another editir that can read MS RTF format perfectly, I forgot its name
> now.
This might be ted, that wants to be a kind of Wordpad/Write for XWin.
Debian package is in potato.
I tried it but I hated it and I deinstalled it. It reads RTF really good,
though, but I did not found an "Undo" function. Maybe its hidden somewhere,
I didn't search for long. An editor without Undo is rubbish.
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Re: what exactly is a "segmentation fault"?
rich hat gesagt: // rich wrote: > I have just tried my 1st attempt at installing a non-debian package > (multitrack-2.2.tgz). I followed the instructions... > > - place file in /usr/local > > - tar xvfz multitrack-2.2.tgz > > - cd multitrack-2.2 > > - make install > > When I tried to run the program (by typing multitrack), I get a > "segmentation fault" error... multitrack depends on some old libraries that you will have to install from the oldlibs directories on your debian mirror or CD. You can see what libs are needed with the ldd command: $ ldd /usr/local/bin/multitrack libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1 (0x4000e000) libvgagl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvgagl.so.1 (0x4004a000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x40058000) libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x400f6000) libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x400ff000) Another thing that caused multitrack to "segfault" me was a setting in the preferences file ~/.multitrack/prefs I changed this to read: #= # Audio buffers section #= o_nr_buffers = 10 i_nr_buffers = 10 Hope this helps. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: lyx and fonts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Allo all, anyone know of a way to get lyx to use ttf fonts? One solution working okay her is this: Install a true type fontserver. I use xfstt but on the lyx mailing list someone recommended the freetype based font server whose name I have not at hand now. Then edit your ~/.lyx/lyxrc and put your favourite fonts in there. You will have to play a bit with the settings. I have this entry in the SCREEN & FONTS SECTION: \screen_font_roman -*-verdana -- __ __ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: true type fonts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Okay. I've got xfstt, I've got my .ttf fonts from the Windows dir. Now
> what? Do I just move them to /usr/share/fonts/truetype and I'm done?
No, you better make a soft link if you have access to your dos partition from
linux.
Here it looks like this:
$ ls -l /usr/share/fonts/truetype/winfonts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Sep 29 14:15
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/winfonts -> /dos/c/windows/fonts
Then set up XF86Config as told in another mail here.
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Re: auto sorting mail clients
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>im looking for a good email client (graphical and non-graphical)
>w/c can automatically sort out emails like put all
>mails where either the to: or the cc: fields contain
>debian-user@lists.debian.org etc etc. seems like there are just too
>many of them to try out one by one. can anyone suggest something to
>me and maybe tell me in a few lines why they prefer that client ?
A lot of users here including me are using procmail to filter their email
into different folders and then read it with the email reader they like
most. So I would recommend you do the same and if you have questions
regarding the setup feel free to ask again, I'm sure you will get lots of
help.
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Re: dselect removed (almost) everything
Matt Garman hat gesagt: // Matt Garman wrote: > > I was using dselect, and I hit the remove unwanted software option. > And it went through and started removing almost EVERYTHING I had > installed -- stuff I thought should definately _not_ be flagged to be > removed (fetchmail, emacs, lilo, lprng, tetex...). > > I hit CTRL-C so that it wouldn't take out too much. I did _not_ get > dpkg-ftp (dpkg-ftp was still installed), so I went through and > selected the files dselect removed, and when I went to install them, > it said there were zero files to be gotten! > > Now I'm in the long, slow, painful process of downloading each package > manually via ftp, and installing them by hand with dpkg. > > Why is my system in this state? What did I do? These packages that > dselect started to remove, I have NEVER flagged to remove them. Yeah, this has happened to me once as well :( If you had installed software by hand with dpkg -i , dselect perhaps could not find the packets in its Packages-lists and files them under "Local/Obsolete". To us of course there is a *BIG* difference between local and obsolete packages but somehow dselect is stupid about this. I will *NEVER* hit Remove again. I would recommend to install apt immediatly. It can repair at least some of the errors you now have in your setup. Plus it makes installing software by hand A LOT easier. (You just type "apt-get install somepackage" and it will download and install somepackage plus all the needed packages in one step.) -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: How to build a dial-up server?
Jim Power hat gesagt: // Jim Power wrote:
> I've setup a www server using Apache but I have no idea on how to deal
> with PPP & SLIP connections. What packages do I need to enable my
> server to handle PPP connection? And how to configure?
I'm sorry, but I think I don't understand exactly what you want. Do you
want to run a www server over an PPP connection? Do you want to let
users dial into your system using PPP or SLIP? Or do you just want to
connect to the internet using PPP or SLIP? Could you clarify this?
P.S.:
If you mean the last question: just install pppd and pppconfig, run pppconfig,
answer the questions, add your user account to the group dip with
# adduser dip
and dial into the internet with the command
$ pon
Easy, huh?
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Re: hostname & domain name changing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> when i installed my debian box, i only put in some out of nowhere
> hostname and domain names, now it seems that i need to give it some
> real hostname and domain name that really exists. can someone direct
> me please as to what files (all necessary files) that i should change
> for me to go about this. any help will greatly be appriciated. caa
Depending on your installed software there really can be a _lot_
of places where your hostname and domainname are used. Nearly all
network packages like s(end)mail or ppp may have your host information
somewhere. As Debian still lacks a centralized network setup tool you
will have to find all the files by yourself. Don't trust suggestions
like "Edit /etc/hostname and all is done"! Instead use grep!
As root do a
# grep `find /etc/` | less
This will give you a list of all the files where your hostname is used.
You have to be root because some of the configuration files are only
readable to root (like /etc/ppp/*)
The list might look like this for my hostname.domainname fliwatut.scifi:
#--#
/etc/motd:Linux fliwatut.scifi 2.0.34 #1 Wed Nov 4 17:09:37 CET 1998 i586 unknow
n
/etc/motd:Linux fliwatut.scifi 2.0.34 #1 Tue Sep 22 13:55:49 CEST 1998 i586 unkn
own
/etc/hosts.allow:leafnode: localhost fliwatut.scifi
/etc/ppp/options.ttyXX:# I usually use the convention fliwatut.scifi.com + dash
+ last 2 character of
[...]
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc.old:Cwfliwatut
/etc/mailname:fliwatut
/etc/sendmail.cf:# built by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu Feb 11 12:33:36 CET 1
999
/etc/sendmail.cf:Cwfliwatut.scifi
/etc/sendmail.cf:CGfliwatut
/etc/apache/httpd.conf:ServerName fliwatut.scifi
[...]
#--#
The next thing to do is backup and then edit all the files carefully and
changing the names where appropriate. For some of the files you will
have to run configuration programs again. Sendmail for example will have
to build a new sendmail.cf out of the file sendmail.mc and so on.
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Re: Unable to load NLS charset
Jim Power hat gesagt: // Jim Power wrote:
> The following lines are thrown out during boot time:
> .
> Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437)
> Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1(nls_iso8859_1)
> .
> I wonder why and how to get rid of them. Anyone give me a hand, please? TIA.
The National Language Support in the kernel is not satisfied with the
modules you are trying to load. The FAT file systems now have an option with
which you can set the codepage. I have in /etc/fstab the following:
/dev/hda1 /dos/c vfat umask=002,gid=35,codepage=850
This loads the 850 codepage used here in germany. Chack that you have the
right modules in /lib/modules//fs/ and if not either recompile
your kernel and configure your preferred code pages or give the right codepage
option when mounting FAT partitions.
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Re: decoding/viewing pictures
ivan hat gesagt: // ivan wrote: > As I often download fractal images from the newsgroups I would like to find > a news reader which will auto-decode the encrypted graphics and auto-exec a > viewer programme ? > > Can anyone recommend a good picture viewer - prefer svgalib based rather > than X based but any _good_ viewer is better than nothing ? > > My inability to find this software is the only reason I have left to use > Win95 and, although I don't have a phobia about MS products, I would prefer > to use Debian consistently. It's an absolute pain to have to re-boot just > because I want to look at pretty pictures and then re-boot to get some work > done (and, of course, I lose my dial-up connection with each re-boot !) For viewing pictures under svgalib there is the package zgv. It is similar to xv which you could only use with X. A good newsreader for the console is IMO slrn. To uudecode a message just put the cursor on it and hit the key ":" It will load the message and decode it. To decode multipart messages "tag" them all with the key "#" and the press ":" -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: DNS
eferen1 hat gesagt: // eferen1 wrote: > I got the dial-up to finally work. Now my question is: Where do I find some > DNS numbers? (Like Netscape.home, Internic, etc). You should ask your internet provider for the IP-numbers of his name servers and put them into /etc/resolv.conf Or do it the hard way: Install and configure your own nameserver with the debian package bind. Read the DNS-Howto for more information /usr/doc/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.gz -- __ __ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Gnome-Panel - Return Of The Living Dead
Hallo list, after starting panel or gnome-session there is always one dead panel process running as a zombie like this: $ ps aux | grep panel freak 867 0.0 6.9 8420 4428 ? S09:14 0:00 panel --sm-config-pre freak 875 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z09:14 0:00 (panel Where could this come from? I have these gnome packets installed: $ dpkg -l | grep gnome ii gnome-bin 0.99.4-2 Miscellaneous binaries used by Gnome ii gnome-control-c 0.99.3-3 The Gnome Control Center ii gnome-core 0.99.3.2-4 Common files for Gnome core apps and help br ii gnome-panel 0.99.3.2-4 Launch and/or dock Gnome applications ii gnome-session 0.99.3.2-4 The Gnome Session Manager ii libgnome0 0.30.1-5 The Gnome libraries ii libgnome31 0.99.4-2 The Gnome libraries -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: I always have to log in as root!?
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven hat gesagt: // Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote:
> I have installed Linux and it works just fine, if I log in as root.
> When I log in as a 'normal' user a lot of thing don't work. For
> example I can't use the pon command when I am not the root. I also
> can't start X11 when I am not the root. The system tells me I have to
> be a root for this. I think this is not a good security situation.
>
> How can I change this?
root is allowed to do anything. So only root can mess up everything, too.
This is a good security situation.
There are ways to allow normal users to do some things, e.g. starting
the ppp connection. On a debian system there is a group of users that are
allowed to dial out. This group is called "dip". You can add a user to this
group with the command adduser like this:
$ adduser username dip
Of course only root can do this ...
Regarding X there are two situations possible. If you run xdm as I would
recommend, xdm handles all logins. Only root can start or end xdm but this
is a feature, too. You can still kill the X server with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace,
but xdm will start one again.
If you dont want to use xdm and it is not running, every user can start X
with "startx" from the console. This should be no problem. If it is, maybe
X has not the right permissions.
Check with:
$ ls -l /usr/bin/X11/X
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 4872 Jul 22 1998 /usr/bin/X11/X
^ This is important!
Just set things up the way you like.
Bye,
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Re: alsa drivers and slab
Dear Matt, thank you very much for your long answer. I will try all this when I get the time to try the 2.2 Kernels ... Yours -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
