Re: SB PCI 128
Kent West wrote: I did not see the entries you mentioned. So I put those entries that you mentioned in, and commented out the soundcore entry already in the file. Then I did a rmmod es1371 and rmmod soundcore, then did insmod sound and got a message that the sound module was not found. So I undid all my changes and will ignore sound capabilities for another few weeks until it becomes more important to me again, unless of course you have a suggestion that might solve my problem. Hi Kent, Will you give it another try? modprobe es1371 or insmod es1371 Ian
Re: SB PCI 128
Jon Hughes wrote: has anyone managed to get a SB PCI 128 to work? any help would be appreciated, thanks PCI 128 cards come in various types. I used a Gateway OEM version which has an es1373 on it. The es1371 driver works. You might have to use the es1370 driver depending on what's on your card. For the es1371 driver, add the following lines to /etc/conf.modules alias char-major-14 es1371 alias sound es1371 That's all I had to do on my slink system. I sent my Gateway OEM card back though because it was incompatible with Creative's Windows applications! ( had a bit of a dispute with them but it worked out in my favour ). I replaced it with a retail version of the SB Live Platinum. Ian
Maelstrom?
The sound in Maelstrom is very patchy with the following error message repeated in the gaps .. Mixer: Can't write to audio device: Resource temporarily unavailable I do not think it has anything to do with the driver for the sound card because the same problem occurred on an older machine with a different sound card. I used to run Maelstrom successfully on Redhat 4.1 ( 2.0.x ) kernel, and I think the problem started when I switched to slink. Has anyone seen this problem and solved it? Ian Stirling
Re: good book to learn perl
I have Perl Cookbook ISBN 1-56592-243-3. Here is the blurb on the back cover: Precious few books can meet the needs of novices and experts simultaneously. The Perl Cookbook does, and on nearly every page. It has the perfect mix of instruction, revelation, and attitude- exacly what I expected from Tom and Nat, pillars of the Perl community. - Jon Orwant, editor of The Perl Journal. Try bn.com as well as Amazon: their prices vary. Ian Stirling aphro wrote: can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl ? :) saw a few on amazon ..not a whole lot of reader reviews of them tho i have virtually no programming experience, although i have managed to hack some perl scripts up at times. thanks! nate
Re: mixviews or mix?
For the archives just in case anyone else is ever interested in compiling 'mix' and 'ceres' and others, the audio header files and libraries are in a package called 'tichstuff' and they are included in 'ceres'. Ian Stirling
Re: mixviews or mix?
Nathan E Norman wrote: The jernel sources have the kernel headers. Debian used to have (and still has, I presume) a kernel-headers package for those who don't wish to download 16MB of source. OK Nathan. I altered the 'Makefile' to point to the kernel headers, that's how I compiled the Creative source code. Some of the the required header files for compiling 'mix' are not there though. Ian Stirling
mixviews or mix?
I just compiled the emu10k1-11161999 from Creative and have a working Soundblaster Live. I installed 'mixviews' using dselect successfully but what and where is the programme? I looked in /var/lib/dpkg for information but all I can find is the package name. The other problem is that I tried to compile the package 'mix-linux.tar.gz' which I fetched from an ftp server. It dies trying to include 'audio.h', 'audiofile.h' and 'bstring.h'. Commenting these out, AFfile_whatsits are missing and clearly these files are needed. I used grep to look for the missing definitions in headers that are on my system, slink with a 2.2.12 kernel. I've looked for the missing files using 'find' in /usr/include and /usr/src/linux/include. This fragmentation across linux distributions does no good to making linux a household choice instead of Windows. Ian Stirling
Re: mixviews or mix?
Joey Hess wrote: Ian Stirling wrote: I just compiled the emu10k1-11161999 from Creative and have a working Soundblaster Live. I installed 'mixviews' using dselect successfully but what and where is the programme? mxv Thanks Joey. Intuitively obvious isn't it given the package name? Using a time sorted listing of directories doesn't help because the installation preserves the time stamp. This fragmentation across linux distributions does no good to making linux a household choice instead of Windows. What fragementation? If you want kernel header include files, install the kernel headers. Install the kernel headers: will you tell me what you mean by that? Ian Stirling
the gimp?
I like Debian's approach to distributing only gnu free software. But taking out gif support in the gimp is going too far IMHO. I prefer that the gimp is not distributed with Debian if Debian can't leave the gimp package intact. Ian Stirling
Re: the gimp?
Brad wrote: You do realize that if gif support were in the main gimp package, then the entire thing would have to go into nonfree, right? Since The Gimp is GPLed, Debian has every right to remove gif support and redistribute those sources to make the whole thing libre. If you really don't like that, you're free to go download the sources and compile them for yourself. I realize that Brad. Debian should rename 'the gimp' to 'debian gimp' when they take the legitimate liberty of modifying gpl software. And I did that: I fetched the pristine gimp from the gimp site. Ian Stirling
Re: sound card
erasmo perez wrote: how can i get my sound working? Try adding the following to /etc/conf.modules alias sound module_name alias char-major-14 module_name changing module_name to whatever module you have compiled for the card. Ian Stirling
Re: Alsa with audiopci1370
Hi Ken, I don't know if this will help but .. I have a Soundblaster PCI 128 which works perfectly on my system. I took the board out of the machine and found a Creative es1373 chip. I compiled the kernel with es1371 support, the driver is with the kernel source, and then added the following to /etc.conf.modules alias sound es1371 alias char-major-14 es1371 That's all I had to do. I'm on a slink system with 2.2.12. Ian Stirling
Debian 2.0 SCSI Install Problem
I downloaded the Official Debian 3 CD images and built a set of three CDs When I put the Debian 2 Binary CD in my machine and reboot the system boots from the CDROM and loads various drivers. It gets to the point when it tries to load the drivers for my SCSI card (an Adaptec 2940UW) and then it gets some error (timeout I think) and goes into a loop trying this over and over again. I booted with the Official 1.3 CD and it correctly identified the SCSI card and I was able to install a skeleton system. I then tried to ugrade this 1.3 system to 2.0 and the cd_autoup.sh command has a couple of problems. Firstly on the CD it does not have the eXecute file permission set so it will not run. I copied it to the /tmp directory, ran chmod 555 against it, modified one line which points to the upgrade packages, and ran it. This time it ran but failed with a pacgae missing error. I think that it was something like libg++-2.7 that is missing. Any help with either of these problems will be gratefully received. Regards Ian Ian Stirling Hursley Mid-range and Distributed Systems MP100, IBM UK Labs, Winchester, England, SO21 2JN Tel: Ext: + 44 1962 818146 Int: 248146 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
