Re: Hello I'm new to Linux, anybody can tell me the best way of learning it. I'm interest in realtime applications

You need a project, that you'll tenaciously work on until you complete it. In the process, you'll encounter various problems. Learning how to solve those problems will improve your understanding of Linux and/or a programming/scripting language. When you encounter these problems, first use Google

What can't CUPS start up?

:35:01 -0400] Full reload complete. E [31/May/2005:15:35:01 -0400] StartListening: Unable to bind socket for address 7f01:631 - Cannot assign requested address. Does anyone know why I might be getting this? (cups used to work on my system; I'm not sure when it stopped.) Thanks very

Re: Obtain diploma degree

ding this as html... Let's see what happens! -- peace, Alvin Smith http://www.alvinsmith.com -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What's customized in "Debian-based" distros?

t they do under /etc ? Thanks, Christian -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

Christian Convey wrote: Do you guys have any reflections on why, for technical / social / market / whatever reasons, this difference exists between the two OS's exists? And are those differences necessary or accidental? Just FYI: here's a summary of the answers I've heard. Ho

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

o use it. What's the name of a module that I should try for it?" then it would be a lot more like my Windows experience. -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

Mark Roach wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 11:56 -0500, Christian Convey wrote: Hi guys, Recently I've spent a lot of time digging through udev / hotplug issues, getting to know modprobe, modules.conf, alsaconf, XF86Config-4 etc. This was all to get a digicam and a flashdrive to be useful,

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

se, I assume, there remain useful enhancements we can make to device handling under Linux, that will make the experience easier for non-techies. -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2004 8:56 am, Christian Convey wrote: As much as I like Linux and its ideals, I thought to myself, "I've never had to deal with issues like these in Windows. I buy a product, plug it in, and almost always, it just works." Well,

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

eed to spend it getting the low-level plumbing in place rather than making pure eye-candy. Right? -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

of drives. If I'm not sure which drive is the new one, I can look at the volume name. Worst case, I can pull up Hardware Manager and see which drive letter is assigned to each storage device. This hasn't been my experience with Sarge/2.6.9/udev/kde3.3 (see original post). -- Christ

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

(Also, it seems to me that a badly written driver can kill Linux just as expediently as it can.) -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

7;ve also heard that SuSE is pretty good in the "it just works" category. Do you have a sense of why I might prefer one over the other? -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

the most recent versions of Windows and Linux. (XP vs. Sarge/2.6.9/udev) -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

Alvin Oga wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Christian Convey wrote: Hi guys, Recently I've spent a lot of time digging through udev / hotplug issues, getting to know modprobe, modules.conf, alsaconf, XF86Config-4 etc. This was all to get a digicam and a flashdrive to be useful, or to make

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

Sam Watkins wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:56:06AM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: As much as I like Linux and its ideals, I thought to myself, "I've never had to deal with issues like these in Windows. I buy a product, plug it in, and almost always, it just works." Well,

Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

il dealing with hardware gets easier. Do you guys have any reflections on why, for technical / social / market / whatever reasons, this difference exists between the two OS's exists? And are those differences necessary or accidental? Thanks, Christian -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Na

Re: need time in nano seconds

e* than a *microsecond* timer could be. I suspect that people write APIs in terms of nanoseconds so that, if/when the hardware/os actually supports measuring time that accurately, the API doesn't need to change. -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To

Re: ALSA or OSS?

ility can be worked out. Hope this helps, Christian -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

Thanks; I'll take a look. At the moment I'm trying to disturb the existing system as little as possible, since until recently it worked. However, if I'm not successful, I'll definitely consider DpartialMirror. - Christian Otto Wyss wrote: Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

Hi Jochen, Thanks for the info, and I'd love a copy of your apt-move.conf file. I think I've discovered a little more. It looks like "ftp.at.debian.org" needs to be accessed via http, not ftp. When I use ftp as my protocol I seem to get all the problems. Jochen Schulz wrote

Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

FYI, the local mirror currently has about 12GB of content. I don't know whether or not that implies I should expect a very long period of CPU-boundedness for debmirror. - Christian Christian Convey wrote: Hi guys, I've got the following script that runs nightly to create a local debian

debmirror: cpu bound?

bmirror /var/ftp/debian-non-US --method=ftp \ --dist=testing/non-US,unstable/non-US \ $SECTIONS $ARCH $NONUS "$@" debmirror /var/ftp/marillat --method=ftp \ --dist=stable,testing,unstable \ --section=main --nosource \ --arch=i386 $MARILLAT "$@

Re: Missing ALSA driver?

: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_receive snd_emu10k1x: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_transmit snd_emu10k1x: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_new And idea what I might be doing wrong? Thanks again for the help. - Christian Thomas Hood wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 20:49, Christian Convey wrote: Thanks, but when I "

Re: Missing ALSA driver?

0 [size=32] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Christian Convey wrote: Hi guys, We installed Sarge / 2.6 kernel + ALSA on a Dell computer. Some documents claim that we need a particular driver: "emu10k1x" to handle Dell's variation of the SBLive! card. However, that particular dr

Missing ALSA driver?

Does anyone know why we might be missing this and/or what the most reasonable way to remedy the problem is? Thanks, Christian -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem solved: Kodak DX6490 on Sarge/2.6/udev

lug automagically loads libgphoto2 and usbcam. Nov 29 21:46:09 haggis usb.agent[30165]: libgphoto2: loaded successfully Nov 29 21:46:10 haggis usb.agent[30165]: usbcam: loaded successfully Good point about lsusb. I don't know why it doesn't show my camera. But in the end, at least most of

Problem solved: Kodak DX6490 on Sarge/2.6/udev

FYI, I finally got the camera working (see millions of earlier emails on this topic). The solution was simple: add my user to the 'camera' unix group. The things that tripped me up were: - I had the misconception that my camera supported both USB mass storage and the PTP protocol. The truth is

Re: usb vs. drivers

, and maybe harass the gphoto2 maillist ;) - Christian -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usb vs. drivers

ettorello wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:44:57 -0500, Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey guys, I've got a usb camera (Kodak DX6490). I'm starting to suspect from various tinkering I've done (in Knoppix, FC3, and Sarge) that the kernel can't find a module to asso

usb vs. drivers

know which driver to use for a USB device I plug in? - What's the easiest reliable way of knowing whether or not the kernel managed to bind a driver to a USB device I plug in? Thanks, Christian -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Full replacement of MS

I can at least say that the Blue Clues games from Humungous Entertainment do just fine well under Wine for me; as good or about as good as when I run them on Windows. The only other things I really care about working under Linux are: - Quicken, which sufficiently well under Wine that I have no comp

apt mirror question

Hey guys, Anyone know what's up with debian.mirrors.pair.com? Their website still claims they're a Debian mirror, but their directory tree for Debian is empty. -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

modules.usbmap

Hey guys, I'm trying to debug a problem where my Kodak DX6490 camera doesn't seem to get properly recognized by my Sarge / 2.6.9 system. In the process, I ran across a promising-looking file: /lib/modules/2.6.9-1-686-smp/modules.usbmap Is it the case that in order for my system to even start

usb camera / filesystem question

Hi guys, I'm curious about the way a USB camera gets set up when plugged into a Sarge / 2.6.9 system. I'm also using 'udev'. Anyone know the following? When I plug in the camera, I assume there are three devices that must be created in the /dev directory, no? #1 : a device for the camera's plai

Relationship between "discover" and "hotplug"

Hey guys, I'm using Sarge with a 2.6.9-1 kernel. Can anyone help me understand the relationship between "discover" and "hotplug" in my system? The reason I'm confused is that both seem to be involved in making the system aware of connected hardware, but I'm not sure how they fit together in 2.6

Re: devfs vs. udev

Here's an overview document that no one could point me to a few days ago. Hope it's helpfull... http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI Here's the full text for any abysmal

devfs vs. udev

x27;s a huge question, so I'll limit the questions: - Does hotplug inform udev when a new device connects to the computer? - Does udev make use of devfs? Thanks, Christian -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

udev + USB camera = ?

s this something that in Sarge/2.6.8/udev is supposed to Just Work? (FWIW, I've had no problem with my USB flashdrive keychain creating a /dev node when I hotplug it.) Thanks, Christian -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

utomagically, asking you the necessary config questions. You should then have a clone of your previous packages, but from whichever branch you prefer. -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is life with 'udev' good?

life better or worse? Thanks, Christian -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

sid to testing? Do I need to suck it up and do a reinstall? Thanks, Christian -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Standard practice with missing dependencies?

n-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free deb file:///home/ftp/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb file:///home/ftp/marillat/ testing main deb file:///home/ftp/marillat/ unstable main -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newp

NFS permissions question

e gid on both computers. Is there a good way for me to ensure that alvin doesn't create, on the shares, a file owned by the busboys group? (The reason I don't want this to happen is that I've taken no steps to ensure that both computers have the same groupid for the "busbo

Sarge: nVidia proprietary driver vs. udev

rs or anything like that, those are still all in the kernel. Yeah, thanks. I'm clear on that. cheers, -matt zagrabely On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 08:49 -0500, Christian Convey wrote: Hey Matt, Thanks a lot, I'll definitely give that a shot. Quick question: Is there some document somewhere that tau

Debian etiquette question

onto a Reiser4 partition. Thanks, Christian -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

module system documentation

Hey guys, Can anyone recommend a good intro to how the OVERALL scheme of modules works in 2.6 under Debian Sarge? I.e., I'm trying to understand: - the roles and proper use of all of the module-related files under /etc - the mod-related programs - how and when modules get automatically loaded -

Grub problem?

ot;/mnt/spare1" and "/mnt/spare2". Is there some way I can force the Debian installer to put Grub into the SCSI disk's MBR rather than hda's MBR? I'm trying to avoid having anything in my system's boot process rely on those IDE drives being present and operationa