Hi,
I have all the information from my Cable operator: fixed IP, netmask,
broadcast, gatewy, dns, nameserver, hostname, domain name, etc...
What files do I need to modify and what should I write in it to get my
Internet connection to work?
I cannot ping anything :-(
Thanx you for you help
JP
My plan is for a very simple use: no X server, just text mode.
But I am currently stuck since I encounter a problem in the
boot sequence (see initial email in the thread - looks related
to the floppy).
Any advise, suggestion to go around this problem ?
Thanks
Jean-Marc
> -Original Mess
I have an old 386 on which I'd like to install Debian 2.2.
HP Vectra RS/20
10 Mb RAM
100 Mb DISK
Floppy 1,4 Mb
Floppy 1,2 Mb
The only way I can install on this config is to use the
floppy method. I have then created a set of boot floppies
with the "idepci" kernel flavour.
The boot process fails w
Hi !
i am wondering if there is a way to make the computer less noisy at some
moment (the NIGHT). What I mean is that the CPU fan does a lot of noise,
and the Hd too. Is there a porgram to make the cpu fan less rotating (if
the cpu doesn't work !)
Thank
Jean-Michel
Hi all
I hope someone can help me, and that this message will fly thru the user lists,
since I had to get off the list because of technical problems (to many messages
to be downloaded for my really low internet access)
I'm a new debianeer. I want to go progressively to full linux on my machine,
Hello, dear debian fellows!
Please forgive my paranoid anonymity, in view of the last section of
this message.
1) My problem:
I have happily used debian since 1995 (0.93R6 if I recall?). But since I
installed 2.1 on my new PC at work, about a year ago, that machine
undergoes about a crash per mo
Hi all.
I have been using a Abit BP6 for quite a long time now, and needed the
UDMA interfaces.
I have 2 IBM 5400tr/min, 15 Gb hdd connected to ide2.
Yet, as many people did, I had an awful lot of problems setting up
UDMA on this card (autotune would freeze the box at bootup, on Linux as
well as
> .P.S. Mon pointeur de souris est correct sous win
et dans
> XF86Setup mais il n'apparait pas sous X11 et je ne comprend
> pas d'où cela vient et comment résoudre le probème.
> ( Il est représenté par trois ou quatre barres verticales
et
> c'est pareil avec la slack 7.0.)
Essaie de jouer avec
Here's a quote from a (famous?)win program homepage:
Socks2HTTP is an agent converting SOCKS v.5 requests into HTTP requests
and tunnelling them through HTTP proxy. SOCKS allows programs to
traverse firewalls on any port number and is used by many popular
programs, like Napster, MSN Messanger, CRT
With kind regards,
- --
drs. Jean-Jack M. Riethoven
EMBL Outstation - Hinxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 3433929
European Bioinformatics Institute Phone: (+44) 1223 494635
Wellcome Trust Genome CampusFax : (+44) 1223 494468
Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD URL : http:/
helper application configuration.
You should check these files.
Hope it helps.
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Jean-Philippe Guérard
an try to
> fix the menu? This happens as root or as a user. It has disappeared
> globally.
You might want to check that /etc/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu
is a text file containing :
"menu.hook"
Hope it helps.
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
g?
>
> Wil
I guess that either for the Alsa driver or the standalone creative
driver, you need a kernel compiled with "Sound card support" enabled
or compiled as a module (soundcore.o).
If it is not the case, that might be the explanation of the errors
you get.
Hope it helps.
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
Hello everybody,
I have found the bounce IRC proxy in 2.3 debian.
Does anyone of you knows of security issues with this proxy ?
May I recommend it safely to my school (that has cut our irc access
lately for security reasons) ?
Thx in advance
Hi all
Does anyone know where I could get the config files of the pre-compiled
kernels found in Potato ?
thx.
Here's what a get from "Linux Kernel Insternals" :
Startup Messages :
LI : the first step of the loaderhas been able ro load the second step
whose processing then failed. This can be caused by an incorrect
geometry or by repositionning the file boot.b without reinstalling the
loader.
Also, is you
ce module.
The /usr/share/doc/device3dfx-source/README.Debian will
contain detailed instructions on how to do this.
If the appropriate glide modules are installed, it should
be fine.
Hope it helps.
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Jean-Philippe Guérard
ct to get the
required
'/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/8390.ver' ?
Thank you.
Jean-Baptiste Note, from France.
ks in advance,
JY
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Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~~
moved. I guess it is not used anymore.
Hope it helps.
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
Single-user mode loads a whole bunch of stuff that are not really
> needed.
> What is the recomended way to load "failsafe" defaults? Using a floppy?
Maybe you need to remove some packages you do not use ? Looking at what
is launched in single user mode here, I do not really see a lot of unwanted
stuff.
Hope it helps.
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
Le 2000-07-31 16:24:07 +0100, Jean-Jack M. Riethoven écrivait :
> I am relatively new to installing my own Debian system (2.1r4). Until now,
> I have managed quite well with dselect. However, I haven't been able to get
> X up and running yet on my video card (a Diamond Viper 55
l question: how interchangeble are the installations
done via dpkg/dselect and 'normal' installations via tarballs? I would like
to keep dependency information and such, and an updated list of installed
software for dselect.
With kind regards,
--
drs. Jean-Jack M. Riethoven
EMBL
ter :
single
It will boot up to init=1 and will not launch daemons.
See :
man bootparam
man init
Hope it helps.
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
try to run "psp -start" ?
Might be a serial port problem.
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
;t find or access Banshee/V3 board
You also probably need the device3dfx module, that will enable
access to your card.
You can compile this module from the device3dfx-source package.
Hope it helps.
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
, videos) and
local support.
IMHO Linux is a far better OS and the motivations of the people developing
and offering it are sterling, particularly as compared to the currently
pervasive alternative.
Jean
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HI All,
I'D like to know where i can find ODBC/JDBC
Drivers for your Debian Linux distribution. Since we need our JAVA SERVER
APP running on Debian to Access to an MSSQLServer. Currentrly i'm using
freetds but it seem's to fail connection to the MSSQLServer 7.0.
Does someone as
HI All,
I'D like to know where i can find ODBC/JDBC
Drivers for your Debian Linux distribution. Since we need our JAVA SERVER
APP running on Debian to Access to an MSSQLServer. Currentrly i'm using
freetds but it seem's to fail connection to the MSSQLServer 7.0.
Does someone as
CD-Roms for French educational
institutions, and that initiative is partly based on the work made by
the Compil'Edux team. Demo CD-Roms combining this with R.Di Cosmo's
DemoLinux distribution should be available in the next months.
(Essentially nothing of this is French specific, though).
Jean-Pierre Demailly,
Universit\'e de Grenoble I
Maintainer of the Compil'Edux FTP site
from localnet
in access.conf might also help.
Hope it helps.
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
e to access your floppy drive from
the Desktop. To access a floppy drive, you probably need to mount it
first with "fdmount" or "xvmount".
Hope it helps.
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
re-run vmware-config.pl
My experience is that vmware notices when a new kernel is installed
and will prompt you to rebuild the modules. I've had no trouble
using vmware and rebuilding newer versions of the kernel.
--
Jean Pierre
--force
--install" to update your system. Executing dpkg on multiple
files at the smae time also helps.
If you need more specifics, please ask.
--
Jean Pierre
k.
>
> Unfortunately, I need 2.2.x for Lotus Domino and SMP support, so leaving
> it at 2.0.36 is not an option, as appealing as that may seem.
Have you compiled the SCSI generic support in your 2.2 kernel ?
It is required for this controler to work.
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
t; use of anything special.
>
> Any hints? Condolences?
See :
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-0002/msg00544.html
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
gt; to login and type loadkeys be-latin1 to have the correct keyboard layout.
> How can I avoid this, 'cause it's rather difficult to enter my password this
> way ;-)?
Using kbdconfig should enable you to easily choose and test the default
keyboard.
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
onfiguration. Some
packages are already configured this way but most are not.
Cfengine would be one way of addressing this but it essentially
takes over control of the entire configuration process which I
don't care for.
--
Jean Pierre
directory. Many Debian packages are not organized like this.
* Machine specific changes are hard to isolated.
Debian packages make this somewhat difficult. Something like
cfengine can handle this but it doesn't integrate well with CVS.
Hope this helps.
--
Jean Pierre
GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu" file by :
"menu.hook"
----
Hope it helps.
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
e eximconfig dialog for a satellite system.
Amities,
Jean Orloff
The O'Reilley.net part of the Linux.com site includes
a comparaison of the Linux distributions (including Debian)
you might want to have a look at.
http://oreilly.linux.com/pub/q/linux_dist
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
e you're interested in.
Note that none of these option is totally failsafe.
You can also choose to live on the unstable distribution.
But this means a lot of download, and no warantee your
system will work or be reliable.
Hope it helps.
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
pleted
and I never get any error message, despite the correct From and Sender header
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Thanks for caring!
Jean Orloff
Amities,
Jean Orloff
+ + + + + + + + ++
+ Tel:(33)473.40.72.2
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]", to which you blindly Cc'ed. Did you receive a notice
that your Cc never arrived?
>>>>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:28:46 -0200, Henrique M Holschuh
>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Henrique> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Jean Orloff wr
s sent to that same address
(instead of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" which is not reachable)
The previous sendmail configuration script apparently did this fine,
but the new frozen one doesn't seem to.
Amities,
these packets, just compile your kernel without
the multicast option.
Hope it helps.
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
Le 2000-02-11 01:28:24 +0200, Shadow_OF_Darkness écrivait :
> i want to get a wav to mp3 convertor ...
GOGO is a good option.
http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shigeo/gogo_e.html
It is available in RPM, and is easy to convert to
DEB.
Hope it helps.
--
Jean-Philippe Guérard
the Asus MES-N
(http://www.asus.com.tw/products/motherboard/pentiumpro/mes-n/) but
I have no direct experience running Debian on it.
--
Jean Pierre
ll have.
I've been search for a motherboard with integrated video, sound,
and ethernet to use as a diskless workstations with Debian. Can
anyone recommend a particular board?
I'm also looking for small case/power-supply on the order of the
netwinder size. Any ideas here?
--
Jean Pierre
e characters normally onto the screen.
> Without X the keyboard works normally( I have vindozer keyboard ).
kbdrate
--
Jean Pierre
have an idea of what might be troubling me? Any approches to get
> past this problems.
I have a 25G hard drive and ran into a similar problem. The
solution in my case was to upgrade to the latest fdisk in
unstable. fdisk_2.10d from the debian package util-linux_2.10d-5
works great.
--
Jean Pierre
n the ftp site.
Write me your comments on this!
Jean-Michel Dault
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Svante Signell wrote:
> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 02:09:31 +0100 (CET)
> From: Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: expert@linux-mandrake.com
> To:
s:
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X: error in loading shared libraries
> : undefined symbol: __register_frame_info
This primitive can be found @ http://www.suse.com, look up
for XServers page, at the bottom, you'll find the regframe.rpm.
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAI
y a nestcape issue :(
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You have junk mail.
rm to change, to avoid that).
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what
you want.
-- D. Cohen
people/hedrick
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"One Architecture, One OS" also translates as "One Egg, One Basket".
27;s what
happened to me). X doesn't help, AFAIK. And if you simply go back to the
selection menu, you won't see the difference between the new packages
and the ones you decided long ago to be uninteresting.
--
Amities,
Jean Orloff
+ +
at are lost forever after a couple of
screens...).
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Amities,
Jean Orloff
+ + + + + + + + ++
+ Tel:(33)473.40.72.27
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 10:08:42PM -0800, aphro wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
>
> jybarb >Hi Nate, Sure I compiled it from the source, and enabled // port.
>
> Ok, just want to re verify that you enabled parallel *printer* support,
> they are differ
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 10:08:42PM -0800, aphro wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
>
> jybarb >Hi Nate, Sure I compiled it from the source, and enabled // port.
>
> Ok, just want to re verify that you enabled parallel *printer* support,
> they are differ
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 10:11:15PM -0800, aphro wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
>
> jybarb >I can't get my TV card to work well too (it was 4 weeks ago).
> jybarb >I'll try to exchange it next wednesday to see what will happend.
>
>
to work well again (I didn't get the SB Live! correctly
installed till I disabled the HPT366 controlers...); and under Linux,
I can't get my TV card to work well too (it was 4 weeks ago).
I'll try to exchange it next wednesday to see what will happend.
JY
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Jean-Yves F. Barbier <
p0' it says 'operation not supported'
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
-- Cartoon caption
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 12:12:27AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I didn't print for a long time;
>
> when I try to print a simple text file (lpr ZZZ),
> lpq says: "waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)"
Motherboard is an ABIT BE-6.
Of co
lp0). Still nothing (even under X, throught 'enscript').
Any clue??
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Your computer account is overdrawn. Please see Big Brother.
Thanxs to all of you,
I think I'm gonna try MySQL + Perl
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The next person to mention spaghetti stacks to me is going to have
his head knocked off.
-- Bill Conrad
Hi all,
I wonder if there's a package with easy-to-use-and-powerfull database?
(something like dBase III+/IV)
Thanks in advance,
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ask not for whom the tolls.
connector were not enough tightened (it certainly comes from the
many tests I made with several HDs and devices).
I just tighten them with a little screwdriver, and now its working
perfectly. So, if your supply connector is very easy to (un)plug,
check that.
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMA
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 06:28:03PM +0100, Skynet wrote:
> 212.210.122.9 ???
= agmemnnone.penters.it
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 04:49:38PM -0600, Marc Mongeon wrote:
> Jean-Yves:
>
> Hello, again. I'm doing fine. And you?
Fine, thanks Marc.
> I see now what you're talking about. I've never heard of these kinds
> of upload limits before, either because they a
ard with the one
from another slot, it will also change the IRQ.
And, if your bios is a bit old, check that IRQ setup is set to EDGE, not LEVEL.
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 09:20:26AM -0600, Marc Mongeon wrote:
> Jean-Yves:
>
> I'm a little confused about what you're asking. If your ISP is
> providing 500MB disk space, presumably on their Web server, then
> you don't need to worry about running a Web server. Y
do"modprobe at1700" I get this message:
>
> FUDO2:/home/paul# modprobe at1700
> /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/at1700.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>
> Is this important?
Yep! It seems that your IRQ3 is already in use...
JY
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Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTE
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:05:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Please send me anything you can send.
> -On any and everything.
I've got a boring ex-wife, can I send it to you?
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
U X
e dUdX, e dX, cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159...
Hi all,
I'm going to help a friend tomorrow mornig to setup Linux on
his computer, he's owning this card, and I don't know if the
xserver exists (and if so, where I can download it).
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
PURGE COMPLETE.
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:56:01PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote:
>
> > Try `mem=256M' instead.
> > Please let me now how the Mylex performs ...
>
> No luck: the installation keeps hanging asking about colors.
Try `
quot; -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o
> > In file included from lxdialog.c:22:
> > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.1/scripts/lxdialog'
> > make: *
dangerous, because you run the risk to crash some shadow RAM.
Better use 127m instead!.
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You will have many recoverable tape errors.
they
must be, and because it don't even know how to add numbers...
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You will have many recoverable tape errors.
lf at that address)
>
> For some while now I`ve been unable to use my floppy drive because of i/o
> errors,
> might this have some bearing on the irq situation? It`s possible that it may
> have
> gone wrong at the same time as the at1700 driver was installed.
What are you're ipchains rules ?
JY
Hope it will help...
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.
-- Steinbach
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 10:43:09AM -0600, John Foster wrote:
> Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
>
> > Are you sure your user is part of the 'audio' group?
> --
> Yes. I did check and it made no difference. Thanks for t
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 10:58:16AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
> I was also returned an 'imap2' opened port??? I did not installed
> such a package (in fact it was purged long ago). Why is it still
> present?
Sorry, forget about this one, it was still opend by inetd.
it normal?
Am I obliged to leave them opened?
If not, how can I close them?
I was also returned an 'imap2' opened port??? I did not installed
such a package (in fact it was purged long ago). Why is it still
present?
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
erkill.
>
> And it's not so speedy; I have a K6-2 350 with 128Mb RAM and
> it took well over an hour to install Windows 98.
I thought it was the regular amount of time to install it ;)
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
dings can break the external-radius cables: if the cable's
straight, the wires are connected, if is not straight, tehy're
no more).
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
it has a Rage128 cpu, you
should go to http://www.suse.com, and download the right
XServer (*wtih* the regframe.RPM too!). It work ok under
3.3.4.
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
gt;
> I'll be encoding wavs into 256 KBps mp3's.
As Remco & Nathan already told you, BladeEncoder is very good:
it sticks closely to the ISO standard, contrary to Frauenhoffer,
which is a bit better in low streams, but not very good in hi streams.
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbie
to check if my network card is
> working properly? Simple answers please, I`m fairly new to
> Debian and know very little about networking.
Usually ifconfig must return the correct address of the machine,
not 0.0.0.0, try it.
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
over to the cdplayer and mixers that run in X and the mixer in gnome but
> the Gnome cdplayer still doesn't connect (I think that's another
> problem)
Are you sure your user is part of the 'audio' group?
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
vr I must use (isn't Apache too big for the
purpose?)
As it will be on my svr (connected to the web and to the LAN), if you
have any trick about security, you'll be welcome.
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Disks travel in packs.
gt; similar.
> So, what should I do to swithch to 32?
You can add a line in the Screen section:
DefaultColorDepth 8
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Who cares if it doesn't do anything? It was made with our new
Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS process ..."
nd in my kernels.
> If it is, the only way is to recompile the kernel (which means
> downloading kernel sources & gcc that may bog down a 28.8 modem line)
If the above mentionned is true, that's the only way.
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The flow ch
t, modify your previous partitions, format them,
restore the contents, re-change the /etc/fstab, reboot, et voilà !
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory..."
(By Larry Wall)
a copy from the backup floppy, and the router will just run
> as before).
I think it could be possible, using a large amount of ram, and ram disks.
But a good firewall is working very well, and allow you to keep traces
(logs) of the attack.
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTE
2
> One other question for now. The second hd is a 15.2 gb Ibm which is
> autodetected in the bios, are there any problems with that, or are there boot
> parameters I should have in Lilo?
Use fdisk, not cfdisk; if you encounter problems, try to add this line
to /etc/lilo.conf: linear
JY
7;t work. Do I have to
> recompile the kernel for including the support for NE2K in it?
add an append line in you /etc/lilo.conf
read /usr/doc/HOWTO/BootPrompt.HOWTO
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory..."
(By Larry Wall)
hing any config file)
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Real Users find the one combination of bizarre input values that shuts
down the system for days.
> Subject: Do ALSA packages work for you?
> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:53:42 +
> From: "Pedro Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to use the Debian ALSA packages without success at all. I
> have two different servers with different sound cards and the prob
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