Re: No Sound with Kernel 2.6.7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I did what you have recommended but the sound continues to be elusive with > kernel 2.6.7. On boot I get the following messages: > > Loading ALSA mixer settings: /usr/sbin/alsactl restore > No state is present for card Dummy Should go away after th

Re: No Sound with Kernel 2.6.7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 07:29, you wrote: > Hi, > > Slackware10 > > When I installed the kernel 2.6.7 my sound was lost, the error message > claiming it can not find module via82cxxx_audio.c. Checking > /lib/modules/2.6.7/kernel/drivers there was no /sound

Network Configuration Problem affecting Games.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Distro: Fedora Core 2. I'm having trouble with some games in a networked environment. In all cases I am unable to browse servers, and in one case not even able to join the game. The problem in all cases appears to relate to broadcast packets not bei

Kernel 2.6 Compiling problems

CC scripts/empty.o cc1: Invalid option `32' make[1]: *** [scripts/empty.o] Error 1 make: *** [scripts] Error 2 This is the only error I get, it appears that empty.c is an empty file used to detect some system information (endianness and wordsize). Apart from the file itself, there is no refer

skystar2\mt312 driver does not timeout under kernel 2.6.6

Under kernel 2.6.6 (modules dvbcore, mt312, skystar2 loaded) dvbtune enters an infinite polling loop, as shown below. polling Getting frontend event FE_STATUS: polling Getting frontend event FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_CARRIER polling Getting frontend event FE_STATUS: polling Getting fronten

Audio problem with nforce board.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been helping a friend get Linux installed and we've run into problems with the onboard sound in his computer. OS is Redhat 9.0, kernel is 2.4.23 (updated for nforce AGP support). Mainboard is a GA-7NNXP With the i810_audio module loaded, sound

Compiler method of finding header.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:72:18: krb5.h: No such file or directory includes line: #include So it's expecting the header to be wherever the compiler expects them. using locate: /usr/kerberos/include/krb5.h How do I tell the compiler where to loo

Re: Confirmation for subscribe linux-kernel

On Tuesday 19 Aug 2003 8:21 am, Jaime Santana wrote: > It seems that someone tried tu subscribe "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > to that list. The walls of spam that would have resulted if they succeeded :P Looks like it's been prevented. -- "They're just using religion as an excuse to be really crappy to

Manually assigning identical cards

I have a computer thats going to be set up as a proxy server. It has 3 network cards in it (1x 3Com Etherlink III PCI, 2x 3Com Etherlink III ISA) I need to know which interface is which, how might I manually assign them to eth0-2 even though they're all using the same driver? OS is Smoothwall

Re: how do I execute a java program?

On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 1:07 am, [ramzez] wrote: > Hi friends... > > I made an application usign Java... How do I create a executable file to > run my application without the IDE (forte for java)? > > thanks, Well, I haven't been using the IDE (just javac and a text editor :) but this should hel

Good books for a linux newbie

I have a friend who has started using Linux, and has found its stability and reliability quite impressive. His one complaint is that the OS is unfamiliar to him. I told him I'd post here asking about books that may be of assistance to him. He is running Mandrake 9, and just wan

Wierd filesystem behavior

Output of df -hL FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda12 23G 21G 271M 99% / /dev/hda7 61M 7.3M 51M 13% /auxboot /dev/hda112.0G 1.9G 22M 99% /home /dev/hda8 358M 2.0K 339M 1% /oldboot /dev/hda104.0

su command broken

using su to quickly login to root or to another user account fails, returning the error "invalid password" However, this password works fine to login from the login prompt. Where should I start looking to find the problem. -- "Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something" - Nowhere Man Please

Authorising a Linux DHCP server in MS Active Directory

Trying to setup RIS, the current network uses a Linux DHCP server/firewall. RIS requires that both the RIS server and the DHCP server are authorised in Active Directory (the MS documentation states that only a Win2k DHCP server can be authorised - but it's MS documentation, so it wouldn't sugge

Renumbering Primary Partitions?

My current partition table has the following partitions 1) FAT32 2) FAT32 3) Extended Is it possible for me to make partitions 1 and 2 one partition and get it to renumber 3 as 2 (the first bit is easy, but how would I make the latter part happen) -- "MS-DOS is to computing as the black plag

Re: Linux/Win XP network connection problem

> With the help of Red Hat Linux 8 Bible, I think I have SAMBA working on the > Linux box. I can see MyGroup on the Win XP box in Network Places. If I > select Mygroup, I get Samba Server (Localhost). If I double click, I get > the following error message > > === > \\Localhost

Re: Networking issue

> Mandrake runs a batch of scripts under the name of msec which maintins a > particular security level (1-6 i think). This can be configured through > 'Mandrake Control Center' under security. If the level is set too high then > the default permisions will prevent normal internet connectivity as >

Re: Networking issue

On Friday 03 Jan 2003 4:39 pm, Ray Olszewski wrote: Got everything pretty much fixed, except for one thing. Something perioically seems to re-add a line to hosts.deny that forbids connections from everything but localhost. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all also gets reset to 1 (but this

Re: Networking issue

> 1. What system is gtelnet running on? Workstation, running mandrake 9.0 > 3. From the Mandrake system, can you ssh to localhost (or to 127.0.0.1)? If > not, EXACTLY what error does the ssh client report? (If you don't have an > ssh client installed, see what "telnet localhost 22" does. It shoul

Re: Networking issue

On Friday 03 Jan 2003 2:08 am, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Your report is way too sketchy to let anyone spot the problem. Post a > followup with this information: > > 1. Unedited output of "ifconfig -a" eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:1A:45:6D inet addr:192.168.0.90

Networking issue

I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a server box I'm putting together, I installed the firewall shorewall. Couldn't connect to the ssh server or even ping the box (the inability to ping it, I assumed was the result of shorewall). Reconnected monitor and keyboard to server, server couldn't ping any of t

starting a program in the background and terminating it later

Would the means of doing this be dependant on program or is there a simple way I can always use. I want to write a SysV init script to start/stop the folding@home client program (running within a specific directory and run by the user "folding") Further information would be useful. -- "Windo

Re: A few questions

On Monday 02 Dec 2002 11:56 pm, dashielljt wrote: > You'd want to do more than one tar command of the form: > tar zcvf user1.tar.gz /home/user1/ > tar zcvf user2.tar.gz /home/user2/ > and so on. You'd have to specify the path of user1.tar.gz like where it > was going to go and the same for the oth

Re: A few questions

On Sunday 01 Dec 2002 10:36 pm, dashielljt wrote: > By way of answering question 3, have a look at the sysback script below. > Understand I'm going to patch it a little so another version that puts > dates in file names for the .log file and the actual backup files as well > so another version will

A few questions

A few questions, two of which because I simply realise I don't know the answers when I probably should, and a third because I'll need to know how. 1) What is the intended method to edit the path for a user-account or globally? I know hacking together a shell script to add a directory and putti

Which SQL server?

I'm going to set up an SQL on a server box I'm building to host a database that will hold a few tables. The database will probably contain 3 (possibly 4) tables, the largest of which having 9 fields and about 50 records. The main thing I'm interested in is minimal use of system resources, the d

Passing the entire command line

While bash can retrieve the different commandline values using the variables $1, $2, $3, etc - is there a way to just read out them all at once (with spaces between the values). I use startup scripts for many of my games, and I want the script to pass through command line options at the end (f

Netgear FA312TX - Is it supported?

Just want to know if this card is supported. -- "Well you know, C isn't that hard, void (*(*f[])())() for instance declares f as an array of unspecified size, of pointers to functions that return pointers to functions that return void... I think" - Sigurdur Asgeirsson - To unsubscribe from th

Re: Large FTP transfers

> As to testing ... the easiest way is, as you already realize, to swap in a > new NIC and see if that makes the problem go away. As someone else already > pointed out, this is a cheap enough solution (at least here in the USA) > that it should at least be considered. If you can't replace the NIC

Re: Large FTP transfers

> The last 2 messages above say resource collisions, either you have 2 cards > sharing one IRQ (see that with cat /proc/interruts) and one or the other is > misbehaving, or there is a wire lose in the cable plug. $ cat /proc/interrupts/ CPU0 0: 168834 XT-PIC timer 1:

Re: Large FTP transfers

> Greetings: Is it possible your computer room might > have a tad more air pollution than you can see?? In the past I've had > fairly good luck carefully "burnishing" the cards fingers with a > clean eraser, getting them nice and shiny, and being sure to remove > the eraser residue

Re: Large FTP transfers

> Greetings: Is it possible your computer room might > have a tad more air pollution than you can see?? In the past I've had > fairly good luck carefully "burnishing" the cards fingers with a > clean eraser, getting them nice and shiny, and being sure to remove > the eraser residue

Re: Large FTP transfers

> Finally, you might try running a diagnostic progrem for the NIC. I don't > recall what type of NIC it is (or even if you reported that in a prior > message ... I've seen about a half dozen different NIC-related threads in > the last day, and my memory just isn't good enough to retain the details

Re: Large FTP transfers

I'm starting to suspect the NIC. It has twice recently (one instance before my previous emails, one since) stopped being detected with Linux giving me an "unable to access 64-bit address message" I've retrieved them from /var/log/kernel/errors Sep 28 22:09:21 ironclad kernel: PCI: Unable to ha

Re: RPM packaging

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:59 am, Wladimir Foo wrote: > We use apt (Advanced packing tool) found in Debian GNU/Linux together with > RPM in our distribution (Voodoo Linux). Using our version of kpackager > it's closely resembles the Loki Update tool. Just "closely resembles" or does it actually inte

Large FTP transfers

What parts of system does an FTP transfer of a large file (eg .ISOs) affect. I am getting hard-lockups while trying to D\L the file. Where might the problem be? Mandrake 8.1 Kernel 2.4.19 KDE 3.0.2 Athlon 900MHz nVidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB 512MB Corsair DDR333 Soltek SL-75DRV5 (Via KT333 Ch

RPM packaging

Where can I find tutorials on packaging my own RPMs? Also, if I install a source RPM, is it as easily removable as a regular RPM. What known techniques are there to tie multiple packaging systems together (eg, Loki style game distribution). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

Imon kernel patch

I'm looking for the Imon kernel patch for a 2.4.19 kernel, my searches have turned up nothing. Where can I find it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-in

Re: Lock-ups with 2.4.19 kernel

> 1. Run top on a remote console (one the telnets or ssh's in). When > the system hangs, the console will still display the last "top" output, so > you can see (a) what CPU usage was, (b) how much memory had been used, and > (c) what the top processes were. That may give you a hint about

Lock-ups with 2.4.19 kernel

I have been getting unusual lockups recently, my system is Hardware Athlon 900MHz Soltek SL-75DRV5 Motherboard 512MB Corsair DDR (DDR333) nVidia GeForce DDR 256 Creative Vibra 128 PCI 3Com 905B-TX Ethernet 40GB SeaGate ST340810A Sony CD-RW CRX175A1 There are three devices unidentified by HardDra

TGA Manipulation tools

I need a program to convert a top-down TGA file to a bottom-up one (Q3A likes its skins in bottom up and GIMP saves them top-down. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Fan & Temp monitoring

What's a good app for monitoring fan speed and CPU temp? I've noticed gkRellm has support for fan monitoring (via a plugin), but how do I tell it about the fans? There is nothing in its configuration GUI - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a m

two questions

1) How do I manually fsck my root filesystem? 2) Where can I find a program to convert windows .ICO files into a more open file format (ie. PNG). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Problems installing nVidia drivers

When I start up X using the nVidia drivers I get a blank screen and the machine locks hard. I'll start off by giving the relevant hardware and software configuration information. Hardware: Soltek SL-75DRV5 Mainboard Athlon 900Mhz CPU Winfast GeForce DDR 256 (AGP) Software Linux Mandrake 8.1 K

Highly unusual crashes.

Screen just goes black or locks up. Under X it locks up with a blue screen and a white line. No apparent cause, I did nothing that could've caused it. I'm surprised I can get in as it was doing it on boot (yes, even to failsafe). I have no idea what could've caused it or what the problem migh

Disk Quotas -> trying to read file //quota.conf

When I setup disk quotas on my root drive it writes the config file to /quota.conf. At startup I get errors trying th read from //quota.conf. How do I fix this - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo i

Re: celeron and laptop / Linux

> Are there any know issues relating to Linux and the Celeron processor? I > do not know what the Celeron on the Intel processors means. I think it > has something to do with the internal cache but I am not for sure. Could > someone tell me what the celeron processor includes or does not inclu

News Sources for Linux/Open Source

It seems I will probably become the Open Source correspondent for my local gaming community. I am already subscribed to OSDN, ZDNet, InformIT and numerous announce mailing lists but I was wondering if anybody knew of any other sources of news. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: 1024x768 SVGA Shell - won't work

Got it compiled, worked it out before you pair replied (kinda good timing, I fix the problem THEN you give me some help) Although now trying to use VESAFB modes reboots my machine, one minute it is loading up, the next thing I see is BIOS. Any known causes for this (I'm having a great time here

Re: 1024x768 SVGA Shell - won't work

OK, I've done some research (suddenly noticed there was a massive folder in my kernel source tree called 'Documentation' - wish I'd seen it sooner). The mode I was using is one of the VESAfb modes (1024x768x24, apparently). These modes require the frame-buffer drivers to be compiled. The frame

1024x768 SVGA Shell - won't work

I recently downloaded and built kernel 2.4.18 and I am no longer able to boot up with my shell running at 1024x768 (or I think thats what it was at, parameter was vga=791). I included the SVGA console drivers and my video-card drivers when I compiled it. My old kernel was 2.4.8-26mdk (Mandrake 8.