Hi,
Recently I tried to boot PuppyLinux from a CD and it would hang when this line
on the console showed:
ehci_hcd 00:10.3: Via Technologies, Inc USB 2.0
Then in slackware 10.1 kernel 2.4.29 I activated EHCI HCD support putting it
to yes in USB Support.
When rebooting slackware from the HD th
Hi,
In the gnome-panel one can put a weather applet showing the weather at a given
location. However, the time given is totally off and in the case of Central
Europe 8 hours ahead of UTC (GMT), letting the sun rise at 12:00 and set at
02:40.
Where would one set the time for this applet to corr
Hi,
In slackware the file /etc/resolv.conf is updated on every reboot.
How can I stop that? I tried chattr +i and chmod -w w/o success.
The reason is that the nameserver address which is put into the file on every
reboot is not the the one I am supposed to use according to the advise from my
b
Hi,
Slackware 10.1 kernel 2.4.29
Trying to open Gutenbrowser I get before it aborts:
Setting up slots.
init finished.
QLayout "unnamed" added to Gutenbrowser "unnamed", which already has a layout
Floating point exception
with strace ending:
write(3, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"\0\0\0\37\0\0\0\10\0\0\0\
Hi,
When I wanted to download some programs I ended up with a .torrent file, like
dlg-2.10.0.iso.torrent.
What am I supposed to do with that? This is unfamiliar to me.
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At 05:58 PM 4/10/2005 +0800, Peter H. wrote:
>Hi,
>
>slackware 10.1 kernel 2.4.29
>
>After I upgraded to dropline 2.10.0 from 2.8.3, xmms 1.2.10 will not open.
>The error I get is:
>
>~:$ xmms
>unable to open port `/dev/ttyS1' (Permission denied)
>unable to
Hi,
slackware 10.1 kernel 2.4.29
After I upgraded to dropline 2.10.0 from 2.8.3, xmms 1.2.10 will not open.
The error I get is:
~:$ xmms
unable to open port `/dev/ttyS1' (Permission denied)
unable to open port `/dev/ttyS1' (Permission denied)
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x
Hi,
How can I get the resolution of the console to a 1024x768 display?
In X I am using 800x600.
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> Peter use ´adduser´ to create user accounts in slack, /bin/bash is the
> default in that program.
I'll be darn. I kept on using 'useradd'.
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Hi,
Slackware10 kernel 2.4.26
For me unknown reason suddenly bash will not start in terminals. Therefore no
PSI is set and commands I have in ~/.bashrc are not known unless I type bash
in
xterm after which PSI is set as well.
If I open xterm with: "xterm -e su -l" it opens with bash, w/o the -
Hi,
Since it is assumed that the problem is in the /X11R6/lib libraries of
slackware I replaced them with the ones from Fedora 3. It did not change the
error message:
symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3: undefined symbol:
XkbSetPerClientControls
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Problem solved. I still used the pid of pppd
which is obsolete now.
Hi,
I get my mail with getmail and I am using procmail for mail filtering and it
has worked well with my dial-up modem connection. Now with the broadband
connection it seems to miss some of the entries in .procmailrc such as:
Problem solved. I still used the pid of pppd
which is obsolete now.
Hi,
I get my mail with getmail and I am using procmail for mail filtering and it
has worked well with my dial-up modem connection. Now with the broadband
connection it seems to miss some of the entries in .procmailrc such as:
Problem solved. I still used the pid of pppd
which is obsolete now.
Hi,
I get my mail with getmail and I am using procmail for mail filtering and it
has worked well with my dial-up modem connection. Now with the broadband
connection it seems to miss some of the entries in .procmailrc such as:
Problem solved. I still used the pid of pppd
which is obsolete now.
Hi,
I get my mail with getmail and I am using procmail for mail filtering and it
has worked well with my dial-up modem connection. Now with the broadband
connection it seems to miss some of the entries in .procmailrc such as:
Hi,
I get my mail with getmail and I am using procmail for mail filtering and it
has worked well with my dial-up modem connection. Now with the broadband
connection it seems to miss some of the entries in .procmailrc such as:
:0 wc:${MAILDIR}/$LOCKEXT
* ^From:
* $^From:${GETTEXT}
#| echo $FOO >
Hi,
in slackware10 trying to open skype a program
for Internet telephony I get the following error:
relocation error: /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3: undefined symbol:
XkbSetPerClientControls
and the program aborts.
How to resolve?
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Greetings,
Slackware 10 kernel 2.4.26
At last I will get tomorrow a broadband connection. The company which puts it
up informed me yesterday to buy a LAN card.
Which I did today: CNet PRO200 100/10Mbps Fast Ethernet PCI-Bus Adapter.
On the enclosed floppy in the package is a driver for Linux c
Hi,
In slackware10 for some time trying to play mp3 files I get a very distorted
sound with xmms-1.2.10. Whereas in Fedora2 mp3 files do not play at all with
xmms-1.2.10 in fact they don't enter the play list. In both the plugin for
mpeg is enabled. Playing from MusicCDs is no problem.
As far
Hi,
every now and then somebody asks how to produce special characters. May be little is known that 75 of them can be produced in xterm on a US keyboard by pressing Alt or Alt/Shift plus the character.
For example: ® ¾ ² £ ° © Ü ï ñ etc, etc.
If I need any one I copy in xterm and past
Many thanks to all for the excellent replies, I will come back to it after the
holidays.
Have a good celebration for the New Year and all
the Best therein.
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Season Greetings,
Slackware 10, Kernel 2.4.26
I got myself an Asus Atapi CD-RW-Drive and I am not sure if this was the right
choice for Linux. I was able to make it work following the instruction of the
program xcdroast, however, some things seem strange.
I always get error messages telling no
Hi,
Slackware 10
When I switch to kernel 2.6.7 I get the following error message on boot:
* Warning: The dma on your hard drive is turned off. *
* This may really slow down the fsck process. *
Apparently with the command "hdparm -d /dev/hda" dma is turned on.
Where in /etc/rc.d if that is th
Hi,
Slackware 10.
I am trying to change my hard drive. I duly copied all partitions and
files to the new drive with 'tar -C "$1" -cOl . | tar -C "$2" -xpf - '. Now
when I boot I get:
Freeing unused kernel memory: 120 K freed.
Warning unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: no ini
Hi,
How do I get the Euro Money Sign onto my keyboard?
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Hi,
When I used RedHat 7.3 and earlier versions in /etc/ppp/options I put the
entry "idle 300" which caused the connection to the Internet to disconnect
after 300 seconds when there were no more packets coming in or out using
wvdial.
This was useful in case one forgot to disconnect after e.g.
Hi,
I am using slackware 9.1 and have Dropline Gnome 2.6 installed even so I am
using fvwm2 as my desktop.
If I do use gnome-session and then minimize an open window I can't retrieve it
anymore no matter what combination of ctrl, alt, mouse clicks and Fx keys I
use. They have just vanished. Th
Hi,
In the terminal Xterm one can produce special characters by pressing Alt + key
such as
Alt 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 0 - = \ q gives
± ² ³ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ ° ½ Ü ñ
and many more.
This can only be done with xterm and not in any other terminal, various
editors or word processors.
Why is that? Would i
Hi,
can the program "fips" be used to safely partition a hard drive with Windows
XP installed in preparation for a linux installation?
Thanks
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Thanks for any help! I solved the problem. I installed the kernel of
slackware9.1 2.4.22 and my good old Epson LX-800 came to live. This is not
the first time this kernel 2.4.20-20.9 did mess-up things. How much time
wasted by Richard and myself on account of an apparent defective kernel from
Hi,
On a standalone PC with no modem and therefore no Internet connection and
RH 9.0 installed I am unable to get the printer to work.
On booting starting lpd I get:
--localhost Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP address not available!
The same message I get when trying to print a test page in prin
Hi,
the gdcalc, an excellent calculator program, has a currency converter function.
Does anybody know how to update this funtion.
On http://sedumi.freeshell.org/psion/update.txt one can download the latest
currencies exchange rates, however, I can not find a way to put them into
gdcalc.
Appar
Thanks Sam,
I got it w/o the mozplugger.
In slackware Netscape Preferences-Navigator-Helper Applications I had to
enable audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin to open with realplay.
In RedHat Netscape there are no Helper Applications and Realplayer will just
pop-up when called for.
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Hi,
In slackware 9.1 where I had to change from alsa to OSS sound system due to
distorted sounds with alsa I still can not open kde desktop.
Trying to do so I get a continuous, annoying buzz, necessitating a quick
ctrl-alt-backspace retreat.
This shows on the console:
AudioIO::close(): enteri
Hi,
In slackware 9.1 where I had to change from alsa to OSS sound system due to
distorted sounds with alsa I still can not open kde desktop.
Trying to do so I get a continuous, annoying buzz, necessitating a quick
ctrl-alt-backspace retreat.
This shows on the console:
AudioIO::close(): enteri
Hi,
in slackware 9.1 suddenly gnumeric-1.2.5-i686-1dl does not open. Typing
gnumeric from the command line the CPU Load and Busy indicator start working
till I do ^c to kill the pid.
I rebooted, un-installed gnumeric, re-installed it, the same it will not open.
There are no error messages. ldd
Hi,
I have been spam free for the past 6 months. Now all of a sudden I get regular
spam by apparently a subscriber this list linux-newbie.
Is it only me since I see no one else is complaining?
Can it be stopped at the source that is at linux-newbie?
What information is needed? The spam comes w
OK we can say then that in Linux an e-mail program will use the login name as
the host name for e-mailing unless a program like sylpheed has it built-in not
to do so or one takes special efforts to pinch a program not to do it. Which
means the easiest way out is to use ones 'login name' as 'host
Thanks Ray,
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> using.. How *do* you get your mail? That is, what do you mean by "directly"?
> I've been assuming (as have, I imagine, others) that you get your mail
> through an ISP (or, as you now remind us, several ISPs) using POP
May be my confusing answer on how I re
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> It will only work if you have an account or an alias on your providers site
> for heisspf.
I do not have an account with my provider and get my mail directly even using
different ISPs.
>> Now I add "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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> I presume that is a
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