sound/mixer issues

2003-09-27 Thread Bart Himel
Since my power has come back on after hurricane Isabel, none of my programs will play sound until I fidget with the volume controls. This is strange because until this week I never had to do so. I'm using unstable, with an es1371 sound card, and using aumix to load the mixer settings at start

abiword symbols

2003-02-18 Thread Bart Himel
I'm using Abiword from the Unstable archive. I cannot insert a symbol into a document. The window comes up, and I can highlight a given symbol, but cannot seem to have it inserted into the text. Plus the window will not be killed. If I try to change to a different symbol set, the pull down menu

Re: kernel modules problems

2001-09-26 Thread Bart Himel
I did, but I still get the same problem. Funny enough, I went ahead and installed the kernel, and the modules 'seem' to work okay, but I'm still concerned about that error message. At 12:11 AM 9/26/2001 -0500, ktb wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:38:53AM -0400, Bart Himel wro

kernel modules problems

2001-09-25 Thread Bart Himel
I've been a user of Debian for several years now. Due to a problem with libc last week, I had to go through the pain of reinstalling everything. Anyway, since then, every time I try to compile a new 2.4.x kernel, I get a message from depmod reporting dependency prioblems with almost ALL of my

Re: Xserver Problems

2001-04-12 Thread Bart Himel
Thanks for your help.  I changed that line in Xwrapper.config.  Now i can start X from the command line, but gdm doesn't start at startup like it's supposed to.   When I try to start X immediately from a normal user account from the command line, I get this message: "X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspici

can't log in as normal user

2001-04-12 Thread Bart Himel
Ever since I ran apt-get upgrade and got the new XFree86 4.0.2-13 packages, I can't log in to gdm as a normal user, though I can now as root since I commented out the "use-ssh-agent" line in Xsession.options file.When I try to use just startx from the command line, I'm told "user doesn't hav