No, the card doesn't show up when I do a "lspci". Does that mean I've
got a bad card?
Thanks,
Ben
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:15:08AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 13/05/02 Benjamin Pharr did speaketh:
>
> > I just bought a Soundblaster Live! soundcard
I just bought a Soundblaster Live! soundcard, and I can't get it to
work. I'm running Debian GNU/Linux with the 2.4.19-pre8 kernel. When I
do a "modprobe emu10k1" it says:
/lib/modules/2.4.19-pre8/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o:
init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused
Image resolution is out of bounds, using default resolution instead.
I get this message when opening photos in Gimp. These photos in
particular are ones that have been scanned by Wal-Mart when they process
my 35mm film. Any ideas why I'm getting this?
Thanks,
Ben Pharr
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I am running testing and when I switch over to TTY1 (or any virtual
console for that matter) from X, X nearly always crashes and restarts
gdm. Has anyone had this happen to them and does anyone know how to keep
it from happening? Thanks in advance.
Ben Pharr
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I have everything other than my web site creation migrated over to
Linux. I am stuck with Dreamweaver in Windows. Is there a Linux product
that offers the template feature of Dreamweaver? Thanks in advance.
Ben Pharr
nyone have any ideas?
Ben Pharr
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 04:02:54PM -0500, dman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:35:17PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote:
> | Is there a way to install or dist-upgrade with apt-get even when there
> | are broken dependencies?
>
> Which dependencies are
:55PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> Benjamin Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Is there a way to install or dist-upgrade with apt-get even when
> > there are broken dependencies?
>
> You need to use 'apt-get -f install' to fix the broken dependencies
> first.
Is there a way to install or dist-upgrade with apt-get even when there
are broken dependencies?
Ben Pharr
Does anyone know of any Linux cooking software? I'm thinking something
similar to Mastercook for Windows. Thanks in advance.
Ben Pharr
When I send e-mail from my Debian box, Exim is adding a Sender header on
the way out. I tried adding my username to trusted_users in
/etc/exim/exim.conf, but Exim dies saying it can't find that user. Any
ideas? Thanks in advance!
Ben Pharr
I agree with you for the most part, but you should be aware this works the
other way in certain situations. I recently compressed a text file full of
numbers with both bzip2 and gzip, and the bzip2 file was ~350MB and the
gzip file was ~120MB. I surprised me, too, but in some cases gzip works
m
I have a program that I've written that needs to be cross compiled to a
machine running SunOS 5.7 on a Ultra Sparc. I also need to cross compile it
to Windows. How do I need to go about doing that? If you're going to tell
me to RTFM then make sure you tell me which FM.
To complicate things the
This is a kernel problem, nothing to do with Debian. It has been posted to
the linux-kernel list, but no fix has been posted yet. This may be another
case where they fix it and make another release in a SHORT period of time.
Commenting out the two references to the function and recompiling seem
LyX is not setting the margins to the values I specified. I tried the
hoffset/voffset trick in the preamble, but that just scooted everything.
Now my top and left margins are correct, but the bottom and right margins
are huge. I tried tweaking the margins under Layout->Document, but it
doesn't
I am running testing, and when I run emacs and do a C-h p, it can't find
any of the libraries. It will list them just fine, but when you try a
particular one it says:
Can't find library *blah*.el
Any ideas?
Ben Pharr
I'm looking for a program to cache Setiathome packets, both incoming and
outgoing. Does anyone know of any such program for Linux? If so, is it
packaged for Debian? Thanks!
Ben Pharr
Hi guys, I'm having a bit of a problem with my laptop. I'm not blaming it
on any particular software or OS, but I thought someone might could help me
out. My laptop dual boots Win98 and Debian (testing) using LILO. I can
boot up into Linux any time I want to, no problem. However, if I'm in
I ran xf86config to make a XF86Config-4 (which I knew to do, but I thought
setup was supposed to do that for me), but now I'm still getting the "Can't
stat /etc/X11/X" message. I was getting it before, but I thought it was
just because X was looking at the wrong configuration file. I know
/et
At 11:12 PM 3/22/01 , you wrote:
Everyone please jump on me if I'm incorrect, but I think once you've seen
the "Starting Windows 95" text anything that happens is beyond the control
of lilo?
I realize it's beyond the control of LILO, but it obviously has something
to do with Debian. This is
Right now wvdial is messed up in testing and everytime I install something
else or do a dist-upgrade it asks me the four configuration questions for
the package. How can I get it back to only asking the questions the first
time? Thanks!
Ben Pharr
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At 10:22 AM 3/15/01 , you wrote:
I'm looking at NFS-mounting /usr for a largish number of machines, with the
basic idea that then I can just keep the binaries on the central server up-to
date and the workstations will all follow along with (hopefully) a minimum of
effort. I'm a little concerned
When lines for woody are added to /etc/apt/sources.list, should the lines
for potato be taken out or left in? Thanks!
Ben Pharr
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I just did a fresh install of woody and ximian gnome on my
laptop. Everything seems to be working fine, but when I try to login using
gdm it goes black like it's going into X and then goes right back to
gdm. No errors of any kind appear. I've checked all the logs including
the .xsession-erro
I'm trying to set up NTP on my Debina server. I installed NTP using
apt-get and then added several:
server servername.com
lines to the /etc/ntp.conf file. It's been over a month, and my time
continues to wander and /var/log/ntpstats is empty. I can't find any
errors in any of my log files. Ca
I added Ximian Gnome to my testing box yesterday, but when I try to use
Sawfish as my window manager it justs sits there. It shows the "standard"
X background, but nothing else. There are no errors on the screen and
sawfish is listed in a "ps aux", but it's sleeping. Anyone else had this
pro
Every once in a while I slip up at cat a binary file to the console. (Or
just forget to give mkisofs the -o flag.) This causes the console to use
WEIRD characters, just plain gibberish. Is there any way to get rid of
this without rebooting? Thanks!
Ben Pharr
At 07:26 AM 2/1/01 , you wrote:
Quoting Benjamin Pharr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I have a couple of security related questions for you. I have no need for
> sunrpc/portmap, however, I have found it impossible to discern which
> package these belong to.
up to potato: /etc/init.d/portmap
At 04:28 AM 2/1/01 , Pietro Cagnoni wrote:
> Second question. I have a mystery service running on port 1024. I
fairly
> certain I haven't been hacked, but, who knows? When I do a "nmap
> localhost" port 1024 shows up as "unknown". How can I find out which
> daemon is bound to 1024? Thanks i
I have a couple of security related questions for you. I have no need for
sunrpc/portmap, however, I have found it impossible to discern which
package these belong to.
Second question. I have a mystery service running on port 1024. I fairly
certain I haven't been hacked, but, who knows? Wh
About a week ago I did a "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" in order to move from
potato to woody. When some of the packages were installing I got an
error. I figured some of the packages were just broken so I gave it a few
days. Today I went back and typed:
apt-get clean
apt-get update
apt-get -f i
Late last week I installed potato from a CD onto my test box. I
dist-upgraded all the packages in stable, built a 2.4 kernel, and installed
modutils from unstable so I could load modules from 2.4.0. At this point
everything was still going fine, not a problem in site. Next I add sources
for
At 01:38 PM 1/25/01 , you wrote:
Sorry if it's a usual problem, but I can't find info in the archives.
Here it is
(it's pine 3-96)
apt-get source -b pine
and then:
install bin/pine debian/tmp/usr/bin
install: cannot stat `bin/pine': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [binaryPine] Error
Has anyone been able to use passwords with LILO? I've tried the method in
the lilo.conf (where password tag is global) and the method on the man page
(where password tag is per image) , but neither work. Thanks in advance!
Ben Pharr
At 12:31 AM 1/23/01 , you wrote:
<0880.0002>>60b7b4e.jpgmail\attach\Re mkisofs.ems <0880.0002>> Re mkisofs.ems
OK, fair enough, I removed the Joliet flag, gave it a try, and I still have
the same errors. Anybody else?
Ben Pharr
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I'm trying to make an iso of a directory structure on my hard drive using
mkisofs. I have Rock Ridge and Joliet enabled (along with a few other
things), but it gives me an error saying the files with the same name, but
in different directories have the same Rock Ridge name. Then it says
"Unab
At 11:49 AM 1/22/01 , you wrote:
My Netgear FA311 Card was not found at bootstrapping (rescue disk).
I were not able to install the recommended 'tulip' driver into the kernel at
installation process.
I wanted to install the 'tulip' driver as a module, after I build my system,
but /dev/eth0 did n
Can anyone tell me which package owns the /etc/alternatives/vi file? Thanks!
Ben Pharr
I'm having a bit of a problem getting pine to compile on Debian. I
installed the src and the diffs package and then followed the instructions
in the README. It compiles for several minutes and then starts giving errors.
os.c:1122
invalid operands to binary ==
incompatible type for argument2 o
I'm running potato with MD5 password hashing enabled. Crack works fine
when used on a system that uses standard crypt(). I would like to run
crack to test my users passwords. I changed the Crack script to gcc
settings and moved and copied the files I was supposed to for MD5. When I
did a ".
While logging into my Debian box using ssh I noticed that it is setup to
use SSH version 1 by default. This protocol is widely known to have
security problems. Does anyone know why Debian is still using it? Below I
have pasted a link from the official ssh.org FAQ.
http://www.employees.org/~
What is the easiest way to make a copy of a CD in Linux? Thanks!
Ben
You can only get security upgrades for packages that you have installed.
You may not have others installed at all. Check non-upgraded packages'
status.
You are absolutely right. That was just too obvious for me. Thanks!
Ben Pharr
At 09:47 PM 1/17/01 , you wrote:
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:36:06PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote:
> Is there any way I can "apt-get" the patches for the security updates on
> Debian.org? Thanks!
Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://security.debian.org sta
Is there any way I can "apt-get" the patches for the security updates on
Debian.org? Thanks!
Ben Pharr
At 10:52 PM 1/16/01 , you wrote:
If you compile all modules for scsi emulation of CDRW you need in
the kernel config:
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m for ide-scsi module...scsi emulation
CONFIG_SCSI=m scsi-mod scsi support
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m sr_mod
At 10:49 PM 1/16/01 , you wrote:
Mike wrote:
> > Here's his problem:
> >
> > > > 2. Added append="hdd=ide-scsi" to my /etc/lilo.conf
> >
> > Should just be "hdd=scsi". Search for "=scsi" in
> > linux/Documentation/Configure.help for more info.
>
> Uhh, you sure
At 09:41 PM 1/16/01 , you wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:21:57PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote:
> When I run "cdrecord -scanbus" I still get no devices. If I comment out
> the "append" in lilo.conf hdd is mentioned once more at boot time, so
> something is happ
I'm still having difficulties getting my cd writer to work. Here is what
I've done so far:
Recompiled my (2.4.0) kernel with scsi-emulation and scsi
support. IDE-CDROM support is compiled in statically.
1. apt-get install cdrecord
2. Added append="hdd=ide-scsi" to my /etc/lilo.conf
3. Ran l
I have an IDE CDRW drive that I want to be able to use in linux. I have
done "apt-get install cdrecord". I have read the CD Writing HOWTO and I
know I have to enable SCSI emulation, but can anyone who has done it in
Debian tell me the easiest way? Thanks!
Ben Pharr
My new desktop is ?blessed? with an Intel i810 chipset that is not
supported under XFree86 3.3.6. I have found instructions that make it work
with the 2.2.18 kernel and others that make X 4.0.? work with kernel
2.4.0. However, I want 3.3.6 with 2.4.0. ( This is due to the fact that
my attemp
I need to start up a program (setiathome) as non-root from the startup
scripts. I have access to the scripts, I just want it to run as a regular
user. Can anyone tell me how? Thanks in advance!
Ben Pharr
I got my ethernet card up and running. Thanks!
Previously I was running Slackware, so I'm used to the BSD style of init,
however
Taking a look at the symlinks in rc0.d in appears that S35networking would
be starting up the network. Can anyone explain this to me? Thanks!
Ben
I finally found the right kernel options for my ethernet card, so now the
kernel recognizes it, but I need to setup dhcp support to configure eth0
at boot time. pump is already installed, but it doesn't seem to be doing
anything. I tried installing dhcpcd, but it conflicted with pump. Any
i
At 11:28 PM 1/11/01 , Kenward Vaughan wrote:
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:01:13PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote:
> I have several modules in the /etc/modules file that are supposed to be
> loaded upon boot. I receive an error message for each one saying that
> can't be loaded. I
I have several modules in the /etc/modules file that are supposed to be
loaded upon boot. I receive an error message for each one saying that
can't be loaded. I know they were built and installed. I have checked and
they are in the right place. I have tried to load them manually with
insmod
I needed to install libncurses5-dev, but it wasn't on the CD and my NIC
still isn't working in Linux. (It's a NetGear FA311 if anyone has
experience with it.) I switched into Win98, downloaded it, and went back
into Linux. I copied the .deb file into /root/ and ran
dpkg -A libncurses5-dev-y
I can't use 'make menuconfig' when trying to use the kernel because ncurses
is not installed. I have tried:
apt-get install ncurses
apt-get install libncurses
apt-get install libncurses-dev
all with no luck. I'm not very familiar with the Debian packaging system,
so could someone help me out
I have just installed Debian 2.2r2 on my desktop and I other than
configuring LILO and installing the 2.4.0 kernel on it I have done
nothing. It boots up just fine, but if I let it sit there after booting up
it will restart, not reboot, itself. It causes fs corruption and when it
gets to the
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