Re: SB Live & kernel sound

2000-09-07 Thread Danny Pansters
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: > > > Some people say to install from unstable the debs for ALSA and then > > run alsaconf. A couple of questions - I could change my sources to > > point at unstable but I don't want to upgrade to woody

Re: KDE debs

2000-09-07 Thread Danny Pansters
Hi everyone, The kde.tdyc.com Woody tree for kde2 has been emptied, I'm sure of it because I used to apt kde2 from there. I happened to have been reinstalling my Woody box from scratch yesterday (the 6th), starting from a couple of potato disks. All went well, but when it came to installing kde2 b

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

2000-09-05 Thread Danny Pansters
ogether a server box which will hold 512 MB RAM and now I'm kinda wondering what to do with the swap size. Of course it doesn't matter to add a few hundred megs to it, but is it useful? -- Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ricin.com

Re: Burn in an ethernet device

2000-09-05 Thread Danny Pansters
terfaces. Then restart the networking daemon; /etc/init.d/networking stop|start You can also experiment by using the ifconfig program on the command line. Debian 2.2 differs a bit from 2.1, the ifconfig is a little different also. Check the man page. Good luck, -- Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: strange /var/log/messages

2000-09-03 Thread Danny Pansters
t; I see those all day long. -- I have those too, I don't believe they mean anything bad is going on, but I also would like to know what exactly this is. I always thought it were kernel messages relating to memory swapping or network checks or something. Thanks, Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ricin.com

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-03 Thread Danny Pansters
Sorry there, I didn't read everything, you've already tried that. -- Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ricin.com

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-03 Thread Danny Pansters
btw. xf86config isnt as hard as it seems, give it a go. good luck, -- Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ricin.com

Re: stupid question

2000-09-03 Thread Danny Pansters
n > 'in X' and 'X not running', then getting rid of *dm is appropriate (though > you could also use `/etc/init.d/*dm stop`, do your console stuff, and > `/etc/init.d/*dm start`). Exactly, then you can kill your xdm and your X and look into the problem at the first place

Re: I hosed my network

2000-09-03 Thread Danny Pansters
r to check the setups once again than to find the exact problem from diagnostic output. I don't believe you have a hardware problem and certainly not an IRQ problem!! The networking HOWTO will likely be needed. Good luck, -- Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ricin.com

Re: Strange KDE2 Language Problem after recent update, help pls.

2000-09-01 Thread Danny Pansters
I run kde2 from the deb packages provided at kde.tdyc.com, I use apt to update them, kde2 works well (bit slow though). Did you try to dpkg --purge any international kde packages (the ones that are about other charsets/languages)? I think something might be broken there (?) -- Danny Pansters

Re: linux telephony?

2000-09-01 Thread Danny Pansters
This might have been said earlier in this thread (in which case I apologise), but I think there is a HOWTO on Linux Telephony.. $ cd /usr/doc/HOWTO/en-txt $ zless LINUX_TELEPHONY_OR_THE_LIKE.gz I don't think it's trivial though. Dan -- Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ricin.com

Re: What are the Essential Packages?

2000-09-01 Thread Danny Pansters
et away with two disks and a lot of apting... anyhow I think it makes sense to initially narrow down your packages installs as much as possible. Greetings to everyone, Dan -- Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ricin.com

Re: Please remove me from the subscription list......

2000-09-01 Thread Danny Pansters
t; > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > > /dev/null LOL -- Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ricin.com

Re: FTP and Firewall

2000-09-01 Thread Danny Pansters
eway box. The local net is masqueraded as the "outer" IP# of the box connected to the cable ISP. All works well, I have the box load the masq modules for ftp and the like (even icq) on start-up; all but ftp'ing to my workstation from my gateway box. Same problem. Que? Anyone? Dan -- Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ricin.com

Re: sound blaster live

2000-09-01 Thread Danny Pansters
I'm not sure about SB Live, but shouldn't it also work as es1371 just like SB128? or does it have a different chipset? -- Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ricin.com

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Danny Pansters
> the '/dev' directory? it's hard for me to believe. if you > truly don't have any such item, i'm not sure how to create > it; but it shoula been created when you formatted your > linux/unix system... [very big albeit interesting snip] No he's saying he

Re: block pings

2000-08-29 Thread Danny Pansters
it again (hint: it involves running sysctrl again :-). What the hell, -- Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED]