Microphone on Macbook

I recently installed Debian Etch on my Macbook(Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz, 1GB RAM). I followed the helpful wiki entry at http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook However, configuring the microphone to work seems to be needlessly complicated. I am reluctant to try out compiling the kernel and patching it as sugge

Re: Anyone using Debian on notebook?

Hi, I am running Debian on a Macbook. I used the Etch DVDs for install, and I followed the instructions on the wiki entry http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook I think that made most things work for me, including wireless, touchpad and sound. Microphone worked after an alsa upgrade. Everything runs very

stormix package ..?

Hi, Where did you get sl-stormpkg_1.0-1_i386.deb package from. I did search in stormix.com but couldnot find it!! Could you give me the exact location please? Suresh -- Suresh Kumar.R, Email: [EMAIL

Again a stormix question

Hi, If I use stormix, would I be able to manage the machine later without using any stormix tools, but using only whatever is available with standard debian systems. Or in otherwords, what I am asking is will the initial usage of stormix for installation make me force to use stormix always as done

Web interface for spice

Dear fellow debians, Kindly excuse me if this posting was completely in a wrong list. A group of students of my university is interested developing a web interface for the berkeley spice program which has been ported to linux by someone. The advantage of having such an interface is that it woul

Diff window manager

Hi, Can different users select different window managers if it is mentioned in the /etc/X11/window-managers file.? Suresh -- Suresh Kumar.R, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Electronics & Communic

Window manager not starting on upgrade to potato

Hi, I upgraded my deb 2.1 to potato. There were no error messages during the upgrade, but now after the upgrade no window managers are starting. I get just a blank xterm like stuff and if I run fvwm95, fvwm95 window manager starts as expected. But it doesnt come automatically as we log in.

autofs and nis

Hi, How do we know that the auto.master and other autofs files are available on the client machine via nis ? What I mean is , on a client machine we can check for the availability of the passwd files by typing ypcat passwd. What is auto*.* equivalent. Should we do anything on the nis server to m

Re: FW: ppp help

Pl read /usr/doc/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 04:54:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey Debian-heads, > Thanks for the reply... > I've only installed the potato base-1-11.bin discs. > I wanted to use apt-get to install the rest of the system. > I can't seem to get my modem to dia

Re: Install-boot failure

Hi, In my case, on one machine, I tried with boot diskette, the two cdroms(slink and potato), but in all cases, I got stuck with the same problem. So as of now, all options of installing debian (local + thru net) seems gone. Suresh On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 08:02:37AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote

newusers command

Hi, I used newusers command to create large numbers of users. I find that 1. it doesnot copy files from /etc/skel to the home directory. Should it be enabled in some way ? 2. Also, it creates users with ids greater that what is existing already. (As I understand from the source code) By defaul

Re: emacs not obeying .Xdefaults, Thank you

Hi, Thanks for the help. I put them in .Xresources and it worked fine Suresh -- Suresh Kumar.R, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695

Installation of .tgz files

Hi, When we install some package using .tgz files, the debian package mechanism is not aware that the particular package is installed. For ex. I installed postfix*.tgz but apt is unaware of it. Therefore, when I use apt-get for installilng something else, it would say, MTA not installed and it w

Re: newusers command

Hi, Does adduser support reading data from a file? For large number of users like in our case (around 500) interactive entry for each user is not a desirable option. Suresh On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 11:40:32AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

unable to unmount

Hi, If I mount a cdrom and nfs mount it on some other machines, even after the other machine is switched off, I am unable to umount the cdrom from the server. I am using potato. I am forced to reboot the machine to get the cdrom out. I tried fuser but no use Any suggestions ? Suresh

Re: system lock on boot

Hi, I had the same problem, being unable boot of the cd from some machines where I could successfully install redhat linux. And I am still unable to install debian on them. Suresh On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:43:05PM -0700, e3c wrote: > Thank you for your reply, > > What I thought was Debian l

Re: unable to unmount

Hi, What I meant is, even if umount the cdrom drive from the client and then do a shutdown even, I am unable to umount cdrom from the server. This typically happens after my remote installation of debian/redhat linuxes. > > If I mount a cdrom and nfs mount it on some other machines, even after >

Re: Printing Failure

Hi, There is printtool package in potato which could be installed on slink as well. Why dont you just try that too. (It is an RH package basically, I think) Suresh On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 07:07:53AM -0500, Brian S Enyart wrote: > I'm running into a problem with the printer lately. Nothing is >

Re: unable to unmount

Hi, I have just one more question. This problem wouldnt happen if I just mount the cdrom on the server, use it locally and after sometime I can unmount it. Then also nfsd should be accessing it as /cdrom is there in my exports list and preventing me from umounting? I am confused... Could you cla

Re: New LINUX USER

Try Xconfigurator On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 03:20:47PM +0530, Dhinesh K Kumar wrote: > hello, > i have installed Red Hat Linux in my PC. i am finding problems in > configuring my monitor and Video card. Can u help me in this regard? >Monitor : Samsung SAMTRON 40Bn >Video Card : Cirrus L

webct 3.1 and debian 2.2

Hi, Has anyone installed webct 3.1 on any debian 2.2 ? The webct people say that they dont support debian but only redhat 6.2. What happens when we install webct on debian is that the authentication fails. Any suggestion is welcome. I would appreciate if you sent a cc of your reply mail to [E

authentication problem in apache in debian

Hello, A software called webct (written in perl) runs beautifully in a redhat box while it shows an authentication error in debian. The webct installs it's own apache and the error is from apache's authenticationmechanism. With my little knowledge I found that the authentication details are k

nfs server -- please help

Hi, We in our university, have a linux network with the nfs server on debian potato machine connected to around 30 machines. The file server runs a samba server also. All the machines are connected via utp cables using a 10mbps hub. The setup works fine when all clients runs windows nt and the

how to download debian

Hi, I tried downloading debian using psudo image kit. Many servers I tried didnt allow downloading. It just stops connecting. Somesites allows to download upto a few Mbs and then halts. Reconnection doesnt help Where can we download it from? Thanks Suresh -

web based email client

Hello I would like to hear from you about the best web based email client that would run on a debian potato machine. I have a postfix running on a debian potator 2.2 and I would like to have web based email access available to all users. Your suggestions and experiences are most welcome. Tha

php4 not working

Hello, I installed php4 on my potato system and is not working in the sense, when I call a php4 file, the browser gives download option instead of rendering it on screen. Php3 was working fine but for some applications I upgraded it to php4 and I am in trouble now. My version of php4 is 4.0.3

funny apache behaviour

Hello, I installed php4 with apache in my potato machine and now index.php3 is taken only if we append a / to the path's end. For example if I type http://localhost/webmail/ it works but it will not if I type it as http://localhost/webmail. BTW, I was trying to install imp. Any ideas? Thank y

3nics and routing...

try to traceroute to 210.212.236.105, it reaches the correct card in the firewall but from there it times out. (no ipchain rules running right now). Any suggestions ? Suresh = Suresh Kumar R. Assistant Professor Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Enginee

3 nic and routing

to 210.212.236.105, it reaches the correct card in the firewall but from there it times out. (no ipchain rules running right now). Any suggestions ? Suresh = Suresh Kumar R. Assistant Professor Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 016, I

Re: 3nics and routing...

00 eth0 cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward gives out 1. Ping to 210.212.236.105 also times out as usual Any suggestions please... Suresh --- Suresh Kumar R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 14:58, Suresh Kumar R wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I