Re: laptop environment detection

2003-01-22 Thread Thomas Hood
e iface eth0-home inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.254 Other network configuration can be done in pre-up and (post-)up scripts. This could include things like backing up files onto a docking station. Thus, one could add the lines up bind-forw

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-25 Thread Thomas Hood
vv has made it into testing; and likewise libc6. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-26 Thread Thomas Hood
Some of the formatting may be out of whack, but here goes. // Thomas Hood APT_PREFERENCES(5) APT_PREFERENCES(5) NAME apt_preferences - Preference control f

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread Thomas Hood
If you are using hostname version 2.11 then you should upgrade to version 2.12 . More info at bugreport #223521. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 15:34, Michael D. Harnois wrote: > On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 04:47, Thomas Hood wrote: > > If you are using hostname version 2.11 then you should > > upgrade to version 2.12 . More info at bugreport #223521. > > How very odd. Yes, that does make hostname

Re: DFSG-free replacement of DJBDNS ?

2004-11-27 Thread Thomas Hood
rders, which will work, but it will go to the root servers quite > often ... The resolvconf package will update BIND's forwarders statement automagically. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Missing ALSA driver?

2004-12-03 Thread Thomas Hood
f ALSA. The ALSA driver is named 'snd-emu10k1x'. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound/alsa: missing dependencies

2004-12-05 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 16:10:10 +0100, michael wrote: > I've run `alsaconf` but it gives errors (below) There is a problem with the alsa-modules package in the archive. You need to build your own alsa-modules package from alsa-source using make-kpkg. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: sound/alsa: missing dependencies

2004-12-06 Thread Thomas Hood
ernel-source-2.4.27.tar.bz2 cd kernel-source-2.4.27 apt-get install kernel-package make-kpkg --rootcmd=fakeroot modules-image -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usb audio card not listed in alsaconf

2004-12-13 Thread Thomas Hood
he name of your own driver in place of 'snd-cs46xx'. These aliases are used by /etc/apm/event.d/alsa if you have force_stop_modules_before_suspend set to "true" and possibly serve some other purposes unknown to me. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: ALSA sound gone since kernel update

2004-12-14 Thread Thomas Hood
ckages will be released that contains kernels with the old symbol version suffixes. In the meantime you can build your own alsa-modules package from the sources shipped in the alsa-source package using the make-kpkg utility (provided in the kernel-package package). -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSU

Re: Sarge Betting Pool

2004-12-17 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:10:11 +0100, William Ballard wrote: > I'll say Sarge on April 1st, 2005. Takers? March 18. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please--sound

2004-12-17 Thread Thomas Hood
reate /etc/modutils/sound with the following contents alias snd-card-0 snd-opl3sa2 alias sound-slot-0 snd-opl3sa2 -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please--sound

2004-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
when update-modules read an incorrect alsa file > in /etc/modutils. Which file are you referring to? What are the incorrect lines and how are they incorrect? Please cc: me in your reply. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: /etc writeable [was: etc writeable blah]

2004-12-21 Thread Thomas Hood
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 05:30:12 +0100, William Ballard wrote: > My bad. I should have said "what other files in /etc need > to be writeable." See http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/readonly-root.html, and especially the README files linked from it, for answers. -- Thom

Re: Sound problem.

2004-12-21 Thread Thomas Hood
not > loaded. discover1 is optional. You can also install discover (instead of discover1). Current (>= 2.0.6-1) versions of discover refrain from loading OSS modules if alsa-base (>= 1.0.7-1) has been installed. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA mixer does not unmute the volume

2004-12-23 Thread Thomas Hood
om compiled kernel. udev or not? -- Thomas Hood Please cc: me in your reply. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alsa mismatch with new kernel-image

2004-12-25 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:50:11 +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Hi Debianers, > I recently did an upgrade of the sarge kernel image from 2.4.27-2 to > 2.4.27-6. All went well except for my alsa which is now out of sink. This is known kernel bug #284356. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: resolvconf + pdnsd on a laptop

2004-12-25 Thread Thomas Hood
within a timeout period. Usually this doesn't happen.) I.e., resolv.conf does not have to be static when pdnsd is in use. The important thing is that 127.0.0.1 be the first nameserver address listed. Resolvconf updates pdnsd's list of nameservers via a pdnsd-ctl command in /etc/resolvconf/

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-26 Thread Thomas Hood
ce is currently at version 1.0.7 whereas Linux 2.6.8.1 currently contains ALSA version 1.0.4. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-27 Thread Thomas Hood
ng > happened (?). Are the required sound device files all there? If you use devfs or udev then the devices will be created automatically. If not then you may need to run /usr/share/alsa-base/snddevices. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: XMMS produces tons of errors with ALSA output

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
. Is #284900 and/or #238323 related to your problem? (I got these numbers from the xmms changelog which indicates that they are about ALSA and pausing.) If so then reopen them and add your information. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get Sound to work - Need step by step instructions

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
oader is especially dangerous; recommending that to a newbie is irresponsible.) If you choose #2 then there are more people here who can help you. If you choose #2 then I would recommend you get a copy of Ubuntu Linux which is a newbie-friendly free Debian derivative: www.ubuntu.com. -- Thomas Hood

Re: ifupdown locking up when bringing down bridge devices

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:50:07 +0100, Justin Searle at 015 wrote: > unregister_netdevice: waiting for br0 to become free. Usage count = 1 This is a kernel bug. Search the linux-kernel archives and if you don't find the bug reported there already, submit a bug report to the list. -- Tho

Re: Installing alsa-modules will remove discover1

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
lling alsa-modules. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tool for finding and choosing access point.

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
better once it becomes available. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA broken after upgrade

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:40:09 +0100, Hank Marquardt wrote: > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in Known kernel bug #284356 / #287483. Short-term solution: Build your own alsa-modules package from alsa-source using make-kpkg. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Ugly sarge upgrade -- kernel 2.4.27-2 > 2.4.27-6

2005-01-04 Thread Thomas Hood
emoving the alsa > modules yet; will try that tonight. I also noticed that hotplug > produces numerous error messages during boot-up. Building your own alsa-modules package may fix the problem. This may be bug #284356. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How To install ALSA (and uninstall OSS??)

2005-01-05 Thread Thomas Hood
vices rather than to OSS devices; do this by installing libesd-alsa0 in place of libesd0. Applications such as xmms that run in a GNOME environment are normally configured to send their output to esd and won't have to be reconfigured. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: problem bringing up eth0

2005-05-07 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sat, 07 May 2005 03:00:12 +0200, germ germ wrote: > I configured /etc/network/interfaces as: > iface eth0 inet dhcp > iface lo inet loopback > auto eth0 lo Make it: auto lo eth0 so that the loopback interface is configured first. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-16 Thread Thomas Hood
links. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to change hostname

2005-05-22 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 20 May 2005 10:00:19 +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: > What is the debain way to change to hostname of a system. Run "hostname NEWHOSTNAME" and put NEWHOSTNAME into /etc/hostname. If occurrences of OLDHOSTNAME appear in /etc/hosts, change them to NEWHOSTNAME. The mailname serves a different

Re: esd hanging

2005-05-22 Thread Thomas Hood
r than /dev/dsp. To configure esd to output to ALSA rather than OSS, simply install libesd-alsa0 instead of libesd0. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network Setup Help

2005-05-22 Thread Thomas Hood
On Mon, 16 May 2005 21:50:18 +0200, Donald Perkovich wrote: > I installed Debian 3.0r4 onto a machine yesterday and things seemed to > go alright. When I started the machine up today, I found I have no > networking. OK, let's try to figure out what's wrong. > There are two NICs but no device

Anyone using libasound2-plugins?

2005-05-22 Thread Thomas Hood
Does anyone use the libasound2-plugins package? If so then please send me a note. If not then the package will be omitted from the 1.0.9 release of the Debian ALSA packages. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Alsa not working after reboot

2005-06-04 Thread Thomas Hood
See the "loading modules" section of /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/README.Debian.gz. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA sound card driver problem

2005-06-13 Thread Thomas Hood
sound levels will be restored from a file after reboot. To store the sound levels in the file, run "alsactl store". -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound problems with 2.6

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Hood
and: alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 options snd-intel8x0 index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371 options snd-ens1371 index=1 -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alsa and kernel 2.4.27-2-686

2005-06-17 Thread Thomas Hood
For information about the "Unresolved symbols" error message, read Debian bug report #302188 at http://bugs.debian.org/302188 . In order to eliminate the "alsactl restore" error message, run "alsactl store" once as root. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Changing named forwarders on ppp startup?

2000-09-05 Thread Thomas Hood
automagically? Thomas Hood

Re: Changing named forwarders on ppp startup?

2000-09-05 Thread Thomas Hood
I wrote: > What I would like to know is how I can set up named so that it uses > the two ISP-provided namservers as forwarders. Is there a standard > way of doing this? If so, what is it? If not, should the ppp > scripts be enhanced to do it automagically? I should have mentioned that I don't w

Re: Changing named forwarders on ppp startup?

2000-09-07 Thread Thomas Hood
> If this is the best solution then > I'll submit it as a wishlist item for the bind package. I have submitted it as a wishlist item for the ppp package. Thomas

Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-11 Thread Thomas Hood
I suggest that you check out the "noflushd" daemon in the woody archive. Thomas Hood

Re: The ALSA driver in potato is very outdated :-(

2000-06-16 Thread Thomas Hood
.15-1_i386.deb alsa-utils_0.5.8-1.deb esound-common_0.2.18-2.deb esound-alsa_0.2.18-2.deb libasound1_0.5.8-1.deb libesd-alsa0_0.2.18-2.deb gamix_1.09p11-1.deb Tip: If you use xmms, choose the esd output plugin. -- Thomas Hood > Hi All, > > I had some troubles with ALSA drivers, provid

Re: ibm thinkpad 380Z serial port trouble

2000-06-30 Thread Thomas Hood
> I've recieved a thinkpad 380Z :-) > I've partitioned disk and installed w2000 on a partition with "Thinkpad > Configuration" > On the other partition I've installed debian from a cd with kernel > 2.2.12 > Problem is I can't connect throught PPP in order to update debian from > the internet > Lin

ThinkPad 600, kernel 2.2.17pre6, and hibernation

2000-07-12 Thread Thomas Hood
hat has fixed the problem described above. Thomas Hood

Re: ThinkPad 600, kernel 2.2.17pre6, and hibernation

2000-07-19 Thread Thomas Hood
s upcoming ThinkPad T20 with Caldera Linux preload, and that the resulting mods will be fed back to the ALSA project. Good news.) Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] My (RedHat with a dab of Debian) Linux on ThinkPad 600 page: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600lnx.htm ThinkPad Configu

Re: esd says "unable to bind port 16001"

2000-07-19 Thread Thomas Hood
Try "ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1". Thomas Hood

Setting configure options when using make-kpkg

2001-03-05 Thread Thomas Hood
nswer if I ran "Configure". Unfortunately it doesn't answer them the way I want. How should I set things up so that make-kpkg will give the answers I want? Thomas Hood Please reply to jdthood_AT_yahoo.co.uk (with '_AT_' replaced by '@').

Re: Setting configure options when using make-kpkg

2001-03-05 Thread Thomas Hood
doesn't answer them the way I want. How should I set > things up so that make-kpkg will give the answers I want? > > Thomas Hood > Please reply to jdthood_AT_yahoo.co.uk (with '_AT_' replaced by '@'). >

Re-enabling Debian menus in Helix GNOME foot menu

2000-10-12 Thread Thomas Hood
Here's something it took me a while to figure out. To enable the Debian menu hierarchy in Helix GNOME, you have to go into the GNOME Control Center (under Programs|Settings) and on the "Menu" tab in the "Global Menu" box enable "Distribution" either "in the menu" or "in a submenu". Thomas Hood

Re: Getting Gnome to run (unable to bind port 16001)

2000-05-31 Thread Thomas Hood
ly I saw something in the Debian mailing list archive which suggested doing the ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 and this fixed the named access problem. On a hunch I checked esd and it was fixed too. Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: esound (woody) broken?

2000-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
Dietmar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As already postet twice, I have problems with sound after installing potato. > I'm > using just the same sound card. (Creative PCI 128-Ensoniq 1371) Whenever I > use gnome > or sawfish with sound-support everything on my X-server freezes while I play > mp3s.

Re: esound (woody) broken?

2000-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
ound hardware directly through these files, esd and in turn GNOME would be blocked. But when I selected the esound output plug for xmms the problem went away. The purpose of esd, after all, is to allow multiple processes to access the sound hardware simultaneously without blocking one another. Thomas Hood

Re: 2.4 kernel, problems shutting down eth0 interface

2001-01-26 Thread Thomas Hood
Hi. I just want to let you know that I have run into exactly the same behavior as you did. Originally I compiled my kernel with the PCMCIA driver as a module. I recompiled to make the PCMCIA driver integral (i.e., I selected "y" instead of "m" for PCMCIA in "make xconfig") and since then I have

Re: BTTV on Debian and Kernel 2.4.7

2001-08-01 Thread Thomas Hood
drivers working on a > 2.4-kernel? Experienced any problems? Are there any > changes to 2.2? By the way, do you recommend this TV card? Or what card would you recommend? I'm looking for one. Please cc: jdthood_AT_yahoo.co.uk (with '_AT_' -> '@') -- Thomas Hood

Re: ALSA problems in Debian/unstable

2001-04-28 Thread Thomas Hood
If xmms is hanging under GNOME, make sure you have xmms's esd output plugin selected, otherwise xmms and esd may contend for the audio device. For those of you moving from ALSA 0.5 to ALSA 0.9, you may have to delete your /etc/asound.conf file. If you are using gamix, you may need to get version

Re: esound and alsa not compatible?

2004-10-24 Thread Thomas Hood
lease submit this information to the BTS under issue #187730. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: esound and alsa not compatible?

2004-10-24 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:50:07 +0200, H. S. wrote: > I could do that. But how does that relate to Alsa? If I install esound, > can I just uninstall Alsa altogether? If you use ALSA and esound then you should install libesd-alsa0 instead of libesd0. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Save/restore ALSA mixer settings

2004-10-31 Thread Thomas Hood
mp;& /usr/lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install snd-cs46xx (Beware: the last line may be wrapped by my mail composer.) alsaconf should set up /etc/modprobe.d/sound for you correctly. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: init scripts?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Hood
d for use in maintainer scripts, not as a runlevel editor. Good runlevel editors are sysv-rc-conf and ksysv. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a problem about rcconf and other things

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas Hood
Don't use rcconf. Use sysv-rc-conf. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/ioctl.save

2004-01-14 Thread Thomas Hood
from Unices with a serial console and no way to set reset the linespeed at boot. With Linux we have console=tty0,speed as bootparameter anyway. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS for small network with internet connection

2003-07-12 Thread Thomas Hood
my > local dns server (dnsmasq) to /etc/resolv.conf, it is overwritten the > next time the lease is renewed. Telling dhclient.conf to _not_ write > to /etc/resolv.conf will not update my nameservers for the internet, > so there must be another way, I think. Dag -- Thomas Hood --

Wireless access point association daemon?

2003-07-24 Thread Thomas Hood
ipt. However, making the program work reliably would take more work. I would like to know if anyone has already done this work for me. TIA for any tips you can provide. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network install fails on reboot

2004-06-14 Thread Thomas Hood
Start by reading the Network Configuration chapter of the Debian Reference. It is available online here: http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-gateway.en.html -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: configuration of nsswitch.conf ignored by system

2004-08-23 Thread Thomas Hood
> I've the problem that on all debian systems (Woody, Sid) it > seems that some configuration changes of the nsswitch.conf > are ignored by the system. See #160596 and those merged with it. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: ppp problems

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Hood
s file /etc/ppp/options , in the options file for your modem /etc/ppp/options.tty*, and in the options file for your provider /etc/ppp/peers/ to see whether that option is already set. You might want to read the Networking chapter of the Debian Reference for background information. -- Thomas Hoo

Re: configuration of nsswitch.conf ignored by system

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Hood
the > bug is fixed as this is really a pain in the ass on one > of our production systems. It won't be fixed. There is a workaround, though, involving the addition of IPv6 lines to /etc/hosts. Read through all the reports carefully to get a full picture. -- Thomas Hood --

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Hood
> dnsdomainname is in /etc/resolv.conf That is true in a sense. The configuration of the resolver affects the way it looks up names and thus can affect what it returns as a canonical hostname. He continued: > NIS domain name may be in ... We are talking about the DNS domain name, not the NIS d

Re: pcmcia-cs or hotplug?

2004-08-27 Thread Thomas Hood
Stephen Patterson wrote: > I'm just wondering which of these is considere the 'official' way to > sort out pcmcia? Read the relevant section of the Networking chapter in the Debian Reference. http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-gateway.en.html#s-trigger-pcmcia --

Re: Bug#101728: ifupdown: Using logical mappings only

2004-09-05 Thread Thomas Hood
matically. An ifup command also gets executed automatically, but in this form: ifup george=hotplug In order to allow this to to have the effect of bring up interface "george" as logical interface "george" you need to add the following stanza to /etc/network/interfaces:

Re: Alsa in Debian Sarge? How to?

2004-09-05 Thread Thomas Hood
SS modules are loading then you need to configure whatever is loading them so that they don't do that. Discover and hotplug are the usual culprits. A quick hack is to move the OSS drivers out of /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/sound to some location where the module loader won

Re: where is rc.local ?

2004-09-06 Thread Thomas Hood
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 13:00:18 +0200, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > Hello All, > i want to add ip_forwarding to my > rc.local file ,but in debian i am unable to find it. http://www.desktop-linux.net/debian-rclocal.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Help with DHCP and Date Question

2004-09-12 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 03:50:03 +0200, Craig Jackson wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:29:42 -0500 > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Questions: >> >> 1. How do I install DHCP Client? > > apt-get install dhcp-client This will get you the now-obsolete "dhcp-client" package.

Re: ALSA --> Problem solved by "rm /etc/modprobe.conf"

2004-09-17 Thread Thomas Hood
odprobe.conf which prevented hotplug/udev to > read files in /etc/modprobe.d/ . See http://bugs.debian.org/271763 The current alsaconf creates an empty /etc/modprobe.conf file. This bug is fixed in CVS. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: waproamd usb interface: hotplug versus coldplug

2004-09-18 Thread Thomas Hood
e problem, so far without success. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Failed PPP hangs system

2004-09-20 Thread Thomas Hood
; What might be the root of the problem and how to fight with it? Only a buggy driver (or other kernel component) can make the whole system hang. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6 on_ac_power anacron APM fix

2004-03-10 Thread Thomas Hood
) of powermgmt-base in testing and unstable. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usage of "ifup ppp0" as opposed to "pon"

2004-03-21 Thread Thomas Hood
ection -- so the "up" commands get run too early. A similar problem afflicts the "post-down" commands. Until this bug is fixed you have to put "up" commands into a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ and "post-down" commands into a script in /etc/

Re: /etc/hosts ignored

2004-03-24 Thread Thomas Hood
> dnsdomainname: Unknown host See also bug #109931 and those linked with it. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
ripts. It allows maintainer scripts to work independently of which init system is in use, whether it is the System V init system, file-rc or some other. The local administrator need not use update-rc.d to change sysv symlinks. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-02-01 Thread Thomas Hood
on was easy. The sysv update-rc.d program would be rewritten to work through the runlevel editing tool; commands coming from update-rc.d would determine what the tool considered to be the "default" setting. Other init systems would implement this tool differently, of course. --

Re: Mapping stanzas in interfaces file not working

2004-02-03 Thread Thomas Hood
> mapping eth0 >script /etc/network/show-role.sh -q -l Here is one of the problems. You are not allowed to provide arguments ("-q", "-l") to the mapping script. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: prioritizing deb locations

2004-02-05 Thread Thomas Hood
> other reasons, and now suddenly I'm pulling this non-official package > into my system, rather than the one from the official debian repository. If you list only Debian sources in /etc/apt/sources.list then you will get only Debian packages. -- Thomas Hood jdthood_AT_yahoo.co.uk --

Re: Second time on hostname

2005-07-09 Thread Thomas Hood
me it should use as the origin of mail. See mailname(5). > Which is right? Should /etc/mailname be brownh#hartford-hwp.com? No, it should be a domain name such as 'teufel.hartford-hwp.com'. Set up /etc/hosts like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.1.1 teufel.

Re: Questions about sis7012+snd_intel8x0 sound card problem

2005-07-10 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:01:15 +0800, Trace Green wrote: > This seems an old problem, i tried to find the answer in google, fail Search for the relevant report in the ALSA bug tracking system. https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Second time on hostname

2005-07-11 Thread Thomas Hood
ost1.tuhugft.nl mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + inet_interfaces = all defer_transports = disable_dns_lookups = yes -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Second time on hostname

2005-07-11 Thread Thomas Hood
etc/postfix/main.cf configuration is much like your own, except > that I have "myhostname = teufel" in order to match the return from > $ hostname -- my simple local host name. I believe this is OK. It may be that you have to use 'teufel.hartfo

Re: unstable update today

2005-07-11 Thread Thomas Hood
rnels 2.6.12 or higher. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: alsa_problem under kernel 2.6.8-2-686/etch]

2005-07-11 Thread Thomas Hood
actly in /etc/ > to get rid of this. Put 'snd-ens1370' in /etc/modules, perhaps? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: resolv gets wacked after reboots

2005-07-12 Thread Thomas Hood
network/interfaces.) -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: resolv gets wacked after reboots

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas Hood
nk is deleted on package removal. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing unplugged network connection: bug?

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas Hood
es not install the tools that are available. These are known shortcomings and filing another bug report about it will not help at all. Debian does not have the developer resources to fix this problem. I expect that Ubuntu Breezy will show progress on this issue. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSU

Re: Testing unplugged network connection: bug?

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas Hood
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:09:30 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:50:01PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: >> I expect that Ubuntu Breezy will show progress on this issue. > > Will that be backported into Etch? I don't expect so. The people supporting networking

Re: Testing unplugged network connection: bug?

2005-07-14 Thread Thomas Hood
their energy on childish squabbles. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.11 and udev

2005-07-15 Thread Thomas Hood
quired. The udev maintainer has been asked this several times. His view is that people running "unstable" should expect some instability. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: failing to upgrade udev

2005-07-15 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:06:34 -0500, Jon Roed wrote: > I just tried to run apt-upgrade on my Debian system and i got the following > error: This is a feature. You can't install the new udev package unless you have a kernel of version 2.6.12 or later. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSC

Re: 2.6.11 and udev

2005-07-15 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:10:16 -0400, Brendan wrote: > Well, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy then, isn't it? If he thinks it should > be unstable, he doesn't do anything to change it, and it *becomes* unstable. He certainly contributed to its instability, yes. -- Thomas Hood

Re: failing to upgrade udev

2005-07-15 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:50:03 -0500, Brad Sims wrote: > That kind of BS is why I stopped using $commercial_linux_distro. It's > unstable > I can accept broken packages due to ABI transitions but making a critical part > depend on sudo-vaporware smacks of the Beast of Redmond. Why did you think D

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