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Re: July meeting // was Re: [Alug] Install day 2k2 - first report
by Dryden 10 Jun '02

10 Jun '02

>2. Would fenland people like an informal local meeting in late June? I know >there are some other LUGgers out here (including some interesting ones I've >not seen for a few meetings) and I'm very aware that we still don't have >anywhere in Cambs or W.Norfolk, so I'd suggest just meeting up in a pub >(pref near a railway station) one evening or weekend day. Good/bad idea? >MJR Good idea id say but what town? on of the towns along the kings Lynn to london(kings cross?) line? What about eely(bad sqelling sorry)? You can even get a train from Norwitch or thetford i think. Dennis Dryden ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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ALSA/OSS/ESD/Arts
by Ricardo Campos 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

OK. So I'm building my debian system, how to say... *minimally* :). I have X up and running, but I need to get sound working. I have a Soundblaster Live Platinum card, (EMU10K). I'll be compiling in support for that with my my new kernel. However, I'm a little confuzed as to which set of sound drivers to use. I have a MIDI keyboard, and would like to take advantage of this. I also use XMMS, Ogle, and all the normal desktop stuff. Anyone have any ideas could elucidate for me? (Mr.Casal?) It seems from their webpages that there are several projects doing much-the-same-thing. TIA Ricardo PS. Debian rocks big time. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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initrd, lilo and general weirdness
by Ricardo Campos 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

1st off: Adam:- for some bizarre reason, my box booted into 2.4.18 this morning, even though 3 reboots still took it to 2.2.19 last night. I simply have no idea why. One question: why do people seem to dislike initrd.img's? I'm gonna have to compile a kernel anyway cos I got all sorts of unresolved symbols, and some of the modules I'd prefer to have compiled in anyway. For some reason, lilo won't let me boot to my second disk. I have a second HD, with a copy of lilo on it (from previous installation). I would like the lilo on hda1 to boot onto hdb1, but for some reason it won't let me do this this morning (it just ignores me-no errors!) my lilo.conf line for it is: other=/dev/hdb1 label=Redhat alias=2 -General Weirdness Section- Last night, running on my old kernel, I copied the kernel source from a CD to my HD. While it did this my Xserver hung up until it had finished. The same happened when I un-bzipped it. grrr. Adam suggested it might be a h/w problem, so I booted into RH (which can't do *now*, grrr), and quite happily copied 4gigs from one directory to another, whilst mucking about with xmms, no lock up. Copied the kernel source from CD to ~/ and that was fine, unpacked it, fine. Anyone else experience this? -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] PPProblems!
by Ricardo Campos 31 May '02

31 May '02

-snip- > mknod -m 644 /dev/ppp c 108 0 > > for future reference, this is char-major-108 (a lot of people inquire about this). I'm sure I saw an error relating to char-major-something on boot- I *was* going to inquire about that too. I'll try it when I get some time at home. Many thanks! Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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PPProblems!
by Ricardo Campos 31 May '02

31 May '02

heh heh. OK so after compiling a new 2.4.18 kernel, I compiled in the ppp parts, rather than as modules. So I rebooted,and modprobe couldn't find ppp deflate (cos they were compiled in! duh!), and ppp wouldn't work. SO I thought what the heck, and moved /var/lib/modules/2.4.18, and recompiled, this time with ppp deflate as a module. So I try to connect... it calls, handshakes, then drops out just at the time it would normally complete the connection. In /var/log/messages I get: tcsetattr:Invalid argument Exit ???? Any ideas? (btw the X locking up when transferring large files thing appears to be an IDE problem- it works fine now in the new kernel... just wish ppp did!) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] KDE.... (bible study?)
by Ricardo Campos 30 May '02

30 May '02

> > I've just noticed that KDE depends on a program called > > "Bibletime". Scratch my previous comment-it appears to be a package called kde-extras, which, after all, is just a bundle of selected apps. In this case, the maintainer has selected bibletime as well. I'll just have to install all the others manually, one-by one! ;) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] KDE.... (bible study?)
by Ricardo Campos 30 May '02

30 May '02

> At the moment, I'm compiling KDE3.0.1 > > Far bloody easier than having to wait for the debs to arrive.... Hey- fancy making some .debs with and without bibletime (choice is a fine thing!) and sticking it on CD? You know you want to! ;o) Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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KDE.... (bible study?)
by Ricardo Campos 30 May '02

30 May '02

I've just noticed that KDE depends on a program called "Bibletime". I am not a christian, I would not benefit from this package. Is there any way of removing this dependency from the KDE download (in debian). It is also a hefty sized app (and it's dependencies), specially for a 56k modem. Of course, it begs the question of why no "Qurantime", "Upanishadtime" etc etc. Ricardo (off to ask kde.org about this...) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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RE: LXF Rune Demo
by Glen Tyler 30 May '02

30 May '02

Adam wrote(29.05.2002): >yeah, that $ prompt looks as though you are not >root... so try installing >it as root and putting it in /usr/local/games/ would >be a more normal >place to put games also, but then /home/games >won't really hurt too much. >HTH >Adam tried as root, but that doesn't seem to make any difference.... full transcript is... "[Root@localhost Rune]# sh rune-demo.run Verifying archive intergrity......OK Uncompressing Rune Demo..... .... ---------------------------- Welcome to the Rune demo ---------------------------- Would you like to read the README for this update [Y/n]: n ---------------------------- Would you like to apply this update? [Y/n]: y Please enter the installation path:[]: /home/glen --------------------------- performing update: ERROR: unable to make path /home/glen/demos/rune-demo The program returned an error code (3) [Root@localhost Rune]#" so that is as far as I can get, I looked up error code 3 and it says ' no such process' - any ideas? glen

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Re: [Alug] initrd, lilo and general weirdness
by Ricardo Campos 30 May '02

30 May '02

> Aside: Only yesterday I had to compile and install >the latest kernel to get NVIDIA's "non-GPL" kernel to >load, but for the chance to run tuxracer faster than >1 frame a second it's worth it! Well, I might consider doing that. Possibly. But first things first. > I just had this same problem yesterday, the trick was to switch the BIOS disk identifiers over(!) I'll try that tonight. > > I had a few problems with a IDE Ultra-2 DMA drive >which wouldn't boot after the debian install (halts >before INIT), but booting a newer kernel (2.4.17) >worked fine. Maybe there's a problem with 2.2.20 and >newer ide controllers? Well, I have my dmesg from the Redhat distro (which doesn't have the problem), so I'll have it to hand whilst compiling, although this is a later kernel than the RH one. I can then compare what's happening. But I do suspect some IDE shenanigans going on. (It's an IDE Ultra-2 DMA drive too) and yes, debian rocks, although it's not flavour of the month until I get this sorted. (note the number of grrrs in my last e-mail!) Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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