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Re: [Alug] From out of the shadows...
by MJ Ray 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

"Mat B" <mat.bland(a)btinternet.com> writes: > My name is Mathew and I am a Perl programmer by trade (although I often get "Perl programmer" is a trade now? I thought it was a form of prostitution... ;-) /me runs for the hills and hides from his brothers. Seriously, I think I speak for all the cabal when I say "it's good to have you here". -- MJR Do you need advice about the Internet or particular net services? Why not talk to my employers? See http://www.luminas.co.uk/ for details.

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RE: [ALUG] linux and USB
by u9947868 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

I managed to get my Fujifilm Finepix 40i to work with my Toshiba Laptop under Debian 2.2r3 by updating the kernel to 2.4.9, which also meant updating the following utils/modules, check that they are all recent versions: The SCSI modules (they all changed completely for the 2.4.X series kernels) The mount utility USBDEVFS module/util (tells you what devices/drivers you have hooked up, under /proc/bus/usb) I think that should do. There were a few other utils that needed to be upgraded to run my current kernel but they had nothing to to with the SCSI system or USB mass storage devices, or USB itself. If I can get off of my bum and turn up to an ALUG meeting I might bring my laptop and camera if anyone has any trouble setting up their own stuff Pete

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Re: [Alug] Linux and USB?
by Edenyard 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:20:45 +0100 (BST), Adam Bower wrote: > This appears to work for most people but I have also not got a camera > so can't check this but looking on a couple of resources on the net you > may want to do an > fdisk -l /dev/sda > to find which partition the camera appears at if mount /dev/sda1 doesn't > work. > I've tried that. I get no response at all: no error message, no listing or any other information of any kind. It just returns to the prompt. What does that signify? I tried 'fdisk -l /dev/hda', just as a sanity check really. That gave me some output. But using /dev/sda it just doesn't want to know. I tried /dev/sda1, too - same result. What's up with this /dev/sda thing? Gerald.

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From out of the shadows...
by Mat B 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

Hi, I thought I might as well introduce myself and stop my lurking. My name is Mathew and I am a Perl programmer by trade (although I often get up to other things) and I work at home in a small town called Stowmarket in Suffolk. I started using Linux about 3-4 years ago, but have only picked it up again for a serious crack at it just recently. So for all intents and purposes I am a Linux newbie (so please don't hurt me if I ask some stupid questions). My current distro is Mandrake 7.2 which I am finding quite user friendly and helps a lot in the process of weening me off Windows. I hope to be able to make some meets soon, but work schedule is often hectic and I don't get much free time :( Anyhoo, its been great lurking so far. Hopefully one day I'll be able to contribute in a helpful manner :) Cheers, Mat

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This is weird...
by Ricardo Campos 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

OK. This is weird. In the new Linux Format, there is a letter by "Steve Bates" about Enlightenment, and how it crashes with "missing line in config". If anyone has kept an archive of messages from the main list, look at my post with the subject "Crash". VERY VERY similar. In fact the printed one seems to be the same except for it's been trimmed down... Did someone forward the message to Linux Format? Ricardo -- Love Ricardo, "Surely this monstrous hybrid comes not from a mother's womb but from an Ephialtes, an Incubus, or some other horrendous demon, as though spawned in a putrid and venemous fungus, son of Fauns and Nymphs, more Devil than man." -Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subtarraneus, Amsterdam, 1665, pp.279-280 http://www.rscampos.net Get your @hellokitty.com FREE e-mail account at http://www.sanriotown.com Sanrio Town - Your Ultimate Community to meet Sanrio character & friends. Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Re: Samba problem
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

Mat B wrote: >I found the problem, I had neglected to uncomment two lines in the smb.conf. >A victim of my own stupidity again... What were they? I remember I had this problem; I've been looking through my notes to see how i sorted it, but don't seem to have written anything down about the problem. Jen

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Samba problem
by Mat B 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

Hi, I'm running Mandrake 7.2 on the spare box on my LAN and I decided it was time to stop using FTP to transfer files to it and to start using Samba to share files with the two windows boxes. After much messing about with smb.conf,smbd and nmbd, I managed to get the Linux box to show up in the Windows Network Neighbourhood. Unfortunately, whenever I try to access the shares on the Linux box it asks me for a password. I cannot find any password in the smb.conf and whatever passwords I submit using smbpasswd don't work either. Does anyone know why this is happening? (Sorry if I'm being a bit vague anywhere) TIA, Mat

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=20
by John Seago 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

The messages I received from you last nightwere ok, (no =20), but your postto the =20, I'll see if mine, doif this is posted I have only noticed thisproblem when posting to the list, (unless those I've replied to individually know otherwise), I can only conclude that it is caused by part of the route between ourselves and the List, I live in Halesworth, East Suffolk, and am connected via the 01986 (Bungay Exchange), which Bt Anytime claim is unmodenised and therefore unable to cope with my internet connectionat all. John Seago "Change is NOT a synonym for Progress"

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Kmail, line endings and char sets
by Syd Hancock 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

Hi all Still battling with the basics. Do my posts appear with =20 line ends (can't remember if these represent CR or LF)? Apparently they do for some list readers. I am using Kmail 1.2 (KDE 2.1.1, mandrake 8.0). A general question: what is the recommended char set to use? And a KDE question - char sets seem to be set both under Settings>Configuration>Composer>Default Charset (main window) and under Options>Set Encoding in the composer window. How do these settings inter-relate? Finally, I have just noticed that word-wrap was set to 78. I have reset this to 68 and would appreciate any comments about whether this has improved things in any way. cheers Syd

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Xine
by Ricardo Campos 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

Has anyone got Xine working on their system yet? It's being a bit of a pig. I have installed pretty much all the plugins (incl. the decss one and another for 'encrypted' DVDs)except one, which was not meant to be essential - dx3r I think it was called. I have ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd mount /mnt/cdrom /mnt/dvd Xine recognises that there is a DVD drive there, it recognises the .VBO files, but I get no output. One thing I think may be a problem is that I haven't set MTRR. (ref. Linux DVD howto). This requires my starting X and outputting to file so I can read a few configs of my videocard- e.g. it's base memory address. Unfortunately I can't do this from within Gnome or KDE. My system boots straight into an X environment (KDE). How can I stop X and go to the command line and startx 2> xoutput (xoutput being a fairly good name for the output of x ;) ) Is it just stopx ? Anyone had any success? Anything else you can think for me to consider? I have a Geforce 2 MX card, with the appropriate drivers and kernel from nvidia. Ricardo -- Love Ricardo, "Surely this monstrous hybrid comes not from a mother's womb but from an Ephialtes, an Incubus, or some other horrendous demon, as though spawned in a putrid and venemous fungus, son of Fauns and Nymphs, more Devil than man." -Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subtarraneus, Amsterdam, 1665, pp.279-280 http://www.rscampos.net Get your @hellokitty.com FREE e-mail account at http://www.sanriotown.com Sanrio Town - Your Ultimate Community to meet Sanrio character & friends. Powered by Outblaze

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