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Hi, My .fetchmailrc file does not have the `fetchall' option. Still, it retrieves both the old and the new messages resulting in duplicate copies of old messages. FYI, my .fetchmailrc does have the `keep' option. Any help is appreciated. Sanjiv

Hi, I am unable to configure mutt such that it does not retrieve old messages from my pop server. By old, I mean messages that I have already retrieved once. As a result, everytime I am having multiple copies of the messages in my inbox which I am deleting manually. Is there any option in fetchmail that I am missing ? Regards, Sanjiv

Hi, I am unable to send mails with ids having certain domains. While composing e-mails to ids @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, there is no problem at all. However, while composing e-mails to ids with domains @edu (basically, domains of educational institutions), I get the following error message: Domain of sender address jeeves@localhost.localhost does not exist (in reply to MAIL FROM command) Also, my spoolfile is empty. I am having to save mails from my POP server to my hard disk manually. Fetchmail tells me how many mails are there waiting on my POP server but is not able to retrieve them. When I type mailq, this is the message I get : [jeeves@localhost jeeves]$ mailq mailq: warning: My hostname localhost is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf postqueue: warning: My hostname localhost is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf Mail queue is empty Any help is appreciated. Regards, Sanjiv

Hi, Those of you who know the workaround for this,please ignore this mail. This is directed at newbies (like me) who are still struggling to get sound on the above mentioned card using ALSA. Firstly, this card is not supported under ALSA (as it uses the emu10k1x chipset). Following a thread in another forum, here is what I did : 1. Look below your mouse and keyboard slots. If you are using a dimension desktop, you will find a small black raised cover. 2. Pry it open with a knife. Dell has tried to hide the connectors for the onboard sound using that black patch. 3. Exorcise the system, i.e, remove the soundblaster card from the system. Enable the onboard sound in BIOS. 4. Now, when you install (I have Mandrake 9.1) linux, your onboard soundcard should get detected. My onboard soundcard uses the intel8x0 chipset, which is supported under ALSA!! 5. What you hear is what you see :D If somebody managed to get sound without removing the soundblaster card, please let me know. This was posted in some other thread at a different linux forum. Somehow, even now there are so many postings regarding this topic in numerous linux forums. From personal experience, I know it can be irritating to have no sound on your system. So, I hope this mail helps. Regards, jeeves

Hi, I am not sure if you too have a Dell machine. The soundcard I have seems to be the same one you have (is the device id 1102:0006). I hate to break the bad news but that card is not supported under ALSA. Even though it is being called SB Live!5.1, it does not use the emu10k1 module. You pointed out earlier that you were using the emu10k1x driver. Those are the OSS drivers. I too was using them but the quality of sound while trying to play audio CDs was horrible. That is why I decided to try ALSA, only to find out that my card was not supported. All the SB Live! cards given in the soundcard matrix on the alsa webpage are for cards which use the emu10k1 module, not the emu10k1x. So...I have given up on sound. The only way out is to buy a new card or to wait till somebody writes an alsa driver for this accursed "Dell" Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Card. I also sent out an email on the official alsa mailing list. Someone there confirmed that this card is not supported. Regards, Sanjiv

I did try 1.2.8. Now, it wouldn't freeze. Instead, there would be no sound and the tracks would play at lightning speed (something like 10 sec per track and then the next track). As each track started, I would get a message saying "output format :7". I have no clue what this is supposed to mean. Regarding the ac97 module, I tried disabling it. However, I get the message "device or resource busy". Do I have to unload some other module before unloading ac97 ? Regards, Sanjiv

The version of xmms I am using is 1.2.7. Regards, sanjiv

installed the alsa package. However, when I try to play mp3s, xmms just freezes. Dunno why. Jeeves

bvc, your statement was right. After modprobe snd, the compilation went smoothly and these are some outputs [root@localhost alsa-utils-0.9.8]# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Live ]: EMU10K1 - Sound Blaster Live! Sound Blaster Live! (rev.0) at 0xdf20, irq 17 [root@localhost alsa-utils-0.9.8]# cat /proc/asound/pcm 00-00: emu10k1 : EMU10K1 : playback 32 : capture 1 00-01: emu10k1 mic : EMU10K1 MIC : capture 1 00-02: emu10k1 efx : EMU10K1 EFX : capture 1 00-03: emu10k1 : EMU10K1 FX8010 : playback 8 Now, how do I go about playing an audio CD ? If I open preferences, under the list of output drivers, there is no alsa driver listed. Thanks a lot for your help. Regards, Sanjiv

Hi, I re-configured with the switch you suggested. Am getting same messages again. When I try to run alsamixer, this is the error message I get : [root@localhost alsa]# alsamixer alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory Regards, Sanjiv

Hi, Here is some output I should have posted last time itself. Only the relevant portion of /proc/pci is shown. FYI, my soundcard is Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Bus 2, device 2, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: PCI device 1102:0006 (Creative Labs) (rev 0). IRQ 17. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20. I/O at 0xdf20 [0xdf3f]. Bus 2, device 2, function 1: Input device controller: PCI device 1102:7004 (Creative Labs) (rev 0). Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0xdf18 [0xdf1f]. [sanjiv@localhost sanjiv]$ cat /etc/modules.conf #### Modified by oss-install #### # Note! OSS/Linux doesn't use this file. All kernel sound # services have just been disabled during oss installation. alias char-major-14 off alias sound off alias midi off alias sound-slot-0 off alias sound-service-0-0 off alias sound-service-0-1 off alias sound-service-0-3 off alias sound-service-0-8 off alias sound-service-0-11 off alias sound-service-0-12 off alias sound-slot-1 off alias sound-service-1-0 off alias sound-service-1-1 off alias sound-service-1-3 off alias sound-service-1-8 off alias sound-service-1-11 off alias sound-service-1-12 off alias sound-slot-2 off alias sound-service-2-0 off alias sound-service-2-1 off alias sound-service-2-3 off alias sound-service-2-8 off alias sound-service-2-11 off alias sound-service-2-12 off alias sound-slot-3 off alias sound-service-3-0 off alias sound-service-3-1 off alias sound-service-3-3 off alias sound-service-3-8 off alias sound-service-3-11 off alias sound-service-3-12 off alias char-major-116 off alias snd-card-0 off alias snd-card-1 off alias snd-card-2 off alias snd-card-3 off alias snd-card-4 off probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss alias eth0 e100 [sanjiv@localhost sanjiv]$ cat /proc/modules soundcore 6308 0 isofs 28020 1 (autoclean) zlib_inflate 21156 0 (autoclean) [isofs] udf 90496 0 (autoclean) parport_pc 25128 1 (autoclean) lp 8128 0 (autoclean) parport 34208 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] nfsd 74288 8 (autoclean) af_packet 14984 1 (autoclean) sr_mod 16952 4 (autoclean) floppy 55164 0 e100 56996 1 (autoclean) nls_cp850 4316 1 (autoclean) vfat 11820 1 (autoclean) fat 37976 0 (autoclean) [vfat] nls_iso8859-1 3516 3 (autoclean) ntfs 76844 1 (autoclean) supermount 15296 3 (autoclean) ide-cd 33856 0 cdrom 31680 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] ide-scsi 11312 2 scsi_mod 103316 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi] keybdev 2720 0 (unused) mousedev 5300 1 hid 20932 0 (unused) usbmouse 2936 0 (unused) input 5696 0 [keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse] ehci-hcd 18568 0 (unused) usb-uhci 24684 0 (unused) usbcore 73024 1 [hid usbmouse ehci-hcd usb-uhci] rtc 8092 0 (autoclean) ext3 59916 3 jbd 38972 3 [ext3] [sanjiv@localhost sanjiv]$ ls -l /dev/dsp* lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 3 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp0 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 19 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp1 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 163 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp10 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 179 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp11 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 195 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp12 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 211 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp13 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 227 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp14 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 243 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp15 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 35 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp2 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 51 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp3 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 67 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp4 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 83 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp5 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 99 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp6 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 115 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp7 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 131 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp8 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 147 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dsp9 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW -> /dev/dspW0 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 5 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW0 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 21 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW1 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 165 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW10 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 181 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW11 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 197 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW12 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 213 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW13 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 229 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW14 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 245 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW15 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 37 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW2 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 53 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW3 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 69 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW4 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 85 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW5 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 101 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW6 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 117 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW7 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 133 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW8 crw------- 1 sanjiv audio 14, 149 Nov 29 06:47 /dev/dspW9 Thanks Sanjiv

Hi, I just installed the alsa drivers (0.9.8), alsa lib and the alsa utils. However, when I issue modprobe snd-emu10k1, this is what I get : [root@localhost alsa]# modprobe snd-emu10k1 /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: unresolved symbol snd_verbose_printk modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o failed modprobe: insmod snd-emu10k1 failed In fact, this is the message I get when I also issue the commands "modprobe snd-pcm-oss; modprobe snd-mixer-oss; modprobe snd-seq-oss" The soundcard I have is Soundblaster Live! 5.1 and I believe the module is emu10k1. Could somebody help me out with this ? Regards, Sanjiv

Hi, Does the kernel source code always have to be installed in the /usr/src/linux directory. On my system (mandrake 9.1), there is no linux directory under /usr/src (the only subdirectory of /usr/src is RPM). However, there seems to be a linux directory under /usr/include. Is it possible that the source code is installed in that directory ? Besides, while using rpmdrake, what keyword should I type in the search box for the kernel source ? If it turns out that I do not have the kernel source installed, I am thinking that I should be able to get them from one of the three installation CDs (using rpmdrake). Thanks in advance. Regards, Sanjiv

Hi, Actually, my sound card is configured. I am able to listen to mp3s without any distortion at all. The module being used for my soundcard, I believe is emu101kx (as opposed to emu101k). The ALSA homepage does list the emu101k module as being supported but not so for the emu101kx module. That is why I was not sure if installing ALSA would help. Regarding your other question about cpu cooler software, how do I find out if they are running ? Regards, sanjiv

Hi, The quality of sound when I play audio CDs is horrible. The driver I am currently using now is OSS. Is it possible that things will improve if I switch to ALSA ? I remember some guy posting in a different newsgroup that he was able to get his sound card (the same as mine. This card get shipped with lots of Dell machines) up and running using the onboard ALSA drivers. However, he was using mandrake 9.2. Is anybody using this card on mandrake 9.1 and able to listen to audio CDs without any degradation in quality (I am not having any problems with mp3s, by the way) ? Any help is appreciated. Regards, Sanjiv