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As I use debian now I dont hang much around here but I always recommend MDK to people curious to Linux.

Just wondering if the 10.0 is ok for this purpose. So far It has been 9.2 (wich is boring (good)), and I remember I was a bit dissapointed back when the 9.0 came out as it seemed a bit unfinished.

So is it better to stay with the 'mature' 9.2 release or is 10.0 okay. (I know 10.1 is out but I'm not a member anymore...)

Any opinions wolud be appreciated.

Thanks!

Fonts look great in Firefox now. Guess I'll have to do similar to the other apps.

In Openoffice its possible to scale the fonts in the config dialog, but thats not the ideal solution I think.

Does anyone know where size of fonts in apps. like firefox, thunerbird, openoffice, anjuta ... just to mention a few. When I say fonts I mean fonts in toolbars, bookmarks etc, not webpages or documents.

This is gtk2 apps and they are fine when I use gnome, but not under fluxbox. KDE apps have normal fonts i.e. the fonts I specify in kde control centre.

Got it: apt-get install --reinstall libasound2 (ofcourse). just didn't see that option...

Dont ask how, it's gone.

I found that libasound2-package contains the files blonging to this dir. I wanted to apt-get remove and then apt-get install libasound2 to restore. The apt-get remove libasound2 wanted to remove alot of packages depending on this one so i cancelledI.

Is there a way to reinstall this package (or get back the dir.) without uninstalling all the other packages first?

Thanks for the suggestions!

I have now tried to find other places in bios to disable onboard sound, with no luck.

Next I tried to set the IRQ to 5/7/9/11 and even tried to reserve the IRQ I was using.

The same thing as described earlier happened again, every time. I did make an observation: No matter wich IRQ I assigned to the soundcard, in the listing during startup describing wich IRQ is assigned to wich device, the onboard network controller always had the same IRQ as the sound card. Spooky (or isn't it?) And during shutdown (after trying to insert the emu10k1 module) the system hangs at : 'Deconfiguring network interface.......'

This is not a big issue, I have onboard sound working ok but I came over this card and was curios if this sblive is any better. (Onboard is realtek ALC650 if anyone has compared them).

I'm trying to get a SBlive ct4830 card working on a A7V8x mb. I disable onboard sound in bios and there is no jumper to do this on mb as far as I can see.

I have the emu10k1 as a loadable module.

After I insert the card I try to load the module by

#modprobe emu10k1

Then I get the message 'segmentation fault'

If i do lsmod afterwards, the emu10k1 is reported as 'initializing' all the time.

rmmod gives 'device busy'.

When shutting down the computer it hangs and I have to use button.

I have tried different PCI-slots with same result.

Can anyone tell me whats wrong here?

No, streamripper does only support shoutcast streams (I know now)

So my question is if anyone can recommend a ripper for icecast streams?

The radio from which i normally rip music has done the following:

"All radio channels are now received and processed digitally. Sound quality should be signficantly improved. Also, the streaming server has been upgraded from Icecast 1 to Icecast 2."

I guess this is the reason why streamripper tells me:

"Connecting...

error -54 [sR_ERROR_NOT_SHOUTCAST_STREAM]

bye.."

when trying to rip.

Does anyone have a clue how to rip from this "Icecast 2" stream?

I use Linux exclusively. Have for 1 1/2 years now.

Why? I just think it is so much better than windows. (Stability, configurability.) Only reason I can think of for using Windows at all would be if I was more into games like halo, cs etc, but i am fine with tuxracer :P

At work , well thats a different story....

Hi again!

I didnt find any solution in the README file, so a shot in the dark: I generated a new modeline from

http://koala.ilog.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-mod...elines/list-all and it works!!! now with 73 Hz refresh rate.

Thanks!

The only option I can imagine would have an effect on this is the "IgnoreEDID". Tried to set it to "true" under "device" section, but no effect.... Well, do some searching and reading I guess...

Hi!

Ive just replaced my ati rage128 with a nvidia gf4 mx440. I use my old XF86config-4 file with the usual mods.

Strange thing is that my old modeline (72 Hz V):

Modeline "1400x1050" 166.52 1400 1432 2064 2096 1050 1070 1082 1103

wont work, and after some seconds the 1280x1024 is chosen instead. I saw from the XF logfile that the message : 2064 - 1432 is greater than 512. OK, seems the setting are too high BUT why did it work with the old card?

Any ideas?

...yes, thats what i should like to know. As it is now i su to root and type

pump -i eth0

to get network running.

Any suggestions to some place this line would fit. (Theres no rc.local). I' ve read the docs on init.d but Im not sure this is the place to put it?

Any thoughts?

And, I also want to install Limewire but the installer stops when not finding a working Java VM. This was solved in MKD by making a script that added /usr/java to path and exported this new path. How do you do this in debian?

From the "Old Docs" section :

If you've downloaded a driver from the net and compiled it yourself (or if it came precompiled for your kernel version), move it to the appropriate sub directory of '/lib/modules/[kernel version]/'. If you can't figure out which one to use, choose 'misc'.

 

Run depmod -a to let the system know about the new module.

Next: inserting a line in /etc/modules

bcm4400

(Name of driver without extension)

Next: reboot, and the module for the driver was loaded.

To get DHCP running I did a lot of configuring in both dpkg-reconfigure eherconf and netconf (in linuxconf). I dont know wheter any of this was neccessary. The last ting i did before i got the connection up was to uninstall pump, then reinstall it and run

pump -i eth0

There it was...

Nevermind, Im writing this from debian now... 8)

Im now running a 2.4.22 kernel :lol: Sound works, apm works, but still trouble with nic (or dhcp configuration?). The compilation of the driver seems to run ok, and even the insmod seems to be ok. /var/log/messages says the card is detected. then trying both netconf and dpkg-reconfigure etherconf the nic just dont seem to be working. Trying to ping other computers gives 'network unreacable'. I have tried to install both pump and dhcpcd.

First of all: how do i get the nic detected at startup? Now i go to the dir where the bcm4400.o file is and do insmod bcm4400.o after bootup to get the module in the kernel. lsmod then shows the bcm4400. I've tried different input in the /etc/modules wich didnt work.

I would be grateful for any help on this!

Ooooh!! Your way ahead of me then. I have printed the step by step kernel compiling instruction from cybrjacle's link post and i have downloaded a 2.4.21 kernel source wich i will have to burn on CD. I found this kernel source on tar.gz on the debian site. Did you use the 2.4.18 kernel from the CD's?

Thanks cybrjackle. I have been looking abit into your excellent list of links in the sticky post, its just that theres so much information and not always easy to sort out what is relevant, and as im cut off internet when booting debian it is good to get some hints along the road.

Glad to see you chose Debian rcxau! Were in the same boat: no network, no sound for me, at least i have a 2.4 kernel but its a bf version and seems to be useless for compiling new drivers. ...feeling a bit lost here, but im not giving up... :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Talking to myself again; found out that the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel is compiled image for boot floppies, so i guess i will have to compile the 2.4.18 and boot from this. Has anyone got a link to to a step by step description that will apply?

Have to correct myself abit ; I have a 2.4.18-bf24 kernel. I discovered this was a different kernel than just 2.4.18 after a round with:

make mrproper > copy /boot/config > make oldconfig

enter,enter.......,enter > make dep

This was supposed to give me the file that i missed: modversions.h

Then i tried to 'make' driver and things seemed to work. But when trying to insmod the bcm4400.o the following came up: The module is compiled for kernel 2.4.18, and the current kernel is 2.4.18-bf24.

My first thought (well maybe the second) was to do this over with the 2.4.18-bf24 kernel source, but this I could not find. I have two CD's (Woody). Will i find this kernel source on one of these CD's, can i somehow download it and burn them on a CD and install this way?

Anyone using this nic with debian, and if; how did you do it?

My situation:

I have installed the woody rel. with 2.4.18 kernel (thanks DOlson) and i have also got the drivers from manufacturers website(via my working MDK). When i first tried to install the drivers by 'make', it needed the kernel source tree. OK, I somehow figured out how to get it ( by guessing what to apt-get install) and i found out I had to untar it. Then i found out that the makefile was looking for /usr/src/linux, so i made a symlink 'linux' pointing to /usr/src/'kernelwhatever' (im at work now and dont have all details...). This time the installer got further, but complained about a 'dontrememberthename'.h file wich i could not find in the kernel-source dir.

I did some googling and found http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/b...400-source.html

What is this make-kpkg actually. I have tried the apt-get ofcourse, but right now i feel that i need some hints to get further...

I installed the 0.9.4 (make) without uninstalling the old 0.1.14 last week and I havent had any problems 8) (so far...)

Probably many ways to do this, I have a line in my 'init' like this:

session.screen0.rootCommand:    ~/.fluxbox/fluxbox.S0.rc

fluxbox.S0.rc is a regular text file where i put everything i want to load at startup, including background. Btw I think you have to use the fbsetbg to get tranparent menus and terminals.

Here is an example of fluxbox.S0.rc

#!/bin/sh



fbsetbg -f ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/verion_vs_niteangel-invented-construction.jpg



if ps -A |grep gkrellm; then

           killall gkrellm

fi

gkrellm -w &



enable_X11_numlock &



(play ~/.fluxbox/sounds/login.au exit) &

xscreensaver -no-splash &



xset m 80/10 4 &

exec fluxbox

I just edit this file whenever i want to switch background or whatever.