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My Short Description
by Paul Coulsey 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

Hi ALUG, Thank you for welcoming me. My short description on why I have chosen LINUX is:- Microsoft's Monopoly Linux being virtually 100% crash proof Designed to be a server at no outrageous cost If you don't like the way a program runs you can add your "two pennith" to it It has followers like your good selves who help Linux virgins like me and helps Linux to overtake Microsoft I am sure there are many other good reasons on why Linux is the way forward and I look forward in finding them. Kind Regards Paul Coulsey.

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alt key not working/euro?
by Ricardo Campos 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

OK, hopefully one last thing in my X saga. (now where are those tt fonts I had from my M$ days?...). My alt key isn't working. I'm sure there's a real simple way to add it in XF86Config-4 - anyone know? And has anyone figured out how to do a euro sign? I can't seem to find any fonts that support it. Thanks! Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] My Short Description
by Ricardo Campos 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

> It has followers like your good selves who help Linux virgins like me and > helps Linux to overtake Microsoft I thought our "hidden agenda" was to take over Solaris! Well, linux users aren't necessarily anti-microsoft, although Microsoft is definitely anti-linux. > I am sure there are many other good reasons on why Linux is the way forward Oh yeah there are...... (thinks for a minute) Yes, definitely. There are. Welcome to ALUG! Ricardo (Who is in a funny mood) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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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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X server: connection refused
by Ricardo Campos 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

If I su to root in a terminal, and try to edit a file using emacs, I get the following error: Xlib: connection to "X0.0" refused by server Xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server emacs: cannot connect to Xserver :0. Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use '-d' It's OK is I log in as root, or as a user, it only has the problem when I su. (This error occurs with any program that uses X). Obviously this is a real pain as I am having to log in as root... which is less than desirable! Any ideas? Ricardo -- 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] Partition dilemma!
by Ricardo Campos 04 Jun '02

04 Jun '02

> > cp -a > > .... > > looks deceptively easy! :-/ > > well, it appears it *is* that easy. I ended up changing the locations of /home and /usr and the swap, and now I have loadsa space.I will have to have 12 gigs of data in /usr before I run out of space again! Thanks to all who helped! -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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software for install day
by Adam Bower 03 Jun '02

03 Jun '02

Hi people, Something just struck me, do you guys have all the software you want for install day? I don't know if i am going to make it and I am sure you will have lots of lovely bandwidth at UEA etc. but are there any special requests? If so i can get downloading now and stick things on CD and post them to someone who will be there... Adam -- Adam Bower "a funny thing about regret is, that it's better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you haven't done"

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X server oddity - NVidia drivers installed
by Alexis Lee 03 Jun '02

03 Jun '02

Hi, Ever since I installed the NVidia binary drivers, the X server has flickered for about 10 seconds when it starts up. It looks like it's having to try more than once. (WW) System lacks support for changing MTRRs (WW) NVIDIA(0): Failure reading EDID parameters for display device 0. These are the only warnings I get. I tried to catch /var/log/XFree86.0.log, but although I'd estimate the server only restarts every second or so, the amount of time the XF*log is complete is a tiny fraction of a second, so that isn't too useful. Any ideas? Alexis -- "You got what everyone gets. A lifetime." - Death (Sandman by Neil Gaiman) Why isn't there an information line to ask when your lucky day is scheduled? "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education" - Wilson Mizner

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 03 Jun '02

03 Jun '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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