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mouse config puzzle
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 03 Apr '01

03 Apr '01

Hullo, list. Can anyone help? After running xf86config in Debian, typing startx gives "Cannot open mouse (No such file or directory)". On looking, I see /dev/mouse hasn't been created. Can I just create my own (and how? using a text editor ok?), indicating a softlink to /dev/ttyS*? How do i know which /ttyS* it is using? (Typing "cat" for /dev files usually leaves me with a hanging situation, no doubt I am trying to read them the wrong way as they are actually being created on the hoof.) Many thanks. Jen PS. Has someone booked a room for Alug for the linux installfest? Do we need to get posters up, advertise on the web, etc? Get lists of members who can attend and what equipment they can bring? (Sorry if someone is on the case and I've missed it, I feel a Virgo surge coming on..)

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Re: [Alug] mouse config puzzle
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 03 Apr '01

03 Apr '01

Thankyou! The line ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse has fixed the problem and I now have xwindow running. (Excitement...........) Jenny

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Linux/Open Source seminar at the University of Birmingham - April 24th
by James G Drever 02 Apr '01

02 Apr '01

I am organising a seminar on Linux and Open Source software at the University of Birmingham on April 24th. The seminar is sponsored by IBM and features speakers from IBM, Red Hat, SUSE, Fujitsu and the University of Birmingham. The intention of the seminar is to highlight the advantages of using Linux/Open Source software in a business environment. If anyone from Anglian LUG is interested in attending, there are further details, including registration forms, at http://www.advanced-telematics.com/ or please contact me at the number below. Many thanks. Dr James Drever The Centre for Advanced Telematics University of Birmingham 0121 414 2215

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Weekly IRC meeting reminder
by Adam Bower 02 Apr '01

02 Apr '01

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. Popular irc clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and ircII on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.bitchx.com http://www.xchat.org http://freshmeat.net Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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ATX, Open Tshirts, 29/4/01 and DVD
by David Freeman 01 Apr '01

01 Apr '01

All, As usual it never rains but it poors. I have a number of questions, and was wondering if anyone else on the list could help. 1) Is it possible to configure linux to turn an ATX pc off when you run halt? 2) Who was the person on mondays IRC who had started a open tshirts project? 3) Does anyone know if and what is happening on 29/04/01 with regard National linux day? We only have 29 days left to plan! 4) And finally, I currently refuse to buy a DVD player(as in Hi-fi seprate) for a number of reasons, most notably I feel that region coding is an infringment on my rights. But I do feel alot happier with the idea of playing DVD's from linux with the DeCSS(or similiar) code. Can anyone advise on what I would need to play DVD's full screen(or even better 16:9 on a normal screen) with normal stereo sound out the sound card. 4-b) What would I then require to output the sound to a AC-3 decoder? Thanks D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text

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RE: [Alug] ATX, Open Tshirts, 29/4/01 and DVD
by David Freeman 31 Mar '01

31 Mar '01

--- John Woodard <mail(a)johnwoodard.co.uk> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: alug-admin(a)stu.uea.ac.uk [mailto:alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk]On > > Behalf Of David Freeman > > Sent: 31 March 2001 19:47 > > To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > > Subject: [Alug] ATX, Open Tshirts, 29/4/01 and DVD > > > > > > All, > > > > As usual it never rains but it poors. I have a number of questions, > and > > was wondering if anyone else on the list could help. > > > > 1) Is it possible to configure linux to turn an ATX pc off when you > run > > halt? > > Configure APM in the bios to do so and it should work. APM?? whats APM? > > 2) Who was the person on mondays IRC who had started a open tshirts > > project? > > Missed that put me down for an xxl > > > 3) Does anyone know if and what is happening on 29/04/01 with > regard > > National linux day? We only have 29 days left to plan! > > Mark Ray was getting a room booked. We must do some publicity etc. > though, > I suggest we meet to discuss on IRC tomorrow night. very good idea. Does someone want to take owner ship of this? (tomorrow as in the normal monday meet of tomorrow the sunday meet?) > > 4) And finally, I currently refuse to buy a DVD player(as in Hi-fi > > seprate) for a number of reasons, most notably I feel that region > > coding is an infringment on my rights. But I do feel alot happier > with > > the idea of playing DVD's from linux with the DeCSS(or similiar) > code. > > Can anyone advise on what I would need to play DVD's full screen(or > > even better 16:9 on a normal screen) with normal stereo sound out > the > > sound card. > > Plenty of de-regionalized stand alone players on the market. Is your > DVD > drive firmware fixed or can it be de-regonalized by a flash upgrade? > Mine > can't so I'm stuck with region 2. :( I don't yet have a DVD drive as I wasn't sure If I could get a multi region one or not. Can you? if so which ones are any good? > I'd also be interested in trying out full screen DVD anyone got it > working? When I find out how I'll put it on my web site. Thanks D > Cheers, > BJ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text

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installing debian probs
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

Hullo list. I'm stuck in a loop installing this here debian...... "do you want to create /etc/X11/XF86Config file? y/n" y ......."_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Unable to communicate with X server! The /etc/X11/XF86Config file was not created. Press [Enter] to switch to graphics mode. This may take a while... Press [Enter] to continue Pressing enter, of course, takes it back to the beginning, but there doesn't seem to be another option. Any ideas? Thanks, Jenny.

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debian kernel source problem
by d.casal 28 Mar '01

28 Mar '01

Hi all, Just trudging along trying to install ALSA. Have recompiled kernel to support VFAT, sound (with no modules), and loadable module support. Compiled the ALSA driver (finally), after realizing it was looking for sources in /usr/src/linux and inserting --with-kernel=/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12 (where my recompiled srcs live). Now though, a problem with recompiling the lib packages (alsa). On the mailing list archives, it says I might have to upgrade libc (suggestion was to upgrade to frozen/potato libc6)... Is it alright to have sources live as kernel-source-2.2.12? How do I change that to /usr/src/linux if I need to? Because I wanted to boot an NTFS partition also, I did 'make zdisk' after 'make bzImage' (linux kernel how-to) so I could boot from diskette...is that the problem? How do I actually get libc6 installed? sorry for the multiple newbie questions, just excited to be close to having ALSA-SBLive! working. d ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- david casal +44 (0) 1603-613607 | d.casal(a)uea.ac.uk http://www.ariada.uea.ac.uk/~dcasal | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------\

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Follow up to "FTP and telnet connections to a RH box"
by David Howe 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

Thanks all of you, my resolve.conf was somewhat blank - fixed it ;) David Howe

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FTP and telnet connections to a RH box
by David Howe 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

Greetings, I've just reinstalled RH61 onto the same (local) box it was on before - but now for some reason when I try to FTP or telnet into it it makes the connection but never sends a response request for username and password (or at least it times out after a couple of minutes) so I can't actually log in! I can however Samba into it no probs and http works fine too - any ideas as I'm only a low-to-middling propellorhead. I have changed nothing hardwarewise all I did was reformat and install from the exact same copy of RH61 as previously - I suspect I may not have included something in the custom install. Kind regards, Dave Howe hippy(a)thehippy.com

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