OSS Sound refuses to install with new Kernel
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I had to rush to install the new kernel. It works great but...
OSS Sound flatly refuses to install because it only supports up to version 2.2.99
What the hell for?
I had to downgrade to the old kernel to get my sound back, kernel 2.2.8 that is.
Re:Warning! Rocky shores ahead!
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The funny thing is that most of us who suggest that most of us will not find following the devel series to be of any use will as in the past be among the first ones to upgrade to the lastest and greatest unstable kernel.
It's kind of like the fundy who preaches against girly books and has a large collection of playboys and penthouses hidden under his bed or spend his time in the brothels.
They all think : "You guys are all morons, those rules don't apply to me..."
Enjoy folks, and of course we'll be the first ones to bitch when the system crashes, but we'll have the fun and excitement of the moment...
I used to think the way you do about WYSIWYG versus text editor until I found out that my texts are all screwed up with the WYSIWYG editors. I can update my web site much faster with a text editor, I use joe. My site is mainly a bilingual site, French and English even though I have a bit of Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese and German. I use charset=iso-8859-1 at the beginning to make it easy for the non anglo characters. To print an é I just type the é without any special formating. The WYSIWYG editor replaces all my chars to the coded ones. For instances an é becomes é an ó becomes ó It does look like shit in a text editor and impossible to read thru but that is not what pisses me off. My java script now shows garbage. I had to edit all my html files by hand to correct the mess. I have not seen a single WYSIWYG editor that works correctly.
It looks to me like a reincarnation of that winblows keyboard. We had someone at work who was brain dead enough to buy a winblows keyboard . He sure hell didn't buy one for himself for home use.
After he left I inherited his computer which I use in the lab for my tests. I had a hard time finding a sucker for the keyboard, no matter how nicely I tried to describe its good sides.
At last someone was gullible enough to accept a trade. Now I have a real keyboard...
There is more to it than that. People who blame things like doom, violence on TV or sex on TV have blinders. These things just reflect society, what happens in society. Each of us have some anger built in for some reason or another and as human beings have sexuals urges just like other animals.
For most people playing violent games or watching violent films will take care of those animal needs for violence. It's like when I was a kid and you'd get angry, instead of kicking someone you'd go hit a punching bag or something. TV is a fantasy world where you live your dreams or other people's dreams.
I can't disagree that some of the people will try to copy some violent images they saw on TV or in the cinema but this is minuscule compare to the overall population who are decent citizens. They don't just do this because they saw it on TV or doom but because they have some vendetta and find ideas wherever they can find them. It these things weren't there they'd find something else.
I'd rather have my son play doom and get all his anger on monsters than go out and beat the fundy kid next door. This kid is a sweetheart who is adored by virtually all the girls he knows. There is no violent bone in that young man.
What a kid need is a father and a mother who adore him and will teach him how to be a decent person. Don't expect the society to do it for you.
When the parents aren't there expect just about anything.
You couldn't be more wrong.
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If it becomes impossible to write software that is proprietary Linux will have no future in the industry. I don't understand the stand of some people who would want us programmers who make a living on programming to go on welfare. I sure as hell am not interested in just giving software support. This works for systems where people are at loss on a problem. Usually it doesn't work that way. We write programs that people need and software support is almost always never needed as the help files are good enough. In a way, fanatics who want nothing but free software want us in the poor house because they're too cheap to buy software or just some comies who think those working for a living don't deserve to get paid for their hard work.
On Linux there is room for both proprietary and non proprietary software. We write code to earn money and we contribute some free software to help people who can't afford or are too cheap to buy software.
You don't know what the heck you are talking about. I have been using just about every versions that came around of Netscape for posting and I could be on a newsgroup for hours and I don't recall it crashing. I had problem at one time with the ISP's fix IP which would send netscape in deep space (and NcFTP as well) but it wasn't due to Linux or Netscape or NcFTP.
I've tried KDE's news program. It works well even though I prefer Netscape.
I've installed RedHat 5.9 last week (since then it has been removed because of the frequent core dumps)
Hopefully they'll fix that before the release.
As for colors on the console. The boot is the only place. They still forget to put colors or the listing of files. We still have to had it in a scripts.
I think I would entirely agree with you. I never looked at it because I didn't want to get pissed off at someone making fun of a hero off all engineers.
I think it is sick for anyone to make fun of Dilbert but freedom has a price...
The day you start to limit freedom is the day tyrany starts.
I would be very interested to know how you managed that miracle. I installed RedHat 5.9 with the latest Gnome that comes with the CD (1.03).
I thought it was the greatest thing until I realize that it would bomb out every time I would try to play a Gnome game. The KDE games loaded OK. I also found out that any sound program would do the same.
After zillions of core dumps I checked to see if the sound worked correctly under the console. It did. I use 4-front software by the way.
I then installed Mandrake 5.3 which works rock solid with KDE. Gnome may be neat but is not ready for release.
You get worst than that if you go to some of Microsoft's sites. This afternoon I was looking for some information on one of Microsoft's site. I used the search command, a tragic mistake, it sent converted Netscape into some kind of Zombie state. Netscape was still there but was incapacitated. I would close it and come back and it was still in the same shape. I gave the winblows salute to get the kill menu and saw netscape was in the task list even though I had closed it. I kill the application and reloaded netscape which was now running correctly, until I went back to the Microsoft's site again.
I had noticed this time that it said:"designed with J++"
What is tha garbage software by the way? I thought that it was supposed to pull off the market.
There was an interesting case when I worked at Cambridge Instruments in Buffalo. A lady got a glocoma test (air shot in the eye) and sued us because she said her eye got damaged by some sand. It is physically impossible for anything to fit in that tiny hole especially a grain of sand. Anyhow, she was basically laughed out of court.
What Europeans should realize is that here in the USA we have the opportunity to use the court to correct wrongs that are made against us. But as everyone else we have our morons and our greedy assholes who think they can make a quick dollar.
One thing that may shock many is that criminals have their own lawyers and sue as a hobby while they're in prison. Again Europeans shouldn't conclude some other shit because of this. If we are to look at weird things done in the UK for instance we'd laugh too.
At the end, most Americans and Europeans aren't morons. It is just that idiots are easier to spot than normal people. Our newsmedia are finding more of those and they like to show them out for kicks. Maybe the brits try to hide theirs.
This is all bulshit! Violent games or violent TV doesn't generate violence in life. Kids aren't as stupid as fundies may think. The problem of violence by the kids usually lies in a refusal by the parents and kids to assume responsability for the wrongfull acts of the kids. Usually a kid who is violent is beaten by his mother or father or watch his father beat his mom or his mom beat his father.
Al Gore stance on encription is basically what the law enforcement wants, not to spy on you or I but to retrieve suspect terrorists or drug dealers. Not that I agree with the idea but this is not something that bothers me as much as the approach of the religious right who want to control our personal lives. The Republican's balls have been controlled by the fundies for years, at least with Clinton and Gore our personal lives are left alone. Whatever Tipper comes up with will never stand in court so I'm not too concerned about that, she wouldn't be the president anyway. Any democrat knows damm well that fundies aren't liked very much by the majority of voters so they know where to stand on this issues on personal freedoms.
The republicans need the fundies to keep their political seats.
Ideally we would need someone down the middle but there is no such beast. Bush looks good but he'll have to kiss the fundies' asses to get elected. If he does that I will not hesitate to cast my vote for Al Gore.
In politic we must choose the least of two evils.
As for getting people who know what they're doing for the Gore web site, this will take time, remember that the campaign is just starting.
Your dislike of the vice president is blinding you. Everyone knows that politicians aren't hackers let alone programmers. You must credit Al Gore for supporting the internet though.
As for the term "Open Source" I fail to see the sacrilege here. Now one owns those two words just as no one owns the word windows despite Microsoft's claim.
Just get a life and get over it. Despite his strange wife's agenda Al Gore is good for the technological world, he may have some things to learn but in comparision to other politicians he ranks as one of the best.
... their response EMAIL address is a bit bucket
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I sent a comment and the letter bounced. Appararently the address for EMAIL is a bit bucket.
SO isn't that bad. It doesn't crash on me as often as it does on your system. On the other hand it does crash when I try to open a file without extension. It is not cabable to load it as text for some weird reason.
Unless they fix moronic bugs like this Word Perfect is going to bury them.
As for Office on winblows, ever heard of the blue screen of death? virus?
Buchanan is a joke, a slightly better candidate than Pat Robertson was. The real choice will be between Al Gore and George Bush. Both Al Gore and George W Bush would make great presidents. Al's handicap is his wife and George's handicap is his kissing up to the fundies. We're in a fix, I rather have Tipper than a fundy. If George Bush tells the fundies to kiss off, I'll vote for him.
I find this flaming of the Vice President pure stupidity. Al Gore should have phrased it better. If you look back you will realize that his is the one who pushed the internet into what it is today. To claim that he actually invented it was a bit exagerated but put yourself in front of a camera and be asked a lot of questions you would likely be making a few mistakes as well.
Al Gore has been for years a strong supporter of our rights to have satellite dishes as well as a strong supporter of the Internet.
Al Gore is a good man and would make a fine president.
Who on Slashdot is Stupid enough....
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I did read what you wrote but I don't think you went thru all the possibilities. I used to run Slackware on a 486 and had similar problems. I managed to get PPP to work a program that generates the script for me. None of the ones you stipulate works. I would have to look for it and I would remember by the name. My modem needed a particular initialization string and with \ replaced by \\ Also my ISP uses pap. It took me a long time to get it to work so I was using only OS/2 for connecting to the net. When I upgraded to RedHat it worked right out of the box with a few clicks.
Michel Catudal bbcat@netonecom.net http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat
Who on Slashdot is Stupid enough....
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If PPP doesn't work under Linux you read some of the misc HOWTOS and find out which file you take of the CD to fix the problem when it's not your hardware that's shot. With winblows you have to hide the shotgun as it would be a bit too tempting. Make sure your winblows CD is close by for the reinstall.
Don't lose the codes. On Win 95 I had lost my codes and managed to get a clean install with bogus numbers. I don't know if that would still work on Win 98.
Maybe not winblows 3.1 but something else did ...
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I had DRDOS 5.0 installed and it worked beautifully. I needed to run PALASM. It would crash if I used extended memory. I was told that the program was using some Microsoft libraries which were responsible for the crashes and I should install DOS 4.0 if I wanted it to run without crashing. I kept DRDOS but had to disable that feature in PALASM.
I never used winblows at the time so I wouldn't know about any crashes on DRDOS.
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I had to rush to install the new kernel. It ...
works great but
OSS Sound flatly refuses to install because
it only supports up to version 2.2.99
What the hell for?
I had to downgrade to the old kernel to get
my sound back, kernel 2.2.8 that is.
The funny thing is that most of us who suggest
..."
...
that most of us will not find following the
devel series to be of any use will as in the
past be among the first ones to upgrade to
the lastest and greatest unstable kernel.
It's kind of like the fundy who preaches against
girly books and has a large collection of
playboys and penthouses hidden under his bed
or spend his time in the brothels.
They all think : "You guys are all morons, those
rules don't apply to me
Enjoy folks, and of course we'll be the first
ones to bitch when the system crashes, but
we'll have the fun and excitement of the moment
I used to think the way you do about WYSIWYG
versus text editor until I found out that my
texts are all screwed up with the WYSIWYG
editors. I can update my web site much faster
with a text editor, I use joe.
My site is mainly a bilingual site, French
and English even though I have a bit of
Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese and German.
I use charset=iso-8859-1 at the beginning to
make it easy for the non anglo characters.
To print an é I just type the é without any
special formating. The WYSIWYG editor replaces
all my chars to the coded ones. For instances
an é becomes é an ó becomes ó
It does look like shit in a text editor and
impossible to read thru but that is not what
pisses me off. My java script now shows
garbage. I had to edit all my html files by
hand to correct the mess.
I have not seen a single WYSIWYG editor that
works correctly.
I guess it leaves out 99.9999999999% of us who
have ordinary yet high quality video cards.
It takes a stupid moron to design just for
one or two cards.
It looks to me like a reincarnation of that
...
winblows keyboard. We had someone at work
who was brain dead enough to buy a winblows
keyboard . He sure hell didn't buy one for himself
for home use.
After he left I inherited his computer which
I use in the lab for my tests. I had a hard time
finding a sucker for the keyboard, no matter how
nicely I tried to describe its good sides.
At last someone was gullible enough to accept a
trade. Now I have a real keyboard
There is more to it than that. People who blame
things like doom, violence on TV or sex on TV have
blinders. These things just reflect society, what
happens in society. Each of us have some anger
built in for some reason or another and as human
beings have sexuals urges just like other animals.
For most people playing violent games or watching
violent films will take care of those animal needs
for violence. It's like when I was a kid and you'd
get angry, instead of kicking someone you'd go
hit a punching bag or something. TV is a fantasy
world where you live your dreams or other people's
dreams.
I can't disagree that some of the people will
try to copy some violent images they saw on TV
or in the cinema but this is minuscule compare
to the overall population who are decent citizens.
They don't just do this because they saw it on
TV or doom but because they have some vendetta
and find ideas wherever they can find them.
It these things weren't there they'd find
something else.
I'd rather have my son play doom and get all his
anger on monsters than go out and beat the fundy
kid next door. This kid is a sweetheart who is
adored by virtually all the girls he knows.
There is no violent bone in that young man.
What a kid need is a father and a mother who
adore him and will teach him how to be a decent
person. Don't expect the society to do it for you.
When the parents aren't there expect just about
anything.
If it becomes impossible to write software that
is proprietary Linux will have no future in the
industry. I don't understand the stand of some
people who would want us programmers who make a
living on programming to go on welfare. I sure as
hell am not interested in just giving software
support.
This works for systems where people are at loss on
a problem. Usually it doesn't work that way. We
write programs that people need and software
support is almost always never needed as the help
files are good enough.
In a way, fanatics who want nothing but free
software want us in the poor house because
they're too cheap to buy software or just
some comies who think those working for a living
don't deserve to get paid for their hard work.
On Linux there is room for both proprietary
and non proprietary software. We write code
to earn money and we contribute some free
software to help people who can't afford or
are too cheap to buy software.
Are you posting in double or are my eyes
playing tricks on me?
I've had a hard time with winblows today
but I don't recall taking a drink.
I see their name everytime I boot my PC
I run Mandrake 5.3
Say what?
You don't know what the heck you are talking
about.
I have been using just about every versions that
came around of Netscape for posting and I could
be on a newsgroup for hours and I don't recall
it crashing. I had problem at one time with
the ISP's fix IP which would send netscape
in deep space (and NcFTP as well) but it wasn't
due to Linux or Netscape or NcFTP.
I've tried KDE's news program. It works well
even though I prefer Netscape.
Some people swear by GNU.
There are lots of em.
And at least under Linux it doesn't Melissa you.
Didn't you read RedHat 6.0?
I've installed RedHat 5.9 last week (since
then it has been removed because of the
frequent core dumps)
Hopefully they'll fix that before the release.
As for colors on the console. The boot is the
only place. They still forget to put colors
or the listing of files. We still have to had
it in a scripts.
I think I would entirely agree with you. I
...
never looked at it because I didn't want to
get pissed off at someone making fun of
a hero off all engineers.
I think it is sick for anyone to make
fun of Dilbert but freedom has a price
The day you start to limit freedom
is the day tyrany starts.
I would be very interested to know how you managed
that miracle. I installed RedHat 5.9 with the
latest Gnome that comes with the CD (1.03).
I thought it was the greatest thing until I
realize that it would bomb out every time
I would try to play a Gnome game. The KDE games
loaded OK. I also found out that any sound
program would do the same.
After zillions of core dumps I checked to see
if the sound worked correctly under the console.
It did. I use 4-front software by the way.
I then installed Mandrake 5.3 which works
rock solid with KDE. Gnome may be neat but is
not ready for release.
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat
You get worst than that if you go to some
:"designed
of Microsoft's sites. This afternoon I was
looking for some information on one of Microsoft's
site. I used the search command, a tragic mistake,
it sent converted Netscape into some kind
of Zombie state. Netscape was still there but was
incapacitated. I would close it and come back
and it was still in the same shape.
I gave the winblows salute to get the kill menu
and saw netscape was in the task list even though
I had closed it. I kill the application and
reloaded netscape which was now running correctly,
until I went back to the Microsoft's site again.
I had noticed this time that it said
with J++"
What is tha garbage software by the way? I
thought that it was supposed to pull off the
market.
There was an interesting case when I worked
at Cambridge Instruments in Buffalo. A lady
got a glocoma test (air shot in the eye) and
sued us because she said her eye got damaged
by some sand. It is physically impossible for
anything to fit in that tiny hole especially
a grain of sand. Anyhow, she was basically
laughed out of court.
What Europeans should realize is that here in the
USA we have the opportunity to use the court to
correct wrongs that are made against us. But as
everyone else we have our morons and our greedy
assholes who think they can make a quick dollar.
One thing that may shock many is that criminals
have their own lawyers and sue as a hobby while
they're in prison. Again Europeans shouldn't
conclude some other shit because of this. If we
are to look at weird things done in the UK for
instance we'd laugh too.
At the end, most Americans and Europeans aren't
morons. It is just that idiots are easier to
spot than normal people. Our newsmedia are finding
more of those and they like to show them out
for kicks. Maybe the brits try to hide theirs.
This is all bulshit! Violent games or violent TV
doesn't generate violence in life. Kids aren't
as stupid as fundies may think. The problem
of violence by the kids usually lies in a refusal
by the parents and kids to assume responsability
for the wrongfull acts of the kids. Usually a kid
who is violent is beaten by his mother or father
or watch his father beat his mom or his mom beat
his father.
Al Gore stance on encription is basically what the
law enforcement wants, not to spy on you or I but
to retrieve suspect terrorists or drug dealers.
Not that I agree with the idea but this is not
something that bothers me as much as the approach
of the religious right who want to control our
personal lives.
The Republican's balls have been controlled by the
fundies for years, at least with Clinton and
Gore our personal lives are left alone. Whatever
Tipper comes up with will never stand in court
so I'm not too concerned about that, she wouldn't
be the president anyway. Any democrat knows damm
well that fundies aren't liked very much by
the majority of voters so they know where to
stand on this issues on personal freedoms.
The republicans need the fundies to keep their
political seats.
Ideally we would need someone down the middle
but there is no such beast. Bush looks good
but he'll have to kiss the fundies' asses to
get elected. If he does that I will not
hesitate to cast my vote for Al Gore.
In politic we must choose the least of two evils.
As for getting people who know what they're
doing for the Gore web site, this will take
time, remember that the campaign is just starting.
Your dislike of the vice president is blinding
you. Everyone knows that politicians aren't
hackers let alone programmers. You must credit
Al Gore for supporting the internet though.
As for the term "Open Source" I fail to see
the sacrilege here. Now one owns those two words
just as no one owns the word windows despite
Microsoft's claim.
Just get a life and get over it.
Despite his strange wife's agenda Al Gore is
good for the technological world, he may have
some things to learn but in comparision to
other politicians he ranks as one of the best.
I sent a comment and the letter bounced.
Appararently the address for EMAIL is
a bit bucket.
SO isn't that bad. It doesn't crash on me as
often as it does on your system. On the other
hand it does crash when I try to open a file
without extension. It is not cabable to load
it as text for some weird reason.
Unless they fix moronic bugs like this Word
Perfect is going to bury them.
As for Office on winblows, ever heard of the
blue screen of death? virus?
Buchanan is a joke, a slightly better candidate
than Pat Robertson was. The real choice will
be between Al Gore and George Bush.
Both Al Gore and George W Bush would make great
presidents.
Al's handicap is his wife and George's handicap
is his kissing up to the fundies. We're in a fix,
I rather have Tipper than a fundy. If George Bush
tells the fundies to kiss off, I'll vote for him.
I find this flaming of the Vice President pure
stupidity. Al Gore should have phrased it better.
If you look back you will realize that his is the
one who pushed the internet into what it is today.
To claim that he actually invented it was a bit
exagerated but put yourself in front of a camera
and be asked a lot of questions you would likely
be making a few mistakes as well.
Al Gore has been for years a strong supporter of
our rights to have satellite dishes as well as
a strong supporter of the Internet.
Al Gore is a good man and would make a fine
president.
I did read what you wrote but I don't think
you went thru all the possibilities. I used
to run Slackware on a 486 and had similar
problems. I managed to get PPP to work a program
that generates the script for me. None of the
ones you stipulate works. I would have to look
for it and I would remember by the name.
My modem needed a particular initialization
string and with \ replaced by \\
Also my ISP uses pap.
It took me a long time to get it to work so
I was using only OS/2 for connecting to the
net.
When I upgraded to RedHat it worked right
out of the box with a few clicks.
Michel Catudal
bbcat@netonecom.net
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat
If PPP doesn't work under Linux you read some
of the misc HOWTOS and find out which file
you take of the CD to fix the problem when
it's not your hardware that's shot.
With winblows you have to hide the shotgun
as it would be a bit too tempting. Make sure
your winblows CD is close by for the reinstall.
Don't lose the codes. On Win 95 I had lost
my codes and managed to get a clean install with
bogus numbers. I don't know if that would still
work on Win 98.
I had DRDOS 5.0 installed and it worked
beautifully. I needed to run PALASM. It would
crash if I used extended memory. I was told
that the program was using some Microsoft
libraries which were responsible for the crashes
and I should install DOS 4.0 if I wanted it to
run without crashing. I kept DRDOS but had to
disable that feature in PALASM.
I never used winblows at the time so I wouldn't
know about any crashes on DRDOS.