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help with Sound card Rockwell Riptide HSF

Posted Wed, 2006-07-26 23:12 by nessie

Maybe someone can help mewith this, i have a HP dektop with modem/souncard Rockwell International Riptide HSF 56k PCI ModemPCI ID: 127A:4311 1235:4311riptidei have DapperUbuntu 6.06and kernel 2.6.15-23-386 i have de modem working fine and ive tried to get the sound going with the riptide driver but its only in rpm or to be compiled and when trying to install i have problems, anyone else have this problem?tnx

Secure Debian System Using FireHOL Firewall

Posted Wed, 2006-07-26 14:00 by gg234

FireHOL is a stateful iptables packet filtering firewall configurator. It is abstracted, extensible, easy and powerful. It can handle any kind of firewall, but most importantly, it gives you the means to configure it, the same way you think of it.http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/firehol.htm

Sheepserver

Posted Mon, 2006-07-24 16:37 by tvilberg

I have tried to get electricsheep up and running to no avail. It ran under Badger, but not Drake.

Under Drake it tries, then fails, to get the first sheep.

If I move sheep from my earlier install into the .sheep folder, it can play those through mplayer, but the mplayer window resizes each time the sheep is renewed.

Partitioning HD

Posted Sun, 2006-07-23 20:24 by brandon

How long does it take for Ubuntu's default partitioning to complete?  I've had the computer on overnight thinking it may take awhile, but I don't think this is right.  Why is partitioning not complete?  I've had a blue screen for hours!! Any help?brandon

help downloading and installing wine

Posted Sun, 2006-07-23 02:45 by smokesmoke

i dont know what to do someone help me

Gnome Panels not working or responding

Posted Fri, 2006-07-21 15:45 by tabnaka

Hi, I installed Ubuntu a week ago. 2 days ago I ran into a major problem. I don't know what I could have done (all I remember is doing Cntl-Alt-Bksp to restart xserver), but sometime later I realized that the default gnome panels were no longer working or responding. The only thing I could do is click the trash icon, and use the keyboard to switch desktops. If I try to click any menu like Applications on the top with my mouse, nothing happens. My desktop icons work fine. Also when I minimize a window, the window does not show up in the bottom panel. Also any keyboard shortcuts I use to access the panels do not work. When I try to restart XServer or go to runlevel 1/2 back to runlevel 5, runlevel 5 will show my desktop void of any panels. The only way to get them back is to reboot my comp., but panels will still not work. <br> Has anyone else run into this problem? If so how can I fix it? I tried deleting ~/.gnome and restarting it, but that didn't work. I also tried killall deskbar-applet and kilall gnome-panel and all that. Also tried un-installing gnome panel and re-installing, but now I just get a "OAFIID: GNOME_Panel_TrashApplet" message

CD-Rom: Drive appears confused HELP!!!!

Posted Wed, 2006-07-19 03:28 by dicintra

Hi, i´m a newbie in Linux and i can´t install Ubuntu 6 cause when my system boots with the installation cd, after the screen that says Kernel ok, appears a message "cd-rom:drive appears confused" and the installation stops. What should i do?? Thanks in advance Diogo - Brazil

Nagios and Oreon (Nagios web front end) installation and Configuration

Posted Tue, 2006-07-18 11:32 by gg234

Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well. The monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you specify using external "plugins" which return status information to Nagios. When problems are encountered, the daemon can send notifications out to administrative contacts in a variety of different ways (email, instant message, SMS, etc.).http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/oreon.htm

Mp3 player

Posted Sun, 2006-07-16 19:08 by jaxx

Hello. I am a complete newb and i want to connect my Yakumo Hypersound Xtra mp3 player to my ubuntu linux (some Hedgehog). I have tried something but in the media folder i see only floppy and cdrom. I dont know right now what information i have to provide more. I have searched some webs about mp3 player or usb stick mounting and there was a command dmesg, when i wrote it in terminal i got a bunch of stuff, and there was something like usbfs, i wrote in terminal mount usbfs and it wrote that it is allready mounted /proc/bus/usb  or something like that. Pls Help...

log in??????

Posted Tue, 2006-07-11 23:08 by benjgvps

ok. i installed ubuntu on my pc and then i reboot and see the login screen im all confusedbecause it asked me for a username and i don't remebre making one but i did make a password. anyone know the problem?

Lighttpd Webserver Installation

Posted Mon, 2006-07-10 10:12 by gg234

Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility--all of these describe LightTPD which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression,URL-Rewriting and many more) LightTPD is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. And best of all it's Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license. http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/lighttpd.htm

PS2 Mouse problems

Posted Sun, 2006-07-09 04:04 by carbroker

I have just installed Ubuntu and only the buttons work on the mouse. It's a generic Gigabyte mouse (optical) connected via PS2.Any ideas?

desktop trouble

Posted Fri, 2006-07-07 21:18 by unisol

i finally got xserver up and running with gdm however after i log in i get the human theme and a blank desktop no icons no taskbar no menus what should i do

Kaffeine sound Error Message

Posted Thu, 2006-07-06 16:12 by ronwil

I just installed Ubuntu 6.06 and it is great. One problem is playing DVD's. When I try to play a DVD (unencrypted), I get the error message "Audio output unavailable. Device is busy." (DVD's play in Windows). I have system sounds and if I play a CD, I have sound. Kaffeine is the only movie player loaded. I have tried other movie players and the same results.  I am running an AMD 64 bit computer with 2GB of memory, and a Sound Blaster Extigy external sound card. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Syncing pocket pc to kontact?????????????

Posted Thu, 2006-07-06 03:10 by kubuntab

Does anyone know of a "stable way" to sync my pocket pc with kontact?? (I have the h1940 model)Thanks in advance!!!!! Tab... Kubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper)