XceptN’s Tech Stuff – Page 9

Building kernel source tree from *.src.rpm

kernel-source package provides patch applied source code: rpm2cpio kernel-source-2.4.21-27.0.2.1.7.EL.i386.rpm | cpio -idmv The src rpm does provide the base source and patches:rpm -i kernel-2.4.21-27.0.2.1.7.EL.src.rpm />> This installs the base kernel and the *.patch separatelycd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/rpmbuild -bp kernel-2.4.ora-27.1.7.EL.spec If Architecture is not included: i386rpmbuild -bp –target i686 kernel-2.4.ora-27.1.7.EL.spec />> This installs the patches and provides the…

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ALSA and Intel HDA

With your current also you cannot get sound from your sound hardware. dmesg shows: snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_pcm_close snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_resume snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_pcm_open snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_set_rate snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_mixer snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_bus snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_suspend snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_pcm_assign snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_mpu401_uart_new snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_tune_hardware lspci…

HOWTO: Extract WINMAIL.DAT on Linux

Maybe it has been many times that you got a WINMAIL.DAT attachement from another person, using MS Outlook for a mail unfortunately. That file is in the TNEF (Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format) as a proprietary format of MS. See: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q241538 Apart from asking the sender to turn of TNEF as per above document and ask…

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Multi-Desktop KDE and Applications to be Displayed on All of the Desktops ALWAYS

This may be required to have your chat and mail windows on every desktop in KDE. One example can be for Gaim: Right click on the window titleAdvanced -> Special Window SettingsSelect “Use window class (whole application)” and click OKSelect tab: Geometry Check “Desktop” Select “Apply Initially” Select “All Desktops”Restart the application and see.. The…

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Detected Deskjet 610C Does Not Print

All configuration done on detected DeskJet 610C printer attached to parallel port 0.dmesg detects the printer properly and all seems fine with CUPS. But nothing is printed via CUPS. Checking the /var/log/cups/error_log: I [15/Apr/2006:16:03:42 +0300] Job 1 queued on ‘DeskJet-610C’ by ‘…..’.I [15/Apr/2006:16:03:42 +0300] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 16099) for job 1.I [15/Apr/2006:16:03:42 +0300] Started…

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Unconditional Shutdown on PC HW

Uhm .. My home PC screwed up .. It kept shutting down even starting Debian in addition to Windows XP. That had happened before due to a dangling CPU fan before, and I had replaced the fan with a state of the art double 2000+ RPM one .. But no problem with that now …..

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mutt / exim4 / GMail

Decided to try to access my GMail using mutt .. A good .muttrc configuration does the mail fetch trick.. I’ll add the details later. On Debian we have exim4 can be used synonymously as sendmail .. The sendmail part is a little bit tricky. Some tls and auth settings in exim4 configuration and still I…

Installing Debian 3.1 / DVD / Floppy / SATA and Others

I decided to have Debian Sarge (3.1) – www.debian.org on the new disk that I installed on my home server. The new disk is a 250GB SATA Maxtor and my SATA controller is SiS 180. Installing from ISO-burned DVD’s I got error: Disk error 80, AX= 4280 drive 9FFirst I thought it was due to…

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HOWTO: Find which RPM is a file from

The RPM database holds that information. e.g.: $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/asmscan oracleasm-support-2.0.1-1

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Mounting ISO Images on Linux

If you have a CD/DVD ISO image. If you do not want to burn a CDROM/DVDROM for this (Era of medialess organizations – following after paperless organizations) you can mount it as a loopback device. It is simple: # mount -o loop -t iso9660 mydiskimage.iso /media/iso

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