Das Werkstatt

[Problem] You know this - you play shooters or other games on the keyboard, and often need the ALT or CTRL, SHIFT etc. keys - and every now and then you accidently hit those evil, useless, shitty, [..] windows buttons. Usually this tasks you out of the game, if you run full-screen, and thats specia...

[Problem] You installed some software - most likely it had to do with CDR's or DVDs (Burner, Ripper, Emulator...) and on the next reboot, BLAM! BSOD in the modue 'CDR4_2k.sys'. In safe mode, suddenly your CD/DVD Drive does not work anymore - if you now delete the .sys, the box will boot normally ag...

[Problem] I tried to apt-get install mysql-server-5.0 mysql-client-5.0 , but the standard repository did not have it. [Solution] Open your /etc/apt/sources.lst file , and drop your repository links there. Here is a nice one, where you also will find a MySQL5 server and client package. deb http://do...

[Problem] After installing Windows XP Professional (lol..) on a box, and running windows update (283 updates available. Do you want to download the internet?), i recognized some weird change in the user behaviour. Instead of connecting to windows servers using the username / password you logged in ...

[Problem] The system does not boot and is stuck at some BIOS tests. [Solution] There is a setting in the Bios where you can set the HDD priority if you set the bootup sequence to HDD being the 1st Boot sequence. After attaching new USB devices, enter BIOS and check if the USB Stick still is the fir...

[Problem] You use a version of DL that is supposed to have sata support, yet after boot it does not show any sata drives ( dmesg | grep sd ). [Solution] You have to 'insmod libata' and ' insmod sata_uli ' to enable the kernel module necessary to work with SATA disks. Might not work on all controlle...

[Problem] You would like to use webmin with your Devil-Linux to make configuration more easy. [Solution] If you use a USB Stick to save your config, this should not be a problem (besides that you should not use floppies anyway, as they are not very reliable..). Just install webmin, for example, to ...

[Problem] The game behaves weird, and runs way too fast. Everything appears to be in uberturbo mode. Graphical Artifacts everywhere, and the AI messes up because of the high speed and keeps ramming things randomly. [Solution] Known problem on Dual Core CPU's. After starting the game, task out, open...

[Problem] Sometimes the 3d engine freezes, but not totally - you can zoom in/zoom out, everything looks like a still frame, but you can't rotate or anything. The other symptom is, that the 3d engine runs normally, but all the 2d interface buttons including the chat window freeze and do not work. In...

Try using 'lsof | grep perl' - this should show you all open files that are in use by perl. You can also try to stop one service after another... and if you stop a specific service, and perl dies with it, then you have your evil bastardo. As for the ifconfig... now, thats some funny ip's there. Prob...

I really can't see how this config you pasted above could ever work. Of course, i did not read the full 2000 pages manuals on sendmail, procmail, postfix and whatever, so i might be wrong. But this (see code window) for example makes no sense... # The inet_interfaces parameter specifies the network ...

Theres definitly stuff missing in this config file of yours. I will just strip my config from comments and post it... its not done by any means yet, but it works

Might take a while, i have to do work and stuff, too

[Problems] After configuring Samba, the daemon takes forever to start. Once this was solved, on big file transfers smbd caused massive load and ate up all the CPU. [Solutions] As Devil is a CD Distro and not installed to the HDD, make sure you configured all the pathes for logfiles etc. to location...

[Problem] When starting the game, you only get a black screen - but sound seems to work normally, as you can hear the "Cenega" intro. Windows says, the program is not responding, but it loops the intro over and over again, while screen stays black. [Solutions] Appearently, UFO has a probl...

[Problem] After installing Ubuntu, and then installing the ATI drivers with synapse, the X-server does not restart anymore. All you get is some flickering and a black screen, and you have to reset the box. [Solution] Reboot in safe mode (shell), and check your /etc/X11/ directory. In there, you wil...