Re: Netscape, samba, power, awe64 ?s

[Graham Ashton <graz@mindless.com>]

On 15 Dec, Brian Morgan wrote:

> 1. 	I posted a samba question earlier.  Has anyone had a chance to look at
> that yet?

didn't see it, sorry.

> 2.	Downloaded netscape from netscape.com, ran ns-install, and now I get an
> error:  "can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'"  I've had this problem in the
> past, on another debian machine, but I don't remember how I solved it.  Any
> suggestions?

I ran into the same thing a week or so ago;

humbug% ldd /usr/local/netscape/netscape
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000b000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x4004d000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x40056000)
        libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 (0x4006b000)
        libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x4007d000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x4008b000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x40096000)
        libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40134000)
        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40137000)
        libg++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libg++.so.27 (0x401f5000)
        libstdc++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libstdc++.so.27 (0x4022d000)
        libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4025e000)

you want to know which package contains libXpm.so.4. I was missing some
of the libg++ stuff to start with too.

I think it's one of the xpm4.7 packages (I seem to have the libc5 ones,
even though I thought I'd got the glibc version of netscape)...

> 4.	I think someone offered advice on this before, but I'd like some help
> getting an awe64 soundcard to work.  Isn't there something I have to do to
> recompile a the kernel?  Sounds kind of scarey, for a newbie.  Can anyone
> help?

there was a post earlier today from Frank Barknecht to me that was
discussing it. the best approach would appear to be to recompile your
kernel with the make-kpkg utility, and to apply all the relevant awe
.deb packages too. I haven't tried that yet. Check his message for more
info. there's also an awe mini howto that you should read, available
from http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/

you should get the isapnp stuff too (explained in howto). come back
with more specific questions if you get stuck. if I'm successful (in
the near future) I'll post a summary of what I did.

-- 
Graham