Modules

Why aren't there 8gb RAM modules yet?
Why is RAM module development seemingly stuck at the same size for a while now (a couple of years)? I bought 2x2gb modules 2 years ago, and now it's all the same size, with prices even bigger. I want more memory, because I work a lot on my computer and I just need it. What is going on? &...

Which Linux directories to backup for sound
One time my sound card was no longer detected and the only way to get it working again was to reinstall Linux. I want to avoid having to do this by backing up important files for sound so that if the sound card disappears again I can fix it. Which directories should be backed up? ...

How to backup Linux sound configuration
I reinstalled Linux mostly because my sound card was no longer being detected. I want to backup my sound configuration in case this happens again. ...

Remove a module from initadd under Solaris
I accidentally added a non-existent module to my profile (or whatever it is you add it to) with module initadd foo and now every time I log on, I get an error message about foo not being found. How do I remove the module foo...

What are Linux kernel modules?
I was wondering if someone could explain what Linux kernel modules are to someone who comes from Windows? ...

FreeBSD 8.1 Apache 2.2 tries to load PHP 5.3.2 module from inexistent debug-location
I am trying to get a Gallery2 installation running on my (upgraded) FreeBSD 8.1 machine. It used to be FreeBSD 6.2 and Gallery2 used to work there. My problem hopefully is not very Gallery2-related though. What I am experiencing right now (besides other things which are - so I hop...

Will lsusb and lspci list devices for which the system has no drivers?
I have been administering linux systems for years now, but usually they are commodity boxes and as a result I rarely have driver problems, short of needing to install some "restricted" or "proprietary" driver package, or manually installing the nvidia binary drivers back in the day. ...

Is there a way to refresh the current configuration used by modprobe with a newly updated modules.conf file?
Is there a way to refresh the current configuration used by modprobe with an updated modules.conf file at the command line for Red Hat Linux 9.0? ...

Skip kernel module at boot
There is a broken kernel module, due to which I can not even load the OS, so I can not delete or fix it. Is it possible to skip this module at boot, using the kernel's parameters or something? Thanks. ...

Python crash issue in Fedora 12
How to fix the following issue and what's the problem. Due to this problem, everything that uses python is not working. /lib/librt.so.1: symbol pthread_barrier_wait, version GLIBC_2.2 not defined in file libpthread.so.0 with link time ref...

modprobe -k -q (missing parameter)
well, I got the following modprobe scripts modprobe -k -q streams what does the -k parameter mean ?. is it exist in older modprobe ? I don't see -k parameter in recent modprobe. Thanks for your help. ...

drupal GCal_events problem
I have the gcal_events module setup on my drupal site. It does not show any errors in the configuration but it is not showing any of the events that are in my google calendar! the block just says None right now which is the text setup to display when there are no events from the xml feed for the ...

Weird Error adding custom module to Drupal installation
I'm adding the Event module to my fresh drupal installation to get the calendar features on my site. The module shows up just fine in my modules page but when i click save settings i get the following error Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (trie...

Error on installing SVN extension with pecl
Hello, I'm trying to install the following PHP extension: http://php.net/manual/en/book.svn.php But when I do pecl install svn-beta I receive an error message that it can't locate the svn_cli...

How to copy a bunch of pages? Is there a 3rd party tool?
(I asked the following question at the DNN forum, and also at snowcovered. Nobody knew of such an obvious time-saver being for sale. I'm posting here in case anybody knows of a freeware module that might do this.) By "groups of dnn pages", I mean pages that form a hierarchy (not n...

Load apache module
Hi, in /etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/loadmodule.conf, we have "Files in this directory are created at apache start time by /usr/sbin/rcapache2" So how can I tell apache to load a new module (instead of editing the loadmodule.conf) ? Thanks ...

Unable to build Python modules in Mandriva 2010
I am trying to build a Python module (pyfits) but I get the following error: # python setup.py install /home/steve/src/pyfits-2.2.2/stsci_distutils_hack.py:239: DeprecationWarning: os.popen3 is deprecated. Use the subprocess module. (sin, sout, serr) = os.pope...

Python Module: Trouble Installing Bitarray
I'm not sure why I am having trouble installing the Python Module Bitarray on my Ubuntu 8.10 machine. dan@Tower:~/py$ tar xzf bitarray-0.3.5.tar.gz dan@Tower:~/py$ cd bitarray-0.3.5 dan@Tower:~/py/bitarray-0.3.5$ dan@Tower:~/py/bitarray-0.3.5$ python setup.py i...

Installing Perl module OpenOffice::UNO on Solaris/OpenSolaris
I want to use OpenOffice with Perl to create some PDFs. However, I can't seem to get the Perl module installed on Solaris/OpenSolaris: OpenOffice::UNO The module was recently updated but it doe...

Mac OS X + Apache + Web Sharing
I'm running Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) and I'm trying to use Eclipse PDT and I'd like to use "Web Sharing" built-in feature that basically runs Apache. I'm doing code change in PDT and I want to use Safari and be able to hit my own server ( localhost ) and access those files without manually copying...