Newbie Notes
Yesterday, I asked for help on a brand new Debian Sarge install. I still do not know much about fixing things, but I am getting better at doing an install. My last install was done while traveling, so I did not have network access. Since the net was not active, my ethernet was not configured. I had asked about making SUDO work for my normal user, asked about adding my user to the audio group, and asked a couple of other things. I admit I am new, and trying to learn. This new install was done with the network enabled, and with the packages downloaded from an FTP site instead of from the CD-ROM. All seems well, and I then used VIM to edit /etc/sudoers and added my user to enable SUDO commands. VIM seems a little easier than VI, and with the net working, I was able to display a cheat-sheet for VIM while editing. I was warned the file was read only, but was also able to override and save my changes anyways. I failed to write down the exact command, but I was then able to use dpkg to reconfigure xfree86, changing from VESA to an ATI driver. This is allowing me to use 1024x768 instead of the 800x600 I had before. I read of a way to examine monitor properties, can someone suggest what package allows this? I then used apt-get to do an update, upgrade -u, and install gaim. Thanks for those who responded and helped me get this far. What other important first steps should I take? Do I need a firewall? Remember I am new, so if you make a suggestion, please keep it simple and provide suggestions as what commands I should use. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Beginner help
I am a very new beginner to Debian. If this is not the right place to ask, then perhaps others can direct me. I installed Sarge, and seem to have Gnome Desktop running.I have a few questions. 1.I need to add a user, but when I do, they cannot access the sound card. I think it is permissions, but where do I start?2. I created a user, but SUDO seems to only work from ROOT and not from my user.3. How can I close down Gnome and start up KDE?Thanks for helping a new person. __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Newbie Troubles with Debian
Greetings. I am an old hardware engineer with many years of working on systems hardware. I recently decided to switch to Linux, and so began a search for a desktop replacement. My experience has been frustrating, and I wanted to ask advice.I Can can run live, from Knoppix and Puppy. I like Knoppix and even installed it to hard drive and played with it for a day. I see there is little support from the broader Linux community, so decided to install the full Debian. I have done the net install now, 3 different times. Each time, I get the system running, but no video to the graphical desktop. I am using a Gateway with Intel 810 internal video. I switched to an ATI video card, and installed it a second time, still no luck. I then edited the X (forgive me, but my memory failes me here) file which is the config for the X-windows and was able to confirm first it chose VESA for the video, second time, it chose ATI, and I even edited it to try the standard VGA driver.Can you point me to a beginner help, or know anyone who might be a mentor for a beginner user? This is not so much a bug report as it is an install quirk. Thank you for any help. Yahoo! Mail goes everywhere you do. Get it on your phone.
StarOffice 5.1 Segmentation fault on potato
After breezing through the installation procedure (saying `y' to the glibc 2.0.7 warning -- I have 2.1.1), when I run `./soffice' or `./soffice.bin' I get a segmentation fault. Has anyone else seen this? Mike -- Mike Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: multiple copies of digest?
Multiple copies here, so I'm special too. Mike -Original Message- From: Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 09, 1999 9:41 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: multiple copies of digest? Is everyone getting multiple copies, or am i just special? :) I got two of most of yesterday's, 3 of #628, and 2 each of #629 #630 rick --
RE: YAMAHA-OPL3SA3 (using kernel drivers)
Hi Piotr, I think you said you wanted to do this with a 2.0 kernel; mine works using a late-2.1 kernel (2.1.132?). I just followed the instructions in the kernel source file Documentation/sound/OPL3-SA2: the driver is good for SA2, SA3 and SAx. Regards, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Piotr Domagalski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 4:00 PM To: Debian User List Subject: YAMAHA-OPL3SA3 (using kernel drivers) Hi again ... I got many msg that I should use ALSA or if I want I should use the newest (no these from dist) so now I want to use kernel drivers. Has anybody installed YAMAHA-OPL3SA3 with kernel drivers ? As modules or built-in ? Which modules did you use ? How to configure them ? Please help me !!! I want my soundcard to make any sound !!! -- Piotr Domagalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - no Windows, no Gates, Apache inside.
Re: wmaker icons
Hi Marcelo, You wrote: Another one of my screw ups this week. wmaker-data moved the icons from /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/ to /usr/share/icons; I thought about that, but I did only half the thinking :-( Update your IconPath in ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker to include this path. Moral: don't package things half asleep. Do it either completely awake or completely asleep. :-) I've personally been delighted with your maintenance of the Window Maker package, whose constantly-changing configuration must keep you on your toes. Please don't lose any further sleep over such a minor incident. :-) Regards, Mike
dpkg: `error setting ownership of symlink'
Is there something I can do to get around this error? debian# dpkg -i tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb (Reading database ... 36894 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tk4.2 (from tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb) ... dpkg: error processing tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb (--install): error setting ownership of symlink `usr/doc/tk4.2/changelog.gz': No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: dpkg: `error setting ownership of symlink'
Mine qualifies: it's 2.1.82. I'll try a newer kernel. Thanks, Mike -Original Message- From: David Z. Maze [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 1998 2:27 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dpkg: `error setting ownership of symlink' Mike Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MH Is there something I can do to get around this error? MH dpkg: error processing tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb (--install): MHerror setting ownership of symlink MH `usr/doc/tk4.2/changelog.gz': No such file or directory This sounds like a problem that came up in the early 2.1.8x kernels. It was fixed around 2.1.85, I think. If you're running a kernel of this vintage, upgrading to a current development kernel will solve the problem. -- _ / \ The cat's been in the box for over | David Maze | 20 years. Nobody's feeding it. The | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |cat is dead. | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Grant, on Schroedinger's Cat \_/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dpkg and tk4.2
When I attempt to re-install the tk4.2 run-time lib that I had forcibly removed, I get the following: debian# dpkg -i tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb (Reading database ... 36894 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tk4.2 (from tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb) ... dpkg: error processing tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb (--install): error setting ownership of symlink `usr/doc/tk4.2/changelog.gz': No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb Is there something I can do to get past this? Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel Compile after libc6 upgrade
This week I tried compiling a kernel (2.0.32) for the first time since upgrading to libc6 about a month ago. I can't get past `make dep.' It fails with the following message: debian# make dep make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/arch/i386/boot' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `dep'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/arch/i386/boot' scripts/mkdep init/*.c .tmpdepend scripts/mkdep `find /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/include/asm /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/include/linux /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/include/scsi /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/include/net -follow -name \*.h ! -name modversions.h -print` .hdepend make: *** [dep-files] Error 139 Have I missed something in the upgrade? Thanks, Mike -- Michael Hill Toronto, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ASUS Pentium II motherboard
My computer at work is being upgraded this week to an ASUS P2L97 AGP motherboard with a 233-MHz Pentium II. I'm moving from a Compaq Deskpro 200-MHz Pentium Pro, but I get to keep the hard drive, SMP EtherPower card and Matrox Millenium PCI video card (no video upgrade to AGP yet). On the old machine I've installed Debian 1.3.1 and upgraded to libc6 according to Scott Ellis' Howto. After the hard drive transplant, I will boot from my 1.3.1 CD and create a new boot diskette, then download and re-compile a new kernel. I hope to be able to keep my Linux partition much the way it is. Does anyone know of anything I should watch out for? Thanks, Mike -- Michael Hill Toronto, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
