On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Eileen Orbell wrote:
Hi,
How do I stop debian booting into xwindows? I stupidly must have set it to
that.
Thanks
If you don't like xdm at all, then remove the xdm package by issuing
dpkg --purge xdm
if you just dont want to be started as default, then remove
Hi everyone!
I am trying to compile 2.217 kernel and I am offered to choose the CPU
family. Could someone, however, explain the difference between
-- 586 for generic Pentium CPUs, possibly lacking the TSC
and
-- Pentium for the Intel Pentium/Pentium MMX, AMD K5, K6 and K6-3D
and how to check
apt-get remove xdm should do the job.
-- Original Message --
From: Eileen Orbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:40:17 -0400
Hi,
How do I stop debian booting into xwindows? I stupidly must have set it to
that.
Thanks
Eileen Orbell
use make menuconfig, it has a lot of online help and explains all of those
options.
nate
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Lazar Fleysher wrote:
fleysh Hi everyone!
fleysh
fleysh I am trying to compile 2.217 kernel and I am offered to choose the CPU
fleysh family. Could someone, however, explain the
If the package doesn't say Helix, purge it. You don't
need any non-helix gnome packages to have a working gnome
distribution.
Tim
Michael Epting wrote:
apt-get upgrade broke my Gnome this weekend. Looking in my apt/archives, I
see that I have a gnome-bin (and maybe some other Gnome-related
Here's my setup for 4 IDE devices :
hda : Linux HD
hdb : CDROM
hdc : CDRW
hdd : FreeBSD
I want to be able to boot FreeBSD off the slave hard drive on the secondary IDE
controller.
This is my lilo.conf entry for BSD:
other=/dev/hdd1
table=/dev/hdd
loader=/boot/chain.b
Please disregard the previous post. I found out I had a 't' at line 107.
Now I don't want my BSD's UFS drives to be accessible to Linux. When I boot
Linux, I get the following :
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hdd: FUJITSU MPF3102AT, ATA DISK drive
Agner-Nichols wrote:
I downloaded the Staroffice binaries (10 files with an extension of .bin)
from the Sun site and realized I have no idea how to install them (to a
Pentium 166 with a 2.2.12 kernel (it was a Corel install)); the
documentation from Sun gives no guidance; do they need to be
dpkg -S file
will tell you if a file exists in an installed package
apt-cache search string
will search package name and descriptions
I was under the impression that one can search local caches of all
available packages NOT just those you have installed apt-cache search
On the debian website there is a FAQ-o-matic which covers this. I just
checked and it seemed to be down but it might be up by the time you
get this. It's in the documentation section.
Jesse
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Marco Herrn wrote:
I use the potato distribution from LinuxTag 2000.
If I
The online help does not answer on that question...
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
use make menuconfig, it has a lot of online help and explains all of those
options.
nate
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Lazar Fleysher wrote:
fleysh Hi everyone!
fleysh
fleysh I am trying to
Subject: apt-get error when updating
Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 07:22:12PM +0200
In reply to:Willi Dyck
Quoting Willi Dyck([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hello!
i'm getting this error msg when doing an apt-get update. i want to
update from 2.1 to 2.2.
W: Couldn't stat source
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:05:45PM -0400, Shawn FitzGerald wrote:
[snip]
I then added the Driver nvidia line to my Device section in
/etc/X11/XF86Setup and ran startx. Big Hard Flaming Crash. Many
multi-colored squares on the screen. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace did nothing.
Ctrl-Alt-F1-8 did nothing.
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
Hi,
I would like to use netdate to syncronize my computer's
timesetting with that of a timeserver but no matter what
timeserver address I pass to netdate I get the following
lacklustre message:
Connection with udp to x.x.x.x
This is the error message that i am getting... since i didn't set up, i'm not
sure what it's trying to do, can anyone help?
RenX99
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Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts
--report /etc/cron.daily
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:53:49PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
Once, long ago when I used other distributions, I used to have
problems with dangleing symlinks. To help in locating those buggers
I changed my copy of .dircolors to allow them to be shown in
blinking red.
Well today I ran into an
Tricky Rick wrote:
gnome quit starting but it still shows it's running.
I had to change my .xinitrc to start enlightenment.
If I try to start gnome-seeion manually it still doesn't seem to be
running but the process is running.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux | grep gnome
mccombs 7879
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:52:57 PDT, Stephen A. Witt writes:
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
Also if you have some other advice for me based on some
package(s) (instead of netdate) that are in Debian 2.2 that
would appreciated.
There is another one that I can't think of right now,
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:01:19PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote:
Just wanted to say that I've solved my lilo problems. I hooked up an old
disk with debian on it and used the lilo on that. Now my new IBM hard
drive boots properly (when made the third drive).
I am still curious about why it
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:03:34PM -0700, RenX99 wrote:
This is the error message that i am getting... since i didn't set up,
i'm not sure what it's trying to do, can anyone help?
/etc/cron.daily/exim:
Exim retry database in spool /var/spool/exim
Failed to open database file retry: Invalid
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:53:04PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
If the package doesn't say Helix, purge it. You don't
need any non-helix gnome packages to have a working gnome
distribution.
apt-get upgrade broke my Gnome this weekend. Looking in my apt/archives, I
see that I have a
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:47:04PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
use make menuconfig, it has a lot of online help and explains all of those
options.
make config has the exact same help, just answer `?' and you get the
help output.
as for the TSC, you could look at /proc/cpuinfo in the
Hi all.
I'm a newbie who's constantly getting tripped up by MS
baggage. I recently installed slink from CD onto a
amarda 4160T laptop as a trial and it all worked (up
to a point). I read docs which indicated the pcmcia
works better under potato so with false confidence I
decided to install it
When I played with the RH and Slackware flavors
of Linux, I could add the following lines to
my lilo.conf file to get a nice looking bootup
screen and a much better resolution on my console
screens.
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
vga=791
Is there any way to do this in Debian 2.2?
Kasatenko Ivan Alex. wrote:
Hello Andreas,
Monday, October 16, 2000, 8:26:20 PM, you wrote:
AH There are two users on my debian system, who I want to be able to reboot
AH and halt without being root. For this purpose I created
AH /etc/shutdown.allow with the corresponding user names.
mike wrote:
Try /usr/bin/eject /cdrom or /dev/hd?.
I did so, but with no success :(
I think the problem is, that the CD remains in a twilight status:
neither mounted nor unmounted.
Thank you very much anyway.
Andreas.
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:47:23 +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder said:
I added a second hard drive to my system.
hda : HD #1
hdb : CDROM
hdc : CDRW
hdd : HD #2
This is what I get when I boot Linux :
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:23:47AM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
Sorry, Ivan, I didn't make this very clear. I *do* want to use
Ctrl-Alt-Del. I just wanted to point out that it is behaving
differently, since I have '/etc/shutdown.allow'. Now I have to be logged
in at least as a normal
Hello,
I'm running IMP as the frontend for my mailserver. Oddly enough, things
were working fine before I left out of town for a week. I got back, and
whenever I try to send a message (whether as a Reply, or as a new
message), I get a Netscape: Error window that says 'The document contained
no
Hi,
I'd like to know where to find more information on the
/etc/environment file,
I couldn't find a man page or info page for it and searching through
the
Debian mailing lists didn't turn anything up either.
It would be great if you could point me to some information wrt its
use,
which
Subject: Re: changing file attribute colors
Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:10:25PM -0500
In reply to:will trillich
Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:53:49PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
Once, long ago when I used other distributions, I used to
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 07:49:36PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
When I played with the RH and Slackware flavors
of Linux, I could add the following lines to
my lilo.conf file to get a nice looking bootup
screen and a much better resolution on my console
screens.
# VESA framebuffer
Subject: Framebuffer Console ???
Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 07:49:36PM -0400
In reply to:Christopher W. Aiken
Quoting Christopher W. Aiken([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
When I played with the RH and Slackware flavors
of Linux, I could add the following lines to
my lilo.conf file to get
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:03:22AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:52:57 PDT, Stephen A. Witt writes:
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
Also if you have some other advice for me based on some
package(s) (instead of netdate) that are in Debian 2.2 that
would
Thanks for your comprehensive response, this is exactly what I was
looking for..
Well, the dvd (the stuff on there is mpeg-2, no?) is encrypted using
weak CSS. MPAA blessed players decrypt this and play it as a mpeg-2?
movie. The legally questionable DeCSS (search for it on any search
Philipp Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mine says:
postmaster: root
root: phil
Aha, so does mine, now. (except for the phil part..)
Doesn't your ISP offer you a SMTP-Relay-Server? If you are connected
most of the time you don't need one anyway...
Dunno, what's that? I want my mail
Philipp Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 07:21:22PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
Yeah, I took out the CPU last night, removed the custom cooler
I put on last week, and put the stock cooler back, smearing some
standard white heatsink compound on the contact
Hi, I'm looking for a way to set the background image for gdm. I know it
is set in /etc/gdm/Init/Default using xsetroot, but I want to set it to
an image not a color. As far as images goes xsetroot apparently can only
handle bitmaps, my question is: How do I set the background of gdm to a
jpg (or
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
I think the problem is, that the CD remains in a twilight status:
neither mounted nor unmounted.
I've seen it happen where the gnome panel CD player somehow locked the
tray when you put in a non-audio disc, and only its eject button would
Eric G . Miller writes:
There's also chrony:
...
I've been using it for over a year on a dial-up. Barely had to do
anything (set a password, choose a server).
Actually you didn't have to do either (though I recommend that you do
both). The postinst generates a random password, and a default
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, ian mckerrow wrote:
I've had that same spontanious error using netscape
under MS. I tried to discover the cause but gave up
after a few hours and went to bed. The next morning
the error was absent. I concluded that it was caused
by my internet connection and not an
Damian == Damian Menscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Damian My suggestion follows: One possibility is to take
Damian advantage of NIS. On the server machine you have a second
Or openldap. Although, LDAP is (IMHO) currently harder to configure,
especially if you not use to LDAP. However,
Hello Lazar,
Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 2:31:21 AM, you wrote:
fleysh Could someone, however, explain the difference between
fleysh -- 586 for generic Pentium CPUs, possibly lacking the TSC
fleysh and
fleysh -- Pentium for the Intel Pentium/Pentium MMX, AMD K5, K6 and K6-3D
fleysh
kmself == kmself kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
kmself On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:34:33PM -0500, Pascal Hos
kmself ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Since yesterday I keep getting the following error when running
apt-get upgrade:
Fetched 9272kB in 1m19s (117kB/s) 11%
Thanks for the response, unfortunately I had all of those packages
installed. I was actually about to post another cry for help on some
newsgroups but... after a few more apt-gets, fixing a link or two, and
swapping xdm for gdm I have a functionall X setup. So I now have a full
reiser debian
Carel == Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Carel I've just read the Fine Manual just to please you:) and I
Carel think it only effects Ctrl-Alt-Del from the console, not
Carel calling shutdown from the command-line unless you make it a
Carel SUID program. (for the latter
Has anyone managed to make Mozilla (nightly builds) and RealAudio to work
together? I downloaded RealAudio, and installed it, changed the
preferences settings, but it still doesn't work.
When I click on a Real link, it wants to download the file, no matter
what I do.
It works fine in
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:19:27PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote:
Hi, I just moved over from RH and when I used gnome on there it used to
save and restore my sound volume settings when I logged in and out. I
sort of have that working in Debian (Woody), except it only restores my
sound settings
Jeff Hornsberger wrote:
Hi, I just moved over from RH and when I used gnome on there it used to
save and restore my sound volume settings when I logged in and out. I
sort of have that working in Debian (Woody), except it only restores my
sound settings after I run the gnome mixer program
Here I go replying to myself again. I noticed just now that the same sort
of problem happens if your sources.list contains kde.tdyc.com stuff. That
is, we get kde2 package combinations that don't work. I'm beginning to
think there is a serious fundamental problem with apt...
The one useful
Okay short story,
I did a reiser-debian install and I REALLY need help setting up X. I
am using my old XF86Config so that should be fine. I posted this
already, but then the strangest thing happened. I was working on
getting it fixed, I swapped xdm for gdm and presto, xdm fired up and
Pre-purchase question about Debian on a PS/2 9557.
I am considering buying a set of Debian installation CDs to install on
my PS/2 with a 486 SLC CPU, and an integral SCSI controller on the
motherboard. The bus is MCA, of course. I have a 540 MB SCSI hard
drive, and a 4X Sony, SCSI CD-ROM.
With
I would like to get multiple X consoles on my LINUX PC.
I'm able to switch to a different console by cntrlaltF1-Fn,
but I'm unclear how to get xdm get running on all the consoles.
Thanks,
Suraj.
_
Get Your Private, Free
I would like to get multiple X consoles on my LINUX PC.
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue23/lg_answer23.html#monitor
// joey tsai
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:52:40PM -0500, David A. Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I've used Unix and other Linuxes for some time now, but I am just starting to
use Debian. What documents should I read and in which order to get up do
speed on how Debian does things? Would it be better to
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