Re: buying new monitor
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 11:31:58PM -0400, Kenneth F. Ryder III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to buy a KDS vs-190 monitor, and was wondering if anyone had used this monitor with X before, might have any thoughts suggestions? Well, I don't know what size the 190 is, but a local Office Depot where I used to live had 19 and 21 KDS monitors. They were cheaper than the Sony monitors, but the screens looked more like marbles than flat displays. Didn't look to hot with Windows 95 (they might have been ay 60Hz or something crappy like that though). A monitor is a long term investment. I'd save up another paycheck and get a Sony, Mitsubishi (sp), or get what I want: A 22 Iiyama. -- Chaotic42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it - Moliere pgp85HgoSUvQx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 3com problem
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:47:33AM -0500, Piotr Chudykowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install the base system via ftp, but I can't because the drivers in the potato release doesn't have support for my NIC (3Com 905). What can I do - please help. Thanks. Pete. You'll have to compile the modules, or compile it into the kernel. -- Chaotic42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it - Moliere pgplCQByryceO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 3com problem
I realized you don't have the base installed. It's late, sorry. Guess that wasn't of any help. -- Chaotic42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it - Moliere pgpzrxsWMZe6D.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation
Ah, sorry. apt-find is a sym link to capt, which is a lot better than dselect. Sorry if that was misleading. -- Chaotic42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ It's too nice a day to be stupid inside - Ren Hoek (Ren Stimpy) pgpSyvqGcRB2L.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation
I could see a person new to computers having some problems with installing Debian. It isn't the best install in the world. However, anyone who has a good understanding of computers (by this I don't mean Start-Programs-MS Word) should be able to install Debian with little trouble. I've installed 1.3 and 2.1 on my system. I upgraded from 1.3 to 2, then to 2.1, and then was the victim of a hard drive death. 2.1 seems to be a lot easier, with the ability to choose different installation types. I digress. My point is, Debian isn't difficult, even relative to the other 'main' Linux based distros out there, to install. It could be made better, but it isn't worth not using Debian over. -- Chaotic42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ We are what we repeatedly do - Aristotle pgpGL9V18lnI6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Dual NIC Problem
Sorry for the tardiness of my reply... Let me just give a run down of some stuff: /etc/network/interfaces: - iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 172.16.12.42 network 172.16.12.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 172.16.12.255 gateway 172.16.12.1 - and you have the same type info for eth1 in there too /etc/init.d/network shouldn't have anything in it If everything looks ok here, and /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow are set up properly, I'm really out of ideas. Sorry about that. If I can think of something else, I'll be sure to post it. -- Chaotic42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ We are what we repeatedly do - Aristotle pgpqIzHpF8yaY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:10:59PM -0400, James Antill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christen Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I digress. My point is, Debian isn't difficult, even relative to the other 'main' Linux based distros out there, to install. That's cute, it's loyal, but it isn't _true_. Of course, it's all subjective. I've installed Debian, Red Hat, and SuSE, and they all seemed to be about the same difficulty to install. I really didn't like YaST or whatever with SuSE, but it wasn't hard. Things that got me... 1. The partioning stuff didn't tell me how to make extended partitions (I realise _now_ that for cfdisk logical == extended, but I didn't know then). This could be classified as an upstream problem, if you assume that debian can't use whatever RH uses. That's just terminology. You call it one thing, it calls it another. It doesn't obfuscate the process, it just uses a different word. 2. Even though I'd changed the default partition setup I didn't change it much (I just needed a couple of xtra 3 Gig bits on the end for my old drives and a bigger swap space). But the default partition setup doesn't make any sense ... it doesn't give a hint of which partition should be used for which mount ... about half way through the first install I realised that /var was on / and / was pretty small and so I probably wasn't goign to be able to get a full install (and if I did log and cache/apt would be big problems). To be honest, I don't remember the partitioning portions of the other Linux distros. However, unless you specifically set aside another partiton, everything will be on /. For example, hdb2 is my /, and hdb3 is my /home. Seems kind of obvious, but I could see how someone could have problems, sort of. To be fair the above was at about 3 am, I decided to sleep and forget about it at this point. So the next day... heh, I do that alot. I should learn to work on projects while I'm awake. 3. I partitioned properly this time and installed, I didn't really like they way it would ask me questions while the install was going. Esp. as I already had working XF86/exim/etc. configs ... but that was no large pain. However on this second install I'd forgotten to enable my ethernet card in modconf so I couldn't see my network and it took me _ages_ to find the modconf program. A top level deb-conf which points you at the other *conf programs would have been a great help. Yeah, this is what's nice about apt-get, if you know it exists. Package installation needs to be simplified. Dselect is a piece of crap. 4. A whole bunch of modules are manually loaded into the kernel, is there a reason for this (not a big thing, but looks wrong). Did I do something wrong with modconf ? I think this is just the general use kernel. I've always recompiled mine. Hardware selection should be replaced with good hardware detection, so that you only load up what you need. 5. So the computer rebooted for the first or second time or whatever, and it was supposed to have installed everything. Yeh right... bits of gnome were missing (gdm I remember specifically because when I manually installed/started it it didn't run a window manager). The Was a window manager installed? ispell language was set to spanish and english/american hadn't been installed (the look dictionary was on german and also didn't have either english or american installed). Now this I don't have a clue about. Mine always installed english Traceroute was missing (I had traceroute6 though... gee thanks). /usr/sbin/traceroute I'd asked for a full development environment and autoconf/automake/libtool/cvs/gdb were all missing as were the debug version of the c library and gnome headers. Don't know about this either. Can't really comment. 6. There is nothing like rpmfind, eventually I worked out how to do grep's over /var/state/apt/lists/* to do what I want but it's still annoying. Try apt-find. 7. xemacs with gnus with tm doesn't work at all (Ie. xemacs -f gnus dies on load if you have configured gnus to use tm). Don't know about this either. Just messed with emacs last night for the first time (I like vi). Those were all pretty big annoyances and if I hadn't promised myself that I would take a serious look at debian after the things I'd heard about it I'd have probably gone out and bought a RH 6.2 CD. Hope some of my suggestions can help someone. 8. After getting the network and ppp setup I diald up the modem (I'm ona static modem that's dialid up 24/7 and I'd bee AOL for about 14 hours at this point). AOL? 9. /etc/network/interfaces doesn't support aliases very well, copy and paste is your friend but (to be fair RH might be just as bad). Don't know here either (seems like I'm not being very helpful). 10 dpkg -S isn't as good as rpm -qf in many cases, and things like rpm -qif have to be done with multiple commands. I've personally never had problems
Re: Dual NIC Problem
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:05:30AM -0400, Kimsey-Hickman, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it sure didn't take to long to reach the limit of my knowledge. Heh, this is my first real crack at helping anyone, so I know how you feel. I hope I can help you solve this. If not, feel free to call me at all hours of the night to chew me out :) I could not find anything that had the a telnet 127.0.0.1 110 line. Sorry, I am a new user. Sorry, I meant just run that at the prompt. That should take you into your own mail server, should you have one running. The point of this being, if you have telnetd running, and can't telnet in to the default port, maybe you could telnet into another port. now. Both are purely experimental at this point. I did check the hosts file at it does have the machine name and IP number. When I said I could ping I meant I can the IP address not the device name. Here's where my understanding of the whole network stuff fades away :) Are you trying to ping /dev/eth0? Can you give me the output of netstat -rn on all of the systems? -- Chaotic42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too - Voltaire pgpeN15TW1GSG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hostnames not resolving
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 09:48:00PM -0700, ObeseWhale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything seemed to be working fine when I set up Debian, but for some reason hostnames are not resolving even though I set everything up properly in resolv.conf. I can get directly at IP addresses but NOT however through domain names. My DNS servers are working fine as I can ping them and they work in windows, so something must be wrong on my side. Any suggestions? I just had the same problem. Make sure that in /etc/resolv.conf, there is no whitespace before anything. Like this: domain bob.org nameserver 206.97.64.2 nameserver 206.97.64.9 not like this: domain bob.org nameserver 206.97.64.2 nameserver 206.97.64.9 (Hope this shows up right:) -- Chaotic42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ Love conquers all - Virgil pgpBAOXWP2xzz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Dual NIC Problem
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 03:31:38PM -0400, Kimsey-Hickman, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried to set up a telnet session using both the ip and host name. When using the ip number I get just the telnet prompt with no error messages. Do you have any services running that you could telnet into? For example: telnet 127.0.0.1 110 or something like that to see if anything is running. When I use the host name and get and Unknown Host error. I can ping the ip address without any problem. Sounds like a name configuration error. How is your network set up? Are you trying to access a home network from work? -- Chaotic42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ We are what we repeatedly do - Aristotle pgpD1nAvBswjh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Install linux with Pentium Pro 200 Bi-Proc.
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 06:38:19PM +0200, Centre St.Boniface [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i.e. Do we need driver of the motherboard, and could send it to us? Is it other particularities, we must care of. You should install the kernel source. If you are using Debian, you should select the latest kernel source package and install it. For this, you can use 'deselect', 'capt' or type: apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.17 as root. If you aren't running Debian, you can download the latest kernel source in a .tar.gz format from http://www.kernel.org. Extract it to /usr/src/. One you have done this, go into /usr/src/linux-2.2.17 (or whatever directory it made) and type make menuconfig Select all of the relevant options, including support for SMP systems. I hope this helps. -- Chaotic42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ We are what we repeatedly do - Aristotle pgpqT2bgrpS3r.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Installation Problem
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:08:28AM +0600, Satyajit Das [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In storm Linux Linux OS boot Manager Configuration section I select /hda7,give label= slack and kernel=2.2.13 type and click default boot image Never heard of it. All I can personally recommend is grub. It's easy, it's good, it's pretty (well, sort of) but when storm going to install LILO : storm add win95 add 2.2.13 partition not found (like this message) please urgently help me,what I will do ? how can install safely storm and slackware in same harddisk and LILO boot both linux properly. If you suggest to make again partition I shall do according to your advise. Maybe the proper syntax is kernel = /vmlinuz? I know you may not be looking for a boot loader recommendation, but I figured, why not? It might solve your problem. -- Chaotic42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ The important thing is not to stop questioning - A. Einstein pgpkE9VL1MrRP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Soundblaster 128PCI problems
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:10:36AM +, Zeth Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed Debian Potato, and during the installation process answeared yes for sound suport. How do I configure it? When I do a cat on /proc/pci the system finds the card, but when I try to load the modules I get Unresolved symbol unregister_sound_mixeretc.. Also tried the sndconfig from Woody, but got the message unknown vendor/model. Does anyone have suggestions to this problem? I had to install the kernel source and under sound support, select ES1370, as Creative Labs uses Ensoniq chips now (so it seems). If you've done this, make sure that you're inserting the soundcore module first. Hope this helps -- Chaotic42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ Love conquers all - Virgil pgpovdJSYJOIQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Setup X-Windows with TNT VGA Card
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 07:59:32AM +0800, Eddie Leung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, I encount problem when setup X windows using Riva TNT card. I cannot used the setting in card database to setup but I had success setup in RH. Could you please suggest how make it works? Thanks, Eddie I have a Creative Labs TNT 2, and I can use the Diamond Viper 770 settings. Perhaps the same would hold true for the original TNT. I'd say try the Diamond Viper 550 settings. -- Chaotic42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ We are what we repeatedly do - Aristotle pgpk8n8BpvYCg.pgp Description: PGP signature
