new computer ??
I'm considering a new computer. I was considering 2, but maybe I'll turn my 100MHZ pentium into a dedicated browser for family needs. ANYhoo, does anyone have good/bad experiences with any of the linux hardware vedors, VALinux, etc? Are the newest machines from Gateway, Dell, etc presenting any hardware compatibility issues? Strong opinions between regular PC sellers vs. the linux harwdare sellers? This is to run Debian, and maybe win9x. Thanks hunter
gnome mimetype and /etc/mailcap
My mutt claims no handler for image/jeg. There is no entry for image/jpeg in /etc/mailcap. ok. But gnome control center mimetypes has extensive mime.type/mailcap info and in particular has an eeyes entry for image/jpeg. Where does gnome store its mailcap inforamtion? Or even its information! :-) Thanks hunter
flat panels anyone?
Anybody using a flat panel display? Are there any special issues regarding their use? I don't know what Dell, etc, are using for their cards, but ATI makes a digital card that I think is a supported chip set (ATI Rage LT Pro). Is that the only thing to worry about? I'm guessing that the DFP connector refers to a recent standard so that displays and cards no longer need to be purchased together? Thanks for any info, anecdotes, or vague rumors. hunter
Re: I Screwed up WindowMaker
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 06:45:05PM -0700, Matheson wrote: - I just upgraded WindowMaker on my slink from - http://www.debian.org/~vincent/, but now it doesn't work. When I start - X Windows, it starts to display the appicon and stuff, but then it goes - back to the login screen. Does any one know what's wrong? It happened to me. Somehow I saw a complaint about a menu entry (on the console maybe). So I ran update-menus. Then all was well. YMMV good luck hunter
no /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe ??
I have a potato (i386) system (updated today). About a month ago I built myself a 2.2.14 kernel. I just learned today why kerneld keeps getting started, I have no /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe. I finally figured out that the examples directing text into various /proc files relies on the fact that they ALREADY exist (as opposed to CREATING them). So what do I do to create /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe ? Thanks hunter
not a newbie, still dumb
I get left without a working dpkg when I tried to backtrack from libc6 2.1 to 2.0. I couldn't find a non-deb dpkg, so I reinstalled base from CD. Not too bad really. Had to put my account back (my directories were fine). Now my dpkg database is way out of sync with my system. That too is not really a problem, but when I try the libc2.1 jump again, I want to know that dpkg/apt are aware of all my tools. It was neat how the machine was pretty much just like it was (net access, etc). I did quite a bit of reinstall, and luckily those things that were redundant just reused the disk space it had before. Will I just have to keep reinstalling to where I was before? IS there a way to determine what packages (or programs) are on my machine that are NOT under dpkg accounting? One benefit...I learned dselect After only 2-3 years Geez, or is it 4-5 hunter
libc 2.0-2.1: apt-get ftp problem
I have not been on the list for awhile so forgive any redundancy. I checked the mail archives and found no answers and only one similar complaint. I worked up the nerve to upgrade my slink to libc 2.1 with the goal of playing with gnome. I used (for the first time) apt-get with an ftp entry in the sources.list and did a apt-get install libc6. It worked well and the system seemed fine. apt-get included (via depenndency) stdc++, apt, and some others (5-6 total). Every subsequent ftp retrieval via apt-get complained that it had failed with a size mismatch. The retrieved packages seemed fine however, and installed successfully without complaint. Also, at some point, apt-get --no-download install orbit (for example) failed with a complaint about unable to handle media swap. This is the one symptom I found reported a recent deb-user archive, but no answer. It is with hindsight that I'm guessing that the real problem started after the intial libc upgrade (I ignored the size complaint since it seemed to be erroneous, but eventually got stopped by the media swap failure). My plan was to go back to slink, do the libc upgrade, and look more carefully for the media swap error. But since it appears that apt-get won't downgrade (?), I am writing this to decide if I really want to to the dpkg 2-step that will be required to remove the (several) gnome packages I had installed and get back to my previous state. Does anyone have hints, ideas, experience that might be relevant? Thanks hunter
Moved harddisk
I have a 1.2.8 system that I boot from floppy. I moved the harddrive from (effectively) /dev/hda to /dev/hdb. I then used rdev to change the boot device and the swap device to their hdb counterparts. Should that have been sufficient? Is there a primary/secondary IDE issue (if I'm saying that right)? What about the /etc/fstab which reference /dev/hda? Thanks hunter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
Tim Sailer wrote: They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine See if the recent aricle in Linux Journal might be of help. The article concerned the use of 160 Alpha Linux boxes for graphics rendering. I belive it was the Jan '98 issue. http://www.ssc.com/lj/ hunter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
Behan Webster wrote:
Hunter H Marshall wrote:
Tim Sailer wrote:
They want to be able
to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine
See if the recent aricle in Linux Journal might be
of help. The article concerned the use of 160
Alpha Linux boxes for graphics rendering. I belive
it was the Jan '98 issue.
http://www.ssc.com/lj/
Since Tim wants reason to use Debian instead of Redhat, and the article
you suggest talks of using Redhat, that probably won't be very helpful.
I do not have the article in hand. I was afraid of
something like that!
:-{
hunter red-faced marshall
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