I'd like to repeat a suggestion made to this list over two years ago. I
loved it when I saw it, and I think it bears repeating. I saved it because
it gave what I thought was a wonderful example of user-interface design.
--
To:
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Ton Hamerslag wrote:
Dear debian-user. I have a IBM 386sx 55 machine with 4 MB RAM and
a harddisk of 80 MB. I want to make a linux server of that machine.
The only thing this machine also has is a floppy drive, no cd-rom.
Which software must I download and what needs to
Someone asked a while back about sound fonts for the SoundBlaster
AWE32/64 cards. I followed a link from the SB HOWTO, and found
http://members.tripod.de/iwai/awedrv.html;, the page of the person who
wrote the AWE driver. He has links to several places to get free
sound fonts.
Sincerely,
Ray
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Mark Mackenzie wrote:
This may be a stab in the dark, but I once had a similar problem.
After each bootup, I could not print untill I had done a
dpkg -i lpr_whatever.deb
Hmmm. I finally did get things working this morning; I reran
magicfilterconfig --force, and so far
Okay, I'm tying to set up a 486-66MHz, 16MB RAM, 240MB HD, as a
demonstration for Linux Demo Day this Sunday. I've got it more-or-less
working for scanning (the world's worst SCSI card in there :- ) but
printing is giving me pause. Yes, this is old crappy hardware, but that's
why it'll be
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Tiago A Macambira wrote:
The problem is that I have to give him an answer AND the 2G
disk today, with no further delays. Since I don't want to re-start
downloading - yes, downloaded the whole thing with a 52k modem - and
setting a Debian system up again, I was
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote:
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 06:14:32PM -0700, Mike Garfias wrote:
Has anyone gotten this combination to work?
Not exactly, I have Q3test running with glx extention on RIVA 128ZX, Celereon
400. It's quite playable :). TNT or TNT2 should be faster.
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Joakim Svensson wrote:
Anyone has any suggestions if this will be
a good buy. At the moment only the scanner
will be connected but I will probably
use it in the future to add for example
scsi hard disk.
The NCR/Symbios based cards are very well supported under Linux and
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Ben Lutgens wrote:
O.k. it seems that no matter how I try I can't seem to get quake2 to utilize
my voodoo2 card. It's a diamond monster fusion, I am using the xbanshee server
that I aliened from an rpm. I have installed the glide deb, mesa4g, and the
/dev/3dfx BS. When I
Can netatalk be used over a serial link? It appears to only support
Ethernet connections. I have a Mac LCII that I'd love to hook up to a
Linux box for Linux Demo Day, but I don't have any kind of Ethernet for a
Mac.
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735[EMAIL PROTECTED]
C
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
Evan Van Dyke wrote:
On Linux, you will only be able to use the 3Dfx 3D accelaration with
the applications specially designed to use it (Quake 2 is the only one
I know of) from a VGA console.
Or have an accelerated Server... don't know
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Davide Anchisi wrote:
when trying to start X-Window in 16bit color mode an error message
appear saying that linear memory is required. What does it mean?
(I tryed changing resolution but this doesn't solve.)
I've a Tseng Labs ET4000 video card with 1024 kb memory on a
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:19:02AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote:
What about:
root 1.5GB
var 2
usr 2
home 2.256
swap .256 (128 MB ram)
root is MUCH too big.
/var is kind of big as well, unless you're planning on putting a
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
Hi folks!
Some days ago someone posted here a link to a page where I would
find notes and/or drivers for using a parallel port scanner under
Linux... OK, but the *%$@ here entered the page with Netscape and
deleted the message... but,
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
Brazilian company (TCE), so I guess it's just an OEM repackage... Anyway, I
know it supports a TWAIN driver... Now, what the hell is a TWAIN driver?
TWAIN is a software standard for scanners. Unfortunately, it's a standard
that's nearly
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
Are there any rule of thumb on how much ram the video card must
have to achieve a given resolution? I have a 1 meg card now and get 8 bit
16 color when using a 1024x480 screen.
It's actually pretty simple. The formula is:
(horizontal
I'm currently running slink on a 2.0.36 kernel, but I want to move to
2.2.x to support the latest version (0.4.0) of the ALSA drivers. (I have
Trident 4Dwave-based card.)
I've done some poking around on the website, but I can't seem to find a
list of what needs to be upgraded to move to 2.2.
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
I've done some poking around on the website, but I can't seem to find a
list of what needs to be upgraded to move to 2.2.
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/#errata
*Just* what I
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Ian Eure wrote:
I am having the strangest problem. [...]
Okay, that's weird.
As a demonstration, I took my Potato server into singleuser mode,
unmounted the partition mounted on /tmp, and overwrote the first 128k
with data from /dev/zero. I then rebooted (`shutdown -r
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Chris Carlson wrote:
Anyone having luck running a TNT2?
Well, my TNT is working okay.
When I try to run the GL screensavers from xscreensaver, the video is
flashing black, and then displays the image, and repeats very fast.
Hmmm. Have you tried anything else, e.g. the
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Timothy Burt wrote:
The problem is unpredictable in the sense that the compile always
fails but rarely in the same place.
It really does look like a hardware problem of some kind, I agree. Have
you tried running the memory at 95MHz? I had a 128MB DIMM that wouldn't
work
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dave Swegen wrote:
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:42 -0500, Ares wrote:
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dave Swegen wrote:
[...]
SCSI sounds fun :)
Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that
there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Tim (Pass the Prozac) Sailer wrote:
Can anyone make a recommendation for a high-end video card (3d type) that
is supported by the current X?
For this, there are three main contenders - Matrox G200 (G400 support is
promised), nVidia TNT(TNT2), or 3dfx Voodoo (2,3,?). If you
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Robert Rati wrote:
nVidia has supported their cards with GPL'd source. [...]
I, too, have been looking at vid cards and had pretty much already decided
on the TNT2 before I heard their drivers are open source. That's all I
needed to put them on top. But, where do you
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Evan Van Dyke wrote:
Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
...from what I've gathered 2D support is a little immature, and it's
really hard to render into a window...
Actually, the Voodoo3 drivers have been incorporated into Xfree86 3.3.4...
atleast, that's what the Xfree86 FAQ
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Wim Kerkhoff wrote:
On 03-Aug-99 Mark Wagnon wrote:
Has anyone else had problems with AMD being less stable than Intel?
I had some initial problems with my system, but it appears that a
particular brand of DIMMS didn't like my ASUS P5A motherboard. Once I
exchanged it for
On 30 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using a Creative Nvidia TNT-1 display card in one of my servers. It
consistentently goes dark on reboot - I have to power-clear to see the display
again. Does anyone know why?
These video cards can draw a lot of power (which some motherboards can't
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, John Gay wrote:
I recently came across a deal on a SoundBlaster AWE 64 ISA...
[...] but the DOC's for the sound card says it needs at least a Pentium.
That's because it's not really a 64-voice soundcard. It's basically an
AWE-32 with some hooks for special software. It
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Terry Page wrote:
I have been trying for weeks now to get my Microsoft Inport Mouse to work
without success.
[...]
Is there someone using a Microsoft Inport Mouse who can tell me their setup
either.
Oh, cripes. I just destroyed my setup. I reformatted the hard drives,
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote:
Hi,
I have been to the WNWare home page, and Debian is not mentioned as one of the
supported distributions. Have anyone succsessfully installed and run it on
Debian (I run potato)?
I did, on slink. It wasn't that complicated, as long as you
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, William Park wrote:
Hi,
My 3Com509B ethernet card uses 10BaseT (twisted pair) port by default.
How do I enable 10Base2 (coaxial) port instead?
You need to go to 3Com's website and download the DOS program
3C5X9CFG.EXE. This will allow you to change the port. Sorry, to
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, a wrote:
I have Debian 1.2 and compile the kernel for SB16.
[...]
Your config looks right. In fact, it looks identical to the config I used
to use with my SB16. Is yours a PNP card?
Now I can play wav files and CD but can't play midi files using
playmidi. Only a
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 10:39:44AM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
[...]
Now we get into the meat of things. I want to yank out the IDE drive...
[...]
I rerun /sbin/lilo, reboot, and try to boot Windows. It just says
Loading win... and sits
I've been running a system with a 400MB IDE drive and a 4GB SCSI drive.
The hardware involved is as follows, from presumably least significant to
most significant:
ASUS P5A motherboard
128MB RAM
AMD K6-II/400
NCR 53c825 Fast/Wide SCSI-II controller
Ancient 400MB IDE drive (/dev/hda)
IBM
iOn Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Samuel R. Scarano wrote:
I'm going to be buying a new video card soon, so I wanted to see if
anyone had any advice to give me.
- Linux-friendliness of manufacturer (e.g., releasing specs on time,
even helping develop drivers)
As mentioned below, nVidia released full
On 13 Jul 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
Novare host the Debian list server. When a mail is send to the list,
it gets new headers. The listmasters have access to the original mail,
and they will do something against this, as debian-user is not the
only list receiving this spam.
Hmm. Is
On 13 Jul 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
Raymond == Raymond A Ingles Raymond wrote:
Raymond Hmm. Is there anyone actually doing anything about the spam
Raymond on the Debian lists? Email inquiries I've sent have not been
Raymond answered...
Spam Fighting Team -- [EMAIL PROTECTED
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Petru NOTINGHER wrote:
Hello.
I have a SB 64 Sound Card, but I can't make it run under slink. I tried
SB 16, SB16 pro, MPU401 etc,
but apparently it doesn't work.
It's almost certainly a Plug-'n'-Pray card, and thus you probably need to
use isapnptools to configure it
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Keith Beattie wrote:
Another invaluable NT setting is:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Mouse/ActiveWindowTracking
set to 1 - This gives you focus-follows-mouse, yea!!!
I tried it, because I really like that feature. Sadly, I couldn't use the
bookmarks menu on
On 7 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, and as to your modem problem : Which kernel are you using? The
/dev/ttyx becomes obsolete with the 2.2.x series, replaced by /dev/cuax.
This is exactly reversed. The /dev/cuax devices are obsolete. You should
always use the /dev/ttySx devices. See,
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Andy Spiegl wrote:
I am looking for pointers as to log files that might indicate the
problem.
It is possible that I have not set everything up exactly right for the
motherboard and CPU chip. I am using an IWILL XA100P motherboard with
an
AMD K6-3 400
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Paul D. Smith wrote:
Andreas Voegele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since the last update of my systems the text cursor disappears in GNU
Emacs 20.3-8 under X11. The problem maybe has something to do with the
syntax highlighting. Above colored parts of the text the
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Thorsten Manegold wrote:
1) What causes the HD activity every 3 seconds? That
way powersaving will never take effect.
2) How can I change the setup, so that the HD will not be needlessly
acsessed?
Go to the Linux documentation project, and look up the Battey-Powered
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Romeu wrote:
HI. I'm a newbie with Linux.
I have installed Debian in my system.
As I try to mount it (mount /dev/hdc /h -t msdos or mount /dev/hdc /h -t
iso9660), the system says that the tray
is open
Just as a check, try mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /h. I've never
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
I want to put a small UPS on my work system to let it shutdown
gracefully when there's a power outage. I'm looking at:
Best Power Patriot
Best Power Patriot Pro
These people have historically shown much more enthusiasm for Linux
support
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Armin Wegner wrote:
Hi,
my logitech ps/2 mouse behaves oddly. Sometimes, the pointer rolls to
the top or bottom of the screen when pressing a button while moving left or
right in X and on console. I can stop this by moving the mouse. But I can't
play quake with this
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Lowe, Jessica wrote:
I was wondering if debian has NT 4.0 server and also if It can be used on
windows 95 ?
Debian Linux is a replacement for NT and Windows 95. It is not an
application.
Read this page: http://www.uk.linux.org/WhatIs.html;, or
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Raymond A. Ingles hat gesagt: // Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
I sometimes run zgv and Maelstrom, but the main reason I want SVGAlib is
to try to run GLQuake. The Quake-HOWTO says I need SVGAlib to get there.
[...]
As I mentioned in another
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
Hi:
I've just got a SAG computer with DIAMOND Viper V770 32MB SDRAM AGP
card. I am running Debian 2.1 on the Penium Xeon Machine.
The X package that comes with the Debian CD's doesn't support the
TNT/TNT2 chipset, which is what you
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
If I force NV3 (Riva) mode, I get a blank screen.
It still responds to keypresses and I can telnet in, but until I
CNTRL-ALT-DEL the screen is hosed.
This sounds familiar, the same thing happens to me when I tried to run
svga-doom with my matrx
I've got a Riva TNT card, and I'm using the X server and OpenGL lib from
nVidia. Everything's fine in X, but SVGAlib has problems. I upgraded to
SVGAlib 1.3.1 from unstable, but still there are issues.
I sometimes run zgv and Maelstrom, but the main reason I want SVGAlib is
to try to run
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Sean wrote:
I have a parallel port scanner ( flames /dev/null ), and was wondering
if it would be possible to use the scanner on a linux box via Samba if I
had it(the scanner) hooked up to a Windows box. I currently have a
spare 486 that I would sacrifice to Windows if
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Pollywog wrote:
On 09-Jun-99 Barry Kauler wrote:
err,
Could someone tell me what OSS means?
Open Source Sound
Actually, Open Sound System, see http://www.opensound.com/oss.html;.
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles(248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, richard newton wrote:
I just have a couple of hardware questions that I don't know the
answers to. I need to know whether the SoundBlaster PCI cards
are supported in any way.
Yup. See the Sound-HOWTO at
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO.html;. In fact, for all
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Brad wrote:
After about 10 seconds of looking on the Debian website, i found this on
http://www.debian.org/devel/maintainer_contacts.html
Spam Fighting Team -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
member Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED]
member Alexander Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Brad wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, now I got a little further: I typed /dev/hda and dselect asks:
Enter filesystem type for dev/hda:
What's linuxian for a dos filesystem?
Vitux
msdos if it's a plain DOS partition, vfat if has Win32 long
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Brad wrote:
Yes, i realize this is something a lot of people disagree on. Which is why
i hope to get a lot of opinions!
One partition for swap, one for everything else. From what i've heard,
not a very good arangement if anything goes wrong.
Also harder to back up
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Brad wrote:
i certainly hope it is! You'd have to ask the mailing list maintainer to
find out for sure...
What's the maintainer's address?
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles(248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Technically, Windows is an operating system, which means
On 3 Jun 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
Has anyone taken the plunge and installed all the new Riva TNT OpenGL
stuff? Any gotcha's? I've been using the XF86_SVGA 3.3.1 server for
quite some time with my TNT card and haven't had a problem.
The new X server they provide has the VMWare DGA patch,
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
When people are trying to write drivers for stuff that isnt already
supported under linux, how exactly do they go about doing it?
They first get the book, Linux Device Drivers by Alessandro Rubini,
from O'Reilly. :-
I mean, if I
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
Hi all.
I bought an AMD K6 250 and it seems to come with a lot of hardware
within it:
a sound board, modem, video, ...
but the software is for Windows and with few documentation...
I have some doubts:
1)
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, moron wrote:
I've been trying a lot of things, with help from you out there, and come to
the following conclusions. Am I right?
1: The so-called 'default' in 'Xserver' is more than that. If you try
'startx -- -bpp 16' and the default doesn't have this depth it doesn't
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 00:09:04 +0800, Paul Harris wrote:
chattr: Operation not supported by device while reading flags on
/usr/lib/crt1.o
can I run it while mounted as usual? do i need to move single run level
and remount as read/write? do i
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Brad wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Robert Ramiega wrote:
Hi!
Can someone point me to package that could play mpeg movies with sound?
[...]
Hopefully someone else knows of a more free player that supports
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Brad wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Robert Ramiega wrote:
Hi!
Can someone point me to package that could play mpeg movies with sound?
[...]
Hopefully someone else knows of a more free player that supports sound!
xanim?
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Fernando T C Brandt wrote:
I am not being able to make a decision about the
xserver for the Diamond Stealth 3D 3000, 4MB.
I have tried both xserver-svga and xserver-s3v.
You might try looking at www.xfree86.org and seeing if the latest release
has bugfixes that could
On Sat, 22 May 1999, David Ballantyne wrote:
~ {208} ximtool
[1] 15911
~ {209} Warning: Cannot convert string center to type Justify
^^^
I'm no expert, but this looks like a font problem. I don't really know
more than that, but
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Marant Jerome wrote:
So, I wonder if there are any problem with UltraDMA drive and linux
kernels.
Does anyone have an answer to this ?
It depends on the chipset of your motherboard. I know that some ALi
chipsets aren't supported by default. Take a look in the kernel
On Sun, 16 May 1999, R. Brock Lynn wrote:
Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
On Sun, 9 May 1999, George Bonser wrote:
Well I got the old 386 put back together [...] Now it is running
Debian and MAN is it S-L-O-W.
[...]
I guess I won't be compiling any kernels on that box ... well, maybe ONE
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Armin Wegner wrote:
- ELSA Erazer II, 16 mb, Riva TNT chipset
Is 16 mb enough for a resolution of 1600 x 1280 x 24?
The Riva TNT chipset is supported (I'm using it) but not at 24bpp.
Fortunately, 16MB is ample for 1600x1280x32, so that's not a problem. (In
fact,
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Stephen Kennedy wrote:
Hi, I've got some slink cds to install, but it doesnt seem to support the
TNT
I dont want to upgrade to potato as the machine isnt networked and upgrades
would be tricky.
You can just download the SVGA server from XFree86 3.3.3.1 at
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
Thanks all you guys for the help with the configuration of my SB AWE 64.
I owe you all. I am some steps closer to a working solution now, but
we're not there yet.
[...]
# cat chiquita.au /dev/audio
Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
On Tue, 11 May 1999, William Denton wrote:
1. Where's the SANE webpage - I've tried http://www.mostang.com/sane/
but it doesn't seem to be there.
Try again... I can see it there just fine. It's really the best source of
information about scanners and Linux. I did a presentation very recently
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
When comparing a cheap scanner (under $100) such as the Plustek 96xx
series with a medium price scanner such as the so-called business-class HP
5200c, I can't tell what claims are due to the scanner hardware itself, or
simply the bundled software.
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
I installed the defrag package and read the man pages. I'm not sure
how to use this since my only filesystem is (usually) mounted, and
anyway the defrag executable is on that filesystem! I suppose I can
copy the executable to a floppy, go to single
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
Hi all,
a friend of mine is buying a K6 and want to know if the following
especification run on Linux.
Thank for any information,Paulo Henrique
PIO Mode from 0 to 4 and Ultra DMA/33 at mode
On Sun, 9 May 1999, George Bonser wrote:
Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a
firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS
bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp
on it. Now it is running Debian
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
If X can detect that you don't have any valid modes, it obviously can make
some decisions on what settings are valid for your card - so, why can't X
just set the values for you?
When X says no valid modes, what it means is, based on the
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Bill Wilson wrote:
Running hdparm is not the only thing to consider. If you want a real
powerdown
and not a periodic cycle of disk on and off, you must shutdown stuff
that dings the disk. When I want to powerdown, I exit all such apps (this
includes Netscape, ppp, etc)
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Rahsheen Porter wrote:
I recently (this morning), had a power outtage. I started up my computer and
LILO started going nuts. Not only did it just say LI, but the cursor was
jumping all over the screen and the printer started to print.
Your disk got corrupted. The
On Fri, 7 May 1999, David B.Teague wrote:
I posted this to the Debian Users Mailing List around May 1,
but to date, I have received no reply. If someone would help
me configure vgalib and zgv, I'd appreciate it.
I dunno about zgv, but I've got one possibly useful suggestion.
locate
On Tue, 4 May 1999, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote:
hi there
i'm not quite sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'll ask
anyways. i would like to port some Linux/UNIX binary files to a VAX
machine. i've read that the integers and floats are very different on
these machines. does anybody
On Sat, 1 May 1999, William R Pentney wrote:
I would hope that :
1) the proper complaints are made - is someone reading the headers
and complaining to the right people?
2) the advertising policy is enforced. It'd be difficult, but it
might scare the bilker scum into leaving us
Since I upgraded to Debian 2.1, fvwm95 has been acting up. The
FvwmButtons seem to be working okay, and the TaskBar shows up, but the
StartMenu doesn't work. The button is there, and putting the mouse over it
shows the Click here to start message, but clicking on it does nothing.
When I exit the
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote:
I'm trying to install debian on an ancient 386, with 8 Mb RAM, and a
40Mb Hard Disk. I'm running into problems, as the HDD is *very* small.
I managed to get Debian on a 386/6MB, but it had two 40MB drives. As
others have advised, you're
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Chuck Lackey wrote:
I now have a 1.6 gig hd to add to my Linux (test) box. This is an old
486 mb without LBA mode. All the drives (as yet) installed are 540 M or
less. Can I add the 1.6 G without ontrack or similar programs?
This isn't intended (at this time) to be a
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, John Leget wrote:
Running 2.2.6-ac2, potato , ASUS P2B-DS Dual 450, 128Mb, SCSI Disks ,IDE
CDROM (hda ),ZIP (hdc)
In my continuing crusade to get info from my CDROM for mp3's :), ive
just come across the following
Apr 28 21:33:22 gabriel kernel: DMA memory shortage.
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote:
Actually, Emacs is a very good vehicle for viruii
I have the following in my .emacs file to prevent such things:
;;; For security reasons, to prevent odd little inclusion in files from
;;; causing harm...
(setq enable-local-eval nil)
(setq
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote:
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, debian wrote:
In actual fact this virus deletes your FLASH BIOS rendering motherboard
useless unless of course your got a bios chip around.
It deletes your BIOS after writing over the disk ... not just the
partition table.
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Helge Hafting wrote:
I'm curious about virii and Linux...
Am I wrong to assume that Linux is not immune to virii [...]
[...]
If you want a real safe machine, make it linux only. No dos
partition, no dos emulator. And set it up so it won't try booting
from the
On 27 Apr 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can apache serve VB asp pages?
Sure, apache can serve them, but there is no VB interpreter for Linux
so the output will look not quite the way you intended it.
If it
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Ray wrote:
As for turning the fans on off, about the only ones you have much hope to
control are the cpu and case fans. [...]
There is a Linux hardware monitor project dealing with this but I don't have
the link handy at the moment. If noone else comes up with the link
I can't seem to find a version of the old Unix 'compress' utility, that
generates .Z files. I know that gzip provides better compression, and
can uncompress .Z files, but it won't work for me.
I'm exporting some files to Minix, and Minix doesn't have a gzip port for
all versions. I seem to
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
Hello,
I am setting up a Debian system as a firewall so I will need to buy a
network cards. Which network cards have you had good luck with? What
should I look for and stay away from?
I'd avoid ISA cards. If you ever plan to go to 100Mbit
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Trevor Glen wrote:
I have a Mustek 1200 ED scanner. It is a parallel port model. I want to
run it under GNU/Linux. I can't get sane to work, and I don't know what
else to do! Any suggestions?
You could try the Parallel Port Scanners under Linux web page:
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Matthew Myers wrote:
My name is Jayson Martin from Littleton, Colorado [...]
[...]
***Copy this letter, add your name and forward it to as many people as
you know. thank you.
I can't find any mention whatsoever of a Jayson Martin on the Web
(Altavista) or on Usenet
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
after my kid was playing games on win95 yesterday
evening i was unable to boot into Linux - actually unable
to boot into win95 also... Looks like some kind of
virus destroyed boot sector with partition table.
You almost certainly got hit by the
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Sean wrote:
So why is it that parallel port scanners don't tend to be supported, but
their SCSI cousins are. I wouldn't think that there would be that much
difference between the hardware on a SCSI scanner vs a parallel port
scanner.
There isn't, not inside the scanner
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Eric wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 03:37:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Banshee cards are not currently supported. A coworker of mine sold his and
bought a TNT. Cheaper and in all ways a better card.
It can be forced to work by using the frame buffer
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Pavel Mores wrote:
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Jeff Noxon wrote:
You might be better off avoiding ATI graphics boards under Linux. ATI is
not cooperative with the developer community and drivers tend to take a
while to get written stabilize.
[...]
It's too bad if ATI
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