Re: vga=ask in lilo.conf

1999-12-25 Thread Andy Thomas
Hi, It's when it gets to Invoking SVGATextMode... on bootup that it switches back to 80x25. Is svgatextmode some sort of driver I should unload in order to get this to stick? Thanks Andy

Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

1999-12-24 Thread Andy Thomas
I've got another question about dselect. It seems like when I go in there and choose some more packages to install, then tell it to install, it gives some kind of error about /cdrom being mounted. I have to exit dselect, umount /cdrom, then re-enter dselect, select install and off she goes...

Re: Setting Path ENV variable

1999-12-21 Thread Andy Thomas
:/etc/ppp:/etc/ppp/peers TIA for any help. Andy -- From: ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Setting Path ENV variable Date: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 7:44 PM Andy Thomas wrote: Hi, Running Linux from O'Reilly says that the search

Re: custom colors for 'ls'

1999-12-21 Thread Andy Thomas
uh... what's in the .dircolors file? Thanks Andy -- From: John Bagdanoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: custom colors for 'ls' Date: Friday, December 17, 1999 1:16 AM Hey, great tip Aaron. It's , err colorful :) John Aaron Solochek

vga=ask in lilo.conf

1999-12-21 Thread Andy Thomas
Hi, Is this known to be a bit buggy? I put this in there and once in awhile (every 5th boot or so... I know linux is stable but am saving electricity g) I get the video option in the boot menu (hit enter to choose). Once it crashed the video (after choosing something like 132 x something

Re: Setting Path ENV variable

1999-12-21 Thread Andy Thomas
@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Setting Path ENV variable Date: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 2:27 PM Subject: Re: Setting Path ENV variable Date: Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 09:24:37PM -0800 In reply to:Andy Thomas Quoting Andy Thomas([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | ok.. I've found the .bashrc

PPP Connected... what about mail?

1999-12-09 Thread Andy Thomas
I've connected with PPP but don't know how to get mail under Debian. Lynx is working just fine. Does anyone know where Lynx downloads files to by default? I thought I'd downloaded a few things but couldn't find them. It turns out that the dns settings from pppconfig in resolv.conf worked after

Setting Path ENV variable

1999-12-08 Thread Andy Thomas
Hi, Running Linux from O'Reilly says that the search path can be set in .bashrc file, but the only .bashrc I'm finding is for a user I created, not root. Is there a bash configuration file for root? I'm trying to add some directories to the search path. I found a file named /etc/profile

Mouse works: is there x ppp config utility under Debian?

1999-12-07 Thread Andy Thomas
Yes, the mouse was switched to IRQ5 and it works now. At about the same time I've discovered what a rich keystroke environment x windows is. I was about to write about the bad keystroke accelerator support in x but that must have been kde because this fmvm2 or whatever rocks from a keystroke

Questions

1999-12-06 Thread Andy Thomas
The mouse isn't coming up in XWindows. I've never seen it in text Emacs before either so should it be there? I've got a MSFT Bus mouse on IRQ4. The gpm is set to /dev/inportbm and the busmouse type. Still it doesn't seem to work. Is there a configuration file where it could accidentally be

Re: Why

1999-12-05 Thread Andy Thomas
My guess is that the windows install probably uses the same lowest-common-denominator graphics mode (it looks like it to me) regardless of video hardware and the Linux X-based setup is using different modes during setup, dependent upon which video card it thinks it detects. The Windows-based