On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
David A. Rogers wrote:
Yes your machine could send mail directly.
how! that was my question. even after reading the nag chapters, i am
unable to handle this!
I always use a smart host, so I'm not the best one to tell you. Here's what I
would
Try Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to another console session. Then apt-get remove xdm -
or try to get it installed correctly.
dar
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Phil Reardon wrote:
How can I boot to the console? I am stuck in a loop at the graphical login
screen due to a faulty XF86Config file (I think!)
Phil
I did a quick check on the xfree86 site. It doesn't look like the intense3d
is supported.
The one thing you can do to make sure that installing Linux is easy is to make
sure all your hardware is fully supported.
dar
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Price, Erik wrote:
-Original Message-
Thanks. I'll give that a try. Do you have to have a 2.4.x kernel for that
or will 2.2.18pre from potato work?
dar
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:33:45PM -0400, dman wrote:
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:33:40AM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote:
[video card specs, etc]
| Does anyone have any ideas
I have an IBM THinkpad 365XD with TFT display Model # 2625-1e9. I've seen a
number of references on the net that this card/display was not supported
under 3.3.6. However, recently I found a page that says they got the exact
same model working under 4.02.
That was here:
I have been postponing attempting to upgrade to testing on any of my
computers because I've just got a regular modem and thought it would take
too long. I finally bit the bullet this week. I've got a hand-me-down
laptop that I'm putting Debian on. The problem is that under xfree 3.3.6,
it only
I have a kernel built with an epoch as the documentation suggests. Will my
kernel be replaced when I dist-upgrade from potato 2.2.18pre21 to testing
2.4.something?
Thanks,
dar
I have received a hand-me-down laptop - a Thinkpad 365XD with TFT display.
I've got potato on it, but 3.3.6 doesn't work for my display (unless you
count VGA16 yuck!). However, I just found a web site that says that 4.02
works well on the exact model I have.
Here's my problem. I've only ever
I have a fast (sort of) pipe at work, a cd burner at home and a scsi drive
to carry stuff back and forth. So what do I do?
dar
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 01:37:48PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
David A. Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What's going to be the easiest way to get xfree 4.02 onto
Many sound cards that people will recommend here and elsewhere support only
wave audio and not midi. If midi is important to you, make sure to ask.
dar
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 07:42:16PM +, Robert Frank wrote:
* Kevin Krafthefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [22-11-2000 12:56 PM -0600]
Hello,
Running potatoe r2. All the cd player apps that I tried halt after playing
the first song. Anyone heard anything like this?
dar
I've got a 56k modem on my home machine. Is it feasible/reasonable for me
to run testing on this machine? I've got 2.2r2 CDs. Any guesstimates as to
how long it will take for the initial upgrade to testing?
TIA,
dar
MaD dUCK,
You probably have a lines= and possibly a columns= setting in your .vimrc.
Did you use someone else's rc file? If not, check your system vim file.
dar
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, MaD dUCK wrote:
hey,
my vim, when started from my regular 80x24 xterm, will blatantly
proceed to resize the
John,
Take a look at debian university. It will point you in the right direction.
http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt
cheers,
dar
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, John Foster wrote:
I have been using OSS commercial grade for several years on our Debian
systems. This requires a
Add the line
alias eth0 modulename
to /etc/modutils/aliases
then run update-modules.
There is a lot of good information on modules in the Debian University
document that I'm writing.
http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt
Cheers,
dar
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Miller, Jim wrote:
I
the kernel to suit your needs. Another
reason I build my own is to use a later kernel than
currently available as a .deb image.
--- David A. Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
You must re-compile your kernel. You also need to
REMOVE ide cdrom
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
You must re-compile your kernel. You also need to
REMOVE ide cdrom support, because the scsi emulation
will replace the ide cdrom driver. This is needed
because CDRECORD only uses scsi protocol. You will
then access the cdrom as /dev/scd0. In my
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote:
I have an IDE CDRW drive that I want to be able to use in linux. I have
done apt-get install cdrecord. I have read the CD Writing HOWTO and I
know I have to enable SCSI emulation, but can anyone who has done it in
Debian tell me the easiest way?
William,
See http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt for a complete
rundownd on this.
dar
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, William Leese wrote:
Hello all,
i wish to build a kernel but i've read somewhere that things cant be done
quite the same way as with other (rpm-based) distros because
James,
No, the symlink is ok. AFAIK, there are a number of files that ALSA
wants/needs that only exist after you have built the kernel once. If there is
any other way to create these, I'd like to hear it. See my Debian University
document for more information:
You might find my document Debian University helpful. It gives a very good
explanation of how modules work and talks about what you need to do to get
OSS/Free sound working.
http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt
Cheers,
dar
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Guilherme Ceschiatti wrote:
Hi!
Carel,
Thanks for your input. I appreciate knowing what people think of the
document.
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote:
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 08:12:05PM -0600, David A. Rogers wrote:
Kernel 150 - Compiling the kernel - is open for enrollment (The Debian
University document
Kernel 150 - Compiling the kernel - is open for enrollment (The Debian
University document has been updated to include information on compiling the
kernel in the Debian way).
Debian University can be found at:
http://home.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt
make-kpkg is very nice and makes
Rob,
You can use apt-cache search someapp to find stuff like that.
dar
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Rob VanFleet wrote:
Stupid Question:
I'm used to other distros having a 'play' command to play sounds from the
command line. Does Debian have a similar tool, or am I just missing the
package with
You might want to rethink your purchase. 3dfx is going out of business early
in the new year. They have sold their intellectual property to nvidea.
dar
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Joerg Huber wrote:
Hi,
I would like to buy a Voodoo 3000 graphics card and found the debian-paket
mentioned in the
You might also try gramofile. It's more designed for recording off phono
albums, but should work for what you want.
dar
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Kai Weber wrote:
Hi,
I am searching for a good sound record program, which can be used from a
script/started by a cron job. I tested 'rec' coming
Jon,
You could be right. I don't do 3d on Linux yet and don't have a 3Dfx board.
But, personally, I'd be a bit leery of buying hardware that I _knew_ was going
to be orphaned soon.
dar
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Jon Pennington wrote:
David A. Rogers wrote:
You might want to rethink your
The ALSA source shipped with potato (yes even r2) has a compile error when
built against the 2.2.81pre21 kernel source. Fortunately, it's easy to fix.
In the alsa source include directory, you'll find a file drivers.h. Edit this
file. Search for the word wait. The first occurance is in a
I'm running potato with 2.2.17, ALSA with cs4236b chip.
Run xplaycd.
Press start.
First track plays.
After first track plays, it doesn't go on to the second track, it stops
like I'd pressed the stop button (no I didn't). No matter what track I
start playing, it stops when the track is finished.
imm.o is actually dependent on another module, but noone told depmod. Try to
find what imm is dependent on.
dar
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
i *just* downloaded and compiled 2.4.0-12 for the very first time. after
my very first reboot with this kernel, i'm getting:
#
On 18 Dec 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote:
Ray Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm getting ready to go to kernel 2.2.18. I know there is a Debian
way to do the kernel but damned if I can think of where I could find
it. Could any of you please point me towards it and also anybody run
into
Huh? I know we're hackers and all, but if the card is even semi-recently new,
I'd be hollering for a replacement.
dar
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Nate Amsden wrote:
get an audio cable plug it from the headphone jack on the cdrom to the
line in on the soundcard..that works for me.
nate
aidanc
Briefly, sound-slot-0 is the kernels generic name for a sound card module.
Its like eth0 for ethernet cards. See Debian University for a complete
rundown on modules: http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt.
What this message says is that the kernel is looking for a sound card to
There are two libncurses packages available for potato. How do you decide
which one to install?
Thanks,
dar
On 14 Dec 2000, David Z Maze wrote:
Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CS It seems that kernels and the alsa driver like to live in certain
CS directories. I assume here, you do have the kernel sources comiled and
CS installed (BTW, why aren't you using the latest?). The kernel sources
I am in the process of writing some documentation for Debian. It is
oriented toward end-user desktop systems instead of servers. Eventually,
it will give enough information to allow the end-user to set up a ocmplete
home system including sound, printer, cd-burner etc.
It is also oriented toward
being anal?
-- Original Message --
From: David A. Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:44:25 -0600 (Central Standard Time)
I am in the process of writing some documentation for Debian. It is
oriented toward end-user desktop systems instead
--
From: David A. Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:58:59 -0600 (Central Standard Time)
No offense taken. This is the first documentation I've written and the
copyright was an afterthought. My only concern is in keeping the integrity
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all
I have potato 2.2 installed on my system, I also have a Sound Blaster awe
1024 card. A friend debian-user very kindly gave me a hand recompiling the
kernel to get the Sound Blaster drivers installed (this was magic as far as I
remember
The last Mandrake install I did ticked me off. Potato was just released and I
thought I'd give it a try. Have since made Debian my permanent distribution
of choice.
dar
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Damon Muller wrote:
Hi folks,
I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a signigicant increase
make-kpkg is the debian way to build the kernel. It is very nice. You'll
need to apt-get the kernel-package.
The signal issues are more serious. The gnu compiler uses lots of memory when
compiling the kernel and/or the modules and really gives it a good workout.
The common perception is that
Ah! What you have there is a gotcha in the current Debian kernel-building
documentation. Most dists put a .config in the linux directory that reflects
the options used to build the distributed kernel. Debian doesn't. However,
you can get it from /boot/config-2.2.17 (if you are running Potato).
After pon does its thing, is there a way to see how fast my connection is?
dar
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:
I'm trying to run X on my Dell Inspiron 3700 with Debian. I've got X
running, but it hangs when I try to do a suspend. All of the howto's I've
read say that, in order for suspend to work, I need to be using the FBdev
xserver... which requires that I
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Berthold Cogel wrote:
Hello!
I had a working sound configuration until last weekend with Debian 2.2,
Kernel 2.2.17 and Soundblaster AWE 64 Gold.
Then I decided to update my system from potato-stable (about 32
packages/25 MB). Since the next reboot the module sb wants to
Does the current version of WindowMaker do sound events? I know earlier
versions did with wmsound. But that was many versions ago and wmsound seems
to be dead. If it does sound now, how do you set it up?
Thanks,
dar
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
I would be OK with blocking MS Outhouse, but not Windoze
mail clients in general. Some of us have to use that 'OS'
at work, and those of us with any sense use Netscape or
Eudora (Eudora doesn't work on NT4.0, so it's Netscape in
my case).
I keep seeing messages pointing people to kde.tdyc.com. When I first
read
the announcement of KDE2 availability here http://dot.kde.org/972331966/ it
had ftp sites for both potato and woody debs for kde.
Potato: http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.0/distribution/deb/Debian/dists/potato/
Woody:
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to set up an alias for shutdown -h now and worked fine. When I
rebooted it was gone. Is this a one time thing each session or can I save
my alaises to a file for all sessions?
You add aliases to the .bashrc file in your home directory.
It is either a PS/2 mouse or a bus mouse. It can't be both. Unless it's a
raly old mouse it is not a bus mouse. You probably have a PS/2 mouse.
Look at the connector. Is it round or oval. How many pins on it.
Look at the bottom of the mouse. What does it say (manufacturer, model)? How
I have just inherited an old Thinkpad 365xd which I think has a DSTN
display. From searching the net, it looks like only xfree86 3.2 works
with that display. Does anyone know where I can find a .deb of 3.2?
Thanks,
dar
--
Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Schiller
, Jim Crumley wrote:
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:08:07PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:01:49 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
From: David A. Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: where is old (3.2) Xfree86?
To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org
I have
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Snowfox wrote:
David -
You're asking a million questions at once. Your best answer is to dig
in and start doing things.
This sort of disconnected learning is only useful and fun if you are young and
have no other obligations. Once you have a wife, kids, and a yard
Does compiling the driver into the kernel work? I thought all the Crystal
sound chips were PlugNPlay.
dar
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
Hi,
I don't know what it is, but I've never goten these cards to work on
Debian when built as modules (even when they worked with the
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 read a book? If so,
which one?
I particular, I am interested in:
- Setting up X.
-
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jeff Howie wrote:
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:15:45PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote:
Quoth Nate Bargmann,
In ~./mutt/muttrc check this line:
set editor=/usr/bin/vim
You may also want to include the contents of
/usr/share/doc/vim/examples/mail in your ?/.vimrc - it
Lots of useful information at www.linuxprinting.org.
dar
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Alfredo Solano Martinez wrote:
Greetings,
I want to buy a laser printer, and I have no idea of this field, maybe
somenone can help.
Thanks in advance.
--
Against stupidity, the gods themselves
By default, the current directory is NOT one of the places that the system
will look for an executable. Try giving it a complete pathname
/something/somthing/Xvidtune. Or cd to the directory and enter ./Xvidtune.
That specifies that the executable is in the current directory.
cheers,
dar
On
Check www.abisource.com. That's home for abiword. Looks like the latest
version is 0.7.11.
dar
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Lindsay Allen wrote:
I'm sure I read about 4-6 weeks ago that a new version of abiword was
being released. But I can't find it. Anyone know the story?
Running
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, stefan goeman wrote:
Well, don't be shy. Share the answer please.
dar
Hello,
Ignore my previous message. I think I have found it
Greetings,
Stefan
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 01:46:05PM +, stefan goeman wrote:
Hello,
Interesting. I will try this at
I had problems installing X, and as I am new to Debian - though not Linux,
I'd like to know if it was something I did or whether the Debian setup is
not right.
I previously installed 2.2 from a 2 CD set. Then I ran XF86Setup. When I
chose the Diamond V770 (TNT2) from the hardware list, it told
I've been using Mandrake, but want to try using Debian. Mandrake puts the
kernel in /boot. So it was nice to make /boot one partition and / in another.
I tried installing 2.2 but couldn't figure out how to make the installer do
that. Any suggestions?
dar
--
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
What mail sending app does debian use by default? I've been using redhat and
mandrake, but am thinking about changing over to debian.
I use Linux on my home machine. I use ppp to connect to my isp, so I like to
masquerade my address as my address on the isp. redhat uses sendmail by
default.
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