When installing Linux I configured X for three screen resolutions -640*480,
800*600 and 1024*768. (ATI mach 64). How can I select which one is actually
used and change from one to another?
Quite ok to ask that in the beginning of Linux use. Check my page (first
URL below in .sig file ) for
Yeah, that would be a more likely reason. However, messing up permissions
could do that as well.
Andrew.
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Ok, what the heck is up? I hear runblings of Red Hat threatening Linuxcare
with a lawsuit, then an article appears on slashdot, it is taken down,
another article appears and slashdot is off the air?
It seemed to me that slashdot was off the air two days ago. At least I
could not get on for
I'm completely new to Linux, so apologies if this is excessively thick ...
I've been trying to get xwindows working. I've gone through xf86config, and
then when I try 'startx' it goes into what I assume is the xwindow
environment (blue screen, mouse cursor), beeps at me and appears to hang.
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root /dev/mouse - ttyS0
This indicates mouse is on COM1. Is it really there?
5) Does your mouse work in console mode? Is gpm installed?
gpm is installed, but I don't know how to use it in console mode...i'm still
a newbie :)
You need to kill gpm. It seems that gpm
I have a Boca Research 33.6 PNP (unfortunately) ISA modem which has
ceassed to work recently. I had it working fine with isapnptools aside
from a few errors I got at boot time. I always got:
IO Resource Conflict -- Error allocating 8 bits at 0x2f8
IRQ Conflict -- IRQ 3
These,
Oh my but he really wanted that wish to come true. *G*. Look at the
number of people he forwarded it to..
Andrew
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Is it posible, and how to mount a remote drive through the net?
Telnet into the box, and mount the drive on with
mount device mount_point.
Andrew
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xvidtune could be the answer. At least this is how I deal with my monitor
screen problems, when I start it up. Sounds exactly like your problem.
Andrew
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I just ran into an interesting thing: On my desktop, I accidently hit
Shift+Alt+arrow key. I know that Alt+arry key switches between screens,
bbut what does Shift+Alt+arrows do? It switches me into an empty screen,
where I can open more windows, but where does it come from?
I'm thinking along the
Morning all.
I've looked around on debian.org and my CDs, trying to locate a tn3270
client. Nothing came up, so does anyone know where can I find one?
I remember seeing it somewhere...but it was a long time ago.
Andrew
I have installed X off of floppies, and ran the XFree86setup program.
However, i can't get the mouse to work. I havea logitech 3-button mouse.
Do i need to get device drivers for it from somewhere? I've looked through
Faqs and howtos, but i haven't seen anything on how to solve this
does the default syslog.conf log all usage of the su command ? if so
may i knoe where ?
There is logging of su in /var/log/auth.log
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I've been reading a lot online that emacs takes up a lot of space and
sometimes causes strange things to happen on the screen and within debian's
setup. One online message jokingly hinted that maybe microsoft created
emacs due to the multiple issues that occur when running emacs.
I probably
Yes, I'm clueless about linux basics. I'm three days into my installation
of linux and have never seen it nor any unix operating system before now.
I've been using pc's since they came out (70's onward). The funny thing is,
I'm a pc tech support person working for a multi-billion fortune
login to your system and type XF86Setup, this will take you through the
graphical X setup. After your done you can just type startx to run X.
I type XF86Setup and it says
bash: XF86Setup: command not found :(
Maybe I need to reinstall debian ???
Errr, WinNT approach doesnt work here.
I don't know where it is?
The device section is at the end of your /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
Just scroll down past the modelines, and you will run across the
graphics device section that looks like this:
# Any number of graphics device sections may be present
# Standard VGA Device:
Section
Can I configure my Linux system to do the same? Most modern IDE drives
should support this feature, is support required on the Motherboard or
Bios to make this work, or is it all in the OS?
My Linux box uses an AZZA AT socket 7 motherboard with an Intel TX
chipset and an AMD K6-233 cpu. I
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?
No idea why it can't. The whole purpose of xf86config is to configure
system the way you want, if you can. It is
(--) VGA16: videoram: 256k (using 256k)
(**) VGA16: clocks: 28.32 28.32 28.32 28.32
(--) VGA16: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 90.000 MHz
(--) VGA16: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode 640x480
(--) VGA16: Removing mode 640x480 from list of valid modes.
(--) VGA16: There is no mode
1. hsync in kHz: I choose 31.5: standard VGA, 640x480 @ 60 Hz, as mine is
a 640x480 STN LCD capable of 256 colors (although the manual says it can
use external VGA monitor of three types (640x480, 31.5kHz; 900x600,
35.5kHz for 256 colors; 1024x768, 35.5kHz for 256 colors).
2. vertical
man df
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http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux.
I also have trouble whit Dosemu. everytime i start it, it says i don't have
any dos partitions. i have a 8.4 GB harddisk from WD, devided in three
sepperate disks. On the first (2.1 Gb) i run win95, and on the second (3 Gb)
i have Debian installed. The third i use for saving downloaded
Dows anyone know of any programs that will allow me to capture what's on
the desktop?
xwd, xwdtopnm, xwud are useful tools..
AfterStep has that feature built in as well. GIMP does it. XV can do it
too, I think. Even XEmacs20 can.
Andrew
Hello everybody,
I have installed slink and am trying to mount my cdrom. To mount the cdrom, I
use the following command:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
This returns then following message:
mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
What is wrong here? Is /dev/cdrom
my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was
wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have
16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to
make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with
partitions again? i'm a
Use pppconfig to setup the file for your ISP.
Give it a name, say File, then in shell do 'pon File'.
You should hear click as your modem initializes. TO monitor the modem
progress (connection, and such), use 'plog'
About sound card: You need to recompile kernel to include sound support.
You get
try running wvdialconf and reentering the values, then run wvdial to
connect to the internet. that's how I do it.
-Jeremiah Johnson
That would work, but he needs wvdial first, since program is not included
in the base installation. Though , after he tries pon and turns out that
I installed Debian Linux on a X86 machine. I cannot run X Windows. The answer
to the commands startx or xinit is: Unknown command
I have installed an X server as well but it doesn't find the display.
I am very new to linux so if you could help me with some very basic
instruction I would
Hi!
I have done everything but I can not get my OPTi 925 work under linux.
The OPTi 925 is listed on hardware-HOWTO. It say you should use MSS and
isapnp! I have compiled my kernel xx times but no sound :( Please can
anyone help me or tell me were to find a OPTi 925-HOWTO ?
Basically,
Mailed and posted
Hi all:
Is the Cyrillic-HOWTO still relevant? It was written more than 2 years
ago?
Well, mostly. I used it and CHernov's page to instal cyrillics, it went
pretty well.
For one, it says that using xkb is not recommended. Is it still so? Why?
I have no ideaI
I partitioned my HD also in a new way: smaller /dev/hda1 (/ 256Mb), larger
/dev/hda2 (/usr ab. 5Gb) and a swap /dev/hda3 (100mb). After installing and
apt-getting all the packages, I noticed that I was little short-sighted:
/dev/hda1 might run out of space pretty quickly.
Having that much
Problem #1, I have a modem on Com1. I know I do because Bill Gates tells me
I do when I run His OS. Try as I might I can't seem to convince Linux that
it is there. I assume that I should be using wvdial and when it ran the
configuration utility it said that it didn't detect any modem. So I
Well I finally got X windows to come up. Kind of stark and doesn't
do much :) I guess I must install other packages to make it actually
interesting.. But I digress. The question is this: after finally getting to
run the right server and XF86Setup and xf86config and all that jazz I am
i
Can I install Windows on one disk and linux on another disk that is free,
without formating it?
Would be great if you could help me!
In order to install Linux you need to have an ext2 file system partition.
If you have a blank HD , you can fdisk it, create several partitions, and
then put
DOes anyone know of mp3 encoder for Linux? If yes, where would I be able
to find one?
TIA,
Andrew
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Hi, folks --
I have spent the past several days struggling to get my X-windows
configured. I am noticing that the XF86Config program runs just fine,
so I've got to believe that running X is possible. Any attempt to make
X-windows more specific to my configuration has ended in failure at
Hello,
I'm just getting started using Linux. Actually, I'm expecting my Slink CD's
to arrive any day now. I'm upgrading an old PC I have to install Debian on.
I'm on a real tight budget, but I don't want to spend my money on hardware
that won't be appropriate.
I've found a 1.2 G hard
To finalize my debian installation, I've installed KDE and the newest
version of XFree-SVGA, but now I need to get sound setup, my CD-ROM
recognized, and my modem setup. I'm new to linux and alot of the sites I've
Ok, lets take it one thing at a time:
1. CD-rom: For CD support you need to
I can see from http://www.xfree86.org that for the ELSA Gloria Synergy
monitor, they've recommended the use of the X3DL server. I was able to
download this. However, I am still stuck getting my xf86Config file set up.
Can anyone give me some information about this? I am using Debian
Morning all.
Is it possible to connect linux box and winbox through a nullmodem?
THanks,
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doesn't look like that has been done. Also, is there some kind of utility
on Debian that I could use to check my hard drive space? I know about the
utilities to check my RAM but haven't been able to find anything about hard
drive. Thanks for any help.
Shawn
man df
Andrew
I have recently installed debian on a older pc at work with only a 500 meg
hard drive and no cdrom. There was no room for both downloaded deb files
and the uncompressed system on the hard drive if I installed all the options
I wanted, therefore, I installed the standard system. Now, I want
I got S3 DX/Virge with 4Mb memory. Works very well with hamm, never had
problems with setting up X on it (SVGA server.) Costs $30-50, depending
upon the vendor.
Andrew
I have written script like that, and it's on my homepage (URL below).
Basicly keeps pppd alive and emails you IPs.
Andrew
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As a wild guess, how do you enter the path where your linux kernel image
is? Hope it's not C:\Debian or whatever like that.
You have to use block devices, such as /dev/hda(b,c,d)
You can get information on partitioning from fdisk. For example, if C is
/dev/hda1, then your C:\Debian becomes
Why don't you just increase the resolution?
640x480 is awfully small. I'm able to get 1024x768 out of my monitor (My
S3 DX/Virge can do better, but monitor is stopping me), and I am already
out of space on one screen. But switching between virtual portions of a
desktop could be not very
Why dont you post error messages to the list?
Chances are, it will say that no valid modes are found (at least there
are ways that can work to go around that. I have a more/less readable
file on my page, about how to setup video modes. Try that too), but just
to be sure, post them here, and we'll
I have one windows machine at home among many which I'm trying to
transition to Debian but it has one card that I don't think will
work with Debian. It's my Hauppauge WinTV card
it's a TV/Radio tuner which works under all the winblows versions
Just because it works with Windows doesnt
Are you using exactly the same setup as before?
Also, make sure that lilo actually runs without any warnings/errors.
ANdrew
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Wild guess, but check your lost+found directory || fsck the system.
It could be that your drive is dying.
Andrew
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Hi,
I have a question regarding security issue with Debian and Linux in
general. By now everyone has probably heard about the new Mellissa
virus. I know that this doesn't affect Linux because it is related to
M$ products only. However, I just wondered if anything of this sort
Ok, just go to www.debian.org and follow the instructions on how to
install. In that html file ( I recommend you read hte whole thing, since
you are not familiar with Linux ), in chapter 5, there is a list of base
files you need. Just follow instructions and you should be fine.
This is all a bit
Evening all.
I've found this entry in netstat output:
tcp 57 1 Mizzou-AS7-21.mis:10802 pavlov.midco.net:ftp LAST_ACK
Thing is, I don't remember connecting to pavlov.midco.net
There are no entries in syslog with name pavlov, or xferlog, for that
matter. Any ideas where else I can look
Midco is one of the primary ftp mirrors for Debian.
*slaps himself* Doh. I should have thought of that.
Thanks a lot.
Andrew
Weird noises you hear is modem, I believe.
And it's perfectly normal.
Anyway, once you can dial out to your ISP (do plog just to make sure that
you are connected), you can use apt or dselect to ftp files over to your
machine. No mail program though. And, before you can get Netscape, you
need to
Chances are, you are running X at 8bpp.
Thats the installation default. To run it with a different depth use
startx -- -bpp 16 or 24 or 32
I think 32 would correspond to millions of colors.
Andrew
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In tere anyway to compile your kernel without have to use modules to
enable sound
If you have a non-pnp card, yes. For example, I've played with the same
card as Doug for a while, and just gave up after a while. Found a
different sound card, SB16. It wasnt pnp, and after a quick kernel
You are not supposed to (and can not) run netscape as root. Thats a
built-in security
measure. The message about this shows up in xconsole.
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Kernel setup is that you go into windows and get the parameters of your
soundcard, such as IRQ, DMA, IO.
Then you recompile kernel, but enable the sound support and put in the
information you have for that specific card. If your card is PnP, you
compile sound as module and use isapnp. Otherwise,
isapnp is availible on debian site.
Its in the Admin directory of stable.
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Just leave it at 530, and try compiling with that IO base.
See if it works.
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Yeah. That solution is well-known, but the trick here is to get the sound
working WITHOUT having to pay.
As far as I am concerned, that OSS alone would cost me twice of what I had
to pay for hamm cds. With delivery. Also, OSS can cause some problems. At
least on my machine the demo was very
I may be wrong, but from my experience with OSS you don't have to use
isapnp at all.
Thats the reason OSS is out on the market: It replaces isapnp, in a more
efficient way. You still need to compile kernel, though. Just read the
README file that comes with OSS. I think they describe it all there.
Make sure you don't have a win modem, works only with windows. See
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html
and
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
Hope that helps,
Kent
This has nothing to do with winmodem. Winmodem is not recognised by the
system, and not being
I've tried adding:
leafenode:127.0.0.1 192.168.1.*
Try
leafnode: 127.0.0.1 192.168.1
Hope this works,
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Ok, basicly you just go through the isapnp.conf and uncomment relevant
lines, which will give you certain parameters on the card.
Dont worry about clock chip. Isapnp doesnt deal with clocks. All it does
is configure the card.
Below is what you could use for isapnp.conf. I've cut all the parts
Evening all.
I've been trying to get hdparm to work, but it seems ( I can not verify)
unsuccessfully.
I got
Scorpio:/home/ryn# hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=WDC AC11000H, FwRev=12.07H12, SerialNo=WD-WT364
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR5Mbs FmtGapReq
}
Ok, one way to do this would be to change the IRQ of NIC. First, do 'cat
/proc/interrupts' to find which IRQs are unused. Then, since your NIC is
on the COM port, you can setserial a different IRQ to it. That can be
done by setserial /dev/ttyS# irq X Where # is the COm port where your NIC
is,
What are you putting in that kernel?
I have my 2.0.34 compiled with vfat/dos/iso9660 support, SB16, some other
options, and it's 360K only, in the bzImage format.
GO through the kernel and unmark all the stuff you don't need.
I think the kernel size limitation is in the docs. If my memory serves
What Linux version of ICQ? Do you mean the java version from Mirabilis or one
of the find ICQ clones? I use Licq, but kicq and kxicq are also good ICQ
clones for UNIX and Linux.
Java version of ICQ is extremely buggy and extremely slow. Clones, on the
other hand, are much better. I use
It is a 1gig partition. I have two others on this same machine.
Ok, make your partitions ready for linux (ext2 fs, etc).
What can I do to move stuff to these other partitions so that my 1st
partition will not be so loaded down. I would like to install more
software there?
Then what you
I used to have that card. It's PnP. Enough said.
Well, not really. I played around with it. I got as far as having the FM
synthesiser detected, but that is as far as it went.
The trick here is again, use isapnp to initialize card at boot, and then
insmod for the sound (which means you compile
Xdm works fine ( when you have the X configured correctly) in hamm as
well. Just install xdm, and it will work.
If you ever want to get rid of it, edit the
/etc/X11/config file and comment the line that says
'start-xdm'
Same, to get it to work again,
uncomment that line.
Andrew
AFAIK, everything in Linux is case-sensitive.
Reason behind not being able to make user Mario is that user names do not
generally contain upper case letters. You can --force it, though.
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Because /home/username/ includes dot files.
Like, .bashrc, etc.
To see them do la -la
To delete directory which is full, just use
rm -R dirname
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Well...it's basicly asking you where in the system CDrom is.
Like, primary IDE master drive is /dev/hda
Primary slave is /dev/hdb
Secondary master is /dev/hdc
Secondary slave is /dev/hdd
Just figure out which one is yours, and enter it there.
Andrew
That depends who you are logged in as. If you are root, then it don't
matter. If you are a user...well, then you can not do much of maintenance
work, have to be root for that.
Your system is not read-only. If it were, you'd not be able to save
anything. Nor would the system itself (log files,
I have installed Debian-Linux, after I boot, and the system asks for the
login, I log in as root. the problem is I'm at a $prompt, I don't know
Do 'whoami' and see who you are really logged on as. Why do you need to
change /dev/modX anyway? /dev/ttySX is a COM port. But if you really need
to,
Hi,
I am going to compile the kernel again as the first attempt
apparently didn't suceed. My users manual describes
the steps as follows. Is this correct?
1. change to directory /usr/src/linux
2. make config
Or, if under X, make xconfig.
Which is a GUI, lets you jump from one section
I have tried and tried to compile a Kernel, for sound... I just can't seem
to do it.
What you mean you cant seem to do it?
Do you get errors when compiling, do you not know how to do it at all, or
what is the problem?
Does anyone know where I can find a kernel Image with sound compiled in.
I have two questions:
1. Is there a way to make xterm default to the large or huge font
sizes? Right now I have to press control and right click on the xterm
window to switch. As I'm legally blind, the default size is too small for
my use.
One way to do that would be editing your window
Ok, I'm writing a small script to do backups for me, and thinking which
dirs I need to back up.
So far:
/boot
/etc (full directory, with subdirs)
/dev
/root
some of the users (I have one only, but just in case).
Any other suggestions?
I'd backup some of the config files from other packages, but in
Did the compilation end without errors?
Did you 'make zImage' or 'make bzImage'?
Try 'find / zImage | grep zImage' to find it, also.
Andrew
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I have a procedure to make Deb bootable described on my homepage, under
LILO section.
URL is below,
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Just get the new drive ready for Linux (partition and make fs)
Make a new directory on the drive,
and then just copy the /usr files into it.
Then edit /etc/fstab to indicate the new mount point.
Reboot to make sure it's all fine, and you are set.
Andrew
Ok, concerning 'make menuconfig'
It's a command to start configuration for your own kernel. For that you
have to have the kernel source package installed, it should be in
/usr/src/kernel-*/
Go there, and do either
'make xconfig' or 'make menuconfig' I like the first one, because it's
a GUI so
You need to download the base package instead so that you can install the
base system. Base package is a located at
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/install.html
(Thats the installation guide, which includes the links to necessary
files)
Andrew
Can anyone help me/
I downloaded the files as suggested to Drive C, made the Rescue disk,
and can go through install to the point where it asks me to -
CHOOSE DEBIAN ARCHIVE PATH
If I remember correctly, this is asking you where all the base files are
stored on the disk. Now, C disk for
Hi,
Hi.
I just got myself an old 270 MB hard disk...to supplement the 120Mb I have
on my current disk. I've got debian Linux installed on it..Anyone knows how
I should go about it.
Ok, one thing to do if you are running out of space is partition the new
disk and make it your /usr
For that
First, try to get it to work with SVGA server. It might work better. (S3v
doesnt work for me, I have S3 ViRGE/DX card).
As to your problem: it just doesnt find any valid modes to run in.
I've got the little walk-through on my homepage, (URL underneath), but
basic idea is to change the order of
My laptop wmcpu type applets show the cpu running at full speed all the
time. I this a problem? What should I do about it...?
Try top and see what is the process that eats up all the CPU.
Naturally you should not see CPU working a lot, unless you are, for
example, starting Netscape. For
Installed Debian 2.0 from CD and everything worked. Decided to add
space on hard disk but then several reinstalls all led to same browser
problems.Browsers arena and gzilla, which worked before, now give
error messages. Chimera2 still seems to work, but when used to
download netscape
Hi I am new to Linux, and am learning fairly quick. But I am having
problems getting my Xserver to work at a higher color depth then 8. If
I try and remove that particular setting in the XF86Config file then it
tells me that it cannot find the 8 bpp color setting and there for am
unable
Evening all.
I don't seem to be able to make screen/window shots with Afterstep 1.4.5
I get the XGRBSCForm window, but unless I (or 'find') can not find a
screenshot file, I'm probably doing something wrong. I've tried changing
the waiting times to 0, that doesnt help. Any idea where those files
As far as I can understand, you are wondering about the sound card
configuration of MAD?
Well, I don't have that card, but on the basic level that works for
soundcards that are pnp:
1. Go into windows and get settings from there, such as COM port, IO base,
IRQ.
2. Read documentation on sound
You see those messages whenever you are logged on to your ISP.
There is nothing wrong with that.
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Thats probably your ISP kicking you off. Mine has a 2 hour limit.
Try pppupd to get around no-traffic limits. For pure time limits... ?
pppupd doesnt do what I need, since my ISP has dynamic IP allocation.
I use a shell script I wrote instead.
The source is availible on my homepage (it's a
Man pages package is under Documentation section in stable on
www.debian.org, and is called
manpages
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I've , for whatever reason I had (dunno why I did this), deleted
/var/log/ppp.log
SInce then none of the plog messages appear. I know that plog gets the
data from ppp.log, but whenever ppp is working, it no longer seems to
write to ppp.log (doesnt create it/write to it when its created). Syslog
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