Re: Matrox Millenium G200 AGP

1999-09-08 Thread Jason Christensen
The name of the debian SVGA Xfree86 X Server package is xserver-svga_3.3.2.3a-11.deb. It is part of slink r4. You'll of course need other packages as well: fonts, Xbase, etc. Dependencies should take care of that though. Jason On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote: mg200 AGP is supported by

Re: StarOffice freezing problems with potato

1999-09-09 Thread Jason Christensen
Confirmed! The new libc6 package for unstable fixed the threading problems that were causing the SO 5.1 install to hang. I was able to successfully install it last night. Jason -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Today, i noticed libc6 version 2.1.2-1 on the mirrors. Nothing is mentioned in the

Re: OpenGL in Linux

1999-09-09 Thread Jason Christensen
Look at Mesa, it is available as a Debian package. Check out www.mesa3d.org for more info. Jason Dear All, I want to use OpenGL in Debian2.1 . What packages i need to install ??? Thanks. Wilson -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: OpenGL in Linux

1999-09-10 Thread Jason Christensen
Debian has a .deb archive containing the source code for the 3dfx device (loadable module), but lacks an achive containing the device drivers themselves. This is most likely due to the significant differences among 3dfx based chipsets (ie voodoo, voodoo2, banshee, voodoo3). Some are 3D only, some

Re: ncr53c406a

2000-08-30 Thread Jason Christensen
-install-methods.en.html Specifically, section 5.2. There you will find a discussion of available installation sets. Jason - Jason Christensen Ideas won't keep; [EMAIL PROTECTED] something must be done

Re: MX300

2000-04-11 Thread Jason Christensen
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Re: Gnome/Enlightenment Setup.

2000-04-13 Thread Jason Christensen
on installing and using gnome. BTW, there are other ways of combining Enlightenment and Gnome, but this is the 'Gnome way'. Jason - Jason Christensen Ideas won't keep; [EMAIL PROTECTED] something must

Slow system clock?

1999-09-23 Thread Jason Christensen
Would anyone be able to speculate as to why my system (kernel) clock is slow? I know that my hardware (CMOS) clock is maintaining a time that does not drift more than a CMOS clock normally does, but my kernel clock will lose approximately 4 hours in every 9. I can set the system clock at

Re: Slow system clock?

1999-09-24 Thread Jason Christensen
for scrutiny. Thanks for all your help, Jason * Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 23 Sep, 1999 =E0 10:38:18AM +, Jason Christensen wrote: Would anyone be able to speculate as to why my system (kernel) clock is = slow? I know that my hardware (CMOS) clock is maintaining

Re: Star Office 5.1 dead?

1999-09-25 Thread Jason Christensen
I have SO 5.1 working fine with Potato, but installing it was a headache. When I was first trying, Debian potato was using a distribution of glibc that had some problems with threading, and I had problems installing because of it. A new glibc package was released a couple of days after I started

Re: Slow system clock?

1999-09-25 Thread Jason Christensen
, 24 Sep, 1999 à 09:00:25AM +, Jason Christensen wrote: Colin, I think that you may be right. Now that I think about it, the problem only seems to occur after linux has been running for a long period of time without a logon (i.e. overnight). I think I have the BIOS configured to kick

Re: dselect unstable problem SOLVED

1999-09-30 Thread Jason Christensen
Editing the file to correct the spelling of optional for aleph-dev and aleph-doc and then touching the file to match the others does not work if you want to use dselect (for me at least). I was able to successfully upgrade my system after editing and touching the file to correct the errors and

Re: Lilo hdb

2000-01-27 Thread Jason Christensen
I was successfully able to use the map-drive line in my lilo.conf to boot from hdb1 by remapping BIOS accesses to the disk. I however used the exact same hex values you did even though I'm booting windows from hdb1 not hdc1. I was under the impression (assumption) that the hex values would

Re: Lilo hdb

2000-01-27 Thread Jason Christensen
Tom You're right about the linux device structure regarding physical disks. I however am using the same map-drive lines in my lilo.conf as you are, except I am booting windows from the primary slave (hdb1). Why is it that the same map-drive lines work for both you and I even though we are booting

Re: Network card driver

2000-01-31 Thread Jason Christensen
Yes no. Since the card is based upon the DEC DS21140, the Tulip driver included in the kernel source is appropriate. Netgear does distribute a driver for linux for their FA310 card. It is a customized and possibly optimized version of the Tulip driver. The instructions that come with it detail

Re: VMWare, 98 and Linux

2000-02-02 Thread Jason Christensen
Read the docs at the vmware site. They discuss using hardware profiles in windows to keep resources separate for when you boot win98 straight or when you're booting it inside a vmware virtual machine. Read about booting an OS from a prexisting partition as opposed to the standard 'virtual

Re: *.bin file

2000-02-08 Thread Jason Christensen
Make sure it's executable permissions are set and just run it: prompt ./whatever.bin You need to reference the current working dir unless you have it in your path. Putting the CWD in your path is however bad security! Jason On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I am downloading

Re: xscreensaver

2000-02-16 Thread Jason Christensen
All the solutions proposed so far on this thread will help you get xscreensaver working for your logon account. If you admin this box you may also want xscreensaver to blank the xdm login widget screen. If you don't use xdm you may be able to apply the knowlegde to the other XDMCP compatible

Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-09 Thread Jason Christensen
How handy are you with text processing scripting languages (i.e. Perl, awk, etc.)? My thought is that you could create a script that edits your .pinerc file prior to starting pine. The script could look at another file (/etc/resolv.conf maybe) for domain info that was set by your connection

Tkrat obsolete?

2000-03-09 Thread Jason Christensen
Does anyone know why tkrat is marked obsolete within dselect? My /etc/apt/sources.list points apt to frozen. Jason

Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-10 Thread Jason Christensen
Do you know for a fact that the SMTP servers at both your ISPs are configured to NOT relay mail. Perhaps one of the servers will work for both connections. It's not necessarily a good thing as it indicates that one or both of your ISPs are not spam conscious, however it would save you a lot of

Re: kernel 2.2.14 and PS/2 mice

2000-03-10 Thread Jason Christensen
I have no problems with a PS/2 mouse 2.2.14. On 10 Mar 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: The boot messages tell me that a PS/2 mouse port is found, but the cursor doesn't follow the mouse at all. Under what circumstances are you talking about, X or console? If you're talking about the console,

Re: Energy Star Settings

2000-03-14 Thread Jason Christensen
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Parrish M Myers wrote: Is there a config file I can edit such that I don't have to set this every time I log in? (well I don't set it by hand actually... I let gdm do it when I log in...) Sounds to me like you're already doing it in a way that works. I do the same

Re: Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS

2000-03-15 Thread Jason Christensen
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Arne wrote: Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS Delete, Don't run! Why the hell did you send it to the list? Most of us would not be plagued by a windows virus, however it wasn't a real bright thing to do! If anyone inadvertanly ran this program on a windoze box, check:

Re: ssh loading at startup

2000-03-21 Thread Jason Christensen
There is actually a great little program to create all the sym links Ron talks about. Read the man page for update-rc.d. It's in the dpkg package. It makes the management of the sym links much easier! BTW, if you had (or have) installed the ssh debian package, it would (should) have installed the

Re: ssh loading at startup

2000-03-22 Thread Jason Christensen
trying to get ssh to load at boot i have created a script in /etc/init.d called ssh i have also created a symbolic link to it from /etc/rc2.d called S20ssh but upon bootup the log says /etc/init.d/rc: /etc/rc2.d/S20ssh: Permission denied Does root have execute permissions on the

Re: Would I have any problems with Epson Stylus 740?

2000-03-23 Thread Jason Christensen
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Re: ssh loading at startup

2000-03-23 Thread Jason Christensen
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Re: ssh loading at startup

2000-03-23 Thread Jason Christensen
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote: manually as described above. Read the man page on update-rc.d (symlink management program), also read the Debian faq at: When I just manually remove any links in an rcX.d directory, is that a way to disable servers etc. at startup? You got it,

Re: AccelStar Permedia II AGP

2000-03-24 Thread Jason Christensen
. As for using XF86Setup or xf86config, try another listed card based upon the permedia2. The definition for the Diamond card MIGHT work for you. You might also have to build a custom config file for X. Good luck! Jason - Jason Christensen

USB w/ Epson Color Stylus 740 [was Re: sound hell]

2000-04-03 Thread Jason Christensen
processes them appropriately before sending them to the printer. Good luck, Jason - Jason Christensen Ideas won't keep; [EMAIL PROTECTED] something must be done about them. www.jasonchristensen.net