I upgraded my video card from an S3Virge to a Matrox Millenium with
8meg. After running SF86Setup and vidtune I couldn't get a full width
display. After some head scratching I copied the mode line from my
old config file to the new one and was back in business. I guess the
setup program
It uses the NE2000 driver which requires the IO and IRQ parameters to be
specified. From Windoze I've verified the IRQ is 9 and the IO is 6C00.
After entering the values (io=0x6C00 irq=9) the system hangs. I'm not
exactly sure what I'm doing wrong this time. Any suggestions?
I'm now using
2.2.1 on hamm, also with no problems apart from the need to change the
port
on /etc/printcap.
What software did you upgrade before going to 2.2.1? Are you running
anything as modules, and if so how did you configure this? I
downloaded 2.2.1 and tried to install it. My
Paul Seelig wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote:
RH is a commercially-based distro, so they can spend loads of cash
on
advertising etc, so they are the most popular, despite Debian's
inherantly
free-er nature, and techincal superiority
Redhat is a distribution geared at
. The isa version would probably go nuts
with an io address 3ffH!
---Cristov Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Kenneth
Thanks for the reply. Which driver is the NE2000 PCII? I don't
recall
seeing anything described as that. Thanks.
Cristov
-Original Message-
From: Kenneth
one more thing ...I think the module name was ne2kpci.o
---Cristov Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Kenneth
Thanks for the reply. Which driver is the NE2000 PCII? I don't
recall
seeing anything described as that. Thanks.
Cristov
-Original Message-
From: Kenneth
---
One step at a time: anyone else moved to 2.0.35/36 while
retaining the rest of Hamm? I don't really want to make the move
to slink until a while after it moves to be stable but I do need to
make this move.
I see that X servers can be set to run at 8,16,24, or 32 BPP. (also 2
and 4 but that's yuck!).
I know that the 8 bpp mode uses a map table to select 256 out of 2**16
or 2**18 colors, assuming that the card has 3 6 bit dac's, one for
each color. In 16 or 15 bit mode the access to the dac's is
I have a linux box serving as a web server. This computer has no
monitor on it and is stashed in a remote corner. I administor it via
telnet. (Maybe the wrong way...). I'd like to mount part of it's
filesystem on the linux box at my desk, so I can update the web pages.
How can I do this? I
I've had some problems with cdroms too, but different. I have a cdrom
made by Panasonic for IBM that is labeled as an 8X atapi. When it was
connected as a master on a paddle card (aux ide card strapped as ide
#2) the bios saw it correctly, but linux thought it was a tape drive!
When strapped as
Is there a way to get my LaserJet 6L to work?
APSfilter and magicfilter do not have modules/drivers that work. The
most
they have is LaserJet 4L. The problem with this printer is that it is
in sleep mode all the time, and the driver must wake it up.
Are there any plans for this printer
Try linux /dev/hdb = cdrom at the lilo prompt.
==
Amateur Radio, when all else fails!
http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze
Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or .
_
DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Hmmm...What type of processor does the mac side have? Couldn't you
install debian for m68k or linuxppc on it?
Supposedly the m68k port of linux does not support macintoshes because
Apple is being rather uninformative about the hardware specs.
There was an article about this in the linux
If you downloaded the file using netscape then it may already have
been run through gunzip! Check the size of the file! I have seen
this behavior from netscape, where it detects the file type, and saves
it using gunzip as a filter! Sometimes though it keeps the file name
the same. Try renaming
There is a .bmp file named something like windowslogo.bmp in the
windows directory that has the windows bootup display. It can be
edited with the paint program. I modified the one on my kid's
computer so It comes up with their names, Emily and Reva's computer.
You could copy the file to linux,
If this is an isa card, then use the isapnp package to set up the
card. See the sound how_to.
---
From:
Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi folks,
This one has got me beat, and I'm hoping someone in debian-land might be
able to help
Install isapnp package, and run pnpdump. If the output detected your
modem, then you may be in good shape! Make sure that the serial ports
are NOT built into your kernel, but are modules (I think that's what's
in the default kernel). Then edit the isipnp.conf file to look like
the settings
You would think that now that US Robotics is owned by 3com this would
change, as they seem to be open about the spec's on their ethernet lan
cards.
===
As evil as MS are, they are not responsible for all of the world's
problems. Blame US
From time to time I have been directed to use a package from slink
because the corresponding version from hamm is 'broken', an example is
xfstt. However I can't install *ANYTHING* from slink because I get a
dependacy error due to lib6c being updated in slink (hamm has an older
version). It seems
I installed the xfstt package, copied about 500 ttfonts from a
collection I had on CD to /var/ttfonts, ran xfstt --sync, edited
/etc/X11/XF86Config to include the line
FontPath = unix/:7101
(did all this as root)
Then I went back to my xsession, did ctrlaltBS.
Now how can I test for access
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In reply to:Dave Swegen
Quoting Dave Swegen([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 11:21 +0100, Riccardo Tommasini wrote:
I think there is a very big difference between StarDivision, who
released
a real Fully Functional version of StarOffice, and
Date:
Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:09:36 -0600
From:
Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Only problem now is that both the sites are full, 1000 user on
Download.com and 3600 on ftp.cdrom. You may want to wait a few
hours (weeks) until the rush quitens down...
If anyone manages to get it I
Now what we need is a debian installer package for this just like the
one for netscape or star office. Something that will set up the menu
system, environmental variables, paths etc
(I ended up with /usr/local/bin/wpbin/)
_
DO YOU
From:
David Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I just brought 17.2G ide harddrive, and when I try to use cfdisk to
partition
it, it only sees 8G. FWIW, I updated cfdisk to ones in frozen. Bios and
Linux
bootup sees it as 17.2G, so I don't know why cfdisk will not.:(
Running 2.0.36(my
From:
Jeff Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey all,
My friend has installed Debian on his computer. He has a P/S 2 mouse.
It
wont work in X or in the normal shell with GPM. How would you get a P/S
2 mouse working in Linux? Are there any packages we need to install?
TIA!
Sounds familiar. I have installed Debian 3 different times and have
seen that error message each time. I solved it by re-making the
rescue disk. Got so that I made 2-3 of _each_ disk, just in case. I
don't think is is Debian, just crappy disks!
HTH
REPLY:
I thought about the disk being
From:
Chris Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ugh, this is a horrid question to ask but I'll risk it.
I am happily moving all my heavy internet stuff to Debian (three
machines: home, old office, new ISP hosted machine). Very, very
impressed with Debian.
The trouble is that I can't ditch
I have put together a 486DX2-66 machine from old parts. It's a
vers-local bus machine with 8M of dram, 200mb disk drive (I have a 2g
I can swap in), an 8x ide cdrom drive, and a cirrus based vesa local
bus video card (boca) with 1m on it (add two chips for 2m). I have
tried to boot slackware and
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I am in the market for a UPS to use with my PC that will provide power
just enough power to get a shutdown finished in case of total power
lost. I have looked at the Hardware Compatibility HOWTO and the UPS
HOWTO but I wanted to first hand experience
I just found out that ADSL service may be available in my area. Does
anyone have ADSL internet service and how hard was it to get Linux to
use it?
I live in south florida and Bellsouth is now offering ADSL for $50-60
a month unlimited ($100 one time installation fee and $200 to buy the
modem -
From:
Person, Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey All,
Just venting.
Recently I check out the Linux apps wish list web page! I though that
it was
mighty funny that the software that most people want to see ported to
Linux
is made by the big nasty Microsoft clan. Personally, I hate M$ and
I remember getting that error message. The problem was not related to
the kernel.
1: make sure that you are a member of the group owning rights to
execute ppp. (I think it was dial)
2: make sure you are using the right serial device. such as
/dev/ttyS1 (the S is in CAPS!!!) I got that
From:
Chris Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have just installed a Seagate STD28000N (aka ARCHIVE Python
04687-XXX Rev: 6580 according to dmesg).
I only had 90m tapes to hand and wanted to try it out, tar cvf on a
handful of files claimed to work but nothing else did generally
returning
thread:
In linux.debian.user, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you had shared the stupid messages with us here, perhaps
somebody could have told you what they mean and how to fix the
problem. Strange.. I don't recall you posting once.
You seem easy to convince. So go on back to your Happy Meal OS.
From:
Marc Ahrens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I bought a LS-120 and want to install Linux onto it. It wouldn't let
me mount or partition it. Please Help. I really don't want to install
Linux onto my hard drive. Thanks for whatever suggestions that you
might have.
Date:
From:
Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I'm thinking of buying a CTX PL9 monitor (19, [EMAIL PROTECTED]), what
are
people's feelings towards ctx or this monitor in paticular? I'm a
student
on a budget and this will be my monitor for the next 4/5 years so I
just
wanted to make sure I
From:
AJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
im a sort of *new* debian user (used it like 3 years on shells..
installed it like 3 weeks ago). anyway heres my question:
Right now im booting from a linux bootdisk which a) takes a few minutes
and b) is a pain in th ass...
Now i know if i use lilo
to add to the mess:
I have three smaller disks, a 320mb, and two 500mb's, one of which is
scsi. The 320mb is /dev/hda and is partitioned as 32mb swap, rest is
/. The 500mb scsi is mounted as /usr, and the 500mb /dev/hdb is
mounted as /usr/local.
Weird maybe, but I had some special needs.
On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 07:06:29PM +, Roger Franz wrote:
gcc: Internal compiler error: Program cc1 got fatal signal 11.
Ohh, nasty. AFAIR this means you have some bad mem or cpu (more likely
memory). I could be wrong.
---
I once
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Is debian supposed to have a /dev/cdrom
Because when I install debian I do
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom and I get
/dev/cdrom file or Dir not found
I thought you can only mount a cdrom drive with /dev/cdrom
--
// from :Anders a.k.a Caine
I just installed Debian on an old 486, which has a old sony cdu33a cdrom
connected to a soundblaster 16. The problem is that the soundcard only
has
jumper settings for the cdroms irq, not for the base adress, and stupid
as I am, I
didn't have those written down
I made an interesting purchase just recently of Red Hat
5.1, thinking I would try it out and see if it was any
better. It had some advantages and disadvantages, but
in the end I decided to come back to debian.
The situation I am in now however, is that I have an
applications CD (the third Cd
---Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kenneth Scharf wrote:
[snipped long and interesting tale of ups woes..]
Have you tried redirecting the output of shutdown or backgrounding
it?
Do something like
shutdown -c /dev/null 21
or
shutdown -h +2 message
The second
---Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kenneth Scharf wrote:
[snipped long and interesting tale of ups woes..]
Have you tried redirecting the output of shutdown or backgrounding
it?
Do something like
shutdown -c /dev/null 21
or
shutdown -h +2 message
The second
I installed upsd and made up a cable as per the README.gz file. (I
have an APC Back-UPS 400VA). I commented out the required line in
/etc/init.d/ups and added the line '/dev/ttyS1' where my ups is
plugged in.
After rebooting the computer I decided to test it. (Only had the
monitor plugged into
Date:
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:57:44 -0600
From:
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:
partition table on dos zip disks
this may seem like an odd question, but could someone send me the
partition table for a dos
** Reply to message from Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 17 Nov 1998 23:57:15 +0100
Let's not talk about the food :-)
I quite agree, we have far too many Macdonalds and Burger King.
--
There was this scene in the movie 'time after
Maybe you should call Microsoft and see if they're porting
InternetExplorer
to Linux anytime soon!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Gee thanks.
Dave
PS I am British and I am always sarcastic, I have been warned that US
citizens
are unable to recognise sarcasm - I guess thats why so many
Hi group readers,
I was wondering what CPU I should select for compiling the kernel. I
have a
AMD K6-2 300MHz. Should I compile for a regular pentium, or do the
newer
kernels have K6 as a selectable CPU ?
The K6 should work fine on a kernel compiled as pentium Pro. This
implies the level of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just installed LINUX on another machine in my office. The powers
that
be are reluctant at this moment to let me put in on the network. I have
loaded some items down to my NT machine and now need to ship them to my
LINUX box. However they are too big to fit on a
I installed the dpkg-multicd package, but I don't see how to use it to
install from multiple cd's. I have the cheap bytes cd set with main,
contrib, and non-free on separate disks. Is dpkg-multicd supposed to
let me flip disks as required, or does it assume that I have 3 cdrom
drives? In the
Wes Jennings wrote:
Hope someone can determine what this problem is. Outlined
below is information about my system, observations and error
messages.
1. I have had a Slackware Linux system, kernel 2.0.27, running
for about 1 year. All my hardware functions fine. I decided to
upgrade my system and
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Reagan Doose wrote:
I am trying to install Debian 2.0 from a Bootable, SCSI CD. I have a
Dell
Dimension XPS H266 computer with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter and a
2GB UW
hard drive.
All starts off well, I get the boot prompt, and the system looks like
it is
coming
I need a sample X86Config file for my system
any one can mail theirs ? I can edit it for my purpose. I could not
locate it on XFree86.org site.
thanks
---
Here is mine. There are two easy ways to configure X.
1: use XF86Select
2: use
You can always (under win95) go to the debian ftp site and download
any .deb package, then boot linux and mount the windows partition.
Then cd to the directory with the .deb and do a dpkg -i filename.deb.
My system has a windows partition, and I have that listed in my
/etc/fstab so it is mounted
Windows is doing something extra with modems. I upgraded from a
motorola 28.8 to a hayes 56k v.90 (externals). Now I would expect
that any two external modems would look about the same to the
computer. Infact I had to do NOTHING to get linux to dial out and
connect to my ISP with the new modem.
Hello,
Antti-Juhani wrote on debian-user:
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
...
I would agree however, that a good description of each package would
help you decide what to install.
Please tell me, what you would consider a good description! Feel free
Perhaps it's still ON the fat32 file system.
Mind you, it's a bit of a worry we are being outdone by Windows.
A 2Gb limit is almost unreasonable these days; I have some 400-500Mb
MPEG video files here, so a 2Gb one isn't out of the question,
especially with DVD.
Dselect is indeed not a begineer's best friend. (Been there, done
that!) There are several ways to tackle using it (or not) in
installing debian. What worked for me was to enter allow the install
script to drop me into dselect after the reboot and let it install the
basic packages. The first
Close, but no cigar.
syntax is:
tar -cvf /dev/tapedevice /usr/thedirectory.
To make a full backup I did:
tar -cvf /dev/st0 / --exclude /dev --exclude /proc
(my tape drive is a scsi rdat on /dev/st0) This command backed up
everything, except the dev and proc directories. (I had some BAD
---Anthony Landreneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok Kenneth,
I must be missing something here, other than my mind of course.
This is
the requirment:
I have a tape with a tar file on it, lets call it thefile.tar . I
need to
make two copies of that file, back on two other tapes. So I
Simple answer... You CANNOT install everything on the CD. But this is
not a bug. Debian provides you with at least two ways (maybe more) of
doing everything. Many of these packages cannot co-exist. You can't
have two (or more) mail clients installed at the same time, kaos
would result! But
of that I have these libs (only
different version number) in the directory above. So when I make sym.
links with the correct name the netscape and lot of program exit with
segmentation fault. What do I make wrong?
By
krisah
On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
I downloaded
I downloaded staroffice from their ftp site. I tried to install it
(put the files into /usr/local/staroffice and got the message 'can't
load library libXpm.so.4' I looked in the oldlibs section of the cd
but there is no such package. What package provides libXpm.so.4 or
where can I find it?
:
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
: I tried to install debian on a computer with an adaptec 2840 scsi
: controller. (gateway 2000 486dx2-66, 16m dram) At first I had the
2840
: bios disabled and the controller with 3 drives attached was not
: detected. Then I enabled the bios
PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:32:03PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
Pann McCuiag has a debian web page (i don't have the url in front of
see the sig below
me, but search for Our Man Pann. He shows the
/etc/apt/sources.list
file as
deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main
I tried to install debian on a computer with an adaptec 2840 scsi
controller. (gateway 2000 486dx2-66, 16m dram) At first I had the 2840
bios disabled and the controller with 3 drives attached was not
detected. Then I enabled the bios on the 2840 and the controller was
detected. A message
Hello!
Hi :)
I have a friend that wants to install in his new 6GB HD Win98, WinNT
and
Linux.
In which order must he do the process? I suppose that Win98 will try
to own
the whole computer when installing, and I don't know what kind of
partitioning is the best. He will use System
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Paloschi Diego Esteban (ceb1_98) wrote:
When I boot my pc with the debian first install I get to the boot:
prompt ok. When I press enter, a quick page of info passes by to quick
to read and then my pc re-boots itself.
There are 4 different boot images on the cheap bytes
What I don't really understand is why XF86Setup was able to function
just
fine with the S3 setup, but the actual S3 X server package failed...
But I'm
just trying not to think about it too much.
=
That's because XF86Setup doesn't use the
Well there is something you can do...
1: 86 your floppy and get an LS120 drive. If your computer has it's
IDE interface on the PCI side it will have access to all of memory
space.
2: 86 your ISA sound card and buy a PCI sound card. Same story as
above.
Now we know why intel and ms want isa to
Pann McCuiag has a debian web page (i don't have the url in front of
me, but search for Our Man Pann. He shows the /etc/apt/sources.list
file as
deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main
But I don't think he was using the cheap bytes cd. His page WAS for
hamm (2.0).
He was NOT using apt under
The questions:
1. My bios (Award 4.51pg if I'm reading the version info
right) supports LBA. The motherboard (Tyan Trinity AT)
and hd (Quantum 3.2G) manuals seem to indicate that this
will allow the system to access partitions larger than
1024 cylinders at boot time. Does this sound correct?
For now I probably don't need that much. But my plans include setting my
system up as a server for two windows machines, that should increase the
demands on virtual memory.
Attached is a free run. (with X, Netscape (reported to need 64M available),
xterm fvwm95, xconsole running.
when I connect to my isp in windows I get a dialog box showing the
progress of the connection. It finally reports the connection speed
that the modem achieved. Is there any way to get this information
when connecting via ppp?
Also, I have had a problem where the first time I ran pon it would
I have read many posts to this list about netscape not working, what
version to use, etc. Not knowing any better I loaded the '.rpm' from
redhat 5.1 figuring that it was a libc6 version (I converted the rpm
to a deb using alien and then just dpkg -i on the deb.) I did not use
the debian netscape
9) Please don't shoot me, but is anything bigger than a 17 monitor
worth
it?
-
Depends on how myopic you are. X seems to eat more resolution than
windows. (XMille needs 1024x768 to fit on the screen!!!) I am
interested in running cad/eda
If anyone is taking a survery...
My machine also has 64M or ram, and I am using 128M of swap space (I
figured with a 5.4GB drive I'd max out the swap partition.)
_
DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at
Look at the modem. If you see a UART, you don't have
a winmodem. ie 16550 or 8250 for old equipment.
This is not enough. Some Non-Winmodems may have the uart embedded in
an ASIC or custom IC. If you can issue the Hayes AT command to the
port that the modem is mapped to and get a response
does not wait long enough for a
command
to complete or that it times out too quickly waiting for a command to
complete.
Might be time to do some hacking on ide.c
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
I am using a maxtor udma 5.4GB drive on an intel TX (triton II) mb
with a K6
It IS possible to format a 1.44m floppy in an LS120. The compaq
machine I have at work does this all the time under windows NT.
What is needed is a program to do this under linux!
---David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
On Mon
I have an old 386-25 computer with 8m of memory, a 100mb hd, et4000
based video card with 1m of display memory. The mb has no cache, and
only ISA slots. I would like to use this machine as a networked
station tied to my k6-233 acting as a server. I have an acton ne2000
clone I can put in the
I am using a maxtor udma 5.4GB drive on an intel TX (triton II) mb
with a K6-233 cpu. I have run 2.0.33 and now are using 2.0.34 with no
problems. Previously used a maxtor 2.0 gb udma drive, again no
problems.
--
I get the same exact results
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 05:32 -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
Stuff deleted
havn't done so yet). I also have yet to find a way to format floppies
on the ls120 under linux (works under windows). I am using the ls120
Umm, wouldn't a simple '/sbin/mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc' do the trick (works
CompUSA has an Acer 2x6 CD-RW drive on sale for $199.99 after mail in
rebate. If you buy this drive you can get an Acer 40X cd rom reader
for FREE (after mail in rebate).
Is there any possibility that this drive (probably ide, model number
not given) supported by Linux?
This is a security hole ONLY if someone has access to the machine
itself. I bet many UNIX machines have a similar problem. Thats why
I've seen PDP mini computers where the power switch was under lock and
key, and the front panel on these machines was also lockable. Most
PC's used to have a
Anyboy had any success installing an ls-120 drive into a debian system?
---
YES I have an ls-120. Compile 'ide floppy support' into your kernel.
My LS120 is the slave on the second IDE interface, so it is /dev/hdc.
I can boot from the LS120 (my
I had this idea of basing a turnkey end user system on debian linux.
In order to pull this off, a login prompt is NOT WANTED. I want the
system to come up running the end application. (some backdoor method
of logging in as root would be provided for system maintance). The
default application
I don't know how much you want to spend, so I can't give you an exact
idea but...
I was just doing some looking for my father who wanted to buy a new
computer for about $1500. You can get more computer for less money in
this ball park from the K6-2 processors. The K6-2-350 benchmarks
about the
You have comcast right? I am also on comcast, but they just took over
jones intercable and have yet to 'upgrade their system' sometime next
year before they will offer us the service. Anyway I looked on
the comcast web site and found out some details on the service. There
was a line that
Hi,
my new PC has a Matrox Productiva AGP graphics card, and I'm
installing Debian on it. There doesn't seem to be a xserver in hamm or
slink by now -- or is anybody running X-win on such a beast?
I know that SuSe has developped a special server for the Productiva,
but how to install this
It really depends on what setup they are using for the service. Here in
Baltimore, we
have the Motorola modems that uses the cable for the back channel, but
I have heard
that in some markets they are using a version that requires a separate
phone line for
the back channel.
If they have the same
I have a scsi controler card in my computer (adaptec 2920 aka
future-data) already compiled into the kernel (module actually). It
is connected to my scsi 4mm dat tape drive (works great, but slw
tape). Can I enable scsi emulation as well to drive an IDE CD-ROM
burner? Or will the REAL scsi
Are there any utilities for formatting 1.44m floppies in an LS-120 (on
/dev/hdd)?
Also I have a custom kernel, how can I create a boot diskette which
will boot in the LS-120 drive? (my bios WILL boot a floppy in the
LS-120 drive, the debian 2.0 boot/rescue disks do work in the
LS-120...but how
I have always been able to get a virtural terminal by typing
ctrlaltf1 once the xdm process started.
---
Braden N. McDaniel writes:
Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the
boot
sequence has completed. I *think*
Stupid answer try moving the monitor and see if anything changes.
You can get a video cable extension cord if necessary. Try plugging
the monitor into a different outlet, could be a power problem (like
having the monitor on the same line as a motorized appliance for
example). If there is a
I am using an HP laser jet III that I got from a used computer store
for $225. It was a reconditioned unit. Works great with ghostscript
and magicfilter. For about $100 more I could have got the IIID
version which prints on both sides of the paper (too bad, I wish I got
a IIID before the last
You can also add a line to /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0 with options to
set to user access without mounting the disk. That way anyone may
mount a floppy.
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I noticed when I'm logged in as a normal user (not root) I cannot
write
to the floppy
You need to load the isofs module. Add the line 'isofscr' (without
''s) to /etc/modules. Make sure that usr/lib/modules/fs actually has
this module file in there! (It should, it comes with the default setup).
I installed Debian 2.0 from
I
certainly wish
to use Zip, and eventually Jaz with Linux, and in my extreme desire to
completely
seperate myself from the Microsoft dictatorship, I also wish to toss
the Fat16
format these disks have in favor of the far superior ext2.
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