Re: Hot to install a different Xserver

2001-03-03 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Il Saturday 24 February 2001 08:04, Rick Commo ha scritto: Newbie Debian user... I accidentally installed the wrong Xserver. During the install I thought I would be given a choice so I said No to when asked if I wanted to install XF86_VGA16. The one I need is XF86_MACH64 for my ATI Expert

Debian Newbie

2001-01-23 Thread Vittorio De Martino
I've been using RedHat 6.2 and 7.0 for about a year and now I think I'm ready to have a go at some other Linux distro. Being fascinated by Debian stability and real Open Source nature I put the following straightforward preliminary questions: Migrating to Debian potato can I have a USB working

Re: Debian Newbie

2001-01-23 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Il Tuesday 23 January 2001 08:59, kmself@ix.netcom.com ha scritto: on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:04:30AM +0100, Vittorio De Martino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've been using RedHat 6.2 and 7.0 for about a year and now I think I'm ready to have a go at some other Linux distro. Being

Re: has debian-user dried up?

2001-01-23 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Il Tuesday 23 January 2001 09:22, Joris Lambrecht ha scritto: 400 over the weeken :) Nothing wrong with your mailfilters i hope ... -Original Message- From: Jonathan D. Proulx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 8:44 PM To: Debian User List Subject: Re: has

Mailing list or newsgroup

2001-01-24 Thread Vittorio De Martino
As a new subscriber of this mailing list I've noticed that the newsgroup linux.debian.user replicates the same messages of this mailing. I wonder if it's possible to subscribe to the newsgroup only and partecipate at the list actively (in order to avoid my mail box from being flooded with

Debian potato KDE

2001-01-30 Thread Vittorio De Martino
While I've being working with RedHat 7 for 8 months I'm an absolute beginner with Debian 2.2r2 potato which I'd like to install first on a spare PC just to have a go at it and then to substitute Debian for RH7 on my PC's in view of its well known stability and real open source nature (II'm

Potato with USB support

2001-02-02 Thread Vittorio De Martino
I have a USB Epson scanner (supported under Red Hat 7.0) and I've just got the CDs of Debian 2.2r2 that I want to install. My question is as simple as that: needing the scanner, what flavor of kernel (as I read in the installation instruction) should I install in order to have USB devices

Installing the right kernel

2001-02-02 Thread Vittorio De Martino
I have a USB Epson scanner (supported under Red Hat 7.0) and I've just got the CDs of Debian 2.2r2 that I want to install. My question is as simple as that: needing the scanner, what flavor of kernel (as I read in the installation instruction) should I install in order to have USB devices

Re: Potato with USB support

2001-02-03 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Il Friday 02 February 2001 15:05, ktb ha scritto: On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:31:48PM +, Vittorio De Martino wrote: I have a USB Epson scanner (supported under Red Hat 7.0) and I've just got the CDs of Debian 2.2r2 that I want to install. My question is as simple as that: needing

Color monitor

2001-02-05 Thread Vittorio De Martino
well, I finished the first part of Debian 2.2r2 potato installation with success and, before going ahead with the installation of the basic system, I'd like to fix the appearance of the screen. Having an SVGA color monitor I want it to appears in colors as it actually is when you start the

Re: Color monitor

2001-02-05 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Il Monday 05 February 2001 18:33, hai scritto: To quote Vittorio De Martino [EMAIL PROTECTED], # well, I finished the first part of Debian 2.2r2 potato installation with # success and, before going ahead with the installation of the basic system, # I'd like to fix the appearance

Re: Color monitor

2001-02-06 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Ihanks Rob, it worked. Vittorio l Monday 05 February 2001 21:28, Rob VanFleet wrote: Look in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile. In one of them you will find the aliases for colored ls output, just uncomment them and you should be set up. If there is nothing there, then just add: alias ls=ls

Choosing the Window Menager

2001-02-13 Thread Vittorio De Martino
I installed Debian potato 2.2.r2 with X and Enlightenment and Wmaker. Upon startup X chooses the former while I'like like to start with the latter. Where can I tell X to start with Wmaker instead of Enlightenment?

Re: Choosing the Window Menager

2001-02-13 Thread Vittorio De Martino
IThank you for your help

Why do they don't work?

2001-02-14 Thread Vittorio De Martino
I've just installed potato 2.2r2 and flooded this list with questions and problems. Now, I'm trying to use Gnome dialup utility and it just doesn't work as I noticed many other ppp programs under X. Why does it happen? It's my fault or there's something wrong, uncomplete with the programs

rc.local

2001-02-20 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Having experience of Linux RedHat, is there anyone out there able to tell me where is the equivalent of the rc.local file in Debian and where can I find it? Vittorio

Tailoring a window manager

2001-02-20 Thread Vittorio De Martino
I've installed icewm-gnome as my favourite window manager. I'd like that when starting up the window manager, automatically il loads GMC. Is that possible? What should I do? If not what window manager should I use and hoc can I configure it? Vittorio

netscape 4.76

2001-02-20 Thread Vittorio De Martino
What files from the www.debian.org stable download should I download to have netscape 4.76 up and running? Vittorio

At a loss for PATH....

2004-09-05 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Pentium, debian testing I have just installed the java stuff from SUN site as a plugin for mozilla. The installation instruction requires that the directory in which I've installed the java libs and programs be part of the PATH variable. My question is: Where the PATH variable is first set:

At a loss for PATH......

2004-09-05 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Context: Pentium 4, debian testing, boxed KDE I have just installed the java stuff - downloaded from SUN site- as a plugin for mozilla. The installation instruction requires that the directory in which I installed the java libs and programs be part of the PATH variable. My question is: Where

Kmail date

2004-09-08 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Under debian testing kde in the messages pane I see the following columns: Subject Size Sender Date of arrival COMPLETELY EMPTY, no date in the field. How can I tell kmail to show the date in the right field? Ciao Vittorio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of