Sound, HELP!

Howdy all, I have been trying to get sound working on my Debian box all week. I've compiled a new Kernel with all the features and settings. But when I looked in /dev I couldn't find audio. Yes I have added /dev/audio support to the kernel. I don't know what to do. If I don't figure out what

WP and a Deskjet 870Cxi

Hey all, I've noticed that there have been LOTS of posts for Word Perfect lately. Well, here's another one. I downloaded and installed Word Perfect without any problem. Everything works fine but printing. I have a HP Deskjet 870Cxi. WP only has drivers for a 850C and lower. When I try to

P/S 2 Mice

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! Jeff __ Get

Netscape Downloading resuming

Hey, You can resume downloads in Netscape? How do you enable that? Whenever I have to cancel a download, Netscape deletes the partially downloaded file. Thanks. Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Installing Debian???

Hey, When your installation starts up (before it asks you if you want to use color or not), check for a line that says: hdc (or hdd, it matters what slot the wire from your CD-ROM to your I/O board) Mitsumi ATAPI detected or something like that. If you see a line like that, you don't need any

/deb/audio and Plug and Play

Hey all, Just about finished totally installing Linux. Need some help with my sound card. I compiled a new kernel with sound support. When the kernel boots up it says Sound Initialized. But when I try to run a program that uses sound it says /dev/audio device not configured. What do I do? And

Kernel boot problem!

When I boot up my Linux box it get's stuck on LILO Loading Linux... This has never happened before. I just compiled and installed a sound supporting kernel, but that has been working until now. I installed my kernel backup but it still does the same thing. The only way that I can boot my

HP Deskjet

Hey all, It's me again. I have a HP Deskjet 870Cxi. When I try to print to lpr it prints off the page. Does anyone know where I can get Deskjet drivers? HP says they don't have any for Linux. Thanks again! Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free

Star Office 3

Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four hours even if I'm not idle. Anyway, when I try to run setup program in /usr/lib/StarOffice3 it says Segmentation Error. Also, do you need to have a windows partition to run wine? Thanks a lot. Jeff

Re: Star Office 3

I alrady have libc5 installed. Any other suggestions? Jeff Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 00:27:42 -0500 From: Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Star Office 3 Jeff Browning wrote: Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically

WINE

Hey all, When I try to run whine, it says: Could not stat /dos, ignoring drive C: Invalid path 'c:\windows' for windows directory Uh, help. Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: KDE

Howdy, Yes there are .deb packages for KDE. Go to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and do a search for kde. I've had KDE for about a day now and am loving it! Good luck! Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

A few questions

Now that I got X up and running, I got a few questions. 1. How do I change the color setting from 256 colors to True Color? 2. Are there any nice, small, graphical web browsers that support a proxy server? 3. Where can I get netscape and what are the procedures for installing it? 4. If I'm

XFree86 Problem

When I try to run the preinstall script for xfree86, it says: It appears that you have an a.out system. a.out binaries are not available for this release. Is this correct? If not, how am I supposed to install xfree86? Jeff __ Get Your Private,

Need help with XFree86

Hey All! Ahh, finally. I got my Debian CD, installed just about everything. Just one problem. When I try to run startx it says: _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running Fatal server error: Cannot

CD-ROM and Network problems

Hey all, When I installed Debian, I accidentally installed the wrong NIC and CD-ROM drivers. When I try to mount my cd-rom it keeps saying irq timeout: status=0x50. My NIC is a PCI plug-and-pray card. Does Debian support PNP? Jeff __ Get

Oops! Sent that too soon.

And another thing. Is it possible to get back into the drivers configuration thing that I used after installing the drivers disk? Thanks! Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Linux newbie needs help

Hey all, Just successfully installed my first linux box with no problems. Now I want to install KDE. In the KDE install guide, it says that I need the Qt library. I downloaded Qt, untar-ed it. When I type ./configure (like it says to do in INSTALL) it says: Checking for a C-Compiler...

RE: Linux newbie needs help

Thanks but when I dpkg the .deb file, it says qt1g depends on xlib6g. Where could I get that? Thanks. Jeff From: Person, Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Jeff Browning' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Linux newbie needs help Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:02:56 -0500 I meant the .deb

Should be installing Linux soon. Questions.

Howdy all, I am a Windoze user tired of having 5 lockups a day. I should be installing Linux soon and I have a few questions. 1. Could someone please explain X-Windows to me. What are desktop environments, window managers, etc.? 2. Is Star Office compatible with Office 97 documents? Does it

Driver Disk

Hey all, I'm new to Linux and for my first box, I think I'll try the Debian distribution. Before I repartitioned my hard disk and wiped out all my files, I thought I'd try out the floppys that I'm going to install Debian with on about 1 meg of free space on my hard disk. I partitioned that