If i do an 'apt-get source' of some package.. but i
get disconnected
before
it can complete, then will it resume when i
reconnect ? or will it
restart
the whole download ?
It sure does! Apt-get is amazing! I've been
disconnected from the server several times during an
install of some 50
I installed the helix gnome package from the helixcode
site as an upgrade to the gnome package that came with
debian potato. I won't say that it has exactly broken
things, but things have gotten weird. In particular
my sound card no longer works, launching XMMS or
Realplayer gives the error
I'm thinking of getting a better digi-cam. I now have
an Olympus D340R that works very nicely under gphoto.
I'd like to get a 2 or 3 mega pixel camera with a zoom
lens. I'm considering the Nikon coolpix 800, 880, 950
or 990 and the olympus D490, C2020, C3000 , C3030 or
C3040 models.
The
as a .deb image.
--- David A. Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
You must re-compile your kernel. You also need to
REMOVE ide cdrom support, because the scsi
emulation
will replace the ide cdrom driver. This is needed
because CDRECORD only uses
You can put the cdrw drive as the master on the
secondary channel, and (if you want) put the old cd
rom drive as the slave. However unless you want to
copy cd's there is really no reason to even keep your
old cd rom drive, just use the cdrw as your cd rom
drive, most of them are as fast enough in
You must re-compile your kernel. You also need to
REMOVE ide cdrom support, because the scsi emulation
will replace the ide cdrom driver. This is needed
because CDRECORD only uses scsi protocol. You will
then access the cdrom as /dev/scd0. In my computer I
have a cdrw drive AND a real scsi cd
Has anyone tried using the Teac CDW58E 8x8x32 ide cdrw
drive with xcdroast or cdrecord? Compusa has them
this week for $99. It appears that other Teac IDE
drives work under linux (their new 10x8x32 is listed).
Thanks for any advise.
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I've noticed that older sparc boxes are going for
reasonable prices on ebay. I've been running Debian
on Intel HW for sometime now, and would like to hack
on some Risc equipment, maybe some of the older sparc
equipment would play well (and Debian runs on it).
Problem is I know nothing about Sun
All of a sudden Netscape Communicator 4.72 is taking a long time to
'start', and it seems to lock up all of gnome as well. After a few
minutes the home page opens and everything else works. While Netscape
is 'initializing' the mouse cursor moves, but anything on the desktop
that I click on does
Does anyone know how to convert a .rm file to an mp3
format? I have downloaded several real audio .rm
files (I can play them on the linux realplayer) but I
would like to convert them to mp3 format. Any ideas?
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Debian Gnu
I compiled ftape into my kernel (actually as a
module). I have an Eagle TR-3 type drive on my floppy
controller which is the on-board unit (can handle 2.8
mb floppies). The ftmt status command never
completes, taring a backup to the tape drive doesn't
work either. What happens is that the tape
I just upgraded my HP LJIIID to native postscript via
a plug in cartridge. How do I configure Magic Filter
so I now print natively in Postscript (I was using gs
to handle the ps to pcl conversion before)?
Thanks!
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Debian Gnu
There has been some discussion about this as part of
the recent 'flame war' about no-free.
In short, due to patents covering mp3 encoding debian
will NOT have any mp3-encoder software in the distro.
It could be put in non-us IF a site could be found in
a country that thumbed it's nose at
Does anyone know if either of the following PCI sound
cards are supported in Potato?
Sound Blaster PCI128 model CT4700
Creative-Ensoniq model ES1370 / ES1371
Thanks for any feedback.
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Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or .
As some of you may know there exists an instruction in
most Pentium class cpus that returns a character
string which identifies the maker of the chip. For
example an Intel cpu returns Genuine Intel, Amd
cpu's return Authentic AMD. Cyrix cpu's return
Cyrix Instead. Note that the string is
1) after using the 'pnpdump' how do I save it to the
/etc/isapnp.conf.
Easy way is to (as root)
vi pnpdump
edit changes
w /etc/isapnp.conf
q
2) Where do I uncomment the (ACT Y) command? I didnt
see it.
There is one of these lines per section. It's there,
if needed in vi use the '/'
Speed isn't your problem. Selecting the speed in
cdrecord on changes how long the disk took to burn.
Older CD rom drives can't read CD-RW disks, period.
The reflectivity of CD-RW's is quite low, lower even
than CD-R media. The optics and electronics of a CD
rom reader must be able to 'see' the
I'm far from the most expert on parallel ports --
until recently, I
hadn't
touched one in years -- but I did just have to get a
parallel printer
working on a potato server. I did it by (manually)
insmod'ing
parport.o
parport_pc.o
lp.o
Most of the printing docs I've seen
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:08:01PM +0200, Michael
Meskes wrote:
Could anyone please tell me what I have to do to
access /dev/hda10? I
can
create it easily but trying to access it I get an
'unconfigured
device'
message for instance from mke2fs. Do I need a
special boot time
parameter?
Can
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Lee Elliott wrote:
Hello list(s),
Just something I noticed after setting up an x86
system after running
Debian on m68k.
The m68k system was an Amiga with an m68060/50MHz
which gave a
BogoMIP
rating of 99.something. The x86 system is a dual
PIII 650MHz system
and
Hello,
I've been thinking about getting a new UPS.
Previously I purchased APC
products, but I want to hear about other experiences.
I've pretty much
narrowed it down to a product from APC or Tripplite.
APC is more
expensive, less Linux/UNIX friendly, but makes good
products (IMHO).
Tripplite is
First make sure that the xf86config pointer section
specifies /dev/psaux as the hardware connection.
There are several choices of mouse protocol that might
work. microsoft, mouseman, logitech, etc. Some mice
have a switch on the bottom to change protocol from
native to microsoft. Try 'em all.
2.2 is stable enough right now to install. It is in
DEEEP FREEEZE at the moment, in final testing before
cd images are released. You CAN find some cdr's of
potato for sale, or just install over the net. A
basic install over a 56k modem will take overnight. I
am running 2.2 now, and except for
I have two versions of the LRP built (OK one is
actually coyote linux, but based on LRP and debian).
One is using a 2.0.36 kernel, the other 2.2.14. The
led's on the tulip nic's (dec 21041 chips) light and
flash under the 2.0 kernel, but are dark under the 2.2
kernel. However, both systems run
I wanted to copy a floppy (as an image). So I
inserted a floppy in /dev/fd0 and used dd if=/dev/fd0
of=./temp
then pop'ed the source diskette out and replaced it
with a blank and used dd if=./temp of=/dev/fd0
(while root of course :-)
This works fine, but if in the first move the floppy
was
I was trying to install debian (frozen) on my laptop
the other day but got stuckon the following. i have a
LS-120 drive (for superdisks which is backwards
compatible with 1.44MB disks) which i was using to
boot the install disk. the
images i used were the ones from the idepci
subdirectory.
the
I installed grip, but I can't run in unless I am root
(sudo, or suid). The error I get is 'can't access cd
rom drive'. My /dev/scd1 is owned by root, group is
cdrom. The drive is actually on /dev/hdc physically
but I am running scsi-ide emulation. I also have a
'real' scsi cdrom that is
Does anyone know the command sequence to get xcdroast
to burn from an .iso file I downloaded? I can't seem
to get it to see the file and burn from it. I was
able to do this in slink ( or was it hamm?), but can't
seem to find the sequence of things now. HELP
(If I mounted the file as a file
I just went through this a couple of days ago. The
commandline is:
cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0 file
Speed dev probably will be different on your box.
I found this was
much easier than doing it with xcdroast.
Someone had mentioned that by just changing the
extension from .iso to
.raw, then
There is a setup button in the opening menu of
xcdroast. click on it, make your changes, and press
the save button! (If it were a snake it would have
bit you!
---
i'm having bit of a problem. when i first installed
xcdroast
(including
When selecting the device driver module for lp (line
printer) in potato
I
get this error:
/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: init_module: Device or
resource busy
/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o
failed
/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod lp failed.
I had a go at repackaging sndconfig for Debian
recently, and found that
it depends rather heavily on kudzu (Red Hat's
hardware configuration
system). I came to the conclusion that it would take
either a major
rewrite of sndconfig or a reworking of Debian's
hardware detection
system to get
Please disregard my previous posting.
I can run Netscape 6 now; thanks to Eric Hanchrow for
the response of
getting libstdc*.so.
BTW, how do you change the window's background color?
I can't see the
cursor while editing the mail.
Are you running 24 bpi in X? I have found that
netscape dosen't
I wrote in before with the problem that apropos is now
broken on my potato system and I don't know how to fix
it. It either hangs with no response, gives a short
response and never finishes (never get the bash prompt
back unless I ^C), or prints a response repeatly (of
one or more finds). In the
You might try coping the files to floppies that have
been formated on the target machine's drive. Or
transfer the target machine's floppy drive to the
machine doing the copying and then move it back to the
tarket machine. Methinks floppy interchange may be a
problem.
I wonder if there is a graphic-equalizer program that
can be used ahead of gramofile to treble cut, (or
better yet band cut) a nasty whine I have on a tape
that I want to convert to mp3. The problem appears to
be from the fm pilot carier mixing with the recorder's
bias oscilator producing a high
I posted a question here a while ago asking how to
configure the system to use only one of three LP ports
that I have. (on potato) I found out the answer, and
it's not what anyone else mentioned.
I had to give parport_pc the following module
argument:
io=0x378
I had to then give lp the following
---
In reply to:Kenneth Scharf
Quoting Kenneth Scharf([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Kenneth
Kenneth I have 3 lp cards in my computer at dos
addresses
Kenneth lpt1, lpt2, and lpt3. I only want the one at
lpt1 to
Kenneth be attached to the lp driver(s
I've posted this question before, but the digest lists
went down for a few weeks before I could get any
answers to this question.
I have 3 lp cards in my computer at dos addresses
lpt1, lpt2, and lpt3. I only want the one at lpt1 to
be attached to the lp driver(s). I want the other two
ports
I have three LP interfaces in my computer, but I only
want one of them to be attached to the lp driver. I
intend to write my own driver to hook the others to a
home brew prom burner and an 8051 ice.
Under slink I could add the parm lp0 io=0x3bc but
under frozen the driver still reports that
I (finally) seem to have a working connection via
IDSL. It works fine under windows by just setting up
the IP, Gateway, Netmask, and DNS entries under the
tcp/ip pulldown under the networking configuration for
my network card.
IP 216.xxx.xxx.xxx
gateway 216.xxx.xxx.1
broadcast 216.xxx.xxx.255
Why dhcp? I have a STATIC IP address on my xdsl
connection. I am NOT using dhcp on windows, and am
sending this e mail out right now on windows.
--- Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kenneth == Kenneth Scharf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I (finally) seem to have a working
What is the max size of a swap partition under the 2.2
and 2.3/2.4 kernels. I know that the 2.0 kernels were
limited to 128 (or 127?)mb, but you could have several
of them. Did this change in 2.2-2.4?
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Debian Gnu Linux, Live
With an eye toward upgrading to Potato, and hearing
all the horor stories about slink-potato upgrade
failures I decided to do a fresh install from scratch.
So I obtained a brand new 27GB drive from
www.compgeeks.com (check them out, great bargins!). I
will have a small (say 100 mb) /boot
There are two questions to this issue:
1: Do you trust your distro?
2: Do you trust your distro's ftp site.
Question number two is really a matter of the site
having been hacked and a trojan (or a coo-coo) being
planted.
I use debian, and I DO trust them. I would never have
a problem
The 486-33 (Carol) has 42mb ram and I was wrong about
the 486-
100 (Alice) machine it's only got 20mb of ram. Alice
has a Cirrus
Logic GD54xx series PCI card with 1mb ram. Both
systems use
the svga xserver. As far as swap space Carol has a
swap partition
but Alice has a swap file on the single
I found it. Oops! You have to say yes to parallel
device in general setup to get printer support in char
devices. Maybe I'm loosing my marbles but I didn't
remember this connection in the 2.0 kernel config.
Also the help calls the parellel device option out for
things like zip drives etc...
.
Is there a way to set the default priority of debconf
back to low?
--- Cesar Mendoza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
man dpkg-reconfigure and read the option --priority
Bye
Cesar Mendoza
http://www.kitiara.org
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
So how do I reset the debconf
Never mind my previous email...
I finally figured out to run dpkg-reconfig on
debconfig with --priority=low to reset the priority!
But after doing that I STILL get an error installing
lynx!
Tried to apt-get --reinstall install lynx
Same error:
subprocess post-installation script returned
How do I setup my linux box to get it's lan address
from dhcp-client? I've installed dhcp-client (no
configuration requested). Looking at
/etc/init.d/network I see my static ip is defined and
used in the ifconfig line to start the network. What
do I replace these with to get the ip from
Guess I'm a tester.
I tried to install Potato via the internet.
Downloaded all floppies and installed base, configured
networking, and ran dselect (after modifying
/etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/sources.list)
Almost every went well...except lynx.
.. dpkg error processing lynx
subproc
I have a spare computer in my office that I'd like to
install potato on. It has three hard disks of 1GB,
1GB, and 420MB as /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, and /dev/hdc. I
have a 3c509b elan card in the machine so I can
connect it to the www via the corportate lan and
firewall. (I already have a machine
The thing here is that I am starting with 3 totaly
blank hd's. I really don't want to put an msdos
partition on any of them, I'd like to do this install
without using ANY M$ software in the process. I
already downloaded all ten base disks, the rescue
disk, the driver disks, and the root disk.
Has anyone seen this story posted on
www.linuxtoday.com about pine and debian?
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/deb/pine_pico.html
Also I just got a catalog from tigerdirect in the mail
and they are now selling computer systems with linux
pre-loaded. Nowwhere do they say what distro
i am planning to go for ADSL bellsouth fastacess
account.
they are giving an internal pci adsl modem card.
what are the linux compatible adsl cards?
I don't think they make ADSL modem cards yet. (My
ADSL modem isabout as large as a kleenex box.)
Bell south IS now using an internal ADSL modem
I was finally able to get netscape to work on my linux
box behind the corporate firewall by setting the
manual proxy to 10.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 for http and ftp (I
actually gave the REAL address). I could not just
give the URL address as the machine still doesn't seem
to co-exist with the windows
Hello.
Anyone knows if you can run SMP on a system with one
Pentium II 233mhz
and one
Pentium II 366mhz or if this will mean problem?
AFAIK all dual cpu mb's WILL NOT run with two cpu's of
different speeds, IE: they BOTH must be the same
speed. If you can force the PII-366 to run at 233mhz
Sorry i know this is stupid but im looking for
drivers to
my network component (Nile VIA VT86C916)
it was given to me for free i cant find drivers
(i have only the hardware)
Can u help me ?
I don't know if this is the right driver, but a search
in the src (kernel 2.0.36) shows a via-rhine
The trick (as you showed, but didn't point out) is
that you must either have /sbin in you path (which
root does) or specifiy it when you try to run
ifconfig.
Mere mortals must run ifconfig as such:
/sbin/ifconfig
Root can just type ifconfig, because /sbin is in his
path. Or course mere mortals
What do you mean by co-location? Many DSL providers
won't allow users
run
their servers also. Could you give the names of who
does.
I believe that flashcom.com will allow a single server
to be run from (some of) their dsl accounts, perhaps
with a small extra monthly fee. They do have more
If there are any debian-bsd people here maybe they can
answer this. I have been doing some reading and have
heard that some of the BSD variants are considered a
better canidate os for a firewall system than linux
(herertic!). OpenBSD in particular was highly
regarded in this (though it was said
I have discovered a fair amount of BSD advocacy
turned anti-Linux.
Like Linux zealots, BSDers are not above snobbery.
I think both groups need to be open minded, we all
have something we can learn from each other. Alas,
the BSD licences would allow linux to 'borrow' or
'steal' good stuff
Hi!
I discovered a strange thing:
In an xterm the function keys produce the following:
F1 - ^[OP
F2 - ^[OQ
F3 - ^[OR
F4 - ^[OS
F5 - ^[[15~
F6 - ^[[16~
...
On a different system (I tried SuSE) they produce:
F1 - ^[[11~
F2 - ^[[12~
F3 - ^[[13~
F4 - ^[[14~
F5 - ^[[15~
F6 - ^[[16~
...
I found a source for 10/100 baset enet cards that use
either realtek 8139 or mpx en5038 chipsets. I know
that the 8139 IS supported under linux, but I am not
sure about the mpx en5038 (a grep on the net sources
in 2.0.38 turned up nothing). Does anyone know if
this chipset is supported? Maybe I
--- Stuart Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kenneth Scharf wrote:
About the only choice these days is bladeenc. Due
to
patent issues it is probably NOT available in a
.deb,
at least not on the debian ftp site. However you
can
get it from Tord's home page (I don't recall the
url
You mean like this?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] locate wxftp
| grep /slink/
It's been in debian for years, the version in corel
is the exact same
version in slink.
I confess I never thought to look. When I saw the
program on the Corel cd I knew what it was and
About the only choice these days is bladeenc. Due to
patent issues it is probably NOT available in a .deb,
at least not on the debian ftp site. However you can
get it from Tord's home page (I don't recall the url,
but you can find it on freshmeat or linuxberg). It is
now licensed under the lgpl
I am interested in trying out some of the new Corel
apps like the file
manager. Is it possible to get hold of individual
apps from the new
ditribution without downloading the whole iso file? I
assume I would be
legally permitted to use individual components like
this . .
As corel's packages are
I just popped the corel cd out of the burner and put
in in by cd drive. Hey I can read it! (it actually
burned!) Would you believe they DID NOT include
EMACS! (it's not in the packages.gz file anyway).
Guess they had a size problem. I'll try installing on
the spare computer (wipe out RedHat)
I think you can take an iso file and use a loopback
file system to create a filesystem image of the .iso
without actually burning it. (under linux). There is
something like that that enables you to test a cd
image before burning it. See the cdrecord man pages I
guess.
As far as Corel linux is
--- Tim Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Sytsma wrote:
I've seen Corel's Linux out.
It's 15$ to buy their cheap CD's, and ~50 to buy
it in the box.
However, I'd really like to see how good it is.
Download it and find out! Sheesh.
Has anybody here d/l'd the cdimages?
Yes.
Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has
named their Linux
systems? Mine was called Debby Anne and now I've
shortened it to Debby.
The linux box in my office is named 'Penguin', there
is also a motororla power stack running PPC linux
called 'MotoPenguin'. My box at home was
I have scsi generic support, and aha152x support
compiled in the kernel
(potato
with 2.2.13) and have sane installed. The scsi card
is Adaptec 1505.
The kernel
recognizes the card fine. I didn't have the sg
devices in my /dev
directory, so
I did a MAKEDEV sg to make them. I made the sym. link
Yes its true! My ADI MicroScan 6P 19 monitor just
died on me last
night. It had been making a lot of clicking/cracking
noises over the
past couple of weeks each accompanied by a slight
flicker/bounce/warp
in
the image. But last night it was just too much and
there was a really,
really loud
Now that potato is delayed until next year I think I
should try upgrading to glibc2.1 at least. There are
just too many fine programs out on freshmeat that
require 2.1 over 2.0. I know that it's been posted
before, but I've lost the url... can someone repeat
the procedure to upgrade slink to
I recently installed slink on a machine with a 15.2GB
IBM harddisk
and it only recognised about 8GB of the drive.
I went ahead and partitioned the drive normally,
leaving the last
4GB for /home. Now I've upgraded to 2.2.x and potato
and I want to
use the whole of the disk by extending the /home
libgtk++ is one of a few 'moving targets' that debian
can't keep up with. Another is wine. Also VDK and
gEDA. So I have been downloading sources from their
home sites and building my own in /usr/local/src.
This works but you must include /usr/local in your
path. Also add /usr/local/lib to
Doesn't VMware make wine obsolete?
VMware is not Free software. Not only is it not
free, but it costs
quite a bit! And not only do you have to buy VMware,
but you then ALSO
need to buy your guest OS from Redmond.
If you really need a full Windows setup, then VMware
might be the
answer for
1: w95 (1 gig)
2: extended (the rest of it)
5: linux (1gig)
6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs)
7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it)
8: linux swap (150 megs)
There MAY be a problem with the boot sector crossing a
1024 cyl bound, not sure if scsi has this problem.
Just to be
I thought that might be the case. However anyone
installing debian 2.1 would still be using the 2.0
kernel and have the 128mb limit. Anyway few people
would need that much swap anyway.
--- Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*- On 2 Nov, Kenneth Scharf wrote about Re: debian
installation
I just picked up an old HP scanjet 3c and would like
to use it under linux. I know that it is supported by
sane/gimp, however is there any OCR software that will
enable me to scan in a text document and produce an
ascii file?
Thanks.
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I've just compiled the lastest GNOME release
(October GNOME) for
slink
deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ unstable main
Joop Stakenborg wrote:
All you packages end in -0.slink.0_i386.deb
Does this mean this is a unstable slink
october-gnome?
Vincent Renardias wrote:
As long as it
I am running 2.0.38 on slink. I downloaded the kernel
tarball and unpacked it in my /usr/src directory. I
then renamed the resulting 'linux' directory to
'kernel-source-2.0.38' and created a symlink
'linux-kernel-source-2.0.38'. I ran 'make
menuconfig' (but you might prefer make config or make
I have some audio cassettes that I would like to save
in mp3 format. What software can I use to record .wav
files? I will plug my walkman into the line input of
my sound card. I tried wavr but when I played back
the result (with wavp) it was nothing but distortion!
(I used the defaults except
I have an xserver for windows on my winbox and I can
connect to my debian system by:
start xserver on windows box...
telnet 'url-of-linux-box'
login:
password:
xterm -display 'url-of-windows-box':0.0
... now running
But this doesn't work the other way.
I get a 'connection refused by host'
From:
David Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd like to use Debian (Slink) on my work computer
because of the free
tools I'll need to do some Web page designing.
Currently we use Windows
NT and are hooked up through a token-ring network
using DHCP and
Novell's Netware/GroupWise.
The basic
Is there any possibility of problems that would
arise if Linux is
installed on Intel Pentium IIIs?
I haven't found any yet I have a potato/slink system
running on a PIII
450 with 256M RAM (kernel 2.2.12) and its very smooth
and stable
Its runs samba, apache with mod_include, mod_jserv
and
Hello,
Please forgive me for this newbie question.
I am new to linux and
Debian.
I have a question regarding installation. I have a
13 gig hard drive
which I partitioned this past weekend so that I could
dual boot Debian
Linux alongside Windows 98. Using the fips program,
I split my
to revist this sound config
stuff when I move to 2.2.1x (I'm waiting for 2.2.13
since 2.2.12 STILL has some bad bugs in it. Come on
Allen!)
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
I have compiled the sound support into my kernel
for a
SB16 card also using isapnp
I use Debian with kernel 2.0.36. All information I
can get from the
BIOS of my Intel PC about the parallel port ist, that
io is 0x278 and
that the mode is normal (other possible modes: ECP,
EPP 1.9 and EPP
1.7). So I say modprobe lp io=0x278. The printer is a
HP LaserJet 4P
connected trough a
I assume you have only one printer port. LEAVE OUT
the lp=0xnnn and let the kernel probe for the printer.
Then look at what the kernel spits out, it will tell
you where the printer is. Try dmesg | less to see it.
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Amateur Radio, when all else fails!
http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze
Debian Gnu
After re-installing slink on a revamped upgraded
computer (new cpu/mb, bigger hd, new graphics card,
etc) I downloaded the latest wine sources (990923) and
tried to build. Wine built ok, but won't run. I get
the following message:
OBM_CreateBitmaps Xpm support not in the binary,
please install
Is there a way I can get the 'wheel' on a wheel mouse
to work with netscape (4.6 or ) under linux? I just
got a new wheel mouse (Kensington usb-ps2). I havn't
gotten this to work under usb yet (will have to go to
2.2 to do that, and even windows 98e2 won't work with
my mb's usb hw!), but as a
I think you need to go into /etc/gettytab and
establish a login prompt on a serial port for one
thing. Install apache for another.
--- Ramana Tadepalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I cant get my Linux installation to behave like a
server (http for a
start). Where should I begin?. How can I get
What's the best API (GUI) for
writing/generating C/C++
code in Linux X Windows, in your opinions? I need
some suggestions
or recommendations from those of you who have used
them.
Two of the most popular these days seem to be Qt
(C++) and GTK+ (C). I
like Qt - the programs I create are
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:17:09PM -0400, Chris Ruvolo
wrote:
At 11:02 PM 9/26/99 +0300, you wrote:
This is my first try at more than swap and /.
tiny /boot, giant
/home, right? Anyone feel like helping?
I don't think a separate partition for /boot would
be a good idea.
/boot
is the
Used ethernet cards cost pennies and Windows 95
usually already has a
driver
for them. If you can track down some 50 ohm
terminators, these rest is
usually available for next to nothing.
Make sure you get the kind of ethernet cards that have
bnc coax connectors on them. RadioShack has coax
Date:
I've been working on my Linux box here at work from
my windows computer
(easier to telnet into rather then move around and
stuff). This is
fine and
dandy, but I've been told there is a way you can
actually get the X
server/KDE stuff to work remotly, through a Xwindow
on Win95 or
something
The 1.x version that is on the S.U.S.E. distro is free
(as in free beer cause the source isn't available).
For what I wanted to do this was good enough. For $25
I would try the 2.0 version though.
--- Kristopher Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Kenneth Scharf wrote:
See linux Gazzette #45
I have posted this before, how to fdisk a 8.4gb
drive. Problem was that with slink fdisk saw only
1024 cy, 255h, 63s for a total of 8.4gb. If I booted
a RedHat 6.0 or Mandrake 6.0 CD (also stormix) their
partition utilities (fdisk, disk druid, etc) would
report the correct number of cyl's
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