Is there a utility out there...

2000-01-27 Thread Michael Jessop
...that will detect my sound board and tell me what module/driver/other settings I need to set in my kernel? I have a not-so-well known board and I do not have the documentation for it (came as a package deal already set up inside my PC). It was detected by Redhat and worked fine, but I am not

I thought Potato used a 2.2.x kernel?

2000-01-26 Thread Michael Jessop
I upgraded to Potato (that's what it took to get XWindows to work correctly on my system -- now I have to figure out how to get KDE to be my default WM) but my KERNEL didn't upgrade?! It is still at 2.0.36 (or .39, I forget which). How? Why? Thanks btw for all the help yesterday! I had a

What is Tapir?

2000-01-26 Thread Michael Jessop
THat is what I had problems with last night (and this morning) trying to upgrade my system. mike

Trouble with X Windows...

2000-01-25 Thread Michael Jessop
...I just converted over (well, initialized my disk and started from scratch) from RedHat 6.0 to Debian 2.1 (Slink). I cannot get XWindows to run correctly. I have a Matrox G200 AGP card... is this NOT the equivalent to the Millennium II AGP driver/card listed in the XF86Setup program? If not,

re: Trouble with X Windows

2000-01-25 Thread Michael Jessop
...I do not understand the concept of how to point apt to a specific package or group of packages... for instance, to update all of x windows, how do I tell it where to look for the package(s)? Thank you. Mike