XF86Setup apt-get

I set my sources.list to: http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main I did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. Everything went fine until I tried to run XF86Setup, this wasn't installed. I then did an apt-get update XF86Setup and then an apt-get install XF86Setup. Once again

Re: pppconfig files

The phone number only resides in /etc/chatscripts/provider. Though now I know about /etc/ppp/peers/provider and its purpose and using pppconfig to change a current setup. Thanks for the replies. --- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marshal Wong writes: You probably have to edit

X update problem

I have an ATI Rage 128 Pro card and I'm using slink. I edited my source.lists to point to www.debian.org/~vincent xfree-update main. I did an apt-get update and then an apt-get upgrade. Everything seemed to work, I received one warning /usr/x11R6/lib/x11/doc symbolic link points to the wrong

pppconfig files

I used pppconfig to create my connection to my ISP. My ISP is changing their dial-up numbers and I need to modify the file where the number resides. I looked through /etc/ppp but I cannot find the file. Is the file that pppconfig creates an editable text file? I know I can create a new

Re: My Server Time gains too fast.

If you can rule out software causing the time change, you could have a bad crystal oscillator, which keeps track of time. This is a chip on your motherboard and comes in various shapes and sizes. More than likely a motherboard replacement would be called for unless you can get the manufacturer

modem in bash

I am trying to get my Practical Periphials 28.8 external modem working under Debian 2.1. I have followed the examples in O'Relly's Running Linux and created the following files in /etc/ppp: my-chat-script #!/bin/sh # my-chat-script: a program for dialing up your ISP exec chat -v \ ''

Re: Schedule-like app for Linux

You can try Ontime, www.ontime.com. I've used it in Windows environments and it works fairly well. I could not find on their site what O/Ses are supported, but they state they support mulitiple networking environments. It might be worth an email to find out. Mike --- Kent West [EMAIL

dselect and mc

The Debian web-site tutorial mentioned using Midnight Commander (mc), so I thought I would try it out. I do not have it on my system (version 2.1), so I ran dselect to install it. I found it in the list and it had a couple of dependancies (gpm and libgpmg1). I accepted those to be installed

winmodem revisited

I recently found a couple sites of interest on winmodems. If missed their references in the recent discussion, I apologize. http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html http://linmodems.org/ Mike = If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize

Re: Debian SAMBA

Drankin - FYI - You've got Happy99, you might want to run a virus scan. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to set up a debian linux box and I want to run the samba server. Obviously I have not done it yet, thus the question. I have searched in vain, via Samba.org, for Debian specific

X Windows Video

Warningnew user...terminology may not be completely correct. ;-) I've installed distribution 2.1 that comes with the O'Reily book and have been using it via the bash shell and learning various commands. Now I would like to install X Windows, but I can't quite figure out my video chipset. I