Re: [OT] Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-31 Thread Vitux
. Hmmm. I can't even get the damn ordinary PCI-version going under Win98... Sorry I can't help you! Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: ppp module gone in 2.2 (potato)

2000-08-29 Thread Vitux
it, but I usually recompile the kernel to take care of such things. You really should compile your own kernel, anyway, that way you can build exactly the right kernel for your specific hardware. It's really very easy! There's a kernel-howto out there... or check www.kernel.org. hth Vitux -- I'm

Re: Installation os X

2000-08-29 Thread Vitux
of videocard motherboard/processor what kind of mouse r u using Have a go at the X-Howtos at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html Good Luck Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: Very strange system/sound problem

2000-08-29 Thread Vitux
* -don't want nothin' dying from static!). Maybe something gets too hot? Just my 2c. hth Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: Linux Theam

2000-08-29 Thread Vitux
free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze -- Why not try a set of SCSI-floppies?! Good Luck Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-28 Thread Vitux
the *nix way, since exim is there for local mail anyway. Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: Win Potato on LAN

2000-08-26 Thread Vitux
Christoph Gaitzsch wrote: V == Vitux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: V Dan Hutchinson wrote: You know there has to be a default gateway with the NIC in Windows! Also which version of Windows 95/98 or WindowsNT/2000. Dan V Sorry, Win98 1st.ed. V I tried

Re: Win Potato on LAN

2000-08-24 Thread Vitux
(in *very* bad english!?) tells me the MAC-adress of the card, duplex mode, etc. and hangs the damn thing hard on doing the diagnostics. I hate Windohs. Thanks Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: 1/2 ifconfig

2000-08-23 Thread Vitux
cls-colo spgs wrote: debs, update: ifconfig -a gives me not only lp and ppp0, but it also give me eth0. for now i'd like to not have eth0. how do i not have it in the picture? ia, t. bentley taylor (potato on 2.2.16) man ifconfig hth Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-23 Thread Vitux
) debian users benefit from public bollockings on this sort of matter i do not know. i suppose it will be a while before i make that mistake again. John -- Never mind the bollocks, welcome to Potato. I'm still fighting my way thru my former-slink-now-potato-mess... Good Luck Vitux -- I'm

Re: Potato keeps waking up?!

2000-08-23 Thread Vitux
David Vrabel wrote: On 22 Aug 2000, Vitux wrote: What puzzles me most is: I just can't figure out what keeps spinning the disk?! I can't find any ref's to it in the logs or in cron-whatever... If necessary I could post some of my log-files?! atime updates I'd guess. The time

Re: Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-23 Thread Vitux
from syslog... Bob The Realtek nic is IRQ 9 in the BIOS setup; I just checked. Thanks! Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free ZoneAug 23 10:37:33 WichmannRacing syslogd 1.3-3#33: restart. Aug 23 10:37:33 WichmannRacing kernel: klogd 1.3-3#33, log

Re: Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-23 Thread Vitux
far, great. Wonder why kmod won't autoload it when I do ifconfig-yadayada up ? BTW: What does the hex-part at the end mean? Sorry if I'm being dense here, but a lot this is very unclear in the net-howto, and I am trying to learn. This is my first lan! :-) Thanks Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard

Re: YEAH: Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-23 Thread Vitux
John Pearson wrote: On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:53:18AM +0200, Vitux wrote More stuff: I did a # modprobe ne2k-pci and I get this: ne2k-pci..: PCI NE2000 clone 'Realtek RTL-8029* at I/O 0x20a0, IRQ 9. eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x20a0, IRQ 9, 00:00:B4:B8:94:CC # I suppose

Win Potato on LAN

2000-08-23 Thread Vitux
-files before I was running. (besides recompiling a new kernel...) Anyone got a clue on this one? Best Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: Win Potato on LAN

2000-08-23 Thread Vitux
any suggestion as to the default gateway in Win? Thanks Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: bad new large hard disk? [chirps]

2000-08-22 Thread Vitux
reports earlier of IBM's being bad or getting bad very quickly. My guess is they've accidentally sold a bad production run, and some of these are still lying around waiting to be sold replaced... Good Luck Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

[Fwd: Configuring two of same network card + keyboard not working in X]

2000-08-22 Thread Vitux
Vitux wrote: hogan wrote: Debian unstable Kernel 2.2.17 SNIP When using XF86Setup I can get keyboard going, but it complains about no setup for display etc. When using xf86config I can get display going (at least it gives no errors) but then it complains about keyboard. I

Potato keeps waking up?!

2000-08-22 Thread Vitux
post some of my log-files?! BTW: How do you empty logs? Can you just delete'em? Best Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-22 Thread Vitux
forget which, I've pored over so many of'em lately;-), that the Realtek RTL8029 is a NE2000-clone, and so should use the driver for same... Right?! Thanks Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: Where is Xdefaults? (new to X tweaking)

2000-06-08 Thread Vitux
John Foster wrote: Vitux wrote: Hi debs I thought .Xdefaults was supposed to be in /etc/X11/yadayada, but I can't seem to locate it. Do I make this file myself? (I *am* using the -a option with ls...) Running potato, 2.2.14, Afterstep or fvwm. Regards Vitux

Re: Kernel

2000-06-08 Thread Vitux
/ Installing a 2.2.* kernel on my previous slink system went quite smooth. I don't seem to recall any trouble ;-) Good luck Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: Video problems during 2.2 install

2000-06-07 Thread Vitux
hardware ;-) Good Luck Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: Demand Dialing with pppd and ipmasq

2000-06-07 Thread Vitux
to activate the dial up (ping a ip etc) nothing happens (ie no dial out). A ping gives us a not permitted error. Thanks, -Matt- -- Did you add the user that's trying to run pon to the dip-group? Strong indications of a permissions error ;-P hth Vitux -- I'm not a crook

Re: Is there way to modify Toolbars in Netscape?

2000-06-07 Thread Vitux
to remove it. Oh well, FWIW, you might be running v6, and this is redundant. Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Where is Xdefaults? (new to X tweaking)

2000-06-07 Thread Vitux
Hi debs I thought .Xdefaults was supposed to be in /etc/X11/yadayada, but I can't seem to locate it. Do I make this file myself? (I *am* using the -a option with ls...) Running potato, 2.2.14, Afterstep or fvwm. Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free

Re: Modules

2000-06-06 Thread Vitux
to enable cd-rom support in your kernel. Hth Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: HD Problems...!!!!

2000-06-06 Thread Vitux
(even new) are faulty, some aren't. The alternative is to stop them from shutting down with the hdparm-command. hth Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: HD Problems...!!!!

2000-06-06 Thread Vitux
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 06 Jun 2000, Vitux wrote: Larry Shields wrote: I am not sure if anyone can help me out with this problem or not, but here is what happened this morning... When I turned on the monitor, there were a bunch of error's on the screen, my 6.4hd

Re: Debian 'crashes'

2000-06-06 Thread Vitux
ressources and all sorts of trickery. Netscape is (was) known to be very unstable and eat ram. Look at the list a year ago, you will find lots of ref's to this subject... Running smooth on my PII350/128Mb/potato/2.2.14/fvwm/mach64. hth Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth

Re: Dselect suddenly vanished from potato?

2000-05-30 Thread Vitux
Colin Watson wrote: Vitux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The strangest thing: Dselect has vanished! (or maybe just crapped out?) Normally, I would log in as root, type dselect, and off we go installing stuff. Now, I get bash: dselect: command not found. Ok, maybe there's some path been lost

Solved: Dselect suddenly vanished from potato?]

2000-05-30 Thread Vitux
Vitux wrote: Colin Watson wrote: Vitux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The strangest thing: Dselect has vanished! (or maybe just crapped out?) Normally, I would log in as root, type dselect, and off we go installing stuff. Now, I get bash: dselect: command not found. Ok, maybe there's

Re: XFCOnfiggin'

2000-05-30 Thread Vitux
Vitux wrote: Ron Rademaker wrote: Why don't you just run xf86config on your laptop (debian)?? That should make X work Ron I second. My experience with different cards and monitors is that I often have to run xf86config a few times to straighten things out and achieve the best

Re: Using APM

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
. It also seems to spin down and go into sleep-mode fine, but this could be a hardware-thing (read: Compaq-bios-thing). I know people have made suspend and sleep and hd spindown work with debian apm -have you tried the list-archives? This comes up quite often... Good Luck Vitux -- Thibaut Cousin

[Fwd: Guidance]

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
Vitux wrote: T wrote: Hi, I have just finished installing the debian base system on my 386sx, which has a 170 meg hd and 8 meg of memory. I am brand new to linux/unix. I need some help. I have been on your site for about an hour and have not found any help yet. My 386

Re:

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
all the mails on debian-user: the subjects are very convenient for telling if you're able to help... Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Xconsole craps out after Potato-upgrade

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
(old WD drive). Any ideas? Best Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Rage IIc AGP X = no vt's!

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
upgrading to potato -maybe the potato mach-server is better? Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond thepartitionbarriers!

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
I. Tura wrote: Hi Vitux, Perhaps I didn't sent that letter. Debian enormous amount of messages dizzies me! Sorry and thank you, man. Ignasi Transciption follows: Sounds very

SOLVED: Rage IIc AGP X = no vt's!

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
Bruce Sass wrote: On Mon, 29 May 2000, Vitux wrote: Well, the subject kind of nutcases the situation. You mean nutshell, a nutcase is the guy who goes mountain climbing in a string bikini or runs around wearing an aluminum foil hat (even when not using a cell phone :). Sorry, I

Re: X on a 486

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
-- Definitely would. Netscape is a memory hog. I've been running quite smooth untill recently using X/fvwm/Netscape4.72 on a [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 50Mb ram installed. It would use about 43Mb running the lot... Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Dselect suddenly vanished from potato?

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
can't tell you the exact names, I didn't write them down :-| btw, this was my first run of dselect since upgrading. Anyone? I was just getting to like dselect, weird as it is. (kind of the way you like an ugly dog ;-P) Best Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth

Re: Problems downloading files from debian.org

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
the archive in the middle of an update? Is it overloaded? Thanks. -- Sorry if I'm stating the obvious, but this is the kind of error I get when my modem has lost the connection for some reason... Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Netscape6 vs Potato

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
this is in? Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: Problems downloading files from debian.org

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
?! Sorry I can't be of much help on this one... :-) Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: how did u solve ur MACH64 prob?

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
, though, it is setup for a 17 monitor that does [EMAIL PROTECTED] hth Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: Xconsole craps out after Potato-upgrade

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
Brad wrote: On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:47:53PM +0200, Vitux wrote: Previously (in slink, 4 days ago), Xconsole was run when launching fvwm. Now, it doesn't start automagically, and gives an error: Couldn't open console when I start it manually. I find it quite annoying; I've gotten used

[Fwd: Guidance]

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
Vitux wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure if I follow all of your questions, but I hope this helps. 1. Your floppy is probably /dev/fd0 or /dev/fd1 2. For a computer the is not connected to the net and being setup by a newbie you really should consider spending the $10

Re: system clock workaround

2000-05-25 Thread Vitux
clock set itself to the RTC + ten years on bootup. What do I have to change to accomplish this, or is there a better solution altogether? Thanks greatly, oge -- Quite a few 486'ers need a bios-upgrade to do y2k. Solved it on my Award-based specimen... hth Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard

Re: I see everything twice.

2000-05-22 Thread Vitux
unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Funny, I get that as well, but only very rarely, and it seems most of the time, it's Netscape forgetting to delete old msg's from the server. Still, some inexplicable instances remain. Guess I'll have to speak to my ISP... ;-) Vitux -- I'm not a crook

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

2000-05-20 Thread Vitux
, compiling a kernel also means changing to a more recent kernel than the ailing 2.0.36 ;-) Building a kernel is really quite easy, and gives you a really good feeling (besides faster system and faster booting). Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: power saving - A good idea

2000-05-20 Thread Vitux
, which makes the disk performance slow as snot. read man hdparm for more info. -- How do you run this stuff at boot? (yes, newbie here...) I get the same kind of errors :(( Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: Pine in Debian [Was:Debian vs Red Hat???]

2000-05-20 Thread Vitux
another religious war... Best Regards and thx for all the great support, which really helps making Debian such a great dist, and life less miserable for a newbie ;-) Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: kernel upgrade

2000-05-11 Thread Vitux
w trillich wrote: Vitux wrote: UMUM wrote: Is it safe for me to upgrade to Linux kernel 2.2.14 yet? I've just upgraded from slink/stable to potato/frozen, but kept my old 2.0.38 kernel. I'd say it would be h*** of a good idea to upgrade your kernel. Running 2.2.14

Re: Networking - Linux gateway to internet for Mac

2000-05-08 Thread Vitux
heard of any trouble regarding Linux-inst. Good Luck! Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: Installing Problems

2000-05-05 Thread Vitux
believe there's X-Howto out there; try searching e.g. AltaVista for it... hth Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: XDM i810

2000-05-04 Thread Vitux
it's not really such a big deal for me... I can't imagine it would be video-related?! Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: XDM i810

2000-05-04 Thread Vitux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 May 2000, Vitux wrote: viggov Yeah, I get this kind of behaviour once in a while, although viggov using completely different hardware; an old Rage IIc card, and viggov a compaq PII350 mobo. Sometimes the keyboard seems to get lost viggov in xdm after

Re: kernel upgrade

2000-05-03 Thread Vitux
your kernel. Running 2.2.14 myself, I find it very stable, and very fast. Also, some of the older kernels are known to have a fs-corruption bug (there was a thread about it a few days ago). HTH Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: consultant

2000-05-03 Thread Vitux
Rob Lilley wrote: Part 1.1Type: Plain Text (text/plain) Encoding: quoted-printable Please post in plain text. This html-mail-stuff is a PITA. Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

[Fwd: Mouse not working in X]

2000-04-29 Thread Vitux
Vitux wrote: Richard Ingram wrote: Hi, I'm using the out of the box VALinix/SGI/Gnu Debian at work, I installed X and it will not work with the logitech mouse, you have to play with gpm and X and get the right combination, I installed it at home about 3mnths ago and got my

Re: Netscape and mp3-files

2000-04-29 Thread Vitux
, (something like that...) Never had any trouble w/ downloading stuff, though I don't do very much mp3 :) hth Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: daemons -- who needs'em?

2000-04-28 Thread Vitux
not start a flamewar). I will definitely start looking into configuring various deamons, as I'm really cramped for space on my laptop. A megs saved would be well worth it :-) Just my 2c. Best Regards, and thanks all you guys who take the time to help us pitiful newbies. Vitux -- I'm not a crook

Re: potato on CD?

2000-04-28 Thread Vitux
updated they are, though. Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: kernel 2.2.12

2000-04-27 Thread Vitux
from da Bobstopper -- Maybe a silly suggestion: Why not just make a 2.2.14 kernel? My Slink with 2.2.14 is rock-solid... ;-) Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: webmin

2000-04-27 Thread Vitux
? Note: I don't think it will destroy your system (hasn't mine :-) but there's a chance so be warned. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I have a non-critical machine for testing, but you don't tell where to get your new debs from? Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon

Re: Netscape

2000-04-23 Thread Vitux
myself, and it was quite easy to install on my slink system. (simply untar it and run the install-script). The new Mozilla-based Communicator6.0 is compiled on potato libs, = pain installing on slink. HTH Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian

Re: Greetings!

2000-04-23 Thread Vitux
here: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO.html and an index to howto's here: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ It's really quite easy, though it may take some time on a slow machine (4-5hours on a 486/100, ~10mins on a PII-350). Good Luck! HTH Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises

Re: /dev/hdd irq timeout?

2000-04-22 Thread Vitux
to not have my disks crash? Is the disk crashing at all, or is there something else wrong?! Regards Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Memory strangeness; X, Netscape

2000-04-22 Thread Vitux
Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: /dev/hdd irq timeout?

2000-04-22 Thread Vitux
on that some time. (for semi-newbies like myself, running on 2nd hand hardware ;-). What a joy to be running a good os, this kind of thing would have wrecked a shitty one good proper. Regards Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth

Installing Netscape6

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
, [EMAIL PROTECTED]/128Mb. Thanks Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: debian on newer kernel

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
is not that hard, and it gives you a faster boot, and a faster machine, since you can tailor the kernel to your needs. Checkout the kernel-howto at Debian.org for more info. Regards Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth

Re: debian on newer kernel

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
(if that makes any difference, I can't say). I've had no trouble whatsoever and the system is rock stable (except from occasional hardware-related stuff ;-) Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

[Fwd: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?]

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
crashy than others, especially the cheap ones (you basically get what you pay for). I have a dual PII mobo from PC Chips, which is very fast when it's working, but has a tendency to hard-crash after maybe an hour...(luckily, I got almost for free :-) hth Vitux -- Death comes to us in various

2.2.14 vs procps [was: debian on newer kernel]

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
John Kuhn wrote: On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 08:18:33AM +0200, Vitux wrote: John Kuhn wrote: My experiance was that 2.2.13 is the latest stable kernel that you can run on slink without updating any other packages. Kernel 2.2.14 would require installing a newer procps (2.0.3 or later

Re: 2 newbie questions

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
can give a hint or advice. Chances are, someone's been there... hth Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: need info for confused ISP

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
. That was when I started getting into Linux: everyone was invited to try to break the servers. NT was killed in 2 days, I believe. Linux was never. Probably not much use to you, but quite a little snickersnicker story... Regards Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing

Re: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread Vitux
! I've always wanted to ask this kind of question! Any wiz'es?! ;-) Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

ATI RAGEIIC AGP -X won't

2000-04-13 Thread Vitux
, and gives me a pretty ugly face, from which I am typing this... Maybe someone using this card could send me their XF86Config for reference? Thanx Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

OT(sort of): hwclock w/ Compaq, playing .ram's

2000-04-12 Thread Vitux
, Netscape wants to save it to disk, instead of playing it. It's supposed to be a soundfile, but I've never seen that particular format before. Is there a .ram-playing-util in Linux? Best Regards Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro

[Fwd: Installation help]

2000-04-12 Thread Vitux
box is capable of floppy-booting, right?! :-P Welcome to Debian! hth Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

ppp-compress-1 strangeness

2000-04-11 Thread Vitux
Hi Debs When I do pon from an xterm, and watch the modem in xconsole, I get: pppd started by vitux, uid 1000 abort on BUSY abort on NO CARRIER abort on VOICE abort on NO DIALTONE abort on NO ANSWER send ATZ^M expect OK ATZ^M^M OK ---got it and then the dialing bit and the connection progresses

Re: Problem with list... (fwd)

2000-04-06 Thread Vitux
from the cd. I tried reformatting each of the several floppies I tried. Try making the boot-diskettes on a different machine. It seems that not all boxes are equally well connected to their floppy-drive. I had to try two different boxes to get my disks done... hth Vitux -- Death comes to us

Re: no wonder...

2000-04-05 Thread Vitux
a newbie myself. hth Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

zip-util w/ disk-spanning

2000-04-05 Thread Vitux
Hi deb's Anyone know of a good zip-utility that can span disks? I need to transfer some files (some of which are too big for one floppy) from my debian-box to my win31-laptop... thx Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth

Minor errors after kernel-upgrade

2000-04-04 Thread Vitux
Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: removing hard drives

2000-04-03 Thread Vitux
, what's the new, etc. If your ENTIRE linux system is present on the drive in the box, all you've gotta do is edit etc/fstab (using f.ex. vi) to reflect the changes... Anyway, please be as specific as possible when posting. hth Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's

Make bzlilo -error

2000-03-29 Thread Vitux
Regards Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Can't find libXpm.4.so

2000-03-29 Thread Vitux
Regards Vitux (hmmm, maybe I could ask AltaVista?!) -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

[Fwd: Can't find libXpm.4.so]

2000-03-29 Thread Vitux
Vitux wrote: Please tell me I'm a complete moron: I can't find the above, neither in the us debian-mirror nor in the danish (closest). I need it for running Corel WordPerfect, and some folks here told me I could just install it, and all would be well. I believe so, now if I could only find

Corel WP: missing libXpm.so.4

2000-03-28 Thread Vitux
Hi Deb's I installed the tar.gz from Corel's website in /usr/local/WP on my Slink-system. Now when I try to run ./xwp from /usr/local/WP/wpbin in an xterm, I get this error: ./xwp: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' Any ideas? Best Regards Vitux (soon-to-be-frozen;-) -- Death comes to us

Kernel-package no longer in Potato?

2000-03-28 Thread Vitux
Hi Debians I guess the header says it. In slink there's a (newbie-)convenient kernel-package, which I can't seem to find in the frozen potato-ftp... Regards Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: Deploying Hotmail-like service with crazy requirementsy

2000-03-27 Thread Vitux
Matthew W. Roberts wrote: If it was just something that a debian user was trying to do with a modem and a 386 I might give him free advice and a 486. I'll take the 486. :-) You can have mine, I've got plenty... :-P Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing

SMP-howto

2000-03-26 Thread Vitux
Hi there Just got a dual-processor mobo for cheap. Is there a SMP-howto? Any tips, recommendations for running Debian on a dual PII-350, 256ram? (yes, I'm new at this ;-) Regards Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth

Re: Limping and bleeding with Corel Linux

2000-03-23 Thread Vitux
) worked itself loose... Please: you gotta dare. You'll love it, once it's running. hth Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: X stability issue

2000-03-20 Thread Vitux
Sounds like a heat-related problem to me. Make sure the m'b is properly cooled, and fastened properly in the box. hth Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: Installation Trouble

2000-03-16 Thread Vitux
quite crammed in 350Mb hd. I started with 515,and soon had to stuff in some more disks, now I have 1.4G, which will have to do for now.(Using X, netscape, mozilla, WordPerfect, etc). HTH Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux

Moz M14 for Slink

2000-03-15 Thread Vitux
Hi folks Has anybody made M14-debs for Slink? (I get lots of missing-lib-this-that errors when trying to inst the deb from potato. No wonder, I guess...) If not, I might have a go at it. Probably good training for a newbie ;-) Regards Vitux (who might be moving on to the frozen potato soon

Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread Vitux
with X and Netscape smoothly. Be sure to have plenty RAM, though (I have 64 Mb). Can't really see any reason to run bo, which would have a lot of dated stuff by now... hth Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

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