Does anyone know if there are any drivers for non-laptop touchpads? I
have a Cirque Power Cat touch pad for a Pentium box. Though I also have a
mouse attached to the machine, I would prefer to use the touch pad for
both Winders and Linux, not just Winders (if it matters, Winders is on
one
Linus' own pronunciation of linux is not consistent. I've head
him use each of the main pronunciation forms at various times, and
often within the same conversation or speech.
I say we settle it once and for all, and all agree to pronounce it Fred!
That'll confuse those guys in Redmond, huh!
Try: startx
xinit is not intended as a user level program.
Thanks. But when I did use startx, I go this:
Fatal server error.
No config file found!
I must have missed something. Any suggestions?
David Kachel
That means that /etc/X11/XF86Config is missing (or maybe has
the wrong permissions). As root, try running XF86Setup or
xf86config which will build the file for you according to
your choices.
Linux returns, command unknown.
Do I need to go to the directory where it is located first? If so, where
setterm -foreground [color]
setterm -background [color]
Hmm, these almost work! They change the colors, but not in the way one
would expect. Foreground seems to change the background color and vice
versa. Additionally the colors change to something very different from
what is chosen (almost
I've you've got a bootable Mac System floppy/CD, try booting off of it to
check the
colors. I three-quarters expect that you've got a dead gun in your monitor or
something similar.
Dead gun isn't it. The monitor works just fine when booted into the Mac
OS and the same thing happens with another
Ran dselect 'configure packages' for about the 6th time this morning. It
finally finished doing its thing and had the Quit dselect line selected
when I came back.
This may be the longest install on record of any consumer system anywhere!
When I try to run xinit, I get:
Could not find the
Why is the display for the install process set to pink letters on a white
background? This is nearly impossible to read. I realize there is
probably a way to change all that, but for a beginner, it is no doubt out
of reach.
Is it just my machine this happens on, or does everyone else get pink
Well, my dselect session began almost exactly 12 hours ago! The proper
packages for my chose profile have all been installed and the setup
program has been running for a couple of hours. Suddenly I get the
following on the screen:
Running initex. This may take some time. ...
fmtutil : 'tex
I answered no, when I should have said yes, when dselect asked me if I
wanted ? as my default xserver. How can I fix this?
David Kachel
Look in your /etc/X11 directory for a file called Xserver. The first line
of that file is the Xserver that is used.
No it isn't. I didn't set it remember! It says NONE. What I need is the
name of the default Xserver. Does anyone know it?
Change that to whatever you
want it to be. Or, you
I think you need to reinterpret the semantics of The first line of
that file is the Xserver that is used. In other words, if you screw
up the response to the question, you can just edit that file instead:
that's just what the post-installation script does.
That's what I am trying to do; edit that
I STILL have not gotten to the end of the installation process!!! Though
I am further along than I have gotten before.
I chose one of the profiles from the dselect menu. Everything was
installed. But I am unable to get all the way through the configure step
of the process.
Twice now, the
Is this Slink (Debian 2.1)? If yes, teTeX has a date problem in the
original release. If you care about TeX, you should get the package
from the 2.1r5 release (somewhere on www.debian.org) and install
that afterward.
Thanks. Would that have caused the failure I had?
Another, general question.
How do I change the color of text? My Debian/68k Mac has pink text on a
white ground. I can barely read it!
Willl someone please tell me how I can change it?
David Kachel
Several times during my numerous attemtps at getting the installation of
Linux correct (it looks like this, the 8th time, may be the charm), I
have seen this line pop up on the screen:
ISO9660Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
What is MicroSloth doing in my supposedly nice clean Linux box???
I'm afraid I don't know the answer to this. But, if I were you, I
wouldn't re-install, no matter what state dselect was in.
Oops, too late. In a pique of fury I reformatted the drive in question
and started clean. This time I triple-checked everything I entered before
entering it and made it
Well I spoke too soon! I finally got dselect going and actually
installing files, only to come back an hour later and find the machine
frozen solid. If anyone can help me determine what went wrong I would
appreciate it.
Background info: I have a Mac IIci with 48megs of RAM and a 700meg hard
drive
Had to force a restart of my machine BTW, and got a message on startup
that fsck could not fix my usr partition and that I would have to do it
manually. I ran fsck, which seemed to deal with a lot of problems, but
finally finished. Then tried to run dselect, and the machine said it
couldn't find
I have dselect installing, but it seems to be taking an extraordinarily
long time to work. About how long should the install of a 500+ meg
profile take with a 68K Mac? It's been installing just xemacs for about
an hour now, and it was working for a good two hours before that.
David Kachel
Help! I have tried 7 times(!) to install with no success beyond the base
system. (And why the (*( doesn't this thing install at least SOME man
pages with the base installation?)
OK, here's what's happening;
I tell dselect to install from a single CD (if I tell it to install from
a CD set, it
You can find out how robust (and picky) debs are by packaging
something. A couple weeks and a couple hundred pages of
developer docs later, you'll appreciate what goes into a deb.
The alien command will convert between rpms and debs and
you can compare the results.
Would someone mind explaining
Below is a quote copied directly from the Debian web page FAQ for
downloading CD images located at http://cdimage.debian.org/faq.html:
-?- But what CDs do I need?
-!- If you want to install Debian, you should get only the Binary-1
CDÂ for your platform (e.g. i386 for IBM-compatible PCs). The other
OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is
working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave
up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered
that my system sees all the folders on it as just plain text files.
That's why
OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is
working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave
up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered
that my system sees all the folders on it as just plain text files.
That's
This is really getting off the track. I'm getting advice on how to mount
a CD and as far as I can tell, I am not having any trouble mounting a CD.
I am having trouble determining what path dselect is asking for ON the CD.
AFTER the CD is mounted, dselect asks me for the path to the folder /
Clyde was just trying to help you, you need to be more patient and read more
carefully.
You're right. It's been a very frustrating day all around. Sorry.
It seems I do indeed also have an issue with mounting the CD. Dselect
asks me for the name of a block device. Since I cannot find that term
I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which
first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter:
/dev/cdrom
...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the dist on the CD.
No matter what I enter, it says it can't find it. This is the standard
David, is the CD mounted?
If not, have a look at mount command.
dselect says it's mounted. (after I enter: dev/cdrom in response to its
query)
What sort of input is it looking for? Could you give me at least an
example? Maybe that would help to clear the fog.
David Kachel
how did you mount the cd-rom? (what commands did you use?)
here's how i do it:
# mount /dev/hdc /bt
(where /bt is a directory i created.)
i can then type ls /bt and see what's on the cd (as long as it's not a
music cd).
hth.
I don't think dselect is going to let me ls a CD is it?
I've just finished installing (a few days ago) Linux/Unix and am stuck on
something really dumb.
I have figured out how to change shells, explore the file structure, use
sh (a bit) and several other things, but I just can't seem to launch a
simple game.
/user/games/nameYourGame
... I can't
just type it in shell.
I thought I was already in the shell when I typed it?!?
As Yet Undetermined Pseudonym to be Inserted Here
in this case you would cd /usr/games ; ./nameYourGame ..the ./ tells
the system to run the command in the current directory, as the current
directory is not in your $PATH (it is considered a security risk if it
is).
Thanks, that was it. I forgot that commands don't make it to files in the
same
I am trying to download a basic package for the 68K Mac from the Debian
ftp site and could use some help please.
Files seem to be spread all over with no rhyme or reason. As a result I
can't be sure what I need or where to find it (and I've installed Debian
once before and BSD once too).
Do I understand this correctly?
netBSD will boot only in BW on the 68Kmac, while DebianLinux will boot
in color??? Is that correct?
David Kachel
Found a great looking book at the bookstore that had the added bonus of
containing a Debian CD so I wouldn't have to spend the next 10 years
downloading. Only one problem... it only has platform specific files on
it for Wintel boxes. I have a 68K Mac.
Now I assume that I can just use a handful
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