Re: Help with mouse - newbie
Thanks everyone for the help. I got my mouse working!! I changed the Protocol to PS/2, rebooted and it worked. I ran dselect and it says that the textutils and shellutils packages are installed, yet I still get missing command errors. You are correct in that we did a very minimal install. My friend basically whipped through the whole installation because he's a Debian guru, so I don't really know what all he did. I know that we didn't install very many packages. I would like to know how to go about installing packages that are on the CD's. We installed Debian from a set of 3 CD's, but he changed the apt setup so that it uses the internet to install packages. Since I only have 50 hours a month for my internet access I would like to install packages off the CD's instead of spending hours downloading everything through my (slow) 33.6k modem connection. Once I get the packages installed then I can do an upgrade later, but right now I don't have very many things installed. How do I set it up so that I can install packages from the CD's? When I choose the Access menu from dselect, it does not give me a cdrom option. Thanks for your help. Casey --- Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the Lord wanted us to all be the same, he'd have given us all braces on our legs.
RE: Help with mouse - newbie
Have been following your threadwell here is what you need to do. Fire up dselect and select #1. Change the source to the cdrom...I think it's the last option Then go to #2 and update your packages database... Then go to #3 and you should be able to see all the installed and available packages on the cdroms BTW...IIRC, you'd need to change the cdroms when prompted ...this basically allows dselect to update the packages database for all packages on the 3 cdroms (for the official Debian GNU/Linux cds). HTH Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Help with mouse - newbie Thanks everyone for the help. I got my mouse working!! I changed the Protocol to PS/2, rebooted and it worked. I ran dselect and it says that the textutils and shellutils packages are installed, yet I still get missing command errors. You are correct in that we did a very minimal install. My friend basically whipped through the whole installation because he's a Debian guru, so I don't really know what all he did. I know that we didn't install very many packages. I would like to know how to go about installing packages that are on the CD's. We installed Debian from a set of 3 CD's, but he changed the apt setup so that it uses the internet to install packages. Since I only have 50 hours a month for my internet access I would like to install packages off the CD's instead of spending hours downloading everything through my (slow) 33.6k modem connection. Once I get the packages installed then I can do an upgrade later, but right now I don't have very many things installed. How do I set it up so that I can install packages from the CD's? When I choose the Access menu from dselect, it does not give me a cdrom option. Thanks for your help. Casey --- Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the Lord wanted us to all be the same, he'd have given us all braces on our legs. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Help with mouse - newbie
Wooops...did not carefully read you last line...anybody on the list can shed some light as to how to get the cdrom option appear in dselect..(maybe the suggestion below would do it since dselect probably reads from the sources.list file)...someone corect me if I am wrong. well a work around would be to edit your sources.list file in /etc/aptmake sure you enter the appropriate path to the packages.tgz files HTH Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my -Original Message- From: CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 3:03 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: RE: Help with mouse - newbie Have been following your threadwell here is what you need to do. Fire up dselect and select #1. Change the source to the cdrom...I think it's the last option Then go to #2 and update your packages database... Then go to #3 and you should be able to see all the installed and available packages on the cdroms BTW...IIRC, you'd need to change the cdroms when prompted ...this basically allows dselect to update the packages database for all packages on the 3 cdroms (for the official Debian GNU/Linux cds). HTH Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: Help with mouse - newbie Thanks everyone for the help. I got my mouse working!! I changed the Protocol to PS/2, rebooted and it worked. I ran dselect and it says that the textutils and shellutils packages are installed, yet I still get missing command errors. You are correct in that we did a very minimal install. My friend basically whipped through the whole installation because he's a Debian guru, so I don't really know what all he did. I know that we didn't install very many packages. I would like to know how to go about installing packages that are on the CD's. We installed Debian from a set of 3 CD's, but he changed the apt setup so that it uses the internet to install packages. Since I only have 50 hours a month for my internet access I would like to install packages off the CD's instead of spending hours downloading everything through my (slow) 33.6k modem connection. Once I get the packages installed then I can do an upgrade later, but right now I don't have very many things installed. How do I set it up so that I can install packages from the CD's? When I choose the Access menu from dselect, it does not give me a cdrom option. Thanks for your help. Casey --- Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the Lord wanted us to all be the same, he'd have given us all braces on our legs. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Help with mouse - newbie
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 03:03:08PM +0800, thus spake CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick]: Have been following your threadwell here is what you need to do. Fire up dselect and select #1. Change the source to the cdrom...I think it's the last option I think he said that he doesn't get a cdrom option with dselect - neither do I! This is what I did, for what its worth, which may not be a lot. As root 1. Rename /etc/apt/sources.list ( I went for /etc/apt/sources.listnet, so I canuse it later on the net...) 2. [EMAIL PROTECTED] touch /etc/apt/sources.list (creates a new,empty file) 3. [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-cdrom This will prompt you to insert your cdroms into the drive. You need to scan all three. 4. While you are at the command line run apt-get update to update apt's database. 5. Then run dselect. You will need to run the update option before trying to select any files. There - that worked here. There is probably a more elegant way, but I'm a beginner too! When you want to start upgrading via the internet, change the names on your /etc/apt/sources files and remember to run update - apt is only as good as its database. HTH Glyn M -- ** * The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Help with mouse - newbie
Hello, I'm a new Debian user. I have used Redhat for quite a long time and I just switched over to Debian. I'm excited about learning all its features (particularly the cool package management program). A friend helped me install Debian 2.2 (potato) and we got everything up and running fine. I have lots of questions, but my main problem is that my mouse will not work in X windows or in a console. It worked when we installed X, but when I rebooted, it won't work anymore. Can somebody help me get it working? I have a Microsoft Intellimouse on a PS/2 port. I also need to know how to install packages from off the CD ROMs, because vi is not installed and I have no way of editing configuration files. Thank you. Casey --- Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the Lord wanted us to all be the same, he'd have given us all braces on our legs.
Re: Help with mouse - newbie
Casey Henderson wrote: Hello, I'm a new Debian user. I have used Redhat for quite a long time and I just switched over to Debian. I'm excited about learning all its features (particularly the cool package management program). A friend helped me install Debian 2.2 (potato) and we got everything up and running fine. I have lots of questions, but my main problem is that my mouse will not work in X windows or in a console. It worked when we installed X, but when I rebooted, it won't work anymore. Can somebody help me get it working? can you include the Pointer section of /etc/X11/XF86Config I have a Microsoft Intellimouse on a PS/2 port. I also need to know how to install packages from off the CD ROMs, because vi is not installed and I have no way of editing configuration files. Thank you. if you installed from cd, you can use apt: apt-cache search string to search for a program/packagename apt-get install packagename to install it. as for vi itshould be there, if its not something is wrong, i think its part of the base as there is no package for /usr/bin/vi. did you have any trouble installing the base packages ? nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with mouse - newbie
Hello, Thank you so much for the help! I was able to install vim, and it works great. I don't know why vi doesn't work. I don't believe there were any problems installing the base system, and we used it during the install to set up X, and then it seems to have just vanished. Another weird thing that I have noticed is that some commands in shell scripts do not work. For example, whenever a script tries to execute an 'id' command or a 'wc' command, it says command not found, and whenever a 'test' command is used, it says integer expression expected. I wonder if perhaps my base system is messed up after all? Any thoughts or suggestions? Here is the Pointer section of my XF86Config file: Section Pointer ProtocolIntelliMouse Device /dev/mouse BaudRate1200 Emulate3Timeout 480 SampleRate 150 Resolution 200 Buttons 3 Emulate3Buttons EndSection If anyone can help me get my mouse working, or can help me figure out why I get weird errors with missing commands/programs, I would be very grateful. Thank you. Casey --- Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the Lord wanted us to all be the same, he'd have given us all braces on our legs.
Re: Help with mouse - newbie
Casey Henderson wrote: Hello, Thank you so much for the help! I was able to install vim, and it works great. I don't know why vi doesn't work. I don't believe there were any problems installing the base system, and we used it during the install to set up X, and then it seems to have just vanished. Another weird thing that I have noticed is that some commands in shell scripts do not work. For example, whenever a script tries to execute an 'id' command or a 'wc' command, it says command not found, and whenever a 'test' command is used, it says integer expression expected. I wonder if perhaps my base system is messed up after all? Any thoughts or suggestions? install the packages textutils and shellutils for wc and id. sounds like you did a pretty bare installation my installs i usually max everything out. it ends up around 450MB after installing all the tasks i use. Here is the Pointer section of my XF86Config file: Section Pointer ProtocolIntelliMouse Device /dev/mouse BaudRate1200 Emulate3Timeout 480 SampleRate 150 Resolution 200 Buttons 3 Emulate3Buttons EndSection check what /dev/mouse is it should go to /dev/psaux, also make sure gpm is not loaded do /etc/init.d/gpm stop or if you dont want/need gpm do apt-get remove gpm. if it still doesnt work try changing the protocol to PS/2 or IMPS/2 ..if it still doesnt work then post again :) nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
