hi all
yesterday i decided to delete my whole system and start afresh..
I downloaded debian (the 1st cd) and burnt it then said goodbye to my
mandrake system.
So far what i have seen is pretty cool deb seems to be pretty stable and
after a bit of tinkering i have X with most of my mouse working.
I am however haveing a couple of problems that are really peeing me off.
a) PINE.. how the heck do u get pine for deb.. apt-get wont find it.. i
go to the packages site and all i find is the source in a .deb and a
.diff file.. w/ no instructions on how to config it for deb.. anyway
dont source debian packages come in .dsc or somthing along those
lines.. I tried to compile from the source but it just bombs. out..
Another possiblity could i just download the pine binary and run it? or
are they connfigured diffrently.
I have had to resort to nsmail..
b) SOUND .. where is sound configured in debian. i just get ann error
cant open /dev/dsp/
vila:/# ls -la /dev/dsp*
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 6 03:44 /dev/dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 Jul 6 03:44 /dev/dsp1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 35 Jul 6 03:44 /dev/dsp2
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 51 Jul 6 03:44 /dev/dsp3
I am thinking i just havent got the right drivers but i did install them
@ the beginning.
c) my middle mouse button is not being seen: i have a microsoft 3 button
mouse w/ a wheel so i assume it is an intellimouse. it is ps2 and when i
tell it to use ps2 the middle button dont work when i tell it to use
intellimouse it dont work at all.
3 other things
to remove somthing from startup do i just do a /etc/rc3.d/S99myservice
stop
or do i delete it from the folder.. (is there a prog lilke ntsysv i
could use)
has anyone got realaudio working in deb the download site only has the
rpm availible for download for i386. it lists the others but they dont
exist.??
openssl (licq wont load without it) refuses to apt-get becasue it
conflicts with licq-data (ironic) so i download the source and it bombs
out on millions of errors..
to cap off --- WHY --- as i install more will all the libs i need
eventually trickel down to my box or will oll these problems stay with
me forever..
IF only i could play my mp3's to keep me sane..
thanks all
ghoti
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