Re: Script error in xconfig

2000-12-26 Thread Bill Jonas
sure that you have the Recommended packages installed. I think you might be missing task-tcltk-dev. -- Bill Jonas| "In contrast to the What You See Is What You [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Get (WYSIWYG) philosophy, UNIX is the You http://www.billjonas.com/ | Asked For

Re: just some debian problems...help

2000-12-25 Thread Bill Jonas
;t be any really big bugs in this.) sid aka unstable: This is the bleeding-edge distribution you sound like you want. But be warned, stuff is prone to breakage. For more information on this, try reading a couple back issues of Debian Weekly News at debian.org. -- Bill Jonas|

Re: How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-24 Thread Bill Jonas
Get::List-Cleanup "false"; (I forget the exact syntax; I don't have that machine anymore, and I haven't put it on the one I'm using now, but see "man apt.conf" and play around if the above doesn't work.) Hope that helps! And Merry Christmas if you

Re: undelete? Help

2000-12-23 Thread Bill Jonas
k about ext2 file undeletion to my LUG (http://www.phillylinux.org/) a couple of months ago. If you'd like, my notes from the talk are available at http://www.billjonas.com/papers/undeletion.html; this page contains basically the exact steps I took when I did the same thing several month

Re: What is the file name of the ps2 mouse driver?

2000-12-23 Thread Bill Jonas
the option to build as a module simply isn't there. -- Bill Jonas| "In contrast to the What You See Is What You [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Get (WYSIWYG) philosophy, UNIX is the You http://www.billjonas.com/ | Asked For It, You Got It operating system." http://www.debian.org/| --Scott Lee, as quoted by Lamb and Robbins

Re: The Debian way (kernel)

2000-12-19 Thread Bill Jonas
oldconfig" after you do that. *Then* run menuconfig or xconfig. -- Bill Jonas| "If you haven't gotten where you're going, [EMAIL PROTECTED]| you aren't there yet." --George Carlin http://www.billjonas.com/ | http://www.harrybrowne.org/

Re: PS/2 Mouse

2000-12-17 Thread Bill Jonas
ething gets screwed up with the mouse, I've always been able to run "/etc/init.d/gpm restart" and fix the problem. I've no idea how one would reset the mouse in X without exiting and restarting. -- Bill Jonas| "If you haven't gotten where you're going, [EMAIL PROTECTED]| you aren't there yet." --George Carlin http://www.billjonas.com/ | http://www.harrybrowne.org/

Re: eth between two computers

2000-12-17 Thread Bill Jonas
le of lines in your /etc/hosts file on each host: 192.168.0.1 machine1 192.168.0.3 machine2 -- Bill Jonas| "If you haven't gotten where you're going, [EMAIL PROTECTED]| you aren't there yet." --George Carlin http://www.billjonas.com/ | http://www.harrybrowne.org/

Re: potato mount and 2.2.18

2000-12-17 Thread Bill Jonas
there are still dependencies on a newer libc version, you may have to twiddle the /debian/control file. Then, from , make sure you have dpkg-dev installed and run "dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo" (substitute fakeroot for sudo if you prefer it, or become root first and just run "dpkg-buildpa

Re: Why doesn't enlightenment feature "zoom window" function under debian?

2000-12-17 Thread Bill Jonas
script (or equivalent) is run. Then you become root in the manner you prefer: # dpkg-buildpackage Or, if you prefer to do things as a regular user: $ dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo (If you prefer to use fakeroot instead or sudo, make that '-rfakeroot'.) HTH. -- Bill Jonas

Re: can't start X

2000-12-17 Thread Bill Jonas
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 02:39:40AM -0500, James Carscadden wrote: > croped up in the last couple of days. Any ideas how to fix this. What Search the recent archives. ;) Hint: Look at /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config -- Bill Jonas| "If you haven't gotten where you

Re: New woody upgrade problems

2000-12-17 Thread Bill Jonas
with the apt-get dist-upgrade. It's worked well so far for me. :) -- Bill Jonas| "If you haven't gotten where you're going, [EMAIL PROTECTED]| you aren't there yet." --George Carlin http://www.billjonas.com/ | http://www.harrybrowne.org/

Re: Building a KDE1 application

2000-12-17 Thread Bill Jonas
(though you will have to download them and run "dpkg -i" on the files). Let me know and I'd be happy to do that. -- Bill Jonas| "If you haven't gotten where you're going, [EMAIL PROTECTED]| you aren't there yet." --George Carlin http://www.billjonas.com/ | http://www.harrybrowne.org/