I'm sorry for posting this question as I know it has been asked
recently, but I can't find it in the archives or my inbox. I just tried
to install a few packages using dselect. dselect is set up to grab the
packages off a cd. As far as I know I've done nothing differently,
however, I when I hit
would there be
a something I could do in Linux to get it working? Other people in my
house are depending on any information you guys can give. :)
Brent McMillan
correct me if I'm wrong, but this worked for a non-root user: To not
require a password for logging in, edit /etc/shadow and remove the
second field from the user's entry. So for root, it would look
something like:
"root::###:###:###:###:::"
where each # is 0 or more digits
It's also handy for
hundreds of people
on the list at least one of which might learn from my folly. ;)
Brent McMillan wrote:
>
> I've been playing around with my xf86config and my window manager
> (afterstep) for a while trying to get images to appear as nice as when I
> view them in Windows. I have
st have a plain blue background for my root window.
Can anyone tell me what needs to be done so that I can get more colours
on my screen? Thanks in advance
Brent McMillan
20 irq 5 dma 1,5
at 0x330 irq 5 dma 0 "
I remember setting the second irq in "make xconfig" to -1 not 5
any help would be greatly appreciated.
Brent McMillan
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, John C. Ellingboe wrote:
> Brent McMillan wrote:
> >
> > I recently picked up an old (circa 1986) Digital, DEC VSXXX-AA mouse. I
> > picked it up because it didn't use a track ball, but rather an horizontal
> > and vertical roller on the u
I recently picked up an old (circa 1986) Digital, DEC VSXXX-AA mouse. I
picked it up because it didn't use a track ball, but rather an horizontal
and vertical roller on the underside. It look kinda like it had a PS/2
connection, but it doesn't. What are the odds I could get this to work on
m
I'll be setting up a network between my linux box and 2 other
machines for a cable modem. I hear that there are some network cards
that just don't work for linux. Crazy I know, but that's the rumour.
Does any one know off any cards I should avoid or any they would
recomend? Thanks.
he line-in. The only kernal option about a
mixer in xconfig is "ACI mixer". That's enabled, but doesn't help. Any
help would be great.
__
|\^/| Brent McMillan
._|\| |/|_. Mat
Have you tried using "pppconfig" (need to be root)?
Your modem should be found at /dev/SttyX where "X" is (modem com port -
1). Eg, if your modem is on com 4, then you can reach it at /dev/Stty3.
some people make a symbolic link ("ln -s /dev/SttyX /dev/modem") to make
things easier.
There's al
Yup, still no use.
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote:
> Hi Brent McMillan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> > I downloaded RealPlayer, Version 5.0.0.45 and in a bout of
> > lazyness, downloaded the rvplayer.deb installer. Install went without any
> > error
? Source and package have been prematurely deleted, it would be a
pain to redownload and install. Solutions without those steps will be
apreciated :)
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|\^/| Brent McMillan
._|\| |/|_. Math student of
Yup, that was the problem. My /etc/fstab didn't specify to mount it
'noexec' but I guesse that's what happens when you leave out 'defaults'
from the line. Problem solved. Thanks all for the help.
>
> Run the `mount' command and check if the disk the script is running on
> is mounted with the `n
N PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Brent McMillan wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get the wordPerfect demo up and running, but when I
> > try to run the setup executable (./Runme) I get a permission denied. the
> > file is executable, I own it,
t has anything to do with it. No executable files will run in this
directory. What's going on?
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|\^/| Brent McMillan
._|\| |/|_. Math student of the University of Waterloo
\ /a
oops. I was just pointing to the /debian directory. While
poining at hamm all the packages that were missing reappeared. However,
specifying the directories "main, non-free, contrib" won't find .deb
files even though it updated. hrmph. I'll look around tonight and see if
I can find
Okay, that makes sense then. But how can I now get dselect to list all
the available packages at ftp.debian.org and not just the ones on my CD?
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|\^/| Brent McMillan
._|\| |/|_. Math student of
dselect does not seem to want to update packages for me. Previously, I
had set [A]ccess method to CD-ROM that had only contrib packages. that
went fine. But now, when I try to switch back to ftp access, everything
seems to go well, but dselect thinks only contrib packages are available.
So the o
I have the exact thing happen, but I think my message gets through any
way.
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> everytime I send a mail to the list I get a mail back from
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> with the subject:
> SMTP import error #-5
>
> Yesterday I even got a mail from
> [EMA
I'm having trouble getting dselect to find new packages.
I chose the Access method as ftp and pointed it to ftp.debian.org, and
went with the defaults. I then chose Update and it went through all the
different sections and said that the packages were already updated.
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