Re: Just a Proposition....:-)))

1997-01-07 Thread Carnage
On Mon, 6 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, I'm just a newbie but I'd like a new installation routine for > debian. I have the following proposition for future installation > routines. > First dselect is not very user friendly...and for a newbie it's say > difficult to use...:-)) It gives

Re: Good buy or not?

1997-01-05 Thread Carnage
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > it as new? Do their machines use standard memory components, so they > could be easily upgraded with parts from other vendors, etc? They don't AFAIK, PBs use proprietary parts which means you usually have to buy from them to get upgrade part

Re: Trident Video Card on X

1997-01-01 Thread Carnage
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Alexander Gieg wrote: > I've an old Trident 8900D SVGA Video Card, which works > well with X Windows, svgalib and SVGATextMode. > Problem #1: > --- > The problem is that this card works only with 8 bpp in X. > The file /usr/doc/X11/README.trident say that the model > 89

Problem linking with libtermcap!

1996-12-31 Thread Carnage
Hello Mailing List!, I seem to be having a problem linking with the Termcap library when specifying "-ltermcap" on the gcc command line. Explicitly specifying libtermcap works fine (i.e. "gcc -o program program.o module1.o /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8"). But doing a "-ltermcap" resul

What's xbooks?

1996-12-01 Thread Carnage
Hello mailing list, When I was downloading XFree 3.2 off of Debian's ftp site, I noticed a new package that I don't wasn't in Debian 1.1. It was "xbooks" or something like that. And it was huge. So I didn't download it. What is "xbooks"? ==

About XFree86 3.2 ...

1996-11-29 Thread Carnage
Hello, When you installed XFree 3.2, did you experience any problems with the xrdb utility not working? When I first tried it, xrdb would exit with a "can't run '/usr/lib/cpp -Dblablabla' with a whole bunch of '-D' switches following the 'cpp' part. I checked out my '/usr/lib/cpp', and s

Re: XFree86 3.2??

1996-11-28 Thread Carnage
> XFree 3.2 is in the new unstable tree: /pub/debian/bo/binary-i386/x11 > > I recently upgraded to 3.2 and it hasn't crashed on me yet :) > Hello, I just want to make sure that I'm doing this right. I just downloaded from the above site what I believe to be everything I need to upgrade