tting it...
Thanks a lot
Chris Owen
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Thanks very much Mark and Nate,
Yes that "free" output is a bit confusing, and the man page is not very
enlightening...
Chris
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Hello again,
I am trying to get a useable debian 3.0 installation going on an old
Pentium laptop with 16MB RAM. I have re-compiled my kernel to include
only what I think are the essentials, and cut out most unnecessary
background processes. But even without running any useful programs, and
Hey, thanks Kent that's great.
(I have been following the list, honest! Guess I missed that post
though...)
:-)
Chris
Kent West wrote:
Chris Owen wrote:
I have now found a solution for this mouse problem in X: it seems gpm
was the problem. After uninstalling gpm, the PS/2 mouse now
onest I'm not that bothered about needing gpm...).
Thanks
Chris
Chris Owen wrote:
Hi, if someone could help me get my X server + mouse running I'd be
very grateful.
Hardware details:
Old AJP 5400 laptop (you won't have heard of it), 75MHz Pentium, 16MB RAM
Trackpad PS/2 mou
Hi, if someone could help me get my X server + mouse running I'd be very
grateful.
Hardware details:
Old AJP 5400 laptop (you won't have heard of it), 75MHz Pentium, 16MB RAM
Trackpad PS/2 mouse
Cirrus Logic 754x display chipset
800x600 LCD display
Debian 3.0r0
The story so far:
I used to have R
sean finney wrote:
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:36:43AM +, Chris Owen wrote:
Thanks, I tried this, and then a screen comes up next time I re-boot
asking me to configure my network. After that, however, it bombs out
with a "device not found" error, which is quite understandabl
sean finney wrote:
ok then, in that case, i don't remember what script takes you through setting
up your network, but the config is stored in /etc/network/interfaces, and
you want the following two lines:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
and then it should Just Work. if you want this to be a sys
sean finney wrote:
I need to set up a PCMCIA network interface card to connect to the
internet via a DSL router, and I'm hoping there's a script that'll do
this for me.
this depends on how your isp has things set up. is it just dhcp, or
are they using some kind of pppoe based system? in
Hi, I'm doing an install of Debian 3.0 and have a probably dumb question.
After the installation, how do I re-configure some of the things that I
set up right at the start of the installation: specifically, the
keyboard map and the network setup? I presume there are scripts
available for this,
Carel Fellinger wrote:
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:20:38AM +, Chris Owen wrote:
Try running (as root)
chmod ugo+rwx /dev/cdrom
I think it's ill advice, not worthy of this list --sory for the rant,
it's not personally, it's just that you're not the first to g
alan brown wrote:
Ive looked through previous posts on this topic and the advice I
found was to run dmesg | grep cdrom to find out where my cdrom is
plugged in (hdb) and I tried symlinking /dev/dcrom to /dev/hdb.
However, in the course of my experimenting I did rm rf on the /cdrom
directory
Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote:
CDROM read or access error (or no audio disc in drive).
Please make sure you have access permissions to:
/dev/cdrom
Um, what gives folks?
Try running (as root)
chmod ugo+rwx /dev/cdrom
If your sound card uses other devices, such as /dev/dsp or /dev/mixer,
yo
Chris Owen said:
Hi, I am trying to do a Debian install on an old laptop. I bought a set
of CDs, only to find they are CD-R's, not CD-ROMs, and my old CD drive
doesn't read these...
try installing the base system with floppies I think that has all
the PCMCIA st
Hi, I am trying to do a Debian install on an old laptop. I bought a set
of CDs, only to find they are CD-R's, not CD-ROMs, and my old CD drive
doesn't read these...
So I want to try a network install (current stable version, over the
internet via my router) with my PCMCIA network card (an Ethe
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