Re: "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"

1999-09-18 Thread Craig B
Gary Young wrote: > > Some change between the kernel in Debian 2.0 > and in Debian 2.1 fails on something in my > hardware. I'll look at what hardware is > in the box next. > Hamm uses 2.0.34 while Slink uses 2.0.36 The only obvious difference I have noticed is that 2.0.36 is able to proble I

Re: PCMCIA (?) Ethernet problem

1999-09-18 Thread Craig B
"Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > I'm installing Debian 2.1 onto a Zenith "Z*Star EX", a 486/50MHz > laptop w/8MB RAM and a 300MB HD. Sorry I don't have any technical help to offer you on this. But I would like to tell you this; The very first time I installed Linux, in '95, was on one of those

Re: hi i got a question

1999-09-18 Thread Craig B
Scott Henry wrote: > Medium answer: > > WinModem (and other Win* hardware) is a really stupid idea: > cripple the hardware to save a few manufacturing bucks. > And unless you have a pretty fast system, you take a big performance hit too. What a rip-off.

Re: sb16

1999-09-17 Thread Craig B
> However, i did not even get > an message in the startup. I am running an SB16 as well. If you don't see something like this; Sound initialization started at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,5 at 0x330 irq 5 at 0x388 Sound initialization complete during kerenel initialization, then you have not compile

xconsole

1999-09-16 Thread Craig B
Hello list people; Anyone out there know what it takes to get xconsole working as not root. All I get is a "Couldn't open console" message. The man page isn't much help and there are no debuging options. I tried chmod'ing /dev/xconsole and /dev/tty0 but it didn't make any difference. This is a

Re: Brand spankin new user...

1999-09-16 Thread Craig B
Soul Existance wrote: > > ... so is it going to destroy any data on my win98 partition, or when > i do this change, does it only partition the 3 gigs i set aside... You will be using Linux fdisk to create your root and swap partitions during the installation. You will see your dos partition w

SWAT: How to do it right

1999-09-15 Thread Craig B
I was reading one of the replies to another thread about ease of use v.s. power and flexibility. The author made an example out of SWAT. Since I run Samba and have never activited it, I figured I would fire it up and check it out. He was absolutely right...its beautiful. I'm really impressed.

Fonts

1999-09-15 Thread Craig B
I really like the way X works on my Hamm system. The only complaint I have is with the font quality. Sometimes they look fine for example as I type this message, and other times they look really crappy. The biggest problem I have is with Netscape Navigator. Sometimes the fonts are too small and

Re: video permissions

1999-09-14 Thread Craig B
This may help, but only if you are using a 3dfx card http://www.netroedge.com/~phil/3dfx-howto.html "Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > Nope, not really. The trouble is that the video hardware isn't accessed > through a > device. It's accessed using privileged system calls which allow direct > comm

Re: APM doesn't really work

1999-09-14 Thread Craig B
David Kanter wrote: > > I compiled a new kernel last night with APM support. When I boot up, I get > the message about APM BIOS. However, it doesn't work all that well. > On my Hamm system, I had a hell of a time just getting my monitor to shut down let alone suspend the system or put it on st