Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

In potato it's libncurses5-dev, you'll also need bin86. =======< David Blackman > - http://www.whizziwig.com=== | | /| / / _ \/ _/President | |/ |/ / ___// / Whizziwig Productions Inc. |__/|__/_/ /___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] l

Re: Sound Troubles

On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 04:15:06PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Cameron Matheson hat gesagt: // Cameron Matheson wrote: > > > I mailed a little while ago, but I did not explain myself well enough. I > > have sound with CD and in Enlightenment, so I know it works. None of the > > games that De

Voodoo Banshee Help

Hey All, I desperatley need help with my new voodoo banshee card. I finally got X working, sort of, and fixed the consoel by using the server from 3dfx. But I can't get glide to work. The debs are hopelessly broken: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libglide2-v3:

Re: voodoo3 on debian

add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://debian.oftheinter.net/ x335-slink/ then do apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade then alein THE_3DFX_RPM.rpm, and dpkg -i the resulting deb. OK? --dave

Fears about Slink->Potato

I was running potato about 4 montsh ago, and coudn't deal with the instability, but I'd like to get glibc2.1, I'm currently using xk's X335 debs, have a lot of stuff compiled under glibc2.07 and cannot afford to break my system right now, oh and kernel 2.2.13 What should I be worried about? WIll a

Re: WordPerfect 8 Floating Point Exception

I ahve all of these xpm packages installed and my wp8 works just fine, so for simplicity, do what I do, grab everything with xpm in the name ii xpm-bin 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries - associated binaries ii xpm4-altdev 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries (for libc5) - development

Re: WordPerfect 8 Floating Point Exception

no you need to libc5 versions of eveyrthig xpm ii xpm-bin 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries - associated binaries ii xpm4-altdev 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries (for libc5) - development ii xpm4.7 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries (for libc5) - runtime ii xpm4g

Re: CD burning problems

Please try mkisofs, iy's better maintained, more up to date, and most frontends prefer it. mkisofs -rva -o thanks, dave

An open letter to the debian community

osophy, that the only way to learn is by doing it the hard way. I'm going to get flamed for this. I know it. We don't want to think we're techno-snobs. We want to think our distribution is superior. We want to leave out KDE. We don't want Joe Blow to start with Debian, if he's not man enough to face up to Debian, he can go buy, ("Ha! Buy!", we Debian snobs say) Red Hat. --David Blackman Perl/C Hacker Stuyvesant HS Sophmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Joystick on a SB32

It works fine, it always has, I was loading the josytick driver with no joystick attached tahnks, --dave On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > "Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > > > From: David Blackman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I have my SB32 aut

extended ascii symbols

For some of the wierd symbols, like card suits and lines and shapes, I need to print ths to start it: "\033[11m" and thsi to stop it (so that keys display properly) "\033[10m" Is there a better way? thanks, --dave

Joystick on a SB32

I have my SB32 autoconfigured by my BIOS, with sound support in my kernel, how can I get the joystick port on my SB32 to work without turning off auto-PNP in BIOS, and isapnp'ing it. --dave

extended ascii symbols

For some of the wierd symbols, like card suits and lines and shapes, I need to print ths to start it: "\033[11m" and thsi to stop it (so that keys display properly) "\033[10m" Is there a better way? thanks, --dave

Re: AHA2940U2W... AND MAtrox G400...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No idea about scsi, for your G400, upgrade to teh latest X, and then use teh SVGA server, add this to your /etc/apt/ources.list, then do apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade deb http://debian.oftheinter.net/ x335-slink/ - --dave On Sun, 7 Nov 1999,

Re: XFree update

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 add thsi to your /etc/apt/sources.list, and then do, apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade deb http://debian.oftheinter.net/ x335-slink/ - --dave On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I have slink installed with the Xfree version that co

RE: xserver-3dlabs - libc6 (slink vs. potatoe)?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I really like xk's x335 debs add deb http://debian.oftheinter.net/ x335-slink/ On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Martin Fluch wrote: > On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Norris, Greg wrote: > > > Have you tried the X packages from ? If I > > remember

Re: Wordperfect 8 seg fault

you need xpm***-altdev, I generally just install everything with xpm in the name on a debian box that's going to have wp8. --dave On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: > i had that problem and it was due to libc5 libs being either not installed > or misconfigured (my /etc/ld.so.conf was all screwed u

Re: files with extension tar.bz2

Often people forget, but tar supports bz2 (if you have bzip), the flags -xvIf (capital i) will untar+bz2 any file. --dave On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, William T Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > > What kind of fiels are those that end with ".tar.bz2"? How are they > >

Re: staroffice - multiuser?

about 2 megs --dave On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > Hi, Thanks for the reply. > > > Yes, it has changed. The free version allows multiple users to use it now. > > Install it as root with "./setup /net". Any user who wants to use it > > should switch to the directory it was insta

Re: playing MP3s with xmms

chmod /dev/dsp to soemthing read writabel by all user --dave On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "AM" == Alexis Maldonado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AM> Have the same card here. > AM> Can you play audio with other apps? Like splay? > > Hmmm, haven't heard of splay. I bas

Re: what modem

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > [Debian-doc is for discussion and development of Debian documentation - > moved to debian-user which is the general list for support questions] > > On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 08:46:14 -0700, O'Driscoll wrote: > > what modem works best for 2.0.2 & 2.1

Re: Installing deb packages on top of UNIX

You might be able to use precompiled binaries with lxrun, a free linux emulator for solaris, released by sun. --dave On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Jaime Silvela wrote: > > > Hi, I've been using Debian 2.0 for over a

Re: Compilation prob

Also, teh HOWTO is too old to tell you about make menuconfig(menu based) or make xconfig(x windows based) try them, you'lll like them. --dave On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Menno Scholten wrote: > Hi there, > > I don't know if this te right place to ask this question, but I'll try > anyway :) > > I am

Re: Compilation prob

You need to install the bin86 package. (it's on the cd)_ --dave On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Menno Scholten wrote: > Hi there, > > I don't know if this te right place to ask this question, but I'll try > anyway :) > > I am having a little trouble compiling the new Kernel. I did everything > according

Re: word not so perfect

Netscape DOESN'T decompress anything. just do tar -xvzf guilg00 let's look at that -x (extract) v (verbose) z (gunzip it) f (read from file) also I've never heard of the command gz, try gunzip (file); tar (file) --dave On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Ashley Clark wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, tf wrote: >

Re: ACER CD-RW's

Is there anything special about this drive? if it's scsi or ide it's probably supported by cdrecord. the OS has little to do with hardware support, it's the kernel and packages you install. --dave -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s+:+ a--- C UL++ P+ L+++ E+ W++ N++ o K- w O-

Re: IDE CD-R drive via ide-scsi

I hate modules, I've got a 627 Kb kernel. I love it. The kernel snippet said you only had 1 scsi adapter, (the AHA) --dave On 10 Sep 1999, Morgan Fletcher wrote: > David Blackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Do you have scsi cd support? > > Yes, as a module. I ha

Re: IDE CD-R drive via ide-scsi

-dave On 10 Sep 1999, Morgan Fletcher wrote: > David Blackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Okay, listen here's the deal: you need to take OUT ide-cd support > > Done. > > > leave in scsi-emulation, scsi-generic, scsi-cdrom.. > > now ./MAKDEV sg >

Re: IDE CD-R drive via ide-scsi

Do you have scsi cd support? also to make scd's do ./MAKEDEV scd## where ## is a number. Make those, keep out ide-cdrom support, keep in ide-scsi emultaion, keep in scsi cd, scsi generic. try it and LMK --dave On 10 Sep 1999, Morgan Fletcher wrote: > David Blackman <[EMAI

Re: IDE CD-R drive via ide-scsi

Okay, listen here's the deal: you need to take OUT ide-cd support leave in scsi-emulation, scsi-generic, scsi-cdrom.. now ./MAKDEV sg I'm pretty sure that the /dev/scd* come pre-made the important thing is to see if you get messages like this on bootup: scsi0 : AdvanSys SCSI 3.1E: PCI 20 CDB: I

Where are my copy buffers?

I'm want to start writing perl & c programs that actually do stuff. What I'm wondering is this: When I'm in X windows, and I highlight something, where does it go (I know to the clipboard), but is that an actual file I can access? When I'm on the console and I highlight something, where does it

Re: quake2 / gl problems

You want teh glx part in there. That's exactly right. Do you have the 3dfx rpms properly installed? all of them? check out www.linuxgames.com for the Quake HOWTO and teh 3dfx HOWTO. --dave On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Ben Lutgens wrote: > > > O.k. it seems

Re: How do you apt-get WORDVIEW?

No, abiword isn't stable yet. Use wordperfect (It's full wordperfect, for free, for linux, It's stable and fast, supports .doc and .rtf) or staroffice (a ms offfice clone taht's huge and bloated and slow, but also free) --dave On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 04

Re: getright or netvampire for Debian?

Also try iglooftp (it's free & beta, or shareware & stable), or greed, which is kindof like a console based getright. --dave On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > what about downloader for X? > http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ > I

Re: What driver do i use for a 3com Etherlink XL pci

d now have a spot for my (well supported) etherlink III, cool! --dave On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 05:43:25AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, David Blackman wrote: > > > > > that's it, what driver do

Re: Reading Word format files?

Wordview, it's a program you can apt-egt --dave On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I occasionally get email with files attached in Word format. > > > Is there any way to convert these to a readable format? (I don't want to > use WordPerfect). > > Anthony > > > -- > Anthony Campbe

What driver do i use for a 3com Etherlink XL pci

that's it, what driver do I use for a 3com etherlink XL pci, it's the card my DSL supplier supports --dave

Re: ide-scsi emulation problem

I don't use the scanbus flag, just do cdrecord speed=XX dev=0,1,0 ISO.iso --dave On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, M. K. Honeycutt wrote: > Hi, > > I have an ide/ATAPI cd writer and a cd-rom. I compiled my kernel > with scsi emulation and at boot-up they're recognized, but, not > correctly. > > This i

Re: hardware configuration questions

On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Michael Meskes wrote: > I'm trying to get my new hardware completely running under Debian. So far I > have encountered two problems. > > 1) I have no idea how to configure a PCI Soundblaster card. While this is > not a major problem I'd like to eventually play music on it. Sin

Re: SB PCI 128 & Volume

A utility called vol, or a debian package called aumix (which you can apt-get). --dave On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Cheshire wrote: > Well I finally got around to compiling a new kernel with sound support.. > I have my PCI 128 working with the ess1730 (err, I think, don't remember > those numbers exactly

Re: Mouse configuration

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote: ps > I am doing a fresh install and get to the point where the install asks: > > Do you want to run gpm's mouse-test program (Y/n)? (to which I respond) > y > Where is your mouse [/dev/ttyS0]? (to which I respond) > /dev/psaux (since I have a Micros

Re: WordPerfect Trouble

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote: this is stupid but ti works, you need basically every xpm package. easiest way, go into dselect, method apt, update, then select, /xpm, and install every xpm package --dave > Hi, > I'm trying out Wordperfect 8.0. First of all, the installer could

Re: Forgotten root password HELP

On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: 2 things you can do: pop a debian boot disk into the floppy wait untill you get to te color selction screen alt-2, enter now you have a console mount your linux partition (whichever one has etc on it) vi /etc/passwd delete what's in teh second feild so it l

Re: CDrom mounting problem

On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Liu Chung Him wrote: > Dear all, > >My Machine is installed with Debian 2.1 and have a 4X cdrom. > When i want to mount the cdrom with "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt", a error > "mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist" is shown. I have checked > the boot log (/var/log/k

Re: Getting custom prompts to work under v1.3.1

you're using bash? if you are go into the bash man page and search (that /) for ps1, here are all the bindings anyway, in your .bash_profile put export PS1="[some escape key sequences and some static chars]" \a an ASCII bell character (07) \d the date

Re: Newbie needs Help!

I just looked in the CDROM HOWTO: that's not what teh device should be: you must go int /dev then ( as root) type mknod /dev/sbpcd b 25 0 also, in /etc/fstab, it's /dev/sbpcd, no partition number, it's a cdrom. make the devie, then try to install the module. for Howtos goto www.metalab.unc.edu/L

how do I tell pine to use a custom reply-to address?

I don't want it to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] my username is not my email address and my user-domain si not my mailserver. help? --dave (luckily it is the same as my suername @ school, so I can set it to that temporarily)

Re: Install problem: LI, than nothing else

I've run into thsi problem when my bios was set for AUTO for teh HD, try each of the options, I think just plain 'NORMAL' worked for me. I've run into this a lot. Futz with bios setting for the HD type. --dave On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Walthier Mate Tamas wrote: > Hi! I'm a real beginner so please f

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

I've got an unused domain @ www.whizziwig.com, I'd love to host filer (& help coordinate it), the hardest part woudln't be the coding (get teh file people to help 'us' out),creating a syncable filer database would be a bitch. ideas? --David Blackman aka Whizziwig "

Re: Netscape

I'm running netscape 4.6 on a celeron 366, 96 megs of ram, windowmaker 0.60.0, X 3.3.4 and a graphics blaster exxtreme. Netscape is stable except for when I browse in multiple windows, then closing any window may kill my entire netscape suite (downlaod,s collabra, everything), it isn't only closin