RE: SiS 6263 PCI card setup - should be SiS 6326

2002-02-28 Thread David Shepherd
Whoops meant to read Sis 6326 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Shepherd) wrote: >I need some help setting up a SiS 6236 PCI graphics card on my elderly Potato >box. >Has anyone got one of these working with XFree 3.3.6? > >I want to know if its possible to change the IRQ that the Si

SiS 6263 PCI card setup

2002-02-28 Thread David Shepherd
wants to use IRQ 11). Alternatively I could change the IRQ that the RealTek card uses, do I specify this as a LILO parameter at bootup? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Dave -- David Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Your

Help needed upgrading PCI video card

2002-02-26 Thread David Shepherd
e SiS card installed. I can put the card back in and print it if it would help. Can anyone shed some light on how I can resolve this? What does the 'unknown header type' line in syslog mean? Thanks in advance Dave -- D

KDE on Potato - how to autostart

2002-02-11 Thread David Shepherd
on the WindowManager menu that runs KDE fine. What I want is KDE to start after the XDM login screen. How to I do this? I tried playing with the /etc/alternatives for x-window-manager and x-session-(something). TIA Dave -- David Sheph

What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread David Shepherd
ind of reinstall? It would be cool if apt could handle it all. Also what happens if I choose to stay with 2.2r3, do I change apt-sources to point to 'potato'? Thanks for your help Dave -- David Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Anyone got .deb packages for MySQL 3.23.xx on Potato?

2001-10-22 Thread David Shepherd
Hi I'm trying to get MySQL 3.23.xx installed on Potato. I installed the version from the Stable archives (3.22) but it doesn't support transactions. Has anyone know of or produced 3.23 .debs for Potato? Cheers Dave -- David Shepherd [EMAIL

RE: Will 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.17' work OK?

2001-01-09 Thread David Shepherd
I guess 2.2.18 would be better, I want to know whether 'apt-get install...' is a reliable method of upgrading the kernel. Dave -Original Message- From: John Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 January 2001 4:46 p.m. To: David Shepherd Cc: Debian-User Subject

Will 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.17' work OK?

2001-01-09 Thread David Shepherd
Can please someone tell me whether 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.17' will safely update my kernel from the 2.2.17-compact version to the 'full' version. Thanks Dave

RE: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread David Shepherd
lease excuse my lack of kernel knowledge - I'm learning fast Dave -Original Message- From: David B. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 January 2001 2:44 p.m. To: David Shepherd Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Need help setting up pa

RE: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread David Shepherd
Typing 'insmod lp' gives me insmod: lp: no module by that name found typing find / -name 'lp.o' finds nothing How should I install this module? Dave -Original Message- From: Matthew Dalton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 January 2001 2:08 p.m

Anyone with a HP Deskjet working from Potato?

2001-01-09 Thread David Shepherd
I'm trying to get my Deskjet695C working. I posted earlier under subject "Need help setting up parallel printer" but didn't get any takers :-( Can someone please post me the following: 1. the lines from /var/log/messages where the parport driver is loaded 2. the /etc/modules.conf file 3. the /et

RE: Java jdk1.3 on Potato

2001-01-08 Thread David Shepherd
I solved the problem by using a sym link... ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 Haven't fully tested the jdk, but java -version now works as expected. Thanks for the quick responses. Dave -Original Message- From: David Shepherd [mailto:[

Java jdk1.3 on Potato

2001-01-08 Thread David Shepherd
Just installed jdk1.3 and get the following error when running java -version /usr/local/jdk/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error in loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Can someone tell me how I can fix this or if jdk1

Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-08 Thread David Shepherd
I've just switched from Redhat 6.2 to Debian 2.2r2 and can't get my DeskJet695C working. Everything worked fine under RH using printtool to set it up. /var/log/messages shows the following lines... Jan 9 09:39:58 monster kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2] Jan 9