re: apt-get problem

I found the cause of my problem. By having http://debian.org/debian in my sources.list, I was being redirected to a mirror that didn't have all the files to be downloaded yet. Thanks for the help, - Ed

Re: apt-get problem

On Wednesday 04 July 2001 02:34, der.hans wrote: > ftp to ftp.debian.org, cd to /debian/pool/main/x/xvt/ and see if > xvt_2.1-13_i386.deb is in there. > Right. The directory exists, but is empty. So, I guess I can conclude that the list of files available via update is out of synch with the ac

Re: apt-get problem

On Wednesday 04 July 2001 04:24, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi Ed, > > Are you doing your downloads immediately after apt-get update? > Thanks, Joerg. As it turns out, I am doing the upgrade immediately after update. This is happening on two machines, by the way. - Ed

apt-get problem

For about a week now, whenever I try to get anything out of sid, I'm getting messages like: Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xvt/xvt_2.1-13_i386.deb Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian/pool/main/x/xvt/xvt_2.1-13_i386.deb: No such file or directory ' This is fol

Soundblaster live digital output

I have a Soundblaster live value and a speaker system capable of accepting digital input. Anyone know whether it's possible and how to enable the Soundblaster digital output under Debian? TIA - Ed

Re: Abit VP6 - any good?

On Wednesday 20 June 2001 04:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone tried an ABit VP6 motherboard and can they comment > on it's stability / compatibility at all. I think a new > workstation is on it's way for me ;) It'd be running Debian > hack (TM) - a combo of 2.2r3 and 2.4 kernel..

Re: MouseMan ??

> > > I got the mouse up and running (bothe Debian & FreeBSD) > > > except for the "wheel". I would assume that the "wheel" is > > > used to scroll up and down in lieu of the scroll bars in >> an > > > apt such as Netscape. I did add the > > > Option"ZAxisMapping""4 5" to my XF86Config > >

Re: Streamed Audio application?

On Wednesday 13 June 2001 20:46, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:49:12PM -0400, Ed Falis wrote: > > Anyone aware of something that can be used on Linux when a radio station > > offers streams for Windows mediaplayer or for Quicktime? > > Nope. Can'

Streamed Audio application?

Anyone aware of something that can be used on Linux when a radio station offers streams for Windows mediaplayer or for Quicktime? TIA - Ed

Boot order, PCMCIA and external SCSI drive

I have a jaz drive attached to my machine via a SCSI card plugged into a PCMCIA slot (kernel 2.4.3). Is there a way to get it to automount during boot by getting the PCMCIA services started before processing fstab? Or some other option? Thanks, - Ed

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

On Monday 04 June 2001 23:42, Sean Morgan wrote: > > The situation I'm reffering to here is that of someone who might see a > temporary interface slowdown or crash(happen quite often in office suites > of any kind), and having no knowledge of how linux works, just hits the > reset button(this could

Antialiased fonts

Anyone know offhand the configuration file in which to set for antialised fonts in XFree86 4.0.3? TIA - Ed

Fwd: X startup problem

I upgraded two machines to woody/testing a couple of days ago, starting from the libranet 1.9.1 distribution. One seems fine; one doesn't. The problem is that regardless of the user logging in, if Windowmaker or gnome is selected as the default window manager, it flashes up on the screen, then