Re: Linux newbie: (1) 1FA after boot (2) X configuration

At 12.47 4/10/00 +0300, Shaul Karl ha escrit: >> Hi >> I'm a Linux newbie, and I've jut installed 2.0 on a PC. Everything >> >> went okay, except when I tr

Re: PS/2 Mouse

At 08.32 1/10/00 +0900, Jack Morgan ha escrit: >I just installed a new motherboard. I'm running woody on the only HDD. When i plug in the PS/2 mouse the system hangs during the boot strap process. If I unplug the PS/2 mouse it boots fine, but hangs when I use X-windows. >Is this an irq issue or s

Re: Problem with Lucent winmodem on debian 2.2

At 11.25 30/9/00 -0400, Shaji N V ha escrit: >From insmod -f ltmodem >-- >Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/ltmodem.o >Warning: kernel-module version mismatch > /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/ltmodem.o was compiled for kernel version >2.2.12-20 > while this kernel is version 2.2.17

Re: List of packages..

At 01.57 27/9/00 -0700, Bob Brown ha escrit: >> p.d.: Where can I obtain a Dselect HOWTO?. If you install few packages in the first times you use dselect, the info it will give you wil be less enormous and it will help you to understand the basics of dselect and dependencies/suggestions/etc.

Re: [OT] History: GNUStep vs. Gnome

At 23.02 26/9/00 +0200, Daniel Reuter ha escrit: >> Hello. This crossed my mind more than once: why was the Gnome project >> started, when there was already something called GNUStep? Even if not >> a full desktop, one can certainly see the beginnings of desktop-like >> functionality in WindowMake

Re: book suggestions

>90% of the commands, at least, are basic Unix commands, not specific to >Linux or Debian. O'Reilly's "Unix in a Nutshell", or "Linux in a Nutshell", >should do fine as a simple reference. Personally I find "Unix Power Tools" to >be my bible of Unix black magick. >If you want to go the

Re: book suggestions

At 11.11 24/9/00 -0500, Bob Edwards ha escrit: >Does anyone have a suggestion for a book with a comprehensive list of >debian linux commands and explanations of what each command dos? I'm >new with liunux, and have just changed to debian from Corel linux. I changed also from Corel. Debian is 100

Re: OT HTML tutorial?

At 15.53 24/9/00 +0100, Glyn Millington ha escrit: >Can anyone recommend an HTML tutorial ? On line or off. I'd like >to learn how to do write it without relying on a program like >Bluefish. In one of these addresses there is a tutorial of HTML. Regretabily, it's a tar of 10 MB because

Branden confuses me with his recommendations for XF86 4.01 debs

Dear colleagues, I have a computer that its videocard seems to require XFree86 4.01. I use Potato. I searched for stuff available, and when I decided to use the binary packages, while looking for info related to Debian with XF 4.01, I found a letter in XF86 page mailing li

Re: What has happened to www.debian.org?

At 08.45 22/9/00 +0200, Preben Randhol ha escrit: >I have not been able to access http://www.debian.org in the last days. >I can access ftp://ftp.debian.org though. >Is there others out there who also has problem accessing the site? No. www.debian.org works for sure. Yesterday I configu

Re: help for new user

You can choose the window manager you want using the info from the Gnome homepage, that tells which window managers are full Gnome-compliant or not. I use sawmill (now sawfish), due to the fact that eats few resources and it's cute. Best, Ignasi At 12.4

Re: Which Netscape to use?

At 12.38 16/9/00 +0200, Kjetil Ødegaard ha escrit: >* Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Sorry Group, this must be very FAQ. >> I would like some advice to which Netscape to get for my 2.2 Helix-gnome >> laptop. If I check the stable files, I find numerous installers with >> different nu

RE: Staroffice on Debian Potato

At 09.22 15/9/00 +0800, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] ha escrit: >Yup...installed 5.2 over the weekend.so far no problemshowever, the >Starwriter files saved as Word 5, Word 9X and Word 2000 was not >compatible..i.e. when I tried opening these files in Word 97, it said >something about file pe

Re: Netscape Tar.gz files

Use the debianized packages of Netscape in non-free section. They are four or five netscape.blah_blah_blah.deb They'll be installated in a minute. Best, Ignasi At 13.54 11/9/00 -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna ha escrit: >Hi: > > I am finding it difficult

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

Actually I don't know your position in your work (I missed the full thread) but a simple suggestion: If you can be root there, why don't you install both, install a minimal set of programs for your work in RH, and progressively use more Debian... until leaving RH rotting in its pa

Re: Another Poll (Update)

At 16.00 8/9/00 -0500, Pat Mahoney ha escrit: >On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 03:51:54PM -0500, Paul T. McNally wrote: >> on 9/7/00 11:45 AM, Brooks R. Robinson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Greetings, >> > There is yet another Linux version poll at www.justlinux.com! Debian is >> > sitting at 7%! Vo

Re: SUPPORT drivers

In Debian site http://www.debian.org/doc/ There is a link for http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html Best, Ignasi At 22.49 7/9/00 EST, MOISES ELLIS ha escrit: >do you have support for theses devices please >in your kernel

Re: Problem with the instalation!!!

The Packages.gz you mention just contains a text list of the programs that are available in the main directory of the CD or whatever. If you're using a CD you should have a Packages file, not compressed. It has the same info as Packages.gz Best, Ignasi At 13.52 6/9/0

WP5.1 under DOSEMU uses 100% CPU all the time

Hi to all, After configuring DOSEMU I've started running WP5.1 for DOS there. Everything seemed fine but it happened an event I feared. If I use WP the CPU starts going near to 100% and this bugs me a lot, specially because I can end hearing the laptop fan. I always needed tranquil

Re: [SLU] Re: Netscape Bookmarks

At 05.00 5/9/00 -0700, Shel Johnson ha escrit: >Ok, here's a dumb one.. How do you find a file directory that starts with >a dot?.. Are they hidden?.. I know the location is: /home/shel/.netscape , >but when I look for it, all I see is: /home/shel .. Does that make any >sense??... ls -a ls (or

Re: Getting in Graphical Mode after Login

At 15.19 4/9/00 -0700, Kyle Lynch ha escrit: >I may sound kinda stupid asking this question (bare with me, im only 13 yrs >old), but after I login to my root or whatever account, how do I get the X >running for the graphical interface? http://www.debian.org/fom/21.html And check for documentatio

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

You can find more information by searching the mail archives using as search query the following: current Redhat user evaluates Debian that is the subject for the email that that man asked to Debian-User. It gave lots of interesting replies that you can add to the the pres

Re: Help with Installation...

At 16.10 3/9/00 -0700, Gutierrez Family ha escrit: >Thanks for your advice... but I'm having a problem running the setup >program. When I type "xf86setup", it doesn't recognize it as a command. >Should it be "XF86Setup", I'm not sure about the case-sensitivity. In what >directory would I find it

Re: Help with Installation...

At 23.32 2/9/00 -0700, Gutierrez Family ha escrit: >Following your advice, I linked /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux. Now X starts up >!! However, I have a new obstacle to clear... > >X starts as expected via "startx", but the mouse will NOT respond. I have >run "xf86config" several times, each time cho

RE: Please remove me from the subscription list......

At 17.02 2/9/00 -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans ha escrit: > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >/dev/null > >Tell me, which of these sets of instructions is more clear

Re: linux telephony?

There was something at the pages of Linux under Winmodems... One of the most famous... One of the persons that wrote that was a Quake programmer, like John Carmack or similar name... Didn't payed much attention because although I have _two_ winmodems (yes, feel free to insult) I don't have

Re: Console based Word Processor

Don't know about WP8 running under GNU/L, but if it converts and saves WP5.1 documents with the same grace and style as WP8 for Windoze, no great deal. (Personal note: I was a fan of DOS WP5.1 and continued the useless trend of upgrading until I got tired as I wanted some decent co

Re: What are the Essential Packages?

The fastest way I use is: Download the file /dists/stable/main/binary-i386*/Packages.gz *Or your architecture Uncompress it and search there the packages you'll need. keywords: sawmill or wmaker for the window managers, for example. You'll need the packages that

Re: Configuring Mouse in X

Better refer to a laptop list in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best, Ignasi At 11.30 30/8/00 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit: >Hi, >I just installed all the files for X Free 86 3.3.6 onto my system, and I'm >having a little trouble (ironically). While I'm quite sure of how to

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

This is one of my idiosyncracies... Do you have a little electric shock when you touch any metallic part of the computer? If not, interpret the messages Gnome gives you. And start to ask you if it's hardware problem or not. Don't know about Stormix, but

Re: Dream Machine (sort of...)

At 05.39 29/8/00 -0500, Ronald L. Chichester ha escrit: >Does anyone have suggestions regarding what components would make up a >good PC running Debian? I'm looking for something around the $2,000 >range (without monitor). I'll happily build the box myself. What I'm >looking for is a good match

Re: Installation os X

At 08.37 28/8/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit: > I don't get it...I need help installing x.The one question I >have is, When you run X what does it mean to set up a server, should I >have found a choice for a server in deselect and installed >it..Basically, should a server type be

Re: Brand_Spankin_Newbie

The text editor that you will can use without breaking your head it's Easy Editor. Or better, use ae (Anthony's Editor) that it's already installed with the base system. In the first weeks, the directory you'll access more is /etc, where are the configuration files. Dozens of time

Re: problem with debian user mailing list (Server)?

At 16.54 25/8/00 +0200, marco frattola ha escrit: >i don't know if it's just me, but i keep receiving old messages, >even from 3 days ago .. is there anything wrong with the list server? Me too. But just today, Friday. 396 messages got. Ignasi

Re: Star Office

>> I need to read a MS Word document. Are there >> any other software in Debian for viewing a >> MS Word doc?. I have a Debian 2.2 system. >> Thanks catdoc will transform it into text. No graphics, no structuration. Ignasi _ \

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

>a) change the colour depth. do i need to re-run XF86Setup? or is there a better way? Try xf86config And you can edit by hand the /etc/XF86Config using info from /usr/doc/x* (very useful info in /usr/doc/xserver-common) hth Ignasi _ \___

Re: Staroffice

At 16.37 21/8/00 -0600, Cameron Matheson ha escrit: >Hey, > >Now that Staroffice is open source, will Debian include it? Or is it >not GPL'd? > >Cameron > It seems that Mr. Stallman has given his approvation to Sun. Take a look to http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12671.html

Re: bad new large hard disk? [chirps]

I don't think that the information that I give right now is applicable to your case due to the chirp issue you mention, but as I've found working HDDs that also chirp, I've thought this would be interesting for you. In the case of a defective electrical installation, if the comput

Re: Debian system

At 06.52 21/8/00 +0200, Cajko Jozef ha escrit: > Dear sirs, Send more info about Debian, including description of its >benefits for partners. About Debian: - http://www.debian.org/intro/about Reasons to Choose Debian -

Re: Basic questions about X

At 21.29 20/8/00 -0300, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt ha escrit: > Debianers, > > I installed Debian 2.2 this weekend and had some problems with X. >During the installation I made a mistake configuring the mouse and decided to >reconfigure the X using the XF86config. I did it. But, I don't know

Re: Looking for old Debian Logo Candidate (Ant)

I didn't know that there was an ant proposed for a logo, so I had curiosity as I admire ants, heh. here it comes: http://www.debian.org/vote/1999/vote_0004 At 13.54 2/8/00 -0400, Kirk Hilliard ha escrit: >I am trying to find one of the candidates from the Debian Logo >c

Re: installation problem

>Every time I went thru it the screen keeps coming back to the same place >asking me to install BASE system. Could you give more detail about the quoted paragraph above, please? _ \___||/ \__| els fills

Such few Open Hardware periphals?

Dear debianists, I want to purchase some hardware for my computers. Because all perihperals need to run under Debian, I downloaded the latest Hardware-compatibility HOWTO and I checked the Open Hardware section in Debian's site. But I became astonished when I saw just four

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

>I learned Debian as, basically, a complete newbie to Unix/Linux. I think >it's mostly a matter of visibility. Newbies are just not aware of >Debian. I don't know what you'll think, but perhaps the way we Debian users could promote Debian to our colleagues is by referring the old W95 way,

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

At 00.28 31/7/00 +1000, Mark Suter ha escrit: >Folks, > >How common is the "Debian last" practice, that is, try other >distributions (including non-GNU/Linux) and then come to Debian >to stay? My experience can't be the most usual, but well, it's my experience :) My first GNU/L i

Re: debian- or linux- friendly hardware vendors?

In www.gnu.org there is a reference of a hardware vendor that supplies its computers with Debian. Don't remember the name. At 18.25 27/7/00 -0700, Krzys Majewski ha escrit: >Can anyone recommend hardware vendors who will do things like >put together a machine that is completely

Re: advanced power management and linux?

At 12.17 28/7/00 -0700, Krzys Majewski ha escrit: >> It's very hard to guess. If you want silence, you live in a small >> apartment and you have some extra cash, buy a laptop and you'll get in love >> with it (but check the hardware, do not get a winmodem with it!). >> If you have to

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

>The whole point of my post was to not have to read 17 web pages! >chris Oh man, nothing is perfect! But let me tell ou something. When some hardware companies are such bastards that they do such indecent drivers that collide with Windoze and at my left I have a scanner that I know that it

Re: advanced power management and linux?

At 15.15 27/7/00 -0700, heu escrit: >I'm researching new hardware for my linux box. I live in a small apartment >so my main requirement is that the damn thing be quiet. Does anyone have >reports of advanced power management working under linux? I know that is >in principle supported, but what are

Re: editors and browsers

>2. Are there any graphics based web browsers available for Linux other >than Netscape? If yes, are there "release versions" of these browsers? Arena. (http://www.w3.org. Also available in main section of Debian FTP) _ \___|

Re: Debian + Windows98 on the same large disk problem

Hello Dimitris, I had the exact same problem as you. The action you and me did wrong is to create FAT partitions with a Linux program. In the fdisk docs it tells that if you want to do a partition for the OS "A", use the partition program from the OS "A". I could not solve

Re: im doing a research

At 20.16 17/7/00 +0800, LêíGh ha escrit: Hello Lêigh, I'd think that you'll find much more structured information regarding your research than our answers if you go to the main Debian page http://www.debian.org . Then you can go to the Free Software Foundation, http://www.fsf.

Re: Any recommendations for notebooks that work well with Linux?

Sorry Rogerio to sending the message to you twice. Absent-minded I am. If Microsoft has not changed its contract (EULA or similar) you can demand a refund for the OS you are not going to use. I read this from a man in Australia that also wiped W98 to use just Red Hat in

Re: Initial Load, X Issues

Hi Ethan, don't use dselect. You can use dpkg. Go to the path where your .deb resides and do dpkg -i name_of_the_deb_package.deb Is smooth. >but it doesnt seem to support my newer TNT2. Trouble-free or work-free supporting depends of what versio

Re: HD Troubles

Hi Matt, Do they both work under other OSes? Ignasi At 01.31 7/7/00 -0500, Matt Kopishke ha escrit: >Hi, I have been having a odd hd problem. > >I have a machine that has 2 Promise Ultra 66 cards installed plus the >on board interfaces. The first card (hde - hdg) work

Sawfish or fvwm? (was: Re: Which window manager)

Hi people, I use fvwm... And I've heard of Sawfish, that I've read is very fast. But, which one is faster, fvwm or Sawfish? (with a ISA-16 bit video card with the config file totally hacked I still need more speed, victim of capitalism I am!) Thank you. Ignasi

Boot kernel in order to test hardware?

Sometimes I have to build PC's from spare, dusty, marooned 386-486 stuff. Due to the fact that I don't know if the hardware still runs well, is it a good idea to run a floppy kernel ten times consecutively, for example, to take an initial (or decent) idea of the health of the hardware?

MOSIX under Debian

Hi people, Does anybody installed a MOSIX cluster over Debian? MOSIX people just used it in SuSE and RedHat: as a Debianist I am, I'd like to know if you have found any differences or trouble when you installed it into Debian. Thank you. Ignasi

Re: disk partitions

Hi David, It's more or less under the first 500 MB. You can find more info reading the large-disk-howto, which refers to the affairs of huge disks and old BIOSes (quite nasty problems, to tell you the truth). You can also get more info with Linux's fdisk. Hope that

Re: Will Debian run on my system?

At 23.52 9/6/00 -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. ha escrit: >On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:15:58PM -0500, >Matthew W. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm looking at buying a used computer and want to install Debian >> on it. I've taken a serious liking to the following and would >> appreciate any c

Re: My quite ordinary comment on methods of installing

At 01.56 9/6/00 +0200, servicom ha escrit: >> >> A typical newbie won't start with Debian > >An important factor is the question of which package management system is >the best. In my experience, Debian's is the best when used with dselect/apt, >etc. All the deps are sorted out and I think this co

A BIOS that wants to know the OS I'm using?

A question: My fancy new computer has a extra-cool-nice Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Rev 6, and when you enter into it you have a quite interesting dialogue that says: OS: W98/2000 W95 Other I understand the idea of W95 due to the USB bus that has the

My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

As foreword: please note that I can't figure the consequences that it can give stopping to provide bug track facilities. >then Debian will no longer provide the >storage, bandwidth, and bug tracking facilities for non-free packages, >including acroread, blender, netscape, jdk, po

W3.1 can see beyondpartition barriers blah blah... end

Well, as the final... Shaul, according to the HOWTO you recommended me, when rereading it, I noticed an error I did. I should have created FAT partitions w/ DOS fdisk, not w/ Linux fdisk. Actually, it's even recommended from fdisk's man: >Usually all goes well by defaul

Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond the partition barriers!

Actually, under the circumstances I usually found with the old computers I adminster (amateur), the ol' BIOS do not force a large disk towards 528 Mb, but there is a slight difference, and I prefer to apply the Ontrack patch. I'm used to it, and I applied it without problems (thanks for th

Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond thepartitionbarriers!

>It seems you have made logical partitions for your Linux >install, and IIRC, IIRC is a computer-related acronym or is similar to things like IMHO? > linux fdisk and dos fdisk do not agree how >to handle logical partitions. This could account for the fact >that dos thinks there's no logic

Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond the partitionbarriers!

Hi Vitux, Perhaps I didn't sent that letter. Debian enormous amount of messages dizzies me! Sorry and thank you, man. Ignasi Transciption follows: >Sounds very strange to me, I would suppose

Re: help!!!!!!

Hello John, Debian is not a company, it's a non-profit organisation. But HP is a company and gives even less suport than Debian, so please continue detailing your problems. Ignasi > I recently purchased your version of linux, but am having trouble >installing it.

Re: Antivirus AVP para linux

At 12.19 29/5/00 +0200, Ximo Nadal ha escrit: >Hola: > >Me he bajado de una versión beta del >antivirus AVP para Linux (escanea virus de Win'9x). > >He pensado ponerlo para escanear por la noche en el servidor todos >los directorios compartidos tipo Samba con máquinas de

Re: Antivirus AVP para linux

Ho sento, però aquí és més recomanable escriure en anglès. No he provat l'antivirus aquest. Que vagi bé, I. ___ Do You Yahoo!? Achetez, vendez! À votre prix! Sur http://encheres.yahoo.fr

Re: Guidance

There is not a:\ in GNU/Linux. It's /dev/fd0 and you'll have to mount the unit. Put the diskette. type: mount /dev/fd0 /floppy (make sure you have a directory called /floppy in the base directory). Then go to /floppy If you can see the

Re: X on a 486

At 18.07 29/5/00 +0800, Corey Popelier ha escrit: >Windowmaker runs fine on my 486DX2-66 with 12Mb RAM. :) WindowMaker runs quite decently with the same machine as you, Corey, but w/ 20 MB of short (in cm) RAM slots and w/ an ISA video card. Atila, try to find somewhere in the /usr/X11, usr/doc

Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond the partition barriers!

At 13.28 29/5/00 +0300, Shaul Karl ha escrit: >I am guessing but I hope it will worth something: > >1) I do believe that having Win think it got the whole disk for itself might >be a problem if it will try to use the part that is not belong to it. Although >in this case it might fail and return a

Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond the partition barriers!

Dear Debian users, I've installed Debian recently. My GNU/Linux knowledge at the time is quite basic, but I hope I can learn enough in the forthcoming times, so I can help you more than I am able right now. Let me start with the following situation that I have in my second