Re: Getting there

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > 1. Netscape doesn't even need many comments. It us unstable and full of bugs > under Linux. It works, but it does crash, alot! Always has under Linux. And I > do not want lynx! :) I've heard kfm, KDE's built in browser, is pretty decent, but I haven'

Re: Still Trying [WAS: Re: Another Newbie Q : Sound Configuration]

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > CONFIG_SOUND=m > > CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m > CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m > CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=m > CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m > > CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND=y > CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH=m > > (I think that's it. I pulled these from my .config) This looks good. Don't ask me about MID

Re: su problems with xdm

On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > [root%letdown /home/alisdair] # xmcd > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 Yeah, xdm is more paranoid than startx. You can disable access controls by r

Re: Mozilla is..errm..slow?

> I installed Mozilla today on my potato system. It was very slow. I don't > know how to say this, but if this is how it is supposed to perform it is > no better than it's "dad" Netscape. In fact, it is "worse". This is a known issue, and from what I've heard, the problem lies in gtk, not Mozilla

Re: No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jeff Hill wrote: > After re-installing Windows95 on a dual-boot set-up, the machine > now boots directly to Windows. I tried booting to Debian from > floppy and then re-installing lilo, but that didn't help -- > machine still goes directly to Windows. I think I need to mess >

Re: XWindows and Debian

On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Jayson Baird wrote: > Anyone ever had trouble with a Riva128 card running the SVGA Xserver? No problems here. I've had to do lots of tweaking for the monitor, but the card itself (a Diamond Viper V330) has never given me any trouble at all. > I try to start the server usin

Re: Question about mounting MS-DOS partition

On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: > Because only root can write to an MSDOS partition and you do not want to > be root doing normal things. In other words, you should only be root when > you have to do some administrative task that requires root and then you go > back to being a user again

modem refuses to talk to chat

First off, this is a potato system, kernel 2.2.4, up to date as of 3/24. When I upgraded to the new ppp package, things went majorly boom. I cleaned up a few problems related to /etc/ppp.chatscript and the changes in pppd's connect option (probably relics of my crufty and idiosyncratic ppp setup.