Sound, HELP!

Howdy all, I have been trying to get sound working on my Debian box all week. I've compiled a new Kernel with all the features and settings. But when I looked in /dev I couldn't find "audio." Yes I have added /dev/audio support to the kernel. I don't know what to do. If I don't figure out wha

WP and a Deskjet 870Cxi

Hey all, I've noticed that there have been LOTS of posts for Word Perfect lately. Well, here's another one. I downloaded and installed Word Perfect without any problem. Everything works fine but printing. I have a HP Deskjet 870Cxi. WP only has drivers for a 850C and lower. When I try to print

P/S 2 Mice

Hey all, My friend has installed Debian on his computer. He has a P/S 2 mouse. It wont work in X or in the normal shell with GPM. How would you get a P/S 2 mouse working in Linux? Are there any packages we need to install? TIA! Jeff __ Get Y

/deb/audio and Plug and Play

Hey all, Just about finished "totally installing" Linux. Need some help with my sound card. I compiled a new kernel with sound support. When the kernel boots up it says "Sound Initialized." But when I try to run a program that uses sound it says "/dev/audio device not configured." What do I do

Re: Installing Debian???

Hey, When your installation starts up (before it asks you if you want to use color or not), check for a line that says: "hdc (or hdd, it matters what slot the wire from your CD-ROM to your I/O board) Mitsumi ATAPI detected" or something like that. If you see a line like that, you don't need an

Netscape Downloading resuming

Hey, You can resume downloads in Netscape? How do you enable that? Whenever I have to cancel a download, Netscape deletes the partially downloaded file. Thanks. Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

HP Deskjet

Hey all, It's me again. I have a HP Deskjet 870Cxi. When I try to print to lpr it prints off the page. Does anyone know where I can get Deskjet drivers? HP says they don't have any for Linux. Thanks again! Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Emai

Kernel boot problem!

When I boot up my Linux box it get's stuck on "LILO Loading Linux..." This has never happened before. I just compiled and installed a sound supporting kernel, but that has been working until now. I installed my kernel backup but it still does the same thing. The only way that I can boot my comp

Re: Star Office 3

I alrady have libc5 installed. Any other suggestions? Jeff >Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 00:27:42 -0500 >From: Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Debian-Users >Subject: Re: Star Office 3 > >Jeff Browning wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> I just got St

Star Office 3

Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four hours even if I'm not idle. Anyway, when I try to run setup program in /usr/lib/StarOffice3 it says "Segmentation Error." Also, do you need to have a windows partition to run wine? Thanks a lot. Jeff ___

WINE

Hey all, When I try to run whine, it says: "Could not stat /dos, ignoring drive C: Invalid path 'c:\windows' for windows directory" Uh, help. Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: KDE

Howdy, Yes there are .deb packages for KDE. Go to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and do a search for "kde". I've had KDE for about a day now and am loving it! Good luck! Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

A few questions

Now that I got X up and running, I got a few questions. 1. How do I change the color setting from 256 colors to True Color? 2. Are there any nice, small, graphical web browsers that support a proxy server? 3. Where can I get netscape and what are the procedures for installing it? 4. If I'm i

Need help with XFree86

Hey All! Ahh, finally. I got my Debian CD, installed just about everything. Just one problem. When I try to run "startx" it says: "_XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running Fatal server error: Cannot establ

XFree86 Problem

When I try to run the preinstall script for xfree86, it says: "It appears that you have an a.out system. a.out binaries are not available for this release." Is this correct? If not, how am I supposed to install xfree86? Jeff __ Get Your Private

Oops! Sent that too soon.

And another thing. Is it possible to get back into the drivers configuration thing that I used after installing the drivers disk? Thanks! Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

CD-ROM and Network problems

Hey all, When I installed Debian, I accidentally installed the wrong NIC and CD-ROM drivers. When I try to mount my cd-rom it keeps saying "irq timeout: status=0x50." My NIC is a PCI plug-and-pray card. Does Debian support PNP? Jeff __ Get

RE: Linux newbie needs help

Thanks but when I dpkg the .deb file, it says qt1g depends on xlib6g. Where could I get that? Thanks. Jeff >From: "Person, Roderick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: 'Jeff Browning' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Linux newbie needs help >Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1

Linux newbie needs help

Hey all, Just successfully installed my first linux box with no problems. Now I want to install KDE. In the KDE install guide, it says that I need the Qt library. I downloaded Qt, untar-ed it. When I type ./configure (like it says to do in INSTALL) it says: "Checking for a C-Compiler... check

Should be installing Linux soon. Questions.

Howdy all, I am a Windoze user tired of having 5 lockups a day. I should be installing Linux soon and I have a few questions. 1. Could someone please explain X-Windows to me. What are desktop environments, window managers, etc.? 2. Is Star Office compatible with Office 97 documents? Does it h

Driver Disk

Hey all, I'm new to Linux and for my first box, I think I'll try the Debian distribution. Before I repartitioned my hard disk and wiped out all my files, I thought I'd try out the floppys that I'm going to install Debian with on about 1 meg of free space on my hard disk. I partitioned that spa