Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-21 Thread John Larkin
> > Linux loaded fine... until it tried to mount the disk: > > Kernel Panic: Unable to mount /dev/hda3 > > Now what do you guys say I try? > > BTW, cfdisk is a text program with a pretty nice interface. A couple of things: (step 1) when you boot, after linux recognizes your IDE drives, w

Re: X Windows Startup

1998-09-18 Thread John Larkin
Andy Bierlair wrote > i wanted to install a few things including X WIndows. i can enter > the XWIN setup in the beginning and set up screen, graphic card, > etc... now debian wanted to launch X WINdows once again, and then i > got my problem ! The whole stuff is hanging. i can still see the > Prom

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread John Larkin
Joey Hess wrote > Mario Filipe wrote: > > I installed rvplayer on my machine (slink updated this morning) > > but everytime i try to run welcome.rm (provided with realplayer > > package) it tell's me this: File compression not supported. Cannot > > locate the requested RealAudio decoder. > > You d

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-17 Thread John Larkin
> > I installed rvplayer on my machine (slink updated this morning) > > but everytime i try to run welcome.rm (provided with realplayer > > package) it tell's me this: File compression not supported. Cannot > > locate the requested RealAudio decoder. For more information, > > please see Error 38 a

(forw) [q2servers] Re: Best option for performance

1998-09-17 Thread John Larkin
[snip everything] In the first test, I noticed they were using intel etherexpress pro cards. I don't mean to start a verbal holy war, or say anything about the cards themselves, but I've heard from many people that the linux driver support for these cards is (much) less than optimal. My recomend

Re: Strange behavior of magicfilter configurator

1998-09-16 Thread John Larkin
> I tried installed magicfilter under debian2.0 > and could not configure it. Namely when I choose > the option to create a configure file (printcap) it asked me for > one printer name,...,filter and then for second, third and so on. > I could not to stop the configuration script and to > create p

Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!

1998-09-16 Thread John Larkin
> > I don't think that's too unreasonable. A while ago, the X server for > > my video card was quite unstable (ATI Mach64 w/chrontel ramdac), and I > > ended up needing to kill the xserver remotely about once every 2 or 3 > > days (the xserver would take over the console and refuse to operate > >

Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!

1998-09-16 Thread John Larkin
> No... This is not the problem. As I said, X crashed. This makes the X > server quit without restoring the display, so you just get your X > desktop sitting there. You can restart X remotely, but when you exit, > it restores the previous mode, eg a graphical mode instead of a text > console. When

Re: g++/gcc system errors

1998-09-15 Thread John Larkin
> While working on some C++ code for a programming assignment, I got the > following error: > > /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x36): undefined reference to `main' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > And that is simply after typing "g++ .cc" First, make sure you have a function called main (and it'

Re: Kernel Strategies

1998-09-15 Thread John Larkin
> > Chad> .deb-installed headers from the /usr/include directory. > > > > Ans rightly so. Don't touch them. Ever. > ^ > My question is what if one wants to upgrade the kernel > from non-debian sources? Do we still use the old kernel > headers from t

Re: is this possible with emacs?

1998-09-15 Thread John Larkin
> I would like to know if there is some kind of "source navigator" mode to > browse C/C++ under emacs. > > I'm Looking something like Microsoft VC++ browsing or Linux Source Code > Navigator (Linux's kernel source with full hyperlink references to be used > with a WWW browser) A pretty simple (no

Re: Debian Questions - Newbie-ish

1998-09-14 Thread John Larkin
Mason Loring Bliss wrote > My questions: > > 1) Once I've got everything installed in a basic way, how do I build and > install the world myself? In NetBSD, it's as easy as "cd /usr/src ; make > build". What's the Debian equivalent? Well, the packages are distributed in binary format (hence the m

Re: Two X questions

1996-05-17 Thread John Larkin
m and X to work well together, maybe you'll have better luck. - John Larkin - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree and ATI-Mach-64 cards

1996-05-17 Thread John Larkin
the beta driver for the Mach 64. It has better support for more of the variants of the Mach64 card. After finding the driver at XFree86's web page, you can put it someplace in /usr/local, and tell X to use it for the display driver. - John Larkin