help with cdrom.h

2000-11-09 Thread John McBride
Hi, I have been trying to compile the codebase for "bcast 2000", a multimedia application on my debian box. Under /usr/src/linux/include/linux (kernel 2.2.17), there is a file named "cdrom.h" that has many DVD_* definitions. But under /usr/include/linux, the cdrom.h does not have these definitio

Re: Kernel compilation -- Error 127 after trying Make bzImage

2000-10-09 Thread John McBride
Ulrich wrote: > > I tried to compile a kernel from the 2.2.17-source. > Up to 'make dep' and 'make clean', everything went fine. > Make bzImage stops with following error-message: >as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s >Make(1): as86: Command not found >Make(1): *** [bbootsect.o] Error

three issues w/ my upgrade (fsck, modules, link)

2000-10-08 Thread John McBride
Hello, Love this distro, just rearranged my hard drive and rebuilt a buncha stuff. Ideas or comments on these appreciated. 1) fsck during the boot sequence. I changed from a small root partition to several partitions. Now when the machine boots, it runs fsck on the former (and still) root partiti

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-13 Thread John McBride
Rogerio Brito wrote: > > On Jun 10 2000, John McBride wrote: > > > > I tentatively agree. But my employer (for example) would take > > RedHat, Storm or Corel over a raw debian, simply because their > > installs are far more modern and professional. > >

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-11 Thread John McBride
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, John McBride wrote: > > > XF86Setup will start working right. Main problem now is that when I log > > in through gdm/helix gnome, there is no wm started -- just a gray > > stipple and a single button

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-11 Thread John McBride
Colin Watson wrote: > > John McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >As soon as I got a base system working, I updated my sources.list and > >used "apt-get update". It failed after retreiving the pkg files with an > >E: message that some package names were

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread John McBride
Mike Werner wrote: > > John McBride wrote: > > > Actually, I strongly prefer startx, but don't see how to disable gdm > > without breaking helix-gnome -- it seems to require gdm. You can't > > simply edit /etc/inittab like you can on RedHat. apt-get rem

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread John McBride
Carl Fink wrote: > > It should, I grant you, but have you tried "dpkg -S"? > here's a nasty one: > expectk bash: expectk: command not found root> dpkg -S expectk dpkg: *expectk* not found. web page shows: interpreters/expect5.24 interpreters/swig root> apt-get install expect [candidates : 5.2

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread John McBride
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > You'll ohh and ahhh as apt-get fails on package name lengths that are > > too long! > > Sorry? Details? Never seen this. As soon as I got a base system working, I updated my sources.list and used "apt-get update". It failed after retreiving the pkg files with a

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread John McBride
Carl Fink wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 02:16:45PM -0700, John McBride wrote: > > > You'll visit the debian.org site approximately 3,596,391 times finding > > out what package provides a command you need...since apt-get doesn't > > have "what-pro

The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread John McBride
Yes, you too can experience the thrill of installing and upgrading the Debian distro! You'll impress your neighbors with your buff pinky muscles, built after hours of banging the living bejeesus out of the enter key to accept the default configurations for a plethora of programs you never use or a

Re: How to properly Gnomeify Storm Linux?

2000-05-25 Thread John McBride
Phillip Deackes wrote: > > John McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have been using Storm Linux, but am tired of KDE. > > > > I installed potato, and the helix-gnome, as well as some of the window > > managers. > > On

How to properly Gnomeify Storm Linux?

2000-05-24 Thread John McBride
Hello, I have been using Storm Linux, but am tired of KDE. I installed potato, and the helix-gnome, as well as some of the window managers. Here are my questions: 1) I tried a bunch of window managers and the helixcode stuff, and now my destop is broken (I think WindowMaker did...something. All