Mouse goes nuts in X

2001-03-03 Thread John McPeek
and a optical wheel mouse. I tried X config also. Any Ideas? Thanks John McPeek

One last chance

1998-09-21 Thread john mcpeek
ed on NFS if that is within the realm of possibility. Thank you John McPeek

Plip, Plip My Kingdom for a Plip

1998-09-20 Thread john mcpeek
he mini howto on the sun site and it's not there anymore. I read that Linux Journal has an article but it's only open to subscribers. I have seen howtos for Linux to Linux and they help some, but not with this. Thank you all John McPeek

GNOME it doesn't want to come out and play?

1998-09-11 Thread john mcpeek
the dependencies. Did I do something wrong or not install something? P.S. I used apt-get through dselect to get the stuff. John McPeek

Old ATI runs like mud

1998-08-30 Thread john mcpeek
I have a ATI grphics ultra pro and I read in the ATI MACH32 readme that X doesn't support acceleration in my chipset. Is there any way to get some resonable response out of my old but trusty card (VLBus).

PLIP and win95

1998-08-30 Thread john mcpeek
Does anyone know how to make win95 use the LPT port as the network interface so I can setup a link between my linux box with PLIP and my win95 box

RETRANSMIT Hard Drive Striping

1998-08-08 Thread john mcpeek
Hi all, I have an old 486 I am using to learn Linux (unix) on. I had a 250 Meg drive in it but it didn't have enough room for all the stuff I wanted. I put an old 240 Meg drive that was just laying around in it, but I don't know how to set them up to work as one drive. I saw something about dri

Hard drive sriping

1998-08-07 Thread john mcpeek
Hi all, I have an old 486 I am using to learn Linux (unix) on. I had a 250 Meg drive in it but it didn't have enough room for all the stuff I wanted. I put an old 240 Meg drive that was just laying around in it, but I don't know how to set them up to work as one drive. I saw something about drive

NAG, NAG, NAG

1998-08-04 Thread john mcpeek
ut it. I have a win95 box an a Hamm box. Any thoughts on where to start? Hey I don't know much but learning how is half the fun. John McPeek -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

How do I set up PNP devices

1998-07-29 Thread john mcpeek
I have a PNP USR 33.6 sportster. I ran pnpdump and it showed the modem but I don't know how to make pon use it. How do I deturmine what device it is for input into pppconfig. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

install help ?libc5?

1998-07-24 Thread John McPeek
I just down loaded and installed the 2.0 release. I got though the install and selected the standard package for dselect to install. After hours of down load time I get the message that perl cant be installed because of a libc5 conflict and shortly there after I got pages of similar errors (libc5

ppp connection

1998-07-19 Thread John McPeek
I can't make a ppp connection. This is a sample of my PPP.LOG Jul 18 09:48:39 Hal-9000 pppd[157]: unrecognized option 'ok' Jul 18 09:50:11 Hal-9000 pppd[162]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Jul 18 09:50:43 Hal-9000 pppd[162]: Terminating on signal 15. Jul 18 09:50:44 Hal-9000 pppd[162]: Exit. J

Moving a life to a dos box

1998-07-18 Thread John McPeek
I just installed GNU/LINUX and I need to get a file (ppp.log) from my linux box to my dos box. As you may be able to tell I am trying to learn about unix from books. My original problem is with making a ppp con but I was told to get the file so someone can help me. Just a little more help and I c

pon gets me nowhare

1998-07-16 Thread John McPeek
I come up and log in. I'm happy, no problem there. I run pon. Nothing.? I hit plog, and I get a whole list of errors. Script failed. and I get pppd started @ x BUT nothing happens and I checked all the stuff in pppconfig- all correct. Please Help! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAI