Re: Fonts in gvim

2003-09-27 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
> > gvim only offers up a seemingly small subset of fonts on my system > > (compared to what Mozilla shows, for example). > > *Which* gvim? A GTK1 gvim is going to use any XLFD font you care to > name... a GTK2 gvim is only going to use ones served by fontconfig > (Xft2). > > > I'd like to use

References, please: /dev/sequencer and Ensoniq 1371

2001-12-02 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
I'm at my wit's end here. I have a 'testing' system that's got an Ensoniq 1371 sound card in it. I recompiled the kernel after I got the card, and sound in general (xmms, sound effects in Doom, etc.) has been working fine for months. However, /dev/sequencer doesn't seem to work. A long dig thr

Vim 6.0 on Potato?

2001-11-20 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
Has anyone built a .deb for Vim 6.0 on potato? I can go and do this myself (I know what else I need to build to make all of the dependencies, like all of the Debian build scripts, work), but my potato machine is pretty slow... if someone else has already done this, that would be great. Please CC

Re: Small Debian Install?

2001-08-12 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
> Probably WRT console mode, don't even try X. > > On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Hi, I'm looking into buying a 386 laptop with 4 mb RAM, and a 160mb HDD. Will > >I be able to install Debian on this? How about X windows? I also a similar question a while ago... check the June

apt-get issue(s)

2001-08-12 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
I'm cross-posting this to user and security, because there are really two (possibly-related) issues here. Feel free to take replies to just one list or the other. On my firewall (running potato), I have been using these apt sources.list entries: deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates

Low Memory Install?

2001-06-07 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM was in 1996 or 1997 when I was using RedHat 4.2. RedHat's installer wouldn't even run prop