possible move to unstable..

hey all.. I know this mite stir up a great deal of debate, but its not my intention.. Im currently running potato, and thinking bout running unstable.. there are quite a few packages I would like to have in unstable, and I know ahead of time, to successfully install those packages, there are oth

[westk@acu.edu: Re: Can't get sound to work!]

- Forwarded message from Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Rev. Ferret wrote: > Ok, I added myself to user audio and I now get sound from things. There is > just one problem. The sound skips. It sounds like a broken record player, > where it plays the same bit over and over > again. I

[bvmcg@yahoo.com: vga8x16 font...]

- Forwarded message from Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Okay, this is driving me NUTS. I *know* there used to be a vga8x16 font. But I can't find what package contains it. I've installed every last font pack I could find, but I can't find vga8x16 anywhere. This was my standard xte

[ferret@optonline.net: Can't get sound to work!]

- Forwarded message from "Rev. Ferret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Hi, I'm having problems getting my sound blaster 16 working. I used modconf to select the sb module, which in turn selected a bunch of the oss modules. After doing this, I can play audio cd's, but whenever I try to run gmix it

cant compile gtk theme

hey all. im tryin to install a gtk theme from source, and am getting this error: checking for gtk-config... no checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or se

expand the man page ??

hey wusup yall ? recently converted from using Red Crap for a year, and am loving debian so far =) I use a res of 1280x1024 in X.. when I open rxvt, and then a man page inside it, the man page only takes up half of the width of the terminal.. or thereabouts anyway.. is there somethin I can chang