Re: How long is linux going to be free ?

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 02:56:24AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > As much as I like RMS, I think if he wants people to call anything > GNU/Linux, he needs to go out and start an all-GNU distribution, since > you don't necissarily have to use GNU tools to use it, or compile it. It's known as the HURD

Re: Newbie Installation Problems

On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:57:03AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:47:04PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Fun fact: Today is Oregon Day. On this day in 1859, Oregon became the > > US's 33rd state, the result of the Vote at Champoeg, in which two > > Canadians wanted de

Re: Debian und Counterstrike - works fine

last I was aware, wine in debian did was not compiled with opengl support enabled. Might be the cause of your low framerate at the time. Does anyone know if this has been changed? Wine from CVS has not been able to run half life for about three months now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

alsa driver configuration

hello all. I am trying to configure alsa drivers on an unstable box. I compiled them with make-kpkg without a problem and the deb installed. Following instructions on the web I added a file alsa to /etc/modutils... which debconf prompted and moved to /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 and linked back. I

Re: How do I allow other users access to X display under kdm?

On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 02:04:49AM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Tuesday 24 December 2002 00:59, David Marsh wrote: > > I'm running the kdm login manager under KDE 3.0.3 ("unofficial" .debs) > > on my 'sarge' system. > > > > When I installed kdm it noted that it locked down all kinds of settings

X spontaniously dieing

Hello. I've recently installed and configured X. After some troubleshooting it seems that everything is right so far. except that when I startx it looks as if it is loading. I get the grey X pattern and then it dies. What am I missing? Mark This is a pre-release version of XFree86,

Re: "Burn" CD audio to a file

If you are just trying to listen to music it would by far be easiest and simplest to rip the cd tracks into ogg vorbis or mp3 formats. There are many programs to facilitate this. Apt-cache search ripper, apt-cache search ogg... etc. if you aredetermined to be odd it is possible to rip a

fail to open /dev/dri:operation not permitted

(including this list) and found references that I should look for a README.dri file somewhere in the /usr/share/doc/xserver-xfree86/ directory. Since that file does not seem to exist on my sarge install I am a bit on the bothered side. Any input would be appreciated. Mark Whaite -- To