Newbie Notes

Yesterday, I asked for help on a brand new Debian Sarge install. I still do not know much about fixing things, but I am getting better at doing an install. My last install was done while traveling, so I did not have network access. Since the net was not active, my ethernet was not configured. I had

Beginner help

I am a very new beginner to Debian. If this is not the right place to ask, then perhaps others can direct me. I installed Sarge, and seem to have Gnome Desktop running.I have a few questions. 1.I need to add a user, but when I do, they cannot access the sound card. I think it is permissions, but wh

Newbie Troubles with Debian

Greetings. I am an old hardware engineer with many years of working on systems hardware. I recently decided to switch to Linux, and so began a search for a desktop replacement. My experience has been frustrating, and I wanted to ask advice.I Can can run live, from Knoppix and Puppy. I like K

StarOffice 5.1 Segmentation fault on potato

After breezing through the installation procedure (saying `y' to the glibc 2.0.7 warning -- I have 2.1.1), when I run `./soffice' or `./soffice.bin' I get a segmentation fault. Has anyone else seen this? Mike -- Mike Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: multiple copies of digest?

Multiple copies here, so I'm special too. Mike > -Original Message- > From: Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 09, 1999 9:41 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: multiple copies of digest? > > Is everyone getting multiple copies, or a

RE: YAMAHA-OPL3SA3 (using kernel drivers)

Hi Piotr, I think you said you wanted to do this with a 2.0 kernel; mine works using a late-2.1 kernel (2.1.132?). I just followed the instructions in the kernel source file Documentation/sound/OPL3-SA2: the driver is good for SA2, SA3 and SAx. Regards, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wmaker icons

Hi Marcelo, You wrote: Another one of my screw ups this week. wmaker-data moved the icons from /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/ to /usr/share/icons; I thought about that, but I did only half the thinking :-( Update your IconPath in ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker to

RE: dpkg: `error setting ownership of symlink'

Mine qualifies: it's 2.1.82. I'll try a newer kernel. Thanks, Mike > -Original Message- > From: David Z. Maze [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 1998 2:27 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: dpkg: `error setting owners

dpkg: `error setting ownership of symlink'

Is there something I can do to get around this error? debian# dpkg -i tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb (Reading database ... 36894 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tk4.2 (from tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb) ... dpkg: error processing tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb (--install):

dpkg and tk4.2

When I attempt to re-install the tk4.2 run-time lib that I had forcibly removed, I get the following: debian# dpkg -i tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb (Reading database ... 36894 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tk4.2 (from tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb) ... dpkg: error p

Kernel Compile after libc6 upgrade

This week I tried compiling a kernel (2.0.32) for the first time since upgrading to libc6 about a month ago. I can't get past `make dep.' It fails with the following message: debian# make dep make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/arch/i386/boot' make[1]: Nothing to be done f

ASUS Pentium II motherboard

My computer at work is being upgraded this week to an ASUS P2L97 AGP motherboard with a 233-MHz Pentium II. I'm moving from a Compaq Deskpro 200-MHz Pentium Pro, but I get to keep the hard drive, SMP EtherPower card and Matrox Millenium PCI video card (no video upgrade to AGP yet). On the old mac