Re: Why Debian

On Monday, November 18, 2013 09:04:12 PM Tamer Higazi wrote: > 1. Because I don't like a commercial sponsored operating system. > How knows on what kind of stupid idea they come to collect data. To me, this is a point that is not emphasized enough. With the NSA revelations that Microsoft, A

Re: Wireless card recommendations

Any recommendations as to cards that have worked with Debian? The Lucent Orinico cards get mentioned in my google trawls on the subject but seem rather expensive... Yes, but IMHO they're worth it (did you check www.pricewatch.com for prices?). Mindlessly simple setup, great Linux support,

Re: Wireless card recommendations

Any recommendations as to cards that have worked with Debian? The Lucent Orinico cards get mentioned in my google trawls on the subject but seem rather expensive... Yes, but IMHO they're worth it (did you check www.pricewatch.com for prices?). Mindlessly simple setup, great Linux support,

Re: Content Management System sought

Do you know any other software pieces that feature the above and are preferably contained in Debian? My advice would be to look into PostNuke with various modules (e.g. phpWiki). I run it on and I think you'll see all the features there

Re: Modem

I have to buy new modem and I have dilemma what to buy. Is there any suggestion? What is better usb or serial modem, external or internal, and what's more important which modem works on Debian? All modems are serial -- that just refers to the way they send bits to the computer (e.g. USB = Uni

Live Wiki on debianhelp.org

Just a quick note to say that the WikiWikiWeb module is now up and running for public use on . The idea behind this Wiki is for users to write up and document their problems/solutions, and to create some HOW-TOs, READ.MEs, and various documentation specifically

Re: StarOffice + Unstable

> Hmm... I was running a 2.4.2 kernel. In view of what you said I got > the 2.4.3 kernel source and tried that - no change - same error, and > then tried my last 2.4.1 kernel - still no-go. There's a thread on this issue on the DebianHELP site

Re: KDE

Ted Gervais wrote: > I was wondering how others are installing KDE with Debian. I select apt-get > install kde, and it can't find it. This must be a FAQ... If you check out you'll find apt lines for potato. Just add the line to /etc/apt/sources.list, run dselect an

Re: Installing KDE 2 using apt-get

> Please, do someone know how to install KDE 2 using apt-get? If you go to you'll find details on adding a line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file which will allow you to install KDE2 in *.deb format. -- Regards,| Need some help with Debian GNU/Linux?

Re: mysql-server broken

> Tried that, too. Still segfaulting and postinst doesn't work. Sorry, I forgot to mention my entire procedure. Here's exactly what I did: 1) I purged mysql-server. 2) This of course, left my /var/lib/mysql subdirectory intact. I then moved /var/lib/mysql to something like /var/lib/mysql.g

Re: mysql-server broken

> Actually, the postinst doesn't go through and I ran into that on my laptop. I found that purging the package (make sure you don't have it set to kill your databases!) and a clean reinstall it would install perfectly. Not a slick solution, but a working one... -- Regards,

Re: Going Debian: advice request

> but I´d like to have some packages in more bleeding-edge versions. > Any problem about that? Should I install woody instead if I intend > to use non-stable packages? Woody's definitely unstable. You can install various items from unstable into a potato system. Whether you should go all wood

Re: Office software - and printers

> 1) What office software is available (preferably free, but non-free > is fine) for Debian? Both GNOME and KDE have office suites available for them. However, though it's not a Debian package, my favorite is StarOffice. StarOffice is now GPL and though it's a pig for resources, I've fou

Re: Keyboard randomly generates a `

> I've seen the freezing on more than one keyboard that subsequently > became completely useless. I'd consider a new keyboard based on that > alone. I've seen this behavior on many keyboards: MS Natural clones, Dell keyboards, random cheapo-type keyboards -- a wide variety. I've never seen

Re: problems with netscape

> I am no fan of Microsoft, but I have come to hate Netscape. I'm quite sure you're not the only one... :-( > IE has simply become a better browser. Sad, but probably true. > I hope I am wrong, but there really is no alternative, is there? I'm hoping that Mozilla saves us. The latest

Call for articles, HOW-TOs, and tips

A new web site has been started called "debianHELP" at . DebianHELP's name is self-explanatory and the site is a slash-like format designed to feature helpful articles/advice on running Debian GNU/Linux, and for people to trade tips/carry on conversations to solve pr

Re: Device name for serial mouse?

> S what device name should I feed to gpmconfig? Typically you'll use /dev/ttyS0 (note the capital 'S') for COM1, and /dev/ttyS1 for COM2. If you don't need support for ttys, you don't really have to use gpm -- you could just edit the XF86Config file directly. There's an article on

Re: I want out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rik M antropov wrote: > > I want to be off all your mailing lists and forums. > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null If the list mantainer is watching, could I make a suggestion? The above sig takes two lines. Since people not understanding how to unsubscribe

Re: staroffice

> I downloaded the Staroffice binaries (10 files with an extension of .bin) > from the Sun site and realized I have no idea how to install them *.bin files are binary files, i.e. programs. Assuming you want to install these as a normal user (which is typical for StarOffice), do the following:

Re: realplayer and sound

Hi Dan, Does sound otherwise work on the system? If not, check to make sure you have rw permissions on your sound devices. Regards, . Randy -- "If the current stylistic distinctions between open-source and commercial software persist, an open-software revolution could lead to yet anoth

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

Philipp Letschert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > If the author is not able in configuring gpm or X > he probably shouldn't write articles for linuxworld.com I thought the same thing. I'm all for teaching people about computers (being a former college professor, now working in a public schoo

Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

Has anyone seen Joe Barr's article in LinuxWorld at ? I was struck by the article in a number of ways. I think it's sad that an experienced user like him couldn't install Debian (sad being the knock goes against him -- i

IPsec and IPMasq/Proxy

I ran into some trouble using a Debian box as an IP Masq gateway (also running Squid) to a network which uses a VPN box employing IPsec. The ISP's tech support said that GNU/Linux was incapable of doing NAT properly with IPsec and that I'd have to kill the NAT and proxy to make things work. I hav

Re: port scan logger

> Can I do that even although it's under the "unstable" / woody packages? > Sorry if this is a stupid question. :) What do I need to watch out for? Not a stupid question at all. When installing packages from other releases the main thing you have to worry about is dependencies -- e.g. If I

Re: serial mouse

> I'm having problems setting up x with this serial mouse. For an MS Mouse, a typical setup in /etc/X11/XF86Config would be: Section "Pointer" Protocol"Microsoft" Device "/dev/mouse" EndSection Of course, /dev/mouse is simply a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS0 (for COM1; or li

Re: Does kernel-source 2.2.15-3 include latest ac patches?

> Didn't 2.2.16 appear to solve some security bugs of 2.2.15? If this is the > case, even if the patches applied to 2.2.15 actually close those security > bugs, wouldn't 2.2.15 give an impression of lack of security? This is what I was thinking if/when potato ships with 2.2.15. Potential new u

Re: firewall

> My next task is setting firewall. Would someone please > let me know where can I find doc on this fireewall > subject. There is a site at (or somewhere below that link) that contains a web-based firewall script generator. Myself, I didn't like th

Re: which SQL database?

> I wanted to setup a Apache+PHP3 Intranet Database Server, > Orcale, MySQL or PostgreSQL, which one is more easy to > learn and config also better supported by Apache+PHP3 ? As far as ease of learning I'd say they're a tossup, six in one hand, half-dozen in the other (not saying I'm an expert

sawmillthemestodeb conversions

I have the package theme-converters installed on a woody system and went ahead and downloaded a ton of themes from . Great, I looped them all through a script and converted them to *.deb files, then did a "dpkg -i" on them. Now, they list in the GNOME Control Center's

Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

> A typical newbie won't start with Debian While that is probably true, I don't think that should be the basis for Debian's mode of operation. Debian needs new users and it needs to be designed to appeal to new users while still maintaining the qualities that separate it from the other GNU/Lin

Re: Netscape using exim/fetchmail?

> Can I force Netscape Communicator 4.72 to bypass its own mail system > and use exim and fetchmail instead? Sure, just use fetchmail to grab mail from the net and put it on the local machine. Here's the strategy: Configure Exim to be an internet site using a smarthost (option #2). You'll

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

> Where can we get more information on this subject? > Where is this being debated, if at all? In the Debian developer's mailing list. Feel free to join it and add your $.02 in if you'd like (like most things in Debian, it's open to all). -- Regards, | Does my signature block look out-of-al

Re: how to make *deb package from source ?

> I am interested how to make debian package from source - You've got two options: read the new maintainer's how-tos (they're packaged as Debian packages) or do a "man apt-get"; apt-get has the ability to grab source packages automagically for you (it'll require editing /etc/apt/sources.list).

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

> the Social Contract so that Debian will stop distributing non-free > packages. If the GR is passed, then Debian will no longer provide the > storage, bandwidth, and bug tracking facilities for non-free packages, > including acroread, blender, netscape, jdk, povray, trn, and xanim. One huge a

NFS Submounts (fixed; recap)

I posted a problem regarding mounting drives under NFS, here's a recap and the solution. Problem: I had an arrangement like this on the NFS server: /dev/hdb1 = /home/ftp/pub /dev/hdc1 = /home/ftp/pub/linux/debian And I wanted to export the entire "tree" out via NFS. After mounting the

Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

>> I disagree! Helix Gnome is *way* better than the old Debian Gnome >> packages were. It's worth the upgrade! > And exactly what is so much better if I may ask? Having installed Helixcode on a couple of users' Debian machines, they were thrilled with it. I wondered the same thing, why?

Dual English/Russian Debian system

I'm pretty clueless when it comes to charsets and I've never done anything serious with the Cyrillic alphabet. What I want to do is to install Debian into a dual English/Russian system. Basically, I want the system to work as an English system, but with the ability to handle Cyrillic in edi

Mailing list managers

With today's announcement that majordomo is going to be dropped from Debian, I was wondering if I could spark up a discussion as to the pros/cons of other Debian-packaged mailing list programs. What other mailing list managers are you using? (I've only used majordomo and mailman.) What are

Re: Debian Installation (was blank subject)

> I CAN NOT GET DEBIAN TO INSTALL!! PLEASE HELP Screaming like that (all caps is considered shouting in E-Mail) doesn't help anyone -- actually, it encourages people to ignore you. You have to give details. Machine type/configuration, version of Debian, what type of install. What exact po

Re: staroffice

> I was wondering how I can make my other users be able to use it too > because when other users try to execute soffice nothing happens. As I recall, you have to use an option -- something like "-net" -- on StarOffice's initial install. Then each user has to run a "setup", which copies about 1

Re: NFS submounts

> Stupid question: have you mounted the subdirectory locally? I.e., try > # mount server:/home/ftp/pub /mnt > # mount server:/home/ftp/pub/linux/debian /mnt/linux/debian With the help of some of our local LUG people, I discovered the problem. The problem was that I was using the kernel NFS se

Re: lost /vmlinuz

> apt-get upgrade tried to upgrade my kernel image. I moved 2.2.15-idepci > to .old and apt installed a new image but now when lilo tries to boot > off the hard drive it complains that /vmlinuz is missing. Yes, you've got exactly the idea -- recreate the vmlinuz symbolic link. As you've pro

NFS submounts

I'm having a problem with NFS. My basic NFS is working; so I can mount the shares remotely. The problem is that I cannot "see" submounted partitions from across the network. For example, on the server I have /home/ftp/pub as one partition. Then I have /home/ftp/pub/linux/debian as another

Re: Is Storm based on potato or slink ?

> When I do apt-get dist-upgrade, it shows I am up to date. Does anyone have > experience with Storm? Is it potato or slink? I really like Storm Linux. To me, they've got things pretty near right. They stick to Debian standards, unlike Corel, and have a nice, easy install (both text/graphic

Re: localtime/universal time

> stupid question, maybe, but is there any way to change to local time after > having chosen universal time when installing debian? if so, how do it do it? Don't you just love little things like that? :-) A "man tzconfig" reveals: The Debian GNU/Linux system gains its knowledge of this set

Re: Linuxconf in potato broken?

> Last I looked, the README.Debian file in the linuxconf package clearly > states that linuxconf is still very broken on Debian. That's okay. Many of my Red Hat-using friends also report more than their share of bugs in it. :-) -- Regards, | Moore's Law: Every 2 years CPU power will double.

Re: List

> Is there a general linux discussion list which is > active? The majordomo at vger.rutgers.edu hosts a lot of different distribution generic and topic-specific GNU/Linux mailing lists. For a listing of all the lists hosted at vger, a search of any decent mailing list search engine will tur

Sawmill/Gnome raising windows

Here's my stupid question for the day (I'm allotted one per day, aren't I?!:-). How can I configure Sawmill/Gnome so that a window will rise to the top if I click on the title bar? I prefer a sloppy focus, one where I can move the mouse over a window and have it in focus. However, I don

Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading

> But how do I, for example, install a newer version of windowmaker or > netscape? There are several .deb packages, and I don't know which of > them to use. Just use dselect, browse through the various descriptions of the *.deb files. If all else fails, just "try it" -- the worse you'll do

Re: Squid

> Does anyone have an idea to solve this?? Sorry Sven, I don't. But as one who's played with using Squid's ACL functions, I'll suggest a different strategy. In the Squid docs on ACL you'll find descriptions of an option to reference out to a file to get blocked URLs and/or domains. When I

Re: Syslog and kern.log after upgrade

> Ever since I upgraded to potato my syslog and kern.log has grown to huge > sizes: > Feb 9 04:36:34 rademaker kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 > 130.161.65.12:138 130.161.65.127:138 L=242 S=0x00 I=7424 F=0x T=128 > (#6) I've gotten a lot of similar errors with one of the recen

Potato network problems

I've got a potato box which just broke on a recent update. This machine is a IP masquerading gateway, it has ipmasq and the various other potato networking tools installed. The machine's been running fine, but when I did an update Monday evening it stopped talking to the net sometime during

Single quote keyboard chars

I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this problem with the latest potato. I get random, occasional single quote characters (`) which appear in what apps I happen to be using. This occurs on several different machines. The keyboards themselves are clone MS Natural and/or Dell keyb

Re: Ethernet question

> Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked > fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an > ifconfig eth0 This is typically done in the script /etc/init.d/network That script is generated at install when you answer the questions about your

MP3 <--> Audio tools

Can anyone give me a suggestion for utilities to convert audio CD songs to/from MP3s; I haven't really played with MP3s seriously and want to create a couple of "greatest hits"-type CDs. TIA. -- Regards, | Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org - More software than .| *any* distri

Re: Virus scanner

> Is there a virus scanner available for linux that I can use to scan mails, > downloads etc. before they even reach M$ systems? There is a native Linux anti-virus program called AVP which I seem to recall will do exactly this (with that said, I might be mistaken though:-). You can reach them

Re: apache index.html

> How do I tell apache where index.html is as it can't seem to see the one in > /var/www? Default Debian Apache installs put the web root in /var/www. Apache also installs a default index.html file there. This location is actually installed in /etc/apache, under which is several configuration

Re: connecting to internet

> I am a newbie and have just installed Debian. I need to connect to a website > to download an upgrade to xfree86. I put the url in my sources list, but when > I try apt-update, the response I get is that the website doesn't exist. Welcome to Debian Steve. First, ignore me if I'm talking down

Re:

> what is debian? It's interesting that you found your way onto this list without knowing that. But to answer your question, check out for an answer. -- Regards,| Windows98 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a . | graphic

Re: Slashdot clones

> Any particular reason you don't want to use slash? > ( http://slashdot.org/code.shtml ) Actually, yes. It was the line of text on that page, something about "you *will* have problems" (or something to that effect) that sort of scared me. :-) -- Regards, | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Linux: s

Slashdot clones

I've got a project that needs a weblog with conversations, i.e. a Slashdot clone. Other than Squishdot, does anyone have any feedback on which Slashdot clones to look at? I've been through Freshmeat and found several, but toying around with them is increasingly time consuming. I'd love to

Re: An open letter to the debian community

> the big battles and then mop up the little ones later. Get Linux on every > webserver first ... then worry about the applications and pick them off > one-by-one. I think the same logic can be used to point to the need of getting Linux to the desktop. Until serious headway is made on the d

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

> actually sounds kinda scary. Flashback to when AOL entered the Internet?! :-) I dunno, I'm working up a default reply now that points people to Corel's support newsgroups...or should we instead work to bring those folks away from the dark side? :-) -- Regards,| Debian G

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

Joe Block wrote: > > When I did the install on my friend's laptop, the first thing I did > after corel's install was done was add my local mirror of slink, > security.debian.org, the y2k updates & the XFree86 3.3.5 to its > sources.list and update & upgrade. I went ahead and did a Corel to sli

Netstd reorganization

Can someone point me to some documentation or clue me into the netstd reorganization? I understand that netstd was broken down into individual components, but I sort of miss the old way, simply because I never learned all of what was in netstd. When netstd asked if I wanted to disable the "

Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)

> Well, I have potato with 2.2.13 and StarOffice working fine here. What's really strange is that I've got this machine which SO 5.1a works great on. In my laptop, however (and which I need for a presentation day after tomorrow which I did in SO!), StarOffice errors. Both boxes run the lat

Corel to Slink upgrade

Has anyone tried taking the freebie Corel Linux install and upgrading it to slink? I saw that Corel left the slink entries commented out in /etc/apt/sources.list and was curious as to what would go on if someone did an update and an apt-get dist-upgrade. I've been playing with the idea of testing

Re: scsi cards

> or solutions from other manufacturers? Also check out AdvanSys cards at . They're inexpensive, great performing cards with no brainer driver support (one driver supports all of their cards) in the Linux kernel; plus the few times I've dealt with their tech support I'

Alsa problem - can't locate module sound-slot-0

I've changed my sound around to Alsa and since I use a custom kernel I went the Alsa source route. I followed the instructions in the debian/README file religiously and generated my Alsa modules. However, upon running them I get the message that "modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0".

Re: web email packages

> What's the best GNUd web mail program you people know? Where can I > find it? It would be ideal if there were a .deb for it, Debian has IMP packaged for it, which is a really slick web-based IMAP E-Mail package (it's in potato, not sure about slink). IMP's pretty slick. Myself, my prefer

Re: apt-get

> OK, so I guess I have to bite the bullet. How is the general opinion on > potato at the moment? IMHO, the biggest problem I've seen is that NIS is broken (has some files that conflicts with hostname). Bind will need some major reconfiguration, along with some other things probably; but gene

Re: apt mirror list for Debian KDE packages?

> Can someone point me to a list of working mirrors for the slink and potato > kde distributions? KDE.Org has them on their FTP site -- I was just playing with this today... Here's a line for the potato version which works (a simple change to slink should work too): deb ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/p

Re: zope problems

> I did the suggested permission changes in /var/lib/zope making it > writtable by www-data, but without luck. You probably did it (but I have to ask anyway:-) but did you create a superuser account in /var/lib/zope/access? -- Regards, | Upgrade your old Windows machine to Linu

potato auto fsck

Has anyone noticed any oddities with the latest update to potato's e2fs programs? I upgraded three machines and two worked perfectly; the third, however, will hang upon running /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh. If I bypass the end of checkfs.sh (where it does the auto fsck) with an exit 0 the system

Re: Generating Thumbnail Image web pages

> I remember seeing a package that thumbnail indexes of graphics > directories in HTML somewhere in the debian site, but I can't > seem to find it again. Does anyone know the name of this package? You're probably thinking of webmagick. Very slick package, though I've had some problems with it

Re: Netscap4 (potato)

> Netscape46 installed on Debian 2.1 (potato) from /unstable/potato > directory. I couldn't find 'netscape' in /usr/bin directory > What's wrong with it. Did you check in the /usr/bin/X11 subdirectory? That's where the netscape package normally makes a symlink called netscape pointing to /etc/

Re: Cooledit for debian?

> Does anyone know whether somebody is packaging cooledit for Debian? It is > a very nice, and fast X-editor with a lot of features. The place to check on things like this is the Debian "Work Needing and Prospective Packages" page (it's under the Developer's section of http://www.debian.org at

Netscape 4.6 crashes

I'm running potato with potato's netscape 4.6 (smotif). Often, though not 100% consistently, Netscape will not exit properly when I do a "File -> Exit" (Alt-Q) and/or click on the X widget to close the window. I know this is happening because the next time I go into Netscape, all of the mai

Basic SCSI question

I don't have any experience with Linux and SCSI drives and was wondering if someone could give me some basic-level/newbie pointers on SCSI setup. The computer has an AdvanSys card in it and I've recompiled the kernel with advansys, generic SCSI, and SCSI CD-ROM support. This seems okay as d

DHCP server recommendation

I've noticed several dhcp servers in potato. I was curious if anyone had any recommendations for one to use with a 2.2.x kernel in your typical network of Windows machines and Linux boxes. TIA. -- . | Celebrate the Linux "WE'RE NEVER GOING OUT Randy | O

Re: X server on a Compaq Presario 1235

> Thanks for the reply. Where would we find an xserver-neomagic > package? I don't see it in either the stable or the unstable > distributions? Hmm, neither could I! But I'm not making this up, seriously! :-) The package itself is "xserver-neomagic", a non-free/x11 extra package maintai

Re: Mounting my cdrom

>mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist > What is wrong here? The device /dev/cdrom is typically just a symbolic link to whatever "real" device your CD-ROM is on. You can straighten this out easily. First, double-check to see if /dev/cdrom exists ('ls -l /dev/cdrom'). If it do

Re: X server on a Compaq Presario 1235

> We have been trying to configure an X server from Debian 2.1 on a > Compaq Presario 1235 laptop. SuperProbe reports I've got a Presario 1236 laptop running Potato very nicely with the 2.2.5 kernel (well, all except the sound, I've only got it half-configured (sound config tips welcome!:-)).

Re: deb vs. rpm

> Could someone please enlighten me to the differences in functionality > between deb and rpm packages? Thorsten, check out a nice page which Joey put up summarizing features of the different package formats. You can find it at . Regarding dependenci

Re: Linux Hardware website??

> Does anybody know any good websites that talks and reviews the > best hardware and are best supported by linux?? This is something that's needed badly. I'm going through this right now deciding which SCSI card I should purchase. As more and more people buy equipment solely for use with Linu

Re: Looking for trouble.

>> 3) I tried to create some scripts, very simple ones, but they refuse to >> run, or the system says "command not found." Example: [...] >> Saved as "telltime," then mode changed with chmod -v u+x telltime. With cat >> I can still see the contents of the file as plain text. Is this normal? >> As s

CTX notebooks and Debian

I'm looking into picking up a CTX EzBook 7PJ notebook and I was wondering if anyone could give me any feedback on either this model or CTX notebooks in general. Of course, I'm planning on running Debian on it, so if anyone knows about CTX and X compatabilities I'd appreciate any info you might hav

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

> as far as i know the SB 128 PCI is based on the chip es1371 > so i would try CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y instead. Thanks Helmut, but no, there's two different varieties of the SB 128 PCI according to the driver readme. You identify them with a 'lspci -n' command; according to the output I'm usin

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

> What kernel is this, exactly (if it really is a 2.1, you should probably > upgrade)? Are you using compiled-in drivers, or modules? I was running the 2.2.1 kernel which is in potato. Since your message I jumped over to netgod.net and grabbed the debs for 2.2.5. Installed them, configured a

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

> Somthing tells me that perhaps you don't have soundcore? (What, I couldn't > say, as I don't have the kernel sources about.) Do you have a /proc/sound? Hmm, I'm not sure what a soundcore is. But I do not have a /proc/sound. -- Regards, | REDMOND, WA (API) --- MICROSOFT (MSFT) announced

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

> no, dont need to load oss driver, just the es1370 That's what I thought after reading the kernel es1370 docs; good. Right now I've got the driver compiled straight into the kernel (not as a module). > what do you get at boot? Things look fine. Dmesg tells me: es1370: version v0.17

Re: Partitions and install problem

> Am I being crazy or immoral wanting only one partition? most Faqs and docs > I read about it say you should always make a few partitions. Using multiple partitions gives you a great deal of flexibility. One can easily add new stuff and reuse the old partitions for something else. You also g

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

> look for /dev/audio... if it's not there > run /dev/MAKEDEV audio Yes, I already have a audio device: crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 4 Apr 1 18:18 /dev/audio (I added the other r/w perms myself) Still no noise though. I'm thinking that I need something else in the kernel config

Re: access for non-us packages

> I'd suguest enlightenment over wmaker, (Hoping not to start a flame war...:-) Why? -- Regards, | Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org - More software than . | *any* distribution, rock solid reliability, quality control, Randy | seamless upgrades via ftp or CD-ROM, strict

SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

I'm playing trying to get a SoundBlaster 128 PCI card working with the 2.2.1 kernel. The card's id'ed as a 1275:5000 by lspci -n, so I've compiled it with the Ensoniq ES1370 driver in the kernel's sound options. However, I can't get a squeak out of the card. I'm pretty clueless when it comes

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

> So Hewson makes some good points. Linus still isn't ready for the > desktop, at least for the masses. But it will be Tomorrow. So stay > tuned I agree -- a lot of his points, particularly about the lack of mainstream apps, are valid. I'd also like to see more hardware support for odd-bal

Re: Beta-testing and the glibc 2.1 (Was: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

>> If you need your machine for "real work" then you shouldn't be running >> unstable. > If debian unstable isn't tested on machines used for real work, > debian is going to end up a toy distribution which is only suitable for > work on systems which aren't appropriate for real work. I agree wh

Re: I can't believe this

> Yeah, and a whole bunch of other people. Basicly the article's slant is > be afraid of Debian, be very afraid. I couldn't believe the way they portrayed Debian as a commercial product -- even the X days of support (that's your job George:-). The one strong positive they noted -- the packa

Re: Favorite WP/Office software...

> I'm curious what people feel is their favorite word processor/ office > productivity suite I use primarily WordPerfect and StarOffice. Out of these two I think WordPerfect is a more "elegant" program/environment. WP is definitely faster loading and I tend to use it more. However, I think

Re: VNC

> vncserver, svncviewr and xvncviewer are all in separate packages. Do > you have xvncviewer installed? Duhhh! My apologies for wasting bandwidth; please ignore the previous message. :-) -- Regards,| Debian GNU/ __ o http://www.debian.org .

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