Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

2001-11-27 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 20:28 27/11/2001 -0500, dman wrote: A GUI can do the things the designer thought of quite easily, but they can't do anything else easily. Pipes and filters allow fairly simple programs to be combined to perform complex and unique operations quite easily, once the learning curve of the utiliti

Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

2001-11-27 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 14:49 27/11/2001 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: It probably didn't show any matches because the string "dpkg frontend for X" didn't appear in the archives. Try separating the words with ;. Thanks. I'll try that. > Question two: I'm looking for a good graphical frontend for > dp

Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

2001-11-27 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
Hello everyone, Question one: when I'm using the archive search form on http://lists.debian.org/search.html, if I select all quarters on the Date Filter, does it search in all quarters or just the first quarter of the selection? I searched for "dpkg frontend for X" and it returned "No matche

Re: Win2000 , Debian Dual Boot

2001-11-20 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 11:39 20/11/2001 +0100, Albert Heijn wrote: Installed windows first then Debian . Cant tell the version of grub right now ... but it is the version from Debian testing . If you have another Linux box available, log on it, download the latest GRUB images and docs and make a GRUB boot floppy.

Re: 2 doubts

2001-11-09 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 22:04 9/11/2001 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear members , I have 2 doubts : 1) How do you take lilo out of MBR in a fully functional Win-Lin dual-boot machine ? 2) How do you write (manually) either the Win 98 boot loader or the Win 2K/Win NT boot loader to MBR ? Seems like you wa

Re: Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12

2001-10-26 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 23:09 25/10/2001 -0400, eDoc wrote: > To boot the kernel from /dev/hda2 with ide bus speed set to 66MHz, enter on > the GRUB command line: > root (hd0,1) OK. > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 idebus=66 When I enter this I get an "Error 15: File not found" What is it that it cannot find

Re: Modem PCTel HSP56Micromodem on-board funciona no Debian 2.2 r3?

2001-10-23 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 00:07 22/10/2001 -0200, André Muniz Costa wrote: Olá, Já testei várias distribuições do Linux, e agora estou com o Debian 2.2 r3. Porém estou tendo um antigo problema: meu modem é pctel hsp56micromodem on-board e não estou conseguindo instalar no Debian. Já peguei o driver, já instalei o ke

X problem: No startx or xinit

2001-10-18 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
Hello again, Here I am with one more problem... I installed potato using the CDs. I used dselect to select packages to install and I left it unchanged, that means I did not install any X packages. Afther that, I changed the apt source to testing and ran "apt-get dist-upgrade". Then I

XF86Config-4

2001-10-10 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
Hi, I was browsing through the archives to find a way to make the wheels of my MS Intellimouse work on X. I found a piece of configuration that should be inserted on XF86Config: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option

Re: Can Linux use a Microsoft Proxy Server to access the Internet?

2001-09-29 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 21:44 26/9/2001 +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: http access is one thing. have fun trying to get out of the network with something like ssh or smtp/pop3. don't worry, micro$oft made sure that everyone has to use their crap, at least afaik. if you *do* find a way to use the proxy server as a regu

Can Linux use a Microsoft Proxy Server to access the Internet?

2001-09-26 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
Hello all, The company I work for has a Windows NT 4.0 Server connected to an ISP through a T1 (I think). Anyways, this machine has a Microsoft Proxy Server (SOCKS5, I think) and every other machine on the network access the Internet using Microsoft Proxy Client 2.0. I have Debian (potato)

Re: S3 savage on potato

2001-08-06 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 20:04 5/8/2001 +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: I have a new PC here that has some form of S3 Savage video onboard, which isn't supported by XFree86 3.3.6, but apparently is supported under version 4. I am running Debian 2.2r3 (potato), which only supports XFree86 3.3.6 -- it seems that XFree86 4 i

Re: PCTel Modem vs. Debian 2.2r3

2001-07-30 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 19:39 25/7/2001 -0300, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: For the last couple of weeks I've been unsuccessfully trying to connect to the Internet on my Debian 2.2r3 (potato) distribution, running kernel 2.2.19pre17, using a PCTel modem. Hello again, After a while I did manage t

PCTel Modem vs. Debian 2.2r3

2001-07-26 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
Hello users (and hopefully developers) of Debian, For the last couple of weeks I've been unsuccessfully trying to connect to the Internet on my Debian 2.2r3 (potato) distribution, running kernel 2.2.19pre17, using a PCTel modem. For those who don't have the time to read big messages, I'll go