RE: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Williams, Allen
What did you have to do to get it to work with the nvidia driver? Thanks, Allen > My experience has been great with udev except in the case of > multi-card > reader that I have (not sure how to set that up). Other than > that, I can > insert my USB stick and a

RE: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and ot her questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Williams, Allen
Jacob, Thanks, and, yes, it was a very vanilla install (because it didn't as me any question;>). > > 1. It never asked me the hardware config questions I was > used to with > > both woody and sarge. What happened to them, how do I find > out what > > device support is installed, and get su

RE: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and ot her questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Williams, Allen
Matt, Thanks for the help. Another question: > again, the display manager (at least for gdm) has a setting where you can disable root logins. Do you know where this is? Thanks, Allen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Williams, Allen
I checked the debian site for sarge release notes, and if they're there, I can't find 'em, so it's back to the mailing list;-) I had been running sarge since June, and I just did a complete reinstall of the latest sarge (don't ask- it's embarassing), dated 11/17, I think. 1. It never asked me th

RE: Mouse ps/2 doesn't work

2004-11-18 Thread Williams, Allen
Since your making reference to kde I assume you want the mouse for X instead of using with console programs (about which I know nothing). You may have to do some "find"'s and stuff, but somewhere in one of your X directories there is an x86cfg or X86Config or something like that. If you run it, i

RE: Base system install- eval: 3: Syntax error: newline unexpecte d (expecting ")")

2004-11-18 Thread Williams, Allen
Hurrah!! I got the latest installation .iso (timestamped last night) and it had moved past the earlier problem area and was installing when I left it with no "clinical adjustments" at all. I do wish I knew why I was the only one who seemed to have this problem. Th

RE: Partitioning hard drives

2004-11-18 Thread Williams, Allen
I was going to respond to this thread mentioning the LVM, but this looks like an excellent stragegy I haven't considered. Have you ever used the LVM to sort of accomplish the same thing by assigning extents? On my last install, I set up /usr, /var, and /home that way, with 65G left over in a diff