Most likely, you need to compile sound support into the kernel. You'll
need to know your sound device and a few other items for configuration.
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On 7 Aug, Salman Ahmed wrote:
| US Robotics does make a few internal hardware modems, but I think
| that all of their current and newer models are only PCI WinModems. I
| got bitten by a WinModem when I first bought my system a few months
| ago and had to buy a hardware modem.
I hav
On 7 Aug, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
| Hi all,
| my brother has a computer with a Crystal Sound Card 4232 - Sound
| Blaster PRO compatible.
| I tried to recompile the kernel (2.2.5) to enable the sound but I
| cant figure what are the options.
| An
On 31 Jul, Carl Fink wrote:
| Eric G. Miller wrote:
|
| > gnome-session will remember your window manager, and other programs you
| > have running.
|
| The thing is, according to the Debian page at gnome.org, gnome-session
| will sometimes lose all your customizations. I act
If there are any experts on using lex & yacc out there, maybe you can
help me.
I'm trying to compile Grass5.0beta2 and I'm getting an error. The
other errors I've found, I was able to fix, and send off bug reports.
But, since I don't really understand lex/yacc, I'm a little stumped.
Here's the o
On 31 Jul, Carl Fink wrote:
Try doing this:
1. Login to Xwindows as you now have it.
2. At the command line, execute 'gnome-name-service &'
3. Then execute, 'gmc &', 'panel &', 'gnome-session &'
4. Now edit your .xsession, to read like:
#!/bin/sh
exec gnome-session
gnome
On 30 Jul, Carl Mummert wrote:
| This is correct. There are lots of programs/scripts that call either
| /usr/lib/sendmail or /usr/bin/mail when they want to send an email message.
|
Several programs come to mind. For instance, cron!
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I believe that particular error is caused by not running the postmaster
with the '-i' option. It's come up before, and I know it's a
configuration issue. Just not remembering exactly what configuration is
needed to get past that.
But:
Have you first initialized a database location with initlocati
On 30 Jul, Robert Rati wrote:
| I'm running Xfree 3.3.3.1 on my slink system without any problems at all.
| I just got the debs from ftp://ftp.netgod.net/x and they work fine.
|
Really, well when I last checked, there were no drivers for the Matrox
Millenium G200 8MB AGP card in XFree
On 30 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| I'm going to use slink, but I need X 3.3.3 (I have a Matrox G200), so I'm
| getting the 3.3.3.1 svga server right now... What more do I need? Can there
| be problems with mixing different versions?
|
|
I upgraded to potato for this very r
On 29 Jul, virtanen wrote:
| Which kind of device driver module should I install to get that beast
| working? Or what should I do?
|
| It makes no effect at all with any of the possible protocols available
| with XF86Setup.
Perhaps you're not using the correct device (not driver)
chmod 700 ~/.xsession
It must be executable.
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On 28 Jul, Steve Udell wrote:
| First of all x11amp is now XMMS www.xmms.org
| Second of all potato has a nice .deb of xmms
| Third of all StarOffice 5.1 (the 40 doller version on CD) gave me no
problems
|installing on a potato system, no I didn't even need to put thoes
old lib
On 27 Jul, Carl Mummert wrote:
|
| AFAIK, the person who owns the copyright on the work is free
| to change that copyright as the code goes on.
|
| Only the owner can sue to enfore the license, so the owner is free to
| violate their own copyright or to change it at any time,
Okay GPL experts. The once free alpha versions of IglooFTP, copyright
by Jean-Marc Jacquet and released under GPL is now in beta and being
released *only* as a commercial product for $$. Now, does this violate
the GPL under the derived works clause? And is it enforceable since
the person in ques
On 27 Jul, Oz Dror wrote:
|
|
| Michael Merten wrote:
|
| > What does your ~/.fetchmailrc file look like? (user names and
| > passwords x'd out, of course)
|
| The ~/.fetchmailrc works on my slink system, with no problems.
| I have the same problem even when I try man
On 27 Jul, Johann Spies wrote:
| Then I installed xdm and it did get xwindows to work using icewm, but no
| gnome and it ignores .xsession as well as my icewm-configuration (eg. it
| shows only 1 workspace).
|
Are you sure ~/.xsession is being ignored? What does your file look
like?
On 26 Jul, Moses Leslie wrote:
| I'm taking an intro C class, and of course everything there is run on
win95.
| For a project we're doing now, I need to be able to tell if a
scanf("%d",&x)
| actually gets an int or not, but scanf seems to freak out if it gets
anything
| but an int.
On 27 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| HI,
| Since I do not have a CD-ROM in my linux box I am trying to
| serve the Debian CD from my Wintel NT 4.0 box via FTP. This appears to work
| OK except that NT does uses 8.3 file names of the ISO9660 file system and
| does not m
On 26 Jul, Brad wrote:
| On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Tiago Alves Macambira wrote:
|
| > I've been trying to install debian 2.1 but not I?m not being very lucky.
|
| Just out of curiousity, what's up with the apostrophies in this message?
I saw somewhere that this is caused by some forms
On 26 Jul, John Hasler wrote:
| Steffen writes:
| > I've updated my kernel to 2.2.10 and everything is fine except PPP.
|
| I'm having the same problem. I see it with pppd 2.3.7 and 2.3.8, so I
| don't think the bug is in pppd. Pppd seems to respond to every request
| from the
On 26 Jul, Matthew Cordes wrote:
| > I'm not sure it's really necessary, though. If there's any meaning
| > behind that hat, I don't know what it is.
| >
| > -Michael
|
| The 'Hat' is a clever marketing icon. The Debian Swirl is a little too
a
Netscape-smotif-4.08 is the only reliable version I've found. I too
can confirm the $ rm ~/.netscape method of temporarily fixing
netscape-4.61 hangs (or whatever). But the most successful fix at the
moment is $ dpkg --remove nestcape-smotif-4.6.1. ;-)
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On 26 Jul, Matthew Cordes wrote:
| >ps and top are in procps, and xmkmf is in xlib6g-dev. You can find
| > this out quicker by going to #debian on irc.openprojects.net and
| > typing "!find ps" "!find xmkmf", etc.
|
| i tried this but irc.openprojects.net did not seem to respond. T
On 25 Jul, Brian Schramm wrote:
| I am upgrading a Xenix computer with Linux. I have seen in the mount that
I
| can mount this drive and I would like to do that so I can copy the data
off the
| drive. But it does not work. I am just typing:
|
| insmod sysv
| mount -t sysv /d
On 26 Jul, a wrote:
| i follow instructions in ISP-Hookup-HOWTO and edit various files.
| Then I use seyon to dial a number. I manually login, then garbage
| appears on the terminal. What should i do next? How do I start PPP?
Ignore what you just read (well, not completely), run "pppcon
Exactly how did you reinstall? Did you recreate everything, or are you
trying to reuse parts of a previous installation (e.g. /home)? Many
people, including me, have upgraded from Slink to Potato without such a
problem. You're not trying to use passwd and group files or /home
directories left ov
On 25 Jul, Chad A. Adlawan wrote:
| hi list,
|please bear w/ an X newbie. anyway, i managed to place a wallpaper on
my Xwin using xv but whenever i close X, i'd have to put the wallpaper in again
using xv the next time i log on. can anyone suggest me a way to make my
wallpaper permane
Did you look at:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/gnome
Supposedly there are a bunch of Slink built gnome progs.
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On 24 Jul, pplaw wrote:
| hi debian community,
|
| i'm a newbie who would like an internet box running debian linux. i've
| gotten a successful install, but i get error messages in dselect and
| xterm:
|
| 1. re: dselect's install. "installation script returned error exit
On 24 Jul, Cuno Sonnemans wrote:
|I agree, but my frames option and script option in the
| toolbar isn't working. Do you know what causes this problem.
| Or is it just not implementated jet.
|
| Cuno
|
|
I think they're not implemented yet :( After all it's not yet to
On 23 Jul, richard wrote:
| I'm running potato and modemu has developed a problem. I start it with
| modemu -e "AT%B0=1%B1=1&W" -c "minicom -o -p tty%s" .
| The tty%s always translates to ttyp0. Recently the permission
| on ttyp0 has become
| crw--- 1 root tty3,
On 23 Jul, RUSSELL SATTER wrote:
| I am real tired of Windows 98 and would give the new way a try. Do I
| have to start with a new hard drive, or what?
|
| Russ Satter
|
|
No, if you have four gigs or more you can have good installations of
both. You will need to have your Win
I recently installed webmaker (a kde package). So far, it looks to be
an excellent web page editor. Some features:
1) Color Syntax highlighting
2) Auto indent, lcase all tags
3) HTML 4.0 compliance (so the docs say)
4) TAGS list/insertion
5) Standard file editing capabilities
6) Spawn external bro
| Where can I Find APM option
| in menuconfig. I can't find it.
| I'am using kernel 2.036
|
| Cuno
|
|
APM is under general settings. You also have to specify power off at
shutdown further down the list.
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On 22 Jul, Carl Fink wrote:
| > apt-get --install icewm
| >
| > should be all you need to do.
|
| No, actually it isn't, since that would install the version in
| *stable*. That's what I have installed now. What I'd like to do is
| install the version in *unstable*, without
On 22 Jul, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I have :
| Kernel2.2.10-1 + potato + ATX_box
| All packages are the last.
|
| When i do a :
| shutdown -h now
| or
| halt
| my system is rebooted, but not power off.
|
| Wheras I set this option in t
I need a kde sources.list entry so I can use dselect/apt to get/update
kde packages in the U.S. The ftp sites I've looked at don't seem to be
organized with Packages.gz files, so I can't get a whole list of
packages with descriptions. I can ftp the packages and install them
with dpkg, but I'd like
apt-get --install icewm
should be all you need to do.
On 21 Jul, Carl Fink wrote:
| I've installed apt-get. It works great . . but. (You knew there was
| a "but" coming, right?)
|
| If I want to upgrade one package, e.g. icewm, to the version in
| unstable, the only way the man
VIM does HTML text highlighting, runs in a terminal and it much easier
to learn and configure the all that emacs stuff. Just run your favorite
browser simultaneously, when you make changes to the page, reload it in
the browser. It's not beautiful, but it works. IMHO emacs tries to do
too much for
There's an IPCHAINS HOWTO. I have/had it on my system somewhere until
1/2 of the potato packages moved everything around to follow the new
/usr/share/doc policy.
On 21 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
|
|
| I've checked my system and debian.org (did
I am told ncurses is what you want to use for text screen programs.
On 21 Jul, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
| Hi All!
|
| I'm writing an application, which implements some terminal functionalities.
| I'd like to receive every keystroke, just after the key is pressed
| (like with vga_g
This is what my log looks like:
Jul 20 20:32:22 moira pppd[1881]: pppd 2.3.8 started by eric, uid 1000
Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: abort on (BUSY)
Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: abort on (VOICE)
Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: abor
On 20 Jul, Cheshire wrote:
| Hello all, I've a potentially elementary situation to present. I have an
internal Zoom56k dualmode modem on ttyS2. I have, with the assistance of a
linux friend of mine irl, got my internet connection working before, so I know
it isn't the hardware but I'll just t
I've been very happy with IglooFTP. It's better than any graphical FTP
clients I've seen anywhere.
On 20 Jul, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
| I'm trying to get an FTP client for Linux that is graphical, and
| supports bookmarks. Something like gFTP or IglooFTP.
|
| gFTP is *very unstable* an
On 20 Jul, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I have a problem with diald. Diald connects and then disconnects with the
| message:
|
| peer refused to authenticate
|
| It does work when I remove "auth" from the /etc/ppp/options file, but the
man
| pages say that
On 20 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| What do I put in my fstab to be able to mount the floppy with just 'mount
| /mnt/floppy'? Currently I have a line, but that one makes the system try to
| mount it at boot, which fails...
|
| Anders Ohrt
|
|
You want something like
On 19 Jul, Wonko wrote:
| evrytime i restart it says hda2 not cleanly unmounted and it takes 10
| minutes checking inodes or something like that... when i shutdown i type
| 'shutdown now' is this right? i tried all the number combinations in
| fstab and nothing works, what should i do?
Look at man ping (use ping -c [n] [www.someplace.org] - where is the
number of pings). Ctrl-C should also stop it.
In lynx.cfg
STARTFILE:file//localhost/var/www/index.html
will open the file /var/www/index.html
The "localhost" should preceed the rest of the regular file path. Yo
On 19 Jul, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
|
| >"shutdown -h now" is good. Remember to run it as root.
| >
| >> reboot
|
| KDE comes with KDM which has a shutdown function which ordinary users also
| can invoke. Seems handy for stand alone PCs, but on a network this might
| b
look under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
Of course, you must be root to configure the graphics display.
The "locate" command can be your friend when an executable is not in
your $PATH.
On 19 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| I though I'd try to spice my new debian computer up a bit, and i
On 19 Jul, henriktrolle wrote:
| hvor kan jeg downloade linux operativ system
ftp://ftp.dk.debian/org/debian
You'll need boot/root/install floppies. Easier to order a CD from
someplace like Cheapbytes (http://www.cheapbytes.com).
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| Only unusual thing I did prior to this is attempting to create a new
| user with not so good results: the new user's home directory was
| created, and so is the line in /etc/passwd:
|
| usermaria:x:1001:100::/home/usermaria:/bin/bash
|
| but I cannot log in as the new use
On 19 Jul, andreas pålsson wrote:
| Hello.
|
| My logfiles are filled by the line "/USR/SBIN/CRON[7637]: (root) CMD
| (test -f /proc/modules && /sbin/rmmod -a)".
| And I find it be unnecessary to run any commands related to modules
| since I have no modules and no module-support
I believe there's a "APT Offline Howto" that is just what your looking
for. I can't seem to find it since my recent update that moved
documentation all over kingdom come. Search in the debian docs on
apt...
On 19 Jul, Joel Gautschi wrote:
| I want to do the following thing:
| I have a debi
My experience has been that it's better to start those applications
before you start your window manager. Also, I've had problems when the
window manager isn't "exec"'ed.
Try:
swisswatch &
xload &
xbiff &
exec enlightenment
I've been running gnome-session (which usually remembers the
application
Which kernel version are you using. I understand that there has been a
file corruption problem in some of the newer kernel versions.
On 19 Jul, Andreas Tille wrote:
| Hello,
|
| recently I detected problems with 2GB harddisk in an old 486 machine.
| The disk worked for two years very
Is the postmaster running? Can you use psql to connect to a database,
say template1? If those work, I would think the script will work. I
just upgraded the same thing and it worked fine. Did you just change to
the 6.5 series postgres? If so, you'll have to run pgdump on your old
databases before yo
On 18 Jul, tyler spivey wrote:
| ok, if you cant shutdown why do you use linux in the first place?
| the command is as root:
| shutdown -h now
This is rude and uncalled for. Everybody has to start somewhere.
Comments like the above help no one. Better to let someone else
respond if yo
You should always use one of the following (where you need to be root):
$ su -c '/sbin/halt'# To shutdown immediately
$ su -c '/sbin/reboot' # To reboot the machine immediately
$ su -c '/sbin/shutdown '
# To shutdown or reboot sometime in the future
You must be carefu
I was trying to recompile gphoto from source (to change a hardwired
line speed parameter) but it errored when trying to find
/usr/include/glib.h because I don't have it. I have many of the *-dev
packages, so I was wondering what package I'm missing. I tried a
search, but the packages I came up wi
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