Re: best laptops for debian linux

2003-09-13 Thread Ian Silvester
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:12:47AM -0700, Jon wrote: I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily be set up to run debian linux. I do not need a high end graphics card, nor is there a real need for a big screen. Being light weight is not a primary factor, whereas rugged reliability would be. Can

Re: apt-get trying to downgrade a package version?

2003-09-12 Thread Ian Silvester
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:18:42 +0200, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Ian Silvester (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:46:41 +0200, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ian Silvester (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: I am running Wo

Re: hdparm, hard drive howto, tutorial

2003-09-11 Thread Ian Silvester
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:39:41 -0700 (PDT), Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Consulting.com> wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Antonio [ISO-8859-1] RodrX wrote: Does anyone know of a good tutorial, or howto on hard drives? I would like to understand a little better this part of the hardware before playi

Re: apt-get trying to downgrade a package version?

2003-09-11 Thread Ian Silvester
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:46:41 +0200, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Ian Silvester (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: I am running Woody with a 2.4.20 kernel and acpi installed. When I try to install kppp or am-utils (for example) using Package Manager or apt-ge

apt-get trying to downgrade a package version?

2003-09-11 Thread Ian Silvester
Hi all, I am running Woody with a 2.4.20 kernel and acpi installed. When I try to install kppp or am-utils (for example) using Package Manager or apt-get, I get the following error: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: acpi: Depends: libc6 (>=2.3.1-1) but 2.2.5-11.5 is to

Re: startx VS xdm?

2003-07-17 Thread ian silvester
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:22:50 -0700, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:17:54 +0100 Ian Silvester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the best way to make the runlevel-based X boot to go to KDE? Should I tweak xdm's config (if so which file where?) or

startx VS xdm?

2003-07-17 Thread Ian Silvester
Hi, I have a Woody install, using the 2.4.18bf24 kernel. I had been booting to a console from which to login (I commented the entry in /etc/X11default- display-manager to prevent the GUI auto-starting). I then used startx to start a GUI. This quite happily booted KDE. I now wish to auto-boot t