libsdl

2004-12-09 Thread joebosak
Can anyone help me with libsdl please? I have it set up but it uses aalib as the default. I try using: export SDL_VIDEODRIVER='svgalib' or export SDL_VIDEODRIVER='svgalib' but when I try to run a program that will use libsdl I get the message: Could not initialise SDL [No available vi

Re: IP masquerading

2004-12-09 Thread joebosak
Many thanks for all these replies. I've now got it working now so that another Debian box and a Mac can both connect through the Debian gateway. The thing I was doing wrong was in setting the gateway on the other network machines. Like not doing it on the Debian one [doh!] and mixing up proxy

Upgrading from another debian machine

2004-12-08 Thread joebosak
I have woody on one machine and would like to upgrade to sarge. I have another machine [laptop, PCMCIA modem] that I upgraded from woody to sarge. I did not delete the .deb files. Can I us the deb files on the laptop to upgrade the distribution on the other machine? I reckon the software li

IP masquerading

2004-12-08 Thread joebosak
I wonder if someone could help please! I've upgraded to sarge, and built a new kernel with lots of the networking options built in. I've tried to set up IP masquerading so I can use my Debian PC as a router to a [dialup] ISP. The Debian machine has a serial modem and an ethernet card. The

Sources.list

2004-12-03 Thread joebosak
Can anyone point me to a web page or manual page that shows how to set out sources.list (for apt-get) - like what to put in, where the servers are, etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sarge and dselect

2004-12-03 Thread joebosak
Related to last post, the background is: I have been trying to compile a 2.6.9 kernel under woody. I used backports, but the kernels kept crashing - kernel panics, etc. So then I upgraded to sarge, using apt-get dist-upgrade and after changing my sources.list. I now have a problem with dsele

Sarge and update-grub

2004-12-03 Thread joebosak
I have been trying to compile a 2.6.9 kernel under woody. I used backports, but the kernels kept crashing - kernel panics, etc. So then I upgraded to sarge, using apt-get dist-upgrade and after changing my sources.list. I now have a problem with update-grub. It just seems to stop after dete

Upgrading from woody to ? sid

2004-11-26 Thread joebosak
I have woody installed but I'm starting to find packages are older than (for example) kernel 2.6.9 seems to require. I'm not sure what to do - do I upgrade to sid? How? Or is this what 'unstable' is about? If I want to use unstable packages, do I just change stable to unstable in my sources

Kernel - not syncing

2004-11-26 Thread joebosak
I've compiled a few kernels using 2.6.9. ONe worked but I did not keep the config. None of the ones I've done the Debian way (ie. through a deb file) boot. The error message is: Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. Any ideas? I do have one 2.6.9

Re: Re: Compiling the kernel

2004-11-24 Thread joebosak
OK, I've tried recompiling 2.6.9 with the various options I think I want, setting some items as modules and so on. make-kpkg runs for ages, lots of screen output (lists of files or modules with CC next to them, etc) and then I get lots of "unrecognised symbol" errors (I think that's what it said

Telnetd

2004-11-23 Thread joebosak
I have telnetd installed, and my debian machine is on a network with Windows and Mac machines. IP addresses are set up, I can ftp back and forth etc. But when I try to telnet from my Windoze machine to the debian one, I get almost immediate disconnection - it doesn't really seem to log on at a

SDL, prboom and aalib

2004-11-23 Thread joebosak
I am trying to run prboom under woody. I have libsdl loaded, as required, and this in turn requires aalib. Also got svgalib installed. Argh! Prboom runs in text mode - ie. aalib. So I have a script that goes: SDL_VIDEODRIVER='svgalib' ; export SDL_VIDEODRIVER but that makes no differenc

Compiling the kernel

2004-11-23 Thread joebosak
Newbie, sort of. I want to change the kernel on my system - some bits are not needed, other bits not in there are now required. My stock kernel is 2.4.18-bf2.4. I've downloaded 2.6.9 from www.kernel.org, and managed to compile a few kernels, some even boot but none does what I want. One thin