apt sources.list

1999-11-27 Thread richard newton
Hi all, is there a definitive list for apt's source.list file. Specifically I want the lines pertaining to potato but I can't seem to fine a list anywhere for any distribution. I assume sombody must maintain a list. Is there a way to find out what archives are available through apt? That wo

SBLive! and Quake2

1999-11-27 Thread richard newton
Hi all, I've finally made the move to potato and it's sweet, meaning I can now use my SB Live! card. The question is does anyone have problems with the sound in Quake2 using this card? Unreal Tournament is fine apart from the fact that my machine is below spec. and Civ:CTP is great. Quake2

need help with potato

1999-11-25 Thread richard newton
Hi all, I finally managed to upgrade to patato over the weekend, 28hrs+ not happy about the forthcomming phone bill. :-( Now I have a couple of problems. I installed something (don't know what) that wanted to change the `ident' line in /etc/inetd.conf. Trouble is it didn't because

apt questions

1999-11-07 Thread richard newton
Hallo all, does anyone know where I can find source URI's for apt? Apt complained when I tried to get a source that I didn't have any source URI's listed. second, If I do and apt-get update then does this filter through to dselect? How do I know which packages are available through apt-get? The re

Where is sound.h?

1999-11-07 Thread richard newton
I've been trying to compile up the SB Live module from creative but whenever I try and `make' the module it returns the error udio.c -o audio.o In file included from hwaccess.h:44, from audio.c:43: platform.h:42: linux/sound.h: No such file or directory make: *** [audio.o] Error 1

Unreal

1999-06-10 Thread richard newton
Wasn't there talk of an Unreal port about the time it was released? What happened? Did anything come of it? Who do we pester for a port? Half-Life would be nice too! -- "This job's too hard for us!" -Andy and Randy Pig

some hardware questions

1999-06-09 Thread richard newton
I just have a couple of hardware questions that I don't know the answers to. I need to know whether the SoundBlaster PCI cards are supported in any way. How about DVD? Is anyone running two Voodoo 2 cards in SLI mode? I'm building a new machine and I want to know just how far I can go technolog

hamm debs

1999-05-28 Thread richard newton
Where are the hamm .deb's kept nowadays? All I can find are slink and potato and the 'old' bo ones. Is there a way to determine a sources dependancies before trying to compile it up? Specifically I'm referring to mysql and netpbm-nonfree but I'd like a way of finding this out for an general case.

Solaris 7 and Debian

1999-05-25 Thread richard newton
Does anyone know if it's possible to dual boot Solaris 7 and Debian GNU/Linux? Any tips or suggestions would be helpful. "This job's too hard for us!" -Andy and Randy Pig