Re: Another question regarding tulip driver with 2.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread blue_stone
When install kernel-image-2.6.*, apt don't make initrd.img automatically,you should usr mkinitrd to build a initrd.img, and edit your lilo.conf if you use lilo, or run 'update-grub' if you use grub -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Another question regarding tulip driver with 2.4 kernel

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
Brian Walker wrote: Kent West wrote: [initrd.img] should be in /boot. It should have been installed automatically. Indeed it is - many thank for the reference. But ls -l shows that there is no symlink to the initrd.img. Should there be one? This is where the apt-get called a problem, and see

Re: Another question regarding tulip driver with 2.4 kernel

2004-03-21 Thread Brian Walker
Kent West wrote: Brian Walker wrote: Kent West wrote: Compiling a kernel is a great thing to do if you want the education, or if you have some esoteric need to do so, but for 90%+ of the population out there, the standard Debian kernels will do just fine. That should be the case here; support

Re: Another question regarding tulip driver with 2.4 kernel

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
Brian Walker wrote: Kent West wrote: Compiling a kernel is a great thing to do if you want the education, or if you have some esoteric need to do so, but for 90%+ of the population out there, the standard Debian kernels will do just fine. That should be the case here; support for the tulip dri

Re: Another question regarding tulip driver with 2.4 kernel

2004-03-21 Thread Brian Walker
Kent West wrote: Robert Packer wrote: I am a complete newbie to this and don't have a clue how to compile a kernel(I'm reading up, but still...), so is it possible to make the 2.4 kernel work with a nic card that needs a tulip driver? It works fine with the 2.2.20 kernel but if possible I'd like t

Re: Another question regarding tulip driver with 2.4 kernel

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
Robert Packer wrote: I am a complete newbie to this and don't have a clue how to compile a kernel(I'm reading up, but still...), so is it possible to make the 2.4 kernel work with a nic card that needs a tulip driver? It works fine with the 2.2.20 kernel but if possible I'd like to use the latest

Re: Another question about the VIA AC97 sound device.

2002-04-16 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 15 April 2002 06:48 pm, Steve Juranich wrote: > After searching on groups.google.com, the only semi-helpful hit has been to > ensure that the via82cxxx_audio is installed. I have done that. I have > also tried to configure the sound card th

Re: another question

2001-10-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* MarceI Figuerola Estrada ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011008 12:02]: > When I start linux I get a list of error messages which I can't view because > the screen scrolls so fast. Is there any way to read them? The short answer is 'dmesg'. Check out 'man dmesg' for more info, or just peek in /var/log/dme

Re: another question

2001-10-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011008 19:56]: > press cntrl+c to freeze it and cntrl+q to unfreeze it that's ctrl+s to pause and ctrl+q to unpause. This is the same as using scroll lock, but is handy on terminals where scroll lock is either not present or not supported (i.e. via some rem

Re: another question

2001-10-08 Thread alephtnull
press cntrl+c to freeze it and cntrl+q to unfreeze it -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: another question

2001-10-08 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:57:15PM +0200, MarceI Figuerola Estrada wrote: > When I start linux I get a list of error messages which I can't view > because the screen scrolls so fast. Is there any way to read them? > Try running 'dmesg' Also, try the ScrLck (or pause) button on your keyboard Last,

Re: Another Question regaring X setup

2001-07-24 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 02:32 p.m. 24/07/01 -0500, Alex Thomas wrote: Thank you for all the help, but as I am a refuge from NT please give me the complete path as ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc does not make much sense to me at this point. ~ is a sort of alias of the username of the current user try cd ~ the same AFAIK

Re: Another Question regaring X setup

2001-07-24 Thread Adam Bell
Well, 2 things:   A) Your ~/anything is probably /home//anything -- but it depends on how you setup your system.  Just log in and type pwd.  That's ~/   B) You can just type ~/whatever and it will work.  As in "emacs ~/.xsession"   --adam b. - Original Message - From: Alex Th

Re: Another Question regaring X setup

2001-07-24 Thread Kalle Hasselström
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:32:27PM -0500, Alex Thomas wrote: > Thank you for all the help, but as I am a refuge from NT please give me the > complete path as ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc does not make much sense to me at > this point. > > Again Thank You for your help > > Alex ~ is just another n

Re: Another Question regaring X setup

2001-07-24 Thread Scott Adair
Okey :-) Here we go.. Let's assume that you have a user on the linux system, called alex. What you need to do, is open /home/alex/.xinitrc, and add the line 'gnome-session' to it (without the quotes). When you start x it will look at this file and execute whatever you have in it. If there is no

Re: Another Question regaring X setup

2001-07-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Alex Thomas wrote: > Thank you for all the help, but as I am a refuge from NT please give > me the complete path as ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc does not make much > sense to me at this point. That _is_ a complete path. The ~ means your personal home directory -- so if your account is "alex", then i

Re: Another Question Re: diskless debian

2000-12-23 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:18:43PM +0100, Dietmar Schultz wrote: :I'm happy with Etherboot (http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/), which :you can use to create a ROM-Image loaded via BootROM, bootdisk or :LiLo. The image receives the kernel as NetBootImage using tftp or nfs. :Configure the netbootima

Re: Another Question Re: diskless debian

2000-12-23 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:26:38AM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > I'm trying to boot from a LILO based floppy with root=/dev/nfsroot > (the pseodo device 0,255 named in the docs, tried it as both a block > and char device), and the kernel fails on trying to mount the rootfs > with a device fa

Re: Another Question Re: diskless debian

2000-12-22 Thread Xucaen
--- "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I enabled kernel level auto config, and all the > NFS stuff I could find > in the kernel build (serveral iterations using > xconfig, menuconfig, > config and finally hand hacking the .config > file) couldn't find the > NFS_ROOT option anywhere,

Re: another question about my monitor

1999-10-24 Thread John Carline
jh wrote: > As you may know I have been having trouble getting my monitor set up under > x. Because of not having any documentation on the used computer that I > have, as well as not finding any info on the net about horiz and vert sync > settings for my monitor, I have been shooting in the dark w

Re: another question about my monitor

1999-10-24 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Sat, 23 Oct, 1999 à 10:41:50PM -0600, jh wrote: > As you may know I have been having trouble getting my monitor set up under > x. Because of not having any documentation on the used computer that I > have, as well as not finding any info on the net about horiz and vert sync > settings for my mon

Re: another question about my monitor

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:41:50PM -0600, jh wrote: > [SNIP] > My question is: What if I reinstalled Windows 3.11 Would there be some kind > of utility that would show me what settings Windows is using for the > monitor sync? Or Dos? Nope, they don't manage to tell you about SYNCs and refresh rate

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-28 Thread Tim Sailer
Joost Kooij wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > Huh.. I just tried this on a machie at home, and the script failed because > > debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/base/ contains no libc5*.deb files. On > > any mirror that I could find. > > Try looking in oldlibs/ > > Tip: in d

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-28 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > Scott Ellis wrote: > > > Maybe someone else has an easier way? > > > > Yes, there is now a script a > > http://stormcrow.ml.org/pub/debian/autoup/autoup.sh that will download all > > the necessary core packages mentioned in my upgrade howto, remove all the

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > Huh.. I just tried this on a machie at home, and the script failed because > debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/base/ contains no libc5*.deb files. On > any mirror that I could find. Try looking in oldlibs/ Tip: in directory binary-i386, type "dir */packag

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-28 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, my experience with the upgrade howto from debian proved to be an invaluable asset. U had to dpkg --purge the development packages manually using dpkg. That was ok. I downloaded the entire hamm distribution and I have installed the base, admin and am starting on the lib and develo

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-28 Thread Tim Sailer
Scott Ellis wrote: > > Maybe someone else has an easier way? > > Yes, there is now a script a > http://stormcrow.ml.org/pub/debian/autoup/autoup.sh that will download all > the necessary core packages mentioned in my upgrade howto, remove all the > old -dev packages, and install the new stuff in t

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-27 Thread Scott Ellis
On 27 Jan 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: >Hello everybody, i am currently following the mini howto on how to upgrade >from libc5 to libc6. Everything is going smoothly, up to this point. In >part 3 under development it says to purge libc5 *--dev* I know how to use >dpkg, and there is an

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
Hello everybody, i am currently following the mini howto on how to upgrade from libc5 to libc6. Everything is going smoothly, up to this point. In part 3 under development it says to purge libc5 *--dev* I know how to use dpkg, and there is an option --purge. My question is how do yo

Re: another question

1997-03-17 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater \(Andy\)
Andrew Cater (Andy) | +44 1242 672705 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, d. nathan hood wrote: > i tried downloading minicom in a *.tar.gz format and had problems installing > it... eventually i found the minicom debian package and had no problems, now\ > i am looking to install netscape a