2 questions package installs and TCP/IP startup script

All, I am sure these are pretty easy questions, but I am running out ideas. 1. I am trying to install vim on a really bare installation of Debian. I have internet access that routes and resolves names fine. When I type "apt-get install vim vim-rt" or just about any other package name i see liste

easy numlock question

is there any way to make numlock on at boot every time? -- Mark Anthony Simos, MCSE Poet, Playwright, Swing Dancer

Re: Configuring Mouse in X

most laptop internal mice connect to the "ps2" port in windows and the hardware handles whether either or both the internal and external work, so you might try that... my $.02 Mark "I. Tura" wrote: > Better refer to a laptop list in [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Best, > > Ignas

Re: easy numlock question

well, leaving it in the rc2.d directory as per the initial suggestion, it ain't running at boot time . i am a little new to *nix, so bear with me :) the file is as follows: -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot 82 Aug 29 18:27 s20setleds i did notice that the rest of the entries in the dir are li

X keyboard issue in debian operating in vmware

I am having trouble getting X to run in my vmware debian box. I have gotten the vmware tools to register their video driver, and it seems to work ok (x does not bark at it and has the right name in there) ... but it gives me a confusing keyboard config file error begin my retype:

X login keeps repeating

I am messing around with debian 2.2 in a VMware window in my win2k box, so it is all in vga mode and that is cool with me. i do have a weird problem going on though... when i install a window manager (xdm, gdm, etc.): it prompts me for user/pass at boot. I enter it. it prompts me for user/pass I

logitech trackman marble+

anybody know where i can find a driver that will let me use my scroll wheel on my logitech track man marble+ in X? I am a newbie, so I might have missed something that is already there. Thanks! Mark -- Mark Anthony Simos, MCSE Poet, Playwright, Swing Dancer

Re: SCSI problem

Robert Kasunic wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Dawicontrol 2975U SCSI Controller with three devices (CD-ROM, > CD-Writer and Scanner) connected to it. Some time ago I encountered some . . . > That goes on forever. It's impossible to work with the system in that > state and I have to reboot. I'm not ab

stupid question

and yes, there are stupid questions, but there are those of use who prefer to ask than to remain in a stupid state for a more prolonged period :) How do you unload X from memory long enough to edit the XF86Config file manually so that I can change the resolution. It says in vi that it is read-only

Re: Please remove me from the subscription list......

perhaps simply a link that would show up in a standard graphical mailer (netscape or outlook express , etc. ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or would that be too easy for them? (I haven't figured out if that last comment is sarcastic or not... :) Mark "I. Tura" wrote: > At 17.02 2/9/00 -0400, Noah

Re: SysVinit prob... now runlevel question

As I understand it, X86 hardware hardly ever uses anything but two levels. I know sun hardware actually makes significant use of the runlevels, but I am made to understand that nobody ever really bothered to implement any more than two different runlevels. (I think this is similar to windows pr

Re: stupid question (threadkill)

I sort of got around it by doing a "shutdown now" which put me in a state good enough to mess with it. I am not 100% that it really was in use. I could have been misunderstanding the error or vi could have stolen some of my crack and smoked it 8^) In any case, I thank you very much for you help

non-root login causes X (gnome) to restart itself

Weird behavior, I am guessing permissions, but don't know which would affect it in this way: I can log in through X as root no problem, If I login in on the same screen with and password: -it goes blank -flashes back to the console for a moment -restarts X back at the login prompt both

compiling a kernel

I am a newbie, and am curious as to what exactly compiling a kernel does for me. I have some vague impression that it does something like make your OS run better on your machine or allow you to add in and remove support for stuff. Simply put, why? Any pointer to good documents or personal commen

Re: "Joe" editor

I noticed that when I did a bare install on my machine with floppies, it had all of the sources commented out in my sources.list by defualt. Being new to debian, it threw me for a day or two until some nice people on this list directed me to fix that file and then do an apt-get update Mark Ant

best way to install debian in VMware VM

I did the floppies thing, and switching out floppies, even vmware point and click floppy change, sucks. now my install disk is hosed (didn't shutdown often enough) and I am more interested in the learning experience of installing debian in a different way than to save the current install. I would

Re: best way to install debian in VMware VM (found it :)

> Mark> Then i mounted the /dev/sda4 as /zip manually ... > > I can't say I understand what you did, but I'll keep your message as > reference -- I might want to try that someday. Thanks. > vmware allows for you to directly mount an existing partition, which I did. Under SCSI in configuration

xdm only shows boot prompt

I have recently reinstalled debian 2.2.17 on my virtual machine I installed xfree86 and xdm using apt-get I get a graphical login from xdm upon boot I enter valid credentials the login goes away, i get about 2 seconds of the grey background before I get a graphical logon again. the loop never e

audio/x--mp3 and other associatetions

how do I make freeamp run and play the song i double click on? I am not sure if this is app specific or shell/os/xdm/gdm specific is it much different to make mozilla open a html file? Thanks! Mark -- Mark Anthony Simos, MCSE Poet, Playwright, Swing Dancer

Re: Gnome/X stuff

Somewhat OT, but reasonably close to this posting Is there a doc somewhere that describes window managers, display managers, etc. and how they interact with each other, X, and X programs? I am windows person and not too familiar with the extra layer of separation / interaction that

complex shell scripts

I am looking to understand the everyday admin of unix and how people put together the common commands into compound/complex shell scripts. does anybody know of a good place for samples (this is how you import users form a text file or some such thing) the example might be way off, I really just w

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat + MS

I come from Windows background and am interested in learning unix/linux cause i am a nerd. For learning things, I come from the "drink from the firehouse" school of thought so I like Debian. its a little more hardcore, but still usable to me. I am still trying other flavors, but So far I prefer d

machines

I am looking to put together a Debian based firewall and a mail server -how bad of an idea is it to host them on the same machine? (please explain how dumb it is, if so) How much power would i need (CPU/RAM/HD) to make it (or each of them) work? I just browse at home and download the occasi

machines (ii)

I am looking to put together a Debian based firewall and a mail server -how bad of an idea is it to host them on the same machine? (please explain how dumb it is, if so) How much power would I need (CPU/RAM/HD) to make it (or each of them) work? I just browse at home and download the occasio

powerpc / mouse in X

got debian 2.2 on a powermac 9600/200 with ADB mouse and keyboard. keyboard works great, mouse does not. can fool x into loading by pointing the mouse at /dev/adb, but of course the mouse doesn't work. I don't have a /dev/adbmouse do i need to recreate that? how? TIA,   MarkDo You Yahoo!? Yahoo! M