On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 04:27:52 -0500 (EST) Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all, > > I've installed debian and have to say I feel quite a bit more at home > with Debian than any other Linux system I've used. I am a NetBSD user > for the mostpart. Good. You might like Gentoo Linux (www.gentoo.org) even more - it has a similar package management system to BSD apparently. > > I have a few questions, first off how can I run the soundon command to > > start up OSS automatically at bootup? I have a small file called oss in /etc/rc.boot: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/soundon Make the file executable (chmod ug+x /etc/rc.boot/oss) and make sure the path is correct for your systen. > > Second I'm running a Nvidia GeForce2 MX-400 with linux and am having > strange crashes (the X server exits with signal 11 I think) anyhow > according to Nvidia this could be because the linker (ld) is of an old > version... Can I upgrade my ld to a new version? I too have a graphics card which requires the Nvidia drivers. I downloaded the tar.gz pacakage from Nvidia, unzipped/untarred it and ran 'make install'. I have had no problems with it at all. Mind you, I run Debian unstable. It might be worth your while upgrading your version of Debian if you are running Potato. Have you made the requisite changes to the XFree config file in /etc/X11? > I'm already running kernel 2.4.16 with many of the tools recompiled > >from source (all those suggested by 2.4.16 installation) so ld would > just be another one. I wouldn't have done that. You will have dependency problems with other packages if Debian doesn't know what is installed on your system, especially with important system files. Debian testing or unstable are very usable and to most Debian users they are more stable than what RedHat might refer to as stable. If you point /etc/apt/sources.list to either testing or unstable and do 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get install xyz' you would get the latest version of that app - the only issue is that other apps and libs would also be upgraded along the way. It is a problem with Debian where the roll-out time for new version takes so long. Potato is rather long in the tooth now and I would imagine a great many Debian users are actually running testing or unstable. I have been running Unstable for a long time and have had few problems. If you subscribe to this list you will be aware when something breaks and know not to upgrade until the issue is resolved. Unless you are running a mission-critical system it is the way to go. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS / \
