On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:06:34PM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Before I begin, I want to state that I'm very impressed with Debian.
Rock on! But could you please turn your line wraps on to 72 columns? > 1) I can't get X to work right. It installed fine, and starts ok. > But screen resolution is something like 640x480 when it's supposed to > be 1152x864. I have xfree86 4.1.0-16 installed. Any suggestions will Did you configure it for this? If so, try hitting alternate-control-plus > 2). The mouse is going nuts. When I move it around it does all kinds > of weird things, including acting like I've pressed one of the 3 > buttons when I haven't, or sen't kill commands to fvwm, etc. I have a > Logitech M-C48 wheel mouse. If any of you have the console and X > settings for it, I'd appreciate it. You didn't configure the mouse correctly. Are you using gpm? > 3) Is there a way to get Pine to work on Debian? I can't find a > package for it, so I installed a Pine rpm using alien. It installed Pine is non-free to the point that redistributing modified binaries breaks the licensing. apt-get install pine-tracker. It'll let you know when a new pine comes out, and gives you the instructions on how to compile your own debianized pine. This is a Pine bug, not a Debian one. 8:o) > 4) I can't send mail. I've installed sendmail, largely because I've > been using it for years, and this is a production box. I don't have > time right now to learn another MTA. When I try to send mail using > Mutt, which I've never used, it keeps giving me excuses as to why the > operating system won't allow it to send mail. The latest excuse is: > "Warning: Cannot use HostStatusDirectory = > /var/lib/sendmail/host_status: No such file or directory" No clue on sendmail. exim configures cleanly right out of the box. I would ditch sendmail in favor of exim. > 5) I run several MyPHPNuke boards on some domains I host. When I try > to access the domains, instead of opening the site, it downloads the > file instead. Apparently it can't figure out that it's supposed to > execute PHP. I have PHP4 installed. Suggestions? I vaguely remember having to change my apache configs to deal with this bug when I started hosting ww3.foxcub.net... -- Baloo
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