Re: kernel-package and grub
Engosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Is there any way to update grub menu.lst when installing a kernel package > made by kernel-package (I mean as it does whith lilo)? > > 2) Where can I get images to use in the splashimage of grub? Or how can I make > some? Check out the README.Debian file in /usr/share/doc/grub/. If you had you'd have know that you can do update-grub to setup your menu.lst. :-) Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Problems with xserver-xfree86
Stephen Touset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no Xfree config file anywhere in the system that I can tell. > When I install X, it tells me that it hasn't found the files, so it > won't update them. The problem is that they're just not being created. > > -- > Stephen Touset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Are you using sid? I recently did a clean install of woody and then immediately upgrading to sid and had the same issue when installing X. According to the status messages they're migrating configuring X way from the former method. I ended up just installing version -6 (-10 is the current) of xserver-common and using apt-get to grab the rest of the packages and then manually installing xserver-xfree86 -6, configuring it, and then upgrading it. Likely far easier ways to handle this but 1) I didn't have an old XF86Config handy and 2) It was 4:30 am and I was too tired to think of another. --Chris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Best Way to Look at Streaming Video
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Discussion a few months ago mentioned http://marillat.free.fr/ both > for the realplayer for Debian package (which no longer seems to be > there) and for mplayer (about which there were mixed comments). > > I see several packages providing quicktime support (xine, xmovie, > xanim) and don't know if one is obviously better (or better at > integrating into mozilla). > > Any thoughts? marillat also offers the mplayer-mozilla plugin which allows mplayer to be embedded into mozilla and play the filetypes supported by mplayer. The only caveat is that it does not yet support any sort of cookies or authentication. If that is a necessity your best bet is probably the Crossover plugin from Codeweavers. I believe there are similar types of plugins for Xine but I don't have any experience with them. --Chris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Prevent X Windows Starting up
Sarah Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an install of the unstable distribution with a 2.4 Kernel. When I > boot up, my keyboard and mouse become disabled as soon as the log in > manager displays. > > Can you tell me how to stop x-windows from starting during the boot > process so that I can try and find the cause of the issue. I cannot > disable x windows from the command line because I can never get in. > > If you have any clues as to what might be causing my keyboard to disable > in the first place, I would be very grateful to hear them. You could boot the kernel in single user mode which should cause the display manager not to be started and then disable or remove its init.d script. Or if you have an OpenSSH server running on the box you could login that way from another machine and shut down the display manager. --Chris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560
ALSA works perfectly on my Thinkpad A20p. You may want to check out www.linux-thinkpad.org (although it seems to be down at the moment) which has a long list of links describing how to install and configure the various eccentric drivers in the different Thinkpad models. --Chris On Friday 24 November 2000 16:10, Pollywog wrote: > I replaced the commercial OSS drivers in my desktop machine with the ALSA > drivers, and it works great. The reason I could not get it to work in the > past was that I did not know I had to download the drivers from the ALSA > website, and I thought the Debian ALSA packages were sufficient. > > Now I want to try installing the ALSA drivers to my ThinkPad 560 also, and > I know that my ThinkPad uses the ESS Autodrive drivers in Windows. Does > anyone know how to get ALSA to work on a ThinkPad? I have tried to > configure ALSA for ESS Autodrive and alsaconf just aborts. > > Maybe I need to use a different driver, not ESS Autodrive. My desktop has > a VibraX card but I had to configure ALSA for SB16 PnP to get it to work, > so perhaps a different driver is needed on the ThinkPad also. > > thanks > > -- > Andrew
Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560
No, that's a different one. www.linux-thinkpad.org is apparently down as I said in my previous email though. :-) Google may have a cached copy, though. On Friday 24 November 2000 17:43, Pollywog wrote: > The link seems not to work, so I left out the "-" in the domain and that > is a valid URL, linuxthinkpad.org. Is it the one you were thinking of? > > -- > Andrew > > On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:32:24 -0500, Chris Black said: > > ALSA works perfectly on my Thinkpad A20p. You may want to check out > > www.linux-thinkpad.org (although it seems to be down at the moment) > > which has a long list of links describing how to install and configure > > the various eccentric drivers in the different Thinkpad models.
Re: UNIX help
The Unix Administrator's Handbook by Evi Nemeth, et al is the way and the light for learning Unix Administration. O'Reilly's Unix Power Tools (2nd ed) is excellent for learning neat tricks for basic commands. On Thursday 30 November 2000 10:07, Robert Guthrie wrote: > If you have the budget for it, check out > http://www.ora.com > > They have some of the most constently excellent books on the various unix > tools and tasks (such as andministration, DNS configuration, Programming) > that I've seen from any publisher. > > YMMV, but I swear by them, and have 8 paper books and two "CD bookshelves" > from them. > > On Thursday 30 November 2000 06:34, Alex Horsnell wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have just started learning UNIX and unfortunatley my 'teacher' has been > > very busy lately and unable to show me anything. > > > > I have started on our company printers and am using putty, I don't have > > any problems in that area, but I would like to learn more. > > > > Does anyone out there have any prefered methods/books on learning UNIX? > > > > Thanks > > > > Alex > > > > . > >.. . If you have received this message in error, please contact the > > sender immediately by return e-mail or ring 020 7498 9898 and ask for the > > sender. Killby & Gayford Group have taken every reasonable precaution to > > ensure that any attachment to this e-mail has been checked for viruses. > > However, we cannot accept liability for any damage sustained as a result > > of software viruses and would advise that you carry out your own virus > > checks before opening any attachment. > > . > >.. .
Re: Laptops for Debian GNU/Linux?
I've had great experiences with my Thinkpad 770E and a20p. Although, you will have to run XFree86 4.0.1 on the a20p for best performance. On Monday 04 December 2000 05:13, Christoph Gaitzsch wrote: > "Dexter Graphic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The site is a rich source of information on GNU/Linux laptops. > > > > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ > > > > But it's almost too much information and to general in nature > > to be of immediate use. I still have no idea how to go about > > comparing the hundreds of models listed and what each one's > > strengths and weaknesses are in terms of running my preferred > > OS: Debian GNU/Linux. > > > > Perhaps some of you folks would be willing to share your own > > laptop preferences? Are there any hardware companies you > > know of that provide GPL drivers and support open standards? > > Hi, > > I use a compaq armada 1750 under debian since the slink times, and I´m > very happy with it. Graphics, Sound, PCMCIA, everything works. > > Greetings, Christoph > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless Access Point
Werner Otto wrote: I need to buy a wireless card and access point to work with my Zoom X5 wired ADSL router. I am looking for value for money, who doesn't :-) and needs to have allot of security capabilities such as WEP, WPA, WPA- Pres hared Key and preferably RSN (do they come out with this). The reason is I'm am doing a project and need to test and break wireless security. Most new access points have the "g" as appose to the "b" specifications. Any suggestions? I have a Netgear MR814 that I know does 802.11b, WEP and WPA-PSK. I'm at work so I can't verify if it can do WPA or RSN. Haven't had any issues with it at all thus far. I'm using a Cisco Aironet 340 in the laptop and it was detected and worked flawlessly with my 2.6.8.1 kernel. Picked both up off eBay for a total of $40. --Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Local plugins for FireFox?
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 11:29, Paul Smith wrote: > But, I want to install some plugins in my local plugin directory; > according to all the docs, Google searches, etc. I found that should be > ~/.mozilla/plugins (even for FireFox). > > But, when I add things there and restart my browser, they aren't found. > If I copy those same files to the system plugin directory and restart > the browser, they are found and work fine. > > > Is this directory not correct? Is the Debian install of FireFox setting > some variable or something that causes it to look elsewhere? Does > anyone else have this working? SID's install of Firefox uses ~/.firefox. Not ~/.mozilla. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
