Re: Frozen distribution

2000-03-16 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 02:24:56PM -0500, Bryan Kim wrote: > With the frozen distribution, netscape communicator 4.7 dies with a bus >error. Does anyone know how to resolve this? There were some bug reports about this. Having plugger installed at the same time was causing the problem at one poin

Re: floppy or hard-disk installation

2000-03-16 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Bionanou" == Bionanou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bionanou>Hello Bionanou>I have a acernote light 350PCX Bionanou>I don't have any network card on it [...] Maybe you cold try with a serial or parallel link. You can install the base system with floppies, but for the re

Re: floppy or hard-disk installation

2000-03-16 Thread Benjamin F. Zhou
you have more than enough space to install debian and a X. download the seven base14*.tgz file, together with resc1440.tgz and drvs1440.tgz, and rawrite.exe . to your windows PC.  with rawrite.exe you write those 9 diskettes in native linux format. only 7 disks, not to many right? much less than

floppy or hard-disk installation

2000-03-16 Thread Bionanou
Hello   I have a acernote light 350PCX   I don't have any network card on it   This laptop doesn't have a cdrom player and it has only 775 meg of harddisk space   I want to install one of the Debian distribution on it.  I can install it from the hard disk or from floppy.  The thing is that

RE: Frozen distribution

2000-03-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Anyone who's running XFree86 4.0... > are there any noticeable advantages of it over the 3.x version? > no, Xfree 4.0 is sooo new it will only be buggy. Besides without proper packaging all of Debian's X based packages are not happy either. I work with several peopling coding on Xfree 4.0,

Re: Please tell your success story

2000-03-16 Thread marc
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:39:20PM +0100, Dieter Ebner wrote: > Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX? > > Could you please tell me the exact type of your laptop + how you have solved > problems. Toshiba Portege 3025 (an older model of the current 3110) > I am particul

RE: Frozen distribution

2000-03-16 Thread stramiello
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > First, change your sources.list so that it points to the > > debian and non-us.debian servers (so you can get ssh) > > > > Then, simply: > > apt-get update > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > hence "by hand", their GUI tool last I tried it would NOT let me en

RE: Frozen distribution

2000-03-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Mar-2000 stramiello wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> > Also, has anyone upgraded from Corel Linux to debian potato? I am afraid >> > that >> > I might mess everything up once I clear the current packages list. > > I had no problems upping Corel to potato on my trust CTX. >

RE: Frozen distribution

2000-03-16 Thread stramiello
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Also, has anyone upgraded from Corel Linux to debian potato? I am afraid > > that > > I might mess everything up once I clear the current packages list. I had no problems upping Corel to potato on my trust CTX. First, change your sources.list so that it p

RE: Frozen distribution

2000-03-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Mar-2000 Bryan Kim wrote: > Hi. I use debian on both my desktop and laptop. Laptop is actually corel, but > aside from the front end, the distribution looks like straight debian. I am > pretty motivated to upgrade that distribution to the latest debian, but my > desktop is having problems th

RE: dpkg one Debian package possible.

2000-03-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Mar-2000 Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > Hi, > > since X from Debian didnt work on my notebook, I decide to go XFree86 > 4.0 and downloaded from xfree86.org . But I am afraid that the > installation will not get registered > in the dpkg database. Also the X docu urged users to use Xinstall.sh in

Dell Inspiron 5000

2000-03-16 Thread Alain Trembleau
Hi Has anyone tried running linux yet on the new Dell Inspiron 5000? I'm interested in getting one, but would like to know whether anyone has already had some success. Probably the main issue would be the graphics card - it's an "ATI Mobility P 2X AGP High Performance Graphics with 4MB SGRAM".

dpkg one Debian package possible.

2000-03-16 Thread Benjamin F. Zhou
Hi, since X from Debian didnt work on my notebook, I decide to go XFree86 4.0 and downloaded from xfree86.org . But I am afraid that the installation will not get registered in the dpkg database. Also the X docu urged users to use Xinstall.sh in the XF86 4.0 package instead of other installation u

Frozen distribution

2000-03-16 Thread Bryan Kim
Hi. I use debian on both my desktop and laptop. Laptop is actually corel, but aside from the front end, the distribution looks like straight debian. I am pretty motivated to upgrade that distribution to the latest debian, but my desktop is having problems that I can't resolve yet.   With the

Re: Sound in 2.1 Kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-16 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:26:45AM +1100, Dataheart wrote: > Howdy, > I am trying to install sound on my Compaq Armada 7800. > the Compaq linux document says the Armada 7400 and 7800 uses the ESS1879 I have an ESS 1978 and I just compiled the ESS Maestro sound driver as a module. Realplayer, timid

Re: Status of battery

2000-03-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Another feature I miss is suspend-to-disk. My laptop has a replaced hard > disk, and obviously the BIOS doesn't support the suspend feature with this > disk (it doesn't work with Win95 or DOS either). > Most laptops require a special section of the harddrive set aside for suspend. This usua

Re: [linux-usb] USB CDROM and Laptop

2000-03-16 Thread Matthew Dharm
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Hausheer, Geoffrey wrote: > I have a USB Sony Spressa x2 CD-RW (which is an ATAPI drive with a USB > adapter). I just installed 2.3.99pre1, and after following the directions > in the Linux USB Guide, was able to get it to work without much difficulty. > However, I have found

USB CDROM and Laptop

2000-03-16 Thread Hausheer, Geoffrey
I have a USB Sony Spressa x2 CD-RW (which is an ATAPI drive with a USB adapter). I just installed 2.3.99pre1, and after following the directions in the Linux USB Guide, was able to get it to work without much difficulty. However, I have found a problem. To get the drive to work correctly, I need t

Sound in 2.1 Kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-16 Thread Dataheart
Howdy, I am trying to install sound on my Compaq Armada 7800. the Compaq linux document says the Armada 7400 and 7800 uses the ESS1879 sound chip it also says this is found in most recent kernel sources. I have the 2.2.14 kernel source tree and I cannot find this anywhere. Has anyone out in the De

XFCom_NeoMagic in 2.1 = XF86_SVGA in frozen?

2000-03-16 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Greetings all, For a few months I had been running 2.1 on my Thinkpad 390E. Recently, I upgraded to frozen and the frozen version of Xfree86. During the upgrade, it asked me if I wanted to keep using the NeoMagic server, and I said yes. It works fine. Here is my question, can I switch t

Re: Shrinking X display

2000-03-16 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Laurent" == Laurent Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Laurent> When I close my laptop (Siemens mobile 360), the screen is Laurent> turned off. When I open it, it's turned back on, but the X Laurent> display has shrinked to a 640x400, with a big black border Laurent> surounding it

Re: Maestro

2000-03-16 Thread Scott Bigham
On Mar 15, 2000, Scott Bigham wrote: > Does RealAudio work for you? It came out very distorted when I tried > it. Okay, scratch that. I just got through installing RealPlayer 7, and for no apparent reason, it all suddenly started working again. :-} Oh well, who am I to complain? I've got seve

Re: Maestro

2000-03-16 Thread Scott Bigham
On Mar 15, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What are you problems exactly ? I have one on a Siemens Scenic Mobile > 360, and it's sound OK except for .au which sound horrible. Does RealAudio work for you? It came out very distorted when I tried it. I don't have any .mp3's or music CD's, so that

Re: Please tell your success story

2000-03-16 Thread Scott Bigham
On Mar 15, 2000, Dieter Ebner wrote: > Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX? If no one else has suggested it, may I recommend the Linux on Laptops page?[1] They won't all be Debian-specific (which I imagine is what you were interested in, given the mailing list you chos