Re: Debian on a Dell 4150?

2002-09-05 Thread Chris Howells
tition? Is it > advisable to have multiple partitions on a laptop? Don't see why not. > 4. Is there anyone out there that has installed Debian on an Inspiron > 4150? What did you do about this hibernate partition that I hear > people talking about? I have a similair question regard

Re: syslinux error

2002-09-05 Thread Chris Howells
this issue but it's not on the current ISO's. Try a boot floppy. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org

Re: sid freezes on tecra 8000

2002-08-29 Thread Chris Howells
hat takes some time. OTOH, i can't imagine That doesn't cause a problem in itself, at least it doesn't here where I'm on dialup. I think the problem is more likely that the machine can't resolve the hostname of the machine to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts. - -- Cheers, Chr

Re: why use ALSA?

2002-08-17 Thread Chris Howells
stle Wolfenstein), and then when I tried using ALSA 1.0 rather than 0.5.something the thing refused to work due to undefined symbols. I went back to OSS/Free. After a bit of messing in /etc/modulels.conf my sound card works perfectly. My advice: if it works, don't touch it ;) - --

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread Chris Howells
nd have run the installation since then periodically doing an apt-get upgrade). - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.o

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread Chris Howells
in February and have run the installation since then periodically doing an apt-get upgrade). - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.o

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread Chris Howells
ce required to do an install; so far I have freed up 600 Mb, is That's very hard to define since it's possible to install it on 386 with a hard disk of only a few hundred megs of space. Obviously it depends what you want to install, 600MB should be fine for a bare-bones X workstati

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread Chris Howells
space required to do an install; so far I have freed up 600 Mb, is That's very hard to define since it's possible to install it on 386 with a hard disk of only a few hundred megs of space. Obviously it depends what you want to install, 600MB should be fine for a bare-bones X workstati

Re: journaling file system on thinkpad?

2002-05-09 Thread Chris Howells
any more. If ext3 is compiled as a module you may need to mess around with initrd stuff. I compile ext3 into the kernel because it's easier, IMHO :) > PS This is a laptop-question; I would like to hear something about > performance on IDE disks as well. Hear what exactly? ;) -- Ch

Re: journaling file system on thinkpad?

2002-05-09 Thread Chris Howells
to do any more. If ext3 is compiled as a module you may need to mess around with initrd stuff. I compile ext3 into the kernel because it's easier, IMHO :) > PS This is a laptop-question; I would like to hear something about > performance on IDE disks as well. Hear what exactly? ;) -- Ch

Re: Debian PC Requirements

2002-04-12 Thread Chris Howells
closing client > applications one at a time and seeing if any release the resources. I've just asked David Faure about it (maintainer of kdesktop) and he said that he thought it was a bug in XF86 4.1, fixed 4.2. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chris

Re: Debian PC Requirements

2002-04-12 Thread Chris Howells
if any release the resources. Yes, I had similair problems a while ago. It just seemed to fix itself. Since I run the CVS HEAD (and updater quit regularly) version of KDE it's a bit difficult to know what was broken/fixed ;) - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL P

Re: Debian PC Requirements

2002-04-12 Thread Chris Howells
closing client > applications one at a time and seeing if any release the resources. I've just asked David Faure about it (maintainer of kdesktop) and he said that he thought it was a bug in XF86 4.1, fixed 4.2. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://c

Re: Debian PC Requirements

2002-04-12 Thread Chris Howells
seeing if any release the resources. Yes, I had similair problems a while ago. It just seemed to fix itself. Since I run the CVS HEAD (and updater quit regularly) version of KDE it's a bit difficult to know what was broken/fixed ;) - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL P

Re: Debian PC Requirements

2002-04-11 Thread Chris Howells
hat fonts cause to Wine in the current version). - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Vers

Re: Debian PC Requirements

2002-04-11 Thread Chris Howells
KDE up for an hour and top shows: 254 root 10 -10 53996 20M 1876 S < 1.6 10.8 6:40 XFree86 Which isn't really excessive. Xplanet is set to update every 5 minutes. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http:

Re: Debian PC Requirements

2002-04-11 Thread Chris Howells
hat fonts cause to Wine in the current version). - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: Debian PC Requirements

2002-04-11 Thread Chris Howells
KDE up for an hour and top shows: 254 root 10 -10 53996 20M 1876 S < 1.6 10.8 6:40 XFree86 Which isn't really excessive. Xplanet is set to update every 5 minutes. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http:

Re: Debian PC Requirements

2002-04-09 Thread Chris Howells
ill point out that this in incorrect. http://www.elks.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org -

Re: Debian PC Requirements

2002-04-09 Thread Chris Howells
ill point out that this in incorrect. http://www.elks.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org -

Re: Why Woody?

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Howells
st be the mouse. Sounds like the mouse is using the wrong protocol. Just edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 in a text editor. It should be a one line change. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.

Re: Why Woody?

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Howells
st be the mouse. Sounds like the mouse is using the wrong protocol. Just edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 in a text editor. It should be a one line change. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.

Re: yikes! locked out of own system!

2002-03-29 Thread Chris Howells
pens if you use CTRL+ALT+F1 and try and log in at the console on a spare virtual termina? > fix it! Has something gone wrong with X Server or with XF86Setup? Does > anyone have any suggestions? Maybe pam got messed up for [k|x|g]dm. It does seem unlikely though. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -

Re: yikes! locked out of own system!

2002-03-28 Thread Chris Howells
pens if you use CTRL+ALT+F1 and try and log in at the console on a spare virtual termina? > fix it! Has something gone wrong with X Server or with XF86Setup? Does > anyone have any suggestions? Maybe pam got messed up for [k|x|g]dm. It does seem unlikely though. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -

Re: winmodem in omnibook XE3

2002-03-16 Thread Chris Howells
em??? If there are no drivers, the only solution is to buy a new modem. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org -

Re: winmodem in omnibook XE3

2002-03-16 Thread Chris Howells
em??? If there are no drivers, the only solution is to buy a new modem. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org -

Re: KDE

2002-03-03 Thread Chris Howells
might need to add a line to /etc/apt/sources.list and run apt-get update). - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org

Re: KDE

2002-03-03 Thread Chris Howells
you might need to add a line to /etc/apt/sources.list and run apt-get update). - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org