Re: sound blaster configuration??

2001-03-05 Thread Jacob Meuser
Andreas Tscharner wrote: I haven't figured out how to configure sound in debian, I have read HOWTO and FAQ about configuring sound card but still not found any useful information, How can I configure my Sound Blaster 16 in debian ?? We first need more information: Is this Sound Blaster 16 PC

Re: sound blaster configuration??

2001-03-05 Thread Jacob Meuser
Andreas Tscharner wrote: >> I haven't figured out how to configure sound in debian, I have read HOWTO >> and FAQ about configuring sound card but still not found any useful >> information, How can I configure my Sound Blaster 16 in debian ?? > > > We first need more information: > > Is this So

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card (PCMCIA)

2001-03-03 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:22:36PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > > You have to use tulip anyway, AFAIK. > And of course your ping didn't work. > I told you that you need to put it in promiscuous mode (tcpdump) > for it to work. > --> wrong driver, get the right one. > I have a working LinkSys Eth

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card (PCMCIA)

2001-03-03 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:22:36PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > > You have to use tulip anyway, AFAIK. > And of course your ping didn't work. > I told you that you need to put it in promiscuous mode (tcpdump) > for it to work. > --> wrong driver, get the right one. > I have a working LinkSys Et

Re: potato to woody

2001-03-02 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:01:57AM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > tom wrote: > > > OK, > > I got potato to work > > how do I upgrade to a new branch? > > > > change the /etc/apt/sources.list from 'stable' to 'woody' or > > 'testing' > > I would go testing unless you really really wanted the

Re: potato to woody

2001-03-02 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:01:57AM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > tom wrote: > > > OK, > > I got potato to work > > how do I upgrade to a new branch? > > > > change the /etc/apt/sources.list from 'stable' to 'woody' or > > 'testing' > > I would go testing unless you really really wanted th

Re: HELP, ThinkPad380ED, Music

2001-02-27 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:26:28PM -0800, Jan Hearthstone wrote: >Anyhow - Dear Wizzards, > How do I get to play music on my debian2.2? > It does not recognize "sndconfig"! > Why was I born intellectually challenged? > Hearthstone. No, there's no sndconfig in Debian. A few suggestion

Re: Anybody installed on HP Pavilion XH215?

2001-02-27 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:18:17PM -0800, Alan Chen wrote: > > Unfortunately, CostCo has great prices, but pretty much puts their merchandise > in warehouses, with stacked cardboard boxes. They're really good about > selecting high-quality stuff in general though. I'll probably think about it >

Re: HELP, ThinkPad380ED, Music

2001-02-27 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:26:28PM -0800, Jan Hearthstone wrote: >Anyhow - Dear Wizzards, > How do I get to play music on my debian2.2? > It does not recognize "sndconfig"! > Why was I born intellectually challenged? > Hearthstone. No, there's no sndconfig in Debian. A few suggestio

Re: Anybody installed on HP Pavilion XH215?

2001-02-26 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:18:17PM -0800, Alan Chen wrote: > > Unfortunately, CostCo has great prices, but pretty much puts their merchandise > in warehouses, with stacked cardboard boxes. They're really good about > selecting high-quality stuff in general though. I'll probably think about it >

Re: Xircom Realport 10/100+56k RBEM56G-100

2001-02-26 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:54:39PM -0800, Jeff Coppock wrote: > No, all you have to do is install pcmcia support at install and it will > compile all the drivers I'm pretty sure to compile pcmcia support, you still have to give the 'make all' command, as well as ./configure. Install doesn't comp

Re: Anybody installed on HP Pavilion XH215?

2001-02-26 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:45:10PM -0800, Alan Chen wrote: > Or as anybody even heard of an HP Pavilion XH215? Couldn't find any info about the xh215 at hp.com/notebooks, but it appears to have the ESS winmodem, which due to design flaws (or rather software issues, it IS a winmodem afterall) stop

Re: X on a Fujitsu Lifebook 420D (fwd)

2001-02-26 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:02:49AM +, Jo Geraerts wrote: > Hello, > > > I tried to set the vga=770 in lilo.conf but nothing happens, and I get an > > error: > > Try vga=0x770. These are hexadecimal nr's, not decimal. > Say what? For 800x600x16bpp in the framebuffer mode use vga=788 (in decim

Re: Xircom Realport 10/100+56k RBEM56G-100

2001-02-26 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:54:39PM -0800, Jeff Coppock wrote: > No, all you have to do is install pcmcia support at install and it will compile all >the drivers I'm pretty sure to compile pcmcia support, you still have to give the 'make all' command, as well as ./configure. Install doesn't comp

Re: Anybody installed on HP Pavilion XH215?

2001-02-26 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:45:10PM -0800, Alan Chen wrote: > Or as anybody even heard of an HP Pavilion XH215? Couldn't find any info about the xh215 at hp.com/notebooks, but it appears to have the ESS winmodem, which due to design flaws (or rather software issues, it IS a winmodem afterall) sto

Re: X on a Fujitsu Lifebook 420D (fwd)

2001-02-26 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:02:49AM +, Jo Geraerts wrote: > Hello, > > > I tried to set the vga=770 in lilo.conf but nothing happens, and I get an > > error: > > Try vga=0x770. These are hexadecimal nr's, not decimal. > Say what? For 800x600x16bpp in the framebuffer mode use vga=788 (in deci

re: lie to apt

2001-02-25 Thread Jacob Meuser
I had posted earlier abou using alien to make .deb packages from binaries installed with stow. I said it worked. After more use, I found some problems. They can probably be fixed by unpacking the .deb and adding the stuff that alien couldn't do. dpkg-deb is the program you need and you can find

Re: XF4.02 SiliconMotion driver hanging my ASUS 7300

2001-02-25 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:38:56PM -0800, Heather wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 12:20:05PM +0800, Jonathan Chang wrote: > > > Hi, there, > > > > > > My laptop is ASUS 7300 equipped with SMI 910 lynx > > > chip. Recently I upgraded XF4.0 to XF4.0.2, but the system hung after > > > "starx". A

re: lie to apt

2001-02-25 Thread Jacob Meuser
I had posted earlier abou using alien to make .deb packages from binaries installed with stow. I said it worked. After more use, I found some problems. They can probably be fixed by unpacking the .deb and adding the stuff that alien couldn't do. dpkg-deb is the program you need and you can find

Re: XF4.02 SiliconMotion driver hanging my ASUS 7300

2001-02-25 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:38:56PM -0800, Heather wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 12:20:05PM +0800, Jonathan Chang wrote: > > > Hi, there, > > > > > > My laptop is ASUS 7300 equipped with SMI 910 lynx > > > chip. Recently I upgraded XF4.0 to XF4.0.2, but the system hung after > > > "starx".

Re: lie to apt

2001-02-23 Thread Jacob Meuser
Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 08:23:58AM -0800, Heather wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:13:23AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > > Is there a way to manually edit the database that says which packages > > > > are installed? I set up a small system, using potato, and am a

Re: lie to apt

2001-02-23 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 08:23:58AM -0800, Heather wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:13:23AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > Is there a way to manually edit the database that says which packages > > > are installed? I set up a small system, using potato, and am addin

Re: lie to apt

2001-02-23 Thread Jacob Meuser
Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 08:23:58AM -0800, Heather wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:13:23AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > > Is there a way to manually edit the database that says which packages > > > > are installed? I set up a small system, using potato, and am a

Re: lie to apt

2001-02-23 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 08:23:58AM -0800, Heather wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:13:23AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > Is there a way to manually edit the database that says which packages > > > are installed? I set up a small system, using potato, and am addin

Re: lie to apt

2001-02-22 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:06:08AM -0600, Gordon Sadler wrote: > 2. Probably the simpler solution for a package that exists in Debian > but you wish to 'upgrade' to newer version: > > a. >mkdir $package; cd $package; apt-get source $package >cp $newer_source . >cd $debian_version; uu

Re: HELP - Thinkpad380ED XF86config

2001-02-22 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:08:03PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Monday 19 February 2001 17:20, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:24:06PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > > > I compiled a kernel with VESA frame-buffer support and put "vga=788" in >

Re: lie to apt

2001-02-22 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:06:08AM -0600, Gordon Sadler wrote: > 2. Probably the simpler solution for a package that exists in Debian > but you wish to 'upgrade' to newer version: > > a. >mkdir $package; cd $package; apt-get source $package >cp $newer_source . >cd $debian_version; u

Re: lie to apt

2001-02-21 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:17:51AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > so I had to force install the gtk_glarea package, because the database did not I don't want to use 'force' it screws things up down the line, because you'll have to force EVERYTHING that uses gtk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To U

Re: lie to apt

2001-02-21 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:16:22PM -0500, xsdg wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:13:23AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > Is there a way to manually edit the database that says which packages > > are installed? I set up a small system, using potato, and am adding > > several

lie to apt

2001-02-21 Thread Jacob Meuser
Is there a way to manually edit the database that says which packages are installed? I set up a small system, using potato, and am adding several packages from source. I added stuff like glib-1.2.8, tcl-8.32, tk8.3.2, etc. How can I tell apt that these packages are installed? Or at least make i

Re: lie to apt

2001-02-21 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:16:22PM -0500, xsdg wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:13:23AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > Is there a way to manually edit the database that says which packages > > are installed? I set up a small system, using potato, and am adding > > several

Re: lie to apt

2001-02-21 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:17:51AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > so I had to force install the gtk_glarea package, because the database did not I don't want to use 'force' it screws things up down the line, because you'll have to force EVERYTHING that uses gtk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

lie to apt

2001-02-21 Thread Jacob Meuser
Is there a way to manually edit the database that says which packages are installed? I set up a small system, using potato, and am adding several packages from source. I added stuff like glib-1.2.8, tcl-8.32, tk8.3.2, etc. How can I tell apt that these packages are installed? Or at least make it

Re: HELP - Thinkpad380ED XF86config

2001-02-21 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:08:03PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Monday 19 February 2001 17:20, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:24:06PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > > > I compiled a kernel with VESA frame-buffer support and put "vga=788" in > &

Re: Debian on Vaio F340

2001-02-21 Thread Jacob Meuser
> > > > I tried running xf86config and identifying the mouse with > > /dev/ttyS0. Now I get a graphical login screen but my > > input of id and password are not recognized so I get stuck > > there. > > How do you mean "input ... not recognized"? If you don't have a window manager installed, (

Re: Debian on Vaio F340

2001-02-21 Thread Jacob Meuser
> > > > I tried running xf86config and identifying the mouse with > > /dev/ttyS0. Now I get a graphical login screen but my > > input of id and password are not recognized so I get stuck > > there. > > How do you mean "input ... not recognized"? If you don't have a window manager installed,

Re: HELP - Thinkpad380ED XF86config

2001-02-19 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:24:06PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > > I compiled a kernel with VESA frame-buffer support and put "vga=788" in > /etc/lilo.conf In my experience vga=788 works for Mandrake/RedHat, but not Debian. I use vga=0x314 for 800x600x16bpp with Debian. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: HELP - Thinkpad380ED XF86config

2001-02-19 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:24:06PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > > I compiled a kernel with VESA frame-buffer support and put "vga=788" in > /etc/lilo.conf In my experience vga=788 works for Mandrake/RedHat, but not Debian. I use vga=0x314 for 800x600x16bpp with Debian. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>