Newbie Questions

Hello Debian Laptop List, I'm going to purchase a new portable, but, I'm having trouble getting specific hardware information. By trade I'm an embedded systems programmer. Here goes: 1. Is there documentation with information that I can read and not bother the list with these basic(stupid) quest

Installing X

Hello, I'm new to Debian distributions. I used the rescue floppy to get a kernel installed, via the Internet. However, I'm not familiar with the Debian method of installing X. Can someone point me to some documentation, or a url, or a verbose string of commands to "apt-get" X ? James

Re: Installing X

I tried several solutions mentioned, and here is what I get: You might want to tun 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following pacakages have unmet depencencies: gettext: Depends: gettext-el but it is not going to be installed x-window-system: Depends: twm but it is not going t

Re: Installing X

Matthias Szupryczynski wrote: aahh... apt-setup and apt-update are gone is there some method of starting the installation over, partially? James > > On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 15:41, Designer wrote: > > You might want to tun 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: > &

Lilo Help

Hello, I have this for my lilo.conf file: lba32 boot=/dev/hda5 install=/boot/boot-menu.b map=/boot/map delay=20 message=/boot/bootmess.txt prompt timeout=20 vga=normal default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux root=/dev/hda5 read-only # restricted # alias=1 im

Re: Lilo Help

Alan Su wrote: > > Designer wrote (Mon, 09 Sep 2002 15:17:18 -0400 ): > |> > |>I run "lilo -t -v" > |>and the response looks oK except for this message: > |>" The boot sector and the map file have not been altered." > > hmmm...the '-

X windows setup

Hello, I installed X during the coarse of the normal Debian installation. When my 'Prostar' reboots X tries several times to start, then fails. Video ATI Radeon 7500 64Meg of SDram I not sure how to 'rerun' the X installation, so I can try a variety of speeds etc. Is there a good document I s

Re: Lilo Help

Russell Coker wrote: boot=/dev/hda5 change to boot=/dev/hda fixed the problem.. Now it's on to X using XFree. Thanks for the pointer to the doc... as I'm new to Debian > > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 21:25, Designer wrote: > > I ran " lilo" after that. I

XFree86 on a Prostar 8894

Hello, I've got a dual boot setup working except for X11. I keep running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and try a variety of configurations, but nothing seems to start X working. I've run'lspci' and even looked in /proc/pci and both agree that the ATI M6 chips is located in

Re: X windows setup

Whereis shows nothing on the system James > that's more simple... > > jerome signouret > > On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 16:59:37 -0400 > Designer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I installed X during the coarse of the normal Debian insta

Re: X windows setup

kyi wrote: > > > I would suggest... > > XFree86 -configure > > it will produce a XF86Config.new file. edit it, for the mouse sections > since it usally get those wrong. then run > 'XFree86 -xf86config XF86Config.new' to test it, if X comes up copy it > to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and startx. > > -

Radeon 7500 chipset on a Prostar 8894 Portable: Bug report

Hello,, I was asked to send this email, as a result of debugging a new Debian Woody installation. As requested, I have attached the file scanpci.txt as a result of running 'scanpci -v' and the standard log file '/var/log/XFree86.0.log' as requested. The system is a 2 GHz Prostar portable, with