"Andrea Vettorello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:07:26 -, Brian Coiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Here's an update on my last: I rebooted to windoze, and the mouse did
"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Brian Coiley wrote:
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> >Googling the problem reveals some folks discussing files called
"Xauthority"
> >and "xinitrc" which are in the home directory. I have no
"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Brian Coiley wrote:
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> >Googling the problem reveals some folks discussing files called
"Xauthority"
> >and "xinitrc" which are in the home directory. I have no
"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Brian Coiley wrote:
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> >"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in messag
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> >Exactly the same. I don't think it has anything to do with the wm. From
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"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Kent West wrote:
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> > Brian Coiley wrote:
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> >>> My sources.list file currently reads:
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> >>> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sarge main con
"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Brian Coiley wrote:
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> >>I ran the distribution update again, having taken Maurits' advice to
make
> >>sure that I first did an apt-get update. It updated over 200 packages!
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> "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > >modconf also appears to be broken. When it says "
"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >modconf also appears to be broken. When it says "Please select the
category
> >of modules", there is no list of categories. The only option reads
"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >modconf also appears to be broken. When it says "Please select the
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> >of modules", there is no list of categories. The only option reads
"Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Thanks, Ron, I have now got it working with the VESA driver, but not,
unfortunately, with my USB mouse. Trawling the archives reveals countless
suggestions for getting a USB mouse working, all of them different, and none
of
"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Brian Coiley wrote:
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> >Here is the story so far:
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> >1.Installed Woody dual-boot on my W2K box
> >2.Couldn't get Nvidia card to work
> >3.On the advic
>"Steven Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>I think it is known as biting off more than you can chew.
What, trying to get a video card working? Oh boy, that's a terrific advert
for Linux isn't it. Roll up, roll up, you too can waste two days of your
life tryi
"Sergio Basurto Juarez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> --- Brian Coiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Here is the story so far:
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> > 1.Installed Woody dual-boot on my W2K box
> > 2.Couldn'
"Maurits van Rees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 07:13:59PM -, Brian Coiley wrote:
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> > > 9.A
"Brian Coiley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Here is the story so far:
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> 1.Installed Woody dual-boot on my W2K box
> 2.Couldn't get Nvidia card to work
> 3.On the advice of this NG, upgraded to Sarge
> 4.
Here is the story so far:
1.Installed Woody dual-boot on my W2K box
2.Couldn't get Nvidia card to work
3.On the advice of this NG, upgraded to Sarge
4.Tried to install a 2.4 kernel. Need to change LILO config, but I'm
not using LILO, I'm using NTLDR...
5.Figured out how to cha
"Brian Coiley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi all.
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> As a complete newbie, I've had lots of help from people here over the last
> few days, and as a result have upgraded Woody to Sarge. However, I have
> also been advised
Hi all.
As a complete newbie, I've had lots of help from people here over the last
few days, and as a result have upgraded Woody to Sarge. However, I have
also been advised to install a 2.4 kernel version, as opposed to the 2.2
version that was installed with Woody.
I tried to do this as follows
"Gary Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Brian clara.co.uk> writes:
> > Woody (installed from a CD set). I . . .
> > The Woody install seems to have given me 2.2.20.
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> You can have a 2.4 kernel installed with something like "linux2.4" at the
boot
> prompt of t
"Alvin Oga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Alvin Smith wrote:
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> > > > > sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run
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> ...
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> > As far as the video driver is concerned, a driver called
> > "nv" (http://www.xfree86.org/current/nv.4.html) w
"Alvin Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Sunday 21 November 2004 06:32 am, Brian Coiley wrote:
> > "Andrea Vettorello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > On Su
"Andrea Vettorello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:32:49 -, Brian Coiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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"Chris Lale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 11:32, Brian Coiley wrote:
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> > Regarding Sarge, isn't that unstable? What exactly does that mean?
> >
> Sarge is "Testing" - between
"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Brian Coiley wrote:
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> > Many thanks for your reply. I really appreciate your efforts to
> > help. Unfortunately, you have overestimated my abilities! I started
> > on this literal
"Andrea Vettorello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:30:17 -, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi there,
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> > Complete Linux newbie here. Successfully partitioned the disk on my W2K
> > box, and got it dual-booting with Woody (installe
Many thanks for your reply. I really appreciate your efforts to help.
Unfortunately, you have overestimated my abilities! I started on this
literally just yesterday, and doing anything at all is requiring a great
deal of research and trial-and-error! Specifically:
> Well woody also supports Lin
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