Re: Mozilla Warnings

1999-12-08 Thread Brian Neal
> Hi! > > When I start Mozilla a get the following warning: > > [truncated]" > > Are these warnings to be expected or is something missing? > > I have installed Mozilla, as well as the rest of my system from the first of > the two CDs that contains Debian v 2.1 r3. > > yours > > Hans Ekbr

floppy tape driver problems

1999-11-27 Thread Brian Neal
I have the floppy tape driver compiled into my kernel. I just tried to play with it for the first time tonight. When I use the "ftformat" command to try and format a tape, I get: Unknown format API version. Giving up. I am trying to format a TR-3 tape using the example at the bottom of the ftfor

Cant' find stdio.h????? Huh?

1999-11-27 Thread Brian Neal
Hi, I've been compiling kernels a lot lately without problems. Then tonight I type "make xconfig" and get a bunch of errors about not being able to find some pretty standard include files like stdio.h, stdlib.h, string.h etc. Confused, I do a "cd /" and then execute a find command looking for th

HELP WITH SOUND CARD!

1999-11-22 Thread Brian Neal
I am going crazy trying to get my sound card to be recognized!!! I am using slink and pulled the latest kernel sources off of the 2 official cd-roms. I used the pnpdump tool to determine the base address, IRQ's, etc of my card (a 3 year old Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO). I put these into a /etc/isapnp.

Re-Partioning

1999-11-19 Thread Brian Neal
Hi, I put my /var on it's own partion, but didn't realize it got used so much and made it too small. Several times it has almost filled up during apt-gets. I also have /usr/local on another partion which is pretty much empty. Can I tar off the contents of /var and /usr/local and put them on one o

Re: Mouse, please help

1999-11-19 Thread Brian Neal
Hi, >Hello, >I have a problem with the mouse. After the installation finished, >and i startx there is no mouse. I see an "x" in the middle of the >screen. > I recently installed Debian too. What kind of mouse do you have? If you have a ps/2 mouse like I do then perhaps this will help: 1) Whe

Newbie Questions

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Neal
Hi all, I am new to Debian and Linux in general. I managed to get an install working, then got X going. I am currently using the slink versions of gnome and enlightenment. Last night I got brave and figured out apt-get and ran out and downloaded the latest gnome. Question 1) The new gnome looks