ge can cleanly remove
XFree86 and install the XIG server and ensuring that future dist-upgrades
will not replace the XIG server with newer XFree86 .deb's.
Thank you for any tips, hints, pointer to FM's that I should read or any
other useful mails.
Cheers,
John Gay
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To UNSUB
ns, will load a midi file but when I start
playing the file, kmidi shows it playing, but no sound comes out. Timidity works
fine, though. Any info on configuring kmidi will be greatly appreciated by me as
well.
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John Gay
I had kept a copy of a really great article posted on another mailing list
for this but now seem to have lost it. I would like to upgrade and move
things like /home and /usr to a new scsi hard disk drive which has much more
room. The old disk is /dev/sda and I am installing a new IBM 18 gig scs
each.
Don't let this scare you off. You can learn quite a lot from following the list
and compiling new kernels. Good luck!
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John Gay
Go to www.mostang.com/sane
There you will find a link to supported scanners. I know there is a Mustek
back-end, but I don't know if it supports the 1200 LS scanner.
This will give you just about as much info there is for scanners.
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John Gay
talk you through it. I'm
no expert, but I have been doing some work with my scanner and know a few things
to try.
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John Gay
://www.pathname.com/fhs/index.html
This will take you to the FHS home page. You will find copies of the doc
available from there. I hope this answers you questions.
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John Gay
ake sense to me, but I'm still learning about Linux.
Thanks to everyone who had input, and offered their ideas of partitioning
schemes.
Cheers,
John Gay
another read of the FHS documents and a
good think.
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nt for a while. I was trying to get some USB stuff working, but had to
put it on hold.
I'll change my list when I get home so I don't break anything now that I'm
finally getting the hang of this Linux stuff.
Wow! Woody, that's kewl.
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John Gay
d approximately how
should I divide them up? I realise there are as many answers as people with
PC's, I just want to get a general feel for how big I should make what
partitions.
Thanks for your help.
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John Gay
ed by find-scanner,
but the just say that the device is not available?
If anyone has any ideas where I should look, it would be greatly appreciated.
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John Gay
ould others please add to this list? I don't want to sound TOO biased.
This is what I know. I hope some other people out there can add their knowledge.
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John Gay
not sure which. I'll leave it to the smarter people
to figure this one out. I think the next step is to upgrade xanim. I use mtvp
for mpegs, but need xanim for other video types.
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John Gay
you want installs things like perl and debconf that you will probably
never use. But , better safe than sorry.
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John Gay
nted xmms, sane 1.0.1 and timidity. I
can see why Corel chose Debian. and that decision make me feel real good about
my decision to use Debian when I first started playing with Linux about a year
ago. Keep up the good work.
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John Gay
ured itself properly for my scanner and gimp without a single
prompt! This is what software installation should be like. Great job!
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John Gay
wouldn't plug them straight in, but they will give you an Idea of
what you need.
Good luck with X, it's one of the most difficult things to get going right. From
then on, the rest is relatively easy.
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John Gay
ng exactly what is on my PC and how to add or
remove things is more than worth the problems I've had so far.
I hope I can help you get started.
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John Gay
the help and for a very tidy and easy to update Linux
system.
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John Gay
It didn't get
installed on my system due to some problems I had with the 2.1 boot images and
my SCSI motherboard.
Thanx for all the help.
Cheers,
John Gay
e!
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John Gay
lp, either to myself or to
anyone who had similar problems to me. This community of co-operation is what
makes Linux so great.
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John Gay
to puzzle it out right now. Just thought I'd
share this with you.
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John Gay
e before I upgrade. After that I'll probably try to use a 2.3.x kernel
again.
This is just my personal experiences. YMMV.
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John Gay
learning Linux just
over a year ago. I'm sure there is lots of room for comments and corrections.
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John Gay
and hired programmers to write all
there apps. In the next millennium, the average worker will have the basic
skills to modify the apps for their purposes. We're not there now, but we've
taken the first steps.
Just my views.
John Gay
ger before the other UNIX's follow? How long can Microsoft hold out?
Looks like the days of paying through the nose for an OS and being held hostage
by current software copyright laws are truly numbered!!!
Kinda reminds me of a certain TV commercial from 1984.
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John Gay
s working soon.
It seems so empowering to have achieved these simple things in such a short
time. Thanks to everyone who as offer information and assistance over the year.
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John Gay
x. I'd just like to know what the reasoning
is behind the directory layout used by Debian and why most other 'X'nix's seem
to use completely different layouts?
Thanks again for all your assistance over the past year.
Cheers,
John Gay
et me connect
because they can't resolve my address, or something like that. Is this a problem
with my setup or my ISP?
Well, work calls. Thanks again for all the help.
Cheers,
John Gay
X is looking for
some help to make sound part of the X protocol, but I'm not a programmer. Anyone
want to take this up? nas was developed due to the lack of sound support in X,
an Xsound package was started by the X consortium, but has since been abandoned.
Any takers?
Thanks again for all the help.
Cheers,
John Gay
a separate E-Mail.
Thanks again for all your help and information.
Cheers,
John Gay
blems with my daughter's sound, but I'll
save that for another time. It seems to be a problem with my network settings
and nas.
Thanks again for all the feedback concerning E and other window managers.
WindowMaker look great even on my daughters 8 bit colour PC.
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John Gay
th
the resolution?
Again, I've found the people on this list to be extremely helpful and I'm
forever in your debt for having got as far with my system as I have. I'm sure
I'll be coming back here for more help and just wanted to extend my heartfelt
thanks.
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John Gay
then, would you.
This is my personal experience in compiling and installing programmes from
source code. It doesn't always work, but then neither does all software. I am
open to comments, complaints and constructive criticism.
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John Gay
re some way to make the apps use the
same colours?
I've still got lots of other configurations to figure out, but I'm getting
there. Mostly thanks to the great help I get from this and other lists. Thanks
for your time and opinions.
Cheers,
John Gay
ed on 2.2.9
with no other problems with my SCSI hardware.
I'm still new to linux, but I like to offer what help I can to return the
favours of all the people on this and other lists that have helped me get this
far.
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John Gay
d I haven't got my internet connection
fully working at home yet. I'll have a look through the buy-N-sell for video
cards. Anyone got any recommendations for ISA video cards that can give 16 bit
colour or higher? I won't pay a fortune for one, but I'll have a look and see
what I can find.
Cheers,
John Gay
full screen video with mpegtv. The
video timing HOW-TO doesn't have any info on using double-scan settings. I'll
have another read through the man page for XF86Config. Does anyone know of any
other doc's I could read for more info? Thanks again for all the assistance.
Cheers,
John Gay
Thanks again for all your help.
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John Gay
from
serious failures? I meant to bring in the manual for my monitor to copy the info
into this mail, but I left it at home. Would this info be useful to someone to
suggest settings for X? I can bring it in tomorrow.
Thanks for all the help and I look forward to getting different video
resolutions working so I can enjoy full-screen Video.
Cheers,
John Gay
s some
debugging done. I realise I could just upgrade the Windows partition to 98 or
2000 to get USB, but I just don't trust either. I'd rather use Linux. If someone
could tell me who is working on USB, I'd be glad to offer as much time as I
could spare to test software for them.
Thanks.
John Gay
or this? I tried www.ncd.com, but this
only talks about thin clients for X-Terminals, even though they are listed as
the original creators for nas. I would just like to have some more info on this
one. Thanks for all the help and info.
Cheers,
John Gay
't seem to find anything about sound.
Thanks for the information and all the assistance so far.
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John Gay
ance etc for my sound problems. I've read most
of the doc's I could find, but I can't seem to get my head around this.
Food/Guinness is on offer for any assistance.
Lastly, I'd like to thank all the people on this list that have already given
help with my many issues. I don't get to Dublin often, so I can't join in the
POTD, but thanks for all the help.
Cheers,
John Gay
*- On 29 Jul, John Gay wrote about "Re: X11amp for 2.1?"
>
>
> Actually, I installed from CD with dselect. I haven't set up my internet
> connection, as phone service here in Ireland is a bit expensive. I usually
copy
> anything I need to floppy at work and bring
urces to run on
slink rather than potato? Or should I just wait for potato to go into freeze.
Will the new Toy Story movie mean new names for Debian releases? Maybe I should
build my own distribution and name the releases after characters in Antz.
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John Gay
le. I am still too new to linux to deal with the problems of unstable.
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John Gay
net. I'll then be able to work on other probs a lot
easier, as I'll then have E-Mail at home! Thanks again for all the assistance.
Cheers,
John Gay
familiar with Linux and
UNIX in general. I also want to enrol in a C programming course from University
of Washington. I hope, eventually, to start selling Open-Source CD's to help
spread the word to more of the general public.
Thanks for a great O/S, great advise and support, and any information will be
greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
John Gay
simple request for Linux drivers, and hope that
others will do the same.
That's my 1.575302 Euros worth.
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John Gay
come Y2K. Thanks
again for all your help in the past, and all the help I'm sure you will continue
to provide in the future.
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John Gay
p and information.
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John Gay
y daughter
before I try this myself.
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John Gay
the moment, I know nothing about setting up
E-Mail or other network type things. But, if I had some pointers I could pass
on, I could let the powers that be figure out how to use them. Thanks for any
information you may provide.
Cheers,
John Gay
for my daughter as an X terminal, so we can stop fighting over the PC! This is
certainly going to be an interesting and, hopefully, fun, learning curve. But I
might as well jump in with both feet and take the plunge!
Wish me luck!
Cheers,
John Gay
red down version
everyone has gotten used to.
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John Gay
just ensure the machines are requested with Linux installed and rely on IBM to
sort any problems. If you DO replace the OS with another distribution, like
Debian, IBM may NOT support your machines. This would need some careful
consideration.
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John Gay
MP3's to the player.
I hope it's soon!!!
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John Gay
esults, I'm just not sure
where. Can anyone out there help with a URL?
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John Gay
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