Re: XFree86 4.0.1 from source

runs 'update-rc.d -f xfs remove' before you install the font server. Otherwise make sure that you have a rescue/root set around. Just my two pennyworth... Best regards JohnG John Gould - Systems Support Engineer Power Innovations Limited Tel: +44 1234 223002 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No Window

Re: Starting GNOME (newbie question)

Hi Marco, Just put 'exec gnome-session' in your .xsession or .xinitrc file. Then use the Gnome setup utility to make Sawfish the default WM. HTH Regards JohnG John Gould - Systems Support Engineer Power Innovations Limited Tel: +44 1234 223002 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No Wi

Re: voodoo3 + 3dfx.o module source

card at 800x600. HTH regards JohnG John Gould - Systems Support Engineer Power Innovations Limited Tel: +44 1234 223002 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No Windows here, 's very dark! 32865e97b5342e762ab140e00f3da23b - Just 'Debian' On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, bobby dowling wrote: &

Re: Upgrade advice

You don't need woody, potato is fine. The upgrade from the existing archive or CD's is sweet, see Anne's doc's on the upgrade. Works really well... Regards JohnG John Gould - Systems Support Engineer Power Innovations Limited Tel: +44 1234 223002 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

pgrade! I had one problem with gdm but you can just do a 'update-rc.d -f gdm remove' to fix this! Anyway I prefer to start X from a command prompt so's I can specify the colour depth. HTH JohnG John Gould - Systems Support Engineer Power Innovations Limited Tel: +44 1234 223002 e

Scan frequencies on exit from X

Hello everyone, I have a small problem when switching from X back to a virtual terminal or leaving X completely. The machine boots fine and the monitor frequencies are normal, if I start X, X runs fine, again with expected horizontal and vertical refresh frequencies to the monitor. T

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

Yes, agreed my miskake sorry. Regards JohnG 32865e97b5342e762ab140e00f3da23b - Just 'Debian' On 12 Jun 2000, John Hasler wrote: > John Gould writes: > > What I like to do when installing Debian on a new system is to follow all > > the prompts until it asks whether I

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

Hmm, Hello John, sounds like you've had lots of problems? Well here's my two pennyworth... What I like to do when installing Debian on a new system is to follow all the prompts until it asks whether I would like to install one of the specified package sets or a custom install. Then select 'cust

RE:Debian 2.1 install

Hi there, This sounds like the Adaptec 2940 problem with some early cards and the number of SCSI drivers in the boot disks. Do you have a 2940 card? There were some boot disks around that fixed this problem, unfortunately I can't remember where they were. Perhaps others can tell you. I hav

Re: 3Dfx X Server and drivers

Yes, Agreed, the driver goes in '/usr/local/bin' or anywhere else you wish to place it. Just the sum link in /dev. Sorry to misslead. Regards JohnG 32865e97b5342e762ab140e00f3da23b - Just 'Debian' On Fri, 26 May 2000, Patrick Maheral wrote: > On Fri, 26 May 2000, J

Re: 3Dfx X Server and drivers

Hi there, I can confirm that the 3dfx drivers work fine with Debian, both with 'Slink' running 2.0.36 and 2.2.14. I just grabbed the files from 3dfx's Linux site, converted them with alien and installed. You will probably need to manually install the actual driver as the dpkg install didn'

Re: ppp connection failure - solved

to do with 'slink' or 'potato'; it looks very much like the USR Courier has failed in the switch to 'potato'. So I'm feeling rather foolish at this point. I wonder whether the modem will work in Windows? Best regards JohnG 32865e97b5342e762ab140e00f3da23b -

POP3 server problem

Hello everyone, I have a very weird problem happening with our POP3 server. All of a sudden yesterday one of the users using this service reported that he kept getting "-ERR being read already /usr/spool/mail/fred" being returned from the POP server. I have looked into this and can f

Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

for all devices reverts to SCSI Ultra. HTH JohnG 32865e97b5342e762ab140e00f3da23b - Just 'Debian' On Tue, 23 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 23 May 2000, John Gould wrote: > > > Sorry, but this is rubbish! The SCSI controller will have no effect on the >

Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

Sorry, but this is rubbish! The SCSI controller will have no effect on the disk rotational velocity. However this is not what the poster asked! If you put an Ultra 2 wide on a non wide channel the transfers will be eight bits at a time instead of 16, i.e. half the speed, but it will work fine. Some

Re: ppp connection failure - re-post

Hello everyone, I am re-posting this as no one seemed to be able to answer this the first time. If the worst comes to the worst I'll have to install 2.1r4. Thanks and regards JohnG Hello everyone, I am running potato with kernel 2.2.15 installed. Whatever I do I can

Re: ppp connection failure

Hello everyone, I am running potato with kernel 2.2.15 installed. Whatever I do I cannot get ppp to connect to the local RAS server. Another box running 2.1r4 works perfectly. I have re-built the kernel several times and stripped out ppp and pppconfig and re-installed. Still I get th

Re: Networking - Linux gateway to internet for Mac

Hi Marshal, I'm not much help on questions 1 or 3 but take a look at the book 'Linux Firewalls' published by New Riders. Tells you everything you need to know on setting up a Linux Firewall. Also see the Firewall HOWTO. HTH JohnG 32865e97b5342e762ab140e00f3da23b - Just 'Debian' On

Re: hacked?

Hi there, I guess that password complexity is not the issue here. It's incredibly easy to 'sniff' plain text passwords off of a LAN! However if your happy no one is going to attempt this then telnet without ssh is fine. Just my twopennyworth. Regards JohnG 32865e97b5342e762ab140e00f3da

Re: Another install on an old 486

Hello there, Have you checked where the /dev/cdrom sym link points to? Do a 'cat /dev/modules' and see if the Sony cdu31a driver is loaded. HTH JohnG 32865e97b5342e762ab140e00f3da23b - Just 'Debian' On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Mike Rayle wrote: > I am planning on getting a cable mode

Re: Creative SB Live! 1024

Hi there, Sound has to be compiled as a module but it works fine with SMP! Regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould _/ _/ Senior Systems Support Engineer _/ _/ Power Innovations Limited

Re: Creative SB Live! 1024

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Simple text screen editor

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Re: Help

Nice one Oswald! Regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould _/ _/ Senior Systems Support Engineer _/ _/ Power Innovations Limited _/ _/ Manton Lane, Bedford. MK41 7BJ, England

DVD Ram drives and GNU/Linux - Debian

read most of the standard CD formats. Point is, could one use this as an ext2 file system under Linux or does the thing depend on Windoze drivers. I was thinking of the Panasonic LFD103. Best regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould

Re: Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

lutions no prob! _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould _/ _/ Senior Systems Support Engineer _/ _/ Power Innovations Limited _/ _/ Manton Lane, Bedford. MK41 7BJ, England _/ _/ PGP - Public key available

Some comments on Storm Linux (Debian in disguise)

disagree, they'll just go to /dev/null. Regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould _/ _/ Senior Systems Support Engineer _/ _/ Power Innovations Limited _/ _/ Manton Lane, Bedford.

ISDN cards, I-modems

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Re: which 2.2 kernel?

suffer the consequences. You can ftp kernels from 'ftp.kernel.org' Hope this helps... Regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould _/ _/ Senior Systems Support Engineer _/ _/ Power

Re: firewall

ion server just yet! Hope this helps, regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould _/ _/ Senior Systems Support Engineer _/ _/ Power Innovations Limited _/ _/ Manton Lane, Be

Re: using power save and power down features

Yes, You need to compile a kernel with apm support. It's in the 2.2 series kernels, just run make config etc. Regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould _/ _/ Senior Systems Support Eng

Network config and domain name ?

#x27; to 'potato'. Sorry about such a long post... Regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould _/ _/ Senior Systems Support Engineer _/ _/ Power Innovations Limited _/ _/ Manton

Re: Running X on a Toshiba Tecra 8000

ading to 'potato' just at the moment if others suggest this as it severly broken at present. The 3.3.6 for Slink worked well for me and doesn't break slink. Best regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould

Re: AGHHHH! I ruined Linux!

I've used slink out of the box with Vincent's XFree 3.3.6 updates to get access to the latest graphics cards but the rest is best left alone. Just my two pence. Best of luck Regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould

Re: don't want x as default startup

Hope this helps... Regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould _/ _/ Senior Systems Support Engineer _/ _/ Power Innovations Limited _/ _/ Manton Lane, Bedford. MK41 7BJ, England

re: 3c575_cb driver

ses 2.0.36. Hope this helps... Regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould _/ _/ Senior Systems Support Engineer _/ _/ Power Innovations Limited _/ _/ Manton Lane, Bedford. MK41 7B

Re: severe xfree86 hassles

Looks to me like you've got the fonts missing. The message says that the keyboard error is not fatal to the server. Regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould _/ _/ Senior Systems Support Eng

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

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Re: Installing VMWare on Debian

You can teel vmware to install in /usr/local, there is no need to install in /usr. Regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould _/ _/ Senior Systems Support Engineer _/ _/ Power Innovations Limited