I jumped right on the bandwagon the first email I heard of this thing (about a
month ago). I emailed a friend at the same time, and with the lag of about a
day or so, the site blocked up with people trying to sign up for it.
Nevertheless mine came in late last week...3 nice DVDs...Now I can switc
It seems that I have caused Gnome to crash permanently. I had inadvertently
dragged a copy of an item from the menu, and put it into the TRASH and then
emptied it.
At that point Gnome crashed. Any reattepts to login to a Gnome (2.4) setup
bringing up a Gnome-panel crash. I've had to resort to K
For awhile ATI was not supporting Linux. They've improved significantly as of
late.
I highly recommend Nvidia stuff. Excellent Linux support. Matrox is good for
2D stuff.
On 20-Jan-2004 Pigeon wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:41:59AM +0800, Ryan Mackay wrote:
>> If you dont choose this chip
To add my bit to the matter:
When setting up a friend's Win XP machine, I stumbled across the fact that
IEEE1394 can actually be used in networking. So obviously this applies to all
OSes as well.
Never tried it yet though.
On 20-Jan-2004 Paul Johnson wrote:
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I haven't been receiving msgs from the Debian list since Saturday the 22nd.
Was the lists shut down to problems with the apt-get sources?
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I was an avid OS/2 user at one time, until technology moved on and the logical
switch for most OS/2 users was Linux.
Your thoughts on using Win3.1 and OS/2 are interesting...except that Win3.1 was
known to run better under OS/2. The reason was problem because IBM did a
work-around for the bugs th
After upgrading my Libranet (Sarge-based) system, I now end up with the
following messages after doing anything apt-get based (including Synaptic):
W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin
W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin
However the apt-get commands and apps work. How do I solve the
Why switch? SuSE is a great product, and easy to support. I would probably
recommend a business go with a commercial distro like SuSE as opposed to a
devout hobbyist/community based distro like Debian.
On 26-Feb-2003 Robert Waldner wrote:
>
> One of our customers runs his firewall on SuSE. This
Interesting thing is that the module is there...so my problem must be a
parameter that needs to be passed to it...
On 23-Jun-2002 Greg C. Madden wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 19:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I just recenctly purchased a SIIG Fast SCSI Pro (PCI) card. It claims it
>> has
>> Lin
I just recenctly purchased a SIIG Fast SCSI Pro (PCI) card. It claims it has
Linux support, in the manual and on SIIG's website. Apparently either Advansys
or Initio chipsets are used in these cards. Trying to install the kernel
module for either of these SCSI chipsets has been unsuccessful.
Is
Sounds like you might be wanting to do a change of mail clients
(apps)...Although I haven't tried it, Sylpheed is a mail app that is known to
be able to convert between the two formats.
On 29-Apr-2002 Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Paul 'Baloo' Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020428 02:57]:
>> On Sun, 28 Ap
Although I don't own these products I had them under serious consideration to
buy and may still buy them. Any research that I've done on their use on Linux
indicates that their support is fair to excellent, and probably even so under a
2.2 kernel.
I would recommend doing a bit of research on Linu
Sounds to me like you may have a problem with a gateway IP # being set up...at
least that's one possibility. As an example, I have this problem on my
notebook; when my notebook is connected to the small network I have set up, I
use my desktop machine as a gateway (its IP). But if I use the notebo
No, my hostname is not wombat...wombat is a program w/ a lib that's somehow
related to evolution (and maybe other apps too?). Not sure what its purpose
is.
On 07-Jan-2002 Caleb Shay wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 07:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> It seems that I still have been unsuccessful in
I got it working on my system using Alien...although probably after I upgraded
to Woody/Testing.
On 06-Jan-2002 Carl Fink wrote:
> Some may remember that I'm trying to create VCDs using Debian Potato (i386
> Linux). None of the various methods posted here have worked for me, mostly
> because no o
It seems that I still have been unsuccessful in getting Evolution to work after
several weeks since its initial release. The error I keep getting is:
evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on wombat:
(IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0)
I know I have bonobo and bonobo-conf install
Hmm...I've noticed this error too in instances when its been time for e2fsck to
run during boot-up. IIRC, it even predates my 2.4 series kernel use...i.e. I
think it occurred under 2.2.17. LILO version related?--not sure of that either.
But what I can say is that I've never seemed to have the er
As a suggestion, after having the experience of trying to get evolution up and
working last night (stil not quite successful), there are a number of
dependencies to the evolution DEB file (which is supposed to be for Potato?)
that appear only in Testing/Woody and Unstable/Sid.
In short, you'll pro
A strange phenomenon I just came across after upgrading to the 2.4 series
(version 12) from having used 2.2.17 for the longest time...my sound incluing
user of RealPlayer w/ Netscape had worked fine. Now it doesn't...or more
correctly RealPlayer sound has stopped working. All the other aspects of
Try to find out if your /bin/sh is symbolically linked to bash, ash, korn, or
whatever other shell. /bin/sh should be just a symbolic link...if it isn't
linked, link it to something like bash.
I had a problem when I upgraded to the 2.4.12 kernel and the update asked
whether I wanted to go with th
Its interesting that I've observed a lot complain about this...to my knowledge
there are often problems in sending through the ICQ server as opposed to
directly (when using LICQ for instance). I've never heard of any problems
where a Windows client totally refuses messages from a Linux ICQ client
I experienced the same problem, and to make WP8 work again I,
apt-get delete xlib6
and then...
dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xlib6_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
NOTE: The defective version of the above file seems to be "version 39".
Basically I had to roll back to the previous version. Now WP8 is back
With kernel 2.4.15 on the verge or release (if it hasn't been already) and its
inherent attractiveness of having ext3 I'm finally tempted to install a 2.4.x
kernel (yes I sheepishly admit I'm still running a 2.2.x kernel).
However I've noticed that the Debian FTP site (Woody version) only seems to
For me the attempted install of kdelibs3 was prevented by libkmid...so I did a
dpkg -r to that and had to also do the same to kmid...
Then my apt-get upgrade seemed ready to continue...I'll let you know tomorrow
if I come across any other problems...I have 10MB more updates to dload first...
On 1
Thanks very much...this did the trick, although I also had to drag a copy of
the so file over to the Broadcast directory as well.
So far its a bit unstable on my system...but it might be OE (operator error)
right now, as I start getting used to playing with video editing.
On 04-Nov-2001 csj wrote
Just wondering if anyone has ever tried to run Broadcast 2000 under a Debian
system. I've attempted to convert an RPM of this app via Alien.
However I hit a roadblock with reference to an item called libXv.so.1
Apparently this file is nonexistent. The closest I can find under my
Debian i
Looking at the recommendations for the upgrade on the Progeny site, I wonder if
the noted specific install of modutils/modconf is what is necessary to correct
this PCMCIA problem (i.e. at which point you would have to run modconf and
specifically make sure the module for PCMCIA is getting loaded in
Why don't you "upgrade" from Potato to Woody (aka presently Testing). Then
that will resolve your library problem without the workaround. Interestingly
I've successfully installed Kylix under Progeny, on my notebook, and Progeny is
supposed to be a cross between Potato and Woody in certain respec
On 12-Sep-2001 Martin F Krafft wrote:
> also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:12:32PM -0500):
>> how stable is testing? would it be too risky to upgrade from stable
>> to testing?
> furthermore, the apache transition does not work quite well, you'll
> have to edit some config file
I concur with the rest of the comments...
The LC thing being set to C has to be changed.
As well, I found I could not install on my Potato-based desktop system (which
I've just upgraded to Woody...and therefore have to try a Kylix install on
again). But it installed fine on my Progeny (Woody)-ba
I'd say go with Woody (compared to Slack), provided you can do a boot off of
CD...I wasn't aware of the boot-disk issue. I started with Potato about 8
months ago, and just apt-get updated to Woody in the last few weeks.
Tried Slack way back (a number of years ago) and found it more difficult for
I'm in the process of trying to apt-get dist-upgrade by Debian system from
Potato to Woody-Testing, and seem to have stumbled across the "roadblock"
shown below that has limited my progress...
If anyone has any suggestions on how this matter might be resolved it
would be much appreciated. Ear
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