Keyboard goes dead

Hi, I am having this strange problem and I hope someone could shed light on it. Taking a members advice I am running unstable to get the drivers for ATI Rage 128 Ultra card to work. However now when I start an X session and when I quit it, the keyboard becomes unresponsive after typing in o

Output on Diff moniter

Hi, I have this idea and I have no idea how to go implementing it. It makes no sense but just wanna do for kicks to see if can be done. I have 2 computers A and B on my desk and 2 moniters and 2 keyboards and all and both run debian. Say I am working on computer A and i ssh to computer B. I

Re: NFS setup problems

Hi, nate writes: Hi Folks, I have been trying to setup NFS on my system and run into problems. I have been reading the security part of NFS-HOWTO. however there a bunhc of lines of portmap status, nfs nlockmgr mountd hat are listed when rpcinfo -p is run. I have recompiled the kernel for NF

NFS setup problems

Hi Folks, I have been trying to setup NFS on my system and run into problems. I have been reading the security part of NFS-HOWTO. strings /sbin/portmap | grep hosts shows that my /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow are not being read at all. my /etc/hosts.deny has portmap: ALL lockd : ALL m

Unidentified subject!

Hi Folks, I have been trying to setup NFS on my system and run into problems. I have been reading the security part of NFS-HOWTO. strings /sbin/portmap | grep hosts shows that my /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow are not being read at all. my /etc/hosts.deny has portmap: ALL lockd :

ATI problems

Hi Folks, I am having real trouble with configuring my ATI 128 Ultra card. I did search through the list archive and found references but they could not help me out. I have just made a fresh install on a system. Gdm refuses to start and when manually started it says fatal error no screens f

Sorry

Hi, I apologize for my ill formatted mail that I sent earlier. I don't know why it why it turned out like that when using lynx to logon on softhome. My post again I tried removing some packages of kde that I don't want on my system. like kab and karm. However dpkg --purge tells me that there

Removing kde packages

Hi,da I tried removing some packages of kde that I don't want on my system.dalike kab and karm. However dpkg --purge tells me that there is daa dependency problem. apt-get remove kab shows that it is removing kde too.daapt-cache kde shows that it is a meta package containing dependencies.dada

true type fonts

Hi folks, I have been trying to setup truetype fonts on my box. I did find good doc when I searched on google and did follow the instructions to the dot. save for the simple fact that /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype is a link to /usr/share/fints/ttfonts I am not sure as to how to verify if al

cupsys & kde

Hi, I did check if locahost is working and it is. The strange thing is that I did a fresh install on a new system and kde applications list lp as the defaul printer option. however on my system it does not which is wierd. I would really appreciate some insight as to why applications like emacs m

cupsys and kde

Hi, I seem to have a problem in getting CUPS to be configured with some applications of my system. I managed to configure cupsys on my system to use a printer on the network and it works for most of the applications like emacs/mozilla. However applications with KDE office suite don't seem to re