gigabyte ga-6xds

1998-10-22 Thread tracheotomy_bob
Hallo again, Is anyone using a Gigabyte GA-6XDS Motherboard? I know it comes with onboard SCSI (plus) but it uses an Adaptec 7895 chipset (minus). So I need to know how easy it it to use linux with this board. Is there a kernel that readily supports this chipset or is it better to purchase a se

problem getting sound

1998-10-22 Thread tracheotomy_bob
Hello people, I think this is the last of my confguration problems, so bare with me. I'm trying to get my SB32 to work, obviously it's fine under windows, so they're the values is used after doing a pnpdump. (see below for full isapnp.conf). I've built sound into the kernel using these values

keyboard question

1998-10-13 Thread tracheotomy_bob
Anybody know where I can purchase a 'normal' 102 key English (British) keyboard, not some goddamn windows 9x keyboard job. I've got a windows one at the mo. 'cos you can't get anything else.

man page probs

1998-10-12 Thread tracheotomy_bob
Hallo again, during my fiddling this weekend trying to get Quake to work, I've changed some permissions somewhere and I don't know where. If I do "man smail" as root I get the man page. If I do "man smail" as a normal user I get the message: Can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied

more mail

1998-10-10 Thread tracheotomy_bob
OK I still don't have a clue how to set up this mail stuff. This is what I need... The local machine is called "gonzo" (yes, after the muppets), and I connect to virgin.net. However I send mail out through iname.com. Now, if I login to the local machine as say, "kermit", yet I have an account at in

dfm ?

1998-10-09 Thread tracheotomy_bob
Is anyone using dfm. I think I read in this group that it was a decent filemanager, anyway I followed a link and downloaded it, so I've just got a couple of question now. Is there anyway to modify the menus, it's not that I need to do it, I just want to know. It appears to me that dfm always

building a boot disk

1998-10-09 Thread tracheotomy_bob
I would really like to be able to build a system up from scratch. While I appreciate the excellence that is debian, I find that for understanding how everything fits together building a system up from scratch helps. Initially I only had the debian install disks, and I had to ftp XFree86 mys

understanding mail

1998-10-09 Thread tracheotomy_bob
Hallo everyone,     I'm not certain I've got a grasp of mail yet, so I could use your help. Currentli I've got smail, fetchmail, tkmail, xlbiff and exmh installed. I don't know if I need all these. >From what I understand of smail this is just used for local mail transport, uucp and smtp. N

couple of question..

1998-10-07 Thread tracheotomy_bob
First the most important question. Does anyone have experience running a Matrox Millennium G200? I assume it needs special drivers as they're not standard in XFree86, so where do I get them from? Can anyone recommend a truly excellent card for X.   If I install just the binary CD (cheapbytes

3dfx voodoo2

1998-10-02 Thread tracheotomy_bob
Hallo again.     Do the glide drivers currently available from 3dfx's site support the Monster 3D II card? When I tried the test programs they bombed with an error saying that no Voodoo card was present. Yet according to the Howto everying is in place. /proc/pci recognises it!   thanks.

more modem

1998-09-28 Thread tracheotomy_bob
OK, here's part II of the problem. I pulled out my modem and configured it to com1 irq4. I disabled com1 on the motherboard and windows seems happy. However now I get the following when I type plog Sep 28 19:02:35 gonzo pppd[144]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Sep 28 19:02:35 gonzo pp