Unidentified subject!

2001-02-28 Thread d d
hi i am new to linux and want to lear more about it. so i tryed to download it with no success because there are so many files their… So I was wondering if you could tell me how to download it. Thank you David Flowerday ___

hard drive clean / removal of microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-22 Thread d d
I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and all other software from a hard drive leaving a completely bare hard drive. please respond by telephone only as I do not have reliable email Dick 315+399-6113 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-22 Thread d d
I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other software from a hard drive leaving a completely clean hard drive. please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email Dick 315+399-6113 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread D.
> no coincidence. though i've never seen the movie > myself. And don't > plan to :) > > there was also hamm(2.0), and slink(2.1), not sure > if those were part of > toy story too ? > > nate > Its a shame that you have no plan to see the Movie Toy Story it a nice escape from reality and we

Re: Unistalling Gnome, Wmaker, KDE and re-installing KDE

2003-03-07 Thread D.
--- Didier Caamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, could anybody give me some direction > to how can I uninstall > wmaker, Gnome and kde? > > I accidentally remove Konqueror and most of KDE > libraries while I was > installing wine. I have tried several times to run > apt-get insta

Re: Partition Magic-like S/W for Knoppix/Debian

2003-03-11 Thread D.
--- Abdul Latip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Use Mandrake GNU/Linux installation CD :-) > > Mandrake Linux release 9.0 (dolphin) for i586 > > Well, unfortunately, I am trying to sell "Debian" > through > "Knoppix"; not "Mandrake" :^). > > Thanks any

Re: DSL issue

2003-03-17 Thread D.
--- Craig Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to get iiNet DSL working on my Debian box > > Very confused as to whats happening. I've googled > the error, a few others > have posted about it, but there are 0 replies. > > Most sites just say, install Roaring Penguin, > install, run adsl-setu

Download accelerator Question

2003-03-17 Thread D.
Hi All, Wasn't the principle behind the Download Accelerator to make a faster download for modem type connections?? Do the accelerator increase the download speed on a DSL or Cable Modem? Just Curious. Thanks Don __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hostin

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2003-03-19 Thread D.
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2003-03-19 Thread D.
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Re: The following packages have been kept back

2003-10-16 Thread D.
--- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > - From what to what? > Haven't you ever done a dselect update and then a apt-get -u upgrade and found that you have 30 or some large number of packages that are not going to be installed? When that ha

Hola! Soy David:

2003-10-30 Thread D
Hola! Soy David: Acabo de empezar en un nuevo Teletrabajo. Si, has leído bien! UN TELETRABAJO, no un trabajo común y corriente, un verdadero Teletrabajo que me permite trabajar desde la comodidas de mi propia casa. La verdad es que acabo de empezar y ya me parece magnifico, la Libertad que me

dist-upgrade question

2003-01-24 Thread D.
Hi all, I'm running Testing on a PII 350 and attempted to do a dist-upgrade last night. Here is the results of the apt-get -u dist-upgrade. My questions is why is it trying to remove the task-x-window-system-core? If I did this wouldn't I have lost my "Desktop" and only had text only mode?

Re: How to get rid of a wrong package?

2003-01-24 Thread D.
Why can't he do a dpkg--purge then do a apt-get clean ? Just a thought Don --- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:08:44PM +0100, Torsten > Schlabach wrote: > > I have developed a piece of software and created a > .deb package out of > > it. I then tried to install

Re: dist-upgrade question (Thanks)

2003-01-28 Thread D.
Thanks to all who responded. As usual, you can always learn something new. Thanks Again Don --- Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 06:17:29AM -0800, D. wrote: > > I'm running Testing on a PII 350 and attempted > to do > > a dist-upgrade las

Re: Download installed .debs??

2003-01-31 Thread D.
--- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:16:57AM -0800, Lars > Jensen wrote: > > How do I re-download copies installed .deb > packages that are already on > > my system? apt-get won't download a package that > is already installed. > > Well, there's apt-get --reinstall,

CRASHING HARD DRIVE

2003-02-06 Thread D.
Hi All, I know that this has been discussed before so I apologize for asking again. I believe that my hard drive is on its last leg. Can I do a quick and dirty bzip2 / and will that bzip2 by drive so that I can copy it to another, then do the bunzip2? I'm looking for a easy solution, I can re-

Re: CRASHING HARD DRIVE

2003-02-07 Thread D.
--- Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> I know that this has been discussed before so I > >> apologize for asking again. I believe that my > hard > >> drive is on its last leg. Can I do a quick and > dirty > >> bzip2 / and will th

Re: Upgrade to Sid by apt

2003-02-14 Thread D.
--- Willem-Jan Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello again, > > I want to upgrade to sid, is there a rule for > sources.lists? > > Kind regards, > > Willem-Jan Meijer > If I wanted to do that upgrade I would change the stable to unstable on each of the deb and src lines. Then do a dselect

Re: Black Holes.

2003-09-29 Thread D.
--- "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > O.K., I'm trying to get on top of a few things here, > and am struggling > to find directions that make sense. > It's got to the point where I have actually got to > the point of starting > off a series of posts at an open source forum to > help out

Re: MAN PAGES (FIXED)

2002-10-04 Thread D.
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:13:12AM -0700, D. wrote: > > I using testing and I suspect that sometime > during a > > upgrade I have hosed up my man pages db? Anyway > if I > > open xman and then manual page and look

WindowMaker Menu Crazies

2002-10-10 Thread D.
Hi all, I'm running unstable with the 2.4.19 kernel using Window Maker. I've installed the mplayer-686.deb and when I select the Mplayer from the menu is does not open. If I open a terminal and type mplayer in the terminal Mplayer will open. I have looked at /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu.hook a

Re: Newbie Questions

2002-10-26 Thread D.
Hi Chuck, --- "C. Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I found the a few site on setting up te true-type > windows fonts, but this > covers only .ttf. Is it any different to do .fon > fonts? > > Anti-aliasing fonts and icons (through KDE), do I > need it? What is the > purpose? And if it's

libc6 install problems HELP Please

2002-11-20 Thread D.
Hi All, I was attempting to install mplayer and one of its depends was libpostproc0 which had a depend of libc6. I know I should learn how to make a deb from source. Anyway I did a apt-get install libc6 from unstable and this is what I get once the download is complete. The three packages it i

Re: Laptops!

2002-11-20 Thread D.
--- james leclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > Could someone be so kind as to recommend a model and > brand name of laptop I > should consider purchasing to run debian on? Thanks > in advance, you guys > have been real helpful!! > James > I have Debian Testing running on a HP Pavilion

Re: libc6 install problems HELP Please (resolved)

2002-11-22 Thread D.
--- "D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > I was attempting to install mplayer and one of its > depends was libpostproc0 which had a depend of > libc6. > I know I should learn how to make a deb from source. > > Anyway I did a apt-get install libc6 fro

Re: apt after installation

2002-11-30 Thread D.
--- Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have now succesfully installed debian a second > time with DHCP. =) > The first thing I wanted to install was emacs and I > tried this command as > root: > apt-get install emacs > > And I got the follwing error: >

Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-10 Thread D.
--- Simon Tod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, so this isn't enough to solve the problem. > I've > added apm on a new line to /etc/modules and added > append="apm=on" to lilo.conf (b4 running lilo...) > BUT > /proc/apm doesn't exist, so when I try and run apm I > get the message 'No APM support

Re: [Very OT] What [OT] stands for?

2002-12-11 Thread D.
--- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:06:33PM +0100, Oliver > Fuchs wrote: > > That is also a goody ... I thought F stands for > the f-word and y ... > > I do not know ... are children here on the list? > > Yeah, we are. > > -rob BTW as a check of the kids today, I

Article by HP about Linux's growing Popularity

2003-05-29 Thread D.
I thought that you all might be interested in this article from HP. I also thought that some people might want to tuck it away someplace so that when someone asks for a reference that they can use, it could be provided. http://www.hp.com/sbso/advice/articles_networking12.html Don __

O.T. Novell challenges SCO's Linux claims (Update)

2003-05-29 Thread D.
Here is a update on the current SCO/IBM Lawsuit for those that are interested. http://about-cnet.com.com/2100-1016-1010569.html?type=pt Don __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSC

Re: apt-get Newbie

2003-06-02 Thread D.
--- Alan C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > I'm a Debian newbie. > > I understand it's possible to use apt-get once every > > couple of weeks or so to keep a system up-to-date. > > When I installed Debian 3.0r1, some of the software > I wanted to use specified Gnome2.2, so I've gone >

Re: sound: loading of sound driver fails after reboot from Windows

2003-06-10 Thread D.
--- Ben Kal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2 Jun 2003 "Gary L. Dolan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:28:45AM +0100, Ben Kal > wrote: > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> Do some of you know more about the following > inconvenience I have > >> with sound on my Linux machine: > >

Re: How can I get Galeon to hadle Java pages?

2002-08-31 Thread D.
Do a apt-cache search java |more and pick what you want, then do a apt-get install If memory serve's me correct that how I installed java on my Laptop. HTH Don --- stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the package, or procedure I need to complete > to get Galeon to handle Java pages on a > tes

Disk Partation Help

2002-09-04 Thread D.
Hi all, On my laptop I have WimME on hda2 10G and Debian hda4 is /root 7G, swap is hda3. I'd like to add another Linux distro onto my laptop. How can I reallocate the partations so I can do this without having to a reinstall. Thanks in advance. Don ___

Re: question about editors for lil.conf and other configuration files

2002-09-18 Thread D.
I realize that by now you have probably resolved your editor problem. I like you also I would prefer something other than vi for editing so I use "joe". It is available from the 3 cd set and is easy to use. Works like most MS text editors and to save all you need to do is a ctrl kx HTH Don ---

Re: msttcorefonts self-installing exe availability

2002-09-22 Thread D.
 --- A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to install the msttcorefonts package, > but > the installation falis since the exe can not be > found. > Does anyone have it by any chance and would be kind > enough to send me a copy? Or may be indicate where I > can get it from? > Thanks, > TR D

MAN PAGES

2002-10-03 Thread D.
Hi all, I using testing and I suspect that sometime during a upgrade I have hosed up my man pages db? Anyway if I open xman and then manual page and look for a man page for example on mp3burn, I can see it in the list, but when I select it, it opens empty. I have tried it with other man pages

USB support?

2001-07-25 Thread d
Excuse me but I am just a LURKER, two questions if I may? #1. Is there USB support for NETWORKING in Linux? I think there is something that is to the NEGATIVE that I read but do NOT remember where. #2. With all of the messages on this 'ls' where do any of you find the time to do anything for

A NEWBIE inquiry......

2001-07-26 Thread d
Hey folks, this is the LURKER again with an inquiry on installs on the same drive. I purchased a copy of "Mandrakesoft™'s Linux® Mandrake©" v7.0/w 3 CD's (installation disc #1, source disc #2 and extra #3) about a year ago. To make a long story longer, NOT really, there were some major proble

Re: Response...A NEWBIE inquiry......

2001-07-27 Thread d
Jaye Inabnit, Mart van de Wege, Kent West, Mark Wagnon, This is NOT in any special order just wanted to send a BIG Thank You for the info and will be testing this out over the weakend (BAG!). Again, to make a short story longer, from what I have seen and read in most of these messages the one

Fwd: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread d
HEY, people what is this CARP? I have received some stuff like this before and just thought it was an ERROR. Now I am begaining to wonder.. Is this sort of thingy acceptable practice or should we turn them in to some "FROG" or "SALAMANDER" some place FAR FAR AWAY?

Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

2001-08-01 Thread d
r thingys that could be useful to me/us. TIA, d Don Hodges San Antonio, Texas

Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's? Thanks....

2001-08-01 Thread d
hedule the party and celebrate my not bothering you. NO I will NOT attend that function either. Again to one and all, "Thank You", TIA, d Don Hodges San Antonio, Texas

Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

2001-08-02 Thread d
to my question. BAG!! TIA, d Don Hodges San Antonio, Texas

dhcp-client help

2001-11-19 Thread D.
Hi all, I have installed dhcp-client. My /etc/network/interfaces is: auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp I have made the files in /etc/network/ifup and ifdown and they each have in them eth0. I have a /var/dhcp/dhclient.leases. The /etc/resolv.conf is there and once I get co

Re: dhcp-client help (more information)

2001-11-19 Thread D.
Hi all, I have installed dhcp-client. My /etc/network/interfaces is: auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp I have made the files in /etc/network/ifup and ifdown and they each have in them eth0. I have a /var/dhcp/dhclient.leases. The /etc/resolv.conf is there and onc

Re: dhcp-client help

2001-11-20 Thread D.
now works at my office, just need to check it at home, but it should work there also. Thanks again. Don > "D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > I have installed dhcp-client. > > My /etc/network/interfaces is: > &

Re: microsoft ttf in kde?

2001-11-25 Thread D.
GO to this website and it will tell you how to do it. www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.html HTH Don --- pReJkEr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > > is it possible to use ms ttf fonts ie. those for the > web like verdana... > in kde? > > tnx > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUB

Re: HELP

2001-11-25 Thread D.
This list loves to help damsels in distress if we know what the problem is.. Help is a little general. D --- ANNIE CHALET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > help > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: compiling a NIC driver

2001-11-29 Thread D.
Paul, I don't know if you resolved this yet or not. I haven't seen any responses to your initial email. I have a nic card that uses the tulip driver and had to compile the driver also. I had the same problem i.e. could not find modversions.h . Here is something that I found on scyld.com that r

Re: Netgear FA311/312

2001-11-29 Thread D.
If you go to the www.netgear.com and search around a little bit you will find a linux driver for your nic card in .zip form. When you open it you will see a readme on how to compile the driver. I believe that you also need the kernel-headers for the kernel that your using. HTH Don --- Louis Rot

Re: Computer won't power off

2001-11-30 Thread D.
apm then this is not necessary, but for the > packaged kernels it > is). If you have a 2.4 kernel you need to load the > 'apm' module > before shutting down the system. The easiest way is > to add 'apm' to > /etc/modules. (again, this is for the packaged >

Re: Movie players in certain Linuxes , O God !

2001-12-06 Thread D.
There is a .deb file for mplayer. You need to add libasound2 from unstable and also liblircclient0, libmud0 and libsdl1.2debian from testing. Then add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list do a apt-get update apt-get install mplayer-686 mplayer-fonts mplayer-docs. And you have a nice GUI MPlayer. Do

apt-get lists

2001-12-11 Thread D.
Whenever you do a apt-get update there is a new list generated, I assume, made in the /var/lib/apt/lists folder. After awhile this folder can grow to be kinda large. Would there be a problem deleting some of these old lists? Currently on my laptop there are 35 lists in that folder and I know that

Re: A package that does not want to die

2001-12-12 Thread D.
Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: The package firebird-classic needs to be > reinstalled, but I can't find an > archive for it. > > I have tried installing the package but it is > Fd. Can anyone help me on > removing it? > > Than

Re: Turning on apm

2001-12-23 Thread D.
In addition to what the previous response was if you using kernel 2.4.? you also need to add apm to you etc/modules file, anyway that's how I had to get it to work on my laptop. Don --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do you turn on apm ? Mine seems to switched > off. > Warm Regards, > ([EMAIL PROT

Re: Move from RedHat to Debian

2001-12-24 Thread D.
I do not agree with the general consensus that the Debian installation is that hard. No it does not see how much disk space you have like Mandrake and then install what it thinks that you need, it leaves that up to you. Don --- "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --

Re: Newbie Needing Help With Sound

2002-02-05 Thread D.
I think that there is one step missing, and that is dpkg -i . After you build the kernel, you have to install it. Don --- Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > > Once you exit out of the "make menuconfig" step, > the "Debian way" of > > compiling a kernel is next. > >

Re: adding a line to sources.list

2002-02-05 Thread D.
Here is what I have in my /etc/apt/sources.list "deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody non-free" DOn --- Brandon N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to get apt to install the blackdown java > files, the URL of > the Packages.gz file is: > > http://m

Fwd: Auction Items

2002-02-13 Thread d
I hope this is NOT allowed by you. I am forwarding this for your info, I did NOT request any of this. I do NOT intend to respond as stated at the end of this message. A past user of this list, 'd' Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from murphy.debian.org ([21

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread D.
I was in the same position except I had WINME on the drive. Do a search on www.google.com and search for FIPS . That is a non-distructive partitioner. If memory serves me correctly there is a lot of good information on the web page that you download FIPD from. After you do the partition you can do

Re: Sound after restarting from win$$

2002-02-27 Thread D.
Have you added your sound driver to /etc/modules? --- Axel Minck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > After restarting from windoze (I know, it's bad but > I am forced to use > it for my work) to linux I have no sound. > Has someone a solution to avoid turning off the > computer before starting

Re: Can't startx after upgrading to woody

2002-02-28 Thread D.
Alex therre are at least two versions of Xfree on Woody, which Xfree are you using. I know when I upgraded to Woody my X Server would not start either, I had to download the xserver seperately. And if your using 4.?.? the xconfig file is XF86Config-4. Don --- Axel Minck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: PCMCIA under potato

2001-10-14 Thread D.
To find out the information that your looking for try lspci -a and lspci -n HTH Don --- Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've installed and compiled the pcmcia source coming > with Bunk's stuff > under potato and kernel 2.4.9 (of course enabling > pcmcia in the > kernel). Then I've installed p

Re: apt-get areas

2001-10-16 Thread D.
Scott, You can edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change the entries from stable to woody (on teh first three lines) and then download them from the debian sites. That is one way to do it. Don --- Hamma Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I put the loop in for apt-get just to download > files(thank y

upgrading to WOODY

2001-10-19 Thread D.
Hi All I'm running Potato 2.2.r3 on a HP Pavilion 5450 (PII 800 MGZ) with a EN2242 Nic Card that I had to configure the tulip driver for. I did a dist upgrade and keep receiving the error not preconfiguring the package apt-utils is not installed. My question is when you do a upgrade like this

upgrading to Woody, apt-utils question

2001-10-19 Thread D.
Hi All I'm running Potato 2.2.r3 on a HP Pavilion 5450 (PIII 800 MGZ) with a EN2442 Nic Card that I had to configure the tulip driver for. I did a dist upgrade to Woody and keep receiving the error not preconfiguring the package, apt-utils is not installed. My question is when you do a up

Re: upgrading to Woody, apt-utils question

2001-10-19 Thread D.
quot; on some packages. > Maybe you could even force a complete reinstall of > the dist-upgrade by doing > a apt-get --reinstall dist-upgrade, but I didn't > test that. > > Bastiaan Huisman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.student.kun.nl/b.huisman > > - Origi

riddle me this??

2001-10-22 Thread D.
I was looking at updating a Potato 2.2.r3 running kernel 2.4.9 (from Bunks page) to Woody. Following this list I have noticed all of the problems woth x font and the Xserver's. I did a apt-get update pointing to the testing and then did a apt-get -u dist-upgrade and looked at the list of packages

Re: Sound...

2001-10-22 Thread D.
With Debian you have to give permission for the user to use sound i.e. as su or root adduser audio. With the maestro3 on my laptop I also had to make sure that the ac97_core.o driver was available. The way that I did it was add maestro3 and ac97_core to my /etc/modules . HTH Don --- Alexander Wa

Re: Sound...

2001-10-23 Thread D.
]> wrote: > Thanks! I have a laptop to, it's an hp omnibook > xe3... What is that > ac97_core for? Do you also get bad sound in xmms if > you try to use the > esound plugin??? > > Thanks! > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, D. wrote: > > > With Debian you have to giv

Woody upgrade and balsa error

2001-10-23 Thread D.
Hi all, In doing a upgrade to Woody the upgrade was going along fine and then I received this error: Errors were encountered while processing /var/cache/apt/archived/balsa.0.9.5-1.0.pre5-1_i386.deb and I think it also said eror 11 encountered. What do I do now, do I apt-get -f dist-upgrade ? A

Re: Woody upgrade and balsa error (update)

2001-10-24 Thread D.
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:41:40PM -0700, D. wrote: > > In doing a upgrade to Woody the upgrade was > going > > along fine and then I received this error: Errors > > were encountered while processing > > >

Re: Woody upgrade and balsa error (update2)

2001-10-25 Thread D.
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:19:50PM -0700, D. wrote: > > --- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:41:40PM -0700, D. > wrote: > > > > In doing a upgrade to Woody the upgr

Re: How do I know whether I've got the "potato" or "woody" versions of debian?

2001-10-26 Thread D.
If when you log into Debian you go to eeh console mode instead of xdm, the last line that you see before the prompt is which version of Debian your running. Don --- Rupert Heesom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've installed Debian using a couple of CDs which I > downloaded. I'm > still very new to D

Re: video card detection

2001-10-28 Thread D.
As with any software sometimes it will not detect all hardware. I know on my Laptop I have the S3 Savage and during initial installation this card was not detected, I had to manually configure it. During that process you will get to a data base of video cards and it should be on that list. You n

Re: Creating new kernel with initrd?

2001-10-29 Thread D.
Did you add initrd=/boot/initrd to lilo.conf. That should be the first line after default=Linux. --- Timothy Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Upgrading to 2.4.12-k6 with initrd works fine. > > Using kernellab I create a new kernel 2.4.12-ac6. > cp /boot/config-2.4.12-k6 > /var/state/kernella

Re: XF86Setup for woody?

2001-10-30 Thread D.
--- George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm having my first go at woody on a spare machine. > I have installed X, > but not configured it yet. > > I have had no joy so far from xf86config. > > Pointers, anyone? > > Best regards, George if when you did the dist-upgrade y

Re: Network config tool

2001-10-30 Thread D.
If memory serves me correctly, during the installation of Potato at the point of inserting/selecting modules, if your nic card is on the list and you select it, when you exit that portation of the install it will ask you if you want to configure your network. Saying yes will start the process and

Re: XFree86 problem on Woody

2001-11-13 Thread D.
Did you run dpgk-configure xserver-xfree86? That will set up xfree4.1.? --- Pun Kuan Tou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:31:57 + > Rachel Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Symbol xf86InterpretEDID from module > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a > > > > i

Re: XFree86 problem on Woody

2001-11-13 Thread D.
During the install did you notice if xserver-xfree86 was installed? If your unable to do dpkg-configure xserver-xfree86 then xserver-xfree86 did not get installed when you did the upgrade (that was my problem). You can look in /var/cache/apt/archives and see if that package is there, if not do a

Re: configuring X in unstable

2001-11-14 Thread D.
try dpkg-configure xserver-xfree86 That is assuming that it downloaded when you upgraded. Check to make sure that you have it installed. --- Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not like to hack Xf86Config and xf86config dont > work in > unstable, what should I use to optimise the display

Re: Laptop install, console screen small

2001-11-15 Thread D.
You can try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and during that choose 1024x768 as the window size.. I'm guess that you accepted the options that it provided to you when you first did your setup. Or you can go in an edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and in there add the 1024x768 option. That is the screen

Re: Blindly Installing...

2001-11-17 Thread D.
Rafe B. I use the Matrox MGA-G200 video card and was able to use Xfree-3.3.6 that comes with Potato. I used the xserver-svga in the 1024x768 mode without any problems.. In fact this Matrox card was identified in the date base when I ran xf86config. What kind of problems are you having with the

Tulip driver unresolved symbols

2001-09-28 Thread D.
Hi all I have installed Potato 2.2.r2 on my HP Pavilion N5450 Laptop and this system uses a Accton en2242 nic card that uses the tulip driver. I know that I've seen this discussed on this list but I am unable to find it. I have downloaded the drivers for the card and did a cp pci-scan.o tulip.o

Re: Tulip driver unresolved symbols

2001-09-28 Thread D.
I did a lsmod and it was not listed so I assumed that it was not installed... So I did not set it up. I'll chceck it out. --- David Raleigh Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get tons every time I boot up, but it works fine. > Does yours work? > > -

LAPTOPS AND TWO DIFFERENT WORKPLACES (OT)

2001-10-04 Thread D.
Hi all, The system administrator at work is a subcontract employee. He is also the administrator at his company. The company that I work for also has employe's from his company working here and they travel back and forth between companies and use their M$ laptops at both sites. Here is the pro

Re: Tulip driver unresolved symbols (UPDATE)

2001-10-04 Thread D.
Well in response to Does mine work the answer is No. I have tried for a few days to get this going and finally figured out that I did not have a eth0 device it was a sit0. I tried and read everything that I could and could not figure out a way to get the eth0. I tried to compile the driver like

Re: dual boot with Win 2000?

2001-10-04 Thread D.
As a point of interest, When I used the same configuration that you have for your Windows partation "other=/dev/hda1" on a HP Pavilion 5450 my Windows Me would not boot up.. It gave the error message that It was missing the command.com file. When I realized what was wrong I changed it to "other=/d

Re: Trapped in X

2001-10-04 Thread D.
Another way to do it is to do a apt-get remove xdm and its gone forever until you reinstall it. Don --- Rory O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a debian newbie, and there's something driving > me a bit crazy...the > default install of debian sends me straight to X, > rather than a command >

Re: Tulip driver unresolved symbols (UPDATE)

2001-10-05 Thread D.
I checked again this morning and I have a Accton EN2242 NIC card.. So I asume that I still use the tulip.o driver. Thanks for the response. Don --- David Raleigh Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just in case my former got lost in the sauce, if you > have a > netgear card, your driver is prob

Re: LAPTOPS AND TWO DIFFERENT WORKPLACES (OT)

2001-10-05 Thread D.
Thanks for all of the suggestions that I received on this. I have passed them on. Don --- Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * D. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Hi all, > > The system administrator at work is a > subcontract > > employee. He is

Re: linux + winME

2001-10-05 Thread D.
I have the same setup, Laptop with ME and wanted to install Debian. What I did was first do a Scan disk then did a defrag then I went to one of the Debian mirror sites and downloaded a copy of FIPS and folowed the README in FIPS. I was able to partation the drive and not lose any data that was th

Compiling kernel 2.4.16 error please help

2002-01-01 Thread D.
I'm running Woody with currently kernel-2.4.9 and I'm trying to build kernel-2.4.16 with kpkg-make. I tried to use the config-2.4.9 that I am currently using but it gave me a ton of error's sbout USB so I did the make xconfig and selected/deselected the things that I needed/didn't need and it star

Re: i NEED THE AUREAL AU8830 DRIVER

2002-01-02 Thread D.
go here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal/ --- steven martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > PLEASE IF YOU KNOW WHERE i CAN GET THE DRIVER FOR > SOUND CARD AUREAL AU8830 > > THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! MSN > Photos is the easiest way to share and print your > photos: href='http://go.msn.c

Re: Play VCD on computer

2002-01-10 Thread D.
t; > I only played the beginning of one show. It was > more of a > demo/experiment than anything else. A co-worker had > a vcd with > something on it, but no vcd player on his win2k > machine. I did an > apt-cache search, install, and voila, there was the > movie playing &

Re: Downloading with Netscape 6 and Mozilla

2002-01-15 Thread D.
Theo, This might be a really DUHHH response, but if you have the folder open and minimized, then download something to that folder, did you do a refreash after you opened it from being minimized? Don --- Theo Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI again > > has anyone ever had problems where yo

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-16 Thread D.
ould > look like? > > > > Also, are you referring to the 3-column style I > mentioned, or the > > multiple-line-justifications that was first > requested? > > > > -D > > > > > > Like what Dave Sherohman said: > > > > >

Re: power down

2002-01-24 Thread D.
--- Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:31:29PM -0800, Alan Su > scribbled... > > as long as you have the kernel option to "power > off on shutdown" > > selected, it should do the right thing. if the > screen is black, it > > sounds like it has. is the fan still

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