>what would you suggest Gnome oder KDE2 ?
>
>It would be great if you also could comment why the one you suggest is
>better =)
>
>thx
>
>Tom
I can't believe this hasn't caused a flame-war yet. Anyway, here's my take...
For GNOME, I'd suggest getting Helix's GNOME packages. There usually up-to-
Hi all,
I'm no rookie to Linux, but, I'm missing something on how 3D really works in
Linux. I've been able to get 3D working but don't really understand what's going
on. When I say 3D, I'm speaking of 3D video-hardware acceleration under Linux!
If someone could present me with a step-by-step tuto
>Hi all,
>
>I'm no rookie to Linux, but, I'm missing something on how
>3D really works in Linux. I've been able to get 3D working
>but don't really understand what's going on. When I say 3D,
>I'm speaking of 3D video-hardware acceleration under Linux!
>
>If someone could present me with a step-by-
Of course, mp3 is a lossy format. So, every time you re-compress the mp3 it will
sound a little worse. However, since mp3's sound pretty good to start with, one
re-compression shouldn't sound much different:)
A better solution would be to squeeze the audio directly into the file. I don't
know i
>Okay. I decided to upgrade to the most recent version of woody. Good =
>Idea? Of course. Everything works . . . except Quake 3 (deja vu!). =
>I've got this down to an art now. I know that for some reason X isn't =
>finding the libGLcore.so.1.0.5 (or what ever it is) file and therefore =
>
>I'm trying to compile gnucash on a Potato system and I get this error:
>
>debian-mobile:/usr/local/gnucash-1.4.8# ./configure --host=i386-linux
>loading cache ./config.cache
>checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>checkin
>I've seen several people say they have gotten this combo to work, but I
>have had no success. If someone could tell me *exactly* the steps they
>have taken, I would appreciate it. I have installed
>task-x-window-system-core 2.0, task-x-window-system 3.0, and kernel
>2.4.0-test11 on a fully Wo
>I installed the stable version of Debian.
>
>I then changed to kernel 2.4 test10, thats including all updates to =
>modutils, util-linux etc, etc...
>
>I stuck KDE2.0 on.
>
>Everything ok so far sound and all.
>
>I then installed the 4.0.1 binaries, configured it.
>Now I get a screen of 640x480
>The SBLive is a great card with *really* good support. I got mine well over a
year ago I have no idea what they cost >now but they are sweet cards.
I just bought a Sound Blaster Live Value for $42 dollars on the net ($52 after
shipping). Go to http://www.thedukeofurl.org/ and then select "Pric
>Hi,
>I know you can watch vcds with tools like mtv or the smpeg-plugin for xmms
>or with xtheater (http://xtheater.sourceforge.net) but what really
>interests me now is: Is there a VCD-Kernel-Patch Out there? if yes, where?
else, plz
>tell me where I could search for it.
>My Actual problem is,
>Hi,
>
>There's an old P90 at my school that we use during the breaks and it's
>running potato. I have installed lxdoom (the svgalib version of doom
>doesn't work for some strange reason although other svgalib programs
>like "thrust" work fine) on it and it works, however there is one
>problem:
>In order to make more space on my hard drive I recently created a new partition
>and copied /home over to this using the following:
>
>tar cSpf - . | (cd /home2 ; tar xvSpf - )
>
>Now, running off my new partition as home, I've come across an error that I
>attribute to this change (as far as I
>I=B4ve succesfully installed Woody and XFree 4.0.1-8 last weekend. Only
>xdm shows a strange behavior. It starts nearly one minute after the
>system has bootet. It=B4s possiblke to login to a console, and suddenly
>xdm awakes. Any ideas?
>
>Regards, Sven
I had/have the same problem. Probably n
>I'm currently waiting for my new box, which will have an Asus A7V
>motherboard, Duron CPU, Maxtor DiamondMax HD, and Matrox videocard.
>On my current system, I installed potato, after which I upgraded to
>Woody. As I've found some unofficial debian Woody CD images, I'd rather go
>that way, but
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:28:17 -0800
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:07:03AM -0500, Sco
>I have compiled pnp, sound, awe32 and 100% SB Compatible
>support into my kernel (monolithic, no modules). Sound
>works, sort of. chmod 666 /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer
Bad idea for security reasons. Simply add yourself to the "audio" group via
"adduser ". Then logout and back in and you have ac
>Can anybody tell me, what I have to install / configure to have a working
>GL-lib based on DRI with hardware acceleration?
>
>mfg
> Mischel S aus P
Go to http://www.debianplanet.org and look on the left hand side. There is a
nice tutorial on installing XF4 in Debian using a Voodoo card.
Scot
>In closing, I'd like to ask another (related) question. Is there some
>particular piece of software that you think Woody is waiting for that will
>be here in a years time? GCC 3.0 perhaps?
1. GCC 3.0 - good call
2. Kernel 2.4 - add a couple releases after the initail release to stabilize it
ev
>I did an apt-get upgrade on my woody box. The last time was
>about 3 months ago. Now it no longer gives me a gdm login screen.
>It just stays in a command line console. When I do startx I get:
>"cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory),
>aborting...Can't connect: errno=111, giving
>Ouch
>
>I've gotten myself into a real dill of a pickle. I run woody, but
>around Thanksgiving I hadn't upgraded for weeks. I did "apt-get upgrade"
>which screwed up KDE and X. After "apt-get dist-upgrade", uninstalling and
>reinstalling KDE (from 1.x to 2.x), and making a symlink from t
>I'm having a hell of a time getting this to work.
Ahhh, the painful process of learning.
>I'm running a mostly-clean install of Debian. It'd be wholly clean,
>except that when I set my sources to woody to get the .debs I'd like,
>dselect threw in a bunch more and I wasn't inclined to argue :
>> >Can anybody tell me, what I have to install / configure to have a working
>> >GL-lib based on DRI with hardware acceleration?
>> >
>> >mfg
>> > Mischel S aus P
>>
>> Go to http://www.debianplanet.org and look on the left hand side. There is a
>> nice tutorial on installing XF4 in Debian usi
>> >From the pppd man page:
>>
>>8 The connect script failed (returned a non-zero exit
>> status).
>>
>> > Any sugestions?
>>
>> Run pppconfig and try connecting with pon.
>
>I did that already... No results... pon starts the connection,
>seems to make the "transac
>After setting up lilo on my MBR to allow me to dual-boot Debian and my
>game-OS, everything worked well. I had to use the lba32 option in lilo.conf
>to get this to work, so initially I was booting lilo from a floppy.
>
>Well everything is fine for a while, then one day, I reboot and get:
>LI-
I recently compiled and installed a 2.4.x kernel using the debian
kernel-installer package. Everything seems fine except that when I run modconf,
no modules appear. I was hoping to browse my modules this way, but no luck. I
should mention that my modules do work fine, just modconf seems broken. I
I'm interested in following the Woody releases of GNOME instead of Helix Code's.
Problem is, how do I remove ALL the Helix Code packages. Seeing they all have
"helix" in their package name, a simple script should easily do this. Too bad
I'm not that familiar with dpkg and apt. Going manually throug
>The little baby 64M players, I don't see the point of. I don't know what
>song I want -next-, let alone for the next hour, or "you're stuck with
>this hours worth of music all day". Icky.
Wrong...64MB is plenty for when I go running. It's very lightweight and durable.
Besides, I'd rather not
>> >The little baby 64M players, I don't see the point of. I don't know what
>> >song I want -next-, let alone for the next hour, or "you're stuck with
>> >this hours worth of music all day". Icky.
>>
>> Wrong...64MB is plenty for when I go running. It's very lightweight
>> and durable. Besi
>I tried to install the emu10k1 module from ALSA. Having any troubles with
>it, I deinstalled it. When I read that the final kernel (version 2.2.17)
>had these module in it, I download, compile and install it with the modules.
>But I can't use audio.
There is a debian package for kernel 2.2.18p
> gphoto vs. photopc (phototk), which is best?
Gphoto supports over 100 cameras and is being actively developed. The gphoto
development team is actually revising the code to make it VERY modular (a
library). This change will make it independent of the interface (ex: GNOME, KDE,
tk, curses, etc).
>Finally can hear sound, but with low volume and when I try to move the
>control in the mixer the sound vanishes.
I have a similar problem. When I installed my SBLive, the volume is low in both
Linux and Windoze compared to my previously installed SB16. I can increase the
main volume to its max
> May I ask where you found the HOWTO documents? I
> have a friend who want to install a diskless
> workstation but we can't seem to find any
> information.
> thanks!
There is also a project called LTSP, Linux Terminal Server Project, at
http://www.ltsp.org. The developers use Red Hat, but I kn
>On a recent linux radio show a guest pronounced the 'deb'
>with an 'a' sound as in 'day'.And a bio article in the Nov/Dec
>issue of 'Maximum Linux' quotes Debra (Ian's wife) as
>'...remembering debates on how to pronounce the name'.
>So are there still debates about saying 'deb
>For roughly the last week I have had many of the packages in dselect showing
>up as obsolete. This includes KDE, perl-5.6, netscape, and many other
>packages that I commonly use. I thought at first that there were
>replacements for these packages with new names but I couldn't find them.
>
>My
>I installed debian in the belief that it would install. Xwindows simply
>will not install. As newcomer I can't work with a program w/o the gui.
>I wanted xwindows (eventually kde) ppp connection, printer, netscape and I
>want to do experiments with star office and other suites. Debian was
>sug
>I have just configured a simple network with one harddiskless computer
>that boots from a floppy and mounts a remote root through nfs.
It should make administration much easier:)
>Now my questions:
>- which other alternatives are there? I have heard that nfs has a big
>overlay. I have also he
>I had done that, but overlooked one small fact; I was in the cdrom group,
>but not the disk group, to which /dev/hdc was pointed. I had no rights to
>physically scan the CD for tracks!
>
>How has everyone else set up the permissions for their IDE /dev/cdrom links?
>I don't like being in the di
>I have recently installed a CDRW drive on my machine. I chose a Philips
>CDRW800, a 4x 8x 32x drive. It is IDE and Linux needs to see CDR drives as
>SCSI - so a little configuring of the kernel and a couple of lines in
>/etc/lilo.conf was all it took. I now have both my CD-ROM and CDRW drives
>
>Hey,
>
>Over the past year, I have begun a conquest to find the perfect emu's =
>under Linux. Here's what I got.
>
>SNES: snes9x: beautiful, I love this emulator, the only flaw is, no =
>screenshot support?
>correct me if I'm wrong about the screenshots
>
>GENESIS: dgen: not to great, they
I cannot get my gravis gamepad to work. I'm using a Sound Blaster Live and
plugging the gamepad directly into the gameport. I can get the joystick.o module
to load, but, that's it. I tried loading joy-analog.o but no luck (it fails).
Same for the joy-grip.o module (it fails also). I'm running the 2
>Yes, the emu10k1 module is needed, I believe.
I've loaded the module from the 2.2.18-pre21 kernel. It works as I have sound,
but I guess it could be possible that the one at soundblaster's website is more
up-to-date. Possibly my module doesn't have gameport support while the other one
does. I'
>Dear community,
>
>I've noticed that there are some programs in testing that I'd
>like to use (and at least one that I have to use), but I'm
>very scared of it not working correctly or breaking badly
>when, say, I'd need to get something done fast.
>
>So, I'd like to ask you: how stable is "te
>Greetings, everyone.
>
>I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled so
>far.
>
>But, I think my boot disk is defective, since it takes 5-7 minutes for
>the
>
>Loading Linux..
>
>process to complete from /dev/fd0 before Linux actually boots. I suspect
>I have a
>> >Greetings, everyone.
>> >
>> >I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled so
>> >far.
>> >
>> >But, I think my boot disk is defective, since it takes 5-7 minutes for
>> >the
>> >
>> >Loading Linux..
>> >
>> >process to complete from /dev/fd0 before Linux ac
>My university creates ID cards for students using a small camera
>attached to a Windows box running PhotoCard software. I am getting
>mighty tired of trying to keep this Winblows box running. Does anyone
>have any leads on high-quality photo imaging/idcard-generating software
>that'll run on De
>I plan to develop a little GUI application (GPLed of course ;-) using
>Debian/GNU-Linux as primary development environment. Unfortunately the
>app also has to run on Windoze... :-((
>Does anybody have experience developing such cross-platform apps? Can
>you recommend a language or a toolkit? (I
>Has anyone stopped to think that maybe nvidia can't open
>source their drivers? I know for a fact they can't because
>of certain things, that if anyone has paid attention to
>game boards or interviews, restrict them from open sourcing
>their code.
I'm curious as what prevents them from "openin
know
>they are trying hard to make their drivers
>open source .. and to support the linux
>community better, its just gonna take some time.
>
>On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 02:22:41PM -0500, Scott Patterson babbled:
>> I'm curious as what prevents them from "openin
>I've purchased a Traxdata 8x4x32 CD-RW, and can only install it on my
>main box. Unfortunately, this has two Hard Disks (both on the Primary
>IDE channel) and a normal CD Drive as Master on the second channel.
>
>The literature with the CD-RW is basic and suggests ways in which it
>can be insta
I started using Linux around 1995 at one of my employers. I had heard about it
at college, but could never install any of the distributions from the Infomagic
discs successfully. I just didn't have the Unix/Linux skills. Nowadays,
installation is MUCH easier. Things have changed quite a bit!
So, a
>My brother got me a set of 2.2 release disks, and I would like to install them
>on an IBM PC 750. I have tried a couple of times, but am quite new at Linux
>and have not been able to get my printer to work, or get online once the
>system is installed. I'm sure that it is something that I am doi
>On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:49:43PM +, Philipp Bliedung wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to the multimedia things under Linux :)
>> I have the problem that I can't play audio CD's on my computer.
>> I've installed everyhting that's related to sound properly - so I'm able
>> to play mp3s, *.wav,et
>Hi, I had the same problem as Phillip. I was advised to add the user to
>audio and disk ...
>
>I have already undone this, after reading the post. My problem is I do not
>seem to have /dev/cdrom
>To get gtcd to play I had to change the device from /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc.
>
>Looking through the
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