Re: grub?

Hello, FYI - I remember seeing some posts that indicated that the CD that was shipped with this book has problems. I do not know what the grub prompt is all about though. Debian 2.1 is what I run on my Thinkpad 560, but a friend copied the CDs for me, from the official ones. John From:

Esound, I broke it, can I fix it?

Hi, I really do not want to re-install from scratch again! I had E+Esound working, with the ~vincent updates. When I started to build the Epplets-Base, it needed esd.h which was not provided in the esound 0.2.14 debian package. I found that it was included as well as some other need stuff,

Re: Esound, I broke it, can I fix it?

Hi, FYI - I fixed it! In case anyone else ever gets into this boat, do a make uninstall in the (tarball) 0.2.8 directory, then dpkg -r --force-depends esound. Then re-install the esound deb package, and things will work again. Whew, John Miskinis

Re: lib Xt?

Hi, Below I included the find command that will allow you to look for libraries, as well as where the libXt is on my system... debian:~# find /usr/X11R6/ -name libXt.* -print /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 debian:~# From: Robert L. Harris

Re: Can't click links in Netscape??

Hello, I have had seen this problem a few times. A reboot always cured it, if that is an option... John Miskinis wim Nope, restarting Netscape doesn't resolve the issue, and this happens on every wim link on every site I go to... __ Get

Re: Emacs configuration on slink

Hi, Yes, just create a .emacs file and put your commands in them. Below are some of my commands, which you can use as a guide to bind keys and make editing life a lot easier. I would include my whole file, but some things changed a little between V19 and V20. I now invoke emacs with emacs -font

after slink re-install, undefined RGetXImage (wmaker problems)

) If there is a package I need to install to get the RGetXImage symbol defined? I'd rather use the prebuilt wmaker. 2) The names of the packages I need to get the right jpeg libraries, so I can recompile? As always, many thanks for any info/clues, John Miskinis

Re: Netscape Installation, how?

Hi, I have only installed netscape 4.5 , on slink, and never had to download it by hand. I used apt-get as follows: apt-get install communicator-smotif-45 apt-get install netscape-java-45 You will only need the second package if you wish to run java. My sources.list in case I have

Can I move simple floppy system to hard drive?

Hello, First, If there is a better way, PLEASE let me know! I'm trying to move a working boot floppy to a partition to test it without having to keep uncompressing/compressing/writing-floppy each time. I'm trying to build a very small 1-floppy linux system, that I can use to boot, and access

very close, stumped though... (was moving floppy system to hard drive)

Hello, Since my last message, I am actually able to boot up, in single user mode, if I specify rescue single at the lilo prompt. So I think I am getting closer. Now I am stumped, df says the root file system is /dev/ram but appears to actually be my 17 Meg hard disk partition. I (re)read the

Re: Problems with Gtk Widget Shadowing in Potato

Hello, I have always seen this problem under slink, I am running GTK 1.2 also. The text that is doubled or shadowed always seems to be text on buttons that are grayed out and not selectable. I tried a few thems and fonts, but the problem remains. Although it is very ugly, it doesn't cause any

Re: Epplet question

So How do I make this epplet that gives me the error to not be started ? Hello, I have had problems with epplets coming back, sometimes many copies of them at once. Deleting the files under .enlightenment doesn't get rid of them, so when I want to start clean, I simply rename the directory

Re: Epplet question

Thanks for your reply. I will try it :) The logout thing might be interesting. I usually just do init 0 as root to turn of my machine. The CTRL-ALT-DELETE is basically the same as selecting the Logout option from the mouse button 1 menu. I wanted to add another note, that someone on #E

Re: wmsound: Error on Play Event

Hi, write(2, Error on Play Event\n, 20Error on Play Event Not sure if your problem is very simple, but I've seen this message when 1) the sound set for the event does not exist and 2) when the /dev/dsp device is open by some other process maybe it was wmscope. I'm not sure what your

Re: need XF86Config for ThinkPad 560

Hi, Attached is my latest config file for the dual scan 560. Note the comments with the JM. It will work as is without flicker, but FVWM2 will not work correctly. Feel free to switch to the other modeline to use fvwm but with flicker. Enjoy and post results, John Miskinis

Re: need XF86Config for ThinkPad 560

a few window drags. Never figured out why. John Miskinis __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Java 1.2 fails to run.

Hi David, I am running slink also. I wouldn't say straight slink as I have done MANY apt-get(s) for packages that put other packages on etc., too many for me to keep track of, so I don't... I got the 1.2 JDK running a few weeks ago, but after some reading I got the impression the pre-release

Re: Epplet Multiplication

annoying. End result, I now run wmaker, no problems at all with the dock apps. It is too bad. I thought I was alone with this problem. John Miskinis __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

JAVA 2 debs for slink? Anyone? (CORRECTED SUBJECT)

). Any links, information, caveats, good/bad experiences welcome. I'm hoping others have walked this path before... Many Thanks, John Miskinis __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

Re: Thinkpad 570 XF86Config file?

for the various models, please let me know! Thanks, and good luck, linux runs very well on Thinkpads, John Miskinis __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

JAVA 2 (JDK 1.2) running OK on slink so far...

. If you are running potato, I would read the READMEs in the directories, as you may want the pre-release 2. John Miskinis __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

JAVA 2.0 debs for slink? Anyone know where?

the main package(s). Any links, information, caveats, good/bad experiences welcome. I'm hoping others have walked this path before... Many Thanks, John Miskinis __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Atari ST as Dumb Terminal

Hello David, I wish to connect my old Atari ST to my linux box running slink with a serial cable and use it basically as a dumb terminal. Could someone please point me in the direction of some useful documentation as to how to do this. Also does anyone know what software would be required

Re: Snafu

Hello, The system boots and reboots OK. I've been playing around with bash commands. Not all of the ones I read about on Web pages seem to be working. Now I want to run dbootstrap to configure my base system. But when I type dbootstrap at the $ prompt, I get command not found. I go to the

Re: using X Toolkit API...- Pushbutton.h? (SOLVED)

Hello, I figured it out. The widgets used in the Xt examples are not from any standard widget set. They are presented in chapter 10 of the 900+ page book. John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Enlightenment?

Hello, Did anyone get E installed? When I do an apt-get install enlightenment YES, I got it working well on slink, with apt-get. I have included my sources.list below. I think I got the ~vincent pointers from gnome.org, can't remember. Also, I may have reordered the last 2 lines to the

Re: Gnome/E

Hello, I run E on a Pentium 100 w 24 Mb RAM. As far as the colors not going together, you can change the appearance of the gnome applications, by changing the GTK themes. The gnomecc application makes installing and changing themes quite easy. You can also preview them, and try them right

using X Toolkit API on slink - Pushbutton.h?

Hello, I'm trying to get a full X Development system put together based on slink. I am trying to get some simple XT examples to compile. (although I have lesstif and GTK working nicely) There is no Pushbutton.h file on my system anywhere, although in the Xaw directory Box.h and Label.h

How to determine what apt-get can install?

Hello, Pardon my ignorance. Up until now, I have used a command such as dpkg -l *|grep -i WHATEVER when I am trying to find out the package name(s) of things relating to WHATEVER. At the moment, I am trying to find out what pieces of imlib stuff I might be missing, as I can't compile

Re: strange /etc/menu-methods errors (FIXED)

errors, how to fix? Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 09:51:25 +1030 On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 11:32:50PM -0800, John Miskinis wrote Hello, Ever since I installed enlightment (really cool), I get these errors whenever I install anything... Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) debian:/home/miskinis

Anyone seen/fixed wmakerconf crash problems?

Hello, For some strange reason wmakerconf now crashes just after the window appears. I WAS running wmakerconf 1.7 and everything was working OK. I didn't run it for about a week. All of a sudden it would crash complaining about a GTK style copy problem, and a NULL cast to a GTK widget.

strange /etc/menu-methods errors, how to fix?

Hello, Ever since I installed enlightment (really cool), I get these errors whenever I install anything... Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) debian:/home/miskinis# In file /etc/menu-methods//enlightenment at line 12: onlyrunasroot=true ^ Unknown identifier

Re: /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 with ZIP disks

Hello, It appears there are at least a couple different models of the ZIP drive for the parallel port. The one I have now does not work with the PPA support, but works fine with the IMM package. I always have to use /dev/sda4 to access it. I recently tried to build a small debian linux system

Can I build a kernel with builtin IMM (ZIP DRIVE) support?

Hello, A while back, I was unable to get my ZIP dribe to work with the PPA support, but IMM support allowed it to work. This IMM support is in a loadable module. I have been reading the Zip_Install howto, in preparation to try to get a Linux system built on a ZIP disk, to allow me to perform a

Re: PPP stuff continued... (Up and running w apt-get, netscape!)

Hi, I don't know what let me to think that pon and diald were related. I probably installed diald a while back in preparation to get PPP working after I got an ISP that supported PPP. In any case, I don't think there is anything wrong with any documentation at all. I just had a lot of new

Re: PPP stuff continued... (Up and running w apt-get, netscape!)

Hi, What I meant, was that if it I run with auth than the CHAPS authentication fails. If I run with noauth, all works OK. I saw a note in options stating that the auth should not be disabled, and I'm not sure I should worry about this or not. I changed this in options prior to rerunning

Re: PPP stuff continued... (Up and running w apt-get, netscape!)

Hi, So should I persue trying to get my system to authenticate my ISP's connection to my machine? Or is this not typically used for systems that connect TO an ISP? I'm hoping that it's OK to live without out it, and not open my system up to possible intrusion. Thanks again, John

PPP - almost there, but stuck on routing table :(

Hello, I have recently aquired a PPP-based ISP, in hopes to get linux network connectivity. I have been working with the PPP howto, and got PPP somewhat working. I am stuck at the point where a route -n only shows ONE ppp0 connection, where the howto says it should show TWO. I am able to ping

Re: PPP - almost there, but stuck on routing table :(

Hi, I noticed that the /dev/modem worked also, but I wanted to be sure that it was using ttyS2 for now. I am also trying everything as root for now. I tried pon but it complained about some things that I have not yet configured (in diald?). I figured it would be best to get the manual

PPP working now! Recommended browsers for slink?

Hi, Wow! It was as simple as adding the defaultroute line in my /etc/ppp/options file! Many thanks! I tried to send this message using gzilla (from slink), but it chokes on pages that are too complex. (It doesn't even show me the navigation buttons in HOWTOs!) SO, now I am looking for

Re: PPP - almost there, but stuck on routing table :(

Hi, That makes sense, I can see where /dev/modem is useful once things are working. I did remember seeing a note somewhere (I've been up all night reading stuff, I forget where) where they discouraged the use of /dev/modem, and /dev/mouse however! I'm still accepting recommendations for

PPP stuff continued... (I am not stuck on routing any more)

Hi, I had to change the subject line... OK, I had run pppconfig many hours ago, and at that time I thought it was tied to diald. When I execute pon now, it will not connect, but my /etc/chatscripts needs work. Now that I have PPP working (no authorization and no compression yet) I think I

Re: Does anyone use ZIP disks to backup/restore their system? How?

:09AM -0800, John Miskinis wrote: Hi, I'm hoping to find a set of tools that will allow a linux system to be backed up, and restored, using ZIP disks. I would really appreciate any advise on this subject, from anyone who has successfully restored a system from a multi-volume set. I've

Re: Does anyone use ZIP disks to backup/restore their system? How?

debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Does anyone use ZIP disks to backup/restore their system? How? Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:37:07 +0100 On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 06:29:45PM -0800, John Miskinis wrote: Hi, [...] This leads me to ask if most people just backup their important files

HELP! Can't restore system after 1st ZIP afio archive

Hello, Perhaps there is an easier/better solution then kbackup/afio? Before I reinstall from scratch, I would appreciate advice, as it may be possible to get my system back I recently used the zdisk utility to successfully build a boot floopy, with my kernel that has support for my (imm)

Does anyone use ZIP disks to backup/restore their system? How?

Hi, I'm hoping to find a set of tools that will allow a linux system to be backed up, and restored, using ZIP disks. I would really appreciate any advise on this subject, from anyone who has successfully restored a system from a multi-volume set. I'm really stuck, trying to figure out

I shrunk my swap partition, how do I let linux know?

Hello, I have been trying to make a boot/root disk, so I can have a kernel boot with support for my ZIP drive, and PCMCIA-SCSI-CDROM if possible. WOW, I can't believe how hard this is! To make it easier I shrunk my swap partition size by 17 meg, and created a spare ext2 partition of 17 meg.

swap partition size OK... Pointers to MINIMUM boot configuration info?

Hi, Thanks! That was the info I needed. I ran mkswap, and it now refects the proper size of the swap file during bootup. I could REALLY use some pointers to sites that have info on how to create a minimum startup configuration. I have been following the Bootdisk-HOWTO, but I am left with many

zdisk boots, bzdisk won't - Thinkpad 560

Hello, I have noticed that when I create a boot floppy with make zdisk it will boot, but when using make bzdisk it will not. I had to use the tecra rescue and driver disks when installing, and I wonder if this is somehow related to the IBM Thinkpad 560. Or, is there something else going on in

Re: libc6 =2.1 on slink, without apt-get possible?

Hi, (1) It is probably easiest to get the isp stuff working I only have AOL at the moment. I connect via WIN95, and then mount by c: as a vfat partition under linux, and move .deb files that I grab on the net, over to my linux partition. (2) Is the problem your modem or your isp ?

Is it possible to get libc6 = 2.1 to run on slink? How/Where?

Hello, I'm not up to speed on libc6 at all. From what I can gather it is not just a regular package. I thought I had a HOWTO on this, but it turned out to be a libc5-libc6 upgrade document. A while back I tried to get enlightenment-conf up, and I believe it needed libc6 = 2.1 or some

Re: Need help for x window

Hi Brant. It is a Micron model M14FG. It says on back: 115/230V/1A, 60/50hz. I have tried manually entering 60 for the horiz and 50 for the vert. I have tried selections that were preconfigured at 60 and 50. I feel like I have YIKES - That sounds like the power supply specs! BE CAREFUL!

RE: IBM Thinkpad 560 - (YES, ALL SET FOR THOSE PROBLEMS)

Hi, Wow, I sent that mail on 9/9/99 (interesting numbers) and since then I've become a linux nut. Yes, I ended up using the tecra disks. I think it might have been you that helped me way back then. The problems I was experiencing were due to the PCMCIA-based CDROM I had, and I thought it was

Re: small dselect question AND X Window problem

Hi, You might not realize yet that CASE matters on Linux/Unix.. /etc/X11/XF86Config I think it can be in a couple other places, and in fact I got hosed this way a few times, as I had files in two places and couldn't figure out why the changes I made were not being seen. I

Re: Installation problems

Hi, If you must install from floppies, I would use different ones. When I need a floppy for something, I format it under windows 95, check the full format and no label option. After it formats, be SURE to check the number of BAD bytes in the info dialog that appears when the format is done. If

Re: enlightenment problem

Hi Stephan, I have only seen the enlightenment on the slink CD. But when I checked it out, I think I got around the same problem by running a program called imlib_config (or something close). If you type imlibTAB at the prompt, you should see it. Hope this helps, John P.S. I never got

Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)

Hello, I don't suppose you would be so kind as to outline the steps you took? I really don't hate gnome or anything (prefer it to kde) and might want to put it back sometime... you sound like you have some experience at this... thanks! I just waded through the dselect package list, hitting -

Anyone got a makefile or Imakefile for lesstif | viewkit :(

Hi Folks, Yesterday I grabbed the viewkit for linux SW from www.viewkit.com and really would like to get started. The SW came with no examples or makefiles. I was trying to get this stuff running, as I have an interview with a company TOMORROW that uses viewkit. I sent mail to the viewkit.com

Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)

Hello, What the heck is the big deal about gnome anyway? I have only seen the gnome that comes on the Debian 2.1 CD, I have not seen later versions. I believe gnome is in its infancy stage at present. From what I have read about it on the web, the big deal appears to be that a full set of

Re: How's the CDROM problem, solved?

Hi, Yes, I read that post. You need to determine what the IRQ and IO address of your board is currently. Then tell linux about it. By looking at the current switch settings on your board, use the tables in the manual to determine what IRQ and IO address the board is set for. Don't trust

Re: scrolls too fast

Hi, I also posted a reply to your CDROM problem, to get you a little further, but it has not shown up yet. Anyway use the more command followed by the file name. This will not help you with dmesg though, unless you output it to a file, or pipe the output directly to more... more foo.txt

Re: CDROM problem, solved? Yes, I think

which is your CDROM now) You may have to use mount -t iso9660 /dev/mcd /mnt ro or whatever was contained the other post. I'm sure you wrote it down or have it. John From: jh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Miskinis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CDROM problem, solved? Yes, I think Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999

Help needed also - Enlightenment/Gnome on slink

Hello, I could also use some help trying to get later gnome versions and enlightenment running on slink (2.0.36 kernel). I originally installed the gnome and enlightenment that came on the slink CD. But the enlightenment-conf had problems installing. I grabbed a bunch of .debs of newer gnome

Re: installed but now what?

Thanks for writting John. I have a 486dx desktop. It has 16 mb of ram. I do not believe I have any PCMCIA ability. Yes, the base system is installed. I used floppy images created from another computer from my debian disks. Incidently, the cdrom was working in dos before I installed, so there must

Re: installed but now what? (CONTINUED)

Hi, You are much better off WITHOUT PCMCIA from an installation standpoint. I do not know the exact steps to follow to get the standard CDROMs to work though as my installation was much more complicated. In any case, it is probably a matter of using the modconf utility, which I believe gets

dselect not deselect, sorry

dselect NOT deselect, sorry... John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: installed but now what? (YOU MAY NOT NEED SCSI)

Hi Jeff, I just realized that I assumed you had a SCSI based CDROM. I have had SCSI on the brain lately trying to get mine working and that hurdle is over. If you have an IDE based CDROM (most likely) forget everything I said about SCSI. In any case try the MCDX support under the CDROM entry

Thinkpad 560 - some info, a couple questions

Hi Marius, Thanks for the info. It appears you have a VERY old BIOS, as I downdraded mine recently from the IBM 1.1 system disk (I was previously using 1.2). My Power Management version is 1.35 (yours 1.25) My BIOS is 1.28 (yours 0.21) The Thinkpad Configuration software is the Windows based

atari800 package - README.Debian has bad web address for ROMS

Hello, I've been trying to get the atari800 emulator working. The ROMS are not in the package for legal reasons. The link in the readme is bad, and although I found the xf25.zip elsewhere, the ROMs to not appear to work when I unpack them on WIN95, and move them to linux. (Maybe there's a

Thinkpad 560 - suspend/resume wierdness, tried MANY things...

Hello, I've been quiet, as I got sound and my ppa (imm) zip drive working! For the past couple days, I've tried everything I could find on the web the Thinkpad 560, and it's APM problems. I even downgraded my BIOS to the 1.1 version. I built many kernels, even 2.2.0 on the slink CD. (Which

Re: no /dev/dsp

Hello Lance, - I also get the error when trying to start ViaVoice. I have - a SoundBlaster PNP16. What is dsp? Is there a way I can - get the device /dsp on my system. I just went through this. Assuming that you have (made) a kernel with sound support, login as root and perform: cd /dev

begging for help, PCMCIA-SCSI-CDROM - I am close, but no cigar :(

Hello, I am on my knees begging for help at this point :) - :( I am trying to get my JVC XR-W2040 CDROM drive to work under debian linux as my other CDROM is very flaky even when it is sometimes seen at bootup. I think I am EXTREMELY close, and would really appreciated any help. I have been

begging.. .(Excluded IRQ3, using IRQ9 now, but still not OK)

Hello, While waiting for my post to show up, I digged a little deeper, and found that irq3 was not being excluded by PCMCIA. I excluded IRQ3 and IRQ5 (which it picked up sometimes, but states it is wrong) and it now uses IRQ9 like it does when running windows 95. The dmesg output is included

PCMCIA-SCSI-CDROM - Requested xconsole info

Hello (and Thanks for continued help), I have included the xconsole output, when I insert the card after the system is up. I also included what is output when I pulled out the card, as it notes that the SW INT is set and Why?. I also made the /dev/sr0 device from /dev with: mkmod -m 777 sr0

:( latest info (tried sym53c500_cs) with bus toaster

Hello, I grabbed pcmcia-cs-3.0.14 and the sym53c500 driver. It did not even state the detection of the JVC CDROM, but the socket info appeared correctly in /var/run/stab (??) It says 1994 on the back of the box for the New Media Bus Toaster, so I think (?) it may be the older card. Is there

CDROM worked once (surprise) can't get it to work again!

Hello, A few minutes ago, I happened to boot up linux with my H45 quickcd attached (pcmcia) to my IBM Thinkpad 560. I was surprised to see the /dev/hdc show up using IRQ3 as attempts in the past never worked. It appears that the CDROM takes a second or two to spin up, and something times out

Re: CDROM worked once (surprise) can't get it to work again!

Hi, I had this problem with my CDROM way back in kernel 1.2 (1995). I fixed it by increasing the time-out settings in the BIOS. It also helped to move it to hdb, thus on the first controller, but I am not exactly sure why. But increasing the BIOS settings worked more consistently. I

dmesg output for PCMCIA CDROM problem...

Hi, I have included the dmesg output, showing exactly what is happening when the CDROM times out during boot. Since this worked once, I am hoping that something stands out, and someonce can advise me on how to increase the timeout. Again this is a H45 QuickCD. When it did work once, it worked

dmesg output for PCMCIA CDROM problem...

Hi, I have included the dmesg output, showing exactly what is happening when the CDROM times out during boot. Since this worked once, I am hoping that something stands out, and someonce can advise me on how to increase the timeout. Again this is a H45 QuickCD. When it did work once, it worked

FYI - PCMCIA-CDROM timeout problem solved, details

Hello, After more reading and experimenting, I was able to get the CDROM to be seen by adding the following command to the cdrom.opts file in /etc/pcmcia CORE_OPTS=unreset_delay=1000 My next task is to get my ppa zip drive to work, so I can start backing up my system! John

Nope, PCMCIA-CDROM still not seen at boot most of time

Hi, I thought I had resolved the problem by adding the line CORE_OPTS=unreset_delay=1000 to /etc/pcmcia/cdrom.opts But on next 4 or 5 reboots it was not seen. I even increased the timeout to 2000 and 4000, but no luck. I welcome any and all advise. John

fvwm/fvwm2 corrupts screen, other wms don't? X config problem?

Hi, I noticed that when running fvwm2 (or fvwm) after a few window drags, the screen gets corrupted. The wierd thing is that I do not see this problem when using wmaker at all. Has anyone else ever seen this problem? If so, any clues would be helpful. Perhaps fvwm/2 exercises the X Server

Where do I find *ALL* steps to use newly built kernels?

Hi, I have been running the 2.1 debian release (well) on my TP 560 for a week or so. I have delved into building my own custom kernel, to get around APM problems, add sound, SCSI etc. I have read the kernel howtos, and read/printed the various things under /usr/linux/src that apply to the

for what it's worth (re: To the Debian Project...)

Hi, I have only recently begun to play with linux, and have no knowledge of how other distributions are setup. I am also not familiar with the history or overall goals of debian. I read great things about debian, and chose it, not knowing what to expect. Perhaps the platform I am using

I pieced together an XF86Config. Rock-solid, but I'm scared!

Hello, As some of you, I have recently installed debian 2.1 on my Thinkpad 560. I have tried MANY of the XF86Config files on the net, but I could not arrive at one that worked flicker-free on my 800x600 dual scan screen. Light grays would have wavy lines, etc. SO, I have pieced together one

picture as background in xterm or other?

Hi, It doesn't appear that xterm allows this from what I can find. I tried gnome-terminal. It allows a picture to be placed, but when I do this the display gets all messed up when it needs to scroll. I would be curious to know if this is a problem with MY system, or everyone's. I would

XF86 3.3.5 and debian - what is frame_register.rpm - is it needed?

Hello, I noticed this problem ALSO posted at comp.windows.x.i386linux I just installed XF86 3.3.5 to use on debian 2.1, but the postinstall script gives an error regarding undefined symbol register_frame. I noticed a .rpm file in the FTP dir named frame_register There is no mention of this in

Got TP-560 to work in 800x600 256 colors! (with Debian 2.1 included X)

Hello, Many thanks to all those who helped. I am now up and running 2.1 debian, using full 800x600 and 256 colors on my Thinkpad 560. I am using the X that comes with 2.1, and it's fine. It took a lot of playing around, but I'm there. Sometime I will resume trying to get either external

Thinkpad 560, got debian 2.1 up, need to replace XF86 to get 800X600 ???

Hello, Yesterday I got the distribution up, after coping the CD #1 over to my C: in Win95, and copying the files in each binary-all that ral, replacing the 0K ones in binary-i386 to satisfy install. I was underway, and did not see the post about the dselect overrides, but my strategy worked. I

Has ANYONE installed from vfat copied distributuon, HOW?

Hello, I recently copied the entire 2.1 CD to c:\debiancd using windows 95, to avoid CDROM problems, and am now persuing a hard disk based install. It appears that the install expects symbolic links to work. I poked around and these links appear to be 0 length files, even under Windows 95.

IBM Thinkpad 560 - Nothing but problems installing (I got CDs today)

Hi, I got the debian 2.1 CDs today. I got peanut linux somewhat working over the last few days, saw KDE, really cool. I have been having NOTHING BUT PROBLEMS INSTALLING debian 2.1 today/tonight. No matter what I do, it won't see my CDROM during the install. It says Oh, I see you have a

RE: IBM Thinkpad 560 - Nothing but problems installing (I got CD

Hi, Yes, I was under the impression that I had to use the tecra versions of rescue and drivers. This got me up and running with the base system. I will try ANYTHING though if you think this might be effecting the CDROM access. John __ Get

IBM Thinkpad 560 - Will this CDROM and adapter be better to try?

Hi, I also have a JVC SCI CDROM (reader/writer) that I use with a PCMCIA Bus Toaster SCSI-adapter, which is MUCH more reliable (at least on Windows 95) as it stays spun up, and hardly ever gets an error like the H45 Quick CD. The reason I haven't tried this yet is that no one responded to my

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Hi, I just tried everything again from scratch. This time I used the JVC SCSI CDROM, with the New Media Bus Toaster PCMCIA-SCSI card. Again, I could not use the CDROM for install. I configured just about all of the SCSI device drivers, and PCMCIA controller. Now when I boot, I see some info

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Hello, I'm giving up for now on a CDROM based install. It never lets me successfully install the mcd module, it complains about a device or resource busy. Perhaps I need to supply command line parameters, but anyway I'm giving up for now. HARD DISK INSTALL I used Windows95 to copy the

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Hello, Although I have been able to get the base 2.1 system up and running, I am now trying to download what I need to get X Windows, and its dependency packages, and then a few clients (for now) running. In the relnotes9.html, the required files are listed, but mention tared sets such as

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with DOS fdisk, to have 1G, 900M, and 112M. I hope to leave Windows95 on the 1G (for now) put linux on the 900M, and it's swap on the 112M, if that makes sense. Many Thanks in advance, John Miskinis __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http