Thank you! Several useful things for me to work on. HÖ
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:14:22AM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: > > Greetings all ye Debians! > > > > I gave it another go; installed Debian 2.2 'potato', this time only a > > minimal installation although with GNOME, which turned out to be a flop > > of course: > > > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > gmc > > gnome-control-center > > gnome-help > > gnome-utils > > gnotepad+ > > gs > > gv > > latex2html1 > > libgtkxmhtml1 > > libwraster1 > > > > When I was asked if the program should give it another try to install > > these packages I said yes, but I'm not sure if it went through, I never > > got any other messages about that. > > > > GNOME turned out to be one small terminal (without a frame) in the upper > > left corner of the screen, on a neutral- grey background, nothing else. > > Sounds like X fail-safe mode. No window-manager, no ~/.xsession, it'll > give you an Xterm. You can start a window-manager from that Xterm. For > GNOME you'll want one of window-maker, icewm-gnome or sawmill aka > sawfish. GNOME seems to work best [or at least is easiest] if you > install GDM (the GNOME Display Manager). It's not strictly necessary > though. You can find out if those packages are properly installed by > doing 'dpkg -l [<package>, ...]'. If it's installed properly, the first two > characters of the line spit out for each package will be 'i' and there > won't be a third character before the name of the package. > > Just try '$ apt-get install gmc' for instance. Need help with apt? > Check the man page, then ask if you're still confused. > > > ----------------------------------------- > > > > The lp module would not install: > > > > Installation failed > > > > /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o : init_module : Device or resource busy > > Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parametres, including > > invalid IO or IRQ parametres > > /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o : insmod/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o > > failed > > /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o : insmod lp failed > > > > My printer is a parallel port (lp0) Epson Stylus Color 640. I tryed > > several times, with and without parametres. > > What were the io and irq settings you gave? I know I set up some things > in the BIOS for my parallel port (especially the communication style). > > For me, this works: > $ insmod parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=5 > $ modprobe lp > > You need that low-level parport_pc.o module if you have typical x86 type > architechture. The parameters may vary a little, check your MB docs > and/or BIOS. When you get the parport_pc parameter correct, put them on > a line in /etc/modutils/aliases like: > > options parport_pc io=0x... irq=. dma=. > > Then run '$ update-modules'. Now '$ modprobe lp' should work. > > > ------------------------------------------ > > > > wvdial didn't find the modem (I'm used to wvdial 'always' finding the > > modem on first attempt!) which is a Diamond SupraExpress 56e PRO on > > ttyS0. > > Well, try running setserial first? IMHO, pppconfig is much better > overall. At least it [pon/poff] doesn't hang around in the foreground > forever wasting a VT and spewing all kinds of stuff that you probably > don't care about. > > > ------------------------------------------- > > > > Window Maker seems to be the default window manager, what happened to > > fvwm? I can't find it on the CDROM. > > Look for fvwm2. I thought the old fvwm was still around, but maybe not. > You can change the system-wide default window manager with this: > $ update-alternatives --config x-window-manager > > Just select the number corresponding to the one you want as default. > This is different than other Linux distributions and earlier versions of > Debian. Lots of default things are set up with this alternatives > mechanism. > > -- > /bin/sh ~/.signature: > Command not found > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null