Re: problem with sound-module

1999-10-17 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Michiel Meeuwissen wrote: It's driving my crazy. Why doesn't it work anymore? warande1124:/etc# modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=1 mpu_io=-1 /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: invalid parameter parm_io /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o failed

Re: dselect

1999-10-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
Have you tried adding the CD to /etc/apt/sources.list and then just apt-get install apache?

Oops!

1999-10-17 Thread Quoc Nguyen
Hello All: I made a mistake. I tried to install apache development. Disregard the dselect email sent out earlier. I will try to find some documentation on dselect and figure it out. Thanks again, Quoc

Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)

1999-10-17 Thread kaynjay
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/17/99 at 09:37 AM, David Z. Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That's not going to get rid of the GNOME stuff. Those packages just depend on lots of other packages; you need to actually go off and remove those packages too (generally gnome-*) to really purge GNOME.

motif qt and gtk

1999-10-17 Thread Micha Feigin
I am looking to start some graphic programing and the folowing toolkits are those that look most apropraite for serious user interfaces and graphics. I was wondering how apropriate each of them is for writing serious programs, and if anyone can give me a comparison, or point me to information

Re: kernel upgrade options - follow-up

1999-10-17 Thread John
on 16 Oct 99, Brad wrote... On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, John wrote: It seems an opportunity to upgrade to 2.2.7, and etc, etc i'd recommend 2.2.12 (the latest), although 2.2.7 might be my second choice. I've now discovered that my Debian CD-ROM contains kernel-source- 2.2.1 under the devel

slink to potato

1999-10-17 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
is it time for potato? If yes, how? apt-get? I am running debian 2.1r3. -gnana

Flow chart drawing program

1999-10-17 Thread Micha Feigin
I am looking for a program to make flow chart, mainly for drawing dependencies for program design. Any good programs available for the job? Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: motif qt and gtk

1999-10-17 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Just to clarify: GTK is C based, but language bindings/wrappers exist for several languages (check http://www.gnome.org) , including C++. The C++ wrapper is called GTK--. Bryan On 17-Oct-99 Salman Ahmed wrote: MF == Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MF I am looking to start

Re: dselect

1999-10-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 11:18:35AM -0700, Quoc Nguyen wrote: I am trying to install apache with dselect. I get an error message like this: ERROR: apacheconfig could not be run. It may be the wrong version, or perl may not be fully configured yet. Any insights? as root: chmod +x

hdparm - hard disk tuning

1999-10-17 Thread zdrysdal
Hi Has anyone had any experience using hdparm to increase the performance of your ide hard drives? Does it work and are there any drawbacks? Is there any software which can measure hard drive performance? thanx

Re: Flow chart drawing program

1999-10-17 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am looking for a program to make flow chart, mainly for drawing dependencies for program design. Any good programs available for the job? You could try the old and trusty xfig or the new and flashy dia. Xfig is already available for slink and potato in every

Re: Hello World!

1999-10-17 Thread John Hasler
Quoc Nguyen writes: I am a very novice linux user. I don't want to be a nuisance if this mailing list is not for novice users. It is. You are allowed to ask anything, as long as it is relevant to Debian (or at least Linux). Ask away. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the

Re: your mail

1999-10-17 Thread aphro
try pipe to more i.e. ls | more nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336

Re: need a linux book

1999-10-17 Thread aphro
there is a new book from o reilley (sp?) based on debian. i ordered it last week (34.95 inc cd) and told the other admins i work with to do the same. there is an online version too..buy it! support the project(profits go to the project) nate

Re: kernel upgrade options - follow-up

1999-10-17 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Please put plank lines between the quoted text and repies, it makes things easier to find On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, John wrote: I've now discovered that my Debian CD-ROM contains kernel-source- 2.2.1 under the devel directory. Can I not use this? I'd like to

Re: PCI Bus inquiry HP8130 , PCI eth0 set to irq0 ...Yup Zero that is

1999-10-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
John D Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Has anyone out thar, installed Linux onto a HP 8130, and if so, can they perhaps enlighten me as to how to tell the BIOS how to manually address a PCI network card. You will appreciate that a eth0 is a handy thing to have nowadays :-) Is this an HP

Re: PCI Bus inquiry HP8130 , PCI eth0 set to irq0 ...Yup Zero that is

1999-10-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
Phil Brutsche ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Another possibility: this thing has so much proprietary hardware, and designed to work with Win9x so closely, you'd be fighting a lost cause to get anything but Win9x running. I have Linux running on an HP Pavilion. But I'm using it as a server; I

Re: dselect can not allocate memory

1999-10-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: # free Swap: 1980 1320 660 This is *not* enough swap space, especially on a 16MB machine. I suppose that I need to increase the swap space, but I am not sure. I don't know how to do it without reinstalling the whole thing

Re: nfs + setgid problem

1999-10-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
Dietrich Clauss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a workstation pool with the home dirs shared over NFS. The home dirs are sgid by default in debian, so if a user creates a directory readable by himself only, it becomes sgid too. (KDE's Desktop directory is an example for that, it gets mode

Re: hdparm - hard disk tuning

1999-10-17 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi Has anyone had any experience using hdparm to increase the performance of your ide hard drives? Does it work and are there any drawbacks? Is there any software which can measure hard drive performance? I've used it, and it worked well. I think I've maxed the performance out on my

Re: Compiling and using c librarys (.a and .so)

1999-10-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
Micha Feigin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: How do I compile and use both static and dinamic libraries under linux? Static: gcc -c foo.c gcc -c bar.c ar rv libfoo.a foo.o bar.o Dynamic: gcc -c -fpic foo.c gcc -c -fpic bar.c gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libfoo.so.1 -o libfoo.so.1.0 foo.o

Function Keys, MC and Telnet/SSH

1999-10-17 Thread Todd Suess
Greetings ppl, I have recently started to use Midnight Commander a lot on my consoles, but if I telnet/ssh into my box remotely, I can't seem to get a lot of the function keys to work. I have played with termtypes and such, but anything in the VT series in particular seems to function with

slink and potato

1999-10-17 Thread Ben Wong
Wha are slink and potato? -Ben Wong, Keeper of the Squish, Breaker of Sailboats, and Aggravator of Cysts A closed mouth gathers no feet. -Lee Silva ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free

debian-sparc xfree

1999-10-17 Thread Marcin Kurc
Is there a way to change color depth and resolution on sparc station using debian? -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-17 Thread Todd Suess
Slink is the current stable debian release version, which is 2.1 Potato is the current unstable release version, which is due to be released before the end of the year, god willing. :) Often you will see Slink = Stable, Potato = Unstable, but I have been using potato for a while now will little

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-17 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Often you will see Slink = Stable, Potato = Unstable, but I have been using potato for a while now will little or no problems, and it works a lot better in many ways, at least for me. I am running slink but I want to upgrade to potato. How do I go about? What is the best way? -gnana

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