Re: Driver Authoring????

http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/On 6/6/05, Ishwar Rattan < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Look atht kernel sources for serial port driver(s) and others. Writing drivers requires:- knowledge of the device of interst- knowledge of kernel of interestGood luck,-ishwarOn Sun, 5 Jun 2005, klkl lklk wrote:>

Installing redhat 7.2 under debian

Hello,   I have a new machine on which I have installed Debian Sarge. I need to run some legacy applications that run only on redhat 7.2 (due to the stupid g++-2.96). Redhat 7.2 wont install on my machine because of lack of drivers. Is there anyway I can install a redhat 7.2 environment in a direct

[sid] Kernel upgrade made system unbootbale

Hello,   I just upgraded my computer running sid today (24th May, 2005). This upgraded the kernel (2.6.11-1-686-smp), not now my computer does not boot anymore. After the kernel loads, I get this message Kernel cannot convert a name into device number check your 'root=' argument paseed on boot by

Cisco vpnclient with kernel 2.6.4

Hello, I am using sid, and the cisco vpnclient works for me with 2.4.25. however with 2.6.4, the module is able to compile, and i can negotiate the connection succesfully. however, i cannot surf the web after that. has anybody managed to get vpnclient working with any 2.6 series kernel ( i c

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

1) Go to http://www.minion.de/ and get the appropriate driver. 2) Realize that nVidia is more trouble than it's worth. 3) Chuck nVidia card, get a video card who cares about the Linux community (like, say, ATI). How is ATI support better than Nvidia ? As far as I know, both provide binary drive

Re: Is Grub going to be official Sarge boot loader?

Hello, Looks like grub is going to be the default. The beta 3 releast notes of the debian installer says The Debian Installer team is once again ready to announce a beta release of the Debian sarge installer. New features in beta 3 include: - new easy to use partitioner that supports automati

Re: ssh client and ssh server

You can install putty, which is only a ssh client. $apt-get install putty This is what I get in unstable Package: putty Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 624 Maintainer: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.54-2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libglib1.2

firefox 0.8-3 to 0.8-4 failing

Hello, I am using debian unstable, and when I tried apt-get upgrade today, I received the following error Updating mozilla-firefox chrome registry.../usr/sbin/update-mozilla-firefox-chrome: line 58: 1869 Segmentation fault regxpcom >/dev/null This is while upgrading from 0.8-3 to 0.8-4

Re: Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo

hello ryan, are you loading the glx module in XF86Config ? Also make sure dri and GLCore are disabled. gokul Ryan Coyner wrote: Just recently I downloaded the Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo for Linux. Uncompressing it was relatively smooth, but when I tried to run the program, I got this error me

Re: nvidia and kernel-image-2.6.3-1-k7

Yes, you will require to compile your own nvidia module. You do not need to build a custom kernel for it, just installing the kernel-headers should be enough. I tried this earlier, but the nvidia install process seems to fail. It complaints something about scripts/file2alias.c. Basically someth