Re: I really need help!

1999-04-03 Thread James Mastros
you know how ot install symbolic links? ln -s Note that the source file is the one that gets created, and becomes (effectively) another name for the desrination file. If you should happen to get them reversed (which I do all the time), then you'll get an error message; just reverse the two again. -=- James Mastros

Re: access for non-us packages

1999-04-03 Thread James Mastros
indow running > with wmaker and a couple of games, then add packages later. I'd suguest enlightenment over wmaker, btw, but that's largely a personal choice. -=- James Mastros # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/yo

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

1999-04-03 Thread James Mastros
on't have soundcore? (What, I couldn't say, as I don't have the kernel sources about.) Do you have a /proc/sound? -=- James Mastros

Re: lossless partitioning

1999-04-04 Thread James Mastros
rtition. I've used it on multiple ocasions, including ones with stupid dos extenders (which wouldn't run linux of the era, however), and fat32 partitions without any problems. However, it claims to be not completly safe. OTOH, I've never heard tail of it dieing. Use your own judgement. -=- James Mastros

Re: GNOME query

1999-04-04 Thread James Mastros
th all the bells > and whistles. In puticular, notably: 1) Things will maximize over the panel. 2) Things won't appear in the gnome-pager applet (taskbar like). 3) Things will get icons (assuming that fvwm2 uses icons, I wouldn't know) even if you use gnome-pager. -=- James Mastros

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

1999-04-04 Thread James Mastros
NFIG_SOUND=m (or 'y', as approprate)? -=- James Mastros

Re: Installing the Latest Version of Debian from a DOS partition

1999-04-04 Thread James Mastros
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 04:11:01AM -0400, Egwu Kalu wrote: > uncompressing Linux > ran out of input data > --- system halted. It looks like the kernel you downloaded (into a file named "linux", I belive) didn't quite make it. Try downloading the file again. -=- James Mastros

Re: [q] XFree 3.3.3.1 available in .deb?

1999-04-07 Thread James Mastros
ibc6 >= 2.1), so if you're using slink either upgrade or do without. -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.

Re: Q: User access to hardware peripherals - preferred method?

1999-04-08 Thread James Mastros
IE "/dev/fd0 /3.5 auto defaults,noauto,user 0 0")? That's probably it; if it were a permissions problem, you'd get somthing along the lines of "mount: access denied". (I'm not certian: I always run as root. Avoids permission problems.) -=- James Mast

Re: Symbolic links behaviour

1999-04-08 Thread James Mastros
te a few hoops jumped through to still support it cleanly.) -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.

Re: Help for error: "SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument."

1999-04-10 Thread James Mastros
c/sysvinit/examples/, then don't bother fileing a bugreport. Otherwise, if you can figure out where it came from, you should probably do so. This is a well-known problem on this list; that it has a simple fix that isn't there is silly (IMHO, naturaly). -=- James Mastros -- "

Re: Kmod not functioning correctly with 2.2.3 kernel

1999-04-11 Thread James Mastros
#x27;t locate module char-major-14 You need to look for lines like this and add aliases as appropriate. Alias somthing to "off" if you don't want it to load anything. -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.

Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI

1999-04-12 Thread James Mastros
branden/xsf.html first). Those debs require libc6 (>=2.1) IE potato, so you can't use them if you don't want to upgrade. (It works fine for me, but cavaet emptator.) -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you

Re: Symbolic links behaviour

1999-04-12 Thread James Mastros
d the drive containing / and /hdd2 is not quite sane. Insanity rules the drives of the dead Jennifer. Long live Jennifer! -=- James Mastros, Who is laughing his shoes off. -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.

Re: Adding stuff to init

1999-04-14 Thread James Mastros
autocleaned and put back.) A similar trick, BTW, is a cure for nonstandard modularified serial port problems. -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.

Re: XVT with a .jpg background?

1999-04-15 Thread James Mastros
t a > 20K .jpg to a .xpm the size jumps to 1MB! That is too much so I am > looking for a more efficient way to accomplish this. > > TIA. Try eterm, to be had in the package, logicaly enough, "eterm". I'm not certian if it's in slink mainstream, but I know it&#

Re: Looking for trouble.

1999-04-18 Thread James Mastros
a lot around, and believe me I've been reading, but most > tutorials/FAQs assume that the system is running smoothly and hardly deal > with problem solving. Try http://www.debain.org/doc/ -- I did just look, and there isn't much with problem solving there. One of the few bad things about the c

Re: Broken libtiff3g-dev

1999-04-29 Thread James Mastros
st libtiff3g-dev; it will probably be fixed shortly. -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death. cat /dev/urandom|james --insane=yes >

Re: Apt is misbehaving

1999-04-29 Thread James Mastros
> all at once. Apt told me that only two packages would be Have you tried "apt-get dist-upgrade potato"? -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upo