Re: compiling 2.4.0 kernels on potato

2000-07-13 Thread Mike Garfias
Ok, its been too damned long since I've had to apply patches to anything. Can you tell me the way the directories need to look in order to apply the patch? Umm, as well as the command needed to apply the patch. Jeez, I feel like a gimp Jonathan Heaney spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:

Re: FW: Dumb X Windows Question

2000-05-23 Thread Mike Garfias
You might want to try 'task-xwindows' or something similar. I'm not sure which it is, but will install just about everything you need. Andrew McRobert spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: -Original Message- From: Andrew McRobert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 23,

Q3 + RIVA TNT

1999-09-08 Thread Mike Garfias
Has anyone gotten this combination to work?

Microfocus Cobol

1999-05-21 Thread Mike Garfias
Hi, Here at work I've been asked if I can make our accounting software run under Linux, and not SCO. The software requires a C compiler, and a Microfocus COBOL compiler. Has anyone made microfocus run on top of linux? Or know of a Linux port? TIA

Re: are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only?

1999-05-20 Thread Mike Garfias
Pollywog spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: Are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only? I have a PentiumII with only one processor in it. -- Andrew No, they also work in single CPU applications. When you compile your kernel uncheck the Symmetric Multi Processing support. Mike

Re: Greater than 64 MB memory

1999-02-10 Thread Mike Garfias
Sebastian Canagaratna spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: I have just installed 80 MB memory ( old was 16, and I added 64 MB ). I am using Debian linux 2.0.2. When the machine boots up it does not recognize the whole memory ( I believe it recognizes only about 64 MB. I did man lilo.conf

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-02 Thread Mike Garfias
M.C. Vernon spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: I saw the uploaded message days ago, and sunsite still doesn't have the kernel-source or kernel-headers packages available yet :( ftp.debian.org doesn't either Matthew [snip] Try ftp.kernel.org

Re: Staircase in remote printer.

1999-01-28 Thread Mike Garfias
Sebastian Canagaratna spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: CAn anyone tell me how to get rid of the staircase effect on a remote printer. Remote printing with emacs etc. is OK , but with an ascii file, if I use lpr -Pprintername filename I get the staircase effect. I have tried various

Re: Plextor PX-412C ? (was: what cd-writer ?)

1999-01-23 Thread Mike Garfias
Alexander Kushnirenko spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: Hi, We are also looking for a good SCSI CDR to buy for our university group. We plan to redistribute experimental data on CDs, so we may burn few CDs a day occasionally. After reading net we decided to go with something like:

Re: what cd-writer ?

1999-01-20 Thread Mike Garfias
Odin spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: I want to buy a cd-writer. I don't need rewritable support at present time, but it would be a plus. I've seen a new Yamaha model that's affordable. Are they good and well supported with Linux ? Thanks in advance. I've had good luck with

PPP Dialup problem.

1999-01-19 Thread Mike Garfias
Hello, I've got a slight problem making win95 dialup to my Debian2.0 server properly. I get no errors ineither syslog, or ppp.log. The windows machine dials up, then times out after several minutes, telling me to check the password. I've followed the directions I've found in

Debian 2.0?

1998-01-09 Thread Mike Garfias
Any idea when 2.0 will be out? I'm tempted to start playing with the unstable release, but was hoping to avoid that. I'm just sick of having to download and compile all the packages that available for glibc (which I don't have). Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word