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> How do I back-up my MySQL databases to a CD disc?
Well, I think it's easier that you do mysql_dump to the filesystem
then burn the dumps to disks
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Thus spake Glen Lee Edwards last Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:06:34PM -0500:
>
>Before I begin, I want to state that I'm very impressed with
>Debian. It's obvious that some very talented people put in a lot of
>quality time on it. I now have it installed on all 3 of my servers,
>which f
Thus spake Lisa C. Boyd last Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:20:37PM -0400:
> I am new to Linux and Debian and have really no idea how to
> troubleshoot things yet. I had a local Debian guru help me install
> Debian (on the 11th), but I'm having difficulties with my sound. Below
> is the error message t
Hello.
I'm using Debian 2.2 with the Ximian GNOME desktop and some number of
backported packages, running
the Linux 2.4.18-xfs kernel.
I just bought a Canon flatbed scanner model CanoScam N640P ex. I'd like to
solicit ideas as
to what do you think of this scanner brand. Is is supported under li
Derek Williams wrote:
>On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 03:29, Alberto Vecchiato wrote:
>> Hi all. Anoyone knows if it is possible to play divx movies on Linux?
>> Any suggestion on the player, where to find codecs, etc.?
<--snip-->
>I personally prefer mplayer, which can be downloaded from:
>http://www.m
ee for myself
if Microsoft did improve its OS... then laugh out loud if XP crashes...)
There's a UNIX version of Fuzz, if I'm not mistaken. For Linux, to do some
stress testing, you can try the program crashme, as it also does random
placement of input.
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title windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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ine lilo's effectiveness, but I'd suggest you consider GRUB to be
your
bootloader. Aside from the fact that it is more feature-laced, in the long run
it spares you
a lot of headaches when it comes to updating the kernel. And it can boot
m
files, via dpkg-deb.
Then edit the control files or remove the file that causes the problem.
Then repack the Debian package. Given that you do it right, it would install.
As I said, it's quick and dirty, though.
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infotechsys wrote:
>Hi,
>Is there a HOWTO on how to go from
>a redhat system to Debian system? If
>so, couls someone point me to it. I could find
>anything at the Debian site.
HOWTO? I find it weird, but you won't really need a
HOWTO in going from a
Hi.
Against conventional wisdom, I'd like to ask if anyone knows where I can still
grab a copy of CorelDRAW for Linux. It's quite sad that the GIMP can't open
a CDR file (I tried doing it, but then again I might be wrong), and that Corel
isn't anymore distributing CorelDRAW for Linux. Kind of I ba
such anyway? So that I could start
migrating...
Help.
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have a set journal size before it starts growing after some certain point).
XFS is good if you'll use it on 24/7 machines that don't poweroff. Ext3
performs extremely well on
intermittently-powered machines without the filesystem creating a file-hole
freak of nature...
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; by Silberschatz and Galvin, "Operating Systems
Internals and Design Principles" by William Stallings, as well as the lots of
documentation from the internet. Of course, you'd have to condense them to the
level that high-school students would understand. [these are terse readings,
and I'm just as bewildered when I read them even though I'm already four years
in
college...]
Good luck!
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tem.
Basically it's risky, as you'll be dealing with the inodes already :(
if you're using other filesystems, chances are you won't be able to undelete
'em.
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Hello:
I just backported XINE from unstable to Potato. When I tried to run XINE,
it didn't even proceed past the splash screen. Here's the output message:
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.3
(c) 2000, 2001 by G. Bartsch and the xine project team.
Built with xine library 0.9.3 [Thu
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Paolo Falcone wrote:
>
>> I tried adding my user account to group uucp, and it somehow solved it.
>
>Wow, that's hella-counter-intuitive. Is this a bug? (Though my gut
>feeling says if I need to ask, it
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>I can run and dail and otherwise use minicom as root, but if I try as a
>regular user, I get
>
>minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied
>
>ls /dev/ttyS1 results in...
>
>crw-r-1 root dialout4,
/gcc-2.95.3.tar.gz
http://master.debian.org/~doko/
has gcc 2.95.3 backported to potato. Not anymore apt-get -able
(i think).
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containing Windows ME. After editing (it's kinda easy),
run lilo to load the new images to the MBR.
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kevincrookes wrote:
>Hi all. I got another question for you all now. Where do i get all the =
>drivers or modules is it? For all the different types of devices that i =
>have got attached to my computer??=20
Try running modconf as root first. It's kinda cryptic, initially, but most of
the
time
using the esd plugins? Or does the program support esd.
Moreover, does the sound card support multi-channel output in the
hardware level?
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kevincrookes wrote:
>Hello. I do not know if this is for the right mailing list channel, but
>i thought that i would post it in here. Bascially i am a total newbie to
>Linux. A friend total me about it over the internet and he says the
>Debian Linux is a good Linux to start with. Well i have n
ename to mark the spaces). much more filenames with some
more obscure characters in them :)
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upport compiled. how do i
enable full DGA support in X then? or is there a separate download for X with
DGA support enabled?
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nal that sizes
up variably), aside from the fact that it can generate file holes over time on
desktop machines.
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x and Unix-based OS users. Goodness -
even Apple adopted to the superior and proven model of simplicity in the heart
of the OS with Darwin as base of MacOSX.
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>I am so happy to read your mail and interested in this topic. What about JFS?
>Do you have any comment?
Unfortunately, I've not yet tried IBM's JFS on my machines nor had any
experience
using machines that employ JFS. So I can't comment o
aming operations (such as CG/animation, filesystems containing
large databases...).
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ry are placed inside
/etc/rc?.d for runlevel-specific scripts, and /etc/rcS.d for system-wide
scripts regardless of runlevel.
There is also /etc/rc.boot for custom boot time scripts, but you'll find it
empty. There's an explanation in the Debian docus for such.
lly supported
on Linux.
Printer "drivers" are provided by filter software (forgot the exact term).
E.g. if you're using lpr or lprng or lpr-ppd, there's magicfilter, apsfilter
and gnulpr(?) which provides filters for common printers they support. CUPS
(w/c can repla
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>im going to transfer my debian to a new disk.
>i read the Hard-Disk Upgrade HOWTO and my situation is
>different from the HOWTO. right now im using
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>devFS
>ext3FS
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>and here is how my disk is partitioned
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>/dev/discs/disc0/part1
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>O.K., I am using the kernel image wody 2.4.9-1 - everything works
fine except
>that I am not able to enable the vesa stuff (cannot load it as
module
>neither) ... what can I do do I have to compile the kernel by
mysel
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>I failed to have internet dial-up inspite of best efforts.The syslog
says "Chat script failed". I have pppconfig and used
/etc/chatscripts,read man diald, corrected diald.options,corrected
/etc/diald/connect . Nothing works.
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>> On Saturday 15 December 2001 3:24 pm, Matt wrote:
>>> Use mplayer. It's the best video player for linux .. but it's not
>
>> It complained about a missing codecs file - but I ha
e ethernet card on our development server running
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r4 for our operating system class in the University
of the Philippines (Manila). It runs flawlessly, be it on a 2.2 or a 2.4
kernel, as we first installed 2.2r0 with 2.2.17, then dist-upgraded it to
2.2r4 then installe
onger have Debian installed. My
>computer is the gateway/NAT for my LAN, and people weren't willing to
>have their net connection go up and down so I could play :) (I'm
>looking into getting a dedicated server for that).
You can always try again.
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Ian Balchin wrote:
>3 if i run $ ifconfig ppp it generates
>
>ppp: error fetching interface information: device not found
The device ppp is created dynamically. And usually it creates an
instantiation named ppp0.
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Error reading current led setting. Maybe stdin is not a VT?
This was in X, right? setleds only works in virtual terminals (not
X terminals).
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to your
system.
Is there any way to prevent this from echoing?
Btw, this appears even on uniprocessor machines custom-compiled for
uni-processor use.
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Brian Stults wrote:
>Is there a way to purge the swap disk? When I run something like
>win4lin, it can sometimes take up a lot of disk swap. When I close the
>program, the swap space still appears to be occupied. It's mostly an
>annoyance, and pro
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>Hello,
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>I have just been given remote access to a box I am going to use as
a
>server. It has Debian 2.2 (stable) installed. (It's a Sun Ultra 1
od 1777 /tmp
No need to modify /etc/fstab
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ig file (it's config-linuxversion in /boot) to
.config in your linux source directory. That is, that file would
appear if you used make-kpkg.
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).
Both are fine, as it still works on our server running 2.2.19 with one
with rtl8139 and a workstation with 8139too. 8139too, however,
promises more.
Speaking of woody, looks like its release is going to be real soon,
isn't it? (or better yet still hope
27;s most current build in sid (in potato r4 you're
still stuck with M18-3. That's way too old though usable). If you're
to compile it directly, then go ahead, but if you're to build a deb
to use it in potato be warned - it won't be easy (it's notoriously
more dif
orward basis
(though I backport most of the time). Have you tried "holding" the
packages you don't want to be upgraded (I think using = would do it)
>The Woody package will work if I can somehow get it to install.
What woody package?
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t listed in debianplanet). but it broke some of my
packages. Then again, the best way might be to upgrade to Woody (or
Sid for the more daring).
If it does, I'd better dist-upgrade my Potato r3 box...
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y that you've narrowed the problem to the kernel.
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ly big /tmp if you're using apps that make heavy use of
temporary file generation like oracle, and a separate, big,
quota-enabled partition for the users in /home may seem a decent
partition scheme for a multiple -user setup).
Paolo Falcone
btw: I use the same hard disk size for my "woodied
) and a window
manager. If you have the tasksel package running (more often than
not you have it) then run it and it would simplify installation
(though you might have some bloatware installed along the way,
which you can also uninstall individually via dselect or ap
using woody or sid for my personal use, though I'm using a 2.4
kernel with XFS patches and gcc-2.95.3 from master.debian.org/~doko).
Any help where can I find them (or how do I backport them in potato)
would be appreciated.
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>File to patch:
change the name of the linux directory to linux-2.5.0
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XMMS locking /dev/dsp?
>I was wondering if somebody has some kind of trick so that my sister >can
>avoid this problem?
I don't know if Galeon supports esd, though. There's an esd plugin
for XMMS which would enable multiple streaming across a single device
a
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>On Thursday 29 November 2001 23:30, Paolo Falcone wrote:
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> > /usr/src/modules.
>>
>> The modules are downloaded already in /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17
>> (as the installer placed them during the installation process)
>> Use modconf t
-comprehend linux documentation. Who knows,
yours might be the best of its kind out there.
>Last words (for now) ... in order for Open Source to have continued >and
>increasing validity, it ~has~ to mean more than just "change at
>will
Keith Steensma wrote:
>Has anyone succeded is getting a (somewhat) newer version of Tripwire to
>run under Woody. That 'old' version in the Woody archives is nearly
>useless.
Check the tripwire website. There's already a version 2.x
r ISA, but the 3c59x comes up fine with the modules kernel, and I
>can bring up the ne2000 with insmod ne on that one too, but for some
>reason it won't come up at boot as a module on that module kernel.
Did you configure your /etc/network/interfaces file to automatically
ifconfig up
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>Q) My CD set is 2.2 r3, with kernel 2.2.19pre17.
>What is the difference between kernel 2.2.19pre17 and 2.2.19?
2.2.19 is more recent than 2.2.19pre17
>Q) Which kernel is best to install on a laptop?
>Is it the -compact one that I see when I browse dselect?
No idea,
debase (or
a dummy package just to satisfy dependencies, should you not have
a java compiler in hand).
the only time the package manager looked for an archive was when I
tried to install the j2sdk1_3-doc package (which only installs the
official documentation from the J
ld like to make a sparc and intel deb >for them...
>Maybe even post them to www.debian.org for submission to the package >list.
The debhelper as well as lintian packages can help in making deb
packages. Also the devscripts package.
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A, but this time, you'll also
be able to select alternative MTA's (such as qmail, Postfix, sendmail,
fetchmail, etc...). Select one then re-select the packages dependent
on MTA's. From there it should rather be straightforward enough.
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e pointer within the GDM menu, not outside it, so you can
type.
>However if I run gdm manually it allows me, but claims my password >is wrong.
Assuming you're typing a valid username with its corresponding
password correctly, there should be no problem. Clue
p to ReiserFS 3.5. 2.2 kernels can't mount ReiserFS
partitions ver. 3.5 (made by reiserfsprogs 3.6 that normally goes
with distros running 2.4)
In order to mount a ReiserFS 3.6 FS, you need to install a 2.4.x
kernel.
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em via the net (Google sure helps).
Most probably they'll be in Woody or Sid. if you're looking for
backports to potato (like what I did) then you'll need to search
(aside from Google, try looking at DebianHELP and DebianPlanet)
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es via modconf or any text editior).
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me say that Potato's best with
production environments (I'd agree on this), while Woody is tolerable enough
for office workstations, while Sid is best used at home or for
the most daring who'd want to use bleeding-edge software. Of course,
these are only my opinions.
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security concern.
Some say that if stability is concerned, it's Potato-Sid-Woody,
since unstable iterates faster than the testing release. [but I'd
go for the more-accepted norm.]
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dules you'd want to load.
>2. Even better, would it be possible to have these modules probed >when a usb
>mouse is detected?
After you've done modconf, the new /etc/modules that modconf did
would state the modules that would be loaded upon startup. Kinda
cool.
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nature). There are some other installers
that come in the mainstream distro. But dselect's probably the best.
(though apt-get installs are leaner, being less strict with
recommends). It's actually more beneficial that way - you get to
install only exactly what you need.
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now works.
7.) it's better running debian the debian way. given that you have
your pppd version to go right with your kernel, better stick with
debian's pppconfig and pon/poff wrappers that comes with the ppp and
pppconfig debian packages, respectively. It
g anything
rash).
i also found out that some cards don't do as well with esd (like my
own aging CMI8330 ISA sound card), as I need to slow down from 1:1 to
1:4 (44KHz down to 11KHz). any recommendations too on what card is
good (or is reported to support well) with
My previous post was about multithreading sounds, and what was needed
was to install esd. so i installed esd.
however, the problem still remains. running esd would lock /dev/dsp.
i can't seem to make esd a background process that won't lock
the sound device to any other process requesting for the
time to re-hack BIOS or send my box to the repair shop before
the demo on Tuesday). Thanks!
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Anthony Campbell wrote:
>Or should I issue tune2fs commands
>(with appropriate time or mount switches) and change /etc/fstab in >some way?
>If so, how?
When you modify your /etc/fstab, you'll sacrifice either backward
compatibility to ext2 (if you change the fs type), or as Alan
mentions, the a
Alan Shutko wrote:
>You can replay the journal. That helps you if the filesystem is
>unclean because the system crashed. It doesn't help you _at all_ if
>the filesystem was silently corrupted because of a bad cable, or
>because the drive is going bad, or because of a bug in your kernel, or
>any
Alan Shutko wrote:
>Paolo Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>>>blaubaer:~# e2fsck /dev/hdb1
>>>e2fsck 1.25 (20-Sep-2001)
>>>/dev/hdb1 is mounted.
>>>WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause
>>>SEVERE filesystem
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Johannes wrote:
>I have ext3fs on all partitions (except /boot, which is usualy >mounted ro).
>When the maximum mount count is reached, ext3 tells me "EXT3-fs >warning:
I guess your /etc/fstab looks somehow like this
//dev/hdb1ext2defaults,errors=remoun
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>Hi, I want to use a Sawmill scheme I downloaded, but I don't have the right
>version of Sawmill. Does anyone know where I can get version 0.30?
Sawmill is now Sawfish. Sawmill schemes should work in Sawfish.
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xfornavn xetternavn wrote:
>Anyway, after formatting the first partion from fat32 to ntfs, and rebooting
>after the install process hang for 10 minutes, the partion table is corrupted.
>Luckily I have a printout for it, so I know the exact cylinder each partion
>start and end. The hope is tha
ersion (i'm
sure there's printconf and printtool in debian, as i once used
it in debian potato).
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Robert L. Harris wrote:
>If I want to convert a blank disk to ext3, compile the kernel then
>what? Is there a simple how to?
make an ext2 filesystem from that partition by
issuing
mkfs -t ext2 -j -c0 -i0 /dev/your_disk_no
This will also create a journal inode then disable the 180-day forc
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
>OK, with ext3 in 2.4.15, what packages in sid will the adventurous want
>to have installed to deal with the shiny new fs?
An upgraded e2fsprogs. If you're using sid and upgrade it quite so
often, you've got no problem on that department.
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Glen Snyder wrote:
>I've only seen this problem on one computer I use at work, which is
>running potato. If I try to open a pdf with acroread, the text repeats
>itself and then wraps over onto itself, making the document unreadable
>(this is with any pdf file). If I try to advance to another page
Graeme Orton wrote:
>
>Hi i have my hard drive partisioned. One for Linux (debian) and the
>other for windows. I had lilo configured to load windows as default
>and to stop it i pressed 'shift' to boot debian. I recently >installed
>windows-xp professional and lilo load has dissapereard and >i c
David Teague wrote:
>I'm running Enlightenment with Gnome 1.4. Can someone advise me
>further?
Good! Enlightenment is a damn fine WM. Snazzy...
My personal comments - it's fine if you'll use it at home, and when
you've got lots of juice like RAM and processing power. However,
should you falter
RAM and processor speed, as well as the
internet connection. I just like the apps for they look cool and
can be ported almost anywhere where there's a JVM ported to that
architecture.
A nice OOP language which I think can match with java is Python
(when used with Zope -
ity...)
The ported j2sdk1.3 for linux are available for the potato, woody
and sid versions of debian gnu/linux.
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ning kernel.
>
>seems like it might be a syntactical error somewhere. any ideas? any
>help appreciated!
You need to download the updated modules too. Their also at the
VMware website.
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Iiro A K Jantunen wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I tried to install (upgrade) perl on my Debian Potato. What happened,
>was shocking to me.
>
>What was the problem? Why did install start such removing mayhem?
>
>I have used both potato and woody as sources for different packages. I had
>just commented woody out
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>I know it sounds strange, but I have debian 2.2R3 and it works perfect
>with kernel 2.2.19 but not usb, I think that my board is not suported (I
>have an IWILL, with K6, I can´t remenber the model). If I try to use
>kernel 2.4.13 I get the usb working, but I cant use ppp
Thomas, Rick wrote:
>1. I have two hard drives sda1 and sdb1. I have RedHat installed on sda1
>and Debian installed on sdb1. The master boot record on the sdb1(Debian
>disk) was accidently erased. I can still mount the drive but I can no
>longer boot from the sdb1 drive. Is there any way to
Stephen W. Juranich wrote:
>For whatever reason, my printer died. I replaced lpd with lprng. After
>fiddling around with magicfilter and magicfilterconfig --force several times
>and a couple of reboots, the best I can manage is a single piece of paper
>saying:
>
>Unknown device: hpdj
>
>Any
Hello!
I'm currently using lprng with magicfilter (and it works quite well)
in Potato. But it doesn't do well with my Epson LX-300+ printer (using
the epson9 filter - print quality just sucks). Would CUPS be a better
alternative? would CUPS be able to do well with that dot matrix printer?
Another
Hello!
Can anyone recommend a good MPEG video player and where can I download
the package? that is, aside from smpeg from potato? I'm using debian
potato with XFree 3.3.6. I'm specifically looking for an MPEG video
player capable of playing .dat files from a VCD (smpeg doesn't play
the entire .dat
Ian Balchin wrote:
>1. The old machine had a sound card after all. How can I
>configure that without another reinstall?
You'll have to recompile the kernel modules. Since your using potato, I'd
recommend that you do
apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.19pre17
It would prompt you to i
Reza wrote:
>Hi guys..
>I just burned extra unofficial cd for debian potato.
>What should I put in /etc/apt/sources.list so when I
>want to apt-get install it will search deb
>file in the CD?
apt-cdrom add
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Stuart Luscombe wrote:
>Hi all,
>
> Just about got everything working now.
>
>I'm trying to run XMMS. But I can only seem to run
>it as root. When I try to run it as a normal user,
>I get the message:
# chmod 0666 /dev/dsp
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Can XFree86 3.3.6 (the one shipped in Potato) use True Type Fonts in
applications? I'm interested to use some True Type Fonts especially
with my documents I write using StarOffice.
If so, how do I configure such?
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>My question is am I missing anything by cutting out the initrd phase of
>boot?
None at all. Unless you plan to run Linux on your ram disk.
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