XF86Setup

2000-10-25 Thread Paul T. McNally
With my current settings XF86Setup gives me only 2 options to choose from in ModeSelection. I even went as far as editing the X86Config file and when I ran XF86Setup again it only gave me the 2 options and removed the 2 I added in the config file. I'm not much of an XF86Config expert and I'm

Re: XF86Setup

2000-10-25 Thread Paul T. McNally
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: paul, this won't be of much help, but here it is. get *ANY* mode under the resolution you want, say, 1024x768. that's 90% of the battle. then use xvidtune to tune the screen. you'll recognize which modeline in xf86config from the output of xvidtune. just look

Re: pppd dies immediately in kppp

2000-09-15 Thread Paul T. McNally
Glyn Millington wrote: On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 03:08:48PM +, thus spake Thomas Halahan: I cannot get kppp to work. After the handshake with my ISP, I can see it connect, but the pppd daemon dies immediately. I can connect with the 'pon' command. I get the following error with

It Must be the Matrox G400

2000-09-10 Thread Paul T. McNally
I did a reinstall. The first time I installed potato, the mouse was all fd up, it sticks to the bottom of the screen and refuses to com up. I can see the tip of the pointer on the bottom edge of the screen. When that happened, I ran XF86Setup and changed a couple settings on the mouse and I think

Re: It Must be the Matrox G400

2000-09-10 Thread Paul T. McNally
on 9/10/00 4:03 PM, Philipp Schulte at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One possible solution is to find somebody with the same mouse and ask him hor his config. You could just copy the pointer section. I could reinstall Redhat and look at it's config looks.. and then, well that would be time

Wingman Mouse

2000-09-09 Thread Paul T. McNally
I have a Logitech Wingman gaming mouse that I can't figure out how to get the 3rd or middle button to work. When I ran redhat, it got probed and configured automatically so I don't know what made it work. I've tried the emulate 3rd button in the XF86Setup and that did not work. Paul

Re: Another Poll (Update)

2000-09-08 Thread Paul T. McNally
on 9/7/00 11:45 AM, Brooks R. Robinson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, There is yet another Linux version poll at www.justlinux.com! Debian is sitting at 7%! Vote early and Vote often! I just voted. Debian is kicking ass at 33% followed by Slackware (my first encounter with Linux

Re: ssh from nt?

2000-09-02 Thread Paul T. McNally
on 9/2/00 3:06 PM, William Jensen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, At work we run NT but I like to access my home pc. We use a package called KEA as our main telnet/term package. Does anyone have any experience getting KEA to use any sort of ssh? Alternatively, does anyone know of

Matrox G400

2000-08-27 Thread Paul T. McNally
I'm replacing my RedHat system with Potato and want to know what is the best XServer to run with my Matrox G400. Paul

Realtek 8129/8139 support

2000-08-27 Thread Paul T. McNally
I'm running make xconfig on kernel source 2.2.17 and the line in the subject line is an option in Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit section). I need this for my ethernet cards but I can't figure out how to get the option to bold (ungrey). Maybe I can't. I was able to get this to work using source 2.3.xx

Realtek 8129/8139 support

2000-08-27 Thread Paul T. McNally
I have a clue: RealTek 8129/8139 Status: Semi-Supported, Driver Name: rtl8139 Another PCI single chip ethernet solution from RealTek. A driver for cards based upon this chip was included in the v2.0.34 release of linux. You currently have to answer `Y' when asked if you want experimental

Realtek 8129/8139 support (Solved)

2000-08-27 Thread Paul T. McNally
I found the experimental driver option in the very first topic: Code Maturity Level Options. I said yes there and my greyed out realtek option was ungreyed. Hooray. Now all I have to do is compile and install the kernel and I'll have passed the last test (connecting to the web and getting my

Re: Brand_Spankin_Newbie

2000-08-26 Thread Paul T. McNally
http://www.datasurge.net/Books/ I had better luck getting the site with a lower case b in books in the URL: http://www.datasurge.net/books/ For me, joining a local linux user group has helped tremendously. If you have successfully installed Potato, you have already learned a chunk, and can

Am I the Only One Waiting??

1996-09-24 Thread Paul T. McNally
Hello I've been dying to read this list in the archive version for the month of July. I know it is probably huge and I can wait, I just wanted to know about when it will be accessible via www.debian.org! I was trying to keep up with the list back then, but I was working for complete