On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Serge Gavrilov wrote:
You need to install the Enlightened Sound Daemon (esound). Then, in your
.xinitrc, you need to run it before gnome-session, as in:
WM of your choice
esd
gnome-session
If you wish for other apps to use the sound as well, use esd -as 2
instead.
I have Bleeding Edge 2.0.34 installed, and I wish to use taper to back up.
But when I tried, I received a message saying Operation not supported by
device. I tried cat /dev/ftape and received the same message. Any
ideas?
- thanks, Bill
I cannot figure out how to get rid of that blasted Enlightenment
pager. I read a FAQ that said to try the following:
eesh -e pager off
but this didn't work - I just got an error. The documentation doesn't
mention it anywhere it all (wonderful!). I saw a similar message in
the mailing list
Is there any way that I can reduce the amount of memory used by Enlightenment?
Currently,with GNOME on top of it, it occupies about 95% of my memory wny
programs loaded up. Any tips on making it use memory more efficiently would be
appreciated.
- Bill
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Pollywog wrote:
It is my belief that I am better off installing Qt and KDE from source,
because some newer apps won't run from the deb installations. Still, if I try
to install a deb package for Debian, the package usually complains that it
does not find debian packages
Just downloaded the new GNOME from the slink staging area ... but when I
try to run it, all I get is the following error:
GImLib ERROR: Cannot find file : /etc/im/im_palette.pal
gdk_imlib : Cannot find Palette. A Palette file is required for this mode
What is the problem? Is there a package I
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Ossama Othman wrote:
Okay ... but my ~/.imrc file is nonexistent. How do I edit it properly?
- thanks again, Bill
You don't need a new package. The palette file was moved to
`/etc/imlib/im_pallete.pal'. Check that your `~/.imrc' file reflects
the new location.
One
I have QT 1.42 installed from the source tarball. Unfortunately, my KDE
installation was in the form of Debian packages, and now I get
kde-whatever depends on qt-142 errors from dselect and apt-get. How can
I convince my system that QT is installed? Is there a file I can edit?
- thanks, Bill
A couple of questions.
1) I have not yet recompiled my Debian kernel. (no lectures, please ...)
Is PPP built into the default kernel?
2) I am having problems getting chat to speak to my modem. It simply isn't
recognizing it. Is there some configuration I must perform before chat
will work? Any
On Sat, 8 May 1999, Lawrence Wickline wrote:
What happened? Did you get an error message, and if so, what was it? I had
to change the shell script that loaded it up a bit when I installed it -
had to add classes.zip in my JDK diretory to the class library
parameter.
- bill
THe Java Portion Of
On 8 May 1999, Peter Makholm wrote:
3) Why does debian say 'only the root can do that' when I type the line
below:
$ mount /dev/fd0 (or any other floppy drive)
I can't cd /dev/fd0 nor can I figure out how to access it.
Because only root may mount devices as default.
Edit you
On Sat, 8 May 1999, [iso-8859-1] André Bell wrote:
Ctrl-Z isn't really a pause feature, actually. What it does is suspend a
process. You can use the more command in bash, too:
cat filename | more(replace filename with file)
man subject | more (replace subject with manual page)
However,
Yes, I'm clueless about linux basics. I'm three days into my installation
of linux and have never seen it nor any unix operating system before now.
I've been using pc's since they came out (70's onward). The funny thing is,
I'm a pc tech support person working for a multi-billion fortune 200
Is there any way I can get a newer version of GNOME than the 1.0.3 in the
slink staging area without upgrading to potato? Do the newer GNOME
packages really use glibc2.1?
And if so, is there any chance that it will ever be in a deb?
Also, is there any way I can reduce the amount of memory used
When I installed the gtk 1.2 packages from the GNOME slink staging area,
I got the following message:
cannot open libgmodule.so: No such file or directory
and likewise for libgtop and libgthread. These are symlinks which point
to nonexistent libraries. There are new versions of the libraries
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Tommy Malloy wrote:
I agree with this one. Now and then I will install a package in which none
of the binaries have the same name as the package, and there is no manpage
available, so I have to hunt for the application's _name_. It makes one
feel very silly, and can be quite
At times I find myself wishing for a root login in X without using a
terminal, such as when run wine on my mounted DOS partition, or edit the
KDE menus. Does anyone know of a good sudo/su type program with an
X/KDE/GNOME interface? (I switch to GNOME now and then ...)
- thanks, Bill
On Sat, 1 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would hope that :
1) the proper complaints are made - is someone reading the headers
and complaining to the right people?
2) the advertising policy is enforced. It'd be difficult, but it
might scare the bilker scum into leaving us alone.
-
I get the following error when I attempt to run kmedia in KDE:
libkfile.so.2:undefined symbol: __pure_virtual
According to the kde-user list archives, this is the fault of the Debian
package, which apparently does not support any version of Qt other than
that in the 1.42-1 .deb package.(I have
Ack! I lost Wine 990328 trying to upgrade to the latest version, which,
unfortunately requires glibc2.1. Is there anywhere I can the previous one
as a Debian package?
- Bill
Two problems:
1) When installing qt1g, I get the following message:
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libglib.so (No such file or
directory), skipping
and it is then repeated for libgthread.so, libgmodule.so, libgdk.so, and
libgtk.so. Is this something that ought be fixed?
2) Sometimes
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, William R Pentney wrote:
Ah, wait a minute - I found the source of problem (1). libglib.so is a
symbolic link to libglib.so.0.0.1, which does not exist. Similar
situation for the others. I do have a libglib.a, however. How did this
happen? How might I fix it?
- Bill
Two
Okay, much worse problem now. man doesn't work, period.
Ask it man anything, and it will say No manual entry for anything.
What do I do?
- thanks, Bill
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote:
It's quite possible that this happened. I removed and installed the
staging-area GNOME a couple of times.
Hmmm ... I have a libglib.so.0.0.0. Do you think linking it to that might
work?
- Bill
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, William R Pentney wrote:
On Sat
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Me gustaría obtener ayuda sobre:
¿Cómo puedo instalar una red con linux?
Lo necesito urgentemente
Gracias
[basically: How do I install a network with Linux?]
Sugero balsa. Es un colleccion de programas que usa el protocolo SMB.
Sugero que se
Is there any program that can create compressed self-extracting
executables a la PKLite in Linux? Anyone know of any? Just curious.
- thanks, Bill
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Robert Rati wrote:
Has anyone gotten Star Office 5.0 to install on Debian 2.1? Everytime I
try to ru nthe setup program, An error message pops up about the window
manager not setting the window size and it defaults to the default size,
then the windows start to come up
3) I tried to create some scripts, very simple ones, but they refuse to
run, or the system says command not found. Example:
#! /bin/bash
#
echo The time and date is..
date
Saved as telltime, then mode changed with chmod -v u+x telltime. With cat
I can still see the contents of the file
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Carl Fink wrote:
You don't see that as a terrible indictment of dselect? What kind of
installation system makes you select your options in *increments*?
Especially when, without apt, it makes you sit around for twenty
minutes on each cycle while pointlessly listing
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, John Foster wrote:
Michael Beattie wrote:
Sorry, stupid question, I just decided to change to a PS/2 mouse, but I
dont have the faintest about how to set it up. kernel recompile?
---
YEP! probably a good time to
I have tried recompiling a 2.2 kernel, and now I have two problems:
1) The new kernel isn't recognizing my network card. I used the PCI
NE2000 option; it worked before on a 2.0.34 kernel I compiled on a
floppy. Might I be missing an important option?
2) I still can't use sound. I have a
On 15 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote:
William R Pentney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have tried recompiling a 2.2 kernel, and now I have two problems:
1) The new kernel isn't recognizing my network card. I used the PCI
NE2000 option; it worked before on a 2.0.34 kernel I compiled
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, David Nelson wrote:
At one point it complains it doesn't find libm.so.5. This doesn't appear
to be installed, it doesn't apparently form part of the debian
distribution (no entry for it in the dselect packages list), and
WordPerfect says nothing about some extra needed
When I run man on certain topics, it will now just twiddle its thumbs
until I Ctrl-C it, at which point it says can't remove /tmp/name of a
temp file: No such file or directory. Anything I can do about this?
- Bill
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, William R Pentney wrote:
Never mind, it's working - it just took a long time.
I feel sufficiently stupid now. :-)
When I run man on certain topics, it will now just twiddle its thumbs
until I Ctrl-C it, at which point it says can't remove /tmp/name of a
temp file
I have not compiled my kernel yet, but I want to, and I want to see how it
is currently configured. Is there any easy way to do this?
Furthermore, do I really need to? I just want to add SoundBlaster support.
Instead of upgrading the kernel, could I not just get the source for the
current version
This is odd. I used Cheapbytes' Debian 2.0 CD to install Linux (later
upgraded to slink via FTP) and everything worked quite smoothly. I
recommended them to a few friends. Have a lot of you out there had bad
experiences with them?
- Bill
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Assad Khan wrote:
I got Debian 2.1
I'm currently compiling the 2.2 kernel for my slink system (it's
relatively stable, right?), and I used make bzImage to create it. The
README says to copy zImage to the current kernel image, but should I copy
bzImage instead? (I just want to be sure before I do it ... the
documentation's a little
I have changed my root password, and su takes notice, but
sudo still uses the old password. How can I change the sudo
root password? Do I edit etc/sudoers?
- Bill
Where can I find the latest copy of the user's guide in a Debian package?
I installed from
http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink, but I am
still missing the user's guide.
- thanks, Bill
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, John Stevenson wrote:
my Dell Laptop (Pentium II 233, 80Mb, 64MB Swap).
snip
SOLVED PROBLEM: I managed to change back the permissions on the
/tmp directory and surprisingly enough things start to work
agian, Nice. I do wonder what screwed /tmp up in the first
place
My GNOME 1.0 runs all right, except that it takes an unusually long time
to load, and the Control Center/Midnight Commander panels are slow to
load. I thought little of this, until I noticed several recurring lines on
my xconsole, including:
Priority 50: Registering ID = ...
Unable to connect to
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
What's the best window manager to use to? I installed enlightment
(never used this before either!) and all I get from it is a bar up the
top. No default configuration? Strange.
Personally, I prefer icewm-gnome. YMMV, however. Enlightenment is nice
So, does anyone know if and where I could find GNOME 1.0 as a Debian
package, by any chance? I could recompile the source, but I already have
0.30 installed and would rather upgrade it the correct way if
indeed possible.
- Bill
I feel your pain. I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to get StarOffice to
work on my machine with an S3 card, with no success. It doesn't just crash
when I read mail; usually if I have it on for about five minutes, it will
freeze and won't boot up again. (It also then causes problems when I try
A (hopefully) small problem ...
When I run WordPerfect 8 it says Can't load file libXt.so.6 and quits.
Problem is, I have this file. It's part of libc5, no? The libc5 data is in
usr/X11R6/lib and WP8 is in ~/WP8/bin. Any suggestions?
Thanks again - Bill
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
As an example of how much control over websites the evil empire actually
has: http://www.userfriendly.org/ has bit the dust, leading to a new
gray ribbon campaign http://perl2000.com/Webmaster/Support/.
Unless the whole thing is related to the date
On 31 Mar 1999, Bud Rogers wrote:
Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2. (The simplest) Define a variable in your start-up files eg. .tcshrc of
.bashrc.
setenv SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50 true
or
export SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true
and everything will be fine. How do I
This problem should probably be directed at StarDivision, only they don't
seem to have a tech support e-mail on their site. Perhaps someone else
knows what's going on. I have Debian 2.0 and every time I install
StarOffice 5.0, it runs fine until I have browsed the Web for a few
minutes, at which
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Shawn Nguyen wrote:
Good - it's not just me! I have a P5 133 w/80 MB RAM and it does the same
thing. I can use it as root just fine, but when I try to use it as anyone
else it works fine, but then hangs and then when I boot it up again it
either (1) does nothing at all, or
Thanks to those who answered my question about MS-DOS partitions. My
question now is this: I can split my MS-DOS partition a second time to get
Debian some more space. What would be the best way to add this partition?
Should I just have it mount it on bootup?
- thanks, Bill
(I'm new to this mailing list, so if I am sending this message to the
wrong place, please accept my apologies.)
I have installed Debian 2.0 alongisde Windows 95 by splitting the Windows
partition, and it was relatively headache free (phew!). I didn't leave as
much room on the Linux partition as
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