RE: [expert] What monitor to use for a DELL Laptop

2000-06-16 Thread Shelby Brumelle
Their response was the the Inspiron 7000 is a Windows machine --- it even says on the case "designed for Microsoft Windows." Nevertheless, Linux really works fine on it, in spite of the difficulty in getting the video to work. You might also find http://www.egroups.com/group/linux-dell-laptops/ useful. Good Luck, Shelby Brumelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [expert] device permission/ownership problem

2000-06-12 Thread Shelby Brumelle
ser. However, the owner of /dev/console, which is associated with is reassigned properly. Can anyone suggest why this is happening or how to get more useful diagnostic information? Thanks, Shelby Brumelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [expert] could not open default font 'fixed' --help

2000-05-27 Thread Shelby Brumelle
my change might have some undesirable side-effect. But it seems to work. Note that the daemon command needs to be fixed in both the "start)" and "restart)" sections. You can check to see if the script will start xfs by changing to its directory as root and executing it. E.

Re: [expert] could not open default font 'fixed' --help

2000-05-26 Thread Shelby Brumelle
giancarlo wrote: > > Hi > > Suddently my XWindowns stopped to work. When I do startx I recive the > follow message: > > -FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed

[expert] initrd problem

2000-04-30 Thread Shelby Brumelle
Hello experts, I'm trying to update my kernel by using kernel-smp-2.2.14-15mdk.i586.rpm which I have installed. I also installed modutils-2.1.121-16mdk.i586.rpm The problem comes when I try to make an initrd to include SCSI support. Here is what I tried first. [root@brumelle pkg]# /sbin