Forum: Debian Linux

I've been an idiot, I think. I've been running into all kinds of permission problems (yes, I'm new to this...), both for my fat32 partition and...

Recently I've recompiled kernel from 2.4 to 2.6.13.2, and the sound is gone. When KDE is starting i get message from aRts: "cannot open /dev/dsp (no...

Okay Debian released the Sarge, and thats great. I only seem to have a few problems with it. New install, Desktop/Workstation option, all should be...

I'm a new learner in Debian, and i just installed Linux. But after that, i found i couldn't set LAN, it seemed the system can't find my network...

I use quite a lot of otf fonts in my work, and I'm having problems getting anti-aliasing to work for them. This is particularly pressing in...

How do you make certain modules be loaded on start-up? I recently got the cdfs module, and I hate manually loading it each time I reboot... ...

I have Kubuntu 5.4 installed on my Dell Optiplex box and the nic card becomes disabledever so often. I have reinstalled the distro twice, but it is...

Linux noob here with a dumb question. :D I’m running an Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard with an AMD 64 +3500 processor. I’m not really interested in...

As you can see here, my laptop's sound card is now physically working... but there seem to be some software problems. On rebooting, there is no...

Hi i am a new user of linux I recentlty installed Debian on my system.. I have been getting this weird error message which i dont know how to...

Hello everyone, I downloaded the kernel source and such for a 2.6.8 kernel, but after I've uncompressed it and everything, this is what happens...

See I always was afraid of linux for one reason; if something broke on me I would be helpless. I was doing real good until I started up my system...

UPDATE: Nevermind. I fixed this problem myself. For anyone else running into the same problem with Rhino, add the o option to ~source...

Hey guys, I compiled my kernel and booted into it (w00t), but as expected, my Nvidia drivers didn't work, so I need to get the kernel headers. Also...

My linux partition is on SDB6, My windows partition is on SDA1. I recently installed windows xp again, so i went into rescue mode from the kubuntu...

Ok, I've tried X.org backport for Debian stable. I've used this apt repository: deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/xorg-x11/ sarge main ...

help!!!!!1 while i'm installing there's an error appear on the screen,,,,,,,here's the error,,,,,,,,there are only 77952KB of RAM available in your...

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/09/29/installing_debian.html Nice little walkthrough for those new to Debain.

This is the third program I've had this problem with. I install, no error messages, then when I try to run it, it tells me the file doesn't exist. I...

i need to use a java applet here at work, and i want to install it on linux. the applet REQUIRES netscape 4.7x. the problem is when i try and run...