Re: [newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings

The first thing I can suggest is set it to LBA and leave it there, Linux doesn't like Normal or large. Leave UDMA active, although if it is UDMA 66 (I have no idea what UDMA 2 is, I've only seen UDMA 33 and UDMA 66), you may have to go back through the mailing list archives to get some more info,

[newbie] Umount

It wont unmount a drive at shutdown I have Mandrake 6.1 Kernel 2.2.13-22mdkI have a command to auto mount a drive to a win boxit is in the rc.local file and it is a basic smbmount commandIt used to unmount with no problem when I shutdown using the ctl+alt+delNow it hangs and doesn't

[newbie] Unmount

It wont unmount a drive at shutdown I have Mandrake 6.1 Kernel 2.2.13-22mdkI have a command to auto mount a drive to a win boxit is in the rc.local file and it is a basic smbmount commandIt used to unmount with no problem when I shutdown using the ctl+alt+delNow it hangs and

Re: [newbie] HD sizes and such

Full install is approximately 1.3GB. You can use custom install and make it something less than that figure. HTH, Matt From: Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] HD sizes and such Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:05:07 -0800 Howdy all. Just

Re: [newbie] Re: Compiling Kernel Black Box

Blackbox is a gui interface just like KDE and gnome. The exception is that Blackbox is not weighted down with abunch of uneccesarry code. This make it a lean, mean, fast GUI. I run it with kde enabled so that I can run some of the important KDE stuff alongside it. Check out their Web Page at:

Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?

Try Netscape. -Original Message- From: Chip Rose. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader? I've been using Free Agent as my NG reader in window$ for as long as I have been online.

Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.

More than enough. Maybe you should increase the RAM size, but i suppose Mandrake 6.1 works on that configuration Pablo Monti Buenos Aires, Argentina - Original Message - From: Johan Hesselbäck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 11:41 AM Subject:

Re: [newbie] X problems

What's your video card ? Pablo Monti Buenos Aires, Argentina - Original Message - From: Anderson A. eMiranda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 12:17 PM Subject: [newbie] X problems I try config X with generic VGA, with generic

[newbie] MPG video files - Playing them in Linux

Dear Seve: Aktion is great for Quicktime 2.1 and Avi files but handles mpeg-1 video files very poorly. You need to get MpegTV (known as MTV for short) for Linux from: http://www.mpegtv.com Two points: 1) It is NOT free. It is shareware and costs $10. It will stop working at 30 seconds if you

[newbie] Downgrading Apache 1.3 to Apache 1.2

Since I apparently took it in the shorts when I decided to blindly upgrade to 6.1, I would like to know if it is possible to revert back to Apache 1.2 since 1.3 makes all kinds of blanket changes that are vaguely mentioned in the docs. Can it be done? Thanks, Bryan

Re: [newbie] Unable to telnet into Mandrake box

Works like a charm !! thank you so much for the help. Next, updating Netscape.. jason On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, you wrote: My hosts file is fine. I did remove the search servername line in the resolv.conf and that fixed the ping problem. I still can't telnet in. Does the standard install

Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem

Steve Philp wrote: Robert Benson wrote: Hi My US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem runs at 49000 in windows 95, but only 37333 in Linux. What am I missing here. Is their a setting I missed. Thanks for any help. Most modems will automatically retrain to their highest transfer speeds

Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.

Is Gnome (for give spelling if incorrect), less of a memory hog than KDE? George --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If u want to run Mandrake at least alloccate 1.2 Gb of disk space for custom, server, workstation and select the option install everything. Clyde At 08:05 PM 11/14/99

Re: [newbie] Playing MPG video files - Why so choppy and slow?

I find mpeg-tv works better for playing MPG's than aKtion. mpeg-tv plays them alot smoother. On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: My mpg files are playing really slow and choppy on the 'aKtion' player. It plays fine in windows. Is it because the Linux platform isn't fully developed

Re: [newbie] HD sizes and such

On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: Howdy all. Just joined this list, and should be installing Mandrake next week, if all goes well. I am wondering if someone could tell me how much HD space i should partition for it? I have 1.7 gigs left on my drive. Winblows and stuff takes the rest up. Would

Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem

On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi My US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem runs at 49000 in windows 95, but only 37333 in Linux. What am I missing here. Is their a setting I missed. Thanks for any help. AFAIK, Windows isn't giving you the whole truth. Linux is reporting the "nominal" connect rate.

Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.

From: Ronald A. Yacketta from what I have seen and looked at yes, GNOME uses much less mem want to use even less mem?? check out blackbox... "George W." [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/15/99 11:15:23 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A.

Re: [newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know what the particuliars are if any for hard drives and linux... I have purchased a new motherboard and have a 4.2gb Ultra DMA 2 Maxtor hard drive spec 8184cyl 16hd 63sec. I have set it up using Large, LBA, and Normal bios settings. I have

Re: [newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: The first thing I can suggest is set it to LBA and leave it there, Linux doesn't like Normal or large. Leave UDMA active, although if it is UDMA 66 (I have no idea what UDMA 2 is, I've only seen UDMA 33 and UDMA 66), you may have to go back through the mailing

Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.

I have P160, 16MB RAM, 1G HD, with Mandrake 6.1 installed on it... Works fine... XServer loads a bit slow, but still better than I thought it would be. Peter --- Pablo Monti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More than enough. Maybe you should increase the RAM size, but i suppose Mandrake 6.1 works

Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: John, I am currently using KDE and am rather pleased with the results. Admittedly I am still trying to get used to linux but so far I'm happy. Yes I use Netscape but with my ISDN line I don't really notice much in the way of delay, come to think of it

Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: Is Gnome (for give spelling if incorrect), less of a memory hog than KDE? Not really. It's still very much a "pretty" GUI. For a less memory-intensive GUI, try FVWM or something like that. John

Re: [newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings

Since these are rpm files do i have to recomplile kernel after running the patches or make any changes to my lilo in order for it to work On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know what the particuliars are if any for hard drives and linux... I have purchased a new motherboard

[newbie] No bounces???

HeyI think we may have finally solved the bouncing problem. :-) I got tired of the bouncing emails and sent a message to Mindspring's support. THEY claimed it was on the list's mail server, but since receiving the note from Mindspring (AND having posted a couple messages) I haven't seen any

Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.

Try Blackbox at : blackbox.alug.org This is the fastest most dependable GUI out there. SA -Original Message- From: George W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, November 15, 1999 11:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question. Is Gnome (for

[newbie] Installing on omnibook- mouseconfig hangs

I have recently tried to install mandrake 6.1 on my omnibook 2000ct. Everything went smoothly until I reached the point where it probs for a mouse after installing the packages. The response was: Probing found some type of PS/2 mouse on port psaux. The computer then fails to respond and I am

Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem

The default settings for kppp use ATZ for resetting your modem. Try changing it to ATZ4 and make sure the other setting is for hardware flow control, not software control. From: "Robert Benson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] US Robotics

Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem

The default reset is ATZ. ATZ and ATZ0 are exactly the same command. ATZ4 is the appropriate reset for hardware flow control. From: Paul Benjamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999

Re: [newbie] Netscape mail problem

Hey Joe, Joe Marcom wrote: Good day, all; (this is a repeat...my mail returned the first one) I am trying to transition from windos$ to Linux, but having mail problems. When I open Netscape Messenger to get my mail, Messenger asks for my password, then immediately closes and returns to

Re: [newbie] Xman

Hi Steve Hi Joseph, Steve Philp wrote: "Joseph G. Getty" wrote: I'm having a small prob with Xman. I'm running Linux-Mandrake 6.1. Every time I use Xman to open a man page they come up in an encrypted like text. Is this a bug in LM 6.1 or what? Should I reinstall Xman?(wich I cannot

[newbie] NIC speed configuration

Hi, I'm Gary. I was wondering if you can answer the following question for me: Is there a way in Linux to force a capable network interface card (NIC) to run at a certain speed? For example, if I have a NIC that can run at either 10 or 100Mbps, can I configure it so that it runs at the speed I

Re: [newbie] Font trouble

I have a similar problem. I downloaded a seven meg file from rpmfind.net, but it appears to be the wrong file. As I am a dummy, can someone let me know what I'm looking for? - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999

[newbie] digital card

Hi All! Anybody has got any idea about how to install a digitalizing card It is very important. Please help me asap. FG

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Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.

Hi John Aldrich ! On 11/14/99 8:05:30 PM, you wrote: Everything but the RAM is sufficient. 32 mb RAM is BARELY sufficient. I'd double that, especially if you plan on running KDE as your window manager. That's a real memory hog and it's the default window manager in Mandrake. I'd say that to

[newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings

I have installed the new Mandrake 6.1 the kernel is 2.2.13. The problem only occurs with this new motherboard. I have a old p90 that was the orginal system and it didn't have support of UDMA. So it recognized the HD as PIO4. When i start it up it does not hang and when it shuts down it

[newbie] modem install

I bought US Robotics 56K PCI modem... How can I configure it under Mandrake Linux 6.1 Is there a utility that I can use??? = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

Re: [newbie] make xconfig error

Hey I get that too! I thiink it has something to do with ncurses?? Are you running Mandrake 6.1 ? J On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: I want to recompile my kernel with support for my SoundBlaster CD-ROM, but when I run "make xconfig" I get the following error: rm -f include/asm ( cd

[newbie] EXT2 vs. FAT32 - - Is EXT2 faster to read/write while running Linux?

I heard some where that it was more work for linux to read/write to a FAT32 partition than it was to read/write to EXT2 partitions. Is there some truth to it? Also, is it faster for the system to not have any FAT32 partitions on the drive? Seve

Re: [newbie] Netscape mail problem

Yes, I can browse the web; as for the mail settings, I used the same ones that work in window$ (except for having to deal with an error message, "Netscape is unable to use the mail server because you have not provided a username". The current problem surfaced as soon as I got past this.

Re: [newbie] K Destop

Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello All, Every now and then the icons in the panel cease to work - I click on them, they appear to work but nothing happens. I have to restart X to get them to work again. Anyone any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks. Did you happen to dialup the Internet

Re: [newbie] No bounces???

John Aldrich wrote: HeyI think we may have finally solved the bouncing problem. :-) I got tired of the bouncing emails and sent a message to Mindspring's support. THEY claimed it was on the list's mail server, but since receiving the note from Mindspring (AND having posted a couple

Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem

Thanks all who answered. 1. I tried ATZ0 in the Initialization string field in kppp and no change. 2. I tried ATZ4 in the Initialization string field in kppp and no change. 3. I tried "setserial /dev/ttyS1 spd_vhi" and this worked.

Re: [newbie] modem install

Check the supported hardware on linux-mandrake, but 99% of PCI modems are winmodems. - Original Message - From: Peter Sadowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 9:17 PM Subject: [newbie] modem install I bought US Robotics 56K PCI modem... How can

Re: [newbie] No bounces???

Steve Philp wrote: John Aldrich wrote: HeyI think we may have finally solved the bouncing problem. :-) I got tired of the bouncing emails and sent a message to Mindspring's support. THEY claimed it was on the list's mail server, but since receiving the note from Mindspring (AND

Re: [newbie] make xconfig error

Jeremy wrote: Hey I get that too! I thiink it has something to do with ncurses?? Are you running Mandrake 6.1 ? J On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: I want to recompile my kernel with support for my SoundBlaster CD-ROM, but when I run "make xconfig" I get the following error: rm

Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem

Robert Benson wrote: Thanks all who answered. 1. I tried ATZ0 in the Initialization string field in kppp and no change. 2. I tried ATZ4 in the Initialization string field in kppp and no change. 3. I tried "setserial /dev/ttyS1 spd_vhi" and

RE: [newbie] modem install

WinModem !Work Sorry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter Sadowski Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 11:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] modem install I bought US Robotics 56K PCI modem... How can I configure it

[newbie] You all might be interested in this article

http://www.pcworld.com/heres_how/article/0,1400,13702,00.html

[newbie] Services

Hi there. I recently recompiled my kernel. I now get the following message when I boot: "Starting amd: amd forgot to set AF_INET in udp sendmsg. Fix it!" What does this mean? Also, how do I fix it? Any suggestions? Thanks, Chris.

RE: [newbie] modem install

Confirmed WinModem -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lyndon Lininger Sr. Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 11:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] modem install Check the supported hardware on linux-mandrake, but 99%

[newbie] KDE Backup scheduler

Hi all, According to Linuxberg and KDE, there should be a KDE backup scheduler to be used with Kdat somewhere in the KDEAdmin package. The thing is: I can't find it. Anyone have a clue? Patrick

[newbie] Corel LINUX Out - Off Topic

Kinda of Off Topic Here - but Corel LINUX is out today. The Corel FM extension on KDE looks nice. Anyway, Just an Observation