Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-23 Thread James Conner
Well, I found it on my MDK9.0 system. Yes, it's in a gui. Mandrake makes it a hidden part of the KDE Control Center. It's called kxconfig. If you type: kdesu -c kxconfig and supply your root password it will show up. Please backup /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 before you do this so you have a way

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 5:11 am, James Conner wrote: Well, I found it on my MDK9.0 system. Yes, it's in a gui. Mandrake makes it a hidden part of the KDE Control Center. It's called kxconfig. If you type: kdesu -c kxconfig and supply your root password it will show up. Please backup

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-23 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Jim, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 1:11:54 PM, you wrote: JC Well, I found it on my MDK9.0 system. Yes, it's in a gui. Mandrake makes it JC a hidden part of the KDE Control Center. It's called kxconfig. If you type: JC kdesu -c kxconfig JC and supply your root password it will show up.

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 12:55 pm, Lance Cummings wrote: Hi Derek, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 7:49:58 PM, you wrote: DJ Hmm that module is not even included in 9.1 Must be why it wouldn't load for me. :) DJ The 'monitor' GUI in Mandrake Control PanelHardware allows you DJ to select a

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-23 Thread Heather/Femme
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 04:11:54 + James Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I found it on my MDK9.0 system. Yes, it's in a gui. Mandrake makes it a hidden part of the KDE Control Center. It's called kxconfig. If you type: kdesu -c kxconfig and supply your root password it will show up.

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-23 Thread Heather/Femme
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:56:18 +0900 Lance Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jim, OH SNIP! Well I went flying over there to see if this was the solution, but I didn't have much luck. Typed the command in an xterm window, and a GUI dialog comes up asking me for root's password. But after

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 22 Sep 2003 4:29 am, Lance Cummings wrote: That's pretty close to what I ended up doing. Thanks for the advice. The only change I made was to add /var (about 3 gigs) at the end. My reading of the docs seems to suggest that a lot of log activity ends up there, and some chronic

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Derek, Hope the reply-to is set correctly now. Let me know. Monday, September 22, 2003, 5:22:59 PM, you wrote: DJ Mandrake will run a nightly job to compress and rotate your log DJ files, so overflowing the logs will not happen. It also does a DJ lot of other housekeeping at the same time.

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 22 Sep 2003 2:28 pm, Lance Cummings wrote: SNIP I do know this: What I'm getting right now at 1024x768 @ 24 bits in Linux is eating my eyes up, and there is absolutely no earthly reason for that to be happening. The monitor and card can do 100 Hz @ 32 bits @ 1024x768. This would

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 09:49, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 22, 2003 07:28 am, Lance Cummings wrote: [...] Hi Derek, Hope the reply-to is set correctly now. Let me know. It is. Overnight I have Windows running a lot of jobs, so I

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:04:26 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Now That was vintage joe hill Rah! Glad to see I'm so revered... :-\ I have to say, there've been some tense moments on the list lately, culminating in my, er, well, whatchamacallit. Is it this Mercury in retrograde

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 22, 2003 10:04 am, Aron Smith wrote: [..] On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 09:49, Charlie M. wrote: ** Now That was vintage joe hill Rah! j/k But it wasn't done by Joe Hill Aron. It was me. g I signed it. I don't know

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 22 Sep 2003 5:04 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Now That was vintage joe hill Rah! Aron, that was a 245 line email, for that one line. Could I respectfully point you at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:09:22 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Aron, that was a 245 line email, for that one line. Could I respectfully point you at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Did you put anything on there about telling someone to take

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 22 Sep 2003 7:23 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:09:22 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Aron, that was a 245 line email, for that one line. Could I respectfully point you at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiqu ette Did

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 11:09, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 22 Sep 2003 5:04 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Now That was vintage joe hill Rah! Aron, that was a 245 line email, for that one line. Could I respectfully point you at

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 11:23, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:09:22 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Aron, that was a 245 line email, for that one line. Could I respectfully point you at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Did

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:36, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 22, 2003 10:04 am, Aron Smith wrote: [..] On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 09:49, Charlie M. wrote: ** Now That was vintage joe hill Rah! j/k But it wasn't done

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 22, 2003 03:55 pm, Aron Smith wrote: [...] j/k But it wasn't done by Joe Hill Aron. It was me. g I signed it. I don't know if you're trying to cheer the sentiments apparent in the diatribe I unleashed on Lance or insult B. (aka

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Heather/Femme
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:17:04 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chops down an Oak Hey calm down Lance. I was not saying you cannot control refresh rate in Linux. Merely that it is not as simple as just selecting a drop down box like in Windows. To get 32bit 1024x 768 resolution all

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 21 September 2003 11:29 pm, Lance Cummings wrote: Last question for now: I set up the box to use KDE and Kmail. I did not give Kmail my account information yet, because for the time being I want to keep my e-mail database on Windows intact. That means I want to download, but not

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1) [Off list]

2003-09-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 22 September 2003 08:51 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:22:17 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 08:25 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:17:04 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chops down an

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Aron Smith wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 11:09, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 22 Sep 2003 5:04 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Now That was vintage joe hill Rah! Aron, that was a 245 line email, for that one line. Could I respectfully point you at

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 22, 2003 06:53 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Just as long as its someone. it was Masterfuly done. Thanks Aron. I wish such things didn't feel necessary occasionally. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Paul, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 9:25:42 AM, you wrote: HF On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:17:04 +0100 Derek Jennings HF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HF chops down an Oak Hey calm down Lance. I was not saying you cannot control refresh rate in Linux. Merely that it is not as simple as just selecting a

[newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-21 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Björn all, Sunday, September 21, 2003, 11:36:31 PM, you wrote: BL I'd proberbly set it up something like BL / ~ 4-6 GB BL /swap ~ 150 - 200 Mb (You've got lot's of RAM) BL /usr ~ 10 Gb BL /home ~ The rest ( ~ 20 Gb) That's pretty close to what I ended up doing. Thanks for the advice. The