[newbie] Issues with RAM

I have 1GB of ram, when I try a fresh install of Mandrake, it flashes a message on the screen and then locks up with all the lights on the keybaord flashing.. It works if I take a dimm out of the machine reducing it to 512MB.. System configuration is Epox 4GEA+ Motherboard (Intel 845GE

Re: [newbie] Issues with RAM

It just flashes the message on the screen briefly, the screen goes black and then all he keyboard lights flash. (The machine locks up.) On Saturday 21 Jun 2003 11:50 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 21:00, Tsyko wrote: I have 1GB of ram, when I try a fresh install of Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Issues with RAM

Thanks all. I used a non graphical boot menu and told it not to use a frame-buffer. It now boots fine, I only see 800mb of ram but hell its better than 512mb. Thanks again On Saturday, 21 June 2003 13:20, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 12:00:44 +0100 Tsyko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[newbie] webmin

One very stupid question.. How do I launch webmin?? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Issues with RAM

You right I might not need more than 512MB ram, but remember one Famouse person once said a pc will never need more than 640KB of ram... what happened there? hehehehe On Saturday, 21 June 2003 15:22, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday June 21 2003 06:00 am, Tsyko wrote: I have 1GB

[newbie] hyper threading

can any one tell me how i know if mandrake is using my hyper-threaded machine? Thanks in advance Tsyko LINUX ROCKS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:23:03 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: can any one tell me how i know if mandrake is using my hyper-threaded machine? Ask it politely? I tried but id didn't listen. Maybe I spoke into the wrong port? Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

Only one processor Apparently not Is there a way to make it work? On Saturday, 28 June 2003 11:21, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 00:11, Aron Smith wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 05:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:23:03

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

On Saturday, 28 June 2003 13:38, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 09:51, Tsyko wrote: Only one processor Apparently not Is there a way to make it work? did you not say this was an enterprise kernel? ? post the output from the command mentioned below? On Saturday, 28 June 2003 11

Re: [newbie] removing dual boot option...have a computer with tons of problems

If you boot of the windows cd again go to the dos prompt and type ´fdisk /mbr´ without the quotes and this should take away the lilo partioning... That´s how I have done it in the past. Tsyko On Saturday, 28 June 2003 17:36, Michael wrote: ok, i've got some problems here. my laptop had

[newbie] defragmentation

Ok you can all laugh now... does linux need to be defragmented ? Tsyko Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] problem compiling

when i try to compile a game called kpacman i get the following error checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation! I have no idea what package needs to be updated... please help Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] defragmentation

Another good reason why linux rocks... This is da bomb On Saturday, 28 June 2003 18:50, Paul wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 22:39, Tsyko wrote: Ok you can all laugh now... Okay, if it humors you: laugh laugh ;) does linux need to be defragmented ? Nope. EXT2 etc. take care

[newbie] quicktime

How do i play quicktime mov files? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Hostnames

Does anybody know why when I assign a host name other than localhost to my machine, X gets incredibly slow, there is also some error that flashes up before X starts that says unkown host name? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] desktop icons

Please help!!! My icons for the multiple desktops have dissapeared, the oncly way i can change to the other desktops is with ctrl + f1 and so on, The icons were convenient but i don´t know where they went or how to get them back... Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] desktop icons

yeah baby thats what I want Thanks On Friday, 4 July 2003 20:13, Sharrea wrote: On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 07:54, Tsyko wrote: My icons for the multiple desktops have dissapeared, the oncly way i can change to the other desktops is with ctrl + f1 and so on, The icons were convenient but i

[newbie] fat32

more info on my fat32 problem... here is the lines out of my fstab file i changed the ro to rw and i can now write to these disks but I am nervous of stuffing up the integrety. /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,ro,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d msdos

[newbie] root

Good day how can i set my user up with root privileges? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] radeon 9700

Can anybody tell me why my radeon 9700 pro is so slow with opengl apps in linux? Are there new drivers for XFree4.3.0? Thanks Tsyko Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Radeon 9700

you. Tsyko Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Radeon 9700

Jul 2003 19:23:55 +0100 Tsyko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anybody please help me with this. When you ran fglrxconfig are you sure you selected to use external agpgart support? If you do not have fglrx.0 in /lib/modules/kernel-mdk/kernel/drivers/char/drm/ you probably did not. Also during

Re: [newbie] Radeon 9700

, 6 Jul 2003 21:15:20 +0100 Tsyko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did everything that you suggested... still with the same results. Where must i get fglrx.0? the fglrx.0 file was not there regardless of what agp driver I used. Do you have the kernel-source installed for your version if the kernel

[newbie] agp 3.0

is anybody using the intel 875pe chipset with agpgart? I am having problems with mine... I can´t get my radeon 9700 to work Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] kernel upgrades

I am assuming I need to upgrade my kernel as my radeon 9700 doesn't work with the new intel 875 chipset. X keeps telling me that it can't use AGPGart. What is the easiest way to do this? I am running MDK 9.1. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Kernel compiling problems

Why do I get kernel compiling problems? i.e. Everything goes fine until the make modules part where it gets to a point like isdn, fails and stops compiling? I downloaded the 40mb linux.2.6.test1 file, am I missing some other files or is that a complete file? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] browsing windows machines over a network

I want to browse Win XP machines over a LAN. Is there a way I can see the shares without knowing a username or password. I.e. using the guest account. With windows I can see the share by just double clicking on the pc name and no username and passwords are asked. I use LinNeighberhood but I

[newbie] 3com USB Modem

Hi all can anybody help me to get my USB 3Com TA ISDN adapter to work with Mandrake 9.1 I can communicate with the modem on /dev/usb/acm/0 but I can't get a connection to the net. Any suggestions.. I probably need initialisation strings for the device Thanks Tsyko Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] ALSA

please help. Thanks Tsyko Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ALSA

files, I installed all of them but whenever I try and use ALSA it tells me that there are no sound cards. I have a SB Audigy card. I dug around it the directories and did find a audigy.conf file, But i can't figure out how to tell ALSA to use it. Can anybody please help. Thanks Tsyko What version

[newbie] Changing window managers

I have set KDE to be my default during install. I boot up in init 3 and type startx to load kde. My question is.. How do I change to say Gnome, or any of the other managers ? Thanks -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Time servers

How can i schedule my machine to automatically syncronise with a time server over the internet? The machine looses about an hour a day. And would like it to update every hour. Thanks -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Root is gone!!

Can somebody please help me recreate my root username and group I was working in webmin and was removing some groups. NO i ws not dumb and removed them. It was after I rebooted root didn't work. I logged into webmin and root is nowhere to be found. Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack