[newbie] Odd GUI problem
I used to use KDE. Due to a problem, which I attributed to KDE but later found out that it occurred because of a malfunctioning mouse, I switched to Gnome for a while. Now, that I found out about the malfunctioning and replaced it, I have switched back to KDE again. Oddly enough, I get the gnome setup program instead of the KDE one and if I force the KDE control cnter to start and take away the background wallpaper, I get the gnome default background. I guess that there is a set of variables controlling this behaviour, but which are these variables that allow Gnome to take over in spite of my exlpicit choise of KDE? I'm not the victim of a subtle conspiracy, I hope -:) I like KDE as I have grown accustomed to it. /Serafim
Re: [newbie] LaCie USB HArd Drive on a Dell Inspiron 7000
civileme wrote: Umm it may not work at all under linux. Does it have a special windows driver? In MS windows98 it needs one and, funny enough, in W2k on the laptop while W2k on the desktop PC mounts it without the need of a special driver. The way to set it up for mounting is to a) use the linux instruction mknod to set up a device if one is not already set up. b) enter the information about the drive, mount point(s), filesystem used, mount options, and 0 0 in one or more lines of /etc/fstab Your friends are the console comands man mknod man fstab man mount I'll certainly try it. I have tried everything but the mknod command. Maybe that's what's missing. But, at this early stage of USB standards and USB support, all of your work, no matter how correctly done, may come to naught. First contact the drive folks at website or by email or phone and ask if it does work under linux. I found a letter on the linux-usb site from someone who succeeded with exactly the values that are found in the /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/storage/unusual-devs.h /Serafim
[newbie] LaCie USB Hard Disk
Did someone make a LaCie USB Hard Drive (20GB) run on any machine with Mandrake 8.0 on it? If so .. HOW? /Serafim
[newbie] STUDIO-U-HD-705475 from LaCie on a Dell Inspiron
I cannot make LM8.0 find and mount a LaCie 20GB USB hard drive on a Dell Inspiron. I wrote to LaCie and there answer is the standard crap from PC/Mac dedicated companies: No tests have been made on Linux with these disks Officially supported operationg systems are the following: - Windows 98 - Windows ME - Windows 2000 - MacOS We have no drivers written for Linux and don't know of any nor if the builtin drivers will do. Brief and to the point - we don't give shit about it would have been shorter though. Did someone make this disk run properly under any Linux distribution and if so - how? /Serafim
Re: [newbie] STUDIO-U-HD-705475 from LaCie on a Dell Inspiron
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is your usb conf. properly. I cannot make LM8.0 find and mount a LaCie 20GB USB hard drive on a Dell Inspiron. Did someone make this disk run properly under any Linux distribution and if so - how? I am slightly mistaken. My Linux-Mandrake(8.0) finds it but cannot mount it or allow me to format it. It is listed as a LaCie Hard Drive when I look at the system using HardDrake, but there is a comment about it saying that Mandrake did not find a suitable driver (and that I should send info to mandrake, which I didn't - so far). /Serafim
Re: [newbie] Zip Drive - Lost Interrupt
Ron Phelps wrote: I recently installed 7.2 and have the following problem when I boot. If I don't have a zip disk in the drive when I boot, the message hdd: lost interrupt repeatedly prints on the screen and the boot process stalls. At this point if I put a disk in the drive I still get the lost interrupt message. Under 7.0 I also got this message but the boot process continued after displaying this message just once at each bootup. I don't want to have a zip disk in the drive each time I boot. Does anyone have a solution? Is this related to automount? The message does not seem to have anything to do with the zip drive as the zip drive normally mounts on sda4 and not hdd. Please submit your /etc/fstab file. It would be of help to see the exact sequence of error messages. See what you can find inte the syslog and/or errorlog I use automount and I have a zip drive, but I never saw any message like this. /Serafim
Re: [newbie] RPM
kaab kaoutar wrote: Hi! what does RPM stands for ? RedHat Package Manager what's the difference between RPM and binary ? The difference is that a binary file is just a program while an RPM-package may contain a number of files, plus the fact that the RPM packages also contain information about which resources the package depends of. That is, which resources must already be present in order to ensure a correct behaviour. There is an alternative, the deb packages, which is the debian equivalent to RPM (but they are not interchangeable, thus you support RPM or debian packages, NOT both at the same time). There is also a utility 'alien' that allows conversion between debian, RPM and tar packages. Essentially RPM and debian may be seen as tar packages with extra information on dependencies. /Serafim
[newbie] I screwed something up - ~/.bash_profile is never read
I seem to have screwed something up when installing LM8.0 I have a large amount of initializations and definitions in my .bash_profile but that file is never executed unless I explicitly enter source .bash_profile or . ~/.bash_profile at the command prompt in my terminal windows. I just don't understand what I did wrong. If I start a new shell I must do it by the command 'bash --login' to have the intializations. Kind of embarrasing as I'm far from new on Linux. /Serafim
