Re: [expert] adding themes w/sawfish and helixgnome
"Alan N." wrote: > > Has anyone had any problems adding new themes to sawfish after > installing helixgnome? [snip] > > Alan Is sawfish the default wm for helixgnome? I don't even know! I've tried to use the Solaris-CDE theme from the gtk theme package unsuccessfully. Help! Armand -- Linux 2.2.16-9mdk Fri Jul 7 00:00:00 MDT 2000
Re: [expert] Cannot install 7.1, why!?!?
"David G. Thiessen" wrote: > > Xperts - > > I have tried every possible way to install 7.1 but every time it > crashes, saying > something to the effect of "Out of memory" [snip] > Thanx, > Dave My friend had a similar problem so I posted about it and Civilme gave me a good reply (below). But the problem turned out to be, in this case, something misconfigured in the bios and all my friend was able to tell me was that he unchecked the "no OS". I'm guessing that he meant the non-pnp OS option and what he really did was disable the pnp capable OS function in the bios. HTH, Armand Armand wrote: > > I installed Mandrake 7.1 on my friend's computer and then he changed the > CPU and upgraded to PC133 memory. Now when I tried to install it says > Segmentation fault can't find memory and when I press enter on the OK > button it throws me into a prompt #. Any suggestions? > > Thank you, > > Armand > -- > Linux 2.2.16-9mdk > Sat Jul 1 12:45:00 MDT 2000 I had sigsegv problems with two boards. Both cleared with mild underclocking(95% rate0. Both were FIC PAG2130 with VIA MVP4 Chipsets. Now that you mention it, I had a Soyo with intel i810 chipset that required certified memory and underclocking to work--even in windows. PC133 memory and 133 Bus clocking often overdrive the AGP or put it into a fall-back to 66MHz... At this time, I don't think 133 is ready for prime time. Try backing off the bus clock. The timing requirements of 7.1 are pretty narrow windows around the specs in several areas, especially IDE and main memory. Slowing down slightly, like from 133 to 124, might give it the space needed. (And it will certainly make your system more reliable). The speed of a non-working computer is irrelevant. Civileme -- Linux 2.2.16-9mdk Thu Jul 6 23:40:00 MDT 2000
[expert] Can't find memory
I installed Mandrake 7.1 on my friend's computer and then he changed the CPU and upgraded to PC133 memory. Now when I tried to install it says Segmentation fault can't find memory and when I press enter on the OK button it throws me into a prompt #. Any suggestions? Thank you, Armand -- Linux 2.2.16-9mdk Sat Jul 1 12:45:00 MDT 2000
Re: [expert] useradd
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: > [snip] > Any help would be appreciated, > > Brian D. Klar - CVE Try from the command line as root useradd -m -d /home/username username -- Armand -- Mon Jun 19 08:40:00 MDT 2000
Re: [expert] 7.1 install multi-disk question/gripe
Bonjour! You're really making this more difficult than necessary. All you need is the first box checked, didn't it say extra like on the paper envelope that the disc was in? The second and third check boxes say applications, you didn't want those did you? -- Armand "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: > > Greets all, > > I purchased mandrake 7.1 disk 1 and 2 from www.lsl.com and installed > last night. > > My question is, during the install (custom/workstation/install) I was > asked which of 3 additional disks did I have and none of the titles > given for the three matched that which was on either of my disks > (Mandrake 7.1 Install i586 and Mandrake 7.1 Extras i586). [snip] -- Fri Jun 16 10:25:00 MDT 2000
Re: [expert] Kernel config file for MDK 7.1
Joel Stanley wrote: > > Is it possible to obtain a configuration file (i.e. one loadable into the > tcl/tk dialog from 'make xconfig') that contains the information needed to > build the kernel that comes with the distro? I'm not sure but I think the command `make oldconfig' will work even if you have new kernel sources. -- Armand -- Thu Jun 15 18:35:00 MDT 2000
[expert] Path isn't right
Why is my path written down three times in set? PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/toppage/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/ga mes:/home/nossaint/bin:/usr/local/toppage/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/loc al/toppage/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games -- Armand
[expert] Cannot allocate colormap
Bonjour! Netscape is giving me this error, Mandrake 7.0: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background Now when I click on the title of an email to read it, the title is completely blacked out and covering up the print of the email title. Also I've noticed that the color under the scroll tab in Netscape is black now instead of grey. Any ideas? Armand
Re: [expert] Grub and noprobe
Dave Lers wrote: > > What is the equivalent of append="hdb=noprobe" when using Grub? According to my grub docs you can add boot parameters to the /boot/grub/menu.lst just by entering the parameter itself without the append equals. For example to boot with the aha152x module, edit the menu.lst and add aha152x=0x340,7,1,1,0 to the kernel boot line and save the changes. So apparently you don't need the "append=" Be sure to specify the partition in the manner that grub addresses these matters: Disks are specified as (hdN) where N is the number of the disk starting at 0. Your first disk is (hd0). In general, N matches BIOS device 0x8N (0x80, 0x81,...). /boot/grub/device.map reflects the assumed mapping to Linux devices and can be tuned by hand if necessary. Please note also that grub does not distinguish between ide and scsi harddrives. It uses the same syntax for both types of drives. The listing below compares the /dev/hd? designation used in lilo to the (hdN) used in Grub: /dev/hda = hd0 /dev/hdb = hd1 /dev/hdc = hd2 /dev/fd0 = fd0 Partitions are specified with (hdN,Y) where 'N' is the (N+1)th harddisk and Y is the partition starting with 0. The first partition on the first disk is specified by (hd0,0). /dev/hda1 = (hd0,0) /dev/hda2 = (hd0,1) /dev/hdb1 = (hd1,0) /dev/hdb2 = (hd1,1) HTH, Armand -- If I abhor evil, am I therefore... good! Armand - Interview with a Vampire Thu Jun 1 20:35:00 MDT 2000
Re: [expert] ld.so problems
Lee Willis wrote: [snip] > > Erm, you're still stuck with the fact you have no swap partition though > :( > > Lee I've run into this problem with another distro, if you need to make some swap you can do this. 1.Use dd to allocate the amount of swap space you desire to a file on your hard drive: dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=5 This would create a file called "/swapfile" that contains 50,000 blocks of 1,024 bytes each (51,200,000 bytes, or 50 MB). 2.Execute sync to make sure the full 50 MB file has been written from memory to your hard drive. 3.Use mkswap to create a swap space in the file you just made: mkswap -c /swapfile 5 Be sure to specify the number of 1,024 byte blocks you used to make the swap file in the first place (in our case, it's 50,000). 4.Activate the new swap file with swapon: swapon /swapfile If you wish to have this new swap file activate automatically every time you start your system, add it to "/etc/fstab"; On a line by itself, enter this: /swapfile none swap sw -- If I abhor evil, am I therefore... good! Armand - Interview with a Vampire Wed May 31 21:50:00 MDT 2000
[expert] 7.1b3 Review
Nice review! http://dukeofurl.n3.net/reviews/misc/mandrake71/ -- If I abhor evil, am I therefore... good! Armand - Interview with a Vampire Mon May 29 00:50:00 MDT 2000
Re: [expert] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION
Vincent Danen wrote: > [snip] > Somebody *please* correct me if I'm wrong because I'm making an RPM for > qmail now that will allow you to just easily install it in binary form > with all user setups and everything. [snip] According to qmail author D.J. Bernstein at: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail/dist.html Exception: You are permitted to distribute a precompiled var-qmail package if (1) installing the package produces exactly the same... -- If I abhor evil, am I therefore... good! Armand - Interview with a Vampire 12:50am up 4:39, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.05
Re: [expert] IE for Linux(Unix)?
No but I hear that Redmond is working on a port to Win 3.11 ;>) -- Armand Warren Doney wrote: > > Have never heard of anyone getting it to work in Linux exept through vmware > ( http://vmware.com ). If anyone had got it working, it would have been > shouted from the rooftops by now. > > -WBD -- 3:03am up 8:30, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.11, 0.04
