Re: [newbie] Two drives
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: yes, it can be done and I am sure is done regurarly through out the llinux community. first you should setup the drive so linux can use it fdisk /devhdb (this should be your secodn drive) then make a new partition and make it a linux native. then you can make a mount point ( IE: mkdir /mnt/driveb) and then mount /dev/hdba /mnt/driveb or this can be unde under KDE as root as well Regards, Ron drives on my computer. One, hda, is for the Linux op system, the other I would like to reserve for Linux programs. Question: Is it possible to install Linux programs on a different physical drive? Has anybody done this? Would like to know. Thanks, Richard
Re: [newbie] ram not seen
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: check your bios settings OR try at the lilo: prompt when your booting type mem=256 if that works then you can add it to the append line of your lilo.conf can anyone help? I have installed mandrake 6.1 on an athlon system and it all went well except i have 256 megs of ram but linux seems to recognize only 16 megs of it. Thanks for any helpPaul
Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem
Gregg Carrier wrote: Hi all, Got the kppp diialer configured and managed to find my modem on the equivalent of COM4. The test seemed to go OK, so I clicked dial and everything hung. I had to shutdown the XServer (at least that's what I knew how to do) There was no response to anything in KDE. I have a HSP K56FLEX PNP MODEM according to the Windows control panel. Any suggestions? Another configuration problem? Thanks in advance. Gregg HSP modem = WIN Modem = don't work with linux modem -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] wine
From: Ronald A. Yacketta I would use vmware IF it was free and under gnu.. Sean Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/03/99 04:45:06 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: Re: [newbie] wine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta Hello all!! is it possible to run wine on a winblows less system? I use linux and only linux, but recently I have a need to run a couple applications that are winblows. is it possible? could it be?? Ron Yes. The wine homepage has documentation on how to do this. I still would recommend using vmware over wine until wine get's it all together, because there are alot of windows apps you can't run on wine. And alot of the one you can are very difficult to set up. SA
Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
Linux version already arrived in the UK PC Plus, it's the one with the milk bottles on the front (those who can see it will know what I mean!!). It is an old version though. - Original Message - From: Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 12:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version? Star Office is on the CD of PC PLUS magazine this month. The December issue is to include the Linux version on CD ROM. Jeanette Aaron deRozario wrote: Does anyone know if the new Sun license prevents third parties from burning StarOffice CD's and redistributing them? I don't know what Sun's plans are with StarOffice but if they want to have their product up there with MS Office in terms of product recognition, a great place to start would be to allow publishers to include it on the cover CD of computer magazines. Aaron -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version? RonaldI don't know the answer to your question, but they will send you a CD with both the linux and windows versions on it for $9.95 + shipping handling. Just go to the sun website and order it. Alan R_Yeo wrote: Jeanette Russo wrote: I have seen the Package in the store. Not sure what it includes. You might still be able to find it. I think that Sun has already made a lot of improvements to Star Office in version 5.1a. Now you don't have to go through the arcane registration process. Now if they would fix the Java and the printing it would be great. And some fonts would help. Jeanette I have asked this question before, and will try again. Does anyone know specifically what are the "upgrades' from the original SO5.1 to Sun's 5.1a? It takes a hell of a long time to d/l the package over a 64K satellite link shared by a few people, so I'd prefer to know first before I jump. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows
Thank you very much for all your help too, Pable. That "noaccel" did the trick. The screen looks find now. Now all I need to find the resolution that right for me. How may I set the XF86Config so that everytime I boot Linux I don't have to toggle around to find the resolution I want. Also, I somehow turn on the window login option, I don't know where did I do that? Anyone just in case I want to turn it off. Thanks. --- Gregg Carrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but at this moment I am in the work and I don't have LINUX here. I'm just greatful you had those urls! Thanks a million, Pablo! The "noaccel" option in my config file did the trick and made all the windows solid. I would still be very much interested in seeing how you've got your config set up as there are still some inconsistincies in my display. A million times better now though. One simple line... For anyone else who is having strange problems with a Trident Video87-AGP, try adding Option = "noaccel" to your Device section in XF86Config. That's what it took for me. Thanks again Pablo! For the moment, follow the guidelines posted at: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg01311.html http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/3DImage975.html Tomorrow I send to you my config file. PHM - Original Message - From: Tuan Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows I am in the exact same problem. I managed to configure my X server with my video card Trident 3DImage 975. I can't read anything, so weird. Pablo, would you please copy that portion of your configure file and post it here. I want to try it but I am not very good at using text editor to edit my XF86Config. Also, I don't know what I did. But after I startx, my screen is not viewable until I use Crtl+Alt+"+" to toggle the screen to viewable setting. How can I edit my XF86Config to make it work right rightaway? Please help. --- Pablo Monti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same problem due to my video card ( Trident 3DImage 975 ). To make it work well I had to put a Option "noaccel" line in the "Device" section of my XF86Config. PHM - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hello all, I just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.1 Power Pack and managed to get my X server configured. I am able to run startx and get into KDE. The appearance of KDE is, to say the least, weird. It's pretty much unusable. Here's whats wrong: Click on any pop-up menu like the K menu and the menu is displayed as word only, very difficult to read against the desktop background. In other words, there's no solid window background against which one can read the words. The same is true if I open the KDE Manager. I see the frame of its window, the words in it vaguely, but the background of the desktop shows through. I can't tell how to change a thing, because I can't read anything. If I try to move windows around, strange afterimages are left all over the place. Sounds like you've got Enlightenment on top of KDE for your X-windows manager. E, AFAIK, is the only Window Manager which allows transparent windows... John = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
[newbie] hardware accel in 6.1 riva tnt
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[newbie] kppp / pppd
Greetings, I finally got ye old 6.1 up and running on Mr. Internet - thank goodness I never throw away old e-mail. Anyway, I have a couple questions. 1. Is there a way to set up my kppp (or other dialer) as root and automagically have these same settings available to my other users (now that I think of it this probably pose's a security breach). 2. How do I set up a dialer such that when my browser (or mailer in the near future) needs access to the internet it will automagically makes the connection without having to bring up kppp and telling it to connect? TIA -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Port forwarding setup
Hi All, Ok, I've got masquerading working and can browse the web. I want to be able to access a ftp server on my private network from the internet. I believe it will require some sort of port forwarding to make it work. I gather that IPMASQADM is the recommended way to do this. Where do I get this software and how do you go about setting it up to work under MD 6.0. I'm currently running kernel 2.2.9.
Re: [newbie] wine
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta is it possible to run wine on a winblows less system? I use linux and only linux, but recently I have a need to run a couple applications that are winblows. is it possible? could it be?? Actually, I figure this is just what wine is for. Afterall, if you have Windows installed, it makes more sense to me to just boot Windows to run those programs. I have W98, but I've been playin around with wine with some success. I've had more success findin Linux apps to replace their windows counterpart tho. Anyhow, a good source for wine info is the NG: comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine oh and yes, to answer your question, you don't need Windows installed, just the Windows app you wanna run. -- .. Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[newbie] Keep modem connection alive
How do I keep my modem connection to my ISP alive when the computer is idle?
[newbie] Configuring X using Elsa Gloria-L Video Card
Hello, I'm having a difficult time configuring X on Mandrake 6.0 Here's the lowdown: PII 300Mhz/128MB NEC Multiscan 3V Monitor Elsa Gloria-L 16MB Video Card (Glint 500TX Chipset from 3DLabs) For some reason, I get a fatal server error of "No GLINT/PERMEDIA based card found" yet it appears the X server probes and finds the accelerated 3DLabs GLINT graphics adapters. Any help would greatly be appreciated. I can't wait to get Gnome running :) I'm using the current 3DLabs X server with the following symbolic link: /usr/X11R6/bin/X - /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_3DLabs Here's my startx output errors: XFree86 Version 3.3.5 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: August 23 1999 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.2.5 i586 [ELF] Configured drivers: GLINT: accelerated server for 3DLabs GLINT graphics adapters (Patchlevel 0) (using VT number 7) XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: disabled (**) XKB: keymap: "xfree86(us)" (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/mouse, buttons: 3 (**) Mouse: 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms) (**) GLINT: Graphics device ID: "GLINT 500TX" (**) GLINT: Monitor ID: "NEC MultiSync 3V" (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" Fatal server error: No GLINT/PERMEDIA based card found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages - Here's a stripped copy of my XF86Config file: Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" EndSection Section "Keyboard" Protocol"Standard" AutoRepeat 500 5 XkbDisable XkbKeymap "xfree86(us)" EndSection Section "Pointer" Protocol"PS/2" Device "/dev/mouse" Emulate3Buttons Emulate3Timeout50 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "NEC MultiSync 3V" VendorName "NEC" ModelName "MultiSync 3V" HorizSync 31 - 50 VertRefresh 55 - 90 Modeline "800x600" 50 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync Modeline "1024x768"651024 1032 1176 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "GLINT 500TX" VendorName "ELSA" BoardName "GLoria-L" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "GLINT 500TX" VendorName "ELSA" BoardName "Gloria-L" EndSection Section "Screen" Driver "accel" Device "GLINT 500TX" Monitor "NEC MultiSync 3V" Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection -- - Nicholas Bennington E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Analyst EngineerPhone: (316)946-3309 Learjet Inc.Fax: (316)946-2809 -
Re: [newbie] kppp / pppd
You should be able to setup kppp as a regular user. I don't need administrator priveleges to use kppp. I might not be understanding your question quite right. Matt 1. Is there a way to set up my kppp (or other dialer) as root and automagically have these same settings available to my other users (now that I think of it this probably pose's a security breach). __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem
HSP modem = WIN Modem = don't work with linux modem OK, thanks. Just so I don't get stuck with a crap modem again. What's a good type/protocol of modem that both Windoze and Linux can use/install easily. Thanks! Gregg -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How?
If you find the solution, please do me a huge favor and start a new thread with a subject such as "KDE numlock solution found!" That way I won't accidentally miss it. Thanks a million, Matt From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How? Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 22:49:35 -0600 I checked it out and when I ran KDE it dumped my NumLock but it works in the terminal just fine. SO, its off to find some way to keep the num lock on when you startx to goto KDE On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 22:51:18 -0500 John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: My Bios has it on as default but that method works for windows not Linux. Ahh...Ok. I wouldn't know... I prefer my numlock OFF. :-) John ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] ram not seen
I had the same problem. In my BIOS there was a setting that had something to do with "reserving memory for legacy ISA cards." I simply disabled it and let Linux have that memory. When you boot into Linux, you should now have all 256MB available. Keep us posted, Matt From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ram not seen Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 01:53:35 -0800 can anyone help? I have installed mandrake 6.1 on an athlon system and it all went well except i have 256 megs of ram but linux seems to recognize only 16 megs of it. Thanks for any helpPaul __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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Re: [newbie] hardware accel in 6.1 riva tnt
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Re: [Re: [newbie] EZ-drive]
Ontrack DiskManager is ditributed by Ontrack and comes in different flavors..IE: Fujitsu, Quantum, etc... DiskManager has a host of functions/utilities...but should be used ONLY by someone who _KNOWS_ what it does...in the past ie: early 'puter years, I have killed a drive or two...:( It is comparable in function to EZ-Drive, Max-Blast ( I think ), and probably a few other "disk" utilities. All I can say is...make sure the one your using is for the drive you want to manipulate. Jaguar R_Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an IBM 10.1 Gb HDD, and in order to see anything above 8.4Gb, I had to download and install this pgm called Ontrack Manager. Am I right in presuming that Ontrack does the same thing as EZ-Drive? I have been having problems getting Linux to install on this disk. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Keep modem connection alive
"Morrell, Mike" wrote: How do I keep my modem connection to my ISP alive when the computer is idle? Most ISP's put a limit as to how long your connection can remain live without any activity. They monitor your connection and when they get real busy and use all their incoming lines up they look for the one with the longest idle time at that point and you're gone. It's probably in your contract with them somewhere. Most ISP's (especially smaller ISP's with few incoming lines) need to do this to prevent a few inconsiderate individuals from using all the available lines and give all their customers an equal opportunity to surf. This is also why they have commercial accounts. -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Keep modem connection alive
Have your email client check mail every minute. Seve -Original Message- From: Morrell, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie Mail list (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:41 AM Subject: [newbie] Keep modem connection alive How do I keep my modem connection to my ISP alive when the computer is idle?
Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem
Gregg Carrier wrote: HSP modem = WIN Modem = don't work with linux modem OK, thanks. Just so I don't get stuck with a crap modem again. What's a good type/protocol of modem that both Windoze and Linux can use/install easily. Thanks! Gregg -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any external modem should do the trick. From my understanding ALL but one or two pci modems are winmodems but you should be all right with an ISA bus modem (something that you have to set jumper pins on, anything else is a no-no, I think). As for my self I prefer an external modem - something to do with pretty flashing lights I suppose, it also makes it easier to verify an active connection. -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] kppp / pppd
M Thompson wrote: You should be able to setup kppp as a regular user. I don't need administrator priveleges to use kppp. I might not be understanding your question quite right. Matt 1. Is there a way to set up my kppp (or other dialer) as root and automagically have these same settings available to my other users (now that I think of it this probably pose's a security breach). __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Yeah, I'm able to set up kppp but it's just inconvenient (read I'm lazy here) to have to set this for every user. I'd like to be able to just select my dial out connection and perhaps have to enter the user name / password to activate the account if I'm concerned about security. -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] wine
From: Ronald A. Yacketta so I would have to have the app instaleld that I want to run? that would mean I would have to have winblows ina seconddrive with the app installed? I tried to install a few very simple win 3.11 apps last night and failed as well as a few win98 apps Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/03/99 11:21:06 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: Re: [newbie] wine On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta is it possible to run wine on a winblows less system? I use linux and only linux, but recently I have a need to run a couple applications that are winblows. is it possible? could it be?? Actually, I figure this is just what wine is for. Afterall, if you have Windows installed, it makes more sense to me to just boot Windows to run those programs. I have W98, but I've been playin around with wine with some success. I've had more success findin Linux apps to replace their windows counterpart tho. Anyhow, a good source for wine info is the NG: comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine oh and yes, to answer your question, you don't need Windows installed, just the Windows app you wanna run. -- .. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[newbie] Sound, Installing software, CD-ROM, USB
Hello, Thank you for all the helps I got on the weird KDE screen with Trident 3DImage 975. I got my screen up and it looks pretty cool. Now I have a few more problems. Can anyone point me to the right direction to get help on these issues? Do we have a common site that have links to solve particular or issues? Please help. 1. I don't have any sound at all. I put my CD in my DVD. It seems to play the disk but no sound come out the speaker. 2. I am looking for a software that play DVD/VCD disk like my PowerDVD. I don't have hardware MPEG2 decoder card so it must be software decoder. 3. I got a few CD archiever that I bought from Linux Central (a total of 4). I hope they have StarOffice in there. However, I would like to know how to install new software. What formats are the software being distributed? Are they in some form of Zip or something? I like to install StarOffice for my Linux box. Thank you very much. = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem
ANy External Modem(tm) On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Gregg Carrier wrote: HSP modem = WIN Modem = don't work with linux modem OK, thanks. Just so I don't get stuck with a crap modem again. What's a good type/protocol of modem that both Windoze and Linux can use/install easily. Thanks! Gregg -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem
Don't forget DSP thats a winmodem too On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Gregg Carrier wrote: Hi all, Got the kppp diialer configured and managed to find my modem on the equivalent of COM4. The test seemed to go OK, so I clicked dial and everything hung. I had to shutdown the XServer (at least that's what I knew how to do) There was no response to anything in KDE. I have a HSP K56FLEX PNP MODEM according to the Windows control panel. Any suggestions? Another configuration problem? Thanks in advance. Gregg HSP modem = WIN Modem = don't work with linux modem -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Normal=boring x 100
Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows
The problems with the resolution were addresed at: http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/3DImage975.html It's very clear and with many examples. Anyway, I will post my XF86Config later. Sorry, I forget it today ( Gregg Carrier too ). I suppose that you refers to "boot in graphic mode" when you say: "Also, I somehow turn on the window login option, I don't know where did I do that? Anyone just in case I want to turn it off" If that is right, to turn on/off the graphic mode at booting time, you must be set the "run level" to 5 ( graphic mode ) or 3 ( console mode ). Be careful !!! You can NOT set any other runlevel than 3 or 5 !!! To change the runlevel you must edit /etc/inittab. This file contains a line as: id:3:initdefault: This say that the computer boots in console mode. To change to graphical mode replace the "3" with "5" and save the file. When you reboots the PC next time, a window prompts to you for login. If you want to come back to console mode proceed at the same way but putting "3". PHM - Original Message - From: Tuan Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows Thank you very much for all your help too, Pable. That "noaccel" did the trick. The screen looks find now. Now all I need to find the resolution that right for me. How may I set the XF86Config so that everytime I boot Linux I don't have to toggle around to find the resolution I want. Also, I somehow turn on the window login option, I don't know where did I do that? Anyone just in case I want to turn it off. Thanks. --- Gregg Carrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but at this moment I am in the work and I don't have LINUX here. I'm just greatful you had those urls! Thanks a million, Pablo! The "noaccel" option in my config file did the trick and made all the windows solid. I would still be very much interested in seeing how you've got your config set up as there are still some inconsistincies in my display. A million times better now though. One simple line... For anyone else who is having strange problems with a Trident Video87-AGP, try adding Option = "noaccel" to your Device section in XF86Config. That's what it took for me. Thanks again Pablo! For the moment, follow the guidelines posted at: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg01311.html http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/3DImage975.html Tomorrow I send to you my config file. PHM - Original Message - From: Tuan Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows I am in the exact same problem. I managed to configure my X server with my video card Trident 3DImage 975. I can't read anything, so weird. Pablo, would you please copy that portion of your configure file and post it here. I want to try it but I am not very good at using text editor to edit my XF86Config. Also, I don't know what I did. But after I startx, my screen is not viewable until I use Crtl+Alt+"+" to toggle the screen to viewable setting. How can I edit my XF86Config to make it work right rightaway? Please help. --- Pablo Monti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same problem due to my video card ( Trident 3DImage 975 ). To make it work well I had to put a Option "noaccel" line in the "Device" section of my XF86Config. PHM - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hello all, I just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.1 Power Pack and managed to get my X server configured. I am able to run startx and get into KDE. The appearance of KDE is, to say the least, weird. It's pretty much unusable. Here's whats wrong: Click on any pop-up menu like the K menu and the menu is displayed as word only, very difficult to read against the desktop background. In other words, there's no solid window background against which one can read the words. The same is true if I open the KDE Manager. I see the frame of its window, the words in it vaguely, but the background of the desktop shows through. I can't tell how to change a thing, because I can't read anything. If I try to move windows around, strange afterimages are left all over the place. Sounds like you've got Enlightenment on top of KDE for your X-windows manager. E, AFAIK, is the only Window Manager which allows transparent windows... John =
Re: [newbie] SiS 6326 AGP
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: John. I have a SiS chip and when I upgraded to 3.3.5 from XFree86 that solved my problems. Good to know... I'll try to remember that in the future. :-) John I have one of these video cards and upgraded to 3.3.5 from XFree86. I still couldn't get it to work correctly. I went back to my S3 card to get things working correctly. Ron
Re: [newbie] Burning CD from ISO image
Patrick... my solution: quit using Imation CDs I had the same problem... also, when I burned the ISO (after 11 disks the 12th one worked) it wasn't bootable like they said. What I do when I burn a CD and you probably do also, I use cachman which is a program for controlling your cache and it setups windows for a CD Writer and then shut everything down that isn't necessary. and then burn it. Other than that ... don't know what to tell ya. On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 07:58:37 +0100 "Patrick Putteman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Might be a basic question, but I ran into this problem and can't find the sollution: Back when Mandrake 5.2 and 6 ISO's appeared on the FTP mirrors, I could just grab it and use EASY-CD Creator PRO 3.5 to burn them and end up with a bootable CD. As far as I recall, I didn't use any special settings. Now, with the ISO image of 6.1, I end up with a wasted CD as after burning, all filenames on the CD are truncated. Not in the dos 8.3 way, but filenames are cut after the first 8 characters, and extensions after the first 3. I've checked the ISO image with Winimage and the image contains the correct filenames. Anyone any Idea to help me out here. I wasted 11 CD's uptill now :o( Patrick Putteman Internet Support Manager Net7 - Member of the Advalvas Group www.net7.be www.advalvas.be ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
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[newbie] SB Live
OK so I found the creative site with the open source drivers and downloaded and unzipped them. I must have taken my stupid pills today because I cannot seem to follow their instructions especially the part regarding copying the emu10k1.o driver to a particular directory. Am I blind or is there no driver to copy, all I see are a bunch of what appears to be C files. I'm getting fairly good at this finally but this has got me stumped again anyone figure this out?? Drop me a line [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIA -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Can't find SCSI controller
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hm I got my install going when I turned of the bios on the 1542 . Hmm...yeah. I seem to recall reading that might help in some instances. Generally speaking, you don't need the SCSI BIOS as it's mainly there for things like low-level formatting and such. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Two drives
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have two physical drives on my computer. One, hda, is for the Linux op system, the other I would like to reserve for Linux programs. Question: Is it possible to install Linux programs on a different physical drive? Has anybody done this? Would like to know. rpm --relocate or other options if you're compiling. John
Re: [newbie] Burning CD from ISO image
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi all, Might be a basic question, but I ran into this problem and can't find the sollution: Back when Mandrake 5.2 and 6 ISO's appeared on the FTP mirrors, I could just grab it and use EASY-CD Creator PRO 3.5 to burn them and end up with a bootable CD. As far as I recall, I didn't use any special settings. Now, with the ISO image of 6.1, I end up with a wasted CD as after burning, all filenames on the CD are truncated. Not in the dos 8.3 way, but filenames are cut after the first 8 characters, and extensions after the first 3. I've checked the ISO image with Winimage and the image contains the correct filenames. Anyone any Idea to help me out here. I wasted 11 CD's uptill now :o( I think you have to specify a certain option or something. It really sounds like your EASY-CD Creator is assuming MSDOS compatibility for filenames and burning an MSDOS style filename. John
Re: [newbie] EZ-drive
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, you wrote: I've been following this thread to see if it would solve my problems as well. I have an IBM 10.1 Gb HDD, and in order to see anything above 8.4Gb, I had to download and install this pgm called Ontrack Manager. Am I right in presuming that Ontrack does the same thing as EZ-Drive? I have been having problems getting Linux to install on this disk. John, am I getting you right by saying that if I put Linux (and only Linux) on it, the entire 10Gb (minus partitioning overheads) would be seen? Caution: I'm still more "newbie" than "expert." However, that being said, it is my understanding that Linux shouldn't have a problem seeing the ENTIRE 10 Gb. I would think that out of a 10 Gb hard drive, you should get at least 9.5 to 9.75 Gb out of it. I have two more 3.2Gb HD set up as pri slave and sec master. Would I have a problem then to install a small Win partition on the pri slave? Would Win choke on not being in the pri master disk? The Win partition would only be for some 'legacy' programs like the IBM Ink Manager for myCrossPad I won't swear to it, but I *think* Windows will choke if it's not on the primary master. I would suggest you check with someone who's more knowledgeable than I about dual-booting and Windows' preferences. John
Re: [newbie] ram not seen
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: can anyone help? I have installed mandrake 6.1 on an athlon system and it all went well except i have 256 megs of ram but linux seems to recognize only 16 megs of it. A couple things occur to me right off the bat: do you have set on in your BIOS "memory hole at 16 MB" If so, try turning it off. Second, you SHOULDN'T need to do this, but you can try putting this at the LILO prompt: linux append='mem=256mb' (quotes included this time.) That should force it to see all 256 megs, however, I've read on this list that with the later kernels, you shouldn't have to do this... John
Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi all, Got the kppp diialer configured and managed to find my modem on the equivalent of COM4. The test seemed to go OK, so I clicked dial and everything hung. I had to shutdown the XServer (at least that's what I knew how to do) There was no response to anything in KDE. I have a HSP K56FLEX PNP MODEM according to the Windows control panel. Any suggestions? Another configuration problem? Thanks in advance. Paperweight. HSP==WinModem. Go get yourself an external modem or a 100% hardware internal (generally ISA is considered to be a safe bet!) Just remember HSP is the same as WinModem as far as Linux is concerned. If it says it requires Windows to operate, you do NOT want it in Linux! :-) John
Re: [newbie] zip files?
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or Pkunzip? gzip doesnt seem to want to. . . Yesjust use "unzip" :-) gzip is a totally different program. There's a PKZip compatible program called "zip" strangely enough. ;-) John I'll answer this one before it's asked, yes it will extract from a win32 selfextracting zip also, you will get a warning message when you unzip foo.exe, it's just a warning. Ahh...good point. :-) Thanks for stepping into the breach there! John
Re: [newbie] root problem
Reinstall! On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:57:53 +0100 "Carsten M. Larsen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I don't know if anyone got this message last night...I had some mailproblemsso here we go again :o) I think I made a rookie mistakeI think I accidently removed the root!! I was messin' around in linuxconf, I got somekinda warning about the root. I thought nothing of it (shame on me, I should be punished, I know :o) and now I can't even SU to root, I can't shutdown, I can't modify the linuxconf againI can't do anything!! Is there any way I can recover the root or get to the linuxconf?? PLEASE help me!! Latest: I´t's possible that I didn't romove the root partition but "just" all the users with root clearence, so no one can SU or log in as root.any suggestions as how to solve this would be greatly appreciated :o) Carsten ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How?
I don't know how soon I will get to it.. since I have a habit of destroying my linux files when I edit them. but I will do some checking into it when I do run linux. It has to be something like the terminal thing fora fix..just finding a place to add it though.. On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 17:19:03 GMT "M Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you find the solution, please do me a huge favor and start a new thread with a subject such as "KDE numlock solution found!" That way I won't accidentally miss it. Thanks a million, Matt From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How? Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 22:49:35 -0600 I checked it out and when I ran KDE it dumped my NumLock but it works in the terminal just fine. SO, its off to find some way to keep the num lock on when you startx to goto KDE On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 22:51:18 -0500 John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: My Bios has it on as default but that method works for windows not Linux. Ahh...Ok. I wouldn't know... I prefer my numlock OFF. :-) John ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
Re: [newbie] kernel boot problem
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hey, I tried to upgrade my kernel (using rpm -Uvh kernel*.rpm instead of kernel -i kernel*.rpm). Then I forgot to run lilo before rebooting, and now linux can't boot. I have no other boot media besides the Linux Mandrake CD (which does not have a rescue option). I have Windows 98 on this system, and I'm able to do everything fine in there. How can I boot linux? Boot to Windows 98, get two blank floppies and put your Mandrake CD into the CDROM drive. On that CD, you'll see a directory called "dosutils." Go into that directory and get the util called "rawrite" and copy it onto your hard drive. Then, open up a "dos" window and from the command line (preferably in the directory with rawrite.exe) type "rawrite d:\images\boot.img" enter and make sure you have a blank floppy in the floppy drive. When it's done, put another floppy in the floppy drive and type "rawrite d:\images\rescue.img"enter. Replacing "d:" with the letter of your CDROM drive, of course. Once you've gotten your boot and rescue floppies made, exit windows, put your "boot" floppy in the floppy drive, restart the system (making sure the system is set to boot off floppy, of course) and boot off the boot disk. Type "rescue" at the prompt and swap floppies when indicated. Then, you should be able to run '/mnt/hda5/sbin/lilo" and that *should* take care of it, allowing you to reboot and have your new kernel. NOW you know why they say to upgrade your kernel with rpm -ivh instead of -uvh. :-) John
Re: [newbie] SB Live
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: OK so I found the creative site with the open source drivers and downloaded and unzipped them. I must have taken my stupid pills today because I cannot seem to follow their instructions especially the part regarding copying the emu10k1.o driver to a particular directory. Am I blind or is there no driver to copy, all I see are a bunch of what appears to be C files. I'm getting fairly good at this finally but this has got me stumped again anyone figure this out?? Drop me a line [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try compiling the driver using the C files there. :-) There should be some instructions there on compiling. John
Re: [newbie] Burning CD from ISO image
A PIII450 with 392Mb ram and an cd writer on a scsi controller shouldn't have these kind of problems. Mine doesn't and is happily burning every other CD I can find without missing one. It's just the mandrake ISO that doesn't work. I've tried ISO's from different download sites and all with the same result :o( - Original Message - From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 9:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Burning CD from ISO image Patrick... my solution: quit using Imation CDs I had the same problem... also, when I burned the ISO (after 11 disks the 12th one worked) it wasn't bootable like they said. What I do when I burn a CD and you probably do also, I use cachman which is a program for controlling your cache and it setups windows for a CD Writer and then shut everything down that isn't necessary. and then burn it. Other than that ... don't know what to tell ya. On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 07:58:37 +0100 "Patrick Putteman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Might be a basic question, but I ran into this problem and can't find the sollution: Back when Mandrake 5.2 and 6 ISO's appeared on the FTP mirrors, I could just grab it and use EASY-CD Creator PRO 3.5 to burn them and end up with a bootable CD. As far as I recall, I didn't use any special settings. Now, with the ISO image of 6.1, I end up with a wasted CD as after burning, all filenames on the CD are truncated. Not in the dos 8.3 way, but filenames are cut after the first 8 characters, and extensions after the first 3. I've checked the ISO image with Winimage and the image contains the correct filenames. Anyone any Idea to help me out here. I wasted 11 CD's uptill now :o( Patrick Putteman Internet Support Manager Net7 - Member of the Advalvas Group www.net7.be www.advalvas.be ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
[newbie] Off Topic - cute geek joke
A boy was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess". He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will stay with you for one week." The boy took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket. The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you and do ANYTHING you want." Again the boy took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket. Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess, that I'll stay with you for a week and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?" The boy said, "Look I'm a software engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog is cool." -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] wine
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta Hello all!! is it possible to run wine on a winblows less system? I use linux and only linux, but recently I have a need to run a couple applications that are winblows. is it possible? could it be?? If I understand how WINE works, yes. I've never used it, but to the best of my understanding, you don't need Windows to use WINE. I may be totally off base, wouldn't be the first time. :-) John It would seem to me that WINE only RUNS a M$ program, it still needs to be installed - most M$ installations require registry manipulations, etc. Probably more than we could expect form WINE or VMware. I hope I'm wrong as it would be nice to load up one or two Winblows programs and make that last break form Uncle Bill. -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok. You do not need Windows to run Wine or Vmware. Check for yourself and read the documentation at both of their websites. I have run both on my computer and neither needs windblows. Vmware runs much better than wine. SA
Re: [newbie] wine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta I would use vmware IF it was free and under gnu.. Good luck getting wine to run the software you want. I had trobles with it and gave up after awhile. Vmware has a 30 day trial version that is free. I'm sure there is some way around this. I don't know. I was just stating that I thought vmware worked better than wine. For the most part you can only run software that runs under windows 3.1 on wine. SA
Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Jeanette Russo wrote: I have seen the Package in the store. Not sure what it includes. You might still be able to find it. I think that Sun has already made a lot of improvements to Star Office in version 5.1a. Now you don't have to go through the arcane registration process. Now if they would fix the Java and the printing it would be great. And some fonts would help. Jeanette I have asked this question before, and will try again. Does anyone know specifically what are the "upgrades' from the original SO5.1 to Sun's 5.1a? AFAIK the only difference is the registration process. It takes a hell of a long time to d/l the package over a 64K satellite link shared by a few people, so I'd prefer to know first before I jump. It took me about 8 hrs to download the windows 5.1 version over a 28.8 modem (64M + 14M patch) -- Alex
[newbie] printing from ImageMagick
Hi, I'm having problems printing from ImageMagick. I choose Print from the File menu. I specify "lpr" as the print command. Then I get this status window saying "Saving image...", and it just hangs there with the file not being printed. "lpr" is the normal print command on my system. How do I print from ImageMagick? Thanks, Hidong
[newbie] installing Linux
I have a 6.4GB hard drive and I am running win98 on the primary drive. I would like to run linux Mandrake on the extended partition which contains 3.2GB of memory. How do I begin the installation? Would someone help me. Andre Cox "The Seventh Sense."
: Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Star Office is on the CD of PC PLUS magazine this month. The December issue is to include the Linux version on CD ROM. Jeanette Bought it last week and installed with no problems - it's listed as version 5.1a. Takes up 155meg of disk space. Well worth £4.99. John the Nadger http://www.goon.freeuk.com
Re: [newbie] Burning CD from ISO image
I just wanted to say that I didn't have any problems burning a bootable cd from the Mandrake 6.1 iso. I have Easy CD Creator 4.0 and it worked just fine. - Original Message - From: Patrick Putteman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Burning CD from ISO image A PIII450 with 392Mb ram and an cd writer on a scsi controller shouldn't have these kind of problems. Mine doesn't and is happily burning every other CD I can find without missing one. It's just the mandrake ISO that doesn't work. I've tried ISO's from different download sites and all with the same result :o( - Original Message - From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 9:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Burning CD from ISO image Patrick... my solution: quit using Imation CDs I had the same problem... also, when I burned the ISO (after 11 disks the 12th one worked) it wasn't bootable like they said. What I do when I burn a CD and you probably do also, I use cachman which is a program for controlling your cache and it setups windows for a CD Writer and then shut everything down that isn't necessary. and then burn it. Other than that ... don't know what to tell ya. On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 07:58:37 +0100 "Patrick Putteman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Might be a basic question, but I ran into this problem and can't find the sollution: Back when Mandrake 5.2 and 6 ISO's appeared on the FTP mirrors, I could just grab it and use EASY-CD Creator PRO 3.5 to burn them and end up with a bootable CD. As far as I recall, I didn't use any special settings. Now, with the ISO image of 6.1, I end up with a wasted CD as after burning, all filenames on the CD are truncated. Not in the dos 8.3 way, but filenames are cut after the first 8 characters, and extensions after the first 3. I've checked the ISO image with Winimage and the image contains the correct filenames. Anyone any Idea to help me out here. I wasted 11 CD's uptill now :o( Patrick Putteman Internet Support Manager Net7 - Member of the Advalvas Group www.net7.be www.advalvas.be ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
re: [newbie]
On 4 Nov 1999, Jaguar wrote: Does anyone know if/when Linux will have an equivalent to Direct X (latest version), for cool games like Nascar3 or whatever??? Jaguar Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. Uhh, never.. Directx is way to connected to the kernel, they won't do that to us ever we'd lench them. There are alread many game developers kits currently for linux. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Star Office is on the CD of PC PLUS magazine this month. The December issue is to include the Linux version on CD ROM. Jeanette Bought it last week and installed with no problems - it's listed as version 5.1a. Takes up 155meg of disk space. Well worth £4.99. John the Nadger http://www.goon.freeuk.com
Re: [newbie] kppp / pppd
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: Greetings, I finally got ye old 6.1 up and running on Mr. Internet - thank goodness I never throw away old e-mail. Anyway, I have a couple questions. 1. Is there a way to set up my kppp (or other dialer) as root and automagically have these same settings available to my other users (now that I think of it this probably pose's a security breach). set it up under netcfg, enable the "user" toggle. it may then be started via netcfg activate/deactive, or commandline ifup ppp0/ifdown ppp0 2. How do I set up a dialer such that when my browser (or mailer in the near future) needs access to the internet it will automagically makes the connection without having to bring up kppp and telling it to connect? diald.. TIA -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
I think they send PC PLUS out to Australia, so that is good news. GO THE WALLABIES Aaron -Original Message- From: Jeanette Russo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 8:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version? Star Office is on the CD of PC PLUS magazine this month. The December issue is to include the Linux version on CD ROM. Jeanette Aaron deRozario wrote: Does anyone know if the new Sun license prevents third parties from burning StarOffice CD's and redistributing them? I don't know what Sun's plans are with StarOffice but if they want to have their product up there with MS Office in terms of product recognition, a great place to start would be to allow publishers to include it on the cover CD of computer magazines. Aaron -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version? RonaldI don't know the answer to your question, but they will send you a CD with both the linux and windows versions on it for $9.95 + shipping handling. Just go to the sun website and order it. Alan R_Yeo wrote: Jeanette Russo wrote: I have seen the Package in the store. Not sure what it includes. You might still be able to find it. I think that Sun has already made a lot of improvements to Star Office in version 5.1a. Now you don't have to go through the arcane registration process. Now if they would fix the Java and the printing it would be great. And some fonts would help. Jeanette I have asked this question before, and will try again. Does anyone know specifically what are the "upgrades' from the original SO5.1 to Sun's 5.1a? It takes a hell of a long time to d/l the package over a 64K satellite link shared by a few people, so I'd prefer to know first before I jump. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [[newbie] Keep modem connection alive]
"Morrell, Mike" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I keep my modem connection to my ISP alive when the computer is idle? == Keep KBiff running, set to check for POP3 mail every 120 seconds. That should keep the connection alive indefinitely. I do it all the time. Mike ++ Michael Scottaline COL 2.2 Linux 2.2.5 * * * * * * * * * * * It's a fresh wind that Blows Against the Empire Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem]
"Gregg Carrier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HSP modem = WIN Modem = don't work with linux modem OK, thanks. Just so I don't get stuck with a crap modem again. What's a good type/protocol of modem that both Windoze and Linux can use/install easily. Thanks! Gregg = Personally, I prefer externals. I use a USR 56K v.90 faxmodem. Works just fine. With an external, there's the advantage of portability. I even use it with my laptop (ttyS0); works just great. HTH, Mike ++ Michael Scottaline COL 2.2 Linux 2.2.5 * * * * * * * * * * * It's a fresh wind that Blows Against the Empire Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] enlightenment
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Jesse Royall wrote: tate.. I am not 100% sure.. but desktopcfg that works for me at the command line. and then I just select the Desktop I want to use...took me a few reinstalls to do figure that one out! Jess On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 16:43:57 -0700 "Tate A. Yancey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've screwed up my system so many times that I'm tired of reinstalling :). Can someone tell me what files to change to have enlightenment as my wm for kde? ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. This was discused last week with very good instructions (step by step), have a look in the archives. desktopcfg doesn't yet have an option for Enlightened-KDE, as i haven't gotten to it yet. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)
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re: [newbie]
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know if/when Linux will have an equivalent to Direct X (latest version), for cool games like Nascar3 or whatever??? Jaguar Earnhardt fan? I am, for a long time. Far as games like that, don't hold your breath. I don't see Linux becoming a 'desktop' OS for quite some time, if ever. Games like you mention are the best reason for havin a dual boot system. As of last night, I'm runnin a P3-450 at 567mhz with a Voodoo3 o/c'd to 178mhz. Only one reason, flight simulators, and nobody's got any plans for porting those to Linux, 'specially uncle Bill. Linux, OTOH, is far more tolerant of o/c'd hardware than W98. I can run the 450 as high as 618mhz in Linux, it'll boot Windows at 600mhx, but won't last for a 3 hour flight. Linux just doesn't hasn't kept up with the hardware, fast as it's coming these days. I setup my V3 using the 3dfx rpm's, then upgraded XFree86 to 3 3 5, I'm able to run 3dfxtest flawlessly, yet when I try to run the FlightGear (Linux freeware simulator) it flops. Can't get Q3test to run quake right either. All this is so simple in Windows. BTW, I mentioned last week I was about to change out my motherboard and proccessor (was a PII 350 at 467mhz). Like I predicted, neither OS skipped a beat. Linux booted like nothin had changed, Windows did a little trashing around setting up new hardware, but no problems. .. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [newbie] kernel boot problem
NOW you know why they say to upgrade your kernel with rpm -ivh instead of -uvh. :-) John Now ya tell me ;- I guess i was lucky, dodged a bullet. When I saw that 'update' wanted to change out kernel 2.2.9-19, for 2.2.9-27 to fix the 'file system busy' problem when shutting down, I d/l'd the 6.1 kernel instead (2.2.13-7). I used Kpackage to install it, edited lilo.conf, ran lilo, and I was done. Reboot and the 2.2.13 kernel was used. -- .. Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[newbie] segmentation fault (root problem part II)
Hi, Now I cured the root problem (thanx to Steve Philp) I can now log in as root or su to root.. but the problems just keep comin' :o( When I try to run linuxconf (or userconf for that matter) from /bin on the server via telnet I get the message "segmentation fault" . Hmmm. If I log in as root directly on the servermachine and try to run linuxconf the system "just" hangs and I have to drop to another shell for shutdown/reboot (killing the process is useless) Anyone got any ideas /seen it/done it/been there?? -- Carsten
re: [newbie]
I wish. If I were better at programming I would write you one and several other people and then after debugging then shoot it all over ftp land to share with all. On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know if/when Linux will have an equivalent to Direct X (latest version), for cool games like Nascar3 or whatever??? Jaguar Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- Normal=boring x 100
Re: [newbie] ram not seen
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: can anyone help? I have installed mandrake 6.1 on an athlon system and it all went well except i have 256 megs of ram but linux seems to recognize only 16 megs of it. A couple things occur to me right off the bat: do you have set on in your BIOS "memory hole at 16 MB" If so, try turning it off. Second, you SHOULDN'T need to do this, but you can try putting this at the LILO prompt: linux append='mem=256mb' (quotes included this time.) That should force it to see all 256 megs, however, I've read on this list that with the later kernels, you shouldn't have to do this... John I believe it's a Athlon/'not quite ready for prime time' motherboard issue. I have no first hand experience with it, but I've seen a lot of this type complaint about Athlon mobo's on several hardware NG's. Sort'a funny that the Cu-mine/8xx chipset mobo's have a similar deal. -- .. Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [newbie] SB Live
Does the midi in SBLive work also? On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have SBlive workink thanks to this 2 helps: --- To load the driver, type: modprobe soundcore insmod -f emu10k1 You will get a warning about the module being compiled for a 2.2.10 kernel, and your being a 2.2.9, you can safely ignore this Now, test sound with the mediaplayer and a wav file. Should work. For the module to load at every startup, include the insmod -f command in your rc.local file. --- --- Okay - do the following (exactly everything Creative recommend you _DONT_ do, so i take no responsibilty for this ;-) it works fine for me tho!) DO IT ALL AS ROOT (su -) Untar/zip the file from creative. 'cp emu10k1.o-2.2.5-15 /lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc/emu10k1.o' Remove any existing sound lines from conf.modules Add the following... 'alias sound emu10k1' 'options emu10k1 -f' 'pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore' 'post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore' Save the file reboot. Instead of rebooting you could come out of X and then do... 'rmmod soundcore' 'rmmod sblive' (or whatever your old module was called) 'insmod -f emu10k1' --- John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: OK so I found the creative site with the open source drivers and downloaded and unzipped them. I must have taken my stupid pills today because I cannot seem to follow their instructions especially the part regarding copying the emu10k1.o driver to a particular directory. Am I blind or is there no driver to copy, all I see are a bunch of what appears to be C files. I'm getting fairly good at this finally but this has got me stumped again anyone figure this out?? Drop me a line [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try compiling the driver using the C files there. :-) There should be some instructions there on compiling. John -- Normal=boring x 100
[newbie] sound and wine
I am a newbie to linux and i have two problems. For those of you who remember me, i finally got the lilo problem fixed, but when you solve one problem two more come up. 1) My sound card does not work under linux. i typed /usr/sbin/sndconfig and it probed for my sound card. It found "SB Live!" and you hit ok and it says "SB Live! is not supported" you hit ok and it exits. Note: when i installed linux using lnx4win the sound card worked but when i installe it the regular way i get the above problem. 2)I would like to know how to run wine. I typed wine /mnt/DOS_hda1/windows/calc.exe to see if i could run a windows app under linux (in this case the simple calculator program)and it brought up some error that said it can't find some ms dll file. Any suggestions? Any help you could offer would greatly be appreciated. Thank you, Jas
[newbie] installing Linux in extended partition
My hard drive is 6.4GB, where the primary partition has win98 running. I would like to install linux Mandrake in the extended partition. The size of this is 3.2GB. How do I go about this. As detail as possible. Thanks for any help or suggestions: Andre Cox
Re: [newbie] enlightenment
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: desktopcfg doesn't yet have an option for Enlightened-KDE, as i haven't gotten to it yet. Well, gee, Axalonwhat's keeping you??? ;-) (Tongue FIRMLY planted in cheek! G) John
Re: [newbie] installing Linux
3.2GB of memory WOW!!! maybe you mean 3.2MB od space on hd Well here is the help: Go to the BIOS of your computer and make the first bootable device your CDROM whe you reboot your computer put the mandrake CD in the CDROM drive and it must be enough to begin the intalaltion process. Andre Colin Cox wrote: I have a 6.4GB hard drive and I am running win98 on the primary drive. I would like to run linux Mandrake on the extended partition which contains 3.2GB of memory. How do I begin the installation? Would someone help me. Andre Cox "The Seventh Sense."
Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: %_ Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="windows keyboard.jpg" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description: ROFLMAO :-) This is GOOD!!! :-) John
Re: [newbie] kernel boot problem
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: NOW you know why they say to upgrade your kernel with rpm -ivh instead of -uvh. :-) John Now ya tell me ;- I guess i was lucky, dodged a bullet. When I saw that 'update' wanted to change out kernel 2.2.9-19, for 2.2.9-27 to fix the 'file system busy' problem when shutting down, I d/l'd the 6.1 kernel instead (2.2.13-7). I used Kpackage to install it, edited lilo.conf, ran lilo, and I was done. Reboot and the 2.2.13 kernel was used. Well, there's good reason to keep the "old" kernel around as a backup. At least if you screw up the installation of your new kernel, you will have the old one to fall back on (as bad as it is, it's a LOT better than trying to make a boot floppy when your machine doesn't dual-boot. G) John
Re: [newbie] ram not seen
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: I believe it's a Athlon/'not quite ready for prime time' motherboard issue. I have no first hand experience with it, but I've seen a lot of this type complaint about Athlon mobo's on several hardware NG's. Sort'a funny that the Cu-mine/8xx chipset mobo's have a similar deal. Ahh...I suppose it couldn't also have anything to do with the fact that the Athlon is a totally new architecture and Linux isn't QUITE sure how to talk to everything in the new architecture? ;-) John
RE: [newbie]
I think I remember Loki talking about developing a gaming API. I'm not sure if it is open source though. Aaron -Original Message- From: Sysadmin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 9:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re: [newbie] I wish. If I were better at programming I would write you one and several other people and then after debugging then shoot it all over ftp land to share with all. On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know if/when Linux will have an equivalent to Direct X (latest version), for cool games like Nascar3 or whatever??? Jaguar Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- Normal=boring x 100
Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Don't forget DSP thats a winmodem too Or that HORRID IBM excuse for a combo modem/soundcard on their earlier laptops. :-) That was SO proprietary that each version of the laptop had their own drivers/setup util, which wouldn't work with ANY other version of that laptop! :-) (and just TRY finding 'em these days! G) John
Re: [newbie] installing Linux in extended partition
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Andre C Cox wrote: My hard drive is 6.4GB, where the primary partition has win98 running. I would like to install linux Mandrake in the extended partition. The size of this is 3.2GB. How do I go about this. As detail as possible. Thanks for any help or suggestions: Andre Cox 1st, plz check the line length in your mail client. :) hard to read like this You don't give enough information. Does the 3.2GB extended partition exist already? Does it contain a logical partition already (do you have d: ?) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie]
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Aaron deRozario wrote: I think I remember Loki talking about developing a gaming API. I'm not sure if it is open source though. Aaron loki has several projects, http://www.lokigames.com/development/ -Original Message- From: Sysadmin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 9:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:re: [newbie] I wish. If I were better at programming I would write you one and several other people and then after debugging then shoot it all over ftp land to share with all. On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know if/when Linux will have an equivalent to Direct X (latest version), for cool games like Nascar3 or whatever??? Jaguar Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- Normal=boring x 100 -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Remove
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Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)
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Re: [newbie] enlightenment
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: This was discused last week with very good instructions (step by step), have a look in the archives. here are two files you need to check out, startkde and Xclients. The basic intsructions are change the exec referencre to kwm in startkde to enlightenment, save the file as something else, then in Xclients, change the reference to startkde to whatever you saved the modified startkde to. . .thats it in a nutshell. . .not sure if it works seeing as how i havent tried it yet, but thats what i pieced together from various posts and sites. . .good luck! -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) Aggression Takes Its Toll.
[newbie] SB Live
Well, I'm stumped. d/l the tarball and here is what the readme says and a list of the files the tarball created. (my appologies that I've had to attach it as a attachment - I couldn't get the cut and paste to work but that's another thread) I tried the command "make emu10k1" but that bombed out with some error msg - sorry, didn't write it down. Please remember you're dealing with a -ahem- newbie here and I haven't got a clue. TIA Joe Gardner Installation Instructions for Creative EMU10K1 drivers (v0.4) --- Card support - Creative Sound Blaster Live! Features - Open Sound System (OSS) compatible - Full duplex wave playback/recording functionality (/dev/dsp) - Simultaneous wave playback streams (/dev/dsp and /dev/dsp1) - Analog mixer (AC97) support (/dev/mixer) - Sound status reporting (/dev/sndstat) - MIDI UART support (/dev/midi) - Joystick interface support (= 2.2.x kernels only) - Supports multiple EMU10K1-based cards Requirements - The kernel must be compiled: - With loadable modules support(CONFIG_MODULES = y) - Without SMP support (CONFIG_SMP = n) - With soundcard support as a module (CONFIG_SOUND = m) - Without any integrated soundcard drivers (CONFIG_SOUND_* = n) - "PnP-compatible OS installed" option in BIOS must be disabled - Recommended system configuration: Min. 200 MHz Pentium-class w/ 32 MB RAM Installation --- 1. Determine your kernel sound modules installation location (usually /lib/modules/2.x.y/misc) 2. Copy the driver to that location as emu10k1.o (eg. /lib/modules/2.x.y/misc/emu10k1.o) 3. Unload all existing soundcard drivers, including soundcore 4. Remove all old soundcard references from /etc/conf.modules 5. Add a new reference to the driver in /etc/conf.modules: (eg. "alias sound emu10k1" or "alias char-major-14 emu10k1") 6. If your kernel is compiled with version information, add the following lines to /etc/conf.modules after the previous statement: pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore 7. Load the driver: "modprobe emu10k1" Joystick support 1. Load the driver with parameter "joystick=0x200" eg. insmod emu10k1 joystick=0x200 2. Load base joystick driver eg. insmod joystick 3. Load specific joystick driver eg. insmod joy-analog ( If you are using an analog joystick) Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/joystick.txt for more info. 8010.h CHANGES CVS GNU_GPL Makefile README audio.c cardcfg.h cardmi.c cardmi.h cardmo.c cardmo.h cardwi.c cardwi.h cardwo.c cardwo.h clip creaf.h dbg.h ecard.c efxmgr.c efxmgr.h emuadxmg.c emuadxmg.h haldefs.h halstr.h hwaccess.c hwaccess.h icard.h icardmid.h icardmix.h icardwav.h irq.h irqmgr.c irqmgr.h main.c midi.c mixer.c mmmidi.h mmwave.h mycommon.h myirq.c mymix.h osutils.c osutils.h platform.h recmgr.c recmgr.h sndstat.c sndstat.h voicemgr.c voicemgr.h
RE: [newbie] wine
No you don't need Windows to use wine now. I think when wine was first emerging you needed a copy of Win3.1 on your system. That was before they even started working on 32-bit API's. I remember reading this in one of those free computer papers they have in Toronto, when I lived in Canada last year. Hope all you Ontarians out there are keeping warm ;-) Aaron -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 12:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] wine On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta is it possible to run wine on a winblows less system? I use linux and only linux, but recently I have a need to run a couple applications that are winblows. is it possible? could it be?? Actually, I figure this is just what wine is for. Afterall, if you have Windows installed, it makes more sense to me to just boot Windows to run those programs. I have W98, but I've been playin around with wine with some success. I've had more success findin Linux apps to replace their windows counterpart tho. Anyhow, a good source for wine info is the NG: comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine oh and yes, to answer your question, you don't need Windows installed, just the Windows app you wanna run. -- ..Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)
The jpg did not come through here. Do you think anyone wouldcare to send it throuh again? Thanks On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: %_ Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="windows keyboard.jpg" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description: ROFLMAO :-) This is GOOD!!! :-) John -- Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ - 20177604
Re: [newbie] Keep modem connection alive
"Morrell, Mike" wrote: How do I keep my modem connection to my ISP alive when the computer is idle? i set up my crontab to run pppd every ten minutes. if it already connected, then no change. if not connected, then it dials in. :P
Re: [newbie] ram not seen
Dude! What driver do you use to make the udma66 work? This is cool On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: I appended the ram amount in lilo.conf to reflect 256megs and it boots normal now. Incidentely Mandrake sees the Athlon processor and all the hardware including udma 66 hardrive. This thing is working perfectly and is so fast. Now if I can just figure out why tkdesk keeps telling me to put the environment path etc etc. Thanks for the help gentlemenPaul From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ram not seen Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:11 -0500 On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: I believe it's a Athlon/'not quite ready for prime time' motherboard issue. I have no first hand experience with it, but I've seen a lot of this type complaint about Athlon mobo's on several hardware NG's. Sort'a funny that the Cu-mine/8xx chipset mobo's have a similar deal. Ahh...I suppose it couldn't also have anything to do with the fact that the Athlon is a totally new architecture and Linux isn't QUITE sure how to talk to everything in the new architecture? ;-) John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Normal=boring x 100
Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)
Oh man was that FUNNYY... I really needed a good laugh. I will printing that and hang it in my office
Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem
I hear they are making USB modems these days. Haven't seen one IRL, but saw one advertised in a magazine. AFAIK these will not work with Linux, as it does not support USB yet (stable kernals anyway). Be sure you get a SERIAL external modem. -Warren - Original Message - From: Sysadmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 9:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem Don't forget DSP thats a winmodem too On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Gregg Carrier wrote: Hi all, Got the kppp diialer configured and managed to find my modem on the equivalent of COM4. The test seemed to go OK, so I clicked dial and everything hung. I had to shutdown the XServer (at least that's what I knew how to do) There was no response to anything in KDE. I have a HSP K56FLEX PNP MODEM according to the Windows control panel. Any suggestions? Another configuration problem? Thanks in advance. Gregg HSP modem = WIN Modem = don't work with linux modem -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Normal=boring x 100
[newbie] Get_Hostbyname failure.
I've just set up a Helios box at work in an attempt to prove that Linux is a usable alternative for our development. (Not to mention to run an internal development mailing list -- there will likely be more on that later.) Anyway, During setup, it never asked me for a host name. (It did detect my ethernet card, however. That was cool because it never has before on my home machine.) I went after reboot and ,using linuxconf, set the host name. That seemed to work. My new host name is set it in the /etc/HOSTNAME file, and it shows up in /etc/issue. However, when I try to start up Apache or Samba I get an error and they fail to start. Viewing the logs, I can see that Get_Hostbyname fails. In Apache I can get past this by setting the "Server Name" property. Samba, however, has no such option (that I know of) and that's a fairly klugy solution for Apache anyway. So... I've searched mailing list archives and documentation of all kinds and haven't found a solution. I *have* however seen the question asked a couple of times and therefore apologize in advance if I just missed the answer somehow. Regardless, how do I once and for all set the host name? TIA, Mike PS: Additional info: 'hostname' works, 'hostname -d' and others do not work. I assume this is because 'hostname' just looks in /etc/HOSTNAME and the other forms do some type of lookup that is similar to the failure I'm getting in Apache and Samba.
[newbie] Linux support for AMD K7
Does anyone know if the AMD processor, K7, is supported by any distro of Linux? Richard
Re: [newbie] enlightenment
Thanks all. Let me also say I really appreciate the help. I've tried irc and all I get is read the manual. At 06:06 PM 11/04/1999 -0700, you wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Jesse Royall wrote: This was discused last week with very good instructions (step by step), have a look in the archives. desktopcfg doesn't yet have an option for Enlightened-KDE, as i haven't gotten to it yet. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Get_Hostbyname failure.
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Mike Abney wrote: I've just set up a Helios box at work in an attempt to prove that Linux is a usable alternative for our development. (Not to mention to run an internal development mailing list -- there will likely be more on that later.) Anyway, During setup, it never asked me for a host name. (It did detect my ethernet card, however. That was cool because it never has before on my home machine.) I went after reboot and ,using linuxconf, set the host name. That seemed to work. My new host name is set it in the /etc/HOSTNAME file, and it shows up in /etc/issue. it likely has a good reverse dns, the installer tests this and only asks if it wasn't found. However, when I try to start up Apache or Samba I get an error and they fail to start. Viewing the logs, I can see that Get_Hostbyname fails. In Apache I can get past this by setting the "Server Name" property. Samba, however, has no such option (that I know of) and that's a fairly klugy solution for Apache anyway. So... I've searched mailing list archives and documentation of all kinds and haven't found a solution. I *have* however seen the question asked a couple of times and therefore apologize in advance if I just missed the answer somehow. Regardless, how do I once and for all set the host name? edit /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME= DOMAINNAME= TIA, Mike PS: Additional info: 'hostname' works, 'hostname -d' and others do not work. I assume this is because 'hostname' just looks in /etc/HOSTNAME and the other forms do some type of lookup that is similar to the failure I'm getting in Apache and Samba. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] enlightenment
Does anyone know how to upgrade enlightenment. If not a good faq wouldn't hurt. Thanks Lawrence G.
Re: [newbie] EZ-drive
On 4 Nov, John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, you wrote: I've been following this thread to see if it would solve my problems as well. I have an IBM 10.1 Gb HDD, and in order to see anything above 8.4Gb, I had to download and install this pgm called Ontrack Manager. Am I right in presuming that Ontrack does the same thing as EZ-Drive? I have been having problems getting Linux to install on this disk. John, am I getting you right by saying that if I put Linux (and only Linux) on it, the entire 10Gb (minus partitioning overheads) would be seen? Caution: I'm still more "newbie" than "expert." However, that being said, it is my understanding that Linux shouldn't have a problem seeing the ENTIRE 10 Gb. I would think that out of a 10 Gb hard drive, you should get at least 9.5 to 9.75 Gb out of it. If it is at all possible, get a BIOS update instead of using that disk manager software. Those things are nothing more than pains in the ... well, you get the idea. I'm speaking from experience here, too. Getting a BIOS update may be a headache, but unless someone on this list knows a painless way to get LILO and that dumb boot manager to co-exist... well, maybe you could... anyway, I still wouldn't. I have two more 3.2Gb HD set up as pri slave and sec master. Would I have a problem then to install a small Win partition on the pri slave? Would Win choke on not being in the pri master disk? The Win partition would only be for some 'legacy' programs like the IBM Ink Manager for myCrossPad I won't swear to it, but I *think* Windows will choke if it's not on the primary master. I would suggest you check with someone who's more knowledgeable than I about dual-booting and Windows' preferences. Yes, DOS - which includes Win9x, as it's just extensions to DOS (and as far as I know, NT too, but I haven't tried that) - does need to be on the primary master drive. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Linux support for AMD K7
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, rich wrote: Does anyone know if the AMD processor, K7, is supported by any distro of Linux? Richard Yes... -- Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 19:40:01 PST From: Paul Dewey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ram not seen I appended the ram amount in lilo.conf to reflect 256megs and it boots normal now. Incidentely Mandrake sees the Athlon processor and all the hardware including udma 66 hardrive. This thing is working perfectly and is so fast. Now if I can just figure out why tkdesk keeps telling me to put the environment path etc etc. Thanks for the help gentlemenPaul
Re: [newbie] enlightenment
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Lawrence Greer wrote: Does anyone know how to upgrade enlightenment. If not a good faq wouldn't hurt. Thanks Lawrence G. rpm -ihv \ ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/contrib/RPMS/rpmfind-1.2-1mdk.i586.rpm rpmfind enlightenment I'm sure it's documented on the website also.. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)
Many thanks for the laughs... Jeeez, I'm still laughing each time I look at the picture! Unfortunately half the time, the 3finger salute doesn't even help. With Windows I always rely on my precious Reset button. Hey, make sure the 'expert' list gets a copy of this! Seve
Re: [newbie] enlightenment
On 5 Nov, Lawrence Greer wrote: Does anyone know how to upgrade enlightenment. If not a good faq wouldn't hurt. Sure... download the RPMS from cooker. From here, ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS makes a great mirror. You'll need enlightenment, esound, imlib, fnlib, freetype, and all the accompanying "-devel" packages. Also get imlib-cfgeditor and you may want the enlightenment-conf package, too. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] ram not seen
no particular driver so maybe its running in ata33 mode? I dont knowbut it is a special ata66 cable that comes with the motherboard and it is running fast. Paul From: Sysadmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ram not seen Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 22:53:35 -0600 Dude! What driver do you use to make the udma66 work? This is cool On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: I appended the ram amount in lilo.conf to reflect 256megs and it boots normal now. Incidentely Mandrake sees the Athlon processor and all the hardware including udma 66 hardrive. This thing is working perfectly and is so fast. Now if I can just figure out why tkdesk keeps telling me to put the environment path etc etc. Thanks for the help gentlemenPaul From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ram not seen Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:11 -0500 On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: I believe it's a Athlon/'not quite ready for prime time' motherboard issue. I have no first hand experience with it, but I've seen a lot of this type complaint about Athlon mobo's on several hardware NG's. Sort'a funny that the Cu-mine/8xx chipset mobo's have a similar deal. Ahh...I suppose it couldn't also have anything to do with the fact that the Athlon is a totally new architecture and Linux isn't QUITE sure how to talk to everything in the new architecture? ;-) John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Normal=boring x 100 __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Linux support for AMD K7
I have mandrake 6.1 installed on 2 Athlon based systems using Asus K7M mainboards. Its recognized and runs extrememly fast. I tried a load of Caldera 2.3 and no go. Regards, Paul From: rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux support for AMD K7 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:43:32 -0600 Does anyone know if the AMD processor, K7, is supported by any distro of Linux? Richard __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Solved : RE: [newbie] Get_Hostbyname failure.
Title: Solved : RE: [newbie] Get_Hostbyname failure. Thanks, that did the trick. Just putting this entry in for the archives. ;-) ~Mike -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 12:17 AM To: 'Mandrake Newbie' Subject: Re: [newbie] Get_Hostbyname failure. On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Mike Abney wrote: I've just set up a Helios box at work in an attempt to prove that Linux is a usable alternative for our development. (Not to mention to run an internal development mailing list -- there will likely be more on that later.) Anyway, During setup, it never asked me for a host name. (It did detect my ethernet card, however. That was cool because it never has before on my home machine.) I went after reboot and ,using linuxconf, set the host name. That seemed to work. My new host name is set it in the /etc/HOSTNAME file, and it shows up in /etc/issue. it likely has a good reverse dns, the installer tests this and only asks if it wasn't found. However, when I try to start up Apache or Samba I get an error and they fail to start. Viewing the logs, I can see that Get_Hostbyname fails. In Apache I can get past this by setting the Server Name property. Samba, however, has no such option (that I know of) and that's a fairly klugy solution for Apache anyway. So... I've searched mailing list archives and documentation of all kinds and haven't found a solution. I *have* however seen the question asked a couple of times and therefore apologize in advance if I just missed the answer somehow. Regardless, how do I once and for all set the host name? edit /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME= DOMAINNAME= TIA, Mike PS: Additional info: 'hostname' works, 'hostname -d' and others do not work. I assume this is because 'hostname' just looks in /etc/HOSTNAME and the other forms do some type of lookup that is similar to the failure I'm getting in Apache and Samba. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
