[newbie] Setup for Linux on a Dual Drive Computer
Hello All, Ok here is the Thing. I am going to purchase a new Hard drive for my system sometime this week. When I get it I am going to run Linux on the old one I have. I have a Compaq Presario 2240 with a 2.1 gig drive. Right now I have it partitions so the Linux Mandrake uses 1.1 gigs of space and Win95 uses the other 1 gig. Well I am running out of space on the drive. I am going to be getting a 4 gig drive that I am going to have Win95 on (I have a Wife and 2 kids, They don't understand Linux YET) So what I am going to do is run Linux on the 2.1 gig drive. I think Mandrake will like the extra space don't you?? :) What I need to know is how I am to set it up. Will Disk Druid and the Setup see the other HD, and Beable to modify the MBR for LILO/LEELO ??? Please Let me Know Thanks, James J. Capone Webmaster http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/Linux ---Stable Version 1.01 http://linuxchoice.freeservers.com ---Development Version V1.02b "Even Common People Can Attain Uncommon Results!"
[newbie] dvorak keyboard/file manager/cut and paste
I have been using Linux off and on for about a year now and I've been incredibly impressed with it's stability. I decided some time ago to switch over to it as my primary OS, but I just didn't have enough time to invest in it. I just installed Linux Mandrake and I LOVE it. I was already familiar with Red Hat 5.2, but with the KDE and the other included applications and updates it's so much more useful for me (for example, my videocard isn't supported under Red Hat 5.2 so I had to install the newest XFree86 components every time I reinstalled it). Anyway, I still have a few questions I need answered before I can truly switch over to Linux Mandrake from the ridiculously unstable OS I currently primarily use (take a guess what it is). First: How do I get KDE to use a Dvorak keyboard layout? It works fine at the command prompt before I start X, but not in anything in KDE, including kvt windows. I use the Dvorak keyboard almost exclusively and I really can't switch to Linux unless I can get it to work all the time. This is one place where Red Hat 5.2 is better than Mandrake 5.3--it works in X as well as the command prompt. Second: How can I get the kfm to work more like the Win9x Explorer? I know that may be heresy, but I'm used to some luxuries like being able to hit Win-E to open an Explorer window at the root dir (and I'm sure I'm not the only one). I would love to be able to do the same sort of thing in KDE. Failing a keyboard shortcut, I would like to be able to put it on the toolbar so one click will open a window of the root dir. The other part is that I would like to have the tree and long views open by default. I went into the configuration and didn't see an obvious way to set that up. Third: How do I copy/cut and paste between apps? I have been mostly using KDE apps for everything because open windows are saved between sessions, even after a rare crash (I LOVE that!!!) but sometimes I want to use Netscape and I want to copy a URL from the KDE browser to Netscape. I copy it, and it shows up on the clipboard list but it won't paste into Netscape (and possibly any non-KDE app, I'm not sure). Is there a common clipboard like there is in Windows? If not, I can work around it but it would really be unfortunate...! Linux, X, and KDE are better in so many ways I'd hate to see them beat in something like clipboard functionality. All in all, I think Linux Mandrake is incredible...the stability and versatility are awesome. KDE takes the concept behind Win98 and takes it to a higher level. Thank you to everyone involved, and thank you in advance to anybody that can answer my questions or at least tell me where to look! --walker.
[newbie] no umlauts in man-pages in kvt and help after kernel upgrade
Hi there! I upgraded my Mandrake 5.3 to 2.2.3 just some days ago. Went very fine for me (thanks to the Mandrake guys, BTW). Only trouble is that kvt and help do not show umlauts (that is ö, ä, etc) and sharp s (ß) anymore, when processing german man-pages. *Everything* else works fine, i.e I can enter umlauts and they show up with less. Also no problem with them on a pure terminal. Since there is no problem with that on the console, this seems to have something to do with KDE and not with groff or less in general. My settings: - system /etc/sysconfig/i18n: [...] SYSFONT=cp850-8x16 SYSTERM=linux-lat /etc/profile: [...] LC_TYPE=ISO-8859-1 LESSCHARSET=latin1 [...] - KDE: kvt: iso-8859-1, font: fixed help: times/courier First default language is German, second English. Any ideas? Thanx tom
Re: [newbie] Setup for Linux on a Dual Drive Computer
"James J. Capone" wrote: Hello All, Ok here is the Thing. I am going to purchase a new Hard drive for my system sometime this week. When I get it I am going to run Linux on the old one I have. I have a Compaq Presario 2240 with a 2.1 gig drive. Right now I have it partitions so the Linux Mandrake uses 1.1 gigs of space and Win95 uses the other 1 gig. Well I am running out of space on the drive. I am going to be getting a 4 gig drive that I am going to have Win95 on (I have a Wife and 2 kids, They don't understand Linux YET) So what I am going to do is run Linux on the 2.1 gig drive. I think Mandrake will like the extra space don't you?? :) What I need to know is how I am to set it up. Will Disk Druid and the Setup see the other HD, and Beable to modify the MBR for LILO/LEELO ??? All of it should go pretty easily. Here's how I'd go about it: 1) Create a boot disk for Linux and ensure that it works correctly. Write down what partition number the root of the Linux drive is (/dev/hda2, etc). 2) Edit /etc/fstab and modify the partition information so it reflects the moving of the drive (ie, if it's currently hda1, modify that to hdb1, etc). 3) Move the Linux disk to slave on the primary IDE controller (hdb) and put the new drive as master on the primary controller. 3) Install Windows on the new harddrive. 4) Boot Linux with your boot floppy and use the root= LILO option. LILO: linux root=/dev/hdb1 # for example, use the partition # number you wrote down in (1) 5) Edit /etc/lilo.conf and modify the root= lines in the Linux stanzas. Insert a stanza for dual-booting into Windows (although, if you've already got Windows, it'll probably already be there...) 6) Run /sbin/lilo to update the boot record (this will install it onto the new drive). 7) Reboot the machine and let LILO boot from the hard drive to ensure everything works and all the other partitions are mounting correctly. Hope it all goes well! Ask if you need more info. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Mandrake and Redhat
why does it say on the webpage that Redhat 5.3 (I think Redhat is talking about 6.0!) will never be released?
[newbie] video card
Hello all, weel here goes first i started with a diamondspeedstar a50 agp video card now i have a video excell 3d pro 740 can someone plz help me with the video setup. i cant get x to start at all. thanks, ndk
Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Redhat
Felix Natter wrote: why does it say on the webpage that Redhat 5.3 (I think Redhat is talking about 6.0!) will never be released? Instead of "releasing" a new version everytime a minor enhancement/upgrade is done to their distribution, they may incorporate all those minor change(s) that would've shown up in Red Hat 5.3 through 5.9 into a major 6.0 version.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Redhat
because Linux RedHat 5.3 wont be made they are gonna jump from 5.2 to 6.0
Re: [newbie] dvorak keyboard/file manager/cut and paste
On Son, 21 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Son, 21 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: walker logan hagius wrote: [snip] Hmmm... After playing with it for about 15 minutes, I'm really getting the impression that KDE sucks alot more than I'd ever imagined. I had tried to put another copy of 'Home Directory' onto the panel, then modify the execute string to use the root directory instead of my home directory. It looks like kfm wants to be able to put some files into the directory and since I don't have permissions to do that, it fails. Pardon? Desktop - *right click* - New URL. New URL - *right click* - properties - URL: / And you are set. Clicking this icon opens kfm at /. BTW: For this kind of questions comp.windows.x.kde would be a much better place to ask... [snip] -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] tom
Re: [newbie] video card
ndk | Ralph | wrote: Hello all, weel here goes first i started with a diamondspeedstar a50 agp video card now i have a video excell 3d pro 740 can someone plz help me with the video setup. i cant get x to start at all. I'm going to guess from the name of the card that it's based on the i740 chipset? If so, you're going to need one of the XBF servers to make use of that card. On my Cheapbytes CD, it's in /apps/Xservers/i740. There's also an excellent README file in that directory that goes step-by-step through installing and configuring the X server. As long as you're doing the upgrade shuffle on that system, you might want to grab recent copies of the Hardware Compatibility lists for your next shopping trip. It'll make using new hardware alot easier if it's supported! :) -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] video card
On Son, 21 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Son, 21 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: %_Hello all, weel here goes first i started with a diamondspeedstar a50 agp video card now i have a video excell 3d pro 740 can someone plz help me with the video setup. i cant get x to start at all. thanks, ndk Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: Please do not send HTML. Thank you! Do you have a manual for that card? If so, can specify the chipset? Are you sure about the card's name? Never heard of that one before. Further: what means doesn't 'start at all'? Do you get any error messages? Do you have a file like .Xerrors in your home directory? What does it say? Do 'less /var/log/messages'. Are there any video related error messages? Regards tom
Re: [newbie] dvorak keyboard/file manager/cut and paste
Thanks for the tips! I'll take a look-- On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, you wrote: On Son, 21 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Son, 21 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: [snipped] First: How do I get KDE to use a Dvorak keyboard layout? It works fine at the command prompt before I start X, but not in anything in KDE, including kvt windows. I use the Dvorak keyboard almost exclusively and I really can't switch to Linux unless I can get it to work all the time. This is one place where Red Hat 5.2 is better than Mandrake 5.3--it works in X as well as the command prompt. Some Nicholas Leipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] recently asked this at the kde-user mailing list. Maybe you should contact him, if he has got a solution for this already. Second: How can I get the kfm to work more like the Win9x Explorer? I know that may be heresy, but I'm used to some luxuries like being able to hit Win-E to open an Explorer window at the root dir (and I'm sure I'm not the only one). I would love to be able to do the same sort of thing in KDE. Failing a keyboard shortcut, I would like to be able to put it on the toolbar so one click will open a window of the root dir. The other part is that I would like to have the tree and long views open by default. I went into the configuration and didn't see an obvious way to set that up. There is an app called kexplorer which mimicks the behaviour of that MS one quite good. You can get it at: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/multimedia/cdrom/kexplorer-0.1.tar.gz As for the key bindings, I remember there was a thread recently on comp.windows.x.kde. Maybe a search on dejanews (www.dejanews.com) will wield some results. Third: How do I copy/cut and paste between apps? I have been mostly using KDE apps for everything because open windows are saved between sessions, even after a rare crash (I LOVE that!!!) but sometimes I want to use Netscape and I want to copy a URL from the KDE browser to Netscape. I copy it, and it shows up on the clipboard list but it won't paste into Netscape It does: mark the URL in kfm with your mouse and then click with the middle mouse button in the 'go to'-panel of Netscape. [snip] All in all, I think Linux Mandrake is incredible...the stability and versatility are awesome. KDE takes the concept behind Win98 and takes it to a higher level. Thank you to everyone involved, and thank you in advance to anybody that can answer my questions or at least tell me where to look! Same here ;-) --walker. tom
Re: [newbie] dvorak keyboard/file manager/cut and paste
Tom Berger wrote: On Son, 21 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Son, 21 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: walker logan hagius wrote: [snip] Hmmm... After playing with it for about 15 minutes, I'm really getting the impression that KDE sucks alot more than I'd ever imagined. I had tried to put another copy of 'Home Directory' onto the panel, then modify the execute string to use the root directory instead of my home directory. It looks like kfm wants to be able to put some files into the directory and since I don't have permissions to do that, it fails. Pardon? Desktop - *right click* - New URL. New URL - *right click* - properties - URL: / And you are set. Clicking this icon opens kfm at /. Wow, I really ended up going around my thumb to get to my a*hole on that one, didn't I?! My apologies. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Shuttle Parellel Port SCSI
i have a Shuttle SCSI Adapter that hooks up to my printer port and it control's my new CDR drive is there a way to make it work?
[newbie] Using Win95-Buttons in X - URLs
Go to http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue29/lg_tips29.html#ehliar. This should work with KDE, too. There also seems to be a program for KDE and WinKeys at http://unet.univie.ac.at/~a8603365/xwinkeys.tar.gz Imwheel will add support for WinKeys soon: http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/imwheel/ BTW, the mentioned thread was on de.alt.comp.kde not on comp.windows.x.kde. But it looks like Dejanews does not have it anymore :(. As far as I remember, it had something to do with xmodmap. The WinKeys have following mappings: (from left to right): keycode 115 keycode 116 keycode 117 You have to create a file called .xmodmaprc in your home directory and map these keys to functions and then make sure X uses these modifications on startup. Read the man-page, which comes with some illuminating examples ;-). There is also the Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO. Regards tom
Re: [newbie] dvorak keyboard/file manager/cut and paste
On Son, 21 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Son, 21 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: Tom Berger wrote: [snipped] Wow, I really ended up going around my thumb to get to my a*hole on that one, didn't I?! My apologies. Nevermind ;-) And thanx a lot for that wonderful phrase of yours *grin*. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] tom
[newbie] Need help configuring OPL3 SAX sound card.....
Could someone point me in the right direction in setting up a Yamaha OPL3 SAX sound card. We've tried to use sndconfig to no avail. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Adam Wright
[newbie] WinKeys in KDE - GOT IT !!!
Woah, I am such a frood ;-). Ok. Here is how it works: 1) Go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/ 2) Open a terminal. 3) Become root 4) Create a new file named .Xmodmap (exactly, do not forget the dot!) 5) In this file, write: keycode 115 = F21 keycode 116 = F22 keycode 117 = F23 and save. 6) Restart X 7) Go Menu - Settings - Keybindings (or whatever this is called in English, it's the tab with the key) - Global Settings 8) Go for a test: choose empty entry, choose 'userdefined', press your favourite WinKey, save, close, test, et voila - it works... Any donations are welcome ;-). Since I guess nobody is interested how I found out, I skip that part... Regards tom -- "int EIOIO Computer bought the farm" (GNU Errormessage) Thomas 'Tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] No UCE. No spam.
[newbie] Voodoo rush
Voodoo rush now is supported under linux...but being new to linux, how hard/easy is it to compile the drivers and set it up for x? Thanks for you help, Tim Wojtaszek
Re: [newbie] video card
Hey Tom, Here is what I printed up from my ntworkstation system -oh this is a agp card the name again is 3d Pro 740 made by Video Express. Thanks Ralph Type:gfx40 compatible display adapter string: Intel740 Video Accelerator memory: 8mb Chip Type: Intel740 Dac Type: Internal Please do not send HTML. Thank you! Do you have a manual for that card? If so, can specify the chipset? Are you sure about the card's name? Never heard of that one before. Further: what means doesn't 'start at all'? Do you get any error messages? Do you have a file like .Xerrors in your home directory? What does it say? Do 'less /var/log/messages'. Are there any video related error messages? Regards tom
Re: [newbie] video card
Thanks Steve, I tried on the list but hell no there even used Linux!! where do I find the cheapbytes cd? Ralph - Original Message - From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 21, 1999 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] video card ndk | Ralph | wrote: Hello all, weel here goes first i started with a diamondspeedstar a50 agp video card now i have a video excell 3d pro 740 can someone plz help me with the video setup. i cant get x to start at all. I'm going to guess from the name of the card that it's based on the i740 chipset? If so, you're going to need one of the XBF servers to make use of that card. On my Cheapbytes CD, it's in /apps/Xservers/i740. There's also an excellent README file in that directory that goes step-by-step through installing and configuring the X server. As long as you're doing the upgrade shuffle on that system, you might want to grab recent copies of the Hardware Compatibility lists for your next shopping trip. It'll make using new hardware alot easier if it's supported! :) -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
