[newbie] Some Newbie questions (IBM ThinkPad 380Z user)
Hi there, (don't know exactly how to post stuff so I try again with [newbie] in the subject) Just installed Linux Mandrake 5.3 a week ago and figured out a lot but I've still got some questions. I installed it on a IBM ThinkPad 380Z with 64 MB. The graphics adapter is a NeoMagic 256AV or something so I choose the NeoMagic 128 driver. It works fine in 1024x768x16M but when I am resizing windows (to the max) and back the screen gets corrupted. If I choose to redraw the screen it looks fine again. A colleague of mine as installed it on the same laptop and he told me that it works fine ?? Tried to change setting with XF86Setup, but no success. Second question is also about the bad performance I get using the KDE desktop. I increased the amount of memory used for the desktop to 5100 KB but I've got 64MB so hence that couldn't be the problem I guess. I opened 2 Netscape sessions and a Terminal session and the poor thing got really slow. I even got an error about my Virtual memory being low (I reserved 100MB for it !) After that the Terminal app. In X crashed and I had to restart the X session to get it to work again. Core dump and more of that s... ! Strange isn't it? The third question is about LILO. For some (still unexplained reason) LILO got corrupted. After booting my Laptop all I got to see was LIL- as a prompt and the damn thing hung. Booting with a bootflop and uninstalling LILO (lilo -u) and starting it again (it found both the partitions DOS and Linux) no success? I checked the config (lilo -t) and everything looked fine. At the end I installed Linux again from CD (chose the update option) and choose all the defaults. LILO was initialized again somehow and after this I could boot from harddisk again. YESSS ! There must be another way to do this. Maybe it has something to do where to put the LILO loader (MBR or first bootable partition) I forgot the first configuration but now I have chosen the MBR. The rest works fine, got around the problem of the default numlock problem, can use the Xircom network/modem card and even got LICQ installed (not connected to a ICQ server yet!) Other Thinkpad users please send me a mail so we can keep in touch and exchange info about Linux on this machine with mandrake 5.3. Hope to get some tips/answers. A hard to give upper, Roger de Jonge Very funny Scotty, now beam down my clothes
[newbie] Boot disk
I recently ordered a Mandrake 5.3 disk from LinuxMall. Will I be able to use a boot disk that came with RH 5.2 to start the installation process, or will I need to create a Mandrake specific boot disk to get going??? Thanks for any advice you can give me. Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] This list and Outlook
Yesterday (or the day before) there was a mild flame on the list about people using Outlook and their quotes being at the end of the message. I'm using the new Outlook 5 at work (comes with IE5) and can't find the option to switch this behaviour to what was suggested (quoted text first). Anybody else noticed this and if so any idea where the option has gone (i'm sure it used to be present in older versions) ??? Till then please excuse any posts i may make !! Martin.
[newbie] NUM Lock Problem
I have just installed Linux-Mandrake for the first time. I put it on my Thinkpad 760ED and everything works great. Except.. Every time I boot up, my num lock is on and when I try to login in, if the login id uses any keys that fall in the numeric keypad area, I get numbers instead of letters. If anybody can help this rookie out I'd greatly appreciate it. TIA, Craig
RE: [newbie] What to do with Linux...
I had the same feeling for about a week after first installing linux a year or so ago. Since then, though, I can tell you that linux has opened up a lot more opportunities to actually learn new things about computers in general. I'm heavily into computer graphic art now simply because you have at your disposal an awesome image manipulation program, GIMP. I never would have purchased Photoshop for Windows at the price it is, and therefore never would have known what I could do in that genre. I've also learned a ton about computer programming. I still can't say I'm proficient in any language but C/C++, but messing around with so many different languages will make you think differently about programming. To sum it up, linux is just fun. Look around the web for apps to try out, experiment with. You'll be able to get into just about anything you want to, at what cost... Nuttin. : Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kuraiken Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 4:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] What to do with Linux... I hope that this is a help to you. This is the way that I used to install and it worked Ok. Now that I have it installed I have no idea what to do, but that is another matter. Hi David, The question is _what_ do you want to do? (And where do you want to go tomorrow? :)) Linux is more than capable enough to do whatever you want it to. It's just an OS. (okay, okay, you freaks, it's just a _kernel_ but this is _newbie_ land! :)) Since migrating from NT, I've been using Linux everyday for everything. (except playing games...which is not all that often, due to my schedule) -- -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster --
Re: [newbie] Color Depth for ATI cards
Lionel Siau wrote: Hi, I'm getting the same screwy thing with my ATI Xpert@Work. If I (using Xconfigurator) don't have an entry for 8 bit color mode, startx fails completely although 16 and 24 bit modes are enabled(w low res). This has led me to suspect that the XServer/KDE is kaput. My previous RHL 5.1 worked fine. Since I just installed it yesterday, I will be fooling around with it...so pointers appreciated. --snip-- Take a look at the update directory at Mandrake. The updated Xconfigurator sees my ATI AIW and gives me 32bbp by default. Until I upgraded the software I also had some ATI/ Mandrake video problems. -- Robert Sheskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 5788323
RE: [newbie] Making KDE run faster
I've installed Mandrake 5.3. I believe it has the 2.0.36 kernel. I haven't upgraded any package yet. kevin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Philp Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 11:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Making KDE run faster Kevin Fife wrote: Irsan, I'm having a similar problem, except I have even more memory than you do. When I run free -m I get the following results. total usedfreeshared buffers cached Mem:10 9 1 5 1 2 -/+ bufffers/cache: 4 5 Swap: 101 15 86 As you can see, linux thinks I only have 10meg of memory!! I even added the append='128MB' statement to the lilo.conf, but no difference. Run the free -m command and see if you get similar results. Check the dmesg output to see what the kernel finds when it starts. Are you running a 2.2.x kernel and haven't upgraded the procps package?? -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Really New
-Original Message- Making a boot disk is a little different for this than it is for dos. Look in the dosutils(?) directory for a program named rawwrite. This copies an image intoa floppy for you. The boot image, and a supplemental if you need it, are in the images directory. (Russ)--- Ok, I did read about that image disk but I wasn't sure that was the Linux version of a boot disk. I couldn't figure out how putting a picture on a floppy would boot my computer. "Boot Image" makes sense. OK, one confusion cleared up. - them. Michael's suggestion to look in Index.000 was a dead end because that file on my CD is empty. Try index.html (Russ)-- That was the one I started from. Since it was totally new to me, I was having a difficult time following the directions. Things are starting to come into focus though. --- KDE happens to be a very popular (and pretty good) system that's a little hard to get working if you don't know what you're doing. The Mandrake distribution is RedHat with KDE already configured and set up. (Russ)--- OK, I think I gotcha. I think :-) I'll mainly stick with just getting this baby installed (hence my boot disk problem), then I'll go from there. I do want to thank you for your help. I really appreciate it. Thanks to all the others who have posted as well. __
Re: [newbie] Internet/modem
jowilker writes: [snip] to pull the card and set the jumpers to com 2. Plug n Play is for windose and can't be used in linux. [snip] PNP ISA devices work in Linux. My SB card is a case in point. PNP PCI devices work in Linux. My NIC is a case in point. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message composed with XEmacs 20.4 and VM 6.70 on RedHat 5.2 Kernel 2.2.3-ac4-4
RE: [newbie] Making KDE run faster
I ran Mandrake on a clean install. I have 128 meg of memory. Could it be that since I couldn't get LILO to boot my hard drive and am booting from a bootdisk that it's not respecting the append statement? kevin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kuraiken Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 5:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Making KDE run faster Kevin Fife wrote: Irsan, I'm having a similar problem, except I have even more memory than you do. When I run free -m I get the following results. total usedfreeshared buffers cached Mem:10 9 1 5 1 2 -/+ bufffers/cache: 4 5 Swap: 101 15 86 As you can see, linux thinks I only have 10meg of memory!! I even added the append='128MB' statement to the lilo.conf, but no difference. Run the free -m command and see if you get similar results. kevin Whoah! This is bad. How much RAM do your really have, Kevin? This says that Linux itself only sees (and hence can use) 10 MB ONLY. You do NOT want to run KDE on that. (or any other wm for that matter...) I think your problem is different from Irsan's, though. Did you install Mandrake clean? Or did you upgrade from some other distro / version? Linux kernel version? -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster -- Discussions heartily welcomed; Flames generally ignored. --
RE: [newbie] Linuxconfig for networking
Thanks for the reply. I want to do a couple of things. - share files with another pc running Linux/Win98 - setup Samba and try setting up Linux to act as a print server. Thanks again. -Original Message- From: Kuraiken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 1999 7:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linuxconfig for networking Mark Lyon wrote: Hi all, I've just installed 5.3 and find it great. Lot's of work seems to have been done from 5.2. Anyway I want to set up a simple/isolated network and I saw that linuxconfig help said that it could be done, (this was under Networking\Basic Hostname Info). My question to this of course is how? Thanks in advance. Mark Hi Mark, The real question is, what do you want to do? Share files? Printer? Build an intranet? All Linux boxes are usually network ready. Just plug into the network and away you go. (you'll need to set permissions etc) You need to make sure each box (Linux or otherwise) on the network has a unique name and IP number. First thing to try is ping each box from the others. (In this regard, setting up NT to work with Linux is a bitch - I hate NT with a vengeance! I did manage to get it to work though...) Mail back to the list and tell us what you want to do and we'll either give tips right away or point you in the right direction. Regards, -- -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster --
[newbie] new installation
I had not done any Linux installs since RH 4.X,... I didn't have time and damn near forgot everything. I got home and installed Mandrake, set up kppp, kmail and got it running sweetly with an IBM 40Mhz Aptiva .. Hot Damn ! There may be hope for me yet ! My honey even likes it better than WinBlow$ Charley
[newbie] Newbie needs help w/KDE.
Hello! I am a newbie and I just got my LM 5.2 last week. I'm really excited about learning all of the intricacies of linux and other flavors. Since I'm new I thought I would start out just messing around w/KDE a little bit until I have a chance to get a book. When I tried to execute KDE the other day from the prompt I got several messages saying that linux "cannot connect to xserver" and some other stuff dealing with kaud, etc. Since my SIS adapter isn't listed I tried to change my settings to a default adapter, but this still didn't work. Any suggestions? Thanks alot! mark g. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Internet/modem
More and more computers now days come with a 'winmodem' instead of a true modem. I have a small computer business, and I decided a while back that I would only sell computers with 3Com/U.S. Robotics modems. Sure, they are about 3-4 times the price of the cheap Lucent and Rockwell based winmodems, but they more than make up for it in reliability of connections and lack of problems. Just my opinion BTW-they work great in Linux! Eric Giles Thanks for all the quick replies..it turns out that on further investigation I discovered (much to my dismay) my modem is in fact a software controlled aka. "winmodem" ..oh well I guess I'll go out and find a replacement that will work...any suggestions? Thanks again
RE: [newbie] This list and Outlook
Click on the Accounts button and look in the options for that or look up in the Services option it is in there some where under sending. James On Wednesday, March 31, 1999 7:34 AM, Martin White [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Yesterday (or the day before) there was a mild flame on the list about people using Outlook and their quotes being at the end of the message. I'm using the new Outlook 5 at work (comes with IE5) and can't find the option to switch this behaviour to what was suggested (quoted text first). Anybody else noticed this and if so any idea where the option has gone (i'm sure it used to be present in older versions) ??? Till then please excuse any posts i may make !! Martin.
Re: [newbie] Boot disk
Used the Red Hat 5.2 boot disk I had on my Mandrake 5.3 install with no problems. Jeanette -Original Message- From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 7:09 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot disk Don't quote me on this as i always boot straight from the CD (floppies are so slow these days !!), but i'm pretty sure you will need to create mandrake specific disks as the mandrake setup program is not the standard RH one. Martin. - Original Message - From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 12:50 PM Subject: [newbie] Boot disk I recently ordered a Mandrake 5.3 disk from LinuxMall. Will I be able to use a boot disk that came with RH 5.2 to start the installation process, or will I need to create a Mandrake specific boot disk to get going??? Thanks for any advice you can give me. Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] WINE and office apps.
Well I have a windows computer but I just am learning Linux and want to try all of it including Wine. Jeanette -Original Message- From: Kuraiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 4:53 AM Subject: [newbie] WINE and office apps. Steve Philp wrote: snip I don't know anything at all about WINE. Sorry. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] What?! Steve! Say it ain't so! ;-) Thankfully, I don't need WINE. I switched to Linux to _get away_ from Windows. Still, I'm not belittling the WINE project in the least. If I can play games like Starcraft etc without booting into Windows, all the better! (WINE currently has this capability - check it out!) Unfortunately for those seeking to use WINE for using MS Office...the situation is not currently optimal. I don't think this is the fault of the WINE project, though. MS is notorious for keeping secret APIs. Also, for all you guys using office type software, you can now use StarOffice for Linux. (My officemates like em...) It is also free for personal use. However, the good news is, of course, KOffice. Still in alpha stage but it looks set to change the "office app" using world as we know it. No, I'm not from the KOffice team. :) For more info visit: http://www.kde.org/koffice/ Regards, -- -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster --
Re: [newbie] Internet/modem
I have been using an External modem its easy to set up in Linux and works good. I am using a Hayes cause it uses the standard modem protocols. Jeanette -Original Message- From: Larry Clyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 6:46 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Internet/modem Thanks for all the quick replies..it turns out that on further investigation I discovered (much to my dismay) my modem is in fact a software controlled aka. "winmodem" ..oh well I guess I'll go out and find a replacement that will work...any suggestions? Thanks again -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jowilker Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet/modem Larry, The modem in your box is probably in an unjumpered mode aka PNP. You need to pull the card and set the jumpers to com 2. Plug n Play is for windose and can't be used in linux. The modem and mouse used to conflict a lot. I think all mouses using serial can be used without prioritizing them, the cdroms are atapi, and modems pnp. Makes life easier for the other world. Linux is still in school, even though it's big for it's age. Try jumpering to com2 and give it a whirl. John Larry Clyman wrote: Hi all, I just installed Linux/Mandrake 5.3 yesterday (win98 on hda and Linux on hdb)and am having no luck in configuring some sort of internet dialup connection. I've tried using the Kppp app that comes with the KDE interface and everytime I try to query my modem (US Robotics 56K FAX WIN INT v.90) on Linux's equivalent of comport 2 it either tells me it's busy or there's no answer . I've also checked out some of the howto's mentioned in previous listings and have had no luck either. One listing had me login as root...do a pnpdump and then edit the "isapnp.conf" file...when I followed the directions I got a reply of "permission denied". Another howto has me attempt to edit the "ppp-on" file supposedly in my /usr/sbin/ directory. I tried finding that file and it doesn't seem to existthen I read in another listing that perhaps I need to mount windows 98 in order to access my dialup connection that waywell needless to say I'm quite confused at this point. Can anyone tell me what I need to do here..or point me at some other resources.. Any help is greatly appreciated.. Thanks Larry Clyman -- John R. Wilkerson 1442 B-1 New Castle Durham NC 27704 919-471-6731
Re: [newbie] Newbie needs help w/KDE.
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, someone, possibly you, wrote: messages saying that linux "cannot connect to xserver" and some other You must start Xfree set up first and then start it with startx. Since my SIS adapter If your card is a 6326(?) at present the drive is buggy. There was a lot of talk about it on the SuSE list and that an updated driver ws in the works. If it is not the above please tell us which it is and maybe someone else can help. mark g. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope this helps some. -- Mark McDermott Huntsville, AL A Happy Linux user
[newbie] Kernel Upgrade
I just attempted to upgrade my kernel according to the official guidelines on the web site, but it didn't work. I did everything on the list, putting in the kernel and kernel headers and upgrading all the packages. I used rpm -ivh for the kernel and headers, and rpm -U for all the others. I ran mouseconfig, updated /etc/lilo.conf. I ran lilo. I tried to reboot. As the machine turned off it checked through the programs it was turning off. The only thing with a problem was APM, it said no APM support in kernel. When I tried to reboot the lilo prompt worked and the system got as far as "Finding module dependencies". It just hung at this line. [It also repeated before this the error involving APM.] I can boot using a boot disk from the previous 2.0.36 kernel, but then I have no internet access ( and probably other problems). I never compiled my kernel in the first place - could this be my problem, and can I fix it now? Please help! I am truly a newbie, but I can follow simple instructions. Thanks, Tom
