Re: [newbie] Changing Bit Depth/Resolution
True Death wrote: I'm new to linux and linux-mandrake alike, my friend sort of "coaxed" me into trying it. I have several problems, but I'll start with the one I'm most sure of. Simpily put, how do i change the bit depth and resolution for KDE??? You change bit depth by telling it X what you want on the command line. 'startx -- -bpp 16' for 16 bpp color, 'startx -- -bpp 32' for 32 bpp color. You can change resolution while in X using the Ctrl-Alt-NumPad + and Ctrl-Alt-NumPad -. This will cycle through all of the sizes that you specified during X configuration. The X manpage probably has more information. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] RH Star Office and Mandrake
I have a wonderful installation of Mandrake 5.3.. it's sweet and I love it. I asked my Lady to pick up Star Office at CompU$A ( the web site said they had it ) All she could find was Caldera 1.3 with Star Office. The install script gags... it brings ua a window witha garbled message and stops. Any thoughts? The damn CD goes back today or tomorrow anyway Charley
[newbie] email client
Robert Sheskin writes: Can someone recomend a good email client that can filter messages. HTML would be nice too. I use Netscape now but was hopping that something a bit more stable was around. After using fetchmail to download my mail from my ISP, I have procmail filter the messages into folders. From there, I can use any number of mail readers to read mail. I have settled on xemacs. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/ http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/ http://www.xemacs.org
RE: [newbie] Modem Shutdown
Mr. Techno :-) Wow, this is great. I haven't put this in yet because I have one question. What does this mean and how do I do it? "And all you godda do is out this command in rc.local ..So that it will execute in bootup.." I'm thinkin this means adding a line in this file. Also, thanks to Dan Brown and Arnold Kelly for helping me with my login question. I'd like to add another question with this post if I may. What is the proper way to shut down? I seem to be doing it wrong because it keeps telling me on a new boot up that the disk was improperly unmounted. In the desktop, I click on logout then type "shutdown now" and it does a bunch of stuff and ends with something like #smash (this is from memory). I changed the inittab file to default 5 and it ended with something different (I think "system halted" if memory serves me correctly). What is the proper method for default 3? I do allot of what I do on the net so I kinda need to dial up, so I keep having to hook up Mr Billy. Hopefully this string given in this post will fix my modem problem and I can do this from within Linux. When I get it all up and running so I am comfortable with it, I do plan on re-installing it on my 5 gig as a duel boot to 98 but I'll have to do a little research on that partition program before I give that a go. Till then I have to swap disks. Thanks again Russ -Original Message- Use IsaPnP...Actually we have the same modem, I have a USR Robotics Sportster 33600 PnP too. Well, all you godda do is make a file called "isapnp.conf" in /etc and in that file, insert this... (READPORT 0x02f8) (ISOLATE) (IDENTIFY *) (CONFIGURE USR0011/319951107 (LD 0 (IO 0 (BASE 0x02f8)) (INT 0 (IRQ 3 (MODE +E))) (ACT Y))) (WAITFORKEY) Well, just copy this, coz we have the same modem anyway, theres no need to change the config here. Then do this "isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf" then make a file called "modemconfig" in /bin and insert this isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 3 autoconfig setserial /dev/ttyS1 spd_normal setserial /dev/ttyS1 stty -echo /dev/ttyS1 You dont need the first line, coz linux mandrake automatically does isapnp in bootup..so you just have to delete "isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf" . And all you godda do is out this command in rc.local ..So that it will execute in bootup..I guess thats it.. TechnoWiz From: "Russ Westbrook" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Modem Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 21:13:20 -0800 Hi All, I have a US Robotics 33 Sportster modem. Linux can't seem to find it. Is there some hoops I have to jump through to get it to see it? It is jumpered to com 2. Thanks Russ
Re: [newbie] KDE and Other WinManagers
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:38:21 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:Biztech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got windowmaker to run by running a command called wmaker.inst then startx. Then I can switch back to kde by startx kde In window maker you can switch to Afterstep so I haven't tried to modify the startx to get into afterstep. Help! I followed PJ's detailed instructions in a followup, and it doesn't seem to work this way. "startx kde" does not start KDE, it starts AfterStep, just as does "startx" alone. Fortunately, the WindowsMaker installation seems to be user specific (do you have to install all the files in every user's home directory?), so I can log in as another user and "startx" will start KDE. Unfortunately, now the root user is forced to use AfterStep. What I would really like to be able to do is switch between KDE and AnotherLevel, since that is the default for RedHat and there is so much documentation out there for RedHat. For example, some books (e.g., Bill Ball's "Using Linux") tell you how to start with AnotherLever and modify .xinitrc to run other windows managers and desktops. Starting from KDE, I am unable to experiment this way. On the other hand, I really do like having KDE available, which is why I installed Mandrake! TIA. Keith Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] email client
- Original Message - From: Mike Fieschko [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 1999 9:20 AM Subject: [newbie] email client ---snip--- After using fetchmail to download my mail from my ISP, I have procmail filter the messages into folders. From there, I can use any number of mail readers to read mail. I have settled on xemacs. snip I will try that out when I get some time to set it all up. Sounds like the combo will do what I want. Thanks.
Re: [newbie] KDE and Other WinManagers
On Sun, 04 Apr 1999 13:03:33 -0600, I wrote: Unfortunately, now the root user is forced to use AfterStep. Well, okay, I thought about this a little bit and renamed the .xinitrc file in /root to .xminitrc.AfterStep. Now "startx" runs KDE just fine as root. So now I can switch between KDE and AfterStep. How can I add AnotherLevel (and others) to the equation? Keith Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] RH Star Office and Mandrake
Charley Sparks wrote: I have a wonderful installation of Mandrake 5.3.. it's sweet and I love it. I asked my Lady to pick up Star Office at CompU$A ( the web site said they had it ) All she could find was Caldera 1.3 with Star Office. The install script gags... it brings ua a window witha garbled message and stops. Any thoughts? The damn CD goes back today or tomorrow anyway There are some webpages online that deal with StarOffice installation. You'll probably want to skip the CD you bought anyway, since it's an OOOLLLDDD version of StarOffice. You CAN download StarOffice 5.0 from the 'net. I've been pretty happy with my ApplixWare CD under Mandrake. You might give that a try -- I think I paid $100 for it. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] RH Star Office and Mandrake
i downloaded it using gozilla in windows over a couple of days it is SO cool it rules over MS Office thats my opinion : )
Re: [Re: [newbie] RH Star Office and Mandrake]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i downloaded it using gozilla in windows over a couple of days it is SO cool it rules over MS Office thats my opinion : ) I agree with the exception of the presentation program. I have to admit, PowerPoint is far superior IMHO. Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Re: DPMS, modem speaker and virtual desktop (2)
Hello again, It's been a few days since my original post. I've been digging here and there trying to find information needed to solve my problems and I finally got it! Well, at least most of it. Of course, it wouldn't be possible without the help of the friendly people here... A big "thank you" goes to: Paul A. Bernicchi Lloyd Osten Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster Richard chris I managed to turn my modem speaker off only in console. No luck with kppp, though. I was advised to set my modem speaker loudness to zero, but I don't have any slider that would allow me to adjust the speaker level! Maybe it's the version of kppp I use? Maybe I'm overlooking something? Anyway, I can't find it in kppp 1.3.3 that comes with Mandrake 5.2 Commenting out/deleting the 'Virtual' section in /etc/X11/XF86Config gets rid of the virtual desktop in 800x600 (and up, I believe) but does not work in 640x480! The only way to disable it is to delete everything except 640x480 in supported resolutions. Weird. One last note: I got my DPMS features (Energy Star) working! Now my monitor shuts off after a certain time of inactivity. If anyone is interested in how to get it to work, please let me know and I'll provide a step-by-step setup. Regards, Tomasz P.S. Sorry about the missing topic in my previous message. At 4/1/99 5:44:00 PM, I wrote: Hello everyone, I've been using Mandrake 5.2 for 5 days now and had no problems whatsoever. Configuration went OK and I got most of the things I wanted to work. I still have a few questions though and I hope someone can help me out: 1) how to enable DPMS features? I want my monitor to shut off after a specific time. I put 'OffTime 30' in XF86Config but the DPMS is not enabled. If I do 'xset +dpms' in X, it works alright but I want to have it set automatically. The manual for XF86Config says that "power_saver has to be enabled". How? 2) how to turn off the internal modem speaker (mine is USR Sportster v.90/INT/D/F/V) so that it's silent when it dials out? Is it posible at all? I often use my machine at nights and don't want to wake up my wife :-) 3) how to get rid of the Virtual Desktop feature in KDE? I commented out all the instances of 'Virtual' in XF86Config which fixed the problem partially. Everything is OK in 800x600 but in 640x480 my screen behaves as if it were in virtual 800x600. (I have a 14" monitor so I can't use anything higher and sometimes need 640x480) Thanks very much in advance! Tomasz
