Re: [newbie] video card
I'm going shopping today.. how much are those cards please ? C -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, April 17, 1999 12:18 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] video card On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 08:39:09PM -0400, ndk | Ralph | wrote: Hello All, I have a new box and was wondering what is a good agp vidieo card that will work with Linux? Can anyone help? I use a virge now with 4mb ram and I need more. I can recommend the Matrox G200 AGP cards. I'm using the 8M SDRAM model here and I've been extremely happy with it. Matrox recently released programming information for the cards also, so support a company that supports Open Source/Free Software/whatever-the-term-of-the-day-is. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] video card
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 08:39:09PM -0400, ndk | Ralph | wrote: Hello All, I have a new box and was wondering what is a good agp vidieo card that will work with Linux? Can anyone help? I use a virge now with 4mb ram and I need more. I can recommend the Matrox G200 AGP cards. I'm using the 8M SDRAM model here and I've been extremely happy with it. Matrox recently released programming information for the cards also, so support a company that supports Open Source/Free Software/whatever-the-term-of-the-day-is. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] That is a very good point about the open source cards, currently I have been using the i740 clone chipset video card, 8 megs ram, with the binary driver. But I see after visiting Red Hats site that intel open sourced the binary driver. With the current cost on www.pricewatch.com at about $37.oo US I don't think you can beat this card.
[newbie] kicq
it needs a path statement /usr/local/lib..where and how do i give it this so i dont have to keep doing export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:/usr/local/lib John Mandeville ICQ-3947888 if its on
[newbie] Lots of fatal system crashes.
Hi, I was wondering if you could help my friend, he has installed Mandrake on his system and for some reason it keeps crashing (SIGHUP 11) when he does things in X (the whole thing rebooting). His system is: Pentium 166MMX Diamond Stealth 3D2000 (2MB) Video card 32 MB RAM Generic 32x CDRom 6 GIG Quantum HD Any suggestions / help would be appreciated as he is getting very fed up with the whole deal (he has tried 4 different Linux flavours) and has tried reinstalling numerous times.
[newbie] Use of Mandrake as a server platform
Greetings all; I have been playing with Mandrake at home for a while now, and am considering introducing it at work for use as a fileserver platform for a small (30 or so machines) fileserver using Samba. The one thing that I am concerned about is doing backups. I currently back up about 4GB of data to tape every night, and I'd like to know if anyone out there has a suggestion as to what kind of program to use to do this task. I occasionally need to restore a file or group of files. Is TAR up to a task like this? Is there another program I should be looking at? Thanks in advance. Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677
Re: [newbie] Use of Mandrake as a server platform
Bruce Endries wrote: Greetings all; I have been playing with Mandrake at home for a while now, and am considering introducing it at work for use as a fileserver platform for a small (30 or so machines) fileserver using Samba. The one thing that I am concerned about is doing backups. I currently back up about 4GB of data to tape every night, and I'd like to know if anyone out there has a suggestion as to what kind of program to use to do this task. I occasionally need to restore a file or group of files. Is TAR up to a task like this? Is there another program I should be looking at? Thanks in advance. Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677 there's a program called "taper" that comes with Mandrake (at least I think it does;it's definitely on the RH5.2 CD). As you might guess, it's a tape backup program. I think there's aother program called BRU2000. but I think it's a commercial program. It does come in some Liux distributions, though. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] video card
On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 08:05:54AM -0400, Charley Sparks wrote: I'm going shopping today.. how much are those cards please ? I think I paid about $110-130 for my 8M SDRAM AGP version. That was about 4 months ago. They should be a little cheaper now, since Matrox has just shipped the G400... Of course... :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, April 17, 1999 12:18 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] video card On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 08:39:09PM -0400, ndk | Ralph | wrote: Hello All, I have a new box and was wondering what is a good agp vidieo card that will work with Linux? Can anyone help? I use a virge now with 4mb ram and I need more. I can recommend the Matrox G200 AGP cards. I'm using the 8M SDRAM model here and I've been extremely happy with it. Matrox recently released programming information for the cards also, so support a company that supports Open Source/Free Software/whatever-the-term-of-the-day-is. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] video card
On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 09:25:50AM -0400, Robert Weider wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 08:39:09PM -0400, ndk | Ralph | wrote: Hello All, I have a new box and was wondering what is a good agp vidieo card that will work with Linux? Can anyone help? I use a virge now with 4mb ram and I need more. I can recommend the Matrox G200 AGP cards. I'm using the 8M SDRAM model here and I've been extremely happy with it. Matrox recently released programming information for the cards also, so support a company that supports Open Source/Free Software/whatever-the-term-of-the-day-is. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] That is a very good point about the open source cards, currently I have been using the i740 clone chipset video card, 8 megs ram, with the binary driver. But I see after visiting Red Hats site that intel open sourced the binary driver. With the current cost on www.pricewatch.com at about $37.oo US I don't think you can beat this card. Be careful with the i740 cards, though. They have a really hard time working well on non-Intel motherboard chipsets. I know they're all but forbidden on my FIC 503+ (VIA MVP3 chipset) board. If you do end up buying one, make sure you can return it if there's problems! -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] kicq
On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 09:37:48AM -0400, John Mandeville wrote: it needs a path statement /usr/local/lib..where and how do i give it this so i dont have to keep doing export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:/usr/local/lib John Mandeville ICQ-3947888 if its on If you're the only user that needs it, add it to your ~/.bash_profile. If all users need it, add it to /etc/profile. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] add-on graphics card
I am running Linux Mandrake 5.3 on a PII with a SiS6326 AGP/PCI video card. That is one of the available choices for valid video cards. I also have a Voodoo based graphics accelerator (Diamond Stealth). This appears to cause a lot of problems such as black lines across text displays. The screen does not refresh if I move windows around. Almost half of the characters which I am now typing are invisible to me... Does anybody know what graphics setup options I should pick? Or do I have to remove the Diamond accelerator? thanks in advance -- Thomas Moersch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] boot partition too big?
how do you change from LBA to NORMAL? i see it in bios but dont know how to change it. i dont want to cause any undue harm to my system. my wife would get upset if she cant party on the chat rooms after work:D
Re: [newbie] video card
thanks.. I may get out tomorrow.. the honey-dos got me today :-( -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, April 17, 1999 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] video card On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 08:05:54AM -0400, Charley Sparks wrote: I'm going shopping today.. how much are those cards please ? I think I paid about $110-130 for my 8M SDRAM AGP version. That was about 4 months ago. They should be a little cheaper now, since Matrox has just shipped the G400... Of course... :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, April 17, 1999 12:18 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] video card On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 08:39:09PM -0400, ndk | Ralph | wrote: Hello All, I have a new box and was wondering what is a good agp vidieo card that will work with Linux? Can anyone help? I use a virge now with 4mb ram and I need more. I can recommend the Matrox G200 AGP cards. I'm using the 8M SDRAM model here and I've been extremely happy with it. Matrox recently released programming information for the cards also, so support a company that supports Open Source/Free Software/whatever-the-term-of-the-day-is. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Mandrake CD Cover?
I was wondering if anyone has or know where to get a Linux Mandrake 5.3 cd cover. I downloaded the free ISO image of the CD, 550 meg or so, and burnt off a cd. But I was wondering if anyone can give me a picture of the cd cover so I can print it off and stick it in my cd case...If anybody does, cool...if else, I'll probably just take the LM logo and print that off :( Thx - Signed, Bob 'Reveral' Bonifield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fraggin' in the Heartland http://lan.quakecity.net/
Re: [newbie] Mandrake CD Cover?
If you mean of the cover art on the jewel case, I doubt anyone can help... There are no jewel cases, at least I didn't get any. The box art is just the top hat and wand. At 04:31 PM 4/17/99 -0500, you wrote: I was wondering if anyone has or know where to get a Linux Mandrake 5.3 cd cover. I downloaded the free ISO image of the CD, 550 meg or so, and burnt off a cd. But I was wondering if anyone can give me a picture of the cd cover so I can print it off and stick it in my cd case...If anybody does, cool...if else, I'll probably just take the LM logo and print that off :( Thx - Signed, Bob 'Reveral' Bonifield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fraggin' in the Heartland http://lan.quakecity.net/
Re: [newbie] boot partition too big?
Sorry for the confusion. IMO, It's better to use LBA mode. With LBA mode, the 1024 cylinder won't be a problem. Usually, in most BIOS, PgUp and PgDown will change mode (use cursor keys to highlight it). You probably need to reinstalled all your program (redo the partition). So, make a deal first with your wife :) Sincerely, Irsan SPS At 14:47 17/04/99 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |- snip for brevity - |how do you change from LBA to NORMAL? i see it in bios but dont know how to |change it. i dont want to cause any undue harm to my system. my wife would |get upset if she cant party on the chat rooms after work:D | |- snip for brevity -
Re: [newbie] Mandrake CD Cover?
The version of Mandrake Linux we are producing includes a quad jewel case with artwork. Expect to see it for v6.0 of Mandrake. John Brack President / Ceo Belly Entertainment www.bellyentertainment.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 15:44:18 -0700, Alan Webster wrote: If you mean of the cover art on the jewel case, I doubt anyone can help... There are no jewel cases, at least I didn't get any. The box art is just the top hat and wand. At 04:31 PM 4/17/99 -0500, you wrote: I was wondering if anyone has or know where to get a Linux Mandrake 5.3 cd cover. I downloaded the free ISO image of the CD, 550 meg or so, and burnt off a cd. But I was wondering if anyone can give me a picture of the cd cover so I can print it off and stick it in my cd case...If anybody does, cool...if else, I'll probably just take the LM logo and print that off :( Thx - Signed, Bob 'Reveral' Bonifield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fraggin' in the Heartland http://lan.quakecity.net/
[newbie] 2.2 Kernel and kppp
Just upgraded to 2.2.5 kernel, and kppp stopped working. It appears that the change in serial port naming in 2.2 kernels is the root of the problem. I've tried running minicom, and kppp, and neither will dial the modem. /var/log/messages gives the error message "process 1127 (kppp) used obsolete /dev/cua0 - update software to use /dev/ttys0". I have tried setting kppp device to use /dev/ttys0, but the errror persists. Used RedHat modemtool to set up modem. Perhaps that is the problem? I've searched dejanews for answers, but only found similar questions. PPP is enabled in the kernel, using pppd-2.3.5
Re: [newbie] Bring up terminal window after dialing
I tried the last script you sent me Expect Annex: Send 2 Expect Login: Prompt:enter you login Expect password: prompt enter password it stops right after expect Annex? this is the way the login works suba.com shell:1 ppp :2 slip: 3 Annex: you enter a 2 next to annex then return and it brings up login: jrusso my loggin password: you have to hit return after login and password then a bunch of numbers scroll by. you click ok on the bottom of the window and it logs you on. I have tried about 10 scripts and am unable to get very far. Do you have any more suggestions? TIA Jeanette - Original Message - From: Ghost Master [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 6:04 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Bring up terminal window after dialing Jeanette, et al- I faced the same problem when trying to connect to my company's network via Kppp. Luckily, Kppp provides login scripting support which eliminates the need to have a terminal window open when logging in. Below are the steps I took to make this happen: --- Start kpp click on "Setup" Hi-light your dialup account and click "Edit" Click on the "Login Script" tab Using the built in scripting tool, and my script as a guide, set up the script for your connection. (You'll probably have to change the two "Expect" lines below to reflect what your ISP is sending to you...also, Note that the system I'm dialing into requires 2 carriage returns before the login prompt appears - the 2 'SEND' commands at the beginning accomplish this for me) Send Send Expect - ID: (This would probably be Username for you...) Prompt - Enter User ID: Expect - Passcode (...and This would probably be Password for you) Prompt - Enter Passcode: Pause 5 (I had to delay the start of PPP services in order to give the network a chance to sync) Send PPP (finally, start the PPP services on your system) --- The best thing about doing it this way is that it's totally graphical; KDE handles the user (login) interface for you... Hope this helps! Armando I. Rivera Senior Technical Specialist Showtime/MTV Networks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeanette Russo Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Bring up terminal window after dialing Jeanette Russo [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: Using Kppp I am trying to connect to an ISP which uses an old style login where you bring up a terminal window after the connection and manually enter your user name and password. SNIP
[newbie] bring up terminal window after dialing
Thanks for your script. expect nex: send 2 pause 8 expect gin: send jrusso pause 4 expect word: send password Unfortunately it does not work? can you give me another one? This one goes to expect gin and stops Here is how the login works manually You dial in and it brings up a window after dialing the window looks like this suba.com shell:1 PPP:2 slip:3 Annex: you enter a 2 for PPP next to annex and hit return it then brings up login:jrusso password:* I enter login and return and hit enter after each then a bunch of numbers scroll by and then you hit ok at the bottom of the window and it logs you on. Do you have another script I can try? TIA Jeanette
Re: [newbie] 2.2 Kernel and kppp
From: Jerry Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] used obsolete /dev/cua0 - update software to use /dev/ttys0". I have tried setting kppp device to use /dev/ttys0, but the errror persists. % su Password: # cd /dev # rm modem # ln -s ttyS0 modem # exit It's important that it be /dev/ttyS0 (or 1, or 2, etc.), not s0 (case sensitive, remember).
[newbie] (no subject)
Cheapbytes has Mandrake with 3 CD Winter 99 Archive. Anyone know what Winter 99 Archive is? Thanks Jerry Smith
Re: [newbie] bring up terminal window after dialing
From: Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think I see a problem; try this instead: expect nex: pause 1 send 2 expect gin: pause 1 send jrusso expect word: pause 1 send password I think the placement of the pauses in the one you posted was causing the problem. Think about it: the computer sends "2", waits 8 seconds, and _then_ starts watching for "gin:". By that time, the login: prompt has already come up, and the computer won't see it.
Re: [newbie] boot partition too big?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do you change from LBA to NORMAL? i see it in bios but dont know how to change it. i dont want to cause any undue harm to my system. my wife would get upset if she cant party on the chat rooms after work:D If you have an Award BIOS, you just need to toggle over to that field and use the Page Up/Page Down keys. However, you need to be aware that making that change will probably make your drive unreadable. The data isn't lost; you just have to change it back to what the setting originally was. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] The same old Lilo story (sorry :-(
Martin Cleaver wrote: Lilo is the bane of my life : I have just installed Mandrake 5.3 on my Desktoip machine... with SCSI and IDE. But whatever configuration I use, I can't get further than LLI, apart from on the boot floppy :-( There are of course several vriables: BIOS SCSI LILO... I have two SCSI drives (2 GB each) with Windows and fat32 partitioning (C and D) and a 10GB IDE drive with 3 native Linux partitions (2 GB each) and a swap and a 2 GB fat32 in the extended partition. /dev/hda1 is the boot partition for Linux and /dev/sda1 is boot for Windows. I have tried putting the lilo boot onto /dev/hda, /dev/hda1, /dev/sda and /dev/sda1, but never get further than LI. For some reasion, Lilo also tells me that /sda is not the first disk. In the BIOS, I can choose between SCSI or IDE scanning first and it's possible that the Adaptec setup would let me change a parameter to influience things (?) I have read numerous texts on the net about this, but still can't get to the bottom of it... Who can help??? Rgds Martin check this out. http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/RedHat-FAQ/RedHat-FAQ-6.html#ss6.22 -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] (no subject)
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, you wrote: Cheapbytes has Mandrake with 3 CD Winter 99 Archive. Anyone know what Winter 99 Archive is? Thanks Jerry Smith It's the archive of sunsite. Quite a lot of linux software on there - I bought it, it seems quite good if a little dated. Certainly worth a look tho'. (1) X=Y ; Given (2) X^2=XY ; Multiply both sides by X (3) X^2-Y^2=XY-Y^2 ; Subtract Y^2 from both sides (4) (X+Y)(X-Y)=Y(X-Y) ; Factor (5) X+Y=Y ; Cancel out (X-Y) term (6) 2Y=Y; Substitute X for Y, by equation 1 (7) 2=1 ; Divide both sides by Y -- "Omni", proof that 2 equals 1
RE: [newbie] Lots of fatal system crashes.
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, you wrote: What are the exact errors he gets. Could be many things but would be much narrower with specifics. Make sure his Hardware isn't bad. I had that problem with the Computer Re-booting out of X, I found that I had a bad stack of memory chips causing the Re-boot. Snip We are looking at a bad memory problem I think. We asked the same question on irc and got the hardware, probably memory response. So we will be going to the local hardware store in the next day or two to replace it (fingers crossed).
[newbie] Communicator 4.51
This isn't specifically related to Mandrake, but I noticed at Netscape's web site that there are two versions of Communicator for Linux. One is supported and one isn't. Does anyone know what the difference is? -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] video card
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, you wrote: Hey all, I got a ati rage turbo today with 8mb ram works great ;-) thanks for all the help. Ralph I'm going shopping today.. how much are those cards please ? C
[newbie] sound card
Hey, Can someone plz tell me how to get my sound blaster pci 128 to work under the 2.2 kernels? It works great under the 2.036 one's. Thanks, Ralph
Re: [newbie] Communicator 4.51
Lloyd wrote: This isn't specifically related to Mandrake, but I noticed at Netscape's web site that there are two versions of Communicator for Linux. One is supported and one isn't. Does anyone know what the difference is? G'day Llyod, I'm not sure about the difference in the supported/unsupported, but have used the supported v it works well and takes on the KDE desktop colors, one problem I found with it was the time zone was always +, thus causing some problems on send and receive times, you might not find this a problem. I'm using the version available at /redhat/contrib, no problems, except its the old netscape gray, would rather the KDE desktop colors, but you cannot have your cake and eat it ;-)) -- Michael Doyle Adelaide, South Australia ICQ #2635762 http://landofoz.apana.org.au
Re: [newbie] 2.2 Kernel and kppp
Thank you for the reply. My mistake...my modem is linked to /dev/ttyS0, but still does not work. kppp starts, reports "modem ready", then hangs on "setting volume level". At no time is there any communication with the modem. Same in minicom. I read another message exactly the same as mine on dejanews, but no answer posted to it yet. Modem is USR Sportster 56.6K External PNP...worked fine under kernel 2.0.37...any issues with PNP modems under 2.2 kernel? Dan Brown wrote: From: Jerry Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >used obsolete /dev/cua0 - update software to use /dev/ttys0". I have >tried setting kppp device to use /dev/ttys0, but the errror persists. % su Password: # cd /dev # rm modem # ln -s ttyS0 modem # exit It's important that it be /dev/ttyS0 (or 1, or 2, etc.), not s0 (case sensitive, remember).
Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrake CD Cover?]
"me" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The version of Mandrake Linux we are producing includes a quad jewel case with artwork. Expect to see it for v6.0 of Mandrake. John Brack President / Ceo Belly Entertainment www.bellyentertainment.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking forward to it. When do you anticipate releasing 6.0?? What will be included? Which kernel? An Office Suite?? Are you waiting for the release of an updated version of KDE? Qt? Michael Scottaline Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] sound card
Strange, we just added a Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 to a test system and cannot get it work correctly. Skipping, choppy noises and have checked all irq,dma, i/o settings for all hardware in the box. On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 22:33:40 -0400, ndk | Ralph | wrote: Hey, Can someone plz tell me how to get my sound blaster pci 128 to work under the 2.2 kernels? It works great under the 2.036 one's. Thanks, Ralph
Re: [newbie] 2.2 Kernel and kppp
From: Jerry Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for the reply. My mistake...my modem is linked to /dev/ttyS0, but still does not work. kppp starts, reports "modem ready", then hangs on "setting volume level". At no time is there any communication with the modem. Same in minicom. I read another message exactly the same as mine on dejanews, but no answer posted to it yet. Modem is USR Sportster 56.6K External PNP...worked fine under kernel 2.0.37...any issues with PNP modems under 2.2 kernel? Hmmm... Which version of the kernel are you using? I used 2.2.5, which I built and installed under RedHat 5.1 (before I installed Mandrake), without any problem, other than needing to change the modem symlink. What makes an external PNP modem different from an external non-PNP modem?
