Re: [newbie] Theme problems
I installed a theme and now my background changes between the theme background and another background at seemingly random times. Why?!? There is a random background option. I think you can right-click the desktop and look at properties to fix this. Of course, I may be wrong: I haven't had access to Mandrake in a long time (will those guys hurry up with the laptop?!?).
Re: [newbie] dos emulation??
It is, I've never tried it (I only tried WINE). But its called dosemu. Try run 'man dosemu' in xterm or 'dosemu --help'. Suryo Mataram. -Original Message-From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Saturday, July 24, 1999 10:42 AMSubject: [newbie] dos emulation?? I read sowhere that is was possible to emulate a dos session in linux, but I can't find out how, is this possible? and if so, how do you do it?? Thanks! Nighthawk
Re: [newbie] How to set up simple home network?
You need to use SAMBA. try http://www.samba.org for more info. Suryo Mataram. Hi I would especially like to share files with both machines and share the use of the internal Zip Drive on the Linux machine. Is this hard to do? I have a generic Digital chip network card in the Linux machine. The NT machine has a Netgear network card and hub that I have been using with several Windows machines.
Re: [newbie] Colors in VIM
Hello guys OK, it seems that the solution is to put a "syntax on" in my .vimrc file. But when I do that, I get the following message: Error detected while processing /home/dod/.vimrc: line5: Sorry, this command is not implemented: syntax on Press RETURN or enter command to continue I've removed the vi packages that come with Mandrake 6.0, and reinstalled the ones I got from OpenLinux 2.2 : it works ! Is there a problem with the VIM packages from Mandrake ? What am I missing ??? Thanks to all of you for your help Dominique
Re: [newbie] Theme problems
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, you wrote: I installed a theme and now my background changes between the theme background and another background at seemingly random times. Why?!? settings-desktop-background. In the lower part is a "random" checkbox. Uncheck it, apply, OK. Try the parrots background. On thing I've noticed, if I change backgrounds, then apply, the random box will check itself. I'll have to go back and uncheck it. Minor bug.
Re: [newbie] Colors in VIM
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Dominique Deleris wrote: Hello guys OK, it seems that the solution is to put a "syntax on" in my .vimrc file. But when I do that, I get the following message: Error detected while processing /home/dod/.vimrc: line5: Sorry, this command is not implemented: syntax on Press RETURN or enter command to continue I've removed the vi packages that come with Mandrake 6.0, and reinstalled the ones I got from OpenLinux 2.2 : it works ! Is there a problem with the VIM packages from Mandrake ? What am I missing ??? rpm -e vim-minimal rpm -ihv vim-enhanced* Thanks to all of you for your help Dominique
RE: [newbie] How to compile?
On 25-Jul-99 Trevor Wilson wrote: How can I compile programs I write in C or C++? The command for the C compiler is gcc and the command for the C++ compiler is g++. A simple program with one source code file can usually be compiled with just 'gcc filename' (or 'g++ filename') which will produce a binary called a.out. Read gcc's man page for more info. :) -Tom
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
On 25-Jul-99 Andy Goth wrote: FIPS, eh? Yeah, I read that it could resize partitions as well. Does anyone have any success stories? Any reports of failures? Fips basically performs one function: It takes a DOS partition, and splits it into two smaller partitions. It cannot resize Linux partitions, and it cannot (as far as I know..) make DOS partitions larger, it can only make a DOS partition smaller. So it is perfect for the typical user who has Windows on one partition that takes up their entire HD, and wants to make some space to install Linux without wiping Windows. I used it myself for that and it worked fine. Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. Since I'll have to reformat the disk to the BIOS format instead of the Ontrack Proprietary Format, I'm going to lose my data anyway. lightbulb First, I think I'll empty the C: (which is a compressed partition ala DoubleSpace). Then I'll move all the important DOS/Windows files onto it. Next, I'll reformat and repartition the big hard disk. I can reinstall everything I want onto it, and I can recover the important data and hard-to-find programs from the C:. After that, I can redo the old hard disk so that it has two partitions (one msdos and one ext2). This plan will reduce the need for floppy backups (except for backing up my Linux stuff--which I don't have much of yet). Things will be a little easier on you if you make at least TWO Linux partitions, a / partition and a /home partition. Either I forget to mention that or I forget to mention my swap partition (or both!). Don't worry. I am planning out (on paper, no less) my partition structure so that it works great in Linux *and* in DOS (with the drive letter names I want). I will have a total of four Linux-related partitions: /, /home, swap, and backup. I'm not quite sure how to mount the backup into things yet... I think I should make a /backup directory (is there anything wrong with adding straight to the root directory?). I would like to assign each user a folder on the backup disk, but that's not too hard. What I *really* would like would be if each user had a ~/backup directory. I guess I can do that with symlinks and an enhanced adduser script. Nope, nothing wrong with adding to the root directory. By the way, what's the difference between symbolic and hard links? A symlink is basically just a pointer to another file, and a hard link is like actually having two copies of the file except that they take up the same space on the disk (so it doesn't take up twice as much space). I can't think of any advantages of one over the other off the top of my head, but personally I prefer to use symlinks since with a symlink it's obvious that it's a link when you use ls with the -l option. (A symlink will show up as link - file and a hard link will look like any other file.) Most of your user-specific configuration files go in your home directory, and you can toss anything else you might want to hold onto there too (I keep all the tar.gz and rpm files I download there, so I can reinstall them conveniently later without redownloading). /home/download or /home/package would work. I use ~/dl but those are good too. :) Then if you reinstall Linux, choose to reformat / but NOT to reformat /home, and you will keep everything that's in your home directory. Good. Now that that's settled... is there anything wrong with making a /backup directory and mounting the secondary hard disk to it? Nope, nothing at all, in fact coincidentally I have my second hard drive mounted in /backup as well. :) -Tom
[newbie] pppd error
Hi, I've set up kppp to connect to my ISP and it dials and begins the login quite happily. Before it completes the connection, however, I get the error "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly" and have to quit. Can anyone help me resolve this and suggest a pppd configuration to use as a sample? I'm using an ISP with dynamic IP addresses. James. -- James Stewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Telecom ignored us and The Britlinks - http://www.britlinks.co.uk | democracy has died." Phantom Tollbooth - http://www.tollbooth.org | -- Fat And Frantic Sixpence None The Richer in the UK - http://www.britlinks.co.uk/sixpence/
Re: [newbie] pppd error
Hi James I had the same problem and it stopped when I changed the connection speed setting to 115200 (I think), dont ask me why. I can now get the modem to dial and make a connection with my ISP but Netscape refuses to resolve any addresses--- so I still have to use Windows for my internet connection until I can get Linux to work properly. I have just upgraded to Mandrake 6.0, RedHat %.2 worked fine! Regards Alan - Original Message - From: James Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 July 1999 16:51 Subject: [newbie] pppd error Hi, I've set up kppp to connect to my ISP and it dials and begins the login quite happily. Before it completes the connection, however, I get the error "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly"
Re: [newbie] mounting a floppy??
On 25-Jul-99 Andy Goth wrote: It's a DOS floppy, so: mount -t fat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy That should do it. I thought that was -t msdos. it could be msdos, or fat, or vfat. vfat would be best, as it supports long file names. none of it matters, though, if you still have problems with the command. If I have a FAT16 disk that Windows has "touched up" to have long filenames, how can I access them through Linux? Is that what vfat is for? vfat should work for that, yes. -Tom
[newbie] sound card
How do I configure my sound card? Sndconfig cannot find it. Also I don't even know anything about the card itself; how can I get more information?
[newbie] Got the Modem to work
Someone replied to one of my posts and suggested that I disable the plug-and-play feature on my modem and use the onboard jumpers to configure the COM port and IRQ. Thanks, that worked for me. I have an Abit BH6 motherboard with Award BIOS, and I disabled COM2 in the 'Integrated Peripherals' section of the BIOS setup utility. KPPP is working for me in KDE and I can now connect to my ISP from Linux. Unfortunately, my modem didn't work when I booted to Windows 98. Device manager didn't even find it. Oh well, I guess that the moral to the story is: Use an External Modem! I'm sure that I could spend a few more hours and eventually get the modem to work the same way with both operating systems, but picking up an external modem will save me all the headaches. Thanks to everyone who replied to my post. Joe Patton - Original Message - From: Jason Cotterell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 11:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Still Having Trouble Configuring my internal PNP Modem I have worfked with mine a lot and i still can't get it to work. i don't get any i\o conflicts, kppp just says that the modem fails to respond. all my serial ports are set to auto. 03f8, 03e8 02e8 and 02f8, and minicom works (but how do you exit that program) I really need some further help
[newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live
I recently installed a Soundblaster Live on my system and went to configure it with Redhat 6.0...but everytime I do so I receive the message "device is busy"any ideas? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] sound card
Trevor, Try the web site www.opensound.com. You can download the OSS sound system there. OSS supports a larger number of Sound Cards, and hopefully your card will be one of them. I was able to get sound working in X-Windows once I installed OSS. I have a Sound Blaster PCI 128 in my machine. The only problem that I am having now is the fact that Linux Quake II locks up my machine when I try to run it. Joe Patton - Original Message - From: Trevor Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 12:31 AM Subject: [newbie] sound card How do I configure my sound card? Sndconfig cannot find it. Also I don't even know anything about the card itself; how can I get more information?
[newbie] Need another Lib
I'm trying to install Gnucash, but it says I need libX.so.1. I did a search on my hard drive for *libX* and it didn't turn up this file. Any idea what packager, or where I can get it to install it? Thank you, -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713
Re: [newbie] sound card
What I had to do to find out about some of my hardware was open the box and look. Read the writing on those chips, and see if you can find websites about it. Or (and HP isn't real good for this) if it's the sound card that came with your computer, call the company and ask them what brand it is. -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 7/25/99, 9:31:54 PM, Trevor Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] sound card: How do I configure my sound card? Sndconfig cannot find it. Also I don't even know anything about the card itself; how can I get more information?
[newbie] blank screen on X
hi guys, I cant get my X running after I installed linux. I run Xconfigurator, and when itcame to the part of testing of the conguration all I get is a blank (black) screen with the mouse pointer. I can move it around though, then a message popped out saying that there was something wrong with my configuration. I tried many combination including the resolution given by the probing, but what I getwas still the blank black screen. Can somebody help me ? thx ... btw, I installed Mandrake 6.0 regards, Joe
