Re: [newbie] SAMBA troubles!
I would agree with this one - we get this a lot at our offices. Are we to assume that all of the machines in question are on the same network - we have token ring and ethernet and getting things to appear in the network neighbourhood across the two networks is a bit of a work of art !! Doing a 'Find Computer' in windows will always find a machine if both the one you want to find and the one finding it are running WINS (in our case anyway) - this is all a bit above my head - i really should find out about all this and get to the bottom of it, but all i'm saying is there are plenty of other things that could prevent the PC from appearing in the network neighbourhood even if Samba is totally present and correct. Martin. - Original Message - From: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 7:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] SAMBA troubles! Petey wrote: situation. I've tried multiple times to try and get SAMBA running, and I can't get anything to pop up in the win 95 network neighborhood. All tests Try this: Click on start, run, then enter "\\linux computer name" and click OK. If that doesn't work, try "\\linux machine's IP address". I've frequently seen cases where a computer won't appear in the network neighborhood, even though it is accessible on the network. Of course, also test to make sure the Win95 machines can see the Linux box at all--try pinging it by name and IP, etc. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live
Tom's reply to this says a lot more than i would have even thought of - good one !! All i'll add is that if you're specifically wanting to upgrade your SB16 - and i guess by now you may be - then (assuming finances are not a problem) i really can't think of a reason to suggest that you don't buy an SBLive. They are pretty damn good. Obviously if your current card was an awe64 or higher, the advice would probably be way different. Also, if there is anything unsupported that you want with the SBLive (not that i can think of anything), Creative don't seem to be too slow with their updates - there have been 3 versions in the 6-8 weeks since i bought mine, so i guess it wouldn't be a problem for long anyway. Martin. - Original Message - From: darkknight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 2:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Martin White wrote: I know i'm not the person you directed your mail to, but i'm going to reply anyway !! I thought the sound of the SBLive was pretty crappy under linux with the first two versions of the driver, but with the advent of the new version, things seem to sound considerably better now (or is that just my perception ?). I must say though that what sets the SBLive apart from some of the other higher end cards in creative's range - the Awe64 even if we go a way back - is meant to be the stuff live environmental audio, creatives sound fonts, etc. etc. AFAIK, none of this is yet available under linux, and therefore if you solely run linux, at the moment you would probably be wasting your money. If like me you want blindingly good sound when you're watching DVDs, playing games or whatever you do under Windows, and want as a bonus for your linux install to sound good too, then go ahead and get one, it's well worth the money !! Martin. Thanks for responding, I should have been more specifif in the first place anyway, sorry I was not. What I would want the sound card for is LInux, as I do not use Windows at all any longer. My main interrest's would be good midi file playback as well as good mp3 file playback. I had heard that with there earlier releases, Creative still had not got the midi or mp3 playback working that well. So my main concerne is how they got the midi and mp3 sound working. As far as normal system sounds, such as .au .wav .voc etc. my SB16 can even handle that well enough, my only reason for buying the SB Live would be for improved midi and mp3 playback. Can you give me any advice in that area? Thanks in advance, John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
Andy Goth wrote: Well, I'm no programmer, but it must not be terribly difficult as I have a couple of programs that do similar things. But Partition Magic is still the best, and comes with more than just the partition creator and resizer. I have Partition Magic 4.0 which has a Windows and DOS version, and works on ex2fs. Through creative searching, I did not pay for it (shhh), but it is hard to find. There are shareware or freeware programs like Partition manager and FIPS which will also create and resize partitions, but you don't get the nice GUI and there is some knowledge that goes into it. Anything that you want or need can be found online if you are willing put the time in. FIPS, eh? Yeah, I read that it could resize partitions as well. Does anyone have any success stories? Any reports of failures? 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). Still, I wait for a Windows 95 CD... well, you could try the new (beta) DiskDrake partition resizer, since you won't have anything to lose. It's on the Mandrake site.
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
Richard Myers wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Richard Myers wrote: Neat stuff, huh? This is Unix. best wishes, richard myers On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, darkknight wrote: : ) Ever thought about teaching? We, I taught an online college-level Intro to Unix course for several years. Gave it up because (1) the college didn't support it well enough, and (2) I make ten times as much money working for Lucent Technologies. I always had trouble grasping the diferrence between hard links and soft (symbolic) links, untill now. And I was'nt even the poster of the message. cool , thanks alot, you really have patients and should consider teaching as a career. Great stuff indeed, Unix has always facinated me but I thought it too hard for me to grasp. More lessons like that and there might be hope for me yet. I shure am glad I make it a habbit to at least skim through each and every post. Thanks alot, John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmmm. Glad it helped. Maybe we should do some quickie Unix-command-line intro lessons online. QUESTION: should it be on this list, or would it be better to start a new, separate maillist? Or should we just try a few easy lessons, and see how it goes, with the option to move elsewhere later? What say, everyone? best wishes, richard myers it sounds like a pretty good idea
Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..
/etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to shutdown the system. It may not be present on your system yet; you'll have to create it. Is it a list of user names (or UID's)? Is there a man page on it? I'm away from Linux right now... I don't feel like starting up another computer. No man page on shoudown.allow, I'm afraid. There is, however, a man page on shutdown which briefly mentions /etc/shutdown.allow. /etc/shutdown.allow is a list of usernames indicating which users may execute the shutdown command. Will Ctrl+Alt+Del reboot the system if it's typed at *any* terminal? Yes. Well, I'm not sure if it will work while in X, but from any of /dev/tty* it will work (as opposed to /dev/pts/*). -Matt
RE: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Philosophy and pipes
First, I apologize if this comes out in HTML. I just installed Outlook 97 for trouble-shooting purposes and haven't yet figured out how to turn off the "styled text" yet not even sure it's possible. *sigh* [mega-clip] But suppose we want all filenames with dates on the first of the month (maybe bills are due?). So we use sort as a filter, piping the output of sort to the grep command. The grep command will print ONLY those lines that include our "grepped for" text: $ ls | sort -M | grep 01 jan.01 jul.01 sep.01 $ Voila! Using the pipe commands, our output from the LIST command "ls" is filtered through "sort" and then through "grep" to give us just what we want, and nothing more: a list of filenames sorted by date, including only the dates for the first of each month. ls is a program, and so is sort, and so is grep. The pipes are a feature of the shell, but we'll learn about that later. -- Thanks for this insightful use of multiple applications and combining them with the pipe command. I never realized you could string these commands together. I see I'm going to learn a LOT from this discussion! :-) John
Re: [newbie] Toshiba Satellite 2065 and Sound
Yeah, it sounds like a cross-use of chips. That's what I meant to say.
They do this to save board space. In a PC you can buy a board containing
modem and sound or motherboard w/ sound, video, modem, SCSI or LAN card
built in. It would be great if they could do this without using crap
parts which often happens. In a laptop YMMV. And if something goes
fritz, new motherboard ==$$.
Good Luck
-Original Message-
From: David Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks Ripcrd6. I'll look in the bios and on the ESS site (Toshiba
wouldn't
help). As far as the info, I got it from Windows 98, settings, control
panel, system. It looks like a combo sound, games and midi controller or
something. Thanks Again! David Klein.
-Original Message-
From: David Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Satellite 2065, in checking around regarding Toshiba and Linux
and
in Toshiba Europe's main "unsupported but we have to mention it because
we
know that we eventually will" page, I might be out of luck on the sound
card
and the modem for now as they list.
I did find something on a listserv I'm going to try for the modem
regarding
"statserial" which I'll try.
Regarding the sound card there is something weird. It's an ESS that I've
not seen before. While standard examples of ESS for laptops (I've had
them
since 1996 in an AST in a TI Travelmate what a piece of junk that laptop
was)include the 688, 1688 and 1888 this one is odd. It has an "ESS
Device
Manager" at Interrupt Request 11 and a "Maestro DOS Games/FM Devices" at
Interrupt Request 05. Strange? They are usually easy, tried and true
sound
cards. In doing sndconfig it can't find it via PnP nor can it be
manually
set.
Could it be a WinSound card? ;-) Looks like it's using some sort of
software control for the device. Look in your BIOS setup to see if you
can
change options on this device. Since it is probably impossible to change
out the sound card (chips), the device may be hard set in the BIOS. At
the least, Toshiba or ESS may answer emailed questions about the device.
Ask them what cards the sound card/module/chips are supposed to be
equivalent to. How did you get the info ("ESS Device Manager" at
Interrupt
Request 11 and a "Maestro DOS Games/FM Devices" at Interrupt Request 05)?
was this from Windows95/3.1?
There is are two "DEVICE BUSY" type message that flash across the screen
briefly at boot up dealing with the above. Since it is Linux-Mandrake
6.0,
it goes right into one of the window managers that comes with it. I've
been
hunting for some sort of boot log in /etc and in /boot to no avail. How
do
I turn up the error log level boot up messaging file and where is that
file
located?
I apologize for being such a novice.
Re: [newbie] turning KDE off
Well, if you just want a text console, try ctrl+alt+Fx (not 7, that's where the GUI console is). -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 7/27/99, 1:32:24 PM, "russ proudman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] turning KDE off: I've got KDE set to automatically start whenever I boot up Linux-Mandrake. But I want to exit KDE (not just a shell within KDE) and can't get there. What's the trick to go back to good ol' Linux without auto KDE? Thx. ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
RE: [newbie] Toshiba Satellite 2065 and Sound
Ripcrd6,
In investigating here's what I found out.
ESS's newest chip is a hybrid one. PCI with IRQ11 as the controller and IRQ5
as the sound card. It's not the usual "ESS XXX" chain name, but rather
their new branding is called "Maestro". I was able to read the messages
and look in some sort of PCI file in the file system and find that Linux
doesn't get the IRQ11 bit and while ESS says that Maestro is Soundblaster
and Soundblaster Pro compatible it still isn't loading.
ESS doesn't display any Linux drivers and points towards "your laptop
provider" Toshiba - so far not "supporting Linux officially".
Between this and the modem issues (I've even gotten into setserial and
modemtool) I have to reload the whole system again b/c hang up problems.
It's led to the main mandrake screen (the motif one where you chose if you
want KDE, Gnome, the other windows managers, failsafe etc.) to disappear.
I've seen two core dump icon's in the root directory but can't figure out
which editor will allow me to read the dump.
I was up until 3 AM on this stuff. Really frustrating. But I got to make
this work! I have an AMD and wish to help break the WINTEL grip on the
computer world Ripcrd6!
Dave Klein.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ripcrd6
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 3:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Toshiba Satellite 2065 and Sound
Yeah, it sounds like a cross-use of chips. That's what I meant to say.
They do this to save board space. In a PC you can buy a board containing
modem and sound or motherboard w/ sound, video, modem, SCSI or LAN card
built in. It would be great if they could do this without using crap
parts which often happens. In a laptop YMMV. And if something goes
fritz, new motherboard ==$$.
Good Luck
-Original Message-
From: David Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks Ripcrd6. I'll look in the bios and on the ESS site (Toshiba
wouldn't
help). As far as the info, I got it from Windows 98, settings, control
panel, system. It looks like a combo sound, games and midi controller or
something. Thanks Again! David Klein.
-Original Message-
From: David Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Satellite 2065, in checking around regarding Toshiba and Linux
and
in Toshiba Europe's main "unsupported but we have to mention it because
we
know that we eventually will" page, I might be out of luck on the sound
card
and the modem for now as they list.
I did find something on a listserv I'm going to try for the modem
regarding
"statserial" which I'll try.
Regarding the sound card there is something weird. It's an ESS that I've
not seen before. While standard examples of ESS for laptops (I've had
them
since 1996 in an AST in a TI Travelmate what a piece of junk that laptop
was)include the 688, 1688 and 1888 this one is odd. It has an "ESS
Device
Manager" at Interrupt Request 11 and a "Maestro DOS Games/FM Devices" at
Interrupt Request 05. Strange? They are usually easy, tried and true
sound
cards. In doing sndconfig it can't find it via PnP nor can it be
manually
set.
Could it be a WinSound card? ;-) Looks like it's using some sort of
software control for the device. Look in your BIOS setup to see if you
can
change options on this device. Since it is probably impossible to change
out the sound card (chips), the device may be hard set in the BIOS. At
the least, Toshiba or ESS may answer emailed questions about the device.
Ask them what cards the sound card/module/chips are supposed to be
equivalent to. How did you get the info ("ESS Device Manager" at
Interrupt
Request 11 and a "Maestro DOS Games/FM Devices" at Interrupt Request 05)?
was this from Windows95/3.1?
There is are two "DEVICE BUSY" type message that flash across the screen
briefly at boot up dealing with the above. Since it is Linux-Mandrake
6.0,
it goes right into one of the window managers that comes with it. I've
been
hunting for some sort of boot log in /etc and in /boot to no avail. How
do
I turn up the error log level boot up messaging file and where is that
file
located?
I apologize for being such a novice.
Re: [newbie] new configured kernel
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, you wrote: You'll need to edit /etc/lilo.conf to reflect the name of the kernel you are upgrading to. Look for the 'image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk' line (at least that's what it reads in mine), and change the vmlinuz... to reflect what the new kernel is called. - Theo Hey! Lilo seems not to be the problem. I can choose the right kernel and lilo does its job fine. ?-) cu Helmut
Re: [newbie] new configured kernel
I missed the bulk of this thread, but caught an early one and a late one and think i have the jist !! You may well just need to try again with the 'make bzimage' (you did do a 'make bzimage', didn't you not a 'make zimage' ?). I have had instances in the past where it didn't work first time, but did on the second / third attempt - strange i know, but there you go. With the 'bzimage' bit under Mandrake, the kernels are normally too big for the normal 'zimage'. If i got the wrong end of the stick here i apologize. Martin. - Original Message - From: helmut halfmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 12:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new configured kernel On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, you wrote: You'll need to edit /etc/lilo.conf to reflect the name of the kernel you are upgrading to. Look for the 'image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk' line (at least that's what it reads in mine), and change the vmlinuz... to reflect what the new kernel is called. - Theo Hey! Lilo seems not to be the problem. I can choose the right kernel and lilo does its job fine. ?-) cu Helmut
Re: [newbie] Problems with updatedb ?
This sounds simple to you but I'm fairly new to Linux and don't understand what you are telling me to do. I'm trying to do the upgrade/install from the boot disk that I created doing the rawrite. Since, I have a red hat version installed is there another way to get into the red hat version and do the upgrade from there? I partitioned my hard drive using partition magic and I would normally just get into that and delete the partiong but I'm getting an error from partition magic and it won't let me into the program. Pete - Original Message - From: Dominique Deleris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems with updatedb ? Matt Stegman wrote: Do you have a FAT or FAT32 partition mounted anywhere? If so, I think you can fix this by First: killing the offending process (`killall slocate`) Second: Telling updatedb to ignore that partition in the future (edit /etc/updatedb.conf and add the mount point of the FAT partition to the EXCLUDE section) I had this same problem and telling updatedb/slocate to exclude the FAT partition fixed it. -Matt OK, this fixed the problem. Thanks, Matt.
Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Philosophy and pipes
-Original Message- From: Richard Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] It appears there is a majority opinion of those responding that we should start here, and perhaps move to another maillist in time. Someone suggested that a web page would be more appropriate, and I consider that a viable future option for archiving and eventually reaching a wider group. I will preface my posts with the phrase UNIX INTRO. This will allow uninterested users to skip these messages. I believe in teaching some background as well as basic UNIX concepts. I promise that we will soon get to the command line... Big snip This is exactly what we need. From the start, useful stuff. I often wonder why something works so I can tie the concept to the command and hopefully remember it next time. Memories are more easily retrieved if there are multiple connections in the brain, that is why multimedia is so exciting and important. At my Local LUG the gurus give long commands to the designated typist on a PC hooked to a projector so we can all see the display. After a long command we all ohhh and ahhh about the output and I ask why. It all starts to make sense when you know that 'ls' means list, 'cat' means concatenate, etc. Of course most people don't know what concatenate means but it is a word that can be looked up in a regular dictionary. Preach on brother. I'll be in class with my feet up and a maniacal grin on.
RE: [newbie] no mouse on re-install
I did the same (several times) and I had to select a generic mouse and disable the 3 button emulator (BTW, I have a Microsmurf mouse and it was the only way to get it to work) Regards, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support -Original Message- From: David Gill [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 11:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] no mouse on re-install I had to re-install MDK 6.0. When I did, the mouse was autodetected, but no mouse was available on startup. I have a generic two-button mouse. I tired to edit the mouseconfig but no go. Any ideas? David Gill application/ms-tnef
Re: [newbie] How to create a multiple boot configuration
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Lorenzo Jimenez wrote: Hi, Recently I completed a Linux install but how can I create a multiple boot (aka Windows 95 menu) so i can choose W95 or Linux without the floppy disk. TIA Lorenzo J. ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Change root= to what ever your rootdir is on and the D:\Mandrake to where you store loadlin and your kernel image. -=-= autoexec.bat =-=- :common @Echo OFF SET PATH=$PATH;D:\Mandrake goto %config% :linux echo Starting Linux Mandrake 6.0 (Venus) pause loadlin.exe D:\Mandrake\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 goto end :windows win goto end :end -=-= config.sys =-=- [Menu] menuitem=Windows menuitem=Linux menudefault=Windows,5 [common] [Windows] DOS=AUTO [Linux] DOS=NOAUTO
[newbie] 2 X-related questions
1) Whenever I log into X using the KDE, I get a message saying something like 'Your X11 server doesn't support DPMS'... What is DPMS and do I need it? If not, how do I get rid of the message? 2) I have an Imagine 128 vid card installed in my PII 350Mhz machine. I can't seem to get any more than 8-bit depth out of it. When I try commenting out the 8-bit depth section in my XF86Config file, it tells me that it can't find the screen for the default 8-bit depth. How can I get more? ** Josh Fornwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAGER: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
RE: [newbie] Toshiba Satellite 2065 and Sound
Unfortunately no. It sets things like the port for the modem UART, XON/XOFF etc. David A. Klein 2146 Birch Drive Lafayette Hill, PA 19444 USA Phone 610.941.9991 Wireless610.745.1802 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Text Paging [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax 801.383.9320 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ripcrd6 Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Toshiba Satellite 2065 and Sound I'm still a newbie myself, but will the setserial command work for the soundcard as well? Brian -Original Message- From: David Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ripcrd6, In investigating here's what I found out. ESS's newest chip is a hybrid one. PCI with IRQ11 as the controller and IRQ5 as the sound card. It's not the usual "ESS XXX" chain name, but rather their new branding is called "Maestro". I was able to read the messages and look in some sort of PCI file in the file system and find that Linux doesn't get the IRQ11 bit and while ESS says that Maestro is Soundblaster and Soundblaster Pro compatible it still isn't loading. ESS doesn't display any Linux drivers and points towards "your laptop provider" Toshiba - so far not "supporting Linux officially". Between this and the modem issues (I've even gotten into setserial and modemtool) I have to reload the whole system again b/c hang up problems. It's led to the main mandrake screen (the motif one where you chose if you want KDE, Gnome, the other windows managers, failsafe etc.) to disappear. I've seen two core dump icon's in the root directory but can't figure out which editor will allow me to read the dump. I was up until 3 AM on this stuff. Really frustrating. But I got to make this work! I have an AMD and wish to help break the WINTEL grip on the computer world Ripcrd6! Dave Klein. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah, it sounds like a cross-use of chips. That's what I meant to say. They do this to save board space. In a PC you can buy a board containing modem and sound or motherboard w/ sound, video, modem, SCSI or LAN card built in. It would be great if they could do this without using crap parts which often happens. In a laptop YMMV. And if something goes fritz, new motherboard ==$$. Good Luck
Re: [newbie] 2 X-related questions
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, you wrote: 2) I have an Imagine 128 vid card installed in my PII 350Mhz machine. I can't seem to get any more than 8-bit depth out of it. When I try commenting out the 8-bit depth section in my XF86Config file, it tells me that it can't find the screen for the default 8-bit depth. How can I get more? Try running X by typing the following command at the prompt: startx -- -bpp 16 (16-bit) or startx -- -bpp 24 (24-bit) or startx -- -bpp 32 (32-bit) By default it appears that X starts in 8-bit mode.
Re: [newbie] 2 X-related questions
Original Message On 7/28/99, 11:26:08 AM, FORNWALL JOSHUA JOHN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] 2 X-related questions: 1) Whenever I log into X using the KDE, I get a message saying something like 'Your X11 server doesn't support DPMS'... What is DPMS and do I need it? If not, how do I get rid of the message? [snip] DPMS is Display Power Management Services. What it basically does, is put your monitor in 3 different modes according to what's going on. 1) Normal - That's just what it says. 2) Standby - blanks out the screen, but still is using some power and can come back to normal quickly. (My power light turns yellow for this mode.) 3) Sleep - least amount of power used, but will still come back on if you move the mouse or hit a key. (My power light turns red.) Someone else may have a more in depth explanation, but that is the basics. As to weather you need it or not, if it's not supported, probably not. And I don't know how to get rid of the message. -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 ** Josh Fornwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAGER: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
[newbie] BJC-2000 printer
Is anyone successfully using Mandrake 6.0 with a canon BJC-2000? Thanks- -alan | note my new non-Whitman email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Bye-bye Whitman; I'll be writing from U of Arizona in August! |
Re: [newbie] 2 X-related questions
i recently d/l the 600 MB ISO file to burn on a CD-- i burned it on a CD using adaptec softaer, but now i'm confsued as to what i am suppposed to do next. the CD is not bootable and i don't know how to access the file.. can anyone help me with this problem??? thank.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] 2 X-related questions
Is there a way to increase the default depth when I boot to INIT level 5? ** Josh Fornwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAGER: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, you wrote: 2) I have an Imagine 128 vid card installed in my PII 350Mhz machine. I can't seem to get any more than 8-bit depth out of it. When I try commenting out the 8-bit depth section in my XF86Config file, it tells me that it can't find the screen for the default 8-bit depth. How can I get more? Try running X by typing the following command at the prompt: startx -- -bpp 16 (16-bit) or startx -- -bpp 24 (24-bit) or startx -- -bpp 32 (32-bit) By default it appears that X starts in 8-bit mode.
Re: [newbie] 2 X-related questions
The way to increase your color depth in X is to add a line to /etc/X11/XF86Config: DefaultColorDepth bpp This line goes in the "Display" subsection of the "Screen" section for your X server (I think- just put it by the list of resolutions, wherever that is). bpp is the color depth you want in Bits Per Pixel (8, 16, 24, or 32). -Matt
[newbie] RE:
If you are running Mandrake 6.0, the 64 meg limit does not apply. On the older kernels, 2.0.x, you can set a mem="128M", in your lilo.conf file, and rerun lilo. Lilo.conf is located in your /etc directory. You can use pico, or vi, to edit the file. You then must run lilo (type lilo at the prompt) to activate the changes. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 2:28 PM Subject: I have heard htathat linux can only use 64MB of memory by deafault. Is this true? Where can I change this optioinn?
RE: [newbie] 2 X-related questions - or ISO CD can not access...
If the CD is un-bootable then you will need to boot dos to access the cd. You will then need to create a boot disk. Once you have the cd accessible, grab a blank floppy and go to the dosutils directory and run the file called rawrite.exe. The image file it wants is in d:\images\boot.img (if "D" is not your CDROM in dos then replace with the correct letter)The program will create a bootable floppy for the Linux-Mandrake installation program. Install and enjoy.. Tim Beacham, HDIS ¤ Barrow Medical Center mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Infamous last words of Socrates, "I drank what?" -Original Message- From: Amit K Khandelwal [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 4:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 2 X-related questions i recently d/l the 600 MB ISO file to burn on a CD-- i burned it on a CD using adaptec softaer, but now i'm confsued as to what i am suppposed to do next. the CD is not bootable and i don't know how to access the file.. can anyone help me with this problem??? thank.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] 2 X-related questions
Whoops, I lied. The list of resolutions is individually defined for each color depth, so this doesn't make sense: how would you set the default color depth after you've decided which depth to use? You need to put that line right ABOVE the first "Display" subsection. Be sure it's in the "Screen" section for the server you're using, too. It won't do much good if it's in the wrong server section. If you are not sure which server you're using, go with "svga" first. That's probably the more common, unless you have asouped-up video card. Then you might try the "accel" server (Accelerated X server) if SVGA doesn't work for you. -Matt On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Matt Stegman wrote: The way to increase your color depth in X is to add a line to /etc/X11/XF86Config: DefaultColorDepth bpp This line goes in the "Display" subsection of the "Screen" section for your X server (I think- just put it by the list of resolutions, wherever that is). bpp is the color depth you want in Bits Per Pixel (8, 16, 24, or 32). -Matt
[newbie] Slow bandwith
Just got a modem that works with Linux. Hooray! Got it installed fine on Com2 under windows and as the equivalent for kppp cant recall right now what that is anyway... it works great under windows but under mdk6.0 kppp says i am connecting @ 38400 but whenever i pull up a site, ftp, download, etc., the maximum i pull is between 300- 600 bytes. under windows i average between 2-3k. I have no idea where to even begin with settings to fix this. thanks in advance. btw: it is a zoltrix 56k flex. not sure the exact model.
[newbie] Telnet
How can I cet my computer to accept telnet connections when I am online using a modem? Btw, my last question got screwed up because I could not see what I was typing.
Re: [newbie] 2 X-related questions
When you put the CD in a windows machine, what do you see on the cd? Do you see one file (mandrake60-1.iso) or do you see several directories (Mandrake, RedHat, images, etc.)? If you see the former, well, now you've got a fine shiny coaster. You made a mistake when you burned the CD. The .iso file is actually an entire filesystem. It's an "image" of a CD. What you should do is select whatever option says something similar to "burn the CD with an ISO image" (it may not say "ISO"). This will put the *filesystem* (as opposed to the *file*) on the CD. If you knew this already, then you probably should go to the /images directory and select the appropriate floppy boot image (I believe the README provides a good synopsis). -Matt On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Amit K Khandelwal wrote: i recently d/l the 600 MB ISO file to burn on a CD-- i burned it on a CD using adaptec softaer, but now i'm confsued as to what i am suppposed to do next. the CD is not bootable and i don't know how to access the file.. can anyone help me with this problem??? thank.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] UNIX INTRO
I would recommend newbies cruise the discount and closeout racks of your local B.Dalton and other bookstore chains. For $10, I got a copy of Dave Taylor's _Teach Yourself UNIX in a Week_. He gave us Elm, among other goodies, and he's an excellent writer. I've found the SAMS books particularly helpful. Lots of gems in those racks for a pittance. Check them out. Mark I believe in teaching some background as well as basic UNIX concepts. I promise that we will soon get to the command line... Big snip This is exactly what we need.
[newbie] RE:
Not true, I'm running with 128MB. Depending on how your kernel was configured when it was built it may have a limitation built in. This is not a Linux fault but necessary with some earlier BIOSs not being able to accurately report more than a fixed amount. If you go into /etc/lilo.conf you can add more memory by adding the following append="mem=nnM" where nn is the size of available RAM you have. Your lilo.conf should end up looking something like this. boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b timeout=30 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.32 label=linux root=/dev/sda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.32.img read-only append="mem=32M" WARNING: This is just a sample, you will have to provide the proper kernel version and the actual memory size relevant to your setup. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 2:28 PM Subject: I have heard htathat linux can only use 64MB of memory by deafault. Is this true? Where can I change this optioinn?
RE: [newbie] Slow bandwith
On 28-Jul-99 Bert Bullough wrote: Just got a modem that works with Linux. Hooray! Got it installed fine on Com2 under windows and as the equivalent for kppp cant recall right now what that is anyway... it works great under windows but under mdk6.0 kppp says i am connecting @ 38400 but whenever i pull up a site, ftp, download, etc., the maximum i pull is between 300- 600 bytes. under windows i average between 2-3k. I have no idea where to even begin with settings to fix this. thanks in advance. btw: it is a zoltrix 56k flex. not sure the exact model. Somewhere in kppp's settings is a setting for 'Connection speed' (or something like that), try setting it to 115200 and see if that helps. -Tom
Re: [newbie] vmware help
- Original Message - From: Axalon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] vmware help On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Axalon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 17, 1999 10:03 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] vmware help On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, hevnsnt wrote: *** Something is wrong with the system include files on *** your machine! The file linux/version.h is for a *** 2.2.9-19mdk Linux system but you are running a 2.2.9-27mdk *** kernel. This will not work for building the VMware device *** drivers; you mush have include files that match the version *** of your operating system. On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Dan Brown wrote: From: hevnsnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I still get the same error, does anyone know what is going on here? What error would that be? Install the updated kernel-headers and kernel-source They are located in the same place you got the 2.2.9-27mdk kernel, if the mirror your useing does not have them they should also be notified so we'll need to know which mirror your useing if they aren't. I'm having the same problem.. The source just isn't there to link to. Could you tell how to install them or somewhere to go read up? I updated through the icon on the KDE destop. I selected both files which came up for the kernel update. I'm not sure how to find the source files for the kernel, or which ones are the files I want.
RE: [newbie] UNIX INTRO
Adding to this, 'Beginning Linux Programming' by Neil Matthew Richard Stones from WROX Press is good. Topics covered include: - shell programming - working with files - the UNIX environment - terminals - curses (ncurses these days I think) - data management - development tools - debugging - processes and signals - interprocess communication (pipes) - semaphores, message queues and shared memory - sockets - Tcl (Tool Command Language) - programming for X - programming for the internet (html) - internet programming 2 (cgi) I guess it just depends on whether you want to just rinse your face or get into it with the hipwaders on. hehehe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of drek Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 12:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] UNIX INTRO I would recommend newbies cruise the discount and closeout racks of your local B.Dalton and other bookstore chains. For $10, I got a copy of Dave Taylor's _Teach Yourself UNIX in a Week_. He gave us Elm, among other goodies, and he's an excellent writer. I've found the SAMS books particularly helpful. Lots of gems in those racks for a pittance. Check them out. Mark I believe in teaching some background as well as basic UNIX concepts. I promise that we will soon get to the command line... Big snip This is exactly what we need.
Re: [newbie] Slow bandwith
Sorry, forgot to mention that I already tried various baud rates both in Kppp and in the bios itself. Right now the com port baud rate is maxed out and KPPP's baud is set to 56700kps "Thomas J. Hamman" wrote: On 28-Jul-99 Bert Bullough wrote: Just got a modem that works with Linux. Hooray! Got it installed fine on Com2 under windows and as the equivalent for kppp cant recall right now what that is anyway... it works great under windows but under mdk6.0 kppp says i am connecting @ 38400 but whenever i pull up a site, ftp, download, etc., the maximum i pull is between 300- 600 bytes. under windows i average between 2-3k. I have no idea where to even begin with settings to fix this. thanks in advance. btw: it is a zoltrix 56k flex. not sure the exact model. Somewhere in kppp's settings is a setting for 'Connection speed' (or something like that), try setting it to 115200 and see if that helps. -Tom
[newbie] Re: []
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard hta that linux can only use 64MB of memory by dea fault. Is this true? Where can I change this optioin n? NOT true since kernel 2.2. Even some of the later 2.0.x kernels might have supported more than 64 meg ;o) Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Re: Linux Memory Useage
IIRC, that only applies to pre 2.x kernels. It's SUPPOSED to recognize more than 64 Megs. However, there are arguments that can be passed to LILO (or, I assume, other boot loaders) at startup. If you check the archives of this list (Mandrake Newbie) I think you'll find those arguments, if not there, perhaps in the FAQ. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 5:28 PM I have heard htathat linux can only use 64MB of memory by deafault. Is this true? Where can I change this optioinn?
Re: [newbie] Telnet
Make sure the Telnet port is open.. Look in /etc/services - Original Message - From: Trevor Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 7:29 PM Subject: [newbie] Telnet How can I cet my computer to accept telnet connections when I am online using a modem? Btw, my last question got screwed up because I could not see what I was typing.
RE: [newbie] SBlive! in Mandrake 2.2.9
Well, none of that works so I'll just stick to loading the module manually. Thanks anyway! Cindy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Martin White Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 6:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SBlive! in Mandrake 2.2.9 Have you tried inserting either 'options emu10k1 -f' or 'insert emu10k1 insmod -f emu10k1' into your conf.modules. Either of these should do the trick although both are specifically NOT recommended by Creative - no idea why as it seems to work for everyone - just covering there backs i guess. Martin. - Original Message - From: Cindy Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 4:17 AM Subject: [newbie] SBlive! in Mandrake 2.2.9 I have been following this thread and have been able to get my SBlive! to work but only by typing modprobe soundcore and insmod -f emu10k1 in a terminal window in KDE. I tried adding the recommended lines to the conf.modules file( the pre-install and post-remove lines) but I get nothing but errors and the sound doesn't work. Any ideas or do you need more specific info? Thanks, Cindy
Re: [newbie] Slow bandwith
If you download a file over 200k does it stall part way through? This is the problem I am faced with. I have a throughput of around 3k in windows and my former Redhat 5.1 install did about the same. Now that I have Mandrake 6.0, it is closer to 800k. Not only that, but it continues to slow down till it stalls and I have to press 'Reload'. I too am using kppp. it works great under windows but under mdk6.0 kppp says i am connecting @ 38400 but whenever i pull up a site, ftp, download, etc., the maximum i pull is between 300- 600 bytes. under windows i average between 2-3k. I have no idea where to even begin with settings to fix this. thanks in advance.
[newbie] A KDE problem
I'm not sure what I did, but somehow I lost the taskbar and application bar from my desktop under my normal user name. I'm being forced to use root so that I can access these, but I really don't like the obvious risk this presents. How can I get these bars back? ** Josh Fornwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAGER: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
[newbie] Re: UNIX INTRO
Richard Myers wrote: Silence is OK, but a good job needs to be mentioned. Just the right lenght and very interesting. Art Rowe
Re: [newbie] Diamond Fire GL 1000 AGP Xfree??
I'm not sure what the "AGP version" is but I'm definitely using a Diamond Fire GL 1000 with X-windows. You'd want to use the XF86_3DLabs server with it if you're using a fairly recent version of XFree86. Otherwise, there used to be a good 3DLabs server available from XSuSE that you may be able to find on SuSE's website (try http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html). I also use 1024x768x16 as my standard resolution/color depth. I'm running Mandrake 6.0 with kdm (runlevel 5) which requires me to add a "DefaultColorDepth 16" line to my screen section in my XF86Config in order to get the 16 bit color depth. If you're not going to be using kdm, you'd probably want something like "startx -- -bpp 16" in your .bash_profile (somebody may want to correct me on this; this is where I used to have it, I think) to achieve the same thing. Hope this helps, Carl Beacham Tim P wrote: I see the Diamond Fire GL 1000 (AGP version) under the supported list on xfree.org but I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in using it with X windows.Can I at least get 1024x768-16bit using that card? My distributor has it on sale for 35 bones and I could not lay off... Tim Beacham, HDIS ¤ Barrow Medical Center mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Infamous last words of Socrates, "I drank what?" begin:vcard n:Bauman;Carl tel;fax:(210) 592-2027 tel;work:(210) 592-4018 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corporation;Information Technology adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Business Analyst note:Alternate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-cpt:;19968 fn:Carl Bauman end:vcard
[newbie] Re:
If you're using lilo you can change it at the boot prompt. For example, I enter "linux mem=128M". Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard htathat linux can only use 64MB of memory by deafault. Is this true? Where can I change this optioinn?
Re: [newbie] A KDE problem
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, FORNWALL JOSHUA JOHN wrote: I'm not sure what I did, but somehow I lost the taskbar and application bar from my desktop under my normal user name. I'm being forced to use root so that I can access these, but I really don't like the obvious risk this presents. How can I get these bars back? ** Josh Fornwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAGER: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Probably the easiest and quickest way would be to backup your existing /home/username/.kde directory to say /home/username/backup.kde then when your restart kde under that user account it will start up with the default desktop setup. Of course this way you would need to set things up the way you want them again, so hopefully someone might have a better idea for you. John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] vmware help
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Axalon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] vmware help On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Axalon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 17, 1999 10:03 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] vmware help On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, hevnsnt wrote: *** Something is wrong with the system include files on *** your machine! The file linux/version.h is for a *** 2.2.9-19mdk Linux system but you are running a 2.2.9-27mdk *** kernel. This will not work for building the VMware device *** drivers; you mush have include files that match the version *** of your operating system. On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Dan Brown wrote: From: hevnsnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I still get the same error, does anyone know what is going on here? What error would that be? Install the updated kernel-headers and kernel-source They are located in the same place you got the 2.2.9-27mdk kernel, if the mirror your useing does not have them they should also be notified so we'll need to know which mirror your useing if they aren't. I'm having the same problem.. The source just isn't there to link to. Could you tell how to install them or somewhere to go read up? I updated through the icon on the KDE destop. I selected both files which came up for the kernel update. I'm not sure how to find the source files for the kernel, or which ones are the files I want. cd ~ mkdir updates cd updates wget ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake/updates/6.0/RPMS/kernel-headers-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm wget ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake/updates/6.0/RPMS/kernel-source-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm su -c "rpm -Uhv kernel*.rpm"
Re: [newbie] Telnet
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, James Capone wrote: Make sure the Telnet port is open.. Look in /etc/services - Original Message - From: Trevor Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 7:29 PM Subject: [newbie] Telnet How can I cet my computer to accept telnet connections when I am online using a modem? Btw, my last question got screwed up because I could not see what I was typing. install the telnet package off the cdrom test with "telnet 0"
[newbie] X lockup
On my PC, X appears to have locked up. It's running what I think is AfterStep. I started xfontsel and poked around a couple of fonts, but now it's just sitting. It doesn't seem to respond to anything: the mouse, Alt+F2, Ctrl+Alt+BkSp, Ctrl+Alt+Del, or anything else I know of. I do NOT want to use the power switch to get out of this one! This system uses Red Hat 5.0. What can I do?
[newbie] Re: X lockup
On my PC, X appears to have locked up. It's running what I think is AfterStep. I started xfontsel and poked around a couple of fonts, but now it's just sitting. It doesn't seem to respond to anything: the mouse, Alt+F2, Ctrl+Alt+BkSp, Ctrl+Alt+Del, or anything else I know of. I do NOT want to use the power switch to get out of this one! This system uses Red Hat 5.0. What can I do? Update: I went back to the computer and found that X had shut down. Apparently it buffered all of my input but decided to wait an hour to process it. I still want to know how to shut either X or the process down instantly.
Re: [newbie] A KDE problem
I'm not sure what I did, but somehow I lost the taskbar and application bar from my desktop under my normal user name. I'm being forced to use root so that I can access these, but I really don't like the obvious risk this presents. How can I get these bars back? Probably the easiest and quickest way would be to backup your existing /home/username/.kde directory to say /home/username/backup.kde then when your Maybe you should compare username's .kde directory to root's .kde directory. Perhaps you'll find some setting that decides whether or not you'll see the taskbar and application bar. If you do, fix it.
Re: [newbie] Re: X lockup
I still want to know how to shut either X or the process down instantly. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shuts down X
