Re: [newbie] One more zip drive question
- Original Message - From: Steve Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 12:22 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] One more zip drive question Have you tried looking at all the boot-up messages to see how Linux sees your zip drive? Also, is your kernel configured for that device? To check the boot-up messages, create a file, myfile. Then: dmesg myfile then check what's in myfile. Should tell you what Linux sees. --- Jim Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am currently upgrading from 5.3 to 6.0 on another computer after giving up on this one getting my ATAPI zip drive to work. Under 5.3, my parallel port zip drive was found. Under 6.0 during the upgrade it wasn't. What gives here? Shouldn't a newer kernel be downward compatable? Many thanks for the help. Jim _ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com I had the same problem, just type "modprobe ppa" (no quotes) at the prompt, then mount your drive as normal. I have no idea why 6.0 doesn't see the zip drive automatically when 5.3 did. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Hello?
- Original Message - From: James Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 1:49 AM Subject: [newbie] Hello? Hello ? is anyone even hearing this?? I have posted about 5 msgs on this mailing list requesting hard ware installation help.. I have yet for ANYONE to replay to me... maybe this is not getting to anyone? if you read this could you post a little note saying so? And if you know better why you have not bothered to anwer any of my posts?? ;o) james I see your message, but I can't say that I have seen anything from you before this Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
where from? "Alan N." wrote: 2. Sound: Run sndconfig at the prompt. Select your sound card. If that doesn't work, try some of the other choices. I have an ALS and got the Soundblaster to work for it. I ran sndcnfig and when it does the sample test I get this error message: "The following error occurred playing the sample: sox:Known effects: avg band chorus copy cut deemph echop echoes flanger highp lowp map mask phaser pick polyphase rate resample revern reverse split stat vibro sox: Effect 'dev/dsp' is unknown" Yep, same thing for me. Dload the sox upgrade. This will fix the /dev/dsp is unknown. This might fix it, might not. Write back if it doesn't. Same symptoms exactly I had. Alan
[newbie] deleting /mbr
Someone posted the other day how to delete LILO from the master boot record of the C drive. Could you repost? I'm trying to delete Linux from my Primary slave drive but whenever I do LILO (which is on the mbr of the primary master dive) only partially boots and I can't get to Winblows. I need to dump LILO altogether to have a normal boot without a system disk. Toby
Re: [newbie] deleting /mbr
Toby Sheets wrote: Someone posted the other day how to delete LILO from the master boot record of the C drive. Could you repost? I'm trying to delete Linux from my Primary slave drive but whenever I do LILO (which is on the mbr of the primary master dive) only partially boots and I can't get to Winblows. I need to dump LILO altogether to have a normal boot without a system disk. Toby fdisk /mbr
[newbie] how do i
Hello all, I am running NT 4.o and Mandrake on the same box. Can someone plz tell me how I can be able to read my nt partition as well as write to it. I've tried linconfig but can't seem to figure it out? thanks, Ralph
Re: [newbie] Printing from Netscape
I renamed my printer to epson440, and now I have to use the command "lpr -P epson440" in any program to get the printer to work. It works for me in Netscape anyway. John Connell wrote: I have tried "lpr"--didn't work! Thanks anyway. John - Original Message - From: Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing from Netscape John Connell wrote: Hi All. Can anyone tell me how I can print from Netscape? I have a Canon BJ4000 and can print test pages in L-M6.0, but cannot print from Netscape. My printer is on lp0. It keeps asking for the right print command. I tried -Plp0 plus a few others with no results. Thanks for your responses in advance! John Connell Hi, John, Try 'lpr' as the print command. Good luck, Hidong Can you print postscript files from the command line? Is lpd running? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Urban Karlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] how do i
I am running NT 4.o and Mandrake on the same box. Can someone plz tell me how I can be able to read my nt partition as well as write to it. I've tried linconfig but can't seem to figure it out? Rebuild your kernel to include support for the file system. From what I saw the last time I did it, it will only read NTFS ... no write support yet. # cd /usr/src/linux # make config work through all of the options # make dep # make clean # make bzImage # cp arch/1386/boot/bzImage /boot/whatever_your_kernel_is_called_in_/etc/lilo.conf # lilo # shutdown -fr now --- Ian W. Douglas, Wild Web Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 506679
Re: [newbie] how do i
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, byte-runer | Ralph | wrote: Hello all, I am running NT 4.o and Mandrake on the same box. Can someone plz tell me how I can be able to read my nt partition as well as write to it. I've tried linconfig NTFS write support is VERY experimental in the current kernel, therefore the Kernel included in Mandrake hasn't compiled it in. If you really want to try this, you'll have to recompile the kernel with NTFS write support; but don't say we didn't warn you - loss of data can occur, in the worst case trying to write to it will destroy the partition. LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
[newbie] Argh, shameful dumb question!!
God, I am ashamed to ask such a dumb question. How do you open a file ending in .tgz? Thanks for any and all help, steve w _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] network configuration
When I installed mandrake on my laptop with an AMB8002 PCMCIA ethernet card, I couldn't find the stuff about what kind of card I had, so I figured I could do that step later. Now is later, and I can't find the program that does what the install program would have done if I'd known what to tell it? Where is it? Also, when I run netconf, the help says that for a simple isolated network I can select the item "Install isolated/simple network from scratch" under the menu item networking. I don't seem to be able to find this menu. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [newbie] Adding more RAM
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Jason Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have always heard the swap partition should be twice the size of the RAM, so here's my question. I'm going to add 64 MB to a system with a 128 MB swap and the initial 64 MB. Do I have to resize my swap, and if so what can I use to do it on the fly? Also, will I have to change any other system files? Thanks for any help. The 2:1 swap:ram ratio is just a rough rule of thumb. 128MB of each will be fine. You do not need to increase the swap size. -- Richard Lamont [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonix.demon.co.uk/
Re: [newbie] deleting /mbr
Use a windows/dos boot disk to start the system, and issue the command fdisk /mbr that will get rid of lilo for you. Ben - Original Message - From: Toby Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 6:02 AM Subject: [newbie] deleting /mbr Someone posted the other day how to delete LILO from the master boot record of the C drive. Could you repost? I'm trying to delete Linux from my Primary slave drive but whenever I do LILO (which is on the mbr of the primary master dive) only partially boots and I can't get to Winblows. I need to dump LILO altogether to have a normal boot without a system disk. Toby
Re: [newbie] Argh, shameful dumb question!!
Steve Winston wrote: God, I am ashamed to ask such a dumb question. How do you open a file ending in .tgz? Thanks for any and all help, tar zxvf file.tgz -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] USB
The only reason I ask is because when I recompiled my kernel I saw a section for USB called "USB - Not for the faint of heart". I compiled it in as modules, and when I loaded the module it seemed to recognize my USB controller, but I didn't know exactly how to use it. BTW, this was on the 2.2.9-27 build kernel. * Original message from: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] John May wrote: Does anybody have any resources regarding USB in Linux? Particularly on setting up modems. I read somewhere that it was possible. In current production kernels (2.0.x, 2.2.x), there is no USB support. There is _very_ basic USB support in the development kernels (2.3.x; 2.3.11 is the latest), but I still don't think there's enough to actually use a modem. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
Re: [newbie] Hello?
Hello, having the same problem. Have posted several messages but they never show up. have I been banished from the list?? Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] James Schofield wrote: Hello ? is anyone even hearing this?? I have posted about 5 msgs on this mailing list requesting hard ware installation help.. I have yet for ANYONE to replay to me... maybe this is not getting to anyone? if you read this could you post a little note saying so? And if you know better why you have not bothered to anwer any of my posts?? ;o) james
Re: [newbie] network configuration
For network configuration I think the program is linuxconf, under /bin/linuxconf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I installed mandrake on my laptop with an AMB8002 PCMCIA ethernet card, I couldn't find the stuff about what kind of card I had, so I figured I could do that step later. Now is later, and I can't find the program that does what the install program would have done if I'd known what to tell it? Where is it? Also, when I run netconf, the help says that for a simple isolated network I can select the item "Install isolated/simple network from scratch" under the menu item networking. I don't seem to be able to find this menu. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [newbie] Hello?
James, I've installed Mandrake, RH, SuSE, and Caldera on a Compaq Armada 7400 docked or undocked without any problem. Compaq uses cable select on all their drives so you don't have to worry about master/slave jumpers. Does your laptop use cable select or jumpers. Are the two drives hda and hdb identical? The diag dump shows they are the same model but hdb is not reporting a serial number. If you have two drives on the same cable and they are both jumpered as master then you could possible be getting responses from the first drive(hda) when the ATA ID command is sent to the second drive(hdb). What are the three IDE devices connected to your system? Or are there only two as your message below suggests? scottw On 14-Aug-99 James Schofield wrote: Ok, this is one of the problems.. I am trying to install Linux on a Laptop/docking station combo. I have the laptop with an internal IDE drive and with the port connection to the docking station I can have another IDE drive in the docking station giving me 2 drives on the system. BUT Linux does not detect it correctly. This is an output from OPEN LINUX system analyser. I have used this because Mandrake does not have anything like this I that I have found. Take a look and tell me what you think is happening.. Thanks James -- E-Mail: scott worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 14-Aug-99 Time: 14:55:21 This message was sent by XFMail --
Re: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
open a terminal. change to su ( root ). sndconfig at the prompt. Gl.. Make sure you upgrade sox. BTW, you epsiode sounds very like my own. If you run Gnome, don't use gmix ( the audio mixer ). It kills things. Alan - Original Message - From: Toby Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 6:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 4 persistent problems where from? "Alan N." wrote: 2. Sound: Run sndconfig at the prompt. Select your sound card. If that doesn't work, try some of the other choices. I have an ALS and got the Soundblaster to work for it. I ran sndcnfig and when it does the sample test I get this error message: "The following error occurred playing the sample: sox:Known effects: avg band chorus copy cut deemph echop echoes flanger highp lowp map mask phaser pick polyphase rate resample revern reverse split stat vibro sox: Effect 'dev/dsp' is unknown" Yep, same thing for me. Dload the sox upgrade. This will fix the /dev/dsp is unknown. This might fix it, might not. Write back if it doesn't. Same symptoms exactly I had. Alan
[newbie] RE:
I've used the same card recently. 3dfx has a link on their site under drivers to the site http://glide.xxedgexx.com which has the RPM's you will need to download. I downloaded the following: Glide_V3-2.60-6.i386.rpm Device3Dfx-2.2-3.src.rpm This is optional but recommended XFree86_3DFX-SVGA-3.3.3-5.i386.rpm XFree86_3DFX-XF86Setup-3.3.3-5.i386.rpm I did: rpm -Uvh Glide_V3-2.60-6.i386.rpm for the next command you need the C compiler/libs to be installed rpm --rebuild Device3Dfx-2.2.-3.src.rpm rpm -Uvh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i386/Device3Dfx-2.2-3.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh XFree86-SVGA-3.3.3-5.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh XFree86-XF86Setup-3.3.3-5.i386.rpm You can't use Xconfigurator to setup X anymore. Use XF86Setup. On the card page it will have the Voodoo cards listed. The one problem I had was I entered the Vert. Horiz. specs for my monitor(Viewsonic 15GS) and when I ran X the display was not stable. I had to run XFSetup again and choose 1024x768 at 70Hz for the monitor then I had no problems running at 1024x768 with 16bit color. scottw On 14-Aug-99 RReed wrote: I am very new to linux and just installed mandrake 6.0. I am having 1 problem and have read and tried everything i could to fix it. I have a p2 400 system with 128 M ram a voodoo3 2000 video card and an ast sabre monitor. The vid card and monitor can support up to 1280x1024 32 bit. For some reason or another the xwindows (startx) will only start in 8bpp 320x200 I have tried nearly all settings in xf86config and xconfigurator. If someone has any way to help me please feel free.. I greatly need the help. I have tried to get the archived mail from this list but there is nothing there.. it reads 0 in the index :( Thank you very much for any help you can give a very fresh newbie to linux. Ron Reed -- E-Mail: scott worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 14-Aug-99 Time: 15:07:54 This message was sent by XFMail --
[newbie] Modem
I now can get a modem, but I want to be absolutely sure that it works with Linux as well as with Windows. The Linux disributions I will be using it with are Mandrake 6 and Red Hat 5. I will also use it with Windows 95 and maybe DOS. It must be an external modem (how else would I share it between a laptop and a PC?). It should plug into the serial port. I don't want to pay more than $80, but I also need a fast, reliable 56K modem. I heard about a Diamond sale recently, but I no longer have the URL. p.s. This will the be first modem I have ever bought in my entire life. Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth ICQ: 35256413 ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Success is a disease; it can make smart people think they can't lose." -- Bill Gates, on why IBM is going down (as seen in Pirates of Silicon Valley) ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Down with big brother!" -- George Orwell
[newbie] two problems
i just got mandrake v 6.0 installed yesterday. i have been setting it up for quite a while now. i have two problems that havent been able to fix. first the (hopefully) easy one: i am running kde and the mouse resets to slow speed whenever i come back into it. i set the speed in the control center in every session, but it always goes back to the defaults. any tips? is gpm affecting this. the default mouse setting is way to slow to use, so i must set it everytime. next, the more difficult problem: i am getting no sound out of my sound card. i have a AWE64 gold soundblaster. i have the isapnp.conf set correctly with the card on irq 9. all the modules on boot up load properly with no errors. i did a dmesg to see what might be happening that i missed. here is the relevant section: --- Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 4.16 detected OK (220) sb: Interrupt test on IRQ5 failed - Probable IRQ conflict SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM4096k) --- it says it tries irq 5, but my card isnt on 5, it is on 9. i havent been able to find what this driver is or what config it uses. i would like to change its config to irq9, and i bet that will fix my problem. any ideas on how to fix this? :P
Re: [[newbie] Modem]
Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now can get a modem, but I want to be absolutely sure that it works with Linux as well as with Windows. The Linux disributions I will be using it with are Mandrake 6 and Red Hat 5. I will also use it with Windows 95 and maybe DOS. It must be an external modem (how else would I share it between a laptop and a PC?). It should plug into the serial port. I don't want to pay more than $80, but I also need a fast, reliable 56K modem. I heard about a Diamond sale recently, but I no longer have the URL. p.s. This will the be first modem I have ever bought in my entire life. = It's probably close to double the $80 you hope to limit yourself to, but for what-its-worth, I use an external USR faxmodem v.90 X2 with my Toshiba laptop and it works great (both Linux 2.2.5 and Win 9x) 8-)
RE: [newbie] WindowMaker
Glad to hear it worked for you. * Original message from: scott worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks John. I've got 0.60 compiled and it appears to be working. I use appear because I added some of the pentium optimizations to the Makefiles. I used the same optimizations that the Mandrake kernel source used. scottw On 14-Aug-99 John May wrote: First of all, I know what you mean. I have to put up with about 5 WinNT servers at work when 2 Linux boxes could be doing the job of all 5. Ok. WindowMaker 0.52 comes with the Mandrake distribution. You can either install that if you haven't already, or you can go ahead with installing the 0.60 version. To install the 0.60 version, you have download the tar ball and you have to compile it (you said you did this). Besides the 0.60 tar ball you also need a library called libPropList, I think that's what its called, this also comes with Mandrake as an RPM. I don't know if you need all the utilites, but I installed all the C Development and extra utilities, just in case and I didn't get any compile errors, except for a few warnings. I installed the 0.60 version and it isn't all that different, just some bug fixes. If you just want to check out WindowMaker, I would install the version that comes with Mandrake and try that out. There were a lot of configuration issues I had to go through to get the 0.60 version to work. Some things you have to do to install 0.60: 1. Remove the windowmaker RPM from Linux, if installed. Also remove the wmaker-conf RPM if it is installed too. 2. untar the 0.60 tar ball, and run the configure script, can get the configure options if you type: ~#: ./configure --help The configure script will let you know if anything is missing or if something isn't right. Generally if the configure script gives no errors, you should be able to compile without errors and install it ok. If you install WindoMaker (wmaker) into /usr/local/bin, then you will have to add that to your path. You can edit /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc and add the line PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin If you want the program in a different directory, you can edit the Makefile to tell WindowMaker where to install, but by default, it is installed in: /usr/local/bin 3. Run make 4. Run make install Building WindowMaker with Gnome and KDE support won't break anything, it just adds support. That should get you started. I agree with you KDE reminds me too much of Winblows and I want to get as far away from Windblows as possible. There are a lot of things that could go wrong and it might get frustrating, but it's all part of learning your way around linux. 8-) * Original message from: scott worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] John, I would like to try WindowMaker. I have downloaded the 0.60 tar balls a while back but I don't know if Mandrake comes with all the required libs tools. Do you really need automake, libtool, etc. or is gcc enough? Does the Makefile require modification to put WindowMaker components into the correct directories on Mandrake? I've noticed that both RH SuSE seem customize their rpm's of WindowMaker. When I built 0.60 the resulting config files were in text format. I followed the directions to convert to binary form so I could use the GUI config program but the conversion script gave an error. Is this normal? Does building WM with Gnome or KDE support harm WM's performance any? I assume those hooks are there to load the appropriate libs when a Gnome/KDE app is executed. I have to put up with NT and soon W2k for 8hrs at work. It would be nice to use something completely different. scottw -- E-Mail: scott worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 14-Aug-99 Time: 14:32:13 This message was sent by XFMail --
Re: [newbie] two problems
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am getting no sound out of my sound card. i have a AWE64 gold soundblaster. i have the isapnp.conf set correctly with the card on irq 9. all the modules on boot up load properly with no errors. i did a dmesg to see what might be happening that i missed. here is the relevant section: --- Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 4.16 detected OK (220) sb: Interrupt test on IRQ5 failed - Probable IRQ conflict SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM4096k) --- it says it tries irq 5, but my card isnt on 5, it is on 9. i havent been able to find what this driver is or what config it uses. i would like to change its config to irq9, and i bet that will fix my problem. any ideas on how to fix this? /usr/sbin/sndconfig -- Richard Lamont [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonix.demon.co.uk/
Re: [newbie] 56k modem is slow
Richard, Maybe it's your isp? If you have windows still or any other os, see if the connection is as bad in it too. --- Richard Winters wrote: I am using Linux Mandrake vs 6...I connect to Earthlink using kppp with my v.90 psion dacom pcmcia modem. It states that I am connected at 48000/24000...and data is downloaded only at 200 bytes/sec. I have kppp set to 115200... I have scanned this list, the usenet and how-to's and have (blindly) tried the following at root (without understanding the implications): setserial /dev/modem spd_vhi (no improvement) added the following arguments:novj novjccomp nodeflate nopcomp nobsdcomp noaccomp (no improvement) Edited etc/ppp/optionswhich just stated "lock"I removed "lock" and placed "mtu 552 mvu 552" (kppp would not connect so I changed it back to "lock") What should I do? Many thanks! Richard C. Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Kernel 2.2.5 w/ Sound Blaster Live problem..
I recently compiled Kernel 2.2.5 so I could use my Sound Blaster Live, but when I run the bin to install the drivers, it gives me the error "kernel msut be compiled with SMP." Anyone know what this is? And is there a newer than 2.2.5 kernel that supports the Sound Blaster Live? Thanks.
No Subject
Hi, Today I installed Linux Mandrake 6.0. After the installation I logged in but the resolution was set as 300x200. Running "setup" or "xf86config" to change the res to 800x600 doesnt work, it just goes back to 300x200. Pressing ctrl, alt +/- has no effect either. Any suggestions? Best Regards, Paul Hendrick
[newbie] Re:
You need to find the driver for you video card. You first need to find out what the chipset is on the card, then search around the web for it. Metacrawler works good for this. You might want to do a search for the lhd or LINUX HARDWARE DATABASE. Then follow the instructions on how to install it. It may require that you overwrite your XF86_SVGA driver with the one in the tar file and then run the Xconfigurator.
Re: [newbie] Argh, shameful dumb question!!
David, Thanks for the explanation. I discovered Midnight Commander but thought that I had actually opened and expanded the tar file by clicking on it. Those questions are not dumb to a new newbie. Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Steve, Not a dumb question, the only dumb question is one that is never asked. There are several methods available to look inside of a .tgz, tar.gz, rpm file the easiest, without unpacking the file is to use Midnight Commander. In order to start Midnight commander all you need to do is type mc at a console prompt such as you would have when in an xterm under Xwindow enviroment or such as you would have at a normal Linux Console once you supply your login and password. Simply type mc When the file manager loads simply change to the directory in which the file is that you wish to view, highlight the file using your arrow keys then while the file is highlighted simply hit the return key to open it for viewing. I hope this will help you.
Re: [newbie] two problems (now just one)
Richard Lamont wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am getting no sound out of my sound card. i have a AWE64 gold soundblaster. i have the isapnp.conf set correctly with the card on irq 9. all the modules on boot up load properly with no errors. i did a dmesg to see what might be happening that i missed. here is the relevant section: --- Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 4.16 detected OK (220) sb: Interrupt test on IRQ5 failed - Probable IRQ conflict SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM4096k) --- it says it tries irq 5, but my card isnt on 5, it is on 9. i havent been able to find what this driver is or what config it uses. i would like to change its config to irq9, and i bet that will fix my problem. any ideas on how to fix this? /usr/sbin/sndconfig that wont do it for me because it always tries to write a new isapnp.conf file and the default that it writes crashes because of my modem. i had to hand configure the modem to make it work. besides, i found part of my problem. conf.modules contains the settings for the sb audio driver. i set it to 9 and now i get sound out kde sound control panel. unfortunately no other apps give me any sound. kmpg says it cant open the audiodevice when i play a sound out of /usr/share/sounds/ i am a bit confused why one part of software can play sound, but all other cant. is the more setup i need to do? anyone got any great ideas? btw, now kde is keeping my mouse settings. odd. :P
Re: [newbie] Modem
diamondmm.com I believe they have supraexpress external modems for around 45-50 dollars.I use the interanal version and after flashing to v90, have been very pleased. You may want to check, for around 80 you may be able to get an internal isa and a pcmcia modem, though I'm not sure if they have the pcmcia in stock.. If you do plan do purchase one, I would suggest calling them to order, as their online store still has glitches they need to resolve. Ben - Original Message - From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 4:23 PM Subject: [newbie] Modem I now can get a modem, but I want to be absolutely sure that it works with Linux as well as with Windows. The Linux disributions I will be using it with are Mandrake 6 and Red Hat 5. I will also use it with Windows 95 and maybe DOS. It must be an external modem (how else would I share it between a laptop and a PC?). It should plug into the serial port. I don't want to pay more than $80, but I also need a fast, reliable 56K modem. I heard about a Diamond sale recently, but I no longer have the URL. p.s. This will the be first modem I have ever bought in my entire life. Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth ICQ: 35256413 ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Success is a disease; it can make smart people think they can't lose." -- Bill Gates, on why IBM is going down (as seen in Pirates of Silicon Valley) ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Down with big brother!" -- George Orwell
Re: [[newbie] Modem]
One thing I'd add -- find out which type of modem your ISP has (X2/V.90 or K56Flex/V.90) and go with that technology. It'll be less headaches in the long run. John - Original Message - From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 5:57 PM Subject: Re: [[newbie] Modem] Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now can get a modem, but I want to be absolutely sure that it works with Linux as well as with Windows. The Linux disributions I will be using it with are Mandrake 6 and Red Hat 5. I will also use it with Windows 95 and maybe DOS. It must be an external modem (how else would I share it between a laptop and a PC?). It should plug into the serial port. I don't want to pay more than $80, but I also need a fast, reliable 56K modem. I heard about a Diamond sale recently, but I no longer have the URL. p.s. This will the be first modem I have ever bought in my entire life. = It's probably close to double the $80 you hope to limit yourself to, but for what-its-worth, I use an external USR faxmodem v.90 X2 with my Toshiba laptop and it works great (both Linux 2.2.5 and Win 9x) 8-)
Re: [newbie] How to use Gnome w/Mandrake 6.0?
Related to this thread: When I reinstalled Mandrake 6.0 some time ago, I mistakenly didn't install Ghome. I have since reinstalled it, but it doesn't show up in the graphical K login. How do I re-place it as an option on that screen? Thanks- -Alan On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, John May wrote: You can choose it out of the drop-down box in the K Login box. If you aren't using that, you can change your desktop with desktopcfg or switchdesk. Type either of the two at the command prompt as your normal user. * Original message from: Jim Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi How do I use Gnome with Mandrake 6.0? I am really happy with KDE except for occasional lockups but would like to try Gnome. Many thanks. Jim
Re: [newbie] deleting /mbr
I was having that problem with LILO. It displays the LI then freezes right? well what I did is went into the etc directory and found this .0300 file and used the dd command with some arguments to replace the mbr with the old version. I found the command in some faq on the CD. The question is how do I remove LILO from an MS-DOS partition or something like that. "Michael L. Bulmer" wrote: Toby Sheets wrote: Someone posted the other day how to delete LILO from the master boot record of the C drive. Could you repost? I'm trying to delete Linux from my Primary slave drive but whenever I do LILO (which is on the mbr of the primary master dive) only partially boots and I can't get to Winblows. I need to dump LILO altogether to have a normal boot without a system disk. Toby fdisk /mbr
RE: [newbie] Modem
On 14-Aug-99 Andy Goth wrote: I now can get a modem, but I want to be absolutely sure that it works with Linux as well as with Windows. The Linux disributions I will be using it with are Mandrake 6 and Red Hat 5. I will also use it with Windows 95 and maybe DOS. It must be an external modem (how else would I share it between a laptop and a PC?). It should plug into the serial port. I don't want to pay more than $80, but I also need a fast, reliable 56K modem. I heard about a Diamond sale recently, but I no longer have the URL. I'm pretty happy with my internal Diamond SupraExpress and I've seen the external version of it recommended several times as well. I don't remember the exact URL given but I believe it was at Diamond's own site which I think is www.diamondmm.com. I don't know if the sale is still going on or how much they're being sold for, but I know you can also get the SupraExpress for somewhere around $60 at buycomp.com. -Tom
Re: [newbie] two problems (now just one)
pete moss wrote: Richard Lamont wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am getting no sound out of my sound card. i have a AWE64 gold soundblaster. i have the isapnp.conf set correctly with the card on irq 9. all the modules on boot up load properly with no errors. i did a dmesg to see what might be happening that i missed. here is the relevant section: --- Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 4.16 detected OK (220) sb: Interrupt test on IRQ5 failed - Probable IRQ conflict SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM4096k) --- it says it tries irq 5, but my card isnt on 5, it is on 9. i havent been able to find what this driver is or what config it uses. i would like to change its config to irq9, and i bet that will fix my problem. any ideas on how to fix this? /usr/sbin/sndconfig that wont do it for me because it always tries to write a new isapnp.conf file and the default that it writes crashes because of my modem. i had to hand configure the modem to make it work. besides, i found part of my problem. conf.modules contains the settings for the sb audio driver. i set it to 9 and now i get sound out kde sound control panel. unfortunately no other apps give me any sound. kmpg says it cant open the audiodevice when i play a sound out of /usr/share/sounds/ i am a bit confused why one part of software can play sound, but all other cant. is the more setup i need to do? anyone got any great ideas? btw, now kde is keeping my mouse settings. odd. :P also, when i cat sample.au /dev/audio from the sndconfig dir, i get playback. it is just the apps that arent playing back. once again, any ideas? :P
[newbie] some questions regarding booting and win partitions
all I wanted to do was access my windows partition from linux and I've created tons of errors. I was reading up on it and someone it said that there is no support for FAT32 in linux, only FAT. this was ok, I'd just set up a 2gig FAT partition to be an intermediate partition, right? I created the partition and then when I tried to boot into linux BAM error. It said VHS panic root partition \dev\hda5 found hda1 ... hda5 hda6 hda7 and locked up. ok I thought this might happen because it would shift the partitions up. I then figured out from the boot disk I created when making mandrake I could type linux boot=/dev/hda6 ro (ok maybe some faqs helped out :) ). so this got me back into linux I thought I could just mount my hda5 partition, start emulating windoze apps, and all would be well. well that wasn't the case. I got into linux but I wasn't greeted by that nice gradiant screen with KDE or gnome selection, only that ASCII penguin and the bash prompt. I logged in and remembered that "startx" was used to get into KDE. welp I went into KDE as root and tried to mount my hda5. I used that exploring thing, went into the /dev directory and clicked on hda5. now KDE locked up. great. I used ctrl+alt+backspace to kill it. now I was back at the prompt. I typed mount /dev/hda5 but it didn't find it in etc/bin and some other dir even though I was in /. could anything else possible go wrong? yup. I thought GNOME might give me more luck in getting into my windows partition, but since that gradiant screen went away after I created my windows FAT partition I didn't know how to start it. I went into the gnome directory and found a readme. I was under the impression VI was like edit in DOS. ok I typed VI readme. It displayed ~'s down the screen, and locked up my keyboard! I pressed escape q! because I read somewhere that q! closes it but that didn't work. I couldn't do anything so I pressed ctrl+alt+del. this began to restart my comp, but then it couldn't unmount the root partition! well I just booted back to windows to write this message and I have a feeling my that linux partition's file system has been damaged. alright now I have a few questions. 1) how do I get that gradiant login screen when I boot up back so I can select gnome? 2) how do I access my windows FAT partition (hda5) I created to be the intermediate partition between my FAT32 partition and linux? mount doesn't work. 3) I very much hate booting linux from a floppy, how do I get loadlin to work? I created a dir called linux with loadlin, vmlinuz, initsomething.gz and a bat with loadlin c:\linux\loadlin c:\linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6/ ro in it, rebooted into DOS mode from win, and ran the bat. well I got some weird error. do you guys recommend I reinstall linux? I just have the fresh installed mandrake on my linux partition. well reinstalling would let me create a bootdisk that has /dev/hda6 as root on it, and fix q 1, but I still need to figure out how to access my windows FAT partition and get loadlin to work. I really hope all this trouble I'm going through to get linux set up pays off in linux being worth it. I haven't really been able to play around since I'm getting so many dang errors and problems.. well, as always, thanks in advance for any help and info.
[newbie] Re:
Paul, Bring up a terminal and type in "setup" and you can make your adjustments from one of the choices on the list. John - Original Message - From: Paul Hendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 7:43 PM Hi, Today I installed Linux Mandrake 6.0. After the installation I logged in but the resolution was set as 300x200. Running "setup" or "xf86config" to change the res to 800x600 doesnt work, it just goes back to 300x200. Pressing ctrl, alt +/- has no effect either. Any suggestions? Best Regards, Paul Hendrick
Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.2.5 w/ Sound Blaster Live problem..
I thought it was that too, so I compiled it again with that, and it still gave the error... Stephan Rex wrote: Hi brett, I am only a newbie but from what I have read SMP is for multiple processor support. I can't see how this should affect your sound card Stephan - Original Message - From: Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 9:30 AM Subject: [newbie] Kernel 2.2.5 w/ Sound Blaster Live problem.. I recently compiled Kernel 2.2.5 so I could use my Sound Blaster Live, but when I run the bin to install the drivers, it gives me the error "kernel msut be compiled with SMP." Anyone know what this is? And is there a newer than 2.2.5 kernel that supports the Sound Blaster Live? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] deleting /mbr
from a dos boot disk, run "fdisk /mbr" (minus quotes) to remove LILO from the DOS disk. Unless you made a boot floppy, this will basically cause you to lose your Linux install. However, if you're going to reinstall ANYWAY, this shouldn't matter... John PS...you can always use a "rescue disk" to gain access to your Linux partition long enough to re-run LILO and make your "/boot" partition within the required 1024 cylinders on your hard drive... - Original Message - From: Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] deleting /mbr I was having that problem with LILO. It displays the LI then freezes right? well what I did is went into the etc directory and found this .0300 file and used the dd command with some arguments to replace the mbr with the old version. I found the command in some faq on the CD. The question is how do I remove LILO from an MS-DOS partition or something like that. "Michael L. Bulmer" wrote: Toby Sheets wrote: Someone posted the other day how to delete LILO from the master boot record of the C drive. Could you repost? I'm trying to delete Linux from my Primary slave drive but whenever I do LILO (which is on the mbr of the primary master dive) only partially boots and I can't get to Winblows. I need to dump LILO altogether to have a normal boot without a system disk. Toby fdisk /mbr
[newbie] Sox upgrade
Where do I do this. I poked around the Mandrake site but didn't see anything. "Alan N." wrote: open a terminal. change to su ( root ). sndconfig at the prompt. Gl.. Make sure you upgrade sox. BTW, you epsiode sounds very like my own. If you run Gnome, don't use gmix ( the audio mixer ). It kills things. Alan - Original Message - From: Toby Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 6:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 4 persistent problems where from? "Alan N." wrote: 2. Sound: Run sndconfig at the prompt. Select your sound card. If that doesn't work, try some of the other choices. I have an ALS and got the Soundblaster to work for it. I ran sndcnfig and when it does the sample test I get this error message: "The following error occurred playing the sample: sox:Known effects: avg band chorus copy cut deemph echop echoes flanger highp lowp map mask phaser pick polyphase rate resample revern reverse split stat vibro sox: Effect 'dev/dsp' is unknown" Yep, same thing for me. Dload the sox upgrade. This will fix the /dev/dsp is unknown. This might fix it, might not. Write back if it doesn't. Same symptoms exactly I had. Alan
[newbie] Aztech Sound card and X11 Amp question
Hi I can play wav and midi files through my Aztech Waverider Sound card configured as a Soundblaster 16 sound card but get terrible distortion trying to play MP3 files through my X11 AMP MP3 player. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a fix? I cannot get the sound card to work under the Aztech selection. Thanks in advance. Jim
RE: [newbie] bash scripts
Store the process id of the ghostview. You can send signal to the process for termination using kill. But this kills the process abruptly and many of cleanup operation by the process would not be done. I believe you can send a termination signal rather than a kill signal. I don't know what the `kill` command sends by default (too lazy to read the man page), but I think if you do `kill -TERM pid` the process should terminate, after doing whatever cleanup it needs- assuming it recognizes the TERM signal. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] some questions regarding booting and win partitions
Will, 1) To get into gnome, on the menu, system utilities desktop switching tools 2) To access your windows drive.. mkdir /mnt/hdax mount -t msdos /dev/hdax /mnt/hdax then just cd to /mnt/hdax replacing x with your drive number. Will wrote: all I wanted to do was access my windows partition from linux and I've created tons of errors. I was reading up on it and someone it said that there is no support for FAT32 in linux, only FAT. this was ok, I'd just set up a 2gig FAT partition to be an intermediate partition, right? I created the partition and then when I tried to boot into linux BAM error. It said VHS panic root partition \dev\hda5 found hda1 ... hda5 hda6 hda7 and locked up. ok I thought this might happen because it would shift the partitions up. I then figured out from the boot disk I created when making mandrake I could type linux boot=/dev/hda6 ro (ok maybe some faqs helped out :) ). so this got me back into linux I thought I could just mount my hda5 partition, start emulating windoze apps, and all would be well. well that wasn't the case. I got into linux but I wasn't greeted by that nice gradiant screen with KDE or gnome selection, only that ASCII penguin and the bash prompt. I logged in and remembered that "startx" was used to get into KDE. welp I went into KDE as root and tried to mount my hda5. I used that exploring thing, went into the /dev directory and clicked on hda5. now KDE locked up. great. I used ctrl+alt+backspace to kill it. now I was back at the prompt. I typed mount /dev/hda5 but it didn't find it in etc/bin and some other dir even though I was in /. could anything else possible go wrong? yup. I thought GNOME might give me more luck in getting into my windows partition, but since that gradiant screen went away after I created my windows FAT partition I didn't know how to start it. I went into the gnome directory and found a readme. I was under the impression VI was like edit in DOS. ok I typed VI readme. It displayed ~'s down the screen, and locked up my keyboard! I pressed escape q! because I read somewhere that q! closes it but that didn't work. I couldn't do anything so I pressed ctrl+alt+del. this began to restart my comp, but then it couldn't unmount the root partition! well I just booted back to windows to write this message and I have a feeling my that linux partition's file system has been damaged. alright now I have a few questions. 1) how do I get that gradiant login screen when I boot up back so I can select gnome? 2) how do I access my windows FAT partition (hda5) I created to be the intermediate partition between my FAT32 partition and linux? mount doesn't work. 3) I very much hate booting linux from a floppy, how do I get loadlin to work? I created a dir called linux with loadlin, vmlinuz, initsomething.gz and a bat with loadlin c:\linux\loadlin c:\linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6/ ro in it, rebooted into DOS mode from win, and ran the bat. well I got some weird error. do you guys recommend I reinstall linux? I just have the fresh installed mandrake on my linux partition. well reinstalling would let me create a bootdisk that has /dev/hda6 as root on it, and fix q 1, but I still need to figure out how to access my windows FAT partition and get loadlin to work. I really hope all this trouble I'm going through to get linux set up pays off in linux being worth it. I haven't really been able to play around since I'm getting so many dang errors and problems.. well, as always, thanks in advance for any help and info.
[newbie] How do you UNINSTALL stuff???
I have seen (fist over hand) a ton of FAQs on how to install various program by compiling or through RPMs. So is there a way to uninstall? Is there a FAQ for it out there. And I am not JUST talking about RPM stuff either. I have installed many things with source code. I have NEVER seen anyone address this issue. Postman
[newbie] Installation problems - cd-rom unable to be found
I've just purchases the The Complete Linux Operating System 6.0 software package and I am having trouble with installation. I thought maybe someone could help me out. I am having trouble in the installation process after choosing aninstallation from Local cd-rom and Other CDROM. After this point, I have tochoose the driver for the cdrom drive. I have an aztech cdrom drive, butwhen I choose this option (or any other) I receive the error message "Ican't find the device anywhere on your system!" I then tried copying the mandrake directry of the cd (1) to a new partitionand attempted to install from the hard drive. i get an error message that says that it doesn't think that the mandrakedirectry tree is where i specified it is when i specify the correct partition. I'm running a486 dx2 66 with a 2 speed IDE aztech cdrom drive on an aztech sound card (no SCSI devices for anything). I should also mention that on my 486, the cd-rom drive is plugged in with a ribbon to the soundcard as opposed to the next computer. i've tried booting into dos and running autobootalso, i've tried using the boot disk I've also tried installing on a separate computer with a different cd-rom drive. This one isa k6-166 with a 16x Toshiba (ATAPI) CD-ROM drive. Everything similar. With this computer, I just booted with the boot disk, and ran the installation program. Again, the cd-rom drive couldn't be located. I even tried this with the previous2x aztech cd-rom drive from the 486. I tried each cd-rom drive as primary master, primary slave, secondary master, secondary slave - each time I get the same previous error message about the installation program being unable to find the device. Thanks in advance,
[newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing???
I see that Netscape supports Linux. Does Internet Explorer support Linux too? If so, where is the SPECIFIC web page that i go to download it? Please don't say www.microsoft.com/download. Please be more specific than that. Postman
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing???
This is the latest.. only question.. will it work with mandrake?!? http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/default.asp - Original Message - From: The Postman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 9:23 PM Subject: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing??? I see that Netscape supports Linux. Does Internet Explorer support Linux too? If so, where is the SPECIFIC web page that i go to download it? Please don't say www.microsoft.com/download. Please be more specific than that. Postman
[newbie] Console text not displaying properly
Title: Console text not displaying properly I have just installed Mandrake 6.0 on an Intel machine with a Number Nine Imagine 128 (Series 2) graphics card and an Apple 17 multisync monitor (Sony CPD-1730). The X Server install did not complete because I could not find a match for the monitor. Not only does the X Server not work but the text on the console display is whacked. Only the top half of each line of text is visible. Basically, the whole monitor is compressed into top half the screen. Any suggestions for: 1. correcting the console display, and 2. getting X Server configured? Thanks, Miles --- Miles Fawcett Interactive Applications Group (iapps) http://www.iapps.com/
[newbie] Video Problem in Window X
I installed linux yesterday and I went to run Window X by typing in shell startx. Everything but the icons in it are black and the screen size is larger than my monitor, and I can't read the text because it is all black. I used X-configurator a few times to change some things but it is still like that. I have a Diamond A50 video card which is supported.
Re: [newbie] How do you UNINSTALL stuff???
I have been wondering the same thing myself...is there a simple way to uninstall a program? - Original Message - From: The Postman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 10:48 PM Subject: [newbie] How do you UNINSTALL stuff??? I have seen (fist over hand) a ton of FAQs on how to install various program by compiling or through RPMs. So is there a way to uninstall? Is there a FAQ for it out there. And I am not JUST talking about RPM stuff either. I have installed many things with source code. I have NEVER seen anyone address this issue. Postman
Re: [newbie] RE:
Ok i mounted my win98 drive to get the filesa all went well till i got to the src file.. it said something about the files enclosed need to start with / So i figured you said it was not mandatory i tried the next file.. the setup file... it said it is dependant upon svga16 so now i am hunting for that file :) - Original Message - From: scott worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 1:23 PM Subject: [newbie] RE: I've used the same card recently. 3dfx has a link on their site under drivers to the site http://glide.xxedgexx.com which has the RPM's you will need to download. I downloaded the following: Glide_V3-2.60-6.i386.rpm Device3Dfx-2.2-3.src.rpm This is optional but recommended XFree86_3DFX-SVGA-3.3.3-5.i386.rpm XFree86_3DFX-XF86Setup-3.3.3-5.i386.rpm I did: rpm -Uvh Glide_V3-2.60-6.i386.rpm for the next command you need the C compiler/libs to be installed rpm --rebuild Device3Dfx-2.2.-3.src.rpm rpm -Uvh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i386/Device3Dfx-2.2-3.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh XFree86-SVGA-3.3.3-5.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh XFree86-XF86Setup-3.3.3-5.i386.rpm You can't use Xconfigurator to setup X anymore. Use XF86Setup. On the card page it will have the Voodoo cards listed. The one problem I had was I entered the Vert. Horiz. specs for my monitor(Viewsonic 15GS) and when I ran X the display was not stable. I had to run XFSetup again and choose 1024x768 at 70Hz for the monitor then I had no problems running at 1024x768 with 16bit color. scottw On 14-Aug-99 RReed wrote: I am very new to linux and just installed mandrake 6.0. I am having 1 problem and have read and tried everything i could to fix it. I have a p2 400 system with 128 M ram a voodoo3 2000 video card and an ast sabre monitor. The vid card and monitor can support up to 1280x1024 32 bit. For some reason or another the xwindows (startx) will only start in 8bpp 320x200 I have tried nearly all settings in xf86config and xconfigurator. If someone has any way to help me please feel free.. I greatly need the help. I have tried to get the archived mail from this list but there is nothing there.. it reads 0 in the index :( Thank you very much for any help you can give a very fresh newbie to linux. Ron Reed -- E-Mail: scott worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 14-Aug-99 Time: 15:07:54 This message was sent by XFMail --
Re: [newbie] WindowMaker
Glad to hear it worked for you. I kinda missed out ton this thread, but I think it was about troubles installing WindowMaker. I installed it from my Cheap*Bytes Mandrake 6.0 CD, and it worked perfectly right away. It's beautiful. Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth ICQ: 35256413 ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Success is a disease; it can make smart people think they can't lose." -- Bill Gates, on why IBM is going down (as seen in Pirates of Silicon Valley) ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Down with big brother!" -- George Orwell
[newbie] TEST
TEST Thanks!
[newbie] test
test
RE: [newbie] How do you UNINSTALL stuff???
For rpm's it's easy, but for source code that's a pretty good question that I'm surprised doesn't get asked more often (and it's probably a big reason why rpm's are popular). Anyway for an rpm you uninstall by typing 'rpm -e packagename'. Note that the package name is not necessarily the entire filename the package was installed from. Let's say you install a package from a file called 'blah-0.5-3mdk.i586.rpm', you would uninstall it by typing 'rpm -e blah'. Programs compiled from source code are trickier. I usually untar my source packages under /usr/local/src, and keep the source code there. Some programmers give their makefiles an 'uninstall' target, so that you can go back to the source code directory and type 'make uninstall' to have it remove all of the files it copied when you did the 'make install'. Unfortunately, not all programs come with an uninstall option. Outside of looking at the makefile to see what it installs and where, and removing each file manually, I'm really not sure how it's supposed to be handled. On 15-Aug-99 The Postman wrote: I have seen (fist over hand) a ton of FAQs on how to install various program by compiling or through RPMs. So is there a way to uninstall? Is there a FAQ for it out there. And I am not JUST talking about RPM stuff either. I have installed many things with source code. I have NEVER seen anyone address this issue. Postman
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing???
Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing??? I will let the "newbie" list know in the next few days. I will download it very soon. Maybe tonight. Thanks for the link. No thank God.
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing???
- Original Message - From: Fred Macinster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 11:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing??? Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing??? I will let the "newbie" list know in the next few days. I will download it very soon. Maybe tonight. Thanks for the link. No thank God. Yes thank god...http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/default.asp
