Re: [newbie] Installation
But where would it go? /usr/local? Should I make a special directory to hold downloaded packages? I suppose the proper place would be /usr/src, but I've usually just left the source directories in /root (or, sometimes, in /home/danb/src). If you're in /root, and you unpack the tarball, you'll probably place all of its contents in /root/tinyfugue-1.2.3. The make install script will place the binaries where they need to go. That's WAY too messy for me! I'll go with /usr/src/, unless anyone objects. ___ Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ UIN: 35256413
Re: [newbie] Electrical Power Dead, then Linux (X) is dead too ?
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote: Many people told me in various linux mailing list that i have to upgrade the kernel initscripts If you don't need NFS, etc, I'd disable them either at install or immediately afterwards. yes, i have. Then run /sbin/lilo , right ? Right. And then reboot at least once *CLEANLY* to make sure that you're using that kernel.
Re: [newbie] Printing from KRN
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote: Setup the Print Options with "HTML Printing", "lpr", and "Postscript". Works here (set it up 'special for you!) Thanks...someone earlier tonight said to try lpr -Plp0 and it worked I still have my choice of printers, but, as with KMail, it won't print using the plain-text printer, so I have to use the Postscript printer...works fine here now. :-) 'Preciate it! John
Re: [newbie] Installation
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] But where would it go? /usr/local? Should I make a special directory to hold downloaded packages? I suppose the proper place would be /usr/src, but I've usually just left the source directories in /root (or, sometimes, in /home/danb/src). If you're in /root, and you unpack the tarball, you'll probably place all of its contents in /root/tinyfugue-1.2.3. The make install script will place the binaries where they need to go.
Re: [newbie] Electrical Power Dead, then Linux (X) is dead too ?
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote: 200 VA?, is it enough for computer, printer, modem amplifier. here, they only sell 500 VA and above. maybe it cost about $150 (maybe) don't you know the IMF is here. don't you know the currency here is very low, everybody suffer. Include the netter. The phone cost is double than before. I can't afford to upgrade my computer, so try Linux. It's fast, it's cool, it's ... oh, i can't get understand with the power failure. Well, 200 VA should be enough for you to cleanly shut down the system, and to protect from momentary power outages, "brownouts" and other SHORT-TERM power problems. John
Re: [newbie] LM6.0 post Install issue
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote: Greetings to all, Machine = IBM Thinkpad 760CD P 90mhz 1Gbyte HD 40MB RAM CDROM/Floppy = Hotswappable [argh!] Perplexing issue with LM6.0 upon machine reboot that I suspect affects a miniscule % of Pentiums out here. I suspect that this is an issue with the processor,however if anyone has any ideas I will take them. /sbin/mingetty: /sbin/mingetty: cannot ex bin file INIT: Id 2 respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes /sbin/mingetty: /sbin/mingetty: cannot ex bin file INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes /sbin/mingetty: /sbin/mingetty: cannot ex bin file INIT: Id 3 respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes Your machine cant execute /sbin/mingetty, that program creates the consoles, either you have not installed the program or you have forgotten to install some libaray which is needed, libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40019000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) Or your system is not running ldconfig at startup, so what happens in that situatie is that just asbou all progrsmd will fail. /sbin/mgetty is executed from out /etc/inittab th first file linux reads in its startup proceedure. I would try and use my boot disk tio get into the drive, mount root=/dev/hda1 ro where hda1 is the partition where the root ile system is located. Or with lilo installed type linux 1 iwhere linux is the name of your image. I do a Ctl-Alt-Del LM6.0 does a INIT: cannot ex "/et/rc.d/rc I do a forced Reboot [ouch!] LM6.0 does a Starting HD Optimizations for hda Creating /mnt/disk I presume LM is Linux-Mandrake ?. I dont have tht system so my thoughts could be wrong of course. Linux commits suicide apprezzo l'aiuto! Stephen -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Multiple CPU (2 Celerons or one Pent-3)
As a newbie there are a lot of things about Linux and computers in general that I do not yet understand - please bear with me. I have a query about the pros and cons of running multiple processors. I don't know about anywhere else in the world but in Australia the new Abit dual-Celeron boards have hit the shelves. The price for one of these boards packing 2 Celeron-400 processors is considerable less than that for a Pentium 3 - 550 with board. Now I understand that not all programmes work with multiple-processors, however I understand that in a multiple-processor setup one program may be run on processor A, while another is being dealt with by processor B. No doubt this is a major over-simplification. I therefore have a myriad of questions. 1) What standard Linux programmes take advantage of multiple-processors (ie GIMP, X-Windows, KDE) 2) Do productivity suites benefit from multiple processors? If I am running Applix and have several seriously big spreadsheets, a couple of word-processing documents, etc will there be an increase in performance over a single processor - or will performance be negligible? 3) Do programmes such as Blender take advbantage of multiple CPU's (not that I've used it yet but I would like to play with it a bit) 4) Would a dual-Celeron setup give me an overall better performance than the more expensive Pent-III? How noticeable would it be, and to what use is a multiple CPU system best put? I am starting to use a hard-disk recording system called Slab. This program allows the various processses of recording, mixing, FX processing and GUI to be distributed over several CPU's, yielding a performance increase. The author (Nick Copeland) said that this setup has not been tested on a multiple CPU system - so don't get one just to run Slab. As I am potentially in the market for a new system if I can get better performance from dual-Celerons on other programmes I run, I may as well save the money and impress my friends running Win98 with a system that really rocks. On a side note the new Abit board comes with DMA-66 controllers. IF I purchased a DMA-66 enabled hard drive and a DMA-66 m/board will Linux run okay? I think DMA-66 is not scheduled until 2.4. Could I set the board for DMA-33 until 2.4 is released?
Re: [newbie] Need help after crash
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote: : Richard is there anyway to tell if this binary is corrupted? You could try 'file /usr/sbin/authconfig' and see what it returns, here it returns. /usr/sbin/authconfig: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped You could uninstall the rpm and reinstall it if all else fails, but thats sorta drastic.. Lyndon Lininger Sr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Installation
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote: How should I install a package distributed in .tar.gz form? It's called TinyFugue, and it's a MUD client for UNIX (source code form). Untar it in a tmp dir first, then you can see what it does where its final resting place is by reading the docs README and INSTALL files, The Makefile should say where ithe binary(s) endup, look under :install. When you kow all that unzip it in its proper place. ___ Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ UIN: 35256413 -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] ftp/html
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hello I am running apache 1.1.3, on one of our web pages there is a file for ftp. Users in our network can click on the link and get the file, but whenever a user from the outside world tries it just times out? The file can however be ftp'd via anonymous ftp, from both our own network and the outside. I'm guessing that the ftp is working alright but there is something in the apache setup to fix this, i have looked at the docs but it didnt jump out at me? What am i missing? This is runing on a BSDI box that i really dont want to have to upgrade right now:) Could it be they need to hold down the shift key when hitting the file to be downloaded and then clicking ok to the location,??. Just a guess of course. Thanks DJ -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] LM6.0 post Install issue
From: Richard Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LM6.0 post Install issue On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote: Greetings to all, Machine = IBM Thinkpad 760CD P 90mhz 1Gbyte HD 40MB RAM CDROM/Floppy = Hotswappable [argh!] Perplexing issue with LM6.0 upon machine reboot that I suspect affects a miniscule % of Pentiums out here. I suspect that this is an issue with the processor,however if anyone has any ideas I will take them. /sbin/mingetty: /sbin/mingetty: cannot ex bin file INIT: Id 2 respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes /sbin/mingetty: /sbin/mingetty: cannot ex bin file INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes /sbin/mingetty: /sbin/mingetty: cannot ex bin file INIT: Id 3 respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes Your machine cant execute /sbin/mingetty, that program creates the consoles, either you have not installed the program or you have forgotten to install some libaray which is needed, libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40019000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) Stephen This may be possible,however I also did a simple install as opposed to a custom install to prevent from omitting required libs and got the same results. Or your system is not running ldconfig at startup, so what happens in that situatie is that just asbou all progrsmd will fail. /sbin/mgetty is executed from out /etc/inittab th first file linux reads in its startup proceedure. I would try and use my boot disk tio get into the drive, mount root=/dev/hda1 ro where hda1 is the partition where the root ile system is located. Or with lilo installed type linux 1 iwhere linux is the name of your image. I do a Ctl-Alt-Del LM6.0 does a INIT: cannot ex "/et/rc.d/rc I do a forced Reboot [ouch!] LM6.0 does a Starting HD Optimizations for hda Creating /mnt/disk I presume LM is Linux-Mandrake ?. Stephen Yes,Linux-Mandrake 6.0 I dont have tht system so my thoughts could be wrong of course. Linux commits suicide apprezzo l'aiuto! Stephen -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Installation
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote: But where would it go? /usr/local? Should I make a special directory to hold downloaded packages? I suppose the proper place would be /usr/src, but I've usually just left the source directories in /root (or, sometimes, in /home/danb/src). If you're in /root, and you unpack the tarball, you'll probably place all of its contents in /root/tinyfugue-1.2.3. The make install script will place the binaries where they need to go. That's WAY too messy for me! I'll go with /usr/src/, unless anyone objects. I dont object, but /usr/local/src is more for that sort of thing, i have made /usr/local/src/temp for that sort of thing. tar achives used in the wrong manner can bugger up ones system before one knows it. ___ Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ UIN: 35256413 -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Cannot browsing after view second
Hello, I don't wanna talk about power failure anymore, there are a lot of things that i want to ask beside that. I'm using Kppp for dialer, i have connected to my ISP. i try to receive email using netscape, there are 27 email, but i it stuck until 5 email that have been downloaded. it's only about two second work. I try to receive again, but only the 5 email can be downloaded. I try to browse(using netscape) to Netscape home, altavista, and several website in my country but stop in only 2 second. Same as if i using KFM. Luqman === Thanks for all your support here. I've being very stress for 3 days cos of the power failure. Now, it's slowly gone. Thanks for the beautifull GNOME, Afterstep, and Screensaver. Now, i just wanna work full in linux. Before that, i have solve a view problem that i'll ask here.
No Subject
What lists of dispatch are devoted to a /fresh/ kernel?
Re: [newbie] Multiple CPU (2 Celerons or one Pent-3)
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote: As a newbie there are a lot of things about Linux and computers in general that I do not yet understand - please bear with me. I have a query about the pros and cons of running multiple processors. I don't know about anywhere else in the world but in Australia the new Abit dual-Celeron boards have hit the shelves. The price for one of these boards packing 2 Celeron-400 processors is considerable less than that for a Pentium 3 - 550 with board. Now I understand that not all programmes work with multiple-processors, however I understand that in a multiple-processor setup one program may be run on processor A, while another is being dealt with by processor B. No doubt this is a major over-simplification. As I am potentially in the market for a new system if I can get better performance from dual-Celerons on other programmes I run, I may as well save the money and impress my friends running Win98 with a system that really rocks. Win '98 won't work with duel cpu it will only see one of them. You will have to run NT to take advantage of this setup. Ralph *** Remember WhereEver Your Head Goes Your Ass Will Follow!! ***
[newbie] what is?
Hello All, Can someone give me an Idea what is the best way to set up my hard drive partitions for linux. I have 6110 set aside for linux with a swap of 256mb I have a asus board running duel pentium2 350's with 256mb ram. what i mean is i set it up with it all in / should i have split the thing into like a /usr/ and the such? Also I wanted to thank everyone who has helped me the last few times. Ralph -- *** Remember WhereEver Your Head Goes Your Ass Will Follow!! ***
[newbie] Kodo
It is on my screen. How do I turn it off ?
Re: [newbie] Multiple CPU (2 Celerons or one Pent-3)
Even NT on it's own won't necessarily guarantee dual processor working, it all depends on the software. Games would probably not use dual processors, whereas graphics packages, the most common area for multiple CPU's, would. Since you're on a Linux board, I would add that Linux or any Unix derivative will give you the dual processor power you're after with minimal effort, and that would also include stuff running on them, like Quake or similar. The one other thing I would say is that dual processors aren't usually better. If you imagine that they are both sharing a 66Mhz bus (only the brand new Celerons are 100Mhz, and you're back to paying a premium), whereas a P3 would use a 100Mhz on it's own, you can start to see the bottlenecks. Multiple processing also works better with SCSI than IDE, as SCSI can handle multiple requests better. See if you can find an online benchmark test, you may be surprised. I found one which was next to useless, it used 3d Studio max to benchmark, but at least it demonstrates the lack of support for dual processors. - Original Message - From: Ralph |byte-runner | [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Multiple CPU (2 Celerons or one Pent-3) On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote: As a newbie there are a lot of things about Linux and computers in general that I do not yet understand - please bear with me. I have a query about the pros and cons of running multiple processors. I don't know about anywhere else in the world but in Australia the new Abit dual-Celeron boards have hit the shelves. The price for one of these boards packing 2 Celeron-400 processors is considerable less than that for a Pentium 3 - 550 with board. Now I understand that not all programmes work with multiple-processors, however I understand that in a multiple-processor setup one program may be run on processor A, while another is being dealt with by processor B. No doubt this is a major over-simplification. As I am potentially in the market for a new system if I can get better performance from dual-Celerons on other programmes I run, I may as well save the money and impress my friends running Win98 with a system that really rocks. Win '98 won't work with duel cpu it will only see one of them. You will have to run NT to take advantage of this setup. Ralph *** Remember WhereEver Your Head Goes Your Ass Will Follow!! ***
Re: [newbie] what is?
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hello All, Can someone give me an Idea what is the best way to set up my hard drive partitions for linux. I have 6110 set aside for linux with a swap of 256mb I have a asus board running duel pentium2 350's with 256mb ram. what i mean is i set it up with it all in / should i have split the thing into like a /usr/ and the such? Also I wanted to thank everyone who has helped me the last few times. Possably the best thing to do is to read the Installation-HOWTO that explanes about partition sizes for / /usr/home and the likes. I've no experiamce with a dual pntium so i cant help there. but a swap space of 256 mb is way over the limit. Ralph -- *** Remember WhereEver Your Head Goes Your Ass Will Follow!! *** -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Installation
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote: But where would it go? /usr/local? Should I make a special directory to hold downloaded packages? When you unpack it using the method I gave previously, it will typically create a directory packagename. For example, I downloaded seti@home as "setiathome-1.1.i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1.tar" When I unpack it, it creates a directory "setiathome-1.1.i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1" IF it were something that would need to be compiled instead of just being a tarball distribution, you would then go into the directory and run make config, make, and make install, followed by make clean. That SHOULD put the binary where the author wants it to go, although if you want it in a particular place, I suppose you could edit the source code and tell it where to go (IMNSHO this would be a good idea for anything you get off kde.org if using RedHat, Mandrake or any other distro that puts KDE stuff in /usr, as KDE stuff defaults to /opt/kde which doesn't exist in Mandrake6 or RedHat 6.) As far as making a directory...yes. I'd suggest just a "raw storage" directory for stuff you download and intend to use. That way, if for some reason, you have to reinstall the package, you don't have to re-download it. Typically, as I said, when you get a "tarball" it will tell you where it wants to go when you compile it. If not, unpack it, read the included "README" file (or similar) and see what it says! :-) John
Re: [newbie] Cannot browsing after view second
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hello, I don't wanna talk about power failure anymore, there are a lot of things that i want to ask beside that. I'm using Kppp for dialer, i have connected to my ISP. i try to receive email using netscape, there are 27 email, but i it stuck until 5 email that have been downloaded. it's only about two second work. I try to receive again, but only the 5 email can be downloaded. I try to browse(using netscape) to Netscape home, altavista, and several website in my country but stop in only 2 second. Same as if i using KFM. Hmm...this sounds like it may be a DNS problem. What does your /etc/resolv.conf look like? If it were just the email, I'd say you have a message that's just too big to download. Maybe someone else will have a better idea what the problem might be...
Re: [newbie] what is?
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hello All, Can someone give me an Idea what is the best way to set up my hard drive partitions for linux. I have 6110 set aside for linux with a swap of 256mb I have a asus board running duel pentium2 350's with 256mb ram. what i mean is i set it up with it all in / should i have split the thing into like a /usr/ and the such? Also I wanted to thank everyone who has helped me the last few times. Well, you might want to make about 3 partitionsone for /home, one for /usr and one for /. That way, if you have to reinstall, /home MIGHT be able to be spared a reformat. And if you have a separate "/" directory, it's more likely that the kernel will be within the first 1024 cylinders. John
Re: [newbie] Print quality
Andy Goth wrote: I printed three pages of graphics (actually HTML), and it took FOREVER!!! How can I tone down the print quality and (consequently) save time and ink? Run printtool as root and adjust the resolution for that printer. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] what is?
Simon Norris wrote: Please bear in mind that this is a Unix reply, but it should hold true for Linux. In some spots, yes. In others, you're letting filesystem issues cloud your suggestions. The only reason for splitting partitions into /usr /var /tmp etc, is to position them on different disks for performance. If you have only one disk, you won't see any performance difference between one huge / and lots of smaller partitions. I don't know of any safety implications, but if you get a fault on a drive, it takes the drive out or a platter out, not a partition, so you would still lose everything. Agree. There are other restrictions though. The first is the 2 Gig one. Any partitions greater than 2 Gig need to be split. Our common layout here is /u01, /u02 etc, with the first 2 Gig being given to /. (Please, no flames from Linux users saying this is wrong, I don't know how close Linux and Unix are, but at least this post should put people in the right direction). There is no 2G limitation on ext2fs filesystems. File SIZE is limited to roughly 2G though. The next one is swap. Linux can only use 128Meg of swap in one file, larger swaps require multiple partitions. If you do have 256Meg though, it will take a serious load to get it to use swap!!! Not true as of 2.2.x kernels, swap partitions may be as large as you'd like to make them. And the final one is /boot. The restriction for this is it has to be below 1023 cylinders. The safest thing I have seen is make it about 5 Meg, and put it right at the beginning of the drive, before DOS/Windows/etc. PQMagic methinks?? /boot advice is correct. Only one question, though... Why is everyone SO reliant on Partition Magic? I've done all sorts of evil and twisted things with multiple OS's, strange partitioning schemes, etc and I've never found a situation that I needed anything other than LILO and a few docs. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Re:
MaxiM Basunov wrote: What lists of dispatch are devoted to a /fresh/ kernel? What do you mean? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mandrake installation fails on mount
- Original Message - From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 3:01 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake installation fails on mount New development: I attempted to use PartitionMagic to make the Linux partitions after the installer failed. I didn't get very far... PartitionMagic reports a partition table error #120. Would someone with a PartitionMagic manual tell me what that means adn how to correct it? ¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹ ¨ Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ ICQ: 35256413 ¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹ ¨ I don't know the error right off, but try the PowerQuest web site. What happened to you looks similar to what happened to me (and destroyed my partition table). I couldn't even access my linux partitions anymore, and couldn't fix it until I reformatted my hard drives. I suggest that when you use Partition Magic, don't create linux partitions, but rather create free space, then use disk Druid (or fdisk, if you prefer) to specify the ext2fs filesystem. That worked for me, and no more partition problems. One more thing, maybe I'm off-base, but what is the point of a separate /root partition? It seems that there should be no problem leaving /root as a part of /. 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] Need help after crash
Richard Adams wrote: On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote: : Richard is there anyway to tell if this binary is corrupted? You could try 'file /usr/sbin/authconfig' and see what it returns, here it returns. /usr/sbin/authconfig: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped You could uninstall the rpm and reinstall it if all else fails, but thats sorta drastic.. Lyndon Lininger Sr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Richard I tried the 'file /usr/sbin/authconfig' and got the same output as you. I even uninstalled and re-installed it, but still no joy. Any other ideas? I hate to think of it, but I'm considering a clean install of the system and starting over. Lyndon Lininger Sr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Virtual hosting
Hi, I have apache set with /home/httpd/html/ as my document root, and my local hostname is britlinks.co.uk What I want to do is to set up my local host so that www.britlinks.co.uk is a reference to the same host, while mworks.britlinks.co.uk points to another virtual server set up with /home/httpd/marketingworks.co.uk/ as its document root, and a few other sites set up in a similar manner. I tried to do this, using what I found in srm.conf and httpd.conf and using comanche, but it didn't work. Can anyone offer a step-by-step guide? cheers. James. -- James Stewart | Britlinks | The Phantom Tollbooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.britlinks.co.uk | http://www.tollbooth.org Sixpence None The Richer UK -- http://www.britlinks.co.uk/sixpence/
Re: [newbie] Multiple CPU (2 Celerons or one Pent-3)
Hi Aaron. Win98 won't run dual processors, only Linux, BeOS and NT. You might like to check out a machine Leo Laporte is building on The Screen Savers (www.zdtv.com ). It's got a Abit board with dual 366 Celerons overclocked to 550 each (1.1 GHz!), that's available in the U.S. - Original Message - From: Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Mandrake Linux' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 12:16 AM Subject: [newbie] Multiple CPU (2 Celerons or one Pent-3) As a newbie there are a lot of things about Linux and computers in general that I do not yet understand - please bear with me. I have a query about the pros and cons of running multiple processors. I don't know about anywhere else in the world but in Australia the new Abit dual-Celeron boards have hit the shelves. The price for one of these boards packing 2 Celeron-400 processors is considerable less than that for a Pentium 3 - 550 with board. Now I understand that not all programmes work with multiple-processors, however I understand that in a multiple-processor setup one program may be run on processor A, while another is being dealt with by processor B. No doubt this is a major over-simplification. I therefore have a myriad of questions. 1) What standard Linux programmes take advantage of multiple-processors (ie GIMP, X-Windows, KDE) 2) Do productivity suites benefit from multiple processors? If I am running Applix and have several seriously big spreadsheets, a couple of word-processing documents, etc will there be an increase in performance over a single processor - or will performance be negligible? 3) Do programmes such as Blender take advbantage of multiple CPU's (not that I've used it yet but I would like to play with it a bit) 4) Would a dual-Celeron setup give me an overall better performance than the more expensive Pent-III? How noticeable would it be, and to what use is a multiple CPU system best put? I am starting to use a hard-disk recording system called Slab. This program allows the various processses of recording, mixing, FX processing and GUI to be distributed over several CPU's, yielding a performance increase. The author (Nick Copeland) said that this setup has not been tested on a multiple CPU system - so don't get one just to run Slab. As I am potentially in the market for a new system if I can get better performance from dual-Celerons on other programmes I run, I may as well save the money and impress my friends running Win98 with a system that really rocks. On a side note the new Abit board comes with DMA-66 controllers. IF I purchased a DMA-66 enabled hard drive and a DMA-66 m/board will Linux run okay? I think DMA-66 is not scheduled until 2.4. Could I set the board for DMA-33 until 2.4 is released?
Re: [newbie] what is?
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Ralph |byte-runner | wrote: Can someone give me an Idea what is the best way to set up my hard drive partitions for linux. I have 6110 set aside for linux with a swap of 256mb I have a asus board running duel pentium2 350's with 256mb ram. what i mean is i set it up with it all in / should i have split the thing into like a /usr/ and the such? For the beginning, I'd say go for one big / partition without splitting it up. If it's the first time you're using linux, you won't know how much space you'll be using for /usr, how much for /home, and so on, and for most uses, there are no really big advantages in splitting it up. LLaP bero
Re: [newbie] Questions about dual booting
I have the KDE menu in GNOME, but I don't have the GNOME menu in KDE which is what I KDE as GNOME while beautiful doesn't seem stable Jeanette - Original Message - From: alann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 10:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Questions about dual booting Jeanette Russo wrote: Can you also access GNOME menu items from KDE? I saw the KDE menu in GNOME. Jeanette Sure, I do it all the time. Usually I boot into e/gnome and run Kppp, and KDE's news reader under gnome. There should be a gnome menu in your KDE under the 'K" somewhere. Alan === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
Re: [newbie] what is?
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Westbrook wrote: I was under the impression that the swap shouldn't be any bigger that 128 since Linux won't read anything bigger anyway. Am I wrong? Was true before kernel 2.1.something. By now you can create 2 Terabytes swap if you need them. LLaP bero
Re: [newbie] what is?
Westbrook wrote: I was under the impression that the swap shouldn't be any bigger that 128 since Linux won't read anything bigger anyway. Am I wrong? Thanks Russ - Original Message - I have 6110 set aside for linux with a swap of 256mb You can have multiple swap partitions. but I dont suggest it. I have 190 some megs of ram and a 13 gig, I only set aside 100 megs of swap.
Re: [newbie] what is?
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote: I was under the impression that the swap shouldn't be any bigger that 128 since Linux won't read anything bigger anyway. Am I wrong? Nope, you're not wrong. Splitting that 256Mb swap partition into two would be better. It's just wasted disk space otherwise - Original Message - I have 6110 set aside for linux with a swap of 256mb -- Best Regards, Paul Hendrick
Re: [newbie] what is?
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote: I was under the impression that the swap shouldn't be any bigger that 128 since Linux won't read anything bigger anyway. Am I wrong? It appears that the 2.2.x versions of the kernel have done away with that limitation. Still, I have 192 megs of ram, and so far, I don't think I've used ANY of my swap space. :-) John
[newbie] screen res
hi there, i've seen various posts about screen resolution probs (with no answer to my particulart situation). unfortunately, the ctrl-alt-plus does nothing. in fact, the resolution isn't even 640x480, its some sort of default resolution (like 240x310). i've tried to install on two different boxes, both have the same problem, and both have AGP video cards (but not the same card)... is the AGP card the problem? if it is, what's the work-around for it? the text console runs fine and even the GUI works correctly (what i can see of it), so this just seems to be a video issue. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance. alan
[newbie] losing lilo
Dear folks: I recently had to reinstall Windows after it began seriously misbehaving, but lost lilo in the process. Now I can't get Mandrake 5.2 to boot up. I tried using the rescue disk, got to the #bash prompt, but have no idea what to do next. I tried reinstalling lilo from the CD (using the upgrade mode) but to no avail. Can I get some help here? Thanks! Idris
RE: [newbie] Multiple CPU (2 Celerons or one Pent-3)
First of all - thanks to all of you who have replied to my original post. It has at least given me something to think about. Second - I should clarify a pint I made in my original post. When I said I would "impress my friends running Win98 with a system that really rocks" I meant my friends were running Win98 and I was running a dual-CPU Linux box and I was doing the rocking. One comma can make so much difference to a sentence ;-) A few more questions. Overclocking a Celeron - I know a lot has been written about this in a lot of places but 1 quick question - I know overclocking voids the Intel warranty (in fact I think running dual-Celerons voids the warranty also - I might have read that on Slashdot) but can it actually fry the CPU, or does it just make the system unstable? I have also read (RedHat site perhaps?) that Linux does not take kindly to overclocked systems because it has a faster kernal and therefore more susceptible to system timing problems. Is this still true? Some of you mentioned that SCSI gives a much higher performance than IDE, especially when dealing with multiple requests. IF I have 4 IDE devices on 4 separate channels (as opposed to two), can Linux make a request to each device concurrently? How does this differ from the way SCSI makes requests to drives? For PBen - SLab runs on Linux. Have a look at http://www.llornkcor.com/SLab/SLab.html As the web site says it takes a bit to learn. I am still very much in the learning stage at the moment. I need a month off work so I can sit down and learn. Aaron deRozario
Re: [newbie] losing lilo
From: Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] misbehaving, but lost lilo in the process. Now I can't get Mandrake 5.2 to boot up. I tried using the rescue disk, got to the #bash prompt, but have no idea what to do next. I tried reinstalling lilo from the CD ...and you didn't have a boot disk made? Too bad, makes the process a bit trickier. If you've got the bash prompt from the rescue disk, though, you should be able to run mkbootdisk your kernel version number to make one. Then, when it's booted from that, run /sbin/lilo. I'm not sure what the rescue disk does with your existing hard drives. If you know where your original root directory was mounted (say, in /mnt), you can run (e.g.) /mnt/sbin/lilo /mnt/etc/lilo.conf.
[newbie] more compiler errors when loading programs
Hi
I e-mailed this list the other day when I was having some problems loading a
couple mp3 programs. At the time, I did not have the exact error message but I
have it now.
I just tried to load kWinttv to configure and use use my video camera and got
the same errors as the other day. Here goes:
cd kwintv-0.7.4# ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i 686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for C-Compiler...
checking for gcc...gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking how to run C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for a C++-Compiler...
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -s) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create
executables.
What am I doing wrong? Am I running the command in the wrong folder? I am
currently extracting the archive into a folder called video under root and then
change the directory to kwintv-0.7.4 to issue the command.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
P.S. Is there a way to capture the messages in a terminal window? I am not a
very good typist. Thanks
Jim
Re: [newbie] screen res
Alan Lott wrote: hi there, i've seen various posts about screen resolution probs (with no answer to my particulart situation). unfortunately, the ctrl-alt-plus does nothing. in fact, the resolution isn't even 640x480, its some sort of default resolution (like 240x310). i've tried to install on two different boxes, both have the same problem, and both have AGP video cards (but not the same card)... is the AGP card the problem? if it is, what's the work-around for it? the text console runs fine and even the GUI works correctly (what i can see of it), so this just seems to be a video issue. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance. alan Hi, Alan, When you do ctrl-alt-+, are you using the + key on the number pad, and not the one on the main keyboard? Also, if you want a higher screen resolution than the one you're getting, you can try setting the resolution you want as your default in /etc/X11/XF86Config. Good luck, Hidong
Re: [newbie] screen res
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote: hi there, i've seen various posts about screen resolution probs (with no answer to my particulart situation). unfortunately, the ctrl-alt-plus does nothing. in fact, the resolution isn't even 640x480, its some sort of default resolution (like 240x310). i've tried to install on two different boxes, both have the same problem, and both have AGP video cards (but not the same card)... is the AGP card the problem? if it is, what's the work-around for it? the text console runs fine and even the GUI works correctly (what i can see of it), so this just seems to be a video issue. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance. AFAIK linux doesnt have any preferance towards AGP or PCI cards, except it does probe for a PCI one. The problem could be that your card isn't supported by Linux yet or it could be something simple, like you've selected the wrong colour depth/screen resolution. Try running XF86Setup ( you may need to install first though) What card are you using? If it's a voodoo or TNT card, then you can download the drivers for these. http://glide.xxedgexx.com for the VooDoo drivers and the x-server. I think theres info there about other graphix cards too. -- Best Regards, Paul Hendrick http://www.btinternet.com/~engprin1/linux.htm
Re: [newbie] losing lilo
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Dear folks: I recently had to reinstall Windows after it began seriously misbehaving, but lost lilo in the process. Now I can't get Mandrake 5.2 to boot up. I tried using the rescue disk, got to the #bash prompt, but have no idea what to do next. I tried reinstalling lilo from the CD (using the upgrade mode) but to no avail. Can I get some help here? Thanks! Idris At the bash prompt try typing in "su" you should then get a "[root@localhost root]#" prompt, then try typing "startx" and see if that does anything.
Re: [newbie] losing lilo
I'm sorry in my previous post I mistakenly said to type in "startx" I meant to say "/sbin/lilo" then type in "reboot." See if that does anything for you. John - Original Message - From: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 9:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] losing lilo From: Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] misbehaving, but lost lilo in the process. Now I can't get Mandrake 5.2 to boot up. I tried using the rescue disk, got to the #bash prompt, but have no idea what to do next. I tried reinstalling lilo from the CD ...and you didn't have a boot disk made? Too bad, makes the process a bit trickier. If you've got the bash prompt from the rescue disk, though, you should be able to run mkbootdisk your kernel version number to make one. Then, when it's booted from that, run /sbin/lilo. I'm not sure what the rescue disk does with your existing hard drives. If you know where your original root directory was mounted (say, in /mnt), you can run (e.g.) /mnt/sbin/lilo /mnt/etc/lilo.conf.
Re: [newbie] Print quality
I printed three pages of graphics (actually HTML), and it took FOREVER!!! How can I tone down the print quality and (consequently) save time and ink? Run printtool as root and adjust the resolution for that printer. This brings up another problem. I thought this would work: -Start rxvt -Type in su -c printtool -Enter my root password Alas, it doesn't: [andy@localhost andy]$ su -c printtool Password: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display ":0.0" Couldn't load bindings.tcl Start from control-panel or set environment variable CONTROL_PANEL_LIB_DIR to the control-panel library dir. (normally this is /usr/lib/rhs/control-panel) [andy@localhost andy]$ ___ Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ UIN: 35256413
Re: [newbie] Mandrake installation fails on mount
I'm off-base, but what is the point of a separate /root partition? It seems that there should be no problem leaving /root as a part of /. /root is the superuser's home directory. I make a /root partition for the same reason I make a /home partition: If I have to reinstall or something, I can keep all my user files. root has stuff too... mostly configuration, though, but that's annoying stuff to replace. ___ Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ UIN: 3525641
Re: [newbie] Installation
But where would it go? /usr/local? Should I make a special directory to hold downloaded packages? I suppose the proper place would be /usr/src, but I've usually just left the source directories in /root (or, sometimes, in /home/danb/src). If you're in /root, and you unpack the tarball, you'll probably place all of its contents in /root/tinyfugue-1.2.3. The make install script will place the binaries where they need to go. That's WAY too messy for me! I'll go with /usr/src/, unless anyone objects. I dont object, but /usr/local/src is more for that sort of thing, i have made /usr/local/src/temp for that sort of thing. tar achives used in the wrong manner can bugger up ones system before one knows it. Yeah, that's what I meant to say. I untarred it to /usr/local/src/tf-1.2.3 (I forget the version...) and looked inside. I had to run sh unixmake to compile. Then it installed /usr/local/bin and some other places. I deleted the directory and kept the source as the original .tar.gz file (in the /usr/local/src) directory. Now if I need to change anything, I just look there... By the way it works well. Does anyone want it? It doesn't need X. ___ Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ UIN: 3525641
Re: [newbie] losing lilo
misbehaving, but lost lilo in the process. Now I can't get Mandrake 5.2
to boot up. I tried using the rescue disk, got to the #bash prompt, but
have no idea what to do next. I tried reinstalling lilo from the CD
...and you didn't have a boot disk made? Too bad, makes the process a
bit trickier. If you've got the bash prompt from the rescue disk, though,
you should be able to run mkbootdisk your kernel version number to make
one. Then, when it's booted from that, run /sbin/lilo.
I'm not sure what the rescue disk does with your existing hard drives.
If you know where your original root directory was mounted (say, in /mnt),
you can run (e.g.) /mnt/sbin/lilo /mnt/etc/lilo.conf.
mkbootdisk {kernel-version} will make a boot disk for me? I made one,
but I can't seem to find it. Now I want another one...
And what's this about rescue disks?
___
Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ UIN: 35256413
[newbie] Missing mouse pointer
Sometimes in WindowMaker my mouse pointer disappears. I can get it back by restarting WindowMaker. My dad'll probably have some big trouble with this one, so how can I solve this problem PERMANENTLY? ___ Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ UIN: 35256413
Re: [newbie] losing lilo
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mkbootdisk {kernel-version} will make a boot disk for me? I made one,
but I can't seem to find it. Now I want another one...
Yes, it will. Rather a nice feature actually. Just be careful--if
you're running (for example) 2.2.9-19mdk, you need to specify all of that
("mkbootdisk 2.2.9-19mdk"). In such cases, it may have trouble with
modules, but I'm not sure.
And what's this about rescue disks?
IIRC, in the /images directory on the M5.3 CD-ROM, there's a file called
"rescue.img" which is a rescue disk. Don't know exactly what it is, as I've
never used it.
Re: [newbie] Display problems and LILO question
Matt Stegman wrote: 3 I tried to change the default system of LILO from somewhere inside the linuxconf, but when I activated the changes, it generated an error. I think I saw somewhere that LILO does not run so well with Windows NT. Is this true? Even if it is true, is there a way to change the default system? (I am expecting to get another hard drive in a few months, but in the meantime, I only have one) I've never used LILO with Windows NT, so I can't say. What I did use was a rather awesome boot manager called OS-BS (see http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf/os-bs.html). The beta version is free, and works perfectly well. You could also get he new one, with gads of features, for some cash (don't remember how much). Personally, I had pretty good success just following the instructions in the "NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO" which should be in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini if you installed the docs on your system or you can find it at http://www.linux-howto.com/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html if you like HTML; at http://www.linux-howto.com/ptHOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader if you don't ;-). Maybe this'll help? Carl
Re: [newbie] Print quality
same thing happens to me, in X or out. :P Andy Goth wrote: I printed three pages of graphics (actually HTML), and it took FOREVER!!! How can I tone down the print quality and (consequently) save time and ink? Run printtool as root and adjust the resolution for that printer. This brings up another problem. I thought this would work: -Start rxvt -Type in su -c printtool -Enter my root password Alas, it doesn't: [andy@localhost andy]$ su -c printtool Password: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display ":0.0" Couldn't load bindings.tcl Start from control-panel or set environment variable CONTROL_PANEL_LIB_DIR to the control-panel library dir. (normally this is /usr/lib/rhs/control-panel) [andy@localhost andy]$ ___ Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ UIN: 35256413
Re: [newbie] Multiple CPU (2 Celerons or one Pent-3)
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 09:03:13 +0800 , Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few more questions. Overclocking a Celeron - I know a lot has been written about this in a lot of places but 1 quick question - I know overclocking voids the Intel warranty (in fact I think running dual-Celerons voids the warranty also - I might have read that on Slashdot) but can it actually fry the CPU, or does it just make the system unstable? I have also read (RedHat site perhaps?) that Linux does not take kindly to overclocked systems because it has a faster kernal and therefore more susceptible to system timing problems. Is this still true? There are claims that it will shorten the life of the CPU. If you have to bump up the voltage on the CPU the dopants, trace impurities in the silicon that makes it an semiconductor, will migrate and eventually kill the transistors. Then there is the problem of extra heat created by running it at a higher clock rate. The heat in a transistor is generated by changing states. If you change states more times per second you will generate more heat. I managed to get to 92MHz from 66MHz without raising the voltage applied to the CPUs. I did stick in an extra fan in my case to increase the air flow in my case. So it stays under 40 C in the case, the motherboard reports the CPUs are running at about 50 C. A little warm but not too bad. (Has anybody got KLM to work for them? I would love to keep track of the CPU temperature in Linux.) I haven't had any problems with Linux. Windows 2000 gave me a few problems. So I would say that Win2k doesn't take too kindly to OC. Some of you mentioned that SCSI gives a much higher performance than IDE, especially when dealing with multiple requests. IF I have 4 IDE devices on 4 separate channels (as opposed to two), can Linux make a request to each device concurrently? How does this differ from the way SCSI makes requests to drives? It might work but I am not the one to ask on that. From what I have read and my experience SCSI is still better when you are hitting the drive with multiple requests. I haven't read up on the changes made with UDMA66. I think I read some place there were a few on the request queue problem. For PBen - SLab runs on Linux. Have a look at http://www.llornkcor.com/SLab/SLab.html As the web site says it takes a bit to learn. I am still very much in the learning stage at the moment. I need a month off work so I can sit down and learn. Thanks I will check it out. PBen
[newbie] Ethernet NIC not recognized
I have just installed Mandrake 6. Unfortunately my 3Com 3C515TX was not recognized. How do I get this up? The logs just say "Delaying start of eth0" thanks.
[newbie] KMail
Hi everyone, Is possible to have Netscape opening the links from KMail, instead of KFM ? Thanks, George
Re: [newbie] Howd to determine version of Tcl/Tk ?
John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote: Howdy all. I am going to need to install BRU2000, the tape backup software on a server. The software requires Tcl/Tk v7.6 and 4.2 respectively. How do I found out what version each currently is ? try "rpm -qa | grep tcl" and "rpm -qa | grep tk" and see what the results are (oh, and remove the quotes before issuing the commands. G) This queries the RPM database and sends it to "grep" where you are looking ONLY for the term "tcl" and then the term "tk". That's one way to do it from the command-line... ... or, "rpm -qa | egrep '^tcl-|^tk-'" would be another... ;-) Carl
[newbie] ethernet card setup
i was told to use "netconfig" to set up my ethernet card, but when i do this, i get a "no command found". what is one to do? I thought i did this in Caldera, and it worked. I probly forgot something thanks jerrud (i learned that i didnt like caldera :)
Re: [newbie] screen res
Hello, Alan: I'm a newbie just like you and I think what you need to do is to go to this website: http://www.xfree.org/cardlist.htm print out this list of video cards and pick one and give it a try. This has been my experience as I had a card, a SoundBlaster 3D Banshee, ordinarily a good card for Windows but not directly supported by Linux unless you can download some drivers from Creative labs, install them and all that. What I had to do was to replace the SB 3D card with a card on the list that was directly supported by Linux-Mandrake and that solved the video problem for me. Yes, the console came on just fine but the video images were very overly large and distorted. I don't know if they appeared that way to you but you might think about another card. But _not_just any card. By all means consult the list above and pick from there. Hope this helps Richard -Original Message- From: Alan Lott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, September 06, 1999 8:36 PM Subject: [newbie] screen res hi there, i've seen various posts about screen resolution probs (with no answer to my particulart situation). unfortunately, the ctrl-alt-plus does nothing. in fact, the resolution isn't even 640x480, its some sort of default resolution (like 240x310). i've tried to install on two different boxes, both have the same problem, and both have AGP video cards (but not the same card)... is the AGP card the problem? if it is, what's the work-around for it? the text console runs fine and even the GUI works correctly (what i can see of it), so this just seems to be a video issue. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance. alan
Re: [newbie] ethernet card setup (an add on)
Too help narrow down the program that i want, i know its not ifconfig. It had more of a graphical interface. it let me choose my card, put in the IP and such, and then it made everything work. I want to use my DSL in linux! thanks once more jerrud
Re: [newbie] Print quality
pete moss wrote: same thing happens to me, in X or out. :P Andy Goth wrote: I printed three pages of graphics (actually HTML), and it took FOREVER!!! How can I tone down the print quality and (consequently) save time and ink? Run printtool as root and adjust the resolution for that printer. This brings up another problem. I thought this would work: -Start rxvt -Type in su -c printtool -Enter my root password Alas, it doesn't: [andy@localhost andy]$ su -c printtool Password: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display ":0.0" Couldn't load bindings.tcl Start from control-panel or set environment variable CONTROL_PANEL_LIB_DIR to the control-panel library dir. (normally this is /usr/lib/rhs/control-panel) [andy@localhost andy]$ So log out of your user and log in as root. You'll only ever have to do it once. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] ethernet card setup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was told to use "netconfig" to set up my ethernet card, but when i do this, i get a "no command found". what is one to do? I thought i did this in Caldera, and it worked. I probly forgot something thanks jerrud (i learned that i didnt like caldera :) It's probably netcfg. What didn't you like about Caldera? I tried it for about 2 weeks and got disgusted with all the press releases about how "easy to use" it was for beginners -- pure BS. Caldera seems to be just about the most back-asswards distribution I've ever tried. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Display problems and LILO question
Matt, Thank you for your help. I looked at the XF86Config file, but I'm not sure exactly how to fix it. It seems that my system is using the accelerated X server, because the regular one doesn't have such a high res. I remember checking off 3 choices when I installed, and 3 appear under the 'accel' section, but I'm not sure which one to change, or change all? (I'm guessing the system uses the first choice because it's Depth 8 and maybe that's causing problems with GIMP). I attached the config file. If you could look at it and let me know what you think, I would really appreciate it. (I'm sure you are also a very busy person, but I have not found anyone else who has really offered any help.) Also, do you know if Mandrake supports my graphics card and monitor? The Display Adapter Type window in my NT system says I have an ATI Techologies INC. 3D PRO TURBO (with 8 MB RAM). My monitor is a Dell 17" M770. Thank you very much, Hershel --- - [EMAIL PROTECTED] xconfig
Re: [newbie] ethernet card setup (an add on)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Too help narrow down the program that i want, i know its not ifconfig. It had I think what you want isn't netconfig, but netcfg.
