Re: [newbie] OpenGL and Xfree86
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: In a console run "gears" and then "glx gears" and you should see the improvement. then read the code for gears and go. . .ohhh my god. . .when you realize that some dude took the time to figure out how to build each gear using calls to glBegin(GL_QUADS|GL_QUAD_STRIP) (yah i kno you cant call that but for simplicity eh?). . .definitely worthy of props. . .
Re: [newbie] New Millenium
Yes that is true, but it has been said that somewhere along the lines we all lost a year, so is it the year 2000 or the year 2001?? who knows, all that I know is that the media hype about the Y2K bug, looks like it turn out to be a big money making scam... Anybody else agree? Example: three days ago a friend of mine heard on the radio that some fool went and purchased and re-wired his whole house, to on run generators for the Y2K blitz!! HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! Etien On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Daniel wrote: There is no argument the new millenium does not start until 2001. A millennia is 1000 years, there was no year "0", so 1 AD through 1000 AD was the first millennia, 1001 AD through 2000 the second (see a pattern forming?) and the third millennia starts 2001. Just some food for thought... Dan - Original Message - From: "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 07:25 Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote: | 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT | Happy new Millenium all... | | -- | Full plate packing steel! - Minsk I've heard all the arguments about the new millenium not starting until 1/1/2001, but I think we should all compromise, and make the entire year of 2000 a celebration of our miraculous survival for two millemia. This way, by the end of the year, no one will care when the third millemium starts. The finest the new millenium has to offer to all, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Re: [newbie] unsubscribe
Yes! Unsubscribe!
[newbie] Lilo install en boot floppy problems
Hi, I have tried to install Linux-Mandrake 6.1 on a 13 GB Quantum Fireball CX1 hard disk with a Promise Ultra66 hard disk controller. I used the Ultra66 RedHat Linux 6.0 Driverpartitionising the hard disk. Everything seemed to go well. But I can't create a linux boot floppy or install Lilo in the MBR. What is the problem?
Re: [newbie] Network Card
Have you tried the Tulip driver that comes on the diskette with the NIC? I had problems with the same card but after reinstalling the driver it worked fine. You should be able to find the instruction on the company's website. Seung-woo Nam - Original Message - From: "Ryan Sumstad" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 11:29 AM Subject: [newbie] Network Card Has anyone been able to use the tulip driver with a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LNE100TX card. (I know it's a crappy card, but what do you want for 12 bucks). I keep getting this crazy broadcast-like message every 5 seconds: "eth0: transmit timed out, status e426, CSR12 00cc, resetting..." The IRQ is correct (11). Please help! -Ryan ___ Visit Excite Shopping at http://shopping.excite.com The fastest way to find your Holiday gift this season
[newbie] LS120 MB floppy
I need some help here. Linux will not mount my floppy. This is a new one . I had 120MB floppy drive before and it got damaged, it was working fine before I stupidly damaged the head. I got a new and installed it. When linux is booting it seem to recognize the drive. However, when I put a floppy disk in and try to mount I get the following error , "Could not mount Error log: mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only. mount:wrong fs type, bad option , bad superblock on /dev/fd0 or too many mounted file systems" Could someone help me. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com
[newbie] Again problems reconfiguring X Server
Hi again -- I would like to thank those of you who told me how to get into XF85Config to reconfigure the X Server to work with my new mouse/video card combination. At least the machine works correctly in :"pure UNIX" (i.e. black-screen non-graphic) mode. I am confident that I know what sort of PS/2 mouse I have (and when I issue startx, moving the mouse does move the X on the screen), and I am confident in the video memory on my card and on the settings for my monitor. HOWEVER, when I issue the startx command, the screen turns the gray color/cross-hatched pattern with the mouse's X that one sees when one first configures the X server. The KDE does not come up, and one loses control of the machine. It doesn't hang, but you can't do anything. Typing does nothing, and you can't open a shell. Can anybody advise what's happening? Thanks. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 697-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] why is it so slow?
One does find that, doing the installation the way you have, it will be much slower than installing Mandrake onto an actual Linux partition. I think you'll find that most people do not use Ln4Wn at all - I certainly don't. The difference in the load time is so noticeable. I don't bother using themes as they are very memory hungry. I would suggest that you dump your present installation and do a re-install. Believe me when I say that a Mandrake installation onto a proper linux partition takes about 10 minutes. You'll think you've got a new machine. Regards John the Nadger On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have installed the Ln4Wn from the Linux-Mandrake cd. The installation was no prob. But when I go into into the Xwindow enviroment, I find that everything seems so sluggish and slow. I have also installed StarOffice5.1 and the installation was a breeze event though it was also very slow. Despite this I have been using Linux for about two weeks now. Also another thing is sometimes my machine freeze when I am using Xwindow and Glax as theme.( I am using KDE by the way) So I did a little bit of testing between themes and I found out that when I am using Glax and numerous other themes and try to move any window box move horizontally 'SLOWLY', the machines will freeze. The only theme that doesnt't freeze my machine when I do this is the windowmaker."WHEN I SAY SLOWLY,I MEAN SLOWLY AND STEADY" Contrary to this, when I use win98 everything is quite fast and normal. So could anybody please explain to me why I am having this problem? Could it be that Xwindow is using way to much memory than is needed? I hope that this 'freeze' problem is a bug and not a my machine's RAM fault. My box is a PII 400 Mhz, 64 Mb or SDRAM, 6.4 Gbyte hard disk, Voodo Banshee AGP display card. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Why does aKtion play mpegs choppy but play AVIs smooth?
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: Why does aKtion media player play mpeg files really choppy but play AVI files without problems? This is on a 333mhz Celeron running Mandrake. Seve it's the xanim codec, it pretty much blows goats
Re: [newbie] MP3 software for Linux
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Ribbo wrote: Pada Jumat, 31 Dec 1999, John Aldrich menulis: You might try mpg123 from a command-line. That's a console-based mp3 player. John ... gqmpeg for its frontend http://gqview.netpedia.net Sense we're all nameing other mp3 systems, I'll once again take time (again) to give a shout to the guys writeing the globcom jukebox ;)
Re: [newbie] Why does aKtion play mpegs choppy but play AVIs smooth?
At 1/1/00 2:25:00 AM, you wrote: Why does aKtion media player play mpeg files really choppy but play AVI files without problems? This is on a 333mhz Celeron running Mandrake. Seve aKtion does not play mpeg files well. I find it is better to use a mpeg player like mpeg-tv to view mpegs (much smoother).
[newbie] Bootup errors
When i first installed linux.. I picked the wrong Video Card and monitor.. Then it tried to Probe my monitor and my computer froze. So i tried to restart the computer and then i got into Linux.. Not the X windows just the root thing where you type info like dos. Well so i thought i would switch into windows and ask this group. I did that and then now i can't get into Linux i just get a Bootup Error.. Now it won't let me try to re-install linux it just ignores the cd. . Any ideas ? Dennis Angell
[newbie] SMC 8416 card
Hi, all -- Does anybody know what the NIC driver for the SMC 8416 card is? It isn't under SMC (but then neither of the other two SMC cards I am using is there either). The card in question is an older ISA card, and I suspect that the linux support is by the chipset rather than the card manufacturer. Thanks for your help. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 697-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Adding a SCSI adapter to a running system
-Mensagem original- De: Dave Bukove [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: Quinta-feira, 23 de Dezembro de 1999 13:19 Assunto: [newbie] Adding a SCSI adapter to a running system I am trying to add a second SCSI adapter to my mdk6.1 system. I can insmod or modprobe the driver and it works great. What I can't seem to find is where in the init scripts should I put the commands to load the module? I poked around a while in the /etc dir and in /usr/docs but I couldn't seem to find anything about it... not that it's not there, I just can't seem to find it. tia Dave Bukove [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Dave, This might not help but, it's in the general area... My multiple Ethernet cards (at work) are configured in /etc/conf.modules , as per Ethernet-HOWTO (and NET3-HOWTO and...) instructions. Activation-on-start and default-routes were set using 'control panel / network' in X. These latter failed to work for a Cyclades router - apparently due to a bug in RH initscripts version (not Mandrake). I then added ifconfig and route commands to /etc/rc.d/rc.local script as suggested by those same HOWTOs. Best of luck! Antonio C T Rocha Brasil
[newbie] Network Card
Has anyone been able to use the tulip driver with a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LNE100TX card. (I know it's a crappy card, but what do you want for 12 bucks). I keep getting this crazy broadcast-like message every 5 seconds: "eth0: transmit timed out, status e426, CSR12 00cc, resetting..." The IRQ is correct (11). Please help! -Ryan ___ Visit Excite Shopping at http://shopping.excite.com The fastest way to find your Holiday gift this season
RE: [newbie] unsubscribe
my big thing is that:
1] if they subscribed, they should know how to unsubscribe
2] when you do subscribe. you get an e-mail that says [SAVE THIS MESSAGE]
that has unsubscribe info.
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From: Des Wass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 12:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] unsubscribe
This is purely just a passing thoughtbut maybe list
listserver could do
with a tag line pointing people to the website to unsibscribe or
explaining how
to unsubscribe.
While some complain it too hard to unsubscribe and that they
don't have time, I
find it frustrating to be deleting mail from people who are obviously
switched on enough to try learning this wonderful OS, yet don't
give a rats
about how simple a mailing list works.
Maybe something like:
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To unsubscribe: Please go to http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3
###
Just my 2c worth.
(There's a typo on the header for Developer's BTW, if anyone is
listening...)
On 31/12/99, Singer XJ Wang said:
Because you are a DUMB retard who subscriibed and does not know how to
UNSCRIBE. go to mandrake web page and READ THE FUCKING MANUAL
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Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 7:45 AM
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Subject: [newbie] unsubscribe
UNSUBSCRIBE Please!!
How can this be so hard?
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RE: [newbie] unsubscribe
If anyone acutally read /. there was a good discussion about this a few days
ago. The point here is that we try to help people when we can but we assume
some basic stuff abotu them. If it was a LINUX question, I would help them.
But when you SUBSCRIBE. you are reminded of how to UNSUBSCRIBE in an e-mail
and you are TOLD to SAVE it. I did. I'm sure a lot of people did. But they
don't and constantly message the list. I mean if they went to the mandrake
web page. go to mailing list and subscribe then prehaps same place?
If you read the /. article. there's a good thread about why this is
happening.
SInger
-Original Message-
From: Jamey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 1:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] unsubscribe
I personaly bought linux- mandrake 6.5 about 2 weeks ago, and now I have a
pretty good idea what im doing. Sure i had to have some help and i greatly
appreciate those of you who helped me and didnt state rude remarks about
how stupid or retarded i was for trying a new OS, And i was over my head
with it, Youve got to start somewhere over/under in/out. The point of this
message was Thanks to all who helped without being a smart butt.
And I didnt
want to unsubscribe because i was over my head in linux, it was
because i am
tired of reading mail making fun of people who dont know what they are
doing, giving no help to them. I thought this was a "NEWBIE" mailing list
not one for those fortunate people who know linux in/out to make fun of us
newbies! I am sorry if i have offended anyone in any of the emails i have
posted.
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From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 3:35 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] unsubscribe
These people are probably not as 'switched' on as you state. They
bought into Linux chique and now find themselves in over their heads.
-Original Message-
From: Des Wass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: December 31, 1999 12:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] unsubscribe
This is purely just a passing thoughtbut maybe list listserver could
do
with a tag line pointing people to the website to unsibscribe or
explaining how
to unsubscribe.
While some complain it too hard to unsubscribe and that they don't have
time, I
find it frustrating to be deleting mail from people who are obviously
switched on enough to try learning this wonderful OS, yet don't give a
rats
about how simple a mailing list works.
Maybe something like:
###
To unsubscribe: Please go to
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3
###
Just my 2c worth.
(There's a typo on the header for Developer's BTW, if anyone is
listening...)
On 31/12/99, Singer XJ Wang said:
Because you are a DUMB retard who subscriibed and does not know how to
UNSCRIBE. go to mandrake web page and READ THE FUCKING MANUAL
-Original Message-
From: neilrathbone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 7:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] unsubscribe
UNSUBSCRIBE Please!!
How can this be so hard?
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Re: [newbie] New Millenium
There is no argument the new millenium does not start until 2001. A millennia is 1000 years, there was no year "0", so 1 AD through 1000 AD was the first millennia, 1001 AD through 2000 the second (see a pattern forming?) and the third millennia starts 2001. Just some food for thought... Dan - Original Message - From: "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 07:25 Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote: | 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT | Happy new Millenium all... | | -- | Full plate packing steel! - Minsk I've heard all the arguments about the new millenium not starting until 1/1/2001, but I think we should all compromise, and make the entire year of 2000 a celebration of our miraculous survival for two millemia. This way, by the end of the year, no one will care when the third millemium starts. The finest the new millenium has to offer to all, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[newbie] why is it so slow?
I have installed the Ln4Wn from the Linux-Mandrake cd. The installation was no prob. But when I go into into the Xwindow enviroment, I find that everything seems so sluggish and slow. I have also installed StarOffice5.1 and the installation was a breeze event though it was also very slow. Despite this I have been using Linux for about two weeks now. Also another thing is sometimes my machine freeze when I am using Xwindow and Glax as theme.( I am using KDE by the way) So I did a little bit of testing between themes and I found out that when I am using Glax and numerous other themes and try to move any window box move horizontally 'SLOWLY', the machines will freeze. The only theme that doesnt't freeze my machine when I do this is the windowmaker."WHEN I SAY SLOWLY,I MEAN SLOWLY AND STEADY" Contrary to this, when I use win98 everything is quite fast and normal. So could anybody please explain to me why I am having this problem? Could it be that Xwindow is using way to much memory than is needed? I hope that this 'freeze' problem is a bug and not a my machine's RAM fault. My box is a PII 400 Mhz, 64 Mb or SDRAM, 6.4 Gbyte hard disk, Voodo Banshee AGP display card. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Display Resolution
I've gone through 3 books and 8 web sites, but I still can't change my "resolution." Maybe I'm stuck with microsoftese and I'm not searching for the right info . . . My system: Video card: 8M PCI Matrox Millenium Monitor: 17" ADI MicroScan 5V I configured with Xconfigurator and Xf86config. All I want to do is have and still see the entire thing on one screeen (without scrolling around this "virtual screen"). I know there must be a simple way to do this. By the way is "make config" the only way to compile the kernel? Super Newbie! -Ryan ___ Visit Excite Shopping at http://shopping.excite.com The fastest way to find your Holiday gift this season
Re: [[newbie] Made a mistake in setup]
"Dennis Angell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative - When i installed Linux Mandrake i selected the wrong Video card and montior.. What can i do to be able to change these settings again ?? Dennis Angell = At the LILO prompt type "linux 3" w/o quotes. This will get you in at a CLI. run xf86config (someone correct my sp or syntax, please). Then reboot. HTH, Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Floppy Tape Drive Device Name
In case you didn't get a reply already to this. from the console enter "modprobe zftape" (minus the quotes) then fire up taper. Regards Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again!, I have a Colorado T1000 floppy tape drive that I have been trying desperately to configure for Linux. I have found much info on ftape, and even an old program that I used to use for backing up SCO (Microlite Backup Edge) that has been ported to Linux. I cannot, however, get over the first hurdle which is how in the heck to get Linux to "see" the tape drive. I currently have the tape drive "sharing" the floppy cable with my "a:" drive(fd0), so I would ASSume the tape drive would be fd1? No luck there. Tried every possible twist, turn, flip and flop of cables and drives. Still does not show up in dmesg. How do I find this device name? I recall something about floppy tape drives possibly not working when "sharing" a floppy cable with another drive. If this is the case, do I need a floppy controller card? If the floppy controller card is the way to go, should I tell my bios that now a drive "b" exists? How should this drive be mounted, (mt)? Thanks, Bryan -- Regards Dan
Re: [newbie] LS120 MB floppy
I use an LS-120 and which is my master on my second IDE controller. I have a directory /mnt/ls120 so the command to mount the drive is "mount /dev/hdc /mnt/ls120" (minus the quotes). I hope this helps Regards Dan - Original Message - From: "Patrick Dyer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 3:05 PM Subject: [newbie] LS120 MB floppy I need some help here. Linux will not mount my floppy. This is a new one . I had 120MB floppy drive before and it got damaged, it was working fine before I stupidly damaged the head. I got a new and installed it. When linux is booting it seem to recognize the drive. However, when I put a floppy disk in and try to mount I get the following error , "Could not mount Error log: mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only. mount:wrong fs type, bad option , bad superblock on /dev/fd0 or too many mounted file systems" Could someone help me. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 software for Linux
Pada Jumat, 31 Dec 1999, John Aldrich menulis: You might try mpg123 from a command-line. That's a console-based mp3 player. John ... gqmpeg for its frontend http://gqview.netpedia.net -- Rib
Re: [newbie] New Millenium
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote: | 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT | Happy new Millenium all... | | -- | Full plate packing steel! - Minsk I've heard all the arguments about the new millenium not starting until 1/1/2001, but I think we should all compromise, and make the entire year of 2000 a celebration of our miraculous survival for two millemia. This way, by the end of the year, no one will care when the third millemium starts. The finest the new millenium has to offer to all, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[newbie] farewell for now!
Hi everyone: Although things haven't been at their best recently on your list, I have enjoyed it. Thanks John Aldrich for your help. I remade everything 3 times on different disks! nothing worked. Still could be the sequence. I'm going with the distro as it is and do fixes and rpm stuff as I go along. My local group (Victoria, B.C., Canada) didn't have much success with the boot disks either. By the way, John, you're right about list usage, I should have just read the mail only. Thanks so much to everybody and best wishes for you in this new year! Chris W.
Re: [newbie] Installing after installing
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Doug Roberts wrote: | Hi All | | Thanks to all for all the help...as for Ernie my comments follow... | | On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Doug Roberts wrote: | | I was wondering how it is possible to install applications from the | CD after | | installing Linux? | | I installed Mandrake 6.1 and chose not to install things like Gnome | and | | Samba. Now I would like to install these packages, do I have to go | back to | | the CD and run install from there, or is there a command line (Yes | I'm an | | old MS-Dos user...:-) ) commmand to use that installs application | packages? | | | | Doug Roberts | | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |-- | -- | | - | | Murphy's rule of combat: Incoming fire has right of way. | | rpm is the RedHat Package Manager and it is included with Mandrake. To | learn | about rpm, read the rpm HOW-TO, or use "man rpm" from a command line (No | Quotes). | | I've been reading all I could get in teh HOW-TO sections for the last 3 | months. It's been a struggle with this small monitor I have (my real 17" | monitor is in the shop under warranty repair). | | | IIRC the command line is | | rpm -Uvh filename.rpm. | | U=update package - installes or updates packages | v=verbose output - more detailed explanations | h=use 50 hash marks to indicate install/update progress | | AH HAH!!! Somebody finally explained the switches. Thank you.thank you. | I couldn't find the syntax explained in anything I've read yet. | | You need to have the CD-ROM mounted when you try to use rpm with the files | on | the CD. | | FYI, the folder on the CD should be | | /CD mount folder/Mandrake/RPMS/filename.rpm. | | You will neen to include the path information so rpm can locate the file | to be | installed. | | Something else I've missed in all my reading or maybe I read it and haven't | gotten it pounded into my brain enough...just how do you know which is an | executable and which are accessory files to the executable? In dos/win there | is .exe, .dll, .txt etc. and it is easy to tell which does which. | | | HTH, | | Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | If you use the KDE desktop as I do, you can hover the mouse cursor over a file's icon in kfm (filemanager), and the file type will be listed in the status bar at the bottom of the display. From the command line, it is listed in the permissions of a "ls -al" (no quotes) display. I do not know how to read the listing, because I use the GUI too much, and so I neglect the command line (shame on me). HTH, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Best of the new millenium to you and yours.
Re: [newbie] What's A Quick Way to Assess the Size of a Folder and Its Content?
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: What's a quick way to assess the size of a folder and its content in KDE? "du" in console mode or in xterm. -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] smp kernel 2.2.13-7mdk and modules
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Hidong Kim wrote: | Hi, Gary, | | Yes, I do have a dual Pentium II machine. smp was working fine when I | was running mandrake 5.3 kernel 2.2.9. I think much of my difficulties | here are due to my unfamiliarity with recompiling kernels from rpms. I | had always compiled kernels from tar.gz. On the mandrake 6.1 | installation cd, there are several kernel rpms, like kernel, | kernel-source, kernel-headers, etc. Which of these packages are needed | for compiling an smp kernel? From the mandrake web site documentation, | it seems like kernel-source and kernel-headers are all that you need. | But then what about kernel-smp and kernel-smp-fb? I tried recompiling FYI - the kernel-smp and the kernel-smp-fb are installable kernels which have been compiled for you. You install the rpm, then edit /etc/lilo.conf, then run /sbin/lilo to write the boot loader to the HD. If you need better documentation on lilo, it has been covered in great detail and should be available in the archives. HTH, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | an smp kernel with all of these packages installed, and still no success | getting a bootable smp 2.2.13-7mdk kernel. For all of the people at | mandrakesoft, is there a tar.gz of 2.2.13-7mdk? Right now, a tar.gz of | the 2.2.13-7mdk kernel source is more to be desired than gold by me. | Thanks, | | | | Hidong | | | Gary K Stinnett Jr wrote: | | Do you have a multi-processor motherboard? | The smp kernel is for mult-processor systems. "Thanks M Thompson at Hot Mail" | | I had a problem with installing a driver for my sound card, I know this is | completely different to your problem, because my linux box was using the smp | kernel. | | After I did away with that and used the 2.2.13-7mdk kernel I did not have a | problem. | | Later, | | Gary | | Warren Doney wrote: | |Hidong Kim wrote: | | Hi, Axalon, | | I tried the 'depmod -a', but the 2.2.13-7mdk smp kernel is still hanging | during boot at "Finding module dependencies". Should it be 'depmod -a | 2.2.13-7mdk' or 'depmod -a 2.2.13'? Thanks, | | |move your old modules from (top level) /lib/modules to a new folder |/lib/oldmodules (I just used KFM) |or whatever before you make modules--lnstall--depmod etc. Before you |reboot, put a working version of older kernel moudules in /lib/modules |so you can boot with an older kernel if anything goes wrong. I.E. I made |sure I had a bootdisk+modules for 2.2.13-7 before I rebooted my newly |compiled 2.2.13-22. I don't think it would work with 2 lots of the same |version e.g. 13-22 + 13-22 (havent tried it though). For me, depmod |still |spits out unresolved stuff, but I can boot o.k. off my new kernel. |I think I hosed out some suff from the src tree when I did a make |mrproper or a make clean somewhere, Wish I'd moved the RPM from /tmp | |Warren.
[newbie] What's A Quick Way to Assess the Size of a Folder and Its Content?
What's a quick way to assess the size of a folder and its content in KDE?
[newbie] Why does aKtion play mpegs choppy but play AVIs smooth?
Why does aKtion media player play mpeg files really choppy but play AVI files without problems? This is on a 333mhz Celeron running Mandrake. Seve
Re: [newbie] Welcome to list newbie
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Re: [newbie] Y2K tip for dual boot machines
Sam wrote: This is a tip from ZDnet if you have a dual boot machine. If you shut your computer down before midnight, boot it into Linux first. if a hardware problem crops up, you can reset the hardware values to the correct settings and Ok. then boot into Windows. They didn't go into details, but they said there are several possible problems that could be avoided this way. Dont do this. You can avoid even more problems then :-). Happy 2000 to All! Peter -- Sig lost.
[newbie] DVD-RAM?
There seems to be a lot of information out there about using the recordable CD formats but I was wondering, does anyone know what is involved in getting started with a scsi DVD-RAM drive? Is there an FAQ or project you can point me to? Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
RE: [newbie] smp kernel 2.2.13-7mdk and modules
-Original Message- From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 6:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] smp kernel 2.2.13-7mdk and modules On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Hidong Kim wrote: | Hi, Gary, | | Yes, I do have a dual Pentium II machine. smp was working fine when I | was running mandrake 5.3 kernel 2.2.9. I think much of my difficulties | here are due to my unfamiliarity with recompiling kernels from rpms. I | had always compiled kernels from tar.gz. On the mandrake 6.1 | installation cd, there are several kernel rpms, like kernel, | kernel-source, kernel-headers, etc. Which of these packages are needed | for compiling an smp kernel? From the mandrake web site documentation, | it seems like kernel-source and kernel-headers are all that you need. | But then what about kernel-smp and kernel-smp-fb? I tried recompiling FYI - the kernel-smp and the kernel-smp-fb are installable kernels which have been compiled for you. You install the rpm, then edit /etc/lilo.conf, then run /sbin/lilo to write the boot loader to the HD. If you need better documentation on lilo, it has been covered in great detail and should be available in the archives. HTH, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | an smp kernel with all of these packages installed, and still no success | getting a bootable smp 2.2.13-7mdk kernel. For all of the people at | mandrakesoft, is there a tar.gz of 2.2.13-7mdk? Right now, a tar.gz of | the 2.2.13-7mdk kernel source is more to be desired than gold by me. | Thanks, | | | | Hidong | | | Gary K Stinnett Jr wrote: | | Do you have a multi-processor motherboard? | The smp kernel is for mult-processor systems. "Thanks M Thompson at Hot Mail" | | I had a problem with installing a driver for my sound card, I know this is | completely different to your problem, because my linux box was using the smp | kernel. | | After I did away with that and used the 2.2.13-7mdk kernel I did not have a | problem. | | Later, | | Gary | | Warren Doney wrote: | |Hidong Kim wrote: | | Hi, Axalon, | | I tried the 'depmod -a', but the 2.2.13-7mdk smp kernel is still hanging | during boot at "Finding module dependencies". Should it be 'depmod -a | 2.2.13-7mdk' or 'depmod -a 2.2.13'? Thanks, | | |move your old modules from (top level) /lib/modules to a new folder |/lib/oldmodules (I just used KFM) |or whatever before you make modules--lnstall--depmod etc. Before you |reboot, put a working version of older kernel moudules in /lib/modules |so you can boot with an older kernel if anything goes wrong. I.E. I made |sure I had a bootdisk+modules for 2.2.13-7 before I rebooted my newly |compiled 2.2.13-22. I don't think it would work with 2 lots of the same |version e.g. 13-22 + 13-22 (havent tried it though). For me, depmod |still |spits out unresolved stuff, but I can boot o.k. off my new kernel. |I think I hosed out some suff from the src tree when I did a make |mrproper or a make clean somewhere, Wish I'd moved the RPM from /tmp | |Warren.
RE: [newbie] Required packages for C programming
-Original Message- From: Payne Stanifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 3:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Required packages for C programming I made the mistake of not installing the developmental packages on my install. I was now wanting to do some C, C++, and maybe some java programming. What packages do I need to install to do this, and what do I need to do to get an icon (gasp, doing something the "easy" way) for the compiler? THanks Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] LS120 MB floppy
-Original Message- From: Patrick Dyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 3:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] LS120 MB floppy I need some help here. Linux will not mount my floppy. This is a new one . I had 120MB floppy drive before and it got damaged, it was working fine before I stupidly damaged the head. I got a new and installed it. When linux is booting it seem to recognize the drive. However, when I put a floppy disk in and try to mount I get the following error , "Could not mount Error log: mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only. mount:wrong fs type, bad option , bad superblock on /dev/fd0 or too many mounted file systems" Could someone help me. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] Network Card
-Original Message- From: Seung-woo Nam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Network Card Have you tried the Tulip driver that comes on the diskette with the NIC? I had problems with the same card but after reinstalling the driver it worked fine. You should be able to find the instruction on the company's website. Seung-woo Nam - Original Message - From: "Ryan Sumstad" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 11:29 AM Subject: [newbie] Network Card Has anyone been able to use the tulip driver with a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LNE100TX card. (I know it's a crappy card, but what do you want for 12 bucks). I keep getting this crazy broadcast-like message every 5 seconds: "eth0: transmit timed out, status e426, CSR12 00cc, resetting..." The IRQ is correct (11). Please help! -Ryan ___ Visit Excite Shopping at http://shopping.excite.com The fastest way to find your Holiday gift this season
RE: [newbie] Lilo install en boot floppy problems
-Original Message-From: Hans de Ruiter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 2:07 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Lilo install en boot floppy problems Hi, I have tried to install Linux-Mandrake 6.1 on a 13 GB Quantum Fireball CX1 hard disk with a Promise Ultra66 hard disk controller. I used the Ultra66 RedHat Linux 6.0 Driverpartitionising the hard disk. Everything seemed to go well. But I can't create a linux boot floppy or install Lilo in the MBR. What is the problem?
RE: [newbie] unsubscribe
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Re: [newbie] LS120 MB floppy
Patricktype dmesg in a console window and then look for a line in the output like the one below: hda: LS-120 CSMO 05 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive My LS-120, in the above, is identified as hda (that's because it's the master device on the primary IDE controller). Yours may be something different, but it's not likely to be fd0 since an LS-120 is not normally connected to the floppy controller. Anyway use this info to reconfigure your fstab file and your mount command line. Accomplishing that should get your LS-120 working. Alan Patrick Dyer wrote: I need some help here. Linux will not mount my floppy. This is a new one . I had 120MB floppy drive before and it got damaged, it was working fine before I stupidly damaged the head. I got a new and installed it. When linux is booting it seem to recognize the drive. However, when I put a floppy disk in and try to mount I get the following error , "Could not mount Error log: mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only. mount:wrong fs type, bad option , bad superblock on /dev/fd0 or too many mounted file systems" Could someone help me. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com
[newbie] Icons to Large
I had to reinstall Mandrake, when xconfig came up I was stuck using the default as all the other sizes would not be accepted. Now the icons are way to large and when I open some of the icons like Netscape I can't see the accept button. Is there any way to change the screen size to something like 800 x 600. Thanks Jennifer ICQ:6765592
Re: [newbie] DVD-RAM?
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Traci Collins wrote: There seems to be a lot of information out there about using the recordable CD formats but I was wondering, does anyone know what is involved in getting started with a scsi DVD-RAM drive? Is there an FAQ or project you can point me to? Thanks. _basicly_ it's no different than any other cdwriter. execute cdrecord -scanbus and it should pick it up no problem. You just need to make sure you don't go over the size when you do your mkisofs. Theres maybe a link on the cdrecord homepage to a gui util that won't whine about going over 650 megs. There was a link at one time to an observatory useing cdrecord to burn thier dvd's. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] Icons to large
I had to reinstall Mandrake, when xconfig came up I was stuck using the default as all the other sizes would not be accepted. Now the icons are way to large and when I open some of the icons like Netscape I can't see the accept button. Is there any way to change the screen size to something like 800 x 600. Thanks Jennifer ICQ:6765592
Re: [newbie] Bootup errors
Dennis Angell wrote: When i first installed linux.. I picked the wrong Video Card and monitor.. Then it tried to Probe my monitor and my computer froze. So i tried to restart the computer and then i got into Linux.. Not the X windows just the root thing where you type info like dos. Well so i thought i would switch into windows and ask this group. I did that and then now i can't get into Linux i just get a Bootup Error.. Now it won't let me try to re-install linux it just ignores the cd. . Any ideas ? Dennis Angell When you say it ignores the cd, are you booting from the floppy or setting the cd to boot from your bios? What error(s) are you getting when you try to boot from disk and from floppy?
Re: [newbie] Bootup errors
I have to put the floppy and the cd into the drive all i get is a simple BOOTUP ERROR.. Could you help me with this problem by e-mailing me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Audrey Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 3:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Bootup errors Dennis Angell wrote: When i first installed linux.. I picked the wrong Video Card and monitor.. Then it tried to Probe my monitor and my computer froze. So i tried to restart the computer and then i got into Linux.. Not the X windows just the root thing where you type info like dos. Well so i thought i would switch into windows and ask this group. I did that and then now i can't get into Linux i just get a Bootup Error.. Now it won't let me try to re-install linux it just ignores the cd. . Any ideas ? Dennis Angell When you say it ignores the cd, are you booting from the floppy or setting the cd to boot from your bios? What error(s) are you getting when you try to boot from disk and from floppy?
Re: [newbie] DVD-RAM?
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: _basicly_ it's no different than any other cdwriter. execute cdrecord -scanbus and it should pick it up no problem. You just need to make sure you don't go over the size when you do your mkisofs. Theres maybe a link on the cdrecord homepage to a gui util that won't whine about going over 650 megs. There was a link at one time to an observatory useing cdrecord to burn thier dvd's. I found the second link but I wasn't sure it would directly apply to me since I didn't have daily data requirements of that size. I am still fuzzy about a couple of things, if you don't mind continuing to help I would like to ask a couple of followup questions. Once I have sent an ISO image to my DVD-Ram disk can the resultant disk be read by a standard CD-ROM drive as long as I keep the size under 650 megs? If not, can it at least be booted in a DVD-ROM drive to do things like operating system installs? When I am just using a DVD-Ram disk for backup or extra storage space do I even have to use something like cdrecord? Or since it is a scsi drive and I have a working scsi driver can I put an ext2 fs on it and just copy or move things to it via normal linux commands? I think I will understand the role of the cdwriter program a bit better if I have the answer to these three questions. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] nfs problems
Hi, I'm having a problem with nfs. I have a network of three Mandrake 6.1 machines all running 2.2.13-7mdk. The machines are weaver, ripley, and jonesy. Things were working fine before y2k. I shut the machines down before midnight, and turned them on again this morning (1/1). weaver is no longer exporting its nfs partition to ripley and jonesy. I've been trying to start nfs manually on all three machines with the sequence: 1. /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet stop 2. /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap stop 3. /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs stop 4. /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet start 5. /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap start 6. /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start 7. exportfs 8. mount -a This sequence shows no errors on weaver, but on ripley and jonesy, this sequence shows the error mount: RPC: Program not registered upon 'mount -a'. weaver's /var/log/messages has errors like Jan 1 16:43:01 weaver portmap[935]: connect from 192.168.1.12 to getport(mountd): request from unauthorized host Jan 1 16:43:01 weaver portmap[936]: connect from 192.168.1.12 to getport(mountd): request from unauthorized host Jan 1 16:43:44 weaver portmap[941]: connect from 192.168.1.13 to getport(mountd): request from unauthorized host Jan 1 16:43:44 weaver portmap[942]: connect from 192.168.1.13 to getport(mountd): request from unauthorized host which correspond to when I try to mount weaver's partitions on ripley or jonesy, or do a 'df' on ripley or jonesy. When I do a 'df' on weaver, all of the nfs mounted partitions show up, but 'df' on ripley and jonesy show all nfs partitions except weaver's. It seems like weaver is not recognizing ripley or jonesy. But I can telnet, ping, ftp, rlogin between all three computers just fine. Is there some nfs permission file that needs to be set? weaver's motherboard is an asus vx-97 with an award bios that dates from 1995. I don't think this is a y2k problem since everything else seems to be working fine. How do I get my nfs back? Thanks, Hidong
Re: [newbie] Lilo install en boot floppy problems
For some obtuse reason this guy's redirecting mail back to group. John the Nadger - Original Message - From: marcelo pimentel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 9:53 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Lilo install en boot floppy problems -Original Message- From: Hans de Ruiter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 2:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Lilo install en boot floppy problems Hi, I have tried to install Linux-Mandrake 6.1 on a 13 GB Quantum Fireball CX1 hard disk with a Promise Ultra66 hard disk controller. I used the Ultra66 RedHat Linux 6.0 Driver partitionising the hard disk. Everything seemed to go well. But I can't create a linux boot floppy or install Lilo in the MBR. What is the problem?
Re: [newbie] graphics card shopping....
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Seth Gibson wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: Dunno. I don't believe that Xfree86 makes an accelerated server. OTOH, you might go see what cards mesa-gl supports. www.mesa-3d.org Actually its www.mesa3d.org. . Really? Interesting. Guess FreshMeat musta got it wrong. :-) John
[newbie] Fw: problems with installing new kernel-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm
hi i need some help i downloaded kernel-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm went into the rpm manager found the file then went install it gets to about half way then a error message comes up its says "unpacking of archive failed: cpio: bad magic" does anyone know how to fix this or what does it mean? michael ICQ 15092793
Re: [newbie] Samba passwords problems
JeanetteDon't give up yet! Have you read through the samba section of http://www.mandrakeuser.org/. Look under the connectivity section for samba. I solved the same problem you're having by reading the info there (it is somewhat extensive for posting to this list). Alan Jeanette Russo wrote: I can see the LInux computers in my Network Neighborhood. I can't browse any directories. I get error account name or password invalid. I am using NT Server, sp3 NT WKS, Mandrake and Corel Linux. I have tried plan text passwords registry change, encrypted passwords, user names and passwords are the same on all computers? About ready to give up on Samba. Jeanette
Re: [newbie] New Millenium
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Etien T. VanDenBroecke wrote: Yes that is true, but it has been said that somewhere along the lines we all lost a year, so is it the year 2000 or the year 2001?? who knows, all that I know is that the media hype about the Y2K bug, looks like it turn out to be a big money making scam... Anybody else agree? Example: three days ago a friend of mine heard on the radio that some fool went and purchased and re-wired his whole house, to on run generators for the Y2K blitz!! Well, there are other reasons to have a generatordepending on where you live, there may be winter storms that knock power out for days at a time...or there's a possibility of a large solar flare knocking out the electrical grid in an area for a few days like it did about 10 or 11 years back in Canada but this is all WAY off topic for Linux, so can we please drop this thread??? Thanks... John
Re: [newbie] LS120 MB floppy
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Patrick Dyer wrote: I need some help here. Linux will not mount my floppy. This is a new one . I had 120MB floppy drive before and it got damaged, it was working fine before I stupidly damaged the head. I got a new and installed it. When linux is booting it seem to recognize the drive. However, when I put a floppy disk in and try to mount I get the following error , "Could not mount Error log: mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only. mount:wrong fs type, bad option , bad superblock on /dev/fd0 or too many mounted file systems" Could someone help me. Please post the section of your /etc/fstab which contains the reference to the floppy drive so we can verify that you have it configured correctly. Do you have the filesystem set to "auto" or do you have a duplicate entry? If the latter is true, try removing the extra line in your fstab. John
RE: [newbie] New Millenium
Circle gets a square... to paraphrase what ever that game show is. and to para-phrase the lady on cnn.. Isn't it amazing what the international community can acomplish when it pulls it's head out of it's a$$. I mean really. It shocks me that we can acomplish this and people are still starveing , and bathing in the same water they (well you know) in.. On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Jeffrey A. Crum wrote: H. Don't ya think that the hype about Y2K brought to light what people and companies had to do to make the fixes so there wouldn't be any problems? I am in the computer field and know for a fact that if we hadn't made the changes, our systems would NOT have worked. We are working with 10-20 year old code and they didn't even imagine that the programs would still be in use come 2000. -Original Message- From: Etien T. VanDenBroecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium Yes that is true, but it has been said that somewhere along the lines we all lost a year, so is it the year 2000 or the year 2001?? who knows, all that I know is that the media hype about the Y2K bug, looks like it turn out to be a big money making scam... Anybody else agree? Example: three days ago a friend of mine heard on the radio that some fool went and purchased and re-wired his whole house, to on run generators for the Y2K blitz!! HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! Etien On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Daniel wrote: There is no argument the new millenium does not start until 2001. A millennia is 1000 years, there was no year "0", so 1 AD through 1000 AD was the first millennia, 1001 AD through 2000 the second (see a pattern forming?) and the third millennia starts 2001. Just some food for thought... Dan - Original Message - From: "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 07:25 Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote: | 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT | Happy new Millenium all... | | -- | Full plate packing steel! - Minsk I've heard all the arguments about the new millenium not starting until 1/1/2001, but I think we should all compromise, and make the entire year of 2000 a celebration of our miraculous survival for two millemia. This way, by the end of the year, no one will care when the third millemium starts. The finest the new millenium has to offer to all, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[newbie] DUAL BOOT
Hi All, I am planning to run a dual boot system W98, and Linux. I have a SCSI HD and an IDE HD. The controller card for the SCSI drive is not supported, bummer, so I have Linux installed on my IDE drive. All peripherals except for the sound card work properly, I have a Creative Labs sound card. The installation program never gave me the option to set it up. Does this mean it is not supported? If it should be supported how can I set it up after the OS has been installed? I am confused as to how to set up the dual boot option when the 2 OS's are on different drives? Currently, when the computer is setup to boot off of the drive containing Linux it gets to "LI" then freezes. If I boot up off of the Linux floppy created during installation, it works fine. Any ideas?? Thanks in advance, Steve
[newbie] Fixed Resolution
Thanks for the help. Here's the final piece of info I needed to change the resolution. It sounds simple, but if you've been addicted to MS Applets to change system settings, then it's not simple. . . in xconf or Xf86config . . . after configuring the video card . . . Next, I do NOT want a Clockchip setting and I do NOT want it to run 'X -probeonly'. (Some video cards need clocks.) The next section is where you can change the modes (for your monitor) . Some people select "The modes are are OK", But I prefer to go thru each one. I start with "1 Change the modes for 8bpp" and then somthing like "432". Then it asks if you want a virtual screen. (thats the little bit I was missing). :o) ___ Visit Excite Shopping at http://shopping.excite.com The fastest way to find your Holiday gift this season
Re: [newbie] Icons to Large
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Jennifer Ricki Wise wrote: I had to reinstall Mandrake, when xconfig came up I was stuck using the default as all the other sizes would not be accepted. Now the icons are way to large and when I open some of the icons like Netscape I can't see the accept button. Is there any way to change the screen size to something like 800 x 600. run xf86config as root from a command prompt. John
[newbie] Can't install...
I am new to Linux and I am trying to get through the initial installation process. I would like to set up a dual-booting system with Windows 98 and Linux. I have a second hard disk not in use that Iwish to format for Linux. Here's what happens: 1: I create myroot partition and swap partitions on the second hard disk-dev/hdb 2: Even though I specify swap space, the program tells me that I didn't and asks me if I would like to "repartition", I say yes, then when the programs goes back, an error message comes up saying: "ERROR: hard disk drive hdb not found .. RETRY or SKIP DRIVE" or something to that extent. At this point I can do nothing else and have to restart the machine. 3: If I decide not to try the "Repartitioning" step, the installation program will take me into the package installation area and I select the packages, which is fine. However, when the installation program asks me to format the partitions, I select the root (/) partition and proceed. Everytime that I have tried this, at some point during the installation, this error would come up: mount failed: invalid Argument. Then when I try to go back, I get the same error message that I specified in number 2. I don't understand it. Linux looks like a great operating system, and many friends have told me to use it. But the installation problem is pissing me the hell off. Is there any among you who can help? Thank you in advance. - David Chanderpaul Future Shop Technical Services 845 Eglinton Avenue East Toronto, ON M4G 3X1 BUSINESS: (416) 429-7077 BUSINESS FAX: (416) 429-0635 ICQ: 54070079 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - SynDiKit International HOME PAGE: http://www.myfreeoffice.com/syndikit ICQ: 50425413
Re: [newbie] Icons to Large
Jenniferfirst off, I recommend you boot into level 3 and not level 5 to do this. If you are currently booting directly to the gui desktop then that is level 5. The way to change it is to (as root) edit the /etc/inittab file by changing this line: id:5:initdefault: to this: id:3:initdefault: You can change it back when you're done. Now, in the console mode (reboot if you need to), edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file and look for the section that is something like the below excerpt at the very end of the file: # The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32, Mach64 # I128, and S3V) Section "Screen" Driver "accel" Device "My Video Card" Monitor "ViewSonic PS790" Subsection "Display" Depth 32 Modes "800x600" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Make sure that the ViewPort is set at 0 0 and Modes is set at the resolution you want as default. Save the file and test it by starting the x-server by typing startx on the command line. If it errors out you can put the errors in this list for more help, if not you'll be in your gui desktop at the resolution you wanted. If you're successful then you can change the /etc/inittab file back to the way it was. If not you probably will want to change the /etc/X11/XF86Config file back the way it was first. Good luck. Alan Jennifer Ricki Wise wrote: I had to reinstall Mandrake, when xconfig came up I was stuck using the default as all the other sizes would not be accepted. Now the icons are way to large and when I open some of the icons like Netscape I can't see the accept button. Is there any way to change the screen size to something like 800 x 600. Thanks Jennifer ICQ:6765592
[newbie] Re: It was that sinple!!!
Patrickglad to hear it ;o) Alan Patrick Dyer wrote: Thanks again. It is fully functional. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] flashing bios
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I just downloaded the bios upgrade for my asus vx-97 from the asus site. The machine I have is pure Linux, no Windows. How do I flash the bios? Thanks, Can you get your hands on a DOS boot disk? ;-) IF so, just use the DOS boot disk and then switch to the disk with the flasher BIOS update. :-) Otherwise, I think you're SOL. John
Re: [newbie] Icons to large
Hi All, I am new to the list. I to am having the same problem with Madrake, I had succes with Winlinux2000, but not with Mandrake. - Original Message - From: "Jennifer Ricki Wise" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 3:22 PM Subject: [newbie] Icons to large I had to reinstall Mandrake, when xconfig came up I was stuck using the default as all the other sizes would not be accepted. Now the icons are way to large and when I open some of the icons like Netscape I can't see the accept button. Is there any way to change the screen size to something like 800 x 600. Thanks Jennifer ICQ:6765592
[newbie] Quake ]I[
So whose got their copy of quake iii? Who says linux cant be a gaming platform. . .
Re: [newbie] Samba passwords problems
Thanks Alan got it figured out just needed to try a lot of combinations to get it working. Now on to printer sharing. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 7:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba passwords problems JeanetteDon't give up yet! Have you read through the samba section of http://www.mandrakeuser.org/. Look under the connectivity section for samba. I solved the same problem you're having by reading the info there (it is somewhat extensive for posting to this list). Alan Jeanette Russo wrote: I can see the LInux computers in my Network Neighborhood. I can't browse any directories. I get error account name or password invalid. I am using NT Server, sp3 NT WKS, Mandrake and Corel Linux. I have tried plan text passwords registry change, encrypted passwords, user names and passwords are the same on all computers? About ready to give up on Samba. Jeanette
Re: [newbie] DUAL BOOT
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Steve Tarara wrote: Hi All, I am planning to run a dual boot system W98, and Linux. I have a SCSI HD and an IDE HD. The controller card for the SCSI drive is not supported, bummer, so I have Linux installed on my IDE drive. All peripherals except for the sound card work properly, I have a Creative Labs sound card. The installation program never gave me the option to set it up. Does this mean it is not supported? If it should be supported how can I set it up after the OS has been installed? As root, type "sndconfig" from the command prompt. That should help you get it setup. Which sound card is it? The PCI Soundblaster 128, I think, is not yet supported, but other than that, most CL sound cards are supported, even if you have to compile a driver for 'em. I am confused as to how to set up the dual boot option when the 2 OS's are on different drives? Currently, when the computer is setup to boot off of the drive containing Linux it gets to "LI" then freezes. If I boot up off of the Linux floppy created during installation, it works fine. Any ideas?? Please post your /etc/lilo.conf file here I had that same problem until I realized that I had LILO written to the /boot directory. Duh! it won't work that way (at least not well.) You need to make sure you have lilo pointed towards /dev/hda, NOT /dev/hda1 or anything like that. Good luck! John
RE: [newbie] DUAL BOOT
Hi, Steve, 1. All you have to do about sound card is just make sure that your sound card is supported by Linux (you can check it out at Hardware HOWTO at http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO and if it supported, run the command : # sndconfig and after that, you just have to follow the instructions. 2. About dual boot, I think it isn't a problem you put Linux at where place. To activate LILO (LInux LOader), a dual-boot utility, just type : # lilo and Linux will work it out for you. If you reboot, after memory checking and some other else, you will be asked what OS you want to boot from. That's it. May it helps. Best Regards, Paulus Hendarwan -Original Message- From: Steve Tarara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2000 8:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] DUAL BOOT Hi All, I am planning to run a dual boot system W98, and Linux. I have a SCSI HD and an IDE HD. The controller card for the SCSI drive is not supported, bummer, so I have Linux installed on my IDE drive. All peripherals except for the sound card work properly, I have a Creative Labs sound card. The installation program never gave me the option to set it up. Does this mean it is not supported? If it should be supported how can I set it up after the OS has been installed? I am confused as to how to set up the dual boot option when the 2 OS's are on different drives? Currently, when the computer is setup to boot off of the drive containing Linux it gets to "LI" then freezes. If I boot up off of the Linux floppy created during installation, it works fine. Any ideas?? Thanks in advance, Steve
RE: [newbie] Fw: problems with installing new kernel-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm
Elizabeth, you might want to check this site out if you still have access to the web. I to am a newbie to linux and am currently printing out all of the documentation that I can find on Mandrakes site. I found this while looking around. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/kernel/kupgrade2.html#RPM -Original Message- From: Elizabeth Dolan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 2:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Fw: problems with installing new kernel-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm hi i need some help i downloaded kernel-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm went into the rpm manager found the file then went install it gets to about half way then a error message comes up its says "unpacking of archive failed: cpio: bad magic" does anyone know how to fix this or what does it mean? michael ICQ 15092793
Re: [newbie] DUAL BOOT
At 08:55 PM 1/1/00 -0500, you wrote: Hi All, I am planning to run a dual boot system W98, and Linux. I have a SCSI HD and an IDE HD. The controller card for the SCSI drive is not supported, bummer, so I have Linux installed on my IDE drive. All peripherals except for the sound card work properly, I have a Creative Labs sound card. The installation program never gave me the option to set it up. Does this mean it is not supported? If it should be supported how can I set it up after the OS has been installed? As root, type "sndconfig" from a command prompt. I am confused as to how to set up the dual boot option when the 2 OS's are on different drives? Currently, when the computer is setup to boot off of the drive containing Linux it gets to "LI" then freezes. If I boot up off of the Linux floppy created during installation, it works fine. There is a HOWTO file that explains how to do this (excuse the redundancy :) look for it, somewhere in the CDs... AFAIK, you'll need to setup a small (1Mb?) partition and make it your linux boot partition (/boot). You need to do this from the main HD -- that is, the one you boot from. The Mandrake installation will ask you where you want your boot partition, where you want your /root to be, where you want LILO to reside, etc. Make sure you do not put LILO on the the MBR...put it in the /boot partition. But, if you can fork out $40, get Partition magic -- which includes Bootmagic and it can serve as your boot manager. It makes things very easy to configure and manage. -Carl
[newbie] StarOffice 5.1 Installation Problem
Hi, I am having a problem installing StarOffice 5.1 on Mandrake 6.0. I bought the Staroffice 5.1 CD from Sun. I read the Readme and it discusses installing the glibc2 libraries. I did so using the soprep on the StarOffice CD. I didn't install their ld-linux.so.2 because it said that it might make the system unstable. Then I clicked on the StarOffice Setup Icon on the CD and the installation starts as expected until I get to about the third screen where you enter the User Data info, Name, Address, e-mail address, etc. After I fill this screen out and click on Next, the screen freezes and won't go any further. Then I have to use XKill to close the installation window. I've tried this several times and get the same result each time. I also downloaded the StarOffice Installation from the Sun Web site, tried to install and got the same result. Is this problem related to the glibc files or something else? Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks, Mark begin:vcard n:Finewood;Mark x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:Be Careful, this message was sent from a computer running Mandrake Linux. x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Mark Finewood end:vcard
Re: [[newbie] Icons to large]
Jennifer Ricki Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had to reinstall Mandrake, when xconfig came up I was stuck using the default as all the other sizes would not be accepted. Now the icons are way to large and when I open some of the icons like Netscape I can't see the accept button. Is there any way to change the screen size to something like 800 x 600. Thanks Jennifer ICQ:6765592 As root, try XF86Setup of xf86config. You can test BEFORE accepting new configurations. HTH, Mike ## Michael Scottaline Linux 2.2.13 ## Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Anyone wanting to leave this list please read this!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok Folks, You can't unsubscribe by sending a letter to the list. If you will go to http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 this is the english page btw. You will find the info on how to do it. Hope you folks give Linux a far chance before you give up on it. Steven On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 2:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] unsubscribe Yes! Unsubscribe! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOG7QH35p9vE7eOnjEQIiigCgusEvj6fSBNWow83iSnXTtOI8lEkAoPmf eaaPeiwE65xro911mUrVKOjj =arP0 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] New Millenium
We have never lost any years, we (the proverbial we) did in-fact delete about 14 days in the 1500's off of the calendar to make everything add up. Although the Y2K problem is not based on the millenium, it is based on two digit code. And although we would like to think we have beat it, the fact remains that there are about 20 some more dates in the Y2K scenario left between now and 2100, they are as follows (X indicates completion): X January 1, 1999 - to ensure that the digits "99" do not trigger a red flag result in erroneous branching, or otherwise cause a processing error or that "time error" faults occur X FY2000 for business and industry - Depending on the business the FY could start on March 1, 1999, July 1, 1999 or match the government fiscal year of October 1, 1999. X August 22, 1999 - Overflow of 'end of week' rollovers (e.g. GPS). X September 9, 1999 (9/9/99 or possibly ) - to ensure the digits "99" or "" do not trigger a red flag, result in erroneous branching, or otherwise cause a processing error X October 1, 1999 - First day of Fiscal Year 2000 X January O, 2000 - - to ensure this date is NOT processed (some applications do have this problem and count January O as the day before the 1st) X January 1, 2000 - key date in any compliance testing - January 3, 2000 - first full work day in the new year - January 10, 2000 - first 9 character data in /MM/DD format (2000/l/10) - February 28, 2000 - to ensure the leap year is being properly accounted for - February 29, 2000 - to ensure the leap year is being properly accounted for - February 30, 2000 - to ensure that this date is NOT processed - February 31, 2000 - to ensure that this date is NOT processed - March 1, 2000 - to ensure date calculations have taken leap year into account - October 10, 2000 - first 10 character date - December 31, 2000 - 366th day of the year - January 1, 2001 - First day in the 21st Century - January 1, 2001 - Overflow for Tandem systems - After January 1, 2002 - to ensure no processing errors occur in backward calculations and processing of dates in the 1980's and 1990's at this point in time - February 29, 2001 - to ensure that this date is NOT processed as a leap year - February 29, 2004 - to ensure that this date is processed as a leap year - January 1, 2010 - Overflow ANSI C Library - January 1, 2011 - to ensure the digits "" do not trigger a red flag, result in erroneous branching, or otherwise cause a processing error - November 11, 2011 - to ensure the digits "11" do not trigger a red flag, result in erroneous branching, or otherwise cause a processing error - September 30, 2034 - Overflow of UNIX time function - January 1, 2037 - Rollover date for NTP systems - January 19, 2038 - Overflow of UNIX systems - September 18, 2042 - Overflow of IBM System/360 - January 1, 2072 - Overflow of Milstar Operating System - February 28, 2100 - last day of February, ensure that this date is NOT processed as a leap year More food for thought... Dan - Original Message - From: "Etien T. VanDenBroecke" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 13:20 Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium Yes that is true, but it has been said that somewhere along the lines we all lost a year, so is it the year 2000 or the year 2001?? who knows, all that I know is that the media hype about the Y2K bug, looks like it turn out to be a big money making scam... Anybody else agree? Example: three days ago a friend of mine heard on the radio that some fool went and purchased and re-wired his whole house, to on run generators for the Y2K blitz!! HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! Etien On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Daniel wrote: There is no argument the new millenium does not start until 2001. A millennia is 1000 years, there was no year "0", so 1 AD through 1000 AD was the first millennia, 1001 AD through 2000 the second (see a pattern forming?) and the third millennia starts 2001. Just some food for thought... Dan - Original Message - From: "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 07:25 Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote: | 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT | Happy new Millenium all... | | -- | Full plate packing steel! - Minsk I've heard all the arguments about the new millenium not starting until 1/1/2001, but I think we should all compromise, and make the entire year of 2000 a celebration of our
Re: [newbie] Made a mistake in setup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 %_When i installed Linux Mandrake i selected the wrong Video card and montior.. What can i do to be able to change these settings again ?? Dennis Angell Or You could type setup at the command line and run the xconfig from there. My 2 cents worth anyway. Steven -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOG7RZn5p9vE7eOnjEQIidACeOqOtr8G28uKO2wRyGU/wezpocREAnRgI yPGWaHJEM0Ic0INOlw9X/sB/ =eEJg -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] graphics card shopping....
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Get a 3dfx voodoo3 it works . and it's cheap hehe steven On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, you wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Seth Gibson wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: Dunno. I don't believe that Xfree86 makes an accelerated server. OTOH, you might go see what cards mesa-gl supports. www.mesa-3d.org Actually its www.mesa3d.org. . Really? Interesting. Guess FreshMeat musta got it wrong. :-) John -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOG7R635p9vE7eOnjEQJlQACfcZlbvTDmtJhDsNIAEPr/Yer6MSYAnRIY F4zWlnCADO+eeAl/I17CDcrO =Dihs -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] DUAL BOOT soundcard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 .. All peripherals except for the sound card work properly, I have a Creative Labs sound card. The installation program never gave me the option to set it up. Does this mean it is not supported? If it should be supported how can I set it up after the OS has been installed? depending on the card the SB Live has some issues but you can make it work. I use a SBawe. type sndconfig in at the command line as root. to set it up. You might also want to make sure that plug and play os isn't on in the bios as that will sometimes give false errors on the sndconfig. - I am confused as to how to set up the dual boot option when the 2 OS's are on different drives? Currently, when the computer is setup to boot off of the drive containing Linux it gets to "LI" then freezes. If I boot up off of the Linux floppy created during installation, it works fine. Any ideas?? Thanks in advance, Steve I can only tell you that the boot area of the kernel has to be above the 1023 cylinder or the bios may not see it. depending on the partitions on the ide. Steven -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOG7Xmn5p9vE7eOnjEQLSHwCdEGgmH1/FFHx4VTB/SAsXTrmG1msAoMeH toUkwiKTjyOU+G5HRmTt7i3T =fvx+ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] Can't install...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 1. what are you using to re partition? 2. what type of drive is it? Steven On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, you wrote: - Content-Type: multipart/alternative; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: - - Content-Type: image/gif; name="Chess.gif" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description: - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOG7ZN35p9vE7eOnjEQIWDACgkwO30CRxgMjTmVPEcGoCh/9q7vgAoPLP sbkSmpRtwd+5dVr2AT8Dmi7i =tETQ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] Quake ]I[
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 got the winblows ver, haven't found the linux boxed set yet. steven On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, you wrote: So whose got their copy of quake iii? Who says linux cant be a gaming platform. . . -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOG7Zz35p9vE7eOnjEQKxHQCcCTKAx+mK/6O6BZB40TIsIKDsXH4AoLHo 8x5admvnXG0ob+W2qi8P09kX =FgmK -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: [newbie] New Millenium
Hey Axelon Bloodstone.. Go get fucked. I mean realy. gasp DAVID CLARK A+ MCP Lafayette LA USA -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 7:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] New Millenium Circle gets a square... to paraphrase what ever that game show is. and to para-phrase the lady on cnn.. Isn't it amazing what the international community can acomplish when it pulls it's head out of it's a$$. I mean really. It shocks me that we can acomplish this and people are still starveing , and bathing in the same water they (well you know) in.. On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Jeffrey A. Crum wrote: H. Don't ya think that the hype about Y2K brought to light what people and companies had to do to make the fixes so there wouldn't be any problems? I am in the computer field and know for a fact that if we hadn't made the changes, our systems would NOT have worked. We are working with 10-20 year old code and they didn't even imagine that the programs would still be in use come 2000. -Original Message- From: Etien T. VanDenBroecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium Yes that is true, but it has been said that somewhere along the lines we all lost a year, so is it the year 2000 or the year 2001?? who knows, all that I know is that the media hype about the Y2K bug, looks like it turn out to be a big money making scam... Anybody else agree? Example: three days ago a friend of mine heard on the radio that some fool went and purchased and re-wired his whole house, to on run generators for the Y2K blitz!! HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! Etien On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Daniel wrote: There is no argument the new millenium does not start until 2001. A millennia is 1000 years, there was no year "0", so 1 AD through 1000 AD was the first millennia, 1001 AD through 2000 the second (see a pattern forming?) and the third millennia starts 2001. Just some food for thought... Dan - Original Message - From: "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 07:25 Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote: | 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT | Happy new Millenium all... | | -- | Full plate packing steel! - Minsk I've heard all the arguments about the new millenium not starting until 1/1/2001, but I think we should all compromise, and make the entire year of 2000 a celebration of our miraculous survival for two millemia. This way, by the end of the year, no one will care when the third millemium starts. The finest the new millenium has to offer to all, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Clark;David FN:David Clark ORG:TCSG TEL;HOME;VOICE:(318) 837-6217 ADR;WORK:;;113 B North St. Pierre;Broussard;LA;70518-3922;United States of America LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:113 B North St. Pierre=0D=0ABroussard, LA 70518-3922=0D=0AUnited States = of America ADR;HOME:;;113 North St Pierre;Lafayette;Louisiana;70518-3922;USA LABEL;HOME;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:113 North St Pierre=0D=0ALafayette, Louisiana 70518-3922=0D=0AUSA EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:19991226T184025Z END:VCARD
Re: [newbie] Display Resolution
Ryan Sumstad wrote: I've gone through 3 books and 8 web sites, but I still can't change my "resolution." Maybe I'm stuck with microsoftese and I'm not searching for the right info . . . My system: Video card: 8M PCI Matrox Millenium Monitor: 17" ADI MicroScan 5V I configured with Xconfigurator and Xf86config. All I want to do is have and still see the entire thing on one screeen (without scrolling around this "virtual screen"). I know there must be a simple way to do this. By the way is "make config" the only way to compile the kernel? Super Newbie! -Ryan ___ Visit Excite Shopping at http://shopping.excite.com The fastest way to find your Holiday gift this season I don't know anything about your monitor, I do know that you can run "make xconfig" (without the qoutes) if you have X running, just use the console and goto the dir. (/usr/src/linux) Much nicer and easier to use. at least thats what I find. Attack of the Y2K Money Bug, Etien!,
Re: [newbie] New Millenium
"Jeffrey A. Crum" wrote: H. Don't ya think that the hype about Y2K brought to light what people and companies had to do to make the fixes so there wouldn't be any problems? I am in the computer field and know for a fact that if we hadn't made the changes, our systems would NOT have worked. We are working with 10-20 year old code and they didn't even imagine that the programs would still be in use come 2000. -Original Message- From: Etien T. VanDenBroecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium Yes that is true, but it has been said that somewhere along the lines we all lost a year, so is it the year 2000 or the year 2001?? who knows, all that I know is that the media hype about the Y2K bug, looks like it turn out to be a big money making scam... Anybody else agree? Example: three days ago a friend of mine heard on the radio that some fool went and purchased and re-wired his whole house, to on run generators for the Y2K blitz!! HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! Etien On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Daniel wrote: There is no argument the new millenium does not start until 2001. A millennia is 1000 years, there was no year "0", so 1 AD through 1000 AD was the first millennia, 1001 AD through 2000 the second (see a pattern forming?) and the third millennia starts 2001. Just some food for thought... Dan - Original Message - From: "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 07:25 Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote: | 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT | Happy new Millenium all... | | -- | Full plate packing steel! - Minsk I've heard all the arguments about the new millenium not starting until 1/1/2001, but I think we should all compromise, and make the entire year of 2000 a celebration of our miraculous survival for two millemia. This way, by the end of the year, no one will care when the third millemium starts. The finest the new millenium has to offer to all, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I work int the computer/internet technical support too, we have a computer in the back that runs MS-DOS 6.2 and windows 3.11 at the stroke of midnight last night, we rebooted the computer and test the applications, no problems what so ever also the company that I work for takes call from all over the country (canada) thousands of those users are still running old windows 3.1 machines and most of them are dumer that dirt! Absouly no called about there computer crashing! We also have a Cisco Router that the Company could not grantee that would pass that Y2K test, after 12:00am last night we were still surfing the net, with no problems.. BTW, that windows 3.11 machine aslo have a BIOS dating well before 1996. I don't what to believe, but I'm starting to have this feeling that we have all gotten the Y2K flew
Re: [newbie] Quake ]I[
I got RR Tycoon II Gold Edition from my kids for Christmas. It works better than the windows version. The play area scrolls faster and it MULTITASKS- this is cool. Sam Original Message On 1/1/00, 7:58:18 PM, Seth Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Quake ]I[: So whose got their copy of quake iii? Who says linux cant be a gaming platform. . .
Re: [[newbie] Icons to large]
just as root run Xconfigurator... or you can try ctrl+alt+-(minus button) and that should go through the different resolutions -- From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] Icons to large] Date: Sat, Jan 1, 2000, 11:09 PM Jennifer Ricki Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had to reinstall Mandrake, when xconfig came up I was stuck using the default as all the other sizes would not be accepted. Now the icons are way to large and when I open some of the icons like Netscape I can't see the accept button. Is there any way to change the screen size to something like 800 x 600. Thanks Jennifer ICQ:6765592 As root, try XF86Setup of xf86config. You can test BEFORE accepting new configurations. HTH, Mike ## Michael Scottaline Linux 2.2.13 ## Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] flashing bios
John's right. Also, I'd send a letter of complaint to Asus. The squeaky wheel gets the grease and if enough Linux users start causing a fuss, it'll only move things along faster on the vendors end (you also have to back it up with your pocketbook.) Sam Original Message On 1/1/00, 7:13:19 PM, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] flashing bios: On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I just downloaded the bios upgrade for my asus vx-97 from the asus site. The machine I have is pure Linux, no Windows. How do I flash the bios? Thanks, Can you get your hands on a DOS boot disk? ;-) IF so, just use the DOS boot disk and then switch to the disk with the flasher BIOS update. :-) Otherwise, I think you're SOL. John
[newbie] FTP and Telnet
Hi, all Sorry about that last message, but I just had to get it out, plus I hadn't gotten to the message to drop the tread about Millennuim. I was just trying to wish everyone a happy new year and say that there were no problems up here in canada. Now for my problem. I any one cares. I'm running Mandrake 6.0 that I got from a CD in a mag (MaxiumLinux) first problem is that I cannot upgrade to 6.1 that I found on ftp.linuxberg.com (tucows) when goto upgrade and then tell the program where to find the installation on my HDD, it finds it, but a short while later, it tells me that it cannot find the RPM database, ask me to retry, I do then it quits with an error and sends the kill signal. tried serval times.. I thought maybe I have to make a boot disk for 6.1 and that my 6.0 disk simply won't do but, when I try to make one using dd boot.img /dev/fd0 it copies all the files but one, my guess is it the boot kernel. But right now that's the least of my problems, Couple of nights ago I started trying to setup FTP and Telnet, so that I could work on my server at work (telnet) on my down time. I'm on rogers@home (cable modem service) and I keep running into the same problem. I'm using static IP these are the commands I'm typing at the console telnet 24.114.160.210 trying 24.114.160.210 connected to 24.114.160.210 Connection closed by forgein host. same thing happens when I try to connect to localhost or 127.0.0.1 the Hash mark is not in the inetd.conf file beside telnet service. I've played around with the hosts.allow and host.deny by adding: (host.allow) ftp: 127.0.0.1 telnet: 127.0.0.1 host.deny nothing added but it doesn't seem to be working... as for FTP I get connected but I tryed to login and get no where too even as anonymous. says login failed, also tried localhost my Inet service is running few nights ago I ran kBeroFTPD just fine, but after installing (not realizing that it was on the CD) I tried to install Qt from the internet. followed instructions and ran into errors now I can't ever get kBero working again, typed it at the console and got a KCharset: Wrong charset! Tried to reinstall BeroFTP and kBeroFTPD but BeroFTP doesn't want to remove itself from the computer (says BeroFTPD contains multiple packages) and kBeroFTPD still wont run even tried remove Qt and reinstalling it from the CD (no prob) Help SOS sorry but that I typed too much, but I just wanted to make sure that I get an answer that I haven't already tried, besides reinstalling mandrake, which I know I don't have to do, but thinking about it, and definally dreading cause I have to recomplie my kernel to see my NIC. When this is all done, we can work on my sound card.. heheh ;-) Thanks in advanced Etien
[newbie] STOP IT INSANITY!!!!
I stop talking about the Y2K, bull crap, how about everyone else!!! ok!! this is a Linux thread not the "we all going to died because of a computer bug" thread! Thanks
Re: [newbie] Icons to large
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Dave Gunter wrote: Hi All, I am new to the list. I to am having the same problem with Madrake, I had succes with Winlinux2000, but not with Mandrake. You can go in and manually edit the resolution, but you need to make sure that your monitor can handle any resolution you specify. Here's how -- Below is a copy of a section of my XF86Config: Driver "svga" # Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256 #Device "Generic VGA" Device "S3 Virge / GX" Monitor "CTX-1565D" Subsection "Display" Depth 8 # Omit the Modes line for the "Generic VGA" device Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort0 0 # Use Virtual 320 200 for Generic VGA EndSubsection = Now, notice the "modes" line? Edit this line to show any resolution you like. However, it would be MUCH better if you use one of the configuration programs rather than editing it by hand. Also, you should have a "depth" subsection for 16, 24 and 32-bit modes as well as 8-bit. I would recommend that you reboot the system, and type "linux 3" at the prompt. Then, log in as "root" when you get the prompt. Then, type "xf86setup" (minus quotes on all of these) and re-select your resolution and such. There's also a way to specify 8, 16, 24 or 32-bit as the default startup depth, however, I'm not sure how to do that, so I boot to console mode and have an alias defined which starts up X at 16-bits when I type "sx" (the alias for: startx -- -bpp 16) I would recommend you go view the archives as I know it's been discussed several times how to set X to boot to a particular color depth when booting directly to X. Good luck! John
Re: [newbie] Major LILO screwup
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Payne Stanifer wrote: I accidently forgot to setup a dual boot with windows on my install. What entries do I need to add to my lilo.conf to get it allow me to choose windows at the boot up. PLease help ASAP. I am in dsperate need of some critical files! THANKS! == boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 label=linux root=/dev/hda5 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda === Above is a copy of my /etc/lilo.conf. Assuming Windows is on /dev/hda1, copy the "other" section out of my lilo.conf and put it in yours and type /sbin/lilo to write the changes to the partition table. If you want to boot to Windows by default add a line just below "timeout" that says "default=dos" (I think.) Also, you might want to make sure your /etc/fstab is aware of your Windows partition just so you can access it in the future from within Linux. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Quake ]I[
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, G_REEPER wrote: got the winblows ver, haven't found the linux boxed set yet. steven Not surprising. . .i only found one copy in most of the lesser puget sound area. . .Was kinda funny actually the one copy my eb had was on hold for some dude who didnt know what linux was but reserved a copy anyway cuz he wanted a tin box. . .then he decided he didnt want it. . .workd out nicely! Hope eveyone had a happy new year. . .a new millennium(sp?) is almost upon us, fraught with questions like. . .will runlevel 4 ever be defined?
Re: [newbie] when booting in to linux
When you are booting into linux, all the info that lists which drives are connected and what services are started etc etc. How do you get a copy of the start up? I want to print out the thing so I can look at what is happening and what is what. It goes way to fast for me to read. I dont even know what to call it. Can anyone help? Ed Does Control P print in Linux before Linux finishes loading? DOS always printed everything after Control P until you hit it again. Dan
[newbie] Re: Floppy Tape Drive Device Name
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again!, I have a Colorado T1000 floppy tape drive that I have been trying desperately to configure for Linux. Bryan - Please visit http://www.LinuxTapeCert.org and read the info in the TechHelp section on getting ftape to work with the 2.2 kernels. All the info you need is there. -- Tim Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice President http://www.estinc.com/ Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc.(602) 470-1115 "The BRU Guys"
