Re: [newbie] Instant Messenger
Eric, My suggestion is to use GAIM... It works well and configuration is minimal...I have few thoughts if you dont mind me adding to the already many responses. I like to use RPMs. I usually can download these by one of two ways in addition to linuxberg(tucows). Try www.freshmeat.net. THis is usually very up to date in terms of versions(Use tucows to get ratings)...Freshmeat has homepage links as well... In addition I use the RPM site http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/gaim.html This has an incredible RPM database and organizes the RPMs according to Processor (intel, alpha, etc) and distribution (Redhat, Mandrake)... I also create an RPMs dir so that I have a record of all RPMs installed after installing linux Hope this helps... GAIM works well speaking from personal experience. Werner Niebel Eric Runnions wrote: RPM resource gaim Does anyone know if there is an Aol Instant Messenger that works in Linux? Thanks. Eric
Re: [newbie] vnc
I have had the same problem forest... I posted a similar message on the expert board... My speculation is this .. Maybe a problem in one of the Mandrake libs... I tried seeing if there were updates for the libs vnc uses... I also tried compiling vnc native and it crashes a lot... Im at a loss... It used to work in Redhat 6.0 like a champ. Did you try editing the xstartup file in the .vnc directory... My problem has been that kde and windowmaker both crash...Ill post some suggestions if you have already tried this. Werner forest wrote: Alright I have looked all around, and so I thought I could post a message here.. I have been trying to get vnc to boot up in kde, and no matter what I try I can't get it to work. I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting vnc to work under linux mandrake 6.1 kde?
[newbie] long time to start smb
Hi, I appologize if I have posted this before. During the install, I configure the system to start smb as part of all of the startup processes. When the loader/ launcher gets to smb, it seems to take forever. What could cause this? Thanks, Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Please help me find the right VideoCard.
Also alot of the video cards that are "supported" on this list at Linux-mandrake and xfree, might not be fully suported with mandrake, or be "fully" suported. So please try not to substitute to a lower priced card that it says is compatable. I know on my linux systems I have had alot of luck with the Diamond V770, Power Color TNT2, i740 (newer xfree though) However I have had a real heck of a time with the cheaper sis 6326, and the S3 Trio cards that are said to be supported. The power Color tnt2 cards only cost me 70ish bucks, and that 32 megs and it looks sharp. sean F wrote: Sevatio, Video cards are the most problematic pieces of hardware you will have to deal with in linux, (NIC's are good for longer term probs :)) At the mandrake site you will find a "supp.hardware" link, http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3 As well as a link on that page to XFree86 site http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.5/index.html Look up the various video cards on the list's and you will see that The ATI 128 Rage chipset does not have support yet, I am not sure which Diamond card you have, but they have been very supportive in the past regarding Linux, You might just have a configuration problem there with the Diamond card. Hope this helps. sean --- Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a helluva time with videocards. The one that came with my machine was a Diamond and it has some known issues of blacked-out text. Then I bought an ATI Rage 128Xpert and the screen kept blacking out and locking up the system (also a known issue). Now I'm just wondering if I was just lucky with my 2 other slightly older machines. Can you guys recommend a videocard that is out there in the market that is known to work? Seve __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] modem connection
I have Win98 and Linux mandrake on one Hard drive. I am having trouble connecting Linux Mandrake to the Internet. In Linux, I type in the following at the prompt. lspci -v I get a list of all my pci cards, and the one for my modem looks like this. 00:0c.0 Communication Controller:Rockwell International:Unknown Device 1005 (rev01) Subsystem:Unknown device 127a:1005 Flags:bus memory, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at e700 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) I/O ports at e400 Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Ok, I got this far, what do I need to do next?? Thank you in advance for any help on this, I also have KPPP aready set up with my ISP account, I just can't get the modem to hook up. Rob
Re: [newbie] modem connection
is it a winmodem? If so your S.O.L. time for a new one, what kind is it? More info. sean --- RobShelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Win98 and Linux mandrake on one Hard drive. I am having trouble connecting Linux Mandrake to the Internet. In Linux, I type in the following at the prompt. lspci -v I get a list of all my pci cards, and the one for my modem looks like this. 00:0c.0 Communication Controller:Rockwell International:Unknown Device 1005 (rev01) Subsystem:Unknown device 127a:1005 Flags:bus memory, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at e700 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) I/O ports at e400 Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Ok, I got this far, what do I need to do next?? Thank you in advance for any help on this, I also have KPPP aready set up with my ISP account, I just can't get the modem to hook up. Rob __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] Device is locked.....
Yesterday, I was having troubles when telnetting into my Linux box. I tried using Minicom, and Minicom reported that I couldn't use it, and to ask my system administrator for access or something. Surprisingly, I am the sysadmin. So how do I enable other accounts to use it? Later, I don't remember what account (mine or root) it was on, but Minicom reported something like "device modem is locked". Sometime later I tried again, and Minicom reported that the lockfile was out of date and let me in. But what are lockfiles important for, and what should I do in case this would happen in the future? Dan Rasmussen
Re: [newbie] Sound
Shoot I am sorry bill, Heres a site that has some info on BETA drivers for that card.:) http://www.opensound.com/osshw.html The drivers do cost money though. Sean --- William Kranec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just installed Mandrake 6.1 on my computer. Unfortunately, I have a turtle beach montego sound card which is not supported. Does anyone know where I may be able to find a driver or possibly use another compatible driver to get some sound up? Thanks. Bill __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Problem in X font
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, Sudhakar Nagarajan wrote: I recently installed Linux-mandrake in to my system. It is AMD p2 processor. The installation went fine, but at the time of X installation the confirmation window, "if you can see the window displayed all right" I can not read the words. It is like a black strip. But I can see the button and read ok in that. So I clicked ok and finished the installation. After rebooting, the desktop comes ok and colors are ok but I can not read any letters or tool tips. Every thing is black strip. The cursor is also big square instead of small dot. Can any one tell where the problem is. Do I need to change the font size or cursor size or any thing else. If so how. Thanks in advance Sudhakar First off you need to set your Groupwise client to word-wrap. Many of us are using clients which don't wrap incoming messages very well. The "standard" is 70-75 characters per line. :-) Second, what video card do you have? I'm guessing it's one of the ones for which you need to add the "noaccel" line in your /etc/XF86Config file. This typically takes care of that problem. I'd suggest going and viewing the archives for this list. You can find the link to the archives at www.linux-mandrake.com Good luck! John
Re: [newbie] -Tons of books : Free-
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Re: [newbie] How to Dial up
What does your /etc/resolv.conf look like? It should have the name of your isp and the ip addresses of their nameservers. Mine has three lines: search nwrain.com nameserver 205.134.220.38 nameserver 205.134.220.37 nwrain.com is my isp. The next two lines are the primary and secondary nameservers. Also, set the permission on /etc/resolv.conf to 644. Good luck, Hidong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try to see if your ttyS* had his read/write property set properly? -Original Message- From: lights [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 11:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to Dial up I don't why but it still does not work. I tryed that it came up with "bash: /etc/resolv.conf: Permission denied" not to sure why I am the main user. I take it there is echo[space]""[space][space]/etc/resolv.conf David Grogan wrote: start a konsole (you can get to this using the K menus) type cd /etc then use a text editor (joe, pico, vi) to save a blank resolv.conf I dont know how much you know, if you arent comfortable with that, type this line at the prompt echo "" /etc/resolv.conf then hit ctrl+d to get out of the konsole this will create a blank resolv.conf, you might need to add some stuff in it later hth David lights wrote: when you go (1) big K (2) Internet (3) Kppp (4) message comes up "/etc/resolv.confis missing" How to you get it Warren Doney wrote: I wrote: Hi How do you dial up your ISP from Mandrake version 6.0 Netscape 4.6 (McMillan Make) KDE From Eric You have to connect manually before Netscape will work. 1st kppp--help then kppp--setup -- Full plate packing steel! - Minsk
[newbie] sound problem
Hi, I had just installed mandrake 6.1. I have a VIA chipset onboard sound. I did download the kudzu, newbt_30 and sndconfig_38. It somehow get to detect my sound chip. However I keep on getting this message. modprobe error /lib/modules/2.2.13-4mdk/misc/sb.o: init_module: sound: device or resouce busy. I did go into the /etc/conf.modules to delete thealiases, but still I get this error? Please help me thisthank you
[newbie] Upgrading Linux-Mandrake to 6.1
I have a successful installation of Linux-Mandrake 6.0 on my machine but I would like to upgrade the operating system to 6.1. I upgraded the LM upgrade file to 6.1 then went to see what would/could be upgraded by this method. I got quite a few files but when it came to the Kernel 2.2.13 upgrade it would quit stating there was an error. Also when I tried to upgrade Netscape 4.61 to 4.7 it stated I needed further libraries such as Compat-glibc and Compat-libs. Gimp stated I needed libaa.so.1. Where do I get these to complete the installations??? Steve
[newbie] acessing fat32 partitions
How do I get Linux 6.0 to see my fat32 partitions? I want to copy some files I downloaded to my linux side of my pc
Re: [newbie] acessing fat32 partitions
mount -t vfat dev/hdc1 (or what ever the partition is) mnt/disk John and Veronica wrote: How do I get Linux 6.0 to see my fat32 partitions? I want to copy some files I downloaded to my linux side of my pc
Re: [newbie] acessing fat32 partitions
Where do I put that? I tried doing this and it didn't work Inorder to mount a Fat32 partition, FAT32 Support has to be compiled into your kernel. edit your /etc/fstab file add an entry for what ever partition is your fat32 partition ie /dev/hda1 /mnt/windrive vfat defaults 0 0 if you add that to your fstab next time you reboot it should automatically be mounted.
[newbie] Install of 6.1 halting at loading of 2nd stage
I'm trying to install Mandrake 6.1 on a computer with no cd-rom, with only 8mb of ram, and the install stops at the loading of the second stage ramdisk. I've also been desparate enough to try redhat 6.0 on it, and it dies at exactly the same place. It seems to retrieve the image, as the cd-rom on the server goes, but stops on the loading. -- *===* | Andrew Mitchell | | Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Home Page http://members.tripod.com/Ajmitchell/ | | ICQ 11392490 (ajmitch)| *===* 5:05pm up 22:30, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.13, 0.11
