Re: [newbie] Mouse Scrolling?
On 25/03/00 10:24, Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: Reboot and you should have your wheel mouse working in netscape. Good luck! Thanks! Kirk vice | versa Translations from French to English, English to French Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
Re: [newbie] Mac format zip disk
Many many thankx, I think I got a leg up now. On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Jon mewed: I don't think yow are going to get a reply on this here. Not many people here own Macs. There is a howto and may be some documentation with the mac tools rpm (Whose name escapes me). Try http://www.linuxdoc.org/search.html for the howto Sorry, lost access to Mac Vic wrote: I got the modprobe hfs to load, now I just need to know the command to format it, I tried mkfs.hfs and mkfs -t hfs /dev/sda4 but that was bogus, it reported mkfs.hfs: No such file or directory -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
Re: [newbie] Mouse Scrolling?
I'm using a Logitech Mouseman+ (PS/2) and its wheel works fine with "imwheel". At 07:27 24-03-00 -0500, you wrote: "Michael" == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Michael You can use a program called 'imwheel' to use the scroll Michael but I think it's only compatible with MS mice Michael (intellimouse, etc.) Working here with a Logitech mouse. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.16mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 24 Feria of Lent "Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?" [M. Tulli Ciceronis Oratio In Catilinam Prima In Senatu Habita at http://ftp.sunet.se/ftp/pub/etext/gutenberg/etext95/ccero10.txt]
Re: [Re: [newbie] Icons on the start of Mandrake 7.0]
To all dear friends who help me with the incon on the Linux startup, I am very thankfull. Now "I am alread a man again"... :o) I will take a pic of myself and put it as my startup icon... :o) By the way, how can I transform a *.gif or *.jpg in a Linux icon? Antonio Carlos
Re: AW: [newbie] CD Burning
Jon wrote: Me too! Tobias Moosherr wrote: HI Gunther!! I`m interested in the CDBurning HowTo! Thanks Tobias Me too! Antonio Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] CD Burning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What type of image? bin/cue or iso? What type of burner? ide or scsi? Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713 My CD burner is a CD-Writer Plus - HP-8200. It is in an IDE slot. Very thanks in advantage. Antonio Carlos
Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 unable to install ethernet card]
Ivan Stout wrote: Maybe so . . . but I've yet confirmed someone running Mandrake 7.0 on any other card and the other machine that I installed on had the same problem (and didn't have a Realtek card). So, until I can confirm that this is card specific, I'm not going to bother to get a new card. Besides, it looks like the right module wasn't loaded. I should be able to figure out by this weekend. --- Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think much of the problem is the Realtek card is a cheap piece of crap. Spend a few more $$ and __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on two machines. On the 1st, it recognised my 3C509B ISA NIC No probs. On the 2nd computer with the same NIC it initialised it fine, connected to the encryption site ok..then when I completed the installation and re-started my computer it couldn't initialise it on boot. I did an expert upgrade and re-defined my NIC excactly the same as I had defined it before without changeing anything else and Walla!, when I re-started once again all was well :-) Strange eh!! Cheers: Mike.
Re: [newbie] comanche
KompuKit wrote: I'm trying to setup...comanche... WHERE IN THE HECK...is the excutable file for apache? read /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd in Mandrake 7.02? also,where is the server root...for apache? default is /home/httpd/html look at /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf also, is it apachest1 (or something like that) that STARTS it... stops it, etc. etc.? or is it.../usr/sbin/httpd /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop}start|restart -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit=== -- Ronald J. Yacketta Sr. Solaris System Administrator/Engineer www.newmg.net/yacketta -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This is unix country... on a quiet night, you can hear windows crash... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: [newbie]
I apologize to you and the others Jon my send button has a "hair trigger" and it got away from me! Vern - Original Message - From: Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 3:33 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Now while I am getting kinda used to not having enough info from you guys to not be able to give definite answers... Vern, you are pushing it! Vern wrote:NOTHING!!!
[newbie] Transparencies
I use Gnome with Enlightenment. I know that X can do transparencies because I have an option on so that when I drag windows, they are semi-transparent. Is there a program that will allow all my windows to be like this all the time? Thanks
Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 unable to install ethernet card]]
I have 2 NIC's in this one box ( with a cable modem)...both 3Com's 503/509B, both work, yet only the 509B shows up in DrakX...figure that one out. BTW...I am sending thiss fomr the NIC that doesn't exist as far as DrakX is concerned. mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ivan Stout wrote: Maybe so . . . but I've yet confirmed someone running Mandrake 7.0 on any other card and the other machine that I installed on had the same problem (and didn't have a Realtek card). So, until I can confirm that this is card specific, I'm not going to bother to get a new card. Besides, it looks like the right module wasn't loaded. I should be able to figure out by this weekend. --- Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think much of the problem is the Realtek card is a cheap piece of crap. Spend a few more $$ and __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on two machines. On the 1st, it recognised my 3C509B ISA NIC No probs. On the 2nd computer with the same NIC it initialised it fine, connected to the encryption site ok..then when I completed the installation and re-started my computer it couldn't initialise it on boot. I did an expert upgrade and re-defined my NIC excactly the same as I had defined it before without changeing anything else and Walla!, when I re-started once again all was well :-) Strange eh!! Cheers: Mike. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 unable to install ethernet card]]
Interestingly enough, on both of my systems Drak doesnt show any NIC! But the NIC's are now working fine.3Com 3C509B's... What is one to think? Bug City could it be? Cheers: Mike. PS... do you think that the powers that be take heed of our problems or do we have to actively file a bug report. Powers that be are invited to respond! Jaguar wrote: I have 2 NIC's in this one box ( with a cable modem)...both 3Com's 503/509B, both work, yet only the 509B shows up in DrakX...figure that one out. BTW...I am sending thiss fomr the NIC that doesn't exist as far as DrakX is concerned. mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ivan Stout wrote: Maybe so . . . but I've yet confirmed someone running Mandrake 7.0 on any other card and the other machine that I installed on had the same problem (and didn't have a Realtek card). So, until I can confirm that this is card specific, I'm not going to bother to get a new card. Besides, it looks like the right module wasn't loaded. I should be able to figure out by this weekend. --- Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think much of the problem is the Realtek card is a cheap piece of crap. Spend a few more $$ and __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on two machines. On the 1st, it recognised my 3C509B ISA NIC No probs. On the 2nd computer with the same NIC it initialised it fine, connected to the encryption site ok..then when I completed the installation and re-started my computer it couldn't initialise it on boot. I did an expert upgrade and re-defined my NIC excactly the same as I had defined it before without changeing anything else and Walla!, when I re-started once again all was well :-) Strange eh!! Cheers: Mike. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] HELP INSTALING AND RUNNING X!
I bought Linux Mandrake 7.0 and I have installed it off the CD in Dos, and now I really want to get into a desktop environment! I am stuck inside the Dos Prompt style bits HELP!! It says in the manual, to change the party in the file "/etc/inittab" from "id:3:initdefault :" to "id:5:initdefault" And then restart! But I get a thing saying X has respawned to fast and it will be disabled for 5 mins! I really need some help as I am a newbie and I just want to get into a desktop environment! HELP!! Graham Balharrie
Re: [newbie] HELP INSTALING AND RUNNING X!
Graham Balharrie wrote: I bought Linux Mandrake 7.0 and I have installed it off the CD in Dos, and now I really want to get into a desktop environment! I am stuck inside the Dos Prompt style bits HELP!! It says in the manual, to change the party in the file "/etc/inittab" from "id:3:initdefault :" to "id:5:initdefault" And then restart! But I get a thing saying X has respawned to fast and it will be disabled for 5 mins! I really need some help as I am a newbie and I just want to get into a desktop environment! HELP!! Graham Balharrie Did you repartition your hard drive to install Mandrake or did you install the Linux 4 Windows version? When you're at the 'Dos' prompt (it would actually be the 'bash' shell under Linux; but that's another story) just type 'startx' and that would bring up the kde desktop by default; unless it didn't get installed to begin with. MS Windows 95, 98, etc. need the windows side of the operating system in order to run, Linux doesn't. So when you install, you have the option of not installing the Window enviroment. If it doesn't work, write back with more detail of your setup - machine type, how much hard disk space, etc. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mouse Scrolling?
"John D. Herron" wrote: I'm using a Logitech Mouseman+ (PS/2) and its wheel works fine with "imwheel". At 07:27 24-03-00 -0500, you wrote: "Michael" == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Michael You can use a program called 'imwheel' to use the scroll Michael but I think it's only compatible with MS mice Michael (intellimouse, etc.) Working here with a Logitech mouse. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.16mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 24 Feria of Lent "Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?" [M. Tulli Ciceronis Oratio In Catilinam Prima In Senatu Habita at http://ftp.sunet.se/ftp/pub/etext/gutenberg/etext95/ccero10.txt] If you don't mind, could you give me the procedure you followed to use it? I'm using Mandrake 7.0-2 and the generic ps/2 driver was assigned to my mouse when I installed it. When I type 'imwheel' in eterm, I get a warning message that says there could be another instance of imwheel running. At any rate, I don't get any scrolling action from my Logitech trackball. I've also deselected the option 'emulate three button mouse' under XF86Setup; still no dice. Any help would be greatly appreciated, sometimes you can read the instructions over and over and they just don't click! Thanks, Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] TCP/IP Problem
I switch between Mandrake 7.02 and Win98 SE. I know, I know... but I have clients who use Windows so I have no choice. Under Linux I can reach any website without difficulty, hell even using the floppy disk QNX and it's tiny browser I can do this. Under Win98 there are numerous sites which lock up at the "Connecting to ..." stage. Examples: news.cnet.com, linuxnewbie.org, linux.com (only 3 of many ... ) It seems to be a TCP/IP parameter problem, beyond my scope. Any ideas?
[newbie] CD-HOWTO ATTACHMENT
Hi people here is the howto-extract that I found somewhere in the net: It helped me very much to burn a CD without that frontendstuff like XCDROAST. Title: CD-Writing HOWTO: Burning CD-Rs Next Previous Contents 3. Burning CD-Rs "If to smoke you turn I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn." (Roman emperor Nero about burning his own classic-CDs, AD64. He misunderstood it completely and burned Rome down.) Writing CD-ROMs consists of two steps under Linux: packaging the desired data (files, music or both) into files with special formats writing the data from the files to the CD-R with the utility cdrecord This chapter describes the steps for data and audio CDs in greater detail. 3.1 Writing CD-ROMs (pure data) Note that collecting the data to put onto a CD usually takes longer than one expects. Consider that missing files cannot be added once the CD is written and fixated. Also keep in mind that a certain amount of the free space of a CD is used for storing the information of the ISO-9660-filesystem (usually a few MB). 620 MB data will always fit on a 650 MB CD-R. Creating an image of the later CD-ROM Before any storage medium (e.g. floppy disk, hard disk or CD) can be used, it must get a filesystem (DOS speak: get formatted). The filesystem is responsible for organizing and incorporating the files that should be stored on the medium. The usual utilities for creating filesystems on hard disk partitions write an empty filesystem onto them, which is then mounted and filled with files by the user as they need it. A writable CD is only writable once so if we wrote an empty filesystem to it, it would get formatted and remain completely empty forever. This is also true for rewritable media as you cannot change arbitrary sectors; you must erase their whole content. So what we need is a tool that creates the filesystem while copying the files to the CD. This tool is called mkisofs. A sample usage looks as follows: mkisofs -r -o cd_image private_collection/ `-' `-' | | write output to take directory as input The option '-r' sets the permissions of all files to be public readable on the CD and enables RockRidge-extensions. You probably want to use this option unless you really know what you're doing (hint: without '-r' the mount point gets the permissions of private_collection!). mkisofs will try to map all filenames to the 8.3 format used by DOS to ensure the highest possible compatibility. In case of naming conflicts (different files have the same 8.3 name), numbers are used in the filenames and information about the chosen filename is printed via STDERR (usually the screen). Don't panic: Under Linux you will never see these 8.3 filenames because Linux makes use of the Rock Ridge extensions which contain the original file information (permissions, filename, etc.). Now you may wonder why the output of mkisofs is not directly sent to the writer device. There are three reasons: mkisofs knows nothing about driving CD-writers. You may want to test the image before burning it. On slow machines it would not be reliable (see section 4.). There is a method to write a CD-R in one go which will be described below. One also could think of creating an extra partition and writing the image to that partition instead to a file. I vote against such a strategy because if you write to the wrong partition (due to a typo), you can lose your complete Linux system (read: that happened to me...). Furthermore, it is a waste of disk space because the CD-image is temporary data that can be deleted after writing the CD. However, using raw partitions saves you the time for deleting files of 650 MB size. Test the CD-image Linux has the ability to mount files as if they were disk partitions. This feature is useful to check that the directory layout and file access permissions of the CD image matches your wishes. Although media is very cheap today, the writing process is still time consuming, and you may at least want to save your time by doing a quick test. To mount the file cd_image created above on the directory /cdrom, give the command mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 cd_image /cdrom Now you can inspect the files under /cdrom -- they appear exactly as they were on a real CD. To umount the CD-image, just say umount /cdrom. (Warning: On Linux kernels prior to 2.0.31 the last file on /cdrom may not be fully readable. Please use a more recent kernel like 2.0.36. The option -pad for cdrecord applies to audio CDs only and the option -pad for mkisofs requires a patch, which is as much work to apply than to upgrade to a bug-free Linux kernel.) Note: Some ancient versions of mount are not able to deal with loopback devices. If you have such an old version of mount, then upgrade your Linux-system. Several people have already suggested putting information about how to get the newest mount utilities into this
[newbie] ATACHMENT CD HOWTO
Heres the interesting extract Title: CD-Writing HOWTO: Burning CD-Rs Next Previous Contents 3. Burning CD-Rs "If to smoke you turn I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn." (Roman emperor Nero about burning his own classic-CDs, AD64. He misunderstood it completely and burned Rome down.) Writing CD-ROMs consists of two steps under Linux: packaging the desired data (files, music or both) into files with special formats writing the data from the files to the CD-R with the utility cdrecord This chapter describes the steps for data and audio CDs in greater detail. 3.1 Writing CD-ROMs (pure data) Note that collecting the data to put onto a CD usually takes longer than one expects. Consider that missing files cannot be added once the CD is written and fixated. Also keep in mind that a certain amount of the free space of a CD is used for storing the information of the ISO-9660-filesystem (usually a few MB). 620 MB data will always fit on a 650 MB CD-R. Creating an image of the later CD-ROM Before any storage medium (e.g. floppy disk, hard disk or CD) can be used, it must get a filesystem (DOS speak: get formatted). The filesystem is responsible for organizing and incorporating the files that should be stored on the medium. The usual utilities for creating filesystems on hard disk partitions write an empty filesystem onto them, which is then mounted and filled with files by the user as they need it. A writable CD is only writable once so if we wrote an empty filesystem to it, it would get formatted and remain completely empty forever. This is also true for rewritable media as you cannot change arbitrary sectors; you must erase their whole content. So what we need is a tool that creates the filesystem while copying the files to the CD. This tool is called mkisofs. A sample usage looks as follows: mkisofs -r -o cd_image private_collection/ `-' `-' | | write output to take directory as input The option '-r' sets the permissions of all files to be public readable on the CD and enables RockRidge-extensions. You probably want to use this option unless you really know what you're doing (hint: without '-r' the mount point gets the permissions of private_collection!). mkisofs will try to map all filenames to the 8.3 format used by DOS to ensure the highest possible compatibility. In case of naming conflicts (different files have the same 8.3 name), numbers are used in the filenames and information about the chosen filename is printed via STDERR (usually the screen). Don't panic: Under Linux you will never see these 8.3 filenames because Linux makes use of the Rock Ridge extensions which contain the original file information (permissions, filename, etc.). Now you may wonder why the output of mkisofs is not directly sent to the writer device. There are three reasons: mkisofs knows nothing about driving CD-writers. You may want to test the image before burning it. On slow machines it would not be reliable (see section 4.). There is a method to write a CD-R in one go which will be described below. One also could think of creating an extra partition and writing the image to that partition instead to a file. I vote against such a strategy because if you write to the wrong partition (due to a typo), you can lose your complete Linux system (read: that happened to me...). Furthermore, it is a waste of disk space because the CD-image is temporary data that can be deleted after writing the CD. However, using raw partitions saves you the time for deleting files of 650 MB size. Test the CD-image Linux has the ability to mount files as if they were disk partitions. This feature is useful to check that the directory layout and file access permissions of the CD image matches your wishes. Although media is very cheap today, the writing process is still time consuming, and you may at least want to save your time by doing a quick test. To mount the file cd_image created above on the directory /cdrom, give the command mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 cd_image /cdrom Now you can inspect the files under /cdrom -- they appear exactly as they were on a real CD. To umount the CD-image, just say umount /cdrom. (Warning: On Linux kernels prior to 2.0.31 the last file on /cdrom may not be fully readable. Please use a more recent kernel like 2.0.36. The option -pad for cdrecord applies to audio CDs only and the option -pad for mkisofs requires a patch, which is as much work to apply than to upgrade to a bug-free Linux kernel.) Note: Some ancient versions of mount are not able to deal with loopback devices. If you have such an old version of mount, then upgrade your Linux-system. Several people have already suggested putting information about how to get the newest mount utilities into this HOWTO. I always refuse this. If your Linux distribution ships with an ancient mount, report it as a bug. If your Linux
[newbie] help with config
Okay...I fixed the problem below...it had to do with... the browser match...and nokeepalive...then I tried to start again... and got a nother browser match...about the realplayer..so I fixed that... and tried to restart apache..but NOW...it says "failed to start apache" and this time no errors...whats wrong now...? I noticed something about "edit defined parameters" link where you can specify...startup options ...is this my problem? if so, how do I define it.? upon trying to start apache...via webmin...I got the error below... it was working fine...before I installed webmin,and started automatically whats wrong? Failed to start apache : Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 509 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Missing envariable expression for BrowserMatch [FAILED] -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
[newbie] help with config
Okay...I fixed the problem below...it had to do with... the browser match...and nokeepalive...then I tried to start again... and got a nother browser match...about the realplayer..so I fixed that... and tried to restart apache..but NOW...it says "failed to start apache" and this time no errors...whats wrong now...? I noticed something about "edit defined parameters" link where you can specify...startup options, this is what it says: When Apache is started, parameters can be passed to it with the -D command line option. Because these parameters can affect which directives are used in your config files, Webmin needs to know which ones are passed to Apache when it is started up. Enter the parameters used on your system into the text field on the right. ...is this my problem? if so, how do I define it.? upon trying to start apache...via webmin...I got the error below... it was working fine...before I installed webmin,and started automatically whats wrong? Failed to start apache : Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 509 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Missing envariable expression for BrowserMatch [FAILED] -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
[newbie] upgrade from 6.1 to 7.0
I just upgraded to 7.0 today, and have noticed that everything is much slower than before. Do I need more ram for this version, or is there something else? Kirk vice | versa Translations from French to English, English to French Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
[newbie] I locked my CDROM somehow
Facts: 1) I recently installed mandrake 7.0 powerpack and until today I have been able to use my cdrom. 2) Today, however, it shows up as a file with a belt around it and in the properties it says it is locked. 3) Also, when I click on the icon it says something like cannot read directory contents. 4) I am trying to read the first cd of the Mandrake 7.0 distribution. 5) This happens even if I login as root. Question: Any ideas on how to unlock it? I would love to use my CDROM drive for something other than a nice cup holder. Alan __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] color depth
How can I change the color depth of my monitor under KDE? Kirk vice | versa Translations from French to English, English to French Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
[newbie] security problem: Proxy property
I was trying to log into my internet banking account, but Netscape was not able to do so. Netscape wrote the following message: * Applet advance104.MainApplet class advance 104.MainApplet got a security violation: security. Could not resolve IP for host banking.advance-bank.de. See the trust Proxy property * What does it mean? Where do I have to check for the trust Proxy property??? What do I have to change?? Thanks a lot for you help! Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. -- Russian Proverb
Re: [newbie] color depth
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Kirk McElhearn wrote: How can I change the color depth of my monitor under KDE? I would use DrakConf. But it is not a KDE program. ;-) Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de QOTD: The only easy way to tell a hamster from a gerbil is that the gerbil has more dark meat.
Re: [newbie] I did it! :)
i was unable to get kicq running it wouldn't let me install the icqlib and the kdelib and kdeupdate i think it was and i din't like licq i use kxicq and it runs great On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, you wrote: P.S. Any suggestions re: ICQ versions for Linux? Kicq? Licq or KXicq. Both provide almost the same functionality as the Miribilis Windoe$ clients. I have used both, and have been happy. Dan -- to the future of linux together let's crush microsoft and free our desktops forever
[newbie] freeciv
anyone know how to run freeciv i installed it from there mandrake rpm and everthing went fine but know i don't what the executable file is to actually run it anyone know ? -- to the future of linux together let's crush microsoft and free our desktops forever
Re: [newbie] color depth
On 25/03/00 21:57, Claus Atzenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: How can I change the color depth of my monitor under KDE? I would use DrakConf. But it is not a KDE program. ;-) There is an icon for this on the desktop, but when I click on it nothing happens... Kirk vice | versa Translations from French to English, English to French Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
[newbie] Boot Partition too big...
Heya guys, (before I start, I did check the archives and I did see a couple messages about this , but they all related to FAT32 systems...) I just installed Win2k on a new 13 gig HD which I fdisk'ed into a 11 gig and a 2 gig partition. I want to try Mandrake out, but whenever I try to install Mandrake, I get an error during disk druid which reads "Boot Partition too big." This occurs even when I make a 1 meg linux partition and mount it at /. Any ideas? Do I *really* have to format, switch to LBA, and reinstall?! thanks Dave
Re: [newbie] Boot Partition too big...
hi - with hard drives over 8gb you need to use the linux tool fdisk (not the dos fdisk) to create the partition. when you do this you can then go into disk druid and set the mount points etc. alternatively get mandrake 7.0 with the new partitioning tool that supports large drives and does all the work for you. if you live in the uk it is free with this months pcplus magazine. Dave wrote: Heya guys, (before I start, I did check the archives and I did see a couple messages about this , but they all related to FAT32 systems...) I just installed Win2k on a new 13 gig HD which I fdisk'ed into a 11 gig and a 2 gig partition. I want to try Mandrake out, but whenever I try to install Mandrake, I get an error during disk druid which reads "Boot Partition too big." This occurs even when I make a 1 meg linux partition and mount it at /. Any ideas? Do I *really* have to format, switch to LBA, and reinstall?! thanks Dave
RE: [newbie] Boot Partition too big...
Make a small 8 meg or so partition at the front of your drive and set that to active and then tell linux to install its boot partition there and you should be fine -Original Message- From: Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Boot Partition too big... Heya guys, (before I start, I did check the archives and I did see a couple messages about this , but they all related to FAT32 systems...) I just installed Win2k on a new 13 gig HD which I fdisk'ed into a 11 gig and a 2 gig partition. I want to try Mandrake out, but whenever I try to install Mandrake, I get an error during disk druid which reads "Boot Partition too big." This occurs even when I make a 1 meg linux partition and mount it at /. Any ideas? Do I *really* have to format, switch to LBA, and reinstall?! thanks Dave
[newbie] Error trying to load Kicq
I'm so new that if something doesn't work, I don't know what to do about it! I got this message trying to load kicq for the first time. kicq: error in loading shared libraries: kicq: undefined symbol: icq_RecvMailExpress Any ideas?! -- - Daryl Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] color depth
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Kirk McElhearn wrote: On 25/03/00 21:57, Claus Atzenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: How can I change the color depth of my monitor under KDE? I would use DrakConf. But it is not a KDE program. ;-) There is an icon for this on the desktop, but when I click on it nothing happens... Try typing it in xterm. You also need to be root. Pay attention, Linux' file names are case sensitive. ;-) Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques contaminate the potable concoction produced by steeping certain edible nutriments.
[newbie] cmi8330 onboard sound card and mdk7.02
Hello everyone I need help fast if possible. I have just built a clients machine and chose a board with onboard sound, the "sound pro cmi8330 c3d audio adaptor". For some reason mdk7.2 dont want to speak to this chip, heres the win config what can I do to fix this guy SB device i/o 0220--022f IRQ 5 DMA 1 DMA 5 Joystick i/o 0200-0207 mpu 401 0330-0331 windows sound system i/o 0530-0537 i/o 0388-038f IRQ 11 DMA 0 Lothar doesn't work but does detect it and sndconfig works but crackles the sound like an out of tune radio. thanks in advance Chadley Wilson tel 012-333-2276 mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 unable to install ethernet card]]
I keep getting endless amounts of e-mail from newbe linux how do i unsubcribe? - Original Message - From: mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 1:45 AM Subject: Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 unable to install ethernet card]] Interestingly enough, on both of my systems Drak doesnt show any NIC! But the NIC's are now working fine.3Com 3C509B's... What is one to think? Bug City could it be? Cheers: Mike. PS... do you think that the powers that be take heed of our problems or do we have to actively file a bug report. Powers that be are invited to respond! Jaguar wrote: I have 2 NIC's in this one box ( with a cable modem)...both 3Com's 503/509B, both work, yet only the 509B shows up in DrakX...figure that one out. BTW...I am sending thiss fomr the NIC that doesn't exist as far as DrakX is concerned. mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ivan Stout wrote: Maybe so . . . but I've yet confirmed someone running Mandrake 7.0 on any other card and the other machine that I installed on had the same problem (and didn't have a Realtek card). So, until I can confirm that this is card specific, I'm not going to bother to get a new card. Besides, it looks like the right module wasn't loaded. I should be able to figure out by this weekend. --- Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think much of the problem is the Realtek card is a cheap piece of crap. Spend a few more $$ and __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on two machines. On the 1st, it recognised my 3C509B ISA NIC No probs. On the 2nd computer with the same NIC it initialised it fine, connected to the encryption site ok..then when I completed the installation and re-started my computer it couldn't initialise it on boot. I did an expert upgrade and re-defined my NIC excactly the same as I had defined it before without changeing anything else and Walla!, when I re-started once again all was well :-) Strange eh!! Cheers: Mike. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] mapping NFS drives
I managed to get Samba up and running between my Linux and Windows 98 boxes but I cannot mount NFS shares between my Linux machines. I have used linuxconf to set up the share the main root partition thingy "/" with total access to anyone (not fussed about security) When I try to mount the share from the computer Plaything on the computer Monster I type mount plaything:/ /mnt/drive and it comes back with the error mount: RPC: Program not registered and returns me back to the prompt Anyone have any ideas, Thanks in advance STEVEN MILEHAM "Oh damn, I can't think of a quote!" Steven Mileham
Re: [newbie] color depth
Kirk, if you are using mdk 7 try running DrakConf. Just about everything you need is under there. Wayne ** ** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University Gold Coast ** **
Re: [newbie] Questions, Questions!
The problem is, I do not have any SCSI devices; there all IDE. Linux just thinks there SCSI, I don't know why? Lothar picks up my sound card, but; places it in the "other" catagory? I'll try the "sndconfig" manually. Also, thanks Hugh; Sound Blaster always (well). It was/is a good fall back in windoze also. I'll try it. Don't you just love linux. I can't believe how much better my system runs. Thanks again - Bruce :-) KompuKit wrote: I believe you can MANUALLY use sndconfg to setup your soundcard...if it doesn't do it auto...that is, if, it supports your specific card. It also looks as if you have a lot of scsi devices...have you tried LOTHAR in drakconf Bruce Hilliker wrote: Hi to all; Could use a little (or a lot) of help. A little background. My System: Processor:AMD K-7 550 mhz Memory: 128K HD:Western digital 13.9G Sound: Aureal Semiconductor, Vortex 2 Pro Video:S3 Inc., Savage 4 Modem: Newly purchased 3COM 56K voice/fax external - just for Linux Zip Drive: Iomega internal CDROM 1: Toshiba DVD-ROM, SD-M1302 CDROM 2:Sony CD-RW CRX100E When I decided to start using linux, I started with Corel Linux. I even purchased the "Deluxe" edition for the 30 day free installation support. Well I installed Corel Linux, it found all my devices except my modem (understandable (winmodem at that time) and my video card (not acceptable)). After 7 emails, 2 phone calls to tech support (voice mail), 2 calls to sales and 120 days later, I still haven't heard a word. So I removed Corel Linux and purchased Mandrake V7.0. After installing Mandrake, it did not find my sound card, it's also having problems with my Sony CD-RW. I would like to be able to get my sound card working (sndconfig tells me that Vortex 2 is not supported, however; that is what I used under Corel Linux to get it going - go figure), and be able to use my CD-RW, at present; I can read from it but thats it. I am current using Kermal version 2.2.14-15mdk. I've seen on this list where people are using Mandrake 7.02. Is there some other way of getting it other than downloading it from the ftp site, 671M will take me forever to download. Actually I started last night and gave up after 12 hours. I would appreciate any help/comments. I have included my "dmesg" as of 03/25 and my "fstab" (below). If you guru's need to see anything else, just let me know and I'll be more than happy to share them with you. dmesg: Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20 CET 2000 Detected 548959269 Hz processor. ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 547.23 BogoMIPS Memory: 63976k/66496k available (1092k kernel code, 416k reserved, 948k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k) Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized L1 I Cache: 64K L1 D Cache: 64K L2 Cache: 512K CPU: AMD AMD-K7(tm) Processor stepping 02 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb480 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:00 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 39, VID=1022, DID=7409 PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: WDC WD136BA, ATA DISK drive hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1302, ATAPI CDROM drive hdd: CD-RW CRX100E, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: WDC WD136BA, 13042MB w/1961kB Cache, CHS=1662/255/63 hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
[newbie] Soundcard
Hello all, I have just started using linux mandrake 7.0, and everything works fine, but my 2 isa cards. My opl3sax soundcard. and my intel eithernet pro eithernet card. Is there any way to get them do work, or do i have to buy new isa cards? Thanks Mike __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely unuseable. I'm booting into KDE. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling
Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
What is your processor speed, and how fast is your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33, or scsi? On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed: I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely unuseable. I'm booting into KDE. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
my processor is a PIII 450 overclocked to 540( not the problem I've already declocked it and the same thing happens ), I have 256 megs of SDRAM@100mhz, I have two ATA-66 drives one at 18 gigs and another at 27.3 gigs, and a diamond viper v770. It is really wierd... I boot up and look at the system resource manager(I forget the name) and I can see my RAM usage go up by about 6 to 12 megs a second until it is all used up. It doesn't use any of the swap file either. I don't understand. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help What is your processor speed, and how fast is your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33, or scsi? On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed: I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely unuseable. I'm booting into KDE. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Charles Ulwelling wrote: I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely unuseable. I'm booting into KDE. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling Please give more details about your situation; what type of machine are you using? (cpu, motherboard, hard disk, etc. etc.) What type of installation did you do? (expert, default or in between) details, details, details that will help to give you a better answer ;-) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] help - disk config problem
Hi, I'm trying to install Mandrake 7 power pack on a PIII pc with a 20GB disk (IBM Deskstar) with Windows98. I opted for 'Recommended' install and resized my Windows partition to about 9.5GB and did an 'auto allocate' on the remaining disk space. DrakeX created /, swap and /home partitions but warned that a /root partition is needed for LILO. It let me continue the installation however, but I'm getting the following message when I tried to create a Custom Boot disk: "Installation of LILO failed. The following error occurred: geo_comp_addr:Cylinder number is too big (1200 1023)". This is the first time I'm installing Linux and I thought Mandrake is one of the easiest to install. Can my Win98 partition be this big (8.4GB) or I need to reduce the size of my Win98 partition? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Raja __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [newbie] Mouse Scrolling?
"Michael" == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] (intellimouse, etc.) Working here with a Logitech mouse. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 Michael If you don't mind, could you give me the procedure you Michael followed to use it? I'm using Mandrake 7.0-2 and the Michael generic ps/2 driver was assigned to my mouse when I Michael installed it. When I type 'imwheel' in eterm, I get a [snip] For my Logitech Mouseman _serial_I load imwheel in my .xinitrc: #!/bin/sh # Window Maker default X session startup script # Added by Mike 11/23/99 xhost 192.168.0.1 xhost 127.0.0.1 PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin" imwheel -k # If you login from xdm, uncomment this to make error messages appear # in the console window. # # tail -f /root/.xsession-errors /dev/console kppp gkrellm /usr/bin/enlightenment and in XF86Config, I have: Section "Pointer" Protocol"IntelliMouse" Device "/dev/mouse" BaudRate1200 ZAxisMapping4 5 EndSection -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.16mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 25 Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin "The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice." - [G.K. Chesterton, in ILN, 6/11/10]
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
I have heard that there is some problems with ATA drives, but don't quote me on that I am not sure. Are the drives running at full speed? I mean 66, 33, or regular ide speed? On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed: my processor is a PIII 450 overclocked to 540( not the problem I've already declocked it and the same thing happens ), I have 256 megs of SDRAM@100mhz, I have two ATA-66 drives one at 18 gigs and another at 27.3 gigs, and a diamond viper v770. It is really wierd... I boot up and look at the system resource manager(I forget the name) and I can see my RAM usage go up by about 6 to 12 megs a second until it is all used up. It doesn't use any of the swap file either. I don't understand. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help What is your processor speed, and how fast is your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33, or scsi? On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed: I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely unuseable. I'm booting into KDE. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
I'm not sure why your system is so slow, but I can explain the RAM utilization. I've found out (as I once complained about the same thing that you are) that Linux uses RAM differently than Windows. It'll take up all "x" (in your case 256 MB) RAM soon after bootup. However, it shouldn't affect the performance at all when you open program or anything. Instead of taking the Ram in chunks like Windows, Linux just takes the whole thing at once. So don't worry about seeing 100% ram utilization. Not sure why Linux is slow though for you. my processor is a PIII 450 overclocked to 540( not the problem I've already declocked it and the same thing happens ), I have 256 megs of SDRAM@100mhz, I have two ATA-66 drives one at 18 gigs and another at 27.3 gigs, and a diamond viper v770. It is really wierd... I boot up and look at the system resource manager(I forget the name) and I can see my RAM usage go up by about 6 to 12 megs a second until it is all used up. It doesn't use any of the swap file either. I don't understand. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help What is your processor speed, and how fast is your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33, or scsi? On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed: I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely unuseable. I'm booting into KDE. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
How would I know if they are running at full speed... I ran the configuration tool in dos for them and they are set up to run at full speed. As far as if they are running at full speed in linux I have no clue. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 9:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help I have heard that there is some problems with ATA drives, but don't quote me on that I am not sure. Are the drives running at full speed? I mean 66, 33, or regular ide speed? On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed: my processor is a PIII 450 overclocked to 540( not the problem I've already declocked it and the same thing happens ), I have 256 megs of SDRAM@100mhz, I have two ATA-66 drives one at 18 gigs and another at 27.3 gigs, and a diamond viper v770. It is really wierd... I boot up and look at the system resource manager(I forget the name) and I can see my RAM usage go up by about 6 to 12 megs a second until it is all used up. It doesn't use any of the swap file either. I don't understand. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help What is your processor speed, and how fast is your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33, or scsi? On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed: I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely unuseable. I'm booting into KDE. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to the point where it just isn't responding, I assumed it was a bug in linux as far as RAM utilization went. By not responding I mean I'll move the mouse and it will take about 3 seconds for it to *jump* to the location I moved it to. It is really annoying. Just out of curiosity should linux run as smoothly as win98 as far as opening apps, and moving the app window across the screen or is it naturally jumpy and something I should get used to. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: Anthony Huereca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 10:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help I'm not sure why your system is so slow, but I can explain the RAM utilization. I've found out (as I once complained about the same thing that you are) that Linux uses RAM differently than Windows. It'll take up all "x" (in your case 256 MB) RAM soon after bootup. However, it shouldn't affect the performance at all when you open program or anything. Instead of taking the Ram in chunks like Windows, Linux just takes the whole thing at once. So don't worry about seeing 100% ram utilization. Not sure why Linux is slow though for you. my processor is a PIII 450 overclocked to 540( not the problem I've already declocked it and the same thing happens ), I have 256 megs of SDRAM@100mhz, I have two ATA-66 drives one at 18 gigs and another at 27.3 gigs, and a diamond viper v770. It is really wierd... I boot up and look at the system resource manager(I forget the name) and I can see my RAM usage go up by about 6 to 12 megs a second until it is all used up. It doesn't use any of the swap file either. I don't understand. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help What is your processor speed, and how fast is your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33, or scsi? On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed: I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely unuseable. I'm booting into KDE. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Anthony, my RAM in my K6-2 machine is 96meg. With two netscape windows open and KDE I am using 29meg. Mine don't use all the RAM at start. But 96 Meg is a lot. I have run MacMillan Mandrake 5.2 and 6.0 with no problems. I bought MacMillan Mandrake 7.0 recently and I experienced the same problems Charles did on it being very slow. Also 6.0 takes about 30 minutes to install, and this new 7.0 took 2:40. Ridiculous. I grabbed the Mandrake 6.0 and threw it back on the machine. I sent 7.0 back, and I am still waiting on a refund from MacMillan. fwiw steve Original Message Follows From: Anthony Huereca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 00:31:56 -0500 I'm not sure why your system is so slow, but I can explain the RAM utilization. I've found out (as I once complained about the same thing that you are) that Linux uses RAM differently than Windows. It'll take up all "x" (in your case 256 MB) RAM soon after bootup. However, it shouldn't affect the performance at all when you open program or anything. Instead of taking the Ram in chunks like Windows, Linux just takes the whole thing at once. So don't worry about seeing 100% ram utilization. Not sure why Linux is slow though for you. my processor is a PIII 450 overclocked to 540( not the problem I've already declocked it and the same thing happens ), I have 256 megs of SDRAM@100mhz, I have two ATA-66 drives one at 18 gigs and another at 27.3 gigs, and a diamond viper v770. It is really wierd... I boot up and look at the system resource manager(I forget the name) and I can see my RAM usage go up by about 6 to 12 megs a second until it is all used up. It doesn't use any of the swap file either. I don't understand. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help What is your processor speed, and how fast is your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33, or scsi? On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed: I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely unuseable. I'm booting into KDE. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] where is
where is the RPM...and what's it called...that controls the volume of sound...I think I accidently deleted the program... trying to clean up some space..it's the one that automatically gets installed and is on your taskbar...next to the clock -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
RE: [newbie] cmi8330 onboard sound card and mdk7.02
I have a board with the same onboard sound chip, and was unable to get it to run properly. In the end I gave up, disabled it in the bios and plugged in a trusty old Original SB16 Legacy ISA Card. Never looked back. Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: Chadley Wilson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sun 26 March 2000 3:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cmi8330 onboard sound card and mdk7.02 Importance: High Hello everyone I need help fast if possible. I have just built a clients machine and chose a board with onboard sound, the "sound pro cmi8330 c3d audio adaptor". For some reason mdk7.2 dont want to speak to this chip, heres the win config what can I do to fix this guy
Re: [newbie] Boot Partition too big...
disk druid never worked for me...try linux fdiskit's the best way to carve your hd Dave wrote: Heya guys, (before I start, I did check the archives and I did see a couple messages about this , but they all related to FAT32 systems...) I just installed Win2k on a new 13 gig HD which I fdisk'ed into a 11 gig and a 2 gig partition. I want to try Mandrake out, but whenever I try to install Mandrake, I get an error during disk druid which reads "Boot Partition too big." This occurs even when I make a 1 meg linux partition and mount it at /. Any ideas? Do I *really* have to format, switch to LBA, and reinstall?! thanks Dave
[newbie] IPCHAINS/MASQ/FORWARDING
"Jaguar" == Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jaguar I wrote to the list a few days ago, asking for some Jaguar help...the _ONLY_ reply I got was, RTFM...well I have Jaguar RTFM's till I am more confused. I wanted to know if in Jaguar MDK7.02, IPV4 is compiled in the default install kerenl, Jaguar or if I have to recompile with IPV4 enabled??? How [snip] Is there a directory /proc/sys/net/ipv4 on your box? If yes, what's in it? What are the files' contents? Have you checked what the defaults are when you try to compile a kernel? There are many options for IP, and experimental support for IPv6. What specifically are you looking for with IPv4 JaguarI have run the /proc/(something's??)/ip_chains, and got JaguarPERMISSION DENIED and yes as ROOT. I don't understand this. What command did you run? Doing 'find /proc/ -name ip_chains' on my machine returns no matches. Were you doing 'echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward' ? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.16mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 26 St Margaret Clitherow "It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - [G.K. Chesterton, in The Cleveland Press, 3/1/21]
Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Charles Ulwelling wrote: Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to the point where it just isn't responding, I assumed it was a bug in linux as far as RAM utilization went. By not responding I mean I'll move the mouse and it will take about 3 seconds for it to *jump* to the location I moved it to. It is really annoying. Just out of curiosity should linux run as smoothly as win98 as far as opening apps, and moving the app window across the screen or is it naturally jumpy and something I should get used to. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling Charles, Something is not right. I'm not adept enough to fix it for you but my poor little P166 running Mandrake 6.0 with 48 Megs sounds a lot smoother and speedier than that. You might call up a list of running processes with ps -ax -land see if anything is using a lot of cpu time. Or find a monitoring program. I think I've seen one that even gave pie charts of cpu usage by process, but the name escapes me. What you're experiencing is not typical of Linux. Good luck, Gene
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Well I went back to where I found that Ram info, a mailing list for my local Linux User Group, and I guess I was slightly wrong. Here's his words: - Now, let's say I launch an application called `foo' that uses the shared library `bar'. When the OS first finds `foo' in the filesystem it will cache that information in RAM so that, if I were to immediately run another instance of `foo', it would not need to access the disk for something it already knew. Now what about the `bar'? Well, that's shared information. Not only will that show up in the filesystem cache but it will also show up in the shared cache. A second instance of `foo' will not load a second instance of `bar' since it already has it loaded. `foo' takes a bit of size in the filesystem and also when it is running. Well, what you see when you stop `foo' is that the runnable part is unloaded but the cached information is not. Hence the descrepency. The OS is smart enough with its cache to know when it's a good thing and when it's not. Let's say I ran something huge just before running `foo' and most of the available filesystem cache has been used. Well, the OS just unloads the oldest bits and makes room for the new stuff. If `foo', in turn, decides to allocate 3/4 of my RAM as dynamic memory for some reason, the OS will unload *all* of its cache to make room for the application. If it needs more, however, it will go to swap. Don't be decieved by the output of these programs thinking you're not getting resources released back to you. Once your user application terminates there is no trace of it left running in the system. The only thing left is what is controlled by the OS--the filesystem cache and the shared memory cache. (Okay, this is a bit of an oversimplification and I probably got a few minor technical details askew, but it should serve to point out what's going on.) - So that might explain it more throughly and more right than I did. Sorry for the misinformation. But I guess it sitll doesn't explain why it's so slow. However, in reading through old postings on that list, I found some stuff that may or may not help. First use "ps" and "top" to see if there are any programs that are taking up a lot of CPU/Ram. You can hit "M" (make sure it's a capital M) when using "top" to sort by memory usage. X should take up around 25% or less of the memory, and should take up the most memory. If you do see something hogging the memory or whatever, trying killing it. Anthony, my RAM in my K6-2 machine is 96meg. With two netscape windows open and KDE I am using 29meg. Mine don't use all the RAM at start. But 96 Meg is a lot. I have run MacMillan Mandrake 5.2 and 6.0 with no problems. I bought MacMillan Mandrake 7.0 recently and I experienced the same problems Charles did on it being very slow. Also 6.0 takes about 30 minutes to install, and this new 7.0 took 2:40. Ridiculous. I grabbed the Mandrake 6.0 and threw it back on the machine. I sent 7.0 back, and I am still waiting on a refund from MacMillan. fwiw steve Original Message Follows From: Anthony Huereca [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure why your system is so slow, but I can explain the RAM utilization. I've found out (as I once complained about the same thing that you are) that Linux uses RAM differently than Windows. It'll take up all "x" (in your case 256 MB) RAM soon after bootup. However, it shouldn't affect the performance at all when you open program or anything. Instead of taking the Ram in chunks like Windows, Linux just takes the whole thing at once. So don't worry about seeing 100% ram utilization. Not sure why Linux is slow though for you. my processor is a PIII 450 overclocked to 540( not the problem I've already declocked it and the same thing happens ), I have 256 megs of SDRAM@100mhz, I have two ATA-66 drives one at 18 gigs and another at 27.3 gigs, and a diamond viper v770. It is really wierd... I boot up and look at the system resource manager(I forget the name) and I can see my RAM usage go up by about 6 to 12 megs a second until it is all used up. It doesn't use any of the swap file either. I don't understand. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- What is your processor speed, and how fast is your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33, or scsi? On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed: I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely unuseable. I'm booting into KDE. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit
Re: [newbie] where is
KompuKit wrote: where is the RPM...and what's it called...that controls the volume of sound...I think I accidently deleted the program... trying to clean up some space..it's the one that automatically gets installed and is on your taskbar...next to the clock -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit=== Could be KMix. Gene
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Thanks, I didn't think it sounded right... but as this is the only experience I've had with it I didn't know. later -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eugene C. Zesch Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 12:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help Charles Ulwelling wrote: Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to the point where it just isn't responding, I assumed it was a bug in linux as far as RAM utilization went. By not responding I mean I'll move the mouse and it will take about 3 seconds for it to *jump* to the location I moved it to. It is really annoying. Just out of curiosity should linux run as smoothly as win98 as far as opening apps, and moving the app window across the screen or is it naturally jumpy and something I should get used to. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling Charles, Something is not right. I'm not adept enough to fix it for you but my poor little P166 running Mandrake 6.0 with 48 Megs sounds a lot smoother and speedier than that. You might call up a list of running processes with ps -ax -land see if anything is using a lot of cpu time. Or find a monitoring program. I think I've seen one that even gave pie charts of cpu usage by process, but the name escapes me. What you're experiencing is not typical of Linux. Good luck, Gene
Re: [newbie] Mouse Scrolling?
Mike TracyI'm running Mandrake 7 on two machines one with the Trackman Marble and the other has a Trackman Marble Plus (with the scrollwheel). I assume yours is the latter. Here's my mouse section from /etc/X11/XF86Config : # ** # Pointer section # ** Section "Pointer" Protocol"MouseManPlusPS/2" Device "/dev/mouse" ZAxisMapping 4 5 # When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment # the following line. #Protocol "Xqueue" # Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice #BaudRate 9600 #SampleRate 150 # Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice # Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms) #Emulate3Buttons #Emulate3Timeout50 # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice #ChordMiddle EndSection If you execute 'imwheel -k' when you enter KDE (put an Application link or a shell script in the Autostart directory on your desktop) then the scroll wheel will work. Alan Mike Tracy Holt wrote: If you don't mind me asking, which Logitech mouse are you using? I've got a Trackman marble that works great under Windows, yet I haven't understood the instructions for getting it to work under imwheel. I haven't given it a lot of time, but it would be nice to get it working. Thanks, Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Mike Fieschko" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 4:27 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mouse Scrolling? "Michael" == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Michael You can use a program called 'imwheel' to use the scroll Michael but I think it's only compatible with MS mice Michael (intellimouse, etc.) Working here with a Logitech mouse. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.16mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 24 Feria o
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
"Charles" == Charles Ulwelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to Charles the point where it just isn't responding, I assumed it Charles was a bug in linux as far as RAM utilization went. By Charles not responding I mean I'll move the mouse and it will Charles take about 3 seconds for it to *jump* to the location I [snip] What does doing 'top' show? What's taking up your cpu? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.16mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 26 St Margaret Clitherow "Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Orthodoxy, 1908]
[newbie] i810 chipset error messages.
when i try to install the driver for i810 chipsets. i install the rpm first and then install the second which is the source and this is the command: rpm --rebuild I810Gtt-0.1-5.src.rpm and i get an error message after it scrolls a bunch of stuff across the page. but when i execute the first rpm which the command is: rpm -Uvh XFCom-i810-glibc2.1-1.0.0-rh60.i386.rpm and i get ** and then i guess that means that it is ok... right? well one more question. when i am told to edit the configuration file am i suppose to delete what they have for graphics in there and enter new or just add on to what they have. cause when i delete it then i get error messages when i start x and it wont let me start it. anyone know whats wrong or been in my same situation? ~Curtis
