[newbie] Smart Cat/Power Cat
Here's one I can't find in the archive: Can anyone tell me how to make work the scroll things along the edges of the touchpad on a Cirque Smart Cat or Power Cat? I've tried adding "ZAxisMapping 4 5" and changing to Intelimouse in XF86Config and running imwheel -k. Paul Eppley
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
On 26/03/00 7:53, steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: 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. Same here. The install was very long, and my machine is much slower than with 6. 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] Installing applications and adding them to the application starter
Whenever any applications are installed, where do they go? I can install things fine, but afterwards I have to find them. How can I add an app to the KDE application starter? 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] CD Audio
Does anyone know of any programs available for making MP3's from CD music? I am old mandrake can do this natively from the command line. Can it and how? Thanks.
Re: [[newbie] HELP INSTALING AND RUNNING X!]
"Graham Balharrie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Try to start the x server manually from a CLI. Type startx Let us know what happens. Mike ~~~ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." --Tom Waits ~~~ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [[newbie] color depth]
Kirk McElhearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I change the color depth of my monitor under KDE? Kirk == You can use XF86Setup to select color depth, or you might be able to choose a depth at boot up time: startx- --bpp16 (or 24, or 32, or whatever) Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [[newbie] Boot Partition too big...]
"Dave" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 = If you've got an 11 gig partition for winblows, then your boot partition is out beyond the forbidden 1024. You may have to reconfigure. Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] cmi8330 onboard sound card and mdk7.02
Try using "soundconfig" without the quotes. I have an AMD K6-II 3D Processor/w sound, modem and video built in to the MOBO. Nothing works to make the sound operational except this method. It will tell you the video is running but just click on the 'Yes' each time, I did and it works fine. This is run from within 'Konsole' or 'Xterm', or logout and get to a 'root' access before the 'X' starts and run it there. don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 03:35:41 +0200 Chadley Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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] YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: [RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help]
"Charles Ulwelling" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 = Seems to have us all a bit puzzled!! Just out of curiosity, have you checked to make sure your swap partition is active? Mike "What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?" --W. C. Fields Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
To all that are having probs installing MacMillan/Mandrake 7.0. I did several different installs to see how they went and how they performed. Well the standard install without using Power Quest BTmagic and do use the "lilo" is the best performer. Also I found that when I did additional 'upgrades' or 'updates', what ever it is called, there were additional programs installed. For what reason is not clear but performance is the best when you DO NOT use the 'Lnx4Win', for sure. I have had times when my mouse response will take up to 5-25 minutes to react, well do not use the 'KDE Control Center' and access the Keyboards or Keys, for ever. I use the BIG 'K' on the 'Panel' then 'Settings' and do them individually, NO PROB BOB!!! I hope this is GOOD for you as it has done me WORLDS of it, don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 07:24:08 + "Eugene C. Zesch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 -l and 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 YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
[newbie] Compatible SCSI cards
I would like to add a SCSI card to my Mandrake PC so I can use a CD burner. First of all, is audio CD burning smooth under Mandrake? Second, any reccomendations on a SCSI card that would be compatible? 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: [RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help]
Excuse me, if I may, it appears that Macmillan/Mandrake 7.0 is a little confuse as to what it is supposed to do with all of the software. I have done about 12 installs, some different like 'Sever', 'Expert', 'Normal', etctera. Some took over 5 hours some took as little as 40 min. None did install all of the software the first time around, had to go back and do an 'Upgrade', or what ever it is called. Not just one some times several to make most every thing work. The last install I did was 'Expert' 'Normal' my system is a DUAL booter, Win98 and lilo. Linux runs as fast or faster some times than Windidnot. I have an AMD K6 II 350m 3D Processor with 32 meg RAM. I have had probs with the mouse taking t long to respond and found usually I (underlined) did the mistake of trying a different controller for my mouse to see if any other would work, they DID NOT. I have a Microsoft Wheel Mouse and the Generic (PS2) is the only one that will work for me, not even the 'imwheel' will work. I am not through with that yet have not tried all options at this point. Just food for the weary that may get into big of a hurry trying to get their system up and running too quickly, need to READ, READ, READ, READ, READ, READ, READ, READ, READ, READ, and when you think you have read it all go on the WEB and READ, READ, READ, READ, READ, READ, READ, just to catch up with TECHNOLOGY while you were READING. don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On 26 Mar 00 08:26:16 EST Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "Charles Ulwelling" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 = Seems to have us all a bit puzzled!! Just out of curiosity, have you checked to make sure your swap partition is active? Mike "What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?" --W. C. Fields Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: [newbie] WinTV?
I hope you keep me posted... I too am hoping to get my wintv card to work in Linux - Original Message - From: Menthol [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 9:24 PM Subject: [newbie] WinTV? How can i get my WinTV PCI card to work under Mandrake 7.02? -- -- Menthol [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you 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 I have seen many different replies to this posting regarding Linux "slow reaction time" on this particular system in question. I know that Linux is hella lot faster than any Win machine ever could think about being, so there is obviously a problem with the setup on this machine. I normally use about 29 meg memory on boot. I have amd k6-400 with 256 meg ram, from what I have read, the only memory that your Linux box is actually using is what is buffered at the moment. Now, don't quote me on this cause I am no expert, but I have read many memory optimization tips and tweaks for the Linux system. Have a look at this link http://www.mandrakeuser.org/admin/aproc.html#Mem . And you may want to search around that site, very good information can be found there. You probably want to chase down all of your running processes and se whats taking up more memory than it should. Linux starts many services on install that you may or may not need. Try turning off the ones that you will never utilize. Also, I have found that if you are dual booting with Windows that more problems can arise. And in all reality..Why do you even need Windows when you have Linux? Linux can do everything that a Win box can do and even so much more, better, and faster. Sometimes though the initial setup may be a bit more aggravating in the beginning, but once you have the harmony between hardware and software, you'll be amazed. --Maxtor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maxtors.com ICQ: 68275472 Still learning this thing...
Re: [newbie] WinTV?
Ed Tharp wrote: I hope you keep me posted... I too am hoping to get my wintv card to work in Linux try reading up with the mini-howto on BTTV about setting up the wintv card
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Maxtorator, I'm going to hear about this... I am triple booting with win2000, and win98. I'm using them mainly because they work. Win98 crashes all the time but it is nice to have when I want to go back and play a game that doesn't run on win2000, which isn't very often since win2000 runs just about everything I have. I have win2000 because it is solid, and it is what I use to do all of my work in, I haven't had to reboot my computer once since I got it, except when I was trying to get linux to work(obviously). In my opinion I've never seen a machine run as well as mine does under 2000. I'm sorry but linux has many problems, it may work well for all of you and that is great, but I've had nothing but difficulty with it. It may be a PEBKAC problem but I don't believe so, since it dies immediately after being installed. If I have the choice between linux and win2000 I'd take win2000 and thats why I'm dual booting, linux is only a hobby thing that I'm using to increase my knowledge of UNIX. I do not wish to make it my main OS, I'm perfectly happy with the one I'm using now. Please don't publically execute me for this, I've read all your posts and you all think windows suck and linux rules. That is cool, everyone is entitled to their opinions, so please don't send in 40 responses saying pendragon is so wrong, one will be plenty... heh heh -Original Message- From: maxtorator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 7:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you 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 I have seen many different replies to this posting regarding Linux "slow reaction time" on this particular system in question. I know that Linux is hella lot faster than any Win machine ever could think about being, so there is obviously a problem with the setup on this machine. I normally use about 29 meg memory on boot. I have amd k6-400 with 256 meg ram, from what I have read, the only memory that your Linux box is actually using is what is buffered at the moment. Now, don't quote me on this cause I am no expert, but I have read many memory optimization tips and tweaks for the Linux system. Have a look at this link http://www.mandrakeuser.org/admin/aproc.html#Mem . And you may want to search around that site, very good information can be found there. You probably want to chase down all of your running processes and se whats taking up more memory than it should. Linux starts many services on install that you may or may not need. Try turning off the ones that you will never utilize. Also, I have found that if you are dual booting with Windows that more problems can arise. And in all reality..Why do you even need Windows when you have Linux? Linux can do everything that a Win box can do and even so much more, better, and faster. Sometimes though the initial setup may be a bit more aggravating in the beginning, but once you have the harmony between hardware and software, you'll be amazed. --Maxtor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maxtors.com ICQ: 68275472 Still learning this thing...
[newbie] SCSI Boot Problem
hi all, I'm having trouble booting after installing Mandrake 6.0 on my system. Upon booting, LILO starts up as usual and attempts to boot Linux, but soon it suffers a kernel panic, saying that 'modprobe' is busy and unable to mount the root partition. I noticed something weird, though. Although LILO starts up nicely, it later reports that no SCSI hosts were found, which probably explains why it can't mount root. Ideas, anyone ? My primary hardware is as follows: - Intel PIII on an Asus BX motherboard w/128MB RAM - Adaptec 29160 SCSI adaptor (OEM version) - Seagate Cheetah 36.0GB U2W hard disk Other info: - Linux is the only OS on the harddisk. - Partitioning is as follows (in order of creation): - /boot (allocated 7MB) - / (allocated 4GB) - swap partition (allocated 256MB) - /home (allocated everthing else) I later tried a 'recommended installation' Mandrake 7.0 and it booted up OK. That's nice, but I'd still like to know what happened with 6.0. Thanks in advance ! regards, leo
Re: [newbie] TCP/IP Problem
John N wrote: 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? I don't know about the others, but I have the same problem some days with linuxnewbie.com. To some sites, your traffic just gets lost. Stop/reload usually works. I don't wait a long time for response. Try complaining to your ISP.
Re: [newbie]
Altern8 wrote: Hi gang, I am would like to get a copy of Mandrake, and atm I have the following modem and sound card, Diamond Supra Express 56e Pro modem, and Creative Labs SB live player 1024 PCI. Are these 2 compatible with mandrake? I looked at the web pages, but dont find anything that matches them Cheers Kev # Kevin Hunter # Altern8 on DALnet http://www.fantazia.org Sop on #IRChelp # Know your damn role, Jabroni I think you can get the SB live going. Some of them are recognised on install, some of them have to be convinced to work. For the modem, I don't know. If it's a winmodem (requires Win) then maybe not. http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html might have information. Or check the diamond site.
Re: [newbie] freeciv
magick wrote: 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 I don't know the answer, but the way I find them (or docs) is to open the original rpm in the kde desktop as if I were going to install. Then click on the files tab and look at the file list. It's probably something in a bin directory.
Re: [newbie] Returned Mail?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this returned mail and did not even send it to this person, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think someone signed up for access through this group and put in the wrong addy. don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Yes! Me too. A bunch of them from a week or two ago. I keep getting returns and rejects for most of the mail on the list. The mail posts on the list also (about 90%). Could you let Denis know that you are getting it too? It has to be a mandrake problem then, not my ISP mail server.
[newbie] New Questions
1)How can I set up the pathway to synchronize my Palm VII with my laptop? 2)How do I get my computer to recognize my 100MB Iomega Zip Drive? (parallel) 3)How do I install my Franklin Covey software onto Linux? Thanks. K Ann Blackburn Get your own "800" number - Free Free voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag
Re: [newbie] i810 chipset error messages.
the first one is but the second one isnt i dont think. and when i take out all the configuration for the graphics and put in what they have in the instruction that i print. but then when i reboot it tells me it cant find all those resolutions that i deleted.but i know it is pointing to the driver so i dont know why it doesnt use what i put in. - Original Message - From: Audrey Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 8:21 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] i810 chipset error messages. curtis patrick wrote: 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 You have to modify the XF86Config file. The two sections that you add, find those sections in the file and remove those first, then put in your replacement sections in their place. Look at the original file, there are tags for start and end sections and sections within those sections. They must match. Looks like the first rpm is installing correctly.
[newbie] Re: Charles Ulwelling's response to Linux is so slow
Charles Ulwelling wrote: Maxtorator, I'm going to hear about this... I am triple booting with win2000, and win98. I'm using them mainly because they work. Win98 crashes all the time but it is nice to have when I want to go back and play a game that doesn't run on win2000, which isn't very often since win2000 runs just about everything I have. I have win2000 because it is solid, and it is what I use to do all of my work in, I haven't had to reboot my computer once since I got it, except when I was trying to get linux to work(obviously). In my opinion I've never seen a machine run as well as mine does under 2000. I'm sorry but linux has many problems, it may work well for all of you and that is great, but I've had nothing but difficulty with it. It may be a PEBKAC problem but I don't believe so, since it dies immediately after being installed. If I have the choice between linux and win2000 I'd take win2000 and thats why I'm dual booting, linux is only a hobby thing that I'm using to increase my knowledge of UNIX. I do not wish to make it my main OS, I'm perfectly happy with the one I'm using now. Please don't publically execute me for this, I've read all your posts and you all think windows suck and linux rules. That is cool, everyone is entitled to their opinions, so please don't send in 40 responses saying pendragon is so wrong, one will be plenty... heh heh I'm not going to publically execute you, but I read your post twice and I'm damned if I can figure out what it has to do with the thread ...Linux is slow...Please help. Enjoy your windows. Gene
Re: [[newbie] IPCHAINS/MASQ/FORWARDING]
Mike Fieschko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "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? yes there is a /proc/sys/net/ipv4 it has DIRS for /conf /neigh /route, and a buncha other files no I didn't compile a kernel There are many options for IP, and experimental support for IPv6. What specifically are you looking for with IPv4 I want to share my cable modem with 3 other Win boxes and use Linux as a firewall/proxy 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' ? yes it gave a PERMISSION DENIED -- 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] Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Configure X problems
I'm very new to the Linux world, and as such, I have decided to tryinstalling Mandrake Linux 7.0 on one of my machines.The install runs fine up to the point of Configure X. At this point theauto-setup of my video card/monitor fails with the following error:"Could not open default font 'fixed'"I'm running w/the following:Optiquest V775 monitorMatrox Mystique 2 Meg video card64 Mb Ram (if that even matters)PII 233 (again probably doesn't matter)It asks me to 'change some parameters', which of course, I've triedeverything I could think of but to no evail. Anyway, I'm not sure if thisis a function of it failing to detect my hardware or the install notcorrectly configuring/copying the 'fixed' font.Thanks in advance.Keith Stacks
Re: [newbie] Re: Charles Ulwelling's response to Linux is so slow
Hi: Well, we here have trashed all our Win2000 CDs (Right where Win98) went. We had moved back to 95 because we ran years on it without a problem and had fast systems (performance was great!). Now we are going to Linus, and our systems seem to have achieved a new life. The are more solid, faster, and the responseivness is almost instant. Wish we had moved to Linux long ago. Just my 2 cents. Herman On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: Charles Ulwelling wrote: Maxtorator, I'm going to hear about this... I am triple booting with win2000, and win98. I'm using them mainly because they work. Win98 crashes all the time but it is nice to have when I want to go back and play a game that doesn't run on win2000, which isn't very often since win2000 runs just about everything I have. I have win2000 because it is solid, and it is what I use to do all of my work in, I haven't had to reboot my computer once since I got it, except when I was trying to get linux to work(obviously). In my opinion I've never seen a machine run as well as mine does under 2000. I'm sorry but linux has many problems, it may work well for all of you and that is great, but I've had nothing but difficulty with it. It may be a PEBKAC problem but I don't believe so, since it dies immediately after being installed. If I have the choice between linux and win2000 I'd take win2000 and thats why I'm dual booting, linux is only a hobby thing that I'm using to increase my knowledge of UNIX. I do not wish to make it my main OS, I'm perfectly happy with the one I'm using now. Please don't publically execute me for this, I've read all your posts and you all think windows suck and linux rules. That is cool, everyone is entitled to their opinions, so please don't send in 40 responses saying pendragon is so wrong, one will be plenty... heh heh I'm not going to publically execute you, but I read your post twice and I'm damned if I can figure out what it has to do with the thread ...Linux is slow...Please help. Enjoy your windows. Gene
RE: [newbie] Re: Charles Ulwelling's response to Linux is so slow
Heh heh In a previous post some one said they were dual booting with win98 and maxtor said that there are problems with that senario... and then said why use windows when you could do everything with linux. I was just giving some reasons why. later, Charles -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eugene C. Zesch Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 12:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re: Charles Ulwelling's response to Linux is so slow Charles Ulwelling wrote: Maxtorator, I'm going to hear about this... I am triple booting with win2000, and win98. I'm using them mainly because they work. Win98 crashes all the time but it is nice to have when I want to go back and play a game that doesn't run on win2000, which isn't very often since win2000 runs just about everything I have. I have win2000 because it is solid, and it is what I use to do all of my work in, I haven't had to reboot my computer once since I got it, except when I was trying to get linux to work(obviously). In my opinion I've never seen a machine run as well as mine does under 2000. I'm sorry but linux has many problems, it may work well for all of you and that is great, but I've had nothing but difficulty with it. It may be a PEBKAC problem but I don't believe so, since it dies immediately after being installed. If I have the choice between linux and win2000 I'd take win2000 and thats why I'm dual booting, linux is only a hobby thing that I'm using to increase my knowledge of UNIX. I do not wish to make it my main OS, I'm perfectly happy with the one I'm using now. Please don't publically execute me for this, I've read all your posts and you all think windows suck and linux rules. That is cool, everyone is entitled to their opinions, so please don't send in 40 responses saying pendragon is so wrong, one will be plenty... heh heh I'm not going to publically execute you, but I read your post twice and I'm damned if I can figure out what it has to do with the thread ...Linux is slow...Please help. Enjoy your windows. Gene
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
I've had similar experiences with MacMillan Mandrake 7.0 plus half of my hardware failed to function (video, floppy, CDROM etc.) I'm back with 6.1 or 6.5 as MacMillan calls it, and happy as a clam. I do regret the $50+ I wasted to learn this lesson, maybe something on those other 5 CD's is useful! Vern On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: On 26/03/00 7:53, steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: 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. Same here. The install was very long, and my machine is much slower than with 6. 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] Linux is so slow... Please help(numbers on usage)
Charles Ulwelling wrote: My mem usuage is this X 38M kfm 9M kbgndwm 7M kdm 7M Kpanel 5M and various others at 5 to 6 M until all the memory is used up, another thing is there are 10 instances of httpd taking up over 3M's each. I don't know what this process is but I can't kill any of them, I get an error when I try. As for the CPU its utilization is down around 10% or so and ktop is what is using it. Unless you are running a web server, you probably want to get rid of httpd - because that's what it is. You probably have other services running that you don't need as well after the stock install. For example, if you just connect to the 'net with a modem and are not on a LAN you may have some networking services you don't need. But even with these extra services, it shouldn't be bogging down your system like that. It may be possible, however, that one of them is acting up somehow...but thats really just a guess on my part... I think you said in a previous post that you have 256 megs...that should be more than enough, and I bet some people here have systems don't have that much with real memory and swap COMBINED. I doubt your 256 megs is completely used up except for being used for cache. The K Process Manager shows a memory usage summary up top in the form of a bar. Black is memory used, and grays are buffer and cache. I am willing to bet most is light gray. (Clicking on the bar shows actual numbers) BTW, my KPM for some reason doesn't show swap usage, or that I even have swap...maybe yours is the same way - in which case you can see that with xosview or "swapon -s" as root. If anyone knows why my KPM doesn't show this with mandrake 7, I'd like to fix that! (It did with 6.0 - is this a bug with this version of KPM?) Does your computer boot directly into X? If not, is it slow in text-mode consoles w/o X running? If it does, try booting into the console for once. HAve you tried using the basic VGA16 X server? I'm thinking that maybe the X server could have something to do with it in your situation. That abit BE6 board is common among linux users, so I don't think that should be a problem. I think that board is simular to the BP6 dually that I've been slobbering over for some time as well. What other components do you have in your computer? Maybe one of them or its configuration is causing the problems... I would try using the basic X server, and then maybe trying to get rid of a few components to see if you can narrow down the problem. Since nobody else seems to have helpful advice for you, you are probably starting to get desperate right about now. I did have my X get slow once... I had ran Lothar under Drakconf, and it was bogged down afterwards. I couldn't figure out for the life of me what was doing it. Quitting X and restarting did not fix, and I think I may have brought the system to a runlevel 2 then back to 3 without luck too, but rebooting did bring the performance back. I guess I should have listened to the warning and closed all other windows before the ISA scan, but I just like living dangerously I guess ;-) 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. DEFINATELY NOT - I've always found it to be much smoother! I hate to see you get the wrong impression of linux from this. (I saw your other post) My system is a PII300 with 128megs. Currently I have running: Netscape (afew windows of it), XMMS listening to internet radio, various terminal windows and file manager windows, KPM, and the real dog is OFFICE 2000 INSIDE WINDOWS 2000 in a VMWare WINDOW. And my system is just as responsive as ever. Now, switching back to win2000 will require a load from the swap partition because I haven't touched it in a while, but hey, I only have 128 megs so that's expected! ~Jeremy
[newbie] ide-scsi, cd burner, ls120 problems
Hi- Just loaded Mandrake 7 (and installed my new cd burner), and I'm running into problems with mounting my ls120 drive. I have a cd burner, which was detected just fine, and after changing /mnt/cdrom to point to /dev/sr0. I was able to mount it with no problems. My ls120 drive seems to be detected as a SCSI device (may be because it uses ATAPI?) and is assigned to /dev/sda. When I try and mount the drive (mount /dev/sda -t vfat /mnt/ls120), I get the following error message: mount: block device /dev/sda is write protected, mounting read only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems I also checked /var/log/messages and found and messages about illegal requests and "fat bread failed". Any ideas on how to fix? Thanks in advance- jhmilos
Re: [newbie] Configure X problems
you could try changing your video card to the matrox g200 since from what i've been told most matrox cards are universal except for a few things like if your card has a tv tuner on it e.t.c as i'm running x with the g200 and had no probs so try telling x you ahve a g200 in the cardn selection screen might work On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: I'm very new to the Linux world, and as such, I have decided to try installing Mandrake Linux 7.0 on one of my machines. The install runs fine up to the point of Configure X. At this point the auto-setup of my video card/monitor fails with the following error: "Could not open default font 'fixed'" I'm running w/the following: Optiquest V775 monitor Matrox Mystique 2 Meg video card 64 Mb Ram (if that even matters) PII 233 (again probably doesn't matter) It asks me to 'change some parameters', which of course, I've tried everything I could think of but to no evail. Anyway, I'm not sure if this is a function of it failing to detect my hardware or the install not correctly configuring/copying the 'fixed' font. Thanks in advance. Keith Stacks Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- to the future of linux together let's crush microsoft and free our desktops forever
Re: [newbie] color depth
Kirk McElhearn wrote: How can I change the color depth of my monitor under KDE? Kirk I don't believe that you can change color depth on the fly, you have to restart X with the new color depth. you can place multiple color depths in your /etc/XF86Config file so you can startx with an argument like "-- -bpp 16" to override the default. If you're one of those people who boot directly into X it may be more difficult ~Jeremy
[newbie] about to install linux for the first time...
I'm about to install linux for the first time(mandrake 7.0...or corel linux), wich is the better and what should I keep in mind before/during installation? My system is: athlon 500 riva tnt2 m64 sony cd-rw mag xj770 ibm hdd(ide) us robotics modem.. thanks, Jonas.
Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
I'm dual booting an AMD K6/3 450 (actually booting Win98, NT 4, Mandrake linux, and BeOS 4.5- whew!) I have 192 MB RAM and a mix of both UDMA 33 UDMA 66 hard disks. My Linux system runs just as smooth as Windows. I know that doesn't answer why you're having problems, but I just want to assure you that Linux does work correctly. Now for a shot in the dark, on one of your previous reply's I noticed that you did a 'developer' installation - I wonder if somehow that could be the problem (I'm not a programmer, so I don't know). I would assume that doing that type of install would just install the extra source code for each program, but I don't know for sure. It sounds like you have a pretty fast system, why not try a re-install at just the basic installation? Not to encourage you to waste time, but one of the reasons I've seen a lot of people give up on Linux is not being able to get it to work right away. I personally installed several times with each different distribution that I've tried out, just to get a feel for what that version wanted to leave me with. Guys / gals that have been using Linux forever, would cringe at that advice, but I think it's the best way to get familiar with your system. (That and some books) One more thought, usually when I experience the system running sort of slow, or as you describe the mouse cursor break dancing across the screen, it's because something is running in the background draining the system resources (windows does the same thing). This sort of ties in with the 'developer' install; again I'm not sure what that install does, but it may be running something in the background that doesn't need to be running. Possibly (if you can get your kde desktop open) you could click the icon 'Drakconf', when that window opens click 'startup services' and you can view (and change) which programs start at boot time. I believe you also get this option when you install your system (it's been awhile since I've installed). For example, if you're not on a LAN, you don't need the 'NFS daemon' to start on boot. I also turn off the 'CRON daemon'; you'll have to read through your documentation to see which ones you can live without. And finally, even if you don't do the 'developer' install, you can still install all of the tools you need to write and compile programs (compilers, etc.) just by selecting at install time. I hope this has given you something to work with, if not, try not to get discouraged, Linux is worth it! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -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
Re: [newbie] Mouse Scrolling?
Alan Shoemaker wrote: 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 Thank you very much! I've finally got this thing working and I thought I'd have to live without it! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] CD Audio
I use grip. http://www.nostatic.org/grip/ It requires cdparanoia and lame, which you can download from rpmfind.net. Or if you want from the command line only, use cdparanoia to get the .wav file, and then use lame to convert to .mp3. Grip just does the same thing, only with a GUI interface. Does anyone know of any programs available for making MP3's from CD music? I am old mandrake can do this natively from the command line. Can it and how? Thanks. -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit
[newbie] BOGO Mips
I have a Cyrix MediaGX P233 kit board w/64 RAM, vid (not used, not supported), sound built into the mobo. Is there a write up or chart somewhere with approx. performance/bogomips for different speeds/styles (Intel, AMD, Cyrix) of CPU? TIA Jaguar PS. this box is running at 77 BOGO Mips...-- not sure if that is slow/good/avg./fast??? Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Installing applications and adding them to the application starter
After installation, type "rpm -ql the_program_name" It'll tell you what files it installed. The program will usually go into /usr/bin however, so look there first. I use Gnome, so I don't know about the KDE application starter. Whenever any applications are installed, where do they go? I can install things fine, but afterwards I have to find them. How can I add an app to the KDE application starter? 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 -- 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
vern, you can contact MacMillan and they said they would refund my money. I shipped the package back, I am still waiting. Original Message Follows From: vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:39:54 -0500 I've had similar experiences with MacMillan Mandrake 7.0 plus half of my hardware failed to function (video, floppy, CDROM etc.) I'm back with 6.1 or 6.5 as MacMillan calls it, and happy as a clam. I do regret the $50+ I wasted to learn this lesson, maybe something on those other 5 CD's is useful! Vern On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: On 26/03/00 7:53, steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: 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. Same here. The install was very long, and my machine is much slower than with 6. 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 __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Regular Expressions
I keep running into references to "regular expressions" in different contexts. Where can I learn about regular expressions? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Hi: I am curious. I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on six of my machines. All but one went without a flaw. One did not allow the X-Window to come upon install, so I fuddeled around and got it to allow a text install. As it is in a closet and does not require a perminate monitor, this is fine. What were you problems again. Herman On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: vern, you can contact MacMillan and they said they would refund my money. I shipped the package back, I am still waiting. Original Message Follows From: vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:39:54 -0500 I've had similar experiences with MacMillan Mandrake 7.0 plus half of my hardware failed to function (video, floppy, CDROM etc.) I'm back with 6.1 or 6.5 as MacMillan calls it, and happy as a clam. I do regret the $50+ I wasted to learn this lesson, maybe something on those other 5 CD's is useful! Vern On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: On 26/03/00 7:53, steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: 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. Same here. The install was very long, and my machine is much slower than with 6. 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 __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Brother HJ-400 Printer on Linux
I just recently installed Mandrake 7.0, and I'm trying to get my ancient Brother HJ-400 printer to work on it. I had it working for a while, but then I had to unplug it and move it. Now, it won't work. I can get it to print text, but not postscript. I HAD IT WORKING BEFORE, but then I had to unplug and move it. Has anybody gotten this printer to work on Linux? And, if so, how? Thanks! Kevin Berg "When it breaks, deny it!" __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Herman, I have a K6-2, I have ran 5.2 and 6.0 I had 6.0 running pretty good. Best Buy put 7.0 on sale for $20. 2:40 for the install! 6.0 full install is 20-30 minutes tops. Then the system ran very slow as Charles discribed, something eating up resources horribly. So I did a clean install, destroying my exising installation. No difference. I lost confidence when 5.2 and 6.0 is flawless and 7.0 dies on the same machine. The 3 hour install should have been my first clue as to what was coming.. There must be a hardware problem somewhere as you and others report it runs fine. And no, I wasnt running the win4 install. I even tried creating the boot floppy and running the old text install, no luck. It just sits there forever copying the packages. fwiw steve Original Message Follows From: "Herman R.willett" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 16:50:01 -0600 Hi: I am curious. I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on six of my machines. All but one went without a flaw. One did not allow the X-Window to come upon install, so I fuddeled around and got it to allow a text install. As it is in a closet and does not require a perminate monitor, this is fine. What were you problems again. Herman On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: vern, you can contact MacMillan and they said they would refund my money. I shipped the package back, I am still waiting. Original Message Follows From: vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:39:54 -0500 I've had similar experiences with MacMillan Mandrake 7.0 plus half of my hardware failed to function (video, floppy, CDROM etc.) I'm back with 6.1 or 6.5 as MacMillan calls it, and happy as a clam. I do regret the $50+ I wasted to learn this lesson, maybe something on those other 5 CD's is useful! Vern On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: On 26/03/00 7:53, steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: 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. Same here. The install was very long, and my machine is much slower than with 6. 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 __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Right now X is taking up 14% of my 256 MB of RAM, or around 36 MB of RAM. heh heh... well try as it might linux will not discourage me, I've actually been trying to get various versions to work correctly since last July! Mandrake 7.0 is the first one that even comes close to working out for me. I had to wait for them to get some kind of work around for UDMA 66 in the install, since I'm not too familiar with linux and don't know how to do it myself. Thanks for the info on how it *should* run, it helps to have something to compare against so you know when you have everything running up to par. Just a quick question, how much RAM does X use when you are in linux? For me its like 39megs, and that seems awfully high since people are out there running this on 486's. It may be one of those take what you can get things, and thats why I'm wondering what is used on your system with 192. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Holt Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help I'm dual booting an AMD K6/3 450 (actually booting Win98, NT 4, Mandrake linux, and BeOS 4.5- whew!) I have 192 MB RAM and a mix of both UDMA 33 UDMA 66 hard disks. My Linux system runs just as smooth as Windows. I know that doesn't answer why you're having problems, but I just want to assure you that Linux does work correctly. Now for a shot in the dark, on one of your previous reply's I noticed that you did a 'developer' installation - I wonder if somehow that could be the problem (I'm not a programmer, so I don't know). I would assume that doing that type of install would just install the extra source code for each program, but I don't know for sure. It sounds like you have a pretty fast system, why not try a re-install at just the basic installation? Not to encourage you to waste time, but one of the reasons I've seen a lot of people give up on Linux is not being able to get it to work right away. I personally installed several times with each different distribution that I've tried out, just to get a feel for what that version wanted to leave me with. Guys / gals that have been using Linux forever, would cringe at that advice, but I think it's the best way to get familiar with your system. (That and some books) One more thought, usually when I experience the system running sort of slow, or as you describe the mouse cursor break dancing across the screen, it's because something is running in the background draining the system resources (windows does the same thing). This sort of ties in with the 'developer' install; again I'm not sure what that install does, but it may be running something in the background that doesn't need to be running. Possibly (if you can get your kde desktop open) you could click the icon 'Drakconf', when that window opens click 'startup services' and you can view (and change) which programs start at boot time. I believe you also get this option when you install your system (it's been awhile since I've installed). For example, if you're not on a LAN, you don't need the 'NFS daemon' to start on boot. I also turn off the 'CRON daemon'; you'll have to read through your documentation to see which ones you can live without. And finally, even if you don't do the 'developer' install, you can still install all of the tools you need to write and compile programs (compilers, etc.) just by selecting at install time. I hope this has given you something to work with, if not, try not to get discouraged, Linux is worth it! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -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
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Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem
do you think my winmodem will work it is a lucent chipset. - Original Message - From: steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:05 PM Subject: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem For those needing some confidence to try the Lucent winmodem drivers, even *I* was successful. I am using the Winmodem now. I am using RH6.0, I had previously updated it to a 2.2.9-27mdk kernel. I downloaded the Lucent Zip file. It contains a readme to follow. Running ./ltinst it came back and said this module was compiled for kernel 2.2.12-20 I went to rpmfind.net and downloaded the kernel 2.2.12-20.i386.rpm and installed it. Changed my lilo.conf and ran lilo. Rebooted then tried ./ltinst again. Worked! Fired up Kppp and changed the device to /dev/modem and it worked. (I was using /dev/ttyS1 on an external courier modem) Cool! Kernel in rpm format in which you don't have to compile it. http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/6.1/i386/kernel-2.2.12-20.i386.html Lucent driver: http://www.linmodems.org/#linmodems Get the linux568.zip file. fwiw steve __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
steve harris wrote: Herman, I have a K6-2, I have ran 5.2 and 6.0 I had 6.0 running pretty good. Best Buy put 7.0 on sale for $20. 2:40 for the install! 6.0 full install is 20-30 minutes tops. Then the system ran very slow as Charles discribed, something eating up resources horribly. So I did a clean install, destroying my exising installation. No difference. I lost confidence when 5.2 and 6.0 is flawless and 7.0 dies on the same machine. The 3 hour install should have been my first clue as to what was coming.. There must be a hardware problem somewhere as you and others report it runs fine. And no, I wasnt running the win4 install. I even tried creating the boot floppy and running the old text install, no luck. It just sits there forever copying the packages. fwiw steve Original Message Follows From: "Herman R.willett" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 16:50:01 -0600 Hi: I am curious. I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on six of my machines. All but one went without a flaw. One did not allow the X-Window to come upon install, so I fuddeled around and got it to allow a text install. As it is in a closet and does not require a perminate monitor, this is fine. What were you problems again. Herman On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: vern, you can contact MacMillan and they said they would refund my money. I shipped the package back, I am still waiting. Original Message Follows From: vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:39:54 -0500 I've had similar experiences with MacMillan Mandrake 7.0 plus half of my hardware failed to function (video, floppy, CDROM etc.) I'm back with 6.1 or 6.5 as MacMillan calls it, and happy as a clam. I do regret the $50+ I wasted to learn this lesson, maybe something on those other 5 CD's is useful! Vern On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: On 26/03/00 7:53, steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: 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. Same here. The install was very long, and my machine is much slower than with 6. 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 __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com I downloaded the 7.0-2 iso image and burned it on a cd then did my install from that and everything seems to work just dandy! Maybe the 7.0 to 7.0-2 fixed some bugs?? If you're interested (don't mind the 30 hour download from a 56k line, have a cd burner on hand) you can go to www.linuxberg.com and navigate your way to the distribution page and select from what they have there. Hope that helps, Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] p.s. at this point, I seem to be using about 14MB for 'X'.
Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Well, using one of the graphic programs under X, it says I'm running about 14 MB right now. One thing I just mentioned to another message is, I got my distrib from www.linuxberg.com as an iso download. I got version 7.0-2 from them, not 7.0 - maybe that is the difference? If you don't mind the 30 hour download (getright under windows will let you stop and resume or gFTP under Linux will do the same thing) on a 56k line and if you have a cd burner, this works pretty good; I really haven't had many problems at all (at least that could be considered the fault of Mandrake!) Take care! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charles Ulwelling wrote: heh heh... well try as it might linux will not discourage me, I've actually been trying to get various versions to work correctly since last July! Mandrake 7.0 is the first one that even comes close to working out for me. I had to wait for them to get some kind of work around for UDMA 66 in the install, since I'm not too familiar with linux and don't know how to do it myself. Thanks for the info on how it *should* run, it helps to have something to compare against so you know when you have everything running up to par. Just a quick question, how much RAM does X use when you are in linux? For me its like 39megs, and that seems awfully high since people are out there running this on 486's. It may be one of those take what you can get things, and thats why I'm wondering what is used on your system with 192. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Holt Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help I'm dual booting an AMD K6/3 450 (actually booting Win98, NT 4, Mandrake linux, and BeOS 4.5- whew!) I have 192 MB RAM and a mix of both UDMA 33 UDMA 66 hard disks. My Linux system runs just as smooth as Windows. I know that doesn't answer why you're having problems, but I just want to assure you that Linux does work correctly. Now for a shot in the dark, on one of your previous reply's I noticed that you did a 'developer' installation - I wonder if somehow that could be the problem (I'm not a programmer, so I don't know). I would assume that doing that type of install would just install the extra source code for each program, but I don't know for sure. It sounds like you have a pretty fast system, why not try a re-install at just the basic installation? Not to encourage you to waste time, but one of the reasons I've seen a lot of people give up on Linux is not being able to get it to work right away. I personally installed several times with each different distribution that I've tried out, just to get a feel for what that version wanted to leave me with. Guys / gals that have been using Linux forever, would cringe at that advice, but I think it's the best way to get familiar with your system. (That and some books) One more thought, usually when I experience the system running sort of slow, or as you describe the mouse cursor break dancing across the screen, it's because something is running in the background draining the system resources (windows does the same thing). This sort of ties in with the 'developer' install; again I'm not sure what that install does, but it may be running something in the background that doesn't need to be running. Possibly (if you can get your kde desktop open) you could click the icon 'Drakconf', when that window opens click 'startup services' and you can view (and change) which programs start at boot time. I believe you also get this option when you install your system (it's been awhile since I've installed). For example, if you're not on a LAN, you don't need the 'NFS daemon' to start on boot. I also turn off the 'CRON daemon'; you'll have to read through your documentation to see which ones you can live without. And finally, even if you don't do the 'developer' install, you can still install all of the tools you need to write and compile programs (compilers, etc.) just by selecting at install time. I hope this has given you something to work with, if not, try not to get discouraged, Linux is worth it! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -Original Message- From: Anthony Huereca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday,
Re: [newbie] about to install linux for the first time...
Jonas Berntsson wrote: I'm about to install linux for the first time(mandrake 7.0...or corel linux), wich is the better and what should I keep in mind before/during installation? My system is: athlon 500 riva tnt2 m64 sony cd-rw mag xj770 ibm hdd(ide) us robotics modem.. thanks, Jonas. I've never tried Corel linux, however they are pretty new to the scene and I have heard a few not so good things about them (on this email list). I'm currently using the downloaded version of Mandrake 7.0-2 on both compters at home and it works great. AMD K6/3 450 192MB RAM Maxtor 20GB HDD WD 13GB HDD Pioneer 10x DVD Supra Express 56i V.90 Speaker Phone AMD K6/2 350 64MB RAM Maxtor 8GB HDD Sony 32x CDROM HP i8110 CD/RW both computers boot more that one OS and use Netgear ethernet cards and hub
[newbie] swap partition needed with 128 meg ?
hello, Is it necessary / useful to use a swap partition with 128 meg RAM and a PIII 667MHz to run Linux mandrake 7.0? I didn't found information in the installation guide or howtos. If so, how big should this swap partition be128 meg? bye, Sven.
[newbie] other browsers
anyone know of any other really good web browsers for linux other then netscape ? oh yeah not text based ones like lynx either thanks all -- to the future of linux together let's crush microsoft and free our desktops forever
Re: [newbie] other browsers
magick wrote: anyone know of any other really good web browsers for linux other then netscape ? oh yeah not text based ones like lynx either thanks all -- to the future of linux together let's crush microsoft and free our desktops forever Well, there is the one called Opera for linux and Mozilla I'm sure there are others, but they are not to up to date with how the web is...
[newbie] Installation problem - _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect error
I'm trying to install McMillan's Mandrake 7.0 on a Pentium box. This box will be a dual-boot machine with Win95 if all goes well. Win95 is already installed in a small partition, and I used the PartitionMagic tool to create a big partition for Linux. When I boot off either the CD or the Mandrake diskette all proceeds smoothly through the initial portion of the install. After the screen displays "in second stage install", though, things go bad quickly. I receive an error message reading: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: error=111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: error=111 Sun Mar 26 23:16:00 2000 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 at /usr/lib/perl-install/my_gtk.pm line 139 followed by a few lines of "sending term signals", etc. The process then dies. What is the likely cause of this error? I've never seen anything like this in my previous installs of RedHat or Mandrake 6. Dan Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Configure X problems
I am in a similar boat. Macmillan Mandrake 6.0 installs fine, detects my video card (CL GD-5465), gives me a list of monitors from which I can select mine (MultiSync XV17+). However, when I either try a fresh install, or an upgrade to Mandrake 7.02, when I get to the point of Configure X, I get a different error message: "Could not access undefined array". The only to get beyond this point was to use the boot disk and reload. Of course, X would not work. I tried to use XF86Config to set things up but even though I selected my chip from the list, and set the monitor parameters in a way that I thought was correct, I could not start X. In 6.0, I had XF86Setup installed, and I selected it for installation with 7.02, but it was not there (people have told me that it is easier to use than XF86Config). SO, if you find a solution, I would be interested in hearing what it is. Murray -Original Message- From: Keith Stacks [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, 2000, March, 26 11:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Configure X problems I'm very new to the Linux world, and as such, I have decided to try installing Mandrake Linux 7.0 on one of my machines. The install runs fine up to the point of Configure X. At this point the auto-setup of my video card/monitor fails with the following error: "Could not open default font 'fixed'" I'm running w/the following: Optiquest V775 monitor Matrox Mystique 2 Meg video card 64 Mb Ram (if that even matters) PII 233 (again probably doesn't matter) It asks me to 'change some parameters', which of course, I've tried everything I could think of but to no evail. Anyway, I'm not sure if this is a function of it failing to detect my hardware or the install not correctly configuring/copying the 'fixed' font. Thanks in advance. Keith Stacks
Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem
curtis, go ahead and try it. The instructions come with the lucent download and the program told me what I was doing wrong. (I had to get a new kernel) It figures out what port the lucent is on and creates the /dev/modem link to match it. Try it! Shouldnt hurt anything. (famous last words) Original Message Follows From: "curtis patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 17:30:24 -0800 do you think my winmodem will work it is a lucent chipset. - Original Message - From: steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:05 PM Subject: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem For those needing some confidence to try the Lucent winmodem drivers, even *I* was successful. I am using the Winmodem now. I am using RH6.0, I had previously updated it to a 2.2.9-27mdk kernel. I downloaded the Lucent Zip file. It contains a readme to follow. Running ./ltinst it came back and said this module was compiled for kernel 2.2.12-20 I went to rpmfind.net and downloaded the kernel 2.2.12-20.i386.rpm and installed it. Changed my lilo.conf and ran lilo. Rebooted then tried ./ltinst again. Worked! Fired up Kppp and changed the device to /dev/modem and it worked. (I was using /dev/ttyS1 on an external courier modem) Cool! Kernel in rpm format in which you don't have to compile it. http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/6.1/i386/kernel-2.2.12-20.i386.html Lucent driver: http://www.linmodems.org/#linmodems Get the linux568.zip file. fwiw steve __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] WinTV?
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: Which Wintv cards do you have? Do they come with FM? No FM early wintv stard edition... Seve -Original Message- From: Harold Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, March 26, 2000 7:26 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] WinTV? Ed Tharp wrote: I hope you keep me posted... I too am hoping to get my wintv card to work in Linux try reading up with the mini-howto on BTTV about setting up the wintv card -- Ed Tharp liftrucks.ods.org featherstonewenches.ods.org
Re: [newbie] swap partition needed with 128 meg ?
It is recommended to create a swap partition of a size that's about twice the amount of physical ram in your system. Therefore, if you have 128 meg of ram, make the swap file 250 meg. That is what is recommended. As for why Linux needs a swap file with 128 meg of ram? I'm asking the same question. LOL Spektyr Sven Vermeulen wrote: hello,Is it necessary / useful to use a swap partition with 128 meg RAM and a PIII 667MHz to run Linux mandrake 7.0? I didn't found information in the installation guide or howtos.If so, how big should this swap partition be128 meg?bye,Sven.
[newbie] Alternate advice sources on rebooting.
Sorry this might be kind of a duh question, it was recomended to me to reboot my linux machine about once a month, that I do, and have a cron.monthly to do just this. Does anyone else here know if this is too often, or too little? Thanks -- 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] Alternate advice sources on rebooting.
I have a uptime of nearly 6 months on one of my rh61 boxes we have a rm52 box at work that has a uptime of nearly a year Vic wrote: Sorry this might be kind of a duh question, it was recomended to me to reboot my linux machine about once a month, that I do, and have a cron.monthly to do just this. Does anyone else here know if this is too often, or too little? Thanks -- 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 -- 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] Alternate advice sources on rebooting.
why reboot if its working fine.. linux is not windows... some have run a linux box for a good year or more without a reboot... --- Vic wrote: Sorry this might be kind of a duh question, it was recomended to me to reboot my linux machine about once a month, that I do, and have a cron.monthly to do just this. Does anyone else here know if this is too often, or too little? Thanks -- 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
[newbie] tar
how do i untar a file tar ?v?f filename.tar.gz I forgot the command can anyone tell me? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= My new website made with apache http://compu.dyndns.org/
[newbie] sound
I am using Mandrake 7.0 so far everything went well.install.graphics... This is my first try at Linux and so far I am impressed. One major problem I am having,however, is my sound. I am using a Turtle Beach Montego 2 sound card(aureal semiconductor/vortex 2 as Linux calls it). I tried installing the drivers from linux.aureal.com but got a kernel error message. I tried turning on and off PnP,sndconfig says the card is not supported. Any hope? Thank You in advance! Dan Schlosser
Re: [newbie] tar
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:50:33PM -0500, _-+Richard Kim=-_ wrote: how do i untar a file tar ?v?f filename.tar.gz I forgot the command can anyone tell me? Try "tar xvfz filename.tar.gz" X = extract v = do it verbosely so I can see what's happening f = I'm going to give you the name of the file to untar z = this is a gzip'd file, so gunzip it on the fly Dan Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] tar
_-+Richard Kim=-_ wrote: how do i untar a file tar ?v?f filename.tar.gz I forgot the command can anyone tell me? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= My new website made with apache http://compu.dyndns.org/ tar xvf to untar a .tar file tar zxvf to untar a tar.gz file
Re: [newbie] tar
_-+Richard Kim=-_ wrote: how do i untar a file tar ?v?f filename.tar.gz I forgot the command can anyone tell me? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= My new website made with apache http://compu.dyndns.org/ tar xvzf (filename).tar.gz
[newbie] Re: tar
Richard asked: :how do i untar a file tar ?v?f filename.tar.gz I forgot the command can :anyone tell me? Take a look at this page: http://www.redhat-linux.com.my/faq/common15.html james
[newbie] tar
I have a Sound Blaster PCI128 speaker but cant get it to work on sndconfig. is there a driver I can use? if there is then tell me where to get it and how to install it or just give me some advice...anything will do... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- My new website made with apache http://compu.dyndns.org/
Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem
do you know where there are conexant winmodem drivers for linux, i tried to swap with my other computer which had lucent chipset. but it wouldnt work. (dont ask). so i am gonna try and get this conexant soft56k working. - Original Message - From: steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 4:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem curtis, go ahead and try it. The instructions come with the lucent download and the program told me what I was doing wrong. (I had to get a new kernel) It figures out what port the lucent is on and creates the /dev/modem link to match it. Try it! Shouldnt hurt anything. (famous last words) Original Message Follows From: "curtis patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 17:30:24 -0800 do you think my winmodem will work it is a lucent chipset. - Original Message - From: steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:05 PM Subject: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem For those needing some confidence to try the Lucent winmodem drivers, even *I* was successful. I am using the Winmodem now. I am using RH6.0, I had previously updated it to a 2.2.9-27mdk kernel. I downloaded the Lucent Zip file. It contains a readme to follow. Running ./ltinst it came back and said this module was compiled for kernel 2.2.12-20 I went to rpmfind.net and downloaded the kernel 2.2.12-20.i386.rpm and installed it. Changed my lilo.conf and ran lilo. Rebooted then tried ./ltinst again. Worked! Fired up Kppp and changed the device to /dev/modem and it worked. (I was using /dev/ttyS1 on an external courier modem) Cool! Kernel in rpm format in which you don't have to compile it. http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/6.1/i386/kernel-2.2.12-20.i386.html Lucent driver: http://www.linmodems.org/#linmodems Get the linux568.zip file. fwiw steve __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] browser
Someone asked earlier about browsers. Not really anything other than Netscape. Mozilla is getting better though, M14 is the latest I think. This 4.72 Netscape is better on my old machine than the 4.61 and 4.70 "stable" versions. Download the 4.72 stable versions from this ftp site. ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/6.0/i386/ The single file versions from the Netscape site itself always seemed to be unstable. fwiw steve __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] other browsers
http://www.linux.trix.net/browsers.en.htm and http://www.webreview.com/pub/2000/02/04/feature/index4.html will give you 21 different browsers to choose from (some being text only though). However the main Netscape alternative is Mozilla. You can download it from http://mozilla.org It's an open source Netscape, and pretty good. It's still in development though, so it is sorta buggy. But hopefully it'll continue to improve, and can eventually replace Netscape for the desktop. anyone know of any other really good web browsers for linux other then netscape ? oh yeah not text based ones like lynx either thanks all -- to the future of linux together let's crush microsoft and free our desktops forever -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit
Re: [newbie] Alternate advice sources on rebooting.
Whew, thanks all for the advice. One year I did not need any updates or anything to be reconfigged so I just left it up from one Christmas to the next, then my UPS died. On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Harold Hartley mewed: why reboot if its working fine.. linux is not windows... some have run a linux box for a good year or more without a reboot... --- Vic wrote: Sorry this might be kind of a duh question, it was recomended to me to reboot my linux machine about once a month, that I do, and have a cron.monthly to do just this. Does anyone else here know if this is too often, or too little? Thanks -- 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] swap partition needed with 128 meg ?
William S. Laskorski said: It is recommended to create a swap partition of a size that's about twice the amount of physical ram in your system. Therefore, if you have 128 meg of ram, make the swap file 250 meg. That is what is recommended. I read a pretty good article to the effect that that "rule" was set back when people had less than 64M of RAM. I don't think it's valid any more. More to the point is the kind of work you're going to be doing. Major graphics, for example, takes lots of swap. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [newbie] root
How do I login as root? At the login I typed in root and no password, and it rejected it... 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession- A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A Mission' -Rush 'Mission' -Chris Rasputin http://www.angelfire.com/ne/rasputin1/Rasputin.html
Re: [newbie] sound
Dan wrote: I am using Mandrake 7.0 so far everything went well.install.graphics... This is my first try at Linux and so far I am impressed. One major problem I am having,however, is my sound. I am using a Turtle Beach Montego 2 sound card(aureal semiconductor/vortex 2 as Linux calls it). I tried installing the drivers from linux.aureal.com but got a kernel error message. I tried turning on and off PnP,sndconfig says the card is not supported. Any hope? Thank You in advance! Dan Schlosser Dan; I had the same problems. I have an Aureal Semiconductor, Vortex 2 Pro. You can go to http://www.4front-tech.com , they all sorts of sound drivers. It cost me $30; but, it was worth getting my sound to work. Isn't linux great -- Bruce :-)
Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem
curtis patrick wrote: do you know where there are conexant winmodem drivers for linux, i tried to swap with my other computer which had lucent chipset. but it wouldnt work. (dont ask). so i am gonna try and get this conexant soft56k working. - Original Message - From: steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 4:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem curtis, go ahead and try it. The instructions come with the lucent download and the program told me what I was doing wrong. (I had to get a new kernel) It figures out what port the lucent is on and creates the /dev/modem link to match it. Try it! Shouldnt hurt anything. (famous last words) Original Message Follows From: "curtis patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 17:30:24 -0800 do you think my winmodem will work it is a lucent chipset. - Original Message - From: steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:05 PM Subject: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem For those needing some confidence to try the Lucent winmodem drivers, even *I* was successful. I am using the Winmodem now. I am using RH6.0, I had previously updated it to a 2.2.9-27mdk kernel. I downloaded the Lucent Zip file. It contains a readme to follow. Running ./ltinst it came back and said this module was compiled for kernel 2.2.12-20 I went to rpmfind.net and downloaded the kernel 2.2.12-20.i386.rpm and installed it. Changed my lilo.conf and ran lilo. Rebooted then tried ./ltinst again. Worked! Fired up Kppp and changed the device to /dev/modem and it worked. (I was using /dev/ttyS1 on an external courier modem) Cool! Kernel in rpm format in which you don't have to compile it. http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/6.1/i386/kernel-2.2.12-20.i386.html Lucent driver: http://www.linmodems.org/#linmodems Get the linux568.zip file. fwiw steve __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Try http://www.linmodem.org or it maybe http://www.linmodem.com it's one or the other. Hope it helps. Bruce :-)
[newbie] sound help
how do you configure sound in mandrake 7.0-2
[newbie] Re: tar
Vic wrote: :While we are on the subject, how does one :tar a file rather than untar? The url I gave earlier tells you how to do that, as well. http://www.redhat-linux.com.my/faq/common15.html james
[newbie] mounting disk shares of another linux box
"Chadley" == Chadley Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Chadley please could someone tellme howto get rpc working in Chadley mdk7.02 if i need it Unfortunately I dont think mdk7.02 Chadley has any howtos so I can only refer to the man pages and Chadley the are not telling me enough. thanks chadley 012 333 Chadley 2276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chadley [root@amd /root]# mount -t nfs cyrix:/root /cyrix mount: Chadley RPC: Program not registered [root@amd /root]# [snip] There's more to rpc than nfs, and you need a couple of things running to do nfs. You don't get rpc running, you get something running which does rpc. Is nfsd running on your machines? What does 'ps ax|grep nfs' return, on each machine? Read the NFS-Howto: http://howto.tucows.com/otherhowto/NFS-HOWTO and numerous other places on the net. The error message 'Program not registered' is specifically mentioned in the Howto. I learned that the error message appeared therein, by searching for 'RPC: Program not registered' at http://www.google.com/linux. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 26 St Margaret Clitherow "Mediaeval man endured frightful fasts; but none of them would have dreamed of seriously proposing that nobody anywhere should ever have wine anymore." [G.K. Chesterton, in The Well and the Shallows]
Re: [newbie] Re: tar
Vic wrote: While we are on the subject, how does one tar a file rather than untar? On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Michael Holt mewed: James wrote: Richard asked: :how do i untar a file tar ?v?f filename.tar.gz I forgot the command can :anyone tell me? Take a look at this page: http://www.redhat-linux.com.my/faq/common15.html james To untar a file 'filename.tar', type the command: tar -xvf filename.tar. To unzip a file 'filename.tar.gz', type the command: gunzip filename.tar.gz These work best for me I would also type the command: man tar and then you can find what the different options do. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 Here's a shot in the dark - does it list the tar options in the man or info files? I've used Winzip for windows, but just haven't needed to tar or zip a file in Linux yet. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] root
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 03/26/2000 9:15:01 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Type in root and your password. Root requires a password. How do I login as root? At the login I typed in root and no password, and it rejected it... -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit I've tried this as well, and it didn't work...Back to square one... 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession- A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A Mission' -Rush 'Mission' -Chris Rasputin http://www.angelfire.com/ne/rasputin1/Rasputin.html Try logging on as a user and then type the command 'su' and give your root password when it asks for it. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] sound help
same way you did, in 6.1 either sndconfg or use lothar curtis patrick wrote: how do you configure sound in mandrake 7.0-2 -- ===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] Soyo S6 IWM/L
"Jim Del Cañamo" wrote: Please Anybody wich work with Soyo S6 IWM/L motherboard and its fucking on board chipsets Help me Please I want to run Mandrake in this mother Urgent!!! Lic. Gabriel Spahn Argentina [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com First, as I believe someone has already said on a reply from this list, TONE DOWN YOUR LANGUAGE! Second, try to give a little more detail as to what the problem is and I'm sure we would love to help you. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] sound help
curtis patrick wrote: how do you configure sound in mandrake 7.0-2 'sndconfig' should work, although it should have been detected when you did the installation. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] sound help
curtis patrick wrote: how do you configure sound in mandrake 7.0-2 Curtis; From a terminal session (CTRL-ALT-F1) (CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to xwindows) and login as "root"; then type sndconfig (this is automatic; if that doesn't work; try) sndconfig --noprobe (this is manual, and you'll have to have info on your card I/O, IRQ, DMA; if that doesn't work) go to http://www.4front-tech.com they have all sort of sound drivers for linux. You can download a free trial to see if it works; if it does, you'll have to pay. Hope it helps. Bruce :-)
Re: [newbie] root
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 03/26/2000 9:15:01 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Type in root and your password. Root requires a password. How do I login as root? At the login I typed in root and no password, and it rejected it... -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit I've tried this as well, and it didn't work...Back to square one... 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession- A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A Mission' -Rush 'Mission' -Chris Rasputin http://www.angelfire.com/ne/rasputin1/Rasputin.html try adding tty1..tty6 to /etc/securetty each on a separate line. man securetty.
RE: [newbie] slow Linux
Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me earlier today... later charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of HAL 9000 Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 8:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] slow Linux hello all.. i just installed Mandrake and i used a larger swap partition. now its acting a bit laggy. i have SETI@Home running, but it has never acted the way it is now. i can watch the windows maximizing and iconifying aand its a bit "jumpy when that happens. any ideas? thanks seth
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help(numbers on usage)
I am in an ext2 and I have a large swap space set up. I got it figured out. It was just a problem with Mandrake loading up a bunch of useless crap(for a beginner like me its useless). Plus there were 10-15 versions of apache running at a time... that was like 35-40 megs of mem right there. thanks though later -Original Message- From: Mike Fieschko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 8:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help(numbers on usage) "Charles" == Charles Ulwelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles My mem usuage is this X 38M kfm 9M kbgndwm 7M kdm 7M Charles Kpanel 5M and various others at 5 to 6 M until all the Charles memory is used up, another thing is there are 10 Charles instances of httpd taking up over 3M's each. I don't Charles know what this process is but I can't kill any of them, I Charles get an error when I try. You say 'various others' at 5 - 6 Mb. What 'various others'? To stop the httpd processes, you need to do a 'httpd stop' as root, in the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory (I think.). To prevent the httpd daemon from starting each time you start linux, you must be root and run 'setup' and go into "System Services" and deselect the httpd box. Go through what is being started automatically at boot time, when you are in 'setup' System Services, and you'll probably see some other daemons you truly do not need. Charles As for the CPU its utilization is down around 10% or so Charles and ktop is what is using it. [snip] If your cursor / system is slow to respond, and top shows only 10% cpu utilization, then something else is dragging down your system. A dumb question: you are running Linux in an ext2 filesystem (and not Linux4Win or otherwise on a umsdos filesystem), no? You do have a swap _partition_ set up and in use, no? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 26 St Margaret Clitherow "Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Daily News, 2/21/02]
[newbie] sound help
I have a Sound Blaster PCI128 speaker but cant get it to work on sndconfig. is there a driver I can use? if there is then tell me where to get it and how to install it or just give me some advice...anything will do... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- My new website made with apache http://compu.dyndns.org/
Re: [newbie] slow Linux
Charles Ulwelling wrote: Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me earlier today... later charles Ulwelling nope, not one instance of httpd seti@home is taking up about 27% of my CPU... would that greatly affect the performance?? seth
Re: [newbie] root
When you did your install of Mandrake or what ever one you are using you are instructed to create a user with a password. You are also told to put a password on the root access. If you did not then I would recommend doing the install again and this time WRITE DOWN THE PASSWORD so you can use it the next time you need it. That is what I have had to do, besides you learn more about your system and find that more software will be add the next time you do an install. Why this happens I do not know, you would have to ask the "GURRUUES" at 'Macmillan' and co. don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 21:34:42 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I login as root? At the login I typed in root and no password, and it rejected it... 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession- A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A Mission' -Rush 'Mission' -Chris Rasputin http://www.angelfire.com/ne/rasputin1/Rasputin.html YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
I agree with the different installs to see what your system is doing with and in each. I am NOT a programmer nor even a hacker, just piddler and wanting to learn as much as I possibly can about MY system. If what I learn can be of any use for anyone else then I will pass it on for all. I DO NOT keep anything to myself if it will benefit any others. As you can see from the postings put forth from my addy, mostly useless rhetoric. I have done the 'Developer' install some time back and do not recall exactly what all took place either. I have had the mouse doing the 'Jerks' and pauses all over the place. The HDD light usually is lighting up the room when that is happening, very busy, even when nothing has been started. There have been times when 'Ctl+Alt+ Backspace' would not even work. After about 1/2 hour I did the NO NO, RESET to regain the HIGH ground. I would recommend doing the reload as though it were a fresh 'Install' so the Partitions will be reformatted for you and if there is any software that had been installed that was not really needed would be removed before you do an install that is more conducive to what you would like. Have fun and learn from the experiences, don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 13:15:21 -0800 Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm dual booting an AMD K6/3 450 (actually booting Win98, NT 4, Mandrake linux, and BeOS 4.5- whew!) I have 192 MB RAM and a mix of both UDMA 33 UDMA 66 hard disks. My Linux system runs just as smooth as Windows. I know that doesn't answer why you're having problems, but I just want to assure you that Linux does work correctly. Now for a shot in the dark, on one of your previous reply's I noticed that you did a 'developer' installation - I wonder if somehow that could be the problem (I'm not a programmer, so I don't know). I would assume that doing that type of install would just install the extra source code for each program, but I don't know for sure. It sounds like you have a pretty fast system, why not try a re-install at just the basic installation? Not to encourage you to waste time, but one of the reasons I've seen a lot of people give up on Linux is not being able to get it to work right away. I personally installed several times with each different distribution that I've tried out, just to get a feel for what that version wanted to leave me with. Guys / gals that have been using Linux forever, would cringe at that advice, but I think it's the best way to get familiar with your system. (That and some books) One more thought, usually when I experience the system running sort of slow, or as you describe the mouse cursor break dancing across the screen, it's because something is running in the background draining the system resources (windows does the same thing). This sort of ties in with the 'developer' install; again I'm not sure what that install does, but it may be running something in the background that doesn't need to be running. Possibly (if you can get your kde desktop open) you could click the icon 'Drakconf', when that window opens click 'startup services' and you can view (and change) which programs start at boot time. I believe you also get this option when you install your system (it's been awhile since I've installed). For example, if you're not on a LAN, you don't need the 'NFS daemon' to start on boot. I also turn off the 'CRON daemon'; you'll have to read through your documentation to see which ones you can live without. And finally, even if you don't do the 'developer' install, you can still install all of the tools you need to write and compile programs (compilers, etc.) just by selecting at install time. I hope this has given you something to work with, if not, try not to get discouraged, Linux is worth it! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -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
Re: [[newbie] IPCHAINS/MASQ/FORWARDING]
"Jaguar" == Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Jaguar yes there is a /proc/sys/net/ipv4 it has DIRS for /conf Jaguar /neigh /route, and a buncha other files no I didn't Jaguar compile a kernel There are many options for IP, and experimental support for IPv6. What specifically are you looking for with IPv4 Jaguar I want to share my cable modem with 3 other Win boxes and Jaguar use Linux as a firewall/proxy There ought to be a how-to on this, because so many people with high speed connections ask about it. You need to set up ip masquerading, as you already know. You need the MS Win boxes to be talking tcp/ip, as you know. For cable modem sharing: http://www.cablemodeminfo.com/cablesharing.html (I found that site from among the matches returned by http://www.google.com/linux , searching on "cable modem sharing". Take a look at http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/linux.html (the Preparing your linux box for the Internet site [security]) and the ipchains-howto, which ought to be on your box. I have some links to scripts and other things at http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/linux_security.htm. Unless the modules are already loaded, you'll need to modprobe them: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_autofw /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_cuseeme /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_mfw /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_portfw /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_quake /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_user /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_vdolive (This is probably excessive.) Jaguar I have run the /proc/(something's??)/ip_chains, and got Jaguar PERMISSION 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' ? Jaguar yes it gave a PERMISSION DENIED Bizarre. On my box /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward is owned by root in group root, and for ip masquerading, I have to do 'echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward' as root, and it works. If I do it as non-root, I get 'bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission denied' -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 27 St John Damascene "Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophic conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor. I think his family will find him at the end of the day in a state of some exhaustion." [G.K. Chesterton, in Heretics]
[newbie] IP Masquerading
I am contemplating building a Pentium Pro 200 machine to use as a server for my home network (1 linux machine, 2 windows machines, a Mac, and another PC coming soon...). I can't get enough IP's from @home (cable service provider) to get all the machines on my network online, and figured using linux for IP masquerading would be a good way to go. I have heard that getting web browsing set up isn't too difficult, but that things like gaming and chatting via AOL's IM or ICQ would not work. Where do I look for information on setting these services up? Is this even something I want to get into? Would it be easier to try to setup in (dare I say it?) NT? Thanks. Brian
Re: [newbie] root
"CMi1255179" == CMi1255179 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CMi1255179 In a message dated 03/26/2000 9:15:01 PM Central CMi1255179 Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Type in root and your password. Root requires a password. [snip] CMi1255179 I've tried this as well, and it didn't work...Back to CMi1255179 square one... Can you login as a user and do 'su' and get root after entering the root password? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 27 St John Damascene "The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Introduction to the Book of Job, 1907]
Re: [newbie] Regular Expressions
Well, you can learn about them in the "perlre" manpage. "man perlre", FYI. On Mar 26 Lane Lester wrote: I keep running into references to "regular expressions" in different contexts. Where can I learn about regular expressions? -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] root
Or, if you want to save yourself the work of reinstalling the system again, just to punch in one stupid password, you might could type "linux 1" at the LILO-prompt, which will take you to a single-user shell with root-access. Then type "passwd" once it's booted, and provide a password. This is from now on the root-password. After having done this, simply reboot (type "reboot" or "shutdown -r now", or just press CTRL-ALT-DEL) and try logging in again. Also note that if your security level is too high, you won't be able to log in as root. That's one of those silly rules the mandrake-team has come up with. On Mar 26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you did your install of Mandrake or what ever one you are using you are instructed to create a user with a password. You are also told to put a password on the root access. If you did not then I would recommend doing the install again and this time WRITE DOWN THE PASSWORD so you can use it the next time you need it. That is what I have had to do, besides you learn more about your system and find that more software will be add the next time you do an install. Why this happens I do not know, you would have to ask the "GURRUUES" at 'Macmillan' and co. don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 21:34:42 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I login as root? At the login I typed in root and no password, and it rejected it... 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession- A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A Mission' -Rush 'Mission' -Chris Rasputin http://www.angelfire.com/ne/rasputin1/Rasputin.html YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
[newbie] Unnecessary services at startup, Was: Linux is so slow... Please help(numbers on usage)
"Charles" == Charles Ulwelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles I am in an ext2 and I have a large swap space set up. I Charles got it figured out. It was just a problem with Mandrake Charles loading up a bunch of useless crap(for a beginner like me Charles its useless). Plus there were 10-15 versions of apache Charles running at a time... that was like 35-40 megs of mem Charles right there. [snip] This points out something which Linux has carried over from its history primarily in a server style operation. Too much stuff gets started by default, if a user installs more packages than is truly needed. Example: I installed postgresql and mysql and apache to fool around with. I don't need a postgresql or mysql or apache server running all the time, only when I want it to. Yet, Linux does start them on bootup, and I have to manually remove them from the initialization. Now that more and more desktops are running Linux with the only networking being done being the internet, end users don't see the true performance of Linux, since too many processes are running, consuming too much memory. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 27 St John Damascene "My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday." - [G.K. Chesterton, in New York Times Magazine, 2/11/23]
[newbie] Installation problem
I'm trying to install Mandrake 7 on a Pentium 100 with a 32 Mb Memory. When I boot off through diskette it process smoothly through the initial portion of the installation. After the screen display "second stage install" things go bad I receive an error message reading: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: error=111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: error=111 Sun Mar 26 23:16:00 2000 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 at /usr/lib/perl-install/my_gtk.pm line 139 He cannot perform installation in the second stage. What shall I do to solve that problem? John Alex M. Reyroso
Re: [newbie] slow Linux
"HAL" == HAL 9000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] HAL nope, not one instance of httpd seti@home is taking up HAL about 27% of my CPU... would that greatly affect the HAL performance?? Hello, HAL. Yes. (Why is _HAL_ running seti@home, anyway ? ;-) ) -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 27 St John Damascene "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Everlasting Man, 1925]
