[newbie] Fast CPU
Can you please point me at a site (independent) that I can compare the new fast CPUs (P4 1.4, Dual G4, Athlon) Yes I know G4 is a MAC. Which one do you think is best for Linux??? Thanks
[newbie] BIG problem on bootup. :( Please help.
I have Mandrake 7.2 setup and configured to boot and log in graphically. It seems to work as far as it goes, which is up to the shell-login screen. After that, the screen just goes black. :( :( :( the tail of my /var/log/messages says: Dec 27 18:57:15 revenant anacron: anacron startup succeeded Dec 27 18:57:15 revenant anacron[772]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2000-12-27 Dec 27 18:57:15 revenant rc: Starting kheader: succeeded Dec 27 18:57:15 revenant netconf: Checking kernel configuration Dec 27 18:57:16 revenant anacron[772]: Normal exit (0 jobs run) Dec 27 18:57:16 revenant linuxconf: Running Linuxconf hooks: succeeded Dec 27 18:57:24 revenant PAM_unix[806]: (system-auth) session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0) Dec 27 18:57:24 revenant -- root[806]: ROOT LOGIN ON tty1 Dec 27 18:57:27 revenant kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2] Dec 27 18:57:27 revenant kernel: parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation. Dec 27 18:57:27 revenant kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present. Dec 27 18:57:27 revenant kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling). Dec 27 18:57:27 revenant modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4 Dec 27 18:57:28 revenant last message repeated 67 times Dec 27 18:57:28 revenant modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-180 What please can I do to get this working again? Thank you, Revenant. Society Design Mailing List http://www.egroups.com/group/Society_Design For any and all aspects of designing societies, from discussion of real- world utopian ideas to fantastic fictional or roleplaying worlds. ---Revenant [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] --
Re: [newbie] Fast CPU
i think p4 is good, my desktop is a p4 1.4ghz, but i read somewhere that 1.4 ghz arent too compatible with linux unless you have the latest kernel...so get the latest version of the distrobution you prefer so you'll be less likely to not have an incompatible computer, so either go with the amd or p4, i'd go with the p4
[newbie] No LS-120 or CDROMs after install(FAQ)
Jeffrey Norris was kind enough to send me info on his system, and the analysis techniques will serve to illustrate what install wasn't built to anticipate. First, his dmesg output showed the following: hda --CDRW hdb--CDROM hdc--LS-120 hde--8.6G HDD ATA/66 hdf--13.2GHDD ATA/33 #Ummm, better performance if you move that to another channel like hdg or hdd, though it will be a hardly noticeable difference, even if you then equip hde with the ATA/66 cable. Next, here was /etc/fstab /dev/hdf5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdf7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/hdc 0 0 /dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdf1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdf6 swap swap defaults 0 0 OK the cdrom* has two drives--normal except the LS-120 shows up only as a floppy, and it is tagged as /dev/hdc, properly... but not necessarily---the presence of the ide-scsi module may have moved it to /dev/sda Now, what about the /dev directory? Where do the symbolic links cdrom and cdrom2 point? Output from ls -l /dev/cdrom* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 Dec 22 18:12 /dev/cdrom - hda lrwxrwxrwx1 root root8 Dec 22 23:13 /dev/cdrom1 -/dev/hdb EGAD! Two bad links in one day! fix it thus, in a console, as root rm /dev/cdrom -f rm /dev/cdrom1 -f ln -s /dev/hda /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom2 chmod a+rwx /dev/cdrom chmod a+rwx /dev/cdrom2 then your new output to this 'ls -l /dev/cdrom*' command should be: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 Dec 22 18:12 /dev/cdrom - /dev/hda lrwxrwxrwx1 root root8 Dec 22 23:13 /dev/cdrom2 -/dev/hdb Next. /etc/lilo.conf looks like boot=/dev/hde map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdf5 append=" hda=ide-scsi" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hdf5 append=" hda=ide-scsi" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hdf5 append=" hda=ide-scsi failsafe" read-only other=/dev/hde1 label=windows table=/dev/hde other=/dev/hdf1 label=windows2 table=/dev/hdf map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe This needs one change so the ls-120 will work To change it, open a Konsole su - password:(give te root password) # joe /etc/lilo.conf Once you are in. the editor ctrl-K H brings up a menu of commands Other editors that could be used are kedit, pico, emacs(not easy for newbies), cooledit, vi(difficult for newbies), jed, nedit Here is the changed file boot=/dev/hde map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdf5 append=" hda=ide-scsi hdc=ide-floppy" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hdf5 append=" hda=ide-scsi hdc=ide-floppy" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hdf5 append=" hda=ide-scsi hdc=ide-floppy failsafe" read-only other=/dev/hde1 label=windows table=/dev/hde other=/dev/hdf1 label=windows2 table=/dev/hdf map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 other=/dev/hdc label=floppy unsafe Almost done... Now we need to make sure this ide-floppy loads, and we need to figure out if we can access the LS-120 as scsi or ide. First the LS-120, put a dos-formatted disk in the device (a floppy, not an LS-120 cartridge) with a file on it. Try this in your Konsole # mkdir /mnt/ls120 # mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/ls120 If you do not get an error message, then # ls /mnt/ls120 and if you see the file, then change /etc/fstab(with joe or your favorite editor) so the line with dev=/dev/hdc is dev=/dev/sda. If you get an error messge or do not see the file, then # ls /mnt/floppy If you then see the file, the problem is with the floppy icon on your desktop. exit the superuser mode on the console and right-click the floppy icon. Select "properties" and then choose the URL tab and make sure the entry there is /mnt/floppy. Please note that supermount will mount ONLY vfat or DOS/Windows formatted floppies and ls120 cartridges. There is a way to change that, but not many good reasons to. You can use mkbootdisk with an option for /dev/hdc as well as the correct version designation, and an ls120 cartrudge
Re: [newbie] FW: Use of keybordsymbols screwed-up after inst. Drake 7.2
On Tuesday 26 December 2000 19:33, you wrote: -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Francois Fonken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: dinsdag 26 december 2000 19:21 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Use of keybordsymbols screwed-up after inst. Drake 7.2 Hello,hello! Im totally newbie so i was very surprised the install of drake 7.2 worked well (except connecting to the internet by cable .later). Everthing looked fine after first startup, but when I tried to use some commandlines I found that my keybordsymbols output didnt match the symbols I was typing. So now I cant use the OS well (not to say at all) Ive tried different installation setups and different desktops but problem stays. I use a logitech Itouch wireless desktop set (PS/2) Help Francois [EMAIL PROTECTED] E, well, selecting language and keyboard are two separate operations during install. Select the language of your choice then select the keyboard that you actually have. I have some trouble touch-typing on a French keyboard because the keys are in different positions, for example. Civileme Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Flashing BIOS under Linux?
On Tuesday 26 December 2000 20:20, you wrote: On Tuesday 26 December 2000 12:49 pm, Vic wrote: Can it be done or will I need to make a dos boot disc? I have only Linux on here, no dos or windows. Depends on the bios vendor which means you'll almost certainly need to boot DOS.http://bootdisk.com And, if you want to go really fancy, try http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/ If they have one for your board Why use 20-year-old technology on your computer at all? Civileme
Re: [newbie] Fast CPU
sorry we in india only prefer intel chipsOn Wed, 27 Dec 2000, John Arkoulis wrote: Can you please point me at a site (independent) that I can compare the new fast CPUs (P4 1.4, Dual G4, Athlon) Yes I know G4 is a MAC. Which one do you think is best for Linux??? Thanks -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax:0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in
Re: [newbie] How many partitions?
the original linux doc says that it is enough to have about 300 M for the / and as much as u need like 2400M for /usr and about 300 M for /home and any other partition you will like. Having separate partitions help you manage the machine properly and allows easier upgrades and so on. however i have only one partition / which is a complete hdd of 4 GB and have had no problems. All other things are in separate directories!!On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading about partitioning quite a lot, but none of the places I've read really give any reasons for their suggestions. I know you can have all of Linux in one partition, but I'd like to do it the best way. From various places I've seen separate partitions for /, /boot, /usr, /var, and /home. How are these more useful separated out over many partitions? What kind of space would they typically take up? What is the functionallity of these partitions? How do I tell Linux that I've created separate partitions for /usr and /var for instance? Thanks, Jake _NetZero Free Internet Access and Email__ http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax:0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in
[newbie] ls-120 on parallel port
Hi anyone know a way to get an LS-120 drive to work with mandrake linux 7.2? I've been to imations site and no linux drivers are avaible :( Any ideas would be appreciated James
[newbie] Netcomm USB Modem Unrecognised
All, I've have tried looking around for information regarding configuring USB modems but haven't had too much luck. Maybe someone can help me. I have just installed LM 7.2 and can't get my modem working. I'm not 100% sure it is supported, Netcomm Roadster II 56K USB. If I check under USB devices it has the modems details but HardDrake cannot locate it. KPPP says the modem is busy on port selections ttyS2 or modem. I believe my modem is connected to COM3 or ttyS2 (well thats what it was on Windows). I have tried all ports to no avail. I read some stuff on setserial which mentioned something about conflicting irq's. I noticed ttyS0 and ttyS2 are both on irq 4. I have tried changing irq's, no change. I haven't loaded any drivers 'cause I haven't got any for linux. Is this my problem ?? I'm way out of my depth here and any help would be much appreciated. Cheers Paul _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] Installing StarOffice 5.2
Charles, Thanks very much :-). Got it configured at long last. On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: You need to edit the javarc file. You will find it in office52/user/config The 2nd line reads ExcludeVersion Comment out the entry for 1.2.2 Save the changes and exit the editor. From the office52/program folder run jvmsetup. Both your java runtimes as well as Sun JDK will now be listed and you can assoc the one of your choice to run with StarOffice. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lionel Chan Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 9:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installing StarOffice 5.2 Merry Christmas, I have Mandrake 7.2 (PowerPack Deluxe) installed. When I setup StarOffice 5.2 the Java Setup Window says "No Java Runtime Environment was found which can be used by StarOffice" The "Java and JavaScript are not supported" button was automatically selected. I've the following runtine environment installed: - jre-blackdown 1.2.2-0.4mdk Java(RM) 2 Runtime Environment jre-sun 1.2.2-2mdk Java(RM) 2 Runtime Environment Even if I were to tell the setup program where the above runtime were I'm still out of luck. Any idea where I've gone wrong? Tks very much. -- CHAN Kin Poon
Re: [newbie] Installing StarOffice 5.2
Thanks for the adv. BTW, what are the problems I can expect form it? CHAN kin Poon -- On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, you wrote: On Tuesday 26 December 2000 15:12, you wrote: Merry Christmas, I have Mandrake 7.2 (PowerPack Deluxe) installed. When I setup StarOffice 5.2 the Java Setup Window says "No Java Runtime Environment was found which can be used by StarOffice" The "Java and JavaScript are not supported" button was automatically selected. I've the following runtine environment installed: - jre-blackdown 1.2.2-0.4mdk Java(RM) 2 Runtime Environment jre-sun 1.2.2-2mdk Java(RM) 2 Runtime Environment Even if I were to tell the setup program where the above runtime were I'm still out of luck. Any idea where I've gone wrong? Tks very much. -- CHAN Kin Poon Well, it looks for jdk, not jre these days, but I have found SO5.2 and Java don't seem to get along--even when installed by the manual. Civileme -- CHAN Kin Poon
Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart Boxed version CD
On Wednesday 27 December 2000 02:41, you wrote: Gang: Just received the Mandrake upgrade CD you can get when you register your Wal-Mart retail boxed version. Haven't stuck it on yet, but was glad that it did come. Riker Please note that there are special install instructions if you used expert mode install and selected everything in your original install. They can be found here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72last.php3 at the bottom of the page Civileme
Re: [newbie] No LS-120 or CDROMs after install(FAQ)
Next. /etc/lilo.conf looks like What if you are using GRUB? Does it use the lilo settings?
Re: [newbie] CDROM not always there
On Wednesday 27 December 2000 04:33, you wrote: Christmastide greetings to you all! I have been using Linux for three days now, (after more than 20 attempts, was finally able to get a stable version of Linux-Mandrake 7.2 installed!) but I have a vexing problem. The rpmdrake has no problem retrieving packages from the L-M Complete CD's using my cdrom, but I can not use other data CD's on it. Specifically, I have a StarOffice 5. CD from Sun, which has a Linux version which I would like to install and compare with the StarOffice 5.2 distro that came with L-M Complete. The Linux manual that came with the StarOffice CD says I should type: cd /cdrom/linux/soffice51 but when I do that, I get [root@localhost /root]# cd /cdrom/linux/office51 bash: cd: /cdrom/linux/office51: No such file or directory I have similar failure when trying to access any of the texts on a library style CD. I talked with the sales rep at the store where I bought L-M 7.2, and he said I should just click on the CD icon on my KDE desktop. The problem with that is that I have no such icon. Your help is needed! Attached are some things Jeffrey was asked to provide, I hope they help. Those are all good--no install problem except the icon try with cd /mnt/cdrom Also, RIGHT-CLICK on your KDE screen and Create New-CDROM Device click through the tabs at the top and on the Device Tab, use the drop-down list to select /dev/cdrom or /mnt/cdrom depending on whether you installed with supermount enabled or not. Civileme
Re: [newbie] CDROM not always there
On Wednesday 27 December 2000 05:00, you wrote: Bringup a terminal...su to root...then type kpackage it's still in the version...just not in the menu. and rather broken till you reach KDE2.01 Civileme Kipling Cooper wrote: Christmastide greetings to you all! I have been using Linux for three days now, (after more than 20 attempts, was finally able to get a stable version of Linux-Mandrake 7.2 installed!) but I have a vexing problem. The rpmdrake has no problem retrieving packages from the L-M Complete CD's using my cdrom, but I can not use other data CD's on it. Specifically, I have a StarOffice 5. CD from Sun, which has a Linux version which I would like to install and compare with the StarOffice 5.2 distro that came with L-M Complete. The Linux manual that came with the StarOffice CD says I should type: cd /cdrom/linux/soffice51 but when I do that, I get [root@localhost /root]# cd /cdrom/linux/office51 bash: cd: /cdrom/linux/office51: No such file or directory I have similar failure when trying to access any of the texts on a library style CD. I talked with the sales rep at the store where I bought L-M 7.2, and he said I should just click on the CD icon on my KDE desktop. The problem with that is that I have no such icon. Your help is needed! SNIP
[newbie] NVdia RIVA 128ZX
I am trying to install Mandrake 7.2 in a Pentium III 500 with a Vortex 1 sound card and a NVdia RIVA 128Z video card. The first problem, the sound, has finally been solved. Using the au88xx- 1.1.1 driver now it is running. The video card runs, but there are some problems with the acceleration. Mandrake have installed the XFree86 3, the installer option to have acceleration was this, because it seems that Xfree 4 has not this card with 3D support. In fact Chromium is running, but others programs that use acceleration show problems. In tuxkart the screen is blue when playing. Tuxracer goes well, but the penguin is absolutely white and the colors of the landscape are not OK. Quake 3 starts, but after the initial screen it crashes. In the Nvidia web page there are some drivers, but it seems that they are only for XFree 4 and video cards newest that the RIVA 128Z. Does anybody experience with this video card? Any help will be welcome. Thanks for your help Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)
Re: [newbie] floppy problems
How goes it for you? I've not had time to try yet. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/ Will tell you step-by-step on a CDRW, including fixing the bad link made by kudzu.
Re: [newbie] How many partitions?
Also, I plan to have Linux and Windows on the same disk. Can I place logical Linux partitions in an extended partition that also contains logical FAT32 partitions? Date sent: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 13:55:28 +0530 (IST) From: Mr S Ganesan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] How many partitions? Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] the original linux doc says that it is enough to have about 300 M for the / and as much as u need like 2400M for /usr and about 300 M for /home and any other partition you will like. Having separate partitions help you manage the machine properly and allows easier upgrades and so on. however i have only one partition / which is a complete hdd of 4 GB and have had no problems. All other things are in separate directories!!On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading about partitioning quite a lot, but none of the places I've read really give any reasons for their suggestions. I know you can have all of Linux in one partition, but I'd like to do it the best way. From various places I've seen separate partitions for /, /boot, /usr, /var, and /home. How are these more useful separated out over many partitions? What kind of space would they typically take up? What is the functionallity of these partitions? How do I tell Linux that I've created separate partitions for /usr and /var for instance? Thanks, Jake _NetZero Free Internet Access and Email__ http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone:0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax: 0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in NetZero Free Internet Access and Email_ Download Now http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Request a CDROM 1-800-333-3633 ___
Re: [newbie] Books about Linux
any of the O'Reily books. specifically: Linux in a Nutshell (3rd edition look out, the bookstore i went to had 2nd 3rd edition mixed on the shelf) Running Linux both of those are good for the newbie the nutshell book will be useable for a long time as it covers all the command line commands and their switches, in addition to setting up and configureing LILO, also using VI and all sorts of other stuff. in addition, these two books do not assume you are using Red Hat (as many do) and do not assume you are doing everything in KDE (as many do). they tell you how to operate from the command line primarily and toss in a few things about KDE and Gnome. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] back focus [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10:57:14 PM 12/24/00 Howdy folks. I figure that I'll be getting some gift certificates from the bookstore this Christmas. I am a complete newbie to linux. I installed Mandrake 7.2 this weekend, and except for a minor issue with ppp, it went on without a hitch. Now, I want to learn to use my new toy. Could any suggest some good books to learn linux with? I have a very strong windows background, but need some suggestions to learn linux. Anything you could offer would be helpful! Hoping to eventually answer, instead of ask questions, -Craig __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Looking for Linux-compatible webcam
http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4l.shtml Has info, but I didn't find it very useful. http://www.linux-usb.org/devices.html Is the page that helped me the most. I use a D-Link DSB-C300 (I think, I'm at work) it works better under Linux than Windows. The Ov511 support is pretty good. Joseph Red [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Jim Dawson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 9:40 AM Subject: [newbie] Looking for Linux-compatible webcam I'm looking for a good low-cost (under $50 US) 'Videoconferencing Camera' that has Linux drivers available for it. Parallel models are OK, but I would prefer a USB model. I'm looking at the Phillips ToUcam PC 720 (PCVC720K) because I've seen drivers for some earlier models, but I haven't seen drivers for this specific model. Can anyone make a recommendataion?
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Re: [newbie] NVdia RIVA 128ZX
On Wednesday 27 December 2000 16:38, you wrote: I am trying to install Mandrake 7.2 in a Pentium III 500 with a Vortex 1 sound card and a NVdia RIVA 128Z video card. The first problem, the sound, has finally been solved. Using the au88xx- 1.1.1 driver now it is running. The video card runs, but there are some problems with the acceleration. Mandrake have installed the XFree86 3, the installer option to have acceleration was this, because it seems that Xfree 4 has not this card with 3D support. In fact Chromium is running, but others programs that use acceleration show problems. In tuxkart the screen is blue when playing. Tuxracer goes well, but the penguin is absolutely white and the colors of the landscape are not OK. Quake 3 starts, but after the initial screen it crashes. In the Nvidia web page there are some drivers, but it seems that they are only for XFree 4 and video cards newest that the RIVA 128Z. Does anybody experience with this video card? Any help will be welcome. Thanks for your help Yep. NVidia drivers you are using are those that were open-sourced. The closed-source ones (binary only) are supposed to be high-quality and a one-size-fits-all. Several links were centered around a discussion on www.mandrakeforum.com about that very issue. Search the archives for "NVidia Driver NIGHTMARE" on Mandrakeforum.com and there are links in the replies that should(tm) work. Civileme Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)
Re: [newbie] KDE2.1 Updates
Tom Brinkman wrote: I've been using all of Chris' KDE2 updates since mid-November including the latest KDE 2.1 beta 1. I've found that the last one is very stable, as bug free as Linux ever gets. I don't even consider 2.1b1 to be beta. It adds many features, bug fixes over 2.01 YMMV The jury's still out on the recent 7.2 compatible i686 XFree 4.02 upgrade rpms. I've had a few irritations (eg, Knode sometimes freezes, Kppp sometimes disappears from the panel). I'm considering going back to 4.01. XF-4.01 and KDE 2.1b1 was rock solid. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay I finished the move to KDE2.1 last night and it looks great. One thing I have not found yet is the theme manager that was suppose to come out with 2.1. LooknFeel gives you a lot of tools to manipulate the overall appearance and operation of KDE, but I have not found the theme manager. I can't seem to find the Aquatica theme I installed before moving to 2.1. I haven't tried XF-4.01. I'm still using XF-3.3.6. What improvements to you get by going to XF-4.01? Barry :-)
Re: [newbie] Signal 7....
civileme wrote: You are about 16Mb RAM short for a real install. AFAIR, Linux can run on a 2MB RAM minimum __ www.edsamail.com
Re: [newbie] How many partitions?
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I plan to have Linux and Windows on the same disk. Can I place logical Linux partitions in an extended partition that also contains logical FAT32 partitions? I would not recommend that, although I have seen occasions where it works. Paul -- Satellite Safety Tip #14: If you see a bright streak in the sky coming at you, duck. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
Re: [newbie] Fast CPU
John Arkoulis wrote: Can you please point me at a site (independent) that I can compare the new fast CPUs (P4 1.4, Dual G4, Athlon) Yes I know G4 is a MAC. Which one do you think is best for Linux??? Thanks I personally like AMD. Although linux mostly supports intel. Not much change since AMD has intel-compatible microprocessors. __ www.edsamail.com
Re: [newbie] Corel Photopaint 9 problems
angus escribió: This is a weired one! I have just installed Corel Photopaint 9 and now my menu system has got screwed up. There are 4 copies of everything in the menu tree!! Help?? How do I fix this I've fixed it starting the menu editor as root and saving changes (the 4 copies of each program didn't appear); there are still problems, either 8-( Also when I try and run Photopaint I get the following error message: "unable to add Fontastic font server to the font path. The font server is probably not installed or not running. Please correct it and try again. Does anyone have any ideas what I should do?? I've deleted the Photopaint directory tree. Thanks angus -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
[newbie] Install Linux bootloader?
Hi, If I want PowerQuest's BootMagic to boot to the correct OS should I install GRUB, the boot loader for GNU/Linux? Jake ___ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Best Web Browser
Abraham Pinzur escribió: For those of you who are as picky as I am, Konqueror is less than adequate in rendering typical HTML. By typical, I mean stuff that works in IE and Netscape 4.7. Compare, for instance, http://www.cnn.com/. I've compared NS475 with Konqueror and i cannot find any difference... well, the pop-up window doesn't appear under Konqueror 8-? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] ls-120 on parallel port
Search for linux + ls-120. AFAIR, a couple of months after ls-120 came out, unsupported linux drivers were produced. I don't remember the URL though.: Penndragon wrote: Hi=20 anyone know a way to get an LS-120 drive to work with mandrake linux 7.2? I= 've been to imations site and no linux drivers are avaible :( Any ideas wou= ld be appreciated James __ www.edsamail.com
Re: [newbie] Signal 7....
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should tell you on the box to have at least 32MB or RAM. This is a GPL version of mandrake 7.1. Doesn't Linux run on a 2MB RAM minimum? __ www.edsamail.com
Re: [newbie] Signal 7....
ZER0 FREQUENCY wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should tell you on the box to have at least 32MB or RAM. This is a GPL version of mandrake 7.1. Doesn't Linux run on a 2MB RAM minimum? __ www.edsamail.com Check http://www.mandrakesoft.com. In addition, always check the newsgroups or run a search on the mail archives before downloading. Yes, 32 Meg. of RAM is recommended. This ain't DOS... -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
RE: [newbie] Problems running X on a Compaq XL118
It didn't get me any closer unfortunately. It showed setup for an 1800 XL181 (mine is a 1200 XL118). I have talked with Compaq, and searched the Trident Site but have gotten no closer using those resources also. I have cycled through a bunch of the settings in xf86config, switching one setting at a time, but its really slow, especially since I don't have any idea how the settings are created (precluding me opening the file in a text editor and changing the settings through it). So the hard way it is. The problem appears that the refresh rate is incorrect. I am using a Verticle refresh of 66-100 (from the Trident Page) and trying the 3D drivers for Trident Cards (from Compaq info) and then cycling through the different monitor types, which works out to about 30 combinations, if I don't change anything else (I've gotten through about 10 combinations so far (I had to get back to work). So if anyone has some ideas please let me know. BTW, Ingo Bauer thanks for the response... still searching for a clear screen... RTH Robert Hershberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- email 703-234-3950 x9038 -- voice/fax (East Coast) 619-388-2006 x1211 -- voice/fax (West Coast) __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [newbie] apache won't start
Adrian Gunawan wrote: Does anyone know why my apache server won't start when i tried to run it it said "chown: apache.apache: invalid user" anyone know how to fix it this one ? thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ Try doing it as root
RE: [newbie] Problems running X on a Compaq XL118
It didn't get me any closer unfortunately. It showed setup for an 1800 XL181 (mine is a 1200 XL118). I have talked with Compaq, and searched the Trident Site but have gotten no closer using those resources also. I have cycled through a bunch of the settings in xf86config, switching one setting at a time, but its really slow, especially since I don't have any idea how the settings are created (precluding me opening the file in a text editor and changing the settings through it). So the hard way it is. The problem appears that the refresh rate is incorrect. I am using a Verticle refresh of 66-100 (from the Trident Page) and trying the 3D drivers for Trident Cards (from Compaq info) and then cycling through the different monitor types, which works out to about 30 combinations, if I don't change anything else (I've gotten through about 10 combinations so far (I had to get back to work). So if anyone has some ideas please let me know. BTW, Ingo Bauer thanks for the response... still searching for a clear screen... RTH __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [[newbie] modem port prob]
Hi Michael Quite possible that you have a winmodem there. It uses "Windows" software to emulate hardware functionality. If it is indeed a winmodem, it may not work in linux at all. The reasons I believe it may be a winmodem are the PCI (most, but not all, are winmodems) and the unusual port placement (winmodems are often on odd ports). Hope I'm wrong, but if I'm correct, you may need to get a real modem, preferably an external or internal ISA that can be verified as hardware type. HTH, Mike Thanx for the advice here. I do happen to have an external modem, and it seems you may well be correct about the modem since no actual driver is loaded under windows. My motherboard sadly doesn't have ISA slots so that particular option is out for me. I do however have the serial ports, usb ports, pci slots, and an amr slot. I'd rather keep the serial port free for the palm pilot so would consider an amr modem if linux supports those James "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://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] CDROM not always there-Solution!
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, you wrote: On Wednesday 27 December 2000 05:00, you wrote: Bringup a terminal...su to root...then type kpackage it's still in the version...just not in the menu. and rather broken till you reach KDE2.01 Civileme Thank you for the prompt reply. My question was unclearly worded, for which I apologize. Your suggestion of using KPackage would probably have worked if the disk had an rpm package on it, but it does not. It is rather a directory with half a billion files, and a setup script, and I needed to get Linux connected with the script. I finally gave up on the non-existent icons on KDE, and loaded (rebooted?) Gnome. Violia! Something called Midnight Commander had an icon on the desktop which connected me with my whole HD, even the Win95 partitions. There was also a CDrom entry visible as a subdirectory of /mnt, from which I could double click on the setup script, and all worked out. I realize most of the talk of graphical environments has been concerning KDE, but for this newbie, Gnome came through. Kipling+
[newbie] Advice needed on firewall...
Hi... I've installed LM7.2 with "medium" security. I would have chosen a higher level but I found LM's documentation on security unclear and confusing. I know that I need to close some ports -- and I also want to use my Linux host to masquerade IPs for a couple of other machines. Ideally, I'd like closed ports to DENY rather than REJECT, and I'd like logging of connection attempts. My impression is that DrakConf's "internet connection sharing" command runs a DHCP server and masquerades IPs. This is more than I need (DHCP) but it works so I'll use it. I'm also looking a pmfirewall http://www.pointman.org/ to provide a firewall. It looks well-documented and well-supported, and is based on IPCHAINS. Questions: 1. Does "internet connection sharing" create any kind of a firewall on its own? I notice that if you use the command more than once, you get a warning that "an existing firewall" has been detected... 2. Is there any overlap between "internet connection sharing" (as implemented by LM) and pmfirewall? pmfirewall asks whether you're running a DHCP server and masquerading IPs, so I think it generates a script that takes into account these things. I just don't want to wind up in a situation where they're both applying IPCHAINS rules and perhaps conflicting. 3. If you have any other advice about how to protect a 1-Linux / 2-Mac home network using the Linux box, two ethernet cards and a cable connection, I'd be very interested. Many thanks. M.
[newbie] small question
As I am typeing this I am thinking of two small errors I just had while getting email. The first is a missing charset error./ Easy to fix if I could just find the dialog to set up fonts. The OOther is this speed. Now I am getting email something is makeing the computer hang fot a fere seconds before anything happens. As I type nothing appearso nt the screen for about 5 secds. That is why my typeing is dso bad. Just wondering what could be causeing these slow downs.. I just had to reinstall linux after bindows refused to upgrade without a full install and I forgot to unplug my linux drives. Final problem is my 8 gig windows partiton, hdb9. Windows wont see it because my linux partitions come before it. I could fix the problem but not without completly reformating and repatritinh 3 for my drives. Now that I thyink about it I have one more. I have just gotten my ncrishtmas money and it is going towards a new network card. Is there anything I should know before I plugin this card (isa, bnc) in here. Another will go in an old 386 8mi ram which will be used as a fileserver and for some work im doing with distributed computing. th4e server will be running linux and will be running only on remote admin via telnet and ftp soon as Im done with some surgury on the keyboard controler.
Re: [newbie] The NVIDIA Kernel Compile
Great thanks. That did the trick. Now if I could get the agpgart moduled to load so I could install the nvidia drivers I would be delirious. -s On Tuesday 26 December 2000 09:56 am, you wrote: Most probably nvdriver wont do anything for that. What defines your X version, is the link /etc/X11/X if it is linked to something like /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_ then it is the 3.3.6 if it is linked to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86then it is 4.0.x Also, /var/log/XFree86.0.log is the output of your last X session, and you can find lot sof info there too, just a good way to check out things :) To make it 4.0.x straight delete the link and remake it in the correct way rm /etc/X11/X ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /etc/X11/X will do the job. Goodluck Onur __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Signal 7....
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, ZER0 FREQUENCY wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should tell you on the box to have at least 32MB or RAM. This is a GPL version of mandrake 7.1. Doesn't Linux run on a 2MB RAM minimum? Linux in the old days did so. The kernel now supports so many more new things that 2Mb is not sufficient anymore. Go for slackware and build your own kernel if you want to stick with low memory. But forget about Xwindow then... Good luck! Paul -- Satellite Safety Tip #14: If you see a bright streak in the sky coming at you, duck. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
Re: [newbie] No LS-120 or CDROMs after install(FAQ)
Civileme, Thanks much for the info. I can now read from my LS-120 (not sure of the settings used to make a boot disk yet though ) and my Teac CDROM seems to work ok, even though I get errors listed in 'dmesg'. The big problem is my burner won't work. I get 'hda: driver not present'. I figured out that I installed 7.2 w/ BIOS PNP OS set to yes. Could this have caused some of my problems ? Also, my Imation CDRW isn't on the supported hardware list. Think maybe it'll just never work ? Do I need to reconfigure the Kernel or load additional modules ? Thanks again, I'm just about there. :) Jeff On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, civileme wrote: Jeffrey Norris was kind enough to send me info on his system, and the analysis techniques will serve to illustrate what install wasn't built to anticipate. First, his dmesg output showed the following: hda --CDRW hdb--CDROM hdc--LS-120 hde--8.6G HDD ATA/66 hdf--13.2GHDD ATA/33 #Ummm, better performance if you move that to another channel like hdg or hdd, though it will be a hardly noticeable difference, even if you then equip hde with the ATA/66 cable. Next, here was /etc/fstab /dev/hdf5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdf7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/hdc 0 0 /dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdf1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdf6 swap swap defaults 0 0 OK the cdrom* has two drives--normal except the LS-120 shows up only as a floppy, and it is tagged as /dev/hdc, properly... but not necessarily---the presence of the ide-scsi module may have moved it to /dev/sda Now, what about the /dev directory? Where do the symbolic links cdrom and cdrom2 point? Output from ls -l /dev/cdrom* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 Dec 22 18:12 /dev/cdrom - hda lrwxrwxrwx1 root root8 Dec 22 23:13 /dev/cdrom1 -/dev/hdb EGAD! Two bad links in one day! fix it thus, in a console, as root rm /dev/cdrom -f rm /dev/cdrom1 -f ln -s /dev/hda /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom2 chmod a+rwx /dev/cdrom chmod a+rwx /dev/cdrom2 then your new output to this 'ls -l /dev/cdrom*' command should be: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 Dec 22 18:12 /dev/cdrom - /dev/hda lrwxrwxrwx1 root root8 Dec 22 23:13 /dev/cdrom2 -/dev/hdb Next. /etc/lilo.conf looks like boot=/dev/hde map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdf5 append=" hda=ide-scsi" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hdf5 append=" hda=ide-scsi" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hdf5 append=" hda=ide-scsi failsafe" read-only other=/dev/hde1 label=windows table=/dev/hde other=/dev/hdf1 label=windows2 table=/dev/hdf map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe This needs one change so the ls-120 will work To change it, open a Konsole su - password:(give te root password) # joe /etc/lilo.conf Once you are in. the editor ctrl-K H brings up a menu of commands Other editors that could be used are kedit, pico, emacs(not easy for newbies), cooledit, vi(difficult for newbies), jed, nedit Here is the changed file boot=/dev/hde map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdf5 append=" hda=ide-scsi hdc=ide-floppy" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hdf5 append=" hda=ide-scsi hdc=ide-floppy" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hdf5 append=" hda=ide-scsi hdc=ide-floppy failsafe" read-only other=/dev/hde1 label=windows table=/dev/hde other=/dev/hdf1 label=windows2 table=/dev/hdf map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 other=/dev/hdc label=floppy unsafe Almost done... Now we need to make sure this ide-floppy loads, and we need to figure out if we can access the LS-120 as scsi or ide. First the LS-120, put a dos-formatted disk in the device (a floppy, not an LS-120 cartridge) with a file on it. Try this in your Konsole # mkdir /mnt/ls120 # mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/ls120 If you do not get an error message, then # ls /mnt/ls120 and if you see the file, then change /etc/fstab(with joe
Re: [newbie] Help with digital camera.
Joseph Red wrote: If you aren't using one of the serial ports, disable it in BIOS (to free up IRQ) manually set the other one. Then try it. Joseph Red [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Joseph. Well, I tried that. First I went to my MB's manual to make sure which serial port was which. I disabled serial port 2(B in my manual). Then, I tried these BIOS settings for serial port 1(A): AUTO - doesn't work 3f8/irq4 - doesn't work 2f8/irq3 - can't use this, kudzu removes my "generic serial modem" 3e8/irq4 - doesn't work 2f8/irq3 - can't use this, get an i/o conflict during bootup With the 3 settings above that did let me boot up with no errors, I tried all of Gphoto's port settings with the same end result. Nada. ;-( Thanks for your help! -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Help with digital camera.
Len Lawrence wrote: Have you tried Camera - Summary? That should tell you if the camera is properly recognized. The information would include battery state and the number of photos already taken. Hi Len. Yep, I tried that. It waits several seconds then blows up an info box that has blank entries in it. ;-( According to my owners manual (camera), the camera is supposed to beep when the computer is turned on, IF it is properly connected. Well, it doesn't, so I guess that means I've got a port/irq problem, but danged if I know how to fix it. Gonna take the camera later today, and try it on my younger brothers dual booting Mandarke 7.2/Windog setup and see if it works on both sides there. Thanks for you help! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] How many partitions?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading about partitioning quite a lot, but none of the places I've read really give any reasons for their suggestions. I know you can have all of Linux in one partition, but I'd like to do it the best way. From various places I've seen separate partitions for /, /boot, /usr, /var, and /home. How are these more useful separated out over many partitions? What kind of space would they typically take up? What is the functionallity of these partitions? How do I tell Linux that I've created separate partitions for /usr and /var for instance? Thanks, Jake Hi Jake. Well, I set all this up (size/space) during my installation. I did go with separate /boot, /usr, and /home partitions (and other people do more than that). Why? For me, it makes it much easier to backup separate partitions, as well as the fact that I can upgrade and tell the new upgrade NOT to touch my /home partition so that I keep all my precious data. Even if you don't upgrade but find that you have to reinstall your current version, it can save your data in /home. Hope this helps. ;-) _NetZero Free Internet Access and Email__ http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Heard this bunch was gonna start charging for anything over 40 hours a month? -- /\ DarkLord \/
RE: [newbie] Signal 7....
GPL has nothing to do with the RAM requirement. You can run the install with less than 32MB but with 2 caveats 1)You have to perform the installation in text mode. 2)You can not install the X window system To me, unless you are planning to run your system only as a firewall or a file server, there would be no point in even doing the installation. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of ZER0 FREQUENCY Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 6:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Signal 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should tell you on the box to have at least 32MB or RAM. This is a GPL version of mandrake 7.1. Doesn't Linux run on a 2MB RAM minimum? __ www.edsamail.com
Re: [newbie] Fast CPU
I find that http://www.gamepc.com usually has a pretty unbiased view point on procs. Personally I'm really happy with my athlon 900. Mandrake 7.2 is fast as hell after I recompiled everything I use for my processors architecture. windowmaker opens from startx (enter) to finished in about 2 seconds ;-) Abe Original Message --- From: Mr S Ganesan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 13:52:32 +0530 (IST) sorry we in india only prefer intel chipsOn Wed, 27 Dec 2000, John Arkoulis wrote: Can you please point me at a site (independent) that I can compare the new fast CPUs (P4 1.4, Dual G4, Athlon) Yes I know G4 is a MAC. Which one do you think is best for Linux??? Thanks -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone:0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax: 0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chuthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z31 ?
Paul escribió: On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Joan Tur wrote: Does anyone know if there are drivers for such printer? I haven't been able to find them in linuxprinting.org 8-( This printer is NOT supported Do not even try to use it with a Z1 or Z10 or something driver, I have heard that this is capable of destroying the internal programming of the printer. Don't know if it is true. It is free to try though... Well... i've tryed and... nothing has happened ;-) I've sold it for the same amount i've paid and i still have the Lexmark 5700 -less noise, same quality- ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] Installation with older Bios
The 3 golden rules of linux. 1. Dont turn off at the switch or plug. Linux doesn't like that :) 2. If it crashes, hold down control-alt-f2 to get to a console where you can fix it. 3. Remember, as long as you are not root nothing you do can mess it up. So feel free to mess with whatever you want :-) On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, you wrote: Donald Munson wrote: OK well I took the plunge and let Mandrake load onto the drive. I told it to erase the Dos partition and load to the entire drive. The setup went OK (I think?). Now when I boot to Linux I get a command line prompt (grub). What is this and how do I boot into the graphical interface. Don Hi Don, While looking at the Grub menu, select Linux and press the Enter key. Another option is to let it count down from 5 seconds and your Linux box will begin checking, then boot up to the graphical interface. I usually let Linux start up by itself. Welcome to our humble club. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 High Energy Penguin Powered Email -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] KDE2.1 Updates
Barry Premeaux wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: I've been using all of Chris' KDE2 updates since mid-November including the latest KDE 2.1 beta 1. I've found that the last one is very stable, as bug free as Linux ever gets. I don't even consider 2.1b1 to be beta. It adds many features, bug fixes over 2.01 YMMV The jury's still out on the recent 7.2 compatible i686 XFree 4.02 upgrade rpms. I've had a few irritations (eg, Knode sometimes freezes, Kppp sometimes disappears from the panel). I'm considering going back to 4.01. XF-4.01 and KDE 2.1b1 was rock solid. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay I finished the move to KDE2.1 last night and it looks great. One thing I have not found yet is the theme manager that was suppose to come out with 2.1. LooknFeel gives you a lot of tools to manipulate the overall appearance and operation of KDE, but I have not found the theme manager. I can't seem to find the Aquatica theme I installed before moving to 2.1. I haven't tried XF-4.01. I'm still using XF-3.3.6. What improvements to you get by going to XF-4.01? Barry :-) Hi, I installed KDE2.1 today and really like it. I had one dependency problem "libkscan.so.1 needed by kdeaddutils",took a chance and used --nodeps. Only problem I've had,the desktop icons for home directory and the removable media drives do not work.Could this be because of the dependency or something else.Anyone know what package contains this file?Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Dan
Re: [newbie] 1024 cylinder limit
I have the same arrangement. Hda for windows, hdb for linux and hda for windows. I also have 8 gig of hdb for windows but it wont see it because it comes after a linux partition. On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, you wrote: Jake, You may also consider a different partitioning strategy: * 1 or 2 GB to Windoze for _just_ the OS * The next 3 or more GB to Linux * The rest to Windoze I do this for three reasons: 1) I never have to worry about the 1024 cylinder limit. 2) It makes back-up of my Windoze OS extremely small (less than 400 MB), fast, and simple. 3) It forces me to put all the important files that usually ends up on my desktop (read: my OS partition since the desktop is really a subdirectory in C:\Windows) onto the other partition. So should anything happen to my OS partition (like two weeks ago) all my data is safe on the other partition. And BTW, setting the Windoze OS partition to a gig still gives you a good 300 MB to work with. The first reason has been eliminated with Mandrake 7.2, I believe. But if Windoze gets hosed, this partitioning scheme lets me get back on track within two minutes, without any loss of data. Miark Hello, I bought Linux Mandrake 7.0 months ago, and now I'm reading up trying to figure out how to use it. I've look at the documentation on the Mandrake page, the Instillation How-To, the Win95+Linux How- To, and a few others. Some of them mention that with some distributions of Linux, on some computers, bootable partitions must completely reside below the 1024th cylinder. How do I know if I need to have my Linux boot partition below the 1024th cylinder when partitioning my drive? I bought Partition Magic to help with the partitioning. Thanks, Jake -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Give it time. I have just seen windows millenium and I can assure you it will not last. It is awful. It is slow. It takes up half my hard drive and then its optional parts take the rest. And it doesn't work. Windows 2k however is here to stay. I haven't seen it running but I have heard of it. On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, you wrote: - Original Message - From: David Raleigh Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux I am locked into bad mouse support by 2-button mouse users. Linux mouse support is hardly configurable at all. I have seen the sawfish mouse dialog. Ridiculous. Very true indeed. Kde should build a special mouse driver for mice that have a scrol wheel and side buttons. Mine has four buttons and a scroll wheel. And the people who make the mice should write software for linux also. After all there are a lot of people using linux today. I feel that if every one using linux sent email to the logitech company asking for drivers/software for there products then they might do something about it. i just bought a new printer, a lexmark Z32 because they have drivers for linux. And the Z52 has drivers for linux also. My mouse is a ms intelli mouse explorer and whith the software for windoze I can get the buttons to do what ever I want them to do, and I can change the icons as well. But I bought it because it does not have a ball in it and can use it as either ps2 or usb. I also feel that linux should have surport for IDE CD Burners, not just SCSI. Regards Anthony Daniell -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] Install Linux bootloader?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If I want PowerQuest's BootMagic to boot to the correct OS should I install GRUB, the boot loader for GNU/Linux? Jake ___ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Hi Jake, It shouldn't matter. Once PowerQuest's BootMagic is installed, it will take over as the boot loader. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
RE: [newbie] How many partitions?
Unless you will need more than 4 FAT32 partitions set them all as Primary Not as part of the of the extended partition. The problem with including them within the logical partition is that regardless of what partitioning program you use there exist the chance that you will no longer be able to access them once you boot back into Windows. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How many partitions? On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I plan to have Linux and Windows on the same disk. Can I place logical Linux partitions in an extended partition that also contains logical FAT32 partitions? I would not recommend that, although I have seen occasions where it works. Paul -- Satellite Safety Tip #14: If you see a bright streak in the sky coming at you, duck. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
Re: [[newbie] StarOffice 5.2 Shortcomings]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A recent posting on this list asked what problems the person could expect with StarOffice 5.2. The first thing I would say is completely ignore Sun's claim that the product is compatible with Microsoft Office 97 or 2000. While in theory you can save files to and read files from Microsoft Word (doc), Microsoft Excel (xls) and Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt), the conversions are completely unsatisfactory. Below is a list of the problems, I have discovered to date as I try to work with StarOffice at home and Microsoft Office 2000 at work. snip for the sake of bandwith preservation === You're right!! M$ Office Sucks!! ;o) Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [Re: [[newbie] modem port prob]]
"Penndragon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanx for the advice here. I do happen to have an external modem, and it seems you may well be correct about the modem since no actual driver is loaded under windows. My motherboard sadly doesn't have ISA slots so that particular option is out for me. I do however have the serial ports, usb ports, pci slots, and an amr slot. I'd rather keep the serial port free for the palm pilot so would consider an amr modem if linux supports those James == Hey James, From your response, it appears you have more than one Serial port. Can you spare one for an external? If not, there are SOME PCI internals that are NOT winmodems. Check one of the hardware sights from the Mandrake homepage. I believe that Actiontec makes a true hardware PCI, but someone else on the list please correct me if I err. HTH, Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [Re: [newbie] Fast CPU]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find that http://www.gamepc.com usually has a pretty unbiased view point on procs. Personally I'm really happy with my athlon 900. Mandrake 7.2 is fast as hell after I recompiled everything I use for my processors architecture. windowmaker opens from startx (enter) to finished in about 2 seconds ;-) === Blackbox will probably do it in less than one!! Give it a try if you're willing to forego eyecandy and like the understated elegance of simplicity. Runs just about any KDE or Gnome app with NO problem. 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://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re[2]: [newbie] The NVIDIA Kernel Compile
Hellos, Wednesday, December 27, 2000, 5:31:59 PM, you wrote: s Great thanks. That did the trick. Now if I could get the agpgart moduled to s load so I could install the nvidia drivers I would be delirious. s -s You are welcome :) Do you have an i815 board ? I came to that problem (agpgart and new kernels) only on that one, and could not solve it anyhow Onur _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Netcomm USB Modem Unrecognised
Tom, I guess what your saying is that netcomm is a winmodem ?? I can't find anything on the URL that mentions USB modems, or is that irrelevant. Can you recommend a driver / or is there none avail ? Sorry for all the questions Later Paul --- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 27 December 2000 03:25 am, Paul Nicole wrote: I have just installed LM 7.2 and can't get my modem working. I'm not 100% sure it is supported, Netcomm Roadster II 56K USB. http://www.kcdata.com/~gromitkc/winmodem.html -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Re: KDE2.1 Updates
This message was sent from: Linux Mandrake Newbie. http://telesoft.ca/phorum/read.php?f=6i=1679t=1662 Where can I find the KDE 2.1 upgrade? Thanks. Gary de Montigny Sent using Phorum software version 3.2.11 http://phorum.org
[newbie] Screen distortion in X
Well, Santa was nice and brought me a copy of LM7.2 (Wal-Mart version). The install went VERY well on my P75/40MB RAM/700MB HD Texas Instruments laptop. The only problem I have is horizontal distortion lines on my screen, about 10 pixels apart. They appear to just shift the line about 5 pixels left. I assume this is a frequency problem, but I'm not sure what to change. I selected the generic LCD panel 640x480 monitor and the appropriate video card (Cirrus, not sure which, but it was the last card in the Cirrus list, and was the one in my laptop manual). Works great, I just hate the distortion. Anyone got a fix? TIA -Carlton
Re: [newbie] How many partitions?
On Wednesday 27 December 2000 16:09, you wrote: Also, I plan to have Linux and Windows on the same disk. Can I place logical Linux partitions in an extended partition that also contains logical FAT32 partitions? In a wordNO! What ever you do, do NOT put any Linux partitions behind an extended DOS partition. Linux should in all ways occupy it's own space on it's own terms. If you place Linux behind an extended DOS partition you are setting yourself up for a lot of misery and trouble. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds
