Re: [newbie-it] Xfree4, voodoo3 ed accelerazione 3d
La MDK 8.0 dovrebbe vederti la scheda devi fare l'installazione esperto e alla configurazione di XWindows devi selezionere Xfree 4.3 Con Accelleratore Hardware. Oppure invece di installare tutto vai a modificare le proprietà del monitor, premi il tasto avanzato , dopo aver impostato la scheda, il monitor e la risoluzione ti chiederà di specificare Xfree Prova e fammi sapere Ciao - Original Message - From: Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 8:32 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Xfree4, voodoo3 ed accelerazione 3d allora, un paio di giorni fa mi ero stupito del fatto che non venisse supportato il 3d per questa scheda. Ho fatto un po' di ricerca.. a parte la sorpresa di vedere che tutti i siti che avevano i driver erano stati rimossi (sembra quasi una pulizia etnica!), anche quelli che parlavano della Xfree 3.xx, ho torvato qualche info: beh il comando per vedere se si ha il 3d e' glxinfo e verificare il direct rendering. Dato che ovviamente avevo no, cercando sul sito della dri finalmente ho trovato un pacchetto per le glide ed i driver tdfx. Purtroppo qui mi sono arenato, i pacchetti non si installano perche' mi dicono che richiedono un kernel piu' recente!! (ho la mandrake 8!!!) c'e' qualcuno piu' esperto che e' riuscito ad andare oltre ed ad abilitare finalmente il supporto 3d di questa ottima scheda? dai cheppalle non credo di essere il solo ad avere una voodoo3 od una banshee! ciao, Marco allora, un paio di giorni fa mi ero stupito del fatto che non venisse supportato il 3d per questa scheda. Ho fatto un po' di ricerca.. a parte la sorpresa di vedere che tutti i siti che avevano i driver erano stati rimossi (sembra quasi una pulizia etnica!), anche quelli che parlavano della Xfree 3.xx, ho torvato qualche info: beh il comando per vedere se si ha il 3d e' glxinfo e verificare il direct rendering. Dato che ovviamente avevo no, cercando sul sito della dri finalmente ho trovato un pacchetto per le glide ed i driver tdfx. Purtroppo qui mi sono arenato, i pacchetti non si installano perche' mi dicono che richiedono un kernel piu' recente!! (ho la mandrake 8!!!) c'e' qualcuno piu' esperto che e' riuscito ad andare oltre ed ad abilitare finalmente il supporto 3d di questa ottima scheda? dai cheppalle non credo di essere il solo ad avere una voodoo3 od una banshee! ciao, Marco allora, un paio di giorni fa mi ero stupito del fatto che non venisse supportato il 3d per questa scheda. Ho fatto un po' di ricerca.. a parte la sorpresa di vedere che tutti i siti che avevano i driver erano stati rimossi (sembra quasi una pulizia etnica!), anche quelli che parlavano della Xfree 3.xx, ho torvato qualche info: beh il comando per vedere se si ha il 3d e' glxinfo e verificare il direct rendering. Dato che ovviamente avevo no, cercando sul sito della dri finalmente ho trovato un pacchetto per le glide ed i driver tdfx. Purtroppo qui mi sono arenato, i pacchetti non si installano perche' mi dicono che richiedono un kernel piu' recente!! (ho la mandrake 8!!!) c'e' qualcuno piu' esperto che e' riuscito ad andare oltre ed ad abilitare finalmente il supporto 3d di questa ottima scheda? dai cheppalle non credo di essere il solo ad avere una voodoo3 od una banshee! ciao, Marco
Re: [newbie-it] ancora a proposito di matrox 450 e mandrake
Quale MDK hai installato? la 8.0 supporta anche il 2° monitor http://www.linuxiso.org/ Ciao - Original Message - From: Wintozsucks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 1:12 AM Subject: [newbie-it] ancora a proposito di matrox 450 e mandrake Ho appena installato linux mandrake su un hd scsi (esterno) del mio pc che, purtroppo, con la sua Matrox 450 dualhead mi ha finora creato congelamenti assortiti... Non sono riuscito a trovare linuxc (l'edicola più vicina al confine è piccolina) e così resto in attesa di un'anima caritatevole che voglia darmi due indicazioni due per inserire i driver della suddetta scheda (che mi hanno detto posso trovare sul sito della matrox). vado a scaricarli e spero in qualcuno di voi. Linux è installato ma non ho fatto avviare la GUI per evitare il solito casino con il monitor (anzi i monitor) che sfarfallano... a partire dal login testuale che devo fare?? grazie! sergio --
Re: [newbie-it] ancora a proposito di matrox 450 e mandrake
Quale MDK hai installato? la 8.0 supporta anche il 2° monitor http://www.linuxiso.org/ Ciao - Original Message - From: Wintozsucks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 1:12 AM Subject: [newbie-it] ancora a proposito di matrox 450 e mandrake Ho appena installato linux mandrake su un hd scsi (esterno) del mio pc che, purtroppo, con la sua Matrox 450 dualhead mi ha finora creato congelamenti assortiti... Non sono riuscito a trovare linuxc (l'edicola più vicina al confine è piccolina) e così resto in attesa di un'anima caritatevole che voglia darmi due indicazioni due per inserire i driver della suddetta scheda (che mi hanno detto posso trovare sul sito della matrox). vado a scaricarli e spero in qualcuno di voi. Linux è installato ma non ho fatto avviare la GUI per evitare il solito casino con il monitor (anzi i monitor) che sfarfallano... a partire dal login testuale che devo fare?? grazie! sergio -- purtroppo ho solo la versione 7.2 (con i suoi 5 cd) e non ho adsl, quindi non posso scaricarmi tutta quella roba! ciao s -- Sergio Orrao ICQ 19394829 See my photos at: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=217794Auth=false and don't forget to sign the guest book!
[newbie-it] Non riesco più a installare linux ....
Ciao a tutti, arrivo subito al problema: recentemente ho fatto l'upgrade del mio PC installando una scheda madre ASUS A-7V al posto della vecchia ASUS P2-B, risultato: se cerco di installare qualunque tipo di LINUX, durante il processo di installazione mi viene chiesto di inserire il driver per il controller SCSI ATA-100 ,che è integrato nella piastra madre. Io ho provato a usare tutti i driver SCSI che mi suggerisce l'installazione, ma non ne ho trovato uno funzionante, inoltre nel PC non c'è alcuna periferica SCSI, ne interna ne esterna, è tutto EIDE/ATAPI. Ho provato a disattivare il controller da BIOS, ma non è cambiato nulla. Cosa posso fare ?? Un grazie a tutti coloro che volessero rispondermi, Ciao.
[newbie-it] Radeon VE
Salve a tutti, ho scoperto che la mia Radeon VE non viene supportata da XFree 4.0.3 (inclusa nella MDK 8), poichè tale scheda integra un chip che in pratica è sostanzialmente diverso dal Radeon predefinito (ad esempio manca il Charisma Engine). Da un file .pdf, prelevato presso ATI, ho letto che tale scheda verrà supportata in Q2' 01... che significa? Per ora la mia mdk 8.0 funziona col server grafico FBDev, e vi lascio immaginare la pena... :(( Grazie a tutti per le gentili risposte. Byez.
Re: [newbie-it] Xfree4, voodoo3 ed accelerazione 3d
11/05/01 12.29.21, Ruben Patanè [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: La MDK 8.0 dovrebbe vederti la scheda devi fare l'installazione esperto e alla configurazione di XWindows devi selezionere Xfree 4.3 Con Accelleratore Hardware. la mdk 8, cosi' come la7.2 vede la scheda ma poi usa solo il 2d e non l'accelerazione 3d. Per verificarlo basta scrivere il comando glxinfo oppure un qualsiasi gioco come il tux racer, che viaggia alla folle velocita' di un fotogrammo al secondo una volta c'erano i siti della 3dfx come linux.3dfx.com ma ora sono stati cancellati togliendo pure i driver per xfree 3.xx che almeno funzionavano bene :( credo che l'unica strada sia usare dri, ma qui subentra poi la mia incompetenza
[newbie-it] Problemi MOUSE nella console
Ciao, da quando ho installato la MDK 8 ho notato che nella console, cioé quando avvio programmi tipo linuxconf, harddrake, etc non mi va il mouse... e neanche con harddrake riesco a cambiare la scritta unknown sia sul modello che sulla marca... Dentro a X invece tutto funziona bene.. e anche se rimane la scritta unknown nel frontend grafico di harddrake, il mouse mi funziona... P.S. E' un logitech FirstMouse+ su PS/2 (con rotellina)... Matteo
[newbie-it] Connessione Cell
Qualcuno puo aiutarmi a configurare mdk 7.1 per la connessione con un sh888 ericsson, sul mio portatile? E' l'unico motivo che mi tiene legato a win ancora. Grazie peppe
Re: [newbie-it] Non riesco più a installare linux ....
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti, arrivo subito al problema: recentemente ho fatto l'upgrade del mio PC installando una scheda madre ASUS A-7V al posto della vecchia ASUS P2-B, risultato: se cerco di installare qualunque tipo di LINUX, durante il processo di installazione mi viene chiesto di inserire il driver per il controller SCSI ATA-100 ,che è integrato nella piastra madre. Io ho provato a usare tutti i driver SCSI che mi suggerisce l'installazione, ma non ne ho trovato uno funzionante, inoltre nel PC non c'è alcuna periferica SCSI, ne interna ne esterna, è tutto EIDE/ATAPI. Ho provato a disattivare il controller da BIOS, ma non è cambiato nulla. Cosa posso fare ?? Un grazie a tutti coloro che volessero rispondermi, Ciao. Ciao. Diverso tempo fa ho avuto un problema simile con la tua scheda madre. Credo che sia colpa del kernel 2.2.x che non supporta ATA/100. Credo che con una distribuzione recente (SUSE 7.1 , MNDRK 8.0) tu non abbia problemi: hanno il kernel 2.4 e supportano ATA/100. Se poi vuoi restare al kernel 2.2.x allora vai su mandrakeuser.org se cerchi UDMA 100 trovi il modo di installare la tua distr con una scheda A7V. Scusa: l'indirizzo esatto non lo ricordo Ciaociao
[newbie] OMG! I'm back on the list!!!
Hey fellas, I can hardly believe it, I've gotten back on the list! The e-mail account that I was using for this list mysteriously stopped delivering it to me a few months ago, and I had been too busy to try and fix it until recently. WHOOPPP!! -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Help on getting 2cd set of LM 8.0
I have sent the CDs. You'll have them in a few days. They're on their way. Enjoy. --- Todd Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll send it to you. I assume you want it sent to the address at the bottom. You should have it in a few days. --- Bob Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been reading the mail in here for a couple weeks. I've tried getting both disks via modem but my 28.8 connect isn't getting the job done. I've signed up on the Mandrake page to receive the 2-CD set when available. I run Win2K Pro and have been interested in Linux for awhile now. I live beyond the limit for any high speed internet connect and was wondering if any one of you would send me a copy of the two CDs that you have downloaded. Of course I'll pay shipping and handling and what you think is fair for your time and media. Send any details you need to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd sure appreciate it! ThankYou Bob Barnes RR2 Box 44 Bardwell, Kentucky 42023 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] Hello
That depends a lot on whether you need the latest kernel. If you have hardware that is not supported by previous kernels/releases of mandrake you may need 8.0. I personally cannot recommend it as I have not been able to get it to work yet and I have spent the last week trying (not that I am a Linux guru - I do all my development on windoze). For example, I have a ATA100 RAID configuration for my drives which requires ATA100 support in the kernel, thus 8.0 of mandrake (or 2.4.x of the kernel). PS: Why buy an external modem? If you must have a modem, the internal ones are far superior, but you would be much better off with a broadband solution these days. ~Wynne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michelle Knight Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 9:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hello HI, I've been on this list a few days and decided to say hi and introduce myself. I'm utterly and totally a newbie as far as Linux goes (I've been running a machine with Windows as the OS since 1995). I've researched a few companies and decided to go with Mandrake as my distro. A few questions . . . I'm torn if I should buy 7.2 now or wait until 8.0 comes out as a box set. I'm running a 500 Pentium III, 128 meg RAM w/ an 18 Gig HD. I plan on buying an external modem and wonder what brand of modem would be a good choice. Any suggestions? Thanks. Michelle
Re: [newbie] 3 programs i'd love to get
On Thu, 10 May 2001 15:49, matty mo wrote: are any of the following available for linux? i'm willing to buy them if they are... civilizationII FreeCiv is a damn awesome game. They started before CivII was made, aiming to make a CivI clone. This can be seen in the design, with many elements taken from both CivII (e.g. advances units) and CivI (e.g. non-isometric view). It's great to play online or over a network. The main thing I miss about it, however, is its lack of support for diplomacy (which pretty-much means you're at war all the time with the computer). It's clear that the developers have focussed on multi-player support, unlike CivI and CivII which are single-player games. Call to Power is also available for Linux. Many on-line stores sell it. simcity3000 Try this: http://www.floot.demon.co.uk/lincity.html. It's nowhere near as good as SimCity 3000, but it isn't bad for a GPL clone. dreamweaver There are several WYSIWYG HTML editors out there. Besides Netscape Composer (which doesn't even hold a candle to Dreamweaver), there is IBM WebSphere HomePage Builder (http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/hpbuilder/linux/index.html) and Amaya (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/). WebSphere HomePage Builder is a port from the Windos version, and quite a good programme. Just be wary: it *doesn't* work with XFree 4.x, only 3.x. I only found that in a readme file after it had trashed my font server a few times. IBM should've been more clear about this. Amaya isn't a very pretty app, but it is designed by the W3C, which means it is 100% HTML standards-compliant. Probably the best thing you can do is to use a combination of these programmes, using each for its strengths. For raw coding, Quanta+ and SCREEM (both included in Mandrake 8.0) are great. photoshop6 Many professional designers swear by The GIMP, saying it is even better than Photoshop. This is a classic GPL success story, and its toolkit (GTK) forms the basis for many X applications, including GNOME. black and white This game is fairly new, so you may have to wait a while before someone makes a Linux port/clone of it. matt Also, don't forget WINE, VMware and Win4Lin. I haven't had much success with WINE yet, but I play some games (I *love* Risk II!!!) in VMware. YMMV. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] forwarding
Hello, Recently I downloaded and installed mandrake 8. I have installed and configured the bastille-firewalll that comes with it. But I have one problem, I want to redirect ports. I have a VNC (windows) machine runneing behind the firewall. And I want to access the VNC server from the net. So I have to redirect port 5900 on the firewall to port 5900 on the VNC machine. How do I do this? Thanks, Marcel
[newbie] OT: viewing Real content
Sorry, I know this is not strictly Mandrake-specific, but heck I AM a newbie so it might be somewhat relevant after all :). Has anybody else encountered problems using the RealPlayer 8 with their browsers. The responses I get on different sites are particularly erratic with different browsers e.g. at www.cbs.com/survivor to see the mini videos Netscape 4.77 claims that You need Real Player 8 to view the videos on this site Mozilla 0.9 works well enough. Konqueror 2.1.1 doesn't show anything at www.news.com to see the view the news videos - all 3 browsers don't work Does anybody know what might be the matter here? The Realplayer plugins are Definitely installed for all 3 browsers ( already checked the About plugins and the Konq Netscape plugins). Right now I still need to re-boot to Windows for this. Argh.
Re: [newbie] 3 programs i'd love to get
I have found Netscape Messenger to work just fine for NG's... Ed ~~ One program I'd love to see is Agent/Free Agent, since I don't like Try Pan. It is not Free Agent yet, but very much getting there. pan.rebelbase.com if I am correct It does, but Pan allows better offline things. I pay nicely per hour to be online. Paul
[newbie] LM 8.0 halt bug -- Fortin's Solution
Dear friens: Thanks to the great troubleshooting efforts of Pierre Fortin, we have a new halt file to replace the /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt file IN CASE YOU HAVE HAD A PROBLEM SHUTTING DOWN YOUR SYSTEM. If your shutdown works fine, i.e. without any error messages, with all OK check marks and ending properly with all filesystems unmounted (System halted), then skip this. This bug may or may not affect all LM 8.0 users. It was a serious problem for me. So, it may affect your system, too. My system consists of an AMD K6-2, 400 MHz, 128 megs of RAM and LM 8.0. On the other hand, if you have a problem with shutdown, try Fortin's modified version of halt. This new halt file also takes into consideration any supermount you might have in /etc/fstab (usually /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/floppy and /mnt/zip) The problem seems to have something to do with LM 8.0's /boot partition. This may involve a kernel bug, according to Fortin. Before you do anything, rename the halt file that's on your system (just in case) as follows: [init.d]#mv halt halt.old WHERE TO GET THE NEW HALT FILE: You can get the new halt file at: http://www.pfortin.com/ (bottom of page) First, cd to /etc/rc.d/init.d/ To save it, hold the SHIFT key while clicking on the halt link and choose Save as. The file name will appear in your browser. After saving it, open up a console or xterm and copy the file as follows: [home/user]#cp halt /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt Now, you MUST change the permissions on the file as follows: [init.d]#chmod 755 halt Or, from your home directory: [user/home]#chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt (Either way will work) NOW REBOOT to allow the new changes to take effect. Ignore any error messages at this point. After you reboot to the console (runlevel 3) or directly to your GUI (KDE, Gnome, etc), insert a zip cartridge into your zip drive, a floppy into your floppy drive and a CD into your cd drive (yes, all simultaneously). Now, test the new halt script by shutting down your system with: #shutdown -h now The shutdown should be perfect with all green OK and you should be able to see the new script unmount each partition INDIVIDUALLY: DEBUG: Unmounting /home OK DEBUG: Unmounting /zip OK DEBUG: Unmounting /floppy OK DEBUG: Unmounting /cdrom OK DEBUG: Unmounting /boot OK etc. The script should end with either just the last line above (Unmounting /boot OK) or else with System halted or with Power down. Now, be sure you remove your floppy (if your floppy is, as usual, the first drive indicated in your BIOS). Fortin's halt script should also work better with rebooting your system (Cnt+Alt+Del or shutdown -r now). Automatica rebooting on my system does not always work. The majority of times it does. But sometimes it doesn't. That is, on occasion, it hangs on Please stand by while Linux reboots... Fortin's halt script doesn't fully solve the reboot issue. However, when you manually power down and then power up and reboot, you should have a perfect reboot without any error messages (all green check marks, no cleanly unmounted, check forced messages which need to be fixed (with red check marks). Instead, you should see /hda1 clean (hda1 is my /boot partition). The same thing happens after a proper shutdown. When you power up, your bootup should be perfect with all green check marks and hda1 clean (or whatever your /boot partition is called). That's how you can tell that the new halt script is working properly. All the best. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Egypt LUG?
hi just wondering if there was anybody from egypt on this list. and secondly, if there was a Linux User Group. if there is please please dont feel shy, RESPOND! ÇÑíÏ ÇÊÚáã áíäæßÓ æ ÞÇÈá ãÓÊÎÏãíä áíäæßÓ Ýì ãÕÑ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] How risky is it to run a liveupdate from 7.2 to 8.0 ??
Hi! I've just burned the 8.0 isos, and I would like to know how risky it is to run the livupdate from a server running 7.2 to 8.0. Any bad experience ? -- Saludos Philippe Mingo
Re: [newbie] Hello
Michelle Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip A few questions . . . I'm torn if I should buy 7.2 now or wait until 8.0 comes out as a box set. I'm running a 500 Pentium III, 128 meg RAM w/ an 18 Gig HD. I plan on buying an external modem and wonder what brand of modem would be a good choice. Any suggestions? Thanks. = You have a number of options as far as purchase goes. I'm still running 7.1 (with 2.2.19 kernel). For a newbie, there's nothing wrong (perhaps a lot right ;o) ) with running 7.x and perhaps waiting for 8.1 or 8.2 to upgrade. OR you could purchase a two disk set of 8.0 from Cheapbytes for about $4-5 right now and then buy the official 8.1 later on from mandrake. Almost any external serial modem will work. I like USRobotics personally. 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://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] How to configure linux to retrieve email from ISP
On Thursday 10 May 2001 20:36, you wrote:
on 5/10/01 6:04 PM, Mark Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way that I can configure linux (daemon) to retrieve mail
from for the all users on the machine from their ISP so that the just
have to point their email client to the linux box instead of the ISP.
Set up a mail server like Postfix with Procmail
http://postfix.org
That would be the first thing to do, It should be on the distro cds also.
You should install fetchmail next, also on the distro cd's
then have each user setup fetchmail, you can use fetchmailconf for that,
which happens to be on the distro cds also
then run a script like this from cron to snag all usermail
#!/bin/bash
# usermail - bash script to snag mail for each
# user that has a .fetchmailrc file
#
# echo Starting mail download for all users
run=0
for i in `cat /etc/passwd |
awk -F : '{ print $1 $6}'`; do
if [ $run -eq 0 ]
then
name=$i
run=1
else
home=$i
run=0
if [ -r $home/.fetchmailrc ]
then
echo getting mail for $name
su -l -c /usr/bin/fetchmail -s -t 500 $name
fi
fi
done
--
Alex
Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
Re: [newbie] Hello
On Thursday 10 May 2001 23:00, you wrote: HI, I've been on this list a few days and decided to say hi and introduce myself. I'm utterly and totally a newbie as far as Linux goes (I've been running a machine with Windows as the OS since 1995). I've researched a few companies and decided to go with Mandrake as my distro. A few questions . . . I'm torn if I should buy 7.2 now or wait until 8.0 comes out as a box set. I'm running a 500 Pentium III, 128 meg RAM w/ an 18 Gig HD. I plan on buying an external modem and wonder what brand of modem would be a good choice. Any suggestions? Thanks. With regard to choice of release, as I see it you have 2 options. If you feel you need the manuals you can either buy a boxed set of 7.2 now or wait for a boxed set of 8.0 when it is released. The alternative if you want some fun and possibly learn more in the process is to get the GPL (download) version of 8.0 from someone such as cheapbytes, install it and find your own way round it, search the newbie archives for subjects you want to know about and ask questions here. The choice really is yours, you know how knowledgeable/adventurous you are and how soon you want it. Have a look through the newbie archives as well for posts about any problems with hardware you may have i.e. sound/graphics cards, printers etc, that way you will have the answer before the question arises. As to choice of modem *nearly all * external modems work (but not USB as I understand it) , a lot of internal modems either don't work or need to be made to work, so an external modem would be the easiest option - just make sure that it is a 100% hardware modem, (I think the other term is Hayes compatible but I'm not sure, so wait until someone flames me for bad advice if I'm wrong here :-)) Michelle
[newbie] HELP CHOSING A DURON 900 MAINBOARD.
Hi all, I have just been offered a free upgrade to my server, I am going from a celeron 300 running at 450 to a Duron 900 running at well at 900 So I now have to chose a motherboard for it... and after hearing all the things said with regard to this, I wonder if anyone could tell me the best chipset to aim for??? I have a 20 gig ata100 7200 rpm in my current server and I'd love to make use of the extra speed if possible. So, ,my questions is just what is the motherboard least likely to cause troubles or problems??? any suggestions would be most appreciated. kindest regards Frank
Re: [newbie] OMG! I'm back on the list!!!
glad to have you back... I had the same Random enhancement happen to me a few months ago, I thought it was because I had been on the newbie list about a year.. time to join the expert list too, I have noticed a drop of numbers of e-mails from newbie... - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:06 AM Subject: [newbie] OMG! I'm back on the list!!! Hey fellas, I can hardly believe it, I've gotten back on the list! The e-mail account that I was using for this list mysteriously stopped delivering it to me a few months ago, and I had been too busy to try and fix it until recently. WHOOPPP!! -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] software and upgrade questions
does anyone have any recommendations for web design programs and the like for linux. with windows i was using frontpage (which i didn't really like to begin with), there were a couple of things bundled with it- but i was looking for something a bit more full bodied. and one last question, on the 7.2 there is a graphic art program called cameleo that for the life of me i cannot get to install. i get to the little install icon and won't do anything. :0 I can imagine that the program ends in a problemstate. Can you open an xterm and run the program from there? (enter the name and hit enter). If there is a real problem, that way you can see what happens. (Never heard of the program) You may want to try Gimp, although that is quite complex if you are not used to complete graphics programs. If you know about Photoshop, you won't be too puzzled though. program I have found for linux is Quanta, which installs from Mandrake 8.0. It is a far cry from Front Page, and is more remniscent of Allaire's Home You can also consider Screem. It is the same basis as Quanta, so no wysiwyg. Paul
[newbie] Netscape 6
Hi folks !!! I know, it's a newbie question !!! I have a problem to install Netscape 6 in my MDK8. Can any one tell me how can I do it ??? Step by step !!! TKS Lúcio Costa São Paulo / Brazil. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] forwarding
Install sshd on the firewall box. Login to the firewall box using ssh client and setup a tunnel from localhost:5900 to winboxip:5900. Startup VNCviewer to localhost:5900 Or if you want a less secure way to do it (not recommended) add this to your firewall script ipmasqadm portfw -L xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 5900 -R xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 5900 Then run VNCviewer to yourfirewallhost:5900 Note that your password will be sent in the clear. That is why this is not as secure. -Original Message- From: Marcel Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 3:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] forwarding Hello, Recently I downloaded and installed mandrake 8. I have installed and configured the bastille-firewalll that comes with it. But I have one problem, I want to redirect ports. I have a VNC (windows) machine runneing behind the firewall. And I want to access the VNC server from the net. So I have to redirect port 5900 on the firewall to port 5900 on the VNC machine. How do I do this? Thanks, Marcel
Re: [newbie] HELP CHOSING A DURON 900 MAINBOARD.
Franki; I just attended the AMD conference here in Montreal on Tuesday. Depending on what your server is intended for now, and what it will be used for in the future, the chipset can be a critical choice. There are many boards that can run both types of RAM (SDRam and DDRam). For now, it seems to be the Ali chipset that can run both. I personally prefer the Via chipset, but it doesn't support dual RAM yet. Obviously you wouldn't be able to run them at the same time, but when the price of DDRam drops, you'd be in a position to switch. Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com) is saying a lot of good things about the MSI boards, and there's a new player called DFI (www.dfi.com) that had some interesting stuff, as well as that tried and true board maker ASUS. I think that the significant point here is that these are all AMD reccommended boards. Just play close attention to the installation of the CPU as AMD has been getting enormous amounts of CPU's coming back because of faulty installation procedures, and these are not covered by warranty. A little FYI here, never push down on the CPU when installing the fan! OEM CPU's are fine, but make sure that you use Thermal Grease when installing. The retail CPU's come with a small tube of the stuff, and many of the cooling fans have a small square wafer of it on them. BUT, make sure that you pull off the sticker that covers the grease! I know that sounds stupid, but that was the biggest problem AMD was having with their warranty calls! Good Luck On Friday 11 May 2001 6:11, you wrote: Hi all, I have just been offered a free upgrade to my server, I am going from a celeron 300 running at 450 to a Duron 900 running at well at 900 So I now have to chose a motherboard for it... and after hearing all the things said with regard to this, I wonder if anyone could tell me the best chipset to aim for??? I have a 20 gig ata100 7200 rpm in my current server and I'd love to make use of the extra speed if possible. So, ,my questions is just what is the motherboard least likely to cause troubles or problems??? any suggestions would be most appreciated. kindest regards Frank -- Dan LaBine Maximum L.A.N.'s Ltd. Registered Linux User # 190712
RE: [newbie] HELP CHOSING A DURON 900 MAINBOARD.
I have been building/repairing computers since about 1989,,, from XT's/286's all the way to Athlons,, so I think I got it down pat,, I also have a huge supply of thermal grease and anything else I could possibly need... What I was asking,, is just this: 1. Are their any motherboards or Chipsets I should stay away from? 2. Are their any that perform exceptionally well? 3. Are their any that have problems with linux. 4. Are their any with onboard hdd controllers that cause linux problems? You get the idea, I have to decide on a AMD mainboard tomorrow, These are my current choises,, if they are all crap, ,then I'll go with another wholesaler. The first group are 266 FSB PCCHIPS 810LMR ABIT KT7A VIA-KT133A. ABIT KT7A-RAID VIA-KT133A. ASUS A7V-133 VIA-KT133A, 266FSB. ASUS A7M266 AMD-761, 266FSB. ASUS A7A266 ALi, 266FSB, 2xDDR 3xSDRAM Dimms, ATA/100, 4xAGP-PRO, 4xUSB, Duron Ready, ATX This second group are 200mhz FSB ASUS A7V VIA-KT133, 200FSB, ASUS A7-E VIA-KT133, ASUS A7VI-VM Via-KM133 Transcend AKT4 VIA KT-133, 200FSB So I am trying to find one that doesn't cost the farm and won't have any issues with MDK, Any suggestions??? The Asus boards are the most expensive Anyone know anything about the PCchips or the Transcend??? regards Frank -Original Message- From: Lanman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 11 May 2001 7:27 PM To: Franki; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP CHOSING A DURON 900 MAINBOARD. Franki; I just attended the AMD conference here in Montreal on Tuesday. Depending on what your server is intended for now, and what it will be used for in the future, the chipset can be a critical choice. There are many boards that can run both types of RAM (SDRam and DDRam). For now, it seems to be the Ali chipset that can run both. I personally prefer the Via chipset, but it doesn't support dual RAM yet. Obviously you wouldn't be able to run them at the same time, but when the price of DDRam drops, you'd be in a position to switch. Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com) is saying a lot of good things about the MSI boards, and there's a new player called DFI (www.dfi.com) that had some interesting stuff, as well as that tried and true board maker ASUS. I think that the significant point here is that these are all AMD reccommended boards. Just play close attention to the installation of the CPU as AMD has been getting enormous amounts of CPU's coming back because of faulty installation procedures, and these are not covered by warranty. A little FYI here, never push down on the CPU when installing the fan! OEM CPU's are fine, but make sure that you use Thermal Grease when installing. The retail CPU's come with a small tube of the stuff, and many of the cooling fans have a small square wafer of it on them. BUT, make sure that you pull off the sticker that covers the grease! I know that sounds stupid, but that was the biggest problem AMD was having with their warranty calls! Good Luck On Friday 11 May 2001 6:11, you wrote: Hi all, I have just been offered a free upgrade to my server, I am going from a celeron 300 running at 450 to a Duron 900 running at well at 900 So I now have to chose a motherboard for it... and after hearing all the things said with regard to this, I wonder if anyone could tell me the best chipset to aim for??? I have a 20 gig ata100 7200 rpm in my current server and I'd love to make use of the extra speed if possible. So, ,my questions is just what is the motherboard least likely to cause troubles or problems??? any suggestions would be most appreciated. kindest regards Frank -- Dan LaBine Maximum L.A.N.'s Ltd. Registered Linux User # 190712
Re: [newbie] Gnutella? Napster for 8.0?
I found Lopster works really well on 8.0. I used a src rpm. I think I found it at: http://lopster.sourceforge.net/main.php3?section=download -s On Thursday 10 May 2001 05:41 pm, you wrote: Is there gnutella or napster that will actaully install on Mandrake 8.0?
[newbie] Bye, for now
Well, I´ll have to say goodbye to this list for now, I bought Mandrake in hope I would have Linux on this machine, but the space is too little to install it as I want... I´ve been recieving too much messages from this list, and I want my space too ^_^... I´ll buy soon a "Naked PC" (cryyy Microsoft) and then "I´ll be back" ^_^ Thanks for the help... and keep going El Ciro
[newbie] Networking
We are changing over from using 3 modems to a DSL. I am trying to set up a home network to use one DSL connection. I followed the tutorial on networking at Mandrake. The author of the tutorial talks about two network cards in the linux server...the one card would be eth0what about the other card...I suspect that it is for the DSL modem to plug into itbut what do I do with this card in the Linuxconf setupis it eth1?what info do I put in...the same type of info that I used for eth0 but different numbers? My internal home network will include 2 Win98 machines (my kid...can't convince them to switch over to Linux and my dual operating computerand my Linux router/gateway machine. What information do I need to put into Win98 networking menu? IP address - specify an IP address or obtain an IP Gateway - Do I enter the Gateway address that I put on my Linux server?...or leave it blank? Do I disable the DNS or enable and use the DNS numbers that you get from the DSL provider? Right now I have the Gateway machine and a Win98 machine hooked up together and I can ping back and forthbut thats as far I have gotten. I am going back to Mandrake 7.2 - I loaded up version 8 last night and my machine bogged down and is much faster with version 7.2 and it has less automatic setup programs that you can't learn with. Thank - I shall probably be back with more questions. Thank you again Rod
[newbie] Microsoft for Linux
Hi there all I think this must be the hoax of the year. Microsoft has come out with its own Linux version. I have to see this to believe it though. Check out there site http://www.mslinux.org/
[newbie] how to make boot disks
Stupid question... How do i make a boot disk for my machine in case something goes wrong? i.e. from the console.. Thanks ___ http://www.webmail.co.za the South-African free email service
RE: [newbie] mandrake 7.2 and FTP
Ummm, Thanks Mr Mark, I was answering someone elses question though, and it was the hosts.deny that caused the problem if I remember correctly my ssh works just fine thanks,, but I wouldn't be caught dead using FTP on my box... to insecure Thanks again... Frank -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 11 May 2001 10:35 PM To: Franki Cc: Rules Address for MDK Subject: RE: [newbie] mandrake 7.2 and FTP Franki, this might sound like a stupid question, but i've found in the past i've had to ask myself the same question. are you sure the package openssh-server is installed? I've had the same situation a few times and almost each time when I thought that the server installed it was only the openssh-client that got installed. Which would give exactly the same error that you're recieving now. Also, you will want to check your /etc/hosts.deny file to make sure that you don't have a line in there that looks like this: ALL:ALL EXCEPT localhost:DENY If that line is present then comment it out and you may find that connection is then possible. Mark On Thu, 10 May 2001, Franki wrote: what are your security levels set at? do the other inetd or xinetd services run? like pop3 or telnet what ports do you see if you portscan the box? do you have a firewall running and if so have you blocked the ftp and ssh ports??? you need to find out what is closing the connection,,, and since both ftp and ssh are affected, whats in your hosts.allow and hosts.deny? not much you can make suggestion wise without seeing the server, so I just ask questions... :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Amy Eslinger Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2001 3:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mandrake 7.2 and FTP I ran a custom server install on Mandrake 7.2. I am unable to ftp to it or access the server using a secure shell. The sshd and inetd is running. The configuration files look accurate. The ports are open. When I attempt to ssh, I receive the error, connection closed by foreign host. If anyone has any insight, I'd be grateful!! Thanks, Amy
RE: [newbie] mandrake 7.2 and FTP
Franki, this might sound like a stupid question, but i've found in the past i've had to ask myself the same question. are you sure the package openssh-server is installed? I've had the same situation a few times and almost each time when I thought that the server installed it was only the openssh-client that got installed. Which would give exactly the same error that you're recieving now. Also, you will want to check your /etc/hosts.deny file to make sure that you don't have a line in there that looks like this: ALL:ALL EXCEPT localhost:DENY If that line is present then comment it out and you may find that connection is then possible. Mark On Thu, 10 May 2001, Franki wrote: what are your security levels set at? do the other inetd or xinetd services run? like pop3 or telnet what ports do you see if you portscan the box? do you have a firewall running and if so have you blocked the ftp and ssh ports??? you need to find out what is closing the connection,,, and since both ftp and ssh are affected, whats in your hosts.allow and hosts.deny? not much you can make suggestion wise without seeing the server, so I just ask questions... :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Amy Eslinger Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2001 3:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mandrake 7.2 and FTP I ran a custom server install on Mandrake 7.2. I am unable to ftp to it or access the server using a secure shell. The sshd and inetd is running. The configuration files look accurate. The ports are open. When I attempt to ssh, I receive the error, connection closed by foreign host. If anyone has any insight, I'd be grateful!! Thanks, Amy
[newbie] rpm problem
Hi there all I have a prob: 1 How do i install a src.rpm in MDK 7.2? This is a file i need to hopefully make my ethernet card be recognized.I had to download thru windows and i have copied it to a cd but im not sure what to do next. Im new to linux and i might just be missing something obvious but i hope someone can help. TIA Simon
Re: [newbie] forwarding
Or if you want a less secure way to do it (not recommended) add this to your firewall script ipmasqadm portfw -L xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 5900 -R xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 5900 Then run VNCviewer to yourfirewallhost:5900 Note that your password will be sent in the clear. That is why this is not as secure. If i enter this line: ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 192.168.0.9 5900 -R MY_IP_NUMBER 5900 (I didn't mention my real IP, the one I mentioned in the command) I get this error: portfw: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available Marcel
[newbie] web page for linux and motherbboards?
Hi all, Is there a web page regarding motherboards, chips and linux?? I remember recently, there was a discussion about amd optimisations with the kernel, and a page about it was mentioned,, but I can't find it,,, does anyone know what I am talking about?? ps, love the mslinux version, one question, where can I get the source? I'd like to compile it myself :-) regards Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lanman Sent: Friday, 11 May 2001 7:27 PM To: Franki; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP CHOSING A DURON 900 MAINBOARD. Franki; I just attended the AMD conference here in Montreal on Tuesday. Depending on what your server is intended for now, and what it will be used for in the future, the chipset can be a critical choice. There are many boards that can run both types of RAM (SDRam and DDRam). For now, it seems to be the Ali chipset that can run both. I personally prefer the Via chipset, but it doesn't support dual RAM yet. Obviously you wouldn't be able to run them at the same time, but when the price of DDRam drops, you'd be in a position to switch. Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com) is saying a lot of good things about the MSI boards, and there's a new player called DFI (www.dfi.com) that had some interesting stuff, as well as that tried and true board maker ASUS. I think that the significant point here is that these are all AMD reccommended boards. Just play close attention to the installation of the CPU as AMD has been getting enormous amounts of CPU's coming back because of faulty installation procedures, and these are not covered by warranty. A little FYI here, never push down on the CPU when installing the fan! OEM CPU's are fine, but make sure that you use Thermal Grease when installing. The retail CPU's come with a small tube of the stuff, and many of the cooling fans have a small square wafer of it on them. BUT, make sure that you pull off the sticker that covers the grease! I know that sounds stupid, but that was the biggest problem AMD was having with their warranty calls! Good Luck On Friday 11 May 2001 6:11, you wrote: Hi all, I have just been offered a free upgrade to my server, I am going from a celeron 300 running at 450 to a Duron 900 running at well at 900 So I now have to chose a motherboard for it... and after hearing all the things said with regard to this, I wonder if anyone could tell me the best chipset to aim for??? I have a 20 gig ata100 7200 rpm in my current server and I'd love to make use of the extra speed if possible. So, ,my questions is just what is the motherboard least likely to cause troubles or problems??? any suggestions would be most appreciated. kindest regards Frank -- Dan LaBine Maximum L.A.N.'s Ltd. Registered Linux User # 190712
Re: [newbie] Networking
Here's the tutorial/howto I followed to get mine up. It's pretty good if your provider uses pppoe and you use ipchains (which you probably will if you are indeed going back to 7.2). http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cpppoe.html -s On Friday 11 May 2001 08:04 am, you wrote: We are changing over from using 3 modems to a DSL. I am trying to set up a home network to use one DSL connection. I followed the tutorial on networking at Mandrake. The author of the tutorial talks about two network cards in the linux server...the one card would be eth0what about the other card...I suspect that it is for the DSL modem to plug into itbut what do I do with this card in the Linuxconf setupis it eth1?what info do I put in...the same type of info that I used for eth0 but different numbers? My internal home network will include 2 Win98 machines (my kid...can't convince them to switch over to Linux and my dual operating computerand my Linux router/gateway machine. What information do I need to put into Win98 networking menu? IP address - specify an IP address or obtain an IP Gateway - Do I enter the Gateway address that I put on my Linux server?...or leave it blank? Do I disable the DNS or enable and use the DNS numbers that you get from the DSL provider? Right now I have the Gateway machine and a Win98 machine hooked up together and I can ping back and forthbut thats as far I have gotten. I am going back to Mandrake 7.2 - I loaded up version 8 last night and my machine bogged down and is much faster with version 7.2 and it has less automatic setup programs that you can't learn with. Thank - I shall probably be back with more questions. Thank you again Rod
Re: [newbie] Microsoft for Linux
This must be one of the funniest things i read all year. Thanks for the laugh. Bill Nash On Friday 11 May 2001 07:59, Mcintosh, Duncan wrote: Hi there all I think this must be the hoax of the year. Microsoft has come out with its own Linux version. I have to see this to believe it though. Check out there site http://www.mslinux.org/
Re: [newbie] Hello
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Michelle Knight wrote: HI, I've been on this list a few days and decided to say hi and introduce myself. I'm utterly and totally a newbie as far as Linux goes (I've been running a machine with Windows as the OS since 1995). I've researched a few companies and decided to go with Mandrake as my distro. Yeah,hello Michelle,good choice :) A few questions . . . I'm torn if I should buy 7.2 now or wait until 8.0 comes out as a box set. I'm running a 500 Pentium III, 128 meg RAM w/ an 18 Gig HD. I plan on buying an external modem and wonder what brand of modem would be a good choice. Any suggestions? Thanks. Michelle 7.2 is quite good,i am running it...but it has 2.2.17 kernel (locally vulnerable) 8.0 i heard is better... external modems like 3Com or Zyxel are just fine :p good luck -- Petre Daniel Romanian Whitehat Phone:+4093591346
Re: [newbie] Help on getting 2cd set of LM 8.0
On Thu, 10 May 2001, RK wrote: I got my Mandrake 8 set last week from Cheapbytes - they're pleasant to deal with, and quick.. They send an acknowledgement of your order, and, as promised, another e-mail when the cd's go out the door. I had mine in 2 days, using USmail! Regards, Irv That's a good price, even with the $5.00 shipping charge in the USA. Randy Kramer Darin Lang wrote: http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart $3.49 Darin
Re: [newbie] HELP CHOSING A DURON 900 MAINBOARD.
Franki wrote: Anyone know anything about the PCchips or the Transcend??? Don't know about the Transcend. I believe the PCchips is a generic motherboard sold under several brand names. I'd bet it is the same as the Alton M/B 810 LMR, and very similar to the Matsonic MS8308. At a computer show about three months ago, I bought the Matsonic MS8308, because it was about $9 less than the Alton (about $69). The Matsonic does not have an on-board modem, which I did not want anyway. (For $10 I could have bought a modem that was almost on-board -- the motherboard has a special socket for a special modem.) The Alton and Matsonic modems (and the PCChips modem -- the M in the LMR tell you that it has an on board modem, the L means Lan (on board 10/100 Ethernet), and the R I can't recall right now) are Winmodems. I have no idea whether there are Linux drivers for these particular Winmodems. Before I go any further, let me say that I like the motherboard, but not everyone will. It has on-board video, sound, and 10/100 Ethernet. We (my son and I) installed Mandrake 7.2 with MandrakeFreq after attempting to install the beta 3 of Mandrake 8.0. (The problem had to do with the configuration of X.) Nice things about the board: Inexpensive Built in video (SiS 730/630) with AGP interface, plus an AGP socket if you want to upgrade to a better AGP card. (The SiS 730/630 is probably not the fastest, but we haven't done any fps benchmarks.) We are running Mandrake 7.2 with the generic SVGA driver. (IIUC, the SiS drivers for 3.3.6 and 4.0.2 support the SiS 630, but the driver for 4.0.3 does not support the 630 -- go figure! When we set up 7.2 it chose the SVGA driver, and after our problems with 8.0 decided not to fool around for now -- just accept it.) If you plug a better card into the AGP socket you can (must?) disable the on board video in the Bios setup. Built in sound that works in Mandrake 7.2 (don't recall the chip designation). (We had previously used a predecessor of this motherboard called the TX-Pro II. We could never get the on board sound module to work under Linux (works fine in Windows).) Again, you can disable the on board sound in the Bios setup. (PS: The reason we needed to upgrade is to get more memory -- the TX-Pro II has only two DIMM sockets, which can only handle 64 MB each. The Matsonic has two that can handle 256 MB each, and I think the Alton has three (at 256 MB each). IME(xperience), Linux needs far more memory than Windows.) We disabled the onboard Lan (Ethernet 10/100) because our home Ethernet still uses coax. If you think about disabling the on board stuff, note that the Matsonic only has two PCI sockets and one AGP socket. (I don't recall if the Alton has 2 + 1 sockets, but I know it does not have 5, 6, or 7.) Back to the video. I think (my opinion only, and I'm quite a newbie to Linux) that the problem has to do with the setup -- maybe the system reports that it is using an SiS 730/630 driver, and Mandrake doesn't recognize it, and throws up its hands and quits. It gives a message something like ... not found in (database?) ... and does not let us complete the installation. (Well actually, it may have completed the non-graphic installation because we were able to boot up, and we might have been able to set up X manually -- but we punted and went back to Mandrake 7.2.) As I understand it, the chipset is a 730 but the video portion of it is the same as the 630. Good luck, hope this helps! Randy Kramer
RE: [newbie] cutting off access to specific sites to masq
yeah, I did that a few days ago,, added some new rules to PMFirewall to drop access to that site entirely.. but I'd rather block the ports.. can anyone tell me all the ports to block to stop realplayer streaming video cold? -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 11 May 2001 11:45 PM To: Franki Cc: Rules Address for MDK Subject: Re: [newbie] cutting off access to specific sites to masq Ipchains, my friend. Ipcahins. add a rulle to the chains that blocks those pckets from entering the LAN. You can close the port and also block that host from sending data to your LAN. The packets are just dropped. No more REalplayer. On Thu, 10 May 2001, Franki wrote: Hi all, We have big brother over here at the moment, and all the staff at my servers location are wanting to watching the realplayer live footage,,, I want to cut off access to that site to the computers, its costing me a fortune How can I stop all access to realplayer streaming video to the masq computers... any suggestions...?? many thanks regards Frank
Re: [newbie] Networking
Yes, use eth1 for the second card. One card should be hooked up to the DSL. The other card should be hooked up to the internal private network. This server with the two cards can act as the router and the firewall. Give eth1 similar information as eth0. It's probably easiest to get them both the same subnet, but they will need two different IPs. The windows machines will use the server as their gateway. They can use the DNS from the ISP. --- Rod Upfold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are changing over from using 3 modems to a DSL. I am trying to set up a home network to use one DSL connection. I followed the tutorial on networking at Mandrake. The author of the tutorial talks about two network cards in the linux server...the one card would be eth0what about the other card...I suspect that it is for the DSL modem to plug into itbut what do I do with this card in the Linuxconf setupis it eth1?what info do I put in...the same type of info that I used for eth0 but different numbers? My internal home network will include 2 Win98 machines (my kid...can't convince them to switch over to Linux and my dual operating computerand my Linux router/gateway machine. What information do I need to put into Win98 networking menu? IP address - specify an IP address or obtain an IP Gateway - Do I enter the Gateway address that I put on my Linux server?...or leave it blank? Do I disable the DNS or enable and use the DNS numbers that you get from the DSL provider? Right now I have the Gateway machine and a Win98 machine hooked up together and I can ping back and forthbut thats as far I have gotten. I am going back to Mandrake 7.2 - I loaded up version 8 last night and my machine bogged down and is much faster with version 7.2 and it has less automatic setup programs that you can't learn with. Thank - I shall probably be back with more questions. Thank you again Rod __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] troubleshooting vmware Xfree86 DGA support
I'm a true newbie, which means I know very little (if anything) :-)), but I have the same problem with VMWARE. When I told this to my linux guru (our network guy) he said that he suspects that VMWARE is not compatible with XFree86 v. 4***. Perhaps going to version 3 would solve the problem. Terry Smith Woods Hole, MA Tycho Bizot wrote: I am already using vmware 2.04 with the suppert for kernel 2.4 it was a clean install..and i didn't get any errors -Original Message- From: Roger Pithers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: donderdag 10 mei 2001 14:32 To: Tycho Bizot Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] troubleshooting vmware Xfree86 DGA support On Thursday 10 May 2001 10:51, you wrote: I just installed VMware 2.04 in mandrake...it run's. there is only one thing i can't figure out when i start Vmware it gives the following message : ! no xfree86 DGA support for this X-screen ! ! xfree86 Digital Graphics (DGA extension) initialisation failed ! and when i run a virtual win98 machine it says the following : ! The virtual machine will not be able to run in full-screen SVGA mode, because your X-server does not support the Xfree86 DGA extension for direct-to-frame-buffer graphics or because DGA is supported but the virtual machine cannot use it ! I am running mandrake 8.0 with XFree86 4 anyone has a clue? thanx in advance Tycho Try going to VMware's web site, I believe that there is an update available fot the 2.4.x kernel which might fix the problem. Roger
RE: [newbie] mandrake 7.2 and FTP
Sorry about that...I realized that your post was a response to someone else just after I sent the reply and went on to the next post. As for the FTP...I've found it to be ok as long it's setup correctly. Not that I'm issuing a challenge or anything, but mine is working ok so far. Mark On Fri, 11 May 2001, Franki wrote: Ummm, Thanks Mr Mark, I was answering someone elses question though, and it was the hosts.deny that caused the problem if I remember correctly my ssh works just fine thanks,, but I wouldn't be caught dead using FTP on my box... to insecure Thanks again... Frank -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 11 May 2001 10:35 PM To: Franki Cc: Rules Address for MDK Subject: RE: [newbie] mandrake 7.2 and FTP Franki, this might sound like a stupid question, but i've found in the past i've had to ask myself the same question. are you sure the package openssh-server is installed? I've had the same situation a few times and almost each time when I thought that the server installed it was only the openssh-client that got installed. Which would give exactly the same error that you're recieving now. Also, you will want to check your /etc/hosts.deny file to make sure that you don't have a line in there that looks like this: ALL:ALL EXCEPT localhost:DENY If that line is present then comment it out and you may find that connection is then possible. Mark On Thu, 10 May 2001, Franki wrote: what are your security levels set at? do the other inetd or xinetd services run? like pop3 or telnet what ports do you see if you portscan the box? do you have a firewall running and if so have you blocked the ftp and ssh ports??? you need to find out what is closing the connection,,, and since both ftp and ssh are affected, whats in your hosts.allow and hosts.deny? not much you can make suggestion wise without seeing the server, so I just ask questions... :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Amy Eslinger Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2001 3:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mandrake 7.2 and FTP I ran a custom server install on Mandrake 7.2. I am unable to ftp to it or access the server using a secure shell. The sshd and inetd is running. The configuration files look accurate. The ports are open. When I attempt to ssh, I receive the error, connection closed by foreign host. If anyone has any insight, I'd be grateful!! Thanks, Amy
Re: [newbie] how to make boot disks
On Fri, 11 May 2001 16:01:43 +0200 Alan Rolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stupid question... How do i make a boot disk for my machine in case something goes wrong? i.e. from the console.. From a console as root (su, password) mkbootdisk (uname -r) dead easy Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
[newbie] Performance between win32 and linux 2.4,, also, motherboard swap effect curent install??
Hi all, Do you guys remember the big hubub when MicroSnot released figures that proved that NT server outperformed redhat in file serving, web serving and some other stuff on high end servers?? Does anyone know if tests have been done comparing things now that the 2.4.4 kernel (or just 2.4)and reiserFS have been released? I would be most interested in seeing the results of nowdays compared to the linux of those days, which in RH terms was what 6.1 or 2??? wonder what the percentage of impovement would be. I'd also love to know exactly how much difference %% wise, it makes to use i586 packages as mandrake does.. with i386 as redhat apparently does... anyone seen anything like that? Also, I want to swap from an Intel BX chipsent mainboard with 128mb PC133 ram and a Celeron 450, to a Duron 900 (possibly running at 1gig...) and a Via chipset... if I just swap the board over, (making sure to keep the hdds connected to the correct ide's...) will it work? or will I get kernel panics and stuff? Also,, is it worth reinstalling to make sure the install has all the kernel optimisations? (ie will I get i686 instead of i586? or should I aim for AMD optimisations? is it even worth the trouble? lastly and most importantly, if it doesn't work without reinstall,, is there anything I can do to band aid it till it does work?? I currently have 7.2 running with Reiser FS (love that reiser) and I have kernel 2.2.19 and all the other updates as well, it all works flawlessly and I am most happy with it now. (got all the issues I had sorted.) I don't want to reinstall 7.2, the next time I install it will be 8 or 8.1,, and I have not seen 8 anywhere around Perth yet... So basically, anything I can do to keep the current install working with the new chip and hardware would be absolutly a lifesaver... Strangely enough, I think this is something windows actually does better then linux,, I have done hundreds of MB swaps in windows systems, and it just goes off and finds the new stuff and removes the old, most of the time completely sucessfully... I am hoping that linux will be the same, but I thought I'd ask,, (don't think it has ever heard to ask.) many thanks and kindest regards Frank Perth Western Australia
RE: [newbie] My Choice for Duron Motherboard...
I have an Abit myself. It is great. The softmenu is easy to use and it is jumperless! No compaints. Moose -Original Message- From: Franki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:27 PM To: Rules Address for MDK Subject: [newbie] My Choice for Duron Motherboard... Hi all, After hours of browsing reading reviews and stuff... I have decided on the Abit KT7 133a motherboard... it has full overclocking, and is apparantly very stable and well layed out,, I also like the 6 pci slots and one legacy (for that card that you can't bear to part with...) Does anyone have anything bad to say about it??? I'd like to know before I part with $$ Here is an example of one of the reviews... Well, we've been poking and prodding at the KT7 for days, and can't find anything that's not to like. Technically, the board is as close to perfect as possible. http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reviews/2305/6/ So that and the other positive reviews, seems to be saying I have made a good choice... and at 240ex tax, I would like to hope so... Thanks to all who offered a view... regards Frank
Re: [newbie] 3 programs i'd love to get
On Thu, 10 May 2001 21:11:49 +0200, Rog kept his cool as you frantically scribbled: It was Thu, 10 May 2001 14:24:40 -0400 when Rog wrote: One program I'd love to see is Agent/Free Agent, since I don't like the newsreaders I've found in Linux. Agent works very well under Wine, but I'd stll like one ported for Linux. Fortunately, I sent Forte an email about it, and they said they were considering a linux port for Agent 2.0. Try Pan. It is not Free Agent yet, but very much getting there. pan.rebelbase.com if I am correct I have tried Pan...it seems to market itself as an Agent clone, but it's definitly one of the reasons I've stuck with Agent. I found it quite disappointing. Thanks, though :-) Paul peace, Rog
Re: [newbie] Forcing 2.2.19 to be installed?
Are you referring to Mandrake 8.0? I don't think it comes with an older kernel, just the 2.4.3. And I *know* Mandrake 7.2 only comes with 2.2.17, which is upgradeable to 2.2.19. Dave At 06:18 PM 05/11/2001 -0400, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! Is there any way to force kernel 2.2.19 to be installed instead of 2.4.3 ?? Thanks! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Dave Sherman Business Solutions Group, LLC Quid quid latine dictum sit, [EMAIL PROTECTED] altum viditur. (763) 569-9839
[newbie] Problems with swap
Hello, I have installed LM8 a few days ago, and everything was alright until I tried to install StarOffice 5.2. Then, I received the message that I hadn't enought memory. I have 159.15 MB of RAM, and 264.04 MB of swap (on hda6), so I couldn't understand it. But then I went to Memory Information on the Control Center and I saw that my swap was 0.0% used. I have tried many things: swapoff and then swapon (when I swapped-off, I could see Swap Memory Not Available on the Control Center, so I thought this is not the problem); repartition hda and then mkswap; even mount swap on a file. Nothing has worked, and my swap is still 0.0% used, so I don't have enough memory to install StarOffice, and some games (like pingus or Xsoldier) runs so slowly. I have a Penthium MMX 233, and you can see my report file from HardDrake and my fstab as attachments. Thanks in advence, Alejandro ?xml version=1.0? HARDDRAKE VERSION=0.9.3 DEVICES DEVICE VENDOR=GenuineIntel MODEL=Pentium MMX TYPE=cpu BUS=Unknown MODULE=Not Available POS=0 FLAGS=[HAS_FPU:HAS_MMX] BOGOMIPS=465.30 BUGS=f00f FREQ=233/ DEVICE TYPE=memory BUS=Unknown MODULE=Not Available POS=0 TOTAL=159148 FREE=19828 SHARED=0 BUFFERS=7492 CACHED=68768 SWAP_TOTAL=262040 SWAP_FREE=262040/ DEVICE VENDOR=Unknown MODEL=ST52520A TYPE=disk BUS=ATAPI/IDE MODULE=Not Available DEV=/dev/hdb POS=0 SIZE=5007744 CYLINDERS=621 HEADS=128 SECTORS=63/ DEVICE VENDOR=Unknown MODEL=FUJITSU MPA3035ATU TYPE=disk BUS=ATAPI/IDE MODULE=Not Available DEV=/dev/hda POS=0 SIZE=6830208 CYLINDERS=847 HEADS=128 SECTORS=63/ DEVICE VENDOR=MATSHITA MODEL=LS-120 VER5 00 TYPE=disk BUS=SCSI MODULE=Not Available DEV=/dev/sda POS=0 SIZE=-1 CYLINDERS=-1 HEADS=-1 SECTORS=-1/ DEVICE VENDOR=Unknown MODEL=1.44MB 3.5quot; TYPE=floppy BUS=Floppy Drive Controller MODULE=Not Available DEV=/dev/fd0 POS=0/ DEVICE VENDOR=Unknown MODEL=Pioneer CD-ROM ATAPI Model DR-A24X 0102 TYPE=cdrom BUS=ATAPI/IDE MODULE=ignore DEV=/dev/hdd POS=0/ DEVICE VENDOR=3Com Corporation MODEL=3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] TYPE=ethernet BUS=PCI MODULE=3c59x POS=0 ID=10b79055/ DEVICE VENDOR=S3 Inc. MODEL=ViRGE (generic) ViRGE/DX or /GX TYPE=video BUS=PCI MODULE=Not Available POS=0 ID=/ DEVICE VENDOR=Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] MODEL=M5229 IDE TYPE=ide BUS=PCI MODULE=unknown POS=0 ID=10b95229/ DEVICE VENDOR=Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] MODEL=M5237 USB TYPE=usb BUS=PCI MODULE=usb-ohci POS=0 ID=10b95237/ DEVICE VENDOR=Creative Labs MODEL=AWE64 16-bit Audio TYPE=sound BUS=ISA MODULE=sb POS=0 FLAGS=[HAS_OPL3:HAS_DMA16:HAS_AWE] BOARDID=CTL00e4 BOARDNUM=0 DEVID=CTL0045 DEVNUM=0/ DEVICE VENDOR=Unknown MODEL=Unknown TYPE=mouse BUS=Serial MODULE=ignore DEV=/dev/ttyS0 POS=0 DEVID=Not Available/ DEVICE VENDOR=Seiko Epson Corp. MODEL=Stylus Color 760 / M800C / Photo 870 TYPE=printer BUS=USB MODULE=unknown POS=0 ID=/ DEVICE VENDOR=Unknown MODEL=Unknown TYPE=other BUS=USB POS=0 ID=07180002/ DEVICE VENDOR=Creative Labs MODEL=AWE64 WaveTable MIDI TYPE=other BUS=ISA MODULE=unknown POS=0 BOARDID=CTL00e4 BOARDNUM=0 DEVID=CTL0022 DEVNUM=2/ DEVICE VENDOR=Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] MODEL=M1531 [Aladdin IV] TYPE=bridge BUS=PCI MODULE=unknown POS=0 ID=10b91531/ DEVICE VENDOR=Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] MODEL=M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] TYPE=bridge BUS=PCI MODULE=ignore POS=0 ID=10b91533/ /DEVICES /HARDDRAKE /dev/hdb5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda5 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda /mnt/disk vfat user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 none swap exec,dev,suid,rw 0 0
Re: [newbie] Microsoft for Linux
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Dave wrote: Yes, this is a hoax. Been around for a while, actually. Dave I fully expect Microsoft to come out with a version of Linux sooner or later. It will be 'user friendly' - but just enough different so that only Microsoft programs will run well on it. Having Microsoft 'embrace and extend' your standards is like letting the dirty old man down the street 'embrace' your teenage daughter - the likely outcome is much the same. Regards, Irv At 01:59 PM 05/11/2001 +0200, Mcintosh, Duncan wrote: Hi there all I think this must be the hoax of the year. Microsoft has come out with its own Linux version. I have to see this to believe it though. Check out there site http://www.mslinux.org/
Re: [newbie] Hello
Well 8 is good, but not quite polished off yet. 7.2 has its little boogers in it too, but is not bad. I installed 8.0 and so far its pretty good. If you really need it quick you may wish to go get 7.2 in the box. On Thursday 10 May 2001 10:00 pm, so spoke Michelle Knight: HI, I've been on this list a few days and decided to say hi and introduce myself. I'm utterly and totally a newbie as far as Linux goes (I've been running a machine with Windows as the OS since 1995). I've researched a few companies and decided to go with Mandrake as my distro. A few questions . . . I'm torn if I should buy 7.2 now or wait until 8.0 comes out as a box set. I'm running a 500 Pentium III, 128 meg RAM w/ an 18 Gig HD. I plan on buying an external modem and wonder what brand of modem would be a good choice. Any suggestions? Thanks. Michelle
Re: [newbie] Who sells Mandrake distributions?
Alan SkipYou asked who carries the boxed sets. I said that LSL Alan would have the Macmillan 8.0 boxed sets as soon as they are Alan available. They are not yet available. What is available in the Alan 8.0 release is the GPL CD's and that's what costs $3.78. Be Alan patient. :-) Ah, okay, thanks. My brain failed to make the proper distinction. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098
[newbie] upgrade to kernel 2.2.19
Hi! Is it worth upgrading to 2.2.19 from 2.2.17? If yes, then how? It requires the alsa-2.2.19 package, as I know. Can I simply install it, or does it have to be forced? (I have Mdk 7.2) Thanks, Laszlo
Re: [newbie] RPM problem...solved? one more time before..
Hi Petre, you're very welcome for the help. No problem. thats why we're all here in this place. and yes, you can get that tarball from www.rpm.org. thats where I got it. good luck, Mark On Wed, 9 May 2001, Petre Daniel wrote: so,i read the messages,still a bit confused,but i got the big picture i think... I don't have much time,i have exams and my job,so i can't look into the archives. So. If i understood well rpm 4 has an uninstalling option for itself? Please keep in mind that it does not work actually,i can only issue the rpm command without any arguments for that screen of info. that's all with my rpm4.It can't query,install packs,uninstall... So,how can i get rid of the rpm4 pieces? I want to regain the rpm 3,from the tarball. For that i know what to do...configure make make install :p Please give me a fast ftp site for it...does the tarball from www.rpm.org do the job? After i get the src do i need another additional soft for it to build? Don't forget i played with glibc too.. like i force updated glibc 2.2 ,coz rpm 4 it asked for it... Geez i made such a mess in my rage for newest software. thank you all,for you patience. Mark it sems that i can't download to fast from your pc. Thank you a lot for support. -- Petre Daniel Romanian Whitehat Phone:+4093591346
Re: [newbie] Microsoft for Linux
At 01:27 PM 05/11/2001 -0500, Irv Mullins wrote: I fully expect Microsoft to come out with a version of Linux sooner or later. It will be 'user friendly' - but just enough different so that only Microsoft programs will run well on it. Having Microsoft 'embrace and extend' your standards is like letting the dirty old man down the street 'embrace' your teenage daughter - the likely outcome is much the same. Regards, Irv I wouldn't count on MS doing that. They will *never* do anything to harm their OS monopoly, and that monopoly is likely to be around for a few years still. They only embrace and extend when it is to their advantage, especially (and specifically) when they do not already own a particular market. Thus the kerberos fiasco in Windows 2000. MS added support for a common and standardized authentication protocol, one which MS did not already control, and in which Unix was the primary player. But, the MS version broke - I mean, extended - kerberos just enough to give them an advantage over other (Unix) platforms. If MS already owns a market (i.e., the desktop OS), then they have no reason to embrace and extend any standard within that market. And even in the server arena, they would only harm their NT/Win2k marketing efforts if they released a competing server platform based on Linux. MS may produce bloated, buggy code. They may lie, cheat and steal to beat their competition. But they know their markets, they know their customers, and they know how to focus their energy toward platform dominance. That's what makes them such a formidable enemy. But I still think Linux will win in the long run. Dave Sherman Business Solutions Group, LLC Quid quid latine dictum sit, [EMAIL PROTECTED] altum viditur. (763) 569-9839
Re: [newbie] Problems with swap
Alejandro Castro Calvo wrote: Hello, I have installed LM8 a few days ago, and everything was alright until I tried to install StarOffice 5.2. Then, I received the message that I hadn't enought memory. I have 159.15 MB of RAM, and 264.04 MB of swap (on hda6), so I couldn't understand it. But then I went to Memory Information on the Control Center and I saw that my swap was 0.0% used. I have tried many things: swapoff and then swapon (when I swapped-off, I could see Swap Memory Not Available on the Control Center, so I thought this is not the problem); repartition hda and then mkswap; even mount swap on a file. Nothing has worked, and my swap is still 0.0% used, so I don't have enough memory to install StarOffice, and some games (like pingus or Xsoldier) runs so slowly. I have a Penthium MMX 233, and you can see my report file from HardDrake and my fstab as attachments. Thanks in advence, Alejandro /dev/hdb5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda5 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda /mnt/disk vfat user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 none swap exec,dev,suid,rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 Alejandrotry the above changes in the swap file line in your /etc/fstab file. -- Alan
[newbie] smbclient problem
I'm using mandrake 7.0 I can start the samba server, when i try to run the smbclient program, however, i get the message COMMAND NOT FOUND. Does this mean the program is not installed. Where do I gon from here? Should i download samba again??? Thanks Ev
[newbie] Difference between Desktop Environment/Window Manager
What is the difference between a Window Manager, such as BlackBox, and a Desktop environment? They seem to perform similar functions. The differerence I've came up wtih is that the environments let one save things on the desktop, and provide for graphical customization of it, whereas there aren't many extras in Window Managers, although they seem to start and shutdown somewhat faster. Is that the only thing? Dan
[newbie] RPM status after tarball compiling...
So i downloaded the rpm 3 package configured make make install and look what i get /usr/local/bin/rpm -qa | grep netscape failed to open /var/local/lib/rpm/packages.rpm: No such file or directory rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed Mark? -- Petre Daniel Romanian Whitehat Phone:+4093591346
Re: [newbie] smbclient problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using mandrake 7.0 I can start the samba server, when i try to run the smbclient program, however, i get the message COMMAND NOT FOUND. Does this mean the program is not installed. Where do I gon from here? Should i download samba again??? Thanks Ev Evthere are 3 samba rpms on the 7.0 installation CD. Make sure you have all 3 of them installed. From the sound of it you don't have samba-client installed. The 3 rpms are: samba-2.0.6-1mdk.i586.rpm samba-client-2.0.6-1mdk.i586.rpm samba-common-2.0.6-1mdk.i586.rpm -- Alan
[newbie] useless shockwave
how come shockwave don't work/
Re: [newbie] rpm problem
First, please try not to send htmlized e-mail to the list -- some people's e-mail clients will pick up all the extra html tags. To answer your question, you don't install it directly. Instead, you have to do an rpm --rebuild whatever.src.rpm, then install the compiled rpms. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 03:15 PM 05/11/2001 +0100, outofcontrol wrote: Hi there all I have a prob: 1 How do i install a src.rpm in MDK 7.2? This is a file i need to hopefully make my ethernet card be recognized.I had to download thru windows and i have copied it to a cd but im not sure what to do next. Im new to linux and i might just be missing something obvious but i hope someone can help. TIA Simon
Re: [newbie] Who sells Mandrake distributions?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan SkipYou asked who carries the boxed sets. I said that LSL Alan would have the Macmillan 8.0 boxed sets as soon as they are Alan available. They are not yet available. What is available in the Alan 8.0 release is the GPL CD's and that's what costs $3.78. Be Alan patient. :-) Ah, okay, thanks. My brain failed to make the proper distinction. Skipyou're welcome. Also both Alex and Carroll mentioned some of the retail chains that will carry Macmillan boxed sets when they become available. These are also viable alternatives for you. I only mentioned LSL because you seemed to be concentratiung on web based resellers. :-) -- Alan
[newbie] RPM few adjustements..it works..
Hehe,it needed some cp and proggies relocations i started a rpm --rebuilddb and then a rpm -qa| grep netscape at which point it gave a lot of errors of locale something.. i did again a rpm -qa| grep telnet (another for some luck...:P) and it worked! I'll tell you when it shakes... thx! -- Petre Daniel Romanian Whitehat Phone:+4093591346
Re: [newbie] 3 programs i'd love to get
On Thursday 10 May 2001 20:24, Rog wrote about Re: [newbie] 3 programs i'd love to get that ... One program I'd love to see is Agent/Free Agent, since I don't like the newsreaders I've found in Linux. Agent works very well under Wine, Same here Why is it that I can't find a decent offline Usenet client for Linux.? I'm using Free Agent under Wine too. but I'd stll like one ported for Linux. Fortunately, I sent Forte an email about it, and they said they were considering a linux port for Agent 2.0. That's encouraging news!
[newbie] Questions for LM8
Dear All, I have received my LM8 disks and I am getting excited about installing. I have Linux-Mandrake 7.2. Is it better to update or do a fresh install? Would I be able to do a fresh install in expert mode and preserve my home partition somehow? I have my 7.2 so fine tuned with alot of added programs. I have been backing up onto my zip disks however I realized it will take a long time to do because of everything that I have done. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] Microsoft for Linux
Hi Folks !!! Is it 1°st April ??? Good Joke, but very late !!! Lúcio Costa São Paulo / Brasil. Hi there all I think this must be the hoax of the year. Microsoft has come out with its own Linux version. I have to see this to believe it though. Check out there site http://www.mslinux.org/ _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] partitions
Hi All, I recently purchased a 30 gig hard drive and installed LM 8 on it. The system is a dual boot with win98. I have absolutely no experience with partitions so I just went with recommended and it seems like I have one huge partition in addition to a small swap. I am moving to linux but I want to know if I should be creating smaller partitions for /var, /home etc..also, with a hd of this size would anyone recommend going to the reiserfs? Thanks, Bill W.
RE: [newbie] Difference between Desktop Environment/Window Manager
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 3:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Difference between Desktop Environment/Window Manager What is the difference between a Window Manager, such as BlackBox, and a Desktop environment? They seem to perform similar functions. The differerence I've came up wtih is that the environments let one save things on the desktop, and provide for graphical customization of it, whereas there aren't many extras in Window Managers, although they seem to start and shutdown somewhat faster. Is that the only thing? A Desktop environment, such as kde or gnome, is shells which operates on top of a Window manager. A Window manager, such as sawfish-WM-Enlight-etc, is a base program which supplies the GUI interface for X. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
Re: [newbie] full screen gaming [WAS]Mandrakesoft quiet? Voodoo fixes?
Yeah, I did build the .src.rpms. They have worked with everything except for smpeg which Shogo appears to need for the movies. Well, I sort of think that ldconfig makes everything else work while maybe smpeg is hard coded to expect the drivers in a certain location. I don't know. It's peculiar. I still have to talk to Loki. I'll get back to you. You and I appear to have the same setup with the drivers. Have you compile smpeg for your system? If so, did it see your GL? --- abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: very interesting since I've been using the newest NVIDIA drivers built from .src.rpm on my mdk 8 system with no problems for a few weeks now ;-) Try downloading the src.rpms and rebuilding them yourself. Abe --- Todd Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I just found out some more. Avatar from evil3d.net posted that there was a problem with nvidia's source installs with Mandrake 8.0. He says to use the 7.2 rpms or manually edit the install script. I guess the tar.gz and src.rpm are putting the files in the wrong directory. It is wrong that they are showing up in /usr/lib and should supposedly be in /usr/X11R6/lib (which makes more sense to me). Anyway, I'll test it tonight and get back to you. I already tried linking the files, but I wonder if there's any issues with ldconfig that I haven't resolved. smpeg didn't find the files when I compiled it. Avatar also suggested that my Tcl may be out of date. I doubt that, but I'll install the latest version to be safe. --- abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: huh. Sounds like you got it undercontroll man. Loki's a great company. You shouldn't have any problems getting some help from them with smpeg. good luck! Abe --- Todd Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Abe: Thanks for the advice. I am using the nvidia drivers. I did rebuild them from source and I did remove the conflicting mesa files. I am VERY confident that X is loading the Nvidia driver and GLX. I definitely have the libGL files. However, they are in my /usr/lib directory. I believe smpeg is expecting them elsewhere (I'm not sure). I made links from /usr/X11R6/lib (where I believe the mesa files were originally) to the files in /usr/lib, but this did not help. I have compiled the latest SDL (1.2) and smpeg (4.3). They are optimized for i686. I have found that if I disable the movies, Shogo will work fine in OpenGL mode. It seg faults upon exit, but the game is functioning. Comparing the game to software mode, I have not (yet) noticed any missing movies. Because of this movie issue, I am especially suspicious that my problem lies with smpeg and my nvidia GL driver. I get a message during the smpeg compilation that says it is disabling OpenGL movie playback support. Compiling the previous 4.2 version gave me an error that it couldn't find GL or GLU. This is why I think that maybe smpeg is expecting my files in a location other than where nvidia installed them. I intend to write Loki (they made smpeg) tonight with the details and hopefully they will have time to help me. I'll write back if I find more details. As an aside, I am also having issues with Sin. Sin is made by Hyperion who also made Shogo. Well, they ported the games anyway. Hyperion says that my problems with Sin have to do with a bug in nvidia's latest driver. For that they said I either had to go back to an older driver or wait for nvidia to fix it. I'm still looking into this problem. Just like Shogo, Sin works fine in Software mode (albeit ugly and a tad slow). Other games like Unreal Tournament, Quake III Arena, GLTron, Tuxracer, etc all work fine with OpenGL support. --- abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Todd, I'm using my new freebsd box right now so I can't tell you exactly what those files are ;-) Do you have the NVIDIA drivers installed on your system? Sounds to me like you either don't have them installed or they aren't installed correctly. You can find them here: http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html I like to download the src.rpms and build 'em myself. You MUST have these installed to get good 3d acceleration under X with an nvidia card. Before you install the GLX part you should remove all conflicting files of which there is a complete list here: http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000811/linux_geforce-07.html if your using the rpms you're
RE: [newbie] useless shockwave
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chubby Vic Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 3:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] useless shockwave how come shockwave don't work/ It does! You just have to be running Win95/98/NT/2000 or the Mac OS. It will not work in WinME or any flavor of Linux. As to Why? That you will have to ask Macromedia. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
[newbie] rebuild kernel rpm's?
Hi all, Is it possible to do the rpm --rebuild -src.rpm to kernel rpms? and when you do it, does it compile using amd optimisations if down on an athlon/duron system? Sorry for all this questions in similiar veins,, I am just terrily excited at the prospect of all this... (shows what a nerd I am becoming...) :-) regards Frank
Re: [newbie] Where are all the games in 8.0
Or better yet just use the Software Manager to install the games packages. --- Darin Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5/10/01 12:11 PM, A. Rick Anderson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where are all the games located? I've only loaded KDE (ie no Gnome). In previous releases, they were located under a games menu option. Now, even though the package manager says that they are loaded, they don't show up. Now, this is critical. My kids love Linux, cuz they like its games :-) Did you select the Games package when you installed? You have to select it, it is deselected by default. If they are not there then they just didn't install. You can check it by running it from the command line. Open a terminal and type: kasteroids kmahjongg /usr/games/civclient if you get command not found, it didn,t install. try installing again and check the games package when it asks you which packages you want to install. Darin -- WIN A TRILLION: $1,000,000,000,000.00 at MoonBughead.com http://MoonBughead.com/contest/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Microsoft for Linux
Y'know... I didn't know this site was still up. I saw this like 3 years ago or so. And I can see it hasn't changed at all since then either. But I guess it's going strong since looking at the whois records it keeps geeting renewed. Appears the domain was set up in 1999. SUID Productions (MSLINUX2-DOM) 301 N. Market St. Dallas, TX 75202 US Domain Name: MSLINUX.ORG Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact: Sysop (SYS8-ORG) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Milliways Internet 5601 Santa Fe Trail Watauga, TX 76148 US 817-485-1115 Record last updated on 06-Apr-2001. Record expires on 02-Apr-2003. --Record created on 02-Apr-1999.-- Database last updated on 11-May-2001 08:58:00 EDT. Domain servers in listed order: NS1.MILLIWAYS.NET208.128.69.2 NS2.MILLIWAYS.NET208.128.69.3 NS3.MILLIWAYS.NET208.128.69.4 I really like the Microsoft invades Cuba tid-bit on the page as well! lol Microsoft's plan to invade cuba and overthrow the government has succeeded. One Microsoft official said It's a win-win situation. The US Government is happy and shuts up the DOJ while Microsoft institutes a monopoly within Cuba for everything from computer software to toilet paper. One more step closer to world domination. Heck, we could feed a whole development department for the cost of one developer's salary in the US. They may not know how to create an Operating System very well, but neither do our US developers. At least Microsoft is a good source for humor! :0)~ tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real Men use Vi. * Mcintosh, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010511 07:59]: | Hi there all | | I think this must be the hoax of the year. | Microsoft has come out with its own Linux version. I have to see this to | believe it though. | | Check out there site http://www.mslinux.org/
Re: [newbie] upgrade to kernel 2.2.19
There is a page at Mandrake's website which specifically gives help in doing this upgrade. Do NOT use rpmdrake to install these files. I don't have the link handy, maybe someone else on the list does. It's not difficult, but you will want to follow the instructions on that page. Dave On Friday 11 May 2001 13:47, thus spake Szathmary Laszlo: Hi! Is it worth upgrading to 2.2.19 from 2.2.17? If yes, then how? It requires the alsa-2.2.19 package, as I know. Can I simply install it, or does it have to be forced? (I have Mdk 7.2) Thanks, Laszlo -- ...[W]e preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. (1 Cor 1:23-24)
Re: [newbie] upgrade to kernel 2.2.19
First download all the kernel packages, including alsa to a directory called kernel--they should be the only files in there. Next, check to see which kernel files you have installed (rpm -qa | grep kernel), and remove those packages that aren't installed on your system. Finally, run rpm -Uvh *.rpm in the kernel directory. If it doesn't work, it will tell you what package you need. Continue cycling through download / rpm -Uvh *.rpm until they install. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 08:47 PM 05/11/2001 +0200, Szathmary Laszlo wrote: Hi! Is it worth upgrading to 2.2.19 from 2.2.17? If yes, then how? It requires the alsa-2.2.19 package, as I know. Can I simply install it, or does it have to be forced? (I have Mdk 7.2) Thanks, Laszlo
Re: [newbie] Where are all the games in 8.0
Then for whatever reason you missed games during install. Use the Software manager to install the games. Software Manager will have everything organized in a tree format. So, games should be fairly easy to find. Let us know if you can't find them. --- A. Rick Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried that. All I get is Toys and five really dumb demo-type games. According to package manager, I should have freeCiv and a bunch of others loaded. They ain't showing up. At 03:25 PM 5/10/2001 -0700, Todd Flinders wrote: They are under Amusements. Right at the very top of the K Menu. --- A. Rick Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where are all the games located? I've only loaded KDE (ie no Gnome). In previous releases, they were located under a games menu option. Now, even though the package manager says that they are loaded, they don't show up. Now, this is critical. My kids love Linux, cuz they like its games :-) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Themes and Linux Madrake 8.0
First of all, please send your email as plain text only. Hotmail should have that capability. In your message below, all I see is the html code... Now to answer your question. I doubt that there are any Windows XP themes yet, since (a) no right-minded Linux user would want to emulate a Windows desktop *that* closely; (b) even someone crazy enough to pull such a stunt knows that he/she would be immediately tarred and feathered by the rest of us; (c) we're all afraid Bill Gates might sue us for stealing his IP. ;-P OK, seriously, there probably is no such theme simply because no one is that interested. If we wanted our desktop to look like Windows, we could run Windows, after all. Dave On Friday 11 May 2001 11:51, thus spake Simon Zarate: htmlDIVHi:/DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVWhere i can find several themes for Linux Mandrake 7.2 - 8.0, i am looking for Windows XP. I search on A href=http://www.themes.org;www.themes.org/A but i cann't find this Theme./DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVP.D. Try Linux Mandrake 8.0 is great and installation is very easy (including in Expert Mode), you can select manaully the software that you need really install./DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVSimon/DIVbr clear=allhrGet Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at a href=http://www.hotmail.com;http://www.hotmail.com/a.br/p/html -- ...[W]e preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. (1 Cor 1:23-24)
Re: [newbie] LM 8.0 halt bug -- Fortin's Solution
On Friday 11 May 2001 03:44 am, you wrote: Dear friens: Thanks to the great troubleshooting efforts of Pierre Fortin, we have a new halt file to replace the /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt file IN CASE YOU HAVE HAD A PROBLEM SHUTTING DOWN YOUR SYSTEM. All the best. Benjamin Hi, I tried the file, no go. I still get the error listing at the end of the shutdown. Now when in a user desktop and I call up a console and try su or try to do mandrake update and give the root password I get an error conversation with SU failed. I had this before when I tried to install a plugin for Mozilla. I think there is a bug or something is deleting my super user access somewhere. On a better note, at least when I reboot I don't have the 'not cleanly unmounted' messages and the wait for fsck on each partition. Not sure how to fix the superuser problem. Any Ideas are appreciated. Last time I did a new install. -- Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] Questions for LM8
marcia wrote: Dear All, I have received my LM8 disks and I am getting excited about installing. I have Linux-Mandrake 7.2. Is it better to update or do a fresh install? I'm not sure. I tried a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0 and had trouble with my video card (which isn't supported in XFree 4.0.3). I understand that I might have done better to update, thus keeping my XFree setup (if I wanted to). Except for special circumstances like this, I think you would want to do a fresh install. Would I be able to do a fresh install in expert mode and preserve my home partition somehow? Absolutely (but always be careful). I have my 7.2 so fine tuned with alot of added programs. I have been backing up onto my zip disks however I realized it will take a long time to do because of everything that I have done. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. Sincerely, Marcia Well, you should backup your /home even if you plan to preserve it. Do you want to backup your entire 7.2 so that you can restore it or are you content with preserving your data? Do you have a CD burner? I think there are ways to preserve your setup by doing things like preserving the /etc directory, but I'm not an expert in this area. Hope this helps, Randy Kramer
Re: [newbie] 3 programs i'd love to get
I saw in the CVS that WineX is working on getting Black White to run. Check out www.transgaming.com for more details. --- Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2001 15:49, matty mo wrote: are any of the following available for linux? i'm willing to buy them if they are... civilizationII FreeCiv is a damn awesome game. They started before CivII was made, aiming to make a CivI clone. This can be seen in the design, with many elements taken from both CivII (e.g. advances units) and CivI (e.g. non-isometric view). It's great to play online or over a network. The main thing I miss about it, however, is its lack of support for diplomacy (which pretty-much means you're at war all the time with the computer). It's clear that the developers have focussed on multi-player support, unlike CivI and CivII which are single-player games. Call to Power is also available for Linux. Many on-line stores sell it. simcity3000 Try this: http://www.floot.demon.co.uk/lincity.html. It's nowhere near as good as SimCity 3000, but it isn't bad for a GPL clone. dreamweaver There are several WYSIWYG HTML editors out there. Besides Netscape Composer (which doesn't even hold a candle to Dreamweaver), there is IBM WebSphere HomePage Builder (http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/hpbuilder/linux/index.html) and Amaya (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/). WebSphere HomePage Builder is a port from the Windos version, and quite a good programme. Just be wary: it *doesn't* work with XFree 4.x, only 3.x. I only found that in a readme file after it had trashed my font server a few times. IBM should've been more clear about this. Amaya isn't a very pretty app, but it is designed by the W3C, which means it is 100% HTML standards-compliant. Probably the best thing you can do is to use a combination of these programmes, using each for its strengths. For raw coding, Quanta+ and SCREEM (both included in Mandrake 8.0) are great. photoshop6 Many professional designers swear by The GIMP, saying it is even better than Photoshop. This is a classic GPL success story, and its toolkit (GTK) forms the basis for many X applications, including GNOME. black and white This game is fairly new, so you may have to wait a while before someone makes a Linux port/clone of it. matt Also, don't forget WINE, VMware and Win4Lin. I haven't had much success with WINE yet, but I play some games (I *love* Risk II!!!) in VMware. YMMV. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] how to make boot disks
On Fri, 11 May 2001 17:34:22 -0400 Ciro Durán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There´s also another issue: I´ve read about making a boot disk not from linux, but from windows... I didn´t understand nothing...It says I need an image, a root disk, etc. How do I do that? Hi Ciro, I'm not sure I understand your question. If you want to make an installation boot disk you will find a README file in the dosutils subdirectory on your Mandrake Installation CD. This shows you how to do this from Windows. I notice on one of my machines which does not allow booting from CDs, that, if I enable the windows option to run the CD on insertion, I will start up a little graphical program which makes a Mandrake bootdisk. Does this help? Cheers John El Ciro - Original Message - From: John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alan Rolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 11:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] how to make boot disks On Fri, 11 May 2001 16:01:43 +0200 Alan Rolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stupid question... How do i make a boot disk for my machine in case something goes wrong? i.e. from the console.. From a console as root (su, password) mkbootdisk (uname -r) dead easy Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
[newbie] I need to change from hda1 to hda5 for System Commander 2000
Hi everybody, In need to change from hda to hda5 so that System Commander will acknowledge it. Do I have to run fdisk /mbr first? And, then boot up with my floppy and change the boot property to hda5? Thanks, Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Penguin Powered Email with a byte
Re: [newbie] Difference between Desktop Environment/Window Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the difference between a Window Manager, such as BlackBox, and a Desktop environment? They seem to perform similar functions. The differerence I've came up wtih is that the environments let one save things on the desktop, and provide for graphical customization of it, whereas there aren't many extras in Window Managers, although they seem to start and shutdown somewhat faster. Is that the only thing? === A desktop environment usually requires a window manager to run. Gnome used to use enlgihtenment as its preferred wm, but in the past severasl months has been encouraging sawfish as its default. It'll run on either, or several others that are Gnome compliant. KDE comes with its own wm (kwm, I believe), but it will run on others. I keep both gnome and KDE on my boxen, but run neither as my environment. I prefer Blackbox, which readily utilize some of the programs for either environment 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://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] partitions
I like to have a partition for my web tree, and other Documents. so I make a /usr partition / partition and a swap partition. There are lots of ways to do it, and everyone has their own opinion, but the basic gist is that you can reinstall on the root partition without affecting your /usr partition. When you put in the new upgrade on / all your documents will be right there where you left them in /usr you might also want to include a /home partition for user documents and sites. Or a /var to preserve apache and mysql, etc. files Darin -- WIN A TRILLION: $1,000,000,000,000.00 at MoonBughead.com http://MoonBughead.com/contest/ on 5/11/01 5:12 PM, Bill W. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I recently purchased a 30 gig hard drive and installed LM 8 on it. The system is a dual boot with win98. I have absolutely no experience with partitions so I just went with recommended and it seems like I have one huge partition in addition to a small swap. I am moving to linux but I want to know if I should be creating smaller partitions for /var, /home etc..also, with a hd of this size would anyone recommend going to the reiserfs? Thanks, Bill W.
[newbie] midi composers??
Hey ho any stable releases of midi composers out there?
[newbie] Software looking for
HI there, I am looking for any house planning software for the Linux system, even if it is just a blueprint program. But I don't want a CAD program because I want it to be able to select doors, windows, etc... Thanks! = Richard Wegner - Linux User - [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: Derek Rayne is a FICTIONAL CHARACTER this is just an e-mail address I chose! I don't do Windows me (Proud Linux User) ICQ #: 12781393 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Hello
PS: Why buy an external modem? If you must have a modem, the internal ones are far superior, but you would be much better off with a broadband solution these days. What leads you to that conclusion? Agree with the broadband solution (I have DSL) but it's not nearly universally available. Most if not all internal modems are Winmodems[1]. With an external modem this possibility is lessened significantly, plus you can reinstall the modem on another system. My old ISA modem (although it works perfectly with Linux) is sitting on the shelf because I don't have a machine with an ISA bus any longer :(. [1] translation: slightly more parts than a $cientology e-meter but not much :) ~Wynne David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
[newbie] Games with 8.0 (observation).
Okay, thanks to Francisco's recommendations (logging in from console and starting X rather than the graphical login), I now have fullscreen games with hardware acceleration with my Voodoo 3000. I do have a couple of observations though Sin demo - audio is shot. No matter what settings I use, the audio is really messed up, although video doesn't seem to bad. Soldier of Fortune - Very jerky. Menus and things are fast, and its found my OpenGl subsystem but its just...slower... Same thing applies to all games I have. (Quake3demo, HG2demo, Heretic2 demo, Terminus, Shogo demo, etc, etc, etc). All games have a slower frame rate than this same hardware setup using Mandrake 7.1 and Xfree3.3.6... Anyone have any ideas why? Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/
[newbie] Windows XP theme
Somebody here was asking about a Windows XP theme. I have found a few at sawmill.themes.org, in the Operating Systems category. Just search there, or follow the link below (it is probably wrapped on two or more lines, so be sure to copy the whole thing): http://sawmill.themes.org/themes.phtml?action=Next+25boxhide=0disptype=normodby=downloadthemetxt=searchtype=simpshowmod=onsc=descsrtheme=0numthemes=25themeid=themecat%5B%5D=21verids%5B%5D=0.16verids%5B%5D=0.17verids%5B%5D=0.19verids%5B%5D=0.21verids%5B%5D=0.22verids%5B%5D=0.25.2verids%5B%5D=0.27verids%5B%5D=0.28verids%5B%5D=0.29verids%5B%5D=0.30 These themes should work with sawmill, as the window manager for gnome. Enjoy, Dave
Re: [newbie] Questions for LM8
Thank you Randy, Kompukit, and Dennis for your answers and suggestions. I am not sure exactly how I will do this yet. It sounds like 8 is worth having so I will not wait too long. Thank you again. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] where's a RealPlayer for LM-8.0 rpm
Its easy to answer that...You find realplayer on download.com...you find there for all linux and unix versions... c.FrOsT From: Kit [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie-LM [EMAIL PROTECTED],Expert-LM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] where's a RealPlayer for LM-8.0 rpm Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:52:41 -0400 Hey...where can I find a RPM for realplayer that will install/run on Mandrake 8.0 -- Registered Linux User: 167369 = http://www.kompukit.com = [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 Personal WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am S+S=12pm-12a) (US EST) _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
