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I am very new to linux and would like to have some help with my modem. Vendor: Lucent Microelectronics Model: F-1156IV WinModem (V90, 56KFlex) Kernel Module: unknown Bus Type: PCI The driver that I use for it is ltmodem-kv_2.4.3-20mdk Version 5.99b1-1 I am running Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and would like to upgrade to 8.1 Thanks Arnold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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==Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: While you have made some good points, I guess I'm a little more optimistic -yhs The problem is that crippling linux with bad mouse support is seen as a strategy to win over windows users. I think that strategy sucks. :-) = With the mouse button support problem, this is mostly a problem with X (correct me if I'm wrong, is it possible to configure more than, say, 3 --- But X only supports 2, because they still support the 2 button mouse which gives only 3 logical buttons: 1, 2, 1-2. This is not configuring a 3 button mouse at all. It has 7 logical buttons. Unfortunately, this has caused enlightenment, for example, to use alt-button combinations, which is the worst ergonomics possible. In the suse manual there is an excellent article on ergonomics, but I have never seen any of these experts take note of the tremendous toll that right-left coordination takes. This makes their expertise entirely questionable. If X would go to 7 logical and use the alt or ctl-buttons as a makeshift, we could have it all, but they just haven't done it because. On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:17, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: =Sridhar: I never said that Windos users didn't have bad habits. The issue here is that my idea of "bad habits" differs slightly from yours. In my opinion, a "bad habit" is something that locks you into something, whether you like it or not. -yhs I am locked into bad mouse support by 2-button mouse users. Linux mouse support is hardly configurable at all. I have seen the sawfish mouse dialog. Ridiculous. == I like the configurabliity of Linux, and it is getting better all the time. We need to have a starting point, yhs A starting point is to configure 7 logical mouse buttons. Developers should be able to assume that the user has access to at least 7 buttons. === and for simplicity this should be similar to that of other popular OSs, in order to win support. With time, however, we will break free ---yhs Never happen. = of these so-called "bad habits" and have a fully configurable OS. WMs like Enlightenment and Sawfish are doing this already. It will take a while yhs forever === for this to happen to KDE, however, since it is made to be easy for people migrating from M$-land. ---yhs The greater problem is that the qt library was intended to build windows programs as well as kde. That means that kde will *never* develop decent mouse support. Not as long as some form of W$ exists. As I said before, the gnome developers do not have that excuse. They are afraid to be different from kde. X has always used the middle mouse button, but there has been no progress, and kde even caused a step or two backward. You will notice that the middle mouse button is *finally* useful on a scroll bar *again* in netscape the way it used to be on the first x scrollbars, but the 3 button does nothing when it used to scroll backward in x. Also the 1 % 2 buttons do the same thing on the little triangles at the ends of the sb's, and the 3 button does nothing. This is progress? == OS/2 failed for a number of reasons. -yhs The most important was not ibm's mistakes, which were many, but M$ thuggish and illegal marketing, which was nothing short of extortion. They have been tried and found guilty by judge Jackson. BG is a criminal, and M$ is a criminal enterprise. BG will stay out of prison but he belongs in one. (My government is so corrupt that it will commit even acts of war and mass murder to help tyrants *if* they are rich. It is not about to drag Gates into a criminal court.) Besides diehard OS/2 fans, --yhs Not me, but right button drag is better, because you can both open progs with one click and select multiple icons in a rectangle for dragging. While some os2 progs required the middle mouse button, they also allowed 1-2 as an alternative, thus crippling good mouse support. The linux developers have learned nothing from this, and since millions of suckers have bought ms mice shouldn't the little wheels be good for something besides *scrolling ms word documents*??? If anyonne still has a 2-button mouse, for God's sake *throw it out* with your DD 5.25" diskettes! Let Santa bring you a *real* mouse. (The wheel counts if you can click it.) I use the big logitech 4 button ball, because I use two keyboards at once (one midi) and therefore I like a mouse that stays put. I tape it down, so it won't drop on the floor (anymore). It's a great thing, though it costs the earth. How many logical buttons is that? 15. I wouldn't mind a touchpad too. ;-) .daveA -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
=Sridhar: I never said that Windos users didn't have bad habits. The issue here is that my idea of "bad habits" differs slightly from yours. In my opinion, a "bad habit" is something that locks you into something, whether you like it or not. -yhs I am locked into bad mouse support by 2-button mouse users. Linux mouse support is hardly configurable at all. I have seen the sawfish mouse dialog. Ridiculous. == I like the configurabliity of Linux, and it is getting better all the time. We need to have a starting point, yhs A starting point is to configure 7 logical mouse buttons. Developers should be able to assume that the user has access to at least 7 buttons. === and for simplicity this should be similar to that of other popular OSs, in order to win support. With time, however, we will break free ---yhs Never happen. = of these so-called "bad habits" and have a fully configurable OS. WMs like Enlightenment and Sawfish are doing this already. It will take a while yhs forever === for this to happen to KDE, however, since it is made to be easy for people migrating from M$-land. ---yhs The greater problem is that the qt library was intended to build windows programs as well as kde. That means that kde will *never* develop decent mouse support. Not as long as some form of W$ exists. As I said before, the gnome developers do not have that excuse. They are afraid to be different from kde. X has always used the middle mouse button, but there has been no progress, and kde even caused a step or two backward. You will notice that the middle mouse button is *finally* useful on a scroll bar *again* in netscape the way it used to be on the first x scrollbars, but the 3 button does nothing when it used to scroll backward in x. Also the 1 % 2 buttons do the same thing on the little triangles at the ends of the sb's, and the 3 button does nothing. This is progress? == OS/2 failed for a number of reasons. -yhs The most important was not ibm's mistakes, which were many, but M$ thuggish and illegal marketing, which was nothing short of extortion. They have been tried and found guilty by judge Jackson. BG is a criminal, and M$ is a criminal enterprise. BG will stay out of prison but he belongs in one. (My government is so corrupt that it will commit even acts of war and mass murder to help tyrants *if* they are rich. It is not about to drag Gates into a criminal court.) Besides diehard OS/2 fans, --yhs Not me, but right button drag is better, because you can both open progs with one click and select multiple icons in a rectangle for dragging. While some os2 progs required the middle mouse button, they also allowed 1-2 as an alternative, thus crippling good mouse support. The linux developers have learned nothing from this, and since millions of suckers have bought ms mice shouldn't the little wheels be good for something besides *scrolling ms word documents*??? If anyonne still has a 2-button mouse, for God's sake *throw it out* with your DD 5.25" diskettes! Let Santa bring you a *real* mouse. (The wheel counts if you can click it.) I use the big logitech 4 button ball, because I use two keyboards at once (one midi) and therefore I like a mouse that stays put. I tape it down, so it won't drop on the floor (anymore). It's a great thing, though it costs the earth. How many logical buttons is that? 15. I wouldn't mind a touchpad too. ;-) .daveA
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Not a bad idea, but most mice out there still have only one or two buttons. That was the doing of Bill Gates. While three-button mice are cheap nowadays, many people will not switch to Linux if they have to buy a new piece of hardware, no matter how cheap it is. If the folks at IBM hadn't been too stupid to throw a 3 button mouse in the box, os2 might still be a player. I have seen them sell at retail for $2.00. Besides, they can use alt keys instead, which is *very* bad ergonomics, as enlightenment offers instead of 7 buttons. The thing has hurt linux already, and continues to do so. (it's psychological). Also, new users of Linux can become easily confused by too many buttons. Aha! Now you admit that windows users have bad habits! And that they are so easily confused that they need wheels instead of buttons? Xwindows Mouse Installation Wiz Button 1[add] list of functions Button 2[remove]list of functions Button 3 or 1+2 list of functions Button 4 1+2 or a-1 list of functions Button 5 1+3 or a-2 list of functions Button 6 2+3 or a-1+2 list of functions Button 7 1+2+3 or doubleclick 1 list of functions list of functions list of functions etc etc etc.. He should be able to get to this by entering "xmouse" at a command prompt. This is mouse0. Mouse1 should be also configurable, bearing in mind that you can't have two *separate* ps2 mice, tho I understand that you can hook up 2 and use them. The buttons would share. They're just switches, after all. (So is a computer :-)) Some of the functions need dialogs for pressure, axis, etc. We don't have this because W$ users have bad habits, and they continue to have a bad influence.
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
I think a new user should be faced with something like this: Xwindows Mouse Installation Wiz Button 1[add] list of functions Button 2[remove]list of functions Button 3 or 1+2 list of functions Button 4 1+2 or a-1 list of functions Button 5 1+3 or a-2 list of functions Button 6 2+3 or a-1+2 list of functions Button 7 1+2+3 or doubleclick 1 list of functions list of functions list of functions etc etc etc.. He should be able to get to this by entering "xmouse" at a command prompt. This is mouse0. Mouse1 should be also configurable, bearing in mind that you can't have two *separate* ps2 mice, tho I understand that you can hook up 2 and use them. The buttons would share. They're just switches, after all. (So is a computer :-)) Some of the functions need dialogs for pressure, axis, etc. We don't have this because W$ users have bad habits, and they continue to have a bad influence. Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I agree with you - at least in part. I believe that Linux should have legacy hardware support, but only if those like us are not disadvantaged. As I've said before, Linux is all about choice. If someone wants to plug in a
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Re: [newbie] atapi zip drive
John and Marcie Alexander wrote: I am running LM7.2 and I have an all scsi system (hd and cd-rw). However, I am using an internal zip atapi drive plugged into the primary ide controller. Under windows, this drive comes up as rive b: Under linux, I keep getting "drive reports both x and 0 bytes" or something similiar (I don't have my notes right now) I found that if I mount the zip under /hda (not /hda4 as some have suggested) then I can read and write to the drive, but I still get this error message popping up occasionally. Any ideas? What error? Sounds like supermount doing its job?
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Bad habits because of how destructive they are. I think I explained why
the mouse support is horrible in linux. The reason it is horrible in
windows was that BG wanted to keep the 3-button mouse off the market so
he could be the one to profit from an additional feature rather than
Logitech, etc.. He sold millions of suckers the "Microsoft Mouse", which
had no improved functionality whatever except to tell the os "I am a MS
Mouse." Catering to victimized people with a 2 button mouse has retarded
functionality. A mouse costs $3. Throw away all 2-button mice. It's
history. That's what happened. Not my fault. You are a great guy, and
you have been very helpful to a lot of people on this list. If I could
only get off of it :-)
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
In the open source world (less so in the commercial world), features are
implemented in the way that developers like, or in the way that users
pressure developers to do. As I said earlier, a GUI can be a very personal
thing. Your idea of a "bad habit" probably isn't bad to the rest (or the
majority) of us. If you feel so strongly about it, then why don't you let the
developers know, or even get into developing these features yourself?
You seem to prefer a world where everyone agrees with you, and so they
implement everything just as you want without your interaction. This simply
is not possible.
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:20, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
Doing half of these things is not good enough. I'm talking stuff that
could and should have been done five years ago. To do half of those
things, a 2 button mouse would do. That is the point. There are hardly
any relevant settings except switch right and left. No settings for
combinations of mb's except to help use a goddam 2 button mouse. Windows
users have bad habits, and that has resulted in serious harm to linux
software. I am not insulted, merely frustrated by your very negative
attitude. :-)
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Have you even *looked* at alternatives that *can* do these things? Before
you start bitching, I can say that I'm sure that Sawfish can do at least
half of these things, and its configurability is getting better all the
time. Try looking at the settings instead of just complaining when all of
what you want isn't there by default and served to you on a silver
platter.
My apologies if I sound rude, but there are many other window managers
out there apart from Enlightenment. Sawfish, in fact, is the GNOME
default, and can do (IMHO) everything that Enlightenment can do and more.
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 22:23, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
One more time:
I want to be able to select a rectangle full of files and drag the
lot to another directory using only the mouse. I want to be able to
copy with the right mb, place with the left mb, and paste with the
middle. I want to be able to call up a menu for gnome and Enlightenment
complete by clicking buttons 12. I want to be able to start a program
with a single click, and drag with the right mouse button instead of
the left, which was a better way, because it made group select work. I
want to call up the running items in a desktop by clicking 23. I want
to delete by clicking 13. I want to be able to scroll faster or slower
by using combinations of mb's. I want 123 to do something. KDE won't
do it because W$ won't do it, and they intend to be able to port stuff
to W$. Gnome won't do it because they listen mainly to W$ users, and W$
users *have* *bad* *habits*.
I don't want to restrict anything. You do.
Dennis Myers wrote:
On Thursday 14 December 2000 05:09 pm, you wrote:
I guess everybody's entitled to their opinion, but to put down the
hard work of the KDE developers (never used Gnome but I bet they've
put lots of blood, sweat and tears into it as well) is something
that I for one bristle at.
The configurability of the KDE interface is clearly deeper than you
have cared to go; I am certain that one of the developers could
enlighten you as to how to adjust your interface to your
preference(way better than me)
_if_they_weren't_so_busy_working_on_making_all_our_lives_better.
David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
I guess I failed to make my point. There should be no double
clicking at all. There should be group select and drag. There
should be no nono nonono alt or ctl + mousebutton clicks ever.
Only one mouse button, never two, should bring up a menu. We
don't have this because the people at kde and gnome keep
trying to be like windows instead of better.
-michael- wrote:
I have a Logitec laser mouse with 2 buttons and a scroller. I
am thrilled with mandrake's support of it in the kde environ.
windows requires other drivers and so it's just
Re: [Re: [newbie] More disk space for the Linux partition]
What about parted? Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I don't think that discdrake can do non-destructive partitioning (yet). That is a very complex thing to do, and you will need something like PartitionMagic or System Commander to achieve it. Note that these two programmes don't support ReiserFS, only ext2 and swap partitions. On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 04:01, Johnny Kwan wrote: I got the GUI diskdrake running. However, I don't know how to use it to give the linux partition more diskspace and reduce the size of the windows partition. Of course, without loosing data. Thanks. s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux has a utility that does the same thing. Diskdrake. Located at /usr/sbin/diskdrake But yeah, partition magic can do the same thing from inside windows (or actually dos). I think I trust disdrake more (I have partition magic on my other machine, it's okay, but slow!) On Sunday 17 December 2000 03:01, you wrote: I am running out of diskspace with my Linux partition. Is it ok for me to use partition magic to reduce the size of the windows partition, and allocate more disk space to the linux partition? I just want to make sure Linux is ok with that before I proceed. Thanks. ICQ# 1678616 Office # 972-506-3411 eFax # 419-818-7262 Homepage: johnnykwan.web-page.net -s -- Registered Linux user: #197855 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GED/M/S d+ s:+: a C++ UL@ P+ L++ E--- W N++ o K w+ !O M- V-- PS+ PE Y++ PGP++ t+ 5-- X+ R* tv++ b- DI+ D G e++ h r+++ z+++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- ICQ# 1678616 Office # 972-506-3411 eFax # 419-818-7262 Homepage: johnnykwan.web-page.net Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
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Re: [newbie] Re: Learning curves
Jim Thorpe wrote: As a Civil Engineer every graph I ever saw involving time had time on the X axis. Therefor the steeper the curve the quicker things happened. How come everyone has ir backwards? Jim T. What's backwards? The steeper the curve, the faster you have to learn. .daveA
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
One more time: I want to be able to select a rectangle full of files and drag the lot to another directory using only the mouse. I want to be able to copy with the right mb, place with the left mb, and paste with the middle. I want to be able to call up a menu for gnome and Enlightenment complete by clicking buttons 12. I want to be able to start a program with a single click, and drag with the right mouse button instead of the left, which was a better way, because it made group select work. I want to call up the running items in a desktop by clicking 23. I want to delete by clicking 13. I want to be able to scroll faster or slower by using combinations of mb's. I want 123 to do something. KDE won't do it because W$ won't do it, and they intend to be able to port stuff to W$. Gnome won't do it because they listen mainly to W$ users, and W$ users *have* *bad* *habits*. I don't want to restrict anything. You do. Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 14 December 2000 05:09 pm, you wrote: I guess everybody's entitled to their opinion, but to put down the hard work of the KDE developers (never used Gnome but I bet they've put lots of blood, sweat and tears into it as well) is something that I for one bristle at. The configurability of the KDE interface is clearly deeper than you have cared to go; I am certain that one of the developers could enlighten you as to how to adjust your interface to your preference(way better than me) _if_they_weren't_so_busy_working_on_making_all_our_lives_better. David Raleigh Arnold wrote: I guess I failed to make my point. There should be no double clicking at all. There should be group select and drag. There should be no nono nonono alt or ctl + mousebutton clicks ever. Only one mouse button, never two, should bring up a menu. We don't have this because the people at kde and gnome keep trying to be like windows instead of better. -michael- wrote: I have a Logitec laser mouse with 2 buttons and a scroller. I am thrilled with mandrake's support of it in the kde environ. windows requires other drivers and so it's just another proof of linux' superiority imho. David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Ian Land wrote: Well, that's only true if you use a window manager like KDE. Others, like Gnome, use double-clicks. So, a single-click is not "the Linux way". The Windows gui can be configured to act like Internet Explorer, which also means single-clicks. This isn't an OS question, it's a gui question. One of the "bad habits" is having to double-click when a single click will do. For those of us who use both OS's it's quite distracting, and I think the Linux way makes more sense. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They said I was mad; and I said they were mad; damn them, they outvoted me" - Nathaniel Lee Windows mouse support stinks, and it is terminally stupid to continue to support the two button mouse. Both KDE and Gnome are guilty of this, but KDE is worse because of a desire to use the qt library for both windows and linux. For the Gnome developers there is no excuse for their failure to use all seven mouse buttons. Double clicks should be long gone by now. :-) "You can please some of the people some of the time, and you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time." Somebody famous said that, I forget who. -- Dennis Myers registered Linux User #180842
Re: [newbie] Linux on a single floppy disk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where I can download a linux OS that will run completly off a floppy. I remember reading something about it a while back. Thanks ~Lance lrp (linux router project) is probably 1. not what you read about 2. what you want.
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
I guess I failed to make my point. There should be no double clicking at all. There should be group select and drag. There should be no nono nonono alt or ctl + mousebutton clicks ever. Only one mouse button, never two, should bring up a menu. We don't have this because the people at kde and gnome keep trying to be like windows instead of better. -michael- wrote: I have a Logitec laser mouse with 2 buttons and a scroller. I am thrilled with mandrake's support of it in the kde environ. windows requires other drivers and so it's just another proof of linux' superiority imho. David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Ian Land wrote: Well, that's only true if you use a window manager like KDE. Others, like Gnome, use double-clicks. So, a single-click is not "the Linux way". The Windows gui can be configured to act like Internet Explorer, which also means single-clicks. This isn't an OS question, it's a gui question. One of the "bad habits" is having to double-click when a single click will do. For those of us who use both OS's it's quite distracting, and I think the Linux way makes more sense. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They said I was mad; and I said they were mad; damn them, they outvoted me" - Nathaniel Lee Windows mouse support stinks, and it is terminally stupid to continue to support the two button mouse. Both KDE and Gnome are guilty of this, but KDE is worse because of a desire to use the qt library for both windows and linux. For the Gnome developers there is no excuse for their failure to use all seven mouse buttons. Double clicks should be long gone by now. :-)
Re: [newbie] Spaces in names
Mark's mail wrote: Wait...I thought spaces "were/are" illegal in *nix? Mark On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:25:28 +0100 (CET), Paul said: Are you kidding? Try mkdir "directory with spaces" ls rm -r "directory with spaces" but directory.with.spaces is easier, right? ;-} I would have thought that a space was an undesirable if not illegal character in a filename let alone a directory name. Is this not the case? If it were illegal, I think that someone would have made a program alteration that would prevent you from putting a space in a directory name. I agree though, that it is undesirable. Paul -- To do is to be - Sartre To be is to do - Spinoza Do be do be do - Sinatra http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] PPPD dies unexpectedly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded from 7.0 to 7.1. My 56k external USR modem did great with 7.0. However, I have followed the HOWTO's and simply cannot get PPPD to function in 7.2. The modem connects just great everytime, but not PPPD. Any help would be appreciated. I am considering going back to 7.0 Carl delete the contents of /etc/resolv.conf
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Mark Johnson wrote: FYI, I asked for 6 button mouse for Christmas! yhs: 1 2 3 1+2 1+3 2+3 1+2+3 count 'em. Windows users have bad habits. Pandering to them has seriously harmed linux software, and continues to do so.
Re: [newbie] GIMP
Mickey Soltys wrote: I have been messing around with the version of GIMP which came with Mandrake-Linux7.2 . It appears as if there is no way to save files. When you select FILE from the menu, there is no save or save as option. Has anyone else noticed this? Thanks and apologies if this is a common question, Mickey Soltys Right click on document. .daveA
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Ian Land wrote: Well, that's only true if you use a window manager like KDE. Others, like Gnome, use double-clicks. So, a single-click is not "the Linux way". The Windows gui can be configured to act like Internet Explorer, which also means single-clicks. This isn't an OS question, it's a gui question. One of the "bad habits" is having to double-click when a single click will do. For those of us who use both OS's it's quite distracting, and I think the Linux way makes more sense. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They said I was mad; and I said they were mad; damn them, they outvoted me" - Nathaniel Lee Windows mouse support stinks, and it is terminally stupid to continue to support the two button mouse. Both KDE and Gnome are guilty of this, but KDE is worse because of a desire to use the qt library for both windows and linux. For the Gnome developers there is no excuse for their failure to use all seven mouse buttons. Double clicks should be long gone by now. :-)
Re: [newbie] DOS 6.2 question (HD size?)
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: Thanks Alan. Well, after due consideration, and playing around with my dual-boot DOS/Linux setup, I've decided to undue it. I'm going to setup up my Linux 20 gig HD as the primary, and use the 10 gigger as a DOS/Windows partition to run stuff with Wine and as a backup space for my precious Linux software... I've got several reasons for doing this, one of course is that I'm limited to 2 gig HD's...the other is...my sound card is too good. I know that sounds funny, but I've got the SB Xgamer Live! which is a great card, but guess what? I went to the Creative/SB web site, and there are no DOS drivers for these newer cards. So all the DOS games I wanted to run would have no sound (well, pc speaker but ugh!). So...there ya go. Thanks for all your help! ;-) RonaldHa! Exactly the reason I only made a minimal 200 meg partition for my DR-DOS, my sound card has no dos drivers!! Good Luck! :-) -- Alan Have you tried a vanilla sb driver from the windows list? Unsupported video cards work as plain vga at worst. You also may have a 6-pin? connection to the card from the mb enabling dos irqs for games.
Re: [newbie] DOS 6.2 question (HD size?)
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, with HD prices so low, I bought a 2nd (20 gig) Seagate hard drive. I added it to my current system, and decided to make a dual-boot system, using my old 10 gig WDC as the boot HD, for DOS stuff, and the new 20 gigger for my precious Linux stuff. I'm not going to go into a huge lengthy narrative here, but it works, except that with DOS 6.2, I get 2 gigs out of 10 available on my 1st hard drive. I know that if I installed Windblows, I'd get the full benefit of the drives space, but I refuse to have it on my system. Note that I'd also much prefer to have DR-DOS on my first drive, if anyone out there has experience with it (and pointers for getting/installing it?) I found some stuff on Caldera's web site, but its all bigger than the 2 gigs I've got on my 1st HD. Any idea on how to get the other 8 gigs from DOS 6.2, until I can get DR-DOS installed? (and does DR-DOS find my full 10 gigs as well?) Thanks in advance! ;-) Ronaldyour question made me curious. I have Caldera DR-DOS 7.01 on my primary IDE drive, but I'v only partitioned the 1st 200mb for it. It is the home for Partition Magic 6.0 and BootMagic. I bought it from CheapBytes (it's in the book section) for about $25. Anyway, I booted up on DR-DOS and fiddled with the fdisk program for a while. I appears to max out at 8 gig (the 1024 cylinder limit). So I suspect that 8 gigs might be your limit on that 10 gig drive. But perhaps, if you were to partition it with Linux fdisk, DR-DOS might be able to use the space anyway. Good luck. yhs drdos 7.03 can be downloaded, and a "tcpip stack" and 32 bit drivers also, at http://disvr.cjb.net/dos/dls.html. Consider using the extra 2 g's for optimization instead, like mounting it on /usr/src or /usr/lib or /home/your/download. Drdos has fdisk /x to put 3 logical partitions on your hd if you have *lots* of dos files :-) Alan
Re: [newbie] LILO and timeout/delay
I found that boot magic will hang forever if it can't find the mouse. OS2 boot manager will self-destruct if you have a windows partition over 2 gigs. LILO is faster than boot magic. Use LILO. -- Peace, understanding, health and happiness to all beings! U U u ^^ `'U u U ''`'` _-__o|oO|o-_|o_o_-_MN[--mm@_-_--___o|o|oU_|o_o__lilypond dave N Va USADavid Raleigh Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Try the Scientific Applications for Linux page at: http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/index.shtml Frank === On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Guillermo Belli wrote: Hi all: I'm looking for a circuit simulation program like "Electronic Workbech for Windows" that works under Lunux. Is there such a thing? If I could find a program like that, it would help me a lot. Any help appreciated. Thanks. -- Guillermo Belli - Linux User #131340 ICQ #38321312 http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (under construction)
[newbie] Re: [expert] Kde Template/Autostart
Autostart Look inside the folders in Autostart and you will find lots of icons for applications that are not on your desktop. Like to have one or more on the desktop? Drab it from autostart to the desktop and select "Copy" from the window that pops up. Now it's ready to use with one click. Template Want to run your favorite command line application from a desktop icon? Drag the gear icon in Template to the desktop and select "Copy" (don't select "Move" or you will not be able to do this again.) Now right click on the gear and select "Properties" Input the requested information in the dialog box that appears, click on the gear icon that is inside the dialog box to select a new icon for your applicaton or executable script, select OK and you have a new application icon ready to use. I used it to create an icon for minicom, Midnight Commander (-c on) and a script I use with fetchmail. My recommendation then would be to keep them unless you are setting the machine up for a user and you don't want making changes easy for them. Frank Arnold = On 10 Dec 1999, Pixel wrote: Hi, Is there anybody here who uses the Template or/and Autostart folders in KDE? (otherwise we're gonna remove them!) cu Pixel.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Windows
From: "Manny Styles" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Windows Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 22:21:41 -0400 No joke at all. I still have to use Windows, for one because of my ISP's software, but I was in the process of downloading the pre-release of Mandrake 6.0 when I noticed lnx4win. From what I have read, it will put a Linux shortcut on your desktop and you can load it from Windows. What you are describing sounds like LOADLIN. This is a program that'll let you launch linux from Windows without having to use lilo. All you have to do is copy your vmlinuz file to your Windows partition and then create a batch file, telling LOADLIN where to locate the vmlinuz file. You do have to change the settings on the MS-DOS batch file to tell it that you want the system to re-start in MS-DOS mode before running the program. LOADLIN, in my opinion, will launch linux faster than lilo. But it may have been the system I was running it on. Anyway, LOADLIN comes with EVERY distribution of Linux that I've ever seen. Sounds like Mandrake just took out the guesswork by already creating the necessary. Arnold ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
RE: [newbie] Upgrade Mandrake 5.3 to KDE 1.1.1 ?
What I'd like to know is can you "upgrade" Mandrake 5.3 using Redhat 6.0? I would think you SHOULD be able to, since Mandrake is basically Redhat 5.2..What do you think? Thanks! Arnold From: "Birchall, Richard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Upgrade Mandrake 5.3 to KDE 1.1.1 ? Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 12:00:57 -0400 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Has anyone tried installing the KDE 1.1.1 rpm files for Red Hat 5.2, with Mandrake 5.3? This won't work, because RH 6.0 is glibc 2.1, Mandrake 5.3 is glibc 2.0. Thanks for the response! These KDE 1.1.1 rpm files are for RH 5.2 though, not RH 6.0. ftp://**KDEmirror**/pub/kde/stable/1.1.1/distribution/rpm/RedHat-5.2/i386/ The readme file says: "This is compiled with egcs-1.0.3a and glibc2." Is it best to remove KDE 1.1 from Mandrake 5.3 before installing? Good news: We have kde 1.1.1-final in Mandrake 6.0 (RH 6.0 has 1.1.1pre2). That is good news. Keep up the great work! : ) Thanks, Richard ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
[newbie] Re:
I set the option for "no_accel". That seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks again!! :) Arnold Hi Arnold, May I suggest you try the following that has been sent to me sometime ago ( courtesy of Mauro Tortonesi). " I used to have a SiS card. Usually SiS cards need the following line in /etc/X11/XF68config (in the "Device" section): option "no_bitblt" An extract from my XF86config follows: Section "Device" Identifier "SiS SG86C201" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" Option "no_bitblt" #VideoRam2048 Clocks 25.07 28.32 39.83 72.16 49.79 77.14 35.95 44.72 Clocks 129.50 119.53 79.67 31.51 109.52 64.71 74.68 94.55 Clocks 12.53 14.16 19.91 35.95 24.90 38.63 17.99 22.36 Clocks 64.73 59.75 39.83 15.76 54.90 32.35 37.33 47.27 EndSection If it still does not work try with: Option "no_linear" (perhaps in combination with "no_bitblt") or Option "no_imageblt" or Option "noaccel" Take a look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.SiS ;-) " I hope this can be of any help. Good luck. Bernardo Rodrigues ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
[newbie] Re:
Thanks! I'll give it a try. :) Arnold From: "Bernardo Rodrigues" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "Flaky" video modes WAS: [newbie] Video Modes Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 17:12:11 +0200 Hi Arnold, May I suggest you try the following that has been sent to me sometime ago ( courtesy of Mauro Tortonesi). " I used to have a SiS card. Usually SiS cards need the following line in /etc/X11/XF68config (in the "Device" section): option "no_bitblt" An extract from my XF86config follows: Section "Device" Identifier "SiS SG86C201" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" Option "no_bitblt" #VideoRam2048 Clocks 25.07 28.32 39.83 72.16 49.79 77.14 35.95 44.72 Clocks 129.50 119.53 79.67 31.51 109.52 64.71 74.68 94.55 Clocks 12.53 14.16 19.91 35.95 24.90 38.63 17.99 22.36 Clocks 64.73 59.75 39.83 15.76 54.90 32.35 37.33 47.27 EndSection If it still does not work try with: Option "no_linear" (perhaps in combination with "no_bitblt") or Option "no_imageblt" or Option "noaccel" Take a look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.SiS ;-) " I hope this can be of any help. Good luck. Bernardo Rodrigues ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
Flaky video modes WAS: [newbie] Video Modes
I've just built a new system and am having a little bit of a video problem. The video is SiS 6326 3D Pro AGP and the monitor is a Goldstar (don't know the exact model). If I run Xconfigurator and do a probe it says that it wants to set the default to 800x600 w/8bpp. The only thing I change is the color depth to 16bpp. Everything works ok, but some of the colors go kinda "wonky" (i.e.:Not all of the characters show up in xterm but everything works. Alsowhite blocks appear where the text under icons should be.) Everything works fine, just have to refresh the desktop three or four times before I can read some of the text. Any ideas what I can do to fix the problem? Oh! By the way.I'm using the SVGA Xserver and have it set for the SiS 6326 3D Pro AGP driver. Thanks! Arnold ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 5.3 or RH 6.0?
I'll just wait until I can download an ISO file of Mandrake 6.0, just like I did with 5.3.Saves me time and money! (The joys of having a cable modem at work!) You're suppose to already be able to download an ISO of Redhat 6.0 from Linuxberg.com. (If you can actually acces their FTP site! I've been trying for THREE DAYS and it's always at it's max capacity.) :( Arnold You pre-ordered the GPL single cd version, not the official 6.0 version. On Sun, 2 May 1999 07:16:04 -0800, Doug Brown wrote: Well, I'm kinda anxious to jump into the whole linux rig, but I'm not sure if I should go ahead and order a Mandrake 5.3 CD or wait a few weeks and grab RedHat 6.0. Any suggestions? Thanks... -soco Britt Selvitelle I just pre-ordered Mandrake 6.0 (based on RH 6.0) for $4.95 (+$4.00 shipping) from Circadian (http://www.ccsoft.cc/software/linux/6now.html). If you check the Red Hat site (http://www.redhat.com), you'll see that the basic version of Red Hat 6.0 is $74.95 (+shipping). I dunno, seems like an obvious choice to me! Hope this helps... ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
Re: [newbie] Running xconfig
snipped You need to change to the directory containing the Makefile. For the kernel, that would be /usr/src/linux. Then issue the make command. snipped Did you configure PPP into the kernel or as a module? Have you updated the modules directory links to point to the new directory? If you do 'lsmod' do you see a ppp module loaded? Anything in the system logs when you try to start ppp? (/var/log/messages) Thanks for the help, but I had already tried those suggestions. I decided to go back to OpenLinux. It's seems to work better on my system than Mandrake. I may switch back when I get my new machine built.and if I can get some better docs (maybe I'll buy the power pack?). Thanks to everyone who tried to help. Arnold ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
[newbie] My own Linux Distribution
I was wondering if anyone knew of a place online where someone could learn how to "create" their own linux distribution? I've got a few ideas and would just like to see how it is accomplished. Thanks!! :) Arnol ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
Re: [newbie] It Works!!
Is there a way to have it boot directly to the desktop? There's a way to setup the login process so that after logging in you will automatically go into X Windows. You have to edit a file called INITTAB which is located in the /etc folder. This specifies the runlevel that linux starts at. There are notes in the file to tell you what settings to use, but just so everyone else will know set the runlevel to 5 and this will launch the KDM. This is a graphical login screen where you'll be asked to enter your login name and password. once you do that you hit the "Go!" button and it launches you straight into X Windows. When you logout of X Windows, it will automatically take you back to that same login screen. From there you can re-login under another user id or you can shutdown the system by clicking the "Shutdown" button, which will pop up another menu asking if you want to totally shut down or to simply restart. Hope this helps you. Arnold Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] It Works!!
From: "Paul A. Bernicchi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] It Works!! Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 15:11:42 -0500 Point of information, Arnold -- I've heard that Linux Mandrake isn't too stable (at this point) when it comes to setting inittab runlevel to 5 and using xdm/kdm. My experience is that since I have a way nonstandard video card (Voodoo Banshee), booting into xdm causes an infinite loop. The only way to fix this is to boot into single-user mode and edit the inittab back to the default runlevel (2?) Gael assures us this will be addressed soon ;) Good luck if you can pull it off! The default runlevel is 3. :) Well, I don't know about problems with using kdm. I only tried it once and then decided not to use it simply because it was too slow on my system (486DX2-66 w/32 meg of ram). I kinda like the logon screen anyway! :) I have to say though, being a now converted user of Caldera OpenLinux, that Mandrake as it is, is one of the better distributions of Linux. I'm sure that it'll only improve from here. Arnold :) P.S Does anyone know of another version of Linux that has a downloadeable ISO image? This was one of the deciding factors in me trying out Mandrake. I've got cable modem access at work, so it was easy for me to download the file and then burn it to a cd. :) Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
