Re: [newbie] DUAL BOOT
At 08:55 PM 1/1/00 -0500, you wrote: Hi All, I am planning to run a dual boot system W98, and Linux. I have a SCSI HD and an IDE HD. The controller card for the SCSI drive is not supported, bummer, so I have Linux installed on my IDE drive. All peripherals except for the sound card work properly, I have a Creative Labs sound card. The installation program never gave me the option to set it up. Does this mean it is not supported? If it should be supported how can I set it up after the OS has been installed? As root, type "sndconfig" from a command prompt. I am confused as to how to set up the dual boot option when the 2 OS's are on different drives? Currently, when the computer is setup to boot off of the drive containing Linux it gets to "LI" then freezes. If I boot up off of the Linux floppy created during installation, it works fine. There is a HOWTO file that explains how to do this (excuse the redundancy :) look for it, somewhere in the CDs... AFAIK, you'll need to setup a small (1Mb?) partition and make it your linux boot partition (/boot). You need to do this from the main HD -- that is, the one you boot from. The Mandrake installation will ask you where you want your boot partition, where you want your /root to be, where you want LILO to reside, etc. Make sure you do not put LILO on the the MBR...put it in the /boot partition. But, if you can fork out $40, get Partition magic -- which includes Bootmagic and it can serve as your boot manager. It makes things very easy to configure and manage. -Carl
Re: [newbie] xconfigurator help
At 01:35 PM 11/20/99 -0800, you wrote: I need to configure my computer's video card settings to get a better resolution. The help documents told me to do it in "xconfigurator". The problem I have is that I can't find xconfigurator anywhere and so I can't run it. I even used the find feature to find it and tried typing it in the terminal. Could you please tell me where I might find it or another way I could change my monitor settings to get a better resolution. I really appreciate it. Ryan Gardner It is "Xconfigurator", not "xconfigurator".
[newbie] Linux / Changing video cards / modifying system settings
Good evening to all. I recently got a copy of Linux-Mandrake (v6.0) and, decided to load it this weekend, on a PC rebuild out of parts I have laying around my garage, to learn and eventually, migrate out of Windows entirely. During the installation process and when it was time to setup the video card and monitor type, the installation program "detected" a S3 type of video card (when in effect, is an old Number9 PCI 1Mb video card). The monitor is a "generic svga" and I configured it as the "non-interlaced SVGA" option, offered by the setup program. After that, it decided that I couldn't run X in nothing else but 640x480x256 mode, no matter what. This is having an adverse effect on my attempts to reconfigure my KDE display, as I loose the ability to access the bottom portions of some configuration displays that have their buttons on the bottom of the window. I even tried to resize the window but, that didn't work either. I suspect that the video card being used is the culprit and, I plan to purchase a video card that is supported by linux, with video resolutions greater than 640x480 and 16M colors at least. My questions and concerns are: . How do I stop X from starting up (and eventually chocking due to hardware conflict, when I change video cards?) . What video card do you recomend? I plan to use this PC for web browsing, email correspondance, perl programming and image manipulation. I have no interest in games of any king (well, except for doom). .What is the name of the utility to reconfigure X? I thank you in advance. -Carl
