[newbie] where is xfree86-4.0
I have have spent 6 hours chasing links to download xfree86-4.0 so that i can update the riva drivers that i downloaded llast night and one link just run to anorther and another where exactly is the rpm or the tar ball so that stupid linux users like myself can update his system. I am currently using the stable mdk 6.5 or(redhat 6.1) and need to install the drivers for my card to play q3areana that I have bought for linux but i need xfree86 -4 . could someone help me or email it to me [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] linux versus windows
I'm not trying to be unreasonable but I have worked on linux for well over a year and Id like to say that linux is greater than windows stability etc. But I've have enough of the critism that is passed around by the linux community, whats the matter with you people Bill Gates made a system that is so easy to use that an idiot could use it and add to it on the fly, and as for servers all companies that I have been to don't use linux for their servers they use NT, When I spend the time and the money which is scarce to download software for my linux off the Internet and run the installation it never works and what's more is that in order to get it to work if have know all about programming and text based linux/Unix if you like, and yet If you don't use this flavor of linux well too bad now you have have to learn a new flovour so that you get the feature you like. And 4 months later ... If you which to compete with windows you have to create a product that has have builtin server tools that an idiot can use, a graphic frontend that an idiot can understand, easy software addition that is idiot proof and just works No matter what I try to add i always need something else. I have 3 pcs on a network and flavours of linux on they are all unstable worse than windows ever was. So if you want to come and watch how when I insert a picture into netscape composer or office 2000 or even wordperfect eight how it crashes, the program just disspears off the screen and one has to start all over again. Star Office is so slow that I could go and have a 3 course meal while it eats up my cpu time and slows my pc down to the speed of a 486 sx before its ready to use. And yet is is advertised that you could run linux on a 486 with 16mb ram , I think somebody should pull that statement back. What more is that I did my courses on windows before I changed my bussiness to linux and I promise that windows is fussy about they condition of hardware and if your hardware is perfect windows will run well and without to much trouble bearing in mind it is only a machine. Freezing and hanging etc.. in win95 was fixed in 98 and yes buggered up in 2000. So in conclution I ask anyone out there If there is a flavour of linux that has server and tools built in for use as a pdc dns etc. the grapghic front end that i easy to understand and if i try to run the vmware that i bought for 400 dollars will it work with out telling me my kernel is an asshole and i must now try mdk, and loose the nice file manger that did my networking for me in corel os. Or Ihave a nice set of graphic tools suse but (cad3d) it's to complicated and takes months wich no in modern times can afford to spend learning . So now I'll just have corel because I can manage my network in the network neighbourhood that is like windows but now I cant do my graphic design because corel only provides me with and unstable gimp . this is where I would much prefer to just put windows back on all my pcs becuase I just cant win with this linux. so here is my final attempt I want a file manager that works just like the one in corel linux os v1.1 in my mandrake. I want a graphic ppp dialer that does not give the deamon died error all the time i want a download manager of some description and I want stability. More I want somethong that does not require me to try and be what I am not Iam not a c++ programer or software research and devepement, I am a user and thats what I do I run my bussiness and I play games and I download things to playwith then I sort the in network neighbourhood a pass on the good stuff to the others on my network simply by means of drag and drop or cut and paste ( quick and efficient)and that is what I do with my pc every night until 2am. Please Dont take this mail as an Insult or as an attack Iam simply stating the factsas I have experienced them PS: excuse the spelling the kmail spellchecker doesnt work properly so i gave up with it . thanks Chadley Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 012 3332276
Re: [newbie] New installation
_-+Richard Kim=-_ wrote: Greg Martz wrote: Wow! After trying several versions of redhat, 2 of slackware, and 1 of TurboLinux I decided to get Mandrake and it installed first time. No other Linux distributions would install for me, way to go Mandrake!! Only problem right now I seem to be having is with the Mandrake Update program. I have been trying to run it and none of the mirrors seem to work. MDKUpdates opens and says "Please wait while fetching the list of upgrade packages...", waits for several minutes, then says I should try another mirror. I tried manually FTP'ing to a couple of the sites and was able to connect and login anonymously with no problems. A couple of other sites gave me a DNS error after logging in, I'm not sure about that problem either. Any ideas? Thanks! Greg well you have to wait because I did that way in the morning AND it didnt work so I tried at the afternoon NOW it works, I guess the other ftp sites r offline or not accepting connections you should try corel linux 2.2.14 it even networks likes windows automatically cheers chad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] cmi8330 onboard sound card and mdk7.02
Hello everyone I need help fast if possible. I have just built a clients machine and chose a board with onboard sound, the "sound pro cmi8330 c3d audio adaptor". For some reason mdk7.2 dont want to speak to this chip, heres the win config what can I do to fix this guy SB device i/o 0220--022f IRQ 5 DMA 1 DMA 5 Joystick i/o 0200-0207 mpu 401 0330-0331 windows sound system i/o 0530-0537 i/o 0388-038f IRQ 11 DMA 0 Lothar doesn't work but does detect it and sndconfig works but crackles the sound like an out of tune radio. thanks in advance Chadley Wilson tel 012-333-2276 mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] help can't get mandrake to start install
Chris Smolen wrote: Every time I try to install mandrake it gets to the screen where "initializing CD-ROM is flashing then at the bottom of the screen it says something about second part of install then that is where it hangs. hi chris i had the same problem with mdk7.2 and the problem seems to be with your screen card i changed my card temparary and installed then put the old one back and i worked eventhough it took two days to figure it out(just kidding) any more help call me, mail chadley wilson (newbie) 012-3332276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] all hours hope you win cheers
Re: [newbie] Mouse pointer is a white square!!!!
Giorgios Ntouvelos wrote: hello all, After the installation of Mandrake 7.0 the mouse pointer is turned to big white square into the X-Windows. it moves all around ok, clics ok, but remains always a white square instead of the arrow pointer. Please help me regards/george hi Im no expert but you have to edit your XF86config file and look for "accel" or bitblk" and has them out please note this info is not guaranteed thanks chadley tel 012 3332276 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] networking and kppp
hello everyone chadley here first thanks to Michael h for responding to my original posting however it still has not solved the problem and i think that the problem is worst than i originally thought here's the situation i have setup mdk7.2 and left out my card (trusting lothar to put it in later) and have setup my kppp and am running it now and netscape is working and so is messenger, if i try to open anything other than netscape it doesn't work , in other words only netscape works while my kppp is connected via my external modem to my service provider (@lantic (as in the ocean)). if i disconnect the kppp connection then every thing else works any suggestions when i am sure that it works ill replace the network card thanks chadley
[newbie] linux network and the internet how do i make kppp a subnetwork to stop netscape from hanging
hi my name is chadley wilson i head up the technical department of WIL-SUN PC SYSTEMS our company objectives are to bring technology to rural schools and businesses in south africa. our mission at present is to get linux up and running. so i present the first of my difficulties MY OS Mandrake 7.2 1) when i setup my system with its network card and the installation is complete. i can ping and telnet all the other computers on our network. only my Kppp connection does not work, first i get ppp daemon died unexpectantly and the other is that the browser hangs, and i have tried lynx ;netscape; and kde browser. none seem to work. if i go to linux conf and change my ip address to 127.0.0.1 (loop back) then my internet works but no network now i am using genius pci eth0 cards and external modems and i don't want to route through a windows box for my internet connection. i want to be able to dial out only when i need to and run my network at the same time. 2) i have an AWE64 isa (a) sound card by creative and this is what mdk7.2 has to say about that "/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy sound:Device or resource busy" so i have done some poking around and found in LOTHAR that there are four unknown devices made by acer there, i don't know what they are or how to get rid of them but i am sure that they are the reason the sound card wont work. here's details it says : other devices: Acer Laboratories inc. M1541 Acer Laboratories inc. M5243 Acer Laboratories inc. M5237 Acer Laboratories inc. M1533 Acer Laboratories inc. M5229 the very bad news i don't have anything from acer not even on the network and i have checked all the pcs the only thing that might be suspect is my LG. cd writer. only everything worked fine with mandrake 6.5 3)lastly when i am online using kppp my terminal refuses to open i think i might need to recompile my kernel but i dont know what i am doing and so have not done it any suggestions pse thanks in advance all help is greatly appreciated chadley wilson technical manager WIL-SUN PC SYSTEMS tel(012)333-2276 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
