[newbie] vim
Any programmers in here? If so do you know how to change the default highlighting colors that it uses, I've checked the man page and didn't see it in there. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling
RE: [Re: [[newbie] More probs with dual boot]]
Good God Man. Stop being a damn linux nazi, and I have news for you. Linux maybe 9 years old and windows might be 16 but linux is going to have a hell of a lot of catching up to do if it is going to be where windows is today in only 7 years. You only show your ignorance by being unable to admit there are other things out there that have some good properties. later, pendragon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen F. Bosch Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 10:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Re: [[newbie] More probs with dual boot]] Jaguar wrote: You mean your a newbie to Windows If you took the time to read my reply, you will see it states "Make up your minds..either it sucks and you want NOTHING to do with it...or quit bashing Windows." So why are you saying that it sucks if it can do something Linux can't? It does none of these things well -- and judging by the length of time it has taken Linux to get where it is, it should not be too long before nothing remains the sole domain of Windows. It took 16 years for Windows to reach the point it is at now -- it has taken Linux only nine. The writing is on the wall. Windows still sucks - it's expensive, the support for it is abysmal, and worse, the user is prevented from solving his own problems because he doesn't have access to the bloody source code. Period. Look -- you're on a Linux mailing list. If you want to people to praise the damn thing, go to a Microsoft list. There are still plenty of suckers out there who think Windows is the cat's meow. One thing is for sure -- Microsoft sure as hell doesn't need your support. -Stephen-
RE: [Re: [[newbie] More probs with dual boot]]
Windows is everywhere, are you blind, stupid, or both? Like I said in my previous post don't bother responding because I won't see it, but then again I'm sure you and your fascists freiends will get a kick out of ripping on me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen F. Bosch Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Re: [[newbie] More probs with dual boot]] Charles Ulwelling wrote: Good God Man. Stop being a damn linux nazi, and I have news for you. Linux maybe 9 years old and windows might be 16 but linux is going to have a hell of a lot of catching up to do if it is going to be where windows is today in only 7 years. You only show your ignorance by being unable to admit there are other things out there that have some good properties. Hey, man -- I have to support Windows, I am not pulling this out of the sky -- and I reserve the right to hate the damn thing. May I ask you *where* Windows is today? Oh, that's right -- it's crashing aboard US Navy vessels. I'll take an OS with a multi-user heritage and 30 years of development behind it over the jury-rigging I've had to tolerate from Mickeysoft. I'm sick of being ripped off. -Stephen-
RE: [Re: [[newbie] More probs with dual boot]]
I'm sorry people are only civilized in here when you believe that Linux is god. I neither worship nor love bill gates. I definately do not worship nor love Linux. I respect both, and on my machine, Linux crashes more often than win2000 so that is my experience. I for one am completely sick of sitting here and listening to a bunch of uniformed fascists rant and rave about how much they love Linux and how much windows sucks. I believe both OS's are strong and that is why I run 2000 and Linux. Anyway, don't respond because I'm going to leave the group because, I get sick of the few people in here that are so damn extreme in their views. I'll get on a list of people who actually know what the hell they are taking about and have something other than "Windows sucks and Linux rules!!!" every other post. I'm guessing that most of you don't even know what the underlying structure of an operating system is so I don't really see how in the hell you are so damn qualified to speak on what makes a good one. I'm out, Pendragon -Original Message- From: mark willenbring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 12:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Re: [[newbie] More probs with dual boot]] Stop the arguing! Can't we all get along? Comparing the 2 OS's is not fair. They are both so different its amazing. I do agree with Stephen in that this is a Linux board and if you want to worship Gates you can find thousands of places to do it on the web. Most of the posts here are very informative and the people are for the most part civilized so please settle down. Mark --- Charles Ulwelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good God Man. Stop being a damn linux nazi, and I have news for you. Linux maybe 9 years old and windows might be 16 but linux is going to have a hell of a lot of catching up to do if it is going to be where windows is today in only 7 years. You only show your ignorance by being unable to admit there are other things out there that have some good properties. later, pendragon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen F. Bosch Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 10:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Re: [[newbie] More probs with dual boot]] Jaguar wrote: You mean your a newbie to Windows If you took the time to read my reply, you will see it states "Make up your minds..either it sucks and you want NOTHING to do with it...or quit bashing Windows." So why are you saying that it sucks if it can do something Linux can't? It does none of these things well -- and judging by the length of time it has taken Linux to get where it is, it should not be too long before nothing remains the sole domain of Windows. It took 16 years for Windows to reach the point it is at now -- it has taken Linux only nine. The writing is on the wall. Windows still sucks - it's expensive, the support for it is abysmal, and worse, the user is prevented from solving his own problems because he doesn't have access to the bloody source code. Period. Look -- you're on a Linux mailing list. If you want to people to praise the damn thing, go to a Microsoft list. There are still plenty of suckers out there who think Windows is the cat's meow. One thing is for sure -- Microsoft sure as hell doesn't need your support. -Stephen- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] help needed
How about a QA with questions that come up here every few days... such as the Linux isn't recognizing my RAM question that I had and have see about 5 variations on in the 2 weeks I've been on this list... Later, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message-From: Andrew Doe (Web master) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 2:21 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] help needed i am creating a site for linux users www.linuxfaqs.org.uk and need stuff to put on it suggestions apreciated email [EMAIL PROTECTED] andrew doe
[newbie] Windows Linux Networking
When I installed linux it recognized my nic fine. Now that I am in it I don't know where to look to configure it, and other basic things such as actually connecting to a windows machine. Can you recommend links on setting up your nic as in what all the options mean an what you need to set up and what you don't inorder to connect to a win2000 machine via a home LAN. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling
RE: [newbie] Memory Problems
I entered all 256 manually during the install and it didn't work... I had to go in to the lilo.conf file and add append="mem=256M", I'm in windows right now so I don't really where it goes since I'm not in Linuuux, I believe it goes close to the bottom. You also need to run lilo -v from the command line after editing the file Later, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of root Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 3:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Memory Problems "Congdon, Christopher" wrote: I have an Intergraph TD-4 dual CPU Pentium 90 I've installed Mandrake 7.0 on. The BIOS reports that the system has 96MB of RAM, however Mandrake only reports 65MB... Help Chris Richard wrote: No, I have 128 memory and It all works fine on mandrke although I had some trouble on slackware debian...well to tell ya it should support your memory, but Im wondering if you typed down 96 memory when during the setup? well because U should enter it manually...sorry of my grammer
[newbie] Linux Windows Network
When I installed linux it recognized my nic fine. Now that I am in it I don't know where to look to configure it, and other basic things such as actually connecting to a windows machine. Can you recommend links on setting up your nic as in what all the options mean an what you need to set up and what you don't inorder to connect to a win2000 machine via a home LAN. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling
RE: [newbie] slow Linux
I'm not in linux right now... but you can run a app called ktop... you just type ktop and it should pop up a graphical system monitor, I would change it so you could see all the processes that are running(Its a drop down menu at the bottom of the app) and see if you have a bunch of httpd's. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of KompuKit Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 5:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] slow Linux How do you check for multiple instances of apache running...? that could be my problem also...netscape keeps freezing on me, for some reason...and that could be WHY. Charles Ulwelling wrote: Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me earlier today... later charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of HAL 9000 Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 8:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] slow Linux hello all.. i just installed Mandrake and i used a larger swap partition. now its acting a bit laggy. i have SETI@Home running, but it has never acted the way it is now. i can watch the windows maximizing and iconifying aand its a bit "jumpy when that happens. any ideas? thanks seth -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
RE: [newbie] slow Linux
It would be really easy to see if seti@home is the problem... just don't run it, and see if your speed improves. If it does then you probably have the priority on seti bumped up above lowest, if your speed doesn't improve then its not seti that is the culprit. later, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: Anthony Huereca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] slow Linux At the moment SETI@Home is taking 97% of my CPU (PII 450), and I'm having no problems with speed at all. Charles Ulwelling wrote: Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me earlier today... later charles Ulwelling nope, not one instance of httpd seti@home is taking up about 27% of my CPU... would that greatly affect the performance?? seth -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Maxtorator, I'm going to hear about this... I am triple booting with win2000, and win98. I'm using them mainly because they work. Win98 crashes all the time but it is nice to have when I want to go back and play a game that doesn't run on win2000, which isn't very often since win2000 runs just about everything I have. I have win2000 because it is solid, and it is what I use to do all of my work in, I haven't had to reboot my computer once since I got it, except when I was trying to get linux to work(obviously). In my opinion I've never seen a machine run as well as mine does under 2000. I'm sorry but linux has many problems, it may work well for all of you and that is great, but I've had nothing but difficulty with it. It may be a PEBKAC problem but I don't believe so, since it dies immediately after being installed. If I have the choice between linux and win2000 I'd take win2000 and thats why I'm dual booting, linux is only a hobby thing that I'm using to increase my knowledge of UNIX. I do not wish to make it my main OS, I'm perfectly happy with the one I'm using now. Please don't publically execute me for this, I've read all your posts and you all think windows suck and linux rules. That is cool, everyone is entitled to their opinions, so please don't send in 40 responses saying pendragon is so wrong, one will be plenty... heh heh -Original Message- From: maxtorator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 7:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to the point where it just isn't responding, I assumed it was a bug in linux as far as RAM utilization went. By not responding I mean I'll move the mouse and it will take about 3 seconds for it to *jump* to the location I moved it to. It is really annoying. Just out of curiosity should linux run as smoothly as win98 as far as opening apps, and moving the app window across the screen or is it naturally jumpy and something I should get used to. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling I have seen many different replies to this posting regarding Linux "slow reaction time" on this particular system in question. I know that Linux is hella lot faster than any Win machine ever could think about being, so there is obviously a problem with the setup on this machine. I normally use about 29 meg memory on boot. I have amd k6-400 with 256 meg ram, from what I have read, the only memory that your Linux box is actually using is what is buffered at the moment. Now, don't quote me on this cause I am no expert, but I have read many memory optimization tips and tweaks for the Linux system. Have a look at this link http://www.mandrakeuser.org/admin/aproc.html#Mem . And you may want to search around that site, very good information can be found there. You probably want to chase down all of your running processes and se whats taking up more memory than it should. Linux starts many services on install that you may or may not need. Try turning off the ones that you will never utilize. Also, I have found that if you are dual booting with Windows that more problems can arise. And in all reality..Why do you even need Windows when you have Linux? Linux can do everything that a Win box can do and even so much more, better, and faster. Sometimes though the initial setup may be a bit more aggravating in the beginning, but once you have the harmony between hardware and software, you'll be amazed. --Maxtor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maxtors.com ICQ: 68275472 Still learning this thing...
RE: [newbie] Re: Charles Ulwelling's response to Linux is so slow
Heh heh In a previous post some one said they were dual booting with win98 and maxtor said that there are problems with that senario... and then said why use windows when you could do everything with linux. I was just giving some reasons why. later, Charles -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eugene C. Zesch Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 12:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re: Charles Ulwelling's response to Linux is so slow Charles Ulwelling wrote: Maxtorator, I'm going to hear about this... I am triple booting with win2000, and win98. I'm using them mainly because they work. Win98 crashes all the time but it is nice to have when I want to go back and play a game that doesn't run on win2000, which isn't very often since win2000 runs just about everything I have. I have win2000 because it is solid, and it is what I use to do all of my work in, I haven't had to reboot my computer once since I got it, except when I was trying to get linux to work(obviously). In my opinion I've never seen a machine run as well as mine does under 2000. I'm sorry but linux has many problems, it may work well for all of you and that is great, but I've had nothing but difficulty with it. It may be a PEBKAC problem but I don't believe so, since it dies immediately after being installed. If I have the choice between linux and win2000 I'd take win2000 and thats why I'm dual booting, linux is only a hobby thing that I'm using to increase my knowledge of UNIX. I do not wish to make it my main OS, I'm perfectly happy with the one I'm using now. Please don't publically execute me for this, I've read all your posts and you all think windows suck and linux rules. That is cool, everyone is entitled to their opinions, so please don't send in 40 responses saying pendragon is so wrong, one will be plenty... heh heh I'm not going to publically execute you, but I read your post twice and I'm damned if I can figure out what it has to do with the thread ...Linux is slow...Please help. Enjoy your windows. Gene
RE: [newbie] slow Linux
Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me earlier today... later charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of HAL 9000 Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 8:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] slow Linux hello all.. i just installed Mandrake and i used a larger swap partition. now its acting a bit laggy. i have SETI@Home running, but it has never acted the way it is now. i can watch the windows maximizing and iconifying aand its a bit "jumpy when that happens. any ideas? thanks seth
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help(numbers on usage)
I am in an ext2 and I have a large swap space set up. I got it figured out. It was just a problem with Mandrake loading up a bunch of useless crap(for a beginner like me its useless). Plus there were 10-15 versions of apache running at a time... that was like 35-40 megs of mem right there. thanks though later -Original Message- From: Mike Fieschko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 8:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help(numbers on usage) "Charles" == Charles Ulwelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles My mem usuage is this X 38M kfm 9M kbgndwm 7M kdm 7M Charles Kpanel 5M and various others at 5 to 6 M until all the Charles memory is used up, another thing is there are 10 Charles instances of httpd taking up over 3M's each. I don't Charles know what this process is but I can't kill any of them, I Charles get an error when I try. You say 'various others' at 5 - 6 Mb. What 'various others'? To stop the httpd processes, you need to do a 'httpd stop' as root, in the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory (I think.). To prevent the httpd daemon from starting each time you start linux, you must be root and run 'setup' and go into "System Services" and deselect the httpd box. Go through what is being started automatically at boot time, when you are in 'setup' System Services, and you'll probably see some other daemons you truly do not need. Charles As for the CPU its utilization is down around 10% or so Charles and ktop is what is using it. [snip] If your cursor / system is slow to respond, and top shows only 10% cpu utilization, then something else is dragging down your system. A dumb question: you are running Linux in an ext2 filesystem (and not Linux4Win or otherwise on a umsdos filesystem), no? You do have a swap _partition_ set up and in use, no? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 26 St Margaret Clitherow "Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Daily News, 2/21/02]
RE: [newbie] Boot Partition too big...
Make a small 8 meg or so partition at the front of your drive and set that to active and then tell linux to install its boot partition there and you should be fine -Original Message- From: Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Boot Partition too big... Heya guys, (before I start, I did check the archives and I did see a couple messages about this , but they all related to FAT32 systems...) I just installed Win2k on a new 13 gig HD which I fdisk'ed into a 11 gig and a 2 gig partition. I want to try Mandrake out, but whenever I try to install Mandrake, I get an error during disk druid which reads "Boot Partition too big." This occurs even when I make a 1 meg linux partition and mount it at /. Any ideas? Do I *really* have to format, switch to LBA, and reinstall?! thanks Dave
[newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely unuseable. I'm booting into KDE. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
my processor is a PIII 450 overclocked to 540( not the problem I've already declocked it and the same thing happens ), I have 256 megs of SDRAM@100mhz, I have two ATA-66 drives one at 18 gigs and another at 27.3 gigs, and a diamond viper v770. It is really wierd... I boot up and look at the system resource manager(I forget the name) and I can see my RAM usage go up by about 6 to 12 megs a second until it is all used up. It doesn't use any of the swap file either. I don't understand. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help What is your processor speed, and how fast is your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33, or scsi? On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed: I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely unuseable. I'm booting into KDE. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
How would I know if they are running at full speed... I ran the configuration tool in dos for them and they are set up to run at full speed. As far as if they are running at full speed in linux I have no clue. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 9:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help I have heard that there is some problems with ATA drives, but don't quote me on that I am not sure. Are the drives running at full speed? I mean 66, 33, or regular ide speed? On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed: my processor is a PIII 450 overclocked to 540( not the problem I've already declocked it and the same thing happens ), I have 256 megs of SDRAM@100mhz, I have two ATA-66 drives one at 18 gigs and another at 27.3 gigs, and a diamond viper v770. It is really wierd... I boot up and look at the system resource manager(I forget the name) and I can see my RAM usage go up by about 6 to 12 megs a second until it is all used up. It doesn't use any of the swap file either. I don't understand. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help What is your processor speed, and how fast is your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33, or scsi? On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed: I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely unuseable. I'm booting into KDE. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to the point where it just isn't responding, I assumed it was a bug in linux as far as RAM utilization went. By not responding I mean I'll move the mouse and it will take about 3 seconds for it to *jump* to the location I moved it to. It is really annoying. Just out of curiosity should linux run as smoothly as win98 as far as opening apps, and moving the app window across the screen or is it naturally jumpy and something I should get used to. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: Anthony Huereca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 10:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help I'm not sure why your system is so slow, but I can explain the RAM utilization. I've found out (as I once complained about the same thing that you are) that Linux uses RAM differently than Windows. It'll take up all "x" (in your case 256 MB) RAM soon after bootup. However, it shouldn't affect the performance at all when you open program or anything. Instead of taking the Ram in chunks like Windows, Linux just takes the whole thing at once. So don't worry about seeing 100% ram utilization. Not sure why Linux is slow though for you. my processor is a PIII 450 overclocked to 540( not the problem I've already declocked it and the same thing happens ), I have 256 megs of SDRAM@100mhz, I have two ATA-66 drives one at 18 gigs and another at 27.3 gigs, and a diamond viper v770. It is really wierd... I boot up and look at the system resource manager(I forget the name) and I can see my RAM usage go up by about 6 to 12 megs a second until it is all used up. It doesn't use any of the swap file either. I don't understand. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help What is your processor speed, and how fast is your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33, or scsi? On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed: I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely unuseable. I'm booting into KDE. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Thanks, I didn't think it sounded right... but as this is the only experience I've had with it I didn't know. later -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eugene C. Zesch Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 12:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help Charles Ulwelling wrote: Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to the point where it just isn't responding, I assumed it was a bug in linux as far as RAM utilization went. By not responding I mean I'll move the mouse and it will take about 3 seconds for it to *jump* to the location I moved it to. It is really annoying. Just out of curiosity should linux run as smoothly as win98 as far as opening apps, and moving the app window across the screen or is it naturally jumpy and something I should get used to. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling Charles, Something is not right. I'm not adept enough to fix it for you but my poor little P166 running Mandrake 6.0 with 48 Megs sounds a lot smoother and speedier than that. You might call up a list of running processes with ps -ax -land see if anything is using a lot of cpu time. Or find a monitoring program. I think I've seen one that even gave pie charts of cpu usage by process, but the name escapes me. What you're experiencing is not typical of Linux. Good luck, Gene
RE: [newbie] mouse question
Thanks for the advice I'm using KDE -Original Message- From: Anthony Huereca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 2:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] mouse question First, I like double clicking to launch stuff but it seems that Mandrake 7 defaults to a single click to lanuch apps. Could someone tell me how to change that so I have to double click to launch apps. no idea, but it might help some other people if you say what Window manager you are using (Gnome/KDE/etc) Second, I have a microsoft intellimouse and the scroll wheel doesn't work any ideas on how to enable that in Mandrake? It should work pretty much automatically in Mandrake. Make sure you have imwheel installed though. http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ has lots of information on scrolling, and has imwheel should you need it. tia, Charles Ulwelling -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit
[newbie] mouse question
I have two very newbie mouse questions. First, I like double clicking to launch stuff but it seems that Mandrake 7 defaults to a single click to lanuch apps. Could someone tell me how to change that so I have to double click to launch apps. Second, I have a microsoft intellimouse and the scroll wheel doesn't work any ideas on how to enable that in Mandrake? tia, Charles Ulwelling
RE: [newbie] ata66
I'm running Mandrake 7 on a Abit BE6 ( onboard ATA-66 ) and when I installed Mandrak it said ATA-66 isn't fully supported yet... but it also said it would write a work around to the boot disk I made with rawwritewin and then I rebooted and all went fine. Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: Robert Revet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 1:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ata66 mandrake has put one kernelon their site a 2.3-35 or soemthing... is this one supposed to get my ata66 to work ? and the link does not work !!! tell me where can I find a ata66 kernel ! I want a mandrake version ! please !!! TIA Robert
RE: [newbie]
If you do have ATA-66 you have to use the rawwritewin.exe in the dosutils directory and choose the cdrom.img file when it prompts you in the images directory. Then use that disk to boot with and your install should go well... at least it worked for me. Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: Audrey Beck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] STEVE GREEDY wrote: Hi all, I've been trying (for about a week) to install Mandrake versions 6.1 and 7.02. on the following: Tyan 1854 motherboard pentium PIII-600 128 meg ram IMB 13.Gb HDD MATROX G400max SB 1024 soundcard NE2000 comp. ethernet card he problem is as follows: After booting up from the CD, I presume the following process is hardware detection, what happens is when it gets to IDE0 and IDE1 the system hangs for a while and then reports operation timed out and something along the lines of IDE0 not found (not responding) and the same for IDE1. Carrying on with the installation after this the process cab't get past the formatting of the Linxu partition.The same also occurs trying to install Redhat 6.0. I've tried the fips fdisk route as well with no success. I've managed to successfully install 7.02 on another machine (only real difference being the motherboard) Anyone have any ideas Cheers Steve Steve Greedy School of Electrical Electronic Eng. University of Nottingham Tel: 0115 9514273 Fax: 0115 9515616 http://www.eee.nott.ac.uk/solid/pic/ Do you have an ata66 controller/drive? I think you need to download a test kernel to try to get it installed.
[newbie] Ram Problems
I am having trouble with Linux Mandrake 7 recognizing all my ram. I have 256megs in my system and Mandrake only recognizes 64 megs of that when I boot. I have an Abit BE6 motherboard. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks Pendragon
RE: [newbie] Installation difficulties
I don't know if this would help... but I'm running Linux, win98, and win2000 on my computer. What I did was designate the first 8 megs of my first hard drive as /boot and then after that I set up the win2000 partion and the win98 partion on that drive. I then installed linux on the beginning of my second hard drive so I could use lilo and not worry about the 1024 thing. I then set the linux /boot partion as the active one. So now when I boot I get a choice between linux and windows and then if I choose windows it sends me to the 2000 boot loader and I get a choice between win2000 and win98. Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: Emilio Correa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 10:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation difficulties Date sent: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 23:26:10 -0800 From: Ratsnake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ratsnake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Installation difficulties OK, after admitting that I was quite proficient at installing Red Hat Linux, and after becoming very disilussioned with Red Hat (i.e., the Linux version of Microsoft), I purchased the Mandrake distribution v. 7.0. Now, my hard disk has already been partitioned into 4 separate compartments, as I was running Windows 98 and Windows NT. However, I wiped my "C" hard disk in order to uninstall NT. Now, after attempting to install the Mandrake Linux, I came to a dead end. Admittedly, my hard disk is still partitoned, in other words, I only wiped the "C" drive. I attempted to install the Mandrake Linux, and after re-booting, nothing happened, and the box automatically went into the Windows 98 O/S. Any ideas, suggestions, etc.? What do I need to do to install the Mandrake Linux O/S? Any help would be accepted. Regards, Bob Hi, may be you should reinstall MDK and when you are configuring the partitions, in the installation, try to delete them and rebuild them paying attention on it, then when the installation prompt you where to save lilo, choose MBR, and I think this may help, I hope so!! Good luck!! Emilio Correa e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tuayuda.com.ar (Informática/Listas de Correo)
