[newbie] Linux SETI Client assistance needed
Can anyone on the list give me any suggestions on how to make the seti@home mailto:seti@home command line version for linux automatically dial in and send when a unit is completed and download a new unit like the one on Windows ;-P does? I've tried the various options provided with the program but they don't help at all and it is a real drag having to manually send and receive data. Thanks Charles Wackerman Carthage, NC
[newbie] Word Perfect 8 install problem
I recently bought a copy of Corel's WordPerfect 8 for Linux. I am using Mandrake 7.2 OS. On three different occasions I have followed the instructions printed in the QuickStart install guide and on all three occasions I have been unable to install -- I get a message intiger expression expected followed by Graphic Install Device failed, followed by a long list of files that are either unavailable or won't install. My nephew tried the disk on his (bite my tongue) Red Hat system and it installed with no problem, but I simply cannot get it to work for me. Has anyone else out there had a similar problem? Does anyone have an suggestions? I have a great many documents on disk from earlier editions of DOS or Windows 3.1 versions of WordPerfest which I would like to be able to access and this seems to be the only way to do so without loosing format etc. Help and Thankis in advance! -- Charles Wackerman Carthage, NC e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] url http://home.earthlink.net/~cwackerm ICBM coordinates of my desk 35:21.379 N/ 079:18.296 W
[newbie] USB Drive
I have Mandrake 7.2 installed as a primary operating system on one of my pc's -- and I have an Iomega USB ZIP 100 drive. For one brief moment when I first installed 7.2 the drive worked but not since. Mount tells me that : /mnt/zip on /mnt/zip type supermoutn (rw, fs=vfat, /dev=/dev/zip) When I look in the device file I see ZIP -- sda4 When I attempt to access the drive (e.g., cd /mnt/zip or cd /dev/zip) I get either: bash: cd: /mnt/zip: Input/output error or: bash: cd: /dve/zip: Not a directory or /mnt/zip is not a block device. Iomega has drivers which are supposed to work with Mandrake 8.0 (which I don't have the bandwidth to download here in the boonies), and I have seen a USB zip work on Red Hat (bite my tongue!!) so I know it CAN be done. Any help or suggestions would be more than appreciated as I need the zip drive to transfer files from my Windows PC (the old slow one) to this new Linux only pc. Charles Wackerman Carthage, NC -- Charles Wackerman Carthage, NC
Re: [newbie] Problems with the RAM
David: I also tried the append="mem=192M" in lilo.conf and then lilo at the prompt, didn't work. I also tried lilo -v (which was reported to work) but no such luck. On the other hand Mandrake 7.0 recognizes a video card that Windows 98 refuses to recognize so I guess the extra line at log in is worth it. Charles Wackerman David Herman wrote: Fernando García Arranz wrote: I've got a problem with the memory of my PC in Linux. I've got 128 Mb but Linux just recognize 64Mb. What can I do ? I've tried to insert the line "append=128M " into the lilo.conf file , but it doesn't work. Could you give an answer, please. I was having the same problem my solution was to edit lilo.conf so that the appropriate line reads: append="mem=128M" note where the quotation marks are. Then in a terminal I entered "lilo" at the prompt. (no quotes around the word lilo) It seems that this is needs to be done for the update to take effect. hope this helps
Re: [Re: [newbie] Problems with the RAM]
I checked that in video card documentation Diamond Stealth III S-540 uses only its onboard 16megs of memory. Anyway, Linux accepts the 192 megs when I log in at lilo with "linuxmem =192M" Plus, the lilo.conf file has the append mem=192M all to no avail. Thanks for the suggestion though.It is funny that Mandrake doesn't identify the memory but Redhat 6.2 does, while Mandrake recognizes the video card and Redhat doesn't. Once I get this settled I will try to figure out a problem with the CD RW and the ZIP drive (it detects the CD RW drive but won't read a disk in it, The ZIP is on Paralllel Port II which it doesn't seem to detect. Strange.) I KNOW that someday soon Linux will do everything it is supposed to, but right now it is frustrating me like a pc hasn't since the mid 70s..... Charles Wackerman Jaguar wrote: Have you taken into account if a video card is using some of the system RAM?? ie: 192 RAM - 4 MB video = 188RAM Just a thought...:) Jaguar Charles Wackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David: I also tried the append="mem=192M" in lilo.conf and then lilo at the prompt, didn't work. I also tried lilo -v (which was reported to work) but no such luck. On the other hand Mandrake 7.0 recognizes a video card that Windows 98 refuses to recognize so I guess the extra line at log in is worth it. Charles Wackerman David Herman wrote: Fernando García Arranz wrote: I've got a problem with the memory of my PC in Linux. I've got 128 Mb but Linux just recognize 64Mb. What can I do ? I've tried to insert the line "append=128M " into the lilo.conf file , but it doesn't work. Could you give an answer, please. I was having the same problem my solution was to edit lilo.conf so that the appropriate line reads: append="mem=128M" note where the quotation marks are. Then in a terminal I entered "lilo" at the prompt. (no quotes around the word lilo) It seems that this is needs to be done for the update to take effect. hope this helps The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] lots of crashes???
Well folks, I've had the opposite experience from most of you with Mandrake 7. I've yet to have it crash, which is not so with Win 98 SE. I have a new (three week old) Athlon 600 with 192 megs of memory and two 13.5 hd's Windows on the first, Linux on the second. A couple of things I have noticed. a. When I installed an ATI Rage Pro 128 AGP graphics card on the pc (a slower, Diamond Stealth PCI card came with it) Linux immediately picked up the card and formatted itself for the new graphic settings (a feature I understand is new with Mandrake 7). On the other hand, I am still trying to get Windows 98 to recognize the d card. It wants to set itself as a low resolution generic vga PCI graphics card and won't budge. b. The SETI program takes about 25 hours to run through an iteration on Windows 98, and just about 12 hours on Linux, even when I use the xseti graphics interface (which I don't really care for). c. After working on word processing, spreadsheet, web browsing and seti on Windows for about 12 hours my system memory is down to about 65% but I seem to have no such problem on Linux. d. Linux will only recognize the memory above 64 megs if I log in at Lilo with "Linux mem =192mb" -- even though I have added that line manually to the lilo.conf file. That seems strange (any suggestions?). I am yet to have a problem with Netscape 7 (though I had many with earlier versions), but I do agree that Linux will be of much more use when programs like Quicken and Turbo Tax are ported to it. However, I fear that (as much as I dislike Microsoft and Mr. Gates) we are just tasting what the rest of the PC world will taste if that company is broken up and there is no de facto standard OS. I am new to Linux but I remember the pre-microsoft days when there was Apple and dozens of CPM computers, each with their own flavor and disk format. It was pure H... getting software that would work on any given PC. A vendor might have the Kaypro version but not the Eagle version, and you couldn't read disks for another pc without an elaborate and expensive and not always dependable translation program. Hence, many companies didn't put out really good software until MS/PC DOS hit the market. All in all I really like Linux, but then my primary occupation is as a writer and the Star suite by Sun Microsystems is pretty adequate for that. Enough of MY opinion. Does anyone have a proposed fix for my memory recognition problem? Charles Wackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi folks I lurk much of the time here but do have to comment on the Windows vs Linux debate. Couple comments/observations from our 4 systems at home and two at work: Use both Windows and Linux (Mandrake 7.0) extensively (I like Chevys AND Fords too) Never crash Windows 98 or NT - perform routine file maintenance and defrags Crash X-Windows and Netscape in Linux frequently Netscape really does suck do not like font selection in KDE/Linux but need to learn how to load new ones As far as productivity goes, I am much more productive with Windows for my type of work. I am an AutoCAD/GIS specialist, also do desktop publishing and web page design, and photography. Linux is very fun and I could use it all the time if it were up to par with the selection of programs available for Windows, font selection, and had a good CAD/GIS program. Lets keep an open mind here folks. Just my .02. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since it's the weekend, :o) rant on Linux is very stable and beats windows all over the place. But, until the Linux community gets this web browser "crap" resolved, to me, Linux ain't worth the CD it is shipped on. 90% of my usage is surfing the internet. IE 4 has problems, and 5 is worse, but Netscape dying at random is unacceptable. M14 sucks and Netscape 6, well, ain't much better. rant off And we thank you for your support.. Original Message Follows From: Ribbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] lots of crashes??? Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:50:30 +0700 On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Mohamed Saad wrote: well... here are the crashes! KDE: I was opening 2 windows of Netscape. And suddenly, the whole system freezed! I just could move the mouse! but i can't do anything! I had to press ctrl+alt+backspace to log out! and it worked! well that means your linux still worked and not crash. just one application crashed, it was X problem. KDE: I pressed Log Out, the screen turned black, and i couldn't Do any thing! i had to press "Reset" Xfce3: It was my first time to even see it! i just used it for 15 seconds!! :) i pressed the button with the penguin, and the whole system freezed!! I had to press "reset" next time try to log from another console and kill the X. Gnome: I was just moving around... It suddenly made a
re: [newbie] lots of crashes???
Well folks, I've apparently had the opposite experience from most of you with Mandrake 7. I've yet to have it crash, which is not so with Win 98 Second Edition OEM version I have a new (three week old) Athlon 600 with 192 megs of memory and two 13.5 hd's Windows on the first, Linux on the second. A couple of things I have noticed. a. When I installed a ATI Rage Pro 128 AGP graphics card on the pc (a slower, Diamond Stealth PCI card came with it) Linux immediately picked up the card and formatted itself for the new graphic settings (a feature I understand is new with Mandrake 7). On the other hand, I am still trying to get Windows 98 to recognize the d card. Win 98 wants to set itself as a low resolution generic vga PCI graphics card and won't budge. b. The SETI program takes about 25 hours to run through an iteration on Windows 98, and just about 12 hours on Linux, even when I use the xseti graphics interface (which I don't really care for). c. After working on word processing, spreadsheet, web browsing and seti on Windows for about 12 hours my system memory is down to about 65% but I seem to have no such problem on Linux. d. Linux will only recognize the memory above 64 megs if I log in at Lilo with "Linux mem =192mb" -- even though I have added that line manually to the lilo.conf file. That seems strange (any suggestions?). I am yet to have a problem with Netscape 7 (though I had many with earlier versions), but I do agree that Linux will be of much more use when programs like Quicken and Turbo Tax are ported to it. However, I fear that (as much as I dislike Microsoft and Mr. Gates) we are just tasting what the rest of the PC world will taste if that company is broken up and there is no de facto standard OS. I am new to Linux but I remember the pre-microsoft days when there was Apple and dozens of CPM computers, each with their own flavor and disk format. It was pure H... getting software that would work on any given PC. A vendor might have the Kaypro version but not the Eagle version, and you couldn't read disks for another pc without an elaborate and expensive and not always dependable translation program. Hence, many companies didn't put out really good software until MS/PC DOS hit the market. All in all I really like Linux, but then my primary occupation is as a writer and the Star suite by Sun Microsystems is pretty adequate for that. Enough of MY opinion. Does anyone have a proposed fix for my memory recognition problem? Charles Wackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Running A Program
"ChOPpY C. Chipper" wrote: Hi! I'm new in LiNuX, so could somebody tell me how to a program that I made in g++? I have no idea how to run programs, except for the ones in the "KDE Menu".Thanks A Lot! -Julien Well, at least one way is to open a terminal window into the directory the program you want to run is in, find the executable probram and type "./program_name" right after the prompt. (of course substitute the actual program name and leave out the quotes. In my case I run the SETI program by the following cd /home/seti then the home/seti prompt comes up and I type ./seti and hit return and the program starts. But you may want to look at any readme files or documentation that came with the program to make certain that will work with your particular program. good luck Charles W.
