Re: [newbie] Desktop misalignment on laptop screen
Hmm, that food looks tasty, but I've had my share and I have to say it doesn't taste very good. :) That's one of the tricks I tried down my lengthy road of re-installations. I swear I must have tried all combinations that I could, with either XFree server version, and nothing worked for me, personally. I also even tried 'drivers' for different adapters, thinking I could fool it! But in return, I was the one to get fooled... Anyway, that's -my- response. Others may (and hopefully will!) vary... -Law 11/18/2002 10:18:12 AM, Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is food for thought instead of a potential answer... The last few days, I have been struggling to get some old video cards and monitors to properly display X in RedHat 8.0, Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0. The difficulties have come about in both video drivers and version of the XFree86 server used. When I am able to choose the 3.3.6 in Mandrake 8.2, I have the best chance of success, though not with all cards I am using and/or monitors. RedHat 8.0 does not come with the option of downgrading to the older server. I am sure I could remedy that on-line, but not at this point of my 'newbiness'. My thoughts are this: The older the X-server version I use, the better my success working with older video cards (also interpret as cards with under 8 MB RAM and especially of the S3 chipset variation) as well as older monitors (also to be interpreted as monitors or LCD's? that are not capable of high-frequency output under high color depth, or not at all.) I just wonder if laptop LCDs, especially if a few years old or more, would run better with an older server version? In my case, if I reverted back to installing Turbo Linux 3.0.3 (~ circa 1998), I get excellent video/monitor control from a default installation on each and every one of these older cards and monitor combinations. I did a little reading at www.xfree86.org and learned that while there is a desire to make newer servers backward compatible to older video hardware, the porting takes time and is not guaranteed to happen for all. The fact that Mandrake gives you the choice of 3.3.6 over 4.2.2 emphasizes its importance to some, and in my case, made 8.2 work where even 9.0 wouldn't. Like I said...no answers for you. Just more questions for you to ponder as you try to figure it out. If you haven't tried using XFree86 3.3.6 on your laptop, this might be your solution. However, if you haven't and wish to do so without reinstalling, I am afraid you will have to ask others here to help you. I am still not at that stage in the game to help you change over. :-) T - Original Message - From: Flux [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 9:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Desktop misalignment on laptop screen Hi there. I was having the same problem on a Compaq EVO N150 except the screen was shifted a few pixels to the right instead of up. In any case, since you're using a laptop, xvidtune won't do squat for you, and any re- alignment in Windows won't help at all either, due to the fact that they aren't using the same drivers or whatever. So far, after reinstalling Mandrake/RedHat several times over and over, all I can say is that there appears no way to actually fix it, because its a laptop screen. (I really hope someone can contend this, but I doubt it) I'll tell you what, though. I had this problem when I first installed RedHat 7.3. Then, after wanting to try other things, I installed Mandrake 9.0 over top of RH. Well, guess what? The problem went away and the screen was perfectly aligned. However, then I reinstalled Mandrake due to my own stupidity, and then problem was back. And it wouldn't leave, as I mentioned above. My $0.02. -Law 11/16/2002 4:49:54 PM, Peter Spotts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, I have a slight (and only slightly annoying) problem with Mandrake 8.1 on a new Toshiba laptop (1905-303). My desktop, be it Ximian Gnome or Fluxbox, appears to be raised off the bottom of the screen by about four to six pixels. The side-to-side alignment seems OK. I have the laptop set up as a dual-boot machine with Windows XP on the other side of the no-byte zone. The problem doesn't exist on that side of the divide. I also made sure I selected the appropriate driver when I installed MDK8.1 (ATI Radeon). Any thoughts as to how I can get an exact fit of desktop to screen? -- ~~~ Peter N. Spotts Science and technology correspondent | The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston, MA USA 02115 Office: 1-617-450-2449 | Office-in-home: 1-508-520-3139 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.csmonitor.com ~~~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake startup
When Mandrake starts up, a list of various drivers/modules/devices scrolls on the screen. I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about. Strangely enough, the first time I installed Mandrake Linux, this list was displayed in the text console. Since I reinstalled Mandrake, the list scrolls past in a X-Windows graphical screen. Does anyone know why that is? What happened to change that behaviour? Thanks for any input! -Law Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Best Linux Laptop
I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times, but what's the best laptop for the average Linux distro? I had, at first, targeted Compaq's Presario 2800T, but I caught wind that Compaq's suck for Linux. (This could explain my current problems) I'm buying two new laptops for me and my boss, and I'm sorta going with the HP Pavilion ze5000 series, unless I hear really bad things about them. Anyway, I'd be happy to hear everyone's input. Thanks! -Law Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wine
Joe, When I received errors like that, it was because I was trying to run a program via WINE from a directory that wasn't mapped in WINE. In other words, you're trying to run a program in directory A, but there is no Drive mapping in the WINE config file for directory A. I could have sworn the docs say something about getting around that, but it never worked for me... -Lawrence 11/2/2002 7:56:26 PM, JOE BARRON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like everything installed but the doc I,m reading isn,t the same as the wine help.I,m getting a could not find config [Drive x] entry for current working dir y/home/joe:starting in windows dir Thanks Joe Barron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Laptop screen shifted
Has anyone thought of anything else I can try with this laptop? As far as I know, I'm using the latest drivers with XFree86 4.xx and I can't figure it out. Again, the last install of ML9.0 on this very laptop did not have the problem, but now it pops up again. I've already reinstalled ML9.0 five times now, and each time the problem exists. What on earth could I be missing? -Law Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML9.0 on Laptop
The video card is a Trident Cyberblade X1, I believe. In ML9, that would be the Trident Cyberblade (generic) driver. Here's the catch, though - I had installed RH7.3 with the same problem, then flushed that out and installed ML9.0 the first time and it was perfect, as I describe below. ... So now I'm giving serious thought to once again formatting those partitions and starting over again! A.R.G.H. 11/1/2002 6:13:03 AM, Michael Notforyou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What type of video card is in the Evo N150? I have a Compaq Presario 730US, and I think that installing a third-party Savage driver might help your problem IF it has the same video card as the 700 series. On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 23:56, Flux wrote: Maybe someone can help me... I surely hope so. I recently just re-installed ML9.0 on a Compaq EVO N150 laptop. On the last install, the screen configuration was perfect; the viewable screen was centered perfectly! But now, after this current install, the screen is shifted a few pixels to the right. IT'S DRIVING ME NUTS! And since its a laptop display, I can't even imagine how to manually shift the screen over... Does anyone know how to correct this? Please please please help me... -Lawrence (Its 11pm and I'm still at work... ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- *Michael Notforyou* Registered Linux User #197888 Registered Linux Machine #166780 LINUX ON A COMPAQ PRESARIO 700 SERIES: http://www.quack-net.com/presario/ //42! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux w/ Win98SE
Okay, this definitely fits in the newbie catagory... I've been playing around with my dual-boot Win2k/ML9 install, when it finally got to me that I can't really interact with the Windows partition, due to the NT file system. So, I decided to downgrade the Windows install to Win98SE. Now, what makes this a newbie issue is that fact that I blindly deleted the first partition on the drive, which happened to have both the Win2k install and the boot loader redirectory, so now I can't boot into Windows (duh) NOR Linux! (I understand that's not entirely true, but for newbie purposes we'll presume that it is) So, in perfect newbie fashion, I decided to pop in my Compaq Evo N150 recovery disc and completely start ALL OVER AGAIN! But here's the question: If this recovery forced me to reformat the entire drive and make the whole thing one partition, how am I supposed to install Linux on it for a dual-boot? Maybe I should ask WHERE am I supposed to install Linux? Please help, because I'm sure to cause myself more pain hashing through it myself... -Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux w/ Win98SE
*blinkblink* ^ That's me trying to figure out why I forgot about Win2k and Fat32. I actually intended to do just that, but somehow the notion left my mind. Well, looks like I'm starting over once again! Isn't this what tinkering is all about? HA! Thanks, Technoslick for that jog to the memory. -Lawrence 10/31/2002 9:18:41 AM, Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flux, My only comment on your predicument is that I can't see why you are downgrading to Win 98 SE? Did you have a problem with Win 2K that makes you want to go to a less robust and older version? Win 2K can be reloaded with a FAT32 partition instead of NTFS. As long as you own the 'better' version of Windows and it's not giving you any problems, I wouldn't load Win 98 SE just to get the FAT32 and sharing between the two O/S's. My take on this. Good luck in whatever you do. T - Original Message - From: Flux [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:59 AM Subject: [newbie] Linux w/ Win98SE Okay, this definitely fits in the newbie catagory... I've been playing around with my dual-boot Win2k/ML9 install, when it finally got to me that I can't really interact with the Windows partition, due to the NT file system. So, I decided to downgrade the Windows install to Win98SE. Now, what makes this a newbie issue is that fact that I blindly deleted the first partition on the drive, which happened to have both the Win2k install and the boot loader redirectory, so now I can't boot into Windows (duh) NOR Linux! (I understand that's not entirely true, but for newbie purposes we'll presume that it is) So, in perfect newbie fashion, I decided to pop in my Compaq Evo N150 recovery disc and completely start ALL OVER AGAIN! But here's the question: If this recovery forced me to reformat the entire drive and make the whole thing one partition, how am I supposed to install Linux on it for a dual-boot? Maybe I should ask WHERE am I supposed to install Linux? Please help, because I'm sure to cause myself more pain hashing through it myself... -Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ML9.0 on Laptop
Maybe someone can help me... I surely hope so. I recently just re-installed ML9.0 on a Compaq EVO N150 laptop. On the last install, the screen configuration was perfect; the viewable screen was centered perfectly! But now, after this current install, the screen is shifted a few pixels to the right. IT'S DRIVING ME NUTS! And since its a laptop display, I can't even imagine how to manually shift the screen over... Does anyone know how to correct this? Please please please help me... -Lawrence (Its 11pm and I'm still at work... ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] What's with the CDROM drive?
REAL newbie question here: Is there any way to get removable media to work in Linux the way it does in the Windows/Mac world? It kinda bugs me that I have to unmount the cdrom just to eject it. Case in point, if I accidentally hit the eject button on my laptop, nothing happens, and the disc is no longer accessable through Linux unless I reboot. WTF? Isn't there some automounting feature that will take care of this? What about Supermount? What IS that, anyway? I'm sorry to rant, but I'm just blown away by the fact that some sort of automounting isn't already built-in. If anyone knows some options for me, give 'em to me. I'm eager to learn here... -Lawrence Winstead Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What's with the CDROM drive?
Okay, okay. We're getting somewhere here. :) Thanks for clearing that up for me, Derek. In the Mount section of the Mandrake Control Center, I enabled Supermount, and disabled user and noauto. I rebooted, and now I can just eject the disc and it'll auto- unmount it for me. Great! But here's the next part: In RedHat, they've got it setup by default to open the cdrom mount point when a disc is inserted. Do you know how to set it to do that? Or will that conflict with Supermount in some way? Thanks! -Lawrence 10/17/2002 10:34:14 AM, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ermm Supermount does do what you ask... If Supermount is enabled you do not have to mount/unmount removable media (In fact if you DO try mounting it, it will screw up the supermount operation) What you are probably experiencing is the issue that if ANY application has a file open on a removable media, then you CANNOT unmount it, or remove it. So if you have konqueror file manager open at /mnt/cdrom, then you have to close konqueror before it will respond to the eject button. You just have to be a little bit disciplined about closing applications before removing media. Sorry but that is just the way it is at the moment. Not everything about Linux is better than Windows :( derek On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 4:09 pm, Flux wrote: REAL newbie question here: Is there any way to get removable media to work in Linux the way it does in the Windows/Mac world? It kinda bugs me that I have to unmount the cdrom just to eject it. Case in point, if I accidentally hit the eject button on my laptop, nothing happens, and the disc is no longer accessable through Linux unless I reboot. WTF? Isn't there some automounting feature that will take care of this? What about Supermount? What IS that, anyway? I'm sorry to rant, but I'm just blown away by the fact that some sort of automounting isn't already built-in. If anyone knows some options for me, give 'em to me. I'm eager to learn here... -Lawrence Winstead Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin
Okay, it seems I need to answer my own question: I'm still a newbie at Linux, and so I had no idea *why* I couldn't get those halt/reboot/logout options to appear. Well, after playing around, just looking and looking all over in the menus, I ran across the Login Manager. Its kinda hidden in Dolphin's menus. In any case, in the Login Manager, I went to the Sessions tab. The very first setting is called Allow Shutdown and you have a subsetting for the Console and Remote. The setting for Console said Nobody; I simply changed it to Everybody. I logged out and logged back in, and then tried to log out again. To my delight, I now had the options to halt/reboot/logout. Success! Now I could be wrong about this; I could have changed a different setting somewhere else, but I SERIOUSLY DOUBT IT. (In other words, I don't know why this setting change accomplished what I was after). The point is that it worked and I'm finished. Ugh! -Lawrence Winstead 10/15/2002 7:51:53 AM, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 08:07 am, you wrote: snip Thank you for the answer, but I set the lowest security level at install (I think it was Medium). So what do I neeed to do? Commment out the last line? No I do not think that would help. You have to 'pass' a test to get access to the command. If you have medium security I do not understand why your system should behave differently to mine (also medium) My ordinary users can use shutdown without a problem. Have you ever had high security?, or did you upgrade instead of install? It might be worth taking a look at /etc/security/console.apps I have a zero byte file in there called shutdown. It may be that at higher security levels that file does something. You could also try editing /etc/pam.d/shutdown like this :- #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient/lib/security/pam_rootok.so auth required /lib/security/pam_console.so auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth #accountrequired /lib/security/pam_permit.so I think you will then be prompted for a password before shutdown derek Guys, I don't about 9.0, or which versions (RC releases, boxed set, d/l versions) you're using, but I had this same trouble with 8.2. Using the d/l 3 CD version, any normal user on my system could not shut it down. As soon as I purchased the boxed set (7 CD Powerpack), my normal users could once again shut down. I don't know if its relevant here or not, but its just a thought... See ya... -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin
I don't know if its just my level of security or what, but the options to logout, halt, and reboot don't show up when I logout of KDE in Mandrake Linux 9.0. I previously had RedHat Linux 7.3 installed, and the options were there. What am I missing? Is there a security level that will trigger those options to disappear? I have the Higher security setting on right now. This isn't tearing me apart, but its rather annoying... Thanks for any help. -Lawrence Winstead Systems Admin DuraTech Industries Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lnx4Win problem
First question, Why are you running Linux in win mode? this hardly even captures the power that linux offeres..., second, what are your system's specs, there often there for a reason,Many people think that they can just ignore the minimum, requirements, that the vender clearly displays on the box. but anyway to the message it's self, If it is unable to mount root, this is probably, because either your HD or your cd-rom are not supported, can't really tell which, would look into it more deeply, perhaps check some faq files at mandrakes website, www.linux-mandrake.com -xeon --- "Zinn, Ed - ACE Computer Engineering, Inc." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I tried to install for the first time on my DELL PC, Linux Mandrake 7.0, using the Lnx4Win, and I received an error at the end of the install process, when it prompts you "Are you ready to install Linux". After responding yes, the dos window displays the message "kernel panic VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01" Any ideas. THanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Internet access?
ok, do you have KDE installed, probably, so I will explain using KDE's Kppp program, it is listed under the menu Internet, this is relativly simple, almost like setting up window's dial up connection.. !IMPORTANT!, the most important step is your DNS, you will connect without it, but you won't be going anywhere,so contact your ISP, either on there web site or throught tech support. that is the most important part, you can set the rest up using the provided help files with the program -Xeon --- Lothar Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other week somebody posted a link to a page with advice on how to get connected to the Internet using Linux. I stupidly clicked on "delete" before I realized that I could really use that kind of information. If somebody could please repost that link I would be very grateful. Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
