Re: [newbie] OpenGL
Well it kind of depends. OpenGL is a graphics library and I seriously doubt that there is an OpenGL rpm on your system. Try rpm -qa | grep opengl. The missing OpenGL support that the game is refering has to do with your graphics card drivers. So the question becomes what kind of graphics card are you using and does it support OpenGL. A OpenGL rpm would be something developers would use in order to create graphic images, etc. Larry -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta Tester Caldera Linux 2.4 5:10pm up 2 days, 21:06, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.12, 0.08 KompuKit wrote: I have a Pentium 233 MMX 64 mg ram a S3 video card Rev 1.0 drivers (in windows) I'm trying to install a game: Search and Rescue for Linux helicopter game that requires OpenGL... it won't compile...unless it's on my system... I have Mandrake 7.02...does this come on the CD? if so, what's the RPM called... -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver
Maybe because you have a Gforce 1 and not a 2 (as the original poster asked about). Duh! Why don't you read some of the faq's I pointed out in the previous post. It might help you out a bit. I'm also going to assume that your XF86Config file refers to a 'nv' driver and not the newer 'nvidia' driver. Larry markOpoleO wrote: Ok so explain to me why MD 7.1 detected my video card a Geforce 1...duh. LOL markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "Larry Hignight" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 9:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver MarkO, Well that's kind of funny. Because if you go to the supported hardware section of the linux-mandrake web site there is a link to instructions that are awfully similar to the ones I posted below. But just to be sure. I ran over and checked the Linux Drivers page ... funny thing. Requirement 2.1 says that Nvidia drivers require XFree4.01 to work. Directly above that it says that the Riva and NV1 chips are supported under XFree4.0 ... not Gforce 1 and 2. Which would probably explains some of the threads we get around here about once or twice a month bitching about installing XFree4.01. If you don't believe me go to irc.openprojects.net channel #loki and ask jlundy if nvidia drivers are supported by Mandrake 7.1 he works in the driver dept. at Nvidia so I think he should know. Larry markOpoleO wrote: What are you talking about?! MD 7.1 Supports Geforce 2 and 1 cards right during install. You can allways upgrade to 4.1.0 if you want.. markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "Larry Hignight" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver Dominus Paparum wrote: quick question before I install LM, does it come with drivers for the geforce2? i can download them from nvidia how do i install these drivers? the file extention is .rpm what do i do with it? Get Email, News, Links and The Best Selection at http://AnimeNation.com Dominus, First, do us all a favor and set your email client to wrap outgoing messages at 72 characters or less. Thanks. If your new to Linux and not comfortable working from a command line then forget about it for right now. I don't think any distro currently has support for Nvidia "built in". That may have already changed with the release Red Hat 7 though. I'm sure Mandrake 7.2 will also support Nvidia cards out of the box. If you still feel up for a project here is what I did in a nutshell to get my Gforce working. A. Your gonna have to upgrade to XFree4.01 .5 Almost forgot ... mv /etx/X11 and /usr/X11 to /etc/X11-old and /usr/X11-old 1. goto www.xfree86.org and download Xinstall.sh and extract 2. take a look at the readme files while your there 3. run 'sh Xinstall.sh' then download the correct binaries 4. install the binaries 5. run /usr/X11/bin/xf86config ... be sure to have your monitor manual handy B. Install the Nvidia drivers 1. Install the both rpm's ... no sweat here. I had to --nodeps one of them. C. Tweak XF86Config 1. Refer to the faq at Nvidia under linux drivers 2. I recall having to uncomment the glx line under modules 3. Had to change the driver from nv to nvidia voila ... your done for now. I'm just leaving my machine on inittab 3 for now. Whenever I want to play a game I simply 'startx' and run the game from inside of twm which seems to be more stable then before I had a Nvidia card. Incedently, I'm also getting fairly significantly higher frame rates under this setting then under WinME. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 12:45am up 1 day, 8:49, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00 ---- -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 12:45am up 1 day, 8:49, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00 ---- -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta Tester Caldera Linux 2.4 5:15pm up 2 days, 21:11, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.07
Re: [newbie] Formating IDE HD
Don't you just love fs support by MS?! Well, I can't see any reason for not wanting to flash the bios, especially, if it will add something as convenient as a bootable cd-rom. Short of that maybe you can get a hold of a partition magic floppy? If you have another Linux machine maybe you could make a bootable floppy disk with the Linux version fdisk? Larry Ricardo Zevallos wrote: Hello. I have been trying to install Linux Mandrake in my old computer and now I cannot create a Linux partition. Starting form my 1.2 Gigabyte IDE-HD with Windows NT4 system, I first deleted the ancient NT partition and created a new PRI-DOS partition (using fdisk). When I tried to reformat the HD (using the DOS format command) I found that only 4M existed !!! I have tried using MIPS to shrink the DOS partition and create a Linux partition (at least 1G) unsuccessfully. MIPS gave an error in the boot record. Then I tried to install Linux Mandrake 7.0 from a diskette using rawwrite but I got the "no partition available" error. I would like advice on how to define a partition for Linux (at least 1G). The BIOS does not allow me to boot from CD. Thank you. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta Tester Caldera Linux 2.4 7:00pm up 2 days, 22:56, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.05, 0.01
Re: [newbie] Ulysses-3 iso
I'm able to dl them from rpmfind you may want to stop loging in as root. Someone might be tempted to play a joke on you. ;) root wrote: anyone got another mirror of ulysses-3 iso's -- If you have to ask you can't afford it. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 12:45am up 1 day, 8:49, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00
Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver
MarkO, Well that's kind of funny. Because if you go to the supported hardware section of the linux-mandrake web site there is a link to instructions that are awfully similar to the ones I posted below. But just to be sure. I ran over and checked the Linux Drivers page ... funny thing. Requirement 2.1 says that Nvidia drivers require XFree4.01 to work. Directly above that it says that the Riva and NV1 chips are supported under XFree4.0 ... not Gforce 1 and 2. Which would probably explains some of the threads we get around here about once or twice a month bitching about installing XFree4.01. If you don't believe me go to irc.openprojects.net channel #loki and ask jlundy if nvidia drivers are supported by Mandrake 7.1 he works in the driver dept. at Nvidia so I think he should know. Larry markOpoleO wrote: What are you talking about?! MD 7.1 Supports Geforce 2 and 1 cards right during install. You can allways upgrade to 4.1.0 if you want.. markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "Larry Hignight" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver Dominus Paparum wrote: quick question before I install LM, does it come with drivers for the geforce2? i can download them from nvidia how do i install these drivers? the file extention is .rpm what do i do with it? Get Email, News, Links and The Best Selection at http://AnimeNation.com Dominus, First, do us all a favor and set your email client to wrap outgoing messages at 72 characters or less. Thanks. If your new to Linux and not comfortable working from a command line then forget about it for right now. I don't think any distro currently has support for Nvidia "built in". That may have already changed with the release Red Hat 7 though. I'm sure Mandrake 7.2 will also support Nvidia cards out of the box. If you still feel up for a project here is what I did in a nutshell to get my Gforce working. A. Your gonna have to upgrade to XFree4.01 .5 Almost forgot ... mv /etx/X11 and /usr/X11 to /etc/X11-old and /usr/X11-old 1. goto www.xfree86.org and download Xinstall.sh and extract 2. take a look at the readme files while your there 3. run 'sh Xinstall.sh' then download the correct binaries 4. install the binaries 5. run /usr/X11/bin/xf86config ... be sure to have your monitor manual handy B. Install the Nvidia drivers 1. Install the both rpm's ... no sweat here. I had to --nodeps one of them. C. Tweak XF86Config 1. Refer to the faq at Nvidia under linux drivers 2. I recall having to uncomment the glx line under modules 3. Had to change the driver from nv to nvidia voila ... your done for now. I'm just leaving my machine on inittab 3 for now. Whenever I want to play a game I simply 'startx' and run the game from inside of twm which seems to be more stable then before I had a Nvidia card. Incedently, I'm also getting fairly significantly higher frame rates under this setting then under WinME. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 12:45am up 1 day, 8:49, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00 ---- -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 12:45am up 1 day, 8:49, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00
Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question
I have ME on one of the computers here and it sucks something fierce. I had in mind three reasons for using WinME: 1. The new mpg encoding 2. Driver updates so I wouldn't have to search around for them 3. The registry roll back feature. It just completely fails on 3 -- I get a damn dll error everytime I try to roll it back. 2. isn't really that compelling a reason to have it. And 1. ... well I haven't used 1 yet but I can't imagine it not crashing by the time the movie is done being encoded. Same old MS ... all feature no stability. "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Now, I know some people who use ME and think that it works just fine. Maybe your friend is having some configuration problems...Just a guess. -Original Message- From: Doug McGarrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 12:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question No, you DO NOT want to install ME on anything. It is far inferior to W98 by everybody who has tried it, and it crashes frequently. Don't just take my word for it, check Consumer Reports and the info at ZDnet or whatever the correct name is. One of my compadres at work has decided to put ME on his machine. He said it crashed a lot. He was unable to even boot the machine today! I can't believe that MS was so stupid as to create this mess, but they did. MS may be inept, but they're very seldom stupid. --doug, wa2say At 07:55 09/19/2000 -0400, you wrote: Greetings on this rainy Tuesday in New Jersey, Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot between two hard drives?? If so, has this created any problems? Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 12:45am up 1 day, 8:49, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00
Re: [newbie] Voodoo3 3000
"J. Ricardo Rizzo" wrote: -- Hello everybody, I recently installed Mandrake 7.0-2(Air) on my Athlon K7-600MHz. I have an AGP card Voodoo3 3000. My XFree version, 3.3.5 does not recognize this graphic card, You should either download/purchase Mandrake 7.1 or install XFree 4.01 otherwise you'll probably continue to have problems with the card. Not to mention that Mandrake 7.1 is a just a much better product then 7.0 imho. For 2d graphics none of this probably mattters. and then I installed it as a Voodoo3 2000. I think I would have tried to install it as a Banshee, but it seems to work for you. Anyway, I read the on-line help and the news from 'linux.3dfx.com', and downloaded the driver. I installed the Xfree version downloaded and the driver, but never seems to happens. The graphic card is still installed as a Voodoo3 2000. Do yourself a favor and get Mandrake7.1, if it isn't satisfactory then upgrade to XFree4.1 And finally, is it possible in the kde environment to quickly change the resolution and colour deepness like on startx? If you have more then one screen resolution set in the XF86config file (look in /etc), screen resolutions can be changed by holding down ctrl-alt and depressing either the keypad - or + key to scroll thru the listed resolutions. Of course, you could also open up DrakConf and change the resolution there as well. Observatorio Astronomico Nacional Alcala de Henares - Spain Your a member of the National Astronomical Observatory of Spain? Cool. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 11:25am up 28 days, 19:33, 5 users, load average: 0.08, 0.05, 0.03
Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT -- Heroes 3
It is kind of wierd the way that it hangs up after the music or after the first turn ends in my case. I can then ctrl-alt-backspace and start the game again without sound (apparently the sound device is busy) and it won't hang up at all. Well, at least for 20 minutes or so. At any rate, I tried playing with a couple of different settings. Try the following and see what results you guys get at a terminal try esd (this should make a r2d2 like sound) ctrl - c then start the game I no longer have the hang up but I'm missing some of the sound ... or so it seems you might also want to try export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=esd Oddly enough, most games that I've tried have tended to work better on a standard Mandrake install then Caldera. This one is the exception as it seems to work fairly well on my Caldera box. Larry Vic wrote: Same here, I sure as heck hope that the full version does not act like that too, I think the programmers when they told me it was the sound drivers were just making dumb excuses to sit around picking their noses and not do anything about it, or goodness knows maybe they were hopefully getting something done, I sure hope so. On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, you wrote: Vic wrote: Speaking of Gaming, has anyone had a problem with Heroes 3 for Linux freezing after the music stops? I downloaded the demo and after the music quit, the game froze and I had to get out the good ol' trusty virtual terminal and kill it. Hi Vic. I d/l'ed the Might and Magic 3 demo just the other day, and unfortunately, I have the same problem. Whenever I exit the game, end turn, etc, etc, the game music stops and the game is locked at that point, totally unresponsive. Hmm. I didn't kill it via terminal though. I just control alt F-10, shutting down the Xserver, then relogging back in. Guess either way works though, eh? ;-) If anybody knows a fix for this, please pass it along. Also, does anybody know if this problem is limited to the demo? I'd really like to know as this is one of the games that I'd really like to purchase the full version of. Thanks! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 11:40am up 28 days, 19:48, 5 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.00
[newbie] how to upgrade rpm's with mdk in the name?
Let me first start off by saying I love Mandrake and rpm I think both are great. However, I'm getting really frustrated with the rpm's that Mandrake is including in their distro. It seems like all of them have the syntax of rpmname-version#-mdk. This makes a simple rpm -Uvh upgrage nearly impossbile without rpm -e a bunch of stuff. For instance, the other day I needed to upgrade the SDL libraries, but in order to do it correctly I had to rpm -e probably 12 packages to install the current version of SDL. Now I want to upgrade esound and I'm afraid that in order to that I'll have to literally remove gnome and reinstall it. If anyone knows of a way to upgrade these packages please post it I'm going crazy thinking about this one. Also, does anyone have any experience using the cooker? I'm starting to think it may be an easier, if slightly less stable, solution. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 11:45am up 28 days, 19:53, 5 users, load average: 0.05, 0.09, 0.03
Re: [newbie] AGH!! Linux not ready for prime time (OS/2 user) OT
"Austin L. Denyer" wrote: serious snipping Maybe, but at what price? It cost me (at the time) the equivalent of over six week's rent just to upgrade the machine from 4mb to 8mb RAM. Having to pay another three month's worth just to get to a hardware level that would support the OS was not economically viable - at least, not to me. Wow, you guys either have really cheap rent or expensive ram!!! Yes, you do get what you pay for. But, in terms of value for money, the cost of the OS plus hardware placed an effective OS/2 system WAY beyond the means of J. Random User. Agreed. Well, at least at first. I never had actually had the pleasure of trying os/2 so I can't say for sure. Try THAT with NT... um ... no And back then, NO-ONE could live without Doom #;-D Yeah, it helped me get over my heroin addiction.;-) especially when the Internet patch came out so that we could finally use the Internet for the REAL reason that Al Gore invented it. G) Now if this isn't the best reason yet to vote for Gore . My main concern is aimed at those who have to pay for their on-line time. SNIP Too many off-topic posts used to cost me a fortune. I was under the impression you could setup you email deliveray to not fetch ot mails? I WAS thinking of setting up a separate list for off-topic stuff once I got my ADSL set up, but as BellSouth (my ADSL ISP) only gave me a USB modem (un-supported by Linux) the only machine I have access to with ADSL connectivity is my Wife's Win98 box. The bastards .. did you consider giving one of the new technology previews a shot? check out both Caldera an ummm RH. preparing to run and duck from incoming bricks :) What to you think? A linux rants list sounds like a lot of fun :) I guess I could run it off my dsl after I finish security setup on it. I'm currently just logging on and off in short bursts . trying to fly low. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 12:45pm up 28 days, 20:53, 5 users, load average: 0.14, 0.05, 0.01
Re: [newbie] linux to unix
"Nijs, Vincent" wrote: Dear Mandrake user, I had assumed that if I would telnet to my schools Unix system from within Gnome i would be able to use emacs, xemacs, nedit etc. without needing any additional Xwindows system for the graphical display. Shouldn't this be the case (?) and if not might someone suggest a possible solution/program ? Thanks in advance, Vincent I guess if they permit it then you should be capable of running those programs. I'm able to telnet in from one of my linux boxes to another and run vim, zip, etc ... emacs didn't work though. Hope this helps. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 1:10pm up 28 days, 21:18, 5 users, load average: 0.12, 0.03, 0.01
Re: [newbie] Themes
Not all themes are designed to be a multimedia experience w/ sight, sound and running water :) TiGereYe wrote: hello, i would like to know where i can find COMPLETE kde themes.. most the themes is kde.themes.org are incomplete.. meaning they either dont have the sounds or they dont have some features..i would like to know if any of you know of any complete themes or a place to look or them? thanks TiGereYe - Accept No Substitues __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 1:45am up 27 days, 9:53, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Re: [newbie] ESS Audio still not working
Please don't post html to the list. It isn't really nesiscary and screws up a lot of people's email readers. Is this an ESS sound card or a sound carxd like the Sonic series with an ESS sound chip? At any rate, I have a Diamond Sonic sound card with the ESS sound chip and it worked out of the box with Mandrake7.1 wish I could say it was as easy to setup in Windows. "Myers, Dennis R NWO" wrote: Ooops! earlier message is right, it's "sndconfig" not soundconfig. Sorry, I got verbose there and let my fingers take over from my brain. HUGE SNIP "Julio C. Gutierrez" wrote: Hi everyone, I recently installed Mandrake 7.1 and it works terrific, with one exeption, My Ess sound card that is supposed to be compatible doesnot work, and it was working under windoze before, so my question is: is there anything I can do or is there any new or current drivers for linux? your help will be appreciated Thank you! -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 3:40pm up 27 days, 23:48, 5 users, load average: 0.23, 0.09, 0.04
Re: [newbie] AGH!! Linux not ready for prime time (OS/2 user) OT
"Austin L. Denyer" wrote: There never was much support for OS/2. Comparatively few applications were ever ported, and (compared to the competition at the time) was a real resource hog. To what are you comparing it, specifically? Boot time was far quicker than Windows, IIRC. Well, when I tried it (which was a good few years ago now) Windoze 3.1 was king, Win95 was still a dream project called Chicago, a college student called Linus Torvalds had just started releasing a (then very basic) Minix/unix clone on an unsuspecting world, and my 486 with 8megs of RAM made me the envy of my colleagues. OS/2 was a slug on 8megs, and really needed 16megs to start performing. Now, I was living in the UK at the time, with RAM costing $130/meg... I seem to recall a ZD article suggesting that OS/2 was king if it had 16 megs of ram; however, comparing OS/2 to Win3.1 is a lot like comparing minix to unix. You get what you pay for in a sense. If you were to open five applications in os/2 and the same five applications (or close substitutes) in win3.1, I think you'd see os/2 just beating the snot out of windows. Anyway, I'm interested in your comments, as I gave up with OS/2 fairly quickly and would love to hear a more informed opinion, although I think we ought to take this thread to private e-mail before the net.police get us #;-D Regards, Ozz. Please don't ... I'll cheerfully add a OT and look forward to more conversation on the subject. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 3:45pm up 27 days, 23:53, 5 users, load average: 0.11, 0.12, 0.06
Re: [newbie] Is this real?
kdm wrote: http://geraldholmes.freeyellow.com The funniest site I have been to in a long time. I unfortunaly couldn't get past the GH-EULA, but found it the funniest EULA I've read. (excluding MS's eula's of course) -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 4:10pm up 28 days, 18 min, 5 users, load average: 0.03, 0.06, 0.08
Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT
to just make two points. First, comparing the dos cli to bash is like comparing doom to quake3 no contest. However, that isn't the main point I want to make. People tend to have preferences based on many reasons and sometimes it is because we are not aware of what the other side is capable of doing. I know I've done this on many an occasion. With respect to WC, I think that you'll find KFM can do much of what you have listed. For instance, kfm is capable of the following: launching apps browsing disks ... hd, fd, cd copy/move/create both files and directories ftp web browser image viewer w/ thumb nails This leaves the following three items which either don't exist in kfm, need more clarification, or I don't know how to do it with kfm. command line -- doesn't appear to exist in kfm ... I could be wrong though commpression/decompression -- not sure what you mean by this one. Possibly a winzip like front end, proprietary compression algorithm, or hd compression supported by the os. file compare -- again, not sure if you mean a something like a md5 check or just comparing dates and sizes. At any rate, it would appear that wc is more fully featured then kfm; however, kde2 is right around the corner. You may also want to take a look at Xemacs which is purportedly the most complete editor/environment in existence. I have read elsewhere that a true guru will log into their computer in the morning, open emacs, do everything that they need to do for the entire day from emacs web, email, ftp, cp, mv, etc and then close emacs and log out at the end of the day. OK, but why do I have to do everything in text mode and using commands? I would do that when I am experienced and find it faster, but for now I prefer utils like DrakConf which make it easier. Power made simple. You don't have to do everything with a shell; However, there are some distinct benefits to using a shell. First, experienced users often know how to do something with a shell and will just tell someone to do 'ifconfig' to find out some network information rather then going to the trouble of figuring out what particular distro the person is using and what gui configuration tool is available. Another benefit is execution speed. Typing 'mv oldname newname' is often a much faster way of renaming a file or directory then clicking on it, clicking properties or rename, and then typing in the new name. I believe you realize this though. Second, I think it is a misnomer that everything gui is easier then using a shell. For the most part, a gui seems easier for two reasons. First, it prompts you with the copy/move icon or whatever. This benefits the ultra-newbie who will forget cp and mv. Second, people are just more familiar with using a gui for these tasks now. The newbie learns to use explorer from a not so newbie friend and then just comes to expect that everything else should be the same way. There was a time when people feared using program manager because it was unfamiliar. Simple role reversal here. In general, gui's make the easy stuff a bit easier and the hard stuff a whole hell of a lot more time consuming (if it can be done at all). gotta run 998 more emails to go ... until next time. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 - 5:00pm up 26 days, 1:08, 5 users, load average: 0.09, 0.06, 0.09 -
Re: [newbie] Petition
Excellent idea. Please be professional. Vic wrote: How many of you object to dialpad.com not supporting linux? Lets e mail them and tell them what we think of their unfair practice of discrimination against Linux users! It is the rights of the linux community to be able to use dialpad.com just as much as the windows users. Please e mail dialpad.com to express how you feel about this unfair discrimination. Go to http://www.dialpad.com or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] --not as likely to get response I feel. Or snailmail them Dialpad.com, Inc. 2953 Bunker Hill Lane, #400 Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA Thank you. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 - 11:35pm up 26 days, 7:43, 5 users, load average: 0.21, 0.13, 0.09 -
Re: [newbie] Viewing Source Code
Rob, If you are interested in learning how to program, you should consider taking a look at www.python.org You'll find plenty of source code, solid programming information and tutorials, and become part of a very powerful and flexible programming language. Anthony wrote: You have to download the source code. The stuff you're trying to view is the executable file which only makes sense to the computer. So go to the website of the program you want to look at, and then download the .tar.gz file which should include all the source code. I was wondering how do I view the source code of any program. I tried using various editor and developing tools. All I got is a bunch of symbols and letters. How am I suppose to modify a program if I cant understands these multi symbols and letters? Rob -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 - 11:40pm up 26 days, 7:48, 5 users, load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.07 -
Re: [newbie] Petition
Once again the java promise not quite delivering . yet. Hopefully this will be resolved soon. Mike Tracy Holt wrote: I was just at this site last night and thought it was pretty cool so I signed up. At this point, I have to go in and reconfigure my router to accept voice packets, but if you look in the faq's, they also talk about linux solutions; granted those are for people using a linux box as a firewall, but nonetheless... I would say that the biggest obstacle is being able to use the java applet under linux - if your linux browser supports it, then you should be able to use it (I haven't tried yet). I'm planning to use it from my windows partitions now, and as soon as I get it going there, I'll play with the linux side. Good luck, Mike snip Vic wrote: How many of you object to dialpad.com not supporting linux? Lets e mail them and tell them what we think of their unfair practice of discrimination against Linux users! It is the rights of the linux community to be able to use dialpad.com just as much as the windows users. Please e mail dialpad.com to express how you feel about this unfair discrimination. Go to http://www.dialpad.com or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] --not as likely to get response I feel. Or snailmail them Dialpad.com, Inc. 2953 Bunker Hill Lane, #400 Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA Thank you. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 - 3:05pm up 26 days, 23:13, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 -
Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT
bascule wrote: ah! xtree gold: them were days (thick yorkshire brogue) bascule WC looks to be a very full featured utility and would appear to be much better then explorer. Perhaps MS should buyout the makers of WC and then incorporate it into the os instead of as an alternative to explorer. It actually reminds me of an older dos utility called gold something or rather. that's the one :-) -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 - 4:45pm up 27 days, 53 min, 5 users, load average: 0.63, 0.45, 0.29 -
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 modem installation
I believe the reason you modem isn't working is that it is a winmodem. During the past couple of years modem manufacturers began producing modems that lacked dedicated processors and instead relied on the computers cpu to do all of the processing. Unfortunatly, these bastardized modems are very hard to provide support for in Linux. I've been stung a couple of times (even with windows support) because quite often these modems come from small manufacturers that are just hoping and praying to ge their company off of the ground. Mark Zip wrote: PII, 550, 128 MB 12 Gb HD + Rockwell HCF 56k Data Fax PCI Modem, SB AudioPCI 128 Installed Mandrake Linux 7.1 this eve. Everything seems to have gone fine. But I can't get it to find the modem and i cant find where to put any path to the modem even if i found it. Tried to set up a connection using kppp but no luck there. Also tried LinuxConf but nothing. Linux-Mandrake FAQ no luck. Newsgroups just too daunting at the moment I didn't _think_ that i was in over my head. Maybe I was. TIA for any advice zip -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 9:40pm up 27 days, 5:48, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT
more time; however, I'm using Linux about 90% of the time. I figure that by the end of the year Windows may not exist on my systems except in a very very limited form to play a few games and a couple of other applications, ie mpg4 until it is released for other systems. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 - 12:00pm up 26 days, 20:08, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.06 -
Re: [newbie] Support?
Not that it helps now, but in the future you guys can vote with you dollars and dl mandrake then buy support somewhere else. DougC wrote: Hmmm, Is this the level of support we get? I have a similar problem with a PCI network driver. Though I just submitted the question I'm wondering that same question. You're right though, where are some direct email support numbers? I certainly appreciate the help of individuals but the company should provide SOME direct support. --- Bill Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to get help on a Mandrake 7.1 install. After buying the Deluxe pack and registering it for support, I still can't get a response to my emails. Anyone had any luck here? My main problem is that the USB module usb-uhci.o fails to load. The dmesg shows that it is seen, doesn't have an IRQ and then is shut down. There's no place that I can find to assign it an IRQ, either in software or in BIOS. I've looked on the 'net for answers, but none so far, and it's extremely frustrating to have paid for a package that supposedly includes support, but you can't even get a response out of them. And just try to find a customer service email address or phone number for Mandrake... -- Bill Fry IT Director, Young Roehr Group 503.222.0626 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 - 8:20pm up 18 days, 4:28, 4 users, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.02 -
Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT
Ed Tharp amongst others wrote (with a lot of snipping): And Mike is right about the platforms, too. OSs (plural) for the x86 platform should be able to support all the hardware available for the platform. But it isn't the responsibility of the OS company to support all hardware. All hardware for the x86 platform should support every OS available. So while I'll agree with you, I'll disagree about who is toblame. A decent hardware company should support every OS they can. And they should start with the most common. I'd like Linux to support my Matrox Marvel G400, PS/2 mouse, CD-RW and HP DeskJet 930 I can hardly believe this thread. There is no way in hell that any os company (even ms) can have enough time and resources to write drivers for all the hardware out there. I repeat ... not even MS. Off the top of my head, x86 Linux has better hardware support then any other os except ms win95/98. Does win2k/nt do usb? what about ce? Also, if more hardware companies would write unified drivers then that would solve a number of problems. Think Nvidia and not 3dfx in the future. Incidentally, 3dfx is a dinosaur and will be extinct very soon. Second, whoever wrote that the mandrake drivers aren't broke and that there the best probably has to much coding experience to be on this newbie list. Sorry for being arrogant and rude but they came across in the same manner. Third, if you can't wrap your mind around the idea of partitions and mount points then there just isn't much hope for you. Is it really any harder to grasp then chapter /usr in the book hda begins on page hda1. Not to mention those partitions/mount points are kind of nice when it comes time to upgrade. Ever upgraded or reinstalled a MS system (seems like I can't go more then 3 months)? What a pain in the ass (ms trademark); I mean really. The best application that comes with the os is notepad and I'm not dissin' notepad either. It might be the best thing MS ever made. At least I don't have to reboot after using it. more rantYou can't keep your applications on another partition, reinstall the os, and expect them to work with that freakin' Satanic registry./morerant Fourth, a bit closer to the original posting. Granted, a V5 isn't going to be the easiest thing to get working at this point, but in two or three months every distro will have X4.0 with fairly modern 3d drivers ... until then you've got to either wait it out or install some drivers. I've read a few hardware reviews of the V5 in Linux so it must work. sarcasmYou mean there are problems with some games in Linux ... oh dear, I can't ever seem to recall any articles in either PC Gamer or MaximumPC bitching about broken games and patches for windows. Fact: there games are just as broken as ours. Maybe not Quake or Unreal (actually, Unreal has been nothing short of hell for me in windows) but a lot of win98 games are just as big a pain to setup and tweak to stability./sarcasm I have a friend that laughed hysterically when he saw me playing a q3 match to 500 at a lan party a while back. What's so damn funny? I'd be lucky if my (win98) system made it to 20. Who cares about the buffet when the ship is sinking. Fifth, there is no "easiest" to install distro. Mandrake is easy; no doubt about it. Caldera might be a bit easier because it doesn't have quite as many hardware setup choices. Corel a bit easier still. You can get a Fry's system with a custom version of Linux. Pop in the cd and bam ... the system is installed. No questions asked. But you get what you pay for in a sense. I can't install either X3.6 or X4 in Caldera. That Fry's system is totally closed unless you know how to boot in as single user and replace root's password. So the added bit of complexity can be a good thing. Does the win98 install give you either an easy install or much choice? Don't think so. Can Win98 install over a network? Nope. FTP? With that silly ftp client?! Ever had a win98 system setup with 5 or 6 comilers/languages; all the internet tools you can use; graphics programs; multimedia players; mp3 rippers/encoders in under a hour? A week? Maybe w/ dsl or cable. Ever had a win98 system reinstall an older version of DirectX on top of the one you just dl'ed? Would a newbie know what just happened? Nope. Need another 50 examples of crappy software design? Hopefully not. Moral of the story: Linux is somewhat more complex at times; however that complexity gives us a much more robust and flexible os. And don't forget we won't be paying MS taxes any time soon either. Should we dumb down Linux just so a bunch of windows weenies can use it? Never. Let evolution replace them keep Linux pristine. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 - 5:10pm up 18 days, 1:18, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.09, 0.03 -
Re: [newbie] OT Linux has on windows
Neptune wrote: The Neptune wrote: And I have more problems come up with Linux than I ever did have with windows that is why I just got done taking Linux off my HD and putting windows back on. Linux needs alot of work before it can even come close to preforming like windows!! Thank God that Linux performs nothing like windows. reboottypical mindless windows user/reboot So what were these insurmountable "problems" I'm sure we'll find it rather amusing. Where do you want to go today! Windows will get you there almost right out of the box. Were with Linux it May be a long time coming before you get every thing working just the way you like (but this may be more the fault of the applications you use and not linux itself.) Doug Doug ... I can't seem to get my second cpu working in Winblows ... can you give me a hand please. Oh yeah, before you suggest that I break the bank on Win2k, I use a usb mouse sorry. In all honesty, you spend more time installing hardware on a linux machine if you have either crappy winware or obscure hardware. On the hand, I don't spend near the amount of time in Linux with software not mention drivers and rebooting after an install. Hell, it would take me a month and over $1000 to find substitutes for all the great linux software in Mandrake. Not to mention reinstalling my programs and restoring backups. Companys like Mandrake should be working on making drivers for these lower cost products. Why on earth would Mandrake want to support crappy software? So someone can complain about how lousy there computer isin both Win and Linux? We don't need to support the dummy crowd ... they'll buy a new computer long before someone spends the time to write a driver for their winmouse. I would much rather see these talented people doing something useful with their time. An mpg4 player would be nice. :) And the winmodems etc cuts down on parts count and lowers the price of the machine and this make more equipment that can be had by lower income people. Nonsense. Cost really isn't much better. If anything it raised the cost of regular modems as much as it lowered the cost of silly winjunk, and tripled the number of manufacturers with lousy or non-existant tech and driver support. As far as the low income people are concerned they can afford a library, if not a used computer. Not everyone needs a high tech Doom playing machine! And as you can see I'm back on Linux again (but fore how long LOL) I wasted more money getting a Mandrake deluxe CD set. To help with getting more lib's to compile programs I download. Another problems I did not have with Windows! Linux by all accounts is much better at running on lower end hardware you can't even begin to dipute that fact. Also, I don't think you can really use cost as a factor when Linux can be had for free. You had the option of buying or dl'ing and you chose to buy. I've added a couple of programs to Mandrake 7.1 and one of them did require a library. Big deal goto library site, dl, make, install, install program. Glad to see your giving Linux another shot stick with it this time. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 - 7:40pm up 18 days, 3:48, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -
Re: [newbie] kppp pppd died unexpectedly
yo wrote: Hi all I installed Manrake 7.0-2 in mi PC but unfortunately, Is the firths time I cannot enter in Internet using de kppp dialog screen. I have to use linuxconfig to setup my internet account. Do somebody experienced the same problem, the message is pppd daemon died unexpectedly Even using the "root" account.kppp does not help too much , Thanks in advanced Manuel I haven't setup kppp in a while now; however, I used to have to set it to terminal login, enter my username and password, and then the trick wait while this first bit of modem jibberish went across the dialoug box then hit that continue button. Otherwise, I would get a connection timed out error. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 - 10:05pm up 5 days, 6:13, 5 users, load average: 0.28, 0.15, 0.05 -
Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...
I'm not sure that I agree with the whole sound quality thing. I've encoded a number of mp3's of the past year using grip/bladeEnc at 320. Everyone that I've had listen to both the mp3 and the original cd says that they can't tell the difference. Others say they can but the result is totally random. One of my friends actually prefers the sound of the mp3's. He was a former musician and he picked the mp3 file like five out of six times. The lesson? Encode your mp3's at a higher bit rate and don't use the crappy sound xing encoder the disk space? In a year you'll be buring a 100gig drive for under $100 and you can get 650meg cdr's for .40 now. Larry Dacia and AzureRose scribed: Speaking as a musician, I've never heard an MP3 that didn't sound flat, compressed, uninspiring and insipid. In my opinion they aren't worth paying for. The only use for them that makes any sense to me is for marketing ends. So, theres my .02 for what its worth from a person who is almost completely disinterested in the whole napster/MP3/RIAA thing. Looks like idiots fighting over who owns the storm in sandstorm ;-) Dacia
Re: [newbie] transferring files from linux to windows
KompuKit wrote: Is there a way to transfer webpages (i.e. html,gif,jpg,) over to windows...BUT, leave the "type case" untouched? I could have swore that I answered this one already ... anyway, just do this from the command line mkdir /home/username/temp mv (filenames) temp perhaps something like mv *.jpg temp; mv *.mpg temp; mv *.html temp cd temp zip files.zip * mv files.zip /mnt/WindowsParition then from windows just unzip it your files shouldn't change a bit. Larry Hignight Descent 3 beta tester 8:10pm up 4 days, 4:18, 5 users, load average: 0.15, 0.06, 0.01
Re: [newbie] Mozilla
RJS II wrote: I tried M16 and while it was a bit of a bear to install ;-) It is still very much a beta. IMHO, it is not ready to be used as a replacement for Netscape 4.7. Well, hate to break it to you, but now you need to go back and download milestone 17 which in my opinion is quite a bit faster and better then Milestone 16 (which I thought was worse then M15). And if it does seem a bit like beta software well, it is beta! I'm not sure why the install wouldn't have been anything but fairly easy. mkdir /usr/local/mozilla or maybe /home/user/mozilla or /opt/mozilla mv mozilla-filename.tgz /directory/above cd /directory/above tar -zxvf mozilla-filename.tgz cd package ./mozilla that's it not too tough :) -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 beta tester 12:50pm up 4 days, 20:58, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.01
Re: [newbie] M$ Free
My cell phone will cause one of my monitors screen to sort of ripple maybe? Larry Doug McGarrett wrote: At 07:47 PM 07/29/2000 -0500, you wrote: Today I successfully installed Mandrake 7.1 (Maximum Linux Disk) on a 3+ gig partition that used to hold a useless Win98 installation. /snip/ . One thing that blows me away is how clean and sharp the display *looks*. The only glitch I have noticed is an occasional "quiver" -- the display sort of vibrates horizontally. Anyone know what might be causing this? Other than that, I am very impressed with this. I have the GNOME panel running (Helix I think) in conjunction with XFCE, and it is truly amazing to behold. Thank you Mandrake! Phil Is there any kind of device with a motor or a transformer in it near to your monitor? If so, move it away, or unplug it, and see if the jitters go away. --doug
Re: [newbie] looking for good apps
snip 1. A file manager of the type Windows Commander. That means I would like something that has: a) two file windows and *no* directory tree (that's why I don't use the KDE file manager) I use/like KDE so I'll leave this alone For kde you can use konquerer which does multiple panes, etc of course, the best file manager is the cli :) Larry
Re: [newbie] NIC installation trouble
As root run the inconfig command and check the info to see if it is setup correctly for options man ifconfig Larry Scott M Decker wrote: Hello, I am using mandrake 7.1 and a Xerox Corp SN2000 ISA NIC. In Drakeconf: When I use the 'Hardware configuration' (harddrake 0.5.3) my card is detected correctly, but when I 'Run Configuration Tool' (Etherdrake 0.6.2) I get 'Warning It seems that your network card is already configured'. There is no indication during boot that the interface is either good or bad. Thanks, Scott M Decker POBox 74141 Davis, Ca. 95617 http://216.102.107.40/scott/
Re: [newbie] Passwords
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently came home to discover that all my passwords are changed... I cannot log into my linux box! The samba and ftp passwords still work but to login it fails for every user. I don't think I've been hacked. why don't you think that your system could have been hacked? I tried to boot in single user mode and change root password... it said it was successfull but it did nothing. HElp! elaborate when did it do nothing? how did you change the file? Larry
Re: [Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...]
Regardless if you think using napster to aquire music is stealing, try-before buy, or whatever, IT DOESN'T MATTER! Wyclef/Rock said it best. The genie is out of the bottle and a critical mass of people are now using and familiar with mp3's. The record industry is simply going to have to adapt. Industries change no big deal. Larry Jaguar wrote: I think the whole idea behind Napster was a "try before you buy" concept. If you like songs from a CD...you should support the artist and buy the CD. Jaguar. Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah, but what about the people whos livelyhoods are earned by those songs? and what about the people who hold the copyrights to those songs. don't they deserve to have their material protected from being stolen? that IS in effect what napster does. TAKE those songs and distribute them for free. the owners of the copyright don't see a cent. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Anthony wrote: The password that you chose when you registered on Napster/Gnapster. Argh. Did not know that you had to go to their website and register! ;-( What is it they say about a little knowledge being dangerous? Thank you, Anthony... -- /\ DarkLord \/ That's ok, evidently they're going to be turned off at midnight... another victory for those poor people who have to spend their mornings deciding which Porche to drive to work today =( 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] ATI Rage Fury Maxx and bfris,quake
Goto www.lokigames.com ... I'm sure they'll have some help for setting up 3d under support then gldrivers. Glide is a proprietary api created by 3dfx. It hasn't recieved any native support in quite a while (maybe 2 years?!) with the exception of Descent 3. At any rate, your problem isn't glide. It is either 3d acceleration isn't properly setup on your system ... goto loki. Or you not specify the opengl driver for you card ... vim the q3 readme. Good luck. Larry I've attempted to install a couple of games (Quake bfris) and both tell me they need libglide2x.so. Is this related to my video card? (ATI Rage Fury Maxx) and if so where can I get this file? I'm very new to Linux so if more info is needed please let me know. Thanks in advance Steve -- ___ Linux Mandrake 7.1 (Helium) Kernel 2.2.15-4mdk --
Re: [newbie] promise controller
I'm s happy that I asked before trying to fiddle with it in Mandrake 7.0 Happy days are here again off to burn some iso images. Sir Larry the Happy Mark wrote: Yes larry, mine finally worked with no problems!! I'm really happy about it! I have 2 drives on my promise, and my CD-R and CD Rom on mainboard. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Hignight Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 11:31 AM To: Mandrake Mail List Subject: [newbie] promise controller Hello, I was wondering if the Promise ata66 controllers are recognized by the Mandrake 7.1 installation. Anyone had any success? Larry
Re: [newbie] Razer Boomslang USB Mouse in Mandrake7.0
Hello all, I rebooted today and noticed the problem isn't the mouse configuration; rather, the usb mouse module is failing to load. I'm not too familiar with Mandrake so I used the console to take a look at /lib/modules and to my surprise there are six directories ?!?!?! uname -a (or -r) revealed that the kernel being loaded was 2.2.14-1mdklinus However, I don't know the name of the usb mouse module to make sure that it was compiled. Second, I don't know of a tool in mandrake to use to load modules. Any ideas? Larry Console or terminal mode, use mouseconfig. Select USB mouse at the bottom of the list. GoodLuck Dennis/sg Hi everyone, I was wondering what settings people are using to get a Razer Boomslang usb mouse to work under Mandrake7.0. I know it will work because I had it working with Mandrake7.0 for about three weeks. Then I reinstalled because I wanted to make some changes . and now I can't remember the settings I used to get it to work. Any help would be appreciated. Larry
Re: [newbie] W, Finger Ytalk ?'s
You could try to substitute who for w which works for non-root users under the medium security install; however, it isn't quite as detailed as w ... see man who. You must be at a higher security level then medium because w works for my users. Did you try changing the permissions of w? You can either change the group setting to users (or some other group) or change w so that "others" can execute the file. See man chown and man chmod ... or for a point and click method use kfm. As a matter of security, I think I would change the group to users instead of making w executable by anyone which would include potential crackers. HTH. Larry Mark wrote: I have a few questions, was wondering if anyone could help? W only works as root. I want all users to see who is on. They can do this using Finger, but I'd rather have W work as I'm so used to it. It displays the header for W, but no username or user info. I tried changing the permissions on the utmp file, but to no avail. Finger Command does not retain info once a user logs out. So when I finger user, it says they have never logged in. I'm not sure on this one either. And finally, YTalk, it runs, but will not contact the other user that I'm trying to talk to. How do I get this to run? Is this a process that has to be started? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks Mark
[newbie] Razer Boomslang USB Mouse in Mandrake7.0
Hi everyone, I was wondering what settings people are using to get a Razer Boomslang usb mouse to work under Mandrake7.0. I know it will work because I had it working with Mandrake7.0 for about three weeks. Then I reinstalled because I wanted to make some changes . and now I can't remember the settings I used to get it to work. Any help would be appreciated. Larry
[newbie] promise controller
Hello, I was wondering if the Promise ata66 controllers are recognized by the Mandrake 7.1 installation. Anyone had any success? Larry
