Re: [newbie] Any news of MDK 9.0?
On Thursday 13 Jun 2002 2:29 pm, Linux Maniac wrote: From the state of cooker and that no there is no new of any betas, I would say it is a while off yet. Mandrake also seem to release about every 6 months or so, so I think that would make it about september before we hear any thing ( with luck it will have KDE 3.1). For 8.2 the KDE 3.0.1 packages are stable. (I am using it now) Hi All! Does any insider know news of release dates? When will there be an official release containing KDE3 and possibly Gnome 2 by then? I wander if it will be MDK 9.0? :-) Peace BAT Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /tmp
On Saturday 14 April 2001 1:35 am, you wrote: this is a dumb question : do the files in /tmp get deleted on logout ? I No, they don't. Not quite true. On install you can set up mandrake to delete all the files in /tmp on reboot. Most of the files in /tmp will just be writen over so /tmp should not grow to large 400mb seems big though, mine is 2.0mb ( whats that 800 times smaller). I would set up mandrake to delete these files on reboot., and/or do what David suggested. decided to tar them all to see what difference they made, but the tar was 400 MB (not kidding). Can I delete these files or does Mandrake (7.2) need them Sounds like you have a lot of files in /tmp. Usually, these files only need to be arouhd temporarily (hence /tmp) and can be gotten rid of. Many are sockets and other special files (kde / gnome uses those particularly) and shouldn't be deleted. But those shouldn't be taking up any dik space. Mandrake doesn't automatically delete the files in /tmp, but there is a script called 'tmpwatch' which may be on Mandrake which you can install, and set up a script in /etc/cron.daily to run, so that once a day, all files older than N days would get deleted. Al Justrabo David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- -- Mark Hillary Information is to be shared whether it wants to be free ot not.
Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this is crazy.....!!!!
From another Email list I am on. One of the list members posted it. You might want to save an .html copy of it. I don't know if M$ has been hacked, or if it's for real. G On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 00:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe this link will help you to unsub: http://www.microsoft.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pub/mskb/Q209354. asp (You're Welcome.) --- Microsof havn't been hacked becasue the url doesn't point towards them Look at the syntax. [EMAIL PROTECTED]/pub/mskb/q209354.asp with the user benn called www.microsoft.com.item=q209354 Sorry to dissapoint. Test it for you self by going to www.hwnd.net/pub/mskb/Q209354.asp Mark Hillary
[newbie] Intalling 7.2
Hi, I hope some one can help I am trying to install mdk7.2 on a P166 MMX Anyway the problem that I am having is that when the installer gets to the point where it is looking for the packages, it comes up with an error. It says that it can't parse /mnt/var/./hdlist2.cz This then stops it in its trakes. I have tried it on graphical install and the text install. I think that the prob maybe because the cd is scrated but I can't be sure. Anyway has anyone got any surrgestions on how to get round this problem. The hardware is P166 MMX 32Mb 10Gb Harddisk (primary) 2.5Gb Hardisk (secondary) Thanks Mark Hillary Registered Linux User 200755
Re: [newbie] MP# encoder?
Try Lame, it does only come in source code though so you will need to complie it. It is the best mp3 encoder for linux. You could also use ogg vorbis, which creates a bit bigger files than mp3 but they are better quality. It is also completly free, unlike mp3 which are patented. Both of these are command line programs so you will probably what a nice GUI, the one I use is called grip. It comes with mandrake 7.2. So does ogg vorbis. If you don't have 7.2 go to freshmeat an search for grip. Got to the home page, download grip, futher down the page is a list of links of encoders that work with it, both lame and ogg vorbis are listed. Hope this helps BTW I use ogg's. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "Jon Doe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 8:41 PM Subject: [newbie] MP# encoder? What is a good mp3 encoder to use?
Re: [newbie] core file
You are not being lied to. All of the files in /proc do not realy exist. This means that until you read them there is nothing there. When you do read them the kernel creats the information that is displayed on the spot. Try cat /proc/meminfo or cat /proc/mounts and the command line to see what I mean. Right now the difference with kcore is that it is a snapshot of your memory at that point. If you type cat /proc/kcore then you will see what is in you memory. Most of it will be crap but some times you will see words from programs that you have run or files that you have saved. That is why knoq reports it as 95mb because if it didn't then you would have no memory. BTW looking at kcore will contuine for ever because the memory is allways been updated. Also writing anything to kcore is a very bad idea. At best it will crash your system. Also I think that the 1mb difference is the memory taken by the kernel, but don't quote me on that. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "bascule" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 11:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] core file thanks tom, yes i have 96mb ram, it's a bit unnerving to know that file sizes can be lied about/misreported like that, is it just /dev/ entries that do this ? i know this has confused me before, i'm a gui person really and i need to know when to trust what konq is telling me! bascule On Wednesday 03 January 2001 9:30 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 03 January 2001 02:45 pm, bascule wrote: i have found a file named /dev/core which is approx 95mb (so it is claimed) which points to /proc/kcore also 95mb in size, this confuses me on 2 fronts, how could a symlink be 95mb in size and is this normal, /proc/...being a virtual filesystem - do i need to delete this file or not bascule These aren't really files. Yes, they're vitual, sometimes called pretend files. My /dev/core is 256mb. That's the amount of ram I have. I take it you have 96 ? type 'du -ch /dev/*' (try /proc/* too) and you'll see that most all the 'files' in /dev are -0- byte.The total for the whole /dev directory should only be something over 100k, mostly due to many 1/2k dir listings. Don't delete anything in either /dev or /proc
Re: [newbie]WIN vs Linux Fileserver (was Gates...)
Dosen't SAMBA work. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "James Mellema" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 2:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie]WIN vs Linux Fileserver (was Gates...) Mark Hillary wrote: Why are you using windows 98 on a file server, come on this is a job for linux. I agree with the following caveats: 1) the machine came with Win 98 and I continued to use it; 2) I have been unable to get Mandrake 7.2 to run on the machine satisfactorily; 3) I have never been able to set up a Linux fileserver that would work with Windows computers. Unfortunately, I have 2 Win systems on my network (my wife refuses to change and I have a WIN2K/WIN98 workstation to play games with.) If I could find a way -- Jim -- James Mellema, CRNA -- Linux User # 71650
Re: [newbie] Word Compatibility of - Kwork - Abiword - WP - StartOffice - etc
I've been using StarOffice spreadsheet and word. I use StarOffice and save as word97 and take it to work. I have even used word templates and they appear to be reasonable although not 100% compatibility (I guess you'd expect that). I've had limited success with StarOffice spreadsheet. I can read Excel97 quite reasonably but going the other way I loose formatting such as color and some font attributes (but it was done). I have had no joy in transferring a spreadsheet to Kword it simply just locks up Kword - Whereas Gnumeric will take it across quite well (that is exporting to EXcel97 and importing that by Kword and Gnumeric). Right i don't know if you just made a mistake when writing the email but Kword isn't a spead sheet so it doesn't have support for excel files. Try Kspead it has a filter for Ms excel 97 files. The only thing that really limits the usability and inter changeability of StarOffice files is the lack of true type font access straight out of the box. I've been trying recently to add true type to StarOffice and it is not very easy to do. Having font compatibility with Word and Excel fonts would be a bonus. I know with Mandrake you can import ttf but this makes it available only to X and not StarOfice. The Mandrake function to make ttf available to X is great but it would be much better if it could flow on into StarOffice. I Koffice programs can use all the fonts that are aviable to KDE, and a I think that KDE can use all the fonts that X has. If any one could prove me wrong with the font part I'd be extremely grateful. Nev Nev Mark Hillary
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Well it errored when I tried to install it an just rebooted the machine. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "Eugene C. Zesch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Mark Hillary wrote: Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the install. Simply not true. It ran on mine till I erased it in favor of Mandrake 6.0. Gene
Re: [newbie] USB Mouse Recognition Problems
The mandrake intaller for 7.2 picked up my usb MS intelieye mouse and cofigured the wheel an the buttons for me. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "C.T.K." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 2:03 AM Subject: [newbie] USB Mouse Recognition Problems I am having trouble getting LM 7.2 to recognize my USB Logitech MouseMan Wheel, unless I plug it into the PS/2 port. Has anyone had success getting their USB mouse recognized? If, please email me. Thanks, CTK Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1
Re: [newbie] Linuxs kills gates (was 'gates gets Linux')
Oh my god man why, why. Get it off, A. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "Daniel Anderson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Hi, I'm running it on a pentium 166,and have run it on a pentium 100. Dan Mark Hillary wrote: Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the install. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Look at this number sequence: 512k 1m 4m 8m 32m see how quickly it goes up? They are the memory requirements for windows. dos would word with 512k. windows 3.11 needed 4 meg. windows 95 needed 8 meg. Windows 98 needed 32Meg. Whistler will need so much people will have to buy more. And look at processers: dos : 8086 win3.11 : 80286 win95 : 80386 win98 : unknown win me : 166MHz thats enough that I managed to fty my laptop processor when I tried to overclock it and run windows me. It cost £25 for a new pentium 166. On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote: Romanator wrote: Revenant wrote: Clarification: Millenium is MS eking the last $$$ it can out of the dying Win9x OS. Whistler will be what Win2000 was supposed to be - the fusion of the NT line with the Win9x line. It is supposed to be a very different beast to the Win9x line, including ME... Have you noticed that the OS is getting bigger and bigger? They are pushing our resources to their limits. shrug Our resource limits are increasing. Most software aims to take maximum advantage of the hardware available. Now that the industry standard machine is a PIII, I'd be disappointed if the OS didn't have additional functionality. That said, Windows *does* seem to have more than its fair share of bloat... Society Design Mailing List http://www.egroups.com/group/Society_Design For any and all aspects of designing societies, from discussion of real- world utopian ideas to fantastic fictional or roleplaying worlds. ---Revenant [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Abiword or Kwork can open Ms Word files. Or you could just save them in RTF which can be opened by anything. I my self am at Sixform an my school have a windows NT network with word 2000 and there is not a drop of windows on my box anymore. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux I installed 98 after melting my P200MMX in the laptop. I just wanted to get it up to 166. It should have worked but I didn't know the core voltage was too high. I thought it was just a cooling problem and tried to fix it by stuffing the heatsink with thermal paste. I ended up buying a p166 with my birthday money and that will do 166 easy. So now I have bindows 98 on it. I want to put on mandrake 7.1 but the hard drive is only 1 gig. I need 98 for school. They insist I use a popular word processor and that means word. Soon as I get enough for a bigger drive its getting linux. - Original Message ----- From: Mark Hillary [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the install. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Look at this number sequence: 512k 1m 4m 8m 32m see how quickly it goes up? They are the memory requirements for windows. dos would word with 512k. windows 3.11 needed 4 meg. windows 95 needed 8 meg. Windows 98 needed 32Meg. Whistler will need so much people will have to buy more. And look at processers: dos : 8086 win3.11 : 80286 win95 : 80386 win98 : unknown win me : 166MHz thats enough that I managed to fty my laptop processor when I tried to overclock it and run windows me. It cost £25 for a new pentium 166. On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote: Romanator wrote: Revenant wrote: Clarification: Millenium is MS eking the last $$$ it can out of the dying Win9x OS. Whistler will be what Win2000 was supposed to be - the fusion of the NT line with the Win9x line. It is supposed to be a very different beast to the Win9x line, including ME... Have you noticed that the OS is getting bigger and bigger? They are pushing our resources to their limits. shrug Our resource limits are increasing. Most software aims to take maximum advantage of the hardware available. Now that the industry standard machine is a PIII, I'd be disappointed if the OS didn't have additional functionality. That said, Windows *does* seem to have more than its fair share of bloat... Society Design Mailing List http://www.egroups.com/group/Society_Design For any and all aspects of designing societies, from discussion of real- world utopian ideas to fantastic fictional or roleplaying worlds. ---Revenant [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Why are you using windows 98 on a file server, come on this is a job for linux. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "James Mellema" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 1:26 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Mark Hillary wrote: Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the install. Mark Hillary It runs just fine on the P 133 file server on my home network. Well, not fine its slow and if I run programs on it it crashes, but as a network backup/file server and storage facility it works just fine. The only program it runs routinely is SETI and it takes close to 400 hours to do a run. -- Jim -- James Mellema, CRNA -- Linux User # 71650
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the install. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Look at this number sequence: 512k 1m 4m 8m 32m see how quickly it goes up? They are the memory requirements for windows. dos would word with 512k. windows 3.11 needed 4 meg. windows 95 needed 8 meg. Windows 98 needed 32Meg. Whistler will need so much people will have to buy more. And look at processers: dos : 8086 win3.11 : 80286 win95 : 80386 win98 : unknown win me : 166MHz thats enough that I managed to fty my laptop processor when I tried to overclock it and run windows me. It cost £25 for a new pentium 166. On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote: Romanator wrote: Revenant wrote: Clarification: Millenium is MS eking the last $$$ it can out of the dying Win9x OS. Whistler will be what Win2000 was supposed to be - the fusion of the NT line with the Win9x line. It is supposed to be a very different beast to the Win9x line, including ME... Have you noticed that the OS is getting bigger and bigger? They are pushing our resources to their limits. shrug Our resource limits are increasing. Most software aims to take maximum advantage of the hardware available. Now that the industry standard machine is a PIII, I'd be disappointed if the OS didn't have additional functionality. That said, Windows *does* seem to have more than its fair share of bloat... Society Design Mailing List http://www.egroups.com/group/Society_Design For any and all aspects of designing societies, from discussion of real- world utopian ideas to fantastic fictional or roleplaying worlds. ---Revenant [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] Fast CPU
Does anyone here know why a background cann't be desplayed on KDM. Also is there a fix for it. I am useing the KDE that came with the downloaded version of Mandrake 7.2 Cheers to anyon that can help. And happy new year to you all. Mark Hillary
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
I would like to say that Mandrake properly configured my Microsoft InteiMouse, All 5 buttons and the wheel from install, not to mention the fact that it is also USB. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "David Raleigh Arnold" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 7:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux =Sridhar: I never said that Windos users didn't have bad habits. The issue here is that my idea of "bad habits" differs slightly from yours. In my opinion, a "bad habit" is something that locks you into something, whether you like it or not. -yhs I am locked into bad mouse support by 2-button mouse users. Linux mouse support is hardly configurable at all. I have seen the sawfish mouse dialog. Ridiculous. == I like the configurabliity of Linux, and it is getting better all the time. We need to have a starting point, yhs A starting point is to configure 7 logical mouse buttons. Developers should be able to assume that the user has access to at least 7 buttons. === and for simplicity this should be similar to that of other popular OSs, in order to win support. With time, however, we will break free ---yhs Never happen. = of these so-called "bad habits" and have a fully configurable OS. WMs like Enlightenment and Sawfish are doing this already. It will take a while yhs forever === for this to happen to KDE, however, since it is made to be easy for people migrating from M$-land. ---yhs The greater problem is that the qt library was intended to build windows programs as well as kde. That means that kde will *never* develop decent mouse support. Not as long as some form of W$ exists. As I said before, the gnome developers do not have that excuse. They are afraid to be different from kde. X has always used the middle mouse button, but there has been no progress, and kde even caused a step or two backward. You will notice that the middle mouse button is *finally* useful on a scroll bar *again* in netscape the way it used to be on the first x scrollbars, but the 3 button does nothing when it used to scroll backward in x. Also the 1 % 2 buttons do the same thing on the little triangles at the ends of the sb's, and the 3 button does nothing. This is progress? == OS/2 failed for a number of reasons. -yhs The most important was not ibm's mistakes, which were many, but M$ thuggish and illegal marketing, which was nothing short of extortion. They have been tried and found guilty by judge Jackson. BG is a criminal, and M$ is a criminal enterprise. BG will stay out of prison but he belongs in one. (My government is so corrupt that it will commit even acts of war and mass murder to help tyrants *if* they are rich. It is not about to drag Gates into a criminal court.) Besides diehard OS/2 fans, --yhs Not me, but right button drag is better, because you can both open progs with one click and select multiple icons in a rectangle for dragging. While some os2 progs required the middle mouse button, they also allowed 1-2 as an alternative, thus crippling good mouse support. The linux developers have learned nothing from this, and since millions of suckers have bought ms mice shouldn't the little wheels be good for something besides *scrolling ms word documents*??? If anyonne still has a 2-button mouse, for God's sake *throw it out* with your DD 5.25" diskettes! Let Santa bring you a *real* mouse. (The wheel counts if you can click it.) I use the big logitech 4 button ball, because I use two keyboards at once (one midi) and therefore I like a mouse that stays put. I tape it down, so it won't drop on the floor (anymore). It's a great thing, though it costs the earth. How many logical buttons is that? 15. I wouldn't mind a touchpad too. ;-) .daveA
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
But its such a good list. :-) Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux how do I get off this mailing list
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
I wasn't making a comment about the thread. I just don't like it when people join, get the help that they are looking for the leave not helping anyone else. Mark Hillary. Ps Anyway I like getting lots of email. Makes every say "Wow why do you get so much email". Then I can laugh. - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 6:48 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Mark Hillary wrote: But its such a good list. :-) Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux how do I get off this mailing list Hey Mark, I started this as a one of comentary on Bill Gates gets Linux. I didn't think it would get this big. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 High Energy Penguin Powered Email
Re: [newbie] Hosting Primary and Secondary
Please can you not use HTML when emailing to the list. It can be very annoying to some of us. I see that you are usign MS Outlook, you can turn HTML of by clicking Format - Plain Text or type ALT o x. Sorry I don't know how to solve your problem, but maybe some one else will. Thanks Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: Beckycould To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 8:13 PM Subject: [newbie] Hosting Primary and Secondary Hi Fellow-Penguin Newbies! When I disconnect my Primary Server from service- I want the Secondary server to automatically take over providing the websites I am Hosting. My question is: Does MY DNS Info at the Open SRS Database tell the world to look at my Primary IP and if it is "down" will traffic automatically look for my Secondary IP? I Can type in my Secondary IP and pull up the index.html of my main website. I Cannot type in a URL and see any sites come up FROM my Secondary. (when the Primary is out of service) Presently The Only way "I know Of" to have the Secondary Server take over AS the Primary is to change the DNS and IP using LINUXCONF and making the Secondary BECOME the Primary. I welcome all help I can get Thank You, Becky
Re: [newbie] possible problem with sound card
Hi, I will se if I can help. What sound card is it. Also what is the problem with it?, is it not producing any sound or what. lsmod can tell you what modules are loaded. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "Mr. Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 8:13 PM Subject: [newbie] possible problem with sound card http://www.crosswinds.net/~dopeybatman/example.jpg Ok. I found a howto that told me to run modprobe sound to see if my sound card was working corectly. So I did but it didn't have output...not exactly what I wanted so I used the wildcard and it came up with this information (see screenshot). If anyone can help me dechypher (its not really cryptic just something I don't fully understand yet) it would be most appreciated. Thanks Mr. Smith
Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?
I much prefer Lilo anyway. Like the fact that it is only one line. it fixs in with the rest of the boot proccess, Grub look out of place. Also lilo is so much easier to use. Mark Mark Weaver wrote: Ok Vic...how's this? I'm sure you've seen a Windows "blus screen of death", right? Well that's the background color. Very non-descript looking. Then in the middle of all tha blue there is a small menu, and on that menu are the choices you are presented with at boot time. If you make no choices the default will boot. It's all done from the keyboard. Frankly, I think the hype about Grub is a lot of hot air and I don't see what all the fuss is about. But...that's what Grub looks like. Nuttin fancy...just the nuts and bolts needed to start the machine. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496 On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Vic wrote: oh gee that was phreakin helpful thanks for nothing. I loooked there and already found nothing but kde screenshots. Any *useful* information now?? On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 26-Sep-00 13:44:39 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for the dumb question, I am just wondering what grub looks like and if there is a screenshot I can lookat. you can find it in the install demo at linux-mandrake.com
Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush
I think I will just stay in UK, we may Blair, and have no petrol (Got it at the monent, just waiting for november when they are going to start the blockades again) but its a nice country. "F. E. Schaper" wrote: Hey Y'all, Before I got into using Linux I used various versions of the MAC O/S and I always found it to be somewhat unstable, the one thing I did like about it was the fact that it was not nearly as dumbed down as Windows, it is easy to use, but you still need to have some kind of understanding as to what the machine is doing. Hopefully when OS/X gets all the way (it is available in server packages) out they will somehow port it to run on Intel based processor machines, and hopefully the stability problems will be corrected, without having to compromise the ease of use. If these things happen, and the work on developing a more consumer friendly Linux product continues, Microsoft could be in for quite a shock. Of course bad news for Bill is good news for the rest of us. I'll leave the Presidential debate open for others to discuss as I think that is too far off topic for this list, but I will ask you this: Do you want a President who, up until this point is most famous for approving the execution of 2 women, and for picking his nose on national television? I may have to move to Canada next year. Fritz - Original Message - From: Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 4:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, you wrote: Isnt OSX a MAC versions of Operating System. I thought it's not related to Linux. Of course there are some Linux distributions for the Mac. But what I've heard Apple is producing the next generation of O/S entitled OSX. -- It is Mac. But OS X is based on Unix. The buzz is that it is very stable and easy to use. If Mac makes the OS X Intel compatible, watch out! So, although it is not Linux, OS X is a perceived threat to Windoze. Jay "May the sound of happy music, And the lilt of Irish laughter, fill your heart with gladness, that stays forever after." "May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend." http://www.mrsnooky.com
Re: [newbie] (OT) An MS Linux webpage!
I realy think everyone should goto www.redmondlinux.com Mark Hillary
Re: Fwd: [newbie] grub Xserver4.0 Xserver3x
I don't think you do. Just make sure that you don't format you partions and things should work ok. Mark Hillary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I got no response, I'm sending this again. I didn't get an "upgrade" option when upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1, and I don't want to spend the time needed to go through this in expert mode if it can be avoided. -Gary- Subject: Re: [newbie] grub Xserver4.0 Xserver3x Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 09:24:27 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How can I boot with grub into run level 3? How can I change from 4.0 back to Xserver 3.x (I can hardly see what I'm doing!)? My son corrupted Windows 98 forcing a refresh install. This completed but screwed up Grub, making the HDD unbootable for Win or Mandrake. A DOS FDISK / MBR solved that, as it would if it had been Lilo. Since I hadn't had time to play with my LM7.1 upgrade to realize I had a problem with it, and I didn't have many programs installed in my new install of 7.0 (forced to repartition for the upgrade to complete), I installed LM7.0 again, installed RPMs, and redid the upgrade to LM7.1. I chose Xserver4.0 again not realizing the grey and blue horiz lines are not a feature but a bug which makes the screen is nearly illegible. I thought I could change this when I configured my desktop, but it's a bug apparently with my Trident Providia 9865 video card, rather than a feature. How can I change back, especially since the screen is nearly illegible? Yes, Xserver 3.x is on the drive. Thank you for helping me not to have to do this again!-Gary-
Re: [newbie] (OT) An MS Linux webpage!
I beilived it until I read about microsoft invading cuba. The gates licence had me fooled. :-) Mark Hillary "Brisco County Jr." wrote: Take a look at this page, you might be surprised! :-) http://www.mslinux.org
Re: [newbie] Yo
Why are yu on this mailing list. In alio peduclum vides in te ricinum non vides And also Erus meus elephanti corio circumtentust, non suo, neque habet plus sapientiai quam lapis. Mark Hillary Doug wrote: Jason Ashman wrote: -- Hey Linux users. I am a Microsoft convert, Windows SUCKS! With Linux you will spend more time trying to get things up and going than you ever would using windows. If you want to wast your hartbeats getting LINUX to do stuff that windows does right out of the box so be it. -- Windows-Where Do You Want To Go Today! LINUX-Applications on linux just seem 2nd rate after using Windows, It's memory hungry and slow! * Doug Eldora,IA USA--Home Of The Bad Boys! Visit My Web Page At: http://home.earthlink.net/~neptuned/index.html http://hometown.aol.com/theneptune59/index.html E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * MHS Class Of 78 Marshalltown High School-Marshalltown,IA USA *
Re: [newbie] Yo
Proof that linux has taken off it that I went into waterstones in Milton Keynes (Book shop in engalnd) and they have started up a differnet shop for computer book. There where more books based on linux, then window. I choose Linux because it is a changllane, take that away, then it is not linux. Mark Hillary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 08/25/2000 07:11:23 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Lonny Selinger/SaskPower) Subject: Re: [newbie] Yo Jason Ashman wrote: -- Hey Linux users. I am a Microsoft convert, Windows SUCKS! With Linux you will spend more time trying to get things up and going than you ever would using windows. If you want to wast your hartbeats getting LINUX to do stuff that windows does right out of the box so be it. First off its heartbeats and yes you might end up spending more time configuring your machine...main point is YOU are configuring your machine and not a sub standard non RFC following O/S. I never once thought Linux would be the "Windows" killer only becasue of a gret number of people who just are not interested as much in computers and how why they work. For those who *do* enjoy delving into their systems and having ALL the control over how things are delegated on a machine Linux has been a dream come true ... free *nix!! Those who can ... do, those who can't either whine or grab a spine and figure out why they can't, and rectify the problem with a solution either with help from others, or on their own. At one time I believed people who didn't *get* Linux and open source were just cattle running with the rest of the "well it works good enough for me" hurd ... I admit thats shallow and rude...Linux just isn't for everyone ... too bad we have to listen to them whine though =o\ if you dont like the o/s and want to complain ... maybe it would be better to join a Windows advocation mailing list and tell them...at least you might get some of the feed back you are looking for =o) -- Windows-Where Do You Want To Go Today! LINUX-Applications on linux just seem 2nd rate after using Windows, It's memory hungry and slow! Windows-Where Do You Want To Go Today! Linux -Where Do You Want To Go Tomorrow! OpenBSD-Hey Are You Guys Coming Or What? I believe I have read this tag many ways but I like this one (even though I do not have and BSD installs running at the moment) ;-) Lonny Selinger
Re: [newbie] OT Linux has on windows
The problem is the microsoft has forced comanpies to creat hardware that will only work with windows. They have not disclosed all of the API's for windows so that program made by microsoft have more functionalty than ones that are write by other companies. Funny that you mettion that linux can't preform anywhere close to windows. An inderpent company comparied windows and redhat linux in different situations, and they found that redhat is 3-4 times faster than windows. The fact is that the reson that windows can funtion straight out of the box is because all of the hardware companies have made dirvers for windows and not linux in fear that microsoft will chose not to support their hardware. In my first post I was making the comment that something with the microsoft logo on windows 98 does not support and linux does. Linux is an OS for people who want to learn how to use their computers, not to be told how to use their computers. Linux is the embodement of free ideas. no one controls linux as it is everyones. An in my opion dumbing linux shows how much of a pathic person you are, what you have been brain washed by microsoft. You go waste your money. Mark Hillary 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!! 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 - Original Message - From: Ken Wahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 1:10 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT Linux has on up on windows On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, you wrote: Now i know that this is not very usall, that is why i am going to tell you all. Right now we all know how windoze has better hardware support than linux, ^^ Nope! We all sure damn don't!! It's prob'ly apparently that way to most 'hands off' users, but actually the reverse... very unfortunately, is the case. Windoze has been the most popular OS for the desktop by far for almost 10 years now. Among the pros and cons of this history, particularly in the last few years, is that hardware has been foisted on the unaware 'computing public' that is 'win' hardware. It's not hard for windoze to 'better' support hardware, when the hardware is designed solely for, or at least slanted towards Windoze, and the manufacturers withhold or provide limited support for any other OS. Most all computer users that vary from this 'win' computer/ hardware situation, eg, Linux users, soon realize not all hardware is created equal. First baptism is they find out their modem is not really a modem, but just a board that has a place to stick a phone line into. _IF_ you use it with windoze. Next most familiar plight is they find out they don't really have a printer, it only works with Windoze. What they prob'ly don't even realize, is that their super duper 900mhz Intel Inside, brand new ready made ... runs like a homebuilt 450, since the cpu/cache/ram/drives are takin on the work load that 'win' hardware shirks and dumps on 'em. The problem goes a lot deeper than this. With the popularity, advent, foisted upon ... however you see it... of the 'onboard', 'builtin' video/sound/modem motherboards (absolute junk IMO), users of OS's other than Micro$h!+, soon find out that the manufacturer's of this cr@p, either only marginally support, provide only binary support (eg, Nvidia), or refuse to support any other OS but ... you guessed it, Winblows. According to the DOJ, this has been going on because of illegal arm twisting by M$. It's real hard (I don't know why they bother) for Linux, BSD, etc., volunteers to try and write drivers for this sub standard 'win' cr@p, when the manufacturers won't/don't cooperate. This is the real injustice M$ has caused. __Not flimsy software... flimsy hardware___ My point: Windoze is responsible for lousy hardware, and lousy hardware support, even by their own products. OS's like Linux and BSD are doin a Herculean job, IMO, to do as well as they do which is often better than Windoze or NT can ...amazing The result is ALL desktop computer users loose and loose big. Marginal, junk hardware is dumped on the computing public. BUT, HEY!, "it works great with Windoze!" See your point. I'll be looking to do some hardware
Re: [newbie]
The Usb support in the 2.2 kernels is a bit here and there. It is only beta.
Where as the Usb support for the 2.4 kernels in a lot better even though those
kernels are considerd to be beta them selves. i think that it would be best to go
and download the latest 2.4 test kernel, which I think is 2.4.0-test6. How that
works. (it is about 20mb).
Mark Hillary
Andrew Collington wrote:
Hi there,
I have Mandrake 7.1 and I was trying to recompile the kernel so that I could
use my 3com ethernet card. Whilst I was in the config panel (using make
xconfig) I also set on the USB drivers because I have a USB scanner, printer
and desktop camera.
However, when trying to compile with the USB support set to Y, I got
these errors and compiling stopped:
// snip
make -C usb
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.15/drivers/usb'
make all_targets
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.15/drivers/usb'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.15/include -Wall -Wstrict-
prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O3 -
fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -
mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -m486 -
malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -c -o
devio.o devio.c
devio.c: In function `async_removepending':
devio.c:273: warning: unused variable `ps'
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:760: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `add'
make[3]: *** [devio.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.15/drivers/usb'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.15/drivers/usb'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_usb] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.15/drivers'
make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
So I tried turning the USB support to M(odule) and although the
compiliation got further I still got a compiling error which stopped the
compiling. These errors are as shown:
//snip
usb-uhci-debug.h:95: warning: `uhci_show_queue' defined but not used
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.15/include -Wall -Wstrict-
prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O3 -
fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -
mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -m486 -
malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -DMODULE -
DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.2.15/include/linux/modversions.h
-DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c usb.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.15/include -Wall -Wstrict-
prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O3 -
fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -
mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -m486 -
malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -DMODULE -
DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.2.15/include/linux/modversions.h
-c -o usb-debug.o usb-debug.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.15/include -Wall -Wstrict-
prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O3 -
fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -
mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -m486 -
malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -DMODULE -
DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.2.15/include/linux/modversions.h
-c -o usb-core.o usb-core.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.15/include -Wall -Wstrict-
prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O3 -
fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -
mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -m486 -
malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -DMODULE -
DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.2.15/include/linux/modversions.h
-c -o hub.o hub.c
hub.c:28: warning: `hub_event_lock' defined but not used
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.15/include -Wall -Wstrict-
prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O3 -
fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -
mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -m486 -
malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -DMODULE -
DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.2.15/include/linux/modversions.h
-c -o devio.o devio.c
devio.c: In function `async_removepending':
devio.c:273: warning: unused variable `ps'
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:760: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `add'
make[2]: *** [devio.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.15/drivers/usb'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_usb] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.15/drivers'
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
Now I cannot recompile my kernel. Can anyone tell me what is happening
and what I can do to fix it? I want to keep USB support because of my
devices, but if I really can't have
Re: [newbie] Lost passwords
Just to let every one know the way to change the root password if you forget it (or for some other reason) is to at the the LILO (I use LILO becuase it is better, I think) prompt type linux 1 then run 'passwd' and change any of the passwords on the system. You realy don't want people doning this so in the file /etc/lilo.conf add the following lines restricted password=somepassword then because this file is world readable ,which means any unprivliged user can change it, at the command line type chown root.root /etc/conf chmod 600 /etc/lilo.conf Beware, once you use these precautions, if you forget you root password or you root password, you will have no option but to reinstall. Also I think it is a good idea to turn the bios password on and set the boot sequence to C, CDROM, A so that a floppy can not be used to boot your system. Mark Hillary Gary wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Does anyone know how to find out what a lost password is? I don't think you can, as a security precation. You just have to set a new password. The way Linux is setup (unless changed by hand) passwords are shadowed and encrypted with SH-5, so there absolutely is no way to find out what the password is. Best is to over write as previously mentioned. Really, anybody with access to your box can change the superuser (root) passwd. It is not difficult! -- Best regards, Gary
Re: [newbie] 2.2.16 Kernal Update
Could you list the error messages. Did you get the update from mandrake or download the source and complie it your self. Mark Hillary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I updated my kernal to 2.2.16 from 2.2.15 and I got a bunch of errors on the next startup. Did anyone else get a bunch of errors and could they tell me how to fix them? Thanks in advance. ~Lance
Re: [newbie] i486 install problem
Is it just me. All of the mandrake packages have been complied for a pentium class cpu, and there for would not work on a 486. I think you should give up and try a differnet distro or get a faster P.c Mark Hillary Adam wrote: from my experience with "signal 11" it's usually some sort of hardware conflict. I can't remember any further information besides that, but I hope just knowing it may be a hardware conflict will help. bascule wrote: i have finally managed to get a copy of the i486 iso that passes the md5sum, but everytime i try to install it on my 486 i get an error: install exited abnormally - recieved signal 11... is 'signal 11' just a kill signal or does it tell me anything about what might have happened. i have made a cd of the iso and tried to install that way and also i have set up the cd as an nfs mount and tried that (thanks to all those who helped me out a while ago with networking questions!) doing an altf3 after the install stops shows the last line of that console as *removing device file /proc alt f4 gives (6)Adding Swap: 25196k swap space (priority -1) alt f5 gives Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done the install fails after choosing the packages and letting the install get on with formatting etc. i think i have a hardware prob but i'm not sure where (an install of win95 went ok!) there is an outside chance that i did not burn the cd right but i only say this because depite burning such things for a while i noticed that unlike the i586 cd (a pressed one) the long filenames on the i486 cd are only completely displayed on my other mandrake box, in win98 they are shortened which the i586 names aren't - does this mean a mistake in burning? sorry to ramble on a bit but this is frustrating! any ideas? bascule p.s. anyone care to correspond direct who knows about staroffice5.1 and macros?
Re: [newbie] Lost passwords
Log on as root, and use one of the usermangement apps. (can't remember what they are called). On 7 they should be in gnome, X apps bit (that is if you are using Kde). From there you can delte users, change there passwords and stuff like that. Mark Hillary Root is all powerfull, I am Root, beware! Dennis Myers wrote: Does anyone know how to find out what a lost password is? Also how do you delete a user name? -- Dennis - A registered Linux user #180842
[newbie] OT Linux has on up on windows
Now i know that this is not very usall, that is why i am going to tell you all. Right now we all know how windoze has better hardware support than linux, well have something to tell you. When i install windoze on my p.c I have to use the keyboard for every thing, because it does not see my mouse. Mandrake 7.1 does see my mouse at setup. WOW!! I have the microsoft inteleye mouse which is usb. (youm know the £50 one with 5 buttons and a little laser) So yes linux is wining, Mark Hillary
Re: [newbie] KDE directory
Don't send html. it is crap. crap. crap.crap. crap. Did I mention it is crap. it is for web pages not emails. Mark Hillary BTW the kde directory is refering to either the .kde directory in your home directiory. Or the /usr directory. (Think it is the first, depends on the error message. Would be nice if you copyied it out exactly so we new what you where talking about.) Michael Khachiki wrote: Dear Anyone who knows Linux better than me (almost very one)I have installed Kdevlope v1.0 in my with my mandrake but when I go to the C/C++ document section of the program I get an error message asking me to download a tar file and put it in my KDE directory??What I don't understand is WHICH KDE directory is it talking about???Can anyone help?Regards
Re: [newbie] Xfree4.0 or 3.6.6 Switching Prob!!!
I think that X 4.0 writes over x 3.3.6 so you may have a prob using both on the same system. I my be wrong, someone will correctr me, but i think it is near on in possible, plus there is no reson to use 3.3.6 and 4 at the same time, just use the one that supoorts you card the best. Mark Hillary TriOptimum wrote: How can i tell linux to use the xfree4.0 or the xfree3.6.6? How can i switch between them? Is there a file where it stores what xfree to load after the boot sequence?
Re: [newbie]
For the first questtion, find someone with the disk I sure they could send you the file (ask at irc.linux.com [you can even connect if you are useing win]). For the second one type man mount at the command line (Use Eterm it is call). That sould give you the information you need. BTW read the HOW-TO's in the /usr/doc directory, may help you a bit when having a problem. Mark Hillary "Samaron Fashion (Pvt.) Ltd." wrote: I want a file named "tetex-do.rpm" of Linux-Mandrake 6.1 or Linux-Mandrake 6.5. Please give me advice how I download the file. In the time of install Linux-Mandrake 6.1 it want to "mount point" of hard disk. I don't know about "mount point". Please advice how I "mount point" of hard disk. Your nice co-operation will be highly appreciated. Warm regards. Md. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie]
The Nvidia Geforce GTS2 is about the best card you can get. (and not to much trouble to set up). if you get one, go to www.evil3d.net and look for an artical by avatar (think that is his name), it will tell you what you need to do to set them up for mandrake 7.0 ,and 7.1 (yes the setup is different). Mark Hillary NVIDIA IS BEST!!! Dacia and AzureRose wrote: 3dfx cards are great! I had 2 voodoo2's in my old linux box. I had the details levels set to a medium range (eye candy but not AMAZING) in quake3 and got 60-70 fps on small maps, 40-50 on large or very detailed maps. I now have a voodoo5 that I am still trying to configure in linux. I'll let you know what it is like when I get it going. I've found that you can use its FSAA in almost any game that isn't brand spankin' new to great affect. I mean that games without any jaggies or pixel popping or crawlies are amazing. I can't stand to look at my old machine now. Bottom line is if your going for straight frames per second you'll probably want a geforce2 (ultra? if you've got 400 USD) but, if you are willing to trade off a bit of performance for sheer smooth beauty you might want to go for the voodoo5. 3dfx also does quite a bit to support the linux community too. Dacia --- Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Andrew Brown wrote: At long last i am attempting to use linux as my desktop for just about everythin. One off the final parts of this decision was the porting off specific games to linux. My question is, through research i have come to the conclusion that the best 3d card for me to get fo gaming purposes( quake 3, Unreal tournament) for my linux box would be one from 3dfx inc., could anyone comment on this/give a personal prespective or give personal experience on linux and 3d cards? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you Get something from Nvidia. They seem to support the Linux community better than just about anyone else. Voodoo is okay, Matrox is pretty cool, Nvidia is better *right now*. ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ I love NVIDIA with 32MB. of video RAM. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Penguin Powered E-mail __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] OT A mag that realy helps newbies
Glad some read my email. Mark Hillary I like some ones idea about the off topic thing so that is wht OT is in the subject bar. Larry Hignight wrote: Mark Hillary wrote: For everyone out there, a great mag to get is linuxformat, it has articals for newbies and experts alike. So I reommend getting it. Go to the web site at www.linuxformat.co.uk Mark Hillary I like it :) -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 - 11:30pm up 5 days, 7:38, 5 users, load average: 0.09, 0.14, 0.10 -
Re: [newbie] Updating kernel w/ Mandrake Updater
In Mandrake 7.1 there are i think all of the how-to from the linux-doc site. In there is one from the kernel, It is very good, read it. All things in Linux need prepeation. If you don't you mess it all up. (even though that it fun) Also go to www.linuxnewbie.org - very good. Mark Hillary. "Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root" wrote: Mark Hillary wrote: Come on updating the kernel is not has hard as everyone makes out. (I find it easyier that installing programs). There are several resons to. The kernel that comes with mandrake haas about everything turned on, so you can have a faster system by compling only what you need to. Also because every thing is turned on all of the moduals take up space. RECOMPLIE to get a faster machine and save space. (not to mention the bug fixes, in newer versions) Well, it may not be a problem to you, but it is the cause of many headaches to me. The last few times I've tried upgrading from 2.2.14 to 2.4.0-test5 I've hit the black screen of death straight after the "loading" bit. Regards, Ozz.
Re: [newbie] hello
I would recommend getting one of the books for linux programing (trust me there are loads). Also there sould be some documention in the /usr/doc folder on you system. Mark Hillary P.S make sure you chose the development class of install. Adam Haley wrote: Hey I just joined this group because I just bought my first version of linux (mandrake 7.1)..I don't know to much about it yet so I don't want to bug you all with stupid little questions :) but I was wondering.. I bought this mainly to program in (in C) can someone kinda walk me through how to write,compile, and link it? I know that could end up being a lengthy answer but if you can help me I would appreciate it :) Adam "the new linux guy" __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] usb backportpatch
Just check if it is installed by typing man patch. If it si not start up rpmdrake and search for a package named patch and install it. BTW it is a console program and not part of the bash shell. Hope this helps Mark Hillary Ed Santiago wrote: I have tried to install the backport patch usb-2.4.0-test2-pre2-for-2.2.16-v3.diff.gz when I use the patch command in the terminal it says that it is not a recognized command. Is thepatchcommand not a command in the bash shell? Ed
Re: [newbie] SB Live drivers
Right on all f this about sounddrake and sblives. What I have figured is that SBlives are usally setupfine out of the box, when you install. Now if you start harddrake and go to sound drake, it messes up the /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer files so it no longer works. In mandrake 7.1 there is another sound setup utilty called sndconfig. This has on problem with SBLive cards. The New version of Harddrake corrects the problem with the one that is in the Box. Just my bit. Mark Hillary philomena wrote: hi, it was suggested to me by the mandrake guy who is responsible for hardDrake/sounddrake (alexandre dussart) that the version of sounddrake released with 7.1 did not handle SBLive! cards very well, and to downlaod the more current version from the hardDrake site. I did that, which due to dependancies required updates of a few more packages. After the updates it all worked fine. This doesn't explain why some people have no trouble at all with SBLive! cards right out of the box. Right now, on the hardDrake site, there is a brand new version of that tool which incorporates sound and ethernet card setup, so soundrake and etherdrake are becoming obsolete. I haven't tried this new hardDrake yet, so I can't put in my .02 about the experience. cheers, philomena Dennis wrote: CL Live + non cuppermine CPU = LuckCL Live + cuppermine CPU = No Luck This is what I have figured out so far.I have both, and all possible swapping plus install/reinstall/update done, the result is still the same. Any help please?Dennis.sg - Original Message - From: gilligan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 30 July, 2000 8:32 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] SB Live drivers Kim White wrote: I have a sound blaster live value edition and it works great under LM7.1. I ran sndconfig and all ran great. From what I've read, some people have great luck and others no luck at all. Sorry I can't help more but I'm a new-bie 100%. Drivers must be intergal to the kernal(emu101k I think). Your mileage may vary. Hi all Where can I get Creative Live Value Drivers for Mandrake 7.1, or is there a trick to get it working.? Regards Kim Registered Linux User #: 183701
Re: [newbie] I made a mistake
you want to get rid of the one you put in to config file. because you windows partion is not on hda1, but is on hda. The bit of windows that boots is right at the start of the drive. BTW if you do what John siad, you will know longer be able to start linux. The thing to do is read the help, that would be installed on your pc. It is on the Doc section, it will tell you how to reconfig Grub. Personal I use lilo as it is a lot easier to use. Mark Hillary "John I. Azeke" wrote: Try doing an c:fdisk /mbr after booting your system into DOS with your Windows Startup disk. -Original Message- From: Liangyu Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] I made a mistake Hi, I installed Mandrake 7.1 under windows 98 and after installation, Grub provided a menu to choose operating system, Linux and windows. It worked well. Later, I wanted to set windows to be default OS, So in DrakeConf-DrakeBoot, I set the boot device from hda to hda1. Now I know I should not set in this way, but I got a problem: The machine can only start linux, not windows even though the windows option is still in the Grub menu and even though I set the boot device back to hda. I am quite new to the Linux world and don't know how to get windows back, Could someone help me out? Liangyu
Re: [newbie] supermount question
Supermount makes using Cd and other removable data transparant. So no you do not need unmount for CD, just press eject on your CD player. To enable supermount (if it is not working), type at the promt supermount enable. If you do in future complie a new kernel, go and get the latest version from www.geocities.com/SilconValley/Lab/8144/supermount.html Mark Hillary Hope this helps
