Re: [newbie] XFree86 on 7.2 with s3virge/mx freezes Toshiba 490CDT system totally
I tried this and it didnt work. My display still whites out freezing my system totally. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/11/2000 22:00:18 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [newbie] XFree86 on 7.2 with s3virge/mx freezes system totally I am running mandrake7.2 on a compaq armada 7800. I have the same video card, and I had the same thing happen as well Here is the pertinent code...from my 86config. Section "Device" Identifier "S3 ViRGE/MX (generic)" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" # Option "fast_dram" # Option "pci_retry" VideoRam4096 # Clock lines #Option"sw_cursor" #here are lines that fixed it, my source wasnt sure #which command would work on Mandrake, and I've never #taken the time to find out. ) one of the Xaccels #will hopefully work for ya.. Option "noaccel" Option "no_accel" Option "power_saver" EndSection john -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 Released
What with SSL and AIM being bust, this has to count as beta software. Mozilla is the open source project on which Netscape 6 is based. I regularly download Mozilla nightly builds and read the comments on the latest builds on mozillazine.org and did not get the impression that Mozilla was ready to make a full release. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 15/11/2000 09:40:02 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 Released AIM in Netscape 6 is broke you can't log in On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Anthony wrote: FYI: Netscape 6 Final was released today (November 14). It is no longer in Beta, and is now the officially supported current browser of Netscape. You can download it here: http://home.netscape.com/browsers/6/index.html New improvement include skins/themes, integrated AIM (yes, there is now an official AIM client for Linux), "My Sidebar" (some people actually do like it amazingly enough), best web standards support of any browser, fairly customizable, and a ton of new improvements over Netscape 4.x. It's a lot faster than the last beta I downloaded, and it seems stable. The only major problem that I've had with it is that it crashes when I try to reach a Secure site (SSL). I'm not sure why, or if it's just my machine. But other than that, I've been impressed by it, and it's a TON better than Netscape 4.x. Happy Downloading! -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit. -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
[newbie] Let the EC know what you think about software patents]
Original Message Subject: Let the EC know what you think about software patents Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:59:03 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Sir, Dear Madam, The European Commission is currently researching the economic impact of software patents. For quite obvious reasons, many patent attorneys and IP lawyers who earn money through the patent system are currently lobbying the European Commission in favor of a broad extension of the patent system to software, business methods, intellectual methods, etc. Unless you express your own opinion, only their opinion will be taken into account in the decision process, whatever the consequences on your business, whatever the consequences on innovation. It is therefore very important and urgent, if you consider software patents to be more harmful than useful, to send your opinion by email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] as soon as possible and, in any case, before December 15th, 2000. You can write in the official language of any member country of the European Union. Your email will then be forwarded to the European Commission and published on the EuroLinux Web in order to make sure that your point of view is taken into consideration: http://petition.eurolinux.org/consultation There is currently a consensus among economists on the fact that software patents tend to stifle innovation and harm small and medium enterprises because they create tremendous juridical uncertainty which only benefits to patent attorneys and lawyers. There is also a consensus among patent attorneys on the fact that patents on business methods are just a kind of software patents and that it is impossible to ban business method patents once software patents become legal. Please write serious (but not necessarily long) emails, with a consistent analysis based on economics, technology or real world examples from your everyday practice. Here are a few advice for your email to reach maximal impact within the European Commission: 1- NO POLITICS - Do not include in your emails any political analysis. Otherwise, certain civil servants at the European Commission will pretend that you are politically biased and claim that your arguments are irrelevant. 2- FREE MARKET RHETORICS - Use rhetorics based on free market, competition, innovation, entrepreneurship, SMEs and property, just as if you were the chief of the federation of enterprises in your country. EuroLinux has experienced that "free market economy" is currently the only common language which most civil servants at the European Commission understand. In order to let them understand your point of view and take it into account, it is compulsory to speak their language. Arguments based on epistemology, ethics or history are acceptable but have in general no positive impact on the European Commission because only few people will understand them. 3- DAVOS COMPATIBLE - Imagine that you are introducing your point of view at the Davos Economic Forum in front of CEOs who will only listen to you if your arguments mean more profits to them. Incidentally, many Commissioners at the European Commission used to be members of the steering committee of the Davos Economic Forum. 4- CONSENSUS AMONG ECONOMISTS - Always mention that there is a consensus among economists on the fact that software patents harm innovation. Please understand that our advice does not represent any political point of view of the EuroLinux Alliance and is strictly designed at helping you to present your arguments in such way that they are going to be taken into account by the European Commission. For more information on software patents, please read our knowledge database and follow the links: http://petition.eurolinux.org/consultation http://petition.eurolinux.org/pr/pr5.html If you need inspiration to write your own statement, you may also access our statements database where 100 European companies have already published position statements: http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements Best regards, EuroLinux Alliance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://petition.eurolinux.org -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc.
Re: [newbie] RPM Problems
You are using RPMs that were intended to be used with an older version of RPM than the one you have. I would suggest using the --nodeps and --force flags for the install if a test run of doing the rpm indicates that there are no other unsatisfied dependencies [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 11:20:08 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] RPM Problems Hi there, I am fairly new to Mandrake Linux and rpm's in general. I am experiencing a peculiar problem when trying to install some rpm's. I get the following errors (dependency failures) and I am unsure of how I can solve this problem. rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) = 4.0-1 is needed by .. rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) = 3.0.4-1 is needed by This has now occurred on a couple of different rpms' I have mandrake 7.1 installed on a PIII 550 with 128M RAM Any help on this would be appreciated. - Shannon -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Shannon Doyle http://www.bigblue.net.au -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Email is packaged by intellectual weight, not volume. Some settling of contents may have occurred during transmission. -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: [newbie] (...) XF86Setup / xf86config problem
Heavy. We need more detail. Copy us /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XErrorDB which gives the details of the errors. You look in /usr/X11R6/bin and there is something like Xconfigurator or Xfsetup or something along those lines that you can execute from the command line that will get you sorted without needing to go into X. The other thing you can do is restore the backup of XF86Config you made before you knackered it 8) [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 11:18:05 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] (...) XF86Setup / xf86config problem I know that XF86Setup is case sensitive but the problem I have is with xf86config. this one IN NOT case sensitive and the "command not found" errors he gives me are internal (i think) it's not the same thing has when you write some shit on the console and he says "command not found" but this one gives me a list of 5 or 6 lines saying something like this: Modeselect (...) : command not found (other things) (...): command not found how can I restore the original xf86config to at least running him properly? -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: [newbie] RE: [Toshiba CDROM XM6102B
One option is to copy the contents of the CD onto your windows partition and then boot an install floppy, hit F1 for options and do linux all which will allow you to choose your installation medium of choice which in your case is a local FAT (windows) HDD partition [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 13:00:12 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] RE: [Toshiba CDROM XM6102B Hello, I am trying to install Mandrake 7.2 in an old Pentium 200 MMX with a Toshiba CDROM XM6102B, but the installer doesn't recognized this CDROM model; it gives me question about if it is an IDE or SCSI CDROM, and doesn't recognized it as IDE, but it seems that there is not any special module for this old CDROM. Could anybody help me? Thanks so much Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: [newbie] Re: (...) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)?
some clever grepping for regexps recommended [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 14:08:06 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] Re: (...) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)? I dont think so... I tried: xconfigurator XConfigurator Xconfigurator xConfigurator xconfig Xconfig XConfig xconf Xconf XConf nothing works... anyone got any idead?? - Original Message - From: "Lewis Bishop" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 1:23 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] (...) X is getting hard to get!! (setuptool???) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)? -Original Message- From: Krulo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 November 2000 12:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] (...) X is getting hard to get!! (setuptool???) well here is my situation: I'm under a PI 120, 81Mb RAM, Mandrake 7.1 I already made it to setup sound card and ethernet but now the only thing that I could do before (configuring X) is making me MAD! this is what I get from some commands in the console: XConfigurator bash: XConfigurator : command not found startx Fatal Server error: No valid modes found. xf86config /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : modeline : command not found /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : mode : command not found /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : endmode : command not found setuptool bash: setuptool : command not found but my XF86Setup works! but when I try any of the combinations for the modes I always get a "no valid mode found" running "startx". isn't there any autoprobe or something like that to detect my card and valid modes 4 it? tx -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: [newbie] I cant configure my 3dfx card
Arguably in your case Red Hat appears to be "better"... [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 15:42:04 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] I cant configure my 3dfx card I have a voodoo 5 5500, pentium II 266, 128mb ram, with mandrake 7.0. When I installed Red Hat 7.0 it automatically detected my voodoo 5 5500 but a friend told me that mandrake 7.0 was better then I installed mandrake 7.0 but it didn't detect my 3dfx card. What should I do? -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: [newbie] Terminalogy
CPUs. A pentium is an i (i.e. Intel) 586. A Pentium II or such is an i686. A Pentium III or a Duron is (I think) an i 786 [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 17:39:44 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] Terminalogy Hello, All. Just a quick question...Please don't kill me. What does i386, i486, i586 refer to? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: [newbie] free used disk space
du and df. They both have good manpages explaining how to use them There are also GUI versions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 17:41:07 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] free used disk space How do I determine free used disk space? Thanks, Don a novice Linux, but loving it user _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: [newbie] Problemo
What version of Linux-Mandrake are u running? [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/11/2000 10:13:26 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] Problemo -- Here is my problem... In KDE and Gnome, whenever I run kppp I can't access anything else. Once connected to the net I can't open any other programs unless they have been already opened before kppp is finished dialing. How do I remedy this, it really is a pain to have to constantly run programs from the terminal. 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 -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: [newbie] X on 7.2 and Toshiba490CDT
Thanks. 3.3.6 works fine with me (I had been hoping to see what 4.0.1 was like on this baby but its not important). During an install of 7.2 how do I choose to go with 3.3.6 instead of 4.0.1? Will going into expert mode do it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/11/2000 14:36:04 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [newbie] X on 7.2 and Toshiba490CDT On Friday 10 November 2000 03:15 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geesh, thanks. Embarrasing. And yes it's 4.0.1. Still not working you'll need to look into exactly what video card or chip you have. If it's onboard (ie, built into the motherboard) it might not be the same chipset as those on a video card). It might be better supported by XF-3.3.x -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay On Thursday 09 November 2000 11:47 am, Paul wrote: I am wondering would the install program have put XFree86v4.x.x on or v3.3.6 -- in a console type 'XFree86 -version', and it will tell you which XF you're currently runnin -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: [newbie] accelerated 3d video card
Look at arstechnica.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/11/2000 16:36:56 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] accelerated 3d video card I would like a recomendation of a good accelerated 3d video card. thanks in advance Agustin -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
[newbie] X on 7.2 and Toshiba490CDT
I have done a custom install of 7.2 on my Toshiba 490CDT. The graphical install works perfectly - the resolution is correct for my LCD, going to the edge of the panel in 800x600. When I reboot and X starts the display justs whites out and the system freezes totally - even the caps lock light does not respond. I am wondering would the install program have put XFree86v4.x.x on or v3.3.6 -- I have XF86Config files that I know work with 3.3.6 and have tried these - modified so that the fonts and pointers sections conform to the Mandrake requirement -- but still no joy and exactly the same result. Is there a log file that would help (if so where is it?) and would Superprobe help? -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
[newbie] login as root goes in as Icewm even if I choose KDE
in 7.2, login as root results in Icewm popping up even if I choose KDE. What gives? -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
