Re: [newbie] Toshiba and video woes
Hi Mark, I am a little behind you but maybe I can help. I have a Toshiba Satellite 4090 XDVD notebook with Win2000 and LM 7.0 installed. I also had some problems configuring my video card. My computer has a Trident Cyber 9525 Graphic Adapter which is not available. I chose the closest option (Trident Cyber Generic)... It would fail the test with my prefered resolution of 1024x768 so I chose a lower resolution... which passed the test... After completing the Linux instalation, under the X environment, I went back to Dragconfig and redefined my video card to the proper resolution and it works fine. I have no complains... My advice is to try different resolutions, frequencies, etc. until you arrive to one that passes the test. After finishing the instalation try modifying it later from the X environment to the resolution you want (of course knowing your computer can handle it). I hope this can help you. By the way my Toshiba works fine with Linux, even the winmodem. I found useful guides for installing Linux on a Toshiba Satellite 4090 XDVD at http://hartic.sssup.it/~lamastra/ (could be of help) Best luck, Ricardo At 12:16 PM 15/10/2000 +0100, you wrote: Greetings all I am trying to install 7.1 onto a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200 laptop. 6Gb HDD, 64Mb RAM. Everything goes smoothly untill I try to configure the video card. My laptop has a S3 mobilesavage chip which is not listed on the available choices. Using the generic chipset only produces a 640 x 640 display which is far too large for the notebook screen. I rteally need 800 x 600 minimum. Has anyone done a similar installation sucessfully, if so which monitor, chipset and resolution settings were used. Thanks and kind regards Mark Annandale
[newbie] glimpse files???
Hi friends, Bothering again! I am trying to learn about using C++ with KDevelop of Linux Mandrake 7.0. During the installation it tells me that I am missing the glimpse and glimpseindex files. Where can I find them? I installed my system as a normal user but now have run the upgrade to Developer and also chosen all the programs in the expert mode corresponding to Expert, still I don't get the files. I would rather get the files without reinstalling as Developer. Would installing as Developer give me the missing files? What other possibilities exists? Thanks for all the help! Have a nice day! Ricardo
Re: [newbie] Formating IDE HD
Thanks Doug, At 01:30 PM 28/09/2000 -0400, you wrote: Find a distro that has the old text installation on it (RH 5.2, for instance) and run that. When you get to the option for fdisk, delete any and all existing partitions of size or type. Don't forget to "save" the results. You should then see that there is the whole disk available to partition. I have seen instances where it was next to impossible to get rid of NT, but Linux's fdisk will do it. (If you don't have an old distro, I _think_ that tomsrtbt has fdisk on it, and you can run that from a floppy.) Let the group know if this works. --doug, wa2say At 11:31 PM 09/27/2000 +0200, you 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.
[newbie] Help: How to share StarOffice 5.1
I would like to share StarOffice 5.1. I am working with Mandrake 7.0 and would like to have StarOffice 5.1 available for root, Myself, and visits users. Before, I was able to install StarOffice from Myself user under the directory home/Myself/Office51/ and could use it with root and Myself but when I added the visits user it wouldn't work. I have installed it as root again in the usr/lib/Office51 directory but I get the following error when logged as Myself or visits. The program only works with root user. the error is (repeated for x-smf, x-sdraw, x-sds, x-swriter, x-sgl, x-sda) " Could not find mime type " " application/x-scale " " in usr/share/applnk/Star Office/StarOffice.kdelnk " I do have this files as usr/lib/Office51/kde/mimelnk/application/x-sdf.kdelnk etc., etc., I would greatly appreciate any help with this (probably very simple) problem. Cheers and have a nice day! Ricardo
RE: [newbie] Help: How to share StarOffice 5.1
¡Gracias Francisco Alcaraz! Your adviced worked well. The crucial step was installing StarOffice from root with ./setup /net and then doing a final setup from each user... Once again many thanks! Have a nice day. Ricardo At 12:04 PM 08/10/2000 +0200, you wrote: Ricardo, as root you must install StarOffice in the next way: ./setup /net And then you must install user by user only the necesary files in each home directory (start as a determinated user, go to the Office/program directory and type ./setup; select the appropiate options -more o less 1,4 Mb in harddrive- Office will ask you for the user dates and in few seconds it will install all the necessary files). To run Staroffice as roo you will need also made the second installation for this superuser. I hope this help Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Ricardo Zevallos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Domingo, Octubre 8, 2000 11:18 am Asunto: [newbie] Help: How to share StarOffice 5.1 I would like to share StarOffice 5.1. I am working with Mandrake 7.0 and would like to have StarOffice 5.1 available for root, Myself, and visitsusers. Before, I was able to install StarOffice from Myself user under the directory home/Myself/Office51/ and could use it with root and Myself but when I added the visits user it wouldn't work. I have installed it as root again in the usr/lib/Office51 directory but I get the following error when logged as Myself or visits. The program only works with root user. the error is (repeated for x-smf, x-sdraw, x-sds, x-swriter, x-sgl, x-sda) " Could not find mime type " " application/x-scale " " in usr/shar I do have this files as usr/lib/Office51/kde/mimeln I would greatly appreciate any help with this (probably very simple) problem. Cheers and have a nice day! Ricardo
[newbie] Formating IDE HD
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.
