[newbie] X Bloating...
I have trouble running my work PC for more than 12 hours without a reboot. Using system guard I can see that over time the memory for the X server just grows and grows until all RAM and Swap space are gone followed by a total lockup as the OS has no room to think. Disabling Multiple Wallpapers for the desktop it buys me a few extra hours. Leaving my PC logged in overnight to share my VMWare'd NT4 box guarantees a crash before midnight. Staying logged in without VMWare on means a crash sometime before I get to work in the morning. Logging out completely overnight means I'll have a crash sometime around noon the following day. Even as I write this email my X Server has doubled its memory usage. I don't have this problem at home, both PCs are running LM8.1 final release with Textstar object-prelinked KDE 2.2.1. The biggest difference between the two is my home PC runs on an ATI Radeon and the work PC is using a Matrox G450. Who's got suggestions on how to track down what is bloating X? Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.1 on promise ATA100 controller
On October 5, 2001 01:26 pm, quaylar wrote: hiho ppl ! is someone out there having the same problem i have ?: installing mandrake 8.1 on the onboard promise ATA100 controller of motherboard ASUS A7V KT133). i have a 30 gig IBM hd on the primary promise controller jumpered as slave (i already tried master) and i´m getting L 01 01 01 01 etc. at starting of LILO... according to the lilo users guide this would occur when the bios doesnt recognize the drive or when theres a geometry mismatch. so i tried setting the disk=/bios=/sectors, cylinders, heads= options in my lilo.conf, but all to no avail is there any special linux driver for the promise controller ? any hints ? I have the same controller and I have had that problem. You've got two hard drives that have been marked down as the bootable drive and I'm not just about where LILO is installed. For example, I had a drive that had Windoze installed on it and when I installed LM I installed it and LILO to a different hard drive. Diskdrake assumes you know what you're doing and isn't going to go look for other hard drives being marked as bootable and this is what leads to the conflict you see. To fix it, boot into rescue mode and run fdisk on the hard drive you don't want to be booting from and turn off the bootable partition. Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.1 on promise ATA100 controller
On October 5, 2001 03:26 pm, quaylar wrote: At 13:51 05.10.2001 -0400, you wrote: On October 5, 2001 01:26 pm, quaylar wrote: hiho ppl ! is someone out there having the same problem i have ?: installing mandrake 8.1 on the onboard promise ATA100 controller of motherboard ASUS A7V KT133). i have a 30 gig IBM hd on the primary promise controller jumpered as slave (i already tried master) and i´m getting L 01 01 01 01 etc. at starting of LILO... according to the lilo users guide this would occur when the bios doesnt recognize the drive or when theres a geometry mismatch. so i tried setting the disk=/bios=/sectors, cylinders, heads= options in my lilo.conf, but all to no avail is there any special linux driver for the promise controller ? any hints ? I have the same controller and I have had that problem. You've got two hard drives that have been marked down as the bootable drive and I'm not just about where LILO is installed. For example, I had a drive that had Windoze installed on it and when I installed LM I installed it and LILO to a different hard drive. Diskdrake assumes you know what you're doing and isn't going to go look for other hard drives being marked as bootable and this is what leads to the conflict you see. To fix it, boot into rescue mode and run fdisk on the hard drive you don't want to be booting from and turn off the bootable partition. u sure that that will work if i turn off the bootable flag from my first hd (win2k running) then i wouldnt be able to boot it ??? The bootable flag just lets the BIOS know which hard drive to give control to. It does not effect a partition's ability to boot an OS. since i boot my os´s with nt loader - i installed lilo in the root partition of the corresponding drive instead of the MBR. The Win2000 NT Loader is very tenacious-- it's not going to give up control just because you have LILO installed on another partition. i think there has to be another solution - there were some postings on deja that said that there would be a special driver for linux to make it work with the promise controller - but up to now i wasnt able to find it The driver was necessary for 2.2 kernels but the module for running the Promise ATA100 controller is included with 2.4 kernels (including LM8.x). --quay Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.1 is final!
On September 27, 2001 08:39 am, Franki wrote: ... I am in australia, but I guess any international country would have a roughly similiar time frame.. Actually, Australia is one of the best places in the world to wait for mail. With all the Aussies travelling the globe, most country's post offices send mail to Australia right away otherwise it would back up! No lie, a housemate of mine sent a letter from London to Paris in the same time it took a letter to go from London to Sydney (about 8 days...)! Canada, on the other hand, you're lucky if the mail arrives at all! Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Interent through Linux's eyes
On September 26, 2001 04:31 pm, you wrote: Yeah, I actually did. I wanted you to send me the link. Sadly, though my Linux adventure on the Internet has come to a screeching halt. I can't log on to any other website except Linux-Mandrake and Netscape homepage. I can get to Prodigy but it loads for nearly a minute as before it took less than 10 seconds with the same amount of web traffic. Sounds like a problem with DNS name resolution. Ask prodigy for the IP addresses of their DNS name servers and use Netconf to tell Linux what they are. Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list
On Monday 24 September 2001 17:24, george wrote: Ric Tibbetts wrote: [snip] to ric and rest, html does look nice... on an internet site. i have filters for 'twits' that use html that sends html messages to '!-html' mail box, which i later manually edit out waste. in so doing, file will drop 50% to 75% in size. being on a pots line, i could get messages at least 50% faster if those who can not read would read. but for there reasons of what ever, they seem to fail to note that they are only ones who use html. this is not a flame to them, but i really do believe that they have some sort of mental problem, or are on an ego trip. i really feel sorry for them. but i will not go out of my way for them. ..etc, etc... Sure, the HTML stuff can be really inconvenient but in a day and age where hard drive space is plentiful and plenty cheap, filesize is not cause to get cross about the way a message gets posted. As for speed, well, I use a 56K modem at home and due to the condition of the old telephone lines in my neighbourhood I average 3K /sec downloads on a goodday and downloading hundreds of these newbie emails in a go still doesn't take that long-- they arrive faster than I can read them all at any rate. If this space was for more advanced users you might have a point about what HTML posters are thinking but this is an area for Newbies and Newbies don't necessarily have control or even awareness of what or where their settings are and this forum is supposed to help with that. Please realize that many Newbies will always be Newbies because they don't want to learn about Linux or PCs, they just want to accomplish a few tasks. And from what I've seen in this list over the past couple months, that's what goes on here. When I see people getting upset over HTML being posted (or top-posting-- who remembers that thread?) in this list it seems to me that they're asking for a Newbie list without Newbies. The point I'm trying to make is that freaking out or building up anger over the way an email gets posted can't lead to anything good. Hostile words aside, what if a Newbie gets discouraged and returns to using their familiar Windows products-- nobody wins! Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] åÓÔØ ÔÕÔ ËÔÏ, ÇÏ×ÏÒÑÝÉÊ ÐÏÒÕÓÓËÉ!
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 17:02, you wrote: In reply to ëíó's words, written Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:35:08 +0600 åÓÔØ ÔÕÔ ËÔÏ, ÇÏ×ÏÒÑÝÉÊ ÐÏ ÒÕÓÓËÉ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] I could not agree more. Paul That reminds me of another good one: What do you get when you cross a ÝÉÊ ÐÏ with a ÔÏ, Ç? An ØÑÝ! Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM8.1 B3
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 07:22, Mohammed Arafa wrote:
richie thanks a bundle it worked :))
Glad I could help!
umm now how do i do it for ALL the other users without going into each and
every /home/user/.kde/Autostart dir?
I have no idea as I've never had to try! My best guess is that when a New
user logs on to KDE, there must be some script that creates a few of the
basic system folders ('.kde' and Autostart for example) and symbolic links to
log on a user to KDE. Perhaps you could tweak that script (if it exists or
what its name is if it does exist I have no clue!). Try lurking around the
KDE mailing lists maybe there's someone over there who know how to help.
In the meantime, don't go changing any scirpt until you positively know what
to do!
HTH
Richie
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Re: [newbie] SQL database for patient information
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 16:21, Paul Rodríguez wrote: I'd like to create a simple SQL database and frontend for doctors to store patient information and automate callbacks, backups, and label printing. I haven't tried any of the open source SQL databases but since you have no experience with SQL, go get a nice book on basic Data Modelling. Regardless of which SQL server you use, this is something you must know if you actually want to make a project that's worth a damn. Learn now before you go and invent your own bad habits like I did! Where can I find the information I need to make my efforts as efficient as possible? Good data modelling always leads to less coding and shorter developement/debugging time-- ALWAYS! Just about any introductory book on MySQL or what have you should include at least a chapter on 'Data Modelling' and 'Normailization' rules. If the book your considering doesn't have at least that, it doesn't deserve your money. Good Luck! Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] filters in Kmail
On Friday 14 September 2001 00:13, you wrote: Greetings all. I have my filters set up in Kmail so that anything with Newbie in the subject line or in the to field should be sent to another folder. This mostly works, but many posts from this slip through to my inbox. Upon examination, I can see no reason why these misbehaving posts are any different from others that are filtered. I am running LM8. Any ideas? TIA, Peace stan I got around it by setting a couple of extra filters just to make sure. There is one option in KMail filters called any header, and you might want to set up another filter to check the Cc header. Since I've added extra filters I'm catching about 98% of all the emails that should be going to my 'Newbie' folder. I wonder sometimes, since these emails are coming from all over the world, if some of the pattern matches in the filtering mechanism fail because the messages are using an incompatible character set. That's only a wild guess though. Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StartX-problems
When I log in and type startx the system tells me this text above. ... successfully loaded NV driver RIVA GLX Version=1.2 -FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=2 failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' Fatal server error: Could not oen default font 'fixed' ... pleas send the full server output, no just the last message. XIO:fatal 10 error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0 after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 event Your font server, xfs is not running. One reason for xfs not starting may be that you have deleted or moved the folders where all the fonts are stored. To verify that you still have fonts to load, open this file at the shell command prompt: vi /etc/X11/fs/config You ought to see some typing about halfway down that looks like this: catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 ...Those are all the folders that contain fonts. If none or some of these folders are missing or empty you must re-install your fonts. If you have more questions you can reply straight to me. Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Grub problems
Is there any way of getting rid of Grub, so that the machine boots straight into Windows? Boot with a Windows floppy disk, the System boot disk that you can create from Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel is a good one to use. At the command prompt type: SYS C: You must have a file on your bootdisk called SYS.COM in order for this to work. Richie. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: where did the newbie list go?
I have a DVD ROM drive in the NT machine - is it possible to configure things so that I can load Linux software on a DVD by reading the NT DVD drive over the network? Share your DVD drive on your NT box as per usual then use Samba from your Linux box to browse the share. There are Samba HOWTOs on www.mandrakeuser.org. Komba2 is a handy tool making it easier to browse and share files over Samba. You can find a Komba2 rpm at rpmfind.net. Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: [LINUX_Newbies] USA TERROR ATTACK!!!!
The On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 04:40, you wrote: Why is it that terrorists always attack you Americans; you do know that Canada has yet to be attacked by terrorists... Truly, you are the Typical Ugly Canadian, spouting how we're much better liked around the world than our neighbours in the States. Kid, if you had ever travelled around you would know that many people from many countries-- do not draw any difference between Canadians and Americans. For the matter of never being terrorized, I beg to differ. We lost some 400-500 souls when two bombs were planted on different CP Air planes some twenty years ago. To come out with any message suggesting yesterdays events were 'just desserts' is to demonstrate not only a lack of compassion but just a lack of basic human-ness. It puts you closer to the people that flew those planes than to me. Richie de Almeida Brampton, CANADA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't find KDE - sitll nothing
Now the hard question. How do I wind up actually getting to the Windoze machines? Its not like I can go into network neighborhood or anything like that! grin Go have a look for 'Komba' on www.rpmfind.net or www.tucows.com. I'm using it at work to do all of my networking as I haven't had much luck configuring any other tools (I'm not allowed to install Samba Server at the moment, the other tools I've tried may be counting on some tools that come with the Samba Server...). I did have some dependency problems at first, but RPMfind helped immensely. Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked alread
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 14:21, you wrote: As far as what the activation process does, I'm just going on the article I read a few weeks ago... Right or wrong when I read the articly it was the last straw for me and I'm glad I've taken a step away from the Microsoft universe. Yeah, I'm not planning on running it at home, either - and none of my Windows-only friends are planning on running it, either. :-). I'm a Sys Admin, tho, and so will have to support it at work. ...Too true! I expect the same thing here (we tout ourselves as a 'Microsoft shop') although I'm hoping it will be a long time in coming. Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
On September 5, 2001 08:00 am, Charles Punch wrote: Paul wrote: I would not even use M$ products if they _were_ free. I'd maybe use them if they were stable. In that area is my importance. And Linux provides that. Paul Stability gets top priority here too, and I'm just talking about desktop single user stability. MS doesn't even have enough of that for me. Sometimes Linux users on this list get accused of bashing MS, when in fact all they are doing is presenting the facts. The only trouble with all the M$-bashing is that we're preaching to the choir. Tell me really, did all those Cola-Wars TV ads really help you choose which soft drink you choose. Probably not! If the point of M$ bashing is to advance Linux in some way, I'd have to say that everyone would be doing a better job by finding more ways that Linux can out-do or even leap past Windows. I read an interesting article on ZDNet today about StarOffice and MSOffice that summed it up nicely: "If you keep aiming where Microsoft has already been, then your opportunities will be in China. A better tactic is to take aim at where the IT market is going to be and your opportunities will be much wider." Richie The Emperor has no clothes! ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 The most serious doubt that has been thrown on the authenticity of the biblical miracles is the fact that most of the witnesses in regard to them were fishermen. -- Arthur Binstead Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] grip problems - playing cds in lm 8.0 with cooker upgrades
Just a hunch, but try having a look at the cd with CDToaster (I think it's a Gnome app...) Richie On Friday 24 August 2001 15:15, bascule wrote: i have a feeling that my problem may not be linux per se but i would be gratefull for any insights... i have lm 8.0 (freq3 plus cooker kde2.2) if i try to play my copy of pomegranate by heidi berry in grip it just cycles through the track titles and doesn't play anything, the cd is brand new and plays fine in kcd (or whatever it's called these days), this means that i can't rip the tracks to mp3 either and that's annoying, the thing is though that my new primitives cd plays and rips fine in grip so it must be set up right, further investigation show that the heidi berry cd is an 'enhanced cd' and i'm thinking that the data track may be first on the cd and confusing grip but not kcd, so, two questions: 1. how in linux, do i see a list of tracktypes and their order? 2. anyone know how i might get grip to work in this case? bascule Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Post Installation of a booter
You can configure the bootloader after an install in Mandrake Control Center. If you ever wish to uninstall, just go to a terminal and type: lilo -U /dev/hda ..change /dev/hda where necessary. Richie On Friday 24 August 2001 19:46, alex wrote: I plan to install 4 Linux systems but don't want to install a boot loader (LILO or GRUB) with any of the systems but instead rely on boot floppies because I always had reliable performance with floppies in the past. However, LILO or GRUB is more convenient and faster so I would like to at least give them a try. How can LILO or GRUB be installed after the Linux systems have been installed and working? I couldn't find any info about installing them after the systems are installed. How would you create a menu to include all 4 Linux systems plus Windows? And, in the event I decide to remove the boot loader later, how can this be done safely? The reason for my not wanting to include boot loaders during the Linux installations is, I had a BIG problem once when I made a mistake near the end of a Linux installation and couldn't correct it. So, I halted the installation to try to restart it. GRUB had already been installed and it wouldn't let me to do a reinstallation but it insisted on trying to boot the incomplete Linux and nothing else, not even DOS, could be booted. It's a long story, but I ended up reformatting the Windows partition and reinstalling everything. Using boot floppies is as reliable as wearing a belt and suspenders but both are inconvenient and slower. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Starting cupsd on boot?
In Mandrake Control Center, go to the Services tab in the system group and you ought to find cups and all the other services you can run at bootup. Richie On Friday 24 August 2001 19:43, Dr. Evil wrote: Content-Type: /; name=Attachment: 0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] just wondering
Right on! Richie On Friday 24 August 2001 10:11, Adams, Jamie wrote: okay, seeing as we are abusing each other, can i just say that this argument is completely stupid? Okay, i can userstand why the use of HTML is annoying, but does it _really_ matter weather the message is posted at the top or bottom Oh, and yes, i am a top poster, if you dont like it.. ignore me :) Now can we get back to Linux like discussions? Jamie Adams Housing Assistant - Tel: (01723) 507543 Fax: (01723) 355862 -- From: Charles Punch[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:24 August 2001 13:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] just wondering File: message.txt s wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2001 07:32 pm, Charles Punch wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2001 07:49 pm, Matt Greer escribió: This list is doing a good job cracking down on html, now if only we could do the same for top posters. What is the problem with top posting. It seems to me that usually it is the only way to keep the message in context (especially if everyone else on the thread is doing it that way) Shouldn't consistency be more appropriate than having a war over which end to crack your eggs on? ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 Actually I find it quite annoying if following a thread to have to scroll to the bottom of each and every post. I like top posting, but I usually follow suit with what the thread is doing. If I'm the first replier, then it depends if I'm posting throughout, tho due to the repeat of this conversation I mostly try bottom posting. I wouldn't want to fart in public or use the wrong fork... What do you do if it is important that the whole thread be understood in context? do you post at the bottom? Wouldn't that cause one to have to scroll to the bottom of the post as well? I hope it is understood that I am not trying to be difficult, but trying to make sense of these informal protocol. I also think it is crucial to remember that the right fork may be on a different side of the plate in a different part of the world. I have heard posts in favor of top posting and others against it. Who do I follow? (that was a rhetorical question) I'm goning to follow whatever make the most sense, so if you want to change my mind, give me a good reason instead of an emotional outburst or you will be ignored. I wouldn't want to fart in public or use the wrong fork... A fart is your body complaining. If you want to use that analogy, why would you *complain* in public? Posts that complain about problems without offering a solution are the equivalent of someone standing in a doorway, complaining about people who stand in the doorway. It does no good to oversimplify a problem and apply a blanket rule that only addresses the part that *you* are upset about. why not be positive and illustrate a reasonable alternative? ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke? -- Joel Chandler Harris, proverbs of Uncle Remus _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 Beta
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 04:58, Miark wrote: Out of curiosity, is this pronounced rock-LAY or RAK-let? From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raklet is the new 8.1 beta. Actually it's pronounced Smith... All the letters are silent. Richie =} Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Enciclopedia
I don't know of any Linux-based encyclopediae (if there was one, I suspect the C and L sections would be very well developed, but the rest would just be based on Farside comic strips... but I digress) But what you may like to try is your existing Windows apps in WINE, the Windows-emulator for Linux. Their website is at http://www.winehq.com/ Richie On Tuesday 21 August 2001 10:51, Edelmiro Guerra wrote: I've seen that there are several software for different purposes (games, text editors, spreadsheets, etc.)in different sites, but right now I am needing an enciclopedia in Spanish, something like encarta, but for linux. Can somebody recommend me a site where to get one? I need it for my children who are back to school now, and I do not want to go back to M$. I am Using Mandrake 7.2. Any help will be appreciated. Regards Edelmiro Guerra Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install new font on Redhat 7.1
Try looking here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Font-HOWTO.html ...it goes into all sort of stuff about using fonts in Xwindows and has a few specific notes for RedHat 7.x installations. Richie On August 18, 2001 12:00 pm, Tuan Duc Tran wrote: Hi all, How can I install new fonts under Redhat 7.1? Is there any GUI tool to help me install new fonts (like Mandrake has)? Sorry to ask this question in Mandrake forum, but I can't find it some where else. Thank you Tuan _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Windows
Typically deleting the partition is not enough, I recommend performing exorcism if one truly wants to banish Windows from whence it came... Richie On August 16, 2001 09:22 am, Jesse Hepburn wrote: Does anyone know how I would go about uninstalling windows? Can I just delete the partition and remove the mount point and lilo entry, or is it more complicated? Cheers, Jesse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ugly fonts - Anti-aliasing
Not all fonts are created equal! Some are bitmap-based and I don't think anti-aliasing applies to them-- try to favour the adobe type fonts or true-type fonts as these are vector based and they will look better even without anti-aliasing. If you're running KDE, you can get a little extra help by running the Control Center and in the Look'n'Feel under the Fonts option see that the Use anti-aliasing for fonts is checked then verify the fonts that you are using in the boxes above... Richie On August 17, 2001 10:21 am, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, I read on the Mandrake website (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/features.php3) that anti-aliasing is integrated into Linux-Mandrake 8.0 to provide a nice improvement in how fonts are displayed. But on my system the fonts look very ugly. One example that comes to mind is the Add New Printer dialog in Kups. But like this one there are several other places where fonts look terrible. Can anyone help me? Maybe I have to install a package which didn't get installed by default? Thanks for any help, Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] removing boot manager
You can configure a bootdisk from Mandrake Control Center. You can also uninstall LILO by runnnig /sbin/lilo -U /dev/hda. You might also want to run fdisk and make sure your win98 partition is marked as the active/bootable partition. Booting up with a win98 rescue disk and typing SYS C: will also set win98 back as the bootable partition. Richie On August 17, 2001 03:10 pm, Dean Morrell wrote: I installed Mandrake 8.0 a couple days ago. What a ride. I installed it on a machine with Win98se already running. Now, I like the os, but I don't want a boot manager on this system. I'd much rather boot from a floppy to access the os. Can someone help with removing the boot manager and then configuring to boot to Mandrake 8 from floppy? Dean -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- The way I see it, there were two great triumphs, two things that I'm proudest of. One is the economic recovery, in which the people of America created - and filled - 19 million new jobs. The other is the recovery of our morale. America is respected again in the world and looked to for leadership. -Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Two newbie Q's
Like some of the other responses have said, you're best bet is to find a way to get your high-speed on Linux but in the meantime if you must download from Windoze just save it to a FAT or FAT32 partition as its the only FS Windows has in common with Linux... Richie On August 17, 2001 01:41 pm, Mitchell, Edmund wrote: Hello all, Trying to round out my Linux education (this may take a few years ;)): On bootup, I can save a second or two by stopping the process(?) daemon(?) that's checking to see if I have installed or removed any hardware. I think it's either harddrake or kudzu, but one (I think) is very important, and the other is only necessary if I change some hardware, so I don't want to guess wrong. Can someone tell me which is which? My other O$ on this dual-boot machine has a very fast internet connection that doesn't support Linux, so I'd like to download, e.g., the new KDE rpms with it. I can see the files from Linux, but can I move them to the Linux partition, and if so, will they install correctly? Is there any voodoo I should know about first? Thanks muchly Edmund P.S. Oh yeah, what's a bogomip, and is it good or bad that my box has 4300 of them? thanx- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] defraging
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 10:22, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:48, Jason Guidry wrote: I'm always discovering holes in my linux education, and the thread on fsck made me think of defragmenting hard drives. is there a linux eq? what are the issues with data optimization/disk defragging under linux? None. Only poorly-designed filesystems become fragmented to the point of requiring an external defragmenter. The level of fragmentation in GNU/Linux filesystems is near nil (I don't think ReiserFS has any fragmentation at all). While I'm here, how susceptible to fragmentation is NTFS5 (the NTFS in Win2000)? Does it need to be defragged often? I've been using Win2000 for about eight months and it's no different defrag-wise. I bet if you looked at it close enough, NTFS is just FAT32 with some security measures thrown in-- Remember Microsoft *innovates*, it doesn't invent. Richie Also, can it journal like ReiserFS, Ext3 and JFS? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo skips Windows98
Hiya, It looks like there's some fooferah in that lilo config... that 'map-drive' stuff are physical designations of your hard drives, 0x80 is your hda and 0x81 is your hdb or something like that... Anyways, going from when I used to have a dual boot with Windows, just the first three lines are necessary, like this: other=dev/hda1 label=windows98 tabel=/dev/hda Your default is set somewhere close to the top of lilo.conf, just change it to: default=windows98 While you're there, you can change the wait time as well, it think it goes in 10-ths of a second timeout=100 will give you ten seconds instead of the default five Mandrake sets in the install. Don't forget to recompile lilo after you've edited the file. As root, enter /sbin/lilo at a command prompt. Richie On Monday 13 August 2001 19:34, alex wrote: I just installed Mandrake 8.0 and it is working fine except Lilo cannot boot Windows98. Mandrake / is installed in hdb3 and /home is in hda8. Windows 98 is in hda1. When I try to select Windows98, MDK8.0 boots up. MDK8.0 also boots OK as a default. I tried to make Windows98 the default because a few kids also use this computer and they aren't the Linux type.yet. /etc/lilo.conf shows the Windows98 setup thusly: other=dev/hda1 label=windows98 tabel=/dev/hda map-drive=0X80 to=0X81 map-drive=0X81 to=0X80 This seems to be quite different from the MDK8.0 setup in /etc/lilo.conf What should the Windows98 entry in /etc/lili.conf look like? And, what does it take to make Windows98 the default boot? Is it just a matter of putting MDK and Windows in reverse order in the listing in /etc/lilo.conf? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Damn Radeon
Remember when having Radeon in your basement was a bad thing? But more to the point, has anyone out there had any success using an ATI Radeon AGP card with Xwindows 4.1.0? X starts up and runs, it even starts KDE but there is absolutely no video signal (I know KDE starts because that pompous little symphony starts up-- I gotta switch that off someday...). Without the video signal the monitor just switches into power-saving mode. If it was a bad refresh setting, the monitor would go wonky or give me a warning, or so I figure. Since there's multi-outputs on this card (SVGA, LCD and CATV) I'm wondering if the radeon driver needs to know which output to use-- any suggestions out there? Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 'Rumor' of TCP/MS WinXP [Check this out]
On Monday 06 August 2001 21:43, Michael Leone wrote: From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux has had IPv6 support for quite some time, and I beleive that Win2K has it as well (because they stole the TCP/IP stack from FreeBSD). They did NOT steal it. The license ALLOWED them to use it. It was perfectly legal, if a bit hypocritical. Hold the boat! IPv6 was developed in consortium about 3 years ago, that means its there for everybody. Saying M$ stole it from anywhere is like saying they stole email as they happen to use POP and SMTP in Outlook...
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake vs RedHat
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 00:42, X - A - W - K wrote: Hi, I just would like to ask somebody to explain me the main difference between Linux Mandrake and RedHat. I just want to know the strong points of each one... For what is better to use Mandrake... and for what RedHat? Thanks X - A - W - K Mandrake is very accessible, and after installing both LM 8 and RH7.1, I think Mandrake goes that extra step to get the creature-comforts in like working sound, video and printing straight out of the box. Redhat doesn't even confirm sound or printer settings during its install, they do work, but you have to configure them after the installation. LM8 is also the only distribution I've that can run my Radeon at all. Even though RedHat 7.1 identified my card, it still couldn't run it on X, I think it has something to do with FBDev not being install, but I'm not sure yet... LM's Software Manager is reliable and way faster than the defacto GNOrpm but RedHat's Up2Date utility is superb for accessing the latest updates and libraries. LM seems to favour KDE, RedHat favours GNOME. Mandrake appears to have more in-house tools like Software Manager, Mandrake Control Center, DiskDrake, HardDrake, etc. Overall, both are good, but I feel that I spend much less time configuring Mandrake, so I can do the things I really want to do like listening to music and writing really long emails on mailing lists
Re: [newbie] Resolver problem.
The DOS version of fdisk /mbr won't kill NT-Loader, SYS C: would however. I learned this after alot of banging my head on the keyboard after trying to restore my laptop to Win95 some years ago! If you ever need to restore Bill's boot menu, just start a winnt install and choose to Repair an Installation, just stop the install before it actually starts copying files otherwise you'll mess up your existing WINNT install! After you have restored Bill's bootloader you can restore LILO by booting up Linux with your bootdisk (you *did* make a bootdisk, didn't you?) and run LILO. Make sure you've added your WINNT and DOS partitions to /etc/lilo.conf before you run /sbin/lilo... You should also check with Linux's fdisk that the active partition is set to whichever partition LILO gets installed to. There's some excellent HOWTOs in the Linux Documentation Project for doing a multi-boot the NT and Linux, read them before you go any further! On Saturday 04 August 2001 11:05, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, Because of the resolver problem and other problems, I have decided to try version 7.2 instead of 8.0. I have D*S and W*ndo*s NT4.0 installed on the machine. I need to keep those UNFORTUNATELY :( I am going to take the following two steps to uninstall mdk 8.0 and install mdk 7.2 instead: 1) Use NT to delete all the linux partitions. 2) Use mdk 7.2 install to create the required linux partitions and install mdk 7.2 There is an issue with LILO, however. Currently, with 8.0 installed, LILO lets me boot DOS instead of linux and from there I get B*ll Gates boot menu from which I chose NT or DOS boot. Now when I take step (1) above and without doing fdisk /mbr LILO stays there and it still works for booting the D*S and W*ndo*s. I am hesitant to try fdisk /mbr because doing that will allow me to boot D*S and I am not sure I will get the b*ll Gates menu selection that allows me to boot NT instead of D*S. DO I have to do fdisk /mbr before installing 7.2? What would be the repercussions if I did not? If I do have to do fdisk /mbr, how will I be able to boot D*S or NT without LILO? Thanx, Seedkum
Re: [newbie] can't startx
unix/:-1 is how Xserver connects to xfs, the X font-server. Going by the message you got, when xfs tried to upload its fonts to your X-server, some files or folders containing fonts were missing. Running Xconfigurator may have updated the configuration file for xfs (the file is /etc/X11/fs/config) to not include the missing path, OR, Xconfigurator dropped the command to download fonts from xfs. Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config in the FontPath section, if xfs is being used for serving fonts you'll see a line that looks like: Load unix/:-1 You really do want this line in your XF86Config as xfs lets you use scalable fonts and TrueType fonts, which is a big plus as the standard X fonts look awful in higher resolutions. On Tuesday 07 August 2001 19:42, Errant wrote: Running Xconfigurator worked... but why did I have this problem in the first place? And how would I avoid it in the future? Thanx again, E On Tuesday 07 August 2001 5:58 pm, you wrote: Hi all, I suddenly can't get x up and running on my LM8 box. After issuing the startx command as Root from console, it returns the following: Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list! Fatal Server Error: could not open default font 'fixed' Can someone help me fix this, and explain how it might have happened? Thanx a bunch, E Try typing in Xconfigurator and running that. Might get you back and running again. Robin
Re: [newbie] Problems upgrading RPM
Your problem may have been from dinking around with RedHat software instead of Mandrake software. Personally, I don't trust installing RPMs on Mandrake unless they're from Mandrake, with a few exceptions. I don't know about backing out from these abortive RPM installs, you may want to make a fresh install of Mandrake. When you get a working install back, try downloading the Linux Kernel source in .tar.gz format from Linux.org or some other place and compiling it yourself. There's great HOWTOs on compiling the kernel just about everywhere and it's not as hard as it seems, it's just takes a little extra time to actually compile the kernel (my first compile was on a Pentium 90-- it took about two hours! Any Pentium II should take considerably less time) The best part is once you get used to it you can really customize the kernel to suit your needs, it's a great way to squeeze all the performance you can out of your PC! On Tuesday 07 August 2001 20:24, Rafael Lepra wrote: I installed LM 7.1, I needed to upgrade my kernel to 4.2.6 in order to instal the drivers of my software modem Motorola SM56. I could upgrade the kernel thanks to the help of this mailing list. So far, no problem. Unfortunately when I tried to instal the package of the modem's driver I got a warning that my rpm did not support versions higher than 3. I got a rpm package rpm-4.0.2-5x.i386.rpm (from redhat upgrade ftp site) and tried to instal it. I got a message about db3 dependency. So, I downloaded the package db3-3.1.17-4.5x.i386.rpm and installed it. Then I installed the rpm-4.0.2 and I got a message about a directoy /rpm/libs (but I am not sure about the name) that could not be erased because it was not empty. The bad new is that after that, kdepackage did not work, I tryed to rebuild the databases, but after several minutes the process abort with a core dump or somthing. Could anyone give me some advice about what to do? Thank you in advance for your help. Rafael
