Re: [newbie] LI boot prompt
Do you have the floppy boot disks? Use those to boot back into the system. Go into your console, log in as superuser, use "lilo" command and that should correct Lilo. Original Message On 4/3/01, 7:34:15 PM, "cyberclay" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] LI boot prompt: Hey, When attempting to upgrade to a newer version of Mandrake, apparently grub failed to completely delete the portion of my MBR containing lilo, because now when I boot up grub doesn't run and an "LI" is printed on the screen. How can I fix this? The computer doesn't have windows on it, but I can run the "rescue" thing from the CD's lilo menu. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, cyberclay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] realplayer install; different architecture
That's not a surprise. You need to download the source-rpm and install the program that way. Seve Original Message On 2/11/01, 4:06:09 AM, KompuKit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] realplayer install; different architecture: where did you get the RPM for realplayer 8.01? I want it... rootbus wrote: Downloaded an rpm for RealPlayer-8.0-1. Clicked and got Kpackage for rpms. When the install started I got the message "Realplayer-8.0-1 is for a different architecture." Looked for other rpms and found none. Anyone found a good way to get RealPlayer in? Or any other way to stream ra format? -- rootbus "Installing Mandrake again creates time to savour yet another beer." (Aristotle) -- Registered Linux User: 167369 = http://www.kompukit.com = [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am S+S=12pm-12am)
Re: [newbie] Partition sizes for / and /usr
Assuming you're installing LM-7.2: /usr should be 3Gigs - initial install will put 2.5GB on here leaving you with 0.5GB /usr/src - 250MB - make this bigger if you like messing around with different kernels /usr/local 800MB / - 350Mb (that's because this contains /root and one shouldn't be using this partition outside of admin purposes) /tmp - 500MB to 1GB - especially if you're using taper to backup large files /var 300MB or more /boot - 100MB /home - the remainder of your drive. Of course, these aren't absolutes since it really depends on what you do with your system. Seve Original Message On 2/9/01, 6:42:02 AM, Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Partition sizes for / and /usr: How big should my / and /usr partitions typically be?
Re: [newbie] Swap file crash and burn
Does it boot off the floppy? Original Message On 2/5/01, 8:00:42 PM, "The Conways" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Swap file crash and burn: My Linux partition wasn't recognizing or using my swap partition. So I used Diskdrake so that the partition was recognized as the swap partition. I think maybe at this point I should have rebooted but instead I used Linxconf to set the swap partition. At this point I did reboot, but now I can't get to the xwindow to start because of some problem with the swap file. What is the best thing to do at this point? Should delete my Linux partition and reinstall or should or reinstall over the top of the existing installation. Or should I use my startup disk and try to restore Lilo to it's previous state before I made the changes? Jim
Re: [newbie] TV Tuner cards -- recommendations?
WinTV with Stereo SAP audio also comes with FM tuner. Hauppauge is the brand name. http://www.pcupgrader.com/tvtuners.htm will take you to the pictures. Http://www.hauppauge.com is their website. I didn't have to do anything to set it up. LM7.2 had it done for me. Seve Original Message On 2/4/01, 7:08:08 PM, Woodrow Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] TV Tuner cards -- recommendations?: Looking to put a TV Tuner card in my box. Any personal recommendations for a card? I'll need to it work with Linux and WinNT (until I can get the latter off my system completely...) Thanks for the advice! Woodrow ** * "It's a strange world." "Let's keep it that way." -- _Planetary_ by Warren Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ #4098247 http://www.mindspring.com/~whill | http://asim.cedant.com/search.html
RE: [newbie] motherboard compatibility: asus
Barry, You can even safely clockup that combo to run at 575Mhz or 577Mhz. The CPU's core voltage would still remain within specs at 2.3Volts. Stability remains the same. Seve -Original Message- From: Barry Allan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 7:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] motherboard compatibility: asus I'm glad to hear that the Asus P5A and AMD K6II-500 is a good combo as I'm presently about to upgrade to that very setup. Anyone have any idea as to whether I would be likely to get this for less than $US 150 anywhere? - the price Directron.com have it at. Unlikely I guess as the board alone costs that much here in New Zealand but I thought it worth asking. barry
Re: [newbie] Greetings
2/2/01, 1:40:28 PM, Brad Lathem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Greetings: Hello, I've just switched to Mandrake from Storm (because of their bankruptcy), and am pretty impressed. 2) Having switched from Storm (and Corel prior to that), I am used to the debian package manager. I found where the package manager is (rpmdrake in DrakConf), but can't see the option to change my sources.list. Is it a config file tucked off somewhere else? Does anyone have any good recommendations for Mandrake software sources? What do you mean by "sources"? Do you mean source-code? Otherwise, if you mean a source to get RPMs then go to http://www.rpmfind.net Good Luck Seve 3) My monitor (MagView 19" VM900E/986M) won't run in 1600x1200 for some reason. I put on the same settings as I had with Storm before (Voodoo 3 graphics + one of the generic monitor settings + 32 Bit color), but that didn't do it. Is Mandrake 7.2 using XFree86 4.x? If so, maybe it's just because this is my first XFree86 4.x experience, and I need to monkey around. Otherwise, Mandrake seems to be a great distro (and not bankrupt, to boot! ;-) ). Thanks for any replies, -Brad Lathem
Re: [newbie] Can anyone tell me the byte size on a DL ISO burned toCD?
Aren't those around 600MB? Original Message On 2/2/01, 9:28:33 AM, "Matt Schroeder" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Can anyone tell me the byte size on a DL ISO burned to CD?: Can anyone tell me the byte size on a downloaded ISO burned to CD? How about the extras disc as well? Thanks!
Re: [newbie] motherboard compatibility: asus
I'll 2nd that. I'm running 2 linux boxes with the P5A AMD 500Mhz K6/2. Always had smooth installs from LM6.0 to LM7.2. Seve Original Message On 2/1/01, 12:49:41 PM, Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] motherboard compatibility: asus: Mark: Howdy! There shouldn't be a problem with the ASUS P5A. My wife is running this board with Mandrake 7.2 with an AMD chip and it works great! Installed like a dream. This is my experience, though. Riker n Thursday 01 February 2001 08:15 am, you wrote: I checked the mandrake site for MB compatibility but couldn't find any information. I was planning on getting an Asus ATX Super7 5/2 [P5A] does anyone anticipate problems. I had a gigabyte board and linux refused to install with the CDROM I got for it. It installed fine when I tried the same CDROM on my dell PC so I just assume the gigabyte board was the problem Does anyone think I'll have problems with this Asus board?
Re: [newbie] gnapster
Yeah, that's the same problem I had when I tried to install from the rpm. So, here's what you do with that source RPM. It's quite easy... First log in as Superuser and go to the directory with your source RPM. Then type in the following commands: rpm -i gnapster-1.4.2-1mdk.src.rpm Now we'll make and compile the new gnapster binary RPM: rpm -bb /usr/src/RPM/SPECS/gnapster.spec Let's find where it put the new binary RPM: find /usr/src/RPM/RPMS -name gnapster*.rpm Last step, installing the RPM: rpm -U /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/iX86/gnapster-1.4.2-1mdk.iX86.rpm That should be it! Seve Original Message On 2/1/01, 7:35:48 AM, marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] gnapster: Dear Seve and Sridahr, Thank you for the ftp sites. I did get the gnapster rpm and install but I get an error message that says: gnapster: error in loading shared libraries: gnapster: undefined symbol: stat. Does anyone know what this means? I could download the source rpm except I have not done that kind of thing before. Is that difficult? Does it require compiling? I have never done that sort of thing yet. Any suggestions or help will be appreciated. Thanks again. Marcia
Re: [newbie] gnapster
Gnapster Links for RPMs: Source: ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/contrib/SRPMS/gnapster-1.4.2-1mdk.src.rpm Bin: ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/contrib/RPMS/gnapster-1.4.2-1mdk.i586.rpm Seve Original Message On 1/29/01, 7:02:52 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] gnapster: The simplest way to install a tarball is as follows: 1. Unpack the file with "tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz" (assuming it is in the .tar.gz format). 2. Go into the extracted directory and read the documentation (usually called something like README, INSTALL, etc.). 3. The documentation should tell you what to do to install the app. Make sure you have the required libraries installed (this includes -devel libraries too) 4. You will need to install as root, unless you use the "--prefix=" option with "./configure" (do a "./configure --help" for details). 5. Run "./configure", then (assuming all goes well) "make", then "make install". 6. Type "gnapster" to see if it worked. Far better tutorials (this was a really crude crash course) can be found at mandrakeuser.org and linuxnewbie.org. However, there are several alternatives to installing from a tarball: 1. Wait for an RPM (which could take forever). 2. Install Ximian (formerly Helix) GNOME, which always includes the latest version of Gnapster. 3. Go to rpmfind.net and find the Ximian/Helix RPM (or maybe Red Hat if it is available). I'm not sure if this will work without the rest of Ximian GNOME, but it's worth a shot. On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:01, marcia wrote: Dear All, I was having the same gnapster problems and just downloaded the new gnapster 1.4.2 as suggested. I am not thrilled that it is in tar form only. I have not been able to have a successful tar install yet, except for a few desktop themes. I can extract ok I just have not been able to get the programs installed and up and running after that. Yes, I have read all info about it that I can for months. Would anyone be able to give me the exact steps to install the new gnapster after it is extracted? I would greatly appreciate this. I am a green newbie when it comes to tar. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Marcia -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Printer recommendations
I heard that Epsons are linux-friendly.
Re: [newbie] Telnet server: /usr/sbin/in.telnetd: No such file !???
It is most likely that you will have to install it from the CD. This is because telnet was not installed by Mandrake's initial install. Reasons being...security, thus ssh should be used instead.. la dee da... la dee da. Original Message On 1/29/01, 8:49:51 AM, bretzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Telnet server: /usr/sbin/in.telnetd: No such file ! ???: Hi, I am used to install-reinstall LM 7.2 ... I use iso files from ftp.free.fr site taken from the day it was released. As I say in subject , there is no in.telnetd file in my system. Thus I cannot telnet to my system! Where is that file ??? How can I install it ? It seems that the service is configured because when I telnet, my system close the connection ( obviously ) but the file is called ( from somewhere by inetd ? ) though... ...and that file isn't there.. I seeked for it in my whole filesystem.. No in.telnetd file anywhere. Please I need the steps to correct it. I really need to telnet to my system from outside! Why the heck there is no in.telnetd ? in 7.1 everythings was ok. And in 7.2 everything except telnet server are there... PLEASE HELP! - Urgent!
Re: [newbie] More problems as if I did not have enough
Sorry, for those that are not sure where this thread began... what kind of printer mandrake/cups do you have? Original Message On 1/28/01, 1:06:16 AM, Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] More problems as if I did not have enough: Stupid printer again I could just throw it out the dang window. Now it prints half the page and then tries to print the other half ON ANOTHER SHEET!!! What is going on ??
RE: [newbie] Screen fonts are huge!!!!! Help!!
Salut, I finally tracked down the solution to this annoyance with oversized fonts. As per my previous email, this is caused by attempting to change the KDE panel clock to am/pm format through the right-click-option "Adjust Date Time". Solution: EDIT THIS FILE: /home/yourname/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals GO FIND: [Locale] AND CHANGE THE CHARSET LINE TO: Charset=unknown It is this line that the process "Adjust Date Time" changes resulting in assigning KDE with an unsupported ISO set. I hope you made some sense of my above jibberish. Seve Original Message On 1/24/01, 4:40:35 AM, "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding RE: [newbie] Screen fonts are huge! Help!!: I am running 2.0. Do you think that i should upgrade? -Original Message- From: Keith Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Screen fonts are huge! Help!! What version of KDE are you running? KDE 2.01 seems to fix a problem in 2.0 with fixed fonts rendering huge. -- Keith On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:19:40 -0500 "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need some help. This is my plight. A few days ago, when I booted into 7.2, all of my text was so big that it filled the screen. When I click on the K menu everything is huge. As far as I know, I didn't make any changes to the system. I can't figure out what caused this... I have tried going into the control center and changing the font sizes but, this doesn't seem to change anything. HELP! How can I fix this? And, does anyone know what causes this? Thanks in advance for your help. You guys and gals always seem to have the right answers. Ciao, Chris Kelly In a world without fences, who needs Gates?
Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?
A Definite Yes. 7.2 is a good leap from 7.1 so put your energy and time into adjusting 7.2 and skip 7.1. Seve Original Message On 1/26/01, 5:38:44 PM, "michelle cain" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?: hi, i have 7.1 already, but its not running smoothly yet. before i got stuck in sorting it all out, i was considering getting 7.2. do you think it's worth it (the bother of finding someone to download it for me and burn it onto a cd), or should i just stick with 7.1? michelle
Re: [newbie] How do I install .tgz files in Mandrake 7.2?
I'm not familiar with Slackware but what you do in Mandrake is unpack it with... tar -zxvf applicationname.tgz Then look at the "Readme" file for specifics but typically it's... configure make make install Seve Original Message On 1/14/01, 8:19:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] How do I install .tgz files in Mandrake 7.2?: I have just installed Mandrake 7.2 and have successfully installed additional programs from the cdroms using the rpm utility. However, my prior Linux experience is with Slackware which has the installpkg and pkgtool programs to install .tgz files. If I find programs in .tgz format, how do I handle installation of such programs in Mandrake 7.2?
[newbie] KDE Fonts Gone Hogwild Large - Solved!
Salut, I finally tracked down the solution to this annoyance with oversized fonts. As per my previous email, this is caused by attempting to change the KDE panel clock to am/pm format through the right-click-option "Adjust Date Time". Solution: EDIT THIS FILE: /home/yourname/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals GO FIND: [Locale] AND CHANGE THE CHARSET LINE TO: Charset=unknown It is this line that the process "Adjust Date Time" changes resulting in assigning KDE with an unsupported ISO set. I hope you made some sense of my above jibberish. Seve -Still Loving Linux more than ever Spreadin' the word!!! Original Message On 1/3/01, 6:14:18 PM, Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] KDE Fonts Gone Hogwild Large - Solutions?: On Wednesday 03 January 2001 07:38 am, you wrote: r wrote: I'm running LM7.2 KDE2 . Problem: the menu fonts are way too big. It happened after I tried adjusting the panel's clock to am/pm. How do we get the greatly oversized fonts down to normal? Seve Well I'll be darn...so that's what it was that did that? I had the same thing and now that you mention it it was just after adjusting the time thing. All I did was curse a few times when I got frustrated with it and kept working with the desktop/KDE fonts till I had them to the size and style I wanted and then restarted X. It took like 4 tried though until it settled down and worked correctly though. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds
[newbie] ShoutCast, *.pls, Netscape - MIME type Setup?
How do you get Netscape to run xmms when you click a ShoutCast *.pls link? I've tried messing with netscape but it just won't respond correctly. Seve
Re: [newbie] XMMS won't start
Were we ever able to resolve this problem with Xmms? I'm having the exact same problem. I've also tried deleting "/.xmms" folder and reinstalling xmms. Seve Original Message On 12/19/00, 11:14:38 PM, Mr S Ganesan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] XMMS won't start: xmms will usually play mp3 files and if you have any on ur system there should not be any problem. On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Roger Sherman wrote: Do other audio programs, or any programs that use any audio, work in your profile, or is it just xmms that is the problem? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Chris Aakre wrote: I'm on LM 7.2, and xmms won't start as a regular user. I try to start it in a console, and it just sits there with the command, doing nothing. If I try to start it from the desktop, it just shows one xmms thread doing nothing with ps aux (instead of the multiple threads it usually has). This is all cured by running xmms as root. Any ideas? I've tried deleting my .xmms directory and re-installing the rpm's, but to no avail :) -- Chris Aakre -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone:0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax: 0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in
Re: [newbie] SIS6326 Video
Which X version did you choose? Try version 3 instead. Seve Original Message dated 3/6/00, 5:39:24 AM Author: "Riker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: [newbie] SIS6326 Video: Hello: I'm setting up Linux Mandrake 7.2 on a new machine. The install goes fine but after the first boot, and it tries to go into X it terminates and goes to a command line. The video card is an SIS 6326 and the mother board is a PC200 - Athalon800 - 64meg of ram. Any thoughts? Please inqure if more information is needed. Thanks, Riker P.S. This is the second system like this I'm installing it on. The other went perfectly. All the hardware is exactly the same.
[newbie] Creative SB16 PCI
How is the PCI version of Creative's SB16? Is it quick to setup with the bundled drivers? Seve
[newbie] 7.2 Install Problem w/ Floppy Lilo
Hi there, I'm having trouble with installing Mandrake7.2 into a K6/2 500Mhz box. The installation step of creating a boot floppy isn't capable of activating my floppy drive. Then the following step of installing Lilo/Grub has a 'HASH' error. Proceeding beyond this results in not having a lilo prompt at bootup. Sidenote: LM7.1 installs just fine without any problems. Have any of you heard of such problems with Mandrake7.2? And if so, what were your solutions to this? Thanks, Seve
Re: [newbie] I REALLY NEED MY MONITOR TO WORK!!
Chris, First go with the one that's good enough to see with. Then edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file. In that file, go to "Monitor Section" and you'll find "HorizSync" "VertRefresh". Seve Original Message dated 8/18/00, 7:00:26 AM Author: "R J Booysen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: Re: [newbie] I REALLY NEED MY MONITOR TO WORK!!: Try taking the refresh rate down - Original Message - From: Chris Courtade To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 8:50 AM Subject: [newbie] I REALLY NEED MY MONITOR TO WORK!! Hey, how's it going. So I am trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.1 on my AMD Athlon K-7, FIC SD11 mother board, running with 192MB of RAM. My problem is that at the end of the installation when asking to pick my monitor, no matter what monitor I pick, the screen flickers and is all chopped up, I can't even see the sign on box enough to sign in. I have an ATI Rage Fury 128 bit 32MB video card on a NEC MultiSync XV15+. Even though I know that Mandrake supports the video card and the monitor is even listed in the database, it still continues to flicker and be chopped up. Please help me resolve this problem as I am anxious to start using it. -Chris Courtade
Re: [newbie] eth0 doesn't initialisesnip HardDrake Bug?
Is this a bug with HardDrake? "According to HardDrake, the card uses I/0 = -1 and IRQ = -1... is that normal? It doesn't allow me to choose any other values for these parameters... Besides, HardDrake doesn't explicitly display my card as being mounted as device eth0... is that normal also, or is that the cause of the problem?" Original Message On 8/16/00, 5:09:00 PM, "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] eth0 doesn't initialise. Network doesn't work.: One thing to start... I noticed you have an @home address... does this mean you have a cable modem connection under windows or something? If not, read on... I had this VERY same problem when I set up my cable modem--turned out I walked away from that damned Wiz place with a bum piece of hardware. A couple things you can try: First, re-configure eth0 to DHCP, do not use any hostname, empty the entries for DNS, etc. Second, shutdown modem and computer. Plug in the modem and wait for it to initialise. When that is done, turn on the computer. Check the network card (eth0) to make sure that the lights are lit...if not, there is no signal from the modem, and no negotiation can place. Try another cable. If the same thing happens, and you don't get any lights on the network card itself, try resetting the modem a few more times. If you still have the problem and don't get the little lights, take the damed thing back and scream and yell for a new one. (Or "yell" and then "scream"... which ever floats 'yer boat--or works more quickly). --Greg Hi all, Need help on configuring my network !! I've just installed Mandrake Linux 7.1, and the Network doesn't work. I am currently trying to connect to my local Cable company using DHCP. That doesn't work. After trying a few things in the 'Network Configuration' in DrakConf, I tried to hardcode my IP adress. That doesn't work either. Besides, the "eth0" device fails to initialise during the Boot. That seems strange as HardDrake still detects it properly, and tells me it's configured. According to HardDrake, the card uses I/0 = -1 and IRQ = -1... is that normal? It doesn't allow me to choose any other values for these parameters... Besides, HardDrake doesn't explicitly display my card as being mounted as device eth0... is that normal also, or is that the cause of the problem? So what shall I do to make my network work?? Do I need to mount my network card as device eth0 (How do I do that?)? Why does it fail to initialize during the Boot? And what do I need to do to be able to connect to my cable provider? Environment: PII - 350 MHz pc - 128 Mb RAM - Mandrake Linux 7.1 - 3c905B-TX PCI Network card Thanks a lot, ./\. __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement)
Re: [newbie] ld-linux.so.
Run Ktop and ld-linux.so should be listed. Select it and kill. Seve Original Message On 8/16/00, 12:18:14 AM, Hugo Kuylman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] ld-linux.so.: Hi, Does anyone know what the above process is and how to kill it? Sometimes after my wife is done with her 'net surfing I find the system running real slow and when I run top it says that three of these processes are running, using nearly all of the cpu resources, with her as the owner and she is logged out of the system. I have tried to kill them, but just typing kill processid does not work. If this is a cron job, where do I look to remove it. Hugo
Re: [newbie] AMD 500 CPUs???
Yes, I have a AMD 500Mhz It appears to be running fine. Why do you ask? Seve Original Message On 7/29/00, 4:21:55 AM, Hellmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] AMD 500 CPUs???: Hi Bill. I'm very close to it, I have an AMD K6-2 450 Mhz and Mandrake runs just fine. Has anyone out there had a successful Mandrake operating on an AMD 500 CPU? TIA Bill -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | | | | www.fegefeuer-webzine.de | | | +-0OOO-+ | _ | _ | | | | | | | | | ooO Ooo
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 need help
Is LILO coming up after bootup? Original Message On 7/27/00, 8:54:18 PM, Jeff Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 need help: I need help getting it installed and setup. I can't seem to get it to boot off of a second HD. Please help?
[newbie] Mandrake 7.1 Installation Disk Question
I just installed 7.1 and was disappointed that all my important apps were missing. This leads me to wonder why the installation process was asking me for an "applications" CD. Are these the extra discs that you can only get from the package? May I also confirm that you only get two discs if you download the ISO files from mandrake? Seve
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Re: [newbie] imwheel probs
What if you chmod imwheel.pid ? Wouldn't that make it accessible to all instances of imwheel? That's what I did to solve that problem when I'm using Startx for multiple screens. Seve Original Message On 7/21/00, 8:07:41 PM, "Ralph Day" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] imwheel probs: Someone mentioned earlier that you could delete the /tmp/imwheel.pid file in the users home directory .logout script. Sounds like it should work fine but I haven't tried it. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "jeremy rogers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 12:54 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] imwheel probs heya dave its me again...(had to get a 2nd email account for this list to keep the wife happy)i was wondering...is there any way to run imwheel on *both* my root account and my other account(s)? thanks again, jeremy On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, you wrote: had this prob 2 days ago. delete the /tmp/imwheel.pid file and restart imwheel with the user id u want to use imwheel with.. this sets permissions on imwheel.pid to the user u are currently running and u can place imwheel -k in your autostart folder to start it everytime u start x regards.. --dave At 09:14 18.07.00, you wrote: greetings.. i am new to the group and am having probs with imwheel i can only get it working on my root accountbefore i upgraded to 7.1 i could use it on both root and my normal account why is this? ive tried to change permissions, but when i use the "imwheel -k" command i get this bit about being nable to write pid file nonsense i was able to get it working on 7.0 (though i dont remember how exactly) grrr any help will be greatly appreciated.. jeremy
Re: [newbie] Names of win partitions - logic?
Just rename them to something a bit more friendly. Seve Original Message On 7/22/00, 12:41:11 AM, "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Names of win partitions - logic?: IN Mandrake 7.1, under KDE, my win partitions have weird names: win_c, win_c2, win_d, wind_d2, etc. What is the logic behind these names? What makes linux name them c or c2 or d, etc. Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
Re: [newbie] Linux security in Internet
Thanks for the URL. I'll have to recommend it to all of my associates. Seve Original Message On 7/22/00, 5:51:23 PM, "Adrian Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Linux security in Internet: I have been visiting www.grc.com for quite some time under Windoze98 checking it out. Steve's site is wonderful -- if you use Windoze98 or such, you should check it out explore some of the software Steve recomends. I have not been there under Linux (haven't gotten connected yet, still working on that). As to your "open" ports, I would expect that yes, it means you have a security problem. I'm not sure if Steve's security check is "geared" to Linux (does it really matter??? I don't know). You might send him an email ask. Since this is a newbie list (and I'm one of 'em), if you are not familier with internet security issues, this is a great place to learn. practice safe computing adrian Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Install help
Do you know if Compaq is still putting part of the BIOS on the MBR portion of the harddrive? Is your Windows still working? Seve Original Message On 7/22/00, 4:10:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kandace Little) wrote regarding [newbie] Install help: I have a Compaq Presario AMD 533 Mhz with 128mb Ram and 20 Gig. HD. model number is 7479. I am having great troubles getting Linux 7.0 to install on this machine. I had to format it twice because all I got when I rebooted was zero's and one's filling up the screen. I tried to boot off of the disk and then to the CD but I can not get pass the disk they gave me. I tried to make my own disk as the instruction told me but the program that makes the disk did not work, give me an error not sure what just now. I have gave up trying sometime ago but now I find I still would love to have it on my machine. It has to be duel boot because I need to run WIn/98 as well. They say not to boot right to the disk (which I can do), I am not sure why but maybe I should try that. I friend told me that my hard drive was to big but I could not understand that being the problem. Any help would be GREAT! Thanks for you time and effort in the matter for me Regards Stephen L
Re: [newbie] Realplayer and icons etc.
Dennis, I hope these will help you out. Put these into /usr/share/icons/ Seve -Original Message- From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:18 PM Subject: [newbie] Realplayer and icons etc. Here I am with all indications that real player 7 down loaded and installed. It shows up in RPM/files and is set in /usr/bin and usr/local with a whole bunch of /usr/lib files. Ok, how do I know it is working? It also shows up in /usr/local/netscape/plugins. I don't know if or how I should put an icon on the desk top or on the tray ala MS Windows. Any ideas on if I installed ok and how to make an icon, any icon for that matter. rp7.xpm rprod.xpm rprod-wine.xpm
Re: [newbie] Menu help!
For your KDE menu, go to /usr/share/applnk Seve -Original Message- From: Donny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, July 02, 2000 12:11 AM Subject: [newbie] Menu help! Hi. I have been using Linux for awhile now, and just got mandrake 7.1. I did a fresh install, and for some reason, i cannot find a way to edit menu's in Gnome and KDE. When i go the the menu editor in KDE, i get the error, "Menu editor not installed". Please help! Thanks in advance!
Re: [newbie] Missing RPM
Go to the link below: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/MandrakeSoft.html Seve -Original Message- From: Rodrigo P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, July 02, 2000 12:02 AM Subject: [newbie] Missing RPM Hello folks... I just had my LM reinstalled and after configuring the X, I notice that are some rpm missing, like the Drakconf and setup as well. I am pretty much sure I selected all the packages during the installation... Do you have any ideias why did this happen ? And in order to install them, which are the rpm I need ? Thanks guys... Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] More than 128M
128M ram is not the limit. I think that lilo.conf is where you put a statement for it to see all 196Mgs. I hope that leads you in the right direction till someone with more knowledge writes back. Seve -Original Message- From: Rodrigo P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, July 02, 2000 12:06 AM Subject: [newbie] More than 128M Hi... A friend of my has a problem with its comp. memory... He has 196M of memory, passing as parameter during startup, linux recognizes 128M ok, but trying to pass over it, linux locks on startup. Is this a limit, or maybe he is doing something wrong ? Is there someway to make linux recognizes all the 196M mem ??? Thanks for the help. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[expert] Corel Photo-Paint for Linux - FYI Download Links
Below are the direct links to download the free Corel Photo-Paint so you don't have to waste your time trying to surf linux.corel.com ftp://ftplinux2.corel.com/pub/linux/PhotoPaint9/CorelPHOTOPAINT9Lnx.tar.gz CorelPHOTOPAINT9Lnx.tar.gz 182520 Kb Wed Jun 28 21:00:00 2000 Unix Tape Archive ftp://ftplinux2.corel.com/pub/linux/PhotoPaint9/CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxDEB.tar.gz CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxDEB.tar.gz 91989 Kb Wed Jun 28 20:54:00 2000 Unix Tape Archive ftp://ftplinux2.corel.com/pub/linux/PhotoPaint9/CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxRPM.tar.gz CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxRPM.tar.gz 92601 Kb Wed Jun 28 20:56:00 2000 Unix Tape Archive
Re: [newbie] VirtualHost
Let me take a look at your Vhosts.conf and httpd.conf and I'll help you get it going. Seve -Original Message- From: Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] VirtualHost There are some excellent examples on: http://www.apache.org Look in documentation under the virual hosts. -Chris On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Mark wrote: I'm looking for a sample/example for my httpd.conf file for virtual hosts. I messed one up, and it stopped my whole website from opertating 'till I commented it out! Oops. I'm setting it up so my friends can have there website be at theirname.mydomain.com and all their files be located in /home/theirname/www Can anyone help me out? Thanks Mark
Re: [newbie] Shockwave - What's Up With It?
Where did you get it from? Seve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, June 23, 2000 11:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Shockwave - What's Up With It? On 21 Jun, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Sevatio Octavio wrote: Have any of you know if there's a Linux Shockwave or a GPL equivalent? Seve Do you want shockwave or flashplayer? If you're talking about Macromedia's 'Backstage', I don't think they have anything available at this time. If you're interested, goto this page: http://www.macromedia.com/software/ They seem to be getting into the Linux thing, so maybe in the next couple of years we'll see something. This site does mention that they will be releasing 'generator 2' for web pages in November. There is a Shockwave for linux, which I use. But yesterday, I went to the Budweiser Whassup site, and it hanged Netscape. Plus, even after killing the netscape process, my sound card kept playing "Whassup!" over and over again for the next few hours. I just put it on mute and this morning it seems to be ok (maybe because I closed the lid of my laptop). L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [newbie] audio CD's
You don't mount audio CDs. Just play the CD from the software. Seve -Original Message- From: nikolaos mpenias [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, June 24, 2000 7:18 AM Subject: [newbie] audio CD's How can i mount an audio cd? I can use them when i run an audio CD player with no problem, but when i try to mount the cd from a terminal i get the message: "/dev/cdrom: Input/output error mount: /dev/cdrom has wrong major or minor number" Why is that? I have vi-ied the "/etc/filesystems" file with these possible file formats. vfat iso9660 cdfs cdudfrw joliet AIFC AIFF RIFF iso8859-1 cdda au audiocd None is working. Which is the one for audio CD's? I cannot find sth appropriate anywhere on the internet. You are my last hope. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic
Is your /etc/lilo.conf 's image statement pointing to the right kernel? Also, check what /boot/vmlinuz links to. Seve -Original Message- From: Curtis W. Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, June 24, 2000 10:14 PM Subject: [newbie] Kernel Panic I just installed mandrake 7.1. Compiled a new kernel and now I get an error message on boot, Kernel Panic: No init found. Any ideas
Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
Cut down your VFAT partition to 8Gigs and try the install again. Seve -Original Message- From: Hugo GONZALEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, June 23, 2000 10:02 AM Subject: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux Hello everyone. I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux. Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is: can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder 1024? Can I keep my hd like !Win98(10Gb)--!!Linux! or should I go to something like !-/boot-!!-Win98---!!-Linux--! Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me. Thanks in advance. Hugo GONZALEZ
Re: [newbie] Danger in accessing Win partition?
No problems here. Just add "umask=0" to your vfat line in fstab so that you can write to vfat partitions as non-root user. Seve -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, June 22, 2000 7:03 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Danger in accessing Win partition? Thomas.huh? I must've missed that?! I read and write to and from both my DR-DOS (fat16) and my Win98 (fat32) partitions all the time with my Linux Mandrake system. No problems here. Alan Thomas 2 wrote: Is it safe to access my Windows partition with LM? I remember last year someone said something about it corrupting MS? Thanks. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Shockwave - What's Up With It?
Have any of you know if there's a Linux Shockwave or a GPL equivalent? Seve
[newbie] StarOffice 5.2 Available - but site is overloaded.
FYI
Re: [newbie] trouble with Star Office
Have you tried to connect using Kmail to check if the mail server is down? Seve -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, June 19, 2000 4:29 AM Subject: [newbie] trouble with Star Office Hi all, I was wondering if anyone else had experienced this trouble with Star Office. When I attempt to "update" the email, (get S/O to contact my ISP's POP3 server) I get an error. A very generic error message that doesn't mean a lot to me, but says, "can't connect to Pop3 server." Can anyone shed any light on this? thanks, -- Mark I love my Linux Box!
Re: [newbie] E-mail Clients
StarOffice can handle the multiple accounts to some degree. Although it's rather cumbersome in layout. Then there's Magellan. It's supposed to be really good when ready. Check it out at http://www.zamolxe.csis.ul.ie . If there are others out there, please let us know. Seve -Original Message- From: Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, June 16, 2000 9:38 PM Subject: [newbie] E-mail Clients Hello, everybody! I'm currently using the Netscape e-mail client along with Kmail; I'm looking for a client which features message filters and search and multiple pop accounts, better if designed for Gnome; there's a lot of programs, what would you suggest me? Thank you! Corrado
Re: [newbie] MPEG Player and Action failure
Michael, sorry so slow to answer... I don't remember which one I chose. Advice: You can smooth-out the video by lowering audio quality and changing to mono. Seve -Original Message- From: michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, June 04, 2000 5:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] MPEG Player and Action failure On Sat, 03 Jun 2000, you wrote: Go to http://www.mpegtv.com and you shall find a much better mpeg player. The GUI version is $10. Command line version is free. I hope you have greater than 400Mhz CPU. Seve Which one works best with mandrake though? glibc 2?2.1? -- -michael- -- Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old. Æschylus --
Re: [newbie] MPEG Player and Action failure
Go to http://www.mpegtv.com and you shall find a much better mpeg player. The GUI version is $10. Command line version is free. I hope you have greater than 400Mhz CPU. Seve -Original Message- From: Emanuele La Rosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, June 02, 2000 6:31 PM Subject: [newbie] MPEG Player and Action failure I noticed that Action can't reproduce well some MPEG film. Nobody knows if there some MPEG players better than Action that work well like the Windoze mpeg player? The difference between action and the windows mpeg player is quite big so i hope an affermative answer
Re: [newbie] Writing to Windows Partition as Linux user
Alan, umask=0 works! I didn't know it was possible for regular users to access FAT till now. Thanks. Seve -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, May 06, 2000 1:46 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Writing to Windows Partition as Linux user Michael(as root) add the below option to the options in the line listing your dos partition in your /etc/fstab file. umask=0 Alan "Michael A. Kellogg" wrote: Hi Folks! Gotta a question . . . I really enjoy Mandrake 7.0 a great deal. Because some of my apps are still Windows based, I still have a dos partition on my drive. I can bring it up in LInux but am unable to write to it. Anyone know how I could enable the partition to write? Thanks! Mike
Re: [newbie] Sorry to be asking on here
Isn't the only way to get a virus is to get an attached executable file or macro and you activating it? Seve -Original Message- From: Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, May 04, 2000 11:31 AM Subject: [newbie] Sorry to be asking on here Im sorry to be asking on here about a windows question, but i heard people saying that they scan their e-mails and said they might have gotten viruses from this newsgroup. So im using Mcafee and if there are any Mcafee people out there can u please help me. I feel sorta stupid :) Thanx
Re: [newbie] Any Windows Media Player for Linux?
I know it exists. I had it once but lost the file since it didn't work %100 for me. I think a couple of years ago M$ had the Windows Media Player available for download from its website and has since removed the page. ...Probably because at the time Linux was insignificant in their eyes. So, someone out there should still have it. Meanwhile, I'll search my email archives. Seve -Original Message- From: Michael A. Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, April 30, 2000 8:28 PM Subject: [newbie] Any Windows Media Player for Linux? Hi Foiks! Just surfing around the Net and was trying to listen to a local radio station but it only has Windows Media Player format. Does anyone know what program (if any) might be out there that could work with Mandrake 7.0? Thanks! Mike
Re: [newbie] linux versus windows
Fully understandable. Despite some of these frustrations, we are still drawn to linux because it represents the right thing to do. This way the next generation won't live under Microsoft protocols anymore than we have to. Seve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, April 30, 2000 6:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] linux versus windows Hey, NO Flames on this one please, it is a desperate cry for HELP. I for one am having some difficulty in getting some thingys to work in Linux MDK as well and have so much to learn with reading all of this mail not much time each day to do some work on this system. I am NOT complaining most of this is MY prob, but I sympathize with Chadley on this and would like to read some constructive assistance for this... don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew.
Re: [newbie] supermount?
Mogens, I hope the following will help you a bit. Here's an example from /etc/fstab : /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd00 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermountfs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Here's the Man Document: SUPERMOUNT(8) MandrakeSoft SUPERMOUNT(8) NAME supermount - Enable or disable supermount feature SYNOPSIS supermount [OPTION]... disable | enable DESCRIPTION supermount allows system administrator to enable or dis¡ able the supermount feature offered in recent kernels. This feature automatically manages mounting and unmounting removable medias when needed. The script simply adds or remove the supermount option from within the entries of the /etc/fstab file. Without option -i the modified file is printed to stdout. supermount has to be launched with one of the following arguments: enable in order to enable supermount feature on relevant drives (cdrom and floppy drives), disable in order to disable the supermount feature on all drives. OPTIONS -f=FILE, --file=FILE Indicates an alternate file where to make modifica¡ tions. The default is /etc/fstab. -i, --infile Modifications are made directly to /etc/fstab or FILE specified through -f option, instead of being outputted to stdout. -h, --help, -? print a short help message. SEE ALSO fstab(5), mount(8), umount(8), COPYRIGHT Copyright _ 1999 MandrakeSoft. This is free software; see the source for copying condi¡ tions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. initscipts Dec 1999 1 -Original Message- From: Mogens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, April 28, 2000 6:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] supermount? bascule wrote: hi sevatio i reinstalled without supermount and then enabled from a command line, it seems to be working for the cd drives but i still get no joy for the floppy, i get an error message saying either bad fstype, too many mounted filesystems, bad superblock on /dev/fd0 i have put both vfat and ext2 into /etc/filesystems but unless i got the format of this file wrong it makes no difference even when not using supermount and doing it manually, i notice that the error message that i get appears immediately i attempt to mount the floppy even though the floppy drive light stays on for a while bascule Sevatio Octavio wrote: I doubt supermount ever worked when installed by the mandrake CD. For what I'm about to say, there should be a newer solution for your problem. I just installed Mandrake without the supermount option. Then I activated it later. Also, you should go to the MUO area in mandrake's website. It should cover these issues. Check for a newer version of supermount. While you're there, get the newer version of NumLock because the one that came with the CD doesn't work very well either. Seve Hej there I don't quite understand your problems - I have got the 7.0-set, and the supermount works just fine - until I start changing the system (like configuring the kernel). How do I activate it from a commandline? Mogens Jæger.
Re: [newbie] Hate Netscape! ... or is it me?...
what version Mandrake are you using? seve -Original Message- From: Nickolay Belostotsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 11:35 PM Subject: [newbie] Hate Netscape! ... or is it me?... Hello! Somehow, for some unknown to me reason, Netscape randomly closes /all/ its windows. For example, when I close one of six open windows (+Messenger), Netscape is gone altogether. The same *randomly* happens when Messenger ask me to enter me e-mail server password... Is there any way to amend it? What other browsers are there capable of JAVA, frames etc Thanks!
Re: [newbie] supermount?
I doubt supermount ever worked when installed by the mandrake CD. For what I'm about to say, there should be a newer solution for your problem. I just installed Mandrake without the supermount option. Then I activated it later. Also, you should go to the MUO area in mandrake's website. It should cover these issues. Check for a newer version of supermount. While you're there, get the newer version of NumLock because the one that came with the CD doesn't work very well either. Seve -Original Message- From: bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 3:12 PM Subject: [newbie] supermount? hi people, is supermount reliable? i ask because i cannot get it to work, i have reinstalled several times with the supermount option but to read a floppy i have to mount and unmount manually using a combination of the mount command and draksconf alternately, also when simply examining mounted hard drive options through Draksconf i now have no access to my cd drives which used to work! both cdrom and cdrw are scsi devices -a clue? i have read about some sort of timeout option for the mount command but i don't know if or how this might apply to my floppy drive- something to do with trying to read the files on the floppy before the drive is ready- any one the wiser out there? bascule
Re: [newbie] adsl
Actually, setting up DSL for linux is much much easier than setting up that freakin' KPPP. As far as your connectivity with DSL. You can go a couple of routes. The first option (which I prefer) is to get a couple of static IP addresses from your ISP. One for each of your machines. The second option is to stick with one IP and use your linuxbox as a proxy server. Connect your DSL modem to your hub and off you go! Try out that GTE Bronze+ package. It gets the most for your $. There is a new DSL that doesn't require you to be close to a central station. Which means pretty much everyone will be able to get DSL. It even goes up to 4Mb/Sec. But this is still in the works. So get that stuff ordered and I'll get to more details if needed. Seve -Original Message- From: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 9:10 PM Subject: [newbie] adsl Hello, I'm considering adsl service possibly within the next month (this 56k connection is about done!) I'm considering service through GTE (both the dsl and the isp), I'm wondering if anyone out there has experience with this combination? I know I can use it with windows, will it easily configure with Linux? If anyone has the time, could you go into some detailed setup? My current situation is two computers connected using a Netgear auto sensing 4 port hub. I would like to be able to connect the dsl modem directly to the hub (is that possible?) and let both computers (and future computers) to connect directly through the hub. I still haven't been able to configure simple NFS under Linux, although I'm able to ping - I don't know if that's relevant. Do I need to setup one box for a gateway, or can I just use the hub itself? Thanks in advance for any help, Mike =) -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] supermount?
Show me your /etc/fstab and I'll try to spot the problem. Seve -Original Message- From: bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000 9:18 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] supermount? hi sevatio i reinstalled without supermount and then enabled from a command line, it seems to be working for the cd drives but i still get no joy for the floppy, i get an error message saying either bad fstype, too many mounted filesystems, bad superblock on /dev/fd0 i have put both vfat and ext2 into /etc/filesystems but unless i got the format of this file wrong it makes no difference even when not using supermount and doing it manually, i notice that the error message that i get appears immediately i attempt to mount the floppy even though the floppy drive light stays on for a while bascule Sevatio Octavio wrote: I doubt supermount ever worked when installed by the mandrake CD. For what I'm about to say, there should be a newer solution for your problem. I just installed Mandrake without the supermount option. Then I activated it later. Also, you should go to the MUO area in mandrake's website. It should cover these issues. Check for a newer version of supermount. While you're there, get the newer version of NumLock because the one that came with the CD doesn't work very well either. Seve
Re: [newbie] realplayer problem
By "link", do you mean the Kmenu or do you mean a link on your desktop? Regardless, it sounds like a permissions problem with your realplayer file. 1. get into your console as Superuser 2. type in: chmod 755 /usr/lib/RealPlayer7/realplay that should correct the permissions problem. Seve -Original Message- From: Sean Oonamey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:13 AM Subject: [newbie] realplayer problem Hey ppl, Was wondering if anyone has had the same problem as me with Mandrake 7.0 and RealPlayer. When I log in as root I am able to click on the link and the application starts up. When I log in as a user the link does not work. I can cut and paste the link into the "Open Location" area and it works, but how do I get it to activate when I click on a link? Namoshay _ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club.
Re: [newbie] Video mini problem
I take it you don't have a digitally controlled monitor that holds its settings? One thing though, is your XF86Config file set with the correct monitor settings for horizontal and vertical frequencies? It's likely that you will have to do it manually to get it setup correctly. Seve -Original Message- From: Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 7:14 PM Subject: [newbie] Video mini problem Hey all. Here's another curiosity. Although I stated that Mandrake supports my ATI Rage video card, the screen is off center, shifted to the right side. I usually get around this by running XVidtune. That works well, but only last the session. I dual boot Linux/Windows, so I frequently reboot. my machine. Is there a way to make the XVidtune settings permanent?
Re: [newbie] Many Questions
Perhaps it's the CD Player software. I have the same problem with that kde cd player. Try out another cd player software. "Grip" can play CDs and uses CDDB. It will also convert to MP3 for you. Seve -Original Message- From: Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 6:55 PM Subject: [newbie] Many Questions Hi all. Got a few Mandrake related questions, but first a comment. Mandrake has to be by far the BEST package that I've installed to date. I've tried Caldera, Redhat, Suse, Storm, Debian, etc. They are all pretty good, but none of them worked as well as Mandrake. When I was done with the Mandrake install, the only thing not working (hardware wise) was the sound card, until I ran sndconfig. Now I have sound too. This distro even supported my ATI Rage video card, with NO interaction on my part! Any how, first question: Anyone having trouble with the CDDB not working in the cd player program? I can't seem to get it to connect to the CDDB on-line to retrieve CD track titles. There's not a whole lot of settings in the program, and I've played with them all. Any ideas? Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Many Questions
I just tried out GCD and it's nice. It's a specialized version of Grip. The CDDB lookups work. http://www.atella.com/seveman/gcd-2.94-1.i686.rpm http://www.atella.com/seveman/grip-2.94-1.i686.rpm http://www.atella.com/seveman/grip-2.94-1.src.rpm in case you want to build it yourself. Good listenings... Seve -Original Message- From: Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 3:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Many Questions Perhaps it's the CD Player software. I have the same problem with that kde cd player. Try out another cd player software. "Grip" can play CDs and uses CDDB. It will also convert to MP3 for you. Seve -Original Message- From: Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 6:55 PM Subject: [newbie] Many Questions Hi all. Got a few Mandrake related questions, but first a comment. Mandrake has to be by far the BEST package that I've installed to date. I've tried Caldera, Redhat, Suse, Storm, Debian, etc. They are all pretty good, but none of them worked as well as Mandrake. When I was done with the Mandrake install, the only thing not working (hardware wise) was the sound card, until I ran sndconfig. Now I have sound too. This distro even supported my ATI Rage video card, with NO interaction on my part! Any how, first question: Anyone having trouble with the CDDB not working in the cd player program? I can't seem to get it to connect to the CDDB on-line to retrieve CD track titles. There's not a whole lot of settings in the program, and I've played with them all. Any ideas? Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Num Lock
This link should get you that file. ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/numlock-1.0-7mdk.i586.rpm Seve -Original Message- From: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, April 15, 2000 1:37 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Num Lock First, make sure you have numlock-1.0-7mdk installed. Next, open kpackage and find the numlock package (System / Configuration / Boot and Init). Single click on the package and look at the 'properties' tab to verify that you have this version installed. Next look at the 'File list' tab and you'll see a list of where the different files relevant to that package have been installed; you should see an entry that says /usr/X11R6/bin/enable_X11_numlock If you don't see this package, then you either don't have the correct version or somehow the file was corrupted when you downloaded; that program was specifically added to the last version. If you would like to get emails on the latest packages and updates, go to the Mandrake home page and navigate to the developer area and subscribe to the changlog list. I can verify that the program does exist, because I just installed it about a week or two ago and it works great. Let me know how it works out, Mike "Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: Michael Holt wrote: If you installed the latest version of the numlock program from the site listed below, enable_X11_numlock should automatically be installed in the directory /etc/X11R6/bin I've installed the said Numlock rpm, and it hasn't had any impact. My Numlock key resolutely ignores this script. What do I need to do to make it work, or is this specific to my hardware? (btw, the aforementioned X11 program is *not* included in the RPM, at least not the release RPM). -Stephen- -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] lots of crashes???
Mohamed, What services do you have running while these things occur? Also, are you using Mandrake 7.0-2 ? seve -Original Message- From: Mohamed Saad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, April 15, 2000 5:21 AM Subject: [newbie] lots of crashes??? Hello everyone... I have installed Mandrake 7.0 a week ago... I just have a small question.. I heard things about Linux like "Rock Solid" and so... What i noted is that Mandrake 7.0 crashes just like Windows!!! Yes... Its crashes are much less than Windows! but.. It crashes!!! It crashed about 4 times this week!! (windows crashes at a rate of 3 times/day! so Linux is better!) well... here are the crashes! KDE: I was opening 2 windows of Netscape. And suddenly, the whole system freezed! I just could move the mouse! but i can't do anything! I had to press ctrl+alt+backspace to log out! and it worked! KDE: I pressed Log Out, the screen turned black, and i couldn't Do any thing! i had to press "Reset" Xfce3: It was my first time to even see it! i just used it for 15 seconds!! :) i pressed the button with the penguin, and the whole system freezed!! I had to press "reset" Gnome: I was just moving around... It suddenly made a GPF, and told me that this may be due to a bug, and they gave some email to report at! (this is not really serious, as it didn't really crash the system!) Now, the point is... I am NOT upset of all these crashes!! :) I am used to them from the old days of Windows! Windows taught me lots of things! when the system crashes, I just grin and coldly press the "Reset" button! The point is... Why do people say that linux is "ROCK SOLID"?? it is NOT "rock solid"! It is just," more solid than Windows!" I was just wondering!! :) Thank you... Urs Mohamed Saad Note: All my hardware is supported under linux, in case u r wondering!! :) __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] lots of crashes???
That's odd... I had the same problem w/ Netscape when I was using Mdk6.1 . But since going to 7.0-2Mdk, netscape has zapped only twice. And this timeline goes back to the day 7.0-2mdk was made available for download. Seve -Original Message- From: steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, April 15, 2000 7:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] lots of crashes??? Since it's the weekend, :o) rant on Linux is very stable and beats windows all over the place. But, until the Linux community gets this web browser "crap" resolved, to me, Linux ain't worth the CD it is shipped on. 90% of my usage is surfing the internet. IE 4 has problems, and 5 is worse, but Netscape dying at random is unacceptable. M14 sucks and Netscape 6, well, ain't much better. rant off And we thank you for your support.. Original Message Follows From: Ribbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] lots of crashes??? Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:50:30 +0700 On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Mohamed Saad wrote: well... here are the crashes! KDE: I was opening 2 windows of Netscape. And suddenly, the whole system freezed! I just could move the mouse! but i can't do anything! I had to press ctrl+alt+backspace to log out! and it worked! well that means your linux still worked and not crash. just one application crashed, it was X problem. KDE: I pressed Log Out, the screen turned black, and i couldn't Do any thing! i had to press "Reset" Xfce3: It was my first time to even see it! i just used it for 15 seconds!! :) i pressed the button with the penguin, and the whole system freezed!! I had to press "reset" next time try to log from another console and kill the X. Gnome: I was just moving around... It suddenly made a GPF, and told me that this may be due to a bug, and they gave some email to report at! (this is not really serious, as it didn't really crash the system!) try to reconfigure your X server. run Xconfigurator or XF86setup. make sure you choose properly The point is... Why do people say that linux is "ROCK SOLID"?? it is NOT "rock solid"! It is just," more solid than Windows!" I was just wondering!! :) sure linux is ROCK solid. my school server runs with linux and it have 2 year uptime now. -- Rib During the voyage of life, remember to keep an eye out for a fair wind; batten down during a storm; hail all passing ships; and fly your colors proudly. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] LILO help can't reboot
I get this once in awhile too. Just boot up with your boot diskette. Then login as usual. Open up the console as superuser and just enter "lilo". That alone should correct your problem. I'm still curious as to why this happens. If anyone of you guys know... please share. Is it something that Windurz is doing? Seve -Original Message- From: Leanne Leith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, April 15, 2000 7:15 AM Subject: [newbie] LILO help can't reboot At the start-up screen, instead of LILO we only see LIL and there it freezes. What could we have done wrong and how can we fix it? *** chickclick.com http://www.chickclick.com girl sites that don't fake it. http://www.chickmail.com sign up for your free email. http://www.chickshops.com boutique shopping from chickclick.com ***
Re: [newbie] Where do Programs Go?
Andy, Before we start... let's drift back to windows for a second... For installations, you just click the install file and it pretty much does everything for you. RPM files are also capable of this - IF the author included the icon, documentation, and a Kmenu entry. This is not always the case. I'll assume you're using KDE. You can do all of this logged in as a regular user. Activate the Drakeconf icon on your desktop. It will ask you for the superuser password. Once in, you will see the button for Kpackage. Use Kpackage to open your RPM file. When you are installing with RPM files, the Package Manager (Kpackage) will list every file that it's going to put into your system. If you didn't see it, you can have Kpackage search for it (in Kpackage). Then you can look at the file list. Generally, the executables go into "/usr/bin" or "/usr/bin/local". The documentation usually drops into "/usr/doc". Also, check for an icon file (not always there). You may also see file entries for your Kmenu. If the RPM came with all the goodies, you can just right-click your kpanel and choose "restart". Check your Kmenu for the installed application. If you don't see a menu entry, you can make one. Open up File Manager as superuser. Select "Edit GlobalApplications". It will list the files and folders responsible for your Kmenu layout. In windows, it's like right-clicking the start button and choosing "Explore" so you can edit the "start" menu. Back to Linux... So go into your desired folder and right-clicknew-application. Fill in the blanks, choose your icon, and click okay. Restart your Kpanel and it should show up on your Kmenu. Setting up MIMEs... While in File Manager as superuser, select "Edit GlobalMIME Types" and there you go. Between this and "Edit GlobalApplications" you should be able to link file types with their corresponding applications. Ask again if I forgot to answer something. Seve -Original Message- From: andy barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, April 15, 2000 8:32 AM Subject: [newbie] Where do Programs Go? When you install an RPM, you have to be in root, don't you?? OK..when you install, where does Linux put this program.. Bear with me as I'm used to a Windows environment, where it puts it either onto your C drive or into Program Files on C drive, and you kind find an .exe even if you can't see an icon to click.. When you revert to user, I can't work out how to run a program after it's installed. Cheers Andy
[newbie] Barely Related But Funny
You guys have got to check out this avi of Bill Gates. http://www.atella.com/seveman/bill.avi * *Of course we don't condone such actions in real-life. Seve
Re: [newbie] How do I install a video card?
Use "setup" as superuser. Do your best at selecting the closes thing to your monitor and test to see if it looks okay. It doesn't have to be perfect because you can do the fine-tuning in the next step. Then open up "/etc/X11/XF86Config" in some editor. Now go to the "Monitor Section". Change the two lines "HorizSync" "VertRefresh" to match your monitor's specifications. Restart X. Please let me know if you need more info. Seve -Original Message- From: West, Kenneth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 06, 2000 11:36 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] How do I install a video card? Bryan, ctl-alt-plus or ctl-alt-minus has no affect at all. I am tried the xf86config. I was instructed to look in this file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/monitors, and my monitor is not listed. Any suggestions? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 8:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] How do I install a video card? Try ctl-alt-plus or ctl-alt-minus and see if that changes your resolution. If not, try running "xf86config" from either the command line, or from an xterm session and somewhere in there, you will be able to define more that one resolution type. I think. Can someone else on the list verify? Bryan "West, Kenneth" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/06/2000 10:18:31 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: RE: [newbie] How do I install a video card? It does work but I cannot adjust the resolution. The k work very well. Sorry for not being clear. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 6:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I install a video card? What do you mean by nonfunctional? Doesn't work at all? Works occasionally? Can't start X session? Known unsupported card? What? Bryan "West, Kenneth" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/06/2000 09:05:18 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: [newbie] How do I install a video card? Hello, I am new to Linux, and I would appreciate any assistance. I inherited a Lunix-Mandrake 6.5 with a nonfunctional video card. The pc is a Gateway E-4200 with an ATI RAGE 128 video card, 128 MB RAM with an 11 Gig hard drive. Thank you in advance.
Re: [newbie] How do I mount an IDE Tape drive?
You don't have to mount an IDE tape drive. As long as your system recognizes the tape drive you can just run "taper -T ide". Seve -Original Message- From: Don Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, March 27, 2000 1:24 PM Subject: [newbie] How do I mount an IDE Tape drive? Hi All, I am running Mandrake Air 7.0 on an AMD 233 Mhz system using 96 megs of ram. The install went well, and it saw all my DOS partitions for Windoze and listed them on the desktop, along with the floppy and CDROM drives. However, there is no entry in fstab for my IDE-ATAPI AIWA tape drive. Lothar minimally sees it as /dev/hdd (2nd device on the secondary IDE channel). I've tried manually installing it through linuxconf applet but I'm either not doing it right, or don't have all the params correct. I can't get Linux to recognize or initialize the drive. Any help on this would be appreciated. It's my intent to use the tape drive for backups. The drive works flawlessly on the Windoze side. Regards, Don --- "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson
Re: [newbie] [NEWBIE] NIC 3C905b problems
Are you working with Mandrake 7.0-2? Seve -Original Message- From: Scala, Lino [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, March 20, 2000 10:17 AM Subject: [newbie] [NEWBIE] NIC 3C905b problems Hello everyone, this is my very first Linux install and I'm having troubles with the built in NIC card it's a 3Com 3c905b which is listed under all the supported NICs but when I do the auto probe it fails, I've gone to the Dell web site to check if any info on installing the card in Linux was available but no luck, any suggestion?
Re: [newbie] SiS 6326 Help with Video config
I got the Riva TNT w/ 16meg. Seve -Original Message- From: Brian Vogt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 16, 2000 1:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] SiS 6326 Help with Video config What card did you get? I've been looking at the compatibility lists and checking pricewatch and its tough to find the perfect card...I'd love to have something that functions on the first try... - Original Message - From: "Sevatio Octavio" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 9:16 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] SiS 6326 Help with Video config I even looked at the commercial driver... I don't exactly remember the details but I remembered it being a better choice to get the new card. I spent around $50 for an AGP card with 16MegRam and it was good the first attempt. I'm guessing that you have 8Mb on yours. So that's a bit of an upgrade. Goodluck. I'm just glad to see that more people are jumpin' on the Penguin Express. Seve -Original Message- From: Brian Vogt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 16, 2000 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] SiS 6326 Help with Video config Yes, thanks...I'd love to see anything that might help. I'm at a loss as to what to do next, and Mandrake tech support doesn't have much to say about it... When will a new version of Xfree86 be out? Will support be in a full release, or in one of the smaller pre-releases? Also, does anyone know anything about the commercial driver I heard mentioned? I'm wondering if that might be a better option than buying a new video card. Thanks for all the feedback, everyone - I appreciate it. Brian - Original Message - From: "Jim Del Cañamo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] SiS 6326 Help with Video config I work with Diamond Speed Star A50 Mandrake 6.0 You must configurate some Options in device section for /etc/X11/XF86 config file If you want I can send my XF86config file Gabriel Spahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sevatio Octavio) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SiS 6326 Help with Video config Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:44:30 -0800 I had the same problem with the 6326. You get graphics but blacked-out text. I'm sorry but I don't believe there has been a fix for this. Xfree86.org says that the next version should resolve this situation. Look at this page for the bad news http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#A50 . What I did was went out and bought a better card that was compatible. Seve -Original Message- From: Jim Del Cañamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 8:44 PM Subject: [newbie] SiS 6326 Help with Video config Brian I work with a SiS6323 Diamond Speed Star A50 video card whit AGP you can read the README.SiS for valid options Or if you want I will send to you my video configuration in XF86SVGA file. please send your request to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Brian Vogt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help with Video config Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:25:28 - Hello everyone. I am installing Mandrake on my Athlon box, and am having trouble with my video card. It is built by Biostar, who also makes my motherboard, and has the SiS 6326 chipset (win2k tells me it is an "SiS 5598/6326" card). It is an AGP card. I can't get it to give me a display - and the closest I've gotten is a full color, correctly sized desktop that doesn't allow me to read text. Anytime any texty is displayed, it appears as a black block character. How do I set up this card in the installer properly? Thanks for the help Brian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] MainActor Video Editor - Must See!
Hey Y'all, If you're looking for a video editor... I just downloaded one from http://www.mainactor.com . So far it looks pretty nice. I've gotta get used to it. If this works out... it will eliminate the last reason for me to use Windurz. Man, it sure is nice having all these companies taking Linux seriously. Seve
Re: [newbie] SiS 6326 Help with Video config
I even looked at the commercial driver... I don't exactly remember the details but I remembered it being a better choice to get the new card. I spent around $50 for an AGP card with 16MegRam and it was good the first attempt. I'm guessing that you have 8Mb on yours. So that's a bit of an upgrade. Goodluck. I'm just glad to see that more people are jumpin' on the Penguin Express. Seve -Original Message- From: Brian Vogt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 16, 2000 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] SiS 6326 Help with Video config Yes, thanks...I'd love to see anything that might help. I'm at a loss as to what to do next, and Mandrake tech support doesn't have much to say about it... When will a new version of Xfree86 be out? Will support be in a full release, or in one of the smaller pre-releases? Also, does anyone know anything about the commercial driver I heard mentioned? I'm wondering if that might be a better option than buying a new video card. Thanks for all the feedback, everyone - I appreciate it. Brian - Original Message - From: "Jim Del Cañamo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] SiS 6326 Help with Video config I work with Diamond Speed Star A50 Mandrake 6.0 You must configurate some Options in device section for /etc/X11/XF86 config file If you want I can send my XF86config file Gabriel Spahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sevatio Octavio) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SiS 6326 Help with Video config Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:44:30 -0800 I had the same problem with the 6326. You get graphics but blacked-out text. I'm sorry but I don't believe there has been a fix for this. Xfree86.org says that the next version should resolve this situation. Look at this page for the bad news http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#A50 . What I did was went out and bought a better card that was compatible. Seve -Original Message- From: Jim Del Cañamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 8:44 PM Subject: [newbie] SiS 6326 Help with Video config Brian I work with a SiS6323 Diamond Speed Star A50 video card whit AGP you can read the README.SiS for valid options Or if you want I will send to you my video configuration in XF86SVGA file. please send your request to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Brian Vogt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help with Video config Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:25:28 - Hello everyone. I am installing Mandrake on my Athlon box, and am having trouble with my video card. It is built by Biostar, who also makes my motherboard, and has the SiS 6326 chipset (win2k tells me it is an "SiS 5598/6326" card). It is an AGP card. I can't get it to give me a display - and the closest I've gotten is a full color, correctly sized desktop that doesn't allow me to read text. Anytime any texty is displayed, it appears as a black block character. How do I set up this card in the installer properly? Thanks for the help Brian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] CHMOD - help!
I'm trying to understand chmod. There's one area I'm stuck in... How would you recursively set files to 644 and directories to 744 in one statement? -this way I don't have to go into each directory to set file chmod. Seve
[newbie] CHOWN of FAT32 partition
I am not able to do a chown on a mounted fat32 partition. It is still owned by "root". Is this because it is a fat32 partition? Or is there another way to chown a fat32? Seve
Re: [newbie] SiS 6326 Help with Video config
I had the same problem with the 6326. You get graphics but blacked-out text. I'm sorry but I don't believe there has been a fix for this. Xfree86.org says that the next version should resolve this situation. Look at this page for the bad news http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#A50 . What I did was went out and bought a better card that was compatible. Seve -Original Message- From: Jim Del Cañamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 8:44 PM Subject: [newbie] SiS 6326 Help with Video config Brian I work with a SiS6323 Diamond Speed Star A50 video card whit AGP you can read the README.SiS for valid options Or if you want I will send to you my video configuration in XF86SVGA file. please send your request to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Brian Vogt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help with Video config Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:25:28 - Hello everyone. I am installing Mandrake on my Athlon box, and am having trouble with my video card. It is built by Biostar, who also makes my motherboard, and has the SiS 6326 chipset (win2k tells me it is an "SiS 5598/6326" card). It is an AGP card. I can't get it to give me a display - and the closest I've gotten is a full color, correctly sized desktop that doesn't allow me to read text. Anytime any texty is displayed, it appears as a black block character. How do I set up this card in the installer properly? Thanks for the help Brian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Reconfigure Mandrake 7.0 kernel
Go into your console and ... cd /usr/src/linux make xconfig Seve -Original Message-From: Sharon Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 7:46 PMSubject: [newbie] Reconfigure Mandrake 7.0 kernel Hi all! Can someone please tell what tools/program I can use to reconfigure the kernel. Thanks Sharon Pfeiffer
Re: [newbie] How do I tell if a process is working, or its just sitting there?
one way is to... run ktop aka kmenusystemtask manager seve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, March 12, 2000 9:04 PM Subject: [newbie] How do I tell if a process is working, or its just sitting there? I'm trying to burn Audio cd's using a neat little program called mp3burn. It's not the best in the world, but if I can get it to work it will be great. Right now tho, I can't even tell if it is working. It started a bunch of subprocesses, then just sits there. So how can I tell if it's going to continue or if it's just froze? Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713
Re: [newbie] avoid YAMAHA Audio Chips
DO NOT go for the OSS drivers for Yamaha. You're much better off spending that same amount on a SoundBlaster Card. Even with the commercial OSS, it is still not fully functional and has a couple of bugs. If I could do it all over again, I would get an SB card. I've seen some nice ones around $29 and they're a snap to get running. Seve -Original Message- From: Traci Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 09, 2000 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] avoid YAMAHA Audio Chips The commercial OSS drivers have excellent support for the Yamaha sound chips. You do have to pay a little extra but for $25 you can get some use out of that Yamaha sound card. Traci Denis Havlik wrote: Yamaha + linux = problems. Avoid these peskies if you can. Yamaha stil does not get it, and their chips are mostly unsupported. By the way, Xwave QS3000A is also from Yamaha. AVOID, AVOID, AVOID. cu Denis - Mag^H^H^HDr. Denis Havlik http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria(@ @) tel: (++431) 4277/51179 ---oOO--(_)--OOo- -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] avoid YAMAHA Audio Chips
They cost $20 PLUS the extra charge of $10 for the Yamaha module. Seve -Original Message- From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 09, 2000 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] avoid YAMAHA Audio Chips Sorry I thought that they cost $20??? On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, Traci Collins mewed: The commercial OSS drivers have excellent support for the Yamaha sound chips. You do have to pay a little extra but for $25 you can get some use out of that Yamaha sound card. Traci Denis Havlik wrote: Yamaha + linux = problems. Avoid these peskies if you can. Yamaha stil does not get it, and their chips are mostly unsupported. By the way, Xwave QS3000A is also from Yamaha. AVOID, AVOID, AVOID. cu Denis - Mag^H^H^HDr. Denis Havlik http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria(@ @) tel: (++431) 4277/51179 ---oOO--(_)--OOo- -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] FYI - G2 Player V7 is due within 30 days
Finally, Real.com says that G2player V7 is due out within 30 days. Wow, they must be taking linux seriously. Check out the article at http://www.realnetworks.com/company/pressroom/pr/2000/rhlinux.html Let's hope they develop a Netscape plugin for the embedded G2player. Seve
Re: [newbie] YAMAHA Audio Chip Supported ?????
Samir, Which Yamaha Chip set is it? Most likely, it is not supported because Yamaha won't release their codes to ALSA. So you will have to fork-out $30 ($20 + $10 for the Yamaha Module) for a driver from http://www.opensound.com. If you take that route you'll need to remember the following: Because of a Known Bug: When starting up the OSS sound driver, you will have to include this in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local soundon soundoff soundon For some reason it won't start with the first soundon command and OSS is aware of this problem. Good Luck, Seve P.S. Boycott Yamaha or the motherboards upon which they come. This might then send a message to their arrogance ignorance. -Original Message- From: Samir Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, February 24, 2000 7:12 AM Subject: [newbie] YAMAHA Audio Chip Supported ? Is there any info. that has a list of sound cards/chips supported by Mandrake Linux. I have a Yamaha onBoard chip although neither Lothar nor the Install/upgrade wizard could identify the hardware. Would greatly appreciate any form of help on this one. I am a newbie with LINUX. Thank you. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] FAT32 Defrag Software - In Search Of...
What's a good linux defrag program for FAT32 partitions? Seve
Re: [newbie] People who get LI at boot up rather than LILO BOOT:
I'm still a bit puzzle about this "LI" freeze on bootup instead of LILO BOOT. This is on a lin/win box dual boot using lilo... It just happened for the second time and I can't figure out why. I had to boot with a floppy and reinstall LILO. But before it was done installing lilo, it stopped with an error of "Partition entry not found". To fix lilo.conf , I had to change label=windows to label=dos because my hda1 fat32 is labeled "dos". Here's where I'm confused: Why did lilo work with the old lilo.conf and then suddenly not work and freeze on bootup? And then, why did it work okay after I reinstalled lilo with the correct "label" entry in lilo.conf? What caused lilo to suddenly decide not to accept the "label" entry for hda1 in the old lilo.conf? Seve -Original Message- From: Kennedy D. Rivers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, February 25, 2000 11:40 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] People who get LI at boot up rather than LILO BOOT: no I have had that problem and what it was is that you didn't have the complete download of the product check the image size and see if it is the same as the site size? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 7:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] People who get LI at bootup rather than LILO BOOT: This is almost certainly a problem with hard drive geometry. You should open up your PC and look at the label glued onto it, and make a note of the number of cyliners, heads and sectors. If you want a dual-boot machine, and the windows part already works OK, then you don't need to mess with the BIOS. If this is not the case, have a look at the BIOS, and try setting LBA as the hard disk addressing mode. If this still doesn't work, boot linux from a boot floppy, edit /etc/lilo.conf and add this line append = "hd=cyl,hds,sctrs" where cyl is the number of cylinders, hds is the number of heads and sctrs is the number of sectors printed on your disk. You might find the LILO mini HOWTO and the BOOTDISK HOWTO useful, Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst
Re: [newbie] YAMAHA Audio Chip Supported ?????
Come to think of it... you might be better off spending that money on an inexpensive SB soundcard (which is a snap to setup). At least when you play mpg files, the sound will sync with the video. The OSS driver will not sync up the audio with video very well. This is while using "Mpeg TV" (shareware). Seve -Original Message----- From: Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, February 25, 2000 8:41 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] YAMAHA Audio Chip Supported ? Samir, Which Yamaha Chip set is it? Most likely, it is not supported because Yamaha won't release their codes to ALSA. So you will have to fork-out $30 ($20 + $10 for the Yamaha Module) for a driver from http://www.opensound.com. If you take that route you'll need to remember the following: Because of a Known Bug: When starting up the OSS sound driver, you will have to include this in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local soundon soundoff soundon For some reason it won't start with the first soundon command and OSS is aware of this problem. Good Luck, Seve P.S. Boycott Yamaha or the motherboards upon which they come. This might then send a message to their arrogance ignorance. -Original Message- From: Samir Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, February 24, 2000 7:12 AM Subject: [newbie] YAMAHA Audio Chip Supported ? Is there any info. that has a list of sound cards/chips supported by Mandrake Linux. I have a Yamaha onBoard chip although neither Lothar nor the Install/upgrade wizard could identify the hardware. Would greatly appreciate any form of help on this one. I am a newbie with LINUX. Thank you. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Mdk7.0-2 and Laptops - Installation Questions
I'm contemplating installing Mdk7.0-2 on a Compaq 466MHz AMD Laptop. I've never installed Mandrake on a laptop before. For those with such experience, is the level of difficulty similar to that of a desktop install? If not, what problem might one encounter when doing a laptop install? Seve
[newbie] Supermount Activation Help
When I installed Mdk7.0-2, I did not choose the "supermount" option. Since then, I've upgraded to Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk to that supermount is supported. Now, how do I get supermount to work? Do I need to update/install any software? Seve
Re: [newbie] 7.0 -- Supermount fstab
I did choose the "supermount" option when I installed Mdk7.0-2 because of the known problems. Since then, I've upgraded the kernel to support supermount. In order for me to get supermount to work, do I have to install any software? Or, do I just modify my fstab? Seve -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000 11:47 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.0 -- Supermount fstab Benhere you go. /dev/sda1 /mnt/dos_sda1 vfat user,exec 0 0 /dev/sda5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /mnt/floppy2 /mnt/floppy2 supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd1 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 /dev/hda /mnt/ls-120 vfat noauto,user,exec 0 0 Alan Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: A simple request. After downloading Mandrake 7.0, I got my fstab all mixed up. I am quite experienced in writing my fstab and have done it many times. So, I stupidly forgot to make a copy of the 7.0 fstab with its supermount settings. May I ask someone if you could please send me a copy of your 7.0 fstab with the supermount settings so I could add them to my fstab? Really appreciate it. Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] 7.0 -- Supermount fstab - correction
Oops, I meant to type: I did Not choose the "supermount" option when I installed Mdk7.0-2 because of the known problems. Since then, I've upgraded the kernel to support supermount. In order for me to get supermount to work, do I have to install any software? Or, do I just modify my fstab? Seve -Original Message----- From: Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, February 18, 2000 1:09 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.0 -- Supermount fstab I did choose the "supermount" option when I installed Mdk7.0-2 because of the known problems. Since then, I've upgraded the kernel to support supermount. In order for me to get supermount to work, do I have to install any software? Or, do I just modify my fstab? Seve -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000 11:47 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.0 -- Supermount fstab Benhere you go. /dev/sda1 /mnt/dos_sda1 vfat user,exec 0 0 /dev/sda5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /mnt/floppy2 /mnt/floppy2 supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd1 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 /dev/hda /mnt/ls-120 vfat noauto,user,exec 0 0 Alan Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: A simple request. After downloading Mandrake 7.0, I got my fstab all mixed up. I am quite experienced in writing my fstab and have done it many times. So, I stupidly forgot to make a copy of the 7.0 fstab with its supermount settings. May I ask someone if you could please send me a copy of your 7.0 fstab with the supermount settings so I could add them to my fstab? Really appreciate it. Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] AUDIO CD's
Can you get sound from the CD player software on your taskbar? Seve -Original Message-From: Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Friday, February 18, 2000 12:40 AMSubject: [newbie] AUDIO CD's now that i can mount a CD drive, how can I listen to some music?
Re: [newbie] Defragging
Would you still have to defrag a FAT32 partition even if linux is the primary OS for it? Seve -Original Message- From: Anthony Huereca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, February 18, 2000 4:24 PM Subject: [newbie] Defragging Is there any regular maintaince that needs to be done to a linux box like in Windows with defrag, scandisk, etc? I know that defragging in Windows can speed up a system quite a bit, and I had never heard of anything like defragging in Linux, which is why I was wondering if you even have to do it. And if so, how exactly would you do it? -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit
Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?
Rib, Thanks! I'm checkin' it out. Seve -Original Message- From: Ribbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 3:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program? On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: Try StarOffice. But, I'm still looking for a linux email client that can handle multiple accounts for sending. Seve you should try Mutt (www.mutt.org) for handling multiple acc. i could send you my Mutt config if you want. -- Rib "I prefer the blunted cudgels of the followers of the Serpent God." -- Sean Doran the Younger
Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?
Try StarOffice. But, I'm still looking for a linux email client that can handle multiple accounts for sending. Seve -Original Message- From: Aaron Zuercher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program? Not desperate.. just spoiled... :) Tried Post Office... has lots of promise, but lacks polish... know of any others? Aaron - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program? Might be a daft question but what's wrong with ELM and PINE? You desperate to have a GUI interface? Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst "Aaron Zuercher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 15/02/2000 14:21:47 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) Subject: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program? Hello, I'm used to using MS Outlook Express and also Agent for email in Windows. Looking for a comparable program in Linux. Any Ideas? Thanks, Aaron
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup
What Mandrake are you using? Seve -Original Message- From: J Winkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 11:21 AM Subject: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup Hi All, I am using a cable modem (Comcast @Home in NJ) to connect to the internet and can not, for the life of me, figure out how to configure it (correctly) to actually get on the internet. I have found most(?) places that would configure it. But am not sure of the translation between Win95 and Linux for DNS Server, Work Group, Search Order, etc . I have looked for How-To's on the subject but none really get as specific as I need (read extreme newbie). Any help would be MOST appreciated. Jim
Re: [newbie] How do I install programs?
Also look at http://www.linuxberg.com for additional software. As far as how to install software... (Assuming you know as much as I did when I first started - Zero) When you download files with the extension of RPM, you can click the RPM files and the install process is similar to that of windowz (somewhat automated). When you download files with the extension of .tar.gz, you need to place it in a folder then fire up the xconsole (kinda like DOS). go to that folder: cd /foldername "unzip: tar -zxf programname.tar.gz" it will then extract find the extracted files and folders and look for a Readme file. That file should help you the rest of the way... Then what generally happens is the following... you type in: "./configure" then:"make" (this compiles your source files) then:"make install" (installs) now, you may have to find the binary files (usually in "/bin") and assign an icon and create a link from Kmenu... Seve, I hope you find this helpful. -Original Message- From: Steve Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 7:16 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] How do I install programs? Hi there Brent, First of all, please don't post to the list using html - not everyone uses an html compliant e-mail program and either wont be able to view your post or it will look really messy! For your sound card, run "sndconfig" or "soundconfig" in the console, and follow the instructions. You cannot install your existing Windows apps on Linux - you will need a version of the same program written for Linux, or a similar Linux program if the manufacturer only make a windows version. Installation is handled mainly in one of 2 ways. You download the app you want, compile it for your system and use it, or you get a pre-made binary of the app (usually in RPM format and use the Linux rpm command to install it for you. For a good list of apps for Linux try looking at http://www.freshmeat.net/ Forget Photoshop - your distribution comes with an app called the gimp - wicked image manipulation app that u can do all the Photoshop stuff in! Mandrake also comes with a pdf viewer built in - I suggest you read the docs inc. with the distro by clicking on the docs icon on your kde desktop. As for Quake3, I have this running quite nicely on my m/c with a Voodoo2 card etc. Try http://www.linuxquake.com/ for details. You need to get into the habit of looking around your system for information, a lot of what you are asking is answered in the howto's, man pages and general docs. installed with your distribution, but hopefully the above will give you a general idea of where to get started. Steve Wright BMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bmswebsite.demon.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: Brent Timmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 February 2000 14:47 To: Linux Subject: [newbie] How do I install programs? Ok, so I decided to try to switch to linux, only it'd be great if I could get my sound card and modem to work(previous mail), and also how to use it. Question 1: How do I install programs, and what can I install? If I want a game(q3 for instance) or an app(adobe photoshop, acrobat, etc.), how do I install it? Linux is pointless to me if I can install any of my applications, or anything excpet what's installed when you install linux. Where can I get applications for linux? Second: I have a geforce card. Can I even play quake etc.? Do I even have accelerated functions for my card? (assuming I get my sound card to work).
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup
Did @Home give you a static IP address? Seve -Original Message- From: J Winkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 11:42 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup Sorry, Mandrake 7.0 Network Adapter = Intel EtherExpress Pro 10+/ PCI Jim What Mandrake are you using? Seve ~~~ Hi All, I am using a cable modem (Comcast @Home in NJ) to connect to the internet and can not, for the life of me, figure out how to configure it (correctly) to actually get on the internet. I have found most(?) places that would configure it. But am not sure of the translation between Win95 and Linux for DNS Server, Work Group, Search Order, etc . I have looked for How-To's on the subject but none really get as specific as I need (read extreme newbie). Any help would be MOST appreciated. Jim
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup
Ok, here we go... fire up DrakConf Click - Network Configuration Go to - Basic Host Information - for Hostname Tab| Hostname: put in the Host name from TCP/IP Properties | DNS Configuration Tab from your winbox Go to - the Adapter 1 Tab (linbox) "Primary name + Domain" should be the same as "Domain" in "DNS Configuration" of you winbox. "Aliases (opt)" should be blank fill in "IP Adress" and "Netmask" "Net Device" and "Kernel Module" should remain the same. Click the [Accept] button Now you're back at "Network Configurator" Select "Name Server Specification (DNS)" Fill in "IP of name server 1" "IP of name server 2 (opt)" with your "DNS Search Order" At the top, make sure "DNS Is Required for Normal Operation" is pushed in. [Accept] Now you're back to "Network Configurator" again. Select "Routing and Gateways" Push [Set] button fill that with your Gateway IP and [Enable], [Accept] In "Routes to other Networks" press [Quit] In "Network Configurator" press [Quit] In "Status of the System" press [Activate the Changes] Reboot... just kidding. However, that should be it. I've just converted two @Home winboxes over to linboxes and that's how I got them to work. Let me know how it goes or if you can't understand my gibberish. Seve, -Original Message- From: J Winkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 11:42 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup Sorry, Mandrake 7.0 Network Adapter = Intel EtherExpress Pro 10+/ PCI Jim What Mandrake are you using? Seve ~~~ Hi All, I am using a cable modem (Comcast @Home in NJ) to connect to the internet and can not, for the life of me, figure out how to configure it (correctly) to actually get on the internet. I have found most(?) places that would configure it. But am not sure of the translation between Win95 and Linux for DNS Server, Work Group, Search Order, etc . I have looked for How-To's on the subject but none really get as specific as I need (read extreme newbie). Any help would be MOST appreciated. Jim
