RE: [newbie] Soyo Dragon+ On-Board Sound
Funny you should mention that. I have a Soyo K7VX Dragon+ motherboard on one of my systems. It's not the one I'm running linux on, but my on-board sound did fail after just a few months. I had to buy a sound card to get my TV card sound to work again. Line-out still works, but line-in stopped working. This is with Windows XP. Sorry I can't tell you if it would have worked with linux before it failed. Just an FYI. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Paul Rodolfo Rodriguez Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 9:20 PM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] Soyo Dragon+ On-Board Sound Hi, I was wondering if anybody here knows how or has been able to get the On-Board sound working on a Soyo motherboard. I have Soyo Dragon+ which is known to be very Linux friendly, but have not been able to get - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installing 9.0
I ran the dosutils/rawwrite.exe program to create my boot floppy under windows. When you run that program, you have to point to the images/cdrom.img file to create the floppy. Is that what you did? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Greg Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 8:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installing 9.0 Hi every one I ordered 9.0 from Mandrakes web site but have no word on when they will get here So I figured I would download it and burn my own from the download I downloaded 9.0 and burned a cd but when I try to make a boot disk to a floppy the is nothing on the floppyI never had any trouble before with the disks that I bought Any ideas Thanks Greg - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] networking advice
I will be doing home network with two-machine network pretty soon, but don't have real experience yet. However, I found this that looked promising: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Home-Network-mini-HOWTO.html HTH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of L.V.Gandhi Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 8:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] networking advice I have 4 PCs. [...] As a newbie in networking i need initiation and advice - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] best way to find things out
Someone posted a documentation question earlier and got a pretty good answer, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to find things out. I guess I'm a little spoiled by MSDN. For instance, if I want to know about file permissions, it would be Really Neat if there were a tool I could run and enter file permissions into a search box, and get a list of matching pages. I remember there used to be something called the Linux Documentation Project. I'm sure they must still be working on it, but even years ago there were more Howto's than you could shake a stick at. I kind of expected there to be a really cool downloadable manual by now. Maybe it's out there and I just haven't found it yet. I get the impression that the Mandrake people are holding out for some bucks, figuring people who won't pay for the OS might pay for the docs. That's fine if that's what they want to do, but there must be a mother lode of vanilla linux info out there somewhere. The stuff I downloaded from the Mandrake site was OK but a little disorganized and obviously incomplete. Could someone maybe give a road map as to where the Good Documentation is, and how to get it installed on one's machine? Or could some of you give some of your own tips on how you look things up? It can't all be word of mouth. - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] best way to find things out
You know, just as I was hitting the send button I thought of that myself. :-) Must admit http://www.tldp.org/ looks pretty good. I think I might buy the CD. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Erik Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 6:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] best way to find things out Google Linux Documentation Project (with quotes)lots of entries - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] best way to find things out
I like this. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 6:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] best way to find things out [...] http://www.google.com/linux [...] - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Linux w/ Win98SE
I haven't done this lately, but I believe that when you originally installed W98 it asks you if you want to create a W98 boot floppy (in case you run into problems later, etc.). If you did that, you can boot from the floppy, then run fdisk to wipe the disk and create partitions before doing the install. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Flux Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:00 AM To: Linux Subject: [newbie] Linux w/ Win98SE So, in perfect newbie fashion, I decided to pop in my Compaq Evo N150 recovery disc and completely start ALL OVER AGAIN! But here's the question: If this recovery forced me to reformat the entire drive and make the whole thing one partition, how am I supposed to install Linux on it for a dual-boot? Maybe I should ask WHERE am I supposed to install Linux? Please help, because I'm sure to cause myself more pain hashing through it myself... - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Linux w/ Win98SE
I agree with this. I can't remember if the W2K install won't let you create a fat32 partition. If that's the case, you can still use the W98 boot floppy to create partitions with fdisk, then run W2K install. W2K (XP too) is happy to install onto fat32. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Technoslick Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux w/ Win98SE My only comment on your predicument is that I can't see why you are downgrading to Win 98 SE? Did you have a problem with Win 2K that makes you want to go to a less robust and older version? Win 2K can be reloaded with a FAT32 partition instead of NTFS. As long as you own the 'better' version of Windows and it's not giving you any problems, I wouldn't load Win 98 SE just to get the FAT32 and sharing between the two O/S's. - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders
You're right about that. Most of the folks in my region have had cable modems and/or DSL available for years, but I seem to live in a little pocket that for some reason has been neglected on both fronts. The SBC commercials say whatever it takes. Yeah, right. And what's this I keep reading about telecommunications infrastructure being overbuilt in the 90's? For a long time I lamented the fact I couldn't get broadband, but have lately realized I really don't need it 99% of the time. Maybe it's just sour grapes. Anyway, I used Fresh Download which is freeware (registration after 30 days is free) to manage the download of the three mandrake CDs. It did take a little over a week to get them all, so at this point I'd guess the box will get there first. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Barran, Richard Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:35 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders Not everyone has (or wants) a broadband connection. In fact, I feel quite safe in saying that only a *small minority* of PCs worldwide are connected in that way :-) or indeed should ever be; for sending emails and occasional browsing a 56k connection is plenty enough! - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to switch window managers?
Hi, I can't figure out how to use Gnome instead of KDE. I went into mandrake control center, and under boot config set Launch graphical environment and autologin with GNOME, but I'm still getting KDE. There must be somewhere else to make the switch, yes? Tim - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Difficulties in receiving posts
Since you mentioned OE, with OE that came with IE6.0 I had sudden problems which I finally tracked down to anti-virus. Since then I had to turn off email scanning in anti-virus console and I can use OE again. Probably doesn't apply to you, since my symptoms were quite different. Just a thought. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Technoslick Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 5:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Difficulties in receiving posts [...] The fact that you are having (or were having) this problem using a Linux email program, where I am stuck right now in OE on Win2k, leads me believe that this probably isn't an incompatibility thing between their listserv program and the program-O/S I am using. - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Display messed up after install
Hi, I installed Linux-Mandrake 9.0. Everything went pretty smooth. Selected Gnome for default desktop. After install, upon reboot got first-time (I think) screen, to do more configuration. This screen was unusable, because the display was all messed up. I had basically three vertical bands across the screen: red, green, and blue, I think. On top of that, there was the first-time screen, but it was all out of sync and mostly unreadable. Also, I couldn't find the mouse pointer anywhere on the screen, not that there was really anything to click on. I had to use the cpu reset button to quit the screen. Since then, when I boot I go right to desktop, but the screen is still messed up. The left-hand third of the display is repeated in the middle and right sides of the screen, and it's kind of wavy and unreadable in places. On that screen, I was able to find the mouse pointer and get to a menu item called action-logoff (I think that's what it was), but that's all. Has anyone seen this? I guess it's something to do with X. Where do I go from here? I uninstalled Mandrake, and will re-install soon, but what do I do different, or if I end up with the same thing, how do I troubleshoot? My system is motherboard: GVC-VP1541 cpu: AMD-K6P2/350 video: SiS 5598/6326 PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0 monitor: NEC MultiSync FP1370 Thanks, Tim --- Introducing NetZero Long Distance Unlimited Long Distance only $29.95/ month! Sign Up Today! www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
