Re: [newbie] I'm completely lost
I am a real Newbie too (two weeks) but have learnt a lot in that time. Especially useful are two PDF files included on the 7.2 CDs (after installation). First is RUTE.pdf and the other is the Mandrake Reference Manual (another pdf). If you search for *.pdf you will find them. I printed them out (400 pages plus) and have put them in a folder. You should read them at least three times and go through the examples they recommend while reading. You will have it in no time. Gray - Original Message - From: "Steve Maytum" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 11:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] I'm completely lost Ralph , can't help right now , but i'll try to e-mail tonight (17/01/01) with help. Meantime send info on your system. Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Ralph Avery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:29 AM Subject: [newbie] I'm completely lost I've been tinkering with this Linux for some time, but I still don't understand it at all. I've read the posts on this message board (All 150+) every day, but everyone's completely out of my league with their responses. I have Mandrake Linux (I think 6.2). I managed to get it up and running, I can even connect to the internet. I have no idea how I did it. I am trying to get my sound card and NIC card to work. I downloaded some files that are supposed to be the drivers. They're in tar.gz format. I've gunzipped them, and even tarred them. I have a bunch of files now, and I have no idea what to do with them. There's an Adobe PDF with one of them. I downloaded the latest version of Acrobat to read it. It makes no sense. When I log out of KDE (Or any other GUI) I often lose my mouse. The cursor goes to the extreme upper right corner, and I can't do squat after that. All I can do is hit Reset. The computer's not locked up, but it won't let me do anything when I return to the GUI. I would imagine there was a command that could be executed which would activate the mouse again. Is there anyone out there willing to do some one-on-one tutoring, and help someone who's really really trying?
Re: [newbie] I'm completely lost
Ralph , can't help right now , but i'll try to e-mail tonight (17/01/01) with help. Meantime send info on your system. Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Ralph Avery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:29 AM Subject: [newbie] I'm completely lost I've been tinkering with this Linux for some time, but I still don't understand it at all. I've read the posts on this message board (All 150+) every day, but everyone's completely out of my league with their responses. I have Mandrake Linux (I think 6.2). I managed to get it up and running, I can even connect to the internet. I have no idea how I did it. I am trying to get my sound card and NIC card to work. I downloaded some files that are supposed to be the drivers. They're in tar.gz format. I've gunzipped them, and even tarred them. I have a bunch of files now, and I have no idea what to do with them. There's an Adobe PDF with one of them. I downloaded the latest version of Acrobat to read it. It makes no sense. When I log out of KDE (Or any other GUI) I often lose my mouse. The cursor goes to the extreme upper right corner, and I can't do squat after that. All I can do is hit Reset. The computer's not locked up, but it won't let me do anything when I return to the GUI. I would imagine there was a command that could be executed which would activate the mouse again. Is there anyone out there willing to do some one-on-one tutoring, and help someone who's really really trying?
Re: [newbie] I'm completely lost
Steve; Here's a few things to try. I haven't been following your thread (conversation topic) enough to know everything you've tried, but here goes. If we look at the basics, your problem may be video-related. Assuming that this is the case, check your video card itself, and see if it has jumpers on it to enable/disable IRQ. Having done that, check your BIOS to confirm that the setting in the BIOS is the same as the jumper on your video card. If your card doesn't have a jumper for the IRQ, try assigning one in the BIOS. If it's already assigned in the BIOS, disable it. In other words, try a few different combinations. Also, check to see if "Plu 'n' Play is enabled in your BIOS (PnP/PCI Configuration). If so, disable it. That can make a big difference by itself. If possible could you please send me a list of your hardware? Video card, Monitor, mouse, motherboard, ram and CPU? That would help a lot. One last thing, Have you considered upgrading to Linux-Mandrake 7.2? You can download it for free from their web-site, but a high-speed connection is reccommended. Get back to me on this. Dan LaBine Registered Linux User #190712 - Original Message - From: "Steve Maytum" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 5:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] I'm completely lost Ralph , can't help right now , but i'll try to e-mail tonight (17/01/01) with help. Meantime send info on your system. Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Ralph Avery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:29 AM Subject: [newbie] I'm completely lost I've been tinkering with this Linux for some time, but I still don't understand it at all. I've read the posts on this message board (All 150+) every day, but everyone's completely out of my league with their responses. I have Mandrake Linux (I think 6.2). I managed to get it up and running , I can even connect to the internet. I have no idea how I did it. I am trying to get my sound card and NIC card to work. I downloaded some files that are supposed to be the drivers. They're in tar.gz format. I've gunzipped them, and even tarred them. I have a bunch of files now, and I have no idea what to do with them. There's an Adobe PDF with one of them. I downloaded the latest version of Acrobat to read it. It makes no sense. When I log out of KDE (Or any other GUI) I often lose my mouse. The cursor goes to the extreme upper right corner, and I can't do squat after that. All I can do is hit Reset. The computer's not locked up, but it won't let me do anything when I return to the GUI. I would imagine there was a command that could be executed which would activate the mouse again. Is there anyone out there willing to do some one-on-one tutoring, and help someone who's really really trying?
[newbie] I'm completely lost
I've been tinkering with this Linux for some time, but I still don't understand it at all. I've read the posts on this message board (All 150+) every day, but everyone's completely out of my league with their responses. I have Mandrake Linux (I think 6.2). I managed to get it up and running, I can even connect to the internet. I have no idea how I did it. I am trying to get my sound card and NIC card to work. I downloaded some files that are supposed to be the drivers. They're in tar.gz format. I've gunzipped them, and even tarred them. I have a bunch of files now, and I have no idea what to do with them. There's an Adobe PDF with one of them. I downloaded the latest version of Acrobat to read it. It makes no sense. When I log out of KDE (Or any other GUI) I often lose my mouse. The cursor goes to the extreme upper right corner, and I can't do squat after that. All I can do is hit Reset. The computer's not locked up, but it won't let me do anything when I return to the GUI. I would imagine there was a command that could be executed which would activate the mouse again. Is there anyone out there willing to do some one-on-one tutoring, and help someone who's really really trying?
Re: [newbie] I'm completely lost
Hi Ralph, I think the easiest way for you to get up to date in the Linux world is to reinstall Linux Mandrake with the most current release (version 7.2). For non-techie, version 7.2 makes A LOT of difference, almost like day and night. I upgraded from 7.0 to 7.2 and I could tell a huge difference. Mandrake has matured a lot since 6.2, so I believe with a reinstall, many of your basic problems would be resolved (like correct drivers, mouse movement etc). Try it, I'm sure you'll be more comfortable with Linux. -Original message begins- From: Ralph Avery [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 9:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: [newbie] I'm completely lost I've been tinkering with this Linux for some time, but I still don't understand it at all. I've read the posts on this message board (All 150+) every day, but everyone's completely out of my league with their responses. I have Mandrake Linux (I think 6.2). I managed to get it up and running, I can even connect to the internet. I have no idea how I did it. I am trying to get my sound card and NIC card to work. I downloaded some files that are supposed to be the drivers. They're in tar.gz format. I've gunzipped them, and even tarred them. I have a bunch of files now, and I have no idea what to do with them. There's an Adobe PDF with one of them. I downloaded the latest version of Acrobat to read it. It makes no sense. When I log out of KDE (Or any other GUI) I often lose my mouse. The cursor goes to the extreme upper right corner, and I can't do squat after that. All I can do is hit Reset. The computer's not locked up, but it won't let me do anything when I return to the GUI. I would imagine there was a command that could be executed which would activate the mouse again. Is there anyone out there willing to do some one-on-one tutoring, and help someone who's really really trying? -Original message ends- -- Cheers, Viboon
Re: [newbie] I'm completely lost
On Tuesday 16 January 2001 07:29 pm, Ralph Avery wrote: Is there anyone out there willing to do some one-on-one tutoring, and help someone who's really really trying? Spend an evening, or 2, or 3 reading thru http://mandrakeuser.org/ -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay I've been tinkering with this Linux for some time, but I still don't understand it at all. I've read the posts on this message board (All 150+) every day, but everyone's completely out of my league with their responses. I have Mandrake Linux (I think 6.2). I managed to get it up and running, I can even connect to the internet. I have no idea how I did it. I am trying to get my sound card and NIC card to work. I downloaded some files that are supposed to be the drivers. They're in tar.gz format. I've gunzipped them, and even tarred them. I have a bunch of files now, and I have no idea what to do with them. There's an Adobe PDF with one of them. I downloaded the latest version of Acrobat to read it. It makes no sense. When I log out of KDE (Or any other GUI) I often lose my mouse. The cursor goes to the extreme upper right corner, and I can't do squat after that. All I can do is hit Reset. The computer's not locked up, but it won't let me do anything when I return to the GUI. I would imagine there was a command that could be executed which would activate the mouse again.
Re: [newbie] I'm completely lost
Tom (and list), I've seen this problem happen in at least one other distribution of Linux with the GUI also. Although I'm not advanced enough at this point to know _why_ it happens, I can tell you how I got around it... Instead of actually 'logging out' of KDE, just hit CTRL+ALT+Backspace to kill the running X-Server. When I've done that, I still have use of the mouse and the keyboard, whereas "logout" would cause them to freeze up. CTRL+ALT+Backspace is probably a sloppy method to exit KDE and will cause someone more experienced to frown upon me, but it is a quick workaround to keep your console from locking up. Of course, now that I have LM 7.2 installed, the problem has gone away : ) hope this helps, Chris Tom Brinkman wrote: When I log out of KDE (Or any other GUI) I often lose my mouse. The cursor goes to the extreme upper right corner, and I can't do squat after that. All I can do is hit Reset. The computer's not locked up, but it won't let me do anything when I return to the GUI. I would imagine there was a command that could be executed which would activate the mouse again.
