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On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Rick Fry wrote: Original Message Follows Rick Fry wrote: Give it up Dude, go back from whence you came. Rick "Mulerider" -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB
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Good Bye.. someone will miss YOU - Original Message - From: Rick Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 7:50 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Not getting anywhere I give up on this stupid fucking so-called operating system! It's totally FUCKING USELESS Windows is FAR superior and you bunch of sad losers are just wasting your lives. -- -- Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
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I'll be the first to admit that the monitor that I use is a $200 special at Sears. And, I too am getting the black on black menus and background until I put a graphic back there. Then the labels are black on black and so are the menus until I highlight them. Right now, I'm using Windows 2000 release candidate 1 with the monitor set at 1280x1024 at 24 bit color with NO problems like I'm getting in Linux. Even Windows 98 second edition uses these parameters. Original Message Follows I had a similar video configuration problem. The default setting Xconfigurator was choosing was giving a black screen with blackish icons (I think that means that the refresh rates don't synch). My problem was solved by manually choosing my display settings in Xconfigurator. Another thing I tried is reducing the type of monitor to one not quite so good (in custom monitor section). My monitor, being on the cheaper end of the scale does not work well at its maximum settings. By reducing the setting the picture quality improved considerably. I suffered similar problems using my hardware with Windows 95. My monitor does not perform well at its maximum refresh rates etc and I have terrible problems under Win95 with my AWE64 soundcard. If the soundcard is enabled in the device manager, Windows will not boot. I have to boot with the soundcard disabled and then manually turn on the soundcard using Device tab - a real pain in the arse if you forget to turn it off at the end of the session (Windows crashes on startup, reboot into safe mode, turn soundcard off, reboot again). I might have problems with sound permissions with my Linux box, but at least the card makes noise! -Original Message- From:Rick Fry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:Friday, 20 August 1999 9:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Not getting anywhere!! My sentiments exactly. I finally got my video configuration to go 1024x768 but the menus [for the most part] are black on black. This makes it just a tad difficult to read. Original Message Follows Well I think I am going to give up on my install of Mandrake. I cannot get it to recognize my modem or sound card. I have found out the my modem is on Com3 IRQ11 but have found no way.. even with everyones help of finding it or configuring it. As for my sound card it is found by linux when it boots.. but it aborts putting it in memory because it is sharing an IRQ with another item on the PCI bus.. which is fine in windows but not in linux I guess.. So thanks all for your help.. but this is just not hardware friendly enough for my current system. I guess if I want to run Linux I am going to have to build a specific box with all the specific hardware able to be detected and run. James ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
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I think that this is due a video card driver limitation in XFree86. Bad settings for the monitor would produce different results. I know that my card (Diamond Stealth 3D 4000) works fine at 32bpp in Windows, but in Linux, I can't use 32bpp without running into what you're describing. You might try a lower color depth, but the same resolution- does that help? -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Rick Fry wrote: I'll be the first to admit that the monitor that I use is a $200 special at Sears. And, I too am getting the black on black menus and background until I put a graphic back there. Then the labels are black on black and so are the menus until I highlight them. Right now, I'm using Windows 2000 release candidate 1 with the monitor set at 1280x1024 at 24 bit color with NO problems like I'm getting in Linux. Even Windows 98 second edition uses these parameters. Original Message Follows I had a similar video configuration problem. The default setting Xconfigurator was choosing was giving a black screen with blackish icons (I think that means that the refresh rates don't synch). My problem was solved by manually choosing my display settings in Xconfigurator. Another thing I tried is reducing the type of monitor to one not quite so good (in custom monitor section). My monitor, being on the cheaper end of the scale does not work well at its maximum settings. By reducing the setting the picture quality improved considerably. I suffered similar problems using my hardware with Windows 95. My monitor does not perform well at its maximum refresh rates etc and I have terrible problems under Win95 with my AWE64 soundcard. If the soundcard is enabled in the device manager, Windows will not boot. I have to boot with the soundcard disabled and then manually turn on the soundcard using Device tab - a real pain in the arse if you forget to turn it off at the end of the session (Windows crashes on startup, reboot into safe mode, turn soundcard off, reboot again). I might have problems with sound permissions with my Linux box, but at least the card makes noise! -Original Message- From: Rick Fry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 20 August 1999 9:43 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Not getting anywhere!! My sentiments exactly. I finally got my video configuration to go 1024x768 but the menus [for the most part] are black on black. This makes it just a tad difficult to read. Original Message Follows Well I think I am going to give up on my install of Mandrake. I cannot get it to recognize my modem or sound card. I have found out the my modem is on Com3 IRQ11 but have found no way.. even with everyones help of finding it or configuring it. As for my sound card it is found by linux when it boots.. but it aborts putting it in memory because it is sharing an IRQ with another item on the PCI bus.. which is fine in windows but not in linux I guess.. So thanks all for your help.. but this is just not hardware friendly enough for my current system. I guess if I want to run Linux I am going to have to build a specific box with all the specific hardware able to be detected and run. James ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
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Flame thrower locked and loaded. hehehe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rick Fry Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Not getting anywhere I give up on this stupid fucking so-called operating system! It's totally FUCKING USELESS Windows is FAR superior and you bunch of sad losers are just wasting your lives. -- -- Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
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Hmmm, Ever try Accelerated-X? surf on over to CheapBytes or GatorOnline or linuxmall and BUY it. Read the fine print first and make sure the package they're selling is the one that supports your hardware. Contact the manufacturer if in doubt. My Panasonic CF-62 didn't work on one linux for graphics. Another supplied 1024x768 with 256 colors. My final version runs Festen at 1024x768 with 16-bit color. In order to get it, I had to play with modelines and erase those the X server was discarding, and change the internal chip timing (!!)from the configuration file. What's the difference? With Win95, Iused to lose the PDdrive at odd intervals, and Ihad a lock-up about 3-4 times per week. I'm still waiting for the first crash with Festen. I'd upgrade, but Isee no reason to add the features of Venus on a P-133 with no real upward path in disk size. So, if you think Windows is so great, stay there. If you are unhappy because your hardware is an orphan to linux think about (good heavens!!!) paying for some software to help you. Civileme Rick Fry wrote: I'll be the first to admit that the monitor that I use is a $200 special at Sears. And, I too am getting the black on black menus and background until I put a graphic back there. Then the labels are black on black and so are the menus until I highlight them. Right now, I'm using Windows 2000 release candidate 1 with the monitor set at 1280x1024 at 24 bit color with NO problems like I'm getting in Linux. Even Windows 98 second edition uses these parameters. Original Message Follows I had a similar video configuration problem. The default setting Xconfigurator was choosing was giving a black screen with blackish icons (I think that means that the refresh rates don't synch). My problem was solved by manually choosing my display settings in Xconfigurator. Another thing I tried is reducing the type of monitor to one not quite so good (in custom monitor section). My monitor, being on the cheaper end of the scale does not work well at its maximum settings. By reducing the setting the picture quality improved considerably. I suffered similar problems using my hardware with Windows 95. My monitor does not perform well at its maximum refresh rates etc and I have terrible problems under Win95 with my AWE64 soundcard. If the soundcard is enabled in the device manager, Windows will not boot. I have to boot with the soundcard disabled and then manually turn on the soundcard using Device tab - a real pain in the arse if you forget to turn it off at the end of the session (Windows crashes on startup, reboot into safe mode, turn soundcard off, reboot again). I might have problems with sound permissions with my Linux box, but at least the card makes noise! > -Original Message- > From: Rick Fry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 20 August 1999 9:43 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Not getting anywhere!! > > My sentiments exactly. I finally got my video configuration to go 1024x768 > > but the menus [for the most part] are black on black. This makes it just a > > tad difficult to read. > > > Original Message Follows > > Well I think I am going to give up on my install of Mandrake. > > I cannot get it to recognize my modem or sound card. > > I have found out the my modem is on Com3 IRQ11 but have found no way.. > even with everyones help of finding it or configuring it. > > As for my sound card it is found by linux when it boots.. but it aborts > putting it in memory because it is sharing an IRQ with another item on the > PCI bus.. which is fine in windows but not in linux I guess.. > > So thanks all for your help.. but this is just not hardware friendly > enough > for my current system. > > I guess if I want to run Linux I am going to have to build a specific box > with all the specific hardware able to be detected and run. > > James > > > > ___ > Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Civileme Say: "He who buys Pentium III had lots of bucks"
RE: [newbie] Not getting anywhere - IGNORE THIS TROLL!
This guy is trolling you all. (for the newbies a troll is someone who instigates flamewars by using inflammatory language) Please don't pander to his wishes by responding. (Ithought I sniffed a troll the other day ; ) ttfn nick
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Moron from Univ of Waikato trying to hide behind a hotmail address. How sad. At 03:50 PM 8/20/99 +0100, you wrote: I give up on this stupid fucking so-called operating system! It's totally FUCKING USELESS Windows is FAR superior and you bunch of sad losers are just wasting your lives. --- - Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
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Do you put this in /etc/hosts.deny? Thanks, Bryan "Ken Wilson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 08/20/99 12:19:24 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: RE: [newbie] Not getting anywhere - IGNORE THIS TROLL! Not a problem. I flamed him at his hotmail account instead of here and then promptly added *@hotmail.com to my list of junk senders that automatically go to /dev/null. :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nick Kay Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 8:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Not getting anywhere - IGNORE THIS TROLL! This guy is trolling you all. (for the newbies a troll is someone who instigates flamewars by using inflammatory language) Please don't pander to his wishes by responding. (Ithought I sniffed a troll the other day ; ) ttfn nick
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Rick Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I give up on this stupid fucking so-called operating system! It's totally FUCKING USELESS Windows is FAR superior and you bunch of sad losers are just wasting your lives. == OK, Rick. We'll put you down as undecided 8-) Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
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hmmm, Glad I dropped the sendername in a kill folder. Looks like he is ready to distract us from our purposes. Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Moron from Univ of Waikato trying to hide behind a hotmail address. How sad. At 03:50 PM 8/20/99 +0100, you wrote: >I give up on this stupid fucking so-called operating system! >It's totally FUCKING USELESS >Windows is FAR superior and you bunch of sad >losers are just wasting your lives. > >--- - >Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com > > -- visit http://homepages.msn.com/invalid_url Is Microsoft afraid to pay itself license fees for IIS? Sure looks like an Apache (open-source) Signature to me
RE: [newbie] Not getting anywhere - IGNORE THIS TROLL!
I'm actually using Outlook98 as my mail reader so the comment about /dev/null was actually more tongue-in-cheek. It comes with a configurable junk mail filter. Now, to answer your question. There is an anti-spam filter, I believe it is called clean, available on your Mandrake distribution. I don't think it works with sendmail but is designed to work with one of the other mail servers available on the distribution, which is probably a good thing because my understanding is that sendmail is, excuse the expression, a bitch to configure. I know it's becoming a little cliche but check through the Linux docs, or, if we are lucky, maybe one of the more enlightened souls can clue us in on the use of this tool. BTW, for those who don't know /dev/null actually exists. It is a kind of cyber black hole you can actually direct output to when you don't want to see it, i.e. a program may create output that you don't really need so you just redirect it to /dev/null so it doesn't bother you. i.e. [user somedirectory] # thisprogramprintsjunk /dev/null -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Not getting anywhere - IGNORE THIS TROLL! Do you put this in /etc/hosts.deny? Thanks, Bryan "Ken Wilson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 08/20/99 12:19:24 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: RE: [newbie] Not getting anywhere - IGNORE THIS TROLL! Not a problem. I flamed him at his hotmail account instead of here and then promptly added *@hotmail.com to my list of junk senders that automatically go to /dev/null. :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nick Kay Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 8:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Not getting anywhere - IGNORE THIS TROLL! This guy is trolling you all. (for the newbies a troll is someone who instigates flamewars by using inflammatory language) Please don't pander to his wishes by responding. (Ithought I sniffed a troll the other day ; ) ttfn nick
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- Original Message - From: Rick Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 10:50 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Not getting anywhere I give up on this stupid fucking so-called operating system! It's totally FUCKING USELESS Windows is FAR superior and you bunch of sad losers are just wasting your lives. -- -- Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com sad Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
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As I have said elsewhere, keep your vitriol to yourself. Ask a decent question and you may get the proper answer given the proper experience of this crew with that hardware. -Original Message- From: Rick Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] I give up on this stupid fucking so-called operating system! It's totally FUCKING USELESS Windows is FAR superior and you bunch of sad losers are just wasting your lives.
Re: [newbie] Not getting anywhere - IGNORE THIS TROLL!
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, James Schofield wrote: This guy is trolling you all. (for the newbies a troll is someone who instigates flamewars by using inflammatory language) I will admit that I am getting very frustrated with the hardware setup portion of linux.. but I am learning.. and it is just lack of knowledge of the system that is holding me back. One thing I find a bit of a problem as well is the fact that MOST books on Linux are written for one distro or another.. and not in general.. but it is just taking me a little longer thats all. I have succeeded in one thing though people.. I HAVE MY MODEM WORKING!! I have my Motorola Voicesurfer working now.. it was just a matter of using Setserial correctly and I am up and running now on ttys2 IRQ 11 W HOOO!!! Now I have two things left.. My SB64 pci card which is sharing an IRQ with another PCI device and linux does not seem to like that.. even though it is PCI complaint. My guess would be the onboard ide controler is conflicting with the secondary on your mother board, disable one or the other. ANd my PNP ISA DLink 220 Networking card.. which I was not able to setup durring the install.. I would like to get it working now.. becuase I would like to make my own local area net with my laptops and my desktop. Should work with the ne driver, be aware that Dlink doesn't always conform to the ne2000 standard. The last Dlink i had required hacking the ne2000 driver to recognise the id string. James -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
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Rick Fry wrote: I'm only going to say that I never heard of Accelerated-X. I never said that Windows was "great" or any other descriptive adjective. Hell, it doesn't properly multi-task and there are a lot of other problems. I'm just saying that I've never come across any of the problems you "Windoze haters" have had with it. I don't get any [let alone a lot of] BSOD's nor do I have to hack into regedit to get it to work. I installed Windows 2000 release candidate 1 last month or so and it automatically found my scanner, printer, and even my USB camera and configured to use them. I don't have to MOUNT anything in order to use it. I just want to access what's on my CD, I don't want to have sex with it nor am I a taxidermist. I don't want to have to go edit things in config files that I can access in menus in Windows. I even have Windows 98 second edition on the same partition as 2000. I only have that for the one or two things that don't work well in NT [or as it's also known as 2000]. My Memorex CDRW won't work in NT. Basically I'm running a Celeron 400 with 128M of ram and a total of 20G of hard disk space. If you're happy being a user, that's fine. There are plenty of people in the world that just want things to work when they sit down at them. My parents are those kinds of people. I have no problem with it, just don't shit on the parade of those of us who really LIKE making things work together that probably don't belong together. There is a price you pay (right now) for using Linux. That price is diminished hardware support "out of the box". It could even be as steep as "it will never work with Linux" (in the case of WinModems). Most of us are perfectly willing to pay that price for an operating system and supporting applications that don't nickel and dime us to death trying to get some work done. I don't have any inkling of encouraging my parents to move to Linux. The things they want to do are not available with it. However, they also don't have the kind of power and flexibility on their machine that I have with mine. To each their own... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Original Message Follows Rick Fry wrote: If you're happy being a user, that's fine. There are plenty of people in the world that just want things to work when they sit down at them. My parents are those kinds of people. I have no problem with it, just don't shit on the parade of those of us who really LIKE making things work together that probably don't belong together. There is a price you pay (right now) for using Linux. That price is diminished hardware support "out of the box". It could even be as steep as "it will never work with Linux" (in the case of WinModems). Most of us are perfectly willing to pay that price for an operating system and supporting applications that don't nickel and dime us to death trying to get some work done. I don't have any inkling of encouraging my parents to move to Linux. The things they want to do are not available with it. However, they also don't have the kind of power and flexibility on their machine that I have with mine. To each their own... -- Actually the same thing can be said for all the Windows bashing folks that have the same amount of troubles getting that to work. I do have the "power and flexibility" but obviously not the right kind. I just became unemployed so I obviously don't have the financial resources to go out and buy the equipment necessary to make Linux work as ideally as my Windows does. But, that will hopefully change as I have several interviews scheduled for next week. Hopefully my 20 years of working with computers will be good for something. ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
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James, don't lose the faith man. I had the same problem w/ Mandrake 5.3 and have since replaced the sound card and modem with used parts that work better in both windows and Mandrake than the old ones did. I had a power supply and a CD-ROM die on me at different times and replaced those too. Some of my hardware didn't always play nice under windows95 either. Just try to stay w/ fairly standard parts. For a modem, I went to a USR 33.6 internal w/ jumpers and on sound card I went to a Creative Sound Blaster 16 w/ half jumpers and half PnP and the PnP was still not recognized and I set it up manually in sndconfig. I tried three power supplies before one worked and switched to an ATAPI compliant CD after the 1994 Panasonic w/ proprietary interface died. If you are having trouble, but really want to try Linux just go to a local computer store and see what used parts they have available. Make sure you can return the item if it doesn't work in your system. See how much each part is going to cost you and save up for a while, it is worth it. Brian my $0.02 Well I think I am going to give up on my install of Mandrake. I cannot get it to recognize my modem or sound card. I have found out the my modem is on Com3 IRQ11 but have found no way.. even with everyones help of finding it or configuring it. As for my sound card it is found by linux when it boots.. but it aborts putting it in memory because it is sharing an IRQ with another item on the PCI bus.. which is fine in windows but not in linux I guess.. So thanks all for your help.. but this is just not hardware friendly enough for my current system. I guess if I want to run Linux I am going to have to build a specific box with all the specific hardware able to be detected and run. James
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If your modem is a PCI or even if it is not, there is a chance (nearly a certainty if it is PCI)that it is a Winmodem which will never work under Linux. The hardware normally associated with a modem is replaced by (secret) software DLed to it. It may be that such software does not even fit the Linux security model, which keeps applications walled off from the op system core. (That's why windows has 50,000 exploits and viruses and linux laughs at such). It is possible to relocate a PnP sound card's interrupts, and it is possible to use pnpdump to build a basic isapnp.conf file, but your sound card is PCI. The rig you mention smells highly proprietary. I would hazard a guess or two at brand names from my own experience, but I see no reason to. Linux has requirements for hardware a little saner than those of Windows, and of course it doesn't support those things made to run only under windows. (Would you rather write a driver for a cheap, poorly-performing modem where all is secret or one which supports all the latest bells and whistles for which you have good hardware information, given that your time is limited and you're not getting paid for it?) Yes, it is possible to buy hardware that is distinctly unfriiendly to Linux, and I fear that is what has happened here. Civileme James Schofield wrote: Well I think I am going to give up on my install of Mandrake. I cannot get it to recognize my modem or sound card. I have found out the my modem is on Com3 IRQ11 but have found no way.. even with everyones help of finding it or configuring it. As for my sound card it is found by linux when it boots.. but it aborts putting it in memory because it is sharing an IRQ with another item on the PCI bus.. which is fine in windows but not in linux I guess.. So thanks all for your help.. but this is just not hardware friendly enough for my current system. I guess if I want to run Linux I am going to have to build a specific box with all the specific hardware able to be detected and run. James -- Rejoice, the wait for Windows 2000 is over! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
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Just so you all know .. I have said it before.. The modem is an ISA PNP Motorola VOICESURFER.. it is hardware.. I can run it from dos. The sound card.. well you cant get anymore brand name than Creative. Its a SB64pci James
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My AWE64 card was not identified properly either. I ran a report from my Win98 side on all my devices, set it to the Win98 identified DMA channels and it worked. To get a report (I am assuming you are dual boot and could be wrong) right click 'My Computer', select 'Properties', select the 'Device Manager' tab and then the 'Print' button on the bottom right. Select the 'All devices and system summary' radio button and 'OK'. This resolved an issue with both my PnP network card and my AWE64 card. I hope this helps, Wayne - Original Message - From: James Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 12:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Not getting anywhere!! Just so you all know .. I have said it before.. The modem is an ISA PNP Motorola VOICESURFER.. it is hardware.. I can run it from dos. The sound card.. well you cant get anymore brand name than Creative. Its a SB64pci James
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My sentiments exactly. I finally got my video configuration to go 1024x768 but the menus [for the most part] are black on black. This makes it just a tad difficult to read. Original Message Follows Well I think I am going to give up on my install of Mandrake. I cannot get it to recognize my modem or sound card. I have found out the my modem is on Com3 IRQ11 but have found no way.. even with everyones help of finding it or configuring it. As for my sound card it is found by linux when it boots.. but it aborts putting it in memory because it is sharing an IRQ with another item on the PCI bus.. which is fine in windows but not in linux I guess.. So thanks all for your help.. but this is just not hardware friendly enough for my current system. I guess if I want to run Linux I am going to have to build a specific box with all the specific hardware able to be detected and run. James ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
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I had a similar video configuration problem. The default setting Xconfigurator was choosing was giving a black screen with blackish icons (I think that means that the refresh rates don't synch). My problem was solved by manually choosing my display settings in Xconfigurator. Another thing I tried is reducing the type of monitor to one not quite so good (in custom monitor section). My monitor, being on the cheaper end of the scale does not work well at its maximum settings. By reducing the setting the picture quality improved considerably. I suffered similar problems using my hardware with Windows 95. My monitor does not perform well at its maximum refresh rates etc and I have terrible problems under Win95 with my AWE64 soundcard. If the soundcard is enabled in the device manager, Windows will not boot. I have to boot with the soundcard disabled and then manually turn on the soundcard using Device tab - a real pain in the arse if you forget to turn it off at the end of the session (Windows crashes on startup, reboot into safe mode, turn soundcard off, reboot again). I might have problems with sound permissions with my Linux box, but at least the card makes noise! -Original Message- From: Rick Fry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 20 August 1999 9:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Not getting anywhere!! My sentiments exactly. I finally got my video configuration to go 1024x768 but the menus [for the most part] are black on black. This makes it just a tad difficult to read. Original Message Follows Well I think I am going to give up on my install of Mandrake. I cannot get it to recognize my modem or sound card. I have found out the my modem is on Com3 IRQ11 but have found no way.. even with everyones help of finding it or configuring it. As for my sound card it is found by linux when it boots.. but it aborts putting it in memory because it is sharing an IRQ with another item on the PCI bus.. which is fine in windows but not in linux I guess.. So thanks all for your help.. but this is just not hardware friendly enough for my current system. I guess if I want to run Linux I am going to have to build a specific box with all the specific hardware able to be detected and run. James ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
