Re: [newbie-it] scheda audio
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 07:28:23PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..di tanto in tanto torno a farmi sentire...mandr7.1 non mi ha riconosciuto la scheda audio ma la fa funzionare comunque...o meglio, gli mp3 si sentono una bellezza i cd si sentono con qualità scadente...che posso fare? grazie mille per l'aiuto e salutatemi a bil gheiz ciao, osva Beh, magari aiuterebbe sapere che scheda hai... -- Fabio Coatti http://members.ferrara.linux.it/cova
[newbie-it] Help installazione...
Problema; Ho sotto mano un portatile Acer, più precisamente un TM 313T con floppy e CD-ROM esterno, attualmente senza S.O., il problema è che il CD-ROM esterno non è un Acer ma un AMACOM 24x, il che significa che il Boot Disk in dotazione per l'installazione di winzozz non è in grado di riconoscere il driver. Al ché pensavo sarebbe una bella cosa infilarci un Linux, ma a quanto pare nemmeno lui non riesce a far funzionare il famigerato AMACOM. Ora il punto è, che si fa? sapendo che dispone di solo 32MB di SDRAM? C'è la possibilità di caricare un piccolo linux? se si come? Ringrazio anticipatamente PS: nel frattempo vedo se riconosce almeno la PCMCIA
Re: [newbie-it] linux thinkpad ibm
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, a day in the life, marco signoretto wrote: chiedevo... tutti quei programmini tipo la gestione avanzata del risparmio energetico, l'ibernazione ecc. (nonchè vari tasti funzione aggiuntivi per internet ed altro ancora...) c'è modo di recuperarli con linux o è possibile farli funzionare solo sotto win? tu hai esperienze dirette di installazioni su portatili? se si con che distro? marco io ho installato per un mio amico un po' di tempo fa linux su un portatile acer 512T (credo) ci installai sia la suse che la mandrake. tenni la mandrake, funzionava perfettamente il supporto energetico e il resto. puoi comunque fare un giro qui http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/volunteer.html e vedere quali problemi possano avere incontarto altri utenti nell'installazione di linux sul modello che vuoi acquistare. E dopo puoi contribuire al database con la tua exp:-) bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia www.acidlife.com/aciderror/freefred Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - www.davidebanda.nelweb.net ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] Help installazione...
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, a day in the life, Flavio Bosio wrote: Problema; Ho sotto mano un portatile Acer, più precisamente un TM 313T con floppy e CD-ROM esterno, attualmente senza S.O., il problema è che il CD-ROM esterno non è un Acer ma un AMACOM 24x, il che significa che il Boot Disk in dotazione per l'installazione di winzozz non è in grado di riconoscere il driver. puoi provare a guardare nel sito che ho citato nell'altra mail che parla dell'install di linux sui portatili. Ora il punto è, che si fa? sapendo che dispone di solo 32MB di SDRAM? C'è la possibilità di caricare un piccolo linux? se si come? se per piccolo linux intendi le minidistro su uno o piu' floppies con 32 mega le fai girare tutte. finche' non risolvi il prob. del cd potresti provare mulinux, dovrebbe essere ora su 4 floppies compresa di server x. a freshmeat comunque cercando per minidistro ne trovi a pacchi. byez -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia www.acidlife.com/aciderror/freefred Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - www.davidebanda.nelweb.net ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie] sound card stopped working
"Paulo H.C. Godoi" wrote: I have installed Mandrake 7.1 just recently and everything was just fine! except that a few days ago, I decided to try an MPEG program called MTV. A little bit later I realized that my sound card stopped working. Of course I have finally removed the program, wishing the sound card would come back to life again. I have rebooted the computer but with no success. I do not know how my original files were changed and which ones are used to configure the sound card. I sought a configuration tool to check it but I could not find any. Please, do you know how can I restore my sound card functions? Sincerely, Paulo Godoi I had a similar problem, a sound card previously working fine no working animore, then I realized that I had modified the BIOS setting PlugPlay OS. Setting No Plug Play BIOS I got again the sound card working fine. Bye Renato -- Renato Tognaccini, Dipartimento di Progettazione Aeronautica, Universita` di Napoli Federico II, Piazzale V. Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, ITALIA. tel.: +39-0817682179 fax: +39-0817682187 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Account Automatically After X
How do I close user accounts automatically after X closes, because X was initiated when selected users logged into their accounts? Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list and my email address. * Signed, SoloCDM
[newbie] Monitor problems
Hi all, I've installed Mandrake 7.1 recently and during install everything went fine except the monitor/video part. After rebooting and running Xconfigurator i could fix the problem, but at that moment i couldnt find any drivers for my monitor and on the standard driver i couldnt get a screen resolution of 1024x768x8 or higher. Yesterday i tried again and suddenly i saw the correct driver for my monitor in the list, i just didnt see it the previous time i guess. I used DrakConf from within KDE to change the monitor and all went well.until i started my pc this morning and saw that all settings were returned to the original and i couldnt even get a resolution of 800x600x8. When i change the monitor to the correct one, the settings arent saved for some reason. Ive got a Trident Blade3D AGP 8Mb and an Eizo Flexscan F520 monitor. I cant run X anymore now... could someone please give me some help? Thanx, Uliq _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [Re: [newbie] Install problems]
Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does LM 7.1 fully support ATA66? I seem to remember something about 7.2 would but can't recall where or when, I'm getting old and crotchetty. Somebody know about ATA66? -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842 = Yes it does suport ATA66. I running it right now. In fact I was originally running this box fro ASL at ATA100, but it became a bit unstable and began giving me boot fits. So I switched sockets, backing it down to 66 and haven't had a problem since. Runs great and very stable. Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [[newbie] X windows on start-up]
"John W" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed LM 7.1 again after trying a few other distros. Thats the problem with Linux being free. You can try as many different distros as you like. Anyhow I opted not to have X start automatically and when I logout of X the monitor shuts down and all I can do is give the three finger salute and reboot the system. Does anyone know how to configure X to start automatically? Thanks, John W = Try editing your /ets/inittab file. Find the line that has "id:3:initdefault" (w/o quotes) and change the 3 to a 5 HTH, Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [Re: [[newbie] X windows on start-up]]
Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = Try editing your /ets/inittab file. Find the line that has "id:3:initdefault" (w/o quotes) and change the 3 to a 5 HTH, Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill == that should be /etcNOT /ets Sorry Mike ~~~ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." --Tom Waits ~~~ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] confusing logitech wheel mouse
thanks jeff ! i noticed something else too. the imwheel file in /usr/X11R6/bin/ had no GID or UID permission , what i did was adding those permissions and then i could run imwheel whithout using su command. thnaks again [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote: hi about 2-3 months ago , thanks to this newletter , i managed to installed wheel on my LM 7.0 . now i have installed LM 7.1 . the confusing part is i have both XF86Config and XF86Config-4 in my /etc/X11 folder. so i edited both of them according the description on mandrakeuser.org and linuxbrit.co.uk and copied imwheelrc as .imwheelrc to home directory with right permissions. sad part begins when i login as non su user and run imwheel -k i get an error massage as following :file or folder does not exist.imwheel process could not be verified.imwheel file could not be removed. operation not permitted." the only way of getting the wheel to run is using su command. do u have any suggestion about what i should do to get imwheel running without using su ? what shall i do to make it autostart ? thanks in advance This is a newbie answering but I've been where you are. Yes you can put it in your autostart folder. First you must make a kdelink for it which you put in the autostart folder. To create a kdelink on your desktop, right mouse click/new/folder. Put in a name like imwheel.kdelink. Under execute put in imwheel -k. Close it and then drag it into your autostart folder. The anser to the su problem is that when su starts up it runs imwheel -k replacing it with a imwheel.pid that su created and owns. The normal user cannot overwrite it and thus imwheel is non functional in the user world. To correct this, you need to put imwheel -k in your root (the su) bash_logout file. That causes it to kill its own imwheel.pid when it exits and thus allows the user to create another one that the user owns and works for him. I hope this helps. -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
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hello to all. my question is: How can i install my Supra Express 33i modem? is a ISA modem. thanks to all
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Re: [newbie] Account Automatically After X
If I understand your question correctly the user account closes by itself when they log out of their current session. There isn't anything that you have to do. The system takes care of that. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 1:45am ,SoloCDM spake passionately in a message: How do I close user accounts automatically after X closes, because X was initiated when selected users logged into their accounts? Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list and my email address. * Signed, SoloCDM
Re: [newbie] Install problems
I've got two ATA/66 HDD's hooked to system. Primary master and slave and they're working fine with Mandrake 7.1. That's all I run as a matter of fact. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 3:06am ,Dennis Myers spake passionately in a message: "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: I have one IDE drive hooked up to an Ultra ATA/66. Even if I select "no" at the prompt, it brings it back up...(sigh) Does LM 7.1 fully support ATA66? I seem to remember something about 7.2 would but can't recall where or when, I'm getting old and crotchetty. Somebody know about ATA66?
Re: [newbie] Install problems
please disregard my previous post on this thread...I'm not totally with it this morning and while I thought I was responding to one thing I was thinking of something else. Not enough caffine in the blood-stream yet! -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 7:34am ,Mark Weaver spake passionately in a message: I've got two ATA/66 HDD's hooked to system. Primary master and slave and they're working fine with Mandrake 7.1. That's all I run as a matter of fact.
RE: [newbie] Install problems
The ATA/66 is on the board, no card. I have an ABIT BX6 II for my MoBo. Last night I got past the SCSI error and found this error at the HD detection phase of the install: "An error has occured- No valid devices were found on which to create new file systems. Please check your hardware for the cause of thisproblem." But here's the deal. I have already installed Win98se on this HD and have over 2gigs left for Linux. What is this all about? -Original Message- From: Rod Baxter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 8:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install problems If your ultra interface is a plug in card some of these look like SCSI cards to the software. I have a promise card which always detects as a SCSI controller. What is your motherboard and IDE interface etc?? Rod - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 3:38 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Install problems I have one IDE drive hooked up to an Ultra ATA/66. Even if I select "no" at the prompt, it brings it back up...(sigh) -Original Message- From: John Rye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install problems "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: But, I don't have a SCSI card. That's the whole problem. Whether I press yes or no, it stalls at that point in the installation. Whoa - hang one here.. You don't have any SCSI cards? But - from your original posting you are answering YES to the question about SCSI drives Why?? What type(s) of drive do you have? Give it another burst - this time say NO to the SCSI question.. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:00 AM To: 'Newbie' Subject: Re: [newbie] Install problems Chris, It sounds to me like the install program is having a hard time with your SCSI card. You might try running the installation after removing the card. I have a feeling that it will install just fine after that. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 1:36pm ,[EMAIL PROTECTED] spake...: I have yet another question. Last night, I tried to add Linux MDK 7.1 to my computer. I have a 4gig HD and the first 2gigs are devoted to Winbloze. The second 2 are setup to take Linux. Here is my problem. I boot from the CD and start the 7.1 install. I pick the automated install and continue. It gets to a point were it asks me if I have any SCSI drives on my machine. I tell it yes, pick the appropriate driver and attempt to continue. It asks yet again, "Do you have any SCSI drives?" This time, I pick no and it asks me again, and again, and again. I'm stuck! It will not go past this point. So, I tried running the Customized install and the Expert install and I hit similar snags. I'm getting very frustrated. Am I doing something wrong? I have done an install of 7.1 before on this HD. The only difference is that the HD has Winbloze on it now. Before it was clean. Help Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] TAR Issue
Thanks for the info, but now the question is what tar command do I use to exclude this directory? tar cMvf /dev/tape / seems to work so that it will use multiple tapes, what swtch is to exclude ? TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/19/2000 07:31:56 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Lad Gaal/MarconiMedical) Subject: Re: [newbie] TAR Issue Nothing in /proc is "really" a file. These are generated by the kernel when you cat the file for information. They appear as files... but only "somtain" something when reqeusted. You should leave this directory out of your backup as it will be re-created should you need to restore. --Greg - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well everything was working fine. I was on my third tape when it reached ./proc/kcore and it just sat there! I tried the whole routine again, and once again it died in the same place with different tapes. What is ./proc/kcore? Anybody know how I can get around this situation? I want a total back up of my system before I install Mandrake 7.1! BTW- Can I upgrade form 6.0 to 7.1 with minimal impact on PHP PostgreSQL etc? [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/19/2000 02:20:43 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Lad Gaal/MarconiMedical) Subject: Re: [newbie] TAR Issue "Lad. Gaal" wrote: I want to back up the hard drives on my unit to a SCSI 8mm tape (exabyte 8205) drive. For the life of me I can't figure out how to get the tar command to go more than one tape. [...] I've tried tar -cvf /dev/tape /. but when the tape fills it dies, so I tried tar -cvLf /dev/tape /. I just get a bunch of ASII across the monitor. Try this one : tar cMvf /dev/tape / This will create a multi-volume archive. But maybe if you compressed it (with the 'z' flag), it would take only one tape. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~! __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
[newbie] Install Problems - MISSING HEADER
Hey Everyone... I purchased Mandrake Linux 7.1 Deluxe which comes with the following CD's: Installation CD (x86) Applications CD (x86) 2nd Applications CD (x86) Extension CD (x86) etc... After telling Mandrake I have all of the above Cd's it starts installing fine until it gets to the 2nd Application CD half way through when I encounter the error: An Error Occured Package file: missing header +-+ | OK | +-+ Why am I getting this error? I have sucessfully used these cd's on the same computer before a hard drive crash (hard drive was replaced) and checked the cd for scratches etc. Any ideas? -Joel B __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
[newbie] GRUB install
Hi guys, When responding to this mail please email me directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since I am not subscribed to the list. Thanx. To the problem - I am using MDK7.1 and LILO doesn't want to install properly cos of the cyl 1024 problem so I wanted to install GRUB, but how ? I am not any clever neither from man grub nor from info grub and there is no howto on grub. I would really appreciate if someone would give me a hand with that. My disk is: /dev/hda1, 2 GB (c:) - windows /dev/hda5, 16 GB (d:) - my stuff for windows (progs, documents etc.) /dev/hda6, 1.8GB (e:) - Whole Linux / /dev/hda7, 0.2GB - Linux Swap Thanx in advance Roman
Re: [newbie] MOBO Change Question
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote: I'm about to change my mobo amd cpu. Can (may) I do just that and expect everything to carry on as it does at present except somewhat quicker? I'm moving from Pentium 120 to AMD K6 on an Epox MVP3E Atx motherboard and expect to just powerdown swap cards and drives and re-power. I've done a motherboard/cpu swap several times, never had any problems. Just make sure you retain current bios config for things like drives and IO ports. ie, when you boot the new hardware the first time, go immediately into bios and make neccessary changes before you let linux boot. There's no guarantees tho, so backup anything you can't afford to lose. Now I've also swapped drives around. For that I put in the install CD, chose 'upgrade' but with no changes/add'tl packages, and let it make all the various config changes (eg, fstab, and whatever). No problems, back up and running in a few minutes. Bottom line is try it. If you have problems, try 'upgrade'. If that doesn't solve the problems you can always re-install as a last resort. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Install problems
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, you wrote: The ATA/66 is on the board, no card. I have an ABIT BX6 II for my MoBo. Last night I got past the SCSI error and found this error at the HD detection phase of the install: "An error has occured- No valid devices were found on which to create new file systems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem." But here's the deal. I have already installed Win98se on this HD and have over 2gigs left for Linux. What is this all about? It's almost assuredly a hardware/config defienciency. Try a bios setting to change to ata/33, or simply replace the ata/66 IDE cable with an ata/33 cable and see if that doesn't solve the problem. I suspect Windoze works with it because it's more tolerant of marginal hardware than Linux is. After/if that change to ata/33 works, then try going back to ata/66 (tho it's hardly worth it IMNSHO). IIRC, there's some problems with Abit and ata/66. To the point that Abit even released their own Linux distro (Gentus?) to overcome it. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] xscreensaver stopped working in xfce
I am running Mandrake 7.1 and still a newbie at linux. Trying out xfce I entered the line xscreensaver in my home xfwmrc. The xscreensaver worked just fine. Now all of a sudden it no longer starts when re-loging into xfce. The line is still there, but the daemon has to be "restarted" from within xfce. (Trying to change something else, I had used "Drakeconfig" but I am sure I just looked around and did not change anything.) Any idea where I should start looking? Any log that might show what has changed? I do not think this has anything to do with the Drakeconfig incident mentioned above. Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
Re: [newbie] Monitor problems
the correct driver for my monitor in the list, i just didnt see it the previous time i guess. I used DrakConf from within KDE to change the monitor and all went well. as user or root? until i started my pc this morning and saw that all settings were returned to the original and i couldnt even get a resolution of 800x600x8. When i change the monitor to the correct one, the settings arent saved for some reason. Boot to a text based console prompt (runlevel 3) and as root run a X-config utility (I prefer XF86Setup). Whichever utility you use it will ask if you want to write the changes to the config file, say yes. BTW, if you use your computer everyday, you'll be better off leaving it on 24/7. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
RE: [newbie] Install problems
I haven't even got my install going properly yet, so this may be WAY off base but: Is that 2GB you have left set as a partition (eg: using Fdisk), or just left as unallocated area? Wouldn't the system miss unallocated space (therefore the "No valid devices..." error)? As I said, probably NOT the solution, but the reply might help me learn. -Carlton -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 7:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Install problems On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, you wrote: The ATA/66 is on the board, no card. I have an ABIT BX6 II for my MoBo. Last night I got past the SCSI error and found this error at the HD detection phase of the install: "An error has occured- No valid devices were found on which to create new file systems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem." But here's the deal. I have already installed Win98se on this HD and have over 2gigs left for Linux. What is this all about? It's almost assuredly a hardware/config defienciency. Try a bios setting to change to ata/33, or simply replace the ata/66 IDE cable with an ata/33 cable and see if that doesn't solve the problem. I suspect Windoze works with it because it's more tolerant of marginal hardware than Linux is. After/if that change to ata/33 works, then try going back to ata/66 (tho it's hardly worth it IMNSHO). IIRC, there's some problems with Abit and ata/66. To the point that Abit even released their own Linux distro (Gentus?) to overcome it. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
RE: [newbie] Install problems
I have actually tried it as both. That is, with and with out a extfs2 partition. I think that I am going to try Tom's suggestion. -Original Message- From: Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Install problems I haven't even got my install going properly yet, so this may be WAY off base but: Is that 2GB you have left set as a partition (eg: using Fdisk), or just left as unallocated area? Wouldn't the system miss unallocated space (therefore the "No valid devices..." error)? As I said, probably NOT the solution, but the reply might help me learn. -Carlton -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 7:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Install problems On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, you wrote: The ATA/66 is on the board, no card. I have an ABIT BX6 II for my MoBo. Last night I got past the SCSI error and found this error at the HD detection phase of the install: "An error has occured- No valid devices were found on which to create new file systems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem." But here's the deal. I have already installed Win98se on this HD and have over 2gigs left for Linux. What is this all about? It's almost assuredly a hardware/config defienciency. Try a bios setting to change to ata/33, or simply replace the ata/66 IDE cable with an ata/33 cable and see if that doesn't solve the problem. I suspect Windoze works with it because it's more tolerant of marginal hardware than Linux is. After/if that change to ata/33 works, then try going back to ata/66 (tho it's hardly worth it IMNSHO). IIRC, there's some problems with Abit and ata/66. To the point that Abit even released their own Linux distro (Gentus?) to overcome it. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] where are the cooker iso s?
Does anyone know any site that has iso files for the latest cooker? The linuxberg site doesn't, contrary to what Mandrake says. Trying to download all the files individually is a pain even with a fast connection. By the way, in 7.2 Beta 3 kpackage seems to be broken. The loss of all the kde themes was sad but a broken kpackage is a real inconvenience.
[newbie] Installing additional components after installation
I'm more familiar with SuSE, which uses YAST/2 for a setup tool. With it I can check what programs are installed, do a search of other packages to install, and install something off of a CD. What is the standard tool for this in Mandrake? RPM? Thanks, Gerry
[newbie] Install: 7.1 problems fixed in 7.2 beta 3
I could not install 7.1 unless I copied the cd to the hard disk and made a boot diskette for installing from a hard disk partition. With 7.2 beta 3 that has all been fixed and the installation program works just fine off the cds. Those who have problems with installing 7.1 might just go and get the beta 7.2 and use that instead. There are some broken links and annoying problems with the beta (most serious bug I've come across is a non-functioning kpackage) but at least it's easy to install! www.lsl.com sells already-made beta cds for a few dollars a disk plus postage, if you don't have a fast line to download the iso files.
[newbie] updating to 7.2 without downloading everything
I have a copy of mdk 7.1 install cd I would like to try installing 7.2 to see if that will boot where 7.1 won't. So my question is can I download all the rpms that have changed since 7.1 and make a new mdk install cd overwriting the old files with the 7.2 ones I've downloaded. Or do I have to download the iso? -- Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Installing additional components after installation
- Original Message - From: "Gerry Kirk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 6:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Installing additional components after installation I'm more familiar with SuSE, which uses YAST/2 for a setup tool. With it I can check what programs are installed, do a search of other packages to install, and install something off of a CD. What is the standard tool for this in Mandrake? RPM? You can use RPMDrake. This will list all the programs available including those on CDs 3and 4. It will tell you which are installed and allow you to install any additional you choose as long as you have the proper CD which it will request. Charles
Re: [newbie]
Israel Fenor wrote: hello to all. my question is: How can i install my Supra Express 33i modem? is a ISA modem. thanks to all Hi Israel. Hmm, what specifically is the problem? I installed an ISA Supra Diamond 56k modem in my setup and it works fine. I did disable one com port, and used its IRQ# for my modem... PS Does your ISA modem have jumpers? Mine did, made it easy to change... -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Install Problems - MISSING HEADER
Joel B wrote: Hey Everyone... I purchased Mandrake Linux 7.1 Deluxe which comes with the following CD's: Installation CD (x86) Applications CD (x86) 2nd Applications CD (x86) Extension CD (x86) etc... After telling Mandrake I have all of the above Cd's it starts installing fine until it gets to the 2nd Application CD half way through when I encounter the error: An Error Occured Package file: missing header +-+ | OK | +-+ Why am I getting this error? I have sucessfully used these cd's on the same computer before a hard drive crash (hard drive was replaced) and checked the cd for scratches etc. Any ideas? -Joel B Hi Joel. This is gonna sound really strange, but when I used 7.1, I had the same problem when I picked (and for the life of me I can't remember which!) one of the settings: auto custom developer expert etc, etc,... Anyways, I finally used developer and expert. This worked fine, and I didn't get the errors I did before... Hope this helps! -- /\ DarkLord \/
[newbie] DHCP
Hi ! I have Road Runner at home but am not able to configure it. My Network Adapter is working. In order to configure DHCP, the only thing I did is enabling the DHCP option when I installed mandrake 7.1. I guess that is not enough to make Road Runner work (Indeed it doesn't...) I went through the DHCP mini-how-to but it is not updated enough and doesn't deal with the Mandrake 7.1 configuration. There is no way to find a complete documentation on how to do it under Mandrake 7.1... And as I am a pure newbie (I've been using Linux for only 2 weeks...), I really do not know what to do. Moreover, I don't really understand the Networking jargon... Then it would be really great if someone could guide me step-by-step through the process of making DHCP work under Mandrake... Sorry about that... I am just desperate and I still absolutely do not want to go back to the Microsoft world... Thanks a lot for your understanding and help! Nicolas
[newbie] installation problem
hello y'all, im a super newbie at this.. i recently downloaded mandrake 7.1 and was trying to install it earlier but then the installation screens were messed up. all i could see from the messages were "ok" and "cancel" and the rest of the borders of the dialogue boxes. these buttons and the borders were in light blue and the rest of the entire screen was dark blue including the options to choose from.. im running a p3700,128mb ram, and 19gb hd, 7 gs of which have windows98 installed, and the other 12 has redhat7.0. i waned ti install mandrake over the redhat partition without erasing it since teh installation would format the partition anyway right? i guess it would be highly unlikely that the linux partition is causing all the messy installation messages, so im figurin' i got a corrupted download or something. that's the best guess i can make right now since i encountered a problem as well making a boot disk from the cd's dosutils. well guesses are all i can make and i dunno much about this. anyone with a more scientific explanation?(and solution?) thanks! _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
[newbie] linux newbie IRC chat rooms
I'm looking for a good IRC chat room for where linux newbies can get together and help each other and discuss Linux. I know there are already a ton of linux chats out there, but I haven't found a "good" one yet. Alot of the rooms I stumble into are overflowing with tons of newbies all yelling for the attention of a few "gurus" I'm looking for a smaller group of newbies that enjoys helping one another, and teach others new things.Anyone know of a chatroom such as this? If so please share it, either email me direct or post it to this group. Thanks! Aaron
RE: [newbie] linux newbie IRC chat rooms
Aaron, I have gotten the most help from this fine group of people right here on this list!!! Just doing some a$$ kissing! Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 -Original Message- From: Aaron Zuercher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 2:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] linux newbie IRC chat rooms I'm looking for a good IRC chat room for where linux newbies can get together and help each other and discuss Linux. I know there are already a ton of linux chats out there, but I haven't found a "good" one yet. Alot of the rooms I stumble into are overflowing with tons of newbies all yelling for the attention of a few "gurus" I'm looking for a smaller group of newbies that enjoys helping one another, and teach others new things.Anyone know of a chatroom such as this? If so please share it, either email me direct or post it to this group. Thanks! Aaron
[newbie] The Craziest Thing!!!
Running Mandrake 7.0 Netscape 4.74 Using the system as a Home work Station Have 2 users: userA userB All was working OK until the other day. I made no changes that I remember?? userB still works OK. userA works OK unless I start kppp. Kppp connects OK but after that I cannot start anything else. No xterm, no Netscape, Drakconf, NOTHING, NADA, ZIP. If I stop kppp, anything will start then!!! Please help. I have no idea what to do. Charles
Re: [newbie] Browsers
In a message dated 10/18/2000 7:27:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey! Wadda u mean, Larry? You get to BUY betas to test with Micro$oft! And then buy it again (it's now "the product") and do it again! Why buy the same product only once? Capitalism to the extreme [the wrong extreme that is]. -Gary- Wait a minute there Gary---I thought Micsrosoft only sold Beta software! --Greg Stewart, MCP :-) 10/20 They DO. That's the point. But you knew that. -Gary- In a message dated 10/18/2000 12:13:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the things I see regularly is people's unfamiliarity with beta-test software, both in terms of expectations and interpretations. I guess it is pretty unique for most people working in Windows to see true beta-apps with all their trace code, dead code, etc. still hanging inside them. With Windows you get to beta-test after you buy it and the bloat there is more a matter of programming taste than anything else.
Re: [newbie] Linux question
In a message dated 10/18/2000 12:35:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The most time consuming but exacting choice is the expert install. On the screen where you choose package groups there will be a small button at the bottom of the window to "choose individual" programs. The help screen below says something about individually choosing from over 1000 program packages--and they're not kidding! You will have an information screen Doesn't this overstate the situation? It takes me only a few minutes to run through that list, unmarking the things I don't want and marking a couple that I do want added. Most of the stuff is already pre-marked for install so most of those 1000 packages need no attention. Pretty easy to say "I want C C++ packages but don't need Fortran." Since the C C++ are already turned on, you take care of those 15-20 packages with a single click that causes the Fortran packs to be skipped. The problem comes when guys want to start picking and choosing among system files, most of which they don't know what their function is :-) Linux Mandrake 7.1 selected using the spacebar (if I remember right), but 7.2 has check boxes. The selection area was out of view to the right on my screen, scrolling may be necessary to find the boxes so that you can select them. Allow an hour to an hour and a half to read through and select what If you're a newbie you shouldn't be deleting that close to the bone in my view. If you want to eliminate games, developer kits, and applications, fine. Anything requiring careful reading is best left until you're not a newbie and by then you know the names of most of those system packages. Just another view. Cheers --- Larry Larry, Just telling him how to do it since he seemed ...upset. Frankly I agree with you, and in my own case I used expert to add things so that I have them to play around with later. I can delete them individually with RPM later if I decide that I don't like them. -Gary-
Re: [newbie] Browsers
In a message dated 10/18/2000 12:25:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the things I see regularly is people's unfamiliarity with beta-test software, both in terms of expectations and interpretations. I guess it is pretty unique for most people working in Windows to see true beta-apps with all their trace code, dead code, etc. still hanging inside them. With Windows you get to beta-test after you buy it and the bloat there is more a matter of programming taste than anything else. Hey! Wadda u mean, Larry? You get to BUY betas to test with Micro$oft! And then buy it again (it's now "the product") and do it again! Why buy the same product only once? Capitalism to the extreme [the wrong extreme that is]. -Gary- I think I said that Gary. But what seems to get to people coming from a world of commercial-only software is that there are real reasons why code in development should run more poorly than it would if all the extra code was removed. Rather than saying to themselves, "Oh...this is beta, I expect it to be slow and big" they say "Ooo yuck, this is a horrible program; it's slow and big." Maybe all Linux beta software should be released with the statement "This is a beta; it will be slow and big. We're just trying to make you Windows users feel at home." :-) Cheers --- Larry Larry, Once again I argree with you. Both in the buying the same software twice and with the notion of buying test betas. And though it might seem dumb, a lot of people don't know just what a beta is and some kind of blatant message is also a good idea. -Gary-
Re: [newbie] g++ compiler
In a message dated 10/18/2000 6:11:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/* Sample code - Hello World to test g++ */
#include iostream.h
int main()
{
cout "Hello World" endl;
return 0;
}
This fails under a standard, developer installation of LM 7.1. Go figure.
I just don't know what they're thinking.
Cheers --- Larry
Larry,
They're thinking desktop (as in Windon't desktop) not hobbiest or
programmer. Yet hobbiest is the level needed to configure the system for use
(configure cards, X resolution desktop configuration, etc.).
-Gary-
Re: RE: [newbie] linux newbie IRC chat rooms
hi aaron there r many chatrooms as u already know. irc.linux.com #linuxhelp or #linux ircnet #linux , #redhat and #mandrake efnet #linux my isp is banned of some reason :( chatjunkie #linux but one thing for sure is that they do not take the time to answer u n EXPLAIN as good as this newgroup does. belive me cuz i been there. there r mostly long time linux users n in best case refere u to a website to seek for help. ciao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron, I have gotten the most help from this fine group of people right here on this list!!! Just doing some a$$ kissing! Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 -Original Message- From: Aaron Zuercher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 2:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] linux newbie IRC chat rooms I'm looking for a good IRC chat room for where linux newbies can get together and help each other and discuss Linux. I know there are already a ton of linux chats out there, but I haven't found a "good" one yet. Alot of the rooms I stumble into are overflowing with tons of newbies all yelling for the attention of a few "gurus" I'm looking for a smaller group of newbies that enjoys helping one another, and teach others new things. Anyone know of a chatroom such as this? If so please share it, either email me direct or post it to this group. Thanks! Aaron
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] What's everybody's favorite email package?
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote: m Does one have to disable Kmail in order to try exmh? I had the same problem initially, and the answer lies with your /home/user/Mail directory. Exmh looks to create the /Mail directory in your personal user directory. (notice the capital M). Since Kmail has already named it, and uses it, I had to rename the existing Mail directory to something else, i.e. Mail1. This will let Exmh make its Mail directory, and if you don't like it, you can delete it later, and rename Mail1 back to Mail for your Kmail. With this minor change, you will be off and running. Isn't there a way to configure either kmail or exmh to use a differenlt names mail directory? -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
Re: [newbie] Monitor problems
I would certainly turn the monitor off as monitors are quite a fire risk. I leave my server at home running all the time behind a UPS and have never had hardware problems. But the monitor goes off. If I remember correctly from years ago, the problem with turning equipment on and off all the time is that the components go through heat stress and the heat causes expansion of course. In many cases its the mechanical expansion which does the damage. These days PC's run a lot cooler (the components that is) and I suspect the gains in leaving the machines on is minimal. Is the fan in your power supply a good ball race fan? If its the usual sleeve variety it will sieze eventually and will, according to Murphy, do it in the middle of the night and cook you machine. Regards,Rod - Original Message - From: "Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 7:32 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Monitor problems In defense of leaving the machine on (particularly if you're running a stable system like Linux), other than your monitor, a computer doesn't use all that much electricity. A 200W power supply takes about as much as 3-4 light bulbs, right? How many lights do you leave on in the house? Might be worth it to shut off the monitor and leave the box on. In support of what you're saying, that 200W is the potential output capacity of that device, not its power usage. The machine is actually using less than that or the power supply would be inadequate. Cheers --- Larry
[newbie] Re: Copying hdrives
Thanks for the suggestions. I tried Norton Ghost 6.5 both through the parallel cable and locally after hooking up my "master" drive as a slave to the PC where I was wanting to copy the master drive to. Neither worked. What did work great though was the Linux dd program. I created my master Mandrake Linux drive and then connected it to the PC that I wanted to copy to as a slave drive. The PC thus had the master drive (hda) and the drive that I wanted to copy from as the slave (hdb). The following command duplicated the slave drive to the master drive: dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=512 Worked great! In fact, I got the idea from an article in Info Security magazine, which rated the "free" dd program higher than Norton Ghost and others. ... Kirby P.S. I'm copying this to the newbie listserv since I first asked my question there and it may help someone else. - Original Message - From: "Serge Skorokhodov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 10:01 AM Subject: Copying hdrives Hi, What I would do is like this (assuming all PCs are the same): 1) Install Windows and Ghost on a pc (nothing else). 2) take HD from a PC with MK installed and connect it as the second HD to the win machine. 3) create an image of it and store on the win HD. 4) replace LM HD with a clean one from another machine and write the stored MK image on it. 5) repeat the procedure required number of times--you have exacty the same MK configuration installed on all your computers but one. If you can't install win, you can use DOS or whatever else--i don't have expirience with norton ghost, but it needs dos on a floppy you run it, anyway? Hope it helps. Serge
[newbie] Zip Drives
Hello: I have an internal (IDE) Zip drive in my box. It shows up during the booting process, but I can't seem to access it when I'm actually in linux. All my hardrives, CD-Roms, and floppies show up on the desktop. Is there a way to get the Zip to automatically show up there as well? Thanks, Riker -- Linux - The way of the future
[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 AND 1.NVIDIA drivers 2. Matlab
Hi all, I have 2 questions: I have recently installed Mandrake 7.2 Beta, which seemed to be a necessity for XFree86 to operate properly with NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS card.I was unable to run XFree86 with Mandrake 7.1. I had to install lots of things extra. Anyway, 7.2 sees GeForce2 card and I have a running XFree86. The problems: 1. NVIDIA provides kernel and GLX drivers for its cards. I was able to install them in 7.1. (In fact, the installation was problemless however, the results were not satisfactory. I was unable to run an openGL program which was my main aim. Then I decided to move to 7.2). Well, I cannot install these drivers in 7.2. It gives some errors concerning the agpgart.o. And the 'insmod NVdriver' fails. Has anyone managed to install NVIDIA drivers to Mandrake 7.2? 2. I had installed Matlab R11 to 7.1 and it was runing OK. I installed it to 7.2 (I had to add a library manually because matlab insisted on having libdl.so.1, whereas 7.2 has libdl.so.2 )and now only the root can run it, if a user tries to run it, it dumps core and gives segmentation fault. Does anyone have any idea? Thanks Burak
Re: [newbie] 2 quesitons
Eddie Torres wrote: Hello all, 1. Can the kernel be updated via MandrakeUpdate? If not, why have it show up there? 2. When is 7.2(final) supposed to be released? TIA --- Eddie Torres www.veloct.net I have successfully updated through the auto update feature, but I learned later that it was not recommended. The latest I have seen is the Beta 3. You can the CD's from http://www.lsl.com if you don't want to download them. -- Barry :-) Registered Linux User #183879
Re: [newbie] Browsers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/18/2000 12:25:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the things I see regularly is people's unfamiliarity with beta-test software, both in terms of expectations and interpretations. I guess it is pretty unique for most people working in Windows to see true Larry, Once again I argree with you. Both in the buying the same software twice and with the notion of buying test betas. And though it might seem dumb, a lot of people don't know just what a beta is and some kind of blatant message is also a good idea. -Gary- Not to change the subject back to what started all of this, but, I pulled up Mozilla and did not initiate the mail feature, just started browsing. It reacted considerably faster than before. When I started mail the browser immediately slowed down to where it would take 20 seconds to a minute or more to load a web page. The fonts etc are so much better than the Netscape fonts (which I can not get to change) that I think I will use Mozilla to browse and Netscape for mail, until I can figure out how to get Kmail to work without crashing. So to make a long story short, Larry was right the mail feature is the goo that slows everything down. -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
Re: [newbie] Zip Drives
Riker wrote: Hello: I have an internal (IDE) Zip drive in my box. It shows up during the booting process, but I can't seem to access it when I'm actually in linux. All my hardrives, CD-Roms, and floppies show up on the desktop. Is there a way to get the Zip to automatically show up there as well? Thanks, Riker -- Linux - The way of the future Zip drives will be recognized but won't activate automatically, at least not in 7.1. Try the helpful hints on " http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/mountzip.html " That should get your zip drive mounted, and the last part tells you how to put an icon on the desktop so you can point and click. -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
Re: [newbie] new problem with memory
Emerhawk wrote: I installed another 64 megs of memory on my machine. Total of 128 megs. Linux is only recoginizing 64 megs. Does anyone Know how to get Linux to locate the extra memory. Thanks Emerhawk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problem solved. Thanks very Much, Emerhawk
[newbie] Netscape
Hi, I'm having problems with netscape. It always seems to stall when I'm download a large page and it stalls, it says and I can't seem to do anything about it. Thanks in advance for you help
[newbie] floppy
hi I'm also having problems with the floppy drive. Whenever I try to use it, and access it through the desktop, it stalls too... The window just says that it's working and stays like that for a long time, with no end in sight. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks
[newbie] Q about the 7.2 beta
Someone with the beta who wants to dual boot with the FAT32 file system. Have they updated the GUI FDisk during install such that you can specify that the extended partition is type F vs the usual type 5? It is annoying to have to do the complete install to be able to get to the text mode fdisk and flip the type on partition 5 from 5 to F. (In the past the GUI FDisk did not show you partition 5) If this is still the case, could someone send in a req. I don't know when I will have the time to wait for the ISO image to download... but hopefully I will. Thanks! Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] g++ compiler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This fails under a standard, developer installation of LM 7.1. Go figure. I just don't know what they're thinking. They're thinking desktop (as in Windon't desktop) not hobbiest or programmer. Yet hobbiest is the level needed to configure the system for use (configure cards, X resolution desktop configuration, etc.). I suppose you're right Gary but providing a c compiler without printf in the library doesn't make that compiler very useful. This is what they're doing with the c++ compiler. It's like giving you a computer without a keyboard :-) Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Browsers
Dennis Myers wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/18/2000 12:25:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, much better than the Netscape fonts (which I can not get to change) that I think I will use Mozilla to browse and Netscape for mail, until I can figure out how to get Kmail to work without crashing. So to make a long story short, Larry was right the mail feature is the goo that slows everything down. Along those lines, I took advice given here and upgraded Netscape 4.73 to 4.75 and it seems to be well worth the small effort involved as it's made Netscape much more stable if the past 24h is any indication. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Netscape
Are you able to browse *any* web pages? Does this only happen on"big" ones? Or, does it start after one or two linnks? I've seen Netscape stall like this if DNS information isn't set wuite right...but I'm not quite sure what you're describing. Are you on a dial-up? Does this happen to you in windows as well? Does this happen in any other browser under Linux? --Greg - Original Message - From: "Marco Kwan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I'm having problems with netscape. It always seems to stall when I'm download a large page and it stalls, it says and I can't seem to do anything about it. Thanks in advance for you help __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] floppy
Are you using the icon on the desktop? Maybe the auto-mount ain't workin' quite right. In terminal, su to root, and type: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy then cd to /mnt/floppy and ls. If it stalls in terminal there's something else wrong. But if it works, then your auto-mount is broken. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Marco Kwan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi I'm also having problems with the floppy drive. Whenever I try to use it, and access it through the desktop, it stalls too... The window just says that it's working and stays like that for a long time, with no end in sight. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 AND 1.NVIDIA drivers 2. Matlab
On Saturday 21 October 2000 04:25, you scribled down on a piece of electronic paper: 1. NVIDIA provides kernel and GLX drivers for its cards. I was able to install them in 7.1. (In fact, the installation was problemless however, the results were not satisfactory. I was unable to run an openGL program which was my main aim. Then I decided to move to 7.2). Well, I cannot install these drivers in 7.2. It gives some errors concerning the agpgart.o. And the 'insmod NVdriver' fails. Has anyone managed to install NVIDIA drivers to Mandrake 7.2? Recompile your kernel and enable "/dev/agpart (AGP Support)" under the "Character devices" section. This should fix the problem :) I'm myself running XFree 4.0.1 Mandrake 7.2beta3 on a card with the NVidia GeForce2 chipset (asus v7700) and using the NVidia kernel and GLX drivers, and I get better results here with Quake3 and Heavy Gear2 then I get when I boot into windows and try there (with the latest NVidia windows drivers). -- \ Christian A Strømmen / \ Number1/NumeroUno @ Undernet - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Web: www.realityx.net - Cell: +47 911 43 948 / Live your life by your dreams, not by the limits of reality...
[newbie] Ktail shows a greyout out screen referring to -c
Hi everybody, I can't seem to to get ktail to work. I keep getting a message referring to a comment and -c. ktail should show all sorts of info. Mine is all faded out. Any ideas? Am I missing another file? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Netscape
I'm only alble to access smaller ones... ones like under 5k or so it says on the bottom... anything bigger than that... it reads a little and then stalls. Well this happens too when I'm using mandrake update. it receives for a while and thing it's just dies. I am using a dialup and it works fiine in windows. On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, you wrote: Are you able to browse *any* web pages? Does this only happen on"big" ones? Or, does it start after one or two linnks? I've seen Netscape stall like this if DNS information isn't set wuite right...but I'm not quite sure what you're describing. Are you on a dial-up? Does this happen to you in windows as well? Does this happen in any other browser under Linux? --Greg - Original Message - From: "Marco Kwan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I'm having problems with netscape. It always seems to stall when I'm download a large page and it stalls, it says and I can't seem to do anything about it. Thanks in advance for you help __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif -- mirror: ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake #mirror: ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake #mirror: ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake site|ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mandrake|ftp.belnet.be|Belgium site|ftp://ftp.ucr.ac.cr/pub/Unix/linux/mandrake/Mandrake|ftp.ucr.ac.cr|Costa Rica site|ftp://ftp.clinet.fi/mirrors/ftp.linux-mandrake.com|ftp.clinet.fi|Finland site|ftp://ftp.univ-savoie.fr/pub/Linux/Mandrake|ftp.univ-savoie.fr|France site|ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.ciril.fr|France site|ftp://ftp.worldonline.fr/pub/Mandrake|ftp.worldonline.fr|France site|ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake|ftp.free.fr|France site|ftp://ftp.univ-aix.fr/pub/linux/Mandrake|ftp.univ-aix.fr|France site|ftp://rpmfind.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/linux/Mandrake|rpmfind.creatis.insa-lyon.fr|France site|ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.tu-chemnitz.de|Germany site|ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.tu-clausthal.de|Germany site|ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/systems/linux/mandrake|ftp.uni-mannheim.de|Germany site|ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.uni-bayreuth.de|Germany site|ftp://ftp.wisr.eie.polyu.edu.hk/linux/mandrake|ftp.wisr.eie.polyu.edu.hk|Hong Kong site|ftp://linux.org.il/pub/distributions/Mandrake|linux.org.il|Israel site|ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/mandrake|mirror.nucba.ac.jp|Japan site|ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake|sunsite.uio.no|Norway site|ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/mandrake|sunsite.icm.edu.pl|Poland site|ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/mandrake|sunsite.icm.edu.pl|Poland site|ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/mirrors/Mandrake|ftp.nectec.or.th|Thailand site|ftp://ftp.nuri.net/pub/Linux/mandrake|ftp.nuri.net|USA? site|ftp://ftp.wtfo.com/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.wtfo.com|USA? site|ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake|ftp.linux.tucows.com|USA? site|ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake|ftp.linuxberg.com|USA? site|ftp://ftp.strasbourg.linuxfr.org/mandrake|ftp.strasbourg.linuxfr.org|USA? site|ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.eecs.umich.edu|USA? site|ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/packages/linux/mandrake|ftp.orst.edu|USA? site|ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake|ftp.math.utah.edu|USA? site|ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake|ftp.mirror.ac.uk|United Kingdom
[newbie] Graphic
Is this where I ask questions. If so here goes. System Pentium 233MMX, 64 Mb RAM. Graphic card Legend 64Mi+, which uses ArkLogic Ark2000PV (generic). Res.(autoselect) 256 colors(8 bits)@ 1024 x 768. Monitor. High Frequency SVGA 1024 x 768 @ 70 hz. Installed Linux-Mandrake, eventually got the Vid Cd accepted, and it ran beautifully for two days. It is on a PC with dual boot (w98) but on its own HD. Partitions were autoselected. Yesterday I booted up, logged in, put startx in and blammo a screen about the size of my room. What I was able to see was only the bottom two buttons in the corner of the window. That area occupied the entire screen. I cannot scroll and it was very, very difficult to get to log out and shut down. So I installed the lot again and gotexactly the same result. Today I reinstalled, same result. How the dickins do I reduce the screen size to fit into my desktop. Text is working OK so can I adjust things thru there ? Kev Sadler
Re: [newbie] floppy
the following is what it says. hope its of help mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy mount: according to mtab, /mnt/floppy is already mounted on /mnt/floppy [root@localhost ketchup]# On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, you wrote: Are you using the icon on the desktop? Maybe the auto-mount ain't workin' quite right. In terminal, su to root, and type: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy then cd to /mnt/floppy and ls. If it stalls in terminal there's something else wrong. But if it works, then your auto-mount is broken. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Marco Kwan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi I'm also having problems with the floppy drive. Whenever I try to use it, and access it through the desktop, it stalls too... The window just says that it's working and stays like that for a long time, with no end in sight. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif -- mirror: ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake #mirror: ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake #mirror: ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake site|ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mandrake|ftp.belnet.be|Belgium site|ftp://ftp.ucr.ac.cr/pub/Unix/linux/mandrake/Mandrake|ftp.ucr.ac.cr|Costa Rica site|ftp://ftp.clinet.fi/mirrors/ftp.linux-mandrake.com|ftp.clinet.fi|Finland site|ftp://ftp.univ-savoie.fr/pub/Linux/Mandrake|ftp.univ-savoie.fr|France site|ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.ciril.fr|France site|ftp://ftp.worldonline.fr/pub/Mandrake|ftp.worldonline.fr|France site|ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake|ftp.free.fr|France site|ftp://ftp.univ-aix.fr/pub/linux/Mandrake|ftp.univ-aix.fr|France site|ftp://rpmfind.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/linux/Mandrake|rpmfind.creatis.insa-lyon.fr|France site|ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.tu-chemnitz.de|Germany site|ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.tu-clausthal.de|Germany site|ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/systems/linux/mandrake|ftp.uni-mannheim.de|Germany site|ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.uni-bayreuth.de|Germany site|ftp://ftp.wisr.eie.polyu.edu.hk/linux/mandrake|ftp.wisr.eie.polyu.edu.hk|Hong Kong site|ftp://linux.org.il/pub/distributions/Mandrake|linux.org.il|Israel site|ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/mandrake|mirror.nucba.ac.jp|Japan site|ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake|sunsite.uio.no|Norway site|ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/mandrake|sunsite.icm.edu.pl|Poland site|ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/mandrake|sunsite.icm.edu.pl|Poland site|ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/mirrors/Mandrake|ftp.nectec.or.th|Thailand site|ftp://ftp.nuri.net/pub/Linux/mandrake|ftp.nuri.net|USA? site|ftp://ftp.wtfo.com/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.wtfo.com|USA? site|ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake|ftp.linux.tucows.com|USA? site|ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake|ftp.linuxberg.com|USA? site|ftp://ftp.strasbourg.linuxfr.org/mandrake|ftp.strasbourg.linuxfr.org|USA? site|ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.eecs.umich.edu|USA? site|ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/packages/linux/mandrake|ftp.orst.edu|USA? site|ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake|ftp.math.utah.edu|USA? site|ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake|ftp.mirror.ac.uk|United Kingdom
[newbie] frirewall question
under mandrake linux is there a way to block workgroups in the firewall especially in the netbios sharing area on ports 137-139 tcp and udp thankyou stephen ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.198 / Virus Database: 95 - Release Date: 10/4/00
[newbie] POP3 Mail Server
I am having a problem with my POP3 mail server. I am able to send and receive mail from my Linux box just fine. The problem is when I am at another location using a client such as Outlook express I am able to Recieve mail OK but when I try to send mail I get an error message saying "User 'mike' rejected by the server". I am sure Outlook is configured correctly. I also tried netscape and got a very similar error message. To me it seems like the problem is a configuration with the mail server. Here is some info: I have a domain name registered to my IP. I am running mandrake 7.1. I am using Postfix for SMTP and Qpopper for POP3. You people have been really great in the past. If anyone can help me or give me some advice I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Mike
Re: [newbie] 2 quesitons
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, you wrote: Eddie Torres wrote: Hello all, 1. Can the kernel be updated via MandrakeUpdate? If not, why have it show up there? 2. When is 7.2(final) supposed to be released? TIA --- Eddie Torres www.veloct.net I have successfully updated through the auto update feature, but I learned later that it was not recommended. The latest I have seen is the Beta 3. You can the CD's from http://www.lsl.com if you don't want to download them. -- Barry :-) Registered Linux User #183879 Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Anything not working by updating through MandrakeUpdate? -- Eddie Torres www.veloct.net
Re: [newbie] floppy
In terminal, try unmounting the device... it may not have been unmounted for some reason. umount /dev/fd0 then try the mount command again, and see what happens. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Marco Kwan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] the following is what it says. hope its of help mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy mount: according to mtab, /mnt/floppy is already mounted on /mnt/floppy [root@localhost ketchup]# On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, you wrote: Are you using the icon on the desktop? Maybe the auto-mount ain't workin' quite right. In terminal, su to root, and type: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy then cd to /mnt/floppy and ls. If it stalls in terminal there's something else wrong. But if it works, then your auto-mount is broken. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Marco Kwan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi I'm also having problems with the floppy drive. Whenever I try to use it, and access it through the desktop, it stalls too... The window just says that it's working and stays like that for a long time, with no end in sight. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif -- mirror: ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake #mirror: ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake #mirror: ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake site|ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mandrake|ftp.belnet.be|Belgium site|ftp://ftp.ucr.ac.cr/pub/Unix/linux/mandrake/Mandrake|ftp.ucr.ac.cr|Cost a Rica site|ftp://ftp.clinet.fi/mirrors/ftp.linux-mandrake.com|ftp.clinet.fi|Finlan d site|ftp://ftp.univ-savoie.fr/pub/Linux/Mandrake|ftp.univ-savoie.fr|France site|ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.ciril.fr|France site|ftp://ftp.worldonline.fr/pub/Mandrake|ftp.worldonline.fr|France site|ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake|ftp.free.fr|France site|ftp://ftp.univ-aix.fr/pub/linux/Mandrake|ftp.univ-aix.fr|France site|ftp://rpmfind.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/linux/Mandrake|rpmfind.creatis.insa- lyon.fr|France site|ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.tu-chemnitz.de|Germany site|ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.tu-clausthal.de|German y site|ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/systems/linux/mandrake|ftp.uni-mannheim.de|Ge rmany site|ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.uni-bayreuth.de|German y site|ftp://ftp.wisr.eie.polyu.edu.hk/linux/mandrake|ftp.wisr.eie.polyu.edu.h k|Hong Kong site|ftp://linux.org.il/pub/distributions/Mandrake|linux.org.il|Israel site|ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/mandrake|mirror.nucba.ac.jp|Japan site|ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake|sunsite.uio.no|Norway site|ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/mandrake|sunsite.icm.edu.pl|Poland site|ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/mandrake|sunsite.icm.edu.pl|Poland site|ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/mirrors/Mandrake|ftp.nectec.or.th|Thailand site|ftp://ftp.nuri.net/pub/Linux/mandrake|ftp.nuri.net|USA? site|ftp://ftp.wtfo.com/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.wtfo.com|USA? site|ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake|ftp.linu x.tucows.com|USA? site|ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake|ftp.linuxbe rg.com|USA? site|ftp://ftp.strasbourg.linuxfr.org/mandrake|ftp.strasbourg.linuxfr.org|US A? site|ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/pub/linux/mandrake|ftp.eecs.umich.edu|USA? site|ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/packages/linux/mandrake|ftp.orst.edu|USA? site|ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake|ftp.math.utah.edu|USA? site|ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake|ftp .mirror.ac.uk|United Kingdom __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
[newbie] Setting up Java for Star Office 5.2
I have tried a number of ways to get SO 5.2 to recognize JRE 1.1.8 which I currently use with Moneydance. My 'javarc file currently looks like this: [Install] ExcludeVersion= AdditionalClasspath=OFFICE_CLASSDIR/classes.jar:OFFICE_CLASSDIR/tkt.jar: OFFICE_CLASSDIR/sandbox.jar:OFFICE_CLASSDIR/unoil.jar: OFFICE_CLASSDIR/jurt.jar:OFFICE_CLASSDIRpgp.jar: OFFICE_CLASSDIR?/swingall.jar VerfiedVersion=1.1.8 RequiredVersion=1.17 InstallationPath= [Java] Java=0 JavaScript=0 Applets=0 The Classpath statements are all one line. I tried putting the path for 1.1.8 here and I have pointed to it under Java Setup in Book Marks. When neither of these worked, I downloaded JRE 1.1.7 and installed it. Then tried the same game plan. Point to it under setup, not go. Put the path in the javarc file and point to it again in setup, still no go. The current path for 1.1.7 is: /usr/jre117_v3/bin/i586/green_threads/jre Can someone help me on this? Thank you. -- Barry :-) Registered Linux User #183879
Re: [newbie] Install problems
Dennise, After LM7.0 was installed I switched my drive up to ATA/66 mode and it worked just fine with Mandrake. I understand that there may be problems when installing and using /66 mode, and with Promise controller cards (which require a patch if I recall what I read in newbie correctly). -Gary- In a message dated 10/19/2000 11:06:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: I have one IDE drive hooked up to an Ultra ATA/66. Even if I select "no" at the prompt, it brings it back up...(sigh) Does LM 7.1 fully support ATA66? I seem to remember something about 7.2 would but can't recall where or when, I'm getting old and crotchetty. Somebody know about ATA66? -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
Re: [newbie] frirewall question
Do you have a firewall script on your machine? this would be using ipchains. The only problem here is if you wanted to block certain workgroups and not other, you can't do that through firewalling unless you have an ip network set up and you have divided the workgroups into IP subnets. Then you would allow/disallow according to subnet. The way to allow individual workgroups access o a linux server through SMB protocol is to set the linux box up as a Samab server. Then you would set Samba to restrict logins. --Greg - Original Message - From: "stephen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] under mandrake linux is there a way to block workgroups in the firewall especially in the netbios sharing area on ports 137-139 tcp and udp thankyou stephen --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.198 / Virus Database: 95 - Release Date: 10/4/00 __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.1 vs sound
--- rjaallen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello
i am a newbie and i have a problem.
i have a cmi 8330 cs sound card which is supported by linux, but
the problem i am running into is that i can not get any sound out
of my system. i go to the configuration program and get errors,
(which i do not understand) i have tried to change the settings for
the card and still keep getting the errors. i know that it sees the
card and states what kind of card it is i have also enabled sound
for the x desktop, but alas, no sound. is there something else i
need to do, something i need to download. (i.e. css) if there is,
what it tar and gunzip and where do i get them if this is what i
need.
I had problems getting my card to work too, not surprising in my case
since it was a cheap Soundblaster clone ("Highscreen Sound Boostar").
It's supported according to the Linux hardware compatability list
(not Mandrake's shorter list). There's no special driver for it
though, you have to use the AD1816 driver (or something similar).
I found two programs on LM 7.0 for configuring the sound card,
"soundconfig" by Mandrake and "sndconfig" by RedHat. The latter had a
longer list of drivers, so you might want to check that. There's also
"lothar" under "hardware configuration" in DrakConf, but it didn't
recognize my card and was of no further help.
My soundcard is plug and play but isn't recognized as such by
sndconfig, whereas soundconfig didn't seem to care. I got it working
nevertheless by entering suitable values for addresses, IRQs and DMA
channels (these can be discovered under Win95 by selecting "This
computer", right-clicking and choosing properties, then selecting the
second tab for hardware components (Apparaatbeheer on my Dutch
system).
I got my soundcard more or less working by using the Sound Blaster
driver in sndconfig. To be more precise, it was working in 8 bit mode
but not in 16 bit mode, many sounds would work, but others would just
generate heavily distorted noise. I tried to use the proper AD1816
driver but it didn't pass the sound test at first. The problem seems
to be that the card locks up if incorrect signals are sent (my
guess). In any case, restarting the computer helped, and now it's
working just fine.
In summary: try both soundconfig and sndconfig. Select the addresses,
IRQs and DMA channels Windows is using if your card isn't recognized.
If you've got the right driver and have configured it properly but it
fails the test, try rebooting.
Good luck,
John Hendrickx
please help, i really want to learn linux and try to get away from
microsoft windows as much as i can.
thank you
rick
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Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.1 vs sound
Here is what I did: Go to the Linux-Mandrake site. Look for the link to HardDrake (LHS under the curly-haired penguin). Download the 3 detect-xxx files and HardDrake. You will also need to go to the LM RPM's and get the alsa RPM. Install all of the above as root - these are all newer than the ones on the LM7.1 CD. Then run HardDrake, click on the sound card, etc. It worked well for me. Also turn the volume down a bit, since you may have it all the way up - HD "tells" you it is installed, and that nearly blew my speakers and eardrums out! Kevin
Re: [newbie] Monitor problems
Subject: Re: [newbie] Monitor problems downsides of leaving it on all the time: heat buildup (computer is enclosed no air conditioner live in the south *haha*) solution -- good fans, take the cover off (that's what i do) Not to be nitpicky or anything, but this is not always the best thing to do as good cases have been designed to maximize airflow and heat regulation when they are put together. In some cases the static nature of the surrounding air with the case off will actually cause the components, especially processors and hard drives, to become hotter than if the case were left on. power surge or lightning strike (tho this could do damage even if it is turned off i suppose - just depends) solution -- get a GOOD UPS or line filter. not one at walmart. my first IBM system was destroyed by lightning a walmart line filter. also protect your modem line. i have seen systems fried thru the phone line. sometimes your modem will be a fuse protect the rest of your system. sometimes i will not. Even a good UPS will not protect equipment if the lightening strike is close enough, that's why most of the surge protectors/UPS's offer insurance on things hooked up to them. I worked at Underwriters Laboratories for awhile in their surge suppressor division. Lightning strikes, usually closer than three or four poles to your house will take out electronics unless you have some type of professional lightening arrestor installed outside your house. downsides of turning it on / off as needed: component failure is more likely to occure when powering up or down note -- i don't really know how "true" this is i'm an electronic tech i think about this it could be true, but i don't have any research or data to support it. it does seem possible however. I'm a little doubtful as to the claims that the on/off cycling really does significant harm.,but a sudden 5V surge into some of the more delicate MOS chips could possibly, maybe, kinda do some damage in the long run. Although how many of us have seen ancient 386's and 486's that have been around forever still chuggin along just fine? i use to keep my system on all the time. didn't have any problems tho. now days i keep it on a few days at a time sometimes, but due to win98 i usually don't go more that 4 days without a cold boot. i know, i know why am i using win98. well, when linux can run Red Alert Tiberian Sun i'll be free. Here, here...Until I can run all of my games and get my nVidia card running like it should under Linux, I'll have to stick with the MS beast for the time being. Plus I just like playing with OS's...got four of 'em installed currently. Adam
