[newbie] 3com 3c590 failed to initiate?
I just did a fresh install of mandrake 10. During the installation it recognized my network card as a 3c590 10baseT (Vortex) etherlink III, which is correct, when I chose to configure the card during the first choice it warned that this card was already set up for a network connection from a previous OS and if I wished to keep this configuration or change it. I chose to modify, maybe I should have left it, but then again i need to understand how to set a network up in linux. I chose these options for my 3c590 network card in the configuration tool: Connection to configure: Lan con. Net Device: eth0: 3com corporation|3c590 10baseT [vortex] Protocols: Automatic IP (boot/dhcp) Assign host name from dhcp address: Checked Network hoplugging: Checked (I don't know what this means btw) Start at boot: Checked Enter Host Name: I left it blank since I chose earlier to assign host name from dhcp Zeroconf host name: Aname ( I don't know what this is either? I'm assuming it is sent to other machines on the network as the name for my computer for sharing files printers etc) I get a prompt to restart, I do, but still I see the exclamation mark for my network connection (Network down) This same system has been verified working under another os. and my router/hub is getting a signal from the nic card. My network setup is a broadband dsl modem, linked to a usr dsl router/4 port hub In control center under hardware linux reports i'm using the 3c59x module What am I doing wrong? and how can I configure this nic to work with my network/dsl router. I hope to set up this machine to share files and to act as a print server for my other machines using win98se. I also want it to connected to the internet via the router. eventuallly i'd like to migrate everything to linux wants I understand how to install programs, modules, etc etc Thanks, -J[]sie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting into Linux..
Yeah, I have quite a few. Thanks. - Original Message - From: "David Julie Matheson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 1:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Getting into Linux.. Chris Hall wrote: Hello, I recently had to reinstall Winblows and it wiped out Grub. How can I get back into linux and set it back up? Thanks! Hi Chris Simply use your Linux boot Disk you do have one don't u?? then set up grub again and all should be fine
Re: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02
H... I can't really help you now because I've never installed using RPM's. :( I've always used the tar files. I'm sure someone else can tho. - Original Message - From: "Francois Massonneau" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02 Thank you Chris, Your advice is to download .tgz files, but I have already downloaded the XFree4.02 rpm source file. I've just finished to rebuild the files from the source file, and now I have the following files built : -rw-r--r--1 root root 1274861 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 10686424 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 1101761 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 622913 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-Xnest-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 1675192 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-Xvfb-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 385112 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 1967017 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-devel-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 9273769 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-doc-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 622058 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-glide-module-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 2128405 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-libs-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 6343726 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-server-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 1756340 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-static-libs-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 422201 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-xfs-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm Is it enuf ?? With my XFree3.3.6 install, I saw that I have the following files not created for Xfree4.02 : XFree86-XF86Setup XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts XFree86-SVGA XFree86-VGA16 XFree86-server-common Do I have to find them for this upgrade ? Do I need anything else ? Thank you. Francois - On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, you wrote: You need to go download the binaries for your system from ftp.xfree86.org. Here is a list of the minimum files you need: Xinstall.sh extract Xbin.tgz Xlib.tgz Xman.tgz Xdoc.tgz Xfnts.tgz Xfenc.tgz Xetc.tgz Xvar.tgz Xxserv.tgz Xmod.tgz Just put them in the same directory and type "sh Xinstall.sh". It will ask you a couple of questions. I said no to the first question and left the answers as default to the rest. Fairly easy to do. Good luck and I hope this helps! - Original Message - From: "Francois Massonneau" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:10 PM Subject: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02 Hi, I'm running Mandrake 7.1 with XFree3.3.6 I guess (that's the one that comes with Mdke7.1) I would like to upgrade XFree4.02, so I downloaded a file named "XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk.src.rpm" To rebuild it, I've got to upgrade 4 files (freetype... and VGlide ). While I'm writting this message, I'm rebuilding this XFree source rpm file. Now the questions : - Do I need something else ? - How do I do to install this new XFree. ? - Do I have to uninstall XFree3.3.6 then install 4.02 ? All your help will be very appreciated, because I 'm really afraid about that upgrade. Thank you. Francois
Re: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02
Those directions were just what worked for me. I have an NVIDIA Geforce 2 MX and it worked just fine. I had no problems booting either way. mark wrote: I should mention that when I followed Chris' directions several times, you cannot boot anymore. I finally traced it to running graphical login (xdm) although I was able to get the upgrade to work if I used a shell login, and copied my old /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc from 3.3.6 back onto the new one. This allowed me to keep KDE instead of twm as the default. But DONT reconfigure after upgrade for a graphical logon, or you can't boot anymore. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, you wrote: You need to go download the binaries for your system from ftp.xfree86.org. Here is a list of the minimum files you need:Xinstall.sh extract Xbin.tgz Xlib.tgz Xman.tgz Xdoc.tgz Xfnts.tgz Xfenc.tgz Xetc.tgz Xvar.tgz Xxserv.tgz Xmod.tgz Just put them in the same directory and type "sh Xinstall.sh". It will ask you a couple of questions. I said no to the first question and left the answers as default to the rest. Fairly easy to do. Good luck and I hope this helps! - Original Message - From: "Francois Massonneau" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:10 PM Subject: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02 Hi, I'm running Mandrake 7.1 with XFree3.3.6 I guess (that's the one that comes with Mdke7.1) I would like to upgrade XFree4.02, so I downloaded a file named "XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk.src.rpm" To rebuild it, I've got to upgrade 4 files (freetype... and VGlide ). While I'm writting this message, I'm rebuilding this XFree source rpm file. Now the questions : - Do I need something else ? - How do I do to install this new XFree. ? - Do I have to uninstall XFree3.3.6 then install 4.02 ? All your help will be very appreciated, because I 'm really afraid about that upgrade. Thank you. Francois
[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Downloadable Version...
hey all, Is the kde 2.0 that comes with the downloadable version of mandrake a beta version? I can't seem to find the theme manager in it. Thanks. Chris
Re: [newbie] Changing from Xfree86 3.3.6 to 4.01..
Thanks! - Original Message - From: "Rj Aguila" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 3:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing from Xfree86 3.3.6 to 4.01.. Here's what worked for me. I think the problem is that XFDrake keeps wanting to link X to 3.3 so delete the link and create another link pointing to the correct version of X. rm /etc/X11/X ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /etc/X11/X then do a X -version just to check. I hope that helps out. From: Chris Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Changing from Xfree86 3.3.6 to 4.01.. Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 02:51:50 + Hi, I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and I selected Xfree86 4.01 to use during installation. I recently changed my resolution and it changed the X Server back to 3.3. Now how do I get back to X 4.01? Any/all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
[newbie] Switching Desktops..
Hi All, I'm running Mandrake Linux 7.2 and I just can't seem to figure out how to switch desktops. I don't want to use a graphical logon and everytime I use DrakConf it switches X back to 3.3.6... Is there a special command that I can issue from a prompt? Thanks all!
[newbie] Changing from Xfree86 3.3.6 to 4.01..
Hi, I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and I selected Xfree86 4.01 to use during installation. I recently changed my resolution and it changed the X Server back to 3.3. Now how do I get back to X 4.01? Any/all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Re: [newbie] Hostname problems...
Yeah, I was just using that for an example. -- From: Carl Lafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hostname problems... Date: Sunday, January 14, 2001 2:00 PM - -Its probably trying to lookup hostname "darkforce" from the network and -can't find it? - -Same thing happens to me when I change mine. - -For example the Floyd County Library here in Prestonsburg uses netins.net -as the hostname. It can look that up on the network. - No I don't. I use starfury.netins.net as my hostname for linux as well as my windows boot on that machine (got the 30gig installed friday) netins.net simply is the email service I have used for the last 8 years and since you know I hate change, I don't wanna switch. tho you are probably correct in the actual diagnosis. probably a hosts file that needs to be updated but since I have never installed linux without a network to put it on (even my home network) I have had no problems like this. -- Carl Lafferty | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.netins.net/showcase/carl -The-UQWK-guy-| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.fclib.org Need your daily fix of B5?? Check amazon.com or your local bookstore for B5 in print.
[newbie] Switching back to Xfree86 4.01?
Hello All, I had Xfree86 4.01 running on my linux mandrake 7.2 machine with an Nvidia Geforce 2. I tried to install the latest drivers and now my system information list that I'm running 3.3.6. Is there a way I can switch back to 4.01 without having to do a reinstall? All help is very much appreciated. Thanks!
Re: [newbie] 7.1 voodoo 3 xf 4
I'd do a fresh install of latest drivers if I were you. :) - Original Message - From: Steve Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 5:11 PM Subject: [newbie] 7.1 voodoo 3 xf 4 Hiya there, HAve installed 7.1 on a fresh athlon 650 asus k7v 128 mem voodoo 3 3000 AGP. I am having difficulties in getting the voodoo to run with hardware acceleration. Runs with the generic voodoo driver fine :) Have been following th DRI doc on dri.sourceforge.net. However i have found that the vanilla install of 7.1 whilst it does have xf 4, does not seem to have the required mesa 3.3 libraries. The x server logs are all aok - i can see the required glx and dri drivers loading and 3dfx - also can see vgahw loading - the only problem is that Direct Rendering is disabled in the log. This occurs at 2 points : after setting up tile stipple and cache tdfx (0) backing store enabled tdfx (0) silken mouse enabled tdfx (0) Direct Rendering Disabled and then a few more lines down also - it boots into x fine. If i then do a glinfo ( the dri doc says glxinfo but i guess that's cos it refers to mesa 3.3 ) and glx sgi-glx xfree86-dri have all loaded. I then pop a xdpyinfo to check that all visuals are 16 bit - yes. So my diagnosis would be that i need mesa 3.3 ? Suggested further steps to get hardware accel working would be muchly appreciated... -- Bye 4 now .. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone : 3356 9671
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO image
Once you burn it its just automatically bootable. I think. How to burn one? I think Mandrake said Easy-cd creator would burn em'. - Original Message - From: Hugo GONZALEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 1:07 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO image Ok, so GRUB can go beyond the cylinder 1024. I am dowloading then the ISO image of Mandrake 7.1. I am half the way of completing the download. I looked for a howto on burning iso images into CD, but found none. At the places I found something it was only a "please refer to your CD-R manual". What is the procedure to burn an ISO image into a CD to make it bootable? Do I burn it just like that? Thanks again! Hugo GONZALEZ -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 9:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux I also have a Maxtor hd. When I installed it in my system I used the MaxBlast software included with the drive to format it before installing any OS. This software will write code to the hd that will prevent you from being able to use LILO, BootMagic, or the BeOS bootloader. You will have no problem with 7.1 and GRUB. Charles - Original Message - From: "Hugo GONZALEZ" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 10:54 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux My hd is a Maxtor, and I partitioned 10Mb using DOS(Win95) fdisk. I am on my way of downloading the iso images for Mandrake 7.1. Thanks. Hugo GONZALEZ -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 6:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux You can always do the install and boot Linux from a floppy or upgrade to 7.1 and use GRUB as the bootloader. It does not suffer from the 1024 error.You can also move Windows to the end of the drive, it will boot from anywhere and install Mandrake on the first 10GB. One other note. You did not say what brand hd or which tool you used to formatt. If you used a floppy supplied with the drive then you will most likly get the 1024 error regardless of where you install LILO. Charles - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: Hello everyone. I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux. Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is: can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder 1024? Can I keep my hd like !Win98(10Gb)--!!--- -Linux--- -! or should I go to something like !-/boot-!!-Win98---!!-- ---Linux- -! Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me. Thanks in advance. Hugo GONZALEZ Hugo, This is very easy to fix. When you're doing the install and you're partition your HDD for Linux make these partitions. "/boot" = 10Meg "/" (your 'root' partition) = HOwever big your you want according to physical limits SWAP partition = 200 - 300 Meg that's really all there is to it. -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
Re: [newbie] PCI Modem for Joe and Sfactor
Ok. I tried this and I don't have a winmode. My modem is listed as a Communications Controller. I followed your instructions and recieved no errors. But when I try to query the modem KPPP says "Sorry the modem is busy!". any suggestions? Sfactor (SJ)" wrote: I was the one asking about the modem on Com5. Well, it worked! Thank you so much. I got it to connect fine. I have a few questions, now that I've found someone that knows what he's doing. When I connect, it said "logging on to network", I remember this from windows, where there is a way to disable it. Is there a way to disable it in kppp? When I ran Netscape, it could not open any page on the web. It gave me an error the first time relating to SOCK or SOCKET or something like that, why is this happening? You mentioned that to make the changes, I would have to add those two lines to the end of /etc/rc.d. That is a directory with several files and folders, what specific file that I should put it in? Again, thank you very very much, your help is much appreciated. - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 8:38 AM Subject: [newbie] PCI Modem for Joe and Sfactor Joe and Sfactor You both had questions regarding setting up your PCI modem. The procedures you need to follow are the same for all PCI modems. Sfactor the only setting in the BIOS that you need to check is Plug and Play Setup. The first listing should read something like PnP OS. This should be set to No or Disabled. . Log in as root and from terminal enter the following command # cat /proc/pci This will list all your PCI devices. On this list you should see either Communication controller or Communication device, that listing is your modem. If it shows as Comm. device you have a winmodem and it won't work in Linux. If it shows as Comm. controller proceed as follows: Write down the first I/O range. In the example I am using 0xd800 replace that with yours. Enter the following # setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0xd800 spd_vhi skip_test auto_irq autoconfig If there are no errors, then enter # setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A Select /dev/ttyS3 as the device in kppp and your modem should now initalize and operate. To make this perm. you will need to edit your rc.local file which is located in the /etc/rc.d directory. Add the 2 setserial lines to the end of this file Save the changes and reboot your system. Should you have any problems let me know and I will try to help. Charles
[newbie] GRUB...
Anyone know how to uninstall grub and lilo so I can just use a bootdisk to boot into linux?
Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
I had this same problem with Red Hat 6.1 a few months back. I fixed the problem by having a 15mb boot partition as hda1, win98 on a 10gb on hda2, and then a 10gb linux partition on hda3. Lilo worked fine like that to. - Original Message - From: Hugo GONZALEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 11:32 AM Subject: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux Hello everyone. I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux. Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is: can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder 1024? Can I keep my hd like !Win98(10Gb)--!!Linux--- -! or should I go to something like !-/boot-!!-Win98---!!-Linux- -! Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me. Thanks in advance. Hugo GONZALEZ
Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
That sounds good but if I was you I wouldn't use Dos Fdisk. I would use the partition program that came with Mandrake. It is SO much more powerful. Using the mandrake partitioning tool do this: Create a /boot partition on hda1. Create a DOS/Windows partition on hda2 Then a linux native partition on hda3. Then if you want a swap you can add it anywhere. But you HAVE to install windows 98 first. And use the grub bootloader. IMO its much more user friendly. :) Feel free to ask if you have other questions. - Original Message - From: Hugo GONZALEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 5:32 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux Ok, Chris. So now, tell me if I am wrong: First I will fdisk (DOS/Win98) my hd like this !-ext dos (15mb)-!!--pri dos for Win98(10Gb)--!!--Linux(10Gb)-! I don't know if this can be done and if Win98 will be able to boot (having a extended dos partition before the primary one). After that I will boot with Mandrake CD and erase the first ext dos partition (15mb) to make a new linux /boot partition. !--/boot--!!--pri dos for Win98(10Gb)--!!--Linux(10Gb)-! Am I a little bit right? Thanks!! Hugo GONZALEZ -Original Message- From: Chris Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux I had this same problem with Red Hat 6.1 a few months back. I fixed the problem by having a 15mb boot partition as hda1, win98 on a 10gb on hda2, and then a 10gb linux partition on hda3. Lilo worked fine like that to. - Original Message - From: Hugo GONZALEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 11:32 AM Subject: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux Hello everyone. I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux. Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is: can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder 1024? Can I keep my hd like !Win98(10Gb)--!!--- -Linux--- -! or should I go to something like !-/boot-!!-Win98---!!-- ---Linux- -! Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me. Thanks in advance. Hugo GONZALEZ
Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
I'd do a 15mb boot partition. That way you can store many kernels there. :-) - Original Message - From: Jose Alberto Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux I think that you should go with the second scheme. (I heard that Mandrake 7.1 solves this problem, though) Anyway the /boot partition shouldnt be too large either... Somebody more knowledgeble than me should be able to tell you how big (10megs?) Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: Hello everyone. I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux. Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is: can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder 1024? Can I keep my hd like !Win98(10Gb)--!!Linux--- -! or should I go to something like !-/boot-!!-Win98---!!-Linux- -! Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me. Thanks in advance. Hugo GONZALEZ -- --- Jose Alberto Abreu Bending space and time since 2053 ---
Re: [newbie] LILO Boot Magic install ?
aifusionextreme wrote: HiI jave succesfully installed mandrake 7.0 before but on smaller dirves. When trying to install it on a 14 GB with only 1 partition, everything appears fine, but once we reboot, instead of lilo I get a screen full of '01010101010101 ..' for ever or until reboot.So I thought I would give Bootmagic a try ( comes with the macmillian release ), but it says something about not liking a partition that is greater than 1023 cylenders or something.Can anybody help me ascertain what restrictions there are for these boot managers, what can be done to correct it, and are there alternatives ( free ones ) that dont have these retricitons ?Thanks Yep, install GRUB. I'm not sure if it comes with mandrake 7.0 but its what I use in 7.1. It surpasses the 1024 cylinder limitations.
Re: [newbie] I just get a Big White Box :-(
Tim Dentremont wrote: I'm running a pentium II 450 with 128 mb of ram...a Diamond Speedstart A55 (S3 Trio3D/2X)..a Sceptre dragon eye monitor. all well flawlessly well though the install of mandrake 7.1. An d I'm extremely happy with what I see!..the only problem that I have is that it seems no matter what resolution/monitor type or graphics card I chose I get a great big white box as a cursor...Does anyone else have this same problem or know a workaround?...I love this oswould be a shame if I couldn't get this part resolved..thanks for any assistance you may provide :-) I have this same problem in Beos but haven't in Linux. Make sure that in the configuration you choose the correct mouse.
Re: [newbie] Initializing GNOME on 6.1
If you choose to start X automatically upon boot you can just select which desktop to use at the graphical login. - Original Message - From: Mike Rae [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 5:24 PM Subject: [newbie] Initializing GNOME on 6.1 Does anyone know how to switch to the GNOME desktop instead of KDE using 6.1 ? Mike
Re: [newbie] Xfree 4.0
Title: Xfree 4.0 I had this problem and I downloaded all of the necessary files from ftp.xfree86.org and done a manual install. Everything is great now. - Original Message - From: Christian Punchin To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 6:18 PM Subject: [newbie] Xfree 4.0 One simple question... I installed MKD 7.1 with XFree 4.0, and when I loaded XFDrake con configure it, it installed version 3.3.16 and I cannot go back to 4.0... Did ne1 had the same problem??
Re: [newbie] NVida TNT2 setup question
go to www.linuxnewbie.org. AvatarX wrote an excellent NHF on how to get the nivida drivers working in mandrake. Scott Tyson wrote: I'm struggling to find a Doc(s) on what/how is needed to get the new Nvidia drivers going for my TNT2. I did an expert Mandrake 7.1 install and picked Yes to have Xfree86 4.0 installed. Do I just DL the new drivers from Nvidia and follow their install instructions? Do I need a kernel upgrade first? Scott
Re: [newbie] NVida TNT2 setup question
Nope. Go to www.linuxnewbie.org. Avatar wrote a nice NHF on how to install the drivers under mandrake. - Original Message - From: Roland Hightower [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] NVida TNT2 setup question On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you wrote: Scott Tyson wrote: I'm struggling to find a Doc(s) on what/how is needed to get the new Nvidia drivers going for my TNT2. I did an expert Mandrake 7.1 install and picked Yes to have Xfree86 4.0 installed. Do I just DL the new drivers from Nvidia and follow their install instructions? Do I need a kernel upgrade first? Scott Scott, Go to http://www.linuxnewbie.org On the right hand side of the page you'll find a link to instructions for installing the TNT2 drivers. Roland
Re: [newbie] Can't Boot Windblows
You probably have your second hard drive set to boot and not the first. Use a linux fdisk program (cfdisk, much better then DOS fdisk) to set things strait. ;-) Hi people, I've just installed MDK7.1 onto the second hd and then I did reformat of the first hd - hda and then a complete restore of Windblows98 Now, Windblows won't boot (it just boots straight into Linux). I know Ive been here before with the same problem, but could somebody remind me of the Dos command I need to run to put things right? Thanks for your patience, Paul
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Install problems, Gnome desktop actingwierd?
Ok. Try running the hardware configuration from Darkconf. See if it detects your soundcard. Do you have sound in kde? Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote: With your soundblaster first thing is do you have "PNP OS" enabled in your bios? If so, it won't work. Not here. I run a Soyo 6ba+III with an AWE64. In both Windows and Linux I never have set the bios (Award 4.51) to enable 'png os'. I believe setting 'png' and 'ACPI' disabled solves a lot of problems for both OS's. I've set up my SB several times with 'sndconfig' run from a level 3 (eg., NOT in X) console as root. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: BrewMan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-mandrake newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:30 AM Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster Install problems, Gnome desktop acting wierd? I just installed Mandrke complete 7.0 a couple of days ago. I am still trying to get the hang of it. There are a couple of things that I am wondering about so far. 1 - I can't get my Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 to work. I dropped to another session as root, used both sndconfig and soundconfig, but neither gets the card to work. sndconfig hangs after saying it finds a pnp soundcard, and soundconfig says the device is busy. I used the same settings for address, IRQ and DMA that show up on my computers boot sequence in soundconfig. 2 - There are about 4 icons that have disappeared from my desktop in Gnome, including the autostart, trash, and a couple others. They are present on a directory listing on a terminal session, and show up on a KDE session. They seem to sporadically pop up, and I can't see any reproducible actions I have made that do this. I can't figure this out. Thanks for the thoughts. I am sure more questions will come with time. Ken
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Install problems, Gnome desktopactingwierd?
So the Drakconf found your card? Isa heh? ;-) Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: Ok. Try running the hardware configuration from Darkconf. See if it detects your soundcard. Do you have sound in kde? Works fine. I should have mentioned I have an ISA SB AWE64. This is just my opinion, but I think it's fairly realistic. All the combinations (actually permutations) of motherboards/chipsets, ram, cpu's, pci/isa cards, HDD's, etc. It's amazing how much of it any OS manages to get working at all. I've built every computer I've ever had (~10), and overclocked 'em. I tend to stay away from hardware that's just out, eg, Athlon/VIA, any Intel motherboard other than a BX chipset (like i8whatever ) and buy quality parts. I'd never even consider video/sound/modem/etc built into a motherboard. I rarely have hardware related problems. I also stay away from hyped up things like AGP and ATA/66. The performance increase they claim is mostly smoke and mirrors, the system errors they can introduce can be devastating. About all I'll say about ready mades (like Dell, Gateway, etc) is I have a very low opinion about their quality and versatility. I'm currently running a p3-450 at 608mhz, 256mb ram at 135mhz cas2, pci voodo3 (oc'd to 178mhz in W98), IBM 7200rpm HDD's run on ata/33 . no problems -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote: With your soundblaster first thing is do you have "PNP OS" enabled in your bios? If so, it won't work. Not here. I run a Soyo 6ba+III with an AWE64. In both Windows and Linux I never have set the bios (Award 4.51) to enable 'png os'. I believe setting 'png' and 'ACPI' disabled solves a lot of problems for both OS's. I've set up my SB several times with 'sndconfig' run from a level 3 (eg., NOT in X) console as root. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: BrewMan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-mandrake newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:30 AM Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster Install problems, Gnome desktop acting wierd? I just installed Mandrke complete 7.0 a couple of days ago. I am still trying to get the hang of it. There are a couple of things that I am wondering about so far. 1 - I can't get my Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 to work. I dropped to another session as root, used both sndconfig and soundconfig, but neither gets the card to work. sndconfig hangs after saying it finds a pnp soundcard, and soundconfig says the device is busy. I used the same settings for address, IRQ and DMA that show up on my computers boot sequence in soundconfig. 2 - There are about 4 icons that have disappeared from my desktop in Gnome, including the autostart, trash, and a couple others. They are present on a directory listing on a terminal session, and show up on a KDE session. They seem to sporadically pop up, and I can't see any reproducible actions I have made that do this. I can't figure this out. Thanks for the thoughts. I am sure more questions will come with time. Ken
Re: [newbie] Doom music again?
Your doing better then I am Ron. :) I have sound in Doom but no music. In Heretic I have nothing. No sound or music. :) Are you running X Heretic? Ronald J. Hall" wrote: J Walker wrote: I am answering this to you privately, since I don't really know the answer to your question... My music works fine, I have musserv in /usr/games/, downloaded it from a link I found in the official lxdoom page. I believe that the permissions for your /dev/sequencer must not be properly set, but then again that is just a guess... Cheers, /J. Hi. Well, I'll check permissions on it and see. Its universal, whatever the problem is. Heretic won't play music either. Both play the sound effects just fine, so they are "useable". ;-) Thanks for your reply!
Re: [newbie] Common XFree86 4.0 Voodoo3 Problem
Actually the voodoo3 card is a very popular card for linux. I know alot of people that use it in linux and have no problems for it whatsoever. I personally think you made a good choice. I use to have a voodoo3 card in linux and it was rock solid. wrote: I just ordered a vodoo3 2000 card, having forgotten what I had read about linux not liking it :-( Has there been any resolution of this issue( aside from ordering another video card)? TIA, -michael-
Re: [newbie] TNT2 on X4.0..
Trust me I appreciate your help. :) Let me ask you this: I just followed the NHF again and everything went cleanly. No errors or anything. It says everything is loaded but yet when I into my KDE control panel/system information/X Server its says its 3.3.6. What gives? You have any idea why it switched me over? Thanks! Necrotica wrote: 7.1. Although I did have them working on 7.0 until I accidently reinstalled Mesa. Once I did that I was screwed and I wasn't able to get it back until I installed 7.1 cleanly. Try removing all *.mesa and untill the Mesa RPMs. Remove all of the Nvidia stuff. Then install Mesa and follow the NHF. Maybe that will help. Sorry I can't be of much help... -Chris On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: Positive. The only difference is that I'm running 7.1. Are you running 7.0 or 7.1? Necrotica wrote: The Nvidia drivers work great on my machine. I followed the instructions on the linuxnewbies.org site and they worked flawlessly. Are you sure you followed the instructions correctly? -Chris On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: Does anyone have a tnt2 set up on X4.0 with opengl working correctly. All of my mesa demos work just fine but Soldier of Fortune and Quake 3 are terribly slow. The mouse cursor hardly moves across the screen. I can set the gl driver with command like "./sof +set gl_drver gldriver" but it does no good. I have tried the new nvidia drivers using Avartar's NHF on Linuxnewbies.org but then I get dumped to a command prompt when I try to run and opengl stuff. Any suggestions? ;-)
[newbie] My tnt2 is now working!! ;-)
Thanks all who helped me with this problem. I finally got my tnt2 and x 4.0 working together. Soldier of Fortune and quake 3 absolutely fly. Thanks all. If anyone else is having the problem I was feel free to ask me any questions. I know it can get frustrating. :) Thanks all!
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Install problems, Gnome desktop acting wierd?
With your soundblaster first thing is do you have "PNP OS" enabled in your bios? If so, it won't work. - Original Message - From: BrewMan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-mandrake newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:30 AM Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster Install problems, Gnome desktop acting wierd? I just installed Mandrke complete 7.0 a couple of days ago. I am still trying to get the hang of it. There are a couple of things that I am wondering about so far. 1 - I can't get my Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 to work. I dropped to another session as root, used both sndconfig and soundconfig, but neither gets the card to work. sndconfig hangs after saying it finds a pnp soundcard, and soundconfig says the device is busy. I used the same settings for address, IRQ and DMA that show up on my computers boot sequence in soundconfig. 2 - There are about 4 icons that have disappeared from my desktop in Gnome, including the autostart, trash, and a couple others. They are present on a directory listing on a terminal session, and show up on a KDE session. They seem to sporadically pop up, and I can't see any reproducible actions I have made that do this. I can't figure this out. Thanks for the thoughts. I am sure more questions will come with time. Ken
Re: [newbie] wrong extension
Is It a gzip file? ;-) Only kidding. mmm... whatever you downloaded it could say tar.gz but maybe its not? - Original Message - From: prv [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 4:53 AM Subject: [newbie] wrong extension Hi, I'm trying to gunzip a .gz file and the command outputs that the file is not a gzip file ... Any idea ? thanks Pierre
Re: [newbie] replacing Lilo with Grub - how?
Its under DrakConf. Under the boot section I believe that you can set lilo or grub. I'm not positive though. - Original Message - From: Thomas 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 3:03 AM Subject: [newbie] replacing Lilo with Grub - how? I reinstalled 7.1 and now it comes up using Lilo. How do I get Grub back? The Grub files were installed, but for some reason it's not the active bootloader now. Thanks in advance. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] DVD???
Hi All, When I installed mandrake 7.1 it said it installed a program called NIST for playing DVD's. How do I access this program and where is it located at? Anyone used it? Thanks!
Re: [newbie] quake3
I've had the same problems with mine. Except I'm on a P3 600mhz, 128mb of ram, and a TNT2. Its actually terribly slow. Soldier of Fortune does the same thing. I don't know whats wrong. - Original Message - From: Mike Tracy Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 11:57 PM Subject: [newbie] quake3 AARRGHH! Could some nice gamer out there PLEASE help?! I've just loaded Q3 on my brand new Athlon 700 with 512MB RAM and Matrox G400 Max Video card. I've finally got the game to work with Mandrake 7.1 Final (had been stuggling to get the open gl to work) but everything is moving REALLY SLOW. The cursor barely moves across the screen and the sound is really choppy. I've tried adjusting the settings, but I'm still barely moving. It's obviously not the hardware (unless I've got something set incorrectly). Any suggestions? Thanks a bunch! Mike
Re: [newbie] replacing Lilo with Grub - how?
Well, I'm not sure then. I set mine at the end of the installation process. Thomas 2 wrote: Thanks. But in the Boot section in DrakConfig it only has Lilo, even though I can find a couple Grub files using search.
Re: [newbie] Rescue Disk
Well, 7.1 is alot different from 7.0. The newest additions is the software mostly. Installation is pretty much the same and so is the configuration. But 7.1 set up all my hardware including zip driver, printer, etc... Configuration is pretty much the same. But I LOVE xfree86 4.0. I think its just way quicker then 3.3.6. Mark Weaver wrote: I've got a question about 7.1. At the present time I'm running RedHat 6.2 on one drive and on another I've got Mandrake 7.0 installed. I'm falling in love with Mandrake very quickly, but I'm noticing that it's not as easy to configure as RedHat was. Not to mention that some things don't install as well such as Star Office. My question is, is Mandrake 7.1 any better behaved than 7.0 and what's configuring it like? thanks, Mark
Re: [newbie] KPPP and PPPD
Try messing with the Line termination settings in the device tab in KPPP. I know this is odd but I can't use any flow control when connection to my ISP. Any flow control besides "none" won't let me connect. Hi all, I Have a question.. I just setup KPPP to connect to my ISP and I get the error PPPD died after i first connect. I tried commenting out the line in the /etc/ppp/options file to # lock but this did not help :-( If I first establish a connection with a interface setup in netcfg and then discconect it, KPPP will work ok after that. (until I reboot machine) any Ideas? mike
Re: [newbie] ZIP drive
Edison Gica wrote: Hi: i'm trying to install my 100MB Zip drive (external connected to printer port). i tried following the manual but when I click on the icon on the desktop an error message comes up 'invalid block device'. is there a kernel that i have to install first from the LM 7 cd? thanks all. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Hi Gica, Mandrake found my zip drive alright. When you first installed it with your installation disk does it can for scsi devices? If not, you will probably have to manually loan the module and edit fstab. Here is what I done to get my external drive working. Mkdir /mnt/zip insmod parport insmod ppa mount -t msdos /dev/sdX4 /mnt/zip You shouldn't have to load parport.o. Since we aren't using pre 5.2. Add the folling line to /etc/fstab /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfatuser,noauto 0 0 That entire line needs to be in the fstab file. I use /dev/sda4. That will probably work with you but no guarantees there. Then just type: mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip your drive should light up and initialize. BTW: If you don't have a zip disk in the drive when you tried to access it on your desktop, it will give you an error. :) Here is another way to get it working. My friend had success using this. mkdir /mnt/zip cd /mnt insmod #imm mount -t msdos /dev/sdb4 /mnt/zip Hope this helps! Chris
Re: [newbie] ZIP drive
Not a kernel. No. Just modules you probably have to load - Original Message - From: Chris Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 9:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] ZIP drive Edison Gica wrote: Hi: i'm trying to install my 100MB Zip drive (external connected to printer port). i tried following the manual but when I click on the icon on the desktop an error message comes up 'invalid block device'. is there a kernel that i have to install first from the LM 7 cd? thanks all. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Hi Gica, Mandrake found my zip drive alright. When you first installed it with your installation disk does it can for scsi devices? If not, you will probably have to manually loan the module and edit fstab. Here is what I done to get my external drive working. Mkdir /mnt/zip insmod parport insmod ppa mount -t msdos /dev/sdX4 /mnt/zip You shouldn't have to load parport.o. Since we aren't using pre 5.2. Add the folling line to /etc/fstab /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfatuser,noauto 0 0 That entire line needs to be in the fstab file. I use /dev/sda4. That will probably work with you but no guarantees there. Then just type: mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip your drive should light up and initialize. BTW: If you don't have a zip disk in the drive when you tried to access it on your desktop, it will give you an error. :) Here is another way to get it working. My friend had success using this. mkdir /mnt/zip cd /mnt insmod #imm mount -t msdos /dev/sdb4 /mnt/zip Hope this helps! Chris
