Re: [RE: [[newbie] modem and sound card problems]]
On Mon, 10 Mar 2036, you wrote: "Troy Weir" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The actual card is the SB AudioPCI 64D. The only sound I have tried is when I did do sndconfig and it tried to test the sound and then I tried some of the system sounds. = Did the card pass the sound test? I guess not :o( You can try going to the linux documentation site to see if the card is supported in linux. Others on this list, or other lists may have a work around. The caldera site has an excellent mail archive with links to some excellent sound Step x Steps. Or you could try to download OSS. They give you a free trial and then it's (I think) US$20-30 to register and keep. Many folks with sound problems swear by OSS. Check for the site on Google linux search engine. www.opensound.com
Re: [newbie] OT Starting LUG for mandrake
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote: Well, we've already got on in the Chattanooga, TN area... two in fact www.calug.org and www.chugalug.org. The second is sort of an excuse for a bunch of geeks to get together to drink beer, though... ;-) John And I'll bet you never miss a meeting evil grin Well.to be honest, I've NEVER made it to an "official" meeting of Chugalug... :-) John
Re: [newbie] HP Deskjet 722C
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote: I am having trouble setting up my Hewlett Packard DeskJet 722C printer on Mandrake 7.0. I go into DrakConf, Printer Configuration, Local, and then it sees it on lp0, but from there I do not know what to do. I have tried all of the different deskjet printers that are listed but none of them work. Where do I get the right driver to make this thing work, and how do I install the driver. Any help would be highly appreciated. I believe that series of Deskjet printers is known for being "WinPrinters." John
Re: [newbie] memory
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote: I know now that using the mem=128M line in lilo.conf fixes the memory problem in mandrake 7.0 on my abit motherboard(s). BUT - does anyone know WHY this is happening with 7.0 and never happened to me in multiple installs of 6.1? It didn't happen to YOU in 6.1. :-) It must be some wierdness with some hardware not reporting EXACTLY what the O/S is expecting or something like that... Typically it's specific to a few makes/models of motherboard. John
Re: [newbie] help! kde is confusing!!
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: i cant figure out how to make the "desktop" the same size as the monitor display! its much larger and i need it to fit!! also, i cant figure out how to start gnome, and none of the help files are avasilable. Christopher L Delpmobile e mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.u.arizona.edu/~cldFriend of Bill W.If the futures looking dark, We're the ones who have to shoutIf there's no one in control, were the ones who draw the lineThough we live in trying times, we're the ones who have to try go to /etc/X11/XF86Config and set "viewport" to "0 0" (that's "zero space zero") John
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 tcsh and dir colour
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: hi everyone, How does one enable ls to display file names in colour depending on the file extension? alias ls='ls --color' from a command prompt, or add it to your ~/.bashrc John
Re: [newbie] eth0 problem
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: I had the same problem. I had to disable the plug and play and then I had to re-enable it. One I did that, it still wouldn't see the network. So I set it up static and each time I boot into linux I have to become SU and type at the prompt "ifup eth0" This worked for me. Good Luck. My boss just mentioned that by default, the 3Com cards come configured to conflict with the on-board serial cards. What you need to do is boot from a dos floppy and change the IRQ and I/O to something that won't conflict with anything else... John
Re: [newbie] the g++ compiler
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Another question.
I am currently in a computer science class that uses g++ to compile programs.
Now I want to compile some of these programs localy on my computer so I don't
have to remotely log into their linux box to do my work. I tried a test
program that looked like this
#includeiostream.h
int main()
{
cout "This is a test";
return 0;
}
and when I do g++ test.cc -o test
I get this error
test.cc:1: iostream.h: No such file or directory
What file libraries/rpms am I missing? Obviously, the compiler can't find the
iostream.h header file. Thanks in advance.
Do you have the libstdc++ headers installed?
John
Re: [newbie] the g++ compiler
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hi ! and when I do g++ test.cc -o test I get this error test.cc:1: iostream.h: No such file or directory What file libraries/rpms am I missing? Obviously, the compiler can't find the iostream.h header file. Thanks in advance. [Big Smile] I am just at this moment on the same problem ... Does anyone know where to find this iostream.h ? In Web i have read the normal gcc should have this file ... Install the libstdc++-devel rpm. John
Re: [newbie] URGENT! Windows partion has gone! (fwd)
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: I had something like this happen, under NT 4. The only difference is it worked fine (showed my root NT drive as D:) for a while, then quit. I have NO idea how to change the drive designation. You can try using something like Partition Magic to move the Windows Partion to what is now the c: drive tho, maybe. Hmm...Typically the "boot" drive is C:. Is your machine booting off the "SLAVE" hard drive for Windows purposes? John
Re: [newbie] DOOM
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, you wrote: Well, in the quest to install Doom on my Linux-box, I downloaded lxDoom from tuxgames.com, and in the process have learned a bit more about how Linux works... After a little trial and error, I've gotten as far as 'make install', and get the msg "make: ***No rule to make target 'install'. stop" What rule do I need to make target install? This is not mentioned in the README's w/ lxDoom, but is maybe some syntax I need to learn for make? i'm entering all commands from the working directory (lxdoom-1.4.0) Though not an emergency, if I could get some clues as to what I need to do, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks! have you tried "make config" FIRST What does the readme say about how to install? John
Re: [newbie] Strange Message On Bootup
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: I get to work this morning, reboot my Linux box and get the following at the login prompt: Jan 31 08:38:54 babylon kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0090 at 0/12 command 0001a000. I press enter and can log in as usual. However, I must admit that I get a little uneasy when weird messages start popping up without a know cause. Network is fine, I can telnet, ftp. Samba is fine. All seems to be well except for this message. Any ideas? My work box is a P-100, 64mb RAM, IntelPro100 NIC if that helps It seems that at some point since you last logged in, the ethernet card lost the connection, at least temporarily... John
Re: [newbie] Re: Internet method reset???
On Sat, 08 Mar 2036, you wrote: I used to have a working cable modem in MDK6.0, I installed a jumpered ISA Magitronic 33.6 modem...it sees the modem fine. However NOW I can't surf with the cable modem??? I didn't change anything else, anyone know what the problem is??? Both NIC's in my Linux box are setup ok...both return correct info using "ifconfig", and the modem returns correctly in KPPP. What's your default gateway set to? John
Re: [newbie] real audio
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, wayne wallace wrote: I have downloaded real audio 5 and the needed libs and run them thru rpm. I didn't see any errors by I can't figure out how to run a ram netscape does not automatically run them. Any ideas?? Did you go in and edit the mime types in Netscape as instructed?? Even when you install an RPM of RA, you have to go to Netscape and click on "edit" Preferences Navigator Applications and edit the selection for Real Audio. John
Re: [newbie] graphics
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Alan Pitts wrote: Do I have a similar problem with my nvidia TNT Graphics card ? Could this be why I cannot achieve the proper resolution on my screen when I have installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0Does 7.0 support this card ? No it IS supported should work with the SVGA server, AFAIK. If you want, you can go get an updated X server from nVidia, I think or from Creative Labs, for that matter. John
Re: [newbie] tar files
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, joe wrote: %_Hello everybody! Sorry for my horrible English.I'm a new Linux user from Spain and I'm trying to learn more about this fantastic OS. I'm having a lot of problems with "tar" files.I'm trying to install Gnome-Chess,which contains a file called "gnome-chess-2.2.0.tar". How can I install this on my computer? Thanks Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: First of all, PLEASE turn off HTML. It doesn't look nearly as nice under KMail as it does on Outlook Express... Second, you have to unpack it and then either compile or run the install script, if one is included. To do this, open up a console window and type "tar xvf gnome-chess-2.2.0.tar" (minus quotes.) It should then put the resulting files in a directory called "gnome-chess-2.2.0" (again, without quotes.) Go into that directory and look for a "readme" or "README" file. That's where you'll get the instructions on how to install the program. There MAY be an install script that you run, if not, you'll have to compile the program, and there should be step-by-step instructions included there in the README file. John
Re: [newbie] screen resolution
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Eric Damron wrote: They tell me that you should be able to press control (or shift-control) and the Plus sign. It has never worked for me. Only when you have multiple resolutions selected. John
Re: [newbie] epson color stylus 900
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia wrote: HI, Does anybody know where i can get the drivers for an epson stylus 900? Or how i can get it to work? Right now it prints in ASCII format, but it will not print in post script format when i choose the epson 850. http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/#2 The above site lists what printers are supported under Linux and how well... John
Re: [newbie] downloading ftp files
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With anonymous ftp, both user and password should be "anonymous" without quotes unless the site was set up with a specific password. Hope I don't waste your time with useless info. Umm...not quite correct. Typically, according to "nettiquette" you use your email address for your anonymous password... :-) John
Re: [newbie] install zip, memory for mandrake 7.0
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I'm a newbie to Linux environment. I just installed mandrake 7.0. Everything went great and I love it much more than Windows. However, I have two problems that I need help: 1. I have 2 SDRAM chips in my system, 64MB each. But Mandrake only detected as 64MB total memory. How do I force it to detect 128MB? Next time you reboot, at the LILO prompt type: linux append="mem=128M" Then, if that works, add: append="mem=128M" to your /etc/lilo.conf (typically to the end?) and then run /sbin/lilo to write the changes to the partition table. John
Re: [newbie] Problems connection with Telnet
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Rolando Emmanuelli Jimnez wrote: I have installed Linux Mandrake 6.5. Before that Red Hat 6.0 worked fine. The problem with Mandrake is that I can not connect using telnet from the network or from the linux machine. When I try telnet in the linux machine console it goes like this: Install Telnet SERVER package. But, I'd recommend SSH instead. You really do NOT want to open your box to anyone who can hack a telnet session! John
Re: [newbie] Telnet into another Linux box.
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Rolando Emmanuelli Jimnez wrote: How do I make telnetd active? From the console, type "setup" and choose "system Services." From there, choose TELNETD. John
Re: [newbie] LILO
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, you wrote: Help,I currently run dual OS.I've recently had to re-install win9x on my "a"drive and I've lost LILO.How do I re-install LILO?Please be gentle as I'm not familiar with linux.While I'm at it,how do I set up my internet connection in linux?Also,what would be some good books to read about linux?I'm familiar with the microsoft OS-but am getting real tired of them,and I'm eager to learn more of linux.Everything I've seen so far is most impressive.I look forward to your response. Do you have the custom boot floppy that was recommended to create at installation? If so, it's as easy as booting off that floppy, then log in as root, get to a command-line prompt and type "/sbin/lilo" (minus quotes.) This will restore your LILO. John
Re: [newbie] sorry for disturb
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, you wrote: i am a new user of linux i want i have the mandrake 6.1 and i can't run the x windows on my pc while installing it ask me to choose a CARD but my card its not found its ATI (128 RAGE) 32MB and my screen is view sonic g790 i select in the card category unlisted and in the screen my screen view sonic g790 when the test will run it tells there is an error please tell me what is the best configuration to setup my vga card and to get on x windows I believe that the RAGE128 is a new chipset. You MIGHT try the XF86_Mach64 SVGA server and see if that works... that's what most of the other ATI cards use. John
Re: [newbie] Another installing programs question
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Lance Carrie Borden wrote: Randall Randall wrote: On a side note, I am unable to get tar to even show me a list of a tar archive, so this might not work properly. It doesn't give errors, just stops. Thanks for the great help. I'm now getting my system all organized! Regarding the above, I'm not sure if what I'm about to write will make a lot of sense, but it DOES seem to work! I'm running mdk 6.1. I've noticed that I can right click any .tar.gz or .tgz file (in kfm) and get the option to view the contents with ark. However, after I unzip those files, I no longer get the option to use ark to view the .tar files. BUT, if I zip them back up, I can use ark again. Don't know if you've found another way to see a list of the tar archive, but for me, making it a .gz will allow me to view the list with ark. mc will let you view the contentsfrom the CLI. :-) John
Re: [SV: [newbie]]
On Tue, 04 Mar 2036, you wrote: Øystein Efterdal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My bios se 128mb and windoz dose se 128. I have configet lilo.conf to append="mem128M" now the linux se 64MB. ^ Make this part "mem=128M" ^^^ Umm...afaik, the lanuage used in the original email IS correct. Why doesn't it work? One of several answers -- 1) The memory is flaky and therefore not reporting the correct memory size, 2) the motherboard is flaking out on you and not reporting the correct memory size, 3) you have something configured wrong in your BIOS causing the motherboard to report the wrong memory size. Regarding option #3: On most motherboards these days, there's an option for a non-os/2 operating system. Make sure that's set to "non-os/2." Also, make sure you don't have "memory hole at 16M" set to yes. Other than that, I'd take your ram to a reputable computer store and have 'em check it. John
Re: [newbie] CD-ROM player woes
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: I can't seem to get my CD player to play music. I know that my sound card works because I can hear the sample sounds when I configued by AWE32 sound card with sndconfig, but when I slip in a CD and try to use the CD Player in KDE, I can't get any sound. The Player recognizes the CD and shows the corrent times for songs, but still no sound. I have tried the obvious - like cranking on the volume controls on the Player and the Sound Mixer, and still silence. Any and all help would be appreciate. I don't like singing to myself. Does audio otherwise work on your system within KDE? If not, you might want to check the permissions on /dev/audio and /dev/dsp. It may be that one or the other is set to root-only permissions, which could cause the problem you're experiencing. John
RE: [newbie] stuffed buttons
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, you wrote: Thanks for the help John, it worked like a treat :-) I have disabled the VCF file attachment as well, heaven forbid treading on peoples toes. Yeah... :-) I knowit's nice, but it's also a waste of bandwidth as your vcf file is only useful for a small portion of the population running Netscape and a couple other mail utils. :-) Now I just have to get my Linux box talking to the disks and printer on my fileserver (a win95OSR2 box). I hope to move my fileserver over to Linux soon, but only once I have a better "feel" for the OS, so in the meantime it will stay Windozed... Heh. Good luck... can't help there... I'm trying to decide whether to open up my Linux box to local FTP (protected behind an ISDN router/hardware firewall) or to try and run an FTP server on my Windows box, OR to try and set up SAMBA to copy files from Windows to Linux. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1 video card dilemma
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi, I am extremely new to the Linux world (Windoze convert) and I've been having problems getting my video card set up properly. I used Xconfigurator and xf86config to attempt to set up my card (which is an SiS 6326, according to Win98) and monitor (Acer AcerView 76c), both of which are listed. When I try to set it up, I either get a weird black-and-white screen or the colors are completely messed up. I've tried various other configurations (even a basic VGA setup) and nothing works. "Known" bug in SiS chipsets. You need to add "option noaccel" to your XF86Config file (not sure of the EXACT syntax) and that should fix it. I suggest checking the newbie and expert list archives. There is a link off the Mandrake web site (www.linux-mandrake.com) which will give you the URL for the archives. John
Re: [newbie] Problem installing Air on a machine.
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: I am very new to the Linuxworld. What is AIR? "Air" is the "code-name" for the latest release of the Mandrake linux distribution. John
Re: [newbie] usb wheel mouse
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: I was wondering if anyone who has a usb wheel mouse has been able to get the wheel to function properly in linux. I have tried imwheel but it does not appear to work correctly with a usb mouse. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks USB is not yet supported by Linux. John
RE: [newbie] unsubscribe
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: Try, To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the subject : unsubscribe newbie. They switched back to Majordomo. Sympa may or may not work.. John
Re: [newbie] Parallel-port Zip drive
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: Dear John, IT WORKS! Thanks a lot! Heh...yeah...it's fun when they change the commands. :-) John
Re: [newbie] A spot o' help.
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: I just installed Mandrake 7.0, and now I'm having a bit of trouble. I can't seem to get into the GUI (KDE? Is that what it's called? I really AM a newbie). When I boot up, I get taken to the command line interface. Things work as they should from there (well... the things I expect to work do), but I'd sure like to be able to get to the GUI. A littke but of background to the problem. I was having some display issues, as I had given wrong information during the install process, so I got those fixed to where things look as they should. I even got into the GUI. However, since it was at 640x480 resolution, I went back to the command line to try to up that. However, when I got through doing what I thought should fix that, I couldn't get back to the GUI. I've gone through Linuxconf, trying to figure out what might be wrong, but I haven't found anything that looks like it might be causing the problem. To test your settings, type "startx" from the command line, or to try a different resolution, you can try: startx -- -bpp 16 (16-bit color) or startx -- -bpp 24 (24-bit color) or startx -- -bpp 32 (32-bit color) Since I start my machines at the console and then start the GUI interface, I just have an alias for the color depth I want and use that to start the gui. John
Re: [newbie] A spot o' help.
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: well i am a newbie to but i think you can type: startx when you are loged as root This works when logged in as ANYONE, not just root. :-) John
Re: [newbie] my Linux gui's keep crashing
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hey thanks for the speedy response regarding my video problems! Glad to help. Well, here's the info that I think will help you help me: I have a Diamond Stealth 2500 video card with 1MB ram, which has the Alliance AT24 chipset.Monitor is AOC 4v. Motherboard is Biostar 8500TTD, with a AMD K6 200 Mhz, 98MB ram. Also have the sound blaster card (which I think is working, audio CDs play at least ) and an ISA bus serial Modem. I'm able to use PPP with linux so that seems fine... Hmm..never heard of that video card chipset or that motherboard. Doesn't mean anything. Anyway, I'm pretty much useless at this point. I hope someone else will be able to help. :-) John
Re: [newbie] what progams are ned for kernel compliing
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: i need to know just excatly what programs are needed to compile the kernel i have linux mandrake 6.5 with current kernel that come with package is 2.2.13.4.mdk basically all the kernel-devel packages as well as the c compiler packages. John
Re: [newbie] how to access dos formatted partition?
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: How to access to the dos formatted partition?Can linux see the data in fat32 partition and manipulate them? Yes! Specify filesystem type "vfat." John
Re: [newbie] ATAPI CDRW annoyance
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: ok, basic rundown (if i neglected something important, let me know): i have and EIDE interface, primary has 2 hd's, secondary has an ATAPI cdrom and ATAPI CDRW. I would like to record some CDs, but i just can't get it to work... Okyou should NOT have to disable IDE. What controller is your ATAPI CDRW on? I think Linux wants it to be on a slave controller, not the master. Also, the append line is: append="hdx=ide-scsi" John
Re: [newbie] Really strange problem with kmail
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: After I read all my mail I occasionally have a strange problem. Kmail will still indicate that I have unread messages. When I scroll back through my messages I find at least one message that has no subject and is from unknown. There are never any messages highlighted as being unread. It is always an empty message. Sometimes I will check for new mail, and I'll receive one new message with the same problem described above. I've tried compacting the folder, but that doesn't help. The only thing that seems to work is to exit kmail and restart it. Any ideas? subscribe to the KMail list and let the developers know of this problem? ;-) Seriously, I've noticed that when I have a LOT of messages in a folder I'll experience the same strange behavior by KMail. I just signed up for the KMail list (send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject "subscribe your-email-address") I know it's poor nettiquette to reply to my own message, but I just got my first batch of email in the KMAIL list. Basically there is a problem with SOME messages causing the blank emails... has to do with the s/mime or some such like that. Haven't really had a chance to read it yet anyway, the authors ARE aware of that problem and WILL be working on it. John
Re: [newbie] stuffed buttons
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hello All! I know this is a known issue with Mandrake 6.1 but I havn't been able to find the fix for it. The buttons in a lot of the applications are corrupted. Can anyone remember what the "fix" is for this prob? rpm -e kcmclock, rpm -Uvh kdelibs. Also the "updates" icon on the desktop (kde not gnome) doesn't work. *shrug* works for me... Can't help. BTW, can you turn off your VCF file attachment? It's really considered a breach of "nettiquette" to post file attachments to a list as a general rule. John
Re: [newbie] usb wheel mouse
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: Then what is the usb option in ntsysv that can be started at bootup? I thought it was for usb devices. The current kernel does not support (very well, at least) USB. This is probably in place so that future kernels which are on the horizon and which WILL support USB much better will see it on boot. John
Re: [newbie] Installation Question When Burning CD-ROM Image Of 7.0
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hello Newbies: I burnt all of the files from RPM folder, whatelse do I need to get a complete copy of 7.0? Is it better to copy all from 7.0 folder instead? Thanks In Advance Get the ISO image. *THAT* will get you a complete copy of 7.0. John
Re: [newbie] loadlin.exe
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi, I am using loadlin.exe to boot into linux because my /boot partiton is well beyond the 1024th cylnder. I am concerned because when i do this it says i only have 64 mb of ram when i in fact have 128 mb. The strange thing is that when i boot off of the boot disk, it says that i have 128 mb of ram. What can i do so that when i boot into linux using loadlin.exe it shows that i have 128 mb of ram. I'm not sure how to fix loadlin, but if you were using LILO, you'd edit your /etc/lilo.conf and add a line to the end such as this: append="mem=128mb" John
Re: [newbie] named daemon
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: Thats just it, /usr/sbin/named doesnt exist. And where to find documentation for creating named.conf/named.boot? Hmm...sounds like you'll need to install it off the CDROM probably. Both named.boot and named.conf were installed by default here, but then I didn't select one of the "pre-packaged" installs. I did a "custom" install with everything except the foreign-language how-to files. OTOH, I'll be happy to send you the files on my RH6.0 box... John
Re: [newbie] named daemon
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: Thats just it, /usr/sbin/named doesnt exist. And where to find documentation for creating named.conf/named.boot? /usr/doc/bind-8.2/named-bootconf/Grot/named-bootconf.pl
Re: [newbie] Ram drive
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi everyone!! I guess since I'm posting this letter here I don't have to state I'm a relatively new to Linux. My question is can I create a ram drive in Linux, and if yes, am I limited to the size of the drive( other than the normal limitations such as available ram)? Also how do I mount it, or do I have to mount it?... I'm not sure, but it would be highly redundant as Linux already caches your file system up to available memory. John
Re: [newbie] help( i may have a virus in linux)
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, David Cole wrote: I found a file in the root directory called core. its icon is round yellow with eyes and a tong sticking out. it was in the root dir. then it showed up on a disk I have used in linux. Core is just the remains of a program that crashed. Nothing useful to most people... just nuke it and don't worry about it. John
Re: [newbie] WinNT boot
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hello everybody. If NT 4 Workstation is on my computer and I want to install Linux, is there any conflict between LiLo and NT loader? Yes. If so, is there a special way to install LiLo then? Yes, but I'm not sure how to do it. There's supposedly a way to "hack" the NT Boot Loader to also load LILO. John
Re: [newbie] HDPARM settings.
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: When I first ran a /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/hda1 it gave me very poor results. I did some research and modified the settings of hdparm. Now it gives me very acceptable results. However, I haven't rebooted my computer since I made those changes. Is there a way to make sure that the settings do not get modified every time I restart the computer? Add hdparm with your "tweaked" settings to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit or some such. John
Re: [newbie] Parallel-port Zip drive
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hello out there! I've got a parallel-port Zip drive that worked fine with my old machine, running Red Hat 5.2. Now I want to use it with my new machine (AMD K-6, 450 MHz, 64 MB SDRAM, 6.5 GB HD) running Mandrake 6.1. I did the standard workstation installation. I had the Zip drive hooked up, power on, ext2-formatted disk in, and booted up Linux. I verified that the ppa.o module was available in /lib/modules/2.2-13-4mdk/scsi/ppa.o. When I ran "insmod ppa" as root, though, I got the following error message: the new command is "modprobe." See if that works any differently. John
Re: [newbie] MDK7 installation problems
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, you wrote: I've been having trouble getting Mandrake 7.0 to install properly. Every time I try to install it it gets as far as Setup filesystems and then stops with the following error: An error occurred no available partitions. Ok...silly question ... you DID *create* some partitions for Mandrake to install onto, right? Or is it getting that far? Have you gotten to the part where it asks where to install to? John
Re: [newbie] Planning to buy one
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: I might have the number wrong. I did see the Macmillan one. I have never seen Mandrake. It was recommended to me by someone, and he told me that 7.0 is due out soon. Speaking only for myself, I do NOT plan on upgrading to 7.0 any time soon there seems to be just a few too many "glitches" for my taste I'd go ahead and buy 6.1/MacMillan 6.5. John
RE: [newbie] MDK7 installation problems
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: Mandrake's not asking me about Fdisk or Disk Druid, if that's what you're asking. and no, I haven't gotten to the part where it asks where to install to. Ok...I'm out of ideas... :-) Have you tried the "text" install? Had a co-worker here use the RedHat text install on his laptop 'cause the RedHat gui install wouldn't work on that machine -- didn't like his on-board video. :-( Just an idea... I know Mandrake's got that nifty GUI install, but it might be worth giving the textmode a shot. Also "expert" will give you more control over the install, I think... John
Re: [newbie] new hard drive, moving linux
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: I hate the wasted space of FAT16 (a 60MB CD takes up 1.1 Gigs with 60% waste). Can Linux read FAT32 or NTFS systems yet ? I understand that Winblows 2000 will support read both. Windows programs can be on NTFS, but I want program source, images and videofiles to be accessible from Linux. Linux DOES support FAT32 using the VFAT filesystem type. Don't know about NTFS, though. John
Re: [newbie] New Monitor New Problem
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Singer XJ Wang wrote: Hi: I've got a new problem right now with my spanking Christmas Gift. [well, really late anyway]. Its a KDS VS-195 monitor which the Sync rates are as follows: 30-95kHz 50-120Hz I tried to setup it under X, in 1024x768 mode [its a 19"]. I get thise wierd flicking on the top of the screen. I have no idea why? any ideas? The sync rate is off slightly. Try running xvidtune and see if you can get it to where you like it. Or, try going back to xf86setup and resetting it to a more conservative setting, such as 40-80kHz and 60-100Hz. If you force it into a more "conservative" setup, you have less chance of problems. John
Re: [newbie] only boots to system prompt
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, lights wrote: Then it says /dev/hdc2: unexpected inconsistency: run fsck manually (i.e., without -a or -p options) how do fix it is there a site you can go and help self? the way *I* handle this is to boot to a boot/rescue floppy and then run e2fsck /dev/hdc2 (to use your situation.) You can't run fsck on a mounted partition. Of course, at the point it's complaining, you can just type the "root" password and run "fsck /dev/hdc2" from the prompt. That should take care of it. John
Re: [newbie] Instalation problems
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Cyltic wrote: Hi, when I install the "regular" install option mandrake 7 fails to find both my network cards, but if I install the custom/server method it will find both cards, the problem with the second install menu is it does not boot in to xwindoes as does the first method. is there a fix for this? Yes. Edit your /etc/inittab as follows. Change: id:3:initdefault: to look like this: id:5:initdefault: The other problem a friend and myself have is that we cannot use out HP 8100 cd writers as a primary cdrom as the information on the cd cannot be accessed. they are listed as suported and show up in the configuration as mounted, but cannot read the media. For some one with two cd-roms this is fine but myself I use my HP as my only cdrom. IDE CDR/W? If so, you need to have a second entry in your /etc/fstab for it as a CDRom, I think. If Linux sees it as a CDR or CDRW, it only wants to access it to burn a CD for some reason, I think Take this with a grain of salt as I don't have a CDR or CDRW (yet!) Just going by what I recall from reading this list over the past year. and Finaly, do we realy need 3 or 4 partitions on the hard drive just for Linux? or can it all be installed on one larger partition? thanks Well, lemme put it this way -- when you do a "fresh install" do you want to lose everything in your user directory or in the /usr/local directory tree? If you install it all on one big partition, that's what will likely happen. Also, if you have a large hard drive, the kernel MAY not always be within the first 1024 cylinders of your hard drive, which means your system won't boot. There's a VERY good reason for having 3-4 partitions on the hard drive! John
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 ISO
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, John Hanna wrote: %_Hello, my name is John, I'm from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I've been using Mandrake Linux starting with version 6, then 6.1 and a couple of days ago I checked the web site and found out that 7.0 was released. So I downloaded the ISO (yes on a cable modem :) ) and made a CD. but when I try to install it I get to the step where it said that it's initializing cd rom and it just sits there... Any help would be appreciated. P.S. I don't know if that makes any different but I'm booting with a windows start up disk and using /dosutils/autoboot/autoboot.bat to start the install and when it asks to put the CD in, I already have it in. Johnmake a LINUX boot floppy or boot directly off the CDROM. Don't start with a Windows system disk! I'm guessing that's your problem! Does your machine support booting from CD? If so, try that. John
Re: [newbie] Edit LILO Boot Order-More Help
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Seung-woo Nam wrote: Also, Seung-woo Nam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) told me to run "sbin/lilo" after I edit the "lilo.conf" file. What does running the "sbin/lilo" file do? Many thanks to Seung-woo, and John. I guess it just verifies your 'lilo.conf' file so that next time you boot the system, lilo would work correctly. If you get error messages when you run '/sbin/lilo', you have to correct the errors. Actually, what it does, is write the changes to your boot sector. John
Re: [newbie] Missing 'egcs' in egcs packages for Mandrake 7.0!!
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Tom Barraza wrote: Has anyone else installed the egcs packages in Mandrake 7.0, and actually gotten the program 'egcs' to be installed? I've looked in all of the egcs-* packages, and have been unable to find 'egcs'! Actually, it isn't called egcs, it's called gcc or g++ I think, depending on whether you're compiling a C or C++ program. Here's the output of "rpm -qa | grep egcs" on my RedHat machine at work: compat-egcs-5.2-1.0.3a.1 compat-egcs-c++-5.2-1.0.3a.1 compat-egcs-g77-5.2-1.0.3a.1 compat-egcs-objc-5.2-1.0.3a.1 egcs-1.1.2-12 egcs-c++-1.1.2-12 egcs-g77-1.1.2-12 egcs-objc-1.1.2-12 Here's the output of "man egcs": GCC(1) GNU Tools GCC(1) NAME gcc, g++ - GNU project C and C++ Compiler (egcs-1.1.2) SYNOPSIS gcc [ option | filename ]... g++ [ option | filename ]... As you can see, the command line is gcc or g++, NOT egcs. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Installing a New Distro
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Seth Gibson wrote: Is it possible to install a new linux distribution but still retain all my personal files. . .ie crossgrade i guess is what im asking. Thanks all. Yes... IF you have a separate partition for /home. Otherwise, you'll need to back everything up in your /home directory tree and then copy it back afterwards... and there's no guarantee everything will be happy with the upgrade... i.e. format changes to certain config files may cause you to reconfigure your setup of some programs. All in all, though, it's probably easier than upgrading Windows I should know. I upgraded my Windows box's motherboard and had to reinstall Windows from scratch and that was a REAL headache! :-) John
Re: [newbie] Remote Telnet; Remote FTP server (they don't work)
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Emerald Arcana wrote: Hi guys! My Remote Telnet and Remote FTP doesn't seem to work anymore. I don't think the daemons load up. In the past, I had remote FTP server and remote Telnet server working, but now, I can't telnet into my machine anymore, which is somewhat of a nuisance. It started to fail after I flipped through inetd.conf (or something like that) and shut off a few daemons and services. I probably shut off Telnet and FTP too. Please tell me: How to I turn them back on? I'd love to know. Do what you did to turn 'em off. :-) Also, you can re-run "setup" from a console prompt as root and select "system services." Here's where you configure what starts up automagically. While I'm at it: How do you change the port of an FTP server (provided I get it back up)? I don't want it on port 21. I would rather have it on another port. HmmI'm sure there's a reason I'm not aware of. You *do* know that it makes it more difficult for people to FTP in as most ftp programs (if not all) default to port 21. That being said, it's probably in your config file for the ftp server. Go edit that and it should change ports for you. John
Re: [newbie] Can't login
On Fri, 29 Feb 2036, Wayne Wallace wrote: I can't login to an account I have been using. I was surfing along and started to experience strange problems I figured i would logout and come back in. I can't get back in as that user it goes right back the the login screen. I can use root. Any suggestions? reset the password for that user as root. From console, you can do it as follows: passwd username It'll prompt you for a new password and then you can re-enter it. That MAY fix it for you. John
Re: [newbie] RAM detection problem ?
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Tomer Weller wrote: My Mandrake7 detects 65mb of RAM,. while I have 128. what can be the issue ? Edit your /etc/lilo.conf and put in "append=mem=128M" I think. Double-check the archives for this. Strangely enough, Mandrake 6.0 sees all 192 megs of memory in my system. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Video Modes
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Keith Taylor wrote: %_I just loaded up my first copy of Linux and am running in 640x480 with what appears to be 256 colors. Now I have looked throughout everything in KDE thats readily availiable to see if there is a place to change video modes (I like 800x600 16 bit). I read somewhere look under Settings-Desktop and Video Mode would be listed, for me it is not. Can anyone tell me where to go to alter my video mode, right now I can not see all of every window, and some buttons come up distorted. Keith Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: What video card and monitor do you have? Are you absolutely sure they're fully supported by Linux / X11? If so, go to a console prompt, log in as "root" and re-run "setup" and select "X configuration." Select a higher resolution and color depth as your default. Then, you can try using CTRL-ALT-KP+ and CTRL-ALT-KP- to adjust your video settings. John
Re: [newbie] my Linux gui's keep crashing
Bill: We need more information about your system before we can help. Please give us DETAILS about the motherboard mfr, vide card, what other devices you have, etc. Maybe we can help then... John - Original Message - From: "Bill B." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 11:11 PM Subject: [newbie] my Linux gui's keep crashing Wondering if any one might offer a suggestion has to how I can get linux to work on my machine. Just had a relatively easy install using Mandrake 6.5, but my computer hangs about a minute after booting. I get the KDE or GNOME or XFREE to boot, and as I begin to look around, freeze. Every time. Only thing that doesn't crash is selecting the Failsafe option when loggin in. But the GUI's would be preferable. Anyway, thanks in advance! -Bill my system: AMD 200Mhz, 98MB ram, pretty standard devices. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] connecting to the Internet
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, you wrote: Dear sir Madam i have just set up a purchased full copy of linux mandrake as a dual boot with windows 98 on my home computer. I would like to set it up so i can use the internet through my BT ignition ISDN terminal adapter. I can not work out any way of connecting the terminal adapter and configuring it to run through the netscape browser. could you please send me a dummies guide as how best to connect to the internet using my ISDN TA. thank you regards Andrew Croft BSc (Hons) 20 Hammond Close Thatcham Berks RG19 4FF United Kingdom Tel: 0498 687145 Fax: 01635 294910 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: First of all, please lose the HTML. It's difficult to read and a huge waste of bandwidth. Second, is your ISDN T/A internal? If so, it should emulate a com port. Which com is it on? If it's on COM 1, the Linux equivalent is ttyS0, COM2 = ttyS1, etc. Third, under the "K" menu is a group called "Internet." There should be a "KPPP" menu item there. THAT is your dial-up command. AFAIK, there is not a way, currently, to set up Linux to auto-dial the way Windows does. John
[newbie] X on a Presario 1277 laptop
Has anyone gotten X to work on a Presario Laptop model #1277? One of my co-workers is trying to get Linux installed on his laptop and it seems the lcd display won't work for him under X. :-( Thanks... John
Re: [newbie] Problem in X font
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, Sudhakar Nagarajan wrote: I recently installed Linux-mandrake in to my system. It is AMD p2 processor. The installation went fine, but at the time of X installation the confirmation window, "if you can see the window displayed all right" I can not read the words. It is like a black strip. But I can see the button and read ok in that. So I clicked ok and finished the installation. After rebooting, the desktop comes ok and colors are ok but I can not read any letters or tool tips. Every thing is black strip. The cursor is also big square instead of small dot. Can any one tell where the problem is. Do I need to change the font size or cursor size or any thing else. If so how. Thanks in advance Sudhakar First off you need to set your Groupwise client to word-wrap. Many of us are using clients which don't wrap incoming messages very well. The "standard" is 70-75 characters per line. :-) Second, what video card do you have? I'm guessing it's one of the ones for which you need to add the "noaccel" line in your /etc/XF86Config file. This typically takes care of that problem. I'd suggest going and viewing the archives for this list. You can find the link to the archives at www.linux-mandrake.com Good luck! John
Re: [newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi, I'm having the same problems. Yes, I can read Word documents just fine with Star Office. The problem is in downloading word documents which are attached to e-mails. When I try to double-click the attachment to download, I get an error message saying that some mswordview configuration file is missing. I've installed the mswordview rpm from the mandrake 6.1 installation cd. What else needs to be done? Thanks, Try right-clicking on the attachment and selecting "save as" and giving it a file name. Then, open it with Star Office. Works here. I've got two different distros of Linux: RH 6 on my machine at work and Mandrake 6 at home. John
Re: [newbie] Primary and Secondary DNS on the Same Machine?
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Is it possible to run Primary and Secondary DNS on one machine and if so, how might i do this. As it stands i have DNS running on Mandrake 6.0 as a primary server, but the some of the other networking companys that i'm working with want it to be there secondary DNS provider so i am searching for a way to do this if it is possible. Thank you for your help. Benjamin Branch Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: First, please disable HTML posting in Outlook Express. Second just give your machine a second IP address and call it something like ns2.somedomain.com. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Voodoo 3 3000 Drivers????
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Anybody know where i can find drivers for a Voodoo3 3000 AGP for SuSE linux 6.2? Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: First, TURN OFF HTML! That's as bad, or worse than posting in all-caps, as it's VERY difficult to read, it wastes bandwidth and it doesn't look NEARLY as pretty on our systems as it does on yours! Now, as to where to find the Voodoo3 drivers, have you tried looking on the SuSE site? I'm told that that's *the* place to get video drivers. That's www.suse.de, I think. To be specific, their downloads page starts here: http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/ftp/index.html OTOH, you can get generic Voodoo3 drivers from 3dfx, I believe. John
Re: [newbie] KDE problem after upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have Mandrake 6.0 on a AMD K6-2/350 (well, a couple actually), but on one machine I tried to upgrade KDE 1.1.1 to 1.1.2. I went to KDE's web site, then to their download site and ftp'd all the files in the directory, about a dozen or so. These were in rpm format. I'm *guessing* you got the wrong version of the KDE RPMs. Next time you might try using RPMfind.net to find the MANDRAKE 6.x KDE 1.1.2 updates, or go to www.linux-mandrake.com to find the list of mirrors and find the RPM files there. I'm guessing what happened is you have the RH 5.x KDE updates instead of the RH 6.x KDE updates. RH 6.x was the first RedHat version to incorporate the KDE desktop, etc and there is a HUGE difference as to where the KDE files are put when they are installed via RPM. Here's an FTP site for Mandrake updates: ftp.linux-mandrake.com/pub/updates/6.0/RPMS/ Try doing and rpm -e kde* and then an RPM -UVH kde* once you download all the MANDRAKE KDE updates. John
Re: [newbie] Made a mistake in setup
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: Also, other more knowlegable users have helped us out by telling us these little gems when we asked "how do I do this???" Yep! That and experience. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Where is Kudzu
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: When i tried to install the rpm it failed. It says that it needs libnewt.so.0.50. Do you have any idea where this is located. I looked on the Mandrake CD. try www.rpmfind.net John
Re: [newbie] How to Dial up
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: I don't why but it still does not work. I tryed that it came up with "bash: /etc/resolv.conf: Permission denied" not to sure why I am the main user. You have to be "root" to edit /etc/resolv.conf. Although why you'd want to have a blank /etc/resolv.conf I'm not sure. If you've got correct information in your /etc/resolv.conf file, KPPP will use it, from what I'm told. I personally don't use KPPP since I have an ISDN router. :-) John
Re: [newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Dear all Is there anyway that I can read attached word.doc files that are sent by the mad minority using a popular sic! alternative. I,m using mandrake 6.0,kde and staroffice. *.doc files are viewable in Star Office just fine at least I've had no problems. If they're attached to email, you will probably need to export them to disk first. John
Re: [newbie] A problem with Telnet
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi Everyone: I´d make a Typical installation of Linux Mandrake 6.0 on my Pc but when I try to make a Telnet from another machine, or from the same I receive the next message. "Connection closed by foreign host" If I make the Complete installation it doesn´t happend. On another distributions, making typical installation I can telnet to everyone. Can somebody help me? You need to manually select telnet-SERVER package when installing. Otherwise, it's only installed by default when you select "server" or "install everything." John
Re: [newbie] CONFUSED
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: OK, I unsubscribed the right way and didn't recieve any email for about a week, and today I got email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did someone subscribe me again or what could have happen? Hmm...dunno. Maybe someone did, or maybe the list got corrupted and they had to switch to an old copy of the addresses or something... anyway if you want off, I'd unsubscribe again. John
Re: [newbie] user
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi All, I have a question, I know that you really shouldn't do your normal day to day work under root. But when I setup linux, adn they ask me to set up a user I did. Now I can't use ppp under the user. I went and added ppp to my user, but everytime I try and start kppp, it says my kernel doesn't support ppp and talk to my system administrator. If I use ppp under root first then restart kde under my user ppp works. How do I fix that. Let me guess...you're using Mandrake 6.1. This is a "known bug" in Mandrake 6.1. Go check the archives for the correct solution for this problem. The archives can be found at a link off www.linux-mandrake.com. John
Re: [newbie] startup error
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have Mandrake 6.0, it is installed on /dev/hdb1. Every once in a while I get the following error when starting up. "/dev/hdb1 has reached maximal mount count, check forced." It then goes on and loads fine. It also operates fine. Should I be concerned about this? Nope. Just a routine "checkdisk" to look for "lost clusters" and such. :-) Just don't reboot your machine every day and you'll have it happen less frequently. :-) Oh, and you might want to consider setting your outbound word-wrap to about 70 characters. Much more than that and people have to scroll left and right to read your messages. :-) Good luck! John
Re: [newbie] HELP!
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, you wrote: I need help! i have a SIS 6326 AGP card , and i have mandrake 5.3 what i have to download to have my linux running properly? when i run my GUI i see a lot of black squarez, my kde menu is black. Please help me. This is a known problem with SiS video cards. Please go visit the Mandrake Newbie list archives and search for "SiS" and you should find the answer. One thing you should do is upgrade Xwindows as that will help. John
Re: [newbie] in.telnetd
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, you wrote: Regarding whether or not telnet server is instaled by default; 'Splain it to me, please. I wiped out my partitions and installed 6.1 9Server) from scratch. I did not have to go back and install telnet server. After setting hosts.allow and a few other things, I was able to telnet right in. Does whether or not telnet sever is installed or not depend on Server or Workstation installation? No problems, just curious. Hmm...it would appear that "custom" or "workstation" does not install the telnet server by default, but that "server" does. *shrug* John
Re: [newbie] Netscape very unstable...
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, you wrote: I went to Netscapes site and d/led the latest browser. All you have to do is unzip and tar it.. check out the readme. All I had to do was run ns-install. That worked great... Yes, but then you should remove the RPM version that comes with Mandrake. :-) John
Re: [newbie] netscape java problem
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, you wrote: I've got a problem with Netscape. I have the latest version, but I have noticed that if I go to http://www.deltaairlines.com The page begans to load up and then on the Status Bar, it says Starting Java, then Netscape bails and outputs "Bus error" to the screen. I havent tried other pages but I know this works with IE (figures... I think they just have IE specific code or something) Anyone else encounter this problem? I dont know if this is just on my end or theirs.. Ok...I've got 4.6 here and it loaded fine with Java enabled. John
Re: [newbie] user
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, you wrote: Strange, mine works flawlessly. Last time I rebooted my machine was a month ago and I haven't logged in as root yet. I didn't know there was a "bug" and didn't do anything special when I installed. Go figure. Well, I'm using a LAN ISDN router so I don't have that problem myself. Just reporting what's been discussed in this list. :-) John
Re: [newbie] user
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, Bob Schmidt wrote: Hi, I checked the archives but found nothing, I went to the newbie, and expert archives. Any other thoughts? The info I recall (in the past couple weeks) involves recompiling the kernel and commenting out a line or two in the config. Sorry, that's the best I can do. I don't use PPP since I've got a lan-based ISDN router which handles that for me. :-) John
Re: [newbie] user
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, Bob Schmidt wrote: Hi, I checked the archives but found nothing, I went to the newbie, and expert archives. Any other thoughts? PSask Axalon. He's probably got that info at his fingertips. John
Re: [newbie] FTP and Telnet
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, Etien wrote: But right now that's the least of my problems, Couple of nights ago I started trying to setup FTP and Telnet, so that I could work on my server at work (telnet) on my down time. I'm on rogers@home (cable modem service) and I keep running into the same problem. Mandrake 6.x does not install the telnet SERVER RPM by default. Get it off your CD and install it from there. Also, you may be forced to do a full install w/o wiping the drives. At least then you won't have to worry about not finding the RPM database. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Made a mistake in setup
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/1/00 1:20:43 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you please explain a few things really quick? I'm assuming that your machine is coming up in runlevel 5 graphical mode Runlevel 5...is there level 4 graphical mode? What is with these runlevels, I see them all over but don't quite understand. Just each runlevel is a level of complexity, where each level depends on the processes going on in the level beneath? There are four runlevels you need to keep in mind: RunLevel 1 which is a single-user, no network, no GUI boot up. Run Level 3 which is a multi-user, networked boot up, and Run Level 5 which is the GUI, multi-user boot up. Now, these are different for each distribution of Linux. Also, Run Level 6 is the "reboot" run level, so if all else fails and you can get a command prompt, but need to shut things down, you can init 6 and reboot. :-) type " linux 3 " with out the quotes. And don't take all day. you only have a few seconds. This will boot you into linux without X. How did you know this? Experience. :-) Trust us... the default boot delay is something like 15 seconds... VERY short! John
Re: [newbie] Programming on Linux
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I need to do to compile a c++ program? I have a compiler, and edited and saved a source file using some really lame text editor. Whats next? The --? argument's answers weren't very helpful. you need to install the kernel-devel packages, including the C++ compiler, libraries and headers. Also, is there a chance that someday Netscape's handling of the JavaScript "alert" method will be fixed? Maybe I'm asking the wrong people. But overlapping windows really annoy me. You're asking the wrong people. Netscape is the company responsible for fixing the bugs in their software...and they're apparently not doing much work on Linux. John
Fwd: Re: [newbie] scsi devices
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, you wrote: John, it was that simple to find the card and now the system recognizes both the card and the CDVR, in the settings , scsi (on the kde desktop) it now shows "attached devices:" Host: scsi0 Channel:00 Id: 05 Lun : 00 Vendor : PhillipsModel : CDD2600 Rev: 1.07 Type : CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision : 02 Question is, I can't mount it, and what I am wanting to do is make this my only cdrom on this machine, since I have numerous others that can be accessed on a share. What in the heck am I doing or not doing? Well, I'll admit up front that I don't have a CDR or CDRW. However, I think I recall reading from various people that you need to have a second entry in /etc/fstab for the CDRW and for the CD-player side of things. Set both NOT to automount and you should be able to select the one you need at a given time. John
Re: [Re: [newbie] Icons to large]
On Fri, 08 Feb 2036, Michael Scottaline wrote: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: big snip I would recommend that you reboot the system, and type "linux 3" at the prompt. Then, log in as "root" when you get the prompt. Then, type "xf86setup" (minus quotes on all of these) and re-select your resolution and such. snip John Remember, case sensitive though: XF86Setup ;o) Mike Yup. :-) Thanks for catching that. So used to having to tell people to type "xf86config" instead of "XF86Config." :-) Guess I assumed that XF86Setup was the same way... *sigh* Why can't they make a sym-link to it in all lower-case? ;-) John
Re: [newbie] memory problems
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, Hirnay wrote: i have got 128mb of ram on my pc. but under the kde control centre, only 64mb is 'seen'. the swap memory is ok at 128mb. i have got mandrake 6.1 installed. how can i fix this? In /etc/lilo.conf type: append="mem=128mb" OR, if you already HAVE an append statement, just tack the "mem=128mb" to the existing statement. John
Re: [newbie] graphics card shopping....
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Seth Gibson wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: Dunno. I don't believe that Xfree86 makes an accelerated server. OTOH, you might go see what cards mesa-gl supports. www.mesa-3d.org Actually its www.mesa3d.org. . Really? Interesting. Guess FreshMeat musta got it wrong. :-) John
Re: [newbie] New Millenium
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Etien T. VanDenBroecke wrote: Yes that is true, but it has been said that somewhere along the lines we all lost a year, so is it the year 2000 or the year 2001?? who knows, all that I know is that the media hype about the Y2K bug, looks like it turn out to be a big money making scam... Anybody else agree? Example: three days ago a friend of mine heard on the radio that some fool went and purchased and re-wired his whole house, to on run generators for the Y2K blitz!! Well, there are other reasons to have a generatordepending on where you live, there may be winter storms that knock power out for days at a time...or there's a possibility of a large solar flare knocking out the electrical grid in an area for a few days like it did about 10 or 11 years back in Canada but this is all WAY off topic for Linux, so can we please drop this thread??? Thanks... John
Re: [newbie] LS120 MB floppy
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Patrick Dyer wrote: I need some help here. Linux will not mount my floppy. This is a new one . I had 120MB floppy drive before and it got damaged, it was working fine before I stupidly damaged the head. I got a new and installed it. When linux is booting it seem to recognize the drive. However, when I put a floppy disk in and try to mount I get the following error , "Could not mount Error log: mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only. mount:wrong fs type, bad option , bad superblock on /dev/fd0 or too many mounted file systems" Could someone help me. Please post the section of your /etc/fstab which contains the reference to the floppy drive so we can verify that you have it configured correctly. Do you have the filesystem set to "auto" or do you have a duplicate entry? If the latter is true, try removing the extra line in your fstab. John
Re: [newbie] Icons to Large
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Jennifer Ricki Wise wrote: I had to reinstall Mandrake, when xconfig came up I was stuck using the default as all the other sizes would not be accepted. Now the icons are way to large and when I open some of the icons like Netscape I can't see the accept button. Is there any way to change the screen size to something like 800 x 600. run xf86config as root from a command prompt. John
Re: [newbie] flashing bios
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I just downloaded the bios upgrade for my asus vx-97 from the asus site. The machine I have is pure Linux, no Windows. How do I flash the bios? Thanks, Can you get your hands on a DOS boot disk? ;-) IF so, just use the DOS boot disk and then switch to the disk with the flasher BIOS update. :-) Otherwise, I think you're SOL. John
