Re: [expert] OT: video card troubles ctd. ....

1999-05-24 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Well, I have a Matrox Mystique, running perfectly... air conditioning did not work for the weekend (damn landlord), it's really hot in here right now and I don't have any problems... Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 25 May 1999, Tom Berger wrote: > Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 08:07:58 +0

[expert] Translation in Japanese and Chinese

1999-05-24 Thread Jacques Le Marois
I got few messages to translate in Japanese and Chinese. any volunteers for this ? Jacques

[expert] Re: Mandrake-Linux on desktop (all)

1999-05-24 Thread Tom Berger
Hi! Thanks a lot to all of you who replied to my question! Looks like I will go with a Toshiba Sat.2540. Although the screen could be bigger (it's only 12''), everything else meets my needs: 64 MB RAM and a 4 GB HD (since my wife insists on also having WinBloat :-]), a well supported video chip (S

[expert] OT: video card troubles ctd. ....

1999-05-24 Thread Tom Berger
Hi! Things went smooth for six days after having had flashed my MB and my Matrox MGAs BIOS (G 200). Now the machine begins to freeze *again* (almost killed my 4 GB data container in NT yesterday, boy, I really should do backups RSN...). Now I've noted that the video card gets really warm even afte

[expert] Download manager that support SOCKS proxy ?

1999-05-24 Thread langzhi
Any suggestion for KDE download maanager (FTP client) that work behind SOCKS proxy ? --- --- -_- -_- **~*

[expert] re anyone using Mandrake on a notebook?

1999-05-24 Thread mike montgomery
I run mandrake on my laptop and now that I have my sound card working, everything works perfectly. Its a Quantex 1331 with 80 Megs of ram, 266 Pll, 4 gig hardrive, 13.3 xga tft screen, pc card modem, cs4232 sound card, toshiba cd rom, touch pad mouse.

Re: [expert] misc directory on the cd/ftp site

1999-05-24 Thread Jacques Le Marois
Steven J Mackenzie wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what the misc directory holds? > > The only program I ever use from it is genhdlst when I download an updated > package to my local mirror, but there is a lot more stuff there, and I'm > trying to save a little space and bandwidth. > > Are the ob

Re: [expert] anyone using Mandrake on a notebook?

1999-05-24 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Tom Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 9:56 AM Subject: [expert] anyone using Mandrake on a notebook? > Hi there! > I am pondering buying a notebook that will run Mandrake-Linux decently > *without* having to spend 30

Re: [expert] anyone using Mandrake on a notebook?

1999-05-24 Thread Kertesz Imre
http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html Mauro Tortonesi wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 1999, Tom Berger wrote: > > > Hi there! > > I am pondering buying a notebook that will run Mandrake-Linux decently > > *without* having to spend 300 bucks for a XI Graphics X server. > > > > Experiences anyone? >

[expert] misc directory on the cd/ftp site

1999-05-24 Thread Steven J Mackenzie
Can anyone tell me what the misc directory holds? The only program I ever use from it is genhdlst when I download an updated package to my local mirror, but there is a lot more stuff there, and I'm trying to save a little space and bandwidth. Are the object files (.o) are useful for *anything*?

[expert] Re: Mandrake 6.0pre iso-image

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Alfke
Sorry, address is wrong :-( It should be: ftp://130.83.19.201/pub/Linux/Mandrake Martin Martin Alfke wrote: > Hi, > > server is running again and a new image is available. > > There had been announcments, that the former images were not bootable. > Now I have given Mandrake more RAM on my h

[expert] Mandrake 6.0pre iso-image

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Alfke
Hi, server is running again and a new image is available. There had been announcments, that the former images were not bootable. Now I have given Mandrake more RAM on my harddisk. I hope this one will be bootable. ftp://1310.83.19.201/pub/Linux/Mandrake 608313344 May 24 18:01 mandrake_24_05.

Re: [expert] anyone using Mandrake on a notebook?

1999-05-24 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Tom Berger wrote: > Hi there! > I am pondering buying a notebook that will run Mandrake-Linux decently > *without* having to spend 300 bucks for a XI Graphics X server. > > Experiences anyone? I've installed Mandrake 5.3 on a Acer Extensa 710 notebook without a problem. Xc

Re: [expert] anyone using Mandrake on a notebook?

1999-05-24 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Tom Berger wrote: > Hi there! > I am pondering buying a notebook that will run Mandrake-Linux decently > *without* having to spend 300 bucks for a XI Graphics X server. > > Experiences anyone? Works fine on my cheapo medion p133mmx - the VGA chipset is a NeoMagic MagicGrap

[expert] anyone using Mandrake on a notebook?

1999-05-24 Thread Tom Berger
Hi there! I am pondering buying a notebook that will run Mandrake-Linux decently *without* having to spend 300 bucks for a XI Graphics X server. Experiences anyone? Thanks tom -- "While the NT Testanlage an intensive Tuning experienced by Microsoft specialists, at the Linux version one did

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake

1999-05-24 Thread Jeanette Russo
Sounds good to me can't wait Jeanette - Original Message - From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 1999 8:05 PM Subject: [expert] Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake > On Sun, 23 May 1999, Idris Samawi Hamid w

[expert] Cable Modem

1999-05-24 Thread Al Smith
Greetings All, Does anyone know if there is a howto available to install a cable modem? Any assitance would be greatly appreciated. Al Smith Systems Engineer Thomas Jefferson University [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Cable Modem

1999-05-24 Thread Jacques Le Marois
Personnally i just put the ethernet card, the cable modem. I install the distro with "dhcp" And that's all . The techie tooks a lot's of time for Windows.. Jacques On Sun, 23 May 1999, Al Smith wrote: > Greetings All, > >Does anyone know if there is a howto available to install a cable mod

Re: [expert] Cable Modem

1999-05-24 Thread Dan Brown
Al Smith wrote: >Does anyone know if there is a howto available to install a cable modem? http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Cable-Modem.html -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.