Re: [expert] nvidia + unreal tourney = lag

2000-11-19 Thread pgeorges
eric a écrit : > > Try to launch gears : I have more than 800 fps with PIII / 533. > > > > my laptop have PIII 648 or 650 MHz, but I run gears : it reponse only about > 92.9 fps > what may go wrong? You have a geforce into your laptop ?? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscr

Re: [expert] low fps of gears

2000-11-19 Thread eric
pgeorges wrote: > eric a écrit : > > > > Try to launch gears : I have more than 800 fps with PIII / 533. > > > > > > > my laptop have PIII 648 or 650 MHz, but I run gears : it reponse only about > > 92.9 fps > > what may go wrong? > > You have a geforce into your laptop ?? > > ---

Re: [expert] X server is gone - font "fixed" not found

2000-11-19 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Celso González wrote: > > El Sábado 18 Noviembre 2000 23:13, escribiste: > > Try to see if xfs is running No, it wasn't. > if not then in a konsole type xfs -port -1 -daemon It works now. Please do tell me what happened. How come xfs has just stopped being automatically loaded during boo

Re: [expert] X server is gone - font "fixed" not found

2000-11-19 Thread John Murphy
On Sunday 19 November 2000 06:12, you wrote: > > Celso González wrote: > > El Sábado 18 Noviembre 2000 23:13, escribiste: > > > > Try to see if xfs is running > > No, it wasn't. > > > if not then in a konsole type xfs -port -1 -daemon > > It works now. Please do tell me what happened. How come

[expert] video card memory config?

2000-11-19 Thread Jeff Malka
I'm running Mandrake 7.2 and kde2. In using DrakConf, I noticed that although my video card (Matrox Millenium) has 4 MB of video ram, the config has it set as only 2 MB. I would like to correct this error but can find nowhere in DrakConf utilities to do so. How is this done? Thanks. -- Je

[expert] I think I'm going to kill myself!

2000-11-19 Thread Chris Spencer
I dunno whats up with this. But this is dreadful! I am in the middle of copying a large file (1.2GB) from my home directory to my Windows partition. Both partitions are on two seperate hard drives, on two different channels of two different EIDE controllers. Both drives are heavily optimized r

[expert] Booting Solaris with LILO

2000-11-19 Thread Bruce E. Harris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have spent the past several days trying to find the answer and had no luck. I check this lists archives, Redhat's, Caldera. Any HOWTO related to LILO or Solaris, and even went to Sun's site. I have three hard drives. On the first IDE HDD, I

Re: [expert] X server is gone - font "fixed" not found

2000-11-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, John Murphy wrote: > On Sunday 19 November 2000 06:12, you wrote: > > > > Celso Gonz&bet;lez wrote: > > > El S&bet;bado 18 Noviembre 2000 23:13, escribiste: > > > > > > Try to see if xfs is running > > > > No, it wasn't. > > > > > if not then in a konsole type xfs -port -1 -

Re: [expert] video card memory config?

2000-11-19 Thread pgeorges
Jeff Malka a écrit : > > I'm running Mandrake 7.2 and kde2. > > In using DrakConf, I noticed that although my video card (Matrox Millenium) > has 4 MB of video ram, the config has it set as only 2 MB. I would like to > correct this error but can find nowhere in DrakConf utilities to do so. How

RE: [expert] $DISPLAY not set

2000-11-19 Thread Brent Timmer
x doesn't load at all. I'm not real familiar with Linux, but I get the equivelent of a dos prompt with the penguin at top. I can then login and do normal stuff, but no GUI. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen Sent: Sunday, No

Re: [expert] I think I'm going to kill myself!

2000-11-19 Thread Armisis Aieoln
Dont do it its not worth it! On Sunday 19 November 2000 17:37, you wrote: > > I dunno whats up with this. But this is dreadful! > > I am in the middle of copying a large file (1.2GB) from my home directory > to my Windows partition. Both partitions are on two seperate hard drives, > on two diff

Re: [expert] video card memory config?

2000-11-19 Thread Marsden MacRae
pgeorges wrote: > > Jeff Malka a écrit : > > > > I'm running Mandrake 7.2 and kde2. > > > > In using DrakConf, I noticed that although my video card (Matrox Millenium) > > has 4 MB of video ram, the config has it set as only 2 MB. I would like to > > correct this error but can find nowhere in Dr

[expert] PCMCIA card recognized the wrong way

2000-11-19 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I've got a Conceptronic CON100TC Ethernet Pcmcia card, and i've got a driver for it. The problem i have is that Mandrake 7.2 recognizes it as a Realtek 8139 Pc Card, and it's always trying to charge rtl8139.o or 8139too.o (realtek_cb.o has already been charged). For instance when running

Re: [expert] PCMCIA card recognized the wrong way

2000-11-19 Thread pgeorges
Joan Tur a écrit : > I've got a Conceptronic CON100TC Ethernet Pcmcia card, and i've got a > driver for it. > > The problem i have is that Mandrake 7.2 recognizes it as a Realtek 8139 > Pc Card, and it's always trying to charge rtl8139.o or 8139too.o > (realtek_cb.o has already been charged). >

Re: [expert] I think I'm going to kill myself!

2000-11-19 Thread jiva
The linux vfat drivers are horribly slow. That's probably your problem. On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:37:16AM -0600, Chris Spencer wrote: > I dunno whats up with this. But this is dreadful! > > I am in the middle of copying a large file (1.2GB) from my home directory to > my Windows partition. Bo

Re: [expert] I think I'm going to kill myself!

2000-11-19 Thread xaos
On Sunday 19 November 2000 13:02, some strange person did etch this in stone: > > Just complaining. Feel free to ignore me. well, stop bitching and let's go have tea and biscuits! :) -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the netherm

Re: [expert] low fps of gears

2000-11-19 Thread Douglas
On Sunday 19 November 2000 08:42 am, you wrote: > > pgeorges wrote: > > eric a écrit : > > > > Try to launch gears : I have more than 800 fps with PIII / 533. > > > > > > my laptop have PIII 648 or 650 MHz, but I run gears : it reponse only > > > about 92.9 fps > > > what may go wrong? > > > >

[expert] Desktop application icons don't work

2000-11-19 Thread Ronald L. Chichester
Hi: I ran into this problem to day in Mandrake 7.2 (in both KDE2 and Gnome). I installed a program and wanted to create an application icon on the desktop. The application runs fine (from the console or the run command). However, the same command that gets it going just fine from the console

Re: [expert] PCMCIA card recognized the wrong way

2000-11-19 Thread Joan Tur
pgeorges escribió: > 0. Don't use DrakConf and so on ... too many bugs. Ok > 1. Try to remove reinsert the card Done > 2. Use cardctl and cardmgr to get it recognize your card (on a friend's > laptop the PCMCIA eth card was recognized as a memory one !). The first one works and gives me the

[expert] cdroms

2000-11-19 Thread skidley
I am boggled over what is going on with my cdroms, they are in fstab as: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom1 0 0 they were working fine until i booted to failsafe because I lost my keyboard while in tty1 and c

Re: [expert] Re: 3c905B

2000-11-19 Thread Ken Thompson
Hello all, for what it's worth I am using a variety of 3com 3c905 (ISA as well as PCI) cards with great success under LM 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2. I did have to set the cards (some at least) to plug n play = off and also set them to the IRQ I wanted to use. I used the dos utility from 3com's web site to

Re: [expert] cdroms

2000-11-19 Thread skidley
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, skidley wrote: > I am boggled over what is going on with my cdroms, they are in fstab as: > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 > /mnt/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom1 0 0 > they were working fine until i booted to failsafe b

Re: [expert] I think I'm going to kill myself!

2000-11-19 Thread Jeff Malka
I agree don't do it. But - I know how you feel! > > Dont do it its not worth it! > > On Sunday 19 November 2000 17:37, you wrote: > > > I dunno whats up with this. But this is dreadful! > > > > I am in the middle of copying a large file (1.2GB) from my home directory > > to my Windows partition.

[expert] kde and enlightenment

2000-11-19 Thread msh
When I run konqueror while using the enlightenment window manager, no desktop icons appear, even though I've enable KDE support. I seem to remember that with KFM and enlightenment the desktop icons did appear. Also, when I try to run knotes under enlightenment (by executing knotes from a console

Re: [expert] X server is gone - font "fixed" not found

2000-11-19 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, John Murphy wrote: > > > On Sunday 19 November 2000 06:12, you wrote: > > > > > > Celso González wrote: > > > > El Sábado 18 Noviembre 2000 23:13, escribiste: > > > > > > > > Try to see if xfs is running > > > > > > No, it wasn't. > > > > > > > if no

[expert] Netscape 6 - installation problem

2000-11-19 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello I am trying to run Netscape 6. I can't afford to download via modem so I downloaded sea.ta.gz from the ftp site on a server . I untared it and gunziped it and run installer but it keeps asking for lots of things and creates email accounts that I don't want to. How can I installed

[expert] Network Printing

2000-11-19 Thread PatMc
I am trying to setup a printer on my 7.0 machine. The printer's in question are connected to samba machines on my home network. One is a 560c and the other is a Panasonic 2023 on separate machines. The box I'm trying to set up is dual boot and prints fine to either printer from win98. A printer

[expert] Imwheel & Netscape

2000-11-19 Thread David Boles
Can anyone tell me why imwheel works, and stays working, in L-M 7.2 with KDE 2.0 or Gnome but it SOMETIMES works in Netscape? Sometimes works in Netscape for a little while and then stops working? Sometimes works in Netscape all day and never stops??? I realize this sounds strange but I have have

Re: [expert] I think I'm going to kill myself!

2000-11-19 Thread Scott Tyson
maybe this will help - I enabled the HD optimizations during my Mandrake 7.2 install. Unfortunalty under heavy HD load my system would experience CPU spikes that would reneder everything inoperapble for 1-2 seconds at a time. This was very anoying and not what UDMA is supposed to do. My xfers

Re: [expert] Netscape 6 - installation problem

2000-11-19 Thread RedRat
Hi ! > I am trying to run Netscape 6. I can't afford to download via modem so > I downloaded > sea.ta.gz from the ftp site on a server . I untared it and gunziped it > and run installer but it keeps asking for lots of things and creates > email accounts that I don't want to. How can I installe

RE: [expert] 7.2 and ata100

2000-11-19 Thread Rodney Lorimor
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Brent Timmer wrote: > from what I understand, 7.2 doesn't even support ata66 (but I could be > wrong) Well 7.2 here supports both ATA100 & ATA66 here very well without any recompile. :-) > Hello there, > > could anyone give an advise if Mandrake 7.2 supports ATA100 right

Re: [expert] I think I'm going to kill myself!

2000-11-19 Thread Adrian Saidac
Hey if you want to do it I can not help you! But before that why don't you try both IDE drives on the same controller (master/slave scheme) I believe you have too much SW overhead using 2 controllers Jeff Malka wrote: 00111916422000.01411@Jeff_PC">I agree don't do it. But - I know how you feel!

Re: [expert] Netscape 6 - installation problem

2000-11-19 Thread PatMc
It may be just asking you to sign up for Netcenter. If that is the case just ignore it. The excitable is /usr/local/netscape/netscape. Pat "Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes" wrote: > > Hello > I am trying to run Netscape 6. I can't afford to download via modem so > I downloaded > sea.ta.gz from

[expert] weird DPMS prob. w/ Hitachi SuperScan 751U

2000-11-19 Thread Mandrake Mania
I'm using XFree4/KDE2 under Mandrake 7.2 with an ATI Mach64 video card and a Hitachi CM751 monitor. When I enable DPMS, the monitor blanks for a few seconds after the timeout period set with xset, but then an "INVALID SCAN FREQ." message appears from the monitor and the screen shows a random, gar

Re: [expert] Desktop application icons don't work

2000-11-19 Thread Ron Stodden
"Ronald L. Chichester" wrote: > If I modify my $PATH statement to include the directory with my new > program, the application launcher (KDE icon) works just fine. > > I don't like the idea of modifying .bash_profile every time I install a > new program. Has anyone else run into this problem,

[expert] 3Dfx OpenGL acceleration breaks after changing resolutions, and doesn't come back.

2000-11-19 Thread Sean, Sharon & Kyle Harbour
My Open GL hardware acceleration breaks after I use the Drak tool to change resolutions. Particulars - Abit BP6 dual Celeron 433 motherboard. 20 GB IDE drive not running on the UDMA66 controller. 96 MB ram PC100 Voodoo Banshee Diamond Fusion 16 MB PCI Mandrake 7.2 download version, 2 disk develop

[expert] more crashes than the Indy 500.

2000-11-19 Thread michael rogers
i'm absolutely clueless. linux simply likes to crash on me. 7.1 and 7.2 have both been doing it and i don't know why. and the thing i love about linux is the stability! so, if anyone knows where such things are logged by the system, or if i need to turn logging on, or what could possibly doing

[expert] Use of "make oldconfig" while compiling a new kernel.

2000-11-19 Thread Peña Arellano Fabian Erasmo
Hello everybody: I would like to compile a new kernel for the computer I use. Since I really don´t know much about the configuration options the "make menuconfig" offers, I would like to keep the configuration of the current kernel. How can I tell the "make oldconfig" commnad where to

[expert] webmin: local host connection broken

2000-11-19 Thread Jeff Malka
Since I changed my localhost name, webmin will no longer start when I enter http://localhost:1/ I get an error message saying "connection to host localhost is broken". Entering the "http://newhostname:1" does not work. Where and how do I could correct this? Thanks. -- Jeff Malka

Re: [expert] more crashes than the Indy 500.

2000-11-19 Thread Gavin Clark
it could be LOTS of things. it could be some sort of hardware problem like bad ram, a screwy hard drive, CPU overheating, or a bad USB chip. to get useful help you'll want to come up with as much detail as you can: is there any pattern to the crashing? what software are you running? what are you

Re: [expert] 3Dfx OpenGL acceleration breaks after changing resolutions, and doesn't come back.

2000-11-19 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 19-Nov-00 by Sean, Sharon & Kyle Harbour: > Oh yeah, if I set the resolution to 32bit, 1280x1024, the way I like it, > during the install, OpenGL 3dfx's accelleration only works at 16 bpp under any OS. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [expert] Use of "make oldconfig" while compiling a new kernel.

2000-11-19 Thread Scott Tyson
Ok here's how it works. You'll need the .config file from the Mandrake install you have. I forget offhand what dir it is in but I belevie it is /usr/src/linux. Copy that file to the new source tree and the type make oldconfig. The new kernel will only prompt you for items tht are new to the

Re: [expert] Use of "make oldconfig" while compiling a new kernel.

2000-11-19 Thread Andrew George
Um...I think it's a little more complex than that (unless something changed in 7.2's kernel-source rpm) What I did was download the kernel srpm grab the config files out of that (forget where they are) copy the kernel config file of your choice to /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig make oldconf

Re: [expert] $DISPLAY not set

2000-11-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Brent Timmer wrote: > Gotta throw this one again.Whenever kdeinit tries to load (whenever it'a > bout to go to the login box), it drops back and says "$DISPLAY not set". > Anybody know how to fix this so I can get on with my life ;) ? I lost your original message. Does X lo

Re: [expert] CUPS Fonts Printing Problem

2000-11-19 Thread RedRat
Hello List ! I want text under the icons in the toolbars. In one beta you could change that for every kde application, but now in KDE final this option is gone. Only a global setting is there, but it doesn't work. I can chose whatever I want (text only, icon only, text under icon, text beside

RE: [expert] 7.2 and ata100

2000-11-19 Thread Brent Timmer
from what I understand, 7.2 doesn't even support ata66 (but I could be wrong) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Burkhard Zombronner Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] 7.2 and ata100 Hello there,

Re: [expert] 3dfx Banshee in mdk 7.2

2000-11-19 Thread William Reinhart
I just finished fixing a similar problem with my voodoo3. From your error message, it looks like the glx module isn't being loaded when X starts. First, you need to load the kernel module tdfx (requires the agpgart module if you have an AGP card) Then make sure you have these lines load "glx"

Re: [expert] $DISPLAY not set

2000-11-19 Thread Ken Thompson
On Sunday 19 November 2000 06:14 pm, you wrote: > > I'm taking it that no one knows how to get my GUI back? I'd hate to > reinstall I had a similar problem and corrected it by running drakxconf and setting up the vid card and monitor again.. worth a try.. -

Re: [expert] Two questions about cups

2000-11-19 Thread Sridhar Govindarajulu
I had a problem with the printer connected to my LM system and printing from my Win client. I had configured the Lm printer thro' samba as 'dj400'. Had to modify my printers.conf in /etc/cups dir From to restart CUPS and everything went fine. I think CUPS requires sama printer and the defaul

[expert] $DISPLAY not set

2000-11-19 Thread Brent Timmer
Gotta throw this one again. Whenever kdeinit tries to load (whenever it'a bout to go to the login box), it drops back and says "$DISPLAY not set". Anybody know how to fix this so I can get on with my life ;) ? Thanks in advance Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EM

[expert] 7.2 and ata100

2000-11-19 Thread Burkhard Zombronner
Hello there, could anyone give an advise if Mandrake 7.2 supports ATA100 right out of the box ? regards Burkhard Zombronner Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] CUPS Fonts Printing Problem

2000-11-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
There are two possibilities: 1. In /etc/cups/cupsd.conf there is a "FontPath" variable, try to enter directories there with the fonts you need. I don't know whether this helps, it is possible that the CUPS renderer (which is written to work under nearly every Unix) does not support TrueType fonts

Re: [expert] Getting new motherboard.. new install?

2000-11-19 Thread Scott Tyson
Well I did a re-install and it looks like the USB hub on these motherboards (ASUS CUSL2) causes the issues. I had to manually config it fo rmy mouse and then my install kept hanging. So I put my Intellimouse Exolporer on the PS/2 port and all is well so far. Now to install the nvidia driver

[expert] $DISPLAY not set

2000-11-19 Thread Brent Timmer
I'm taking it that no one knows how to get my GUI back? I'd hate to reinstall Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.