I had Mandrake 8 on my Dell Inspiron 8000 (256 ram,
GForce2 chip, DVD, etc). You'll probably have a few
gotchas:
- Nvidia drivers (obviously), search mandrakeforum.com
for Nvidia, I wrote the instructions for setting it up
(specifically for the Go chip on this laptop)
- Sound (for some reason if
You can upgrade your kernel, it will just require you
to uninstall/reinstall the drivers (just did it last
night).
--- Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you perform a FULL power off after setting up
the
/etc/X11/XF86config-4 file first?
I.E. your system must be COLD or else
Hi all,
I used the software manager to update XFree86 to 4.1
(Everything went smoothly for X), except I'm having
some command line/compiler related problems (it
insisted on upgrading glibc, perl, and gcc as well).
Everything seems to work on, I even tested a quick
compile of apache.
The one
Hi All,
Quick question, Mozilla/Gaelon always seem to get
rejected by server messages when trying to goto a
secure page (as if the browser is going to http://
instead of https://).
Anyone know what the problem is or how to fix it?
Thanks,
Aj
Goto the flat package list during install, I believe
kernel2.2 is one of the options.
--- Aaron J. Ginn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not really trying to back out of the 2.4 kernel.
If I have to, I
will simply reinstall Mandrake 8.0. If nothing
else, I'll go back to
7.2. What I want to
Little more information?
What window manager, what user are you running it as,
do you have any plugins installed?
I run pure enlightenment, with only the perl plugins
that come with LM8.0. I also run under a standard
user as opposed root... no problems.
Al
--- Darrell Scott [EMAIL
It was replaced by xinetd, (/etc/xinetd.conf)
Al
--- Bill Beauchemin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What Happened to the /etc/inetd.conf file in LM8.0?
I went to edit it to
install Qpopper after setting up LM8.0 for the first
time and no can
find.
to http://www.vistasource.com/products/axware/more
They claim to have compatibility with MSWord
documents.
Has any tried this?
Thanks,
Al Baker
--- Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 21 May 2001 11:59, Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear friends:
Below is the official word on installing
Hi All,
I've been wondering if anyone uses a Linux PDA with
their Mandrake desktop and what kind of impression
they have with that?
Specifically, I've been looking at 3:
Compaq's iPaq (which you can reload with linux)
Agenda's V3R (monochrome :( )
Yoppy (can only get in developer version) :
of working on cool stuff, dunno how pay is).
Al Baker
--- Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 06:10, Lars Roland
Kristiansen wrote:
Hi
Just read some wired things about mandrake at
newsforge and slashdot
is this true
___
Mvh./Yours sincerely
Lars
Just to clarify, the kapm-idled problem is just for
kernel2.4.3? I hate seeing gkrellm going nuts on CPU
while I'm just sitting there in a VI terminal.
--- Orlin Damyanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For me Mandrake 8 has been quite stable and runs
smoother than Mandrake
7. I had 7 installed
Hi All,
@ Work, Sun workstations and remote X windows is very
popular, most windows users use exceed to connect and
use CDE.
Is there anything similiar in Linux? There are many
graphical utilities that require you to be on a
solaris machine
Aj
software,
including Ximian GNOME 1.4 and third-party
applications from their systems.
Thanks,
Al Baker
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Actually, I had the same libsafe problem in 7.1!
--- Nima S. Panahi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe I have a handle on the problem now. I did
a complete fresh and
minimal install, without using anything from the
second CD except for
kernel source. I then went about recompiling
programs
I don't believe it's a processor problem.
You probably have XFree86 misconfigured, try
/usr/X11R6/bin/Xconfigurator
--- V. Boris Camara Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi all,
I want to know about compatibility KDE with pentium
I pc's, because
kdesktop crashes when i enter in it, leaving
I use StarOffice at work in a dominant Win2000 domain.
To be more specific, I use openoffice (6.9?) whatever
was available in cooker @ rpmfind.net.
Here are my comments on Star/OpenOffice:
- General: Handles most word2000 formats very well
- sometimes fubar's on large tables when going from
, but
trying to convince some Java Developers that Linux can
compete with their Win2k/WinNT development setups.
Thanks,
Al Baker
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I loaded enlightenment in 8.02b just fine. I did
notice the lack of menu generation on the left button,
but you can still access the application menu via the
middle button (or 2+3).
Al
--- Al Niessner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have found the enlightenment installation in 8.0b2
to be
Mandrake 8.0beta2:
I love it so far, have my desktop setup perfectly, all
hardware detected. Here are my minor gripes:
* Install: Had to double click on 'done' when setting
Grub/Lilo, compared to one click in previous
distributions.
* Ximian Gnome: Can't install, says unsupported
version of
But how do you change the color of the XFCE panel?
Al
--- Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear member:
Thanks for writing.
1) The question about which rectangle stands for
which XFCE component is
the one that got me a very hostile reaction on the
official xfce user
list. There
I picked up the ximian CD from thinkgeek.com -- I'm
all for supporting open source projects with a few
bucks to save me time and bandwith.
Anyhow, the install went fine, but it actually removed
gnome-session from .xinitrc and defaulted back to KDE.
Furthermore, it went from a nicely layed out
My biggest gripe with 7.2 has been the lack of the
e-conf tool in enlightenment. For whatever reason, I
can't seem to find this tool with the enlightment
install on 7.2, thought it was def. there in 7.1 .
Can anyone shed some light on this? That e-conf tool
worked wonders.
Thanks,
Al
---
This is an expert from
www.enteract.com/~lspitz/linux.html.
I got to the link via, linuxguruz.org (Armoring Linux)
Here's what yer looking for:
For the Truly Paranoid
I consider the measures discussed above absolutely
essential. By following these steps, you have greatly
improved your
I believe Windows likes to be the first partition on
the drive, and then you have to set LILO to the MBR
(master boot record). I think FreeBSD defaults it's
loader to the master boot record as well.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just istalled LM7.2 on my new drive (20GB). It's
got a 13GB
I installed Mandrake 7.1 on a Toshiba Satellite 1605
(cheap), works great.
Also seen it on those Dell Inspiron ?7500s.
Aj
--- Larry Blodgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What are the preferred laptops for installing
Mandrake?
--
Thanks,
Larry Blodgett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ([EMAIL
2.4.0 needs the ReiserFS patch.
2.4.1 included ReiserFS.
Enjoy!
--- Mike Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hiyas again all,
I have 2 questions..
1 - It seems both newbie and this mailing list are
slow, as in slow to
receive email. Is the server outside the US or
something? Other
Therefor, you need to get an IP Phone!
Aj
--- Marsden MacRae [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a quick query
At 05:12 PM 2/5/2001 -0700, you wrote:
I just read the man page for ohphone which I got to
via the HOWTO mentioned.
It does NOT do PC-to-phone. It does IP-to-IP,
voice over IP. This
Why would Mandrake end their distribution? Besides
the article stating that they were continuing, they
outsold Redhat this year and are by far one of the
most popular distributions around. This is just a way
to make some money, like redhat does with their RHN,
does that mean Redhat is gonna
1) I believe you're looking for /etc/services
Regards,
Aj
--- richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, two questions
1) inetd appears not to be used with Mandrake , I
use inetd.conf to
redirect incoming telnet on port 23 to another
application, if I start inetd
incoming to port 23 still
For the large file support, look for a 2.2 patch, or I
believe it'll be included in the 2.4 kernel, at least
that's what I've heard.
Aj
--- Rusty Carruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a coincidence, a couple of questions my clients
asked me, should qualify:
How to
I would pop in your CD and do an 'update/upgrade' with
Development packages, it's most likely the only sure
way that you'll have all the necessary tools for
compiling various programs.
For example, unless you do heavy in depth research,
you'd never know that PHP needs Bison to compile.
Aj
---
Just to second this request for a CLI MandrakeUpdate,
I administer my own server (MDK 7.1), which I normally
don't run X on, though I do have it installed to start
up and get an update.
Most servers that I run (apache (with php et al), ssh,
..) I compiled myself so I go right to their source
for
First, I would double check that you have the right
media to install from (whether it a $2 CD or a
self-burnt CD).
Second, go for a recommended workstation install, you
can customize packages later with a reboot and install
cd or your favorite rpm manager (rpmdrake).
Even the lm7.2 box set sold
Hi Jelle,
Let's start off by confirming that you have proper
install media, whether that be double checking
self-burnt CDs, or buying some cheap from a place like
linuxcentral.com (all their CDs always worked for me).
Secondly, I wouldn't recommend using Aurora, it always
seems slow and
Well, I speak from a purely development-tuned install
(started w/ recommended and went from there). Compiled
my own apache/mysql/php/modperl/modssl/openssl/mm just
fine. Didn't do much in the way of multimedia on it
except for hardware detection.
--- duane voth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Al
I have always found 7.1 to be completely stable.
--- "Bob Puff@NLE" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Once again, I am chiming in on requesting a -stable-
version of version 7.1. 7.1 seems to work on a lot
of systems (if you can get past the blasted CDROM
installer lockup bug!), and its updates are
I've found that LM7.1 to be far less troublesome than
7.2, especially during installation (7.2 always gives
me a blank screen/freezes during the X part of the
install). Then again, I use gnome and enlightenment
--which are packaged better on 7.1 as well imho.
MandrakeUpdate works fine, after
My guess is, you didn't install/get the linux source.
--- Leif_Erik_Tronstad_Svanø [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'm trying to re-configure my kernel, so I tried to
the same as with
redhat as root:
this happend
..]#cd /usr/src/linux
..]#make oldconfig
make: *** No rule to make target
Are you sure, I believe it depends on your BIOS first
and foremost, if you can set it to boot in a priority
of cd-rom, floppy,HD.
Al
--- Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You need a cdrom that is bootable. I have never been
able to boot with an
ide cdrom drive, however, my plextor cdrom
Are you sure, I installed Mandrake 7.1 on a Toshiba
Satellite 1605 running windows98.. just popped the CD
in while already in windows, installation took care of
auto-partitioning and setting up LILO for a dual-boot
system, worked like a charm.
What I found really screws things up is *BSD-Linux,
, but the desktop is
supposed to just open another
kfm (konqueror) window for it.
- Original Message -
From: "Al Baker" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] A little KDE 2.1 problem
Can you right clic
Can you right click and look at the properties and
make sure it's calling the correct program?
--- Robin Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yesterday I installed the KDE 2.1-0.20001213
packages from
ftp://ftp.nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE/ on my
otherwise stock 7.2 system and
almost everything is
Try it in your cgi-bin? Permissions correct?
Execute it from the shell, see what kind of error
output there is..
--- Irwan Hadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm configuring Apache 1.3.14 with Mod Perl 1.24_01
and PHP 4.0.3pl1, and I
got a problem in which when Apache wants to run a
perl script
I was wondering what flavor of linux (or BSD), people
run on their home servers (web, mail, etc). I was
thinking that a custom install of mandrake7.2 might
not be bad for server, then again many run redhat6.2,
and there's always the possibility of BSD...
-Al
It's not like Linux, specifically Mandrake, makes a
BAD server, you can make a nice fast server with the
right know how. OpenBSD just provides instant
out-of-the-box security w/o the configuration
[nightmares] you might go through to achieve the same
on Mandrake. I choose mandrake over *BSD
Yes, one of the great things about compiling from
source is you get to use nifty features such as
./configure --with-mysql :)
--- Bug Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I installed mod_php from the mandrake 7.2
publically available cd set,
and installed mysql from www.mysql.net.
when I
VCD (video CD) was a brief moment between VHS and DVD.
DVD players will play yer VCD's, CD players might
play VCDs but not DVDs.
--- Bill Piety [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi - though I've read about VCD's I've never
actually seen one. It's mpeg-2 based
now, I believe, but doesn't seem to have
With enough time and effort, you can cutomized just
about any distribution to act as a powerful server,
even with a fancy desktop on it! Though, I must
admit, I am as intriguied as the next system
administrator about running FreeBSD. -Al
--- "J . A . Magallon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On
I'm waiting for KDE 2.1
The .0's are always unstable.
--- RedRat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello List!
After having some trouble with updateing KDE2 to
KDE2.0.1 I uninstalled all
KDE packages and installed the new KDE2.0.1
packages. Nearly everthing went
fine and I got nearly no
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