Re: Solved: really hidden hidden files

2002-08-26 Thread Heimo Claasen
just a tiny footnote: V.Buerg's LIST doesn't cost anything for individual, non-commercial use (and precisely not with very occasional use like the one in question.) A condition which wouldn't _prohibit_ you, or anyone, to contribute to this marvellous utility's maintaining and improvement by regis

Re: Screen size

2002-08-26 Thread pa3gcu
On Tuesday 27 August 2002 02:28, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > Richard said more about the framebuffer than I know, but that is, I think, > not what you are asking about. The man page for lilo.conf includes this bit > (about the vga= parameter)-- > >If this variable is omitted, the VGA

Re: Screen size

2002-08-26 Thread pa3gcu
On Tuesday 27 August 2002 05:14, Theo. Sean Schulze wrote: > I also experience that mysterious "something" after I boot my SuSE Linux > system.As far as I can figure out, I have all the configuration files set > correctly for an 80x50x9 screen, but I still get an 80x25 screen after a > boot. What

Re: Screen size

2002-08-26 Thread Theo. Sean Schulze
I also experience that mysterious "something" after I boot my SuSE Linux system.As far as I can figure out, I have all the configuration files set correctly for an 80x50x9 screen, but I still get an 80x25 screen after a boot. What I do now is enter the command 'SVGATextMode 80x50x8' as root af

Re: Strange Messages

2002-08-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
The key is this line: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) The cron daemon (crond) is trying to run a program as part of a cron job but cannot. crond is typically set up to use e-mail to report this sort of error. To stop it, find and fix the problem in some crontab file. At 10:21

Solved: really hidden hidden files

2002-08-26 Thread Robert Haehnel
Thanks to all, I was able to cure the problem in an unexpected way. I tried downloading one of those dos utils to view and kill the files (not LIST 'cuase it cost something, and I don't need that kind of help often) and they couldn't find the files either. I also tried attrib and still no luck.

Re: Screen size

2002-08-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
See below. At 03:08 PM 8/26/02 +0100, Riley Williams wrote: >Hi there. > >We're talking about a Red Hat 7.3 system here, but the question is >probably equally relevant both to earlier Red Hat systems and to >other distributions as well. We are also NOT talking about X-Windows >but about the virtu

Strange Messages

2002-08-26 Thread Peter
Hi, As of late I am receiving every 10 minutes in my exmh-mail-program-inbox the following message: $ cat ./ExMail/inbox/msg.ygB >From root Tue Aug 27 10:00:00 2002 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: (from root@localhost) by philonline.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7R200m01274

Re: Screen size

2002-08-26 Thread pa3gcu
On Monday 26 August 2002 14:08, Riley Williams wrote: > Hi there. > > We're talking about a Red Hat 7.3 system here, but the question is > probably equally relevant both to earlier Red Hat systems and to > other distributions as well. We are also NOT talking about X-Windows > but about the virtual

Re: self-made potato driver-1.bin

2002-08-26 Thread Hal MacArgle
Greetings: FWIW we "wimps" have used SMC-Ultra ISA cards exclusively for years and they are on every one of our machines, Slackware 3.XX thru 8.0 and we've only had to invoke 'modprobe smc-ultra' for perfect results as long as the jumper was on 0x300, irq 10.. On some machines with PCI problems w

Screen size

2002-08-26 Thread Riley Williams
Hi there. We're talking about a Red Hat 7.3 system here, but the question is probably equally relevant both to earlier Red Hat systems and to other distributions as well. We are also NOT talking about X-Windows but about the virtual text consoles. When one is booting into Linux, one can specify

Re: self-made potato driver-1.bin

2002-08-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
Just a small clarification. At 02:09 PM 8/26/02 +0200, Michael Gruner wrote: [...] >That sounds interesting I'll search for that floppy-split program to get >more information about how to create that one file as you mentioned. The C source for this program is part of the Debian boot-floppies pa

Re: self-made potato driver-1.bin

2002-08-26 Thread pa3gcu
On Monday 26 August 2002 12:09, Michael Gruner wrote: > first i used the debian installer which loads the modules for the NICs, > CDRoms... and gave the option io=0x300 > second i switched to the second console and did a "modprobe smc-ultra" > third i switched to the second console and did a modp

Re: self-made potato driver-1.bin

2002-08-26 Thread Michael Gruner
Am Mon, 2002-08-26 um 00.40 schrieb Ray Olszewski: > First, why not try installing Woody? Potato is no longer Debian-stable; > Woody is, as of about a month ago. Its installer may be new enough to solve > your problem. I downloaded the woody install-disks and will give that a try. I use potato b

Re: self-made potato driver-1.bin

2002-08-26 Thread Michael Gruner
Am Son, 2002-08-25 um 22.46 schrieb pa3gcu: > You make it impossable for any hints as you dont say what commands you use, > execpt, > "potato didn't load the module smc-ultra whether I gave > the io and irq i set the jumper on the card on nor i gave no options to > load it:" > > You dont even s

Re: Can't see my drives

2002-08-26 Thread cr
On Monday 26 August 2002 07:53, Arthur Othieno wrote: > Subject: Re: Can't see my drives > > > Selected responses only, below. > > > > >As a related question, is there anywhere on the Internet a page that > > > explains > > >(in simple language) what the boot-up sequence of Linux is (and XFree86