Re: Where does installed software go?

2002-12-22 Thread whitnl73
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Chris wrote: > How do I know where software goes when I install it? > For instance, I just installed Opera on Red Hat 8.0, and > had to dig around to find it. > From the root I ran "ls -al -R | grep opera" > This produced about 16,000 items! Through trial and error I was > a

Re: How do I see all my partitions?

2002-12-22 Thread whitnl73
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Chris wrote: > OK...now that I can see all my partitions, how do I mount an NTFS > partition? > When I try, I receive the error "fs now supported by kernel." > I'm running Red Hat 8.0 (sorry, no idea what the kernel version is - how > do I find this info?). > > Can the kernel

Re: commport settings

2002-12-22 Thread whitnl73
On 23 Dec 2002, Heimo Claasen wrote: ... > I could not find any means, with "linuxconf" for instance, to have the > system accept the new setting. Only - restrictedly efficient - measure > is doing "setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0x02e8 irq 7". > Ray has already covered most of this. One little clarif

Re: Where does installed software go?

2002-12-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:30 PM 12/22/02 -0500, Chris wrote: How do I know where software goes when I install it? Normally, executables will be placed somewhere in the standard PATH (or in some cases the PATH for root). For them, use "which" to get the location. Other options are the commands "find" and "locate"

Re: How do I see all my partitions?

2002-12-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:26 PM 12/22/02 -0500, Chris wrote: OK...now that I can see all my partitions, how do I mount an NTFS partition? When I try, I receive the error "fs now supported by kernel." I suspect it says "not" rather than "now". (Sorry to seem picky, and the mistake is easy to spot here, but in troub

Where does installed software go?

2002-12-22 Thread Chris
How do I know where software goes when I install it? For instance, I just installed Opera on Red Hat 8.0, and had to dig around to find it. From the root I ran "ls -al -R | grep opera" This produced about 16,000 items! Through trial and error I was able to find the executable, and create a "launch

Re: How do I see all my partitions?

2002-12-22 Thread Chris
OK...now that I can see all my partitions, how do I mount an NTFS partition? When I try, I receive the error "fs now supported by kernel." I'm running Red Hat 8.0 (sorry, no idea what the kernel version is - how do I find this info?). Can the kernel be patched to support NTFS? Thank you, Chris A

Re: X-management choice

2002-12-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
Well .. to start with, are you aware that "startx" itself is just a shell script, one that usually acts as a from end to xinit, first setting up some values for config files. Were I to face your problem, I would probably just make a copy of startx ... called startx2 or startx-minimal or whatever

Re: commport settings

2002-12-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
This is a bit hard to follow, Heimo, but let's see what I can do. First, the normal way to change the settings of a serial (ttyS*) device is with setserial. So that part of what you are doing is good. This is how I always did it in Slackware, and it is how I would do it if I needed to now in De

X-management choice

2002-12-22 Thread Heimo Claasen
I examined the various threads on X window management on the list lately but could not find and answer on what I'm looking for: I would like to have a regular choice for starting up X either with a kind of barebones xterm only, or a more comfortable GUI ("environment") like KDE/Gnome. That is, I w

commport settings

2002-12-22 Thread Heimo Claasen
For some reason which have nothing to do with the following, I had to change the connection of the (external) modem from its original placement on the motherboard's COM2 / 2f8 (with IRQ 3) to an UART on an ISA card at COM4 / 2e8 and IRQ 7. I could not find any means, with "linuxconf" for instance,

Re: CDParanoia not copying from /dev/cdrom

2002-12-22 Thread james niland
--- "Paulo Jorge O. C. Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a /dev/cdrom pointing to /dev/sr1 since I had > /dev/hdd to > ide-scsi. I can listen to audio cds through > /dev/cdrom using the Gnome > CD Player but while doing: > pdestroy@localhost:/mnt/old/audiowrite$ cdparanoia

Re: libgtk-1.2.so --Slackware 8.1.01.

2002-12-22 Thread whitnl73
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Hal MacArgle wrote: > Greetings: Just installed Slackware 8.1.01 on another machine and > find it neat except for one problem: > > Invoking either mozilla or netscape get's the same report that > libgtk-1.2.so.0 is missing.. Searching the Web I find a bazillion > files but non

libgtk-1.2.so --Slackware 8.1.01.

2002-12-22 Thread Hal MacArgle
Greetings: Just installed Slackware 8.1.01 on another machine and find it neat except for one problem: Invoking either mozilla or netscape get's the same report that libgtk-1.2.so.0 is missing.. Searching the Web I find a bazillion files but none dedicated to Slackware.. No joy at www.slackware.co

CDParanoia not copying from /dev/cdrom

2002-12-22 Thread Paulo Jorge O. C. Matos
Hi all, I have a /dev/cdrom pointing to /dev/sr1 since I had /dev/hdd to ide-scsi. I can listen to audio cds through /dev/cdrom using the Gnome CD Player but while doing: pdestroy@localhost:/mnt/old/audiowrite$ cdparanoia -vsQ cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001) (C) 2001 Monty <[EMAIL PR

Re: Why do I can't listen CD's with OSS

2002-12-22 Thread pa3gcu
On Saturday 21 December 2002 23:07, r4mz3z wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi friends... > I installed OSS sound drivers and I can listen my mp3 with xmms and other > players; but if I wanna listem my music CDs I can't... which is the > problem? > > thanks Configure