Nvidia drivers and Toshiba laptop

2003-08-08 Thread Hamish McBrearty
Hi all I must be getting old because I've solved this one before but can't remember how I did it. (Perhaps I need that notebook). After installing the Nvidia ebuild on my laptop there is a black strip down the right hand side of the screen about an inch wide. How do I get rid of this? I know it's

Re: Gentoo reported slower.

2003-08-08 Thread Jason Greenwood
I encounter the same on my Win2k/Mdk 9.1 box as well. 9.1 feels snappier and better overall. Cheers Jason Chris Wilkinson wrote: Hi there, Jason Greenwood wrote: Wow, I was surprised by Mandrake and how quick it was...nice. I like it. The speed of Mandrake 9.1/KDE 3.1 on my 1100MHz Duron m

Re: No Subject Supplied

2003-08-08 Thread Nick Rout
no software needed :-) good price, and when volker gets his dvd writer you can get the knoppix dvd from him. right next to the broker pc's direct is selling complete computers with a dvd writer for $1,999.00. don't ask me about brand/features/quality as I didn't look that hard, but it sure must

MP3 PLAYER(MOUNTING)

2003-08-08 Thread stm23
hi, i've just bought a MP3-player, but i'm having trouble getting it setup so that i can transfer files from my comp(redhat 8.0) onto it. i've followed the instructions given in the manual (see below) but don't know what do to next Driver Installation for Linux Kernel 2.4 or Later. No driver is

Re: URGENT ASSISTANCE REQUIRED

2003-08-08 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 09:30, you wrote: > some people just don't get the joke do they? I suppose it's also a ( remote ) possibility that he's never seen a Nigerian / Zimbabwe Scam letter before. Shall we expose him to some? I've got several in the spam corpus. > On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 09:11:46 +1200

Re: setting up Epson scanner

2003-08-08 Thread Jaco Swart
I believe it's sane 1.0.7 (not sure how to check this but all the docs and supporting files refer to 1.0.7; anyway it's whatever came stock with the official RH 7.3 disks). Thanks Andrew, that is what I needed to know. Will get to it in a few weeks time, got to finish off some web album stuf

Re: Which distro? was RPM's are evil

2003-08-08 Thread Chad
I'd suggest Mandrake 9.1 or 9.2 (if you want to wait a month or so for it to be released) It's quick and easy to use and install and uses urpmi for rpm which deal with dependencies well. chad > While not convinced completely, I'll give RPM's another go :-) This apt > thing sounds promising..

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2003-08-08 Thread Lance Blackler
With the talk about DVD recently - thought some might be interested to know that the Broker has combo DVD CDRW drives for sale at $89 at the mo. Just picked one up myself. BTC brand - no software. Even some of the staff didn't know they had them and they are not presently advertised. They ha