Re: [luau] Linux

2004-01-19 Thread Dwight Victor
Hey Josh, The easiest way to try out Linux without pain is to use Knoppix live CD. It's a full Debian distribution that runs completely from the CD and doesn't touch your hard drive at all. Go here: http://knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html Check it out...it's pretty slick. Dwight... On Mon, 2

Re: [luau] Linux

2004-01-19 Thread Gary Dunn
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:49:31 -0500 "email account" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I live in Honolulu and am interested in learning more about Linux. > > I've been spending a lot of time learning programming and website design > for the past few months. I am using Windows. I would try installin

Re: [luau] Moz 1.6

2004-01-19 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
As it turned out, Netraves does have a kernel patch for RHEL3. I am going away for a couple of weeks but I will begin moving at least of our machines to RHEL3. This is an exciting development. wayne

[luau] Linux

2004-01-19 Thread email account
I live in Honolulu and am interested in learning more about Linux. I've been spending a lot of time learning programming and website design for the past few months. I am using Windows. I would try installing Linux on my laptop but I have XP home edition and the Toshiba installation disks won't

[luau] Re: Dual Processors & Linux

2004-01-19 Thread Derrick
I think the latest Nvidia (53.28) package may be buggy. I was running the 44.96 drivers in Suse 8.2 with no problems at all. I installed 9.0 on the same computer in a different drive (I have a removable bay that I use) and found the 53.28 drivers to be quite slow and ineffective. I am thinking o

Re: [luau] Dual Processors & Linux

2004-01-19 Thread Warren Togami
Rodney Kanno wrote: No it's the same computer. For some reason, my BIOS is tempermental and sometimes it detects only one of the two processors. But when it detects only one, the watching video works fine. When my BIOS detects two processors, watching video does not work anymore (using the same p

Re: [luau] Dual Processors & Linux

2004-01-19 Thread Rodney Kanno
No it's the same computer. For some reason, my BIOS is tempermental and sometimes it detects only one of the two processors. But when it detects only one, the watching video works fine. When my BIOS detects two processors, watching video does not work anymore (using the same programs). So both

Re: [luau] Dual Processors & Linux

2004-01-19 Thread Warren Togami
You are saying that it works if you remove one processor from your motherboard, or you are talking about a different computer entirely? Does it work if you boot into the "UP" uniprocessor kernel? What brand and version of Linux? Warren Rodney Kanno wrote: If it does not have anything to do

Re: [luau] Dual Processors & Linux

2004-01-19 Thread Rodney Kanno
If it does not have anything to do with SMP (whic I hope) then why would video playback "work" when my BIOS detects only 1 processor? Can it be attributed to my BIOS/motherboard since it is so tempermental? Rodney > > I can say with almost complete certainty that your problem is not > anythin

Re: [luau] Moz 1.6

2004-01-19 Thread Warren Togami
Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: Tom_Gordon/RISE/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't get it, you can put Mozilla anywhere in any OS. What is it windows can't do? For the newest version of Moz, I install it locally in my home directory. (Try to do that in Windows??? Ha!) This is an unfort

Re: [luau] Moz 1.6

2004-01-19 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Tom_Gordon/RISE/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't get it, you can put Mozilla anywhere in any OS. What is it windows can't do? For the newest version of Moz, I install it locally in my home directory. (Try to do that in Windows??? Ha!) This is an unfortunate out of the context quote.

Re: [luau] Dual Processors & Linux

2004-01-19 Thread Warren Togami
Rodney Kanno wrote: My processors are AMD MP 2100...about 1.8 GHZ each. When I try to play video (mpg), I have nothing else running and I have ~800MB free memory, out of 1020MB. While the video is playing, CPU utilization does not go above 37%. I am using Kaffeine, and also noatun. Both give m