Re: [newbie] ext2 filesystem

Scarlett, I received your message, these things will happen my message had was correctly sent to the user group. Maybe the Austin server has been watching the psychic TV ads and wanted to try it's own power at it. Scarlett wrote: Sam-- Your mail was misdirected to my account: [EMAIL

[newbie] Trouble with X-Windows and laptop monitor

Hello. I just tonight installed Linux Mandrake 5.2 on my laptop. It looks to be working great..until I type 'startx' to run X-Windows. My screen just goes black. I have tried numerous different monitor configurations that should work, but they don't, all doing the same thing. I'll send out

Re: [newbie] ext2 filesystem

Sorry, Martin, I meant to include you in the Thank You message and not Steve. Sam,

Re: [newbie] How to set up Samba...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i set up samba so i can share everything including my printer hooked up to a windows system on my home network... how can i do this without the howto's im not to good with them i tried it and i got REALLY confused : ) please help if you can, Tom

[newbie] Matrox G200 in Mandrake 5.3

I have a Matrox G200, and in KDE under Mandrake 5.3, the best I can get is a virtual desktop with low resolutions. I want to use the SVGA server with 1024X768 and 32bpp. I cannot figure out how to fix this, I have tried editing the XF86config file but have had no luck. Any ideas? thanks Nick

[newbie] another question and thanks

first thanks for the correct command line for true color which was startx -- -bpp 32 modem question using kpp using mandrake 5.2 I changed it to com2(cua1) in settings in linux and it came up with a screen that said modem ready but then nothing happened the dialup box froze this is

Re: [newbie] Matrox G200 in Mandrake 5.3

At 09:31 19/02/99 -0600, vous avez écrit: I have a Matrox G200, and in KDE under Mandrake 5.3, the best I can get is a virtual desktop with low resolutions. I want to use the SVGA server with 1024X768 and 32bpp. I cannot figure out how to fix this, I have tried editing the XF86config file but

Re: [newbie] another question and thanks

On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:44:15 -0500, you wrote: first thanks for the correct command line for true color which was startx -- -bpp 32 modem question using kpp using mandrake 5.2 I changed it to com2(cua1) in settings in linux and it came up with a screen that said modem ready but then

Re: [newbie] another question and thanks

Exactly, COM3 is what I got with the 220 on Win 98, couldn't change it so back to the Diamond shop it want. I wish it had worked, I sure hope you get it working ! If you have a PnP modem, can you disable PnP ? Use JP to configure COM2. agent25 wrote: first thanks for the correct command

[newbie] No surprize here

MICROSOFT'S PLAN FOR YOUR COMPUTER: "OSS (Open Source (tm) software) poses a direct, short-term revenue and platform threat to Microsoft, particularly in server space." "OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly

[newbie] Compile/Install

Hey everyone! I'm VERY new to linux, and I just downloaded XISP. Well, after extracting the .gz file, how do I install the program??? PLEASE HELP! It's abou to drive me insane!!! :-).. well, Thanks for your time!

[newbie] Kwintv and Video4Linux

I have compiled Video4Linux and bttv driver in kernel (kernel 2.2.1), but Kwintv's configure says me that any Video4Linux device is found. How do I make the devices in /dev? I have tried "MAKEDEV video" and other but it doesn't know how to make these devices. Thanks, Angelo Chillemi [EMAIL