[newbie] ancient monitor

1999-04-25 Thread Jose Alberto Abreu
Greetings, you-who-are-wiser-than-i-am: I am currently in the process of making the jump... (im gonna buy the Mandrake CD from my local distributor this week). But I am currently in the "get all the info you can get about your system" Living in Mexico, and having not much money, I have

Re: [newbie] ancient monitor

1999-04-25 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 02:07:07AM -0600, Jose Alberto Abreu wrote: Greetings, you-who-are-wiser-than-i-am: Problem is... my monitor is a complete mystery. Its an old Compaq that a friend gave to me, it was part of his 386 setup... In windblows, it works as "standard VGA monitor" and

re: Re: [newbie] ancient monitor

1999-04-25 Thread Jose Alberto Abreu
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 02:07:07AM -0600, Jose Alberto Abreu wrote: Greetings, you-who-are-wiser-than-i-am: Problem is... my monitor is a complete mystery. Its an old Compaq that a friend gave to me, it was part of his 386 setup... In windblows, it works as "standard VGA monitor"

RE: [newbie] ancient monitor

1999-04-25 Thread Birchall, Richard
Jose Alberto Abreu [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: Problem is... my monitor is a complete mystery. Its an old Compaq that a friend gave to me, it was part of his 386 setup... In windblows, it works as "standard VGA monitor" and also works under "Acer 11D", but fails to enable 800-600 resolution in

RE: [newbie] Gnome

1999-04-25 Thread Russ Westbrook
Bela, Thanks for the tip. I do have Mandrake 5.3 and I am looking into buying the newest release either through Red Hat or Caldera (I asked about Gnome because Red Hat uses it and I wanted to check it out). I know absolutely nothing about Linux except for what I have learned here and what I have

RE: [newbie] Gnome

1999-04-25 Thread Gary R. Walsh
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 07:52:13 -0700, Russ Westbrook wrote: What is the difference between Caldera and Red Hat (and the others)? There is a brief article in 32 Bits Online discussing the latest distributions: http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/199904/lj-19990420 page=1 Another

Re: [newbie] Gnome

1999-04-25 Thread Gerard Godin
Is there any hint as to when the New Mandrake will be out?? It has become the one that I tend to recommend to friends but many new users are not up to upgrading to the 2.2 kernels on their own.. :) Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 07:52:13AM -0700, Russ Westbrook

RE: [newbie] Gnome

1999-04-25 Thread Russ Westbrook
Steve and Gary, Thanks for your posts. I have went to the links that Gary provided and they are the best basic description of the Linux arena that I have been able to view (or maybe I am just able to understand more of what I read now). I especially liked the second one. I have haunted Caldera

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1999-04-25 Thread me
anyone using a Linksys EtherFast PCI network card under Mandrake?