[newbie] printer and sound card

hello world I've just installed Mandrake 5.3 on a Pentium II 266 machine, and I'm relatively unexperienced; everything seems to work well, but I can't get printer and sound card work at all; the printer is a HP Laserjet 4L connected to LPT1 (there is also a parallel ZIP, but I've disconnected it

Re: [newbie] modems

Meanie [EMAIL PROTECTED] scritto: Gilbert Espinosa wrote: Jason Cotterell wrote: I have used modemtool to set cua0 to use, I've tried adjusting the volume settings in modem commands from Kppp I've setserial to configure the ports all that happens though is the modem will be

Re: SIS6326? Thanks, NOT, for now! WAS: Flaky video modes WAS: [newbie] Video Modes

Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 06:07:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Roberto Angelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "Flaky" video modes WAS: [newbie] Video Modes Hi, All Roberto! Arnold Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] scritto: I've just built a new system ... The video is SiS 6326 3D Pro AGP and the monitor is a

[newbie] About command ps.

Hi: I want to kill the daemon of inetd avoid rebooting. I use command "ps aus" ,but inetd isnt listed. Why ? How to rerun the daemon after kill it? Thanks! John l.yn

[newbie] How can run program automatic at boot?

Hi: I dont know which file include the information. I have tired many *.conf. I want to run one program at boot. Thanks! John l.yn

[newbie] Other user except root can shutdown server?

Hi: I have added a user named "lyn" as group of root. But the command of "shutdown" cannt be used by "lyn". How to assign the right of root to "lyn". Thanks! John l.yn

Re: [newbie] printer and sound card

Cristiano Baldoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] scritto: hello world I've just installed Mandrake 5.3 on a Pentium II 266 machine, and I'm relatively unexperienced; everything seems to work well, but I can't get printer and sound card work at all; the printer is a HP Laserjet 4L connected to LPT1

Re: [newbie] printer and sound card

The sound card is a common Sound Blaster 16 compatible. I also tried to upgrade to kernel 2.2.5, without results. Someone can tell me how to solve these problems? If you have Windows 95 on your machine, just go to Control Panel / System / Device Manager / Sound, Video, and Game Controllers

Re: [newbie] Other user except root can shutdown server?

If you want user lyn to have temporary root access, simply type su at the command prompt, then enter the root password. -- Meanie

Re: [newbie] modems

At 05:49 06/05/99 -0500, you wrote: Com 1 : Mouse = Com 4 : Modem Com 2 : Mouse = Com 3 : Modem This is because most PC's are only allowed 2 serial ports. Usually, Internal Modems have a Com 4 setting which means you have to set it to cua3, External Modems have Com 3

[newbie] TCP/IP for LAN

Hey all.. thanks a ton for all the help thus far. I don't know much, but I try to help out when I can. My new problem regards my Realtek 8029 (NE2k compatible) PCI LAN card. I was pretty sure I had it set up right upon installation (never had a chance to test it out), but after I _finally_ got

[newbie] Scanner SCSI others

Hi, I've some problems and in order of importance I expose you, if there is somewhere, someone that can help my in something. :-)) I've Mandrake 5.3 with 2.2.5 kernel upgraded. --- scanner --- I have a problem with my scanner an Artec ViewScan A6000C plus SCSI with DTC 3151/3181

RE: [newbie] About command ps.

John l.yn [EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: I want to kill the daemon of inetd avoid rebooting. I use command "ps aus" ,but inetd isnt listed. Why ? How to rerun the daemon after kill it? Try:ps -A Then: kill -9 pid Regards, Richard

RE: [newbie] Isa card problems

Tom A.H. Piel [EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: I'm having some problems with my NE2000 plus isa card which is not detected during installation and my soundcard is not working (also not detected) during install it asked me for autoprobe or specific and both failed (can't detect device anywhere on the

[newbie] RE: SIS6326? Thanks, NOT, for now! WAS: Flaky video modes WAS: [newbie] Video Modes

Vladimir V. Popov [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: I tested all Options recom. from README.SIS but it don't helps me. In Win98/NT my SiS6326 works properly. Need to wait for new X*_SVGA rel. Try running XF86Setup (the XFree86 utility), instead of XConfigurator (the Red Hat utility). It is more

Re: [newbie] SiS Driver

Arnold Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] scritto: yes please. Arnold From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Budhi Setiaji) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] SiS Driver Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 23:38:49 +0700 Would you like to give me an information about SiS 6326 AGP driver.

[newbie] backups

I have installed a mandrake 5.3, updated with kernel 2.2.5 and recompiled succesfully. As I am a linux newbie, I installed on a 1.6Gb WD Caviar hd mounted on a removable frame. I have a identical hd mounted on a second frame. My goal is to copy the installation as is on the second hd, just to

Re: [newbie] Other user except root can shutdown server?

At 04:16 PM 5/6/99 +0800, you wrote: Hi: I have added a user named "lyn" as group of root. But the command of "shutdown" cannt be used by "lyn". How to assign the right of root to "lyn". I accomplished that feat issuing the "chmod u+s /sbin/shutdown" Now my regular user as well as root can

Re: [newbie] Other user except root can shutdown server?

Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 02:03:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Roberto Angelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... "John l.yn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] scritto: Hi: I have added a user named "lyn" as group of root. But the command of "shutdown" cannt be used by "lyn". How to assign the right of root to "lyn". Look at man 8

[newbie] Zip question

I installed an internal zip drive (ATAPI). I can use only a preformated zip. Other zip disks I use give me the message I can't read superblock or I have to specify the file system (depending what i did on the fstab i guess) How do i edit the fstab? do i have to do anything else? Also, the

Re: [newbie] TCP/IP for LAN

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 06:18:21AM -0500, Meanie wrote: Hey all.. thanks a ton for all the help thus far. I don't know much, but I try to help out when I can. My new problem regards my Realtek 8029 (NE2k compatible) PCI LAN card. I was pretty sure I had it set up right upon installation

Re: [newbie] How can run program automatic at boot?

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 03:44:20PM +0800, John l.yn wrote: Hi: I dont know which file include the information. I have tired many *.conf. I want to run one program at boot. /etc/rc.d/rc.local -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] backups

You can mount the second hard drive in your Linux and then perform something like an Hard Disk upgrade. So all the Linux system gona be copied on your second one. Take a look in Hard Disk Upgrade Howto to perform the copy. Hope that help. Take a look at this link.

[newbie] Re:

I set the option for "no_accel". That seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks again!! :) Arnold Hi Arnold, May I suggest you try the following that has been sent to me sometime ago ( courtesy of Mauro Tortonesi). " I used to have a SiS card. Usually SiS cards need the following line in

[newbie] Any web page that teaches how to install Linux?

Is there any web page that teaches how to install Linux (best if it is Linux Mandrake 5.2)? Or is there any very cheap book (i'm almost broke) on that?