[newbie] Re: KDE and 640x480

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Axalon Bloodstone translated thoughts to electrons: On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Jose Alberto Abreu wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Tom translated thoughts to electrons: P.S. KDE in a 640x480 resolution really, really, really sucked. ;) I love my new 17"er. sobs ITS

Re: [newbie] CD-R question

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
- Original Message - From: Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 12:08 PM Subject: [newbie] CD-R question I am looking into buying a CD-R and I would like some recommendations as to what will be a good one that will also work well with

RE: [newbie] Time Issue (Please Help Me)

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Yep.. Here is how I did it and it seems to work: Name the connection. Fill in all the information. On The screen where it has the expect: Send: options leave them blank. You will see why. Save it and connect. That should do it. In the Modem Section of the program it has where you can change

[newbie] Problems with midi

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Hi! I have just configurated my sound card (OPL3 SAx) by sndconfig. All tests (audio and midi) were OK But I can't yet play my midi-s... I have tried kmidi and playmidi -e ... . The result: either silence or random sounds. My current linux -- RH6.0. Can anyone help me ? Alex

[newbie] Time Issue (Please Help Me)

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
I have posted this before and need some help. For some unknown reason Linux insists on resetting the time back to GMT from my EST. I do not know why it does this. I have changed it many times back did a reboot and it was fine. Then a day or so later it switches back to GMT. Is there a file

Re: [newbie] XF86Setup, weird quirks??? L-M 5.3

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Tom translated thoughts to electrons: P.S. KDE in a 640x480 resolution really, really, really sucked. ;) I love my new 17"er. sobs ITS REALLY AWFUL! : ( /sobs I know 640x480 resolution is a bit closer to the cave age now, but if windoze can handle it, i think the KDE

Re: [newbie] Time Issue (Please Help Me)

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Mine does the same thing. On the Linux Mandrake web page, under updates or FAQ, I forget which, one is directed to the redhat errata site for a fix. I haven't tried it yet. Have you successfully configured the kppp dialer yet? I am having lots of trouble there. adios, Steve winston --- "James

Re: [newbie] Need help on 640x480 desktop.

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
how do I setup a virtual resolution? i forgot :) - Original Message - From: William Schweder To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Need help on 640x480 desktop. you cna try and setup a virtual resolution liek

Re: [newbie] Need help on 640x480 desktop.

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config go al the way down to the last section called Screen section then find the server you using and add a line after "ViewPort 0 0" and above " EndSubSection" that says "Virtual 800 600" you cna try it with 1024 768 is you want but i tihnk your card must have

Re: [newbie] STILL won't boot

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Lloyd wrote: OK, I did yet ANOTHER fresh workstation install. (this makes about a dozen installs) Eveything goes along fine until I get to the part about X configuration. I set up my X configuration EXACTLY the way I had it set up

Re: [newbie] Need help on 640x480 desktop.

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
you cna try and setup a virtual resolution liek 800x600 - Original Message - From: Lei Tie To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 11:07 PM Subject: [newbie] Need help on 640x480 desktop. Recently i have installed LM 6.0 on my other PC. Because of

[newbie] Need help on 640x480 desktop.

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Recently i have installed LM 6.0 on my other PC. Because of that 14' monitor, i am only able to display at 640x480. Everything looks fine except the size of the program window, which is way too bigger than the size of the screen. So i am missing part of the window and i am unable to click

Re: [newbie] Post Kernel compile problems - jrt

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
BernardI have a Creative PCI128 (ensonic 1371) and have seen many messages since the release of Venus concerning the fact that sndconfig in Venus will not install this card even though the exact same card worked fine in RedHat 5.2 6.0 as well as Linux Mandrake 5.2 5.3. My PCI128

[newbie] and why is my modem quiet?

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Let's see: I need help with two things. First, I can't hear my modem on dial-up although it --a US Robotics internal fax modem-has always been lustily loud before. How do I make it make noise? This leads to my next question: I can't get kppp to work. It connects but then I am rejected for an

Re: [newbie] LILO auto configuration in 6.0

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
--- John Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That scares me... can you configure LILO so that it will only boot Linux? I have System Commander installed and it doesn't want LILO to boot any other O/S. Ahem, ..I'm an English teacher, not a computer person, so I probably blunder about more

Re: [newbie] LILO auto configuration in 6.0

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
And 6.0 automatically configured lilo so that I can boot to either the Linux harddrive or the win95 hard drive on my Micron pentium. That scares me... can you configure LILO so that it will only boot Linux? I have System Commander installed and it doesn't want LILO to boot any other O/S.

Re: [newbie] Post Kernel compile problems - jrt

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, John Turnbull wrote: 1) The first relates to the sound card (AWE64) Did it work before you recompiled the kernel? (I don't have an AWE64, so I (obviously) won't notice if an update breaks support for it) If it's an ISA PnP card, did you configure it correctly with

Re: [newbie] STILL won't boot

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Lloyd wrote: OK, I did yet ANOTHER fresh workstation install. (this makes about a dozen installs) Eveything goes along fine until I get to the part about X configuration. I set up my X configuration EXACTLY the way I had it set up under Festen (which, btw, ran just

[newbie] LILO auto configuration in 6.0

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
At 03:41 PM 6/18/99 -0700, Steve Winston wrote: And 6.0 automatically configured lilo so that I can boot to either the Linux harddrive or the win95 hard drive on my Micron pentium. That scares me... can you configure LILO so that it will only boot Linux? I have System Commander installed and

Re: [newbie] Venus 6.0 failure to load

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
-Original Message- From: John Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: samedi 19 juin 1999 09:34 Subject: Re: [newbie] Venus 6.0 failure to load John, I have a PR200 Cyrix chipped PC. I have now managed to load Venus 6.0 by downloading boot.img from one of

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.2.9-27mdk (more doubts)

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Roberto Angelo wrote: rpm -q -a | grep kernel to see what kernel parts are installed so download the new rpms with the same name (but number of verswion upgraded) and you have to download the initscripts rpm too so do that rpm -Uvh for all kernel rpms and iniscripts rpm too.

Re: [newbie] Post Kernel compile problems - jrt

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Amazing! As soon I finished writing the below message I checked out the news:alt.os.linux.mandrake newsgroup and found this: +++ I had luck with uninstalling: sndconfig sox rhsound Download the same from redhat, or get from redhat 6 cd. Yes these are .i386 packages. And then

RE: [newbie] and why is my modem quiet?

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Winston Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 8:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] and why is my modem quiet? Let's see: I need help with two things. First, I can't hear my modem on

Re: [newbie] StarOffice won't install on mandrake6.0

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Steve Winston wrote: Has anyone installed StarOffice 5.0 on Mandrake 6.0? Get 5.1 - 5.0 doesn't work with glibc 2.1 based systems like Mandrake 6. When I try to install StarOffice 5.0 on Mandrake 6.0, I get a message that glibc doesn't exist, so I must install glibc

Re: [newbie] StarOffice won't install on mandrake6.0

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Hello Bernhard, many millions of thanks for your reply. I guess I tossed away $50. Well, so much for that. Anyway, Venus is really a winner. I am not a computer tech, so its ease of use is a real help to me. Thanks a million for coming up with something that, on the desktop, makes windoze look

RE: [newbie] STILL won't boot

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, J Mann wrote: What is the link to see which cards are supported? I have a L2XC cheapo AGP card. Video BIOS shows it as a S3 86C360 chipset. Is this now supported? The S3 chipsets are generally supported - I've never seen an AGP S3 card though. Are you using the S3 or the

[newbie] D960PG

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Bernhard I downloaded all files in /private. What shall I do now to install this rpm ? can I just copy them to a distributive disk? It's the only way I can install them because I can't boot. Am I right? Is there any other way to install them? I will be very grateful to you

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.2.9-27mdk (more doubts)

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Rodrigo F Oliveira wrote: thank you for your answer. I have tried the command line you told me "rpm -q -a | grep kernel", and got the following output: kernel-2.2.9-19mdk kernel-headers-2.2.9-19mdk kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.9-19mdk

Re: [newbie] Post Kernel compile problems - jrt

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Bernardthough I don't look forward to it, sure, I'll give it a try. I'll get back with you after I do. grin Also, a couple of things you should know are: Sndconfig doesn't detect the card even after the file replacements. You must specify the card though it never later asks for IRQ or I/O

[newbie] A problem with Kpakager

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Hi, I tried to install licq from a RPM package using Kpackager, I just open it and then click on the "install" button, then it seems to be unpacking some stuff but when it finishes It doesn't seems to have being done anything!!! Where does the files went?? How should I know where to look for

Re: [newbie] Post Kernel compile problems - jrt

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Bernardok, I tried. Here's what happened. 1. Uninstalled RH sndconfig-0.33-1 and installed MDK sndconfig-0.33-2mdk. 2. Ran sndconfig - it worked. 3. Uninstalled RH sox-2.15-5 and installed MDK sox-2.15-6mdk. 4. Ran sndconfig - it bombed. 5. Uninstalled MDK sox-2.15-6mdk and installed

[newbie] kppp hangs up immediately after connection

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Hi- Maybe one of you who are more experienced with linux can help me. I'm having trouble making a connection with kppp--Immediately after making a connection, my modem hangs up. I get to the point where kppp tells me it is logging on, and -boom- hang up. However, I *am* able to make a connection

Re: [newbie] monitor setting problem. Helphelphelp

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Steve translated thoughts to electrons: On the Mandrake 6.0 gui, the desktop ripples. Waves seem to be moving from the upper righthand corner to the lower left hand corner. I don't see the same thing on this monitor screen when I switch over to Win95. Have I set

[newbie] Spanish keyboard in Festen

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Greetings fellow linuxers!: I want to get my keyboard to write in Spanish, but I cant seem to find how... In Mandrake 5.3 in KDE, i went to "settings", then "input devices", then "international keyboard" and installed the "spanish" one and set that up as the default. But it doesnt work yet, I

RE: [newbie] A problem with Kpakager (licq)

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Where is that "select individual packages" thing on the installation?? What options do I need to select so I can choose what packages I want?? Thanks. Cesar O.