On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Sean McMains wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm just starting with Linux and really like what I'm seeing so far. A few
> questions, though:
>
> 1. I got the sound working ok, but it's really tinny, and the bass slider in
> the mixer doesn't seem to make much difference. Does this
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, David M. Kufta wrote:
> Hello List,
> I am new to linux-mandrake and after a clean install when I tried to use
> my lynx browser from the console I get the message "Can't open temporary
> file! I have been using various Linux Distro's since 1992 and never had
> this happe
Hello All:
Operating system seemed to intall fine but I cannot use my sound card
(Crystal Chips) or my modem. I get a device busy message. I disabled
plug-n-play from the bios before installing.
ANY SUGGESTIONS...SNDCONGFIG DOES NOT CURE THE PROBLEM.
--bILL
>
> My personal recommendation for the swap file size is about
> 300 MB - Amount of physical memory installed
>
> Most people won't ever need more than 300 MB virtual memory, and if you
> do, you can still create temporary swap files.
>
just curious...couldn't the swap file be a lot smaller si
Hi Folks,
I'm just starting with Linux and really like what I'm seeing so far. A few
questions, though:
1. I got the sound working ok, but it's really tinny, and the bass slider in
the mixer doesn't seem to make much difference. Does this just mean I've got
a cheesy sound card, or is it possible
Hello List,
I am new to linux-mandrake and after a clean install when I tried to use
my lynx browser from the console I get the message "Can't open temporary
file! I have been using various Linux Distro's since 1992 and never had
this happen with lynx before. I would appreciate any insight that
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 18:53:44 -0600 (MDT)
From: Axalon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
^^^Sorry, got s stupid blister..
Subject: Steve the mailer half works.
Came thru, can't reply to localhost.localdomain though, and your isp has a
mx coveri
Axalon wrote:
>
> Am I the only one that just got a large chunk of mail from July 7th?
I've had a few older ones dribbling in, but no large chunk.
--
-Paul-
Possibly...but what's the use in running Linux if you're just going to run
it in Single-User modeI don't even think you'll be allowed VTs 2+!
John
- Original Message -
From: Jo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] co
I need assistance in setting up a teles isdn adapter on my
machine.
I have LM 6.0 on 2 machines. I have Courier I-modem on one and
it works with no help from me, but I really want to use the Teles. I have
no idea where to start to set it up...it is installed and works with Windoze.
Thanks
Hello,
I got this link from the helpful people on this mailing list:
http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/
it has what you want.
Fret
> RB wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Do someone know how I can use my banshee under Xwindows ?
> I was looking for drivers but I can't find it !!
> Thank you.
>
Hello,Do someone know how I can use my banshee under Xwindows ?I
was looking for drivers but I can't find it !!Thank
you.
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Joseph Gardner wrote:
> I suppose I was unclear regarding my posting earlier.
>
> I am the only person I know who has ventured into linux and therefor have no way to
>compare graphics adapters / monitors. I have the STB Lightspeed 128 adapter
>installed and it gives wha
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, David Peerless wrote:
> I spoke to soon...After upgrading the dev and pam packages and
> unfortunately e-mailing the list again, I checked the group definitions one more
> time to be sure, and lo and behold there was the 'audio' group. I entered in
> the members and voila,
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Jo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Wouldn't it be possible to change that 3 to a 2 or a 1? Then, he wouldn't need
> to give a password... Or am I totally missing something?
>
> Jo
The difference between 3 and 2, 3 has nfs 2 does not. Yes you could set
the default runlevel to 1 this how
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Sean Brzozowski wrote:
> Thanks Jo and Axalon,
>
> Unfortunately I still have no luck. If I setup everything like Axalon
> suggested, ping returns "network is not reachable". I can ping myself, but
> not anything else. If I setup "dhcp" bringing up eth0 during boot look
You might consider a Graphics Blaster TNT or a GB TNT2 from Creative Labs.
NVidia, the chipset Manufacturer, now has an accelerated X-server you can
download for free for those cards. :-)
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From: Joseph Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux-newbie (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTEC
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Jackal wrote:
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> i have amd k6/2 450 Mhz no problem so far...humming along just fine
>
> On 16-Jul-99 J Mann wrote:
> >
> >
> > --
> >> From: Chun-wah Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Civileme wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Get to kmail and click on file. Choose settings. The fourth tab from the left
> is "Composer" It has a bullet-circle select near the bottom that says "send
> now/send later"... Assure that that says send now. Then, on the Misc tab,
> you m
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, hevnsnt wrote:
> Sorry I have been asking so many q's lately, but I finally took windows
> off my puter. hehe..
>
> Ok here is the deal, I am a dial up user, and no matter what I set my
> hostname to (well for all I know) when I boot up the http demeon fails
> because of h
Am I the only one that just got a large chunk of mail from July 7th?
Manny Styles wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: J Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 12:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] icq
>
> >
> > Yants wrote:
> > >
> > > Is it possible to run ICQ on Linux using WINE? If so, how..?
> >
> > There are
I have no personal experience with this but I have heard and read that the ati rage
128 works great <+-$180>
Joseph Gardner wrote:
> I suppose I was unclear regarding my posting earlier.
>
> I am the only person I know who has ventured into linux and therefor have no way to
>compare graphics a
Hi,
Wouldn't it be possible to change that 3 to a 2 or a 1? Then, he wouldn't need
to give a password... Or am I totally missing something?
Jo
Ken Wilson wrote:
> Are you talking about the logon screen with that cute ASCII graphic of Tux?
> If so, no, this would be the minimum screen. One of
- Original Message -
From: J Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 12:35 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] icq
>
> Yants wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to run ICQ on Linux using WINE? If so, how..?
>
> There are plenty of ICQ clients for Linux. Surf on ove
Hi Joseph.
If you intend to play some of the more recent games,
such as quake 2 for linux, quake 3, etc, then you
should seriously consider the 3dfx based video (which
are in the $100-200 range.
Bill
-Original Message-
From: Joseph Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July
Ok, I'm getting pretty good at this, but I found something I can't seem to
find written down - How do I mount an old (at least 3 years) floppy driven
QIC-80 tape drive so that I can use it under Kdat? Or is there some other
program that I will have to use to back up to it?
I would think I'd need
I suppose I was unclear regarding my posting earlier.
I am the only person I know who has ventured into linux and therefor have no way to
compare graphics adapters / monitors. I have the STB Lightspeed 128 adapter installed
and it gives what I would consider reasonable performance for the time
Matthew A Stegman wrote:
> If you do 'ps aux' you should get a list of most every process- you can
> then 'kill ' to kill any process belonging to you (or any at all, if
> you're root).
>
> In X, you might try Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc. That may kill the X server, depending
> on how locked up it is.
>
> -M
If you are interested in playing some of the newer games,
I would recommend one of the 3DFX chip set based cards.
Bill
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 12:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Joseph Gardner
Subject: [newbie] Re:
On
CAUGHT!!!
I use Kedit on /etc/fstab, and I haven't lost a filesystem in a very
long time.
But I would NEVER advise anyone else to do that.
Civileme
Thanks, Doug
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> I am in the process of setting up my first linux box and have the opportunity to
>select a new graphics adapter.
I have an STB Lightspeed 128 available which appears to
give reasonable output with the SVGA server however I am
unsure about the differences betwee
Well, the best list of which server works with what has to be at www.xfree86.org. You
might want to talk to some of their contributors and make specific improvenments to
the driver, if you are so inclined.
Michael Moore
Joseph Gardner wrote:
> I am in the process of setting up my first linux
I spoke to soon...After upgrading the dev and pam packages and
unfortunately e-mailing the list again, I checked the group definitions one more
time to be sure, and lo and behold there was the 'audio' group. I entered in
the members and voila, it worked!
thanks to axalon for the help.
djp
>> Sorry to respond to my own post, but I did some further research
>> concerning the system sounds...It seems that the first user to log-in
>> gets sound, but any user thereafter that logs-in doesn't get sound.
>>
>> Solution: don't log in at the console more then once, or find my prior
>> post
hevnsnt wrote:
> Basically I would like http://www.vmware.com/support/vmodules.html
> #Fixing /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm
>
> explained to me in lamans terms. =) I understand what they are saying,
$ su
Password:
# cd /usr/include
# rm linux
# rm asm
# ln -s linux /usr/src/linux/in
Go to a command line shell.
Type "linuxconf".
Scroll down until you see "Boot Mode". You can choose text or
graphical.
Bert Bullough wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> By default when I start Mandrake 6.0 it goes straight to the cute little
> logon manager. Is there a way to change this so that it will go
I am in the process of setting up my first linux box and have the opportunity to
select a new graphics adapter. I have an STB Lightspeed 128 available which appears
to give reasonable output with the SVGA server however I am unsure about the
differences between the various servers. Could some
Ok, I have another one..
Basically I would like http://www.vmware.com/support/vmodules.html
#Fixing /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm
explained to me in lamans terms. =) I understand what they are saying,
but I dont know how to do it. Please help, and maybe I will leave you all
alone fo
Jose Alberto Abreu wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] translated thoughts to electrons:
> > when i type in startx :) my monitor goes blank just after the screen scrolls
> > with some stuff. then nothing. ay! el diablo tene mi computadora!
I don't fully understand it but it seems
from
[arglebargle@localhost]# Xconfigurator
It will allow you to setup the color depth again. You will need to answer the
same questions about your video card and monitor that you did at install time.
It is likely that you will have to be root or superuser to do this since it
writes a privileged
Does anyone know what the options are to get an Adaptec aha1542 card running
with Mandrake please (i'm running with all the default options - i/o 330,
IRO 11, DMA 5) ?
I know the options line is 'aha152x=0x330,11,7,1' (for instance) for an
AHA1520, but i can't seem to get the 1542 working using t
Are you talking about the logon screen with that cute ASCII graphic of Tux?
If so, no, this would be the minimum screen. One of the security features
of Linux is you 'must' log on and be authenticated.
If you are talking about coming up with an X logon screen just edit the
'inittab' file line th
Sure.
Login as root, and edit /etc/inittab. About
17 lines down, is a line:
id:5:initdefault
Change the 5 to a 3, and you will now boot
to the init level 3, which is the command prompt.
Take care.
Bill
-Original Message-
From: Bert Bullough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July
Hello.
By default when I start Mandrake 6.0 it goes straight to the cute little
logon manager. Is there a way to change this so that it will go straight
to a command prompt?
Type setup in prompt
Suryo Mataram.
>how does one change the x window system? i was told that i should change my
>res and color depth to help with the screen turning black. how do i go
about
>doing this in the command promt. i am trying hard to find a site that can
>anwser my questions so i won
My presets work ok in my alpha release.. (dont have the version)
but the volume is all messed up. But it is easy to fix, but next time you
start it, it is messed up again.
-Bill
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote:
> No problem the G2 Player seems to work right off the bat. I am glad
>
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