[newbie] Problem...

1999-07-18 Thread Morpheus The Sinful Weeper
I have a problem, I have a SiS620 AGP card and i cant seem to configure x-windows ..I also have a daewoo monitor , it isnt listed.. neither is the card, maybe this is the problem ? Btw..the only two connections i could set up were mini-com, (which sucks because i dont understand ) and

[newbie] SuSe vs mandrake

1999-07-18 Thread Morpheus The Sinful Weeper
So ...check out what I found - does this mean only SuSe supports my 620 motherboard ? XFCom_SiS (formerly XSuSE_SiS) Version 3.0 as of March 17, 1999 Thanks to Xavier Ducoin we can now offer a server for the current SiS530 and SiS620 based motherboards. While this server was tested and

Re: [newbie] Modem?

1999-07-18 Thread Ramon Gandia
Trevor Wilson wrote: should a Rockwell HCF 56K Speakerphone PCI Modem work with linux? It isn't. It will not work. Its a WinModem. Also be aware, that as of this writing, ALL PCI modems are WinModems. I suggest an external modem. -- Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin

Re: [newbie] Problem...

1999-07-18 Thread pup
Morpheus The Sinful Weeper wrote: I have a problem, I have a SiS620 AGP card and i cant seem to configure x-windows ..I also have a daewoo monitor , it isnt listed.. neither is the card, maybe this is the problem ? Btw..the only two connections i could set up were mini-com, (which sucks

Re: [newbie] SuSe vs mandrake

1999-07-18 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Morpheus The Sinful Weeper wrote: So ...check out what I found - does this mean only SuSe supports my 620 motherboard ? No. This is about SVGA cards, not motherboards. If you were referring to your SVGA card, it means the card is not directly supported by XFree86, but you

Re: [newbie] Man ? BEWARE virus maybe attached to post by pup

1999-07-18 Thread Stephan Rex
Hi I am also a newbie The post sent by pup has a file attachment called "happy99.exe" it may be a virus. So beware!! If it turns out not to be a virus I apologise. regards Steve - Original Message - From: pup [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 6:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie]

RE: [newbie] Man ? BEWARE virus maybe attached to post by pup

1999-07-18 Thread James J. Capone
Forward the file to Me. I can scan it. Also if it is a Virus I think actions need to be taken... In most cases Happy99.exe is a virus and can really harm your computer. It will send the virus to all the people in your Email Address book. So do not open it. It will then attach to your friends

Re: [newbie] Man ? BEWARE virus maybe attached to post by pup

1999-07-18 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 8:09 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Man ? BEWARE virus maybe attached to post by pup The best solution is, of course, not to use stupid Windoze mailers - why would anyone

Re[2]: [newbie] sendmail question

1999-07-18 Thread bob115
Axalon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a problem with sendmail that hopefully someone has an answer to. I have it working but my machine user name is bob and my email is bob115. I have managed to get masquerading to make my machine use my

Re: [newbie] Filesystem gets badly corrupted !

1999-07-18 Thread Richard Myers
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Khalid wrote: Hi To all I have just installed Mandrake 6.0 on an IBM Thinkpad 1400. KDE freeze too often, I always need to reboot, but at boot time Linux tells me that the file system is corrupted and that I need to run a fsck. 2.2.9? Not sure if this is related,

Re: [newbie] Filesystem gets badly corrupted !

1999-07-18 Thread Khalid
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Khalid wrote: KDE freeze too often, I always need to reboot, but at boot time Linux tells me that the file system is corrupted and that I need to run a fsck. Did you update your kernel and initscripts packages? If not, do so ASAP.

Re: [newbie] Filesystem gets badly corrupted !

1999-07-18 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Khalid wrote: What do you mean buy that ? I have done a new installation ! (Mandrake 6.0). In fact I have installed Mandrake at least three times from scratch, and got it corrupted each time ! There are some known bugs in the 6.0 version that can cause fs corruption on

Re: [newbie] Filesystem gets badly corrupted !

1999-07-18 Thread Suryo Mataram
Did you update your kernel and initscripts packages? If not, do so ASAP. What do you mean buy that ? I have done a new installation ! (Mandrake 6.0). In fact I have installed Mandrake at least three times from scratch, and got it corrupted each time ! Check for Updates in

Re: [newbie] Filesystem gets badly corrupted !

1999-07-18 Thread Steve Winston
I had a similar experience with Mandrake 6.0. The root partition or whatever you call it just crashed all to pieces. I read that you must use fsck on /root with a boot disk or rescue disk. I used the rescue disk that I made when I installed Mankdrake 6.0. I followed instructions on the screen and

Re: [Re: [newbie] Modem?]

1999-07-18 Thread Ramon Gandia
Michael Scottaline wrote: Ramon Gandia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trevor Wilson wrote: should a Rockwell HCF 56K Speakerphone PCI Modem work with linux? It isn't. It will not work. Its a WinModem. Also be aware, that as of this writing, ALL PCI modems are WinModems. I suggest an

No Subject

1999-07-18 Thread Baris Hasdemir
hello all, I am very new in linux world. I tried to update netscape 4.60 to stable 4.61 but because of some connection speed problems with my linux i downloaded the files in winnt. when I reboot from linux I saw that NT has garbled the file names which were very long (netscape-common.mdk1.etc).

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] sendmail question

1999-07-18 Thread Robert Sheskin
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Axalon wrote: Contact the maintaner of Ishmail, it's obviously doing something very strange if sendmail can't rewrite it's headers.. I just went to their site and found it is discontinued support. There is also a statement of non 2k compliance. I downloaded the source

Re: [newbie] PPP setup

1999-07-18 Thread Civileme
In a word, authentication. Try shifting from chat script (where you expect queries and supply login and password) to PAP . Many ISPs do use PAP, including Prodigy.net and uswest.net, and some, like Pacific Telecom can't handle it at all. Try all authentication protocols available from your

Re: [newbie] Forcing 100dpi fonts in X...?

1999-07-18 Thread drek
I just did this. I'm assmuming you're using mdk6 from a cheapbytes.com CD. First, back up the configuration file /etc/X11/XF86Config. Something like this: cp /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config.original My install left me hanging with only the 75dpi fonts, install the 100dpi fonts. Make

[newbie] installation trouble!!!

1999-07-18 Thread Nighthawk Night
I recently purchases "The Complete LINUX operating system 6.0" and have begun to install it. However, after following the instructions to the letter, I have come to the actual installation, and am unable to finish. I can load my computer off the 3.5 boot disk that came with the OS, and I can

Re: [newbie] install problems 13.0gig

1999-07-18 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
Kernels have to be in the first 8.4 GB of a harddisk. (This is not a Linux bug, but a BIOS problem. Stuff like EZDrive won't help you either). [...] so why doesn't someone come up with a BIOS fix for this? (although you SHOULD be able to squeeze the kernel in the first 8.4G SOMEWHERE :-)) Or is

Re: [newbie] command prompt

1999-07-18 Thread John Aldrich
The same sort of stuff that happens when you surf the 'Net as "root." You expose your system to lots of "exploits" that are normally not a serious problem for a "non-privileged" user (someone OTHER than "root.") Personally, I've never had anything bad happen to my Linux system (at work) since I

Re: [newbie]: Audio and Video Under X

1999-07-18 Thread Sean McMains
Thanks to all for the suggestions! Here's the state of affairs: I'm not an expert but I would suggest that you also make sure the settings for your monitor are correct. It would not matter what your video card can deal with if you're driving your monitor at the wrong refresh rates and may

Re: [newbie] Mandrake reference guides

1999-07-18 Thread Rick Murphy
"A.D.Hicks" wrote: Can anyone recommend a good newbie/intermediate reference manual (similar to SAMS guides, etc.), to use while working with Mandrake 6.0? I first considered just buying a Red Hat 6.0 reference book, but I've been holding on to my wallet in hopes that I'd find a "Mandrake

Re: [newbie] installation trouble!!!

1999-07-18 Thread Civileme
Are you running win95 or 98 on the target machine? If so, it is possible to make a windows boot disk with the CD driver activated in dos. Then you can use autoboot.bat. Iwill explain it if that is the case. Are you running a 486? If so, you may never get it to work, since many of the files are

Re: [newbie] Mandrake reference guides

1999-07-18 Thread Rick Murphy
Rick Murphy wrote: Dang spell checker Rick

Re: [newbie]: Audio and Video Under X

1999-07-18 Thread Civileme
OK Optiples S3 --USEthe SVGA Driver, NOTthe S3. The S3 driver is superannuated and the SVGA driver now includes facilities for S3 You switch to the SVGAserver by loading it using rpm of Kpackage (or a clean install) and setting it as your default server in /etc/X11/XF86Config, usually by running

Re: [newbie] Man ? BEWARE virus maybe attached to post by pup

1999-07-18 Thread Stephan Rex
Hi James, After reading the rest of the posts yesterday, it turns out to be a virus. I did not open it, I just deleted the e-mail, so sorry I can't forward it to you. regards Stephan Rex - Original Message - From: James J. Capone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July

Re: [newbie] PPP setup

1999-07-18 Thread Ramon Gandia
Greg Baugues wrote: I called up my ISP and they said that they do run a PAP authentification... which is what I currently have KPPP set to, but still i don't get a connection. It still just sits there and hangs when it logs on. Is there anything else going on that could cause KPPP not to

RE: [newbie] Mandrake reference guides

1999-07-18 Thread Ken Wilson
It might be tough finding one that is Mandrake specific. RedHat appears to be the most popular flavour de jour so that's the one the publishers target. Something to do with economics I think. All that aside, one book I find extremely helpful and generic enough is 'Running Linux' from O'Reilly

[newbie] UP SMP

1999-07-18 Thread Bert Bullough
Can someone tell me what UP and SMP are referring to? I just downloaded the OSS drivers for kernel 2.2 and these where the 2 options for that kernel version.

[newbie] Linux Configuration Tool

1999-07-18 Thread Charles Hixson
What's the name of the Linux configuration tool? I got into it once, but now I can't remember what it was called. I know that it's something like linuxConfig or configlinux or l-configure or...? I could do what I'm trying to do now by just editing the lilo configuration, but I also want to

Re: [newbie] UP SMP

1999-07-18 Thread Hidong Kim
Bert Bullough wrote: Can someone tell me what UP and SMP are referring to? I just downloaded the OSS drivers for kernel 2.2 and these where the 2 options for that kernel version. Hi, Bert, UP is unitary processor for machines with only one cpu. SMP is symmetric multi processor for

Re: [newbie] Linux Configuration Tool

1999-07-18 Thread Robert Sheskin
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Charles Hixson wrote: What's the name of the Linux configuration tool? I got into it once, but now I can't remember what it was called. I know that it's something like linuxConfig or configlinux or l-configure or...? I could do what I'm trying to do now by just editing

Re: [newbie] Linux Configuration Tool

1999-07-18 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
- Original Message - From: Charles Hixson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 8:43 PM Subject: [newbie] Linux Configuration Tool What's the name of the Linux configuration tool? I got into it once, but now I can't remember what it was

Re: [newbie] Linux Configuration Tool

1999-07-18 Thread pup
Charles Hixson wrote: What's the name of the Linux configuration tool? I got into it once, but now I can't remember what it was called. I know that it's something like linuxConfig or configlinux or l-configure or...?I could do what I'm trying to do now by just editing the lilo

Re: [newbie] lost info in bash prompt

1999-07-18 Thread Richard Myers
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, pauljw wrote: I did some fiddling and had to put my home (user, not root) directory back in place from a backup. Happily, everything worked save for the bash prompt. It looks like: bash-2.03$. It used to show the user name and the current directory. How

Re: [newbie] Linux Configuration Tool

1999-07-18 Thread Charles Hixson
LinuxConf? Hmmm... That's one that I *did* find, but it just ..mmm.. hung the system. I suppose that's not literally true, but wo another terminal it might as well be. I couldn't figure out how to abort it. All it seemed to do was to echo the characters that I typed in. (Well, it did

Re: [newbie] Man ?

1999-07-18 Thread John Mandeville
- Original Message - From: pup [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 17, 1999 4:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Man ? Do you realize that you are spreading a virus?i know it was supposed to do it without the owners knowledge... If you did look at it ... then follow the

Re: [newbie] Man ?

1999-07-18 Thread pup
John Mandeville wrote: - Original Message - From: pup [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 17, 1999 4:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Man ? Do you realize that you are spreading a virus?i know it was supposed to do it without the owners knowledge... If you did look at

Re: [newbie] UP SMP

1999-07-18 Thread John Aldrich
SMP is Symmetric Multi-Processing -- allows you to use multiple processor machines. John - Original Message - From: Bert Bullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 8:36 PM Subject: [newbie] UP SMP Can someone tell me what UP and SMP

Re: [newbie] Linux Configuration Tool

1999-07-18 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Charles Hixson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 9:56 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Configuration Tool LinuxConf? Hmmm... That's one that I *did* find, but it just ..mmm.. hung the system. I suppose that's not literally true, but wo

[newbie] a good modem

1999-07-18 Thread InafewmiN
who here knows of a good modem for linux. thanks, jerrud (ps- my dsl line wont be coming for 6 weeks thats why i need a modem. grrr analog :(

Re: [newbie] a good modem

1999-07-18 Thread Steve Winston
ye basic US Robotics 56k fax modem works fine for me, pnp and all. Make sure NOT to get a winmodem, choke, gag --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: who here knows of a good modem for linux. thanks, jerrud (ps- my dsl line wont be coming for 6 weeks thats why i need a modem. grrr analog :(

Re: [newbie] Forcing 100dpi fonts in X...?

1999-07-18 Thread Axalon
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, drek wrote: I just did this. I'm assmuming you're using mdk6 from a cheapbytes.com CD. First, back up the configuration file /etc/X11/XF86Config. Something like this: cp /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config.original My install left me hanging with only the

Re: [newbie] Problem...FreeBSD?

1999-07-18 Thread Richard Myers
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Mark E Hood wrote: I've kinda been fooling with FreeBSD, too. In what ways is it different than linux? Is it better? worse? Check out: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/07/02/0537230mode=thread (Slashdot synopsis)