Re: [newbie] blank screen on X

1999-07-25 Thread Patrick Putteman
What hardware are you using: Graphic adaptor? Monitor? Please give us some more info Patrick On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, you wrote: > >%_hi guys, > I cant get my X running after I installed linux. I run Xconfigurator, and when it >came to the part of testing of the conguration all I get is a blank (

Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live

1999-07-25 Thread Patrick Putteman
Did you download and install the SBlive drivers from the Creative development site? If so, did you unload any existing sound drivers from the kernel, including soundcore? Please give us some more info. Patrick On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, you wrote: > >%_I recently installed a Soundblaster Live on my

[newbie] blank screen on X

1999-07-25 Thread Joe
hi guys, I cant get my X running after I installed linux. I run Xconfigurator, and when it came to the part of testing of the conguration all I get is a blank (black) screen with the mouse pointer. I can move it around though, then a message popped out saying that there was something wrong w

Re: [newbie] sound card

1999-07-25 Thread Ty Mixon
What I had to do to find out about some of my hardware was open the box and look. Read the writing on those chips, and see if you can find websites about it. Or (and HP isn't real good for this) if it's the sound card that came with your computer, call the company and ask them what brand it

[newbie] Need another Lib

1999-07-25 Thread Ty Mixon
I'm trying to install Gnucash, but it says I need libX.so.1. I did a search on my hard drive for *libX* and it didn't turn up this file. Any idea what packager, or where I can get it to install it? Thank you, -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713

Re: [newbie] sound card

1999-07-25 Thread Joe Patton
Trevor, Try the web site www.opensound.com. You can download the OSS sound system there. OSS supports a larger number of Sound Cards, and hopefully your card will be one of them. I was able to get sound working in X-Windows once I installed OSS. I have a Sound Blaster PCI 128 in my machine.

[newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live

1999-07-25 Thread chagilt
I recently installed a Soundblaster Live on my system and went to configure it with Redhat 6.0...but everytime I do so I receive the message "device is busy"any ideas?   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Got the Modem to work

1999-07-25 Thread Joe Patton
Someone replied to one of my posts and suggested that I disable the plug-and-play feature on my modem and use the onboard jumpers to configure the COM port and IRQ. Thanks, that worked for me. I have an Abit BH6 motherboard with Award BIOS, and I disabled COM2 in the 'Integrated Peripherals' sec

[newbie] sound card

1999-07-25 Thread Trevor Wilson
How do I configure my sound card? Sndconfig cannot find it. Also I don't even know anything about the card itself; how can I get more information?

Re: [newbie] mounting a floppy??

1999-07-25 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On 25-Jul-99 Andy Goth wrote: >> > > It's a DOS floppy, so: >> > > >> > > mount -t fat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy >> > > >> > > That should do it. >> > >> > I thought that was -t msdos. >> >> it could be msdos, or fat, or vfat. >> >> vfat would be best, as it supports long file names. >> >> none of

Re: [newbie] pppd error

1999-07-25 Thread Alan Angus
Hi James I had the same problem and it stopped when I changed the connection speed setting to 115200 (I think), dont ask me why. I can now get the modem to dial and make a connection with my ISP but Netscape refuses to resolve any addresses--- so I still have to use Windows for my internet connect

[newbie] pppd error

1999-07-25 Thread James Stewart
Hi, I've set up kppp to connect to my ISP and it dials and begins the login quite happily. Before it completes the connection, however, I get the error "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly" and have to quit. Can anyone help me resolve this and suggest a pppd configuration to use as a sample? I'm

Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah

1999-07-25 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On 25-Jul-99 Andy Goth wrote: >> > FIPS, eh? Yeah, I read that it could resize partitions as well. Does >> > anyone have any success stories? Any reports of failures? >> >> Fips basically performs one function: It takes a DOS partition, and splits >> it >> into two smaller partitions. It ca

RE: [newbie] How to compile?

1999-07-25 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On 25-Jul-99 Trevor Wilson wrote: > How can I compile programs I write in C or C++? The command for the C compiler is gcc and the command for the C++ compiler is g++. A simple program with one source code file can usually be compiled with just 'gcc ' (or 'g++ ') which will produce a binary call

Re: [newbie] Still Having Trouble Configuring my internal PNP Modem

1999-07-25 Thread Jason Cotterell
I have worfked with mine a lot and i still can't get it to work. i don't get any i\o conflicts, kppp just says that the modem fails to respond. all my serial ports are set to auto. 03f8, 03e8 02e8 and 02f8, and minicom works (but how do you exit that program)> I really need some further help

Re: [newbie] Colors in VIM

1999-07-25 Thread Axalon
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Hello guys > > OK, it seems that the solution is to put a "syntax on" in my .vimrc file. > But when I do that, I get the following message: > > Error detected while processing /home/dod/.vimrc: > line5: > Sorry, this command is not imple

Re: [newbie] Theme problems

1999-07-25 Thread drek
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, you wrote: > > I installed a theme and now my background changes between the theme > > background and another background at seemingly random times. Why?!? > settings->desktop->background. In the lower part is a "random" checkbox. Uncheck it, apply, OK. Try the parrots ba

Re: [newbie] Colors in VIM

1999-07-25 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hello guys OK, it seems that the solution is to put a "syntax on" in my .vimrc file. But when I do that, I get the following message: Error detected while processing /home/dod/.vimrc: line5: Sorry, this command is not implemented: syntax on Press RETURN or enter command to continue I've

Re: [newbie] How to set up simple home network?

1999-07-25 Thread Suryo Mataram
You need to use SAMBA. try http://www.samba.org for more info. Suryo Mataram. >Hi > >I would especially like to share files with both machines and share the use >of the internal Zip Drive on the Linux machine. Is this hard to do? I have a >generic Digital chip network card in the Linux machine.

Re: [newbie] dos emulation??

1999-07-25 Thread Suryo Mataram
It is, I've never tried it (I only tried WINE). But its called dosemu. Try run 'man dosemu' in xterm or 'dosemu --help'.   Suryo Mataram. -Original Message-From: Joe Brault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Saturday, July 24, 19