RReed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Press your.. ahem.. non-start key.. the geared K one at lower left go to KDE
control centerapplications...login
manager..sessions..then
i believe you want to choose console only
R Reed
Yeah. But on the upside, there's supposed to be a 3.5 version of the XFree86
coming out soon. Hopefully that will address the lacking of support for the
Diamond A50 card.
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On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Rick Fry wrote:
That's the same thing I get when I try to modify
Basically it goes through all the various video settings in XF86Config and
says it can't use any of them and drops back to the command prompt with the
"Cannot connect with the X server" error. I get the same damned thing. With
two versions of Windows running at 1280x1024 with 24 bit color, I
Mandrake took Red Hat's source code and modified it. The differences can
only be really determined by what hardware you have to run it on.
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Can someone tell me what is the difference between Mandrake Linux and
Red Hat Linux ?
Advantages and/or disadvantages?
What does it take to write a video card driver that some hotshot unix guru
programmer can't come up with? If they can talk the talk, how about trying
to walk the walk? I keep hearing about what geniuses inhabit the Unix crowd,
how about putting up or shutting up?
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I feel the same way thats a heck of a chunk of change you would be
spending... A book is the easiest way to learn because if you need to touch
up it's right there waiting. One of the best books I have seen for Linux
Unix Windows etc.. Are the for dummies books. Linux for dummies runs about
20$
Tom's root boot disk is good,that is what I use. It has saved
my neck a few times.
*
Original message from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] newbie@linux-
mandrake.com
On 17 Aug, Andy Goth wrote:
What kind of errors are you getting?
I got a bunch of I-node table
I have Winblows98, Linux and Beos 4.5 on my computer and
out of the three, I would say that BeOS is the best, but then
again, there aren't near as many apps for BeOS as there are
for Linux. So, I am using Linux. Of all the Linux Distributions I
have tried, Linux-Mandrake is the best for
I did some work on a Sun SparcStation 20 and I must say that
using Solaris is like pulling teeth compared to using Linux.
Although, I did like that 21" monitor and some of the utilties
that came with OpenWindows.
*
Original message from: "Jeanette Russo"
I usually setup my partitions like this for a workstation/smb
server install. I have two 4 GB HDDs.
swap - 128MB
/ - 300MB
/usr - 3GB (depending on the size of your HDD)
/home - 4GB the rest usually around
You might want to have more mount points if you are using
the server for web serving
I guess for some people that *really* need to learn the basics of Linux quick
this might be a good idea, but for me I just got all the material off of the
Internet I could read and learned all the goods about Linux through that. All I
spent was the time to learn all the material. That only
Since you are using 10/100 NICs, why not use a 100baseT Hub? You can find
them pretty cheap off of the internet and would probably give you the speed
boost you want. Like it was said below, 10Mb/s is only 1.25 MB/s, not 10
MB/s. So on a 10baseT network you are running at a MAX of 10
usually if i want to do a CD-less install I just download Serv-U (an FTP server)
and add an anonymous user with the correct permissions mapped out to a
directory on the FTP computer and just poing the Linux install program to the
Serv-U computer's IP address and it works like a champ.
Exactly that is why you can't be infected by a Winblows virus on a Mac
platform and vice versa. It also is the same reason you can't run Winbloze
apps in Linux without an emulator. BTW, haven't seen too many viruses for
Linux lately and how many are there for Winblows, umm ... around 50,000?
Hi,
Yesterday someone posted a URL for a company that was selling Linux
"Personal Internet Appliances."
If you read this could you please either post it again or email me the URL?
Thanks and God Bless,
John
Device specs would be nice. But Diamond doesn't release THEM either.
Without documentation writing drivers is a tediously painful process of
guesswork. Yes, geniuses inhabit the *nix crowd, but they're only
geniuses, not psychics or gods.
- Theo
Rick Fry wrote:
What does it take
I can get a free copy of StarOffice 4.0 on a cd from our library. The book
it comes with suggests it needs linux library version libc 5.4.22 or higher
to 6.x, but EARLIER VERSIONS MUST BE AVAILABLE to StarOffice.
I have installed Venus 6.0. So is the library version I have "backwards
compatible"
hi,
I just installed Mandrake 6.0. It appears to come with both sendmail and
postfix installed. postfix looks easy enough to configure, and I have no
intention of trying to figure out sendmail.
Is there a way to have postfix up and running and sendmail not? Even
though postfix is installed and
What's the sence to set up different mount points for / , /usr , /home ,
/anything_else if all of them are located on a single harddrive. I can
understand this steps for /boot 'cause it must be located in first 1023
cyls, but what about / , /usr do you really need the separate diskspaces?
It
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, you wrote:
What does it take to write a video card driver that some hotshot unix guru
programmer can't come up with? If they can talk the talk, how about trying
to walk the walk? I keep hearing about what geniuses inhabit the Unix crowd,
how about putting up or
Well, I have to revise the amounts in the partitions. Brett, you were
right, I didn't have enough room in the /usr partition. I forgot that the
bin files went in there. Here is what it looks like now.
1. /boot 20 MB
2. /791 MB
3. /swap 80 MB
4. /home 439 MB
The swap
First let me say that I'm real new to Linux, like 3 days "out of the
box". I have managed to dual boot Windows with Linux Mandrake using
their PQ Magic boot software. However, I can't seem to find my way to
a GUI no matter what I do. startx and nothing, KDE doesn't seem to
respond either. I'm
I can get a free copy of StarOffice 4.0 on a cd from our library. The book
it comes with suggests it needs linux library version libc 5.4.22 or
higher
to 6.x, but EARLIER VERSIONS MUST BE AVAILABLE to StarOffice.
I have installed Venus 6.0. So is the library version I have "backwards
There is ONE documented Unix virus. It is called "Bliss" and was
written as an academic exercise to explore the theoretical possibility
of construction of virii that could traverse Unices. Bliss can infect
a user space, but then who gives write privileges to an ordinary user for
anything
I did the same thing (I used WarFTP instead), but couldn't get anything
other than 'bad server response' from the FTP server. Only thing I could
think was that it didn't like the Win32 FTP program, or vice versa (a path
character discrepancy or the like, perhaps). Was the machine you connected
to
You are really aiming at the wrong target here. Consider two very major
things here.
1) These programmers produce these wonderful drivers we do have
with no thought of compensation for their time and effort.
2) You can't program a driver for a piece of hardware if the
www.thelinuxstore.com
12-15 days behind the order curve already
Civileme
John Connell wrote:
Hi,
Yesterday someone posted a URL for a company that was selling Linux
"Personal Internet Appliances."
If you read this could you please either post it again or email me
the URL?
Thanks and God Bless,
I would like to thank both of you for helping me to solve the problem. Sorry I was
so slow to "get it". It is all fixed up and working fine now.
Murray Strome
RReed wrote:
Press your.. ahem.. non-start key.. the geared K one at lower left go to KDE
control
Before you do anything fancy for the sound card, try this:
LILO Boot: linux 1
When booted, type
bash#] sndconfig
Civileme
James Schofield wrote:
ok, I have been trying everything I can think of
to get this and my SB64pci
working.. (Both are PNP)
No go.
I notice that my mandrake install did not
Dummies books rock! I love the irreverent tone they use. :)
Original Message
On 8/18/99, 4:31:10 AM, "RReed" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re:
[newbie] Taking the plunge..:
I feel the same way thats a heck of a chunk of change you would be
spending... A book is the easiest way to
True story:
A friend of mine who works for a local car dealership wanted some help
in designing their web page. He sent me an email, and a second one
was automagicaly generated for him by, you guessed it, Happy99. This
occurred right after the big discussion on this list about Happy99. I
Had absolutely no list activity all day, then got a whole host of repeated
items alll at once (!!). Not sure if my post got through during all of that,
so i'm forwarding it again as i'd really like to suss this one out.
Apologies if it get's received by people more than once
- Original
One other big difference - the pentium class optimizations.
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On 8/18/99, 6:38:36 AM, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
regarding RE: [newbie] Mandrake v. Red Hat - How close is close?:
[snip]
Unless I misunderstood you, you're saying you don't think
KDE is integrated
No, it isn't. 10baseT and 100baseT are only specs for the speed data is
transferred. Unshielded category 3, 4 or 5 twisted pair cable is limited to
100m cable length. 10base2, or BNC, is limited to 185m.
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Original message from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL
I actually tried doing the Lnx4win on my Celeron 400 machine with 128MB Ram
and it was so slow that after it installed I almost immediately uninstalled it.
Once you have linux on native ext2 partitions running the Lnx4win install will
just seem too slow for you.
- Original Message -
From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 12:51 PM
Subject: [newbie] Linux4Win Install Problems
Had absolutely no list activity all day, then got a whole host of repeated
items alll at once (!!). Not sure if my
Can anyone tell me how to change the default startup color depth from 8bpp
to 16bpp?
I am running:
- Mandrake-Linux 6.0
- PCI Matrox Millennium II card with 4 megs of ram
- PCI Voodoo2 card with 8 megs of ram
I got the Voodoo2 drivers installed last night but that was no help. I have
At 04:58 PM 8/18/99 +, you wrote:
Before you do anything fancy for the sound card, try this:
linux 1
When booted, typesndconfig
Civileme
ok, I will give that a try.. but what does the run level 1 do for me that a
std boot would not?
James
I have to agree with you. It's the only thing that got
me through the Cobol section of a programming languages
survey course.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ty Mixon
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 10:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wonder what the problem was. Maybe my FTP server was just screwy - it was
showing a connection from the wrong IP address, wich maybe is a sign.
H, come to think of it, the only other time I tried to use it, my
friend couldn't download files from it. Dang! Wish I had thought of that.
Oh
"Wayne Boaz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to change the default startup color depth from 8bpp
to 16bpp?
I am running:
- Mandrake-Linux 6.0
- PCI Matrox Millennium II card with 4 megs of ram
- PCI Voodoo2 card with 8 megs of ram
I got the Voodoo2 drivers installed last
96MB !!
- Original Message -
From: Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux4Win Install Problems
- Original Message -
From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August
I am setting up another network, and i am going to have to go way up in the
attic and back down thru the floor. This means that i am going to use A LOT
of wire, and thus i am concerned about poor performance. Can i buy something
that will amplify the signal, or should i put another hub in the
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, you wrote:
Just wonder, will the Creative Riva TNT2 32MB AGP card work with Mandrake 6.0?
According to www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html, the TNT2 is NOT
supported, unless it'll work with the TNT drivers. You
might find an X server for the TNT2 off Nvidia's home
page
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, you wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to change the default startup color depth from 8bpp
to 16bpp?
Should be able to do it with "startx -- -bpp 16" Does this
not work for you?
Is there an init file I can edit to add the '-- -bpp 16' settings to? I've
tried a lot and
XF86Config
You can edit it with kedit
run
man XF86Config
in an xterm first.
There is a setting called DefaultColorDepth.
Civileme
Wayne Boaz wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to change the default startup
color depth from 8bpp
to 16bpp?
I am running:
- Mandrake-Linux 6.0
- PCI Matrox Millennium
Well, Netscape does a marvelous job of threading email... Give it
a try. If not that, then write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with the message body
subscribe newbie-digest
and you would probably also want send another message to the same addressm
with the message body
unsubscribe newbie
so you don't get
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, you wrote:
%_How about the MT books (Slackware series) "Linux System Administration" ?
Well, I'm going to be running Mandrakenot Slackware.
Why would I want to get a book on Slackware Just
wondering
To install the downloads, do this: rpm -Uvh name of package.rpm Do that
for each of the downloaded programs. Then run XF86Setup, by typing that.
Follow this through and you should be able to get it configured.
Bret Craw
-Original Message-
From: Sengir [SMTP:[EMAIL
I was preety sick of my 640x480 resolution, and i just got a new 19``
monitor, so i decided to run xconfigurator and jack up my res. well i did
just that, i jacked it up big time, now i am told there is a problem w/ my
xconfiguration and no matter what res i choose, i keep getting this error.
Below is what Scott Worley sent me and it helped alot on the setup of my
voodoo3
One extra thing.. make sure you installed vga16 server and not svga server
Before you do any of this!
I believe you can reconfig your linux for the vga16 server in the
xconfigurator.
then refer to the below
The alias solution listed below is one way, or you can edit your xf86config
file.
Open the config file ( mine is in /etc/ your mileage may vary..i have
another in /etc/X11/ , but I'm using an xbf server, so check to make sure
you are editing the correct one )
Find the *screen* section (towards
hi, a followup and another question...
first, re mouse problem, gpm is installed. how do i go about obtaining and
installing the latest kernal and initscripts? (layman's terms, please...)
second, today the program (kde) hung up and wasn't going anywhere. this has
happened once before, and,just
NoOne wrote:
What's the sence to set up different mount points for / , /usr , /home ,
/anything_else if all of them are located on a single harddrive. I can
understand this steps for /boot 'cause it must be located in first 1023
cyls, but what about / , /usr do you really need the
Rick Fry wrote:
What does it take to write a video card driver that some hotshot unix guru
programmer can't come up with? If they can talk the talk, how about trying
to walk the walk? I keep hearing about what geniuses inhabit the Unix crowd,
how about putting up or shutting up?
That's
I have found the Voodoo3 beta drivers at
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3dfxrmps_vb_glibc.html but find the instructions
VERY cryptic. I have several years of Windows experience but none with
Linux. Can anyone help me out with clear, easy to understand, step by step
instructions for the newbie to
I noticed a step regarding rebuilding Device3Dfx-2.2-3.src.rpm and then
installing the rebuilt file. What is this about?
Brian
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bret Craw
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 4:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Wayne Boaz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
==
Try using XF86Setup. Color depth can be modified quite easily there.
That trashes my mouse every time or makes it so X won't even start. I select
the Intellipoint mouse and /dev/mouse but when it starts the
You can modify your XF86Config file in the /etc/X11 directory. Whatever
editor you use, bring up that file. Down in the section that you set up the
modes, type DefaultColorDepth 16. That will set it up so that the default
is 16. If you want 24 or 32, just change the 16. Save it and it should
DoC wrote:
Hi,
Err...not always. I agree some of them are quite good but some
are..well...'error prone'. Eg the Perl 5 one isn't that good. Neither is the
C/C++ one. There better ones avaliable on the market.
For Perl books, stick with the O'Reilly series -- Learning Perl,
Programming
This isn't a Linux-specific question, but it's still a problem that'll
definitely hose any attempts at using X.
I suspect that my PS/2 mouse port is broken. Maybe not... but I can't
get it to work. My DOS mouse driver program never recognizes a mouse on
the port, and Windows doesn't either.
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
According to www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html, the TNT2 is NOT
supported, unless it'll work with the TNT drivers. You
might find an X server for the TNT2 off Nvidia's home
page
I'm not sure if the TNT driver will work, but nvidia does have an X
Thanks to everyone who responded with help. I am going to give things a
shot and see what happens. I will post if it worked. Thanks again.
Brian
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of RReed
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 5:40 PM
To: [EMAIL
Thanks! That did it!
Quake3 rocks on the cable modem and seems just as fast as on my Win98
partitions!
Wayne
Wayne Boaz wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to change the default startup color depth from
8bpp
to 16bpp?
I am running:
- Mandrake-Linux 6.0
- PCI Matrox Millennium II
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