I've got a joystick connected to the game port on my
sound card. I know it's connected correctly, cause it
works alright with BeOS.
I've tried doing "insmod joystick" and "insmod
joy-analog", but I get no "/dev/js?" device.
Btw, I haven't got KDE installed. Only Gnome.
=
"Good Luck" is a relative term. Western Digital has a pretty neat Service
Dept too. Gateway will take things back and send you a new one when they
aren't obligated to.
I would rather have something that didn't break in the first place. In the
midst of this, I have had ONE DOA from WD, which
Hey!
Installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem...
Using the startdisk from the cd I can't configure the X-Server. I can't skip
this point and so the only thing I can do is reset the computer. But then I
can't start the computer. So ... I can't install Mandrake 6.1.
I don't know where I can find
hi,
When i install mandrake6.0 skipping the network(not dialup) settings
kppp clearly sees my modem which is on com2 in windows(modem:us robotics
56.6 voice int)
But when i do not skip and do the network preferences(ethernet card: realtek
8139)
kppp says "sorry your modem is busy" or something
Anyone know how to
1) enable backspace? someone told me to do
"stty erase [backspace]" then enter...
The problem is when I press backspace here, nothing
shows up. The Computer just beeps and when I press
enter, it'll say "missing arguments"
2) enable automated tab thing in
Can u be a bit more specific?
--- Helmut Halfmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey!
Installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem...
Using the startdisk from the cd I can't configure
the X-Server. I can't skip
this point and so the only thing I can do is reset
the computer. But then I
can't
I'm sorry, I thought you wanted backspace to use as a backspacing delete
key?? If there's nothing to delete, it will go 'beep'. Oh, and it usually
doesn't cope with linefeeds, a backspace while the cursor is on the left
hand side of the screen doesn't (usually) work like Windows, and move to the
Civileme wrote:
"Good Luck" is a relative term. Western Digital has a pretty neat Service
Dept too. Gateway will take things back and send you a new one when they
aren't obligated to.
I would rather have something that didn't break in the first place. In the
midst of this, I have had
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Civileme wrote:
Maxtors I heard someone else mention. I have had two drop dead on me, one
with thermal shutdowns for no good reason, and the other with bearings
eating the spindle.
Quantum Bigfoot Drives--three KO from powering down unpredictably (the
drive, not the
I have a small problem that has been bugging me ever since I installed
Mandrake 6.0. I thought I'd get used to it, but i haven't; so somebody
help me fix it!
The problem: the backspace key and delete key have the same function!
It is quite inefficient to have to lift the typing hand and drop
I've got an ATAPI zip drive and would like to know how to use it in Linux. I
can mount it as an MSDOS type with no problems but am restricted by DOS's 8.3
filename scheme. When I try to mount it as AUTO, it finds it as MSDOS. I have
tried to mount it as EXT EXT2 with no luck.
Do I need to
Take a look at:
http://www.linuxhardware.net/
Sam
Aaron deRozario wrote:
This information would be very handy. IF someone had the time and effort
and web space some kind of database that keeps track of parts and parts
combinations that are successful, or unsuccessful might also be good.
"Jeanette" == Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Do I understand you correctly that you are running imwheel in
your .xinitrc or .Xclients _and_ then opening an xterm and
doing 'imwheel -k' again?
Where does 'imwheel -k' appear? In one or more places?
"Jeanette" == Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Jeanette For some reason I can't paste maybe because three button
Jeanette emulation is off but the pointer section looks like this
Jeanette Section "Pointer" Protocol "IMPS/2" Device "/dev/mouse"
Jeanette
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Can u be a bit more specific?
I try so ;-)
I'm using a Pentium Pro 200, 48 MB Ram, Adaptec 2920, 4,3 GB IBM HD, ATI Mach
64 2MB... thats my hardware.
I start with a startdisk and choose "expert".
Then I can pass every part of the configuartion without a
I am currently trying to help someone who contacted me through my
website on scsi emulation. Their problem is that when they enable
scsi-emulation for hdc hdd (being DVD drive and CDRW drive
respectively), the internal ide zip drive gets identified as a scsi
device also.
This seems to give us a
Newbie Remove
BDY.RTF
A month or two ago I ran across a web site which detailed how to install and
improve the display quality of fonts in WordPerfect. Now I can't find the
site. I've searched using numerous engines, checked the list archives,
looked for FAQ's, and explored Corel's site. If anyone else has this site
OK THIS IS WHAT I MEAN by backspace.
I want it to work JUST like the way it does in
Windows. If there is a character on the left side of
the cursor, I want it deleted. If the cursor is on the
utmost left side of the screen, i want it to go to the
previous line.
And the emacs thing... how
Go to www.nvidia.com and go to drivers. You have to download the
X-server for the TNT,TNT2 chipsets.
Richard
manuel gonzalez wrote:
anyone get a nvidia riva tnt2 ultra 32mb to work with mandrake6?any
help would be greatly appreciated.thanks.
I have installed Linux-Mandrake 6.1. When I initially setup my printer,
I was able to print some test pages just fine. Afterward, I ran the
sndconfig utility for my Sound Blaster Awe 32. Sound works okay, but I
am no longer able to print anything. My printer is an Epson Sylus 740.
The filter
Any body catch this post at all? I haven't seen any responses in a few
days.
Regards,
Sean
Sean Pritchard wrote:
This might be a new one:
I was about to upgrade Mdk 6.0 to 6.1 on my laptop with a Cdr. It gets
as far as "Initializing CDrom..." and then this ---
BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER
BDY.RTF
I never received any solutions or explanations for the difficulty I
mentioned in my prior post so I figured I would try again. I know that
with a high volumn list such as this, questions quickly become lost in
the pile if not addressed soon after posting. Anyways,
below is my problem. Any
"Bill" == Bill Munden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bill I have installed Linux-Mandrake 6.1. When I initially setup
Bill my printer, I was able to print some test pages just fine.
Bill Afterward, I ran the sndconfig utility for my Sound Blaster
Bill Awe 32. Sound works okay, but
More people might learn from your replies if you didn't put them in
attachments. This is almost as bad as HTML.
-Original Message-
From: Chaganti, Prabhakar V
Not to complain, but, what are you supposed to do if you have something
plugged into the only serial port? An internal ISA is the only option.
Where I work there are a lot of pieces of equipment (gas chromatographs,
HPLCs, FTIRs, Colorimeter doohickies) reporting data through the serial
port.
seems like a problem with the spin-up for your harddisk to me... What kind
of hard disk is it? SCSI or IDE? Size, make/brand... ?
Patrick Putteman
Internet Support Manager
Net7 - Member of the Advalvas Group
- Original Message -
From: Eric Mings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Should i direct this question to expert list at linux-mandrake
or what do you recommend trying?
please help!
thanks
baris
- Original Message -
From: Baris Hasdemir [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 1:42 PM
Subject: [newbie] ethernet blocks modem
Well, you asked for ideas, not educated guesses.
1. Do you have a Seagate IDE Disk?
From BIOS to LILO, what occurs besides a disk read? Does it switch
to multi-mode there? Does it try to implement UDMA?
What does your startup log look like? Any {Seek Complete} Errors?
What bus speed and what
"David P. Greenberg" wrote:
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Civileme wrote:
Maxtors I heard someone else mention. I have had two drop dead on me, one
with thermal shutdowns for no good reason, and the other with bearings
eating the spindle.
Quantum Bigfoot Drives--three KO from powering down
manuel gonzalez wrote:
anyone get a nvidia riva tnt2 ultra 32mb to work with mandrake6?
any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks.
If Mandrake ships XFree86-3.3.5 in their 6.1 release it should work
fine. I grabbed the necessary packages from one of the Cooker mirrors
and have been
OK
You can make a fancy entry to fstab like this
/dev/hdd /mnt/zipauto noauto,user,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0
and then
mkfs -t (whatevertype) /dev/hdd
where (whatevertype) could be hfs (MAC) msdos, vfat, ext2, and a few others
man mkfs for details, of course
and then mount with
OK, this might be useful information.
I have a few questions for you.
1. What directory did you DL the tarball to?
2. After you used tar xvzf so51 where did you place the inflated
directories?
My experience is that the most useful setup is to expand it as root and then
take the expanded
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Tom Brinkman wrote:
/dev/hdb: [8.4g WD Caviar, Mdk 6.0 and swap are on the first 3g's.
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.01 seconds =126.73 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 12.62 seconds = 5.07 MB/sec
Eric Mings wrote:
I never received any solutions or explanations for the difficulty I
mentioned in my prior post so I figured I would try again. I know that
with a high volumn list such as this, questions quickly become lost in
the pile if not addressed soon after posting. Anyways,
below
I think the archives of one of the overclocking newsgroups might have something
on Fujitsu drives.
Ihave experience with ONE Fujitsu IDE drive, an old 2G with no
cache (that's right, none). It did creditable service, but
every time there was a power failure and I was not there to shut down
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
reading this made me realize that i have no idea about how to do system
optimization. i will definately look into this 'hdparm'. do you know
of any howtos or such on system opt? it would be interesting if someone
gave a list of what you need to do to get
I have successfully installed linux-mandrake 6.0 on my system, a
200 mHz pentium with a S3 ViRGE/ VX video card (4MB memory)
and a Mag Innovision DX1795 monitor.
Autoprobing successfully identifies the video card, and i then select
the DX1795 monitor. the Xconfig test states that i can use
Just a guess.
I don't see the interrupts for the serial ports in /proc/interrupts, so I
would guess they are not in use.
In the BIOS, knock out COM2 (DISABLE the On-BOARD DEVICE)
I think your modem, if it is internal, was taking the interrupt your eth0
card grabbed. Leave interrupt 3 open by
I have a similar problem but the mouse pointer is invisible in KDE. I have
the same video card and a CTX 1451ES monitor. If you find out anything I
would greatly appreciate hearing about the solution.
Lyndon Lininger Sr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
thank you richard. that did it :)
- Original Message -
From: Richard Yevchak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] video card support
Go to www.nvidia.com and go to drivers. You have to download the
X-server for the
Well, you asked for ideas, not educated guesses.
Thanks!
1. Do you have a Seagate IDE Disk?
I have a IBM 7200 rpm IDE
From BIOS to LILO, what occurs besides a disk read? Does it switch to
multi-mode there? Does it try to implement UDMA?
I cant tell what it does. It just goes from
Is your machine attempting to boot from the floppy or CDROM before
jumping to the hard drive? That could the problems you report.
It does not appear to be doing that.
The bios was set for attempting C,cdrom,A
I then set it for C only . No difference.
seems like a problem with the spin-up for your harddisk to me... What kind
of hard disk is it? SCSI or IDE? Size, make/brand... ?
IBM IDE 10gig 7200 rpm
Regards,
Eric Mings Ph.D.
Greetings all.
I currently use a dual booting system with Win95 and Mandrake 6, hda
Windows, hdb Linux. I have decided that I no longer wish to have my
system
defiled by Windows and would like my main machine Linux only. I am
intending to remove the windows hard drive and use it for
I have had a similar lock-up with konsole, last night in fact.
The lock up occurred when I swapped to Midnight Commander (using the drop
down menu - I can't remember which one). I am assuming that if an offending
software program locks up while it is reading from the keyboard and/or mouse
Hi,
I used a serial mouse on my Linux box previously. But for some reason, I have to
switch to PS/2 mouse through a converter. After that, my mouse no longer works
anymore. Any hint for that?
Thanks.
Ken
___
Get your
What model?? There are severla AOpen modems. If it's PCI probably it's a
winmodem. Mine is an AOpen FM56-RS ISA, and it works flawlessly.
El lun, 04 oct 1999, escribiste:
Will Linux accept my AOpen 56k modem?
Thanks,
Chris Cook
"Terence J. Golightly" wrote:
Hi,
I Terence Golightly and am new to this list. Initially I was reading a
great deal of the posts and was learning quite a bit. Recently though
being busy with work I have not been able to read my email as often as I
would like and have fallen woefully
I think I read somewhere this is a winmodem, but I'm not really sure..
If it has jumpers try to set the com port you want and then configure it in
linux. Sometimes the modem uses one port in winsucks, but uses a different one
under linux. I saw a case whre in winsucks the modem was set on com
I have installed Mandrake on several hard drives from Maxtor, Seagate and
Quantum, and only the Seagate ones gave me an erros during installation. The
mobo chipset was a VX-Pro.
El lun, 04 oct 1999, escribiste:
Original Message
On 10/4/99, 8:20:52 PM, Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
I'm having problems with my Joystick, too. It is a Gravis Xterminator, and it
works well under winsucks. I compiled the driver into the kernel and also as a
module, but i still get the same error: /dev/js0 not present... coul it be
the joystick port is not recognized? my sound card is a
Just FYI, I recently ran across a page of somebody who's working on a
Linux driver for the Lucent Tech. winmodem. Check out
http://www.close.u-net.com/ for more info. A hardware modem is still a much
better bet, though...
--
Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Since all the world is
My Motherboard does not recognise my EIDE hard drive with out using
EZ Bios. I am looking for a EIDE Controller card that Linux will work
with. I have seen lists of compatable equipment but nothing about
EIDE Controller Cards.
Thomas
I'm about to get DSL, and I want to add the yi.org script to update my
IP when my machine boots up and logs into the net.
I need to know exactly where to put it (I'm dense), and how to format
it.
The name of the script is dns_update.sh, and it is currently set to be
executable, and works
I'm trying to get X configured for Mandrake
6.1. I downloaded the Riva tnt2 drivers for my card, but how
do I get that file onto the hard drive that has all my
linux partitions? (ethernet card - intel etherexpress 16,
isn't
working yet =( ) Will I be able to view the
fat32 windows
Lions and tigers and bears!
PC-Tel started selling Linmodems August 2nd and they are HSP devices, not even
DSP.
Now I am very suspicious about the Personal Internet Appliance which uses
Debian doctored slightly. I know there is a PCChips MB (the 748MR) with an
on-board PC-Tel HSP 56K V.90
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