[newbie] Smart Cat/Power Cat

2000-03-26 Thread Paul Eppley
Here's one I can't find in the archive: Can anyone tell me how to make work the scroll things along the edges of the touchpad on a Cirque Smart Cat or Power Cat? I've tried adding "ZAxisMapping 4 5" and changing to Intelimouse in XF86Config and running imwheel -k. Paul Eppley

RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help

2000-03-26 Thread Kirk McElhearn
On 26/03/00 7:53, steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: I bought MacMillan Mandrake 7.0 recently and I experienced the same problems Charles did on it being very slow. Also 6.0 takes about 30 minutes to install, and this new 7.0 took 2:40. Ridiculous. Same here. The

[newbie] Installing applications and adding them to the application starter

2000-03-26 Thread Kirk McElhearn
Whenever any applications are installed, where do they go? I can install things fine, but afterwards I have to find them. How can I add an app to the KDE application starter? Kirk vice | versa Translations from French to English, English to French

[newbie] CD Audio

2000-03-26 Thread Wayne
Does anyone know of any programs available for making MP3's from CD music? I am old mandrake can do this natively from the command line. Can it and how? Thanks.

Re: [[newbie] HELP INSTALING AND RUNNING X!]

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Graham Balharrie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought Linux Mandrake 7.0 and I have installed it off the CD in Dos, and now I really want to get into a desktop environment! I am stuck inside the Dos Prompt style bits HELP!! It says in the manual, to change the party in the file

Re: [[newbie] color depth]

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Scottaline
Kirk McElhearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I change the color depth of my monitor under KDE? Kirk == You can use XF86Setup to select color depth, or you might be able to choose a depth at boot up time: startx- --bpp16 (or 24, or 32, or whatever)

Re: [[newbie] Boot Partition too big...]

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Dave" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heya guys, (before I start, I did check the archives and I did see a couple messages about this , but they all related to FAT32 systems...) I just installed Win2k on a new 13 gig HD which I fdisk'ed into a 11 gig and a 2 gig partition. I want to try

Re: [newbie] cmi8330 onboard sound card and mdk7.02

2000-03-26 Thread nodyak0
Try using "soundconfig" without the quotes. I have an AMD K6-II 3D Processor/w sound, modem and video built in to the MOBO. Nothing works to make the sound operational except this method. It will tell you the video is running but just click on the 'Yes' each time, I did and it works fine.

Re: [RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help]

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Charles Ulwelling" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to the point where it just isn't responding, I assumed it was a bug in linux as far as RAM utilization went. By not responding I mean I'll move the mouse and it will take about 3 seconds for it

Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help

2000-03-26 Thread nodyak0
To all that are having probs installing MacMillan/Mandrake 7.0. I did several different installs to see how they went and how they performed. Well the standard install without using Power Quest BTmagic and do use the "lilo" is the best performer. Also I found that when I did additional

[newbie] Compatible SCSI cards

2000-03-26 Thread Kirk McElhearn
I would like to add a SCSI card to my Mandrake PC so I can use a CD burner. First of all, is audio CD burning smooth under Mandrake? Second, any reccomendations on a SCSI card that would be compatible? Kirk vice | versa Translations from French to

Re: [RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help]

2000-03-26 Thread nodyak0
Excuse me, if I may, it appears that Macmillan/Mandrake 7.0 is a little confuse as to what it is supposed to do with all of the software. I have done about 12 installs, some different like 'Sever', 'Expert', 'Normal', etctera. Some took over 5 hours some took as little as 40 min. None did

Re: [newbie] WinTV?

2000-03-26 Thread Ed Tharp
I hope you keep me posted... I too am hoping to get my wintv card to work in Linux - Original Message - From: Menthol [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 9:24 PM Subject: [newbie] WinTV? How can i get my WinTV PCI card to work under Mandrake 7.02?

RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help

2000-03-26 Thread maxtorator
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to the point where it just isn't responding, I assumed it was a bug in linux as far as RAM utilization went. By not responding I mean I'll move the mouse and it will take about 3 seconds for it to *jump* to

Re: [newbie] WinTV?

2000-03-26 Thread Harold Hartley
Ed Tharp wrote: I hope you keep me posted... I too am hoping to get my wintv card to work in Linux try reading up with the mini-howto on BTTV about setting up the wintv card

RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help

2000-03-26 Thread Charles Ulwelling
Maxtorator, I'm going to hear about this... I am triple booting with win2000, and win98. I'm using them mainly because they work. Win98 crashes all the time but it is nice to have when I want to go back and play a game that doesn't run on win2000, which isn't very often since win2000 runs

[newbie] SCSI Boot Problem

2000-03-26 Thread Leo Wong
hi all, I'm having trouble booting after installing Mandrake 6.0 on my system. Upon booting, LILO starts up as usual and attempts to boot Linux, but soon it suffers a kernel panic, saying that 'modprobe' is busy and unable to mount the root partition. I noticed something weird, though.

Re: [newbie] TCP/IP Problem

2000-03-26 Thread Audrey Beck
John N wrote: I switch between Mandrake 7.02 and Win98 SE. I know, I know... but I have clients who use Windows so I have no choice. Under Linux I can reach any website without difficulty, hell even using the floppy disk QNX and it's tiny browser I can do this. Under Win98 there are

Re: [newbie]

2000-03-26 Thread Audrey Beck
Altern8 wrote: Hi gang, I am would like to get a copy of Mandrake, and atm I have the following modem and sound card, Diamond Supra Express 56e Pro modem, and Creative Labs SB live player 1024 PCI. Are these 2 compatible with mandrake? I looked at the web pages, but dont find

Re: [newbie] freeciv

2000-03-26 Thread Audrey Beck
magick wrote: anyone know how to run freeciv i installed it from there mandrake rpm and everthing went fine but know i don't what the executable file is to actually run it anyone know ? -- to the future of linux together let's crush microsoft and free our desktops forever I don't know the

Re: [newbie] Returned Mail?

2000-03-26 Thread Audrey Beck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this returned mail and did not even send it to this person, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think someone signed up for access through this group and put in the wrong addy. don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I

[newbie] New Questions

2000-03-26 Thread Ann Blackburn
1)How can I set up the pathway to synchronize my Palm VII with my laptop? 2)How do I get my computer to recognize my 100MB Iomega Zip Drive? (parallel) 3)How do I install my Franklin Covey software onto Linux? Thanks. K Ann Blackburn Get your

Re: [newbie] i810 chipset error messages.

2000-03-26 Thread curtis patrick
the first one is but the second one isnt i dont think. and when i take out all the configuration for the graphics and put in what they have in the instruction that i print. but then when i reboot it tells me it cant find all those resolutions that i deleted.but i know it is pointing to the driver

[newbie] Re: Charles Ulwelling's response to Linux is so slow

2000-03-26 Thread Eugene C. Zesch
Charles Ulwelling wrote: Maxtorator, I'm going to hear about this... I am triple booting with win2000, and win98. I'm using them mainly because they work. Win98 crashes all the time but it is nice to have when I want to go back and play a game that doesn't run on win2000, which isn't

Re: [[newbie] IPCHAINS/MASQ/FORWARDING]

2000-03-26 Thread Jaguar
Mike Fieschko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Jaguar" == Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jaguar I wrote to the list a few days ago, asking for some Jaguar help...the _ONLY_ reply I got was, RTFM...well I have Jaguar RTFM's till I am more confused. I wanted to know if in

[newbie] Configure X problems

2000-03-26 Thread Keith Stacks
I'm very new to the Linux world, and as such, I have decided to tryinstalling Mandrake Linux 7.0 on one of my machines.The install runs fine up to the point of Configure X. At this point theauto-setup of my video card/monitor fails with the following error:"Could not open default font

Re: [newbie] Re: Charles Ulwelling's response to Linux is so slow

2000-03-26 Thread Herman R.willett
Hi: Well, we here have trashed all our Win2000 CDs (Right where Win98) went. We had moved back to 95 because we ran years on it without a problem and had fast systems (performance was great!). Now we are going to Linus, and our systems seem to have achieved a new life. The are more solid,

RE: [newbie] Re: Charles Ulwelling's response to Linux is so slow

2000-03-26 Thread Charles Ulwelling
Heh heh In a previous post some one said they were dual booting with win98 and maxtor said that there are problems with that senario... and then said why use windows when you could do everything with linux. I was just giving some reasons why. later, Charles -Original Message- From:

RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help

2000-03-26 Thread vern
I've had similar experiences with MacMillan Mandrake 7.0 plus half of my hardware failed to function (video, floppy, CDROM etc.) I'm back with 6.1 or 6.5 as MacMillan calls it, and happy as a clam. I do regret the $50+ I wasted to learn this lesson, maybe something on those other 5 CD's is

Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help(numbers on usage)

2000-03-26 Thread Jeremy
Charles Ulwelling wrote: My mem usuage is this X 38M kfm 9M kbgndwm 7M kdm 7M Kpanel 5M and various others at 5 to 6 M until all the memory is used up, another thing is there are 10 instances of httpd taking up over 3M's each. I don't know what this process is but I

[newbie] ide-scsi, cd burner, ls120 problems

2000-03-26 Thread Joshua Milos
Hi- Just loaded Mandrake 7 (and installed my new cd burner), and I'm running into problems with mounting my ls120 drive. I have a cd burner, which was detected just fine, and after changing /mnt/cdrom to point to /dev/sr0. I was able to mount it with no problems. My ls120 drive seems to be

Re: [newbie] Configure X problems

2000-03-26 Thread me myself and i
you could try changing your video card to the matrox g200 since from what i've been told most matrox cards are universal except for a few things like if your card has a tv tuner on it e.t.c as i'm running x with the g200 and had no probs so try telling x you ahve a g200 in the cardn selection

Re: [newbie] color depth

2000-03-26 Thread Jeremy
Kirk McElhearn wrote: How can I change the color depth of my monitor under KDE? Kirk I don't believe that you can change color depth on the fly, you have to restart X with the new color depth. you can place multiple color depths in your /etc/XF86Config file so you can startx with an

[newbie] about to install linux for the first time...

2000-03-26 Thread Jonas Berntsson
I'm about to install linux for the first time(mandrake 7.0...or corel linux), wich is the better and what should I keep in mind before/during installation? My system is: athlon 500 riva tnt2 m64 sony cd-rw mag xj770 ibm hdd(ide) us robotics modem.. thanks, Jonas.

Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Holt
I'm dual booting an AMD K6/3 450 (actually booting Win98, NT 4, Mandrake linux, and BeOS 4.5- whew!) I have 192 MB RAM and a mix of both UDMA 33 UDMA 66 hard disks. My Linux system runs just as smooth as Windows. I know that doesn't answer why you're having problems, but I just want to assure

Re: [newbie] Mouse Scrolling?

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Holt
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Mike TracyI'm running Mandrake 7 on two machines one with the Trackman Marble and the other has a Trackman Marble Plus (with the scrollwheel). I assume yours is the latter. Here's my mouse section from /etc/X11/XF86Config : #

Re: [newbie] CD Audio

2000-03-26 Thread Anthony Huereca
I use grip. http://www.nostatic.org/grip/ It requires cdparanoia and lame, which you can download from rpmfind.net. Or if you want from the command line only, use cdparanoia to get the .wav file, and then use lame to convert to .mp3. Grip just does the same thing, only with a GUI interface.

[newbie] BOGO Mips

2000-03-26 Thread Jaguar
I have a Cyrix MediaGX P233 kit board w/64 RAM, vid (not used, not supported), sound built into the mobo. Is there a write up or chart somewhere with approx. performance/bogomips for different speeds/styles (Intel, AMD, Cyrix) of CPU? TIA Jaguar PS. this box is running at 77 BOGO Mips...-- not

Re: [newbie] Installing applications and adding them to the application starter

2000-03-26 Thread Anthony Huereca
After installation, type "rpm -ql the_program_name" It'll tell you what files it installed. The program will usually go into /usr/bin however, so look there first. I use Gnome, so I don't know about the KDE application starter. Whenever any applications are installed, where do they go? I can

RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help

2000-03-26 Thread steve harris
vern, you can contact MacMillan and they said they would refund my money. I shipped the package back, I am still waiting. Original Message Follows From: vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help

[newbie] Regular Expressions

2000-03-26 Thread Lane Lester
I keep running into references to "regular expressions" in different contexts. Where can I learn about regular expressions? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help

2000-03-26 Thread Herman R.willett
Hi: I am curious. I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on six of my machines. All but one went without a flaw. One did not allow the X-Window to come upon install, so I fuddeled around and got it to allow a text install. As it is in a closet and does not require a perminate monitor, this is fine.

[newbie] Brother HJ-400 Printer on Linux

2000-03-26 Thread Kevin Berg
I just recently installed Mandrake 7.0, and I'm trying to get my ancient Brother HJ-400 printer to work on it. I had it working for a while, but then I had to unplug it and move it. Now, it won't work. I can get it to print text, but not postscript. I HAD IT WORKING BEFORE, but then I had to

RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help

2000-03-26 Thread steve harris
Herman, I have a K6-2, I have ran 5.2 and 6.0 I had 6.0 running pretty good. Best Buy put 7.0 on sale for $20. 2:40 for the install! 6.0 full install is 20-30 minutes tops. Then the system ran very slow as Charles discribed, something eating up resources horribly. So I did a clean install,

RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help

2000-03-26 Thread Anthony Huereca
Right now X is taking up 14% of my 256 MB of RAM, or around 36 MB of RAM. heh heh... well try as it might linux will not discourage me, I've actually been trying to get various versions to work correctly since last July! Mandrake 7.0 is the first one that even comes close to working out for

[newbie] subscribe newbie

2000-03-26 Thread Gaz
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Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem

2000-03-26 Thread curtis patrick
do you think my winmodem will work it is a lucent chipset. - Original Message - From: steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:05 PM Subject: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem For those needing some confidence to try the Lucent winmodem drivers, even

Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Holt
steve harris wrote: Herman, I have a K6-2, I have ran 5.2 and 6.0 I had 6.0 running pretty good. Best Buy put 7.0 on sale for $20. 2:40 for the install! 6.0 full install is 20-30 minutes tops. Then the system ran very slow as Charles discribed, something eating up resources horribly.

Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Holt
Well, using one of the graphic programs under X, it says I'm running about 14 MB right now. One thing I just mentioned to another message is, I got my distrib from www.linuxberg.com as an iso download. I got version 7.0-2 from them, not 7.0 - maybe that is the difference? If you don't mind the

Re: [newbie] about to install linux for the first time...

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Holt
Jonas Berntsson wrote: I'm about to install linux for the first time(mandrake 7.0...or corel linux), wich is the better and what should I keep in mind before/during installation? My system is: athlon 500 riva tnt2 m64 sony cd-rw mag xj770 ibm hdd(ide) us robotics modem.. thanks,

[newbie] swap partition needed with 128 meg ?

2000-03-26 Thread Sven Vermeulen
hello, Is it necessary / useful to use a swap partition with 128 meg RAM and a PIII 667MHz to run Linux mandrake 7.0? I didn't found information in the installation guide or howtos. If so, how big should this swap partition be128 meg? bye, Sven.

[newbie] other browsers

2000-03-26 Thread magick
anyone know of any other really good web browsers for linux other then netscape ? oh yeah not text based ones like lynx either thanks all -- to the future of linux together let's crush microsoft and free our desktops forever

Re: [newbie] other browsers

2000-03-26 Thread Harold Hartley
magick wrote: anyone know of any other really good web browsers for linux other then netscape ? oh yeah not text based ones like lynx either thanks all -- to the future of linux together let's crush microsoft and free our desktops forever Well, there is the one called Opera for linux and

[newbie] Installation problem - _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect error

2000-03-26 Thread DC Mahoney
I'm trying to install McMillan's Mandrake 7.0 on a Pentium box. This box will be a dual-boot machine with Win95 if all goes well. Win95 is already installed in a small partition, and I used the PartitionMagic tool to create a big partition for Linux. When I boot off either the CD or the

RE: [newbie] Configure X problems

2000-03-26 Thread MurrayStrome
I am in a similar boat. Macmillan Mandrake 6.0 installs fine, detects my video card (CL GD-5465), gives me a list of monitors from which I can select mine (MultiSync XV17+). However, when I either try a fresh install, or an upgrade to Mandrake 7.02, when I get to the point of Configure X, I

Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem

2000-03-26 Thread steve harris
curtis, go ahead and try it. The instructions come with the lucent download and the program told me what I was doing wrong. (I had to get a new kernel) It figures out what port the lucent is on and creates the /dev/modem link to match it. Try it! Shouldnt hurt anything. (famous last words)

Re: [newbie] WinTV?

2000-03-26 Thread etharp
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: Which Wintv cards do you have? Do they come with FM? No FM early wintv stard edition... Seve -Original Message- From: Harold Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, March 26, 2000 7:26 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] swap partition needed with 128 meg ?

2000-03-26 Thread William S. Laskorski
It is recommended to create a swap partition of a size that's about twice the amount of physical ram in your system. Therefore, if you have 128 meg of ram, make the swap file 250 meg. That is what is recommended. As for why Linux needs a swap file with 128 meg of ram? I'm asking the same

[newbie] Alternate advice sources on rebooting.

2000-03-26 Thread Vic
Sorry this might be kind of a duh question, it was recomended to me to reboot my linux machine about once a month, that I do, and have a cron.monthly to do just this. Does anyone else here know if this is too often, or too little? Thanks -- My new linux web server with Apache

Re: [newbie] Alternate advice sources on rebooting.

2000-03-26 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
I have a uptime of nearly 6 months on one of my rh61 boxes we have a rm52 box at work that has a uptime of nearly a year Vic wrote: Sorry this might be kind of a duh question, it was recomended to me to reboot my linux machine about once a month, that I do, and have a cron.monthly to do

Re: [newbie] Alternate advice sources on rebooting.

2000-03-26 Thread Harold Hartley
why reboot if its working fine.. linux is not windows... some have run a linux box for a good year or more without a reboot... --- Vic wrote: Sorry this might be kind of a duh question, it was recomended to me to reboot my linux machine about once a month, that I do, and have a

[newbie] tar

2000-03-26 Thread _-+Richard Kim=-_
how do i untar a file tar ?v?f filename.tar.gz I forgot the command can anyone tell me? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= My new website made with apache http://compu.dyndns.org/

[newbie] sound

2000-03-26 Thread Dan
I am using Mandrake 7.0 so far everything went well.install.graphics... This is my first try at Linux and so far I am impressed. One major problem I am having,however, is my sound. I am using a Turtle Beach Montego 2 sound card(aureal semiconductor/vortex 2 as Linux calls it). I tried

Re: [newbie] tar

2000-03-26 Thread DC Mahoney
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:50:33PM -0500, _-+Richard Kim=-_ wrote: how do i untar a file tar ?v?f filename.tar.gz I forgot the command can anyone tell me? Try "tar xvfz filename.tar.gz" X = extract v = do it verbosely so I can see what's happening f = I'm going to give you the name of the

Re: [newbie] tar

2000-03-26 Thread Harold Hartley
_-+Richard Kim=-_ wrote: how do i untar a file tar ?v?f filename.tar.gz I forgot the command can anyone tell me? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= My new website made with apache http://compu.dyndns.org/ tar xvf to untar a .tar file tar zxvf to untar a

Re: [newbie] tar

2000-03-26 Thread Dan
_-+Richard Kim=-_ wrote: how do i untar a file tar ?v?f filename.tar.gz I forgot the command can anyone tell me? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= My new website made with apache http://compu.dyndns.org/ tar xvzf (filename).tar.gz

[newbie] Re: tar

2000-03-26 Thread James
Richard asked: :how do i untar a file tar ?v?f filename.tar.gz I forgot the command can :anyone tell me? Take a look at this page: http://www.redhat-linux.com.my/faq/common15.html james

[newbie] tar

2000-03-26 Thread _-+Richard Kim=-_
I have a Sound Blaster PCI128 speaker but cant get it to work on sndconfig. is there a driver I can use? if there is then tell me where to get it and how to install it or just give me some advice...anything will do...

Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem

2000-03-26 Thread curtis patrick
do you know where there are conexant winmodem drivers for linux, i tried to swap with my other computer which had lucent chipset. but it wouldnt work. (dont ask). so i am gonna try and get this conexant soft56k working. - Original Message - From: steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] browser

2000-03-26 Thread steve harris
Someone asked earlier about browsers. Not really anything other than Netscape. Mozilla is getting better though, M14 is the latest I think. This 4.72 Netscape is better on my old machine than the 4.61 and 4.70 "stable" versions. Download the 4.72 stable versions from this ftp site.

Re: [newbie] other browsers

2000-03-26 Thread Anthony Huereca
http://www.linux.trix.net/browsers.en.htm and http://www.webreview.com/pub/2000/02/04/feature/index4.html will give you 21 different browsers to choose from (some being text only though). However the main Netscape alternative is Mozilla. You can download it from http://mozilla.org It's an open

Re: [newbie] Alternate advice sources on rebooting.

2000-03-26 Thread Vic
Whew, thanks all for the advice. One year I did not need any updates or anything to be reconfigged so I just left it up from one Christmas to the next, then my UPS died. On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Harold Hartley mewed: why reboot if its working fine.. linux is not windows... some have run a linux

Re: [newbie] swap partition needed with 128 meg ?

2000-03-26 Thread Lane Lester
William S. Laskorski said: It is recommended to create a swap partition of a size that's about twice the amount of physical ram in your system. Therefore, if you have 128 meg of ram, make the swap file 250 meg. That is what is recommended. I read a pretty good article to the effect

Re: [newbie] root

2000-03-26 Thread CMi1255179
How do I login as root? At the login I typed in root and no password, and it rejected it... 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession- A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A Mission' -Rush 'Mission' -Chris Rasputin

Re: [newbie] sound

2000-03-26 Thread Bruce Hilliker
Dan wrote: I am using Mandrake 7.0 so far everything went well.install.graphics... This is my first try at Linux and so far I am impressed. One major problem I am having,however, is my sound. I am using a Turtle Beach Montego 2 sound card(aureal semiconductor/vortex 2 as Linux calls

Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem

2000-03-26 Thread Bruce Hilliker
curtis patrick wrote: do you know where there are conexant winmodem drivers for linux, i tried to swap with my other computer which had lucent chipset. but it wouldnt work. (dont ask). so i am gonna try and get this conexant soft56k working. - Original Message - From: steve harris

[newbie] sound help

2000-03-26 Thread curtis patrick
how do you configure sound in mandrake 7.0-2

[newbie] Re: tar

2000-03-26 Thread James
Vic wrote: :While we are on the subject, how does one :tar a file rather than untar? The url I gave earlier tells you how to do that, as well. http://www.redhat-linux.com.my/faq/common15.html james

[newbie] mounting disk shares of another linux box

2000-03-26 Thread Mike Fieschko
"Chadley" == Chadley Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Chadley please could someone tellme howto get rpc working in Chadley mdk7.02 if i need it Unfortunately I dont think mdk7.02 Chadley has any howtos so I can only refer to the man pages and Chadley the are not telling

Re: [newbie] Re: tar

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Holt
Vic wrote: While we are on the subject, how does one tar a file rather than untar? On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Michael Holt mewed: James wrote: Richard asked: :how do i untar a file tar ?v?f filename.tar.gz I forgot the command can :anyone tell me? Take a look at this page:

Re: [newbie] root

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Holt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 03/26/2000 9:15:01 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Type in root and your password. Root requires a password. How do I login as root? At the login I typed in root and no password, and it rejected it...

Re: [newbie] sound help

2000-03-26 Thread KompuKit
same way you did, in 6.1 either sndconfg or use lothar curtis patrick wrote: how do you configure sound in mandrake 7.0-2 -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer

Re: [newbie] Soyo S6 IWM/L

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Holt
"Jim Del CaƱamo" wrote: Please Anybody wich work with Soyo S6 IWM/L motherboard and its fucking on board chipsets Help me Please I want to run Mandrake in this mother Urgent!!! Lic. Gabriel Spahn Argentina

Re: [newbie] sound help

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Holt
curtis patrick wrote: how do you configure sound in mandrake 7.0-2 'sndconfig' should work, although it should have been detected when you did the installation. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] sound help

2000-03-26 Thread Bruce Hilliker
curtis patrick wrote: how do you configure sound in mandrake 7.0-2 Curtis; From a terminal session (CTRL-ALT-F1) (CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to xwindows) and login as "root"; then type sndconfig (this is automatic; if that doesn't work; try) sndconfig --noprobe (this is manual, and you'll have

Re: [newbie] root

2000-03-26 Thread Bob Chin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 03/26/2000 9:15:01 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Type in root and your password. Root requires a password. How do I login as root? At the login I typed in root and no password, and it rejected it...

RE: [newbie] slow Linux

2000-03-26 Thread Charles Ulwelling
Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me earlier today... later charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of HAL 9000 Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 8:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help(numbers on usage)

2000-03-26 Thread Charles Ulwelling
I am in an ext2 and I have a large swap space set up. I got it figured out. It was just a problem with Mandrake loading up a bunch of useless crap(for a beginner like me its useless). Plus there were 10-15 versions of apache running at a time... that was like 35-40 megs of mem right there.

[newbie] sound help

2000-03-26 Thread _-+Richard Kim=-_
I have a Sound Blaster PCI128 speaker but cant get it to work on sndconfig. is there a driver I can use? if there is then tell me where to get it and how to install it or just give me some advice...anything will do...

Re: [newbie] slow Linux

2000-03-26 Thread HAL 9000
Charles Ulwelling wrote: Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me earlier today... later charles Ulwelling nope, not one instance of httpd seti@home is taking up about 27% of my CPU... would that greatly affect the performance??

Re: [newbie] root

2000-03-26 Thread nodyak0
When you did your install of Mandrake or what ever one you are using you are instructed to create a user with a password. You are also told to put a password on the root access. If you did not then I would recommend doing the install again and this time WRITE DOWN THE PASSWORD so you can use it

Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help

2000-03-26 Thread nodyak0
I agree with the different installs to see what your system is doing with and in each. I am NOT a programmer nor even a hacker, just piddler and wanting to learn as much as I possibly can about MY system. If what I learn can be of any use for anyone else then I will pass it on for all. I DO

Re: [[newbie] IPCHAINS/MASQ/FORWARDING]

2000-03-26 Thread Mike Fieschko
"Jaguar" == Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Jaguar yes there is a /proc/sys/net/ipv4 it has DIRS for /conf Jaguar /neigh /route, and a buncha other files no I didn't Jaguar compile a kernel There are many options for IP, and experimental support for IPv6.

[newbie] IP Masquerading

2000-03-26 Thread Brian Vogt
I am contemplating building a Pentium Pro 200 machine to use as a server for my home network (1 linux machine, 2 windows machines, a Mac, and another PC coming soon...). I can't get enough IP's from @home (cable service provider) to get all the machines on my network online, and figured using

Re: [newbie] root

2000-03-26 Thread Mike Fieschko
"CMi1255179" == CMi1255179 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CMi1255179 In a message dated 03/26/2000 9:15:01 PM Central CMi1255179 Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Type in root and your password. Root requires a password. [snip] CMi1255179 I've tried this as well, and it

Re: [newbie] Regular Expressions

2000-03-26 Thread Rial Juan
Well, you can learn about them in the "perlre" manpage. "man perlre", FYI. On Mar 26 Lane Lester wrote: I keep running into references to "regular expressions" in different contexts. Where can I learn about regular expressions? -- Rial Juan

Re: [newbie] root

2000-03-26 Thread Rial Juan
Or, if you want to save yourself the work of reinstalling the system again, just to punch in one stupid password, you might could type "linux 1" at the LILO-prompt, which will take you to a single-user shell with root-access. Then type "passwd" once it's booted, and provide a password. This is

[newbie] Unnecessary services at startup, Was: Linux is so slow... Please help(numbers on usage)

2000-03-26 Thread Mike Fieschko
"Charles" == Charles Ulwelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles I am in an ext2 and I have a large swap space set up. I Charles got it figured out. It was just a problem with Mandrake Charles loading up a bunch of useless crap(for a beginner like me Charles its useless).

[newbie] Installation problem

2000-03-26 Thread John Alex M.Reyroso
I'm trying to install Mandrake 7 on a Pentium 100 with a 32 Mb Memory. When I boot off through diskette it process smoothly through the initial portion of the installation. After the screen display "second stage install" things go bad I receive an error message reading:

Re: [newbie] slow Linux

2000-03-26 Thread Mike Fieschko
"HAL" == HAL 9000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] HAL nope, not one instance of httpd seti@home is taking up HAL about 27% of my CPU... would that greatly affect the HAL performance?? Hello, HAL. Yes. (Why is _HAL_ running seti@home, anyway ? ;-) ) -- Mike Fieschko,

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