Well, I had my first big Linux problem today. I had been in this morning
looking at some rpm packs and shutdown as usual. After lunch when I booted,
lilo went through its checklist with all [OK] and gets to the black screen
that you see just before the KDE login screen appears. Then there is a
On May 16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul,
Ok, I'm not this Paul, but I'll respond anyway, since too much replies is better
than too few, right?
Thanks for the heads up. I only venture forth into Bill's world when
forced. So you use Pine, eh? I am comfortable with NS' mail program;
guess if
3dfx is still best supported under linux, although there's some others which
will run acceptably (or so I heard) in openGL mode. Some matrox cards for
example. You'll have to install openGL drivers for the card though. Just like
windows games won't run without DirectX, openGL apps won't run
Roman
You will probably need to download and instll the driver for your NIC.
Just go to www.3com.com I think you go to support and Linux drivers.
Glad to know you made it. Now you are an official member of the club.
Charles
- Original Message -
From: "Romanator"
dmesg output is also logged to /var/log/messages. If you want to save output
from a command to a file, type " filename" after the command, eg:
dmesg kernel.log
And if it's just some stuff on screen you wish to copy into a file, just select
the text you want to save with the mouse, open up
James McLaughlin wrote:
Well I am a gamer..and I have a seriuos question fer ya
Were you the same gentleman on this list that got Q3 working under a
non-3DFX cardor am I mistaken...cause I gave up and spent $70 on a
V3-2000 PCI so I can work with Dual Monies and start playing some
Hi All,
My local electronics retailer says they can't get copies of
Linux-Mandrake version 7.0 from O/S. Does anyone know a web site where you could
purchase a copy on the internet?
Thanks Marco Mastrocinque.
Alan,
I will have to read the guide about the sync rate. But, everything appears to be okay,
now. However, I could not
find my Dell monitor in the list( should I select Dell SVGA?), and my 3COM 3C905C
Ether link Card was not on the
list. I will have to check MandrakeSoft's web page for
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Romanator wrote:
This has come up several times on the list already. Perhaps there are
archives somewhere that you could look it up in?
Paul
Now that I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 on my D partition, I would
like to be hooked up to the Internet.
For some reason, I
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Romanator wrote:
Looks like /dev/hda5 WAS your D-drive then...
Hooray!! I am up and running. However, the the desktop display has a larger black
border on the left side
rather than sitting evenly in the center. My hard drive, sound card auto configured,
except for the
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Kenny wrote:
It occurs right after it asks which directory the rpms are in
Sorry to ask, but do you work for Microsoft?? They too give proper but
entirely useless answers...
SO, the simple way. What do you do to get to the point where the machine
asks for a floppy? DO you
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Christian Mathes wrote:
Dear Paul,
thank you for your e-mail. What is ISDN4Net ? Is it a software ? A
configuration tool? Or an URL in the WWW ?
With kind regards
Christian
ISDN4Net is a set of scripts that make it easier to set up a working ISDN
connection. It builds
Try HP DeskJet 400/500C/520/540C. That's the one I use and it is full
color. Another one that works is the 650C. I am working on a specific
driver for it, and I'll let you know when I get it done.
From: Steve Edmunds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks to everybody who helped me,
I just wanted to add a little comment about "setting RAM". In SuSE Linux
(6.2), There has to be commas between parameters in /etc/lilo.conf .
Otherwise it doesn't work.
How are the other distros ?
Is there a lot differences like this
At 07:02 PM 5/16/00 +0200, you wrote:
I use Pine, too, along with Getmail. I like Getmail because it will
deliver my Pop3 messages directly to my inbox, and then Pine can pick them
up. It also appears to me that Pine can be configured to use SMTP to send
messages out directly through my
Everytrhing works fine now. I even have an icon!!!
Thanks guys.
On Mon, 15 May 2000, you
wrote: You sure you didn't install the .src.rpm ??? Because that one doesn't
contain the executables (binaries) but the sourcecode. You can easilly
rebuild it though using "rpm --rebuild
Take a look at www.millenium.de.
There is a prog to dial-up with ISDN
without pbs.
Try it free.
Eric
Christian Mathes wrote:
Dear Paul,
thank you for your e-mail. What is ISDN4Net ? Is it a software ? A
configuration tool? Or an URL in the WWW ?
With kind regards
Christian
My
No... I've just been trying to figure it all out. I've never played
Quake until now, I'm playing Quake II on an ATI 32MB Rage Fury card and
I'm not getting very good results.
Who's drivers are you using...reference drivers from ATI or others?
I'm able to play, but only on a
small window
theres a list of them on the mandrake site,
@ http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/asia.php3
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 4:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SEC: UNCLASSIFIED:-[newbie] Purcahsing a copy of
marcoNorth American sites on the web:
http://www.cheapbytes.com/
http://www.elinux.com/
http://www.linuxcentral.com/
http://www.LinuxMall.com/
http://www.LLand.com/
http://www.lsl.com/
http://www.thelinuxstore.com/
But, probably of more use to you is this page of
MandrakeSoft's web site
www.cheapbytes.com
Took about 1 week to arrive in Israel.
Cheers:
Michael Perry.
RD. Dep. Netafim Magal.
Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack
The three most dangerous things are a programmer with a soldering iron, a
manager who codes, and a user who gets ideas.
-Original
I tryed the 2.3.(31 I thought) under
redhat 6 months ago and had no pb.
Eric
PS: now I'm on the latest mandrake.
Eric
Ron Greer wrote:
2.3.xx is beta.
All odd numbers are beta:
2.2.14
z.y.xx
xx == Release version, it just increments, get the highest one.
yy == Major version, get the even
On Tue, 16 May 2000, you wrote:
Well, I had my first big Linux problem today. I had been in this morning
looking at some rpm packs and shutdown as usual. After lunch when I booted,
lilo went through its checklist with all [OK] and gets to the black screen
that you see just before the KDE
You can find links to Mandrake resellers/distributors in Australia on
the Linux-Mandrake home page under the heading GET IT
- CDs You'll find that at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/
The page for Australia is http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/asia.php3
Good luck...
Paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
For anyone interested in Linux "How To"s you can find an exstensive
archive at: http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO
Even though I went to NC State I would reccomend this enemy hosted site.
Charles
You can find links to Mandrake resellers/distributors in Australia on
the Linux-Mandrake home page under the heading GET IT
- CDs You'll find that at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/
The page for Australia is http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/asia.php3
Good luck...
Paul
(ps:
www.cheapbytes.com
Took about 1 week to arrive in Israel.
Cheers:
Michael Perry.
RD. Dep. Netafim Magal.
Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack
The three most dangerous things are a programmer with a soldering iron, a
manager who codes, and a user who gets ideas.
I installed mine as primary slave and used system commander from Win95 to multi
boot to either HD, if you do it this way when you install any Linux distro make
sure you don't put lilo in the mbr.
On Tue, 16 May 2000, you wrote:
i'm looking to put in a second hdd on my computer. i want it to
JD
I take it to mean that you want Windows on one hd and Linux on a second
hd. Why? I know hd prices have fallen but unless you have a small hd or do
things that take up a lot of hd space you do not need 2 hds for just Win and
Linux.
That being said you install with 2 hds almost exactly
Alex
The only RPM I actually tried to install was cdrecord from disc 2 of the
Mandrake set. I used Drake so I do not see where that would have corrupted
any settings.
Glad to know of the things I can check if it happens again.
Thanks
Charles
- Original Message -
From:
I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET THESE MESSAGES STOPED
- Original Message -
From:
john h
munro
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 6:24
PM
Subject: [newbie]
Charlesjust to be sure, you do know that disc 2 contains
the source rpms of the binary rpms contained on disc 1,
right? Really, the only reason you should need the source rpm
is to modify the the source code and recompile the rpm.
Alan
Charles A Edwards wrote:
Alex
The only RPM I
Sure was. I did notice when I booted up(I must have walked away from the computer, it
booted into console
mode.
Is this normal?
Roman
Paul wrote:
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Romanator wrote:
Looks like /dev/hda5 WAS your D-drive then...
Hooray!! I am up and running. However, the the desktop
Can I please be added to the mailing list?
Hi Alan,
If you ever get a chance to see it on another computer, you will notice the visual
similarities.
Enough said about Windows.
Roman
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
RomanI use netscape 4.72 in Linux Mandrake 7.0 and my
search engine of choice is Google. I don't use windows, at
least not
OK
Here it goes.
I downloaded the all of Mandrake from the download site.
I copied the hd.img file using rawwrite to floppy
I rebooted system so the install menu appears from floppy.
Floppy loads ramdisk but when it gets to second stage it says
died at usr/bin/pearl/pear-something line 202
safe
Alan,
While reviewing the options on my Linux desktop, I decided to select shutdown. The
computer rebooted and went to the
command prompt boot. I typed in dos to run WinNT4, and access Netscape Navigator to
communicate with you.
Next, I selected shutdown in WinNT4, the computer appeared to
Hi,
How do you access 'Console Mode' from within X windows? In addition, can
I review and make modifications from the desktop i.e. checking my RAM. I
think the command line is: /sbin/lilo.conf
Should this be done from ' root ' ?
I have an IDE drive. Should I type in:
append=hda=ide_scsi
Sorry. It was late last night. I'll check the archives.
Roman
Paul wrote:
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Romanator wrote:
This has come up several times on the list already. Perhaps there are
archives somewhere that you could look it up in?
Paul
Now that I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 on my
Charles,
Thanks for the pointer. I'll check out the How-to's section. It was well
worth it. I may kick, and scream at my computer in the beginning but is was
worth it. For any one reading this email - please do not give up.
Regards,
Roman
Registered Linux Mandrake User [NIF2733]
Charles A
1.- Where can I get the Voodo 3 2000 PCI Drivers for Mandrake 7.0 and How
can I install those drivers
2.- I've Got a Mitsubishi CD Recorder and a Toshiba CD ROM, The recorder is
the Secondary Master, and the CD ROM is the secondary Slave. Well, the KDE
CD Player, only detects the recorder for
:~I'm leaving for 9 days I probably will have 2,000 messages when I come
:~back. :-)
well, you will not (unles you like reading 2000 mesages) if you set your
reception to "nomail". Send sympa a message:
set newbie nomail
When you come back, send it "set newbie mail" to start receiving
Hi, i've got two Questions first excuse me for my bad english:
1.- Where can I get the Voodo 3 2000 PCI Drivers for Mandrake 7.0 and How
can I install those drivers
2.- I've Got a Mitsubishi CD Recorder and a Toshiba CD ROM, The recorder is
the Secondary Master, and the CD ROM is the
Do I have to do something else to Install Linux Mandrake 7, for dual booting
with Windows NT?.
I have a 4 Gb Hd. WinNt was Installed in the first partittion, so, when I'm
installing Linux, DrakX can`t see the WinNt`s partittion.
Regards
Erick Dennis
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Romanator wrote:
Sure was. I did notice when I booted up(I must have walked away from the computer, it
booted into console
mode.
Is this normal?
Roman
Depends on what you call normal.
If you check /etc/inittab and the default bootmode there says 3 then it is
normal. If it
On Tue, 16 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These new guys don't realize what a revolution the TRS-80 was. At any
rate, I don't know enough to much around with X configuration (I was hoping
somebody would tell me when I first wrote a couple of weeks ago). At any
rate I had nothing much
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote:
Take a look at www.millenium.de.
There is a prog to dial-up with ISDN
without pbs.
Try it free.
Eric
It is KISDN.
I think this is even on the distro-CD...
Paul
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Law of Tests: When reviewing your notes
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mike Perry wrote:
www.cheapbytes.com
Took about 1 week to arrive in Israel.
Yes, if you have difficulties getting it locally, cheapbytes is definitely
the way to go.
Paul
)0(---)0(
Law of Tests: When reviewing your notes before an
exam,
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Don W. Jenkins wrote:
I use Pine, too, along with Getmail. I like Getmail because it will
deliver my Pop3 messages directly to my inbox, and then Pine can pick them
up. It also appears to me that Pine can be configured to use SMTP to send
messages out directly through
I changing the following:
1. Logged on as roman (user)
2. Graphics card. I changed my default card setting to NVIDIA GeForce
256
3. Graphics resolution was changed from 32-bit to 16-bit. It appears
that Linux prefers 32-bit.
4. I used the default setting for my monitor, as I could not find my
Romanso a newbie (you) on a newly installed and working
system changed the graphic card, color depth and Monitor: then
rebooted. Yep, that'd likely hose the x-server all right.
Roman, don't fix what ain't broke!! Especially when you don't
really know what you're doing!
Alan
P.S. and you
sure!
From: Michael Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] added
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 22:41:28 -0500
Can I please be added to the mailing list?
Get Your Private,
I have American MegaTrends and I can boot from CD.
don
I thought I knew that I knew what I thought
But now I know that what I thought I knew
Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew.
P.S. I would like to apologize for so late a
This message is a test
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Michael Kirk wrote:
Can I please be added to the mailing list?
Since you can post to the list, I guess you're already added/subscribed...
Paul
)0(---)0(
Law of Tests: When reviewing your notes before an
exam, the most important ones will be
Denis,
Are you looking for this ChineseFireWall from TXU, if so, then here is
their addy:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If not then just Delete this and ignore.
don
I thought I knew that I knew what I thought
But now I know that what I thought I knew
you are
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Kirk" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 11:41 PM
Subject: [newbie] added
Can I please be added to the mailing list?
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On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Necrotica wrote:
However, I can't seem to find a way to speed up my mouse. The default X mouse
speed is wy too slow for me and I can't seem to find any information on
www.xfree.org about it. There isn't anything in the XF86Config file either.
Does anyone know how to
James Little wrote:
Try HP DeskJet 400/500C/520/540C. That's the one I use and it is full
color. Another one that works is the 650C. I am working on a specific
driver for it, and I'll let you know when I get it done.
Thanks James, I'd appreciate it if you would ping me on that :)
Having changed my ISP, I have attempted to re subscribe to the newbie
list with no success. Thank you.
Bob
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Folks,
I've got a Yamaha 724F Sound Card and need its
driver for my Linux 7.0 system. I was on the web and saw a thread that
said that this sound card is incompatible with Linux Mandrake 7.0. When I
try to detect it, it says as much.
Any ideas, or will I have to get another sound
card?
On Wed, 17 May 2000, you wrote:
Hi,
How do you access 'Console Mode' from within X windows? In addition, can
run xterm or any of itsvariations (xterm,konsole,Eterm,gnome-terminal,kvt)
and you have the equilivant of console mode.
I review and make modifications from the desktop i.e.
on one of my linux mandrake7 computers i get the following error
execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2)
its when i try to startx or xinit
what is the problem? thanks
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NetZero - Defenders of the Free World
Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email
some times my messages don't get through to the list so I hope this one does
on my other linux mandrake 7 box i got the error when i tried startx initx
"execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2)"
i finally got into kde by typing x haha
now the problem is when i get into it there is a x for a cursor
Hello Again,
Just reapeting my question below.
Thanks Marco Mastrocinque.
Hi All,
I'm currently running Linux-Mandrake version 6.5 on my system. I
want to install my modem which is a external Netcomm Roadstar II Modem to either
Com 1or the Com 2 port. Any
Hello Erick,
I have a similar setup except my drive is 20 Gig.
I installed Windows NT4 on C, Linux Mandrake 7.0 on D partition.
I would recommend creating a second partition. During the installation,
DrakX will tell you that is has found hda which is your entire drive. If
you have 2 partitions,
Hi Alan,
For some bizarre reason that particular email was not received by me
until a few moments after I had sent the question. I get tons and tons
of email as I also do technical support for simulators.
Sorry.
Roman
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
RomanI quote myself:
"Romanso,
If I have a Linux workstation on a Windows NT network and the network uses
Exchange as the primary e-mail solution then, is there a way that I can
setup Linux to check for e-mail on the Exchange server?
jlbrady
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NetZero - Defenders of the Free
Romandon't sweat it! :-)
In fact, I'd better tell you how to get back to your gui
desktop when you're done in the console. Your initial
x-session is numbered :0 and alt-f7 takes you back to it.
In addition to that alt-f8 takes you to desktop :1, alt-f9
takes you to desktop :2, alt-f10
On May 16 Romanator wrote:
Hi,
How do you access 'Console Mode' from within X windows?
You don't have to be in real console mode; an xterm will do just fine. If you
really want console mode, press CTRL-ALT-F1 for the first console (CTRL-ALT-2
for the second and so on...)
In addition, can
My tan case Osborne was the first of a new type of computer: the
luggable. I'm glad that luggable has gone out of common usage. -Gary-
Hi there.
My computer has 2 ethernet cards.
One is an Realtek PCI, the other is a 3Com Etherlink III -
3059B. (the two cards are PNP, by the way.)
When I have installed Mandrake 7.0, the installation found the
Realtek PCI but it did not find the 3Com.
What can I do
Is there a way to
Who uses which for what? It seems each of the "session types" ie. WindowMaker,
After Step, Enlightenment,Gnome, KDE,etc has its proponents. I'd like to
know what you guys think is the best .
--
-michael brower-
"Dancing with Penguins"
Registered Linux User #175480
We have installed Mandrake 7 and really liked it. However we need to find
out the answers for few small questions.
1, We have a very old cgi program written in C. It works after we installed
libc-5. Only problem is the time output is wrong. When we used RedHat 5,6
etc. We put a link like ln
Is it possible to be using multiple users on X
using "virtual consoles"? Thanks
Drew Jackman
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