Did you burn your own Mandrake CD? I had the same problem, and I later
realised that I had a buffer underrun while burning. If that is the case, you
will have to burn it again.
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:34, Paul Williamson wrote:
> When I install mandrake by booting from the cd, there is an error
Hi All
How do i fix the memory size on a mandrak 7.2 ( i have 256mg of
ram ) and she showing up as 64
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Yes, thank you very much Aric
right know I listening xmms playing Sugar Ray-Every Morning.mp3
cool..
Salam,
Amin Yuliastanto
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aric S. Bergren
Sent: 21 Desember 2000 3:05
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sub
When Xwindows starts everything is fine until I move my mouse. The screen
goes black. What can I do?
Nicholas Mario Enrico wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm currently running 7.2 on a Pentium III 450, 128 SDRAM machine. It also
> has a Conexant Soft56k Fax Modem.(internal)
>
Thats all you need to say... a soft modem is a winmodem, i.e. it uses
the cpu power to emulate a $2.00 chip. If I were a P
Hi everyone!
I'm currently running 7.2 on a Pentium III 450, 128 SDRAM machine. It also
has a Conexant Soft56k Fax Modem.(internal)
The problem is I can't get the modem to work. I tried to play around with
the modem setup, to no avail. After checking in windows, the modem is on
COM3 port. No
I have recompiled a custom kernel more suitable to my machine and tastes and
all went well except the modules. I was not able to do "make modules" for the
new kernel. I am relly not sure of what exactly I need to do when it comes to
the modules. Do I need to remove the modules currently in /lib
Windows will be quite peacfull with the BIOS set to non PnP OS.
I had a problem with SB Live Value in 7.2 with KDE 1.99, no sound, resource
busy; but if I logged into gnome (which I like more anyway) the sound worked
so the problem is not the card but the program.
Charles (-:
Forever never
No.
It requires the old kde base.
Same with the themes.
Charles
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 3:45 PM
To: Mandrake Newbie List
Subject: [newbie] The
KDE 2.1 will have a theme manager. I have been using Beta 1 (the most current
release) for almost a week now and I can say that it's quite good, although
there are still a few little bugs.
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 07:45, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I've been checking all over this system and t
Go ahead, you should have no problem at all.
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:54, Miark wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've discovered that my sound card won't work unless I
> disable the PnP setting in my BIOS. I'm dual booting to
> Windoze98 and Mandrake, so I'm wondering what the
> consequences will to Windoze. W
These are hdparm (a utility to optimise hard drive speed) settings. It can
make a huge difference in performance, but since you don't get to test it
first it's better not to select it if you're not sure it'll work. Have a look
at http://mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hide2.html for details.
On Thu,
Perhaps X should not hard code seven buttons, but rather have a section in
the config file specifying the number of buttons that you have (i.e. you can
change it to what you like). In a following section, the functions of the
buttons may be specified, or the user may choose to leave that to the
Hello there, I got a little headache, been trying for a while now to get my
linux system online, I have a Dynalink ISDN TA, and if I run the
internet/network wizard, choosing the ISDN internet option it detects the
card, however, when the wizard is done, and I try to connect nothing
happends,
Hi list,
I've been checking all over this system and the closest thing I can find
to the old KDE theme manager is the "Legacy Theme importer". I gave that a
try, but try as I might that old thing just wasn't getting it done.
My question is, if I can find it and install KDE Theme Manager will it
I can't even get my soundcard to work and my PnP Bios has always been "off."
I exited X and "su"ed to root and typed sndconfig and it still doesn't play
sound in the test screen...Stupid Sound Blaster Live! Value cards...grrr...
Mr. Smith
> Hi all,
>
> I've discovered that my sound card won't w
Hi all,
I've discovered that my sound card won't work unless I
disable the PnP setting in my BIOS. I'm dual booting to
Windoze98 and Mandrake, so I'm wondering what the
consequences will to Windoze. Will Windoze start
spontaneously launching national defense missiles in the
name of Peter Pan or s
Do you have video-card acceleration. I think that tuxracer only works
fine with acceleration, the same for tuxkart or chromium
Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)
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Remitente: s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fecha: Miércoles, Diciembre 20, 2000 11:51 am
Asunto: Re: [newbie] Tuxrac
I just did a fresh Mandrake 7.2 install, which went rather smoothly (I
thought), until I rebooted, logged in, and tried to do anything on the
net.
I have a cable hookup with static IP addressing. NIC is a CompaQ,
Netelligent PCI 10/100 using the tlan driver.
I am noticing that it takes almo
This is probably a lame response, but mine was unusable until I upgraded thru
'updates' to latest kdebase, kdegames, etc. So, well, if you haven't
upgraded your install yet, you might try that. Other wise, I hear a new XF86
is out with more support for ATI Raddeons, maybe All In Wonder is sup
Hello everyone,
I use Linux Mandrake version 7.2 in a computer which has the i810
chipset and
a HP CD writer 9150 (9100 series). The cd writer was already installed by
the time I
installed Linux.
The problem is that I have't been able to write more than two
sessions in a
Hey Michael,
I am running Quake III and Unreal Tournament. I run Unreal Tournament using
the software render (SDLDrv.SDLSoftware.Render). I tried OpenGL
(SDLGLDrv.SDLGLRender) but it was all messed up.The sceneray was missing much
and I couldn't make out any words but I could play it best in O
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 10:46, you wrote:
> Hi...
>
> In the LM7.2 Expert Install there is an option for using "hard drive
> optimizations".
>
> Is this LM's obscure way of referring to ReiserFS? If not, where else
> in the Installer can one choose ReiserFS?
the hard drive optimizations are
Mark Johnson wrote:
> check out www.ibooks.com they have a book called, Thinking in C++, I
> think they are offering it free as a special promotion. They also
> have all the linux books from the LDP for free too.
Last I looked, this book was available free off the author's website
too.
--
Hi everyone,
Can someone tell me how I can downgrade XFree86 from 4.0 (in LM7.1) to 3.3?
I found out that some of the software that we want to run do not support
XFree86 4.0 (yet), such as Win4Lin and VMware.
Cheers,
Andy
What did you do to solve the acceleration problem?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 7:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Quake III or any game?
Dear Michael, I have Mandrake 7.2, Voodoo3 3000 and Quake
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Goldenpi wrote:
>What do you get if you not only use but also copy and sell it?
>
>Windows 95 and 98 disks have the words "please do not make pirate copies of
>this disk" on them. Nice try m$.
That of course is high risk. But then, I never found a pirate that would
lie still
I'll try to tell you what i did, but unfortunatly I am
away from my computer (and install notes) till Jan3!
And yes, I have 3d accell working- man quake 3 is
cool!
I had to mix and match instructions from s many
sources. I have the Viper V770 using the TNT2 -so I
presume the install will be
Ok. I have been playing around in linux and I was trying to access my
floppy from both my superuser account and root. I did this via /mnt/floppy
and I believe they are being supermounted. Do I still have to mount them or
should they be accessible? Under root it was locked out which doesn't mak
What do you get if you not only use but also copy and sell it?
Windows 95 and 98 disks have the words "please do not make pirate copies of
this disk" on them. Nice try m$.
- Original Message -
From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:46 PM
I have a dual celeron system with an ATI All in wonder, and Drake 7.2,
but when I run tuxracer, the menus load fine, but when I play the game,
the screen is very, very white, you can hardly see tux. but when I press
excape, the little dialog is in color, how could I go about fixing this?
Regards,
I have a Toshiba Tecra 8100, and the graphics chipset on it is a S3
Savage. I had to find beta drivers for it. Find out who makes your card,
and look to see if you can find a linux driver for it. If you find one,
and can figure out how to install it, write back.
Steve Combs wrote:
>
> I just inst
Dear Michael, I have Mandrake 7.2, Voodoo3 3000 and Quake III runs fine.
I had a lot of problems to got the acceleration of my Voodoo3, because
Mandrake 7.2 have a bug for our video card, but after solvingit, every
accelerated program I have installed runs OK.
Are you sure you have the acceleratio
HI All!!! First get out of x-windows by going to the shutdown section
and selecting console mode..(after it boots into it you may have to
press enter to get a login prompt)log in as rootand then run
sndconfig.i had the same problem and this worked like a charm, and
you get to hear
I just installed Mandrake 7.2 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT. I can't see the
entire screen. The cursor will move off the screen on the bottom and to the right
about 2 inches further than I can see. It doesn't appear to be related to the other
virtual desktops. When I try to change the resol
that's interesting as i was thinking of the same thing.
see, i have a "live CD" of Red Hat (version 3.something) which i can boot up from the
CD. i know that in XCDRoast there is an option to make a CD bootable. so i was
thinking that i would figure out which files & directories i must have t
I don't remember where to look to paste it here, but I remember
seeing it start up when the machine boots. Which was like 15
days ago. But I'm pretty sure it is up and running. Do you
recall where that is? So I can look there and make sure it
is running.
tdh
--
T. Holmes
Unixtechs.org
[EMAI
Mr. Smith,
If you _INSIST_ on creating a boot CD, I guess all you would have to do is
take the boot disk you have, and then burn it to CD. That's a huge waste
of a CD, but that will do the trick.
You could consider buying LS-120. It doesn't run off the floppy cahin and
is much faster, but th
try [ctrl]+[alt]+[f3] (or any f* key up to [f6]) and then to get back into
your xwindow sesion [ctrl]+[alt]+[f7]
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From: "Michael Scottaline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 4:06 AM
Subject: Re: [RE: [newbie] breaking out of
I just got the new Kensington Expert Pro Mouse. It was supposed
to come out in October, but hey, we won't gripe about that now.
I got the mouse yesterday, which was perfect because I was building
another machine. I got all the parts, minus a sound card, for R2D2.
(Have STAR WARS theme at home.
Hi Everyone,
I am trying to run XF86 v4 on my Dell Inspiron 7500. I get 1024x768 and
1280x1024 OK, but I can't seem to use the 1400x1050 resolution. This is a
valid resolution with Redhat 7, so I figured I would just use the modes from
my XF86Config-4 for redhat in my Mandrake XF86Config. No luck
yeah...thanks pal, had problems with the fonttastic rpms but got there in
the end :-)
thanks pal
Graham
On Tuesday 19 December 2000 9:33 pm, you wrote:
> Graham,
>
> Did you solve the font thing??
>
> angus
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: a r [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Se
I would like to know if it is possible (I am pretty sure it is) to create a
bootdisk on a cd. I would like to know because I am using Mandrake, BeOS
(free), and Winblows. I find the floppy slightly...slow. So I was just
wondering how I could create a bootdisk to launch linux from a cd instead o
Michael Khachiki wrote:
> can some one help me with networking Linux? I want to get
> two Linux machines networked and I don't know any thing
> about it. I need manual that can tell me how to go about it
> and what programs I need?
>
>
>
>
> Regards
> Michael
MichaelLinux mandrake and most ot
I will assume that you are using the default shell (BASH).
Your path gets set in your .bash_profile file. This HIDDEN file is in your
home directory. i.e. /home/Donnie/.bash_profile
-Original Message-
From: Donnie Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 7:
Okay,should I use the srpms or the normal rpms? I have never used the
srpms before,do I install with the normal rpm -Uvh or is the procedure
not the same,sort of a newbie here!
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 09:55 am, Dale Kosan wrote:
> Okay,I did not use source rpms,should I have?
I wouldn't, use the binary rpms
Can I fix the system
> with the command you mentioned or do a re-install and upgrade to the
> newest KDE2?
If you installed _ALL_ the KDE 2.1 rpms
Yes,go to this site and download the
program. http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/
Hello,
I have downloaded the ISO files for 7.2. I
would like to verify that the md5sums code is correct on the ISO
files.
Is there a program available that I can run under
Windows/98 to do this verification.
Thanks, Charlie
Patterson
Okay,I did not use source rpms,should I have? Can I fix the system
with the command you mentioned or do a re-install and upgrade to the
newest KDE2? I don't mind the re-install,just want to get this
right.The site I downloaded from is ftp://nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE/
is this the correct site? Th
This may be considered sacreligious, but what worked for mine was to bring
the same box up under win/95, get it on mediaone, get all the settings, then
plug them into the linux netconf. I still lose it on a reboot, but it seems
to come back after a few tries of running dhcpcd with no hostname.
T
Hi...
In the LM7.2 Expert Install there is an option for using "hard drive
optimizations".
Is this LM's obscure way of referring to ReiserFS? If not, where else in the
Installer can one choose ReiserFS?
Thanks.
M.
--
Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 08:47 am, Dale Kosan wrote:
> I downloaded and installed Chris's KDE2 from the site that has been
> showing up in this list lately.I did a --test first and all passed.I
> then did a rpm -Uvh *. rpm.Everything went fine till the end when it
> came up with a "cant find
I have a question. This is kinda OT.
On www.linux-mandrake.org there is a section for screenshots. I 'm sure
you've all seen it. In there I saw a shot with a desktop picture of an x-ray
of a human skull and it had wires plugged into the back of the head. The
caption was "do you feel connected?" I
hey Roger, that was me. glad that you are happy.
nothing quite like a smooth & speedy computer is there.
as has been said before on this list,
if you feed your pinguin good food
she will be your friend.
=)
Adrian Smith
'de telepone dude
Telecom Dept.
x 7042
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>>> Roger Sherman
I downloaded and installed Chris's KDE2 from the site that has been
showing up in this list lately.I did a --test first and all passed.I
then did a rpm -Uvh *. rpm.Everything went fine till the end when it
came up with a "cant find make file" When I went into KDE I don't have
sound,the K Panel is
Thanks,
The tab completion thing wasn't in the help, that I could find. Its a bit
"kinky" typing, tabbing, then mousing, and pasting, but sure beats trying to
type those long file names by hand.
Maybe I will stay with kconsole, if a newer xterm isn't better, since the
delete key seems to be wor
Thanks, yes, your copy/paste worked. Clicking both mouse buttons at the
same time pastes. Sad that I've been suffering from not reading the book on
that 1 the past month or 2. It doesn't work under mc, but it isn't
critical, there, as I know a way to paste filenames, with alt-enter,
already. m
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 00:39, Bob Currey wrote:
> I'd be happy if any of them worked. That was why I posted my somewhat
> lame, and partial solution. It wasn't which keys or clicks provide
> copy/paste functionality that was my problem, it was the total lack of the
> capability and needing to type
I don't know how to fix the delete key "feature" (though I'd like to know
how), but I do know how to (kind of) solve your copy-paste problem. The trick
is that whenever you select any text in X, it is automatically copied to the
copy-paste buffer. To paste, click the middle mouse button where y
check out www.ibooks.com they have a book called, Thinking in C++, I think
they are offering it free as a special promotion. They also have all the
linux books from the LDP for free too.
-Original Message-
From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 5:
Donnie Green wrote:
>
> All,
> The following command now allows me to mount my floppy drive without errors,
> but I cannot read any of the files on the floppy disk:
>
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
>
> I placed a floppy in that has a document written with notepad and
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Networking/
go here they have some good little demos that got my two LM 7.2
boxes talking and sharing their internet connection
Seth
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael
Khachiki
What did you do to get the nvidia drivers working, I haven't for the life of
me been able to get them to work. (i assume here you have 3d acceleration
working)
Jamie
>From: "John and Marcie Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [newbie]
Just a thought as I use Linux to share the internet
but you might try setting the Windows box serving the
internet as the gateway address on the client linux
box and enter the DNS information for you ISP on the
Linux client. Another alternative is to use the Linux
box as the internet server. Lin
I think what he was asking for is to share the internet. If that is what
your after, you can download many free proxy server programs. My favoriate
before I got linux as a router was analogx. www.analogx.com. I had real good
luck with that one.
- Original Message -
From: "Michel Hardy-Vall
"Amin Yuliastanto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> but on my LM7.0 doesnt wor
> after i push Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, X-server seems just restarting not exiting
> X
> is there any other way?
>
> Salam,
>
> Amin Yuliastanto
X restarts because that is what it is being told
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