[newbie-it] configurazione mouse

2001-01-23 Thread Mario Vittorio Guenzi
Buongiorno a tutti, non riesco a configurare il mouse intellimouse della Microsoft, se vado in drak config lo riporta come tipo ma anche se lo clicco per assegnarlo lui si comporta come un normalissimo mouse senza la rotellina che e' d'un comodo... Qualcuno ha avuto e risolto lo stesso problema?

Re: [newbie-it] Settaggio monitor

2001-01-23 Thread Francesco Fabbri
Se come molti sfortunati (me compreso) hai un Brilliance 105 "di prima generazione" (quelli senza menu sullo schermo) allora devi sapere che: 1) un buon monitor, con tempi di latenza molto brevi (ci consente, smanettando, di aumentare leggermente le prestazioni della scheda video) ma diversi da

Re: [newbie-it] DVD III

2001-01-23 Thread Alberto Zanoni
Ciaoo, grazie della risposta e scusa: Io ho una vodoo3 - 3dfx. Scusa l'ignoranza, che e' davvero abissale, cosa vuol dire ridurre il colore a 16 bit, e soprattutto, come posso farlo ? Puoi lanciare DrakConf e poi Change X resolution (o Cambia risoluzione di X, se hai l' italiano).

[newbie-it] configurazione lilo

2001-01-23 Thread luca laghi
Ho un computer su cui ho installato windows 98 e linux 2.16. Vorrei far s che lilo avviasse di default windows e non linux come attualmente fa. Nel file lilo.config alla voce default= ho sostituito "linux" con "dos", ma non ho sortito effetti. Avete qualche consiglio? Grazie, Luca.

Re: [newbie-it] configurazione lilo

2001-01-23 Thread Andrea Celli
luca laghi wrote: Ho un computer su cui ho installato windows 98 e linux 2.16. Vorrei far s che lilo avviasse di default windows e non linux come attualmente fa. Nel file lilo.config alla voce default= ho sostituito "linux" con "dos", ma non ho sortito effetti. Avete qualche consiglio?

[newbie-it] Aiuto : Linux Bloccato e non parte

2001-01-23 Thread pacmo
Dunque ho il seguente problema. Ho notato che Apache non partiva perch la rete non era attiva. L'ho riavviata manualmente ed infatti Apache partito. Fatto questo sono andato nei servizi da attivare al boot ed ho attivato la rete. Quindi ho riavviato. Quando effettua lo start dei servizi prima mi

Fw: [newbie-it] Asuscom isdnlink 128k interno

2001-01-23 Thread solare
- Original Message - From: "caterina" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:45 AM Subject: [newbie-it] Asuscom isdnlink 128k interno Con Mandrake 7.2 riconosce detta scheda che interna, per la connessione isdn. Durante l'installazione configuro

[newbie-it] errore-kppp

2001-01-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ciao a tutti sono Lele, ho da poco installato mandrake 7.2 seguendo la installazione raccomandata ,dopo aver settato il modem (spero in maniera corretta) un asuscom isdnlink 128k adapter interno ho cercato di entrare in rete, ma continua darmi questo segnale "errore -kppp,errore nel pppd

[newbie-it] xine e DVD

2001-01-23 Thread Alberto Zanoni
Ciao, dopo un po' di peregrinazioni ho fatto un decisivo passo in avanti, anche se l'optimum non c'e' ancora. Innanzitutto ho visto che su xine.sourceforge.net c'e' una nuova release: la 0.3.6. L'ho presa, ho fatto l'upgrade con rpm -Uvh xine-0.3.6-0.i686.rpm ed ho quindi la nuova

Re: [newbie-it] Settaggio monitor

2001-01-23 Thread Francesco Speranza
Caro Francesco ti ringrazio per la tua disponibilit ma ho risolto il problema brillantemente e spero che cio' che ti sto per dire ti possa aiutare. Ho risolto il problema con un programma( scoperto dopo ore e ore di ricerca su gli HOWTO) che presente in mandrake e che si chiama xvidtune ;

Re: [newbie-it] DVD

2001-01-23 Thread Francesco M. Landolfi
Sebastiano ... Aiuto !!! inolre, quando premo il tasto "play" ho in risposta: error: couldn't find demuxer for DROP A FILE ON XINE Ammesso che il dvd si trovi nel lettore :-)) credo che dovresti creare un symlink in questo modo: ln -s /dev/hdx /dev/dvd riferito alla posizione del

Re: [newbie-it] DVD

2001-01-23 Thread Francesco M. Landolfi
che e' quello che non riesco proprio ad installare Per esempio io ho appena scaricato la 0.3.5 di xine e la 0.1.1 del plugin, mentre per la 0.3.4 c'era la 0.1.0 ecc Dimmi, per favore, dove si reperisce il plug in e se con questo riesci a vedere tutti i tuoi dvd ciao francesco m.

Re: [newbie-it] DVD

2001-01-23 Thread Francesco M. Landolfi
I Il supporto XVideo dipende dalla tua scheda e relativo driver: funziona bene con le matrox ma forse anche con nvidia e ati; io ho una matrox e va benissimo anche il fullscreen, ora sto provando ad attivare l' uscita A parte il fatto che cosi' mi fai morire di invida :)) allora ho una

[newbie-it] Scheda audio FM801: modprobe: can't locate module snd-pcm-oss

2001-01-23 Thread mauro
Non riesco a settare il sonoro, ho una scheda fortemedia FM801, la quale mi viene riconmosciuta da HardDrake, quando pero' cerco di settarla mi dice che "modprobe: can't locate module snd-pcm-oss".Cosa devo fare? Qualcuno e' cosi' gentile da spedirmelo e dirmi dove metterlo? Ha quanto ho

Re: [newbie] l-m doesnt detect my modem or printer

2001-01-23 Thread civileme
On Monday 22 January 2001 23:41, you wrote: hi, i recently installed l-m 7.1, and it detects neither my modem (56K, V.90 compatible data/fax modem) nor my printer (hp deskjet 710c). the printer drivetrs are not on the list it shows - is there anywhere i can download them? mind you, that

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 installation problem

2001-01-23 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 00:52, you wrote: I have a 1 Ghz Athlon, Asus A7v motherboard, Plexwriter 8/4/32A CD-RW, 128 MB ram. I downloaded the two Mandrake 7.2 iso files and validated the md5 sums. I burned my own CD-RWs with Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4. I created the CD-RWs from the iso

RE: Re: [newbie] sing both cdrw and cdrom from X

2001-01-23 Thread falcaraz
Dave, I am very glad for the good impression you have of Murcia or as least of the murcian people. I work as a professor in the Biology Faculty at the University of Murcia (I don't know if the murcian student you mention came from the University or from a secondary school; do you imagine? it

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Not Functioning On Laptop

2001-01-23 Thread Michael Scottaline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All: Newbie with a capital "N" here. I just installed Linux for the first time a couple of days ago. So far everything appears to this uninitiated person to be OK (e.g. connecting to the Internet), but I can't for the life of me get the sound card to work.

[newbie] Boot manager problem???

2001-01-23 Thread Ameya Naik
Hi , I installed linux on a machine with 20 GB HDD. I had configured lilo while installing but it doesn't show up during boot. It gives an error that there are more than 1024 cylinders or something like that. How do i solve this problem? Also can anyone tell me that if i want to use Grub as my

[newbie] Saving Netscape settings

2001-01-23 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Neville: 1) Thanks so much to you and everyone for responding. If everything is in my hidden .netscape directory, then I can just save the entire .netscape directory. Right? As for the mail (nsmail), I really don't need it since I usually save any and all important messages to a file and

[newbie] /home and LM72 install enigma

2001-01-23 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Here is something for you to chew over. I wonder if any of you have had this problem: The last two times that I reinstalled LM72, I discovered that when I clicked on my /home directory, LM72 would NOT install any files from the second CD. I had formatted only hda, NOT hdb (/home)

[newbie] Saving Netscape settings for reinstall

2001-01-23 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Neville and friends: Thanks so much to you and everyone for responding. If everything is in my hidden .netscape directory, then I can just save the entire .netscape directory. Right? As for the mail (nsmail), I really don't need it since I usually save any and all important messages to a

[newbie] Clicking on floppy icon does not work on desktop

2001-01-23 Thread Romanator
Hi all, I was wondering, do you always have to navigate to the command line to "mount" the floppy? I wanted to view the files on my boot disk. However, when I clickthe floppy icon, the following message appears: "Unable to enter file:/mnt/floppy You do not have access rights to this location"

[newbie] Hdparm question

2001-01-23 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I have yet another question... I was playing around with hdparm last night, and I found my optimal settings. Now, here is my question. I know that I have to add a line somewhere in /etc/rc.d/???. Can someone please give me instructions on how to make my hdparm settings reload upon start-up? Any

[newbie] Problem to compile the kernel 2.4.0 with ADM Athlon setting.

2001-01-23 Thread Blomquist, Niklas
I have problem to compile the 2.4.0 kernel when I'm setting the optimization to AMD Athlon. I can do the make dep, but not make bzImage. It end's after a couple of sec with error 1 /Niklas -Ursprungligt meddelande- Frn: Romanator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 23 januari

[newbie] Mandrake 7.2+Dialup Sharing

2001-01-23 Thread \\\\`hoam|
Hi, I just install Mandrake 7.2 (2cd Download ver) And I want to share my dialup connection between my linux box (with the modem) throught my ethernet card for my other box (Win Me). I set up my network so I can ping my other box. So what Can I do now, because the option in Mandrake (Share

2nd request, please [newbie] 2.4.0 kernel upgrade make modules fails

2001-01-23 Thread Keith Robinson
didn't see any responses. Am I asking the wrong q? wrong group? Not enough info? too much info? Am i wearing the wrong color tie? big TIA! Begin forwarded message: Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 19:40:25 -0700 From: Keith Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 2.4.0

[newbie] * * * * * T E L N E T P R O B L E M S * * * * *

2001-01-23 Thread aicardo gil
I need to configure the next files rc.local and telnet.conf, but I can't to find how do that. Anybody know how do? Anybody Know which lines i need to modify? If anybody whant to help me can to see the next files:telnet.conf is in /etc and rc.local an write to me what said your lines. I need

Re: [newbie] Saving Netscape settings for fresh install

2001-01-23 Thread Dave Sherman
This is assuming Ben has a separate /home partition. If not, this won't work. Ben, from within Netscape you can bring up your address book, then click the Directory entry (on the left) that you wish to save. Once it is selected, from the File menu choose Export, and you will get a Save As

Re: [newbie] Hdparm question

2001-01-23 Thread D.M. Mattix
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 06:37, you wrote: I have yet another question... I was playing around with hdparm last night, and I found my optimal settings. Now, here is my question. I know that I have to add a line somewhere in /etc/rc.d/???. Can someone please give me instructions on how to

RE: [newbie] Hdparm question

2001-01-23 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Just add the line? hdparm -X66 -m16 -u1 -d1 -c3 /dev/hda Just plop it in there? Chris Kelly Why use Windows when you can use the door? In a world without fences, who needs Gates? -Original Message- From: D.M. Mattix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 9:36 AM

[newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2 with Window$ 2000

2001-01-23 Thread John Catral
Hello! I recently tried to install Mandrake 7.2 on my computer that has windows 2000 on it also. Before anything, I want to describe the setup I have. I have 2 hardrives. The primary drive has windows 2000 on it and the second drive is for Mandrake. Anyway, I installed Mandrake on the second

Re: [newbie] Hdparm question

2001-01-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 06:37 am, Kelly, Christopher wrote: I was playing around with hdparm last night, and I found my optimal settings. Now, here is my question. I know that I have to add a line somewhere in /etc/rc.d/???. Can someone please give me instructions on how to make my hdparm

RE: [newbie] Hdparm question

2001-01-23 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Great! Thanks Tom. Chris Kelly Why use Windows when you can use the door? In a world without fences, who needs Gates? -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hdparm question

Re: [newbie] Problem to compile the kernel 2.4.0 with ADM Athlon setting.

2001-01-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 06:42 am, Blomquist, Niklas wrote: I have problem to compile the 2.4.0 kernel when I'm setting the optimization to AMD Athlon. I can do the make dep, but not make bzImage. It end's after a couple of sec with error 1 http://home.tampabay.rr.com/jandr/kernel.htm

[newbie] Help

2001-01-23 Thread Edward John das Neves Lake
I think that you can do a litle help to me. I installed linux mandrake 7.1 in one machine ( Pentium II with 128 MB Ram ). I installed a new hard disk IDE Quantum Fire ball with 30 GB , but linux is not seeing all the space, is seeing just around 2 GB. There is something that I nedd to

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Not Functioning On Laptop

2001-01-23 Thread rys
--- Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All: Newbie with a capital "N" here. I just installed Linux for the first time a couple of days ago. So far everything appears to this uninitiated person to be OK (e.g. connecting to the Internet), but I

[newbie] dialin ppp connection

2001-01-23 Thread Carl Lafferty
Maybe I am being dense but I want to find a way to dial into my LM 7.2 box at work from him and establish a PPP connection that will allow me to use that connection to surf the net and such. I have tried looking for 'dialin' in the list archives and possibly that is not what I should be looking

SV: [newbie] Problem to compile the kernel 2.4.0 with ADM Athlon setting.

2001-01-23 Thread Blomquist, Niklas
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 06:42 am, Blomquist, Niklas wrote: I have problem to compile the 2.4.0 kernel when I'm setting the optimization to AMD Athlon. I can do the make dep, but not make bzImage. It end's after a couple of sec with error 1

[newbie] Appending to Grub

2001-01-23 Thread Tony Branch
Does anyone have an idea how to append a line in Grub to inform the kernel that there is actually more system RAM than actually being is being reported? I know how to do this in Lilo, however Grub eludes me.

[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and usb zip drive

2001-01-23 Thread Dale Kunz
Hello, I am trying to get a usb zip drive to work under Mandrake 7.2. Usb storage and usb interface is loaded at boot. When I look at HardDrake devices under usb interfaces I see Intel 82801 AA Usb. The kernel module loading is usb-uhci. If I look at mount points I see cdrom,floppy,windows,and

[newbie] postscript lament

2001-01-23 Thread Vicar In A Tutu
And a very nice one to you too. Kindly allow me to inquire whether any software is available that would enable me to transfer rtf files into postscript documents. The only way of doing it now is opening a text file with Netscape, save it as postscript and then feed the thing to the printer.

[newbie] change source rpms to mdk rpms?

2001-01-23 Thread Jon Doe
I know I have seen and used the command to rebuild rpms from source to mandrake can anyone refresh my memory?

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and usb zip drive

2001-01-23 Thread Ozz
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 12:17, you wrote: Hello, I am trying to get a usb zip drive to work under Mandrake 7.2. Usb storage and usb interface is loaded at boot. When I look at HardDrake devices under usb interfaces I see Intel 82801 AA Usb. The kernel module loading is usb-uhci. If I

Re: [newbie] postscript lament

2001-01-23 Thread Matt Schroeder
One way is to use a program called Apsfilter. It automatically recognizes and transforms documents into PostScript, and can then pipe the document through ghostscript to your printer. It supports LPR and ghostscript 5 uniprint driver support. It also supports printing of HTML and PDF documents.

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Not Functioning On Laptop

2001-01-23 Thread Michael O'Henly
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 08:23, you wrote: P.S. I could, I suppose, install Windows (I have NT 4.0) for the express purpose of seeing what sound card I have...ouch ;-))! Ouch is right! I wouldn't do that. ;-) Among other things, NT wants to be the big kid on the block and will grab the

Re: [newbie] change source rpms to mdk rpms?

2001-01-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 11:33 am, Jon Doe wrote: I know I have seen and used the command to rebuild rpms from source to mandrake can anyone refresh my memory? rpm --rebuild packagesrc.rpm -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [newbie] postscript lament

2001-01-23 Thread Michael O'Henly
I think that's actually "a2ps" as in "anything to postscript". The URL is: http://www.inf.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/ M. On Tuesday 23 January 2001 09:49, you wrote: One way is to use a program called Apsfilter. It automatically recognizes and transforms documents into PostScript, and

Re: [newbie] Appending to Grub

2001-01-23 Thread Donald Hinds
It seems Grub reads the lilo.conf file? That is where I set my 'append "mem=56M"' (8M gets used for video) and it fixed my video problems. KDE (etc) shows 56M now. Don Does anyone have an idea how to append a line in Grub to inform the kernel that there is actually more system RAM than

Re: [newbie] Boot manager problem???

2001-01-23 Thread Penndragon
Hi Ameya Hi , I installed linux on a machine with 20 GB HDD. I had configured lilo while installing but it doesn't show up during boot. It gives an error that there are more than 1024 cylinders or something like that. How do i solve this problem? Also can anyone tell me that if i want

Re: [newbie] install with /home unchanged

2001-01-23 Thread angry
yes, just choose to not format that partition Busterfred wrote: I run mandrake 7.1, with /, /home, /user/storage, swap on separate partitions. I wish to install mandrake 7.2. Can I leave everything except / untouched and retain my music binaries in /user/storage and my four

[newbie] restore aurora

2001-01-23 Thread angry
its a long story, but i edited /etc/inittab to start in runlevel 3, after my problems with X were fixed, i re-edited to start in runlevel 5, but i did not get aurora back, anyone know how to restore it?

Re: [newbie] Clicking on floppy icon does not work on desktop

2001-01-23 Thread Michael Scottaline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I was wondering, do you always have to navigate to the command line to "mount" the floppy? I wanted to view the files on my boot disk. However, when I click the floppy icon, the following message appears: "Unable to enter file:/mnt/floppy You do not

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Not Functioning On Laptop

2001-01-23 Thread Michael Scottaline
rob wrote: Mike: Thank you for the response. I'm not dual booting with Windows. I tried running "sndconfig" which gives the message "No PnP devices found." Then it gives me the option of choosing from a list of sound cards, which puts me back at square one :-((. Any other ideas welcomed.

[newbie] netgear fa 510 pcmcia nic failing....

2001-01-23 Thread Dale Kosan
While installing Mandrake 7.2 my pcmcia card came back with this error: "* warning: insmod'ing module imm failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm line 479".When I leave the card in at boot I get:"cardmgr[207]:executing:'modprobe' cb_enabler' " Then it hangs,hard reboot needed. lsmod shows:

Re: [newbie] Saving Netscape settings for fresh install

2001-01-23 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Dave: Thanks so much for the advice! I like your suggestion because even though I have a separate /home partition (and on a separate drive all unto itself), LM72 will not properly install unless I completely reformat everything, i.e both hard drives including /home (see my earlier message

Re: [newbie] Saving Netscape settings for fresh install

2001-01-23 Thread Dave Sherman
Ben, I wish I could help you there, but I don't know how to export filters, or even if it is possible in Netscape. If you follow the other suggestions, about simply backing up your ~/.netscape directory, then your filters should be in there somewhere :-/ Dave On Tuesday 23 January 2001

[newbie] first successful linux virus reported

2001-01-23 Thread Anthony Daniell
I found thid story this morning on the linux.org site. http://www.mobilecomputing.com/shownews.cgi?1347 Just visiting this planet have a nice day. Jesus is Love. Anthony Daniell

Re: [newbie] modem problem

2001-01-23 Thread Buzz and Nan
I bought a zoom 2920 Linux compatible modem? and it's not working. I have been to linmodems.org and downloaded the ltmodem-5.78d.tar.gz file and now it sees my modem, but no dial tone. If you have the same model as I have, can't figure this one out, my soundblaster live sound great! my Cannon

[newbie] Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root ??

2001-01-23 Thread DC Trader
I installed Linux for windows. And Everything went perfect until I went to boot up for the first time. I get this error: Request_module [block-major-71] root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 07:07 kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 07:07 I

[newbie] menu system problem

2001-01-23 Thread KompuKit
Is there a way to fix multiple entriesin the Kmenu system? after an attempt of installing an app called: "rmagic" for analog (which also used CPAN to install some needed modules) I now have multiple entries of everything in my kmenu... there's 4 entries of each app... I re-installed

Re: [newbie] first successful linux virus reported

2001-01-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Firstly, a worm is not a virus. Worms are more like Trojan Horses, in that they exploit security holes and use them to open systems from the inside. Besides that, this isn't a bad article. Here, I shall use the word "virus" to represent all viruses, Trojans and worms (and anything else I may

[newbie] Yamaha SoundCard

2001-01-23 Thread Julio Gutierrez
I have a Yamaha ymf724 pci sound card, and is is detected under Mandrake 7.2 but my problem is that it doesn't work when i try to do a sndconfig it tells me that my card is not supported, does anyone know if I can find the drivers somewhere? because I can't live without my radio! Thank you in

[newbie] Compiling source and system speed improvements

2001-01-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I have a Pentium II 350MHz with 256MB of RAM. Would there be any speed benefit in compiling my most often used packages (e.g. the Kernel and X) myself? It looks like a good thing to do with faster processors (and I would definitely do this if I had and Athlon or a Pentium III), but I'm not

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Not Functioning On Laptop

2001-01-23 Thread Dennis Myers
If you can get into the box to get a good look at the sound card, you can find the FCC ID tag which has 3 letters and a string of alph-numeric, then go to http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccidand enter that data in the look up boxes. This will tell you the manufacturer and possibly more. Then

Re: [newbie] Compiling source and system speed improvements

2001-01-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 07:52 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I have a Pentium II 350MHz with 256MB of RAM. Would there be any speed benefit in compiling my most often used packages (e.g. the Kernel and X) myself? It looks like a good thing to do with faster processors (and I would

Re: [newbie] * * * * * T E L N E T P R O B L E M S * * * * *

2001-01-23 Thread Mr S Ganesan
what exactly do u want to do? -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax:0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in

Re: [newbie] Yamaha SoundCard

2001-01-23 Thread Mr S Ganesan
I also have a Yamaha SC and DrakeConf has beautifully configured it. I am not sure whether you tried DrakeConf as yet. I t certainly gives lower output as compared to its operation on Win9X but is sufficient if you increase the volume on you speakers!!! -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central

Re: [newbie] Compiling source and system speed improvements

2001-01-23 Thread Mr S Ganesan
Dear SD, I have loaded MKL7.2 with just a P 166 with 64 M of RAM and its is working fine though slightly slower. Therefore I donot think that ur processor and the 256 m of RAM is any cause for concern!! Go ahead and reload the system with a swap space inthe hdd of about 500 MB and everything will

Re: [newbie] Compiling source and system speed improvements

2001-01-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 23 January 2001 07:52 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I have a Pentium II 350MHz with 256MB of RAM. Would there be any speed benefit in compiling my most often used packages (e.g. the Kernel and X) myself? It looks like a good thing

[newbie] Running shell script at startup or shutdown, how?

2001-01-23 Thread Jon Doe
How do I run a shell script at startup or at shutdown with LM7.2? I know 7.1 had an autostart folder on the desktop, how was that done? Actaully I am more interested in running a shell script at shutdown, or logout.

Re: [newbie] Running shell script at startup or shutdown, how?

2001-01-23 Thread angry
i was wondering the same thing, i pulled this off the kde user archives: Start the Control Center and select "Loook Feel"/"Desktop"/"General". There's a setting named "Autostart path" on the "Desktop" tab. You can enter your autostart folder here. Jon Doe wrote: How do I run a shell script

Re: [newbie] Running shell script at startup or shutdown, how?

2001-01-23 Thread Keith Robinson
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:49:05 -0500 Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I run a shell script at startup or at shutdown with LM7.2? I know 7.1 had an autostart folder on the desktop, how was that done? Actaully I am more interested in running a shell script at shutdown, or logout.

[newbie] backup solution wanted

2001-01-23 Thread Fireman71
looking for a way to backup my entire linux system to an iso file which i can then transfer over my network to another machine that has a cd burner on it. I would really like for it to meet the following requirements: 1 - free or cheap, this will be used on a small home network and used to

[newbie] Odd backslash in gnome-terminal

2001-01-23 Thread Len Lawrence
Not life threatening, but this is a problem/fault that has bugged me since installing LM7.2 a couple of months ago with UK English support. Gnome-terminal displays the backslash character as a Y symbol with two crossbars (Yen symbol?) yet all other applications, as far as I can see, including

Re: [newbie] Yamaha SoundCard

2001-01-23 Thread Vicar In A Tutu
Oops! Forgot to add that you have to run modprobe snd-ymfpci at the end