Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd

2001-11-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 24 November 2001 14:01, Ed Tharp wrote: actully I seem to remember something about a scsi-ide drivre (as needed to burn cd) can not play music, something about the scsi emulation... I could prolly remember if I had not tried to adjust he acid level in my battery-brain back durring

Re: [newbie] kernel 2.4.13

2001-11-24 Thread Florian Struck
Thanx it worked quite fine the kernel loads nicely with my original settings . A few problems appeared though not directly related to the kernel . First the new kernel doesnt seem to accept the nvidia drivers so after switching the kernel i have to edit XF86config-4 cause the new kernel runs

Re: [newbie] kernel 2.4.13

2001-11-24 Thread Florian Struck
Thanx it worked quite fine the kernel loads nicely with my original settings . A few problems appeared though not directly related to the kernel . First the new kernel doesnt seem to accept the nvidia drivers so after switching the kernel i have to edit XF86config-4 cause the new kernel runs

[newbie] ppoe question - ADSL

2001-11-24 Thread Neville Cobb
Why is it that I need to edit /etc/ppp/resolve.conf and add the search domain at the top above the PDNS and SNDS in order to get my e-mail working? I then have the edit /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf to stop it overwriting resolve.conf. Could it be something that I've done or maybe there is a step I

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers (SUCCESS)

2001-11-24 Thread Mr. E.
Yeah,thanks from me, too. I was having trouble with the Nvidia RPM's from the Mandrakeuser.org site. I was able to install the rpm's. X would start. The Nvidia logo would appear and I'd get to the KDE desktop. BUT, OpenGL wouldn't work. 1) I didn't know how to quit X. or boot up without X

Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux

2001-11-24 Thread Stewart Taylor
Some interesting point here, generally I agree with what you say. However you must not forget that M$ is where it is today NOT because of good software but because of a history of sharp practice in marketing that stretches back almost to the foundation of the company.One of thier best departments