I have recently completed a fresh install of Mandrake 7.0 on my system and
fried my old bastardised 6.0/6.1 system. I have noticed a few problems with
KDE and am wondering if anyone else has had similar problems. All these
problems come from the KDE Control Panel not effecting certain changes I
You're probably right about going for name brand, you get better performance
etc, though the HOWTO gave me the impression that the Realtek 8029 was a
well supported chipset, though I see what you mean, the driver might just
assume it's an ISA card.
Fortunately the vendor I purchased from
I'm not sure if "unzip" is a typo or not, but to unzip files zipped by
WinZip i use "gunzip /path/to/file".
The problem I have is unzipping multispanned WinZip archives. The only way
to unzip these is to use WinZip in Windows. After unzipping the file in
Windows, I use WinZip to rezip them
Does anyone know if the new Sun license prevents third parties from burning
StarOffice CD's and redistributing them?
I don't know what Sun's plans are with StarOffice but if they want to have
their product up there with MS Office in terms of product recognition, a
great place to start would be
I don't know if I'm remotely right here but is an AMD4864-133 a pentium
class CPU? I know MAndrake is compiled for pentium class machines and I
have read that 486 machines can have some difficulties running Mandrake. If
your CPU isn't pentium class maybe that's causing, or contributing towards
It might be the monitor you need to play around with. I know that when I
had a dual booting machine whenever I changed from Windows to Linux, or
vice-versa I had to play around with the monitors horizontal and vertical
positioning and stretch settings. Try playing around with those settings if
Troll Tech was hired to assist Opera in the Linux Port the same group
that created the QT library's
I think maybe they ran into more problems than they thought in
translating from Windows to Linux?
JR
If Troll Tech are doing the port maybe that means they will be using
QT
Probably old news to a lot of you, however I came across the following
site...
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/
It seems to me a Doom (or even better Quake2) user-interface is what a
cutting-edge Linux distribution needs. I for one think that Mandrake should
have a Doom interface for
Just out of interest - what is the telnet client included in windows called?
Aaron
-Original Message-
From: Alan Shoemaker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 5:43 AM
To: newbie
Subject: [newbie] FTP install...
I have a system with a nic that is
Bloody Australia and damn Australians. Place has gone down hill since they
stopped drinking Swan Lager and started on that awful stuff that comes out
of green cans. Still Justin Langer is in the test team so it can't be all
bad. And for the record the Mandrake programme sure knows what Western
Greetings
Last night I decided I wanted to compile some software. I quickly
discovered that I have not installed the necessary pgcc, make etc etc. I
began my installation process by trying to install make. I used the
kpackage to do the installation. As it was installing it came up with a
DragonFly. Sounds far better than the others.
On 11 Oct, Pixel wrote:
the panoramix name is unfortunately copyrighted (wishing there were only
GPL ;-)
so i'm making a poll here to know which name it will change to!
Set WordPerfect to use Passthru Postscript. It will then hand it off to
lpr which does a wonderful job of rendering to the printer.
--
Steve Philp
[snip]
I've tried using WP8 with an Epson Colour 200 - one of those 1997 budget
printers that only ever appeared to be fast
No harm done ;-)
-Original Message-
From: Frank Hilliard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 10:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Is NFS really that bad (reality check)
Aaron,
Thanks for the clarification of your question, which I
I think that I have read somewhere on the Mandrake site that Mandrake 6.0 is
99% compatible with Red Hat 6.0. Given this is the case the Red Hat
hardware compatibility lists might well be a good place to check to see if
your hardware, or hardware you are planning to purchase, is supported. They
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Aaron deRozario
Subject: Re: [newbie] Is NFS really that bad (reality check)
Is this really a legitimate question or one posed by a front for
Microsoft?
It's not the first time in the past few weeks I've seen someone trolling
for
horror stories in a Linux
Thankyou sir
You are a Gentleman and a Scholar
Aaron
-Original Message-
From: Steve Philp [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 10:19 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Is NFS really that bad (reality check)
Aaron deRozario wrote:
Note
Greetings all.
As I prepare (read find the time) to set up a Linux network at home i have
been reading up on NFS. This is apparently the standard Unix file
sharing/networking system. However whenever I read something about it I
read things like "its slow, horrible, etc" (nfs-howto) or "has
I think I'll try messing around with this - from what's been said the
performance improvements are quite good. I presume the Ultra-DMA howto and
man for hdparm is all I need (and copies of the thread emails).
-Original Message-
From: Tom Brinkman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
Greetings all.
I currently use a dual booting system with Win95 and Mandrake 6, hda
Windows, hdb Linux. I have decided that I no longer wish to have my
system
defiled by Windows and would like my main machine Linux only. I am
intending to remove the windows hard drive and use it for
I have had a similar lock-up with konsole, last night in fact.
The lock up occurred when I swapped to Midnight Commander (using the drop
down menu - I can't remember which one). I am assuming that if an offending
software program locks up while it is reading from the keyboard and/or mouse
I seemed to have this problem under 6.0. Does Mandrake run any particular
script when loading KDE that checks if the Mandrake default icons are in
Desktop, and place them there if they aren't?
I really like using WindowMaker, partly because it doesn't use windows
styled desktop icons, but there
Greetings all.
I currently use a dual booting system with Win95 and Mandrake 6, hda
Windows, hdb Linux. I have decided that I no longer wish to have my system
defiled by Windows and would like my main machine Linux only. I am
intending to remove the windows hard drive and use it for other,
This information would be very handy. IF someone had the time and effort
and web space some kind of database that keeps track of parts and parts
combinations that are successful, or unsuccessful might also be good. I
know when I built my machine I was only interested in getting parts that
would
-Original Message-
From: Thomas Peter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 8:15 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] SBLive under 6.1
I agree with you. Im Just starting and realy dont want to have to deal
with a
sound card. I want to
Switch to WordPerfect? That's dream number 2;-)
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 3:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A)
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Then
Greetings all
Over the last couple of days I have been reading plenty of HOW-TO's, and a
few mini-HOWTO's on networking with Linux. In fact I've encountered more
weird acronyms and strange buxx words in the last 2 days than in the rest of
my life put together. However I am learning a
But why?
Adelaide's so dull ;-)
-Original Message-
From: Axalon Bloodstone [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 12:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] GO
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Michael Doyle wrote:
Ok but your paying for the
I've got a seeing eye dog
-Original Message-
From: Ken Archer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 9:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] STOP
I just did it till I needed glasses.
Alas I cannot, been doin it for 45 odd years now.
Stop what? I haven't done anything ;-)
neither has CSIRO ;-)
-Original Message-
From: Michael Lim Shek Sia [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 1:15 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] STOP
S3 Virge GX2 (4 meg) on the Linux machine. Xfree is the standard one found
on the Mandrake 6.0 cd. The work machine has an S3 DX.
There may well be acceleration on the windows machine as the S3 virge uses
an svga server. Yeah you are right I can probably figure out my own
problems from that
its audio output to the 486 client?
Aaron
-Original Message-
From: Steve Philp [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 12:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Server 'dumb' clients
Aaron deRozario wrote:
Thank you all for your advice
As a newbie there are a lot of things about Linux and computers in general
that I do not yet understand - please bear with me.
I have a query about the pros and cons of running multiple processors. I
don't know about anywhere else in the world but in Australia the new Abit
dual-Celeron boards
ning stage at the moment. I need
a month off work so I can sit down and learn.
Aaron deRozario
Good question.
Every so often I feel the desire to play Doom, which was released as part of
a RH5.0 cd I got with a book (nice easy way to blow off stress at the end of
a hard day). It won't run in 16-bit colour, only 8-bit. I run in 16 bit
colour.
Don't know the answer though
Does anyone know if any Australian mags have included StarOffice on a cover
CD?
-Original Message-
From: Simon Norris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 2 September 1999 15:18
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Star Office
As a small tip seeing as you're
On a slightly different note, I also would like to install Mandrake 6.0 on a
computer without CD-ROM boot. Could I use a boot disk from RedHat 5.2 to
select CDROM install and then let teh Mandrake CDROM take over?
Aaron
-Original Message-
From: hevnsnt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
Thanks!
-Original Message-
From: alann [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 2 September 1999 22:39
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Doc
Aaron deRozario wrote:
On a slightly different note, I also would like to install Mandrake 6.0
on a
computer
Thankyou very much John.
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 3 September 1999 10:24
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Doc
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
On a slightly different note, I also would like to install
I have had this occur. What I did was this -
1) run fsck - this program checks the filesystem. Run without any
paramenters it checks the filesystem and reports to you when it has found a
problem. It also suggests how this problem can be fixed, giving you a
yes/no question (yes - fix, no -
How many of G400 Max features are supported by the Xfree86 drivers? I know
they have been talking about multi-headed support for dual monitors/cards
for their next release, but do the current drivers support dual monitors?
Does anyone know if either the current or future Xfree86 drivers for the
August 1999 12:38
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound configuration
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Aaron deRozario wrote:
Could someone please tell me what permissions on what devices I need to
set
so that all users can access sound and midi? At present only root and
one
I have been using Linux successfully with sound for some time now. However
I have recently tried a couple of things and now sound has gone haywire. I
have done the following...
1) Setup a specific user account for playing Civilisation-CTP. Don't ask
me why, it just seemed like a good idea at
I have noticed that when using the root account KDE seems to crash with an
alarming regularity. I have noticed this when copying files and
directories, right clicking on items in the /dev directory and a few other
things. What happens is the icons on screen go black and all kfm windows
stop
I had a similar video configuration problem. The default setting
Xconfigurator was choosing was giving a black screen with blackish icons (I
think that means that the refresh rates don't synch). My problem was solved
by manually choosing my display settings in Xconfigurator. Another thing I
I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem. The Mandrake
login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE login screen
and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident.
If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program (sorry I
-Original Message-
From: Aaron deRozario
Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 10:25
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] KDE Messed up
Not a problem - I'll have a look next time I'm in front of Linux. For the
moment I'll have another go at giving you a very bad
THe name
might not be the same but it is self-explanatory. Unless you are logged in
as root, it will not give you access.
Hope this helps.
Aaron
-Original Message-
From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 10:07
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Aaron
My understanding is that the main difference is packageing. Having said
that Red Hat 6.0 uses a different kernel (2.2.5 I think). Mandrake uses
2.2.9 which has a few security problems in it. On the Mandrake updates page
it says that you need to upgrade the kernel in order to prevent a
I have run Xconfigurator from the console as well as from an X-term window.
Because Xconfigurator probes the video card I have had it crash or lock up
when running from an Xterm window (in RedHat 5.2), on the odd occasion.
I would suggest that if you are configuring either X or the mouse boot
I am a home user and I find Mandrake perfect. I don't think the learning
curve is any steeper than for any other OS. The problem most people find
when trying Linux is that it doesn't do things the Windows way. This
doesn't necessarily make Linux harder to use it is just different to use and
it
version?
Star Office is on the CD of PC PLUS magazine this month. The December
issue is to include the Linux version on CD ROM.
Jeanette
Aaron deRozario wrote:
Does anyone know if the new Sun license prevents third parties from
burning
StarOffice CD's and redistributing them
I think I remember Loki talking about developing a gaming API. I'm not sure
if it is open source though.
Aaron
-Original Message-
From: Sysadmin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 9:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: re: [newbie]
I wish. If I
No you don't need Windows to use wine now. I think when wine was first
emerging you needed a copy of Win3.1 on your system. That was before they
even started working on 32-bit API's. I remember reading this in one of
those free computer papers they have in Toronto, when I lived in Canada last
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