Hi,
I'm looking for a page or pages explaining the ways in which Linux makes
better use of the Intel architecture than does Windows. Anyone got any good
ones? Thanks!
Gregg
Hi,
i recently reinstalled Mandrake on my laptop but did not reformat the /usr and
/home partitions. When i fiired up K again, there were duplicates of most of
the menu items. I assume this means that somewhere I have 2 of some
configuration file. Basically everything on the K menu is now
Hi all,
I'm trying to install the Blackdown JDK RPM that comes with L-M 6.1 Power Pack.
I am gettng an error sayng:
libodbcinst.so is needed by jdk1.2pre-v2-1mdk
libodbc.so is needed by jdk1.2pre-v2-1mdk
Are these files on the CD somewhere? Can anyone gve me any hints? I'm sure a
lot of folks
I got VMWare installed beautifully. It seems like a really nice piece of
software. I set up a Win 98 virtual machine quickly and easily, powered it
on and watched as DOS booted from a floppy. Wild! It gives me the regular
Windows save disk options and I choose 'Start with CD Drivers' or whatever
I have an ATAPI CD Rom drive.
Hi all,
Well, I want to install L-M 6.1 on my new laptop and have a question or two
before going ahead. The machine comes with Windows installed on the Hard
Drive. I want to split the drive into a Windows partition and a Linux
partition. Will Disk Druid resize the Windows partition without
Well, my Linux system has hung three more times since my original post. First
was in Netscape again. Second, I had Netscape open to a page and was trying to
configure my sound card. I had a Konsole open and was doing a:
pnpdump -c /etc/isapnp.conf
as many posting in various newsgroups suggest
Hi again all.
Okay got my KPPP to dial out nice. It connects awsome, i can manually
enter in IP numbers and it goes there. But i still cant access my DNS
server. I have even edited my /etc/resolv.conf it looks like this
Did you enter your DNS servers' IP addresses in KPPP config? Sounds like
Hi,
I read the archived messages and found several postings on problems wiith this
sound card, but none of the proposed solutions has done any good. It's a Yamaha
OPL3-SAX card. Ran sndconfg a bunch. What i'd like to fnd out, is anyone
successfully using ths card and can I see your
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Dear friends:
I just registered my PowerPack with Mandrake support. I received a
letter asking me to confirm my registration by writing my registration
number in the subject header and sending it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I did this about an hour ago. I know this
Hi,
When I have my resolution set at a somewhat readable setting, the K desktop is
too big to fit on one screen. What can II do to change the pixel dimensions of
K? Also, there is a wide margin on the left of my monitor and almost none on
the right. How can I address this? Thanks!
Gregg
Hi,
The display of some web pages in Netscape in Linux is entirely different from
what is displayed under Windows. The fonts are small to the point of
unreadability. I have changed the View-- character encoding but they all sort
of suck and are very small. Do I need to configure some file to
Greggthis website will help a lot.
http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html
It sure did. Very informative. I followed the instructions regarding xfs which
seems to be the font server that came with L-M 6.1. Problem is, nothing really
looks different at all and if I ctl-alt-tab
Run XF86config. Lets you set the resolution with several options. For
example, selecting 543 should have it try to run at 1024 X 768 first and go
down in resolution if necessary. You can also st it so it won't make the
screen so large you have to scroll off the edges. You should know your
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote:
I simply CANNOT believe when reading stuff like this that Opera has become the
darling browser and hope of the future among so many Linux users. Everything
Steve comments on is true. There is NOTHING about Opera that contributes to the
strengths of Linux. Help out
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote:
have you run sndconfig?
Ran it, found my soundcard chipset. Guessed at the settings and tried every
possible combination I think. The problem is, I don't know those settings.
Plus, in the same way that Xconfigurator (is that it?) failed to get video
working
All process was ok. But
when I tried config X, after choose my video board (trident 975image AGP)
and the correct monitor (custom - The same setup I made with 6.0) and when
the sistem try to run the test, I only get a blank screen with white lines
on top (sometimes when I move the mouse, this
As a counter-argument, look around you... Do you see any useful,
stable, open source browsers available? Amaya? It's a castoff. Lynx?
Nice at the terminal, but I wouldn't want to rely on it. Communicator?
We've been saddled with that lopsided horse long enough. Mozilla?
Maybe someday. What
Please don't shout and scream -- it won't help anyway -- just send us
some positive energy that we get this on track this time 'round.
roflwhat are these guys, hippies? Positive energy?!?!? How about "send
us some qualified programmers". Last I heard, I was going to have to send
them $40 to
The same is true if I open the KDE Manager. I see the
frame of its window, the words in it vaguely, but the background of
the desktop shows through. I can't tell how to change a thing,
because I can't read anything. If I try to move windows around,
strange afterimages are left all over the
I am in the exact same problem. I managed to configure my X server with my
video
card Trident 3DImage 975. I can't read anything, so weird. Pablo, would
you please
copy that portion of your configure file and post it here. I want to try
it but I am
not very good at using text editor to
Sorry, but at this moment I am in the work and I don't have LINUX here.
I'm just greatful you had those urls! Thanks a million, Pablo! The "noaccel"
option in my config file did the trick and made all the windows solid. I
would still be very much interested in seeing how you've got your
Hi all,
Got the kppp diialer configured and managed to find my modem on the
equivalent of COM4. The test seemed to go OK, so I clicked dial and
everything hung. I had to shutdown the XServer (at least that's what I knew
how to do) There was no response to anything in KDE. I have a HSP K56FLEX
Hello all,
I just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.1 Power Pack and managed to get my X
server configured. I am able to run startx and get into KDE. The
appearance of KDE is, to say the least, weird. It's pretty much
unusable. Here's whats wrong:
Click on any pop-up menu like the K menu and the menu
Click on any pop-up menu like the K menu and the menu is displayed as
word only, very difficult to read against the desktop background. In
other words, there's no solid window background against which one can
read the words. The same is true if I open the KDE Manager. I see the
frame of its
Any reason why only about every third message I send here gets through???
quite frustrating...
Here goes again:
Hi all,
Total newbie. Linux-Mandrake 6.1 Pentium 2 266mhz. 128meg RAM
Video card: Jaton Video87AGP
Monitor: IBM 6556 p72
I tried to configure X windows through the install process,
Hi all,
I have Linux-Mandrake 6.1 with KDE installed. A few questions about the K
display:
When I click on items that generate menus, the menus have no background.
It's as if they are on a transparency laid over the destop. Very hard to
read since all the words are overlapping. Opening windows
...to get a message posted to this
thing?
Does anyone see this message? I am having a hell
of a time posting to this list and would normally not run a test posting. Sorry
if this is the one that actually makes it out there. Of course, if it is, here's
my very annoying installation problem:
Here is my basic situation. I have a
HSP modem = WIN Modem = don't work with linux modem
OK, thanks. Just so I don't get stuck with a crap modem again. What's a good
type/protocol of modem that both Windoze and Linux can use/install easily.
Thanks!
Gregg
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