Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again) NEED HELP FROM KERNEL GURU!

2001-07-24 Thread Kernell32
Hmm glx is installed fine i guess. The kernel wont install thats weird i never seen that one before ... did you do any changes to it? Do you use a custom kernel or is it the default ? What kernel version is it? The default mandrake8 kernel should work fine. Thing is i dont know allmost

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again)

2001-07-23 Thread Kernell32
Here is a snip of the nvidias own readme that you find from the same section of nvidias homepage there where you can download the tars. This snip concerns the tar install prozess . I repeat: Use the tars not the rpms and follow the instructions from THIS readme DONT use the instructions that

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again)

2001-07-23 Thread Kernell32
On Monday 23 July 2001 21:18, Terry C wrote: Thanks. I already used the nv_check.sh script and it said that everything was OK. Based on the information I have been seeing I am thinking that I need to try installing the 1251 drivers from the tarball instead of the rpm. Should I uninstall the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 and digital camera miniDV ?

2001-07-23 Thread Kernell32
Hi i have a firewire card and a sony cam now sony cams are a little more complicated cause they use different encoding (i think) but i got them working now you need to install libraw and i recommend gscanbus to have an eye on your firewire filesystems etc libraw is available from the rpms dir

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 and digital camera miniDV ?

2001-07-23 Thread Kernell32
, Kernell32 wrote: Hi i have a firewire card and a sony cam now sony cams are a little more complicated cause they use different encoding (i think) but i got them working now you need to install libraw and i recommend gscanbus to have an eye on your firewire filesystems etc libraw is available from

Re: [newbie] Nvidia installation FAQ !

2001-07-20 Thread Kernell32
Shouldn't it be make install ? That article repeats the README file from the tar and if i remember right that didnt work. Just untar the tars and type make install in both kernel and glx directories. Then add: load glx and replace: nv with nvidia in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file as it says

Re: [newbie] Sensors

2001-07-19 Thread Kernell32
on kde2.2) and khealthcare (wich doesnt want to compile either) humh ill seek more. Anyway all sensors work and the install was a piece of cake thanks a lot! Good job! On Thursday 19 July 2001 23:38, civileme wrote: On Thursday 19 July 2001 17:33, Kernell32 wrote: Hi i was wondering if anyone has

Re: [newbie] Update Programs Via Mandrake Update?

2001-07-19 Thread Kernell32
Ok today came the security update for openssl and my mirror has it (i checked) it has the same name as the installed package only a .1 is added at the end of the name mandrake update wont see this it actually appeared in the installed section of mandrakeupdate but if i do a : # rpm -qa | grep

Re: [newbie] WINE with Office 97

2000-11-23 Thread kernell32
Find a file called wine.conf i think its on /etc/ edit it so that it ponts to the correct locations of your drive ie c:\path/to/your/windose/partition or floppy-/mnt/floppy ... its the file that tells wine where your drives are you can also make a copy of that file and rename it to .winerc and

Re: [newbie] No Cd-rom or CDrw as root?

2000-11-22 Thread kernell32
is that a cdwriter that your talking about or a cdrom? with the releasecandidate i had the same problem i had to make a link to the actual device it was missing or something like that anyway it helped this what i did : ln -st scd0 /dev/cdrom thats for cdrws. Problems with normal cdrom i

Re: [newbie] WINE

2000-11-22 Thread kernell32
Thats very possible if you happend to have your windows partition on a location like /mnt/windose it wont probably set it up right make a copy of your wine.conf file (i think in /etc) copy it into your home dir rename it .winerc and edit it so that it points to your drives ie.

[newbie] rpmdrake

2000-11-13 Thread kernell32
Ok im about to loose my nerves rpmdrake wont accept any media that i tell it it worked before but after (dont ask me why ) taking out the default media (cdrom ) it tells me that it could not find any package and i should check if my network drives are mounted in case i did a network install

Re: [newbie] Enable/Disable Telnet.

2000-11-12 Thread kernell32
In mandrake 7.2 you can (after installing openssl ans openssh packages clients servers etc.) add ssh modules to linuxconf so you can configure it from there too linuxconf control control files and system configure linuxconf modules there you can enable linuxconf to show your ssh setup so

Re: [newbie] Re Telnet.

2000-11-12 Thread kernell32
On Sunday 12 November 2000 09:25, you wrote: Ok I turned on inet in the linuxconf but when I try to login from another machine it says trying ip# and then says connected to ip# but it waits about 10 seconds and then shuts down. Can some one tell me how to fix this?

Re: [newbie] Glide and Mesa Problems?

2000-11-11 Thread kernell32
On Saturday 11 November 2000 01:50, you wrote: I was trying to install the goodies for my Voodoo3 on the recently installed 7.2 What goodies do you mean? Anyways, I can't seem to be able to run/compile anything requiring Glide 2 I usually get an error saying

Re: [newbie] Enable/Disable Telnet.

2000-11-11 Thread kernell32
Hi you can enable disable allmost all services in linuxconf also you can tell if the service should start at bootup its easy and usefull linuxconf network severtasks intenet sevices and then linuxconf control controlpanel control service activity telnet is controlled by inetd (7.1) and

Re: [newbie] Graphical File Sharing

2000-11-10 Thread kernell32
On Thursday 09 November 2000 22:05, you wrote: Hello: I have a qestion concerning file sharing in Linux-Mandrake. I have two computers networked together and can ping both machines and share the Internet. My question now is: How can I access the others machines file using a graphical

[newbie] Quick way to connect laptop

2000-11-04 Thread kernell32
Hi im connacted to the internet via a cable modem with a linux router, behind that i run mandrake 7.2 on a desktop. Well at the instalation i could choose between some network tools to connact via serial line to other machines i unselected all those tool cause i thought i wouldnt need them,