Re: [newbie] Quake 3 Arena video cards

1999-11-22 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 10:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Quake 3 Arena video cards On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Lionel Barrow wrote: um, line length needs a little fixeing :) [SNIP] Um, i hate to

[newbie] SBLive! under 6.1 - success

1999-10-01 Thread Martin White
Or should that be SUCCESS!! Just to confirm - recompiling your kernel without version information on modules DOES allow you to force the insertion of the current module available from Creative. On successful reboot you get all the glorious sounds you would expect from your most wonderful

RE: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.]

1999-09-20 Thread Martin White
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Moshier Sent: 20 September 1999 22:07 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.] Try checking out : http://www.httptech.com/ppa/ It's only black and white

RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer

1999-09-20 Thread Martin White
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sean Pritchard Sent: 20 September 1999 23:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer Wait a minute Fellow Newbies! I thought that one reason we started converting to Linux

Re: [newbie] Configuring sound for LM

1999-09-16 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Configuring sound for LM On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, you wrote: This subject may have been discussed before so if so, please bear with me. I

Re: [newbie] Updates - making an updated CD

1999-09-15 Thread Martin White
:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Updates - making an updated CD - Original Message - From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 11:26 AM Subject: [newbie] Updates There's been a bit of talk of late about ISO images including updates. I

[newbie] Neomagic 256ZX anyone ?

1999-09-15 Thread Martin White
Hi, Just setting up Mandrake on my laptop (correction _trying_ to set it up), and can't get X running at a decent res. The laptop is a Dell Lattitude CPt333GT and has a Neomagic MagicMedia 256ZX chipset on board with 4MB of video ram. Has anyone else tried (successfully!) to get this machine

Re: [newbie] Neomagic 256ZX anyone ?

1999-09-15 Thread Martin White
original post. Martin. - Original Message - From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:54 AM Subject: [newbie] Neomagic 256ZX anyone ? Hi, Just setting up Mandrake on my laptop (correction _trying_ to set it up), and can't get X

[newbie] Updates

1999-09-14 Thread Martin White
There's been a bit of talk of late about ISO images including updates. I just had a browse around the Mandrake site and spotted the instructions for getting the Cassini mirror (that's under way now, but that's not why i post). In those instructions, it tells you to get the mirror and then run

Re: [newbie] scsi

1999-09-14 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Ralph | byte-runner | [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 8:49 AM Subject: [newbie] scsi Hello, Can someone plz give me the line i need to put in my lilo conf to get my cdr to work. I know it's append??? plz help.

Re: [newbie] cdr software

1999-09-03 Thread Martin White
XCDRoast If you did an 'install everything', you have it. If you need help with setting up scsi emulation for ide cdr's see www.whitem.demon.co.uk Martin. - Original Message - From: Ralph |byte-runner | [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 2:37

Re: [newbie] C++ compiler error when loading programs

1999-09-03 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 8:16 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] C++ compiler error when loading programs On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote: Also, were you aware that there are two mp3 players that come with

Re: [newbie] Star Office

1999-09-02 Thread Martin White
I'm feeling real generous right now. I'm in the process of moving house, and have the required back issue CD in a box right next to my PC. If you want it, mail me off the list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and we'll sort it out. Basically all i'll want is an sae or something and it's yours !! Martin. PS:

Re: [newbie] How about this ? Red Hat GPL No Longer Available

1999-09-02 Thread Martin White
Is this for real !!?? We on this mailing list DO call it something else 'Mandrake Linux' - end of problem (or am i overlooking something?) Martin. - Original Message - From: George Guzic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 8:57 AM Subject:

Re: [newbie] Doc

1999-09-02 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Doc On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hi I'm planning to install Mandrake 6.0 and I wander if there is any printable documentation on

[newbie] CD Installation

1999-08-31 Thread Martin White
Hi, Managed to successfully loose the contents of all my HD's the other night, and whilst i re-installed everything in the end i have a couple of questions. I have a 2x4x CDRW as my Secondry master (hdc) and a 5x32x DVD as my secondry slave (hdd). Obviously i wanted to install usinmg the DVD

Re: [newbie] Problem with shutdown

1999-08-26 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 1:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with shutdown - Original Message - From: Mark Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999

Re: [newbie] Boot problem

1999-08-26 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 5:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot problem On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: I've certainly never heard of SCSI being

Re: [newbie] Thanks Steve Axalon / HP8100CDR/RW

1999-08-26 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Ed Santiago [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 2:54 PM Subject: [newbie] Thanks Steve Axalon / HP8100CDR/RW Thanks you for the help, I am now able to mount my HP8100 CDR/RW and use

Re: [newbie] Boot problem

1999-08-26 Thread Martin White
[SNIP] Maybe your card needs to have large disk support enabled similar to the PC bios. I'm pretty damn sure i've set up Mandrake boxes with huge SCSI disks before now (well +10Gb anyhow). Just a thought !! And I appreciate it. It was sold to me as a 9.1 GB scsi, so that may be the

Re: [newbie] Xwin-32/Rlogin problems

1999-08-26 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Gregory S. Hackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 5:20 PM Subject: [newbie] Xwin-32/Rlogin problems I'm trying to use Xwin-32 and connect to my Linux machine by rlogin. I have some experience doing this on OSF

Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??

1999-08-24 Thread Martin White
Glad to hear the instructions were of help !! A BIG word of warning though - consider carefully if the kernel upgrade will actually give you anything extra that you REALLY need or fix any problems that you REALLY need fixing. I recently learnt my first painful lesson in the 'if it ain't broke

Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??

1999-08-24 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Yeech! Try it with one / between screensavers and answertips and the full .html on the end, not just h? Partly my

Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??

1999-08-24 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Yeech! Try it with one / between screensavers and answertips and the full .html on the end, not just h? Partly my

[newbie] Re: [newbiw] new sound card suggestions ??

1999-08-24 Thread Martin White
Glad to hear the instructions were of help !! A BIG word of warning though - consider carefully if the kernel upgrade will actually give you anything extra that you REALLY need or fix any problems that you REALLY need fixing. I recently learnt my first painful lesson in the 'if it ain't broke

Re: [newbie] failing to unmount

1999-08-23 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: James Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] failing to unmount If you go to the updates page of the Mandrake site it has a blurb on this bug. Everyone should be updating their kernel

Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??

1999-08-23 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Martin White wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??

1999-08-23 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 6:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Here you go There may be more recent and better aproaches, but here's one

[newbie] Linux4Win Install Problems

1999-08-18 Thread Martin White
Message - From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 3:27 PM Subject: Linux4Win Don't know if anyone can help, but if i try and install Linux4Win on my Dell Lattitude CPt333, i get past the formating stage, into the install, and shortly after

Re: [newbie] Linux4Win Install Problems

1999-08-18 Thread Martin White
96MB !! - Original Message - From: Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux4Win Install Problems - Original Message - From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August

[newbie] Linux4Win

1999-08-17 Thread Martin White
Don't know if anyone can help, but if i try and install Linux4Win on my Dell Lattitude CPt333, i get past the formating stage, into the install, and shortly after being asked which packages i want, everything bombs out with the following (written down and typed so please excuse any possible

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.2.5 w/ Sound Blaster Live problem..

1999-08-16 Thread Martin White
SMP is indeed for dual processor support, but from what i recall, the SBLive module specifcally requires that you DON'T have smp support in your kernel. You shouldn't need to recompile your kernel at all to get it working. I just sent a reply to someones earlier post with a pointer to full

Re: [newbie] Linux for home consumers?

1999-08-16 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Stephan Rex [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux for home consumers? Hi Richard, I am a linux newbie, but have been in IT for 5 years no and from that back ground I would say Linux is in

[newbie] Re:

1999-08-16 Thread Martin White
Did you get your problem sorted - if not let me know. Martin. - Original Message - From: RReed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 5:36 PM I am very new to linux and just installed mandrake 6.0. I am having 1 problem and have read and tried

Re: [newbie] Printer question

1999-08-16 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Thomas J. Hamman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printer question On 15-Aug-99 Martin White wrote: All compaq printers are actually lexmarks in a different case. last time i checked

Re: [newbie] Voodoo3

1999-08-10 Thread Martin White
Bit busy at the moment - but do you have the linux mod's (drivers in Windows terms) for the V3. The location to get them from is mentioned on 3DFXs web site under Linux Drivers. You should have 3 RPMs. Put them in their own directory and then do (as root) an 'rpm -Uvh *rpm' After that run

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!

1999-08-09 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Jayce Steadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Martin White wrote: Sorry for the vague answers, but i've only ever come across the scenario where it either works

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!

1999-08-09 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: A.M. (Tony) Finnis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Just for information. I have had exactly the same problem since upgrading from 2.2.9-19mkd to 2.2.9-27mdk kernel.

Re: [newbie] BogoMIPS

1999-08-09 Thread Martin White
Does anyone have any kind of idea what reading i should expect from my box please. Is it likely to roughly translate to the speed of your processor ?? My PIII 450 gives out approx 453BMIPS - i expected considerably more than this as i've seen 450 from a Dell 233 system before. Finally, does it

Re: [newbie] BogoMIPS

1999-08-09 Thread Martin White
BOGOmips. bogo as in bogus mabye? different processors give wildly different results. an amd 233 will give a much different result when compared to a pentium 233. don't worry about it. jason -Original Message- From: Martin White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, August 08

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!

1999-08-09 Thread Martin White
Gald to hear some positive feedback !! Martin. - Original Message - From: Jayce Steadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! "A.M. (Tony) Finnis" wrote: Just for information. I have had exactly

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!

1999-08-07 Thread Martin White
This has been covered a few times lately, and yep, it's no problem. You don't specifiy which kernel you have, so i can't tell you which of the three modules from Creative's tar file to use. If you have the standard 2.2.9-19mdk that comes with 6.0, use the 2.2.5 module. If you have a 2.0.xx

Re: [newbie] SBlive! in Mandrake 2.2.9

1999-07-29 Thread Martin White
: Thursday, July 29, 1999 3:21 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] SBlive! in Mandrake 2.2.9 Well, none of that works so I'll just stick to loading the module manually. Thanks anyway! Cindy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Martin White Sent

Re: [newbie] SAMBA troubles!

1999-07-28 Thread Martin White
I would agree with this one - we get this a lot at our offices. Are we to assume that all of the machines in question are on the same network - we have token ring and ethernet and getting things to appear in the network neighbourhood across the two networks is a bit of a work of art !! Doing a

Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live

1999-07-28 Thread Martin White
and Soundblaster Live On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Martin White wrote: I know i'm not the person you directed your mail to, but i'm going to reply anyway !! I thought the sound of the SBLive was pretty crappy under linux with the first two versions of the driver, but with the advent of the new version

Re: [newbie] new configured kernel

1999-07-28 Thread Martin White
I missed the bulk of this thread, but caught an early one and a late one and think i have the jist !! You may well just need to try again with the 'make bzimage' (you did do a 'make bzimage', didn't you not a 'make zimage' ?). I have had instances in the past where it didn't work first time, but

Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live

1999-07-27 Thread Martin White
I know i'm not the person you directed your mail to, but i'm going to reply anyway !! I thought the sound of the SBLive was pretty crappy under linux with the first two versions of the driver, but with the advent of the new version, things seem to sound considerably better now (or is that just

Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live

1999-07-26 Thread Martin White
Have you downloaded the modules from creatives site ?? If not, get them, then i can CC a recent mail to the list with instructions (or you could look inthe archive - it was only Friday night / saturday morning i sent it !!) Martin. - Original Message - From: chagilt

Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9

1999-07-23 Thread Martin White
For the time being pick up the modules from Creative's site, copy them to '/lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc' (or whereever) and do an 'insmod -f sblive' to get it going. You will also need to have put the pre/post install lines into your conf.modules as instructed by their readme. I do have a

Re: [Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9]

1999-07-23 Thread Martin White
mod soundcore How can I verify if "my kernel is compiled with version information"? 7. Load the driver: "modprobe emu10k1" PLEASE HELP!! I spent US$200 in this card and it doesnt work!! help again. - Original Message - "Martin White" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9]

1999-07-23 Thread Martin White
ous statement: pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore How can I verify if "my kernel is compiled with version information"? 7. Load the driver: "modprobe emu10k1" PLEASE HELP!! I spent US$200 in this card and it do

Re: [newbie] Voodoo 3000

1999-07-19 Thread Martin White
You should have three RPMS in total. One is the X server, one is some RUSH libraries (?!), the last is an updated setup program that know of the V3000. Install all the RPMS (in no particular order) using 'rpm -Uvh nnn.rpm' (replace the n's with the rpm names - or if they are the only rpms in

[newbie] AHA1542 Scsi

1999-07-16 Thread Martin White
Does anyone know what the options are to get an Adaptec aha1542 card running with Mandrake please (i'm running with all the default options - i/o 330, IRO 11, DMA 5) ? I know the options line is 'aha152x=0x330,11,7,1' (for instance) for an AHA1520, but i can't seem to get the 1542 working using

[newbie] SCSI Emulation (again)

1999-07-14 Thread Martin White
Hi everyone, Got ide-scsi emulation up and running nicely on my machine using a fresh install of Mandrake 6 (the 2.2.9-19 kernel version), but i want to know if there is a way to prevent the kernel from reporting my CD drives on every LUN on the scsi bus. I know how to do this with a kernel

Re: [newbie] More keyboard problems on a Toshiba 4000CDT notebook!

1999-07-13 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Theo Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 2:27 PM Subject: [newbie] More keyboard problems on a Toshiba 4000CDT notebook! I've made the changes to the rc3.d filenames (S45pcmcia to S98pcmcia), and it rebooted and ran

Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem

1999-07-08 Thread Martin White
, 8 Jul 1999, Hoyt wrote: - Original Message - From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 4:57 PM Subject: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem Okay folks, I'm getting hacked off with this now, so it's time

Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem

1999-07-08 Thread Martin White
. - Original Message - From: J Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 1:27 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem Martin White wrote: Okay folks, I decided to upgrade the kernel and then apply all the updates, then i started to get

[newbie] Satellite 4080CDT

1999-07-08 Thread Martin White
A work colleague of mine has just installed Mandrake 6 on his new Toshiba Satellite 4080 CDT. The install went fine (okay, we had to skip the X config as i know the video is only supported by a 'custom' X server i have located for him). After rebooting into run level 3, the keyboard is locked

Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem

1999-07-08 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 4:00 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem Martin, have u tried out the SBlive drivers for linux from creative labs site? I'm afraid they're the ones that i'm

Re: [newbie] Satellite 4080CDT

1999-07-08 Thread Martin White
on my 4015CDS... how do u fix this? - Original Message - From: Theo Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 5:49 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Satellite 4080CDT Martin White wrote: A work colleague of mine has just installed Mandrake 6

Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem

1999-07-08 Thread Martin White
To all who have offered suggestions on this one, thanks, but i'm still stuck. If i do a 'play my.wav' at the prompt the sample (or a very small snippet of it) just loops until i reboot the pc. Doing an 'insmod -f sblive dmabuf=1' produces an error saying that the symbol wasn't recognised (in

[newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem

1999-07-07 Thread Martin White
Okay folks, I'm getting hacked off with this now, so it's time for post. I have an SBLive which was working perfectly under the basic Mandrake 6 install (ie 2.2.9-19 kernel and basic esound + audio RPMS). I decided to upgrade the kernel and then apply all the updates, then i started to get

Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem

1999-07-07 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 9:57 PM Subject: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem Okay folks, I'm getting hacked off with this now, so it's time for post. I have an SBLive which was working

Re: [newbie] SBLive under Mandrake 6.0

1999-07-05 Thread Martin White
Glad to see someone's managed to work out that you can force the SBLive module to load under all the kernel versions so far (i'm not going to be brave enough to say any kernel!!) Just to add - if you make sure the 'conf.modules' file contains the following lines (the first being the standard

Re: [newbie] Games in this Linux distribution

1999-07-05 Thread Martin White
Don't know if you're interested as it is a little bit of a dodgy subject at the moment ;-), but UltraHLE - that infamous N64 emulator works flawlessly under Wine (well for me anyway). I was absolutely gobsmacked when i saw it working!! I will say tho, it took some installing - you MUST have a

Re: [newbie] SCSI Emulation

1999-07-05 Thread Martin White
I meant to get this site completed over the weekend, but ended up partying at a club instead, so give me till the end of the week and step by step instructions will be at www.whitem.demon.co.uk/idescsi_idx.htm It really is easy. Martin. (I stress, there's nothing much useful there yet, i'll

Re: [newbie] UltraHLE Wine

1999-07-05 Thread Martin White
Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 12:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] UltraHLE Wine Martin White, you have just made my day (and held back my thesis writing for the time being!) (I have UltraHLE working a treat in win95) ...so let me get this straight

Re: [newbie] UltraHLE is working with Wine

1999-07-05 Thread Martin White
should've checked to see what res it was running in..prolly just need to adjust my monitor disp[lay size or something. Al. __- On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Martin White wrote: Okay, I should have known i was asking for that one !! I got it installed after an evening of RPM

Re: [newbie] Cannot mount ATAPI CDR when using SCSI emulation - jrt

1999-06-11 Thread Martin White
You need to change your FSTAB entries to point to the new scsi emulated CD's, ie - something along the lines of: /dev/sr0/mnt/cdwriter etc. etc. /dev/sr1/mnt/cdreaderetc. etc. Also if you use graphical mounting via icons under KDE or Gnome, you will need to do the same there.

Re: [newbie] wine

1999-06-11 Thread Martin White
Caught me out too only the other night ! When i saw the MANDRAKE_PARTC etc, i assumed i had to set environment variables of these names pointing to where i really wanted them to be, but still no luck. Turns out substituting the text for the real paths (as root) in '/etc/wine.conf' or

Re: [newbie] Re: XwinPro

1999-06-09 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Alex Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 10:41 AM Subject: [newbie] Re: XwinPro ...To who ever it was that posted the thing about Xwin pro don't know if I've misunderstood you, but this and other sinilar software

Re: [newbie] New kernel?

1999-06-09 Thread Martin White
When you say fixes, do you solely mean fixes or are there new cards supported too (PCMCIA)?? I only ask because my current network card and modem are not supported and if they were, i would upgrade, but as i need to recompile my kernels to include scsi emulation, i wouldn't bother otherwise.

[newbie] Insmod query

1999-06-06 Thread Martin White
Hi all. I've just managed to get my SBLive card to work using the driver supplied by creative and my new install of Mandrake 6 (kernel 2.2.9). To get it going i had to ignore the instructions from creative and do an 'insmod -f' instead of a 'modprobe'. Okay, it threw up a warning, but the

Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake

1999-05-24 Thread Martin White
Just my 2p worth I recently installed RH6 on a new hard disk having rebuilt my PC. Mainly for curiosity as i knew i would blow it away again when Mandrake 6 comes out. The following doesn't work out of the box... 1. BS/DEL problem with X. 2. UK keyboard map requested during install, but

Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake

1999-05-24 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Philip Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake I agree Redhat 6.0 has problems but again these can be addressed and fixed by RedHat so lets find another reason to keep

Re: [newbie] Anyone used this Main Board??

1999-05-19 Thread Martin White
I've been keeping quiet on this one waiting for identification of the board, but i would second that it sounds like a PCChips M571 motherboard. I couldn't even get the sound/graphics working under windows, so disabled them and installed seperate items, so can't help under Linux ;-( The computer

Re: [newbie] Guide to configuring ATAPI CD-R for Mandrake

1999-05-17 Thread Martin White
up fully operational ;-(. Martin. Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] scritto: [SNIP]

Re: [newbie] SBLive problems (again)

1999-05-15 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 10:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] SBLive problems (again) why dont you just download kernel 2.2.5 from www.kernel.org Could do... i'm wary of doing this as i'm sure there would have been a good

Re: [newbie] Guide to configuring ATAPI CD-R for Mandrake

1999-05-14 Thread Martin White
I am about to install RH6 onto my PC this morning. This uses kernel 2.2.5 (i think) and i have a Philips CDD3610 IDE CDR so i'll let you know how i get on later... Martin. - Original Message - From: Roberto Angelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 11:20

Re: [newbie] RedHat 6.0 revisited

1999-05-12 Thread Martin White
Long post follows (sorry)... Obviously this is off topic, but since you're asking, i just installed RH6 as a test system at work while i wait for Mandrake 6. I did the same as you and had a look at Gnome, after logging out and logging back in again this time specifying KDE it now remembers this

Re: [newbie] Voodoo3 support

1999-05-04 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Voodoo3 support Buy a TNT2 Ultra instead...it is alot better. An it is definately supported. This is going to get a little off topic, so i apologise in

[newbie] Voodoo3 support

1999-05-04 Thread Martin White
Before i go and buy one, does anyone know if the new 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 AGP video card is supported under Linux (XFree86 in particular) ?? My decision on going for this card is based on Win98 gaming so i gues i'll buy one anyway, but it would be nice if i don't need to trash my Linux

Re: [newbie] Mounting SCSI ZIP

1999-04-16 Thread Martin White
[SNIP] Now that I have my SCSI card and ZIP drive recognized on boot, how do I mount it? I know that I can use hd for hardrives and fd for floppy drives, but what is a SCSI removable disk drive? Will the mounting automatically sense the FAT16 partition on the ZIP and load VFAT? [SNIP] As

Re: [newbie] SCSI Cards and Zip Drives

1999-04-14 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: hevnsnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 4:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] SCSI Cards and Zip Drives Is your SCSI card an Adaptec 1520b? I am having problems getting mine to work, when it asks me if I have any SCSI cards,

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live anyone ?

1999-04-14 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - Martin White wrote: Has anybody tried setting up a Sound Blaster Live PCI card under Mandrake - if so what did you set it up as ?? [SNIP] There was some news about a Linux driver for SBLive. Creative hired a linux hacker to do it but so far no working driver

[newbie] Sound Blaster Live anyone ?

1999-04-13 Thread Martin White
Has anybody tried setting up a Sound Blaster Live PCI card under Mandrake - if so what did you set it up as ?? I stupdily forgot all about my Linux setup and was just thinking about HalfLife when i bought it !! Martin.

Re: [newbie] SCSI Cards and Zip Drives

1999-04-13 Thread Martin White
[SNIP] Ahh I need. I didn't relieze you had to supply this info... Okay, i'm off home shortly, i'll look it up and send it on in the morning... [SNIP]

Re: [[newbie] modem troubles]

1999-04-09 Thread Martin White
Absolutely - unless the situations changed and someone has written some Linux drivers, the modem relies on Windows to take on some of the functionality of the modem. The answer to the question has therefore always been - no, it won't work - sorry it's so negative !!. Martin. -Original

[newbie] This list and Outlook

1999-03-31 Thread Martin White
Yesterday (or the day before) there was a mild flame on the list about people using Outlook and their quotes being at the end of the message. I'm using the new Outlook 5 at work (comes with IE5) and can't find the option to switch this behaviour to what was suggested (quoted text first).

Re: [newbie] ext2 filesystem

1999-02-18 Thread Martin White
I would agree with everyone else that an hour and a half seems a bit excessive, but things can take a VERY long time if you tick the option to check for bad blocks during format (which incidentally i would recommend the first time you create an EXT2 partition). I would also agree that just