[newbie] What is BogoMIPS?

Hello all! What is BogoMIPS? What does the number depend upon? The reason of my interest is this: With a standart kernel (2.2.14-15mdk) my PentiumIII-500 (Katmai) (or whatever is measured with BogoMIPS) receives rating of 499 point something. When I installed the 2.3.99-pre9 kernel, the number

Re: [newbie] ~/.profile prodlems

Hello! Have just installed QT2 (it's needed for KDE2, which doesn't seem to work for me, anyway), so it's still fresh in my mind. :-) You don't have to recompile anything. They just have a typo (?) in the installation instructions. The file should be /etc/profile: at least, that worked for me.

[newbie] Why MPEGs are so slow??

Hello! I tried to use aKtion to play my MPEG files, and the speed of playback is ~1fps. What is the reason of it? System: PIII-500, ASUS V3800TVR nVidia based card, XFree 3.3.6 Any suggestions? Thanks, -- Koly

[newbie] Something like Hyperterm

Hello! Is there a program for Linux for a simple *modem* terminal, a-la Windows' HyperTerminal? Thanks, -- Koly

[newbie] LILO and Windows2000

Hello! My current hard drive configuration is: C: 4.5Gb, bootable, Windows98 SE D: 4.5Gb, Windows2000 I have a dual boot system, and therefore use a Windows2000 boot manager. I plan to shrink D: to 2.5Gb, and make a third and fourth partitions: Linux's / and swap. Obviously, the Install will

Re: [newbie] LILO and Windows2000

Unless something goes wrong the answer the answer is yes. You can also do it by adding Linux to your Win2000 boot loader. You mean, I shouldn't install LILO? And how do I add Linux to Win2000 boot loader? Thanks, -- Koly

Re: [newbie] reaching maximal mount count

Hi List, During boot up this morning I saw a new message that said; /dev/hda5 has reached maximal mount count mount count check forced ??? What have I done to generate this 'mount count check'? After running through the mount count check all seems to be well and running smoothly, but

[newbie] Resizing partitions with Partition Magic

Hello! My current configuration is, a 9Gb hard drive divided into two 4.5Gb partitions - C: and D:. I have Linux installed via Lnx4Win. Now I want to install Linux onto its own partition. Will Partition Magic be able to decrease the size of D: to 2 Gb, and with the remaining 2.5Gb make a Linux

Re: [newbie] shutdown

In /sbin there even is a simpler solution: /sbin/poweroff Isn't just halt easier? Or am I missing something? Thanks, -- Koly

[newbie] What's wrong with TAR???

Hi all! After I've installed X 4, when I tar -xvf something, I get this error on every file, but the files *do* unpack: $ tar -xvf kde-qt-support-1.90.tar tar: couldn't set uid 1002 gid 1002 using chown: Operation not permitted The error message is not exactly as it is, this is my translation

Re: [newbie] XFree86 4.0 problems

Open /etc/X11/XF86Config and make sure that your cyrillic fonts directory is in there with all the other "FontPath" Entries. I also found that xfs does not need to run on bootup because 4.0 includes the support built in. Done that - no effect. Well, the KDE interface and desktop items are now

[newbie] XFree86 4.0 problems

Hello all! Have just installed X 4.0. Pretty smooth (apart from XFree86 -configure not working for me). BUT: 1. My Cyrillic fonts are gone. That is baaad. I did download the cyrillic fonts package, but during install it said something like 'duplicate font name, skipping'. How do I add fonts

[newbie] OpenGL for NVidia cards?

Hi all! Just read the Quake II how-to. I'm wondering, why in Linux OpenGL is only for 3dFX cards, where it is (IMHO) poorly implemented, and not for NVidia's Riva TNT2? I have the latter, that's why it's so frustating... Is there any plans to make OpenGL for TNT2? If the question is stupid, I'm

[newbie] Enlightenment update

Hello! When I try to upgrande E from 0.16.3 to .4: rpm -Uvh name it says: broken dependencies: fnlib = 0.5 needed ... (a translation from Russian, not sure) What's wrong?

[newbie] XFishTank :-)

Hello! Does anyone know of other programs with the concept like XFishTank - i.e. to make the desktop background animated? The 'Fly through space' would be great! :-) Thanks, -- Koly

[newbie] Enlightenment upgrade

Hello! My Mandrake distro came with DR0.16.3 release of E. Now I downloaded the 0.16.4 RPM release. Do I need to uninstall .3 before upgrading to .4? Or just `rpm -i' it? Thanks!

[newbie] Scripts or whatever it is called

Hello! In the first place, I want to thank you for you help! I got over the 64M problem: added mem=128M after loadlin.exe in config.sys :=) Next question: Somehow Linux starts with my DOS's C: disk unmounted, so I have to mount it manually every time. Is there any way to do it at startup, as

[newbie] 64Mb instead of 128Mb??

Hello! It's my first ever installation of Linux, so please be nice :-) So. I installed it into my D: DOS partition using Linux4Win (not the best variant, I know... Just didn't want to lose my 8Gb of information :-). And in Linux, when I get info about memory, the system tells me I have 64 Mb,