RE: [newbie] STUCK on interactive setup

2000-09-22 Thread Riley, Patrick (Patrick)** CTR **
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RE: [newbie] Zip drive

2000-09-14 Thread Riley, Patrick (Patrick)** CTR **
I'm not sure if you have a SCSI, parallel or what, but for mine (parallel), I got it working by having a disk inserted and then using the commands "insmod parport" and "insmod ppa" (without the quotes of course). That's all it took. A lot easier than setting this thing up about 3 years ago.

RE: [newbie] PCI Hardware Modem Says Sorry, the modem is busy.

2000-09-12 Thread Riley, Patrick (Patrick)** CTR **
Hi, It appears that your USB and your modem are trying to use the same IRQ (9). I had a similar problem myself. If you aren't using and USB devices or don't plan on it, then just shut the USB service off so that it won't load. Reboot the computer and then try to dial out and see what you

RE: [newbie] I can't detect my modem

2000-09-11 Thread Riley, Patrick (Patrick)** CTR **
Please don't make the same mistakes that I did, pay no attention to what windows has the modem set on. Do a less /proc/interrupts and find out which irq you have available, for me it was irq 5. If it's a pci mdoem, then do a less /proc/pci and then find your modem. It should give you the port

[newbie] Sawmill/Gnome doesn't open initially

2000-09-11 Thread Riley, Patrick (Patrick)** CTR **
Hi, I'm having a weird problem. When I boot and then start X, my gnome/sawmill won't open up. It comes up to a blue screen with the little X in the middle and just sets there forever until I do a ctrl-alt-bkspace and kill it. I can then do a startx and it comes up to the blue screen and then

RE: [newbie] virtual desktop and riva128 probs

2000-09-11 Thread Riley, Patrick (Patrick)** CTR **
What are you running, KDE? Enlightenment? Each one has different places to disable the virtual desktop settings. As far as the monitor goes, run Xconfigurator from a terminal and you should be able to set things up there. Make sure you manually pick your resolution and color settings though.