[newbie] fonts messed up in konsole

2003-03-29 Thread Srinivas V.
Hello I just installed 9.1 on my Toshiba satellite. When i display man pages in konsole, i get funny symbols e.g. "-" is displayed as a box. also once i scroll thru a man page, small bits of characters get left on the screen (does that sound too vague/wierd ?? mebbe i should send a screenshot ?

Re: [newbie] 9.1 a no go while 9.0 worked fine.

2003-03-29 Thread Srinivas V.
Hi I don't have the same card; but basically have the same problem. Mandrake 9.0 works out of the box on my Toshiba laptop. But with 9.1, X seems to struggle. The configuration fails, and I am not able to start X even if I set my card manually. Right now I am using the Vesa driver. Any good car

[newbie] funny problem with FAT32 parition

2003-03-28 Thread Srinivas V.
hello i just installed mandrake linux 9.1 and was configuring some stuff. i normally mount a FAT32 parition under linux to share files between windows and linux. to do this i have been adding an entry in my /etc/fstab to set up the partition. i've used this with various distros in the past like