RE: [newbie] Soyo Dragon+ On-Board Sound

2002-11-10 Thread Tim Werner
Funny you should mention that. I have a Soyo K7VX Dragon+ motherboard on one of my systems. It's not the one I'm running linux on, but my on-board sound did fail after just a few months. I had to buy a sound card to get my TV card sound to work again. Line-out still works, but line-in stopped

RE: [newbie] Installing 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Tim Werner
I ran the dosutils/rawwrite.exe program to create my boot floppy under windows. When you run that program, you have to point to the images/cdrom.img file to create the floppy. Is that what you did? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On

RE: [newbie] networking advice

2002-11-07 Thread Tim Werner
I will be doing home network with two-machine network pretty soon, but don't have real experience yet. However, I found this that looked promising: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Home-Network-mini-HOWTO.html HTH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] best way to find things out

2002-11-03 Thread Tim Werner
Someone posted a documentation question earlier and got a pretty good answer, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to find things out. I guess I'm a little spoiled by MSDN. For instance, if I want to know about file permissions, it would be Really Neat if there were a tool I could run

RE: [newbie] best way to find things out

2002-11-03 Thread Tim Werner
You know, just as I was hitting the send button I thought of that myself. :-) Must admit http://www.tldp.org/ looks pretty good. I think I might buy the CD. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Erik Sent: Sunday, November

RE: [newbie] best way to find things out

2002-11-03 Thread Tim Werner
I like this. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 6:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] best way to find things out [...] http://www.google.com/linux

RE: [newbie] Linux w/ Win98SE

2002-10-31 Thread Tim Werner
I haven't done this lately, but I believe that when you originally installed W98 it asks you if you want to create a W98 boot floppy (in case you run into problems later, etc.). If you did that, you can boot from the floppy, then run fdisk to wipe the disk and create partitions before doing the

RE: [newbie] Linux w/ Win98SE

2002-10-31 Thread Tim Werner
I agree with this. I can't remember if the W2K install won't let you create a fat32 partition. If that's the case, you can still use the W98 boot floppy to create partitions with fdisk, then run W2K install. W2K (XP too) is happy to install onto fat32. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders

2002-10-31 Thread Tim Werner
You're right about that. Most of the folks in my region have had cable modems and/or DSL available for years, but I seem to live in a little pocket that for some reason has been neglected on both fronts. The SBC commercials say whatever it takes. Yeah, right. And what's this I keep reading

[newbie] How to switch window managers?

2002-10-31 Thread Tim Werner
Hi, I can't figure out how to use Gnome instead of KDE. I went into mandrake control center, and under boot config set Launch graphical environment and autologin with GNOME, but I'm still getting KDE. There must be somewhere else to make the switch, yes? Tim

RE: [newbie] Difficulties in receiving posts

2002-10-29 Thread Tim Werner
Since you mentioned OE, with OE that came with IE6.0 I had sudden problems which I finally tracked down to anti-virus. Since then I had to turn off email scanning in anti-virus console and I can use OE again. Probably doesn't apply to you, since my symptoms were quite different. Just a thought.

[newbie] Display messed up after install

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Werner
Hi, I installed Linux-Mandrake 9.0. Everything went pretty smooth. Selected Gnome for default desktop. After install, upon reboot got first-time (I think) screen, to do more configuration. This screen was unusable, because the display was all messed up. I had basically three vertical bands