Re: lm_sensors was Re: [newbie] Way, way of topic

2002-11-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
power supply. The acid test for all this is http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] portsentry2

2002-11-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday November 7 2002 04:11 am, Franki wrote: Anyone seen a mandrake rpm of portsentry around for mdk9 rgds Frank I've been able to use portsentry-1.1-3mdk.src.rpm on 9.0 and even 9.1 (current cooker). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [newbie] Way, way of topic

2002-11-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
you've yourself pointed in a good direction, as hardware problems should always be checked and eliminated first ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
Beta category (A-) (2) ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 3 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

2002-11-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday November 6 2002 08:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Technoslick wrote: I tend to forget as much as I remember anymore, so when Tom Brinkman mentioned the problem was actually stemming from the motherboard's chipset, I remembered reading about that a long time ago. If you

Re: [newbie] DVD playback performance (9.0)

2002-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
harddisks harddiskhd?' where ? is the drive letter for CDrom and/or CD-RW drives, EG 'cp harddisks harddiskhdc' 'cp harddisks harddiskhdd' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Laptop screen shifted

2002-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
to do. See 'man xvidtune'. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Real Newbie security questions

2002-10-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
/ show me locked up jelly tight, don't even exist ;) FWIW, as I normally do I also have portsentry-1.1-3mdk (compiled from src.rpm) installed and runnin also. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
products he touts are for Windoze, and are also fairly weak. MOF, grc.com has been itself hacked several times. http://scan.sygatetech.com/ There's a coupl'a quick scans and several more comprehensive ones that take quite some time to run. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi

Re: [newbie] Time Synch -- alternate to rdate?

2002-10-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
, and apropos doesn't list any commands for time synching -- any suggestions? Thanks, Randy Kramer rdate-1.2-1mdk I'm usin that on 9.0+ IIRC, I got it from /contrib, eg, 'urpmi rdate' from a cooker RPMS2/ source. alias tdate='rdate -p -s tick.uh.edu hwclock --systohc' -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Windblows

2002-10-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
make IT procurement decisions are in the same boat with Dan. MOF, till he retired last year, he was one. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] No sound in LM9

2002-10-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
, or unknown hardware (mostly motherboards, sound cards) causing hardware freezes/lockups during auto detection. If your reaction to my little rant above includes but it works great with Windoze, then you understand the M$/hardware situation much differently than I do. Y'allsMMV -- Tom

Re: [newbie] Can't find UPS config tool

2002-10-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
are ;) You most likely don't have the available packages on your system. It's hard to tell since you gave so little information. Try http://www.apcc.com/tools/download/ or http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=apcupsdsubmit=Search+...system=mandrakearch= -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] APC BackUPS 500

2002-10-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
is still as good as new. I already figured I'll use a deep cycle (marine-RV) battery solution if it does fail. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] APC BackUPS 500

2002-10-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
savings down the road replacin batteries. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] hdparm and cd drive

2002-10-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday October 1 2002 08:59 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Monday 30 Sep 2002 10:44 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: (my ide burner which has scsi emulation and is dev/scd0 or hdd, dma enabled) tom# hdparm -t /dev/scd0 /dev/scd0 not supported by hdparm tom# hdparm -t /dev/hdd tom# ' /dev

Re: [newbie] BIOS Upgrade

2002-10-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
' it to a floppy. If you find some that are (Win).zip files, unzip-5.50-2mdk or KDE's archiver can probly handle em. If you find some that are (Win) self-extracting archives, wine can do it. 'Least the newest one can, wine-20020804-3mdk. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: TKS! was: [newbie] kernel fine tuning.... (=athlon)

2002-10-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday September 30 2002 10:11 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 19:36, Tom Brinkman wrote: I have no idea what's meant by that 'regular' Mandrake kernel message complaint. BUT it's a good idea to compile a sacrifice kernel to taint with closed source proprietary crap

Re: [newbie] hdparm and cd drive

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
mailing list. This might be a good place to start http://linux-mm.org/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Sorry for the technical question, but I can't help but ask now that you have mentioned this. :-) T Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday September 29 2002 08:59 pm

Re: [newbie] hdparm and cd drive

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
about average. So for the ide cdrom w/no scsi emulation, dma increases IO by ~36%. While hdparm doesn't support testing scsi drives (only ide), I suspect the performance increase with dma enabled is similar for scsi emulated drives. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas

Re: [newbie] kernel fine tuning.... (=athlon)

2002-09-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
modules_install make install. o Done, the new kernel is ready (as a choice) when you reboot On the Intel system you'd be better off stickin with i586 -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: TKS! was: [newbie] kernel fine tuning.... (=athlon)

2002-09-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday September 27 2002 02:46 pm, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Em Sex 27 Set 2002 10:46, Tom Brinkman escreveu: On Friday September 27 2002 01:15 am, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Shame on me! ;-( I was on the track, **except** for the last command

Re: TKS! was: [newbie] kernel fine tuning.... (=athlon)

2002-09-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
to /boot (also eliminates user errors in doin so), eg o edit Makefile and change EXTRAVERSION = this part, and uncomment the line export INSTALL_PATH=/boot -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes

2002-09-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
. Users who seem to have the most problems, usually tend to approach in reverse. YM and results MV -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
with an unbootable system if the flash isn't successful. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] G-force2 400 MMX 3d in Mandrake 9

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
layer Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic) Driver nv Option DPMS so all that needs to be changed is the Driver -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] G-force2 400 MMX 3d in Mandrake 9

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
come here, but it looks not too be much of a system for those in it's path (Louisiana ?). Lili might be a differnent deal. Keepin my eye it's progress http://vortex.plymouth.edu/hur_dir/hur_pos_nt3.html -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Maybe the confusion

Re: [newbie] Sounds scarey to me

2002-09-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
urpmi. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes

2002-09-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday September 25 2002 08:25 am, Marcia wrote: Dear Tom Tom Brinkman wrote: Since the 'nopentium' bandaid didn't fix it, let's start again Marcia. List the hardware involved, particularly mobo, psu, video, and what Mandrake version, which video drivers are used. Ram vendor

Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes

2002-09-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
with indiscretion by the OS and drivers. ^^ All mem=nopentium does is to limit pages to 4k, nothing to do with pentium only commands. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] HOWTO compile kernel FAQ's for Mandrake on the web?

2002-09-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
place to start ;) http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/index.html#ku -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes

2002-09-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 24 2002 09:57 am, Marcia wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: snip spare y'all from repeats ;) Dear All, I have been following this thread since the mem=nopentium did not completely solve my problem afterall. I went to the ftp site with the fix and downloaded it. Actually I

Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes

2002-09-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 24 2002 10:53 am, Marcia wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: Dear Tom Charles, I just sent a post that should show up mentioning that I downloaded the patch. It is a text file and I do not know what to do with it being the newbie that I am. I already replied to that post

Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes

2002-09-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday September 23 2002 11:30 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 08:55:48 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting, but it directly contradicts the statement made by 'Sean Cleveland and Wayne Meritsky of AMD' (the kernel ML link I gave). I can

Re: [newbie] Reoocuring Desktop Zip Icon

2002-09-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
', but do it as root, not user. That's OK though. It was just that irratating reappearing zip icon that was driving me crazy. We're here to try'n help ;) Sincerely, Chris Edwards Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday September 23 2002 07:59 am, Chris Edwards wrote: Would anyone know why an icon

Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes

2002-09-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
apprv'd quality hardware to begin with. YMMV -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes

2002-09-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
source driver which BTW, now provides some 3d/accel support for nvidia cards. XFree86-4.2.1 included with Mdk 9.0. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-inst-2.i586.iso

2002-09-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
for example with kdebase recently. Now that the updates have settled down (ie, one a day per updated rpm), you might wanna switch to a more current mirror. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Trouble making a boot floppy

2002-09-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
it get too big, it might not fit on a floppy either. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] URPMI Update

2002-09-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
updatedb update-menus -n ldconfig') That's all one line. I've yet to see anything in the man page for update-menus for the -n switch, but the Mdk developers recommend it all the time ;) When in doubt, I reboot, there's other things besides a new kernel that require it. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] My 8.2 Stalls on Boot

2002-09-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
, but it'll also RR (ie, the --force option) the initrd, vmlinuz, and other images and links in /boot. To be safe, run 'lilo' again. See if that doesn't fix it (?) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] When the final version be released?

2002-09-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
some updates for the last two days, but today there's many, some fairly major ones, including a new kerenl. My guess is this weekend to mid next week. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
, and as such political (or religious) hyperbole is best left out of discussions. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] updating 9.0 rc 2

2002-09-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Harddisk questions

2002-09-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday September 12 2002 08:17 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Wednesday 11 Sep 2002 7:34 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: From 'man bonnie++', Bonnie++ is a program to test hard drives and file systems I tried bonnie++ with the command [lvgandhi@localhost lvgandhi]$ /sbin/bonnie++ -d /mnt

[newbie] Re: Harddisk questions

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
, you know me, I always gotta fool around some, an it's so easy to jibe at M$ ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] kmail

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
and choose Add to address book. It'll bring up a dialog box with any relevent data (eg, name, email address) already filled in. Unless you want to edit it, just clk OK. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Harddisk questions

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
at your dmesg ouput. You'll probly see a line similar to this tom# less /var/log/dmesg (and scroll down) hdb: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=4866/255/63, UDMA(100) [--- ata/100] -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Should I upgrade to Mandrake 9.0 RC2 or wait a week for the final?

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
' or rpmdrake to update to current cooker. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Harddisk questions

2002-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday September 9 2002 05:05 pm, Mike Graham wrote: On Monday 09 September 2002 11:30 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: See 'info hdparm'. If your drive wasn't automagically setup by Mandrake to use it's full udma potential, it could signify hardware or other issues. You can forcibly set

Re: [newbie] Harddisk questions

2002-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
the Samsung moved to primary (ide0), and isolate the cd-rw on secondary (ide1). BTW, use hdparm to check your cd-rw setting too, make sure 32bit and dma are enabled. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Kernel of MDK 9 compiled for i686

2002-09-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
nightmares, for no good reason. That said, I'm d/ling kernel-source-2.4.19-9mdk as I type and I'll shortly compile it for k7. (Can't even take my own advice ;) For those that mentioned it in other threads, the changelog says VIA C3 is now supported as i586. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] 9.0 rc1 Installation woes (Try #2)

2002-09-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
, nVidia GeForce chip set, Sound Blaster. Any help would be much appreciated! Try installing from your burner. It'll probly read the CD's better than your DVD can. On boot up, the cd-rw should automatically be recognized as where the media is. Works better here anyhow ;) -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] lack of proper DMA w/ Maxtor D740X 80gb drives

2002-08-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday August 29 2002 01:45 pm, Mark Stewart wrote: Thanks for the nudge, Femme. On the Expert list, Tom Brinkman had the following wisdom to impart: Add this to the LILO/GRUB command line: ide0=0x1f0 ide0=dma ide0=autotune ide1=dma ide1=autotune floppy=daring and undo all

Re: [newbie] Using default kernel options

2002-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
mrproper'this step is not optional o 'cp config.save .config'Now you can edit .config o 'make oldconfig' Then continue on with the regular steps -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 and Linux Standard Base

2002-08-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday August 21 2002 09:46 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 21 August 2002 12:27 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: http://www.opengroup.org/lsb/cert/cert_prodlist.tpl?CALLER=index.tp l Right from the horses mouth. Note that Mandrake was LSB certified before either Red Hat

Re: [newbie] rootkit

2002-08-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
=chkrootkitsubmit=Search+...system=mandrakearch= It might be on your CD's -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 and Linux Standard Base

2002-08-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
mouth. Note that Mandrake was LSB certified before either Red Hat or Suse were. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
speed till while you're tryin to send/get mail. One of the main reasons I like d4x so much ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Swap file sizing

2002-08-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
let me go for less. I use to have just a 80MB /swap, and hardly ever used any of it. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] install on Compaq Presario 1240

2002-08-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
. IBM even has Linux versions, but regardless of FS system, they all result in a bootable floppy that will check the HDD for errors, often better and more safely than 3rd party stuff will. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision.

2002-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
, 'cept for needin to agree to give M$ root class privledges to your software, and rights to your personal information and some other user concessions just so you can apply their bug fix service packs to w2K or XP. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] 9.0 Beta - Memory leak in drakconf ?

2002-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday August 15 2002 05:19 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 10:47 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: FWIW, I'm usin drakconf-9.0-0.6mdk in beta2 'urpmi --auto-select' updated to cooker within hours of the beta 3 gcc/libs switch over, no problems. Also, some apps were

Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision.

2002-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
for a friend. (also legit.) (I'm gonna try going through an annonomiser proxy next and see if that works.) http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25996.html might help, I dunno, I haven't given Billy a nickel in a long time. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [newbie] 9.0beta iso's -- too big!

2002-08-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday August 2 2002 03:22 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 02 August 2002 12:53 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: going to 700mb CD's, search the archive for the reasons. I'd also add that 9.0, even the early June alpha release, is better than 8.2 with a KDE 3.x upgrade IME. I agree up

Re: [newbie] 9.0beta iso's -- too big!

2002-08-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
if you're gonna mess with cooker. There was some discussion about going to 700mb CD's, search the archive for the reasons. I'd also add that 9.0, even the early June alpha release, is better than 8.2 with a KDE 3.x upgrade IME. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-08-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
) only prevent spikes. Sort'a like power steering, once you've got it, you wonder how you ever did without ;) Sort'a like journaling file systems too ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] normalize

2002-07-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
more, specially enough for 2 or more CD's, I normalize 'em all together. IOW's 'the more the merrier' ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] normalize

2002-07-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
than the original. Maybe I don't understand your question. Probably ;-). So, to rephrase it, what does normalize do *without* any switches? dunno, when I realized the -mix mode is what I needed, that's all I've ever used -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday July 28 2002 02:29 am, Alastair Scott wrote: On Sunday 28 Jul 2002 1:45 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: I admire your persistence to save the home an' hearth ;) First, IMO, current 9.0 KDE3.0.2 is much better than any of the available 'KDE3.x' upgrades for 8.x. As is Gnome2, so why

Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
alpha's of 9.0 are even better than 8.2 as released, and 8.2 was a solid release. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday July 27 2002 02:14 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: On Saturday 27 Jul 2002 7:55 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Cooker/9.0 is very dynamic now (ie, beta2 [current cooker] isn't compatible with 9.0beta1). Many gcc (- 3.2) and lib changes. I'd say only a fresh install is feasible. Further

Re: [newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes

2002-07-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
full of 'em). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Command line burning

2002-07-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
, particularly '-data'. I've found I get the best results with a minimum amount of cdrecord options. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] What is XFS

2002-07-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday July 22 2002 01:21 pm, Klemm wrote: Hi One question What or who is XFS X font server -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Command line burning

2002-07-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
, $12 for a 50 spindle. I don't get good results with 'em over 4x tho. Also, did you mean 80 minute cdr's, or 800MB? I've burned over 800 mb's of wav's to a 700mb, 80 minute CD-r. My record is 79m57s ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Sound(continues)

2002-07-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
by the commercial driver, altho there's no way to find out. Look on your main menu, Configuration | KDE | Information | Interrupts, and find your sound, probly on IRQ 10. If you see another device on the same line separated by a comma, then the devices are sharing that IRQ. -- Tom

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Sound(continues)

2002-07-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
two settings) and get a cheap sound blaster AWE64. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] (OT) first gif..........

2002-07-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] (OT) first gif..........

2002-07-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
buyin their junk ... err stuff, they wouldn't have the money for all the phony lawyer$ ... and their damn TV commercials. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 3Com USR Modem Installation

2002-07-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
'Identity' section. Tip: edit 'On %D, you wrote:' to 'On %D, %F wrote:' (without the 's) in the Composer | Phrases section, so when there's (several) replies to a post, we can still figure out who wrote what instead of wonder'n who 'you' is ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus

Re: [newbie] What have I done?

2002-07-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
the grep process you just ran. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] recommendation needed: graphic card w open source drivers

2002-07-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
relationship with Microsoft ). The XFree 2d drivers will survive in any case. nVidia had no part in these, so you won't be completely orphaned. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 3Com USR Modem Installation

2002-07-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
=mail.earthlink.net leave-on-server=false login=tbrinkm523 pass=ᆲᆰᄇᄇᄎᆳ pipelining=false port=110 precommand= protocol=3 store-passwd=true use-ssl=false use-tls=false -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-12 Thread tom brinkman
next week he'll publish a 1 Things Wrong with Windows article ?? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] sound problems (the political aspect)

2002-07-12 Thread tom brinkman
native Linux drivers (be they open or closed) is more likely to benefit the Linux community. Not for the better. Providing closed source only drivers is more likely to the detriment of Linux. It's a user error. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy

Re: [newbie] link for 'notlame' ... (shane)

2002-07-11 Thread tom brinkman
simplify matters, thanks. http://plf.zarb.org/rpm/8.2/i586/notlame-3.91-3plf.i586.rpm (there's also 8.1 and cooker versions at this site) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] sound problems (the political aspect)

2002-07-11 Thread tom brinkman
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 09:35 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 10 July 2002 07:14 pm, tom brinkman wrote: That's not a guess, usin closed source SW/drivers IS. Your choice, but it has an effect on all of us, and not for the better Once again I ask the question, what video

Re: [newbie] directory sizes

2002-07-11 Thread tom brinkman
its contents while at a console. Can anyone give any pointers please. du -b -h I've always used 'du -ch' Seems to give the same output as -bh, but also gives a grand total. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] directory sizes

2002-07-11 Thread tom brinkman
On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:42 pm, Miark wrote: The last du list is ./ which is the same as the total. Or do my eyes deceive me? Miark tom brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: I've always used 'du -ch' Seems to give the same output as -bh, but also gives a grand total. Yeah

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-10 Thread tom brinkman
-- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Hmmm. Well, I'm glad I was not saddled with such extreme predjudices against the hardware I have now, or I certainly would not have achieved the level of performance and satisfaction I now enjoy as a result of a somewhat more open mindset

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-10 Thread tom brinkman
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 01:12 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: tom brinkman wrote: All I originally said was Save your sanity, try to avoid win-hardware in the future, blame uncle billy for aureal. Look here to find a_real sound card Maybe so, but, AFAICT, you also said

Re: [newbie] sound problems (the political aspect)

2002-07-10 Thread tom brinkman
would be my addition, they go hand in hand. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-10 Thread tom brinkman
worth of fake-hardware. Unfortunately, the more it proliferates, the more and longer uncle billy's got a strangle hold going. Integrated IE in winsux isn't Redmond's strength, it's win-hardware, and the people who accept or condone it. Can you say Palladium ? No joke (sadly) -- Tom

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-09 Thread tom brinkman
On Monday 08 July 2002 11:55 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 17:38, tom brinkman wrote: On Monday 08 July 2002 03:20 pm, john drouhard wrote: I need a lot of help. I am very fed up with my aureal card. I have everything I can think of. I have a vortex 2 (au8830). I have

Re: [newbie] windows sucks, but it does sound nice

2002-07-08 Thread tom brinkman
[via82cxxx_audio uart401] soundcore 4068 4 [via82cxxx_audio sound] modules.conf has in it, alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-08 Thread tom brinkman
, blame uncle billy for aureal. Look here to find a_real sound card http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] System.map

2002-07-07 Thread tom brinkman
point to the right kernel for all installed kernels. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-07 Thread tom brinkman
, but a winfrog goes reboot, reboot, reboot (shamelessly stolen by me from Civileme's post to another list ;) IMNSHO, it's viruses -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Windows Games - QT

2002-07-07 Thread tom brinkman
codecs are working. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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