[newbie] LM8.0 crash recovery

2002-10-30 Thread Norman Teferle
Dear all, I have a linux Mandrake 8.0 box which crashed yesterday when I tried to mount the iso image of for cd1 LM9.0 to a dir in / as root. An initial hardware reboot seemed to work ok, however at some stage it failed and the screen went black. Since then I cannot boot without using the

[newbie] LM8.0 konqueror crashing

2001-11-27 Thread R C
Hi All, I set my up my LM8.0 for three users. Root, Me and my Son! I've had no problems until tonight. My son tells me that his konqueror keeps crashing. I went to his login session and tried to launch konq from the terminal. It tells me the following: KCrash: Application Name = konqueror

Re: [newbie] LM8.0 Video display garbled - solved

2001-11-02 Thread Warren Post
I solved my problem by rerunning the installation program, using expert mode and the update option (not install). At the Configure X portion, I tried different settings untill the configuration tested okay. Thanks everyone for your help, and I hope that this will be useful to others. Warren

[newbie] LM8.0 Video display garbled

2001-10-29 Thread Warren Post
I've finally received and installed LM8.0, hurray! (Thanks, s!) On one of my boxes the video display is garbled: duplicate images appear horizontally, corresponding with vertical bands of video noise. In addition, the display image is not scaled properly and some 3/4 of the desktop spills off the

Re: [newbie] LM8.0 Video display garbled

2001-10-29 Thread Matt
On Monday 29 October 2001 08:00 pm, you wrote: I've finally received and installed LM8.0, hurray! (Thanks, s!) On one of my boxes the video display is garbled: duplicate images appear horizontally, corresponding with vertical bands of video noise. In addition, the display image is not scaled

Re: [newbie] LM8.0 Freezes

2001-07-13 Thread Norman Teferle
Civileme, Thanks for your help. I have disabled Aurora and use Xtart to start the X window manager KDE. My question now is, where do I go from here? Will this be a permanent condition, because I would like to access my Linux box using Exceed as well, which it does not seem to allow me

[newbie] LM8.0 Freezes

2001-07-12 Thread Norman Teferle
Hi all, I am slowly getting desperate here.my LM8 box freeces completely now and then for no apparent reason. Sometimes it happens when I highlight a window or something in KDE or Gnome. After that: no keyboard or mouse response, and no pinging from another computer is possible. I have to

[newbie] LM8.0 and 3ware 3DM Disk Management Utility

2001-07-11 Thread nteferle Last Name
Dear all, I have installed a 3ware Escalade 6200 IDE RAID controller on my PC and re-installed Mandrake 8.0. During installation HardDrake recognised the controller and my installation was successful (as has been reported in previous posts to the mailing list archive). My question now is,

Re: [newbie] LM8.0 and Promise FastTrack RAID 1

2001-06-21 Thread Norman Teferle
Dear all, FALSE HOPES !!! In my previous email I said that I can access both IBM drives on the Fasttrack RAID controller, however this is not true. On installation, I was able to format and select a mount point for the first drive but not for the second drive. Then using Harddrake I was able

Re: [newbie] LM8.0 and Promise FastTrack RAID 1

2001-06-20 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 11:45, Norman Teferle wrote: I have posted a message with respect to my Mandrake 8.0 box with a Promise FastTrack Ultra ATA-100 RAID 0 - 1 controller a couple of days ago with no response. Scrolling throught the mailing list archive, I can see that this topic has

[newbie] LM8.0 question/problem

2001-06-17 Thread Carlos Berardi
Hi all I recently installed LM8.0 in my home box ( i already have a laptop running LM7.2) with this conf AMD motherboard PIII-750MHz, 192MB RAM 20 GB HD (15 for windows, 5 for linux) Nvidia TNT2 card with 16 MB shared ram memory, which leaves 176MB of ram Sony CD-RW 8X Creative Labs CD 52X

Re: [newbie] LM8.0 question/problem

2001-06-17 Thread s
I have a swap of 313 on one of my machines (I just used what was left after making the other partitions - I thought that's close enough.) Anyway, no problems on that computer. Of course it (the swap file) never gets used So I don't think it's a problem if yours is 400mb, fairly sure

[newbie] LM8.0 boots to console mode only.

2001-06-15 Thread Charles Darcy
Hi, I've lately installed LM8.0 and had it running well for the last month. The only problem I've had is Sawfish crashing periodically. I think this may be linked to the Desk Guide applet, which crashed at the same time Sawfish dies. I've been able to continue by restarting Sawfish. The

Re: [newbie] LM8.0 boots to console mode only.

2001-06-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 00:34, Charles Darcy wrote: Hi, I've lately installed LM8.0 and had it running well for the last month. The only problem I've had is Sawfish crashing periodically. I think this may be linked to the Desk Guide applet, which crashed at the same time Sawfish dies.

Re: [newbie] LM8.0 boots to console mode only.

2001-06-15 Thread civileme
On Friday 15 June 2001 10:34, Charles Darcy wrote: Hi, I've lately installed LM8.0 and had it running well for the last month. The only problem I've had is Sawfish crashing periodically. I think this may be linked to the Desk Guide applet, which crashed at the same time Sawfish

Re: [newbie] LM8.0

2001-06-11 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Greg, why don't download the two iso images and try? For me MDK 8 is runing fine, but perhaps your hardware could give problems; if you first try with this main installation you could have an experience to decide buy or not. I have the 8.0 installed in 3 computers, one of them a laptop, runing

Re: [newbie] LM8.0

2001-06-11 Thread poogle
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[newbie] LM8.0

2001-06-10 Thread Greg G
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Re: [newbie] LM8.0 installation

2001-06-10 Thread civileme
On Sunday 10 June 2001 00:46, ivan miranda wrote: I ordered a LM8.0,however to my dismay,I could not proceed form one step of installation.The boot CD will boot ,after loading the Ram disk and it gives error and aborts the installation.I confirmed that it was a CD problem.However LM support

Re: [newbie] LM8.0

2001-06-10 Thread Charles A. Punch
I think 8.0 is better. On my box, it was harder to install. I tried several times before it succeded in fully instaling. Configuring my modem and zip drive had to be done after installation, whereas in 7.2, they were configured during installation. All things considered, 8.0 is worth the

[newbie] LM8.0 installation

2001-06-09 Thread ivan miranda
I ordered a LM8.0,however to my dismay,I could not proceed form one step of installation.The boot CD will boot ,after loading the Ram disk and it gives error and aborts the installation.I confirmed that it was a CD problem.However LM support choose to ignore all my e-mails and fax asking for a

[newbie] lm8.0 - joystick

2001-05-10 Thread Jason Jesso
Has anybody got a joystick to work in Linux Mandrake 8.0? Just an analog stick. In previous versions I got my joystick to work by inserting joystick in /etc/modules. That doesn't work with lm8. I can't even find the joystick testing utilities, like jstest, etc ... It is in some joystick rpm

[newbie] LM8.0 bug fixes

2001-05-10 Thread Carlos Berardi
as i said a few days ago, my LM8.0 installation failed because of my thinkpad's ps/2 mouse. have someone installed this new version perfectly with this kind of mouse/computer? if not, does any one know if there is a way to patch the kernel or when 8.1 is being released? Carlos

[newbie] LM8.0: KMail font observation

2001-05-05 Thread Steven Boothe
Just for the record I noticed tonight that the strange font rendering issues I was having with KMail in my latest install of LM 8.0 appear to be directly related to the value that charset is equal to in the header of the messages. If the header happens to read something like this: ...

[newbie] LM8.0 - ksh error on login

2001-04-29 Thread Jason Jesso
Hi: When using ksh as the shell for a user on Linux-Mandrake 8.0, the .profile is not executed. I also tried this: $ su - test Password: [1] 1388 ksh: /etc/profile.d/mc.sh[12]: export: -f: unknown option [1] + Done (1) export -f mc $ where test is a user using ksh. It looks to