R: [newbie-it] Scheda audio Via

2000-11-18 Per discussione Lorenzo Cantarelli
Se vai sul sito della Via Tech. trovi i driver del chip che gestisce anche il suono (82c686...) Il problema e' che la Via non fornisce driver per Linux (a quanto dicono loro), ma nel file autoscompattante per windows ci sono anche i driver per caldera e RedHat 6.0-1-2 Io ho lo stesso chip su una

Re: [newbie-it] Wine

2000-11-18 Per discussione Giovanni Mazzamati
Il ven, 17 nov 2000, hai scritto: Ciao :) Bè, per quel poco che io possa dirti, dopo aver provato a creare il file ".winerc" e a immettervi dentro le necessarie informazioni (dopo aver cercato di leggere un'articolo su Wine nel numero 7 (di Agosto/Settembre 2000) della rivista "Linux

Re: [newbie-it] tar.gz (disinstallare)

2000-11-18 Per discussione Fabio Coatti
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:39:22PM +0100, osva wrote: ciao, scusate l'insistenza...installando un programma "tizio" partendo dal file tizio.tar.gz mi ritrovo una cartella "tizio" ed un programma funzionante, ok? No, ti trovi con dei sorgenti da compilare. -- Fabio Coatti

[newbie-it] Apache forbidden

2000-11-18 Per discussione davidok
Ciao a tutti, ho appena installato Apache+mysql+php su mandrake 7, non ho avuto problemi per l'instazione di questi programmi ma appeno cerco di accedere a http://localhost con netscape ottengo il messaggio "Error 403 Forbidden." Sappiate che : Non è un problema di permessi Esiste un file

[newbie-it] problemino con netscape

2000-11-18 Per discussione bruno mandelli
Salve a tutti Ho questo problema: quando cancello da netscape i messaggi dalla cartella 2Inbox" e quindi dalla cartella "trash" me li ritrovo ugualmente in /home/bruno/nsmail/Inbox e /home/bruno/nsmail/Trash. Mi sapete spiegare il perchè? Grazie Bruno.

[newbie-it] unsubscrive

2000-11-18 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[newbie-it] Debian 2.2

2000-11-18 Per discussione Skywalker
Ciao a tutta la ML. qualcuno sa darmi qualche suggerimento : ho installato rettifico ho tentato di installare debian 2.2 ma purtroppo non funziona!! Dico quattro tentativi di installazione e finalmente quando senbrava che funzionasse lanciando startx.il mouse mi dà un bel

Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network

2000-11-18 Per discussione Philip Trauring
BTW, why isn't this the same interface as when I click to configure a printer from DrakConfig? I figured it was the same an ran it a bunch of times before I realized it was not. Here's a problem - It automatically scans the subnet for my external NIC, but the printer is connected to the

[newbie] (...) Error Installing 7.2

2000-11-18 Per discussione Krulo
after the graphical menu "F1" or "Enter" I get a black screen with blue windows detecting things but then I get the error message: "cannot mount cdrom" and then another warning saying that wasn't supposed to happen and that he will reboot my machine... why doesnt he accepts my cdrom and if this

Re: [newbie] Printing to print server with CUPS

2000-11-18 Per discussione Till Kamppeter
Eddie Torres wrote: I tried setting up lpr but everytime I try to use printtool or printdrake it asks me for the cd and wants to install CUPS. To use LPD you must start "printerdrake --lpr" or you install the "printtool" from the contribs. But your problem is easier to solve with CUPS. So

Re: [newbie] printing

2000-11-18 Per discussione Till Kamppeter
The best driver for your printer (Epson Stylus Color) is the EPSON Stylus Color, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.0 when you have set up this driver, make sure that you put the resolution to 360 or 720 dpi ("Configure Printer" button in http://localhost:631/printers/). Set also paper size and type

[newbie] Additional support for printing with CUPS

2000-11-18 Per discussione Till Kamppeter
Oi, many questions appeared on the mailing lists about problems with CUPS, the new printing system in Linux Mandrake 7.2. I have set up some places for getting additional help in case of questions and problems with CUPS: 1. A large article covering all about CUPS, beginning from what CUPS is

Re: [newbie] Printing

2000-11-18 Per discussione Till Kamppeter
Which printer model do you use? Did you set up the printer options after installing the driver as I explained it to you? Note that the option settings get lost when one changes the driver. If your printer is an HP inkjet, note that the drivers with "Foomatic + cdj880" and "Foomatic + cdj890" do

RE: [newbie] 7.2

2000-11-18 Per discussione falcaraz
CDRWIN under windows make goods CDs from ISO images; also you can see the cooker page (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3) how to do it under linux Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Mandrake Linux User:LMEP71-562-ESP-NXAI-V38K - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Geoff Thomas

Re: [newbie] is anyone successful using realplayer in 7.2?

2000-11-18 Per discussione eric
Joseph Markham wrote: Dear Eric, I have a SB Live! value soundcard, which was found installed by LM7.2 I downloaded 7.2 burned it on 2 CDs. Install was from the 2 CDs on a clean hard-disk. I have also tried it with the Aureal Vortex 2 (OK - downloaded drivers) and also the Yamaha 724 (

Re: [newbie] nfs lock delay boot time

2000-11-18 Per discussione eric
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:15, eric wrote: so to connect to internet I need to manual dhcpcd -h C111-A eth0 Put this line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local and it will execute at boot. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "One World, One Web, One Programme." - Microsoft

Re: [newbie] nfs lock delay boot time

2000-11-18 Per discussione eric
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 01:54, eric wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:15, eric wrote: so to connect to internet I need to manual dhcpcd -h C111-A eth0 Put this line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local and it will execute at boot.

RE: [newbie] RE: [Toshiba CDROM XM6102B

2000-11-18 Per discussione Ran Hooper
Hello, I am trying to install Mandrake 7.2 in an old Pentium 200 MMX with a Toshiba CDROM XM6102B, but the installer doesn't recognized this CDROM model; it gives me question about if it is an IDE or SCSI CDROM, and doesn't recognized it as IDE, but it seems that there is not any special module

[newbie] 7.2 install

2000-11-18 Per discussione KompuKit
well, I bought compusa's version 7.2 complete I couldn't do an update...but did an install... I saved my home partition...but I'm having trouble trying to install new apps...how do you do it...? -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit=

[newbie] DriveStatusError BadCRC

2000-11-18 Per discussione Stratos Laspas
Hello there! During both boot time and operation time, I get some error messages about hde (that's on a Promise U66 PCI card). The following is from the boot sequence. Any hints? Freeing unused kernel memory: 128k freed hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hde:

Re: [newbie] PNP Sound Card

2000-11-18 Per discussione Joan Tur
Santiago Erquicia escribió: I can't get my ALS110 (PNP) sound card work on MDK7.2 When I try to configure the DMA with HardDrake it says something like the module sb.o is busy. I can't unload the module because it's not up!!! What am I doing wrong?? Thanks If you can get it working

[newbie] A feast

2000-11-18 Per discussione Paul
Hi everyone, I have just had a feast. I replaced the tape streamer with a Plextor 12/10/32 IDE CD rewriter. Kudzu saw the missing streamer, and the added cd-rw, without a problem. I only had to make a softlink from /dev/hdc to /dev/cdrom2, mkdir /mnt/plextor and add a supermount line to

Re: [newbie] scanner setup

2000-11-18 Per discussione WFLott
Thanks it works now. Obiviously, changing the slot of my scsi card made a difference. It didn't use to fire up. Second question. How do I get this to bring something like GIMP up when I want to do a scan? Thanks for your help. Real Newbie: William Lott

Re: [newbie] DriveStatusError BadCRC

2000-11-18 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 18 November 2000 01:51 am, Stratos Laspas wrote: Hello there! During both boot time and operation time, I get some error messages about hde (that's on a Promise U66 PCI card). CRC errors indicate data corruption, often a failing HDD. Try swapping out the 80 wire ata/66

RE: [newbie] RE:[NEWBIE] Thanks Paul

2000-11-18 Per discussione Brian Brathwaite
Yes I'm new. I have 7.0, but I can't access the internet with ADSL I understand that 7.2 will solve all my problems. I like the feel of Linux and the power of UNIX, but I need my internet access before I can think of Ousting Mr Microsoft Thanks again Brian -Original Message- From:

Re: [newbie] scanner setup

2000-11-18 Per discussione Paul
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks it works now. Obiviously, changing the slot of my scsi card made a difference. It didn't use to fire up. Second question. How do I get this to bring something like GIMP up when I want to do a scan? Thanks for your help. You'll need to go

RE: [newbie] RE:[NEWBIE] Thanks Paul

2000-11-18 Per discussione Paul
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Brian Brathwaite wrote: Yes I'm new. I have 7.0, but I can't access the internet with ADSL I understand that 7.2 will solve all my problems. I like the feel of Linux and the power of UNIX, but I need my internet access before I can think of Ousting Mr Microsoft Perhaps the

Re: [newbie] printing

2000-11-18 Per discussione Marcia
Dear All, I finally got my printer to work through the web interface admin. No other way would set it up. I think that my Kups admin does not work correctly nor does my printerdrake. My printer works for Abiword but does not print anything out for Kword. I tried to print out something from the

Re: [newbie]7.2 gnapster

2000-11-18 Per discussione Joseph Markham
I've installed LM7.2 and gnapster works fine - I'm playing some mp3s I've downloaded just now. Soundcard is SB Live! Regards Joseph eric wrote: skidley wrote: On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, root wrote: Dear All, Has anyone tried any of the napster clones with 7.2 yet? I have the

[newbie] DOS label command

2000-11-18 Per discussione Joan Tur
Hallo! I don't know how to find out what the CD label is... any command for this?? 8-? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783

[newbie] Aurora

2000-11-18 Per discussione Marcia
Dear All, I am still working on this Aurora enabling. Going to the THYSkys or whatever that spelling was did not help because the choice of Aurora was not there. Is there a way to add to those choices? Of course, since I have installed Aurora I would like to enable it and have read everything

[newbie] konqueror errors

2000-11-18 Per discussione KompuKit
I keep getting errors after trying to access directories in konqueror...that say something like sigsegv signal 11 it crashes...and says something like it was asked to save its documents...why am I getting this...? does the store bought box set have a lot of bugs? what happened to KFM? --

[newbie] After removing Netscape 6 cannot install Netscape 4.76

2000-11-18 Per discussione Romanator
Hi everybody, Don't kill me for asking but I am testing this out. I know. I know. But, for those of you who have spoken with since last May will understand. I ran a test install on WinNT4 SP5 before running an installation on Linux of Netscape 6. There are some memory issues, so I removed

[newbie] Network Card Woes

2000-11-18 Per discussione billw
Hi list, I have been running two boxes for a while, one Mandrake and one Windows. I use the Mandrake box for www, mail, gateway, etc. and the Windows one for work stuff. I use Samba, port forwarding, with no difficulties at all. I recently added a new harddrive to my Windows machine, and turned

Re: [newbie] Aurora

2000-11-18 Per discussione Jeff Malka
Please answer to the list. I am in the identical position. Aurora installed but not in options list. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 1:36 PM Subject:

[newbie] ISDN Internet connection problem

2000-11-18 Per discussione Ian Aldcroft
Mandrake 7.2 installed fine on my PC. It detected the sound card ok, my digitising tablet worked (for a while), and it recognised my ISDN card - AVM Fritz - and asked for internet connection settings. I supplied it with the phone number of my provider, my username and password. When installation

Re: [newbie] scanner setup

2000-11-18 Per discussione Paul
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: William/Paulopen a superuser filemanager window and split it into two windows (or use two windows). Navigate one side to /usr/bin and the other to ~/.gimp-1.1/plug-ins (or ~/.gimp/plug-ins if you're in an older release than mdk 7.2). Drag

[newbie] 7.2

2000-11-18 Per discussione Geoff Thomas
I'm running 7.1 and want to upgrade to 7.2 I downloaded the iso images files 7.2 inst.iso and 7.2 ext.iso. I can't install the program from these files and can't find any info on this. Any help? Thanks GT

[newbie] No NUMBER lock?

2000-11-18 Per discussione Charles
I have been looking through the DOCs but haven't discoverd how to have NUMBER LOCK active when starting KDE. Suggestions? TIA - Cmo

Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network

2000-11-18 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, you wrote: I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and I have an HP Laserjet 4050TN on the same Ethernet network that I'd like to be able to print to. I presume that you installed CUPS, with this I got it working anyway There are two ways in which you can do this: a) TCP/IP

Re: [newbie] After removing Netscape 6 cannot install Netscape 4.76

2000-11-18 Per discussione Dave
Since the error is occurring during the installation of Java files, I would try uninstalling the Java Runtime Environment that came with Netscape 6, then let 4.76 install its own JRE fresh (which it seems to be trying to do anyway). Dave Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, Don't kill me for

Re: [newbie] This bites (further cable woes)

2000-11-18 Per discussione Bob Currey
By hardware adapter, he means ethernet card. Be very careful which you pick. I have many "supported" ones that didn't work with my cable modem setup on 7.1 and 7.2. I'd suggest an NE2000 PCI clone or 3Com 3C905tx after all I've been through. Intel boards (2) are hopeless, Netgear (2) are

[newbie] upgrade

2000-11-18 Per discussione Bob Schmidt
Hi, Just downloaded and tried to install the upgrades in 7.2. When it went to upgrade the linuxconf it came back saying missing file "libgd.so.1" any idea where to get that. Also, still can't get my "agp" 3dfx banshee video card to work, any help would bre greatly appreciated. Bob

Re: [newbie] Network Card Woes

2000-11-18 Per discussione Bob Currey
Were it me, I'd pull the sound card and check what IRQ the ethernet board is on, and then go specify the IRQ in the hardware config drake. But I'm as clueless as any, I guess... BobC - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000

[newbie] (...) Problem with partition (in install)

2000-11-18 Per discussione Krulo
the system stops at the the partition part. when I choose the option "use the free space in the windows part" he detects one more thing and then asks me if I ran the scanreg in windows and if i didn't tells me to run it and when I'm sure to press "ok" but the buttons dont work and the system is

[newbie] SDSL CONNECTION

2000-11-18 Per discussione eschbach
Anyone have any experience with configuring net connections on linux-mandrake? I have a D-Link DFE-530 TX pci nic card that is a 10/100 card i also have a usb 3com 10 nic that doesnt work in linux. I have the d-link configured in linux. I am using gnome as my main desktop. I have

Re: [newbie] Aurora

2000-11-18 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Marcia wrote: Dear All, I am still working on this Aurora enabling. Going to the THYSkys or whatever that spelling was did not help because the choice of Aurora was not there. Is there a way to add to those choices? Of course, since I have installed Aurora I would like to enable it and have

[newbie] Re: disk optimization option

2000-11-18 Per discussione pablito
installation - disk optimization check box -- what does that do? Is there something like a disk defragmenter for Linux, (other than "defrag" that says you have to run it from a boot disk to defragment the root partition.)

[newbie] I cant compile my modem driver

2000-11-18 Per discussione Mauricio Castro
I have a pctel hsp56 micromodem, I've downloaded the drivers for kernel 2.4.x and I have kernel 2.2.16, the driver pack had a folder named makemodule witha file named makemodule It is supposed that with the comand "make" in that folder It should compile the drivers for my kernel but it didnt. How

Re: [newbie] (...) Problem with partition (in install)

2000-11-18 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 18 November 2000 05:06 pm, Krulo wrote: the system stops at the the partition part. when I choose the option "use the free space in the windows part" he detects one more thing and then asks me if I ran the scanreg in windows and if i didn't tells me to run it and when I'm sure to

Re: [newbie] upgrade

2000-11-18 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 18 November 2000 05:02 pm, Bob Schmidt wrote: Hi, Just downloaded and tried to install the upgrades in 7.2. When it went to upgrade the linuxconf it came back saying missing file "libgd.so.1" any idea where to get that.

Re: [newbie] Aurora

2000-11-18 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: [snip][snip] That's it. :-) Marcia/Jeffoops! Forgot to say to activate your changes in /etc/lilo.conf (as root) type: lilo -v or to activate your changes in /boot/grub/menu.lst navigate to the /boot/grub/ directory (as root) and type: sh install.sh Now that's

Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?

2000-11-18 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 18 November 2000 04:36 pm, Charles wrote: I have been looking through the DOCs but haven't discoverd how to have NUMBER LOCK active when starting KDE. Suggestions? TIA - Cmo What version ?? If it's 7.2, a lot of people are reporting the same. The only work-around I've

Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?

2000-11-18 Per discussione John Rye
Charles wrote: I have been looking through the DOCs but haven't discoverd how to have NUMBER LOCK active when starting KDE. Suggestions? TIA - Cmo Locate 'numlockx' via freshmeat.net - it will do what you want cheers -- ICQ#: 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number

[newbie] Midi with Soundblaster 16 Vibra

2000-11-18 Per discussione Gayle Burnett
I'm using Mandrake 7.2 and I haven't been able to play midi files. I can play cds and mp3 files but not midis. Can anyone help?

RE: [newbie] Midi with Soundblaster 16 Vibra

2000-11-18 Per discussione Brian P. Trotter
Hi, I cant help with your particular problem, but I am hoping you can help me. I have the Vibra sound card as well, and I am trying to install it. Can you point me to any help files, or HOWTO's that really helped you? Thanks, Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Printing with STAR OFFICE

2000-11-18 Per discussione Ed Santiago
Help! Please! I have 7.2 installed and can print with the following: KWord AbiWord Advanced Editor Text Editor Dia KIllustrator Sketch The printer works great in those, however in StarOffice it doesnt print. I have changed the "connect" to qtcups and to xpp, when I try to print the qtcups

Re: [newbie] scanner setup

2000-11-18 Per discussione Paul
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: William/Paulopen a superuser filemanager window and split it into two windows (or use two windows). Navigate one side to /usr/bin and the other to ~/.gimp-1.1/plug-ins (or ~/.gimp/plug-ins if you're in an older release than mdk 7.2). Drag

RE: [newbie] Midi with Soundblaster 16 Vibra

2000-11-18 Per discussione Bill Shirley
I have a SB Vibra 16. It was set up when I installed LM 7.1. My /etc/conf.modules: alias sound sb options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian P. Trotter Sent: Saturday,

Re: [newbie] Re: disk optimization option

2000-11-18 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 18 November 2000 06:12 pm, pablito wrote: installation - disk optimization check box -- what does that do? Is there something like a disk defragmenter for Linux, NO. ext2 and Reiser file systems don't require defraging like DOS does. The optimization check box you refer to

[newbie] video problem in standby mode

2000-11-18 Per discussione Mandrake Mania
I'm using a KDE desktop and XFree4 under Mandrake 7.2 with an ATI Mach64 video card and a Hitachi CM751U monitor. With DPMS enabled, the monitor blanks for a few seconds after the timeout period set with xset, but then an "Invalid Scan Freq." message appears from the monitor and the screen shows

[newbie] HELP, Desperate Plea to mount CDROM!

2000-11-18 Per discussione S. Stubbs
Hey, it has been a while now and I have not been able to mount my CDROM drive. I have mdk 7.2. I have one cdrom drive, it is recognized correctly in the hardware. It is IOMEGA Zip650 cd writer drive which is an internal IDE writer drive. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP, this is driving me nuts. I went to a

[newbie] Creative Vibra 16 Config Cure in LM7.2

2000-11-18 Per discussione Neil Frame
I had zero sound after I updated from 7.1 to 7.2. I ran "sndconfig" from a KDE terminal window. It gave me a warning about not running in window, but it worked fine. sndconfig set up my sound for both wav and midi in about a minute. Woo Hoo! Good Luck BTW I am running a Dual Pentium II

[newbie] Start KDE

2000-11-18 Per discussione Page, Jennifer
Just installed Mandrake 7.0, how do I start kde?

Re: [newbie] Re: disk optimization option

2000-11-18 Per discussione pablito
Interesting. "info hdparm" is a terminal command? - Original Message - From: "Tom Brinkman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: disk optimization option : On Saturday 18 November 2000 06:12 pm, pablito wrote: :

Re: [newbie] Creative Vibra 16 Config Cure in LM7.2

2000-11-18 Per discussione Gayle Burnett
Neil Frame wrote: I had zero sound after I updated from 7.1 to 7.2. I ran "sndconfig" from a KDE terminal window. It gave me a warning about not running in window, but it worked fine. sndconfig set up my sound for both wav and midi in about a minute. Woo Hoo! Good Luck BTW I am

Re: [newbie] group psychologist

2000-11-18 Per discussione GAPrichard
onepatrick i have elected myself as group psychologist :) any questions ? GAPrichard I have this friend ah, i see. please ask your friend to see me :) Ed Liear. LIER,

Re: [newbie] supermountZipdrive

2000-11-18 Per discussione root
Dear All, I have been able to use my zip drive in 7.2 with no problem however all of a sudden I cannot open it. I get a message that I have no access rights and this is in root or as a user. I went to Drakconf already to change permissions but it has not changed anything. It was working fine

Re: [newbie] Start KDE

2000-11-18 Per discussione Roger Sherman
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Page, Jennifer wrote: Just installed Mandrake 7.0, how do I start kde? Type startx at the command prompt -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719

Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?

2000-11-18 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
Charles wrote: I have been looking through the DOCs but haven't discoverd how to have NUMBER LOCK active when starting KDE. Suggestions? TIA - Cmo For me, NUM LOCK on was an option when I installed... Don't know about it other than that, except you might scroll through /etc/X11/XF86Config

Re: [newbie] Re: disk optimization option

2000-11-18 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
pablito wrote: installation - disk optimization check box -- what does that do? Is there something like a disk defragmenter for Linux, (other than "defrag" that says you have to run it from a boot disk to defragment the root partition.) Umm, thats more for speeding up your hard drive, --

Re: [newbie] Start KDE

2000-11-18 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
"Page, Jennifer" wrote: Just installed Mandrake 7.0, how do I start kde? Hi Jennifer! Just do a "startx" from a command line... -- /\

[newbie] me mandrake 7.2

2000-11-18 Per discussione Dan
Ah yes, I have made the mistake of upgrading Mandrake again. I downloaded the iso images for 7.2 then performed the upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2 Here are the problems I have been unable to solve so far (4 days trying g) 1. The boot process hangs after finding the module dependencies. It

[newbie] Help with setting up a monitor

2000-11-18 Per discussione scarimonger
I have just purchased a Sony HMD-A200/L 17"(16" vis) display monitor. I used drakconf to set it up. My current settings are 32 million colors at 1024x768 @ 85hz. My video card is a Voodoo3 2000 PCI with 16MB of onboard video ram. I still get some flicker from the screen like on my Compaq P50

[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and power management

2000-11-18 Per discussione Mandrake Mania
I recently posted re. problems I've had with a garbled video signal appearing in place of the screen blanking in standby mode. Now I have a configuration that works (after many attempted permutations): turn off APM, ACPI, and BIOS-level power management options in the BIOS and set display power

[newbie] serial port problems

2000-11-18 Per discussione Brian P. Trotter
I am full of questions tonight. I am trying to get my modem working. I connected an external 3com 56k modem to the COM1 port on the back of the PC. In Mandrake, I type the following command: setserial -g /dev/ttys* and it returns the following results: /dev/ttys0: Input/output error /dev/ttys1:

Re: [newbie] Re: disk optimization option

2000-11-18 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 18 November 2000 10:13 pm, pablito wrote: Interesting. "info hdparm" is a terminal command? yes. (su to root) 'hdparm -i /dev/hd*' will read the information from your harddrive's (HDD) firmware (bios). Much of this information is useful in guessing at which hdparm options