[newbie-it] Sorgenti del Kernel

2001-11-29 Per discussione Marco
Ciao a tutti, ho visto che dopo aver installato Mdk 8.1 non mi compare la directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.8 quindi presumo di non aver installato i sorgenti del kernel. Visto che devo compilare i driver per la mia scheda audio ed ho bisogno dei sorgenti (per gli headers da includere nel

Re: [newbie-it] rete

2001-11-29 Per discussione Leonardo Osti
Per quanto riguarda la connessione di rete della workstation Nt, non basta solo pingare gli altri pc, devi vedere se la rete gira su tcp Ip, se esiste un DHCP che distribuisce gli indirizzi. Fai così, apri la shell di DOS e digita ipconfig /allti dovrebbero apparire i dati relativi alla tua

Rif: Re: [newbie-it] rete

2001-11-29 Per discussione bosva
Da: Manuela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: 29/11/2001 06:34 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] rete sono anch'io una principiante, ma credo di aver capito il tuo problema: vuoi poter condividere file con windows e Mac. beh, ti tocca insegnare a Linux a parlare con gli stranieri

Rif: Re: [newbie-it] rete

2001-11-29 Per discussione bosva
Da: Leonardo Osti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: 29/11/2001 09:40 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] rete Per quanto riguarda la connessione di rete della workstation Nt, non basta solo pingare gli altri pc, devi vedere se la rete gira su tcp Ip, se esiste un DHCP che distribuisce

Re: [newbie-it] installazione xine divx 4.02

2001-11-29 Per discussione Stefano Salari
--- luigi pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: La 0.9.5 l'ho scaricata ma non ho ancora provato a compilarla. Quella che sono riuscito ad installare io era la 0.9.4. Puoi provare a ri-scompattare il file: magari tar non ti ha estratto tutto quello che ti serviva... Ciao.

Re: [newbie-it] Partizioni linux e.... modem

2001-11-29 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Emma e Gigi wrote: Salve, mi sono appena iscritto a questa ML (non so nemmeno se sto procedendo bene per spedire queste mie righe...) Ho installato Mandrake 8.0!! Non ci capisco ancora molto ma... mi piace Ho notato che la partizione che le avevo assegnato (13 Giga su 19 del mio

Re: [newbie-it] Sorgenti del Kernel

2001-11-29 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Marco wrote: Ciao a tutti, ho visto che dopo aver installato Mdk 8.1 non mi compare la directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.8 quindi presumo di non aver installato i sorgenti del kernel. ... C'è qualche anima pia che può dirmi dove trovarli (o come si chiama il file rpm) kernel-source..rpm

Re: [newbie-it] MuLinux

2001-11-29 Per discussione Andrea Celli
CyberPenguin wrote: Egregi tutti, un saluto a Voi. Non so come ma ci sono riuscito! Alcune settimane fa, su consiglio di LukenShiro, ho scaricato MuLinux http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/ ... qui sei un po' OT, visto che la ML e` dedicata ad una particolare distribuzione. .. Non sorridete

[newbie-it]

2001-11-29 Per discussione tatiana morosetti
installato linux mandrake 8.0 avendo formattato win98, mi ritrovo a voler tornare a una partizione win e lin. ma non ho la più pallida idea di come fare. come posso creare unap artizione per win??? help.-

Re: [newbie-it]

2001-11-29 Per discussione Luigi De Pascale
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, [utf-8] tatiana morosetti wrote: installato linux mandrake 8.0 avendo formattato win98, mi ritrovo a voler tornare a una partizione win e lin. ma non ho la più pallida idea di come fare. come posso creare unap artizione per win??? help.- NOn ho con me il manuale ma

Re: [newbie-it] devfs

2001-11-29 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Il giorno 10:09, mercoledì 28 novembre 2001 hai scritto: 1) Come si possono fissare le modifiche, come proprietari e permessi, link, sui vari device? Il consiglio è di disabilitare devfs... :) Daniele

Re: [newbie-it] Partizioni linux e.... modem

2001-11-29 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Il giorno 19:52, mercoledì 28 novembre 2001 hai scritto: Il fatto è che non essendo riuscito a collegarmi (Linux mi dice sempre che il modem è occupato...) ho provato ad informarmi, e mi hanno riferito che il mio modem non va bene (per la verità mi crea qualche problema anche con la

Re: [newbie-it]

2001-11-29 Per discussione Stefano Salari
--- Luigi De Pascale [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, [utf-8] tatiana morosetti wrote: installato linux mandrake 8.0 avendo formattato win98, mi ritrovo a voler tornare a una partizione win e lin. ma non ho la più pallida idea di come fare. come posso creare

Re: [newbie-it] Satellite

2001-11-29 Per discussione Renato
I driver per la NetSystem non sono disponibbili, mentre per la scheda DVB di Hauppage puoi trovare i driver per linux e c'è anche un Howto per configurarla. Spero di esserti stato utile. Renato - Original Message - From: Matteo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[newbie-it] scheda sonora e porta seriale

2001-11-29 Per discussione giuseppe palermo
Ho istallato Mandrake 8.1 sul mio portatile Toshiba satellite 4010 CDS con scheda sonora Yamaha OPL3-SA2/3.Ho provato a configurare la scheda sonora con il comando SNDCONFIG ( come avevo fatto con Mandrake 7.2 senza nessun problema ) ma mi da il seguente messaggio d'errore: the following error

[newbie-it] porte seriali

2001-11-29 Per discussione giuseppe palermo
Ho installato un modem pcmcia nel mio portatile toshiba satellite 4010 che possiede un HD di 4 giga con una doppia partizione in cui ho istallato Windows 98 in una e Mandrake 8.1 nell'altra.Il modem Windows lo rileva connesso alla COM2 mentre Mandrake alla tts0.Come mai? Inoltre quando

[newbie-it] scheda sonora

2001-11-29 Per discussione giuseppe palermo
-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: scheda sonora e porta seriale Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:38:20 +0100 From: giuseppe palermo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ho istallato Mandrake 8.1 sul mio portatile Toshiba satellite 4010 CDS con scheda sonora Yamaha OPL3-SA2/3.Ho

Re: [newbie-it] devfs

2001-11-29 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Il giorno 19:22, giovedì 29 novembre 2001 hai scritto: Non vorrei, preferirei riuscire ad usarlo, l'idea di una gestione avanzata dei device non è male, . eliminando i problemi! Sì, l'idea non è niente male. Ma è ancora immatura. Inoltre presenta alcuni problemi di sicurezza (era stato

[newbie-it] permessi

2001-11-29 Per discussione claduc
ho un probelma probilmente cretino ho una partizione windows che voglio rendere accessibilie solo da root come fare per impostare i permessi in modo che solo root vi possa accedere ? grazie Claudio

Re: [newbie-it] Satellite

2001-11-29 Per discussione Renato
Se hai già NetSystem, si devi cambiarla. Hauppage è un produttore di scede TV e DVB, personalmente ho la scheda WinTVgo di Haup., Tra l'altro con questa scheda puoi fare l'abbonamento con Hot Bird per internet via satellite con canone annuale di Lit.300.000. Tieni presente che chi mi ha

[newbie-it] charimento su scheda sonora

2001-11-29 Per discussione luca laghi
A questa domanda di Giuseppe: Ho istallato Mandrake 8.1 sul mio portatile Toshiba satellite 4010 CDS con scheda sonora Yamaha OPL3-SA2/3.Ho provato a configurare la scheda sonora con il comando SNDCONFIG ( come avevo fatto con Mandrake 7.2 senza nessun problema ) ma mi da

Re: [newbie] Automounting problem

2001-11-29 Per discussione robin
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 27 November 2001 03:12 pm, Stewart Taylor wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: The 'old' supermount became incompatible with newer 2.4.x kernels. To the point (IIRC) it was completely broken by 2.4.6. So the Mandrake developers completely rewrote supermount to work

Re: [newbie] a good help to mandrake 8.0

2001-11-29 Per discussione robin
Marek -- The documentation that comes with Mandrake is pretty good for the beginner, IMO. For general Linux information aimed at beginners, there's http://www.linuxnewbie.com . I wrote some introductory Linux stuff a couple of years ago, but it's rather out of date (particularly the pages

[newbie] tuxracer: terrible framerate

2001-11-29 Per discussione Matt Greer
Yikes. I just installed tuxracer --my first attempt at 3D gaming in Linux-- and the framerate is 1 frame per second at best. It's more like watching a slide show than playing a game. This seems to be a somewhat common problem? But I haven't found any solutions. My computer should be able to

Re: [newbie] tuxracer: terrible framerate

2001-11-29 Per discussione Robert MacLean
Are you using the nv drivers or the nvidia drivers? check your XFconfig file ___ Robert MacLean Head of IDWS Technical Services and Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.idws.com Tel: 0860-ONLINE (0860-665469) Fax: (011) 955-5611 NOTE: Please

Re: [newbie] Evolution RC2 problem

2001-11-29 Per discussione Curtis H
There was a bug with upgrading to the newer versions in that they didn't completely exit out of the previous version. Execute this handy little tool from a command prompt: killev And then start evolution. It should work just fine. /curtis On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 08:10, Jim Dawson wrote:

Re: [newbie] Turtle beach sandta cruz

2001-11-29 Per discussione Frans Ketelaars
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:36:23 -0500 Robert Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a turtle beach sound card. Do any of you know where I can find linux drivers for it? Well, it's best if Harddrake (or if that doesn't work, sndconfig) can set up your card, but if that doesn't work: I know ALSA

[newbie] Re: tuxracer: FIXED

2001-11-29 Per discussione Matt Greer
Never mind, I figured it out. Installing the nvidia drivers did wonders. I'm pretty ignorant on 3D acceleration and computer gaming in general. My gears demo framerate jumped from 250 to 800, so I guess it wasn't running very well either. Oh well, time to race! :) Matt

Re: [newbie] how do I save any html page

2001-11-29 Per discussione Lance Dow
On Thursday 29 November 2001 3:15 am, pesarif wrote: In Konqueror: Tools - Archive Web Page. I'm using KDE 2.2. My Tools menu only has Run Command..., Open Terminal... and Find file What am I doing wrong? Please help! Go to the 'Location' menu and use 'Save as...'. Lance

[newbie] win2k

2001-11-29 Per discussione Colin Jenkins
Hello all, Just got a new IBM thinkpad today. (win2k installed) does any one know how to join a linux domain. Apparently on NT you have to create machine account for w2k. My win95/98 boxes log in ok. Colin Jenkins ICQ: 650611

Re: [newbie] InteractiveBastille error messages.

2001-11-29 Per discussione Charles Darcy
On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 15:06, Paul Rodríguez wrote: I had this trouble some time ago as well (can't remember what version of Bastille, and iptables I was running). I any case, I was advised, that to get rid of that message, i can get rid of linuxconf from the list of services that Bastille

Re: [newbie] Help, XP uptime is greater than my linux

2001-11-29 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:16:09 -0500 Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! I'm tired of this computer freezeing! My XP box never freezes, my Mandrake box freezes multiple times a day. I know mandrake is better than this. I am pretty new to linux and don't know where to start checking, but

Re: [newbie] Help, XP uptime is greater than my linux

2001-11-29 Per discussione Mark D'voo
gtk themes seem to cause lockups for me. I noticed that if i use a very simple gtk theme, i have no problem. But if i use one with pixmaps and lots of cool stuff, it runs slow and freezes a lot mark On Thursday 29 November 2001 17:57, you wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:16:09 -0500 Jon Doe

Re: [newbie] About CD burning stuff.....?

2001-11-29 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Thursday 29 November 2001 06:12, Mick wrote: Hello list, Okay, I'm newly transposed from the Windoze world, and kinda lost but having fun here in Mandrake-Linux 8.1! I have a Plextor CD burner, Where is the software in Linux, what is it called, and how do I set it up? So far I have set

[newbie] pwcx module kernel = wow strong tobacco (atleast for me =))

2001-11-29 Per discussione Florian Struck
Howdy i have a little (maybe stupid question) =) Have a look at this : Installation of this module is very simple; copy the pwcx-i386.o module to /lib/modules/usb/pwcx.o, and run 'depmod -a' once. After this, it should be possible to load the module on ANY kernel where the pwc.o module has

[newbie] Hi-fi mp3?

2001-11-29 Per discussione Lance Dow
Hi I've just been re-reading the Jan/Feb 2001 issue of Maximum Linux which carried a very interesting article on mobile mp3. In it the author makes the bold claim that a player by the name of Splay sounded MUCH better than Winamp. He recommended doing a comparison. Splay was on the cover CD

Re: [newbie] tuxracer: terrible framerate

2001-11-29 Per discussione Onur Kucuk
MG Yikes. I just installed tuxracer --my first attempt at 3D gaming in Linux-- MG and the framerate is 1 frame per second at best. It's more like watching a MG slide show than playing a game. MG This seems to be a somewhat common problem? But I haven't found any solutions. MG My computer

[newbie] graphical program to start at boot

2001-11-29 Per discussione Paul Rodríguez
Hi, what's the best way to get a graphical program to start at boot as user? I'd like to do this via the command line. I know that adding the program to the last line of /etc/rc.local could do it, but as root. Thanks. -Paul Rodríguez

[newbie] bastille and distributed file sharing (gnutella)

2001-11-29 Per discussione Paul Rodríguez
Hi, I need some help safely connecting to some file sharing networks. I use Bastille and I'd like to connect to Gnutella (using gtk-gnutella). As it stands I can connect search and download fine, but I can't seem to share my files. How can I open up a connection safely? I'm hesitant to just

Re: [newbie] InteractiveBastille error messages.

2001-11-29 Per discussione Matt Greer
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 05:27 pm, you wrote: On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 15:06, Paul Rodríguez wrote: I had this trouble some time ago as well (can't remember what version of Bastille, and iptables I was running). I any case, I was advised, that to get rid of that message, i can get rid

Re: [newbie] graphical program to start at boot

2001-11-29 Per discussione Michel Clasquin
On Thursday 29 November 2001 19:02, you wrote: Hi, what's the best way to get a graphical program to start at boot as user? I'd like to do this via the command line. I know that adding the program to the last line of /etc/rc.local could do it, but as root. Have you tried placing a symlink

Re: [newbie] graphical program to start at boot

2001-11-29 Per discussione skidley
On 29 Nov 2001, Paul Rodríguez wrote: Hi, what's the best way to get a graphical program to start at boot as user? I'd like to do this via the command line. I know that adding the program to the last line of /etc/rc.local could do it, but as root. Thanks. -Paul Rodríguez

Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now

2001-11-29 Per discussione Marcia
Dear Luis and All, I have decided to install the new gimp-print driver that just came out. Should I , also, install the new cups driver first? How would I do this since I already have older versions installed? Also, I tried to check my cups version and it said that cups was a bad command. How

[newbie] Cooker and urpmi probelms

2001-11-29 Per discussione NDPTAL85
I'm trying to update my kernel to the latest cooker version. I have added cooker to my sources but I keep getting this error: [root@Dreadnaught ndptal85]# urpmi kernel --15:15:35-- ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake- devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] About CD burning stuff.....?

2001-11-29 Per discussione Matt Greer
On Thursday 29 November 2001 08:21 am, you wrote: On your Mandrake disc there are a whole bunch of CD burning apps. Here is my take on them. It is purely personal others will have other opinions :- snip Don't forget the one that started it all, cdrecord. It's command line but I actually

RE: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question

2001-11-29 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Newbie Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question Ok, its stupid question time. Ok, I'm

Re: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question

2001-11-29 Per discussione Mark D'voo
have you tried rpm --oldpackage gcc-2.95*.rpm this should let you downgrade. an rpm --force will also do this, but I'd recommend rpm --oldpackage to check for deps first. If all else fails, rebuild from source mark On Friday 30 November 2001 01:40, you wrote: Ok, its stupid question time.

[newbie] contents of /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0

2001-11-29 Per discussione Franki
Hi all, can anyone with a working dialup connection give me the contents of the file in the subject? I have been trying to get it sussed and using one of the tools, (either linuxconf or mandrake control center) has put some stuff about wvdial in there. when I had chat -v -f ... in there it was

Re: [newbie] Cooker and urpmi probelms

2001-11-29 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 29 November 2001 03:26 pm, NDPTAL85 wrote: I'm trying to update my kernel to the latest cooker version. I have added cooker to my sources but I keep getting this error: [root@Dreadnaught ndptal85]# urpmi kernel I really don't know, so this is only conjecture on my part as I've

Re: [newbie] Help, XP uptime is greater than my linux

2001-11-29 Per discussione Jon Doe
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:59:42 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so which version of mandrake are you using, and what are you doing at the time? Using mandrake 8.1 and KDE. I don't run any screensavers. I don't run Auora either. I'm going to try the XFree upgrade that Mr. Edwards

[newbie] XFree upgrade question

2001-11-29 Per discussione Jon Doe
What packages from cooker do I need to upgrade? What is the best way to do the upgrade? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Cooker and urpmi probelms

2001-11-29 Per discussione NDPTAL85
I heard the ability to upgrade the kernel had been temporarily removed from the GUI tools but that it would be returned someday. Does anyone have an idea on when? It kinda defeats the purpose of having automated tools if you have to manually download and upgrade something like the kernel

Re: [newbie] upgrading 8.0 to 8.1

2001-11-29 Per discussione Richard Wenninger
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 12:49 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Grant Fraser wrote: I give up trying to upgrade a piece at a time. When trying to upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 I found that it wanted me to install setup which conflicts with bash and I cant force

[newbie] Kernel Update or install syncmal first?

2001-11-29 Per discussione Steve Weltman
Greetings group, I have a Q that kinda has me stumped...I want to install a program that is something that I loved in Windoz...AvantGo (in Linux it's called jpilot-syncmal-0.62.tgz, the app is syncmal not to be confused with malsync...). I also need to do an install of a new kernel (up to

[newbie] fill in the blank.directory question...

2001-11-29 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I asked this before, but I've not been able to resolve it...if I copy/move/delete a file from any folder/directory, it leaves a file called: the name if that folder.directory I don't want this, its useless as far as I can tell, and unchecking view properties saved in directory under

Re: [newbie] upgrading 8.0 to 8.1

2001-11-29 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Thursday 29 November 2001 17:17, you wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2001 12:49 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Grant Fraser wrote: I give up trying to upgrade a piece at a time. When trying to upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 I found that it wanted me to install

Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now

2001-11-29 Per discussione H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 29 November 2001 06:09, you wrote: Regarding Canon BJC 2100 and BJC 2000 I actually work for Canon and I use at home a BJC2100 why do you say never buy that? It works for  that little printing that I do at home fine for over a year now . Christian Posratschnig My main

[newbie] PCI video card with hardware TL?

2001-11-29 Per discussione Jesse C. Chang
Does anyone know of such a card for Linux? Given what some people have said about nVidia drivers, I would prefer something other than a GeForce 2, but if that is all that is available, I might have to get one. :P I guess I should get a new mobo, something with an AGP slot... Jesse -- !!

Re: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question

2001-11-29 Per discussione Newbie
rebuild from source? compile a compiler? If I don't have a compiler that works, how can I compile? On Thursday 29 November 2001 09:15 am, you wrote: have you tried rpm --oldpackage gcc-2.95*.rpm this should let you downgrade. an rpm --force will also do this, but I'd recommend rpm

Re: [newbie] Cooker and urpmi probelms

2001-11-29 Per discussione NDPTAL85
Wait I just checked the ftp site manually. The reason why it was reporting no file was because it has changed from kernel-2.4.13-11mdk to kernel-2.4.13-12mdk! So how do I get urpmi to update itself so it can see the new file? On Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 04:16 PM, Tom Brinkman wrote:

Re: [newbie] Cooker and urpmi probelms

2001-11-29 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 29 November 2001 05:36 pm, NDPTAL85 wrote: I heard the ability to upgrade the kernel had been temporarily removed from the GUI tools but that it would be returned someday. Does anyone have an idea on when? It kinda defeats the purpose of having automated tools if you have to

[newbie] Logs size...

2001-11-29 Per discussione Steve Weltman
Hi group, Can I reduce the size of my logs (/var/log/-whateverlog) in any way? Is there a problem with either editing it down or deleting them altogether? Thanks!! _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

Re: [newbie] sound does work but xmms dont - mandrake 8.1

2001-11-29 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, bascule wrote: len, if arst is your problem but you don't have kd then perhaps you have the wrong plugin selected in xmms? optionspreferncesoutputplugin select oss i wouldn't have thought you'd have the arts plugin if you didn't have kde but if you are trying to

Re: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question

2001-11-29 Per discussione skidley
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Newbie wrote: Ok, its stupid question time. Ok, I'm no expert, but I'm not a complete newbie, but I still don't know, should I force install GCC2.95 to end my GCC3 compiler troubles? Or am I skrude until the next mandrake release? I can't seem to backgrade to some

Re: [newbie] Cooker and urpmi probelms

2001-11-29 Per discussione NDPTAL85
And why would it not be appropriate for the front end to upgrade the kernel as well? That makes no sense. If you don't want to use a front end to upgrade the kernel you can just opt not to and install your own. Just because its the kernel does not mean it shouldn't be updated with the same

Re: [newbie] Logs size...

2001-11-29 Per discussione Derek Jennings
Steve If you open up webmin and look at your scheduled cron jobs you will see a daily job called logrotate. The function of this job is to archive old log files and delete old archives. You can decide which logs are managed by logrotate, the size of the files before they get archived, and how

Re: [newbie] Cooker and urpmi probelms (Success!)

2001-11-29 Per discussione NDPTAL85
Alright! urpmi was able to update my kernel after I updated the sources list. [ndptal85@Dreadnaught ndptal85]$ uname -a Linux Dreadnaught 2.4.13-12mdk #1 Fri Nov 23 18:44:14 CET 2001 i686 unknown Urpmi is useful when it works but its still very rough and unpolished. For instance why do we

Re: [newbie] upgrading 8.0 to 8.1

2001-11-29 Per discussione Grant Fraser
Thanks for the tip. No I havent backed it up. No point. I've spent so much time tinkering with the OS I haven't actually found a use for the computer. Played a few games of freeciv. Cant play tuxracer, opengl not supported. Ive upgraded the kernel, and lots of other things. I even managed to

Re: [newbie] XFree upgrade question

2001-11-29 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:32:21 -0500 Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What packages from cooker do I need to upgrade? What is the best way to do the upgrade? I normally update 8 pkgs: XFree 86 XFree 86-libs XFree 86-server XFree 86-devel XFree 86-Xnest XFree 86-xfs XFree 86-100dpi fonts

[newbie] 3D support for SIS 300/305 AGP 16 meg video card?

2001-11-29 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
I just installed v8.1 on an older computer (older is pretty subjective nowdays though - its still a 475mhz AMD K6-III with 192 megs of Ram) that belongs to my stepson. It has a Crystal ISA soundcard, as well as a SIS 300/305 AGP 16m video card. After installation, we got: No sound No

Re: [newbie] XFree upgrade question

2001-11-29 Per discussione Jon Doe
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:37:35 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:32:21 -0500 Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What packages from cooker do I need to upgrade? What is the best way to do the upgrade? I normally update 8 pkgs: XFree 86

[newbie] eth1: initialization delayed

2001-11-29 Per discussione Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How or what do I need to do to fix this. I tried playing with the startup scripts to try to fix this but have been unsuccessful. eth1 can be brought up from a terminal window OK. Currently I have the following statements at the end of rc.local.

Re: [newbie] Logs size...

2001-11-29 Per discussione Erylon Hines
On Thursday 29 November 2001 15:47, you wrote: Hi group, Can I reduce the size of my logs (/var/log/-whateverlog) in any way? Is there a problem with either editing it down or deleting them altogether? Thanks!! No, they can be deleted (I've done it). But, by far the better way is to

[newbie] Can not get users web site to come up with Apache and LM 8.1

2001-11-29 Per discussione Aaron Winters
Hey yall, I have a clean install of LM 8.1 and I can not get my users web sites to come up. When you type the URL http://domainname.edu/~user I get an error telling me I do not have permission to access it. I have done this before and the only thing I can think of is that this time during

Re: [newbie] tuxracer: terrible framerate

2001-11-29 Per discussione Matt Greer
On Thursday 29 November 2001 06:26 am, you wrote: if you don't see the nvidia splash screen when X starts, then they aren't installed right. you can run an /sbin/lsmod and make sure NVdriver is loaded, if not make sure you edited your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 correctly . Under modules you need

Re: [newbie] Can not get users web site to come up with Apache and LM 8.1

2001-11-29 Per discussione Aaron Winters
Well, in testing after I found it was not working with my personal login I logged in with my test account created the public_html directory, started Netscape Composer typed this is a test and saved it as index.html in my public_html directory I just made. That has always been fine in the past.

Re: [newbie] 3D support for SIS 300/305 AGP 16 meg video card?

2001-11-29 Per discussione Navin
For 3D-accelerated video - SiS - not much support is available. however if you have X problems you can use framebuffer. No sound - Mostly the cause of this is very low volume of the speakers or even mute being on. Look into kmix or alsamixer. rest I am not very sure hope it helps navin

[newbie] very very very basic question about ls

2001-11-29 Per discussione Navin
Hello people I have a problem and am trying to fix something A directories I have on my /home/navin/apps/JBoss directory has entries of files and directories. Now some of these directories do not have x in the permission. I do not know how they got stripped off or if they were not present at

[newbie] very very very basic question about ls

2001-11-29 Per discussione Navin
Hello people I have a problem and am trying to fix something A directories I have on my /home/navin/apps/JBoss directory has entries of files and directories. Now some of these directories do not have x in the permission. So it doesn't let me change to that directory with cd. I get a

[newbie] setting PATH variable and reloading /etc/profile

2001-11-29 Per discussione tek1
hello. is there a gui way to set the PATH variable for all users on the system (or an individual user) besides editing /etc/profile or /home/user/.profile? just wondering if a way exist to set the PATH and other variables like on window's system control panel's environment variables... also,

[newbie] Can't shutdown (locks at IPVS)

2001-11-29 Per discussione Mr. E.
I can't get my system to shutdown completely. it started after I installed the Nvidia rpm's from Mandrakeuser.org. When I log out from KDE, I'm at a console prompt. Then I issue Shutdown now command. I get a graphic showing me all these processes being shut down. Then it stops at unloading

[newbie] SMTP error

2001-11-29 Per discussione hosey
I'm having a problem sending email in Mandrake 8.1. Today I tried to send an email with a file attachment (1.8 mb) and I couldn't send in either Kmail or Mozilla Messenger. When I click on send in either program it appears to be sending the data and then just aborts. Kmail gives me this

[newbie] Dying Gateway and Internet Connection

2001-11-29 Per discussione Traci Collins
Because I am using a satellite broadband connection that isn't supported in Linux I have to use another computer on my lan as a gateway to the Internet. All the settings are correct and the setup works most of the time. Unfortunately, my system seems to forget the gateway on a regular basis. The