Re: [newbie] Browser

2000-04-07 Per discussione Brent Pathakis
There's netscape 4.7 and 6.0, and a bunch of others. A good resource - goto www.cnet.com, at the top click on linux - theres a message board at the bottom, with a question "lightweight browsers" -- has a bunch of 'em listed. --- "Sami A. Kutbi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What Internet browsers

[newbie] x hangs at start

2000-03-31 Per discussione Brent Pathakis
Hi all, Question. I'm having a strange proble with x. I can start it all right when I log in as root. when I log in using a user account, I get the error: host not found I hit ctrl - c twice, and then it boots ok. Anybody else heard of this?

Re: [newbie] Memory Problems

2000-03-30 Per discussione Brent Pathakis
Boot Linux and goto your /etc directory edit lilo.conf you'll see and append= line change it to append = "mem=256M" Also, you can try linux mem=256m at the lilo prompt, just to make sure you don't mess anything up. after you edit lilo.conf, run: lilo -v and reboot. --- "Stephen F. Bosch"

Re: [newbie] Linux Hangs.......

2000-03-30 Per discussione Brent Pathakis
I've had certain programs hang in X too. One thing you can try is ctrl-alt-backspace, and that will usually kick you back out to a command prompt. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had the problem of my GUI login just went away a few days ago and had to use the TEXT login then type in

RE: [newbie] Installing apps from source code

2000-03-30 Per discussione Brent Pathakis
Don't know if this helps, but I'll put in my two cents worth. I used to have a lot of problem install programs as source code. What works for me is: copy to package to /usr/local (rather than your home directory. When you I run configure, I have to do it like this to get it to work:

RE: [newbie] Memory Problems

2000-03-30 Per discussione Brent Pathakis
lilo.conf is in /etc the line starts: append= and should look like append="mem=128m" (assuming you have 128m ram) and run lilo -v. --- "Congdon, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I vaguely remember having seen this option in BIOS before, so I looked for it. This particular system does

[newbie] problems starting x

2000-03-30 Per discussione Brent Pathakis
Hi, I'm having problems starting x and was wondering if anyone else has this problem. When I log in as root, do startx, it works fine. If I login under my user account, (under which I setup my internet account using kppp), and try startx, nothing happens up unless I hit ctrl - c twice, then