[newbie] enabling ATA100 drives

2001-09-07 Per discussione Jeremy Davidson
I have an IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB drive which is ATA100 compatible, but I have a feeling that MDK8.0 is not taking full advantage of this feature. My motherboard, an Asus A7A266, also supports this. A line showed up during installation (might during boot-up too -- haven't checked) that says

Re: [newbie] how to play mov files?

2001-09-02 Per discussione Jeremy Davidson
Seems to me I once got a mov file to play in Netscape. It didn't have any playback controls (just a box centered within the working area), but it worked (don't remember if it had sound or not -- was having soundcard troubles at the time). This was using the PeanutLinux distro. Jeremy

[newbie] resizing partitions

2001-08-28 Per discussione Jeremy Davidson
I've decided to give LM8.0 a try as a dual-boot system (previously I'd been swapping HDs to keep it separate from win). How much risk is involved in trying to resize my fat32 partition (using the LM8 install program)? I have an IBM Deskstar 30GB drive (IDE) on a T-bird system. I've backed

[newbie] tuxracer getting bad framerates

2001-08-24 Per discussione Jeremy Davidson
I finally got Tuxracer to work -- had to tell RPMDrake (Software Manager?) to install the mesa packages. Now, however, it runs at about 1-2 fps. I looked around for a mesa config program, but I haven't run across anything yet. What do I need to do to get it working better? I've got a

[newbie] Software Manager not really installing

2001-08-22 Per discussione Jeremy Davidson
Well, I'm back with more questions. This time I'm trying to install a couple packages off the CD (namely Samba and Tuxracer). The program appears to run properly, and the KDE menu is updated with links to the programs. The programs themselves, however, never seem to really get installed. I

[newbie] LILO freezes up on bootup

2001-08-21 Per discussione Jeremy Davidson
I'm a new Linux-mandrake user (just installed 8.0), but I'm having trouble getting it to boot up. Whenever I start it up, I get a LI on the screen (as though it started to say LILO or something) where it used to say things like Starting Win The computer just stops right there. I've