Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 slowdown

2000-04-25 Per discussione John N
This can happen if your swap partition is too small What size is yours? Paul wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since moving up to Mandrake 7 from M 6 I find that the loading time for KDE, and even the Kmail program inside KDE takes much longer than it did in

Re: [RE: [newbie] Accessing NT lan from Linux - SERIOUSLY - Idesperat ely need help on this, guys...]

2000-04-18 Per discussione John N
NO NO NO !!! Sambar is an elegant, sort of free, Windows WWW, Porxy etc. server. It has nothing to do with Linux / Windows shares. What you need is Samba - under Linux. Jaguar wrote: Apparently there is also a Windows version of Samba...called Sambar, maybe that is what your looking

[newbie] Mandrake Version

2000-04-12 Per discussione John N
How do I check which version of Mandrake (not Kernel, not KDE etc) is running?

[newbie] X Problem

2000-04-07 Per discussione John N
When trying to change resolution from 640 x 480 to ANYTHING else i get the error message: Could not open default font "fixed" Where is this default defined, what should it be and how do I fix it? Thanx in advance John

[newbie] Proxy Server vs. IPChains/Masq/forward

2000-04-02 Per discussione John N
What, in your opinion, are the relative merits / dangers of running a proxy server as opposed to IPChains etc. when it comes to sharing a DSL connection? (In a mixed Mandrake / Windows9* emvironment )

Re: [newbie] ata66

2000-04-02 Per discussione John N
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I took the kernel and dumped the rest. How, exactly, did you do that? I wish to do the same

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Problems.

2000-04-02 Per discussione John N
From the command line enter "sndconfig" (without the quotes ; ) Seth Hollen wrote: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED what's your sound card? have you tried LOTHAR on the command "soundconfig"? -Original Message- From: Roy Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000

[newbie] URGENT HELP NEEDED

2000-04-02 Per discussione John N
I installed, from scratch, Mandrake 7. It took 2.75 HOURS - usually takes 35 minutes. The system is now glacially s-l-o-w with far too much hard drive activity. It is also reporting a 2.2GB hard drive as about 5GB !! Have I activated any compression system, like the DOS DoubleDisk, by

Re: [newbie] Sounblaster AWE64 PNP

2000-03-30 Per discussione John N
I had the same problem and solved it thus: From the command line (not from x or an x-console) run sndconfig - it will find the card and configure things - you will then hear Torvalds pronouncing LINUX, and a small MIDI file, and you're home! (You may have to do this a couple of times, but it

Re: AW: [newbie] Copy Files

2000-03-28 Per discussione John N
I find that, in Windows, WordPad reads them just fine ... Anthony Huereca wrote: So could that be why when I copy and paste things, it looks screwed up? Sometimes I want to copy something off a website, and when I paste it into a form and/or IRC it looks really messed up. For instance,

[newbie] TCP/IP Problem

2000-03-25 Per discussione John N
I switch between Mandrake 7.02 and Win98 SE. I know, I know... but I have clients who use Windows so I have no choice. Under Linux I can reach any website without difficulty, hell even using the floppy disk QNX and it's tiny browser I can do this. Under Win98 there are numerous sites which