- we'll see.
I may try and investigate myself at the weekend to see what these magic
options are, but without any clues it may well be like looking for a needle
in a haystack!
Martin.
will start screaming!
Also note, that due to my PC being in a different part of the country to me
at the moment i won't be able to try this until the weekend at the earliest
so please don't hassle me before ;o)
Martin.
Excuse the ignorance, but i've got to ask ;o)...
You're not booting off of a floppy here are you ?
Everything after the point where your boot speeds up is when everything is
then resident in memory, hence on a floppy boot you will notice a
considerable speed up.
Martin.
-Original Message
to get my head together, and
have a play about. People are definately saying that it can be made to work,
yet plenty of people are also saying it doesn't.
We shall see, but i certainly appreciate what you're saying about the '-f'.
Martin.
Try 'fsck /dev/hda1'
Martin.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Strike, Jeff
Sent: 28 September 1999 17:13
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [newbie] Disk problems
My system locked up and couldn't get any sort of response
from
This stuff is in the archives as it's been covered _MANY_ times before, but
i'm feeling generous (if a little lazy) so
http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/oldsite/sblive.htm
Martin.
the SBLive! if you are on Mandrake
6.0 or below.
I'm just about to post another request to the list, and hope to have a
solution for 6.1 up at that link sometime over the next day or so. Bear with
me ;o)
Martin.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
it, but just in
case:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/prettypark.worm.html
gives instructions for cleaning it up.
Of course if you're running Linux you should be okay anyway ;-)
Again sorry (in advance),
Martin.
- why would you want to ??
Unles you're on a really tight memory budget, just load the module at boot
time and leave it loaded all day long, can't do a great deal of harm as long
as you also amend your desktop icons to mount to the correct place.
Martin.
chips may already be overclocked, so it pays to set them up slightly on the
slower side - you REALLY won't notice the difference!
Just a suggestion, perhaps worth checking out.
Martin.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Arend teRaa
Sent
I'm doing a bit of catchup on the list right now, so i'm sure someone will
have already answered, but just in case...
'tar -xvzf fname' The z incorporates an unzip.
Martin.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of bay56
Sent: 26 September
till stuck, mail me directly
and i'll point you in the right direction, but try first.
Martin.
know
and i will update the info on my site.
Thanks,
Martin.
PS: I really think that if Creative refuse to release details of the card
for programmers to support, the least they could do is have the courtesy to
keep up with the two most popular distros in the world.
://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
Martin.
.
Martin.
What am I supposed to do with these? WHen you join mailing lists, you are
expected to know what to do to get off, and not to spam all its users.
--
Martin Cleaver
- Original Message -
From: Joseph L. Czapiewski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 1
- Original Message -
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Configuring sound for LM
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, you wrote:
This subject may have been discussed before so if so, please bear with
me. I
of whichever environment i selected.
I tried running the switchdesk utility but it made no different whatsoever.
Thanks for any help.
Martin.
Thanks for the detailed info. I had sort of gathered most of it (not the bit
about the default apps list thougth), so now i shall go away and play to my
hearts content !!
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 7
stall, and forcing an install does cut the number of
references in Package amanger down to one, but doesn't make it any easier to
uninstall... I just keep getting the error message.
Rgds
Martin
going ?
Checked out Xfree86.org, but they simply list 'Neomagic' without anymore
details - i'll pull down 3.3.5 of xfree later today.
Thanks,
Martin.
original post.
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:54 AM
Subject: [newbie] Neomagic 256ZX anyone ?
Hi,
Just setting up Mandrake on my laptop (correction _trying_ to set it up),
and can't get X
the disk space.
Just curious,
Martin.
telling us no-nos... :-(
Rgds
Martin
http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/idescsi_idx.htm
for more info.
Martin.
XCDRoast
If you did an 'install everything', you have it.
If you need help with setting up scsi emulation for ide cdr's see
www.whitem.demon.co.uk
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Ralph |byte-runner | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 2:37
. It isn't nessecarily a win amp
clone, but by selecting it in the options, it can use a winamp skin and
therefore LOOK identical to winamp.
Martin.
I'm feeling real generous right now. I'm in the process of moving house, and
have the required back issue CD in a box right next to my PC. If you want
it, mail me off the list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and we'll sort it out.
Basically all i'll want is an sae or something and it's yours !!
Martin.
PS
Is this for real !!??
We on this mailing list DO call it something else 'Mandrake Linux' - end of
problem (or am i overlooking something?)
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: George Guzic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 8:57 AM
Subject: [newbie
- Original Message -
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Doc
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi I'm planning to install Mandrake 6.0 and I wander if there is any
printable documentation
on
optimizations' for hda, hdb AND hdd !!
If either of my ussumptions are correct, can this behaviour be overridden
with any options in LILO ?
Thanks again !!
Martin.
to re-appear on my machine, so it would appear the kernel
upgrade is indeed as you say very nesseccary. I just hope i don't loose my
SBLive in the process this time round.
Anyone know if the ISO image has been updated to include the kernel upgrade
or not ??
Martin.
with huge SCSI disks
before now (well +10Gb anyhow).
Just a thought !!
Martin.
difficult, but will take a few
steps.
Martin.
format a disk with it ALWAYS reduces in size - the larger the disk, the
more scary the amount of size you lose.
Can't think off the top of my head whether a 1.5GB reduction is reasonable
or not - it does sound a little excessive!
Martin.
dcast mode in full screen - any chance of
trying that instead of rlogin/rexec (obviously i appreciate that might not
fit in with what you are trying to do !)
Martin.
is only
ever connected to my laptop - never anything like the net as i don't have a
modem in it. I beleive i don't pose much of a security threat to myself, so
all i did was cause myself a lot of work !!
Just my thoughts.
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Steve Spiller [EMAIL PROTECTED
, as i'm
always interested to see if there are easier ways to do things than how i do
now...
Martin.
, as i'm
always interested to see if there are easier ways to do things than how i do
now...
Martin.
is only
ever connected to my laptop - never anything like the net as i don't have a
modem in it. I beleive i don't pose much of a security threat to myself, so
all i did was cause myself a lot of work !!
Just my thoughts.
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Steve Spiller [EMAIL PROTECTED
threat !!
I have that bug as well.. I have updated initscripts.. I need to download
and update the kernel now.. OH NO!! LOL!! hopefully I wont bugger up my
system
Okay, i haven't read the updates page - but didn't the unmount problem go
away after just upgrading the initscripts ??
[SNIP]
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
Martin White wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
, so i guess
they do!!). Obviously if resources are conflicting with modems and stuff,
that might be a different matter altogether. Give it a go and let me know
(although i won't get any mail again until the morning now).
Good luck,
Martin.
Message -
From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 3:27 PM
Subject: Linux4Win
Don't know if anyone can help, but if i try and install Linux4Win on my
Dell
Lattitude CPt333, i get past the formating stage, into the install, and
shortly after
96MB !!
- Original Message -
From: Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux4Win Install Problems
- Original Message -
From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August
to be able to just copy
the Mandrake directory to the network for safe keeping.
I have done MANY Mandrake installs before and can normally sort other
peoples problems, but this one seems to be a non-starter !!
Martin.
instructions.
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 12:30 AM
Subject: [newbie] Kernel 2.2.5 w/ Sound Blaster Live problem..
I recently compiled Kernel 2.2.5 so I could use my Sound Blaster Live,
but when I run the bin
represent anyone else.
[SNIP]
Martin.
PS: I am both a corporate and home Linux user - have been for about three
years now - still use Windows for both also though !!.
Did you get your problem sorted - if not let me know.
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: RReed [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 5:36 PM
I am very new to linux and just installed mandrake 6.0.
I am having 1 problem and have read and tried
- Original Message -
From: Thomas J. Hamman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Printer question
On 15-Aug-99 Martin White wrote:
All compaq printers are actually lexmarks in a different case. last
time i
checked
(again as root) 'XF86Setup' - you might as well say no to
using your existing config as defaults as that's wrong anyway.
Although the standard SVGA server 'supports' the V3, you need the custom
server mentioned above to get it working properly (ie at a decent
resolution/color depth).
Martin
- Original Message -
From: Jayce Steadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
Martin White wrote:
Sorry for the vague answers, but i've only ever come across the scenario
where it either works
.
Worked OK following Martin White's instructions before the kernel update.
Tony F
[SNIP]
This was my first lesson in 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. I didn't
actually have a problem with the 2.2.9-19 kernel, i just thought it would be
nice to have the latest version, so i updated, then i kcked
it matter ? Or should i take this as an indication of a
problem ?
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 4:24 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] BogoMIPS
MIPS = Millions of Instructions Per Second
BogoMIPS
I figured that it didn't really matter - bottom line is the machine's plenty
quick enough !!
Thanks anyway.
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Nichols, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 5:04 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] BogoMIPS
remember the name
Gald to hear some positive feedback !!
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Jayce Steadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
"A.M. (Tony) Finnis" wrote:
Just for information.
I have h
Unfortunately, the Olitec PCI modems are software driven. They will only
work with the drivers that were written for Windows 95/98. There is no way
to make the modem work under Mandrake or any other Linux distribution.
-Original Message-
From: jeff d'Izarny [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Check out Samba. Samba allows you to access Windows shares and also allows
you to share disk space and printers to other Windows users.
-Original Message-
From: Neilesh Patel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 9:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Joao,
Before spending the money on a new SCSI card, go to the SANE page and try
their drivers. They list your scanner and the controller it comes with as
supported.. Their site is at http://www.mostang.com/sane/
-Original Message-
From: Joao C Agostini [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
into your '/etc/conf.modules' to pull it all
together at boot time.
Any further problems either check out the archives, or let the list know !!
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Jayce Steadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 11:27 PM
Subject: [newbie
that you
are typing manually each boot into the end of '/etc/rc.d/rc.local'. This
script is always the last init script to get run before starting X or the
command prompt.
Hope this helps.
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Cindy Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
things that could prevent the PC from appearing in the network
neighbourhood even if Samba is totally present and correct.
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] SAMBA troubles
- there have been 3 versions in the 6-8 weeks since i bought mine,
so i guess it wouldn't be a problem for long anyway.
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: darkknight [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 2:28 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Redhat 6
, but did on the second / third
attempt - strange i know, but there you go.
With the 'bzimage' bit under Mandrake, the kernels are normally too big for
the normal 'zimage'.
If i got the wrong end of the stick here i apologize.
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: helmut halfmann [EMAIL
one, it's well worth the
money !!
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: darkknight [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, chagilt wrote:
Hey I would just like to thank all
Have you downloaded the modules from creatives site
??
If not, get them, then i can CC a recent mail to
the list with instructions (or you could look inthe archive - it was only
Friday night / saturday morning i sent it !!)
Martin.
- Original Message -
From:
chagilt
a better way of doing it than this, but can't remember off the top
of my head. I'll post my conf.modules to my webpage and then post the URL
tonight.
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Carlos Mayorga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 2:29 AM
Subject: [newbie
sblive' (or whatever your old module was called)
'insmod -f emu10k1'
For reference my conf.modules can be found at
www.whitem.demon.co.uk/my_conf_modules.htm
Check out the whole site if you like www.whitem.demon.co.uk you might find
something else of interest there !!
Good luck,
Martin.
PS: I can
See my post re the 2.2.10 version - didn't work with 2.2.9-19 for me i went
down to the 2.2.5-15 version - that worked just fine !!
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Patrick Putteman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie
in the
dir do 'rpm -Uvh *rpm').
Then run the setup program - i think it was 'XF86Setup' (case sensitive).
You may as well say no to using your existing file as defaults, it won't be
any good anyway.
The rest is self explanatory, but i can carry on if you need...
Martin.
- Original Message
the same method.
Thanks in advance.
Martin.
recompile, but want to know if there is
a parameter i can supply somewhere to a module to save me recompiling.
At the end of the day, it doesn't affect anything, it would just be nice to
tidy things up.
Martin.
doesn't use up so much cpu power as windows ;-) - especially on
bootup - the cpu's probably really is going that slow at that time.
Martin.
this one out, but again, i'm not sure how relevent it is to the
SBLive - can't remember off the top of my head whether it uses DMA, and if
it does (do all sound cards ??) what should i do if it uses two.
Thankfully i still dual boot, so i can check all this stuff out in Windows.
Martin.
On Thu
Cheers, i'll try the play command tonight - i guess there's a man page
which'll tell what it's going to want to play (a CD, WAV file etc.)
As for if it ain't broke etc. - i agree, but someone must have deemed it all
broke otherwise they wouldn't have released fixes/updates ;-)
Martin
ideas ?
Thanks,
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 4:00 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem
Martin,
have u tried out the SBlive drivers for linux from creative labs site?
I'm afraid they're the ones that i'm
a change to the
system daemons with ntsysv or setup - anyone know of a more permanent way ??
Problem solved !!
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Yants [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Satellite 4080CDT
i had the same problem
not an option, i actually wanted this one that's why i bought it. Also don't
say 'mail creative about releasing the source' - that don't fix my problem
neither (well short term anyway). ???
Martin.
PS: As 'play' doesn't work, i guess it has nothing to do with esound or X
windows.
the upgrades and the SBLive module
(with the '-f' to force it).
Thanks for any help, this is starting to dive me nuts (as well as this
laptop keyboard!).
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 9:57 PM
Subject: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem
Okay folks,
I'm getting hacked off with this now, so it's time for post. I have an
SBLive which was working
notes of the thread about upgrading various RPMS a while back -
does it sound like that would help me?
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Patrick Putteman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 1999 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] SBLive under Mandrake 6.0
You
a Glide compatible
card (3Dfx recommended), plus a pretty wazzy spec machine - i run a V3 in a
PIII 128Mb ram machine. But for your pains you get stuff like Zelda -
Ocarina of time running FASTER and SMOOTHER than under Windows !!
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Alex Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED
I meant to get this site completed over the weekend, but ended up partying
at a club instead, so give me till the end of the week and step by step
instructions will be at www.whitem.demon.co.uk/idescsi_idx.htm
It really is easy.
Martin.
(I stress, there's nothing much useful there yet, i'll
used wine - previous attempts two years ago had
been pretty fruitless).
The more i think about where i got this stuff from the more i think that it
MUST have been reliant on a 3Dfx graphics card. I'll get hold of the URLs
and post them tommorrow.
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Alex
) that said it could give a performance gain to use the same resolution
as your desktop - no idea why !!
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Alex Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 2:41 PM
Subject: [newbie] UltraHLE is working with Wine
is black and white instead of colour... what did I (not) do?
Rgds
Martin
get two error
messages when I start KDE:
Could not find mime type audio/x-wav in
/usr/share/applnk/Multimedia/KMedia.kdelnk
Could not find mime type audio/x-wav in
/home/martin/.kde/share/applnk/StarOffice.kdelnk
I addition, I haven't worked out printing yet (it worked before, but no more
:-(
Any
)...
Rgds
Martin
---
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Cleaver
MCTranslations/Spot Softwarephone: +31 20
6162224
fax: +31 20 6838188[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
home page: http://people.a2000.nl/mcleaver
but I get the feling the makers should have
thought of that :-(
Rgds
Martin
have to do anything else different apart from the make command
above.
Martin.
in there
somewhere) and you should get things working.
This _MAY_ not be how it's meant to be, but it certainly worked for me.
Martin.
PS: Again, i may be wrong, but i think you _MUST_ specify a program to run.
Try 'wine notepad' as a starting point as that one's worked for eons.
- Original
there's plenty more to a decent OS than a cool working environment (or
playing), but that's a major start - anyhows Linux has plenty more anyway !!
Martin.
PS: I'm in no way connected with vmware, i just think its pretty cool.
,
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] New kernel?
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see that new kernel rpm's are on the ftp site (2.2.9-24). How
)and WordPerfect won't read or write to the (fps mounted) data
directory on my other machine. As soon as I try to read a file, WP just
disappears from memory and as soon as I try to write, it just writes the file
name as a nonexecutable file and can't finish the process. WHAT
HAPPENED?
Rgds
Martin
?
I also see that samba is broken. I get this
error:
smbd: error in loading shared libraries:
/usr/lib/libreadline.so.3: undefined symbol:
BC
[FAILED]
nmbd: error in loading shared libraries:
/usr/lib/libreadline.so.3: undefined symbol:
BC
[FAILED]
Itza double Dutch to me :-(
Rgds
Martin
, but the end result works perfectly.
Does anyone know how i can force the '-f' on bootup
so i don't always have to go to a text terminal as root and insert the module
manually before starting X as i do at the moment ??
Martin.
Martin
Ivy.gif
the
"Opera Web Browser" over to linux?
On a side note ( and off-topic), if you're in search of a nifty screen
saver for linux, check out http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ , and
help find ET.
Thanks in advance,
Ben
I downloaded that a while ago, it's not as a screensaver fo
for the
newbies without the unpeasant surprised...
Rgds
Martin
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