Fellow Linux users,
I'm trying to sell a Compaq Deskpro 2000 (Pentium 200MMX w/96M RAM, 1M
Video), and I have a buyer if I can get Linux on it. The thing works fine
under Win 98, Win ME, Win Pro. Under Linux my first hurdle was the sudden
appearance of a bad track, resolved by installing the HD
HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 11/03/2003
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Greg,
Yes, it sounds right. With Mandrake 9.1 and KDE (default version) where do
I find the second autologin setting? The one I know about is in MCC:Boot,
if I remember right.
Thanks.
Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]@aurora.gkmweb.com on 10/27/2003 10:42:27
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I'm having a problem with my serial ports. Mandrake 9.1, Fujitsu L-470 PII
w/192M. This has a built-in modem, infrared port, and a serial port.
When I set the serial ports to AUTO in BIOS then I'm unable to synch my
Palm device using either ttyS0 or ttyS1 (Kpilot).
When I disable the IR serial
Two issues here, but I think they're linked.
When I shutdown the process is described on the shutdown screen and
everything says Success, iirc. There is one step in the process however
which fails: Closing Display Manager. This bothers my sense of order, and
may be a symptom of other problems.
I like the look and feel of Evolution as a mail reader, but I have a
couple of questions for ya'll:
How can I cause it to open Konquerer as a browser rather than Mozilla?
Konq is listed first under KDE file associations, and I can't find anywhere
in Evolution where there is a place to make an
Ok, we now know which wallpaper this is, but which KDE theme is it?
Thanks,
Max
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hi
does
The rwho service is running on my system by default, and it seems that this
is responsible for giving information about my system in the event that
someone finger's this IP. Only thing is that since I'm using a hardware
firewall, I don't think this will work. Am I correct in believing that I
After having the palm/mandrake 9.1 sync working well for a week or so with
Kpilot I seem to have bolluxed it up by trying a sync with Evolution.
Instead of transfer-pilot (or whatever the name of the Kpilot deamon is)
it's now using gnome-pilot.
And it's not working, so after playing around with
Greetings,
The default install of Mandrake 9.1 has provided us with a number of
different desktop environments (7?), and I understand that the variety is
there because of personal preferences in decoration and performance. But
it has also provided us with some programs which seem keyed to
(I'm 3 days behind in my reading, apologies if this has been covered to
death).
Thanks Ed. I'm new here these last few weeks and felt it wasn't my place,
but I wholeheartedly agree. Too much unrelated blathering going on.
ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 10/05/2003
So last night I was trying to cajole Kpilot into syncing my PDA with
Korganizer's calendar and the manual said that I needed to point the
configuration to the calendar file, normally the default file in
/.kde/usr/share/somethingorother [going by memory here]. So I looked
around and couldn't find
Someone said yesterday All of these commands need to be run as super user
or root
These are two terms with the same meaning, right?
Thanks,
Max
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I doubt that visor usb-uhc1 should be unused. I've spent over 10
hours trying to get this to work, scouring google, and I've come to
the conclusion that something's good and broken. The palm is set to
use USB for sync, every instruction
You might also look at your BIOS settings. I seem to remember that
changing mine from P-n-P to non Plug-n-Play made a difference (or was it
vice versa?).
Max
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Thanks very much for the helpful links with instructions on how to set up a
Palm USB Mandrake sync, but I'm still unable to do it. Here is the error
message I get when I press the hotsync button first and follow all the
other directions:
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Ricardo's signature wrote this in a message on Saturday morning (00:50:14):
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00:45:00 up 2 days, 13:35, 3 users, load average: 1.86, 1.72, 1.37
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What is this load average? I thought that it was a percentage of CPU use,
but then he's at 186%, so that's
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Sorry Margot, I can't help you, but I suffered from a similar problem (my
laptop would gradually lose about 10 minutes a week) under Win95, Win98
WinMe, and it bugged me pretty serious, but I just installed a
clock-syncher and figured it was a problem with the laptop's motherboard.
But since
In the special relativistic frame of reference you describe time would
appear to slow as you *approach* the speed of light. Exceeding it would
not be necessary and, iirc, time would seem to reverse if you somehow did
manage to do it. Doesn't much matter since there's all sorts of asymptotic
Fellow Mandrakers,
I'm trying to sync my Palm (not Visor, not Zaire) device using a USB cradle
and encountering difficulty. I had been successful in sync-ing with the
serial port, but that was very, very slow (20 minutes including Avantgo).
I've scoured the net using keywords such as USB Linux
HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 09/18/2003
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What are you using to display the system status in the upper right corner
of that screenshot?
Max
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HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 09/15/2003
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Is there a significant difference between
chmod 666 /dev/nvidia1
and
chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia1?
Max
Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 09/11/2003 03:17:13 AM
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HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 09/09/2003
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When I run tops in a terminal it tells me that there are 3 users. One is
root, one is my current logon, what would the other be? I created only one
account when I installed 9.1 on Sunday.
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This is a PII 366 Mhz Fujitsu Lifebook L-470 with 192M RAM and a 30G
Hitachi harddrive, Neomagic X128 video, ESS soundcard, and Mandrake 9.1
(dual booting w/W2K Server):
First, thanks to Mr. Bathoorn and the list in general for the help in
getting my installation to operate efficiently. It's
Is there a list/chart of the various keystroke options?
You can hit ctl-alt-F7 and it should return to the xserver screen you had
been
in. HTH
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I've installed Mandrake 9.1 on my Fujitsu Lifebook L-470 (192M RAM, ESS
sound, NeoMagic X128 (iirc) video) and everything seems to be working quite
well. This is a PIII (Mobile) 366 Mhz system.
But there are two problems which I suspect are related. I've scoured the
net and can't find anything
I have installed the driver which corresponds to the video card (by
manufacturer and model), I checked that.
I have not (nor do I know how to) tweaked the kernal parameters for the bus
or drive access.
I have turned off various services (using MCC) and it seemed to help, but
not one in specific
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