Re: [newbie] Diacritical marks (accents)

2002-07-23 Per discussione H. Narfi Stefansson
), you'll not want to type the Alt+164 keystrokes again :-) I hope this solves your problem, Narfi. ps. Of course, if you're not using KDE, then I'm afraid I can't help you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] windows sucks, but it does sound nice

2002-07-14 Per discussione narfi
interested in hearing any news about any progress or lack thereof... Thanks, Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Wish I did have that info

Re: [newbie] cylinders, sectors and heads trouble: Solved

2002-06-10 Per discussione H. Narfi Stefansson
, because there is already confusion about the bios code for /dev/hda and /dev/hde [see bios=0x81 and bios=0x80 above], the numbers for sectors and heads on /dev/hde are the numbers for a different drive! Narfi. Well I find that interesting, I do not see why Western Digital hardrives

Re: [newbie] cylinders, sectors and heads trouble

2002-06-09 Per discussione H. Narfi Stefansson
-- /dev/scd0 A correction to the c,h,s count in the bios: it is (19158, 16, 255). Narfi. On Saturday 08 June 2002 10:57 pm, Narfi wrote: In my previous life, I was young and ignorant and I bought a WD drive! ... well, I'm at least not young anymore .-) I installed mdk on this second harddrive

[newbie] cylinders, sectors and heads trouble

2002-06-08 Per discussione H. Narfi Stefansson
something (sorry, forgot to write down!) I have lba32 in /etc/lilo.conf and I do not share this hard drive with any other OS. Does anyone have any suggestions? Resize the partitions to conform with heads = 255 using ext2online perhaps??? thanks, Narfi. mobo: MSI k7t266 pro2 /dev/hde: WD400BB

Re: [newbie] deleting files = 500k on the command line

2002-05-19 Per discussione H. Narfi Stefansson
, i.e. delete all the files that find returned from the search. Of course you have to be darn careful about this -- make sure you don't accidentally delete all your mp3 files! Check the output from find first, then append the | xargs /bin/rm part. Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] BBC Streaming OGG - FYI

2002-04-27 Per discussione H. Narfi Stefansson
://ogg.bbc.co.uk:8001/radio1_high.ogg and that is an url that you can pass to xmms. Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ARTS / Audio Codec97 / and VT8233 Audio Chip configuration

2002-04-18 Per discussione H. Narfi Stefansson
and sound start as services at boot time. I'm using devfs. This is all I can think of, wish I could do more to help. Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] cylinders, sectors and heads

2002-04-17 Per discussione H. Narfi Stefansson
) Thanks for any help, Narfi. Below: fdisk output and /etc/lilo.conf # fdisk -l /dev/hde Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 164511528+ 83 Linux

Re: [newbie] cylinders, sectors and heads

2002-04-17 Per discussione H. Narfi Stefansson
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 18:04, Narfi wrote: Right now, I get the following reports about the (c,h,s) triple: DiskDrake: (4865, 255, 63) fdisk: (4865, 255, 63) bios: (19158, 16, 255) ... Not only do these not agree, but none of them are the same as fdisk reported on the old

[newbie] MSI K7T266 Pro2 mandrake compatability

2002-03-20 Per discussione H. Narfi Stefansson
worked in the first and second PCI slots. I'd really be interested in hearing your stories before I start spending any money .-) Thanks, Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] resizing partitions

2002-03-01 Per discussione H. Narfi Stefansson
section in the reference manual has come in very handy many times! I've apprecitated having that in a printed format :-) b) http://wwwmandrakeuserorg Good luck, Narfi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom

Re: [newbie] uninstall .tar.gz

2002-02-15 Per discussione H. Narfi Stefansson
on the tarball, then you can uninstall the program with rpm if you want to. No need to mess around with 'make uninstall' anymore, which may or may not work. I highly recommend this program! Narfi. ps. The project's home page is http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ From the checkinstall page

Re: [newbie] maximal mount count error

2001-09-14 Per discussione H. Narfi Stefansson
and I've always found it to be very readable. . Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] login manager

2001-09-09 Per discussione H. Narfi Stefansson
://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=964lang=en Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-28 Per discussione H. Narfi Stefansson
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 14:05, jennifer wrote: Does anybody have an Emacs quick reference file? If you do, please share. On my computer I issued the following commands: narfi@/[1042] locate refcard.ps /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/refcard.ps narfi@/[1043] rpm -q -f /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc