Re: [newbie] RAM hog

2000-10-02 Per discussione ozgur cagdas
dear friend; i dont have specific info on mandrake 6.0 but it seems me as a general problem faced so often in linux world among newbies. trying to optimize startup services should solve your problem. if you start to many programs and services at the startup time, sure theyll hold to much RAM

[newbie] resolution, monitor and video card config problem!

2000-09-28 Per discussione ozgur cagdas
dear newbies; i run drakconf/Xconfiguration and configure my monitor, resolution, graphics card and etc. everyhing is normal at configuration time. it detects my 32mb riva tnt2 graphics card and philips 105b monitor. when i choose whos info it shows everything's ok.at the exit time it asks me

Re: [newbie] 56K MDC modem not working...

2000-09-27 Per discussione ozgur cagdas
andy...im not sure about that this modem is not a win modem. the probability of using system resources by this device is very high if it's onboard. on the other hand you have to be sure about that you have enabled your onboard modem from bios settings. but the best way to get specific info

[newbie] Creative pci128 sound card

2000-09-26 Per discussione ozgur cagdas
dear newbies; ive installed mandrake 7.0 to my computer, it made all hardware configs automatically but Lothar didnt detect my creative pci128 sound card automatically. I tried to make irq and dma configs manually but it didnt work either. When i run sndconfig in command prompt, it tells me

[newbie] 128mb ram is detected as 64mb by linux

2000-09-26 Per discussione ozgur cagdas
dear newbies; i have 128mb sdram running on my system. My bios, windows and benchmark programs detect it as 128mb too. but under linux mandrake 7.0 i see it as 64mb. I made a little search and learnt that ive to add line "append="mem=128M"" at the end of my lilo.conf file but it didnt work

[newbie] creative vibra128 sound card setup by lothar(or sth else)

2000-09-23 Per discussione ozgur cagdas
dear sirs/mams; im a beginner Mandrake7.0(and linux) user. This means i dont know much about linux. Ive newly installed a copy of Mandrake 7.0 to my computer with a great excitement and made hardware configs by using easy setup tools. But when i tried to configure my creative vibra128 pci