RedHat V5.1 install problem

I just got my copy of RedHat V5.1 and when I try to install it, I get the first dialog box after the boot off the floppy, them the screen goes black and nothing else happens. Has anyone else seen this ? P.S. - I have been able to installed V5.0 on the same system with no problem. Hugo --

Re: RPM Manager

I think this is a problem with glint, go to the RH 5.1 errata and upgrade the glint rpm, pretty sure that'll fix it. I had simila problem and it's been posted numerous times. Steve Steve Smith National Renewable Energy Laboratory 1617 Cole Blvd/|\ Golden, CO 80401

Re: Electric Eyes

"bl" == Borek Lupomesky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: blHi all, blElectric Eyes were advertised to be in RH 5.1, but they're nowhere to bl be found. Are they only in commercial package? Check out Gnome, actually it is part of the Gnome-graphics package. -- Sir Edward Coke

Re: Netscape memory problem

I've found that if I leave netscape on when I go to bed, when I come back in the moring it's using 40mb's or so of ram (vs about 20 or 25 when I went to bed). Not sure how, but it sure is using more memroy after while. Chris - Visit Me At http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost - -- For My Public PGP

egcs

OK, currently I'm running RH5.0 with the updates applied, but want to try out gnome but certain gnome packages require egcs to compile. My question then is, can I safely update to egcs? Does it require me to nuke gcc from my disk? Is it OK to install the compiled binaries, or must I compile it?

sendmail docs

Hi, Earlier I had posted a question on getting a "We don't relay" message on a mail client. Thanks for the fix-it. Added the IP addrerss to the ip_allow file and now everything works just peachy! However, where is the documentation explaining these extra files. I did not see them in the

Re: Diamond Fire GL Pro 1000

Kyle Moore wrote: I was wondering if anyone is using a Diamond Fire GL Pro 1000 with Redhat 5.1. I want to buy one of these cards but don't look forward to spending $90 for Accelerated-X. Does this card work with XFree86 and if so, was it a pain to set up? It's not shown in the Hardware

Re: S3 Virge-GX/2 and X

On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 06:56:57PM +1000, Jon Biddell wrote: Has anyone tried one of these (It's in a MediaCampV card)... I have an STB Nitro 3D that uses the s3v gx. This works fine with the XFree86 SVGA server. -- paul -- /---\\ //---/

RE: Can anyone help with FAT32 mounting?

On 15-Jun-98 Doug Smoak wrote: snippety Here's /etc/fstab: [root@localhost /root]# cat /etc/fstab # # /etc/fstab # # You should be using fstool (control-panel) to edit this! (Yeah, right!) # # devicemountpoint filesystemtype options dump fsckorder /dev/hda7 /

SCSINET

I have two servers that need to share a large amount of data. Is it possible (they are physically beside each other) to connect the scsi adapters on each card, to the same set of drives. eg: (server A @ ID7) - (ID5) - (ID4) - (ID3) - (ID2) - (ID1) - (ID0) - (sever B @ ID6) From what I've read,

NE2000 clone

Help I am having problem instaling a NE2000 clone ethernet card. I tried several suggestions that I got from the mail list and now I discover that that I have an irq conflict. The info showed when I type cat /proc/pci that the ethernet card is using io=0x6400, irq=11 and my usb port is

Re: Small xlock inconvenience

Stelios Bounanos wrote: Hello all, As you may have noticed, one can bypass an xlock'ed display by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Fn or Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to return to the console. Does anyone know of a way to make the above useless, besides putting ``DontZap'' in the XF86Config file or exec'ing

Can anyone help with FAT32 mounting?

Hi Doug, Here are some remedial suggestions from a novice user who recently went through the process of getting everything to work. My fstab for the fat32 partitions looks like this: /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosc vfat rw 0 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt/dosd

Compiling KDE under RH5.1 ?

Morning Folks... I wonder if someone managed to compile any KDE Apps under RedHat 5.1 ? The error I get is onto configure, saying my Compiler can´t link a little test binary, and from what it does, the comfigure programm is right. Any clues ? I also tried replacing the egcs-stuff with a

Re: slow ppp connection

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Kevin Seguin wrote: -i recently installed red hat 5.0 on my pc at home. i have noticed that -my ppp connection seems considerably slower on linux than it was on win -95. anyone have any ideas why this is and/or how it can be fixed. - -thanks in advance. *** More info

Re: FW: Linux Bigot.

On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Bradley, Greg wrote: -While I can see that this may be the case in Australia, -all folks in the US have to do is pick up the phone and dial a -toll-free -number to order a preinstalled Linux system. - -Actually, I read the Nader letter to IBM, he was unable to purchase a

Re: HTML-formatted mail

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Kenyon Ralph wrote: - As far as I'mn concerned, adding bloody HTML tags makes the mail - *harder* to read and certainly doesn't increase its - comprehensibililty. - -That's because you're not supposed to read the raw HTML source, you're -supposed to read the formatted output

Re: Linux Bigot??

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Woody wrote: -I can't agree with you more!!! That's been my opinion for a lng -timeget it into the stores...get those Windows apps converted for the -Linux users and watch em' come a flockin' to a better, and more robust -operating system. *** Hi Woody, hi

rh5 and staroffcie and libc6

hi, does any one have any tips about rh5, libc6 and staroffice? (links, archives, howo...) thanks A mail from Yull E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://users.skynet.be/yull ICQ: 475 37 20 PGP: Key on Request. ___ -- PLEASE read the Red Hat

RE: NE2000 clone

Disable the USB port under the BIOS! I think that USB is not supported under Linux but correct me if i'm wrong! This should solve your problem. Signed, Niels Wagenaar === A DOS/Linux C/C++,PASCAL developer and a commercial Visual Foxpro 5.0

Frontpage and PNserver

Hi, Where can I find an RPM of the Frontpage extensions? Also, I know I probably missed this already, but where do I find the updated RPM of pnserver (you know, the one that HASN'T expired :) )? Thanks a bunch.. Bryan -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Re: rh5 and kde

Am Tue, 16 Jun 1998 schriebst Du: hi, how can I start kde with rh5? thanks edit your .xinitrc startkde Bye, Mattias -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists

Re: SCSINET

I have two servers that need to share a large amount of data. Is it possible (they are physically beside each other) to connect the scsi adapters on each card, to the same set of drives. Hi Greg, I've seen it done in a development lab with an intermediate box used to translate signals - it never

Re: hmmmmm as subject line

Edward Scott Meadows writes: I'd like to suggest that writers to this list provide descriptive subject lines. I'm probably not the only one who gets a lot of mail and I usually scan subject lines. A message with a subject line of "hmm" is probably not going to be read. Let me second

IPC help required (off topicish)

Is there anyone who can assist me with IPC processes? I wish to execute processes in a secured environment (with heavy resource requirements) from publicly available cgi-scripts. I've been tinkering with named-pipes and IPC queues, but I'm still struggling. Please respond off-list at this is

Named for an Intranet

Hi Guy's, need some help with my home network, specifically named.. The Setup: Linux server dials out to my ISP, runs masquerading for 2 Win95 machines Everything is cool except.. FrontPage 98 Before FrontPage will start it has to resolve hostnames. I have DNS enabled

mailq

Hi all I have a large e-mail message (around 100mb) that somebody in my organization send. This e-mail is stuck and hangs my e-mail server . When I kill the process the server is o.k. but the mailq send it back again. How can I clean the mailq so the e-mail won't come back on again Thanks sahar

Re: Anyone Using XFree + SiS 86c6215 Video Card

hi you may find the server for the card at www.suse.com. If it works please let me know, as I have been unable to get X working after installing the server. -Aditya Raj Singh wrote: Hi, I have recently tried loading XFree86 3.3.2 (with RedHat Linux 5.0) on a PentiumMMX/166 based system

disabling the horizontal bar in afterstep

Hi all I have RH-5.1 in a i386 box and I am running afterstep. I want to disable the horizontal bar that appears in the screen. How can I do that? regards miguel -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata

Re: Linux Bigot??

At 10:35 AM 6/12/98 -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote: I have observed trait in many otherwise brilliant people who comment simply that *NIX is for computer types no one else where they are constantly shown that they can operate windows with just there mouse... They are convinced by salespeople and

sendmail-8.9.0

I have not installed Sendmail 8.9.0 on redhat yet but have done so on a Slackware box and have had it running for 3 months. The process is a straight forward one. 1. Download the code from ftp.sendmail.org. 2. put into a sources directory. 3. tar -zxvf sendmail-8.9.0.tgz or what

Re: HTML-formatted mail

I have to agree with the opinion that HTML does NOT belong in email, but I think this is a waste of space. I for one don't bother to read email written in HTML. If someone sends me an email thus encoded, they better know by now not to expect a response. Email is indeed for transfer of

Re: Beginner's question on partitioning

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Woody wrote: Actually I can agree with you totallyjust one thingI don't think that you will ever use a full 128 M swap space UNLESS you are running some big daddy server. Or running a couple of Netscape Windows, a WordPerfect for Linux, an emacs or

Display woes

Well, this may sound like it is a strange question but I need to do it this way. I have 2 linux boxes on a network and 1 Novell server that I talk to all the time. The one Linux box is my main machine that I do all my work from. The second one is a machine that I am running separate processes

RE: S3 Virge-GX/2 and X

Further to my request regarding info on the above card, I've learned it's an S3 Virge/GX2 86C357, if that makes any difference... I've tried forcing Xconfigurator/xf86config to use the SVGA server, but still no-go. The image appears to "wrap" around the screen (i.e. the screens are "joined" in

Mouse in X

I finally went out and popped for a shiny, new, 3-button, Mouse Systems mouse. With gpm, I seem to have it working fine in a VC, but when I load X, it freaks. The pointer is uncontrollable, and for the most part the buttons don't work at all. Can someone tell me what i need to do to reconfig X

Newbie Question : How do I put some wallpaper in X?

Hi all, I'm newish to the Linux world but am slowley making my way. I just would like to know how to set the background bitmap on X. Im using RH5.0 and Afterstep. I know its something to do with .xinitrc in my home directory but I'm not sure but is it something to do with xsetroot? TIA

RE: Named for an Intranet

Setup a bogus domain say bogus.org on your linux machine. Put entries in this server for warbird1, warbird2 etc etc and your server. Configure named to act as a forwarder and give your isps dns addresses. Configure your 95 boxes to point to bogus named. Therefore any dns lookups Will happen

Re: Mouse in X

I finally went out and popped for a shiny, new, 3-button, Mouse Systems mouse. With gpm, I seem to have it working fine in a VC, but when I load X, it freaks. The pointer is uncontrollable, and for the most part the buttons don't work at all. Can someone tell me what i need to do to reconfig X

RE: Beginner's question on partitioning

Well that is it really. If add more memory and you dont want to reconfigure swap in the future, and ya got lots of disk space... Hey whats 128mb? Joe. -Original Message- From: Chuck Milam [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 June 1998 14:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

PS/2 and RedHat Disks

To Whom That This is Read by, My computer is a PS/2 with ESDI drives (i think, they use eda when mounting root), and 24 meg of ram, and up to this point I have been incredibly unsuccseful in installing linux on this computer, without partitioning. I have tried ZipSlack and currently I

Re: Mouse in X

Have you tried running X without gpm? --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer SpecialistUniversity of Tulsa Engineering and Natural Sciences "I

Re: Newbie Question : How do I put some wallpaper in X?

You could set a background color with 'xsetroot -solid black' or the like, but I'm not sure if it can do images. I've always used xv to do that. For example: 'xv -root -quit bg.jpg' would tile bg.jpg in the background at its normal size. 'xv -root -quit -max bg.jpg' would maximize bg.jpg

Re: Newbie Question : How do I put some wallpaper in X?

you could use xsetbg, which is a front end to xsetroot (I think!), it will wallpaper for you and put a jpeg or a few other formats of image files on your root window. Steve Steve Smith National Renewable Energy Laboratory 1617 Cole Blvd/|\ Golden, CO 80401

RE: mailq

If you are using sendmail default install I can tell you. Stop mail Go to /usr/spool/mqueue and in their there should be three files rm these files. and restart mail. Becareful though. You may get irate users in you delete the wrong mail. Do a ls -l to see size of files. If you have not

printing problems, ppa zip disk, and RH 5.0

I have finally gotten my RH system configured and ALMOST up to full functionality. I do have a problem with printing, however. I have an Epson Stylus Color 600 attached to lpt1 as well as a PPA Zip drive. I installed scsi support for the PPA during initial install but have not seen, or been

RE: S3 Virge-GX/2 and X

And another update !!! The VIRGE/GX2 is supported in the 3.3.2 release from Xfree86.org... Jon -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL

FW: NE2000 clone

I just had to install the same type card myself. You may need to do a DOS boot so that you can run whatever software came with your card in order to change it's IRQ... unless it has jumpers on the card where you can set the IRQ manually. FWIW, Beth Gemeny SysAdmin HHN -Original

Re: rh5 and staroffcie and libc6

There's no rpm to upgrade libc on a RH 5.x machine as far as I know. So you have to find the tarball. I found some rpm's for libc5 at the Freshmeat web site. I don't know if there were any libc6 rpm's, though. But it would be worth a look if you're trying to avoid using tar files. Regards,

Re: Error running Majordomo on Redhat

At 10:12 AM 6/15/98 +, you wrote: : Error reply from email. : The original message was received at Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:32:47 +0930 from q.northside.net.au [203.38.164.218] : - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - : "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo" :

reinstalling linux???

any special precations if I am going to reinstall my RH5 install?? The server is a web server, all it has are a few user's dirs that i need to keep. I already backed it up, anything else? -Matt -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: What's so great about Linux?

*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/16/98, at 6:56 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: The short answer is "the same things are that great about Unix". Briefly: 1. It comes with source code, the most powerful support tool known. Unix/Linux users don't have to report bugs to clueless

Unidentified subject!

Hi all, I'm newish to the Linux world but am slowley making my way. I just would like to know how to set the background bitmap on X. Im using RH5.0 and Afterstep. I know its something to do with .xinitrc in my home directory but I'm not sure but is it something to do with xsetroot? TIA

Re: rh5 and staroffcie and libc6

David Taylor wrote: I found some rpm's for libc5 at the Freshmeat web site. I don't know if there were any libc6 rpm's, though. But it would be worth a look if you're trying to avoid using tar files. I once loaded an rpm with libc.5.4.44 and all and the rpm script blew away all my

Wired picks up the OS/Manufacturer debate

This story just appeared on Wired News: http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12990.html __ michael steigman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ms -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Re: Mouse in X

On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 09:17:06AM -0500, Vidiot wrote: buttons don't work at all. Can someone tell me what i need to do to reconfig X for my new mouse?? jdk PS/2 or serial? 9 pin serial(cua0) jdk -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: Mouse in X

On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 09:20:15AM -0500, Matt Housh wrote: Have you tried running X without gpm? No I didn't. I'll have to give it a try when I get back home. I had read something about that, but it was in reference to a bus mouse problem and didn't think it was needed in this

Re: Mouse in X

On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 11:18:53PM +0800, ac wrote: you must've selected the wrong protocol. try experimenting with the others and see which one works. the easiest way to do this is via X86Setup (for X 3.3.2). gl. I'll try this. I had only tried mouseconfig. And since you brought up

Re: Mouse in X

Darque wrote: I finally went out and popped for a shiny, new, 3-button, Mouse Systems mouse. With gpm, I seem to have it working fine in a VC, but when I load X, it freaks. The pointer is uncontrollable, and for the most part the buttons don't work at all. Can someone tell me what i need

Re: PS/2 and RedHat Disks

Mike, I was e-mailing back and forth with Pat Volkerding, a main guy with Slackware, and he led me to believe it could be done. I am currently getting tripped up on too much ram. Odd problem, 'eh. Does anyone know if Mike's statement is true though, I may be wrong. LT ps - i

RE: Wired picks up the OS/Manufacturer debate

Just a quick thank you to you personally. I can't speak for others on the list, but I really appreciate hearing about this! Beth Gemeny SysAdmin HHN -Original Message- From: Michael R. Steigman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tape Backups for Linux (RH 5.0)

See the HOWTO's there is a list of the equipment that Linux recognizes __ Alfonso Barreto Lopez Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas U.N.A.M [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To All: I'm

Re: Newbie Question : How do I put some wallpaper in X?

I've always been partial to xearth. Have that running in the background makes your computer look nice. And mix that with a good markerfile that contains some personalized markers, makes you fell like yer home and you know if it is light outside :) Chris On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Steve Smith wrote:

Re: What's so great about Linux?

Rich Kulawiec wrote: The short answer is "the same things are that great about Unix". Briefly: Thanks, RK. I vote for this one as 'best of thread' so far. Hope The Moron reads it. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Aztech Sound Card

Does any one have this kind of sound card working, if so , how did you get it works? Thanks a lot __ Alfonso Barreto Lopez Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas U.N.A.M [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat

Help with Xwindows fonts

I have posted this to redhat users list before. I am running redhat 5.0. I am having a problem with the size of the text on my screen. I have looked at the menu system in redhat but I have no idea how to change it. I have tried to change it in different places and nothing has taken

Help with 5.0 install

I have a machine that does not quite work with Xwindows. It reconizes the card but the driver scrambles the screen after the xprobe is done. From that point on, it is not posible to see what you are doing. Since I have no plans on using X on this machine anyways, how do I install Redhat

Re: HTML-formatted mail

This is a long thread that is out of place on this list, but I just had to respond to this particular message. Joe Klemmer wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Deryk Barker wrote: I know that it is to late to stop HTML encoded email. The genie is out of the bottle. But it is my contention that

Re: FW: Linux Bigot.

Bradley, Greg wrote: When was the last time you saw an ad in a non-enthusiast publication that advertised availability of Linux? . . . or a non-tech, non-Linux Web site that advertised the fact that it runs on on a Linux box (as opposed to, say, M$*** IIS or the countless

XBF X-server announcement

Re the recent announcement at Red Hat's web site: The announcement seems to have been written a little hastily. They vaguely announce a solution for people with graphics cards from snotty companies, then explain why everybody should publish source code for their video card drivers, then nothing

newbie help with netscape-communicator4.05 print command

Hi, I've installed netscape-communicator 4.05, and all seems to be working fine, except for the print command. I have a local printer, and when I try to print from netscape, it brings up the print window, and uses the printer command lpr. When I click ok to print, nothing happens. lpr works

RE: Tape Backups for Linux (RH 5.0)

Well, I can't comment specifically on Linux being a brand newbie myself, but under NT IOmega will charge you additional (I think about $100) for the NT driver for the Ditto(tm) tape drives. You also will not be able to format the tapes, AND have to buy their tapes (preformatted of course). On

Re: 3c590 and PCI-SCSI card confict IRQ conflict

I had a similar problem. I reserved the IRQ for ISA in the BIOS , forcing the PCI cards to use anobther IRQ. Steve Smith National Renewable Energy Laboratory 1617 Cole Blvd/|\ Golden, CO 80401 * * *

Re: HTML-formatted mail

At 02:29 PM 6/16/98 -0600, David Hauck wrote: As far as I'm concerned, adding bloody HTML tags makes the mail *harder* to read and certainly doesn't increase its comprehensibility. Without a doubt. If you see html tags in the text ... get another mail reader ;) Nah, I prefer to

Re: X no longer works after 5.1 updates.

My X no longer works either. i also upgraded from 5.0. On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Jeremy Hansen wrote: X no longer works after 5.1 updates, for me anyway. I can't figure out what I did either. XF86_SVGA when excuted directly just give me a core dump. The thing is, I use Accelerated X too,

3c590 and PCI-SCSI card confict IRQ conflict

Hi, I think this might be a known problem but I'm not sure of the solution. We're setting up a new fileserver using RH5.1 on a p133 with a 3com 3c590 PCI 10/100 ethernet card and a Mylex/Buslogic SCSI controller. The ethernet card and the SCSI controller are both PCI, and both _really_ want to

RE: newbie HELP

You have soundboards at Wal-mart? *gulp* At our local village shop we once managed to buy an inflatable dinghy. We asked jokingly if they had one they said, "Sure, what colour?" From: Paul Pettit [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: newbie HELP The

Re: GNOME HOWTO?

"p" == pancho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: p hi all p where can I find docs for gnome? p basically my question is : how do I start gnome? Check out http://www.gnome.org for the FAQ and info. But basicly try 'panel' to start the WM or you can call any of the apps like 'ee' seperately. --

What makes linux so good?

There was recently a thread on what makes linux so good...I'm putting together a faq and would like to use several of those messages. Does anyone have some of these? thanks! Chris - Visit Me At http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost - -- For My Public PGP Key Visit

Re: HTML-formatted mail

If you see html tags in the text ... get another mail reader ;) Please. Lighten up. The ability to communicate has NOTHING to do with HTML. However, having a link in a mail message that is available with a double-click can be really clean. That's funny, I don't need a message to be in

Re: HTML-formatted mail

At 02:59 PM 6/16/98 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Deryk Barker wrote: It really comes down to this: You're either in favor of HTML markup in email, or you're not in favor of email being a very rich method of communication compared to speech. Oh really? And I say that I *am*

Re: PS/2 and RedHat Disks

I booted DosLinux using the bzimage kernel (i didnt find any at the mca site recommend that worked, thanks though, i may need that at a later point) and here is the error that I got which may help you people who know Linux deduce what is wrong and what I need to do to fix it. PS/2 ESDI: DMA

Resolved! (was help with FAT32)

First thanks to all that reponded. Turns out that mount under Linux is different than mount under AmigaOS. 8-) Am I doing something dumb here? Anyone have FAT32 working? Dunno about the FAT32 part, but generic mount requires that 1) the /D directory exists (well, DOES it?!) That was

Re: Cannot bind virtual IPs

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Zhenhua wrote: Hi, Everyone: I tried to use: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 199.207.158.2 /sbin/route add -host 199.207.158.2 dev eth0:1 to add a virtual IP to the server. The first command gives error: SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument The second command gives error:

SCSI Problems...

I am posting this here, because the manhattan-list will not accept messages... Okay.. I upgraded to 5.1, and my scsi card (Diamond FirePort 40) Doesn't work with the 2.0.34 kernel. I rebooted with my previous 2.0.33 kernel, and it works fine. I recompiled 2.0.34 with the NCR53c8xx support in

Re: HTML-formatted mail

As far as I'm concerned, adding bloody HTML tags makes the mail *harder* to read and certainly doesn't increase its comprehensibility. Without a doubt. If you see html tags in the text ... get another mail reader ;) Nah, I prefer to excerise the same thing I would do with a

Re: What's so great about Linux?

*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/16/98, at 2:24 PM, William T Wilson wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Scott wrote: Only a user who is familair with messing with an OS. I for one don't want to think about touching my OS in this manner. I doin't know C nor do I have any plans to

GNOME HOWTO?

hi all where can I find docs for gnome? basically my question is : how do I start gnome? I have a RH-5.1 system cheers Miguel -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists

sndconfig/modprobe?

I'm trying to use sndconfig to set up my SoundBlaster 16. I've re-compiled my kernel and my modules to give modular support for my sound card, and rebooted with the new setup. When I run sndconfig, it appears to run fine until it tries to play the sound sample to check my configuration, and

Tape Backups for Linux (RH 5.0)

To All: I'm getting ready to purchase a back up tape drive for my Linux / NT. They are having a big sale on the Iomega 2GB drives, will these work for my system configuration? I know they have software upgrades for the NT side, but can I expect to have a good, reliable drive for my Linux data

addendum: Re: sndconfig/modprobe?

I've been trying to get sound to work on my 5.1 box using a soundblaster 16 (as per the post right before this one). Retracing my steps, I just re-compiled my kernel with sound support as a module. But when I did make install_modules, I got this: [root@fred linux]# make modules_install

Re: Staroffice won't uncompress!

"jb" == Jason Belich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jb after getting assorted uncompression errors with SO4sp3 both using the jb wrapper and manually using tar -xvzf, I attempted to just gzip -d the jb tarball and I get consistantly the error jb invalid compressed data--crc error jb I've dnlded

Upgrade to 5.1 - DPT RAID fails..

We have a machine with a DPT RAID controller (EATA/DMA driver) and when we try to upgrade to 5.1 from 5.0 the boot disk tells us: HBA at 0xef90 does not respond to INQUIRY, sorry. SCSI: 0 Hosts and it will not pick up the SCSI adapter. I can't rightly install or upgrade if I can't access my

boot disk

is it possible to create a disk to boot from during installation of rh5.0? i have NT on my machine now, and i want to install red hat so i have a dual boot machine. to do this, i need to install red hat, then boot into linux via floppy, copy the boot image, then boot into nt and tell the nt

Re: HTML-formatted mail

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Deryk Barker wrote: It really comes down to this: You're either in favor of HTML markup in email, or you're not in favor of email being a very rich method of communication compared to speech. Oh really? And I say that I *am* against HTML in email and I am in

Metro-X or Xfree86?

My copy of RH came with Metro-X and obviously Xfree86. What is the difference between the two? Are thier reasons to use on over the other? My main reson for wnating to know is that I need the newest version of Metro-X to support my vid card (STB 128 using the ET6000 chip). Is it worth the 40

Re: PS/2 and RedHat Disks

Actually I think I have a kernel that may work (slackware/kernel/ibmmca.s/bzImage or something like that), but the kernel somehow gets caught up in my 24 meg of RAM, and I can't take out one of the 8meg cards. Any Ideas? Also is there a distribution of RedHat (or any commercial-ish

Re: PS/2 and RedHat Disks

Something you've prolly tried but when lilo comes up try appending mem=16M to force linux to only use 16M HTH Chris On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, LT wrote: I booted DosLinux using the bzimage kernel (i didnt find any at the mca site recommend that worked, thanks though, i may need that at a later

Linux on PS/2 - MCA machines

There's a web page that has info on Linux on MicroChannel machines (Linux/MCA): http://glycerine.cetmm.uni.edu/~djweis/mca/ hth gary shelton network admin dalton trucking, inc. Free web-based email, Forever, From anywhere! http://www.mailexcite.com -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

boot disk

is it possible to create a disk to boot from during installation of rh5.0? i have NT on my machine now, and i want to install red hat so i have a dual boot machine. to do this, i need to install red hat, then boot into linux via floppy, copy the boot image, then boot into nt and tell the nt

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