Re: new harddrive installation

2003-02-18 Thread Brandon Dorman
> It isn't. As you can see in the following excerpt > from dmesg, > partitions hde8 and hde9 do not exist: > > hde: [PTBL] [9729/255/63] hde1 hde2 < hde5 > > > There's only a primary partition /dev/hde1 and an > extended partition > /dev/hde2 which contains a logical partition > /dev/hde5. >

Re: new harddrive installation

2003-02-17 Thread Brandon Dorman
Out of curiosity (and since, I've just noticed this thread), what does the output of "dmesg | grep hd" show you? Emmanuel Thanks. The dmesg approach was mentioned last Friday, I did it but didn't get a chance to post it. Here it is: [Brandon@localhost Brandon]$ dmesg | grep hd Kernel command l

Re: new harddrive installation

2003-02-17 Thread Brandon Dorman
pacity are cylinders or something? Thank you to those following this thread. -brandon On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 10:46, Brandon Dorman wrote: > There was no cable with the drive. I'll look into getting one of the > newer cables. Now I have to be gone for the next two days, thanks for >

Re: new harddrive installation

2003-02-15 Thread Brandon Dorman
5, 2003 at 02:58:29AM -0800, Brandon Dorman wrote: > > > > Other people are addressing other issues, but I'll tackle one. > > > So I bought a new Seagate 80GB one. I installed it with no problem, > > just set the jumper in the same place as the old Quantum, sa

new harddrive installation

2003-02-15 Thread Brandon Dorman
ere's something wrong with the disk. Also curious is that when the computer starts up it shows it as only being 10GB. My computers an aging Gateway with a PIII 450... Thanks for any help!, Brandon Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: USB keyboard

2002-11-10 Thread Brandon Dorman
We'd love to help. What brand of keyboard, model type, etc. is it? Same for the mouse. Are there certain circumstances when the mouse will work or not? Telling us that will really help us in resolving your problem quickly and happily. :-) I think you'll find Red Hat 8 to be a worthy investmen

Re: OpenOffice 1.0 installation woes

2002-05-01 Thread Brandon Dorman
Didn't work for me either. I guess I'll just have to wait until someone makes some RPM's or something, but it is quite disappointing. -Brandon On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 21:43, Brian Wright wrote: > Unfortuneately, that didn't help me. :-( I did ./setup /net, installed > to /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0

Re: OpenOffice 1.0 installation woes

2002-05-01 Thread Brandon Dorman
after unpacking it as user with tar -zxf I went into the directory and tried both ./install and ./setup both times, when I was done and tried to open it, it wouldn't work. It installed in /usr/local/openoffice What's wrong? (sorry to piggy back on this topic.) My glibc is 2.2.4, kernel 2.4.17

Re: shaking screensaver

2002-04-26 Thread Brandon Dorman
Do you know the general specs of his machine? Or the screensaver's he's running. Mandrake's default screensavers don't seem to be that "hard" on my PIII 450 160MB RAM system. -Brandon On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 18:31, Blake Thornton wrote: > I'm trying to help a friend who just installed linux (M

Re: Help! Nautilus is gone

2002-04-14 Thread Brandon Dorman
if you can open a console, (try clicking both mouse buttons for a menu) just type nautilus. On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 17:36, Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: > How do you activate Nautilus? > > = > Investigating the Norwegain 4.th Secret Service > The multiheaded animal. > http://hjem.sol.no/altiett/knut

Re: OT: Recommendations for a TV tuner?

2002-04-01 Thread Brandon Dorman
Something about how this thread went from Canada to England struck me as funny. Pretty cool though. The Community at work as always... On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 23:14, Bill Crawford wrote: > On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Grant Nygren wrote: > > > Hello, > > I have wanted to shift from windows to Linux fo

Re: can't mount cd .

2002-03-28 Thread Brandon Dorman
ssage happen when you are trying to mount it? Command line or KDE/GNOME? 4) Anything else you think might help us. Thanks! I'll be gone this weekend, but I'm sure the list won't have any trouble helping you out. Happy Easter, Brandon Dor

Re: Screen Capture.

2002-03-27 Thread Brandon Dorman
on mine, "screen capture" is in the graphics menu. -Brandon (RH 7.2 Kde 2) On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 15:06, Reuben D Budiardja wrote: > On Wednesday 27 March 2002 04:20 pm, you wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any way to do a screen capture in KDE? > > Use ksnapshot. It should be in the Utilities

Re: Nautilus Crash when touchs /mnt/vfat/window

2002-03-24 Thread Brandon Dorman
p2date. I note that the > upgrade to 1.0.6 has a bunch of dependency requirements that, frankly, I > don't have the time to tackle. As the Skipjack beta is now out and, > presumably we'll see a Red Hat 8.0 soon, I'll wait for that as the > basis to upgrade. > >

Re: Nautilus Crash when touchs /mnt/vfat/window

2002-03-23 Thread Brandon Dorman
500,gid=500,auto 0 0 > > On 03/23/02, 03:40:50PM -0800, Brandon Dorman wrote: > > I've had it give me sidebar problems before, I think I changed my fstab > > settings. What does your fstab look like for it? > > > > -Brandon > > > > On Sat, 2002-03

Re: Nautilus Crash when touchs /mnt/vfat/window

2002-03-23 Thread Brandon Dorman
I've had it give me sidebar problems before, I think I changed my fstab settings. What does your fstab look like for it? -Brandon On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 11:36, John P Verel wrote: > (This is also posted to the Enigma list. My appologies for any > duplications) > > I'm running nautilus-1.0.4-43

Re: Pensacola

2002-03-21 Thread Brandon Dorman
I thought I remembered seeing posts a while back saying it was RH's new Advanced Server distro or something? Unless they changed it. -Brandon On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 20:54, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > The new beta... is it one of those polishing versions that makes things a > little better, or is i

Re: Any ETA on Redhat 8? *tracker*

2002-02-22 Thread Brandon Dorman
I believe I saw support for the Sandisk is the 2.4.17 kernel. Don't know how experimental it is or not, but you might want to check it out. If you need help with it I'm sure people on this list could help you. -Brandon On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 05:58, Timothy Lee Young wrote: > Actually I was just

Re: more cd burning questions -NO more!

2002-02-20 Thread Brandon Dorman
make Linux (Red Hat especially) such a pleasure to learn! Sincerely, Brandon Dorman On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 16:48, Duane Clark wrote: > > Brandon wrote: > > Right, you definitely don't want to turn off IDE support. Not only > >> would it prevent your CD-ROMs from workin

Re: more cd burning questions

2002-02-20 Thread Brandon Dorman
> Right, you definitely don't want to turn off IDE support. Not only > would it prevent your CD-ROMs from working, but your floppy and hdd > wouldn't work either. :) (Unless they happen to be SCSI.) > Heh, in which case all this ide-scsi stuff wouldn't be necessary. :-) So how do I set the

Re: more cd burning questions

2002-02-19 Thread Brandon Dorman
Disregard that last message, I had musicmatch jukebox running on another desktop and it had automatically mounted the cd already. Sorry bout that. -Brandon On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 20:24, Brandon Dorman wrote: > (I did reboot btw) > > Now I can't mount either of my cdrom drives.

Re: more cd burning questions

2002-02-19 Thread Brandon Dorman
(I did reboot btw) Now I can't mount either of my cdrom drives. -Brandon On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 10:15, Charles Galpin wrote: > On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 12:31, Brandon Dorman wrote: > > > > > > and then later > > > > > > > > hdc: ATAPI 32X DV

Re: more cd burning questions

2002-02-19 Thread Brandon Dorman
I went into my 2.4.17 directory, and ran "make xconfig" this would essentially recreate the settings I had compiled it with, right? Everything that should have been checked was and what shouldn't have been wasn't checked. I think I might want to try to compile again sometime soon here though, t

Re: more cd burning questions

2002-02-19 Thread Brandon Dorman
> > and then later > > > > hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) > > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 > > hdd: ATAPI 6X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 768kB Cache, DMA > > thats not so good. It looks like the IDE driver attached itself to your > CD-ROM drives. After you made your chan

Re: more cd burning questions

2002-02-19 Thread Brandon Dorman
Hi Ben, others, Try loading them manually, and then see what cdrecord does: > > # insmod loop > # insmod sg > # insmod sr_mod > # insmod ide-scsi [root@localhost sbin]# insmod loop bash: insmod: command not found [root@localhost sbin]# ./insmod loop insmod: loop: no module by that name found [r

Re: more cd burning questions

2002-02-18 Thread Brandon Dorman
any tracks I recognize! So it sees it! Don't know what the last part is all about though All I should have to do is change the symbolic link for fstab to point to /scd0 and /scd1 and I should be set! Cool stuff. Almost there! -Brandon On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 21:42, Brandon Dorman wrote: >

Re: GNOME, Evolution, Eudora

2002-02-18 Thread Brandon Dorman
Anthony and others, Worked for me! Thanks so much anthony! -Brandon On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 08:04, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > > >On 29 Jan 2002, Brandon Dorman wrote: >

Re: more cd burning questions

2002-02-18 Thread Brandon Dorman
Thanks Duane, that page looks pretty good. Will check try it out tomorrow. I dont remember what I compiled in the kernel, but am pretty sure did everything i needed to get cd burning. the output of dmesg, however is quite odd, thought I'd send u that: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(2

Re: more cd burning questions (was XP thing)

2002-02-18 Thread Brandon Dorman
nks so much! We are close to getting it to work! -Brandon On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 03:16, Ben Logan wrote: > I'm going to go ahead and reply or I'll forget... :) > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 02:46:57AM -0800, Brandon Dorman wrote: > > Sorry, no cheap crack deals althou

Re: Thoughts on possible XP upgrade (Last Post!!!)

2002-02-17 Thread Brandon Dorman
Sorry, I didn't mean to start a big OT topic. Should have marked it more clearly. I've solved the problem, I'll just install XP on another partition, I have plenty of room. If it works good I can get rid of 98 with no problem. Please, no further posts on this topic! Thanks. -Brandon --- Dav

Thoughts on possible XP upgrade with RH 7.2

2002-02-15 Thread Brandon Dorman
Hello all, Please no flaming. I currently have a dual boot RH7.2/Win98 system, primarily booting into linux but I need win98 for cd burning (too much work for me to set it up) and printing (again, too much work for me, I'm just too lazy i guess.) and am going to get WinXP at a "heavily discounte

Re: [OS:N:] Redhat 6.0

2002-02-13 Thread Brandon Dorman
Aww, 6.0 was my first linux. :-) brings back such memories! (Almost three years ago now, the first version to be released after the IPO IIRC. -Brandon On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 04:02, Edward C. Bailey wrote: > > "Mace" == Mace Moneta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... > Mace> If you are intereste

Re: HTML Editor

2002-02-09 Thread Brandon Dorman
IBM Websphere for linux (v 4.0 though) is a pretty good WYSIWYG editor for linux. Although it's not open source, it is free even after the 60 day "trial" period. (i think all u lose is their image editor, which we all have gimp for anyway) http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/hpbuilder/linux

Re: [Old topic]Re: GNOME, Evolution, Eudora

2002-02-07 Thread Brandon Dorman
that will help. Thanks! -Brandon p.s. I added you to my AOL buddy list if that's ok, I'll see you on there. On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 11:44, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > On 2 Feb 2002, Brandon Dorman wrote: > >I was never able to export my Eudora addressbook to Evolution. Where >

[Old topic]Re: GNOME, Evolution, Eudora

2002-02-05 Thread Brandon Dorman
I was never able to export my Eudora addressbook to Evolution. Where can I find TB!? I search on google didn't find anything except stuff for tuberculosis. Thanks. -Brandon On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 18:36, Gary wrote: > On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 20:14, Ed Wilts wrote: > > Actually, I just tested this

Re: Login to network question

2002-01-31 Thread Brandon Dorman
I dont know. I know that our intranet goes straight to the internet, no proxy or anything. I'll ask them tomrrow. On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 17:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what are you logining into??? NT or Novell??? > > Brian _ Do You

Login to network question

2002-01-31 Thread Brandon Dorman
Hello, Here in my college they are are starting to require proper authentication in order to log in. Where do I set the proper username, password and "computer name" to correctly log on? If I am not logged on correctly, I will be warned twice and then taken off the network. Sadly the I

Re: GNOME, Evolution, Eudora

2002-01-29 Thread Brandon Dorman
ollege and time is scarce...) Thanks for the advice though. -Brandon On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 22:37, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 29 Jan 2002, Brandon Dorman wrote: > >The Netscape doesn't put the fields in the right place

Re: GNOME, Evolution, Eudora

2002-01-29 Thread Brandon Dorman
y suggesting this because if ignorance, but maybe a > eudora->netscape->evolution route would work? Evo imported netscape and > mutt mail fine for me. (mutt was a tough one ;) > > On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 15:58, Brandon Dorman wrote: > > I have not been able to export Eudora

Re: GNOME, Evolution, Eudora

2002-01-29 Thread Brandon Dorman
I have not been able to export Eudora stuff to Evolution. I exported to cvs from Eudora, and tried to import "single file" in Evo. No luck. I also tried importing the cvs file using something called gaby (gaby.sourceforge.net I think) that claims to import a lot of things, but no luck as well.

Re: Printer setup Lexmark Z22

2002-01-28 Thread Brandon Dorman
Try going to linuxprinting.org and looking for something there or: with subscribe in the subject line, to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good luck. -Brandon On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 18:53, Tony Preston wrote: > Has anyone setup a Lexmark Z22 printer for Linux? The lexmark site > doesn't have a drive for tha

Re: Ximian Gnome performance

2002-01-28 Thread Brandon Dorman
On my desktop Gateway(the computer company) PIII 450 160 megs of RAM Ximian runs just fine. How much swap space do you have? -Brandon On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 06:08, Sven Burkard wrote: > Hi! > How are the experiences with Ximian Gnome 1.4? Im using a PIII 900Mhz IBM > Laptop with 128Mb RAM. On my

RE: Sendmail SMTP with Auth Howto??

2002-01-27 Thread Brandon Dorman
our thoughts and prayers are with you, Moke. -brandon On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 23:11, Moke Tsing Moh Lim wrote: > Thanks for all that have assisted in this subject. I will away for 2 weeks > I've lost my loved one. I been back to this 2 weeks later. > > Regards > > Moke > > -Original Mes

Re: cd burning...

2002-01-27 Thread Brandon Dorman
ay which version of Redhat you use. Suppose > it is RH 7.2 there is a serious bug in that version. > Goto rc.sysinit and add this at the bottom of the > file. > modprobe ide-scsi >/dev/null 2>&1 > > and you should get rid of the problem > > > > --- Brand

Re: Questions on fstab

2002-01-26 Thread Brandon Dorman
-Brandon On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 04:37, Michael Scottaline wrote: > On 25 Jan 2002 17:52:00 -0800 > Brandon Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled in frustration: > > > Hello, > > > > Below is a copy of my /etc/fstab. I can't seem to be able to tweak it > &

Questions on fstab

2002-01-25 Thread Brandon Dorman
Hello, Below is a copy of my /etc/fstab. I can't seem to be able to tweak it so that upon booting, my normal user account can write to say, the windows drive (mounted as /dev/hde1, /c of course) I'd like the same user writing priviledges while staying automounted for the other drives that at th

Re: cd burning...

2002-01-24 Thread Brandon Dorman
-01-24 at 04:08, Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: > You dont say which version of Redhat you use. Suppose > it is RH 7.2 there is a serious bug in that version. > Goto rc.sysinit and add this at the bottom of the > file. > modprobe ide-scsi >/dev/null 2>&1 > > and you should get rid

cd burning...

2002-01-24 Thread Brandon Dorman
Hi guys, I am desperately trying to get my cd burner to work under linux. I've got all the scsi emulation and stuff compiled into the kernel. However it still didn't work. I can't seem to get the right place to put, "hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf here is how I see it but it's not w

Re: [OS:N:] New OSN Site

2002-01-15 Thread Brandon Dorman
The site looks great Drew! Go opensource! BTW the schoolforge site is quite nice as well, congrats! -Brandon At 02:17 PM 1/15/02 -0800, you wrote: >We wanted to let you all know about the enhanced Open Source :Now: >website, which went live today. > >Please take a look at all the new info--a

Re: Boot problem- root already mounted(?) and inits

2002-01-14 Thread Brandon Dorman
ot Boot >disk instead. Then perhaps you could boot from the floppy and learn >something. > >BTW, you can find Tom's Root Boot disk at > >http://www.toms.net/rb > >Regards, >Ben > >On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:20:56PM -0800, Brandon Dorman wrote: > > Hey

Boot problem- root already mounted(?) and inits

2002-01-13 Thread Brandon Dorman
Hey guys, Some of you may remember my grub and windows problem of a bit ago. Well following that I reinstalled yesterday, and everything worked fine for 24 hours until i went in windows to do some final cleanup... so I thought. Upon reboot, I was greeted by hell. After it initialize

Re: GRUB and Windows problem

2002-01-08 Thread Brandon Dorman
rub doesn't suffer from the 1024 cylinder problems lilo usually does so this should work out (comments on grub?).  Haven't tried 7.2 seriously yet.  I have a test system running with ext3.  Very impressive so far :-) Good Luck! Frank Brandon Dorman wrote: It appears the problem is worse than

RE: GRUB and Windows problem

2002-01-08 Thread Brandon Dorman
disk, and being in college I need to go in there to print as I have >>a Lexmark USB multifunction device with no drivers for linux... good >>thing the semester is just starting. Thanks >> >>splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz >>title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10) >

Re: epplets

2000-07-03 Thread Brandon Dorman
ough, once you get it :running you will never switch!! -Brandon rob smith wrote: > I wish it were that simple :) they still come up. There must be a config file > or start file I can edit to get rid of them...help!! > On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 22:01:03 Brandon Dorman wrote: > > When

Re: RH 6.2 upgrade

2000-07-03 Thread Brandon Dorman
I have the Promise and basically same setup as you, and it worked fine. Let me and the list know if you have any problems! -Brandon p.s. 6.2 is, in my opinion, leaps and bounds ahead of 6.0! (in installation and the actual product of course too.) Michael McLeod wrote: > I am planning to

Re: New Distribution [LONG]

2000-07-03 Thread Brandon Dorman
uct lines! (SERVER LINUX, DESKTOP LINUX, STRIPPED-SERVER LINUX, HIGH-BANDWITH FTP LINUX, etc.) Lets just give it a rest and let our suggestions for improvement be nicely stated and get on with life. My thoughts, Brandon Dorman Bret Hughes wrote: > John Aldrich wrote: > > &g

Re: new to linux

2000-07-03 Thread Brandon Dorman
Click on the, "terminal," button on your "start-menu" (panel). I do use the GUI extensively, by the way. Sorry, but I'd rather use graphics instead of typing it in. Linux is superior to Windows, but it will never be widely used if you still have to type in commands! -Brandon John Aldrich wr

Re: Serving with RH 6.0

2000-06-29 Thread Brandon Dorman
t just good for servers is my long-winded point. -Brandon Dorman Jeff Graves wrote: > All you need is any spare PC and the redhat cd (just download the ISO image > to a win box and burn it on a cd or you can buy it). In terms of programs > you want, the software that comes with the redh

Re: CD recorder software?

2000-06-23 Thread Brandon Dorman
kde2alpha (well I think its in Beta now?) is much better at the resources stuff. :-) John Aldrich wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > > > > > I like XCDRoast. It comes preinstalled in some releases (Mandrake) > > > but it's

Re: Kernel 2.2.16 RPM released

2000-06-19 Thread Brandon Dorman
doesn't 6.2 come with 2.2-14? do I need to get the .15 rpm first? John Aldrich wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Brandon Dorman wrote: > > if I were to get that kernel, would the rpm format "compile" it for me and >everything? Would it be > > just like insta

Re: usr

2000-06-19 Thread Brandon Dorman
That was my message. I just sorta gave up on an answer. Could you help me out now? Thanks, Brandon Doug McGarrett wrote: > I quote from a message: > "Just remember that /usr does NOT stand for USER, > even though we all pronounce it that way." > Then what _does_ it stand for?

Re: Kernel 2.2.16 RPM released

2000-06-19 Thread Brandon Dorman
if I were to get that kernel, would the rpm format "compile" it for me and everything? Would it be just like installing a program with RPM or still something beyond my newbies knowledge? -Brandon Nitebirdz wrote: > I saw a lot of messages in the last two weeks or so in this list > requesting

Re: Question about /home and /usr

2000-06-16 Thread Brandon Dorman
Dale Anderson wrote: > Just remember that /usr does NOT stand for USER, even though we all pronounce it >that way. What does it stand for then? -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Helix GNOME

2000-06-14 Thread Brandon Dorman
ere are already files there and asks if you want to use > those or download them all again. ymmv, though. > > Steve Dixon wrote: > > > > rpm -Uvh *rpm --nodeps --force > > > > Brandon Dorman wrote: > > > > > > Hey guys, > > > > > &g

Helix GNOME

2000-06-13 Thread Brandon Dorman
ents other than what I'm trying to do here with Helix. -Brandon Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Are RedHat actually providing support?

2000-06-13 Thread Brandon Dorman
Just as a side note: Did the guy get his problem solved before we discuss english on this computer-related mailing list? "Tanner, Robby" wrote: > There is one school of thought. Singular nouns require singular verbs. A > company is a collective, but singular, noun. A bunch of bananas...etc.

Re: MS Breakup

2000-06-12 Thread Brandon Dorman
oh yeah I did forget: Dos 2.2, Dos 6, Win3.1, win95, win98, winNT, RH 6.0, RH 6.2, BeOS 5 CH wrote: > I've tried the old dos 2.11, 5.0-6.22, Win3.1, 95, 98, OS/2(not much), RH > Linux (just started last year). Win95osr1 was the most pathetic os I've > tried. Never tried nor planned yet to e

Re: MS Breakup

2000-06-12 Thread Brandon Dorman
OS/2 is about the only modern OS I haven't tried. I've tried NT, RH Linux, Be, and Win98. I like RH 6.2 and Be the best!!! Jon Knews wrote: > Hey, I used to be a OS/2 phenatic, then I found Linux. ;-))) > > On 12 Jun 2000, "Chris Worth" wrote: > > > > funny... I use the INTERNET every day, us

re: sh file type

2000-06-10 Thread Brandon Dorman
Thanks guys for your advice. I succesfully did what you said and installed Quake 3 Arena Demo! However, upon running I was discouraged to notice I could hardly use it. Moving the mouse became a game of time delay! I switched to Voodoo mode with no effect. I have an NVidia Riva TNT and Vood

What is this file extension?

2000-06-09 Thread Brandon Dorman
Hi guys, I just downloaded the demo for Quake 3 for Linux. It is "linuxq3ademo.tar.sh" What is this sh extention and how do I unpack it? I couldn't find instructions on the id site. Thanks. -Brandon -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread Brandon Dorman
Yahoo! MS to be broken up. Probably won't happen due to appeals but oh well. I saw RH stock went up. That's good for all of us! (when our favorite company does well...) -Brandon -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Kernel Panic in RH 6.2

2000-06-04 Thread Brandon Dorman
stupid me. In my excitement of installation, I forgot to append important parameters into lilo. (linux ide0=0x10c0 for my Promise Ultra66 controller.) :-) I LOVE it!! Brandon Dorman wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed RH 6.2, and, upon booting, was sad (to say the leas

Kernel Panic in RH 6.2

2000-06-04 Thread Brandon Dorman
root, etc. /hda7/ BE OS /hda8/ SWAP Thanks! Please cc to me as well. Sincerely, Brandon Dorman -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Stupid Newbie Question

2000-03-24 Thread Brandon Dorman
If I remember right the executable for Staroffice is in /etc/staroffice/bin/or maybe /opt/... Uninstalled it though because I didn't like it and wanted to save space. Samuel Flory wrote: > Hal Burgiss wrote: > > > why not try using 'locate' to find your file(s) ? > > > > This is good if

[OT] Break up MS

2000-03-24 Thread Brandon Dorman
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_4608.html lets vote guys! -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: [OT] Time syncing NT boxes (was: Time Server)

2000-03-09 Thread Brandon Dorman
Yes for windows atomtime. I got it on a Pc World shareware disc. It is shareware. It syncs your clock and stuff. I've since uninstalled it though, not because it wasn't good but I had to remove clutter. Jim Cunning wrote: > There's also an NT (shareware, I think) program called "atomtime" th

Re: Helix gnome

2000-03-09 Thread Brandon Dorman
never heard of it. URL please? Allen Bolderoff wrote: > yep. > > it is BRILLIANT > > looks sweet, and works very well. > > - Original Message - > From: Rick Knebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 11:32 PM > Subject: Helix gnome > > > Hi, >

simple question on packages

2000-03-09 Thread Brandon Dorman
s" that would tell the package what distro the user had, and place things according to the distro's scheme. This post might have been better evaulated over on the RPM list but on this list there is more people and also I'd bet there are people on this list with multiple distro'

Re: Lilo

2000-03-08 Thread Brandon Dorman
in Linuxconf check out lilo options and make Windows the default, then "Activate changes" and ok and you are done. Alessandro Coppelli wrote: > Hi to all. > >( Sorry for question ) > >I want to obtain Win start and not Linux > >with lilo in my dual boot box for default. > >How I

Re: test

2000-03-08 Thread Brandon Dorman
there does seem to be quite a bit less traffic than normal, but I've gotten about 30 posts. Hidong Kim wrote: > Hi, > > I posted two messages to this list today. I haven't seen either. In > fact, I've hardly gotten any messages from this list today. Has it been > suddenly deactivated? Thanks

Re: RED HAT 5.1 INSTLLATION

2000-03-08 Thread Brandon Dorman
for login type "root" or "/" without the quotes. then enter the password you entered. Then, make a user account. 5.1... Hmm I think 6.2 is coming out soon... -Brandon Dorman Jimmie Brandon wrote: > I just finished installing Red Hat 5.1. > > The computer has

Vmware 2.0

2000-03-04 Thread Brandon Dorman
Hey guys. Has anyone actually bought VMware? I'm thinking about it, seeing how useful it is, but for $300, I don't know... -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: uncontrollable mouse

2000-03-03 Thread Brandon Dorman
You must have the wrong type of mouse selected. in the console run mouseconfig or something like that Meghan Madel wrote: > Yes, it is a ps/2 with an ASUS TX-97E.( I think it is 97E and not the > TX-4) Unfortunately, the computer is at home and I can't check. > > On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Toby A. Ri

Re: AGP?

2000-02-25 Thread Brandon Dorman
I've got an Nvidea Riva TNT sound card ... I think it's AGP. it works fine. Steve Dixon wrote: > depends on the chipset, but agp is supported. i dont think it take > advantage of it though. > > BluesMan wrote: > > > > it's just a simple question > > is AGP display cards supported under Red

Re: IDE CD-RW

2000-02-15 Thread Brandon Dorman
Could you let me know when you find something? Thanks. erik wrote: > Hi, > > I am learning more and more about linux by the day. The next thing I > would like to tackle is getting my IDE CD-RW to work under linux so > that I don't have to boot into windows except to watch my DVD's I > have

SORRY

2000-02-14 Thread Brandon Dorman
Sorry guys about that strange, "can't load xwindows" post. Somehow when replying to another message it added that other message in the reply to Linda! Very sorry it will never happen again! -Brandon -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Can't load xwindows

2000-02-14 Thread Brandon Dorman
^~_~^) Dave   David E. Miller PACIFIC EMPLOYERS Visalia, California  93291 [EMAIL PROTECTED] linda hanigan wrote: Hi, When you install it tells you I think the command is xfce_setup. You also will want to copy some of the sample config files from /var/XFCE to your home directory.       Linda --

Re: Can't load xwindows

2000-02-12 Thread Brandon Dorman
applications. > Linda > - Original Message ----- > From: Brandon Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 4:08 PM > Subject: Re: Can't load xwindows > > > Just enacted your guys' advice and it works!

Re: Can't load xwindows

2000-02-12 Thread Brandon Dorman
Just enacted your guys' advice and it works! Great! Put an icon in my taskbar dealie for "switchdesk" which works fine. -Brandon Brandon Dorman wrote: > yeah. thanks. I remember now - switchdesk. I was mostly just gonna try to be > fancy... look where it gets me. I

Re: Can't load xwindows

2000-02-12 Thread Brandon Dorman
; > the login panel. I am not booted in Linux right now but will check later. > > > > Bret > > > > Hal Burgiss wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 12:34:11PM -0800, Brandon Dorman wrote: > > > > Minor problem. Following the instruct

Can't load xwindows

2000-02-12 Thread Brandon Dorman
but I'd like to have to ability to try out all the different window managers - kde, gnome, afterlevel, at will) Thank you. Sincerely, Brandon Dorman -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: RH 6.2?

2000-02-12 Thread Brandon Dorman
Oh, come on. it's all in fun. :-) rpjday wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Phil Risby wrote: > um ... folks? does this really belong on the official redhat > mailing list? > > rday > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMA

Re: @HOME help, seeking info....

2000-02-05 Thread Brandon Dorman
A while back people were helping me do the same thing (which ultimately was a no-go because we would have had to drill through the walls and stuff.) I'll send you those e-mails if you would like. -Brandon Dorman j wrote: > A high speed net connect is finally in my area, @HOME. The

Re: (offtopic)Linux news was: (Re: Which kernel gets installed)

2000-02-05 Thread Brandon Dorman
Thanks guys. I've been checking, seems like linuxtoday.com is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks. "John J. Donohue" wrote: > On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Brandon Dorman wrote: > > > This is probably a touchy subject, but anyone know of any good, fairly > >

(offtopic)Linux news was: (Re: Which kernel gets installed)

2000-02-04 Thread Brandon Dorman
This is probably a touchy subject, but anyone know of any good, fairly low-volume news sites for Linux? Wideopen looks to be great, but not about the OS itself. linux.com, .org, etc. don't offer daily news as far as I know. Does slashdot? freshmeat? Thanks. That way I could find out there in

Re: Which kernel gets installed

2000-02-04 Thread Brandon Dorman
I'm clueless in these areas, but would something written for i386 work on i686? What is the advantage of i686? thanks -Brandon Dorman Jeff Smelser wrote: > 6.1 is i386. I don't think it will ever not be i386... to many people use > redhat on 386/486's to increase it t

Re: Quick disk partitioning question

2000-02-04 Thread Brandon Dorman
Can you unspecify it in Linuxconf or something? I'm thinking I'd like to play around with Beos a bit, but Linux and Windows seem to have consolidated my hd. I did check the grow to fill option for my home partition, that's why. Thanks in advance. Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada wrote: > It mea

Re: A new convert to Linux

2000-01-27 Thread Brandon Dorman
Other than the demo for Quake 3, Civ 2 Call to Power, and Heroes of Might..., are there any good games out there? Anyone know of good websites for them? Thanks, Brandon -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: How to take a snapshot ofyour desktop

2000-01-26 Thread Brandon Dorman
that second menu is called Xtns I just looked at my own screenshots. :-) -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: How to take a snapshot ofyour desktop

2000-01-26 Thread Brandon Dorman
ux real quick to tell ya. Screenshots are fun and informative when telling people about how GREAT linux's GUI's are. Mine are at http://www.neighborhood-church.com/Youth/images/linux/ Don't mind the text, I was just writing to have something there. Brandon Dorman -Brandon Dorman Er

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