Linux vs Windows

2003-03-25 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
This may not be a very structured and organised piece of prose on this issue, but it includes all of what i essentially think on the topic. Please correct me if i am wrong on any particular technical issue. Windows and redhat might cost similar regarding the enterprise edition of redhat vs win

RE: Audigy 2 working.

2003-03-17 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
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swap performance.

2003-03-16 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
Wondering what views are out there regarding the benifits in performance, if any, in specifying the swap partition to be on a different physical disk from the / partition? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: Audigy 2 working.

2003-03-16 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
P line1:67:67:P dig1:100:100:P phin:67:67:P phout:67:67:P video:67:67:P regards, hampel Am Don, 2003-03-13 um 23.44 schrieb Mirabella, Mathew J: > All. > > I got the audigy 2 working ok with emu10k1. i needed to dd the line > alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 > alias sound-slot-1 emu10

RE: rh8 modem

2003-03-13 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
i wonder if there are any good linux drivers for winmodems. -Original Message- From: Edward Dekkers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 March 2003 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: rh8 modem > I am running rh8 on an IBM A31 laptop and the modem was not found. Any > tho

Audigy 2 working.

2003-03-13 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
All. I got the audigy 2 working ok with emu10k1. i needed to dd the line alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 alias sound-slot-1 emu10k1 However, I do not seem to be able to get multitrack sound. I have ensured that multitrack=yes is set in the emu10k1.conf file which is located at /usr/local/etc/ but

RE: [OT] StarOffice files not opening in Excel

2003-03-11 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
This is not a solution to your problem as such but... maybe you could save them as csv or excel format from inside star office. so that they can be opened in excel. in the case of word processor docs, saved as doc or rich text should make them openable in ms word. if this can be done of course..

Audigy 2 problem persists.

2003-03-11 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
All. I have a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and have been trying to use the latest cvs of emu10k1 to get it to work. I am almost there, but have one question. I can hear sound from the digital port through the analog speakers, but cannot hear anything out of the analog port (3rd from the fir

Audigy 2: almost working... some further questions.

2003-03-11 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
I have a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and have been trying to use the latest cvs of emu10k1 to get it to work. I am almost there, but have one question. I can hear sound from the digital port through the analog speakers, but cannot hear anything out of the analog port (3rd from the firewire

RE: Audigy 2 Support for Red Hat 8.1?!?

2003-03-11 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
so am I. -Original Message- From: Christopher Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 8 March 2003 5:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Audigy 2 Support for Red Hat 8.1?!? Anyone know if there will be support for the Audigy to for Red Hat 8.1 by the time its released? The

RE: fat32 partitions.

2003-03-11 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
S file system instead. So, knowing that XP uses the same file system as Win2000, the 32Gb limit is right. But for win ME or lower (not including NT and up to Win95B) the 8TB limit is correct. Andy -Original Message- From: Mirabella, Mathew J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 0

Partition table errors.

2003-03-06 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
All. On running partition magic again in windows to make changes to my partitions, i found it would not run and it reported errors #114 errors in partition table. This seemed to happen after installing red hat 8 on a logical partition on hda are there any ways to repair the partition table without

fat32 partitions.

2003-03-06 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
Hi all. can anyone tell me if there is a size limit to a fat32 partition. i was under the impression that they can only be 32 GB in size. is this correct? If it is possible, and if i create a larger one than that, what problems may i have? this is so i can share data between windows xp and red hat

RE: grubby complains

2003-03-05 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: grubby complains -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 March 2003 11:34 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > > As for the template error, had you already modified your lilo.config > > file when you (re) installed the most r

RE: grubby complains

2003-03-05 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
:03 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > ah ok well i have seem the contents of /boot and yes there are files > called vmlinux-2.4.18-14 > and > vmlinux-2.4.18-24.8.0 > things do look ok. > > but in another post to this list i mentioned that when visiting > /lib/modules/ > i saw di

RE: kernel install: dirty buffer... templates... error.

2003-03-05 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
09:34 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > > All. > > > > I just updated the kernal 2.4.18-14 (which comes on the packaged red > > hat 8 cds) to the updated 2.4.18-24.8.0 i installed from the i686 > > rpms that are found on the updates site. > > > > there were s

RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

2003-03-05 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
: Audigy sound driver problem with installing. On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > hmmm i wonder why there is no such dir created. this may be a problem > when i actually installed the kernel itself from the i686 rpm. when i > did this, i got a number of grubbby errors relat

RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

2003-03-05 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > ok well i also did not find a /usr/src/linux-2.4 directory at all. i > did see a /usr/src/linux-2.4 symlink to somewhere. not sure where. > where should this point to? anyway thanks for the tips on diskclean. > distclean, not diskclean. M

RE: grubby complains

2003-03-05 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2003 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: grubby complains -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 March 2003 06:24 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > ok i use lilo. > here is the lilo.conf > > prompt

RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

2003-03-05 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
installing. On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > well actually i did do that as well. i got the kernel-source... i386 > rpm and installed it too.. no luck really since this still did not > create anything for the new version of the kernal in /usr/src/ should > it have? &

RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

2003-03-05 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
: Thursday, 6 March 2003 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing. On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > btw. why is it the case that i need the i386 source rpm. when in > fact i have used the i686 rpm for the kernel install itself. m

RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

2003-03-05 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
To: RedHat List Subject: Re: Audigy sound driver problem with installing. On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > All. > > I have a problem installing the emu10k1 stuff. I got it from cvs > (latest source) and read the instructions in the ./doc/redme file. > it say

RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

2003-03-05 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
] Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:43 PM To: RedHat List Subject: Re: Audigy sound driver problem with installing. On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > All. > > I have a problem installing the emu10k1 stuff. I got it from cvs > (latest source) and read the instructions

RE: grubby complains

2003-03-05 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
Original Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2003 4:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: grubby complains -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 March 2003 11:53 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > ok i will do so asap. >

RE: grubby complains

2003-03-04 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 March 2003 10:24 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > ah hello. i got this message too. > grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template > when upgradeing the kernel 2.4.18-14 to 2.4.18-24.8.0 the rpm gave this > error. however, after the rpm upgrade i

RE: mounting /home somewhere else

2003-03-04 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
understanding? -Original Message- From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2003 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mounting /home somewhere else Mirabella, Mathew J said: > I have an rh8 installation with the / being mounted on /dev/hda5 and the > only othe

RE: [OT] Attention Jonathan M.Slivko

2003-03-04 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
yes i cannot open this person's email at the moment. i am using MS Outlook 2000 Pro -Original Message- From: Edward Dekkers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2003 2:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OT] Attention Jonathan M.Slivko Sorry to do it this way, list, but

RE: grubby complains

2003-03-04 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
ah hello. i got this message too. grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template when upgradeing the kernel 2.4.18-14 to 2.4.18-24.8.0 the rpm gave this error. however, after the rpm upgrade i was able to boot to the new kernal that was created in /boot. i wonder if anyone knows whether th

RE: RPM upgrade segmentation fault

2003-03-04 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
a further question. does anyone know what this type of fault or warning is: warning: /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice_1.0.2-2_i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 897da07a -Original Message- From: Eduardo Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2003 1:02 AM To: [

RE: upgrading kernal.

2003-03-03 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
0 anyway -Original Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: upgrading kernal. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 11:32 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > ok thats cool. &g

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-03 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
March 2003 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:24 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > hmmm interesting. > do you get the bold (bright white) characters in man pages No, bold isn'

RE: upgrading kernal.

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 11:04 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > i have installed red hat 8 and upgraded all the update packages. > except for the kernal packages for i686. > now i wish to upgrade the kernal to these rpms. > how do i go about

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:18 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > ok well i downloaded all the updates on feb 27 or feb 28. since the > most recent update seems to be feb 24... i think i should hav

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:43 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > btw... i use the console in text mode. i do not use X gnome or kde at > all... or very little. OK, ignore my screenshot then. Howeve

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:36 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > thats a good idea... but my rh machine is on a dial up internet > connection. i do have access to the internet

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 2:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:33 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > well i looked at a few. >

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
btw... i use the console in text mode. i do not use X gnome or kde at all... or very little. -Original Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 1:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
uptodate? -Original Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:11 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: >

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
ED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:14 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > >Of course you do lose UTF-8 support. > > ok but is there a way to make things behave without loosing urf8 > support. in emacs, i get lots of octal char codes appearing in place of > the right

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
to be utf8 . -Original Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:21 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
ED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:21 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > ok thanks for that info... > > > . Line drawing characters in applications such as make menuconfig do > >not always appear correctly in certain locales. > how do i fix this. sett

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
hanks for help. mat. -Original Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 9:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 05:00 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
I noticed a problem like this. when opening a man page inside emacs i get lots of \323\323\345\xxx. and so on, where there should be - and -- they seem to be octal characters. i changed the LANG variable from "en_AU.UTF-8" to with export LANG="en_AU" or even export LANG="en" and this solved the

FW: problems with textual display

2003-02-25 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
I sent the following to the red hat 8 list. now fwding on to these lists. > Hi all. > > There is a problem with my applications that have a textual based user interface > (using text-art in the console environment, not graphics in the x). e.g. cdp, the > kernel modules screens etc. > > for s

RE: Locale causing font prob?

2003-02-25 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
Do you refer here to the text console font or an font in X? I assume text, since you mention line drawing chars. maybe your problem is the same as mine, anyway... from your posting.. the font SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" may not be a proportional font like monospace. so that could explain the is