Re: Installing a new motherboard - anything special to do?

2003-03-24 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Just to follow-up on this response; I just swapped a SuperMicro X5DAE (had to RMA) with dual Xeons for a Tyan Tiger 230T with dual PIIIs. I had installed RH8. Plug in all you hard drives the same way. I also installed a PCI NIC and sound in the new board. Eve

Re: X11 Video Modes

2003-03-13 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>>>> "me" == Roland Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: me> I just installed RedHat 8.0 on a new system with a new video me> card, an ATI Radeon 7500. Since I routinely do 1600x1200 at me> 60Hz on my monit

X11 Video Modes

2003-03-12 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I just installed RedHat 8.0 on a new system with a new video card, an ATI Radeon 7500. Since I routinely do 1600x1200 at 60Hz on my monitor with a Matrox G200, I assumed XFree86 would similarly work with the ATI Radeo 7500. But it won't sync at 1600x1200. If I

Re: View pictures from command line

2003-03-07 Thread Roland Roberts
> "Vidiot" == Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "switching to graphic card mode" != X Vidiot> I didn't say that, or impy it. You plainly stated >Vidiot> No. Think about it. A picture requires 8-bit color >Vidiot> depth (as a minumim). How do you expect to display a >

Re: View pictures from command line

2003-03-07 Thread Roland Roberts
> "Vidiot" == Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Vidiot> Unless I've misunderstood graphic card modes, when placed Vidiot> in the simple text mode, that the console use, high res Vidiot> graphics is NOT available. It would mean switching the Vidiot> graphic card mode beofre s

Re: View pictures from command line

2003-03-07 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "Vidiot" == Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is there a program that I can use to quickly view the content >> of a jpg or gif picture, from the command line, (without >> x-windows)? Vidiot> No. Think about it. A picture requires 8-

Re: View pictures from command line

2003-03-07 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "JS" == J Slim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JS> Is there a program that I can use to quickly view the content JS> of a jpg or gif picture, from the command line, (without JS> x-windows)? Search for a program called "seejpg." It's a part of Sla

Re: How Do I Find A File On The HD?

2003-03-05 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "Tim" == Tim Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tim> ...and what if you are forced to turn your machine off every Tim> evening by people who don't understand things? Then you do it the same way updatedb does, you run find. Try "man find". rola

Re: New Sendmail Fix Available

2003-03-03 Thread Roland Roberts
> "Joe" == Joe Polk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joe> How can I apply changes from my old mc to the new cf? Isn't Joe> m4 just going to create a new cf anyway? If you made changes to the mc, you can just merge your differences with the new mc and regenerate your cf. That's what I do;

Re: PDA's and Linux

2003-03-02 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "Richard" == Richard S Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> I'm pondering the purchase of a new PDA to replace my Richard> aging Palm Pilot Vx. Right now I'm torn between the Palm Richard> Tungsten T and the Palm m515. I've just pick

Re: Monitor Shakes....

2003-02-11 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "Doug" == Doug Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Doug> If you have a high voltage line over the house you may want Doug> to consider harnessing that energy by (h, nevermind that Doug> thought is illegal anyway) Nah, this is NYC. I do ha

Re: Monitor Shakes....

2003-02-11 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "Andrew" == Andrew Schott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> I did not see that you tried the degauss button on your Andrew> monitor. Try that. Or for a few bucks, you can have a TV Andrew> repairman degauss it with a degaussing coil. For b

Re: Monitor Shakes....

2003-02-11 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "rt" == Tibbetts, Ric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: rt> You mentioned a 2.4ghz phone. Try moving the base station rt> further away. Or.. if the cord is long enough, pick up the rt> base station, and walk around the room with it. See if it rt

Re: Monitor Shakes....

2003-02-11 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "Joe" == Joe Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joe> Ok, so I didn't help that much.. Sorry. Thought the joke Joe> would cheer you up though :) Yes it did :-) roland - -- PGP Key ID: 66 BC 3B CD Roland B. Roberts, PhD

Re: Monitor Shakes....

2003-02-11 Thread Roland Roberts
inch monitor and the box is huge will 6 drives and 2 CDs. The house is a typical old house with a narrow stairwell. Can you say hernia and fall down? I might try this anyway. rt> Ric rt> Roland Roberts wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Oka

Re: Monitor Shakes....

2003-02-11 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "ac" == Cannon, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ac> Are there any other em emitters in the immediate vicinity? ac> (Microwave ovens, radio transmitters, mobile phone masts, ac> mobile phones etc?) Hmmm, well I do have a cell phone, but the

Re: Monitor Shakes....

2003-02-11 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "Rick" == Rick Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rick> If you have a fluorescent lamp near your monitor, move it away... Yeah, I thought of that. The room lights are fluorescent, so I turned them all off. The ones in the next room are also fluores

Re: Bash and testing a variable

2003-02-11 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "Gordon" == Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gordon> I've searched all over for an answer to this and haven't Gordon> found one yet! Is there a way in a bash script to test if Gordon> a variable contains an integer? I want to create a scrip

Monitor Shakes....

2003-02-11 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Okay, this has *nothing* to do with RedHat per se except as a pure coincidence that I happen to be running RH 8.0 on the machine. After moving into a new home, my monitor has developed this odd "quiver." There are these slow undulations in the screen that are t

Re: RPM build errors

2003-01-21 Thread Roland Roberts
>>>>> "rph" == R P Herrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: rph> On 20 Jan 2003, Roland Roberts wrote: >> I have had one suggestion from the GnuCash people that the >> problem is a bad install of RH8.0 and that I need to do a clean &g

RPM build errors

2003-01-20 Thread Roland Roberts
Subsequent to upgrading my RH7.2 system to RH8.0, the majority of attempts to build RPM packages from source fail with errors like this one from posgresql-7.3.1 RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/share/doc/postgresql/contrib/README.apachelog /usr/share/doc/p