Re: Xinerama

2003-03-14 Thread swhatley
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:47:24 -0600 "Jim Hale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mine DEFINITELY doesn't look like yours - and it points me in the >direction that I think I need to go. I fought with it a bit this >morning, but my syntax was WAY off. > >The card I'm using is a dual-head also (nVidia MMX44

Philips LightFrame

2003-03-13 Thread swhatley
Hi all, I'm pretty sure the answer to this questin is "No" but it doesn't hurt to ask anyway. Is there a utility under Linux to allow me to use the LightFrame technology in my Philips 107P 17" imonitor? For those not familiar with this, some Philips monitor models have a feature that allows a us

Scheduled TV/FM program recording.

2003-03-13 Thread swhatley
Hi all, As I have said before, I am transitioning from WinXP to RH8. I have a Hauppauge WinTV/FM PCI tuner card. Last night, I set up XawTV. I was surprised how easy it was and how good the picture quality is. Now, I would like to start recording TV programs. I know there is MythTV. Or is it

Re: Xinerama/Dual Monitor Setup

2003-03-12 Thread swhatley
OK, your card is a dualhead card. Try adding the BusID from my XF86Config file to both Device sections: BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Yes, my card is in the AGP slot but still has a PCI reference. Also, it is possible that the nv dirver may not have dualhead support. You may want to try to d

Re: Xinerama

2003-03-11 Thread swhatley
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 06:11:52 Jim Hale wrote: > Thanks Nate! > Now if I can just get it working. :) What kind of problems are you having and which desktop are you using? To enable Xinerama just add the following line to the ScreenLayout section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config file: Option "X

Re: WeatherBug clone for Linux?

2003-03-05 Thread swhatley
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 14:59:03 -0500 Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:15:59PM -0500, Anthony E. Greene wrote: >> make it easy to get to. I should be able to Figure out what weather zone, >> data type, and time period I want and query a web server for something like:

WeatherBug clone for Linux?

2003-03-05 Thread swhatley
Hi all, OK, this may be a silly question but I am in the process of migrating from WinXP to RH8/KDE. I really like the program WeatherBug under XWinXP (http://www.weatherbug.com) becasue it provides very quick access to dopler radar, current condtions, forcasts, advisories, etc. Is there by chan

Gnone, dual display, split windows

2003-02-27 Thread swhatley
Hi all, I have a dual monitor setup: 2GHz P4 ASUS P4B266 512MB DDR Matrox Parhelia video card Phillips 107P (Primary) ViewSonic P95f+ (Secondary) Red Hat 8.0 (2.4.18-24.8.0 kernel) Here is my XF86Config: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Simple Layout" Screen "Scree

Re: Dual boot with XP

2003-02-25 Thread swhatley
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:13:04 +0100 "Antonio Burzio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've installed Linux rh 8.0 in a system where I have also 2 partitions >with xp professional. I have problems in booting Linux maybe because it' >beyond the 1024 cylinder, and it's bootable only with diskette, but in >

Re: RH 8.0

2003-02-24 Thread swhatley
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:18:06 +0100 "Antonio Burzio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've just installed RH 8.0 on another PC, but it can't be bootable form >hard drive I got error message... I can boot only with the bootable disk >I've created during installation, but at the end I have a strange scree

Re: ISDN Routers

2003-01-17 Thread swhatley
In the past, internal ISDN cards have been very problematic for Linux. I don't know if things have changed. The best solution for Linux is to use an external ISDN TA that connects to your computer via Ethernet. Linux will accept most Ethernet NICs while its support for internal or USB ISDN is li

Re: DSL Modems Recommendations?

2002-12-13 Thread swhatley
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:22:22 - "Andy Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can anyone recommed a DSL modem (pref USB) available in the UK to run on >RH8? I would *not* recommend a USB DSL modem especially if you plan to use it with Linux. It is so much easier to configure an Ethernet NIC than a

Re: Cygwin XFre86 -> Redhat XDM login

2002-11-18 Thread swhatley
I'll check gdm. I know hosts.allow is set up right. I can telnet, FTP, SSH, HTTP, SWAT, et.c to the Linux box. I have commented out the last line .../xdm/xdm.conf and modified the .../xdm/Xaccess file. BTW, I didn't mean to put down XFree86 in any way. It is a great product. Folks have put a