Re: Multihead Setup?
Hello Steve, I have previously tried to setup a Dual head system without much luck. The command xf86cfg is supposed to do this, and did actually work, but for some reason my hardware had a conflict that wouldnt let me use highter than 640x480 on each card. I was using a Trio64 PCI card and a Nivida Vanta TNT 2 combo. I will hopefully try again sometime in the next day or so. Mike. P.S. Are you the Steve That Glides alot?? and used to ballroom dance? Can anyone help me suss out a multihead setup? I'm a newbie. I've run XFree86 -configure, which created a XF86config file for me with a reference to both my video cards, but when I try and run Xfree86 -xf86config /root/XF86config.new +xinerama my system won't initialize the SiS (AGP) graphics card. The S3 Trio works fine. Is anyone in Chch currently running a multihead setup? Thanks Steve
Re: PCMCIA MODEM?
What about using LinuxConfig?? Doesn't it detect PCMCIA Modeams?? Regards, Jason Chris Hellyar wrote: There is a good chance it is a supported modem, but Linux will not auto-detect it. This might help: Open two shell windows, and in one type tail -f /var/log/messages which will show you the machine system log, and all sorts of useless(ful) information.. In the other, type 'service pcmcia restart' which will unload, and then re-load the pcmcia card services. In the first window it should show some messages about what it's doing, and the identity of the cards it finds on the pcmcia bus. (all things being equal...) Armed with the type of card it is, you can then do a search on Google, or the redhat site itself for the modem type.. Post the chunk out of the log to the list if you don't get anywhere, from the point that it says it's restarting the card services. Cheers, Chris H. -Original Message- *From:* Ben Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] *Sent:* Friday, 26 July 2002 8:49 p.m. *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject:* PCMCIA MODEM? Hi all How do i install a Pcmcia Modem From DSE on RH 7.3. My laptop is a tohsiba sattilete pro. I got linux installed at the installfest, Thanks, Isaac Devine * Attention: * The contents of this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author, and do not necesarily represent the official position of the Selwyn District Council
Re: Tin of worms/was Printing the Rute manual
Peter Cornelius wrote: What a tin of worms I've opened up. All I wanted was some documentation which would tell me, amongst other things, But you asked the question in a general way, not telling us exactly what you wanted to know. Therefore you got a general discussion about linux documentation. how to unzip, Linux has several major compressed file formats: 1) .zip - This is exactly the same as the windows zip files. unzip -l file.zip - list the contents unzip file.zip - extract unzip -h - help stuff 2) .gz - This is an enhanced compressed format which was created to get around the LZW patent and produces a better compression ratio gunzip file.gz - uncompress the file gunzip --help- help stuff 3) .bz2 - This is a superior compressor intended specifically for binary data as opposed to text files. It is about 20% - 25% better than gzip. bunzip2 file.bz2- uncompress the file bunzip2 --help - help stuff 4) .Z this is the original format created by the original unix compress utility. see gunzip, which is able to uncompress these files. There is also the tape archive format which is the one normally by unix and its lookalikes. Open a konsole by clicking of the picture of a black screen with a scollop shell on it. To list to contents of an archive type the commands below into the konsole you have just opened:- For files named: file.tgz; file.tar.Z; or file.tar.gz tar -tvzf file.tar.gz For files named: file.tar.bz2 or file.tbz2 tar -tvjf file.tbz2 for file.tar.gz or file.tgz tar -tvzf file.tar.gz to extract the file substitute x for t in the above lines install a printer Start the printtool from a konsole, then point and click in the fashion to which you are used. I'm very surprised this didn't happen as part of the install process. Any idea why? and print a manual for myself. Type the following into the konsole. wget http://rute.sourceforge.net/rute.pdf.bz2 bunzip2 rute.pdf.bz2 xpdf rute.pdf or gv rute.pdf Both of these utilities have viewing and printing facilities for pdf files in them. All these utilities are in the Mandrake distribution. to install or upgrade a utility from your RPMs rpm -Uvh file.rpm You can read more somewhat cryptic documentation using the man command:- For example the command:- man wget will tell you all about the wget command used to get files off the Internet. There is also the directory /usr/share/doc which is full of documentation about all the utilities installed on your computer. Lots of the utilities have comprehensive www pages in there, however some are rather lacking. the command:- find /usr/share/doc -name '*.html' will list out all the ones with web page documentation. As an exaple here is the URL for some very comprehensive doco about image printing:- file:///usr/share/doc/gimpprint-4.1.99/manual-html/gimpprint_toc.html and the rather cryptic README file for the bzip2 (un)compression utility. file:///usr/share/doc/bzip2-1.0.1/README All clear as mud now? But since I don't have such a manual I was simply hoping that someone could possibly print one off/photocopy for me - for my personal use, signed to that effect in blood if required. Meanwhile my newly installed Mandrake stands idle while you guys argue as to whether it would be legal for me to have such a book and whether a properly printed book looks nicer than a photocopied book; and my interest in Linux wanes by the hour. I'm not concerned as to whether the book is in PC print or printer's print as I only want to use it as a reference and not as a `nice to look at' on the bookshelf. The thickness is also immaterial as I should simply punch the pages and mount in a two/three ring binder which makes for easier reference than a bound book, anyway. Q.E.D. Peter.
