Re: [expert] Good vidoe card to use
The banshee should work fine in XFree86 3.3.6 or 4 From: "Gil Baron W0MN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "AA/MandrakeExpert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Good vidoe card to use Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:10:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBB3C44190066D82197ACD847542337610; Mon Jul 17 05:16:26 2000 Received: (from sympa@localhost)by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA09913for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:16:24 -0500 Received: from mail.rdc1.il.home.com (ha1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.66]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA07979 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:10:29 -0500 Received: from cb621265a ([24.6.0.62]) by mail.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id 2717121029.WGFV11071.mail.rdc1.il.home.com@cb621265a for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 05:10:29 -0700 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 17 05:19:33 2000 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sequence: 73 Precedence: list Since my Diamond Viper II on one system and Maxi Gamer Voodoo Banshee on the other do not work in version 7.1 and X 3.6 or 4, can anyone recommend a GOOD FAST card that works in both Linux 7.1 and windows 2000. I am not sure I am ready to buy a new card but I don't want to make another error. Thanks, and if you have actually used the card and it works in 7.1 and if possible with X 4 that would be the best. -- Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 "Hierro candente, batir de repente" Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[expert] Gtk Themes ...
Where are they at? Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[expert] Scroll wheel Only scrolls up.
I added thelines in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and in .Xdefaults. Scroll wheel only scrolls up in Netscape. Any ideas? Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1
In regards to this isa device stuff, I have an isa 56.6 us robotics modem that doesn't seem to be detected. Linuxconf won't query it, kudzu won't detect it, and kppp can't use it. The weird thing is that Mandrake 7.0 detected it fine with Kudzu. Any suggestions ...maybe disable plug 'n play in kernel? From: Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:33:31 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBB32D59300ACD821979DD847542311950; Mon Jul 10 01:34:27 2000 Received: (from sympa@localhost)by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA06562for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 03:34:21 -0500 Received: from dns.rsd.ch (dns.rsd.ch [195.212.115.2]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA05104 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 03:27:55 -0500 Received: from rsd.ch ([195.212.115.237]) by dns.rsd.ch (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA24246 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:19:23 +0200 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 10 01:35:12 2000 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Private Linux user X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: fr,en References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sequence: 191 Precedence: list Denis Havlik wrote: :~Legacy devices for the ISA bus won't even fit on my last three :~mobos, and PnP was rightly named "plug N' Pray" by most techs :~I know, IMHO, so I am not very worried about the 3c509B I just :~rid myself of. ISA PnP? Uff. No wonder it does not work properly: Pixel denies the existence of these peskies. :-/ ISA PnP devices == trouble, and while this particular card (well, actually most of them) may be made to work, my advice is to trow them away: One day we may have a good support for winmodems, but I doubt that we will ever see really good (==no problems) support for ISA PnP. Oh, I wouldn't quite say so: I've been using an ISA PNP card (SB AWE 64) in Linux for quite a long time (several years) and the user-mode isapnp utility works quite well for my taste. OTOH, I never quite got the hang of the PNP stuff (incl ISA PNP) now integrated in 2.3 and even lately in 2.2.x kernels, so I still de-activate it in the kernel and use the user-mode stuff. One thing I agree, though, is that it is probably hopeless to make this stuff work properly in an _install_ program. In other words, it does work, but one has to invest in a little RTFM first ... Also, I agree that in a few more months (?) the question will become irrelevant as more and more new mobos don't even _have_ any ISA slot ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1
Improvements? From: "Hoyt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:34:33 -0400 Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBB33916600BCD82197DED84754232A0B0; Mon Jul 10 14:55:50 2000 Received: (from sympa@localhost)by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA23990for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:50:02 -0500 Received: from mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.47]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA18820 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:36:06 -0500 Received: from worldnet ([12.79.43.116]) by mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with SMTP id 2710213606.SPEV6885.mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net@worldnet for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:36:06 + From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 10 14:57:38 2000 Message-Id: 002f01bfeab6$a4080640$[EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Priority: 3 X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sequence: 217 Precedence: list - Original Message - From: "Sarang Lakare" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1 I am always confused .. why do things work with 7.0 and not with 7.1.. this is really strange! Improvements in the install scripts. 8) Hoyt Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Modem problem
Yeah, I got it. I just followed the directions at linuxnewbie.org ...no problem after that, unless you count the fact that my telephone cable is too short! : ) Thanks From: "Tony McGee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Modem problem Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:23:54 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBB33C2DC002ED82197EBD84754230F000; Mon Jul 10 18:26:53 2000 Received: (from sympa@localhost)by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA31895for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:26:48 -0500 Received: from vasquez.zip.com.au (vasquez.zip.com.au [203.12.97.41]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA30365 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:23:04 -0500 Received: from Dazhel (ppp60.dyn248.pacific.net.au [203.143.248.60]) by vasquez.zip.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA08425 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:23:02 +1000 (EST) From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 10 18:30:17 2000 Message-Id: 00ee01bfead6$b08b8de0$4205000a@Dazhel References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Priority: 3 X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sequence: 228 Precedence: list Make sure there is a /dev/modem symbolic link to /dev/ttyS0 if your modem is on COM1 or /dev/ttyS1 if your modem is on COM2. I believe kppp uses /dev/modem by default and straight after installation of 7.1 there is no link. If there is no /dev/modem link then create it by running 'ln -s SERIALDEVICE /dev/modem' at a root prompt where SERIALDEVICE is either of the ttyS devices explained above. HTH Tony - Original Message - From: Sarang Lakare [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 9:09 AM Subject: [expert] Modem problem why isnt' there a GUI utility to load/unload drivers.. I was trying to get a modem to work under linux and didn't know how to test it other than kppp. Under kppp it said modem ready.. then it started querying the modem.. but the result of all ATIs was blank string.. the modem console was also blank.. no OK nothing! any help? -sarang Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1
True. The Windows installation is typically easier than *any* linux distro, even the almighty (and it is, IMHO) Mandrake. Consider the fact that Microsoft spends $$ on employees whose sole purpose is to understand how the computer disinclined people think. Consider the fact that Microsoft founded itself with the purpose of producing an OS that *anyone* can install and use on *any* machine (i386 based mostly). Unix did not start out with that purpose and Linux is just realizing this purpose, but doesn't have the financial backing to support it the way Microsoft has. Linux is for sure on the way however, and Mandrake (IMHO) is really helping to push this. From: "Gil Baron W0MN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1 Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 06:17:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBB31D3DD006ED82197E8D847542304BB0; Sun Jul 09 07:14:54 2000 Received: (from sympa@localhost)by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA27145for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 09:14:42 -0500 Received: from mail.rdc1.il.home.com (ha1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.66]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA01378 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 06:17:08 -0500 Received: from cb621265a ([24.6.0.62]) by mail.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id 2709111713.RZIV1229.mail.rdc1.il.home.com@cb621265a for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 04:17:13 -0700 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jul 09 07:17:15 2000 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Importance: Normal X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sequence: 133 Precedence: list You are lucky if that is all you have. I cannot install because it does not find xfree86 RPM. I amusing the downloaded iso images and that is what I get and I am then dead, no xfree86, no install. Anybody have a solution? You are totally correct about Windows install being VASTLY better! -Original Message- From: Bob Puff@NLE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 9:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1 Hello Dennis, No. Our beta-testing period for 7.1 was 3-4 x longer than for 7.0, and there was nothing even near to "abrupt cesation" of testing. There were 3 public betas, and we did not receive any "critical bug reports" for the third one, so we had all the reason to beleive that 7.1 will be a good product (and it is). but none are really "show stoppers" (workarounds exist), and I still think that overal quality of 7.1 is miles better than 7.0, or any previous Mandrake release: Well, as someone who had a little experience with 6.1, and recently did several installs of 7.1 (never tried 7.0), I would beg to differ with you big time. There are some significant bugs dealing mostly with the install that I have posted here, but no one has responded. And yes, they will keep 7.1 from installing! Let me see if I can recall these: 1. The CDROM bug: once you get to where it wants disk #2, the cdrom drive will not eject a disk. No way whatsoever to change disks. (I did manage to change the disk by powering down the CDROM drive, but then Linux wouldn't recognize it. Happened with two out of four computers. 2. The way to start the install program from a DOS prompt is broken - doesn't work at all. 3. The install program starts up running in high resolution, if it sees you have a card that can do it. Unfortunately, it doesn't ask if your monitor can support it, and thus my screen turned to hash, and I was unable to install the program. (Thankfully I had a multisync monitor on another system that I robbed long enough to do the install.) THis should default to 640x480, and ask / let you try higher rez if you want. 4. Setup properly detected my 3com 509 network card, then set up the wrong drivers for it! (Had to change from whatever it had to the 3com 509 driver, what a concept.) 5. Setup did not install the 75dpi or 100dpi fonts, which gave me all sorts of error messages when X tried to start. 6. My monitor type and card must have been screwed up somewhere in the detection, as I couldn't even get 256 colors at 640x480 working on one system. When I tried running the XF86setup, it core dumps when you tell it to list devices. 7. "Automatic setup" is definitely not what anyone should use. It skips many important steps. Also installs junk packages, and doesn't install ones that should be installed by default (IMHO). 8. The KDE/X stuff looks like it was
[expert] Problems With Kernel Upgrade!
After trying to go from the stock 2.2.15-4mdk kernel to 2.4.0-test2, I get a "Fatal: empty map section" after doing a /sbin/lilo. I have upgraded kernels before with mandrake and had no problem, but never using reiserfs or an initial ramdisk. Could it be a problem with these two? I am doing a /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.0.img 2.4.0 and configuring /etc/lilo.conf correctly (I think). Any ideas? Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start
The people on cooker have answers, but you just have to be careful not to ask too many non-cooker related questions, I guess. From: Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start Date: 06 Jul 2000 11:22:05 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBB2E90A800A5D82197D1D8475423132E0; Thu Jul 06 19:51:21 2000 Received: (from sympa@localhost)by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA30726for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 21:49:49 -0500 Received: from hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA20613 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:49:56 -0500 Received: from cassini.us.mandrakesoft.com (pool0541.cvx19-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.246.31]) by hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02828 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chmou@localhost) by cassini.us.mandrakesoft.com (8.10.1/8.8.7/Chmouel Boudjnah - Sendmail - 04/12/98) id e66IM6U09369; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:22:06 -0700 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 06 19:55:30 2000 X-Authentication-Warning: cassini.us.mandrakesoft.com: chmou set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0007052200500F.01684@slave1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00070609023905.30325@front Organisation: MandrakeSoft In-Reply-To: John Aldrich's message of "Thu, 6 Jul 2000 09:02:08 -0400" Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.6 X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sequence: 564 Precedence: list John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: Try it at http://forum.mandrakesoft.com Our own version of slashdotg I emaild Chmouel. Maybe he'll deign to post in here their thinking on that subject. :-) It would be NICE if they'd use this mail list! i can deign everything since there is emacs binding ;) -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com San-Francisco, CA USA --Chmouel Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
