Re: Soon to be improved Terminator...

2003-02-18 Thread Paul
nVidia drivers work really well in Linux. -Paul On Tuesday 18 Feb 2003 3:53 am, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Hi there, My Dick Smith Electronics 'Terminator 1100' linux PC is about to get better... The terminator has an S3 Savage4 integrated AGP 4x video chip, but this chip is not supported by

Re: Starting Window Manager

2003-02-18 Thread Jason
Try typing : kdm and see if it brings up the login screen Cheers Jason Michael wrote: At 07:01 p.m. 18/02/2003, you wrote: I have just installed VMware on my Widows 2000 PC at work. I can logon and then type startx to get into KDE How can I go straight to the login manager? Do you

Re: windows manager

2003-02-18 Thread Nick Rout
find out what login manager you are using then read the docs. it will be kdm, gdm or xdm ps i installed ion too and am still playing. very cool thanks and how did gentoo go?? On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:39:32+ Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have installed the ion window manager

Re: apparent file system bloating

2003-02-18 Thread Wesley Parish
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 01:52 am, you wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:48:59PM +1300, Wesley Parish wrote: I've just checked, and there is a file mvs38j.tar.gz, and it clocks in at 407.2 MB, but the mvs38j directory clocks in at 419.2 MB. So much for gzip's compression ratio - I am

Re: apparent file system bloating

2003-02-18 Thread Martin Baehr
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:00:24PM +1300, Wesley Parish wrote: So much for gzip's compression ratio - I am deeply disappointed. Well, a good percentage of those binaries are actually DASD images - ie, disk images. They may contain some binary|ies, but as far as I can see, they would be

Re: Soon to be improved Terminator...

2003-02-18 Thread G. M. Bodnar
Paul is on permanent record as saying: :nVidia drivers work really well in Linux. That depends on your definition of well. On my laptop, the last two revisions of the driver have left the virtual terminals almost unusable after starting X. Many GeForce2 Go users have reported the same problems.

Re: Starting Window Manager

2003-02-18 Thread C Falconer
You need to install a login manager like xdm wdm kdm gdm ?dm On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 19:01, Robert Fisher wrote: I have just installed VMware on my Widows 2000 PC at work. I can logon and then type startx to get into KDE How can I go straight to the login manager? -- Robert Fisher

Re: windows manager

2003-02-18 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Paul wrote: Hi, I have installed the ion window manager and its great. The problem is I want to be running in run-level 5 but because I compiled ion it wont show up in the X login screen box so I can choose a default ie. like KDE, Gnome, Blackbox etc. How do I add it to the list? It might

RE: MandrakeUpdate - found no updates??

2003-02-18 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Hi Chad, Yes, the way you describe is the way it happened right through to pop-up list of updates - the window with the list was empty and had pop-up message instead saying system is up to date. Maybe the kde 3.0.5a is not a security update (as per Chris saying it will only show security

OSTC Courses

2003-02-18 Thread David Kirk
Hey all, Here is a list of the courses that have been requested on the Open Source Technology Centre forum: * Internal DNS Server * WxWindows or WxPython * Samba * PHP * Centralised User Management (NIS?) * Setting up NCD Explora's You might be thinking that this list is exactly the same as

pppd causing reset

2003-02-18 Thread Lance BLACKLER
As I mentioned on the installfest list - I have been playing around with a few distros to find something that will run reasonably well on my P166MMX box with 64mb of ram - basically if it feels similar to the win98 it already runs I would be happy. I have tried Knoppix, Caldera Open

Re: ls alphabetical sort order

2003-02-18 Thread Rex Johnston
Carl Cerecke wrote: The new ls sorts files case insensitively, and ignores dot, so we get: a B .c Ick. %ls --version ls (fileutils) 4.1.9 Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie. Hmm, i have this on debian unstable. % ls --version ls (coreutils) 4.5.4 Written by Richard Stallman

Re: ls alphabetical sort order

2003-02-18 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Carl Cerecke wrote: The old ls used to sort: .c B a The new ls sorts files case insensitively, and ignores dot, so we get: a B .c Personally, I like the behaviour of the old version. Is there an easy way to get the old sorting behaviour back? Or do I have to recompile? Is it a compile time

Re: ls alphabetical sort order

2003-02-18 Thread Mike Beattie
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:45:25PM +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote: Personally, I like the behaviour of the old version. Is there an easy way to get the old sorting behaviour back? Or do I have to recompile? Is it a compile time option that RH thought was a Good Idea? try: LANG=C ls Mike. --

Re: ls alphabetical sort order (good solution found)

2003-02-18 Thread Carl Cerecke
Carl Cerecke wrote: Carl Cerecke wrote: The old ls used to sort: .c B a The new ls sorts files case insensitively, and ignores dot, so we get: a B .c ls -v gives the good old ascii sorted version. That it does so is not obvious from the man page though. Cheers, Carl.

Money as at 19.2.03

2003-02-18 Thread Nick Rout
$470.30 Balance per Nick Elder's report as at 29 January + $41.00 collected - $2.40 supper expense -$15.00 hall hire __ $493.90 - Balance on hand. When I get a spare nanosecond I will investigate a cheque account with kiwibank (no fees?) or asb (where i bank - convenient and as i

Re: Soon to be improved Terminator...

2003-02-18 Thread paul schulz
hahaha!!! yeh right. I tried to install nvidia 3d drivers on my pc, which totally stuffed X! I wouldn't trust going down that path again... On Tuesday 18 February 2003 18:40, you wrote: Paul is on permanent record as saying: :nVidia drivers work really well in Linux. That depends on your