Re: Experience with VMWARE?

Didn't want this thread to die out yet. I am interested in installing VMWare on my stand alone system at home. I have a PIII 600 with 128M. Am running Win95 on a 2.5 Gig hd and RH6.2 on another 8 gig hd. Is it possible to install VMWare onto this system with OS already on it? Do I need more hd

Mouse problem

I recently had my old AT based system upgraded to a new PIII 600 system. When I got my system back from the technician I noticed that when I booted to Linux (RH 6.2) I was getting a message box stating that a PS/2 mouse hardware had been removed and was asked whether I wanted to remove that

3dfx Voodoo 3 2000

Anybody have any experience they can related with installing a 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 video card? -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: How to upgrade video card

ttab. BTW, be sure to check your new video card will work with X. Check www.redhat.com/hardware to see if it is compatible. -Manuel. Dave Watts wrote: Hi, Not being an expert on Linux yet, I have a question regarding how to get upgrade to a newer / better video card. My situation

Video Card Compatability

Hi, I'm trying to confirm that a Diamond Stealth III S540 video card is compatable with RH 6.2 and XFree86? Anybody have any experience with this card? TIA Dave -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

How to upgrade video card

Hi, Not being an expert on Linux yet, I have a question regarding how to get upgrade to a newer / better video card. My situation is, I seem to be having some problems with my very old card. I have a dual boot system to either Win95 and Linux (RH6.2). For windoze it is fairly straight

Screen shake

One of the minor problems that I have continually had with Linux (Redhat 6.1) is that the right side of my screen shakes. Regardless of which windows manager I use it is the same. This is a minor annoyance but something I would like to either get fixed or atleast understand why this is

Windowmaker Problem

I've recently installedthe Windowmaker RPMs on to my system (RH6.2) and when I start that window manager I get the following error message: "The application menu could not be loaded. Look at the console output for a detailed description of the error." I don't know what this means, I I'm not sure

KDE News Client Core

I am currently using KDE for my windows manager. I installed the KDE internet applications. I've successfully set up the Mail Client but when I select the News Client I get a core. After that a lot of stuff quits working. Is there some known bug and a fix for this problem? Any help would be

KDE Start up

Hi, I am running with KDE as my windows manager. I have noticed with the level in the inittab file set to 5 when I log in I get a fvwm windows manager. If I change the run level to 3, log in and then startx I get the KDE windows manager. Why is this and how can I just go directly to the KDE wm

kde setup

Hi all, I have taken a quick look at KDE and would like to try it on my stand alone machine. My problem is that when I start installing the rpm files to /opt/kde, it quickly maxs out my disk space on the root partition. I only have 50M for the root partition and when it gets full, as you all

Root directory clean-up

Hi all, I am still somewhat of a rookie at Linux, but definatly a convert from Win95. Well I have finally gotten Linux set up the way I want with most of the functions I need working. What I would like to do know is cleanup my root directory a little so I have more space. I have a stand alone

Re: DB_VAR_SIZE Error

Dave Watts wrote: Hi, I am having a problem trying to import files into the applixware spreadsheet application. When I select import under the file menu I get to following message "DB_VAR_SIZE@: Dialog "Import" has maximum height 540 lesser than minimum height 572&

Soundscape PNP config

Hi all, I have been trying unsuccessfully to configure my Soundscape PNP card with isapnp. I did a pnpdump and have gone through the settings I thought I had for that card (settings derived from looking at the system information when I am in Win95). The following are the settings I get MIDI

lilo additional memory

I have 80M of RAM and would like Linux to see and use it. I have been following the mails regarding adding a line to the lilo.conf file, but I would like to know exactly where to put it in the file. The following is my lilo.conf file. If it makes a difference, could someone tell me exactly where

Soundscape PnP Card config

I am still somewhat new with Linux and am trying to configure my sound card, which is a Soundscape 16bin, PnP Card. I am using RH5.0 with the 2.0.31 Kernel. From what I have read in the documentation I have the option of booting to DOS or Win95 and then doing a Cold Boot using loadlin. Is this

Sudden X Windows Problem

Hi, I have been using RH5.0 with XFree86 for about 4 months now without too many problems once I got everything configured properly. I am running on a stand alone machine. Last night X Windows stalled after I initiated "startx" the screen remained with a hatched background and the cursor as an

xrn question

I have been going through the applications that I installed with RH 5.0 and I found a news reader called xrn, however, I can't find any manual pages or documentation for it. Could someone let me know where I can find out something about the application and configuring it. TIA Dave --

ppp shutdown

I am using RH 5.0 and Usernet under X windows to connect up a ppp connection to my ISP. I've almost got my ppp configuration complete with two minor problem. When I select Usernet from the Networking menu, the dialog box comes up. When I select ppp0 the connection dials up and connects to my ISP

Configure of an Internal Tape Drive?

Hi, I am trying to figure out how to configure the Conner Internal Tape DriveI have on my system. Being some what new at this I'm not exactly sure where tostart. I do know the tape drive is using I/O port 3f0 and IRQ 6. Is there a HOWTO that relates directly to configuring a tape

ppp shutdown

Hi, I am slowly working through getting my ppp connection to work.I have successfully gotten the connection to my ISP to work and stay connected.My problem now is that the ppp-off doesn't seem to work. When I do ppp-off I getthe following message var/run/ppp0.pid permission denied, and

ppp shutdown

Hi, I am slowly working through getting my ppp connection to work.I have successfully gotten the connection to my ISP to work and stay connected.My problem now is that the ppp-off doesn't seem to work. When I do ppp-off I getthe following message var/run/ppp0.pid permission denied, and

Mouse Button Config

Hi, I am trying to configure the buttons on my Microsoft serial mouse (2 button) to do copy and paste functions when in the XFree86 environment. When I first boot up RH5.0 and before entering startx the mouse buttons work the way I would like, with the left mouse button highlighting text