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Re: [Alug] Newbie installing Mandrake
by Kelly Ash 29 Jun '02

29 Jun '02

Thanks, will be installing in a few days. Had my old hard drive data transferred "professionally" (LOL) on to a new drive, as I'm going to be using the old one for Linux, and I've found that 1/2 of it's missing!! Bills revenge no doubt. Once again, if anyone thinks of anything else I should know before the big day, I'd appreciate your input. Kelly

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Can you suggest Linux Graphics software?
by Karl at Plus.net 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

Hello, I'm a bit of a Linux beginner and would appreciate any helpful suggestions. I have a web page that produces GIF images with variable text on them (produced by PHP4). I need to find some software that I can use to produce a file of instructions that can be sent to a commercial print company to use in typesetting to produce a similar (but vastly higher quality) image for printing. Does anyone know of such a package? (I would also need to be able to programmatically control the software from one of PERL, PHP,or BASH). Thanks Karl Middleton

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Re: [Alug] Mandrake install problems Update
by Ricardo Campos 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

> Meanwhile, I mainly want to use the machine for C++ and possibly Perl, > ideally with some kind of user-friendly IDE. I'm sure plenty of people on ALUG have their personal favourite.... > A couple of things. During install I was asked about partitions. I chose > one at random, would that make a difference (there is no other OS on the > machine now)? Basically, probably not. If you were using it as your own mega-whizz computer, then there are things that you could do. e.g have a separate partition for /home, that way if you need to reinstall, or install a different distro, you could keep all your files in /home without having to back them up separately. > Secondly, I set it to go straight to X when I login, so Gnome > comes up straight awawy. How could I get out of that? (Ctrl-alt-bckspc?) Erk, this is where it gets a little tricky... If you have a graphical login screen, you probably have GDM installed, you could configure GDM as root using GDMconfigurator. You could then select Window Maker or whatever as the default window manager to start on login. What it sounds like, though, is that you have the Mandrake thing of logging you in immediately when you boot up. (I never liked that feature). To change that, I would have to hand that over to the rest of ALUG... Mandrake and Redhat use very custom scripts, that are a little tricky to figure out when you're not sitting at that computer. Ricardo Here's 2 screenshots of WindowMaker, btw. http://www.rscampos.net/web_snapshots/wm_tech_creat.jpg http://www.rscampos.net/web_snapshots/WM_blue_Mind.jpg -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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your 100 meg machine
by tom potts 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

16 meg of ram is a bit small for 'modern' linux/x86 as your machine will page a lot (save/get memory from disk) and this can slow it down enough for x86 to think things are broken. But for now try: a)Make sure you've got >64Meg of swap space so that x86 can 'fit' b)try and older version of x86 /linux - I've installed suse5.2 on a 386 with 4 meg of ram and got x86 working though its slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow c)put as much ram in your machine as you can fit - its quite cheap now! Have Fun Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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Re: [Alug] Mandrake install problems Update
by Ricardo Campos 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

> you really want to set your runlevel to 3, edit /etc/inittab and edit > > id:5:initdefault > > to > > id:3:initdefault: I think Russell still wants to boot into X, just using a lighter window manager rather than Gnome (16MB RAM!). I guess it would be an .xinitrc file change. IIRC, switching to runlevel3 would mean he would have to issue a startx command. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Newbie installing Mandrake
by Ricardo Campos 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

> First off, does the Linux drive need to be partitioned in any way before the > install? No, Linux installs usually involve a partitioning program. Mandrakes certainly does, and it's quite user friendly. >And secondly, when I am going through the install for Mandrake > will it give me the choice to install on this (second) empty drive? Yes. it will refer to the first drive as "hda", second drive as "hdb". You'll know which one is which, cos one of them will be unpartitioned! > Thanks in advance for any advice you can give for my questions above, and > I'd appreciate any 'pointers' anyone could give that will help me prepare > and get through this install! Don't use the autopartition function in Mandrake. I say that as a 'just in case' scenario. Typically you will only need 2 partitions:- root (/) and swap. Make swap 2x the size of your RAM (as a typical value). If you lack diskspace, 2 partitions is probably safest. Personally, I prefer to partition like this for a home computer:- /usr =large /home =very large /swap = 2x amount of RAM / = large-ish, (about 1.5 gig is plenty) Reasons: most new applications you install are in /usr, most data is in /home. If the worst comes to the worst and you need to reinstall, you can just 'borrow' the /usr and /home partitions, so no data lost. Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Laptop Mouse
by Ian Thompson-Bell 27 Jun '02

27 Jun '02

I have an oldish laptop PII 286 with 96M RAM on which I have run Mandrake 7.2 for quite a long time. I recently tried to install MD 8.3 but it refused to recognise my PS2 mouse. I tried to install RH 7.3 and it could not find my mouse and invited me to install in text mode, which I did. On reboot kudzu finds a PS2 mouse, installs it but then it does not work. Today I installed RH 5.2 (yes I know it is old) and it found the mouse no problem. Then installed MD 7.2 again and it finds the mouse OK. What has happened in the later distributions that have stopped them detecting something prior versions found with ease? ian

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Mandrake install problems Update
by Russell Ward 27 Jun '02

27 Jun '02

I used this solution and it appears to have worked: >mount the cdrom >insert floppy disk, then do this command:- >dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/cdrom.img of=/dev/fd0 > >when it is done copying files, issue "reboot" or >"shutdown -r now" with the floppy in the drive, and >hey presto, the install will begin. There are still some problems when I start Gnome. These may be unconnected, at least the install completed without crashing. I will try reconfiguring XFree86. Incidentally, it is an old machine, P100 and with only 16MB RAM. It ran Win98 well enough, which was what I used on my first attempt to install from the CD. Thanks for all your replies. Regards Russell _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

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Re: [Alug] Creative live5.1
by Ricardo Campos 27 Jun '02

27 Jun '02

> Hi Everybody, > > I'm trying to get my soundcard to work under Linux (SuSe 7.1) and at present > have no signal under Linux although the card works well in Win2k. I am trying > to take the digital output from the card and then feed into "whatever" when I > can eventually get a digital output. Does anyone know of a patch/driver if > such a thing exists? Yep, there definitely are. I think the ALSA drivers do this, as do the commercial OSS ones. I think the Creative ones also do. I read a few days ago about someone who did just this, and the website was quite old. I'll try and dig out the URL from my history. Your distro is probably using the emu10k1 kernel driver, which doesn't support it as far as I can tell. (I have an SB Live! too, but don't use the digi ins/outs at the mo) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Creative live5.1
by Danny Thorp 27 Jun '02

27 Jun '02

Hi Everybody, I'm trying to get my soundcard to work under Linux (SuSe 7.1) and at present have no signal under Linux although the card works well in Win2k. I am trying to take the digital output from the card and then feed into "whatever" when I can eventually get a digital output. Does anyone know of a patch/driver if such a thing exists? Is it even possible to get this working? I'm not very optimistic about this but hopefully there will some technically inspired muso around somewhere. Danny

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