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I have known MIke on these boards for years for years and he was always great to everyone and he was decent to everyone too. Search 1st, ask 2nd was his standard sig I believe. He will be missed...

hello,
try a rpm -Uvh <packagename>

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change the nv to nvidia and you should be set.

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run fdisk /dev/hda assuming that you have one have hard drive, then do a p to print out partiton information, then hit q to quit fdisk without writing.

Okay - You have loaded linux along with MS Windows as a dual boot system and and now you wish to access al those MP3 files on the MS Windows partions. Perhaps the installer negelcted to do this...

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if all that fails edit you /etc/inittab fail and have it look something like this:



x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/gdm -nodaemon


This of course assumes that the runlevel 5 is used and is...

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for avi i would say mplayer, for dvds i would say vlc - video lan client

sure - any distro will work - but be sure to configure it right. compling your won kernel may help with the slow machine. i ran both redhat 6.2 and debian 2.2 on a k5-133 MHz machine with 16 MB of...

humm - i always use the src, what does rpm -ql NVIDIA_GLX get ya?

i would try seeing if the module NVdriver is loaded.

also check your /etc/modules.conf and /etc/X11/XF856Config-4 file make sure they ar what the NVidia docs say they should be.

hey hawkeye,
i added users by doing a smbadduer username:username where user name is the person logged in on the MS machine and the person on linux machine. this has worked for NT based and win9x...

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I would guess the CDs are no good, or the CD drive is dirty or there is an issue with the BIOS not being set up right. 1 or 2 are far and away the most likely.

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that would be under a dos command shell. fips does not run under linux.

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it sounds like you did not install the rpm-build package - i assume you are building you own source rpms.

Originally posted by Hector Villarreal:
<STRONG>Hey guys, Im doing some reasearch on linux, its future, uses and stuff. I need some interviews as an essential part of this project. I was wondering...

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galeon has something like what I think you are talking about.

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i think we are getting closer. i just found out that when vass compiled the kernel he did it in his home directory, and did the -I /home/blah... thing for the headers, I am now thinking...

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you don't need to set an IP if it is setup by DHCP, open a terminal and type ifup eth0 and see what gets returned.

Hi All,

mdwatts found a cool application - here it is in his won words:


I just noticed something of interest at freshmeat.net that may be of benefit to those running production servers

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what happens when you type modprobe emu10k and then try to play a sound?

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try adding Option "IgnoreEDID" "1" tp the screen section of your file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
make sure you don't try setting the moniter to a setting it can't do else you could break it.
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You installed the RPMs - right? one for samba client and another for server. Now, you can use the command line to have it start up at or use linuxconf. In linuxconf go to the services...

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rerun DrakeX or what ever tool mandrake uses and then you should be set.

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Try using xf86config, the xf86_svga is not broken, it is the XF86Config file. The mode listed is related to timings i think...

my dvd player works well, I use XINE or omi/oms

xine.sourgeforce.net www.linuxvideo.org

as always read the docs, i found the OMI one installed pretty nicely and had good playback.