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One good web source that I used for a Unix class I took recently is linuxselfhelp. I has some good advice for Linux in general, and covers advanced topics like an in-depth view of glibc, and good details on debugging with GDB: http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/cats/programming.html Two good print sources I have are: 1) The C Programming Language, Kernighan/Richie, Prentice Hall and 2) C A Reference Manual 5th ed Harbison/Steele, Prentice Hall The Material in [2] is somewhat similar to what you will find on linuxselfhelp, but it is a good text.

Nvidia realses a good driver for linux that works with pretty much any card. I have an old GeForce 4 that works realy well. The only potential problem with nvidia is with the much older cards which are no longer supported, none of these are sold any more as far as I know. So any nvidia card that is still sold should be fine.

The netgear wg311(version 1) is also good, it works with the madwifi driver. Any other card based on the atheros chipset is good; sorry, I can't name any others off the top of my head.

What does your entry for this device in /etc/fstab look like? I suspect that it should look something like this: /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 auto noauto,users 0 0 Then you should be able to mount it simply with the command: mount /dev/sda1 Another possible problem is that the mount command may be set to run only for root. To set mount to run as user type( as root): chmod +s /bin/mount chmod +s /bin/umount Then it should work as user.

From the look of this site suse 9.1 personal does not come with gcc or any ohter development tools. This gives some tips on gettting it installed, but if you read to the end you will see that he moved to Fedora core. If you plan to do a lot of installing from source that switch may be the way to go.

babbs, From the look of the FC 2 package list you already have Evolution 1.4. A new version 2.0.4 is available here although it looks like to download a precompiled version you would need a install tool from Novell. There is probably a way to get 2.0.4 from up2date, or apt, but I'm not sure, one of the FC users probably knows. Also, if you are coming over from Outlook, then evolution will probably be the most similar in use to Outlook, in my experience.

To edit your grub.conf you will need to open a terminal, get root prevliges with su, and then run a text edit to modify the files, it should go something like this: Quote: su <enter you root password> mount /boot pico /boot/grub/grub.conf <it may be /boot/grub.conf on your system> Pico is a symple text editor that comes with most distros that I have used, you might also have 'nano' which is a pico clone. to save a file type 'ctrl+o', and to exit type 'ctrl+x'. If you want to extend the time it waits at the selection screen, increase the value of 'timeout'. You have two choices to change the default boot order. With my current setup my system defaults to Gentoo Linux 2.6.10. If I wanted it to default to Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-rc4 I could change the value of default to 1, or I could move the entire listing for 2.6.11-rc4 to be above the 2.6.10 entry. Changing the default setting is probably the best option. Quote: default 0 timeout 4 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.10 root(hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10 root=/dev/hda3 gentoo=nodevfs title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-rc4 root(hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-rc4 root=/dev/hda3 gentoo=nodevfs If this doesn't work, let me know, and I'll to explain anything else I can. Also what distro are you using?

Which mouse model is it, and is it USB or ps/2. What distro are you using?

All you need to do is open a terminal, and type "su" to become root, then type "passwd" and it will prompt you for a new password.

The warning about local filesystems not mounting probably has to do with your /etc/fstab not accuratly reflecting how your hard drive is partitioned. If you could post /etc/fstab, and your hard drive layout we may be able to help find the problem. For the internet problem what type of network card are you using, and which specific kernel version are you using? One important file for you network config is /etc/conf.d/net. Could you post the contents of that file also? Once I can look at those I should have some more ideas.

That is much nicer than the printing guide, thanks for the tip.

Thats good to hear. Since it seems to be easier, how do use/get to an interface on cups with the config menu, I've only seen terminal interfaces for cups.

Since you mention emergeing I'm assuming that your running Gentoo. Have you installed foomatic, since you didn't mention it I just want to make sure you are working with The Gentoo Printing Guide. If not, then thats the place to look. If you have been working with that guide I'm not sure I can help you to much further, but I may be able to help you find what you missed with some more details.

I had a similar issue with shutdown hanging on my Gentoo box running 2.6.9, which was also fixed by upgrading to 2.6.10.

I've heard from several people who have had problems with the newer nvidia drivers related to glibc not haveing support for nptl. If you run one of your opengl apps from an xterm check to see if you get any output related being unable to load libGL.so.1. Quote: Initializing SDLGLDrv... binding libGL.so.1 appError called: Could not load OpenGL library

AndreRoux, To get root access, open a terminal and type Quote: su It sould then ask you for your root password.

After you untar the driver there sould be a README file in there. Which will have specific instructions. If I had to guess what it wants you to do is open a terminal, and enter the following commands: cd <the drivers derectory> ./configure make su <enter root password> make install That's the standard/generic way for it to go. Also what network card is this for, and what distro are you using?

Funny, It showed Gentoo as the first choice for me,it is the only thing I have running right now, and the rest are all distros I've thought about trying. 1. Gentoo Linux 2. Free BSD 3. Open BSD 4. Debian GNU/Linux 5. Yoper Linux I am amazed at the accuracy, having Arch at #2 would have been the only thing to make this closer to my expectations. robstr12, if you put that you don't want to spend a lot of time learning, or that you would prefere wizards to the command-line, that would probably cause Gentoo to fall lower on the list. If you have been thinking about FreeBSD, Gentoo is also a good distro to look at, since the basic concepts of Portage(Gentoo's package manager), are based on Ports(FreeBSD's package manager). If you have the time and desire to learn and experement it's a good choice.

I've had good luck with the netgear cards, especially on suse 9.1. I'm using a netgear wg311(g). I have an older revision that uses the madwifi driver, I think the new one, rev 2, uses prism dirvers, either way it should work. Suse 9.1 detected, and configured, mine perfectly during the install, which I should throw in, makes it simpler than setting one up on windows.

The one thing I've heard about lfs is that it really isn't good to use for your everyday system, since maintaining it is a real chore, but I have heard it's an interesting learning tool. I plan to try it at some point, I have all the source, but I just havn't gotten around to it yet. The general felling that I have gotten from others (mostly Gentoo users who've tried it) is that LFS is pretty much like gentoo without portage. It definitly looks fun to play around with though.

Dapper Dan, I found some documentation in the install guide that might help with you nic. It looks like you might just be able to emerge the e100 driver. I found at the bottum of this page, under "installing extra modules". It looks like all you need to do is: 1) emerge e100 2) add e100 to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

Wine is definitly the way to go. A place to look to improve your experience with wine is Franks Corner, which has some tips for getting certain programs to run, and some useful links.

It's good to hear that there is an easier way to install Gentoo. I might give it a try sometime. Here is a thread about the correct way to update a Gentoo system. It's an interesting read once you get a working system up. Good luck with your remaining config work. Please let me know if run into any problems.

The first thing you need to do is install X. And then you can install gnome and kde. It is probably a good idea to use the package cd so that you don't have to conpile kde (takes 12 hours on a p4). To use those packages you need to mount the and set a package directory. I'm not sure where on the cd the files are, but I think it is /mnt/cdrom/pakages. To check this you should do: Quote: ls /mnt/cdrom ls /mnt/cdrom/pakages Whichever is full of *.bz2's is the package directory. If you want to set a package directory what you need to do is: Quote: export PKGDIR="/mnt/cdrom/packages" (Otherwise) export PKGDIR="/mnt/cdrom" emerge --usepkg -a kde This should copy precompiled versions of Xorg-x11, and kde. It should only take a few minutes. Kde is now installed. Now you need to edit /etc/rc.conf, and add #XSESSION="kde-3.2.2", or whichever version of kde you have installed. You can then do startx to run kde. You can add a boot manager to boot into kde everytime, but I have not done this, and I am not sure how. If you choose not to use the packages, and just do emerge kde, then as Dapper Dan said, do it before you go to bed.

Sorry I didn't get this in the last post, the anaconda installers site says it is 2004.0. Any version above 1.4 is basicly the same at the core level since they all are built on gcc >= 3. The first thing you need to do to upgrade to 2004.3 is Quote: emerge sync Quote: emerge -uDa world The emerge -uDa world will upgrade all outdated packages. You can also just do emerge -ua world, but the -D option is supposed to imnprove stability. The second, and less important, thing you need to do to upgrade to 2004.3 is outlined here. This is just up[censored] the profile, which has only a few changes from 2004.0 -> 2004.3.