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  1. I'm not sure if many of you have ever heard the desktop manager E17, but for those of you who are new to the linux community and are acquainted with KDE or Gnome only, I would definitely recommend looking into this DM.

     

    The developers of E17 have released a new liveCD (Elive), which comes with two window managers: E16 (stable version) and E17. This new liveCD gives you the chance to test this window manager and the option to install it to your hard drive if you'd desire so.

     

    Here's a Review that I found on Elive, which also includes screenshots of E17.

     

     


  2. BT Voyager 205 ADSL Router? <----You mean BT Voyager 205 ADSL MODEM, right?

     

    Well, I just checked the web and I think you might be right. It is a router. I'm not so much familiar with that brand, but it shouldn't matter.

     

    How's you network setup?

    Internet (dsl/cable) -> Cable/dsl modem -> Router -> Computer?

     

    If it's setup as the last line above, then are you dual booting? Meaning that if you booting windows and Linux in the same box.

     

    If you are dual booting, and since some routers are made to be configured with windows, then I would boot your computer under windows first and reconfigure it from there. Once configured then the router doesn't care what operating system you are using and it will give internet access to as many as it can support.

     

    However, if you're doing this with Linux because it is your only choice then there are different apps that you could also use to configure your router under linux.

     

    I haven't configured a router under linux in a while, but I know you can also do it through telnet if your router supports telnet.

    You would open a terminal window (konsole, eterm, etc.) and telnet to 192.168.1.1 (usually, which is your router). Once there you would give enter the information for your ISP's DNS, IP's, etc.

     

    Here check out this link for more info.


  3. Do you have a liveCD for it?

     

    If so boot it up and see if you get the resolution you feel happy with. If so, then you can probably paste the XF86Config-4 file onto your current partition that has your current Linux running (/etc/x11/xf86config-4)

     

    If this doesn't work, you have tell your distro the kind of monitor that you are using. I'm not sure if Debian has it in its OS control center, where you tell it the brand of monitor with its right vertical and horizontal frequencies, but if there's way that you know, than that's what you have to do. Otherwise, open up your XF86config-4 and XF86Config-4.in files with root priveleges and scroll down to the monitor and screen section and make sure your monitor is listed there with its right horizontal and vertical frequency ranges as well the resolutions supported by your monitor.

     

    You already looked in the KDE control center right? Under peripherals ->display and see if you are able to select the different resoltions.

     

    You could also tried a program called xvidtune. Type it up on the konsole and if you are sure don't have it, then install through apt-get. Xvidtune lets you configure your monitor through a gui.


  4. You should've initially said to install Grub to the MBR, but that's OK. Don't worry it's just a matter of telling grub where windows is and adding it to the grub file.

     

    Could you post your grub file. I was using FC3 last year and I think I was using Lilo, but when you open up the grub file, you'll see there that FC3 option is listed there with its approprite kernel number, so you have to add windows there. I can't remember the exact lines, but let's first start with how your Grub looks like right now.

     

    Edited:

     

    Ok, It should look something like this:

     

    title Windoz

    rootnoverify (hd1,0)

    chainloader +1

     

    <hd1> is the partion where your Windows is installed, so make sure you put the correct one in there.

     

    Read This thread for more info on a similar problem with Fedora and Grub.


  5. All I can say is that the Web Admin sucks! "When FF becomes more popular!" What a joke...it is already popular. I think he's just lazy.

     

    Did also tried it with Opera?

     

    My suggestion is to use wine-tools to install IE. I think there's a script flying around on the net that will let you install IE for you (look for wine-tools or utilies, something like that).

     

    You can always use crossover x, or even Win4Lin who give you a free 30 trial, other than that you're going to have to keep spamming the web admin begging him/her for compatibilty with FF and eventually s/he will feel the pressure. Since it is a school go up the chain of command, meaning to talk with whoever is in charge of the web admin and if they do not complied with your request you can always write a column in their school newspaper (if they have one). That will put them on the spot, and you can explain why many people are so paranoid to use IE...well, good luck with the drama, and I love to hear what happened in the end...remember that there's a webolution out there!


  6. Can't you also add yourself to the Sudoers list in /etc/sudoers and add the following line at the end (and of course you have to edit this file as root):

     

    <username> ALL=NOPASSWD

     

    This way it won't ever ask you for the root password again, but I think you can also do it for that specific folder or file as well if you are worried about your security:

     

    <username> ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/share/wallpapers/


  7. Kmail and Thunderbird should both display inline graphics in your email if sent as attachment.

     

    I use Mepis and Thunderbird and never had this problem.

    -Have you made sure Thunderbird is upgraded to the latest version?

    -How are you forwarding your emails or messages, as atachments or inline?

    -How about sending messages as plain text or html, try send as plain and html at the same time.

     

     

    Have you tried evolution? This email client is similar to outlook, but I'm sure tht the problem that youre having has to do with something with your settings to be able to display graphics in your emails. Maybe it is blocking the images by default.


  8. You know this is very odd.

     

    Is your PCs power unit one of those that it is supposed to interact with the OS. That can't be it. Power units jut provide power and that's about it. I'm puzzled to what could trigger your PC go into stand by mode.

     

    What do you think Danleff? Hopefully the other guys in here will come up with a better solution for you.


  9. You can now test the Linux operating system and desktop environment. It's as easy as ABC.

     

    Simply click on "Start Linux". In a separate window, a complete Linux system will start on your PC, without requiring an installation.

     

    Read more here.

     

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    Personally I haven't succeeded at testing it out, but apperantly anyone can.


  10. So for what I understand, ever since you changed your PCs power supply you've been having this problem.

     

    Are you still having the same problem after booting with the older version on knoppix liveCD?

     

    What other liveCDs have you tried?...just curious, but it is odd that your monitor will go into stand by mode after a few minutes since the monitor is plugged into a power surge, or a UPS, or a regular outlet to simply get its electrical power, and plugged into the video card of your computer to receive signals to project images from your PC. The power supply on your PC is simply providing power to your Hard drives, motherboard, cpu, cd-roms, etc. inside your PC. I have a hunch that's telling me that this doesn't have to do with your PC's power unit. The only scenario that I can think of me dealing with power units is when I would have to many pieces of hardware connect to it and one of the hardrives would go offline because of over heating, but then again you said this doesn't happen when you PC is running under windows, right?


  11. Did you already go through the kde control center and disabled any power saving mode. Peripherals -> Display -> Power Control.

     

    You already went through the cheat codes that you can execute at booting under knoppix.

     

    I would suggest booting up your PC with the Knoppix liveCD and see if this problem still happens with the liveCD running. If it doesn't happen, then you could try replacing your current XF86Config-4 with the one that the liveCD provides. This file is on /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. It will be located on the hardrive where your current knoppix installation is, and also in the temp drive of the knoppix liveCD, so bring the one from the temp drive (liveCD) onto your knoppix hardrive. It is worth the tried.

     

    Also, try opening up your current XF86Config-4 file and make sure the right monitor with its appropriate model, horizontal sync, and vertical sync are listed there. It might be that you need to tell knoppix the right monitor name, model, and its settings for it to work properly.

     

    There's also another program called "xvidtune" which you might be able to use and tune up your monitor.

     

    Don't give up. I'm sure it can be fixed. If knoppix is working perfecly fine, then it's just a matter a figuring out your video card. My answer may not be the best...but I hope some else in here will give the right answer.

     

    Good luck and hang in there! and keep this thread going if you still having problems. I'm sure someone else will respond.


  12. Hay Karamba! What's your budget like? You know what they say...the higher the numbers that you see on the add for the computer, the better it is, except of course for the price. You coult try building your own system. Get yourself a good motherboard with agp, modern cpu, good amount of ram and a high storage for your hard disk and you'll be on business (and don't forget video andn network cards). This way you don't have worry about buying the box and the OS (xp) at the same time...just a suggestion. I would research on the parts that you will buy of course. This way you will have fun putting your box together and you will become confident that if you can put the box together than you can also break it and remake it, well you'll know what's going on, plus you might save yourselve a couple of hundred bucks which you could use to buy a modern printer...just my suggestion.


  13. I haven't used Mandrake since last year, or since 10.0 official, but you may be able to do the following, well see if you can with Mandrake because with my distro this how I do it:

     

    -Go to KDE Control Center -> Desktop -> Behavior -> Device Icons tab.

    -Uncheck the devices that you don't want to show on your desktop or the ones that have the long names and are annoying, for example mounted hard disk, etc. and then hit apply (of course)

    -Next, create your own devices with the exact names you want to give them by right clicking on your desktop and select create new -> Device -> Hard disk device (for example), give it any name for this device, and then click on the device tab and select the right device from the given list (this also where you can change the icon for mounted and unmounted device, both on the device tab and general tab)

     

    Hope this helps a little.

     

    -I think you can also change on Mandriva the name of devices through the fstab, (/etc/fstab) and of course you have to do it as root. You'll see lines such as /dev/hda1/ /mnt/partition1.

    Something like that, so you would change it to /mnt/Hard drive and of course you have to create a folder named Hard drive in the /mnt folder.


  14. Actuall here's the error that I get if I run as a regular user the ./codsp script from loki:

     

    COD 1.0 build win-x86 Oct 5 2003

    ----- FS_Startup -----

    Current language: english

    Current search path:

    Z:\home\enrique\cod\main\pakb.pk3 (60 files)

    Z:\home\enrique\cod\main\paka.pk3 (41 files)

    Z:\home\enrique\cod\main\pak9.pk3 (149 files)

    Z:\home\enrique\cod\main\pak8.pk3 (235 files)

    Z:\home\enrique\cod\main\pak6.pk3 (3 files)

    Z:\home\enrique\cod\main\pak5.pk3 (4858 files)

    Z:\home\enrique\cod\main\pak4.pk3 (1668 files)

    Z:\home\enrique\cod\main\pak3.pk3 (1992 files)

    Z:\home\enrique\cod\main\pak2.pk3 (694 files)

    Z:\home\enrique\cod\main\pak1.pk3 (2642 files)

    Z:\home\enrique\cod\main\pak0.pk3 (12816 files)

    Z:\home\enrique\cod/main

    Z:\home\enrique\cod\main\localized_english_pak5.pk3 (46 files)

    localized assets pak file for english

    Z:\home\enrique\cod\main\localized_english_pak3.pk3 (7 files)

    localized assets pak file for english

    Z:\home\enrique\cod\main\localized_english_pak2.pk3 (9 files)

    localized assets pak file for english

    Z:\home\enrique\cod\main\localized_english_pak1.pk3 (3736 files)

    localized assets pak file for english

    Z:\home\enrique\cod\main\localized_english_pak0.pk3 (1204 files)

    localized assets pak file for english

     

    File Handles:

    ----------------------

    30160 files in pk3 files

    execing default.cfg

    couldn't exec language.cfg

    couldn't exec config.cfg

    couldn't exec autoexec.cfg

    ========= autoconfigure

    configure.csv: using configuration 2000 cpu MHz 512 sys MB 64 vid MB

    execing configure.cfg

    fs_basepath is write protected.

    fs_homepath is write protected.

    Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok

    ...detecting CPU, found Intel Pentium III

    Measured CPU speed is 2.41 GHz

    System memory is 750 MB (capped at 1 GB)

    Video card memory is 64 MB

    Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) supported

     

    ----- Client Initialization -----

    ----- Initializing Renderer ----

    -------------------------------

    ----- Client Initialization Complete -----

    ----- R_Init -----

    Initializing OpenGL subsystem

    ...initializing QGL

    ...calling LoadLibrary( 'C:\Windows\System\opengl32.dll' ): succeeded

    ...setting mode 4: 800 600 FS

    ...using colorbits of 32

    ...calling CDS: ok

    ...registered window class

    ...created window@0,0 (800x600)

    Initializing OpenGL driver

    ...getting DC: succeeded

    ...GLW_ChoosePFD( 32, 24, 8 )

    ...7 PFDs found

    ...MCD acceleration found

    ...PIXELFORMAT 1 selected

    ...creating GL context: succeeded

    ...making context current: succeeded

    video card cannot set mode 800x600 because GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE is only 512

    ...restoring display settings

    ...WARNING: could not set the given mode (4)

    ...shutting down QGL

    ...unloading OpenGL DLL

    Forcing 640x480 resolution to allow OpenGL to run in fullscreen

    ...initializing QGL

    ...calling LoadLibrary( 'C:\Windows\System\opengl32.dll' ): succeeded

    ...setting mode 3: 640 480 FS

    ...using colorbits of 32

    ...calling CDS: ok

    ...created window@0,0 (640x480)

    Initializing OpenGL driver

    ...getting DC: succeeded

    ...GLW_ChoosePFD( 32, 24, 8 )

    ...7 PFDs found

    ...MCD acceleration found

    ...PIXELFORMAT 1 selected

    ...creating GL context: succeeded

    ...making context current: succeeded

    video card cannot set mode 640x480 because GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE is only 512

    ...restoring display settings

    ...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3)

    ...shutting down QGL

    ...unloading OpenGL DLL

    ----- CL_Shutdown -----

    RE_Shutdown( 1 )

    -----------------------

    Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok

    Could not load OpenGL. Make sure that you have the latest drivers for your video card from the manufacturer's web site.

     

     

    If try to run with wine the file that you sent me I get this error "couldn't load default.cfg. Make sure Call of Duty is run from the correct folder." The loki installer placed C.O.D. on my home folder in folder named cod, so this is where I placed the cdosp.exe that you sent me since this is where I see the original one, and of course I rename the previous one to codsp_tmp.exe to make sure that your file is the correct one. The scripts from loki, codsp.sh are outside the cod folder, so right on my home folder.

     

    If I run it as root, I still get the message that I have the wron windows version.


  15. OldSpiceAP,

     

    I think glxgears seems to run just fine. Here's the output:

     

    $ glxgears

    1863 frames in 5.0 seconds = 372.600 FPS

    2330 frames in 5.0 seconds = 466.000 FPS

    2329 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.800 FPS

    2325 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.000 FPS

    2331 frames in 5.0 seconds = 466.200 FPS

    2329 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.800 FPS

    2330 frames in 5.0 seconds = 466.000 FPS

    2331 frames in 5.0 seconds = 466.200 FPS

    2330 frames in 5.0 seconds = 466.000 FPS

    2329 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.800 FPS

    2331 frames in 5.0 seconds = 466.200 FPS

    2330 frames in 5.0 seconds = 466.000 FPS

    2330 frames in 5.0 seconds = 466.000 FPS

    2331 frames in 5.0 seconds = 466.200 FPS

    2330 frames in 5.0 seconds = 466.000 FPS

    2252 frames in 5.0 seconds = 450.400 FPS

    2323 frames in 5.0 seconds = 464.600 FPS

    2323 frames in 5.0 seconds = 464.600 FPS

    2330 frames in 5.0 seconds = 466.000 FPS

    2321 frames in 5.0 seconds = 464.200 FPS

     

    And here's the output as root:

     

    # glxgears

    2058 frames in 5.0 seconds = 411.600 FPS

    2328 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.600 FPS

    2327 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.400 FPS

    2326 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.200 FPS

    2323 frames in 5.0 seconds = 464.600 FPS

    2328 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.600 FPS

    2326 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.200 FPS

    2329 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.800 FPS

    2330 frames in 5.0 seconds = 466.000 FPS

    2327 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.400 FPS

    2327 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.400 FPS

    2330 frames in 5.0 seconds = 466.000 FPS

    2326 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.200 FPS

    2328 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.600 FPS

    2328 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.600 FPS

    2328 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.600 FPS

    2327 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.400 FPS

    2294 frames in 5.0 seconds = 458.800 FPS

     

    -----------------------------------------------------

     

    iamroot,

     

    Thanks for the file, but I still couldn't run C.O.D. It gave me the same errors.

     

     

     


  16. Hu, I see. I'm guessing you are trying to use samba to access a windows 2003 server, right? If this correct, then this requires a different deal or way to access your shares through Samba for win2003/XP.

     

    I found these links helpful. I think you can pull out some info:

    http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.p...mp;#entry534086

    Also check out this

    http://asia.cnet.com/enterprise/netadmin/0,39035505,39081966-39000223c-1,00.htm

    and finally

    http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SambaDomainMember

     

    I hope that helps a little. Let us know how it went.

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