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I did it, if you know anybody looking for PocketPC, send them to www.brighthand.com, I'm selling my Axim in the Buy-Sell-Trade forum.

Wow, for that litle, I think I'll try and sell my Axim! I've never seen a zaurous for 200.

THanks, I'll give that a try either this evening or in a couple days.

Yeah, it was a the return error PLUS the multiple versions for me. It's all good now. I've done several warm and cold reboots and left it off when I went to bed, and it's booting witht he nvidiasplash just fine every time, PLUS, the new driver supports my GeForce4 much better than the old driver, so I have ditched the GF2. (THe default mandrake nvidia driver is HUGELY unstable with the PNY GeForce4) Anyway, it wil even make back some money, because a guy I met at http://www.knoppix.net/forum is going to buy my GF2 THanks for the help guys.

As much as I love my axim, I wouldn't have bought it if I'd known I was going to go linux. I've been running linux for about a month now and still haven't gotten synced with my axim. I definately think the sj33 is a great unit, you won't be dissapointed, though as you said, the software conduits might be worthless.

Alright, I believe it's realy fixed now.

 

The problem was that the nvidia installer wasn't uninstalling the mandrake nvidia RPM, because it had a "non-standard" name as far as the installer was concerned, so it didn't know it was there. So, right after installing, it would default to the new kernel module, but on a fresh boot or a reboot, it would get hung up on a version coflict because there were 2 nvidia kernel modules.

Okay, now I'm getting peaved! I rebooted and guess what, x refuses to start again. Same stupid error. I checked the X error log, and there was nothing in it except the parse error on line 104

Okay, I removed webmin and installed the kdepluggin. It seems like im' choosing all the right things, but it's just not happening.

 

So, now I'm begging for answers.

 

I have a Windows XP computer on the network. I want that computer to be able to acces the files in /home/ and use all the printers. The user on that computer loggs in and Halei A. Hargrove with no password. She also logs onto the mandrake bo the same way. Can somebody tell me exactly what settings I need? i want as litle security as possible under linux. I have only a couple PC's on the home netwrok and security on the Lan side just isn't an issue. Right now the workgroup name for both is set to HOME. THe laptops name is ULLYSES

I'll tryt he ksambaplugin

Glitz, I tried your sugested corrections, didn't help.

 

Ix, I did what you said and I got Parse error on line 104 of XF86Config-4

I checked and that is the last line, just says EndSection or whatever. But I noticed there was no line break after it. I just added a return at the end of the file and it's all fine now. Not sure why that should make a difference, but it's all good now, and glxgear gives numbers throught the roof.

 

Thanks to both of you.

I'm sure this is descussed, but searching for nvidia yealds so many hits that it's impossible to filter.

 

 

I have an nvidia card and when I installed mdk9.0, it installed an older nvidia driver with 2d accelleration. At boot, I would get the nvidia splash screen whe x loaded. I decided to install the latest nvidia driver from nvidia's website using their single file auto installer.

 

I rebooted in failsafe without X running, cd'd to the directory with the .run , ./NVIDIA.......4363.run and the install seemed to go fine.

 

I rebooted, and I was using the old non-accelerated "nv" driver. I checked my XF86Config-4 and sure enough it had reset to 'nv'

 

I changed it to nvidia and check the module section to make sure it said glx and NOT dri or Glcore, and rebooted, x refused to load. The only thing I could do was vi my XF86Config-4 back to 'nv'

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

 

Here is my XF86:

 

 

# File generated by XFdrake.

 

# **********************************************************************

# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of

# this file.

# **********************************************************************

 

Section "Files"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)

# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of

# the X server to render fonts.

FontPath "unix/:-1"

EndSection

 

Section "ServerFlags"

#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)

AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work

#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)

EndSection

 

Section "Module"

Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension

Load "v4l" # Video for Linux

Load "extmod"

Load "type1"

Load "freetype"

Load "glx" # 3D layer

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard1"

Driver "Keyboard"

Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

Option "XkbLayout" "us"

Option "XkbOptions" ""

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"

Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection

 

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "monitor1"

VendorName "Plug'n Play"

HorizSync 30-70

VertRefresh 50-120

 

# Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)?

# 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync

ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync

 

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.

# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync

ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630

 

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync

ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616

EndSection

 

Section "Device"

Identifier "device1"

VendorName "nVidia Corporation"

BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic)"

Driver "nv"

Option "DPMS"

EndSection

 

Section "Screen"

Identifier "screen1"

Device "device1"

Monitor "monitor1"

DefaultColorDepth 24

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 8

Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 15

Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 16

Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 24

Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

EndSubsection

EndSection

 

Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "layout1"

InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

Screen "screen1"

EndSection

 

 

 

 

 

Other than changing 'nv' to 'nvidia' what needs to change so I can boot with the accelerated driver?

nice link.

I'm running mdk9.0, I had heard to many people having problems with 9.1, so when I bought a boxed set, I went back a release and got 9.0, it's been very stable for me. I tried webmin, the problem is that while it's a litle faster than editing samba.conf manualy, it doesn't require any less knowledge. I will check out swat.

thanks for the sugestion, I'll elt you know how it works for me.

is there a "dummy configurator" for samba, something the network inept like me can use to add priners and shares?

You can only post polls in certain sections of the forum.

 

I use KDE, I kow other's are faster, but I find kde to be the most visualy apealing and user friendly. Of course, that is entirely a matter of preference. THe is one add-on I'd like to find, though i don't know exactly what it is. When I was using knoppix, I could right-click a windows exacutable and in the context menuy that poped up, there woulld be a "wine" option, so you could run windows apps in wine without opening a console or writing a script. I realize that niether of those options are hard, but it was a nice extra.

 

As for the 1600x1200, why so high? I use 1024x768 and find that many web-sites are unviewable without zooming the text to 125% or even 150% How do you get around this at that resolution? Do you have a 22" moniter?

 

Also, where do you get your themes? I've found VERY FEW themes for kde3.

I won't ask you to explain setting up my printer as a samba share as I'm sure it is well discussed elsewhere, but I'd appreciate it if you'd point me in the right direction.

Right now I'm using a Dell Axim advanced as my handheld. It's got a 16bit transflective display, a 1400mAh battery, 64MB of memory, a SD slot, a CF slot and it only costs $300.00

 

Sadly, the software to sync it with linux is still in beta, but it "works" sort of.

If you're short on time and want to try debian, try knoppix. http://www.knoppix.org and the forums at http://www.knoppix.net

 

It runs live from CD and you can do a harddrive install by executing knx-hdinstall

 

You can a have a fully running and configured debin OS on your harddrive in less than 20 minutes.

 

And I love apt-get.

I was under the impression the zaurous could only be synced with windows or Mac, but not linux. (Yes I know how dumb that is).

 

ANyway, has this changed?

Mygirlfriend has a clie SJ30 and I find that I can use J-pilot fine. NO configurtion needed, it was all pnlug n' play. I don't realy know much about the office software as I have a Pocket PC not a palm, and we don't have any memory sticks, but, if there's something specific you'd like me to try, I'm sure I could borrow my girlfriend's clie to trie, that is, except the memory stick.

Okay, that REALY pisses me off. It's bad enough that they are doing this at all, especial considering how ludicrous it is, But to start sending out letters to comercial linux users trying to suggest that linux is designed by a bunch of criminals and is less secure than other systems is just dirty. Th people at the top who will get these letters are idiots that may actualy believe this crap. I want somebody to find the head of SCO and kick him in the nuts.

port 631 is definately open, because I can put the address you gave me into the web browser n the windows box and log into my CUPS server. Ho do I get from there to printing?

Let me give some more info.

 

I hae enabled port 631 on my router and in etc/shorewall/rules

I have restarted shorewall, no errors

 

The computer I want to set-up for printer over the network is a windows box. When I open the dialog to setup a network printer, I am asked for a URL: I put in 192.168.1.1:631 and hit next. An error box poped-up saying "Windows cannot connect to the printer. Either the printer name was typed incorrectly, or the specified has lost it's connection to the server. For more infor, click help"

 

I also tried http://192.168.1.1:631 made no differnce

 

 

Does it make any differenc that it's a USB printer? perhaps 631 is the wrong port?

I don't know if that's what I'm looking for or not. I'll give it a try and let you know.