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I'd try adding vga=0x318 to the kernel arguments in grub. Probably try it at boot time first rather than straight into the config file. It should make Linux boot in 1024x768. Hope this helps,

I've not actually used it myself but I've heard good things about screem, anyone tried it? Oh, did I mention emacs can be good for this type of thing?

You're right, the itanium 2 we have does have both a PCI and a PCI-X bus - the 512MB is a total figure. I assumed that the amount of memory allocated was probably a kernel tuneable percentage and when I get time I might fiddle with it. In fact seeing as though we don't actually use any PCI cards I guess I could try removing it all together and hope nothing breaks.... :P

I've never actually been able to allocate more than 2GB to any specific process on a 32-bit machine - I guess thats as big as a single memory register can go. Theres a neat trick that if you actually have more ram (say the 8GB on the itanium 2 we have here) you can find that Linux assigns 512MB just to the PCI bus - strange. Oh, and don't use swap if you can possibly help it - thats why more RAM = good!!

DragonMage: It's just a simple rpm removal to remove the nvidia/libgl bug # rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-Mesa-libGL (you'll probably need to restart X afterwards). To compile the nvidia drivers, starting from the current download from nvidia, do # CC="gcc32" sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run --add-this-kernel wait a while # CC="gcc32" sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2-custom.run then edit your XF86config as necessary. Hope this helps,

Right, with you now. Could you let me know which bootloader you're using (redhat defualt is grub) and what resolution you'd like your monitor in (say 1024 x 768). It might be handy if you could post your bootloader config too (by default for grub it's /boot/grub/menu.lst).

>It seems to come with codecs for .ogg .wav and .mp3 without any additionl packages. >Not sure about cli though. Unless grip has changed a lot since I last used it, it is basically a graphical front end for several cli rippers and encoders - hence it doesn't need a cli interface.

Hi all, I need to encode and play AAC format music files within Linux, can anyone reccomend some good software - preferably with GUI ripping..... I've heard that faac is able to do this, anyone any experience - good settings etc?

I'm sorry but there is no redhat 9.2, theres redhat 9 which I guess is what you mean? Which splash screen are you refering to?

Removing the libgl is a right pain, I can't believe this wasn't encountered in the beta test phase, especially as the dri error occurs with the OS nv drivers too.

Well, Sony is a little Linux friendly. I suppose we can hope......

>But fedora will not have (AFAIK) the posibility to migrate from one version to > another, you will have to wipe the install and re-config, re-place your data, etc. > And they won't support versions "older" than 2 releases back. This hasn't yet been decided upon by the fedora team, there is the function in up2date to upgrade the distro and they will probably still include the upgrade option at install time. They will support older releases of both fedora and redhat thats out of support via fedora-legacy. I think community distros such as fedora and debian are certainly the way forward for the enthuisast.

I've been running it since the seventh and I think it's great. It detected and configured everything in my laptop except the winmodem. Bluecurve looks great (matter of opinion that though) and the inclusion of yum was long overdue but much appreciated. Problems I have is that the intel compilers are still broken with glibc thats shipped (not exactly fedoras fault) and the nvidia drivers can be difficult to get going for a newbie. It's an improvement over RH9 and I like the community aspect of it, overall a good distro that I'd reccommend to beginners and experts alike (although with a few other distros). BTW, whilst most of the packages are i386 optimised, several packages are i686 versions and the install decided I should be running an i686 kernel (which includes a backport of the nptl).

Seeing as though I have a pretty good knowledge of HTML and emacs nicely highlights all my code for me I guess they won't offer me too much then...

Moving a little offtopic but I was wondering what benefits there are in using a HTML editor such as bluefish over emacs/vi/other text editor?

>>Did you validate the CSS for the page too? >there's is no css for the site. Hopefully that'll change. Actually there is, the background colour and background image are both set in CSS - I think that this is whats causing the problem.

Did you validate the CSS for the page too? Any idea what browser the page is failing on (probably a version of IE on mac)? For a quick fix I'd suggest removing the body style section and replacing it with a good old html set of tags. In the long term the entire page (and/or site) should be migrated to a CSS setup - it'll look better and be easier to maintain. To produce a jpeg from a gif I'd probably just use the convert tool, part of ImageMagick.

I'm not sure if it'll do exaclty what you want, but have you looked at the command line tool split?

>BTW doesn't the rpm's at the gaim sourceforge site work on Mandrake 9.2 distro's ? >Do they have to be re-build for mandrake 9.2 if it was build only for 9.1 ? Whilst rpms can be compatible between point releases, this isn't always the case!! It's best to use an rpm compiled for your distro (or your machine if you're really paranoid )

And the box you're using can reach your website normally, eg pinging it or using a different web browser??

Up2date will still exist, in fact there will be several different RPM groups on the servers - fedora core and then a series of other types (such as free contributions etc), reminds me a lot of Debian. RH are going to take the best bits from fedora and base their enterprise product on it.

Sorry if I've just not picked it up from earlier posts but how do you connect to the web? I've got shorewall to work by downloading the sample scripts from their website and changed the default ethernet connection to the address of my modem.

First things first, are you sure the remote host is/was up?

You might have trouble burning CD's under the new kernel, I think you need a new version of CD record - which dooesn't need the SCSI support. Not sure if this will break the burning under a old kernel or not.

>The problem might be of a lack of a single player campaign/story; More of an online game then?? Maybe I won't bother downloading it then....