fred_the_fish

Blast... just what I didn't want to do... ahwell... in the future, do I have to make sure I don't have three panels all running on the bottom? or have I just been unlucky? or should I get around to upgrading to 2.8 instead?

I'm not using Mandrake anymore, but isn't it using xorg now instead of XF86? inwhich case edit xorg.conf instead?

I'm not really sure where to post this... anyway, I have a problem with Gnome - I deccided to be clever and move my ticker and clock apps etc to some new panels - so I have one panel with the menu icons, and some quick-start programs, a middle panel with the desktop switcher, and app-picker, and the third panel contains clock, weather, notification box and volume controller. This all worked fine until I restarted X, and tried to log-in.. Now, I keep getting the error "Panel is already in existence" or something similar. I press "OK" and it lets me into Gnome, with the desktop and desktop icons, but NONE of panels exist. I know its not actually a broken problem within Gnome, cause root can login without any problems. How do I fix this without having to delete my gnome prefences files and completly restarting the customisation of my Gnome from scratch? (this is Gnome 2.6). [moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman]

Was that Fedora 1 or 2? Core 2 is a much improved product, and I'd have thought your problems were actually related to kernel versions rather than distro - Fedora using a newer version of the kernel than Mandrake. As for printing solutions, take a look at the link I gave you, I've just had a look, and all the technical answers are there for you.. Also, the mandrake CC will still be available through Gnome, so just go into it to set-up the printer.

I use 2.8 on a Fedora2 system, so I can't answer the rpmi question, however I suggest you look at Gnome's online manuals For CD Burning, use Gnome's built in CD Creator, or KB3 For printing, I really don't know because I don't havea working printer... but I'd have thought there was a control panel tool for CUPS (though I have never looked for it..)

Am I being thick here? would it not be easiest to add a script to rc.d/rc5 to start the service, and possibly also have an entry in rc3 (so that it runs in either init 3(CLI) or init 5 (GUI)), not forgetting to put one in rc0 (and possibly rc6) to kill the service??

Indeed an intersting question. Personally, I have mine sat on the spare drive (the logic being that there is a much lower load on the drive, therefore much quicker access to the swap. Indeed, this second drive also acts as my dual-boot windows drive, so I have windows, mandrake and swap on it, and fedora, /home & /etc on my first drive. This logic only really works because they are both Matrox drives (thus 133 on the bus). If they were slower drives, I don't think there would have been much point. Therefore, I'd say if your using a fast ata connection to the drives (or indeed, if the box is new enough, sata), stick the swap on the second drive.. #blimey thats convoluted!

ti4200 --> therefore NVidia (Geforce...) Do I need to have nvidia drivers too, or will the normal glx software ones work ok?

I have an Asus Ti4200 (clocked by nice mr Asus to 46), with a tv out. I have a scart adapter on my tv. I have required cables between them. In M$ Windows, the Asus drivers will enable me to select TV out, in Linux, I don't appear to be able to? Any ideas on what I need to do? - have tried "adding" as second monitor to X11org.conf (or whatever its caleld :P), but that just crashes X (well it would wouldn't it...), and I can't see anything else obvious for how to do it.

Do you need to have NVidia drivers? Reason I ask is cause I'm running Fedora on the kernal that "disagree's" with the NVidia drivers, so I'm running in Software mode. I don't even know if the issue has been fixed, as I haven't been able to connect my machine to internet to try and update it (joys of yum! :D) and can only just get away with reading this site during work...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Indeed, we all want to copy server technology that is unique ==> Uniquely CRAP. M$ - guaranteed to crash?

At bloody last Finally, Sony start to realise....

There was a link off one of the threads a couple of months back, but I can't remember which thread I'm afraid... (it might have been originally a Newsforge article)

Financial support courtosy of SerriaColonOscar?

FX - you can kill / seg fault / sleep pids from TOP too, I just can't remember which key u need to press... so read the man :P (man top)

7 - an thats with both hands tied behind my back LOL :P Really, it was due to Open Office kicking MS Words ARSE all over the uni campus when all my year had to write our diss's...

Hi, I'm just about to order Telewest Blueyonder for me home, but before I do, I was reading the system reqs, and saw that it states "Linux will work, however there is no support or guidelines for..." Thus, before I do, is it as simple as pluging in the Cable to my usb / nic slot and setting it to DHCP?

Do you mean as in fully functioning virtual machines? - if so check out VMware - http://www.vmware.com/

Out of interest John - do you do any online transactions, internet banking, have personal / business contact via your email? If so, all of these are potentially at risk. If not, then yeh, guess it don't really matter... as long as your prepared to spend an hour rebuilding linux an then another day or so re-customising the bugger...

Ok, how would ip cop compare to coyote? Asking because I'm going home to me parents soon, and can use the old pc (AMD K6-200,64mb) as a dedicated firewall on our new ADSL line...

Oooo don't go scaring him!!! Phunni - have you found 1.5 to be faster than 1.4? On my machine, it appears about 15% faster under linux, but when run in XP is actually slower! And I don't think my uni are doing anything specific with 1.5 - think they intend to wait until it pasts testing, and that will be after my graduation.

You need to put the scripts in the relevant rc.d directories (i.e. if you want the service available at init level 3, put a script in rc3.d, and if you also want it at init level 5, a copy in rc5.d Look at the scripts already present there, and ammend your scripts to provide the functionality you need. As a guide, scripts begining with K mean kill service at this run level (i.e. Kvncserver in rd5.d means that the vnc server doesn't auto-start when in run level 5.) Scripts beginning with S mean start (i.e. Ssshd in rd3.d means auto-start the ssh deamon in run level 3.) (init 3 is the command line interface run level, init 5 is the graphic user interface run level (although both interfaces are available from both run levels, the levels are there so that if you don't want the graphics, you don't have to still have the X server loaded in memory.) # oops - should have pointed out, the rc.d directories are in /etc

Java is probably the easiest for learning OO.... well thats my opinion anyway :P It is simple and straight forward, when you have got your head around it. I don't know what books Phunni would recommend, but when I started learning it at Uni, we were recommended Ivor Horton's "Beginning Java 2" from Wrox press. I'd say its quite a good book - I learnt from it, but I don't know what the new version is like (my copy is for JDK 1.3).

Add this to your fstab: Don't forget, NO WRITE access :P

Hmm... Both worked fine for me in Fedora2, not tried yet in mandrake. Damn site faster than RealPlayer8 with the 9plugin. Very nice, fast, etc. One bug tho - the "last used" quick menu crashes.