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  1. My own Live CD

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    Ok,

     

    I'm reading all this right after I've finished with SuSE LiveEval CD (got it an hour ago with an issue of the Linux Format mag). I tried it just now on a PII 233Mhz laptop with at least 128Mb RAM (it runs WinXP quite well, so it may have 256Mb, dunno...)

     

    Well, what can I say... It's been a BIG frustration... It took about 10-15 minutes to get into KDE (at res 800x640, not 1024x768). An attempt to mount Windows harddrive failed (NTFS). YaST failed to configure the PCMCI card while booting and then it took forever for it to start another config process, needless to say I never saw end result of it as the progress bar froze on 0%. I admit I was clicking buttons back and forth quite impatiently (I like things to happen at my will, who doesn't...) and that probably confused the system a lot. Finally I gave up, waited for another maybe 20 minutes for a pause in the CD activity and shut it down. Shutdown was my only good experience.

     

    I should say congrats to Anna on the great job. The screen shots are terrific... But on the other hand, average Windows users may never get to see Anna's work. Instead, they play around those LiveEval CDs and believe me, frustration guaranteed....

  3. what PDA would you recommend?

    in Software

    Posted

    Thanks to all replied. Indeed I am hoping to get a PDA that I could sync with evo, that's a point of getting it:). What kind of (typical) problem should I expect?

     

    Let me then ask this question: is it possible to go a usual way - blow WinCE/Palm away and install a Linix distro, or even better, have a dual boot?

  4. what PDA would you recommend?

    in Software

    Posted

    I'm thinking of getting a PDA, HP iPAC and Palm Zire... I suppose there is software to synchronize a PDA with Mandrake (kpilot?). Does it work well with WinCE or Palm OS? Which OS is better supported and more stable? Do you guys have any experience with handhelds? A good advise is appreciated....

  5. how big swap partitition do I need?

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Ok, pmpatrick,

     

    from ps aux output, the hungriest apps are:

     

    1) evolution; for some reason I have 6 evolution -mail processes running, each taking 3.1% of the memory;

     

    2) mozilla firebid; 9 processes running, 7 of them take 6.6% of memory;

     

    Now, I have 512Mb of RAM, here is output of free

    $ free

    total used free shared buffers cached

    Mem: 513056 508516 4540 0 166892 89080

    -/+ buffers/cache: 252544 260512

    Swap: 923696 5424 918272

     

    So, all memory is available. 5Mb of swap are used, though I am away from my desk for nearly 12 hours....

  7. how big swap partitition do I need?

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    I'd thought so, but it's more likely that firebird and kde are misbehaving... Exiting vmware returned only 8Mb or so... by closing firebird and evo I claimed back nearly 75% of swap. I still had 85Mb of swap used. Peanuts, but... So I decided to reboot. I closed KDE, and got another 50Mb back. After rebooting, 0 swap was used until I started firebird again...opened a couple of tabs, and here we go - 2Mb of swap gone...

  11. how big swap partitition do I need?

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Nnop, msec is not running 

    # ps -x |grep msec
8610 pts/5    S      0:00 grep msec

    Well, last time I did reboot a (long) while ago... But isn't the beauty of linux that you don't have to reboot just to free memory/swap? Is there a way to free swap without rebooting?

     

    BTW, I am running VMware session right now, could that be the reason why swap is nearly full?

  14. how big swap partitition do I need?

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    I'm going to put linux on the new laptop (arrives soon). How much space should I allocate to the swap partition? I read somewhere that the rule is 2x(capacity of the RAM) but not bigger than 512Mb. The laptop will have 1Gb, so should it be 512Mb, or 2Gb?

     

    Also, I'm going to put linux alongside WinXP. The harddrive will apparently have NTFS on it. Will linux be able to write files on it, or will I have to create a dummy FAT32 partition for sharing files between linux and XP?

     

    Since I installed linux for the first time 4 years ago, Win always got the flick from me. It will be my first dualboot... Funny, isn't it?

  16. Resolv.conf problem Switching bw LAN and dialup

    in Networking

    Posted

    That's what I would do. Prepare two copies of resolv.conf, one with LAN settings, another with settings for your dial-up connection. Call them /etc/resolv.conf.lan and /etc/resolv.conf.dialup, or whatever. Then modify scripts that activate network interfaces (ppp0 for dialup and eth0 when connected to LAN) to make them override /etc/resolv.conf by copying appropriate /etc/resolv.conf.xxx to /etc/resolv.conf

  22. latex package

    in Software

    Posted

    mathabx.dcl? Strange extension... Anyway, adding packages to latex is easy. Login as root, then go to the latex directory, usually it is /usr/share/texmf. Copy the files according to their functionality, i.e., if it's a latex package then a logical choice for it is /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/packagename (create the directory packagename first, then copy files to that dir). After you've done with placing files, go back to /usr/share/texmf. You'll find the file ls-R in it. Make a backup copy of it (just in case), then run

     # ls -R > ls-R

    This will create the new ls-R file. If you now open it with a text editor, you should be able to see the new package files included in it. That's all you need to do, the package is available right away.

  23. Monitor Refresh Rate

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Where can I get XVIDTUN?  Thanks for all your help!  You guys rock!

    It's xvidtune (all lowercase). It is the part of XFree86 AFAIK. On my computer, it resides in /usr/X11R6/bin/xvidtune. Before doing anything, make sure you read the manual:

     

    [user@host currentdir] $ man xvidtune

     

    Remember the warning:

    You could try using xvidtune - but be carefull.

     

    If you break anything you own the pieces 

  24. Monitor Refresh Rate

    in Hardware

    Posted

    QUOTE (aRTee @ Jan 9 2004, 11:40 PM)

    I guess you may have to play a bit more, if win can do it, lin can do it.

     

    In my experience, with linux you get one small resolution step more at the same refresh rate, or at least the same, in linux, compared to windows.

    Also, linux often allows higher resolutions than windows, esp on somewhat older hardware. 

     

     

    Cool!!

     

    Im gonna do some tweaking 

    And don't forget to post the results here :D

  25. help please - NO VIDEO

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Did you configure X to use the external monitor? It looks like X tries to use the laptop screen. You need to tell XFree86 that you're going to use external monitor. Adding external display option to the Device section may help.

     

    Section "Device"

    Identifier "YourVideoAdaptor"

    # Option "intern_disp"

    Option "extern_disp"

    EndSection

     

    That worked for me when I was using XFree 3.x.x. Please check out this page for more details: http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Han...d_Crafting.html or google for "XF86Config"+"external monitor". This seems to be a well documented thing.

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