Dapper Dan

I've used Epiphany, Mozilla, Konqueror, Galeon, Firefox, Opera, Phoenix, Firebird, Lynx, Links, Links-Graphics and a few others I can't remember right now. I've been using Firefox for several months, and it is the perfect browser in so many ways for me except one: It often crashes and disappears when I'm trying to post. Last night I spent a good deal of time creating this post with links and all, and when I went to post, it vanished right before my eyes. I had to start all over again... For the time being, I've decided to go back to my old standby Galeon, which also offers tabbed browsing and, in my estimation, is every bit as quick as Firefox. This disappearing act with Firefox while posting has also happened with me under Fedora Core 1 and 2, Morphix-Gnome 4.1 and Suse 9.1 professional. Has anyone else had this happen to them?

Originally posted by clutch: Quote: Anything sound familiar? Well, I am using Nvidia. It's a Gforce MX4000 Plus 128 MB AGP. When I was having the problems before I was using a Geforce4 Ti 4200 SE 128 MB AGP...

It's baaaack!!! The same problem I described earlier in this thread has re-occured in exactly the same manner under Slack 10. I'm running version 1.0.

Maybe this will help: I recently installed "guarddog" on my Slackware 10 machine and, after reading the man pages, setting it up was effortless, and it's working well. You can pick for RH 9 here...

Originally posted by chambiz: Quote: ...there is a player with my distro but believe me is completely different from winamp.it s called music player... Did you type: xmms from the command line and press enter? Did Xmms come up? It was included in FC1&2. It the folks at Fedora have stopped including Xmms as of version 3, then they're just downright nuts! Even if it's not, it would be simple to install it if you want to use it.

If your other machines are also Linux boxes, ssh is the best and most secure way to transfer files, especially if any of your network is wireless. If nothing is wireless, then ftp will be ok also. We have a closed network at my radio station and swap files using krusader, a front end for ftp that allows for dragging and dropping files between machines. If you need to swap files between your FC3 box and Windows machines, I'll have to defer to others as I know very little more than you about how to set up a Samba network. I hope this helps.

Open Nautilus, and under preferences there is a place in there where you can "show hidden files" just like in Windows. Find that and enable it. Then you'll notice a bunch of files in your home directory that start with a period. Your wine folder will be one of them. It will be .wine. In there you will see something like "c_drive, then "fake windows," then, "Program files" or some such. Look for the ".exe" that starts your program there. Let's say the name of the .exe is winamp.exe. Right click on it, and "wine" should be a choice for you to open it with. Why would you want to run Winamp under Linux using wine, when there is a kick-ass player already included with your distro called xmms? Xmms looks almost exactly like winamp, and with the mp3 plugins, it sounds terrific. Look for it under "Mulitmedia" in you menu. It won't be called xmms though. I think Fedora calls it "media player" or something odd like that. Or, from the command line, type in: xmms And enter.

If I may make a suggestion, (and others who've been here a while will say I sound like a broken record;)), I'd go with an external modem. You'll get better performance and reliability, and most of them are pretty much, "plug and play." The Actiontec 56k serial modem has always worked flawlessly for me. From just my personal experience, I'd steer clear of any external modem with a USB interface.

Hey, no problem Andy. You're in new territory here so it's all gonna be unfamiliar to you for a while. You can open up all your programs from the command line as long as you know it's command. Let's see if you have kppp installed. open a terminal, any will do, and type: kppp And press enter. Anything there? If not, it should be a simple matter to install it. Just open your redhat package manager and look for kppp. I believe it's in the kde section. Just for fun, let's see if you have wvdial installed. Also from the command line, become root. You do that by typing: su And preseeing enter. It will ask for your root password. Enter that and press enter. Notice that the '$' sign is now a '#' sign. This means you are now Super User. Type: wvdial And press enter. Is it there?

Hi Justbill and welcome to Linuxcompatible. It appears as though you are in extremely capable hands, but I wanted to drop by and offer a little encouragement. You're right. This is new and hard, but think of it this way. Windows was also hard when you first were having to learn it too. Stick with it, and pretty soon, things will start coming together and it will make sense. Have patience and be determined to learn a little more today than you learned yesterday and pretty soon you'll have it cold. Trust me when I tell you this: If I can learn Linux, anyone can. Hang in there...

ReFoRMaT you've gotten by with saying things on this forum that wouldn't be tolerated on other forums. Go over to Linuxquestions or Linuxforums or the Fedora forum and see how far they'll let you go insulting others. The problem is not with what you say, it's with how you say it. Unfortunately, you expect everone here to read your rants without objection, yet when someone disagrees with you or offers advice in a respectful and diplomatic manner you fly off the handle and start shouting and insulting them in return. No one here is picking on you. You are simply expected to be courteous toward others just as everyone else is. Have you noticed anyone else here ranting and raving the way you do? I haven't. It's not hard to be civil toward others when responding, it just takes practice. You make intersting observations about the different distros and Linux in general, and I for one enjoy reading what you have to say when you're not shouting. If you can't respond to other forum members in a more respectful way then maybe it IS best that you move on. I for one would prefer you stay if you can moderate your responses, but that is a decision you alone can make.

ReFoRMaT you need to calm down. This thread is not your little corner of the universe to rant and rave. BSchindler disagrees with you and has done so in diplomatic way. Please respond to such posts in a like manner from now on.

Ranish is for Windows right? I'm not familiar with Ranish, so I couldn't advise you on whether or not it is as good as PM or not. You should have something similar to this in your /boot/grub/grub.conf below the grub entry for Fedora... Code: title Windows at hda1rootnoverify (hd0,0)chainloader +1savedefault With grub, hda1 becomes,(hd0,0) and hda2 would be (hd0,1) and so on. That *should* get you into windows and should get written when installing grub during the Fedora install.

Different distros use different package management. As a quick reference, Redhat, Mandrake and SuSE use the ".rpm." Slackware, and Gentoo use source packages that end it ".tgz." Debian distros use Debian packages which end in, (what else) ".deb" So, if you were looking for a certain app or program, you'd want to Google for it or go somehwere like rpmfind.net to look for it, if it isn't already in your RedHat 9 package tree. Package management will be in your menu. Sometimes you'll wan to run an app that you simply can't find as an .rpm. In such cases, the package may end in .tgz, .gz, .bz etc. these packages must be compiled. Think of RPM's as a cake you buy at the store, and source packages as the ingredients or directions for a cake you make or compile yourself. To install an .rpm, open a terminal and become root. If the package you want to install is in your home directory, you'd go... rpm -ivh nameofpackage-i386.rpm And press enter. Source packages are a little more difficult. You first must "unzip" them before compiling them. Since you have Redhat 9, I highly recommend that you use apt-get RPM. Based on the Debian model of package management, apt-get RPM fetches the correct .rpm for you, figures out and solves the dependencies,(in most cases), and installs them all in just a few short and automatic steps. Is any of this helping or did you need to know something else entirely different than what I'm assuming you are wanting to know?

You'll want to use either kppp or wvdial to set up and dial your iInternet connection. Just go with kppp, it will be in your menu. You'll have to configure it which is pretty easy. Have a look at it, and if you need help let us know.

I'm kind of in the dark here. Tell me about Net Zero. They are an ISP, but are they providing you with this 56k external modem? Is the software they have provided you with, to access their services once a conection is made, or is the software for the modem itself? Likely it's for accessing their services. Can you tell us the make and model of your external modem? The way to configure it is through either kppp ot wvdial. kppp should be in your Internet section of your menu. Configuring an Internet connection with it is pretty easy. Wvdial is a command line utility, but in my opinion is more user friendly once you get it setup, which isn't very hard.

SuSE can do it all almost automatically. The good thing about SuSE is, it presents everything out for you to look over BEFORE you pull the trigger on the changes. So even if you tell it to do the partitioning automatically, you'll still have the chance of rejecting it if something doesn't look right before proceeding In my opinion, it's better to partition from Windows if at all possible, but if you can't, the partitioning utility in SuSE should be able to do it for you in a satisfactory manner.

Hi kevorocker and welcome! We'll get you through it. Before doing anything, there are three things you must do: 1. Back up all of your valuable Windows files. 2. Make sure you have made and tested a floppy disk that will get you in to Windows 98. 3. Thoroughly defrag Windows before attempting any partitioning. Once those are out of the way, be prepared to screw something up. Try not to of course, but don't be surprised if it happens. The best way to prepare your partitions is with Partition Magic if you can get a copy. It's the best partitioning utility I've found. If using Partition Magic, or another Windows partitioning utility: 1. resize Windows. I'd give it the first half of the hard drive. 2. create Linux partitions. I would use a /, a swap, and a /home partition in this type configuration... / swap /home / and /home should be about equal in size, with your swap about three times the size of your RAM. PM will only allow you to format your / and /home partitions in either ext2 or ext3. Go with ext3. If you can't partition in Windows, then you'll have to do it from SuSE. Once your partitions are set up the way you want them you can then begin the SuSE install. Take your time with it. it's pretty easy to understand, but make sure you have everything right before proceeding. In the partitioning utility of SuSE, go ahead an re-format your / and the /home partition with RieserFS. So, when your done, it should look something like this in SuSE... hda1 - Windows do not format hda* - / format with ReiserFS hda* - swap hda* - /home format with ReiserFS. Then proceed with the install. If you have any other questions, post them here and one of us will help.

This sounds like the old XP-next-to-Windows booting problem. You created your Fedora partitions with the Fedora partitioning utility? There is a mismatch between how Windows and Fedora sees the partitions. To do it right, I'd create your Fedora partitions with a Windows partitioning utility. If you don't have it, Partition Magic is invaluable. As much as I detest Windows, I even installed XP back on hda1 just so I could use PM Magic! Anyway, this problem will go away if you use PM to create your Fedora partitions. I'd create a 100 MB /boot partition immediately after hda1 (Windows), then your / partition, a swap partition (3xRAM in size) and a /home partition. Format all except the swap with ext3. At the end of the install, install grub boot loader to the MBR and tell it you want Windows as a grub boot choice as well. You should then be able to freely boot between Windows and Fedora after the install. Good luck!

On boot up, where does it hang? What is on the screen just before it stops? What is your external Internet device? 56k? ADSL? Cable? Give us the particulars on how your hardware works together to bring you an Internet connection in Windows. This will help us in helping you figure out what to do.

I've spent the better part of today in vain trying to get my mouse configured. It's a Logitech USB optical scroll mouse. The weird thing is, just yesterday it was working perfectly! To retrace, I installed Slackware 10 Sunday and quickly had my mouse configured and working perfectly. Before I edited the xorg.conf file, the pertinent section looked like this: Code: ********************************************************************** # Core Pointer's InputDevice section # ********************************************************************** Section "InputDevice" # Identifier and driver Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" # On platforms where PnP mouse detection is supported the following # protocol setting can be used when using a newer PnP mouse: # Option "Protocol" "Auto" # The available mouse protocols types that you can set below are: # Auto BusMouse GlidePoint GlidePointPS/2 IntelliMouse IMPS/2 # Logitech Microsoft MMHitTab MMSeries Mouseman MouseManPlusPS/2 # MouseSystems NetMousePS/2 NetScrollPS/2 OSMouse PS/2 SysMouse # ThinkingMouse ThinkingMousePS/2 Xqueue Option "Protocol" "PS/2" # The mouse device. The device is normally set to /dev/mouse, # which is usually a symbolic link to the real device. Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" # Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" # Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" # Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1" # When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment # the following line. # Option "Protocol" "Xqueue" # Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In # almost every case these lines should be omitted. # Option "BaudRate" "9600" # Option "SampleRate" "150" This gave me jerky mouse movement and no scroll. I edited xorg.conf thusly: Code: ********************************************************************** # Core Pointer's InputDevice section # ********************************************************************** Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Buttons" "5" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" # Identifier and driver # Identifier "Mouse1" # Driver "mouse" # On platforms where PnP mouse detection is supported the following # protocol setting can be used when using a newer PnP mouse: # Option "Protocol" "Auto" # The available mouse protocols types that you can set below are: # Auto BusMouse GlidePoint GlidePointPS/2 IntelliMouse IMPS/2 # Logitech Microsoft MMHitTab MMSeries Mouseman MouseManPlusPS/2 # MouseSystems NetMousePS/2 NetScrollPS/2 OSMouse PS/2 SysMouse # ThinkingMouse ThinkingMousePS/2 Xqueue # Option "Protocol" "PS/2" # The mouse device. The device is normally set to /dev/mouse, # which is usually a symbolic link to the real device. # Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" # Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" # Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" # Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1" # When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment # the following line. # Option "Protocol" "Xqueue" # Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In # almost every case these lines should be omitted. # Option "BaudRate" "9600" # Option "SampleRate" "150" ..and the mouse worked perfectly with scroll and smoothly. I then decided to try Emerde, a package manager for Slack that, in theory, allows you to install packages from Gentoo Portage. As it turned out, Emerde quickly ate up the small / partition I'd created, so I then decided to do a re-install on larger partitions. All went successfully. The when I edited my xorg.conf file in exactly the same manner as above, the mouse is all over the place and won't scroll! If i run the courser diagonally up the screen from left to right, the courser disappears about three quarters across and re-appears in the bottom left. Right click doesn't work at all. I just don't understand it. The first time I edited xorg.conf, the mouse worked perfectly. The second time, all hell breaks loose and I can't get it configured even having checked and re-checked and re-checked that I'd done everything just right! What could be wrong? What am I missing here?? Could it be the module for the mouse is not getting loaded, and it's defaulting to a module that's giving me the problem? ANY thoughts or suggestions will be much appreciated! Thanks.

For anyone interested in this problem, I found a solution after almost two days of banging my head against the wall. See this for the solution.

What type of modem? 56k, adsl,cable? I'm presuming broadband. When you open redhat-config-network, have a look around it there. I think it's in edit/hardware or something where you check a box that tells it to intitiate the network connection on boot.

What did those packages end with? .rpm? .tgz? .gz or .zip? You can unzip/install all uder Linux, but in different ways.

No one has any ideas?