RE: Two problems with Redhat on a laptop.

2003-03-19 Thread Cannon, Andrew
PM To: Redhat List Subject: Two problems with Redhat on a laptop. Hi all, I think this is the correct place for my questions. If not forgive me. I have sucessfully installed Redhat 8.0 on my Sony PCG-FX401 laptop and it is working beautifully. However I have two outstanding issues. 1) The XFree86 X

Two problems with Redhat on a laptop.

2003-03-19 Thread Steve Homer
Hi all, I think this is the correct place for my questions. If not forgive me. I have sucessfully installed Redhat 8.0 on my Sony PCG-FX401 laptop and it is working beautifully. However I have two outstanding issues. 1) The XFree86 XVideo extensions do not seem to be available. How can I install

Re: Two problems with Redhat on a laptop.

2003-03-17 Thread Steve Homer
Appologies for the duplicates, Evolution is playing up (beta version...) On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 16:46, Steve Homer wrote: > Hi all, > > I think this is the correct place for my questions. If not forgive me. > > I have sucessfully installed Redhat 8.0 on my Sony PCG-FX401 laptop and > it is workin

Two problems with Redhat on a laptop.

2003-03-17 Thread Steve Homer
Hi all, I think this is the correct place for my questions. If not forgive me. I have sucessfully installed Redhat 8.0 on my Sony PCG-FX401 laptop and it is working beautifully. However I have two outstanding issues. 1) The XFree86 XVideo extensions do not seem to be available. How can I install

Two problems with Redhat on a laptop.

2003-03-17 Thread Steve Homer
Hi all, I think this is the correct place for my questions. If not forgive me. I have sucessfully installed Redhat 8.0 on my Sony PCG-FX401 laptop and it is working beautifully. However I have two outstanding issues. 1) The XFree86 XVideo extensions do not seem to be available. How can I install

RE: Two Problems (CD Player/LILO)

2001-03-14 Thread TANNER
: q&[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Two Problems (CD Player/LILO) > > > I don't know if they ever fixed it, but the Linux boot drive had to be > hda, hdb, or hdc (I think hdc was included). hdd was a no go. > > On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Two Problems (CD Player/LILO)

2001-03-11 Thread Statux
I don't know if they ever fixed it, but the Linux boot drive had to be hda, hdb, or hdc (I think hdc was included). hdd was a no go. On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have two HD's /dev/hda and /dev/hdd. HDA consists of two partitions; a > FAT acting as a WinNT system disk and an

Two Problems (CD Player/LILO)

2001-03-11 Thread TANNER
I have two HD's /dev/hda and /dev/hdd.  HDA consists of two partitions; a FAT acting as a WinNT system disk and an NTFS for file storage.  HDD is a RedHat Linux 6.0 installation on an Intel PIII-450 mHz.   Problem #1:  LILO is intalled in the boot record of HDD and I tried to refer to it usi

Re: Two problems

2001-03-03 Thread Bret Hughes
Jerry Human wrote: > > The first is in Gnome or Netscape. Everytime I open a window the top > left corner is at 10,10 instead of 0,0. This tends to hide both scroll > bars and close button and I have to move every one to scroll or close. > How can I fix this? > No idea sorry > The second is in

Two problems

2001-03-03 Thread Jerry Human
The first is in Gnome or Netscape. Everytime I open a window the top left corner is at 10,10 instead of 0,0. This tends to hide both scroll bars and close button and I have to move every one to scroll or close. How can I fix this? The second is in Netscape Mail Address Book. When I start a new em

Re: Linux Frustration Rant: two problems in one

2001-02-27 Thread mjbjr
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 05:30:26AM -0500, Jerry Human <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | This is about one of the biggest frustrations I've found with all > | flavors Linux. Practically every time I find a command or program I want > | to use, BAM ... Per

Re: Linux Frustration Rant: two problems in one

2001-02-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 05:30:26AM -0500, Jerry Human <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | This is about one of the biggest frustrations I've found with all | flavors Linux. Practically every time I find a command or program I want | to use, BAM ... Permission Denied. [...] | Obviously, the problem above

Re: Linux Frustration Rant: two problems in one => Really Solved!

2001-02-26 Thread Jerry Human
Matthew Melvin wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 at 5:30am (-0500), Jerry Human wrote: > > > Hello Everyone: > > > > So my question today is two fold: (a) where can I finally learn how to > > handle permissions in different contexts, and (b) how can I set up rdate > > to set the system time when ru

Re: Linux Frustration Rant: two problems in one

2001-02-26 Thread Bill Carlson
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Michael R. Jinks wrote: > Matthew Melvin wrote: > > Finally a word on philosophy: Don't forget who's in charge here. When > "The Documentation" says that "CommandX is a restricted, > system-administration command," don't forget who owns the machine. You > Are Root. This is

Re: Linux Frustration Rant: two problems in one

2001-02-26 Thread Michael R. Jinks
Matthew Melvin wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 at 5:30am (-0500), Jerry Human wrote: > > So my question today is two fold: (a) where can I finally learn how to > > handle permissions in different contexts, and (b) how can I set up rdate > > to set the system time when run as user? > I think the

Re: Linux Frustration Rant: two problems in one

2001-02-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, you wrote: [clip] > > I think the point I was tring to make is - it's complicated. There are > countless ways to skin this cat, and the only way to learn then is read, and > try and read and try and read and try and read and try. *sigh* I hope some > of that made sence and

Re: Linux Frustration Rant: two problems in one

2001-02-26 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 05:30:26 Jerry Human wrote: [frustrations snipped] >So my question today is two fold: (a) where can I finally learn how to >handle permissions in different contexts, and (b) how can I set up rdate >to set the system time when run as user? Don't run rdate as a normal user. Set

Re: Linux Frustration Rant: two problems in one

2001-02-26 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 at 5:30am (-0500), Jerry Human wrote: > Hello Everyone: > > This is about one of the biggest frustrations I've found with all > flavors Linux. Practically every time I find a command or program I want > to use, BAM ... Permission Denied. For instance, I lurk on this forum > tr

Linux Frustration Rant: two problems in one

2001-02-26 Thread Jerry Human
Hello Everyone: This is about one of the biggest frustrations I've found with all flavors Linux. Practically every time I find a command or program I want to use, BAM ... Permission Denied. For instance, I lurk on this forum trying to learn from everyone else's problems. One of the things I've wa