Quake(1) on RH8

2003-01-21 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
I know its an old game but... has anyone here gotten quake to run on RH 8. I've never installed these syle games on Linux and frankly am afraid of fessing up my install. I read the how-to, and several sites, but all are outdated and leave me wondering if i can/should do it on my sys. (RH8 w/ AMD X

menu editing

2002-11-28 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
i searched the list and only saw the following on menu alterations. is it true there is no easy way to add a launcher to a menu? 8>< The file you want (for changing the structure) is /etc/X11/desktop-m

Re: Athlon XP - Segmentation fault issues

2002-12-02 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
I run an XP 1800 w/ a soltek mainboard (333 chipset), geforce2mx generic vid card, w/ no problems. (have used the std. 2d vid card drvrs and nvidia latest rel 3d vid card drvrs. no prob. so far. 2700 ddr namebrand ram @ cas 2.0 My moms sys has an asus 333 chipset mainboard w/ 3dfx vid card, generi

Evolution

2002-12-03 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
While i like evolution as an email program, i do seem to have some problems adjusting to it's methods of filters. Is there someplace to see a log of filtering so i can look at a given 'filtered' message and no which filter nailed it, so as to better tune my filters? It also seems i get reproducin

Re: What to use for dialup now rp3's gone?

2002-12-03 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
system tools -> Internet configuration wizard then after configuring, to start-stop: system tools -> network device controls i know they work well since i just set up my mom's and i haven't gotten any calls! ;-) 75 yrs old, can't cut and paste, but she can run RH8. why do the M$ advertisement

Evolution Solutions

2002-12-03 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
Thanks for the help guys. didn't see the stop processing, nor the logs setup. did both, thanks again. dw -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

hda settings

2002-12-03 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
System = Athlon XP 1800 Soltek Mainboard w/ via 333 chipset 120 GB WD Hdd Pri. No second ide dev. on pri. dvd and cdr on sec. ide on startup i get this error, though everything seems to run right. 8><-- RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory:

Re:ide drives - revisited

2002-12-06 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
Many thanks to all those who offered help on my IDE errors. It ended up being the IDE cable, as it wasn't the newer type. Now I get nice clean boots again. I might add this though. I installed, formatted etc, this drive in the RH8 install program. This using the old cable (UDMA 33 Style). When I

audio cd

2002-12-08 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
how can i view the contents of an audio cd? the gnome cd player plays them fine, but i wanted to look at the cd's contents. tried mounting as an iso9660 but i guess that is wrong for an audio cd. thanks in advance. dw -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.

Re: again I ask: WHY does printing in RH Psyche have to be such aPITA??

2002-12-14 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
Sounds like you have not properly configured your machine to use cups. >psyche does not use cups by default. If you check back on this thread "RE: > I guess I was a bit peeved when I wrote the original message... I had forgotten to switch the print system from LPR to CUPS. At least I can now

RE: Shutdown Linux using computer's power off button

2002-12-16 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
Hi all, In Windows XP there's an option to shutdown Windows "safely" when the power button on my computer was pressed. Is there any way to do this in Linux? That's odd. I had no idea WIN XP did that. I don't think Linux could do that because among other things, the discs are sync'd on shutdown by

Re: Onboard sound problems with Asus A7V333-X mobo

2002-12-21 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
> Hello, > I have installed Psyche on a system with an ASUS A7V333-X mobo with > onboard sound. > The sound hardware is: > > VIA Technologies > VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller > This is recognised and an attempt made to load the driver > via82cxxx-audio. > > However it fails: I am sorry that i ca

Re: Best way to reinstall XFree and KDE?

2002-12-26 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
I am NO-WHERE near as knowledgeable as most of the guys here, but i must ask. Did you just try re-configuring X? ie: root# xf86config save your old file (/etc/X11/XF86Config , note upper case ) and try it. a lot of times its bailed me out when i couldn't make heads or tails out of the errors.

Re: Psyche-list digest, Vol 1 #738 - 12 msgs

2002-12-26 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
I can not believe some of the suggestions that redhat is incompetent because they did not provide a shortcut to this or that program on your desktop And then to suggest they should offer different distros w/ diff shortcuts for diff programs. this is the distro w/ a shortcut to gimp.. this dist

Dual NIC Cards

2002-12-28 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
How do I configure a second nic (pci if that matters)? as soon as the second nic is installed, i lost everything. edited .../ifcfg-eth1 to not activate on boot, rebooted, and eth0 came back. I realize there is something obvious to many that i am just not seeing here. a couple of pointers in

Re: Dual NIC Cards

2002-12-28 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
>> How do I configure a second nic (pci if that matters)? > > Basic setup is done in /etc/modules.conf - load the nic drivers and setup an > alias for each eth. This is an example of one of my boxes > (/etc/modules.conf): > >alias eth0 tulip >alias eth1 via-rhine > > Then, it's a matter

RE: RH USB sucks

2003-01-10 Thread Donald G Wilson Jr
> Message: 4 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RH USB sucks > Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:08:03 -0700 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hallo list, > > What is the name of RH8's USB daemon? Or how can we uninstall this daemon? > > I prefer usbmgr daemon. Much better,