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Hi all, Please accept my apologies if this has been asked and answered before... I own a Dell Inspiron 3800. (How) can I setup my X server such that it will...
2 Dec 4, 2000
10:39 am

Max R. Andersen
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Well this sounds more like you should be setting it up with the text install rather then the Graphics install. You can supposedly do a graphics install by...
2 Dec 2, 2000
8:23 pm

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Hi guys maybe my problem is uncommon I have a DELL notebook (latitude CPx) with 2 HD the standard internal HD one and another (in the modular bay). Windows is...
1 Dec 2, 2000
6:44 pm

Roberto Cariggi
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I am attempting an install from scratch, no dual boot. Settings are to read bootable media from floppy, then CDROM, then HD. Red Hat 6.1 CDROM shows start...
1 Dec 2, 2000
12:17 pm

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After a long and painful saga trying to get this information from Dell, Linxcare and Redhat, all without success, I would appreciate it if someone would email...
1 Dec 2, 2000
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Well, I am a linux newbie and I was having the same problem. I have just installed the barebones version without X windows/GNOME etc. Also, the version of...
1 Dec 1, 2000
6:47 pm

Tarun Anand
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That's right at present. However a group of us are starting to work on our locals offices with feedback on what works and doesn't, as well as reminding them...
7 Dec 1, 2000
4:59 pm

Art Delano
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hi i am trying install red hat on my laptop. boot on cd. I start good but after i choose install mod the laptop are haning. Do some have som new way to go...
1 Dec 1, 2000
11:06 am

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Hello, I've just joined this group, and yesterday I got some tips on the configuration of my 1400x1050 screen. At last I could start the Xwindows and then I...
8 Nov 30, 2000
3:57 pm

Kev Hall
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(english version see below) Sie erhalten in den naechsten Minuten eine digital unterschriebene E-Mail von einem Freemail-Anwender. Damit Ihr E-Mail-Programm...
1 Nov 30, 2000
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Hello, Could anyone on this list provide XFree 4.0.1c RPMs? Does XFree 4.0.1c support 1600x1200 resolution on 5000e? I have XFree 4.0.1a and it runs 1400x1050...
3 Nov 30, 2000
1:09 pm

Carsten Borchardt
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Hi everybody again, before trying to download the new binaries of KDE 2 I decided to look in the KDE page for a solution to my problem, and I found that there ...
2 Nov 30, 2000
10:41 am

Marc Fellman
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Ok im going to make this clear..im a an A+ tech. I know hot to hook up a laptop to a cable modedm..i know what a crossover cable is..i know that everything im...
3 Nov 30, 2000
4:17 am

Drew Farris
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I finally got X working on my 5000e 1400x1050. Thanks to the post from beyer@u..., who said that the current Xfree 4.0 tree has a working driver, I downloaded...
10 Nov 30, 2000
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Well, I have been working on trying to get X on my Inspiron 8000 15" ATI Rage MB LM 16MB, RH 7.0 system working at all resolutions working. I'm happy to have...
1 Nov 29, 2000
10:07 pm

Vance Wheelock
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Hi, still I could not get X running. I do not know the type of lcd-pannel nor the supported H and V -refreshrates. But I found the following text within my...
2 Nov 29, 2000
2:09 pm

Marc Fellman
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sndconfig doesn't want to install it, and loading the module by hand crashes the kernel. linux on laptops talks about a fix, but apparently it's not there yet,...
1 Nov 29, 2000
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Ok guys, Do you remember that I can't work with KDE 2 in my Inspiron 5000e? I tried gnome and it work!!. Very strange I thought, so I decided to reinstall the...
1 Nov 29, 2000
10:11 am

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Hello all, I have installed Mandrake 7.2 on a Inspiron 5000. Everything works great except for the floppy - drive... I am a bit stuck here. Anybody have any...
1 Nov 29, 2000
8:55 am

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Sorry for not being aware off red's Hat installation procedure but following your description, you "should" find your lilo.conf file right under : /root/etc. ...
1 Nov 29, 2000
8:29 am

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Hi All: I have just one thing to say, KDE 2.0 rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got the precompiled RPM's since I could compile QT 2.2.1 and kde libs etc without...
3 Nov 29, 2000
7:19 am

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Hi, I have finished installing mandrake 7.2, and I am in the process of checking the installation. After I rebooted it, it got stuck while checking for sound...
21 Nov 29, 2000
3:35 am

Rob Yale
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hi switching off (cycling down) the harddisc is quit easy with hdparm -y /dev/hda or to set a cycle down time with hdparm -S 12 <-- 12 is 12 times 5sec =...
4 Nov 29, 2000
2:22 am

Matt Hall
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Hi, I am totally new to Linux.. and i am trying to install it on my Inspiron 5000e. I have Mandrake 7.2.. and as everybody says, it should work perfectly! But...
1 Nov 28, 2000
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Maybe slight of topic, but what the heck :) After three months extensive use my Inspiron 3800 LCDisplay is getting harder and harder to see....not because of...
3 Nov 28, 2000
2:16 pm

Art Delano
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I have been trying to get all video modes to run on my machine. The 1400x1050 mode that has been posted in the group works great on my system. However when I...
2 Nov 28, 2000
8:27 am

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I think I'm about to buy an Inspiron 8000 and configure it dual-boot for some version of Windows, plus Linux, and I have a few questions: (a) Does the 8000...
1 Nov 28, 2000
3:56 am

Mark Phillips
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Greatings, It occurs to me that it is possible (but unlikely) that there may be members of this list who do not slavishly follow the minutiae of development...
3 Nov 27, 2000
5:49 pm

Brett Viren
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hi, i can not find other working modelines for my 1600x1200 display than full resolution the 1600x1200 modeline that works very fine is "1600x1200&quot; 160.00 1600...
2 Nov 27, 2000
3:14 pm

Brett Viren
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hi, i have some problems with accelerated 3D support installation i already installed a new kernel (2.4.0-test11) and made the DRI-kernel modul. But there is...
2 Nov 27, 2000
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