Recent content by KenCleanAirSystem

<< i have a quick question, runlevel 5 is multiuser with X and networking, blah blah. but if i boot into runlevel 2 and then startx, does it put me into runlevel 5? >> No. << another quickie: what is the "right" way to make something start up at boot? >> Not really a correct way to...

You'll need to edit a file in /etc called inittab. Look for a line that says something like id:5:initdefault: and change the 5 to a 3.

The /etc/modules.conf file is standard for most, if not all distributions, including RedHat. In some older distributions (RedHat6.2 and older for example) it may be called conf.modules, but will still be in /etc.

Have you tried rpm -e --force packagename?

Enlightenment for me. I've tried quite a few of them (Gnome, KDE, IceWM, WindowMaker, Blackbox) and I always end up back in Enlightenment. I just installed Fluxbox the other day to check it out, and while its very nice I just prefer the look of Enlightenment.

The latest version of Open Office is Star Office 6. Its actually probably a bit further along than the Beta version of Star Office 6 that was available since it is open source and builds are released more frequently then Sun's version. You can even build from the latest cvs snapshot if you feel...

First thing I'd try is file filename.tar.gz to confirm that it is indeed a gzip'ed tar archive. I've seen that error before and I believe it was because it was either a corrupt archive or a not an archive at all. The last line of the error "tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors" I think...

You should be able to set the mime type in Mozilla for .pdf files to whatever pdf viewer you install (Xpdf has always worked fine for me). Look under Preferences/Navigator/Helper Applications to create new mime types and assign the program you want to handle them. Once set pdf files should open...

A search on GoogleBSD should turn up some good info about how BSD and most Unix OS's handle passwords. Here are a couple that cover password policies and a bit about how the password database works: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/01/17/FreeBSD_Basics.html...

Since its the box that does most of the work (serving files and such) and also doubles as a workstation when I want an Enlightenment desktop, I'd have to say FreeBSD 4.5.

Have you tried booting to single user mode? At the boot prompt type linux single. I agree with Nothinman, I dont think your problem is with the module, and its definitely not the nvdia driver, it doesn't modify your kernel in any way, just loads a couple extra modules. With the current setting...

To check if its running (I'm guessing its not by the choppiness you describe) run (as root) hdparm -d /dev/hda. You may also want to check if 32bit I/O is enabled using hdparm -c /dev/hda. Subsitute the correct /dev/ entry for your hard drive (i.e. if Linux is on the primary master it is...

I turned off the Time Synch service on my XP box a while back and time has been fine since then, but when I used it I noticed the same problem. Switching my time server to the time.nist.gov fixed the problem, but I decided shortly thereafter that I really dont care about synching my time to a...

Add it to the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local. When I ran Linux I always used hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 /dev/hda which turns on both DMA and 32 bit I/O.

Suse has a version that runs from a CD that you may want to try. You can download it here. It still probably wont be the best representation of how Linux runs in a normal installation, but it will probably be better than running it from a Windows partition. I dont have any experience with either...