Recent content by nofuse

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    DRI in Xfree86 4.1.0

    You could try running one of the demos to see if everything's accelerated. glxgears or gears are two good demos to run. They run in a window and count frames for you. Typically accelerated X will get around 1000fps running these demos while unaccelerated fps counts are around 1-3 hundred...
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    What linux distribution that won't give me any trouble installing when using ata 100 card?

    Slackware 8.0 offers a version of the kernel that supports ATA100 drives. I'm sure others do as well but why use anything other than Slack? :D
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    RH 7.1 login problems

    OK, I just talked to some Uber Guru's here at Sair. We are all interested in your problem. So far, the consensus seems to be that for whatever reason there are no tty's assigned for runlevels other than runlevel 1. To fix this, try putting this at the end of /etc/inittab...
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    Connecting Linux Workstation to NT domain??

    This is how to get you RH box to join an NT Domain. 1. Download and install Samba 2.2. You can get it from www.samba.org. A boxed version of Red Hat will also include Samba. Just make sure you install it when you install Linux. 2. Enable Samba on your machine. This will require an edit of...
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    Connecting Linux Workstation to NT domain??

    This is how to get you RH box to join an NT Domain. 1. Download and install Samba 2.2. You can get it from www.samba.org. A boxed version of Red Hat will also include Samba. Just make sure you install it when you install Linux. 2. Enable Samba on your machine. This will require an edit of...
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    Linux and parallel computing

    Yes it is possible to squeeze Linux into 420MB. Check out slackware's site and get Zipslack. Or, better yet, if you really want to build a cluster look at building diskless nodes.
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    How do I update the locate database in linux?

    As root execute: updatedb This will take a few minutes
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    Please Help: Need Linux Advice and Hardware List to go with it

    If this is your first Linux experience there are two ways to approach your problem. Some people say that your first Linux distribution should be one that makes you learn every thing about your new OS. These people would suggest either Slackware 8 or the latest Debian. Other people will say that...
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    Please Help: Need Linux Advice and Hardware List to go with it

    If this is your first Linux experience there are two ways to approach your problem. Some people say that your first Linux distribution should be one that makes you learn every thing about your new OS. These people would suggest either Slackware 8 or the latest Debian. Other people will say that...
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    mandrake v8 linux - HELP!! Trying to install...

    Post the your entire system specs and we'll see what we can do