Forum: Miscellaneous

Just thinking of all the distros I've tried and all the package managers that've come with them there's only one that I've yet to break. And that's...

It boots, splash.bmp - "FreeSBIE is loading" appears, and thats all.....The PC stops reading from the CD. CD is OK - tried on another mashine - runs!...

Hi there, When downloading the new dvd.iso for fedora core 2 I was painfully reminded of the fact that the maximum filesize of ext2 is 2Gb. This...

I'm using Mandrake 9.1 with the ASUS A7N8X motherboard. According to the ASUS website I have a Realtek built in sound card, the ALC650. I want to...

Set up a system using an external scsi cd-writer for a friend on his W98 box so he can copy his stuff on audio cassette to cds to play in his car. He...

I wish I knew how this one happened, but fixing it is giving me nightmares. At work, we run Spamassassin as a daemon under Exim. So far, so good....

Hi all, I installed Mandrake 10 PowerPack and I'm having some problems. My PC configuration is this -AthlonXP 2000+ -A7N8X-x mobo (nForce2...

1. I just read the "framebuffer howto" from this forum and got it working. Because I'm using an nVidia card, I am told that I can use the rivafb...

Is there such a thing on Linux? I'm using Linux more and more at my work (which is dominated by Windows), and with luck may get rid of my Win box. ...

I am trying to write a bash script that checks for a directory and if the directory is not there creates it. I have everything written but I have no...

Hi all! I have met a trouble upgrading my web/dns server running Slackware linux. The upgrade process has been splitted into two distinct steps:...

hi i am trying to get amsn working but the tk src is not installing properly. in gzip then tar it the go to the dir whats just extracted then i...

Is there anybody here who is successfully streaming over the SHOUTcast server for LINUX? I have a big, big problem, and no one seems to know how to...

i got a copy of the knoppix live cd a while back and never played with it, but then i seen it mentioned on the site and thought i'd give it a go. it...

hi, I am looking for a program that measures performance of some programs eventually generating graphics. kinda like gkrellm but specific to...

I'm using gentoo linux and just recently my computer has been suddenly crashing very frequently. THis always seems to happen when I have terminal...

there's a file that in my root directory which i can't seem to redicrect to mysql input; it tells me the file does not exist, and when i try to...

Where ever i try to download xyz.iso linux distros on my computer, after a while i get a error mesg saying " not enough space in /tmp folder ". ...

Hello, I have a terrible problem. I have 2 physical hard-drives: one 20 gb and one 40 bg. Everything was going ok untill I formatted Win98 (I have...