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Yesterday I noticed that my hardware acceleration wasnt working in my new 2.6.0 kernel because Tux Racer was running very very slow on my 2.8GHz machine and previously it used to run very fast on my old PIII 450MHz. I am using an ATI Radeon 7000 gfx card. So I searched around the net and found...

Hi I think the subject line says everything =P. I did include vfat/msdos/win95 file systems but they are not supported by the kernel for some reason. Did i go wrong somewhere??? Heres my /usr/src/linux-2.6.0/.config file # # DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems # CONFIG_FAT_FS=m CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m...

Hi, I am Running Redhat 9. I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.0(since i had it lying around and wanted to test the 2.6 kernel =P). Everything went perfect except the fact that sound doesnt work. I am using a Intel D865GBF motherboard so I have a onboard sound card(AC97 or something). The system...

Hi, I recently purchased an Intel 2.8C GHz HT 800MHz FSB processor and Intel D865GBF motherboard. The problem i am facing is that when i turn on my mains the computer switches itself on. This happens occassionally. But when this happens my computer doesnt boot. It just freezes up at the POST. On...

I am using Jay's Firewall configuration utility to configure my iptables firewall. Originally when configured it, all ports were stealthed. But now some of my ports are visible. Ports 25(SMTP) and 53(DNS) are shown as closed and open respectively. Also, I am getting some errors when my system...

I have three question. First, I have mounted my windows partitions to /mnt/c and /mnt/d. How do I set the permissions on them so that users from a particular group(say home) can write to it? Because everytime I have to delete/move/copy some file to those partitions I have to relogin as root. I...

I have an ethernet card in each of my machines. One is running Red Hat Linux 9 while the other is running WinME. How do I setup a home network? I just want to share files between the two machines. Also, I dont want to setup a DHCP server. I want to do it by assigning static IPs. I have tried...

I am an intermediate user(home user). I am using Linux for learning. How do I install the new Linux 2.6 Kernel? I am running RedHat 9. Is there a good guide/tut? Nobody is perfect =( . . . . I am nobody =D

I installed my HP laserjet 6L on my Red Hat box(actually, Kudzu automatically detected it ^^). I cant print anything. When I add a queue it adds it fine. But when I try printing a test page it just gives me an error "Check whether CUPS is installed and running" or "Could not...

I have a ATI Radeon 7000 card(64MB VRAM). It can handle resolutions upto 2048x1536x32bpp. But my monitor can handle upto 1280x960x32bpp. Once I accidentally set the resolution above it and my monitor switched off since it couldnt handle the resolution. I couldnt return to the original resolution...

Hi, I installed an old demo version of a game(Safari Biathlon). Some how the installation didnt complete i.e. my computer froze and i had to reboot. After booting up I ran scandisk as usual. Now, when I tried uninstalling the game, the Installshield tells me that some file(ending with a .isu, i...

I installed ATI Radeon 7000 on my old computer. I had a dual boot with WinME and Linux. But something went *terribly* wrong, and believe me when I say terribly wrong, and I had to reinstall WinME. Now I am in a plight my Red Hat 9 installation is inaccessible since WinME has overwritten LILO. I...

Hi, I have currently WinME and RedHat Linux 9 installed on my machine. WinME is on my 20GB HDD while RH9 is on my 6.4GB HDD. My 20GB HDD has two partitions. Now if I install WinXP on my second partition then it will overwrite the MBR and it will create dual boot with WinME(i hope). But I dont...

I just changed my display resolution and the bit depth in KDE. It told me to restart my X-server. What should i do? Nobody is perfect =( . . . . I am nobody =D

Hi, I was just wondering how would i go about developing my own GUI like KDE or GNOME? What kind of development tools would i require? I want to develop for RH Linux. Please dont laugh or scoff at my question =P Nobody is perfect =( . . . . I am nobody =D

Whats the difference between the '>' and '>>' operator and '<' and '<<'??? For example: $ ls -l > myfile.txt and $ ls -l >> myfile.txt Nobody is perfect =( . . . . I am nobody =D

I dunno if anyone has heard about the allegro library cuz this question is pertaining to it. Since allegro is a platform independent it will compile for Linux. My problem is when I run the ./configure command it configures the lib but it cant find(i think) the X11 headers(is that correct?) and...

Can anyone guide me to install xfce on my RH9 system? I have d/l it from the website. But after i untar it displays lots of .rpm files. How do i install these multiple rpms? i have installed single rpms whose dependencies are already installed. But I dont know how to install these rpms. Since...

Can someone help me speed up my Linux machine? I am using P3, 450Mhz, 192Mb ram. My WinME installation works really fast. But Linux Runs slow. I want to use it as a desktop. So i selected the desktop or workstation isntallation(dont remember really). I want to remove useless applications and...

Hi, My computer crashed yesterday. I was running WinME/XP/Linux. These are some of the questions i had: 1. I have reinstalled back WinME and Linux. Now I want to install WinXP. But my prob is WinXP just overwrites the MBR. How can i prevent that? 2. Also, when I boot Linux, it gives me a...