and my laptop (a Dell Latitude D610) cannot display the correct resolution in Fedora Core Release 5 (it should be 1400x1050 and thats what i told xorg to run at, but it displays at 1024x768 and that looks out of focus)
so i'm trying out this vbios hack for intel 9xx chipsets [/url][url=http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/]http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/
read the readme and did as required and strangely it reports the following vbios modes
Well, hello again, linux-noobs. It's been a while. I figured I'd come back to the best linux help site for, well, some help!
I just installed Core 5 (a few times, actually) over FTP because I don't have any blank CDs left. It all works very well, just not very fast.
Fast forward to the real problem, whenever I shut down after logging in the first time, upon reboot it takes about 3-4 minutes to start sendmail and about a minute to start sm-client. WTF??
That, I can live with.
The really bad part is, after it boots, it freezes when X is supposed to start. So, I switched to singleuser and vim'd /etc/inittab to start in runlevel 3. That at least gives me a useable console. However, if I try startx or gnome-session it up and freezes on me. I "fixed" it one time by purposely breaking my xorg.conf, and was able to get back into the GUI, but it just borked itself again when I restarted!
Getting frustrated, even Gentoo is starting to look easy now!
And I would have stuck with that, if it didn't hate my integrated graphics card...
So basicly I wanted to try out something other than Winblows for a change. So I ended up getting and installing Suse Linux 10.0. Seems preaty good and all that. I can do basic things with it. But question is how do I install/remove programs. Theres a bunch of programs that I won't use anymore and some programs that I want to install (Like GAIM). I'm getting irritated trying to figure out those damn readme's how to install. [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_wacko.png[/img]
Any help on how to do these basic things would be appreciated. Thanks.
Once this has been done you can start to decompress the source files as shown below:
Code:
tar vxf patch-o-matic-ng-20051203.tar.bz2
tar vxf linux-2.6.16.tar.bz2
tar vxf iptables-1.3.5.tar.bz2
Now that is done I would suggest renaming linux-2.6.16 to linux and iptables-1.3.5 to iptables as show below:
Code:
mv linux-2.6.16 linux
mv iptables-1.3.5 iptables
Right you are almost ready to start applying the patches. First you need to run the make menuconfig command to
preconfigure the kernel otherwise *PATCHING WILL FAIL* this is what catches people out!. So change into
your linux directory and run the make menuconfig command as shown below:
Code:
cd linux
make menuconfig
Once thats done just exit and save the config file. Now you will need to go into the patch-o-matic directory and issue the following
command:
Code:
KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux ./runme extras
Note Replace /usr/src/linux with the path to the kernel source if your is different
Once you issue that command you will be prompt with the following:
Code:
Hey! IPTABLES_DIR is not set.
Where is your iptables source code directory? [/usr/src/iptables]
If you have renamed your iptables like I said earlier you can just hit enter or else you have to enter the path
to your iptables source code.
Once that is done you will be prompt for which patches you would like to apply, they also give you a little description on
what each patch does.
Once you have finished selecting which patches you want installed you will need to compile your iptables so you will
need to do the following in the iptables source directory:
Code:
make KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux
make install KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux
make clean
Woot your iptables have been compiled :)now its just a case of compiling your kernel :)so you can issue the following
in the kernel source directory:
Code:
make oldconfig
make
make modules
make modules_install
make install
make clean
Now your kernel is ready along with your new patches just reboot and enjoy. :)well thats it for the compiling side of things
I hope you were successful.
The seconded part of this tutorial is just to have a mess with some of the cool iptable features you have compiled. To check to see
if the extension is there type iptables -m extension_name --help.
So lets start with Nth. Check to make sure its there:
Code:
iptables -m nth --help
You should get output like so:
Code:
nth v1.3.5 options:
--every Nth Match every Nth packet
[--counter num ] Use counter 0-15 (default:0)
[--start num ] Initialize the counter at the number 'num'
instead of 0. Must be between 0 and Nth-1
[--packet num ] Match on 'num' packet. Must be between 0
and Nth-1.
If --packet is used for a counter than
there must be Nth number of --packet
rules, covering all values between 0 and
Nth-1 inclusively.
This loading balance has been provided by netfilter:
Quote:if you want to balance the load to the 3 addresses 10.0.0.5, 10.0.0.6 and 10.0.0.7, then you can do as follows :
Quote:iptables -A INPUT -m time --timestart 8:00 --timestop 18:00 --days Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri -j ACCEPT
This time patch can be used to allow access to certain service on different days and times, nice little feature :)
Quota patch
Quote:iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -m quota --quota 52428800 -j ACCEPTiptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j DROP
This quota patch can be used to make sure you dont go over bandwidth limits, The above limit is set to 50GIG
52428800KB = 50GB. If the 50GB is reached it will drop all traffic until it resets.
Well thats it If you would like more help on using the extentions check out netfilters homepage: [url=http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOW...ions-HOWTO.html]http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOW...ions-HOWTO.html who needs CISCO when you got iptables ;)
Ok, tonight has been the last straw and I want to ditch windows for good! Enough is enough :)
I want to use linux but I haven't got a clue where to start. I would say that I'm a intermediate PC user. The only problem that I fear, is that I won't be able to get some of my appz to work on linux :(
I want to be able to run..
Turbo Lister (eBay)
Firefox
Dreamweaver
Adobe Photoshop CS
Flash FTP (Or a similar FTP program, not fussed)
Thunderbird (again not fussed, any good'un will do)
Limewire (Possibly)
Frontpage (or a similar simple html editor)
ICQ
MSN
Winamp
Daemon Tools
And I want it to run without hitting loadsa bugs. I heard somewhere that you don't actually need virus protection with linux? don't know how true that is like o_O
Where do I need to start then? Any help would be very much appreciated! Mwah! ;):)
Hi, I've been using windows for almost all my life, and I have become quite experienced over the years. And now i've decided to broaden my views and look in to linux. So I installed Suse 10 as dual boot on my laptop, and that worked fine, but now I want to learn the basic simple stuff, like: "How do I install a program?" I'm not yet so comfortable with the Consol, so if there is a way to do it in KDE I would prefer that.
Yesterday I installed Fedora Core 5 on a notebook, and there is no sound on the notebook. I am not a Linux expert, and it is the first time doing multumedia on a linux installations.
The notebook is based on the Intel 945NG Chipset, and utilises the Sigmatel STAC9200 CODEC for HD sound.
When I use headphones I can hear a very very faint noise when I play music. When I am unplugging the headphones, there is no sound at all, not that I can hear. All the volume controls have been tested at max, min etc. No change.
I have read many posts around on this and other forums, regarding issues with 82801G (IHC7) Intel HDA sound, but my card does seem to be detected. In alsamixer it states that it is a Intel HD card and uses a STAC9200 chip.
The available options that I have in alsamixer is:
Master , PCM, Capture , Input So
Under input there is only the option "mic". I have checked gnome-volume-control preferences and kmix settings. I have tested with headphones, and checked that all settings are unmuted.
