Few more fast linux questions.

[BobOmega]

seems these are all i ever get
i am now running mandrake 9.2 and all seems to be a bit more smooth then my red-hat attempts.
specs:
1ghz t-bird
tyan trinty kt-a
1gb pc133
hdd's cdrom's
sb live!
tv tuner (leadtek tv2000 (or something i always forget))
8500le 128mb
promiss ata100 controler.
linksys 10/100


ok on to the fun part.
so far i've been able to get wine to actually work on several occasions, but the proformance isn't that great.
it plays starcraft rather badly. it is still playable but chopy sometimes, and some menu screen (almost everything in battlenet) dosn't refresh so all i see is black and text, then new text just over laps. very hard to read.
is there some special wine configuration that i'm not using. i tried most of the video modes, and running it (just starcraft.exe) in a 640x480 desktop mode beacuse all the others fail at properaly full screening, i'd prefer to keep playing it in a window.

the other problem i've been having is even with winex installed (and wine uninstalled)(i'm not sure how to remive winex anyway now, i'm just happy i could get the cvs and compile it ...) i can't get diablo2 to play. it fails the video test. so i dont know where to go from there.

is there some linux ati drivers i should be using, i think i told it to use the hardware accelerated ones durring the install. but i am not sure now. not even sure how to check.

how do i change my computers hostname? i think i knew how in red-hat but...

been having problems compiling 2 programs, a livejournal client. and fluxbox. the livejournal client wants qt3 (i think) and i've installed this but it still isn't happy about that.
and fluxbox, i've tried 4 versions and they allways stop in the make stage, with an error.. i could run it again and give the error if requested.

edit: that was fast. i just rememberd it only sees 884mb of my ram. so i'm guessing something is up with that.

i think thats it, for now.
thanks in advance to anyone who looks and or answers this.
if i can get what i actually use to work on here i might not need windows anymore.
i do have some debian isos that i was thinking about messing with but for now 'drake is working for me decently.
i was going to ask about ssh, but i havn't played with that enough to decide if i can't do it yet.

[CMonster]

Wine -sorry, I never use it.

is there some linux ati drivers i should be using, i think i told it to use the hardware accelerated ones durring the install. but i am not sure now. not even sure how to check.

-why not just download the most current driver from ATI and install it?

how do i change my computers hostname? i think i knew how in red-hat but...

-one way you can do it easily is in the Mandrake Control Center networking section -I believe under the settings for your network card.

been having problems compiling 2 programs, a livejournal client. and fluxbox. the livejournal client wants qt3 (i think) and i've installed this but it still isn't happy about that.
and fluxbox, i've tried 4 versions and they allways stop in the make stage, with an error.. i could run it again and give the error if requested.

-consider it "requested" it's probably balking that it can't find certain libs, you may need to specify the location at compile time. Have you checked at http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net to see if there are any rpms available for these programs? -your in luck, they have an rpm for fluxbox for Mandrake.

which livejournal client are you trying to compile? You might try kluje (it may be easier to compile) or one of these -if you do a google search you can fine RH9 rpms for logjam that may work in Drake 9 providing you have all of gnome installed (though you may have to ignore dependancies) to get them to install.

it only sees 884mb of my ram. so i'm guessing something is up with that.

-try running the "free" command and get back with the results. I'm guessing it could have something to do with the memory options compiled into the kernel. I know that some options will reserve a section of memory, perhaps your default kernel was compiled with one of these options.

[BobOmega]

$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 904144 895376 8768 0 41872 552200
-/+ buffers/cache: 301304 602840
Swap: 522104 0 522104

not sure how easy to read that is.

for the ati drivers, i dont know why i didn't think of that but the Check.sh to find my xfree86 version dosn't, i get command not founds when i sh Check.sh

here is the error i get when i make for fluxbox

fluxbox.cc: In member function `void Fluxbox::save_rc()':
fluxbox.cc:1976: error: `B_EuropeanDate' undeclared (first use this function)
fluxbox.cc:1976: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.)
fluxbox.cc: In member function `void Fluxbox::load_rc(BScreen*)':
fluxbox.cc:2324: error: `B_AmericanDate' undeclared (first use this function)
make[3]: *** [fluxbox.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/bobomega/fluxbox-0.1.14/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bobomega/fluxbox-0.1.14/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bobomega/fluxbox-0.1.14'
make: *** [all] Error 2

ok the hostname should be changed now. guessing i need to reboot or something for the changes to take place... or at least restart the konsoles i have open..

ok i just re-read what you posted, an rpm for fluxbox might make life easier. let me look in to that in a bit, i'll try the other program again real fast. ok my bad, i wasn't compiling the livejournal thing. i have a rpm for it.

Some package requested cannot be installed:
kluje-0.7-1.i386 (due to unsatisfied libkspell-gcc2.96.so.4)
do you agree ?

is what it spits out. downloading the rpm that provides that now...

edit: ok can't install that beacuse i need something else. but rpmfind dosn't list any that are not for red-hat, yellowdog or asp.

i guess i should try this stuff out when i am more awake, the normal linux messing time is around 2-3am for me. so i give up easilly.

edit edit: didn't see your edit, yes it is kjule, and its rpm is what is giving me that greif. i got what i was trying to do all mixed up.

[CMonster]

I made some changes to the post above - there is an rpm for fluxbox for Mandrake, for the kluje issue go to the rpmfind link and get the libkspell-gcc2.96.so.4 rpm or install from your CD


Re: memory -really not sure what your issue is here, but check the config file for your kernel in the /boot directory, I bet it says

CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set

You could try a recompile for 4GB to get the memory fully recognized or perhaps you could just add a line to the boot loader -never done it with that much memory though. Maybe it's also possible to install the 4GB kernel as an rpm -I know they had an SMP kernel available that way.

[BobOmega]

ok so fluxbox is knocked down. thanks.
for libkspell-gcc2.96.so.4 it wants me to get kdelibs-3.0.4-0.73.1.i386.rpm which i got, but it requres another file. which i now got. the file seems to have changed... nope there it is, that one wants me to have libssl.so.2 but i dont know which i'd want to get.
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2htm...&system=&arch=
beacuse there is no drake ones listed.

edit:
yes thats exactly what mine looks like.
this is a bit strange beacuse all the live cds i tried + red-hat would use the 1gb. at least i'm fairly sure they did.

[CMonster]

You may have the rpms already, it's just that Mandrake often labels their rpms differently, before you try to install all the dependancies try forcing the kluje package and see if it works? Maybe only the spelling feature will not work -or it may work. Anyway you can also force the libkspell package too.

You can use kpackage or just

#rpm -i --nodeps --force packagename.rpm

Good luck and happy computing in the new year!

[BobOmega]

it seems like it really wants that installed, i'll give the cds a look in a sec

# kluje
kluje: error while loading shared libraries: libkio-gcc2.96.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

man, i can't tell if i can't read or you just edit while i'm reading i'm going to force that other one...

edit edit edit: after that it just comes up with missing another one. libpng.so.2 to be exact

[BobOmega]

well something i did really upset kde. so i can't get into it now
"could not start kdeinit. check your installation"
and a
"there was an error setting up inter-process
communications for KDE. the message returned by the system was:

could not read network connection list.
/home/bobomega/.DCOPserver_melfina__0

please check that the 'dcopserver' program is running!"

so far all i've done to correct this is removed what i installed. gnome threw out an error also. something with /ect/hosts
"could not look up the internet address for melfina.
this will prevent gnome from operating correctly.
it may be possilbe to correct the problem by adding melfina to the file /ect/hosts."

so my guess is to fix at least that problem i need to add either a 127.0.0.1 melfina (or however the proper form is) or just edit localhost to be melfina?

[nukes]

NO. leave localhost as it is. Its required for lots of things.
Just add melfina so it looks like

127.0.0.1 localhost melfina

As to the shared library problem,its because that binary was built with a different version of GCC and is dynamically linked. Always use the RPMs off your distro's CD when possible. I'm pretty sure Mandrake 9.2 has fluxbox.
Your compiling problems are most likely due to not installing the dev packages for the libraries in question, just the stuff that goes in /lib and /usr/lib.
Also, when you compile stuff from source, specify a prefix of /usr otherwise everything will get installed into /usr/local and won't work right (this isn't normally in the library search path or even the binary path which means installing to here will have little or no effect)
You can specify a prefix like so:

./configure --prefix=/usr

As to the official ATI drivers, they only support the 9000 upwards (I think, I could be wrong on this) but the open source ones work fine.
As to the WineX being sluggish, I have to ask this: did you set any CFLAGS or did you just compile it without optimisation?
i.e.
Did you set

export CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3  -fPIC -fomit frame-pointer"
export CXXFLAGS= $CFLAGS

before you compiled it? This will really speed up the execution of the libraries. You should ALWAYS compile stuff with optimisation turned on, except when you're running the code in a debugger. Even then you can, but it just makes it harder to follow in terms of the source code.

[BobOmega]

no i did not set any cflags when i compiled wine. soon as i get kde working again i will recompile it with thoes?
for the video card it said 8500 somewhere.

i dont actaully have a clue how to fix kde now that its all mad at me.

edit:
back in windows for awhile. me and flux arn't getting along and gnome is well... don't really know linux that well and not being in kde throws me out of my element a bit.
nukes i changed the hosts like you said.
and pretty much everything else you said except the should make it run faster part just confused me

and i think i was mistaken on yet another thing. i have the cvs build of winex and a rpm for wine. so.. yeah.
i guess this is why they say (someone on these boards) not to try to do too much at once in linux 'till you know what you are doing.

i could defiently see how i could use it all the time though, untill i broke it. considering all i do is waste time on the internet, irc, and play the odd game of d2.

hmmmm i went off on a tangent ^^