Re: Tweaking Linux

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Before i get ahead of my self with the laptop and all, i should really
> get linux working the way i want on this box...  So i have a few
> questions.  One, i have the STB Velocity 128 3d AGP (Nvidia Riva 128
> chip set) on my machine.  And the drivers i have for it under linux dont
> seem to work worth a darn!  The color is all messed up, there is
> pixilation all over the screen, its like its in 256 color mode or
> something, and its really annoying!  That's my first major problem!

I searched Usenet and found lots of people using this card,  most saying it
worked swell.  What version of XFree do you have,  the postings say to use at
least 3.3.3.1-1, and my Redhat 6.0 box has 3.3.3.1-49, so you should be able to
upgrade of a BS-Ware CD or a Redhat CD.  Also the Nvidia chipset uses the SVGA
server from what I gathered of usenet,  make sure you are using that one.
 XF86Setup to install the configuration.

> The second is, kppp wont dial my modem, it says it wont respond or
> something.  Now i know its there and that it works under linux because
> it has dialed out before.  Any suggestions?

Don't use kppp.  Setup ppp the "right" way.

>And one final thing, when i
> mount my windows partition, whenever i tried to load something out of
> that partition it says PERMISSION DENIED, kinda like, hahaha, its there
> but i'm not going to let you use it! Theses are just 3 questions out of
> a list of 1 million or so, so any help would be great!


Can you do an "ls" and get a listing of the files on that partition.  When you
mount the partition add a mount=777 option to your mount command string,  since
DOS doesn't have file permission UNIX has to try an fake them.  This tells it
what "fake" permission pattern to use.  777 is wide open,  just like in DOS,
anyone can do anything.