General Linux

newly installed suse, internet not working
i installed opensuse with gnome. it detects my card but my internet is not working. mysettings need to be ip address:192.168.1.111, subnet:255.255.255.0. default gateway:192.168.1.1. dns servers 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2. i am able to set ip address,subnet and gateway but where do i enter the dns servers. because, the st... 22 Aug 2006 04:58

top - high load
We have this problem on our database machine where the load average shown by 'top' goes very high ( > 100) at random times and the database becomes really slow. We're trying to find out which process could be causing this load. For some reason, top does not show any processes that could be suspects. It shows only 2... 31 Aug 2006 17:11

Setting display resolution not working
Fedora Core 5. Upgraded my PC (basically got everything new, but kept hard drives). It works great with my old Compaq P110 monitor. Even, to my surprise, the Ethernet adaptor built into the motherboard. Everything is perfect and required zero system meddling, even though I have a new CPU, new memory, new ether... 21 Aug 2006 23:12

New to Ubuntu
Guys, what do ineed to know before installing Ubuntu as a second OS to my PC. I've had problems with Xandros before and i don't want it to happen again with Ubuntu. How can i make Windows as the first choice during startup? mattepj74u118588 The only game i hook on href=http://uc.gamestotal.com/>Unification ... 18 Aug 2006 04:46

How to kill process
Hello, I wanted to know what the command to kill a process that you are running that is eating up all of the resources on the server. Thanks in advanced. ... 18 Aug 2006 05:49

Mandriva 10.2 has died...
After operating normally for the past 2 or 3 months, my Mandriva 10.2 LE installation suddenly turned up its toes yesterday. After getting me to the login prompt, it hung briefly after I had entered both my username and pwd, then kicked me back to a prompt. I turned off using 'shutdown -h now' and when I reb... 18 Aug 2006 01:05

how to format a thumb drive - vfat
Richard C Williams wrote: Could someone help me with the magic incantation to format a thumb drive as vfat so I can use it between my linux and windows boxes. I have one that came formatted vfat and it works fine. I keep getting a bad block count error message on the other when I try to format it. I'm on... 17 Aug 2006 12:15

File Corruption
Hi Everyone, We're having a problem with a script that we have running. The script copies files and then zips them. However, some of the files being copied appear to be corrupted in some way. We're wondering if there is any way to change the first part of the script (the find command) to ignore files that are in... 17 Aug 2006 06:16

help with a jpg-file needed
Hi group, no idea, if this is the correct place for my question, but starting at *linux* is always a good idea, I think... *g* I have a (huge) file which obviously contains several concatenated jpg-images (geometry 200x200), so with a standard viewer such as display or xv I only can see the first image. :-( A... 17 Aug 2006 08:28

Help--cdrecord won't blank cdrws
I'm running Debian Etch, recently installed on a Dell Optiplex GX750 with an LG HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10N cd/dvd rw drive. My kernel is the stock 2.6.12-1-386 that currently ships with Etch. cdrecord successfully burns audio cdrws (I've only tried burning audio cds to date). However, it will not blank burned audi... 14 Aug 2006 18:30