A so called newbie

[Crewchief]

Hi all, To make a long story short I installed RH 6.1 when it first came out to be a router and firewall for may cable modem and 5 systems. I learned enough to make it work well. To be honest it worked so good that it never had a crash in 1 yr. I never had to fix it(I forgot everything I learned)! I used it on my mac a long time ago. Needless to say it so solid that I never needed to play with it and now I'm lost.What I'm working with now is a triple boot system, 98, 2k pro and Mandrake 8.0. Heres my questions...

I'm using the default browser Konqoeror, How do I change the type in font( I can hardly read what I'm typing) and where can I set video refresh rates?

[sans-hubris]

If you go to Settings and Configure Konqueror, it's somewhere in there. I'm using links right now and I can't quite tell you offhand.

[ASCI Blue]

Konqueror: Settings, Configure Konqueror, Konqueror Browser, Appearance, select fonts.

[Crewchief]

Ok I set everything to times and still get a font I can't read. Anymore suggetions... The ones I can't hardly read are the default when lets say typing this in.

[drakster]

In the main KDE menu >Configuration>KDE>LookNFeel>[FONTS], you can change all your system fonts from there. First, you might want to open Drakfont and import your windows fonts if you have windows on that computer.

As far as your font settings, use adobe helvetica for all except fixed, use "clean" for that one. That setup seems to work quite well on my machine. (MD8.0)

[Crewchief]

Thank you my good man that took care of that.... Now how do I change the refresh rate of the video card? I also see that they have been nice enough to put a device mangler in... Will my A7V ata100 controller work or do I need to recompile the kernal? Right now I'm on the standard IDE because in my past Linux would'nt see the controler. Hey the way I look at it I'm a PEBKAC(problem exsits between keyboard and chair). Well I have to admit 2kpro is going to go byebye now. I like this version, God bless linus.

[bdg1983]

Use Xconfigurator, XF86Setup or xf86config for changing the refresh rate or manually edit and make the changes to XF86Config-4.

Have you check to see if Mandrake 8 supports the ATA100 out of the box?

Saved this from another thread here on Mandrake 8 ??? and ATA100.

1-boot up with the first Install CD and press F1 to get additional options. From here, enter the rescue system.

2-once it has booted into memory you can mount the drive as follows:
mount /dev/hde# /mnt/disk

3-go into the /mnt/disk/etc directory and edit fstab. Change all the references of /dev/hde# to /dev/hda#. Save and exit.

4-edit lilo.conf(this is what I use) and only change the root=/dev/hde# to root=/dev/hda# for each linux entry. Leave the boot disk and if you have a windows entry as they are.

5-change to the /mnt/disk directory and issue a chroot /mnt/disk.

6-run lilo and it will update the MBR or wherever you are putting it.

7-umount /mnt/disk and reboot the system.

[edit]
8-edit /etc/lilo.conf and change all instances of /dev/hde to /dev/hda, even the windows ones now. re-run lilo and you are set.

This should work for all promise cards/controllers and maybe any other ultra 100 cards out there.

There might be a different way but this worked for me and wasn't that difficult to do.

Oh, BTW, if you make any changes to /etc/lilo.conf once you are booted, you might have to change all references of /dev/hde in the file to /dev/hda or else lilo might not be able to install properly. I will have to test this out and will let you know.

Good Luck!
[Edit] I just tested it out and you do have to change all instances of /dev/hde to /dev/hda in /etc/lilo.conf after the first boot or else you will not be able to make any changes in the future. This is step 8. I would also stay away from Mandrake's GUI boot configurator as it may revert things back - not sure but not worth the risk.

[Crewchief]

Ok now you can call me a newbie for sure... I use boot magic and not lilo. will that still work modifying lilo.conf? And once I'm done configuring that file do I still need to do a (damn I forgot the command) something 700 /etc/lilo.conf in command line? No i'm not sure this version supports ata100 but I see that its listed in the device manager.

I tried to install 7.0 on my server and I was able to change the refresh rates in I believe gnome but I can't find it in KDE. I have to admit this OS has come a long way since the days of pure command line.