Re: [newbie] setting up a modem

1999-12-03 Thread eero
Ops, gave you too much. The command should be: setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 3 autoconfig Sorry about that Regards Eero On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: There probably is misconfigured serial port, so you better setserial (as root, naturally) by command: setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 3

[newbie] Window Maker is interesting...

1999-12-03 Thread Josh McCaffrey
W Maker is kinda cool. I like how I can mess w/ different desktop environments, and all my stuff is saved. So, once I figure out how to run an app, my stuff is there waiting for me. I'll probably mess w/ W Maker and Xfce a little more, but KDE, IMHO is best for newbies still learning their way

Re: [newbie] Lexmark Printers

1999-12-03 Thread Ben
freshmeat has a couple of drivers listed as well. I've got my lexmark 1100 working just fine.

Re: [newbie] crash tests....

1999-12-03 Thread Simon Norris
From a Unix point of view, you can normally have 255 X sessions of whatever type open at the same time, so head for that if you want. It should be reasonably easy to write a short shell script to spawn an infinite number of windows, record the count somewhere, and when (if) it crashes, you can go

Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Re: soundcard config]

1999-12-03 Thread MnMSuri
Wow! Thanks for your reply..however! I can't seem to figure out where the command line is inside the KDE or how to get to it in order to issue the sndco nfig command! Any ideas? : ) Thanks, again! Mani

[newbie] Turning off autocomplete in SO51

1999-12-03 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: A simple question about SO51: As I type, many words seem to try to complete themselves automatically. For instance, if I try to type the word "transformation" and begin with "tran...", before I get a chance to complete the word, i.e. when I get to the letter "t", SO tries to

Re: [newbie] Turning off autocomplete in SO51

1999-12-03 Thread Steve Philp
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: A simple question about SO51: As I type, many words seem to try to complete themselves automatically. For instance, if I try to type the word "transformation" and begin with "tran...", before I get a chance to complete the word, i.e. when I get to

Re: [newbie] Lots of problems on install

1999-12-03 Thread Paul Benjamin
The answer to question one is SCSI emulation. I wrote up what I did to get it to work on my PC. http://www.midkan.com/paulb/mycdr.htm PBen On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 23:28:00 -0700, Dan Ferris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First is this, I have an HP CDRecorder Plus IDE cdrecorder on /dev/hdd. I would

Re: [newbie] riva tnt drivers

1999-12-03 Thread Steve Philp
Traci Collins wrote: John Aldrich wrote: John, Which revision of XFree from the Mandrake mirrors is the first that has the Riva TNT upgrades already in it? I would like to check to see if I am using the full support on my hardware and I don't know which rev number the upgrade would be

Re: [Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Re: soundcard config]]

1999-12-03 Thread Michael Scottaline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! Thanks for your reply..however! I can't seem to figure out where the command line is inside the KDE or how to get to it in order to issue the sndco nfig command! Any ideas? : ) Thanks, again! Mani === Try the konsole icon on

RE: [newbie] Telnet went bye-bye after update.

1999-12-03 Thread Morrell, Mike
I did an update, not an upgrade. I shouldn't have to install a server since it was working before I did the upgrade unless it removes the server, which doesn't seem right. Anyway, I tried reinstalling ftp and telnet RPMS from the 6.0 CD and it is working again. :-) Why the update screws it up I

Re: [newbie] Turning off autocomplete in SO51

1999-12-03 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Steve: I did post a message cocerning my now solved problem of saving and backing up in SO. Got one response, which was off-target. I am grateful to the list for their patience while I tried to figure it out. Thanks to the list, I did. I always thought you had to be root to untar. Looks

[newbie] thanks Alan, Now for the Herc Prob

1999-12-03 Thread Walt F
Thanks to Alan. I've been subscribed to the digest version and Have sent numerous messages for help, to no avail Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] test Patyep, it got here, but give it time. It usually takes a few hours for a message to come back to you from the list.

Re: [newbie] Html - Font size.

1999-12-03 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Mark Fitzgerald wrote: Re: Text/size/html Mark: Please turn off HTML and/or increase the font size. Your message came across here as TINY characters, very difficult to read. :-) Besides, HTML doesn't belong in email...only on web pages! G Thanks... John .. John, Hmm

Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Re: soundcard config]

1999-12-03 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! Thanks for your reply..however! I can't seem to figure out where the command line is inside the KDE or how to get to it in order to issue the sndco nfig command! Any ideas? : ) Thanks, again! Mani Look across the bottom of the screen at the tool bar and

[newbie] SO51 autocomplete -- footnote

1999-12-03 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I just checked again: the annoying "autocomplete" I spoke of appears in existing documents. It does not seem to appear in a new document. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net

[newbie] How to start SO51 mailing list?

1999-12-03 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Since I brought up the subject of a StarOffice mailing list, I would like to try to do something about it. I thought of contacting Sun, but I have a feeling that they would see this as clashing with their support plans for StarOffice. The most obvious way to start a list is to

[newbie] lnx4win

1999-12-03 Thread Neil Galvin
Sorry if this gets sent twice. Hi, I have just tried to install lnx4win on my computer. Everything seemed to have went fine, I gave root a password and set up another user. The computer then rebooted and while it was rebooting the following error message appeared: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: fsck:

Re: [newbie] riva tnt drivers

1999-12-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: John Aldrich wrote: John, Which revision of XFree from the Mandrake mirrors is the first that has the Riva TNT upgrades already in it? I would like to check to see if I am using the full support on my hardware and I don't know which rev number the upgrade

Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Re: soundcard config]

1999-12-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Wow! Thanks for your reply..however! I can't seem to figure out where the command line is inside the KDE or how to get to it in order to issue the sndco nfig command! Any ideas? : ) You're booting straight into KDE, right? :-) On your taskbar at the

[newbie] routing table

1999-12-03 Thread Audrey Beck
Can someone help me with my routing table? Linux box: 172.239.21.23 Win95: 172.239.21.21 (also 172.239.21.20) Win98: 172.239.21.24 (connected to 172.239.21.20 on Win95 box) OS/2: 172.239.21.25 At this point, they can all talk to each other and Samba (default stuff) works. (ping, ftp, and sharing

Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder/decoder

1999-12-03 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: Cool! I knew winamp could but I didn't know xmms could. Which pluggin should I use? I looked and couldn't find one that looked like it did mp3-to-wav output... (I'm using version 0.9.1-6mdk). I *thought* xmms

[newbie] Sounds under Netscrape

1999-12-03 Thread bluebottle
Just bought SB 128 PCI which configed first time when probed. Runs CDs nicely and also various closing down opening-up sounds. Is it possible to get sound under Netscrape? I know what sounds should be there as I'm testing on my own web pages. Many thanks John the Nadger

Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder/decoder

1999-12-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: Thanks for replying. Globecom sounds good but I have a couple questions: 1) It says that it can rip from CD to mp3 but can it go the other way? (i.e. decompress mp3s into

Re: [newbie] crash tests....

1999-12-03 Thread Josh McCaffrey
I found a good one! Didn't crash my box, just got *really* slow. While I was in WindowMaker, in an Xterm, I typed "start Kde". So, Kde starts, my KDE background and icons pop up, everything looks like Kde, but the icons from WM are still there, and the window boarders are WM, as well as the

[newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction

1999-12-03 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: www.liszt.com is just a list of mailing lists, not a place to start one. Which only goes to show that if anyone is interested in starting a StarOffice mailing list, then we'll have to look for someone who can direct us to information on how to do it. Anybody know anything about

Re: [newbie] lpr .46 -- lpq still dead

1999-12-03 Thread WH Bouterse
Benjamin ! Did you try the extra step I tried which corrected my constant buggy printing problems of several weeks ago? i.e. With LPD originally compiled as modular (by default) in the 6.1 kernel in /etc/rc.d/rc.local at the end of the file past the last 'fi' I put; /sbin/modprobe parport

RE: [newbie] Soundblaster Live! Mini How-To

1999-12-03 Thread Kyle Robinson
Thanks Alexander for the instructions. I got my SB Live! up and working and it's great. But... Here's what I've done. So I download the patch, update the kernel and initialize the soundcard with a "modprode emu10k1" command. Wohoo! I got MP3s playing, KDE events boinging and I'm happy. I

Re: [newbie] Sounds under Netscrape

1999-12-03 Thread Seung-woo Nam
Hi, Depending on what format of sound you have on your web page, you would need netscape plugins. However, I think a plugin called 'plugger', which you can download from netscape website, would work fine with most common sound formats. - Original Message - From: "bluebottle" [EMAIL

Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Re: soundcard config]

1999-12-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Manithere are quite a few different ways to do most anything in Linux. I believe that the following method will serve you best in this case. 1. press ctl-alt f2 2. sign in as root 3. type setup 3. choose 'sound card configuration' (it's the same as sndconfig) 4. when done, quit from setup

[newbie] video card support

1999-12-03 Thread Bill Barnes
Hi y'all: The video card is S3 Virge GX 3d. It works with a SuSE installation. Copied their driver XF86_S3V to /usr/X11R6/bin/. How can I persuade LM to recognize this? Thanks Bill Barnes This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy

[newbie] Desktopcfg

1999-12-03 Thread Josh McCaffrey
I ran desktopcfg as root and chose to set the system wide default as Xfce, but when I log in as user, Window Maker starts; if I log in as root, Xfce starts.

Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder/decoder

1999-12-03 Thread David van Balen
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: snip Open up the preferences and pick discwriter output plugin.. wav's will end up in $HOME as default but you can change that by

Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction

1999-12-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Dear friends: www.liszt.com is just a list of mailing lists, not a place to start one. Which only goes to show that if anyone is interested in starting a StarOffice mailing list, then we'll have to look for someone who can direct us to information on how

Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction

1999-12-03 Thread Josh McCaffrey
I think www.list.com or lists.com. I know when another mail list server was down, we had a back up list using one of these sites. If you can put up w/ a little advertising on all of the posted mails, it's not so bad. If it works, it works :) -Josh Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends:

[newbie] Sounds under Netscrape -- plugger

1999-12-03 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Seung-woo: You can get the "plugger" (v. 3.2) plugin for Netscape from: http://www.hubbe.net/~hubbe/plugger.html Be sure to get the plugger RPM package. Be sure to read all the instructions on the home page. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web

RE: [newbie] Soundblaster Live! Mini How-To

1999-12-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: So I decide to keep updating stuff. I ran the Updates feature on the KDE desktop. So I run it and it finds about 10 updates. So I figure what the hell and run the update. Now one of these updates is a new kernel. Not thinking I downloaded and installed all

Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction

1999-12-03 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear John: Thanks a million. Am setting up the Star-Linux mailing list right now. Hope I can do it. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net

Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction

1999-12-03 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta starting a mailing list is not that hard actualy. If I were to start one I would grab a copy of mailman and install it (accoring to the INSTALL/README) oh yeah, need a *nix with sendmail and a non-blocked port 25 you could even goto www.listbot.com and start a list

Re: [newbie] Sounds under Netscrape

1999-12-03 Thread bluebottle
Many thank for that. First time I've downloaded a plug-in and it worked OK. Only thing it did was to repeat play but I can live with that. John the Nadger On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hi, Depending on what format of sound you have on your web page, you would need netscape plugins.

Re: [newbie] Sounds under Netscrape -- plugger

1999-12-03 Thread bluebottle
I got the rpm dowload from Netscrape's site and it's fine. John the Nadger On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Dear Seung-woo: You can get the "plugger" (v. 3.2) plugin for Netscape from: http://www.hubbe.net/~hubbe/plugger.html Be sure to get the plugger RPM package. Be sure to read all

[newbie] PCI Modem

1999-12-03 Thread Kyle
Is it possible to set up a PCI Modem (It is not a WIN modem ) (it is a USR PCI voice data fax type). I'm not sure if PCI modems are supported by linux. Any help is well come thanks kyle Kyle Maher [EMAIL PROTECTED] We

[newbie] Star-Linux mailing list now open!

1999-12-03 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: My thanks to John Aldrich for suggesting egroups.com. Hope I know what I am doing. The new StarOffice mailing list is now ready to accept members. Let's start with Mandrake. If it's a success, I will publicize it on various Linux sites and other mailing lists. Let's first see if I

Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction

1999-12-03 Thread Shannon M. Johnston
Where do you get a copy of mailman? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta starting a mailing list is not that hard actualy. If I were to start one I would grab a copy of mailman and install it (accoring to the INSTALL/README) oh yeah, need a *nix with sendmail and a

Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction

1999-12-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Benhttp://www.onelist.com Alan Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: www.liszt.com is just a list of mailing lists, not a place to start one. Which only goes to show that if anyone is interested in starting a StarOffice mailing list, then we'll have to look for someone who can

Re: [newbie] CDROM PROBLEMS

1999-12-03 Thread Ggreenejr
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: Well its upgraded to a pentium, the cdrom is a Mitsumi KEPanasonic CDROM on I/O 0630h-0637h the driver is mkecr5xx.mpd on the windows system area and I don't know which mdk version It's a "panasonic interface"

Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction

1999-12-03 Thread Patrick Putteman
try www.freshmeat.com, that's where I found my copy of Mailmain. It installed like a breeze, is easy to configure, runs like a charm, has loads of features and is blazing fast. Hey, why not include it in Cooker? Patrick Putteman Internet Support Manager Net7 - Member of the Advalvas Group -

[newbie] linux mandrake books

1999-12-03 Thread Greg Stevenson
Anyone know of any books that are reasonably compatible with the Mandrake distribution? I'm looking for something with a lot of breath and/or depth. I've been programming PCs for over 25 years so I'd like to avoid books that are really basic but, would like ones that do cover common problems that

[newbie] Amd?

1999-12-03 Thread Eric Mings
Under what circumstances is it useful to have amd running? I read the man pages but it still is not clear to me whether I need this running on a machine that will be primarily a web server. I generally access this machine to work on it either directly or via appletalk (no windows network

Re: [newbie] We need a StarOffice list!

1999-12-03 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Dear friends: I feel that I am in a quandary. There is no mailing list for StarOffice, or rather there is one with 23 members on it, which I subscribed to. Never got a message from them except for my subscription confirmation. With millions of people using

Re: [newbie] PCI Modem

1999-12-03 Thread Serpico
Oh sure, linux should auto detect it. Just make sure to set it to the right COM port and do a query on it. If you're using KDE, then the kppp program should help you. Serpico "You talkin' to me?" - Original Message - From: Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [newbie] Monitor specs

1999-12-03 Thread Dan Schaller
Tthanks to you all. It was very helpful (and I'm going to install a different monitor: turns out that this one is a rarity :-) Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, M Thompson wrote: I hope I'm not banned from the list for saying this, but... Check out www.winfiles.com and go to

Re: [newbie] crash tests....

1999-12-03 Thread Steve Philp
Josh McCaffrey wrote: sometimes several seconds to do anything. If I have 60ns EDO RAM, what would disk swapping be comparable to? Well, typical disk accesses are around 10ms is I remember correctly... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] test

1999-12-03 Thread Kit
someone please let me know if this email gets posted..quickly. for some reason, none of my emails are getting thru. -- Website Design, Creation and Maintenance =Kit Designs= HomePage: (http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Star-Linux mailing list!

1999-12-03 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: May I ask our list members who are subscribed to other Linux distros to spread the word about the new star-linux mailing list I just started today. It's an unmoderated list opend to everybody in Linux. For details see my original letter or go to:

[newbie] unmounting cdrom

1999-12-03 Thread Bill Barnes
To all: what is required to unmount the cdrom. opened it from the desktop icon. scanned the directories and closed the window at file-exit. right click and selecting unmount triggers KFM error: umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy Thought this had worked in the past. Thanks Bill

[newbie] DNS server?

1999-12-03 Thread Chromatic Bloom
Okay, I need a simple explanation of DNS. I have a linux box that I want to setup and put online. I want to own a domain name. I want to do this using MediaOne Cable Modem. This requires DNS updates as MediaOne changed your IP at random times. How can I do this?

[newbie] Several Linux Questions...

1999-12-03 Thread Joe Brault
Hello, I have several questions... (1) When I load my user, I can get to a command line fine, however, when I try to load KDE, I am unable to. I get a message that says a new version was installed, then it asks me if I want to install or not. No matter what I click, I am booted out of

Re: [newbie] unmounting cdrom

1999-12-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Billit sounds to me like there's a file open. Alan Bill Barnes wrote: To all: what is required to unmount the cdrom. opened it from the desktop icon. scanned the directories and closed the window at file-exit. right click and selecting unmount triggers KFM error: umount:

Re: [newbie] PCI Modem

1999-12-03 Thread Larry Coolidge
PCI is just the interface, as long as you are sure it's not a Winmodem, then it should work fine as long as the PNP is getting loaded properly. --- Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to set up a PCI Modem (It is not a WIN modem ) (it is a USR PCI voice data fax type). I'm not

Re: [newbie] DNS server?

1999-12-03 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Chromatic Bloom wrote: Okay, I need a simple explanation of DNS. I have a linux box that I want to setup and put online. I want to own a domain name. I want to do this using MediaOne Cable Modem. This requires DNS updates as MediaOne changed your IP at random times. How can I do

Re: [newbie] Before I start and Etc.

1999-12-03 Thread Mark Fitzgerald
Mark: This is, indeed, almost a FAQ question. :-) If we HAD a FAQ it would probably be there. :-) modprobe ppa is, I think, the answer Check the archives... I recall TONS of questions about paralell port devices. :-) John Thanks .. John. Mark - Original Message - From: John

Re: [newbie] Html - Font size.

1999-12-03 Thread Mark Fitzgerald
Hi, Re: Font Size Looks good now. Excellent! Thanks again .. John. - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 3, 1999 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Html - Font size. On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hmm .. that is odd,

Re: [newbie] Several Linux Questions...

1999-12-03 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Joe Brault wrote: Hello, I have several questions... (1) When I load my user, I can get to a command line fine, however, when I try to load KDE, I am unable to. I get a message that says a new version was installed, then it asks me if I want to install or not. No matter what

[newbie] nis

1999-12-03 Thread Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia
to whom it may concern, I'm pretty much a newbie to linux but the people at my work want me to set up a machine as a nis server. A collegue of mine sent me the following message I installed the ypserv RPM for you. You can start at the point where you configure /etc/ypserv.conf. So, can

Re: [newbie] unmounting cdrom

1999-12-03 Thread M Thompson
Make sure you're not accessing the cdrom through any sort of explorer or even the console. From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] unmounting cdrom Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 16:13:51 -0800 Billit sounds to me like

[newbie] Basic doubts

1999-12-03 Thread Cesar Santos
Hi I am very new to Linux and I've installed Mandrake 6.0 yesterday. I am trying to use Netscape without success since it couldn't find any URL. Seems it can't resolve DNS. After dialling with KPPP I can ping and telnet any IP and login too. I couldn't also use my e-mail client since am

Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder/decoder

1999-12-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Disk Writer plugin 0.9... duh! I'll try it when I get off work. Thanks, John! Hehe. :-) I hadda go ask the experts myself. I didn't SEE a disk writer plugin myself, but... :-) John

Re: [newbie] PCI Modem

1999-12-03 Thread Dennis
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999 14:50:32 -0600, you wrote: Since PCI cards are supported I would think that this modem would be. Is it possible to set up a PCI Modem (It is not a WIN modem ) (it is a USR PCI voice data fax type). I'm not sure if PCI modems are supported by linux. Any help is well come

[newbie] Thanks + question about /dev files

1999-12-03 Thread Seth Gibson
Greetings All! Thanks all for the assistance concerning X not running kde. As it was, for anyone else that might run up against this issue, it was simply a case of updating my xinitrc package. . . Now for the question: Is there a preferred way to remove /dev files or does rm work ok?

Re: [newbie] PCI Modem

1999-12-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Is it possible to set up a PCI Modem (It is not a WIN modem ) (it is a USR PCI voice data fax type). I'm not sure if PCI modems are supported by linux. Any help is well come Just because it does not SAY it's a "WinModem" does not mean that it is not a

Re: [newbie] test

1999-12-03 Thread John Aldrich
It is currently 21:13 here. But I don't know what time this actually arrived at my ISP's mail server.. :-) John On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: someone please let me know if this email gets posted..quickly. for some reason, none of my emails are getting thru. -- Website