[newbie] Bit of a Wierdy here

2000-02-12 Thread Mike
Hi gentlepeople! Got a bit of a strange one here :-( I have been running Mandy6.1 now for a few weeks and suddenly in the last few days, whenever I install a rpm with the kpackage, just befor it finnishes the instalation and queries the rpm database it tries to access the 2nd of my mounted

Re: [newbie] Mandrake versions

2000-02-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ronwhy are you arguing about this?! MacMillan plainly, albeit in a smaller font (but certainly not smaller than the font you're reading right now) than the 6.5 is printed in, marks on the front of the box that it is Mandrake 6.1 in the box. That is EXACTLY what it is. Mandrake 6.1 that is

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment not starting?

2000-02-12 Thread Rick N
Dan, I'm maybe wrong, but I think enlightenment needs to start before you can use gnome. It needs to setup the desktops. Maybe not though, after all I'm a real newbie, but I'm learning. Rick N - Original Message - From: Dan Ros [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [newbie] text install of 7.0-2

2000-02-12 Thread Family ZOMBIE
Hi! There is instructions Mandrake CD ( on images dir). you have to make a bootdisk from txt_boot.img (or txt_bootnet.img - in previous version they mixed these files - I think). From README: - Text Install -

RE: [newbie] compiling problem

2000-02-12 Thread Family ZOMBIE
Hi! I think i found some help for the original problem (C++ compiler cannot create executables). one of these (maybe both) might be required for compiling: libstdc++-devel-2.95.2-3mdk.i586.rpm (or libstdc++-devel-.rpm ) glibc-devel-2.1.2-9mdk.i586.rpm (or glibc-devel-.rpm check if you

Re: [newbie] IDE Zip

2000-02-12 Thread Audrey Beck
Heberto del Rio Guerra wrote: Hi I just got Linux Mandrake 7.0 and install it. Everything went fine, but... It didn't auto configure my IDE Zip that used to work perfect under Windows 95, Linux Red Hat 5.2 and Linux Red Hat 6.1. When Mandrake is loading it recognizes de IDE ZIp it sees it

[newbie] Mandrake O/S 6.5 with PCMCIA Drive and no floppy disk installation???

2000-02-12 Thread Ivan Kok
I am totally new in Linux!! I am trying to install Mandrake 6.5 into my Sony VAIO PCG-C1 notebook. This notebook came with a USB Version Floppy disk drive, without built-in CD-ROM drive, all I can do is boot up the installation program from the Set-up CDROM from my PCMCIA CDROM Drive. But the

Re: [newbie] compiling problem

2000-02-12 Thread Gina
I have found out what my problems have been with compiling. I couldnt compile the rpms for my graphics display driver and thanks to Warren I got that goingas he sent me his compiled driver. Then I have problems with installing alsa drivers. Again, compiling error messages and I cant do it. I

Re: [newbie] The saga continues...update:

2000-02-12 Thread Audrey Beck
Works fine in Mandrake 6.1. Audrey Beck wrote: Dave wrote: I tried changing (in the BIOS), the eth0 to IRQ 3...and when I went back to linux, ide0 had changed with it...is there some other way to change IRQs then? thx -Dave I have the same type of thing. I thought it was just

Re: [newbie] file types association in KDE

2000-02-12 Thread Audrey Beck
Alek wrote: Hello, I would like to change the default file associations. Ex. I'd like to have FreeAmp play/open my mp3/m3u files instead of the KDE Audio Mpeg Player. Where/how please. Thanks, Alek There is a section on it in the KDE help file. What I did was to go into K Explorer and

Re: [newbie] KDE startup

2000-02-12 Thread Audrey Beck
Enter: startx Do you get errors or? JP wrote: I also have installed linux-mandrake twice and I can't get kde going either. I have xterm and xconsole up but can't get kde to start. I have re-read the installation guide and notice that at one point it mentions selecting the components to

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment not starting?

2000-02-12 Thread dan
Rick N wrote: Dan, I'm maybe wrong, but I think enlightenment needs to start before you can use gnome. It needs to setup the desktops. Maybe not though, after all I'm a real newbie, but I'm learning. It's ok, I fixed it. I just opened up a terminal and typed enlightenment and it

Re: [newbie] unsubscribe

2000-02-12 Thread Regino Alwin Omar Rasmijn

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake

2000-02-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
BrianYou're very welcome. MacMillan vs. Mandrake!? Boy, that depends on a lot of different factors. If monitarily supporting the Mandrake folks who put a lot of time, money and effort into the Mandrake distribution is important to you then the obvious answer would be to buy the mandrake

Re: [newbie] Login problem

2000-02-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
CyberI'm sorry you're not getting any response to your problem. I'm sure it's not because people are ingoring you for some reason, but instead because, like me, they haven't experienced a problem like yours and therefore haven't anything helpful to contribute. Perhaps if you expanded your

[newbie] 2 cd drives linux only finds one???

2000-02-12 Thread Jason R. Lucier
I am quite new to the Linux platform, but so far i love it. There is one small problem i have two cd drives one dvd and one burner. The system always recognizes and mounts properly the standard drive. The secondary cd burner it never recognizes and i'am a little bit lost and how to fix this

[newbie] shared libraries?

2000-02-12 Thread Ron Burns
Hi everyone I have Linux Mandrake 7.0 succesfully installed on my machine!!! What a treat in comparison to the usual boring Windows. I am trying to install an RPM that says it has a dependancy on libjpeg.so.6. Is this not a file that is required by alot of KDE apps? Please help.. so far

[newbie] To shut down services

2000-02-12 Thread hugh
To all those who asked before Open the file etc/inetd.conf. Then comment out the services you dont want by adding a "# " before the service line with out quotes. This will remove the service you wish removed -- QOTD: I'm not a nerd -- I'm "socially challenged".

Re: [newbie] Re-router

2000-02-12 Thread synrat
yeah, I can host it for you on either a T1 or 386kb dsl, apache or iis4 - Original Message - From: "Vic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 4:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Re-router Hi any one know of any decent re-router services for a guy on cablemodem

[newbie] Slow performance and how to manage :) KDE vs Gnome

2000-02-12 Thread hugh
I just wanted to mention to those who said that there performance was slow that gnome is much faster. I use gnome when I feel the need for speed :) Netscape will open almost twice as fast under Gnome as it will under KDE. I have tested this several times. Also a friend of mine will only use

Re: [newbie] 2 cd drives linux only finds one???

2000-02-12 Thread Mike
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, you wrote: I am quite new to the Linux platform, but so far i love it. There is one small problem i have two cd drives one dvd and one burner. The system always recognizes and mounts properly the standard drive. The secondary cd burner it never recognizes and i'am a

RE: [newbie] KDE startup

2000-02-12 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Chris, After looging in type startx at the prompt. The screen will go grey for a few seconds and then the KDE will load. Andy On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, you wrote: kdedesktop from the console -Original Message- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 10 February

Re: [newbie] 2 cd drives linux only finds one???

2000-02-12 Thread ChOPpY C. Chipper
Yea, me 2, I have a DVD and Burner, it recognizes the burner under /mnt but does not let me load it! the DVD drives works thougH! help on this would be gladly apreciated! -Julien - Original Message - From: Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000

RE: [newbie] 2 cd drives linux only finds one???

2000-02-12 Thread Ingo Bauer
Good afternoon ..:) To make your burner work as a burner your have some extra work ahead of you. A good point to start is the following URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO Ingo -Original Message- From: Mike [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday,

[newbie] Cable Modem Setup

2000-02-12 Thread J Winkle
Hi All, I am using a cable modem (Comcast @Home in NJ) to connect to the internet and can not, for the life of me, figure out how to configure it (correctly) to actually get on the internet. I have found most(?) places that would configure it. But am not sure of the translation between

RE: [newbie] 2 cd drives linux only finds one???

2000-02-12 Thread Mike
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, you wrote: Good afternoon ..:) To make your burner work as a burner your have some extra work ahead of you. A good point to start is the following URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO Ingo H, that is a humungeous amount to

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup

2000-02-12 Thread Sevatio Octavio
What Mandrake are you using? Seve -Original Message- From: J Winkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 11:21 AM Subject: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup Hi All, I am using a cable modem (Comcast @Home in NJ) to connect to the internet and

[newbie] Mouse/kaudio woes -- Urgent

2000-02-12 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends (Using Mandrake 6.1) My mouse freezes in Netscape and elsewhere in X windows (KDE) and in the Console. It was working fine for months and now is constantly breaking down (every few minutes -- I hope I can get this message out before it breaks down again). Here are the messages I

Re: [[newbie] Hardware Flaky]

2000-02-12 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Brent Timmer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative - I'm just starting to use linux, and this was my first install(mandrake 7.0). I have very new

[newbie] 3C905 and IRC

2000-02-12 Thread sdos
Hello, I have recently installed Mandrake 7, and love it, only problem I have is I have 2 network cards, one in a linksys ehter16 isa, and the other is a 3com 506b isa (which I believe some one has posted about already) I can't get either one to work, it sees the 3com for sure, but I don't

Re: [newbie]Mandrake on a 486 - was Laptop

2000-02-12 Thread Walter C Lucas
yes during instal. On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 23:03:51 -0500 root [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well two things, when are you getting this error? During the install? And on the other note, i am running 7.0.2 air! on a 133 mhz intel pent w/ 48mb ram and i gotta say it runs so very smothly ( as i run

[newbie] Kernel Configuration

2000-02-12 Thread Lance Borden
I'm at a dead end here...sure hope y'all have some insight! I'm trying to recompile my kernel for my zip100 parallel port drive. When I get to the 'make bzImage' step, I get the following error message every time: gcc -06 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake

2000-02-12 Thread Mark Potochnik
Hey Brian I just went to a Kplug meeting and there was a speaker there for Corel What he told us was that Corel uses Debian for the OS and a modified KDE for the desktop. I have heard it is real easy to install taking all the brain work away. Sometimes I rather have a little involvement

Re: [newbie] Financial Freedom and Success

2000-02-12 Thread Mark Potochnik
Don't feel bad Larry. I went to a Linux users group, and Microsoft wasspamming an advertisement for Windows 2000 there ! From ZDTV Bugfest! Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Urging developers to clean up their code, a Microsoft exec says: 'How many of you

Re: [newbie] How do I install programs?

2000-02-12 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Also look at http://www.linuxberg.com for additional software. As far as how to install software... (Assuming you know as much as I did when I first started - Zero) When you download files with the extension of RPM, you can click the RPM files and the install process is similar to that of

Re: [newbie] shared libraries?

2000-02-12 Thread gene patnode-sturtevant
Ron Burns wrote: Hi everyone I have Linux Mandrake 7.0 succesfully installed on my machine!!! What a treat in comparison to the usual boring Windows. I am trying to install an RPM that says it has a dependancy on libjpeg.so.6. Is this not a file that is required by alot of KDE

[newbie] Lilo accidental install on C:\ drive and not mbr...

2000-02-12 Thread David Schur
I am running a 2 hd computer 1st is all windows ( c ), 2nd is 1/2 linux 1/2 vfat partition. ( broken into two more drives a primary and a logical - d/e ) Ok i Did the stupid mistake and installed it to hda1 instead of hda yea stupid me, now i don't know how to remove it! Any Ideas ? I tried

[newbie] Good offline mail/news reader for linux?

2000-02-12 Thread dan
Does anyone know of one? I've had a go at slrn for news but it feels a bit too archaic for me!

[newbie] default inittab

2000-02-12 Thread Ty C.Mixon
I've been playing with inittab, and now I get an error that doesn't seem to affect anything, but it's annoying: x Id respawning too fast. Waiting 5 minutes. And as you might imagine it pops up in a terminal every 5 minutes. It's coming from the fact that the x:5:respawn:stuff here line is

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup

2000-02-12 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Did @Home give you a static IP address? Seve -Original Message- From: J Winkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 11:42 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup Sorry, Mandrake 7.0 Network Adapter = Intel EtherExpress Pro 10+/

Re: [newbie] shared libraries?

2000-02-12 Thread Lance Borden
Ron Burns wrote: I am trying to install an RPM that says it has a dependancy on libjpeg.so.6. Is this not a file that is required by alot of KDE apps? Please help.. so far this is the second app that requires this library and it remains elusive. Ron, I had to go hunting for that

Re: [newbie] Re: Running PPPDialer/Config (Continuation - Stillned help!)

2000-02-12 Thread Lance Borden
"ChOPpY C. Chipper" wrote: it doesn't say "modem is busy or whatever". instead now, it just stops when it says "initiliazing modem" don't know how to continue, modem dosen't click like when it onrmally starts dialing! I have enabled xon/xoff, which fiex my original problem! Thanks a

RE: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup

2000-02-12 Thread J Winkle
Thanks for replying Seve, yes they did give a static IP. I have recorded all my internet settings to include, static IP address, DNS Server Search Order, Domain Suffix Search Order, Domain, Host, Gateway, Subnet Mask, what my computer name and workgroup is supposed to be. I can set this up by

[newbie] ipchains inaccurate byte report?

2000-02-12 Thread Alek
Hello, I'm masquerading some friends of me to get them on the internet over my modem. I use ipchains command to make the chains. Everything works ok except for the: ipchains -L -v command wich returns about 20 times smaller values for their transfers than in reality. If I have an overall bytes in

Re: [newbie] Lilo accidental install on C:\ drive and not mbr...

2000-02-12 Thread Tony
try program called Ranishes Partition Manager, I had a problem with a partition fdisk did not recognise and this program removed it OK, you have to study the manual/help as its not as obvious as it might be. - Original Message - From: "David Schur" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] default inittab

2000-02-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
TyI guess you meant this one. x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" Alan Ty C.Mixon" wrote: I've been playing with inittab, and now I get an error that doesn't seem to affect anything, but it's annoying: x Id respawning too fast. Waiting 5 minutes. And as you might imagine it

Re: [newbie] Lilo accidental install on C:\ drive and not mbr...

2000-02-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Dave/Tonyhere's the URL for Ranish Partition Manager: http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ Alan Tony wrote: try program called Ranishes Partition Manager, I had a problem with a partition fdisk did not recognise and this program removed it OK, you have to study the manual/help

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup

2000-02-12 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Ok, here we go... fire up DrakConf Click - Network Configuration Go to - Basic Host Information - for Hostname Tab| Hostname: put in the Host name from TCP/IP Properties | DNS Configuration Tab from your winbox Go to - the Adapter 1 Tab (linbox) "Primary name + Domain" should be the same as

Re: [newbie] Lilo accidental install on C:\ drive and not mbr...

2000-02-12 Thread Ali Tavakoly
i fixed that by rinstallign windows. peace, ali David Schur wrote: I am running a 2 hd computer 1st is all windows ( c ), 2nd is 1/2 linux 1/2 vfat partition. ( broken into two more drives a primary and a logical - d/e ) Ok i Did the stupid mistake and installed it to hda1 instead of hda

Re: [newbie] Urgent -- how to get back to KDE

2000-02-12 Thread Sevatio Octavio
First of all, did you ever get your mouse fixed by going into "setup"? Seve -Original Message- From: Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 12:14 PM Subject: [newbie] Urgent -- how

[newbie] Mandrake 7.0-2 ... Is it really Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk?

2000-02-12 Thread Sevatio Octavio
I tried installing OSS (the paid version) won't install and it's telling me that my Kernel is 2.2.14-1mdk. Is Mandrake 7.0-2 using a different kernel from what it's claiming? Seve

[newbie] Changing Color Depth

2000-02-12 Thread Adam Stark
How do I change the color depth for KDE/Xwindows? I seem to be stuck with 8-bit, but I would like to change it to 16-bit. Thanks

[newbie] Configuring Dial Up

2000-02-12 Thread Ernest Renn, Jr.
I currently use A.T.T. as my ISP. How do I setup their service under Linux-mandrake 7?

Re: [[newbie] Cable Modem Setup]

2000-02-12 Thread Jaguar
First of all...read the HOWTO on NIC's and there is also one on Cable Modemsonce your NIC is correctly setup, all I had to do was choose the INSTALL NIC in initial startup after INSATLLING, put in the IP (IP, DNS, Gateway) info, including the account NAME, and presto...it worked...mine for

[newbie] CD burners linux

2000-02-12 Thread Richard T. Waters
I have a scsi CD rom and had some problems when I added my IDE burner. Here's what I found: You may want to consider X-CD Roast for your CD burning. You can get information on it at: http://www.fh-muenchen.de/rz/xcdroast It came with my Mandrake 6.1 distribution. X-CD-Roast uses a command

[newbie] [Newbie] Commands...

2000-02-12 Thread Andy Foote
Hey...what do the -r, -s, -n things mean? i know there are morecould someone explain them to me?

[newbie] Gimp v Paint Shop Pro

2000-02-12 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Could anyone tell me if Gimp is an equal to Paint Shop Pro or Photo Shop for Windows. I design wed sites and use PSP and PS for all of my graphics, however as I become more impressed with my MD6-1 installation I wish to move away from Windows and stick with Linux (especially since I have

[newbie] doing stuff that requires root but not from a konsole

2000-02-12 Thread David W
Hi - Now that I have my mandrake boxen pretty well working the way I want them to and have learned barely enough to stay out of trouble, I'm trying to get out of the bad and dangerous habit of logging in as root. Most of the time this is no problem - if I need to run, for example, klilo or

Re: [newbie] Mouse/kaudio woes -- Urgent

2000-02-12 Thread Audrey Beck
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends (Using Mandrake 6.1) My mouse freezes in Netscape and elsewhere in X windows (KDE) and in the Console. It was working fine for months and now is constantly breaking down (every few minutes -- I hope I can get this message out before it breaks down

Re: [newbie] 2 cd drives linux only finds one???

2000-02-12 Thread Audrey Beck
Mike wrote: H, that is a humungeous amount to read and understand :-( Let us assume for a minute that I am a total idiot. Its easy really, my wife does it all the time :-( How would one such as me go about adding my 2nd EIDE CD type device and then setting it up as a

Re: [newbie] 3C905 and IRC

2000-02-12 Thread Audrey Beck
sdos wrote: Hello, I have recently installed Mandrake 7, and love it, only problem I have is I have 2 network cards, one in a linksys ehter16 isa, and the other is a 3com 506b isa (which I believe some one has posted about already) I can't get either one to work, it sees the 3com for sure,

Re: [newbie] Urgent -- how to get back to KDE

2000-02-12 Thread Audrey Beck
Benjamin Sher wrote: Using Mandrake 6.1 I am typing to you from Pine in the Console. I have been having endless problems with my mouse. I thought I would try testing it in Gnome. Well, it's even worse in Gnome. In KDE, my mouse lasts about 5 to 10 minutes. In Gnome, it dies almost

Re: [newbie] How do I install programs?

2000-02-12 Thread Brent Timmer
Thanks very much, this has been very helpful. Brent Also look at http://www.linuxberg.com for additional software. As far as how to install software... (Assuming you know as much as I did when I first started - Zero) When you download files with the extension of RPM, you can click the RPM

Re: [newbie] Lilo accidental install on C:\ drive and not mbr...

2000-02-12 Thread Brent Timmer
type "lilo -u /dev/hda1" This will remove lilo and restore your boot sector to what is was previously(as far as I know because I've tried it after having this problem). I forget exactly where it backs it up and the file name, but it does and this works great. Brent Timmer EE, CS

Re: [newbie] Kernel Configuration

2000-02-12 Thread Audrey Beck
Lance Borden wrote: I'm at a dead end here...sure hope y'all have some insight! I'm trying to recompile my kernel for my zip100 parallel port drive. When I get to the 'make bzImage' step, I get the following error message every time: gcc -06 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti

Re: [newbie] Lilo accidental install on C:\ drive and not mbr...

2000-02-12 Thread Audrey Beck
David Schur wrote: I am running a 2 hd computer 1st is all windows ( c ), 2nd is 1/2 linux 1/2 vfat partition. ( broken into two more drives a primary and a logical - d/e ) Ok i Did the stupid mistake and installed it to hda1 instead of hda yea stupid me, now i don't know how to

Re: [newbie] Gimp v Paint Shop Pro

2000-02-12 Thread John Catral
Could anyone tell me if Gimp is an equal to Paint Shop Pro or Photo Shop for Windows. I have used GIMP just for fun and I love it! Friends of mine who use it to create graphics and edit pictures for web design all say that GIMP is actually better than Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro. If you

[newbie] I have problems with tar.gz files

2000-02-12 Thread Fernando Camacho Olmos
mandrake 7.0 I download Xsane and type tar -zxf xsane-..tar.gz and extract fine ./configure make in this line say "make ***no target. stop." what i have to do? Fernando Camacho Olmos

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2000-02-12 Thread Fernando Camacho Olmos
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[newbie] I have problems with Xsane an tar.gz files

2000-02-12 Thread Fernando Camacho Olmos
mandrake 7.0I download Xsane and type tar -zxf xsane-..tar.gz and extract fine ./configure make in this line say "make ***no target. stop." what i have to do? Fernando Camacho Olmo

[newbie] USB Scanners

2000-02-12 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Has anyone been able to get a USB Scanner to work? And how? Seve

Re: [newbie] Urgent -- how to get back to KDE

2000-02-12 Thread Warren Doney
like you can get to text mode with "linux 3" @ lilo prompt you can get to X login with "linux 5" choose your windowmanager. have you tried "mouseconfig" or whatever its called yet? Type "setup" @ command prompt. BTW, you might be able to choose desk With "setup" too - can't recall. -WBD

[newbie] Bluefish download

2000-02-12 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Kit, Download from http://bluefish.linuxbox.com Happy writing (it's for those of us who preferr 'raw' HTML) Andy

Re: [newbie] Lilo accidental install on C:\ drive and not mbr...

2000-02-12 Thread Carl Kehley
David Schur wrote: I am running a 2 hd computer 1st is all windows ( c ), 2nd is 1/2 linux 1/2 vfat partition. ( broken into two more drives a primary and a logical - d/e ) Ok i Did the stupid mistake and installed it to hda1 instead of hda yea stupid me, now i don't know how to

[newbie] sorry,modem is busy

2000-02-12 Thread George Houdek-Viskovska
Hi everyone !! I have problem with Kppp and minicom . I click on Connection and LINUX show me window with : "Sorry,modem is busy" but my modem is not busy ???Line, modem is OK but for Kppp and minicom is modem busy . Please help me . George

RE: [newbie] Hardware Flaky

2000-02-12 Thread RICHARD FRIEDMAN
On Saturday, 2000-Feb-12, you wrote: * I'm just starting to use linux, and this was my first install(mandrake 7.0). I have very * new hardware, and it has been slow going getting it all to work. * For one, how do I get my sound card(diamond monster mx300

[newbie] Telnetq

2000-02-12 Thread Chris
I am running on [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-mandrake 7.0 I finally reinstalled several times to get everything going right... I have internet access kde works..but i can not make a telnet connection back to my machine from other computers Anyideas would be great. Chris

[newbie] Telnet port

2000-02-12 Thread Chris
Is it possible that cox@home has the port 23 blocked for incoming? If so is there a way to change the default telnet port linux uses?

Re: [newbie] Telnet port

2000-02-12 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
you can edit /etc/services and change the default port On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Chris wrote: Is it possible that cox@home has the port 23 blocked for incoming? If so is there a way to change the default telnet port linux uses?

Re: [newbie] Re: [alsa-user] alsa install problem

2000-02-12 Thread Gina
Hi Warren, Thanks for the tip. But Ive had to use alsa latest v1.52 as it has the support for my i8xo chipset. this is where Im at with it. Man, after playing with this all day Im going to go have a beer and jump in the pool! (its summer here): I have managed to finally get somewhere. This

[newbie] Boot Rescue Disk

2000-02-12 Thread RICHARD FRIEDMAN
I ran mkbootdisk and successfully created a boot disk (apparently). When I try to boot with it (to test it), it starts booting and then asks me to enter "rescue" if that's what I want. So, to test it out, I entered "rescue" (no quotes of course) and it proceeds to boot. However, it soon stops

Re: [newbie] Changing Color Depth

2000-02-12 Thread Gina
Go to: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm and edit "Xservers" file by changing the line entry: : 0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X to : 0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 regards Gina - Original Message - From: "Adam Stark" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 13 February 2000 11:46: am

Re: [newbie] Login problem

2000-02-12 Thread Gina
Um, You probably dont want to hear this but its all I can suggest what I'd do. Perhaps reinstall fresh - selecting format new linux partitions as you go (when it asks during the install). Select just the basic packages for a first install, just to get it up and running. Then go back and install

[newbie] NumLock

2000-02-12 Thread Gina
I have got the NumLock auto starting when I boot up. I even see the script call it up and the Num Lock light goes on on my keybd, but when it gets to the Xwindows login screen where I enter user id and go into kde the light goes off. Is there somewhere else Im supposed it initialise the

[newbie] Cannot install Linux-Mandrake 7.02

2000-02-12 Thread Derek Loi
My problem is with the LILO bootloader. After I install LinuxMandrake 7 (recommended, customized, and even expert) the boot stalls and displays only half the word of LILO - "LI" After displaying LI - it stalls!!! i tried going back into the installer and perform an upgrade and the installation

Re: [newbie] Boot Rescue Disk

2000-02-12 Thread Gina
You need to create a rescue disk as well, and put it in the floppy drive when it asks you to insert the rescue disk. You can create the disk using rawrite from the dosutils dir on your cd and the rescue image is in the images dir. regards Gina - Original Message - From: "RICHARD

[newbie] I have a FM801 Sound card

2000-02-12 Thread Fernando Camacho Olmos
How to activate this

Re: [newbie] Urgent -- how to get back to KDE

2000-02-12 Thread David van Balen
Hmmm... now sure how to do it from the console but, if you're desperate, you can try booting in level 5 (type linux 5 at the lilo boot) and choose it from there. DvB On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Benjamin Sher wrote: Using Mandrake 6.1 I am typing to you from Pine in the Console. I have

Re: [newbie] sorry,modem is busy

2000-02-12 Thread David van Balen
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, George Houdek-Viskovska wrote: Hi everyone !! I have problem with Kppp and minicom . I click on Connection and LINUX show me window with : "Sorry,modem is busy" but my modem is not busy ???Line, modem is OK but for Kppp and minicom is modem busy . Please help me .

[newbie] Compiling a new kernel

2000-02-12 Thread Jeff
First time this has happened to me... I would like to compile a new kernel with the atapi scsi emulation thingie turned on.. So I su to root then cd into /usr/src/linux then make xconfig... Then I get make:***No rule to make a target `xconfig' . Stop. Ok so then i try make menuconf no good

Re: [newbie] Changing Color Depth

2000-02-12 Thread Adam Stark
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, you wrote: Go to: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm and edit "Xservers" file by changing the line entry: : 0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X to : 0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 Thanks, that worked. What other switches are there for that entry in the Xservers file? Adam

[newbie] Php rms installation error !

2000-02-12 Thread vishal bansal
Hi guys: I am running Linux-mandrake 6.1. I installed a php rms (mod_php3-3.0.13-6mdk.i586.rpm) into my root directory (root/) and then I tried installing the rpm using the rpm -ivh "rpm name" format. The error I got is; error: libt1.so.0 is needed by mod_php3-3.0.13-6mdk midgard-php conflicts

[newbie] telnet access

2000-02-12 Thread Chris
I ran a port scanner to find out if the telnet port was open and it is, but i am unable to gain access via telnet to my linux machine. It pings fine.. i tried changing the port it was using but still it give me this message connection failed could not open a connection on "my ip" Any Ideas

[newbie] curious

2000-02-12 Thread Kit
I was wondering...if anyone had an old 28.8 or 33.6 external modem they could GIVE me...as I'm short of funds. Also, I need to know...HOW do I find/startup a program...after first dragging and dropping a RPM file into Kpackage to install it??? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage:

[newbie] LILO and NIC troubles

2000-02-12 Thread Ger-Bil Jinn
I've installed and ran Mandrake 6.1 just fine before, so I decided to upgrade to 7.0 and that's where trouble started: First, when I designated the root directory in the partition setup of the installation, I got this message: The partition you've selected to add as root (/) is

Re: [newbie] sorry,modem is busy

2000-02-12 Thread Brent Timmer
Yeah, but then windows won't find it(if you have windows, that is) - Original Message - From: "David van Balen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 12:38 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] "sorry,modem is busy" On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, George Houdek-Viskovska

Re: [[newbie] Cable Modem Setup]

2000-02-12 Thread Francis J.Bruening
I just set up my @home service (Oregon) on a new install of MD7.0. I wanted to use the DHCP server as opposed to setting my networking info statically. @Home is a bit odd, in that their DHCP server requires an identifier from the client request in order to get a response. 1) backup /sbin/ifup

[newbie] Joystick/Gamepad

2000-02-12 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
I have a rather generic gamepad that connects to my soundcard... what would I have to do to get this gamepad to work? (Also, I still can't print in color with my HP DeskJet 672C, any help with that would very appreciated.) -Tom

Re: [[newbie] Cable Modem Setup]

2000-02-12 Thread Francis J.Bruening
Oops, I'm too tired to be doing this I guess.. :) change the /sbin/ifup $DEVICE stuff in step 2 with /sbin/dhcpcd sorry. Francis On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Francis J.Bruening wrote: I just set up my @home service (Oregon) on a new install of MD7.0. I wanted to use the DHCP server as opposed

[newbie] Netscape setup

2000-02-12 Thread Cris And
Hello everybody, Any suggestions for how to configure Netscape to surf the net? I have a succesfull connection to Internet through kppp but Netscape always returns a connection error message "server not found..check address..". BTW I found very good suggestions on how to set the modem here. I

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