[newbie-it] Masterizzare cd-rw e scanner logitech parallelo.

2000-04-12 Thread mulder
Salve a tutti, sono un neofita di linux ed uso una distribuzione mandrake 7; sono alle prese con due problemi: 1) come si masterizza un cd-rw copiando singoli file alla stregua della Direct CD di windows? fino ad ora sono riuscito a copiare solo immagini di cd completi ma non mi sembra il modo

[newbie] X Server

2000-04-12 Thread Derk Hanro
Hi everyone, I am having some problems setting up an x server and was hoping that someone could help me out. I installed mandrake 7.0 (first time)and when it came time install the x server, it found my video card and suggested this driver cirrus logic GD 5434-8, which is appropriate and my

[newbie] Netscape in BlackWhite

2000-04-12 Thread Martin Solms
Hi My Netscape Communicator is launching in black and white rather than the colour interface! Any suggestions on how to get it back to the original colours? Thanks

Re: [newbie] HELP!!!!!

2000-04-12 Thread Claus Atzenbeck
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Stephen F. Bosch wrote: Claus Atzenbeck wrote: before. Any ideas? Also, from console, what the hell is the shutdown command?? "reboot" or "halt" reboot will reboot the machine =) really?? :-) Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design

Re: [newbie] AMD Athlon

2000-04-12 Thread rjpeake
Quoting Carl Kehley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi What size is your swapfile and is it activated? Anybody have any ideas on this one? I just built a new system with a K-7 700, 128mb of ram, Seagate ATA66 hdd, and Diamond Stealth III video card. I installed Mandrake 7.02, got the installer to

[newbie] energy saving

2000-04-12 Thread Claus Atzenbeck
Please, is here someone who can help me how to set up the screen energy saving stuff with Mandrake 7.0-2??? For me it is not working... :-( Thanks a lot! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de Fat Liberation: because a waist is a terrible thing to

Re: [newbie] AMD Athlon

2000-04-12 Thread Carl Kehley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Carl Kehley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi What size is your swapfile and is it activated? Anybody have any ideas on this one? I just built a new system with a K-7 700, 128mb of ram, Seagate ATA66 hdd, and Diamond Stealth III video card. I installed

Re: [[newbie] Netscape in BlackWhite]

2000-04-12 Thread Martin Solms
Michael Scottaline wrote: What version of Netscape? What color depth are your running in? Did you ever have originally and then lose it, or is this a fresh install that's not working properly? Mike Mike, my resolution is as follows: 1024x768 @ 70Hz 16Million colours (24Bit) This is the

RE: [[newbie] Netscape in BlackWhite]

2000-04-12 Thread Mike Perry
set at 16bit colors and it will work fine. Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: Martin Solms [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed 12 April 2000 13:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] Netscape in

RE: [[newbie] Netscape in BlackWhite]

2000-04-12 Thread Pittman, Merle
Actually 16 bit or 32 bit works. Just not 24 bit with Netscape. -Original Message- From: Mike Perry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 9:05 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [[newbie] Netscape in BlackWhite] set at 16bit colors and it will work

RE: [[newbie] Netscape in BlackWhite]

2000-04-12 Thread Mike Perry
Woops Also true :-) but I have always found that 32bit tends to be a waste of speed if you know what I mean... Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: Pittman, Merle [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed 12

Re: [[newbie] Netscape in BlackWhite]

2000-04-12 Thread Martin Solms
Excellent - works perfectly now at 16bit Cheers "Pittman, Merle" wrote: Actually 16 bit or 32 bit works. Just not 24 bit with Netscape. -Original Message- From: Mike Perry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 9:05 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: [newbie] ISP for Linux

2000-04-12 Thread Brad Miller
Try Earthlink/MindSpring. $19.95 a month will get you unlimited service on a local number and great tech support as well as customer service on a toll free number. Brad On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, you wrote: I am still looking for a Linux ISP for myself. I've contacted A

Re: [newbie] MPEG player?

2000-04-12 Thread flupke
Hellmut wrote: Hi! I just got some really huge MPEGs from a friend, mpegtv from one of the Mandrake CDs shuts down the sound after one minute, the "mtvp" command line program hasn't got a GUI and doesn't offer a pause option. Is there any free MPEG player? I tried to register mpegtv,

[newbie] Routing Problem ?

2000-04-12 Thread Rafael Haeusler
I have here a Linux-Box, which dials itself over ISDN in Internet. Behind it further computers hang by IP Forwarding. On the dial in Box I have only over the Proxy of the Provider access to the Web. A simple "ping" to external server does not work. (the IP address however one determines by DNS

Re: [newbie] How to see my Linux PC in a lan.

2000-04-12 Thread flupke
"Rodriguez Jimenez, Luis" wrote: I have installed a mandrake 7.0 with a net card and i know that it works well because I can ping the rest of the computers (all of them are built in win NT and win 9X.). But I don´t know how to see them and their shared folders. I try to open the netscape

RE: [newbie] X Server

2000-04-12 Thread Tony Webster
I had the Cirrus Logic 5434 in a pc and had similar problems, lines running through the screen, especially when moving the mouse. To fix the problem, I found that I had to put Option "med_dram" in the device section of my XF86Config file. You may read more about this option and others in the

RE: [newbie] Accessing NT LAN Resources

2000-04-12 Thread Alvarez, Angel
Try samba Angel Claudio Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gcia de Tecnología Banco Credicoop C.L. +54(11)4891-5970 -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Martes 11 de Abril de 2000 17:57 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [newbie]

Re: [[newbie] Netscape in BlackWhite]

2000-04-12 Thread joe_reynolds
Actually, I had the same problem - Netscape acknowledges the problem, and advises to use a different color depth - I opted to just put up with it and have been using black-and-white Nutscrape w/ 24-bit color. However, just today I tried a new desktop theme (using Enlightenment window manager),

[newbie] V7 : Not recognising my Netgear ethernet card but has 'configured ' another

2000-04-12 Thread David . Clark
Hi folks I have Linux up and running but no networking (or sound but I'll save that for another day). If I run up DrakConf and look into the Hardware config (Lothar) it shows the n/w card as a 'Lite-On Coomunication Inc LNE100TX'. I actually have a NetGear FA310TX which may or may not be the

RE: [newbie] howto's too hard for firewall or ipchains

2000-04-12 Thread mw
you are right why do you think the product is free -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 12:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] howto's too hard for firewall or ipchains I need an updated

Re: [[newbie] X Server]

2000-04-12 Thread Jaguar
Not sure if that exact video card is listed ( I think it is), but the monitor if not exactly listed, you should use the GENERIC MONITOR/GENERIC MULTISYNC, If the monitor setting are off in CUSTOM, you can damage your monitor. About ROOT login, what is your system SECURITY set at...my guess is

Re: [[newbie] Netscape in BlackWhite]

2000-04-12 Thread Jaguar
More info please Was it ever in color? (Netscape is kinda washed out for color in Linux) Is your vid card/monitor setup correctly? Is your video color depth more than 256? Martin Solms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi My Netscape Communicator is launching in black and white rather than the colour

[newbie] Problems

2000-04-12 Thread Valjean
I have a "freshly" installed system, so no extra software has been installed except the Mandrake 7.0 install. When I use Netscape in xwin, it will work, then suddenly will stop. I mean the page will stay on the screen but when you click on a link, nothing happens. It just stays there. Shut

RE: [newbie] FTP

2000-04-12 Thread David Walters
Thanks for your help, I've fixed it. Well, someone told me how to fix it. Apparently I had an automount running. Stop it and ftp works again. Now all I have to do is get FrontPage Server Extensions working. That'll be fun. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [newbie] HELP!!!!!

2000-04-12 Thread Seth Hollen
Classification: NATO RESTRICTED how's this one? and I am A former Jarhead! (0352) anyway I still use outlook 2000 for my mail and I downloaded this stupid update-- and basically it won't send my email w/o a classification on it. I'm still trying to get it fixed. yet another reason to embrace the

Re: [newbie] AMD Athlon

2000-04-12 Thread Albert
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, you wrote: Anybody have any ideas on this one? I just built a new system with a K-7 700, 128mb of ram, Seagate ATA66 hdd, and Diamond Stealth III video card. I installed Mandrake 7.02, got the installer to recognize all the memory, and everything seems to work pretty

[newbie] SAMBA ?

2000-04-12 Thread Josep Molero i Puig
I'm administering a NT domain. I'm new in Linux world ... and wanna learn about this system. Now, I have a PC running a NT workstation and it can boot to Linux as a normal desktop system. I'm able to use the NT Proxy Server using Netscape under my Linux-mandrake 7.0 (manually configuring the

RE: [newbie] SAMBA ?

2000-04-12 Thread Alvarez, Angel
Hi read the samba-HOWTO there is a lot of information there Angel Claudio Alvarez -Mensaje original- De: Josep Molero i Puig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Miércoles 12 de Abril de 2000 13:54 Para: FLinux (Correo electrónico) Asunto: [newbie] SAMBA ? I'm

[newbie] LS-120 Drive, How to set as floppy?

2000-04-12 Thread G A
Hi I've got a LS-120 drive, (Execlent time saver by the way!) and it's set up as the only floppy drive. FDC on mother board disabled and old 1.44MB drive removed. As it can read normal disks this is great, BUT Win95 is able to use it as A:, DOS boots disks from it like a normal floppy. BUT I

[newbie] pcmcia problems

2000-04-12 Thread mixam
help, first attempted linux install on laptop, mandrake 7.0, install seems to run ok, then on rebooting to launch, machine freezes when starting pcmcia. Tried various routes on the configuration set-up, including omitting pcmcia set-up, but always stalls on reboot. can someone also give me a

RE: [newbie] SAMBA ?

2000-04-12 Thread Alvarez, Angel
and try www.samba.org Angel Claudio Alvarez -Mensaje original- De: Josep Molero i Puig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Miércoles 12 de Abril de 2000 13:54 Para: FLinux (Correo electrónico) Asunto: [newbie] SAMBA ? I'm administering a NT domain. I'm new in Linux

Re: [newbie] SAMBA ?

2000-04-12 Thread flupke
Josep Molero i Puig wrote: I'm administering a NT domain. I'm new in Linux world ... and wanna learn about this system. (...) Think SAMBA is a sort of Comunnication Suite, but ... don't know more about it. I have seen there are serveral GUI to manage SAMBA ... but ... here are my

Re: [newbie] HELP!!!!!

2000-04-12 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Claus Atzenbeck wrote: On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Stephen F. Bosch wrote: Claus Atzenbeck wrote: before. Any ideas? Also, from console, what the hell is the shutdown command?? "reboot" or "halt" reboot will reboot the machine =) really?? :-) I said this because the

[newbie]

2000-04-12 Thread quaylar
hi all ! I've following problem with setting up my soundcard under linux : at startup (kernel boot) i get : sb: dsp reset failed and when trying to configure my card with sndconfig i get : "sb.o : device or ressource busy" now i know from various how-tos and faqs that this must have

[newbie] enlightenment

2000-04-12 Thread Jason
can I install the latest release of enlightment now, or should I wait for a Mandrake release date

[newbie] Uninstalling Stuff

2000-04-12 Thread Patrick Dyer
Can someone tell me how to uninstall software in Linux. I have downloaded and installed a few programs for trial purposes. Now I want to remove them. How exactly is that done. I am running Mandrake 6. Patrick __ Do You Yahoo!? Send

Re: [newbie] howto's too hard for firewall or ipchains

2000-04-12 Thread Mark Potochnik
howto's too hard for firewall or ipchains I went to a Linux Users Group meeting the other day. All of THEM were super-geeks. Life is not easy for us mere mortal human beings I was wonder why those "EASY HOWTO"s seemed hard Now I know... MarkP

Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Stuff

2000-04-12 Thread flupke
Patrick Dyer wrote: Can someone tell me how to uninstall software in Linux. I have downloaded and installed a few programs for trial purposes. Now I want to remove them. How exactly is that done. I am running Mandrake 6. If you installed rpm packages, you desinstall it with rpm -e. HTH

[newbie] Cirrus Logic 5480 in Micron Server

2000-04-12 Thread Brendan McCauley
I found a thread posted earlier the group archive that mentioned a fix for the Macmillan distro of Mandrake, but couldn't find the post with the fix. The problem is that X appears broken, windows don't stay together, funny shadows, etc. Everything else with the install works fine (network and

[newbie] UNSUSCRIBE

2000-04-12 Thread Martin Mc Atamney
[newbie] UNSUSCRIBE __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Stuff

2000-04-12 Thread Patrick Dyer
Thank for the assistance,but what about zip files. How do I uninstall those. --- flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Dyer wrote: Can someone tell me how to uninstall software in Linux. I have downloaded and installed a few programs for trial purposes. Now I want to remove them.

RE: [newbie] UNSUSCRIBE

2000-04-12 Thread paul haine
[newbie] UNSUSCRIBE YOU WILL NEVER ESCAPE! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA etc. Question - should people that can't even cope with unsubscribing themselves from a mailing list be left alone with Linux? Or with any computer for that matter?

Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Stuff

2000-04-12 Thread F. E. Schaper
Patrick, I may be way off here but if I remember my old Unix days...try using rm -r And that should get rid of whatever you don't wantjust be careful with the command - Original Message - From: Patrick Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000

[newbie] HOW DO i UNSUSCRIBE?

2000-04-12 Thread AsSMaN
UNSUSCRIBE

Re: [RE: [newbie] UNSUSCRIBE]

2000-04-12 Thread Jaguar
I am just wondering how this person "SUSCRIBED" in the first place...I think this person should invest in a dictionary for the proper spelling. Also if he went back to the original place he "SUSCRIBED", there is a link there to "UNSUSCRIBE" :) My poke in the ribs...:) Jaguar "paul haine" [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] HOW DO i UNSUSCRIBE?

2000-04-12 Thread paul haine
Just go to the place that you 'suscribed' from and repeat what you did to 'suscribe' except this time click the 'unsuscribe' button instead. Good grief, it's not exactly hard-core physics. -Original Message- From: AsSMaN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 April 2000 00:51 To: [EMAIL

RE: [RE: [newbie] UNSUSCRIBE]

2000-04-12 Thread paul haine
I am just wondering how this person "SUSCRIBED" in the first place...I think this person should invest in a dictionary for the proper spelling. Also if he went back to the original place he "SUSCRIBED", there is a link there to "UNSUSCRIBE" :) On the other hand, the reason we don't see any

[newbie] Hey..IT WORKS...

2000-04-12 Thread andy barnes
Stephen Bosch..Thank you VERY MUCH :-))) As I'm posting this from a Linux session, I am one step closer!! The mistake I was making was where I was putting the DNS settings (DOH!!!). I'll get onto the X problem soon... But while I'm here.. The fonts in Netscape are AWFUL, and it only gives

[newbie] Scripting

2000-04-12 Thread Jim Adams
I followefd the instructions from the Mandrake Users web page for setting up an rc.masq script that is triggered from rc.local at boot time. The rc.masq looks like this: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.masq ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.masq fi This is what was added to the rc.local file after the last "fi"

Re: [newbie] HOW DO i UNSUSCRIBE?

2000-04-12 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
paul haine wrote: Just go to the place that you 'suscribed' from and repeat what you did to 'suscribe' except this time click the 'unsuscribe' button instead. Good grief, it's not exactly hard-core physics. Nor rocket surgery. -Stephen-

Re: [newbie] Hey..IT WORKS...

2000-04-12 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
andy barnes wrote: Stephen Bosch..Thank you VERY MUCH :-))) Well, congrats =) As I'm posting this from a Linux session, I am one step closer!! The mistake I was making was where I was putting the DNS settings (DOH!!!). I'll get onto the X problem soon... But while I'm here.. There

Re: [newbie] Scripting

2000-04-12 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Jim Adams wrote: I followefd the instructions from the Mandrake Users web page for setting up an rc.masq script that is triggered from rc.local at boot time. The rc.masq looks like this: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.masq ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.masq fi This is what was added to the rc.local

[newbie] IBM Ethernet II, can it work with Mandrake 7?

2000-04-12 Thread Yinghong Ko
Hi Gurus, I install Mangrake 7 on IBM Laptop 760ED, but not able to network with IBM Ethernet II. Please help! Thanks, YK __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com

[newbie] apache

2000-04-12 Thread evan light
Hi there...I'm running Linux-Mandrake 7.0 and am having a bit of trouble with Apache, which I let the install setup. Whenever I startup the daemon I start getting very strange process responses. The parent appears as sleeping but alive, but the child processes appear right away as zombies. If

Re: [newbie] apache

2000-04-12 Thread Icebreaker
Make sure you change the user and group that Apache is running on. Create a user www and a group www hit return for the password (to make sure there is no password) This should prevent hacking through using the www user. Also, chown your /home/httpd/* to user www and group www (recursively

[newbie] diald

2000-04-12 Thread Troy Sherman
I have read the man pages for diald, and i think i have it set up right, but it doesn't work. I start it with the command diald /etc/diald.conf Then i try to go on the net with my MASQed computers and it doesn't dial. If i dial manually the MASQed computers can surf the net fine. Has anyone

[newbie] Mandrake Version

2000-04-12 Thread John N
How do I check which version of Mandrake (not Kernel, not KDE etc) is running?

Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Stuff

2000-04-12 Thread Wayne Petherick
Patrick, if you installed from a tar file you can use the make uninstall command. Wayne On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: Thank for the assistance,but what about zip files. How do I uninstall those. --- flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Dyer wrote: Can someone tell me how to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Version

2000-04-12 Thread evan light
Your login screen should tell you. If you're machine's booting right into KDE, you can use the key combo CTRL-ATL-F2 and every other function key up to 6 to switch among your other terminals. It should give you a nice penguin and Linux Mandrake version... Use CTRL-Alt-F7 to get back to your

[newbie] 3com 3C905-TX NIC

2000-04-12 Thread messenger
Hello. I installed Mandrake 7.0 on a machine that is connected to a LAN. I have not been able to make Linux see the LAN. The system seems to detect the NIC card but, under KDE information, devices I don't see it listed. I go ahead and use NETCFG and setup all the Gateway, IP, and DNS info.

Re: [newbie] UNSUSCRIBE

2000-04-12 Thread yeah right
never you are trapped her for all time ha ha ha - Original Message - From: "Martin Mc Atamney" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 4:24 PM Subject: [newbie] UNSUSCRIBE [newbie] UNSUSCRIBE __ Get

Re: [newbie] Netscape email dates dwindling

2000-04-12 Thread Todd Wells
aha! so it's "by design" -- here I thought I was just losing my mind or something :-) Thanks for your prompt response. DC Mahoney wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 09:48:17PM -0700, Todd Wells wrote: The date stamps on the emails I receive have recently become nearly useless in Netscape

Re: [newbie] Netscape email dates dwindling

2000-04-12 Thread DC Mahoney
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 10:10:02PM -0700, Todd Wells wrote: aha! so it's "by design" -- here I thought I was just losing my mind or something :-) Nope, just a slightly non-obvious coding decision. I don't know that it's documented anywhere either, so don't feel bad about missing it.

Re: [newbie] Problems

2000-04-12 Thread Zulfiqar Naushad
The culprit is the linux.ld.so file. It somehow either leaks memory, or mismanages the resources. At 12:21 AM 4/13/00 -0400, you wrote: this will happen, it is not very well written(netscape) however when the new version comes out it wont happen. If you have a cpu monitor applet on your task

[newbie] AMD Athlon

2000-04-12 Thread Carl Kehley
Anybody have any ideas on this one? I just built a new system with a K-7 700, 128mb of ram, Seagate ATA66 hdd, and Diamond Stealth III video card. I installed Mandrake 7.02, got the installer to recognize all the memory, and everything seems to work pretty well. One question---why is the speed

[newbie] Re: KMail program

2000-04-12 Thread Vic
Many many many thankx for the binary. The binary works good so far On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Muzza mewed: This answer isn't going to the list. Try doing the ./configure bit as your normal user. Root priveldges are only needed to " make install" the program and support bits. If it fails