Re: [newbie] HP Deskjet 950C

2000-06-01 Thread Philomena
The 550C driver works pretty well - some of the colors are off, but beyond that, its working OK. I hadn't thought to try a model number that far down the list. Thanks for the suggestion. philomena At 10:39 AM 5/30/00 -0400, you wrote: philomena wrote: Hi, I figured I may as well ask

Re: [newbie] GNOME question

2000-06-01 Thread laurent . duperval
On 30 May, To: Mandrake Newbie List wrote: Hi, This is a real newbie question: how do you configure the GNOME log out button to ask/not ask for confirmation when logging out? This is for October and/or 1.2. L Found it! L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are

Re: [newbie] Colors

2000-06-01 Thread Robert
euhm that's just nederland not nederlanden. it's just one country... - Original Message - From: "Denis HAVLIK" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Colors Niet te geloven! Ik heb een alter-ego uit Nederlanden!

Re: [newbie] Colors

2000-06-01 Thread Fran Parker
Denis you are a riot! Great fun! Truthfully, is "Denis2" right, is this a viable alternative to what you were saying to do. Especially since the boot disk created during install doesn't work at all. I am a little leary at this point relying on booting from a floppy. I used the CD to install

[newbie] Acrobat reader from Adobe's site

2000-06-01 Thread laurent . duperval
Hi, When I try to read a PDF file using Acrobat reader, I get segfaults and this error message: Exited with error code: 0x400e0009. Anyone know why this happens? I'm using Mandrake 7.0. Thanks, L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force -

[newbie] quick kernel question

2000-06-01 Thread Bill . Gardner
Hi there, Quick question: I need to know exactly what kernel is in LM 6.0 and 6.1. Thanks, BG

[newbie] Test email address

2000-06-01 Thread laurent . duperval
Sorry... -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!

[newbie] Problem with my HDD

2000-06-01 Thread Juan C. Muñoz
hi I have a problem with one of the particions of my hard drive... when i try to access it by windows the systems dont let me do anything. I can access it by the "consola" and works good but not in the other way and the problem is only in the foot of the drive because if i access directly to a

[newbie] RE: (newbie) tkined/scotty question

2000-06-01 Thread SPC McLemore
-- SPC McLemore Overheard at a meeting.. "SPC McLemore, have all your people had the 'Homosexual Awareness' training?" "Sir, all my people are 'Homosexual Aware'." Okay, I have a question: Trying to install tkined/scotty on my machine. I have all the libs, but it still

RE: [newbie] Resizing Panels

2000-06-01 Thread Curtis W. Moore
I had the same problem. I found that the screen resolution was to low (640X480), had to bump up to (800X600). You can also set a virtual desktop to 800X600 Curtis W. Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday, May 30, 2000 6:13 PM, Edison Gica [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Hi Alan: Thanks for

[newbie] usubscribe

2000-06-01 Thread Deborah Massey
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[newbie] Test again

2000-06-01 Thread laurent . duperval
Sorry. Hopefully this is the last test... L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli

Re: [newbie] Help!!

2000-06-01 Thread rharvey
after you fdisk /mbr you have to sys the disk sys c: if you have norton utilites it will fix the boot partition for you. - Original Message - From: Kenny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 11:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help!! It doesnt, the computer

Re: [Re: [newbie] some problems after new install]

2000-06-01 Thread Jaguar
What security level did you set on your boxtry reducing the security in DrakConf. HTH Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, I reformatted and reinstalled (again) thinking i might have missed something up during the installation. Now the mail problem seems to be fixed but i was still getting

Re: [[newbie] high security server and ftp and telnet]

2000-06-01 Thread Jaguar
See my last message, yes security is probably too hing for what you want to do...adjust in DrakConfg. HTH Jaguar "rharvey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I setup a linux box with the server choice and high security. I finally found the place to turn on the web service. http web services are running

Re: [newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - New Tool

2000-06-01 Thread rharvey
YES - Original Message - From: Dacia and AzureRose [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - New Tool That would be s cool! Dacia --- "Joseph S. Gardner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Re: [newbie] Resizing Panels]

2000-06-01 Thread Jaguar
I believe if you hold the SHIFT or CTRL and then mouse drag the window higher, it will work. Sounds like you also need to set your video resolution higher than 640x480, that can also be set in DrakConf. or xf86config, or XF86Conf or many other methods. HTH Jaguar "Edison Gica" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION Authomatic Install - Comment 1

2000-06-01 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Denis HAVLIK wrote: snip 3) Disabled: This is new. I was asked by a blind guy if we could include some programs for blind and for people who have problems with hands. This chategory does not exist yet, but if we introduce it, it will do several "inteligent" things at once: 1) change the

[newbie] I have a problem with kde 2.0

2000-06-01 Thread Fernando Camacho Olmos
When i run "kdeinit " that say fatal error: you need to have a KInstace object before do you anything that requiere its please help me.

[newbie] ftp

2000-06-01 Thread rharvey
when i try to ftp into my linux box it says connect call failed. whats wrong?

[newbie] re-install

2000-06-01 Thread rharvey
If I re- install and I want to install everything... what partitions do I need and how much space does each of them need? The autoconfigure does not know what I want to install so it does not set the partitions right thanks Robert

Re: [newbie] Modem problems

2000-06-01 Thread Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter
Edison Gica wrote: I setup my external modem and it was identified by LM however everytime I connect it always gives me "PPP timed out". Thanks for ur help. edison Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at

Re: [newbie] Help!!

2000-06-01 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 31 May 2000 00:09:21 -0400, Kenny wrote: It doesnt, the computer just hangs if you just do fdisk/mrb I've done it before as an experiment with no lilo and even before i screwed up linux i had to do that no go. Kenny = Wed, 31 May 2000 09:45:15

Re: [newbie] HELP 2!!!

2000-06-01 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 30 May 2000 10:20:58 HST,edison wrote: 2) i did not fdisk /mbr yet coz my boot disk won't work! I don't know, I created it during installation and tried booting from it, it just gives me Error 0X10. I tried viewing the file contents in Linux and the reply was 'can't read the contents

Re: [newbie] Sometimes...

2000-06-01 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 30 May 2000 21:43:41 +0200 (CEST), Paul wrote: Sometimes descriptions of programs really stump me... I just ran over this one: ZPoPyDA is a postgresql database adapter for Zope based on PoPy Well, Aren;t you glad you know this now? *grin* Paul Wed, 31 May

Re: [newbie] Pauls proposed website

2000-06-01 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~Paul :~who is thinking about collecting all the assistance here and putting that :~up on a website... :~= Should save his strength and help mandrakeuser.org instead of setting up Yet Another Tips Site, and loosing interest after a few weeks. Do not get me wrong, I would be really

[newbie] question?

2000-06-01 Thread Kevin Isley
I was trying to install linx4win linux for windows... and I got through it up tell the point of it booting to linux and pausing because it came up with a kernal error? What am I doing wrong? please help, Sincerely, Kevin = GET A FREE VERSE DAILY

Re: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.

2000-06-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Denisnot allowing them to fiddle around with release numbers would be a good thing, I hope you're correct. Alan Denis HAVLIK wrote: :~It will still be confusing to many folks if, like they did :~with 6.1, MacMillan decides to market 7.1 as 7.5!! Their :~excuse was that more people

Re: [newbie] Resizing Panels

2000-06-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
EdisonI believe you meant to address Andrew, not me. Anyway, KDE has one thing called a Panel and it's not what you are calling a panel (window or applet is a better choice in that instance I believe). Anyway the Panel is the big bar that sits at the bottom of the screen (by default) and

Re: [newbie] Resizing Panels

2000-06-01 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 30 May 2000 22:12:54 HST, you wrote: These things are just very tall that even if I hide the panel (the one that u are referring to) i still can't see the 'OK', 'Quit', 'Apply' buttons. The panel configuration u referred too works all right. edison === Wed, 31 May

[newbie] LS120 Superfloppy

2000-06-01 Thread poogle
Somebody posted a question about setting these up, I sent a reply but can't see it now - or the original question, if you've still got problems let me know. ATB

[newbie] Installation woes

2000-06-01 Thread Peter Taylor
I'm trying to install Mandrake 7.0 on a Windows 95 machine with two HD's and a Cyrix 233 chip. It boots OK and gets to initialising the CD Rom but always falls over at in second stage install -X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect : Can't connect : errno = 111 -X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect : Can't connect :

Re: [newbie] Setting lilo to dual boot 98 from seperate drive???

2000-06-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Aaronit's not really a secret. You need to change the first line of /etc/lilo.conf to point at the / partition (or /boot partition if you have one) instead of the mbr. For instance if the first line of /etc/lilo.conf ended in hda then you need to change it to hda1 if 1 is the / partition.

[newbie] How To become Linux-Mandrake Registered User

2000-06-01 Thread N. Kofi Amu
Hello List, How do I register my Linux-Mandrake 7.0 with MandrakeSoft? I tried at the registration site of the company and requests for a serial number. I could my copy from two magazines, PCPlus and Maximum Linux.

RE: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.

2000-06-01 Thread Denis HAVLIK
On 31 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :~ :~It will still be confusing to many folks if, like they did :~ :~with 6.1, MacMillan decides to market 7.1 as 7.5!! Their :~ :~excuse was that more people will purchase an upgrade sequenced :~ :~by .5 than would have bought it sequenced if sequenced

[newbie] Tape Streamer

2000-06-01 Thread Alan Dunford
Hi, Am having a problem configuring the software for my Iomega internal tape streamer. The device is connected correctly and I can force it to write and read tapes. However, before it will work (in fact before it will recognise that there is a tape in the drive itself), I need manually to

Re: [newbie] dls ip chains

2000-06-01 Thread freeman
yes ?? Mike Hmm did you look in /etc/resolv.conf and make sure the DNS was in there? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 11:42 AM Subject: [newbie] dls ip chains I finally got my ip chains

Re: [newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk

2000-06-01 Thread dickon1
Hi guys Paul, Charles and Ron, thanks for your quick response and the helpful suggestions. It is very appreciated here. None worked though nor any disk druid of any other distro. At last i used Red Hat's fdisk which was the only one ready to look at my fucked up partition. When done, i

Re: McMillan monopoly [was [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.]

2000-06-01 Thread michael
On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: Hi Denis I thank heavens that I live in Finland and still have a choice from whom I can buy Mandrake-Linux! Regards, Ron On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: Pre-ordering does not mean much, does it? Soon you will be able to buy 7.1 all over the place.

Re: [newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - New Tool

2000-06-01 Thread Roman Bysh
How about a compile wizard or is that asking for too much? Roman Dacia and AzureRose wrote: That would be s cool! Dacia --- "Joseph S. Gardner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Denis, I'd like to see a tool to assist in the compiling of a new kernel and then INSTALL it!

[newbie] perl terminated install

2000-06-01 Thread Edison Gica
Hi: I was reinstallating LM 7 under the 'recommended' mode and suddenly 'perl' program terminated the install for the reason that my system or whatever was not in (or does not support) 'english' mode...i just went 'HUH?'. At this point, I can still boot to Windows w/ LILO but my Linux is dead

Re: [newbie] Realplayer Mime entry glitch and kde errormessageswhen logging on as user

2000-06-01 Thread Trevor Reynolds
Roman, I installed Real Player the old way using the real.bin file as root. I don't know if the install is different, but it installed the executable in /usr/local/RealPlayer7. I created the icon on the desktop the same way you did and pointed the Real.kdelnk to

Re: [newbie] Pauls proposed website

2000-06-01 Thread J Walker
In qua, 31 mai 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: On Tue, 30 May 2000 19:42:54 +0200 (CEST), Paul wrote: Paul who is thinking about collecting all the assistance here and putting that up on a website... = Tue, 30 May 2000 21:43:28 That is a lovely Idea Paul, it would be a

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION Authomatic Install

2000-06-01 Thread J Walker
In qua, 31 mai 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote: :~ 3) What about the three checkboxes? SNIP 3) Disabled: This is new. I was asked by a blind guy if we could include some programs for blind and for people who have problems with hands. This chategory does not exist yet, but if we introduce it, it will

RE: [newbie] boot disk won't boot

2000-06-01 Thread Jeremy Walker
On Wednesday, May 31, 2000 5:00 AM, Andrew Scotchmer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: I created the boot disk during installation and it won't boot. Can you boot other systems from floppy ie: Windoze? If not press F2 ( or F1, I can't remember off hand )

Re: [newbie] boot disk won't boot

2000-06-01 Thread Edison Gica
HI Andrew: Windoze boots fine, the Linux will say 'L..I..L..O...then says Linux.then error 0X10. my computer is setup to boot from CD, floppy then HD. edison From: Andrew Scotchmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] boot disk won't

Re: [newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk

2000-06-01 Thread bascule
i second that, diskdrake really messed up my disk after i decided to let it do the job instead of pm, went back to pm and had no problems bascule Ron Peake wrote: Hi Dick I have experienced the same problem and in my case it resulted from letting Mandrake's Diskdrake 'fiddle' with the

[newbie] Installation Problem with Linux Mandrake 7.0 Complete software

2000-06-01 Thread Richard L. Harper
I have not been able to complete installation via the graphical installer that comes with the subject package. I encountered a system hang up after the graphical installer(DrakX) completed the package installation step and had gone to the network configuration step. I did not get a question

Re: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.

2000-06-01 Thread Mark Potochnik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone has questions regarding the Macmillan side of things, please let me know. Thanks, Bill Gardner Approximate date??? I saw somewhere in June?.?.?.?.? Thanks!!! MarkP

[newbie] sane

2000-06-01 Thread Daud Yunus
I have just installed mandrake 7.04. I am trying to get 2 things happening. 1. get xscanimage working in gimp. I installed sane through rpm on the cd. AS I undestand it I do not have to compile or anything like that if I do it through the packet manager. .I cando find-scanner and it finds my hp

[newbie] gcc weirdness

2000-06-01 Thread Dan Ferris
This came to my attention after fighting ksnuffle for a week trying to get it to compile. So in frustration, I wrote to the developer of ksnuffle and was told that the problem stems from the fact that gcc 2.95 does not like me. Since that time, I have tried to compile multiple apps/utilities

[newbie] Installing Apps in different hdb

2000-06-01 Thread Gary
Hello All, I would like your help, one and all, with the following so that I can have full enjoyment of my newly installed Mandrake 7. I am just really in amazement about Linux, and have come to really think it is the best thing going. I also think this distro is outstanding, KDE graphics

[newbie] XFree86 v4.0

2000-06-01 Thread wayne petherick
I am looking at upgrading to XF86 v4.0 and was wondering a few things. First of all, is this release stable yet, and second, there are a few version for Linux iX86 systems. Linux-alpha-glibc21/17-Mar-2000 09:55 Linux-ix86-glibc20/ 17-Mar-2000 23:25 Linux-ix86-glibc21/

Re: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.

2000-06-01 Thread Mark Potochnik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and this was a decision that was met with ease by both parties. I sense some definite hostility towards Macmillan on this thread. I'd like to publicly say it is a very successful and positive partnership between the two companies. Thanks, BG I like the way

[newbie] 7.1 Beta3 install fails after loading 2nd stage ram disk

2000-06-01 Thread fangell
As the subject line states I cannot get 7.1 to start the install process after the CD-ROM drive is detected. I get a message stating that the "install has terminated - signal 11". This also happened with 7.0, but went away with the 7.0-2 version. Is there any workaround to this? AMD K6-2 450 Soyo

[newbie] sane and gimp

2000-06-01 Thread Daud Yunus
I have just installed mandrake 7.02. I am trying to get 2 things happening. 1. get xscanimage working in gimp. I installed sane through rpm on the cd. AS I undestand it I do not have to compile or anything like that if I do it through the packet manager. .I cando find-scanner and it finds my hp

[newbie] test

2000-06-01 Thread Daud Yunus
test

[newbie] Shared exclusive access

2000-06-01 Thread John Rye
I suspect I may have blundered in posting a message whose Subject line was: "Administration Question" ??? Reserved word ??? So Hi All I have two users call them 'fred' and 'tom' I need for these two users to be able to share files (usually text). Both users are members of their own groups

Re: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.

2000-06-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mr. Gardinerplease read what I wrote again. I did not say that I heard anything. I did not say anything that was inaccurate. I simply speculated that, if MacMillan were to do with 7.1 as thay had done with 6.1, that is, to market it with an inaccurate release number, that it would lead

[newbie] Intel i810e video adapter installation -- rpm error

2000-06-01 Thread Mark D. Flood
Greetings: I have just installed Mandrake Linux 6.1 w/XFree86 3.3.5. on a Dell Dimension PC using the i810e chipset. I am attempting to upgrade my video drivers so I can use a higher resolution in X. I am following the rpms and release notes downloaded from the Intel support site. All has

Re: [newbie] Is DrakX really real or do I have a poor video card?

2000-06-01 Thread GAPrichard
I've had graphics almost every time. If I recall correctly, the only times I didn't have a graphical install was when the CD was not in the drive as the floppy was loading the install initially. Is your CD in the drive as you begin? I'm not talking about booting from the CD, which my