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From: Perry, Detra
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 7:34 AM
Subject: MACMILLAN USA AND MANDRAKESOFT ANNOUNCE EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTION
AGREEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information, please contact:
Detra L. Perry
Macmillan USA/Macmillan Software
317.581.3594
-Original Message-
From: Perry, Detra
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 7:35 AM
Subject: MACMILLAN USA ANNOUNCES UPCOMING RELEASE OF LINUX-MANDRAKE 7.1
PRODUCT LINE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information, please contact:
Detra L. Perry
Macmillan USA/Macmillan Software
317.581.3594
You might try http://127.0.0.1:901 or at the prompt type in:
ping myMachine
(replace myMachine with the name you gave the machine, possibly localhost)
then use the IP address that ping gives you for SWAT with the :901 appended.
-David Talbot
At 11:13 PM 6/7/00 +, you wrote:
hey everybody,
Lance
You should disable all Norton especially AutoProtect and disable any
anti-virus settings in your BIOS. The BIOS setting is the one that caught me
when I first installed Linux on a WIN98/Win2000 system.
If you have fixed your Win2000 MBR if you choose you can add Linux to it
rather
Here is a site posted by Juvenal on 6/5
is this all on the same computer
or do you have a network going on?
because if the linux computer also has the adsl modem then u need to get
pppoe (ppp over ether-net)
http://sympaticousers.org/faq/opsys_software.htm
can help u setup pppoe over linux
Thank you.
()
Cheers,
/J.
In qua, 07 jun 2000, John Arkoulis wrote:
Simply put, Linux has an intelligent file system. Defragmenting is unnecessary
for this O/S, because hardly any fragments are allowed to form.!!!
That's why!
On Mon, 05 Jun
2000, also sprach: In seg, 05 jun
Actually, I don't have a problem with SC, because I didn't install LILO into the MBR.
SC boots up fine and finds the Linux ext partition, and can boot to that partition.
The problem that I'm having is the LILO boot. I saw that someone else on the newbie
list out there is having the same
Hi:
i try to install the server X that supports framebuffer, so i do the
next steps:
firts install the kernel:
rpm -i kernel-fb*
rpm -i XFree86-FB*
rpm -i XFree-VGA16*
after, reconfogure /etc/lilo.conf, to can run the kernel.
i reboot ok.
i run Xconfigurator, as root of course,
and finally i
Re Linux 6.0
I have installed... I've been through the bsh a little... but KDE (or other
GUI's) aren't in the offing.
On launch of KDE from command line I get X errors (I forget which... like it
can't initialize). Trouble with the video driver?
MB BX-CEL 8mb (?? according to my receipts).
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 20:09:49 -0700 (PDT),Dacia wrote:
I noticed that my system was using 247 megs of ram
while it was just sitting there with nothing running
so I started killing processes. This freed up about 3
Megs! Usually when my system first boots up it is
using around 65-70 megs not 250!
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Indeed. It is a memory dump of a crashed program. This is only
(afaik) generated by Gnome-oriented programs. I have once heard of a
setting somewhere that prevents these large files from being written, but
alas, I have no idea where I left it...
something like
can somebody please help me with the problem below in my original post?
thanks.
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Lance wrote:
hi everyone,
i recently bought (macmillan) mandrake 7.0 deluxe and am having trouble
with the install, mostly getting lilo to work. i have 2 drives in my
machine with windows
Marc,
You can find instructions for this on mandrakeuser.prg
Have a look in /usr/docI'm sure there is a HOWTO on this.
I attach a recipe for connecting to Freeserve in the UK via the
console as another recipe on the same theme!
HTH
Glyn M.
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 07:46:57AM -0400,
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, John Arkoulis wrote:
When I boot I see a message Binding to NIS domain failed
What is this. My box still work OK!!!
During installation, did you set up a networking environment? If so,
there's probably something wrong with it, since the system tries to
connect to a network
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Thomas Kitching wrote:
hi
i have installed linux-mandrake by partitioning my harddrive and it all
works fine. But i can't figure out how to get on the internet through linux,
i have a modem and a LAN which i both use. How can i configure linux for one
or either of these
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Fran Parker wrote:
Denis,
Speaking of scannersI haven't been able to get my
USB one to be recognized by Mandrake 7.0,
I was wondering if the new 7.1 just released with
updated USB support will recognize and work with
my USB scanner. It is an AcerScan 310U.
Hi Bambi,
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Marc wrote:
I have searched low and medium and I do not know where high is. Well I guess
*grin*
this is high. Can some one let me know how I can dial into my isp through
the console only. No need to go into X at all. Thanks alot.
For this, you need to set things up the
When I went to a web page, Netscape gave me this
error linux elf not supported, I can't sdiscfipbe it
good so here is a link so I don't post a little
gif to the list.
http://kittypuss.dyndns.org/error.gif
I HATE that trash! FAQ what FAQ probably one
that either does not exist or is full of
Hi gang.
I have been using mandrake a few weeks nows, and so far I have got everything to
work well, apart from wine. I d/loaded rpm version 2526 and installed
it.After I changed the wine.conf, I run wine, and I get the following error.
Invalid path c:\windows\Profiles\adminustrator for
Okay... Here's the common question.
Why am I getting a "Fatal Server Error" with the tdfx driver? Xfree86 4.0
is supposed to support 3DFX Voodoo3 cards, is it not? The card isn't listed
in any CONFIG program, and I really don't want to have to fiddle with extra
drivers from linux.3dfx.com or
hey everybody,
i'm trying to set up swat, to use with samba. on linuxnewbie.org, it
tells
me to use my favorite browser, and type in http://192.168.0.1:901, which
should prompt for a username and password to access swat. but it doesn't.
i get an error say that the connection was reset by
Tried to install an .src.rpm and failed.
Does this mean that on Linux-Mandrake such rpms will not work?
mcoady
regarding 'run-on sentences' and the implicit assumption of courtesy,
the minor flame fest that briefly sputtered upon my publicly thanking a
contributor to this list surprised me, true, i did not quote any of the
pleasing previous answer since no quote was necessary, it was a thankyou
after
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 00:19:30 -0400, you wrote:
hello people, i just upgraded mandrake 7.0 to 7.1
and it took me 9 hours (computer doing all the processing) and i have to ask
what happen why did it take so long?
i've installed/upgraded different version of linux all the way back from redhat5.1 -
Hi...I have a IBM TP600 running Mandrake 7.02, 96MB RAM, 6GB HD, 2M
video ram, 1024X764X16million colors (24 bit) without difficulties,
unsure of other details...but I can check if asked specifically...
I am looking to see if there's a way to increase the number of colors
(color depth?) so that
Steve, I'm on my windows machine at work, so I don't know the exact details
of the config file, but in your /etc/X11 directory there is a file called
XF86Config or XF86Config.4 or -4 for X version 4.0
Inside this file (use a text editor) there is a section for the colour depth
and screen modes,
Thank you Matt! I appreciate your rapid response. I will attempt this in the
next day or so and let you know what I found about my machine.
Again, thanks for the rapid response.
Steve Weltman
"Brash, Matthew" wrote:
Steve, I'm on my windows machine at work, so I don't know the exact
I've just installed mdk 6.1 on a BP6 motherboard.
When rebooting, the system hangs at "calibrating
delay loop..." and doesn't go any further.
Using the disk created at installation I can still
boot the system, but I can't start it from the
HD. Any hints ?
tia,
Anders Jarnberg
Stockholm, Sweden
read the bttv how to (www.linuxdoc.org), I'm using kwintv and works
perfectlly
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Scotchmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 2:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] gnometv or any other
Hi
Does anyone have the application
On 9 Jun 2000, Jaguar wrote:
Indeed, 2Megs vidram is not much.
Have you tried setting down to 16-bit colors? Often 24-bit does mean
things to a screen, I heard. 16 bit or 32 bit is much better supported,
and I would not go 32bit with that little videoram. Not even on 4mb!
Paul
My guess is that
i downloaded it and burned it on cd
which was y i was expecting it to only take 30-45 min's
but everything is fine so next to the long upgrade it's all good
Juvenal
On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, you wrote:
Did it install OK? It's definitly abnormal; it only took me about 45 minutes
(and part of the
On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, you wrote:
well hehe then i guess i'm not the only one
i cancled after the first cd if i had used the ext cd probably have taken me 12
hours...
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 00:19:30 -0400, you wrote:
hello people, i just upgraded mandrake 7.0 to 7.1
and it took me 9 hours
Micheal,
I hate to sound like a dirty cd but did you try
disabling com2 in the
BIOS? 2f8 +irq3=com2.
I've never modified anything in BIOS before, how would I go about doing
that?
Thanks,
Murray
I wouldn't fool with the BIOS unless you KNOW
what you are doing...
you can really mess up things...bigtime...
what you should do...is this:
if you know HOW to get into your BIOS settings...on startup
(either pressing the DELETE key,or pressing the F1 key,or pressing
Ctrl-Alt-Del keys all at
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000, you wrote:
I have searched low and medium and I do not know where high is. Well I guess
this is high. Can some one let me know how I can dial into my isp through
the console only. No need to go into X at all. Thanks alot.
At the root command prompt type: /sbin/ifup
Thorsten, let's do this step by step. I almost chucked a Linksys
fast-ethernet 10/100 because I couldn't figure out what the missing link
was. I am not promoting the drinking of alcoholic beverages, but it worked
for me. Anyway, back to the problem. Lets check out the following: Go
into
I have 2 cpus connected through a CPU switch (non-powered cheap one) to a
keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
I have to have the switch set to the correct CPU when I power up that CPU,
after the machine is powered up, everything works, including X. Once both
CPUs are up, and X is running, when I
Hi Marc,
Since you just purchased this PCI modem, why not return it and for a few
more $ get an external that you KNOW is not a winmodem (as most PCI modems
are). Hook it up, plug it in, Good To Go!!!
Mike
~~~
"I'd rather have a bottle
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, you wrote:
Hi John,
You may need an updated driver - go here :
http://www.opensource.creativelabs.com/
and download the latest source. Follow the readme directions on compiling and
installing - should give you sound.
philomena
John McCrudden wrote:
I have a
Greetings:
I would really appreciate hearing if anyone
has something for this card.
It is a real "oldie" and the company is out of business.
Card works fine under Windoze and Dos
Thanks in advance
Jim
knowing what brand of bios you have would be helpful
too. Award? AMI? Phoenix? Other?
--- KompuKit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wouldn't fool with the BIOS unless you KNOW
what you are doing...
you can really mess up things...bigtime...
what you should do...is this:
if you know HOW to
Hi there,
With some linux versions they have "Welcome to Caldera" or whatever
the distribution is but on my computer it has "Welcome to [localhost]" so
would some one please tell me how I can change " [localhost] " to
[mycomputer] at the login screen.
Under the K Menu, go to
I installed 7.1 using Expert mode, and elected to install X4.0 along with the
usual X. It defaulted to X4 when I first booted up Linux. Unfortunatly the
mouse wheel didn't work and in the process of trying to get it to work, 3.3.6
became the default. I think how I made 3.3.6 the default was when
Hi,
Are there any resellers in Ontario, Canada? I was wondering if I should
wait till later in the year, and/or purchase Version 7.1 right away.
Will the 7.1 CD be included with any Linux magazine? Or, should I wait?
How about it... Any Canadian Linux Users out there that can make CDs for
V7.1
getting the new server up? I have not recieved my usual 50 messages
today and am wondering if I did something to get me kick off this list?
If you cannot hear any streaming audio, you must access Netscape. Click
on Applications.
Click on the New button and follow the instructions from
www.mandrake.org
I used to have terrible problems. Once I added several MIME entries,
RealPlayer7 is working okay.
Anders Linden wrote:
Den Tue,
Hello
I wonder if there is a software (or even a script) that can do remote
login and export the display automatically (of course I will have to enter login
passwd etc.).
Thanks a lot.
Eduardo
Sorry if you get this twice. I never saw it on the main list though, and I'm
really really wanting to know how to do this.
I installed 7.1 using Expert mode, and elected to install X4.0 along with the
usual X. It defaulted to X4 when I first booted up Linux. Unfortunatly the
mouse wheel didn't
knowing what brand of bios you have would be helpful
too. Award? AMI? Phoenix? Other?
It's a Phoenix, couldn't see a date or version number.
And just out of curiosity, it just occurred to me: if the modem is *on*
COM2, how will disabling COM2 help? Wouldn't disabling COM1 or 3
perhaps be
I just came home to install my NEW $100 Us Robotics 56k modem. It's ISA. I
did not install it on windows. I user Kppp dial in Kde. I got all the usual.
"Connect detect modem" "Modem Found but can't communicate with it" etc. What
do I need to do? Install drivers? Set it up? Also I wanna take
I would like to use TV card on linux. The point is that I've downloaded
Kwintv, I installed it, but it can find my TV card (device /dev/video). I hope
anybody can tell me a way to install my TVcard modell Magic TView (I ignore
the chip inside because it is a present)
When setup LILO did yu select also DOS ??
If not resetup LILO with lilo.conf and run lilo.
Take a look at info or man lilo. Or at page 275 of your User Guide and
Reference Manual.
If it don't help you can utilise loadlin.
Eric MC
-Original Message-
From: Lance [mailto:[EMAIL
No because on most COM ports if the system is initializing COM2 as a device,
it won't look for anything else, and since an external modem has it's own
communications board in it, it conflicts with the system set COM 2 and the
modem communications board in it. It is typical to disable a COM port
Hey, folks - when you go on holiday how about switching off your
connection to the mandrake mailing list! As the summer
approaches (at least here in the UK and in the northern
hemisphere) I can forsee lots of automated replies being
circulated if we don't help each other in this way.
TVM
Glyn
I was trying to get my ISA(yuck)to work in linux. I have a Us Robotics 56k
Fax Internal PnP modem. So I was editing some files bla bla bla then when I
ran "isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf" it gave me the following-
"Don't know what to do with 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11 or 12. on or around line 58
This may be too obvious, but have you tried increasing modem pppd timeouts in
kppp ?
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, you wrote:
I am having trouble getting connected to my ISP via Linux (Mandrake
7.0). Here is what is happening:
My modem is set up (drivers installed) and appears to work fine.
SHUT UP ALREADY!!!
bascule wrote:
regarding 'run-on sentences' and the implicit assumption of courtesy,
the minor flame fest that briefly sputtered upon my publicly thanking a
contributor to this list surprised me, true, i did not quote any of the
pleasing previous answer since no quote
What error message did you get?
How were you trying to install them?
May be you just tried to "rpm -Uvh" them. It's not going to work with
that. A src.rpm package is the source code of a program. You have to
compile it before using it :
rpm --rebuild any-package.src.rpm
will compile the
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 19:36:34 mrc wrote:
Tried to install an .src.rpm and failed.
Does this mean that on Linux-Mandrake such rpms will not work?
Try as root:
rpm --rebuild filename.src.rpm
Then look in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/arch for the binary RPM.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul wrote:
What was that with the L_M hats. Can we buy them
Dunno.
I sent a nag email to L-M, and Denis replied that they were not
available
but they gave some away at shows (he thought) I was just re-nagging
him
to get some available. It would be nice marketing I think.
I have 2 cpus connected through a CPU switch (non-powered cheap one) to a
keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
I have to have the switch set to the correct CPU when I power up that CPU,
after the machine is powered up, everything works, including X. Once both
CPUs are up, and X is running, when I
Hi,
In an earlier post from Denis it was suggested that getting the most
current sounddrake might solve problems with 7.1 and SB Live! cards.
Shouldn't an app like that show up in the list when I launch the Update
tool since themost current wasn't included with 7.1 ? On the Harddrake
site, it has
Hi Folks
* Thanks for your list, very informative. Have been reading for a couple of
weeks but no
mention of parallel connected modems
* Have not rec'd my Linux Mandrake power pack yet. It will probably be the
7.0? ver as things take time to get to South Africa.
*Currently modem conn' thru
Hi Folks
Have not rec'd my Linux Power pack 7.0? air yet but have been doing
preliminary research to establish compatibility of my hardware with LM 7.0?
Can find no reference to HP895cxi printer in online documentation, unless
I've missed it.
Can anybody let me know if I will have any problems
ive downloaded suns sdk and cant seem to get the path set right.
probably because i dont really understand the whole path concept
so if you have a good source of information re: paths or
more specifically have installed suns free jdk, could you drop me a
line?
thanks.
Hi Denis2 grin
Thanks Paul. I will look at it to see what I can glean.
Bambi
Paul wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Fran Parker wrote:
Denis,
Speaking of scannersI haven't been able to get my
USB one to be recognized by Mandrake 7.0,
I was wondering if the new 7.1 just released with
hi Kevin,
I am not a Wine expert..infact I am still trying to get dosemu to work on
my ATI All in Wonder Card in VGA mode.
Two things though.
user.dat is a system file for windows, everyone has them. I think it is
looking for it in the wrong place, mine is located on my c drive on the
windows
I have installed 15 times and recompiled about 10 times now, and have
made some discoveries about swap space. The documentation that says
that Linux doesn't handle large partitions well is correct. Large means
bigger than 128 BTW. Here's what I have Dual PIII 600, 256 MB 133MHz
SDRAM, 2x 15GB
Dear friends:
I was downloading 2.1 Gig of Mandrake 7.1 from metalab.unc.edu this
afternoon. An absolutely smooth download when suddenly the download got
stuck on kpppload. I was not disconnected. Instead, Mandrake assumed
that the download was offered and proceeded to the rest of the
Hi,
I downloaded the soundrake 0.8, as well as the most recent Detect, which is needed
by soundrake. I could install the detect libraries, but not soundrake as I need to
get the most recent alsa. However, now, when I open DrakConf and try to start the
Hardware Configuration utility, nothing
On 8 Jun, kevin wrote:
Hi gang.
I have been using mandrake a few weeks nows, and so far I have got everything to
work well, apart from wine. I d/loaded rpm version 2526 and installed
it.After I changed the wine.conf, I run wine, and I get the following error.
Invalid path
Lance writes:
can somebody please help me with the problem below in my original post?
thanks.
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Lance wrote:
hi everyone,
i recently bought (macmillan) mandrake 7.0 deluxe and am having trouble
with the install, mostly getting lilo to work. i have 2 drives in my
I suggest taking a look at the ISP HOWTO or the PPP-HOWTO from either Redhat
or Mandrake's webpages. They helped me. I have the documents at home so if
you want an exact address, email me.
Matt
-Original Message-
From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 12:54
had that same problem
in windows run a find file i beleivei its in Windows directory or
windows/sys dir
kenny
- Original Message -
From: "kevin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 2:40 PM
Subject: [newbie] Wine problems
Hi gang.
I have been using
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