Re: [Re: [newbie] More on my SCSI hd problems]

2000-06-12 Thread Tymanthius Rune Speak
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Jun 2000, Tymanthius Rune Speak wrote: I did a text install, and it simply bombed shortly after trying to detect the hd's. I jumped thru the consoles, and found that it's having scsi parity err's. What I don't understand is why. This hd, while an older type

Re: [newbie] Worthless email list

2000-06-12 Thread Vic
Yeah sometimes I have gotten so pooped off that I screamed and threw a tantrum before anyone would so much as notice, but I think its due to the too many mails going through here, so I was not so upset when I found out that you just have to post repeated times until you get a response, which is

[newbie] How do I pull e mail off my server via pop?

2000-06-12 Thread Vic
I am trying to pull the e mail off of my server with a pop client but it don't work. When I try to do it with Netscape it says something like it did nto work or some unhelpful idiotmessage, when I used imaginemail's pop e mail puller it said that the server was too slow and that can't be. Do I

Re: [newbie] Freewwweb Error

2000-06-12 Thread Marc
Allright thanks I will try the username thing cause it tells me that its guess is that I entered the wrong user and pass. Thanks alot for the info. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 9:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Freewwweb Error

Re: [newbie] Kde sound

2000-06-12 Thread Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Bryan Kim wrote: How do you get kde sounds to work? My sound card is a creative labs awe64, and I set up both the sound card and the midi player. Playmidi, cd player, and play all work. Play in particular can play the .wav files that come with KDE. Thanks for your help. You

Re: [newbie] Worthless email list

2000-06-12 Thread Ot Ratsaphong
Hi Fran, Thanks for your response. This is exactly what I've been missing. For some reason, the DPMS is missing from my control Center in MDK 7.0. I know I had it in MDK 6.1, I'll have another look. At least I know that it is still available in MDK 7.0. I did a standard Developer workstation

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-12 Thread flupke
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: flupke wrote: Sorry, I didn't follow this tread from the begining, so I hope I won't say anything stoopid or something that has already been said. If I understand, the problem here is all the dump of the stack and registers caused by a page

[newbie] DPMS

2000-06-12 Thread Paul
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Ot Ratsaphong wrote: reason, the DPMS is missing from my control Center in MDK 7.0. I know I had it in MDK 6.1, I'll have another look. At least I know that it is still available in MDK 7.0. Hi Ot, You can always install the DPMSi...rpm as root, if it is missing.

Re: [newbie] ..it happens and now it happened to me:)

2000-06-12 Thread flupke
I also had troubles configuring X during mdk 7.1 install. It was because I couldn't figure out how to configure XFree4.0 with my voodoo3 2000 (has someone here done it?) and I didn't know how to reverse my choice of using XFree4.0. So after the install process, I uninstalled XFree4.0, installed

Re: [newbie] LNE100tx / Tulip driver again

2000-06-12 Thread flupke
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply. It doesn't work on mine for some reason. I really, really, really wish I knew why since I have about eight of these little suckers and I would like to use them. Does it show in Lothar? It doesn't appear in mine.

Re: [newbie] Quicktime 3 question...

2000-06-12 Thread flupke
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, michael wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: You cannot view Quicktime movies in Linux because Apple hasn't made a player for Linux yet. So the only way you can view it is to boot up Windows. How can we orchestrate a campaign to persuade the well paid, smart,

Re: [newbie] Quicktime 3 question...

2000-06-12 Thread flupke
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Anthony Huereca wrote: You cannot view Quicktime movies in Linux because Apple hasn't made a player for Linux yet. So the only way you can view it is to boot up Windows. Er...I *can* view Quicktime movies in Linux now, just not Quicktime 3.

Re: [newbie] Useful Mailing List (was: Worthless email list)

2000-06-12 Thread Piero
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Fran Parker wrote: Hi Al, I agree with you wholeheartedly. I am thankful for this group. I have been directly help and indirectly helped through others experience and solutions. May I agree too! This list is great. Imagine the

Re: [newbie] ..it happens and now it happened to me:)

2000-06-12 Thread Mark Wolf
This occured when I was setting up the screen. I figured it out though. I used XFdrake and I chose 16b video instead of 32 and it works fine now. Old Fart Truck driver learning linux Mark

Re: [newbie] Remapping keys question...

2000-06-12 Thread Paul
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I have a Linux Coolkeyboard, and was just wondering if there is some easy way to remap my caps and control keys. For me personally, caps is useless, and control would be so much handier next to my pinkie... smile For remapping in X there is a utility

[newbie] How do I install a PCMCIA card on Mandrake Linux 7.0

2000-06-12 Thread Michael Khachiki
I can't find any documents on how to install a No Name PCMCIA card in Linux. with out it I can't get on the net from Linux. Please let me know how should I go about installing a No Name PCMCIA (Modem and LAN) on a laptop. I have tried "man pcmcia" on the system. It showed me where I can find the

[newbie] Extra Cds for 7.1

2000-06-12 Thread Eunice Thompson
Does anyone have any idea what and/or where the CD's labeled 3 and 4 are. During the installation of 7.1 they are listed, and also using Kpackage or RPMdrake to add additional packages they ask for one or the other CD. Thanks Eunice

[newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW

2000-06-12 Thread Lance
charles: Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I followed someone's advice on Linuxnewbie.org last night and went into the Win2k recovery console (**I DO NOT have the Win2k rescue floppy discs!!**), I ran the fixmbr and fixboot commands as suggested, and it said it rewrote the mbr ok (to C:).

[newbie] Kppp/Modem Problem

2000-06-12 Thread Pete Clapham
Hi, all == I have a different modem problem. Kppp recognizes my modem, but when I connect with my ISP, I get the message "Connect at 46000 BPS", and then Kppp closes. The telephone stays connected to the ISP, but I can't do anything without rebooting. I suspect that this is a simple

Re: [Re: [newbie] Worthless email list]

2000-06-12 Thread Michael Scottaline
Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richardlose the attitude. There are a lot of reasons why you gleaned no help for your problem. First off maybe nobody who read it had anything constructive to say. Actually Alan, his post made me wonder how

Re[2]: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW

2000-06-12 Thread Gary
Hi Lance, On Sunday, June 11, 2000, 2:40:51 PM, you hammered out in part about "[newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW": L I followed someone's advice on Linuxnewbie.org last night and went L into the Win2k recovery console (**I DO NOT have the Win2k rescue L floppy

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW

2000-06-12 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
Hey, powerquest Lost Found. About $50. http://www.powerquest.com/lostandfound/index.html It can save Most if not all of your data. Just stop screwing with the drive until you use it. I've saved my ass with this program to many times to count. Dacia --- Lance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: [newbie] Quicktime 3 question...

2000-06-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
This is effectively what Eazel is all about. They've grabbed some of the best Ex-Apple developers to head up a new effort to Newbieze Linux. -JMS -Original Message- From: flupke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 6:22 AM To: michael Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[newbie] networking question

2000-06-12 Thread bascule
i am having trouble setting up two machines to talk to each other, i'll put all the questions in this one post since they are all related, 1) do i need to 'fake' a domain for both machines to belong to or is it enough to give each machine a name? 2)is the ip address of each nic the same as each

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr,windows...)LanceREAD NOW

2000-06-12 Thread bascule
hi lance, i'm afraid that i know nothing about win2k so i can't help you actually recover your data, but you sound pretty despondent and just want to say that if you have only tried to write to partition sectors or the mbr then your data is still intact, simply(!) inaccessible at the moment, if

Re: [newbie] KVirc (Was: Wine problems)

2000-06-12 Thread Fran Parker
Sure Gary, Here's the URL: http://www.kvirc.net/ to read up on it. I chose the download section on the top of the page on the menu, that page it shows locations in several countries. I went to the bottom of that page and chose the section where there are older KVIrc, it took me to the KVIrc

Re: [newbie] Problems with comp.ne2000(a) in Mandrake 7.0-2

2000-06-12 Thread iagoba
Paul wrote: On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, iagoba wrote: My Ethernet Card is ISA, 16 bits and PnP, Linux Detect it, but in a different I/O address and different IRQ, when I put the correct I/O address (240h), and IRQ (11), when I re-initiate my computer, it says "Bringing eth0 ...

Re: [newbie] How do I install a PCMCIA card on Mandrake Linux 7.0

2000-06-12 Thread Paul
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Michael Khachiki wrote: I can't find any documents on how to install a No Name PCMCIA card in Linux. with out it I can't get on the net from Linux. Please let me know how should I go about installing a No Name PCMCIA (Modem and LAN) on a laptop. I have tried "man pcmcia" on

Re: [newbie] Problems with comp.ne2000(a) in Mandrake 7.0-2

2000-06-12 Thread flupke
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, iagoba wrote: Hi to all, First of all, I want to say Hi to all the people in this list, this is my first mail, and hope you can help me. I got some problems with my Clonic Ethernet card, I Installed Mandrake 7.0-2 in my computer, in a second partition of

Re: [newbie] Problems with comp.ne2000(a) in Mandrake 7.0-2

2000-06-12 Thread iagoba
I didn't try it, I would try it this night, thanks :) flupke wrote: On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, iagoba wrote: Hi to all, First of all, I want to say Hi to all the people in this list, this is my first mail, and hope you can help me. I got some problems with my Clonic

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-12 Thread Fran Parker
Same here Ronald :) But I am having problems running lxdoom at all! I had an IWAD (I downloaded a zip file IWAD) and used Archiver to unzip it, it was a doom1.wad after unzipping. I left both in the home/fran directory, which is one of the places lxdoom looks for IWAD files but it still won't

Re: [Re: [newbie] Kde sound]

2000-06-12 Thread Jaguar
If you choose a "theme" like MacOS, it enables sound and sets up the *.wav files for the actions(well it did for me anyways). HTH Jaguar Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Bryan Kim wrote: How do you get kde sounds to work? My sound card is a creative labs awe64, and I

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-12 Thread Fran Parker
Thanks Ronald...I will try this. Seems funny though that if it doesn't find it there (and it does look there) it also looks in my /home/fran directory and still doesn't find it. Not sure what the problem is there, but will put it in the share directory and see if it helps. Thanks, Bambi

Re: [newbie] Worthless email list

2000-06-12 Thread Fran Parker
That is great...glad to be of help. You were luckier than I with the hardware detect. I have a VIA chipset...that should say it all, I think :) But fortunately my husband has been in Linux about 6mos to a year longer than I and he understands the guts of it much better than I do on the hardware

Re: [newbie] Worthless email list - dpms

2000-06-12 Thread Ot Ratsaphong
Just letting you know that I re-installed MDK 7.0 and found out that the installation had not installed the kdpms package. This time I made sure that it was installed and now dpms is shown on the Control Center. When installing in Expert mode, it is best to go back over the selected packeges to

RE: [newbie] How do I install a PCMCIA card on Mandrake Linux 7.0

2000-06-12 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] How do I install a PCMCIA card on Mandrake Linux 7.0 You can get some pretty detailed information on a generic device if it has an FCC code on it. This indicates that it was certified for use in the USA and by going to: http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/help.html You can find

[newbie] default boot os

2000-06-12 Thread Peter Vandecasteele
hello, does somebody knows how to change the default os ? after changing it activating the changes, nothing happens. delault my pc boots in linux, and i want it to boot by default in windows, without typing the word "windows" everytime i boot. thanks Kind Regards, Peter Vandecasteele.

Re: [newbie] Kde sound

2000-06-12 Thread Mark Potochnik
Lance wrote: then highlight an action on the left, then match it to one on the right that corresponds to that action by selecting it, hit apply, then do that for each sound event you want to use. it's a pain to do this for every sound They basically have a sounds off by default.I like

Re: [newbie] default boot os

2000-06-12 Thread J D
go to linuxconf (i think that's it), and go to boot manager. in there you should be able to change the default boot. sorry for being so unsure, but my linux box isn't here right now. jd From: Peter Vandecasteele [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[newbie] Info pages in gnome help viewer

2000-06-12 Thread laurent . duperval
Hi, Anyone know how to make HElix gnome's Help Browser uderstand bz2 files? 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

Re: [newbie] Doom question...Hardware that works well?

2000-06-12 Thread michael
I want to build a doom/quake capable machine that linux loves. I need advice athlon/p3? video card/3dfx/matrox? sound card? is 128 megs enough? mb suggestions? \\=// ( @ @ ) ---oOO--(_)--OOo--- -michael-

Re: [newbie] default boot os

2000-06-12 Thread Eunice Thompson
Peter Vandecasteele wrote: hello, does somebody knows how to change the default os ? after changing it activating the changes, nothing happens. delault my pc boots in linux, and i want it to boot by default in windows, without typing the word "windows" everytime i boot. thanks

Re: [newbie] How do I install a PCMCIA card on Mandrake Linux 7.0

2000-06-12 Thread Pete Clapham
I had a similar problem under Mandrake 6.1 and solved it by upgrading to 7.0. Under 6.1, I hadn't installed PCMCIA explicitly, 'cause I didn't have a PCMCIA card at that point), and even though the boot script said it was started, it wasn't. With the version of 7.0 which I later purchased

Re: [newbie] Worthless email list - dpms

2000-06-12 Thread Fran Parker
Yes, it does do that ... but only if you unselect something later in the list that needs that package. Pretty strange way to do it, fortunately I went back over the list three times before I went on to the next step. Can be a pain, but worth it in the long run. Bambi Ot Ratsaphong wrote:

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Fran Parker wrote: Same here Ronald :) But I am having problems running lxdoom at all! Hi Fran! Well, I put my doom1.wad in: /usr/share/games/doom The original wad file that came with the rpm should be there already. Hope this helps! ;-)

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-12 Thread Fran Parker
Thanks Ronald I will try that and let you know :) Bambi "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Fran Parker wrote: Same here Ronald :) But I am having problems running lxdoom at all! Hi Fran! Well, I put my doom1.wad in: /usr/share/games/doom The original wad file that came with the rpm

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-12 Thread Trevor Reynolds
Bambi, I had the same problem and I used the -f /usr/share/games/doom/DOOM.WAD option to get my Ultimate Doom working. You may want to try that too. Good luck! Trevor - Original Message - From: "Fran Parker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000

Re: [newbie] Doom question...Hardware that works well?

2000-06-12 Thread Trevor Reynolds
Michael, I'm running a Celeron 333 O/C to 417 with 96 megs of RAM and an 8 meg SiS 6326 video card and both Doom and Quake 2 work pretty good. I can't use the OpenGL version because my card isn't supported, but it more than does the job. With what you listed below you should do great.

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-12 Thread Fran Parker
Hi Trevor, would that be at the terminal window and type lxdoom -f /usr/share/games/doom/DOOM.WAD I think I understood you correctly. If moving it to the /usr/share/games/doom directory doesn't work .. I will try that. Thanks, Bambi Trevor Reynolds wrote: Bambi, I had the same

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-12 Thread Trevor Reynolds
Bambi, That's exactly what I did. Good luck! Trevor - Original Message - From: "Fran Parker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Doom question... Hi Trevor, would that be at the terminal window and type lxdoom

[newbie] Problems with Mandrake 7.1 installation

2000-06-12 Thread Carl Kehley
I just installed Mandrake 7.1 yesterday, development install from install and ext. cd's, and I've got a few minor problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated. First, Mandrake refuses to recognize my mouse as Logitech MouseMan+, and instead keeps calling it a generic PS2. I've changed it

Re: [newbie] Problems with Mandrake 7.1 installation

2000-06-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Carlthat sounds like what I experienced when I first installed 7.1 and chose version 4 of XF86. I reinstalled 7.1 and picked version 3.6 of XF86 and those symptoms no longer occured. Alan Carl Kehley wrote: I just installed Mandrake 7.1 yesterday, development install from install and

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-12 Thread Fran Parker
Hi Trevor and all, I tried it both ways after I moved both of the doom wad files I have into the /usr/share/games/doom directory. Here are my results: [fran@flp fran]$ lxdoom -f /usr/share/games/doom/DOOM.WAD LxDoom v1.4.0 - By Colin Phipps (see http://lxdoom.linuxgames.com/) Z_Init :

[newbie] Installation help on 7.0

2000-06-12 Thread Yankees007
I am trying to install LINUX Mandrake 7.0, and when I am installing it asks if I have SCSI interface. I don't know what that is and some guy helped me find my SCSI and its not on the list. Furthermore when I click no on it nothing happens. I cant continue the installation without getting

Re: [newbie] Problems with Mandrake 7.1 installation

2000-06-12 Thread Anthony Huereca
XFree86 4.0 doesn't seem to be set up use a wheel mouse automatically, so you're going to have to edit the config file. http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/wwwboard/messages/397.html explains how to do it. Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 First, Mandrake refuses to recognize my

Re: [newbie] Installation help on 7.0

2000-06-12 Thread Ed Tharp
First, a word of warning.. ANYONE who takes my advice as if it was anything other than another newbie's opinion is taking their computer to a dangerous place... I am a newbie (and PROUD G) and only have been doing linux since the year 2000 sometime, but I've sat near a Unix box some years back

Re: [newbie] Problems with Mandrake 7.1 installation

2000-06-12 Thread Carl Kehley
Alan, Thanks for the reply. I did not even get an option on the XF86 version. Where was it listed, under chosing individual packages? Carl Alan Shoemaker wrote: Carlthat sounds like what I experienced when I first installed 7.1 and chose version 4 of XF86. I reinstalled 7.1 and

[newbie] gtoaster permissions (I think)

2000-06-12 Thread Gary Green
Hello All, I running the new 7.1 kernel. Everything works just fine for me. Sound, SCSI, games, video etc. However, I am having a problem with gtoaster as a user. If I log in as root, it works just fine. I have it so it finds the proper scsi lun of my burner etc. When I transfer that info to my

[newbie] Cannot Access Website Mail

2000-06-12 Thread AL
Greetings! This is my first mail to the group. I successfully installed Mandrake 7.1 (my first adventure to the Linux OS!). My problem, however, is that I cannot access any website or download any email. I can connect and login to my ISP without any problem. For instance, if I type

[newbie] Windows Emulator

2000-06-12 Thread AL
Greetings! Is there any Mandrake Windows emulator program that can access MS Money files? Any URL pointing to the right direction greatly appreciated. Thank you and best regards, Al