Re: [newbie-it] Informazioni su MD5SUM e l'immagine iso di mandrake 7.1

2000-07-01 Thread codutti michele
Ciao io ho scaricato la mandrake7.1 due volte in piu' riprese la prima ha dato problemi come a te la seconda invece la stringa di checksum era ok! ritenta! On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Matteo Merlin wrote: Ciao, ho appena finito di scaricare l'immagine MANDRAKE71-INST.ISO. Ma appena verificato il

[newbie-it] Enlightenment - Netscape o Mozilla?

2000-07-01 Thread Simone Ravarotto
Buongiorno a tutti a chi interessasse,sono riuscito a risolvere il problema che avevo con l'audio (scheda audio configurata correttamente ,modulo ES1371 inserito gia' al boot, ma nessun suono da utente ne' da Gnome ne da Enlightenment,ma solo da root) cosi' facendo : Senza modificare alcun

[newbie-it] x-server

2000-07-01 Thread Rosanna
Giovanni Mazzamati wrote: lun, 26 giu 2000, hai scritto: Ho tentato di installare Linux RedHat6.1 e Mandrake7.0 sul mio computer: mainboard dotata di chipset di sistema Intel Corporation 82437VX 430VX System Controller, processore Intel Petium 200 MHz, 16 MByte di memoria, scheda

Re: [newbie-it] Informazioni su MD5SUM e l'immagine iso dimandrake 7.1

2000-07-01 Thread Matteo Merlin
Fabio Coatti wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:48:15AM +0200, Andrea Celli wrote: Hai senz'altro qualche file corrotto. Quale/i, quanti? Impossibile dirlo. Se sei fortunato e` il solitario, se ti dice male e' il kernel o il file-system o qualche altra componente essenziale che ti

Re: [newbie-it] Informazioni su MD5SUM e l'immagine iso dimandrake 7.1

2000-07-01 Thread Matteo Merlin
Andrea Celli wrote: Matteo Merlin wrote: E' possibile che la chiave non corrispondente possa essere determinata dal fatto che mentre scaricavo il file ho utilizzato un po' W98 un po' LINUX e soprattutto shiftavo tra vari server? Puo` darsi. L'unica volta che mi e` successo (ora ci sto

[newbie-it] mandrake-update non funziona

2000-07-01 Thread Federico Naddeo
Ciao a tutto il N.G. Sarei molto felice se qualcuno di voi riuscisse a risolvere il mio problema. (ho contattato anche il supporto tecnico avendo diritto a 100 gg di assistenza, ma purtroppo dicono che non dipende da loro " I'm sorry but it is not due to Mandrake." sono in possesso delle

[newbie-it] MDK7.1 e ESD

2000-07-01 Thread codutti michele
Poco tempo fa ho risposto a una persona che aveva problemi con ESD, non riuscivo a capire per quale motivo non venisse eseguito ESD, in quel periodo avevo installata sul mio PC la MDK7.0 ora che ho installato la 7.1 ho lo stesso problema che ho in parte risolto... Ho rimossso l'ESD 0.2.17 in

Re: [newbie] My first email sent from Pronto =)

2000-07-01 Thread Alan Carpenter
Not sure =). It's my cox connection. PoP3 I believe. Haven't seen any slow down yet, and I have about 257 messages. Seems to run great. No crashes =) Alan On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:58:47 -0500, Gary said: KOn Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:28:32AM -0500 or thereabouts, Alan Carpenter wrote:

[newbie] this should be a easy one for somebody =)...

2000-07-01 Thread Alan Carpenter
Somehow my netscape communicator Icon has been removed from my desktop. I also picked up a book today called "Mastering Gnome". Looks like a great book. Anyone else have it?? I also installed gnome napster. If anyone needs help with that, then just let me know =). Alan Carpenter

[newbie] DrakConf not installed?

2000-07-01 Thread ElephantsGoNorth
Hello All, I chose "high" for security during initial installation of Mandrake 7.1, and after install went well, I can not find DrakConf icon on the desktop. This is my second attempt at installation. The first one was normal. I would appreciate any help. -- Best

[newbie] E-Mail Client?

2000-07-01 Thread ElephantsGoNorth
Hello All, Is there an e-mail client(POP) that allows to delete messages from the pop.whtaever.com when deleted locally? Netscape does this, but lacks multi-account capability. TIA -- Best regards, EGNmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] lesstif library

2000-07-01 Thread Martin Marier
Hi list, I'm having a little problem. I try to use the lib libXm.so.0 , but my system can't find it even if it is there. The is in /usr/X11R6/lib and is a link to libXm.so.6 . I tried to execute /sbin/ldconfig and it didn't solve the problem... and the path /usr/X11R6/lib

Re: [newbie]Printing

2000-07-01 Thread Eunice Thompson
Your printer uses the Canon BJC 600 printer driver, I have the same one myself Eunice Thompson

[newbie] Openmail

2000-07-01 Thread Eric MC DECLERCK
Hi all, is there anyone whos has experience with Openmail ? To set-up and configure it correctly. What are your impressions ? Eric

RE: [newbie] E-Mail Client?

2000-07-01 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
By default, pop is a "store and forward" system. When you retrieve your E-mail, your client software acknowledges having received the E-Mail which should cause the POP server to delete it, unless it is told to do otherwise. Your E-Mail is then held locally on your own machine. Imap and other

Re: [[newbie] Lilio.conf using append=Failsafe and append]

2000-07-01 Thread Michael Scottaline
Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I noticed that MDK7.1 /etc/lilo.conf uses append="Failsafe". Can I replace this with append="mem=128M" or should I add another append line. Leave append="Failsafe" as it is, and add another line: append="Failsafe" append="mem=128M" By

Re: [[newbie] Lilio.conf using append=Failsafe and append]

2000-07-01 Thread Romanator
Thanks for pointing that out. I'll try your suggestion. Roman Michael Scottaline wrote: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I noticed that MDK7.1 /etc/lilo.conf uses append="Failsafe". Can I replace this with append="mem=128M" or should I add another append line.

Re: [newbie] export PATH problems

2000-07-01 Thread Paul
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, David Talbot wrote: The PATH is indeed being exported. I've tried setting the Mandrake Security level to low. What's causing this and how can I make it take my new PATH? Any help with this one would be a godsend, I've tried every concievable thing I can think of. Don't

Re: [newbie] supermount

2000-07-01 Thread Paul
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Bill Fisher wrote: In editing the /etc/fstab I run across the term supermount. My books don't describe this. I want to set the zip and floppy drives so that a user as well as root can access them and I thought that the entry user or users would do this. Thanks for any info

Re: [newbie]Printing

2000-07-01 Thread Paul
On 30 Jun 2000, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Bill Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mandrake 7.0, Canon bjc4400 printer The only output I get on the printer is the test (I think) stuff which begins: %!PS-Adobe-2.0 on the first line. I have an /etc/printcap file, and a filter file at

Re: [newbie] pon/poff

2000-07-01 Thread RRPotratz
ifup and ifdown are the commands mandrake uses for pon and poff. The labels are ppp0, ppp1, etc. instead of a label you can designate. I am not aware of a console configuration utility but netcfg can be used in X. rpm is the package manager and can be used from the command line, or from X with

[newbie] Kernel 2.2-16.9 Version #1 Thu Jun22 17:04:01mdk

2000-07-01 Thread Romanator
Hi, I downloaded a newer and updated kernel 2.2-16.9 Version #1. Would there be any difference in performance for it to work or are they more or less bug fixes? Also, do I have to recompile to notice any performance changes, if any? Roman begin:vcard n:;Roman x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;;

Re: [newbie] mounting cdrom

2000-07-01 Thread Paul
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, KompuKit wrote: I'd like to have my /ftp/pub have a way to access my cdrom drive...so people can download off the cd's... HOW do I accomplish this...? I think you could make a softlink to your CDROM directory from /ftp/pub. That way it is like a subdir in /ftp/pub. You

Re: [newbie] Lilio.conf using append=Failsafe and append

2000-07-01 Thread Paul
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, I noticed that MDK7.1 /etc/lilo.conf uses append="Failsafe". Can I replace this with append="mem=128M" or should I add another append line. Leave append="Failsafe" as it is, and add another line: append="Failsafe" append="mem=128M" It should

[newbie] Grub added newer kernel version to it's list of selections

2000-07-01 Thread Romanator
Hi, After downloading a newer version of the kernel, I noticed that the kernel version number was added to Grub. Although, the updater has updated my kernel, is there a way of editing Grub to remove 2.2-16.9mdk? Is there a reason for this, and is it really necessary? Many thanks, Roman

Re: [newbie] Cdrom / kfm error

2000-07-01 Thread Paul
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have just installed mandrake and everthing seems fine except i cannot access cdrom. The icon is on desktop but when i load cd i get meesage cannot list directory contents file/mnt/cdrom. Does this mean cdrom is not mounted correctly ? Gary This

Re: [newbie] Supermount danger?

2000-07-01 Thread Bill Fisher
Is there a danger in using the supermount feature for zip disks or floppy disks? I thought from reading linux books that when we mount a floppy and insert a disk into that drive, then access the disk, that when finished we need to umount the disk, then mount again for the next disk, etc.

Re: [newbie] Removing Linux Partition

2000-07-01 Thread Ed Tharp
of course if you remove the FAT partition, you will not be removing a linux partition since linux would be a ext2 partition in a version of FDISK that would recognize a linux partition, which I do not believe the DOS version does BE careful and back up everything important before you begin!

Re: [newbie] Lilio.conf using append=Failsafe and append

2000-07-01 Thread Ed Tharp
I believe the correct way would be: append="Failsafe" "mem=128M" - Original Message - From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 9:42 AM Subject: [newbie] Lilio.conf using append="Failsafe" and append Hi everybody, I noticed that MDK7.1

Re: [newbie] Grub added newer kernel version to it's list of selections

2000-07-01 Thread Romanator
Thanks for pointing this out. Roman Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After downloading a newer version of the kernel, I noticed that the kernel version number was added to Grub. Although, the updater has updated my kernel, is there a way of editing Grub to

Re: [Re: [newbie] Lilio.conf using append=Failsafe and append]

2000-07-01 Thread Romanator
Thanks Mike. I'm still trying to figure out what the 'Failsafe' option is used for. Roman Michael Scottaline wrote: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Paul, Would Linux have crashed with two append lines? Roman = I don't believe linux

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.2-16.9 Version #1 Thu Jun22 17:04:01mdk

2000-07-01 Thread Romanator
Thanks for pointing out the June 24 2000 security update info. Roman Ralph Day wrote: The LM site says its a security update: June, 24 2000 SECURITY UPDATE: kernel POSIX "Capabilities" have recently been implemented in the Linux kernel. These "Capabilities" are an additional form of

Re: [newbie] Lilio.conf using append=Failsafe and append

2000-07-01 Thread Romanator
Thanks Ed, I'll try the following: append="Failsafe;mem=128M" append="Failsafe" "mem=128M" Roman Ed Tharp wrote: I believe the correct way would be: append="Failsafe" "mem=128M" - Original Message - From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Lilio.conf using append=Failsafe and append]]

2000-07-01 Thread Michael Scottaline
Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Mike. I'm still trying to figure out what the 'Failsafe' option is used for. Roman === Hey Roman, Don't bet a lung (or any other body parts :o) ), but I think "failsafe" is similar to windows "safe mode". It's a

Re: [newbie] Domain not bound message

2000-07-01 Thread Bill Fisher
Mandrake 7.0 When I su to root, after entering the password, console displays: YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound what does this mean? Also, while the system is coming up from Boot Magic, there is a delay while this message is displayed: Listeing for an NIS Domain Server what does

Re: [newbie] Lilio.conf using append=Failsafe and append

2000-07-01 Thread Ed Tharp
roman, let us know which it was, PLEASE? I may be wrong as hell here, but a guess would be that you have a kernel that can not be written to used with failsafe, probably from a server install, and if you need to upgrade the kernel you would have to start out with the failsafe removed to write to

Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Lilio.conf using append=Failsafe and append]]

2000-07-01 Thread Romanator
Hi Mike, If I bet a body part or held my breath, I would have died a long time ago...n'yuk..n'yuk. I think, when all else fails, 'Failsafe' allows the user to run in basic text mode when the GUI end dies. And, edit the necessary files, and get the graphical end up and running. Or, it can be for

Re: [newbie] Domain not bound message

2000-07-01 Thread Paul
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Bill Fisher wrote: Mandrake 7.0 When I su to root, after entering the password, console displays: YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound what does this mean? Also, while the system is coming up from Boot Magic, there is a delay while this message is displayed: Listeing

Re: [newbie] Domain not bound message

2000-07-01 Thread Sthitaprajna
On 1 Jul 00, at 9:45, Bill Fisher wrote: ng the password, console displays: YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound what does this mean? Also, while the system is coming up from Boot Magic, there is a delay while this message is displayed: Listeing for an NIS Domain Server what does

Re: [newbie] acrobat rpm

2000-07-01 Thread Sthitaprajna
On 1 Jul 00, at 8:56, Tom Brinkman wrote: ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/falsehope/home/pierre/acroread/ acroread-kde-menus-4.05-2.i386.rpm acroread-kde-menus : Adobe Acrobat Reader KDE System menus Thanks to all who helped. got the tarball from Adobe, and installed. Works fine, AFAICT.

Re: [newbie] Lilio.conf using append=Failsafe and append

2000-07-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Roman.correct syntax would be: append="Failsafe mem=128M" Alan Romanator wrote: Thanks Ed, I'll try the following: append="Failsafe;mem=128M" append="Failsafe" "mem=128M" Roman Ed Tharp wrote: I believe the correct way would be: append="Failsafe" "mem=128M"

Re: [Re: [newbie] Lilio.conf using append=Failsafe and append]

2000-07-01 Thread Romanator
Looks like the entry to the following file /etc/lilo.conf is: append="Failsafe mem=128M" Roman Thanks Alan Romanator wrote: Thanks Mike. I'm still trying to figure out what the 'Failsafe' option is used for. Roman Michael Scottaline wrote: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete installation

2000-07-01 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, Thank you everyone who gave me wonderful advice. Unfortunately I found out that my CD rom is not bootable. In the Bios setup it shows that it is an option but a technician told me it is not anyway. My Bios setup is C,A,SCSI. Should not that be changed to the floppy first and how do I do

Re: [newbie] Grub added newer kernel version to it's list of selections

2000-07-01 Thread GAPrichard
I haven't done this yet, and I'm running 7.0 so I'm not using grub. If I understand the original question you have a new additional boot listing. This is a fail-safe. If there is a configuration or other problem you still have access to your original, working, kernel. That way you

Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete installation

2000-07-01 Thread Sthitaprajna
On 1 Jul 00, at 13:36, Marcia Waller wrote: setup is C,A,SCSI. Should not that be changed to the floppy first and Is your hdd SCSI? Maybe not. Maybe its an IDE. how do I do that? I am a true newbie and have not done much on the Setup At the BIOS option where you have C,a,SCSI written,

Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete installation

2000-07-01 Thread Eric MC DECLERCK
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, Thank you everyone who gave me wonderful advice. Unfortunately I found out that my CD rom is not bootable. In the Bios setup it shows that it is an option but a technician told me it is not anyway. My Bios setup is C,A,SCSI. Should not that be changed to the

Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete installation

2000-07-01 Thread GAPrichard
CMOS (i.e. the motherboard BIOS, what you are referring to as the setup screen) -- there are many brands, and they all differ. TYPICALLY after you get in, via DEL or F2 or F10 (the three most common ways) or whatever, look at what is displayed for options (perhaps after having to clear a

[newbie] login in kppp

2000-07-01 Thread MARIPIES
Hi. Does anyone know why cant i write the @ that has my login in the kppp?. Thanks

Re: [newbie] login in kppp

2000-07-01 Thread Mark Weaver
All it wants is your user name that you use to authenticate yourself to your ISP when you dialup. Your email address consists of username @ yourdomain . com All it wants is your username. that would be my guestimation. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is

Re: [newbie] YA E-Mail Client?

2000-07-01 Thread Sthitaprajna
On 1 Jul 00, at 21:28, ElephantsGoNorth wrote: The other approach - fetchmail/qmail + a ton of ... is working fine in my BSD boxen. Can I just start using Linux? Will this bird ever fly? first, I'll ask you to help me with this;). Have been trying to get a setup like that, to no avail. If

[newbie] Pronto Help:Seg Faults - new_font

2000-07-01 Thread Tymanthius Rune Speak
Got pronto instald. Had to dwnld install all the Perl Modules. No problems there. But when I go to run pronto I get this err msg: new_font is not of type Gtk::Gdk::Font at /usr/local/bin/pronto line 5158. Segmentation Fault However, if start pronto like this: 'pronto -subject' it will

Re[2]: [newbie] YA E-Mail Client?

2000-07-01 Thread ElephantsGoNorth
Hello Sthitaprajna, Saturday, July 01, 2000, 9:37:32 PM, (Zulu Time) you wrote: S Try "poppy". But is it possible to synchronise the MUA with a pop S account?? AFAIK, that is possible in IMAP, but is pop capable? Thank you very much, as for the BSD q'n - the best place to ask is

Re: [newbie] $6.50 for MDK 7.1 2-CD set (GPL version)

2000-07-01 Thread M Thompson
Rick, I received your check today in the mail when I returned home from work. I am mailing your CD's out early tomorrow morning. Take care, Matt From: Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] $6.50 for MDK 7.1 2-CD set (GPL

Re: [newbie] Graphics Card Question

2000-07-01 Thread Claudio Henrique de Castro
Hi, I have a machine similar to yours. Take a look at Intel site (www.intel.com). There you will find new win98 drivers and Linux drivers for you get 1024 X 12?? (I forgot the exact resolution). Good look, Claudio H. --- Jason Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Just installed Mandrake 7

Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete installation

2000-07-01 Thread Eunice Thompson
Marcia, Have you looked at the documentation on your installation CD? I'm sure you have if you've made a boot floppy. Have you tested your BiOS and tried to change the boot order to see if the 'Technician' really knew what he was taalking about? You just might be able to boot from the CD. you

[newbie] Any patch for KPanel-Edit Menus Error Message Anomaly?

2000-07-01 Thread Romanator
Hi, Has any one noticed in MDK7.1b, when you choose KPanel-Edit Menus, a warning message appears" " The menu editor is not installed. " This used to work in MDK7.0. Does any one know where a patch can be obtained? I know you can type in the command line: kdesu -c kmenuedit By the way, thanks (

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install:could not mount CD on /dev/scd0 using Adaptec 1542cf

2000-07-01 Thread Eric A. Cottrell
Ace Frehley wrote: Have the same problem with my setup as well, my solution was drastic, I used a spare Adaptec 2940UW and the problem disappeared... Hello, An Update. I checked the iso file I burnt the CD with and it checks out. I also upgraded the bios and microcode on the 1542CF. It

[newbie] VirtualHost

2000-07-01 Thread Mark
I'm looking for a sample/example for my httpd.conf file for virtual hosts. I messed one up, and it stopped my whole website from opertating 'till I commented it out! Oops. I'm setting it up so my friends can have there website be at theirname.mydomain.com and all their files be located in

Re: [newbie] No Penguins on login screen.

2000-07-01 Thread Eunice Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Mandrake 7.1 Somehow I did something to my linux box and now I don't have the penguins on the login screen. I am reffering to the penguins that represent each user. I used to have a root penguin and my username penguin on this screen. I can still

[newbie] W, Finger Ytalk ?'s

2000-07-01 Thread Mark
Thought I'd compound these questions: W only works as root. I want all users to see who is on. They can do this using Finger, but I'd rather have W work as I'm so used to it. It displays the header for W, but no username or user info. I tried changing the permissions on the utmp file, but to

Re: [newbie] Booting from CD at install?

2000-07-01 Thread jmason
Installed Mandrake 7.0 from CD to hdb (4.3 G). Used Partition Magic 4.0 to make entire second hd a linux partition. Mandrake 7 did a fine install but cannot deal with ISA PP cards. I remember RedHat 6.2 statements that an original install / as opposed to an upgrade, will erase EVERY hard

Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete installation

2000-07-01 Thread Marcia Waller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CMOS (i.e. the motherboard BIOS, what you are referring to as the setup screen) -- there are many brands, and they all differ. TYPICALLY after you get in, via DEL or F2 or F10 (the three most common ways) or whatever, look at what is displayed for options

Re: [newbie] No Penguins on login screen.

2000-07-01 Thread Glyn Millington
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 01:59:45PM -0700, thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am using Mandrake 7.1 Somehow I did something to my linux box and now I don't have the penguins on the login screen. I am reffering to the penguins that represent each user. I used to have a root penguin and my

Re: [newbie] grub and my RAM.

2000-07-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi fellow Linuxers! I have just upgraded to 7.2. It is most excellent! When I upgraded I changed over to the grub boot loader... I have one problem with grub. I cannot set my RAM. I used to use Lilo and had to use the append "mem=128M" option (in lilo.conf) to

[newbie] powermanagement in Mandrake?

2000-07-01 Thread Mark Weaver
HI LIst, I was wondering if there was a setting somewhere to turn on/off power management so my monitor wouldn't go to sleep? I think it's already diabled in the BIOS. thanks, Mark

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install: could not mount CD on /dev/scd0 using Adaptec 1542cf

2000-07-01 Thread Jim P.
Hey Everyone I fixed my cd problem! :) I tossed mandrake 7.1 and went to Red Hat 6.2 and the cd works wonderfully! Guess Mandrake isn't what it's cracked up to be after all huh? I won't say I won't go back to Mandrake, but I will say the tech support at mandrake sucks! First letter to them

Re: [newbie] Any comments on Ultra 66 on 7.0 or 7.1?

2000-07-01 Thread M Thompson
Janis, Install Linux Mandrake 7.1! It will recognize your Promise Ultra66 card perfectly. To my knowledge, Promise only provides a boot diskette for RedHat 6.0. The Promise boot diskette will *NOT* work with any version of Linux other than RedHat 6.0. Do *NOT* use the Promise boot disk.

Re: [newbie] Graphics Card Question

2000-07-01 Thread David Talbot
The way I got my i810 boards to work was to select the intel i740 graphics cards (supposably 4 meg of video ram), then select the monitor from the Drak config tool. Click test, then it skips the memory back down to 2 meg as it's supposed to be, bam, I give you 16x1024x768 without editing

Re: [newbie] Shockwave - What's Up With It?

2000-07-01 Thread laurent . duperval
On 24 Jun, Romanator wrote: This may be offbeat, but you can find an .rpm Flash beta version on the MDK7.1 installation CD. Please note that it is beta. Roman Sevatio Octavio wrote: Where did you get it from? I got mine from the shockwave site (shockwave.com?) L -- Laurent

Re: [newbie] Epson GT-7000 SCSI Scanner

2000-07-01 Thread Paul
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Pedro _ wrote: Hi Pedro, Thanks Paul and Alan for your help. As I am very new with Linux there is a lot of things that I do not know how to do. So I kindly ask you again for your help to put my scanner working. ID of scanner: Ok Install SANE package: The only package I

[newbie] Jim P.: cdrom/burner

2000-07-01 Thread Paul
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Jim P. wrote: I have been having a cdrom./burner problem for over a monthit still doesn't work...I have tried everything including completely reconfiguring my system...differant cpu...differant drive configurationstried it all followed everyones suggestions...still

[newbie] problem installing Mandrake 7.1

2000-07-01 Thread Wienand Drenth
I tried to install Mandrake 7.1, but encountered a problem. Everything went well untill the actual package installation. Error was something like: Fileheader missing This occurred after you had to specify what cd's you had. After this the installation couldn't be continued. Can anyone help?

[newbie] After installing Mandrake Windows don´t boot

2000-07-01 Thread Arlindo Fragoso
Hello! Yesterday I've installed Mandrake 7.0 and everything goes OK. But... when I tried to restart the computer, the LILO prompts appear and after 5 secs windows don't boot! I've tried to use the boot disk and the same occurs. I've tried to boot with a DOS disk but after a while it stops.

Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete installation

2000-07-01 Thread GAPrichard
Be SURE you have the correct field highlighted, move to it as necessary, usually TAB. If F1 shows you the correct set of choices, you know what is possible and the sequence you will see when you actually change values. Clear this help info, try F1 key again, then you will find that the

[newbie] Log On to Network

2000-07-01 Thread Imad Majdalani
I think i have seen it before but cant find it anymore ( The answer) But how can i remove the " Log On to Network" in Mandrake 7.0, cause its timeing out the connection, and taking lotsa of time

[newbie] Xircom CreditCard Ethernet Adapter IIps setup

2000-07-01 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello I have a compaq armada 7800 Laptop and need help installing a Xircom CreditCard Ethernet Adapter IIps. Can anyone help. PCMCIA Has started according to the boot messages. Thanks Mike

RE: [newbie] No Penguins on login screen.

2000-07-01 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
1) Make sure that KDM is your preferred display manager 2) Use KDE's Control panel to re-enable the Penguins... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 5:00 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] No Penguins on

Re: [newbie] After installing Mandrake Win dows don´t boot

2000-07-01 Thread p . b . burton
The "unsafe" line at the end should follow the "floppy" section. Should be right under "label=floppy" And add "table=/dev/hda" in the windows section. Try this. Phil On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Arlindo Fragoso wrote: Hello! Yesterday I've installed Mandrake 7.0 and everything goes OK. But...

Re: [newbie] Website

2000-07-01 Thread F. E. Schaper
Darryl, An SQL database accessed and maintained with PHP might work for you. You might want to take a look at that one...I used to used SQL and PHP with IRIX so I am fairly confident that you could get this running on Linux. PHP is somewhat similar to Perl so if you have some knowledge there

[newbie] Checking 386/387 coupling --failed

2000-07-01 Thread Sam Hunter
I just built a new machine, using a celeron 566 processor. As you probably know this uses the coppermine core, and new p3 instruction set (it is basically a p3 with less cache). When I try to boot Mandrake on this computer I get a Checking 386/387 coupling (3) failed trying to reset 387

[newbie] Problem with attaching an icon to an application.

2000-07-01 Thread Andrey Isaverdiyev
Hello guys: I am using KDE from Linux-Mandrake 7.0 distribution. I have created my own icon (22x22), then I have saved it in /usr/share/icons. When I click on my application on the desktop and choose "Properties" and look for available icons, it is not there. I could not find any other way to

[newbie] 7.1 voodoo 3 xf 4

2000-07-01 Thread Steve Elliott
Hiya there, HAve installed 7.1 on a fresh athlon 650 asus k7v 128 mem voodoo 3 3000 AGP. I am having difficulties in getting the voodoo to run with hardware acceleration. Runs with the generic voodoo driver fine :) Have been following th DRI doc on dri.sourceforge.net. However i have

[newbie] re Pronto Mail (Not Quite)

2000-07-01 Thread mrc
Many thanks to several of you who helped me on installing Pronto Mail. The bit about using Perl and being online were critical. Even so, in the end I was informed that the install failed - something about "can't locate MIMI/Parser ...". I even tried xfmail only to learn that it required

Re: [newbie] After installing Mandrake Win dows don´t boot

2000-07-01 Thread p . b . burton
I should have also said: after editing /etc/lilo.conf be sure to run (as root) '/sbin/lilo /etc/lilo.conf' (without quotes). Phil On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The "unsafe" line at the end should follow the "floppy" section. Should be right under "label=floppy" And add

[newbie] Configure X

2000-07-01 Thread Javier Techera
I can't to configure X. I try several times with XConfigurator. The test is ok, but when I run startx, I can see the background colour and the mouse for a few seconds, and then the system returns to text mode. I have a SuperSocket 7 M598LMR Motherboard. AMD K6 450 Mhz 64 MB RAM.

[newbie] How do you format a zip disk?

2000-07-01 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Hello all, The subject just about covers it, I would like to know the command line (and also if there's a gui version) for formatting my zip disks to either ext2 or vfat. As a bonus, could I also get the same info for hard drives? I'm spoiled by Windows - point, right click, select

[newbie] US Keyboard with west Europe character not working in KDE

2000-07-01 Thread diego-listas
I have been using my US keyboard with acents without problems in Mandrake 7.0, but now with 7.1 those accented characters don't appear. I checked out and found "Input Devices/International Keybord" on kcontrol, by default the instalation put en.kimap as the default character table. Well, I put

[newbie] Upgrade

2000-07-01 Thread Dave Naylor
Hello Folks, I've ordered 7.1 on CDs and I'm waiting for it to arrive. From what I can tell the best way to install it is to do a complete new installation. That's OK but what exactly can I back up to make the transition from 7.0 to 7.1 as painless as possible. What's more, how :) Tara! --

[newbie] Running XFree on Intel i810

2000-07-01 Thread Turski Miroslaw
A am running Mandrake 7.1 and try to run XFree86 4.0 on i810 graphic card. The XServer returns the fallowing error: (II) I810(0): AGPIOC_AQUIRE failed ... Fatal server error: AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 Did somebody make it running? I am realy desperated and need help. Mirek

[newbie] adding menu items and taskbar buttons

2000-07-01 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction? I would like to know how to add menu items to the menus and buttons on the task bar. Specifically in ICEwm running in Mandrake 7.1. I know how to take care of this in Gnome and KDE, but I'm absolutely at a loss for ICEwm.

[newbie] screen savers for ICEwm ???

2000-07-01 Thread Mark Weaver
...where are they? I really like this desktop, but I can't find anything like where to edit the start menu or how to embed a button on the task bar, or even how to turn on the screen saver for this particular desktop. Is it that hard or am I just being thick-headed. Please..don't answer too

Re: [newbie] Help:After installing Mandrake Windows don´t boot

2000-07-01 Thread Sthitaprajna
On 28 Jun 00, at 10:52, Arlindo Fragoso wrote: My /etc/lilo.conf looks like this, default is DOZE. boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=windows keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message other=/dev/hda1 label=windows

[newbie] VMWARE with Mandrake 7 problem... =(

2000-07-01 Thread JVMC
Hi! I am using Mandrake 7.01 with VMware 2.0.1, with a guest OS of Win98. Anyway, I tried to install the OS but I cant access my cd-rom What gives? This is the error message I get. I installeda fresh Mandrake 7 and I still got the same problem. Anyoneever get this problem with VMware?

[newbie] Voodoo rush 4MB 3DFX video card

2000-07-01 Thread Jaguar
I have an Alliance AT25 (MDK 7.02 ID's the card as AT3D) Voodoo rush 4MB 3DFX video card, and I have trouble setting it up with anything more than 640x480 (can get 1024x768 with virtual desktop active but I hate mouse scrolling to get places). Has anyone gotten this card to work correctly in MDK

[newbie] voodo card (fwd)

2000-07-01 Thread Christopher Molnar
Somebody in one of these lists sent me a rather long message on a video card question. I am sorry but becuase of a stupid error I made while copying mail from an old machine to a new one the message bounced. Can whoever sent it please resend it to me? I did not mean to be rude and bounce the

Re: [newbie] Re: Fw: Linux

2000-07-01 Thread F. E. Schaper
Mark, Nice response. Being that I have done stand up comedy for many years (and yes, Star Trek fans have been a constant target of said comedy over the years) I would normally respond to you with some type of sarcastic response. However, in this case I feel that would be unjustified as you have

[newbie] Preparing Machine to Load Linux

2000-07-01 Thread Bill . Gardner
Howdy, loaded 7.1 up at home, went totally fine and KDE was working nicely for a couple of days. PII, 350MHZ. 20GB and 4GB internal IDE drives. Now however when I try to boot into linux, all i get is, "Preparing Machine to Load Linux" and nothing else happens? Should I just re-install?

Re: [newbie] powermanagement in Mandrake?

2000-07-01 Thread Dennis Myers
Mark Weaver wrote: HI LIst, I was wondering if there was a setting somewhere to turn on/off power management so my monitor wouldn't go to sleep? I think it's already diabled in the BIOS. thanks, Mark If you use KDE desktop then go into control center and you will see a "DPMS" on the

[newbie] how to mount IOMEGA zip after emulating scsi

2000-07-01 Thread Wienand Drenth
Hi, I've got the following problem. SInce I've got a CD rewriter, in /etc/lilo.conf there has been added : append "hdd=ide-scsi" in order to emulate scsi. This all works great: I can burn and mount the cd-rw on /dev/scd0. No problem at all. However, this also makes my zip-drive to behave scsi

[newbie] Unpacking tar gz files

2000-07-01 Thread Neil Rowley
Hi, As a recent convert to Mandrake 7 I find myself in a tiz over those so called" tarball" and "gzipped" packages. Having recently downloaded Realplayer G2 and an upgraded version of the Netscape Browser  it's pretty obvious that they are not RPM programs.  On seeking help  about this there

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