Steve,
Are you using Chinese on Mandrake? I tried briefly by choosing GB Simplified
Chinese in the language setting which converted my menus to code. I then tried
selecting a Chinese font but it didn't do anything. There are some How to use
Chinese on Linux docs around but it looks like it will
Kim White wrote:
Hi all
Where can I get Creative Live Value Drivers for Mandrake 7.1, or is
there a trick to get it working.?
Regards
Kim
Registered Linux User #: 183701
Kim,
This may be a little off topic. I have Creative Live Value Drivers
installed on my Windows NT4 partition.
Kim White wrote:
I have a sound blaster live value edition and it
works great under LM7.1. I ran sndconfig and all ran great. From what I've
read, some people have great luck and others no luck at all. Sorry I can't
help more but I'm a new-bie 100%. Drivers must be intergal to the
Hi,
I originally installed MDK7.1 as workstation and Creative SB worked.
Just to test things,
I deleted the workstation and installed as developer(the whole shooting
match). My sound was dead.
Is this a bug? As any one tried this?
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Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
Today I successfully installed Mandrake 7.1 (Maximum Linux
Disk) on a 3+ gig partition that used to hold a useless
Win98 installation. I have my 7.0 install intact on another
2 gig partition, so getting 7.1 basically running was
a snap -- I have copied a lot of stuff (even old programs
like
Also, probably because many of us are using both OS's and are more apt to
see it.
- Original Message -
From: Tom Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 12:56 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Virus: better safe than sorry
My guess would be for people who run
Yes, everything seemed to have worked out fine for me. id you do automatic
or custom install?
- Original Message -
From: Bill Hudspeth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] AMD 500 CPUs???
Has anyone out there had a
Given that there are different major groupings of linux
distributions
(Red Hat, Debian, ), and that different release versions are not
directly
comparible (like RH 6.1 vs. LM 7.0 which I understand to be basically
comparible--using the same kernel revision, similar versions of major
When booting up for the first time my kernel locks up. I think this
could be due to the fact that I am using the hard drive optimizations
with the ata 66. I don't know this for sure though. It locks up after
INIT: starting runlevel 5. If somebody could help me with this.
Sean
[EMAIL
I have set up an ftp server and an web server on my linux mandrake box.
I can ftp in.
but I cant upload thru ftp to the web servers www dir.
I have tried chmod I have changed user access rights
I still cant upload it says access denied.
what do I need to do?
I have done so at times. What happens, is Windows converts some of
the dots in filenames to underlines. Apparently RPM doesn't care.
But you have to tell RPM the name the file actually has on your system.
I.E., if it has underlines rather than dots, then when you invoke RPM,
use the
I used to do this a lot. The only problem you may have is that sometimes Linux
thinks that ANYTHING on a FAT drive is executable.
What I usually did was saved it to a FAT hd, then copied it over to an ext2
(RieserFS if you use it) hd and chmod as needed.
Ty
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 02:05:08 -0400,
Click on the start button --Applications--Monitoring--Printer Queue
And it's pretty much the same as you're used to.
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Mark
** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Pete Clapham wrote:
Hi, all --
Can any of you tell me how to flush the print
um...yeah...ok, so what's the punch line? I feel like I just missed
something.
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Mark
** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
On 28 Jul 2000, Jaguar wrote:
Probably for the same reason other people continue to bitch about Windows in
here.
My $0.02 worth.
Jaguar
I have linux 7.1 running flawlessly on a amd k6-2/500 . I think this
thing loves this cpu.
Bill Hudspeth wrote:
Has anyone out there had a successful Mandrake operating
on an AMD 500 CPU?
TIA
Bill
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Jonathan Spearman
http://www.thecityweb.com
S/MIME Cryptographic
Take a look at www.opensource.creativelabs.com
cheers,
philomena
Kim White wrote:
Hi all Where can I get Creative Live Value Drivers for Mandrake 7.1,
or is there a trick to get it working.? Regards
Kim
Registered Linux User #: 183701
Many thanks for getting back to me on this.
I called Logitech and was told that they no longer support SERIAL PORT
mice - just PS/2 and USB. I told them I'd never buy from them again.
The Microspeed trackball does work, for about the same price.
Bill
KompuKit wrote:
I have the same
I use IPChains...very effective, and there's a Mandrake GUI that can be used
as a front end if the user (like me) is command line shy.
Steve Weltman
- Original Message -
From: "Roderick F.Lazaro" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 6:49 PM
Subject: Re:
Hello,
I think I found a solution. I tried viewing .pdf files at 1024X768
instead of 800X600 or less and it worked. Finally got to read them. Of
course, I put the root password in at DrakConf rather than log in as
root to do it.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
rrrg. I
Anyone who is interested in upgrading to Helix GNOME...
...at the root command prompt type:
lynx -source http://go-gnome.com | sh
Easiest install/upgrade I have **EVER** done, on **ANY** system 8)
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Yes, I have a AMD 500Mhz It appears to be running fine. Why do you ask?
Seve
Original Message
On 7/29/00, 4:21:55 AM, Hellmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
regarding Re: [newbie] AMD 500 CPUs???:
Hi Bill.
I'm very close to it, I have an AMD K6-2 450 Mhz and Mandrake runs just
fine.
Is LILO coming up after bootup?
Original Message
On 7/27/00, 8:54:18 PM, Jeff Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding
[newbie] Mandrake 7.1 need help:
I need help getting it installed and setup. I can't seem to get it to
boot off of a second HD. Please help?
Yes, you can do that safely. The only thing you might have to change is that
anything on a VFAT partition seems to automatically be made executable. So if
you don't want it to be executable, you can type "chmod a-x the_file_name".
This is probably a silly question. When downloading linux/unix
Dan LaBine wrote:
Bill Hudspeth wrote:
Has anyone out there had a successful Mandrake operating
on an AMD 500 CPU?
TIA
Bill
Bill; Would 3 Athlon K7-750's and one 850 qualify ? These CPU's are
SMOKIN' !! Are you having problems with your install?? Say it isn't so
!! If you are, get
Everett wrote:
Hello
I am running my box with both ms windows and linux.
I have set most of my hard drive for linux but know I need to setup
something on the ms windows side that needs more space than I have.
Can any one tell me of a safe way to resize my partitions to give more space
Ran Hooper wrote:
This list take a dive or what?
Regards,
Ran Hooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mike
Jeff Malka wrote:
During Mandrake's install, there was a nice GUI tool for creating partitions
and mount points. Can this tool be used after install to create new
partitions instead of fdisk? If not, is there another gui tool that can be
used?
Thanks.
Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all:
My X windows in LInux has been dead for quite some time now and have not had
the time to fix it up however got the time today to try fixing it again.
Here's the info of my computer.
CPU: AMD K6-2 533MHZ
Monitor: Compaq MV520
Video card: Trident Blade3D (note this is integrated into
I know you can get a rpm of the international version at rpmfind.net. Just list
the rpms by name and scroll through the "p" section until you see the one for
your system (alpha, i386, spac, whatever). The one for i386 that i have is at
Its there but for some reason the link in K - Panel - menu editor dosent
point to it and i didnt dig into it real far to see how to change that link so
that it will work. Maybe someone else can tell you how to do that. But to get
into the menu editor either open a terminal window or whatever to
hello all.
i am running Mandrake 7.1 and I have had a lot of
problems getting kppp to work. So I ditched it and
decided to use kwvdial. I downloaded the rpm installed
it and everything seemed to be working nicely. It
dials logsin and claims to have connected. The only
problem is that when I go to
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Could you please send me some confirmation to this letter
because I think that they do not arrive at the mailing-list.
Gabor
Gabor,
You just have to wait, and wait, and wait..
Andrew Scotchmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[since I received only 35 Newbie on the 25th, none on the 26th 27th I'm
reposting this. I had thought that the Newbie server might be down, but
since I have only a few (rather than scads) messages from Newbie today I'm
assuming that I just didn't get my mail for
I tried to copy my html files: /public_html
from within linux...to a slave drive that is fat32.
but when I checked them...in windows...most,if not all
the files..were either upper/lower case...
I need them to stay the way they are in linux...
which is all lowercase...(with the exception of just a
Ok...that makes a lot more senes than some of the other rather silly
responses I've gotten to a real, if somewhat niave question.
--
Mark
** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Paul wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
Umwhy is this
you have to keep working with it until you find one that will work with
his hardware. Sometimes it can be a real challenge to get the display
working correctly with Linux. Especially Mandrake. This week I configured
LM 7.1 on one of our users' laptop at work. I spent the better part of one
day
Actually they got a stay of the injuction and so they will still be up for
another month or so.
That's ok, evidently they're going to be turned off at midnight...
another victory for those poor people who have to spend their mornings
deciding which Porche to drive to work today =(
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You're being recieved loud and clear.
--
Mark
** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Philip Gaitan wrote:
Sent one message that never got through. This is me testing it now. :)
Phil
Mark Weaver escribi:
Kmail and Netscape Messenger work real well for this.
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Mark
** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Craig wrote:
> Hi I was wondering if anyone knew about a good email program to use
that can show HTML emails. Thanks in advance.
>
> Craig
>
I'm using
Hi,
Look under Nvidia
Later,
Rob Saul
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Quaylar wrote:
hi all !
i recently searched the graphics chip compatibility database for xfree
3.3.5 and didnt find any entry for ASUS cards or Geforce chips...
but i think i read somwhere that linux supports geforce
So that means that I won't get this message untill tomorrow and no you is
allowed to read this response after yesterday.
Charles :-)
- Original Message -
From: "Seth" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] X
This
I had the same problem. I had to use the automatic install. It's the only
one that would work. Must a problem with the 7.1 ISO file.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 1:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Makedrake
Jeffyou should be holding down the shift key as you click
on a downloadable file link.
Alan
Jeff Malka wrote:
I know this is a dumb question, but using Netscape under Mandrake 7.1, I cannot
seem to download. When I click on a downloadable file link I get the ASCII
text on screen
unsubscribe
you may already know this but, at the console type 'ps -A'
this gives a list of all running tasks, on the left next to each task will be
an id number, ie:
PID TTY TIME CMD
875 ?00:00:00 gnome-session
926 ?00:00:00 esd
928 ?00:00:00 gnome-smproxy
940 ?
Another aid to get your firewall up and running.
Paul
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subject: EasyChains 0.9.2i
added by: Dejavo on Jul 29th 2000,
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Kim White wrote:
Hi all
Where can I get Creative Live Value Drivers for Mandrake 7.1, or is
there a trick to get it working.?
Kim,
At the bottom of my http://nlpagan.net/linux.htm page, in the software
section, there's a link to the page you need.
Paul
--
Amazement is
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Jim Dwyer wrote:
Where do i get PGP from and how do i set it up?
I think it is either at www.pgp.org or www.pgp.com.
Otherwise go to www.google.com, search for "pgp linux" and you're bound to
find it.
Setting up should be explained on the site itself quite extensively.
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, John wrote:
This is probably a silly question. When downloading linux/unix files (i.e.
a .tar.gz or .rpm files) from the internet, is it safe to save them in a
Win95 directory? Is there anything I should do to protect/preserve file
attributes/permissions?
Yes, it is
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Jim Dwyer wrote:
I was updating netscape and i got an error and now i can't get it to work.
What do i do? How do i get it back? I tried reinstalling it from the CD but
it's not workin. HELP
Did you try to set it up from an RPM, or tarball?
Try removing all the files you
G'day,
I get the following when running wintv, what is it telling me, and what
do I need to do to fix?
kwintv: Symbol `__vt_3ios' has different size in shared object, consider
re-link
ing
kwintv: Symbol `__vt_7istream.3ios' has different size in shared object,
conside
r re-linking
kwintv:
Jeff Malka wrote:
I know this is a dumb question, but using Netscape under Mandrake 7.1, I cannot
seem to download. When I click on a downloadable file link I get the ASCII
text on screen instead of normal downloading. What should I be doing to get
Netscape to download into a directory?
I haven't used Pine in quite awhile. I can't remember the configuration
line that will make Pine read from a remote mail and news server. I
know that I had this working years ago, when I first started with Linux.
Can someone help me to configure Pine for remote retrieval, without
using
Jeff Malka wrote:
I have noticed that sometimes Mandrake 7.1 installs grub and other times
lilo. Which install does which and how do I change from one to the other
after install?
Thanks.
Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered (Newbie) Linux user 183185
If you've got your system up
Try installing version 4.0. I have read that GeForce is about the only card
it supports properly. I think it is designed for cards like that. Don't
quote me, but I think it is.
try the www.xfree86.org website..
Quaylar wrote:
hi all !
i recently searched the graphics chip compatibility
unsublesson
For a start:
to leave the list:
send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To stop getting mail for a while, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and in the body write
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To get mail again do the same, just write then
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On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, butt sniffer wrote:
how do i get off this mailing list. i got 67 new emails today.all about
nothing.people i don`t know or care about?
Same way you got on it. Unsubscribe. Looks like it is time for the lesson
again... will post it again...
Jeff Malka wrote:
During
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
My Kodak DC280 worked through the serial connection; haven't tried the
usb since I recompiled my kernel. gphoto is still a little buggy and it
has only limited support - you get much more use out of the Windows
software. I love linux, and it's
Ian McLeod wrote:
Has anyone successfully installed the Galeon web browser?
How did they do it? What did they install?
What is it like?
Regards,
Ian McLeod
I haven't tried it, but I did a search on freshmeat to see what you were
talking about and I see that it's based on
yeah, but what about the people whos livelyhoods are earned by those
songs? and what about the people who hold the copyrights to those
songs. don't they deserve to have their material protected from being
stolen? that IS in effect what napster does. TAKE those songs and
distribute them for free.
There is one partition utility that no one has even mentioned that works
everybit as well as partition magic and doesn't require windows to
work. All it requires is a Windows start disk. It's called Partition
Resizer and it's free.
The address is: http://members.xoom.com/Zeleps
If you have any
:( *mark pouts jealously* My boss has allowed me to install Mandrake on my
workstation, but I can't figure out how to get it to see the servers, and
I haven't worked out how to log onto the Network with it yet. We're
running Novell servers. Any ideas?
--
Mark
** Registered Linux user #
It wasn't a dumb question. actually it's something that almost all new
people to Linux experience and it won't happen with all files for some
reason. when you want to download a file press the shift key and hold it
down while clicking on the link for the file to be downloaded and you're
off.
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windows sucks
--
Mark
** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Romanator wrote:
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
Romanator wrote:
Nyuk..Nyuk..
grin Seriously though, isn't it a well documented fact that MS
has "acquired" (and I use that term
filename="text1.rtf"
As far as I know, you will just have to re-set the file
permissions to what you want them, like for an
rpm install file, make it non-executable, and
owned by root. If you want to know these
commands please ask me.
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, you wrote:
This is probably a silly question. When
try typing
rpm -ivh XFree86-xfs --replacepkgs
this should force it in.
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Have the same pb too.
Indeed xfs is not running.
But after several reboots the result is the same.
So I would reinstall XFree86-xfs but rpm says
'package already installed' and stops.
Chris Slater-Walker wrote:
This seems to be a common problem; I have experienced it myself. I think it
may be a problem with certain BIOSes not reporting memory correctly to the
OS, but that's just a guess.
Yes you are right. I have just upgraded, from a Epox to a Abit board, and have
now
John wrote:
This is probably a silly question. When downloading linux/unix files (i.e.
a .tar.gz or .rpm files) from the internet, is it safe to save them in a
Win95 directory? Is there anything I should do to protect/preserve file
attributes/permissions?
I've got to do this on my home
At 02:52 PM 7/28/00 +0200, you wrote:
Patti Wavinak wrote:
I have installed Mandrake 7.1 on a Pentium II 450Mhz with 256 MB of RAM.
It is only showing 65 MB of ram being detected, even though I entered 256
during install. In looking over the archives I notice there was
discussion and how
Kim White wrote:
Hi all
Where can I get Creative Live Value Drivers for Mandrake 7.1, or is
there a trick to get it working.?
Regards
Kim
Registered Linux User #: 183701
Hi Kim. My v7.1 found my SB Live card on installation. If this didn't
happen, then try running "sndconfig" as
Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
That's ok, evidently they're going to be turned off at midnight...
another victory for those poor people who have to spend their mornings
deciding which Porche to drive to work today =(
Well, their execution smile got a stay, it appears. Now they have
until
Daniel Anderson wrote:
Hi,
I was unable to register using Gnapster,so I downloaded and installed
Knapster from Freshmeat,was able to register,and it seems more
stable.After registering I was able to use Gnapster but it has crashed
several times. Hope this helps.
Dan
Hi Dan!
Romanator wrote:
I am not 100% sure but it sounds familiar. They have purchased a lot of
the smaller companies that provide coding, installation, uninstall,
'dll' stuff. A fair chunk of the coding is not necessarily written
inside the Microsoft building. They own many smaller companies that
Stephen Bosch wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
Ok...all of a sudden as though the heavens have closed and the clouds have
all blown away there isn't any more messages coming from the list. What's
up with that. I'm not getting anything from the Expert, or Newbie lists.
Hello all!!
we (my company) has acquired another company, we are looking at point all of
there MIX records to our companies DNS , but would like to have a message
auto generated when we receive email for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to tell the sender
that the users email address has changed to [EMAIL
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