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RE: [newbie-it] lancio di una shell dal desktot KDE

2000-09-27 Thread Giovanni Adinolfi
intendevo come collegarlo ad un icona del desktop grazie mago merlino Il mer, 27 set 2000, hai scritto: Guarda bene il "desktop" (scrivania) : ci dev'essere la rappresentazione di un piccolo monitor sul pannello di kde. Clicca li' e sim-sala-bim ecco una console.. ciao = Original

RE: [newbie-it] lancio di una shell dal desktot KDE

2000-09-27 Thread Sergio Agosti
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, you wrote: intendevo come collegarlo ad un icona del desktop grazie mago merlino Il mer, 27 set 2000, hai scritto: Guarda bene il "desktop" (scrivania) : ci dev'essere la rappresentazione di un piccolo monitor sul pannello di kde. Clicca li' e sim-sala-bim

[newbie-it] problemi con il kernel

2000-09-27 Thread marco
salve, ho dei problemi a compilare il kernel: nella dir usr/src/linux dò il comando make xconfig, e mi viene risposto: "no rule to make target 'xconfig'. stop. premetto che accedo da root e che non funziona neanche con make config o menuconfig. saluti Marco

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Mwinold
In a message dated 26-Sep-00 21:27:25 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I buy a Ford. oh buy an engine that is impossible to work on and dies all the time sounds like WINDOWS!!! ford = windows of the automobile industry

[newbie] Questions triggered by glibconfig.h not found

2000-09-27 Thread Rick Commo
Not sure if this question belongs here or in [expert], so I'll start here since I've just subscribed to both. I am a fairly recent Mandrake 7.1 user. After purchasing "GTK+ / Gnome Applications Development" I needed to install the various support libraries. I used RPMDrake and installed a bunch

[newbie] gaim config

2000-09-27 Thread Frank Morris
I just installed 7.1, everything seems to be working fine, except when I tried to log on to gaim I was told that it was "not configured" now what do I do? Thanks, Frank

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Jay
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, you wrote: Has any one heard? The Microsoft Antitrust Case is going to a lower court. And if George W. Bush has his way. Mr. Bill will be able add - force people to accept what comes with Windows? It's a sad day. Just my $0.02 Roman -- Pardon my French, but who

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Robin Regennitter
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, you wrote: Isnt OSX a MAC versions of Operating System. I thought it's not related to Linux. Of course there are some Linux distributions for the Mac. But what I've heard Apple is producing the next generation of O/S entitled OSX. Rob On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, you wrote:

Re: [newbie] gaim config

2000-09-27 Thread Jay
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, you wrote: I just installed 7.1, everything seems to be working fine, except when I tried to log on to gaim I was told that it was "not configured" now what do I do? Thanks, Frank -- Get the latest release. I believe it to be at http://www.marko.net or something

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Jay
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, you wrote: Isnt OSX a MAC versions of Operating System. I thought it's not related to Linux. Of course there are some Linux distributions for the Mac. But what I've heard Apple is producing the next generation of O/S entitled OSX.

[Re: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Post-install problem - re-post! ]

2000-09-27 Thread elldee
Mark Thanks for this. try reinstalling and this time don't do the HDD optimization. I don't think with a drive that big and a system as efficient as linux that you're going to really need to worry about optimizing, and I suspect that there is a small , but apparently noticable enough hardware

Re: [newbie] Messages are repeating themselves...

2000-09-27 Thread Mark Weaver
Ken, Thank you very much. That little recipe got slammed into the .procmailrc file REAL quick. Awesome! thanks again, -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this |

Re: [newbie] OpenGL

2000-09-27 Thread John Couturier
OpenGL, is the "Mesa" rpms. You will need to make sure you install the Mesa-devel rpm for the compile to work. They should be on the CD. -- Original Message -- From: KompuKit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000

[newbie] 56K MDC modem not working...

2000-09-27 Thread weller
Dear all, Please help - I am only one step away from configuring Linux (Mandrake 7.1) and removing Windows from my machine FOREVER :) At present I can't get Linux to recognise my modem - I am pretty sure that it is not a Winmodem (there isn't anything anywhere that says it is a Winmodem #8211;

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-27 Thread Vic
oh gee that was phreakin helpful thanks for nothing. I loooked there and already found nothing but kde screenshots. Any *useful* information now?? On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 26-Sep-00 13:44:39 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Post-install problem - re-post!

2000-09-27 Thread Vic
I would look in my /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file and check for references to hdparm commands, when you find these, you can then comment them out if you like or change them to your liking. There should be some info on this (the hdparm command and its parameters) on http://www.mandrakeuser.org just

[newbie] Netscape browser...

2000-09-27 Thread Robert Griffiths
Hi, can anybody tell me how i can get colour on the netscape browsers interface, it's grey and the pic's on the buttons are black...if their's supposed to be colour that is. Any help would be great, thank's in advance.. Robert.

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Vic
No kidding thats why Billyboy hates linux, he can't touch it haha! On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Not really...He can't do a thing to the beautiful OS I'm running on my box that will likely still be running WITHOUT being rebooted once till they finally get done doodling around in

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Robin Regennitter wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, you wrote: Isnt OSX a MAC versions of Operating System. I thought it's not related to Linux. Of course there are some Linux distributions for the Mac. But what I've heard Apple is producing the next generation of O/S entitled OSX. Rob

[newbie] ipchains and ssh

2000-09-27 Thread george . f . workman
Hello, My first post on the newbie list... I have been struggling for some time to get SSH to work on my Linux box (2.2.13-4mdk : Mandrake 6.1). I believe I finally have it up and running, because I am able to create a SSH connection from/to the machine itself. What I can't seem to manage is

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-27 Thread David Boles
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 07:42:33 -0500, Vic said: oh gee that was phreakin helpful thanks for nothing. I loooked there and already found nothing but kde screenshots. Any *useful* information now?? With an attitude like that you will find that "help' is hard to come by around here. If

RE: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Mark Johnson
Pardon my heresy, but I don't think Linux will make it as a viable alternative desktop for the masses (no offense intended) for the following reasons: 1) the Linux community is too decentralized. 2) there are no such things as standards, even defacto standards - Cut Paste is an example -

RE: [newbie] Installing 7.1 hangs at formatting boot partition

2000-09-27 Thread Mark Johnson
Thanks to everybody for their responses... For the record what I had to do was use 7.0 installation CD to setup how I wanted the drive partitioned then exited the installation after that step and rebooted with the 7.1 CD and everything worked from there. I noticed that using auto-allocate on

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread F. E. Schaper
Hey Y'all, Before I got into using Linux I used various versions of the MAC O/S and I always found it to be somewhat unstable, the one thing I did like about it was the fact that it was not nearly as dumbed down as Windows, it is easy to use, but you still need to have some kind of understanding

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-27 Thread bpremeaux
I don't have any screen shots I can forward, but you could look at 'info grub' which is the manual (I'm still trying to figure out how to print it out. It's stuffed into a couple *.bz2 files.) Another excellent resource is - http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html I hope these help.

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Jon Roig
An intel port of OS-X is never going to happen. The whole Apple vision depends on a consistent box to go with the OS -- in this case, a box that only apple makes. -- jon From: "F. E. Schaper" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:33:18 -0400 To:

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-27 Thread Jeff Malka
That is not very nice. The guy was just trying to help and you bit off his head. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 8:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] any

Re: [newbie] ipchains and ssh

2000-09-27 Thread Daniel J. Ferris
At 08:11 AM 9/27/00 -0500, you wrote: Hello, My first post on the newbie list... I have been struggling for some time to get SSH to work on my Linux box (2.2.13-4mdk : Mandrake 6.1). I believe I finally have it up and running, because I am able to create a SSH connection from/to the machine

Re: [[newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Beta 3 - Hangs on shutdown]

2000-09-27 Thread Starz McCllelan
With this beta I've been getting a garbled screen and it would seem like it's frozen but it's still going and it actually make it to shutdown ... Starz "Adam" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment:  MIME Type: multipart/alternative

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-27 Thread Vic
Well he flames people can't I flame him too? BTW thanks for the url On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, David Boles wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 07:42:33 -0500, Vic said: oh gee that was phreakin helpful thanks for nothing. I loooked there and already found nothing but kde screenshots. Any

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-27 Thread Vic
I tried that url, is the server down? On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, David Boles wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 07:42:33 -0500, Vic said: oh gee that was phreakin helpful thanks for nothing. I loooked there and already found nothing but kde screenshots. Any *useful* information now??

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-27 Thread Vic
Many many many thanks! Excellent! On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have any screen shots I can forward, but you could look at 'info grub' which is the manual (I'm still trying to figure out how to print it out. It's stuffed into a couple *.bz2 files.) Another

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-27 Thread Vic
Ok wait a minute, I got it, must have been a network glitch down the pipe, its back up. Thanks On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, David Boles wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 07:42:33 -0500, Vic said: oh gee that was phreakin helpful thanks for nothing. I loooked there and already found nothing but kde

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-27 Thread Michael
Grub isn't anything fancy to look at (though more than lilo). A basic blue box w/ a list of the OS's/kernels you can load. As it runs before the OS screenshots are troublesome to get (not impossible). I think it's a little nicer since you don't have to type in kernel names and it's easier for

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-27 Thread Vic
Sorry thought he was yellin at me like he did my room mate, I know Charley used my computer before without asking me, and I told him about it, changed my password and created him an account. I asked the last flame he did to re direct it to my room mate but he never did On Wed, 27 Sep 2000,

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
"F. E. Schaper" wrote: I'll leave the Presidential debate open for others to discuss as I think that is too far off topic for this list, but I will ask you this: Do you want a President who, up until this point is most famous for approving the execution of 2 women, and for picking his nose

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Robin Regennitter
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, you wrote: yeah I hope so, Microcrap needs to be wipe out. Open Source Rules!! LOL On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, you wrote: Isnt OSX a MAC versions of Operating System. I thought it's not related to Linux. Of course there are some

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Mark Hillary
I think I will just stay in UK, we may Blair, and have no petrol (Got it at the monent, just waiting for november when they are going to start the blockades again) but its a nice country. "F. E. Schaper" wrote: Hey Y'all, Before I got into using Linux I used various versions of the MAC O/S

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Robin Regennitter
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, you wrote: the only reason why Mac is different than Intel is the fact they run completely different processors. Mac is PPC Intel is Pentium. An intel port of OS-X is never going to happen. The whole Apple vision depends on a consistent box to go with the OS -- in this

RE: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Robin Regennitter
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, you wrote: I think you'll be surprise. Pardon my heresy, but I don't think Linux will make it as a viable alternative desktop for the masses (no offense intended) for the following reasons: 1) the Linux community is too decentralized. 2) there are no such things

Re: [newbie] Netscape browser...

2000-09-27 Thread Z
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, you wrote: Hi, can anybody tell me how i can get colour on the netscape browsers interface, it's grey and the pic's on the buttons are black...if their's supposed to be colour that is. Any help would be great, thank's in advance.. Netscape icons do not show colour in

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-27 Thread Vic
Oh ok, I wonder, is there a way I can create a "rescue" disc in case I want to replace grub with Lilo in case it does not co-operate? I don't think I have grub installed, as it is just some files in /boot/grub and no install.sh file. Do I need to install some other software to activate it?

Re: [newbie] mail-client software

2000-09-27 Thread Mandrake
I was just at the site and the links don't work to download the software. Am I missing something here? Eric Subject: Re: [newbie] mail-client software Date: Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 05:21:11PM +0100 Time to reply! Quoting Paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Mark Weaver

Re: [newbie] 56K MDC modem not working...

2000-09-27 Thread ozgur cagdas
andy...im not sure about that this modem is not a win modem. the probability of using system resources by this device is very high if it's onboard. on the other hand you have to be sure about that you have enabled your onboard modem from bios settings. but the best way to get specific info

Re: [newbie] ipchains and ssh

2000-09-27 Thread george . f . workman
Dan, I took out the source address and I'm still not able to connect.In your example, I assume you have a genuine IP address in place of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.Do you have a static IP then? Of course, I'm also starting to wonder if I'm barking up the wrong tree here and maybe I have

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread jon roig
You're right (technically)... The main difference, though, is that there are a million different configurations of intel machines, and only a handful of apple boxes... Remember mac clones? They didn't last too long, exactly for that reason... even now, I can't get my stupid CD-R running on my

Re: [newbie] Fw: 7.1 hardware bug

2000-09-27 Thread Pete Smith
- Original Message - From: "Al Collier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 3:32 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Fw: 7.1 hardware bug Good luck buddie, Gee thanks :)) Pete

[newbie] tcpd

2000-09-27 Thread pawel kwas
I need to use tcp wrappers. Do I need to put something in inetd.config to have it (tcpd) enabled at boot? I can't see any entry for it there. What is "auth" in inetd.config? What does it do? There is no manual page for it. Also when trying "netstat -ta" I get a table entries that show ports

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread GAPrichard
Microspot lead the way, now everybody is trying to do it. -Gary- In a message dated 9/27/2000 9:20:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAIK, Mac OS-X (and thats "ten", BTW), is the classic, slick Mac GUI sitting on top of a version of BSD Unix. My little brother just

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Patti Wavinak
Okay I have been watching this thread and I just can't resist :-) Let's all join forces (and I do believe that there is a sufficient number of us) and everyone vote (write-in ballot) for the Gov of Minnesota -- Jesse "The Body" Ventura giggle Trust me, no one thought he was going to win the

[newbie] Formating IDE HD

2000-09-27 Thread Ricardo Zevallos
Hello. I have been trying to install Linux Mandrake in my old computer and now I cannot create a Linux partition. Starting form my 1.2 Gigabyte IDE-HD with Windows NT4 system, I first deleted the ancient NT partition and created a new PRI-DOS partition (using fdisk). When I tried to reformat

RE: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Richard Garand
[replies below] Richard Garand [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 12190132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 10:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

Re: [newbie] Disk Partitioning Bad parameter passed

2000-09-27 Thread bascule
i don't know if this will help, but at the crash try alt-f3, alt-f4 etc and see if there are indications on the consoles what was going on at the time bascule Shawn Tayler wrote: Hi Guys, Just trying out Mandrake 7.1 and I can't get past the Partition setup page during the install. It

RE: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Richard Garand
I don't really understand how the US elections work, but if you're talking about the president, wouldn't Nader be the best of the current candidates? Richard Garand [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 12190132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-27 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Vic wrote: Oh ok, I wonder, is there a way I can create a "rescue" disc in case I want to replace grub with Lilo in case it does not co-operate? I have the opposite problem: how can I re-install GRUB ? It came as standard with my Mandrake 7.1 install, but was replaced by

[newbie] IRQ Questions

2000-09-27 Thread Aaron Benedict
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It looks like my modem although on COM2 in Windows (ttyS1) is actually using IRQ 5 instead of IRQ 3 (which is what it should be according to the documentation that I read). My question has two parts. 1. How do I check which IRQ my modem is actually

[newbie] aircard 210

2000-09-27 Thread pawel kwas
is anyone here using sierra wireless cdpd aircard 210 on linux? I got the pcmcia-cs-3.1.14-aircard.patch for it but have no idea how to apply that patch. please email me if you can help. thanks Paul

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Michael
Dunno. I didn't even look before overwriting the included copy of Win ME (funny name eh?) on the new server with Mandrake. Windows blows cheese. All that'd happen is someone would rewrite lilo/grub a little to fix it and then it'd work again. The OS can't really tell the difference. *^*^*^* Was

Re: [newbie] OpenGL

2000-09-27 Thread Larry Hignight
Well it kind of depends. OpenGL is a graphics library and I seriously doubt that there is an OpenGL rpm on your system. Try rpm -qa | grep opengl. The missing OpenGL support that the game is refering has to do with your graphics card drivers. So the question becomes what kind of graphics card

Re: [newbie] DSL

2000-09-27 Thread Robert Scripter
Steve Dressler wrote: I have 2 win98 machines, and networked with ADSL going to both computers, I also have a IBM Server 320 with mandrake 7.1 installed on it. How much trouble is it to connect it to the network so I can have DSL going to it? Sorry if this has been topic before. If

Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver

2000-09-27 Thread Larry Hignight
Maybe because you have a Gforce 1 and not a 2 (as the original poster asked about). Duh! Why don't you read some of the faq's I pointed out in the previous post. It might help you out a bit. I'm also going to assume that your XF86Config file refers to a 'nv' driver and not the newer

RE: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Michael
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pardon my heresy, but I don't think Linux will make it as a viable alternative desktop for the masses (no offense intended) for the following reasons: 1) the Linux community is too decentralized. This one I can agree on ;-) One of

[newbie] Another Mandrake review

2000-09-27 Thread Carroll Grigsby
CNET posted a review of Mandrake 7.1 this week - favorable but nothing substantial. It's at linux.cnet.com/linux. The high point (for me, at least) was the ad for RedHat 6.2. That's ok -- the same ad shows up on the RedHat 7.0 review. They say the RH 7.0 file is 1 gb -- I think I'll pass. -- cmg

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-27 Thread Barry Premeaux
Vic wrote: Oh ok, I wonder, is there a way I can create a "rescue" disc in case I want to replace grub with Lilo in case it does not co-operate? I don't think I have grub installed, as it is just some files in /boot/grub and no install.sh file. Do I need to install some other software to

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Michael
Where does he stand on IP ownership issues etc? *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? -- Real Genius On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Patti Wavinak wrote: Okay I have been

RE: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
"F. E. Schaper" wrote: I'll leave the Presidential debate open for others to discuss as I think that is too far off topic for this list, but I will ask you this: Do you want a President who, up until this point is most famous for approving the execution of 2 women, and for picking his nose

Re: [newbie] 3D Prophet II GTS 32 MB

2000-09-27 Thread markOpoleO
I have a 3d Prophet Geforce 1 DDR, it should detect it automaticlly during install. markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "James Boeck" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 4:02 PM Subject: [newbie] 3D Prophet II GTS 32 MB I just bought a new

Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver

2000-09-27 Thread markOpoleO
Mandrake 7.1 uses the same drivers for Geforce 1 and 2...it is just the same Nvidea drivers..DUH. markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "Larry Hignight" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 7:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver Maybe

[newbie] Console error's?

2000-09-27 Thread charlsplant
Hello! estimados amigos de newbie(dear friends) I'm having some problems installing "acroreader405.tar" and this is the situation if I go by the book "LM7.0 Getting Started Manual" I'd try : tar xvf linux -ar-405.tar.gz -the answer is :"tar old option "f " requires an argument - try :tar --help

RE: [newbie] Another Mandrake review

2000-09-27 Thread Richard Garand
The mandrake 2-CD install was 1GB for mebut then i got the iso images for the full CDs. If you download the ~700-2000 seperate packages you want, it's probably a bit smaller. Richard Garand [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 12190132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Tyler Longren
I'm dual booting WinME and Mandrake right now. I haven't payed much attention to this thread. I just saw something about dual booting Mandrake and WinME. If you have 2 hard drives, it's easy. Put ME on one, and Mandrake on the other. Set the Linux drive to master, and you're set. If you

Re: [newbie] When an X app fails how do I view error messages?

2000-09-27 Thread Anthony
Open up an xterm (or equivlant) and type in the name of the program that is giving you problems. it'll give you error feedback. When an X application running under GNOME fails, where do the error messages go, and how can I trap for them. I am running Mandrake 7.1 with a GUI login...

Re: [newbie] Formating IDE HD

2000-09-27 Thread Larry Hignight
Don't you just love fs support by MS?! Well, I can't see any reason for not wanting to flash the bios, especially, if it will add something as convenient as a bootable cd-rom. Short of that maybe you can get a hold of a partition magic floppy? If you have another Linux machine maybe you

Re: [newbie] OpenGL

2000-09-27 Thread KompuKit
I thought I answered your question in my first email Larry Hignight wrote: Well it kind of depends. OpenGL is a graphics library and I seriously doubt that there is an OpenGL rpm on your system. Try rpm -qa | grep opengl. The missing OpenGL support that the game is refering has to do

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-27 Thread Paul
2000-09-27. Incoming bitstream from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Vic wrote: Oh ok, I wonder, is there a way I can create a "rescue" disc in case I want to replace grub with Lilo in case it does not co-operate? I have the opposite problem: how can I re-install GRUB ? It came as

Re: [newbie] mail-client software

2000-09-27 Thread Paul
2000-09-27. Incoming bitstream from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was just at the site and the links don't work to download the software. Am I missing something here? Eric Subject: Re: [newbie] mail-client software Date: Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 05:21:11PM +0100 Where at Tucows is Mahogony?

[newbie] Brand new, and full of questions

2000-09-27 Thread Ralph Avery
I am completely new to Linux, and thoroughly confused, so please forgive my naivete. My system: Video:ATI Rage/RageII PCI (ati_m64) Sound: VIA PCI Audio Controller (Onboard) Modem: 5634BTS 56K Video Ready Modem (Hardware) Manuf: Texas Inst. LAN: Linksys LNEPCI II PCI

Re: [newbie] Console error's?

2000-09-27 Thread Adam
possibly try tar -xzf linux-ar-40.tar.gz that's how i've always done it - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 10:22 PM Subject: [newbie] Console error's? Hello! estimados amigos de newbie(dear friends) I'm having

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Mwinold
yes macintosh is developing a system based on the linux/unix os, mirosoft helped a little ofcourse, but the new os looks promissing however stability of our precious kernel was sacraficed a little infact during the demo that steve jobs played, cant remember where off hand but one of the

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-27 Thread Mwinold
i think your blind next time read it pointed strait to it and only took me a minute to find it but here is the site http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Demo/Mandrake7.1/QuickLook/grub.php3 enjoy In a message dated 27-Sep-00 07:43:53 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] off-topic (webring-app)

2000-09-27 Thread jon roig
I think I've seen some over at http://www.cgi-resources.com (damn... startin' to feel like an ad for those guys) -- jon On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, KompuKit wrote: Can someone tell me where I can get an APP or cgi-script of some sort..to HOST a WEBRING...on my server? FREE, of course

Re: [newbie] off-topic (webring-app)

2000-09-27 Thread Brian King
Try http://hotscripts.com KompuKit wrote: Can someone tell me where I can get an APP or cgi-script of some sort..to HOST a WEBRING...on my server? FREE, of course -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins

Re: [newbie] Space problem - help!

2000-09-27 Thread Mwinold
heres a thought im running out of space myself and i dont have room on my laptop to install a 40gb hard drive. any suggestions?? In a message dated 27-Sep-00 12:01:36 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Buy a second hdd? That's what I do. I see 40Gb'ers selling for $135 these

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-27 Thread Mwinold
research by some university shows that statistically linux is the second most popular os in the world, #1 is still winblows however there are many benifits in the linux community you have thousands of developers who find a bug post it and instantly thousands of others begin working on the

RE: [newbie] Brand new, and full of questions

2000-09-27 Thread Seth
welcome to the club! First Question: I recently tried to install Linux-Mandrake 6.5 or 6.2 (Whichever the case may be, the cover says both) I already have Win 98, Win 2K, and Win NT on this computer, so I bought another hard drive for Linux. I used Partition commander to create a Linux

Re: [newbie] Brand new, and full of questions

2000-09-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ralph Avery wrote: [snip] First Question: I recently tried to install Linux-Mandrake 6.5 or 6.2 (Whichever the case may be, the cover says both) I already have Win 98, Win 2K, and Win NT on this computer, so I bought another hard drive for Linux. I used Partition commander to create a

Re: [newbie] Space problem - help!

2000-09-27 Thread Michael
Buy a second hdd? That's what I do. I see 40Gb'ers selling for $135 these days. Move your /home files there and reinstall Mandrake. You can try resizing but it's usually easier and safer just to add space. Also you might look to see if you have any non-programs in that partition (mp3's ec) and

[newbie] Space problem - help!

2000-09-27 Thread Sebastian Varges
I installed Mandrake as the only OS on my PC with 2GB and used the standard settings. Now I have a space problem: there is no space left at all in directory '/' but 87% free in /home. I have lots of strange errors because of the space problem in '/'. Deleting some application did not help much,

[newbie] Configuring LAN connection....

2000-09-27 Thread dan farley
hi. i log onto a LAN at syracuse university. how do i configure my connection to work? i have an 3com ethernet card. I found out how to get to the Network COnfig screen where i can enter my IP, default gateway and change stuff like that please help...what stuff do i need to know and how

Re: [newbie] kernel patch question - failed to patch

2000-09-27 Thread Adam
well if you're using patches from kernel.org it might be that they aren't liking the mandrake kernel rpms' :P that's the first idea, second ".config" is after you've configured a kernel, "save and exit" (on make xconfig) I hope that this gives you some sort of an idea, but I'm sure there are