Re: [newbie-it] 7.2 e ISDN

2001-05-27 Thread Giuseppe Foti
At 18.57 26/05/01 +0200, you wrote: Il 12:45, sabato 26 Maggio 2001, scrivesti: Salve, ho ancora problemi con la scheda ISDN. prova a fare a far partire la connessione dal grakconf se e' in automatico ti dira' che sei connesso a internet, ma non e' cosi', dagli disconnetti e poi

[newbie-it] Mi serve aiuto....... (ma no!?!)

2001-05-27 Thread Federico Roncaglia
Salve, sono un nuovo ed inesperto utente di Linux, Ho da pochissimo installato la versione mandrake 7.2. L'installazione pare non avermi dato problemi. Al primo avvio di linux, scopro che ci sono dei problemi 1° Se trascino una finestra, ne capitano di tutti i colori; sovrappone i caratteri

[newbie] CD buffers?

2001-05-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Ok-basically my Plextor CDRW and Adaptec 2930 card are working fairly well. I can open the CD directory, read files there, and I can burn CDs at 12x (coolness!). The problem is whenever I copy (drag n' drop) from an open KDE2/Konqueror /home window and the /mnt/cdrom window. Grabs a huge chunk

[newbie] Conflict/interrupt question?

2001-05-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, while tooling around in HardDrake, I checked my IDE controller, and it shows that there is an interrupt conflict at irq 3. Seems its reporting that my Adaptec SCSI 2930 card is using this interrupt. So...I went into the 2930's configuration util (at bootup) and looked for a way to change

[newbie] Mount win partition

2001-05-27 Thread JA GUESS
How can I mount my windows partition under linux for exploring my files that are in the windows partition under linux? Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at

Re: [newbie] Mount win partition

2001-05-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
JA GUESS wrote: How can I mount my windows partition under linux for exploring my files that are in the windows partition under linux? JAif, in konqueror, you navigate to the /mnt/windows directory you will likely find your windows partition already mounted there. -- Alan

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marcia Waller wrote: Alan, how do I get my printing to work now with the lpd? How do I choose, add, and configure printers with it? Is printtools the gui for it? I really do not know the first thing to do to get this started. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you so much for your detailed

[newbie] Differences in Distrubutions

2001-05-27 Thread lee
Hi Folks, As LM7.2 is the only version I've ever used I'm wondering if someone could tell me the differences in the majors. Say between Mandrake,Debian,SuSe and perhaps even RedHat itself. I've heard Mandrake is basically an offshoot of RedHat. Thank you very much for your time. Lee

[newbie] Fwd: xawdecode

2001-05-27 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Dear folks I put one message like this two weeks ago but not answer. I am trying again: I am trying to install xawdecode under MDI 8.0; , tar, make and make install don't gives me any error, but when I try to run I just have sound and the programme closes immediately: File

[newbie] Looking for a LanCity brand cable modem replacement

2001-05-27 Thread Romanator
Hi evreybody, This is for our Linux cable users. I'm trying reduce the cost of my cable bill(gafaw...) So, I'm looking for a LanCity brand cable modem replacement. Has any one tried replacing their rented cable modem for a new one? By the way, I'm in the Toronto, Canada area with Rogers Cable.

Re: [newbie] Word Perfect 8 install problem

2001-05-27 Thread Michel Clasquin
Last week I reported that the version of WP8 on the cheapbytes applications cd worked fine with mdk7.2. I just upgraded to 8.0 and .. nada. I can open a terminal, cd to the wp directory, take an ls to see if the file xwp really is there, but ./xwp just gives a no such file. The dependencies

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails every time

2001-05-27 Thread D. Hoyem
Well this email wanted me to use the Software Manager. I tried it on the list of Security updates that I had downloaded. Software Manager did not work it hung, tried the Package Manager, it hung (would not work) tried the MandrakeUpdate, it hung (would not work), tried rpm -Uvh package name it

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails every time

2001-05-27 Thread Civileme
WHOA! from the content of the last couple of emails on this I get the impression that you have mandrake 7.2 and are trying to update to 8.0 packages Simply forget it! You cannot use mandrakeUpdate in that fashion. Way WAY too much delta, plus incompatible binaries and libraries. 8.0 is

Re: [newbie] Mandrake - Memory Hog?

2001-05-27 Thread Civileme
Simple--any free memory is immediately grabbed for cache and buffers to make the system run faster... When a program needs memory, some of the allocated cache is freed for that program, then grabbed when the program is done or when it releases the memory to the unallocated pool. Unused

Re: [newbie] Mandrake - Memory Hog?

2001-05-27 Thread Aries
On Sunday 27 May 2001 12:33 pm, you wrote: I've experienced the same problem with 8.0 and I have 160M of ram I reported this to the crashtester list and Civileme sugested that I use the 2.2.19 Kernel that is also incuded with the distro. unfortunetly I have lost that e-mail, due too my two

[newbie] Mandrake 8 install failed

2001-05-27 Thread Benjamin Bayer
To all, I hope I am not repeating an issue that has been discussed on this mailing list recently, but I could not find any reference to my problem in the archive. I have tried twice to install LM 8.0 on my compaq deskpro 5200MMX, both time failing. First with the cheapbytes 8.0, most recently

Re: [newbie] nVIDIA TnT2

2001-05-27 Thread Jeffrey M. Reed
On Sunday 27 May 2001 13:57, OOzy Pal wrote: Hello Guys What do you think about the this video card? Will it work fine with Linux? nVIDIA TnT2 M64 4X 32MB AGP = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo!

Re: [newbie] Modems?

2001-05-27 Thread TezcatlipocA
Hi OOzy, I know of one. I bought an external (serial) because the internal one (winmodem) wouldn't work on Linux. I search for the cheapest ones on the internet and found this one at Outpost.com. It's an Elsa MicroLink 56K Internet. It is so tiny you would doubt about its speed. But let me

[newbie] what is a compressed image?

2001-05-27 Thread lauritzen
A compressed image or ramdisk or something seems to be causing my computer to lock up during install. I'm trying to set it up to dual boot with Windows ME. It always locks up shortly after: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Uncompressing

[newbie] post test

2001-05-27 Thread sean gibbins
Apologies folks, but my replies/posts don't seem to be making it to the list. That said, I have a horrible feeling that replies might be going to person who posted the question/comment, rather than back to the list. Duh... here goes anyway! Sean -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Fwd: xawdecode

2001-05-27 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Etharp I have an AvermediaTVCapture98; the xawdecode is the release 1.3. This new version doesn't include the decode tables, but I have not idea where to find its. I just expand the tar-gz file and then configure, make and make install. The .xawdecode diretory just include a file, named

[newbie] Module sr_mod.o

2001-05-27 Thread Roberto Herrero
I think I have problems with the SCSI emulation, derived from the absence of that module in LM 7.2. I would like to avoid recompiling the kernel. Please can anybody send me that module, for the kernel version 2.2.17? Thanks in advance, Roberto Herrero

[newbie] Gphoto Kodak DC3400 camera in LM 8.0

2001-05-27 Thread Dennis Myers
Don't think my previous post got out of the box. So, for those who might have a Kodak DC 3400 camera, Gphoto will use it very well if you configure as the Kodak DC 280 camera. It worked very well on the serial port, so now I am going to try the usb interface. Only a scanner working away

[newbie] Gphoto and Kodak Cameras

2001-05-27 Thread Dennis Myers
Hi all, I just tried the gphoto that comes with Mandrake 8.0 , I believe it is version 0.4.3 or thereabouts. Anyway, the camera listing does not show my Kodak DC3400 camera, so I tried installing as the Kodak DC280 camera and lo the darned thing worked. I downloaded some photos of my grandson

Re: [newbie] Modems?

2001-05-27 Thread Irv Mullins
On Saturday 26 May 2001 15:29, you wrote: Sorry guys for asking so much. I am trying to buy a new system and want to make sure that it Linux-ok. Anyone knows a good modem that work fine with Linux? I'm using an Actionrtec 56k internal pci, cost ~$70 at WalMart, of all places. It

Re: [newbie] Word Perfect 8 install problem

2001-05-27 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Sunday 27 May 2001 04:38, Charles A. Punch wrote: Michel Clasquin wrote: Last week I reported that the version of WP8 on the cheapbytes applications cd worked fine with mdk7.2. I just upgraded to 8.0 and .. nada. Did you try installing libc5-1.0-2.i386.rpm for backward

Re: [newbie] post test

2001-05-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 27 May 2001 09:20 pm, you wrote: Apologies folks, but my replies/posts don't seem to be making it to the list. That said, I have a horrible feeling that replies might be going to person who posted the question/comment, rather than back to the list. Duh... here goes anyway! Sean

Re: [newbie] nVIDIA TnT2

2001-05-27 Thread Randy Donohoe
I've got one in my 8.0 install and it works fine except with Tuxracer(if I try to run Tuxracer it locks my box up so tight I can't even reboot with the hardware switch). You'll(and me, too) have to get the latest drivers off the nVidia site. Randy Donohoe - Original Message - From: OOzy

Re: [newbie] post test

2001-05-27 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Monday 28 May 2001 04:20, sean gibbins wrote: Apologies folks, but my replies/posts don't seem to be making it to the list. That said, I have a horrible feeling that replies might be going to person who posted the question/comment, rather than back to the list. Duh... here goes anyway!

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-27 Thread Marcia Waller
On Sunday 27 May 2001 02:42, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Marcia Waller wrote: Alan, how do I get my printing to work now with the lpd? How do I choose, add, and configure printers with it? Is printtools the gui for it? I really do not know the first thing to do to get this started. Any help

[newbie] xawdecode

2001-05-27 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Etharp Now I have xawdecode runing, but not so fine. I obtained a 1.1 patched release with the prep-tabs and prep-tabs2. And I installed it, this time it works. After that I update to 1.3.4 release. Now is runing, but the colors are not so fine. I have tryed with the blue filter, but the

Re: [newbie] nVIDIA TnT2

2001-05-27 Thread Carlos Arigós
El Dom 27 May 2001 14:57, escribiste: Hello Guys What do you think about the this video card? Will it work fine with Linux? nVIDIA TnT2 M64 4X 32MB AGP = Regards, OOzy It's OK for me (LM 7.2 8.0) Carlos

[newbie] kmail configuration

2001-05-27 Thread Chase Brady
Kmail appends the characters smpt:// to the beginning of my outgoing mail server. My ISP doesn't like that. Any way to stop it? Thanks, --Chase

Re: [newbie] xawdecode

2001-05-27 Thread RahOoh
Alright, I finally have my audio working but can't play a CD. I get a window suggesting that I check my cdrom access permissions. How is this done? My limited Unix knowledge isn't helping me with this one... Dan B

[newbie] wordperfect 8.0 fix

2001-05-27 Thread Kit
I just got thru installing Word Perfect 8.0 for linux and i see the problem... if you decided to install it in your user directory (/home/??) then I believe when you create the desktop link...you should select to also run it IN A TERMINAL...with no options added. then it will always come up

[newbie] Quesion for Civilme!

2001-05-27 Thread Franki
Hi, I have several web servers running 7.2, and they all have the relevent updates loaded, no FTP, telnet, or even pop3. only SSH httpd, and smtp (Sendmail), ( I have the servers set to forward mail on to isp's mail servers to save me having to open pop3..) I thought it would be a good idea to

[newbie] terrible browser fonts

2001-05-27 Thread Todd
I just installed Mandrake 8.0 and the fonts in all my browsers (Netscape, Mozilla Konquerer) are terrible to the point of being nearly unreadable. It doesn't seem to matter which font I select in the Preferences, they all look awful. What's the trick to getting fonts to look halfway decent?

[newbie] easy secure way to share files with windows people?

2001-05-27 Thread Jon Doe
I want to share project files with some family and friends, just a few people. These people all use windows. I tried to setup Apache but I am really lost with that, it seemed to have installed and I can access it from my machine but not from any other machine on the net. So is there an easier

[expert] Re: [newbie] Re: Reply-To header needed

2001-05-27 Thread skip
Skip, no offence, but it's not up to you what goes in the headers and what doesn't, if you're following the RFC rules. Regardless, your reason for offering what should and shouldn't be done has proven in the past as a bad solution. The choice to choose what should or

[newbie] sound in mdk 7.2 for xawtv

2001-05-27 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I was working with stock mdk7.2. Now I have installed kernel 2.4.1 and alsa drivers for sound. Now when I tried for mixer while in kde, first mixer is shown as non existent and second one was working. Two other mixer programs aumix and xmixer shows only one working mixer. I get sound for xmms and

Re: [newbie] XFREE86 and CL 5446

2001-05-27 Thread Dave DeGear
James, I solved the problem with my Cirrus Logic 5446 Video Card. I replaced it with a used Cirrus Logic 5440 and it seems to work fine. ...Dave On Wed, 23 May 2001 14:25:39 -0500, James Massardo wrote: i have the same problem but i dont know what to do to fix it. if you

[newbie] Setting up a DNS server

2001-05-27 Thread Brett - InfinityOnline
Can anyone point out a good reference guide for setting up a primary and secondary name server. I'm assuming Bind is the best way to go, unless anyone else thinks differently?. Regards,Brett

Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard

2001-05-27 Thread Brandon Caudle
the maximumis 4 ide devices/ brandon caudle From: "Pauwel Demeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 20:04:41 +0200 The problem is there are no MB's who have more than 2 IDE-connectors (as far as I know, so the best

Re: [newbie] Gphoto and Kodak Cameras

2001-05-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 27 May 2001 09:16 pm, you wrote: I have a DC280. What did you have to do to set everything up? It won't matter until I get my install problems solved. For some reason I can get much past the welcome screen. I have some serious problem with instaling Mandrake8 for some reason.

Re: [newbie] nVIDIA TnT2

2001-05-27 Thread hellmut
I've got it working here and it is a blast. Try the following: Install the Descent 3 demo and run it once before you install the Nvidia drivers and then try it after the installation... On Sunday 27 May 2001 13:57, OOzy Pal wrote: Hello Guys What do you think about the this video card?

Re: [newbie] Setting up a DNS server

2001-05-27 Thread Michael D. Viron
Brett, First, please try not to post htmlized e-mails, as they can either have a lot of extra html stuff or make the font size very small on some e-mail clients (making the message difficult to read). As for setting up bind, you can try the DNS howto available from http://www.linuxdoc.org --

Re: [newbie] easy secure way to share files with windows people?

2001-05-27 Thread h3rb
Sure. You can use Samba. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html Or you can setup a simple FTP daemon. A very easy to compile/configure/use ftpd is pureftpd. www.pureftpd.org h3rb On Sunday 27 May 2001 09:19, Jon Doe wrote: I want to share project files with some family and

[newbie] Fw: Cron root@mandrake run-parts /etc/cron.hourly

2001-05-27 Thread Brett - InfinityOnline
Anyone got any ideas why I keep getting this? I'm running postfix and apache. Not much else though?... Thanks Brett. - Original Message - From: Cron Daemon root To: root Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 11:01 AM Subject: Cron root@mandrake run-parts /etc/cron.hourly touch: