[newbie-it] Stampante cercasi x Linux

Sono in procinto di acquistare una nuova stampante, qualcuno di voi mi può segnalare qualche stampante che funzioni bene con linux? Grazie e ciao a tutti

[newbie-it] mandrake 8.0: installazione e mouse

Salve, dopo una prima installazione tranquilla ne sto facendo una problematica. L'installazione in se procede bene, non viene segnalato nessun problema ed il mouse si configura/lavora bene. Al riavvio appare una scritta del tipo: checking for new hardware failed to open terminal:

[newbie-it] Sentir midi ?

Ciao, qualche progresso nella comprensione del come mai kmid e kmidi non funzionino, almeno credo. Ho provato ad usare sndconfig, che, come sounddrake, mi fa sentire un messaggio che dice che la scheda audio e' stata configurata, ma il risultato, manco a dirlo, e' quello di prima. In

[newbie-it] Fwd: POLISHED LINUX DISTRIBUTION ?

Ciao, ho notato che cercando dei pacchetti su www.rpmfind.net si trovano diversi pacchetti per diverse distribuzioni... e fin qui tutto ok... ma cosa vuol dire POLISHED LINUX DISTRIBUTION? Significa forse che funziona con qualunque distribuzione? E poi sono per forza costretto a

[newbie-it] Configurazione CASELLE DI POSTA

Ciao, vorrei configurare la mia mandrake per ricevere posta in locale come se fosse in rete, è possibile? Ho pensato che magari si riesce a cambiare il nome della mia macchina in modo che la mia casella di posta non sia più la solita [EMAIL PROTECTED], e quindi se un qualsiasi

[newbie-it] fonts di Mdk 8

Ciao a tutti, ho installato da poco la Mdk 8, e i caratteri di Star Office 5.2 con font di tipo Time dei documenti creati con la 7.1 sono segmentati, di difficile lettura. Credo che sia un problema generale, perchè anche con Netscape leggo male alcuni caratteri. Come si può ovviare? Grazie,

Re: [newbie-it] Configurazione CASELLE DI POSTA

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:54:31 +0200 Matteo Merlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao, vorrei configurare la mia mandrake per ricevere posta in locale come se fosse in rete, è possibile? Ho pensato che magari si riesce a cambiare il nome della mia macchina in modo che la mia casella

[newbie-it] Attivazione di nuovi tasti.

Ciao, ho una tastiera Logitech con alcuni tasti aggiuntivi per alzare o abbasssare il volume, far partire un brano di musica, leggere la posta, ecc. e vorrei cercare di attivarli. In /etc/sysconfig/console/default.kmap c'e' la key map attiva in /etc/rc.sysinit (vedi mail precedente)

Re: [newbie-it] Sentir midi ?

Mi aggrego al problema di Alberto, anche a me non vanno i midi ed anche per me al comando insmod opl3 ottengo gli stessi identici messaggi di errore... Guarda caso ho anch'io lo stesso tipo di scheda di alberto... mentre se tento di inserire opl3 con insmod ho [alberto@master alberto]$

Re: [newbie-it] Stampante cercasi x Linux

Il mer, 06 giu 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Sono in procinto di acquistare una nuova stampante, qualcuno di voi mi può segnalare qualche stampante che funzioni bene con linux? Grazie e ciao a tutti Se vuoi una laser puoi andare tranquillo con la quasi totalità dei modelli, se poi usi

RE: [newbie] DOS on MBR

Hi, I think this is what you are after; To scrap the current MBR boot from your boot disk and type; fdisk /mbr from a boot disk Then to create the (minimal boot) file system, type; sys c: Of course you will need a DOS (or Win95/95/ME) boot disk with fdisk.exe and sys.com on it to do this.

Re: [newbie] DOS on MBR

Davinci: To restore the MBR, put a Windows boot disk in the A: drive, boot to it, and enter fdisk /mbr. HTH, Carroll Davinci wrote: Hi all, I'm a newbie. Anybody know how to create DOS file system on MBR from C prompt? davinci

[newbie] Toshiba PDR-M5 digital camera

Hi All I'm trying to use my brand new camera with the LM8.0, but without any success. I know there is some GUI interface, something like GPhoto but can't find any of it. It uses USB interface, and all needed packages installed. Can anyone help ? TIA

Re: [newbie] Where can Star Office be?

On Tuesday 05 June 2001 17:31, you wrote: Many people worry about the icon, but where is the program? I loaded it with Kpack, and in /Office51, I get a 'no such command' as soffice. I'm running a pc clone with Mandrake 7. Cheers Tom Powell Have you tried whereis soffice (as usual without

Re: [newbie] Setting up Intel print server on CUPS

Ok, well since Mandrake refuses to help me on their official tech support site, I hope you guys can get me through it. Lousy way to do business if you ask me. Anyway, CUPS is installed. The gentleman who started to help me also had me try to telnet into localhost 631 and it tells me that

RE: [newbie] Setting up Intel print server on CUPS

On Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:06 PM, Wendell Gragg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Ok, well since Mandrake refuses to help me on their official tech support site, I hope you guys can get me through it. Lousy way to do business if you ask me. oh I don't know. There's a company in Seattle,

Re: [newbie] LAN Cable connection set up

I'm assuming you're trying to connect this Linux box to the RoadRunner server by itself, and not through a gateway router. Let's start in DrakConf. Since you're using Mandrake 8, there's an option on the left, that reads Network Internet. Select that option, then select the Connection

[newbie] Icon Zooming

Hi, I'm using KDE 2 thats comes with MDK 8.0 and I'm using Icon Zooming for the icons on my panel. But, some of the icons don't zoom, does anyone know why or how to fix it? Cheers, Jord

Re: [newbie] Who turned out the lights?

On Monday 04 June 2001 08:50, n6tadam wrote: Hi, I have had a similar situation like this on my laptop. It seems that it is linked to the framebuffer that you use to boot up, and the default colour depth that X-window runs in. I would suggest, that as a test, you change your vga= in

Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?

On Tuesday, Jun 05, 2001, Romanator wrote: Where can I find OpenOffice? Is this from Sun? To answer your Sun question, when they released the StarOffice source code, it was 'renamed' to OpenOffice. www.openoffice.org will tell you more than you ever wanted to know. ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],

[newbie] Linux Mandrake for 386 processor!??!?

Hi there all you newbies, I happen to be one of the totally ignorant newbies who hasnt got the faintest notion of computer languages although I love playing around with them!!! I have an extremely old 386 processor with DOS 6.0 version and Windows in Japanese. Unfortunately, not being

RE: [newbie] Setting up Intel print server on CUPS

Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining about Linux and most of my dealings with Mandrake have been fine, until this one incident. All comparisons with MS aside, I just feel that they should be a little more open concerning the free support. If it is limited to certain issues, they should

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake for 386 processor!??!?

Quoting Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://download.sourceforge.net/mirrors/metalab/Linux/distributions/peanut/Pean ut-Linux-8.3/ Will run on a 386. The later packages for peanut will NOT, particularly 9.0. This package sounds quite interesting. I took a quick look to see the minimum

[newbie] Printer setup on 8.0

I've just installed LM8.0 and when I go to the printer setup, and choose network printer, and go to the next screen that wants the printer name, etc, it won't let me type anything in the blank spaces so I can tell it WHERE the printer is. Has anyone run into this problem? Thanks, Tom

Re: [newbie] SCSI support - AHA 2940

It was Wed, 6 Jun 2001 05:49:47 + (GMT) when Len Lawrence wrote: System AMD K6 450MHz Matshita 4X CD-ROM drive 4 Gb SCSI disk Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI adapter The installer recognises the card: * PCI: device 9004 7178 is AdaptecAHA-294x / AIC-7871 (aic7xxx) but fails to find the

[newbie] mailserver with antivir

hi all ! i would like to use an antivir program with my email server. has anybody of u experience with avmailgate from www.antivir.com what i´d like to know how it works, its manual is not very good. if anyone uses it, maybe u can explain me whether this is right or not : 1) mails are coming

Re: [newbie] problem with mysql

Kuang, First, please try not to post htmlized e-mails to the list. Some e-mail clients add all kinds of extra html tags, reduce the size of the font such that it is unreadable, or change the color to a grayish color, making it much more difficult to read. In answer to your question, mysql has a

[newbie] wanting to upgrade my system, looking for recommended online stores

I would like to update my system but the stores around town don't seem to carry what I'm looking for. I have never bought computer stuff online and I'm relunctant to do that since I've heard so many horror stories. Can anyone recommend a trustworthly online computer store for buying

RE: Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake for 386 processor!??!?

yeah,, you could do that I think,,, problem with that, is it might technically run on a i386, but its still a memory and space hungry OS compared to what has been cut down for use with i386. as far as I am aware, all the mini distros have been cut down alot to make them more suitable for slower

RE: [newbie] wanting to upgrade my system, looking for recommended online stores

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 11:39 AM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] wanting to upgrade my system, looking for recommended online stores I would like to update my

[newbie] Laptop install MDK 8.0

Hello I upgraded (full re-install) my desktop computer from MDK 7.2 to MDK 8.0. I am pleased with the later version, so I decided to upgrade my laptop computer. I have a TOSHIBA 435 CDS with a 120 MHz processor and 48 Meg RAM. It was so slow in MDK 7.1 LIN4WIN that it was useless. It was

Re: [newbie] other StarOffice problem

I am having the same problem!! I get the same response when I select the STAR OFFICE PRINTER SETUP, and the STAR OFFICE SETUP from the K-MENU. Lee Waters On Tuesday 05 June 2001 14:37, David Beahm wrote: When I click on the StarOffice icon, an installation screen comes up, however

Re: [newbie] problem with mysql

To Kuang: the users in MySQL aren´t the same users that log in you Linux box. you have to create these users in MySQL and define what databases these users can view, modify, create... thats why only root has access when you start MySQL without creating users. You can create users in the MySQL

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FW: Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Donald Carmona Ugarte Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 11:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia -s -- linux inside

[newbie] USB digital cameras and Linux?

Ok, it's time for me to finally buy a new camera, and it's going to be digital this time. My top pick right now is the Cannon Elph Powershot 300. Like most digital cameras these days, it comes with a USB port instead of a serial port. Well, I've never used a USB port for anything under any

[newbie] Xwindows not work

My Xwindows not work since I changed some features of his config. The amazing is that I probe the new config and It works. The next time I reboot don´t work. I have try to reconfigure it using Xconfigurate and don´t work also. Any ideas? Thanks.

[newbie] Disappointed - Mandrake rules supreme!

Just a quick note to say thank you all who have assisted me with my problems getting Mandrake 8 booted on my laptop. The issue has now been resolved, loading the 2.2 kernel - it now boots and works brilliantly! Many thanks, Adam Adam Henson Facts Helpdesk Advisor Meggitt Petroleum Systems

Re: [newbie] 7.2 complete does not give lnx4win option

CICVET, Have you tried loading the disk while you are running windows? This should bring up a window allowing you to install lin4win. That is how I did it. Hope this helps. J On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:35:11 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the manual shows a screen with options such

Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?

On Tuesday 05 June 2001 23:37, Romanator wrote: I'm looking for the rpm version of Star Office 5.1 Roman Ric Tibbetts wrote: tester8080 wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2001 19:50, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Same problem here. StarOffice used to install itself into the KDE panel. In fact the

Re: [newbie] bash script to remove ?

Hi, This can be done, using the following: 1. assuming that your local mailbox is in /var/spool/mail/$username, then do the following: snip #!/bin/bash regex= mailbox=/var/spool/mail/$username #list contents cat $mailbox |

Re: [newbie] Samba a no-go

On Tuesday 05 June 2001 23:50, s wrote: Hi all, I know it's a long shot anyone being able to help on such a project with so many variables, but I need to try... I'm trying to configure it, but it just won't work. I bascally followed the plan layed out at:

Re: [newbie] Samba a no-go

thats my problem,too. i configured bastille a few times now, and with allow=icmp and allow 139 and so on, the netbios ports still are closed on my internal trusted nic. i just cant get bastille to leave everything opened on it. also on the external nic everything is closed, although i told

[newbie] Download stuff from Powerpack

Hello can anyone download stuff that comes in the powerpack? I used to have one but it with a friend now and she is a summer vacation. = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from

Re: [newbie] paranoia and a letter

How did you get that Parallel port tape drive to work in Linux? I have one here and can't get it to work? Jeanette Franki wrote: have you tried to find windows 2000 or ME or XP drivers for lots of legacy stuff? I have, and have had many failures in doing so... MS have their own

Re: [newbie] LAN Cable connection set up

Tim it works after your advice. Just turned the modem off, restarted the network, and it's up and running. I can't begin to tell you how thankfull I am for your help. I posted to a few newsgroups, week of agravation and then you came and helped. Thanks again. If you are ever in Michigan,

Re: [newbie] howto get linux onto a windows network

You can use samba say you have a server named server (winnt) (\\server) and you want to get to your directory user (brandon) (\\server\brandon) you can use this command mount -t smbfs \\server\brandon /mnt/brandon any questions email me brandon caudle - Original Message - From: duncan

Re: [newbie] LAN Cable connection set up

Well, having had my own problems with my cable connection, and then being even more frustrated when all it took was a modem reboot to fix the problem. It appears that the modem connects first, downloads any software updates for the modem each time. And if there isn't something there asking for

Re: [newbie] Gnome keeps kicking in when KDE start up in LM8

Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, For some reason the file name escapes me. Which file controls the default GUI session during start up? For some reason the Gnome desktop is kicking in. I want KDE. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility I was looking at

[newbie] Internet Connection Problems

Okay I'm using Mandrake 7.2 with the kppp (kde) dial frontend,I can`t connect to the internet, I keep getting pppd server died unexpectedly errors?...I`ve gone into /etc/ppp/options and looked at the file. I have been told to change the `auth` command to `#auth` or `noauth` but to no avail.

[newbie] changing soundcards in Mandrake 8?

I've just swapped my SB Live! out of my machine and enabled the onboard VIA AC'97 audio instead. I checked harddrake and the module via82cxxx_audio seems to be loaded. The module for the Live! card seems to be no longer loaded. However, I seem to have lost all sound running any multimedia

[newbie] Problem entering Sawmill config tool

Hi, today I decided to sit down and play with linux (my machine is a Celeron 566, 64 MB, ram, running LM7.2.). I thought I'd like to play with sawmill-sawfish, as I've been meaning to learn about lisp for a bit. Now I've installed it and I was happy how fast, responsive and fairly easy

[newbie] using LM 8.0 as a mail server

Is there a mail server that I can set up on LM 8.0?? Not a client, but an SMTP mail server?? Thanks, Tom http://1cis.com Free E-mail Servers with unlimited mailboxes 1st Class Internet Solutions

[newbie] Linux Directory Structure for the Totally Ignorant (rev)

LINUX DIRECTORY STRUCTURE revised (for best viewing, use size 10 font) I was told that the proper word is STRUCTURE but I prefer SYSTEM. Your choice One way to get some understanding of the Linux Directory Structure is to compare it to a typical office filing cabinet. We'll consider the cabinet

[newbie] VMware Express for $20

Hello Guys Is it worth it to buy VMWare Express for $20? VMware Express will only support Win95 and Win98. = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year!

FW: [newbie] RPM Manager

[Original Message] From: Dave DeGear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 6/6/01 2:55:29 AM Subject: [newbie] RPM Manager I've been using the Software Manager to update my RPM packages. I see that the Installed -- Flat List tab shows most of the packages twice.

Re: [newbie] Printer setup on 8.0

Nope.. haven't gotten any replies yet... Don't think I got any CUPS errors, just not letting me type ANYTHING at all in those spaces.. - Original Message - From: Wendell Gragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printer

Re: [newbie] Printer setup on 8.0

Tom wrote: Nope.. haven't gotten any replies yet... Don't think I got any CUPS errors, just not letting me type ANYTHING at all in those spaces.. - Original Message - From: Wendell Gragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 8:32 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] using LM 8.0 as a mail server

On Thursday 07 June 2001 00:46, Tom wrote: Is there a mail server that I can set up on LM 8.0?? Not a client, but an SMTP mail server?? Thanks, Tom http://1cis.com Free E-mail Servers with unlimited mailboxes 1st Class Internet Solutions the

[newbie] Sane

Hello I installed Sane with frontends and backends (from MDK 8.0 install disk) on my desktop computer running MDK 8.0. I can can access my scanner from GIMP, but only get a communication error. I am running an ABIT BP6 motherboard with a pair of Celeron 366's (at 550 Mbps) and 384K PC133

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake for 386 processor!??!?

Christina, First, please try not to post htmlized e-mails to the list. Some e-mail clients add all kinds of extra html tags (see your post below), reduce the size of the font such that it is unreadable, or change the color to a grayish color, making it much more difficult to read. You have

Re: [newbie] VMware Express for $20

If you want to run Win95/98 (and not ME/NT/2000XP) then why not? The normal retail cost is $US79, so you've got yourself a real bargain there. I myself run Win98 and Win2K in VMware Workstation, and I can say they run quite well, albeit a bit slowly on my Pentium II 350. Just make sure you

[newbie] VMware Workstation with Mandrake 8

Attention all users of VMware Workstation with Mandrake 8, VMware (http://www.vmware.com) have finally released version 2.0.4 of VMware Workstation. Current users of the 2.x series can get a free upgrade. A notable feature of this release is its support for 2.4 kernels. -- Sridhar

RE: [newbie] Linux Directory Structure for the Totally Ignorant (rev)

Hi You can use the link below to follow to the Official LM 8.0 directory structure explanation http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/basics/bfiles.html -Original Message-From: alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 4:47 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:

Re: [newbie] RPM Manager

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 22:44:1 -00, Dennis Myers wrote: I see this happen when you have a url for a security update and another for general updates in the list of servers to connect to. Seems as they both have the same updates and so both feed the package name back to you. I did have duplicates

Re: [newbie] using LM 8.0 as a mail server

Tom, sendmail and / or postfix should be included on the LM 8.0 CDs, or you can download them from any of the Mandrake mirror sites. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:46 PM 06/06/2001 -0700, Tom wrote: Is there a

Re: [newbie] LAN Cable connection set up

That's what I was looking for. Thanks. I'll try later today and let you know if it works. I've tried some of that, but haven't turned the modem off and did some other suggested configs. Thanks again. Ilya Sterin From: Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] problem with mysql

How about changing the execute permissions. What error message are you getting? Ilya Sterin From: Kuang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] problem with mysql Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:30:00 +0700 MySQL server is working but only root account in linux can run MySQL

Re: [newbie] DOS on MBR

Hi, I am not sure if I understand your correctly?? I don't know of a way to create DOS filesystem on MBR, but I do know of a way of restoring it. Usually this is done by the following command: fdisk /mbr If you could perhaps be a little more specific, then I can help you. HTH, Thomas Adam