Re: [newbie-it] tuxracer (gioco di mdk 8)

Il 09:47, domenica 10 giugno 2001, hai scritto : Ciao, provando ad avviare tuxracer e qualche altro gioco leggo: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. couldn't initialize video. couldn't find matching GLX visual (Success) Avete qualche idea? Grazie, Fabio. Ciao,

[newbie-it] Winmodem

Salve a tutti. Espongo il problema: - in un Acer TravelMate 525 (con una bella Mandrake 8.0, dove tutto funziona eccetto il modem..) c'è un winmodem (Lucent) - scarico da ziobudda.net il driver (almeno ho capito che era una cosa del genere) e lo scompatto con tutte le relative cosine del caso -

webmin: [newbie-it] informazioni

Qualcuno sa come si può far partire il programma webmin appena installato ?(non lo vedo da nessuna parte ! ) esiste nella cartella ma... Grazie a tutti !

R: [newbie-it] tuxracer (gioco di mdk 8)

Anche io avevo lo stesso problema. Ti dico quello che mi hanno risposto su un'altra ML: Prova ad aggiungere, nel file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ,nella sezione Section Module , la riga Load glx Ma non ti aspettare grandi cose... Ed effettivamente tux racer ed altri programmi come openuniverse ora

Re: [newbie-it] Modem pci 56k !!!

Fabio Coatti wrote: Il 11:43, lunedì 11 giugno 2001, xpyto scrisse: Ho da poco messo su la Mandrake 8.0 meravigliosa creatura!!!. Tutte le periferiche funzionano a meraviglia.. Tutte tranne il mio modem trust communicator 56k pci(Interno). Pur sapendo che molti modem winmodem non

Re: webmin: [newbie-it] informazioni

http://127.0.0.1:1 oppure http://tuodominio:1 Ciao - Original Message - From: max [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 9:17 AM Subject: webmin: [newbie-it] informazioni Qualcuno sa come si può far partire il programma webmin appena installato

Re: webmin: [newbie-it] informazioni

Il 14:49, lunedì 11 giugno 2001, scrivesti: Il lun, 11 giu 2001, max ha scritto: Qualcuno sa come si può far partire il programma webmin appena installato ?(non lo vedo da nessuna parte ! ) esiste nella cartella ma... Grazie a tutti ! Sul server nel quale usi webmin deve essere

[newbie-it] aiuto web dir utente

sono 2 giorni che smanetto per poter usare apache come utente (solo per avere i permessi di scrivere su /var/www/ ) ho aggiunto il nio nome utente al gruppo apache ma nada de nada ,a questo punto chiedo a voi ,per prima ,e minima cosa ,ho bisognio di poter salvare i miei files da qualche

[newbie-it] chromium

sono un neofita entusiasta di linux, ho mdrk7.2 e mi piace moltissimo...ma...qualcosa mi sfugge...come mai un gioco come chromium (tutto sommato non penso sia un gioco particolarmente pesante) gira super lento? mi sembra di guidare delle lumache invece che degli aerei...ma vista la mia ignoranza

Re: [newbie-it] chromium

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:09:03 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sono un neofita entusiasta di linux, ho mdrk7.2 e mi piace moltissimo...ma...qualcosa mi sfugge...come mai un gioco come chromium (tutto sommato non penso sia un gioco particolarmente pesante) gira super lento? mi sembra di guidare

Re: [newbie-it] settaggio caratteri netscape

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 00:20:13 -0400 Francesco Speranza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Non riesco a settare i caratteri di netscape e come risultato ho dei caratteri piccoli e non ben leggibili ( per es. nella pagina http://www.linux-mandrake.com/it/ , e inoltre non tutte le colonne scritte hanno

Tablet (Era:Re: [newbie-it] Modem pci 56k !!!)

Io gli ho appena scritto per chiedere notizie su una tavoletta grafica, mi hanno risposto gentile cliente... non supportiamo Linux, gli ho risposto cordiali saluti, un mancato cliente. :-) Le wacom dovrebbero funzionare quasi perfettamente. Ho una penpartner, ancora non va, ma so per certo

Re: webmin: [newbie-it] informazioni

Il 12:34, lunedì 11 giugno 2001, Brotto Graziano scrisse: http://127.0.0.1:1 oppure http://tuodominio:1 https://127.0.0.1:1 (notare la s di https) NON fate girare webmin in protocollo non cifrato. Già è poco simpatico far viaggare le password via internet, ma in chiaro è

Re: [newbie-it] hola!! como conecto un zip?? OT!!!

Il 00:44, martedì 12 giugno 2001, hai scritto: hola que tal soy un usuario de Linux Mandrake version 7.1 quisiera saber si algun usuario de mandrake a logrado instalar en esta version de mandrake una unidad de zip iomega (de 100) conectada a travez de un puerto paralelo si es asi entonces

Re: webmin: [newbie-it] informazioni

Il lun, 11 giu 2001, max ha scritto: Qualcuno sa come si può far partire il programma webmin appena installato ?(non lo vedo da nessuna parte ! ) esiste nella cartella ma... Grazie a tutti ! Un'aggiunta a quanto detto con la mai precedente; usare webmin è comodissimo in una LAN, ma MAI

Re: [newbie-it] hola!! como conecto un zip?? OT!!!

- Original Message - From: Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: manuel paez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 12:04 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] hola!! como conecto un zip?? OT!!! Il 00:44, martedì 12 giugno 2001, hai scritto:

[newbie-it] BlackBox

Ciao a tutti! Sto provando un po' tutti gli ambienti a dicposizione del Pinguino; non posso dire di essere esattamente sorpreso nel constatare come Gnome e Kde non siano poi così indispensabili, dopotutto... anche se le applicazioni per essi realizzate continuano a esserlo! :) E' qualche giorno

[newbie-it] xfree 4.1.0

Salve a tutti. Possiedo una ATI Radeon VE, che ha un chip diverso dal Radeon generico. Ad esempio non ha il motore grafico Charisma Engine. Premesso ciò, tale scheda non è supportata dalle xfree 4.0.3, ma pare che possa essere supportata dalle 4.1.0, appena uscite. - Domanda numero 1 -

Re: [newbie-it] Modem pci 56k !!!

Il 11:43, lunedì 11 giugno 2001, xpyto scrisse: Ho da poco messo su la Mandrake 8.0 meravigliosa creatura!!!. Tutte le periferiche funzionano a meraviglia.. Tutte tranne il mio modem trust communicator 56k pci(Interno). Pur sapendo che molti modem winmodem non sono supportati da linux ho

RE: [newbie] A good Motherboard

Ok now after I got my motherboard, I am trying to make linux detect the built-in Promise Fasttrack card in my motherboard MSI K7T Turbo-R. I don't want the card to work as a raid. I want to just to work as a normal IDE. Hard Drake is detecting the Promise card under Other Devices. How can I get

Re: [newbie] network sharing

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:56:10 +0200, • Karel • said: Question 2: Which rpm I must install to get back nslookup command? [kheb@dors kheb]$ locate nslookup /usr/bin/nslookup /usr/share/doc/BitchX/1_General/nslookup /usr/share/doc/zsh-doc-4.0.1/Examples/nslookup

Re: [newbie] LM8.0

Greg, why don't download the two iso images and try? For me MDK 8 is runing fine, but perhaps your hardware could give problems; if you first try with this main installation you could have an experience to decide buy or not. I have the 8.0 installed in 3 computers, one of them a laptop, runing

Re: RE: [newbie] Can't get on-line

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before you do anything else from a console prompt type in Ping 207.25.71.5 If you get back a reply, then your internet connection is set up and you are having DNS problems which is likely. == If there is a dns problem, you'll

[newbie] batch files

Hi! How to create a batch files in Linux command. For example tail -f /var/log/maillog Best Regards, SKLIM

Re: [newbie] batch files

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, SK wrote: Hi! Batch files begin with: #!/bin/sh # comments start like this # now your commands follow tail -f /var/log/maillog this file needs to be executable: chmod +x file now put it somwhere in your PATH Bye, Marek Hi! How to create a batch files in Linux command.

[newbie] How to re-install an rpm using rpm tools (like rpmdrake)

I am using Mandrake 8.0. How can I re-install a rpm with rpm tools (like rpmdrake)? Or do I need to use the command line? Thanks in advance Pedro _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

[newbie] FTape modules

Hi, I am trying to get my Iomega QIC tape drive to work under LM8.0. I downloaded the ftape sources, but compilation failed due to what looks like errors in the source code (missing return statements etc.), even thought I can hardly imagine that the code is really that bad. I'd prefer to avoid

RE: [newbie] How to re-install an rpm using rpm tools (like rpmdrake)

I prefer to use a graphical front end for RPM installations, with mandrake i use KPackage, which comes with KDE, but your can also use RMPDrake. -- Jamie Adams Housing Assistant 41 Castle Road SCARBOROUGH North Yorkshire, YO11 1BJ Tel: (01723) 507543 Fax: (01723) 355862 -- From: Pedro

Re: [newbie] where to get themes?

Thanks for the link! The message wasn't on the page when I'd checked it (I think!) On Monday 11 June 2001 00:46, Charles A. Punch wrote: Sam wrote: I went to http://kde.themes.org/ to download a couple of themes for KDE. But I get a page saying 404 Not Found. In fact, it appears to be the

[newbie] AWE 32 Sound Card Problem LM8

I installed Linux Mandrake 8 but it did not detect my sound card. I have a sound blaster awe 32 isa card. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Joe Finnie __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year!

Re: [newbie] FTape modules

You should be able to compile your kernel to just load the module at boot. Here's some of the info in the kernel config file. # # Ftape, the floppy tape device driver # # CONFIG_FTAPE is not set CONFIG_AGP=y CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y CONFIG_AGP_I810=y CONFIG_AGP_VIA=y CONFIG_AGP_AMD=y

[newbie] ALN601a Network Adapter on Mandrake 7.2

Hi there. I recently bought a Notebook Toshiba 1700-500... And I instaled Mandrake 7.2 on it. I was able to configure everything except the Network Adapter. It's an Acer ALN-601a... I really need it! Can someone help me please? Thanks! Fred

Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard

I wonder if I could crack out the code? On Monday 11 June 2001 08:03 am, so spoke civileme: On Monday 11 June 2001 02:21, OOzy Pal wrote: Ok now after I got my motherboard, I am trying to make linux detect the built-in Promise Fasttrack card in my motherboard MSI K7T Turbo-R. I don't want

Re: [newbie] Fwd: OT:Mayor problems with MBR need help desp.

Whatever yo do, DON'T reinstall Windows. If you do, booting into GNU/Linux will not be possible unless you do a lot of messing around. In the Mandrake Control Centre ('Configuration' - 'Other' - 'Mandrake Control Centre' in the Mandrake menus) click 'Boot' - 'Boot Config' - 'Configure'. You

Re: [newbie] Windows Shutdown Problem in Linux?

On Sunday 10 June 2001 20:27, you wrote: On Sunday 10 June 2001 18:31, you wrote: Hi! Everyone knows that certain versions of Windows, when told to Shut Down, actually choose to reboot instead. And it seems that my Linux installation has caught this horrible disease (actually it's had

[newbie] AntiAliaising

Howdy first of all after installing themes and getting used to them i have to say i like kde more than ever . But i have a little problem with AA actually all fonts and icons look great but as soon as i open a console under kde i cant use some symbols ie: `-`i cant see those at all

[newbie] Forwarded mail....

-- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax:0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 11 Jun

Re: [newbie] AWE 32 Sound Card Problem LM8

This has got to be one of the most asked questions since at least Mandrake 7.0 (released Jan 2000). I'm surprised Mandrake hasn't fixed properly yet. From a text console (NOT a X terminal window), log in as root and type 'sndconfig'. Follow the instructions. On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:10, Joe

Re: [newbie] where to get themes?

I want to thank you for the link as well. I have been looking for KDE themes for awhile. On Monday 11 June 2001 06:36, Charles A. Punch wrote: Thanks for the link! The message wasn't on the page when I'd checked it (I think!) On Monday 11 June 2001 00:46, Charles A. Punch wrote: Sam

Re: [newbie] LM8.0

On Sunday 10 June 2001 14:25, you wrote: I was thinking about buying 8.0 but wanted to hear from some who already have it Is it worth the money or should i wait thanks greg __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo!

Re: [newbie] AntiAliaising

Have a read at http://dot.kde.org/989808269/. You probably should disable AA in the KDE Control Centre before you try any of this, just in case. On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:47, Florian wrote: Howdy first of all after installing themes and getting used to them i have to say i like kde more than

Re: [newbie] Xnews type program for Linux?

On Monday 11 June 2001 07:53 am, Leif Madsen wrote: I am wondering if there is a good newsgroup program for Linux that automatically converts all the multipost messages in the binary newsgroups to single files like in a program I used to use called Xnews? I'm using KNode now, but it seems a

[newbie] Bind, DNS, Named - Where's A Good Place For Setup Information?

I'm trying to set up the Bind DNS server on LM8.0. Where's a good place for setup information? I'm hoping to find more information than what's on the HowTo. Seve

Re: [newbie] Can't get on-line

At 08:42 PM 06/10/2001 -0400, you wrote: On Sunday 10 June 2001 07:38 pm, you wrote: I'm using MD 8, KDE 2, and kppp. The modem is an external US Robotics 56k. Kppp says it has logged on successfully. However, I can't go anywhere after logging on with a browser. I tried Netscape and

Re: [newbie] where to get themes?

Jose wrote: Glad to help and thanks for letting me know that it did. It always helps to let people know when their suggestion helped you. It keeps the spirit of sharing information alive. ShalomOut Chal Registered Linux user #217118 a seasoned newbie I want to thank you for the link as

[newbie] Bind, DNS, Named - Where's A Good Place For Setup Information?

I'm trying to set up the Bind DNS server on LM8.0. Where's a good place for setup information? I'm hoping to find more information than what's on the HowTo. Seve

[newbie] Upgrade to 8.0

I know that I can download the files to upgrade from 7.0 (my current setup) to 8.0, but am unsure what to download. Can anyone offer an idiot's guide to updating?

Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard

It was Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:21:51 -0700 (PDT) when OOzy Pal wrote: Ok now after I got my motherboard, I am trying to make linux detect the built-in Promise Fasttrack card in my motherboard MSI K7T Turbo-R. I don't want the card to work as a raid. I want to just to work as a normal IDE. Hard Drake

[newbie] partition problem

Hi all I'm trying to install LM8.0 on a second box, but when diskdrake asks about what to do, it says it can't resize my windows98 partition, which appears to be fat32-lba mapped (what is that?) is it a software problem, the disk is to fragmented, or it has to do with the BIOS? can i use

[newbie] KDE mail newsreader doc?

Can someone direct me to a site with printable doc, preferably ASCII, for Kmail and the KDE 2 newsreader (Knode?). I like to read the directions before I set up and use software and I prefer not to do my reading from a computer. I looked at the howto and mini-howto list but couldn't find

[newbie] DVD Player?

Is DVD supported on LM8.0? My search has not found a player for Linux. Can anyone point me to where I can get DVD player software. My DVD drive works as a CD Reader only. -- Geof A. Steichen Netscape Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Fwd: OT:Mayor problems with MBR need help desp.

It was Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:11:25 +1000 when Garry wrote: WHen you boot to dos with a floppy, make sure you have the sys command on it. First run fdisk /mbr and then do a sys c: That should get you going. Paul Hi, I have a similar problem. I have Win98SE and Mandrake 8 operating on a LILO dual

Re: [newbie] Windows Shutdown Problem in Linux?

On Sunday 10 June 2001 12:01 pm, you wrote: George Petri wrote: Hi! Everyone knows that certain versions of Windows, when told to Shut Down, actually choose to reboot instead. And it seems that my Linux installation has caught this horrible disease (actually it's had this problem

Re: [newbie] Windows Shutdown Problem in Linux?

It was Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:55:09 -0400 when Jon Doe wrote: Everyone knows that certain versions of Windows, when told to Shut Down, actually choose to reboot instead. And it seems that my Linux installation has caught this horrible disease (actually it's had this problem ever since I

[newbie] Single Network Firewall

Did anyone try it? Im thinking of using it as a router for our company we have a lan with 10 pcs and a novell server (ouch) but since our ElsaLancom (never buy it) chrashes every 10 minutes i was wondering if Single Network Firewall firewall is an possibly easy to use alternative? If i did all

[newbie] LM 7.2, upgrading kernel to 2.2.19

I'm using Mandrake 7.2, which came with the 2.2.17 kernel. I ran the Updates program and found that there was an available kernel update. Unfortunately, I told it to install said update. Now my system won't boot. I see in the list archive that someone has indicated that there's a page

[newbie] LoopBack not working.

I'm trying to use loopback on M7.2! And I can't. I don't know why. When I do ping 127.0.0.1 it says Network Unreachable Can someone help me please? Thanks, Fred

[newbie] XFree86

How can I know which version of XFree86 I am running. I have LM8.0? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Re: [newbie] XFree86

OOzy Pal wrote: How can I know which version of XFree86 I am running. I have LM8.0? = Regards, OOzy X -version -- Alan

Re: [newbie] DVD Player?

umm, there's livid, videolan, vlc, and xine. a google search will yield a url for these. vlc and xine are the ones i've had the most luck with. -s On Monday 11 June 2001 01:02 pm, you wrote: Is DVD supported on LM8.0? My search has not found a player for Linux. Can anyone point me to

Re: [newbie] SCSI emulation

On a related note, I just replaced my mobo and dvdrom drive and linux booted fine and kudzu configured the new chipset. yaaay!!! In addition, the new drive is a dvd/cdrw combo deal, and it is correctly identified in kde systems control and harddrake. again yaayyy. However, the scsi

[newbie] OT: TNT2 can't configure

ok need some help with my TNT2 card from creative its installed as a regular tnt2 with no opengl options. But i want to play opengl games in the futhure with this pc so i need to have my system running opengl. what do i need and WHERE do i get it ? BENDEMAN LM8.0,

[newbie] OT: TNT2 can't configure

ok need some help with my TNT2 card from creative its installed as a regular tnt2 with no opengl options. But i want to play opengl games in the futhure with this pc so i need to have my system running opengl. what do i need and WHERE do i get it ? BENDEMAN LM8.0,

[newbie] OT: TNT2 can't configure

ok need some help with my TNT2 card from creative its installed as a regular tnt2 with no opengl options. But i want to play opengl games in the futhure with this pc so i need to have my system running opengl. what do i need and WHERE do i get it ? BENDEMAN LM8.0,

Re: [newbie] LoopBack not working.

I've look in the kernel configuration for that option. I didn't find it. All I could found about loopback, was Loopback device suport... I have M7.2 on another computer that works well, and this option is equal o where I need loopback, wish is an notebook (toshiba 1700-500) Any more ideas? I

Fw: [newbie] Configurar Samba en Mandrake 8.0

Que tal, e intentado configurara el samba en mi PC con mandrake 8.0 pero estor usuando un pequeño manual de redhat y aunque la ubicacion de archivos es la misma, su configuración no. Agradecria me pudieran ayudar atte. Felix _ Do You

[newbie] Installing Network Adapter on LM7.2

Thaks for helping me with the loopback... I was able to put it to work using ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 It's really strange why I have to do this in order to work. Because I use M7.2 on another computer and I never needed this option. I have another problem. I bought an Network Adapter Acer

Re: [newbie] OT: TNT2 can't configure

Bendeman, First, don't post the same e-mail to the list 3 times within 3 minutes--Send your e-mails only once--it may take a while to get posted, but *it* will get to the list. As far as opengl, you have to make sure you have XFree 4 installed -- I don't think opengl is an option on the 3.3.x

[newbie] Masquerading and IPTables

1. Is there a howto on Masquerading for Mandrake 8.0? I had it working fine under 6.0 - 7.1, but not now... I have a static IP (203.14.156.30) and an internal LAN using 10.0.2.15 for this box and 10.0.2.16 for a WinME box. One thing I have found is that a friend's box has four tabs in netconf,

[newbie] Numbers, Numbers and more Numbers

Hello Friends, When I shutdown my system I get lots of numbers scrolling on my screen. It does not stop also. I have not observed this problem on any other machines. All my friends get the message Power Down but I don't. But as such I don't have any problem with the working of

Re: [newbie] Windows Shutdown Problem in Linux?

Paul: I also saw this tip on your website, and I'm going to give it a try on Lazarus (he's the backup PC that I'm building from scrapbox parts). Since I'm also trying to learn something about shell programming, I dug through some Linux texts, but struck out. (1) What's happening here? (2) What's

RE: [newbie] partition problem

Hello. When you say a second box you want to say a Second partition, true? I think you have too defragmented your partition. To resize a partition, first you must defrag it, in order to have all data at the beginning. And then resize it safely. Yes, You can use Partition Magic. Be carefull and

[newbie] New LM8 PowerPack installation freezes on Boot CD

Hi everybody, Well, I just received the new Powerpack and I cannot get it installed. I was running expert mode. In fact the first RAM disk crapped out and I was prompted to retry again by pressing the [enter] key. After partitioning /boot / /usr /swap and /home, the Boot Disk was searching the

[newbie] what happened to add in kmail?

I added a couple of addresses to the address book, but later on when I went to add more, the add tab is grayed out. Ok, what did I do? any one know?

Re: [newbie] partition problem

Try using partition magic The best program for controling your partitions. You can do every kind of event about partitions with that program. I have the trial version (!) of it and can send you from ICQ My ICQ UIN is 6090411. On Tuesday 12 June 2001 02:45 am, Tyrell wrote: Hello. When you

[newbie] CD Burner Question

Hello. I have successfully installed Mandrake 8.0 on my Athlon 650 box, but want to be able to burn CD's with my Memorex 1622 burner. I also Have a 24x CD Reader, both of which were detected by Mandrake upon initial installation. What cd burning software comes with Mandrake

RE: [newbie] Configurar Samba en Mandrake 8.0

Transaltion: Hello, I've tried to configure Samba on my PC running Mandrake 8.0, but I'm using a small Red Hat manual, and although the location of the files is the same, their configuaration is not. I apprecaite all of your help. Felix. [In other words, any differences between Samba

[newbie] make command not found

Hi everyone, I just recently installed 7.1. I'm trying to install a program that requires me to run make make install but I'm told that the make command is not found. I think this might be because I couldn't insert the second cd, installation sources cd, during installation. My cdrom just

RE: [newbie] Configurar Samba en Mandrake 8.0

Transaltion: Hello, I've tried to configure Samba on my PC running Mandrake 8.0, but I'm using a small Red Hat manual, and although the location of the files is the same, their configuaration is not. I apprecaite all of your help. Felix. [In other words, any differences between Samba

Re: [newbie] New LM8 PowerPack installation freezes on Boot CD

Hi list and Mandrake Support, I am very disappointed. It appears that I have a bad Boot Core System Boot CD. The light on the CD stays on for about 10 minutes followed by and error message: An error occurred nothing found while parsing /mnt/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.CD1 Core System CD(x86) How do I

Re: [newbie] New LM8 PowerPack installation freezes on Boot CD

I don't have a copy of the Powerpack, so I haven't tried to install apps from it. I am curious as to whether you can install using the Software Manager program? Barry On Mon, 11 June 2001, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, Well, I just received the new Powerpack and I cannot get it

Re: [newbie] what happened to add in kmail?

etharp wrote: I added a couple of addresses to the address book, but later on when I went to add more, the add tab is grayed out. Ok, what did I do? any one know? etharpyou can't add till there's something in the add window to add. :) -- Alan

Re: [newbie] LoopBack not working.

I had the same problem in LM7.2 -- it took me ages to figure out! In your /etc/rc.d/rc.local, add the following: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo That should fix the problem. On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:50, Frederico Figueiredo wrote: I'm trying to use loopback on M7.2! And I

Re: [newbie] change hostname

As root, run linuxconf. There's an option for that somewhere in there. On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 01:39, Noah Richards wrote: How do I change the hostname that is set during startup (localhost.localdomain)?  The hostname command changes it, but at startup it is always set back to

Re: [newbie] Antivirus software on Linux?

There are no anti-virus programmes for GNU/Linux -- the main reason for this being the lack of virii for this OS. UNIX/Linux virii usually exploit security holes in software. In every case security fixes had been available long before the attacks. In other words, the few who were affected by

Re: [newbie] make command not found

For some silly reason Mandrake 8's installation doesn't install the packages needed for compiling. Go to rpmfind.net and look for a Mandrake package called make. On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 01:39, Oren Magid wrote: Hi everyone, I just recently installed 7.1. I'm trying to install a program that

Re: [newbie] SCSI emulation

Probably the easiest way to do this is to run through the Mandrake installation again. Pop your CD in, reboot, and choose an upgrade install (expert mode). When it comes to selecting packages, unselect everything and continue. By the end, your CD-RW should be configured as a SCSI device. On

Re: [newbie] Antivirus software on Linux?

Actually, that isn't the case. Mcafee does in fact make a version of its virus scanning software for linux--there are others that are listed at http://www.amavis.org/ Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:13 PM

[newbie] GTK+Devel rpm?

Am I stoned or does the 8.0 Standard Ed ($35!!!) not include gtk+-devel? It's not even on any of the download sites? Please tell me there's an RPM for 8.0. Why isn't it on the standard ed cds? - Chris

[newbie] LimeWire Installation

I am running Mandrake 8.0 and was having problems installing LimeWire. I found some instructions that enabled me to finally install and run LimeWire. First got to http://java.sun.com and download the Java Runtime Enviroment 1.3.1 for Linux. Then get LimeWireOther.zip from

[newbie] STB TV Tuner problems

Under Mandrake 8, I can't get my STB TV Tuner card (Gateway OEM version) to work correctly. It only plays the channel it was playing last under Windows. XawTV is not able to detect any channels, and I can't seem to get it to change channels. Also, mildly annoying but not as big of a deal,

Re: [newbie] Antivirus software on Linux?

This just proves the point I made earlier. If you look below you shall notice I said: quote You may see virus scanners available for GNU/Linux -- these are made to detect Windows viruses (which can't harm GNU/Linux at all). This can be useful if you have multiple OSs

Re: [newbie] New LM8 PowerPack installation freezes on Boot CD

On Monday 11 June 2001 22:03, Romanator wrote: Hi list and Mandrake Support, I am very disappointed. It appears that I have a bad Boot Core System Boot CD. The light on the CD stays on for about 10 minutes followed by and error message: An error occurred nothing found while parsing

[newbie] change hostname

How do I change the hostname that is set during startup (localhost.localdomain)?  The hostname command changes it, but at startup it is always set back to localhost.localdomain during boot. -Noah Richards

Re: [newbie] LoopBack not working.

Do you have network loopback compiled in your kernel? On 11 Jun 2001 20:50:02 +0100, Frederico Figueiredo wrote: I'm trying to use loopback on M7.2! And I can't. I don't know why. When I do ping 127.0.0.1 it says Network Unreachable Can someone help me please? Thanks, Fred --

Re: [newbie] XFree86

Type: xdpyinfo | less You should get something like here below and notice the third line. Ciao, Eric Indiogine name of display::0.0 version number:11.0 vendor string:Linux Mandrake (XFree86 4.0.3, patch level 7mdk) vendor release number:4003 maximum request size: 4194300

Re: [newbie] LoopBack not working.

Try as root /etc/rc.d/init.d/network status and you might get some info from there. Also check your cable and network card light. Ciao, Eric Indiogine On Monday 11 June 2001 13:50, Frederico Figueiredo wrote: I'm trying to use loopback on M7.2! And I can't. I don't know why. When I

[newbie] Install help

I have been running 7.1 for sometime now. It has been great and has worked beautifully. I installed 7.2 on another machine and it has worked great, but when I backed up my files and did a fresh install of 7.2 over 7.1, that's where everything went to hell. It took over three hours per attempt.

Re: [newbie] Antivirus software on Linux?

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Robert Basye3rd wrote: Is it necessary to run a antivirus program on Linux Mandrake 8.0? If so which one is the best and are there any free antivirus programs out there? It's a good idea to setup antivir on mailserver. Try http://avp.ru/products.asp?tgroup=3pgroup=9 --

Re: [newbie] SCSI emulation

On Tuesday 12 June 2001 01:18, s wrote: On a related note, I just replaced my mobo and dvdrom drive and linux booted fine and kudzu configured the new chipset. yaaay!!! In addition, the new drive is a dvd/cdrw combo deal, and it is correctly identified in kde systems control and

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