Re: [newbie-it] caratteri

2001-08-08 Thread Sandro
Il 02:40, mercoledì 08 agosto 2001, hai scritto: Grazie per il suggerimento, ma non è cambiato niente :(( sigh! Preso da disperazione ho installato anche OpenOffice, e lì sono brutti (nel senso che sembra che siano come mangiati), anche quelli della barra dei menù, delle finestre, ecc... non

Re: [newbie-it] idle

2001-08-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Qualcuno sa spiegarmi perche' quando il pc non ha da fare nulla, c'e' un processo (apm-idle) che ciuccia il 98% di CPU? Come faccio a disabilitarlo? E soprattutto qual'e' la sua utilita'? Grazie a chi mi scioglie questo dubbio amletico! ciao stefano con l'aiuto di APM la CPU può

Re: [newbie-it] caratteri

2001-08-08 Thread Andrea Colanicchia
Hai provato ad impostare i font Adobe? In genere sono i font urw standard a dare questi problemi P.es., puoi mettere Adobe Helvetica per il sans-serif, Adobe Times per il serif e Adobe Courier per il carattere a spaziatura fissa. Anch'io avevo lo stesso problema e mi sembra che l'ho risolto

Re: [newbie-it] Fetchmailconf: messaggio ignoto.

2001-08-08 Thread freefred
fosse la soluzione migliore, comunque ritengo che lo spazio occupato da questi programmi sia eqivalente, qualche mese fà ho installato una versione ridotta di Red Hat 6.0,-in quel periodo non sapevo bene cosa installavo di Linux, neanche adesso ma ne ho una vaga idea- su un PC con la mia

[newbie-it] Creare una procedura di backup....

2001-08-08 Thread Luca Minari - STD s.n.c.
Dovrei creare una procedura di backup settimanale (cron.weekly) e/o giornaliera (cron.daily) di una directory /home/progetti/pippo\ 2001 Ho creato in cron.weekly -- backup.pl (come sotto) --- #!/usr/bin/perl #script per il backup della

Re: [newbie-it] Unable to handle kernel NULL...

2001-08-08 Thread viger71
Il 02:59, mercoledì 08 agosto 2001, hai scritto: --- viger71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ti consiglio di ricompilare il Kernel che ha installato sul sistema operativo e fai attenzione a tutto quello che togli e soprattutto fai caricare i moduli dal kernel di tutte le periferiche

Re: [newbie-it] Fetchmailconf: messaggio ignoto.

2001-08-08 Thread viger71
Il 08:57, mercoledì 08 agosto 2001, hai scritto: fosse la soluzione migliore, comunque ritengo che lo spazio occupato da questi programmi sia eqivalente, qualche mese fà ho installato una versione ridotta di Red Hat 6.0,-in quel periodo non sapevo bene cosa installavo di Linux, neanche

[newbie-it] font per abiword

2001-08-08 Thread GiulioF
CIAO a tutti ! Uso la mandrake 7.2 e vorrei saperecome si devono inserire nuovi font per abiword in modo che siano selezionabili direttamente nella lista di selezione. In quale directory devo inserirli ?? Ciao e grazie !!!

[newbie-it] Connessione manuale con ppp

2001-08-08 Thread GiulioF
Ciao ! Sto cercando difare una connessione a mano usando ppp (mi sono documentato sul ppp how-to) il problema è che quando cerco di usare minicom per comunicare con il modem dopo aver inserito la stringa: ATX3DTnumero_di_telefono il computer si connette (non mi richiede la password ela

[newbie-it] Connessione OffLine?

2001-08-08 Thread viger71
Esiste un modo, o più modi, x impostare la connessione in modalità non in linea? (Uso Mand.8) Grazie e ciao.

Re: [newbie-it] idle

2001-08-08 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:57:01 +0200 Stefano Barberis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: l'unica cosa che fa il ciclo idle =E8 quella di eseguire un comando HLT (Halt) quando il sistema =E8 inattivo per risparmiare i circuiti della cpu (praticamente ne spegne le parti che non stanno facendo nulla.

Re: [newbie-it] Upgrade del kernel

2001-08-08 Thread Tommaso Leddi
Finalmente è uscita anche a Viareggio la rivista Linux Magazine e così mi sono trovato finalmente quei 25M si sorgenti del kernel (2.4.5) per fare la mia prima compilazione. Ho trovato molto comoda la possibilità di lavorarci sopra senza toccare l'installazione originale. Ora infatti nel boot

Re: [newbie-it] caratteri

2001-08-08 Thread Sandro
Il 15:19, mercoledì 08 agosto 2001, hai scritto: Va da sè che uso la MDK 8.0 :)) Cmq i problemi li ho risolti con tutto il sistema tranne che con StarOffice, con il quale i caratteri continuano ad essere uno schifo... Te l'avevo detto che StarOffice è un problema a parte. :-) Anche a me si

RE: [newbie] can't startx

2001-08-08 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Sheez all these complex answers to a simple problem... Type service xfs restart THEN try startx -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Errant Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 5:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] can't startx

[newbie] Kernel 2.4.7. is out as RPM

2001-08-08 Thread Paul
Find it at http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker//cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS//kernel-2.4.7-7mdk.i586.html (Europe) or http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker//cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS//kernel-2.4.7-9mdk.i586.html (US) Paul

RE: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux

2001-08-08 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Title: Message The only thing that would cause this, is if Linux activated UDMA/66 (or 100) on a UDMA capable drive that was only working at UDMA/33 or below under winblows. Certain drives, onceset to UDMA/66 continue to attempt to operate in this mode, even through a power off. WD

Re: [newbie] YahooMessenger

2001-08-08 Thread s
Yeah, I tried it out. I didn't have any trouble. What is the specifics of your problem? -s On Wednesday 08 August 2001 12:18 am, you wrote: Hello! I found a version of YahooMessenger for Linux, at: http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html And Instructions were: To

Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux

2001-08-08 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 2:00 am, you wrote: I'm not sure if I just have really bad luck when it comes to harddrives, but it seems that every time I install any flavor of *nix on a drive that was formerly Winblows, I can't turn around and reinstall windows on the drive again without it

Re: [newbie] Reasons for use LM 8.0

2001-08-08 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 23:18:41 -0400 Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: TH This really comes down to what do they want to do with the machines. TH Are these going to be desktops for users? Are these going to be TH servers? Are these going to be used to teach a class on Linux? Big

[newbie] mars_nwe

2001-08-08 Thread Jhun Bacala
Hi! All, I've heard of a program called MARS_NWE which is a clone Novell Netware. Has anyone ever tried to install it in Linux-Mandrake? If so, can anyone give me some guide on how to install it in Linux-Mandrake? Thanks Jhun

[newbie] uninstall nautilus

2001-08-08 Thread kalimank
Hi all! Somebody knows how to uninstall Nautilus from Gnome desktop? It seems merged into Gnome!?!? I want a lighter file manager. TIA kalimank --- ¿Te desesperan las chapuzas caseras? No lo dudes y entra en Bricoespacio.com Aprenderás todo tipo de trucos, para hacerte la vida más fácil.

Re: [newbie] uninstall nautilus

2001-08-08 Thread etharp
Hmmm, seems to me that you don't _NEED_ to uninstall Nautilus, just select a different file mangler, or a different window mangler. On Wednesday 08 August 2001 07:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! Somebody knows how to uninstall Nautilus from Gnome desktop? It seems merged into Gnome!?!?

[newbie] please remove me from mail list

2001-08-08 Thread Reiner Stucky
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of etharp Sent: 08 August 2001 12:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] uninstall nautilus Hmmm, seems to me that you don't _NEED_ to uninstall Nautilus, just select a different

Re: [newbie] locked cdrom and floppy

2001-08-08 Thread Donnie Green
I don't know anything about MandrakeFreq 2, but if it is Linux, you should check the file /etc/fstab to check the perms of the line for /mnt/cdrom. A quick check to see if it is the problem would be to: 1. su to root 2. umount /mnt/cdrom 3. mount /dev/device /mnt/cdrom (note: to find out

Re: [newbie] Reasons for use LM 8.0

2001-08-08 Thread Tim Holmes
Honestly Mike... I think it started out that way. You'd have to find a serious Slacker to confirm that though. I think most people still install it via FTP, but basically the install is a FreeBSD install. It installs everything from source, I think it may use RPMs, but as I said, I didn't have

Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux

2001-08-08 Thread James S Bear
Last time I said this, a lot of people yelled at me, but download a utility from the drive manufacturer and do a low-level format. jim Quoting Greg Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not sure if I just have really bad luck when it comes to harddrives, but it seems that every time I install any

Re: [newbie] please remove me from mail list

2001-08-08 Thread Frans Ketelaars
Reiner Stucky wrote: snip Hi, please follow the instructions at this URL: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 Note the email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Frans

Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager

2001-08-08 Thread paul rodríguez
Please forgive me if you recieved multiple copies of this email accidentally. I have been looking for a way to disable Nautilus as my desktop manager. Everyone has been telling me that it is in the Nautilus preferences (which I thought as well), but it doesn't seem to be in the preferences in my

Re: [newbie] locked cdrom and floppy

2001-08-08 Thread Donnie Green
Yes. The directory must exist (command mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom3) Were you able to unlock your CDROM? BTW, don't do the supermount option--there is an exploit against it. Hope that helps. From: etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Donnie Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] locked cdrom and floppy

2001-08-08 Thread Donnie Green
I have a CD-RW also, but have not set it up (I'm concentrating on locking my box down--SECURITY). How is the program Gcombust? From: etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Donnie Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] locked cdrom and floppy Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001

Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux

2001-08-08 Thread X - A - W - K
I would suggest you get a Windows98 boot disc with fdisk and delpart First you boot form floppy, then you make delpart to loose everything on your hard drive, you use fdisk to create new partitions you reboot your machine with your floppy inside... then you format your hard drives format

[newbie] Fwd: Latest press Pc's for Kids Inc

2001-08-08 Thread Charlie Oriez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 interesting. note the sixth paragraph. it would be nice if they mentioned linux a little sooner. - -- Look what the cat dragged in: -- Subject: Latest press Pc's for Kids Inc Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:04:10 +1000 From: Pc's for

Re: [newbie] uninstall nautilus

2001-08-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Place Nautilus into expert mode (click the black diamond) and then enter the preferences. There should be an option to disable Nautilus from managing the desktop. You can then use GMC to manage your desktop if you wish, or have no manager at all (and use another file manager). On Wed, 8 Aug

[newbie] unknown sender

2001-08-08 Thread chris
Hi. I just recieved an exe file from an 'unknown' sender. How is this done, does anyone know? I cannot reply to him as the machine recognises no address. I can only assume it is a virus. but the lack of an address is puzzling. I am using kmail

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Latest press Pc's for Kids Inc

2001-08-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I think (well, I hope) it'll only be a matter of time before they begin shipping more GNU/Linux systems than Windos ones. It'll take a while before PC's for Kids is used to GNU/Linux and the open source philosophy. They cannot distribute a Windos PC without a certificate, and these would be in

Re: [newbie] rpm catch22's

2001-08-08 Thread Judith Miner
Matt wrote: Linux is cool and all, but man can installing software be a nightmare. I couldn't agree more. I have had similar sad sagas more times than I care to recall. For example, I tried to install the latest Gnucash, which I've heard has many improvements over the version that came with my

Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager

2001-08-08 Thread Charles A. Punch
I had a little problem understanding the instructions posted to the list, until I realized that you must change the preferences to advanced and then click preferances. The advanced option is the triangle that one post spoke of. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 paul

Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux

2001-08-08 Thread Sevatio
Yes, if you're going to use Diskdrake to set up your HD, you CANNOT go back in and resize it with Partition Magic. They are different enough to result in mysterious data loss over a period of time and eventually, you'll end up losing everything. I had this experience over several machines

Re: [newbie] ipchains vs. iptables

2001-08-08 Thread jennifer
--- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2001 22:20, jen wrote: L's and G's, This is my first time setting up InteractiveBastille and I must admit, It is a little nerve-racking to not know exactly what your doing. While I do undertand the premises of services,

Re: [newbie] unknown sender

2001-08-08 Thread jennifer
Did it look anything like this? Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks But a reply does not bring up an email address in the TO: field? If so it is virus attempt. Albiet harmless to Linux. I believe the address part of the code is simple

[newbie] Hello!! From Linux!!! :o) Could install YahooMessenger

2001-08-08 Thread Adrian Ivanov Correa Moreno
Hello List!! I'm writing this joyful message from my Linux HyperCool machine!! Until now I was still using OutLook Express, but now, this is from Mozilla Mail. I had sent a previousm ail telling I coul not install YahooMessenger... But I could finally intall it. The problem I had was about

[newbie] Reply-To ? Where Does It Go?

2001-08-08 Thread Sevatio
When you hit the Reply-To option with your Mail-client, does it go back to the Newbie-List or does it go the the person that posted the message? I'm using StarOffice5.2 for my mailclient and it annoyingly defaults at sending back to the person that posted the message instead of going to the

Re: [newbie] Franki: Fetchmai/Yahoo

2001-08-08 Thread Paul
It was Mon, 6 Aug 2001 13:33:44 -0400 when Michael Scottaline wrote: account for this pop feature by going through the 'options' in webmail. After its all setup, you can go ahead and setup up two account in kmail, two profiles (if you want) and send/check away...

Re: [newbie] Help please !

2001-08-08 Thread Sevatio
I can't remember the exact program for doing this... But what you could do (if you find a better answer) is to run your installation CD's again. This time choose UPGRADE. You don't have to install any programs but eventually, it walks you through the Video setup part. Sevatio Original

Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager [not resolved]

2001-08-08 Thread paul rodríguez
I'm so sorry. I appear to have been careless and premature. Nope,, not resolved. Whereas Gnome can now set the background (it couldn't before), I still get two sets of icons overlapping each other, one with pretty pictures, the other with default, no icon to display ugly ones). Anybody know

Re: [newbie] Reply-To ? Where Does It Go?

2001-08-08 Thread s
It's not just star office. I set up a rule in kmail to fix this, but I don't know if star office has a rules config. If so, just make a rule that states anything with newbie in the subject or from newbie, set reply to as [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s On Wednesday 08 August 2001 11:36 am, you wrote:

Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux

2001-08-08 Thread tazmun
I'm not 100% sure I understand your problem correctly, but no where in this text do you mention running DOS fdisk command to resetup DOS partitions for windows support. I'm not that familiar with the linux form of fdisk but at least in the GUI disk convertors while they do a great job for linux

[newbie] Re: [Help] Nautilus deskop [resolved

2001-08-08 Thread paul rodríguez
Finally! Thank you, sir! Thinks makes sense now. All this time, the desktop option in preferences did not appear, it didn't occur to me untill I read your post that the icon in my gnome panel (default of Mandrake 8.0 f2) was set to run nautilus --no-desktop. Now this makes sense and all

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Latest press Pc's for Kids Inc

2001-08-08 Thread Sevatio
What is needed are volunteers to install and show these kids the ways of Linux. Their minds are like a sponge and will in very short time understand this. Being that they may not have the distractions that money bring, they would ended up with a lot of time to learn on their own. Then

Re: [Help] Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager [resolved]

2001-08-08 Thread paul rodríguez
Ok, really resolved now. Playing arround with Nautilus and deleting the /home/user/.nautilus/first-time-flag and then restarting the computer finally brought that preferences option back. I wonder why it was not there, but ever since I first installed my system it was missing, (and not because

Re: [Help] Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager [not resolved]

2001-08-08 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 08 Aug 2001 12:51:14 -0400, paul rodríguez wrote: I'm so sorry. I appear to have been careless and premature. Nope,, not resolved. Whereas Gnome can now set the background (it couldn't before), I still get two sets of icons overlapping each other, one with pretty pictures, the other

Re: [newbie] unknown sender

2001-08-08 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:35:01 +0800 when chris wrote: Hi. I just recieved an exe file from an 'unknown' sender. How is this done, does anyone know? I cannot reply to him as the machine recognises no address. I can only assume it is a virus. but the lack of an address is puzzling. I am

RE: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux

2001-08-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
This is true of any 2 partitioning programs. Always use only 1 for creating, resizing and moving. I prefer using either PM or SystemCommader, but not on the same machine. Unlike fdisk or DiskDrake PM and SC can handle all partition types. The only time I use Diskdrake is to change the file type

[newbie] KMail HTML

2001-08-08 Thread Robin Ballantine
Hi All, I seem to be having a bit of a problem with KMail 2.1.2 Even after ticking the box that says prefer plain text to html it still seems to render html in emails I receive. Can't figure out why. I am using: LM 8.0 KDE 2.1.1 with the 2.1.2 updates Kernel 2.4.3-20mdk wwwoffle proxy

Re: [newbie] Reply-To ? Where Does It Go?

2001-08-08 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 12:36 pm, you wrote: When you hit the Reply-To option with your Mail-client, does it go back to the Newbie-List or does it go the the person that posted the message? I'm using StarOffice5.2 for my mailclient and it annoyingly defaults at sending back to the person

[newbie] upgrading LM ver via Wev dwnld???

2001-08-08 Thread Donnie Green
I have seen on the web all the different versions of LM and all the RPMS each one contains. I was wondering if anyone knows how to upgrade from one version of LM to any other version of LM, by downloading the RPMS from the web? What apps/rpms do you have to download and install? Thanks,

RE: [newbie] rpm catch22's

2001-08-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Judith Miner Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] rpm catch22's Matt wrote: Linux is cool and all, but man can installing software be a

Re: [newbie] Wildcards - selecting almost *

2001-08-08 Thread Paul
It was Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:30:13 +1000 when George Petri wrote: Is there a way, in bash, to specify all files EXCEPT one or two? e.g. I want to: cp /home/george/* (except for untouchable.txt) /somewhere_else I could think of a bash script that either uses nono-parameters, or uses a file

Re: [newbie] Reply-To ? Where Does It Go?

2001-08-08 Thread • Karel •
You also need to put [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the Cc box so that it gets posted to the mailing list as well. Bad idea, I don't want to get few messages two times :(

Re: [newbie] locked cdrom and floppy

2001-08-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Oder Santos wrote: I have just installed MandrakeFreq 2 in my Toshiba Satellite 1715 XCDS and all running great except to cdrom and floppy. When I click it I receive the message: You do not have permissions to read file:/mnt/cdrom. What should I do to unlock this? Any help would be really

Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux

2001-08-08 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I agree about using System Commander. I had my hard disk totally go bad 2 weeks ago and then put in a new one. I almost used fdisk to partition but last minute I decided to try my System Commander. It worked absolutely great. I was very impressed. I am up and running now without a

Re: [newbie] KMail HTML

2001-08-08 Thread Randy Kramer
Robin, The email you've sent is plain text, not HTML, so I'm guessing that the option you've selected only affects outgoing mail. There might not be an option to control whether you see HTML or not. Randy Kramer Robin Ballantine wrote: Hi All, I seem to be having a bit of a

Re: [newbie] mars_nwe

2001-08-08 Thread Brandon Caudle
Yes I have heard of mars_nwe I am working with it now. But it only emulates NetWare Bindary Server 3.12 ~Brandon - Original Message - From: Jhun Bacala [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 6:26 AM Subject: [newbie] mars_nwe Hi! All, I've heard of

Re: [newbie] Reply-To ? Where Does It Go?

2001-08-08 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 2:16 pm, you wrote: You also need to put [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the Cc box so that it gets posted to the mailing list as well. Bad idea, I don't want to get few messages two times :( I know you will receive this message twice but that gives you twice the

[newbie] 2.4.7-8mdk automount

2001-08-08 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I've installed kernel-2.4.7-8mdk on my LM8... on first startup i saw the message disabling automount. How can i have it working again? Thanks! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: quinir Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org

[newbie] gtk upgrading via rpmdrake

2001-08-08 Thread paul rodríguez
How safe is it to upgrade my gtk libraries via rpmdrake? Should I choose to force the installations? -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

RE: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux

2001-08-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
It is a Great bootloader as well. It is what I use on any of my systems that have more than 2 OSes installed. It certainly simplifies the life of adding, changing and removing. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: Marcia Waller [mailto:[EMAIL

[newbie] MoBo 4 Linux?

2001-08-08 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I'm planning to upgrade from K6-III to Thunderbird... what's the best mobo for you? Is the USB2 support important? What about RDRAM support? 8-? Thanks in advance!! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: quinir Joan.Tur.pagina.de

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.1 not working with LM8

2001-08-08 Thread Phil
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 14:24 pm, you wrote: The latest version of StarOffice is 5.2. You can download it for free from www.sun.com That version also comes with the latest powerpack edition. Unfortunately I've had no luck at all installing Star Office on my system. Something in the Start

Re: [newbie] Help please !

2001-08-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Gonzalix le Druide wrote: Hi All!! Please help me: I installed LM7.2 on a Pentium II 350 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM, Video Card Trident 975 agp 4 Mb. I've probed Xconfigurator, xf86cfg and xf86config. I was trying to find some command XFree86Setup or something like

Re: [newbie] KMail HTML

2001-08-08 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 6:50 pm, you wrote: Hi All, I seem to be having a bit of a problem with KMail 2.1.2 Even after ticking the box that says prefer plain text to html it still seems to render html in emails I receive. Can't figure out why. I am using: LM 8.0 KDE 2.1.1 with

[newbie] DHCP...please help

2001-08-08 Thread Matt Buckley
Hello. I am trying to stup/enable a DHCP client on my linux machine. I am running LM8.0 right now. I have a book about setting up an internet server for linux, but all the examples are based off of RH6.2 I could install that, but I would prefer to stay w/ LM8.0. (I have read the debate on

Re: [newbie] Modem Config!

2001-08-08 Thread s
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 10:03 pm, you wrote: Thanks for the information. Been playing around in KDE systems control looking at everything listed. I went through each device in the list but I'm still not sure which one to use. If it's located under Communication Controllers, it is

Re: [newbie] Modem Config!

2001-08-08 Thread s
Oh, another thing I forgot to mention, when you type your ioport portion of the setserial command, place an 0x (that's a zero) in front of it. For example here's mine: setserial /dev/ttyS4 uart 16550A port 0xb800 irq 5 -s hope all this works for ya.

Re: [newbie] ./ ?????

2001-08-08 Thread Tim Holmes
Try checking the permissions. Are the permissions so that you could execute it? They would look something like this. [timh@yoda timh]$ ls -la `which mutt` -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 426528 May 27 16:42 /usr/local/bin/mutt As you can see, the x means it's executable. Try also sh command. That

Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8

2001-08-08 Thread Linus Drouhard
To see if I had Kmix, I went to the menus of installed programs. I also checked in the Package Manager, didn't find Kmix at all there. I don't know any other way (remember I'm a total newbie to Linux). I can get CD's to play, just not MP3's. I've not tried any other audio format. I'll try

Re: [newbie] How to acess other screens (terminals)?

2001-08-08 Thread jennifer
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 19:58, Amien Salie wrote: Hi Try ctrl+alt+F keys Peace Amien On Wednesday 08 August 2001 00:25, emammendes wrote: Hello I had 7.2 on my old computer and with it I could use alt+F keys to access different screens (terminals)? Now with 8.0 alf+F2 to 9

Re: [newbie] ./ ?????

2001-08-08 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 8 Aug 2001 21:54:32 EDT when [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I type ./COMMAND whatever that command may be, it doesnt always work. Sometmes it says it can not execute the binary file, other times it says I can find the file. I cant do it as root or a normal user. If COMMAND doesn't

Re: [newbie] How to acess other screens (terminals)?

2001-08-08 Thread jennifer
On Thursday 09 August 2001 00:40, jennifer wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2001 19:58, Amien Salie wrote: Hi Try ctrl+alt+F keys Peace Amien On Wednesday 08 August 2001 00:25, emammendes wrote: Hello I had 7.2 on my old computer and with it I could use alt+F keys to

Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager [not resolved]

2001-08-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Before Nauiltus came along, GMC controlled the GNOME desktop. Perhaps you can turn off GMC's control of the desktop in GMC's settings. On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 02:51, paul rodríguez wrote: I'm so sorry. I appear to have been careless and premature. Nope,, not resolved. Whereas Gnome can now set

Re: [newbie] Hello!! From Linux!!! :o) Could install YahooMessenger

2001-08-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
That's wonderful, but please don't post in HTML. Below is a text-only version of your message. As you can see, it looks just fine that way. With HTML, a message's size can grow exponentially, leading to longer downloads for all of us. On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 01:15, Adrian Ivanov Correa Moreno

Re: [newbie] How to upgrade LM?

2001-08-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
You'd be much better off doing a clean install. Package names and file locations can change a lot between distro versions, and installing RPMs from a newer distro can really mess things up. On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 10:27, Donnie Green wrote: I have seen on the web all the different versions of LM

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Latest press Pc's for Kids Inc

2001-08-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Some time ago I posted a link to an article which said that the owner of everythinglinux.com.au offered to give free GNU/Linux distribution CDs and free installation on machines. I'm sure if some LUGs got involved things could happen even faster. On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 02:00, Sevatio wrote: What

Re: [newbie] KMail HTML

2001-08-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:04, Randy Kramer wrote: Robin Ballantine wrote: Only hope now I'm not sending out HTML to the list. Perhaps someone could let me know if I am. Nope, it's still plain text! Randy Kramer KMail can't send HTML mail; it can only read it. This is the way things should

Re: [newbie] rpm catch22's

2001-08-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
These issues have received a lot of press coverage recently. The new version of GNUcash requires a great many packages that are not included in standard distributions. Hopefully MandrakeSoft will include them in 8.1. The main problem with RPM at present is its lack of an automated dependency

Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8

2001-08-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Try running aumix. If the command doesn't exist, install the package of the same name. On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:04, Linus Drouhard wrote: To see if I had Kmix, I went to the menus of installed programs. I also checked in the Package Manager, didn't find Kmix at all there. I don't know any

Re: [newbie] Reply-To ? Where Does It Go?

2001-08-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Most mail clients have a Reply to all function. Usually if you just click Reply, the mail will only go to one person. On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 02:36, Sevatio wrote: When you hit the Reply-To option with your Mail-client, does it go back to the Newbie-List or does it go the the person that posted

Re: [newbie] Reply-To ? Where Does It Go?

2001-08-08 Thread Sevatio
That's the predicament. To double or not to double. I think most importantly, the List needs to see the correspondence so that answers are shared among all of us. So, this sounds like it could have been solved at the source by having the mailing-list daemon include the proper headers to

Re: [newbie] How to acess other screens (terminals)?

2001-08-08 Thread Paul
C+A+F1 = non graphic login screen (no big deal) C+A+F2 = x server crash message (I don't know where these logs are so i can't share) C+A+F3-6= nongraphic login screen (same as 1) These are normal. The crash message in tty2 should not be there I think. But if X works after you hit

Re: [newbie] splitting up a file on floppys

2001-08-08 Thread Sevatio
Sorry about throwing this pile of info at you. I'm a bit short on time right now. But in the follow pasted info, you'll find your answers. I'll leave you the task of trimming it down. -Sevatio 2.18. How do I split a compressed backup into smaller files onto another hard disk? This type of