Re: [newbie-it] aiuto: accesso negato a floppy e cdrom

2001-09-08 Thread Daniele Micci
Il 19:47, sabato 08 settembre 2001, hai scritto: [CUT] Giusto, entro certi limiti. Ad esempio, ogni tanto uso un floppy che e` formattato ext2, e il supermount non lo monta, perche` si aspetta un floppy fat.. Inoltre, da quando ho ricompilato il kernel, il supermount ha smesso completamente

R: [newbie-it] Configurazione X server

2001-09-08 Thread Marco Andreoli
Io ho un problema simile, con i driver Nvidia installati non vado oltre gli 800*600 (mandrake 8.0 con kernel 2.4.7). As.C.I.I. -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di brain Inviato: giovedì 6 settembre 2001 19.50 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] installing nfs on mandrake 7.2

2001-09-08 Thread bascule
hi, have you installed the nfs rpm packages? something like nfs-utils or somesuch, then you can use the command exportfs to serve an nfs volume: #exportfs /path/to/export machine:domain or something similar this is all from memory as i haven't done this for ages so caveats apply, i know you

Re: [newbie] SiS 630 on Notebooks

2001-09-08 Thread Randy Kramer
civileme wrote: Hmmm, well the 630/730 is supposed to be commonly supported by SiS GPL drivers, but not generally on notebooks where the manufacturer has to do some special dodges just to get things to work (then writes special drivers for windows). I wish I had a place I could direct you

Re: [newbie] rpmdrake: rpm installed error

2001-09-08 Thread nathan wainwright
try installined with rpm -Uvh rpm name if i remember that does Update, verify, h... --nathan From: Mohammed Arafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] rpmdrake: rpm installed error Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 15:55:29 +0200 whenever i

Re: [newbie] rpmdrake: rpm installed error

2001-09-08 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 08 September 2001 14:55 pm, Mohammed Arafa wrote: whenever i try to install an rpm ..software manager (rpmdrake) tells me that the install generated errors: program already installed but this is the first time i install the program (not part of the distribution and/or update). i

Re: [newbie] Proxy Server

2001-09-08 Thread Lanman
Not so dumb. If your Linux box is your only PC in the house, it won't do much. It might increase your web-browsing when viewing the same sites many times, but that's probably it. Notice I said it Might. Primarily, it is intended for use on a server/PC which is used as a gateway for multiple

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread etharp
about a million people are going to tell you (and they are correct) that the GIMP is every bit as good as photoshop, and they do not have the US gov. put people in jail for talking about how poor their encryption is under the DMCA. you might also consider that while dreamweaver sites appear

Re: [newbie] Windows and Mandrake on one HDD

2001-09-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 07 September 2001 12:43 pm, Anders Thoresson escribió: Hi, I would like to put Windows (either Win2k och Win98) on a harddrive together with Mandrake 8.0. I've got a 20 GB drive, at the moment empty. Should I install Windows or Mandrake first to get a bootloader that let me

Re: FW: [newbie] Network Card compatibility

2001-09-08 Thread s
On Friday 07 September 2001 08:19 pm, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: Hi again, I just booted into windows and saw my NIC is listed as 3COM Etherlink III ISA 3C509B-Combo. Apologies for lack of observance on my part. S now, can anyone tell me if this NIC is supported by Mandrake 8 and if so,

Re: [newbie] Cron and Stuff

2001-09-08 Thread David E. Fox
under the services to start both anacron and crond are setup to start on bootup. Are both of these services needed? Also what exactly is I am not sure if both are needed. The crond should be the vixie-cron, since that is more common on Linux systems (it is a version authored by Paul Vixie,

Re: [newbie] installing nfs on mandrake 7.2

2001-09-08 Thread nathan wainwright
thanks, forgot about that there should be a rpm for that stinkin thing... :) installed it... now... where do i tell the kernel to load it? i put it in rc.sysinit /etc/init.d/portmap start /etc/init.d/nfslock start portmap started fine... nfs locks the machine and gets some stupid error?

Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card

2001-09-08 Thread etharp
gee,, I had always guessed th parport stuff refered to a parralle port (also known as printer port. what does (in a text console,without the quotes) cat /proc/pci say? On Friday 07 September 2001 23:10, you had thoughts to the concept of: The network cards are not next to my video card.

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread jennifer
On Saturday 08 September 2001 11:56, richied wrote: On September 8, 2001 09:42 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your efforts.? ...There's actually a bigger issue at stake. Win XP is actually taking a fingerpint of your system.

Re: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512

2001-09-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 08 September 2001 04:40 am, s escribió: On Friday 07 September 2001 05:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I've got one word for nVidia's Linux support, and like most in the wintel-gang, it's DISINGENUOUS. They're just stringin us along, with poor, partially capable, closed

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:58:30 -0400, jennifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 September 2001 11:56, richied wrote: On September 8, 2001 09:42 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your efforts.? ...There's actually a bigger

Re: [newbie] enabling ATA100 drives

2001-09-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 08 September 2001 06:49 pm, Joan Tur escribió: Es Divendres 07 Setembre 2001 14:03, en Jeremy Davidson va escriure: I have an IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB drive which is ATA100 compatible, but I have a feeling that MDK8.0 is not taking full advantage of this feature. My motherboard,

[newbie] Kmail / Konqueror question / bug report

2001-09-08 Thread Charlie Oriez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Running Mandrake 8.0 with KDE 2.1.1 and Konqueror 2.1.1 and Kmail 1.2 (all standard with the M8.0 power relase) When I click in a URL in an email on kmail, it starts Konqueror to view the URL. 1) I want to use Netscape or Opera as my default

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread nathan wainwright
from what i understand they removed this a while back... or at least the version used to make OEM systems doesnt have that stupid reg'd thing (actually includes a cd code). -- nathan From: jennifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], richied [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] [OT] [Fwd: [Alsa-user] [OT] Announcement: new Linux-Audio-User mailing list]

2001-09-08 Thread Frans Ketelaars
Original Message Subject: [Alsa-user] [OT] Announcement: new Linux-Audio-User mailing list Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 19:31:57 +0200 From: Jörn Nettingsmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 08 September 2001 12:57 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan escribió: Take a look at this article: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2810195,00.html Here's an excerpt: For those who haven't yet experienced it, the new scheme is concealed under the 'Product Activation'

[newbie] Tar --newer option

2001-09-08 Thread Michel Hardy-Vallée
Hi there, as usual when I see a problem on my Linux box, I wonder if I am stupid or if there is a bug. Fortunately, I'm stupid more than often. But I was trying to use tar yesterday to do a backup of my /home rep. for files which are newer than August 29 2001. So I issued the following

Re: [newbie] Proxy Server

2001-09-08 Thread Rod Walsh
Maybe a dumb question, but... (Apart from using a Linux box as your home network gateway) what do you use a proxy server for on the same machine as you access the net? Cheers, Rod. At 13:23 04/09/2001 -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: Squid is great. http://www.squid-proxy.org. Mandrake

FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread Siavash Sefidvash
Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your efforts.? If not Zhiang Zemin and Chinese polit bureaux would really like to hire you...that part of the world is Mecca for this sort of thing. I don't mind paying £100 for a developers application. However I realize that's

Re: FW: [newbie] Network Card compatibility

2001-09-08 Thread etharp
this is ISA? reserved a irq? set the jumpers or use the software that came with the card to setup pnp to no On Friday 07 September 2001 21:19, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: Hi again, I just booted into windows and saw my NIC is listed as 3COM Etherlink III ISA 3C509B-Combo. Apologies for lack of

Re: [newbie] NTFS support on Linux

2001-09-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 05:16:11 -0500, Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends: Using dual-boot LM 8.0/Win2000 (with NTFS File System). Question: Currently, Linux can only read NTFS files but not write to it. What is the reason for this? Is there any hope that Linux will be able to both

Re: [newbie] mailbox query

2001-09-08 Thread David E. Fox
I have an embarrassing question to ask. I installed Mutt and upon running the creature it complained that I do not have a mailbox. This is a big mystery for me. How do I get/make a mailbox? I've never used mutt, but did it ask you if it could create a mailbox? Elm does that upon first

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread richied
On September 8, 2001 09:42 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your efforts.? ...There's actually a bigger issue at stake. Win XP is actually taking a fingerpint of your system. Your NIC, HDD, CD-ROM, CPU, etc all have unique serial

Re: [newbie] enabling ATA100 drives

2001-09-08 Thread Joan Tur
Es Divendres 07 Setembre 2001 14:03, en Jeremy Davidson va escriure: I have an IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB drive which is ATA100 compatible, but I have a feeling that MDK8.0 is not taking full advantage of this feature. My motherboard, an Asus A7A266, also supports this. A line showed up during

[newbie] Networking setup

2001-09-08 Thread Robert F. Trettel
Hi All, I am in the process of building a 3 computer network which is as follows: Tower acting as server a desktop as a workstation and a laptop workstation needs to be removable from network That said now the laptop has a problem the linksys EtherFast 10/100 is not reginized hear a long and

Re: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512

2001-09-08 Thread skinky
On Sunday 09 September 2001 05:30, Tom Brinkman wrote: [snip] IMO, this aspect of M$ business practices, not some silly idea of integrating IE into the Win OS, is M$'s real crime. I hope source disclosure (API's) is the next focus of DOJ's and EU's remedies for the M$ monopoly. Then at

[Fwd: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card]

2001-09-08 Thread ryan_steffes
Very helpful, thanks. cat /proc/pci says, in abstract Device:IRQ Video card:11 3com LAN:10 Realtek (which is actually my D-link LAN, go figure):9 USB Controller:3 The on board sound and or parallel port (I think you are right, since shortly after it mentions lp0, even though I don't have a

RE: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512

2001-09-08 Thread Franki
As much as I dislike the situation, you can't really blame nvidea.. Microsoft offered them huge wads of cash to design the Xbox internals, there were no other big offers and they could certainly use the cash back then... So they did it and Microsoft are now making Nvidea lots of money... so

Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card

2001-09-08 Thread ryan_steffes
Clarification, it's modprobe that won't work, but I can insmod 3c59x. Original Message Subject: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card] Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 17:53:45 -0400 From: ryan_steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [newbie] Networking setup

2001-09-08 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2001-09-08 at 14:05, Robert F. Trettel wrote: That said now the laptop has a problem the linksys EtherFast 10/100 is not reginized hear a long and short beep when inserting. Did some checking at Linksys web site,they say to get it to work have to do some compiling. heck I can just

Re: [newbie] apache htdocs and error

2001-09-08 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 06:17 PM 09/08/2001 -0400, you wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_87580-7607-2231 You don't have permission to access / on this server. what do i need to chmod on this chmod 600? 755? what I worked till i think my boss chmod 600 thanks Brandon Caudle

Re: [newbie] Networking setup

2001-09-08 Thread Tim Holmes
Well the thing in Linux, is that if there are problems with an IRQ conflict, your hardware is not going to work. I ran into problems like this with one of my machines. In Windows, if there are IRQ conflicts, it will still manage to find the address for the hardware and send the correct

Re: [newbie] How to change default login group

2001-09-08 Thread George Petri
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:03, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:59, George Petri wrote: I know this is a very, very trivial question but for some reason I can't find the manual for it: How do I change the default login group for a user? I've looked in

Re: [newbie] Kmail / Konqueror question / bug report

2001-09-08 Thread Naish
In KDE, go to: Configure - KDE - File Browsing - File asociations and there, look for html extension. Konqueror will appear as preffered app to open it. Just add or select Netscape Navigator first. I don't know nothing about that bug... Naish El Sáb 08 Sep 2001 15:09, escribiste: -BEGIN

[newbie]

2001-09-08 Thread nathan wainwright
okay i added the line /mnt/cdrom *.localdomain(ro,insecure) to my exports file in /etc i dont have a local host name setup, left as default in mandrake... but i want my slackware machine to be able todo a nfs to the mandrake machines cdrom... could i just take out *.localdomain... and put

Re: [newbie] I NEED OF HELP - Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-08 Thread Naish
You cannot set up that modem in linux, because it's a Winmodem, buy a true modem (external better). Naish El Sáb 08 Sep 2001 21:12, escribiste: Mandrake 8.0 - 2.4.3-20mdk I install the Linux Mandrake 8.0 in my computer and have two weeks what can´t use my modem HSP56 MicroModem I need

Re: [newbie] I NEED OF HELP - Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-08 Thread d
LURKER here, setup your system to dual booting, boot to either Windows or Lunux using the LILO (LInux LOader) then you can use Windows until you have your problems solved in Linux. Also the HSP56 Micromodem is a Winmodem and will not work in Linux without special drivers. The best thing is

Re: What is a Gateway? - WAS Re: [newbie] Internet Problems and [expert] wuftp server is unresponsive

2001-09-08 Thread etharp
On Saturday 08 September 2001 20:01, you had thoughts to the concept of: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 20:53, etharp wrote: that gateway is for the computer you are on, so the gateway would be the IP your ISP assigns via dhcp, the gateway to the client computers (the rest of your home

Re: [newbie] apache htdocs and error

2001-09-08 Thread Brandon Caudle
thanks Brandon Caudle -- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) Larkhaven Golf Course Charlotte, NC There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. -- Henry Kissinger - Original Message - From: Michael D. Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card

2001-09-08 Thread etharp
sorry if we seem to be going over the same stuff, but what does (in a text console, without the quotes) ifconfig say? On Saturday 08 September 2001 18:16, ryan_steffes wrote: Clarification, it's modprobe that won't work, but I can insmod 3c59x. Original Message Subject:

[newbie] ctrl+x working

2001-09-08 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have both mandrake 8 and pcq 7.1 working on the same machine. When I rec sound in terminal if I press ctrl+c, rec stops in pcq 7.1, but not in mdk 8. What can be the reason? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC

[newbie] The 2nd Mandrake 8 CD

2001-09-08 Thread George Petri
A friend of mine burnt me a copy of the 2-cd version of mandrake 8. I did a full install (expert mode, medium security) and it *never* asked me to put in the 2nd cd (mandrake 7.2 does). Do I have to manually install everything on the 2nd cd (rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2/*.rpm) or did I

Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card

2001-09-08 Thread ryan_steffes
OUTPUT dmesg Linux version 2.4.8-12mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release / Linux-Mandrake 8.1)) #1 Fri Aug 24 16:18:19 CEST 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820:

Re: [newbie] I NEED OF HELP - Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-08 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Adilson Nunes wrote: Mandrake 8.0 - 2.4.3-20mdk I install the Linux Mandrake 8.0 in my computer and have two weeks what can´t use my modem HSP56 MicroModem I need of instructions and drivers for install my modem. I don´t want more use Windows. Please help me have many days and don´t

RE: [newbie] I NEED OF HELP - Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-08 Thread Michael Spivak
Isyour modem a 'WinModem' ??? If it does, you better go bye yourself a new one (else - go back to windohs) -Original Message-From: Adilson Nunes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 3:13 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] I NEED OF HELP -

[newbie] PIO and DMA and PCI and alphabet soup

2001-09-08 Thread civileme
Hmmm dmesg gives out a message about the ide bus defaulting to 33MHz for PIO and everyone with IDE drives starts to wonder, Am I really getting all that I should out of my drive? PIO is Programmed Input-Output It has five modes, PIO0-PIO4 33MHz is PIO4 Programmed Input/Output is reading

RE: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512 The discussion continues..

2001-09-08 Thread Franki
not really win hardware, winhardware like winmodems and stuff tend to rely on thee CPU to do alot of the work.. you might be able to label them winhardware if they provided no linux drivers at all... at least they have offered us something, that is more then a huge number of other manufacturers

[newbie] Adjusting Display on Laptop

2001-09-08 Thread Keith Lynn
Hello everyone, I have a question about adjusting the screen display on a laptop. I was able to install Mandrake on my laptop. However the screen is reduced to a part of what the actual screen size is. On a monitor I can adjust the visible area so that it fills up the screen. Are there

[newbie] I NEED OF HELP - Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-08 Thread Adilson Nunes
Mandrake 8.0 - 2.4.3-20mdk I install the Linux Mandrake 8.0 in my computer and have two weeks what can´t use my modem HSP56 MicroModem I need of instructions and drivers for install my modem. I don´t want more use Windows. Please help me have many days and don´t have success. My english is

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread Ah Pook
9/8/2001 7:18:43 AM, etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: about a million people are going to tell you (and they are correct) that the GIMP is every bit as good as photoshop, and they do not have the US gov. put people in jail for talking about how poor their encryption is under the DMCA.

Re: [newbie] enabling ATA100 drives

2001-09-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 08 September 2001 09:59 pm, civileme escribió: ON cooker you will find drakopt-1.01-0.86mdk.noarch.rpm Install and run it. It will squeeze out everything the kernel is capable of giving you and build an initscript to keep it happening. It takes about 30 minutes to test most

Re: [newbie] Adjusting Display on Laptop

2001-09-08 Thread civileme
On Saturday 08 September 2001 19:40, Keith Lynn wrote: Hello everyone, I have a question about adjusting the screen display on a laptop. I was able to install Mandrake on my laptop. However the screen is reduced to a part of what the actual screen size is. On a monitor I can adjust the

Re: [newbie] bash: java: command not found

2001-09-08 Thread skinky
On Sunday 09 September 2001 02:33, you wrote: Isaac, here is what i did: i located the file java. on my system it is in /usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin then i exported the path. this i found on the javasun website. here is what you do: su to root #export PATH=/usr/java/path/toyour/java:$PATH in my

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread civileme
On Saturday 08 September 2001 12:58, jennifer wrote: On Saturday 08 September 2001 11:56, richied wrote: On September 8, 2001 09:42 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your efforts.? ...There's actually a bigger issue at stake.

[newbie] apache htdocs and error

2001-09-08 Thread Brandon Caudle
You don't have permission to access / on this server. what do i need to chmod on this chmod 600? 755? what I worked till i think my boss chmod 600 thanks Brandon Caudle -- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) Larkhaven Golf Course Charlotte, NC There cannot be a crisis

Re: What is a Gateway? - WAS Re: [newbie] Internet Problems and [expert] wuftp server is unresponsive

2001-09-08 Thread George Petri
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 20:53, etharp wrote: that gateway is for the computer you are on, so the gateway would be the IP your ISP assigns via dhcp, the gateway to the client computers (the rest of your home network that is connecting to the Internet) would be the linux box eth0 IP.