Re: [newbie-it] Cos'è Journaling?

2002-03-14 Thread Sandro
Alle 09:23, giovedì 14 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Ottima spiegazione, io però ritengo che, per l'utente medio, il journaled file system non è assolutamente necessario ne conveniente. Penso sia molto più importante avere un sistema operativo veloce e robusto in modo da scongiurare per

Re: [newbie-it] Cos'è Journaling?

2002-03-14 Thread Stefano Bigotta
file system non è assolutamente necessario ne conveniente. mah, io lo uso su un vecchio portatile e non mi ha dato nessun problema Penso sia molto più importante avere un sistema operativo veloce e robusto questo é un altro paio di maniche, effettivamente la mkd installa (anche senza

Re: [newbie-it] Lilo e win

2002-03-14 Thread Andrea Celli
nicola wrote: l'installazione) oppure usando il cd di installazione, digitando la parola rescue2 e seguendo le procedure per montare il fs di root, in modo da poter il 2 era la seconda coppia di virgolette, immagino :-) Piu` precisamente: - avvii da CD - premi subito F1 - al

Re: [newbie-it] Cos'è Journaling?

2002-03-14 Thread Andrea Celli
Leonardo Orazi wrote: Ottima spiegazione, io però ritengo che, per l'utente medio, il journaled file system non è assolutamente necessario ne conveniente. Penso sia molto più importante avere un sistema operativo veloce e robusto in modo da scongiurare per quanto possibile i pericoli

[newbie-it] errore in compilazione -lXext not found

2002-03-14 Thread Stefano Bigotta
stavo cercando di compilare xine dopo avere lanciato ./configure, mi appresto al make quando a un certo punto compare il seguente errore /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext collect2: ld returned 1 exit status devo installare qualche libreria? ciao stefano

Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi

2002-03-14 Thread tom
Alle 19:19, sabato 9 marzo 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: a questo punto attenzione, perchè il lettore potrebbe aver preso possesso di scd0 (presumo una questione di precedenze hdc-hdd - nel mio caso, almeno - ma aspetto motivazioni più fondate); controlla, quindi vai in /etc/fstab e

R: [newbie-it] problemi con installazione mandrake 8.1 su abit k7 raid

2002-03-14 Thread EiaVaBuò
-Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Per conto di Samuele E. Locatelli Inviato: venerdì 1 marzo 2002 1.09 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: [newbie-it] problemi con installazione mandrake 8.1 su abit k7 raid Ho un problema con linstallazione

Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi

2002-03-14 Thread tom
-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:47:20 +0100 From: tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], nicola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alle 22:02, martedì 12 marzo 2002, nicola ha scritto: Alle 19:25, sabato 9 marzo 2002, hai

Re: [newbie-it] Cos'è Journaling?

2002-03-14 Thread tom
Alle 09:26, giovedì 14 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Mah, in quanto a velocità (utilizzo attualmente ext3 convertito da un iniziale ext2) non ho rilevato nessu rallentamento. Per curiosita.per passare da ext2 a ext3 che dovrei fare? se è troppo complicato da spiegare qui, mi potresti

Re: [newbie-it] supermount

2002-03-14 Thread Alessandro
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:10:01 +0100 (CET) Stefano Salari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ma, alla fine ho deciso di passare alla 8.1, ma i miei problemi non sono migliorati... ...Ma nella 8.1 non c'e' il supporto al supermount. Che problema ti da? se il problema è evitare di aprire un xterm

Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi

2002-03-14 Thread Andrea Celli
tom wrote: .. questo è quello che c'è in fstab /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 ma la cosa che non capisco è

Re: R: [newbie-it] Mandrake in crisi!?

2002-03-14 Thread dimmy
credo che sia arrivato il momento di contribuire economicamente, se non vogliamo cambiare distribuzione. Penso che se lo meritano. Io mi comprerò la distribuzione era già da un pò che ci stavo pensando. Comunque se tutti o quasi collaboriamo secondo le nostre possibilità possiamo

Re: [newbie-it] Cos'è Journaling?

2002-03-14 Thread Sandro
Alle 13:49, giovedì 14 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Alle 09:26, giovedì 14 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Mah, in quanto a velocità (utilizzo attualmente ext3 convertito da un iniziale ext2) non ho rilevato nessu rallentamento. Per curiosita.per passare da ext2 a ext3 che dovrei fare? se è

Re: [newbie-it] Cos'è Journaling?

2002-03-14 Thread Sandro
Alle 13:49, giovedì 14 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Alle 09:26, giovedì 14 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Mah, in quanto a velocità (utilizzo attualmente ext3 convertito da un iniziale ext2) non ho rilevato nessu rallentamento. Per curiosita.per passare da ext2 a ext3 che dovrei fare? se è

Re: [newbie-it] Xscreensaver GL

2002-03-14 Thread nicola
Alle 21:03, sabato 9 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Salve a tutta la ML, a quanto pare non riesco a stare un giorno senza trovare un piccolo problema da proporvi. Oggi ho voluto provare alcuni salvaschermi GL di xscreensaver, e con mia sorpresa non vanno. Premetto che ho una geforce2, e che sotto

RE: [newbie-it] Xscreensaver GL

2002-03-14 Thread Taschetta, M. - MXPCP
mitico!!! -Original Message- From: nicola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Xscreensaver GL Alle 21:03, sabato 9 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Salve a tutta la ML, a quanto pare non riesco a stare un giorno

[newbie] Apache user directory

2002-03-14 Thread Daniel Chen
I tried to set up my Apache web server that all the user can have their own web pages under their home/user/public_html I put this line in httpd.conf UserDir public_html However, when I tried to access user's web page by typing http://www.mywebsite.name/~username/ The web server gave me a error

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? NOW what for?

2002-03-14 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
No.. Dreamweaver Can work w/ wine, however it does not work as quickly, nor is it as functional as on windows. (I personally coulnd't get it to install.) I have managed to get a copy of flash5 installed on my windows partition working with wine(using real win95 dlls), its not really usable as

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-14 Thread Kenn Yahoo
BEER ??? someone mentioned beer? i could use a guinness myself ... - Original Message - From: Bill Spatz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:52 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all | Sounds good! | | Bill | Syracuse UT,

[newbie] KMail and Opera

2002-03-14 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
Is there any way to make Opera or any other browser the default browser for KMail? I see no setting in the program. Thanks! -- Jonathan Dlouhy Thursday, March 14, 2002 I'm not smart enough to lie - Ronald Reagan

Re: [newbie] Apache user directory

2002-03-14 Thread Daniel Moríñigo Sotelo
Hi Daniel, First of all, sorry for my bad english. Try this: Add this lines in httpd.conf UserDir enabled user_name Alias /~username /~home/username/public_html Create the folder public_html and change permissions as root: chown -R username:apache ~username/public_html

Re: [newbie] laptop

2002-03-14 Thread Hanan Shargi
Hi Shane, I am running LM8.1 on Dell Inspiron 7500, it worked nicely on it, ever since L.M 7.0 and before trhat I was using Red Hat. and I guess witrh older notebooks you wont have to suffer with uncompatible pieces of hardware ( modems, display cards, .etc.) Just make sure that it doest

RE:[newbie] QT libraries

2002-03-14 Thread zaphod beeblebrox
Watches Zaphod's Joo Janta Sunglasses go dead black ooo me like them dead black sunglasses 8-) Umm, your programs have source code for Qt no longer in use. In order to get them to compile, you will have to install OLD libraries. Try to get them from Mandtrake 7.1 which is still around on a

Re: [newbie] Apache user directory

2002-03-14 Thread ed tharp
were you on a local lan or thru the internet? what are the permissions or the folder /home/username/public_html? is apache configured for virtual domains? On Thursday 14 March 2002 03:57, you wrote: I tried to set up my Apache web server that all the user can have their own web pages under

Re: [newbie] Lycoris or Mandrake?

2002-03-14 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 23:53, Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi there: I am an old windows user that is tired and sick of Microsoft's policies. So I turned to Linux and I now Love this OS and the open source community. I only have one problem with Linux and that's the ease of use. I used to use Red

Re: [newbie] Mandrake security notices

2002-03-14 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Jeff wrote: %_I posted this a while ago and no one seems to have an answer for me. Yes, I do have the link for ssh update. I am asking if any of the mirrors actually update for these security vulnerabilities? Is there anywhere to get them all at once, or do I have

[newbie] Interrupts and being interrupted

2002-03-14 Thread Brian Parish
I have a small issue that may be interrupt related. I have XMMS playing (always). At a change of track, it will sometimes stop and issue a message telling me that the sound card is not available and that I should check that I have the correct plugin loaded. Click OK and play again and I'm back

[newbie] KDE wont start

2002-03-14 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hi all, I was foolishly snooting around my MD8.1 system, which was working fine, as root and now KDE wont come up. Never had a problem before with it. It stops with a message at the splash screen. The application The KDE Splash Screen (ksplash) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV).

[newbie] epcEditor

2002-03-14 Thread Charles Muller
I don't know how many of you are working extensively with XML/SGML, but I was presently surprised this evening when I downloaded the epcEditor and found that it handled my CJK-English dictionaries on my Mandrake system, flawlessly rendering the mixed Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text in

RE: [newbie] laptop

2002-03-14 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] laptop -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of shane Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] laptop does anyone know a good place to buy older/used laptops online? and any

RE: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish

2002-03-14 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerald Waugh Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, cervix couch

Re[2]: [newbie] laptop

2002-03-14 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
Thursday, March 14, 2002, 9:38:44 AM, you wrote: MDRN -Original Message- MDRN From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MDRN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of shane MDRN Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:25 AM MDRN To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MDRN Subject: [newbie] laptop MDRN does anyone know a good

Re: [newbie] KMail and Opera

2002-03-14 Thread shane
On Thursday 14 March 2002 01:25, Jonathan Dlouhy opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Is there any way to make Opera or any other browser the default browser for KMail? I see no setting in the program. if you go to Configuration KDE Filebrowsing File Associations and find html

Re: [newbie] Improve the Mandrake cd-rom install?

2002-03-14 Thread Lee
Your suggestion of tabbing to installation steps would have saved me hours when I started this trek. When you are bumbling around, flapping your arms, it would be real nice to index to the area you goofed up in and go on. On Tuesday 12 March 2002 07:32 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar

Re[2]: [newbie] KMail and Opera

2002-03-14 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
Thursday, March 14, 2002, 9:56:21 AM, you wrote: s On Thursday 14 March 2002 01:25, Jonathan Dlouhy opened a hailing frequency s and transmitted: Is there any way to make Opera or any other browser the default browser for KMail? I see no setting in the program. s if you go to Configuration

RE: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-14 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 01:18, Mithrilhall2000 wrote: Why dont we people post in what part of the world r we ?? OK. Lyvim Xaphir Greenville, North Carolina, USA (2 hours from Research Triangle Park, Raleigh) Running Mandrake v LM81 w/stock kernel

Re: [newbie] Improve the Mandrake cd-rom install?

2002-03-14 Thread Robin Turner
If the mouse doesn't work immediately, why not try the text install? As far as I remember, that can be tabbed through (though it's a long time since I've done one - you used to have to do it with S3Trio cards - framebuffer problem, I think). Robin On Thursday 14 March 2002 18:03, Lee wrote:

Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] Chat list?

2002-03-14 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 14 March 2002 18:00, sda wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:54:48AM -0500, Fred Fraley wrote: There have been some wonderful threads on both the expert and newbie lists in the last few days. I have to agree, though, with a couple of users who were frustrated in wading

Re: [newbie] QT libraries

2002-03-14 Thread shane
***note to self, send mail under right identity or it won't go*** :-) if you know what rpms, i am betting several of us here have old 7.1 cds we can either attach rpms to for you or (with that connection) maybe mail you a whole cd. get back here when you know On Tuesday 12 March 2002 18:23,

[newbie] RealPlayer plugin

2002-03-14 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
Is there a way to install the RealPlayer plugin for Netscape without installing the whole RealPlayer 8? When I install the whole thing it takes over lots of MIME associations that I never could get to work right again. I just want the plugin so I can see the streaming stuff. Thanks, Jon --

Re: Re: [newbie] OTM$ to stop shipping windoze?

2002-03-14 Thread Jim Dawson
Actually, it isn't that hard to remove IE from Windows. The problem is that many *applications* require IE to install, or run with reduced functionality if IE isn't installed. -Original Message- From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer plugin

2002-03-14 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Jue 14 Mar 2002 06:29, Jonathan Dlouhy escribió: Is there a way to install the RealPlayer plugin for Netscape without installing the whole RealPlayer 8? When I install the whole thing it takes over lots of MIME associations that I never could get to work right again. I just want the plugin

Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation: PayPal

2002-03-14 Thread RichardA
http://www.paypalsucks.com/ It seems some people have not had good experiences of Paypal... Richard john rigby, Wednesday 13 March 2002 12:37: Hi Femme, True? No! I think that is put around by the Banks. :-) It is especially useful to small traders trading internationally. It is on

[newbie] linux multi-media keyboards

2002-03-14 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Anybody know of any multi-media keyboards that I could make use of with Linux? I want to be able to use the exttra keys and functions on those keyboards. Has anybody had any success getting them mapped and working correctly? - paul R

[newbie] Filesystems as of 8.2

2002-03-14 Thread Miark
Civileme (and any othe takers), I'm gonna put 8.2 on a company web/mail/ftp/ssh server that will receive light-to-moderate traffic. I'm not sure what filesytem I should use, though. What are your thoughts on the major journaling filesystems as of 8.2? Miark Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-14 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Heck, Ed, you and I are a hop and skip apart, just about. On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 19:44, ed tharp wrote: Monroe North Carolina, and Miami Fla. On Tuesday 12 March 2002 10:59, you wrote: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes... Walnut Creek (bay area) California here and bar hoping

Re: Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation

2002-03-14 Thread Jim Dawson
Actually, you are safer using a credit card online than a debit card (or a 'check card' type credit card that debits from your checking account) because the credit card company is liable for most of the chares in cases of fraud (assuming you inform them of the situation as soon as possible)

Re: [newbie] Installing a program via a shell script

2002-03-14 Thread Nick
On Thursday 14 March 2002 16:02, you wrote: Have you tried ./faxview-2.0b Root does not default with the ability to run things from the current directory. -- Registered Linux user #225209 Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Installing a program via a shell script

2002-03-14 Thread Miark
That would be ./faxview-2.0b not /.faxview-2.0b Miark On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:02:38 +, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Have you tried /.faxview-2.0b Root does not default with the ability to run things from the current directory. --

Re: [newbie] Filesystems as of 8.2

2002-03-14 Thread Miark
Civileme--thanks much! I'll definitely go with XFS. Miark On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:14:27 -0900, civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Miark wrote: Civileme (and any othe takers), I'm gonna put 8.2 on a company web/mail/ftp/ssh server that will receive light-to-moderate traffic. I'm

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-14 Thread Terry
Charlottesville, VA here Original Message- From: Fred Fraley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bcc: Subj: Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all Type: IPM.Note Sent:

Re: [newbie] Resend: KDE does not come up.

2002-03-14 Thread civileme
Burrows, Scott wrote: Civilme, I was foolishly snooting around my MD8.1 system, which was working fine, as root and now KDE wont come up. Never had a problem before with it. It stops with a message at the splash screen. The application The KDE Splash Screen (ksplash) crashed and caused the

Re: [newbie] QT libraries

2002-03-14 Thread civileme
zaphod beeblebrox wrote: if you know what rpms, i am betting several of us here have old 7.1 cds we can either attach rpms to for you or (with that connection) maybe mail you a whole cd. get back here when you know. I did find the needed rpms.. but... it conflicts with the qt2

[newbie] partition

2002-03-14 Thread Arjan Petersen
hello, ive got a question. I trying to use my windows-xp partitions. I've mounted them and in root i can use them. But when i want to use the partition in let's say user: arjan I get tthe error that i'm not able or i don't have the rights to use the partition. How can i fix this? Another

[newbie] partition

2002-03-14 Thread Arjan Petersen
hello, ive got a question. I trying to use my windows-xp partitions. I've mounted them and in root i can use them. But when i want to use the partition in let's say user: arjan I get tthe error that i'm not able or i don't have the rights to use the partition. How can i fix this? Another

Re: [newbie] An apology and a round of virtual beer

2002-03-14 Thread FemmeFatale
The rest I won't argue. But English!? I am not Sir ;0 Je suis partiellement francais, c'est vrai. I blame my upbringing for me being only being half-french. And I did grow up in a french community I assure you Kaj. Oh I don't speak my native (though I suppose english is as much my native

Re: [newbie] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations, working setups, problems...

2002-03-14 Thread magnet
Thanks for your comments. I've been surfing for more details on these WinTV cards... quite a variety it seems, but very scant on whether or not they can decode a terrestrial channel by simply plugging an ariel lead into the back and tuning them. I have seen there are several drivers available

[newbie] Interrupts and being interrupted

2002-03-14 Thread Brian Parish
Hmmm. Thought was miraculously immune to the my posts don't show up thing, but maybe not as this one hasn't bounced back to me after 10 hours. Sorry if this is a repeat performance. -Forwarded Message- From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [newbie] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations,working setups, problems...

2002-03-14 Thread FemmeFatale
If I may add my 2 cdn cents (worth bout .5 cent on the open market), Hauppage tv cards AFAIK right now are not a very good buy. At least this is what I've read. Only because they seem to have issues with certain types of installations. Damn, wish I'd kept the article. Please read up on it if

[newbie] Anti-spam measures

2002-03-14 Thread Robin Turner
Does anyone know a way I can bounce mail? I receive masses of spam from Korea, for reasons that totally baffle me, and I would like a way to send back anything written in Hangul, preferably with a message like This is the spamfix prgram at localhost.localdomain. Your mail was not able to be

Re: [newbie] Interrupts and being interrupted

2002-03-14 Thread Jussi Aalto
Hi Brian On Thursday 14 March 2002 15:49, you wrote: 2. cat /proc/interrupts shows: 10: 83875 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, ICE1712 i.e. my sound card (that's the ICE1712) is sharing interrupt 10 with the usb interfaces. Normally the sound card should use IRQ 5 or 7. If they

Re: [newbie] partition

2002-03-14 Thread Brian Parish
Arjan, Regarding the partition question - you need to check two things: 1. That the permissions on the mount point are set to allow user access. Type: ls -l /mnt (without the quotes). You will see a list of mount points, one of which corresponds to each W$ partition. Check that the

Re: [newbie] Interrupts and being interrupted

2002-03-14 Thread Brian Parish
Thanks Jussi, That seemed the best way to go to me too. But how are the interrupts set? Are you talking bios settings here? I guess not as W$ would inherit them too. I have set this stuff in W$, but not in Linux. thanks again Brian On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 10:55, Jussi Aalto wrote: Hi Brian

Re: [newbie] Anti-spam measures

2002-03-14 Thread Bill Davidson
On Thursday 14 March 2002 06:53 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Does anyone know a way I can bounce mail? I receive masses of spam from Korea, for reasons that totally baffle me, and I would like a way to send back anything written in Hangul, preferably with a message like This is the spamfix prgram

Re: [newbie] Interrupts and being interrupted

2002-03-14 Thread Bill Davidson
Have a look at /etc/modules.conf. I think that's where you set that stuff. Here is an example of the entries for my sound card. alias sound opl3sa2 alias midi opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options opl3sa2 io=0x370 mss_io=0x530 irq=5 dma=0 dma2=1 mpu_io=0x330 HTH, Bill On Thursday 14 March 2002

Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish

2002-03-14 Thread Brian Parish
Civileme, Hmmm. I can see that bdflush is running on my system, but bdflush is not found either as root or as a normal user. locate can't track it down either. Software Manager says it's installed, but all I find is the man pages. Looking at these, the command is certainly documented as you

Re: [newbie] need to re-install OS

2002-03-14 Thread Brian Parish
Dave, yes, that's easy - just don't let the installer format /home or /usr during the install. Choose expert mode and you'll get the option to leave these as is. Note however that it's possible that this approach will create some inconsistencies you may need to work around. e.g. If you have

Re: [newbie] Installing a program via a shell script

2002-03-14 Thread Nick
I posted the correction a few minutes after I sent the first one. I was still half asleep when I posed it. Thanks for correction anyhow, I would not want to steer anyone wrong. On Thursday 14 March 2002 21:33, you wrote: That would be ./faxview-2.0b not /.faxview-2.0b Miark On Thu, 14

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-14 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 07:21 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: you guys are making me sick with your temperatures!!! Why wasn't I born in a warm environment!? Damnit I'm lucky if i'll see -10C today! Femme Femme: Simple fix: Move. -- cmg (who cut his grass today -- it'll be too hot tomorrow 80F)

Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish

2002-03-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Brian Parish wrote: Civileme, Hmmm.  I can see that bdflush is running on my system, but bdflush is not found either as root or as a normal user.  locate can't track it down either.  Software Manager says it's installed, but all I find is the man pages.  Looking at these, the command is

Re: [newbie] Can't login to SunOS from Mandrake via telnet

2002-03-14 Thread Kevin Old
Thanks for your reply, but I am still not able to get this working. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Kevin - Original Message - From: Gerald Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't login to SunOS from Mandrake via

[newbie] Sound Card Troubleshooting

2002-03-14 Thread chingasman
I have an aureal vortex 2 sound card. I properly read the readme and had it working on a prior installation. However, now it won't "compile" (correct me if i am wrong) when I run a "make install" command as indicated. If I were to layout a troubleshooting procedure what if any tools are

Re: [newbie] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations,working setups, problems...

2002-03-14 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Thursday 14 March 2002 18:05, FemmeFatale wrote: If I may add my 2 cdn cents (worth bout .5 cent on the open market), Hauppage tv cards AFAIK right now are not a very good buy. At least this is what I've read. Only because they seem to have issues with certain types of installations.

[newbie] NVIDIA cursor shadow

2002-03-14 Thread Carlos Arigós
I just have installed NVIDIA 2802 driver (kernel 2.4.18-5 and Gforce2 MX), and trying to enable the cursor shadow in XF86Config-4 with the following options, I only get the standard mouse pointer. What is going wrong here, and what 'boolean' mean? Thks. Carlos

Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish

2002-03-14 Thread civileme
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Brian Parish wrote: Civileme, Hmmm. I can see that bdflush is running on my system, but bdflush is not found either as root or as a normal user. locate can't track it down either. Software Manager says it's installed, but all I find is the man pages. Looking at these,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake security notices

2002-03-14 Thread Jeff
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com The notice comes out when the update is available... Usually at the same time as it is set for reading by the mirrors, so

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-14 Thread Michael
I wonder if they would stop requesting e-mail receipts if everyone on the list clicked yes - send the damn receipt. I must admit though you do get frustrated when you send an email or two to the same person and they don't reply for weeks. Michael Napier New Zealand Starting Autumn FemmeFatale

Re: [newbie] Email Service

2002-03-14 Thread Michael
SMTP is the default setup in Mandrake for mail service. Although postfix and fetchmail will talk to ISP POP3 accounts, I have never seen anyone talking on the list about setting up a POP3 server. Do you specifically need POP3? Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 02:17:39 -0800 (PST)

Re: [newbie] Interrupts and being interrupted

2002-03-14 Thread Brian Parish
Thanks Bill, I checked under W$ and it's running the card at irq 5, so I added the line: options snd-card-ice1712 irq=5 to modules.conf. modprobe fails after that with: /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/misc/snd-card-ice1712.o: invalid parameter parm_irq I think maybe I'll have to re-install the

Re: [newbie] need to re-install OS

2002-03-14 Thread David
Brian, Well, I already did the re-install lastnight. I went ahead and formatted / and /usr, and just redid the whole deal. Thats always the best wasy to do it anyway. But since you mentioned fixing the problems.. The problems I had were: 1- could not su 2- could not run program as

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Troubleshooting

2002-03-14 Thread damian
El jue, 14-03-2002 a las 22:29, chingasman escribió: I have an aureal vortex 2 sound card. I properly read the readme and had it working on a prior installation. However, now it won't compile (correct me if i am wrong) when I run a make install command as indicated. If I were to layout a

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA cursor shadow

2002-03-14 Thread damian
El jue, 14-03-2002 a las 23:01, Carlos Arigós escribió: I just have installed NVIDIA 2802 driver (kernel 2.4.18-5 and Gforce2 MX), and trying to enable the cursor shadow in XF86Config-4 with the following options, I only get the standard mouse pointer. What is going wrong

[newbie] translucent shell window

2002-03-14 Thread Mithrilhall2000
I was wondering how I could get the shell window to appear translucent. Thanks in advance, Mithrilhall * * Mithrilhall's Linux* * Server * * AMD-K2 350MHz* * http://mithrilhall.redirectme.net *

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-14 Thread FemmeFatale
I wish... *sigh* Maybe in the future I will move to a warmer clime. With luck, Australia? :) Femme Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 12 March 2002 07:21 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: you guys are making me sick with your temperatures!!! Why wasn't I born in a warm environment!? Damnit I'm

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA cursor shadow

2002-03-14 Thread s
On Thursday 14 March 2002 08:01 pm, you wrote: I just have installed NVIDIA 2802 driver (kernel 2.4.18-5 and Gforce2 MX), and trying to enable the cursor shadow in XF86Config-4 with the following options, I only get the standard mouse pointer. What is going wrong here, and what

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-14 Thread Pascal
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Pascal, try "KreateCD". Way easier. If it isn't on your distro, try : http://www.kreatecd.de/download.php They have a "ready-to-go" RPM for Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1. I suppose it's on the cooker as well. Thanks! I'll try it this week-end. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or

Re[2]: [newbie] xfice

2002-03-14 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hello civileme, Friday, March 15, 2002, 8:56:19 AM, you wrote: c Colin Jenkins wrote: It looks like I have really stuffed something up here. (lm8.1) I followed some instructions I came across for booting up with Xfice (I was using kde). everything appeared to work ok, but when I next

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Troubleshooting

2002-03-14 Thread Miark
If you've tried as root and it doesn't work, look for a configure.log (or something like that) in the installation directory. If it's there, it'll probably identify exactly what went wrong. Miark On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:29:44 -0800, chingasman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: I have an aureal

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-14 Thread Pena Family
Amen, to that. It seems like I get more of those receipts than I get spam on losing weight or gaining weight. - Original Message - From: Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-14 Thread Pena Family
Been to Virginia once before. Fell in love with the state. Plan to move there someday, probably retire there. - Original Message - From: Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 2:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

[newbie] 8.2 Release date

2002-03-14 Thread Aryan Ameri
Does Anyone know when will Mandrake Linux 8.2 Gold be officially released? I am very eager to purchase it.

Re: [newbie] translucent shell window

2002-03-14 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 15 March 2002 09:24, Mithrilhall2000 wrote: I was wondering how I could get the shell window to appear translucent. Depends on your console. If you're running Konsole (the default in KDE) it's Settings - Schema, then take your pick of the various transparent styles. Robin --