[newbie] Start-up Screen Failed Messages

2002-07-25 Thread Tony Finnis
Hi All - I recently upgraded from Mandrake 8.0 to 8.2 - no problems. However, on booting the graphical screen always showed . . Mounting local filesystems FAILED Entering non-interactive startup Mounting other filesystemsFAILED This did not seem to cause any problems, however I

Re: [newbie] Continuing problems installing New Vid Card

2002-07-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 25 Jul 2002 12:11 am, Metamorphysical wrote: Here is the log file you requested. I have looked at your /var/log/XFree86.0.log file The log file shows you last tried to load X at Wed Jul 24 18:31:33 2002 Correct? The file looks pretty normal. It finds your keyboard (It has a

Re: [newbie] Continuing problems installing New Vid Card

2002-07-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 25 Jul 2002 12:11 am, Metamorphysical wrote: Here is the log file you requested. Just noticed another warning message in your log file (--) NVIDIA(0): Detected TV Encoder: Philips 7108 (WW) NVIDIA(0): Multiple displays connected, but only one display allowed; (WW) NVIDIA(0):

[newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes

2002-07-25 Thread John Richard Smith
OK, so I now have a screen resolution that compares with the windblows screen resolution using geforce3 video card. Much improved it is too. But none of my video display programmes will load. Starting with MPlayer, this is a typical load sequence failure:-

Re: [newbie] IDE PCI controller card

2002-07-25 Thread civileme
Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 24 July 2002 10:13 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, was wondering if anyone has had success with an addon pci Controller card. I want to add a CDROM drive to my set up but have no IDE connections available. I would like to add a card but can not find anything in

[newbie] NO DESKTOP ICONS IN GNOME

2002-07-25 Thread g2
hi, Help! how come my gnome starts without the DESKTOP ICONS? Also right clicking and Left clicking on the desktop does nothing. Grrr!, my KDE 3.0.2 suddenly logs outs, now I have no desktop icons on my Gnome. i wonder what will happen next? any more desktops out there? -- g2 Intelligence,

Re: [newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes

2002-07-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday July 25 2002 04:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK, so I now have a screen resolution that compares with the windblows screen resolution using geforce3 video card. Seems like it doesn't like something,so I reran the tar ball install, just to see whether it would pickup on some

Re: [newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes

2002-07-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 25 Jul 2002 10:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK, so I now have a screen resolution that compares with the windblows screen resolution using geforce3 video card. Much improved it is too. But none of my video display programmes will load. Starting with MPlayer, this is a

Re: [newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes

2002-07-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 25 Jul 2002 10:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK, so I now have a screen resolution that compares with the windblows screen resolution using geforce3 video card. Much improved it is too. But none of my video display programmes will load. Starting with

Re: [newbie] Cd-rw Problem

2002-07-25 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey, I can't seem to get mt CD-RW to work. I've tried Gnome Toaster, X-CDRoast and GCombust. Nothing seems to work. The drive works fine under Windows 2000 and I can record without problem. When I try it using cdrecord from the command line I get the following: snip Starting to write

RE: [newbie] NO DESKTOP ICONS IN GNOME

2002-07-25 Thread Jonathan Shilling
I've had that problem before, see if you can start Nautilus manually. I know that worked for me. As for windows managers, I often prefer Enlightenment over a lot of the others, but it does not use desktop icons. Hope that helps. -Original Message- From: g2 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: [newbie] WD drives and Linux/UNIX

2002-07-25 Thread Jonathan Shilling
I find it interesting that I use WD drives, and have not had a problem. (Knock on wood.) -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 5:08 PM To: Jonathan Dlouhy Cc: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: Re: [newbie] WD drives and Linux/UNIX

Re: [newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes

2002-07-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 25 Jul 2002 2:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: [ws] sorry, this color depth is not enough. . .. . Well, near the beginning it says your X session is

RE: [newbie] WD drives and Linux/UNIX

2002-07-25 Thread Albert Charron
Samething for me... I use Linux on 2 computers equiped with WD Hard drive for a couple of years now... Albert Charron -Original Message- From: Jonathan Shilling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 10:03 AM To: '[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes

2002-07-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 25 July 2002 10:08 am, you wrote: Personally I prefer 16 bit since it works the video card and CPU less hard, and it really is quite difficult to tell the difference. and quite a few games prefer 16-bit and perform better at that depth. --

[Fwd: Re: [newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes]

2002-07-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:38:06 +0100 From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Derek

[newbie] On the fly Audio CD copy

2002-07-25 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi everyone, Is it possible to copy Audio CDs on the fly, without the intermediate wavs on disk? I know it would be dangerous because of possible problems while reading the Audio tracks, but anyways, could it be done? -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] ISOs (loop) in fstab possible?

2002-07-25 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi list, Is it possible to add ISOs as loop devices to fstab for easy mounting? Something like /dev/hda1/iso/mdk82/Mandrake82-cd1-inst.i586.iso /mnt/image1 iso9660 loop,users Didn't work for me, said the ISO is no directory. -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Start-up Screen Failed Messages

2002-07-25 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 July 2002 1:11 am, Tony Finnis did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Mounting local filesystems FAILED Entering non-interactive startup Mounting other filesystemsFAILED do you have a remote/USB/smartcard/zip file

Re: [newbie] Make ISO WAS: Command line burning

2002-07-25 Thread Miark
I've been using the following: dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/home/miark/image.iso IIRC, it copies all the files, but not the volume label etc. I'd be interested in knowing how to do this myself :-) Miark D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: I have been working a bit on a tutorial for this, but I

RE: [newbie] ISOs (loop) in fstab possible?

2002-07-25 Thread David Stevenson
Try; /export/iso/disk.iso /export/iso/disk iso9660 loop,unhide 0 0 and; /etc/modules.conf add the line, options loop max_loop=255 which will allow you more than 8 devices on loop. Re-load the module. I have all my CD's mounted accross the network, serving Linux and Windows.

Re: [newbie] What have I done? End of story?

2002-07-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 21 Jul 2002 11:37 am, you wrote: On Sunday 21 Jul 2002 1:59 am, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: By now I am fairly convinced that my slow system problems are caused by yet another ooops in changing from the windows network to the linux one. When I installed I gave my

RE: [newbie] Make ISO WAS: Command line burning

2002-07-25 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
man mkisofs I've used it several times to clone a CD. If you have a CD Drive, AND a CD-RW in the same box, you can get creative an run something like mkisofs /mnt/cdrom - | cdrecord -v dev=5,0 speed=8 - (purely an example. The syntax is probably not right). The two programs you want to use are

Re: [newbie] OT: MP3 Players Send Info Back to Gracenote?

2002-07-25 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 Jul 2002 8:06 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: The following quote came from a newsletter published by: IT INSIGHTS FROM META GROUP --- July 25, 2002 Published in association with ITworld.com http://www.itworld.com/newsletters The

Re: [newbie] OT: MP3 Players Send Info Back to Gracenote?

2002-07-25 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 Jul 2002 8:06 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: The following quote came from a newsletter published by: IT INSIGHTS FROM META GROUP --- July 25, 2002 Published in association with ITworld.com http://www.itworld.com/newsletters The

Re: [newbie] Cd-rw Problem

2002-07-25 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 23:50, civileme wrote: Chuck Stuettgen wrote: I can't seem to get mt CD-RW to work. I've tried Gnome Toaster, X-CDRoast and GCombust. Nothing seems to work. The drive works fine under Windows 2000 and I can record without problem. When I try it using cdrecord

Re: [newbie] beta

2002-07-25 Thread john m.drouhard
On Thursday 25 July 2002 09:28 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 24 July 2002 06:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I burned the beta iso sunday night as soon as it came out but being newbie.I was kind of wait to see if anyone is haveing much trouble.I,ve seen a couple of notes saying

[newbie] CDrecord adds 000 directories

2002-07-25 Thread Paul
Hello everyone, Since I upgraded cdrecord from the buggy one distributed with MDK8.2, I get very strange things when backupping directories: My cdrecord is: [paul@tbird paul]$ cdrecord --version Cdrecord 1.11a19 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) When I use it to write directories to a cd with this

[newbie] OT: MP3 Players Send Info Back to Gracenote?

2002-07-25 Thread Randy Kramer
The following quote came from a newsletter published by: IT INSIGHTS FROM META GROUP --- July 25, 2002 Published in association with ITworld.com http://www.itworld.com/newsletters The information on prerelease popularity of The Eminen Show CD, for instance, came from Berkeley, Calif.-based

Re: [newbie] ip forwarding(?) with iptables......

2002-07-25 Thread Miark
Ian, If you don't mind using a different firewall, you could use firestarter which, in addition to masquerading, etc. also handles port forwarding. I implemented this myself not last night. Very nice, and it's included on the Download Edition CDs. I'm not sure how to accomplish this with

[newbie] OT: JVM No longer available for XP

2002-07-25 Thread frankie
Hi guys, Sorry to be a pain, but I am trying to use the file manager for Webmin from an XP machine and it doesn't have the JAVA VM it offered to autodownload, but when I tried, I got a message that Microsoft no longer support JVM on XP anymore.. So they have done it, they started to drop

Re: [newbie] OT: JVM No longer available for XP

2002-07-25 Thread Miark
Frank, You can download Java for XP from Sun's site at the following page: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/download.html Miark frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Anyone know what I can do about it? does anyone have a copy of the XP JVM???(Java Virtual Machine.) Want to buy your Pack or

RE: [newbie] WD drives and Linux/UNIX

2002-07-25 Thread Tommy Eaton
Ditto... In fact, my Maxtor hard drive has been worse then WD. -Original Message- From: Jonathan Shilling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 10:03 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] WD drives and Linux/UNIX I find it interesting that I use WD drives,

Re: [newbie] WD drives and Linux/UNIX

2002-07-25 Thread et
this is for drives running udma 100 (mainly) and is not the older drives running at udma33 and slower. mainly newer and larger than 8 gigs On Thursday 25 July 2002 10:03 am, you wrote: Samething for me... I use Linux on 2 computers equiped with WD Hard drive for a couple of years now...

RE: [newbie] ip forwarding(?) with iptables......

2002-07-25 Thread frankie
do a search for a product called gShield... its a firewall that does it, but thats not why you should go there... they have a perl script there that generates port forward IPTABLES rules very handy,, the name of the people that host the tools is godot, google is your friend. you just dump

Re: [newbie] Newbie and Confused! :)

2002-07-25 Thread et
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 09:20 pm, you wrote: I have mandrake 8.2 and I am attempting to install KDE 3.0x and Update the Kernel NEVER update the Kernel. can some send me a message on ICQ # 19870108 and give me links and stuff i can look at that will help me I am trying to build a contact

Re: [newbie] Continuing problems installing New Vid Card

2002-07-25 Thread john m.drouhard
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 03:21 pm, Metamorphysical wrote: Have you tried at this point logging in as a user and typing startx? Yes I have. (It is possible your system is working, but you are simply not configured to go into X windows) Does your screen ever flash and then show

Re: [newbie] Start-up Screen Failed Messages

2002-07-25 Thread Tony Finnis
shane - On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:59, you wrote: On Thursday 25 July 2002 1:11 am, Tony Finnis did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Mounting local filesystems FAILED Entering non-interactive startup Mounting other filesystemsFAILED do you have a remote/USB/smartcard/zip

Re: [newbie] Newbie and Confused! :)

2002-07-25 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 July 2002 4:10 pm, et did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: On Wednesday 24 July 2002 09:20 pm, you wrote: I have mandrake 8.2 and I am attempting to install KDE 3.0x and Update the Kernel NEVER update the Kernel. what

Re: [newbie] OT: JVM No longer available for XP

2002-07-25 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 July 2002 3:12 pm, frankie did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: So they have done it, they started to drop support for JAVA in a hissy fit over the SUN JAVA lawsuit.. Anyone know what I can do about it? does anyone have a

[newbie] Re: [expert] OS's in space

2002-07-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 06:21 pm, you wrote: Kirk's mind raced as he quickly assessed his situation: the shields were down, the warp drive and impulse engines were dead, life support was failing fast, and the Enterprise was plummeting out of control toward the surface of Epsilon VI and, as

[newbie] init script

2002-07-25 Thread chuck
I have a shell script that I want to be run at boot time. How can I do this? TIA -Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] init script

2002-07-25 Thread et
On Thursday 25 July 2002 07:30 pm, you wrote: I have a shell script that I want to be run at boot time. How can I do this? TIA -Chuck if the question isin dos I would have put this batch file script in autoexec.bat to get it loaded each boot, is there something like that for linux? then

[newbie] /dev/dsp resource busy

2002-07-25 Thread john m. drouhard
I have sound working. (Sort of). All of the KDE sounds work ok. But xmms fails saying that /dev/dsp cannot be opened because the device or resource is busy. I have a K7S5A motherboard with a 1 GHz Duron. I am using my onboard sound. my /etc/modules.conf file looks like this, [user@localhost

Re: [newbie] OT: JVM No longer available for XP

2002-07-25 Thread Scott
If you MUST run Windows (like I HAVE to right now) you can open IE and go to http://java.sun.com and it will download the XP Plugin. I think it is about 6 or 9 megs. Once I finish this last thing I will be back on my Mandrake box :) Oh, I think the plugin will also install on Mozilla. At