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Alle 23:43, domenica 22 settembre 2002, hai scritto:
Ho installato Linux mandrake 8.2 con Kernel 2.4.18-6 e KDE 2.2.2 ed
utilizzo Konqueror come navigatore.
Mi รจ capitato di recente durante alcune navigazioni (www.disney.it per
fare un esempio)
Serge wrote:
On Monday 23 September 2002 00:17, John Richard Smith wrote:
For reasons I need not go into, I transfer *.JPG files across from
Windblows to Mandrake and work on them in gimp,and
when I'm finished I have a montage of prints I wish to assemble
as a composite.
I've hit a snag.
At 12:12 AM 9/23/2002 +, you wrote:
George Baker wrote:
Hi - I've just upgraded from a 486 to a P166 with a S3 Virge DX/GX PCI
graphics card with 2MB memory. Installed MDK 7.0 today but can't get X
desktop to display properly. There is a jagged box under the curser and
lines running through
Anuerin G. Diaz wrote:
hi john,
sorry for replying direct but i cant post to the list. ;-)
here is one post from the local LUG here in the Philippines which
seems to be what you want...
[quote]
Because FAT is not case sensitive and most, if not all, UNIX filesystems
are. A short script I
A while back I was posting asking for some help with an SNF Install 2
NICs I had in the box.
It seemed one of them, a DLink, had a light on it like all NICs but the
light wouldn't go on at boot time. That seemed strange. So I thought it
was a dead card. Almost threw out a decent card!
It works fine on my 8.2, try using `ls` instead of * (Use the single
quote from the key next to the one).
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From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:16 AM
To: Anuerin G. Diaz; NEWBIE 1
Subject: Re: [newbie] File conversion
or you can just tar it,
winzip can open both tar, and tar.gz files just fine.
rgds
frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek Jennings
Sent: Monday, 23 September 2002 4:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Tar or zip?
I've got two possible solutions. The first is a Perl script I found somewhere
(attached) which is designed to change the case of filenames. The second is the
'rename' command, which is part of the util-linux Mandrake package (type 'man
rename' for details).
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 08:52:44 +0100,
On Monday 23 Sep 2002 2:20 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
I would like to get opinion about the relative qualities of galeon 1.0.3
and opera 6 regarding speed etc.
They are both great browsers. Galeon is generally considered to be faster
than Mozilla, but IMO Opera is faster even than Galeon, and
rename is also a supported method in perl as well... so
instead of using system() in perl scripts, you can just use rename.
rgds
Frank
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan
Sent: Monday, 23 September 2002 4:12 PM
To:
Anuerin G. Diaz wrote:
sorry, i copied it without checking first. here is the script that
works..
#-START
#!/bin/bash
for i in *
do
mv $i `echo $i | tr A-Z a-z`
done
echo finished translating
#--END
or the one-liner
$ for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | tr
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
I've got two possible solutions. The first is a Perl script I found somewhere
(attached) which is designed to change the case of filenames. The second is the
'rename' command, which is part of the util-linux Mandrake package (type 'man
rename' for details)
OK I think I
Hi There,
I bought a Compaq laptop recently and I plan to
install Mandrake on it. Is there anyone has experience about installing Mandrake
with a pre-installed Windows XP system? Any suggestion will be greatly
appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Wishes,
QingHua.
On Sunday 22 September 2002 09:28 pm, you wrote:
S3 Virge can be a nightmare on Windows systems. The company that
produced them is out of business. There are still drivers archived,
although choosing the correct one must be done carefully. You probably
will be o.k. updating for Win98 or
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith:
For reasons I need not go into, I transfer *.JPG files across from
Windblows to Mandrake and work on them in gimp,and
when I'm finished I have a montage of prints I wish to assemble
as a composite.
I've hit a snag.
Winblows names
On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 11:12 pm, you wrote:
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 19:23:52 +0100, Anne Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 4:30 pm, you wrote:
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:12:47 +0100, Anne Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From time to time I have had problems with an OO
Todd Slater wrote:
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith:
For reasons I need not go into, I transfer *.JPG files across from
Windblows to Mandrake and work on them in gimp,and
when I'm finished I have a montage of prints I wish to assemble
as a composite.
I've hit a snag.
Winblows
On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 10:30 pm, you wrote:
On Monday 23 Sep 2002 7:08 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
Having looked through the update disk I can see a number of things that I
would like to update, hoping that it would fix problems, but the whole
thing looks really scarey.
I mean, if I break
On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 5:28 pm, you wrote:
Dear All,
Printing works fine on my LM8.2 with my HP 940c deskjet printer (USB)
except when I try to print from the net, email, or xpdf. It works in all
of the other applications I believe. Any help will be appreciated.
Can't answer this, but I can
On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 11:45 pm, you wrote:
Try GnoZip or LnxZip, both of which are WinZip like applications on your
installation disks.
Plenty of options, then :-) I'll try at least one of them in the next day or
two - I seem to be screamingly busy just now
Thanks to all who answered
Anne
Greetings,
I have a dumb question.how do I kill my X-session and get to a command prompt? I
am running runlevel 5 by default, and I'm logged in to X automatically.
I want to get out of X and to a text login so I can install a new kernel.
When I ctrlaltbackspace, I get my login box, and
Em Seg 23 Set 2002 09:52, Angus Auld escreveu:
Hi there!
As fas as I know... it's not necessary to log out X to compile a kernel!
Any how, just edit the /etc/inittab file and change the line:
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:
logout and you should be on prompt!
If you got **really**
I am currently trying-out the KNewsKicker. However, when I click on a
newsheadline nothing happens. I have explored the File Associations
module in the Control Center but have not discovered a solution. How
would one fix it so that URLs, when clicked, open in Opera?
More information can be
Thank you, Marcia, I bet this will be a help for some time to come.
On Sunday 22 September 2002 07:29 pm, you wrote:
et wrote:
On Sunday 22 September 2002 12:42 pm, you wrote:
Dear All,
I really do not know if there is a connection but since I got my scanner
working I cannot get Gimp to
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Subject: Re: [newbie] File conversion
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:34:53 +0100
From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
References: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Todd Slater wrote:
Your main problem is gonna be that Compaq laptop. What's the model
number? Any 700 series, check my Website in my signature.
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 06:26, qhwang wrote:
Hi There,
I bought a Compaq laptop recently and I plan to install Mandrake on it. Is there
anyone has experience about
I have a Sony CD-RW drive and a 'generic' DVD drive (I think it is a 'HI-VAL' or
something like that.) and both work great.
Most IDE CD/CDRW/DVD/etc drives are fully ATAPI compliant and should work find. The
CDRECORD web site maintains a list of drives that are known not to work with cd
Thank you. I will check your website. My model is Presario 2800. What's your
suggestion?
Regards,
QingHua.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
On Monday 23 September 2002 9:05 am, Angus Auld wrote:
Greetings...this newbie has just installed his first kernel!
YESSS! 8-)
Thanks to those who gave me help and encouragement. Thanks Charlie, et. al.
I am having fun on my 2.4.18.8.1, but the only 'prob' I seem to have
Hi,
I am trying to install Mandrake8.2 on my new
Athlon(XP1800+) box from the installation CDs
(downloaded from one of the mirrors).
The installer interface comes up and when i choose to
install, it fails and issue a kernel panic.
The following are the first few error msgs:
vesafb:frame
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 5:28 pm, you wrote:
Dear All,
Printing works fine on my LM8.2 with my HP 940c deskjet printer (USB)
except when I try to print from the net, email, or xpdf. It works in all
of the other applications I believe. Any help will be appreciated.
Can't answer
Mr. Brinkman,
Thank you for your suggestion. For whatever reason, the icon is no
longer appearing ... and I haven't even had a chance to try your
solution. I will file it for future reference.
I had been doing a lot of mucking about to get my harddrive, floppy,
zip,and cdrom icons to appear
do you have shared video memory with an onboard video card? if so you will
need to hit f1 instead of enter when first prompted to hit enter to
install or upgrade. you will then need to tell the installer how much memory
it can use without effecting the video memory, like this (without the
I now have my new kernel...and sources too! Thanks everyone.
I used urpmi, instead of rpm, to do the install. Worked like a charm. Thanks Tom!
Us newbies need lots of help and advice.this is a great place to get it! I would
be stumped big time if it weren't for these forums.
Oh,
On Monday September 23 2002 11:30 am, Charles A Edwards wrote:
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 08:55:48 -0500
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting, but it directly contradicts the statement made by
'Sean
Cleveland and Wayne Meritsky of AMD' (the kernel ML link I gave). I
can
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De: rhp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Asunto: monitor flickering problem
Fecha: lun., 23 sept 2002 15:21
hei people,
my monitor blinking all time.
I need to configure XWindows. I am running Mandrake, I don't
know how it is done.
I am using:
mandrake linux ppc
I had this same problem on two machines running dual Athlon MP's. Earlier
versions of Mandrake and other distros would lock up a lot. Some distros and
versions would not even install. One thing that I tried was swapping the
processors so that the voltage leveled out. I had read
I'm using Mandrake 9.0 RC2 and when I try to play TuxRacer, using an Nvidia
GeForce 2 card, the low frame rate makes the game nearly unplayable. I've
played the game before, about a year ago on a different machine and the frame
rate was great. I'm using a dual Atlon MP system with 512
Marcia and Anne:
I may have missed it, but I haven't seen info on how the printer was set
up originally? Did you set it up to use CUPS, Post Script or both in
LM8.2? When I see HP, I immediately think Post Script, but I'm not
that familiar with them in Linux...in Windows they can be a real
On Sunday 22 September 2002 10:51 pm, you wrote:
Hardware:
CPU = AMD Athlon 1GHz
MB = Soltek SL-75KAV
RAM = 1024 MB
VIDEO = GeForce2 64MB GTS Pro
SOUND = SB Live! 5.1
A few months back I was dual booting with RedHat 7.3 and could play Quake
III Arena no problem there but trying to play
On Monday September 23 2002 01:03 pm, Chris Edwards wrote:
Mr. Brinkman,
Friends here, call me Tom
Thank you for your suggestion. For whatever reason, the icon is no
longer appearing ... and I haven't even had a chance to try your
solution. I will file it for future reference.
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:58:17 -0500
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've seen you mention you have a Soyo Dragon +, an AMD apprv'd
board. What aggravates the AGP issue, any OS, is PSU's. Specially with
high performance AGP video cards from nVidia or ATI. Watt's,
advertised specs
Which video card did apple put in your iMac? My partner's iMac has an
Nvidia card, so at install, he used video=riva (or whatever it
lists)...the point is that he installed with riva drivers.
Erik
rhp.mac wrote:
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Asunto: monitor
I take it you have installed the nvidia linux drivers?
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I have a print job I want to kill, but not even a stake through it's
heart seems to work. I have tried:
* Killing it with the CUPS web admin tool (localhost:631). CUPS now says
there are no jobs pending, but the printer keeps printing.
* ps ax. There's nothing obvious to kill.
* lpq. It says lp
Install the correct drivers for my hardware?!?!?! Are you kidding?
Unfortunately, no I have not. I tried to install what I think was the correct
driver package from Nvidia but I wasn't able to get it to work so I reverted
back to the default, which works great for everything
Just an off the wall idea. The same thing happened to me when I
installed Mandarke 7.2 (I even got a new monitor from Dell before I
figured it out the problem;-) Do you have a fan or other electrical
device operating in close proximity to your monitor? If so, move it.
Just in case,
Michael
On Monday 23 September 2002 21:18, Gary Traffanstedt wrote:
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hgforce.html
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/index.html#nom
These 2 links may help, I am probably not the best person to ask as far as
Mandrake is concerned, as I am actually a
On Monday 23 September 2002 03:10 pm, Warren Post wrote:
I have a print job I want to kill, but not even a stake through
it's heart seems to work. I have tried:
What else can I try to kill off this monster?
delete the files in /var/spool/cups /var/spool/cups/tmp then
service cups restart.
I've been reading the documentation for mandrake 9.0 rc2 and came across this
little gem of a linkat http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html .
I thought I'd share it with everyone as I can state, definatele, I've been
guilty of these. Maybe I'm not the only one :^)
Still RTFM!
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 20:26, qhwang wrote:
Hi There,
I bought a Compaq laptop recently and I plan to install Mandrake on it. Is there
anyone has experience about installing Mandrake with a pre-installed Windows XP
system? Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
On Tuesday 24 Sep 2002 7:32 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
Hi Sharrea.
I had this same problem. I installed the full (Loki purchase) version of
Q3 and got the same sound error you did. I had to downloand a point
release from the ID Software web site. This fixed it. To see if it is a
problem with
Reboot the computer and the printer. (?)
If that doesn't work, call up a priest
and ask him to bring holy water... ;-)
Miark
Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith:
I have a print job I want to kill, but not even a stake through it's
heart seems to work. I have tried:
* Killing it with
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 22:00, iggy wrote:
I've been reading the documentation for mandrake 9.0 rc2 and came across this
little gem of a linkat http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html .
I thought I'd share it with everyone as I can state, definatele, I've been
guilty of these.
On Monday 23 September 2002 03:18 pm, Gary Traffanstedt wrote:
Install the correct drivers for my hardware?!?!?! Are you kidding?
Unfortunately, no I have not. I tried to install what I think was the
correct driver package from Nvidia but I wasn't able to get it to work so I
reverted
On Monday 23 September 2002 05:40 pm, Alastair Scott wrote:
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 22:00, iggy wrote:
I've been reading the documentation for mandrake 9.0 rc2 and came across
this little gem of a linkat
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html . I thought I'd
share it with
Erik,
Which video card did apple put in your iMac? My partner's iMac has an
Nvidia card, so at install, he used video=riva (or whatever it
lists)...the point is that he installed with riva drivers.
Which video card did apple put in your iMac?
My partner's iMac has an Grapuic card: ATI
On Monday September 23 2002 02:46 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote:
I 'choose the GeForce3 for my high end system and I 'choose' to use
the nvidia drivers.
That is part of what linux is about--the ability to have choice.
Charles
Correct, Linux is about choices, altho the nVidia driver is
You can get the .src.rpm files from NVidia, get the NVIDIA-GLX and
NVIDIAkernel source rpms. I think they are still the 1.0-2960.src.rpm
files. Down load them to a directory in home named as you like it. Then
from a console su and give root password, at the prompt do rpm --rebuild
NVIDIA*
Also, what video card is being used? What happens when you attempt an
install in text mode? It would seem that if the problem continues across
multiple distros, then hardware would be the first place I would start
looking. Try a different video card. Also, you may want to look into the
The 2800 uses an Intel chipset, so my Website won't apply, except the
part about ACPI - that will still be necessary. Check
http://www.linux-laptop.net. There may be something on the 2800 there.
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 12:37, qhwang wrote:
Thank you. I will check your website. My model is
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27232.html
One of these days when I Can completely stop using windows I will enjoy it
very much.
OTOH, this affects Linux too apparently so... what to do ?
*sigh* I need an OS that won't fuck me over ... and ditto for
manufacturers politicians.
Hi guys,
I am thinking of getting a Dell Inspiron 8200...
It has a P4 CPU and Geoforce4 mobility vid card..
Am I likely to have problems getting that setup to run linux
any tips would be great.
rgds
Frank
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
hi..!
does anybody happen to get this, too?
whenever i use a - character between two words, OO replaces
it with a question mark. for example,
hello - world
gets replaced by
hello ? world
... does anybody happen to know how to stop this?
i've already tried disabling nearly every
The reason for the mem=nopentium in the lilo is that when the kernal was developed
there are memory commands/coding that refer to pentium only commands. If you are
running a Athlon/duron which do not have these commands they cause flaky/erratic
behaviour.
Roly
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 09:37:15
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:38:51 -0300
Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi..!
does anybody happen to get this, too?
whenever i use a - character between two words, OO replaces
it with a question mark. for example,
hello - world
gets replaced by
hello ? world
never mind
On Monday 23 September 2002 05:01 pm, Gary Traffanstedt wrote:
You can get the .src.rpm files from NVidia, get the NVIDIA-GLX and
NVIDIAkernel source rpms. I think they are still the 1.0-2960.src.rpm
files. Down load them to a directory in home named as you like it. Then
from a console su
Em Seg 23 Set 2002 17:18, Gary Traffanstedt escreveu:
Hi!
If you follow the link below instructions you'll be a happy tux racing
player (with gf2!)
What are the proper steps to take to install the linux drivers
provided by Nvidia? I have a GeForce 2 and Mandrake 9.0 RC2.
Thank you!
- Original Message -
From: Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 Sep 2002 09:03:27 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] galeon and opera
galeon rules. anyone who says otherwise is itchin' for a fight.
=]
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 20:20, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
I
If the printer has a very large memory buffer inside
it (40+ pages), killing the print job at the computer
will not stop the printer from finishing printing what
is in it's memory buffer already.
--- Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Reboot the computer and the printer. (?)
If that doesn't work,
On Monday 23 Sep 2002 1:52 pm, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Monday 23 Sep 2002 2:20 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
I would like to get opinion about the relative qualities of galeon 1.0.3
and opera 6 regarding speed etc.
They are both great browsers. Galeon is generally considered to be faster
than
On Monday 23 September 2002 09:17 pm, you wrote:
If the printer has a very large memory buffer inside
it (40+ pages), killing the print job at the computer
will not stop the printer from finishing printing what
is in it's memory buffer already.
maybe unplugging the AC power from the printer.
I can't get the Nvidia kernel driver to compile in MDK 9.0 RC2. Do I need to
do something special? It looks like this is where it has trouble:
+ make NVdriver
echo \#define NV_COMPILER \`cc -v 21 | tail -1`\ nv_compiler.h
cc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat
Greetings,
I was fooling around tonight and I realized that the Openoffice 1.0.1 that
installed with rc3 did not have a spell checker.
Looked on the Openoffice.org web page and found instructions to install a
spell checker.
Would I be correct if I guessed that when
you _print_ the page, it comes out correct?
Miark
Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith:
hi..!
does anybody happen to get this, too?
whenever i use a - character between two words, OO replaces
it with a question mark. for example,
Want
Well, after installing literally hundreds of megs of software on my system, I'm still
not getting anywhere trying to rebuild my fluxbox-0.1.12-1mdk.src.rpm.
I am getting more lines of text scrolling in my terminal, but the final output is
still the samerpm build errors.
I wonder if
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:35:50 -0400 mudder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
I was fooling around tonight and I realized that the Openoffice 1.0.1
that installed with rc3 did not have a spell checker.
Looked on the Openoffice.org web page and found instructions to
install a spell
I find Opera fastest for most pages. It also loads much faster and is less
memory intensive. On the other hand, Galeon (1.25) does a better job of
rendering certain pages that are Internet Exploder optimized...Java too,
especially forms (Mozilla 1.x does the best job here.) Lastly,
On Monday 23 September 2002 05:33 pm, you wrote:
Thanks Ron, much appreciated. I got the game running without sound using
your start command above. I checked out that website and I'm now
downloading the point release - hopefully that'll fix it.
No problem - thats what this list is for.
Hello,
A while ago some people suggested Broadcast 2000 to help create my home
videos (an alternative to school Powerpoint assignments!). I also downloaded
cinelerra off the heroinevirtual site (ignoring the fact i do not have
anything remotely close to dual athlon 1.6ghz).
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:43:56 -0600
Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would I be correct if I guessed that when
you _print_ the page, it comes out correct?
Miark
wouldn't know, miark, i never even tried.
however, i doubt it, i found only minutes later
that the spellchacker was, for some
Hi there!
I am using Mandrake Linux on my computer and I installed Netscape 7.0, but there is no
icon anywhere on menu and desktop. What is happening on my computer and how can I have
an icon for Netscape 7.0? I really would like to use Netscape 7.0 on my
computer..Plus I am using Gnome.
I recently upgraded to Mozilla 1.1 and Galeon 1.2.6 (which now supports Mozilla
1.1.x and 1.2.x). On my system, they are about as fast as Opera. Mozilla 1.2a is
supposed to be even faster, but I don't feel like using an alpha-release.
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:46:32 -0400, Paul Kaplan [EMAIL
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