Re: [newbie-it] estrarre testo da pdf

2002-11-23 Thread sandro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 01:06, sabato 23 novembre 2002, hai scritto: ciao a tutti, per visualizzare i file pdf uso kghostview o xpdf, ma non ho capito come estrarne il testo 8tipo copia e incolla in un'altra applicazione) come posso fare? un saluto pigi Credo

[newbie-it] Consigliatemi una distro

2002-11-23 Thread Junkie
Mi hanno appena dato/regalato un vecchio pc con processore K6 64Mb di ram (non conosco la frequenza del processore) 3Gb di HD e vorrei farlo resuscitare con linux. Chi mi sa consigliare una distro che giri bene sul suddetto pc senza essere impossibile da usare per chi ne sa abbastanza poco?

Re: [newbie-it] Consigliatemi una distro

2002-11-23 Thread jv
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 18:11, sabato 23 novembre 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] Consigliatemi una distro, Junkie ha scritto: Mi hanno appena dato/regalato un vecchio pc con processore K6 64Mb di ram (non conosco la frequenza del processore) 3Gb di HD e vorrei

[newbie-it] a proposito di java

2002-11-23 Thread fulvio
Anch'io ho da tempo problemi con java. In particolare sia konqueror che Mozilla tentando di aprire alcuni link, mi restituiscono il seguente messaggio: Unable to load JSSE SSL stream handler, https support not available *** FCChat(5.515) *** java.version :1.2.2 java.class.version :46.0

Re: [newbie-it] opzioni pdf

2002-11-23 Thread Giorgio Griffon
Alle 05:07, mercoledì 26 giugno 2002 (!!! forse dovresti regolare la data), hai scritto: ps2pdf dovrebbe essere uno script che richiama tra gli altri il ghostscript. probabilmente dovresti cercare info li'. man gs e varie doc sul ghostscript [...] E' vero! ps2pdf è uno script che fa partire

Re: [newbie] Quick chmod question

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
AndrewD wrote: I need to chmod a whole bunch of files (under a directory), rather than go thru them all one by one is there a quicker way to chmod them all Absolutely. Try this: man chmod If you do not understand the chmod manual, come back to this list and ask. -- Milos Prudek Want to

Re: [newbie] localhost?

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
yet). It's just that it gets confused when I try to access SWAT (http://localhost:901) or the CUPS configuration tool (http://localhost:631) and sends me to search.netscape.com. Try this: http://127.0.0.1:901 http://127.0.0.1:631 Does it work? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] localhost?

2002-11-23 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 19:28, Milos Prudek wrote: yet). It's just that it gets confused when I try to access SWAT (http://localhost:901) or the CUPS configuration tool (http://localhost:631) and sends me to search.netscape.com. Try this: http://127.0.0.1:901 http://127.0.0.1:631

[newbie] shutdown: difference between stopping and shutting down

2002-11-23 Thread Stormjumper
was suddenly curious about this. when shutting down the Mandrake, and suddenly realised not all messages were made equal. some were listed as stopping while others shutting down eg. Stopping crond: [ OK] Shutting down APM daemon: [ OK] are there any significance to why they

Re: [newbie] kjournald

2002-11-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 7:24 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Does anybody know what kjournald is or does? I am running Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 on two machines, with Gnome 1.4, and gtop lists several kjournald processes, always swapped out. On the 8.2 installation the count is currently 6, sometimes 7.

[newbie] VMware

2002-11-23 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Hello All, Has anyone successfully configure printing from the VMware Guest OS through to a cups printer on Mandrake? If so, how? Please? Regards Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] VMware

2002-11-23 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 22:45, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Hello All, Has anyone successfully configure printing from the VMware Guest OS through to a cups printer on Mandrake? If so, how? Please? Regards Trevor Ha! I've converted you! (grin) Use CUPS - it's easiest - via either

Re: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday November 22 2002 10:52 am, Franki wrote: I have no user in my fstab at all.. and I had to copy my CD's to the local hard drive to install stuff.. otherwise rpmdrake just asks for the same CD over and over, even when it has the right one.. If I used them more, i'd take out

[newbie] Sound with Quake 3

2002-11-23 Thread Brian Parish
Just installed the update for Q3 that makes it work again with Mdk 9.0, but sound seems to be a problem. If I have the aRts server running, Q3 stalls at sound initialization. If I stop the aRts server, then it runs, but of course without sound. XMMS plays nicely through the aRts server, so the

Re: [newbie] streaming on Mozilla

2002-11-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday November 22 2002 06:06 pm, villoing wrote: I download the cross over plugin and when I lounch sh install-crossover-plugin-1.1.3-demo.sh I get : command not foundlugin-1.1.3-demo.sh: line 12: : command not foundlugin-1.1.3-demo.sh: line 14: : command not foundlugin-1.1.3-demo.sh:

Re: [newbie] streaming on Mozilla

2002-11-23 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 07:49:54 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Were you root when you did 'sh install-cross..' ? You might as well have your Net connection up too, 'cause you're gonna need it to install the plugins. Also for whatever reason some .sh installers on some

RE: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-23 Thread Franki
normally I'd agree with you, except that the drive in question is a nearly new 48X... and I also have a brand new 50x that has the same problem.. but like I said, I upgraded to 2.4.20-0.2mdk kernel yesterday, and it all seems good now.. That would seem to indicate software wouldn't it??

Re: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
Supermount (and Mandrake) IMO, are falling victim to complaints based on the assumption it's the OS's fault, when surely, user, then IMHO this is unneccessary generalisation. My CDs work fine when mounted manually. They work terribly when using supermount. It was possible to copy one

Re: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 23 November 2002 08:58 am, Milos Prudek wrote: Supermount (and Mandrake) IMO, are falling victim to complaints based on the assumption it's the OS's fault, when surely, user, then IMHO this is unneccessary generalisation. My CDs work fine when mounted manually. They work

Re: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday November 23 2002 08:21 am, Franki wrote: normally I'd agree with you, except that the drive in question is a nearly new 48X... and I also have a brand new 50x that has the same problem.. but like I said, I upgraded to 2.4.20-0.2mdk kernel yesterday, and it all seems good now..

Re: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-23 Thread Technoslick
I think the debate over using supermount or not has no proper right or wrong answer, right now. To me, this is one of those Chevy vs. Ford arguments ('scuse the American reference..I can't think of an international one at the moment. :-) For every one of us that says it works wonderfully, there's

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

2002-11-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Joe Braddock wrote: In case it is the driver, have you tried downloading new ones from Lexmark's site? Also, I think the Z53 drivers are tied to GhostScript. Have you looked into a problem with that? I ask these questions, because I am printing from 9.0 to a Z53 flawlessly (text, color, and

Re: [newbie] localhost?

2002-11-23 Thread Carl J. Bauman
No. Got 2 different results, though. The first one popped up a message box that said the document was empty. The second one said that the connection was refused. I don't know if it's important but I'm using Netscape 7.0. When I use the localhost hostname for both of those ports, it pulls

Re: [newbie] improve linux's and mozilla's profile..

2002-11-23 Thread RichardA
Franki, Saturday 23 November 2002 05:12: I'd like to suggest to all of you that you set your linux browsers home pages up to google or yahoo or one of the others that monitor browser type ect and publish their findings.. since I use google a huge amout anyway they must be getting alot of

Re: [newbie] localhost?

2002-11-23 Thread Bill Spatz
On Saturday 23 November 2002 09:01, Carl J. Bauman wrote: No. Got 2 different results, though. The first one popped up a message box that said the document was empty. The second one said that the connection was refused. I don't know if it's important but I'm using Netscape 7.0. When I

Re: [newbie] localhost?

2002-11-23 Thread Technoslick
I set-up my /etc/hosts file like this, for each client or server: 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomainlocalhost 192.168.1.10 computer_name where, '192.168.1.10' represents the static address of the computer this is on, and 'computer_name' is the host name you gave to this

Re: [newbie] localhost?

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
Carl J. Bauman wrote: No. Got 2 different results, though. The first one popped up a message box that said the document was empty. The second one said that the connection was refused. The second one means that there is no daemon (no program) running on that port (port 631). The first

[newbie] Ports to keep open for samba?

2002-11-23 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I'd like to let other computers running windows to print through my samba shared printer, and I'm using MDK9's firewall (shorewall)... should I let any specific port open for them to be able to do so?? 8-? TIA - -- Joan Tur.

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

2002-11-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Joe Braddock wrote: ---Original Message--- From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/22/02 04:45 PM To: Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53 I guess so. I've been conducting a little experiment, this is

Re: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 3:27 pm, Technoslick wrote: No doubt, Mandrake will find a way to make it work some day. It needed to be done yesterday, but since it hasn't, mulling over its value is just a an exercise in futility unless someone can come up with a way to make it work for everyone. The

RE: [newbie] ATI support

2002-11-23 Thread Ralph M. Los
Has anyone on the list tried using the Radeon All-in-Wonder 7500R? The fact that I don't see support for it is the ONLY thing keeping me in WinXP right now. I would absolutely LOVE to see a Radeon AiW 7500r card supported!!! Remote, tv-input, dvd play, and all. Feedback is requested.

Re: [newbie] streaming on Mozilla

2002-11-23 Thread villoing
for now, I've installer crossover and them few plugins, but these plugins appears in Mozilla but with this message : Unable to load the windows plugin library. Could somebody help me ? Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 07:49:54 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Were

RE: [newbie] ATI support

2002-11-23 Thread Anthony Abby
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 12:49, Ralph M. Los wrote: Has anyone on the list tried using the Radeon All-in-Wonder 7500R? The fact that I don't see support for it is the ONLY thing keeping me in WinXP right now. I would absolutely LOVE to see a Radeon AiW 7500r card supported!!! Remote, tv-input,

[newbie] Faxing

2002-11-23 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I would love to be able to fax from Linux on my desktop. I have LM 9. I am connected to the net with cable and I know that I would have to hook up the phone line with the modem in order to fax. The modem I have is supposedly supported by Linux or at least is a linmodem. How would I

Re: [newbie] Sound with Quake 3

2002-11-23 Thread FemmeFatale
At 12:45 AM 11/24/2002 +1100, you wrote: Just installed the update for Q3 that makes it work again with Mdk 9.0, but sound seems to be a problem. If I have the aRts server running, Q3 stalls at sound initialization. If I stop the aRts server, then it runs, but of course without sound. XMMS

Re: [newbie] Ports to keep open for samba?

2002-11-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 6:27 pm, Joan Tur wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I'd like to let other computers running windows to print through my samba shared printer, and I'm using MDK9's firewall (shorewall)... should I let any specific port open for them to be

[newbie] rpm dependencies

2002-11-23 Thread Les Henderson
I'm trying to install an rpm of mutella 0.4.1, but I'm getting dependency errors. I get the error that mutella needs libreadline.so.4. I checked and I do have readline installed and libreadline.so.4 is present. Could you help me figure out why I'm getting dependency errors? Les Henderson

[newbie] Does MDK have a kernel with PARIDE support?

2002-11-23 Thread Michael
My wife just installed MDK 9.0 and evrything appears to be working fine except for her Bantam Backpack CD_RW. I downloaded the backpack module from Micro-solutions and tried to run ./install-backpack and got a message that the kernel does not support PARIDE. I need to know if Mandrake has a

Re: [newbie] Does MDK have a kernel with PARIDE support?

2002-11-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 7:37 pm, Michael wrote: My wife just installed MDK 9.0 and evrything appears to be working fine except for her Bantam Backpack CD_RW. I downloaded the backpack module from Micro-solutions and tried to run ./install-backpack and got a message that the kernel does not

Re: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-23 Thread Tru64 User
Yes, lsof and fuser Richard --- Milos Prudek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember, we're dealing with Unix here, essentially, and Unix increments a reference count on a file or directory whenever it is accessed. Whenever Is there a utility that would display processes which keep a

Re: [newbie] Does MDK have a kernel with PARIDE support?

2002-11-23 Thread Michael
On Saturday 23 November 2002 01:08 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Mandrake has paride compiled as a module. It is located here /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/block/paride You just need to modprobe paride derek I found the paride module from your last email and per microsolutions

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

2002-11-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 23 November 2002 11:23 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Joe Braddock wrote: ---Original Message--- From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/22/02 04:45 PM To: Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 22 November 2002 10:58 pm, you wrote: Ron, Did'nt you encounter problems with supermount and installation of games under Transgaming WineX? And do these problems happen with your son's machine? --LX Hi Lyvim! Sure did. I had to disable supermount under 8.2 just to get my

Re: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 23 November 2002 10:16 am, you wrote: No, even brand new CDrom drives have problems. I'll restate the bit about CD-RW's having 'better' lasers (and spindles). As to 48x and 50x, I've found the the faster drives tend to have more problems. Civileme stated much the same in a

[newbie] modem question

2002-11-23 Thread Richard J A
Hi, First off, I have absolutely no idea what I am doing. I installed Mandrake 9.0, and it installed everything alright except I have no idea how to get my modem to work. So until then, I am back on this awful Microcrap XP. I would appreciate any help anyone could give me, and in as easy

RE: [newbie] ATI support

2002-11-23 Thread Aaron Magee
I am currently using the newly released ATI drivers on my AIW 8500DV. No features beyond 2D/3D are supported as far as I know. They also seem to be slower than the last set and the DRI drivers, but they handle playing videos better. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Faxing

2002-11-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 5:35 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear All, I would love to be able to fax from Linux on my desktop. I have LM 9. I am connected to the net with cable and I know that I would have to hook up the phone line with the modem in order to fax. The modem I have is supposedly supported

[newbie] Connecting Modem -Conexant HCF PCI

2002-11-23 Thread clp
Greetings All, I am a complete newbie to Linux having just had Mandrake 8 installed, and still learning the most fundamental details. When installing the program the person helping could not find a Linux driver compatible with my Conexant HCF PCI modem. Is there one which I can down load and

Re: [newbie] modem question

2002-11-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 23 November 2002 04:12 pm, Richard J A wrote: Hi, First off, I have absolutely no idea what I am doing. I installed Mandrake 9.0, and it installed everything alright except I have no idea how to get my modem to work. So until then, I am back on this awful Microcrap XP. I would

[newbie] pcmcia modems w/Mandrake 9.0

2002-11-23 Thread Jim Snyder
Hi My Toshiba 1805-s204 has what is called a software modem in it. This is what is described in the hardware list in XP. I am assuming this is a winmodem which is why has not been responding in Mandrake 9.0. Therefore, I am considering a pcmcia modem in order to use Mandrake on this notebook.

Re: [newbie] modem question

2002-11-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard J A wrote: Hi, First off, I have absolutely no idea what I am doing. I installed Mandrake 9.0, and it installed everything alright except I have no idea how to get my modem to work. So until then, I am back on this awful Microcrap XP. I would appreciate any help anyone could give

Re: [newbie] modem question

2002-11-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 10:12 pm, Richard J A wrote: Hi, First off, I have absolutely no idea what I am doing. I installed Mandrake 9.0, and it installed everything alright except I have no idea how to get my modem to work. So until then, I am back on this awful Microcrap XP. I would

Re: [newbie] modem question

2002-11-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 23 November 2002 05:42 pm, Richard J A wrote: From what I can gather it is winmodem and I have found the file thingy that I need at http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/hsf/downloads-mdk-x86.html but I can't understand how to instal that. - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers

[newbie] M9 Openoffice and Perl

2002-11-23 Thread PBone
Today on my standard M9 install for no good reason I can think openoffice suddenly stopped working with this error (it had been working OK for about a month) no element found at line 1, column 0, byte 0 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm line 185 This

Re: [newbie] modem question

2002-11-23 Thread Richard J.
Denis, I just tried that. Left clicked on it, and got a box pop up with the list of known applications in it asking me what I want to you to open the file? _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE*

Re: [newbie] Sound with Quake 3

2002-11-23 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 05:38, FemmeFatale wrote: At 12:45 AM 11/24/2002 +1100, you wrote: Just installed the update for Q3 that makes it work again with Mdk 9.0, but sound seems to be a problem. If I have the aRts server running, Q3 stalls at sound initialization. If I stop the aRts server,

Re: [newbie] Faxing

2002-11-23 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 09:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 5:35 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear All, I would love to be able to fax from Linux on my desktop. I have LM 9. I am connected to the net with cable and I know that I would have to hook up the phone line with the modem in

Re: [newbie] Connecting Modem -Conexant HCF PCI

2002-11-23 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 10:50:43 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Connecting Modem -Conexant HCF PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings All, I am a complete newbie to Linux having just had Mandrake 8 installed,

Re: [newbie] modem question

2002-11-23 Thread james Mellema
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 07:52, Dennis Myers wrote: snip from someone with experience with those things, which I do not. So, a little help from the list is needed here. Jump right in and call the ball. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Dennis, Roger ball? Sorry, I can't help with the

Re: [newbie] shutdown: difference between stopping and shuttingdown

2002-11-23 Thread Brian Parish
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 20:29, Stormjumper wrote: was suddenly curious about this. when shutting down the Mandrake, and suddenly realised not all messages were made equal. some were listed as stopping while others shutting down eg. Stopping crond: [ OK] Shutting down APM

Re: [newbie] Sound with Quake 3

2002-11-23 Thread FemmeFatale
At 02:21 PM 11/24/2002 +1100, you wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 05:38, FemmeFatale wrote: At 12:45 AM 11/24/2002 +1100, you wrote: Just installed the update for Q3 that makes it work again with Mdk 9.0, but sound seems to be a problem. If I have the aRts server running, Q3 stalls at sound

Re: [newbie] Problem installing a program

2002-11-23 Thread Erik Farnsworth
Any other listmates following this thread? (FYI--mdk9.0 on a i686) I, too, have had problems with Konsole after upgrading to the full Qt (Qt3, in my case). I don't use kmail, so that one isn't an issue for me. (It is a hassle shutting down and restarting artsd after booting to have system

Re: [newbie] kjournald

2002-11-23 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 11:30:02 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 7:24 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Does anybody know what kjournald is or does? I am running Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 on two machines, with Gnome 1.4, and gtop lists several kjournald processes,

Virtual Printrer? it was = Re: [newbie] PPPoE and FAX

2002-11-23 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Em Sex 22 Nov 2002 07:43, Anne Wilson escreveu: I have no ideia on how to create a virtual printer How can I do that? ()s Ricardo On Friday 22 Nov 2002 3:31 am, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: There should be a virtual printer called Print to Fax on your printer list.

[newbie] XFree 4 with LM9, corruption

2002-11-23 Thread _nasturtium
Hello, I'm running a fresh install of Mandrake9, with XFree4 and an S3 Trio 64+. When I boot up, my X session looks OK, but if i switch console (ctrl+alt+2), then switch back only a small box in the bottom right is shown. Has anyone had this problem (and hopefully posted a

Re: [newbie] Faxing

2002-11-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 24 Nov 2002 3:38 am, Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 09:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 5:35 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear All, I would love to be able to fax from Linux on my desktop. I have LM 9. I am connected to the net with cable and I know that I

Re: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 11:04 pm, Technoslick wrote: I believe the same. Therefore, after having said what I did in my earlier post, I still would like to see us all look for fixes. There's so much talent coming here that I find it hard to believe we can't systematically find some direction in