Re: [newbie-it] postfix e alias

2002-11-26 Thread Lux
Maurizio Scaglione wrote: On Monday 25 November 2002 11:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve a tutti, Ho una casella email con tre alias presso un provider. Con postfix (e fetchmail) vorrei scaricare in locale questa casella. Il problema è: come faccio a dire a postfix di smistare la posta dei

Re: [newbie-it] scelta di avvio del sistema operativo

2002-11-26 Thread Ivano
Caricati con il tuo editor preferito il file /etc/lilo.conf. Finito di aggiungere la riga che ti interessa, salva, esci e lancia il comando lilo -v. Ciao Il lun, 2002-11-25 alle 11:22, Enrico Teotti ha scritto: Salve a tutti, ho installato la versione mandrake 8.1 sul mio PC su un harddisk

Re: [newbie-it] Help Wine

2002-11-26 Thread Andrea Celli
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:42:47 +0100 Luigi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leggere la documentazione sul sito da cui hai scaricato il pacchetto, è tanto difficile? :-) http://www.codeweavers.com/technology/wine/help.php#mandrake un po' difficile e', visto che di inglese capisco molto poco

Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi

2002-11-26 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 20:02, lunedì 25 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Alle 13:24, lunedì 25 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, per maggior comodità nelle fasi di masterizzazione, ho messo anche il lettore CD in emulazione scsi. Ho fatto le dovute modifiche a LiLo ed al

Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi

2002-11-26 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 15:11, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Ciao Emiliano, la modifica che suggerisci funziona in KsCD (con cui, infatti, riesco tranquillamente a sentire i CD audio). In XMMS, invece, per sentire un CD audio si punta su /mnt/cdrom come fosse una qualsiasi cartella

Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi

2002-11-26 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 19:40, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Alle 15:11, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Ciao Emiliano, la modifica che suggerisci funziona in KsCD (con cui, infatti, riesco tranquillamente a sentire i CD audio). In XMMS, invece, per sentire un CD

Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi

2002-11-26 Thread Emiliano La Licata
-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:40:24 +0100 From: Emiliano La Licata [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alle 15:11, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Ciao Emiliano, la modifica che

Re: [newbie-it] Consigliatemi una distro

2002-11-26 Thread Paride Desimone
At 18.11 23/11/02 +0100, you wrote: 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

Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi

2002-11-26 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 20:10, martedì 26 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Sì, certo. Ho modificato /etc/fstab, così ora /dev/scd0 viene montato in /mnt/cdrom e /dev/scd1 in /mnt/cdrom2... e infatti lettore e masterizzatore funzionano normalmente. Ma XMMS non suona... Non è nemmeno un problema di permessi (posso

[newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek

2002-11-26 Thread tom
Ola lista Qualcuno sa se il su detto modem adsl abbia una ben che minima speranza di funzionare con linux? Ho fatto una ricerca con santo Google ma non ho trovato nulla! é il modem che viene dato in dotazione con i nuova abbonamenti di tiscali. dimenticavo è ovviamente usb :) sperando in un

Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi

2002-11-26 Thread tom
Alle 20:10, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Alle 19:40, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Alle 15:11, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Ciao Emiliano, la modifica che suggerisci funziona in KsCD (con cui, infatti, riesco

Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi

2002-11-26 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 23:00, martedì 26 novembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: Alle 20:10, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Sì, certo. Ho modificato /etc/fstab, così ora /dev/scd0 viene montato in /mnt/cdrom e /dev/scd1 in /mnt/cdrom2... e infatti lettore e masterizzatore funzionano normalmente.

Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek

2002-11-26 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 23:43, martedì 26 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: Ola lista Qualcuno sa se il su detto modem adsl abbia una ben che minima speranza di funzionare con linux? Ho fatto una ricerca con santo Google ma non ho trovato nulla! é il modem che viene dato in dotazione con i nuova abbonamenti di

Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek

2002-11-26 Thread tom
Alle 00:14, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Alle 23:43, martedì 26 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: Ola lista Qualcuno sa se il su detto modem adsl abbia una ben che minima speranza di funzionare con linux? Ho fatto una ricerca con santo Google ma non ho trovato nulla!

Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek

2002-11-26 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 00:44, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: Certo! ecco ke mi hanno detto. --- -- Buon Giorno, attualmente la Nortek che è la casa produttrice del modem in

Re: [newbie] OT avi to mpeg?

2002-11-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:07:35PM -0800, Ibly Piblo wrote: Sorry if this is OT. Is there an avi to mpeg converter for linux that is easy? Already tried a few which were useless, mjpegtools proved to be trash, as it just spit out useless errors instead of actually converting the file.

[newbie] rsh not working...

2002-11-26 Thread Wim De Hul
Hi All! I have installed rsh on my Mandrake 9.0, but it isn't working: i get permission denied on the command rsh -l wim 192.168.240.60 My setup: both hosts have the same users (wim). My /etc/hosts.equiv contains wim + File permissions: -rw-r--r--1 root root6 Nov 26 13:36

Re: [newbie] oops .. forgot the attachment

2002-11-26 Thread Sasongko Pribadi Djoko
Dear Anne, Friends, Thanks for your mail regarding this. How can I check whether I did install the cdread ? Where did you get the cdread you mention below ? Thx, Ongkie From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] oops .. forgot

[newbie] Can't connect to Texstar

2002-11-26 Thread Keith Powell
I have been trying to enhance the Mandrake9 fonts using the Getting libqt3 compiled with Xft-2 instructions on Derek's site, but can't connect to the Texstar site to download the necessary packages. I get an error message with each package:- FTP user password incorrect. I have no problems

Re: [newbie] supermount

2002-11-26 Thread Technoslick
From: Anne Wilson No, but I wanted the convenience of being able to read from the dvd and write to the cd-rw, but XCDroast couldn't see it. I understand k3b (I think it's called) could do it anyway, so I'll look at that when I've a moment. I haven't tried burning 'on-the-fly' with Linux, as

Re: [newbie] CD Read errors

2002-11-26 Thread Technoslick
I, for one, have no need for anything that fast. If I was using the drive to house a massive data store, and needed to access that from a program in a timely manner, I could see the benefit. Still, I think that such a need is a very small percentage of users. This is where marketing hype gets in

Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP

2002-11-26 Thread seanygoh
Brian, I tried doing what u said, doing a clean installation of mandrake, but it still gave me the exact same error. Firstly, i used fdisk to delete all my partitions. I then tried to install m8.2. Can't. Then i thought maybe i should format the partitions, so i did using format from a

Re: [newbie] Can't connect to Texstar

2002-11-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 2:30 pm, Keith Powell wrote: I have been trying to enhance the Mandrake9 fonts using the Getting libqt3 compiled with Xft-2 instructions on Derek's site, but can't connect to the Texstar site to download the necessary packages. I get an error message with each package:-

[newbie] Install from XP over network?

2002-11-26 Thread Todd Slater
A friend from work would like to try Mandrake at home. The computer he wants to put it on doesn't have a CD drive, but it is currently on his home network (Windows XP). Is there any way he can install it over the network, using the cd from another computer? TIA, Todd Want to buy your Pack or

Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP

2002-11-26 Thread Charlie
On November 26, 2002 03:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brian, I partitioned into 2 partitions using XP for XP and left the 3rd partition unnamed.(which is for mandrake). I tried formatting the first 2 partitions with NTFS and FAT32. Still got the same problem when Mandrake setup

Re: [newbie] supermount

2002-11-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 2:33 pm, Technoslick wrote: From: Anne Wilson No, but I wanted the convenience of being able to read from the dvd and write to the cd-rw, but XCDroast couldn't see it. I understand k3b (I think it's called) could do it anyway, so I'll look at that when I've a moment.

Re: [newbie] oops .. forgot the attachment

2002-11-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 2:11 pm, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Anne, Friends, Thanks for your mail regarding this. How can I check whether I did install the cdread ? Open up xmms. Click on the top left hand corner to get a menu and select options Preferences. The first tab is Audio

Re: [newbie] urpmi setup

2002-11-26 Thread Robert
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:11:43 -0600 Carl J. Bauman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try changing the directory urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/9.0/ with ../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz Usually the hdlist.cz or synthesis.hdlist.cz is located in /base, so you use

Re: [newbie] supermount

2002-11-26 Thread Technoslick
From: Anne Wilson I used to do it regularly on Nero. I've had a couple of cds ruined by playing them in the car, so I don't risk it any more. I make a copy for car use. Yeah, I have done it for those reasons, too. I refuse to bring originals into the car. I am a real fuss about this, as well

Re: [newbie] oops .. forgot the attachment

2002-11-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 4:38 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 2:11 pm, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Done By the way - there is a good bit of useful information about this on Derek's linux pages http://www.jennings.homelinux.net It was Derek who first got me up and running

Re: [newbie] supermount

2002-11-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 4:47 pm, Technoslick wrote: From: Anne Wilson After I couldn't get it to work, I tried 'eroast', and that has worked flawlessly for me. I guess once something works for me, I tend to stay with it. I looked at that under 8.2, but couldn't get any sense out of it. It

Re: [newbie] Problems w/ Mandrake Update

2002-11-26 Thread Robert
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:28:42 -0600 Ryan Moe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any time I try and connect to Mandrake Update it tells me There was an error adding the medium to urpmi. or some such thing. It won't work regardless of which mirror I pick. I've tried looking on the Mandrake site but

Re: [newbie] Postfix Config

2002-11-26 Thread Jordan Elver
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 7:03 pm, Franki wrote: configure /etc/postfix/main.cf pay attention to the following: $mydomain $mydestination $myhostname go to dyndns and get yourself a domain name you can use.. its free, or donation based. Please excuse my ignorance, but is it nessaccery to

[newbie] KMail filters

2002-11-26 Thread Anne Wilson
I would like to completely block certain spam addresses, but KMail does not seem to allow you to simply delete the outcome of a filter. For the moment I have set it to 'move to trash', but would rather completely delete it. I don't want to use 'bounce' as it gives them the satisfaction of

RE: [newbie] Postfix Config

2002-11-26 Thread Franki
Stick with postfix, its far easier them m4's and the like... you might find postfix easier if you use webmin.. generially yes, postfix should have a domain name.. you may be able to get it sort of functioning without it.. but its a good idea... do you have a static IP address??? if so, try

Re: [newbie] compiling qt program -- where is libqt.so?

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 05:28, Marty McFly wrote: hey, I was wondering if anybody has come across this problem. I am trying to compile a program using qt. I'm getting this error: ld: cannot find -lqt so I looked in the /usr/lib/qt3/lib directory and there is no libqt.so file. There is

Re: [newbie] Harddisk bad block checking tool

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 04:16, Wei Wang wrote: Hi, all, It seems that my harddisk is experiencing some kind of bad block problem. Sometimes the reboot would halt at a point, seems to be checking the harddisk. Is there a hard disk scan program that scans and quarantines bad blocks just like what

Re: [newbie] FB logo

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 04:11, Damian Gatabria wrote: hi! wassup. I've got a question about frambuffer. I've recently found a howto which explains how to make framebuffer devices, and since i like the way the consoles look in FB mode, i went for it. So far, so good. however this howto

Re: [newbie] TV Out X Window Problem

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 02:50, Andrew Mann wrote: HI I have just managed to get the tv out working on my NV card (does not support twinview). I altered my XF86Config-4 file and then typed in the command startx -- :1 -screen screen_TVout600 screen-TVout600 is what i called the screen

Re: [newbie] rsh not working...

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 00:13, Wim De Hul wrote: Hi All! I have installed rsh on my Mandrake 9.0, but it isn't working: i get permission denied on the command rsh -l wim 192.168.240.60 My setup: both hosts have the same users (wim). My /etc/hosts.equiv contains wim + File

Re: [newbie] KMail filters

2002-11-26 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 21:27, Anne Wilson wrote: I would like to completely block certain spam addresses, but KMail does not seem to allow you to simply delete the outcome of a filter. For the moment I have set it to 'move to trash', but would rather completely delete it. Have you

Re: [newbie] No serial ports

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 07:51, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I have encountered a strange problem on my homebox with mandrake 9.0 and any other Linux distribution. It seems that it doesn't detect my serial ports within Linux. In Windows there are no problems. statserial doesn't give me

Re: [newbie] KMail filters

2002-11-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 8:11 pm, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Tuesday 26 November 2002 21:27, Anne Wilson wrote: I would like to completely block certain spam addresses, but KMail does not seem to allow you to simply delete the outcome of a filter. For the moment I have set it to 'move to

Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 02:08, Sean Goh wrote: Hi there, I'm having problems installing M8.2 over WinXP. I have a 20GB harddisk and i partitioned it into 3. C: takes 5GB and D: takes 7GB. The rest i left it for Mandrake. After installing WinXP using NTFS filesystem, i booted M8.2 and ran

Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:50, FemmeFatale wrote: Should you fail to delete your partitions successfully re-reply to the list I'm sure Stephen will help you (he's the most prolific poster today so I'm picking on him). --- Femme Is prolific a bad word? (grin) Oh, wait - I thought that was

Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 12:11, Sean Goh wrote: Hi, Just to clarify, i want to install a dual boot system consisting of WinXP and M8.2. I've already installed WinXP but i have trouble installing M8.2 because of the problem stated earlier. Thanks for replying. Sean Ok - so then the

Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 04:51, Barry Premeaux wrote: MD8.2 (nor any other Linux distrobution I am aware of) does not read NTFS. I'm not an XP expert, but I believe you can force it to install on a FAT32 partition. If you only need to see personal files on the XP side, then create a FAT32

Re: [newbie] OT: Hardware boot problems

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:52, FemmeFatale wrote: Duct tape. It solves everything. Or so says my friend Red Green *Smiles innocently* --- Femme Even dating problems? -- Wed Nov 27 07:30:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____

Re: [newbie] rpm dependencies

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 23:36, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Monday 25 November 2002 02:06, Stephen Kuhn wrote: 3.) Run the proggie and see what happens...core files are easily deleted...(grin) Aha, a fellow graduate of the Crash 'n Burn School of Software Testing! If it doesn't fit - force

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

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:38, FemmeFatale wrote: At 05:33 PM 11/25/2002 +1100, you wrote: Mine never say Stopping or Killing ! (Actually, I've changed all my messages to say things like squashing, stomping, sniping, assassinating - the list goes on... (grin) Stephen, This

[newbie] mount problem

2002-11-26 Thread Wei Wang
I know this is too naive. But I got confused of different helps I found on the internet. I get error message when I do mount /dev/cdrom mount: can't find /dev/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab mount /mnt/cdrom gives out: /dev/hdc: Input/output error mount: I could not determine the

SV: [newbie] No serial ports

2002-11-26 Thread Anders Lind
Thanks, Stephen, that solved the problem... /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Harddisk bad block checking tool

2002-11-26 Thread Miark
On Tuesday November 26 2002 11:16 am, Wei Wang wrote: Hi, all, It seems that my harddisk is experiencing some kind of bad block problem. Sometimes the reboot would halt at a point, seems to be checking the harddisk. Is there a hard disk scan program that scans and quarantines bad blocks

[newbie] Problems

2002-11-26 Thread Gilligan
Help, Please I have a Abit IT7 motherboard and Linux cannot see my hard drives. (WinXP requires my HPT 374 Raid driver disk to see the hard drives). Am I outta luck using this MB with Linux? I looked on Abit's web site but didn't find any drivers for Linux. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] mount problem

2002-11-26 Thread villoing
Maybe the problem comes from the fact you have to be root to do mount -t your_file_type -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom after having create a cdrom /mnt/directory and not beind in when you write your command Florian Wei Wang wrote: I know this is too naive. But I got confused of different helps I

Re: [newbie] Problems

2002-11-26 Thread Jack and Melissa McSwain
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 03:09 pm, Gilligan wrote: Help, Please I have a Abit IT7 motherboard and Linux cannot see my hard drives. (WinXP requires my HPT 374 Raid driver disk to see the hard drives). Am I outta luck using this MB with Linux? I looked on Abit's web site but didn't find

[newbie] Mouse problems at boot

2002-11-26 Thread Gordon Bradbury
G'day all, I've just got a new P4 box at home, and successfully loaded xp and mandrake 9 onto it. I'm a long-time windows user, but this is my first exposure to linux/mandrake. I have a 2-button ps-2 mouse installed. The machine is developing the habit of sometimes not recognising the mouse

[newbie] kcpuload

2002-11-26 Thread Miark
Hi all, I've installed kcpuload twice--once from CD, once from a download site. Whenever I run it, the computer bogs down, kcpuload does NOT appear on my screen. If I run top, kcpuload is listed there and typically running at 30%. kcpuload is supposed to monitor the load, not add to it. Anybody

Re: [newbie] KMail filters

2002-11-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 02:27 pm, you wrote: I would like to completely block certain spam addresses, but KMail does not seem to allow you to simply delete the outcome of a filter. For the moment I have set it to 'move to trash', but would rather completely delete it. I don't want to use

[newbie] SWAT - Can't connect

2002-11-26 Thread Guilherme Cirne
Hi all, I'm having trouble connecting to SWAT (http://localhost:901). From Mozilla it actually tries to connect to www.localhost.com and times out and from Konqueror I get the following error message: An error occured while loading http://localhost:901/: Connection to host localhost is broken

Re: [newbie] Postfix Config

2002-11-26 Thread Jordan Elver
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 7:36 pm, Franki wrote: Stick with postfix, its far easier them m4's and the like... you might find postfix easier if you use webmin.. generially yes, postfix should have a domain name.. you may be able to get it sort of functioning without it.. but its a good idea...

Re: [newbie] SWAT - Can't connect

2002-11-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi all, I'm having trouble connecting to SWAT (http://localhost:901). From Mozilla it actually tries to connect to www.localhost.com and times out and from Konqueror I get the following error message: An error occured while loading http://localhost:901/: Connection

[newbie] cgi help

2002-11-26 Thread L.V.Gandhi
When I call the cgi file given below, I don't get the effects of stylesheet mentioned in the header and also the picture. both the files are in the same folder as that of the cgi file. === #!/usr/bin/perl print End; Content-Type: text/html\n\n html

Re: [newbie] TV Out X Window Problem

2002-11-26 Thread Mark
Andrew Mann wrote: HI I have just managed to get the tv out working on my NV card (does not support twinview). I altered my XF86Config-4 file and then typed in the command startx -- :1 -screen screen_TVout600 screen-TVout600 is what i called the screen in XF86Config-4 file this worked

Re: [newbie] SWAT - Can't connect

2002-11-26 Thread Guilherme Cirne
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 21:39, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi all, I'm having trouble connecting to SWAT (http://localhost:901). From Mozilla it actually tries to connect to www.localhost.com and times out and from Konqueror I get the following error message:

[newbie] libalsa2 circular dependency and libasound.so.1 confusions

2002-11-26 Thread Wei Wang
I am trying to install libalsa2-0.9.0 from binary rpm. Dependency fail reads:error: failed dependencies:libalsa-data is needed by libalsa2-0.9.0-0.8rc2mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by libarts2-2.2.1-5mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by kdelibs-2.2.1-5mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by

Re: [newbie] kcpuload

2002-11-26 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:49:47 -0500 To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] kcpuload Hi all, I've installed kcpuload twice--once from CD, once from a download site. Whenever I run it, the computer bogs down, kcpuload

[newbie]

2002-11-26 Thread Louis Dallara
attachment: winmail.datWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Prolink PixelView linux compatibility

2002-11-26 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
HI! I've found this tv board: Prolink PixelView (PV-BT878+w/fm) a real bargain! THE question is is it supported on MDK9 ? I was just browsing on google and so far nothing was said about being compatible or not! Does anyone know about this? TIA, Ricardo --

[newbie] A general question about dependency

2002-11-26 Thread Wei Wang
I am a total newbie to Unix/Linux world. Using the rpms recently, I get lost in the way packages are installed. Sometimes when I try to install a certain package on my system via an binary rpm, I get lots of unsatisfied dependencies. For example, a recent attempt to install kdelibs-3.1.rpm

Re: That solve faxing!!! Re: [newbie] OO.o Printers?

2002-11-26 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Em Seg 25 Nov 2002 13:21, Derek Jennings escreveu: Glad it helped Ricardo . If you are using StarOffice 5.2 I guess you are using Mandrake 8.2 or earlier. There is a little trick to making fax work in pre 9.0 versions of Mandrake Edit the file /etc/fax.config Hi Derek! I'm still using

Re: [newbie] A general question about dependency

2002-11-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 1:47 am, Wei Wang wrote: I am a total newbie to Unix/Linux world. Using the rpms recently, I get lost in the way packages are installed. Sometimes when I try to install a certain package on my system via an binary rpm, I get lots of unsatisfied dependencies. For

Re: [newbie] libalsa2 circular dependency and libasound.so.1 confusions

2002-11-26 Thread Derek Jennings
Looks like you are trying to install a Cooker package. Cooker is the *development* thread of the Mandrake distro. It can vary considerably from the released distro. Installing Cooker packages will very quickly lead you into dependency hell and can easily break your system. Newbies should keep

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA revisited

2002-11-26 Thread John Drouhard
On Monday 25 November 2002 08:55 pm, Pilagá wrote: --- (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) UnloadModule: nvidia (II) UnloadModule: vgahw (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (EE)

Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP

2002-11-26 Thread seanygoh
Hi Charlie, Thanks for your help. I followed your instructions. Unfortunately i got stuck after choosing Expert installation where after which it couldn't read my partitions properly. u might want to refer to my mail t stephen for a full explanation. Sean Hi Sean; I'm not quite

[newbie] Linux and pre-schoolers

2002-11-26 Thread Todd Slater
I have a 3 1/2 year old daughter who likes to type in OpenOffice, play with Tuxpaint and Stickers, and listen to some .wav's I captured from one of her favorite cartoons. I created an account for her, but never found a desktop/window manager I was happy with and that I was willing to turn her

Re: [newbie] cgi help

2002-11-26 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 04:27, L.V.Gandhi wrote: When I call the cgi file given below, I don't get the effects of stylesheet mentioned in the header and also the picture. both the files are in the same folder as that of the cgi file. === #!/usr/bin/perl

Re: [newbie] supermount

2002-11-26 Thread Michael Adams
T, i was under the impression that a DVD was only a CD-ROM in linux until it was scsi emulated i.e. won't even read a DVD. On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 01:26, Technoslick wrote: Hi, Anne, I never noticed your interest in having your DVD set-up with SCSI emulation until now. I am a bit baffled. I have

Re: [newbie] CD Read errors

2002-11-26 Thread Michael Adams
Whoa - We are dealing with a brand new machine put together commercially for linux. If we can't get this working on the list, then the box goes back to the store for them to replace the CD-ROM. Meanwhile i am checking for suggestions. The suggestion about checking if it will read other disks

RE: [linux] [newbie] Shorewall - Grrrrrr!!!

2002-11-26 Thread Richard Urwin
Pinging uses the ICMP protocol. Make sure you have that enabled if you want to ping. IIRC Firewalls often disable it due to Denial of Service attacks. I tried Shorewall on my standalone system with an unused ethernet card. It closed down everything. No need to reinstall though, Control Centre:

Re: [newbie] MySQL

2002-11-26 Thread Frank Mertens
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 21:23, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me how to remove the MySQL rpms without KDE disapearing with it? When trying to remove, it also wants to remove the various KDE rpms? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Press any key to continue

Re: [newbie] Shorewall - Grrrrrr!!!

2002-11-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 6:15 am, magnet wrote: Hi all, After many installs and messing about regaining some usability of this system and network, I used Control Center to install and activate the Internet Sharing across the network. As before, it installed Shorewall, which has been the #1

[newbie] CDROM not found error in installation

2002-11-26 Thread Nikunj Bansal
Hello all, I am a longtime Mandrake user (~3 years) and I am getting stuck at the first step in installation. I have a Plextor 12/10/32A CDROM/CD Writer. I have been succesfully using it for about 10 months now under Mandrake 8.1/8.2. In fact, I have done OS installs on this machine using this

Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP

2002-11-26 Thread Brian Parish
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 12:11, Sean Goh wrote: Hi, Just to clarify, i want to install a dual boot system consisting of WinXP and M8.2. I've already installed WinXP but i have trouble installing M8.2 because of the problem stated earlier. Thanks for replying. Sean FemmeFatale wrote:

Re: [newbie] OT avi to mpeg?

2002-11-26 Thread Peter Watson
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 06:07, Ibly Piblo wrote: Sorry if this is OT. Is there an avi to mpeg converter for linux that is easy? Already tried a few which were useless, mjpegtools proved to be trash, as it just spit out useless errors instead of actually converting the file. lav2wav

Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP

2002-11-26 Thread seanygoh
Hi Brian, I partitioned into 2 partitions using XP for XP and left the 3rd partition unnamed.(which is for mandrake). I tried formatting the first 2 partitions with NTFS and FAT32. Still got the same problem when Mandrake setup couldn't seem to detect it properly and gave me those error

Re: [newbie] Shorewall - Grrrrrr!!!

2002-11-26 Thread magnet
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 9:51 am, Derek Jennings wrote: The problem is not really to do with shorewall, which is in fact a very effective and highly regarded firewall, but is more to do with the Mandrake Firewall GUI which sets shorewall up in a very simplistic manner. I would advise using the

Re: [newbie] Shorewall - Grrrrrr!!!

2002-11-26 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP I did an iptables -L in su console to check everything is ALLOWed, after uninstalling the firewall for now to regain some control, restarted the samba server, rebooted the laptop (stupid thing!) and still samba isn't working. I also now have no ftp access to this box from any other

Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP

2002-11-26 Thread Brian Parish
OK - we are into trial and error territory! I've had some success with this approach when all else fails: - boot the mandrake install CD - take it as far as the partitioning - tell diskdrake to delete all partitions - create some FAT32 partitions for later use with XP plus the required linux

Re: [newbie] supermount

2002-11-26 Thread Technoslick
Hi, Anne, I never noticed your interest in having your DVD set-up with SCSI emulation until now. I am a bit baffled. I have a Liteon DVD-ROM player in my multi-boot XP Pro/Mandrake 9.0 box, so I looked at my fstab to see how mine is set. The Liteon drive is set as /dev/hdc, not /dev/sd0. It works

Re: [newbie] CD Read errors

2002-11-26 Thread JoeD
In some cases the problem may be the cd label but a recent article that I had read (don't remeber where) had put the blame on the way that the newer faster drivers clamp and hold the cd's by putting the blame on poor mechanical design. The comment was to use a better quality lower speed

Re: [newbie] supermount

2002-11-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 12:26 pm, Technoslick wrote: Hi, Anne, I never noticed your interest in having your DVD set-up with SCSI emulation until now. I am a bit baffled. I have a Liteon DVD-ROM player in my multi-boot XP Pro/Mandrake 9.0 box, so I looked at my fstab to see how mine is set.

Re: [newbie] Shorewall - Grrrrrr!!!

2002-11-26 Thread magnet
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 12:02 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: SNIP I did an iptables -L in su console to check everything is ALLOWed, after uninstalling the firewall for now to regain some control, restarted the samba server, rebooted the laptop (stupid thing!) and still samba isn't working. I