Re: [newbie-it] errata corrige su System.map [was: compilazione delkernel]

2002-12-26 Thread LukenShiro
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, LukenShiro wrote: cp System.map /boot/System.map-num_ver [..] poi elimini il link simbolico System.map (che punta al System.map del vecchio kernel) e lo ricrei (in modo che punti al nuovo System.map-ecc..) [..] System.map* e' cmq importante, contiene la mappa dei simboli

Re: [newbie] LM9.0 CDROM Problems

2002-12-26 Thread Jure Repinc
Sevatio wrote: I know of the manual way of doing it in a text environment via superuser login. Is there another more friendly and short way of manually mounting this? I'm thinking in terms of ease of use for the average windows user that I setup linux boxes for. In KDE you can create CDROM

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail on 9.0, where's it etc 1/2 solved

2002-12-26 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 10:30 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi Anne, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 11:31 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I have just installed LM 9.0 on a dualboot Win95/linux box. I would like to copy (and not move/cut!!)

Re: [newbie] lpr problem

2002-12-26 Thread Robin Turner
Erik Farnsworth wrote: Robin, I'm not sure this is the definitive answer, but I overcame the problem by adding my user account to the group 'lp' in ConfigOtheruserdrake--erikeditgroups. Now all programs are willing to print for user erik. This didn't do it, but changing from CUPS to PDQ

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail on 9.0, where's it etc 1/2 solved

2002-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 Dec 2002 9:29 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 10:30 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi Anne, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 11:31 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I have just installed LM 9.0 on a

Re: [newbie] DVD+RW Support in Linux

2002-12-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 10:06, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 04:27, Jim Dawson wrote: The problem is that CDRecord apparently only supports the DVD-R/-RW formats. While the drive would work under Linux, until CD+R/RW is

Re: [newbie] LM9.0 CDROM Problems

2002-12-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 18:15, Sevatio wrote: I know of the manual way of doing it in a text environment via superuser login. Is there another more friendly and short way of manually mounting this? I'm thinking in terms of ease of use for the average windows user that I setup linux boxes

Re: [newbie] DVD region killer

2002-12-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 15:34, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Stephen, Friends, I did delete all file in dvd_disc_2215_css and re-extract the tar file. And then I did below instruction: - [root@localhost

[newbie] EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO

2002-12-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Santa was very generaous. An EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO I never found anything in linux work initially so easy. I just plugged it in the usb2 port powered it up went to MCC - hardwarte scanner- leftmouse clicked , it asked for cd1 , I gave it it, it said thank you, I smiled inwardly, It even

[newbie] Printing to PDF from OO

2002-12-26 Thread Rob Lindsay
Have followed advice from many helpful people [thank you] and have most of the applications I am likely to use printing to PDF [I don't have a printer connected to this 'puter]. These files open with PS PDF Viewer and also with Acrobat 4.0 on Win4Lin. Would dearly like to be able to print to

Re: Fw: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2

2002-12-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 11:06, Kenn Murrah wrote: the gimp is powerful, but it has one glaring flaw: it does not work in CMYK. and for professional design work, lab color and CMYK are absolutely, non-negotiable necessities ... and if there is a linux equivalent to freehand or illustrator,

Re: [newbie] EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO

2002-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 Dec 2002 12:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Santa was very generaous. An EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO I never found anything in linux work initially so easy. I just plugged it in the usb2 port powered it up went to MCC - hardwarte scanner- leftmouse clicked , it asked for

Re: [newbie] Printing to PDF from OO

2002-12-26 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Hi Rob, I had the same problem and could not resolve it. But, for whatever it is worth, Kword makes very good PDF files. That's what I have been using since. Good look! Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered

[newbie] Linux Boot Message

2002-12-26 Thread Kamal Gathani
I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem is that during boot up, Mandrake keeps complaining that it is unable to find/mount local

Re: [newbie] Linux Boot Message

2002-12-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 00:42, Kamal Gathani wrote: I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem is that during boot up, Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Linux Boot Message

2002-12-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Kamal Gathani wrote: I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem is that during boot up, Mandrake keeps complaining that it is

Re: [newbie] Linux Boot Message

2002-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 Dec 2002 2:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Kamal Gathani wrote: I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem

Re: [newbie] Internet Routing has Died

2002-12-26 Thread Barry Premeaux
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 09:38 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 20:35, Barry Premeaux wrote: I gave that a shot, but it didn't make a difference. Although, it seems to be a mute point for now. In tinkering with LILO (I also boot RH8.0 and SuSE8.0 from this machine), I

[newbie] MNF INSTALL

2002-12-26 Thread Tom
I am trying to install MNF Mandrake on a AMD k6-2 450 processor. The cd booted and installation appeared to go smoothly until reboot. The computer hangs at: Detected 451.834 MHZ Processor Console: Colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating Delay loop...897.84 BogoMIPS This is a Epox Motherboard with

Re: [newbie] MNF INSTALL

2002-12-26 Thread Lanman
Don't quote me on this, but I think a K6/2-450 falls below the minimum architecture requirements for MNF. Lanman On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 09:49, Tom wrote: I am trying to install MNF Mandrake on a AMD k6-2 450 processor. The cd booted and installation appeared to go smoothly until reboot. The

Re: [newbie] Linux Boot Message

2002-12-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 26 Dec 2002 2:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Kamal Gathani wrote: I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions

RE: [newbie] MNF INSTALL

2002-12-26 Thread Jim Hubbard
I'm running MNF on a Pentium 100 with 56 megs of RAM. Slow, but it works. Can you boot the failsafe kernel? You may need to pass a parameter to the default kernel to get it to work with your particular mb/chipset/processor/video/ram combination. Sincerely, Jim Hubbard .--.

[newbie] Networking questions

2002-12-26 Thread Anthony
Hi. I just installed Mandrake 9. Everything seems to be working except The only way to get the dial up connection to work is to first disable the network card. This is a plain Internet dial up to SBC, using a Creative 56k ModemBlaster. I assume it is possible to have both working at the same

Re: [newbie] Networking questions

2002-12-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 02:44, Anthony wrote: Hi. I just installed Mandrake 9. Everything seems to be working except The only way to get the dial up connection to work is to first disable the network card. This is a plain Internet dial up to SBC, using a Creative 56k ModemBlaster. I

Re: Re: Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD?

2002-12-26 Thread Jim Dawson
Thanks, Hopefully I can find a supported card at a good price. -Original Message- From: Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 19:33:29 -0200 Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD? On Ter 24 Dez 2002

Re: [newbie] EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO

2002-12-26 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Did you try iscan from epson? It uses all the scanner capabilities, lot better for most epson scanners than xsane El Jueves, 26 de Diciembre de 2002 13:46, John Richard Smith escribió: Santa was very generaous. An EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO I never found anything in linux work initially

Re: [newbie] linux office suite comparison?

2002-12-26 Thread Joeb
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 11:52:13 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 Dec 2002 2:57 am, Andrei Raevsky wrote: What does StarOffice6 offer which OpenOffice 1.0.1 cannot do? Not a lot. There are a few extra modules, which I haven't explored yet, but look as though

Re: [newbie] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread Joeb
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 23:51:22 -0500 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: Where is it written that Mandrake has to turn out a new release every six months? We've always done it that way and Everyone else does it that way are not acceptable responses. There was some talk this

Re: [newbie] Printing to PDF from OO

2002-12-26 Thread Robin Turner
Rob Lindsay wrote: Have followed advice from many helpful people [thank you] and have most of the applications I am likely to use printing to PDF [I don't have a printer connected to this 'puter]. These files open with PS PDF Viewer and also with Acrobat 4.0 on Win4Lin. Would dearly like to

Re: Fw: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2

2002-12-26 Thread Robin Turner
Kenn Murrah wrote: and if there is a linux equivalent to freehand or illustrator, or to page layout software such as indesign and quarkxpress, i haven't been able to find it Scribus looks like it will eventually do the job, though it was pretty alpha-ish the last time I looked. Sir

Re: [newbie] Printing to PDF from OO

2002-12-26 Thread Rob Lindsay
Hi Andrei, My experience with Kword and PDF files is that the font are not reliable. This may be because I am relying on a limited set. I don't think I've got any TT fonts loaded. I have found that Scribus produces much more reliable font performance in PDF output. Am looking into putting a

RE: [newbie] Printing to PDF from OO

2002-12-26 Thread Rob Lindsay
Sir Robin wrote: snip You need to go into spadmin. Click Add New Printer then click on PDF converter to create a PDF pseudoprinter. endsnip Thanks for the solution, but how do I go into spadmin and do what you suggest. I have found the spadmin link in the OpenOffice.org folder but have no idea

[newbie] Re: Dual Booting

2002-12-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 18:09:00 CST Steve Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grettings: Was wondering if anyone had a good site that explains dual booting Mandrake 9.0 and 8.2. I have 9.0 installed and want to dual boot 8.2 that is on a different drive. Basics: 9.0 on one drive, want to add

Re: [newbie] Default Browser

2002-12-26 Thread John McQuillen
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 10:37, Rich wrote: I recently upgraded from Mandrake 8.2 to version 9.0 and everything went smoothly. My problem is that Evolution 1.2.1 doesn't load a browser when a link is clicked. The problem may be that I can't find anyplace in Mandrake to assign a default browser.

Re: [newbie] web browsers and e-mail quit connecting

2002-12-26 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 26 December 2002 05:38 pm, Jim Snyder wrote: Hello I had the strangest problem just surface in my Mandrake 9.0. It happened just after a reboot and error message about a mounting error on my NT partition. I have seen this error once or twice before when trying to load Windows

Re: [newbie] Mandrake update

2002-12-26 Thread Seth Williamson
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 16:29, Charlie wrote: I am puzzled by the behavior of the Mandrake update system. When I start it, it (seemingly) just sits there for three or four or five minutes doing nothing. The first time I tried the update, I thought the system had locked up or something

Re: [newbie] Re: Dual Booting

2002-12-26 Thread mycal62
Kaj, I triple boot to test OS's other just like to play, some even keep the old fully funtional one around untill they get the new one running. I have found it quite useful . Kaj Haulrich wrote: - But why on earth do you want two real OS's ? HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark Mike

[newbie] Truetype fonts

2002-12-26 Thread Aurélio Diniz
Good evening (at least here in portugal)! First of all let me thank this great list! You guys should be awared for all your help you gave here! :) I've learned a lot with this list. Thanks. I'm looking to move all my Truetype fonts from my windows partition to my linux. I suppose

Re: [newbie] Re: Dual Booting

2002-12-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 26 December 2002 01:25 pm, mycal62 wrote: Kaj, I triple boot to test OS's other just like to play, some even keep the old fully funtional one around untill they get the new one running. I have found it quite useful . Well mycal62, playing is what keeps a man young, right ? Kaj

[newbie] first message

2002-12-26 Thread Josenildo Marques
Hello ! Needless to say, I am new to Mandake Linux and have just installed it (LM 9). I am trying to set things up so I can have everything working fine. I'd like to ask you how I can get the shockwave plugin to work in Mozilla. I have also tried to play .kar files in Kmid but no sound comes

Re: [newbie] first message

2002-12-26 Thread Niels Obst
Josenildo Marques schrieb: I'd like to ask you how I can get the shockwave plugin to work in Mozilla. Hi, have a look here: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html Regards, Niels Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite

2002-12-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 03:01 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 24 December 2002 10:46 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 24 December 2002 09:28 am, you wrote: OK, so far there is an incredible number of volunteers. Just got home from work! Add Me! Me! Me!big grin Yeah, but Ron

Re: [newbie] Networking questions

2002-12-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 26 December 2002 10:44 am, you wrote: Hi. I just installed Mandrake 9. Everything seems to be working except The only way to get the dial up connection to work is to first disable the network card. This is a plain Internet dial up to SBC, using a Creative 56k ModemBlaster. I

Re: [newbie] Truetype fonts

2002-12-26 Thread Joeb
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 01:22:08 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening (at least here in portugal)! First of all let me thank this great list! You guys should be awared for all your help you gave here! :) I've learned a lot with this list. Thanks. I'm looking to move

Re: [newbie] Truetype fonts

2002-12-26 Thread Jason
Use Fontdrake in Mandrake Control Centre, it works perfectly to import TTF's... Cheers Jason Joeb wrote: On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 01:22:08 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening (at least here in portugal)! First of all let me thank this great list! You guys should be awared

[newbie] Informal poll

2002-12-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I'm just wondering, if I could see a show of hands so to speak - how many SCSI users have actually gotten their setups to work with Mandrake 9.0 (download edition). I have an Adaptec 2930 PCI card with: Toshiba DVD, Plextor CDRW, and an Astra Umax scanner. If you do actually have it working,

[newbie] Informal poll

2002-12-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I'm just wondering, if I could see a show of hands so to speak - how many SCSI users have actually gotten their setups to work with Mandrake 9.0 (download edition). I have an Adaptec 2930 PCI card with: Toshiba DVD, Plextor CDRW, and an Astra Umax scanner. If you do actually have it working,

RE: [newbie] EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO

2002-12-26 Thread Franki
Is that setup listed on the mandrake site for supported scanners?? perhaps someone should add it if not.. that site is out of date for the most part.. we should all work together to get a more solid picture of supported hardware.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Internet Routing has Died

2002-12-26 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 09:19, Barry Premeaux wrote: On Wednesday 25 December 2002 09:38 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Try the following. When kppp connects, note the ip address. Then from a root command prompt do route add default gw your.isp.dynamic.ip ppp0 In my case (in case you're

Re: [newbie] Informal poll

2002-12-26 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 22:13, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I'm just wondering, if I could see a show of hands so to speak - how many SCSI users have actually gotten their setups to work with Mandrake 9.0 (download edition). I have an Adaptec 2930 PCI card with: Toshiba DVD, Plextor CDRW, and an

Re: [newbie] Informal poll

2002-12-26 Thread erylon hines
On Thursday 26 December 2002 07:13 pm, you wrote: I'm just wondering, if I could see a show of hands so to speak - how many SCSI users have actually gotten their setups to work with Mandrake 9.0 (download edition). I have an Adaptec 2930 PCI card with: Toshiba DVD, Plextor CDRW, and an Astra