Ciao a tutti, dopo tanto peregrinare ho deciso di
istallare Mandrake 9.1sul mio Laptop IBM Thinkpad 390 E, tutto bene fino
al modem, che purtroppo non viene riconosciuto.
Ravanando in rete ( cosa assai difficile visto la
mia conoscenza pressoche 0 dell'inglese), ho trovato uno script
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Allora torno alla carica...
Ho configurato fetchmail per scaricarmi la posta, ma non posso ancora
usarlo!
Infatti nella mia mandrake non ho trovato un procmailrc preconfezionato
per impostare i filtri!
A me basta che faccia questo lavoro:
pop
Alle 13:44, sabato 28 giugno 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] Modem
laptop, libero ha scritto:
Ciao a tutti, dopo tanto peregrinare ho deciso di istallare Mandrake
9.1 sul mio Laptop IBM Thinkpad 390 E,
http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/tp390e/#modem
Dario Miretti
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bye
miKe
UN MEGA GRAZIE :)
Va tutto una meravigliaa
You sound like a natural born Linux man to me!
Myself, I'm more the brute force method of troubleshooter. Been making a
living at it for almost 20 years now - Thank goodness for my friends, lists,
etc. Heck, the more I think about it the more surprised I am that I'm not
a homeless person.
Hi
Some of you might like to sign this petition.
http://www.petitiononline.com/yama01/petition.html
Who knows whether it will do any good or not but it only takes a few
seconds to sign it!
John
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Lead me not into temptation - I can find my own way thanks!
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On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 08:04, Phares wrote:
I have two XP boxes, Two OSx boxes, one OS9 laptop,
one OS 8 server, One win2000 laptop, a 4 machine linux
cluster, and a playstation 2 on my home Lan, the only
issue I've noticed is that my power bills can get
pretty expensive. (Luckily half the
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 06:53, Robin Turner wrote:
Watch what you say about the Taliban, mate. They might not take too
kindly to being compared with Microsoft ;-)
Sir Robin
...er, can the Taliban members READ?
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Sat Jun 28 17:50:00 EST 2003
17:50:00 up 3 days, 17:36, 4 users, load
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 06:06, Tsyko wrote:
On Friday, 27 June 2003 12:20, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 21:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
can any one tell me how i know if mandrake is using my hyper-threaded
machine?
Thanks in advance
Tsyko
LINUX ROCKS
Sadly, it
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 05:45, MWafkowski wrote:
Joe - Now wait...I respect your opinions and you bring up some troubling
issues.
On me little home network here I've got seven machines, three Linux, two XP,
one Win 2000 and
this scrawny little p133 laptop I'm writing on with Win 98.
Do I
I've had exactly the same problem with just a single Windows PC
connected to 2 printers (both installed on the system) through a data
switch. Print with the data switch switched to the wrong printer,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]*
Cancel the printing - no effect
Delete the print job at the print
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 07:29, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 12:34, Roland Hughes wrote:
I have finally had the chance to get off of dial up and on to a shared
dsl. My problem is I cannot get the Internet connection to switch from
modem to eth0. The nic is up and connected but
Hi All,
I am using Mandarke 9.1. I am a home desktop user. So far I have got
everything up and running, and feeeling pretty pleased with myself.
However, what I am missing is a print manager , or some point and click
way of killing of print jobs - my printer is an Epson Stylus Colour 400.
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 00:11, Aron Smith wrote:
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 05:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:23:03 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
can any one tell me how i know if mandrake is using my hyper-threaded
machine?
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 03:50, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 06:06, Tsyko wrote:
On Friday, 27 June 2003 12:20, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 21:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
can any one tell me how i know if mandrake is using my hyper-threaded
machine?
Only one processor
Apparently not
Is there a way to make it work?
On Saturday, 28 June 2003 11:21, ed tharp wrote:
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 00:11, Aron Smith wrote:
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 05:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:23:03
In protest at the 'Microsoft tax' -cannot (in many places) buy a
computer without windows, but cannot get a refund when you refuse
license.
http://www.windowsrefund.net
Details under What's happening (court case against Toshiba
(America) in New York rescheduled for June 30th)
Paul M.
Want
FemmeFatale wrote:
At 07:43 PM 6/27/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Did you try writing this to floppy instead? Thus satisying LILO in
essence skipping writing to your MBR?
-
FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt
No I didn't Femme, is that a way to prevent lilo being written then ?
John
--
John
I should have also mentioned that you can view print jobs using any browser on
your local network with the CUPS administration tool simply by entering
http://localhost:631 (replace localhost with IP address if using a different
computer)
On previous versions of Mandrake I was able to cancel
I found that I preferred the 0.8.3 version of Sylpheed-claws which I'm
using under mdk 9.0 but the install fails for 9.1.
It wants libcrypto.so.2 and libssl.so.2
I've googled and found that these files are provided by openssl.
MCC tells me that openssl is installed and I'm having no luck finding
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 21:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In protest at the 'Microsoft tax' -cannot (in many places) buy a
computer without windows, but cannot get a refund when you refuse
license.
http://www.windowsrefund.net
Details under What's happening (court case against Toshiba
I found that I preferred the 0.8.3 version of Sylpheed-claws which I'm
using under mdk 9.0 but the install fails for 9.1.
It wants libcrypto.so.2 and libssl.so.2
I've googled and found that these files are provided by openssl.
MCC tells me that openssl is installed and I'm having no luck
I've just found something rather strange in my system - I've updated the
NVidia drivers about a week or so ago, and now, for whatever reason,
every time I play a movie (AVI or whatever), on the right side of the
screen of the movie, I get garbage - now this didn't happen when I was
using the older
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 09:51, Tsyko wrote:
Only one processor
Apparently not
Is there a way to make it work?
did you not say this was an enterprise kernel? ? post the output from
the command mentioned below?
On Saturday, 28 June 2003 11:21, ed tharp wrote:
On Fri, 2003-06-27
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 08:32, Anders Lind wrote:
I found that I preferred the 0.8.3 version of Sylpheed-claws which I'm
using under mdk 9.0 but the install fails for 9.1.
It wants libcrypto.so.2 and libssl.so.2
I've googled and found that these files are provided by openssl.
MCC tells me
Hi,
You can add an special button in the systray (i'm using KDE as my
current desktop) called printing system or so (sorry, i've got the
spanish KDE localized version and i don't know exactly how it's called
in english). By clicking in one of the little up-arrows in the KDE task
menu, select
On 28 Jun 2003 at 23:27, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 21:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In protest at the 'Microsoft tax' -cannot (in many places) buy a
computer without windows, but cannot get a refund when you refuse
license.
http://www.windowsrefund.net
Details
Hi Anders,
No just got the rpm..I'll get the tarball and try that and try the
mailing list too.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Curt
You're welcome, let us know how it works out for you
/Anders
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Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
the output is as follows:
CPU0
0: 22116IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 7IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1IO-APIC-edge rtc
14: 12291IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 84IO-APIC-edge ide1
16: 3558
On 28 Jun 2003 08:43:53 -0500
Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
No just got the rpm..I'll get the tarball and try that and try the
mailing list too.
the problem is the prebuilt rpm has all those features enables (ssl,
crypto, etc.), so if you don't need those, the source will compile
Can anyone point me to language translation software, like (for example)
English to Spanish? qtrans is on the installation disks but I need
something far more robust than that. All I can find on freshmeat and
sourceforge are web based services, and I'm looking for something I can
run locally and
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 06:53, Robin Turner wrote:
Watch what you say about the Taliban, mate. They might not take too
kindly to being compared with Microsoft ;-)
Sir Robin
...er, can the Taliban members READ?
A lot of them are very well-educated (and I'm not talking about
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 17:32, Grant wrote:
I got the ESS Maestro sound card working on my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop
last night. All I have to enter now to make it work is:
modprobe snd-es1968;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe
snd-seq-oss
and then raise the aumix
Hello, hello, is there anyone out there? There's a bunch of armed guys
surrounding my house wearing kind of, well, butterfly suits. My phone's been
shutdown and I don't think their intentions are good. I was hoping it was
just a flashback thing from the good old days. Since a round came through
Stephen -- Hey, hey, I'm the one who has to close his eyes at night with the
boxes humming and staring at me as I sleep...let's not get them two riled up
here...shesh.
Mike Wafkowski
- Original Message -
From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Haven't seen it before, but very useful:
To use word completion with man, hit ESC !.
IE:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ man pk here i hit ESC !
pk2bm pkg-config pkill pktogf pktopbm pktype
and it gave all the solutions.
This is straight out of the ML 9.0 Command line manual
JoeHill wrote:
whats next? winux???
Thanks. I'm gonna have nightmares tonight...
Joe, i rarely LOL reading email, but when i do, it's often your fault!
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
I find dereks explanation the easiest to follow, especially for a newbie:
http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=10
Works like a charm
eric
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:40:42 +0100
Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 27 Jun 2003 11:05 pm,
Johan Scheepers wrote:
OK sorry - new - no OS..
If it is new you can install/remove at your hearts contend - it will make
you confident and see for yourself what happens.
I see some suggestions write to stiffy etc - what I found with my test that
the first time around there was no choice - not
Johan Scheepers wrote:
Hi John,
I installed mdk9.1 three times.
Option auto / expert never came up.
Insert CD1 , run to splash screen, choose F1, run to prompt, type
expert, then enter, gives you expert install in graphical mode(or whaterver)
Option to config or skip bootloader will came up
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 18:33, Curt Tresenriter wrote:
I'm confused... sorry if this is a stupid question but, it seems you're
saying that the files actually aren't necessary but since they are
enabled and can't be found, the install stops, no?
The executable will call functions from certain
On Saturday 28 June 2003 12:58 pm, Eric Huff wrote:
Haven't seen it before, but very useful:
To use word completion with man, hit ESC !.
IE:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ man pk here i hit ESC !
pk2bm pkg-config pkill pktogf pktopbm pktype
and it gave all the
We all had to learn. :) And now we spread the knowledge. The more the
merrier!
Paul
And I'm off!
Thanks Paul
c
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
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Is there any particular version of libdvdcss it has got to be to work
with all players in mandrake ?
John
--
John Richard Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
If you boot of the windows cd again go to the dos prompt and type ´fdisk /mbr´
without the quotes and this should take away the lilo partioning...
That´s how I have done it in the past.
Tsyko
On Saturday, 28 June 2003 17:36, Michael wrote:
ok, i've got some problems here. my laptop had
On Saturday 28 June 2003 03:57 pm, Tsyko wrote:
If you boot of the windows cd again go to the dos prompt and type ´fdisk
/mbr´ without the quotes and this should take away the lilo partioning...
That´s how I have done it in the past.
THANK YOU!
it works now. i'm happier now :)
now i have
ok, i've got some problems here. my laptop had been giving me problems for a
while. i had dropped it after getting my PC (which is 3x faster), and broke
the latch on the CD drive. well, i fixed that. the display is also funky
now, but with an external moniter, it's fine. well..
On Saturday 28 June 2003 11:26 am, Tsyko wrote:
the output is as follows:
CPU0
0: 22116IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 7IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1IO-APIC-edge rtc
14: 12291IO-APIC-edge ide0
Hi there:
Users of vmware 4 for linux should take a look at the link below and see
how this can affect or compromise their machines:
http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1019
Saludos,
Adolfo
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
Ok you can all laugh now...
does linux need to be defragmented ?
Tsyko
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
I'm going to go take some photos right now. Is it going to be able to
upload to Mandrake? Any tips?
- Grant
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
xvprint is good, too, for killing jobs...
However, what I am missing is a print manager , or some point and click
way of killing of print jobs - my printer is an Epson Stylus Colour 400.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
when i try to compile a game called kpacman i get the following error
checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and libraries)
not found. Please check your installation!
I have no idea what package needs to be updated...
please help
Want to buy your Pack or Services from
does linux need to be defragmented ?
No. Linux uses filesystems that are very fragmentation resistant, for
various degrees of 'very'.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 08:04, Phares wrote:
I have two XP boxes, Two OSx boxes, one OS9 laptop,
one OS 8 server, One win2000 laptop, a 4 machine linux
cluster, and a playstation 2 on my home Lan, the only
issue I've noticed is that my power bills can get
pretty expensive. (Luckily
Johan Scheepers wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to to install and boot dos + dos + linux with lilo.
This is just for learning.
Don't bother, you cannot, Windblows has to be in charge of all it's own
booting, therfore lilo hands it over to windblows.
I read thruogh all lilo docs and manual but I do not
No, but it would be very usefull if the most experienced ppl on this mail
list
would give us an explanation or some usefull links on this matter, why ext
doesn`t need defragmentation ...
Thanks in advance for your understanding.
Regards from
newArTs.
- Original Message -
From: Tsyko
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 22:39, Tsyko wrote:
Ok you can all laugh now...
Okay, if it humors you: laugh laugh ;)
does linux need to be defragmented ?
Nope. EXT2 etc. take care of that themselves, since the 'Linux' approach
of storing files is different from the way M$-dos does this.
Paul
--
Another good reason why linux rocks...
This is da bomb
On Saturday, 28 June 2003 18:50, Paul wrote:
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 22:39, Tsyko wrote:
Ok you can all laugh now...
Okay, if it humors you: laugh laugh ;)
does linux need to be defragmented ?
Nope. EXT2 etc. take care of that
did you do a fdisk /mbr before reinstalling windows?
this removes lilo from the master boot record, which is necessary if you
are going to have a windows drive again.
if lilo still shows up as you said, it has to be removed.
boot with a windows98 boot floppy and at the prompt type :
A:\fdisk
Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read
Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall.
Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) so I did
urpmi checkinstall - it reported two dependencies, I said yes and it
failed saying some files
I'm going to go take some photos right now. Is it going to be able to
upload to Mandrake? Any tips?
- Grant
Wow, in Windows I have to install a driver for it, but in Mandrake it popped
right up as soon as it was plugged in. Sweet!
- Grant
Want to buy your Pack or Services from
not unless you use JFS filesystem...
and don't do that cos SCO will sue your ass, as its one of the things they
claim IBM stole and gave to linux.
rgds
Franki
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tsyko
Sent: Sunday, 29 June 2003 4:40 AM
To:
This is why linux is so good - there are so many different ways to reach the
same point. If it works for you, sure thats good.
I am glad for the stuff I learned from this experiment.
Johan
- Original Message -
From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Sorry I expressed myself badly.
I want to boot this with lilo.
Johan
- Original Message -
From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Booting dos + dos + linux
Johan Scheepers wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 20:42, Grant wrote:
I'm going to go take some photos right now. Is it going to be able to
upload to Mandrake? Any tips?
Depends on your make and type of camera. You can check in Gphoto if it
is supported, or look at www.linux-usb.com (or org?) whether the kernel
So there it is hiding - on my system and CD if I press F1 the system hangs
forever and even enter will not work.
Have to reset system but enter works when pressed first - this is a
downloaded version of mdk9.1 I buy from a firm that sells them.
Any ideas why?
Thanks
Johan
- Original Message
quoting Curt Tresenriter; Saturday 28 June 2003 12:37 pm:
Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read
Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall.
Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) so I did
urpmi checkinstall - it
checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and libraries)
not found. Please check your installation!
Did you install qt-devel RPM?
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
No, but it would be very usefull if the most experienced ppl on this mail
list
would give us an explanation or some usefull links on this matter, why ext
Well, google for ext2 and fragmentation. Among the more detailed
items is one from Suse - http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/ext2frag.html.
Warren Post wrote:
Can anyone point me to language translation software, like (for example)
English to Spanish? qtrans is on the installation disks but I need
something far more robust than that. All I can find on freshmeat and
sourceforge are web based services, and I'm looking for something I
Johan Scheepers wrote:
So there it is hiding - on my system and CD if I press F1 the system hangs
forever and even enter will not work.
I don't know why that is happening.It must be reading of CD1 to get to
splash screen,so it's not a question of a rom drive, driver, and you
haven't even begun
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 04:36, Adolfo Bello wrote:
Hi there:
Users of vmware 4 for linux should take a look at the link below and see
how this can affect or compromise their machines:
http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1019
Saludos,
Adolfo
Hmmm...glad I
At 02:08 PM 6/28/03 -0600, you wrote:
quoting Curt Tresenriter; Saturday 28 June 2003 12:37 pm:
Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read
Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall.
Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) so
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