Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2

2003-12-13 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Saturday 13 December 2003 10:13, emnej wrote: Op vr 12-12-2003, om 09:32 schreef Derek Jennings: On Friday 12 Dec 2003 7:15 am, emnej wrote: Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk

Re: [newbie] Forgot the swap partition...

2003-12-13 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 05:12 am, many eyes noted that Iván Velamazán González wrote: In my case (Mandrake 9.2; 512MB RAM and 512MB swap) I've never seen swap used (normal / personal workstation use)... Well, one time I saw a few kilobytes allocated. The next time I make changes at the disk,

Re: [newbie] Forgot the swap partition...

2003-12-13 Thread John Richard Smith
Charlie wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 05:12 am, many eyes noted that Iván Velamazán González wrote: In my case (Mandrake 9.2; 512MB RAM and 512MB swap) I've never seen swap used (normal / personal workstation use)... Well, one time I saw a few kilobytes allocated. The next time I make changes at

Re: [newbie] make partition/dir r/w dor all

2003-12-13 Thread Johan
Hi, Ok, this was given to me by Izak and done yesterday...still working after overnight reboot...Thanks to all that responded to my question.. *** Just chmod /mnt/backup to 1777. That way it is sticky and writable by any one. Sticky means anyone can create files, but you cannot delete files

[newbie] Scannerdrake doesnt save config

2003-12-13 Thread David Little
I am trying to install a Umax 2000U usb scanner on 9.2. Scanner drake identifies the Umax Astra 2000U found on /dev/usb/scanner0 but when I either click auto or manual configuration, it return to the main screen and reports No scanners found which are available on your system david Want to

[newbie] Laptops

2003-12-13 Thread Lanman
I remember seeing some posts lately about laptop choices for Mandrake. Well, I finally found one that works incredibly well. Asus makes a laptop called a D1 or D1000, and promotes it as a desknote PC, but it's actually a laptop which can also be used as a PC replacement. So, yesterday, I

Re: [newbie] Laptops

2003-12-13 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 09:03:09 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember seeing some posts lately about laptop choices for Mandrake. Well, I finally found one that works incredibly well. Asus makes a laptop called a D1 or D1000, and promotes it as a desknote PC, but it's actually a

[newbie] Bit Torrent installation

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Brandt
Im trying to install Bit Torrent (bittorrent-3.3-3mdk.src.rpm) on mandrake 9.2 for Mozilla 1.5. extracted the files (to /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES) untarred BitTorrent-3.3.tar.bz2 then i added application/x-bittorrent; /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/BitTorrent-3.3/btdownloadgui.py %s; test=test -n $DISPLAY

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Java plug-in probs

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Brandt
I had already done that : ( The wierd thing is, i went on that test page and it says no java enabled, but it says the version no. (1.3) and that cookies are enabled which it says should only be displayed if java test says enabled. From the experience of trying to install Bit Torrent, should

Re: [newbie] Bit Torrent installation

2003-12-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 2:27 pm, Martin Brandt wrote: Im trying to install Bit Torrent (bittorrent-3.3-3mdk.src.rpm) on mandrake 9.2 for Mozilla 1.5. extracted the files (to /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES) untarred BitTorrent-3.3.tar.bz2 then i added application/x-bittorrent;

Re: [newbie] Laptops

2003-12-13 Thread Lanman
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 09:16, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 09:03:09 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember seeing some posts lately about laptop choices for Mandrake. Well, I finally found one that works incredibly well. Asus makes a laptop called a D1 or D1000,

Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2: almost solved

2003-12-13 Thread emnej
Op za 13-12-2003, om 08:46 schreef Frans Ketelaars: On Saturday 13 December 2003 10:13, emnej wrote: Op vr 12-12-2003, om 09:32 schreef Derek Jennings: On Friday 12 Dec 2003 7:15 am, emnej wrote: Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: Have you tried running alsaconf?

[newbie] How to apply pateches (was bittorrent installation)

2003-12-13 Thread Jerry Barton
When i extracted the rpm other files were extracted other than BitTorrent-3.3.tar.bz2, BitTorrent-3.3-maketorrent-1.2.patch.bz2 BitTorrent-3.3-man.tar.bz2 BitTorrent-3.3-nonag.patch.bz2 and 3 icons do i need to install these also? there is nothing in the install readme from

Re: [newbie] Scannerdrake doesnt save config

2003-12-13 Thread John Richard Smith
David Little wrote: I am trying to install a Umax 2000U usb scanner on 9.2. Scanner drake identifies the Umax Astra 2000U found on /dev/usb/scanner0 but when I either click auto or manual configuration, it return to the main screen and reports No scanners found which are available on your system

Re: [newbie] Bit Torrent installation

2003-12-13 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:27:14 +, Martin Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie] Bit Torrent installation: Im trying to install Bit Torrent (bittorrent-3.3-3mdk.src.rpm) on mandrake 9.2 for Mozilla 1.5. extracted the files (to

Re: [newbie] Bit Torrent installation

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Brandt
Well ive installed the two bit torrent rpms (I assume i needed the gui rpm) now i just need to know how to run it. Ive removed the files and the changes i made to /etc/mailcap and now when i click on torrent links it doesnt detect that it should use Bit Torrent to open .torrents From: Derek

Re: [newbie] Bit Torrent installation

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Brandt
Thanks a lot i didnt read your last post before i posted again. Im fine using it with Konqueror. Thanks everyone for your help From: Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Bit Torrent installation Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 16:42:41

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Java plug-in probs

2003-12-13 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 13 December 2003 7:33 am, Martin Brandt wrote: I had already done that : ( The wierd thing is, i went on that test page and it says no java enabled, but it says the version no. (1.3) and that cookies are enabled which it says should only

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Sound

2003-12-13 Thread Langsley T Russell
Hi again Charlie. You said: I thought that was fixed, or have I confused this thread with another? What sound card (on-board, PCI card???) chip-set? Do you have aumix installed, if not I recommend you do so and post the output of aumix -q OK, I installed aumix and below is the output

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Update Sources

2003-12-13 Thread Langsley T Russell
Hello yet again, Charlie. You said: Frankly I'd recommend you remove both. The source for what you want was called updates by Mandrake Update once upon a time, now it's called update_source, next week who the hell knows. g Just nuke both and let Mandrake Update set a new one up. Then

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Sound

2003-12-13 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 13 December 2003 10:35 am, Langsley T Russell wrote: Hi again Charlie. You said: I thought that was fixed, or have I confused this thread with another? What sound card (on-board, PCI card???) chip-set? Do you have aumix installed, if

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Sound

2003-12-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 6:36 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: If you don't document the steps and solutions and how you achieved the results Anne Wilson will string us both up. You have to post your trials and tribulations and their resolution on the Community Wiki. http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Update Sources

2003-12-13 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 13 December 2003 11:36 am, Langsley T Russell wrote: Hello yet again, Charlie. You said: Frankly I'd recommend you remove both. The source for what you want was called updates by Mandrake Update once upon a time, now it's called

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Sound

2003-12-13 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 13 December 2003 11:44 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 6:36 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: If you don't document the steps and solutions and how you achieved the results Anne Wilson will string us both up. You have to post

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Sound

2003-12-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 7:00 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: Glad to see that you're flying the flag while I'm away, Charlie. I know my only contributions to the Wiki have been in the form of copy and pastes from answers I've posted. By others. For that I apologize. But since I was one of the

Re: [newbie] Laptops

2003-12-13 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Lanman wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 09:16, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 09:03:09 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember seeing some posts lately about laptop choices for Mandrake. Well, I finally found one that works incredibly well. Asus makes a laptop

[newbie] missing screensavers

2003-12-13 Thread John Beaman
I just installed ML 9.2 with medium security and most defaults. When I go to choose a screensaver, the list is blank. Where did they go? How do I get them back? While I'm writing, how do I get rid of the Edutainment applications? Thanks, hackhound __ Do you

Re: [newbie] missing screensavers

2003-12-13 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 13 December 2003 1:48 pm, John Beaman wrote: I just installed ML 9.2 with medium security and most defaults. When I go to choose a screensaver, the list is blank. Where did they go? How do I get them back? Add the proper packages.

Re: [newbie] Reading PDF attachments from Mozilla containing spaces in the title

2003-12-13 Thread Adrian T. Kuepker
Jerry Barton wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:24:13 -0800 Adrian Kuepker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're having trouble opening PDFs directly from Mozilla(mdk9.2) that contain a space in the file name. put %20 in place of the space like%20this%20for%20example.pdf Maybe I'm missing the

Re: [newbie] missing screensavers

2003-12-13 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 13 December 2003 20:48, John Beaman wrote: I just installed ML 9.2 with medium security and most defaults. When I go to choose a screensaver, the list is blank. Where did they go? How do I get them back? First, open a console and see if you have xscreensaver installed. To do

[newbie] cdrom/floppy drives

2003-12-13 Thread John
Hi I have been uable to access my cdrom and floppy drives. The following message comes up: /mnt/cdrom file doesn't seem to exist anymore. I am running md9.1 and have not had any problems using both until now. Would appreciate any suggestions on what might correct this. Thanks john Want to

Re: [newbie] Reading PDF attachments from Mozilla containing spaces in the title

2003-12-13 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 9:16 pm, Adrian T. Kuepker wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:24:13 -0800 Adrian Kuepker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're having trouble opening PDFs directly from Mozilla(mdk9.2) that contain a space in the file name. put %20 in place of the

Re: [newbie] missing screensavers

2003-12-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 8:48 pm, John Beaman wrote: I just installed ML 9.2 with medium security and most defaults. When I go to choose a screensaver, the list is blank. Where did they go? How do I get them back? While I'm writing, how do I get rid of the Edutainment applications?

[newbie] Firewalls for Linux

2003-12-13 Thread Carren Stuart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, There are always more questions! :-) What do you people all use/prefer for a firewall to run with Mandrake? I am not overly impressed with the inbuilt firewall configuration ... so far I have had to disable it completely to get GAIM or my mail

Re: [newbie] Archives

2003-12-13 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 13 December 2003 09:44 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Well, the obvious thing to do is to point ones browser to the main Mandrake site, select Mailing lists and carry on. Doing that, one is directed to : http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/newbie/ only to find out, that the latest post is

Re: [newbie] On a sentimental note

2003-12-13 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 13 December 2003 09:14 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 13 December 2003 09:00 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Can anyone tell us the whereabouts on Civileme and Shridhar Dhanapalan ? Kaj Haulrich. I just saw a post by civileme on the forum for hardware and the LG problem, and I

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-13 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Saturday 06 December 2003 00:29, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: Yep!!! Not those but Got a Asus A7N266 (all in one) and now a MSI 6570G (all in one!) Both worked nicely on mdk 9.0, 9,1 and 9.2! For graphic acceleration you need the nvidia rpm packages! Even the sound sounds great! ;-)) []s

Re: [newbie] Firewalls for Linux

2003-12-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 13 December 2003 10:00 pm, Carren Stuart wrote: What do you people all use/prefer for a firewall to run with Mandrake? Well, I use iptables and have a custom written bash script to update the firewall with ip ranges that I want to block. Not particularly newbie friendly, but it

Re: [newbie] On a sentimental note

2003-12-13 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 22:00, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Can anyone tell us the whereabouts on Civileme and Shridhar Dhanapalan ? Kaj Haulrich. Last I heard: Civileme was working a job in a computer store in Alaska; astounding the regular computer grease monkeys with amazing feats of Linux

Re: [newbie] Firewalls for Linux

2003-12-13 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 22:39, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 13 December 2003 10:00 pm, Carren Stuart wrote: What do you people all use/prefer for a firewall to run with Mandrake? Well, I use iptables and have a custom written bash script to update the firewall with ip ranges that I

Re: [newbie] Scannerdrake doesnt save config

2003-12-13 Thread Graham Watkins
John Richard Smith wrote: David Little wrote: I am trying to install a Umax 2000U usb scanner on 9.2. Scanner drake identifies the Umax Astra 2000U found on /dev/usb/scanner0 but when I either click auto or manual configuration, it return to the main screen and reports No scanners found which

[newbie] Desktop issues, revisited

2003-12-13 Thread Guy Rouillier
Before I begin, let me start by saying I am a fan of Linux, so the points I raise below are from the converted. Last night I spent an exasperating 6 hrs struggling with numerous issues. I'll submit them as bugs if appropriate. I feel these issues (and many more like them) are impediments to