Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.

2003-12-27 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 26 December 2003 10:56 pm, Steven Nelson droned on: Hi, tried the command. It stated to enter a valid installation path. Do you know where else the installation path could be? Try the command which mozilla on your machine. If its in your path, it will tell you where it is. If its

[newbie] editing Mpeg home video

2003-12-27 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi About a year or so ago I asked about a program that would allow me to split mpeg home videos into smaller sections. However a lot of water under the bridge since then and I'm in a new install of 9.2 for a while now and find myself in the same boat but unfortunatly can't remember what the name

Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.

2003-12-27 Thread Steven Nelson
The installation said, try /usr/lib/mozilla, Mozilla was at /usr/bin/Mozilla. From, Steven From: Rob

Re: [newbie] editing Mpeg home video

2003-12-27 Thread dfox
Somebody scribbled about [newbie] editing Mpeg home video Hi About a year or so ago I asked about a program that would allow me to split mpeg home videos into smaller sections. Luckily, a new version of cinelerra was just announced on the PLF mailing list. You might try that - just add PLF as

[newbie] Leadtek TV 2000XP Deluxe

2003-12-27 Thread Matt Bleiweiss
Hello again, First off, thanks for helping me get my sound to work! Next, I am trying to get my TV tuner, a Leadtek 2000XP Deluxe to work. I have XawTV installed and at some point Mandrake asked me about the card but now in Xaw I get nothing. According to

[newbie] Off topic list?

2003-12-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Hmm, I seem to have lost the instructions on how to subsribe to the off topic list since I changed HD's and upgraded to v9.2 of Mandrake. I searched the Maling List archives, but have you ever searched there for off topic? grin Can someone post them please? Thanks! --

Re: [newbie] Off topic list?

2003-12-27 Thread ronald
Op zaterdag 27 december 2003 11:57, schreef Ronald J. Hall: Hmm, I seem to have lost the instructions on how to subsribe to the off topic list since I changed HD's and upgraded to v9.2 of Mandrake. I searched the Maling List archives, but have you ever searched there for off topic? yes I did

Re: [newbie] msec (originally Gcombust Question)

2003-12-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 05:24, E. Hines wrote: How would you uninstall msec? There are a lot of packages that will go right along with it--drakconf, drakxtools,rpmdrake, etc.? I dislike msec with an absolute passion (HATE is really how I feel about it). I know what permissions I want

Re: [newbie] cdrom failure

2003-12-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 December 2003 18:40, ronald wrote: Op vrijdag 26 december 2003 19:07, schreef John: I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? My

Re: [newbie] Off topic list?

2003-12-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 27 December 2003 06:13 am, ronald wrote: - yes I did :-) and came up with this - - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbiem=104542996332678w=2 - - is this the one Ronald? - - HTH ronald Yes, I believe thats it - thanks! Odd that, the screen where I searched for it at was

Re: [newbie] Missing 9.1 documentation

2003-12-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 December 2003 19:35, Mike Adolf wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 04:04 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 01:22, Mike Adolf wrote: Went to the Welcom to MandrakeGalaxy screen and press documentaiton icon but only got: Unable to run the command specified.

Re: [newbie] Kmix and Sound

2003-12-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 December 2003 21:40, Matt Bleiweiss wrote: Hey everyone, I have a Soundblaster Live! sound card that works just fine in Windows and worked the last time I had Mandrake installed. Now however, when I reinstalled Mandrake I had no sound so I started playing with the faders in

Re: [newbie] Off topic list?

2003-12-27 Thread ronald
Op zaterdag 27 december 2003 12:32, schreef Ronald J. Hall: Odd that, the screen where I searched for it at was nothing at all like the BW screen your link pointed to - was that under Mailing list archives on the Mandrake home page? from a general mailinglist archive

Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.

2003-12-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 27 December 2003 06:56, Steven Nelson wrote: Hi, tried the command. It stated to enter a valid installation path. Do you know where else the installation path could be? Try slocate mozilla (you may have to install slocate). It's probably looking for the plugins directory. Anne --

Re: [newbie] Off topic list?

2003-12-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 27 December 2003 06:33 am, ronald wrote: - from a general mailinglist archive - - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ - - ronald Ah, thanks! -- /\

Re: [newbie] installing cable modem

2003-12-27 Thread et
On Saturday 27 December 2003 01:02 am, Steven Nelson wrote: Hi, the modem works fine. There are different reasons why I prefer to use the terminal instead of drakconnect or a program similiar to it. There are programs that I would use for configuring a LAN connection, though. Thanks for the

Re: [newbie] editing Mpeg home video

2003-12-27 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 27 Dec 2003 7:40 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi About a year or so ago I asked about a program that would allow me to split mpeg home videos into smaller sections. However a lot of water under the bridge since then and I'm in a new install of 9.2 for a while now and find

Re: [newbie] Installing kernel and kernel source.

2003-12-27 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 27 Dec 2003 6:30 am, Steven Nelson wrote: I don't know if this will help, I thought it might. I finished installing the kernel (kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm) and kernel-source (kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm) about an hour ago. I tried a different method then the one

Re: [newbie] xfce-4.0.2

2003-12-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:06:58 -0500 Guy Rouillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles, sorry to send one note after the other. I downloaded your galeon package, and I'm trying to install it. When I do, it complains galeon-1.3.10-3.4mdk.i586 (due to unsatisied mozilla[*][== 1.5]. I

Re: [newbie] cdrom failure

2003-12-27 Thread John
On Saturday 27 December 2003 06:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 18:40, ronald wrote: is your bios set to boot from cd first? if so try cd2... if you have a working system you can also read the install.htm on cd1 and create a bootfloppy HTH ronald I think I read

Re: [newbie] Missing 9.1 documentation

2003-12-27 Thread Mike Adolf
On Saturday 27 December 2003 04:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 19:35, Mike Adolf wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 04:04 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 01:22, Mike Adolf wrote: Went to the Welcom to MandrakeGalaxy screen and press

Re: [newbie] Solved-- Gnome 2.2 Documentation System broken

2003-12-27 Thread The Other
Nevertheless, when I went to DocumentationHelp it was opened by Galeon, not by Mozilla... The documentation you want must be around here /usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/Starter.html/index.html Or you can reinstall Galeon again! JM 12/27/03 To: JM and All I had removed Galeon (and Mozilla). That

Re: [newbie] Leadtek TV 2000XP Deluxe

2003-12-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 27 December 2003 03:56 am, Matt Bleiweiss wrote: Hello again, First off, thanks for helping me get my sound to work! Next, I am trying to get my TV tuner, a Leadtek 2000XP Deluxe to work. I have XawTV installed and at some point Mandrake asked me about the card but now in Xaw

Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.

2003-12-27 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 27 December 2003 1:09 am, Steven Nelson wrote: The installation said, try /usr/lib/mozilla, Mozilla was at /usr/bin/Mozilla. From, Steven Before you work yourself into a lather and start screaming

Re: [newbie] Books for Newbies?

2003-12-27 Thread Aaron
Think unix the linux cookbook rute Aaron Fig ('RL Cassidy') wrote: Hi, I've just started using Linux, Mandrake 9.2 I have 'Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye' on order from Wal-Mart.com for $22+change including SH. And I was wondering what would be a good reference/study book in addition to

Re: [newbie] Missing 9.1 documentation

2003-12-27 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 27 December 2003 7:47 am, Mike Adolf wrote: whack I checked each rpmdrake(+) source I have configured (all 3 install CDs, plf and textstar). None had mandrake_doc-en-9.1-2mdk on them. Only cd2 came close with

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-27 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 7:25 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: whack Ok, I see what you are talking about, Carroll EDU seems to have an extra contrib directory (that had the anjuta I wanted) that is not part of cooker and appears not to be structured like

Re: [newbie] Missing 9.1 documentation

2003-12-27 Thread John
On Saturday 27 December 2003 09:47 am, Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 04:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 19:35, Mike Adolf wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 04:04 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 01:22, Mike Adolf wrote: I checked

Re: [newbie] Gateway config???

2003-12-27 Thread Sharrea Day
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 08:48, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 15:03, craig wrote: Every time I boot up I have to assign my default gateway manually so I can get online. Is there a file that I need to add the gateway to? I've tried the network file in /etc/sysconfig

Re: [newbie] Missing 9.1 documentation

2003-12-27 Thread John
On Saturday 27 December 2003 12:29 pm, John wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 09:47 am, Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 04:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 19:35, Mike Adolf wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 04:04 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday

Re: [newbie] Gateway config???

2003-12-27 Thread Rick Kunath
On Saturday 27 December 2003 12:35 pm, Sharrea Day wrote: IIRC, you only need GATEWAYDEV if you use a dialup modem (as I do). Mine goes: Not entirely correct... $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 HOSTNAME=tbird.nofish.net.nz I have a machine here with both a

Re: [newbie] Odd e-mail (unknown everything)

2003-12-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 27 December 2003 20:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 01:17 pm, Sharrea Day wrote: - On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 06:57, John Drouhard wrote: - On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:06:01 -0500 - - Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Anyone else getting these? I Kmails

Re: [newbie] Mailing list dead?

2003-12-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 27 December 2003 18:37, Mark Shaw wrote: I haven't seen any messages from the newbie list for some time, and there's nothing in the archives after 11/15. What's up? Do you mean this? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome?topic=NeWs Anne -- Registered Linux User

Re: [newbie] Installing problems

2003-12-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 27 December 2003 22:14, Simon Kempf Danebod wrote: I have an old laptop TOSHIBA S320CDS / 3.8 GB HD Pentium 233 MHz MMX 32 MB EDO RAM 12,1 Dual Scan (800 x 600) build in 20x CD And I am trying to install MANDRAKE 9.2 I have the following problems 1) I have succeeded in

Re: [newbie] Leadtek TV 2000XP Deluxe

2003-12-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 27 December 2003 04:56 am, Matt Bleiweiss wrote: Hello again, First off, thanks for helping me get my sound to work! Next, I am trying to get my TV tuner, a Leadtek 2000XP Deluxe to work. I have XawTV installed and at some point Mandrake asked me about the card but now in Xaw

Re: [newbie] editing Mpeg home video

2003-12-27 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 00:08:48 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the subject of video file formats, does anyone know of a program that will convert .mov to .dat? I've got a bunch of Animatrix movies in Quicktime format that I'd like to make into a VCD (not that I really know how all

Re: [newbie] Installing problems

2003-12-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 27 December 2003 22:58, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 22:14, Simon Kempf Danebod wrote: I have an old laptop TOSHIBA S320CDS / 3.8 GB HD Pentium 233 MHz MMX 32 MB EDO RAM 12,1 Dual Scan (800 x 600) build in 20x CD And I am trying to install MANDRAKE

SV: [newbie] Installing problems

2003-12-27 Thread Simon Kempf Danebod
Not tonight, but it is straight EDO RAM I might be able to get more installed! I will try to find some and get it installed! Thank you for the for the quick and sincere answer :-) Simon -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne af Anne Wilson

[newbie] installing .tar.bz2

2003-12-27 Thread Steven Nelson
Will someone tell me how to install then run a program that is a .tar.bz2 file? From,

Re: [newbie] installing .tar.bz2

2003-12-27 Thread Christoph Eckert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2003 01:48 schrieb Steven Nelson: Will someone tell me how to install then run a program that is a .tar.bz2 file? Phew, tar.bz2 is most common at first a tar.bz2 file which contains anything, not necessary a program.

Re: [newbie] installing .tar.bz2

2003-12-27 Thread Steven Nelson
The .tar.bz2 installed. From, Steven From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Eckert) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] installing .tar.bz2 Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 01:54:05 +0100 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2003 01:48

Re: [newbie] Missing 9.1 documentation

2003-12-27 Thread Mike Adolf
On Saturday 27 December 2003 03:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 14:47, Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 04:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 19:35, Mike Adolf wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 04:04 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On

Re: SV: [newbie] Installing problems

2003-12-27 Thread E. Hines
I'm with Anne on this one. But, I do have 9.1 running reasonably well (even with kde) on a P200 with 128 megs, so it can be done. Xfce works just fine 8). With only 32 megs I think I would drop all the way back to 7.x, but configuration will be a beast. I've run SuSe 6.0 on a P133 with 32

Re: [newbie] gnome desktop, menus

2003-12-27 Thread Guy Rouillier
John wrote: Hi I have been through all the updates for 9.2 including the menu update. Gnome desktop is nowhere to be found. It was listed during the menu update process(update-menus -v) and is listed in the software database for removal but does not show up as desktop environment. The kde

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-27 Thread Guy Rouillier
Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 7:25 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: whack Ok, I see what you are talking about, Carroll EDU seems to have an extra contrib directory (that had the anjuta I wanted) that is not part of cooker and appears not to be

Re: SV: [newbie] Installing problems

2003-12-27 Thread Marc
I think that if you dig around the mandrake web site you will find that the minimun suggested requirements are 128 MB of ram for a graphical installation and 64 MB of ram for a non graphical installation on all the mandrake 9.X releases. You may be able to get by with less ram but if my

Re: [newbie] Mailing list dead?

2003-12-27 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 05:56 PM 12/27/2003, Anne Wilson said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): On Saturday 27 December 2003 18:37, Mark Shaw wrote: I haven't seen any messages from the newbie list for some time, and there's nothing in the archives after 11/15. What's up? Do you mean

Re: [newbie] xfce-4.0.2

2003-12-27 Thread Guy Rouillier
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:06:58 -0500 Guy Rouillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles, sorry to send one note after the other. I downloaded your galeon package, and I'm trying to install it. When I do, it complains galeon-1.3.10-3.4mdk.i586 (due to unsatisied mozilla[*][==

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-27 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 27 December 2003 8:41 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: Ok, let me be exact then. I'm ftp'd into Carroll. Here is the full path the the contrib directory I need: /pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/contrib/i586 The full URL to start from

[newbie] New_Face failed error with Mplayer

2003-12-27 Thread Chris
When starting any type of video file I get: New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf). Although this doesn't seem to affect the playing of the file, its annoying. Thanks for any help Chris -- Regards Chris A 100%

[newbie] Enabling hyper threading.

2003-12-27 Thread Steven Nelson
I am about 85% sure that Mandrake 9.2 has hyper threading support. If Mandrake 9.2 does have hyper threading support will someone tell how to enable it? From,

Re: [newbie] Missing 9.1 documentation

2003-12-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 27 December 2003 07:43 pm, Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 03:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 14:47, Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 04:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 19:35, Mike Adolf wrote: On

[newbie] new mouse

2003-12-27 Thread Greg
Hey Everyone I hope everyone had a good Christmas I have a G/E wireless optical mouse ( yes I got it for Christmas ) I have not found any info on getting it to work with Linux So before I give up I figured if any one can help me get it to work It would be from the great family on this

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-27 Thread Guy Rouillier
Charlie, I have anjuta up and running, so this conversation is now just for my knowledge. Please feel free to take as long as you want to reply - no hurry. Charlie Mahan wrote: ../../cooker/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz since the directory we started from was contrib we want the hdlist for