Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.

2004-03-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Dan Gordon wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:51:48 -0500 Dan Gordon wrote: Maybe setterm -powersave off Thanks will let you know if this works setterm -powersave off gave me this cannot (un)set powersave mode so i tried setterm -blank 0 and setterm -powerdown 0 no errors so i will see what

[newbie] pnp monitor

2004-03-24 Thread Frank Bax
I changed the monitor on a MDK91 system, and the system still retains name of old monitor - both monitors are pnp. Shouldn't the system detect the change and update config? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.

2004-03-24 Thread Dan Gordon
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:44:28 + John Richard Smith wrote: The choices in setterm seem to be, [ -powersave [on | vsync | hsync | powerdown | off] ] which I took to mean, powersave on with Verticle and horizontal syncronisation and powerdown off.[ -powerdown [0-60] ] this sets the time

Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.

2004-03-24 Thread Dan Gordon
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:23:30 -0500 Dan Gordon wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:44:28 + John Richard Smith wrote: The choices in setterm seem to be, [ -powersave [on | vsync | hsync | powerdown | off] ] which I took to mean, powersave on with Verticle and horizontal

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-24 Thread Marc
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 09:05 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:24:41 -0500 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 23 March 2004 11:03 am, William Warren wrote: just from this post..it works with windows and not with Linux..Bioses can be tied to windows and as

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-24 Thread franki
Well, first thing, what chipset is it? what northbridge/southbridge chips.. Start by comparing that to existing intel boards.. find out if intel has any docs on those boards and linux on their site.. just a thought. rgds Franki Marc wrote: On Tuesday 23 March 2004 09:05 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote:

Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.

2004-03-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Dan Gordon wrote: I think I'm just going to not worry about this any longer. Regards, Dan Gordon Yes, either, -blank [0-60] or, -powerdown [0-60] not sure which, sets the powerdown(or powersave) to however many minutes) between 0 and 60 minutes. and that's it. If you want screen

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Marc wrote: I suspect that if I dig around the Intel web site that I may find one to work. Even though the information at the intel web site says that if it is a board that they made for a OEM they will offer NO support. Marc Seems like your best chance. Odds on bet that Intel know about

Re: [newbie] 10 CE Shutdown

2004-03-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 01:11 am, Margot wrote: Thanks Charlie, I'll give the new kernel a try once I can get my internet connection to stay up long enough to download the file! I have an 'unlimited' monthly-paid dialup package, but each session is supposedly time-limited to 2 hours - and

Re: [newbie] They needed to do a study?

2004-03-24 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 00:25:20 -0800 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add weedsonly.cf, backhair.cf and chickenpox.cf to your /etc/Mail/spamassassin Catches most all the spam. Set your Bayes to trigger on 4.0. Lately, the Where can I get those .cf files and how do I incorporate them?

Re: [newbie] cdrecord errors

2004-03-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 05:32 pm, RichardA wrote: /usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted: WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler /usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied: WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority() /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer

Re: [newbie] 10 CE Shutdown

2004-03-24 Thread Margot
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 24 March 2004 01:11 am, Margot wrote: Thanks Charlie, I'll give the new kernel a try once I can get my internet connection to stay up long enough to download the file! I have an 'unlimited' monthly-paid dialup package, but each session is supposedly time-limited

[newbie] (no subject)

2004-03-24 Thread Tom
Hey all, I have just recently gotten a 10 community system up an running and have a question about groups and permissions/software installs. When I add software as a user it works ok, but when I add it as root I then have trouble using it as user. I was having trouble with xmms- it would

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-24 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 04:08, Anne Wilson wrote: - From the PM point of view, create your fat32 partition for data immediately after the ntfs partition - you could do this from XP instead, I think. For the rest of the drive just ignore it in PM. Okay, that's where the free space is, and

[newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Some windows are bigger than the screen, what causes problems with accessing the OK button. Is there any trick to overcome this difficulty? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-24 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 11:11 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 04:08, Anne Wilson wrote: - From the PM point of view, create your fat32 partition for data immediately after the ntfs partition - you could do this from XP instead, I think. For the rest of the drive just

[newbie] Mandrdake 9.2 and Atapi Zipdrive

2004-03-24 Thread mrc
Information gleaned from running dmesg reveals that Mandrake 9.2 reads my hdc (CDrom) and hdd (Atapi Zip drive) through scsi host adapter emulation. Does this mean that I cannot have the zipdrive recognized directly for what it is, namely a non-scsi drive? I'm trying to find out why my

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-24 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 11:26, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 24 March 2004 11:11 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 04:08, Anne Wilson wrote: - From the PM point of view, create your fat32 partition for data immediately after the ntfs partition - you could do this from XP

[newbie] MS Fined

2004-03-24 Thread PRM
Microsoft hit by record EU fine be everywhere, but try http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3563697.stm Plus, Software giant Microsoft must pay a fine of 497m euros ($613m; £331m) for abusing its dominant market position, the European Commission has ordered. Competition Commissioner Mario

[newbie] Install trouble on a Starmax (PPC)

2004-03-24 Thread francis . walsh
I'm trying to install Mandrake 9.1 on a Starmax 5000 currently running Mac OS 9.1 with 160 Meg of ram. After a bit of trial and error with the bootx settings I got the installer to run, however it seems to only get part way through the hardware identification process and I get a kernal panic error

Re: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-24 Thread frankieh
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Some windows are bigger than the screen, what causes problems with accessing the OK button. Is there any trick to overcome this difficulty? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Hold down the ALT key and drag the window so you can access the buttons.. -- rgds Frank

Re: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 04:57:15PM +, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Some windows are bigger than the screen, what causes problems with accessing the OK button. Is there any trick to overcome this difficulty? Thank you a lot in advance! It probably depends on your window manager, but try

Re: [newbie] cd install failed

2004-03-24 Thread di di
Derek, i just dont find the prompt after pressing CTR-ALT F2! Fabian. From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cd install failed Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:43:28 + On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 22:14, di di wrote: After

Re: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-24 Thread bmobile40
Set your screen resolution to a higher DPI. I recommend 1024 X 768. That should fix the problem. Jim On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 10:57, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Some windows are bigger than the screen, what causes problems with accessing the OK button. Is there any trick to overcome this

Re: [newbie] They needed to do a study?

2004-03-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 09:10 am, David E. Fox wrote: -On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 00:25:20 -0800 -Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - - - Add weedsonly.cf, backhair.cf and chickenpox.cf to your /etc/Mail/spamassassin - Catches most all the spam. Set your Bayes to trigger on 4.0. Lately, the -

Re: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-24 Thread Frank Bax
At 11:57 AM 3/24/04, Paul Smith wrote: Some windows are bigger than the screen, what causes problems with accessing the OK button. Is there any trick to overcome this difficulty? 1) Buy a bigger monitor 2) Change resolution 3) Memorise how many times you need to hit tab key to get to 'OK'

Re: [newbie] (no subject) xmms : groups and permissions

2004-03-24 Thread Tom
Tom wrote: Hey all, I have just recently gotten a 10 community system up an running and have a question about groups and permissions/software installs. When I add software as a user it works ok, but when I add it as root I then have trouble using it as user. I was having trouble with xmms-

Re: [newbie] 10 CE Shutdown

2004-03-24 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 21:55, Margot wrote: snip Well, some success... I managed to download and install the new kernel (without getting cut off this time), and the shutdown now goes past the original hang point, but now it gets to this: md: md0 switched to read-only mode. Power down.

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-24 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 04:57 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: As an add-on : Until I got into Linux (7.0) I ran OS/2. On that OS I always had 4 primary partitions : one for the OS, one for applications, one for my private stuff and one for backup. All HPFS. Maybe it's a leftover from way back, but

Re: [newbie] 10 CE Shutdown

2004-03-24 Thread Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 6:45 pm, Margot wrote: Newly installed 10 CE won't shutdown/poweroff cleanly - using either the root terminal shutdown process or the KDE logout button I get as far as this... uhci_hcd :00:11.2: USB bus 1 deregistered ... and then it hangs. I know this is a

Re: {Spam?} [newbie] Seti

2004-03-24 Thread Brian Parish
seti provide a cron script. Mine is: 0 * * * * cd ~/setiathome; ./setiathome -nice 19 /dev/null 2 /dev/null Work fine. cheers Brian On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 09:38, David Williams wrote: I have seti setup to start automatically on boot. However, on occasion when it can not send its results to

[newbie] dialup networking problem

2004-03-24 Thread Russell Butler
Dear all, Sorry if this is in the archives, but I could not find anything immediately relevant. Reinstall of Mandrake 9.1, have set up shorewall(2.0) firewall and have local network/samba/cups running (sigh). Dialup works in the sense of being able to connect to my ISP, but no access to the

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-24 Thread Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 5:42 pm, Marc wrote: My views are based on the fact that the Maxtor diagnostic software says that the hard drive suppled by Gateway is not properly supported by the BIOS on the mother board suppled BY gateway. My guess is that the BIOS works well enough to pull in the

Re: [newbie] dialup networking problem

2004-03-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 24 Mar 2004 12:46, Russell Butler wrote: Dear all, Sorry if this is in the archives, but I could not find anything immediately relevant. Reinstall of Mandrake 9.1, have set up shorewall(2.0) firewall and have local network/samba/cups running (sigh). Dialup works in the sense

Re: [newbie] IP address converter?

2004-03-24 Thread Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 9:20 pm, rikona wrote: Hello newbie, I need to convert a number of IP addresses back and forth from nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn form to xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx form. Does anyone know of a calculator on- or off-line to do this? You are mistaken. nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn is an IP (version 4)

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-24 Thread Rick Kunath
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 04:17 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: Perhaps I should have qualified. You can have up to 4 primary partitions on a hard drive but only one can be marked active. Windows and DOS will only see the active primary partition and will ignore all others. DOS or Windows /9x/ME

[newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread frankieh
As the subject says: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115365,00.asp HP, IBM Sign Up for SuSE Linux Novell's distribution will appear on HP desktops, more IBM servers soon. Gillian Law, IDG News Service Wednesday, March 24, 2004 Novell has signed agreements with Hewlett-Packard and IBM

Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.

2004-03-24 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 07:04 am, Dan Gordon wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:00:18 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think it's that simple. The TCO symbol means the monitor itself can do this, I know in theory the bios ought to shut it down if you can set it as

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 12:25, frankieh wrote: Generous Whack It's a slow road to toe, but the tech world is changing. Don't need all that fancy-dancy marketing if you've got an OS that's solid as a rock... It would be rather nice if someone somewhere WOULD do some more marketing of linux - even

Re: [newbie] Reinstalling bad programs

2004-03-24 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 06:36 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 12:31, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 12:05, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have some programs XMMS, kmail, konqueror that apparantly have some bad config files. I have reinstalled them but they are

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 05:51 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 12:25, frankieh wrote: Generous Whack It's a slow road to toe, but the tech world is changing. Don't need all that fancy-dancy marketing if you've got an OS that's solid as a rock... It would be rather nice if

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 13:19, Aron Smith wrote: Dammit Stephen show a little enthusiasm. If I can make a stencil (as I did with the linux paint-job) I'm going to splay I fix computers not cars on my bumper (1983 Toyota Corona that looks like it's been shot at and missed, shit at and hit). BTW,

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 06:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 13:19, Aron Smith wrote: Dammit Stephen show a little enthusiasm. If I can make a stencil (as I did with the linux paint-job) I'm going to splay I fix computers not cars on my bumper (1983 Toyota Corona that

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 13:32, Aron Smith wrote: BTW, if there were bumperstickers available that had something about Mandrake on 'em I'd get a few... Use GIMP ,a laser printer and full sheet label paper Make your own Ain't you supposed to be eating dinner about now? Like beans, cabbage,

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 06:50 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 13:32, Aron Smith wrote: BTW, if there were bumperstickers available that had something about Mandrake on 'em I'd get a few... Use GIMP ,a laser printer and full sheet label paper Make your own Ain't you

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 14:16, Aron Smith wrote: Ain't you supposed to be eating dinner about now? Like beans, cabbage, cornbread and chitlins? Nope Steak Potatos Green Beans sourdogh Bread Like chitlins ..just can't stand the smell of them cooking (that smell could be classified as a WMD)

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 02:32 am, many eyes viewed Aron Smith's words:- On Wednesday 24 March 2004 06:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 13:19, Aron Smith wrote: Dammit Stephen show a little enthusiasm. If I can make a stencil (as I did with the linux paint-job) I'm going to

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Marc
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 07:51 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 12:25, frankieh wrote: Generous Whack It's a slow road to toe, but the tech world is changing. Don't need all that fancy-dancy marketing if you've got an OS that's solid as a rock... It would be rather nice if

Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Refresh Rate

2004-03-24 Thread John A. Smith
I had the same problem with my Intel 82855 chip. Check out this link from Intel http://support.intel.com/support/notebook/centrino/sb/cs-006059-prd955.htm Click on linux drivers and download and install the .rpm file. The follow the X -configure instructions in the Readme. This should get your

Re: [newbie] (no subject) xmms

2004-03-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 24 Mar 2004 14:56, Tom wrote: Hey all, I have just recently gotten a 10 community system up an running and have a question about groups and permissions/software installs. When I add software as a user it works ok, but when I add it as root I then have trouble using it as user.

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 lilo issue

2004-03-24 Thread Erylon Hines
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 12:47 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I've received a wonderful package from the UK that contains the Mandrake 9.2 CD set - THANK YOU HEAPS! Meawnwhile, in the installation on a client's machine (P4 w/SATA drive) lilo just wouldn't install - grub installed, but I have this