Re: [newbie] Who makes a good laptop?( A bit off topic)

2004-10-03 Thread frankieh
John Layt wrote: On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 00:05, Marc wrote: I have a friend that is shopping for a new laptop. Quality and being 100 ML compatible are both very important. as is wireless networking. Can anyone here make some suggestions as to a brand or model number. Thanks Marc I

Re: [newbie] Who makes a good laptop?( A bit off topic)

2004-10-03 Thread frankieh
Vincent Voois wrote: Quality and being 100% ML compatible are pretty high demands. The most known brands have their problems and issues, but if you always handle a laptop with care, the most will remain good. I don't know about 100% ML compatability, but about quality of the known brands: I

Re: [newbie] Reporting a bug.

2004-10-03 Thread Marek Pawinski
Andy Allen wrote: Can someone please tell me how, in very simple steps, how to report a bug/issue. You can report a bug here http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/ Marek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Evolution broken :(

2004-10-03 Thread Merlin Zener
Well last night I sent off a happy email telling of my success... This morning I log on to find that Evolution won't start up :( [For those who were not followwing the earlier thread, I just upgraded from Mandrake 9.0 to 10.0] Now when starting Evolution I get the following error messages:

[newbie] USB Flash Drive Config.

2004-10-03 Thread Simon Utley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I know there was a thread on this not long ago but it didn't answer my problem. I am on Mdk 10 and in order to get my Traveling Disk 2.0 USB Flash Drive to work I had to make a directory /mnt/memstick then mount it using #mount -t vfat

[newbie] MandrakeMove Download edition config.

2004-10-03 Thread Simon Utley
Hi, does anyone know if you can configure Shorewall on the download edition of MandrakeMove. I can open the files as root but when I go to save the newly configured file it won't allow me. Is this because I am reading the file off the CD Rom and am unable to write to it? I cannot get the MCC

Re: [newbie] Evolution broken :(

2004-10-03 Thread Merlin Zener
On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 15:25, Merlin Zener wrote: Well last night I sent off a happy email telling of my success... This morning I log on to find that Evolution won't start up :( [For those who were not followwing the earlier thread, I just upgraded from Mandrake 9.0 to 10.0] Now when

Re: [newbie] USB Flash Drive Config.

2004-10-03 Thread Lanman
Simon Utley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I know there was a thread on this not long ago but it didn't answer my problem. I am on Mdk 10 and in order to get my Traveling Disk 2.0 USB Flash Drive to work I had to make a directory /mnt/memstick then mount it using

Re: [newbie] USB Flash Drive Config.

2004-10-03 Thread Simon Utley
On Sunday 03 Oct 2004 13:40, Lanman wrote: Simon, Check to see if you have hotplug installed and that it's starting at boot time, It was installed but not running or set to start at boot. I have now set it to run at boot and it is doing so. then make sure that you've configured your

Re: [newbie] USB Flash Drive Config.

2004-10-03 Thread Simon Utley
On Sunday 03 Oct 2004 14:40, Simon Utley wrote: I rebooted and plugged in the USB drive, its led flickered but no icon on the desktop and when I checked the device had not been mounted I have created a Desktop icon that, when I am in my Desktop as root, enables me just to click on it and

[newbie] Screen lock and password not resolving

2004-10-03 Thread Terence Golightly
List, I tried posting a thread concerning this problem last week but w/o much help. I recently changed my user password (at a moment of minor paranoia about a misperceived system compromise). Well, this is where my problem begins. From gdm I can login, and my desktop appears. Now if I want to

[newbie] Fwd: Asunto: Re: [newbie-es] Escribir en la Particion Windows

2004-10-03 Thread Ticià
-- Forwarded message -- From: csalinux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 19:31:35 +0200 Subject: Asunto: Re: [newbie-es] Escribir en la Particion Windows To: Tici? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Puedes utilizar captive. Es un programa que utiliza el driver de grabaci?n del NTFS. Yo no lo

Re: [newbie] Screen lock and password not resolving

2004-10-03 Thread mike
Terence Golightly wrote: List, I tried posting a thread concerning this problem last week but w/o much help. I recently changed my user password (at a moment of minor paranoia about a misperceived system compromise). Well, this is where my problem begins. From gdm I can login, and my

Re: [newbie] Evolution broken :(

2004-10-03 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 18:25, Merlin Zener wrote: Well last night I sent off a happy email telling of my success... This morning I log on to find that Evolution won't start up :( [For those who were not followwing the earlier thread, I just upgraded from Mandrake 9.0 to 10.0] Now when

[newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-03 Thread Michel Leunen
I've just installed qcad on my mdk 10.0 but there isn't any object libraries. So I went to the qcad site and downloaded the partlibrary.zip file. So far so good :-) The problem is that the library I downloaded doesn't appear in the object browser of qcad. How to install those libraries? I

Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-03 Thread aron Smith
On Sunday 03 October 2004 12:20 pm, Michel Leunen wrote: I've just installed qcad on my mdk 10.0 but there isn't any object libraries. So I went to the qcad site and downloaded the partlibrary.zip file. So far so good :-) The problem is that the library I downloaded doesn't appear in the

Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-03 Thread Thereidos
W licie z nie, 03-10-2004, godz. 21:20, Michel Leunen pisze: I've just installed qcad on my mdk 10.0 but there isn't any object libraries. So I went to the qcad site and downloaded the partlibrary.zip file. So far so good :-) The problem is that the library I downloaded doesn't appear in the

[newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Thread Chris
I installed Afterstep 2.0 yesterday, I like the looks, but it will take some figuring out after all these years of using KDE. Question I have is adding AS to my login manager. I've added 08AfterStep to my /etc/X11/wmsession.d file as such: NAME=AFTERSTEP DESC=Afterstep

Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-03 Thread aron Smith
On Sunday 03 October 2004 12:47 pm, Thereidos wrote: W licie z nie, 03-10-2004, godz. 21:20, Michel Leunen pisze: I've just installed qcad on my mdk 10.0 but there isn't any object libraries. So I went to the qcad site and downloaded the partlibrary.zip file. So far so good :-) The

Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Thread Chris
On Sunday 03 October 2004 02:48 pm, Chris wrote: I forgot to add that #chksession -l shows this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]# chksession -l KDE GNOME WindowMaker Enlightenment BlackBox XFce IceWM AFTERSTEP default failsafeAFTERSTEP default failsafe I can't figure out why it shows up as AFTERSTEP

Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 05:48, Chris wrote: I installed Afterstep 2.0 yesterday, I like the looks, but it will take some figuring out after all these years of using KDE. Question I have is adding AS to my login manager. I've added 08AfterStep to my /etc/X11/wmsession.d file as such:

Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-03 Thread Michel Leunen
aron Smith wrote: BTW .zip files are for windows Yes, I know but that's the only file type available on the qcad website. I didn't have any other choice. Thanks. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-03 Thread Michel Leunen
Thereidos wrote: Free translation from Polish: Edit/Application preferences/Paths There you have to add the path to were you placed part library. I've tried this with no luck. No object appears in the Object browser. Michel Want to buy

Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-03 Thread Michel Leunen
aron Smith wrote: Is that lib avabile as a .tar or tar gz? .zip is a windows compression scheme No! I had no choice. There is only one library available on the web site and it's a .zip file. I suppose it's because it's the same lib for windows and linux. Anyway, I don't think it makes a

Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Thread Chris
On Sunday 03 October 2004 03:00 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: In all honesty, I prefer launching WM's from runlevel 3 - as you give yourself more system resource without having the DM running - and if you take that as the case, you can install Xtart which will identify most of the installed WM's

Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0] SUCCESS!!!! :)

2004-10-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 03 October 2004 02:23, Merlin Zener wrote: Hi all, well I did it!!! :) Good for you, Merlin. Looking forward to more posts from you:) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Installing USB flash drive

2004-10-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 02 October 2004 04:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Harm: Save wear and tear on your nervous system. Why not use KMail's Reply to list feature? I'll just have to change my habits and hit l instead of r. Seems a bit topsy-turvy though.I have to change my habits because some

Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 06:10, Chris wrote: On Sunday 03 October 2004 03:00 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: In all honesty, I prefer launching WM's from runlevel 3 - as you give yourself more system resource without having the DM running - and if you take that as the case, you can install Xtart

Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-03 Thread Michel Leunen
On Sunday 03 October 2004 12:20 pm, Michel Leunen wrote: as root (assuming you have urpmi set up type urpmi qcad Ok, Tried that. Answer from the system: Everything already installed. So I assume everything was correctly installed and indeed, everything seems to be ok since I can use qcad.

Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Thread Chris
On Sunday 03 October 2004 03:22 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: Edit the /etc/inittab and where you see the default is 5, change it to 3, reboot, login to the console as yourself, then run Xtart to choose from whatever installed WM's you have (and you might find that performance overall is heaps

Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Thread Eric Huff
I've got Xtart installed Stephen, one question though, how to boot into rl 3? Edit the /etc/inittab and where you see the default is 5, change it to 3, reboot, login to the console as yourself, then run Xtart to choose from whatever installed WM's you have (and you might find that

Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-03 Thread Brandon Rife
aron Smith wrote: BTW .zip files are for windows That's a ridiculous statement. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 02:48:26PM -0500, Chris wrote: I installed Afterstep 2.0 yesterday, I like the looks, but it will take some figuring out after all these years of using KDE. Question I have is adding AS to my login manager. I've added 08AfterStep to my /etc/X11/wmsession.d file as

Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-03 Thread Thereidos
W licie z nie, 03-10-2004, godz. 22:02, Michel Leunen pisze: aron Smith wrote: BTW .zip files are for windows Yes, I know but that's the only file type available on the qcad website. I didn't have any other choice. Thanks. These files are in .zip format 'cause surely it's supported in

Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-03 Thread Thereidos
W licie z nie, 03-10-2004, godz. 22:05, Michel Leunen pisze: Thereidos wrote: Free translation from Polish: Edit/Application preferences/Paths There you have to add the path to were you placed part library. I've tried this with no luck. No object appears in the Object browser.

Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Thread Chris
On Sunday 03 October 2004 05:28 pm, Todd Slater wrote: So, can someone lead me down the correct path? I'm sure its easy but I just can't seem to locate the problem. I believe the NAME you gave in wmsession.d is case-sensitive, so in kdmrc you have AfterStep where is should be AFTERSTEP.

Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 03 October 2004 22:44, Eric Huff wrote: I always boot at level 3, but at the same time i am lazy and don't like to have to start X after i login. So i have my .bash_profile setup so that if i log into tty 1, it automagically launches my favorite window manager, sylpheed, rox and

Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-03 Thread aron Smith
On Sunday 03 October 2004 03:36 pm, Thereidos wrote: W licie z nie, 03-10-2004, godz. 22:02, Michel Leunen pisze: aron Smith wrote: BTW .zip files are for windows Yes, I know but that's the only file type available on the qcad website. I didn't have any other choice. Thanks. These

Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-03 Thread aron Smith
On Sunday 03 October 2004 01:26 pm, Michel Leunen wrote: On Sunday 03 October 2004 12:20 pm, Michel Leunen wrote: as root (assuming you have urpmi set up type urpmi qcad Ok, Tried that. Answer from the system: Everything already installed. So I assume everything was correctly installed

Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 05:41:06PM -0500, Chris wrote: On Sunday 03 October 2004 05:28 pm, Todd Slater wrote: So, can someone lead me down the correct path? I'm sure its easy but I just can't seem to locate the problem. I believe the NAME you gave in wmsession.d is case-sensitive, so

Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Thread Chris
On Sunday 03 October 2004 05:56 pm, Todd Slater wrote: Oh one more thing I just remembered, 01-18 is reserved my MDK, so if you're adding a new wm you need to start at 19. DK if that'll make any difference or not. Todd I renamed the 08AfterStep I had in /etc/X11/wmsession.d to

[newbie] Maelstrom and other games cause freezes after 9.2 - 10.0 upgrade

2004-10-03 Thread Mark Stosberg
Hello, I'm helping my friend Kurt Ritchie who recently switched to Linux. ( His Linux switch story is here: http://mark.stosberg.com/Tech/linux_switch/ritchie.html ). I recently gave him my 10.0 CD set as I anticipate the new release coming out. So here's the 9.2 - 10.0 upgrade problem I'm