[newbie] Sharing address-books

2004-10-04 Thread Piero
I would like to use (exploit, modify) the Mozilla address books that are on the Windows partition when I use Mozilla on the Linux partition. Any idea? -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

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

2004-10-04 Thread et
On Sunday 03 October 2004 22:20, Mark Stosberg wrote: 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

[newbie] Goodbye, And Thanks for All the Help

2004-10-04 Thread The Other
10/04/04 Hello All, The Linux From Scratch (LFS) system I'm building is coming along very nicely. I think I've finally figured out why I was getting all the XWindows crashes in Mandrake 9.1 and have fixed the problem in LFS. (I used the ModeLine statement in XF86Config to specifically set

Re: [newbie] Sharing address-books

2004-10-04 Thread Julius Suarez
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 07:09:54 +, Piero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to use (exploit, modify) the Mozilla address books that are on the Windows partition when I use Mozilla on the Linux partition. Any idea? -- Piero Just thinking out loud here - how abount linking the

Re: [newbie] Sharing address-books

2004-10-04 Thread Julius Suarez
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:51:01 +0800, Julius Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just thinking out loud here - how abount linking the bookmarks.html in Linux partition file to the bookmarks.html in Windows partition. Tested sharing mozilla and firefox bookmarks.html file via link on my Linux box -

[newbie] Installing Speedtouch USB

2004-10-04 Thread Ben Mayers
Hello, I am a complete newbie to Linux, having finally made the plunge from a lifetime of Windows I must admit Im utterly perplexed with how difficult it is to get my modem working. I would really appreciate some guidance for a complete bozo. I have downloaded the binary file from

Re: Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-04 Thread Michel Leunen
De: aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] log on (as root) updatedb update-menus see if that helps Yeah, it helped a lot. It's working now. Thanks. What is this command supposed to do? I don't really understand what the man page is trying to explain. What is the slocate database and what is its purpose?

[newbie] Konqueror/toolbar persistence

2004-10-04 Thread Brandon Rife
This isn't a big deal but it is getting annoying. Everytime I run Konq I have to reconfigure the toolbars the way I lke them. It appears that the toolbar state is not being persisted when Konq is closed. Anyone else seeing this on 10.1CE? Anyone have a fix? Thanks, Brandon

Re: [newbie] Konqueror/toolbar persistence

2004-10-04 Thread Brandon Rife
Brandon Rife wrote: This isn't a big deal but it is getting annoying. Everytime I run Konq I have to reconfigure the toolbars the way I lke them. It appears that the toolbar state is not being persisted when Konq is closed. Anyone else seeing this on 10.1CE? Anyone have a fix? Thanks,

[newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Thereidos
Hi there. Sorry if this question has been asked before bit I haven't noticed it in archive. The question is simple: how can I manually turn off starting X server during the boot up? I know it can be done in MCC but I'd like to learn how to do this manually. -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 04 October 2004 22:12, Thereidos wrote: Hi there. Sorry if this question has been asked before bit I haven't noticed it in archive. The question is simple: how can I manually turn off starting X server during the boot up? I know it can be done in MCC but I'd like to learn how to

[newbie] Problem with installing Apollon

2004-10-04 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I am trying to install Apollon with the all-in-one installer. However, I get the error below. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul Compiling arkollon cd src make -f Makefile make[1]: Entering directory

Re: [newbie] 10.1 sound volume 'problem'

2004-10-04 Thread Azrael
John Richard Smith wrote: Azrael wrote: I have a sound blaster live (platignum), it is 5.1 and I have 5.1 speakers. And it worked perfectly on every version of mandrake I can remember (i.e. 9 onwards). Really is weirdly annoying Are you getting output on all 5 speaker ? John I am getting

[newbie] Re: Re: qcad library. How to?

2004-10-04 Thread Björn Lundin
Michel Leunen wrote: What is the slocate database and what is its purpose? slocate is secure locate. (more secure than locate, but I don't know why) )It's just an index over the files in your filesystem. Try slocate alsamixer for example. It will put out all files with alsamixer in it's name or

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Thereidos
W licie z pon, 04-10-2004, godz. 22:16, Kaj Haulrich pisze: On Monday 04 October 2004 22:12, Thereidos wrote: Hi there. Sorry if this question has been asked before bit I haven't noticed it in archive. The question is simple: how can I manually turn off starting X server during the

Re: [newbie] 10.1 sound volume 'problem'

2004-10-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Azrael wrote: Are you getting output on all 5 speaker ? John I am getting output on the 2 front and 2 rear speakers. Unusual to have a 4 channel , multichannel setup, but it seems you have output all around though I think it ought to be at least 5 channels, sometimes 6. However, when I run

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 04 October 2004 23:39, Thereidos wrote: W licie z pon, 04-10-2004, godz. 22:16, Kaj Haulrich pisze: On Monday 04 October 2004 22:12, Thereidos wrote: Hi there. Sorry if this question has been asked before bit I haven't noticed it in archive. The question is simple:

Re: [newbie] Problem with installing Apollon

2004-10-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 04 October 2004 21:19, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am trying to install Apollon with the all-in-one installer. However, I get the error below. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul Compiling arkollon cd src make -f Makefile

Re: [newbie] Sharing address-books

2004-10-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:05:49PM +0800, Julius Suarez wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:51:01 +0800, Julius Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just thinking out loud here - how abount linking the bookmarks.html in Linux partition file to the bookmarks.html in Windows partition. Tested

[newbie] core file ?

2004-10-04 Thread jose usoz
Hello, i need the core file generated by the crash of a program, but this core file is not generated... i have ulimit configured to unlimited, the core is no generated... thanks, jose. -- Jose Usoz / Cromosfera http://www.cromosfera.com

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Thereidos
W licie z pon, 04-10-2004, godz. 23:53, Kaj Haulrich pisze: Thanks. I meant the permanent one but it seems that my father would like to have an account so that he could play KDE's games :) Thus I'm afraid I'll have to change inittab back to 5. Why not boot into runlevel 3 on a

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 00:32, Thereidos wrote: W licie z pon, 04-10-2004, godz. 23:53, Kaj Haulrich pisze: Thanks. I meant the permanent one but it seems that my father would like to have an account so that he could play KDE's games :) Thus I'm afraid I'll have to change inittab

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 00:32, Thereidos wrote: Currently I do have inittab switched to runlevel 3 but to use shutdown you need a root access which I won't give my father. Or maybe I'm wrong? Let him use halt (without the quotes) -- Good luck, HarM

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 08:32, Thereidos wrote: W licie z pon, 04-10-2004, godz. 23:53, Kaj Haulrich pisze: Thanks. I meant the permanent one but it seems that my father would like to have an account so that he could play KDE's games :) Thus I'm afraid I'll have to change inittab back

Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?

2004-10-04 Thread aron Smith
On Monday 04 October 2004 11:53 am, Michel Leunen wrote: De: aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] log on (as root) updatedb update-menus see if that helps Yeah, it helped a lot. It's working now. Thanks. What is this command supposed to do? I don't really understand what the man page is trying to

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 04 October 2004 17:32, Thereidos wrote: W licie z pon, 04-10-2004, godz. 23:53, Kaj Haulrich pisze: Thanks. I meant the permanent one but it seems that my father would like to have an account so that he could play KDE's games :) Thus I'm afraid I'll have to change inittab

[newbie] Help with Python Problem (MDK 10.0)

2004-10-04 Thread David B. Carter
I'm trying to get setup to try Pekwm. Joe Hill has given me some great info on where to download stuff from, and I've got it all ready to try. My problem is I've never done anything with Python before, and, when I try to run the install for Pekwm as indicated in the README file, I get the

Re: [newbie] Help with Python Problem (MDK 10.0)

2004-10-04 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 10:49, David B. Carter wrote: I'm trying to get setup to try Pekwm. Joe Hill has given me some great info on where to download stuff from, and I've got it all ready to try. My problem is I've never done anything with Python before, and, when I try to run the install for

Re: [newbie] Help with Python Problem (MDK 10.0)

2004-10-04 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:49:12 -0400 (EDT) David B. Carter disseminated the following: Sure enough, when I go look, there is no config directory under the /usr/lib/python2.3/ directory. Now I'm stuck. I don't know what to do next. I ran rpmdrake and searched for python packages. There are tons of

[newbie] Fw: newbie archives

2004-10-04 Thread Eric Huff
Vincent corrected the newbie archive problem. It doesn't fill in the gap, but it will archive from this point forward. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Eric Huff
I meant the permanent one but it seems that my father would like to have an account so that he could play KDE's games :) Thus I'm afraid I'll have to change inittab back to 5. Or you could set his account to startx by modifying the .bash_profile file. Add startx in there, and make sure KDE

Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?

2004-10-04 Thread Eric Huff
I should have sent the answer to this thread. The archives have been started back up (thanks to Vincent), but the gap hasn't been filled. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Help with Python Problem (MDK 10.0)

2004-10-04 Thread David B. Carter
Yep. It was done after su in a terminal window... Stephen Kühn said: And I assume you're doing this as the root user, eh? Cuz if you ain't, yer gonna get errors left right and centre... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Help with Python Problem (MDK 10.0)

2004-10-04 Thread David B. Carter
JoeHill said: I'm assuming you mean PyPanel and not Pekwm... You're right. My newbie-ness is painfully obvious... Methinks you have Python installed, but not the necessary libs. This should take care of everything. urpmi libpython-devel Thanks. I'll give it a shot...

Re: [newbie] Help with Python Problem (MDK 10.0)

2004-10-04 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 23:15:48 -0400 (EDT) David B. Carter disseminated the following: I'm assuming you mean PyPanel and not Pekwm... You're right. My newbie-ness is painfully obvious... Methinks you have Python installed, but not the necessary libs. This should take care of everything.

Re: [newbie] Fw: newbie archives

2004-10-04 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 04 October 2004 09:14 pm, Eric Huff wrote: Vincent corrected the newbie archive problem. It doesn't fill in the gap, but it will archive from this point forward. eric Eric (and Vincent): Good job. And thanks. -- cmg Want to buy

[newbie] Doom 3 for Linux is out!

2004-10-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Thats right, the binary for Linux/Doom 3 has been released by ID Software. The Linux Games Tomb and Linux Games web sites are reporting it. Hurrah! (now if I could just get in to IDs ftp site!!!) --