Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!

2004-11-05 Thread Margot
Angus Auld wrote: Greetings all.:-) This is my first email message sent from my new laptoppowered by Mdk Linux, and Mdk Linux ONLY! MS FREE NOTEBOOK HERE! I had a real marathon getting things setup. Does anyone have any idea why Mdk installer would not show me options to choose from

Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!

2004-11-05 Thread geoff
Also, how can I get my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1150) to power down automatically on shutdown. I now have to manually do it with my start button. :-( Besides that though, it looks good. Me too, I recently installed MD 10.0 on an Acer Aspire 1680 and it won't shut down unless I go into

Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!

2004-11-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 20:00, geoff wrote: Also, how can I get my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1150) to power down automatically on shutdown. I now have to manually do it with my start button. :-( Besides that though, it looks good. Me too, I recently installed MD 10.0 on an Acer Aspire

Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!

2004-11-05 Thread geoff
'ello mate, I lived in Sydney for 10 years but there are a few enlightened people up here. I belong to the Noosa Lug and I'm in awe of all the members. I've looked at a few other distro's and Mandrake just looks more professional. But what do I know. I'm loving evey minute of it and the other

Re: [newbie] Problem playing encrypted DVD using libdvdcss and Totem

2004-11-05 Thread John Layt
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 06:37, Thomas Ewender wrote: The only problem now is that I can watch the intros of my movies (for about 5 secs) until a message shows up saying An error occured The movie 'Error reading from DVD.' could not be read.. Right now I'm installing Xine and give it a go using

Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!

2004-11-05 Thread John Layt
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:56, Angus Auld wrote: I had a real marathon getting things setup. Does anyone have any idea why Mdk installer would not show me options to choose from various filesystems during my SEVERAL installations??? I tried expert mode as well as default. Is there any way to

Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!

2004-11-05 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: John Layt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!! Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 21:21:35 +1100 On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:56, Angus Auld wrote: I had a real marathon getting things setup. Does anyone have any

Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!

2004-11-05 Thread Margot
Angus Auld wrote: Thanks a bunch for the helpful replies! Right now, I am using the standard kernel version that installs with Mdk10.0, which is what system I'm using. I am going to update to the latest kernel version this evening. I will implement the changes suggested, and report back on my

Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!

2004-11-05 Thread Lee Wiggers
Geoff, I have 10.0 on an Inspiron. 10.0 did not install the proper mouse driver, resulting in the jumping cursor. Have you looked there? Lee On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 20:05:55 +1100 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 20:00, geoff wrote: Also, how can I get my laptop

[newbie] USB Camera

2004-11-05 Thread Lee Wiggers
Hi List, When I plug in my Sony 717 camera the first time, it automounts as /mnt/camera and when I unplug it, several hours later it unmounts. Then when I plug it back in, it does not mount. I can go to mcc and mount anything config screens and it then mounts without me doing anything else.

Re: [newbie] USB Camera

2004-11-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 05 November 2004 08:26, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi List, When I plug in my Sony 717 camera the first time, it automounts as /mnt/camera and when I unplug it, several hours later it unmounts. If an icon pops up, what happens if you right-click it and choose unmount ? Then when I plug

Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!

2004-11-05 Thread geoff
Thanks Lee, How do you find and install the right mouse driver Geoff On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 05:17 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: Geoff, I have 10.0 on an Inspiron. 10.0 did not install the proper mouse driver, resulting in the jumping cursor. Have you looked there? Lee

Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!

2004-11-05 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 00:18:18 +1000 geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you find and install the right mouse driver Geoff ConfigureConfigure your computerhardwaremouse should do it. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] USB Camera

2004-11-05 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:32:58 +0100 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 08:26, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi List, When I plug in my Sony 717 camera the first time, it automounts as /mnt/camera and when I unplug it, several hours later it unmounts. If an icon pops

Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!

2004-11-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 22:09, Margot wrote: Angus Auld wrote: Thanks a bunch for the helpful replies! Right now, I am using the standard kernel version that installs with Mdk10.0, which is what system I'm using. I am going to update to the latest kernel version this evening. I

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-05 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following messageAn error occurred while loading

Re: [newbie] Error at boot: BIOS data check successful...?

2004-11-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 01 November 2004 20:08, J S wrote: - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Error at boot: BIOS data check successful...? On Monday 01 November 2004 18:22, J S wrote:

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 01:51, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following messageAn

[newbie] dba patch?

2004-11-05 Thread Elliot Somers
I was looking over what might have gone wrong with getting the libreadline.so.4 error when I tried to install this package. mdbtools-0.5-1.i386.rpm I have all the libreadline packages installed and yet it doesn't seem to detect them. Now, there is a patch that the installation instructions say

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-05 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Stephen [ISO-8859-1] Kühn wrote: FYI: It is always best to upgrade/update Webmin THROUGH Webmin - sometimes doing it outside (via RPM or what have you) can break modules (of which cron is); therefore, when you want to update try to do so whilst in Webmin (along with

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 02:37, Stew Benedict wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Stephen [ISO-8859-1] Khn wrote: FYI: It is always best to upgrade/update Webmin THROUGH Webmin - sometimes doing it outside (via RPM or what have you) can break modules (of which cron is); therefore, when you want to

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-05 Thread Simon Utley
On Friday 05 Nov 2004 14:51, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following messageAn

Re: [newbie] Burning 10.1 iso's

2004-11-05 Thread Warly
Roland Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have brought down the 10.1 Official iso's (4) and am having trouble burning them. I have tried kb3 with checking after burn and it always comes up with a error. I have tried cdrecord on the command line and ran md5sums on the cd after and and it

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 05 November 2004 09:51 am, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following

Re: [newbie] dba patch?

2004-11-05 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Elliot Somers wrote: I was looking over what might have gone wrong with getting the libreadline.so.4 error when I tried to install this package. mdbtools-0.5-1.i386.rpm I have all the libreadline packages installed and yet it doesn't seem to detect them. Now, there is

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-05 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Stephen [ISO-8859-1] Kühn wrote: Webmin is standalone from the entire RPM system structure - bear in mind that it is autonomous to your distro - it is a tool that is able to adminster almost any *nix system - and can be kept from the local system's package database.

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-05 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 09:51 am, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access

Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!

2004-11-05 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On November 5, 2004 03:52, Angus Auld wrote: ... Also, how can I get my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1150) to power down automatically on shutdown. I now have to manually do it with my start button. :-( Besides that though, it looks good. ... Thanks a bunch for the helpful replies! Right

[newbie] Firewall Admin?

2004-11-05 Thread Eric Scott
Yo.  In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2?  I need to make sure the FTP port is open.  (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?)  Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics.          

Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?

2004-11-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo.  In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2?  I need to make sure the FTP port is open.  (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?)  Anyway, I know

[newbie] programs at startup

2004-11-05 Thread Alan
good day all. For the newbie question of the year. I want to run a program (updatedd-wrapper) ¨a program that updates a ip adress on a dns server¨ whenever i start my pc. I want to run it in some way that the machine doesn´t have to wait for it to complete cause it sometimes takes about 30-40

Re: [newbie] programs at startup

2004-11-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 05 November 2004 17:13, Alan wrote: good day all. For the newbie question of the year. I want to run a program (updatedd-wrapper) ¨a program that updates a ip adress on a dns server¨ whenever i start my pc. I want to run it in some way that the machine doesn´t have to wait for it

Re: [newbie] programs at startup

2004-11-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Alan wrote: good day all. For the newbie question of the year. I want to run a program (updatedd-wrapper) ¨a program that updates a ip adress on a dns server¨ whenever i start my pc. I want to run it in some way that the machine doesn´t have to wait for it to complete cause it sometimes takes

Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?

2004-11-05 Thread Eric Scott
On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I

Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?

2004-11-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?)

Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?

2004-11-05 Thread Eric Scott
On Friday 05 November 2004 11:52, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by

Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?

2004-11-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 05 November 2004 17:43, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo.  In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2?  I need to make sure the FTP port is open.  (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a

[newbie] POP3 on 9.2?

2004-11-05 Thread Eric Scott
Okay, so I gotta get a POP3 server on my MDK 9.2 box. Any suggestions on what I should use? I need something simple; I've never run a mail server before. And, at that, how do I set it up? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was

Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?

2004-11-05 Thread Eric Scott
On Friday 05 November 2004 12:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 17:43, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open.

Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh

2004-11-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 05 November 2004 18:32, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 12:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 17:43, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo.  In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall

[newbie] NO CD ROM FOUND WHEN INSTALLING 10.1 CE

2004-11-05 Thread H.ERTAS
Hello Friends, I am trying to install Mandrake 10.1 CE but there seems there is a new LG problem with the new distro. When I boot from Mdk first Cd ; System boots and begins to install but after some few seconds , it gives an error saying No Cd Rom detected , Please insert a boot floppy . I

Re: [newbie] USB Camera

2004-11-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 05 November 2004 10:40, Lee Wiggers wrote: snip none /mnt/camera supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,kudzu,iocharset=iso885 9-1 0 0 Needs some weeding out, but works except mnt/unmount of the camera. /snip Lee, not that I can explain what is going on, but I

Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh

2004-11-05 Thread Eric Scott
On Friday 05 November 2004 12:51, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 18:32, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 12:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 17:43, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk

Re: [newbie] USB Camera

2004-11-05 Thread Lee Wiggers
big snip Thanks Kaj I'll try that just for sport. Haven't broken the 9.2 box recently, anyway. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh

2004-11-05 Thread Eric Scott
Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and

[newbie] OT: gnupg version 1.2.4 or 2-1.9.10

2004-11-05 Thread Dan Gordon
I see that gnupg 1.2.4 is installed by default, but also see that for some things like S/MIME in kmail it seems version 2-1.9.10 is needed. Is it safe to install the latter version ? I have always had problems understanding why there seem to be more that one version of pgp available. Any

[newbie] Boot record

2004-11-05 Thread Marc
On a ML installation when it gets to the part about where to put the boot record the first sector is one of the options. How would this affect how the machine boots? What would be the reason to use the root partision for the boot instead of the first sector of the MBR or a floppy?

Re: [newbie] Boot record

2004-11-05 Thread Brian Parish
On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:04, Marc wrote: On a ML installation when it gets to the part about where to put the boot record the first sector is one of the options. How would this affect how the machine boots? What would be the reason to use the root partision for the boot instead of the

[newbie] Mandrake updates

2004-11-05 Thread Dennis Myers
The updates for 10.1 seem to have fixed the problem with usb devices and konqueror hanging. My scanner, usb compact flash card reader and usb hard drive are all detected and running. 10.1 is now durn near perfect. Well almost. It still isn't there for a raw beginner, but getting closer. If