Re: [newbie] Changing hostname

2004-12-03 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
Re: [newbie] Changing hostname Actually the statement he needs is NEEDHOSTNAME=no derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org You were quite right Derek. It was NEEDHOSTNAME wich was ment to be configured... But then again, opening the /etc/hosts file I see this

Re: [newbie] Changing hostname

2004-12-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 03 December 2004 08:43, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: Re: [newbie] Changing hostname Actually the statement he needs is NEEDHOSTNAME=no derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org You were quite right Derek. It was NEEDHOSTNAME wich was ment to be

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension 'GLX' missing on display ':0.0'.

2004-12-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 03 December 2004 09:30, you wrote: OK Your card uses the Nvidia chipset and Mandrake has configured the open source 'nv' video driver, but has not enabled the glx extension. Removing the comment # from the Load glx line ought to enable that to load, I am not sure why it is

[newbie] totem

2004-12-03 Thread Paul Kaplan
I have two machines with mdk10.1. The only difference is the processor type (P4 vs. Centrino). On one the P4 totem movie player is unable to load any files. It gives an error message saying only that an error has occured and that I should inform the developers. There are two buttons; one to

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension 'GLX' missing on display ':0.0'.

2004-12-03 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
OK Your card uses the Nvidia chipset and Mandrake has configured the open source 'nv' video driver, but has not enabled the glx extension. Removing the comment # from the Load glx line ought to enable that to load, I am not sure why it is being put back in again. In any case the 'nv'

Re: [newbie] Changing hostname

2004-12-03 Thread SnapafunFrank
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 03 December 2004 08:43, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: Re: [newbie] Changing hostname Actually the statement he needs is NEEDHOSTNAME=no derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org You were quite right Derek. It was NEEDHOSTNAME wich

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 03 Dec 2004 00:16, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Thanks Dennis. I just spent a few hours surfing around my local (Danish) resellers, found hundreds of USB sticks, but no one - that is NO ONE - specified anything but Windows or Mac. Then, my

Re: [newbie] grip not ripping in 10.1

2004-12-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 03 Dec 2004 01:15, RickSisler wrote: RickSisler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi All and Raffaele, I couldn't rip a music cd although Grip would *act* like it was, but wouldn't encode the

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension 'GLX' missing on display ':0.0'.

2004-12-03 Thread SnapafunFrank
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 03 December 2004 09:30, you wrote: OK Your card uses the Nvidia chipset and Mandrake has configured the open source 'nv' video driver, but has not enabled the glx extension. Removing the comment # from the Load glx line ought to enable that to load, I am not

Re: [newbie] ADSL router modem set up/445A Speedlink web station/Supanet/PPPoA

2004-12-03 Thread amalasingh
Thanks Derek and others. I got it sorted by installing Linux in my Windows PC. It worked at the first instance. Derek's inputs were quite useful. The problem could be with the Ethernet card I guess or some wrong configuration already in my Linux. Cheers Amala Singh. - Original Message

[newbie] VMWare question

2004-12-03 Thread Anders Lind
Hello there, I am having a problem with getting VMWare running, as I try to install Win2000 as a virtual machine in VMWare, however VMWare says that the CD I am using is not bootable, however if I reboot normally it boots up fine, now does anyone be able to point me to some ideas why this is

Re: [newbie] VMWare question

2004-12-03 Thread Paul Kaplan
I have found the following site useful for windows problems: http://www.petri.co.il/ You might also try the VMWare forums accessible from the VMWare support page If you have a working installation of w2k, you should be able to modify the following instructions to roll your own bootable copy of

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 03 December 2004 10:50, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 03 Dec 2004 00:16, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Thanks Dennis. I just spent a few hours surfing around my local (Danish) resellers, found hundreds of USB sticks, but no one - that is NO ONE - specified anything but Windows or Mac.

[newbie] routing problem

2004-12-03 Thread Rene Borchers
Hi, I'am trying for a few days now to get my mandrake machine forward packets to the internet. the network looks like this: I have a wireless router (192.168.2.1)to which the mandrake machine (192.168.2.3) connects. Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags

RE: [newbie] Spam assassin with Thunderbird

2004-12-03 Thread Tango Echo
Anyone?? Or is this rocket science? -Original Message- From: Tango Echo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:37 PM To: newb-mdk Subject: [newbie] Spam assassin with Thunderbird How easy is to setup Spam assassin for Thunderbird? I'm runnning 10.0 and have

Re: [newbie] 5 good reasons to install 10.1

2004-12-03 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:43:04 -0500, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:09:31 + Derek Jennings disseminated the following: and inserting an audio CD will automatically start the CD player. Yuck, can you disable that without disabling Magicdev altogether? Thanks to

Re: [newbie] Changing hostname

2004-12-03 Thread care free
From: Vegard Lundby Rekaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing hostname Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:43:29 +0100 (CET) Re: [newbie] Changing hostname Actually the statement he needs is NEEDHOSTNAME=no derek --

Re: [newbie] Spam assassin with Thunderbird

2004-12-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 04:12:39AM -0800, Tango Echo wrote: Anyone?? Or is this rocket science? I've never used Spamassassin but I've heard that it can be a resource hog. How much do you need it to do--virus filtering etc.? If you just need a bayesian-type filter bogofilter is a good

Re: [newbie] puzzled about adsl sagem modem default interface in Mdk10.0

2004-12-03 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Uytkownik Rafa Kamraj napisa: Howdy I'm trying to do simple thing: a)setup internet connection with usb adsl sagem 800 modem; b)share above connection with win98 computer from my local network; On Mdk 9.1 worked like dream but after upgrade to 10.0 this connection died, i can get internet on my

Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards

2004-12-03 Thread Dan Gordon
On Friday 03 December 2004 11:19 am, Keith Powell wrote: My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the specification of which looks good. At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have a question,

Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards

2004-12-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 03 Dec 2004 16:19, Keith Powell wrote: My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the specification of which looks good. At the moment, I am using an

[newbie] re: Apache

2004-12-03 Thread Mrexecutive
Hello Guys I installed Mandrake 10 and i noticed it came with apache installed. I have never used apache before but does anyone know where the main directory of all the http files are located. For example the welcome page for the Mandrake/Apache installation? Thanks!

RE: [newbie] re: Apache

2004-12-03 Thread Jamie Kerwick
The default document root for apache is /var/www/html. The config files are in /etc/httpd/conf. Ta, Jamie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mrexecutive Sent: 03 December 2004 16:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] re: Apache Hello

Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards

2004-12-03 Thread Keith Powell
On Friday 03 December 2004 11:19 am, Keith Powell wrote: My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the specification of which looks good. At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have a question,

Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards

2004-12-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 03 December 2004 16:19, Keith Powell wrote: My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the specification of which looks good. At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have a question,

[newbie] Maybe this is old news

2004-12-03 Thread Poogle
But came across this http://www.google.com/linux, gives a search box which only searches for matters which are Linux relevant . There are others for microsoft, bsd, mac, firefox -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Spam assassin with Thunderbird

2004-12-03 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 03 December 2004 05:44 am, Todd Slater wrote: | On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 04:12:39AM -0800, Tango Echo wrote: | Anyone?? Or is this rocket science? | | I've never used Spamassassin but I've heard that it can be a resource | hog. H--maybe, but I haven't had any problems with it.

Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards

2004-12-03 Thread Dan Gordon
On Friday 03 December 2004 11:19 am, Keith Powell wrote: My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the specification of which looks good. At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have a question,

Re: [newbie] How is doing this? Firefox won't be default browser

2004-12-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:25 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, This is really got me into my nerve. I've made Firefox 1.0 as my default browser using KDE menu File Association txt html, and use %U in the application command so that it can open url correctly from Kmail. But,

Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards

2004-12-03 Thread Keith Powell
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 03 December 2004 16:19, Keith Powell wrote: My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the specification of which looks good. At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have

[newbie] Basic Questions

2004-12-03 Thread Mrexecutive
Hello, i have 2 basic questions: 1. Where can i find a reference meaning for the directories var, usr, dev. I need to know what files are usually are in each so i can get a better understanding on how linux uses this file structure. 2. When installing applications like firefox where

Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards

2004-12-03 Thread Keith Powell
Dan Gordon wrote: On Friday 03 December 2004 11:19 am, Keith Powell wrote: My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the specification of which looks good. At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have

Re: [newbie] Basic Questions

2004-12-03 Thread mikkel
Hello, i have 2 basic questions: 1. Where can i find a reference meaning for the directories var, usr, dev. I need to know what files are usually are in each so i can get a better understanding on how linux uses this file structure.

Re: [newbie] Basic Questions

2004-12-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 03 December 2004 19:41, Mrexecutive wrote: Hello, i have 2 basic questions: 1. Where can i find a reference meaning for the directories var, usr, dev. I need to know what files are usually are in each so i can get a better understanding on how linux uses this file structure.

Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards

2004-12-03 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Uytkownik Keith Powell napisa: My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the specification of which looks good. At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have a question, please. Does Mandrake find the

[newbie] (Newbie) Another M/Board Q

2004-12-03 Thread John Bowden
Just purchased a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 mother board. It has an on board ide raid controller, ITE 8211 i think. I have 2 X 250GB maxters set up with raid 0 . Will Mandrake 10.1 (Linux Format mag version) detect and set it up OK. I already have win 2000 pro on it. Also will it

Re: [newbie] grip not ripping in 10.1

2004-12-03 Thread RickSisler
Anne Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne, I didn't see any topic for Software Issues ? However, I did see Audio Applications ? this would seem to be the appropriate place ? It looks as though that page was missed when we re-built, so I've added it back. Why not put your article in