Re: [newbie] Wireless mouse

2005-01-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 03:22, Aron Smith wrote: i-one wireless mouse lynx MVII works perfectly in 10.2 hooray! The TWiki is woefully ignorant of wireless peripherals and compatibility. Could you start us off with an entry under

Re: [newbie] udpate KDE using urpmi?

2005-01-13 Thread SnapafunFrank
Ben Miller wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:42 am, SnapafunFrank wrote: Is it possible to update KDE using URPMI? I've searched and haven't found the syntax fo do that. Thanks, Ben  I have done this but two things. 1. Do it from within init level 1 (? the text only

Re: [newbie] udpate KDE using urpmi?

2005-01-13 Thread SnapafunFrank
Ben Miller wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:42 am, SnapafunFrank wrote: Is it possible to update KDE using URPMI? I've searched and haven't found the syntax fo do that. Thanks, Ben  I have done this but two things. 1. Do it from within init level 1 (? the text only

Re: [newbie] kde/urpmi mess

2005-01-13 Thread SnapafunFrank
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:20 am, SnapafunFrank wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2005 19:44, Brett Lyon wrote: After a recent routine update (urpmi.update -a;urpmi --auto-select), I get this when calling K3B (from anywhere): [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Choosing a printer

2005-01-13 Thread M.Schild
My brother, who works in the printer business, told me they had a history of this, and had left a trail of irate ex-customers. Since then, I won't touch them. So personally, I'd recommend sticking with HP. They seem to be the leader in printers for good reason (as opposed to being the

[newbie] If you have Java problems in your browser

2005-01-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here is a link that may help: http://speculation.org/garrick/java.html Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4

Re: [newbie] Wireless mouse

2005-01-13 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 13 January 2005 01:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 03:22, Aron Smith wrote: i-one wireless mouse lynx MVII works perfectly in 10.2 hooray! The TWiki is woefully ignorant of wireless peripherals and compatibility. Could you start us off with an entry under

[newbie] Konqueror weirdness.

2005-01-13 Thread Paul
In KDE 3.2.3 Konqueror doesn't start, whether I use menu or terminal (Terminal gives no feedback, i.e. - no messages, doesn't go back to $). This happens with all users (except root, of course) - even when I open a new user account to test it. If I go to another desktop/windows manager (Gnome,

Re: [newbie] Wireless mouse

2005-01-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 13:13, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2005 01:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 03:22, Aron Smith wrote: i-one wireless mouse lynx MVII works perfectly in 10.2 hooray! The TWiki is

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:21 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Hi Tom. Three ideas; you ran out'a disk space or ram/swap or failed to limit upload rate. Another consideration is you need to be very careful on movie torrent sites. Most are uploaded (the torrent file) by really clueless

Re: [newbie] no uploads with firestarter SOLVED

2005-01-13 Thread Carsten Lissmann
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:11:32 +0100, Carsten Lissmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here's something I can't figure out on my mini-lan. A Fedora C2 box makes the router (used Firestarter 1.0.1 to set it up). One of the clients is a MDK 10.1 machine (and why I'm subscribed to this list). Whenever I

Re: [newbie] removing iconify button in TWM xterm.

2005-01-13 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 17:29, rasta rasta wrote: hi! i'm very sorry for my initial email. i forgot to set yahoo mail to send emails in plain text format. my apologies again. i want to remove the iconify button in TWM xterm but still retain the resize button. can anyone tell me how to do it?

[newbie] Problem with Menudrake.

2005-01-13 Thread Amy
PLEASE REMEMBER, I AM A GMAIL USER, SO YOU NEED TO CHECK THAT THE REPLY IS GOING TO THE LIST. Okay, so some of you may remember that I'm trying out Enlightenment right now. I did post about it a week or three ago, asking for recommendations on where to read up on it. At any rate, I'm playing with

[newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-13 Thread Aidan Holmes
Notice to any NEC Versa E600 owners: Mandrake 10.1 actually works! Just thought I'd post this as I'd had problems installing all previous versios of MDK on this machine and found a few others on this list in the same boat. Install went flawlessly, KDE works fine, inbuilt mouse and keyboard

Re: [newbie] Problem with Menudrake.

2005-01-13 Thread Amy
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:14:14 +1100, Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: e16menuedit is what you want in order to properly edit the Enlightenment menus - mind you, you WILL have to get your hands dirty in doing this exercise - some of the configuration of E is simply NOT easy (heaps of config

Re: [newbie] Problem with Menudrake.

2005-01-13 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:00, Amy wrote: PLEASE REMEMBER, I AM A GMAIL USER, SO YOU NEED TO CHECK THAT THE REPLY IS GOING TO THE LIST. Okay, so some of you may remember that I'm trying out Enlightenment right now. I did post about it a week or three ago, asking for recommendations on where

Re: [newbie] 'make' it gives me an error; *** [default] Error 2

2005-01-13 Thread Erylon Hines
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:11 am, et wrote: | I feeel very thick headed this morning,,, | I am running MDK 10.1 official, 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp or 2.6.8.1-12mdksmp | when I attempt to 'make' it gives me an error; | | make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdksmp/build |

Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-13 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:10, Aidan Holmes wrote: Notice to any NEC Versa E600 owners: Mandrake 10.1 actually works! Just thought I'd post this as I'd had problems installing all previous versios of MDK on this machine and found a few others on this list in the same boat. Install went

[newbie] Make kernel background graphic go away...

2005-01-13 Thread Dark Shadows
I can change the loader picture... However, no matter what i can NOT get rid of the back ground picture behind the kernel on boot...??? what is the deal? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-13 Thread Aidan Holmes
Stephen Kühn wrote: Software modems are inherently written for Microsoft Windows. Best bet is to pickup a nice used 56k external serial modem. Or get away from dodo.com.au and get broadband. Thanks for the tip, you're right I don't hold much hope for itbut i can dream hey ;) We live out in

Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-13 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 16:53, Aidan Holmes wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Software modems are inherently written for Microsoft Windows. Best bet is to pickup a nice used 56k external serial modem. Or get away from dodo.com.au and get broadband. Thanks for the tip, you're right I don't

[newbie] Anyone using KDar

2005-01-13 Thread Aron Smith
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-13 Thread Aidan Holmes
Stephen Kühn wrote: No wireless providers for your bush area? Satellite? Might be worth lookin into...I have a mate in Parkes that had to end up getting ISDN...which ain't great, but it works... I suppose what I really mean is I'm too cheap to use the broadband that is available. ISDN is

Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-13 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 13 January 2005 10:26 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: No wireless providers for your bush area? Satellite? Might be worth lookin into...I have a mate in Parkes that had to end up getting ISDN...which ain't great, but it works... I suppose what I really mean is I'm