[newbie] Ethereal and mandrakeonline.net

2005-01-20 Thread Miark
I tinkered a little with Ethereal tonight. I noticed a constant pattern of my box doing a DNS lookup of mandrakeonline.net, but I am not running any apps that would be doing that. What's going on? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Thread Margot
Julie Sloan wrote: Hi all - - I see this mentioned in the Cooker archives, May and December 2003, but if someone also posted a solution I either missed it or am too dense to recognize it for what it is. FWIW the archive subject lines are: [Cooker] urpmi bug or not? (probably something with

Re: [newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0

2005-01-20 Thread Lukas Ruzicka
J. David Boyd napsal(a): My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using 256M memory. When I set up the system, I went with the double your memory for swap space rule. Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M. How do I double the memory size for swap

Re: [newbie] Sorting out fstab

2005-01-20 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 06:51, SnapafunFrank wrote: I'm trying to get udev working functionally so am revisiting my previous attempts from scratch to put my house in order. First port of call is the fstab file and within that I believe I may have

Re: [newbie] Sorting out fstab

2005-01-20 Thread Lukas Ruzicka
Anne Wilson napsal(a): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 06:51, SnapafunFrank wrote: I'm trying to get udev working functionally so am revisiting my previous attempts from scratch to put my house in order. First port of call is the fstab file and within that

Re: [newbie] Sorting out fstab

2005-01-20 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 10:43, Lukas Ruzicka wrote: But sometimes, especially if you boot up various kernels, the fstab created by MCC behaves strangely. I had to edit it per hand and then it worked. I've never come across that. Are we talking

Re: [newbie] Sorting out fstab

2005-01-20 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 20 January 2005 11:43, Lukas Ruzicka wrote: Anne Wilson napsal(a): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 06:51, SnapafunFrank wrote: I'm trying to get udev working functionally so am revisiting my previous attempts from scratch to put my house

[newbie] software install - Couldnt open file

2005-01-20 Thread Hugh Dixon
I am trying to install Video-DVDRip through the software install option in mcc. I get the error message: The following packages have bad signatures: Video-DVDRip-0.52.0-1plf.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Couldnt open file) Do you want to conmtinue installation? Couldnt open file implies to me the

Re: [newbie] Sorting out fstab

2005-01-20 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 11:01, Kaj Haulrich wrote: At least you're not alone. Some time ago there was a thread about the ghost in the machine. It turned out the culprit was supermount. This devil have plagued us for years now. In 10.1 is

Re: [newbie] software install - Couldn´t open file

2005-01-20 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 11:07, Hugh Dixon wrote: I am trying to install Video-DVDRip through the software install option in mcc. I get the error message: ¨The following packages have bad signatures: Video-DVDRip-0.52.0-1plf.i586.rpm: Missing

Re: [newbie] Sorting out fstab

2005-01-20 Thread Lukas Ruzicka
I've never come across that. Are we talking about major differences, like booting to a 2.4 kernel and a 2.6 kernel? I think I've only ever had minor differences in kernels at any one time. Anne I mean that 2.6.8.12mdk mounted everything allright, but new 2.6.10 didn't and everytime I

Re: [newbie] Sorting out fstab

2005-01-20 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 11:28, Lukas Ruzicka wrote: I've never come across that. Are we talking about major differences, like booting to a 2.4 kernel and a 2.6 kernel? I think I've only ever had minor differences in kernels at any one time.

Re: [newbie] Sorting out fstab

2005-01-20 Thread Lukas Ruzicka
Supermount could be the problem because the vanilla kernel doesn't use this feature. Nevertheless I could not mount even devices, where the supermaount had been turned off. L. At least you're not alone. Some time ago there was a thread about the ghost in the machine. It turned out the

RE: [newbie] Konstruct

2005-01-20 Thread steve.goodey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Sent: 17 January 2005 01:48 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: [newbie] Konstruct Has anyone tried this app yet? If so, were there any problems? Desktop Environment :: K Desktop

[newbie] Media sources setup - PLF updated packages not listed as updated?

2005-01-20 Thread Rick Kunath
I'm wondering what the best way to go about setting up my media sources to insure that updated packages on PLF show up in updates inside the Mandrake Control Center's Software Updates utility screen. I have PLF added as a source, but for example, in the latest Xine updates, the PLF updated

Re: [newbie] Sorting out fstab

2005-01-20 Thread Lukas Ruzicka
I've seen lots of other problems mentioned with the 2.6.10 kernel. I think that maybe it's not yet production-level? Anne On the other hand it helped to solve my usb problem I had with distro kernel, so a hand made fstab is OK. No other problems encountered yet. Lukas - -- Registered

Re: [newbie] Sorting out fstab

2005-01-20 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 20 January 2005 12:07, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 11:01, Kaj Haulrich wrote: At least you're not alone. Some time ago there was a thread about the ghost in the machine. It turned out the culprit was supermount. This devil have plagued us for years now. In

Re: [newbie] Sorting out fstab

2005-01-20 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 13:25, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Anne, I envy you. Could you please tell me how ? No - haven't a clue ;-) -- Eventually post your fstab ? On this box, 10.0 /dev/hde12 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hde8 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2

Re: [newbie] Sorting out fstab

2005-01-20 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 20 January 2005 07:25 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2005 12:07, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 11:01, Kaj Haulrich wrote: At least you're not alone. Some time ago there was a thread about the ghost in the machine. It turned out the culprit was

Re: [newbie] Sorting out fstab

2005-01-20 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 20 January 2005 14:53, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 13:25, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Anne, I envy you. Could you please tell me how ? No - haven't a clue ;-) -- Eventually post your fstab ? On this box, 10.0 /dev/hde12 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hde8 /boot ext2

[newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)

2005-01-20 Thread J. David Boyd
So, last night, after putting in my new memory (thanks all, for the responses. Alleviated my worries about swap space size), I reboot my machine. Front screen and CMOS report ~768M of memory. LILO starts up, I choose Linux, everything looks great. I press ESC to see the verbose startup report

Re: [newbie] Sorting out fstab

2005-01-20 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 20 January 2005 15:00, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2005 07:25 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2005 12:07, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 11:01, Kaj Haulrich wrote: At least you're not alone. Some time ago there was a thread about

Re: [newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)

2005-01-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
J. David Boyd wrote: So, last night, after putting in my new memory (thanks all, for the responses. Alleviated my worries about swap space size), I reboot my machine. Front screen and CMOS report ~768M of memory. LILO starts up, I choose Linux, everything looks great. I press ESC to see the

Re: [newbie] software install - Couldnt open file

2005-01-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Hugh Dixon wrote: I am trying to install Video-DVDRip through the software install option in mcc. I get the error message: The following packages have bad signatures: Video-DVDRip-0.52.0-1plf.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Couldnt open file) Do you want to conmtinue installation? Couldnt open

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Thread Julie Sloan
Margot wrote: First, check what version of kdebase you have installed - if any! Open the Mandrake Control Center, Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/System/Configuration/Configure your computer.desktop does not exist. Then, report back here...

[newbie] Updates to 10.0 Official

2005-01-20 Thread Travis Crook
Hi all, When I run MCC and go to Updates under Software, I get a big list of all of the updates available. I see a lot of packages that are very similar in name except for the very ending. For example, aspell-0.50.5-3.1.101mdk and aspell-0.50.4.1-2.1.100mdk. Which do I choose? It won't

Re: [newbie] Window sizing problem

2005-01-20 Thread cervixcouch
4556At 08:28 PM 1/18/2005, cervixcouch wrote: Sometimes, when I'm in an application (doesn't matter which one) I'll click on a button and the next window that opens will be cropped, I've run into the same problem with my 19inch monitor. I have gone the same route as you and had to compromise

Re: [newbie] Updates to 10.0 Official

2005-01-20 Thread Dan Gordon
On January 20, 2005 11:47 am, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, When I run MCC and go to Updates under Software, I get a big list of all of the updates available. I see a lot of packages that are very similar in name except for the very ending. For example, aspell-0.50.5-3.1.101mdk and

Re: [newbie] Ethereal and mandrakeonline.net

2005-01-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 20 January 2005 08:14, Miark wrote: I tinkered a little with Ethereal tonight. I noticed a constant pattern of my box doing a DNS lookup of mandrakeonline.net, but I am not running any apps that would be doing that. What's going on? Miark Do you have the Mandrake Update applet

Re: [newbie] Media sources setup - PLF updated packages not listed as updated?

2005-01-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 20 January 2005 13:04, Rick Kunath wrote: I'm wondering what the best way to go about setting up my media sources to insure that updated packages on PLF show up in updates inside the Mandrake Control Center's Software Updates utility screen. I have PLF added as a source, but for

Re: [newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)

2005-01-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 20 January 2005 13:15, J. David Boyd wrote: So, last night, after putting in my new memory (thanks all, for the responses. Alleviated my worries about swap space size), I reboot my machine. Front screen and CMOS report ~768M of memory. LILO starts up, I choose Linux, everything

[newbie] I just love it

2005-01-20 Thread jallan6977
The instructions say to 1: in windows download this file to a floppy 2: in linux type these commands 2a: mcopy scanmodem.gz. ;should be a:mcopy a:.gz. I assumed it meant in a run box and it did not complain 2b: gunzip scanmodem.gz ;they never say where, run

Re: [newbie] Sorting out fstab

2005-01-20 Thread frengoGorgia
Il gio, 2005-01-20 alle 14:53, Anne Wilson ha scritto: On box2, 10.1 [CUT] none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,suid,users 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Thread Margot
Julie Sloan wrote: Margot wrote: First, check what version of kdebase you have installed - if any! Open the Mandrake Control Center, Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/System/Configuration/Configure your computer.desktop does not exist. Then,

Re: [newbie] Media sources setup - PLF updated packages not listed as updated?

2005-01-20 Thread Rick Kunath
Derek Jennings wrote: Personally I only define the official update mirror as an update source because I have a cron job to automatically install updates, and I do not want to automatically install anything other than official updates. A simple way to check for updates to PLF and other sources

Re: [newbie] XFCE 4.2 mouse scrolling

2005-01-20 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 15:00, Kenneth Rhodes wrote: I just installed XFCE 4.2 from Charles Edwars RPMS - thanks Charles! I am absolutely thrilled, yet I do have one problem. Under Gnome while browsing web a web page in Firefox and Epiphany too, I do believe, I'd scroll down or up the web page

Re: [newbie] I just love it

2005-01-20 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:26:32 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] disseminated the following: The instructions say to 1: in windows download this file to a floppy 2: in linux type these commands 2a: mcopy scanmodem.gz. ;should be a:mcopy a:.gz. I assumed it meant in a run

Re: [newbie] I just love it

2005-01-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The instructions say to 1: in windows download this file to a floppy 2: in linux type these commands 2a: mcopy scanmodem.gz. ;should be a:mcopy a:.gz. I assumed it meant in a run box and it did not complain 2b: gunzip scanmodem.gz ;they never say where, run box or

Re: [newbie] Window sizing problem

2005-01-20 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:51:51 -0500 (EST) cervixcouch disseminated the following: Also, to Mr. JoeHill: pekwm is a tad minimal for my taste. I do like at least a little butter on my biscuit! ...you add the butter at your discretion, instead of having it dumped over your head from a cauldron

Re: [newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)

2005-01-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Derek Jennings wrote: No you do not need to change any settings for 768M. If you had 1 M of memory you would need to use a different kernel to address the high memory, but you could still use the standard kernel. It would simply not see the high memory. silly mode on 1 M of memory? I don't

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Thread Lanman
Margot wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Margot wrote: First, check what version of kdebase you have installed - if any! Open the Mandrake Control Center, Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/System/Configuration/Configure your computer.desktop does not

Re: [newbie] XFCE 4.2 mouse scrolling

2005-01-20 Thread Kenneth Rhodes
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 06:04 +1100, Stephen Kühn wrote: Since installing the XFCE 4.2 official release the mouse wheel now pages through the browser history - that is in XFCE. In GNOME the mouse wheel functions just as before - scrolling up and down the web page. Does anyone have any

[newbie] XFCE 4.2 panel crash

2005-01-20 Thread Kenneth Rhodes
I suppose it would be best to get involved with an XFCE specific list or forum about stuff like this... but I thought I'd mention it here in case anyone has any comments or suggestions. While trying to install an a KMess icon for a panel the panel crashed when I clicked on one of the folders in

Re: [newbie] XFCE 4.2 mouse scrolling

2005-01-20 Thread Paul
Op Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:53:12 -0500 schreef Kenneth Rhodes: as a stop gap measure while I search for the best way to incorporate that into the startxfce4 script which I can't seem to find for some reason. type: which startxfce4 (without the quotes) It might be helpful to you. Paul -- Vision:

Re: [newbie] XFCE 4.2 mouse scrolling

2005-01-20 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:53:12 -0500 Kenneth Rhodes disseminated the following: ...and seeing if that makes it work properly... Thanks, that worked like a charm - for the current session. I converted that command line to an executable shell script as a stop gap measure while I search for

Re: [newbie] Ethereal and mandrakeonline.net

2005-01-20 Thread Miark
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:30:12 +, Derek wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2005 08:14, Miark wrote: I tinkered a little with Ethereal tonight. I noticed a constant pattern of my box doing a DNS lookup of mandrakeonline.net, but I am not running any apps that would be doing that. What's

[newbie]

2005-01-20 Thread Matt Florido
I was wondering if M10.1 already has a Webmail package. If not, I'm looking for suggestions on one. The only one I know of is SquirrelMail. Thanks! Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie]

2005-01-20 Thread Avi Schwartz
Matt Florido wrote: I was wondering if M10.1 already has a Webmail package. If not, I'm looking for suggestions on one. The only one I know of is SquirrelMail. SquirrelMail is included in 10.1 official and I believe it was included since at least 9.x. I don't know about CE. Avi -- Avi

Re: [newbie] XFCE 4.2 mouse scrolling

2005-01-20 Thread Kenneth Rhodes
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:30 -0500, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:53:12 -0500 Kenneth Rhodes disseminated the following: ...and seeing if that makes it work properly... Thanks, that worked like a charm - for the current session. I converted that command line to an executable

Re: [newbie]

2005-01-20 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 20 January 2005 22:35, Matt Florido wrote: I was wondering if M10.1 already has a Webmail package. If not, I'm looking for suggestions on one. The only one I know of is SquirrelMail. Thanks! Matt I don't think so. Webmail is usually run by the ISP companies. Kaj Haulrich.

[newbie] df is bs

2005-01-20 Thread Miark
A df displays this for my fat32-formatted external USB 2 drive: /dev/sdb1 56G -256Z 58G 101% /mnt/removable2 but cd'ing to it and doing a du -sh shows that 11GB are used. What's going on? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] df is bs

2005-01-20 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 22:08, Miark wrote: A df displays this for my fat32-formatted external USB 2 drive: /dev/sdb1 56G -256Z 58G 101% /mnt/removable2 but cd'ing to it and doing a du -sh shows that 11GB are used. What's going on? Dunno,

Re: [newbie] XFCE 4.2 mouse scrolling

2005-01-20 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:56:40 -0500 Kenneth Rhodes disseminated the following: For some reason I always like prefer to log into the console/comand line. Ditto here. It just makes it so much freakin' easier to configure the way X behaves at startup, as we've discovered here today :-) -- JoeHill

Re: [newbie] openoffice segfaulting

2005-01-20 Thread Charles Lee Ying
The package urpmi selected was simply called oooqs. However, I remember I also updated kaffeine (and hence xine libs). So I assume there is a conflict. I have just tried installing from the generic installer at openoffice.org but the setup program will not run properly. I get the progress

Re: [newbie] I just love it

2005-01-20 Thread jallan6977
You present some interesting possibilities. It sounds just like m$dos5.0 or such. Gunzip being similar to pkunzip and chmod might be change mode. All this came from the linmodems site. I think I will try their directions as you say on a cmd line one after the other with returns in

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Thread Julie Sloan
Margot wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Margot wrote: On another list you mentioned that you bought the Mandrake CDs last summer - as 10.1 didn't exist then, are the CDs for 10.0? Because you now say you're running 10.1 - did you just install 10.0 from the CDs and then set your urpmi sources for

[newbie] Cannot change font sixe or screen size/resolution in KMail

2005-01-20 Thread Andy Yankovich
Hi all, Please forgive typos because I can't see/read what I am typing now. Fonts are simply too small to read. This is being typed with courier 10 pitch font, style regular, and set at 20 in size. What apprears on the screen is the same in 'size' regardless if size is set at 10, 20, or 64.

Re: [newbie] webmail

2005-01-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 20 January 2005 21:35, Matt Florido wrote: I was wondering if M10.1 already has a Webmail package. If not, I'm looking for suggestions on one. The only one I know of is SquirrelMail. Thanks! Matt Squirrelmail is in the contrib folder of any mandrake mirror. I use it myself. It

Re: [newbie] Ethereal and mandrakeonline.net

2005-01-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 20 January 2005 21:36, Miark wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:30:12 +, Derek wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2005 08:14, Miark wrote: I tinkered a little with Ethereal tonight. I noticed a constant pattern of my box doing a DNS lookup of mandrakeonline.net, but I am not

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Thread Julie Sloan
Lanman wrote: Margot wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Aha. Yes. Oops. Help? Julie OK Julie, decision time! You have vital parts of Mandrake missing (Mandrake Control Center) as well as vital parts of KDE. You can go one of 2 ways: - Complete reinstall of 10.0 from the CDs (wipe out absolutely

Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror??

2005-01-20 Thread Graham Watkins
Andy Yankovich wrote: Is there a way to have a specific web site open in Konqueror whenever it starts, using KDE (GUI) only? Snipped Thanks, Andy Hi, There may be better ways but this worked for me. Right-click on the KDE desktop, select create newfilelink to location (url). In the dialogue box

Re: [newbie] I just love it

2005-01-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You present some interesting possibilities. It sounds just like m$dos5.0 or such. Gunzip being similar to pkunzip and chmod might be change mode. All this came from the linmodems site. I think I will try their directions as you say on a cmd line one after the

Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror??

2005-01-20 Thread Ian
On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 19:28, Graham Watkins wrote: Andy Yankovich wrote: Is there a way to have a specific web site open in Konqueror whenever it starts, using KDE (GUI) only? Snipped Thanks, Andy Hi, There may be better ways but this worked for me. Right-click on the KDE desktop,

Re: [newbie] Konstruct

2005-01-20 Thread Chris
On Thursday 20 January 2005 06:31 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried it a few days ago. It works ok as far as I can see. I had to run it a few times to sort out missing packages and as it takes an age each time, it prolonged the whole exercise. Even going through the readme, as a newbie, it

Re: [newbie] Cannot change font sixe or screen size/resolution in KMail

2005-01-20 Thread RickSisler
Andy Yankovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, [...] Please forgive typos because I can't see/read what I am typing now. Fonts are simply too small to read. This is being typed with courier 10 pitch font, style regular, and set at 20 in size. What apprears on the screen is the same in

Re: [newbie] Odd mouse behaviour in 10.1

2005-01-20 Thread A Dude
I was wondering if you might have any insights into a similar issue that I'm experiencing. I was running Mandrake 10.1 Official download version with no mouse problems whatsoever but I decided to finally do my bit and signed up for Mandrake Club. Long story, short, I downloaded the PowerPack

[newbie] alternative to the date program in linux

2005-01-20 Thread rasta rasta
hi! does anyone know of an alternative program to the date program in linux? All of our X applications freezes whenever we use the date program to change the system date. The time the application freezes depends on the amount of date moved from the current system date.

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 20 January 2005 04:52 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: Lanman wrote: Margot wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Aha. Yes. Oops. Help? Julie OK Julie, decision time! You have vital parts of Mandrake missing (Mandrake Control Center) as well as vital parts of KDE. You can go one of 2

[newbie] installation problem

2005-01-20 Thread Cyber Killer
I got the 10.1 official download dvd. Everything burned OK. I boot the comp, I see the splash screen, I press F2, type expert, [enter]. The kernel loads And that's all - I'm left with a blank screen, and nothing else happens. I had the same problem with 10.0, but then I thought I just

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Thread Julie Sloan
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2005 04:52 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: I hate reverse gear, so if I can get some advice along the way I'll just plan to plow ahead... Julie if I may chime in get 10.0 right first then try upgrading to 10.1 much easier BTW do you have broadband ? Hi Aron, no,

[newbie] 'muse' on ppc 10.1 official

2005-01-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I installed muse and when I try to start it I get: xfatal error: open /dev/rtc failed: No such device or address I ran mknod and created an rtc device like this: mknod /dev/rtc b 11 0 chgrp root /dev/rtc chmod 666 /dev/rtc I started muse again and got the same error message. I'm trying to use

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Thread Julie Sloan
Julie if I may chime in get 10.0 right first then try upgrading to 10.1 much easier BTW do you have broadband ? What I've done is in my ignorance begun updating 10.1 when what I had was six-month-old 10.0 installed from discs. The 10.0 was fine :( until I messed it up with this update. Now

[newbie] Mandrake 10.1; Hauppaauge wintv; BT878; XAWTV problem

2005-01-20 Thread Paul Olson
Hello- I am having some problems getting xawtv to work in Mandrake 10.1 Official (installed using the dvd edition). I can get the zapping and kdetv applications to work, however they behave unreliably and settings (from ntsc to pal; from us-cable to some other country setting) often change

[newbie] How to update cvs 1.11 to cvs 1.9?

2005-01-20 Thread Sam Chan
Hi I need cvs 1.9 in order to install some very specific drivers for my soundblaster live! 24bits. But I stuck with the cvs 1.11 version. I tried to find the rpm package for cvs 1.9 with urpmi, but I'm overwhelmed by all the rpms packages. Can somebody point me toward the easiest way? Thank