Re: [newbie] Installing programmes

2005-02-13 Thread Noel McG.
- Original Message - From: SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing programmes Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am trying to install a programme called Mambo http://www.mamboserver.com/ on a

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Derek Jennings wrote: tail -n 100 /var/log/mail/errors will list the bottom 100 lines of the log. With that many error lines something is certainly wrong somewhere. Hopefully you have not been 'cracked' by a spammer. Nah. :-) I took a look-see at Errors, and it was filled with nothing but DB

Re: [newbie] Updates

2005-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 22:43, Charles A Edwards wrote: For Anne xsane-0.97-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm xsane-gimp-0.97-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm Thanks, Charles. I've got Acquire in Gimp2 for the first time. Wonderful. Anne - -- Registered Linux User

Re: [newbie] Installing programmes

2005-02-13 Thread Prem Vilas Fortran Rara
If you want to open konqueror with root priveleges, you can simply: goto konsolesukonqueror This opens konqueror with root priveleges. It's not safe, so be careful! On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:58:22 -, Noel McG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: SnapafunFrank [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 08:18, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: tail -n 100 /var/log/mail/errors will list the bottom 100 lines of the log. With that many error lines something is certainly wrong somewhere. Hopefully you have not been

Re: [newbie] Updates

2005-02-13 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 22:43, Charles A Edwards wrote: For Anne xsane-0.97-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm xsane-gimp-0.97-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm Thanks, Charles. I've got Acquire in Gimp2 for the first time. Wonderful. Anne Are these drivers for scanners? Newbie with scanner not

[newbie] importing keys

2005-02-13 Thread Aron Smith
Does anyone know how to import the key signatures for Charles Edwards site? I keep getting warnings Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 08:18, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: tail -n 100 /var/log/mail/errors will list the bottom 100 lines of the log. With that many error lines something is certainly wrong somewhere. Hopefully you have not been 'cracked' by a spammer. Nah. :-) I

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Updates

2005-02-13 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Sorry, I replied to Rosemary only (who hasn't cleared her reply to field. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Updates Date: Sunday 13 February 2005 10:31 From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 13 February 2005 10:14, Rosemary

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 09:31, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Well, I'm running a Cooker box, so it possibly wouldn't affect you anyway unless it was a security update or one to your flavor of ML. But, I think I spoke too soon as to the source of the

Re: [newbie] importing keys

2005-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 09:22, Aron Smith wrote: Does anyone know how to import the key signatures for Charles Edwards site? I keep getting warnings Get the .asc file from his site, then rpm --import http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/CAE.asc Anne - --

Re: [newbie] Updates

2005-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 09:14, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 22:43, Charles A Edwards wrote: For Anne xsane-0.97-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm xsane-gimp-0.97-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm Thanks, Charles. I've

Re: [newbie] 10.1 boot stalling at checking for new hardware

2005-02-13 Thread Graham Watkins
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: New install Mandrake 10.1 - after first boot got welcome to first boot window. Now boot justs stops at checking for new hardware. I waited five minutes - is this long enough? If not what can I do please? Thanks in advance Rosemary Does it happen every time? I've

Re: [newbie] Amarok 1.2 beta does not play

2005-02-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:30:02 -0500, Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Greg. I have tried all the three available engines, but always with the same result, i.e., with no success. This is often the result of not having the correct plugins installed for the type of media being

Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-13 Thread Michel Leunen
JoeHill wrote: You are using the wrong Desktop and browser. Log in to XFCE4. No more problems, desktop heaven. It's already installed but what are you using as file manager because I don't like much the XFCE one. Michel -- Michel Leunen mailto: see my

Re: [newbie] importing keys

2005-02-13 Thread SnapafunFrank
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 09:22, Aron Smith wrote: Does anyone know how to import the key signatures for Charles Edwards site? I keep getting warnings Get the .asc file from his site, then rpm --import

Re: [newbie] importing keys

2005-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 10:41, SnapafunFrank wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 09:22, Aron Smith wrote: Does anyone know how to import the key signatures for Charles Edwards site? I keep getting warnings Get the .asc file from his

Re: [newbie] importing keys

2005-02-13 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 09:22, Aron Smith wrote: Does anyone know how to import the key signatures for Charles Edwards site? I keep getting warnings Get the .asc file from his site, then rpm --import http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/CAE.asc

[newbie] login problem

2005-02-13 Thread Mr Steve Harris
Hello, My son recently installed Mandrake 10.1 over 9.2 on my machine. While most things seem to be going smoothly, sometimes it takes a long time to log in. The machine has a p3 and 256MB RAM. It gets to the GUI login screen. I log in, but it then sits there and does nothing for

Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

2005-02-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:24:52 +0100, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way of selecting the files to download by its extension, i.e., can one download only rpm files, for instance? As far as I remember one can add the option : --restrict-file-names or some such (I don't have

Re: [newbie] graphics question

2005-02-13 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 1:28 pm, Omar wrote: Hi all, Maybe this question should not be on this list, but I didn't know where else to put it. I have around 400 jpeg images and I want to put 3x2 images on an A4 size document, preferrably in PDF format. Is there a way to do this in

Re: [newbie] 10.1 boot stalling at checking for new hardware

2005-02-13 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: New install Mandrake 10.1 - after first boot got welcome to first boot window. Now boot justs stops at checking for new hardware. I waited five minutes - is this long enough? If not what can I do please? Thanks in advance Rosemary Does it happen every time?

Re: [newbie] graphics question

2005-02-13 Thread Paul
On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 1:28 pm, Omar wrote: Hi all, Maybe this question should not be on this list, but I didn't know where else to put it. I have around 400 jpeg images and I want to put 3x2 images on an A4 size document, preferrably in PDF format. Is there a way to do this in

Re: [newbie] 10.1 boot stalling at checking for new hardware

2005-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 12:25, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Not sure if you might have seen my other posts. Suddenly achieved 'boot'. Not sure if related to fact scanner was not plugged in - got to be a factor I think. So far all boots straight

Re: [newbie] turbotax?

2005-02-13 Thread Linus Drouhard
David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:08:14 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, every year i google around for a way to do taxes (on my computer) w/o booting into windows or using the web version. Sooo, anyone figured out a way to do your US taxes under Linux? Turbotax Web

Re: [newbie] Amarok 1.2 beta does not play

2005-02-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 13 February 2005 05:09 am, Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, Greg. It is working with xine. How can I install all necessary gstreamer-xxx at once? Cool, glad to hear it. with respect to stuff like gstreamer with a lot of plugins, I find it easiest to use rpmdrake so I can scan the whole

Updating POPFile (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /)

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Anne Wilson wrote: In any case, things seem to be running normally again /with/ POPFile in place. I'm running an older version of PF (v0.20.1), as I believe you are, Anne (perhaps even older?), so I thought maybe an incompatibility had crept in, but apparently not. I updated a few days ago

Re: Updating POPFile (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /)

2005-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 16:07, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: I updated a few days ago to the latest version. There were some problems with the install caused by the fact that my previous install didn't put things where PopFile expected them, but once

Re: [newbie] Amarok 1.2 beta does not play

2005-02-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:07:04 -0500, Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 05:09 am, Paul Smith wrote: BTW, I have a test package of 1.2 final up if you're interested in testing. It fixes a a lot of bugs since beta4, plus I turned debug off so it is a lot smaller.

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 10:43 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anytime I use a zip drive here (internal, IDE), I've always had to put that 4 there. It accesses the entire Zip cart. No /dev/hdd would be the entire drive. /dev/hdd4 would be the 4th partition on it.

Re: [newbie] graphics question

2005-02-13 Thread Paul
Slap the new images in a webpage and run html2pdf (I know that exists somewhere), or perhaps even load them into OO and export that as PDF. html2pdf turns out to be some program you can buy. Better then to load the page you make in a browser, print that to a postscript file and turn that into PDF

[newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

2005-02-13 Thread Yvan
Hello Paul, I think w3mir will do what you want. Should be included in the Mandrake distribution On 11.02.2005, you wrote: Dear All Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a http address? For instance, consider the following address: http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-13 Thread Mike Adolf
On Saturday 12 February 2005 09:54 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 04:31 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: This is strange. /dev/hdd should be the entire ZIP disk, including the partition table. /dev/hdd4 should be the partition with the data on it.

[newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-13 Thread Greg Meyer
For anyone that have been using my beta packages of amaroK, I have test packages up for 1.2 final. I have been testing all morning, and everything seems good, but before 1.2 final is officially announced by the amaroK team, they would like to see the packages tested more. Since I am the only

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-13 Thread Glenn
On Sun February 13 2005 10:29, Greg Meyer wrote: For anyone that have been using my beta packages of amaroK, I have test packages up for 1.2 final. I have been testing all morning, and everything seems good, but before 1.2 final is officially announced by the amaroK team, they would like to

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 13 February 2005 12:42 pm, Glenn wrote: On Sun February 13 2005 10:29, Greg Meyer wrote: For anyone that have been using my beta packages of amaroK, I have test packages up for 1.2 final.  I have been testing all morning, and everything seems good, but before 1.2 final is

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-13 Thread RickSisler
Greg Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: For anyone that have been using my beta packages of amaroK, I have test packages up for 1.2 final. I have been testing all morning, and everything seems good, but before 1.2 final is officially announced by the amaroK team, they would like to see the

Re: [newbie] Amarok, Audacity and streamtuner

2005-02-13 Thread rikona
Hello Greg, Saturday, February 12, 2005, 9:01:55 PM, Greg wrote: GM On Saturday 12 February 2005 05:31 pm, rikona wrote: I'm trying to get some sound up on a box recently updated to 10.1. Using Amarok to play an mp3 file results in severely distorted sound, but xmms and Audacity seem to do

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:25 pm, RickSisler wrote: Hi Greg, Thx for pkg'ing these, seems to work fine ! What output engine do you guys recommend ? I have all of my files as mp3. aRts works with no problems, but I was just curious 8) My personal preference is xine because it handles

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 09:54 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I guess the driver, or udev, is translating the partition table or something, so that /dev/hdd is what would be /dev/hdd4 in 9.2. I'll have to dig out my USB ZIP drive, and see how that is handled. I suspect

Re: [newbie] Script for burning DVD images

2005-02-13 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 11, 2005 00:41, David G Stevenson wrote: ... Anyway, I took a few minutes and turned it into a reusable script. I've attached it here for anyone who might find themselves in a similar situation. Maybe someday this missing feature will get added to K3b. In the meantime, enjoy.

Re: [newbie] 10.1 boot stalling at checking for new hardware

2005-02-13 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 11, 2005 05:11, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: New install Mandrake 10.1 - after first boot got welcome to first boot window. Now boot justs stops at checking for new hardware. I waited five minutes - is this long enough? If not what can I do please? Thanks in advance Rosemary

Re: [newbie] 10.1 boot stalling at checking for new hardware

2005-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 19:33, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On February 11, 2005 05:11, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: New install Mandrake 10.1 - after first boot got welcome to first boot window. Now boot justs stops at checking for new hardware. I

Re: [newbie] login problem

2005-02-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 13 February 2005 11:20, Mr Steve Harris wrote: Hello, My son recently installed Mandrake 10.1 over 9.2 on my machine. While most things seem to be going smoothly, sometimes it takes a long time to log in. The machine has a p3 and 256MB RAM. It gets to the GUI login screen. I

Re: Updating POPFile (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /)

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Anne Wilson wrote: Yes - if I'm not to be red-faced for evermore I need to write a bit for the TWiki. There are good install instructions specifically for Mandrake, which should be perfect if it's a new install, but mine wasn't. In the next day or two I'll go through the thread where they

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-13 Thread RickSisler
Greg Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:25 pm, RickSisler wrote: Hi Greg, Thx for pkg'ing these, seems to work fine ! What output engine do you guys recommend ? I have all of my files as mp3. aRts works with no problems, but I was just curious 8) My

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-13 Thread Miark
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:19:10 -0500, RickSisler wrote: Thx Greg, switched to xine, crossfading is ok, but I can live without it. Kinda wanted to get away from aRts since I don't run KDE. Amarok itself is a KDE app. Running Fluxbox actually, and I was using Juk, tho' now being a convert to

Re: [newbie] login problem

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Derek Jennings wrote: This is possibly because you upgraded instead of installing. You are still using devfs instead of udev. To fix it. Install udev Edit /etc/lilo.conf and in each stanza in the 'append' line change the devfs option to 'devfs=nomount' Then run 'lilo -v' to rewrite your boot

Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

2005-02-13 Thread Miark
Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a http address? For instance, consider the following address: http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ If you use Firefox, I use an extension called downTHEMall! which works kinda like FlashGet in Winblows. It'll give you a list of

Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-13 Thread Miark
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:21:32 +0100, Michel wrote: You are using the wrong Desktop and browser. Log in to XFCE4. No more problems, desktop heaven. It's already installed but what are you using as file manager because I don't like much the XFCE one. I use XFCE, but do file manager stuff

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 13 February 2005 02:19 pm, RickSisler wrote: Greg Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:25 pm, RickSisler wrote: Hi Greg, Thx for pkg'ing these, seems to work fine ! What output engine do you guys recommend ? I have all of my files as mp3. aRts

Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-13 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:21:32 +0100 Michel Leunen disseminated the following: Log in to XFCE4. No more problems, desktop heaven. It's already installed but what are you using as file manager because I don't like much the XFCE one. ROX! Homepage:

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-13 Thread RickSisler
Greg Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 02:19 pm, RickSisler wrote: Greg Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:25 pm, RickSisler wrote: Hi Greg, Thx for pkg'ing these, seems to work fine ! What output engine do you guys recommend

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-13 Thread JR
The guys that developed it have created a really cool app that IMHO runs rings around anything else that currently exists. I think so too. The streamed music is great if you want to hear something different. I havent listened to music on the radio in ages! I used to use a combination of players

[newbie] Mandrake and amd 64

2005-02-13 Thread JR
I'm considering getting an AMD64 laptop. I understand that it is backwards compatible with 32 bit.But if I install only 32 bit applications via urpmi, will I even benefit from a 64 bit processor? I have decided not to go for pentium-M / centrino as I will not be very mobile. This is

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-13 Thread RickSisler
Miark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:19:10 -0500, RickSisler wrote: Thx Greg, switched to xine, crossfading is ok, but I can live without it. Kinda wanted to get away from aRts since I don't run KDE. Amarok itself is a KDE app. Yeah, thats why I like Mandrake, it's

Re: [newbie] login problem

2005-02-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 13 February 2005 20:37, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: This is possibly because you upgraded instead of installing. You are still using devfs instead of udev. To fix it. Install udev Edit /etc/lilo.conf and in each stanza in the 'append' line change the devfs

Re: [newbie] 10.1 boot stalling at checking for new hardware

2005-02-13 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
I've had that problem too. If the other advice here doesn't help, boot in failsafe mode, then run the following commands: chkconfig --del harddrake reboot This will disable the boot check for new hardware. The disadvantage of course is that if you then add some new hardware, Mandrake will not

Re: [newbie] login problem

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 20:37, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Hey, Derek ... I've also done as you suggest above in switching to udev, but at boot I'm getting a lot of error messages reading: open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory Is there something else that must be

[newbie] Installing Mandrake on 9.1 on ppc

2005-02-13 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
Can anyone tell me the successful way install mandrake on a macintosh? I can't do this to save my life and I can't tell what my problem is. It seems my issue is with the install display which I don't have the first clue how to fix. Even if I do the install via text-installer, when I go to boot

Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-13 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On February 12, 2005 09:05, Michel Leunen wrote: Hi, When I want to launch konqueror as a web browser (the icon near the mandrake star in the taskbar), nothing happens. Trying to launch konqueror from a console, I got this error message: $ konqueror webbrowsing konqueror: relocation error:

[newbie] famd

2005-02-13 Thread Chris
I read the man page on famd and understand what it does, however, I'm confused about the below entry. There is no cpollock.localdom, there is however, a cpollock.localdomain. Feb 13 17:48:27 cpollock famd[4547]: stat on _uVC.Kd-DCB.cpollock.localdom failed: No such file or directory --

Re: [newbie] Installing programmes

2005-02-13 Thread Noel McG.
- Original Message - From: SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing programmes Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am trying to install a programme called Mambo http://www.mamboserver.com/ on a

Re: [newbie] turbotax?

2005-02-13 Thread Eric Huff
Turbotax Web works just fine. :) I've been using Web-based turbotax methods for the last few years using linux. One caveat though, I had a little difficulty getting the browser (konqueror or mozilla0 to automatically launch acrobat inside the browser window for printing purposes. I managed

Re: [newbie] turbotax?

2005-02-13 Thread Eric Huff
I used TurboTax Deluxe (freebie from American Century Investments) with Crossover Office 4.0 and it mostly worked ok. Some of the navigation aids don't work properly, but tax preparation and printing seem fine. That's good to know. I haven't decide yet what to do to rid my box of dual

[newbie] modem problem (still!)

2005-02-13 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Well - I went a bought an external hardware modem which says it is linux compatible. I have attempted to install several times over but get this message each time, when I test. The system doesn't seem to be connected to the Internet. All the cables, power etc seem to be in place. There was