Re: [newbie] How do I install QT2?

1999-09-29 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: QT2 is more "advanced" than most of the apps out there. Your only real option is to just install LICQ via RPM and forget about compiling your own. Again, I just don't understand why you HAVE to compile it. QT2 really isn't ready for current distros

Re: [newbie] can't lauch X apps when su'ed as root

1999-09-26 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, ottffss wrote: I am running Linux Mandrake 6.1 on a home built PC. I just upgraded from linux-mandrake 6.0 (where I did NOT have the problem I am about to describe.) I boot to run level 5 (I edited /etc/innitab to do this). Here's my problem: When I log in as myself

Re: [newbie] K-Development IDE

1999-09-26 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Eric L. Damron wrote: checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -s) works . . . no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables. Can anyone tell from this what I need to do? Install the pgcc-c++, libstdc++ and

Re: [Re: [newbie] Upgradeing all packages destroys my system]

1999-09-26 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On 26 Sep 1999, Tymanthius Rune Speak wrote: Ok, but I don't understand why I can't just grab the rpms, and then upgrade what I have installed, using kpackage or rpm. INIT: version 2.76 booting sh: error in loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.4.0: cannot open shared object file: no

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1

1999-09-24 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, alann wrote: Just ordered Mandrake 6.1. I have seen various comments as to re-install 6.1 clean or do the upgrade. I'm running 6.0 now. I'm hoping I can do an upgrade and not loose a lot of things I have going. Shouldn't be a problem. But, as always with upgrades,

Re: [newbie] 4 days without install.

1999-09-24 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Aaron Sinclair wrote: Ok then I concede... I will not install 6.0 ... "What a piece of crap software" Please replace "software" with "hardware" here. A mouse claiming to be PS/2 compliant is a big hardware bug if it doesn't speak the same protocol all other

Re: [newbie] LICQ and Madrake 6.0 HELP!

1999-09-22 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My experience with the Licq package from Cooker was not good. Although it was a month ago (maybe a little more), I remember that it requires qt2, which requires libstcc++-1.95 or some such, which breaks things if you install it (you have to

Re: [newbie] (Off Topic)

1999-09-22 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, fred wrote: Off topic http://www.linuxnic.net Spam? I guess a bit of shameless promotion -:) More than just that: shameless promotion of an *illegal* product that *won't ever work*. You can't just create a TLD all of your own and ask ISPs to list you as a root

Re: [newbie] Missing in action? - jrt

1999-09-22 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, John Turbvull wrote: The second missing item is a small utility called vidtune. I do not recall if it was on M6.0 or if I am remembering it from my RH5.3 days. . There was no such thing as RH 5.3... What you're looking for is actually called "xvidtune", and is included in

Re: [newbie] Root Password

1999-09-22 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: Some of the other OS's I've worked with (VMS - shudder) allow the administrator to require 2 passwords to access the admin. account. It was very handy to be able to prevent outside forces from guessing logins - in the event of a "break in" the

Re: [newbie] Is It Possible That Redhat/Mandrake does not containa driver or workaround for my soundcard?

1999-09-21 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I've tried every setting combination with several different ESS and Soundblaster drivers to no avail. Is it possible that Redhat/Mandrake does not contain the driver or workaround for my ESS1888 soundcard? Did you run isapnp to set the IRQ and

Re: [newbie] LICQ and Madrake 6.0 HELP!

1999-09-21 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Matt G. Ellis wrote: Okay, i downloaded and unpacked the Source for LICQ .7 I can compile the program itself fine, my problem is getting the required qt-gui to compile. It said i needed QT2.00 and I only have QT1.44, i downloaded the 2.00 rpms from rpmfind.net and

Re: [newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.

1999-09-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Jaybird X wrote: My HP 722C won't even flinch on any of the HP prfiles in printtool. They cover the 5xx, 6xx, and 8xx series machines though. Is there a reason this model isn't supported? Yes, the HP 722C is a GDI printer (AKA Windoze printer)... LLaP bero -- Tired of

Re: [newbie] HP 712C Printer....

1999-09-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Matt G. Ellis wrote: I've had the same problems as the the guy with the 722C printer, is the 712 also a "WinPrinter?" Yes, but AFAIK there is currently some project going to get winprinters to work on Linux. Maybe someone else knows more about this... LLaP bero --

Re: [Fwd: [newbie] 6.1 ftp isntall via pcmcia net card]

1999-09-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Chris Herrnberger wrote: That's what I thought. Guess the images are buggy. So what's the mechanism on this list to report bugs to get the images updated. We're reading the list - where did you get the images? LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000?

Re: [newbie] FTP anonymous or user

1999-09-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, terry wrote: i've reinstalled linux again 7th time and it still does not work. this time i get a timeout to login although it connects tolocal linux machine using ip address it will not complete a ftp session. ftp does reverse lookups... Make sure the IP of the

Re: [newbie] iso

1999-09-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, David van Balen wrote: Just out of curiosity, what's the difference between an iso distro and a "regular" one? With the ISO version, you just do cdrecord dev=wherever,your,drive,is speed=x Mandrake61.iso to put it on CD. With the regular version, you download all the

Re: [newbie] FTP Server

1999-09-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Mark Hall wrote: Does a Linux-Mandrake 6.0 server installation automatically set up an FTP server? Yes. I have tried to FTP connect to Linux, from my WinNT box, using MS IE as my FTP client. It won't work. I have tried both anonymous and real account details.

Re: [newbie] Various newbie questions

1999-09-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Mike Cunningham wrote: 1. By default KDE 1.1 was installed. How do I switch to Gnome? Run desktopcfg 2. How do I switch window managers in KDE? KDE doesn't deal well with window managers other than kwm... desktopcfg allows you to switch window manages, too. 3. I used

Re: [newbie] Setup Q's

1999-09-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Jay and Jen wrote: My sound card, an Ensoniq AudioPCI (one of the originals, from before the Creative buy-out), is misbehaving. I heaar sound, but it's very quiet and hugely distorted. The proper driver, however, is isntalled (it was auto-sensed as AudioPCI). Any help

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail tosses my mail?

1999-09-19 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Mike Fieschko wrote: Jeanette I have used fetchmail on my other systems. Just tried Jeanette to set it up on Mandrake. Got fetchmail:SMTP error: 451 Jeanette owner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender domain must Jeanette resolve? This looks as if another machine

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail tosses my mail?

1999-09-19 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: No, it's because the machine can't resolve the sender domain, linux-mandrake.com. Check your DNS settings... Can you ping linux-mandrake.com from the same machine at the same time? Ok Bero that sounds Logical how can I turn it off or fixit?

Re: [newbie] fetchmail tosses mail

1999-09-19 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: Ok I put the correct settings into /etc/resolvconf but fetchmail still is tossing the mail cannot resolved this [EMAIL PROTECTED] same error Bero? So what is the fix for this? As you may have guessed, I'm not having this problem... Does your

Re: [newbie] My logging has stopped!

1999-09-18 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Eric L. Damron wrote: What do I need to do to setup system logging again? (/var/log/secure, xferlog, etc) Can anyone tell me all of the steps I need to take to implement system logging as if I were implementing it for the first time. How did you get it to stop??? You

Re: [newbie] Aiee

1999-09-18 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, James Stewart wrote: A few times recently I've had the kernel crash on me. This generally happens when I have a PPP connection up and am switching between a non-X screen and the screen I have KDE open in. I'm running kernel 2.2.9-27mdk Can you try updating the kernel to

Re: [newbie] Check this out....

1999-09-15 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, fred wrote: http://www.linuxnic.net What they are doing is quite illegal... You don't just create a new TLD and try to move ISPs into putting your nameserver into the root nameservers file. There's nothing that would prevent me from creating a second .linux TLD, and they'd

Re: [newbie] Description of Packages

1999-09-13 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, alann wrote: I was wondering "WHAT" file in Mandrake ( or RH for that matter ) contains all the package descriptions that you get upon install. In other words, when you install either you have the choice of making broad package installs or installing EVERY package

Re: [newbie] Memory leaks

1999-09-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, R. David Whitlock wrote: My machine has 128 megs of ram. I and my wife are the only users. When I start up X, on a virtual term, 'top' reports that perhaps half of that is in use (i forget the numbers right now). I have no perspective on what constitutes normal

Re: [newbie] 6.1

1999-09-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, pete moss wrote: when will 6.1 be out of beta? When it's ready and tested enough. ;) LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] gcc doesn't understand iostream.h

1999-09-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Ty Mixon wrote: Since my reinstall I can't compile my simple Comp. Sci. I programs under gcc. It gives me errors saying undefined function calls to cout, cin, etc. How do I get my header libraries back? This is C++ - you probably forgot to install gcc-c++,

Re: [newbie] SCSI Scanner

1999-09-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Doug Reid wrote: I would like to use my scsi scanner with linux. Do any of the image processing programs available support scanners? Are there appropriate drivers around? Depends on your scanner. You'll want to have a look at the sane and gimp packages. LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] The Doors CD

1999-09-11 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Andy Goth wrote: I picked up a CD from The Doors that supposedly has a data section in addition to the music. Well... Not only am I unable to access that data, but I also cannot play the cd with kscd! It doesn't work in Windows, either. The CD player (physical

Re: [newbie] laptops

1999-09-08 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Chris D wrote: i am new and planning an install of mandrake on my toshiba laptop, and i was wondering if there is anything to watch out for. Yes, wait for 6.1 which improves PCMCIA support and adds IrDA support. LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] Partition question...

1999-09-08 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you saying that there is a seperate kernel for each partition? No. What about swap space? Do I really need it? Unless you've got a real lot of RAM, you should set it up. I thought I read somewhere that it should be 2.5 times the amount of

Re: [newbie] HP890C Printer

1999-09-08 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: Has anyone had any luck setting up an HP 890C? Sure - it works with the HP DeskJet 550C driver. LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] Kernels

1999-09-07 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, JK wrote: I have mandrake 6.0 venus running on my machine with the 2.2.9-27mdk kernel. I was reading about the 2.2.13 kernels that you can get from cassini and cooker Will this affect my machine in any way? 'cause I am going to use a kernel from a newer version? Or

[newbie] Re: [expert] Kernel 2.2.12 RPM?

1999-09-07 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: Anyone know where I can find an RPM of kernel 2.2.12? I compiled my own yesterday, but I'm having some problems that I'm hoping will go away by using a pre-compiled kernel. Get 2.2.13-2mdk from cooker or cassini (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker,

Re: [newbie] what is?

1999-09-06 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Ralph |byte-runner | wrote: Can someone give me an Idea what is the best way to set up my hard drive partitions for linux. I have 6110 set aside for linux with a swap of 256mb I have a asus board running duel pentium2 350's with 256mb ram. what i mean is i set it up with

Re: [newbie] what is?

1999-09-06 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Westbrook wrote: I was under the impression that the swap shouldn't be any bigger that 128 since Linux won't read anything bigger anyway. Am I wrong? Was true before kernel 2.1.something. By now you can create 2 Terabytes swap if you need them. LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] Evil Empire

1999-08-28 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Art Rowe wrote: Microsoft bashing is fun, as it was when I was trying OS2, but MS Explorer is a good program. Until an attachment (aka e-mail virus) or some Active-X control on a website destroys the content of your harddisk, maybe. Even if you're on Windoze, using a

Re: [newbie] Kernel Module

1999-08-22 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Sengir wrote: How would I go about installing the PPP module in the kernel without recompiling it? If you're using the default Mandrake kernel, the PPP module is there. It will autoload; if you need to activate it manually (though I don't see why anyone would need it),

[newbie] Re: [expert] Kernel upgrading?

1999-08-22 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote: Which RPMs will I install and in what order? Since this is an SMP machine, You'll need only the kernel-smp package, and maybe kernel-source and kernel-headers if you want to do development. I know the kernels I need are the "SMP" kernels, but what

[newbie] Re: Help with truetype fonts...

1999-08-17 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Jose Alberto Abreu wrote: So I got my copy of 6.0, got my copy of Wordperfect 8 from an Spanish Computer mag (for the spanish dictionaries and stuff), installed without troubles, added some TT fonts we normally use at the office and updated the fonts.dir file without

Re: [newbie] KDE won't load at all!

1999-08-17 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Rick Fry wrote: That's the same thing I get when I try to modify the X86 config file trying to put in the correct frequencies for my monitor so I can get better graphics. Unless I can get at least 1024x768 in 24 bit color, FreeBSD is looking pretty good right now. Oh

Re: [newbie] About other unices

1999-08-17 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Lorenzo Jimenez wrote: What do you think about FreeBSD ( http://www.freebsd.org/internet.html ). They have linux apps compability. Do you think is better to switch (Mandrake has many problems with the hardware). I like FreeBSD, and I'm using it on one of my computers.

Re: [newbie] Linux for home consumers?

1999-08-16 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Richard Salts wrote: Somebody was saying to me that he believed Linux was a good corporate tool but not a good op system for home use because of it's steep learning curve. I disagree. Linux is more powerful, not more difficult, than Windows. If people are telling you

Re: [newbie] Linux for home consumers?

1999-08-16 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: The problem is if you look at this list a lot of people start I just bought Linux Mandrake 6.0 and can't get it installed. So I think the install still needs work. This is currently being done. 6.1 will have a completely different installer. Red Hat

Re: [newbie] Linux for home consumers?

1999-08-16 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If by "home user" he means "the average user", then he's absolutely right (just scanning this list proves that). Not quite. Follow some Windows mailing lists and you'll see people have quite some trouble getting that to work, also. Most of the

Re: [newbie] Linux Not for Average Users (Was: Linux for home consumers?)

1999-08-16 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (It does kind of baffle me that a company like Red Hat can go public and have their stock do well - who the heck would gamble on a company that takes something that everyone can get for free, slaps a name on it, and charges $80? Red Hat makes

Re: [newbie] gcc - not found

1999-08-16 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, KEISYA wrote: I've MANDRAKE6.0 run on my desktop now and don't know what to do next. SO I started to try installing my first dowloaded program of the form ***.tar.gz. But when I ran ./configure I got error gcc - not found. I've been told that gcc is not installed. How to

Re: [newbie] Linux Not for Average Users (Was: Linux for home consumers?)

1999-08-16 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, James Schofield wrote: The Average user wants all the Warrenty and assurances - reliable service, documentation and FULL service support that a Microsoft can and will supply. Have you ever tried calling Microsoft support for something? They really aren't much of a help.

Re: [newbie] how do i

1999-08-14 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, byte-runer | Ralph | wrote: Hello all, I am running NT 4.o and Mandrake on the same box. Can someone plz tell me how I can be able to read my nt partition as well as write to it. I've tried linconfig NTFS write support is VERY experimental in the current kernel,

[newbie] Re: your mail

1999-08-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Joel Doucet wrote: I keep trying to contact someone from linuxmandrake but nobody wants to responce to my e-mails, You apparently didn't write to the right address ([EMAIL PROTECTED])? When i configure X windows,i have to select my monitor, and since my monitor isn`t

Re: [newbie] build rpm from tar.gz

1999-08-11 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Lang Zhi wrote: How to build rpm from a tar.gz file ? ftp://ftp.mandrakesoft.com/pub/bero/Mandrake-RPM-HOWTO LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/

Re: [newbie] frame buffer

1999-08-11 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Guillermo Belli wrote: I'm just going to compile kernel 2.2.11 and would like to know what do I have to add into the kernel in order to enable the frame buffer. Just enable support for Frame Buffer Devices... Also, if something else is needed to to this, please tell me.

Re: [newbie] libMesaGL.so.3 and libMesaGLU.so.3

1999-08-11 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to Mandrake, but have dabbled in Linux for a couple of years. I am trying to install KDE. I get the messages: libMesaGL.so.3 is needed by whatever RPM I am installing libMesaGLU.so.3 is needed by whatever RPM I am installing Install

Re: [newbie] jdk

1999-08-11 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: I really hate having to ask this, but what package is licq in? I'm mirroring cooker and do not have any licq packages. Argh... Just checked, it isn't there. I uploaded it quite a while ago; guess the package was removed in a broken update or

Re: [newbie] jdk

1999-08-11 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Bert Bullough wrote: cooker's the developer version of mandrake right? Yes. LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/

Re: [newbie] Lynx: Follow Up

1999-08-09 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, John May wrote: That's what I thought. I have been using Linux now for a couple of years, and I must say it is good to see linux maturing and the support that it has gotten, it truly is a stable OS. Now, if only that USB support would develop. It does - have a look at

Re: [newbie] some problems with Linux

1999-08-09 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, brandon wrote: I already have the linux installed on my pc. The problem is: I can only use the features and applications when I login as "root". During installation, I chose a user name and password for a normal user. But when I login as the non-privileged user, I

Re: [newbie] hard drive problems

1999-08-09 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Bert Bullough wrote: Ok, this really sucks. My hard drive isn't unmounting properly when i shut down. By any chance, are you using Mandrake 6.0-1 without having updated the kernel and initscripts package? LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP

Re: [newbie] Emacs is giving Fatal Error 11

1999-08-09 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Almost always when I look at something in emacs, when I try to do a C-X C-V to exit, it crashes and I get a fatal error. Can someone please explain the process of exititing emacs with and without saving the document. It frustrating because it

Re: [newbie] BogoMIPS

1999-08-09 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Martin White wrote: My PIII 450 gives out approx 453BMIPS - i expected considerably more than this as i've seen 450 from a Dell 233 system before. Finally, does it matter ? Or should i take this as an indication of a problem ? No - it's just the fact that some

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!

1999-08-07 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, alann wrote: I think the mandrake people need to do some work on thier soundcard stuff. I've got a SB PCI128 that "partly" works. What's the problem with it? LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/

Re: [newbie] RPMs (?)

1999-08-06 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Pedro Timoteo wrote: I believe Mandrake itself runs on a 486, but the updates don't. Weird. :) Why don't you listen to what we say? - It is compiled with pgcc using -march=pentium. This allows pgcc to use pentium specific assembler instructions. It usually won't do it

Re: [newbie] scripting problems

1999-08-06 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Jo wrote: [root@host jd]# ls -al rc_fi -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root30090 Aug 7 02:47 rc_fi [root@host jd]# rc_fi bash: rc_fi: command not found The current directory is by default not in the PATH. Either do ./rc_fi, or do export PATH=$PATH:. before running

Re: [newbie] RPMs (?)

1999-08-05 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Noonan, Mr Sean P. wrote: I just purchased and installed Mandrake 6.0 and clicked on the "updates" icon within KDE/X. I chose a local mirror. The program came back and gave me several RPMs that needed to be upgraded. I clicked on the button that said something like "go

[newbie] Re: [expert] Getting color output using ls --color

1999-08-05 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, John Dennison wrote: Ok, I have Mandrake 5.3 installed from the CD-Roms. I can't seem to get the ls --color option working COMPLETELY. Most of it works. I get the green executables, the blue directories, and the aqua links, but none of the other stuff works. eval

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

1999-08-02 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Wilhelm Bertalan wrote: I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not recognised ("not detected") but when I look into /dev lp0 (and lp1 and lp2) are still existing, the entry looks like: crw-rw 1 root daemon 6, 0 May 5 1998 lp0 crw-rw 1 root daemon

[newbie] Re: your mail

1999-07-29 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard htathat linux can only use 64MB of memory by deafault. Is this true? Where can I change this optioinn? It is no longer true with 2.2 kernels. LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] Lost C/C++ Libraries

1999-07-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Ken Wilson wrote: I am doing some C programming on my recently installed Mandrake 6.0. As far as I am aware I have the latest kernel and all the updates. However, I am having troubles compiling a small test program with pgcc(gcc) and suspect the libraries are missing or

Re: [newbie] UP SMP

1999-07-19 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Bert Bullough wrote: Can someone tell me what UP Uni-Processor (machines with 1 CPU) and SMP are referring to? Symmetric Multi Processing (more than 1 CPU) LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] networking

1999-07-19 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Lloyd Osten wrote: I have two computers, one running LM6.0 (this one) and the other one is running Win98. They are both connected to a cablemodem via a 10BaseT hub. They both have their own separate static IP addresses. How can I make my Linux box talk to my Win98 box

Re: [newbie] Trouble with d-link

1999-07-19 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Mike Ortiz wrote: I am having trouble with ym d-link DE ISA PnP nic card. I can not find a kernel module that makes it work. The system does not even know it's there. I have disabled the PnP bios option and it still makes no difference. I perfer 3com, but my company

Re: [newbie] Man ? BEWARE virus maybe attached to post by pup

1999-07-19 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: Bero which Linux e-mail programs do you feel are best? I am using Netscape, but I prefer Outlook Express which keeps me using WIndows for e-mail. Well, I personally think no mailer can outdo pine, but I know pine needs getting used to, and it's

Re: [newbie] SuSe vs mandrake

1999-07-18 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Morpheus The Sinful Weeper wrote: So ...check out what I found - does this mean only SuSe supports my 620 motherboard ? No. This is about SVGA cards, not motherboards. If you were referring to your SVGA card, it means the card is not directly supported by XFree86, but you

Re: [newbie] Filesystem gets badly corrupted !

1999-07-18 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Khalid wrote: What do you mean buy that ? I have done a new installation ! (Mandrake 6.0). In fact I have installed Mandrake at least three times from scratch, and got it corrupted each time ! There are some known bugs in the 6.0 version that can cause fs corruption on

Re: [newbie] lynx

1999-07-17 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, David M. Kufta wrote: I am new to linux-mandrake and after a clean install when I tried to use my lynx browser from the console I get the message "Can't open temporary file! mkdir ~/tmp

Re: [newbie] Get out of AfterStep, back to KDE

1999-07-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Jo wrote: Can somebody tell me how I can once again use KDE when in AfterStep. I managed to change the interface X uses, but now I'm stuck and I don't seem to be able to find a way back to KDE. desktopcfg LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] Mounting windows partition

1999-07-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Bert Bullough wrote: Hi all. Just installed Mandrake 6. My hard drive has a Linux partition under /dev/hda2. When I tried to mount it I typed mount -t win95fat32 It's -t vfat, not win95fat32. LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] swap space

1999-07-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Jo wrote: I'm considering to install Cooker. I was thinking to reserve another gigabyte of hard disk space for it. Now my question is: is it allowed to 'reuse' or use again the swap partition? Sure - as long as you don't do stuff like running both versions simultaneously

Re: [newbie] dvd-rom and turtle beach montego

1999-07-08 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Bert Bullough wrote: Does anyone here know if a Toshiba DVD-Rom (ide) Yes. (At least you can read CDs from any IDE DVD drive, haven't tried reading actual DVDs. They aren't available around here.) or a Turtle Beach Montego pnp sound card are supported by Mandrake 6.x? Do

Re: [newbie] Window managers

1999-07-05 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, J Mann wrote: Hello, I want to use other window managers like AfterStep and Enlightenment. How do I change from KDE? I've looked at all the configuration screens, but where do I tell it I want AfterStep instead of KDE? desktopcfg LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] SBLive under Mandrake 6.0

1999-07-03 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to have a SoundblasterLive under Mandrake6.0? There is a driver for SBLive, but just for kernelversions 2.0.36 and 2.2.5. Is it possible to use these drivers, and how can this be done!? I'm afraid the only thing you can do is

Re: [newbie] Update RPMs

1999-07-01 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Matt Stegman wrote: I've a quick question about the update RPMs: what is kernel-BOOT? It's for internal use. It's used to build the installation bootdisks. LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] Compiling source code

1999-06-30 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Michael Norris wrote: When compiling the kxicq source code I get the following error when running ./configure, "makeinfo...missing" ,"configure error: C compiler cannot create executables". You probably forgot to install glibc-devel or libstdc++-devel. LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE using Mandrake RPMs?

1999-06-29 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, John Aldrich wrote: Can one download the updated KDE RPMs and use them with RedHat 6.0 or does Mandrake put them in a different directory, etc from RedHat 6.0? Yes, but you won't get man or info pages that way because RedHat does not support bzip2'ed man/info pages. If

Re: [newbie] VMWARE

1999-06-29 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Patrick Putteman wrote: Vmware works fine on the original mandrake 6.0 kernel (2.2.19) but stops working and crashes with a segfault with the latenst kernel update from mandrake I don't have vmware... Can you check if the kernel in cooker (2.2.10-29mdk) works? LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] Opening Windows files

1999-06-27 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Hans Goetz wrote: Formerly I have been using SUSE Linux and the tool yast offered that in an easy way. Something similar in Mandrake? linuxconf LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] Re: need to set a path

1999-06-27 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, J Mann wrote: I just installed FreeAmp 1.2.3 for Linux. Good problem, but I'm having trouble. The problem installs in /usr/local/bin by default and that's where mine is. My question is how do I set a path to /usr/local/bin so I can just type 'freeamp /mp3s/*.mp3' instead

Re: [newbie] D960 problem

1999-06-22 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Victor Zaitsev wrote: Bernhard I downloaded all files in /private. What shall I do now to install this rpm ? Sorry, I thought you had already installed the distrib. You'll need new boot images. I'll put them on somewhere soon. LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] modem problems.....

1999-06-14 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Brian Erikson wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: 9906140913181894500@ebb I think it might work if you try cua0 or cua1 depending on if it is on serial port 1 or 2 respectively. That is the only selection that works with my

Re: [newbie] Unexpected Inconsistency with /hda3

1999-06-14 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: 9906142229222370500@ebb I got this message when booting Linux. It said to run fcsk manually. How do I do this? Is this what I need to do to solve this problem?? log in as root,

Re: [newbie] modem problems.....

1999-06-13 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, John Mandeville wrote: can some one tell me how to get my modem to work properly under LM6it didnt even work properly under LM5.3i have a newcom external 56kefxspka modem. when ever i try to Download with linux it goes a little and says stalled Is that when

Re: [newbie] Adding IDE CDROM?

1999-06-13 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Stephen Anderson wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: 9906132249151772900@ebb Can somebody help me? I've installed my system across the network. Now I've added an IDE cdrom on as the master on the secondary IDE port. Can someone

Re: [newbie] running apps in Mandrake 5.3 vs. Red Hat 5.2

1999-06-08 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Hidong Kim wrote: I've had Mandrake 5.3 installed on our Linux machines for a while now, and I was always under the impression that Mandrake 5.3 was exactly Red Hat 5.2 plus KDE. Not quite. Mandrake 5.3 had a lot more applications than RedHat (XEmacs, klyx, licq, maxwell,

Re: [newbie] Creative Vibra Sound Card Configuration

1999-06-08 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Pian wrote: sox : Known effect : avg band chorus copy cut deepmh echo echos flanger highp lowp map mask phaser pick polyphase rate resample reverb reverse split stat vibro sox : effect '/dev/dsp' is not known Not a problem with your soundcard, but with the sox package.

Re: [newbie] New Mandrake user.

1999-06-08 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Fernando Perez wrote: I did check with chkfontpath --list and I *do* have /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts loaded properly. Also, the fonts.dir file *is* there, so I'm kind of puzzled as to why I can't see any of the fonts. Probably the installer didn't update xfs to the

Re: [newbie] fortran

1999-06-07 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Alex Brown wrote: AAAGGH! does anyone know how to compile fortran progs?? there's no f77 or fort77 to be found. g77 should work, but I've never tried fortran... LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] M6 is trash

1999-06-07 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked for assistance on sound and scsi problems, got none, figured that one out eventually. Asked for assistance on Jaz locking up, got no response and it still does not work. The only reason you aren't getting responses is that your problems are

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