Re: [newbie] New to the list.

2002-10-03 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:11:25 +0200 l.biagiotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the ad Franki, but unfortunately the first thing I tried was the test you're suggesting so: 800x600 - 256 does not work (or does weird things), while changing some settings in the server options (under expert

Re: [newbie] Open Office and fonts

2002-10-03 Thread Damian G
On 03 Oct 2002 12:57:20 +0200 Bo Rosén [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After installing (clean install) Mandrake 9.0 I have problems with fonts in OO. I'm using the same old .ttf fonts from Windows. I imported them with darkfont during installation which failed to make them available to OO so I

Re: [newbie] Open Office and fonts

2002-10-03 Thread Damian G
On 03 Oct 2002 18:34:06 +0200 Bo Rosén [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tor 2002-10-03 klockan 14.43 skrev Damian G: Thanks, but I'm not sure I understand this. This seems to refer to the fonts as printed, not on-screen which is my problem. I'll look at the archives for the expert list though

Re: [newbie] wine

2002-10-03 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:23:20 -0300 Oder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Mandrake 9.0 and tried to use wine but the wine launcher was unable to find the xmessage program. It recommend 'that you use your distribution's software methods to locate xmessage. Can someone point me any

Re: [newbie] finally got the first iso

2002-10-02 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:10:00 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with my dialup connection. heh.. i downloaded the first iso, as my incoming partition was getting full, i moved it to another directory, then started downloading the other two. when the last ones were finished, i realized i

Re: [newbie] burning ISOs

2002-10-01 Thread Damian G
On 01 Oct 2002 15:17:06 -0400 Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, T. I appreciate your kind consideration throughout all of this. Do you know where I can find a searchable archive of the list? The link from the Mandrake site seems to not have a search function. - paul you

Re: [newbie] ArGo..blah blah

2002-10-01 Thread Damian G
[modified Subject to avoid my own filters. ;oP] Command Command not understood. looks like that admin doesn't understand a lot of things eh? ;o) -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] ArGoSoft Mailing List Server

2002-10-01 Thread Damian G
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 18:56:19 -0400 Gilligan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an Understood in the crowd? how about we all send the help reply? once or twice? or a gazillion times? ;o) Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems?

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Easy way to have 2 linuces (MDK) running on 2 diff partitions.

2002-09-27 Thread Damian G
From what i've read here on the list and in books, you should have 2 boot partitions ... each one for a different installation. I did ask once about a single /boot partition for all my linux installs but I was told that can be quite tricky. I Know i tried it once, and i ended up

Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0

2002-09-27 Thread Damian G
On 27 Sep 2002 21:50:20 -0500 Jim Fazio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, Does any have any preferences to which journalized filesystem I should use in MDK 9.0. I am assuming there is still three to choose from. I'm trying to research which is best, but only finding older material.

Re: [newbie] Gtk Errors

2002-09-26 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 06:10:57 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're talking about the tmp folder in / correct? It has a bunch of socket files in it. I also see a folder called mcop-chris and mcop-root. Inside of the mcop-chris is Arts_audiomanager which was installed the other

Re: [newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o)

2002-09-26 Thread Damian G
Another idea, implemented. The broadband connection at home is a bit slow: it would take 18 hours to upload the three ISOs. _But_ I've put them on my company's internal network well, the good part of multi-source download is that you can get faster and faster as more people get the same

[newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o)

2002-09-25 Thread Damian G
Guys! 9.0 is released. ( well you probably know this already ;oP ) but since the servers are pretty much jammed right now, how about this idea i read about in a comment in PcLinuxOnline: Any chance someone could put this up on edonkey, or other service which allows multisource transfers?

Re: [newbie] Gtk Errors

2002-09-25 Thread Damian G
try wiping out /tmp Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise)

2002-09-24 Thread Damian G
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:19:13 +0200 (CEST) Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I have just downloaded the 2/3 isos, but I have bad news for those using an old CD writer like me (HP 8100i): The isos are too big for the writers. I have used 700MB CD's, but have never been able to burn

Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise)

2002-09-24 Thread Damian G
Ok, this seems good news. But the thing is this. I have looked at the man page already, but I don't understand much of it :-( There are some *.img files in the images directory, but I presume these are for floppies. Then there are some files in isolinux, but how and what I would not know.

[newbie] another one of OO's annoyances..

2002-09-23 Thread Damian G
hi..! does anybody happen to get this, too? whenever i use a - character between two words, OO replaces it with a question mark. for example, hello - world gets replaced by hello ? world ... does anybody happen to know how to stop this? i've already tried disabling nearly every

[newbie] Re: another one of OO's annoyances..

2002-09-23 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:38:51 -0300 Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi..! does anybody happen to get this, too? whenever i use a - character between two words, OO replaces it with a question mark. for example, hello - world gets replaced by hello ? world never mind

Re: [newbie] another one of OO's annoyances..

2002-09-23 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:43:56 -0600 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would I be correct if I guessed that when you _print_ the page, it comes out correct? Miark wouldn't know, miark, i never even tried. however, i doubt it, i found only minutes later that the spellchacker was, for some

Re: [newbie] opera 6 and java

2002-09-22 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 06:52:14 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have java installed. I included path for plugins in opera. still no jre report i get. I didn't find any option in preferences for showing java path. How to make it recognize java first, go to the plug-in page in the

Re: [newbie] [OT]Nondeliverable messages?

2002-09-19 Thread Damian G
Am I the only one this is happening to? no. -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-18 Thread Damian G
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 9:15 am, Damian G did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: PS: This is a note for anyone reading this post: I really don't feel like starting a OO vs. MSO war. I think i provided enough info for anybody to try this test for themselves, so i

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-18 Thread Damian G
I wonder if you have compared how fast OO opens in linux the second time? hm.. actually, i haven't... you are right, it does start faster.. but still i think there's no comparison.. the difference is not that great. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Damian G
I timed OO and it opened in 20 secs. Using 900mhz Duron and a 40gig 7200rpm uhm we were talking about old ( i.e. Pentium 233 ) machines.. :o) Maxtor hd. Not super fast but not any worse than MSword. Oh, this is on 9.0rc1. ML 9.0 seems to be faster than 8.2 anyhoo, just an

Re: [newbie] MPlayer and .wmv file

2002-09-13 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:10:24 -0700 (PDT) teddy wl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:49:24 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mdk8.2. I installed MPlayer-0.90pre5. When .wmv file is played I get only

Re: [newbie] MPlayer and .wmv file

2002-09-13 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:49:24 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mdk8.2. I installed MPlayer-0.90pre5. When .wmv file is played I get only screeching sound intermittantly henever a sound occurs. What to do? why pre5? pre7 was out nearly a week ago..! you could have a corrupt

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-12 Thread Damian G
I have a few problem with MPlayer. One I have mdk 82 avifiles as below. libavifile0.7-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk libavifile0.7-devel-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk avifile-player-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk Still libavcodec is not taken while compiling. MPlayer doesn't use avifile at all. to enable

[newbie] this Kivio stuff..

2002-09-12 Thread Damian G
hi. i've got a rather interesting question about kivio.. lately i've been using dia to make some flowcharts i need for my homework.. but since it can't see my arial font which is required by my teacher, i have to find another app. i like kivio's interface, i found out pretty much instantly

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-10 Thread Damian G
Hi there Damian, You used the RPM's from that site, and compiled MPlayer yourself, or did you use a pre-compiled MPlayer? It's just that I'm too lazy to test it all out due to lack of time. As I said, I am writing a guide how to rip a DVD (16:9) to DivX using mencoder / libavcodec /

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-10 Thread Damian G
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:15:38 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DivX files can be viewed in PC. But is there any commercial players that can be connected to TV uhm.. you mean you need a program that plays a movie thru the TV output? i don't have such video card, so i might be

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-09 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 21:12:40 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) wrote: Has anyone had any luck with compiling and using mencoder (MPlayer) with this lame-encoder RPM? It's not a question of whether you think it will or It appears people have :). I have never tried mencoder - I don't

Re: [newbie] Error

2002-09-05 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 15:22:02 +0200 Jon-Eirik Pettersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I trying to instal Mandrake Linux I get an error message: cannot uncompress second stage ramdisk or somthing like this. What is wrong? which version of Mandrake Linux? and.. how did you get it? ( did you

[newbie] ????

2002-09-04 Thread Damian G
i've been getting no messages from either newbie or expert list for almost two days now. is my subscription to the lists cancelled or expired in some way? is the list dead? am *I* DEAD???!! weird. -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating

[newbie] OMFG the internet is broken!!

2002-09-04 Thread Damian G
is it??? if averyone else is reading the list messages with no problems ( and laughing at my stupidity ) please let me know on a private message!! thanks. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] ????

2002-09-04 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:52:20 +0200 MELEAN Yasmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, I think its a general problem wow.. i sent that message days ago... Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] OMFG the internet is broken!!

2002-09-03 Thread Damian G
Damian, The list was down all weekend long. It was the weirdest thing. I've never known the list to be down that long. I've been a list member since 7.0 came out and that was a first. It was like a ghost town. Mark thanks Mark and everyone who answered privately. looks like it's

Re: [newbie] Firewall Builder

2002-08-28 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:07:52 -0300 Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 07:44:55 -0400 Tommy Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firestarter IS good... almost has that easy Zone Alarm interface that will display hits live. However, firestarter was written for gnome. I can't

Re: [newbie] 8.2 installation, and desktop

2002-08-22 Thread Damian G
probably a bad download, or a bad CD burn. try downloading and burning your CD again. those 'failed' packages are sign of big trouble. it shouldn't happen. (oh BTW during the installation, make sure you tell the installer to start X when you reboot ) Damian Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] good ftp program and remote controL!

2002-08-20 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:33:50 +1200 Mehra, Sachiv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what's a good ftp program to use for 'un assisted downloading, like bullet proof ftp or any of those ones that just keep retrying etc. Also is there a program to let me remote a linux box over the internet? and uses

Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision.

2002-08-16 Thread Damian G
I was seriously considering buying a Mac until I watched his address. Sure, OSX looks cool, but I have a feeling there are a lot of hidden costs waiting down the road. I'm really happy with Mandrake Linux, and you can't beat the price and the support community. I wouldn't even be

[newbie] read a pixel!

2002-08-16 Thread Damian G
i need a suggestion on programming languages. this is how it goes. i need to build a program that can tell me the RGB value of a given pixel inside of an image file. that is, load a graphic from file, and reading color values from it regardless of whether it's showing on the screen or not.

Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision.

2002-08-16 Thread Damian G
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:50:29 +0800 frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah, I thought it was cool too.. (I saw it myself last night when search for onfo on the SP1 for XP and the SP3 for 2000. so you can install the SP, but the SP is still going to send info to M$, so it makes little

Re: [newbie] Mozilla error on loading

2002-08-16 Thread Damian G
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:18:04 +0200 Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I just selected a new skin for Mozilla And geuss what ? I screwed again. All I get at the startup is a message that says: Error launching browser window:no XBL binding for browser What now? are there some files I

Re: [newbie] samba GUI interface

2002-08-14 Thread Damian G
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 23:27:08 -0600 Rob Burris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* I just installed samba on Mandrake 8.2 and I was wondering if there was a GUI interface or network configuration on KDM that would allow you to

Re: [newbie] VMware problem

2002-08-12 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:26:21 -0500 Buzek, Tom R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I to had a problem with this, the install went fine and I could boot win2k, but if I rebooted the machine and tried to start vmware, win2k would hang and never boot up. I worked on this for 2 weeks and never could

Re: [newbie] Segmentation fault???

2002-08-09 Thread Damian G
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:11:59 +0200 Tenchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here is the original: - Hi everyone! I installed MDK 8.2 on one of my friend's computer. The install went pretty good. Everything seemed to work except for the soundcard. I

Re: [newbie] MP3 file splitter

2002-08-09 Thread Damian G
-- Todd Slater The current tune is joe jackson - night and day - cancer It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who

Re: [newbie] 9.0beta iso's -- too big!

2002-08-02 Thread Damian G
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:41:27 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 August 2002 10:26 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: hi list, has anyone else noticed that the iso's for Mandrake 9.0beta release are too big to fit on regular size CDRW media? Yeah, the forum had a comment on that

Re: [newbie] Manually editing a file

2002-08-01 Thread Damian G
Actually nano has the same command structure as pico, and to get pico you need to install pine. You won't be seeing pine in the download edition any longer because the authors have clarified their license terms and it is abundantly clear that it is neither free nor open-source nor

Re: [newbie] All quiet on the list front

2002-08-01 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:01:02 -0600 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it me, or is it reely slow today on Newbie? Miark wha? Joe Sixpack -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot??

2002-07-30 Thread Damian G
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 03:32:48 -0400 Charles P. Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I presently am dual booting Win98SE and Win2K on a 9 or 10GB HDD. I also have a 40GB drive with apps and data, partitioned into 9 1/2 GB chunks. I like Win2K, but it will be my last M$ OS (XP turns me off and

Re: [newbie] Lost 1G of data

2002-07-30 Thread Damian G
Hi Need help again I have some lost files I do not find anywhere, but I know I just copied them there 3 days ago. The dir is empty. I use konqueror as my filemanager and when I have a look at the properties of /home the following makes me wonder: Size 738,1 M Free space 494,1

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] chmod and chown on vfat

2002-07-28 Thread Damian G
Sorry, don't have it here at hand, but you just need to append quiet at the end of the options part, eg.__ /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat noauto,exec,users,quiet 0 0 -- HTH Roman cool, thanks a lot! ;o) Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want

Re: [newbie] from adsl to dial up with isa pnp modem ...

2002-07-28 Thread Damian G
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 13:42:13 -0400 Rainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, i'm switching back to dial up using an isa pnp 3com/usr 56k modem. i had a hell of time (3 months, the 5th linux geek i asked finally got it working!) getting it to work on red hat 7.2. so any advice re mandrake 8.2

Re: [newbie] SDL recognition problem

2002-07-27 Thread Damian G
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:56:22 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to reinstall mjpegtools..For this jpeg-mmx and libmovtar needs to be installed first. As a pre-requisite, I was configuring libmovtar after compiling jpeg-mmx as [root@localhost libmovtar-0.1.3]# ./configure

Re: [newbie] SDL recognition problem

2002-07-27 Thread Damian G
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 09:35:07 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 28 Jul 2002 12:08 am, Damian G wrote: On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:56:22 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to reinstall mjpegtools..For this jpeg-mmx and libmovtar needs to be installed first

Re: [newbie] Newbie and Confused! :)

2002-07-24 Thread Damian G
This is not a spam! Your are receiving this email either because, you have sent me an email in the past, or you are on a list of marketers requesting information. If this is not the case, PLEASE accept my sincerest apologies and reply with

Re: [newbie] Mandarke won't boot anymore!

2002-07-23 Thread Damian G
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:41:18 -0400 eric jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I suspect I really messed things up yesterday! I ran Norton's Disk Doctor's Scan Disk program on the drive where I have my just for the record, when you run norton windoctor on a drive that has partitions of

Re: [newbie] Sudden Logouts of KDE

2002-07-23 Thread Damian G
Shoot, that dern wizard is going to run every single time without changing anything! :D And the ~/.kpersonalizerc didn't stop mine. So, I cut it off at the roots. I used to comment out that whole section in startkde, but now I highlight it and delete it. :D I hope the OP don't

Re: [newbie] Sudden Logouts of KDE

2002-07-22 Thread Damian G
well I think it happens after 5 minutes of logging in. It only happens when KDE is idle and when I am logged in the Virtual Terminal (ctrl alt f1). In KDE 2.2.2, after log outs, the xwin restarts but with KDE 3.0.2, after that log out, the Xwin crashes, when I execute startx, it prompts for

Re: [newbie] Divx win vrs Lin

2002-07-22 Thread Damian G
now my question is this... Is there a way of doing this in Linux?? and sure. only one program needed. top-quality results. one command and forget about it ( unless you want two-pass or three-pass encoding, which will need two or three commands ;o) www.mplayerhq.hu download mplayer, it will

Re: [newbie] mailing list test

2002-07-22 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:12:56 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 22 July 2002 05:28 am, you wrote: test?? yes or no? depends on what you were testing ;o) no. no what??? -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] yahoo messenger having problems ...

2002-07-21 Thread Damian G
uhmm.. why don't you try gaim to connect to your yahoo messenger? i've been told that the yahoo messenger client for linux hasn't been updated in a very long time... gaim may prove better. Damian On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:29, vangala sarma wrote: Hi I have the linux version of yahoo

Re: [newbie] (OT) first gif..........

2002-07-18 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:19:00 -0700 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 all future web sites have to be .png? http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25658.html the claim seems to adress programs having the ability to display JPG, not the ones

Re: [newbie] Booting problem with Mandrake 8.2 Win XP

2002-07-17 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:01:41 +0200 Tor Harald Thorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a huge problem with booting my pc My configuration was: Primary Master: Win XP Prof. Primary Slave: Mandrake Linux 8.2 Sec. Master: HD with MP3¨s Sec. Slave: CD-Rom I installed mandrake linux

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice

2002-07-17 Thread Damian G
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:19:03 -0400 Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this and other replies...only problem is there does not appear to be a -net, --net, --net, --network, /net, or /network option for either /tmp/install/install, /tmp/install/setup, or

Re: [newbie] Test

2002-07-16 Thread Damian G
smoked Damian Smoked as in trout or hemp? -- Michael smoked as in talking nonsense .. just like i would if i had smoked some weird stuff. ;o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] debugging, compiling, building, and executing c files

2002-07-16 Thread Damian G
to use the 'gcc' and 'make' commands in the terminal window. I have successfully managed to use gcc to debug, but am not able to use 'make'. based on the way you are trying to compile a single .c file, i' m not sure you really need make. to compile a .c file and get an executable just do a

Re: [newbie] Wine Powerpoint 97

2002-07-15 Thread Damian G
Now I have 2k, so...Linux doesn't see the install to grab its fonts!? I tried putting them on my FAT32 drive Just somehow seeing if I could do an Import fonts...but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this? -- Femme uhm.. did you try to put them in

Re: [newbie] X Font Server fails

2002-07-13 Thread Damian G
On 13 Jul 2002 21:43:57 -0600 Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My X Font Server occasionally goes crazy and X sucks up all available CPU cycles forever. The only fix I've found is to reboot, horrors. Upon shutdown the first thing I see is that an orderly shutdown of the X Font Server

Re: [newbie] System.map

2002-07-06 Thread Damian G
'uname -r' will list the kernel version. Maybe something from here could be used in the script. Maybe I will look into this further tomorrow?? At least this is a start at explaining the usage of System.map. HTH Charles thanx a lot, Charles. i'm going to check that link after

[newbie] System.map

2002-07-05 Thread Damian G
Hi... well, i've just finished building my very first custom kernel ( well, actually not my first build, but it's my first SERIOUS one and i might like not tearing my OS apart this time ;oP ) and i'm a little confused about that System.map file. the kernel i'm running now has it's own

Re: [newbie] Web page print issue

2002-07-04 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 12:45:13 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When reading a long document like Mandrake's recent answer to United Linux I prefer to print it out. With some sites I have found that it is more readable if I print from Mozilla rather than Konq, but I suspect that it

Re: [newbie] Grep..?

2002-07-01 Thread Damian G
never mind... figured it out myself. first attempt AFTER i made the post. some days you are better off not stepping out of your bed. sorry. Damian But posting the solution might help others :-) Anne ok, ;o) the command looks like this: grep -i -A 2 ~/CDs/* -e

Re: [newbie] MPlayer error

2002-07-01 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 19:24:42 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. But How to make mplayer work with soundserver? well, i never tried to do it, but you could launch mplayer with the command that xmms was using. ( soundwrapper ) HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] print/capture screen

2002-06-30 Thread Damian G
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:10:10 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:28:53 -0300 Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:50:54 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 11:55:06 +0100 Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED

[newbie] Grep..?

2002-06-30 Thread Damian G
hi listers ... maybe my brains are working slower than usual as i think the winter caught up on me and i'm feeling kinda... dead. anyway, here's my problem: i've read the man page for Grep and i really can't figure out wether what i want to do is possible or not. i have a lot of backup

Re: [newbie] Grep..?

2002-06-30 Thread Damian G
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:35:02 -0300 Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi listers ... maybe my brains are working slower than usual as i think the winter caught up on me and i'm feeling kinda... dead. anyway, here's my problem: i've read the man page for Grep and i really can't

Re: [newbie] QT problem with kde3

2002-06-27 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 07:29:13 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 27 June 2002 03:34 am, robin wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have kde3 with mdk 8.2. I wanted to compile an application which needs QT3. I did [root@localhost arson-0.9.6-kde3]# export QT_DIR=/usr/lib/qt3

Re: [newbie] MPlayer error

2002-06-26 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 18:56:09 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What to do for sound? When I first tried to play mplayer /mnt/wind/LailaOhLaila.avi AO: [oss] 44100Hz Stereo Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) ao2: 44100 Hz 2 chans Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) Can't open audio device

Re: [newbie] MPlayer error

2002-06-26 Thread Damian G
I am using kde 3. with disbling sound server I could get sound with mplayer. But xmms works with soundwrapper and it could show and give audio output for .mpg files with server on. but mplayer same trick didn't work. Any workaround? soundwrapper is some sort of a pipe that an application

Re: [newbie]OT- Walmart, kisses and Mandrake

2002-06-24 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 07:45:06 -0700 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 June 2002 07:02 am, Lyvim Xaphir did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Well, it is only for the Wal-mart online store at this time. They are already

Re: [newbie] MPlayer error

2002-06-24 Thread Damian G
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 23:48:11 -0300 Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 07:35:19 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mdk 8.2 with kde 3 in /opt and gcc 3.1.1. I compiled MPlayer .90 rev 4 with --enable-gui option. It compiled and installed ok. I made

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Re: Mencoder Commands

2002-06-21 Thread Damian G
mencoder -dvd 1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=633 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -o Matrix.avi I couldn't wait untill lame + libraties were installed,to try it, So I put up a terminal and proceeded with just this command. It all looks very impressive. However I

Re: [newbie] MPlayer error

2002-06-21 Thread Damian G
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 07:35:19 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mdk 8.2 with kde 3 in /opt and gcc 3.1.1. I compiled MPlayer .90 rev 4 with --enable-gui option. It compiled and installed ok. I made a menu item with application as gmplayer. I opened a file

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 wishlist :-)

2002-06-13 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:31:27 +0200 Linux Maniac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder what you'd like to implemented in the 9.0 release. My wishlist is in short: - a script for installing the nvidia drivers OR a deal with nvidia to provide them preinstalled in MDK 9.0 - Hungarian spell

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 wishlist :-)

2002-06-13 Thread Damian G
[snip] Damian, clearly you haven't seen kde-301 yet, have you? and besides...it's not their job to make it look prettier. thats what desktop managers like KDE, Blackbox, and the rest are for, right? .. i used KDE 3.0.1 a while and i dumped it when i found fluxbox ;o) but i think you

Re: [newbie] ?

2002-06-11 Thread Damian G
Somebody teach me, please! I have a very low frame rate in my Mandrake 7.2, when I try to playing all video files. Configuratinon is: K6-2 450, 128M. What can I do? What video card do you have? What version of X are you running? Charles playing video files? what videos? what

Re: [newbie] mounting a cdrom iso in write mode

2002-06-10 Thread Damian G
I get these kinds of errors cp: cannot create regular file `cdrom/nfsroot-x86/bto-sync/bundles/09RaQ4-All-System-2.0.1-13993.pkg': Read-only file system How can I modify the content of the iso, then run mksiofs to build a new iso? TIA an iso file cannot be written to. if you have to

Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query

2002-06-10 Thread Damian G
OK I'm about to make my first attemp, a couple of questions though, I've got around to unpacking the tar ball and found the Readme which is for once quite comprehensible , and in there it mentions , Step1 : Install FFmpeg libavcodec, I take it libavcodec is already there inside

Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query

2002-06-09 Thread Damian G
OK so there are no good rpm versions, so I have to compile from tar balls. I've just spent 2 hours reading all the bumf on Mplayer website, and I must say there is so much of it it is hard to take it all in in one hit. It seems to me leaving aside esotyeric things like skins, there is

Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query

2002-06-09 Thread Damian G
On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 22:30:41 -0400 Barry Michels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the quick instructions! Worked first try (although I had to upgrade gcc from 2.96 to 3.0.4). no problem. glad it worked. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] how can i have Windows beside Mandrake ..

2002-06-07 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 20:22:54 -0800 FARSHAD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi dear i'm using from mandrake 8.2 but i have 2 hdd and i have mandrake in one hdd and 98,2000,XP in other hdd , and i couldn't install mandrake beside Microsoft base .. i have heard by LILO i can create a bootable disk

Re: [newbie] test

2002-06-06 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:14:07 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 06 June 2002 01:31 am, Damian G wrote: |test | | It works. | -- cmg | | What works? | | Jays test works. | -- | Michael | |who's Jay? ;oP

Re: [newbie] problem using linux

2002-06-06 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 16:47:40 +0100 (BST) Prabhas Kunisetty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hellow, I faced a problem in login linux, i installed the software from a cd which is freely supplied with a magzine . i installed the software, it automatically partionied my hard disk, when i started my

Re: [newbie] problem using linux 2nd reply from et

2002-06-06 Thread Damian G
second: create your first partition with filesystem FAT32. ( i think it's labeled Win98 FAT32 in the installer ) of course if you see the win fat partition BEFORE you delete all the partitions, then you may very well have not lost the house, just missplaced the keys to the door

Re: [newbie] test

2002-06-06 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 23:20:21 -0400 (EDT) Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was having problems sending to the list, but I fixed it. which list? Damian On Wednesday 05 June 2002 08:31 pm, you wrote: On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 08:24, D. Olson wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 09:47 am, you

Re: [newbie] test

2002-06-05 Thread Damian G
|test | | It works. | -- cmg | | What works? | | Jays test works. | -- | Michael | | |who's Jay? ;oP | |Damian you knowJay. mmmh... maybe i should take this to expert list. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Can't dupe any CD's. ;-(

2002-06-05 Thread Damian G
just in case you need it, you can make a .iso image to HD and burn from there. it's more likely to go well this way. to make an iso image of a cd, put it in your cdrom and : dd if=(whatever your reader device is) of=(isofile output) like this: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/user/diskimage.iso

Re: [newbie] Yet again, how to mount all three iso images

2002-06-04 Thread Damian G
but then it would only work for those three files. that Ailas to mount an iso with one quick command was just an idea in case he needed to mount isos frequently. ;o) Damian The better, more profesional way would be to write a script called mntiso. --- #!/bin/bash mount -t iso9660 -o

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