Re: [newbie] apple ipod and MDK 10.0 O

2004-05-23 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: g2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 7:24 PM Subject: [newbie] apple ipod and MDK 10.0 O I am trying to get my ipod (original 5 gig first gen) to work with MDK 10.0 O. I am ussing gtkpod 7.0 I am able to READ from the ipod,

Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

2004-05-04 Thread Marc Resnick
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Re: [newbie] Dockapps in Fluxbox

2004-05-03 Thread Marc Resnick
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 14:58, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2004 00:00:13 -0400 Marc Resnick disseminated the following: I've decided to put it in the ~/.fluxbox/startup file, I thought they might have something like that by now. Haven't used Flux in awhile

Re: [newbie] ACPI and MDK 10 on a Presario 2100 Laptop

2004-05-03 Thread Marc Resnick
? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Marc Resnick Registered Linux User #350533 For those about to rock; I salute you. Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] compile error - gcc not found

2004-05-02 Thread Marc Resnick
My guess: Just do a urpmi gcc -a as root. One of them has to fix it ;-). -- Marc Resnick Registered Linux User #350533 For those about to rock; I salute you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Dockapps in Fluxbox

2004-05-02 Thread Marc Resnick
I've downloaded and compiled a few dockapps from dockapps.org, for use with Fluxbox. Is there any way to make sure that they start on boot, or start when I load fluxbox? -- Marc Resnick Registered Linux User #350533 For those about to rock; I salute you

Re: [newbie] Dockapps in Fluxbox

2004-05-02 Thread Marc Resnick
JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 02 May 2004 22:11:28 -0400 Marc Resnick disseminated the following: I've downloaded and compiled a few dockapps from dockapps.org, for use with Fluxbox. Is there any way to make sure that they start on boot, or start when I load fluxbox? http

[newbie] Network Monitor Going Crazy!

2004-05-01 Thread Marc Resnick
I've just decided to switch from an Adaptec WLAN Card which was slowly deteriorating from its old self, to a Belkin Wireless USB card. The good news is that this fixed my long going DHCP problem of having to power down my router once a day to get online with Linux. But, my KDE Network Monitor

Re: [newbie] Are there any AAC(.m4u) plugins for Linux?

2004-04-23 Thread Marc Resnick
Gates just can't seem to find a new song to sing after all these years), which is why I avoid them. Rory At 11:51 PM 22/04/2004, you wrote: On Thursday 22 April 2004 11:44 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Yes Greg, after selling some of my old games and running around looking for spare change

Re: [newbie] Are there any AAC(.m4u) plugins for Linux?

2004-04-23 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Are there any AAC(.m4u) plugins for Linux? snipzor Make sure dma is on on your optical drives. hdparm is the utility you want to help check

Re: [newbie] Are there any AAC(.m4u) plugins for Linux?

2004-04-23 Thread Marc Resnick
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 23 April 2004 06:40 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Err...Does that involve recompiling the kernel? No If not, can you give a brief explanation on how it's done? I'm using Kernel 2.6.3-4 by the way. (Mandrake RPM version) Do you have a scsi or ata cdrom

[newbie] Unreasonably annoying cdrom drive problem

2004-04-20 Thread Marc Resnick
For some odd reason, whenever I want to look through the contents of a data disc(this does not apply to audio CDs for some reason), I have to mount it manually. Occasionally it will say Wrong medium type(I assume this is when the disc is corrupt), but most of the time it works fine. Then, I

Re: [newbie] Apollon (QUESTION)

2004-04-20 Thread Marc Resnick
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 08:22, Dan Gordon wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2004 05:07 pm, Drew Martin wrote: Hi Dan, Thank you for that,works a treat,connected to FastTrack 1st time. Your welcome, Glad i could finaly help someone :-) Regards, Dan

Re: [newbie] Apollon (QUESTION)

2004-04-20 Thread Marc Resnick
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 11:05, Marc Resnick wrote: Apollon is a p2p filesharing program in GTK2. It uses the gift protocol to connect to networks. Fasttrack is better known as the Kazaa network, which is what the infamous kazaa is based on. Me want link. Ug. stephen

[newbie] Questions of XFce4

2004-04-19 Thread Marc Resnick
Okay so I have a few questions about XFce4, my new WM. 1. Is there a way to skin/theme it? 2. I heard there were a bunch of features, like KDE. How do I use dockapps and stuff? 3. When I minimize windows, where can I find them, besides alt+tabbing. Is there a parallel dimension where all the

[newbie] Enlightenment Menus

2004-04-14 Thread Marc Resnick
I'm now trying enlightenment, and I really like it. The one thing I don't like is the menus. They're not changing in accordance to menudrake. Is there some special enlightenment menu program? Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment Menus

2004-04-14 Thread Marc Resnick
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 07:47, Marc Resnick wrote: I'm now trying enlightenment, and I really like it. The one thing I don't like is the menus. They're not changing in accordance to menudrake. Is there some special enlightenment menu program? /usr/bin/X11/e_gen_menu

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment Menus

2004-04-14 Thread Marc Resnick
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 10:57, Marc Resnick wrote: Err...none of those exist. I found that the menu I want shows up when I give it a ctrl+click. Is there any way to make it so this shows on a normal click? They don't exist? They're part of the normal Enlightenment

[newbie] From KDE to Fluxbox

2004-04-13 Thread Marc Resnick
I'm in the process of switching from KDE to Fluxbox because frankly, KDE crashes on me way too much, and it really reminds me of Winblows. Anyway, I've got fluxbox up. I don't really want to use Mozilla-Thunderbird anymore, or Firefox for that matter, cause those both are a bit weird on me

Re: [newbie] From KDE to Fluxbox

2004-04-13 Thread Marc Resnick
John Drouhard wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:47:12 -0400 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of switching from KDE to Fluxbox because frankly, KDE crashes on me way too much, and it really reminds me of Winblows. Why Fluxbox? Just wondering, considering XFCE4

Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems

2004-04-10 Thread Marc Resnick
Laura Callier wrote: Hello, New to Mandrake. Installed 10.0 from Cheap Bytes discs. So far all is well except there is no auto shut off. When I click shut off, things shut down except for an arrow. I am able to turn it off by using the power button, but would prefer an auto shut off.

Re: [newbie] Crappy Sound, only on Linux

2004-04-10 Thread Marc Resnick
Rory wrote: What version of LAME are you running? It should be 3.9X. What app are you using to encode? Rory On Saturday 10 April 2004 5:50 pm, John Wilson wrote: On April 9, 2004 10:35 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: I ripped some music off my CDs and encoded it with LAME at 160 kbps

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread Marc Resnick
robin wrote: Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Does anything come up on the splash screen at boot? You could

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread Marc Resnick
Phil Savoie wrote: On April 10, 2004 16:33, Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Todd Hi Todd,

[newbie] Crappy Sound, only on Linux

2004-04-09 Thread Marc Resnick
I ripped some music off my CDs andencoded it with LAME at 160 kbps(getting ready for when my iPod comes). When I play it on my MDK 10.0 system, it sounds fuzzy and like it was encoded at 16 kbps. When I booted in Windows and played it, it was fine...almost CD Quality? Can anyone lend me

Re: [newbie] Synaptic pad tapping in v10

2004-04-07 Thread Marc Resnick
Stephanus Fengler wrote: Oliver Marshall wrote: Hi. I have just installed Mandrake 10 on my laptop, and it looks amazing. Thing is, two things don't work, the Synaptics touch pad tapping and the pcmcia wi-fi card which is a Belkin model based on the Atmel drivers. Being a linux newbie im hoping

[newbie] Decent Audio Track Ripper?

2004-04-06 Thread Marc Resnick
Does anyone know of a decent track ripper/encoder for ripping tracks off CDs? I've used Kaudiocreator, but I was listening today, and I just happened to notice that the sound quality is about equal to that of crap. Right, so anyway, I may sound a bit nitpicky, but it sounds like someone

Re: [newbie] Savage, AGP Memory

2004-04-05 Thread Marc Resnick
Stephanus Fengler wrote: Stephanus Fengler wrote: Hi folks, I hope here are some gamers who can help me. I recently installed Savage Battle of Newerth, but it won't start. I get the error message: Couldn't allocate AGPMemory. Make sure you have agpgart or some similar AGP driver support in

Re: [newbie] Building a binary from a src RPM

2004-04-04 Thread Marc Resnick
Philip Cronje wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 01:06:28 -0500, Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It says the file /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb isn't there. So I tried a urpmi rpmb, it installed the rpmbuilder, but I still can't do it. You mean the 'rpm-build' package? What is the 'ls /usr/lib/rpm

Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared

2004-04-03 Thread Marc Resnick
eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a menu entry for Mandrake Control Center or for any of the selections that are usually listed under Packaging. Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was

[newbie] Connecting to a network with a static IP.

2004-04-03 Thread Marc Resnick
I'll probably go and ask linksys about this too, but first I thought I'd turn here. I want to connect to my network with a static IP. I changed my ifcfg-wlan0 file, and made sure the ip addy wasn't within the dhcp range. Then, I ifdown'ed and ifup'ed wlan0, and got the IP. Unfortunately, I

Re: [newbie] Connecting to a network with a static IP.

2004-04-03 Thread Marc Resnick
I'll probably go and ask linksys about this too, but first I thought I'd turn here. I want to connect to my network with a static IP. I changed my ifcfg-wlan0 file, and made sure the ip addy wasn't within the dhcp range. Then, I ifdown'ed and ifup'ed wlan0, and got the IP. Unfortunately,

[newbie] Building a binary from a src RPM

2004-04-03 Thread Marc Resnick
How do you build a binary from a src RPM? TIA --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] cleaning swap partition after suspend to disk failed

2004-04-02 Thread Marc Resnick
Stephanus Fengler wrote: Hi folks, I tried the acpi feature (nor swsup) hibernation to disk. It look like everything went right down but resuming doesn't work. I read somwhere else, that it only works with less then 1GB RAM. Is that true? (That's probably the reason then, because I have got

[newbie] Sending a packet

2004-04-01 Thread Marc Resnick
Is there an easy way to send a homemade packet in Linux? I Googled, and just found some C++ scripts on sending raw packets from the Kernel. I really don't know that much about this stuff. I'm just trying to learn more about the internet, networking, and packets. If anyone could share some

Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows

2004-04-01 Thread Marc Resnick
Lanman wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 01 April 2004 05:26 am, Lanman wrote: LtCdData wrote: as i emailed my lawyer just the day about how easy linux is try this simple test... point a torch at one ear and switch on. if the light shines straight through then linux is not for

Re: [newbie] Linux VS Mac a bit OT

2004-03-31 Thread Marc Resnick
franki wrote: Marc wrote: I think it was here on the mandrake list that about 6 months or a year ago I read that Linux was about to pass up Mac and become the second most popular OS. Does any one here have any updates on that? Are we still close to becoming #2? Thanks Marc I don't

Re: [newbie] Broken Shift Key

2004-03-31 Thread Marc Resnick
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 31 March 2004 03:21 pm, J.I. Evers wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, J.I. Evers wrote: um, yeah the subject about says it all. my shift key is broken and i don't know why. its not a hardware thing because both keys don't work. i think my computer just hates

[newbie] Grrrr...dhcpcd...

2004-03-29 Thread Marc Resnick
I logged my dhcpcd, still trying to figure out why it will never renew the lease. Here's the log Mar 28 22:33:02 localhost dhcpcd[23328]: terminating on signal 15 Mar 28 22:33:02 localhost dhcpcd.exe: wrong interface name wlan0 Mar 28 22:33:05 localhost dhcpcd[26518]: broadcasting DHCP_REQUEST

Re: [newbie] Grrrr...dhcpcd...

2004-03-29 Thread Marc Resnick
Steve Kaurfman wrote: Marc Resnick wrote: I logged my dhcpcd, still trying to figure out why it will never renew the lease. Here's the log Mar 28 22:33:02 localhost dhcpcd[23328]: terminating on signal 15 Mar 28 22:33:02 localhost dhcpcd.exe: wrong interface name wlan0 Mar 28 22:33:05

[newbie] Odd syslog messages, could be solution to dhcp problem

2004-03-28 Thread Marc Resnick
Can anyone make heads or tails of this: Mar 28 20:29:46 localhost dhcpcd[23325]: dns option is missing in DHCP server response. Assuming 192.168.1.1 Mar 28 20:29:46 localhost dhcpcd[23325]: subnetMask option is missing in DHCP server response. Assuming 255.0.0.0 Mar 28 20:29:46 localhost

[newbie] DHCP Issue, more info!

2004-03-26 Thread Marc Resnick
As you might know, I've been having an aggravating DHCP problem. I use DCHPCD, which claims to retrieve the lease renew time from the router. But, once a day, I have to go and unplug the router, and plug it back in, for it to reset. A sudden idea came to me today. My renew time is set to 0 on my

[newbie] Guide for F4LM

2004-03-26 Thread Marc Resnick
Does anyone know a decent guide or howto for using F4LM, Flash for Linux? I've never made any flash videos before, and learned from some friends that it's a rather..err...creative way to express ideas and thoughts. --Marc Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] More wireless help/questions

2004-03-25 Thread Marc Resnick
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, I've now got my Dell Inspiron 110 working wireless with a Dlink 514 router and Zyair B100 card, and now I've got a few more questions. :-) If I insert the card after I bootup, then I have to issue both a: service network restart (or ifup wlan0) mount -a (to get my

[newbie] Synaptics driver not loading after normal mouse is plugged in.

2004-03-23 Thread Marc Resnick
My synaptics driver for my touchpad will work after a fresh reboot, because I added evdev to modules.preload. But as soon as I plug my regular mouse in, the touchpad will cease to work until I reboot again. I try modprobe evdev, but there is no change. My XFree86 config is correct, because it

Re: [newbie] Synaptics driver not loading after normal mouse is plugged in.

2004-03-23 Thread Marc Resnick
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 23 March 2004 08:01 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: My synaptics driver for my touchpad will work after a fresh reboot, because I added evdev to modules.preload. But as soon as I plug my regular mouse in, the touchpad will cease to work until I reboot again. I try modprobe

Re: [newbie] iPOD with Mandrake?

2004-03-22 Thread Marc Resnick
Maryam wrote: Never tried it myself but these look promising http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/ http://neuron.com/~jason/ipod.html http://www.blinkenlights.ch/cgi-bin/fm.pl?get=ipode On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 10:17, Marc Resnick wrote: Is it possible to use an iPOD with Mandrake? I'm not quite sure

Re: [newbie] iPOD with Mandrake?

2004-03-22 Thread Marc Resnick
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 22 March 2004 06:48 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Now a second question Can anyone lend me some money for an iPod? Yeah sure. You're new around here, aren't you? -- cmg Subscribed a couple months ago. So, yea I guess

Re: [newbie] FTP Server GUI?

2004-03-21 Thread Marc Resnick
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 06:48, Marc Resnick wrote: Is there any sort of GUI for proFTPD? I'd like to be able to monitor incoming and outgoing connections. I mainly just use it for giving files to people I know, and I'm having a problem with a timed out connection. I'm

Re: [newbie] wireless - laptop - questions

2004-03-21 Thread Marc Resnick
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 10:08 am, Marc Resnick wrote: -Tell me if you have any problems - ---Marc Thanks Marc! I've got to go get some sleep now (worked 12 hrs+ last night) (and yeah, I know - real geeks would sit up and do this until it worked grin) so I'm gonna crash. I

[newbie] FTP Server GUI?

2004-03-20 Thread Marc Resnick
Is there any sort of GUI for proFTPD? I'd like to be able to monitor incoming and outgoing connections. I mainly just use it for giving files to people I know, and I'm having a problem with a timed out connection. I'm not sure if it's my router's firewall, or proFTPD. TIA, Marc Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Touchpad Synaptics Driver Not Loading Properly

2004-03-19 Thread Marc Resnick
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 10:54 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2004 10:26 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Does anyone see any reason as to why it shouldn't work? I had to add an entry for evdev into my /etc/modprobe.preload file to get it to work. Do we have to enable

Re: [newbie] mdk10 community wont boot to install

2004-03-19 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: LtCdData [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 5:59 PM Subject: [newbie] mdk10 community wont boot to install hi the cd1 of mdk 10.0 community fails to boot up to the installer on one of my computers but does on the other ok

Re: [newbie] 9.2-10 upgrade advice

2004-03-19 Thread Marc Resnick
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 06:02 pm, Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 17:42, Tom Brinkman wrote: - snip -8 /mild but accurate rant The problem was and isn't the cooker developement process. The problem was _users_ who wouldn't install the upcomming

[newbie] Track Ripping with lame

2004-03-18 Thread Marc Resnick
I got this error after trying to rip a track with Kaudiocreator. I urpmi'd lame and all, and made sure the command works: The encoded file was not created. Please check the encoder options. The wav file has been removed. Command was: lame --r3mix --tt 'By The Way' --ta 'Red Hot Chili Peppers'

Re: [newbie] Track Ripping with lame

2004-03-18 Thread Marc Resnick
Marc Resnick wrote: I got this error after trying to rip a track with Kaudiocreator. I urpmi'd lame and all, and made sure the command works: The encoded file was not created. Please check the encoder options. The wav file has been removed. Command was: lame --r3mix --tt 'By The Way' --ta 'Red

[newbie] Test

2004-03-18 Thread Marc Resnick
Test...got some weird error from the linux-mandrake postfix...not sure if my message went through. Could someone reply if it did? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

[newbie] Touchpad Synaptics Driver Not Loading Properly

2004-03-18 Thread Marc Resnick
I set up my touchpad so tapping would work in the 2.6 kernel not too long ago. It still worked fine when I upgraded to 10.0, but then when I went from 2.6.2 to 2.6.3, it stopped working. I fixed the XF86-Config and it worked again. Then, it suddenly stopped. I have the synaptics driver

Re: [newbie] A few ACPI problems.

2004-03-17 Thread Marc Resnick
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Wednesday 17 March 2004 11:11 am, Marc Resnick wrote: No, see, the config menu that tells you that you don't have ACPI installed...it's not there. It's the weirdest thing. It's just...gone. What? No menu in: Configuration KDE Power Control? I thought it's a default

Re: [newbie] kdeinit and starting X

2004-03-17 Thread Marc Resnick
J.I. Evers wrote: I upgraded my XFree86 to 4.4.0 since it claimed to have some improvements for my graphics controller. I decided to be ambitious and compile from source (and learned how to use CVS in the process). It seemed the installation went okay, except now something involving kdeinit is

Re: [newbie] A few ACPI problems.

2004-03-16 Thread Marc Resnick
rhein wrote: Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2004 07:58 am, Marc Resnick wrote: Okay, so I'm suddenly having a few problems with ACPI on my Compaq Presario 2190US notebook. It's worked fine before, except for the second problem. 1. My KDE battery meter is gone. I looked

Re: [newbie] A few ACPI problems.

2004-03-16 Thread Marc Resnick
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Wednesday 17 March 2004 05:49 am, Marc Resnick wrote: This is a bit odd... When I woke up this morning (I leave the notebook on all the time), the fan was running like crazy, and it was incredibly hot. I shut it down, and when I got home from school(yes, I go to school

[newbie] DHCPCD On boot and on ifup rather than dhclient?

2004-03-15 Thread Marc Resnick
How would I make sure that dhcpcd is used in place of dhclient during ifup and boot? Specific directions would be nice, I'm a newbie when it comes to these things. --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] A few ACPI problems.

2004-03-15 Thread Marc Resnick
Okay, so I'm suddenly having a few problems with ACPI on my Compaq Presario 2190US notebook. It's worked fine before, except for the second problem. 1. My KDE battery meter is gone. I looked for the config GUI in the KDE settings, but it's not there. I then tried kacpi, thinking it was the

Re: [newbie] one software missing...

2004-03-15 Thread Marc Resnick
Alaa The Great wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:35:58 -0700 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 15, 2004 10:11 am, Thinker wrote: Hello All, I was just reading the post on software recommendations and I noticed that 'file sharing' or 'p2p'

[newbie] Dhcpcd vs dhclient

2004-03-14 Thread Marc Resnick
Well I was trying to figure out my whole DHCP problem with my home network. You see at least once a day, I'll be disconnected, until I reset the router. This obviously has to do with DHCP and the lease expire. I had originally thought that my Linux box used dhcpcd. Then, I realized it used

[newbie] cdrom drive problems

2004-03-13 Thread Marc Resnick
For some reason, my cdrom drive isn't working normally. When booting, it clicks for about the first 20 seconds. Also, I tried to boot from a CD, the Mandrake 10 Community disc, and it just loaded Lilo after about 10 seconds of a black screen with a blinking underscore. The other day it didn't

Re: [newbie] urpmi database locked

2004-03-13 Thread Marc Resnick
Tim Martin wrote: I was downloading the mandrake update list and lost my internet connection. Now when I use urpmi it says that my database is locked. Does anyone know how to unlock it? Tim Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?

2004-03-11 Thread Marc Resnick
what did I wrong? Thanks Christophe Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: Marc when you say replace 'acpi=ht' by 'nolapic'. Do you want me to replace 'acpi=ht' by 'nolapic' or do you want me to type 'acpi=nolapic'? Sorry but I'm starting! :-[ Thanks Christophe ps: in my config file there are 3 lines

Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?

2004-03-10 Thread Marc Resnick
: What shall I do if the computer is not stating again like last night :-( ? Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: First, download the packages acpi and acpid. Then, go into Control Center and Boot Options. Find your default image, and click modify. In the append line make sure it DOESN'T say 'acpi=off

Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?

2004-03-09 Thread Marc Resnick
rhein wrote: Hello, That's now the second time that my notebook shuts down because I'm not able to see the level of my battery. Good thing I didn't have to start all over because I saved my work a few minutes before. Is there a way to have the battery indicator under MDK 9.2? (by the way I

Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?

2004-03-09 Thread Marc Resnick
rhein wrote: Hello, I don't have it... This is the message written: Your computer doesn't have the Linux APM (Advanced Power Management) or ACPI software installed, or doesn't have the APM kernel drivers installed - check out the Linux Laptop-HOWTO document for information on how to install

[newbie] Wlan DHCP Problem. Possible Solution?

2004-03-08 Thread Marc Resnick
Ever since I've got my wlan working with Linux, I have one problem, and only one. About once a day, I'll disconnect, and I won't have a connection until I reset my router. This gets a bit irritating, especially if I'm in the middle of something. I think I might've realized the problem, but

Re: [newbie] dvd plugin for xine

2004-03-06 Thread marc resnick
Robert Beach wrote: I have a 850 AMD cpu 640 megs of ram GForce TI 4400 AGP Tyan Motherboard I have been surfing for the plugins for xine so I can play dvds in Mandrake 9.2 I am still new at this and all the different rpms and tars I find are confusing. I'm not sure which one to use or how many

[newbie] Kthememanager

2004-03-06 Thread marc resnick
Does anyone know the name of the package with the KDE Theme Manager in it? Thanks --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] rpmdrake

2004-03-05 Thread Marc Resnick
On Friday 05 March 2004 11:09 pm, rhein wrote: Hello, I try to use rpmdrake to add a medium (contrib file) and I get this error message after a long time of waiting... Unable to update medium... Errors: urpmi database locked urpmi database locked retrieve of source hdlist failed no

Re: [newbie] KDE won't start!

2004-03-02 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Troy Thomas Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE won't start! Marc Resnick wrote: I use Mandrake 10RC1. I was at the login screen, and I halted, for some reason I thought it did

Re: [newbie] KDE won't start!

2004-03-02 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Troy Thomas Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 3:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE won't start! Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Troy Thomas Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Marc Resnick
On Sunday 29 February 2004 01:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 16:34, Marc wrote: Click on the gray part and then near the bottom of the screen click on auto allocate. Mandrake will divide the gray part into 3 partitions,

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Marc Resnick
On Sunday 29 February 2004 02:13 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 19:03, Marc Resnick wrote: Anne, I know I'm a different Marc, but I'll answer you anyway =). Yes, this does give you three partitions. It makes the /home

[newbie] Dvd Playback

2004-02-29 Thread Marc Resnick
Well I can't get DVD playback to work. I get the error 'Can't Open VMG Info' with Mplayer. Here's my lilo, just in case it has to do with how I boot Linux: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw

Re: [newbie] Dvd Playback

2004-02-29 Thread Marc Resnick
On Sunday 29 February 2004 05:54 pm, Walt Frampus wrote: On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 17:10, Marc Resnick wrote: Well I can't get DVD playback to work. I get the error 'Can't Open VMG Info' with Mplayer. Here's my lilo, just in case it has to do with how I boot Linux: You need to get the proper

Re: [newbie] Dvd Playback

2004-02-29 Thread Marc Resnick
On Sunday 29 February 2004 06:10 pm, Walt Frampus wrote: On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 18:04, Marc Resnick wrote: What's MCC? I have libdvdcss installed already...and I can never get Xine to work. But I'm going to try to remove it then install it once more. Thanks for the help, Marc

[newbie] Sound Server Fatal Error

2004-02-28 Thread Marc Resnick
Hello all, I'm getting a sporadic error that reads: Sound Server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting. Also, my mixer settings are never restored. I'm using mdk10rc with kernel 2.6.2-3 --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sound Server Fatal Error

2004-02-28 Thread Marc Resnick
On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:06 am, et wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 08:51 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 07:47, Marc Resnick wrote: I'm getting a sporadic error that reads: Sound Server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting. Also, my mixer settings are never

Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?

2004-02-28 Thread Marc Resnick
On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:15 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: Hi, All ... Today I had to reinstall my user directory, which I had backed up on a disc. But when I unpacked the contents of that backup (which included my Mail dir) I was disappointed to discover that my KMail settings (identities,

Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?

2004-02-28 Thread Marc Resnick
On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:36 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 06:25 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: : On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:15 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: : Hi, All ... : : Today I had to reinstall my user directory, which I had backed up on a : disc. But when I

[newbie] Psaux with Kernel 2.6/mdk10

2004-02-27 Thread Marc Resnick
Is there any way to use psaux with kernel 2.6 and mdk10? Whatever it uses now isn't recognizing taps and scrolling on my Synaptics touchpad. It did on 2.4/9.2 though. If there is no way, I'll just use Kernel 2.4 instead of 2.6. --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Psaux with Kernel 2.6/mdk10

2004-02-27 Thread Marc Resnick
On Friday 27 February 2004 06:29 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:31:35 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, /dev/psaux isn't there. I'll just keep googling. I probably don't need devfs...but why fix it if it isn't broken? Everything's fine, I'd rather not touch

Re: [newbie] Psaux with Kernel 2.6/mdk10

2004-02-27 Thread Marc Resnick
On Friday 27 February 2004 10:58 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 06:29 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:31:35 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, /dev/psaux isn't there. I'll just keep googling. I probably don't need devfs...but why fix

Re: [newbie] Psaux with Kernel 2.6/mdk10

2004-02-27 Thread Marc Resnick
On Friday 27 February 2004 10:58 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 06:29 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:31:35 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, /dev/psaux isn't there. I'll just keep googling. I probably don't need devfs...but why fix

[newbie] Mousepad tapping not working with Mdk10RC1

2004-02-26 Thread Marc Resnick
The tapping of the pad on my laptop no longer functions as a left click with linux. It did with Mdk9.2. Anyone know anything I need to install? --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!!

2004-02-25 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!! Marc Resnick wrote: Hardware messed up...you don't mean like...physical

[newbie] Upgrade 10RC1

2004-02-25 Thread Marc Resnick
Once you have Mandrake 10RC1 installed, is it possible to upgrade to 10 when it is released, or must you download, burn, and install again? If so I might as well start downloading now. Maybe I should save some of my wireless config files with PM first...yes, that would be a good idea...

Re: [newbie] stupid newbie question

2004-02-25 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie Mandrake List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:47 PM Subject: [newbie] stupid newbie question I know we covered this about an eon ago but can anyone tell me how to untar a .bz2 file? Thanks

Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!!

2004-02-24 Thread Marc Resnick
compiling but with locking up pc yes I've dealt with that! (check below) On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 21:40, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Simon Kitching [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 8:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux

Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!!

2004-02-24 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!! On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 19:09, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original

Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!!

2004-02-24 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!! On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:42:12 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!!

2004-02-24 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!! On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:55:03 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!

2004-02-23 Thread Marc Resnick
Uh oh, not again. Anyway, Linux is claiming that my root partition was unmounted improperly, even though I shut down correctly. It checks for errors, finds a bunch and corrects them, then asks if I want to correct something(can result in data loss), but It's kinda frozen, and I can't

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