On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Adam Stark wrote:
How do I change the color depth for KDE/Xwindows? I seem to be stuck with
8-bit, but I would like to change it to 16-bit.
In the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config, under Section "Screens", add
a line like :
DefaultColorDepth 16
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Ronald
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Fernando Camacho Olmos wrote:
mandrake 7.0I download Xsane and type
tar -zxf xsane-..tar.gz and extract fine
At this point, did you cd to the directory that was created by the tar,
probably xsane-... ?
If you have done that and it still doesn't work, look inside the
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, George Houdek-Viskovska wrote:
%_Hi everyone !!
I have problem with Kppp and minicom .
I click on Connection and LINUX show me window with : "Sorry,modem is busy" but my
modem is not busy ???Line, modem is OK but for Kppp and minicom is modem busy .
What modem?
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Will Trepanier wrote:
vi is one of those tools that you love to hate. The NGs are filled
with flames on the pros and cons.
It has a rather steep learning curve and is especially daunting
to newcomers, but if you are serious about learning *nix, it is a good
tool in
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, vishal bansal wrote:
Hi folks;
I am using linux mandrake 6.1. As a user I cannot write to files, but as a
root I can. How do I assign permissions for the users to do so?
As a general rule, users are only allowed to write to files within the
$HOME and subdirectories.
Hi Paul,
Closing down services is in /etc/inetd.conf
/etc/hosts.deny is more to deny particular hosts
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Paul H wrote:
After a post saying, open /etc/hosts.deny, and comment out any unwanted
services, I did this and it worked fine. But I had to do a reinstall
On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Hill, Andrew wrote:
Can you have mulitple pop collections with Netscape?
Nope, unfortunately. It only supports multiple IMAP accounts. Try
using fetchmail and such if you want to use multiple accounts; and then
use Netscape to pull it off your mailbox
-- Ronald
On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, Hill, Andrew wrote:
I have been trying to access my hda1/windows drives from a simple user,
not root, when I saw someone suggest logging on to linux as a single
user system, linux -s, will this give me access to the hda1/windows
drives?
You don't have to go down to init
On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, sean F wrote:
Well, i added the IP to my list of "input DENY" files,
Could that have gotten through? None of my WinXX boxes
went down, and if it did get though would the WinXX
box blue screen or just crash apps.? TIA
Somehow, I don't agree that it is a winnuke attempt.
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Agi Subagio wrote:
How to activate telnet daemon in Linux Mandrake 6.1?
I presume you mean that you want to run the telnet server? Make sure
the package is installed; edit /etc/inetd.conf to make sure that the
line starting with telnet is not commented out; restart inet
Hi,
I have an irritating problem:
During peak hours I have a lot of difficulty dialing up to my ISP, so I
want kppp to dial continuously. But, after 3 BUSY replies, my
kppp login script debug window shows that it is waiting, for I don't
know what. It actually communicates with the modem
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Emerald Arcana wrote:
Do what you did to turn 'em off. :-) Also, you can re-run "setup"
from a console prompt as root and select "system services." Here's
where you configure what starts up automagically.
Tried that, it didn't work.
When I turned them
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, Randall Randall wrote:
Okay, got another issue, now. :)
I'm trying to install a system without X,
and have to go through and delete packages
manually, in "expert" mode. It claims to
be installing all the dependencies (including
things I don't really want (like X
Hi,
I've tried looking for the package with:
rpm -aq | grep kmail
and also using 'find package' and 'find file' in kpackage. No joy
Anyone can help? TIA
--
Ronald
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Alan Snider wrote:
Wow!!! Mandrake 7 is the nicest linux package I have had experience with
(though the others have been only Redhat 5.0, 5.1, 5.9 and Mandrake 5.3
and 6.0 so I am no expert by any means).
One big problem: I have a Toshiba Equium 6200M with built-in
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, TRUB wrote:
Thanks, that helped a bit, but I still get my computer name in the script at
the very top.
I have created a new /welcome.msg that is working but I did not include my
computer name in the description?
How can I kill that unincluded part?
Still in
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, RICHARD FRIEDMAN wrote:
First of all, TIA for any help you can give. A friend of mine is trying to
install Mandrake 6.0 on his laptop. He has a 24gb hard drive. Approximately
12GB are dedicated to Windoze. The rest is all free space.
Linux has got a restriction that the
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, sean wrote:
What is the command to see what services are running? I want to shut
off SMTP on my IP MASQ. and see what else is running.
Try "ps aux" or "ps -ef"
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Ronald
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Jason M. Shatto wrote:
I'm looking to download QUITE a bit from an FTP server, In windows, I
always used Ws-Ftp, I'm looking for a similiar program or just something
graphical would be nice. With Netscape I can only download one file at a
time, I want to download
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Øystein Efterdal wrote:
I have installed mandrake 7.0.
And i have 128 MB memory and mandrake only see 15MB
Please help me
Looks more like a memory hole setting in the BIOS.
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Ronald
On my Dell Inspiron, the install always locks up if I have an external
PS/2 mouse connected up during install. Disconnect it, but still
choose the correct mouse (Logitech??). After the installation, either
power down or use apm and hook up the mouse. Gook luck
Stick with it.
On Thu,
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, Chip wrote:
/home/chip/.Xclients: exec: /home/chip/.Xclients-default: no such file
or dir.
And sure-enough, there is no .Xclients file to be found.
So, what the heck do I do now? I
How about creating ("touch) the Xclients-default file with just one
line:
exec startkde
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, Thomas Fritz wrote:
I've just had this problem, but Mandrake 6.1 only recognized 15M of RAM for
me, and I have 256M. Here's the advice I recieved from the Cleveland LUG:
Add the following line to the global options section of your /etc/lilo.conf
append = "mem=128M"
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, Steven P Hull wrote:
I've set up the Ethernet card manually and tried to ping the others but no
luck. What am I doing wrong? Have I missed something??
For a start, can the Linux box see itself? Try pinging the Linux box
from the Linux box using the IP address, instead
Hi,
I have an external PCMCIA harddisk which I'm trying to get
working with Linux, but with no luck. Basic problem was that it is
being detected as hdk. I have written to the author of the pcmcia
package and he says that the "current PCMCIA distribution has an updated
ide startup
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
What's a quick way to assess the size of a folder and its content in KDE?
"du" in console mode or in xterm.
--
Ronald
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Josh McCaffrey wrote:
Kind of a way of not letting Windows know you're replacing it, or a way of
smoothing your transition to Linux only? Just keep shrinking that Windows
partition till it doesn't have any virtual memory left, and you finally
have to just put it out of
If you're lazy like me, try the page below:
http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Raphael Quoilin wrote:
- set up an IP-Firewall,
- share a large part of its hard-disk to be used by Win NT 4.0.
Do you have advices ?
--
Ronald
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Toyswins wrote:
I think I discovered the problem. Hinted at it the other message. My / partition
ran out of space. It got weird with signing in and some other stuff, so might have
something to do with it. A 347 Mb one isn't big enough. I've changed it to 1.2
Gb, and
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Wade Buchanan wrote:
%_I just installed 6.1 Mandrake Linux on my laptop. Installation was smooth
and very nice. I love the KDE environment. I am having a problem getting
my dialup to work. I have a Global Village 56k modem. The kppp
configuration is setup, when I
Look in your /boot directory. THere should be a System/map file which
is linked to your new kernel like:
System.map - System.map-2.1.132smp-mdk
Or is it still linking to your old kernel?
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Hidong Kim wrote:
Warning: /boot/System.map has an incorrect kernel version
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, M Thompson wrote:
What's the URL?
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/www/browsers/opera-19991224.tar.gz
RPM version: on its way.
ftp://ftp.linux-mandrake.com/incoming/opera-19991224-1.i386.rpm
--
Ronald
Hi,
Has anybody got a driver for this plotter? I've RTFM (HOWTO)
and it points me to some site, but still nothing.
I have it sitting in front of me at work and we get to use it
like once a month, if we are lucky. I just thought it would be cool to
print a tux 36" across.
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On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Sam Roza wrote:
How do you get NutScrape to load all images in a web page without having to
click them, or right click and ask to have them loaded?
Edit-Preferences-AdvanceAutomatically load images and other data
types.
Oh, one more thing...how do you create a new
Hi,
Is there any setting to associate URLs in kmail to default to
Netscape instead of KFM? I'm presently using the old cut and paste
method - not very efficient.
-- Ronald
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
How can load up an xterm with a larger font (the default is hard to read
at high resolution)? I found the -fn switch in the man page but that
doesn't work (I tried with several fonts and it didn't find any of them).
Make sure the "NumLock" key is
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
Thought i answered this one but we'll try again.
If you look in ~/ at the . files (ls -a) you'll see a file
.Xclients-HOSTNAME-:0.0
you need to delete or edit it
You're the man, Axalon. Problem solved.
Just as an aside. I sent the message 3
Try
http://inspironlin.thot.net/
The list is quite quiet nowadays, but the archives should provide some
help on Inspiron issues.
HTH
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote:
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Ronald
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote:
I am afraid it is hopeless. I suggest that unsubscribe information be
placed on the bottom of every message posted.
Jeanette
You have my vote there.
Also, if I may make a suggestion:
Someone who wants to get off the list doesn't have much to lose;
I really messed up this time:
Running KDE. On a whim, I decided to try out switchdesk. It came up
and gave me 2 choices KDE and Anotherlevel. I chose Anotherlevel and
clicked on the "Change only applies to current display" It then tells
me to restart X. I did that but it then tells me
On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, Eric Mings wrote:
I have read some information about x window being a server and client
program. I was under the impression the server and client could exist on
seperate computers. Is it possible to access a machine across a network
as root running K desktop and x
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, JMJ fingered:
Hmmm got a "no DNS entry" for that URL. I did manage to get
into http://www.thot.net but didn't find any sign of anything Dell-
related. Suggestions?
www.portablenews.net
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Ronald Yeo
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Even easier if
your 'puter is in a place where you don't have to disconnect everything to pull
it out. I run my 'puter w/o a cover and vaccum it every so often.
Kindred spirit. Can't even remember where the cover for my 'puter is
!! Unfortunately, don't do the vaccuming. I thought the
Hi,
I running an internal mailserver and only connect to my ISP to
get my mail. My connection time to my ISP is usually quite short.
What is the best way to "push'" out my mail when online.
Running sendmail 8.9.3
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Ronald Yeo
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Whenever I try to use "finger" I get an error msg:
finger: connect: no route to host
The only place with success is my ISP, eg:
finger @pacific.net.ph
All other services seem to work OK. When I try to traceroute to where
I previously cannot finger, it works OK as well. I have tried this
from
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, coin fingered:
I had that and it turned out to be a win modem
I had to take it out and look at it
I do not know if yours is or not
The Prolink has been nothing but trouble since it's first iteration. I
remember one ISP practically giving it away with a paid subscribtion.
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Sevatio Octavio fingered:
How about nt? It supports interrupted d/ls etc.
Can't remember where I d/l it from, though.
HTH
You're right. Igloo can't stop immediately (quite annoying). Right
now I'm trying out GFTP. But it lacks a lot of Igloo's features. Do
you know
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, JMJ fingered:
The hardware is a Dell I7K and a 3Com/Megahertz 3CCM156
PCMCIA modem. I'm not sure whether to start checking the
PCMCIA stuff, or keep fiddling with the modem settings. So far,
I've had no luck trying various options in KPPP, which makes me
wonder if
xv ?
"Grab" or autograb
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Seth Gibson fingered:
Could anyone tell me if there is a way to take a screen shot of the desktop or
what software would be useful for doing such?
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Ronald Yeo
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Whenever I try to use "finger" I get an error msg:
finger: connect: no route to host
The only place with success is my ISP, eg:
finger @pacific.net.ph
All other services seem to work OK. When I try to traceroute to where
I previously cannot finger, it works OK as well. I have tried this
from
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, you fingered:
Make that
DefaultColorDepth 16
Works. Thanks
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Ronald Yeo
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Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear R_Yeo and friends:
Here is the output of a series of commands suggested by you to test my
printer.
The printer itself works fine and the file in question ("shore") printed
perfectly several times. And my printer (Epson Stylus Color 600) passed
Mark Nina Drake wrote:
Okay, I have set up my internet connection using netcfg.
I get a dialing sound and my computer goes through the
motions of connecting to my ISP. They seem to connect
because I can see the the send and receive indicators
blinking on my external modem. When I try
Jeanette Russo wrote:
I have seen the Package in the store. Not sure what it includes. You
might still be able to find it. I think that Sun has already made a lot
of improvements to Star Office in version 5.1a. Now you don't have to
go through the arcane registration process. Now if
Benjamin Sher wrote:
Is your printer's lpq command (and lprm) working? Mine says: no entries.
I have checked with others. This seems to be a bug. What's your
experience?
Try printing something. It means that there is no entries
in the queue (to be printed).
Try sending something to the
"Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." wrote:
The "no boards found" line tells us that pnpdump is not seeing your card
(obviously). Your sound card has the same chip set as mine. I read somewhere
something about edge detection with respect to setting up the card, so I went
into my BIOS settings, and
Hi,
I have the above and when I insert the card, it is detected as hdlx,
with the x as partitions on the HDD. I looked in my /dev dir and it
only goes to hdhx. Someone told be to use insmod, but I lost the plot
when I was asked to input major and minor numbers for the block device.
Hi,
Running KDE1.1.1, Mandrake6.0.
Whenever I boot up my notebook(not often- about once a week), I do not
get any sound until I run sndconfig. Everything runs fine on the
sndconfig, and then it tells me that I already have a config file and
would I like to overwrite. I hit yes and I'm
Hi all,
Netscape hgas a habit of putting my message threads in the wrong
places, ie sometimes a mail doesn't joing a particular thread and
sometimes a totally different message gets appended to a thread. ANd
this has not been helped by some posters who either post something twice
or
They said the reason they are calling it
Complete Linux Operating System 6.5 is that ANY revision version is
automatically incremented by .5. Thus, when Mandrake 6.2 comes out,
it's going to be called "The Complete Linux Operating System 7.0"
(unless they decide to change their naming
"PSM 0x2710]" wrote:
So what is the general opinion of Star Office? Does anyone recommend it
seriously or is there something that would do the job just as well? Thanks all!
I admire the effort put into StarOffice but I feel it is still quite
kludgy. At the same time, we must not forget
Ctl+Alt+BkSp should get you out of KDE and into a console.
Try editing your /etc/inittab and make sure this line is uncommented:
id:3:initdefault:
If there is a line that says the same thing, but with "5" in it, change
it to "3" w/o the quotes.
Don't go for the seventh time :-) Good luck.
I have one of those NeoMagic graphics cards with 2.5Mb RAM running on a
notebook(KDE1.1.1 Mandrake6.0). I have tried to use the XFCom servers
available from Redhat's site. Only thing it has done for me is disable
my backspace and delete keys. Have tried stty erase to no avail. The
only
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