[newbie] 9.0 installation problems resovled!

2002-12-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Got it. It was the noapic thing for me, as apparently it was for quite a few others. I hit F1 from the first menu that popped up after CD1 booted, got to the prompt, entered linux noapic, it said an alternate was being used and bingo, installation and reboot went flawlessly. Thanks to Dennis

[newbie] 9.0 won't work here - need help.

2002-12-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
System - Shuttle motherboard - Athlon 900mhz CPU, 384 megs ram, 60 gig IBM Deskstar HD, Nvidia Geforce2 with 64 megs ram, SB Xgamer Live sound card, Adaptec 2930 SCSI card with SCSI Toshiba DVD/Plextor CDRW/Umax Astra 1200 Scanner, IDE Zip, WinTV tuner card, Linksys network card, external

[newbie] Shutdown error/old motherboards (revisited)

2002-12-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Just thought I'd mention that on my 9 yr olds Gigabyte motherboard (itself about 3 yrs old), I went back into: /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt and changed it some more. Near the end of the file there were not 1 but 2 -p commands. Removing *both* of them got rid of the shutdown errors I was seeing under

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 08 December 2002 06:50 am, you wrote: Third... if it aint working still... try another PCI-bus. You might have a conflict. I had that problem once. I moved the card, and all was a bliss. You can do a cat /proc/interrupts and it should show if the card is causing an IRQ conflict

Re: [newbie] Internet connection sharing with Windows?

2002-12-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 08 December 2002 04:08 am, you wrote: My grandchildren's two '98 machines used to connect through my 8.2 setup without problems (all is different now, both version and connection, but still OK). Our setup was as far as I can see just what magnet describes. Come back if you still

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 shut down

2002-12-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 07 December 2002 08:27 am, you wrote: In the above delete the space after -d and delete -p and save. This stops the script but you still have to manually shut down the computer. This is the best solution found that I know of over the last 2 years. HTH I have to add my recent

[newbie] Internet connection sharing with Windows?

2002-12-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Got a 3 comp LAN. My main computer is running Linux - 56k connection and both the other comps do sharing under Mandrake v8.2 just fine. Yeah, its slow, but I let my sons browse to find school articles sometimes (with me right over their shoulders!). Anyways, my 12 year old picked up this

Re: [newbie] sending mail through my server

2002-12-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 05 December 2002 05:04 pm, you wrote: I was under the impression that sendmail was very complicated (perhaps this is wrong.) I really don't want the grief of learning an entirely new mail systerm/service if I can help it. Sendmail comes from the deepest bowels of the Dark

Re: [newbie] sending mail through my server

2002-12-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 05 December 2002 08:30 am, you wrote: I was under the impression that sendmail was very complicated (perhaps this is wrong.) I really don't want the grief of learning an entirely new mail systerm/service if I can help it. Is this going to mess with any of my other mail settings?

Re: [newbie] Sound issues

2002-11-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 29 November 2002 01:07 pm, you wrote: No, sound as in playing something (MP3, or streaming audio (www.di.fm, exmaple)) from xmms or something similar. I would also like to throw in that I haven't been able to find anything decent as far as video players (DiVX, avi, mpeg, mpg, mov,

Re: [newbie] KMail filters

2002-11-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 02:27 pm, you wrote: I would like to completely block certain spam addresses, but KMail does not seem to allow you to simply delete the outcome of a filter. For the moment I have set it to 'move to trash', but would rather completely delete it. I don't want to use

Re: [newbie] accessing /mnt directories

2002-11-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 25 November 2002 05:31 pm, you wrote: When I try to go to a sub-directory under /mnt, whether by command line, or Konqueror, it takes a long time to have the directories under /mnt appear. As an example: I try to go to /mnt/cdrom in Konqueror. I click on the /mnt directory and then I

Re: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 22 November 2002 10:58 pm, you wrote: Ron, Did'nt you encounter problems with supermount and installation of games under Transgaming WineX? And do these problems happen with your son's machine? --LX Hi Lyvim! Sure did. I had to disable supermount under 8.2 just to get my

Re: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 23 November 2002 10:16 am, you wrote: No, even brand new CDrom drives have problems. I'll restate the bit about CD-RW's having 'better' lasers (and spindles). As to 48x and 50x, I've found the the faster drives tend to have more problems. Civileme stated much the same in a

Re: [newbie] Is a restart necessary?

2002-11-21 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 03:17 pm, you wrote: If I make alterations to fstab, do I need to reboot, or can I cause it to be read some other way? Anne Anne, as su do a: mount -a and it will be re-read without rebooting. --

Re: [newbie] flash

2002-11-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 11:00 am, you wrote: Alexa, the file is in a tar zip format. you can upackage it by going into a console and navigating to the folder that the installer is in. Do a change directory command like: cd Documents . Then at the prompt type tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz

Re: [newbie] /dev/tts/2

2002-11-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 16 November 2002 01:59 pm, you wrote: What about removing the modem, rebooting, putting the modem back in, rebooting and seeing if the modem is found again? Just a thought, can't you do the same thing, but just run kudzu for detection instead of having to reboot? --

Re: [newbie] Now VERY OT - Mandrake 9 ASUS A7N266-VM Motherboard

2002-11-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 15 November 2002 03:59 am, you wrote: On Friday 15 Nov 2002 12:40 am, you wrote: Typing hdparm will give you some params, doing a man hdparm will definately fill you with info - sometimes too much info. Talking of which - I'm sure there is a way to get man files to print out, but

Re: [newbie] NFS Impasse

2002-11-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 15 November 2002 06:31 am, you wrote: Thanks, DL! What you and Derek have pointed out to me is pretty much the same, and what I can't use. While I do have a completely trust network (hey! it's all mine!), I 'must' have directories exported off the server that are only to be

Re: [newbie] Sort of on-topic

2002-11-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 15 November 2002 07:38 am, you wrote: I thought of that, but I occasionally need to read a Lotus Word Pro file, and I understand that there is no chance of getting that under Wine. I also have some Lotus Approach files that I would like to use until I can get a database running

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up a mailserveron9.0?

2002-11-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 15 November 2002 10:22 am, you wrote: Well fetchmail is clearly not very happy. Here are a few things you should know about fetchmail. The daemon should not be running when you test fetchmail. If you run fetchmail as a user, it should use the ~/.fetchmailrc config file. This file

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up a mailserveron9.0?

2002-11-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 15 November 2002 03:43 pm, you wrote: The ./fetchmailrc for all my users reside in their home directories...maybe that's what I'm doing different...(aside from getting the source tarballs and compiling it myself instead of using the RPMs) Well...my .fetchmailrc resides in /root -

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 15 November 2002 03:47 pm, you wrote: There is a definate problem with postfix on mdk9.0 I installed it on two box's.. one was a clean install, the other was an upgrade from beta4. in both cases, there were symlinks missing from the postfix lib directory... I had to remove

Re: [newbie] List

2002-11-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 14 November 2002 11:38 am, you wrote: How do I remove myself from the list? I can't handle 200 emails an hour anymore. =/ Wow! I only get around 200 per *day* :-) -- /\

Re: [newbie] NFS Impasse

2002-11-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 14 November 2002 06:57 pm, you wrote: OK. I am ready to start kicking things... Hopefully it will have Bill Gates picture on it somewhere! lol I have my MDK 9 server running. I want to share some folders. I thought there was a suggestion that using NFS was more secure and faster

Re: [newbie] Moved CDROM

2002-11-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 06:03 am, you wrote: Hi - I moved my CDROM from slave on IDE one to master on IDE two, in Linux speak from hdb to hdc - I think. When I rebooted kduzu popped up and removed the config file. everything is fine in file manager - I can access the CDROM drive - but

Re: [newbie] Netscape 7 for linux

2002-11-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 03:55 pm, you wrote: It might be worthwhile to check out - especially if you're a multimedia fanatic that can't live life without FLASH and QUICKTIME stuff... (They make porn in FLASH and QUICKTIME?) (Only joking) Stephen I'd be interested in trying Netscape

Re: [newbie] Netscape 7 for linux

2002-11-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 05:39 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 13 November 2002 05:30 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distri butions/mandrake/9.0/rpms/ this is a link to netscape 7.0 rpm from pclinuxonline.com, I use it everday for

Re: [newbie] Funny Mouse in MDK 9.0

2002-11-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 11 November 2002 12:10 pm, you wrote: After posting my request for help, I found the following that gives a little insight on the problemappears not to be a problem with just Labtec Optical mice. In my particular case, adding --. Option Resolution ...whatever number I like...

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Powerpack

2002-11-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 09 November 2002 11:34 pm, you wrote: Has anyone in the USA received their Mandrake 9.0 CD's yet I think I heard a guy in Montana naned Dennis got his about a week ago, still waiting on the set I preordered and starting to wonder if my order was lost. Anyone know how shipping is

Re: [newbie] KDE KMail 1.4.3: Unknown Host Error Message---R E P L Y 0 1

2002-11-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 10 November 2002 03:41 pm, you wrote: Attempts have been made to connect to ntlworld.com at various times over a period of a week. Have you tried pop3.ntlworld.com? I have to use the 3 on my setup...just a (totally) random thought... --

Re: [newbie] extract audio tracts from .avi

2002-11-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 08 November 2002 11:58 pm, you wrote: can anybody advise a nice software to extract audio from avi (divx) files. I think mplayer is able to do that, but I haven't tried it, and the mplayer docs can be convoluted sometimes. thanks Kristjan I already posted a reply on how to

Re: [newbie] Trash can icon

2002-11-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 09 November 2002 05:51 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2002 03:59 pm, James R. McKenzie wrote: Why would you want to do this? Not deleting the icon thusly not needing some other way of recovering files you delete by accident makes infinately more sense than having to

Re: [newbie] housecleaning /tmp directories

2002-11-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 11:15 pm, you wrote: I was wondering about /tmp directories and the directories and files they contain. Is it necessary or a good idea to delete these once in a while? Any other stuff that needs deleting? I like to keep things clean ;-) TIA's for any thoughts.

Re: [newbie] extract audio tracts from .avi

2002-11-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 07 November 2002 12:52 pm, you wrote: Hi can anybody advise a nice software to extract audio from avi (divx) files. thanks Kristjan Mencoder, part of Mplayer will do a single pass to extract audio only. I believe the command line syntax is: mencoder -dvd 1 -aid 128 -oac

Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-11-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:58 pm, you wrote: This is all sounding fairly encouraging. I know that there are many hauppage tv tuners - how can I tell which models have the brooktree chipset? Does the connection have to be at the back, or is it possible to bring a lead forward? Anne

Re: [newbie] Zip drive/hdc=ide-scsi ramblings...(long post)

2002-11-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 02:47 pm, you wrote: Anyway, I am so glad that your conclusions mirror that of what a fresh install did for me. I just wish that you could have come over for a couple of beers and some of the best Italian pizza in the world. I know you would have been able to

Re: [newbie] Defrag?

2002-11-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 07:29 pm, you wrote: After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard installation. Does this version have a defraging utility? TIA, Owen This gets asked a lot but basically,

Re: [newbie] Defrag?

2002-11-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 11:00 am, you wrote: After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard installation. Does this version have a defraging utility? TIA, Owen This gets asked a lot but

Re: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT?

2002-11-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 03 November 2002 04:44 pm, you wrote: Try Codeweavers' Crossover-plugin. It has direct support for quicktime. Don't know about Netscape, but I can vouch for Galeon and the Crossover plugin. MOVs and Flash animations work great (once you d/l them, of course). :-) --

Re: [newbie] DVD playback performance (9.0)

2002-11-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 04 November 2002 12:08 pm, you wrote: Wooky, MDK 9.0 turns DMA -off- for CD and DVDs by default. Go to the command line as root, and type hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx where x represents your DVD drive. (Use the hdx notation, even if you use scsi emulation). Your DVDs will now play as they

[newbie] Thought you all might like this. :-)

2002-11-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Check it out: http://www.deskmod.com/?state=viewskin_id=18819 -- /\ Dark Lord \/

Re: [newbie] NFS Part II

2002-10-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 04:22 am, you wrote: Be sure to unmount NFS shares before shutting down either server or client, or else it takes ages to time out and shut down. derek Hi Derek. HmmI don't have that problem here. I never umount my NFS stuff before closing down - and all

Re: [newbie] Eterm customization

2002-10-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 04:37 am, you wrote: Some months back somone on this list (IIRC Shane or DarkLord) said they stumbled on a file that allowed you to tweak the ETerm console for pix, text size, etc. I'll be damned if i can find it in the archives though. Can someone pls tell me

Re: [newbie] NFS Part II

2002-10-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 03:54 am, you wrote: Hello again, snip Hmm, lemme just walk thru some stuff on mine and maybe it will help point you in the right direction: Client computer: 3 main files to edit: /etc/exports, /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny I'm using /home/darklord/tmp as my

Re: [newbie] Difficulties in receiving posts

2002-10-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 09:40 am, you wrote: Hey, Everyone, It has become quite obvious to me that I am not receiving every post made to this listserv. I think this is a very probable diagnosis when someone has posted a reply to someone else's post and I never got the original post the

Re: [newbie] NFS package in Mandrake 8.2

2002-10-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 01:36 pm, you wrote: Hello friends, I wonder if anyone would know if the NFS package is incomplete that comes with 8.2 or if I have missed to install some partunfortunately I do not have access to the boxes right now, but on the client machine I get an error

Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop

2002-10-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 25 October 2002 11:52 pm, you wrote: What would I not install if i don't want supermount installed by default? Rather, what package do I need to make sure isn't installed in the firstplace, to avoid having supermount on a clean system? --- Femme Hi Femme! TBH, I'm not sure -

Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive

2002-10-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 26 October 2002 09:53 am, you wrote: Dark Lord, here's what my 'fstab' looks like in my 8.2 box, after disabling supermount (the dots represent lines broken to fit within the margins of this post): /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660

Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive

2002-10-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 25 October 2002 03:20 pm, you wrote: Here's what I found, trying what you suggested.. First off, you were 100% correct if I am using MDK 9.0. I disabled automount as root, logged in as 'user', brought up KDE, loaded a CD, clicked on the CD icon on my Desktop, brought up Konqueror

Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop

2002-10-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 24 October 2002 10:05 am, you wrote: I finally got around to installing my external Zip 100 drive to one of my MDK boxes... Ugh. Its why I disabled supermount. Now I can just click on my Zip icon on my KDE desktop, and boom! up blows a window with the contents. Or right click and

Re: [newbie] 9.0 DVD contents

2002-10-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:49 pm, you wrote: Anybody have a clue what's on this CD? Mandrakestore doesn't say anything about it. Miark I sent an E-mail to Mandrake about it (you are talking about what they call the workstation DVD, right?). They told me it was basically the 7 CD

Re: [newbie] Mencoder results and questions

2002-10-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 17 October 2002 11:08 am, you wrote: This is a very low bitrate for a video. I have used this only with a 2-Pass encode, as this bitrate with a 1-Pass encode doesn't give me satisfactory results. Yes, I upped it to 900 and was still able to fit it onto a single CD. Video was much

Re: [newbie] Mencoder results and questions

2002-10-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 08:44 pm, you wrote: Hola. Ronald: I'm using 'video dvd rip' (plf). With a nice gui, dvdrip let you choose every parameters (video bitrate; 1,2,3,4 CDs as target media, preview images, etc.). I think mencoder is part of dvdrip. Steps are: Storage locationRIP

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 08:07 am, you wrote: snip Thank you for the answer, but I set the lowest security level at install (I think it was Medium). So what do I neeed to do? Commment out the last line? No I do not think that would help. You have to 'pass' a test to get access to

[newbie] Mencoder results and questions

2002-10-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Well, I just d/led and installed the latest MPlayer. I went to PLF and grabbed all the required dependencies (AFAICT) and I compiled it. Its running, I can play DVD's, DIVX, and VCD's... So I thought I'd be brave and use Mencoder to rip a DVD. I looked at the docs, tracked down some Mencoder

Re: [newbie] crc error - unable to mount root fs

2002-10-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 11 October 2002 06:12 am, you wrote: Mandrake should run on that old fine piece of stuff but you need to turn off plug and pray aware OS in the BIOS, and you need to tell the installer how little memory is left after subtracting for the video memory, so if you set the bios to use

Re: [newbie] XMMS

2002-10-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 10 October 2002 06:07 pm, you wrote: There is no error message, i did it in the console xmms came up with the file loaded, but just did not play. Umm, I know this is gonna sound really stupid, but did you click XMMSs' play (arrow) icon? Only reason I ask is that I've had this

[newbie] Odd printer action?

2002-10-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
This is really odd - my HP DeskJet 694C has always worked. Well, its usually not auto-detected during installation but I've always managed to set it up between CUPS and XPP. Anyways, now whenever I boot up, just at the end of the boot up messages, the green light on the printer flashes once,

Re: [newbie] Aarrgh! How to turn off supermount?

2002-10-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 03:30 am, you wrote: make a new icon linked to your ZIP drive from the 'CD/DVD-ROM device...' choice (which has an context menu 'eject' choice). I always used floppy device here, and it works great as well. --

Re: [newbie] Virus warning from ISP

2002-10-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 04:17 pm, you wrote: make you glad you use a OS that does not get uset by klez, don't it. I get about 4 klez or nimda a day, and I kinda enjoy seeing what ever file was sent as an attachment. last week, I got some with some java script from someone who buys stock

Re: [newbie] DVD writer

2002-09-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 27 September 2002 09:57 pm, you wrote: Hi, Can you be more specific about what Toshiba DVD writer you use? The software that you're talking about (MPlayer, Ogle) are only movie player. The software that I'm looking for would be similar to Nero burning in Windows. I'm

Re: [newbie] Quake3A and SBLive! 5.1

2002-09-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 22 September 2002 10:51 pm, you wrote: Hardware: CPU = AMD Athlon 1GHz MB = Soltek SL-75KAV RAM = 1024 MB VIDEO = GeForce2 64MB GTS Pro SOUND = SB Live! 5.1 A few months back I was dual booting with RedHat 7.3 and could play Quake III Arena no problem there but trying to play

Re: [newbie] Quake3A and SBLive! 5.1

2002-09-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 23 September 2002 05:33 pm, you wrote: Thanks Ron, much appreciated. I got the game running without sound using your start command above. I checked out that website and I'm now downloading the point release - hopefully that'll fix it. No problem - thats what this list is for.

Re: [newbie] nfs permission denied

2002-09-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 20 September 2002 10:35 am, you wrote: I have just finished setting up nfs exports to machines on a network (server LM8.1 and clients LM 8.1 and SuSE 7.2). im using NIS for logins into the linux boxes. previously, it exported all home directories well on every login. but after i

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 16 September 2002 11:27 pm, you wrote: Anyone who doesn't agree 100% with what George W. Bush says or does, is automatically considered a terrorist or terrorist sympathiser, and can be detained indefinitely without a shred of evidence, legal representation or even visitation rights

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 04:56 am, you wrote: And Americans wonder why much of the rest of the planet hates them :-( I do... Yes, you have a Bill of Rights. And it applies to (white) Americans. It just looks like it doesn't need apply to anyone who isn't an American. Thats just plain

Re: [newbie] Question

2002-09-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 16 September 2002 02:21 pm, you wrote: As I understand it, yes it is true. Of course, you could sue him for damages to you and your kin, but he could and probably would sue you for his injury. As far as I can see he would almost certainly get them too. Anne But Anne - does it

Re: [newbie] tux racer wont launch

2002-09-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 11:26 am, you wrote: I have just recently installed mandrake 8.2 in a dual boot situation with win98se. As I have been exploring extensively I thought that I'd try Tux racer. It appears to try and launch, but then after about 30 seconds it just goes away (never

Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] xcdroast: how-to copy cd]

2002-09-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 12 September 2002 05:14 pm, you wrote: I may be way off base here, but did you update the cdrecord, mkisofs, xcdroast and related packages after installing mdk. 8.2? The versions that shipped with the earlier (I don't know about now, but the one I have) 8.2 was broken and

Re: [newbie] Firestarter questions...

2002-09-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 03 September 2002 01:43 am, you wrote: I get lots of errors with Firestarter too, but it _operates_ like a charm. I'd suggest not worrying about unless it's actually malfunctioning. I dunno about auto-starting it. Miark Yes, it does seem to work OK. I was just looking for some

[newbie] Firestarter questions...

2002-09-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I've been trying to configure Firestarter, which seems like a great little piece of software but I have a few questions: I picked the option thats supposed to start Firestarter when you dialup. (but it doesn't). So...in /etc/ppp/ip-up.local, I put the line firestarter . Still doesn't start. I

Re: [newbie] pathetic test message

2002-08-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 29 August 2002 10:04 am, you wrote: please don't read this... if you do precious, important body parts will begin to fall off and you'll become and imasculate troll ozzing snot from your ears. Argh - too late! Is there a cure? (I feel a Shrek moment coming on!) Oh, the

Re: [newbie] Help with home network selection

2002-08-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 20 August 2002 12:07 am, you wrote: I'm not sure about wine over a network connection, since I can't even get it to work on the local machine to a Windows XP Pro installation, but... I know you can network the two machines, period. My setup here at home is very similar to yours.

Re: [newbie] Unreal problem solved

2002-08-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 19 August 2002 01:22 pm, you wrote: It was an anti-piracy thing, I think, but I don't recall if they ever told me specifically. Maybe they thought that if they checked for the presence of a CD drive that it would stop people from using Virtual CD and the like. Miark Okay, thanks

Re: [newbie] Unreal problem solved

2002-08-18 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 18 August 2002 05:20 am, you wrote: Hi there ronald, I have a Pioneer DVD (sorry, don't ask me too much about it.. hehehe). I believe it's a 50 speed drive. As for unacking the maps, I have attached the script. You may have to edit it with your install path of UT, depending on

Re: [newbie] Unreal Tournament help.

2002-08-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 17 August 2002 12:42 am, you wrote: two bells are going off for me. One being a different installer for goty, and the second being a vague recollection of one having to decompress those uz files. Ummm, I used to have a script that someone wrote for that, but I've lost track of

Re: [newbie] embarrasing KDE problem (n00b)

2002-08-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 17 August 2002 02:01 pm, you wrote: Your experience demonstrates that unfortunately KDE is not ready for the wider public. I have seen my own daughter click on the little XKill icon on the screen, and with the words What does this do she killed the KDE toolbar. It then only

[newbie] Unreal problem solved

2002-08-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I just plain gave up on using ut-install-436-GOTY.run ut-install-436.run with the GOTY or Best of Infogrames version of this game. I did (finally!) get the installer CD that came from Tux Games to work. I've got 2 CD's, both SCSI, one is a DVD and one is a CDRW. For some odd reason, the

Re: [newbie] Unreal problem solved

2002-08-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 17 August 2002 06:08 pm, you wrote: I had the misfortune of calling up InfoGames or whoever makes Unreal because I was having problems with installation. During the call they told me that Unreal Tourney was designed _not_ to run on DVD drives. At the time I was pretty upset cuz

Re: [newbie] Unreal problem solved

2002-08-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 17 August 2002 07:03 pm, you wrote: I installed it from my DVD without problems!? I too have the GOTY version, and all I needed to do after the install was to run that script to unpack the maps. Nothing else was needed. Hey Ralph - can't help you with the SDL problem. Sorry. I'm

Re: [newbie] NFS problem

2002-08-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 16 August 2002 11:09 pm, you wrote: Hello, anyone willing to explain to me what the following is all about: [root@ollin root]# mount -t nfs ellun:/ext/pub /mnt/ellun mount: RPC: Program not registered snip Thanks, Olli Hi there. Make sure that portmapper is

[newbie] Unreal Tournament help.

2002-08-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Well, I've had this game for some time. Installed it under 8.0, 8.1, and a while back - under 8.2. Recently, I had to reinstall and I just got around to reinstalling UT as well. I had used the installer disk from Tux games (where I bought it), but this time - no joy. I can't get it to

[newbie] More UT info.

2002-08-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Don't know how significant it is, but when I run the 436 script, it never asks for a 2nd disk. Also, at the end when it reports that its been successfully installed, and to type in ut to play, it gives this: [root@darkforce Scripts]# chmod +x ut-install-436.run [root@darkforce Scripts]#

Re: [newbie] hdparm not in Mandrake 8.2?

2002-08-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 12:09 pm, you wrote: I just read a post on either newbie or expert about somebody who did not have hdparm on their Mandrake 8.2 install. I just went and checked and I don't have it either. I made a fairly complete install so I'm surprised. (Understand -- it

[newbie] Thank you Poogle.

2002-08-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I d/l'ed kdeutils from that link you sent, and it installed just fine. I've got the kedit/text editor again. Thanks much! -- /\ DarkLord

Re: [newbie] Kedit...

2002-08-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 10 August 2002 04:18 pm, you wrote: Look for KEdit paying attention to the capitalizations. HTH Nice idea, but it made no diff here. Thanks anyways! :-) -- /\

Re: [newbie] Kedit...

2002-08-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 11 August 2002 10:21 am, you wrote: O.K, try this, open Software Manager, get the Installed tab on top and type kedit in the search box, check the search by file button, then click on search. If you have it installed you will see kdeutils 2.2.2-28mdk on the list it presents, if

Re: [newbie] Distributing the Power Pack?

2002-08-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 10 August 2002 10:16 am, you wrote: On Saturday 10 Aug 2002 4:12 am, you wrote: I've been giving away copies of 8.1 download edition, and the most common complaint I hear is of the temperamental supermount. FWIW, despite all I have read, I have found it to be little problem

Re: [newbie] Error when mounting CDROM

2002-08-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 10 August 2002 09:18 am, you wrote: Hello again, When I try to mount a CDROM with the icon on the desktop I get the following error message: Could not mount device The reported error was: /dev/hdb: Input/output error mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none

Re: [newbie] Kedit...

2002-08-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 10 August 2002 07:05 am, you wrote: KEdit 1.3 is included in kdeutils and accessible from command line by kedit or from the menu ApplicationsEditorsText Editor, the only difference between the two is that kedit opens up an editor called KEdit, while the menu approach opens an

[newbie] Kedit...

2002-08-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Is a Kedit RPM available for v8.2? I found some versions, but they all require at least a kazillion dependencies :-( -- /\ DarkLord

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Wine

2002-08-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 08 August 2002 02:54 pm, you wrote: Greetings Ronald, You are right, Winex is better than Wine. But Wine is Free. Best Regards. LĂșcio Costa. Yes, but you can get the cvs version of WineX, which is free. Also, I think D.Olsen posted a link to his website which has an article

[newbie] Cute Sigs... (Shane)

2002-08-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
This is for Shane, master of the .Sig! (didn't know if you had seen this one or not?) :-) f u cn rd ths u cn b a prgrmr. -- /\ DarkLord

Re: [newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes

2002-07-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 25 July 2002 10:08 am, you wrote: Personally I prefer 16 bit since it works the video card and CPU less hard, and it really is quite difficult to tell the difference. and quite a few games prefer 16-bit and perform better at that depth. --

[newbie] Re: [expert] OS's in space

2002-07-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 06:21 pm, you wrote: Kirk's mind raced as he quickly assessed his situation: the shields were down, the warp drive and impulse engines were dead, life support was failing fast, and the Enterprise was plummeting out of control toward the surface of Epsilon VI and, as

Re: [newbie] I have an opportunity...

2002-07-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 06:40 pm, you wrote: The other option of course is to have a relatively nice server, and run the 486's as Terminals off of it via the ltsp project. The url is http://www.k12ltsp.org if you wanted to try that out. Several groups have done that -- I think they are

Re: [newbie] Default html browser

2002-07-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 04:07 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 23 July 2002 9:51 am, Joan Tur did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I'm trying to change the default browser from konqueror (I'm using 8.2 kde 2.2.2) to opera 6.02. I've set the default program for *htm* files to:

[newbie] I have an opportunity...

2002-07-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I just got this e-mail from a friend of mine who does the computing stuff at the local county library. They used mixed OS's there, but he is a big 'Nix fan. --- Got a quick question for ya. would you be interested in

Re: [newbie] What have I done?

2002-07-18 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 18 July 2002 01:19 am, you wrote: I only loaded KDE. What do you mean by 'a different KDE account'? Anne I think he means that if you are logged in as root, then logon as a regular user. If you are logged on as your regular user, then logon as root. See if the problem affects

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