[newbie] Sound Blaster Live 5.1

2002-12-12 Thread David Williams
I noticed that my sound card (Sound Blaster Live 5.1) wasn't playing background to the back speakers and sub-woofer when I installed Mandrake 9.0. As near as I can figure, I need to install the EMUL10K1 driver. However, it appears that I need to recompile, etc. etc. etc. Before I did all of

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live 5.1

2002-12-13 Thread David Williams
. Thanks again David On Thursday 12 December 2002 11:26 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:54, David Williams wrote: I noticed that my sound card (Sound Blaster Live 5.1) wasn't playing background to the back speakers and sub-woofer when I installed Mandrake 9.0. As near as I

[newbie] Samba

2002-12-13 Thread David Williams
OK, I give up. I have a four computer network at home. I am running Linux on mine and Win98 on the other three. I have been using Samba so I can copy files and etc and to share a printer on my computer with the others. Everything has been working fine and now my computer and printer can't be

Re: [newbie] Samba

2002-12-17 Thread David Williams
On Saturday 14 December 2002 04:30 am, magnet wrote: On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 1:59 am, David Williams wrote: OK, I give up. I have a four computer network at home. I am running Linux on mine and Win98 on the other three. I have been using Samba so I can copy files and etc and to share

Re: [newbie] Samba

2002-12-18 Thread David Williams
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 05:56 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 3:57 am, David Williams wrote: On Saturday 14 December 2002 04:30 am, magnet wrote: On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 1:59 am, David Williams wrote: OK, I give up. I have a four computer network at home. I am

Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution and Monitor (in KDE)

2002-12-19 Thread David Williams
On Thursday 19 December 2002 09:42 pm, Paul Dimitriu wrote: Probably something very easy: How (in KDE) the devil do I change my screen resolution and monitor type? Thanks, Paul In Mandrake, you do it in the Mandrake Control Center under monitor or resolution. David -- ( )_( ) ( 0

[newbie] Mozilla

2002-12-21 Thread David Williams
In my effort to fix my SAMBA problem, I have somehow broken Mozilla. This occurred when the system lost the ethernet card and wouldn't connect online. I get that fixed but Mozilla was broke. When I run Mozilla, it acts like it is loading and then goes away. I have the Gnome system monitor running

Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2002-12-22 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 22 December 2002 01:01 am, Mark Weaver wrote: David Williams wrote: In my effort to fix my SAMBA problem, I have somehow broken Mozilla. This occurred when the system lost the ethernet card and wouldn't connect online. I get that fixed but Mozilla was broke. When I run Mozilla

Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2002-12-22 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 22 December 2002 02:06 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 00:58, David Williams wrote: I appreciate the help. I tryed to load from a terminal window (root and user). It stays blank and echoes keyboard characters. After a very long time (several minutes

[newbie] Sound gone again

2002-12-23 Thread David Williams
Ok, I am reaching the point that I am not having fun any more. I installed SAMBA and had it working. I installed Shorewall and broke SAMBA. In trying to fix SAMBA, I broke my internet connection and Mozilla. Somewhere in all of this I got my sound working properly. My problem with SAMBA was a it

Re: [newbie] Sound gone again

2002-12-23 Thread David Williams
On Monday 23 December 2002 05:38 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 00:57, David Williams wrote: Ok, I am reaching the point that I am not having fun any more. I installed SAMBA and had it working. I installed Shorewall and broke SAMBA. In trying to fix SAMBA, I broke my

[newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix

2002-12-24 Thread David Williams
I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference? David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sound gone again

2002-12-24 Thread David Williams
On Monday 23 December 2002 10:52 pm, David Williams wrote: On Monday 23 December 2002 05:38 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 00:57, David Williams wrote: Ok, I am reaching the point that I am not having fun any more. I installed SAMBA and had it working. I installed

Re: [newbie] Sound gone again

2002-12-25 Thread David Williams
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 07:01 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 11:22 pm, David Williams wrote: I spoke to soon. I have most of my sound back. I have my CDs playing and game sounds in the front speakers. I have all of the system noises working correctly. The problem

Re: [newbie] Sound gone again

2002-12-25 Thread David Williams
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 11:36 am, David Williams wrote: On Wednesday 25 December 2002 07:01 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 11:22 pm, David Williams wrote: I spoke to soon. I have most of my sound back. I have my CDs playing and game sounds in the front speakers. I

Re: [newbie] Sound gone again

2002-12-25 Thread David Williams
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 05:14 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 25 Dec 2002 6:07 pm, David Williams wrote: On Wednesday 25 December 2002 11:36 am, David Williams wrote: On Wednesday 25 December 2002 07:01 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 11:22 pm, David Williams

Re: [newbie] strange hardware question .. how to tell the Wattage (Watts?) of a P/S

2002-12-28 Thread David Williams
On Saturday 28 December 2002 05:50 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Subject says it all... any ideas besides reading a label? Thx. Oh Is there any diff between AT ATX P/S's? Merci - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always

Re: [newbie] strange hardware question .. how to tell the Wattage (Watts?) of a P/S

2002-12-28 Thread David Williams
On Saturday 28 December 2002 07:15 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 06:44 PM 12/28/2002 -0500, you wrote: On Saturday 28 December 2002 05:50 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Subject says it all... any ideas besides reading a label? Thx. Oh Is there any diff between AT ATX P/S's? Merci

Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2002-12-29 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 29 December 2002 07:44 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: * Hey, super! Tex has rpms for Phoenix 0.5, and plugins too! Way to go Tex. I've been running the tar package from Mozilla.org, which you don't really install, just run.

Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2002-12-29 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 29 December 2002 10:52 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: I have installed Phoenix and in the process installed RealPlayer and Java. If I try to install the realplayer rpm for Phoenix it tells me it can't install because I need realplayer. How do I make the connection so that Phoenix

Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2002-12-29 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 29 December 2002 10:44 pm, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: David Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:05:25 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5 On Sunday 29 December 2002 07:44 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote

Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2002-12-30 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 29 December 2002 07:51 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I just wanted to pass along my observations of the latest Phoenix 0.5 releasevery nice! I'm using it now in fact. I'm an Opera enthusiast, but this one is pretty fast and light. I don't think it is any faster than

Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2002-12-30 Thread David Williams
On Monday 30 December 2002 09:42 pm, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: David Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 20:14:07 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5 On Sunday 29 December 2002 07:51 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I

Re: [newbie] Web site causing Mozilla to crash

2002-12-31 Thread David Williams
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 05:01 pm, AndrewD wrote: I am thinking you don't have the Java plugin installed. Goto (in your browser) Help - About Plugins and see if something like this comes up Java(TM) Plug-in 1.3.1_02-b02 File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so Java(TM) Plug-in1.3.1_02 below

Re: [newbie] Re: Installing running Programs/Scripts/Code

2003-01-02 Thread David Williams
On Thursday 02 January 2003 11:30 am, Gavin Rollins wrote: Graham, I had the same problem.. but via this group, I learned to download these files into my tmp file first, open them with Ark, transfer ALL the files to /usr/local or /usr/local/bin... not sure which one. (I'm sure someone will

Re: [newbie] Installing WINE

2003-01-03 Thread David Williams
On Friday 03 January 2003 08:57 am, matt T wrote: Hello all, i'm a user of mandrake linux since 7 hours ago and i am having some troubles installing wine. i got this off the web elsewhere: first, untar the file: tar -xf wine.tar second, go to the directory it untarred: cd wine third,

Re: [newbie] K-Mail Filter question

2003-01-04 Thread David Williams
On Saturday 04 January 2003 01:19 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 01:35, Derek wrote: On Saturday 04 Jan 2003 9:55 am, Michael Adams wrote: I was trying to set up a filter on my sent-mail folder to delete anything that has been there for 2 months or more. I can't quite see

Re: [newbie] Samba

2003-01-05 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 05 January 2003 11:54 am, Freddy Baert wrote: Would somebody tell me how to start the Samba Wizard, because I don't find it. Thanks Freddy Swat has a wizard in it, but I didn't find it particularly useful. David -- -- ( )_( ) ( OO ) ( ) o Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0

2003-01-05 Thread David Williams
distros. Sorry, on my Linux soapbox... David Williams -- -- ( )_( ) ( OO ) ( ) o Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Samba

2003-01-05 Thread David Williams
but it is my first linux installation. Many thanks Freddy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: zondag 5 januari 2003 18:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 4:58 pm, David Williams

[newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2003-01-05 Thread David Williams
Ok, I installed Phoenix to try it out and got everything working. I have been using it for a week or so to get use to it. I just tried to run Mozilla (from the desktop, user command line, root, and from the mozilla directory) and I get Phoenix. Phoenix has its own set of directories. Its as if

Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2003-01-05 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 05 January 2003 06:56 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Monday 06 January 2003 02:20, David Williams wrote: Ok, I installed Phoenix to try it out and got everything working. I have been using it for a week or so to get use to it. I just tried to run Mozilla (from the desktop, user

[newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2003-01-05 Thread David Williams
Never mind about the Phoenix problem. I hate to admit it but I did the old Windows trick. I rebooted and everything is fine now. David -- -- ( )_( ) ( OO ) ( ) o Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2003-01-06 Thread David Williams
else is going to try Phoenix out. David Williams -- -- ( )_( ) ( OO ) ( ) o Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2003-01-06 Thread David Williams
On Monday 06 January 2003 09:07 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:24:41 -0500 David Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that anybody really cares. But I tried Phoenix and I am about to uninstall it. I don't notice any difference in performance between Mozilla and Phoenix (I

Re: [newbie] Aumix Not Present

2003-01-12 Thread David Williams
not. David Williams -- -- ( ) ( ) ( 0 0 ) ---( )--- o Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] File Locking

2003-02-04 Thread David Williams
My Mandrake update froze. After about 20 minutes, I killed it. Unfortuneatly, this cleared the update entry from the config file and left the urpmi database locked. I can't add the update because of the lock. Can someone tell me how to unlock the urpmi database? -- ( ) ( ) ( 0 0 ) ---(

Re: [newbie] File Locking

2003-02-04 Thread David Williams
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 09:43 pm, David Williams wrote: My Mandrake update froze. After about 20 minutes, I killed it. Unfortuneatly, this cleared the update entry from the config file and left the urpmi database locked. I can't add the update because of the lock. Can someone tell me how

Re: [newbie] kmail went awol on me

2003-02-07 Thread David Williams
On Friday 07 February 2003 01:01 pm, magnet wrote: I had this happen several times to me. What I found out my problem was --- It turned out that there was a corrupt message in the mail folders. I used Kong to look at the files and noticed that there was one more file than Kmail showed as

Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own

2003-03-07 Thread David Williams
On Friday 07 March 2003 06:24 pm, Chris wrote: Ok, let me try with a different subject, may just reboot didn't catch anyones eye. I came home from work at 5:15 and my system had apparently rebooted itself about 15 minutes ago. I can't find any reason for this at all. I've checked the logs.

Re: [newbie] problem with Linuxconf 'Help' window height

2003-03-16 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 16 March 2003 12:25 pm, cervixcouch wrote: For quite a number of the windows in Linuxconf, whenever I click 'Help' to get more information, the window that pops up is several times the height of the screen and there is no scrollbar present to scroll down the information. Maximizing

Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?

2003-03-30 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 30 March 2003 09:45 am, Zariyan Zephyr wrote: As a Linux newbie, I don't really understand why people in Europe and North America has chosen Linux for daily use. I think people in Europe and North America can afford Microsoft Windows and application softwares under Windows. It isn't

[newbie] Sound Card

2003-09-26 Thread David Williams
I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live 5.1 PCI sound card and I have just about had enough with sound card problems with this computer. Over the past couple of years, I started with Mandrake 8.2 and upgraded to 9.0 and 9.1 During my really initial learning phase, I reloaded Mandrake 8.2 and

[newbie] Ad-Aware

2004-03-13 Thread David Williams
Is there any thing for Linux like Ad-Aware for Windows? Is there even a need for anything like Ad-Aware for Linux? -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) --( )-- --0-- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows

2004-04-01 Thread David Williams
Sounds like an April Fools Joke to me. On Thursday 01 April 2004 07:48 am, Tobias Cloete wrote: That's your choice. I love OpenSouce and I run 3 pc's at home with Linux installed on all of them at work 2. I'm the only linux guy here and love to be different. Linux is my desktop and Windows

[newbie] USB

2004-04-08 Thread David Williams
My USB ports used to work and then stopped. I get an error message on boot with something like INIT USB cont (usb.ohci) /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernal/drivers/usb/usb-ochi.0.gz incorrect mod param or invalid IO or IRQ Init_module: no such device dmesg log has this in it. usb.c: registered

[newbie] USB

2004-04-11 Thread David Williams
My USB ports used to work and then stopped. I get an error message on boot with something like INIT USB cont (usb.ohci) /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernal/drivers/usb/usb-ochi.0.gz incorrect mod param or invalid IO or IRQ Init_module: no such device dmesg log has this in it. usb.c: registered

Re: [newbie] Palm sync out of the box anyone?

2004-04-18 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 18 April 2004 03:39 pm, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: I am going to buy a Palm pilot, and it is essential for me that I works 100% with Linux and KDE applications such as Korganizer, KAdressBook etc. I am considering Palm Tungsten C or Tungsten E. The latter should work with KPilot: