Re: [newbie] nearly newbie - problem installing 10.1

2004-12-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Friday 17 December 2004 03:15 pm, Rick Beton wrote: Hi all, I've used Mandrake on and off for a while, and I decided to use it more. So I joined the Mandrake Club and downloaded 10.1 ISOs. I also upgraded my PC hardware - new hard disk, new mobo/processor (Asus A7N8X Athlon processor).

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem

2004-12-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Friday 10 December 2004 02:20 pm, Keith Powell wrote: Sometime, I must find out the difference between apic and apci - I thought they were almost the same! APIC - Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface -- Alan

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:51 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Maybe I'm paranoid, but after that experience we don't allow her Windows box contact with anything outside her room. You are;) Confined to the LAN can't really hurt can it,

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 19:11, Alan Shoemaker wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:51 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Maybe I'm paranoid, but after that experience we don't allow

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:13 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 20:11, Alan Shoemaker wrote: sandisk mini cruzer's do not work Do you know why not? no -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:22 am, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 01:11 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: sandisk mini cruzer's do not work Actually, they do. My boss and I both have Sandisk Mini Cruzers (256 megs), and they work like a charm: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mandrake

Re: [newbie] Which version of Xorg am I running

2004-11-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 12:36 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: Greetings, I just updated Xorg and I would like to know the command to tell which version is running on my system. TIA Regards, Dan Gordon $ X -version -- Alan Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-19 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Friday 19 November 2004 05:31 pm, Lanman wrote: That just happened to me (on 10.0 though) and I had to make the /boot partition ACTIVE' using Partition Magic...after that, it was all downhill (er, uphill) -- stephen kuhn Thanks Stephen but I've never used Partition Magic, so I

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again

2004-08-31 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 04:37 pm, charlie wrote: On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:30 am, Alan Shoemaker wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 03:01 pm, charlie wrote: I couldn't get the win modem to work because 9.2 didn't supply a kernel source and I am in very slow dial up. That is the problem

Re: [newbie] Ugly display with KMail composer msgs.

2004-06-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Friday 11 June 2004 09:33 am, J Adam Latham wrote: Jason Wilson wrote: J Adam Latham wrote: Dear All: Whenever I send a message with KMail it delivers the message in a wierd and ugly format ... What it does is print a sentence of the message on one line, then on the next

Re: [newbie] MAC

2004-06-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:42 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all Can someone tell me where/how to get my 10/100 card's MAC address? I can see all of them on the router status screen, but I have the hostnames so screwed up I'm not sure which machine is which ip. I'm medium dumb now but some of

Re: [newbie] Text Mode Framebuffer

2004-05-18 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 08:58 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 10:17, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 09:40 am, JoeHill wrote: - -Since I installed my PCI graphics card, all has been swell. Not as swell as the -old AGP, but swell. - -Only problem is on boot,

Re: [newbie] Text Mode Framebuffer

2004-05-18 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 09:33 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 12:14, Alan Shoemaker wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 08:58 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 10:17, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 09:40 am, JoeHill wrote: - -Since I installed my

Re: [newbie] Re: CanoScan LiDE 50??

2004-05-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Thursday 13 May 2004 09:14 pm, Richard McCormick wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 05:52 pm, Richard McCormick wrote: Hi, I just got Mandrake 10 and boy is it much better, the best yet but there is one problem and I was wondering if there is a way to configure my

Re: [newbie] CanoScan LiDE 50??

2004-05-13 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Thursday 13 May 2004 05:52 pm, Richard McCormick wrote: Hi, I just got Mandrake 10 and boy is it much better, the best yet but there is one problem and I was wondering if there is a way to configure my CanoScan LiDE 50 to work under XSane?? I actually found the scanner listed and when I

Re: [newbie] Laptops

2003-12-13 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Lanman wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 09:16, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 09:03:09 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember seeing some posts lately about laptop choices for Mandrake. Well, I finally found one that works incredibly well. Asus makes a laptop

Re: [newbie] Powerpack Subscription Question

2003-10-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Nicholas wrote: I bought the subscription power pack starting with 9.1. From what the site said, mandrake would also send 9.2 and the next version out when it becomes available. I have since moved and need my address changed. There is more to this so please keep reading. I have been trying to

Re: [newbie] USB mass-storage: HELP!

2003-09-18 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Iwan Binanto wrote: --- HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Iwan Binanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm confuse. Somebody, please help me. Someone might, if you post a new thread. Do *not* hijack existing threads. Thank you. I'm

Re: [newbie] Getting Mandrake's attention

2003-06-25 Thread Alan Shoemaker
owenb wrote: How do I get a response concerning defective Mandrake merchandise? I tried what e-mail and phone number I could find without any response. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/contact/address I bought, The Definitive Manual for version 9.0 just prior to the release of the 9.1

Re: [newbie] DSL

2003-06-09 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Aron Smith wrote: Anyone Know of a DSL provider here in the Bay Area that if not supporting Linux is at least linux Friendly? eg. easy to set up under Mandrake http://www.speakeasy.net/ these folks actually favor linux users. -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 Windows XP Co-existing

2003-03-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Stephen Kuhn wrote: There are demo versions of Partition Magic floating around - you can always try the PowerQuest website for it - luckily, I've got Partition Magic complete sets from version 3 upwards to version 8 (grin) - just the luck of the industry I'm in, I reckon... and there's a

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Andrew Scotchmer wrote: I'm having probs also with mounting the CDROM even with supermount uncheked. Whenever I try I get nothing at all. It just wont read the CDROM! Tried typing the command as root to disable but it just comes back saying supermount: command not found Andrew try:

Re: [newbie] FIPS and File Systems

2003-03-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Passing Memory wrote: Hi All, I have been trying to use FIPSto safely partition my HardDrive before installing Linux but it doesn't work. I keep having the following error: Unknown File System I tried on disk formatted by Windows XP and on another disk formatted by Windows 2000, but it

Re: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-16 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Anne Wilson wrote: I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old How can I find what went

Re: [newbie]

2002-11-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ronnie Boyd wrote: Have run into a dead end with LinNeighborhood and don't know what I'm doing wrong. Did the...tar -xjvf LinNeighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 It creates the LinNeighborhood directory ok, but nothing else. I'm not sure if executable should be installed at this

Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......

2002-11-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ronnie Boyd wrote: Hello there. I am a long term Windows user/tech support person who has recently installed Mandrake Linux, partly out of curiosity, partly because I feel it's the coming thing. I managed to install it, get it on our training LAN, mount drives and what not without any bother,

Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......

2002-11-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ronnie Boyd wrote: Hello there. I am a long term Windows user/tech support person who has recently installed Mandrake Linux, partly out of curiosity, partly because I feel it's the coming thing. I managed to install it, get it on our training LAN, mount drives

Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......

2002-11-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ronnie Boyd wrote: Hello there. I am a long term Windows user/tech support person who has recently installed Mandrake Linux, partly out of curiosity, partly because I feel it's the coming thing. I managed to install it, get it on our

Re: [newbie] SWAT - Can't connect

2002-11-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi all, I'm having trouble connecting to SWAT (http://localhost:901). From Mozilla it actually tries to connect to www.localhost.com and times out and from Konqueror I get the following error message: An error occured while loading http://localhost:901/: Connection

Re: [newbie] best way to find things out

2002-11-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Tim Werner wrote: Someone posted a documentation question earlier and got a pretty good answer, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to find things out. I guess I'm a little spoiled by MSDN. For instance, if I want to know about file permissions, it would be Really Neat if there

Re: [newbie] modem setup for Toshiba 1805-s204

2002-11-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jim Snyder wrote: Hi I was able to load Mandrake 9.0 on my Toshiba Satellite 1805-s204 and everything works well except that I cannot use my internal modem yet. The internal networking card is working fine. I am suspecting an IRQ conflict or the need to edit a file somewhere. Can someone

Re: [newbie] Mouse wheel / third button

2002-10-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
dave wrote: Hi, I've been trying to get my mouse (MS IntelliMouse v1.2A (PS/2)) wheel and third button working since I installed MDK9.0, but without any luck as of yet. I understand there is the 'gpm' mouse driver running the non-X environment mouse, and the mouse for X is defined in

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

2002-10-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
leeg100 wrote: On Tuesday 01 October 2002 04:17 pm, s wrote: On Monday 30 September 2002 08:28 pm, leeg100 wrote: So... how do I make removable media in Mandrake 9.0 under KDE act like they do in say, Redhat? In RH 7.3, you right-click a CD or Zip drive icon and select mount or

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

2002-10-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
leeg100 wrote: On Wednesday 02 October 2002 02:30 am, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Thanks for all the replies, folks. supermount -i disable fixed it. Creating a new device worked, but for some reason the Zip no longer has an eject choice on the context menu. Not really a biggie

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

2002-10-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
leeg100 wrote: $^#!$^!!! I had no idea that supermount UNmounted after closing the Konqueror window. I'm running Mdk 9.0. I opened my Zip drive and opened an Openoffice spreadsheet. I had it open for a little while, and inadvertently closed the Konq window showing my Zip drive's

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 for 486 machines?

2002-07-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alastair Scott wrote: There've been various remarks from civileme and others suggesting (as I remember) that you have to go back to Mandrake 5.3 to get a version that'll run on 486s. But I note that, in the /Mandrake-iso/i586 directory of mirrors, there's a mandrake70-2.i486.iso

Re: [newbie] 8.2 won't install

2002-07-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Erylon Hines wrote: I've installed 8.2 problem free (mostly, more about that in another post) on 3 of my machines, but it refuses to work on a fourth. This one is a P233, Elitegroup P6LX-A mobo, 288 megs of ram, onboard Adaptec 78xx scsi (controlling both 50 pin wide and 68 pin ultra-wide

Re: [newbie] Palm m500 and JPilot

2002-07-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: Hello, I've got a Palm m500 and am making no headway with pilot-link or JPilot. This is Mandrake 8.1, btw. What device should my Palm be? It sits in a USB cradle. Anything at all would help. Please help get me started or tell me where to RTFM. I'm using JPilot version

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 8.1 on 486 with 32Mb RAM

2002-06-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake 8.1 is supposed to be installable with 32Mb RAM, in text mode. I have a 486, and upgraded its memory to 32Mb specifically so I could install Mandrake.  (The computer can't handle more than 32Mb.) You'll need a version compiled for the i486. The last

Re: [newbie] xcdroast and burning CD's.

2002-06-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
darklord wrote: Xcdroast finds both, has them in correct positions on the SCSI chain, but will not read any CD in my DVD drive. It always reports that its an empty CDRW. If you haven't yet upgraded the xcdroast, mkisofs, cdda2wav, and cdrecord rpms then do so. There's one other wrinkle

Re: [newbie] Mounting spare Ext2 Partition

2002-05-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John Richard Smith wrote: On Friday 10 May 2002 12:07, you wrote: The only problem is that the run time script saysmount local files system, mount fs type defaults not supported which seems to me that it does not like my defaults 1 1 , I first chose 0 0 ,with the same result ,

Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish

2002-03-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Brian Parish wrote: Civileme, Hmmm.  I can see that bdflush is running on my system, but bdflush is not found either as root or as a normal user.  locate can't track it down either.  Software Manager says it's installed, but all I find is the man pages.  Looking at these, the command is

Re: [newbie] files and packages

2002-01-20 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Dadi wrote: libGLcore.so.1 DadiI believe that's part of an Nvidia TNT driver package. :) -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] XFree upgrade question

2001-12-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
tek1 wrote: hello. i have 2 basic questions abt xfree86: 1. how can you easily tell what version you are running? 2. i believe that i'm running 3.3.6 (because it mandrake software manager, under installed, i found xfree86-server-common 3.3.6), but i'd like to upgrade to 4.1.0. what

Re: [newbie] Shutdown Hanging...in Mandrake 8.1!?!

2001-11-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
DJW wrote: I don't use Aurora, and it still did it to me (only sometimes, and always on USB device 3, which I don't have. Only 2 devices). Anyway I fixed it by turning off the USB support. Not a valid fix I know if you need it, but I didn't. DJW Subject: Re: [newbie] Shutdown

Re: [newbie] Monitor

2001-11-16 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello group, I have installed Mandrake 8.1 and I would really like the annoying sleep mode or shutting down of my monitor to stop.' anyone have any great ideas?? thnxXsturm Xsturmas root, load the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 into an editor and make this line

Re: [newbie] Icons again...(you gotta wonder)

2001-11-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, I guess I spoke prematurely. After rebooting, I still have a 2nd Zip icon... [snip] Deleted (as root) /usr/share/mdk/Zip.desktop Ronaldthe one to delete is stored in /usr/share/mdk as: /usr/share/mdk/Zip2.desktop not /usr/share/mdk/Zip.desktop -- Alan :)

Re: [newbie] Returning zip icon

2001-10-19 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi all! I changed all of my removeable drive icons to the old way, like in 7.2, where you click on them to mount the drive, and right click and umount from the menu, no supermount stuff. Anyway, this works great, but now everytime I reboot, it puts a zip drive icon on

Re: [newbie] MODEMS vs Winmodems

2001-10-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
etharp wrote: snip Joethe real winmodem problem is better explained below by the two selected quotes from Rick Moen's linuxmafia.com website: http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/ good link, thanks You're quite welcome. :) 'nother snip Theoretically, programmers could write

Re: [newbie] locked cdrom and floppy

2001-08-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Oder Santos wrote: I have just installed MandrakeFreq 2 in my Toshiba Satellite 1715 XCDS and all running great except to cdrom and floppy. When I click it I receive the message: You do not have permissions to read file:/mnt/cdrom. What should I do to unlock this? Any help would be really

Re: [newbie] Help please !

2001-08-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Gonzalix le Druide wrote: Hi All!! Please help me: I installed LM7.2 on a Pentium II 350 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM, Video Card Trident 975 agp 4 Mb. I've probed Xconfigurator, xf86cfg and xf86config. I was trying to find some command XFree86Setup or something like

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Problems with RAM memory

2001-08-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Miark wrote: Alan, do you know of any bugs or inconveniences with this kernel? Someone was telling me that there's _something_ annoying about it. Miark Miarkthe enterprise? I'm aware of none that aren't in the regular 2.4.3-20 kernel. But then I'm not aware of everything to do with

Re: [newbie] Problems with RAM memory

2001-08-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
release 2.4.3-20mdk kernel which didn't have those two. Thanks. I'm not sure why you emailed direct with this thread, but I can't email you back direct because your mail server bounces me as spam. -- Alan - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [newbie] Win2k

2001-08-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Robert MacLean wrote: how do I run lilo? I saw a how to saying i needed to run lilo but I can't figure it out. Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 4:03 PM

Re: [newbie] Kde2 and Koffice on Linux Mandrake 7.1????

2001-08-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed mandrake 7.1 on my laptop toshibasatellite pro 780.. Now i`d like to install koffice..this requires kde2..and so I should install it...I downloaded kdebase, kdelibs and kdesupport but if I try to install then using the kpackager it gives me an

Re: [newbie] Problems with RAM memory

2001-08-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear support, I have installed in my computer (Pentium III – 933 MHz – 1Gb of RAM memory) the Mandrake 8.0, and I mainly interested to use the compilers C and Fortran, but as I am a Linux beginner, I have faced the following problems: 1) The Fortran compiler can

Re: [newbie] Change lilo/grub default boot - needs to be windoze for now!

2001-08-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Dave Esquer wrote: Hello all, While I'm debugging my Mandrake 8 install, I still need to get some windoze work done and would like the default lilo boot to be windows. I edited the linux.conf file to have the default be windows instead of linux but it still boots me into Mandrake. I'm

Re: [newbie] Restore Session

2001-08-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Tom Malone wrote: Hello List - I once made the mistake, when logging out of KDE, of checking the button that says Restore Session for the next login. Now everytime I login the same windows are opened automatically. Can anyone tell me how to clear this session out so I can start with a

Re: [newbie] Modules eth0

2001-07-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Dennis Myers wrote: My ethernet card is detected and shows up in harddrake, but I can not seem to get it to make a lan connection. it is a generic rtl8139 card by NetSurf. When I hit configuration tool in Mandrake Control center it gives the error message can't find module eth0 . I've tried

Re: [newbie] stylesheet and pages

2001-07-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
civileme wrote: [snip] software, I decided I would use .png and .mng in place of .gif. There is even a little program called gif2png you can search for on the web. I really don't want to support what amounts to a legalized protection racket, run by attorneys. Civileme

Re: [newbie] Path and KDESU

2001-07-18 Thread Alan Shoemaker
tazmun wrote: [snip] here..but what does pwd stand for again? And I keep hearing about kdesu is this just something your typing into the console shell from kde window manager. I was wondering if someone could go a bit more into detail on this command and exactly how to use it. Also what

Re: [newbie] Transferring files from Windoze drives to Mandrake

2001-07-18 Thread Alan Shoemaker
civileme wrote: [snip] Either you haves a very corrupt install insofar as KDE is concerned or you are just unfamiliar with the desktop. There should be icons on the K desktop which say mnt win_c or similar. [snip] ÇivilemeI've just done 3 installs, 2 with 8.0 (powerpack) and 1 (from

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John Rigby wrote: But where has IglooFTP gone, as well?? JohnIglooFTP-PRO installs in the /usr/local directory. It's executable resides in /usr/local/IglooFTP-PRO/bin, but there's also a simlink in the /usr/local/bin (which is in your path) directory called IglooFTP-PRO, so all you

Re: [newbie] mini linux distro recommendations

2001-07-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
steve campbell wrote: Just wonderingdoes anyone know of a floppy distro with reiserfs support? I use toms boot disc and while it is great for hacking my friends broken windows, I can't actually use it on my own Linux..ironic huh? :)

Re: [newbie] mini linux distro recommendations

2001-07-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Fireman71 wrote: Not really related to Mandrake but I am looking for a mini linux distro (under 20 meg and preferably one just one floppy) that i can load onto an old 386 computer and configure to act as an internet masquerading / firewall machine. Anyone have any ideas? TIA, Ian

Re: [newbie] How do you figure out your port number for your workstation?

2001-06-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanator wrote: Chris Keelan wrote: On Sunday 17 June 2001 12:34, you wrote: Hi list, I'm trying to get KNode working. However, how do I find out what my port number is for Host, POP and SMPT? Just checking things out. Unless your ISP has some special settings, SMTP servers

Re: [newbie] Conecting COM 1 and COM 2

2001-06-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Carlos Eduardo Colon Rangel wrote: Hi, How can I stablish a connection between COM port 1 and COM port 2? Thanks, Carloswith a nullmodem adapter and an rs232 cable, or with an rs232cable wired as a nullmodem (these are available commercially, but I can't say where). :) -- Alan

Re: [newbie] Volume Control in KDE?

2001-06-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ed Kasky wrote: Is there a volume control anywhere in KDE desktop? I hate to admit to being used to the slider in windoze But... Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Improve the computing world. Toss a Mac off a cliff. Edwith konqueror, navigate to your

Re: [newbie] Install Questions

2001-06-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
preston smith wrote: Sorry to bother you all with my questions. Should I use BootMagic or LILO to allow me to dual boot Linux and Windows 98? Opinions seem to me mixed on this. What are the pros and cons. The MD 8.0 manual says to set the BIOS switch that asks if a PNP OS is Installed

Re: [newbie] New LM8 PowerPack installation freezes on Boot CD

2001-06-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanator wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Romanator wrote: Hi list and Mandrake Support, I am very disappointed. It appears that I have a bad Boot Core System Boot CD. The light on the CD stays on for about 10 minutes followed by and error message: An error occurred nothing

Re: [newbie] XFree86

2001-06-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
OOzy Pal wrote: How can I know which version of XFree86 I am running. I have LM8.0? = Regards, OOzy X -version -- Alan

Re: [newbie] what happened to add in kmail?

2001-06-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
etharp wrote: I added a couple of addresses to the address book, but later on when I went to add more, the add tab is grayed out. Ok, what did I do? any one know? etharpyou can't add till there's something in the add window to add. :) -- Alan

Re: [newbie] New LM8 PowerPack installation freezes on Boot CD

2001-06-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanator wrote: Hi list and Mandrake Support, I am very disappointed. It appears that I have a bad Boot Core System Boot CD. The light on the CD stays on for about 10 minutes followed by and error message: An error occurred nothing found while parsing /mnt/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.CD1 Core

Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:

2001-06-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ed Kasky wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error permissions for /mnt/floppy: drwxrwxrwx 1

Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:

2001-06-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ed Kasky wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error permissions

Re: [newbie] Printer setup on 8.0

2001-06-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Tom wrote: Nope.. haven't gotten any replies yet... Don't think I got any CUPS errors, just not letting me type ANYTHING at all in those spaces.. - Original Message - From: Wendell Gragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 8:32 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] Unable to access CDWriter CD-Rom drives

2001-06-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Herb Wood wrote: !doctype html public -//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en html Alan Shoemaker wrote: blockquote TYPE=CITEDonald Jr Saxton wrote: br Hello All, br br I'm unable to access my CD-Rom amp; CD-Writer drives. When br trying to access them in Konqueror. They have padlocks

Re: [newbie] Unable to access CDWriter CD-Rom drives

2001-06-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Donald Jr Saxton wrote: Hello All, I'm unable to access my CD-Rom CD-Writer drives. When trying to access them in Konqueror. They have padlocks on them. I also receive the following error message: Unable to enter file:/mnt/cdrom2. You do not have access rights to this location. This

Re: [newbie] configuring USB mouse

2001-06-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Pupeno wrote: Is there any good tool to configure my new usb mouse on X-Windows ? thank you. mouseconfig -- Alan

Re: [newbie]No Printing so far

2001-06-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Alan All, I have done all of the above, got it installed but I cannot figure out how to get the printing going. I know that you cannot set up a printer in printerdrake if it is cups. I do not know how to launch kups or at least I have not found a way to do so. Is

Re: [newbie] Disappointed

2001-06-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Adam Henson wrote: Ok thanks. Thats the trouble though, - can't install Mandrake 8 because it hangs on bootup... So far nothing has worked. Every other distro has worked on this laptop so far.. :-( I'm at work now but Ive got a Caldera ISO downloading at home. Would rather use

Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?

2001-06-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, Has any one been successful in having StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel after installation in LM8? I can't get it to work. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 RomanI installed the 5.2 rpm from the mdk 7.2 powerpack. After installing the rpm as root, the

Re: [newbie] Partition problem after install

2001-05-31 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ivor Blockley wrote: Hi I just installed mandrake 7.2 and now dos can't see my fat32 extended partitions (although linux still sees them). Prior to the mandrake install my harddrive was configured into 5 partitions - a primary dos fat32 parition (c:) which I had recently formatted (in fact

Re: [newbie] font antialiasing

2001-05-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Dave DeGear wrote: I've gone in to the KDE Control Center under Fonts and can't find an option for antialias. Where exactly would I find this? By the way, is there a way to set up the Samba from a Menu? I haven't been able to find it under the Control Center. Thanks.

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Alan All, I remember that my printing was not very good in LM7 but it was better than what I got from cups in LM8. I just do not remember what I did to get it going. I think I used linuxconf which I finally found in LM8. I did find printtool and used it, then I

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Alan All, Thank you Alan so much for your help. I have lpd installed and working now. Whew! I had to have some printing working. Now that I have it installed it reminded me why I was so happy to have cups in 7.2. The print is a little too light, wavy, and uneven

Re: [newbie] Mount win partition

2001-05-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
JA GUESS wrote: How can I mount my windows partition under linux for exploring my files that are in the windows partition under linux? JAif, in konqueror, you navigate to the /mnt/windows directory you will likely find your windows partition already mounted there. -- Alan

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marcia Waller wrote: Alan, how do I get my printing to work now with the lpd? How do I choose, add, and configure printers with it? Is printtools the gui for it? I really do not know the first thing to do to get this started. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you so much for your detailed

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I thank all of you for giving me the suggestions for my printer. I have done most of them and none have improved my situtation. [snip] This problem is the same even though I started over and even got the new cups 1.1.8 installed. With this new cups which I

Re: [newbie] XFRee86 3.3.6 + Laptop

2001-05-25 Thread Alan Shoemaker
sean gibbins wrote: I now appear to have a functional X windows running on my laptop, with one small problem: I appear to have acquired a virtual rather than actual desktop. By this I mean I can see approximately one quarter of the desktop, and can navigate to the remaining three quarters

Re: [newbie] KDE text editor problem.

2001-05-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ronald J. Hall wrote: I'm using the standard KDE text editor and I have a problem/bug? with it. Under 7.1, I could open an e-mail text file, highlight something like , remove it using cntrl x, then do a cntrl r, followed by cntrl v to paste it into the replace box. I would then delete all

[newbie] Re: Fonts and Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanator wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ed Kasky wrote: I searched for that for at least an hour and couldn't find it. I never would have thought to look there ;-) Is Lucinda Console lucidx mono? Ed Edno, the font I use is called Lucinda Console. I've noticed

Re: [newbie] Default Viewing Font - Kwrite/Konquerer

2001-05-20 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ed Kasky wrote: How does one change the default font for viewing files in Konquerer and Kwrite? Mine is right now set to a very small courier and nearly impossible to read unless I open the file in another editor. I would like to be able to view files using Konquerer but can't seem to

Re: [newbie] Computer Freezes under Linux 7.2 WindowsME

2001-05-20 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Chubby Vic wrote: Hey that program does not compile, all I got was: [root@kittypuss memtest86-2.5]# make as86 -a -0 -o setup.o setup.s make: as86: Command not found make: *** [setup.o] Error 127 What good is it??? Chubby Vicinstall the dev86 rpm from the installation CD for your

Re: [newbie] Default Viewing Font - Kwrite/Konquerer

2001-05-20 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ed Kasky wrote: I searched for that for at least an hour and couldn't find it. I never would have thought to look there ;-) Is Lucinda Console lucidx mono? Ed Edno, the font I use is called Lucinda Console. I've noticed that some fonts disappear from the font selection list and

Re: [newbie] Default Viewing Font - Kwrite/Konquerer

2001-05-20 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ed Kasky wrote: I noticed that too. I stole the Lucinda Console and a few others from my Win2000 machine and installed them. So what exactly is anti-aliasing? Ed Edit's a digital graphics term that means that a font character or other digital image has smooth looking edges. -- Alan

Re: [newbie] Archiver

2001-05-20 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I have LM 8 and I just tried to use the archiver. It said sorry that it was not in my path. How can I use this again? It worked well in 7.2. Marciathe KDE Archiver is activated by right-clicking the icon of an archive file and choosing Archiver from the

Re: [newbie] menu editing again!

2001-05-19 Thread Alan Shoemaker
bascule wrote: i had spotted that, but the point is that no matter what i choose, whether it be system configuration, user configuration, allow mandrake customisation or whatever, there is no effect, i save, wait for the process to finish, run update-menus in a console to be super sure and

Re: [newbie] konqueror question

2001-05-18 Thread Alan Shoemaker
brandon wrote: Eric, Thanks for the reply. I was actually wondering how to clear all entries in the location bar. I know that you can do a ctrl-u (which does what you included) but I have alot of old entries in the location bar that keep auto populating when I type in a URL. How do you

Re: [newbie] Removal of Linux

2001-05-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
- - MShort - - wrote: I need to remove Linux that is installed with a dual boot with Win98. I haven't really used it as I thought I would and will reinstall it on another machine in the future. So how do I uninstall Linux and the boot menu? Linux is installed on a separate drive from the

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