[newbie] RE: Sound

2004-06-11 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
I have very happily been using 10.0 officical for a while now and haven't had a lot of problems til now. All of a sudden I am getting a message that states permission is not granted to /dev/dsp. I did a ls -s on it and it pointed to a simlink. I'm not sure where the problem is but here is a

[newbie] RE: rebooting, Greg Meyer, grub.lst

2003-11-17 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
Here is a copy of my grub.lst. I appreciate your help. TIA Maureen timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan i18n (hd0,7)/grub/messages keytable (hd0,7)/us.klt altconfigfile (hd0,7)/grub/menu.once default 0 title linux kernel (hd0,7)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 noapic devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht

[newbie] Reboot with 9.2

2003-11-16 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
I installed 9.2 from the powerpack disks I purchased. A few quirks but it went well. I had already downloaded all the security updates and bug fixes so I skipped it during install. Finished the install and went for the updates. They all took and they all said invalid key. I used my laptop

[newbie] RE: Rebooting, Greg, my boot directory contents

2003-11-16 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
I forgot to add this to the previous message. Maureen [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]$ ls boot.0300initrd-2.4.22-21mdk.img message-text config@ initrd.img@ System.map@ config-2.4.22-10mdk kernel.h@System.map-2.4.22-10mdk

Re: [newbie] Reboot with 9.2

2003-11-16 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
David E. Fox wrote: I installed 9.2 from the powerpack disks I purchased. A few quirks but it went well. I had already downloaded all the security updates and bug fixes so I skipped it during install. Finished the install and went for I imagine you're getting those invalid keys during

Re: [newbie] Reboot with 9.2

2003-11-16 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
Dick Gevers wrote: On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:00:32 -0500, Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] Reboot with 9.2: The invalid key entry was not a problem with the packages, but you did not have the Mandrake Security Team key in your keyring. urpmi automatically adds the key when you

Re: [newbie] RE: DHCP

2003-09-26 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 15:52, Maureen L. Thomas wrote: It's not that I want to force a name but it just started happening and I have been using this service since Feb. It kinda through me when I saw it. I though someone had snuck in a back door or something even though

[newbie] RE: DHCP

2003-09-25 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
Can anyone point me to a comprehensive article, book, etc. for Linux and DHCP. It seems that my computer, when conected to my DSL changes the host name on my computer. When I disconnect it returns to normal. Any ideas on how I can change it so that it doesn't do it ? TIA, Maureen Want to

Re: [newbie] RE: DHCP

2003-09-25 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
Raffaele Belardi wrote: Could it not be that the DHCP server of your DSL provider is assigning you a name (and an IP address) when you connect? I know that when I communicated the IP address of my machine to the network administrator for DNS and DHCP I also had to tell them the host name I

[newbie] RE: Kodak

2003-08-02 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
Dennis, No I'm afraid not. I tried all the ideas that were given to me and it just won't read the d. card. Anyway I crossposted to another list I'm on (by mistake) and was given another way to try it out. If it works I will gladly post here how I finally got it to work. I think

[newbie] Kodak DX3700

2003-07-29 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
I have been trying to get my kodak to work. I finally got it recognized by MD9.1 but then I get this message: Could not create folder 'camera' in folder '/' and when I hit more I get PTP: request code 0x9005 geting resp error 0x ff PTP I/O error I have no clue other than its and

[newbie] RE:Kodak

2003-07-29 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
there is no entry in fstab, however my card reader is there in sda, but I can't get it to read the memory card When I turn the dock on I get a GTKam icon that pops up on my desktop, it initializes the camera and then that's it. In the control center under Unknown devices is where I see the

[newbie] RE: OfficeJet info

2003-07-28 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
I went to the Tiwiki page and added my officejet. Also added my Gateway laptop. Thanks, Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Linux frindly printers

2003-07-27 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 10:19 am, Aron Smith wrote: Has anyone had any success setting up multi function devices? (eg. printer-fax-copier-scanners with linux) there are some great deals on refurbished HP equipment around. Check out www.linuxprinting.org and be ready

[newbie] Locked cdrom and floppy drives

2002-05-22 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
I have upgraded to 8.2 on both my desktop and my laptop. I have used the cdrom on my desktop and used my floppy drive as well. I did some work on my laptop that I wanted to add to my desktop but now the floppy and both cdrom's (one is a burner) are locked. The only changes I have made

[newbie] install for a laptop

2002-04-06 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
I have just recently purchased a laptop. It is a Gateway Solo1200. It came with an integrated winmodem so I was able to pick up a Pcmcia modem card. I have tried to recompile the kernel with no luck. Keep getting errors. I have been reading up on pcmcia cards and there seems to be a way to

[newbie] RE: Zip Drive

2002-01-05 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
Thanks for the tips. Civil me was right. I had to mknod and then it was recognized. I had pointed it to hdd4, but it just wouldn't work. Had a little trouple with the modem by got that straighten out too. I did use the dmesg dmesg.txt. That confirmed my zip as hdd. Thanks again. Want

[newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-27 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
I upgraded to KDE 2.2 and am using K-Office. So far it hasn't crashed or froze on me and I have imported all the documents I was using from Lotus SmartSuite and it hasn't lost a thing. I am very pleased with it. Some small improvements in K-Spread are needed, like multi copy, but otherwise it

[newbie] RE: AMD boxes

2001-11-10 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
I run an AMD 850MHz box that I built myself. I used a FIC motherboard and 512 MB ram. Used my old modem an action tec PCI and it had built in audio. I still dual boot (trying to remedy that) and everything works better and faster in Mandrake than in winblows. The video is better, speed is

[newbie] Modem won't work after kernel upgrade

2001-08-31 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
Hi all, I upgraded the kernel from the rpm files as stated in the security alert. I did the iptables and lm-utils with the rpm package manager. I used the instructions that came with the security alert. rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.7-12.3mdk.i586.rpm etc. Rebooted with no problems.

[newbie] VIA 686B southbridge problem

2001-04-21 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
Hi all, I recently installed a new motherboard from FIC. It has the VIA 686B southbridge chip and according to the Register it has a bug in it. I have found fixes for windows on the FIC and VIA websites but cannot find a way to fix the bug for Linux. My Mandrake is acting strange

[newbie] cannot reinstall

2001-04-08 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
I have upgraded my machine to an AMD 850 Duron with a 1st Mainboard AZ11E and 256 MB PC133 ram. Used the same video card (3dFX Voodoo3 3000 PCI and the same Actiontec Modem). I also put in a WD 7200RPM 40 gb harddrive and kept my WD 10.4 GB with Mandrake installed on it. I reinstalled

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Machine hangs in X

2001-04-08 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
You should be able to just type startx at the prompt and it should work. That's all I do and it works. Maureen

[newbie] RE: cannot install

2001-04-08 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
Thanks Civileme, I quess I'll start saving for a different HD. I am currently using 7.2 , was going to try 8.0 beta but have no way to download (no burner). I did finally get to the second drive (also a WD 10.4) and was able to get GRUB to work and can now go to either windows or Mandrake