[newbie] Mail Problem
I did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.2 and have had no problems until now. I installed 'Fetchyahoo' last night, and when it asks for the spool path (usually '/var/spool/mail/username') I put that in. However it said 'path not found,' and sure enough, it's not there. I use Kmail which set up my inbox, etc path in my home directory. Is that where the spool would be? Sorry to sound so idiotic. TIA, Kat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mail Problem
On Friday 07 November 2003 06:04 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 07 Nov 2003 11:09 am, kat wrote: I did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.2 and have had no problems until now. I installed 'Fetchyahoo' last night, and when it asks for the spool path (usually '/var/spool/mail/username') I put that in. However it said 'path not found,' and sure enough, it's not there. I use Kmail which set up my inbox, etc path in my home directory. Is that where the spool would be? Sorry to sound so idiotic. TIA, Kat /var/spool/mail/username is where a mail server such as Postfix would put mail for that account by default. I think if you tell Fetchyahoo to put the mails directly in your KMail mail file it will work OK, but the mails will not be highlighted as 'new mail' (Try it and see) You could always tell Fetchyahoo to put the mails in /var/spool/mail/username (create the file first with 'username' as the owner), and then define a new account in Kmail to look at the 'Local Mailbox' KMailSettingsConfigureKmailNetworkReceivingAdd derek Thanks, Derek, it worked. I set up a new file in the /var/spool/mail directory and configured kmail to retrieve the mail from the local mailbox. Now I can fetch mail from Yahoo without having to log in via the web. Kat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MSN Messenger + Linux clients
On Monday 20 October 2003 03:47 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Anne was asking recently about having trouble using her kopote IM client with MSN. However I could not get Gaim0.71 to log onto MSN, and Psi when using the MSN Jabber transport would report remote server error I think I may have found the solution :- I discovered that if I logged onto MSN using the Microsoft IM client, then afterwards I could log on with Gaim and Psi as well. No idea why, but it might help anyone having trouble. derek Interesting, because I've had no problem logging into MSN via Gaim .71. It's a bit slow logging in at times but I do log in. I'm only running Linux, no Windows on this machine. Kat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] browser save all
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 07:20, Anarky wrote: the only cool thing that I was able to do with MS Internet Explorer but I have not been able to do with any other (free) browser is save a web page as a whole in one neat file ... IE had the .mht format ... and it was very cool that it was all bundled in one file (html, the pics ...) ... isn't there anything like that anywhere else? You can use an extension for Mozilla Firebird, Leech, to download everything into one directory. Kat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /usr/share/spec-helper/spec-helper
David, Install the spec-helper package. It is on the 1st mandrake cd. Rene - Original Message - From: David Talbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 10:47 PM Subject: [newbie] /usr/share/spec-helper/spec-helper I've failed building a source rpm or two because /usr/share/spec-helper/spec-helper (No such file or directory) Anybody have any help or advice? -David Talbot
[newbie] Monitor and VideoCard problem
Hiya, I have a problem with setting up my IIyama Visionmaster 350. I know it is supported in the Mandrake 7.1 distribution. When I select it during installation it keeps restoring the setting to Generic Monitor and in the XF86Config file the following is displayed: Section "Monitor" Identifier "" VendorName "" ModelName "" What are the right values to put here? Second I have a diamond Viper550 a supported video-adapter but this is also repeatedly restored to Generic VGA. I installed the NVIDIA Detonator 2 Drivers and those work fine but the XF86Config file still displays: Section "Device" Identifier "RIVA128" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" VideoRam4096 The card has 16MB of RAM.. I know I can change the 4096 to match 16MB but why does it restore the settings to Generic VGA instead of Viper550? Greetings, LarBor
Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz
Hiya.. untar the file with tar xvfz linux-ar-405.tar.gz or use the Archiver under XWindows. change to the path where it is installed. With tar it installs it to a subdir in ur current dir. type ./INSTALL and the install will start. There is a default installation dir. U can change it but remember where u install it. After installation is complete change to the dir wher ar is installed and go into the bin dir. Use ./acroread to run it or make a shortcut in Xwin. G/l LarBor Romanator wrote: Hi, I may have asked this before but I cannot for the life of me install linux-ar-405.tar.gz I would like to install Adobe. Has any one been successful? I must be missing a command. Can any one help? Thanks, Roman
Re: [newbie] why is this? - Swap under Windows StarOffice
I don't know the exact details of why linux is faster than windows, but what I do know is is that LinuX has one of the fastest TCP/ip connections there is. You can speed up your windows download speed by using Download accelerator. I use a cable modem and with DAC I get download speeds 4-5 times the regular speed. DAC opens up several connections instead of 1. But I don't see why one would like to use windows nemore except for DivX, but that will be available under LinuX soon ;) LarBor. J Walker wrote: In seg, 12 jun 2000, Fred Banana wrote: I often have noticed that I get a continuesly higher download speed in linux than in windows. the speed in windows averages about 3.4 kbits/seconds and that seems as fast as we get. in linux I get an average of 5.5 kbits/seconds with spikes around 12 or 15 kbits/second. The same dialup isp and modem and I am using a pci modem from actiontec, (call-waiting model) and I was wondering if anyone might have a clue as to why? are these numbers accurate or is the software averaging the difference and showing me what Uncle Bill and Uncle Linus want me to see? sure SEEMS faster in linux... heck, maybe I can get my win-blows setup to work better to. Same thing here. Downloads (and any Web activity, of course) are _much_ faster under Linux than under Windows. I have no idea why, but I like it and I use it, and I am glad someone other than myself noticed, I thought I was seeing things. The difference is so great, I was wondering why no one would bring this topic up... I have no idea of how you can improve your downloads under Windows. I just do them under Linux, even stuff for Windows, and it works for me. The two items in Windows setup that I managed to improve, based on my Linux experience, were: 1) Using a swap partition instead of a swap file; Now I have 200 MB partition dedicated to Win98 swap. I configured Win's "virtual memory settings" (or whatever the name is, can't recall) to occupy fully this new partition (I do _not_ allow Windows to automagically run virtual memory settings). I also forbid the "Trashcan" of this swap partition to put stuff in there. As such, Win98 is a lot more stable than before. A friend of mine told me that Windows 3.11 had a similar feature, a swap file of fixed lenght, but I could not check that info. 2) Dumping M$ Office and using StarOffice. Microsoft Office install a lot of junk in your Windows and Windows/ system directories. Not having it in my computer made it run faster. StarOffice is a good replacement (although it does crash under Windows but not under Linux, go figure). Anyway, I only use Winblows for games (and Copernic, and some Quicken transactions that do not work under Wine). For everything else I use Linux. Cheers, /J. -- * Registered Linux User Number * *178234*
