[newbie] problems with installation of packages

2004-01-15 Thread B. L. Krieger
Hi there, I need help with installing packages. After I installed Mandrake 9.2 I cannot install software. When I open the installation tool, I can select the packages. Yet when I hit the install button the program opens a progress bar. After a while I am prompted to put the CD into dev/hdb.

Re: [newbie] default permissions

2004-01-15 Thread Frank Bax
Thanks, that explains it - my ssh and desktop tests were on different users. When I created the 'real' users (excluding my userid) on this computer, I put them all in the same group so they could share files. If the name of the group is 'gwacl' and gid is 502, what code should I add/chg so

Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-15 Thread Eric Huff
I could be wrong, but I think the restore function reads lilo.conf, restoring all entries that previously existed--including Winblows entries. Can anybody confirm this? That's correct. Is that the cli command, or is it an option on the cd? thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [newbie] default permissions

2004-01-15 Thread Pablo Vitoria
Hi again, Well, I don't know much about shell programming, but if the group ID of your users is 502, then I guess you can change the lines in /etc/bashrc like below. I just inserted a new option, I didn't delete the original just in case. I guess it should work # by default, we want this to get

Re: [newbie] Test Message

2004-01-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 15 January 2004 09:01 am, jason pearl wrote: i can send mail to myself.. i sent an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] i can send it to my cox email but not to anyone else. what do i put for mx records at the no-ip account? i put my cox mx records. Also, once you get the mail server up,

Re: [newbie] problems with installation of packages

2004-01-15 Thread jason pearl
On 15 Jan 2004 14:58:08 + B. L. Krieger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I need help with installing packages. After I installed Mandrake 9.2 I cannot install software. When I open the installation tool, I can select the packages. Yet when I hit the install button the program opens a

Re: [newbie] Test Message

2004-01-15 Thread jason pearl
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:56:19 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 15 January 2004 09:01 am, jason pearl wrote: i can send mail to myself.. i sent an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] i can send it to my cox email but not to anyone else. what do i put for mx records at the no-ip

Re: [newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab

2004-01-15 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:58:50 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab Angus Auld wrote: Thanks guys, I was having a LOT of trouble getting things to go right until I added the

Re: [newbie] Speeding up X - SOLVED!

2004-01-15 Thread Travis Crook
Hi all, It appears that Nvidia's nforce drivers for the embedded network card don't want to play nice with Mandrake 9.2. I installed a Realtek 3189D and it has improved performance beyond belief. My system is now running as it should, with no slowdowns. Thanks for the help!! Travis

[newbie] Tuxracer, APM/APCI Support

2004-01-15 Thread marc resnick
Two problems now: 1) Tuxracer and several other games are playing very slowly. I'd say less than 1 fps. I tried adjusting my video settings and installing new drivers.(Check my last thread for the info). 2) I need a battery monitor on Linux. I've installed apci and apm. I'm not quite sure of

Re: [newbie] Test Message

2004-01-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 15 January 2004 12:17 pm, jason pearl wrote: I never bet a bounce back and nobody can telnet to me even with my router port opened so i guess the outgoing 25 is blocked? so does that mean incoming is blocked also? Jason, I just did some research to try to clear this up. According

Re: [newbie] How do I restore original URPMI.cfg settings

2004-01-15 Thread Johan
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:06:19 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In an effort to get a steady and current stream of Mandrake updates for version 9.2 I was testing different mirrors and settings. Anyway, I got it so mucked up at some point that I did the wrong thing.. I did the urpmi.removemedia

[newbie] can't update urpmi.addupdate with ftp

2004-01-15 Thread Eric Geater 1/14/03
Title: can't update urpmi.addupdate with ftp Okay, so Im a lamer because I use plf.zarb.org to create my command lines for getting net updates. But I do know that Im supposed to use the updates and wget switches, so theres a couple of extra points. But my problem is that I always get these

Re: [newbie] gimp 2.0pre1 compilation

2004-01-15 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 20:40, Aron Smith wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 13:30, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hello. I'd like to compile and install the latest gimp. Could you please give me some tips on how to do it ? Start here http://www.gimp.org/ You can also urpmi the development version

Re: [newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab

2004-01-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:58:50 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab Angus Auld wrote: Thanks guys, I was having a LOT of trouble getting things to go

[newbie] OT - What would you like to see in IE?

2004-01-15 Thread Todd Slater
This was too good an opportunity to pass up--a Micro$oftie soliciting feedback about what features we'd like to see in the next IE. My basic message was Who cares? Maybe some of you would like to put in your feature requests. g http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/01/14.html#a6183 Todd Want to

Re: [newbie] gimp 2.0pre1 compilation

2004-01-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:30:55 -0200 Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to compile and install the latest gimp. The easiest way would be to dl the cooker rpm for gimp1_3-2.0-0.pre1.1mdk.src.rpm and rebuild from it. Charles -- Your wise men don't know how it feels To be

Re: [newbie] Im excited hehe

2004-01-15 Thread Patrick Dempster
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 06:24:15 -0700 jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try Sylpheed-Claws and you'll really flip out. Thanks for the tip, Sylpheed-Claws seems to be the most functional email client I used on linux. Much, Much better than kmail/evolution. Thanks again. Paddy pgp0.pgp

[newbie] Hurray for Michael Doyle!

2004-01-15 Thread JoeHill
Who the hell is Michael Doyle, you ask? Heh. Enjoy: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13649 -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold... -- William Butler Yeats Want to

Re: [newbie] gimp 2.0pre1 compilation

2004-01-15 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 06:00:52PM -0200, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 20:40, Aron Smith wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 13:30, Josenildo Marques wrote: The configure step is Ok (after installing lots of -devil packages!) Now I have two questions 1. Should I run 'make' as

Re: [newbie] Hurray for Michael Doyle!

2004-01-15 Thread Aron Smith
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 13:05, JoeHill wrote: Who the hell is Michael Doyle, you ask? Heh. Enjoy: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13649 That's worth a Larry Curley AND a Moe so Nyuck Nyuck Nyucuk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Hurray for Michael Doyle!

2004-01-15 Thread James Cammarata
Who the hell is Michael Doyle, you ask? That is NOT good news for anyone. This is a company (of 2 people) suing over an overly broad patent they weren't using for anything themselves. The implications for all software of this nature (embedded plug ins) is very far-reaching and could impact

Re: [newbie] Hurray for Michael Doyle!

2004-01-15 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:39:57 -0600 James Cammarata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who the hell is Michael Doyle, you ask? That is NOT good news for anyone. This is a company (of 2 people) suing over an overly broad patent they weren't using for anything themselves. The implications for all

Re: [newbie] gimp 2.0pre1 compilation

2004-01-15 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 19:07, Todd Slater wrote: Run make as regular user. Run checkinstall as root. No need for arguments, you'll be prompted for info through the build process. It's a good idea to use checkinstall to easily remove packages, and of course to share them with your friends!

Re: [newbie] gimp 2.0pre1 compilation

2004-01-15 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:22:51PM -0200, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 19:07, Todd Slater wrote: Run make as regular user. Run checkinstall as root. No need for arguments, you'll be prompted for info through the build process. It's a good idea to use checkinstall to

RE: [newbie] OT - What would you like to see in IE?

2004-01-15 Thread Alexander Naydenko
This was too good an opportunity to pass up--a Micro$oftie soliciting feedback about what features we'd like to see in the next IE. My basic message was Who cares? Maybe some of you would like to put in your feature requests. g http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/01/14.html#a6183 [AX] I

[newbie] GNOME Settings Daemon error

2004-01-15 Thread Job Evers
I restarted my computer and when Gnome finished loading I recieved this error: === There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The Settings Daemon restarted too many

Re: [newbie] Hurray for Michael Doyle!

2004-01-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 15 Jan 2004 9:46 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:39:57 -0600 James Cammarata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who the hell is Michael Doyle, you ask? That is NOT good news for anyone. This is a company (of 2 people) suing over an overly broad patent they weren't using for

[newbie] Transcode

2004-01-15 Thread John Richard Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] divx]# transcode -i /dev/dvd/ -x dvd -V -j 16,0 -B 5,0 \ -Y 40,8 -s 4.47 -U my_movie -y xvid -w 1618 transcode v0.6.12 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2004 T. Bitterberg [transcode] critical: invalid filename or host /dev/dvd/ so it doesn't like /dev/dvd (just a link to

Re: [newbie] gimp 2.0pre1 compilation

2004-01-15 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 20:26, Todd Slater wrote: There's your answer--from /usr/src/RPM/RPMSi586 issue the above command, NOT urpmi. suerte, Todd __ It installed (the new look is superb !), but not the docs - and perhaps

[newbie] Blank Screen at boot. Can't load Linux(again)

2004-01-15 Thread Marc Resnick
Here we go again. I tried to get acpi to work, as a battery manager. I set it to load at startup. I restarted the computer to see if it would work. I chose Linux in LILO, and behold, a complete blank screen. No command line, no errors, no anything. Just a blank screen. So I powered off, and

Re: [newbie] Im excited hehe

2004-01-15 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:46:42 + Patrick Dempster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 06:24:15 -0700 jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try Sylpheed-Claws and you'll really flip out. Thanks for the tip, Sylpheed-Claws seems to be the most functional email client I used on

Re: [newbie] Hurray for Michael Doyle!

2004-01-15 Thread James Cammarata
Talk is cheap. A lot of the flak he is taking is coming from the OS people. Nothing says he has to stick to his word, or even the spirit of it, when he's $500M richer. His business model is worse than Microsoft's. We cheered when IBM went down, but Microsoft was worse. I agree. Whether

Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-15 Thread Miark
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 07:55:14 -0800, Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could be wrong, but I think the restore function reads lilo.conf, restoring all entries that previously existed--including Winblows entries. Can anybody confirm this? That's correct. Is that the cli command,

Re: [newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab

2004-01-15 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:03:20 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab My K3b system device entry looks like this: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/cd (0, 0, 0) I only have one cd

Re: [newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab

2004-01-15 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:30 am, many eyes noted that Angus Auld wrote: I wonder if I still don't have it right? Things are working, at least so far. Here's my fstab: ** /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

[newbie] Boot/Sound Problem

2004-01-15 Thread Russ
Hi, When I boot up Linux I keep getting the following error: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Does anyone know what needs to be done

Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-15 Thread Eric Huff
I could be wrong, but I think the restore function reads lilo.conf, restoring all entries that previously existed--including Winblows entries. Can anybody confirm this? That's correct. Is that the cli command, or is it an option on the cd? Option on the CD. Thanks.

Re: [newbie] Boot/Sound Problem

2004-01-15 Thread Russ
I made a mistake in permissions for /dev/dsp, they are 555. Russ Russ wrote: Hi, When I boot up Linux I keep getting the following error: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission

Re: [newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab

2004-01-15 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:50:34 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:30 am, many eyes noted that Angus Auld wrote: I wonder if I still don't have it right? Things