[newbie] HSP56 Micromodem

2004-08-08 Thread Suket
Dear all, Hello, I'm new comer in this maillist. I just start using Mandrake 9.2, but got problem on my computer. My internal modem can be detected by linux, yet as other device i/o as a modem. And the module is blank when I check on my hardware list detected. Then it can not work properly. My

Re: [newbie] Trying to reinstall

2004-08-08 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 10:02 am, Stephen Kühn sent these thoughts: Or are you having a lend of me? Charlie Generally, I use either Arson or K3b to open the ISO image for burning; it is a simple mistake that can be made...mostly by Californians, though... stephen kuhn - proprietor Thank

Re: [newbie] Trying to reinstall

2004-08-08 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 10:25 am, Hoyt Bailey sent these thoughts: snip What does one do to properly burn them? This is probably very stupid question? Further to this, if one receives the copied ISO's instead of the properly burned ones, is it possible to burn them properly onto another CD

[newbie] Convert OGM to MPG?

2004-08-08 Thread Carl J. Bauman
Hi, I was wondering if anyone is aware of software that runs on Mandrake 10.0 that will convert OGM files to MPG? TIA, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] HSP56 Micromodem

2004-08-08 Thread John Richard Smith
Suket wrote: Dear all, Hello, I'm new comer in this maillist. I just start using Mandrake 9.2, but got problem on my computer. My internal modem can be detected by linux, yet as other device i/o as a modem. And the module is blank when I check on my hardware list detected. Then it can not work

Re: [newbie] Trying to reinstall

2004-08-08 Thread Aron Smith
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 09:45, Charlie wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 08:24 am, Stephen Kühn sent these thoughts: On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 08:16, Aron Smith wrote: et wrote: On Sunday 08 August 2004 06:01 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 07 August 2004 05:48 pm, Aron Smith wrote: I

Re: [newbie] Trying to reinstall

2004-08-08 Thread Aron Smith
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 07 August 2004 18:45, Charlie wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 08:24 am, Stephen Kühn sent these thoughts: On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 08:16, Aron Smith wrote: et wrote: On Sunday 08 August 2004 06:01 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 07 August 2004 05:48 pm, Aron Smith

Re: [newbie] When clicking on CD ROM icon Cervisia starts, not konqueror

2004-08-08 Thread John Richard Smith
John Zoetebier wrote: When I put a CD ROM in the PC an icon is shown on the desktop. When clicking on CD ROM icon Cervisia starts, not konqueror. And I get this error message; remote CVS working folders not supported This is the entry from /etc/fstab: /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto

Re: [newbie] folder looses read/write permissions after each reboot....

2004-08-08 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Saturday 07 August 2004 11:15, Harald T ZIPKO wrote: I defined a folder in /home/ubw with chmod 777 /home/ubw result: drwxrwsrwx 26 admin users 4096 Aug 7 10:29 ubw/ ^ notice s not x I don't know what it means, it _may_ have something to do with the chattr command that was

Re: [newbie] folder looses read/write permissions after each reboot....

2004-08-08 Thread Harald T ZIPKO
chmod 777 /home/ubw result: drwxrwsrwx 26 admin users 4096 Aug 7 10:29 ubw/ ^ notice s not x I don't know what it means, it _may_ have something to do with the chattr command that was mentioned earlier on I think the expert list. ^^ I never heard of this command

RE: [newbie] MandrakeUpdate! lost all the icons after updating X packages..

2004-08-08 Thread NabilM
Ok, thanks a lot to your guys. Its worked very well. But no one told me the reason why doesn't the MandrakeUpdate calls this program automatically? Also, is this program a part of gnome package or mandrake? Some details would help me learn more. Also, what do you guys use to view/create/modify

Re: [newbie] Trying to reinstall

2004-08-08 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sunday 08 August 2004 00:09, Aron Smith wrote: snip I just downloaded them via bittorrent is there vany way I can do an md5 on them? 'md5sum some_file.iso' on the downloads. 'dd if=/dev/cdrom | md5sum' for the cd's according to the twiki:

RE: [newbie] folder looses read/write permissions after each reboot....

2004-08-08 Thread Bill Shirley
You are fighting with msec which runs every hour and resets the permissions. What is it you want to do? My guess is that you want a directory where all members of the 'users' group can put stuff. If this is the case: mkdir -m 2770 /home/ubw/users chown admin.users /home/ubw/users drwxrwsrwx

[newbie] Switch to text mode

2004-08-08 Thread Ankit Malik
How to switch to text mode /sbin/init 3 isnt working for me -- ___ Ankit Malik http://www.scribbler.tk GNU --Spread the Fire ! Someone Open the (M$) Windows: I am suffocating! Want to buy

Re: [newbie] MandrakeUpdate! lost all the icons after updating X packages..

2004-08-08 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 13:01:24 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, what do you guys use to view/create/modify the pdf files on linux? What is the software for that you would recommend? xpdf for viewing. The only .pdf creation I do is letter attachments to those less fortunate (non-linux).

Re: [newbie] Switch to text mode

2004-08-08 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 08:58:15AM -0400, Ankit Malik wrote: How to switch to text mode /sbin/init 3 isnt working for me You change the default init level in /etc/inittab. Todd -- Name that tune #1: Is there gas in the car? Yes there's gas in the car! I think the people down the hall know

Re: [newbie] Switch to text mode

2004-08-08 Thread et
On Sunday 08 August 2004 08:58 am, Ankit Malik wrote: How to switch to text mode /sbin/init 3 isnt working for me as root -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Do I need to start over

2004-08-08 Thread BJ Tracy
On Saturday 07 August 2004 05:04 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: On Saturday 07 August 2004 14:28:02, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All (again), I'm gonna chop this up to respond to specific points. Hope that doesn't mess with anyone's mind. Thanks for your help,I don't mind chopping What do you mean

Re: [newbie] Do I need to start over

2004-08-08 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 08 August 2004 08:22:08, BJ Tracy wrote: snip, chop, whack, and mutilate I'm gonna chop this up to respond to specific points. Hope that doesn't mess with anyone's mind. Thanks for your help,I don't mind chopping Oh it gets

[newbie] SIGSEGV crashed w/signal 11 - Nvidia driver upgrade problem - HELP!!

2004-08-08 Thread Tango Echo
On my Mandrake 10 OE home install I recently tried to upgrade my kernel and nvidia graphics driver. That's what started this whole problem. First I installed my newer driver, 2.6.3-15mdk, and booted into with no problems. As usual, when I upgrade the kernel I need to reinstall my vid driver. I

Re: [newbie] SIGSEGV crashed w/signal 11 - Nvidia driver upgrade problem - HELP!!

2004-08-08 Thread Dan Gordon
On Sunday 08 August 2004 01:22 pm, Tango Echo wrote: On my Mandrake 10 OE home install I recently tried to upgrade my kernel and nvidia graphics driver. That's what started this whole problem. First I installed my newer driver, 2.6.3-15mdk, and booted into with no problems. As usual, when

[newbie] wallpaper: pipes

2004-08-08 Thread Josenildo Marques
Some time ago a thread about pipes gave me this idea. http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/cyb/pipingthrough.png -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 ** Que sentido tem corrermos quando estamos no sentido

Re: [newbie] Trying to reinstall

2004-08-08 Thread Aron Smith
Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sunday 08 August 2004 00:09, Aron Smith wrote: snip I just downloaded them via bittorrent is there vany way I can do an md5 on them? 'md5sum some_file.iso' on the downloads. 'dd if=/dev/cdrom | md5sum' for the cd's according to the twiki:

[newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-08 Thread Julie Sloan
Someone please point me in the right direction - Yesterday suddenly I wasn't able to open folders in the KDE GUI anymore. Hop on over to Gnome and they open just fine. How did I screw this up? Uh, and how did I manage to change my line width to 45 characters (in Ximian)? thanks, J --

Re: [newbie] Image viewers that display GIMP .xcf format files?

2004-08-08 Thread Marv Boyes
Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 07:27:59PM -0400, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, all. Can anyone recommend an image viewer in the same vein as gThumb or gqview that displays GIMP .xcf files without hassle? snip Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. I'm not

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-08 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 08 August 2004 14:06:02, Julie Sloan wrote: Someone please point me in the right direction - Yesterday suddenly I wasn't able to open folders in the KDE GUI anymore. Hop on over to Gnome and they open just fine. How did I screw this up?

Re: [newbie] Do I need to start over

2004-08-08 Thread BJ Tracy
On Sunday 08 August 2004 01:05 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: On Sunday 08 August 2004 08:22:08, BJ Tracy wrote: snip, chop, whack, and mutilate SNIP Thanks for all your help. If you want a clean slate I _strongly_ recommend that you use the custom partitioning mode but first do a Google search for

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-08 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 06:06, Julie Sloan wrote: Someone please point me in the right direction - Yesterday suddenly I wasn't able to open folders in the KDE GUI anymore. Hop on over to Gnome and they open just fine. How did I screw this up? Uh, and how did I manage to change my line width

Re: [newbie] Trying to reinstall

2004-08-08 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 05:18, Aron Smith wrote: thanks guys as I suspected it was the seat keyboard interface that was malfunctioning. i was copying an iso to disk instead of burning an image b Duh \thanks smitty It might be a suggestion to that that interface checked. Quite often, the

[newbie] Crashing Kmail

2004-08-08 Thread Thereidos
Maybe someone here could explain to me why Kmail started to act so strangely crushing after clicking on any post (something wrong with the date). Here's what running in a terminal showed up: [EMAIL PROTECTED] thereidos]$ kmail kdecore (KAccel): WARNING: KKeySequence::init( seq ): key[0] is null.

Re: [newbie] Do I need to start over

2004-08-08 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 08 August 2004 15:47:03, BJ Tracy wrote: SNIP Thanks for all your help. De nada. If you want a clean slate I _strongly_ recommend that you use the custom partitioning mode but first do a Google search for partitioning and read a

Re: [newbie] Trying to reinstall

2004-08-08 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 08 August 2004 16:15:04, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 05:18, Aron Smith wrote: thanks guys as I suspected it was the seat keyboard interface that was malfunctioning. i was copying an iso to disk instead of burning an image

Re: [newbie] Do I need to start over

2004-08-08 Thread BJ Tracy
On Sunday 08 August 2004 06:42 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: On Sunday 08 August 2004 15:47:03, BJ Tracy wrote: SNIP SNIP Thanks and I really appreciate the humor, we just don't laugh enough. I'll let you know if I smoke my system or not. (: Take care, bj You are a very appreciated resource.

Re: [newbie] Trying to reinstall

2004-08-08 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 08:50, Charlie Mahan wrote: Stephen must be the nicest, most eloquent, and profoundly polysyllabic gentleman that ever verbally slashed a friend's throat. Why thank you so very much, Charles. It's the beginning of a new week (Monday morning) and I wanted to make

Re: [newbie] Trying to reinstall

2004-08-08 Thread Lanman
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 08:50, Charlie Mahan wrote: Stephen must be the nicest, most eloquent, and profoundly polysyllabic gentleman that ever verbally slashed a friend's throat. Why thank you so very much, Charles. It's the beginning of a new week (Monday morning) and I

Re: [newbie] Do I need to start over

2004-08-08 Thread Eric Huff
I'm gonna chop this up to respond to specific points. Hope that doesn't mess with anyone's mind. Mess? It's actually a sanctioned activity. :) http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette It even promotes snippage... -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [newbie] SIGSEGV crashed w/signal 11 - Nvidia driver upgrade problem - HELP!!

2004-08-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 08 August 2004 01:43 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On Sunday 08 August 2004 01:22 pm, Tango Echo wrote: On my Mandrake 10 OE home install I recently tried to upgrade my kernel and nvidia graphics driver.  That's what started this whole problem. First I installed my newer driver,

[newbie] Printer Help

2004-08-08 Thread ibibhef
I have been pulling my hair out the last few days. Here is the setup: Server running MDK 10.0. Printer is a HP OfficeJet K60. This works fine when printing locally. Firewall is allowing all traffic. /etc/hosts.allow is ALL:ALL. CUPS and SAMBA are running. Computer A - Laptop running MDK

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-08 Thread Julie Sloan
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 17:25, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 08 August 2004 14:06:02, Julie Sloan wrote: Someone please point me in the right direction - Yesterday suddenly I wasn't able to open folders in the KDE GUI anymore. Hop on over to

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-08 Thread Julie Sloan
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 18:06, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 06:06, Julie Sloan wrote: Someone please point me in the right direction - Yesterday suddenly I wasn't able to open folders in the KDE GUI anymore. Hop on over to Gnome and they open just fine. How did I screw this up?

Re: [newbie] wallpaper: pipes

2004-08-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 08 August 2004 10:58 am, Marques wrote: Some time ago a thread about pipes gave me this idea. http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/cyb/pipingthrough.png Lovely. Just a little separation from the horizontal lines, and the bottom lines of the letters would make it spiffier in my opinion.

Re: [newbie] Crashing Kmail

2004-08-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 08 August 2004 3:44 pm, Thereidos wrote: Maybe someone here could explain to me why Kmail started to act so strangely crushing after clicking on any post (something wrong with the date). Here's what running in a terminal showed up: [EMAIL PROTECTED] thereidos]$ kmail kdecore

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-08 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 14:04, Julie Sloan wrote: major snip thanks Stephen J Something that you could try - and this is if ALL ELSE FAILS; * Login as root * rename the /home/yournamegoeshere/.kde directory to something else * Logoff and then login as yourself again THIS recreates all the

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 14:59:49 +1000 Stephen Kühn wrote: but then again, at least I have beer That would not be an option for me,,I just drank my last one and an to drunk to be sold anymore )-: Charles -- Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment. (Wyrd Sisters)

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-08 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 15:05, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 14:59:49 +1000 Stephen Kühn wrote: but then again, at least I have beer That would not be an option for me,,I just drank my last one and an to drunk to be sold anymore )-: Charles THAT is when you call

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-08 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 08 August 2004 23:05:11, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 14:59:49 +1000 Stephen Kühn wrote: but then again, at least I have beer That would not be an option for me,,I just drank my last one and an to drunk to be sold