[newbie] not receiving anything

2005-01-30 Thread Maureen
I have reregistered for the newbie list twice and I am still not recieving anything from the list. I rely on the list for answers to problems and just look forward to others opinions. I don't understand what the problem is. Can someone please figure out what is going on. TIA, Maureen

[newbie] Have not been getting any messages since DEC 8

2005-01-18 Thread Maureen
Is this list defunct or have I been inadvertenly dropped. I have not received anything since DEC 8. Please fix this or let me know, off list. Thanks Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-10 Thread Maureen
verify this, I don't want to get a mother board with nvidia if it isn't addressed by the OS. TIA, Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] RE: Sound

2004-06-11 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
is a copy of what I did so far. [EMAIL PROTECTED] maureen]$ cd /dev [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]$ ls -l dsp lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 May 27 04:45 dsp - sound/dsp [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]$ ls -l /dev/sound/dsp crw--- 1 root audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 /dev/sound/dsp [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]$ su Password

Re: [newbie] Multifonction printers and linux?

2004-03-31 Thread Maureen
Trevor wrote: Maureen, I have the HP OfficeJet G85, fax, scanner, copier, printer and it works fine in 9.0, 9.1, 9.2 and 10.00. I can print in draft at 300 all the way up to photos. I have had no problems with it. Moe That's print. What about fax, scan and copy? Regards Trevor

Re: [newbie] Multifonction printers and linux?

2004-03-30 Thread Maureen
rhein wrote: Hello, I want to buy a multifonction printer (printer, scanner, copier) like HP, Lexmark or Canon. I checked on the boxes in the shop but nothing is mentioned about linux. Does any one on this list have any experience with it? Thank you Christophe

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-22 Thread Maureen
Marc wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 05:27 pm, bascule wrote: it would be interesting to know the results of putting the gateway hard drive in a 'normal' machine and putting a 'normal' hard drive in the gateway machine bascule Been there done that. I had to put the Gateway HDD in a

[newbie] RE: 10.0

2004-03-12 Thread Maureen
in the right direction. It even recognized my modem wouldn't work, my ethernet card, and my pcmcia modem, but the screen is dark. TIA, Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Installing many packages trashes menu

2003-12-26 Thread Maureen
Guy Rouillier wrote: I brought this subject up before but the conversation veered off, so I thought I would raise it independently. Each time I install a multitude of packages, my menus seem to get reset to some tiny set. For example, the entire Packaging submenu is missing from

Re: [newbie] Can't get sound to work in 9.2 FIXED

2003-12-23 Thread Maureen
robin wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 22 Dec 2003 11:10 am, Maureen wrote: I get a lot of static and the bells work but it won't play the intro or any of my games music. When I start KDE it gives an error message about not being able to use the sound without a lot of clicks and static

[newbie] Can't get sound to work in 9.2

2003-12-22 Thread Maureen
I get a lot of static and the bells work but it won't play the intro or any of my games music. When I start KDE it gives an error message about not being able to use the sound without a lot of clicks and static and to run artswrapper as root or setuid root. I tried to run artswrapper as root,

[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
am using an AMD 850Mhz, 2 western digital harddrives, 1 cd rom and 1 cd burner, a USB zip 250, which all showed up right and I can access all of them. Any help would be appreciated. TIA, Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[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 config-2.4.22

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

Re: [newbie] RE: DHCP

2003-09-25 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
that it doesn't do it ? TIA, Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It's not that I want to force a name but it just started happening and I have been using this service

[newbie] RE: Kodak

2003-08-02 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
there's a problem between the chair and the keyboard :), I have a hard time seeing the straight logic of Linux vs the old micrsucks days. It really is a bad habit and hard to break. I'll keep everyone posted. Thanks , Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] Kodak DX3700

2003-07-29 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
/output error. I tried GTKam and FLPhoto. What can I do to get this thing to work? TIA, Maureen PS: I read the Digital Camera How To, which is how I got this far. Now I am LOST. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[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
the fax to my phone line when I need it. Otherwise it prints great, copies great, and scans great. Now if there was just a really good photo software for pics I would be in nirvana. Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Locked cdrom and floppy drives

2002-05-22 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
the cdrom and the floppy. Has anyone ran into this before. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I tried multiply cd's and floppys to make sure it was the machine not the media. Thanks, Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] install for a laptop

2002-04-06 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
, no dual boot, on board sound AC97, S3 video, and a Rhino etho 10/100 card built in. I eventually want to network it with my desktop, also running Mandrake 8.1. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[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
is excellant. I did use a front case fan, a PCI slot fan and a rear case fan, as well as the fan that came with my AMD chip. I don't believe I will go back to Intel. It's a Duron chip by the way. Just my 2 cents worth. Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[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
boot magic be used as a bootloader ? I have it and Partition Magic (it says it can partition for Linux). I haven't tried it yet. Thanks again. Maureen