Re: [newbie] Please, color xterm
The xterm color and color xterm commands work OK (seem to do the same thing), and I found I could get colour with my spartan program when I forced the X-server to deliver 16 bit colour. However I'm still getting the aforementioned error about fonts, (see below, the remote computer is bohr): bohr 1% spartan bohr 2% Warning: Unmatched quotation marks in string "", any remaining fonts in list unparsed Warning: Unmatched quotation marks in string "", any remaining fonts in list unparsed Also the way my words come out in the color-xterm is very strange - the spacing of letters and words is very erratic. Anyway, thanks for your help, things are getting better. Tom
Re: [newbie] Resume Downloads
Don Bonomini wrote: Hey everyone, i was wondering if there were any Download Resume utillities for Unix/Linux! I know for Windows theres getright ad go!zilla, among many others, so theres gotta be one for unix right? Please, if anyone know where to get one, lemme know. Thanks! You can give the -C flag to get ncftp to do resumes... get -C *will get whatever it needs to for all files in a directory. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] KDE
Yes, I have had this problem is settings as well. Your problem is in that your desktop display is only set to 640x480...KDE needs atleast 1024x768 to be able to view the full screen properly. Don't worry, it's not gonna be too small of text :). Now, I'm sorry to say...I don't know exactly how to change your video display. I have only been using linux for about 2-3 weeks and I did that the first day I got itsorry, but I'm sure one of these other linux techies can help ya out. Later and good luck. At 05:13 AM 3/23/99 -0500, you wrote: I have just installed 5.3 and find in KDE that some of the window screens, goes through the bottom of the main screen, for instance, Gimp. When the icon is clicked on once, GIMP installation comes up, the screen goes through the bottom and I can't shove it high enough to get to the bottom of it. It must have buttons at the bottom, that need to be pressed, because I can't get rid of it, noway, nohow. I have had the same problem with Netscape, while trying to set it up. What do I need to do? The Mandrake is by far the best program that I have seen. I know that the install is Red Hats, because I have loaded RH5.2. The KDE is cool. I wanted to run programs on a more stable platform, but have no interest in becoming a programmer. Thanks John -- John R. Wilkerson 1442 B-1 New Castle Durham NC 27704 919-471-6731 - Signed, Bob 'Reveral' Bonifield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fraggin' in the Heartland http://lan.quakecity.net/
Re: [newbie] X11Amp Problem(s)....
Adam I have just picked up a copy of Mandrake..can you help me install.. - Original Message - From: Adam Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 7:46 AM Subject: [newbie] X11Amp Problem(s) Does anyone use X11Amp to play MP3 Files? I have it on my Linux Mandrake system. Whenever I try to run it it will load the file(s) and then whenever it trys to play them it plays little snippets (maybe 1 second or less) and then stops and then again plays another segment. Is there some setting I can adjust to cure this problem? At first I thought it was because I was tryig to play them from my CD Rom (an older 6X) but I actually copied some of them to the hard drive with the exact same results. Thanks in advance, Adam
[newbie] Your comments please: alt.os.linux.mandrake?
Hi! Well I don't know about you but I think this mailing list is getting somewhat crowded. Therefore I wrote a proposal for news:alt.config to suggest a new newsgroup named "alt.os.linux.mandrake". I will post this proposal to news:alt.config if you think such a newsgroup would be a good idea. Your opinions, please! tom -- "The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum." (Finagle's Law) Thomas 'Tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] No UCE. No spam. 'nuff said.
Re: [newbie] Ready to Start: (booting)
On Die, 23 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Die, 23 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: Remi..i too am a newbietrying to install Linux...I bought it off e-bay and had no manual with it...my question is how do I set my cd rom drivers for use under dos to do an install??? I am using sytem commander. [snip] Hi Shane, you may boot directly from the CD. You have to change your BIOS boot settings for this: - press the 'delete' key during the start-up of your computer. - go for 'BIOS Features Setup' - change 'Boot Sequence', so that CDROM is first. - save to CMOS (press key F10), confirm. Your machine will reboot. Insert the CDROM while memory check. This is actually the tricky part: if your CD drive is too slow or to fast, BIOS may not find the CDs boot sector, if so, try again ;-). tom -- "The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum." (Finagle's Law) Thomas 'Tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] No UCE. No spam. 'nuff said.
Re: [newbie] KDE
I have installed 5.3 with both choices for the moniter., the lowest and the highest. The same results. I can't get rid of the Gimp installation, it comes up on the next startup. John Kuraiken wrote: Bob Bonifield wrote: Yes, I have had this problem is settings as well. Your problem is in that your desktop display is only set to 640x480...KDE needs atleast 1024x768 to be able to view the full screen properly. Don't worry, it's not gonna be too small of text :). Now, I'm sorry to say...I don't know exactly how to change your video display. I have only been using linux for about 2-3 weeks and I did that the first day I got itsorry, but I'm sure one of these other linux techies can help ya out. Later and good luck. At 05:13 AM 3/23/99 -0500, you wrote: I have just installed 5.3 and find in KDE that some of the window screens, goes through the bottom of the main screen, for instance, Gimp. When the icon is clicked on once, GIMP installation comes up, the screen goes through the bottom and I can't shove it high enough to get to the bottom of it. It must have buttons at the bottom, that need to be pressed, because I can't get rid of it, noway, nohow. I have had the same problem with Netscape, while trying to set it up. What do I need to do? I think this might be a "problem" with KDE or Qt itself, I'm not sure but it is annoying, I agree. The only work around I can suggest is (if you still want to use KDE, that is) to let X know you can and want other resolutions for your X desktop. When you installed X, did you just accept the default? I'm not sure but if you want to change the resolution, you might need to tell the installer (or some X config file somewhere) that you want this. The easiest way for me, is to run Xconfigurator. This should look familiar - it's the same program that ran when you installed Mandrake. When it comes to the resolution part, choose your own. Mark all those you want and go through the rest of it. Later in X, you can Ctrl-Alt +/- to change it. The thing is, you might well be stuck with the highest resolution your X-server can provide due to certain limitations. Why? Well...usually, for me the "default" always seems to be the highest possible resolution the X server can do - even if it means decreasing colour depth. Hope this helps, Regards, Kuraiken -- John R. Wilkerson 1442 B-1 New Castle Durham NC 27704 919-471-6731
Re: [newbie] Resume Downloads
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, you wrote:
Hey everyone, i was wondering if there were any Download Resume
utillities for Unix/Linux! I know for Windows theres getright ad
go!zilla, among many others, so theres gotta be one for unix right?
Please, if anyone know where to get one, lemme know. Thanks!
Take a look at Kget, on www.kde.org in the application section..
As far as I know this the KDE version of Getright for iWsdkfu0837t { ..
sh.. same keyboard error again..}
..Bob
--
Linux Mandrake release 5.3 (Festen) kernel 2.2.3
Online as bob on my i686 which was to ^#!^% Expensive ;-) ,
6:20pm up 1 min, 0 users, load average: 0.50, 0.18, 0.06
And doing NOTHING as You can see!
Re: [newbie] Kppp problems.
Nick, Had the same problem here and fixed it by the following: 1. Change PAP to Script.. 2. Make a Script with only the following: Expect ogin: # notice no L in login # Sendyour_login_name Expect word: # notice no pass in password # Sendyour_password Please notice the : after the words ogin and word. That should do it, worked for me and haven't had the errors since. Good luck, Rick On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:43:20 +, Nick Kay wrote: Hi All, I cannot connect to my ISP using Kppp - I get a connect then a timeout sending Config-Requests and then pppd dies "unexpectedly". It's really annoying me as I've had this puppy working fine before (1.0) and I've used ppp to connect to the same ISP for years. I was using PAP up to now, but as part of the debug I set kppp for terminal authentication - now kppp logs on OK but I have to give a carriage return in order to get the login: prompt from the ISP. Would some kind soul tell me how I can get kppp to give out CR after getting CONNECT to solve this? I'd really like to just use PAP. TIA nick@nexnix
Re: [newbie] X11Amp Problem(s)....
My CPU speed is a little ole 486 DX2/66. I have a feeling that this might be the problem. I am not really sure about what you told me to try. Should that be typed in exactly like that at the command line? Adam -Original Message- From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] X11Amp Problem(s) Adam Wright wrote: Does anyone use X11Amp to play MP3 Files? I have it on my Linux Mandrake system. Whenever I try to run it it will load the file(s) and then whenever it trys to play them it plays little snippets (maybe 1 second or less) and then stops and then again plays another segment. Is there some setting I can adjust to cure this problem? At first I thought it was because I was tryig to play them from my CD Rom (an older 6X) but I actually copied some of them to the hard drive with the exact same results. Try this: chmod u+s /usr/X11R6/bin/x11amp If x11amp is SUID root, it's able to get better scheduling, so it should play smoother. Give it a try. If it still skips and stutters, what speed is your CPU? -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Ready to Start:
Guys set your bios to cdrom- c: boot, put the Mandrake cd in. make sure that you know which HD is which. Let fdisk id the two drives and hit the spacebar for the one that you are going to use, use the command to erase the partitions. I then rebooted the machine and when the failure - skip drive came up, I chose skip drive and 5.3 took over and loaded the program in about 10 min. I chose generic mouse and monitor, and MAKE a boot disk. Your machine will boot up win, or with the disk Lilo. After the install is complete change the boot sequence back to A:- C:5.3 set up everything automatic. I have had some problems but its linux. John Shane wrote: Remi..i too am a newbietrying to install Linux...I bought it off e-bay and had no manual with it...my question is how do I set my cd rom drivers for use under dos to do an install??? I am using sytem commander. thanks - Original Message - From: Rémi LETOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 4:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Ready to Start: What is my next step? Do I partion the drive to get it ready for the install? No, first of all you turn off the html functionnality of outlook :-) It will be easier to read for many of us. Second you read the mandrake manual (saves you some trouble later). Then you can start the installation process, it will handle partitionning and all that stuff itself (of course, it will ask you). Good luck, and feel free to ask any question if you encounter any problem (which of course should not occur) - Rémi - -- John R. Wilkerson 1442 B-1 New Castle Durham NC 27704 919-471-6731
[newbie] kernel-2.2.3-4 trouble
Hello to all, bare with me I am new to the list. I have recently installed Festen 5.3 and have installed it with no problem. I downloaded the kernel updates from the main ftp site in rpm form. All of them install until I get to the "kernel-headers" rpm and it will not install. The odd thing is that it gives no failed dependencies, it just says "error: kernel-headers cannot be installed". I have even tried to do a force install (rpm -i --force)... Any ideas?? All suggestions are appreciated. Mitch "And that's the bottom line, cause StoneCold said so." [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 2081427 AIM: GoatedOne
Re: [newbie] kernel-2.2.3-4 trouble
On Die, 23 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Die, 23 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: Hello to all, bare with me I am new to the list. I have recently installed Festen 5.3 and have installed it with no problem. I downloaded the kernel updates from the main ftp site in rpm form. All of them install until I get to the "kernel-headers" rpm and it will not install. The odd thing is that it gives no failed dependencies, it just says "error: kernel-headers cannot be installed". I have even tried to do a force install (rpm -i --force)... Any ideas?? All suggestions are appreciated. Mitch [snip] Maybe your header-package got damaged. Add the -vv option (i.e. rpm -ivv etc.). This will turn on debugging mode, which will tell you more. tom -- "The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum." (Finagle's Law) Thomas 'Tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] No UCE. No spam. 'nuff said.
Re: [newbie] KDE
Thanks man, none of that stuff worked. I had to ust the kpm command and kill all gimps on that page. I don't know if I'll ever need that program or not, but now it's gone off the desktop. Kuraiken wrote: jowilker wrote: I have installed 5.3 with both choices for the moniter., the lowest and the highest. The same results. I can't get rid of the Gimp installation, it comes up on the next startup. John I'm sorry John, I might have forgotten but can you reach the top of the offending window? Try lowering (ie. decreasing the vertical size of the window), then drag the window up. You might be able to click on the buttons then. Failing that, right-click on the corresponding "icon" on the taskbar - choose Maximize. You just might be able to get at the buttons then. Otherwise, after maximising, try the above vertical reduction thing. If all else fails...you can always close the window...or *gasp* use Xkill... Hope this helps. -- John R. Wilkerson 1442 B-1 New Castle Durham NC 27704 919-471-6731
Re: [newbie] Steven ????
I often wonder the same thing about him . Guess we are just luckly he checks his mail. On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, you wrote: Do you ever sleep. I noticed you are the answer man. Just wondering if you sleep at all. Thanks James Webmaster http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/Linux Stable Version 1.01 http://linuxchoice.freeservers.com Still under construction. But coming along good. V1.02b "Even Common People can Attain Uncommon Results!"
Re: [newbie] Your comments... (Scarlett)
On Die, 23 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Die, 23 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: Hi Scarlett (no, no cheap puns :)) Hi, Tom, I think it's a great idea. My inbox is getting somewhat unmanageable, Hm. If you would use Kmail instead of Outlook Express there would be an easy way to avoid this... ;-) Just set up a folder called 'mandrake' and apply a filter on incoming mail, which would automatically put all mailings from this list in this folder. [snip] When the news server goes down, all the previous messages are gone forever! I know there are other ways to access these newsgroups, but I don't know what they are or how to use them, except through AOL. If you do create a new newsgroup, please tell us how to get to it other than through our local ISP's news server. There are several Web-to-Usenet gateways that let you browse newsgroups with your preferred browser. As far as I know they are even free. There is one at hotbot (www.hotbot.com/usenet) and of course there's dejanews (www.dejanews.com) but there surely are lots of others out there. I would suggest dejanews. They provide an excellent service. Thanks, Scarlett tom -- "The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum." (Finagle's Law) Thomas 'Tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] No UCE. No spam. 'nuff said.
RE: [newbie] Your comments please: alt.os.linux.mandrake?
Scarlett, Take a look at this web site www.dejanews.com . It contains thousands of forums newsgroups searchable by keyword. Just make sure you have a somewhat decent connection, I do not think that I would try it at 28.8 or below. BTW the newsgroup sounds great. I have yet to install Mandrake, look forward to the cd in the mailbox. Regards, Steven Miller Life, don't talk to me about life. Brain as large as a planet and they make me do this, call that job satisfaction cause I don't. When the news server goes down, all the previous messages are gone forever! I know there are other ways to access these newsgroups, but I don't know what they are or how to use them, except through AOL. If you do create a new newsgroup, please tell us how to get to it other than through our local ISP's news server. Thanks, Scarlett
Re: [newbie] Multi-OS system...
No, my Linux Drive is set as Primary master, then my Windows drive is set as Primary Slave. My CD-Rom drive is therefor set as Secondary Master. Tell me if you need anything else. At 04:38 PM 3/23/99 -0600, you wrote: Just one question which ide port is the Linux drive on , I take it by what u said that you have the windows drive as master on the first ide, and the cdrom on the second slot as slave on the same ide port . Tell me if i'm right. steven G - Signed, Bob 'Reveral' Bonifield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fraggin' in the Heartland http://lan.quakecity.net/
Re: [newbie] Multi-OS system...
Tom, thanks a bunch man. I added those lines and it worked fine. Yet again, thanks! At 03:08 PM 3/23/99 +0100, you wrote: Hi Bob, try this: add following lines to the Windows section of your /etc/lilo.conf: map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 Run /sbin/lilo. Make sure you got a working boot floppy in case it doesn't work ;-) Reboot. As Steve would put it: Good luck! tom -- "The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum." (Finagle's Law) Thomas 'Tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] No UCE. No spam. 'nuff said. - Signed, Bob 'Reveral' Bonifield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fraggin' in the Heartland http://lan.quakecity.net/
Re: [newbie] Your comments... (REEPER)
On Die, 23 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Die, 23 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, you wrote: [snip] Agree that or a IRc room . Hi! Why not both? IMO IRC alone wouldn't be that good: there are people here that actually pay for *every* minute they are connected (yep, me too :( tom -- "The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum." (Finagle's Law) Thomas 'Tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] No UCE. No spam. 'nuff said. I agree, an IRC room would be a good supplment to a maillist or newsgroup I don't know if anyone here has any op expierence so i figure I'll put my name up as op (I'm an op on #canada in undernet) Andre
Re: [newbie] KDE
Iam replying to you directly regarding the Gimp problem you were having because I don't know whether anyone adressed the problem or not. I had the same problem, ie: Gimp would appear to be doing setup and then it would vanish. When I ran it from the command line(terminal window:gimp)I got an error message about 8bit color and that it need sixteen or better, there is a command you can add to the gimprc script to get it to work with 8bit color but I don't remember what it is off hand. The best thing if you can is use the startx -- -bpp 16 Hope this helps, Iam a newbie myself, this is the only thing I have gotten figured out, heh
Re: [newbie] Not another Kernel????!!!!!!!
heheh 2.2.4 is out now -Original Message- From: Michael Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 10:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Not another Kernel!!! G'day HeeHeeHeeHee, the bleeding edge :-))) On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, you wrote: Guys please tell me I'm seeing something wrong . There isn't a new kernel out is there?? I just got 2.2.3-1 to work .. -- Michael Doyle Adelaide, South Australia ICQ #2635762 http://landofoz.apana.org.au
Re: [newbie] Your comments... (Scarlett)
Tom Berger wrote: On Die, 23 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Die, 23 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: Hi Scarlett (no, no cheap puns :)) Hi, Tom, I think it's a great idea. My inbox is getting somewhat unmanageable, Hm. If you would use Kmail instead of Outlook Express there would be an easy way to avoid this... ;-) Just set up a folder called 'mandrake' and apply a filter on incoming mail, which would automatically put all mailings from this list in this folder. Netscape'll do it too. Just create mail filters that put messages that contain [newbie] and [expert] into different folders. I use this method to keep about 6 mailing lists straight. [snip] When the news server goes down, all the previous messages are gone forever! I know there are other ways to access these newsgroups, but I don't know what they are or how to use them, except through AOL. If you do create a new newsgroup, please tell us how to get to it other than through our local ISP's news server. There are several Web-to-Usenet gateways that let you browse newsgroups with your preferred browser. As far as I know they are even free. There is one at hotbot (www.hotbot.com/usenet) and of course there's dejanews (www.dejanews.com) but there surely are lots of others out there. I would suggest dejanews. They provide an excellent service. And if my memory serves correctly, those are Linux boxes at Deja News too! -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
