Re: [newbie] setting up a modem
Ops, gave you too much. The command should be: setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 3 autoconfig Sorry about that Regards Eero On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: There probably is misconfigured serial port, so you better setserial (as root, naturally) by command: setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 3 autoconfigure I had to do the same and things worked fine after that.:) Regards Eero On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: First, make sure KPPP is set to use /dev/ttyS3. In KPPP, select the option labeled "query modem" to be sure that KPPP is able to talk to your modem. Then try connecting to your ISP again. HTH, Matt From: "Jan Herbert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] setting up a modem Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 17:35:09 -0500 Hello, I just got a NEWCOM ISA 56K Jumper Modem and set it to COM 4 IRQ 3. Is their anything else I need to do to set my modem up like in the BIOS or something like that becaue I'm using KPPP and I set up an account and everytime i hit connect it says initializing modem then it hangs. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Ian Herbert __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Window Maker is interesting...
W Maker is kinda cool. I like how I can mess w/ different desktop environments, and all my stuff is saved. So, once I figure out how to run an app, my stuff is there waiting for me. I'll probably mess w/ W Maker and Xfce a little more, but KDE, IMHO is best for newbies still learning their way around. -Josh
Re: [newbie] Lexmark Printers
freshmeat has a couple of drivers listed as well. I've got my lexmark 1100 working just fine.
Re: [newbie] crash tests....
From a Unix point of view, you can normally have 255 X sessions of whatever type open at the same time, so head for that if you want. It should be reasonably easy to write a short shell script to spawn an infinite number of windows, record the count somewhere, and when (if) it crashes, you can go back to the log and see how many windows were open when it crashed. A common one, again for Unix but should be transferrable to Linux, is to open many sessions using the 'top' command in each. Top displays a real time monitor of the top ten processes running, and can be an effective load testing tool, as it doesn't do anything to the system, it just watches. However, you may find you're chasing something that doesn't exist. If the reliability is anything like what I've seen so far, you will never see it crash, it will just get slower and slower, until it seems to stop. - Original Message - From: Josh McCaffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 7:41 AM Subject: [newbie] crash tests I had to do it. After having been a Linux user for ~month, I had to do the CRASH TEST on my system. Opening multiple netscape windows should be an easy way to crash a system, right? Right now, I've opened 12 navigator windows, 1 composer window, messenger, Kpackage, Font manager, system information (memory),2 text editors, Mahjongg, CD player, 2 KFM's, and 2 Konsole's, Kppp, and of course, this window here :-) Question: What would be a tougher test? 27 windows seems like alot, but it doesn't seem to be doing too much. Maybe since most of these windows aren't really doing anything but waiting? My free swap is at 52.68/96.43MB's and I still have 1.4/48mb's of free RAM. We'll see what I can do to crash my box... Not that I want to crash my box, just have to see how far I can push it. I'm not blessed w/ a newer, post '97 system w/ a fat HD and tons of RAM w/ a 300+mhz CPU. Later... -Josh
Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Re: soundcard config]
Wow! Thanks for your reply..however! I can't seem to figure out where the command line is inside the KDE or how to get to it in order to issue the sndco nfig command! Any ideas? : ) Thanks, again! Mani
[newbie] Turning off autocomplete in SO51
Dear friends: A simple question about SO51: As I type, many words seem to try to complete themselves automatically. For instance, if I try to type the word "transformation" and begin with "tran...", before I get a chance to complete the word, i.e. when I get to the letter "t", SO tries to complete it as "tranquility". "Rest... (i.e. "restoration") becomes "restlessness". I have tried to find out how to turn off this annoying opertion but I have no idea where. Nothing in my Que book about it, either. It's not Autocorrect or Autospell. What is it, please? Thanks so very much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Turning off autocomplete in SO51
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: A simple question about SO51: As I type, many words seem to try to complete themselves automatically. For instance, if I try to type the word "transformation" and begin with "tran...", before I get a chance to complete the word, i.e. when I get to the letter "t", SO tries to complete it as "tranquility". "Rest... (i.e. "restoration") becomes "restlessness". I have tried to find out how to turn off this annoying opertion but I have no idea where. Nothing in my Que book about it, either. It's not Autocorrect or Autospell. What is it, please? Have you considered browsing/posting to the StarOffice newsgroups? These questions just seem to be drifting further and further off-topic... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Lots of problems on install
The answer to question one is SCSI emulation. I wrote up what I did to get it to work on my PC. http://www.midkan.com/paulb/mycdr.htm PBen On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 23:28:00 -0700, Dan Ferris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First is this, I have an HP CDRecorder Plus IDE cdrecorder on /dev/hdd. I would like to be able to burn cds with it. I have cdrecord version 1.8. Is this an issue with cdrecord not seeing the cd writer, or could it be something else. I can use it as a normal cd rom drive to play music cds etc etc etc. Sorry I haven't tried Samba.
Re: [newbie] riva tnt drivers
Traci Collins wrote: John Aldrich wrote: John, Which revision of XFree from the Mandrake mirrors is the first that has the Riva TNT upgrades already in it? I would like to check to see if I am using the full support on my hardware and I don't know which rev number the upgrade would be included in. I'm not John, but I believe 3.3.5 was the first to include full TNT support. The server carried at the nVidia website is still faster, but that should change when XFree86 4.0 ships. On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote: hi again, has any one download the drivers for linux of the RIVA TNT from www.nvidia.com ? well I' m a little confused. from their ftp server I don't know which file I need to download in order to use it. I don't have any problem with my system. All works very good but as long as I remember I use the standard settings with the display. I want to configure it again with the new drivers. Thanks anyway... I think you can just go grab the updated X server tarball from www.xfree86.org or the RPM from rpmfind.net or one of the other Mandrake mirrors. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Re: soundcard config]]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! Thanks for your reply..however! I can't seem to figure out where the command line is inside the KDE or how to get to it in order to issue the sndco nfig command! Any ideas? : ) Thanks, again! Mani === Try the konsole icon on your panel. You'll have to be root to run sndconfig. HTH, Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
RE: [newbie] Telnet went bye-bye after update.
I did an update, not an upgrade. I shouldn't have to install a server since it was working before I did the upgrade unless it removes the server, which doesn't seem right. Anyway, I tried reinstalling ftp and telnet RPMS from the 6.0 CD and it is working again. :-) Why the update screws it up I don't know. Maybe Mandrake should look into this problem? Thanks for the help everyone. Regards, Mike -Original Message- From: Ronald J. Yacketta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 1:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Telnet went bye-bye after update. "Morrell, Mike" wrote: I'm still relatively new at Linux (1 month) but I started out with LM 6.0. I recently ran the update program and it updated some stuff like Netscape, init-scripts, etc. Previously I could telnet and ftp to my linux box. Now I cannot seem to telnet or ftp to my linux machine from my windows box or from the internet. However, I am able to ping from both. I just get a message that it cannot connect to host. What could have changed since I did the update? IPCHAINS is set as follows (left it wide open). Also tried with INPUT OUTPUT set to REJECT. INPUT - ACCEPT OUTPUT - ACCEPT FORWARD - ACCEPT I set this rule as well: "IPCHAINS -A -i ppp0 -j MASQ" which allows my windows box to surf and such. Anyone have any ideas what went bad? You upgraded from 6.0 to 6.1? if so, you might need to install the telnet-server rpm.. not sure if the upgrade catches that one and installs it
Re: [newbie] Turning off autocomplete in SO51
Dear Steve: I did post a message cocerning my now solved problem of saving and backing up in SO. Got one response, which was off-target. I am grateful to the list for their patience while I tried to figure it out. Thanks to the list, I did. I always thought you had to be root to untar. Looks like that's not the case. Hope others have benefited from the discussion. Same for the Java discussion. I posted the full instructions on Java in SO to the list. I spent $50 for the Que book Using StarOffice (1,500 pages). Should have an answer for everything. It is a great book, but even it doesn't have an answer for everything. When the next version of SO comes out, I plan to buy it and get Sun's support for SO. Please don't be offended. I am doing the best I can. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] thanks Alan, Now for the Herc Prob
Thanks to Alan. I've been subscribed to the digest version and Have sent numerous messages for help, to no avail Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] test Patyep, it got here, but give it time. It usually takes a few hours for a message to come back to you from the list. There is also a reason for a message to not show up at all (obviously not your problem), that's when a person joins the digest version of the list and digest-members don't have posting privileges. END ALANS MESSAGE*** 3rd time to send to this list... Purchased Mandrake Linux 5.3 (festen) v2.0.36 LM53-183-LML-3RVA-J5RV Trying to install into an older box. 486DX/2 ACER ALTOS w/ 16ram the following hardware 1.04GB Quantum Fireball Goldstar R540B IDE CDROM KFC 15" SVGA Monitor Also has Adaptec AHA-2740 SCSI which attaches to a Micropolis Radion LT RAID, However I am not loading the RAID components into the Bios "at boot time" until the problem with the graphics card mouse problem worked out. Mouse is Generic "cheapo" 3-button IBM PC/XT/AT/386/486 Serial Port mouse. (configured to /dev/ttyS0) Graphics card is this: It is an ISA slot so I've tried 2 Cirrus Logic Boards (One supported the other not on the supported hardware list) Neither one worked, both crap out when trying "startx" (CL-GD5430 CL-GD5402). So Now I have a Hercules Dynamite ET4000 W32i which gives me a picture but craps out trying to "startx" Have used Xconfigurator XF86Config several times to try and make it work. XF86Setup starts IF I SAY NO to the dialog that says something about using current setup or NO. BUT mouse don't work. Keyboard Does SO I try to set the Card up from here. But get a message that says "Can't load or find XF86_W32". "Must install" So I use Xconfigurator XF86Config AGAIN to try and generate the server. (over and over I've done this) Wrong huh? Have also read README.tseng, README.Config one about XF86_W32?? BUT I still Do not understand How to install the XF86_W32 server. Oh at One point (same card) I had KDE running (NO MOUSE, NO KEYBORD) and the screen looked way "out-of-proportion", The KDE button was huge, (The Screen/GUI Elements looked Way Too Big) Cntrl + Alt + Delete DID NOT work at this point either and I JUST had to sut 'er down w/power switch. Also Did X -probeonly and it says 2MB Video Ram, hibit state=high, Ramdac music 4910 I too am a little new to Linux but Not to DOS so 'scuse me if I sound Dense ;). What do I have to do to install the correct server for my card? walt PS where on linux-mandrake.com site is the free tech support?? -- EarthSong Graphics(607) 965-8552 Digital Design and More http://www.tattoozone.com/earthsong [EMAIL PROTECTED] "...and follow your own star." -author unknown
Re: [newbie] Html - Font size.
Mark Fitzgerald wrote: Re: Text/size/html Mark: Please turn off HTML and/or increase the font size. Your message came across here as TINY characters, very difficult to read. :-) Besides, HTML doesn't belong in email...only on web pages! G Thanks... John .. John, Hmm .. that is odd, I'll change the font size, as I checked my settings and it's set to - send as plain text. Anyway, this is now a 12pt font. How's it look now? Thanks -- Mark mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] " It is now safe to shutdown your computer _ or is it ... HaHaHaa ?! " More better 8-) Joe
Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Re: soundcard config]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! Thanks for your reply..however! I can't seem to figure out where the command line is inside the KDE or how to get to it in order to issue the sndco nfig command! Any ideas? : ) Thanks, again! Mani Look across the bottom of the screen at the tool bar and select the terminal window. Works for me. You can also open your home directory (Icon) and with the mouse over the window press the right mouse button and on there should be an option to open a terminal window (Ctrl+t I believe). -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] SO51 autocomplete -- footnote
Dear friends: I just checked again: the annoying "autocomplete" I spoke of appears in existing documents. It does not seem to appear in a new document. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] How to start SO51 mailing list?
Dear friends: Since I brought up the subject of a StarOffice mailing list, I would like to try to do something about it. I thought of contacting Sun, but I have a feeling that they would see this as clashing with their support plans for StarOffice. The most obvious way to start a list is to do so through a major list service such as http://www.liszt.com I don't know how to proceed. I have no experience with this. But perhaps someone with experience can direct us (that is, me and anyone else who is interested) and instruct us on how to start and maintain such a list. We can then publicize it on other lists and on Linux sites in general. Anyone interested? Here is a good name for the list: SO-Linux. What do you think? If anyone wants the glory :) of sponsoring such a list, you are welcome to it. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] lnx4win
Sorry if this gets sent twice. Hi, I have just tried to install lnx4win on my computer. Everything seemed to have went fine, I gave root a password and set up another user. The computer then rebooted and while it was rebooting the following error message appeared: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: fsck: command not found [failed] I can login as root. So I ran setup. I can alter all of the options bar desktop config. Has anyone any ideas? Thanks alot Neil --- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Keepin' vinyl alive since '95 Earcandy Music - Get into the good stuff. WIN a Mastercuts album http://www.earcandy.co.uk -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [newbie] riva tnt drivers
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: John Aldrich wrote: John, Which revision of XFree from the Mandrake mirrors is the first that has the Riva TNT upgrades already in it? I would like to check to see if I am using the full support on my hardware and I don't know which rev number the upgrade would be included in. Traci Quoting from the XFree86.org FAQ: Q.F12- Is a server for Riva 128, 128zx or Riva TNT based cards available? Support for all these NVIDIA chipsets is included in XFree86-3.3.5. This server was partly implemented by NVIDIA and now follows the Open Source guidelines.
Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Re: soundcard config]
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Wow! Thanks for your reply..however! I can't seem to figure out where the command line is inside the KDE or how to get to it in order to issue the sndco nfig command! Any ideas? : ) You're booting straight into KDE, right? :-) On your taskbar at the bottom, you should see a big "K" Click on that, then go to "utilities" and then "konsole" At that point, you're at a command-line interface prompt. Type "su" (all lower case, minus quotes) and put in the "root" password when prompted (if you're not logging in as "root" which is a **BAD** idea, unless you're doing "maintenance" type stuff!!!) Then, once you've gotten "superuser" access, type "sndconfig" (minus quotes.) John
[newbie] routing table
Can someone help me with my routing table? Linux box: 172.239.21.23 Win95: 172.239.21.21 (also 172.239.21.20) Win98: 172.239.21.24 (connected to 172.239.21.20 on Win95 box) OS/2: 172.239.21.25 At this point, they can all talk to each other and Samba (default stuff) works. (ping, ftp, and sharing resources works) Telnet does not work, but one thing at a time. However, my PPP connection doesn't work correctly in Linux Mandrake 6.1 package. I connect fine, I can ping the address I get and seem to ping other addresses in that domain. However, I cannot get further than this. I send packets, but get no packets back at all. After reading books and books and How-to and FAQ and everything else I can find, it seems to come down to routing. But I don't know exactly what my routing table should look like and how to make it stay that way. A few weeks ago, I tried RH 6.0 package and I had PPP working fine, but nothing else could talk. Can someone please edit the attached routing table to make it work so I know what to force it to be? What files to edit and what to make them be? At this point, I think I can only make things worse on my own. Please include exact commands if I have to *do* things. Saying edit xxx and change it to the following lines... I can handle that. But everything else, I'm just not getting it. The FAQs, How-tos and books seem to contradict each other, or be talking about an older version of things, or another distribution. I try to follow each one's help and editing/checking files, but all I can manage to do is to make everything stop working. I'll format and reinstall if that helps and I know what to put into each of the little files to make this all work. I can use linuxconf, but netcfg gives me errors (I think it's a $DISPLAY thing is not setup, since I have to put in video drivers by hand). Here is what the routing table looks like with PPP "up": Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 0.0.0.0 172.239.21.23 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 00 eth0 207.58.20.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 172.239.21.23 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0 172.239.21.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 207.58.20.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 Also, when the Linux system boots, I get this route in the table, but have to delete it so the linux box and win boxes will talk. I don't know why it's there. 0.0.0.0 127.239.21.23 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 lo Here is what ifconfig looks like: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:AA:00:60:A8:CF inet addr:172.239.21.23 Bcast:172.239.21.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x240 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:177 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:177 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:172.239.21.23 P-t-P:207.58.20.1 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 pppd is version 2.3.8 Here is a part of the log file: Dec 3 09:12:33 aud3 pppd[968]: Serial connection established. Dec 3 09:12:33 aud3 pppd[968]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 3 09:12:33 aud3 pppd[968]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Dec 3 09:12:34 aud3 pppd[968]: Unsupported protocol (0x802b) received Dec 3 09:12:34 aud3 pppd[968]: Unsupported protocol (0x8029) received Dec 3 09:12:34 aud3 pppd[968]: local IP address 172.239.21.23 Dec 3 09:12:34 aud3 pppd[968]: remote IP address 207.58.20.1 Dec 3 09:16:42 aud3 pppd[968]: Terminating on signal 15. Dec 3 09:16:43 aud3 pppd[968]: Connection terminated. Dec 3 09:16:43 aud3 pppd[968]: Connect time 4.2 minutes. Dec 3 09:16:43 aud3 pppd[968]: Sent 3736 bytes, received 309 bytes. Dec 3 09:16:44 aud3 pppd[968]: Exit. The "unsupported protocol" messages above are supposed to be ok to ignore? Audrey Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder/decoder
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: Cool! I knew winamp could but I didn't know xmms could. Which pluggin should I use? I looked and couldn't find one that looked like it did mp3-to-wav output... (I'm using version 0.9.1-6mdk). I *thought* xmms could. Now I'm not so sure. I've signed up for the xmms mailing list and will see... John It does. you need the diskwriter plug in -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] Sounds under Netscrape
Just bought SB 128 PCI which configed first time when probed. Runs CDs nicely and also various closing down opening-up sounds. Is it possible to get sound under Netscrape? I know what sounds should be there as I'm testing on my own web pages. Many thanks John the Nadger
Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder/decoder
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: Thanks for replying. Globecom sounds good but I have a couple questions: 1) It says that it can rip from CD to mp3 but can it go the other way? (i.e. decompress mp3s into wavs). If not, xmms can. :-) John Cool! I knew winamp could but I didn't know xmms could. Which pluggin should I use? I looked and couldn't find one that looked like it did mp3-to-wav output... (I'm using version 0.9.1-6mdk). DvB Forum: Plugin Development Message: Wave output to disk? Date: 1999-12-03 16:37:15 From: Olle Hällnäs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open up the preferences and pick discwriter output plugin.. wav's will end up in $HOME as default but you can change that by configure the discwriter plugin.. have fun. Heheh... :-) I thought I recalled that being an option! :-) John
Re: [newbie] crash tests....
I found a good one! Didn't crash my box, just got *really* slow. While I was in WindowMaker, in an Xterm, I typed "start Kde". So, Kde starts, my KDE background and icons pop up, everything looks like Kde, but the icons from WM are still there, and the window boarders are WM, as well as the right click pop up menu. Strange. So I went to bed, and when I was fixing coffee this AM, I could here some disk activity. Hmmm... Took my screen saver 1-2 secs to respond. Apparently, my sys was running entirely on swap, of which only 23mb's was left, so it took sometimes several seconds to do anything. If I have 60ns EDO RAM, what would disk swapping be comparable to? Later -Josh Simon Norris wrote: From a Unix point of view, you can normally have 255 X sessions of whatever type open at the same time, so head for that if you want. It should be reasonably easy to write a short shell script to spawn an infinite number of windows, record the count somewhere, and when (if) it crashes, you can go back to the log and see how many windows were open when it crashed. A common one, again for Unix but should be transferrable to Linux, is to open many sessions using the 'top' command in each. Top displays a real time monitor of the top ten processes running, and can be an effective load testing tool, as it doesn't do anything to the system, it just watches. However, you may find you're chasing something that doesn't exist. If the reliability is anything like what I've seen so far, you will never see it crash, it will just get slower and slower, until it seems to stop. - Original Message - From: Josh McCaffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 7:41 AM Subject: [newbie] crash tests I had to do it. After having been a Linux user for ~month, I had to do the CRASH TEST on my system. Opening multiple netscape windows should be an easy way to crash a system, right? Right now, I've opened 12 navigator windows, 1 composer window, messenger, Kpackage, Font manager, system information (memory),2 text editors, Mahjongg, CD player, 2 KFM's, and 2 Konsole's, Kppp, and of course, this window here :-) Question: What would be a tougher test? 27 windows seems like alot, but it doesn't seem to be doing too much. Maybe since most of these windows aren't really doing anything but waiting? My free swap is at 52.68/96.43MB's and I still have 1.4/48mb's of free RAM. We'll see what I can do to crash my box... Not that I want to crash my box, just have to see how far I can push it. I'm not blessed w/ a newer, post '97 system w/ a fat HD and tons of RAM w/ a 300+mhz CPU. Later... -Josh
[newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction
Dear friends: www.liszt.com is just a list of mailing lists, not a place to start one. Which only goes to show that if anyone is interested in starting a StarOffice mailing list, then we'll have to look for someone who can direct us to information on how to do it. Anybody know anything about this. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] lpr .46 -- lpq still dead
Benjamin ! Did you try the extra step I tried which corrected my constant buggy printing problems of several weeks ago? i.e. With LPD originally compiled as modular (by default) in the 6.1 kernel in /etc/rc.d/rc.local at the end of the file past the last 'fi' I put; /sbin/modprobe parport /sbin/modprobe parport_pc /sbin/modprobe lp That finally cleared up several very aggravating problems for me which had never cropped up before in ANY version of Linux I have tried. You are right in hoping the next version of Linux-Mandrake will make it much easier for a "new-user" to get their printer up and running without effort. Neither of us are "new-users" yet we have had many problems reported on this List with something as basic as default printer configuration. Good Luck, William Bouterse Juneau, Alaska
RE: [newbie] Soundblaster Live! Mini How-To
Thanks Alexander for the instructions. I got my SB Live! up and working and it's great. But... Here's what I've done. So I download the patch, update the kernel and initialize the soundcard with a "modprode emu10k1" command. Wohoo! I got MP3s playing, KDE events boinging and I'm happy. I read more on the instructions and it says to edit the /etc/conf.modules file to include the initialization for the soundcard. So I add it, reboot to test it and it works fine. So I decide to keep updating stuff. I ran the Updates feature on the KDE desktop. So I run it and it finds about 10 updates. So I figure what the hell and run the update. Now one of these updates is a new kernel. Not thinking I downloaded and installed all the updates. Well I went to reboot again to run the new kernel. And BOOM! It starts to load and gets to the "Initializing Sound Module..." line and hangs. CRAP! Now for the question. I need to find a way to bypass the sound initialization OR a way to get in and modify the conf.modules file again and rip out the init line until I patch the new kernel. Ideas? Things I've already tried: - I used the boot disk in rescue mode but it complains and says I need to give it an "init=" parameter. - Tried to boot to run level 1 but it still tries to initialize Thanks, Kyle Robinson ~ This e-mail contains 100% recycled electrons ~ -Original Message- From: Alexander Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 21:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Soundblaster Live! Mini How-To I have noticed a lot of people from newsgroups, mailing list, and irc channels have had trouble installing there Soundblaster Live for use under linux. Since this my be your problem and this a newbie mailing list after all. Here is my mini how-to on Soundblaster Live! Creative Labs currently has their soundcard drivers currently at 0.3b but their is a problem with this. The are only offically made for kenels 2.0.36-0.7(RH), 2.2.5-15(RH), and 2.2.10. Since you may have upgraded to a most recent verison of kernel these drivers may or may not work. I think they do work if you force them to work and but this is tedious and drooling process. I will present a easier way Step 1: Go to this ftp and get the source files: (ftp://opensource.creative.com/pub/snapshots/) Step 2: Next after you have gotten this file you must uncompress the file by typing tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz Step 3: Go into the directory where the files were umcompressed to and type in these commands make dep make clean make (Don't worry about warning: unused variable 'sblive_spinlock' or 'kernel version' defind but not used in main.c, spinlock is primarily used on SMP systems to lock interupts on one processor and main.c is not kernel version depended) make install #When no using module verison info, sometimes the driver is put in /lib/misc/ instead of /lib/modules/kernel#/misc Then run depmod -a kernel# in your modules directory After that command then you do this - modprobe emu10k1. (If it fails, run insmod soundcore before that) Now here are some tips to automate so you don't have to modprobe everytime you boot into linux. Add these following lines in to your /etc/conf.moudules (SuSe, RH, Slackware, Debian.) On the rare distros this could be modules.conf or rc.modules alias sound emu10k1 #pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore #post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore options emu10k1 joystick 0x200 #These lines are only needed if you did this (CONFIG_MODVERISONS=Y) #This means if you have module verison checking After installing this file, do some sound test by playing some wavs, mp3s, and midi. It will be music to your ears. Because these are daily builds, I suggest you upgrade every 5-7 days and why not since compiling source is so much fun anyways I hope you are succesful in install the modules so you can use your Soundblaster Live! under the better Operating system. Have Fun Alexander Roberts
Re: [newbie] Sounds under Netscrape
Hi, Depending on what format of sound you have on your web page, you would need netscape plugins. However, I think a plugin called 'plugger', which you can download from netscape website, would work fine with most common sound formats. - Original Message - From: "bluebottle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 11:39 AM Subject: [newbie] Sounds under Netscrape Just bought SB 128 PCI which configed first time when probed. Runs CDs nicely and also various closing down opening-up sounds. Is it possible to get sound under Netscrape? I know what sounds should be there as I'm testing on my own web pages. Many thanks John the Nadger
Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Re: soundcard config]
Manithere are quite a few different ways to do most anything in Linux. I believe that the following method will serve you best in this case. 1. press ctl-alt f2 2. sign in as root 3. type setup 3. choose 'sound card configuration' (it's the same as sndconfig) 4. when done, quit from setup 5. type exit at the command line 6. press ctl-alt f7 (gets you back where you started) Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! Thanks for your reply..however! I can't seem to figure out where the command line is inside the KDE or how to get to it in order to issue the sndco nfig command! Any ideas? : ) Thanks, again! Mani
[newbie] video card support
Hi y'all: The video card is S3 Virge GX 3d. It works with a SuSE installation. Copied their driver XF86_S3V to /usr/X11R6/bin/. How can I persuade LM to recognize this? Thanks Bill Barnes This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, a free web-based service from Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser - http://www.operasoftware.com
[newbie] Desktopcfg
I ran desktopcfg as root and chose to set the system wide default as Xfce, but when I log in as user, Window Maker starts; if I log in as root, Xfce starts.
Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder/decoder
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: snip Open up the preferences and pick discwriter output plugin.. wav's will end up in $HOME as default but you can change that by configure the discwriter plugin.. have fun. Heheh... :-) I thought I recalled that being an option! :-) John Disk Writer plugin 0.9... duh! I'll try it when I get off work. Thanks, John! DvB
Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Dear friends: www.liszt.com is just a list of mailing lists, not a place to start one. Which only goes to show that if anyone is interested in starting a StarOffice mailing list, then we'll have to look for someone who can direct us to information on how to do it. Anybody know anything about this. www.egroups.com John
Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction
I think www.list.com or lists.com. I know when another mail list server was down, we had a back up list using one of these sites. If you can put up w/ a little advertising on all of the posted mails, it's not so bad. If it works, it works :) -Josh Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: www.liszt.com is just a list of mailing lists, not a place to start one. Which only goes to show that if anyone is interested in starting a StarOffice mailing list, then we'll have to look for someone who can direct us to information on how to do it. Anybody know anything about this. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] Sounds under Netscrape -- plugger
Dear Seung-woo: You can get the "plugger" (v. 3.2) plugin for Netscape from: http://www.hubbe.net/~hubbe/plugger.html Be sure to get the plugger RPM package. Be sure to read all the instructions on the home page. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
RE: [newbie] Soundblaster Live! Mini How-To
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: So I decide to keep updating stuff. I ran the Updates feature on the KDE desktop. So I run it and it finds about 10 updates. So I figure what the hell and run the update. Now one of these updates is a new kernel. Not thinking I downloaded and installed all the updates. Well I went to reboot again to run the new kernel. And BOOM! It starts to load and gets to the "Initializing Sound Module..." line and hangs. CRAP! Now for the question. I need to find a way to bypass the sound initialization OR a way to get in and modify the conf.modules file again and rip out the init line until I patch the new kernel. Ideas? Things I've already tried: - I used the boot disk in rescue mode but it complains and says I need to give it an "init=" parameter. - Tried to boot to run level 1 but it still tries to initialize Hmm... if you have another machine, or can boot to Windows, go get the "RedHat" boot rescue images. If you've got another linux box, get two blank floppies and run "dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0" and "dd if=rescue.img of=/dev/fd0" and then boot off that and go in and edit your conf.modules. If you only have a Windows machine or can boot to windows on your LInux box, use the "rawrite" program which can be found in the /dosutils directory on the Mandrake CD and make the disks that way. John
Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction
Dear John: Thanks a million. Am setting up the Star-Linux mailing list right now. Hope I can do it. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction
From: Ronald A. Yacketta starting a mailing list is not that hard actualy. If I were to start one I would grab a copy of mailman and install it (accoring to the INSTALL/README) oh yeah, need a *nix with sendmail and a non-blocked port 25 you could even goto www.listbot.com and start a list from there , they will give you the space for the list (hdd/www) behind the sceenes while you actualy maintain the list Josh McCaffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/03/99 02:08:21 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction I think www.list.com or lists.com. I know when another mail list server was down, we had a back up list using one of these sites. If you can put up w/ a little advertising on all of the posted mails, it's not so bad. If it works, it works :) -Josh Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: www.liszt.com is just a list of mailing lists, not a place to start one. Which only goes to show that if anyone is interested in starting a StarOffice mailing list, then we'll have to look for someone who can direct us to information on how to do it. Anybody know anything about this. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Sounds under Netscrape
Many thank for that. First time I've downloaded a plug-in and it worked OK. Only thing it did was to repeat play but I can live with that. John the Nadger On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hi, Depending on what format of sound you have on your web page, you would need netscape plugins. However, I think a plugin called 'plugger', which you can download from netscape website, would work fine with most common sound formats. - Original Message - From: "bluebottle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 11:39 AM Subject: [newbie] Sounds under Netscrape Just bought SB 128 PCI which configed first time when probed. Runs CDs nicely and also various closing down opening-up sounds. Is it possible to get sound under Netscrape? I know what sounds should be there as I'm testing on my own web pages. Many thanks John the Nadger
Re: [newbie] Sounds under Netscrape -- plugger
I got the rpm dowload from Netscrape's site and it's fine. John the Nadger On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Dear Seung-woo: You can get the "plugger" (v. 3.2) plugin for Netscape from: http://www.hubbe.net/~hubbe/plugger.html Be sure to get the plugger RPM package. Be sure to read all the instructions on the home page. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] PCI Modem
Is it possible to set up a PCI Modem (It is not a WIN modem ) (it is a USR PCI voice data fax type). I'm not sure if PCI modems are supported by linux. Any help is well come thanks kyle Kyle Maher [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. -- Niels Bohr
[newbie] Star-Linux mailing list now open!
Dear friends: My thanks to John Aldrich for suggesting egroups.com. Hope I know what I am doing. The new StarOffice mailing list is now ready to accept members. Let's start with Mandrake. If it's a success, I will publicize it on various Linux sites and other mailing lists. Let's first see if I can get this right. WHAT IS IT? A mailing list for StarOffice for Linux -- all versions. Currently, there is no mailing list, active or otherwise, as far as I know, for StarOffice for Linux. I think we could well use one. WHAT KIND OF LIST? Unmoderated list. Anyone can join. TO SUBSCRIBE: If you wish to join star-linux, please send an email message to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO POST A MESSAGE: To send a message to the list, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ONLINE ARCHIVES: You can also see all the messages for star-linux at: http://www.egroups.com/UserGroupsPage? Note: Folks, I am very nervous about this. Please let me know if your attempt at subscribing is successful. Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction
Where do you get a copy of mailman? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta starting a mailing list is not that hard actualy. If I were to start one I would grab a copy of mailman and install it (accoring to the INSTALL/README) oh yeah, need a *nix with sendmail and a non-blocked port 25 you could even goto www.listbot.com and start a list from there , they will give you the space for the list (hdd/www) behind the sceenes while you actualy maintain the list Josh McCaffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/03/99 02:08:21 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction I think www.list.com or lists.com. I know when another mail list server was down, we had a back up list using one of these sites. If you can put up w/ a little advertising on all of the posted mails, it's not so bad. If it works, it works :) -Josh Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: www.liszt.com is just a list of mailing lists, not a place to start one. Which only goes to show that if anyone is interested in starting a StarOffice mailing list, then we'll have to look for someone who can direct us to information on how to do it. Anybody know anything about this. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction
Benhttp://www.onelist.com Alan Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: www.liszt.com is just a list of mailing lists, not a place to start one. Which only goes to show that if anyone is interested in starting a StarOffice mailing list, then we'll have to look for someone who can direct us to information on how to do it. Anybody know anything about this. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] CDROM PROBLEMS
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: Well its upgraded to a pentium, the cdrom is a Mitsumi KEPanasonic CDROM on I/O 0630h-0637h the driver is mkecr5xx.mpd on the windows system area and I don't know which mdk version It's a "panasonic interface" non-standard. It uses the SoundBlaster as it's interface card. I've heard you can set these up under Linux, but I don't know how. John Thanks for your help John, If anyone does know how to set that up could you please help me out... Just a caveat -- That's my first impression based on what little you've said about it. To be sure that it's a "panasonic interface" I need to know how it connects up to the system -- does it connect via a soundblaster 16 or a special "controller"? Or does it plug directly into the IDE chain? If one of the former, then it's the "MKE Panasonic" interface, and requires special CDROM drivers. John It is the MKE Panasonic, so how do I setup these special CDROM drivers so that Linux can find the cdrom? (it connects through the soundblaster 16)
Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction
try www.freshmeat.com, that's where I found my copy of Mailmain. It installed like a breeze, is easy to configure, runs like a charm, has loads of features and is blazing fast. Hey, why not include it in Cooker? Patrick Putteman Internet Support Manager Net7 - Member of the Advalvas Group - Original Message - From: "Shannon M. Johnston" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction Where do you get a copy of mailman? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta starting a mailing list is not that hard actualy. If I were to start one I would grab a copy of mailman and install it (accoring to the INSTALL/README) oh yeah, need a *nix with sendmail and a non-blocked port 25 you could even goto www.listbot.com and start a list from there , they will give you the space for the list (hdd/www) behind the sceenes while you actualy maintain the list Josh McCaffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/03/99 02:08:21 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction I think www.list.com or lists.com. I know when another mail list server was down, we had a back up list using one of these sites. If you can put up w/ a little advertising on all of the posted mails, it's not so bad. If it works, it works :) -Josh Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: www.liszt.com is just a list of mailing lists, not a place to start one. Which only goes to show that if anyone is interested in starting a StarOffice mailing list, then we'll have to look for someone who can direct us to information on how to do it. Anybody know anything about this. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] linux mandrake books
Anyone know of any books that are reasonably compatible with the Mandrake distribution? I'm looking for something with a lot of breath and/or depth. I've been programming PCs for over 25 years so I'd like to avoid books that are really basic but, would like ones that do cover common problems that cause people to spin their wheels. I ordered a title (Linux-Mandrake 6.0 Unleashed Sams; ISBN: 0672318113) from Amazon that was supposed to be released in October. I called SAMS and this title and another Mandrake title are now pushed out till at least March 2000. I've got the 6.1 Power pack and was able to install the basic OS and KDE (I skipped the network for now) without instructions (left them at home) or major problems. Also, if anyone knows the author, Horst Von Brand, I'm one of those anal guys who likes reading a book from cover to cover with a highlighter to glean everything I can. I would be willing to beta test the book against the 6.1 distribution for him. Thanks, Greg Stevenson Principle Software Engineer ... www.iBASEt.com 949.598.5200 tel 949.598.2600 fax 949.598.5321 direct
[newbie] Amd?
Under what circumstances is it useful to have amd running? I read the man pages but it still is not clear to me whether I need this running on a machine that will be primarily a web server. I generally access this machine to work on it either directly or via appletalk (no windows network accesses). Thanks. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
Re: [newbie] We need a StarOffice list!
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Dear friends: I feel that I am in a quandary. There is no mailing list for StarOffice, or rather there is one with 23 members on it, which I subscribed to. Never got a message from them except for my subscription confirmation. With millions of people using StarOffice, there really should be a mailing list, and the obvious sponsor ought to be Sun. The newsgroups The SO-L list is fairly inactive. Folks just need to post. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] PCI Modem
Oh sure, linux should auto detect it. Just make sure to set it to the right COM port and do a query on it. If you're using KDE, then the kppp program should help you. Serpico "You talkin' to me?" - Original Message - From: Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 12:50 PM Subject: [newbie] PCI Modem Is it possible to set up a PCI Modem (It is not a WIN modem ) (it is a USR PCI voice data fax type). I'm not sure if PCI modems are supported by linux. Any help is well come thanks kyle Kyle Maher [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. -- Niels Bohr
Re: [newbie] Monitor specs
Tthanks to you all. It was very helpful (and I'm going to install a different monitor: turns out that this one is a rarity :-) Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, M Thompson wrote: I hope I'm not banned from the list for saying this, but... Check out www.winfiles.com and go to the drivers section to see if you can dig up anything. Matt I think he may have ment www.windrivers.com From: Dan Schaller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Monitor specs Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 08:15:03 -0500 Does anyone have a recommendation for a site that contains specs for various monitors? I have a Victor VM-240 without the users manual and no specs on the backplate. Victor (In Fort Worth, Texas, USA) doesn't seem to have a web site and the only specs I can find are for a 220 (and they are advertised on a commercial site that wants $45 for them!!) Thanks for any recommendations. -- "Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive there's something wrong with him." - Art Buchwald __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] crash tests....
Josh McCaffrey wrote: sometimes several seconds to do anything. If I have 60ns EDO RAM, what would disk swapping be comparable to? Well, typical disk accesses are around 10ms is I remember correctly... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] test
someone please let me know if this email gets posted..quickly. for some reason, none of my emails are getting thru. -- Website Design, Creation and Maintenance =Kit Designs= HomePage: (http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternative E-Mail: 1.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 2.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ uin# 7110071 AllAdvantage gives you a way to make money just for surfing the net. It is simple to setup and is a very easy way to make some money without having to do much! For more information, check out: http://alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=FHP648 =Kit Designs=
[newbie] Star-Linux mailing list!
Dear friends: May I ask our list members who are subscribed to other Linux distros to spread the word about the new star-linux mailing list I just started today. It's an unmoderated list opend to everybody in Linux. For details see my original letter or go to: http://www.egroups.com/group/star-linux/ Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] unmounting cdrom
To all: what is required to unmount the cdrom. opened it from the desktop icon. scanned the directories and closed the window at file-exit. right click and selecting unmount triggers KFM error: umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy Thought this had worked in the past. Thanks Bill Barnes This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, a free web-based service from Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser - http://www.operasoftware.com
[newbie] DNS server?
Okay, I need a simple explanation of DNS. I have a linux box that I want to setup and put online. I want to own a domain name. I want to do this using MediaOne Cable Modem. This requires DNS updates as MediaOne changed your IP at random times. How can I do this? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- .Jedi Chrome "Imagination is more important than knowledge". . ICQ: 7197245 | AOL Instant Messanger: JediChrome . .Visions of Chrome: www.velvet.net/~chrome . =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 'A Rainbow in the Darkness..Raven Black Clouds on the Floor`
[newbie] Several Linux Questions...
Hello, I have several questions... (1) When I load my user, I can get to a command line fine, however, when I try to load KDE, I am unable to. I get a message that says a new version was installed, then it asks me if I want to install or not. No matter what I click, I am booted out of KDE, and get an error that media master was not found... Is there a way around this? Can I log in in a 'safe mode' like in Windows? (2) What are the commands to mount a zip drive? I have my drive installed, but when I rebooted my system, it did not mount, so I have to mount it... (3) One last question! How do I get my linux box to see the newtork (like network neighborhood in win X) I would like to see my laptop from my linux box and vice versa, through the network I have set up. Any way to do this? THanks a lot! Joe :)
Re: [newbie] unmounting cdrom
Billit sounds to me like there's a file open. Alan Bill Barnes wrote: To all: what is required to unmount the cdrom. opened it from the desktop icon. scanned the directories and closed the window at file-exit. right click and selecting unmount triggers KFM error: umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy Thought this had worked in the past. Thanks Bill Barnes This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, a free web-based service from Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser - http://www.operasoftware.com
Re: [newbie] PCI Modem
PCI is just the interface, as long as you are sure it's not a Winmodem, then it should work fine as long as the PNP is getting loaded properly. --- Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to set up a PCI Modem (It is not a WIN modem ) (it is a USR PCI voice data fax type). I'm not sure if PCI modems are supported by linux. Any help is well come thanks kyle Kyle Maher [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. -- Niels Bohr __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] DNS server?
Chromatic Bloom wrote: Okay, I need a simple explanation of DNS. I have a linux box that I want to setup and put online. I want to own a domain name. I want to do this using MediaOne Cable Modem. This requires DNS updates as MediaOne changed your IP at random times. How can I do this? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- .Jedi Chrome "Imagination is more important than knowledge". . ICQ: 7197245 | AOL Instant Messanger: JediChrome . .Visions of Chrome: www.velvet.net/~chrome . =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 'A Rainbow in the Darkness..Raven Black Clouds on the Floor` www.dynip.com
Re: [newbie] Before I start and Etc.
Mark: This is, indeed, almost a FAQ question. :-) If we HAD a FAQ it would probably be there. :-) modprobe ppa is, I think, the answer Check the archives... I recall TONS of questions about paralell port devices. :-) John Thanks .. John. Mark - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 3, 1999 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Before I start and Etc. On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: Extern-Zip-drive, Par-port-type. with LM? I hope this has not been asked 100 times before, cause if so .. I missed it. Mark: This is, indeed, almost a FAQ question. :-) If we HAD a FAQ it would probably be there. :-) modprobe ppa is, I think, the answer Check the archives... I recall TONS of questions about paralell port devices. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Html - Font size.
Hi, Re: Font Size Looks good now. Excellent! Thanks again .. John. - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 3, 1999 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Html - Font size. On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hmm .. that is odd, I'll change the font size, as I checked my settings and it's set to - send as plain text. Anyway, this is now a 12pt font. How's it look now? Thanks Looks fine. :-) Thanks. :-) MUCH more legible! :-) I'm sitting in front of a GIGANTIC monitor and I think I'm at 1024x768 and 9 pt just won't cut it at that resolution. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Several Linux Questions...
Joe Brault wrote: Hello, I have several questions... (1) When I load my user, I can get to a command line fine, however, when I try to load KDE, I am unable to. I get a message that says a new version was installed, then it asks me if I want to install or not. No matter what I click, I am booted out of KDE, and get an error that media master was not found... Is there a way around this? Can I log in in a 'safe mode' like in Windows? (2) What are the commands to mount a zip drive? I have my drive installed, but when I rebooted my system, it did not mount, so I have to mount it... (3) One last question! How do I get my linux box to see the newtork (like network neighborhood in win X) I would like to see my laptop from my linux box and vice versa, through the network I have set up. Any way to do this? THanks a lot! Joe :) not sure on 1 or 2 but almost positive that you need samba for 3 (www.samba.org)
[newbie] nis
to whom it may concern, I'm pretty much a newbie to linux but the people at my work want me to set up a machine as a nis server. A collegue of mine sent me the following message I installed the ypserv RPM for you. You can start at the point where you configure /etc/ypserv.conf. So, can someone provide me with detailed instructions as to how to do this? I looked at the how to and did not understand much of it. I would greatly appreciate any help you could offer. Thanks, Jas
Re: [newbie] unmounting cdrom
Make sure you're not accessing the cdrom through any sort of explorer or even the console. From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] unmounting cdrom Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 16:13:51 -0800 Billit sounds to me like there's a file open. Alan Bill Barnes wrote: To all: what is required to unmount the cdrom. opened it from the desktop icon. scanned the directories and closed the window at file-exit. right click and selecting unmount triggers KFM error: umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy Thought this had worked in the past. Thanks Bill Barnes This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, a free web-based service from Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser - http://www.operasoftware.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Basic doubts
Hi I am very new to Linux and I've installed Mandrake 6.0 yesterday. I am trying to use Netscape without success since it couldn't find any URL. Seems it can't resolve DNS. After dialling with KPPP I can ping and telnet any IP and login too. I couldn't also use my e-mail client since am getting an error message and SMTP also doesn't work. Is there any FAQ available or any setup I should do to get my Netscape and e-mail client up and running? Thanks a lot. Cesar Santos[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder/decoder
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Disk Writer plugin 0.9... duh! I'll try it when I get off work. Thanks, John! Hehe. :-) I hadda go ask the experts myself. I didn't SEE a disk writer plugin myself, but... :-) John
Re: [newbie] PCI Modem
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999 14:50:32 -0600, you wrote: Since PCI cards are supported I would think that this modem would be. Is it possible to set up a PCI Modem (It is not a WIN modem ) (it is a USR PCI voice data fax type). I'm not sure if PCI modems are supported by linux. Any help is well come thanks kyle Kyle Maher [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. -- Niels Bohr
[newbie] Thanks + question about /dev files
Greetings All! Thanks all for the assistance concerning X not running kde. As it was, for anyone else that might run up against this issue, it was simply a case of updating my xinitrc package. . . Now for the question: Is there a preferred way to remove /dev files or does rm work ok? Thanks all! -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (There's Actually STUFF Here Now! YAY!!) "As it is, The American Justice System is a big enough joke WITHOUT TV Court Shows. . ." -D Johnson
Re: [newbie] PCI Modem
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Is it possible to set up a PCI Modem (It is not a WIN modem ) (it is a USR PCI voice data fax type). I'm not sure if PCI modems are supported by linux. Any help is well come Just because it does not SAY it's a "WinModem" does not mean that it is not a windows-only modem. I would do two things: 1) Look at the documentation. If it says it requires a Pentium or better processor and requires Windows 95+, you've got a windows-only modem. 2) Check out the WinModem list at the following site: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html John
Re: [newbie] test
It is currently 21:13 here. But I don't know what time this actually arrived at my ISP's mail server.. :-) John On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: someone please let me know if this email gets posted..quickly. for some reason, none of my emails are getting thru. -- Website Design, Creation and Maintenance =Kit Designs= HomePage: (http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternative E-Mail: 1.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 2.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ uin# 7110071 AllAdvantage gives you a way to make money just for surfing the net. It is simple to setup and is a very easy way to make some money without having to do much! For more information, check out: http://alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=FHP648 =Kit Designs=
