Re: [newbie] ghostscript 5.50 rpm
try getting the srpm instead and uncommenting the support you need then do rpm -bb etc etc - Original Message - From: Mike Ladwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 2:58 PM Subject: [newbie] ghostscript 5.50 rpm I finally found out what I need to get my HP 2000Cse to work. I need to find a ghostscript RPM with the hpdj driver compiled in. Does anyone know where to find it (in RPM form). Note, I upgraded from ghostscript 5.10 (I was hoping the driver would be included no luck) -- -[ Mike ]- [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Using Linux Mandrake 6.1 - 2.2.13-7mdk **
Re: [newbie] New Millenium
Sad to say that the counter argument is as follows: at the time the gregorian calandar was greated, the concept of a year zero or of the value zero as a number did not exist. Therefore even though there was no year zero in the first millenium, the second millenium still began with the year 1000, and the first millenium had only 999 years. A truely convoluted argument, but not entirely without merrit. Personally I do not see what difference it makes, one year in 1000 is one tenth of one percent of the whole. We expect greater variations in value from nearly every device created by man. For example a resistor for a circuit board is normally plus or minus ten percent of the rated resistance as indicated on the package. The specifications for the average automobile engine around 1968 was plus or minus three tenths of one percent (or +/- .003). My only point here is if we can tolerate such variances in our every day lives, why not with whether or not this is the third millenium. On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Daniel wrote: | There is no argument the new millenium does not start until 2001. A | millennia is 1000 years, there was no year "0", so 1 AD through 1000 AD was | the first millennia, 1001 AD through 2000 the second (see a pattern | forming?) and the third millennia starts 2001. Just some food for | thought... | | Dan | | | - Original Message - | From: "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 07:25 | Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium | | | On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote: | | 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT | | Happy new Millenium all... | | | | -- | | Full plate packing steel! - Minsk | | I've heard all the arguments about the new millenium not starting until | 1/1/2001, but I think we should all compromise, and make the entire year | of | 2000 a celebration of our miraculous survival for two millemia. This way, | by | the end of the year, no one will care when the third millemium starts. | | The finest the new millenium has to offer to all, | | Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) |
Re: [newbie] Major LILO screwup
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Payne Stanifer wrote: | I accidently forgot to setup a dual boot with windows on my install. What | entries do I need to add to my lilo.conf to get it allow me to choose | windows at the boot up. PLease help ASAP. I am in dsperate need of some | critical files! THANKS! | Payne | __ | Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com As a default, the Mandrake installer sets up LILO to boot both OS's for you. Linux is the default if you let LILO time out, but to boot Windows, simply enter "dos" (no quotes) at the LILO prompt. To chamge the LILO default, you have to edit your /etc/lilo.conf file. Re-arange the sections so the dos section is ahead of the linux section. I have included my lilo.conf file as an example, but I have edited my configuration a little. The "dos" section starts with the line "other=/dev/hda1" and includes the two indented lines following. The Linux section starts with the line "image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-7mdk" and includes the three indented lines following. You may note that my two "label" lines (one for each OS) indicate "w" for the "dos" section (short for Windows), and "l" (lower case L) for Linux.. This is because I am a lazy man and do not like to key any more than I need to. Finally, if you change your /etc/lilo.conf file, you must run the lilo command from a command line to record the changes in the MBR, and they will be in effect the next time you re-boot or start your system. boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt linear timeout=50 other=/dev/hda1 label=w table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-7mdk label=l root=/dev/hda5 append="mem=80M" read-only HTH, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please
Dear all Is there anyway that I can read attached word.doc files that are sent by the mad minority using a popular sic! alternative. I,m using mandrake 6.0,kde and staroffice. Any help would be great. Thankyou Dunc
Re: [newbie] MP3 software for Linux
Nope! I'm with Mike. Ya gotta take care of the kids first. At least that's how we do it here at my house. Just lettin ya know yer not alone, Mike! Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: | Mikeya' gotta' make the rules ;o) | | Alan | | | Mike Perry wrote: | | Hi Alan | I wish it worked that way in my family :-( | What usually happens is that my eldest son gets the bleeding edge machine, | His younger bro gets a good one, my daughter gets a reasonable one, and I | get to build my computer from the leftover bits. | | Michael Perry. | RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. | Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack | |-Original Message- |From: Alan Shoemaker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Sun 02 January 2000 10:04 |Subject: Re: [newbie] MP3 software for Linux | |Dantell him it's time for him to upgrade (PII or Athlon) to a more |modern computer and pass his present one on to you. That's what I do |with my 2 sons ;o) | |Alan | | |[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | DanI use Kmpg which is included in mdk 6.1 and is on the |multimedia | menu as Audio Mpeg Player. It works fine right out of the box. My | system is an Intel PII/400. | | I would hope it works fine on a 400 mhz Pentium 2but I am running |mdk 6 | on an Intel pre-Pentium 486DX2/66 :( | | I wish I could try it on this computer, which is 300 mhz but my dad's |annoyed | at the way I go through hard drive space like I do food :) And also |there's | the fear of me goofing something else and erasing the 6 gigs of data |already | on this machine | | Dan
Re: [Re: [newbie] New Millenium]
I have about 5 computers running here from Pentium and above all seemed to roll the date over fine. I have installed on Y2K fixes on any of them because I wanted to see first if there was a problem before I fixed them. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2000 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] New Millenium] Food for thought... I checked my Mom's elderly 486 66 with a Phoenix BIOS and Win3.11 and discovered that it had defaulted to 1980, a simple reset of the date and all is well...MS Word correctly inserts present date + 2000 Jaguar Etien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Jeffrey A. Crum" wrote: H. Don't ya think that the hype about Y2K brought to light what people and companies had to do to make the fixes so there wouldn't be any problems? I am in the computer field and know for a fact that if we hadn't made the changes, our systems would NOT have worked. We are working with 10-20 year old code and they didn't even imagine that the programs would still be in use come 2000. -Original Message- From: Etien T. VanDenBroecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium Yes that is true, but it has been said that somewhere along the lines we all lost a year, so is it the year 2000 or the year 2001?? who knows, all that I know is that the media hype about the Y2K bug, looks like it turn out to be a big money making scam... Anybody else agree? Example: three days ago a friend of mine heard on the radio that some fool went and purchased and re-wired his whole house, to on run generators for the Y2K blitz!! HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! Etien On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Daniel wrote: There is no argument the new millenium does not start until 2001. A millennia is 1000 years, there was no year "0", so 1 AD through 1000 AD was the first millennia, 1001 AD through 2000 the second (see a pattern forming?) and the third millennia starts 2001. Just some food for thought... Dan - Original Message - From: "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 07:25 Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote: | 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT | Happy new Millenium all... | | -- | Full plate packing steel! - Minsk I've heard all the arguments about the new millenium not starting until 1/1/2001, but I think we should all compromise, and make the entire year of 2000 a celebration of our miraculous survival for two millemia. This way, by the end of the year, no one will care when the third millemium starts. The finest the new millenium has to offer to all, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I work int the computer/internet technical support too, we have a computer in the back that runs MS-DOS 6.2 and windows 3.11 at the stroke of midnight last night, we rebooted the computer and test the applications, no problems what so ever also the company that I work for takes call from all over the country (canada) thousands of those users are still running old windows 3.1 machines and most of them are dumer that dirt! Absouly no called about there computer crashing! We also have a Cisco Router that the Company could not grantee that would pass that Y2K test, after 12:00am last night we were still surfing the net, with no problems.. BTW, that windows 3.11 machine aslo have a BIOS dating well before 1996. I don't what to believe, but I'm starting to have this feeling that we have all gotten the Y2K flew _ ___ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please
"Dunc" == duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dunc Dear all Is there anyway that I can read attached word.doc Dunc files that are sent by the mad minority using a popular sic! Dunc alternative. Dunc I,m using mandrake 6.0,kde and staroffice. I find that WordPerfect does a very good job of opening MS Word files, perhaps because Corel's had a long time to work out the filters. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-14mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 5 St Telesphorus or St John Neumann
Re: [newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please
Hi, As far I know you can open the word.doc documents with Staroffice word. HTH, Hannes duncan wrote: Dear all Is there anyway that I can read attached word.doc files that are sent by the mad minority using a popular sic! alternative. I,m using mandrake 6.0,kde and staroffice. Any help would be great. Thankyou Dunc
Re: [[newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please]
duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all Is there anyway that I can read attached word.doc files that are sent by the mad minority using a popular sic! alternative. I,m using mandrake 6.0,kde and staroffice. Any help would be great. Thankyou Dunc === I have used SO 5.x to open .doc files. It does so flawlessly. I have even edited students papers (in red), saved them as Word 97 files, sent them back as attachments, and no one was even aware when they got their papers back. Give it a try. Mike ## Michael Scottaline Linux 2.2.13 ## Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [[newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please]
duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all Is there anyway that I can read attached word.doc files that are sent by the mad minority using a popular sic! alternative. I,m using mandrake 6.0,kde and staroffice. Any help would be great. Thankyou Dunc === I have used SO 5.x to open .doc files. It does so flawlessly. I have even edited students papers (in red), saved them as Word 97 files, sent them back as attachments, and no one was even aware when they got their papers back. Give it a try. Mike ## Michael Scottaline Linux 2.2.13 ## Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] stop email please
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, marcelo pimentel wrote: | I recive more de 80 e-mail day from linux news.. | I don't like please stop. But then you get stuf like this (reguarding the "Unsubscribe" e-mails sent to the list). If you want off the list, just go to where you got on the list, and unsubscribe from there, or read the confirmation email you got when you subscribed, and follow the instructions to unsubscribe. HTH, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] RE: stop email please
The Winmodem will not work in Linux, because part of the firmware for the modem is simulated in software. Any ISA modem with jumper or dip switches for port and IRQ configuration should work OK. You do not have to use a 56K v.90 modem if you do not want to, however, you will get better connect speeds if you do. HTH, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, marcelo pimentel wrote: | I recently purchashed Linux-Mandrake 6.5 and I am not able to configure the | modem so that it connects to the internet. Maybe it's because I have | winmodem. Also my provider is ATT. Which modem do you think I should use so | that I can connect to the internet? | Does the modem have to be the technology V90 to be used with Linux?
[newbie] A problem with Telnet
Hi Everyone: I´d make a Typical installation of Linux Mandrake 6.0 on my Pc but when I try to make a Telnet from another machine, or from the same I receive the next message. "Connection closed by foreign host" If I make the Complete installation it doesn´t happend. On another distributions, making typical installation I can telnet to everyone. Can somebody help me? Thanks Javier.
Re: [newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please
I have used used Star Office to read a number of attached word documents and edit them. I definitely recommend it. Jason On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Hannes Lackner wrote: Hi, As far I know you can open the word.doc documents with Staroffice word. HTH, Hannes duncan wrote: Dear all Is there anyway that I can read attached word.doc files that are sent by the mad minority using a popular sic! alternative. I,m using mandrake 6.0,kde and staroffice. Any help would be great. Thankyou Dunc
[newbie] Complaint
I unsubscribed from this list at the web site. Why am I still getting messages? I do not wish to recieve messages. Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Still have problems...
Is the AWE card a PNP card? Do you have a printer connected to this machine? If you answer yes to these two things then I suspect the problem is that the printer on port lpt1 is taking IRQ5, the system then tries to move the sound card to one of it's defaults which is IRQ 10. I suspect your network card isn't PNP? This kills the network card. If you can force the sound card to an IRQ. See what you have available, but more than likely 7 will be available. Hope this helps. LongSnowM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Etien VanDenBroecke Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Still have problems... It seems that My NIC Card and Sound card conflict wit each other, If I run the system, without my sound card the system boots up o.k. and the Network works!!! I can surf and all that, but as soon as I put the sound card into the system, the NIC say fail to get IRQ line and then the eth0 service fails... I setup the the sound card in the kernel and using setup but to no avil worst yet, the system does detect the sound card, but says I have to configure manually, I found the right combo of setting to get it working, but the first sound test I get nothing(Linus introducing himself!!) then I can hear the second testing I suppose thats the MIDI testing... I'm at a lost, no ears, help Sound card config is: Sound Blaster AWE 32 I/O: 240 IRQ: 5 DMA1: 3 DMA2: 7 MI/O: 330 NIC card is a NE2000 clone, using ne support in the kernel (only way to get it to work) IRQ: 10 Also How do you find out what DMA channel the NIC card is using? And how do you turn of the isapnp at boot, if I can't get it to work? I also have a second NIC that came with my Cable Modem, uses the tulip driver, but the link light on the card turns off when linux boots, Do any of you think I should use that one with my sound card? If so how do I get that one to work? HELP,SOS, Heating up in Igloo land! Thanks, Etien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] A problem with Telnet
From: Ronald A. Yacketta the age old telnet question ;) by default mandrake does not install the telnet-server rpm, you must do that yourself. its on the cd or where you dl'ed it.
[newbie] Gnome problem
Hi all I use the last released of gnome In this released i have a problem with spanish languaje. In the menus some words dissapear probably caused by words with apostrophe and Ñ . How i get resolve this problem ? and if is impossible how change the defaul languaje to us_en?
Re: [newbie] A problem with Telnet
"Matos , Javier" wrote: Hi Everyone: I´d make a Typical installation of Linux Mandrake 6.0 on my Pc but when I try to make a Telnet from another machine, or from the same I receive the next message. "Connection closed by foreign host" If I make the Complete installation it doesn´t happend. On another distributions, making typical installation I can telnet to everyone. Can somebody help me? Thanks Javier. Hi, Javier, I just did an installation of Mandrake 6.1. There's an rpm on the installation cd called telnet-server that needs to be installed on the machine if you want other machines to be able to telnet in. Good luck, Hidong
Re: [newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Dear all Is there anyway that I can read attached word.doc files that are sent by the mad minority using a popular sic! alternative. I,m using mandrake 6.0,kde and staroffice. *.doc files are viewable in Star Office just fine at least I've had no problems. If they're attached to email, you will probably need to export them to disk first. John
[newbie] CONFUSED
OK, I unsubscribed the right way and didn't recieve any email for about a week, and today I got email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did someone subscribe me again or what could have happen?
Re: [newbie] A problem with Telnet
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi Everyone: I´d make a Typical installation of Linux Mandrake 6.0 on my Pc but when I try to make a Telnet from another machine, or from the same I receive the next message. "Connection closed by foreign host" If I make the Complete installation it doesn´t happend. On another distributions, making typical installation I can telnet to everyone. Can somebody help me? You need to manually select telnet-SERVER package when installing. Otherwise, it's only installed by default when you select "server" or "install everything." John
[newbie] Cron fails after a day or so..
I have had a single cron job that monitors my ip address running for quite some time on my box with no problems. A few days ago, I added a second job to run "rdate -sp time.nist.gov" at specifc intervals. It seems that after a day or so, both jobs stop ( no email to root ), and crond returns "can't lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 412: Resource temporarily unavailable" Is it safe to delete crond.pid? I just rebooted when this happened the other day, and it seemed to fix it, but I don't want to reboot every day. Any ideas as to what might be causing the lockup of cron?
Re: [newbie] Complaint
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Dreja Julag wrote: I unsubscribed from this list at the web site. Why am I still getting messages? I do not wish to recieve messages. Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well unless you entered the wrong email address they will stop, as soon as it sends you all that is init's queue for you. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Complaint
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 09:23:58 -0800, Dreja Julag wrote: I unsubscribed from this list at the web site. Why am I still getting messages? I do not wish to recieve messages. Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're NOT the only one. I have unsubscribed, and received a confirmation, a few days ago, by following these instructions: == You just have been subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the subject : unsubscribe newbie. or go to the web page and unsubscribe via the web interface. == Now, I start receiving messages from the list *again* today. A further request to unsubscribe returns me this message: "List newbie. not found." I will now attempt to unsubscribe via the web page, if this does not do it, I wil direct a compliant to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is of no hlep to me for the following reasons: it is unmoderated, has overquoting, spam, and too much OT messages. Elton Woo ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / ICQ #:9984432) Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. "You only live once, so let's make life easier for each other." I use IBM's OS/2 WARP 4.0 Red Hat Linux 6.0: I do NOT use Microsoft products. Randomly generated tagline follows: ** TagIt/2 v2.0.1 ** ... TRUCKERS have moving experiences
[newbie] Getting rid of KDE
Hi, How do I switch out of KDE and into something like FVWM2? I tried to avoid installing any KDE but some app needed it and I couldn't find the app in the list of software to be installed so went ahead and told it to "resolve the dependencies" which resulted in KDE being installed. I remember having chosen a handful of other window managers, among them fvwm or fvwm2. Under fvwm2 you can right click and from a menu choose to switch to a different windowing system. Where is this feature in KDE? There is a place in the setup where certain groups of apps don't open up when you hit the spacebar. Perhaps the app I missed which would have allowed me not to have installed KDE was in one of those sections. Perhaps not... Anyway... I want my other window manager(s)... g TIA Andy -- From: Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [expert] netscape 4.70-1mdk.i586.rpm seg faults Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 5:38 AM I downloaded netscape 4.70-1mdk.i586.rpm (all three files, commun., Navi., common) twice now and rpm just seg faults on me. I downloaded other rpm files i.e. lpr-0.46-1mdk.i586.rpm and it installed fine. I even downloaded netscape from two mandrake update sites, with the same results. What gives here, and where can I get a good copy of 4.7 at ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager)
Re: [newbie] A problem with Telnet
You need to install the telnet server. It should be on your mandrake CD as "Telnet-something or other.rpm" Just run (as root) rpm -i telnetserver.rpm. Keep in mind that is not the exact filename! You'll have to find it in your CD's Mandrake/RPMS directory. Jeff - Original Message - From: Matos , Javier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 11:07 AM Subject: [newbie] A problem with Telnet Hi Everyone: I´d make a Typical installation of Linux Mandrake 6.0 on my Pc but when I try to make a Telnet from another machine, or from the same I receive the next message. "Connection closed by foreign host" If I make the Complete installation it doesn´t happend. On another distributions, making typical installation I can telnet to everyone. Can somebody help me? Thanks Javier.
[newbie] lilo.conf and vga=ask
Hi, Is this supposed to work under Mandrake 6.1? If so, where exactly in the file would I stick it after a new install of Mandrake? TIA Andy
[newbie] Ident problems
I'm on a cable connection and I have one box masquerading for the rest. The problem is I want to run mIrc sometimes and all the servers complain about ident failures. I read on a red hat how-to that the standard ident package has masquerading problems, so I tried oidentd. It still does not work. I was wondering if anyone has ident working with masquerading. Thanks Jason
Re: [newbie] A problem with Telnet
At 08:07 AM 1/5/00 , you wrote: Hi Everyone: I´d make a Typical installation of Linux Mandrake 6.0 on my Pc but when I try to make a Telnet from another machine, or from the same I receive the next message. "Connection closed by foreign host" If I make the Complete installation it doesn´t happend. On another distributions, making typical installation I can telnet to everyone. Can somebody help me? Thanks Javier. You have to install telnet-server It is in a CD 1 of Mandrake
[newbie] cant put xscreensaver to work
First of all happy new year to everyone, OK, my problem is as follows: I re-installed Mandrake Linux 6.1 on my pc, but now i cant put xscreensaver to work, i read the man pages of xscreensaver and added the following lines to the Xsession file: xscreensaver-commmand -exit xscreensaver so everyone could activate their xscreensaver when they log on, i made this work once but now it doesnt, the users have their ~/.xscreensaver files. If someone but root runs the xscreensaver-demo they can test the screensaver, but if i try if with root i get the "xscreensaver seems not to be running on display :0.0" warning message. Also at the first console i get the following messages depending if root logged on or it was another user: if it is another user: /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession: line 4: 787 Aborted xscreensaver-command -exit xscreensaver disabling builtin xscreensaver xscreensaver: uyou can re-eneable it with "xset s on" if it is root: /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession: line 4: 748 Aborted (core cumped) xscreensaver-command -exit AUDIT: Jan 5 07:33:05 2000: 411 X: client rejected from local host Xlib: coneection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server xscreensaver: cant open display ":0" xscreensaver: initial effective uid/gid was root/root (0/0) xscreensaver: running as nobody/nobody (99/99) xscreensaver: problems at start up are usually related to authorization problems, did u read the manual? bla bla bla (i did read it, but most likely i missed something important) i hope someone can answer me this, Juan Jose Natera P.S. i have changed nothing else besides the files mentioned above, i just installed my Mandrake 6.1 and then tried to setup the xscreensaver.
Re: [newbie] CONFUSED
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: OK, I unsubscribed the right way and didn't recieve any email for about a week, and today I got email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did someone subscribe me again or what could have happen? Hmm...dunno. Maybe someone did, or maybe the list got corrupted and they had to switch to an old copy of the addresses or something... anyway if you want off, I'd unsubscribe again. John
[newbie] Primary and Secondary DNS on the Same Machine?
Is it possible to run Primary and Secondary DNS on one machine and if so, how might i do this. As it stands i have DNS running on Mandrake 6.0 as a primary server, but the some of the other networking companys that i'm working with want it to be there secondary DNS provider so i am searching for a way to do this if it is possible. Thank you for your help. Benjamin Branch
Re: [newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please
John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Dear all Is there anyway that I can read attached word.doc files that are sent by the mad minority using a popular sic! alternative. I,m using mandrake 6.0,kde and staroffice. *.doc files are viewable in Star Office just fine at least I've had no problems. If they're attached to email, you will probably need to export them to disk first. John Hi, I'm having the same problems. Yes, I can read Word documents just fine with Star Office. The problem is in downloading word documents which are attached to e-mails. When I try to double-click the attachment to download, I get an error message saying that some mswordview configuration file is missing. I've installed the mswordview rpm from the mandrake 6.1 installation cd. What else needs to be done? Thanks, Hidong
[newbie] unsubscibed
Hi all, I unsubscribed from this group ages ago. now i am getting emails again. Why ! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] CONFUSED
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 13:26:04 -0500, you wrote: OK, I unsubscribed the right way and didn't recieve any email for about a week, and today I got email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did someone subscribe me again or what could have happen? They might have had to replace the user list from a backup. If you were on the backup list it would be just like you had not unsubscribed. Just unsubscribe againand keep your fingers crossed. g
Re: [newbie] Ident problems
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Darth Vader wrote: I'm on a cable connection and I have one box masquerading for the rest. The problem is I want to run mIrc sometimes and all the servers complain about ident failures. I read on a red hat how-to that the standard ident package has masquerading problems, so I tried oidentd. It still does not work. I was wondering if anyone has ident working with masquerading. Thanks Jason Should have read your man page and documentation for the identd server we provide, it would have saved you some time. Add the -q to the identd line in inetd.conf and setup your /etc/identd.masq (you of course need to get rid of the others you've installed, and reinstall the pidentd we shiped) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] CONFUSED
Try unsubscribing again. I think something happened to the server. I didn't get anything for about 4 days from newbie or expert. Jamey Patrick wrote: OK, I unsubscribed the right way and didn't recieve any email for about a week, and today I got email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did someone subscribe me again or what could have happen?
[newbie] Getting rid of KDE
"Andy" == Andy Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andy Hi, How do I switch out of KDE and into something like Andy FVWM2? I tried to avoid installing any KDE but some app [snip] Is there a file in your /home/[username] directory named .xinitrc? If yes, the last line ought to specify the default window manager. Edit the file to comment out 'startkde' and insert the line exec [command-to-start-the-WM-you-want] I don't want to recommend blindly creating an .xinitrc. You could try creating one with only the line exec [command-to-start-the-WM-you-want], and see what happens. No promises. If there's no .xinitrc, then K might be starting because of the code in /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients. Take a look below. There is no /etc/sysconfig/desktop created in a Red Hat or Mandrake install, AFAIK. Because there's no /etc/sysconfig/desktop, and if gnome's not installed, the default desktop is K (absent .xinitrc in /home). [insert part of /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients here] #!/bin/bash # (c) 1999 Red Hat Software, Inc. # check to see if the user has a preferred desktop PREFERRED= if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then if [ -n "`grep -i GNOME /etc/sysconfig/desktop`" ]; then PREFERRED=gnome-session elif [ -n "`grep -i KDE /etc/sysconfig/desktop`" ]; then PREFERRED=startkde elif [ -n "`grep -i AnotherLevel /etc/sysconfig/desktop`" ]; then PREFERRED=AnotherLevel else PREFERRED=Default fi fi if [ -n "$PREFERRED" -a "$PREFERRED" != "AnotherLevel" ] \ which $PREFERRED /dev/null 21; then PREFERRED=`which $PREFERRED` exec $PREFERRED fi # now if we can reach here, either they want AnotherLevel or there was # no desktop file present and the PREFERRED variable is not set. if [ -z "$PREFERRED" ]; then GSESSION=gnome-session STARTKDE=startkde # by default, we run KDE if which $STARTKDE /dev/null 21; then exec `which $STARTKDE` fi # if KDE isn't installed, try GNOME if which $GSESSION /dev/null 21; then exec `which $GSESSION` fi fi [end inserted part of /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients here] -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-14mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 5 St Telesphorus or St John Neumann "What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Sidelights on New London and Newer New York]
Re: [newbie] Getting rid of KDE
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 11:12:55 -0800, you wrote: You choose which window manager you want at the logon screen. You have your choice there of the window managers that you do have installed. Hi, How do I switch out of KDE and into something like FVWM2? I tried to avoid installing any KDE but some app needed it and I couldn't find the app in the list of software to be installed so went ahead and told it to "resolve the dependencies" which resulted in KDE being installed. I remember having chosen a handful of other window managers, among them fvwm or fvwm2. Under fvwm2 you can right click and from a menu choose to switch to a different windowing system. Where is this feature in KDE? There is a place in the setup where certain groups of apps don't open up when you hit the spacebar. Perhaps the app I missed which would have allowed me not to have installed KDE was in one of those sections. Perhaps not... Anyway... I want my other window manager(s)... g TIA Andy -- From: Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [expert] netscape 4.70-1mdk.i586.rpm seg faults Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 5:38 AM I downloaded netscape 4.70-1mdk.i586.rpm (all three files, commun., Navi., common) twice now and rpm just seg faults on me. I downloaded other rpm files i.e. lpr-0.46-1mdk.i586.rpm and it installed fine. I even downloaded netscape from two mandrake update sites, with the same results. What gives here, and where can I get a good copy of 4.7 at ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager)
Re: [newbie]
Ok, I tried eznet and when I ran the program it dialed into my isp but then disconnected and when I looked at the eznet log file it said "Connect script failed" does anyone know how to rectify this error? - Original Message - From: Warren Doney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 3:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] shark wrote: Hi, I am running linux mandrake 6.5 and have been having lots of problems connecting to my ISP. snip If you Can't use kppp for some reason, try "eznet". Get it from http://www.linuxberg.com (type eznet in search window). Can be run from console, very easy to set up, very easy to run. -- Full plate packing steel! - Minsk
Re: [newbie] Getting rid of KDE
# switchdesk - Original Message - From: "Andy Thomas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 8:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Getting rid of KDE Hi, How do I switch out of KDE and into something like FVWM2? I tried to avoid installing any KDE but some app needed it and I couldn't find the app in the list of software to be installed so went ahead and told it to "resolve the dependencies" which resulted in KDE being installed. I remember having chosen a handful of other window managers, among them fvwm or fvwm2. Under fvwm2 you can right click and from a menu choose to switch to a different windowing system. Where is this feature in KDE? There is a place in the setup where certain groups of apps don't open up when you hit the spacebar. Perhaps the app I missed which would have allowed me not to have installed KDE was in one of those sections. Perhaps not... Anyway... I want my other window manager(s)... g TIA Andy -- From: Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [expert] netscape 4.70-1mdk.i586.rpm seg faults Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 5:38 AM I downloaded netscape 4.70-1mdk.i586.rpm (all three files, commun., Navi., common) twice now and rpm just seg faults on me. I downloaded other rpm files i.e. lpr-0.46-1mdk.i586.rpm and it installed fine. I even downloaded netscape from two mandrake update sites, with the same results. What gives here, and where can I get a good copy of 4.7 at ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager)
Re: [newbie] Getting rid of KDE
Andy Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do I switch out of KDE and into something like FVWM2? I tried to avoid installing any KDE but some app needed it and I couldn't find the app in the list of software to be installed so went ahead and told it to "resolve the dependencies" which resulted in KDE being installed. I remember having chosen a handful of other window managers, among them fvwm or fvwm2. Under fvwm2 you can right click and from a menu choose to switch to a different windowing system. Where is this feature in KDE? There is a place in the setup where certain groups of apps don't open up when you hit the spacebar. Perhaps the app I missed which would have allowed me not to have installed KDE was in one of those sections. Perhaps not... Anyway... I want my other window manager(s)... g TIA Andy -- From: Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [expert] netscape 4.70-1mdk.i586.rpm seg faults Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 5:38 AM I downloaded netscape 4.70-1mdk.i586.rpm (all three files, commun., Navi., common) twice now and rpm just seg faults on me. I downloaded other rpm files i.e. lpr-0.46-1mdk.i586.rpm and it installed fine. I even downloaded netscape from two mandrake update sites, with the same results. What gives here, and where can I get a good copy of 4.7 at ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) If you set up your system for graphical login you will find a choice at login chooser. Otherwise remove any mention of KDE from your /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients and /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc files. This will probably send you to another window manager. I'm not 100% sure because I use Blackbox and I am not a very good script writer. Good Luck. SA -- Do you do Linux? :) Get your FREE @linuxstart.com email address at: http://www.linuxstart.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 software for Linux
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 09:36:07 Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. wrote: Nope! I'm with Mike. Ya gotta take care of the kids first. At least that's how we do it here at my house. Hey, Good thing I *am* the kid in my house. Regards, cyberclay --- cclay at fastlane dot net I think, therefore I am dangerous http://www.hacked-inhabitants.com
[newbie] list moderation PLEASE (rant)
I'm sorry, I couldn't help but notice I receive too much junk mail off of this list. Since when does the year 2000 have *anything* to do w/ Linux? Let alone Mandrake... There are many other lists available for many other computer topics and millenium stuff I hearby suggest that we keep this list open for discussion only about Linux (specifically Mandrake). Axalon? Can you help us out here? I've been threatened off a list for sending mail even slightly OT, and you know what, I never sent anything OT again. Let's just agree that this a list for Linux-Mandrake newbies, and anything that doesn't pertain to Linux-Mandrake in any way shape or form is OFF TOPIC and punishable by 1)a warning and then 2)a booting. If people aren't going to show any consideration for a particular forum of discussion, then they have no place in the forum. Just my $.02. -Josh "I just want info on Linux, please."
Re: [newbie] Complaint
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I did that as well, and I think you'll want to unsubscribe from "newbie" (without the dot '.') However, I did that yesterday, and today I recieved a whole bunch of mails...? (no fun when I've deleted my filter and all. It all tumbled in to my inbox. ;) But I hope that's just me beeing unpatient about the unsubscribe-thing (I should allow 24hrs, or something?)... ;) And I'd like to use the opertunity to say thanks for having me here (if my unsubscription is succesful). I don't think it's a crappy list or anything; I just don't know anything about Linux. (frustrating) On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 14:10:46 +, you wrote: Now, I start receiving messages from the list *again* today. A further request to unsubscribe returns me this message: "List newbie. not found." I will now attempt to unsubscribe via the web page, if this does not do it, I wil direct a compliant to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- André Lindhjem | "breathe keep breathing | ICQ#: 8053045 | dont loose your nerve | ___/ breathe keep breathing | exit music (for a film)i cant do this alone" | -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBOHPE82HkgIWBHcpREQIegQCfe0ut3CcWx3aBTk/kJMCIMRK5XZIAn2ed 2uC+f5tFNQOzv3nej5u7FUEY =W49K -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie] Help with modem....
Im pretty sure i don't have a winmodemso i don't need to be told thati just don't know how to get my modem working in linuxcould someone tell me how? thanks
[newbie] sndconfig program missing entry for Sound Blaster 32/64 for manual config
LINUX Mandrake 6.1 (Helios) 1. from root: /usr/sbin/sndconfig 2. configuration program starts. Sound Configuration Utility 0.34, 1999 Red Hat Software 3. program probe returns: Creative SB AWE64 PnP 4. test for sound fails. Sound works in Windows 98. 5. Manual Configuration. Program configuration options: I/0 Port IRQ DMA 1 DMA 2 MPU I/0 - --- -- 0x 220 5 0 0 0x 330 0x 240 7 1 1 0x 300 0x 260 9 3 3 0x 280 10 5 Reading from Windows 98 System Resource Report, sound card is using: Class: Creative AWE64 Wavetable MIDI (AWE32 compatible): I/O port: 0620h-0623h, 0A20h-0A23h, 0E20h-0E23h Class: Creative AWE64 16-bit Audio (SB16 compatible): IRQ 10: I/O port: 0220h-022Fh, 0300h-0301h, 0388h-038Bh: DMA: 03, 07 DMA entry 07 in DMA 2 is missing. -- I went back and reran /usr/sbin/sndconfig. When I clicked the entry for heard sound, in the next window I heard a MIDI sound play through my speakers. John F. Vogele Shoreline Computing
Re: [newbie] eznet
You have to get the correct connect script from your isp. Depending on how well your isp supports Linux, they may or may not be willing or able to give you this information. The connect script consists of strings that you receive and send, like your username and password. You can configure your connect script from 'control-panel' as root. For dialing, have you tried 'usernet'? It comes with Red Hat (Mandrake). Good luck, Hidong shark wrote: Ok, I tried eznet and when I ran the program it dialed into my isp but then disconnected and when I looked at the eznet log file it said "Connect script failed" does anyone know how to rectify this error? - Original Message - From: Warren Doney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 3:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] shark wrote: Hi, I am running linux mandrake 6.5 and have been having lots of problems connecting to my ISP. snip If you Can't use kppp for some reason, try "eznet". Get it from http://www.linuxberg.com (type eznet in search window). Can be run from console, very easy to set up, very easy to run. -- Full plate packing steel! - Minsk
Re: [newbie] RE: stop email please
IF ONLY. SCSI modems would scream
[newbie] From Unixware to Mandrake... Memory Corruption Problems ?
Ok guys, I have been moving my applications and clients from Unixware to Linux and lately, it has been proving to be disastrous. I need some help. I initially tested on Slackware and Redhat 5.2. Things went very well, uptimes where comparable to Unixware. I switched to Mandrake because I saw the future need for the Secure Socket Layer. I am now plagued by what appears to be memory corruption problems. I am unsure whether or not Linux Mandrake 6.0 has brought these on, or the Hardware. Most noticeable symptoms include: crc errors in .tgz files until reboot System lockup with filesystem corruption and/or loss Halt command during the shutdown process causes "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 872f" Cannot logout of icewm sessions after executing gnome apps Kdm toolbar and taskbar not appearing when logging in. System hardware is as follows: System 1: PCI100 M577 Motherboard K6-2 350 128 Meg SDRAM ATI Rage IIC AGP 2940UA Seagate 4 GB Barracuda Exabyte 2 GB Dat SCSI-CD RW 2x2x4 3c905B Blastronics 8 Port Serial Board System 2: Soyo SY-5EHM Motherboard K6-2 450 128 Meg SDRAM ATI Rage IIC AGP 2940U2W Seagate 9 GB Cheetah Tecmar NS8 Travan Tape SCSI-CD RW 2x2x4 3c905B USR 56K Internal System 3: Soyo SY-5EHM Motherboard K6-2 450 128 Meg SDRAM ATI Rage IIC AGP 2940U2W Seagate 9 GB Cheetah Tecmar NS8 Travan Tape Ricoh MP7000S CDRW 3c905B Digiboard PC8xe System 4: DFI P5BV3+ Motherboard K6-2 450 2 32Meg SDRAM's (Pulled the 128 Meg SDRAM and things got better) ATI Rage IIC AGP 2940U2W IBM 4 GB HP Tape 2000 DAT Sony CD 3c905B Digiboard CX Adapter Internal 19.2 Modem, Rockwell Chipset
Re: [newbie] MP3 software for Linux
"Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." wrote: Nope! I'm with Mike. Ya gotta take care of the kids first. At least that's how we do it here at my house. Just lettin ya know yer not alone, Mike! Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [snip] Hey guysyou're making sound as if I ignore my kids. Not so!! There's a six system peer-to-peer lan in our house. The 15 year old has a PIII/500, the 17 year old a PII/233, the wife a Pentium MMX/200 and I've got...er...um...the other three systems :-) Alan
Re: [newbie]
shark wrote: Ok, I tried eznet and when I ran the program it dialed into my isp but then disconnected and when I looked at the eznet log file it said "Connect script failed" does anyone know how to rectify this error? Not without seeing your "eznet log" There should be an "eznet.txt" in your eznet folder, which might help you. -- Full plate packing steel! - Minsk
[newbie] remote printing
Hi, I can't print over my network. I have three machines. The one on which the printer is attached is ok. But when I try to print from the other two machines. I get the error message: hostname: lpd: lp: Your host does not have line printer access hostname is the machine on which the printer is attached. I can print fine from this machine. On the other two machines, I configured the remote printer using printtool. What else do I need to do? Thanks, Hidong
Re: [newbie] Getting rid of KDE
You can use kdm , xdm or better desktopcfg may this help you ! Younes Zouhair Le Wed, 05 Jan 2000, vous avez écrit : Hi, How do I switch out of KDE and into something like FVWM2? I tried to avoid installing any KDE but some app needed it and I couldn't find the app in the list of software to be installed so went ahead and told it to "resolve the dependencies" which resulted in KDE being installed. I remember having chosen a handful of other window managers, among them fvwm or fvwm2. Under fvwm2 you can right click and from a menu choose to switch to a different windowing system. Where is this feature in KDE? There is a place in the setup where certain groups of apps don't open up when you hit the spacebar. Perhaps the app I missed which would have allowed me not to have installed KDE was in one of those sections. Perhaps not... Anyway... I want my other window manager(s)... g TIA Andy -- From: Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [expert] netscape 4.70-1mdk.i586.rpm seg faults Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 5:38 AM I downloaded netscape 4.70-1mdk.i586.rpm (all three files, commun., Navi., common) twice now and rpm just seg faults on me. I downloaded other rpm files i.e. lpr-0.46-1mdk.i586.rpm and it installed fine. I even downloaded netscape from two mandrake update sites, with the same results. What gives here, and where can I get a good copy of 4.7 at ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager)
[newbie] KDE out
I have lost all the icons, and I can't launch any applications in the tools menu (ie. Telnet, ...) Have you an idee to solve that ? I lost all these things in the root profile, but the others are ok. Thanks for your help Robert __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] problem with KFM
In another Linux computer, each time i reboot, kfm says: "trying to open file:/root/Desktop/Autostart/core" But it can't find it ... (the file doesn't exist) Have you an idea ? Robert __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] Voodoo 3 3000 Drivers????
Anybody know where i can find drivers for a Voodoo3 3000 AGP for SuSE linux 6.2?
Re: [newbie] startup error
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, Ken Harbit wrote: | I have Mandrake 6.0, it is installed on /dev/hdb1. Every once in a while I get the following error when starting up. "/dev/hdb1 has reached maximal mount count, check forced." It then goes on and loads fine. It also operates fine. | | Should I be concerned about this? | | Ken Harbit | [EMAIL PROTECTED] No. This is simply Linux taking care of you as Windows can or will not. About each 20 (do not know the exact number) mounts, fsck is instructed to check the filesystem for errors in the init script file which runs at start up. If any are found, they are either repaired for you (minor things), or you will be dumped to a shell. At this point, you enter your superuser (root) password, and you can then run fsck to repair the partition which contains the errors. AFAIK, the command is fsck /dev/hd%# (%=physical drive leter - first is a, second is b #=partition number). Also from this shell, you can run "man fsck" (no quotes) for better information on fsck. HTH, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] SOHO System Administration
I'm working on something similar for home use. I've not gotten as far as you seem to be, but I have a text called "LINUX Network Toolkit". It's centered on a LINUX server using SAMBA to connect to Microsoft clients. It does have a good section however, on setting up users. You might check that text or the IDG site. http://www.idgbooks.com. Configuration in LINUX should be very similar regardless of the client. Keeping a split system like you plan will affect your planning/implementation for sure. I'd love to hear what success you have. Solutions as well as I might run into the same problems. My hardware includes a LINUX box, a dual boot LINUX/Win box, 2 Win only boxes and an Apple iBook with AirPort hub and so on. Mine is definitely going to be fun to figure out. Stay in touch, B. B. "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Evening All, I have a small home office with 5 PC's and several users (read kids here). At present one is Linux-Mandrake 6.1 and the others are Win NT 4.0 and Win95. It is my intention to convert all but 1 into Linux boxes. I also intend to allow any user to sit down at any PC and login. My question are 1. Is there a method to centralize my user administration or am I doomed to have to add each potential user to each machine? This leads to question #2 where / how to mount /user/home 2. I would like to keep all /user/home directories on one machine. Is it possible to setup the login procedure to "mount" /user/home across the network or do I need to teach every one (including myself) how to use telnet or what? I have searched through about a dozen books I have and nothing even comes close to hinting at a solution. TIA -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please
You should be able to open it with Star Office - Original Message - From: "duncan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 2:39 AM Subject: [newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please Dear all Is there anyway that I can read attached word.doc files that are sent by the mad minority using a popular sic! alternative. I,m using mandrake 6.0,kde and staroffice. Any help would be great. Thankyou Dunc
Re: [newbie] Console trouble
On Tue, 04 Jan 2000, jerrud wrote: | OK, I know this is *very* newbie, but here goes. | I installed Linux on another computer of mine, and after installing X and | all that good stuff, i chose for X to start at boot. | Well the thing is, is that i need to use the *real* console to setup my DSL. | It seems netcfg just doesnt want to work in X, but i can get DSL linked up | in 2 seconds if i use it in the real console when you boot up. My question | is this: how do i bypass the starting of X at boot, and go right into the | console?? | Oh yeah, ctrl + alt + backspace doesnt work. just brings me into the "login" | GUI promt. | thanks! | jerrud | | ***Whats the diffrence between Microsoft and a man w/ a gun in your face? | Nothing. They both want your money.*** Log in to your X-windows GUI session as normal, then try CTRL+ALT+F2 - this will put you at a console log in screen, and you can log in, get connected, and switch back to the GUI with CTRL+ALT+F7 to do things the easy way. You can also use linux 3 at the LILO prompt if you want to start without X running at all. HTH, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RE: [newbie] MP3 software for Linux
Well, I just heard from my wife that she will be getting me a nice new monitor for my birthday :-) Wonder how long it will remain attached to my machine before it migrates to my daughters box Na this time I will put my foot down I think, ever tried working on an old 14inch monitor that you can only stretch the picture to cover about 3/4's of the screen? Not a pretty site. Maybe with the new monitor I will be able to fully appreciate KDE eh :-) Cheerz: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed 05 January 2000 17:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MP3 software for Linux Nope! I'm with Mike. Ya gotta take care of the kids first. At least that's how we do it here at my house. Just lettin ya know yer not alone, Mike! Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Voodoo 3 3000 Drivers????
Voodoo : Check .. http://www.3dfx.comand look for the link to their Linux site, which has Linux 3dfx drivers. Mark -- - Original Message - From: X To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 11:43 PM Subject: [newbie] Voodoo 3 3000 Drivers Anybody know where i can find drivers for a Voodoo3 3000 AGP for SuSE linux 6.2?
[newbie] SOHO System Administration
"Joseph" == Joseph S Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Joseph 1. Is there a method to centralize my user Joseph administration or am I doomed to have to add each Joseph potential user to each machine? This leads to question #2 Joseph where / how to mount /user/home Joseph 2. I would like to keep all /user/home directories Joseph on one machine. Is it possible to setup the login Joseph procedure to "mount" /user/home across the network or do I Joseph need to teach every one (including myself) how to use Joseph telnet or what? [snip] Telnet isn't necessary. Each user doesn't need an account on each machine. You need NFS. You could have all the /home directories on an NFS server, and add /home 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw) in /etc/exports on the server. (Let's call the server 'blue'.) Then enter the information about the /home into /etc/fstab blue:/home/ben /home/ben nfs rw 0 0 The directory /home/ben on his machine must, of course, be empty. A problem may arise in this scenario: User 'ben' on machine 'white' has UID 501 and GID 501 there and User 'amy' on machine 'green' has UID 501 and GID 501 there. The map_static option in /etc/exports is used to coordinate UIDs and GIDs. /home/ben white(map_static=/etc/nfs/white.map) /home/amy green(map_static=/etc/nfs/green.map) so /etc/nfs/white.map would include uid 5012001 and /etc/nfs/green.map would include uid 5013001 -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-14mdk
Re: [newbie] list moderation PLEASE (rant)
Here, Here! I agree. Surely these OT messages can be brought under control? Chip Wiegand Josh McCaffrey wrote: I'm sorry, I couldn't help but notice I receive too much junk mail off of this list. Since when does the year 2000 have *anything* to do w/ Linux? Let alone Mandrake... There are many other lists available for many other computer topics and millenium stuff I hearby suggest that we keep this list open for discussion only about Linux (specifically Mandrake). Axalon? Can you help us out here? I've been threatened off a list for sending mail even slightly OT, and you know what, I never sent anything OT again. Let's just agree that this a list for Linux-Mandrake newbies, and anything that doesn't pertain to Linux-Mandrake in any way shape or form is OFF TOPIC and punishable by 1)a warning and then 2)a booting. If people aren't going to show any consideration for a particular forum of discussion, then they have no place in the forum. Just my $.02. -Josh "I just want info on Linux, please."
[newbie] KDE problem after upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2
I have Mandrake 6.0 on a AMD K6-2/350 (well, a couple actually), but on one machine I tried to upgrade KDE 1.1.1 to 1.1.2. I went to KDE's web site, then to their download site and ftp'd all the files in the directory, about a dozen or so. These were in rpm format. Before actually doing anything with them I went into the Linux chat room on yahoo and got some opinions on just what is the best way to do this. I was told to use Kpackage and force the install ontop of the previous version, which I did. Then I rebooted the machine and it will not come up to the normal gui logon screen. All I get is a gray screen and 'x' shaped mouse cursor, no icons, no task bar, no mouse right-click, nothing at all. I try alt-Feverythingkey and none of them work. I then am left with one option - ctrl-alt-bkspc. I get the screen with lots of text flying by and the last lines read as follows - /home/chip/.Xclients: /home/chip/.Xclients-default: no such file or dir. /home/chip/.Xclients: exec: /home/chip/.Xclients-default: no such file or dir. And sure-enough, there is no .Xclients file to be found. So, what the heck do I do now? I am stuck using winblows on this machine, though I could use my firewall for this but prefer not to. I have quite a few apps and saved files in Linux on this one, so hopefully I can just fix this problem without reinstalling the whole OS. Please help, and thank you ahead of time for trying, Chip Wiegand
Re: [newbie] Help with modem....
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, Andy Foote wrote: | Im pretty sure i don't have a winmodemso i don't need to be told | thati just don't know how to get my modem working in linuxcould | someone tell me how? thanks I use KDE, and this is simple here. In the K Internet menu start KPPP, select the "Setup" button. Then select "New" in the "Accounts" tab. In the resulting Dial tab, give the new account a name, and provide a phone number to dial into your ISP, and be sure the "store password" box is checked unless you want to enter your password each time you log on. Now select the "IP" tab, and be sure the "dynamic IP" radio button is selected, and that the "Auto-configure host name from this IP" is NOT selected (quite important). Select the DNS tab, and enter the DNS addresses provided by your ISP in the "DNS ISP address" text box, then select the "add" button for each address. In the "Gateway" tab, select the "default gateway" radio button and "assign the default route to this gateway" check box. Unless you need to use a special script with your ISP to log on, or you need to watch your connect time (for example your service is not unlimited, or you have connect time charges you do not need to make any changes to the last two tabs. Select the "OK" button at the bottom of the window. You have now set up your ISP account. Next in the "Setup" window, select the "device" tab and be sure the appropriate information is entered in this window. You must tell KPPP where the modem is connected (COM1,2,3,,4) by using the Linux port designators "ttys0,1,2,3" respectively. The "flow control", and "line termination" can usually be left alone, but the connection speed may be able to be set at 115200 rather that the 57600 which is the default (works OK on my system - no telling on other's). Now select the "Modems" tab. I set the modem volume in the middle of the slider. Select the "Query Modem" button. This will allow you to check that your modem is conected where you expect it to be. You will get an error if the modem is not connected at the port you selected, or you will get an information box telling you about your modem if it is found. You can also edit the modem commands under the "Modem Commands" button or start a terminal session using the "Terminal" button. I have left these two alone for now. Select the "PPP" tab to configure how KPPP will behave under specific conditions, and set the pppd timeout. The last tab you may want to work in is the "Graph" tab. Here you can set up the colors used in the "detailed" display for the throughput graph. When you are satisfied with the settings, select the "OK" button at the bottom of the window. Finally to check the setup, select the "Connect" button. You should connect to your ISP. HTH, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] KDE problem after upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, Chip wrote:
/home/chip/.Xclients: exec: /home/chip/.Xclients-default: no such file
or dir.
And sure-enough, there is no .Xclients file to be found.
So, what the heck do I do now? I
How about creating ("touch) the Xclients-default file with just one
line:
exec startkde
and making it executable.
--
Ronald
Re: [newbie] Made a mistake in setup
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, John Aldrich wrote: | On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | In a message dated 1/1/00 1:20:43 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | writes: | | Could you please explain a few things really quick? | |I'm assuming that your machine is coming up in runlevel 5 graphical mode | | Runlevel 5...is there level 4 graphical mode? What is with these runlevels, | I see them all over but don't quite understand. Just each runlevel is a | level of complexity, where each level depends on the processes going on in | the level beneath? | | There are four runlevels you need to keep in mind: RunLevel 1 which | is a single-user, no network, no GUI boot up. Run Level 3 which is a | multi-user, networked boot up, and Run Level 5 which is the GUI, | multi-user boot up. Now, these are different for each distribution of | Linux. Also, Run Level 6 is the "reboot" run level, so if all else | fails and you can get a command prompt, but need to shut things down, | you can init 6 and reboot. :-) | | type " linux 3 " with out the quotes. And don't take all | day. you only have a few |seconds. This will boot you into linux without X. | | How did you know this? | | Experience. :-) Trust us... the default boot delay is something like | 15 seconds... VERY short! | John Also, other more knowlegable users have helped us out by telling us these little gems when we asked "how do I do this???" Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] How to Dial up
I don't why but it still does not work. I tryed that it came up with "bash: /etc/resolv.conf: Permission denied" not to sure why I am the main user. I take it there is echo[space]""[space][space]/etc/resolv.conf David Grogan wrote: start a konsole (you can get to this using the K menus) type cd /etc then use a text editor (joe, pico, vi) to save a blank resolv.conf I dont know how much you know, if you arent comfortable with that, type this line at the prompt echo "" /etc/resolv.conf then hit ctrl+d to get out of the konsole this will create a blank resolv.conf, you might need to add some stuff in it later hth David lights wrote: when you go (1) big K (2) Internet (3) Kppp (4) message comes up "/etc/resolv.confis missing" How to you get it Warren Doney wrote: I wrote: Hi How do you dial up your ISP from Mandrake version 6.0 Netscape 4.6 (McMillan Make) KDE From Eric You have to connect manually before Netscape will work. 1st kppp--help then kppp--setup -- Full plate packing steel! - Minsk
[newbie] Best developer distrobution?
I was wondering what all distrobution everyone has tried with the main intent to be developing, particulary C and C++. What do you all think is the best distro for coders? Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
