Re: [newbie] Configuring DirecPC Satellite Dish?
Hi, I was going to ask the same question,since I live in an area where I can't get cable. Thanks, Dan "Jason E.J. Manaigre" wrote: Hello everyone... I know this is probably a long shot, but has anyone here configured their Mandrake boxes to work with a DirecPC Satellite Dish? Thanks
Re: [newbie] Linksys Network card help needed...
I have two of these cards in one box both working fine using the tulip driver - originally under LM 7.0 and now LM 7.1. This sounds like a card configuration problem. Check your BIOS settings and make sure PNPOS is set to No. This will make the BIOS configure the cards IRQ and I/O address. Many machines running Windows have PNPOS set to Yes which requires the OS to configure the cards I/O and IRQ which Windows happily does and Linux doesn't seem to do. Your lilo change only tells Linux where to look for the card. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Joe Brault" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 5:47 PM Subject: [newbie] Linksys Network card help needed... Thanks everyone who helped with my pcmcia card, but now i'm onto an even more difficult one for my desktop. I have a Linksys LNE100tx card, and am unable to get it to work no matter what i do. I tried to downnload the latest driver and get that compiled,but it wil not compile... I tried the tulip driver the comes with mandrake 7.0 and that gave me an error saying delaying eth0 initialization, followed by 'FAILED'. I also tried manually setting the IO and irq for it taken from my winbloz portion of my computer, but that didn't work either, just gives the same message as above. I even went as far as to add a line to my lilo.conf file to see if I could assign it an irq and IO that would work on boot, but nothing works... I am really lost and would appreciate any help that anyone can give. Thanks in advance! - Joe :) Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings
Report on the topic. First, thanks to those of you responding, especially those that responded off-list. I am summarizing early because it is abundantly clear that, 1) people did not carefully read my original post that said "respond to me directly (off-list) and I will summarize 2) the volume of inconsequential posts on this list is overwhelming, i.e., signal-to-noise ratio is very low 87 posts 14 unique posters majority favor text only only salient rationale: concern for non-US users who have to pay metered rates to be connected to the internet. Number of people responding who claim this as their reason: 0 (note: people for whom this may be their reason may not deem it worth the cost to make this case themselves.) most common rationale: 1) that is the way it is done; 2) text only users (very few actually use a text-only client) don't want to be bothered with having a client that can read HTML. Most common observation: those arguing most strenuously for text only happen to be people who don't really offer helpful advice on the list--they tend to be the most vitriolic. Not true of all the text only people, but the most vitriolic are also the least helpful. I guess that is only to be expected. Most common misconception: that using HTML means filling up a message with backgrounds, attachements, in-line jpegs or gifs or other high bandwidth paraphernalia rather than simply the judicious use of bold and italics (which adds VERY LITTLE to the size of a message). Most people, by far, use mail readers capable of reading HTML. Those who don't are in a dwindling minority that is increasingly marginalized. However, even those who use HTML capable clients prefer plain text (and as one who looks at a monitor 12 hours a day, I really can't understand it. The eye strain is horrific.) This writer's opinion: If people on this list used HTML for simple formatting, they would save their eyes, the "dinosaurs" would get over it (but WOULD bitch and moan for a while, decrying the end of civilization as we know it, and stocking up on canned goods gor the coming apocalypse :-) ). The Netiquette rules where written almost 10 years ago and have never been amended. The same conditions simply do not apply now. I had my Unix epiphany in 1979. My first "global" email account was in 1982 (VAX) and I have been working in network computing for over 20 years, so I have been a first-hand witness to the evolution. We can choose either to be hamstrung by the lowest common denominator, like Neanderthals with stone knives and bear skins, or we can be inspired with the greatest common factor--transfering technology and know-how to those who are eager to absorb it. The compelling imperative of computing is to get more work done better, faster, cheaper, regardless of your platform. Get it up and keep it up. Don't eschew the tools that can help you fulfill that imperative. Reach out and share what you know, and ask about that which you don't. Thank you for your indulgence. -- John Glasscock Administrator Programmer EtherDog MultiMedia 3821 N Sugar Lane Bloomington, IN 47404 tel:+1.812.876.5233 fax:+1.508.256.2413 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User# 183536 on Registered Linux Box# 81201 "Save the world, eschew Microsoft."
[newbie] Here is how to configure sound in 7.1
I am a newbie who is delighted as to how easily Mandrake 7.1 installed and configured itself. The one subsystem than did not configure itself automatically was sound. I noticed on this list that I was not alone in this. By reading and trying I stumbled on the way to make this happen and am therefore sharing it with others. You need to run, as root, "sndconfig". But you cannot run it from a xwindows. Therefore do the following: 1. Press Ctrl-Alt-F2(This will take you to a non graphic login screen) 2. login as root by entering "root" and your root password. 3. type "sndconfig" and press enter. 4. follow the screen instructions. In my case the card it found was not the one I had (Sound Blaster) and there was no way to change it but when I accepted it, I got SOUND !! I am still a Linux newbie but my guess is that Mandrake's database of names of sound cards may be wrong (naming one card for another) and that may be why the install does not install sound correctly, but my knowledge is very limited here. If others find this works for them, it should probably posted wherever Mandrake posts bug reports. I would, but do not know how. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
[newbie] fdisk/MBR
For those of you who read my post to Walt yesterday It is always hard for those who can not grasp something unless it is carried between their legs that there is life and wonder beyond their narrow minded vision. Good luck with "unsubdcribing". Charles P.S. don't forget to use fdisk/MBR to restore your boot record His attitude pissed my off so I was being pure evil. PLEASE if you are running Win2000 do not even consider using fdisk/MBR. This operation will not restore your boot record it will erase it. The only way to fix your Win2000 MBR is with a Rescue disk. Charles
RE: [newbie] Cannot configure sound on 7.1
hi Mark I did nothing. And I just discovered that sound is working in my system, I played a few WAVs. The thing that is not working is sound systems. I tell Gnome to enable sound systems and does nothing, not even an error message. The settings of my soundcard were detected at installation, don't remember right know the card detected (something like Enqsonic(?)) the values used for DMA, etc, were all set to -1. I have a Soundblaster Infra PCI 128. Hugo GONZALEZ MIS Cuernavaca Mexico -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 5:12 PM To: Hugo GONZALEZ Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Cannot configure sound on 7.1 Hugo, did you have to do anything special to get the sound working for the music CD's? I can't get mine working for love or money. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: I don't have sounds either (cannot play system sounds, wav files, etc), but music CDs and avi videos have no problem: sound is perfect. Try playing a CD, I didn't realized CD had sound until two weeks after I installed Mandrake. Why CDs and avi files have no problem with sound? I still don't know, I am trying to find out. Hugo
Re: [newbie] Multiple questions on Mandrake 7.0
Andrew, To answer you first question, I have the exact same card on my Gateway SOLO 2500 laptop, and it was doing the exact same problem. I was able to fix mine by using the 3c575_cb driver (comes with kernel) and not using dhcpcd. You can change these settings in LinuxConf... Hope this helps - - Joe :) From: Andrew Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Multiple questions on Mandrake 7.0 Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 17:03:17 -0700 1) Having trouble getting proper configuration for a 3Com 10/100 LAN CardBus PC Card 3CCFE575BT on my Thinkpad 760 XL. Under KDE, the card works correctly for a couple of minutes and then just stops. Pinging the machine over my local lan then gets no response and I can't get to the internet via my DSL connection. Works better under Gnome desktop, but only for longer. Any suggestions? Is there a driver out there for this device that I can put on a floppy and copy to the Thinkpad? 2) I have two Macs on the same LAN as the Thinkpad and I want to copy files from one of them to the Linux Thinkpad to use it a a web server. Both are configured with IP addresses and file sharing is on. HOw do I get the Thinkpad to see them so that I can move files? Or conversely, can I get the Macs to see the Thinkpad and drag and drop files to it from them? 3) I tried to upgrade to Mandrake 7.1 by burning the two 7.1 iso images found on line from the Madrake site. The install halts early with a message saying unable to start ram disk, or something close to that. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Andy Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Cable modems
I'm sure that this has been asked many a time but, I am very new at this. Linux supports the use of a cable modem, correct? I am running Mandrake 7.1. Thanks in advance!!
RE: [newbie] Cannot configure sound on 7.1
I did, Dennis. I have tried several times without results (the check box is checked). Not even error messages. And I discover that sounds can be played only if opened with another app (like media player). System sounds are the only ones that cannot be enabled. When I go see the config sound events and I press the play button for a test nothing comes out of my speakers, but if I go and open the same WAV file for that event, but using Media player, I can hear the sound. I just don't know. Thanks, Dennis. Hugo -Original Message- From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 6:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot configure sound on 7.1 Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: I don't have sounds either (cannot play system sounds, wav files, etc), but music CDs and avi videos have no problem: sound is perfect. Try playing a CD, I didn't realized CD had sound until two weeks after I installed Mandrake. Why CDs and avi files have no problem with sound? I still don't know, I am trying to find out. Hugo Hugo, if you are running KDE or Gnome for a desktop go to settings , sound and check the enable box in the upper left of the window, select your sounds and apply and you should have system sound. Or did we already give this a try? Dennis -- Dennis-Registered Linux User #180842
[newbie] Ethernet at bootup
Hello again all, Thanks for the suggestions on the Linksys card. I unfortunatelly was unable to get it working at all, and have switched to my old trusty ne2k card... I was delighted after 8 hours of frustration to see Linux automatically detect it at bootup :) ANYWAYS... I have now configured my card and would like it to be configured automatically at boot... Is there a way to do this? I tried to get it to make the changes in liloconf, but it gave me an error and when I looked at the logs, it only shows successfull changes, but these chagnes do not take effect when I restart... kinda wierd. Any help is appreciated. Thanks all! - Joe :) Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Cannot configure sound on 7.1
Hi Philomena I am using Mandrake 7.1. My soundcard is a Sounblaster Infra PCI 128. And just realized that I can't enable system sounds (I checked the box "Enable system sounds", but it didn't work). I just discovered last weekend I can play WAVs!! Thanks Philomena Hugo -Original Message- From: philomena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 9:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot configure sound on 7.1 Hugo, Sorry if this is repetetive, but I must have missed this earlier in the thread - what version of mandrake did you install, what type of sound card do you have and what driver is it using ? philomena Fran Parker wrote: mp3s too! We have a little 386 computer with 8 megs on our porch running redhat 6 (only because it is not a pentium and doesn't have 32megs ram...otherwise it would be Mandrake 7, like mine)...anyway can sit on the porch and sign in to my Mandrake machine, as user, su to root, and run mp3s from the command line (mp3s are all on my archive hard drive - windoze drive). It is way cool, sitting there listening to mp3s thru the stereo from my computer upstairs, while stting on the porch and enjoying the breeze! While doing all that, can check mail on another terminal window, via connection on my Mandrake machine upstairs, while switching to another terminal window and chatting on dal.net or downloading a file from some ftp site or surfing the web (text style that is). Is linux cool or what! We love it! Bambi Paul wrote: On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: I don't have sounds either (cannot play system sounds, wav files, etc), but music CDs and avi videos have no problem: sound is perfect. Try playing a CD, I didn't realized CD had sound until two weeks after I installed Mandrake. Why CDs and avi files have no problem with sound? I still don't know, I am trying to find out. Hugo Hugo, if you are running KDE or Gnome for a desktop go to settings , sound and check the enable box in the upper left of the window, select your sounds and apply and you should have system sound. Or did we already give this a try? Dennis Another option would be to just open an xterm and do play path/name_of_wave_file Yes, folks. Linux can play wav's without a graphical environment! :) Paul -- You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Linksys Network card help needed...
have you tried the drivers from here? http://www.scyld.com/ This site is the home of Donald eEcker. He is the orignal author of the Tulip driver and is still maintining a copy. The Linksys card has many different revs and can cause lots of headaches. I also suggest getting on the mailing list there. Lots of excellent help. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 7/17/2000 at 6:49 AM Ralph Day scribbled: I have two of these cards in one box both working fine using the tulip driver - originally under LM 7.0 and now LM 7.1. This sounds like a card configuration problem. Check your BIOS settings and make sure PNPOS is set to No. This will make the BIOS configure the cards IRQ and I/O address. Many machines running Windows have PNPOS set to Yes which requires the OS to configure the cards I/O and IRQ which Windows happily does and Linux doesn't seem to do. Your lilo change only tells Linux where to look for the card. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Joe Brault" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 5:47 PM Subject: [newbie] Linksys Network card help needed... Thanks everyone who helped with my pcmcia card, but now i'm onto an even more difficult one for my desktop. I have a Linksys LNE100tx card, and am unable to get it to work no matter what i do. I tried to downnload the latest driver and get that compiled,but it wil not compile... I tried the tulip driver the comes with mandrake 7.0 and that gave me an error saying delaying eth0 initialization, followed by 'FAILED'. I also tried manually setting the IO and irq for it taken from my winbloz portion of my computer, but that didn't work either, just gives the same message as above. I even went as far as to add a line to my lilo.conf file to see if I could assign it an irq and IO that would work on boot, but nothing works... I am really lost and would appreciate any help that anyone can give. Thanks in advance! - Joe :) Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Regards, Scott Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Geekbox project: http://www.therubberroom.org/geekbox ICQ#: 125581
Re: [newbie] Reply text goes ON TOP
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:18:42PM -0400, walt wrote: So far I have not found anything useful on this list I wil be unsubdcribing..the right way. So far Linux can't even be compared to win2000..I don't know what all the hype is about linux..it really sucks as far as I can see... Oh, we will really miss you - NOT. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [newbie] Reply text goes ON TOP-Walt
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 07:42:15PM -0500, Gil Baron W0MN wrote: After my troubles with 7.1 I have about the same feeling. I am doing this as a learning experience and something to play with. It is obvious that for serious work for the home user, LINUX is NOT there yet. Maybe some day. Yeah, right. And Windows is ready? Come on, get a life. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [newbie] Acrobat Reader
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 05:10:36AM -0400, Tsweny wrote: "unsubscribe" Yeah, that's really hard, isn't it? Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [newbie] web server
Thanks Mark, I was able to figure out that it wasnt installed yet. So then I installed it and its now working. Thanks again, brad - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "bradc C" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 5:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] web server Hi Brad, It's very likely already installed on your system. To test it and make sure open a Netscape browser window and in the location bar type this address: http://127.0.0.1 then hit enter. If, after you do this a web page pops up that says something like, "you made it..." or "it worked!" that means Apache is already installed and running on your computer. Watch the next time Linux boots up and look to see if it's starting something called httpd. That's the web server module that it's initializing. That's Apache. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, bradc C wrote: Hello, I would like to know how do I install Apache web server on my computer. I am running mandrake 7.1. Thanks for your help. brad
Re: [newbie] Text v. HTML messages on this list
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 01:30:41PM -0400, Fran Parker wrote: Thanks Alan, This makes sense to me. I thought it was such a nuisance to have to scroll to the bottom of a message (most of which I had read earlier) just to get to the new post. See, and that's why you only quote the relevant text. And here comes my usual PS: PS: Please only quote the relevant text, and not the whole thing, like you just did. Thanks. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size..
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 12:04:42AM -0400, John Catral wrote: I just used Partition Magic and it worked with no problems with the PM disk. What a great tool to have! =) Thanks for everyones help! =) What do you mean by PM disk? Did it work with the partition type still set to 85? Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 11:15:23PM -0500, John Glasscock wrote: Most common misconception: that using HTML means filling up a message with backgrounds, attachements, in-line jpegs or gifs or other high bandwidth paraphernalia rather than simply the judicious use of bold and italics (which adds VERY LITTLE to the size of a message). [...] cheaper, regardless of your platform. Get it up and keep it up. Don't Hmm, this does not fit. Have you ever even looked at the size of a HTML mail vs. a text only mail? Right now I remember of one of those unsubscribe emails. It was 26 lines big, compared to a text only unsubscribe email of only 3 lines. If I understand you correctly, you're saying that 26 lines is only a little bit bigger than 3 lines? Now if everyone were to bloat their emails like this, I would have to pay 9 times as much for being subscribed to this list. And you are telling that this is not much? For the eye strains: Right now when I'm writing that message, I see a large black background with large white letters. That doesn't strain my eyes even nearly as much as those HTML capable X MUAs do. eschew the tools that can help you fulfill that imperative. Reach out That's what I do, and that's why I am so strongly in favor of text-only. It is easier to use, cheaper, and doesn't strain the eyes as much. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size..
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:46:21PM -0700, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: that you can optionally install for Linux. Partition Magic identifies that type as '85' which I was wondering myself - hexadecimal?? Nope, that's not true. At least not according to the file system type listing that fdisk puts out. There 85 is listed as "Linux extended", not reiserfs. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size..
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 05:55:52PM -0400, John Catral wrote:
How can Is tart Linux fdisk? Or do you mean Diskdrake? Well, how do I
start both or access both? Sorry for this very newbie question. =)
No, I meant fdisk, not DiskDrake. Never used DiskDrake to be honest.
Login as root, type "fdisk" (without the quotes (") of course), type m
for help, and you'll see.
To change the partition type of a partition type, first type l to get
a listing of all the partitions. Remember the number of the one
that's listed as "Linux extended". Now type t return and the number
of the partition. Next enter 5 return. To get out of fdisk press
w. Reboot.
Alexander Skwar
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Re: [newbie] how to unsubscribe or temporarily drop (fwd)
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 07:02:18AM +0100, Paul wrote: And then start a new e-mail war on the length of signature files? I don't Hey, *I* never wrote anything about the length of signatures *grin*. Anyway, it could be a three liner, couldn't it? Like so: -- To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe newbie | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To be temporarily off: echo set newbie nomail | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's only 3 lines with each line = 78 chars. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size..
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 05:38:34PM -0400, John Catral wrote: So Diskdrake can do a non destructive partitioning? I suppose so, yes. That is along as you don't delete any partitions, DiskDrake wont destroy the other partitions on that disk. PS: Please only quote as much as needed, and not the whole text like you just did. Thanks. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [newbie] fdisk/MBR
well isn't this a nice way to help each other ... helping people to mess up their system because you don't like their attiude ... nice having people like that on your newbe list ... - Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 4:33 PM Subject: [newbie] fdisk/MBR For those of you who read my post to Walt yesterday It is always hard for those who can not grasp something unless it is carried between their legs that there is life and wonder beyond their narrow minded vision. Good luck with "unsubdcribing". Charles P.S. don't forget to use fdisk/MBR to restore your boot record His attitude pissed my off so I was being pure evil. PLEASE if you are running Win2000 do not even consider using fdisk/MBR. This operation will not restore your boot record it will erase it. The only way to fix your Win2000 MBR is with a Rescue disk. Charles
Re: [newbie] Here is how to configure sound in 7.1
Sound mods and hardware specifications for different makes of sound card *can* fall under different names. It all depends on the actual DSP on the card itself. As long as the chip is the same, the rest of the config should just be a matter of specifying the irq and any other relevant information. As far as I'm aware this does not mean that the card list is wrong, but more that you share the same architecture of the listed card along with whatever resource addresses are associated with it. I've noticed on other distributions I am running (RedHat 5.2, 6.0, Mandrake 6.1, 7.0, and OpenBSD (different story)), that a lot of no name sound cards will actually work with one of the existing configurations in the list. =o) Lonny Selinger Systems Administration EDS Canada -- Linux is user friendly . its just picky about who it makes friends with.
[newbie] I have a scanner hp 3200c but don't work
can anyone help me
[newbie] i can access win95 machine by mean lan
i only can access win98 machine but the win95 machin i can't vizualisized or access. can you help me
[newbie] 2 questions
I have 2 simple and unrelated questions 1. Where can I go to download the 128 bit version of Netscape 4.73, and ssh? 2. Purely for nostalgia, and simple curiosity, is there a place that one can go to download packages for CDE??? I know that Gnome and KDE are probably way better, but my curiosity has gotten the better of me here. :-) Dan
Re: [newbie] fdisk/MBR
No worries Charles. I think he got under a lot of folks' skin yesterday. Charles A Edwards wrote: For those of you who read my post to Walt yesterday It is always hard for those who can not grasp something unless it is carried between their legs that there is life and wonder beyond their narrow minded vision. Good luck with "unsubdcribing". Charles P.S. don't forget to use fdisk/MBR to restore your boot record His attitude pissed my off so I was being pure evil. PLEASE if you are running Win2000 do not even consider using fdisk/MBR. This operation will not restore your boot record it will erase it. The only way to fix your Win2000 MBR is with a Rescue disk. Charles -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
Re: [newbie] Cannot configure sound on 7.1
Hugo, I don't think the problem is with your sound card. I have the same trouble with Gnome in my installation. Some things work and others don't. Gnome sounds is one of them. I know that the sound works because I configured the sound easily enough over the weekend using sndconfig. When Netscape encounters something with a sound file embedded on it the sound plays fine. IN fact, the sound is much better then than it ever was in Windows. I just can't seem to figure out why I can't play music CD's in Linux, unless Linux requires a physical connection between the CDROM and the sound card. Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: hi Mark I did nothing. And I just discovered that sound is working in my system, I played a few WAVs. The thing that is not working is sound systems. I tell Gnome to enable sound systems and does nothing, not even an error message. The settings of my soundcard were detected at installation, don't remember right know the card detected (something like Enqsonic(?)) the values used for DMA, etc, were all set to -1. I have a Soundblaster Infra PCI 128. Hugo GONZALEZ MIS Cuernavaca Mexico -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 5:12 PM To: Hugo GONZALEZ Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Cannot configure sound on 7.1 Hugo, did you have to do anything special to get the sound working for the music CD's? I can't get mine working for love or money. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: I don't have sounds either (cannot play system sounds, wav files, etc), but music CDs and avi videos have no problem: sound is perfect. Try playing a CD, I didn't realized CD had sound until two weeks after I installed Mandrake. Why CDs and avi files have no problem with sound? I still don't know, I am trying to find out. Hugo -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
[newbie] Cox Cable ethernet problems
Dear All, Thank you for your help. A different technician came to fix my ethernet problem. A different card was necessary. I now have cable service with Windows 95 and will sooner or later set it up in Linux. The technician said he knows nothing about Linux and wants to learn about it. He said that Linux will definitely work with their cable service even though someone from Cox told me otherwise. The new card is a SMC EZ Card 10 ISA Network Card. Any assistance for setting up this card in Linux would be appreciated. A very helpful person from your group gave me step by step instructions for installing cable internet. I am sure they will work with this card, too. I believe I have all of the necessary information. The IP address is dynamic. I imagine Kudzu will detect it when I get on Linux again. I have not used Kudzu before. Any tips? Thank you for your help. I am looking forward to switching to Linux with the cable service very soon. Thank you, Marcia
Re: [newbie] Cannot configure sound on 7.1
Hugo I use KDE so I am not exactly sure how you work it in GNOME but after you enable system sound you still need to associate a sound file with each event that you want sound. Start-up, logout, max, min, and so on. Charles - Original Message - From: "Hugo GONZALEZ" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 11:37 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Cannot configure sound on 7.1 hi Mark I did nothing. And I just discovered that sound is working in my system, I played a few WAVs. The thing that is not working is sound systems. I tell Gnome to enable sound systems and does nothing, not even an error message. The settings of my soundcard were detected at installation, don't remember right know the card detected (something like Enqsonic(?)) the values used for DMA, etc, were all set to -1. I have a Soundblaster Infra PCI 128. Hugo GONZALEZ MIS Cuernavaca Mexico -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 5:12 PM To: Hugo GONZALEZ Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Cannot configure sound on 7.1 Hugo, did you have to do anything special to get the sound working for the music CD's? I can't get mine working for love or money. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: I don't have sounds either (cannot play system sounds, wav files, etc), but music CDs and avi videos have no problem: sound is perfect. Try playing a CD, I didn't realized CD had sound until two weeks after I installed Mandrake. Why CDs and avi files have no problem with sound? I still don't know, I am trying to find out. Hugo
[newbie] hp printer
Hello Everyone, I have a HP DeskJet 712c, and I cant get it to work. I have tried all the install techniques and it recognizes its there, but when I try to print a test page nothing happens. Any Ideas? Thanks bradc
[newbie] win2k / 7.1
I am running windows 2000 and have run into a problem with 7.1. I ran a triple boot with 2000, 98, and 7.0 for quite a while and had no problems. With 7.1 though something has changed... it would seem that something with the way they format their drives has changed. Before the linux partitions showed up as unusable or damaged to win2k so it didn't bother with them. Now they show up as being good and healthy. You would think this a good thing but the problem is that since they are showing up as good and healthy win2k looks at them when I boot. This makes my boot up time for win2k go from 30sec without 7.1 to about 5-10min with 7.1. Any ideas on how to get around this? That long of a boot up time is unacceptable for me and if I can't get around it I will have to either look to a different distribution or give up Linux all together. TIA, charles
[newbie] Linux security in Internet
Hello everyone. Reading a magazine I found a place where security in internet is tested for your computer. This place is www.grc.com. I gave it a visit twice. Once under Linux and once under W98. I found the following info regarding open ports suceptible of being used by intruders. Port Service Linux W98 - 41 FTP Open Closed 23 Talnet Open Closed 27 SMPTOpen Closed 79 Finger Closed Closed 80 HTTPOpen Closed 110POP3Open Closed 113ident Open Closed 139Netbios Closed Open 143imapClosed Closed 443HTTPS Closed Closed - What does this mean? Is my Linux box (as is) more suceptible to be accessed by unwanted people than W98? Do I have to use a firewall? Is there something I am missing? Am I getting paranoid? Are these too many questions? :) Thanks!! Hugo
Re: [newbie] Cannot find tape in tape drive
Thank you. I will try the tar command. Does the command as you wrote it (thank you !) include the subdirectories? That is if I wrote tar -cvf /dev/ht0 \ will it backup everything (from root down)? Thank you. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 3:55 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot find tape in tape drive On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: I am running Mandrake 7.1 My ATAPI tape drive (Conner, Travan) shows as correctly recognized during bootup. However when I use the KDE Tape backup utility, with a tape in the tape drive, it keeps telling me there is no tape in the drive. I probably have it misconfigured but cannot figure out where ot how. Any help appreciated. You will have to find a way to tell Ktape to access /dev/ht0. I have an HP streamer, Atapi also, and I use tar to backup my things. tar -cvf /dev/ht0 directory to backup another directory... Paul -- Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayevsky )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Re: [expert] Cannot start X anymore! Please help newbie
The problem is indeed that the partition does fill up. I discovered that because I have Partition Magic on the same PC running under NT4. I then discovered that it was the / partition that fills up. Enlarging that partition with Partition Magic solved the problem. During the install of Mandrake 7.1 there comes a time when you set up the different partitions to install into. I noticed that that urility also has the ability to resize the partitions. I do not know how to access that utility from within Linux. If I could, that would permit us to resize the partitions from within Linux without having to boot into another OS to run PM in. So I have 2 questions: 1. What is that utility (partition creation and resizing) called and can one access it after installation. 2. Does PM run under Linux? Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Myers, Dennis R NWO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 11:54 AM Subject: [expert] Cannot start X anymore! Please help newbie I have the same problem when I tried to install Star Office and when it was running, I lost X server 3 or 4 times. I did not reinstall SO and went for a week without a problem and decided to reinstall and guess what! Crash. I get a message of no space on the device. What device? Have you received any help with this? It seems like one of the partitions fills up and there is no space left on it. But which partition and how to make it bigger or automatically erase old info to make room for new: If you have any new info not showing up on the expert list or newbie please post on the newbie, Thanks, or you can e-mail me direct at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , Dennis
[newbie] Midnight Commander M keys?
I have used NC for years and therefore love Linux's MC. But, I cannot figure out what the "M" key stands for, like M-? to search for a file. What keys does that correspond to in a normal keyboard? Thank you. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size..
I have the Mandrake 7.0 PowerPack and the 2 install CDs of Mandrake 7.1 but cannot seem to find Partition Magic on it. Is this the DOS PM utility (that I can get from my PM 5 for NT4) or is this a version specific to Linux? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 12:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size.. JohnThe Partition Magic CD (or the included CD that comes with some Linux distros that have PM included with their boxed set distro) comes with the ability to transfer the PM programs to a pair of floppies that boot and run the PM programs with an included version of DR DOS. You can then use PM on a Linux system by booting the system with these DR DOS/PM floppies. Alan John Catral wrote: Partition Magic has a Linux version?? On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Paul wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote: Hi! Can I safely resize a partition in Linux? What software should I use then? I need to resize my partition (/home) so that I can use a virtual disk with VMWare. Thanks in advance =) Partition Magic is what I like best. I am not sure if DiskDrake wil retain the info on the disks.. Paul -- John M Catral [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7113128 http://i.am/JohnCatral Registered Linux User #183190
Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size..
Does changing it to type 5 create a problem to the Linux data? Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 4:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size.. Or you can simply change the partition type of your extended partition from 85 to 5 with the Linux fdisk program. That way PM should be able to see the contents of your extended partition.
Re: [newbie] Cable modems
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: I'm sure that this has been asked many a time but, I am very new at this. Linux supports the use of a cable modem, correct? I am running Mandrake 7.1. Thanks in advance!! yes, without a doubt Eunice Thompson
RE: [newbie] Cannot configure sound on 7.1
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: I did nothing. And I just discovered that sound is working in my system, I played a few WAVs. The thing that is not working is sound systems. I tell Gnome to enable sound systems and does nothing, not even an error message. The settings of my soundcard were detected at installation, don't remember right know the card detected (something like Enqsonic(?)) the values used for DMA, etc, were all set to -1. Very interesting, I don't hear sounds whatever I do with Gnome either. And I have a very simple basic SB 64 Awe in my machine. Funny.. Paul -- Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Great MP3player
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote: Hello! I just tried "cdplay" and it worked! WOW! What a weird thing. After typing"cdplay" on the command prompt, I was able to hear the cd. I opened up KSCD from KDE and now it reads the audio cd. I can even move forward or back. Anyone know what was the problem? Can you recommend a Great CD player? Possible mp3/cdplayer? Hi John, I use XMMS (included on the 7.1 cd) for MP3's. It is the next generation X-amp (yes, there is something like winamp out there too). It uses the same skins and such, and is great. It does not do CD's though. Paul -- Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Windoze
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 07:42:15PM -0500, Gil Baron W0MN wrote: After my troubles with 7.1 I have about the same feeling. I am doing this as a learning experience and something to play with. It is obvious that for serious work for the home user, LINUX is NOT there yet. Maybe some day. Yeah, right. And Windows is ready? Come on, get a life. Windows is never ready. It took Microsoft 10 years to produce 1 windows manager. Linux has more than 5 already. I have had Win2k on my machine for 6 weeks, and Win2k keeled over dead 10 times in that period. In the 4 months that I am continuously running Linux (MDK 7.0 and 7.1) I managed to lock up the system once. Win98 is as unstable as an egg with a bad hairday. The only thing I can sort of appreciate is Win NT4/sp6, but that is a terror to maintain. But for people who thrive on games that is not an alternative. (Btw I do not play games on computers.) 'nuff said. Paul -- Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings
John Glasscock wrote: Report on the topic. Thanks for the summary, to which I have to say I agree with your opinion. I did not respond to your request on the basis I am mainly a reader and being a GNOME user tend to use a email client capable of reading text and html and was therefore not worried by the preference of others. I always post in text because I have been flamed in the past for not using it. I beleive that dinasaurs became extict and the world moved on maybe one day email will do the same. -- Steve - Cheltenham, UK - In love and light we are In darkness we are no less
Re: [newbie] how to unsubscribe or temporarily drop (fwd)
Alexander Skwar wrote: On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 09:41:12PM +0100, Paul wrote: For all the unsubscribees. I may turn this into a weekly lecture, plenty of students, as obvious... What about putting that into the signature of each and every outgoing message? That way nobdoy can say that he didn't know how to unsubscribe. Will really help, on some lists I belong to people seem to take little notice and still question the list or get it wrong, even when a url/web page is offered to do the job for them! -- Steve - Cheltenham, UK - In love and light we are In darkness we are no less
Re: [newbie] i can access win95 machine by mean lan
Without any more details it is difficult to troubleshooting your problem... Check the subnetmask value (normally is 255.255.255.0). It should be the same for all machines in the network. See http://mandrakeuser.org/connect/cmlan.html and check all the steps Bye James Bond non-registered linux user nr 007 ;) From: Fernando Camacho Olmos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] i can access win95 machine by mean lan Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:55:51 -0500 i only can access win98 machine but the win95 machin i can't vizualisized or access. can you help me Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Ethernet PCMCIA problems.
Hi everybody I have sent this mail before but I haven-t seen it posted, so I'll try again. How can I configure a PCMCIA ethernet card Surecom EtherPerfect EP427x ? Basically it is a 10/100 ethernet adapter. I have a Toshiba 2520cdt (k6-2 300MHz, 64MB, 4.3G) and I have installed Mandrake 7.1 The card works perfectly under win98. The pcmcia ports are recognized and there seems to be activity in the card - when linked to the net cable, the LEDs are blinking. However, the card itself is not recognized as a net card. I have tried to configure the PCMCIA modem and it was perfectly autodetected, so the PCMCIA ports are ok. Please help me! __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [newbie] win2k / 7.1
I am running windows 2000 and have run into a problem with 7.1. I ran a triple boot with 2000, 98, and 7.0 for quite a while and had no problems. With 7.1 though something has changed... it would seem that something with the way they format their drives has changed. Before the linux partitions showed up as unusable or damaged to win2k so it didn't bother with them. Now they show up as being good and healthy. You would think this a good thing but the problem is that since they are showing up as good and healthy win2k looks at them when I boot. This makes my boot up time for win2k go from 30sec without 7.1 to about 5-10min with 7.1. Charles, I am running 7.1 with Win2k and, although Win2k sees the disk as healthy, the dual boot has not increased my boot time. What exactly does it do while it is booting that causes it to take a long time (eg. autocheck etc.)?
Re: [newbie] hp printer
What driver are you using? This thing should work with the DeskJet 550c driver. have you tried that? --Original Message Text--- From: bradc C Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:11:08 -0700 Hello Everyone, I have a HP DeskJet 712c, and I cant get it to work. I have tried all the install techniques and it recognizes its there, but when I try to print a test page nothing happens. Any Ideas? Thanks bradc
Re: [newbie] Cannot configure sound on 7.1
Mark, I had this problem once with CD's. See if you have a program on your system called "xmixer" -- it is a volume control app. It will show you whether or not the CD sound is muted. When I first got sound in Linux I had that problem. Phil On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Hugo, I don't think the problem is with your sound card. I have the same trouble with Gnome in my installation. Some things work and others don't. Gnome sounds is one of them. I know that the sound works because I configured the sound easily enough over the weekend using sndconfig. When Netscape encounters something with a sound file embedded on it the sound plays fine. IN fact, the sound is much better then than it ever was in Windows. I just can't seem to figure out why I can't play music CD's in Linux, unless Linux requires a physical connection between the CDROM and the sound card.
Re: [newbie] Reply text goes ON TOP
I'm with you Alex. Crystal clear. :) -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Well, but he's actually right. If that "walt" person really thinks that w2k is better, why shouldn't he encourage him to go back to this "os"? Hmm. I'm kinda mixed on this... I mean, if he tries/tests both OS's (is it really accurate calling Windog an OS? smile) and then makes an intelligent decision based on his trials, and goes back to MS, then I would wish him luck on his decision (even though I would still disagree heartily with it). But...(cue one of VH1's pop up video "butts") if he goes with Windoze because he hasn't really taken the time needed to get to know Linux and get the best out of it...then I think we, as the Linux community (and thus are all spokespeople after a fashion) should be concerned... If you follow me here... (I just clocked out of a 12.5 hour PM shift at my hospital). ;-)
Re: [newbie] Cable modems
Hi Kelly, Please check out the link below. It helped me get my cable modem working. http://members.home.net/randal.leavitt/CableModemConnectionNotes.html Roman RLU #179293 "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: I'm sure that this has been asked many a time but, I am very new at this. Linux supports the use of a cable modem, correct? I am running Mandrake 7.1. Thanks in advance!!
Re: [newbie] MDK7.1 IDE Configuration FreezesDuringInstallationonDell Dimension XPS PII 200 MMX
I am wondering if I upgraded my BIOS, would this get the installation
working for me.
Roman
Daniel Anderson wrote:
Hi,
I had no problem installing on a pentium 100 with Intel chipset.I
remember reading somewhere about problems with the via chipset,which
this board has,I don't remember if it was related to this problem
though.I tried removing all but one drive and a cdrom,still the same
results,also tried changing every relevant setting in bios.It's also
interesting that when I tried to install 7.0 on the pentium machine,with
various video cards,I never could get past the display setup,yet 7.1
works perfectly.
Thanks,
Dan
Romanator wrote:
Whew!! I thought the problem was with my computer, only. The weird thing
is that MDK7.0 should have installed on a Pentium II. I have a i586
installation. I think further investigation is needed and documented.
Roman
Gil Baron W0MN wrote:
You are not alone with install problems with this poorly tested version 7.1.
See my video problems on expert. Xfree86 (the thing I needed most in the
upgrade) fails with my configuration. In fact , with 2 different
configurations on two different machines.
-Original Message-
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Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 12:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] MDK7.1 IDE Configuration Freezes During
Installation onDell Dimension XPS PII 200 MMX
Romanator wrote:
Hi,
I'm having the same problem with the computer freezing when detecting
the ide drives. Mandrake 7.0 installed without any problems,but 7.1
always freezes.I've tried different drives,so I don't think the drive
itself is the problem. I don't know the name of the board,but it has a
via chipset,and running a AMD K6-2 450 processor.
Thanks,
Dan
Hi everybody,
I have been trying to install MDK7.1x on to my older Dell Dimensions XPS
200s MMX('ala 1997).
I have a two drives configured with a Creative CD-ROM and Iomega ZIP
drive. The original OS is Win95.
Original Hard Drive (sorry I do not have the name)
A) 3 Gig. drive connected the first bus (I'm not sure of the brand
name)-has Win95 on 1st partition
Recent Hard drive (Fujitsu)
B) 10 Gig. drive connected to the second bus (Fujitsu - purchased last
year)-has Win98SE on 1st partition
MDK Installation 7.0
MDK7.0 never installed on the 10 Gig. as it went to text mode and
appeared to not recognize the hard drive. All I could see was the large
penguin in the top left corner while slowly scrolling up line by line.
The MDK7.0 installation CD is for Pentium i586 and higher.
MDK Installation 7.1 Helium
So then I tried MDK 7.1. The installation got as far as searching and
configuring IDE and then it froze.
I tried stopping the installation and it finally blacked out to DOS. The
message indicated that some of drivers were older and may have to be
upgraded? Has any one experienced anything remotely similar?
This is a 10 Gig. Fujitsu, and its not that old.
It appears that the configuration may be a bit screwed up after adding
the additional hard drive.
Actually, I had a colleague configure this.
Any ideas?
Roman
Re: [newbie] Can I Ghost entire drive including Linux
That's bizarre Roman M Thompson wrote: Mark, I run it from a 1.5 GB spare FAT hard drive. Norton Ghost can ghost a Linux partition, but it doesn't like to save the image to a Linux partition. Matt From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can I Ghost entire drive including Linux Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 19:06:19 -0400 (EDT) Am I understanding correctly that this Ghost is run from the DOS partition on not the Linux partition? -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Romanator wrote: What a deal. I have to admit, it is a lifesaver. Roman M Thompson wrote: Roman, Norton Ghost will accomplish this task for you. I have a spare 1.5 GB drive in my PC that I use to hold the image file. My other drive is an 18 GB drive. Norton Ghost is able to compress the image file too. Take care, Matt From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can I Ghost entire drive including Linux Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 12:07:28 -0500 Hi everybody, Is it possible to create an image file with all partitions, including Linux? Roman Registered Linux User #179232 Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Windoze
heh heh... I have had about the exact opposite luck as you. 7.0 died all the time on me where as 2000 has never crashed once... for me and I've had it running for as much as 2 months at a time before rebooting it to go into another OS. I don't understand and perhaps you can enlighten me ( I missed the post to which you are replying ) why someone who feels windows2000 is better than linux needs to get a life? You obviously feel that linux is better than windows2000 but does that mean that those who feel win2k is better are retarded, and those who feel linux is better are smart? You will probably say yes. I personally run them both because I can recognize that they both have weaknesses and strengths and I also enjoy having 4 OS's on my computer( Be, Linux, 2k, 98). : ) later, charles ulwelling -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 2:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Windoze On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 07:42:15PM -0500, Gil Baron W0MN wrote: After my troubles with 7.1 I have about the same feeling. I am doing this as a learning experience and something to play with. It is obvious that for serious work for the home user, LINUX is NOT there yet. Maybe some day. Yeah, right. And Windows is ready? Come on, get a life. Windows is never ready. It took Microsoft 10 years to produce 1 windows manager. Linux has more than 5 already. I have had Win2k on my machine for 6 weeks, and Win2k keeled over dead 10 times in that period. In the 4 months that I am continuously running Linux (MDK 7.0 and 7.1) I managed to lock up the system once. Win98 is as unstable as an egg with a bad hairday. The only thing I can sort of appreciate is Win NT4/sp6, but that is a terror to maintain. But for people who thrive on games that is not an alternative. (Btw I do not play games on computers.) 'nuff said. Paul -- Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] how to unsubscribe or temporarily drop (fwd)
I was wondering. Is there another way of adding my 'Registered Linux User number below my name without enabling the signature? It sounds like this bothers some people. I am using Netscape. Roman Paul wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 09:41:12PM +0100, Paul wrote: For all the unsubscribees. I may turn this into a weekly lecture, plenty of students, as obvious... What about putting that into the signature of each and every outgoing message? That way nobdoy can say that he didn't know how to unsubscribe. Alexander Skwar And then start a new e-mail war on the length of signature files? I don't remember how many mails I dumped about replies on top or bottom or such. *grin* I did consider it though! Paul -- Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Reply text goes ON TOP-Walt
Gil Baron W0MN wrote: After my troubles with 7.1 I have about the same feeling. I am doing this as a learning experience and something to play with. It is obvious that for serious work for the home user, LINUX is NOT there yet. Maybe some day. Install trouble and lack of applications are the villains. Even if install trouble vanished the lack of applications that interface with the rest of the world would do it. The lack of applications PERIOD for my ham radio uses alone mandates windows remains. i believe if the distros would upon installation of linux throw u into a low res mode and then let people pick their monitors and video cards i believe they would attract and keep a lot more people. there seems to be in my opinion this need to put u in a high res desktop just to have it crash. it doesnt make any sense to me. i do however love my Mandrake 7.1.. i think its esceptionally fast. i clicked on the hard drive optomisations when i installed mine. it seems to be much faster than that other operating system. i seem to get a feeling when the kernal. 2.4 is released we will find ourselves in a pool of software. -Original Message- From: Kathleen Dickason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 4:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Reply text goes ON TOP-Walt Charles A Edwards wrote: - Original Message - From: "walt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 2:18 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Reply text goes ON TOP So far I have not found anything useful on this list I wil be unsubdcribing..the right way. So far Linux can't even be compared to win2000..I don't know what all the hype is about linux..it really sucks as far as I can see... It is always hard for those who can not grasp something unless it is carried between their legs that there is life and wonder beyond their narrow minded vision. Good luck with "unsubdcribing". Charles P.S. don't forget to use fdisk/MBR to restore your boot record :-} *grin* is that like "don't let the door hit you on the way out"? Kathleen, being evil and replying on the bottom
RE: [newbie] Cannot configure sound on 7.1
I just used the Mediaplayer that comes in Multimedia/Sound section of the Gnome menu (the button with the Gnome logo on it). Hugo -Original Message- From: Steve Howes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 2:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot configure sound on 7.1 Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: Hi Philomena I am using Mandrake 7.1. My soundcard is a Sounblaster Infra PCI 128. And just realized that I can't enable system sounds (I checked the box "Enable system sounds", but it didn't work). I just discovered last weekend I can play WAVs!! What did you use to play the wav files? In a gnome-terminal (or similar) try esdplay wav_file_name What results do you get? -- Steve - Cheltenham, UK - In love and light we are In darkness we are no less
Re: [newbie] Ethernet problems.
if your dsl modem is feeding into an ethernet card (some feed usb instead) the set-up ought be very similar... the primary name (as in item 9 below) is the complete name of your computer, as assigned to you by your ISP...the portion before the first dot (reading from the left) is unique to your computer, and is often a bunch of letters and numbers...the portion after the first dot is the domain name of your ISP... your user name is the name you type in to identify yourself to your ISP...often something like jtsmithwinkle, or a made-up handle like gorethunker, THEpid, or leftnostril... your computer host name is that part of your "primary name + domain" that comes before the first dot... hope that's clear...if not, let me know and i'll garble forth some more... frank On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Joshua Holland wrote: would this be the same for DSL connection? And what is primary name? The user name? Or my computer host name? All I have from ISP is domain name 1. be in root to accomplish the following: 2. open drakconf 3. click on network setup 4. click on networking 5. click on basic host information 6. click on adapter 1 7. select the enabled button 8. select the Dhcp button 9. type in the Primary name + domain (this is something like cm55631.cox-internet.com the cable company has given you this name) 10. make up a name for your computer and fill in alias (if you want to) 11. leave IP address blank 12. Netmask is optional - likely is 255.255.255.0 13. Net device ought likely be eth0 14. Kernal module ought to have been filled by mandrake during install 15. click accept to close the host basic configuration window 16. click on Name server specs (DNS) in the prior window 17. fill in the IP numbers for server 1 and 2 if cox has given you these...if they've not, then you likely do not need them...IP numbers are quadsets of the form: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 18. click accept to close that window 19. click routing and gateways on the prior window 20. click on "set defaults" 21. fill in the Default gateway quadset number...cox has given you this... 22. select "enable routing" 23. click on accept 24. click quit on immediately prior window 25. click quit on next prior window 26. click quit on the last window left open...another small window will open... 27. click on "activate the changes" in this small window...
[newbie] newbiew ?
i have installed mandrake 7.1 on the install i clicked on the ipchains. how do i check to see if they are actually running. thanks pat the newbie:)
RE: [newbie] Windoze
-Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 3:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Windoze On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 07:42:15PM -0500, Gil Baron W0MN wrote: After my troubles with 7.1 I have about the same feeling. I am doing this as a learning experience and something to play with. It is obvious that for serious work for the home user, LINUX is NOT there yet. Maybe some day. Yeah, right. And Windows is ready? Come on, get a life. Windows is never ready. It took Microsoft 10 years to produce 1 windows manager. Linux has more than 5 already. Right you are, but it is working now. I don't care how long it took, the fact is that it works for me. Yes, it is unstable at times but it does what I need. It supports all of my hardware. It has the applications I need. If Linux is so great, where are all of the applications. I will tell you where they are. They are not written because nobody can make money on it . Everyone expects everything for free on Linux. Well ad far as application choice goes, you get what you pay for. OS/2 was better too, look where it is! I am not hoping that we talk about LINUX in the past tense. I just find it is not ready for serious use yet AT HOME. AGAIN though applications are the major thing, they drive the OS and not the other way around. THAT is the real world.
Re: [newbie] Registered Linux User ???
Kim White wrote: HiHow do I register as a Linux User?Kind Regards Kim White Pinnacle Micro Secunda Tel: (017) 631 2668 FAX: (017) 631 3139 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] good questtion. i emailed mandrake and they couldnt help me either. i could not find a registration number and i purchased 7.0 and then 7.1 maybe someone will help us.
Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size..
JeffPM was not part of the 7.0 Powerpack. It was included in 'Linux Mandrake 7.0 Complete' (Complete, not Deluxe) published by Macmillan. Alan Jeff Malka wrote: I have the Mandrake 7.0 PowerPack and the 2 install CDs of Mandrake 7.1 but cannot seem to find Partition Magic on it. Is this the DOS PM utility (that I can get from my PM 5 for NT4) or is this a version specific to Linux? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 12:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size.. JohnThe Partition Magic CD (or the included CD that comes with some Linux distros that have PM included with their boxed set distro) comes with the ability to transfer the PM programs to a pair of floppies that boot and run the PM programs with an included version of DR DOS. You can then use PM on a Linux system by booting the system with these DR DOS/PM floppies. Alan John Catral wrote: Partition Magic has a Linux version?? On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Paul wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote: Hi! Can I safely resize a partition in Linux? What software should I use then? I need to resize my partition (/home) so that I can use a virtual disk with VMWare. Thanks in advance =) Partition Magic is what I like best. I am not sure if DiskDrake wil retain the info on the disks.. Paul -- John M Catral [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7113128 http://i.am/JohnCatral Registered Linux User #183190
Re: [newbie] Registered Linux User ???
go to: http://counter.li.org Kim White wrote: Hi How do I register as a Linux User? Kind Regards Kim White Pinnacle Micro Secunda Tel: (017) 631 2668 FAX: (017) 631 3139 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] Registered Linux User ???
Hi Kim, Click on the link below. http://counter.li.org/ Roman Kim White wrote: Hi How do I register as a Linux User? Kind Regards Kim White Pinnacle Micro Secunda Tel: (017) 631 2668 FAX: (017) 631 3139 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] begin:vcard n:;Roman x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:Roman - Register Linux User #179293 fn:Romanator end:vcard
Re: [newbie] win2k / 7.1
I am running windows 2000 and have run into a problem with 7.1. I ran a triple boot with 2000, 98, and 7.0 for quite a while and had no problems. With 7.1 though something has changed... it would seem that something with the way they format their drives has changed. Before the linux partitions showed up as unusable or damaged to win2k so it didn't bother with them. Now they show up as being good and healthy. You would think this a good thing but the problem is that since they are showing up as good and healthy win2k looks at them when I boot. This makes my boot up time for win2k go from 30sec without 7.1 to about 5-10min with 7.1. I am running 7.1 with Win2k and, although Win2k sees the disk as healthy, the dual boot has not increased my boot time. What exactly does it do while it is booting that causes it to take a long time (eg. autocheck etc.)? It does nothing that I can tell... Here is what I know... when I 7.1 installed it hangs between the "preparing network connections" and the "login" screens for about 5 to 10 min. It is like it is literally just hanging. There are a few disk accesses everyonce in a while but other than that nothing. When I wax the linux partitions it boots up again just as fast as normal. Do you have any odd entries in you event viewer?
Re: [newbie] 2 questions
DanCDE in probably already installed on your system, if not it's on your installation CD. For the 128 bit version of Netscape 4.73, and ssh go here and pick a mirror site: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fcrypto.php3 Alan Dan Ferris wrote: I have 2 simple and unrelated questions 1. Where can I go to download the 128 bit version of Netscape 4.73, and ssh? 2. Purely for nostalgia, and simple curiosity, is there a place that one can go to download packages for CDE??? I know that Gnome and KDE are probably way better, but my curiosity has gotten the better of me here. :-) Dan
Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings
Hmm, this does not fit. Have you ever even looked at the size of a HTML mail vs. a text only mail? Right now I remember of one of those unsubscribe emails. It was 26 lines big, compared to a text only unsubscribe email of only 3 lines. If I understand you correctly, you're saying that 26 lines is only a little bit bigger than 3 lines? Alexander Skwar I'm sorry Alexander, but there's no way that 3 lines of text from an email would produce 26 lines if written in html - it just doesn't work like that. Mike
Re: [newbie] Linux security in Internet
Hugoyep a firewall is the answer, I use PMFirewall and on GRC my results are that it can't detect that there's even a computer there. http://www.pointman.org/PMFirewall/ Alan Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: Hello everyone. Reading a magazine I found a place where security in internet is tested for your computer. This place is www.grc.com. I gave it a visit twice. Once under Linux and once under W98. I found the following info regarding open ports suceptible of being used by intruders. Port Service Linux W98 - 41 FTP Open Closed 23 Talnet Open Closed 27 SMPTOpen Closed 79 Finger Closed Closed 80 HTTPOpen Closed 110POP3Open Closed 113ident Open Closed 139Netbios Closed Open 143imapClosed Closed 443HTTPS Closed Closed - What does this mean? Is my Linux box (as is) more suceptible to be accessed by unwanted people than W98? Do I have to use a firewall? Is there something I am missing? Am I getting paranoid? Are these too many questions? :) Thanks!! Hugo
Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size..
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:46:21PM -0700, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: that you can optionally install for Linux. Partition Magic identifies that type as '85' which I was wondering myself - hexadecimal?? Nope, that's not true. At least not according to the file system type listing that fdisk puts out. There 85 is listed as "Linux extended", not reiserfs. Alexander Skwar -- Well I've resized, moved, deleted and recreated my ext2fs partitions with Partition Magic and it has always been identified as just that - ext2. When I made the switch to reiserfs, Partition Magic started calling it '85', and won't do anything with it except delete. I don't really know why that is, maybe civilme could shed some light? Mike
Re: [newbie] Registered Linux User ???
Kimhttp://counter.li.org/ Alan Kim White wrote: Hi How do I register as a Linux User? Kind Regards Kim White Pinnacle Micro Secunda Tel: (017) 631 2668 FAX: (017) 631 3139 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] 2 questions
I opened netscape and got it from their update site..not on the first page...need to go further...I believe it was on the ftp server section. However, there is a crypto site for Mandrake where you can get it too... too late for me..but you could get it. Can someone give the URL for it, please. Bambi Dan Ferris wrote: I have 2 simple and unrelated questions 1. Where can I go to download the 128 bit version of Netscape 4.73, and ssh? 2. Purely for nostalgia, and simple curiosity, is there a place that one can go to download packages for CDE??? I know that Gnome and KDE are probably way better, but my curiosity has gotten the better of me here. :-) Dan
[newbie] 3dfx glide test problem
Hello, I'm using a Voodoo2 based card and am having problems getting the glide tests to run as a user in Mandrake 7.1. I have downloaded the latest files from the 3dfx website. testGlide2x,3x work fine as root, but when I try to run them as a user, I get the following output: [jon@localhost jon]$ /usr/local/glide/bin/testGlide2x test00: Clear screen to blue 2.53 Resolution: 640x480 Press A Key To Begin Test. gd error (glide): Permission denied. Couldn't change I/O priveledge level. gd error (glide): grSstSelect: non-existent SSTSegmentation fault [jon@localhost jon]$ /usr/local/glide/bin/testGlide3x gd error (glide): Permission denied. Couldn't change I/O priveledge level. test00: Clear screen to blue 3.01 Resolution: 640x480 Press A Key To Begin Test. gd error (glide): grSstSelect: non-existent SSTSegmentation fault Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks, Jon
Re: [newbie] Great MP3player
I agree...XMMS is great. Use it all the time. There is a newer version out there that I got and I like it even better. Bambi Paul wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote: Hello! I just tried "cdplay" and it worked! WOW! What a weird thing. After typing"cdplay" on the command prompt, I was able to hear the cd. I opened up KSCD from KDE and now it reads the audio cd. I can even move forward or back. Anyone know what was the problem? Can you recommend a Great CD player? Possible mp3/cdplayer? Hi John, I use XMMS (included on the 7.1 cd) for MP3's. It is the next generation X-amp (yes, there is something like winamp out there too). It uses the same skins and such, and is great. It does not do CD's though. Paul -- Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
RE: [newbie] UPDATE from 7.0 to 7.1 is Ridiculously SLOW
It's a problem with your CD-ROM drive. You may have it on the same cable as a hard drive, it may have DMA enabled or another mode enabled, etc. While it will probably complete, you should look into this. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Gilbert Baron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 5:08 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] UPDATE from 7.0 to 7.1 is Ridiculously SLOW | | |I am trying to update to 7.1 with the 7.1 cads. I boot and choose |update. It |has now run over 3 1/2 hours and is still on the first CD. This is on a P3 |500 with 256 megs of memory. This is ridiculous. | |A clean install where you chose install instead of update only |takes about 2 |hours. What is going on? | |
Re: [newbie] Midnight Commander M keys?
I haven't figured out all the stuff in MC yet...just found it recently. But I use the mouse and to go to the options menu and choose find. Sorry no help here. However, I fell in love with MC because it is so much like Stereo Shell was in DOS before they changed the water... and it wouldn't run anymore on newer PCs. Bambi Jeff Malka wrote: I have used NC for years and therefore love Linux's MC. But, I cannot figure out what the "M" key stands for, like M-? to search for a file. What keys does that correspond to in a normal keyboard? Thank you. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
Re: [newbie] Midnight Commander M keys?
Jeff Malka wrote: I have used NC for years and therefore love Linux's MC. But, I cannot figure out what the "M" key stands for, like M-? to search for a file. What keys does that correspond to in a normal keyboard? Thank you. The left Alt (_M_eta) key -- Steve - Cheltenham, UK - In love and light we are In darkness we are no less
