Re: [[newbie] Pine Config]
I don't think so. You pretty much have to use fetchmail and postfix to fetch the mail from pop3, and IMAP servers. Pine was designed primarily as an intranet (LAN mail system) where it accesses the mail from the local mail spool. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496 On 3 Aug 2000, Michael Scottaline wrote: Harry Flaxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't used Pine in quite awhile. I can't remember the configuration line that will make Pine read from a remote mail and news server. I know that I had this working years ago, when I first started with Linux. Can someone help me to configure Pine for remote retrieval, without using fetchmail or sendmail? Thanks. Harry == Doesn't Pine have a place to setup a popmail account someplace in the configs?? Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] TOSHIBA SATELLITE PRO 4200 MDK 7.1
there is a generic driver for the display. its laptop display panel (res). Try useing generic vga16 or something like that for video card. - Original Message - From: fabrizio ravazzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:04 AM Subject: [newbie] TOSHIBA SATELLITE PRO 4200 MDK 7.1 Hello All, I have a problem configuring XFree86 on the Notebook TOSHIBA SATELLITE PRO 4200 with MANDRAKE 7.1 because the MONITOR (lcd) and the Video Card S3 SAVAGE /IX w/Mv they are not supported. Can Someone help me? Many thanks . __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
Re: [newbie] Using MDK7.1 and BootMagic
Romanator wrote: [snip] The following is confusing me: BootMagic help file indicates that if I add lilo to Linux it should appear. However, the MDK7.1 installation of the workstation never prompted me for lilo and where to install. How can I do this? [snip] Romanmake sure the first line of /etc/lilo.conf indicates your / (root) partition (unless you have a seperate /boot partition). Then execute /sbin/lilo after which the BootMagic add option should recognize your Linux partition and allow you to add it to the screen list. Alan
[newbie] 7.1 and USB keyboard
My install of 7.1 was going along fine till it came time to type in passwords. Thats when I realized my USB keyboard was dead. Is there some way to force it to see the keyboard? Am I going to have to go buy another keyboard? John -- "Hold on, I feel an Echelon Moment coming on... pipe bomb, assassinate, C-4, Clinton, Cordite, plastique, blueprints, Mossad ...okay, I feel better now."
Re: [newbie] KDE
When you login, assuming you are loging in from the graphical login screen, there is a drop-down menu to select desktop. - Original Message - From: Steve Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 12:07 PM Subject: [newbie] KDE I installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 on a limited space machine (only 54% of the utilities installed). After the install I do get an x-windows environment with xterm. However I am trying to firgure out how to run KDE. Did it not get installed because of limited space or is there some command to actually start it. Thanks...
[newbie] installazione pacchetto DrakConf
Ciao, ho installato la mandrake 7.1, ma al momento di scegliere i pacchetti da installare ho saltato il DrakConf. Ora non so come effettuare le varie configurazione della risoluzione dello schermo e della scheda audio. Come posso installare soltanto il drakConf senza reinstallare tutto da capo? SPero che qualcuno di voi mi sappia aiutare. Maurizio __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Location of Netscape Messenger?
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, RJS II wrote: Anyone know where I can find the executable for Netscape Messenger? I guess it is part of the executable of Netscape Navigator. Paul -- We live like robots. This requires nerves of steel!! )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] Refresh rates / Screen quiver
you can fix the refresh rates in DrakConf with the Xconfigurator options in the top left. Be careful though! Read your monitors documentation and enter exactly what it says. I did this and my monitor/video behavor in linux improved 100%. Good Luck! Dacia --- Ian McLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard through the grape vine that the refresh rates can sometimes be off by 1Hz or so. Try your refresh rates and make sure they are set correctly. You may have to go into the X config file, I am not sure how to change it. I am trying to work this out myself. And I thought monitors were meant to protect themselves from incorrect refresh rates. Any ideas people? =*= wrote: The only glitch I have noticed is an occasional "quiver" -- the display sort of vibrates horizontally. Anyone know what might be causing this? __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Printer won't print ?!
Hallo! When i use kernel 2.4.0-test4 instead of 2.2.15 that comes with Mandrake 7.0 / 7.1 (i've recently upgraded) my printer doesn't print any more. No problems come out; it just does nothing. My printer is a Lexmark 5700, and i use a modified ghostcript 5.10 that recognizes it (in bw mode); if i try to uninstall ghostcript 5.50 that comes with Mandrake 7.1 rpm says it isn't installed (and it appears in the list under kpackage). So i can't either install or uninstall ghostcript... any idea? Thanks! ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de
Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...
The issue with the record companies seems to be the Quality level of MP3's. Its the whole "tapes from the radio mostly sound like garbage and so do tapes of CD's, other tapes, records etc. but MP3's (can) retain the same quality level as the original recording." thing. Speaking as a musician, I've never heard an MP3 that didn't sound flat, compressed, uninspiring and insipid. In my opinion they aren't worth paying for. The only use for them that makes any sense to me is for marketing ends. Anybody read the study (I forget who, an american private research group hired by RIAA) that found that people with large MP3 collections tend to buy more CD's then the average person? Artists steal all the time. Art is theft as someone said and then there is that great quote form Mark Twain "Immature humorists borrow, mature humorists steal". My point being that without theft there would not be art as we know it so why worry about a few MP3s that sound like crap anyway? Capitalism. So, theres my .02 for what its worth from a person who is almost completely disinterested in the whole napster/MP3/RIAA thing. Looks like idiots fighting over who owns the storm in sandstorm ;-) Dacia --- Steve Weltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry that I have to reply to a thread about copyrights in a Linux newbie mail list, but... I think that the songs are available freely to you already on another medium. It's called the radio. If you turn your dial to the correct station, you can hear most of what is available for download on Napster/Gnapster. The funny thing is that you are allowed to tape your CDs for private playback, and even give those recordings to friends (yes, legally). But the recording industry is reporting profits for this fiscal year to their investors, and risk loosing investments if the records aren't purchased in the most accountable manner (via your local music store). So they are proposing a method to reduce a distribution method that can't/doesn't keep track of who's listening to what. That's my 2 cents. Have a nice (bar-anybody-copying-me-and-I'll-sue) day! Steve Weltman (not an expert on copyright, but know when I'm being bullied into buying something that is already free) - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)... yeah, but what about the people whos livelyhoods are earned by those songs? and what about the people who hold the copyrights to those songs. don't they deserve to have their material protected from being stolen? that IS in effect what napster does. TAKE those songs and distribute them for free. the owners of the copyright don't see a cent. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Anthony wrote: The password that you chose when you registered on Napster/Gnapster. Argh. Did not know that you had to go to their website and register! ;-( What is it they say about a little knowledge being dangerous? Thank you, Anthony... -- /\ DarkLord \/ That's ok, evidently they're going to be turned off at midnight... another victory for those poor people who have to spend their mornings deciding which Porche to drive to work today =( __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Using NDK7.1 and BootMagic
Romanator escribi: I just installed BootMagic. I would like to add MDK7.1 to the list of other OSs. The main OS is WinNT4. It would be nice to add Linux MDK7.1. Has any one succeeded? If you have, please let me know. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 I've mounted /boot in a separate partition, and i've added that partition to Bootmagic. That's all ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de
[newbie] Mandrake 7.1 themes?
Hi I recently upgraded from 7.0 to 7.1 lost all my good Themes!! Has anyone Had that problem!
Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...
I've read that "unknown" artists are VERY VERY rarely downloaded from Napster according to its own statistics. Something like 1-5% of all downloads are for unknown musicians songs. Dacia --- Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that all those bands were so rich that they could afford a small loss like that. If I were a new aspiring artist I would spread my music like that, then when it got into the hands of a recording company, I would have posted contact info in the id3 tag data so they could get ahold of me. Besides, if alot of those people would use Napster for its intended purpose in the first place, ie. to try out new music before they buy up the CD or tape, all of this controversy would not have exploded as it has. After all, I do not know of any place where you can rent a CD like you do a video movie. No offense intended in this 'debate' presentation. On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote: yeah, but what about the people whos livelyhoods are earned by those songs? and what about the people who hold the copyrights to those songs. don't they deserve to have their material protected from being stolen? that IS in effect what napster does. TAKE those songs and distribute them for free. the owners of the copyright don't see a cent. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Anthony wrote: The password that you chose when you registered on Napster/Gnapster. Argh. Did not know that you had to go to their website and register! ;-( What is it they say about a little knowledge being dangerous? Thank you, Anthony... -- /\ DarkLord \/ That's ok, evidently they're going to be turned off at midnight... another victory for those poor people who have to spend their mornings deciding which Porche to drive to work today =( __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] I made a mistake
Try doing an c:fdisk /mbr after booting your system into DOS with your Windows Startup disk. -Original Message- From: Liangyu Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] I made a mistake Hi, I installed Mandrake 7.1 under windows 98 and after installation, Grub provided a menu to choose operating system, Linux and windows. It worked well. Later, I wanted to set windows to be default OS, So in DrakeConf-DrakeBoot, I set the boot device from hda to hda1. Now I know I should not set in this way, but I got a problem: The machine can only start linux, not windows even though the windows option is still in the Grub menu and even though I set the boot device back to hda. I am quite new to the Linux world and don't know how to get windows back, Could someone help me out? Liangyu
[newbie] Booting Windows with LILO
I sent this yesterday, but have not seen it posted, so I'l try again: Hello, I am running Mandrake 7.1 on a Tyan Tiger 133 Dual Pentium III MB with one 800EB PIII Porcessor, 128 MB RAM, Diamond Viper V770Ultra Video. I have two hard drives: one with two windows partitions and the other with Mandrake. I have tried to boot windows several times, but to no avail. I only get a "system1" message and nothing more happens. Sometimes it would say "Starting Windows 98" and nothing more would happen. Could someone please give me some advice on configuring LILO to allow me to boot to windows. I used the c:fdisk /mbr command to allow windows to boot on its own and use a Mandrake Boot Disk to boot into linux, but this gets annoying. I would appreciate any help. Thank You
[newbie] LinuxConf Sendmail.cf
Unfortunately I need to use linuxconf to generate a sendmail.cf file. Linuxconf points to /usr/lib/linuxconf/mailconf to get the info to generate it's sendmail.cf file. Problem is those old files generate a 8.8.7 sendmail.cf file. I have Sendmail 8.10.1; I need to have linuxconf use the correct 8.10.1 files. How do I do this? What files do I use from Sendmail 8.10.1? Where do I place those files? I know this a very basic question, so I appreciate any and all advice I can get. I'm very new to Linux, so I appreciate your patience in replying to my request for help. Thank you in advance!! Joseph work e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] PPP in Gnome
Hello people... I was reading in MandrekeUser.org about "GnomePPP" This is supposedly part of the "Gnome Networking" package, but I cant find it anywhere... Any pointers would be appreciated...Im using Mandrake 7.0 and Helix Gnome -- ___ __ /\ Jose Alberto Abreu \/\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ \ \ Baggage detective\ \ ICQ: 16575263 \ \ \ and apprentice codecaster\ \ "Bending space and time since 2068" \ \ \__\ \_\ \/__/\/_/
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
chill out dude. We talk about all things hardware/computer related on this list. Education of all kinds happens here. That's a big part of the beauty of this list. Dacia --- Frank Nazario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [since I received only 35 Newbie on the 25th, none on the 26th 27th I'm reposting this. If there was an answer I would appreciate it if someone would forward it to me. I had thought that the Newbie server might be down, but since I have only a few (rather than scads) messages from Newbie today I'm assuming that I just didn't get my mail for some reason.] Apple has always used Motorola. But I never heard the final disposition of the copyright issue for the microprocessor chip itself. Last I heard some guy in a garage was going to be granted the basic patent for the microprocessor. What became of this? -Gary- In a message dated 7/23/2000 11:54:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Didn't Intel originally own the patent rights for some of the early chips that Apple and other companies were using? Roman this has nothing to do with linux or mandrake ...this is not the forum to discuss this. if you are interested go to the motorola forum and ask there .zye . THIS IS A LINUX FORUM!!! AND MAILING LIST __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
[newbie] voodoo5 and 7.1
I am building a new computer this coming week. I'm wondering if anyone has any of this hardware and what kinds of issues you had if you do. Here's the proposed configuration: ASUS A7V motherboard Duron 600 CPU 3dfx VooDoo5 Western Digital 17.4 gig HD UDMA66 those are the pieces that I'm concerned about. Will the voodoo5 work as an ordinary display adaptor with xfree 3.3.6 or 4 well enough for me to download install 4.01 which explicitly supports it? How is UDMA66 support working in linux? Any issues to be aware of? Currently I've got an ATA33 and an ATA66 hard drive so it hasn't been an option. What about the motherboard cpu combo? Both are much more recent then the current kernel/mdk version. Anything I should watch out for? I'm getting to build a new computer through a weird twist of circumstance and I don't expect to be able to buy/upgrade for about a year. Any insight or thoughts are greatly appreciated folks. Thanks again. Dacia __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Passwords
I recently came home to discover that all my passwords are changed... I installed Star Office and that happened to me. I removed it, and my passwords worked again. I don't know why though.
Re: [newbie] Star Office Install
To install this type of file: From a console window cd to the directory where the s0-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin file resides type ./s0-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin and installation should begin. Hope this helps Maxtor
Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...
Robert McNealy wrote: Hmmm..the owners (bands in this case)usually see little if none of the record sales revenue. Most musicians ONLY make money from the touring and merchandise sales. Anyways, they should sue the bootleggers, i.e., the people who download the music. Napster is not selling any of the copyrighted material. They make it easier. Why not sue Napster's ISP then? They helped Napster. And why not sue Cisco? They helped the ISP help Napster. This is absurd. Right or wrong, this technology is here. Suing Napster will only shut them down, but it will not stop people trading mp3s or any other related technology. The music industry doesn't want to update or change it's current business model. That is what they need to do to stay competitive. The current figures also demonstrate that CD sales have increased since Napster has been around, so proving damages is really non-evidence and rhetorical. Original Message Follows From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)... Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 07:25:24 -0400 (EDT) yeah, but what about the people whos livelyhoods are earned by those songs? and what about the people who hold the copyrights to those songs. don't they deserve to have their material protected from being stolen? that IS in effect what napster does. TAKE those songs and distribute them for free. the owners of the copyright don't see a cent. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Anthony wrote: The password that you chose when you registered on Napster/Gnapster. Argh. Did not know that you had to go to their website and register! ;-( What is it they say about a little knowledge being dangerous? Thank you, Anthony... -- /\ DarkLord \/ That's ok, evidently they're going to be turned off at midnight... another victory for those poor people who have to spend their mornings deciding which Porche to drive to work today =( Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com If you want to talk about counterfeiting, I don't think Napster as a business is the issue. The technology is here to stay and will get worse or better. Tapes have been accepted. And, your views change quite drastically if your livelyhood is a writer, listener or software applications designer. However, I think some good will come out of this in the end for every one. Most counterfeit companies exist in China(very bad there), South America, Mexico. This is what gets me angry. Conterfeit software, music. You name it. Just wait when one morning you'll get up and find out that your personal savings account, name, birth certificate and other personal info has been emptied out by some geek... Hey what am I saying...It's going on as we speak - somewhere. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] M$ Free
Doug McGarrett wrote: At 07:47 PM 07/29/2000 -0500, you wrote: Today I successfully installed Mandrake 7.1 (Maximum Linux Disk) on a 3+ gig partition that used to hold a useless Win98 installation. /snip/ . One thing that blows me away is how clean and sharp the display *looks*. The only glitch I have noticed is an occasional "quiver" -- the display sort of vibrates horizontally. Anyone know what might be causing this? Other than that, I am very impressed with this. I have the GNOME panel running (Helix I think) in conjunction with XFCE, and it is truly amazing to behold. Thank you Mandrake! Phil Is there any kind of device with a motor or a transformer in it near to your monitor? If so, move it away, or unplug it, and see if the jitters go away. --doug Welcome Phil, Yes. Multiple ac lines grouped through wall conduits are notorious. Wireless phones. Try and group your ac lines in a different direction. Also, some electrical shavers, drills, some Ham radio transmitters can cause a quiver but this is getting rare. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] No messages for 2 days
Marcia Waller wrote: Yes, I have noticed the dry-spells. I think the problem has gone beyond this group. My other email was not getting through either. I called Cox Internet tech service and they were blaming ATT for a routing problem. Marcia - Original Message - From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 8:34 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] No messages for 2 days The list does seem to go it "fits and starts" with FLOODS sometimes and total dry-spells in between. Anyone know why? --tim I think this all began after conversing with that rude Windows 2000 user on our newbie list. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] M$ Free
My cell phone will cause one of my monitors screen to sort of ripple maybe? Larry Doug McGarrett wrote: At 07:47 PM 07/29/2000 -0500, you wrote: Today I successfully installed Mandrake 7.1 (Maximum Linux Disk) on a 3+ gig partition that used to hold a useless Win98 installation. /snip/ . One thing that blows me away is how clean and sharp the display *looks*. The only glitch I have noticed is an occasional "quiver" -- the display sort of vibrates horizontally. Anyone know what might be causing this? Other than that, I am very impressed with this. I have the GNOME panel running (Helix I think) in conjunction with XFCE, and it is truly amazing to behold. Thank you Mandrake! Phil Is there any kind of device with a motor or a transformer in it near to your monitor? If so, move it away, or unplug it, and see if the jitters go away. --doug
Re: [newbie] Zip Drive
Dear All, Thank you very much for all of your wonderful suggestions for the zip drive. I will try them. Also, someone asked me to post my /etc/fstab file so here it is:/dev/hdc/mnt/zip msdos user,exec,dev,suid,rw,conv=auto,uid=501,gid=100,umask=0,opt1=va1,opt2=none,o pt3,opt4=2 1 1 Do I go to a terminal window as root to make a new directory? May I make a new directory for the zip with Drakconf and how would I do it? Thank you for your help. Marcia
[newbie] Re:Quicken
Thank you very much for the gnucash web page and information. I actually was able to download this within 5 minutes on my Windows side then used kpackage(within Linux of course) to install it which it did with absolutely no problem. It looks like it was just what I was looking for. I think this is the first time something actually worked easily, quickly, and without much of a struggle with Linux. Thanks again. Marcia
Re: [newbie] looking for good apps
snip 1. A file manager of the type Windows Commander. That means I would like something that has: a) two file windows and *no* directory tree (that's why I don't use the KDE file manager) I use/like KDE so I'll leave this alone For kde you can use konquerer which does multiple panes, etc of course, the best file manager is the cli :) Larry
Re: [newbie] How to start dosemu?
Jeff Malka wrote: Running Mandrake 7.1 When I type dosemu or dosemu -C (as a book suggested) in a KDE console, I get "command not found". How does one start dosemu? Check your permissions, when I tried that I found NOBODY had permission to execute dosemu. And I left it at that, this newbie isn't messing around giving root permission to do stuff somebody else thinks root shouldn't be doing. Darryl Gibson Linux Neophyte (tm) RLU # 182668 This computer is 100% Microsoft FREE. Ok, my other box is still a slave.
[newbie] *delicate cough*
Oh dear. I am going off-topic here, but I can't help myself... "Robert McNealy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody "froces" anyone to sell their company. That is a business decision, most often for the best of the business-owner. Microsoft has the clout to "buy" its expertise. None of these exchanges can happened with consent. I think you mean '"forces"' and "can happen without consent"...not trying to be unkind, just to make sure I am understanding you. Uhm. Do you know anything about Microsoft's business practices or history? Things certainly *can* happen without consent. Ask the folks at Netscape. Many of would not be in the IT, MIS, PC industires if it weren't FOR Microsoft. Through their business practices, they mass-marketed and made computers easy to use and popular. No one can argue that. Apple did not, or we would all be rooting for government to chew them a new a--hole. Apple's approach and tactics were and are vastly different from the folks in Redmond's. Microsoft did not make computers easy to use and popular. (Easy to use? Even seen a Blue Screen of Death? How many times do you want to crash today?) If you hate Windoze, don't use it. But for many of us, we have to still hybrid still because so many applications are not available in Linux, and so many customers want Win Appz. Not to mention many of our average secretary tyes would never be able to figure out how to use linux. I still know so many users to who have a hard enough time learning Outlook. ARGH. Speaking as a former "average secretary type" (also a former archaeologist, freelance writer, and bookseller, among other things) turned tech writer, I managed to "figure out how to use linux" just FINE, thank you. Please don't stereotype! (In case you're interested, my home box, on which I recently installed a new 13.6 gig hd BY MYSELF, has 3 OSes on it currently (Windows 98/MS-DOS, Mandrake Linux 7.1, and FreeBSD 4.0) and will soon add one more (BeOS). Also, Outlook sux. :P I have to use it at work. And you are right about many people having to use Windows (which is *not* an OS; it just thinks it is...MS/DOS is the OS) but not because applications aren't available. Because we have no choice on the job. Come on, in the early 80's everyone hate IBM, because they were the "Evil Empire", now it is MS. I bet it will be SUN (maybe Cisco) next. Look how they "protect" Java. Fiddlesticks. The reason people dislike M$ is not because they are a large corporation, but because of their cutthroat attitude and shady business practices. The lack of control, lack of backwards compatibility, frequent crashing, and software bloat are not-inconsiderable factors too. Come on. MS bashing is so old. Let's ignore it and get some Linux work done. The post you replied to was one mainly reminiscing about Tandy (I had a WP2!), Atari, and Amiga. *nostalgic sigh* Not mainly M$ bashing. Sorry, nice list peoples. I wanted to get that off my chest. I shall go sit down and be quiet again now. *sheepish grin* -- Kathleen Dickason Registered Linux user #182139
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Re: [newbie] Re:XConfigurating a Monitor
THANKS STEVE I WILL TRY THAT.. Steve Gallagher wrote: Dear People, Would appreciate any help on the above. I am a newcomer and am having a lot of grieve installing an Acer or even a Generic monitor on 6.5 Ver LinuxMandrake. I have an sis 6326 Graphics Card and it seems that it recognises that. However even trying Xconfigurator to configure monitor I have followed instructions but I seem to get black rectangles where text should be in dialogue boxes. Graphics seem to be ok when i startx. Thanks. Any help would be appreciated Anthony Cilia Hi Anthony, Try adding the following line to the Device section of the /etc/X11/XF86Config file: Option"no_bitblt" The second and better solution is to visit the Suse web site at www.suse.de/en and search for the Xsis X server. Install this on your system and then create a symlink to it from /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_SiS. Remove the Option"no_bitblt" from your XF86Config file (placing a hash # sign in front will rem it). It ought to work perfectly with full acceleration and high resolution. Hope this helps. Regards, Steve
Re: [newbie] Updating kernel w/ Mandrake Updater
First, I would suggest that you download the RPM file rather than use the updater (I read this in the update program or somewhere, can't remember) Then install the kernel with RPM or Kpackage, so on. Then, enter 'root' and edit your /etc/lilo.conf file, which is where you found the new entries. Ensure the new 'label' for the new kernel is not too long (or you will get an error as I did), check the 'default' line to point to the new kernel, exit and run 'lilo' and reboot, that's it! Just make sure you leave your old kernel as an option always, just in case something goes wrong. Regards, Ian McLeod Victor Richardson wrote: Are there any extra steps to updating the kernel other than running the Mandrake Updater? Also, /etc/lilo had a section for the new kernels, but included a commented line that said something like "# Add using install-kernel". Which, of course, I did not do and had Lilo load that kernel anyway with disastrous results. I had to re-install. Do I need to run the command "install kernel 2.2.xxx"? (xxx being the version number) Any suggestions welcome, Victor
RE: [newbie] Resize partition
yeah... :) sure there is, but you may not want to do it when you read my post titles "Oooops." Doing on the fly as I have sadly learned is a REAL bad thing to do. It leads to terrible things like the kernel not being able to mount the file system and other terminal illnesses that can and just might kill your penguin. Mark If Alf were a Network Admin would he still eat Cats? -Original Message- From: Dariusz S Stochmal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 12:10 PM To: Mandrake Linux "Newbie" Subject: [newbie] Resize partition Is there a way to resize partition under Mandrake Linux 7.2, on the fly ? Regards, Dariusz S Stochmal E-mail 1: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail 2: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.stochmal.com/
Re: [newbie] AOL for Linux
I think AOL uses this annoying client software, so you cant get to to connect on linux. Either dump linux(bad idea) or dump aol(good idea). There are lots of free isps now, so you can save some money while your at it. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 2:46 AM Subject: [newbie] AOL for Linux Is there anyway that anyone knows to get AOL set up on a linux operating system(Mandrake 7.1) Thanks in advance ~Lance
Re: [newbie] Numlock - on full time
The rpm is installed on my system (must have been done by default during installation - I didn't do it). Numlock light came on during boot but X apparently killed it when it started. Obviously too late to try usr/X11R6/bin/enable_X11_numlock in autostart now as I've already enabled it to come on at start and as it is now "not broke" I won't try to fix it On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, you wrote: hmmm..or u put /usr/X11R6/bin/enable_X11_numlock in your autostart folder... (i think it was this path and file name, correct me if i am wrong) the rpm package comes with the initial install of your mandrake distro. --dave At 19:27 30.07.00, you wrote: For those of you who are fed up with having to turn numlock on when you need to use it and would rather have it full time, go to http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli/en/numlockx/ it took just a short download (about 39k) to get a tar.gz file with an easy to follow readme, then about 5 minutes later I had numlock on full time.
Re: [newbie] No messages for 2 days
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Just to add my two pennies worth. Yesterday i sent an e-mail to this news group and it has been returned as address unknown Just whats going on? The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. Paul -- Babies are nature's way to make people meet the world. At 2am. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] How can I configure MDK7.1 with another OS using BootMagic?
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Romanator wrote: Has any one been successful configuring Linux Mandrake 7.1 and another OS such as WinNT4? BootMagic recognizes Windows NT4 but I cannot recognize Linux. Should I run fdisk /MBR and rerun the Linux installation? Any success out there with BootMagic and Linux? Why do you take the hard road? Boot magic is a bootmanager. It loads Win NT's bootmanager, or it loads Linux's bootmanager. You can get bootpart anywhere on the net, have that create a 512 byte bootfile for your linux root partition, and plug that into the boot.ini file for NT. Saves you a bootmanager. Paul -- Babies are nature's way to make people meet the world. At 2am. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] Linux Digital Cameras
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, mrc wrote: In trying to configure gphoto, I discover that it want a com port specified. I assume that means that this program does not have the capability of taking images off a flash card using the floppy drive adapter. Right? I agree. Gphoto ack's the presence of my Casio camera but so far I have not been able to make it download pictures, keeps timing out. Very right. The floppy adapter requires a separate driver again. I know, because a friend of mine has an Olympus with such an adapter. Paul -- Babies are nature's way to make people meet the world. At 2am. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] testing
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just testing the list And doing a helluva job on it. Does this mean the list passed? If so, LET'S PARTY!!! :o) (See, already brought the funny nose ;-) Paul -- Babies are nature's way to make people meet the world. At 2am. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] No messages for 2 days
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root wrote: You and me both. I've just received a copy of a post I made five days ago (Sunday)! It's getting better. Just got a post back that I sent 3 days ago! :) Paul -- Babies are nature's way to make people meet the world. At 2am. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] icewm
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello all, I installed some new RPMS which changed my desktop to icewm and in haste, I did switchdesk kde to get my old desktop back. Now I would like to go back to icewm and play with it a little - is there a quick way to do this without hand-editing the config files to point to it? It's not that I can't do this, but if there's a quicker way, I would like to switch back and forth until I get used to this new window manager. Thanks, Mike Open a terminal and first do which icewm If that gives you a location (with me it is /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm) you can edit ~/.Xclients to read #!/bin/sh exec icewm Then start X (startx) and you should be up and running. Paul -- Babies are nature's way to make people meet the world. At 2am. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] transferring files from linux to windows
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, KompuKit wrote: Is there a way to transfer webpages (i.e. html,gif,jpg,) over to windows...BUT, leave the "type case" untouched? I think that mcopy would do what you need. the Mtools are a package to make copying from FAT16/32 drives to EXT2 drives easy. Paul -- Babies are nature's way to make people meet the world. At 2am. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] Dual fs's on a Zip drive?
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Is it possible to mount a Zip drive with 2 filesystems? In other words, both ext2 and vfat? I have mine setup where you (as root) can right-click on the Zip icon and pick either fs type. However, my user account can not do this, because you must be su to use mount. It will only allow my user access to the fs type in the /etc/fstab file. (the user,noauto option in the fstab zip entry line). I don't think that you can because you're actually mounting one block device. You would somehow have to create two partitions on the one block device and I think you would be running into to many problems. Why not just make the whole thing dos and you would be able to access it from both windows and linux? You can mount both types, but only one at a time. Paul -- Babies are nature's way to make people meet the world. At 2am. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
