[newbie-it]
Salve, come posso capire se uno scanner che lavora sulla porta USB della Acer è compatibile con linux? Qualcuno lo usa? Grazie
[newbie-it] root
Mi succede una cosa abbastanza strana ; quando digito, in consolle, "su" per entrare come superuser,il sistema non mi chiede la password di protezione nonostante io stia operando come normale utente e non come root. Uso la Mandrake 7.1. Non mi dilungo per evitare che il "Tassone" mi tiri le orecchie. Un saluto, Alessandro 46
[newbie] IDE CD-R not recognised on installation
In the Mandrake 7.2 documentation, it says that any IDE CD-R drives present will be recognised on installation, but that did not work on my system. I ave both Linux and Win98 installed on my IBM Aptiva 2138-E83 (PII 300 MHz). My CD-R is a Mitsumi CR-2801TE set as master on IDE bus 2. The CR-2801 is listed as supported hardware on the hardware page at www.linux-mandrake.com. Is there a difference between the plain CR-2801 and the TE drives? I'm not into recompiling the kernel and such, so I'd be grateful for an easy solution ;) Niklas Ramsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] CUPS and printpro in 7.2
printpro is ESP Print Pro, a commercial extension of CUPS which also contains CUPS itself. It provides many printer drivers and graphical frontends for administration and printing. As I know, the version coming with Linux Mandrake is a demo which expires after one or three mounths. In reality, you do not need ESP Print Pro with Linux Mandrake 7.2. There are many free frontends: kups, xpp, qtcups, printerdrake, web interface (You find them all in the menues under "Configuration"/"Printing" and under "Applications"/"Publishing"). There are also lots of free drivers and most of them lead to a better printing quality than the drivers of ESP Print Pro (especially the GIMP-Print drivers). You do not gain support of extra printers with ESP Print Pro, for Lexmark winprinters the support by free drivers in Linux Mandrake is even better. Also for PostScript printers you do not need ESP Print Pro, use the PPD file delivered with the printer. To install the CUPS updates you have to deinstall the printpro package with "urpme printpro". Till Laszlo Gulyas wrote: Hello all, Question for the group - went to MandrakeUpdate to get the new updates for CUPS, and upon installing them a message came up about CUPS conflicting with printpro. What is printpro - I couldn't find it in the menus. Laszlo
[newbie] can listen cd music but not realplayer's live audio or vedio sound
I can using cd player or alsa player to listen cd music well but of internet based realplayer, I can listen live audio or vedio sound clear. why? In harddrake sound test, I only listen a big beep at begin but then no speech sound., is that is missing MIDI capability? In the console screen still response no volume mixer available, so I'll not be able to adjust volume. hope to see someone 's help again best regard Eric Lin
[newbie] can listen cd music but not clear in realplayer's live audio or vedio sound
Dear Linux-mandrake user: I can using cd player or alsa player to listen cd music well but of internet based realplayer, I can not listen live audio or vedio sound clear.(having vedio with noise sound at same pace), why? In harddrake sound test, I only listen a big beep at begin but then no speech sound., is that is missing MIDI capability? In the console screen still response no volume mixer available, so I'll not be able to adjust volume. hope to see someone 's help again best regard Eric Lin
RE: [newbie] 7.2 install help
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Romanator wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of KompuKit Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 7:59 PM To: Linux-Mandrake Subject: [newbie] 7.2 install help I currently have 7.02I'm downloading the iso then burning it... which method should I do? UPGRADE or INSTALL I've got majordomo lists...which have members I always recommend a clean install, but you can do it without formatting your home dir depending on how you set up your partitions. If you have one /home your set that way you can keep all your settings or of course you can backup yer home dir as well or if ya don't care wipe it. Just my 2 cents worth hehe
[newbie] KDE Media Player problems
I recently fitted a new hard hisk and reinstalled MDK 7.2. Now KDE Media Player doesn't work. Entering kaiman in a console windows does nothing except lock up the console window. I have searched the installation CDs for a package that may contain kaiman without sucess. I thought that a package may not have been installed properly. Can anyone tell me which package contains kaiman? -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mouse not Detected on Install
All I did was go into DrakConf mouse area, double click on mouseman+, back our, log-off, reset the Xserver, then log back on and I had the scroll function available. Nev Shawn Daniel wrote: I have a Logitech MouseMan+ PS/2 and everytime I change it to the MouseMan+ in DrakConf, it defaults back. How do I fix it? -Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 5:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mouse not Detected on Install This must be normal for Logitech mice. Same happened to me. You're lucky though. My Logitech First Mouse+ wasn't detected, and when I tried to select it in DrakConf, it just kept reverting back to the default. Go figure!?! - Original Message - From: "Neville Cobb" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 2:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Mouse not Detected on Install On a brand new install of 7.2gpl it did not detect my Logitech mouseman+ as I could not scroll when it booted. Once I selected mouseman+ using DrakConf mouse set-up and rebooted the xserver it ran OK. Should it have selected the mouse during install or is this the norm? Nev
Re: [newbie] Printer problems
Same problem here RE the printer. I found that when in say Kedit, select print and then when the print screen comes up and you cannot select any printer - simply type in the name you gave the printer (in my case I called it canon and types in canon) and it seems to print OK. Nev Till Kamppeter wrote: Can you tell me in which security level you are and can you send me also your /etc/cups/printers.conf, /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd? Till phil wrote: The desktop printer doesn't list any printers and dragging a file to the printer icon doesn't print that file. Originally I thought the problem was with the cups server since Kups displays an error message telling me that it cannot connect to the cups server and to check my options. I can print from Koffice, Konqueror and Kmail but not from either of the KDE text editors. Is this a bug or can everyone else print from the KDE text editors? -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] LM7.2/Macmillain -- KDE2 IS FINAL!!
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 12:49 am, you wrote: I am concerned user of the "non final" pre kde2 versions purchased at walmart and I feel cheated. Susan You shouldn't. Let me try to explain, at least from my view, why you shouldn't. First I should mention that I first began runnin KDE2 (1.94) with 7.2b3, then d/l'd various upgrades till I got to 2.00, now I'm testing KDE2.+ on 7.2+Out of all of 'em, KDE2 1.99 as I understand was shipped with MacMillan 'complete', was the best, least bugs. It's also my understanding that 'Power Pack' does have KDE 2.00. I prefer to buy cheap CD's, and send a direct donation to MandrakeSoft than to support MacMillan. but i digress... Mandrake is Mandrake because it's the one distro that pushes the envelope. It was the first to deliver KDE2 (and 1.99 is a good level of KDE2). Other major distro's are just now, or not quite yet even making downloadable upgrades to KDE2 available, much less in new distro versions (ie, CD's). I believe if you'll subscribe to the KDE-users list, you'll find that there's Red Hat and SuSe users crawlin all over each other about how to get the damn KDE2 'upgrades' they d/l'd to even work. Lot'sa Sig 11's, everythings broken. All the other major distro users are moanin that there favorite hasn't even made KDE2 available for d/l. Most of them are tryin to compile it from KDE.org source and they're even worse off. It's the same story on the newsgroups. It's like Chinese arithmetic in a kindergarten out there. To their credit, Mandrake users aren't rubbin it in that the Mandrake boys busted their butts to get KDE2 to us, and got it right the first time. ...and as i mentioned, they're already workin on KDE2.1 ;) Now that y'all have let me rant this far, let me treat you to a movie. Check out 'terminal wars' http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/ -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 Released
AIM in Netscape 6 is broke you can't log in On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Anthony wrote: FYI: Netscape 6 Final was released today (November 14). It is no longer in Beta, and is now the officially supported current browser of Netscape. You can download it here: http://home.netscape.com/browsers/6/index.html New improvement include skins/themes, integrated AIM (yes, there is now an official AIM client for Linux), "My Sidebar" (some people actually do like it amazingly enough), best web standards support of any browser, fairly customizable, and a ton of new improvements over Netscape 4.x. It's a lot faster than the last beta I downloaded, and it seems stable. The only major problem that I've had with it is that it crashes when I try to reach a Secure site (SSL). I'm not sure why, or if it's just my machine. But other than that, I've been impressed by it, and it's a TON better than Netscape 4.x. Happy Downloading! -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 Released
What with SSL and AIM being bust, this has to count as beta software. Mozilla is the open source project on which Netscape 6 is based. I regularly download Mozilla nightly builds and read the comments on the latest builds on mozillazine.org and did not get the impression that Mozilla was ready to make a full release. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 15/11/2000 09:40:02 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 Released AIM in Netscape 6 is broke you can't log in On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Anthony wrote: FYI: Netscape 6 Final was released today (November 14). It is no longer in Beta, and is now the officially supported current browser of Netscape. You can download it here: http://home.netscape.com/browsers/6/index.html New improvement include skins/themes, integrated AIM (yes, there is now an official AIM client for Linux), "My Sidebar" (some people actually do like it amazingly enough), best web standards support of any browser, fairly customizable, and a ton of new improvements over Netscape 4.x. It's a lot faster than the last beta I downloaded, and it seems stable. The only major problem that I've had with it is that it crashes when I try to reach a Secure site (SSL). I'm not sure why, or if it's just my machine. But other than that, I've been impressed by it, and it's a TON better than Netscape 4.x. Happy Downloading! -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit. -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: [newbie] Printer problems
I tried to print with KEdit, too, but it has a bug, I will report it. You method does not work for me. Till Neville Cobb wrote: Same problem here RE the printer. I found that when in say Kedit, select print and then when the print screen comes up and you cannot select any printer - simply type in the name you gave the printer (in my case I called it canon and types in canon) and it seems to print OK. Nev
RE: [newbie] X windows back to test terminal
Yup, agree. Mine dies too when issuing the ALT+CTL+F1... the last post made sense saying that the first console is for X... works find using F2 upwards... -Original Message- From: Anthony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 November 2000 22:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] X windows back to test terminal What version of Mandrake are you using? I've never had a problem with X dying in any other version I've tried, and I just now tried it in 7.2 and it worked just fine. Just to check, to get back to X you hit Ctrl+Alt+F7 right? Does anyone know why X windows restarts after I press ALT+CTRL+F1 to flip over to a text vt? This is really irritating. Slaine -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
Re: [newbie] Stupid Question
Jay , no problem deleting contenets - just don't delete /tmp file if you're going to use it again. Regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 9:55 PM Subject: [newbie] Stupid Question -- I know in Windows you can safely delete the contents of your windows\temp file. Can you safely delete the /tmp file contents in Linux? Jay "May the sound of happy music, And the lilt of Irish laughter, fill your heart with gladness, that stays forever after." "May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend." http://www.mrsnooky.com
Re: [newbie] LM7.2/Macmillain -- KDE2 IS FINAL!!
On Tuesday 14 November 2000 22:21, you wrote: Dear friends: Good news! I am happy to report that I was WRONG. I just heard from Kevin Loane at Macmillain. I placed a call to him yesterday afternoon and just heard from his this afternoon. He told me that he had investigated the situation concerning LM7.2/KDE 2.0 Macmillain official version (Complete and I assume also DeLuxe) and ASSURED me that the official version which will come out on Nov. 28 contain newly printed CD's which do include KDE 2.0 Final, NOT a beta. I repeate: KDE 2.0 FINAL. So, it appears the rumors are wrong and that LM 7.2/Macmillain will have the latest KDE 2.0 Final. It would nice to hear this confirmed from Mandrake, as well. If so, I would say that was a very wise move by Mandrake, and I am sure we all appreciate it. Thank you. Benjamin OK KDE 2 is final on download and ALL PowerPacks. KDE 2.0 is a pre on "Complete" editions that were distributed to MacMillan for some large stores who needed to send something to their members to put on the shelves before Christmas (and it hit the shelves the same day as the announce of the 7.2 release for a week later). Later 7.2's Complete and ALL DL and Powerpack 7.2's are KDE 2.0 final. Current Complete, PowerPack, and Download are singing from the same sheet of music. http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001101112231 is also in the nature of an official announcement, and the link there describes the limits of scope for the KDE - 1.99 release. Inevitably, more than KDE 2.0 happened before the final released, but all current distro packages are now in sync, with the exception of the fact that some include more packages than others. civileme -- QA/Software Testing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 Released
I think they hurried up and released their version of the MSN butterfly... On Wednesday 15 November 2000 00:41, you wrote: What with SSL and AIM being bust, this has to count as beta software. Mozilla is the open source project on which Netscape 6 is based. I regularly download Mozilla nightly builds and read the comments on the latest builds on mozillazine.org and did not get the impression that Mozilla was ready to make a full release. michael-
Re: [newbie] Tomsrtbt e2fsck
On Tuesday 14 November 2000 22:33, you wrote: Hi all; I am trying to be a good boy scout and be prepared. Since I do a lot of messing around with linux, I am good at breaking it. So, I would like to be able to boot another linux and when necessary, try to repair my linux on hda5. My system is: Mandrake 7.0 hda1 = linux /boot hda2 = windoze hda3 = extended hda5 = linux / hda6 = linux swap I have Tomsrtbt and I can boot it, make a /mnt/tmphda5 dir, mount /mnt/tmphda5, and do things to hda5. Which is very good if I need to change something on hda5. But, I would also like to be able to run "e2fsck" -from tomsrtbt- on hda5. With hda5 NOT mounted when I run e2fsck I get error message "Filesystem has unsupported features while trying to open dev/hda5". How can I make a standalone boot disk that will run "e2fsck" on hda5? One thought I have is I have another 2 G HD. I could install it and install a minimum command line linux on it and use that as a rescue linux. Would that work? Thanks Charles First of all, put the CD in the drive and set to boot from it and hit f1 as soon as you see the opening graphic--Presto, instant rescue disk! If you want to use Tomsrtbt, you must go to Tom's site and download a newer version. His older version did not have support for ext2 sparse superblocks which was a new thing in 2.2 kernels. civileme -- QA/Software Testing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Stupid Question
Quit putting things after '--' at the beginning of a line. Many mailers read that as the end or the signature. In 7.0 do not delete /tmp files while X is running or you will have a dead X, and it will not start on reboot. In other distros, like 7.1 and 7.2, you have the option to have the system clean /tmp on reboot, and it is safe to delete the files within /tmp most of the time. You should NOT delete the folder, not even in an air raid. Many programs assume it is there, just as they assume the existence of /usr, /var, /etc, /bin, /sbin, /lib, none of which may be deleted if you care to have a running system. civileme On Tuesday 14 November 2000 22:55, you wrote:
[newbie] Let the EC know what you think about software patents]
Original Message Subject: Let the EC know what you think about software patents Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:59:03 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Sir, Dear Madam, The European Commission is currently researching the economic impact of software patents. For quite obvious reasons, many patent attorneys and IP lawyers who earn money through the patent system are currently lobbying the European Commission in favor of a broad extension of the patent system to software, business methods, intellectual methods, etc. Unless you express your own opinion, only their opinion will be taken into account in the decision process, whatever the consequences on your business, whatever the consequences on innovation. It is therefore very important and urgent, if you consider software patents to be more harmful than useful, to send your opinion by email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] as soon as possible and, in any case, before December 15th, 2000. You can write in the official language of any member country of the European Union. Your email will then be forwarded to the European Commission and published on the EuroLinux Web in order to make sure that your point of view is taken into consideration: http://petition.eurolinux.org/consultation There is currently a consensus among economists on the fact that software patents tend to stifle innovation and harm small and medium enterprises because they create tremendous juridical uncertainty which only benefits to patent attorneys and lawyers. There is also a consensus among patent attorneys on the fact that patents on business methods are just a kind of software patents and that it is impossible to ban business method patents once software patents become legal. Please write serious (but not necessarily long) emails, with a consistent analysis based on economics, technology or real world examples from your everyday practice. Here are a few advice for your email to reach maximal impact within the European Commission: 1- NO POLITICS - Do not include in your emails any political analysis. Otherwise, certain civil servants at the European Commission will pretend that you are politically biased and claim that your arguments are irrelevant. 2- FREE MARKET RHETORICS - Use rhetorics based on free market, competition, innovation, entrepreneurship, SMEs and property, just as if you were the chief of the federation of enterprises in your country. EuroLinux has experienced that "free market economy" is currently the only common language which most civil servants at the European Commission understand. In order to let them understand your point of view and take it into account, it is compulsory to speak their language. Arguments based on epistemology, ethics or history are acceptable but have in general no positive impact on the European Commission because only few people will understand them. 3- DAVOS COMPATIBLE - Imagine that you are introducing your point of view at the Davos Economic Forum in front of CEOs who will only listen to you if your arguments mean more profits to them. Incidentally, many Commissioners at the European Commission used to be members of the steering committee of the Davos Economic Forum. 4- CONSENSUS AMONG ECONOMISTS - Always mention that there is a consensus among economists on the fact that software patents harm innovation. Please understand that our advice does not represent any political point of view of the EuroLinux Alliance and is strictly designed at helping you to present your arguments in such way that they are going to be taken into account by the European Commission. For more information on software patents, please read our knowledge database and follow the links: http://petition.eurolinux.org/consultation http://petition.eurolinux.org/pr/pr5.html If you need inspiration to write your own statement, you may also access our statements database where 100 European companies have already published position statements: http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements Best regards, EuroLinux Alliance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://petition.eurolinux.org -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc.
Re: [newbie] LM7.2/Macmillain -- KDE2 IS FINAL!!
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 05:19, you wrote: KDE 2 is final on download and ALL PowerPacks. KDE 2.0 is a pre on "Complete" editions that were distributed to MacMillan for some large stores who needed to send something to their members to put on the shelves Not quite. The MacMillan 7.2 PowerPack Deluxe on the shelves right now has the 1.99 release in it, not the 2.0 release. How do I know this? I purchased a copy over the weekend. I already had a set of cd's from lsl, but I usually get the powerpack edition also.
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 Released
Works just fine for me. AIM in Netscape 6 is broke you can't log in -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
Re: [newbie] Please Help a Newbie! Problem Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 - Cannot initialize CDROM
Grace,
Try my way : make a bootdisk from your Win98 - must have drivers to use
your cdrom drive. Use this disk to boot to DOS, that is when boot process
is completed you see A: on the monitor - insert linux cd into the cdrom
drive - type cd C: {if you cdrom has been detected as C: else change
accordingly} -cd dosutils - cd autoboot - cd mdkinst -{type} cdrom.bat
- press [Enter] on keyboard; installation should start. Follow the
installation menu. At one stage you are 'asked' for the 'Extension CD'; if
you do not have it press [Esc] on the keyboard, press [Esc] again to exit.
This is long winded, but that was what worked for me. HTH
At 04:51 PM 14-11-2000 +, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Grace Becongco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 6:38 AM
Subject: [newbie] Please Help a Newbie! Problem Installing Linux-Mandrake
7.1 - Cannot initialize CDROM
Upon running the autorun on the DosUtils directory (from Win
98 of course),
Re: [newbie] Stupid Question
Hey Watch Out !
I remember reading {unable to recall the source}: the files in linux /tmp
are not like those in \windows\temp. If you delete them, very likely you
have to RE-INSTALL. HTH
At 04:55 PM 14-11-2000 -0500, you wrote:
I know in Windows you can safely delete the contents of your windows\temp
file.
Can you safely delete the /tmp file contents in Linux?
Jay
"May the sound of happy music, And the lilt of Irish laughter, fill your
heart with gladness, that stays forever after."
"May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend."
http://www.mrsnooky.com
Re: [newbie] Tomsrtbt e2fsck
civileme wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2000 22:33, you wrote: Hi all; I am trying to be a good boy scout and be prepared. Since I do a lot of messing around with linux, I am good at breaking it. So, I would like to be able to boot another linux and when necessary, try to repair my linux on hda5. My system is: Mandrake 7.0 hda1 = linux /boot hda2 = windoze hda3 = extended hda5 = linux / hda6 = linux swap I have Tomsrtbt and I can boot it, make a /mnt/tmphda5 dir, mount /mnt/tmphda5, and do things to hda5. Which is very good if I need to change something on hda5. But, I would also like to be able to run "e2fsck" -from tomsrtbt- on hda5. With hda5 NOT mounted when I run e2fsck I get error message "Filesystem has unsupported features while trying to open dev/hda5". How can I make a standalone boot disk that will run "e2fsck" on hda5? One thought I have is I have another 2 G HD. I could install it and install a minimum command line linux on it and use that as a rescue linux. Would that work? Thanks Charles First of all, put the CD in the drive and set to boot from it and hit f1 as soon as you see the opening graphic--Presto, instant rescue disk! If you want to use Tomsrtbt, you must go to Tom's site and download a newer version. His older version did not have support for ext2 sparse superblocks which was a new thing in 2.2 kernels. civileme -- QA/Software Testing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Civileme. I will give that a try. Charles
[newbie] fonts in Netscape
Greetings, After 16 months to the day, last night I was able to connect to the Internet from Linux. But, the web pages displayed in Netscape was very small even smaller than this. And in the View Menu : Increase Font and Decrease Font commands are greyed out. What can I do please ? TIA Regards.
[newbie] OT--HELP RECOVERING MAIL FROM NETSCAPE
I realize that this is OT but don't know where else to go for help at 3:30am...I stupidly deleted all my profiles in Netscape (windows-sorry) as I am the only person using my box now. I can't get at my email archives which hold things like keys for tests and oh, you know...important stuff. Does anyone know if recovery is possible? -michael-
RE: [newbie] Netscape 6 Released
AIM works on my machine in Netscape 6 on Mandrake 7.2. Haven't been to a secure site with it yet though. Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 3:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 Released AIM in Netscape 6 is broke you can't log in On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Anthony wrote: FYI: Netscape 6 Final was released today (November 14). It is no longer in Beta, and is now the officially supported current browser of Netscape. You can download it here: http://home.netscape.com/browsers/6/index.html New improvement include skins/themes, integrated AIM (yes, there is now an official AIM client for Linux), "My Sidebar" (some people actually do like it amazingly enough), best web standards support of any browser, fairly customizable, and a ton of new improvements over Netscape 4.x. It's a lot faster than the last beta I downloaded, and it seems stable. The only major problem that I've had with it is that it crashes when I try to reach a Secure site (SSL). I'm not sure why, or if it's just my machine. But other than that, I've been impressed by it, and it's a TON better than Netscape 4.x. Happy Downloading! -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
[newbie] KWord fonts disappear! (Mandrake 7.2 KDE 2.0)
Dear Mandrake Folks: I recently installed KWord/Office (Mandrake 7.2 with KDE 2.0). All works fine - except for one problem with KWord. The fonts all show up in the font list, but only one font will display on the screen, or print : times 12. Previously I was using a beta version of KDE on the same machines, with no problem. I installed the same Mandrake 7.2/KDE 2.0 on three machines: 1) P200 with 64 Ram, 4 Gig HD 2) P133 with 32 Ram, 1.5 HD 3) P300 with 64 Ram, 4 Gig HD Luckily, I got the P300 to work with KWord. The fonts "winked" out for a moment, and KWord crashed, but I re-booted and then it worked! The other two machines still display only one screen font. Any idea how to get the fonts to display/print on the first two machines? Thanks! Robert Maynord ---
[newbie] DRAKX moniter Configuratioon Works till after Setup
I have installed Mandrake 7.0 Several imes Chacged Display Settings It will work fine during test of oof install works for drakex but not xwindows after install I'v tried under setting it since its my laptop I just want it to playwith on the road. its a gateway solo 9300 hhoowever since it gateway they refuse to give the specs on the display that will work. "UnSatisfied Customer" But I got it Cheap. Any help would be appreciated with how drakex could be configuring it . Thanks Jason
Re: [newbie]7.2installation problem
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 01:22, you wrote: Dear All, I am in the process of installing 7.2 over my LinuxMandrake 7. My computer only boots from floppies so I used the boot floppy from 7 to boot the 7.2 CD. It seemed to work until I got to the Hard drive detection . I got an error message that insmod'ing module ide-cd failed. What does this mean and what do I do next to install this? Thank you for your help. Marcia YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Marcia, In the README file on the mirrors with the ISO's it explains how to build a 7.2 install disk. Basically there is an Image directory on the CD with install images in it. Since you have 7.0 up it should be easy to dd the floppy from the cdrom image. HTH (Yeah I tried the 7.1 floppy first too..) -- Mike Mattix [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Enlightenment / sound question
for anyone here using Enlightenment my sound card is working -- if i start a KDE session it works fine but under E i get nothing. i found out that some E themes don't support sound. I am using Absolute E, and have tried some of the other themes. same result. when i try to turn on the sound i get the message: audio was enabled for E but there was an error communicating with the audio server (Esound). audio will now be disabled. i searched my computer for a file called Esound but didn't find anything. am i missing a program or library? thanks Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] bone to pick with Macmillan
Hey, I am a bit peeved. When mandrake 7.2 came out, I went and downloaded the ISOs. I got DSL and CDburner so it was easy. Well, being a newbie, I wanted to get a manual or something, and heard that if you buy a distro, it comes with extra CDs of apps and stuff, and of course a manual. So I wanted support and all these things. Well I went to Wal-mart and bought Mandrake 7.2 Complete Retail box version since it had 4 CDs and manual. I take home and install. Then I started having a few quirks and problems, of course I did mandrake update to update the prerelease version of kde to final 2.0 version, and other stufff. Well, still had a few quirks. I missed my Webmin tool from 7.1 and I missed a few networking tools from 7.1 but alas they were no where to be found on the walmart distro. I was quite perturbed and disheartened. Finally late last night I went and viewed my downloaded ISOs of 7.2, and FOUND WEBMIN and MORE STUFF on the downloaded version!! So, since my walmart distro was not quite right, I took a chance and installed afresh the downloaded 7.2. NO MORE prerelease kde!!! I had hardly any updates necessary!! I got more networking stuff, everything seems to be running better!! The downloaded version is MUCH better. I am definitely PEEVED that I spent $$ for the walmart version and would like to know if there is a way to contact macmillan since I think they are misleading people about the retail box version!! I am just an inquiring "newbie" mind, saying my rant. susan
[newbie] Netscape 6 Install for 7.2
OK You go to Netscape's site and navigate the ads to get to downloading netscape 6 for linux 2.2.--do this with Konqueror, NOT Netscape 4.73 or you will find yourself in tail-chasing mode about enabling cookies you have already enabled. And you download it. Now look in your home directory and you will find a long name ending in .tar.gz. Right click on it and open it with the Archiver. Under "Actions" in the Archiver, select "Extract" let it extract to your home directory. Now bring up a terminal and do su - to get into root mode. # cd /home/yourusername/netscape-install # ./netscape-install Select the recommended install because the Full will hang on personal security manager. Apparently this file is troubled at the source. To get Java start up from a fresh terminal with the command $ /usr/local/netscape/netscape Render unto Caesar by selecting a login and putting your email address on AOL's customer list, then start Netscape The left 30% of the screen can be shoved out of the way by clicking on the slider bar. Now go to a site that features Java applets, and follow the instructions to download the plug-in for linux. It will self-install. QUIT NETSCAPE and start again from a terminal. You should now have a Java-enabled netscape. My early tests show the performance unimpressive. It fails to open sites that Netscape 4.73 handles nicely. It also pops up a password manager which I believe should be disabled at earliest opportunity. The sidebar is full of ads and is a terrible shopper--I found much better terms elsewhere. Civileme
Re: [newbie] Enlightenment / sound question
Adrian Smith wrote: for anyone here using Enlightenment my sound card is working -- if i start a KDE session it works fine but under E i get nothing. i found out that some E themes don't support sound. I am using Absolute E, and have tried some of the other themes. same result. when i try to turn on the sound i get the message: audio was enabled for E but there was an error communicating with the audio server (Esound). audio will now be disabled. i searched my computer for a file called Esound but didn't find anything. am i missing a program or library? I think that esound is a separate package from enlightenment. So check if it is installed (rpm -qa |grep -i esound). If it is not, install it from the CD (rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/esound*) Read the doc (rpm -qd esound) and you should be able to make it work. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~!
[newbie] Systems monitoring.
Hi all, I have just downloaded the sar, mpstat and iostat package as well as the vmstat package. I would like to develop some simple performance collection stats. I want to be able to run the same procedures across multiple unix platforms and wondered which would be the best to use? I know HP-UX has glance/measureware, not sure about Solaris and Dynix... does anyone have any pre-developed stats collections routines that could be used across differing unix distributions? Thanks, Lewis. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 November 2000 19:58 To: Shawn Daniel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Regisitered User #... try here http://counter.li.org/linuxcounter_eng.html I have seen the Linux Registered User tag on a few people here. Where does that originate from? Shawn Daniel Trying to Embrace the Penguin! Working on giving Bill the cold shoulder! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Embrace the Penguin. Give Bill the cold shoulder! Linux Registered User #190770 (10/02/2000) Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com Regards Mike Freeman Embrace the Penguin. Give Bill the cold shoulder! Linux Registered User #190770 (10/02/2000) Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
[newbie] sound card
I have recently installed Mandrake 7.2 in my Toshiba Satellite 315CDS and all running great except for the soundcard - OPL3-SA2/3/x sound chip. Tried Harddrake and it cannot even see the card.Snd config does not work.It worked fine under Mandrake 6.1 Any help would be really appreciate. Thanks in advance, Oder.
[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 php4 not working
I have downloaded and installed Mandrake7.2, but could not manage to make the php tags work. rpm -qa | grep php php-4.0.3pl1-1mdk shows me that php4 is installed. What may be the reason? thnx N. Sacit Uluýrmak Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey Research and Planning Division
[newbie]
I don't know. I got the card second hand with no book or disks. Sure would like to know why it doesn't respond. Sorry if this is a dumb question, is there a "full-duplex" setting for this card or does it operate that way by default? On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Alan wrote: I installed a 3Com 3c509 NIC. I am running Mandrake 6.5. I ran modprobe 3c509.o Sunday and got a return message: eth0:3c509 at 0x280 tag1, 10baseT, 10baseT port, address, 00 20 af 1e dd 9c, IRQ 11. I then edited /ect/ conf.modules to add the following lines: alias eth0 3c509 options 3c509 io=0x280 IRQ=11 I rebooted and ran dmesg and lsmod. Neither command returned any reference whatsoever to eth0 or any other NIC type comment. Why is Linux ignoring this card? What should I change or do differently? Thanks is advance.
[newbie] iDENTD problems with dal.net
I'm using Mandrake 7.2 and when i try to log on a Dal.net Server i keep getting the same error. " You've been autokilled, your script is not welcome on this network, Possible solution : Install identd to remove the ~ in front of your username. When my system is booting up it cleary says " Starting Identd ... " Please help, its important ... Solve this and i'm a 100% linux user =D Thanks _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] bone to pick with Macmillan
I think you all need to stop bitchen. This is Linux. Not Windows. Overcome, adapt and improvise. On Wednesday 15 November 2000 08:26, you wrote: Hey, I am a bit peeved. When mandrake 7.2 came out, I went and downloaded the ISOs. I got DSL and CDburner so it was easy. Well, being a newbie, I wanted to get a manual or something, and heard that if you buy a distro, it comes with extra CDs of apps and stuff, and of course a manual. So I wanted support and all these things. Well I went to Wal-mart and bought Mandrake 7.2 Complete Retail box version since it had 4 CDs and manual. I take home and install. Then I started having a few quirks and problems, of course I did mandrake update to update the prerelease version of kde to final 2.0 version, and other stufff. Well, still had a few quirks. I missed my Webmin tool from 7.1 and I missed a few networking tools from 7.1 but alas they were no where to be found on the walmart distro. I was quite perturbed and disheartened. Finally late last night I went and viewed my downloaded ISOs of 7.2, and FOUND WEBMIN and MORE STUFF on the downloaded version!! So, since my walmart distro was not quite right, I took a chance and installed afresh the downloaded 7.2. NO MORE prerelease kde!!! I had hardly any updates necessary!! I got more networking stuff, everything seems to be running better!! The downloaded version is MUCH better. I am definitely PEEVED that I spent $$ for the walmart version and would like to know if there is a way to contact macmillan since I think they are misleading people about the retail box version!! I am just an inquiring "newbie" mind, saying my rant. susan
Re: [newbie] Tomsrtbt e2fsck
ai4a wrote: civileme wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2000 22:33, you wrote: Hi all; I am trying to be a good boy scout and be prepared. Since I do a lot of messing around with linux, I am good at breaking it. So, I would like to be able to boot another linux and when necessary, try to repair my linux on hda5. My system is: Mandrake 7.0 hda1 = linux /boot hda2 = windoze hda3 = extended hda5 = linux / hda6 = linux swap I have Tomsrtbt and I can boot it, make a /mnt/tmphda5 dir, mount /mnt/tmphda5, and do things to hda5. Which is very good if I need to change something on hda5. But, I would also like to be able to run "e2fsck" -from tomsrtbt- on hda5. With hda5 NOT mounted when I run e2fsck I get error message "Filesystem has unsupported features while trying to open dev/hda5". How can I make a standalone boot disk that will run "e2fsck" on hda5? One thought I have is I have another 2 G HD. I could install it and install a minimum command line linux on it and use that as a rescue linux. Would that work? Thanks Charles First of all, put the CD in the drive and set to boot from it and hit f1 as soon as you see the opening graphic--Presto, instant rescue disk! If you want to use Tomsrtbt, you must go to Tom's site and download a newer version. His older version did not have support for ext2 sparse superblocks which was a new thing in 2.2 kernels. civileme -- QA/Software Testing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Civileme. I will give that a try. Charles I am so ignorant. I tried the F1 trick on my install CDROM (Mandrake 7.0). This goes to a help screen?? At that point I tried typing in 'rescue' and the program asked me to mount a floppy? I have no idea what it wants. What am I missing? What should I enter after I press F1? Thanks for the help Charles
[newbie] Desktop Switching Tool
Title: Desktop Switching Tool Is there anything like it in 7.2? * ** PHARMERICA PMSI ** * This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. *
RE: [newbie] zip drive
Seems all Zips are technically SCSI. The parallel version uses a SCSI emulation, probably the same case with USB. -Carlton -Original Message- From: Goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 12:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] zip drive I cant tell you about the usb drives, but the parallel zips are scsi. I dont know how but both bindows and linux see them as scsi. - Original Message - From: "Bob Schmidt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 9:38 PM Subject: [newbie] zip drive Hi all, I have a dell inspiron 3700 pIII 450mhz, I installed ver 7.2 and everything worked fine. When I installed linux I had my usb iomega zip drive installed. During the installation the os found the zip drive, and installed the folder in the mount folder. But when I go to it, it has a lock on it. I went into gtkzip, and it shows the zip drive as having a scsi connection. Even though it found it as a usb drive during install. When the computer boots up, it loads the usb stuff fine, with no errors. Any help would be appreciated Bob
Re: [newbie] Tomsrtbt e2fsck
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 16:35, you wrote: ai4a wrote: civileme wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2000 22:33, you wrote: Hi all; I am trying to be a good boy scout and be prepared. Since I do a lot of messing around with linux, I am good at breaking it. So, I would like to be able to boot another linux and when necessary, try to repair my linux on hda5. My system is: Mandrake 7.0 hda1 = linux /boot hda2 = windoze hda3 = extended hda5 = linux / hda6 = linux swap I have Tomsrtbt and I can boot it, make a /mnt/tmphda5 dir, mount /mnt/tmphda5, and do things to hda5. Which is very good if I need to change something on hda5. But, I would also like to be able to run "e2fsck" -from tomsrtbt- on hda5. With hda5 NOT mounted when I run e2fsck I get error message "Filesystem has unsupported features while trying to open dev/hda5". How can I make a standalone boot disk that will run "e2fsck" on hda5? One thought I have is I have another 2 G HD. I could install it and install a minimum command line linux on it and use that as a rescue linux. Would that work? Thanks Charles First of all, put the CD in the drive and set to boot from it and hit f1 as soon as you see the opening graphic--Presto, instant rescue disk! If you want to use Tomsrtbt, you must go to Tom's site and download a newer version. His older version did not have support for ext2 sparse superblocks which was a new thing in 2.2 kernels. civileme -- QA/Software Testing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Civileme. I will give that a try. Charles I am so ignorant. I tried the F1 trick on my install CDROM (Mandrake 7.0). This goes to a help screen?? At that point I tried typing in 'rescue' and the program asked me to mount a floppy? I have no idea what it wants. What am I missing? What should I enter after I press F1? Thanks for the help Charles Ack--On CD rescue was with 7.1--with 7.0 you have to accept the offer of a boot/rescue disk during install. Tom's latest will work for the e2fsck or fsck -t ext2 -- just tried it. Civileme
[newbie] LS-120 drive
I've installed LM 7.2 on my system, EVERYTHING WORKS except LS-120 identified twice, once as a Floppy (/dev/hdc) then as a scsci device ( /dev/sda). I am unable to mount it midi sequencer does not work My system is: Pentium 3 500 on a Aopen BX mainboard primary master Quantum HDD primary slave CDWRITER secondary master LS-120 secondary slave ZIP SB Live! audio card Matrox G200 AGP video card 256Mb SDRAM Regards Joseph
[newbie] Please Removo of your list
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RE: [newbie] Configure modem on ttyS3, IRQ 12
/bin/setserial -v /dev/ttyS3 irq 12 Put command at the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bernie Luger, III Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 12:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Configure modem on ttyS3, IRQ 12 Hi, My modem is set for ttyS3, IRQ 12, but Mandrake configures ttyS3 as IRQ 4. How do I get it to configure it to IRQ 12? Thanks, Bernie
[newbie] cut/paste under KDE
Dear newbie list reader, I'm fairly new to Mandrake, adjusting from having used RH for several years. Under RH and KDE, I'm very used to the X Windows cut and paste feature (just select it with the mouse pointer, then press both buttons on my MS mouse to paste it into another window, field, etc.). This feature doesn't work under MDK/KDE. I do alot of work using KDE's Konsole. When I press both buttons, a pop-up menu appears rather than pasting the selected text. If I try to paste to another application nothing happens. If I try to first copy like MS Windows has you do (^C) then nothing happens. Well, in Konsole, it aborts the current line and gives you another prompt. Is there an easy to get this to work. I really rely on cut/paste *alot*. Thanks, in advance. Bruce -- Bruce W. Mohler 858-826-2675 (voice) SAIC/Secure Business Solutions 858-826-5112 (fax) Sr UNIX system administratormailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Semper fi -- so much entropy, so little time -- Of course my password is the same as my pet's name. My dog's name is tur5%kee, but I change it every 90 days.
[newbie] Help with some drivers
Hi, I'm trying to set up my first linux machine. I've installed mandrake 7.0. my soundblaster live was detected, no problem. I have AON-325 ethernet card fron Aopen and US robotics PCI voice 56k modem. But I don't know if these two are compatible with linux and if yes where to get the drivers and how to install them. By the the modem I just mentioned is supposed to be a hardware modem that's what I were told to buy for use with linux. Thanks
[newbie] re apache and iis (reposting)
I wanted to know if anybody has any input into using iis and apache. I wanted to do some vb scripting threw iis and wanted to know if I could use my apache web serveer. if so where can I get the setup files and instructions for it? and does it work like in winblows where i can use visual studios to connect remotely and config the page directly?? let me know. Regards Mike Freeman Embrace the Penguin. Give Bill the cold shoulder! Linux Registered User #190770 (10/02/2000) Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
[newbie] Neworking fight.....
I'm having trouble getting my networking working in 7.2 It finds my card, I even had it pinging once. Powered it down to screw the card in then it didn't work again Go through the network setup and it seems to work... But doesn't ping Go through the configuration setup and it seems to work... But it doesn't ping Go through Linux Config.. And it seems to set up until it comes time to activate changes.. and I get... The following command told me that somthing had to be done. /etc/rc5.d/S10network probe Service GPM is not running Executing /etc/rc5.d/S85gpm start Then When I "do it" The command /etc/rc5.d/S10network reload is taking longer than expected to take action... And then I can re-run linuxconf anymore until I reboot. Is there any way to fix this? It also show errors on bootup. MarkP
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 php4 not working
What is the error you are getting.. Alan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sacit Uluirmak Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 php4 not working I have downloaded and installed Mandrake7.2, but could not manage to make the php tags work. rpm -qa | grep php php-4.0.3pl1-1mdk shows me that php4 is installed. What may be the reason? thnx N. Sacit Uluýrmak Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey Research and Planning Division
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 php4 not working
My ignorance is showing through again... What is php tags? -Original Message- From: Alan Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 11:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 php4 not working What is the error you are getting.. Alan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sacit Uluirmak Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 php4 not working I have downloaded and installed Mandrake7.2, but could not manage to make the php tags work. rpm -qa | grep php php-4.0.3pl1-1mdk shows me that php4 is installed. What may be the reason? thnx N. Sacit Uluýrmak Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey Research and Planning Division
[newbie] A root without permission
Hello, Just a (¿silly?) question to start: What can a root user do to write in a directory with 544 permission? I'm willing to write as root in /proc to create /proc/bus/usb and Mr. Penguin refuses to obey. Thanks for helping newbie people Quique
[newbie] grub?
hello, i amm not sure of the phrasing of my question buti have used linux Mandrake for a while and never realized that it uses grub instead of the "normal" screen to load up...i havent noticed that until i lost my root pass on install...and didnt know how to boot up in a single user mode.so i guess my question is...if i want to load up in a single user mode how do i do that?...and my second question is ... is there a way to get rid of grub and make it load up with the "normal" screen? and my third question is what is the difference between grub and lilo? Thanks TiGereYe - Accept No Substitutes - - Dont Start Racin Or I will Start Racin...Bets On That You'll Be Disgracin. __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [newbie] bone to pick with Macmillan
you are not alone Susan --- This whole thing has me wondering also. I bought 7.0 7.1 at Office Depot or Office something (they all look alike) for $20 a pop and had no problems at all with any of the CDs, installs or anything. now I'm seeing people on this list saying that the 7.2 they are getting at the store doesn't have all the features and all sort of other strange stuff.. what up with this? I suppose Macmillan, like any other company, is going to box anything it thinks it can sell, but if this release has problems why is Mandrake letting them release it (i'm assuming they have some say in the matter) as this is just going to bouce back and slap Mandrake in the end. I'm very very very happy with 7.1 and i hope to be one more very (very cubed) happy with 7.2. i was gonna buy the boxed version (since the manuals are not bad - and the install instuctions are so detailed even i installed 7.0 right the first time) but now me thinks i should just go with the disk from linuxcentral or something.. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "S. Stubbs" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7:26:48 AM 11/15/00 Hey, I am a bit peeved. When mandrake 7.2 came out, I went and downloaded the ISOs. I got DSL and CDburner so it was easy. Well, being a newbie, I wanted to get a manual or something, and heard that if you buy a distro, it comes with extra CDs of apps and stuff, and of course a manual. So I wanted support and all these things. Well I went to Wal-mart and bought Mandrake 7.2 Complete Retail box version since it had 4 CDs and manual. I take home and install. Then I started having a few quirks and problems, of course I did mandrake update to update the prerelease version of kde to final 2.0 version, and other stufff. Well, still had a few quirks. I missed my Webmin tool from 7.1 and I missed a few networking tools from 7.1 but alas they were no where to be found on the walmart distro. I was quite perturbed and disheartened. Finally late last night I went and viewed my downloaded ISOs of 7.2, and FOUND WEBMIN and MORE STUFF on the downloaded version!! So, since my walmart distro was not quite right, I took a chance and installed afresh the downloaded 7.2. NO MORE prerelease kde!!! I had hardly any updates necessary!! I got more networking stuff, everything seems to be running better!! The downloaded version is MUCH better. I am definitely PEEVED that I spent $$ for the walmart version and would like to know if there is a way to contact macmillan since I think they are misleading people about the retail box version!! I am just an inquiring "newbie" mind, saying my rant. susan
Re: [newbie] Enlightenment / sound question
thanks for the suggestion. when i installed 7.1 i installed 100% of everything with the developers install, so i would have figured that if it were on the disk i'd have it. but i'll look now that i have some better idea what i'm looking for. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] jean-philippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7:32:24 AM 11/15/00 I think that esound is a separate package from enlightenment. So check if it is installed (rpm -qa |grep -i esound). If it is not, install it from the CD (rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/esound*) Read the doc (rpm -qd esound) and you should be able to make it work.
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 Released
O cool how do you make it work? On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Anthony wrote: Works just fine for me. AIM in Netscape 6 is broke you can't log in -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
Re: [newbie] bone to pick with Macmillan
Please be more specific I am not sure that this will be helpful to Susan, as the instructions that you gave were far too broad. On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, TimD wrote: I think you all need to stop bitchen. This is Linux. Not Windows. Overcome, adapt and improvise. On Wednesday 15 November 2000 08:26, you wrote: Hey, I am a bit peeved. When mandrake 7.2 came out, I went and downloaded the ISOs. I got DSL and CDburner so it was easy. Well, being a newbie, I wanted to get a manual or something, and heard that if you buy a distro, it comes with extra CDs of apps and stuff, and of course a manual. So I wanted support and all these things. Well I went to Wal-mart and bought Mandrake 7.2 Complete Retail box version since it had 4 CDs and manual. I take home and install. Then I started having a few quirks and problems, of course I did mandrake update to update the prerelease version of kde to final 2.0 version, and other stufff. Well, still had a few quirks. I missed my Webmin tool from 7.1 and I missed a few networking tools from 7.1 but alas they were no where to be found on the walmart distro. I was quite perturbed and disheartened. Finally late last night I went and viewed my downloaded ISOs of 7.2, and FOUND WEBMIN and MORE STUFF on the downloaded version!! So, since my walmart distro was not quite right, I took a chance and installed afresh the downloaded 7.2. NO MORE prerelease kde!!! I had hardly any updates necessary!! I got more networking stuff, everything seems to be running better!! The downloaded version is MUCH better. I am definitely PEEVED that I spent $$ for the walmart version and would like to know if there is a way to contact macmillan since I think they are misleading people about the retail box version!! I am just an inquiring "newbie" mind, saying my rant. susan
Re: [newbie]7.2installation problem
Dear All, Thank you for the rapid response and help. Yes, I just needed to make the boot disk for 7.2 from Linux. It was very easy with your help. I am installing right now. The packages are being installed. Looks good so far.:) Thank you very very much. Sincerely, Marcia YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: [newbie] A root without permission
Enrique Sterling wrote: Hello, Just a (¿silly?) question to start: What can a root user do to write in a directory with 544 permission? I'm willing to write as root in /proc to create /proc/bus/usb and Mr. Penguin refuses to obey. Thanks for helping newbie people Quique Enriquethe /proc directory is special in that only the kernal can write to it, in fact it is in a sense virtual in that it doesn't exist on the hard drive, but is created on the fly by the kernal. -- Alan
[newbie] Take me off the E-Mail
This is the second time that I ask you to take me off the E-Mail; I'm getting all the (newbie) problems, and I have my own problems with your 7.1 OS. I fix then. Than you.
Re: [newbie] 7.2 and Voodoo5 and quake3
civileme wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2000 21:54, you wrote: So, 7.2 betas 1 through 3 autodetected my Voodoo5 and configured it for 3d acceleration without any intervention on my part. I just installed 7.2 full and while it did detect my V5 I cannot get hard ware acceleration to work. The Xlog file says this: (II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.1 (II) TDFX: Driver for 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3 chipsets: 3dfx Banshee, 3dfx Voodoo3, 3dfx Voodoo5 (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device (WW) TDFX: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found (--) Chipset 3dfx Voodoo5 found (II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call: and this about it: (II) TDFX(0): Textures Memory 22.24 MB [drm] failed to load kernel module "tdfx" (EE) TDFX(0): DRIScreenInit failed, disabling DRI. (II) TDFX(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) . (==) TDFX(0): Write-combining range (0xd800,0x400) (II) TDFX(0): Textures Memory 22.24 MB [drm] failed to load kernel module "tdfx" (EE) TDFX(0): DRIScreenInit failed, disabling DRI. (**) TDFX(0): DPMS enabled (II) TDFX(0): direct rendering disabled whats up? It look sto my highly untrained eyes that the X startup process can only find half of the video card but I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. I tried recompiling the tdfx module from the linux.3dfx.com web site and when I installed it I got messages that it conflicts with a kernel module. Other then this 7.2 is great. It feels more fluid, faster, more stable. Keep up the great work mandrake folks! Abe OK Please send me cat /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Civileme -- QA/Software Testing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you! Here it is: # File generated by XFdrake. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection # ** # Server flags section. # ** Section "ServerFlags" # Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is # received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may # provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging #NoTrapSignals # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltBS server abort sequence # This allows clients to receive this key event. #DontZap # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- mode switching # sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events. #DontZoom # This allows the server to start up even if the # mouse device can't be opened/initialised. AllowMouseOpenFail EndSection # ** # Input devices # ** # ** # Keyboard section # ** Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "Keyboard" Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection # ** # Pointer section # ** Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol""IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse" Option "ZaxisMapping" "4 5" #Option "Emulate3Buttons" #Option "Emulate3Timeout""50" # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice #Option "ChordMiddle" EndSection Section "Module" # This loads the DBE extension module. Load"dbe" Load"glx" Load"dri" # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. SubSection "extmod" #Option "omit xfree86-dga" EndSubSection # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Load"type1" Load"freetype" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode0666 EndSection # ** #
[newbie] 7.2
Dear All, I am pleased with 7.2 as I mentioned before. I am getting things corrected and working in a few hours rather than months.:) Is StarOffice supplied with this distro? Where is Ktail? Unfortunately I lost my Hearts game in my 7 crash the other night as well as my napster clone. By the way my husband who liked the MIcrosoft Hearts really likes this Hearts for Linux. I do not remember where to get the Hearts and napster now. I believe I was using gnome napster which worked well for me. As soon as my 4000 plus emails come in I will get back on cable email. I do not know how I could get that many in 2 days. I think my cable service provider saved all of those from my previous crash and sent them back to me again. Thanks. Marcia YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
[newbie] Rpmdrake is broke!
I it just dies a quick death with an error "can't build the groups list " I did a grep on the rpms and the rpmdrake is there. I also rebuilt the rpm database, but nothing works. Any ideas? Thanks -- Best regards, Gary
Re: [newbie] OT--HELP RECOVERING MAIL FROM NETSCAPE
Michael, First try the obvious, if you were using Windon't, go to the recycle bin on the explorer desktop and restore everything. Some applications don't support this, and I don't know in which group Netscape is, in which case I hope somebody has another suggestion for you. -Gary- In a message dated 11/15/2000 7:43:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I realize that this is OT but don't know where else to go for help at 3:30am...I stupidly deleted all my profiles in Netscape (windows-sorry) as I am the only person using my box now. I can't get at my email archives which hold things like keys for tests and oh, you know...important stuff. Does anyone know if recovery is possible? -michael-
Re: [newbie] LM7.2/Macmillain -- KDE2-Final?
To those of us who don't use KDE it is just another package that comes with our distribution. Get over it. Mandrake can't ba all things to all people all the time. 1.94 or whatever is included with 7.2 works fine anyway. Its fast, solid and nice to look at. If having the full 2.0 version is so important to you go download it. This is the linux world after all. EVERYTHING IS A BETA PRODUCT IN LINUX. Its just that some packages work better then others ;-) Abe Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Charles, Paul and friends: Thanks so much for the info. I love Mandrake, but this decision NOT to include KDE 2.0 Final when a) it is available by FTP download and b) Mandrake knew in advance precisely when KDE 2.0 Final would be made availalbe has to be one of the dumbest marketing decisions I have ever heard of. It reminds me of Intel's famous chip fiasco some years back. Chairman Grove tried initially to explain away the defective, inaccurate chip by saying that most people don't care for accuracy anyway. According to Grove, this dumb mistake and even dumber attempt at fooling the public cost Intel eventually $500 million and it took them years to regain their credibility. What it means, practically speaking, for Mandrake is that for the next 4 or 5 months Mandrake will be getting irate, angry complaints from hundreds if not thousands of disappointed people who have spent $30 or $70 plus shipping on a beta product (in view of the fact that the central feature of 7.2 is KDE 2). This is a very strange development. I have been buying the official de luxe versions of Mandrake for the past year in order to show my support and in order to have the official version. This time, when rumors started circulating that Mandrake's official, commercial version would be a beta, I took insurance by also ordering CheapBytes' version because they use the FTP download. I intend to send Mandrake's new "experiment" in public relations forthwith back to them with a demand for a full refund. Thank God I did not order the $70 deluxe version. One thing that puzzles me, though, is that Macmillain does not yet have LM 7.2 listed on their site. May I ask if those of you who reported this sad news are speaking from first-hand experience or are you quoting a press release. In other words, do you actually own a copy of Macmillain's 7.2 Complete? If I have misunderstood anything here, if LM 7.2 really does have KDE 2.0 Final, then my apologies to Mandrake. If LM 7.2 is not yet available, then I do hope somebody from Mandrake clarifies this critical matter to us. Macmillain clearly says on mandrake's Products page: KDE 2.0 Final. That is the basis on which I ordered it online. If this is not the case, please explain yourself. If it is NOT 2.0 Final but Almost Final, then Mandrake should state "Almost Final." The difference between an "Almost KDE 2.0 Final" and "KDE 2.0 Final" may see like nothing more than a downloadable patch, but, I submit that it is unprofessional and unethical to do so without letting the customer know in advance. In sum, I very much hope that I am wrong. Will someone from Mandrake/ Macmillain please step forth and tell us exactly what's going on. Thank you. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher RUS: http://www.websher.net SHK: http://www.shakespeareindex.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Install problem
What is in install.bat? Perhaps there is an error in it, like a wrong spelled command... Paul -- We are Microsoft of Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is- Fatal Exception Error in MSBORG32.DLL http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30 On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Geffen wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Linux for Windows from a CD and get the following error message when I try to run install.bat: Bad command or file name Please insert the right CD-Rom! Any suggestions? Thanks, -Lisi
Re: [newbie] domain name setup
services means you don't have a web server or FTP or telnet or what ever it is that you want to use your domain for running at the moment. KompuKit wrote: I have a static IPit's: 216.126.164.238 if you mean my ISP, they are: naisp.net if you mean the registrars: domainregistry.com Bill Shirley wrote: It is not set up correctly. [root@elmo msg]# nslookup kompukit.com Server: elmo.lan.shirleyfamily.net Address: 192.168.4.1 *** elmo.lan.shirleyfamily.net can't find kompukit.com: Non-existent host/domain [root@elmo msg]# nslookup www.kompukit.com Server: elmo.lan.shirleyfamily.net Address: 192.168.4.1 *** elmo.lan.shirleyfamily.net can't find www.kompukit.com: Non-existent host/domain How will anyone find you? Do you have a static IP address? Who is you DNS provider? Tell them to get you set up correcly. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of KompuKit Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 9:57 PM To: Linux-Mandrake Subject: [newbie] domain name setup I just did a whois lookup on both: internic and register.com for my new domain name I registered...it finally comes up with all the info...so I assume my name (www.kompukit.com) is now activated...correct? however, I've never done setup before on my machine... can someone walk me thru this...please? -- 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= -- 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=
[newbie] ATI Radeon video card.
Anyone using a Radeon video card in linux? Aaron
Fwd: [newbie] KDevelop and Mandrake 7.2 (fwd)
It doesn't right now. I am trying to work on the problem, but am not having much luck. I currently am getting a seg. fault as soon as I start it. I am awaiting a bug fix from the kde team. -Chris -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:36:52 -0500 (EST) From: William Dorsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] KDevelop and Mandrake 7.2 Does anyone know how I can get KDevelop working in Mandrake 7.2? I used KDevelop frequently in Mandrake 7.1 (I am a computer science student), but I can't seem to get it working in 7.2. Does anyone have any idea how to get it working? I would appreciate the help! ---
Re: [newbie] What happened to icons on desktop for partition C and D under 7.2
It did occur to me that the problem with the missing icons might just be a missing link, but wouldn't that also stop them showing up in gnome? Actually knowing the partitions might be useful. Didn't even say if they were on the same drive. I never had this problem, but I know quite a bit about partitioning after somehow installing 3 hard drives, one zip disk and a cdrom in one computer. I could suggest checking the desktop directory to see if anything is missing, but beyond that all I can say is "can you access them from the console?" - Original Message - From: "-michael-" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 9:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] What happened to icons on desktop for partition C and D under 7.2 Hey there kiddie-o! If you are going to flaunt your "expertise" on this list, and insist in putting people down for silly things (remember, "A rose by any other name...", the *other* Bill), then please be so kind as to point out the solution (i.e. hda, hdb, etc) not just the problem. -- ;-) -michael- Goldenpi wrote: C and D? There are no partitions C and D! If you are going to learn linux, use the right terms. Letters are a microsoft tool designed to put you one step away from your hardware and make it even harder to use any non-windows operating system. - Original Message - From: "Roman Bysh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 5:05 AM Subject: [newbie] What happened to icons on desktop for partition C and D under 7.2 Hi, I installed as developer. Under KDE, I noticed that my partitions C and D icons are missing from my virtual desktop as user. However, when I log in under Gnome, I can see them. What am I missing? Roman
Re: [newbie] What happened to icons on desktop for partition C and D under 7.2
Can you get to them from the colsole? If you can its just the icons but if no the problem is somewhere in the mount config. - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 11:00 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] What happened to icons on desktop for partition C and D under 7.2 I realize that but 7.1 gave me access to my two Windows partitions. I no longer see them in 7.2 Roman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Goldenpi Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 2:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] What happened to icons on desktop for partition C and D under 7.2 C and D? There are no partitions C and D! If you are going to learn linux, use the right terms. Letters are a microsoft tool designed to put you one step away from your hardware and make it even harder to use any non-windows operating system. - Original Message - From: "Roman Bysh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 5:05 AM Subject: [newbie] What happened to icons on desktop for partition C and D under 7.2 Hi, I installed as developer. Under KDE, I noticed that my partitions C and D icons are missing from my virtual desktop as user. However, when I log in under Gnome, I can see them. What am I missing? Roman
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 Install for 7.2
hey all, you can avoid creating a login name when you first fire up netscape6 by clicking on the link that says something to the effect "I am 13 years of age or younger." Or you can make a silly one like mine. BiggethDicketh Love that python. civileme wrote: OK You go to Netscape's site and navigate the ads to get to downloading netscape 6 for linux 2.2.--do this with Konqueror, NOT Netscape 4.73 or you will find yourself in tail-chasing mode about enabling cookies you have already enabled. And you download it. Now look in your home directory and you will find a long name ending in .tar.gz. Right click on it and open it with the Archiver. Under "Actions" in the Archiver, select "Extract" let it extract to your home directory. Now bring up a terminal and do su - to get into root mode. # cd /home/yourusername/netscape-install # ./netscape-install Select the recommended install because the Full will hang on personal security manager. Apparently this file is troubled at the source. To get Java start up from a fresh terminal with the command $ /usr/local/netscape/netscape Render unto Caesar by selecting a login and putting your email address on AOL's customer list, then start Netscape The left 30% of the screen can be shoved out of the way by clicking on the slider bar. Now go to a site that features Java applets, and follow the instructions to download the plug-in for linux. It will self-install. QUIT NETSCAPE and start again from a terminal. You should now have a Java-enabled netscape. My early tests show the performance unimpressive. It fails to open sites that Netscape 4.73 handles nicely. It also pops up a password manager which I believe should be disabled at earliest opportunity. The sidebar is full of ads and is a terrible shopper--I found much better terms elsewhere. Civileme
Re: [newbie] zip drive
Makes sense. The drives must be set up as something and scsi is well supported. A quick look through windows system propeties shows 'Iomega parallel port zip interface' under SCSI controlers. Definatly scsi. - Original Message - From: "Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 3:23 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] zip drive Seems all Zips are technically SCSI. The parallel version uses a SCSI emulation, probably the same case with USB. -Carlton -Original Message- From: Goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 12:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] zip drive I cant tell you about the usb drives, but the parallel zips are scsi. I dont know how but both bindows and linux see them as scsi. - Original Message - From: "Bob Schmidt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 9:38 PM Subject: [newbie] zip drive Hi all, I have a dell inspiron 3700 pIII 450mhz, I installed ver 7.2 and everything worked fine. When I installed linux I had my usb iomega zip drive installed. During the installation the os found the zip drive, and installed the folder in the mount folder. But when I go to it, it has a lock on it. I went into gtkzip, and it shows the zip drive as having a scsi connection. Even though it found it as a usb drive during install. When the computer boots up, it loads the usb stuff fine, with no errors. Any help would be appreciated Bob
Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake is broke!
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Gary wrote: I it just dies a quick death with an error "can't build the groups list " I did a grep on the rpms and the rpmdrake is there. I also rebuilt the rpm database, but nothing works. Any ideas? Thanks rpm -e rpmdrake rpm -i /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/rpmdrakerpm Paul -- We are Microsoft of Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is- Fatal Exception Error in MSBORG32.DLL http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] zip drive
Is that zip drive Parallel or usb? - Original Message - From: "Marcia L Waller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 8:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] zip drive I just installed 7.2 over Mandrake 7. I did the install not upgrade. It seems that everything went smoothly except I would like to get my zip drive icon on the desktop so that I may use it and I would like to get on the internet. I was on the internet with a cable modem and SMCEZ ethernet card , used Netscape 4.7. The installation said that it detected my ethernet card and cable modem I believe. Now I would like to get on. Must I take an extra step to get the DHCP going? Where is Netscape? Thank you for your help. Marcia YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: [newbie]7.2 internet-pump
Marcia L Waller wrote: [snip] I just need to get a zip drive icon on my desktop. I am not sure how to do this. Anyone know? Thank you. Marcia [snip] Marciafirst, as root, create a mount point in your /mnt directory. For instance, in a console, type: mkdir /mnt/zip Then determine the device designation of your zip drive. If it's an IDE device it'll be hdx where x is the letter one higher than your last IDE hard drive. For instance, if you have 1 IDE hard drive it is hda and the zip will be hdb. Then, as root, edit /etc/fstab and add the line below: /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip vfat user,noauto 0 0 after that then right-click your desktop and choose 'Create New' and then 'Floppy Device'. Name the new icon 'Zip' and in the 'device' section choose your zip device from the list (it reads your /etc/fstab file) '/dev/hdb4', set the mount point as /mnt/zip and the file system type as vfat (for the out-of-the-box formatted zip discs. That's all. :-) -- Alan
Re: [newbie] 7.2
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 04:10 pm, Marcia L Waller wrote: I do not remember where to get the Hearts and napster now. I believe I was using gnome napster which worked well for me. gnapster and knapster rpm's are in the /contrib/RPMS dir on Mandrake mirrors. Never got around to tryin gnapster, but knapster works great. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Configure modem on ttyS3, IRQ 12
on my machine i do this: 1) login as root 2)%setserial /dev/ttyS3 irq 12 3) in the dialup tool i chose ttyS3 as modem port. --- "Bernie Luger, III" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My modem is set for ttyS3, IRQ 12, but Mandrake configures ttyS3 as IRQ 4. How do I get it to configure it to IRQ 12? Thanks, Bernie __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/
[newbie] ktop 7.2 ?
Hallo!! I've installed 7.2 on my laptop, and i've tryed to use that program mentioned above but... it isn't installed. What's the new version of that soft? 8-? Than -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] fonts in Netscape
"L. H. LOO" escribió: Greetings, After 16 months to the day, last night I was able to connect to the Internet from Linux. But, the web pages displayed in Netscape was very small even smaller than this. And in the View Menu : Increase Font and Decrease Font commands are greyed out. What can I do please ? TIA Regards. Look at rpmfind.net for mozilla-fonts, install the rpm and choose one mozilla font. -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
RE: [newbie] Mail server question
in mandrake 7.2 it is https://127.0.0.1:1 they ade it secure in 7.2 Alam -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Leo Fox Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 2:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mail server question When I go to 127.0.0.1 or localhost it takes me to my homepage which apache is serving. When I add the port number 1 it takes me to the same place... I am using NS 6. Is there a different way to tell it what port to connect to? - Original Message - From: "civileme" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mail server question For 7.1 or 7.2: Click on DrakConf click on the traffic light to make sure webmin is present and running, and that postfix is present and running or sendmail is present and running and NOT both. (the running application will be called "sendmail" by the rest of the system) If these are not present or running, then load and initiate (especially webmin) Once you have Webmin up and running, fire up Netscape or Konqueror if you have it and goto this URL http://127.0.0.1:1 And all the setup parameters will be yours, graphically, with help under many of the names, especially for postfix, which I highly recommend over sendmail for all but the most rugged and demanding applications, and even for those if security is a concern. Civileme On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Leo Fox wrote: How do I go about setting a mail server? I got sendmail to work properly and I am able to send messages out but I am guessing I need to set-up fetchmail so I can receive messages? How do I set it up? I enabled it to start up during boot-up but it doesnt actually start... Is there a good walkthrough somewhere on setting up?
[newbie] video driver problem
Dear linux-experts :-) Please help! My video card is ATI Mach64 GX. This card has an accelerated driver in XF86. Somehow, when I use this driver my x-session always hangs - it works for a while, and then unexpectedly my display freezes. I have narrowed down my problem to the fact that my videocard glitches in accelerated mode, since i have too little RAM (32MB). I have to run some simple unaccelerated driver. I tried to use a different video driver - so far i found one - Generic VGA - it works JUST FINE - my display never hangs, plus the whole system seems to work faster(??). The only problem is that Gen. VGA always overrides my resolution settings to 600x300 pixels (normally i work at 1024x748 ) - so i cannot do anything good with my display when it is in 600x300 mode. Is there some other driver (generic SVGA or something) which would drive my videocard without acceleration and give me normal resolution? What about earlier versions of XFree86 - do they have unaccelerated driver versions for my videocard? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/
[newbie] tnt2 and 3d games
has anyone installed quake 3, unreal touranament, quake 2 or any other 3d game on 7.2 with a viper 770 video card if so what on earth did you do -- i am having the worse time .. man i would rather go through my 1st divorce then mess with this =) Alan Todd
Re: [newbie] ktop 7.2 ?
Joan Tur wrote: Hallo!! I've installed 7.2 on my laptop, and i've tryed to use that program mentioned above but... it isn't installed. What's the new version of that soft? 8-? Than -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Joanexecute: ksysguard --showprocesses -- Alan
Re: [newbie] Configure modem on ttyS3, IRQ 12
Vladimir Morozov escribió: on my machine i do this: 1) login as root 2)%setserial /dev/ttyS3 irq 12 Hallo!! Just one question: why do you use "%" ?? 8-? Thanxx -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] ktop 7.2 ?
Alan Shoemaker escribió: Joan Tur wrote: Hallo!! I've installed 7.2 on my laptop, and i've tryed to use that program mentioned above but... it isn't installed. What's the new version of that soft? 8-? Joanexecute: ksysguard --showprocesses -- Alan Thanks. It's a bit long but i can make an alias ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] ktop 7.2 ?
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 02:58 pm, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo!! I've installed 7.2 on my laptop, and i've tryed to use that program mentioned above but... it isn't installed. What's the new version of that soft? 8-? Check put 'kpm' and 'gtop' -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] Montego II (Dell OEM version) and Mandrake 7.1
What is the best way to get the Montego II (Dell OEM version)working with Mandrake 7.1? I've seen Open sound systems $15 driver. Thats one of the reasons I'm wanting to learn linux is so I won't be 15 dollared to death so I'm not wanting to go that way if I can help it. I've also seen the Aureal 1.1.1 drivers on the SourceForge page and it looks like some folks but not all are having success with those. All suggestions much appreciated. Neal Wilkinson
[newbie] sound issue
When I ran the command chmod a+rw /dev/midi it says no such file or directory. So where is the midi player sound files ? Also where is the soundcore files ? Im just trying to see if there even installed. Thank you, Chronos. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!
Re: [newbie] bone to pick with Macmillan
"S. Stubbs" wrote: Hey, I am a bit peeved. When mandrake 7.2 came out, I went and downloaded the ISOs. I got DSL and CDburner so it was easy. Well, being a newbie, I wanted to get a manual or something, and heard that if you buy a distro, it comes with extra CDs of apps and stuff, and of course a manual. So I wanted support and all these things. Well I went to Wal-mart and bought Mandrake 7.2 Complete Retail box version since it had 4 CDs and manual. I take home and install. Then I started having a few quirks and problems, of course I did mandrake update to update the prerelease version of kde to final 2.0 version, and other stufff. Well, still had a few quirks. I missed my Webmin tool from 7.1 and I missed a few networking tools from 7.1 but alas they were no where to be found on the walmart distro. I was quite perturbed and disheartened. Finally late last night I went and viewed my downloaded ISOs of 7.2, and FOUND WEBMIN and MORE STUFF on the downloaded version!! So, since my walmart distro was not quite right, I took a chance and installed afresh the downloaded 7.2. NO MORE prerelease kde!!! I had hardly any updates necessary!! I got more networking stuff, everything seems to be running better!! The downloaded version is MUCH better. I am definitely PEEVED that I spent $$ for the walmart version and would like to know if there is a way to contact macmillan since I think they are misleading people about the retail box version!! I am just an inquiring "newbie" mind, saying my rant. susan if u want to rid yourself of your old 7.2 discs, i'll give em a try. i'll buy em from u if u dont need em and then i'll do my test and we'll see. my 7.1 on my machine works great and works the first time installed. just curiour pat , and welcome to the newsgroup susan.
[newbie] depmod: unresolved symbols
Hallo (again)!! After 7.2 instalation i've compiled the kernel with no problem but the following message that appears on startup (there are about 30 lines): depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/different_directory_names/different_files.o Everything seems to work fine... 8-? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
[newbie] Displaying KDE on WinNT using Exceed 6.1
I am setting up a Mandrake 7.2 PC as a remote fileserver with no monitor. When I try to display KDE on a WinNT station using Exceed 6.1, everything initially looks OK but then the icons on the Panel menu disappear and the Panel becomes unusable. The Desktop icons and the Desktop menu work fine. The Panel menu is the most useful application launcher and it would be great if it worked.
Re: [newbie] ktop 7.2 ?
I am having trouble with telnet. I can telnet out to other machines but I can not telnet in (connection refused). Any ideas? Thanks, Joe
[newbie] text editor
what is the best simple text editor to use in kde, i have just discovered that some mac files on a dos floppy will reveal their text content in notepad in windows but not in text editor in kde - how annoying, i need an editor that will show up whats there bascule
Re: [newbie] iDENTD problems with dal.net
Are you sure is Identd? I think is inetd. There is an ident package for linux but I forgot where I got it from. Do a search in google. Very simple and it works. - Original Message - From: "Vincent Charette" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 9:27 AM Subject: [newbie] iDENTD problems with dal.net I'm using Mandrake 7.2 and when i try to log on a Dal.net Server i keep getting the same error. " You've been autokilled, your script is not welcome on this network, Possible solution : Install identd to remove the ~ in front of your username. When my system is booting up it cleary says " Starting Identd ... " Please help, its important ... Solve this and i'm a 100% linux user =D Thanks _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 Released
I just put in my username and password, hit Sign On, and it connects me. I didn't do anything special. O cool how do you make it work? On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Anthony wrote: Works just fine for me. AIM in Netscape 6 is broke you can't log in -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit. -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
