[newbie] Linux on School Network
Hello, I'm trying to get a Mandrake Linux 8.1 server that my friend had set up running on my school's network, but unfortunately it is not getting an IP address. I've taken the network card and plugged it into my Windows box, activated it on the network, and placed it back in the server box, so I know that's not it (we're required to accept terms of use before it allows our cards to access the internet). I've also re-run the network configuration tool in the Mandrake Control Center and it still won't get an IP. Any ideas? What other information do you need to help? We don't know what else to try from here. Thanks. Brian -- He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955), German-born American theoretical physicist, theories of relativity, philosopher Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WTF?????
Are you trying to send from your home when you weren't before? I've found that I get that error when using my school's smtp when not actually connected to the school's network. I'm preparing to set up my own sendmail for when I'm home this summer. Nope... I got two incoming POP3 accounts, but I only have one outgoing... Don't ask why, that's my college's dumb policy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux
I don't understand the concept behind a United Linux distribution, BUT I do think it would be wonderful if all the Linux distros would get together in concert and decide on unified standards. There are too many differences with how they work. Granted, there will always be things that each distro does themselves, and maybe even would prefer not to share, but they need to all get together and agree on a directory structure, etc etc. I think this will be a good step towards that if the other distros get in on it too. The other fruits of UL, however, I am not as thrilled about. -- Brian says: Use Mozilla for your browsing, e-mail, and IRC needs! v 0.9.9 available for free at http://www.mozilla.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unreal
Well, I was talking about Unreal. If I had been talking about Unreal Tournament, I would have said UT or Unreal Tournament. Ok, that's what I thought - I was thrown off by your mention of the UT_GOTY CD's Thanks -- Brian says: Use Mozilla for your browsing, e-mail, and IRC needs! v 0.9.9 available for free at http://www.mozilla.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unreal
Are we talking about Unreal or Unreal Tournament here?? :) believe me when I tell you it is the best $10 dollars you will have ever spent on a game to run in Linux. Provided you're not going to try and run on a machine less then a PII with at least 128MB of RAM and a vid card with less then 16MB of memory on it. as for Unreal itself you will have to get the version that installs in windows and then download the Linux binary to install what's on the CD's to your Linux system. It looks and plays exactly the same in Linux as it does in windows thanks to OpenGL. Loki has done a spectacular job on this game. if you get the CD's labeled UT_GOTY let me know. there is a specific binary that you'll need to run to install the game correctly. I have it here at home and can stick on the FTP server for you no trouble at all. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quake 3...again
Ok - weird. I decided, just going on a limb, to switch the disc from my CD-RW to my DVD-ROM. Now I can read it just fine - with setup.sh and all. However, the interesting part is that I don't see the files I see when I read it with my CD-RW! Does anyone have any idea why the two are reading the drives differently? Thanks Brian Brian Koppe wrote: Hello everyone, I just reinstalled Linux this past weekend using ext3 and just began to reinstall Quake 3 Arena. So, I open up the manual and so as it says - go to /mnt/cdrom and then sh setup.sh Now, I know this works because, well, I've done it twice before - using ext2 - and I've installed Quake 3 and played it just fine. This time however, I type sh setup.sh and I get the following: setup.sh: setup.sh: No such file or directory Well, obviously there is a setup.sh - I've run it twice to install Q3A twice. But this time it doesn't find it. I open Konqueror to have a look at the CD. Not there. All that IS there is a bunch of jpegs and gifs of the characters and such. Nothing but image files. My only thought on this is that, for some reason, I can't read the D fully because I'm using ext3. Doesn't make sense to me, but I don't know what else it could possibly be. Any ideas? Thanks! Brian P.S. If you think it is because I'm using ext3 - any way I can change to ext2 without reinstalling, etc - I heard that there was a way. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Quake 3...again
Hello everyone, I just reinstalled Linux this past weekend using ext3 and just began to reinstall Quake 3 Arena. So, I open up the manual and so as it says - go to /mnt/cdrom and then sh setup.sh Now, I know this works because, well, I've done it twice before - using ext2 - and I've installed Quake 3 and played it just fine. This time however, I type sh setup.sh and I get the following: setup.sh: setup.sh: No such file or directory Well, obviously there is a setup.sh - I've run it twice to install Q3A twice. But this time it doesn't find it. I open Konqueror to have a look at the CD. Not there. All that IS there is a bunch of jpegs and gifs of the characters and such. Nothing but image files. My only thought on this is that, for some reason, I can't read the D fully because I'm using ext3. Doesn't make sense to me, but I don't know what else it could possibly be. Any ideas? Thanks! Brian P.S. If you think it is because I'm using ext3 - any way I can change to ext2 without reinstalling, etc - I heard that there was a way. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quake 3...again
hmm i think you forgot about the ./ perhaps? go to /mnt/cdrom and type sh ./setup.sh HTH Damian Thanks, but that's not it - I tried all those different variations. I sent an e-mail that apparently hasn't reached the listserv yet that I was able to read it with my DVD drive. Strangely though - it turns out that the only files I saw as being on the CD when I read it from my CD-RW were the files located deep in the /mnt/cdrom2/Help/Manual/navart directory. Even stranger is that not even all those files showed up when I viewed the CD using my CD-RW. Very puzzling indeed. Nonetheless, I got it to install. Unfortunately, I can't get it to run now. I did everything exactly as I've done the last two times I installed it - made a shell script to kill the arts server before running quake3, etc etc etc - still it doesn't start up. It changes the resolution to the installation default 640x480 and then and then says received signal 11 - exiting. Now, The only time I got that signal 11 error was when I first tried to install and I ghad the sound server problem - but that's fixed since I'm using a script which kills the sound server first, so I don't know what's going on :-\ Anyone able to help? Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Console Emulators
I don't remember off-hand where to find it, but if I'm not mistaken, ZSNES comes for Linux. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fussy Panel...
I'm trying to set my panel up with a background image, but for some reason the background doesn't show up and instead I can't get the color to go away. It is the same color setting I have for push buttons, but for some reason I can't get it to be the color for puch buttons and not the panel. Any ideas? Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip Ummm, Miark, in august 1999, cryptonym corporation was examining a Service pack release of NT4 from which microsoft had inadvertantly forgotten to strip the data tags. Civileme snip Since the NSA is able to spy on citizens by virtue of the NSA backdoor so thoughtfully provided by M$, would this not be an excellent reason for the government to maintain an ongoing business relationship with M$? snip LX Do either of you have sources to back this up? Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DivX Player
... and player? What player do you mean? There are probably about 15 different player for Linux for DivX films, and I can't seem to find any reference to divxPlayer anywhere? Sorry, I thought I had been clear on this but I guess not. The player I'm speaking of is the The Playa, referred to in filenames as divxPlayer. You can find it on the official DivX website http://www.divx.com This is also where I got the codec for Linux from. Sounds like the film you are trying to open is not in actual fact a DivX film. I'm guessing that this is another file to the one you opened when testing the player? If it is the same one, then my guess is that the player is very buggy. As far as the file goes, I did not open the player and the file in the same command. When I tested it, I opened the player and then clicked the button to open a file, and chose the divx movie I wanted to view. At that point it worked just fine. When I went to actually WATCH a movie in it however, I opened the player, just like before, and was not able to click any buttons to open any movie, as it closed almost immediately after. Frankly, I know how to tell the difference between file formats, and I know how to compile just fine, but I like the official DivX player from divx.com. It ought to work, it HAS worked, and I know for a fact it works as one of my friends installed it on his Gentoo installation with no problems. My question really concerns the error message. I know the problem lies in there. There are two files in /usr/local/bin, one is called, simply, divxPlayer. The contents are as follows: #!/bin/sh BINDIR=/usr/local/bin DIVX_SKIN_DIR=/usr/local/divxPlayer/Skins; export DIVX_SKIN_DIR /usr/local/bin/divxPlayer.bin $ I believe the problem may lie somewhere in this script file. There is also a divxPlayer.bin in /usr/local/bin. If anyone would like to see that I can send it but I don't want to mail an attachement to the whole list. Thanks for your help! Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DivX Player - Solution found
Thanks a lot Ralph! I'll be sure to check out MPlayer too, but I decided to go with the player from divx.com since I've had so much trouble getting any of the other programs to recognize the codec - namely Xine. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
Ever hear of MS- DOS? That wasn't Gates' brainchild, it was IBM's. Only because they forgot to secure their rights to it. Know of any sources to support this? Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] =-O NO TEXT!!!
EEK! Unfortunately, I haven't been in Gnome for awhile so I'm not sure what may have caused this, but I see no text! On the desktop there are icons but no text under them and in Nautilus there is no text for the file names/folders/etc Anyone have a clue what I'm missing? I could have sworn I installed all the right packages Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
WOW. I'm actually writing a research paper on M$ right now. If you know and could tell me your sources for these things it would be GREATLY appreciated Thanks! Brian Miark wrote: Shane and I were talking about M$ products and the government. I thought y'all might be interested too. First, the Peruvian government is putting through a bill that would eliminate closed, proprietary software (M$ software) from government computers. The General Manager of M$ in Peru wrote a public complaint, and a congressman wrote a response. I was most interested in what he said about security: To guarantee national security or the security of the State, it is indispensable to be able to rely on systems without elements which allow control from a distance or the undesired transmission of information to third parties. Systems with source code freely accessible to the public are required to allow their inspection by the State itself, by the citizens, and by a large number of independent experts throughout the world. Our proposal brings further security, since the knowledge of the source code will eliminate the growing number of programs with spy code. In the same way, our proposal strengthens the security of the citizens, both in their role as legitimate owners of information managed by the state, and in their role as consumers. In this second case, by allowing the growth of a widespread availability of free software not containing spy code able to put at risk privacy and individual freedoms. Well said. And if that wasn't enough to stricken M$ crap, check this out (in case you didn't already read it in Shane's sig): Microsoft has knowingly and willfully concealed information regarding security flaws in computer software from the [National Security Agency] out of fear that revealing such flaws would reduce the number of copies of its products that would be purchased by the government... I have raised this issue internally with Microsoft, and in return have been the subject of both bribes and threats. -ED CURRY, Computer Security Specialist, in a letter to Defense Secretary William Coen In other words, M$ risked national security for the love of money. How unbelievably vile! Just look at how much M$ cares about the security of the 260+ million inhabitants of its home country. I didn't think I could hate M$ as much as I do right now. Anyway, I really hope the US government starts taking notice of how other governments are separating themselves from the evil that is Microsoft. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KSplashML
I'm trying to get KSplashML running, but I couldn't install the packages off of my D's - a dependency on kdebase2.2.2 - I'm running KDE3. I searched in the KDE RPMs and could not find one for KSplashML - am I correct in assuming it's just not available as of yet, or does someone know of a way it works? Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Flash + Konqueror revisited...
I installed Flash in Konqueror - and it works! But Konqueror freezes every time I visit a page with it now :( Any suggestions? Thanks! Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: MS v. Caldera concerning DR-DOS
Hey everyone, I'm writing a paper concerning the current MS trial and why the DOJ's proposal should not be accepted, and I am working on creating a historical understanding of the situation in the first few pages of my paper. I remember reading somewhere that it was proven that MS intentinoally coded Windows 3.1 to check to be sure the version of DOS it was running on was MS-DOS. Unfortunately I can't find this source anymore to use this information. If anyone knows of a source which states this, your help would be appreciated. Any other sources that you think may be useful are welcome as well. Thanks in advance! Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Logoff Sound
Is there any way to make the KDE exit wait for the logoff sound to be played before exiting? When I exit KDE, I barely ever hear the sound because it exits so fast. (I suppose this is a good problem to have compared to Windows taking forever :-P) Nonetheless, I've looked around and cannot find a solution. Thanks! Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Nautilus
Having a small problem here After removing the old KDE3 and installing the Texstar CVS RPMs I guess I forgot to install some package having to do with nautilus. I HAVE Nautilus but it has no text and a few other problems. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks! Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] AbiWord 1.0.1
Hey folks, me again. :-[ I'm having two problems with AbiWord 1.0.1 - the first has to do with fonts. When I start it up, I get this message: AbiWord was not able to add its fonts to the X font path. This does not mean that there is anything wrong with your system, but you will need to modify your font path manually. Please see Unix Font Path Problems in the FAQ section of the AbiWord help file for more detailed information, including instructions on how to turn this warning off. Now, I looked for above said section and could not find it :( I looked every else where it said stuff about fonts and could not find anything referring to my problem and how to fix it :( After I hit OK in the warning box, AbiWord opens and *seems* to be working fine, but I must admit all I've used it for so far is to type this is a test in a couple different fonts and print it off. Anyone able to help??? On a much lighter and simpler note, the window size that it opens to is a bit annoying. The width is just too small to show the full toolbar on top and it cuts off some of the right side of the page. I know the size window it opens is in a config file somewhere so I was hoping one of you could point me in its direction. Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] q3 warning and question
ok, so after all the quake 3 talk i decide i should at least run the demo, right? Um... why? That download is _much_ larger that the one to just install the regular game. Or do you not have Q3 yet? (Shame on you if you don't ;-) Yeah, in case you didn't know, you can get the Linux Q3A for about $10 - that's what I bought it for from Best Buy at least - aluminum case and all :-D Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Format Floppy
Hey everyone, how do you format a floppy in Linux? :-[ Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?
Read the book More Guns, Less Crime There was a LOT of research put into that book and it shows, quite well, that what you just claimed is not true. I submit to you the case of Switzerland. Every male in Switzerland is REQUIRED to own a gun - yet they have incredibely low crime there too. There are PLENTY of other things to say about this, but since this *IS* A Linux board I'll simply say read the book. Brian Gun restriction laws in canada mean we have fewer crimes per capita than the US Our murder rates are far lower by city/per capita too. Simple fact: Guns kill ppl. Access to them does same. End of story here in Canada. *dons the flame retardant suits prepares for the inevitable war* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Converting Mozilla Bookmarks
Hi everyone, I have used Mozilla quite extensively in WinXP (I know, I know - I gotta play my games SOMEWHERE) and I have a TON of bookmarks in it. However, I just reinstalled 8.2 and KDE3 so I have no bookmarks in Linux. I was wondering if and how I could import my WinXP Mozilla bookmarks to Linux Mozilla and/or Konqueror. Thanks in advance! Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Follow-up question about bookmarks...
First off, thank you for the help copying my Mozilla bookmarks - I didn't realize it was so easy. Two other things: 1) How do I import my Mozilla bookmarks in Konqueror and 2) I have a friend who use(d) IE and I just got him to try Linux - how would he import the IE bookmarks into either Mozilla or Konqueror? Thanks! Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Follow-up question about bookmarks...
Thank you so much, that really helped :-D Now, does anyone know how to import IE bookmarks? Thanks Brian Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I had a problem getting my Netscape bookmarks into Konqueror last week. If you place your Netscape bookmarks, bookmarks.html not bookmarks.htm, into the ./mozilla directory. Then from Konqueror's menu bar, select Bookmarks Edit Bookmarks... This brings up a popup File Import Mozilla Bookmarks You'd think Import Netscape Bookmarks would be the correct option but mine was greyed out and I was told that the bookmarks are pretty much the same in both Mozilla and Netscape. The above worked well for me. Jeanie -Original Message- From: Brian Koppe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 2:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Follow-up question about bookmarks... First off, thank you for the help copying my Mozilla bookmarks - I didn't realize it was so easy. Two other things: 1) How do I import my Mozilla bookmarks in Konqueror and 2) I have a friend who use(d) IE and I just got him to try Linux - how would he import the IE bookmarks into either Mozilla or Konqueror? Thanks! Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] i586 v i686
I'm looking to download some Texstar RPM's but I don't know the difference between i586 and i686. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] i586 v i686
Well, I have an Athlon T-Bird - am I correct in assuming that means to equeate it to over a PII? Also, what if there is only one option i.e. it comes in i586 but not i686 - will the i586 work for me? Thanks a lot! :) Brian Kirtis B wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 08:08 pm, you wrote: I'm looking to download some Texstar RPM's but I don't know the difference between i586 and i686. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. Brian If you have a Pentium II or higher then get the i686 one. If not then get the i586 one. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Audio issues...
I have KDE3.0 set up to automatically preview files. When I leave the mouse over an mp3 file, it plays until I move the mouse away. However, after I have done that, I can't play mp3's in XMMS - I get this message: Couldn't open audio Plaese check that: 1. You have the correct output plugin selected 2. No other program is blocking the soundcard 3. Your soundcard is configured properly The thing is, if I haven't heard a preview, then the mp3's open just fine with XMMS. Any thoughts? Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] making a script runnable
Thanks, that did the trick Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, 04 May 2002 20:27:53 -0500 Brian Koppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. Now that I've been able to get it to run, I get the error kinstalltheme: command not found I'm running Mandrake 8.2 and KDE 3. Anyone know what to do here? Sorry for being such a newb :-P Brian That is part of kdelibs 3, which I would assume gets installed when you install KDE. The script may be looking for kinstalltheme in the wrong place, though. Do a locate kinstalltheme in a terminal, and you'll see if a) you have it installed and b) where it is. If you don't have it installed, install it using software manager in the control center. If you do have it installed, look at the script in a text editor and see where it's looking for kinstalltheme, and change it to the correct location. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gimp
right click on the image - it's in the menus there Klemm wrote: Hi No one has posted a stupid question a long. How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and not anywhere else). Have I missed something... I am using 8.2, and it is the original install, Thanks for hints Klemm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] making a script runnable
Hi, I have a .sh script that I ned to run to install a theme, but it doesn't run when I type ./ before it Last time this happened I had to type some command to make it so ./ worked. Any suggestion? Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] making a script runnable
Thank you. Now that I've been able to get it to run, I get the error kinstalltheme: command not found I'm running Mandrake 8.2 and KDE 3. Anyone know what to do here? Sorry for being such a newb :-P Brian Brian Parish wrote: chmod +x filename or chmod 777 filename Brian On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 11:08, Brian Koppe wrote: Hi, I have a .sh script that I ned to run to install a theme, but it doesn't run when I type ./ before it Last time this happened I had to type some command to make it so ./ worked. Any suggestion? Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail?
That would be XP - I read the e-mail after playing Jedi Knight II which I have not had time to figure out how to get working in Linux yet. civileme wrote: Brian Koppe wrote: Wow - how'd you know it was Mozilla? Thanks btw, it works shane wrote: View=Headers=All and look at User-Agent, which also says you are using Windows NT 5.1. Is that what MS calls W2K formally ? Or is it XP? Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail?
Wow - how'd you know it was Mozilla? Thanks btw, it works shane wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 20:24, Brian Koppe opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: How do you sort by thread? That'd be really cool what is your mail client? wait looks like mozilla, yes? try going to view sort by thread. may be wrong, don't recall, been using kmail for what seems like forever. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Brian says: Use Mozilla for your browsing, e-mail, and IRC needs! v 0.9.9 available for free at http://www.mozilla.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Music from the window
Christian, I'm a fairly new newbie as well, but I *can* tell you that NTFS + Linux are not good together. I don't remember which, but Linux cannot read or write to it, and the one of those which it CAN do it cannot do well. My suggestion, if you can, is to reformat/reinstall Windows using FAT32. Obviously though, this will require you to back up data, which maybe someone else on this board can give you better advice. The nice thing about FAT32 is that Linux is seamless with it. Whenever I reinstall Linux or Windows, I just move all my data back and forth between each partition - it's quite convenient in that way, and obviously many others. XMMS is the player you referred to that looks like Winamp - it's a great player. May I also suggest keeping an eye out for Winamp 3 for Linux? It's only an Alpha Preview right now, but it looks like it may be pretty solid in the future. Konqueror is, in fact, sort of like Explorer in Windows. Unlike Windows though, there are many other file managers that you may like to see as well. I prefer Konqueror myself, but be sure to at least look at Nautilus and a few of the others. As far as mounting drives, I'm pretty much a newbie myself as I said, and I've never had to do it with Mandrake 8.2. The drives should mount in startup I believe. If I'm wrong, I'm sure someone here will correct me. Lastly, don't feel bad asking these questions :-) We were all at your point at some time (myself not too long ago). Hope I helped! ;-) Brian Christian Wohlfahrt wrote: Hi all, first post here, sorry to sound like a Linux dummy, but I am (not only a Mandrake newbie ;-) So, I have managed to get 8.2 installed (after trying with RedHat, which seemed to dislike my partitioning...). I now have to work my way through all these Howto's, and I'd like to listen to some music while doing that. I found this player that looks like Winamp, buried deep in the startmenu somewhere. So far, so good. Now I have plenty of MP3's, but they are on a W2K NTFS partition, which I couldn't find with Konqueror (seems to me that this is the explorer counterpart, right?). If I understood correctly, I have to do something like mounting a drive or so, but I have no idea how to do that. My question: Is there another program (or package) that I need to do this? And if it's not worth an answer, can I find it in the HowTo's ? Thanks a lot Christian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Brian says: Use Mozilla for your browsing, e-mail, and IRC needs! v 0.9.9 available for free at http://www.mozilla.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0 - Worth the Upgrade
I've upgraded to KDE 3 and I'd say it's most likely worth it. There are DEFINITELY some bugs though so if you want something that's gonna work just right, I'd wait a little longer. Pauljames Dimitriu wrote: Anyone here upgrade to KDE 3.0? Is it worth theupgrade or is it like Windows.wait a while afterit's initial release?__Do You Yahoo!?Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTaxhttp://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Brian says:Use Mozilla for your browsing, e-mail, and IRC needs!v 0.9.9 available for free at http://www.mozilla.org
Re: [newbie] Suse vs Mandrake
I remember hearins somewhere that Linux can sync up with Pam devices. Anyone know if this can work with Mandrake 8.2 and a Sony Clie and how? Thanks, Brian -- Brian says: Use Mozilla for your browsing, e-mail, and IRC needs! v 0.9.9 available for free at http://www.mozilla.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] click in KDE
Go into the KDE Control Center (command: kcontrol)--Peripherals--Mouse and you'll see it in there. Li Tan wrote: HI, guys, I am just wondering how I could change launching an application from one click to double click in KDE. Thanks Li -- Brian says:Use Mozilla for your browsing, e-mail, and IRC needs!v 0.9.9 available for free at http://www.mozilla.org
Re: [newbie] Can not install LM8.2 from CD ROM
did you check the md5 sums before burning? Ongkie Singgih wrote: Dear friend(s), I can not boot from CD #1, do I have to run the LM8.1 first and update from it ? Thanks and regards, Ongkie _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Brian says:Use Mozilla for your browsing, e-mail, and IRC needs!v 0.9.9 available for free at http://www.mozilla.org
