Re: [newbie] Weird things in 9.2
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 21:40, John Wilson wrote: kdesu -c konqueror What is the difference between kdesu and su? Thank you. Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Display is one pixel in top left of screen
I have a system running Mandrake 9.0 which was working fine, then for no apparent reason, began this strange behavior: When booting, everything is normal through lilo. It sits there for a few seconds with Linux selected, then when you would expect Linux to launch, the whole screen goes blank except 1 pixel in the top left corner. No changes were made between the last time it worked properly and when this problem began. Ctrl-alt-backspace has no effect. Ctrl-alt-F1 has no effect. Any ideas what is wrong? Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] webcam recommendations needed
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 02:55, Damian Gatabria wrote: Yesterday i started working at a small business that is interested in using PC's with webcams as security cameras .. you know, to monitor customers, that kind of thing. Logitech 3000 Pro or 4000 Pro works easily with the built in pwc module. Picture quality is very nice. Lots of helpful information here: http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ The above site covers Philips plus the various other cams that use the pwc module. Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 19:17, Heather/Femme wrote: I wish to *make* an ISO image file. NOT burn one that is already present on my hard drive. Consider mkisofs. Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 4 speakers linux
On Friday 05 September 2003 15:26, Anarky wrote: kmixer couldn't crack it at all ... alsamixer knew more ... but none of them gave voice to the rear speakers I recommend gamix. The playback slider controls the front, surround controls the back. Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NEC 1100A DVD+R burner
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 19:59, Russ Rollins wrote: When I do that I can identify the device (/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0), but I can't mount it--I get the error mount: you must specify the filesystem type. There is a blank DVD+R disc inside. That's your problem right there. You can't mount a blank, unburned disc! Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer Being Shut Down?
On Sunday 31 August 2003 12:11, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: What exactly is going on with the European Union? Are they going to shut mplayer down or what? Who's trying to stop them, if anybody? Many sites are doing this right now as a protest. On September 1st, the plenary of the European Parliament will decide about a law proposal which would establish software patents in Europe. A group of economists from Europe and US specialising in patent questions have published a letter to members of the European Parliament calling them to reject the proposal, accompanied by an analytical paper which casts severe doubts on the reasoning behind the directive and on the methods employed by its proponents. Learn more here: http://swpat.ffii.org/ Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine question
On Friday 15 August 2003 17:29, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hmm... I think I'll give up. Maybe I can buy an old Windows-box for my daughter just to run that app, because the info says it'll run on everything (winders, that is) from 9.x to XP (whatever that is). Have you considered VMWare or Win4Lin? Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Apache
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 15:41, bob parker wrote: I heard that there are compatability problems with PHP and Apache V2 I am far from an expert on PHP and Apache. However, I can tell you I could not get php to work with Apache 2. When I went back to Apache 1 it all worked great. Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video capture card for linux
On Thursday 07 August 2003 08:22, ed tharp wrote: xawtv does OK capture Do you get sound, because all I ever get is silent video. If you do get sound with your captures, would you mind explaining how you do it? Thank you. Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RE: Lexmark Z52 Printing
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 21:38, Kevin J Citron wrote: I forgot. What port is Webmin on 1, and remember to use https not http Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dummies books
On Saturday 05 July 2003 21:17, Todd Slater wrote: I'll go farther than saying I'm not a big fan--I despise them. Check out Linux Administration for Dummies, it's great. I have Using Linux, Linux in a Nutshell, Running Linux, Linux Desk Reference, Linux Essential Reference, etc. and I often find myself getting the answers I need from the Dummies book rather than these others that are usually considered superior. Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help!!!!!
On Thursday 29 May 2003 08:19, Marc Oestreicher wrote: Wow it's almost like we live in different worlds but I suppose that in some regards we do. Yes, I was talking with two guys yesterday who are pretty computer literate. At least they had heard of Linux, but they knew absolutely nothing about it. One asked, what company makes that, anyway? and neither had heard of Linus Torvalds! *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 16:52, Brian wrote: Appears to be just be serving your lan. I got into the site just fine (http://www.bustedbox.homelinux.net/) *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for a tv card for Linux
On Friday 28 March 2003 07:21, Jerry Barton wrote: My ATI TV-Wonder VE works great and was only $40 (US) where the wintv card was $129 It depends on which WinTV you get. The one that is on about the same level as TV-Wonder VE is the WinTV Go, which usually costs around $50. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] using a camcorder in Mandrake
On Friday 14 March 2003 18:07, Jim Snyder wrote: Can I use this card with my camcorder to play back the tape and capture individual frames to edit the tape or save a still image? I don't know about the aspect of editing a tape. However, I can tell you in Linux I sometimes watch tapes and capture images from tapes by plugging into the composite video jack of my WinTV card and using xawtv or KWinTV. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logitech 3000 questions?
On Sunday 16 February 2003 00:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Anyone got the Logitech 3000 actually working? I can testify that it works great for me and I did not have to do anything to get it working. Since I did not have to do anything (it worked automatically) I do not have any tips on how to get it working. One tip I have for when you do get it working is that you will probably need to download the pwcx module to get the proper size of picture. My favorite webcam application for Linux is camstream. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logitech 3000 questions?
On Sunday 16 February 2003 00:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: It looks like the modules that are needed are there: bttv cqcam pwc usb You don't need cqcam. Pwc is the correct module for this cam. I am not saying having cqcam loaded is the cause of your problem, but I would try unloading it just in case. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Strange message when posting to newbie list
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 20:34, David Reynolds wrote: What the heck is this? I get it for the last couple weeks when sending to this list. Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: linux-mandrake newbie,emc (The name was not found at the remote site. Check that the name has been entered correctly.) Yes, I have been getting that lately, too. My postings do appear on the list, so I don't mind, but I have been curious why I suddenly get that every time I post. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Webcams
On Sunday 02 February 2003 22:55, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Can anyone recommend a good webcam for use under Mandrake 9.0? Logitech Quicam Pro 3000 or 4000 work easily with the built in pwc module. Picture quality is very nice. My favorite linux webcam application is camstream. Lots of helpful information here: http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ The above site covers Philips plus the various other cams that use the pwc module. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] v4l/camstream/apache/ftp question
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 14:03, Jerry wrote: I might have to wait on it to use it say when I re-install I've never been successful at a kernel recompile If you have a relatively recent distro you should not need to recompile. With your present setup, type modprobe pwc and see what happens. If you then type lsmod and pwc is among those listed, you should be all set. As I mentioned, though, you might find you have to download the pwcx module (which you would then load in addition to the pwc module) to get a normal size picture. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] vhs to mpg
On Friday 17 January 2003 16:55, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I used a BT878 card to transpose VHS of equestrian events into AVI If this was in Linux, what software did you use? Thank you. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD
On Thursday 09 January 2003 12:21, Gil Katz wrote: When i enter a music cd into the cdrom i get no cd loaded or when i try to browse the cd from mnt i get premission denied ( i root) what should i do? A partial answer: Don't mount audio cds. Just put the cd in the drive and open a cd player application. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD?
On Monday 23 December 2002 18:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I use the TV card to capture the audio/video - to disk - then convert Would you mind describing how you do this? For some reason I can never get sound to record. All I get is silent video. I have a Haupauge WinTV by the way. The line-in is working properly and turned up. I can record plain audio from the line-in, just not audio as part of a video capture. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 11:04, ET wrote: BTW, they changed the login from a ELN/username to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I still login fine with ELN/username. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD?
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 12:15, John wrote: May I ask whether your Haupauge Win tv card can handle digital tv ? Is it analogue only / It is analog. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lindows
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 18:03, Robin Turner wrote: What??! You have to pay a subscription fee to use Free Software? This is an insult to the people who wrote the stuff. It's not a subscription fee to use it. The subscription is for what they call a download warehouse that is set up to make it very easy to add software to your system. For $99/year you can download as much as you want. It would supposedly have the latest releases. Charging for such a service is not much different from the Mandrake club or Red Carpet. As far as I know, this is not mandatory. I have never seen any information that stated users cannot install software in the normal way just like on any Linux system. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lindows
On Monday 23 December 2002 06:35 am, Richard wrote: I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? Check out Bill Machrone's column in the January 2003 PC Magazine, Living with Lindows, p. 65. *** Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.1 KDE 2.2.1 Kmail 1.3.1 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 22:03, Steve Jeppesen wrote: CAM=/mnt/camera # Mountpoint for your camera (this used to read CAM=/mnt/fuji I think) and later in the script it mounts the camera (i think) with mount $CAM Is this correct? Seems like it is missing this; -t vfat /dev/sda1 In my opinion, you are correct. /mnt/camera is the mount point mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 is the mount command If you were using a terminal to mount this, you would type mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Unexpected Installation Failure
I have a K62-500 system on which I have installed several different Linux distros in the past (versions of SuSE and Mandrake). I had Mandrake 8.2 in the house and decided to put it on this system. The installer behaved very oddly when it reached package selection, and ultimately it did not work. I decided, OK, let's try SuSE 8.1. Same thing. Once it hit package selection, it failed. A little web searching seemed to indicate these later versions don't even work with K62. Mandrake had a patch on their site, but I could not get it to work even with the patch. Reading the SuSE box, I found in the hardware requirements, for AMD it only lists Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP and Athlon MP. The Mandrake site also said it would not work with Pentium I. In this case I installed Mandrake 8.1, and it worked great. I guess a K62 500 MHz is not very modern, but I would hardly consider it obsolete. It has plenty of pep for use in the office. Linux used to have an advantage for working with older hardware. It looks like that advantage is being lost. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Webcam won't connect to remote host.
On Friday 13 December 2002 23:41, Brian Trainor wrote: ftp: connect failed, sleeping 5 sec Basically just scrolls that. with increments of sleep time going up each time. When I try to connect via SSH or FTP from the command line I don't have any problem I don't know how this fits into the picture, but I had a similar experience with webcam. There was a time when it would ftp with no problem. Then for no apparent reason it began doing what you describe above. Ultimately what I did was have webcam save the images to a local file, and I had cron run a script that would upload the file using ncftp. Why this was necessary I never figured out, but it worked quite well. Nowadays I use camstream to capture and upload my webcam shots, and I am very happy with it. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live 5.1
On Thursday 12 December 2002 23:26, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Depending on how your system is setup, you might have to check the aRTS controls and system mixers... Yes, in my case I had no sound in the rear speakers, but I found gamix, which solved my problem. I opened gamix and found the surround slider was turned all the way down. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB hubs
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 00:12, Jonathan wrote: I'm using LM 9. Has anyone had any experience using those USB hubs to add more USB ports to your system? Any experience would be helpful, also whether or not you used an external power supply or got by with the power from the USB port. I have been using a USB hub with my Linux system for quite a while. I did not have to do anything to make it work. All devices connected to the hub work fine. In my case I do have the hub plugged into an external power supply, just to make sure there is no shortage of power. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 05:35, Ralph Slooten wrote: I think you are shit outta luck here if you are looking of an easy way to do this In that case I suggest getting a usb compact flash reader (I have San Disk, which I got for about $23 at Best Buy - works great in Linux). Be sure you have the usb-storage module loaded, which I think recent Linux distros do automatically (if not, type modprobe usb-storage), then mount your CF with mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash (or whatever mount point you have created) and you can copy the photos from the CF to your PC. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Installation
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 16:11, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: i dont believe winmodems are supported by linux Actually, a surprising number can work in Linux, although my personal preference is to just get an external hardware modem so I always know it will work. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recording audio -cassette input?
On Monday 09 December 2002 19:49, magnet wrote: Can you recommend a utility that will allow me to record the input from a cassette player into the input plug on my soundcard? At a command prompt type rec -s w -c 2 -r 44100 myfile.wav Learn more with man rec. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Text in OOo and Gimp
On Sunday 08 December 2002 08:13, Jan Wilson wrote: I do a lot of work with OOo Draw and The GIMP together ... using Draw to create the vector stuff, like text, and then pull it into The Gimp for fine tuning on the bitmap background, etc. Works great! I was wondering if you could explain in more detail how you use OOo Draw to create text which you then use in Gimp. Thank you. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] xbarcode or bar
Has anyone out there experimented with xbarcode or its non-gui version, bar? I was trying them last night and did not succeed in creating any barcodes. All it says is barcode konnte nicht erzeugt werden, with no hint of what the problem is. Are other options available in Linux for printing barcodes? Thank you. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] well, help!
On Saturday 16 November 2002 11:59, Alexa Pongracz wrote: Hi, I'm Alexa, and really new to the Linux route but sticking with it because I want to. Have you noticed more and more women are using Linux? I remember just a couple years ago it was rare to encounter a female Linux user. To me this really shows Linux is mainstream. We have a number of great female participants on this list. I had Mandrake 8.2 installed and don't have any dollars to get the upgrade. Well, it bombed on me and I lost my X thing for the desktop so I have to reinstall. Now my internet, never a problem before won't install. As I lay in bed last night thinking...I wondered if I tried to jam too much on ie: lots of packages where only one was highlighted (button) and if I should just stick to workstation and games. I for one don't clearly understand this question, but depending on how many replies you receive, possibly posting more details will help. The best thing about yesterday was finding this support group. Like someone else, I am back in windows, but on my husbands machine. I develop Web Pages, have a goal of owning my own Linux server, and really want to learn. Finally there's someone I can ask questions of... That's for sure. Most of the people here are eager to be of help. second question..will the group get too irritated if I ask really dumb questions? Once in a rare while someone gives a grouchy reply, but I think it's safe to say that the group as a whole does not consider any newbie question to be dumb. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 16:25, Anne wrote: I have been using a usb gizmo under windows to capture stills from an analogue video camera. There's no chance, I think, of getting a Linux driver for this, so I wonder what next. I have connected a camera to the composite input of my Hauppage WinTV and grabbed stills using KWinTV. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 19:53, Technoslick wrote: I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with my 3Com BigPicture Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that the Brooktree chipset on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can see on the card that it was made by Hauppage. I no longer care to use the Webcam that came with it, but instead use the card for retrieving video from my VHS-C recorder. Did you have to make any adjustments or configurations in MDK 9.0 after you installed it for it to work? Does KWinTV work well for video retrieval and editing? I am still on Mandrake 8.1, but I did not need to do anything special to view my camcorder on KWinTV. I would say this program is OK for creating video clips if you don't need sound. I have only been able to record silent video clips with KWinTV, despite the presence of a video + audio option. KWinTV cannot be used for video editing as far as I know. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPM Difficulties.
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 12:44, Langsley wrote: Yesterday I downloaded and installed Amaya HTML editor and browser. I used the Mandrake RPM for version 6.1. Even though my system tells me the installation is complete, I am unable to find it anywhere. Sometimes I open the rpm in kpackage and view the file list so I know where it is going to end up. You could also try which, for example, at a command prompt type which amaya. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No rear sound, SBLive!
On Sunday 27 October 2002 17:40, Miark wrote: Now, running 9.0, I have no rear sound, and none of the KMixer controls is helping. Ditto with Aumix. I can't comment on 9.0 as I am still running 8.1 and not with a SB Live. However, I can tell you on my SuSE system gamix lets me adjust the rear sound. The Playback slider controls the front, and Surround slider controls the rear. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] volume control
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 09:28, Joe wrote: is there an overall volume control for the speakers, such as that other OS has? some of the sounds with flash, etc. can be a bit loud for an office environment *g*. it shouldn't be relevant for this, but i'm using 9.0. I can tell you in KDE 3 if you run KMix there is a speaker icon in the system tray. When you left click it, you get a single slider that lets you easily adjust the overall volume. If you right-click and choose restore, you get the full mixer. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recommend Program for Recording Cassette Tapes
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 13:45, Chris wrote: I am currently using Mandrake 8.1. Does anyone have a recommendation for a program I could use to record my audio cassettes to the hard drive and then encode as MP3's? Plug your cassette player into the line-in of your sound card. Then in a console type: rec -s w -c 2 -r 44100 myfile.wav Make a few short test recordings to get your level at the best setting. Then turn the wavs into mp3s with BladeEnc or NotLame. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Modem
On Saturday 05 October 2002 15:33, Erylon wrote: I think you've got a problematic modem, even though it is hardware based, it uses a high serial port number by default, and has no jumpers. You might want to check out this thread, or someone on this list may actually have one of these things working. Yes, this modem insists on being on com 5. USR tech support told me this cannot be changed. I was able to use it with several different computers and several different Linux distros using setserial. The last time I tried to get it working in another system, for some reason I just could not get it to work. I switched to a USR 56k external, which of course worked immediately. Overall I think external modems are the easiest. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] image filenames, was chcase
On Friday 27 September 2002 05:24, John wrote: I've spent many hours trying to get my camera mounted by mandrake 8.2 as a mass storage device without success,read everything I can find,but whereas I can get other makes of camera to work this one does not Why not get a Compact Flash (or whatever type is appropriate) reader? I got a SanDisk CF reader at Best Buy for $23. Then it does not matter whether or not your specific camera is recognized. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card
On Saturday 07 September 2002 09:36, Peregrinf wrote: As I say, I haven't used Gimp much yet, but unless it offers a browse that gives me a catalogue of thumbnails in a directory for me to choose from, sort, move, delete, etc., it won't be of much use to me. Try gqview. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card
On Friday 06 September 2002 12:04, Peregrinf wrote: I do miss a couple of my Windoze apps -- notably Pegasus for e-mail and PaintShop Pro. KMail and Gimp! *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] High speed web access
On Thursday 29 August 2002 21:18, Carroll wrote: 3. One source of concern is that BellSouth will supply the lines and Earthlink will handle the rest of it. Hmmm... at least twice as many calls to Customer Resistance. Or do I worry too much? I've had Earthlink DSL for close to a year, and the experience has been excellent. I have absolutely no complaints, from the first steps of signing up until the present. In the past 6 months I think I've had 2 outages, and both only were a matter of hours. I can't even comment on the technical support or customer service, because I have had no reason to call them! (Other than the initial setup of the DSL, which was as smooth as can be) *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ripping DVD audio track
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 18:10, John wrote: What would be the best way of ripping an audio track from a DVD I looked into ripping and it sounded pretty complicated, so I decided to just plug the analog output (headphone jack) into my sound card line in. The results were satisfactory. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP suggestion
On Wednesday 31 July 2002 13:06, Anand wrote: I may be wrong about this... but I beleive that it depends on whether the XP is on NTFS or not. My friend installed Linux with XP on fat32 without any special precautions (like not installing lilo on MBR) and he didn't have any problems. I did the same thing with XP on NTFS and ended up loosing my windows. Well, you might be right, I don't know, simply because I have not tried it. I can tell you I have done two machines dual booting XP with NTFS and Linux (1 machine Mandrake, 1 machine SuSE), and it works fine if you install XP first, keep your Linux on hdb, and put lilo in the mbr. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Webcam - How Cool
On Monday 22 July 2002 14:50, Sevatio wrote: I clicked it and there was my webcam. What webcam are you using? Thank you. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop question
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 20:54, Femme wrote: I have come into ownership of an older HP Omnibook, a PII 233 iirc, and its got a removeable CD-Rom Floppy drive. Can't have both attached at once. I had planned to stick mandrake on it, however I ran into a small snag. If I can't boot the CD itself, and can't have both floppy CD-Rom attached at the same time, I can't boot from floppy then install. Nor may I just install off the CD. It says it will boot off teh CD when I set it in the BIOS, but it doesn't work Are you sure you can't have both drives connected at the same time? I had an Omnibook once, a P166. The way I remember it, you could only have one drive at a time in the swappable bay. But if you wanted, you could have the CD-ROM drive in the bay and the floppy drive just sitting beside the Omnibook on the desk, and the floppy drive plugged into the parallel port on the back. The BIOS on that one was not capable of booting from CD-ROM. I installed SuSE using the arrangement just described - booting from the floppy, which was plugged into the parallel port, and having the CD-ROM drive in the bay. SuSE 7.1 installed on it fine that way. I never got the sound working, though. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Browser compatibility.
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 03:38, Michael wrote: I tried to visit this site. http://www.bet365.com The result upset me so much i sent them this. I sent the letter below, and I encourage everyone on the list to send a similar letter. - Subject: Create a Real Web Site Please From: Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] When attempting to view your site using Konqueror 2.2.1 and Mozilla 0.9.4, both Linux web browsers, I was curtly informed that my browser is incompatible. Your site, sir, is what is incompatible. Stick with established standards and real html, not Microsoft proprietary features. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux and Non-Free Software
On Saturday 08 June 2002 02:16, D. Olson wrote: However, he wasn't asking about if there was a free program (which there was and both had been mentioned already), but why a company would charge money for LINUX software... At least that's how I read it... But I guess I am the only one. I think you are correct about what he was asking. It is a natural question, I suppose, for someone new to Linux. Your point was that pay software and Linux are not necessarily mutually exclusive, and of course you are correct. Like you, I have observed that there tends to be a mentality in which Linux people tend to think everything *must* be free. Well, of course that's the goal, and it's what I prefer, but I also realize companies and developers need money to survive. You gave some great examples of how even in cases when we do pay, it is nowhere near what the price would be in the Windows world. In addition to the ones you gave, another great example is any typical boxed Linux distro. The system I can set up with a $30-80 Linux distro would cost thousands in the Windows world. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gui for MySQL!!!
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 00:08, Dimitris wrote: I've been wondering if there is any gui for use with MySQL client. PHP MyAdmin runs in a web browser: http://phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/ *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Desktop Linux
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 22:30, Michael wrote: As you said Linux has come a long way, but I do not think that it is that far away from being an option for the desktop. I would go further and say not only is it not far away from being an option, it *is* an option, and it is the *best* option. In my opinion, the days of Linux trying to catch up to or equal Windows are over. I have WinXP installed on one machine, and for me Linux is the easy winner. Linux is actually nicer for desktop use than Windows. I am still hoping Microsoft's ridiculous activation scheme will wake up some of the general public to stop automatically taking whatever MS dishes out as though there were no alternative. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound Card Rear Speakers
I have several Creative PCI128 sound cards that have two speaker jacks: a main and a secondary or rear jack. I've noticed that I never seem to get any sound from the second jack. I was wondering if this is normal. Does the second speaker output only work in certain games with surround encoding or something? Suppose you were playing mp3s or CDs. Is it normal for only the main speaker jack to have sound? This is with speakers plugged into both jacks. Thank you. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] making a script runnable
On Saturday 04 May 2002 21:08, Brian 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? chmod +x filename *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gimp
On Sunday 05 May 2002 17:31, Klemm wrote: 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). Right click on the image itself. You will get a menu that lets you save. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Digital camera
On Wednesday 01 May 2002 06:44, Bart wrote: But i can not seem to download the pictures with gPhoto 0.4.3 or 2.0 . I think this camera is not supported by gphoto . Are there anternatives or is there a workaround ?? If you have a compact flash reader, stick the card in there and type: modprobe usb-storage mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera (or whatever mount point you want) You should be able to access the card just like a drive. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to eliminate the Kmail sprinkler head graphic (and) where is Bcc:
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 21:51, Josef wrote: And is there a Bcc option available with Kmail? Open a new mail message and click the view menu. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 DVD
On Sunday 21 April 2002 14:14, Damian wrote: ( i actually didn't know they ever had a DVD version. i only knew about SuSe doing this, but since their distro is 7 CD's... ) The Mandrake set that sells at about the same price point as SuSE Professional is the Mandrake Power Pack. It does not have a DVD. I agree with the previous poster, it is really nice installing from DVD. Just let it go until finished - no disc changes. I have seen in the past a Mandrake set priced a notch higher (around $130, as I recall) that does include a DVD. I forget the exact name, but I know the word server is in the name. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 DVD
On Sunday 21 April 2002 21:09, you wrote: I have seen in the past a Mandrake set priced a notch higher (around $130, as I recall) that does include a DVD. I forget the exact name, but I know the word server is in the name. Someone possibly noticed this already, but server is not in the name after all. The description says solid server, friendly desktop. It was the ProSuite I was thinking of: The 8.2 ProSuite Edition features 8 CDs (including 2 special server CDs), 1 DVD, and 2 comprehensive manuals. Also included is a subscription for 2 Update CDs to be received during product life which contain security and bug fixes ... Price (TAX included) is $149 USD + $15 USD for shipping. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smartmedia card reader
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 03:31, Walter wrote: See what happens if you do modprobe usb-storage before trying to mount the card. I still have no /dev/sda1... how do they appear? There is no sd* device at all in the /dev directory. Unfortunately I do not know. All I can tell you is in my case, /dev/sda1 (the compact flash card in the reader) becomes available to me once I type modprobe usb-storage. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smartmedia card reader
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 07:33, Walter wrote: Make a directory under mount called smedia (or whatever you'd like). Then with the smart media card in the reader, try typing the following as root: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia There is no /dev/sda1, there is nothing much like it there See what happens if you do modprobe usb-storage before trying to mount the card. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?
On Saturday 06 April 2002 10:06, Paul wrote: Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? How about the 8.2 Power Pack, is it in there? *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New USR External modem
On Saturday 06 April 2002 18:32, Larry wrote: I have been trying to get my brand new external USER modem working, it dials up but (in Mandrake 8.1) waits at expecting ogin as part of my connect script. It couldn't be so easy that it's really expecting login instead, could it? Looking for ogin is customary so that it won't matter whether the ISP is sending a capital L or lower case l. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More list weirdness
On Monday 01 April 2002 18:10, Robin wrote: People have mentioned that they're getting some mails several days late. I'm now getting old mails which I deleted from the server some time back. Yes, I am getting old mails from this list also! *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Some packages are missing in Mandrake 8.2
On Monday 01 April 2002 21:16, Civilme wrote: Someone had to make decisions, and we have had to correct problems caused in other packages by Abiword fonts quite a few times, so it rated as less desirable than OpenOffice. You know, just a year ago we got everything onto two CDs, and now three CDs are full, and we still can't include everything people seem to want. (I want Pike on there, and Xbasic and Basic for X11 and) I was wondering, will Abiword be in the 8.2 power pack? Thank you. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Support? - a Solution ?
On Sunday 24 March 2002 16:28, Damian wrote: well.. this is a newbie list, it's supposed to be a place where you ask questions, get answers, read questions, and give answers. criticism is out of order here I see no reason why criticism should be considered out of order (not that I have any, by the way. I have 8.1 and enjoy it very much). Criticism can generate fruitful discussion just like questions can. If people make unfair criticisms, they will be shut up by many people refuting them. On the other hand, if the criticisms are justified, then we have identified an area that needs more work, and that is beneficial. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] two systems
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 20:10, Ron Grace wrote: does anybody run both linux and windows on the same machine? how much trouboe was it to get to work. I have done this on several systems, dual-booting Win98/Caldera, Win98/Red Hat, Win98/SuSE, Win98/Mandrake, Win2k/SuSE, Win2k/Mandrake. It has always been very easy and I never had any problems at all. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Numlock turns on by itself
On Sunday 17 March 2002 17:15, Tom wrote: I found Mandrake 6.0 ;) But, IIRC (and i often don't), with RH I never found a way to turn numlock on either, even when it was set on in bios. Since I reckon RH has progressed a little since 5.2 ;) check your bios setting for numlock enable/disable. I can tell you it's the same with SuSE. Even with numlock on in BIOS, it will not have numlock on when it boots. The following is a suggestion I have encountered several times when this question comes up. I myself have never tried it. Add these two lines to your /etc/profile: # Set keyboard leds /usr/bin/setleds -D +num -caps -scroll This doesn't exactly boot with NumLock on, but it should be activated on login. Another option: Mandrake has a program called numlock that is supposed to activate this for you. In my case, however, using Mandrake 7.2, it never seems to work. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] a good jpeg veiwer
On Saturday 16 March 2002 10:28, Donald wrote: What is a good Jpeg viewer, similar to ACDSee for use with Linux. I am not interested so much in manipulation as I am in ease of viewing. With ACDSee I can view in full screen and also use the space bar to go through pictures in a directory. I heard about JCDSee, but can't see to get it up and running. Thanks in advance. Compupic http://www.photodex.com/downloads/platforms/linux.html *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Missing Locate Command
I currently have Mandrake 8.1 installed on 1 laptop and 1 desktop. In both cases, when I type locate somefile, i get bash: locate: command not found. This happens both as user and as root. If I do which locate I get which: no locate in (numerous paths given in parentheses). Is there such a thing as a linux system that does not have locate? Why would Mandrake not have a basic command like locate? *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations,working setups, problems...
On Thursday 14 March 2002 18:05, FemmeFatale wrote: If I may add my 2 cdn cents (worth bout .5 cent on the open market), Hauppage tv cards AFAIK right now are not a very good buy. At least this is what I've read. Only because they seem to have issues with certain types of installations. I have used Hauppage WinTV in 5 different Linux systems and never had any problems. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] laptop
On Thursday 14 March 2002 01:25, you wrote: does anyone know a good place to buy older/used laptops online? Ebay. Lots and lots to choose from at a wide variety of price points. any recommendations as to what to get? I have a Sager laptop with 500 MHz AMD that I got from Ebay. Mandrake 8.1 installed on it easily and everything works great, including sound. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] FTP thru Linksys Router - Solved
FTP thru Linksys Router - Solved First I would like to thank each of you who offered advice and comments on this problem. I learned plenty from your posts. Here's what solved the problem in my case. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about networking and FTP can explain why this solution worked. When I ran ifconfig initially, it showed MTU 1500. I assume that is the default value. I have never touched it, and it always worked until I added the router. After adding the router, I could still view directory listings, delete files, and download. However, I could not upload! The command ifconfig eth0 mtu 1492 got me uploading to my heart's content. I recommend http://www.dslreports.com/ for lots of great information on DSL in general as well as plenty of vendor-specific information. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Change Permissions??
On Saturday 23 February 2002 15:08, James wrote: As root I copied a directory from an old hard drive to a new drive. The files are now owned by root, and I am unable to change the permissions to allow me to use them. As user you can't change them, but as root you should be able to. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anti-virus
On Thursday 21 February 2002 07:32, Derek wrote: I read in a review of the Lindows.com pre-release version. One of the 'achievements' of Lindows is that it is able to run Microsoft Outlook under Linux. (Why anybody would go to the trouble of running Linux, and then use Microsoft applications on it escapes me..) I agree. We'd be much better off directing development efforts into quality native Linux apps instead of trying to get Windows apps to work in Linux. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tv card problems
On Thursday 21 February 2002 17:28, Paul wrote: I have a AverMedia TV-Studio TV card and the video worked fine under 8.1 and 8.2 Beta but the only problem is there is no sound! I use the card in windows so I know that the cables are hooked up corectly and I can get sound when playing MP3's under Linux. So I was wondering if there was something that I needed to do or if this card isn't compatible with the brooktree driver and if I would be better off with a card from Hauppage. Thank you for your time. -Paul Did you make sure the line-in is turned up in the mixer? *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Email
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 09:53, Paul wrote: I have sent like 5 messages to the server over the last two days and have yet to see any of them show up. If anyone gets this message please send me a response. Looks like your message went through this time. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] zip
On Monday 18 February 2002 03:54, Paul wrote: How do you windows/zip a file? I can unzip using the unzip command but there doesn't seem to be a zip conterpart. I need to zip a file to send to a assocaite running windows. Thanks. There is a zip counterpart. On this box (SuSE) it is in /usr/bin. If it is not there in your Mandrake system, type locate zip in a terminal. If you don't have it installed, I know zip is available on the Mandrake 8.1 Power Pack CDs. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Modem Continually Dials
I recently installed Mandrake 8.1. As soon as it boots, the modem dials my ISP. If I kill pppd, it disconnects, but within a few seconds it dials again. Can anyone tell me what might be running that is trying to keep the modem constantly connected? *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing problems
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 17:00, you wrote: By the way, what is the difference between Cups and lpr ? Sorry for the stupid question : ), but I am a little bit confused with them. For me they seem to be totally different printing systems. Why do some programs use one instead of another ? Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I have developed a theory on my Mandrake system that lpr is somehow aliased to cups. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux with a PCI modem
On Saturday 09 February 2002 12:06, Ravi wrote: All: is it fact that a PCI modem can't be used to dial and connect to the Internet? The modem I have is a 3Com 56K V.90 Mini PCI Modem. Many PCI modems do not work in Linux because they are Winmodems, relying on software drivers to do most of the work. Linux drivers are available for _some_ chipsets of this type. The fact that a modem is PCI does not automatically mean it is a windmodem, although probably the majority are. I have a PCI 3Com/USR internal modem that is hardware based and works great in Linux. Read the box or the product description carefully. Your best bet for easy, trouble-free modem setup is an external model that connects to your serial port. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wvdial
On Saturday 09 February 2002 12:55, Tim wrote:
Having never used the app, the best thing I can suggest would be to
kill the process that's running.
kill -9 `ps auxw | grep wvdial | awk '{print $2}' | sort`
How does the above compare to killall wvidial?
Thanks.
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Re: [newbie] FrontPage like applicatiopn for Linux ?
On Sunday 10 February 2002 13:41, Hanan wrote: Does anybody know of any visual web building application for linux such as Front Page ?? Quanta. http://quanta.sourceforge.net/ *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wvdial
On Saturday 09 February 2002 10:13, Denkar wrote: Hi folks, a dumb question, I set up wvdial and it dials up just dandy but now I can't get it to shut off, and if I unplug the external modem it just redials when plugged back in. How do you turn the dumb thing off when you don't need it, I have been through the man pages and docs and don't see anything on hang up. TIA for any assistance. Try ctrl-c *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test - Disregard please
On Thursday 24 January 2002 10:59, you wrote: Could we please have this poster removed from the list, please? There's no excuse for permitting this religious fanatic to post his religous view on a world-wide list, under the pretex of: oh just a test... It is not a pretext. That is his sig file, because I have seen it on his postings previously. As far as him being a religious fanatic, why do you want to get this list involved in censoring people's sig files? I could understand if it was a message of hatred. Otherwise just leave people alone. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ISO image viewer
On Wednesday 23 January 2002 15:26, Todd wrote: Do you have a favorite image viewer that will show thumbs of an entire directory? Compupic. http://www.photodex.com/downloads/platforms/linux.html *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no sound with xawtv
On Sunday 20 January 2002 13:24, you wrote: I can't seem to get any sound out of xawtv with my wintv card. I'm using mandrake 8.1. The picture looks fine but no sound at all. I don't seem to have any problems with sound with any other applications. Also, everything works just fine in windows so I know it's not a hardware problem. Anybody know how to fix this? Check your mixer to be sure you have line-in unmuted and turned up. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: VB on Linux???
On Thursday 17 January 2002 23:53, Nicolas wrote: If exists any Visual language that runs on linux, I'd like to know it!!! Phoenix Object Basic http://www.janus-software.com/ *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Video Capture Suggestions Sought
Originally to: All This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_tcob1.net-7267-1008635620-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to 7bit by courier 0.36.1 I have quite a bit of analog video footage (i.e. standard VHS videocassettes) that I am interested in capturing and outputting into some kind of vcd format. From what I read, it is possible to put video onto a standard (non-DVD) CD-R in a format that can be played by most DVD players. If anyone has successfully done something like this in Linux, I would be grateful to hear of what hardware/software you used and what steps you followed. Thanks. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** --=_tcob1.net-7267-1008635620-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to 7bit by courier 0.36.1 - Gateway Information. This message originated from a Fidonet System (http://www.fidonet.org) and was gated at TCOB1 (http://www.tcob1.net) Please do not respond direct to this message but via the list Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question - school related so ignore if you want.
On Thursday 03 January 2002 10:13, g.sanders wrote: 1. How many hours a week do you spend online? 30 2. What is your age? 37 3. Sex? M/F M 4. What type of Internet connection do you have? 56k modem 5. How many computers do you own? 4 (3 desktop, 1 laptop) *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Copy Paste
On Friday 04 January 2002 00:37, SKLIM wrote: I need help to know the key how to copy and paste in vi command ? If you are in insert mode, you can highlight a block of text, then click your middle mouse button to paste at cursor location. Another way is with yank and put. For example, you can copy 3 lines beginning with the line where the cursor is with the command 3yy. Then move to where you wish to paste it and type p. For cutting instead of copying, use delete and put. For example, you can delete 3 lines beginning with the line where the cursor is with the command 3dd. Then move to where you wish to paste it and type p. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader
On Sunday 30 December 2001 23:27, Terry C wrote: This is the response I get when attempting to mount this device: mount -t vfat /dev/sda /media/camera mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems Try sda1, not just sda. It's like mounting a HD, where you have to include a partition number. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader
On Monday 31 December 2001 00:06, Terry C wrote: and received this response: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist Be sure you do modprobe usb-storage before trying to mount the CF reader. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader
On Monday 31 December 2001 00:38, Terry C wrote: MAKDEV, or makdev, or mkdev don't seem to be the correct commands. I just keep getting command not found. See if you can do it as root. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
