[newbie] Trash can icon
Is there a way to delete the trash can icon in KDE on 9.0? If there is, how would I recover files I decide not to delete? TIA, Randy Donohoe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trash can icon
On Saturday 09 November 2002 03:59 pm, James R. McKenzie wrote: Why would you want to do this? Not deleting the icon thusly not needing some other way of recovering files you delete by accident makes infinately more sense than having to find that proverbial other way. It conflicts with my background. Randy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xcdroast help
Log out of your user account and log back in as root. Open up xcdroast and configure. The most complicated thing is when you set the path. The last tab in configuration is called options or something, but it's where you set permissions for the user accounts, if you're the only user give yourself all the permissions and you won't have to go back to root to change things. Randy - Original Message - From: Heather Reed To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 7:41 AM Subject: [newbie] xcdroast help Hi all I have just installed xcdroast (together with cdrecord). WhenI try to open it, I get a message telling me to configure as root, but no info as to what to configure where or how. I can't seem to get to a help file though, and am totally confused :-(( I have looked at various howtos on the net, but they are way above me I'm afraid. Can anyone out there give me, or point me to and idiots guide (and believe me, in this I am an idiot :-))? I am running 8.2, and have a memorex IDE rewriter installed, which is being picked up by harddrake OK. it is my only CD drive, andI hate having to reboot into windows (gr)to burn CDs. Alternatively, a pointer to other CD burner apps that might do the job as well and be easier to get going (if such things exist) would do just as well. Any help would be gratefully received. Ta muchly Heather
Re: [newbie] KDE startup question...
Hey Darklord, Getting ready to have some ribs over here in Gas Fork holler. Randy - Original Message - From: darklord [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 12:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE startup question... On Monday 27 May 2002 11:42 am, you wrote: if you mean that funky kde splash with the starting window manager etc., in my experience it closes at different times depending on #fonts installed/applets running/document history/phase of moon, but it never seems to effect the actual performance. in kde3 it isn't so much the disappear as the appear! sometimes when i log in it doesn't even show up till most of the messages it gives are already done as usual, i may be wrong. :) Yeah, that was it. I was just wanting to make sure it wasn't something I needed to do anything about. I guess, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, eh? ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ 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] Can't Boot Linux
The Linuxcare cd will let you mount just about anything. Randy Donohoe - Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 6:03 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't Boot Linux On Wednesday 15 May 2002 18:38, you wrote: On Wed, 15 May 2002 08:47:52 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can no longer boot into Linux, and I need to get files from my Mandrake drive. I have a dual boot system with Windows 98 on hard drive 1, and Mandrake 8.1 on Hard Drive 2. I had to reinstall Windows, and can no longer get the Mandrake screen which prompts for the partition to boot. I have a Linux boot floppy which didn't seem to help. It may not have been created from the latest Mandrake install. How can I get access to my files which are on the Mandrake drive? Thanks. boot your installation CD. skip averything up to the boot loader part, reinstall LILO and you are back in busines.. HTH Damian And/or if you know which partition your '/' is on, use a Slackware or Debian boot-floppy and point it there. 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] CDR
Anybody got their IDE CDR to burn in 8.2? If so, how? Thanks, Randy Donohoe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] clipboard
Is there a clipboard feature in the download edition of 8.1? I've looked everywhere but I can't find it. TIA, Randy Donohoe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] yamaha sound card problems
The LM8.1 standard kernel has isa-pnp support compiled in, not as a module. The sound section of Mandrake Control Centre doen't seem to know this... Try, as root, in a text console, running 'sndconfig' :) -Frans I've been trying to get a scsi card working for my scanner and when I try to configure it from the control center, I get that message about the isa-pnp module. How would I correct that? I'm running 8.1. Thanks, Randy Donohoe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] formatting floppies
Things do not seem to work the same from computer to computer in linux. I have formatted 5 floppies in a row with no failures and my fstab looks like this: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 No comma but a space after auto. So there is something not functioning the same on my computer as there is on yours. Also read floppies just dandy. I thought I had a lot of problems with my floppy, but it turns out I just have one. Anyone with floppy set to auto in fstab try this and see if you get the same results I do. Go to K menu, Configuration, Hardware, Floppy Formatter. Do a full format with the ext2 file system. Unless I su to root and use mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy, I can't mount it with the icon or the terminal. If I format it in DOS everything works fine. TIA, Randy Donohoe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Epson 640
I've seen the problem I'm having on the list, but can't find it in the archives. I set my Epson 640 printer (it's a Windows network printer) up and it prints endless tests pages, but won't print from applications. When I say endless I mean it, it just won't quit. TIA, Randy Donohoe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel panics
There was a thread going just last night about the Geforce and what kernels it works with. If it wasn't on this one it was on the expert list. Randy Donohoe - Original Message - From: Marcin Jendrzejewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 9:25 AM Subject: [newbie] kernel panics Hey folks, Lately I've been fiddling a lot with compiling the linux kernel 2.4.3 (both the vanilla one from kernel.org and the mandrake-customized version) and with both I seem to be getting lots of kernel panics and oops messages (actually none of the kernels get much past the INIT Loading message). While I don't expect anyone to give me the solution, I'm wondering what sort of factors would go into producing these sorts of errors. The vanilla kernel for 2.4.9 works fine, it's just that it seems that NVIDIA drivers for my geforce2 mx/200 card don't seem to work with 2.4.9 and I want to get it working. So yeah, if anyone could explain to me some possible reasons why I can produce a faulty kernel. Thanks, Marcin Jendrzejewski Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs
Check out Yellow Dog linux. Randy Donohoe - Original Message - From: hp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 7:01 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs Hi folks Some newbie questions. a) Is there Linux software to encode video as good as or better than WindowsMedia for on-demand true streaming? b) Is there Linux software like MediaCleaner Pro to encode video? c) I have a Mac G3 266. Is there a Linux Mandrake version that runs on it? If so - is there a windows emulator that will run on top of Linux(Mac) - so that I could use the WindowsMedia Encoder? - Harry 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
Fwd: Re: [newbie] Choosing flavors and Window Managers
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Choosing flavors and Window Managers Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:51:52 -0500 From: Randy Donohoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jennifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 06 September 2001 22:38, you wrote: Randy...I just read the first few sentences of that article and knew i had to respond. I work for a good size company (5000 or so users) and will tell you that not all of them are secretaries who use word, excel spreadsheets and the like. I also think it is condescending to subrscribe to that articles implied knowledge that secretaries are dumb, so secretaries would not know the difference I am an experienced windows user/professional desktop supporter and I have trouble with the basic functionality of linux. I can only imagine what it would be like to be desktop support for such an O/S. I wouldn't know where to begin let alone be a new user to all the programs that linux offers. I am here to learn the O/S, not how to create a spreadsheet in Koffice. Do you know how to do that with absolute proficientcy? Why expect your users to do so when they are the ones making million dollar investments so your comapany makes money and can pay you your salary? In mine line of work, the end user is the my money maker. Keep them in business and I get paid. Enable them to do what they do best is my job. Thier downtime hurts business. I work for them, no the other way around. That is not to say that linux is not right to rollout comapny-wide. It takes time, patience and knowledge. Could you imagine rendering a company useless to perfor high dollar trades on wall street becuase they couldn't recreate their all important calculates with Koffice? In my book the customers are all important. i work for no moron, no idiot, an no I D 10 T. I support a business and the people who run that business no mater what their staus Now mind you, I want to learn this O/S as well as I know windows. Challanges intrigue me. But, as a newbie, I must concede with Mark that On Thursday 06 September 2001 16:57, Randy Donohoe wrote: The sysadmin's words haunt me as I think about how to deploy a linux desktop environment for say a typical business dept. Does a linux desktop meet the usability requirements of a typcial user (as opposed to typical linux sysadmin/programmer). This should answer most of your questions. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/08/10/1441239 Randy Donohoe If you read the entire article you'll find the entire city staff uses KDE under Linux. They also use a lot more than Koffice. The article is not condescending in any way. They're not saying that secretaries wouldn't know the difference, they're saying they don't need to know the difference. Using thin clients accessing the server administered by just two techs, they just need to know the desktop and applications. You have to know that with any OS and these workers are happy with Linux. As far as Wall Street goes, IBM zSeries mainframes operate portions of both the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. Read the entire article, it's a good piece. Randy Donohoe --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nVIDIA TnT2
I've got one in my 8.0 install and it works fine except with Tuxracer(if I try to run Tuxracer it locks my box up so tight I can't even reboot with the hardware switch). You'll(and me, too) have to get the latest drivers off the nVidia site. Randy Donohoe - Original Message - From: OOzy Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 1:57 PM Subject: [newbie] nVIDIA TnT2 Hello Guys What do you think about the this video card? Will it work fine with Linux? nVIDIA TnT2 M64 4X 32MB AGP = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
