Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster Live! Value in LM 8
Try checking your CD out volume in kmix - sometimes it defaults to zero. cheers, philomena At 04:44 PM 5/15/01 -0500, Alexander Rhoads wrote: Okay, I know this has been asked a million times, but here goes: How do I get my SoundBlaster Live! Value card working in Mandrake 8? I've searched the archives and numerous very helpful web pages, but there's got to be a simpler, better way to get this working. Running HardDrake (aka Mandrake Control Center 0.61) shows one soundcard entry for Creative Labs SB Live! EMU1. Two entries were showing up (one for the SB card and one for the onboard VIA chipset sound, but I've since disabled the onboard sound in BIOS). The kernel module showing is snd-card-emu10k1 so that seems correct. Oddly, I do hear the opening KDE jingle when KDE opens up on boot, but absolutely nothing from then on in any app. When CDPlayer starts up, the disc spins up, CDDB finds the album title and tracks, but no sound. (I know the device works, 'cause that's how I burned the ISO's for LM8). :) This is probably bad news: running sndconfig as su gets nothing but command not found. Where do I start to track this puppy down? Thanks in advance. Part of the problem that this newbie has run into on this is that there's so much information on configuring sound cards that I'm not sure what the most efficient order of tracking down the problem is. Thanks in advance for helping me sort it all out. Alexander Rhoads [EMAIL PROTECTED] West Des Moines, Iowa _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Requesting removal
OK - then go back to where you signed up and follow the directions to have your name taken off the list - no one here can do it for you. At 12:22 PM 5/2/2001 -0500, you wrote: Can ya'll please remove me from this list. I am functioning well in Linux now and do not need the list. Thank you for all of your help. Seth Hanzik
[newbie] GPhoto problems
Hi, I''ve sent a couple of emails to gphoto about this but got no response - I have an Olympus D360-L digital cam - its on the supported list on the gphoto web site, but does not come up as a choice when setting up the camera. I have chosen a few close-looking models, but they don;t work - sometimes the correct number of photos is seen, but they can't be downloaded - other times, gphoto just crashes. I have the most current version of the software - anyone have any hints about what I can try to get this working ? Or suggestions about other packages to try, such as PhotoPC ? Thanks, philomena
RE: [newbie] GPhoto problems
The stable version, since my model was listed - I'll give the beta a shot too. At 12:09 PM 5/1/2001 -0700, you wrote: Are you using the gphoto 2.0 beta or the older stable version 0.4 ? I am going to try the beta with my Kodak 3200 and see what happens. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:newbie-owner@linux-mandrake .com]On Behalf Of Philomena Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] GPhoto problems Hi, I''ve sent a couple of emails to gphoto about this but got no response - I have an Olympus D360-L digital cam - its on the supported list on the gphoto web site, but does not come up as a choice when setting up the camera. I have chosen a few close-looking models, but they don;t work - sometimes the correct number of photos is seen, but they can't be downloaded - other times, gphoto just crashes. I have the most current version of the software - anyone have any hints about what I can try to get this working ? Or suggestions about other packages to try, such as PhotoPC ? Thanks, philomena
Re: [newbie] Re: Retain MBR (reload GRUB?)
How about posting what is in your menu.lst - maybe its not booting from the proper kernel image ?? philomena At 10:38 PM 4/26/01 -0400, Jay DeKing wrote: OK, so I logged in as root, ran /boot/grub/install.sh (after making sure that menu.lst was correct) - I still get stage1 Read Error. What am I missing here? GRUB ran fine when I installed Mandrake 7.2, then I had a Win98 disaster and had to completely format hda1. Linux is on hdb. I should think that there would be a way to get GRUB working again without reinstalling Mandrake. Here is how my drives are set up: hda is Win98, partitioned into two 15gig drives; hdb is 40gigs, Mandrake 7.2, split up into /, /home, /usr, /var, and swap; hde is also Win98, partitioned into two 15gig drives. 100 gigs of space and I'm booting off a floppy. Sheesh. Jay philomena wrote: the file is actually in /boot/grub, and is called install.sh - just run it from the command line and grub will be installed. The grub info grub uses is in the file menu.lst - take a look at that and make sure it points to the proper partitions. cheers, philomena -- There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.
RE: [newbie] RC1 vs. 8.0 ?
OK - my last comment on this, I didn't mean for this to start a thread and
hope it dies with this - I didn't make any judgements like you concluded -
of course I know the beta's had some bugs - I was testing them - my last
statement was that I would download the 8.0 and see how it was - I
naturally would expect that trivial, surface bugs would be fixed - I was
not "offended" by the English errors, but that still qualifies as errors in
the English release candidate, the same as it would count as an error in a
user manual - I was not bashing Mandrake as you seem to think - and yes, I
did miss the RC1 release date - but, testing on beta 3 was still going on
with Crashtesters, even as the RC1 was out and even as 8.0 was released -
seems cross-purpose to me, but thats just how it looks to me. I did not
have a heart attack or over-react as you have to my email. I have been
testing the betas and generally had nothing to report as all components
seemed to work great on my system.
So, mea culpa, mea culpa - I wasn't passing judgement, regardless of what
you and a few others have thought
'nuff said
philomena
At 01:08 PM 4/20/2001 -0700, Todd Flinders wrote:
I don't think you should be making any of these
judgements until you look at the 8.0 final.
First of all, remember that they are all betas and
prereleases. They TOLD you it had bugs. They TOLD
you it wasn't finished.
Also, it was not two days between RC1 and Final. It
was several weeks, actually. You may have downloaded
RC1 late, but that doesn't mean that work on the final
was rushed.
As far as the language remember that Mandrake is a
French based company. I'm sure they utilize
developers from many different countries. It is silly
to assume that English will be every Mandrake
developer's mother tongue. When you consider they
have about 50 languages on Mandrake, you should be
able to excuse some grammar/spelling issues AT LEAST
until the final comes out. I'd be curious to see how
much you were offended with the French translations in
the betas.
Finally, before you have a heart attack do not that
this is a .0 release. .0 usually signifies a
significant change. .0 tends to be the most likely to
have issues. Now the first people looking at 8.0 tend
to be very impressed. Some are even claiming it to be
the best Mandrake to date. Maybe it's perfect. But
likely, there will be some issues along the way. Be
patient and understanding. Don't carry your issues
from bugs in a development release to the final
version. Judge it for what it is.
--- Philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure if I'm happy with the RC1, as I just
downloaded, burnt, and
installed in on Teusday ! I haven't had time yet to
see how it worked. I'm
concerned a bit since it seems odd that at the same
time that Crashtesters
are still reporting problems with Beta 3, this RC1
release comes out, and
then 2 days later the 8.0 is out ? There were
several picky, grammar errors
through out the RC1 install that lends an
unprofessional feeling - nothing
to do with the software, but makes you wonder . A
friend of mine has had
problems with his USB mouse with each beta release
(not recognized at all),
and I don't know if the prob was fixed in RC1. The
8.0 release seemed very
quick - also very close on the heels of Redhat
announcing their new
release. However, I'll download the 8.0 ISOs as soon
as I can get onto a
mirror and see how it is.
philomena
At 01:59 PM 4/20/2001 -0400, Charles A Edwards
wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Philomena
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] RC1 vs. 8.0 ?
Is RC1 different from the 8.0 release ??
thx,
philomena
I have not done a package compare, but 8.0 looks
to be more or less the same as RC-1.
8.0 does have a latter kernel build, 2.4.3-20
versus 2.4.3-10 in RC-1.
I am sure there are probably other patches and/or
fixes that have been applied to the final as well.
If you are happy with the RC-1 do you need to
upgrade
to the final?
That is a personal choice.
I have a DSL connection and a burner, so I do it
for no better reason than I can do so from the
ISOs.
Charles (-:
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[newbie] RC1 vs. 8.0 ?
Is RC1 different from the 8.0 release ?? thx, philomena
[newbie] RC1 vs. 8.0 ?
Is RC1 different from the 8.0 release ?? thx, philomena
[newbie] Scanner detection in RC1
I just installed the RC1 release - it all went fairly smooth, but I have one problem - my USB scanner was detected as a SCSI device - its an HP Scanjet 5300C - just barely supported by sane, but getting closer. An "unknown" device was detected on my USB ports, so I am guessing that HardDrake found the device, but hasn't identified it correctly. The SCSI port reports the actual model, so it knows its there, but xsane thinks there is no device present. Any suggestions as to what/where I can start looking at to make sure the device is detected correctly ? I want to try and see if I install VMWare for my Windows software that the scanner can be operated that way, but if the device isn't properly recognized, I don't think it will work. Thanks, Philomena
Re: [newbie] HELP!
Release Candidate 1 ??? What and where is that ? Something more than the Beta 3 ? thx, philomena At 04:27 PM 4/16/2001 -0400, you wrote: Do You Mean Linux-Mandrake 8.0 Beta 3?? I thought so! You should probably call someone and have them upgrade you to Linux-Mandrake Release Candidate 1. It's a newer version and probably more stable. Dan LaBine Registered Linux User # 190712 Linux! - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack!
Re: [newbie] MDK 8b3 where ?
You can try here: ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-iso Cheers, Philomena At 11:14 PM 4/4/2001 -0400, you wrote: Hallo! Where can i find beta 3 ?? Thanks!! ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Redhat on same 'puter
I figure I would reply to your actual question, as opposed to the reasons why you ask:-) Yes, it is very possible - what I do is only mount the partitions applicable to each distribution when each boots, and have separate boot partitions on my hard drive for each distro. I use GRUB as my bootloader and it works like a charm. I set up the partitions before I installed, which seems easier to me. cheers, philomena On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, michael wrote: G'day Is it possible to install Mandrake RedHat on the same drive using seperate partitions, if so how??? -- Michael Doyle Adelaide, South Australia ICQ #2635762 http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~mtd
RE: [newbie]Linux Isp
who is the provider ?? At 10:50 AM 4/3/2001 -0400, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Believe it or not I ran accross a DSL provider that ADVERTISES that they support Linux... Amazing! -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jennifer Davis Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 7:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie]Linux Isp I doubt you wil find any and it's sad as most of the techs at ISPs run Linux on their home systems. Jenn (ex ISP tech who was not allowed to support linux users despite the simplicity of the questions) Jennifer Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, phil wrote: Anyone know of any Linux friendly ISP?I get the Impression My ISP is not. Cable access Roadrunner Time warner!
Re: [newbie] Triple boot? Solved, with great thanks to Philomena!
You are very, very welcome ! :-) philomena Kipling Cooper wrote: Thank you so very much!!! Your very helpful repley helped solve two problems: 1 Grub does not reinstall after Win95 reinstall Solution: make /boot/grub/install.sh executable 2 Can not quintuple boot Solution: supply the correct kernel path, as you detailed. * philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] [31 Mar 01 07:12]: In this sample, the menu choice will be listed as "linux", the kernel will boot from hda5, and the root partition is in hda15. The (hd0,4) entry sort of starts counting from zero as 1, so that 4 partitions up from "zero" is hda5. This was the critical step. Caldera, Debian, and LM all use different kernels. Thanks you! Since I install grub during the installation process, I haven't had to install the package on its own - is that causing your error ? I reinstalled Win 95, and then coudl not get grub reinstalled, but knowing WHAT installed grub was the missing link in figuring out HOW to re-install grub. Thank you again! -- Good Hunting! Kipling+ (Linux Newbie since 24 Dec 00)
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
Hi, Here's what I do - edit the file menu.lst which is in the /boot/grub subdir. There should be an entry there that looks something like this: title linux kernel(hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda15 In this sample, the menu choice will be listed as "linux", the kernel will boot from hda5, and the root partition is in hda15. The (hd0,4) entry sort of starts counting from zero as 1, so that 4 partitions up from "zero" is hda5. When I installed, I installed Mandrake 7.2 first, since that is stable, and had it install GRUB to the MBR. You can also do this by running install.sh in the /boot/grub subdir. Then, for each subsequent OS install, I directed the installs to NOT load a bootloader, and just create a boot disk. Then, I went back into 7.2, cut and pasted the existing 7.2 boot entry, and edited each entry for where to find the boot partitions for each OS. So, I have 5 different OS installs, and grub handles it all very nicely. Since I install grub during the installation process, I haven't had to install the package on its own - is that causing your error ? I know that this can be set this up by also using only one boot partition, and specifying different names for the kernel files. But, I had no luck whatsoever doing that, so just went back to this method (having different boot partitions for each distributions install). Hope this helps... philomena Kipling Cooper wrote: * Philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] [15 Mar 01 22:51]: I have GRUB setup to boot each of the /boot partitions appropriately Hi there! Could you give me a little more detail on how to do that, please? When I try to run 'grub-install /dev/hda1' I get: /usr/share/grub/i386-mandrake/stage1: Not found. -- Good Hunting! Kipling+ (Linux Newbie since 24 Dec 00)
Re: [newbie] No mail
Good one :-D I'm in the same boat - hardly anything delivered to me from newbie, expert or crashtesters in a few days - must have been something I thought ;-) philomena Carroll Grigsby wrote: Two days with no mail from the mandrake newbie list! I know that it's alive, because I just checked the archives. Was it something I said? Gee, I'm sorry for whatever the hell that it was that got you so upset. Oh well, since I don't have those 100+ postings to go through, I guess I'll do something useful tonight. Maybe I could learn how to post in HTML with a really neat font and a kewl background (red on green sounds nice), then I'll create a humongeous signature file, and of course I'll change my Netscape settings so that I always ask for a receipt. Carroll -- Who's the lonely guy in uptown Dudley just south of downtown Goldsboro
Re: [newbie] Could you please remove me from the mailing list.
you have to go here, follow the directions, and remove yourself: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 At 04:48 PM 3/19/2001 +, you wrote:
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
I haven't run into anything like that, possibly since I have setup the partitions before I do the installs. For example, I have my machine setup with about 16 different partitions - when I installed any of the distros, I made sure to use the expert or custom mode, so that I could specifiy the mount points. I only mount the partitions that the install should see, so that distro isn't even aware of the others. This may not be the most efficient method, but it does work. Right now, I have Mandrake 7.2 and the 8.0 beta, SuSe 7.1 and the latest RedHat beta, Wolverine. Each has its own /boot, root and /home partition - I haven't tried sharing any partitions. I have GRUB setup to boot each of the /boot partitions appropriately So, I would recommend repartioning your extra space and then see what happens. Cheers, Philomena At 11:59 AM 3/15/2001 -0800, you wrote: Can I ask how you folks got the second (and beyond) linux distributions installed? Everytime I've tried that I've run into problems because the new distribution sees the old distributions root, boot, usr, etc, and refuses to create new ones. I have a windows/mandrake dual boot system with about 10 gigs on allocated disk space. I'd like to try to get Slackware or Debian installed in that empty space. --- philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: triple boot should be no problem - I have 5 on one machine - 4 linux and a win98. There's probably a better way, but I just set up a different boot partition for each OS, and use grub as the bootloader. I did the partitioning first using Partition Magic. cheers, philomena = ~~~ Peter Smith, Cambridge, MA, USA Various bookmarks = http://people.ne.mediaone.net/jaded Chat about games, movies and tv = http://jadedspub.com ~~~ "They were playing Wagner. It's the most fun I've had in about six months" -Tyr Anasazi __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
triple boot should be no problem - I have 5 on one machine - 4 linux and a win98. There's probably a better way, but I just set up a different boot partition for each OS, and use grub as the bootloader. I did the partitioning first using Partition Magic. cheers, philomena Jon Doe wrote: I currently run Win98SE and Linux Mandrake 7.2 and things work just fine, but I would like to also run Red Hat. Is triple boot a bad idea? If not what is the best way to install all three? -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste
Re: [newbie] Hi everybody, need you people to say something.
sigh... here's my last reply (hurrah!) to a non-linux question - all I was trying to do is point out that the message formatting has been mentioned in the past, and that people get all bent out of shape about it, to the point of yelling and stuff. Unless the Mandrake rulers-of-the-mailing-list imposed a message format, and outlined it when people sign up, I just don't believe that the attempt at standardizing, although I think its a good idea, will work. 'nuff said cya - I'm outta here Romanator wrote: Can't we just get along. Huh? philomena wrote: Oh boy, here we go - this could re-open a hornets nest that shows up every now and then - everyone has their own preferences and habits, and those are near impossible to alter. Also, the different software that people use to read/write their email are set up with different defaults. I doubt the idea of a message standard is going to go far, except to unleash another barrage of non-linux, non-mandrake related emails, of which I am guilty of contributing to now. So, my 2 cents is, trying to suggest a standard is not going to be successful, and forget trying to get all to adhere to it. cheers, philomena Ritesh Ahya wrote: Hi everybody, newbies as well experts. I am getting everybody about 100 messages, i dont' mind with it. i love to read all of them, try to understand the problems that our linux-brothers are facing, like to ask sometimes, like to reply sometimes. but it's a good feeling. All i have to say it, can not we make a Uniform format for writing and replying mails to each other. Like when you reply, the person's whom you are replying, mail sometimes is at top or sometimes at bottom. sometimes three or four people's are replying.so can not understand quickly who has asked and who has replied ? can not everybody decides to answer and ask quetions in some defined uniform formats, so everybody can communicate with each other easier and quicker ? Thanks everybody, if you like suggestions, please come forward and let's decide. Thanks all of you everybody in advance. I dont' mind if you people don't like the suggestions too. Ritesh Ahya. - Original Message - From: "Dennis Myers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 8:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Java in KDE 2.1 -- SOLVED! On Saturday 10 March 2001 08:41, you wrote: Dear friends: Well, the Java madness in Konqueror is finally over! I never could get KDE 2.0.1 to work with any of the Java Virtual Machines that I installed. This doesn't mean that it won't on other people's systems. It's just that they failed on mine. So... I upgraded to KDE 2.1 and tried out all four Java Virtual Machines on my system: Sun's 1.3.0, Blackdown's 1.3.0, IBM's 1.3.0 and Sun's JDK 1.2.2. And the winner is... IBM 1.3.-6 The exact file is: IBMJava2-JRE-1.3-6.0.i386.rpm Benjamin, where or how exactly did you find the IBM Java, I went to the URL you posted and searched all over for the jre-1.3 download and found nothing. What am I missing here. TIA for the info, -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] UNREGISTAR??
go here and follow the instructions: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 At 05:59 PM 3/7/2001 -0800, you wrote: how can i unsubscibe from this mailing list? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Grub startup delay is not working !
Hi, GRUB doesn't use lilo.conf, it uses a file called menu.lst in the /boot/grub directory. You just need to edit that file, set your timeout . You may need to run install.sh to install grub onto your MBR, if it isn't there now. cheers, philomena At 06:17 PM 3/9/2001 +0100, you wrote: Hallo! I'm using mdk72 grub. The problem is that i've got an startup delay of 5 seconds in /etc/lilo.conf, but on startup the default OS won't start until i press Enter. My lilo.conf has the following line: "timeout=50" Also when i type #lilo it works but "Warning! BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible" appears 8 times 8-? Lilo stays in MBR of hda and Linux uses sda and sdb... THANKS! 8-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta
Enough with this thread already ! I'm sorry that I even mentioned my own 2 cents worth, and I think I was the only female to say anything. But PLEASE - leave the Bible quoting off the list as well - based on the bible its also OK for daughters to sleep with their father (Lot) and I'm sure most people think that a really bad idea. philomena KompuKit wrote: I'd like to throw in my two sense here... ALL authority...belongs to God... and alot of times His children(us), refuse ourselves of certain things... that God never intended us to refuseproof below: In the book of Esther (ch. 1+2) their was a king who held the first ever beauty contest...to find a bride. all of the contestants (I found out)... were between 12 -21 yrs of age...(the king was 65)...NOWHERE in the bible... can I find that God punished Queen Esther and that King for marrying each other... (which they did)... So, this being the case...I believe (like so many others also)...that there is nothing wrong with the idea of age difference, in a relationship... Now, granted...I think 12-15 is too young (myself)...but 16 should be ok... IF you are married first, of course. Julio Gutierrez wrote: Ok my apologies to all the girls age of 16 subscribed to this list, also to all females subscribed to it, and to all the parents of 16 yr old girls who read this message, I know i got a little out of hand and I apologize but to tell you the truth I got too excited when I installed 8.0 that my mind just went completely nuts ok so all of you got your apologies so now go download 8.0 and install it on your computer SORRY again!!! Laters Julio -- Registered Linux User: 167369 = http://www.kompukit.com = [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am S+S=12pm-12am) (US EST)
Re: [newbie] Madrake 8.0 Beta and bootloader
I think its recommended at this point not to install any bootloader in the 8.0 beta - just use a boot disk, to save aggravation until the next beta release cheers, philomena Dan LaBine wrote: Has anyone had problems with their 8.0 installation and seting up the bootloader? I can't seem to get there. It always fails on me!The rest of the install goes flawlessly, but of course I can get it to boot. I'm running a dual-boot (Win Me and Mandrake 8.0 Beta) on my test PC, and I haven't been able to finish the install because the install stops when I can't install LILO or GRUB. Help would be very welcome! -- Dan LaBine Maximum L.A.N.'s Ltd Registered Linux User #190712
Re: [newbie] New Mandrake Version
I think this has been asked a few times in the last couple of weeks, and the general answer has been "when its ready". The first beta was just released for testing so it will be a while. cheers, philomena At 03:53 PM 3/2/2001 +, you wrote: When will the next version of Mandrake be available? Thanks Salvador C. Hernandez _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie]vmware(again)
Are you installing WIN95 from a WIN95 install CD ? If so, can't you just put the cd in the drive, and "power" on/off your VMware virtual machine ? That should start the installation automatically - at least thats what I remember from doing this same thing about a year ago. cheers, philomena marcia wrote: Dear All, I have been able to finally fdisk and format my drive to prepare for an install of Windows 95 in my VMware. When I type in WIN95 SETUP as instructed I just get an error message that says Bad Command or Invalid Drive Specification. As I mentioned before I am not familiar with DOS so can anyone help me with the proper syntax for Windows 95 setup using DOS? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this is crazy.....!!!!
It was there about 30 minutes ago but 404 now - hopefully someone did save it as somewhere else - it was priceless ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guess I missed the boat, I just get error 404 On Saturday 24 February 2001 13:13, you wrote: Maybe this link will help you to unsub: http://www.microsoft.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pub/mskb/Q209354.asp (You're Welcome.)
Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this is crazy.....!!!!
dunno whats happening then - IU use your link below and still get the 404 philomena Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 24 February 2001 11:53, you wrote: It was there about 30 minutes ago but 404 now - hopefully someone did save it as somewhere else - it was priceless ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guess I missed the boat, I just get error 404 On Saturday 24 February 2001 13:13, you wrote: Maybe this link will help you to unsub: http://www.microsoft.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pub/mskb/Q209354.asp (You're Welcome.) I bookmarked it and just now went back to it and it came right up, looks like it is still there. Check the URL? http://www.microsoft.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pub/mskb/Q209354.asp Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this is crazy.....!!!!
this has got to be a joke, right ? just inciting the continuation of these responses ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please take me off this newbie list can't stand all this mail
Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this is crazy.....!!!!
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Re: [newbie] Crazy??
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Re: [newbie] remove me
These requests are facsinating - I'm assuming you don't read ALL the other posts from people asking the same thing, and then, the highly sarcastic/humorous and occasionnally serious responses from others on the list ?? Common sense - try looking where you signed up - there are instructions on how to un-sign-up. Oh yes, the price to be removed is up to $15, but you'll have to do the money conversion :-) philomena Bill Roddie wrote: Will somebody help me get off this list please Bill
RE: [newbie] remove me
I think I'll have to make my fortune elsewhere - somehow, no one seems to send the money ! :-) cheers, philomena At 02:48 PM 2/5/2001 +, Bill Roddie wrote: -Original Message- From: philomena [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] remove me If there are alot of people asking the same thing then presumable they do that for a reason. Maybe they are just thick like me. But then it takes all sorts ah!!! Hope you get rich quick Bill These requests are facsinating - I'm assuming you don't read ALL the other posts from people asking the same thing, and then, the highly sarcastic/humorous and occasionnally serious responses from others on the list ?? Common sense - try looking where you signed up - there are instructions on how to un-sign-up. Oh yes, the price to be removed is up to $15, but you'll have to do the money conversion :-) philomena Bill Roddie wrote: Will somebody help me get off this list please Bill
Re: [newbie] remove me
is there a full moon or something that there are so many of these today ??!!?! go back to where you signed up and follow the instructions ! philomena Brian Overby wrote:
Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake sucks! - Huh? mandrake doesn't suck-IMO, it has problems though.
Its been a while since I have re-installed 7.2, but I will be doing it soon, and I've installed about 5 or 6 times. I have always been prompted with what type of install do you want to do, and select Expert, and then workstation. I then set up my partitions, select what partitions are to be formatted or not, select all my packages, and then its off to the races. When all is done, then comes printer, network, etc setup. I can't remember about the /tmp wipe prompt, but I know its there. This is all from the 7.2 ISO images I downloaded from the Mandrake site. Yes, it uses DiskDrake, but then what else would Mandrake GUI-driven install use ? I'm not sure at all what you could be doing such that you don't get all the flexibility that is available in the install. One thing I have wished for is the ability to save my selected install packages on floppy, so that I don't have to pick them all over again at each install. Possibly are you selecting to Upgrade instead of clean install ? I haven't tried the upgrade option, but maybe that does not give the options to select packages, as it will find out your installed base automatically. philomena At 12:00 PM 1/29/2001 +, you wrote: On Sunday 28 January 2001 07:38 pm, you wrote: I presume that since you posted on the newbie forum that you are a newbie, at least to Mandrake. I have a caldera box, and I have been using mandrake since v6.2 yeah, I am still new. Frankly this kind of question on the expert forum would have been a joke-IMO. Not to mention the fact, I was on both forums and the inbound email exceeded my ISP limits and bounced mail (200 ea messages and unlimited size-I had too many messages), carefull if you might think about judging someone, you don't know what their circumstances are, I am also on 5 different IPSEC lists and a few other misc programming lists. I get about 100-150 pieces of mail in ea. 8 hours. Why don't you give it another try by reinstalling and choose the 'recommended' option and use the DiskDrak partitioner (expert). Sorry that can't be done, because 1. The First thing that is asked is keyboard, then which partitions do you want. Wipe DIsk, use existing, or expert. I ALWAYS use expert. Choice of using anything other than DiskDrake is not available, choice of NOT formatting partitions is also not available. Choice if installation class is NOT available, choice of what the system is used for is NOT available. Note: even so, I have no problem with this formatting because I always back up my /home - /root to a winblows partition before I start tweeking on the system. SO, all I have to do is re-copy my .bashrc, bookmarks, firewall scripts etc back over. It's relatively painless. Cept I hate the fact that ipchains is never installed. The thing I DO have a problem with is the fact that I am NEVER prompted with the following menus: Please choose one of the following classes of installation: Recommended Customized Expert Furthermore I am NEVER prompted with: What is your system used for: Workstation Server Development Clear out all the current Mandrake partiitions and start anew, about 100 MB for 'swap' and 1.5GB (min) for /.If your Mandrake is 7.2 ( 2 CD), use perhaps 2 GB for / Um, that's all great advice, in fact if this was version 7.1 that would be perfect advice. In this case, it does not apply. I gave quite a bit MORE space to Linux. (athough maybe my /home is a tad bit too small and I may add another 2G from windows to it, still, over time, I have decided my partitions are as follows: [root@localhost /root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdc145.1G 2.5G 2.4G 51% / /dev/hdc3 65M 1.0M 60M 2% /boot /dev/hdc13242M 119M 110M 52% /home /dev/hda1 2.0G 989M 1.0G 48% /mnt/win_c /dev/hdc1 2.0G 373M 1.6G 18% /mnt/win_c2 /dev/hda5 2.0G 390M 1.6G 19% /mnt/win_d /dev/hdc5 2.0G 1018M 1.0G 50% /mnt/win_d2 /dev/hda6 2.0G 683M 1.3G 33% /mnt/win_e /dev/hdc6 2.0G 945M 1.1G 46% /mnt/win_e2 /dev/hda7 1.8G 1.6G 276M 85% /mnt/win_f /dev/hdc7 2.0G 729M 1.3G 36% /mnt/win_f2 /dev/hdc8 2.0G 287M 1.7G 14% /mnt/win_g /dev/hdc9 2.0G 938M 1.1G 46% /mnt/win_h /dev/hdc12290M 103M 172M 37% /root /dev/hdc11233M 951k 220M 0% /tmp [root@localhost /root]# there's 260MB allocated to "SWAP" I calculated it like this 2*128MB of system ram = 256 rounded up to an even 260. I'm just a newbie to Linux too so I can't help much in troubleshooting. All I can say is use care during the installation. I've tried everything in the Book that comes with the "COMPLETE" version 7.2 There's only 1 class install, the one Mandrake itself picks. Now then, I have just built a NEW A7V + K7 800MHz + 128MB PC-133 ram, and the install is
Re: Re: [newbie] Goodbye
what sound card do you have ? Have you checked the CD output level using a mixer app like kmix ? Often it defaults to zero - system sounds are fine but you won't hear any CD, although it is playing. philomena At 03:40 AM 1/30/2001 -0800, you wrote: I have both SuSE and Mandrake 7.1. I can't make SuSe work with my video card. I can't play audio cd's with LM 7.1. Go figure, huh... Kscd can play the cd but no sound is coming out. I have decent sound for events on all window managers, xmms works. It's pretty weird. Can anybody help? I don't wanna give up on Mandrake. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But you won't get any sound with suse, unless just the high-end graphics are what you are after. They do have decent graphics. On Monday 29 January 2001 09:19 pm, so spoke GECOS: Hello All, Saturday evening my HDD failed, installed a new one today with mixed feelings about Mandrake, on the failed HDD I had 6 failed installs before everything went well, this time I gave up after **8** failed installs, different error everytime, I was very disappointed, but decided to look elsewhere, SuSE 6.3 first time right (5+GB) Corel Linux v2 from my daughter again first time installed without any problems. So I'm joining SuSE now. Cheers, Herman __ www.edsamail.com
Re: [newbie] Grub Question
Its just a text file - make sure you are root, and use whatever text editor you prefer. Save the file and thats that - your changes will be in effect when you boot. cheers, philomena At 07:11 AM 1/12/2001 -0500, you wrote: I know that this has been covered, because I remember seeing it. So, please forgive my ignorance. How can I edit the Grub menu after it has been installed? I know that the list resides in /boot/grub/menu.lst. How can I edit that file? Thanks y'all, Chris Kelly --- Boy of Destiny King of Nothing
Re: [newbie] Leaving
sorry to see you go Paul - come back and visit every now and then ! philomena Paul wrote: Hi folks, I have to leave the list. I've had a lot of fun here, and learnt a big lot, but the amount of mail we all generate is becoming too much for me to handle. THanks for all the help and advice, and keep it Linux! Paul
[newbie] Save selected packages on install
Hi all, Is there a way to save the packages selected during an expert install of 7.2, so that if you install again, you don't have to make all those selections all over again ? If the option is there, I keep missing it. The auto-install feature is not feasable to use on a multi-boot workstation, since the auto-install floppy wipes the whole disk. Thanks, philomena
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and Sounblaster Live!
Same here - 7.2 was the first mandrake release that found and correctly configured my SBLive ! Value out of the box. Do you have no sound at all ? Have you tried wavs and mp3s ? philomena At 03:10 AM 12/7/2000 -0500, you wrote: I use a Soundblaster Live Value, and had no problems. Mandrake 7.2 found and configured it, no problem. Beats the heck out of me as to what happened. I would try another install. Frank At 12:39 AM 12/7/00 -0600, you wrote: For some reason, a lot of people have problems with SB Live! cards in linux, and it's lots of weird, different stuff. If no one here can give you a good fix, I would suggest http://opensource.creative.com as a good place to start looking for a solution. You can search their mailing list/read the documentation/download new drivers there. Cody Philippe wrote: I just installed mandrake 7.2, my first experience with linux, but it seems the sound is not working. HardDrake is showing the correct card: Creative Labs SB Live! Anyone else has/had this problem? and a solution for it? Thanks, Philippe
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.0 Themes and Sound
KDE2 does allow more customization, but I found it a bit disconcerting that a nice user-level feature like the Theme Manager was removed. Was nice to play around and see what happened with different themes. Also, seems many folks thought this was a Mandrake lack in 7.2, as opposed to a change in KDE2. There is an app in the menu system called "Legacy Theme Importer". I haven't had much luck with it, but I didn't pursue it too much. This topic has been brought up a few times on this list since 7.2 was released, but I haven't seem too many responses describing success stories in bringing in old themes. philomena At 03:55 PM 12/5/2000 -0600, you wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2000 07:12 am, Marcia wrote: Dear All, I just asked about the theme manager, also, but so far no one has answered. I , too, loved the way the thememanager worked in 7.0. I am disappointed about the absence of it in 7.2. Was this an oversight? Well i usually shy away from these questions cause i believe the answer is readily discernable/available... but what t'hey From my perspective, KDE2 allows much more customization than KDE1 did, even tho it currently lacks but a few third party themes and the planned future manager. In Control Center , there are already different themes: Look 'N Feel | Style | Widget Style and theme Then in | Colors, you can further customize any theme you chose above Then by r-clicking on any Windows title bar you can change the borders, 'Decoration', several choices, like 'system ++' for example 'Course, you can use any pic file for backgrounds, just put them in /home/tom/.kde/share/wallpapers/AngelBoris.jpg . ^^^ your 'user' dir ^^^ YMMV, but I'm in love ; Put in several and you can have different ones for each desktop. Bottom line, due to all the possible combos of the above, is you have the ability to make your own themes. So who needs http://kde.themes.org/themes.phtml?action=searchthemetxt=submit=Searchve rids%5B%5D=KDE2.0odby=downloaddisptype=normnumthemes=10showmod=on -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie]
Did SuSE and LM share any partitions ? I have them both booting with no problems on one hard drive. Are you using KDE ? If so, you should check what it says in the hardware info section of the Control Center - see if your card is recognized. Or, try Harddrake - it should display the card as well. philomena At 12:20 PM 11/27/2000 -0800, you wrote: Dear All, I am trying to get on the internet again with Linux mandrake 7.2. I was on a few days ago until I installed Suse 7 and tried to do networking there which crashed my Linux mandrake 7.2. I then reinstalled my 7.2. I have not been able to get my internet going since. Everytime I check my eth0 config files I get a device or resource is busy. Linuxconf does not see my card and cannot load the module. I know this is because Suse stole the module, address, and or Irq. I thought the best antidote would be to use fdisk and get rid of Suse. I did that however the problem has not been resolved. All of my configuration files are set up (in LM 7.2) just as they were before Suse ruined it. What is the best remedy here? My goal is to just have Linux Mandrake 7.2 working great and on the internet again. I do not want Suse anymore. I definitely like Mandrake 7.2 better but wanted to try Suse because my mp3's would not play correctly in LM7.2 and the Hearts game shows no faces on the cards.Since my reinstall of LM7.2 my mp3's play great , but still no faces on Hearts. I can live with that as long as I get my internet back. I do have 2 IDE harddrives. Linux Mandrake 7.2 is on the first one or hda and Suse was on the second or hdb. Is there something I can do short of reformatting my drives and reinstalling Linux 7.2? Thanks for your assistance. Sincerely, Marcia GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: [newbie] Grub/LILO--why?
I prefer grub for a few small reasons - you can make changes on the fly and try them out without having to remember to run lilo to effect your changes, and to make the changes permanent you simply edit the menu file- again, as soon as you save your changes, thats it - nothing else to execute. I have heard that the newer lilo versions are more graphical and friendlier, but I'm sticking with grub. I don't think the differences bewteen lilo and grub are not that great - more just a matter of slight preferences. philomena On Saturday 25 November 2000 12:03 am, you wrote: I am presently running another distro than mdk, so I'm not familiar with grub. Why would one want to use grub instead of the usual LILO, especially now that LILO can load anywhere? --doug At 19:07 11/24/2000 +0100, Paul wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Kelly, Christopher wrote: Ok, here today's question. I recently upgraded my winblows OS and it overrode my grub. I used the rescue disk and I can get into Linux now. It is however, using LILO to boot. How can I get it back to grub? Log in as root, go to /boot/grub, and run ./install.sh Next boot you'll see grub again Paul
Re: [newbie] word processors and my Applix review at last
wow - if you fall from that high horse you're on you might seriously injure yourself ! What does a user review of a product have to do with knowing how the platform works ? Only an "expert" is allowed an opinion? If you tell someone you like a movie, it has nice special effects but the acting sucks, should you keep quiet unless you are a trained actor and special effects wizard ? Anyone can discuss how they like or don't like a product - if they want to post their opinions on their own website, go for it. Either disagree with the review or agree - how you can make comments like that about someone's product review is beyond me. Linux is all about being open and sharing opinions and knowledge. my 2 cents philomena On Friday 24 November 2000 11:22 pm, you wrote: At 14:00 11/23/2000 -0700, you wrote: /snip/ i have just recently tried out ApplixOffice and posted a brief review and some screen shots on my web site. Applix claims (i can't really say for sure it is or isn't) a Linux native program, not something ported. i found it mostly useable... a few odd things notes for the wish list, but so far it is the best of what i have seen. the review is at: http://ontheflyphotography.1stcyberhost.com/linux04.htm later dayz.. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /snip/ lotsa quote Yes, I am sending this from W98/Eudora, but I CAN ACCESS the net from Linux. And do. I wonder whether a review from someone who, by his own admission (in the review), cannot access the Internet from Linux is worth much. I have my own troubles with linux, and I would not presume to present a review of serious software unless I had full control of the system on which it runs. (To the extent that the system allows control, of course.) It would be like me running a review of some program on a MAC, a machine I dislike because of its "I know better than you" attitude, like Windows. I know nothing about actually working on the MAC. You seem to know fairly little of actually working in LINUX. I would suggest that you save your reviews until you are competent in the environment, and then I will welcome them. --dm
Re: [newbie] Knotes and Mandrake 7.2
Yup - runs fine for me philomena On Tuesday 21 November 2000 10:17 pm, you wrote: Has anyone succeeded in getting knotes to start in the new Mandrake 7.2 without the screen going black until one quits knotes? Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
Re: [newbie] old kde themes
I didn't find too much on the KDE website - www.themes.org has more info. Some of the old themes are being re-written as KDE2 themes, and more are showing up at themes.org. There is also a legacy theme importer utility under Configuration-Other , but I haven't had much luck with that yet. Philomena On Wednesday 22 November 2000 06:30 pm, you wrote: How again do you change over the old kde themes to the new KDE 2.0 format? I suppose I should go look on the KDE web site.
Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?
Thanks Paul - that worked for me - I hadn't paid much attention to the numlock not being active on startup, but it started bothering as I read these posts. philomena On Tuesday 21 November 2000 06:00 am, you wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Goldenpi wrote: Number lock keeps resetting. There is a service which will in theory do something but I never saw any effect when I use it. The numlock still resets at each runlevel change. In mdk 7.1 I only needed to run "numlock" In mdk 7.2 it is " /usr/X11R6/bin/enable_X11_numlock" Paul - Original Message - From: "Charles" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 10:36 PM Subject: [newbie] No NUMBER lock? I have been looking through the DOCs but haven't discoverd how to have NUMBER LOCK active when starting KDE. Suggestions? TIA - Cmo
Re: [newbie] domain setup-update
Have you tried www.Flashcom.com ? Their site says they have coverage in Lowell. Can't say exactly what they offer in your area, but in the NYC area, they do offer various hosting services with static IP addresses. I'm not hosting a website, but as a home user, I have had no problem at all with their services. In almost a year, I haven't had any downtime (oops - probably just jinxed it !) Cheers, Philomena At 11:54 AM 11/14/2000 -0500, you wrote: Just found out why...www.kompukit.com doesn't showyet. service has not been assigned yet...the ISP was waiting on a call from the registrar. In any event, they want more money to provide me with this service...about 40.00 a month... but, it would only provide a 56k connection,plus some other features. I need at least a DSL connection of about 640k Does anyone know where I can get this...in Mass. ? that also provides a static IP, as well? -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] domain setup-update
When I got their service last March, you had to provide your own NIC, but it included the modem and installation of modem (although they really didn't have to do anything, just run the line from my phone jack to the PC). That special offering was not on their website - when I called the sales number was told about that. Yes, I use linux, and from my perspective, there was nothing different with setting up DSL access via Linux as Windows - the DSL modem is external, and hooks into an Ethernet card in my machine. So, I set it up as if I am on a LAN. The Flashcom requirements say they need a generic "operating system". I pay $45 a month for 2 static IP addresses, with access speed of 416/208, as well as using them as my ISP and email. They didn't have tosetup anything - they gave me all the IP addresses I needed (mine, DSN, gateway) and that was it. It may be different for web hosting - I'm not doing that, although I am thinking about it. Philomena At 12:36 PM 11/14/2000 -0500, you wrote: just checked their site...it says that the equipment is not included in the price. therefore, the modem would be extra...etc. not even sure they setup linux... did you have to pay extra for your DSL modem...and do you use linux...did they set t up for you? how much are you paying a month? Philomena wrote: Have you tried www.Flashcom.com ? Their site says they have coverage in Lowell. Can't say exactly what they offer in your area, but in the NYC area, they do offer various hosting services with static IP addresses. I'm not hosting a website, but as a home user, I have had no problem at all with their services. In almost a year, I haven't had any downtime (oops - probably just jinxed it !) Cheers, Philomena At 11:54 AM 11/14/2000 -0500, you wrote: Just found out why...www.kompukit.com doesn't showyet. service has not been assigned yet...the ISP was waiting on a call from the registrar. In any event, they want more money to provide me with this service...about 40.00 a month... but, it would only provide a 56k connection,plus some other features. I need at least a DSL connection of about 640k Does anyone know where I can get this...in Mass. ? that also provides a static IP, as well? -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit= -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] domain setup-update
true - I forgot that - they charged a $100 "setup fee" that is sort of like a refundable deposit - it was credited against my bill. I got the first month free as part of the signup special, and another month because the installation was delayed, and then since the $100 was prepaid, I didn't pay anything else for the next couple of months after that. philomena At 01:40 PM 11/14/2000 -0500, you wrote: do they require a credit card...for install... most do...before they install Philomena wrote: When I got their service last March, you had to provide your own NIC, but it included the modem and installation of modem (although they really didn't have to do anything, just run the line from my phone jack to the PC). That special offering was not on their website - when I called the sales number was told about that. Yes, I use linux, and from my perspective, there was nothing different with setting up DSL access via Linux as Windows - the DSL modem is external, and hooks into an Ethernet card in my machine. So, I set it up as if I am on a LAN. The Flashcom requirements say they need a generic "operating system". I pay $45 a month for 2 static IP addresses, with access speed of 416/208, as well as using them as my ISP and email. They didn't have tosetup anything - they gave me all the IP addresses I needed (mine, DSN, gateway) and that was it. It may be different for web hosting - I'm not doing that, although I am thinking about it. Philomena At 12:36 PM 11/14/2000 -0500, you wrote: just checked their site...it says that the equipment is not included in the price. therefore, the modem would be extra...etc. not even sure they setup linux... did you have to pay extra for your DSL modem...and do you use linux...did they set t up for you? how much are you paying a month? Philomena wrote: Have you tried www.Flashcom.com ? Their site says they have coverage in Lowell. Can't say exactly what they offer in your area, but in the NYC area, they do offer various hosting services with static IP addresses. I'm not hosting a website, but as a home user, I have had no problem at all with their services. In almost a year, I haven't had any downtime (oops - probably just jinxed it !) Cheers, Philomena At 11:54 AM 11/14/2000 -0500, you wrote: Just found out why...www.kompukit.com doesn't showyet. service has not been assigned yet...the ISP was waiting on a call from the registrar. In any event, they want more money to provide me with this service...about 40.00 a month... but, it would only provide a 56k connection,plus some other features. I need at least a DSL connection of about 640k Does anyone know where I can get this...in Mass. ? that also provides a static IP, as well? -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] domain setup-update
I'm not sure about that - I never asked as credit cards are fine with me. You could call them and find out. philomena At 02:01 PM 11/14/2000 -0500, you wrote: do they require a credit card before installing? Philomena wrote: true - I forgot that - they charged a $100 "setup fee" that is sort of like a refundable deposit - it was credited against my bill. I got the first month free as part of the signup special, and another month because the installation was delayed, and then since the $100 was prepaid, I didn't pay anything else for the next couple of months after that. philomena At 01:40 PM 11/14/2000 -0500, you wrote: do they require a credit card...for install... most do...before they install Philomena wrote: When I got their service last March, you had to provide your own NIC, but it included the modem and installation of modem (although they really didn't have to do anything, just run the line from my phone jack to the PC). That special offering was not on their website - when I called the sales number was told about that. Yes, I use linux, and from my perspective, there was nothing different with setting up DSL access via Linux as Windows - the DSL modem is external, and hooks into an Ethernet card in my machine. So, I set it up as if I am on a LAN. The Flashcom requirements say they need a generic "operating system". I pay $45 a month for 2 static IP addresses, with access speed of 416/208, as well as using them as my ISP and email. They didn't have tosetup anything - they gave me all the IP addresses I needed (mine, DSN, gateway) and that was it. It may be different for web hosting - I'm not doing that, although I am thinking about it. Philomena At 12:36 PM 11/14/2000 -0500, you wrote: just checked their site...it says that the equipment is not included in the price. therefore, the modem would be extra...etc. not even sure they setup linux... did you have to pay extra for your DSL modem...and do you use linux...did they set t up for you? how much are you paying a month? Philomena wrote: Have you tried www.Flashcom.com ? Their site says they have coverage in Lowell. Can't say exactly what they offer in your area, but in the NYC area, they do offer various hosting services with static IP addresses. I'm not hosting a website, but as a home user, I have had no problem at all with their services. In almost a year, I haven't had any downtime (oops - probably just jinxed it !) Cheers, Philomena At 11:54 AM 11/14/2000 -0500, you wrote: Just found out why...www.kompukit.com doesn't showyet. service has not been assigned yet...the ISP was waiting on a call from the registrar. In any event, they want more money to provide me with this service...about 40.00 a month... but, it would only provide a 56k connection,plus some other features. I need at least a DSL connection of about 640k Does anyone know where I can get this...in Mass. ? that also provides a static IP, as well? -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit= -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] Downloading with Netscape
Shortcut - in Netscape, hold down the Shift key when you click on a file to download - you'll get the "Save as" dialog box regardless of the type of file you are downloading. Philomena At 10:24 PM 11/14/2000 +, you wrote: That only happens with rpm packages. .tar.gz packages, and mp3 files, and everything else work just fine on Netscape. Could be,that I cant answer.I just know I can download all Linux programs with IE 5.5 just by left clicking.On my Linux box with Netscape I have to right click,save as.When I left click,all the code scrolls by,have never seen this happen with IE -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
[newbie] size of log files
Hi, I installed PMFirewall recently and have been getting a ton of the same message in my syslog and messages files - they are "deny" messages, but of my own static IP address, so I must have something set up wrong. As a consequence, these files have been getting huge, and have caused me some problems when the partition has run out of space. I notice that there is a .gz file of each of these files. Is there a system parameter that based on the filesize automatically compresses the file ? If so, how do I manipulate that so that my system behaves while I track down the firewall problem ? Thanks, philomena
Re: [newbie] size of log files
Hi Paul, That was it - I did a 'man logrotate' and got tons of info - the files can be controled based on timing as well as size - very neat. Thanks for the pointer, philomena On Monday 13 November 2000 08:18 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, philomena wrote: I will subscribe to that list, but my question is not really a PMFirewall question - its about controlling the size of the system log files - since I saw a syslog.gz , which I know I didn't create, I am assuming there is some system utility that compressed the /var/log/syslog file when it reached some filesize. The same happened with /var/log/messages - there was a messages.gz, which I didn't create. Is there a system parameter or service that monitors and controls the size of specified log files ? If so, I want to set that max file size to something small, so that my system doesn't go haywire while I am workign on the firewall issue. Hi Philomena, Once a week a cronjob runs, executing the /etc/cron.weekly jobs In that directory there probably is a job called 'logrotate'. This is what creates the tar.gz files. Paul
Re: [newbie] new install
Hi Bob, If you are running KDE2, the themes aren't there anymore - KDE2 doesn't do themes as it did in KDE1 :-( There is a tool to import old themes (found in Configuration - Other - Legacy Theme Importer) , but I couldn't get it to work yet. There are supposed to be KDE2 themes showing up on themes.org, but I haven't checked in a while. Philomena On Sunday 12 November 2000 07:10 am, you wrote: Hi All, I just installed mandrake 7.2 on my dell inspiron lap top and it works great, my question is, where are the themes. I was running mandrake 7.0, and really like the themes, now there aren't any. I checked the help files but couldn' t find out anything. Does anyone know where the themes went? Bob
Re: [newbie] 7.2
so sorry - mea culpa :-D I figured if I was gonna get a new machine I would GET a NEW machine !!! *S* On Tuesday 07 November 2000 02:04 pm, you wrote: Philomena, Could you please not list the specs of your system? The drool is terrible for my keyboard... -Original Message- From: philomena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 6:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 I downloaded the 7.2 iso images and had no problem at all with the install - I had all kinds of problems with 7.1 - wasn't stable or reliable for me at all. My specs are: 1Gz Athlon, 384 mgs RAM, 40 gb drive, SBLive! sound, NVidia GEforce 256 video, princeton flatscreen monitor, external 3COM dsl modem, internal zip and CDRW, HP Deskjet 950C 7.2 detected and configured all successfully - the first time that has happened to me with any distro, and I've tried versions of quite a few. So, in my book, 7.2 is great. - my 2cents cheers, philomena On Sunday 05 November 2000 05:53 pm, you wrote: I've been hearing alot about problems galore installing this or that...in v7.2 of Mandrake. What seems to be the problem with this version...hum? Should I just go out a buy 7.1 cause that one seems to be more stable and reliable...etc. ??? It looks like 7.2 has too many bugs in ite?
Re: [newbie] 7.2
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 05:16 am, you wrote: "Sparks, Charley" wrote: I second that .. I only have a dual P166 with 128MB and 4 GB scsi -Original Message- From: Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 9:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.2 Philomena, Could you please not list the specs of your system? The drool is terrible for my keyboard... -Original Message- From: philomena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 6:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] 7.2 I downloaded the 7.2 iso images and had no problem at all with the install - I had all kinds of problems with 7.1 - wasn't stable or reliable for me at all. My specs are: 1Gz Athlon, 384 mgs RAM, 40 gb drive, SBLive! sound, NVidia GEforce 256 video, princeton flatscreen monitor, external 3COM dsl modem, internal zip and CDRW, HP Deskjet 950C 7.2 detected and configured all successfully - the first time that has happened to me with any distro, and I've tried versions of quite a few. So, in my book, 7.2 is great. - my 2cents cheers, philomena On Sunday 05 November 2000 05:53 pm, you wrote: I've been hearing alot about problems galore installing this or that...in v7.2 of Mandrake. What seems to be the problem with this version...hum? Should I just go out a buy 7.1 cause that one seems to be more stable and reliable...etc. ??? It looks like 7.2 has too many bugs in ite? I third that, I ate my mouse while reading your specs. -- Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842 Yikes ! I'll try to be quiet from now on :-) that is, until I break the machine again ! philomena
Re: [newbie] 7.2
I downloaded the 7.2 iso images and had no problem at all with the install - I had all kinds of problems with 7.1 - wasn't stable or reliable for me at all. My specs are: 1Gz Athlon, 384 mgs RAM, 40 gb drive, SBLive! sound, NVidia GEforce 256 video, princeton flatscreen monitor, external 3COM dsl modem, internal zip and CDRW, HP Deskjet 950C 7.2 detected and configured all successfully - the first time that has happened to me with any distro, and I've tried versions of quite a few. So, in my book, 7.2 is great. - my 2cents cheers, philomena On Sunday 05 November 2000 05:53 pm, you wrote: I've been hearing alot about problems galore installing this or that...in v7.2 of Mandrake. What seems to be the problem with this version...hum? Should I just go out a buy 7.1 cause that one seems to be more stable and reliable...etc. ??? It looks like 7.2 has too many bugs in ite?
[newbie] clock KDE2 on 7.2
hi all, anyone know how to set the clock display in KDE2 to a 12 hour digital instead of a 24 hour digital clock ? I haven't found that anywhere in KDE2. Thanks, philomena
Re: [newbie] clock KDE2 on 7.2
Thanks Tom - the country was set at Default - I thought I had chosen US during install - I changed that to USA and it works fine now. cheers, philomena On Sunday 05 November 2000 01:55 am, you wrote: On Saturday 04 November 2000 12:27 pm, philomena wrote: hi all, anyone know how to set the clock display in KDE2 to a 12 hour digital instead of a 24 hour digital clock ? I haven't found that anywhere in KDE2. Thanks, philomena R-clk on the clock, you need%I:%M:%S %pfor Time format on the Time Dates tab. If you choose USA and US English on the Locale tab, the format above should have been entered for you.
Re: [newbie]
I also use Flashcom - during install, I didn't select to setup a DSL/ADSL connection - I selected a LAN connection. This works fine with Flashcom. As for the host name, I think you can use a generic 'computer.flashcom.com' (don't key the quotes) - I don't think it matters too much. You don't have to re-install. Use DrakConf and set up a new internet connection. cheers, philomena At 11:52 PM 11/2/2000 -0800, you wrote: How do I configure my Mandrake Linux 7.2 to use my DSL? Here are the specs of my system. Dual P2 400 Mhz 256 MB RAM Hercules Prophet 2 GTS 64 MB SB Live Flowpoint External DSL modem, D-Link Ethernet Card. I am setting up in the Configuration system uder the Configure Networks screen and choosing SETUP DSL. Then I am putting all the info, IP, Gateway, DNS but I do not know the host. I know the host is my computer but I dont know what to put in there. I am using flashcom DSL and they do not require a user/password which the DSL setup asks me for. I tried putting in the emailed username and password with no luck. If anyone has gotten DSL to work that is similar to my situation I would greatly appreciate any help. Thank You Mario T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] Sound under 7.2
Hi keith, There isn't a sounddrake anymore - it was incorporated into HardDrake, which you can run from DrakConf. Or, you can try running sndconfig from command line. What type of sound card do you have ? cheers, philomena At 05:33 PM 11/2/2000 +0200, you wrote: Cannot get any sound to work under 7.2. I cannot even find the sound file to run to configure the card. I do not see any sound config or sounddrake or anything like that. Anyone can point me in the right direction? TIA -- Keith Oxford (IT Manager - Reach Technologies) Tel: (011) 620 0323 Fax: (011) 620 0320 Cell: 083 651 4031
[newbie] 7.2 and KDE2 System Sound Config
Hi, Does anyone know where the configuration tool is for the system sound assignment in KDE2 ? Can't find anything in the KDE control center for it. Thanks, philomena
[newbie] amazing...
I hate to say this, but I am in shock.. I just installed 7.2 from the current ISO images - did an expert install and installed everything- and for the very first time, of any Mandrake or SuSE install, ALL of my devices (except my USB HP scanner - not supported yet as far as I know ) worked out of the "box" - my SBLive! card, DSL, floppy, ZIP, CDRW (although I haven't tested if the writing part works), printer (HP Deskjet 950C) all work !!! Printouts look incredible. I can't believe I don't have to coerce my sound card into an operational state. KDE2 installed fine - XFree 4.01 looks great - my flatscreen monitor looks excellent This is GREAT Konqueror looks fine - no more ugly fonts - Kmail set up as easy as pie One thing - amyone know where in KDE2 you can install new themes ? I don't see the Theme Manager that used to be in the Control center. This is a pure standalone, at home, machine - nothing too fancy, but that may change now. Way to go Mandrake ! cheers, philomena
Re: [newbie] Grub question
Hi Chris, I think the file is boot/grub/menu.lst philomena "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: How can I edit the Grub menu selections? I have some that I want to get rid of. Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] sound cards
I don't see how drivers and/or devices installed in Windows will have any affect on a Linux install - changes to the bios will have an affect, but I don't think software installed in Windows will affect anything. Maybe someone else knows differently - or give it a try anyway, since I guess the other possible suggested fixes for your sound card didn't work. good luck, philomena At 09:49 AM 10/16/2000 -0700, you wrote: Hi all- Question, if I uninstall the drivers and sound card from windows and then boot up linux and do a clean install do you think that the sound card will work ? Everytime I use drakX it tells me the sound card has already been configured. So I figure what do I have to lose except about a half and hour. System specs- Gateway 20 gig drive partitioned 10 win98 se and 10 linux mandrake 7.0 128 ram pent.3 500 mhz sb live sound card and svga video card. Thank you, Chronos.
Re: [newbie] sound cards
yes, you can get lots of information that way and it can be very helpful with debugging - I used that to help fix my own SBLive! problems - but the original question (not from me) was about problems configuring an SBLive ! card in 7.0 , and someone asking that if the Win driver's were uninstalled, and he reinstalled mandrake from scratch, might that solve his problem - my answer to that was no. philomena At 04:32 PM 10/16/2000 -0400, you wrote: In a message dated 16-Oct-00 15:22:58 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While Windows has taken "unpredictable" to a new high, it's none of the Windows software drivers are even loaded when Linux is running so you're right; their residence on a hard drive won't affect anything. You're also right that changing the BIOS will affect Linux. this maybe true, however you can get info using the inf file found in windows about a peice of hardware that the hardware sometimes wont tell you. This is the case with pci cards sure linux detects its there but doesnt allways detect what it is, or who made it. So using windows to find a known driver or using key things like serial or model numbers you can sort through the text of many inf files and can find the maker, the exact type of device it may be, and from there you can find the companys site to see if they make linux based drivers or provide info on how to set up bios settings to better support the device in linux.
Re: [newbie] sb live! sound card
Hi chronos, go to the Mandrake website, click on "Mailing Lists" - its one of the links under "Support" on the left side of the page - then, scroll down to the bottom of the mailing list page and you will find links to the expert and newbie archives. Also on the Mandrake website, in the left-side list of links, under "Developer", you will find a link to the HardDrake site, if you want to try that. On that site, click on Download, and then grab the rpms for HardDrake, detect, and detect-lst. If you use kpackage to install these RPMs it will describe any unresolved dependancies when you open up the RPMs. Anything that is missing you can find in the Mandrake Cooker site, which you can find a link to in that Developer section. Mandrake has its own rpms for alsa there - not sure if those are the same files referenced in that email or the files you get from the site mentioned below. You can find all the the alsa information and downloads at www.alsa-project.org cheers, philomena chronos wrote: At 11:45 PM 10/14/2000 -0400, you wrote: One more thing - if you search the expert mailing list archives using the string "SBLive! sound quality" you'll find very detailed instructions on how to get the card working with the alsa drivers - you may want to try that too. Hi, Philomena- So how do I get to the list archives ? Also where are the alsa drivers ? Thank you, Chronos.
Re: [newbie] sb live! sound cards
Hi, Did you downloaded a file with the extension tar.gz ? The file name should be something like emu10k1-20001013.tar.gz. This is a compressed file that you first have to uncompress. You do that with the command tar xvzf filename.tar.gz this will create a subdirectry called /emu10k1 that has all your files. In there is a readme you should take a look at, but if I remember , what you do is change to that directory and issue the command "make". When that finishes up (with hopefully no errors), you issue the command "make install". That will actually install the driver. But, read the readme file - it may have more information than I am remembering now. philomena chronos wrote: To Philomena- Hi, dumb question what do you mean compile the driver ? What and how do I do this ? I downloaded the most current driver so how do I go about installing it ? Im really lost at this point. Thank you, Chronos. What type of error messages are you seeing ? Did the compile of the driver go successfully ? System specs are as follows- gateway 20 gig drive partitioned 10 win98 se and 10 linux mandrake 7.0 128 ram pentium 3 500 and sb live sound card and svga video card.
Re: [newbie] sb live! sound card
I am using 7.1 (and the beta 7.2), neither of which use Lothar anymore - the recent version of Harddrake configured my card correctly, for the first time. You could maybe try downloading and using HardDrake instead of Lothar, but you may need to update your kernel along with several other supporting packages. I have been able to successfully update my kernel via the rpm packages, although that is not everyone's experience. My IRQ and DMA assignments look similar to yours - the negative numbers and all, but it works now, with the newer config packages. philomena chronos wrote: To philomena and everyone- Okay so I got the emu10k1-20001013.tar.gz driver and yes I compiled it and installed it with no errors so far as I can see. I did tar xvzf emu10k1-20001013.tar.gz and it flew into action with no problems or errors. So I cd to emu10k1 and no problem there and issued the command 'make' and it flew through a whole slew of work for about a minute or so and didn`t see or encounter any errors. Then issued the command 'make install' and said permission denied so I changed to su and reisssued the command and it flew through the process no problems or errors that I could see. So I ran Lothar and it said that a sound card has already been configured so I just ignored it and ran the configuration anyways. It didnt give me any arguments at first then said that I have bad configuration settings. Which are as follows I/O -1 IRQ -1 DMA8 -1 DMA16/2 -1 MPU401I/O -1. So then how do I go about changing this to work with my linux box ? The card itself is a standard Creative Labs SB Live! nothing special, Linux detects it no problem. The bus type is PCI if that helps. Also box specs are as follows- 20 gig drive partioned 10 win98 se 10 Linux mandrake 7.0 pentiim 3 500mhz 128 ram sblive sound card svga video card gateway computer. Thank you, Chronos.
Re: [newbie] sb live! sound card
One more thing - if you search the expert mailing list archives using the string "SBLive! sound quality" you'll find very detailed instructions on how to get the card working with the alsa drivers - you may want to try that too. philomena chronos wrote: To philomena and everyone- Okay so I got the emu10k1-20001013.tar.gz driver and yes I compiled it and installed it with no errors so far as I can see. I did tar xvzf emu10k1-20001013.tar.gz and it flew into action with no problems or errors. So I cd to emu10k1 and no problem there and issued the command 'make' and it flew through a whole slew of work for about a minute or so and didn`t see or encounter any errors. Then issued the command 'make install' and said permission denied so I changed to su and reisssued the command and it flew through the process no problems or errors that I could see. So I ran Lothar and it said that a sound card has already been configured so I just ignored it and ran the configuration anyways. It didnt give me any arguments at first then said that I have bad configuration settings. Which are as follows I/O -1 IRQ -1 DMA8 -1 DMA16/2 -1 MPU401I/O -1. So then how do I go about changing this to work with my linux box ? The card itself is a standard Creative Labs SB Live! nothing special, Linux detects it no problem. The bus type is PCI if that helps. Also box specs are as follows- 20 gig drive partioned 10 win98 se 10 Linux mandrake 7.0 pentiim 3 500mhz 128 ram sblive sound card svga video card gateway computer. Thank you, Chronos.
Re: [newbie] How do I find which version of xfree86 do I have?
One way to find out - If you are running KDE, open the control center and click on information and then xserver - that should show you your version. philomena Paul wrote: It was Oct 7, 2000, 12:44, when Jeff Malka keyboarded: I am running Mandrake 7.1 and would like to install something (True Type Font support) that requires "xfree86 4". How do I find out if I have xfree86 4 ? If you downloaded and installed xfree86 4.0, you'd know it. It is LARGE. I don't believe it came with the 7.1 distro, but I am not certain (handed the cd's to someone to copy mdk, so I can't check). Paul -- The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. -Henny Youngman http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] installing a tar.gz app?
You have to uncompress the file - it will probably create a directory with the name of that app, i.e. /solar or something like that, with all its files underneath. Then you should follow the readme file to install. The command to use is: tar xvzf your_file.tar.gz without the :-) philomena Jeff Malka wrote: I downloaded an app (solar system) in the form of .tar.gz What do I have to do to install such an app? I only have installed rpm apps so far :-( -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush
I'm sure missing what this has to do with Mandrake or Linux - please follow your convictions offline, as you did say this list is not the place for this. I've only used filters to take out those annoying "on vacation" messages, but this just made it to the top of the heap. At 11:06 AM 9/28/2000 -0400, you wrote: Hugh, I take pleasure in responding to you publicly, despite the fact that I still don't think this list is the place for this conversation. I have no idea why kids kill each other, and I don't care that your school had a rifle range, your school was most likely segregated as well, that does not mean it was right, that means that is just the way it was. Personally I was shooting a .22 rifle when I was 13 years old at Boy Scout camp, does that mean I am going to go out and attack people with it. No. And I never implied that you would do the same. Things change, ideas change and society changes. You can't solve the problems of the present and future with ideas from the past, they don't work. They are simply outdated. I don't want to get rid of the second amendment at all, because the very thought that I may own a weapon keeps the idiots out of my house. However you should recognize that the amendment that grants the right to bear arms (the 2nd) included the provision only because the United States did not have a well armed militia ready for combat, and ready to defend the citizenry should the need arise to do so, therefore it was a requirement to bear arms in the 18th century. Do I want to take away your guns? No I do not. Do I want to take away guns from children, yes I do, do I think a mandatory 7 day federal waiting period should be required on firearms purchased? Yes I do. Do I think that people who allow access to firearms to minors should be subject to the same criminal punishment as the minor who committed the act? Yes I do. Do I think you need to have an automatic rifle to defend your home, or to hunt a wild animal? No I do not. Do I want to take "gun rights" away from people? No I do not. The bottom line is this, states control gun laws, not the federal government, in the state I live in (FL) it takes less time to buy a car than it does to purchase a weapon, granted both are equally as dangerous when not used with care. However the purpose of a car is simply transportation, that is not the case with a weapon. The federal government needs to handle gun registrations and gun laws, not the states. One of my problems with Bush arises from the fact that he has openly stated "that should be controlled by the states..not the federal government" on several occasions. This leads me to believe that he is going to take this stance on most cases where the states may be involved in a decision of law, and to me that means a weaker federal government. Of course the only ads or things I have heard him say are negative comments towards his opponent, and that also leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The Republican party has spent so much effort and so much time attempting to make the Democratic party look bad (and granted the Democratic party has played right into it with thoughtless acts) that they have weakened themselves by not developing any strong leaders in the party. After this happened they turned to Bush, he has money and he has his fathers credentials (which based on his Presidency, and the state of the economy when he left office) are shaky at best, still, he is their best candidate and rather than have him (or allowing him the freedom to display some leadership initiatives) to discuss issues they have him attack Gore at every turn on a morality bent. Granted Gore has made it easy with his unbelievably inept claims, such as the fact that he "invented the internet". But at least he is sticking with issues (for the most part) as opposed to attacking Bush at every turn with a dirty campaign. How do we fix the problems in this country? I think getting away from the electoral college would be a good start, at least it would be an attempt to get the special interest groups from controlling every election and might make our votes count. I have plenty of other ideas but I think I have rambled long enough, if you would like to share your views, or you would like hear more about what I have to say, please e-mail me privately and I will discuss them with you. Do you still think of me as puppet? Fritz - Original Message - From: hugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 10:20 AM Subject: Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush I must say I have never heard a line of like yours! Did you know your hero claims to have been in combat? Did you know he never was? Did you know that gun owners are not all puppets? But sir you sure do sound like one. Typical short term fix. Dont fix the problems you start. No way! Blame the tools. Your right! You sure are. Then tell me one thing, Why do kids kill each other? We had guns thrity years
Re: [newbie] Just one quick point
denis, where are you ?!?!? can a stop be put to this ?!?!?!??! newbie is becoming not worth it at all having to wade thru this nonsense ! At 09:54 AM 9/28/2000 -0500, you wrote: While we're on the subject of Bush and all, what's everyone's view of the Iraq sanctions? I work with Voices in the Wilderness (www.vitw.org) which is working to end the sanctions. I wouldn't mind seeing what people's opinions are. dave. On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, hugh wrote: I don't care who owns guns. The majority should never be allowed too. See it wasn't the gun issue that got me to write. Its the elitist bull that was posted. When you call others names, I get angry! I don't allow my daughter or niece to act that way.It shows how far down we as a country have come. I don't care who runs this country. But I wont put up with distortion of truth. If you cant offer suggestions to fix a problem Then you should keep your mouth shut. Home, work or at play! Maybe thats the problem! Parents don't want to take the time needed to raise there kids? But I will be damed if I will let a " Village" raise mine :) Or will I ever allow people who insult others to suggest how I can improve as a parent. -- --- David Lay : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop the Iraq Sanctions! http://www.vitw.org ---
RE: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh
Hi Paul, I realised that :-) you should be seeing a second mail from me soon saying I should have been more specific in my reply - I'm not at my linux machine so I can't check this out myself - I've never seen "dbrebuild" as an rpm command - only "rebuilddb" - what's the difference ? cheers, philomena At 08:56 PM 9/22/2000 +0100, you wrote: On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Philomena wrote: Yes, he did. He already wrote that he did. Perhaps the best way to do: download the new RPM, as Adam wrote below, from www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/RByName.html and then do the rpm --dbrebuild That could get something going. At least, I hope! Paul Did you do as the error message recommended and rebuild your RPM database ? philomena At 10:20 AM 9/22/2000 -0500, you wrote: Ok. I've loaded 4.0 version of rpm and I am still getting the error when trying to do rpm -Uvh filename.rpm "An rpm in db1 format exists in /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm. Please convert to db3 format by running "rpm --rebuilddb" as root. What is db1 and db3 format's? Thanks... Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/RByName.html look there, there should be new RPM's for Mandrake :P (*hint* i586) makes RPM browsing so much faster -- Do they ever shut up on your planet? http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
RE: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh
I'll have to track down my notes, but I also had to get updated drivers for my nvidia geforce 256 card - that did the trick for me to be able to run Q3. In Cooker, there are a few other 4.01 xfree RPMS - theres a XFree86-libs4.0.1, a devel rpm,docs, etc.. Maybe you should try installing or upgrading to 7.1 - is that an option for you ? if you do an expert install you have the option to install and start 4.01. I did that with the 7.2 beta and it worked out nicely. philomena At 01:55 PM 9/22/2000 -0500, you wrote: No problemo. Yeah, I reran the rebuild command again and same thing. You know I renamed the packages.rpm to packages.bak(don't know if I was supposed to do that or not) and tried running the rpm -Uvh and it told me that a bunch of dependiences failed. Are the dependiences that it is refering to in the packages.rpm. May I ask what specifically you had to do to upgrade to 4.01. I need 4.0.1 to be able to get full use out of my video card and to play quake 3. Thanks. joshs [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Philomena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 1:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh Sorry Josh - I should have been more specific and asked did you run the rebuild *again*, after you updated to the 4.0 version ? Does running kpackage or rpmdrake give the same database error ? I had upgraded to the 4.01 a little while ago and I was pretty sure there was more than one RPM to install, not that it should be causing the problem you are seeing . philomena At 10:20 AM 9/22/2000 -0500, you wrote: Ok. I've loaded 4.0 version of rpm and I am still getting the error when trying to do rpm -Uvh filename.rpm "An rpm in db1 format exists in /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm. Please convert to db3 format by running "rpm --rebuilddb" as root. What is db1 and db3 format's? Thanks... Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/RByName.html look there, there should be new RPM's for Mandrake :P (*hint* i586) makes RPM browsing so much faster - Original Message - From: "Josh Shirey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 8:41 AM Subject: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh Hi, I am running MD 7. I'm trying to update/install XFree86.4.0.1 as a single 15 meg rpm. I was told to do rpm -Uvh filename.rpm and I should be good to go but I an running into this error message and I don't know what to do next. The error message I'm getting is "An rpm in db1 format exists in /var/lib/rpm/parckages.rpm. Please convert to db3 format by running "rpm --rebuilddb" as root." I do the rpm --rebuilddb and it acts like it does something but when I go back and try rpm -Uvh filename.rpm it gives me the same error message. When i do a rpm -q I see that I am running version 3.0. Could the version of rpm I am running be my problem and if so how and where would I go to update my version of rpm for MD. Thanks... josh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] usefull? install info question
Hi Adrian, I believe the auto install disk is one you can use to execute the exact same Mandrake install which you just completed on another PC - useful if you're setting up multiple machines. However, I think it will use the entire harddrive of the other machines, i.e. wipe out any other OS on the drive. I recall seeing a post recently where someone did that, and didn't realize what the diskette would do. cheers, philomena At 07:40 AM 9/21/2000 -0600, you wrote: i just did a fresh install of 7.1 thought this information might be useful to somebody out there. i did all the packages, developer install with the extension x86 CD and then acrobat reader, compupic, iglooFTP, star office 5.2 and corel photo 9 the disk spaced used for all of this is: / 294M /home10M /usr 2G /var50M also, i did the expert install for the first time (instead of the custom) and it asked me to make a 'linux auto install' disk. i made one, but what exactly did i make? =) thanks all Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)
I fall into the "used to be a programmer and unfortunately fell up into management" type, but I still try to keep myself current. I'm curious also - what type of question during the install would you think is confounding to a new user ? It seems to me that every question during the installs at any level are clearly outlined in the documentation you get with the software. I doubt a new user would be downloading the distro from an FTP site, so I am guessing the package was purchased. Seemed to me that you can click on a few options and then go away and come back to find the OS just about installed. What do you see as being difficult ? cheers, philomena At 09:11 AM 9/20/2000 -0500, you wrote: Just curious, how many of y'all: * are programmer folk * are IT folk * are plain user folk Don't get me wrong, I really like Linux and hope it flourishes. And I'm not saying that Linux sucks in any way! But I'm just wondering because, without getting into a flame war, I'm surprised how bad the installation of Mandrake is. I got Mandrake because it was supposed to be the most friendly distribution to install and no doubt it's better than RedHat or Debian and for all intents and purpose it's a good installation process. But some of the questions the installer would ask were just confounding to a new user and the method that you select packages were a bit disconcerting. I know that Linux is not for the timid, but there seem to be just little things that could be changed to faciliate the whole "experience." I doubt a first time Linux user would click on Expert, the "psychology" of Linux seems a little wacked but I guess it's not an OS that's intended for the general population. Let me reiterate: Don't get me wrong, I really like Linux and hope it flourishes. And I'm not saying that Linux sucks in any way! -Original Message- From: patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 2:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps? On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, you wrote: Have you tried doing an expert install and selecting the applications yourself ? That way, you know exctly what you have installed on your system. cheers, philomena yea, theres about a thousand of em. have fun :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the few things I don't care for with Mandrake is the large number of apps it installs by default that are of little use to me. Couple this the seeming all or nothing selection process and the lack of documnetation (that I can find) on exactly what is included in the Misc category or not installed with the available percentage of options and I always wind up with a very cluttered menu stucture. I was wondering if the boxed set includes any more app selection information...if so it would certinly be worth the price to me. -- Paul Bary [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many ap ps?)
I think that sliding bar thing is explained more clearly in the install screen on 7.1 - I believe it has to do with ranking the system-importance of the packages you selected so that the install can make a decision on what to install and what to kick out if you don't have enough disk space. This is an odd thing and I guess it is trying to be helpful, but I don't think it succeeds completely. In 7.0 I think it was explained reasonably in the little install guide. If I needed to go back to some point in the install, which I needed to do a couple of times, I used the column of "lights" on the left and used that to navigate back to where I wanted to restart from. cheers, philomena At 10:04 AM 9/20/2000 -0500, you wrote: Specifically, what was mostly confusing was after I selected that various packages it asked me how many megabytes of the selected packages I wanted install with a slider bar to adjust the "level" I guess. I didn't get it at all -- because I don't know how many megabytes I want, all I knew was that I wanted packages A, B, and C. I just accepted the default and then it told me I might not get all the packages that I had selected. Also, and this is beside the point, there were areas during the install where I clicked the cancel button but it didn't back me out (I can't remember now, I think it was when I was setting up the network) and I had to turn off the machine and restart. I have 7.0 installed... -Original Message- From: Philomena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 9:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?) I fall into the "used to be a programmer and unfortunately fell up into management" type, but I still try to keep myself current. I'm curious also - what type of question during the install would you think is confounding to a new user ? It seems to me that every question during the installs at any level are clearly outlined in the documentation you get with the software. I doubt a new user would be downloading the distro from an FTP site, so I am guessing the package was purchased. Seemed to me that you can click on a few options and then go away and come back to find the OS just about installed. What do you see as being difficult ? cheers, philomena At 09:11 AM 9/20/2000 -0500, you wrote: Just curious, how many of y'all: * are programmer folk * are IT folk * are plain user folk Don't get me wrong, I really like Linux and hope it flourishes. And I'm not saying that Linux sucks in any way! But I'm just wondering because, without getting into a flame war, I'm surprised how bad the installation of Mandrake is. I got Mandrake because it was supposed to be the most friendly distribution to install and no doubt it's better than RedHat or Debian and for all intents and purpose it's a good installation process. But some of the questions the installer would ask were just confounding to a new user and the method that you select packages were a bit disconcerting. I know that Linux is not for the timid, but there seem to be just little things that could be changed to faciliate the whole "experience." I doubt a first time Linux user would click on Expert, the "psychology" of Linux seems a little wacked but I guess it's not an OS that's intended for the general population. Let me reiterate: Don't get me wrong, I really like Linux and hope it flourishes. And I'm not saying that Linux sucks in any way!
Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)
Yup, I'm sort of am assuming that if you know how to get to the FTP sites (even tucows), download and burn the ISO images, then the install of Mandrake couldn't be all that difficult. But, that is purely an assumption. I too downloaded a bunch of distros to try out, and most of my co-workers think I'm nuts ! philomena At 11:20 AM 9/20/2000 -0400, you wrote: Now you peaked my interest, why wouldn't a new user dwnload the ISO image from the ftp site? I dwnloaded and burned 6 different flavors of the Linux OS that I thought were worth giving a try. Unless you mean by new user "someone that is totally new to computers" Lyn At 10:28 AM 9/20/2000 -0400, you wrote: I fall into the "used to be a programmer and unfortunately fell up into management" type, but I still try to keep myself current. I'm curious also - what type of question during the install would you think is confounding to a new user ? It seems to me that every question during the installs at any level are clearly outlined in the documentation you get with the software. I doubt a new user would be downloading the distro from an FTP site, so I am guessing the package was purchased. Seemed to me that you can click on a few options and then go away and come back to find the OS just about installed. What do you see as being difficult ? cheers, philomena At 09:11 AM 9/20/2000 -0500, you wrote: Just curious, how many of y'all: * are programmer folk * are IT folk * are plain user folk Don't get me wrong, I really like Linux and hope it flourishes. And I'm not saying that Linux sucks in any way! But I'm just wondering because, without getting into a flame war, I'm surprised how bad the installation of Mandrake is. I got Mandrake because it was supposed to be the most friendly distribution to install and no doubt it's better than RedHat or Debian and for all intents and purpose it's a good installation process. But some of the questions the installer would ask were just confounding to a new user and the method that you select packages were a bit disconcerting. I know that Linux is not for the timid, but there seem to be just little things that could be changed to faciliate the whole "experience." I doubt a first time Linux user would click on Expert, the "psychology" of Linux seems a little wacked but I guess it's not an OS that's intended for the general population. Let me reiterate: Don't get me wrong, I really like Linux and hope it flourishes. And I'm not saying that Linux sucks in any way! -Original Message- From: patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 2:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps? On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, you wrote: Have you tried doing an expert install and selecting the applications yourself ? That way, you know exctly what you have installed on your system. cheers, philomena yea, theres about a thousand of em. have fun :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the few things I don't care for with Mandrake is the large number of apps it installs by default that are of little use to me. Couple this the seeming all or nothing selection process and the lack of documnetation (that I can find) on exactly what is included in the Misc category or not installed with the available percentage of options and I always wind up with a very cluttered menu stucture. I was wondering if the boxed set includes any more app selection information...if so it would certinly be worth the price to me. -- Paul Bary [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)
ah.. to be 15... :-) and its not possible to be a total failure at that age - nor at any age ! I think you're doing fine - just calm down, chill and take a dp breath and you'll be able to tackle your display problem. You haven't had fun yet until you get the huge white cursor that takes up 3/4 of your screen :-D cheers, philomena p.s. I have a stuffed penguin too - given to me by a friend who conned it out of the linuxmall people at the linux expo in nyc last Feb At 05:12 AM 9/21/2000 +1200, you wrote: But I'm just wondering because, without getting into a flame war, I'm surprised how bad the installation of Mandrake is. i'm a 15 year old with no experience whatsoever with anything but windows (unless you count the array of prehistoric apples i played with at school as a child) , and i managed to install linux on my second try, with only a cursory glance through the documentation... i have no doubt that it would have been on my first try, had partitionmagic not read the free space on one of my existing partitions as a separate partition... that threw me into vast amounts of confusion for about half an hour, and i dithered with diskdruid for another half hour, before trying fdisk and finding it much easier. i confess i impulse-bought mandrake a few weeks ago... the macmillan 6.5 distro; the only linux i've ever seen offered for sale in my little corner of new zealand. i saw it and simply had to have it, being a wannabe geek. since then i've realised just how out-dated it is, but i suppose i'll have to make do until i figure out how to update it... which will probably take quite some time, as i haven't gotten much beyond setting up kppd (although not correctly; i messed up the dns settings, or whatever they're called -- i never seem to know the right terms for things). this lack of progress can generally be attributed to the fact that when i was installing x-windows, it refused to accept settings other than 400x600 in 8-bit colour, and with a desktop like that, i can't even see whole popup windows. i resolved to do something about it, but haven't actually *done* that something yet, because the thought of exposing myself to those settings again is enough to make me turn a pale shade of green and flee the room... that and i've been busy writing a book, doing early spring-cleaning, planning a trip to america and suffering from influenza. but as soon as i have time, i *swear* i'm going to learn linux. then, *maybe*, i'll upgrade myself from wannabe geek, to geek-in-training... the duchess. p.s. i have the wardrobe, though! six t-shirts from thinkgeek.com! and i have a stuffed penguin! and i devour slashdot upon a daily basis... oh, god, *please* tell me i'm not a total failure and i have the makings of a "real" linux user...!!
Re: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?
Have you tried doing an expert install and selecting the applications yourself ? That way, you know exctly what you have installed on your system. cheers, philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the few things I don't care for with Mandrake is the large number of apps it installs by default that are of little use to me. Couple this the seeming all or nothing selection process and the lack of documnetation (that I can find) on exactly what is included in the Misc category or not installed with the available percentage of options and I always wind up with a very cluttered menu stucture. I was wondering if the boxed set includes any more app selection information...if so it would certinly be worth the price to me. -- Paul Bary [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] remove from the list
I guess you must have missed the hundreds of other messages asking the same thing, and the thousands of responses (well, perhaps I exaggerate a bit) go back to where you subscribed (in the mailing list section on the Mandrake homepage) and follow the directions philomena At 12:19 PM 9/13/00 -0500, you wrote: If there is another way than this to remove myself from this list can someone please let me know. Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Marshall Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 11:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Learning Linux? "Daniel J. Ferris" wrote: Three methods I found: While I would agree with your methods to some extent, I'd modify them just a wee bit. 1. Loose X windows for a little while and learn some command line This is where I disagree. There is nothing better when learning than to have 2-3 xterms open. One holds man page lookups, the other the actual working commandline and a thirdjust in case. It's sortof an analog to the days when I had a commandline and a whole bunch of manuals open on the desk :-) 2. Take a class :-) 3. Buy lots of books and learn to use man A good start on the books would be Running Linux and Linux in a Nutshell, both by O'Reilly press. Linux in a Nutshell is the best reference around and the other one provides some good insights into how Linux works and why. A fourth "method" I'd add to your list is "Don't forget everything you know about Windows." I know that's probably heresy here but I'm watching two Linux newbies now and if they'd just think, "What would I do if I were in Windows?" they'd be less confused about some of the stuff. If you view /mnt/windows as equal to C:, it's not so wierd to have to either click on an icon to get there or cd /mnt/windows to get there. But one of my newbies asked me what the difference between these two were and yet he's comfortable at the DOS prompt as well as on the Windows desktop. In short, yes, Linux does a lot of things different from the way Windows does them (and better too) but file handling and stuff like that is very similar. Hmmm...I'll add a fifth method. If you're coming from Windows and run into a problem with Linux, ask "Do I know how this is handled in Windows" before you start chasing your tail. Don't accept an answer like "I just run CD Creator." Rather, using that example, when you start trying to write to your CD-writer, ask "Do I know how CDs are written under Windows?", "Do I know the difference between CD-RW and CD-R writes?", "Do I know what is going happens when I answer that question at the end of CD-Creator where it asks me whether I want the CD-R closed or not?". If you can answer yes to these kinds of questions under Linux, it's a simple matter of finding the analog tools under Linux. If you can't, you need to read some about the actual process. This "fifth method" helps send you down the right road. Cheers --- Larry Look at me, I still don't know that much even after 2 years :-) Dan
Re: [newbie] DSL setup
Use DrakConf - there should be a network configuration button in there
to use.
philomena
Richard Garand wrote:
I finally got my network card working, but when i run licq, it tries to
contact the server, and has a DNS error ("can't resolve
icq.mirabilis.com"?). I know my IP address, my subnet mask, my primary and
secondary DNS servers, my search domain or domain suffix and my default
gateway address. Where do i put all this in the network config from the
mandrake configuration program?
Re: [newbie] OT: Ulysses?
um, Mark - I think Damien was referencing the "Ulysses" name, not "beta" :-) , hence the literary hint of the Irish author James Joyce who wrote "Ulysses" cheers, philomena At 01:44 PM 9/5/00 -0400, you wrote: um...how old are you? :| Beta is the second letter of the "greek"...or is that "geek" alhpabet. Mark Damien Mc Kenna wrote: Pardon the OTness of this, but does anyone know if the beta title comes Greek mythology, or from the fact that there's an Irish bloke working at Mdk? -- Damien Mc Kenna, Paraprofessional The Computer Institute, 100 Waldon Blvd., Sanford, FL 32773 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 407-328-4722 x3397
[newbie] 7.2 beta
Anyone having luck installing the 7.2 beta ? I haven't been able to get it to boot yet. philomena
Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta
I managed to get 7.2 to boot - I had to disable mon from starting up, which is sort of odd. Can't get 7.2 to properly boot one of my other Linux partitions - still working on that. But its a start. philomena Charles A Edwards wrote: - Original Message - From: "philomena" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 10:09 AM Subject: [newbie] 7.2 beta Anyone having luck installing the 7.2 beta ? I haven't been able to get it to boot yet. philomena I have it installed on 2 systems. One dual boots with Win98SE and the other with Win2000. The install seemed to take longer propor. than 7.1 but all OSes boot fine on both machines. And before any one comments I have a 3rd system on which I run 7.1 and BeOS. I'm just "testing" 7.2 on the other machines. Charles
Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta
Here's the announcement page: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72beta1.php3 cheers, philomena patrick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reasons i avoid betas and alphas, their more of a pain then the finished bug! can anybody give us some idea of the differences on 7.2 beta thanks pat
Re: [newbie] About comments for the unsubscribing one
actually, I think it was Mel Gibson's character (William Wallace) in Braveheart.. philomena Mark Weaver wrote: Jay "Every man dies, not every man really lives." Didn't Spock say this on one of the Star Trek movies? -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496
Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!
rtfm = "read the f#*@ing manual" ! :-D philomena patrick wrote: On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote: Kathleen Dickason wrote: patrick wrote: Kathleen Dickason wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: back up BACK UP BACK UP DIDNT YOUR MOTHER TEACH YOU ANYTHING! linux likes to total windows on an install that and you should make sure you are very careful installing with the options they give, i had to go with the auto install because if i hadnt then sianara windows No need to shout, nor to overgeneralize. Kathleen yea, dint u momma teach u anthing..from Don Henley , his latest release :) Funny, I didn't remember the Linux lyric. Kathleen The Linux lyric has the words, "RTFM", in it. ;) -- Carroll Grigsby u seem to have lost me and yet im spellbound. what is rtfm mean :)
Re: [newbie] HardDrake dependency
Hi Dennis, You can get that from the HardDrake site http://www.linux-mandrake.com/harddrake/download.html cheers, philomena Dennis Myers wrote: Hi folks, I d/l'd the new version of Harddrake and then tried to install. I was able to take care of all of the dependencies but one. It needs "detect" , what ever that is. Does anyone know what it is looking for? Thanks for the help, Dennis -- Dennis a registered linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] umm i have no sound!!
You should also open kmixer (or whichever mixer app you prefer) and make sure your speaker volume is turned up, as well as CD volume - these are often set very low by default - CD volume sometimes is off completely. cheers, philomena Ed Santiago wrote: root wrote: Well it appears as if the install worked fine except that my sound card doesn't work. I have no idea what could be wrong with it as this is the first time i have ever worked with linux... please someone i need some help! - Stickus - Log on as root and in a shell type /usr/sbin/sndconfig then follow the instructions
Re: [newbie] ESS Audio still not working
I think the command is "sndconfig", not "soundconfig" cheers, philomena "Julio C. Gutierrez" wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: I have already tried both ways and when I go on the console and type soundconfig it gives me a coomand not found message, is there anything else I can try Thanks for your help! Are you sure it is not working? I mean, have you enabled system sounds in KDE and turned up the volume for CD players? I'm not sure how to enable sounds in gnome if that is the desktop you are using. Check in KDE control center to see if system sounds is enabled. And click on the small speaker icon on the task bar to see where the volume is set. If you have already done these things, I would go to Konsole and "su" and type in " soundconfig" and try configuring that way. "Julio C. Gutierrez" wrote: Hi everyone, I recently installed Mandrake 7.1 and it works terrific, with one exeption, My Ess sound card that is supposed to be compatible doesnot work, and it was working under windoze before, so my question is: is there anything I can do or is there any new or current drivers for linux? your help will be appreciated Thank you! -- Dennis a registered linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] RPM problem thanx
this isn't answering your command line question, but what you described about how you thought kpackage should work via the GUI is exactly how it works for me - I download the RPM file, click on it once, kpackage pops up and I click on the Install button - if it yells at me about dependancies, I fix those, and then all is fine - works like a charm for me. I'm not sure where the file type-executable associations are set up - I'm sure someone else can answer that and then maybe you will have more luck with the gui. cheers, philomena (different "phil"!) Adrian Smith wrote: first off, thanks to Phil, Greg Joseph for answers to my last question. my brain hadn't quite realized that suffixes do not decide if a file is executable or not. maybe i can make some progress now=) or maybe not -- for my next question: i'm trying to install a RPM file from the command line (ok is it just me or are RPMDrake Kpackage lame. if i'm going to install a RPM from the GUI why can't i just browse the tree, find the RPM i want to install and click on it or something. both of these programs just confuse me. of course, actually i'm quite happy with a command line -- so there) anyhowz, when i type "RPM -i filename.rpm" i get back: "no such file or directory" yet when i do "ls" the file is quite certainly there. i tried using the whole file name with extension i matched the case still no dice. could this have something to do with permissions? but if i am root, permissions woudn't matter right? can't root go anyplace do anything? any thoughts? thanks much Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] app like Adobe Photoshop/photodeluxe
Hi all, does anyone know of any apps that have the bells and whistles for manipulating photos and digital images as does the Adobe packages ? I've started doing some work retouching old B/W images, but would prefer porting it all over to the linux side. thanks, philomena
RE: [newbie] app like Adobe Photoshop/photodeluxe
Thanks to all who replied - its great to be able to try out these packages without having to pay the $600 (!!!) price tag for the latest version of Photoshop for Win - another reason I want to port this work to linux ! Cheers, philomena At 02:59 PM 8/23/00 -0600, you wrote: Hi Philomena. The package is The Gimp (www.gimp.org). At first it feels a little bit awkwards but after a while you get the hang of it. Regards. Hugo -Original Message- From: Philomena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] app like Adobe Photoshop/photodeluxe Hi all, does anyone know of any apps that have the bells and whistles for manipulating photos and digital images as does the Adobe packages ? I've started doing some work retouching old B/W images, but would prefer porting it all over to the linux side. thanks, philomena
Re: Undeliverable: Re: [newbie] Lost passwords
Yup - I get one of those everytime I post .. philomena Gary wrote: Why have I been getting these messages for the past several days. My post does get to the newbie group, but I always get this bounce. Anybody else get these? -- Regards Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lost passwords Sent:Sun, 20 Aug 2000 05:26:07 +0100 did not reach the following recipient(s): [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 20 Aug 2000 05:31:10 +0100 The recipient name is not recognized The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=US;a= ;p=NTDOMAIN1;l=NTSERVER 10008200431QXLLCM7Y MSEXCH:IMS:NTDOMAIN1:NTSERVER1:NTSERVER1 0 (000C05A6) Unknown Recipient
Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster Live! Configuration Issues
You could try downloading the latest verison of HardDrake - it will require a an updated kernel, alsa, (both from the Mandrake update site) and and a few other packages - I also got the latest version of the emu10k1 driver from creative labs - after I did that, the card worked like a charm. Some people get their SBLive! Value card working right away just by configuring with sndconfig - thst didn't work for me - I had to do the upgrading. cheers, philomena Guy and Jeanne Bergeson wrote: I have installed Mandrake 7.1 in a dual boot configuration on a Gateway computer running a 550 MHz P3. The sound card I have is a SoundBlaster Live! There is some incompatiblity between what windows wants and what Linux wants. Windows seems to need the digital output and Linux seems to need the analog output. In addition when I attempt to configure the soundcard I get the following: Error in play call! Sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp'. No such device Also on shutdown I get a fail on the Aux Mixer line. Is this just a driver issue? Have I missed something in the install and configuration? Guy Bergeson
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