Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved
On Friday 02 February 2001 05:26 pm, regarding Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved, you said: Hey, I've never seen 'em change by anything or anybody but the USER ; BTW what happened to my fonts? when i opened this post i am all of a sudden getting those giant dotted letters? but only in the kmail body, not any of the headers. While I can't address your bios thing, this bit is something I'd dealt with often in kmail. A little history: For years, when using shell accounts I'd got to know pine pretty well liked it. When I'd had done with Windows as any more than a gaming platform installed RedHat 6.0 (I'd been using RH 5.0 for a while on two boxes as a secondary OS), I used pine. But RedHat does some odd things sometimes I suddenly couldn't get pine to read the mail headers any longer (pine takes mail in whatever folder reformats the headers for its own purposes -- except it was no longer able to do that no matter what I'd done). In any case, I'd turned to kmail, as I have more than one mail account on more than one mail server. Well, the kmail which is with kde 1.0 (or is that 1.1?) really had some problems -- fonts only one of them. I'd even upgraded to kde 1.2 tried kmail there. Everything was going OK but occasionally would wind up with huge fonts. I finally got fed up with the little problems when any e-mail with pgp signatures would lock up X. I've not bothered since installing lm7.2 trying kmail since pine is doing fine. But I really have no desire to deal with it any longer anyway. Meph I'm into KDE 2.1 now, but I really appreciate your input as I have been wanting to play with Pine for some time now. I just found the user friendliness of Kmail setup appealing. Pine seemed to be a bit more esoteric. Do you know of a good howto on it? -- -michael-
Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved
I'm into KDE 2.1 now, but I really appreciate your input as I have been wanting to play with Pine for some time now. I just found the user friendliness of Kmail setup appealing. Pine seemed to be a bit more esoteric. Do you know of a good howto on it? Hmm. Not really. But there's extensive help included with it -- most anything, such as in the setup, only needs to be highlighted you hit ? to get more info. Go ahead open it up, keep an eye on the status lines at the bottom for different commands to enter, go to Setup, choose Config (at the opening menu, do s then c enter some info. You may want to take a look at a page on one of my sites which is mostly about setting up pine fetchmail: http://Aeon-AL.Com/LinuxHelp.html There's all sorts of other stuff I've put there so I don't easily lose it, it should get you up running. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved
On Friday 02 February 2001 00:01, concerningRe: [newbie] Emergency...solved, you wrote: On Thursday 01 February 2001 11:30 am, -michael- wrote: Somehow my bios values were changed...I reset them and its ok again. Well, for some of us that might'a missed it was it a _USER_ error, hardware, or Mandrake that caused the emergency ; Tom, I honestly don't know- all I know is that my bios settings were changed...what preceded it was several attempts to boot, all aborted by me when the 'eth0' interface was unable to be brought up due to some problem probably with my isp. anyway, about the 4th time i aborted with control-alt del, it wouldn't get any farther than recognizing my main hd and then it would start 01010101ing across the screen. BTW what happened to my fonts? when i opened this post i am all of a sudden getting those giant dotted letters? but only in the kmail body, not any of the headers. -- -michael-
Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved
On Friday 02 February 2001 06:33 am, regarding Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved, you said: On Friday 02 February 2001 00:01, concerningRe: [newbie] Emergency...solved, you wrote: On Thursday 01 February 2001 11:30 am, -michael- wrote: Somehow my bios values were changed...I reset them and its ok again. Well, for some of us that might'a missed it was it a _USER_ error, hardware, or Mandrake that caused the emergency ; Tom, I honestly don't know- all I know is that my bios settings were changed...what preceded it was several attempts to boot, all aborted by me when the 'eth0' interface was unable to be brought up due to some problem probably with my isp. anyway, about the 4th time i aborted with control-alt del, it wouldn't get any farther than recognizing my main hd and then it would start 01010101ing across the screen. BTW what happened to my fonts? when i opened this post i am all of a sudden getting those giant dotted letters? but only in the kmail body, not any of the headers. I logged out as user, back in as root and the font prob vanished. -- -michael-
Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved
Tom, I honestly don't know- all I know is that my bios settings were changed...what preceded it was several attempts to boot, all aborted by me when the 'eth0' interface was unable to be brought up due to some problem probably with my isp. Sounds familiar... it took me months to work out that my computer lost its network when the isp was down... Now I have stuck in a router, so that the Linux computer has less to worry about ;-) Rgds Martin
Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved
On Friday 02 February 2001 09:33 am, -michael- wrote: was it a _USER_ error, hardware, or Mandrake that caused the emergency ; Tom, I honestly don't know- all I know is that my bios settings were changed... I've never seen 'em change by anything or anybody but the USER ; BTW what happened to my fonts? when i opened this post i am all of a sudden getting those giant dotted letters? but only in the kmail body, not any of the headers. Mea culpa, and thanks for pointing it out. I just compiled/ installed a new kernel, and forgot to check my default charset setting. Another USER error ; -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved
Hey, I've never seen 'em change by anything or anybody but the USER ; BTW what happened to my fonts? when i opened this post i am all of a sudden getting those giant dotted letters? but only in the kmail body, not any of the headers. While I can't address your bios thing, this bit is something I'd dealt with often in kmail. A little history: For years, when using shell accounts I'd got to know pine pretty well liked it. When I'd had done with Windows as any more than a gaming platform installed RedHat 6.0 (I'd been using RH 5.0 for a while on two boxes as a secondary OS), I used pine. But RedHat does some odd things sometimes I suddenly couldn't get pine to read the mail headers any longer (pine takes mail in whatever folder reformats the headers for its own purposes -- except it was no longer able to do that no matter what I'd done). In any case, I'd turned to kmail, as I have more than one mail account on more than one mail server. Well, the kmail which is with kde 1.0 (or is that 1.1?) really had some problems -- fonts only one of them. I'd even upgraded to kde 1.2 tried kmail there. Everything was going OK but occasionally would wind up with huge fonts. I finally got fed up with the little problems when any e-mail with pgp signatures would lock up X. I've not bothered since installing lm7.2 trying kmail since pine is doing fine. But I really have no desire to deal with it any longer anyway. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Emergency? Solved
On Thursday 01 February 2001 12:44 am, regarding [newbie] Emergency?, you
said:
If anyone can tell, the ip from which this comes is different than
usual.
Hence my apparent emergency.
I tried to turn on my main computer , running Mandrake 7.2 with KDE 2.1
Beta2,
earlier tonight...well, alright, several times over the past few hours.
Now I can't get by "Verifying DMI pool data".
The next line begins an unending full screen matrix of {01 01}.
The clock ( I *can* enter setup of BIOS) now reads 01/01 for a date, and
as of an hour or so ago apparently reset to this date.
I initially feared hardware...if it is and someone has seen something
like it please let me know.
Else does anyone have any ideas as to how to get to my hard drives on
the "broken" box?.
Thank you in advance!
--
-michael-
Thanks to my emergency boot disk!
--
-michael-
[newbie] Emergency...solved
Somehow my bios values were changed...I reset them and its ok again. -- -michael-
