Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-11-10 Thread ali tig
i don't know my monitor is recent or not. but it could be. my monitor is LG Flatron F900B. but after installation it's working very well.There must be another problem!

AliRob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 07 November 2004 1:59 am, ali tig wrote: dear rob, i solved the problem. it result from my LG Flatron Monitor. when the installation, i take out the Monitor's cable, and then press the enter, after that i put on the cable to the machine againe. then the problem solved. now i'm trying to upgrade and discover my new mandrake :-)Interesting. I have never heard of that problem before. Is the monitor too recent to be used by linux? Rob-- Mountlake Terrace, WAUSAWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comJoin the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
	
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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-11-10 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:06:55 -0800 (PST)
ali tig disseminated the following:

 i don't know my monitor is recent or not. but it could be. my monitor is LG
 Flatron F900B. but after installation it's working very well. There must be
 another problem!

There's actually 3 that I can see.

1. Line wrap

2. HTML

3. Top posting

http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette

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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-11-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 07 Nov 2004 19:02, Rob Blomquist wrote:
 On Sunday 07 November 2004 1:59 am, ali tig wrote:
  dear rob,
  i solved the problem. it result from my LG Flatron Monitor. when the
  installation, i take out the Monitor's cable, and then press the enter,
  after that i put on the cable to the machine againe. then the problem
  solved. now i'm trying to upgrade and discover my new mandrake :-)

 Interesting. I have never heard of that problem before. Is the monitor too
 recent to be used by linux?

I never tried that solution, but I did have similar symptoms on an Iiyama 
monitor.  IIRC I could start in failsafe, and from there I could change the 
monitor setup.  I think it was trying to start in 24-bit mode, but it worked 
perfectly in 16-bit mode.  I had to do this twice, though, because the first 
time I ran 'test' which seemed to bork things.  The second time I just saved 
the settings without testing and it accepted them.  I've had no problems at 
all since then.

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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-11-07 Thread ali tig
dear rob,
i solved the problem. it result from my LG Flatron Monitor. when the installation, i take out the Monitor's cable, and then press the enter, after that i put on the cable to the machine againe. then the problem solved. now i'm trying to upgrade and discover my new mandrake :-)

Aliali tig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

i have mandrake 10.0 64 bit. i bought it from the mandrake store a few weeks ago.
i will try to send the massage.

AliRob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 31 October 2004 12:02 am, ali tig wrote: dear carroll, my system is below. Asus K8V deluxe motherboard AMD 64 processor ATI Rodeon 9800 pro 1 GB ram 2*120 GB SATA harddisk(one of them for windows xp pro)The other thing that we need to see is what happens at boot to stop X from running when the system bootsAnother thing you could do is attach a copy of /var/log/messages to an email and send it to me, or someone else (it might be a bit big for the list) and we can look it over and send the revalent part to the list, which will problem get you up and running.Your system can probably run Linux without problem. Are you running Mandrake for 64 bit, or standard?Rob-- Mountlake Terrace, WAUSAWant
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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-11-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 07 November 2004 1:59 am, ali tig wrote:
 dear rob,
 i solved the problem. it result from my LG Flatron Monitor. when the
 installation, i take out the Monitor's cable, and then press the enter,
 after that i put on the cable to the machine againe. then the problem
 solved. now i'm trying to upgrade and discover my new mandrake :-)

Interesting. I have never heard of that problem before. Is the monitor too 
recent to be used by linux? 

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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-11-01 Thread ali tig
i have mandrake 10.0 64 bit. i bought it from the mandrake store a few weeks ago.
i will try to send the massage.

AliRob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 31 October 2004 12:02 am, ali tig wrote: dear carroll, my system is below. Asus K8V deluxe motherboard AMD 64 processor ATI Rodeon 9800 pro 1 GB ram 2*120 GB SATA harddisk(one of them for windows xp pro)The other thing that we need to see is what happens at boot to stop X from running when the system bootsAnother thing you could do is attach a copy of /var/log/messages to an email and send it to me, or someone else (it might be a bit big for the list) and we can look it over and send the revalent part to the list, which will problem get you up and running.Your system can probably run Linux without problem. Are you running Mandrake for 64 bit, or standard?Rob-- Mountlake Terrace, WAUSAWant
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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...O.T.

2004-11-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 01 November 2004 21:25, ali tig wrote:
 i will try to send the massage.

heehaw, this is inspector Clouseau's comeback, wonderful;-D
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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-10-31 Thread ali tig
dear carroll, my system is below.

Asus K8V deluxe motherboard
AMD 64 processor
ATI Rodeon 9800 pro
1 GB ram
2*120 GB SATA harddisk(one of them for windows xp pro)Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 30 October 2004 05:48 pm, ali tig wrote: hello everybody, i'm very newbie about mandrake10.0. i installed the mandrake linux afew hours ago. but it started in text mode. can you help me how can i start the kde (or gnome) in text mode?  i tried the "startx" but it doesen't work.  i'm waiting your help. Ali TIGAli:WIthout knowing more about your system (cpu, RAM, motherboard, video card, etc), trying to answer your question is all but impossible.-- cmgWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comJoin the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-10-31 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 31 October 2004 12:02 am, ali tig wrote:
 dear carroll, my system is below.

 Asus K8V deluxe motherboard
 AMD 64 processor
 ATI Rodeon 9800 pro
 1 GB ram
 2*120 GB SATA harddisk(one of them for windows xp pro)

The other thing that we need to see is what happens at boot to stop X from 
running when the system boots

Another thing you could do is attach a copy of /var/log/messages to an email 
and send it to me, or someone else (it might be a bit big for the list) and 
we can look it over and send the revalent part to the list, which will 
problem get you up and running.

Your system can probably run Linux without problem. Are you running Mandrake 
for 64 bit, or standard?

Rob

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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-10-30 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:48:28 -0700 (PDT)
ali tig disseminated the following:

 hello everybody,
 i'm very newbie about mandrake10.0.
 i installed the mandrake linux afew hours ago. but it started in text mode.
 can you help me how can i start the kde (or gnome) in text mode?
  
 i tried the startx but it doesen't work.

What error messages do you get from 'startx'?

Did you configure X during installation (the 'summary' screen, IIRC)?

What happens if you just log in and type 'kde'?

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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-10-30 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 08:48, ali tig wrote:
 hello everybody,
 i'm very newbie about mandrake10.0.
 i installed the mandrake linux afew hours ago. but it started in text
 mode.
 can you help me how can i start the kde (or gnome) in text mode?
  
 i tried the startx but it doesen't work.
  
 i'm waiting your help.
 Ali TIG

If X11/XOrg is not starting, then there is a problem either with your
video driver, or the monitor settings; what I would recommend is that
you make sure you know what monitor you have (and it's settings) along
with what video card you have; login to the system as root, and once
logged in, run XFdrake; make all the necessary changes (and test them);
once that is done, you should be able to reboot the system and login to
whichever desktop you so desire (or what you have installed).

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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-10-30 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 09:28, JoeHill wrote:
 On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:48:28 -0700 (PDT)
 ali tig disseminated the following:
 
  hello everybody,
  i'm very newbie about mandrake10.0.
  i installed the mandrake linux afew hours ago. but it started in text mode.
  can you help me how can i start the kde (or gnome) in text mode?
   
  i tried the startx but it doesen't work.
 
 What error messages do you get from 'startx'?
 
 Did you configure X during installation (the 'summary' screen, IIRC)?
 
 What happens if you just log in and type 'kde'?

I think one of the main errors he's getting is when he tries to run
startx that it says:

JoeHill error: unable to locate any screams.
(g)
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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-10-30 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 31 October 2004 00:44, Stephen Kühn wrote:

snip
 I think one of the main errors he's getting is when he tries to
 run startx that it says:

 JoeHill error: unable to locate any screams.
 (g)
/snip

Careful, Stephen.

The week is just 1 hour old (at least here, where we carry our heads  
upwards), and the quota for zinging Joe is 10 zings per week for 
the list as a whole, remember ?  

Ref.: The list etiquette.

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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-10-30 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 09:53, Kaj Haulrich wrote:

  JoeHill error: unable to locate any screams.
  (g)
 /snip
 
 Careful, Stephen.
 
 The week is just 1 hour old (at least here, where we carry our heads  
 upwards), and the quota for zinging Joe is 10 zings per week for 
 the list as a whole, remember ?  
 
 Ref.: The list etiquette.
 
 Kaj Haulrich.

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(at least me gots the foist one!)

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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-10-30 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:04, Stephen Kühn wrote:
 On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 09:53, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
   JoeHill error: unable to locate any screams.
   (g)
 
  /snip
 
  Careful, Stephen.
 
  The week is just 1 hour old (at least here, where we carry our
  heads upwards), and the quota for zinging Joe is 10 zings per
  week for the list as a whole, remember ?
 
  Ref.: The list etiquette.
 
  Kaj Haulrich.

 Fergot that thar rule. Solly cholly.
 (at least me gots the foist one!)

Sorry, Stephen... forgot the daylight savings time.

You got the last one this week.

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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-10-30 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:44:18 +1100
Stephen Kühn disseminated the following:

   i tried the startx but it doesen't work.
  
  What error messages do you get from 'startx'?
  
  Did you configure X during installation (the 'summary' screen, IIRC)?
  
  What happens if you just log in and type 'kde'?
 
 I think one of the main errors he's getting is when he tries to run
 startx that it says:
 
 JoeHill error: unable to locate any screams.

Ya, ya, and I bet all his problems would be solved by 'urpmi xfce4' ;-)

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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-10-30 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 30 October 2004 05:48 pm, ali tig wrote:
 hello everybody,
 i'm very newbie about mandrake10.0.
 i installed the mandrake linux afew hours ago. but it started in text mode.
 can you help me how can i start the kde (or gnome) in text mode?
  
 i tried the startx but it doesen't work.
  
 i'm waiting your help.
 Ali TIG

Ali:
WIthout knowing more about your system (cpu, RAM, motherboard, video card, 
etc), trying to answer your question is all but impossible.

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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-10-30 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 30 October 2004 04:24 pm, JoeHill wrote:
| On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:44:18 +1100
|
|
|  JoeHill error: unable to locate any screams.
|
| Ya, ya, and I bet all his problems would be solved by 'urpmi xfce4' ;-)

No, but #urpme JoeHillwould do the job.

just kiddin' Joe

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Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-10-30 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:00:49 -0700
Erylon Hines disseminated the following:

 No, but #urpme JoeHillwould do the job.

Good thing my wife doesn't know that one...

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RE: [newbie] HELP, HElP: emergency recovery needed urgently

2001-11-01 Thread Franki

WEll, I don't know the solution to your problem for sure,

I have never upgraded a kernel, I always install it beside the old one, so
that if something goes wrong, I can still
boot the old one.. that is the recommended way of doing things..


if it was me, in your case, I would boot from the Cdrom, and try to upgrade
the kernel... using upgrade instead of install..

I have heard that may work.. or you could try copying the boot kernel  from
your cd into your boot directory on your hard drive and try to get it up
that way.. (you'd have to edit your boot manager as well, so that it calls
the rigth kernel.)
I have heard that that can work as well.

but if you just want to retrieve info.. boot from you mandrake CD, then
mount the partition that has the data you want on it,

it could be hda hdb hdc or hdd and any of the partition numbers, like hda1
or hdb3 it depends on how you originally installed mandrake, if you only
have one hard drive, it will most likely be hda,,,so if it was hda1 you
would type:

mkdir /mnt/drivedir  mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/drivedir

you can add the fs system type to that as well, but it may not be
necessary..

keep trying partitions till you find the one you want..

once its mounted, you can copy data of it to floppy, or another hard disk if
you want to.. I have done this many times..

usually when I want data of an old hard drive when I have upgraded.



rgds

Frank


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Subject: [newbie] HELP, HElP: emergency recovery needed urgently


Hi everyone:

I updated kernel 2.4.7 from 2.4.3 in M8. after updating and rebooting
system froze while trying to load second stage booting (i guess). it
stays here and does do anything else.  I checked in MUO. it says to run
rescue from CD (i don't have a floopy boot disk). But i am sure what to
do after that. Very important files in hard drive that I must not lose.

Please, HELP!!!

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Re: [newbie] HELP, HElP: emergency recovery needed urgently

2001-11-01 Thread Paul

In reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s words, written Thu, 01 Nov 2001 11:41:50
-0800

A proper upgrade should leave 2.4.3. on disk. Can't you see that in lilo/grub
when booting?
Paul

I updated kernel 2.4.7 from 2.4.3 in M8. after updating and rebooting
system froze while trying to load second stage booting (i guess). it
stays here and does do anything else.  I checked in MUO. it says to run
rescue from CD (i don't have a floopy boot disk). But i am sure what to
do after that. Very important files in hard drive that I must not lose.


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RE: [newbie] HELP! HELP! Restoring LM7.2 desktop

2001-08-01 Thread Franki

try putting a file called:

.xinitrc

in your user directory
in that file put one word and save it...


that word should be:

startkde


then try it again...


rgds


Frank

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Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2001 5:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] HELP! HELP! Restoring LM7.2 desktop


Third try -- maybe *that* subject line will get someone to answer. :)

On Sunday I had a system-lockup event followed by a hard-reset (didn't
know what else to do).

Now my default LM7.2 login screen and desktop is gone, replaced by KDE
IceWM.

IceWM is fine, but I'd like the old stuff with the cartoon penguins
and the rest of it back.  How do I go about doing this?  Do I have to 
reinstall the OS?

Thanks!
Mark Shaw





Re: [newbie] HELP! HELP! Restoring LM7.2 desktop

2001-08-01 Thread Mark Shaw

THANKS!

But: no joy.  No change at all.  Anything else I should try, or other
things I should look at?  I still have all the /var/log/... stuff but
I'm not sure what to look for.

Thanks again,
Mark Shaw


 
 try putting a file called:
 
 .xinitrc
 
 in your user directory
 in that file put one word and save it...
 
 
 that word should be:
 
 startkde
 
 
 then try it again...
 
 
 rgds
 
 
 Frank
 
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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Shaw
 Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2001 5:18 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [newbie] HELP! HELP! Restoring LM7.2 desktop
 
 
 Third try -- maybe *that* subject line will get someone to answer. :)
 
 On Sunday I had a system-lockup event followed by a hard-reset (didn't
 know what else to do).
 
 Now my default LM7.2 login screen and desktop is gone, replaced by KDE
 IceWM.
 
 IceWM is fine, but I'd like the old stuff with the cartoon penguins
 and the rest of it back.  How do I go about doing this?  Do I have to 
 reinstall the OS?
 
 Thanks!
 Mark Shaw
 
 





Re: [newbie] Help~! Help~!

2001-07-10 Thread George Petri


On Saturday 23 June 2001 01:31, Wing Min Ho wrote:
 Help Me!
 1. when i 1st time install Linux Mandrake 7.1, i got
 no problem. But i dont know how to uninstall it.

There are several ways to do this -- here's one: You need a partition tool 
such as DOS' fdisk or Partition Magic or even Linux's fdisk or diskdrake.  
Use one of these to erase all your mandrake 7.1 partitions (of course, the 
linux ones may not help in this situation as you cannot erase the root 
filesystem while you are using it etc.!).  DOS FDisk, however, may have 
trouble deleting your linux partitions.  Assuming that you have finally 
gotten rid of all the linux partitions, type fdisk /mbr at a DOS 
prompt/command line.


 2. Then i try to install Linux Mandrake 7.2, it still
 can work. But there is a problem, i dont' want Linux
 as a default OS (I have Windows 98 that is still in
 the hard disk) Unfortunately, i dont' know how to set
 the default.

If you are using a boot manager called GRUB, I don't know.  If you are using 
LILO, then you can edit /etc/lilo.conf and then run lilo afterwards.  You 
could also try the program klilo in KDE.  Note that you have to be root to do 
any of these things.

If you are going to use the edit /etc/lilo.conf method, then put the line 
default=Windows98 (without the quotes) in it, assuming your entry 
other=/dev/hda1 had a line immediately before or after it looking like 
label=Windows98.

 3. After i install Linux Mandrake 7.2, and i had done
 something in the LILO (i dont' know what i had done
 what to the LILO). When i started my computer, then i
 got this message Stage1 Geom Error. No thing moving
 in my computer.

Did you enable/disable LBA or some obscure disk option?  Only a guess.

 4. Then i try to install Linux Red Hat 6.2(may be is
 chinese version). (While installing Linux, I had some
 time reset my computer.) When i reinstall the Linux
 Mandrake 7.2, my computer had hanged two time(because
 i install it two times.)

Err...

 5. Now the problem is here, my hole hdd can't read. i
 use msdos for fdisk it but cant'. At last, i use Red
 Hat 7.2 to format my hdd. Now my hdd is about 2GB. My
 hdd capacity is about 8GB.

Err again...

 Q1: How to reset my hdd to 8 GB?

Could you send me the output of cat /proc/partitions?

 Q2: Why the 'State1 Geom Error' out, nothing is moving
 to my computer?

don't know, sorry...

 Q3: How to set my sound card so that i can listen
 music?


If you are using OSS (very likely), then run the command sndconfig as root.
You should avoid running it X (or so the warning says!) but it runs fine for 
me in X.  If you are using ALSA, I point you to www.alsa-project.org :)

- George




Re: [newbie] Help? HELP! USB ports

2001-03-31 Thread Joan Tur

donald hinds escribi:

 How do you tell HardDarke or Linux to look on the USB ports for devices?

Try the following:

1. turn on the device,
2. run usbview.  Now your modem has to be shown... if it is select it and press
the configure button and you'll be given the adress of your device (my Epson
printer is /proc/bus/usb/devices ).

And now you're supposed to use that path to tell the hw installation program
where the modem is... mine was a printer!   O8-)

Hope that helps.


   I have a supported (ZOOM USB) modem (linux-USB.org). LM-7.2 sees my TWO USB
 ports.

   When I run HardDrake to install a modem, it gives me options of Serial,
 ISDN  and so forth, but not USB.

   What file to I change (and how do I change it) so the USB will be an option
 for the modem?

   thanks if you can help, Don

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