Re: [expert] mouse scrolling

2000-03-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Trevorthe Pointer section in your XF86Config file is fine, now execute 'imwheel -k' and the scroll wheel should begin to work. Alan Trevor Farrell wrote: Michael Holt wrote: Hello, I'm using a Logitech trackman marble with the scroll wheel in the center and I just can't seem

Re: [expert] shutdown..

2000-03-26 Thread Civileme
Ted Wager wrote: On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Civileme wrote: "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: This must depend on your hardware; it worked just fine for me in RedHat 6.1 as well as in Mandrake 7.0. (With a Dell Inspiron 7500.) On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote: | On Tue, 21 Mar

Re: [expert] accessing floppy and cdrom?

2000-03-26 Thread Civileme
Vern wrote: Thanks again Civileme for answering my messages, I hope my mailer does better this time around. I have a pretty generic setup hardware wise I believe. It's a six month old Hewlett Packard Pavilion 6540C, Intel Celeron 466Mhz. All onboard junk video/audio/modem I junked the

Re: [expert] SSH2 Between Mandrake 7.0 RedHat 6.1

2000-03-26 Thread Civileme
Audrey Beck wrote: Scott Sprunger wrote: Greetings all: I've scoured the list (at least the messages I've received since I subscribed) and Deja.com (usenet) but have been unable to solve this problem. So here goes. I'm trying to ssh into a RedHat 6.1 server from my Mandrake

Re: [expert] find a file

2000-03-26 Thread Civileme
patkoch wrote: Part 1.1Type: Plain Text (text/plain) Encoding: quoted-printable First, the HTML doesn't work well on this list, and really sometimes causes my replies to be deleted by my own mailer, leaving you with just a header. YOu would want to do the followig from

Re: [expert] find a file

2000-03-26 Thread Civileme
Just a note if in the future I seem to be unresponsive to HTML posts and threads. I figured a way to set up a filter in both my mailers to send HTML to Dave Null Civileme

Re: [expert] Configure your own JRE for Netscape?

2000-03-26 Thread Civileme
Pj wrote: Before you blame Netscape 100% consider my latest experiences, but first a little background. Because M$ engineers fouled W98 to cause Netscape browser users serious security issues, I chose to use Netscape 3.04. Odd as it sounds I can see properly written Java, JS, and Frames

Re: [expert] OCR Software

2000-03-26 Thread Civileme
Lane Lester wrote: I have made a number of application substitutions in my long-range goal of moving from Windows to Linux. One of the jobs I have to do fairly often is scanning printed pages into documents that can be edited. Are there any OCR applications for Linux? -- Lane Lane

Re: [expert] Linux and DVD and Supermount

2000-03-26 Thread MandrakeBSD
Wayne, are u running DVD movies in linux? if so, could please tell me which software do you use. Thanx. - Original Message - From: Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 1:45 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Linux and DVD and Supermount Michael, I own a

Re: [expert] grossir la barre de deroulement de netscape

2000-03-26 Thread Sevatio Octavio
quelle barre vous rfrez-vous? Seve -Original Message-From: patkoch [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: aide sur linux mandrake(professionnel) [EMAIL PROTECTED]; aide sur linux mandrake 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; aide de linux6 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; aide de linux5(anglais)

[expert] grossir la barre de deroulement de netscape

2000-03-26 Thread patkoch
Salut, dites moi comment augmenter la largeur de la barre de deroulement de netscape.Je trouve que la barre a une trop petite largeur.merci de m'aider

Re: [expert] Auto-completion Utility

2000-03-26 Thread Civileme
Lane Lester wrote: Both on the Internet and in local documents, I often need to insert the same information. I have an excellent utility in Windows, ActiveWords, that traps keyboard input, and auto-completes strings of text when it traps user-designated aliases. Is there a comparable

RE: [expert] find a file

2000-03-26 Thread Lane Lester
Russ Johnson said: find [root of search] [option] regex [option] So, to find the file "httpd" do the following: First, if you like, try "which httpd". It might be in your path. If that doesn't do anything, then try "find / -name httpd -print". That find command will search the

Re: [expert] OCR Software

2000-03-26 Thread Lane Lester
Civileme said: Well, OCR Shop by Caere is hard to beat--99% capture compared to results of 80 to 95% with others. Well, I tracked it down to a company called Vividata, and although it sounds OK, $300 for a program that outputs only ASCII is way too much. The whole Corel WordPerfect Office is

[expert] ncr895(symbios) install problem

2000-03-26 Thread Burkhard Zombronner
hello there, I am facing a problem on installing Mandrake 7.0 from iso-image: On starting installation the ncr895 is detected correctly and the menu starts and i am able to select language, keyboard and installation method. After the message: Please wait, looking for existing packages , I get

Re: [expert] Video for Linux

2000-03-26 Thread Ron Stodden
Wayne, Video for Linux shpuld be in all recent kernels. Open an X terminal on /usr/src/linux and run make xconfig to see whether v4l is present. It should be as a module, and not compiled in the kernel (answer M, not Y). v4l2 will soon replace v4l, together with a new i2c bus. All this

Re: [expert] printing non-ascii in mandrake 7 broken

2000-03-26 Thread Sascha Kiedrowski
I found an solution to the (at least my) printing problem: it only occurs if running mandrake in security level 5 (paranoid), if you change the permissions on /usr/X11R6 to 751 it works. (some more precise stuff will follow... I didn't figure it out exactly now ...) On Mit, 22 Mär 2000, you

Re: [expert] shutdown..

2000-03-26 Thread Ted Wager
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Civileme wrote: ` OS From :- www.eridani.co.uk It made a backup of the original S01halt script and the new one was not saved for some reason. make sure the new script (without the -p) is saved and delete the backup script (name ending in ~) And I goofed Edit

Re: [expert] Linux and DVD and Supermount

2000-03-26 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Hmmm... that's exactly what mine looked like. And when I had nothing in the drive, it sounded like it kept seeking for something and slowed the entire system down... wierd. -- [EMAIL

[expert] msec problem

2000-03-26 Thread Ron Stodden
Yoann, As root, I tried to use init.sh to increase my securty level from 3 to 4, but that immediately locked me out of my mailing lists. So I restored level 3 and tried init.sh custom, which seems the ideal solution, only to find it errored on the third question (could not create a file in tmp/

Re: [expert] Usernet

2000-03-26 Thread Audrey Beck
Mahmuth Mathumbha The III wrote: Hi I use MDK 7.0 Gnome Enlight.. When i start ppp0 with usernet it goes wellbut when i try to shut it down it restarts all the time...And if i turn off the modem and turn it on again it restarts the ppp0...( not fun ) Any 1 know what to do? Sorry 4

RE: [expert] find a file

2000-03-26 Thread Russ Johnson
The reason locate is so fast is that it has a database. Unfortunately, I don't believe that database (by default anyway) includes the whole hard drive. That's why I use find. Locate seemed to miss files that I know were on the hard drive. Also, find will use the name only, with the options I

Re: [expert] find a file

2000-03-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 10:36:17PM +0100, patkoch wrote: - Hi, - I want to know how to find a file on one disk knowing the file name or a part of file name.I didn't install Xwindows.Thank you for your help "locate". Try "man locate" or "info locate" for details. -- -- C^2

Re: [expert] find a file

2000-03-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 07:04:22AM -0500, Lane Lester wrote: - Russ Johnson said: - - find [root of search] [option] regex [option] - - So, to find the file "httpd" do the following: - - First, if you like, try "which httpd". It might be in your path. If that - doesn't do anything,

Re: [expert] Linux and DVD and Supermount

2000-03-26 Thread Larry Sword
Wayne wrote: Unfortunately no, I cannot get the drive to work uder Linux. Sorry, my mails were probably a bit misleading and I was actually talking about wind'ohs software. I tried to use the Livid software today but couldn't get passed the first stage of the i nstall (which is actually

Fwd: Re: [expert] grossir la barre de deroulement de netscape

2000-03-26 Thread John Aldrich
Veuillez utiliser l'anglais sur cette liste. La plupart d'entre nous ne parle pas français! John -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] grossir la barre de deroulement de netscape Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 02:35:42 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sevatio Octavio)

Re: [expert] SSH2 Between Mandrake 7.0 RedHat 6.1

2000-03-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: Maybe Red Hat 6.1 won't let a remote root in? Have you tried as a regular user? Wondered about that myself. I think root logins from remote are disabled by default in both distros. To be root in another machine, login as a regular user and then su. But

[expert] Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest - Redefined

2000-03-26 Thread Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
Mandrake Helios. This morning I did something really dumb. I had the following (part of the partitions): /dev/hdb7 / ext2defaults /dev/hdc10 /Venus ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 /dev/hdc11 /programs ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 where Venus was

Re: [expert] CD Audio

2000-03-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: Does anyone know of any programs available for making MP3's from CD music? I am old mandrake can do this natively from the command line. Can it and how? Well, AFAIK, there are programs you're going to have to download and install. AFAIK, there is nothing

Re: [expert] Linux and DVD and Supermount

2000-03-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Hmmm... that's exactly what mine looked like. And when I had nothing in the drive, it sounded like it kept seeking for something and slowed the

Re: [expert] accessing floppy and cdrom?

2000-03-26 Thread vern
I want to thank you again Civileme for taking time to answer my messages! I'm back to Mandrake 6.1 now where everything is happy! Back on Kmail (my favorite), my video is full screen, high res. after applying the Intel 810 chipset patches (the module would never rebuild under the new mdk 7.0

[expert] I found my netscape files!

2000-03-26 Thread vern
I "installed" the new netscape 4.70 source rpm and it installed all the files in my /usr/src/netscape directory. Now I want to "install" 4.70 netscape for real and use it. What's my next move? Any help would be most appreciated! Thanks, Vern

[expert] News reader?

2000-03-26 Thread vern
Is there a good newsreader for Linux? I've tried the one in Netscape and would like one that works both on/offine similar to Agent in that "other" OS! Vern

Re: [expert] CD Audio

2000-03-26 Thread Larry Sword
Wayne wrote: Does anyone know of any programs available for making MP3's from CD music? I am old mandrake can do this natively from the command line. Can it and how? Thanks. As we like to say "It's in there". The program grip will accomplish ripping and encoding. It's on the

Re: [expert] find a file Power Commands frim unix guru

2000-03-26 Thread Will Merkens
Try these two out. NO MORE LONG FIND COMMANDS Tired of typing long "find" commands?... You can use the following script to save keystrokes : When run with one argument, searches the file all the way down the working directory.

[expert] FAT Bread errors

2000-03-26 Thread Charles Boening
I have the latest incarnation of Mandrake 7(air) installed on a 2.5gig partition at the end of my drive. I'm running Windows 98 SE also. When I boot to Linux, I'm using loadlin. loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 mem=192m I don't have a standard floppy drive in my system. /dev/hda

Re: [expert] find a file

2000-03-26 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Well, this hardly requires an expert, but . . . First, if you want to know how to do something, try "man -k". It is one of the most powerful concepts in Unix. (The others are |, , and /. [That is, pipes, fork, and tree-structured directories.] Some of these are commonplace by now but none

Re: [expert] accessing floppy and cdrom?

2000-03-26 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Well, that depends. If (as I'm guessing) the install process put "hdc=ide-scsi" in your lilo.conf, because you have a CD-R (CD-Recordable) drive, then your drive is *not* /dev/hdc, although it was under 6.1. *If* I'm right, then your drive *is* /dev/scd0, although it was /dev/hdc under

Re: [expert] Linux and DVD and Supermount

2000-03-26 Thread Rial Juan
DVD support in linux is still somewhat crippled. the livid project is making progress, or at least they claim to make progress. I can't really tell because the damn thing won't even compile here. A somewhat older version I ran a few months ago gave me a movie playback with slight

Re: [expert] I found my netscape files!

2000-03-26 Thread Rial Juan
The package you installed is the source. Source is the text a programmer types in in a higher language like C, after which he uses a "compiler" to turn the source into binary files, so they can be executed. Software is easier to write in a language that resembles a known (English) language than

Re: [expert] News reader?

2000-03-26 Thread paul
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, vern wrote: Is there a good newsreader for Linux? I've tried the one in Netscape and would like one that works both on/offine similar to Agent in that "other" OS! Vern Try slrn, with slrnpull for offline newsreading. Its packaged with the GPL version of Linux. Theres

Re: [expert] (OT) What's the best web page design s/w for Mdk 7?

2000-03-26 Thread paul
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Trevor Farrell wrote: Hi, I'm looking to (finally) dive into web page design, and have been horrified by the different packages (and their cost) under M$ Windows, and, anyway, am rapidly coming to prefer Linux. Can anyone recommend any good packages? TIA

Re: [expert] News reader?

2000-03-26 Thread Glyn Millington
SLRN is the answer! And it should be available on your Mandrake CD. Homepage is, http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html anmd the redoubtable Sven's slrn page is worth a visit http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/slrn/ Set it up with leafnode to collect your news so that you xcan read

Re: [expert] News reader?

2000-03-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: Is there a good newsreader for Linux? I've tried the one in Netscape and would like one that works both on/offine similar to Agent in that "other" OS! Suggestion: take a look at KRN. There are others too. Take a look on FreshMeat.net or Linuxberg.com for a

Re: [expert] grossir la barre de deroulement de netscape

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Holt
Sevatio Octavio wrote: quelle barre vous rfrez-vous?Seve -Original Message- From: patkoch [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: aide sur linux mandrake(professionnel) [EMAIL PROTECTED]>; aide sur linux mandrake 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]>; aide de linux6 [EMAIL PROTECTED]>; aide de linux5(anglais) [EMAIL

[expert] Shoutcast, Freeamp Netscape

2000-03-26 Thread Sevatio Octavio
I'm trying to get Netscape to instruct Freeamp to play Shoutcast streams. Would you happen to know the string needed to make Freeamp work? /usr/bin/freeamp %? Or if you've had success with other software to play Shoutcast streams, please share! Thanks, Seve

Re: [expert] find a file

2000-03-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 08:34:43AM -0800, Russ Johnson wrote: - The reason locate is so fast is that it has a database. Unfortunately, I - don't believe that database (by default anyway) includes the whole hard - drive. That's why I use find. Locate seemed to miss files that I know were - on the

RE: [expert] find a file

2000-03-26 Thread Lane Lester
Russ Johnson said: The reason locate is so fast is that it has a database. Unfortunately, I don't believe that database (by default anyway) includes the whole hard drive. That's why I use find. Locate seemed to miss files that I know were on the hard drive. Thanks for making me take a

Re: [expert] Auto-completion Utility

2000-03-26 Thread Lane Lester
Civileme said: Lane Lester wrote: Both on the Internet and in local documents, I often need to insert the same information. I have an excellent utility in Windows, ActiveWords, that traps keyboard input, and auto-completes strings of text when it traps user-designated aliases.

Re: [expert] Video for Linux

2000-03-26 Thread Wayne
When I run xconfig I get a command not found message. Should I b e able to run this from anywhere? I cannot even run it from the directory you have listed below. WHen I follow the instruction in the book that came with Linux, I cannot get any further than this also to recompile my kernel. DO

Re: [expert] News reader?

2000-03-26 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, vern wrote: Is there a good newsreader for Linux? I've tried the one in Netscape and would like one that works both on/offine similar to Agent in that "other" OS! Vern Try slrn, with slrnpull for offline newsreading. Its

Re: [expert] Please use English

2000-03-26 Thread Pj
Hello, This group is primarily English speaking. We can't help you if we can't read in your language. Please use English. If it isn't your native tongue, try. We can probably figure out the rest. Pj

[expert] missing header files

2000-03-26 Thread lorne schachter
I've installed 7.0 on a reformatted partition and when I try to compile some programs, I'm missing curses.h and term.h. Should I have selected development on the initial menu? Lorne -- Lorne Schachter (732) 819-0460, (732)819-0460 (FAX) http://www.intact.com/~lorne

[expert] cd-wr

2000-03-26 Thread Mandraky
I having trouble installing 2 cd rom drives. one is as cd-wr from Ricoh Anyone had done this before? TIA

Re: [expert] News reader?

2000-03-26 Thread jim
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: Is there a good newsreader for Linux? I've tried the one in Netscape and would like one that works both on/offine similar to Agent in that "other" OS! Vern Try Pan, it's just like agent Jim Pilrose

Re: [expert] cd-wr

2000-03-26 Thread Dana J. Laude
Could you be a little more specific? (i.e., scsi or eide, what type of cd-rom is also used, model #, etc?) Regards, Dana Mandraky wrote: I having trouble installing 2 cd rom drives. one is as cd-wr from Ricoh Anyone had done this before? TIA

[expert] Wacom

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Holt
Hello all, I'm considering getting a wacom graphire graphics pad (because I heard it works with the gimp) and I would like to know if I can have this installed as a USB device along side my PS/2 trackball without having to plug / unplug or reconfigure everytime I want to use it? I've been

[expert] Joystick/SB AWE32 Game Port

2000-03-26 Thread Tyson Rogers
Hi. I could use some help tackling the task of getting a joystick to work with my system. I've been working on this for a few days and have not made much headway. The short question is: Has anyone successfully gotten a joystick to work on the game port of a Sound Blaster AWE 32 card? If so, what

Re: [expert] CD Audio

2000-03-26 Thread M.Jerger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, Does anyone know of any programs available for making MP3's from CD music? I am old mandrake can do this natively from the command line. Can it and how? Yes, you need an grabber (e.g. cdparanoia) and an encoder (e.g. lame or bladeenc). But I'm using