Re: [expert] Problem With gAIN

2001-01-02 Thread Ivan Trail
goto www.marko.net/gaim and get the latest version. think it was verson 10.8 (?) where they switched the protocol and the newer versions work "even better than the real thing" - Original Message - From: "Andrew Bartorillo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January

[expert] Gaim 0.9.18 RPM troubles.

2000-06-07 Thread Ivan Trail
executable? Thanks, Ivan trail. I am new at this but I am learning!

[expert] ./configure help.

2000-06-04 Thread Ivan Trail
hello, When tryign to configure the gaim tar.gz this is what I get: [root@localhost gaim-0.9.18]# ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes

[expert] My suggestion for the install process on the New Distro....

2000-05-26 Thread Ivan Trail
omes many latenights of frustration. Atta boy to Mandrakesoft for asking our opinion. Billy sells you $300 of what he wants you to have. Mandrakesoft is Giving us what WE want. Thanks for listening to my opinion. Ivan Trail

[expert] Dennis Havlik, here is the info you requested about my wine troubbles.

2000-05-24 Thread Ivan Trail
attachment.txt is ls -l of / directory and file .txt is /etc/fstab total 218 -rw-r--r--1 root root0 May 24 18:46 attachment.txt drwxr-xr-x2 root root 2048 Mar 12 14:11 bin/ drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 May 17 09:30 boot/ -rw---1 root

Re: [expert] KDE taskbar menubar vanish after screensaver kicks in?

2000-05-23 Thread Ivan Trail
Jay Summet wrote: Hello all, The following has happened to me three times now, intermitantly. I'll come back to my computer after my screensaver has been on (Kmatrix.kss) and type my password. The SS goes away, and I get my desktop with whatever programs were on it, BUT, there is no

RE: [expert] 37 bottles of asprin later, he decided to ask for he lp.

2000-05-18 Thread Ivan Trail
On Thu, 18 May 2000, you wrote: Try replacing /c with /dev/hda1 (or whatever your Windows share is on). I'd replace /cdrom with /dev/cdrom, too. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always seen the message about drive A, unless there was a floppy in the drive. That's

[expert] 37 bottles of asprin later, he decided to ask for help.

2000-05-17 Thread Ivan Trail
he "Help I can't turn my computer on!" stage. Many thanks. Ivan Trail. ;; ;; MS-DOS drives configuration ;; ;; Each section has the following format: ;; [Drive X] ;; Path=xxx (Unix path for drive root) ;; Type=xxx (supported types are 'floppy', 'hd', 'cdrom' and 'network') ;; L

[expert] Wine Help

2000-04-09 Thread Ivan Trail
Where can one go to get help configuring wine to work on my system? Are there any How to or mailing lists? Thanks. Ivan

Re: [expert] The ongoing Trash Linux Debate

2000-04-04 Thread Ivan Trail
And last of all for all you males out there - Would someone please explain A:What's a differential? B.How's it work? C.Why do we need it?? Cheers A differential is a highly evolved mechanical device. It allows the wheel on the inside of the turn rotate slower than the wheel

Re: [expert] going from PS/2 to serial mouse problem

2000-03-17 Thread Ivan Trail
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, you wrote: Hi! I was having some weird behavior with my PS/2 3-button mouse, so i stuck on the PS/2 to Serial adaptor. The starnge behavior dissappeared, but now, the middle mouse button does not work. i used mouseconfig to set it up as a Generial 3-Button Mouse

[expert] Select Bay cdrom/floppy

2000-03-16 Thread Ivan Trail
Hello, I have a Toshiba Laptop (Sattelite) that has a switchable cdrom/floppy drive. After the recent upgrade to 7.0, I find that I can only use the floppy drive. If I use the cdrom drive, It recognises it during boot up (FDC is a *) and everything loads correctly. I can't mount the

Re: [expert] Select Bay cdrom/floppy

2000-03-16 Thread Ivan Trail
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote: I would first try removing the /dev/fd0 line from the /etc/fstab file. Its not required in fstab to mount a floppy or a cdrom for that matter unless you want to mount with say the mount -a command or use supermount. After removing the line, your problem should

Re: [expert] Thanks and another thing.....

2000-03-14 Thread Ivan Trail
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote: Ivanunmount it with the umount command, then format it. Alan Ivan Trail wrote: First off thanks for the replies on the auto X start. If I had only known.. Next I configured the 7.0 upgrade to include supermount. Now I am unable

[expert] Thanks and another thing.....

2000-03-13 Thread Ivan Trail
First off thanks for the replies on the auto X start. If I had only known.. Next I configured the 7.0 upgrade to include supermount. Now I am unable to format a floppy as trhe device is considered busy by the system. Is this an error in supermount, a config problem or a problem with

Re: [expert] List Bitching

2000-03-08 Thread Ivan Trail
On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, you wrote: And what is this long-running modem brand talk? May we please discuss Linux-related issues? Maybe people are uncomfortable to speak of what they really need for fear of being flamed as newbies, a practice of =assholes= who stink pretty bad after a while.

Re: [expert] IRC Client

2000-03-04 Thread Ivan Trail
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, Joseph E. Sheble wrote: What is a good IRC client to use with Mandrake 7? I'm looking for a good console one and a X one. I know I have BitchX installed, but cannot find the documentation for it anywhere. In fact, this would be my first foray into IRC ever... I have

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2000-02-29 Thread Ivan Trail
Mandrake 7.0-2. I found a way to clear rewriteable cd's also cange window managers to blackbox and run genome toaster from there works great for me. I really don't want my genome toasted :) funny very funny!

[expert] Monitor config Problems

2000-02-28 Thread Ivan Trail
Hello, I have recently attained a MAG 570FD monitor to use with my laptop. I can't seem to use the highest definition for the monitor. For instance, I can get the 1280x1024 resolution to work on 8 bits-per-pixel (bpp) but it will only do 1024x768 with16bpp and even less with 24bpp. My

[expert] Parallel tape drive

2000-02-24 Thread Ivan Trail
I have a parallel port tape drive. It deems that neither ftape nor Kdat support them. Can someone kindly direct me to a source of info to learn more about configuring and using this beast. Thanks, Ivan

[expert] Keyboard help

2000-02-23 Thread Ivan Trail
Hello, I have a Toshiba SattelIte 220CDS. It is a laptop for which I have just purchaced a monitor. Now I would like to run a external mouse and keyboard. The only ones I can find are both PS2 type devices. My mouse has a serial adapter but I can't get the mouse to work under the serial

[expert] Security on a Personal Linux Box.

2000-02-16 Thread Ivan Trail
Hello, Please forgive me if this is not the place for this type of question, but lead me in the right direction. Recently I had the Idea that in order to learn about security of my computer while on the internet, I decided to learn from those who are also concerned about the security of my

[expert] Irwin tape backup

2000-02-08 Thread Ivan Trail
Hello, I have a gift, an Irwin tape backup drive, that I have no idea how to use. Of course it came with no directions, or anything like that. Does any one have experiance with such a device? Where can I get instructions? Where would I find out if linux can even use this drive? Here are