Re: [expert] OT: Big Disks, Old Mobos and Autotranslation???

2003-10-13 Thread James Francis
Rob Blomquist wrote: Yesterday, I went out and innocently bought an 80Gb drive for a little server I was planning on rebuilding. So I swapped the components from the P-166 into the AMD-K6/2-450 box (FIC VIA-503+ mobo), connected up the drives, and booted into problems. Finally, I was able to ha

Re: [expert] mplayer wierdness

2003-06-04 Thread James Francis
dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about [expert] mplayer weirdness Hello Recently my mplayer installation began acting strangely. It starts in fullscreen mode no matter what settings I give it and the control I'm noticing the same thing. Before, I could go to fullscreen mode and then switc

[expert] mplayer wierdness

2003-05-29 Thread James Francis
Hello Recently my mplayer installation began acting strangely. It starts in fullscreen mode no matter what settings I give it and the control interface opens only on desktop 2. The control interface only displays partially and is unusable. Mandrake 9.0 KDE 3.01 mplayer 0.90-10plf mplayer-gui-0

Re: [expert] Adding a DVD/CDR combo in 9.0

2002-12-23 Thread James Francis
On Saturday 21 December 2002 06:15 am, John Haywood wrote: > On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:14 am, John Haywood wrote: > > I've just added a DVD(ro)/CDR combo drive in to my system, and I thought > > I had configured correctly: > > > > /dev/cdrom is linked to cdroms/cdrom0, which is linked to > > ../scsi/h

Re: [expert] Home directory, cdroms...

2002-10-03 Thread James Francis
settings on the icon > and see what it is pointing to. > > On Wednesday 02 October 2002 10:48 am, James Francis wrote: > > In Mandrake 9 whenever I click on the home icon on the desk top I get a > > message stating: "Could not enter directory /mnt/floppy". Also after

[expert] Home directory, cdroms...

2002-10-02 Thread James Francis
In Mandrake 9 whenever I click on the home icon on the desk top I get a message stating: "Could not enter directory /mnt/floppy". Also after mounting a cd rom using the removable devices folder on the desktop it is difficult to get it back out of the drive even after the window is closed. Is th

[expert] dhcp

2002-04-08 Thread James Francis
Hello I have a machine on a network 192.168.0.0 witha a static ip of 192.168.0.250. Is it possible to have this machine serve up ip addresses on a 192.168.1.0 subnet and have the clients be able to access the internet through this machine? I have been reading dhcp man pages and howtos, and hav

[expert] Software Manager

2002-02-01 Thread James Francis
Somehow my 3 source cds were no longer available in the Software Manager's source list so I made new ones using the New option under Define sources. Now when I try to do an update it no longer prompts for the correct cd although it shows in the list which one it wants. If I put the correct cd

Re: [expert] Enough! What is wrong with linux and cdwriters?

2001-11-12 Thread James Francis
On Friday 09 November 2001 09:41 pm, you wrote: > Here we go again! Just rebooted and tried to burn a CD. It failed - even > though I am using supermount, it failed to mount the CDROM so it failed. I > then tried again AFTER mounting the CD that I wanted to copy. No worky. > The CDRW has a con

[expert] HTML Kmail

2001-10-24 Thread James Francis
Hello, I was wondering if anyone has had problems displaying html formatted email messages in Kmail. (Mandrake 8.1) I selected the Folder, prefer HTML to plain text option, but the messages show only the text and some colored backgrounds, but never any pictures or other graphics. No lin

Re: [expert] No Console

2001-04-26 Thread James Francis
On Thursday 26 April 2001 14:44, you wrote: > (Strange. On THIS message, the reply-to worked!) > > James Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Whenever I exit X in Mandrake 8 I get a blank screen and my monitor goes > > into powersave. I can type

[expert] No Console

2001-04-26 Thread James Francis
Hello, Whenever I exit X in Mandrake 8 I get a blank screen and my monitor goes into powersave. I can type startx and everything comes back "alive" again. My system is set not to boot into X on startup, and I have no problem with the command line mode at that time. Only after running X

Re: [expert] usb 100Mb zip drive on 7.1

2001-03-21 Thread James Francis
On Wednesday 21 March 2001 12:41, you wrote: > My machine at work is still running 7.1 because 7.2's diskdrake failed > to recognize my hard drive. Mandrake's support did eventually help me > but I haven't had a chance to take the system down for an upgrade. > > Anyway, I just bought a usb zip dri

[expert] multisession

2001-03-21 Thread James Francis
HP 8200 Series CD Writer Plus CDRECORD v. 1.9 (Mandrake) MKISOFS v. 1.13 (Mandrake) Gcombust v. 0.1.35 Using RW media. Has anyone had any luck burning multisession discs? I can successfully burn them (at least Gcombust says so), but I can only "see" the first session and none of the added on