Re: [expert] Re: MDK 9.2 ISOs Released (was:Public downloadable 9.2 ISO's for non club members)

2003-11-14 Thread Piero Piutti
. I've checked a mirror and the 9.2 ISOs come with a Readme LG text file suggesting to upgrade the drives' firmware anyway... -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.2 To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Piero Piutti
of WineX did you actually successfully install and got working? thesubscription one or the free cvs one? tia, -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.2 - KDE 3.1.2 - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Piero Piutti
On Friday 13 June 2003 22:41, James Sparenberg wrote: Subscription version... Ah! The wrong answer... :-) Do you know if the cvs works fine as well? -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.2 - KDE 3.1.2 - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert]

2002-11-08 Thread Piero Piutti
gore I was expecting... But it may be that your video card is not supported, since it must supply S3TC support. All nVIDIA, no Radeon (unless you have an XiG X server), and no others. I have a Elsa Erazor III LT (TNT2 M64 32Mb) + latest nVidia drivers. I guess what's wrong! -- Piero Piutti

Re: [expert]

2002-11-08 Thread Piero Piutti
hardware on the TNT2. THIS IS NOT A UT2003 BUG. Please upgrade if you want to play. Time to buy a GeForce 4 MX 440... -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want

[expert]

2002-11-06 Thread Piero Piutti
on display :0.0. OpenGL renderer relies on DXTC/S3TC support. History: Exiting due to error -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] cdrecord mitsumi drives

2002-11-04 Thread Piero Piutti
size : 4194304 = 4096 KB /usr/bin/cdrecord: Drive does not support SAO recording. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Try -raw option. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive. Any help? Thanks -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-13 Thread Piero Piutti
that's also subscribed to the cooker list (I'm not) that thinks that this or other mails about this topic could be interesting for developers working on 9.1, maybe he/her can forward these mails there. Take care, -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http

Re: [expert] 9.0 and SCSI scanner

2002-10-08 Thread Piero Piutti
rushing to release MDK 9.0 a few days earlier than R**H** 8.0! ;-) -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Piero Piutti
separate apps... maybe in MDK 9.1 (hopefully)? Take care, regards -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Piero Piutti
window is somewhat upsetting. Calling rpmdrake from the panel MMC icon makes the new look one a little more bearable. Still miss the old one, though. Ok, I will stop complaining about rpmdrake now, enough is enough... :-) -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Piero Piutti
limitations...). -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Piero Piutti
/concerns even if I don't always agree with them. Take care, keep up the great job, -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] 9.0 and SCSI scanner

2002-10-08 Thread Piero Piutti
and see what happens... :-) -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Pc as dumb X-Terminal

2002-01-05 Thread Piero
, thank you. Piero. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Rpm: packages with major numbers =3

2001-02-05 Thread Piero Caracciolo
The problem I'm submitting to the competent and kind mandrake community seems to have been fairly common fof late. May be somedy who solved it can help me. I have Mandrake 7.0 and Rpm 3.03-43mdk. A few days ago I attempted to install a new package using Rpm -i, and got the answer:

Re: [expert] troubles with star office

2000-06-23 Thread Piero
somebdy will help you. -- Piero

Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed

2000-06-20 Thread Piero
hoice for a virtual monitor when you confugure X? If you havn't tried that, try it! You just say "no" when you are asked if you want a virtual monitor, larger then your screen. -- Piero

Re: [expert] Backing everything up

2000-06-15 Thread Piero
kde) Thank you for helping. -- Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...

Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-13 Thread Piero
management doesn't create fragmentation. Nice, is'nt it? :-) -- Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...

Re: [expert] files larger than 2 GB

2000-06-12 Thread Piero
there is this limit. Is it possible to overcome it? Thanks in advance Berta Fernandez -- Eugene GrimsdellSystem Administrator OSRAM South Africa www.osram.co.za Tell: +27 11 805-1711 Cell: +27 83 491-0955 Fax:+27 11 405-0955 -- Piero

[expert] Boot disk on LS-120

2000-05-09 Thread Piero
I am uneasy not having a boot disk. The problem is taht, instead of a normal floppy disk I have an LS-120. All the scheems for making boot disk that I have seen request to format the diskette doomed to be used as boot disk. So, I'd need to know 1 is it really necessary to fomat the diskette?

Re: [expert]Thank you, Ron (Address Books)

2000-05-07 Thread Piero
Thank you, Ron, this is a clear answer and a clean solution. On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote: Piero wrote: All the files in the Windows partition belong to root and have mode: rwxr--r--. When I work under Linux I work under username piero. No, all the files in mounted FAT partitions

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] Writing to Windows Partition as Linux user

2000-05-07 Thread Piero
On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote: Piero wrote: See my mail "Coordinating address books2, where I ask the same question and give a (ugly) solution. Or use Netscape's solution at: http://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/19990926-7.html Yes, Andreas, thank you.But then, when you consult

[expert] A spare console

2000-05-06 Thread Piero
Could anybody help me with the following? I have two computers, a desktop (with Linux) and a notebook (without Linux). Is it possible to connect the notebook to the desktop (via a serial port, for instance) and use it as console to the desktop?

[expert] Coordinating Address Books

2000-05-06 Thread Piero
, in the process of doing this napoleonic manoevre, I stumbled over something that made me perplexed, and for which somebody has perhaps an explanation. All the files in the Windows partition belong to root and have mode: rwxr--r--. When I work under Linux I work under username piero. Since the changes

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] Writing to Windows Partition as Linux user

2000-05-06 Thread Piero
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote: Michael(as root) add the below option to the options in the line listing your dos partition in your /etc/fstab file. umask=0 Alan "Michael A. Kellogg" wrote: Hi Folks! Gotta a question . . . I really enjoy Mandrake 7.0 a great deal.

[expert] Re: [newbie] CD-player kscd versus Kfind

2000-05-03 Thread Piero
"man find" giveves you the answer... Mogens Jæger wrote: Hello Does anyone know how to tell Kfind, to searche all partitions, but not my CD-rom drive - it's pretty anoying to have your musik cut-off, just because you have to find a file Regards Mogens Jæger

Re: [expert] Proper Partitioning and Mount Points

2000-05-03 Thread Piero
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: I have a 20gb drive, and am already running Micro$oft Windows 98. Although a newbie to Linux, I know PCs very well, and have worked in the industry for several years. My question is this, I have about 6-8GB to give over to Linux, and I would like

[expert] Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?

2000-05-03 Thread Piero
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: I am looking for a good video card with video-out jacks (don't really need PC TV). I have been longing for a Diamond Viper 550 card for a long time, now, but since I have been toiling with Linux, I have heard some disparaging comments about S3 cards in general

[expert] Re: Repost: [newbie] Problems with boot disk.

2000-05-03 Thread Piero
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: No one answered my original query. Thought I would try again. - Original Message - From: Michael E. Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:20 AM Subject: [newbie] Problems with boot disk. I have Linux

[expert] Netscape window's fonts

2000-05-02 Thread Piero
I just installed a directory of true type fonts, that I made availeble to X (i.e. the fonts already present in the window partition). Everything works agreably fine, except for a bizarre side effect: the menu bar, bookmarks, location and navigation toolbar fonts of Netscape Navigator, as well

[expert] [newbie] Ugly StarOffice Fonts!

2000-05-02 Thread Piero
Does anybody have an idea on how to make the look better on the screen?