[expert] Please Help

2002-10-01 Thread Nemala Sridhar Krishna
I have installed X in my linux box. I didn't install KDE or GNOME. But I want to use kword program form my XServer. I have checked what all libraries 'kword program requires using ldd program and had put all the required libraries in the library path. Now when I tried to run the kword

Re: [expert] Please Help

2002-10-01 Thread Mark Weaver
Nemala Sridhar Krishna wrote: I have installed X in my linux box. I didn't install KDE or GNOME. But I want to use kword program form my XServer. I have checked what all libraries 'kword program requires using ldd program and had put all the required libraries in the library path. Now

[expert] please help compile cooker 2.4.19 kernel

2002-08-22 Thread Udo Rader
hi all, I'm trying to compile the current cooker kernel (2.4.19) and only run into hundreds of thousands of unresolved symbols. here's what I did: * install the kernel-source-rpm (NOT .src.rpm) * install the most recent kernel-headers-rpm (which is for 2.4.18, so thats a possible problem) *

[expert] please help compile cooker 2.4.19 kernel

2002-08-22 Thread Udo Rader
hi all, I'm trying to compile the current cooker kernel (2.4.19) and only run into hundreds of thousands of unresolved symbols. here's what I did: * install the kernel-source-rpm (NOT .src.rpm) * install the most recent kernel-headers-rpm (which is for 2.4.18, so thats a possible problem) *

Re: [expert] Please help -Still in trouble with Asus A7V266-E can' t load system

2002-01-09 Thread Brett Buckingham
evaristo wrote: Hi, I'm still in trouble with my Asus a7V266-e. No way to load L.M. 8.1 even if I had installed in an disk over the Primary Master integrated Promise ata 100 controler, that is see, by installation, as hda even if I got an other hd installed over the normal controler

[expert] Please help -Still in trouble with Asus A7V266-E can' t load system

2002-01-08 Thread evaristo
Hi, I'm still in trouble with my Asus a7V266-e. No way to load L.M. 8.1 even if I had installed in an disk over the Primary Master integrated Promise ata 100 controler, that is see, by installation, as hda even if I got an other hd installed over the normal controler which one is see during

[expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread ajax
I've asked this question in a few places with no takers so I thought that I'd take it to the experts. I need to do a presentation at school. I thought I could use open office or kpresenter. The problem is I need to get the external out and tv out working on my laptop. This presentation will

RE: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread Battista, JohnX
: Thursday, November 29, 2001 10:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze! I've asked this question in a few places with no takers so I thought that I'd take it to the experts. I need to do a presentation at school. I thought I could use open office or kpresenter

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
I don't think that you have any dependency on linux to get you notebook showing images in the projector. Most (all?) notebooks have a function (Fn) key and a key in the numeric row with a monitor-like figure. Press Fn+monitor and the notebook start to display on the LCD or on the external device

RE: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread David Joham
this, but that was it. What happens when you try this? David -Original Message- From: ajax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze! I've asked this question in a few places with no takers so I thought

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread David Oberbeck
Hi, As John mentioned, this is indeed a function of BIOS. I have a IBM A21p with Mdk 7.2 on it, and do presentations with StarOffice on a regular basis. To get external video going you press Fn-F7 repeatedly until the output ends up the way you need it. This will cycle through

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 29 Nov 2001 6:24 pm, you wrote: I don't think that you have any dependency on linux to get you notebook showing images in the projector. Most (all?) notebooks have a function (Fn) key and a key in the numeric row with a monitor-like

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 29 November 2001 12:09 pm, ajax wrote: I've asked this question in a few places with no takers so I thought that I'd take it to the experts. I need to do a presentation at school. I thought I could use open office or kpresenter. The

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread ajax
Thanks everyone for the quick responses! I didn't think to use the fn key previousley. On windows it automatically displays on both screens. Now that I have tried it in windows the Fn-f7 key toggles between lcd, external monitor, to both. On my bootmagic screen it toggles between external

RE: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread David Joham
: Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze! Thanks everyone for the quick responses! I didn't think to use the fn key previousley. On windows it automatically displays on both screens. Now that I have tried it in windows the Fn-f7 key toggles between lcd, external monitor, to both. On my

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread ajax
I feel stupid now. I tried my other monitor and changed resolution. It works now. That should work well for my presentation next week. I'd like to get my tv out working since some of my classes are small and a tv might be easier to get. It would also be nice to be able to play DVD's on a

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings, The A20p / A21p have a S-video input and output connectors on the front right-hand side. I personally don't use them, but they *do* work, see http://mobilix.org/video_linux.html#ToC1 Again, the resolution problem is going to bite you; suggest sticking with a monitor

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread ajax
Whats the easiest way to change resolution? Ctrl - Alt - +/- isn't working and mandrake control center screws up my usb mouse. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread David Oberbeck
Oh, and one more url: http://www.linuxvideo.org/ http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/ HTH, DGO On Thursday 29 November 2001 14:00, David Oberbeck wrote: Greetings, The A20p / A21p have a S-video input and output connectors on the front right-hand side. I personally

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread Mark D'voo
if ctrl alt +/- isn't working, you probably don't have your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file setup correctly. You need to make sure you have every resolution you want in your file Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device My Video Card Monitor S/M 955DF DefaultDepth

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I didn't think to use the fn key previousley. On windows it automatically displays on both screens. Now that I have tried it in windows the Fn-f7 key toggles between lcd, external monitor, to both. On my bootmagic screen it toggles between

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings, Well, y'all, gather around: It's time for me to take a deep breath and recite a festival of pain adventure I have had... Well, to make a long story (only somewhat) shorter: To change resolution you must use the keypad + and keypad -, not the + above the = (on US keyboards).

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread Leif Madsen
, November 29, 2001 1:09 PM Subject: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze! I've asked this question in a few places with no takers so I thought that I'd take it to the experts. I need to do a presentation at school. I thought I could use open office or kpresenter. The problem is I need

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread ajax
If I press shift numlock, the system beeps and the numlock light doesn't go on. The keys for the number pad won't even type letters. The interesting thing is the ctrl alt +/- works. In 24bit the resulting screen is distorted. It works well at 16bit. The ATI driver doesn't work at 32bit.

[expert] PLEASE HELP, menudrake is crashing, update-menus and install-menu wont stop running.

2001-10-03 Thread Simon Naish
Right whenever I log on update-menus and install-menu run. They also fail to do anything, I cant find why. Gnome is fine and has successfully made the menu install that first showed the problem up. I'm pretty much at my wits end. This is what is running when I log on. update-menus -u

Re: [expert] please help with compile fault on rpm source

2001-07-19 Thread A V Flinsch
On Thursday 19 July 2001 01:15, Expert wrote: ./transport.c ./transport.c:203:21: nanoftp.h: No such file or directory ./transport.c:204:22: nanohttp.h: No such file or directory ./transport.c: In function `initializeTransport': ./transport.c:210: warning: implicit declaration of function

[expert] please help with compile fault on rpm source

2001-07-18 Thread Expert
rpm rpmfind-1.6-1.src.rpm --rebuild Installing rpmfind-1.6-1.src.rpm Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.51093+ Makefile:110: .depends: No such file or directory gcc -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 -ffast-math -Wall -I. -I/usr/include/rpm -c deps.c

Re: [expert] PLEASE HELP! Bad bridge mapping

2001-06-25 Thread Amaresh Bikki
Bridge problem might occur because you have more than one ethernet card and the pcmcia card is placed in a slot after this extra card. So ad-hoc solution is to remove that extra card and put pcmcia card in that slot. civileme wrote: On Friday 22 June 2001 07:31, Marc Audard wrote: Hi,

[expert] PLEASE HELP! Bad bridge mapping

2001-06-22 Thread Marc Audard
Hi, Please, please, help me! I posted this at several places and I still have no answer. I would like to know if the problem I encounter can be fixed: I upgraded the system memory from 192 MB to 512 MB. The system clearly detected the upgrade and linux booted. However, at the cardmgr step,

Re: [expert] PLEASE HELP! Bad bridge mapping

2001-06-22 Thread civileme
On Friday 22 June 2001 07:31, Marc Audard wrote: Hi, Please, please, help me! I posted this at several places and I still have no answer. I would like to know if the problem I encounter can be fixed: I upgraded the system memory from 192 MB to 512 MB. The system clearly detected the

Re: [expert] Please Help with Problem Printing man Pages.

2001-03-17 Thread Larry Sword
Followup Message Followup Message: Jack Gillis wrote: Under Mandrake 7.2, I issued the following command to print a man page: (It has worked under Red Hat and SuSE.) man -t mkfs | lpr and got the following messages: /usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file /usr/bin/groff:fatal

Re: [expert] Please Help with Problem Printing man Pages.

2001-03-13 Thread Larry Sword
Jack Gillis wrote: Under Mandrake 7.2, I issued the following command to print a man page: (It has worked under Red Hat and SuSE.) man -t mkfs | lpr and got the following messages: /usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file /usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ps' Error executing

[expert] Please Help with Problem Printing man Pages.

2001-03-09 Thread Jack Gillis
Under Mandrake 7.2, I issued the following command to print a man page: (It has worked under Red Hat and SuSE.) man -t mkfs | lpr and got the following messages: /usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file /usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ps' Error executing formatting or display

RE: [expert] please help...

2001-02-01 Thread Eric Peters
it. -Original Message- From: Dale Kosan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] please help... Trying to compile a module for my Linksys pcmcia nic card and keep getting the following message: [root@mandrake /root]# gcc

Re: [expert] please help...

2001-02-01 Thread Todd Flinders
You are hitting your return for each of those lines of the compile statement. DON'T!! That is ONE line! Keep typing and let it scroll. Don't hit the return. If you can't scroll to the next line enter a backslash (\) at the end of the line. This tells the command line that the following

[expert] Please Help.

2000-08-28 Thread Sean Armstrong
I have an Intel Pro network card. I was wondering if anyone knows what driver I was supposed to use for this ISA card in Linux. Or, does anyone know where I can find info telling me which driver to use for which network card. I'm currently using Mandrake 7.02. Thanx, SA

Re: [expert] Please Help.

2000-08-28 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Sean Armstrong wrote: I have an Intel Pro network card. I was wondering if anyone knows what driver I was supposed to use for this ISA card in Linux. Sorry. Never used an ISA anything in Linux. Or, does anyone know where I can find info telling me which driver to use

[expert] please help with lo

2000-05-17 Thread paul hammat
I'm trying to run freeciv. It will not allow me to run it from root. I go to a user account try to run it and it will not work. Loopback lo is not running and will not allow civ client to connect to civserver. How do I set up lo for the user account? it functions ok as root Im using ML7

[expert] Please help with mouse prob

2000-02-19 Thread William English
I have some probs with my mouse! When I do ctrl + alt F1 I get this stuff. (--) SVGA: PCI: NVidia Unknown chipset (0x0100) rev 16, Memory @ 0xd000, 0xa000 few lines up from this it says ^ ^^ Warning: /dev/mouse unable to get status of mouse fd (Inappropriate ioctl for device) Fatal

[expert] Please Help I can't install Linux Mandrake 6.0

1999-11-03 Thread Tejinder Singh
I purchased a copy of Mandrake about 3 months ago. I successfully managed to install this on a PC whose BIOS supports CDROM boot. Recently I thought I'd put it onto an older PC. Spec: Cyrix 486 DLC 33 MHZ processor 8 MBytes DRAM Maths coprocessor (Weitek?) The external device controller is not

Re: [expert] Please Help I can't install Linux Mandrake 6.0

1999-11-03 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: I purchased a copy of Mandrake about 3 months ago. I successfully managed to install this on a PC whose BIOS supports CDROM boot. Recently I thought I'd put it onto an older PC. Spec: Cyrix 486 DLC 33 MHZ

Re: [expert] Please help with gAIM or AIM

1999-10-11 Thread Payne Stanifer
Thanks TIK worked immediately. I highly recommend it. From: alann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Please help with gAIM or AIM Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 16:26:18 + root wrote: Get the rpm from www.linuxberg.com. Go to http

Re: [expert] Please help with gAIM or AIM

1999-10-10 Thread root
Get the rpm from www.linuxberg.com. Go to http://nitco.linuxberg.com/x11html/com_messengers.html get gaim in rpm and install it. Tik can be installed by tar zxvf tik-0.70.tar.gz This will create a directory called tik. change to that directory. type ./tik.tcl there you have it. Matthew A.

Re: [expert] Please help with gAIM or AIM

1999-10-10 Thread alann
root wrote: Get the rpm from www.linuxberg.com. Go to http://nitco.linuxberg.com/x11html/com_messengers.html get gaim in rpm and install it. Tik can be installed by tar zxvf tik-0.70.tar.gz This will create a directory called tik. change to that directory. type ./tik.tcl there

[expert] Please help with gAIM or AIM

1999-10-09 Thread Payne Stanifer
Can someone please tell me how to install and run gAIM or AIM for Linux. I am frustrated, and the more throuogh the answer the better. Thanks. Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [expert] Please help with install on laptop

1999-09-28 Thread Toby Boreham
At 16:03 26/09/99 -0500, you wrote: Can anyone help me? I am attempting to install Mandrake 6.1 on a Compaq Armada laptop via ftp. In order for this to work, the installation needs to recognize my PCMCIA 3Com589 network card. When I am prompted for a driver 3c589 is not in the list and none of

Re: [expert] Please help with install on laptop

1999-09-28 Thread Juan Sutton
Actually, I was unaware it was possible to enable PCMCIA support on the boot menu. I assumed it was supported since the installation asks if I need PCMCIA support (I say yes) and then prompts me for the PCMCIA support disk, which I insert. It copies some files and that is when I am prompted for

[expert] Please help with install on laptop

1999-09-26 Thread Juan Sutton
Can anyone help me? I am attempting to install Mandrake 6.1 on a Compaq Armada laptop via ftp. In order for this to work, the installation needs to recognize my PCMCIA 3Com589 network card. When I am prompted for a driver 3c589 is not in the list and none of the other drivers seem to work. I

Re: [expert] Please Help I can't install Linux Mandrake 6.0

1999-01-02 Thread Tima Vaisburd
Tejinder Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently I thought I'd put it onto an older PC. Spec: Cyrix 486 DLC 33 MHZ processor 8 MBytes DRAM The latest version I installed successfully on such machine was Redhat 5.2. Even X worked ( in the most basic configuration, fvwm2, rxvt no

Re: [expert] Please Help I can't install Linux Mandrake 6.0

1999-01-02 Thread Singer XJ Wang
Mandrake is OPmtized for Pentium CLass CPU, others may or may not work. Plus, DLC processors were know to be flakey. On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: I purchased a copy of Mandrake about 3 months ago.

RE: [expert] Please Help I can't install Linux Mandrake 6.0

1999-01-02 Thread Tejinder Singh
PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 7:57 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:[expert] Please Help I can't install Linux Mandrake 6.0 I purchased a copy of Mandrake about 3 months ago. I successfully managed to install this on a PC whose BIOS supports CDROM boot. Recently I

RE: [expert] Please Help I can't install Linux Mandrake 6.0

1999-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Thanks to all the respondants for very informative answers. You're right, machines equipped with 486-33 are just not powerful enough to support Linux Mandrake. This must be due to driver speed optimisations for Pentium class machines, I guess. You mean a