Re: [newbie] Klogin?

1999-03-10 Thread Steve Philp
Kuraiken wrote: > > Steve Philp wrote: > > > Lawrence Sayre wrote: > > > > > > I've just switched to Mandrake 5.3 from SuSE 5.3, and in SuSE my > > > computer auto-launched into KDE (bypassing command line log-in), passing > > > through 'Klogin' (at least that's what I believe its called) for lo

Re: [newbie] Patch

1999-03-10 Thread Steve Philp
Rick Keefer wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 23:39:35 -0500, Steve Philp wrote: > > >Rick Keefer wrote: > >> > >> Hey all, > >> > >> Well here's another newbie question. What is a patch and how is it installed? > > > >A patch is a small (or in the case of some kernel patches, rather large) > >pie

Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-10 Thread Robert Weider
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, you wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I am having a strange problem. When I boot into Linux, I get a > "CRC Error -- System Halted" error when vmlinuz is being loaded. The > strange thing is that it only happens sometimes; if I reset the machine > 2 or 3 times in a roll, the kernel boot

Re: [newbie] Book?

1999-03-10 Thread Sam Bonham
The "Idiot" book was a big surprize to me. I saw it today discounted at 12.50. With the KDE, dialup coverage, essential system tasks including basics of customing the kernel I couldn't lose. Running Linux is good. Sam Bill Moshier wrote: > > I've found the "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh is an ex

[newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-10 Thread Jeffrey Chen
Hi Guys, I am having a strange problem. When I boot into Linux, I get a "CRC Error -- System Halted" error when vmlinuz is being loaded. The strange thing is that it only happens sometimes; if I reset the machine 2 or 3 times in a roll, the kernel boots just fine. No error once the kernel got r

Re: [newbie] Exiting KDE

1999-03-10 Thread Thomas L. McCurdy, Jr.
At 04:31 AM 3/10/99 -0700, you wrote: hit ...this kills the X server >Hey all! I recently got a "theme installer", which installs desktop >themes on KDE by running one install script. But when I run it, it >changes the desktop and everything fine, but the "start bar" type thing, >and the

Re: [newbie] Exiting KDE

1999-03-10 Thread Ndk | Ralph |
hey just type in ctrl,alt,backspace at the same time this will shut x down and you can restartx. Ralph -Original Message- From: Don Bonomini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 7:00 PM Subject: [newbie] Exiting KDE >Hey all! I re

[newbie] Exiting KDE

1999-03-10 Thread Don Bonomini
Hey all! I recently got a "theme installer", which installs desktop themes on KDE by running one install script. But when I run it, it changes the desktop and everything fine, but the "start bar" type thing, and the "task" bar dissapeer. So I cant shut K down! After i power off, and Linux re-start

Re: [newbie] KPPP wont initialize

1999-03-10 Thread Fabio Coatti
Warning Could not process message with given Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=VUDLurXRWRKrGuMn; micalg=pgp-sha1;protocol="application/pgp-signature"

Re: [newbie] Color Depth Problems

1999-03-10 Thread Steve Philp
Fabio Coatti wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 10:47:12PM -0600, Matt Stegman wrote: > > Hi, my name is Matt and I recently downloaded Mandrake Linux. I > > successfully installed it, but now am having problems configuring my > > X-server. It runs fine, but only in 8-bit color (my video card c

Re: [newbie] Klogin?

1999-03-10 Thread Kuraiken
Steve Philp wrote: > Lawrence Sayre wrote: > > > > I've just switched to Mandrake 5.3 from SuSE 5.3, and in SuSE my > > computer auto-launched into KDE (bypassing command line log-in), passing > > through 'Klogin' (at least that's what I believe its called) for loging > > on the user and password

Re: [newbie] Patch

1999-03-10 Thread Rick Keefer
On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 23:39:35 -0500, Steve Philp wrote: >Rick Keefer wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> Well here's another newbie question. What is a patch and how is it installed? > >A patch is a small (or in the case of some kernel patches, rather large) >piece of source code that you apply to your

Re: [newbie] Kppp

1999-03-10 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 08 Mar 1999 15:42:05 -0800, you wrote: >Hey all, > >Is there someplace I can check on reported bugs for Kppp ?? I'm having alot of >trouble with mine. Sometimes it wil connect to my ISP, other times it tells me >my ISP doesn't answer to configuration request, and still other times it wi

Re: [newbie] cd rom problems

1999-03-10 Thread Fabio Coatti
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 11:53:47PM -0500, Steve Philp wrote: > Tim Wojtaszek wrote: > > > > When ever I try to access my cd rom, i get an error message: > > >file:/dev/cdrom%3a%20Input/output%20error%0Amoun...ou%20must%20specify%the%20filesystem%20type%0A. > > > > how do I do that. > > Is that

Re: [newbie] Color Depth Problems

1999-03-10 Thread Fabio Coatti
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 10:47:12PM -0600, Matt Stegman wrote: > Hi, my name is Matt and I recently downloaded Mandrake Linux. I > successfully installed it, but now am having problems configuring my > X-server. It runs fine, but only in 8-bit color (my video card can support > 32-bit). I have r