Re: [newbie] Rats, PPP does not work right.

1999-03-25 Thread Steve Philp
Kuraiken wrote: Hello again all, I finally got my external modem (yaay!) and so it was with great excitement that I setup the thing and all. (made sure it worked in NT first, just to be sure). I got it up, tested the modem in kppp..it worked! Great so far...I dialed my ISP...(it took a

Re: [newbie] httpd user

1999-03-25 Thread Steve Philp
PJ : Biztech wrote: Trying to configure the httpd.conf file for the user and group for it to run under. for Mandrake 5.3 ( of course ) Just about any one I use will allow the "root" or default page to run, but when I try to view users pages. host.com/~user I get the error Forbidden

Re: [newbie] KDE questions???

1999-03-25 Thread Steve Philp
"James J. Capone" wrote: If you all have noticed there is a little CD button on the bottom right of the screen in KDE. Well I hit the Icon like 5 times. Now when I goto use it (After closing Linux and booting back up and logging in) I click the Icon and 5 of the programs open at one Time. I

Re: [newbie] X11Amp Problem(s)....

1999-03-25 Thread Steve Philp
Nick Elvester wrote: Along the same lines, does anyone know how well a Pentium 75 would play mp3's? I'm looking to have a possible dedicated mp3 machine for the Hi-fi, but I haven't had the time to test the viability of it. Also, I've had really good luck with the kmpg player, but it's

Re: [newbie] Autostart KDE

1999-03-25 Thread Bob Bonifield
hehe, do you know of any files I should check out on how to go about scripting it to go in single user mode? At 11:41 PM 3/24/99 -0500, you wrote: My bother with KDE if you don't even have a MONITOR on the system? Start it in single user mode with a script to run mpg123 or some other

Re: [newbie] Autostart KDE

1999-03-25 Thread Steve Philp
Bob Bonifield wrote: hehe, do you know of any files I should check out on how to go about scripting it to go in single user mode? Edit /etc/inittab and change the "id:3:initdefault" line to "id:1:initdefault". Then put the mp3 commands into a script in /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/. At 11:41 PM

RE: [newbie] httpd user

1999-03-25 Thread Aaron Lynch
can you please explain what the settings mean? I sorta have a grasp on the chmod 644 style (sorta), so are you? chmod Group Owner adding Read eXicute? So what happens if for example the file alread had global exicute, no change? tryin to learn :) -Aaron Check the permissions on your home

Re: [newbie] Rats, PPP does not work right.

1999-03-25 Thread Kuraiken
worked! Great so far...I dialed my ISP...(it took a _very_ long time to log in - not a good sign) and then...I was connected! What speed modem? You might gain some throughput by running setserial at boottime: /sbin/setserial /dev/modem spd_vhi V.90 / 56K I could ping the

Re: [newbie] Rats, PPP does not work right.

1999-03-25 Thread Kuraiken
Whoops, Sorry, got the names mixed up. It was Jerry who sent the link - Jacob the one who had the trouble. Sorry about that Jerry and thanks for the page!

[newbie] Alright! time to nuke NT

1999-03-25 Thread Kuraiken
Greetings folks, I finally got my ppp working. Many many many thanks to everyone who helped (directly or indirectly) - you guys are great! And they said Linux has poor support...hmm...must have confused it with something else entirely. Okay, I'm writing this in KMail. I like it but will have

Re: [newbie] KDE -high res color??-

1999-03-25 Thread Steve Philp
Dave Lindsay wrote: When starting up X, instead of typing startx you may want to type startx -- -bpp your colour depth here Does anyone know how to set the default colour depth? In the same Section that you're adding resolutions to, add a line (just prior to the different bitdepth

Re: [newbie] X11Amp Problem(s)....

1999-03-25 Thread Steve Philp
Nick Kay wrote: At 10:21 24/03/99 -0800, you wrote: At 13:19 23/03/99 -0500, you wrote: My CPU speed is a little ole 486 DX2/66. I have a feeling that this might be the problem. I am not really sure about what you told me to try. Should that be typed in exactly like that at the command

[newbie] Error message on closing kde.

1999-03-25 Thread Reg Wainwright
On quitting kde, although the operation of the kde manager has been exemplary, I get this error message displayed on the vt that was used to startx: Mach64ProgramClkMach64CT: Warning Q 10.6667 Can someone please tell me was to what it means and how to fix it? Regards, Reg Wainwright.

Re: [newbie] Installing:

1999-03-25 Thread Tom Berger
On Don, 25 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Don, 25 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: Hi: I changed the BIOS setting so that my system would boot from my CD-ROM E: drive. Did you enter 'E:' or 'CDROM' in your BIOS setup? 'E:' won't work. Booted up with the mandrake disk in the drive and I saw the light

[newbie] upgrade kde?

1999-03-25 Thread mc
I'm just started to learn linux by installing (after redhat 5.2) a mandrake 5.3 taken from a cd bundled with a magazine. It is well working, and literally I enjoy linux/mandrake. But I saw the cd installed "kde 1.1-0.1 alpha 1rh5x", which is rather old, I think. So,I downloaded both

[newbie] KDE Problem

1999-03-25 Thread jimaller
Hi everybody. I tried to submit this problem twice but it doesn't seem to be getting up to the list. I am really stuck on this one. I installed the Linux-Mandrake 5.3 package on one of my computers yesterday and all seemed to be going well until I started KDE. First, I got an Error

[newbie] Linux is Wonderful

1999-03-25 Thread Geoff Jackie Barkman
I've been using linux for a few days now and starting to know my way round. A handy trick someone show me was when you type a command line and don't know all of it type the first letter, then the "TAB" key... it brings up a list of possible commands with that letter. I used Sndconfig to get my

[newbie] drivers for viper 330 8 meg

1999-03-25 Thread Rick Murphy
Hi gang, I've successfully loaded the linux Xconfigurator drivers for my four meg viper 330 but I'm not having any luck with the new 8 meg verson of the viper 330 that I upgraded to. I'm using Mandrake 5.3. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off

[newbie] Zip Drive support under Mandrake Linux

1999-03-25 Thread RILINDO FOSTER
Forgive me if this has been asked before, but is there native support for IDE/ATAPI zip drives under LM 5.3? If so, how do I enabled it? Do I just create a /mnt/zip directory and then access it and then edit the fstab? Or is there something else involved? - Rilindo

RE: [newbie] Alright! time to nuke NT

1999-03-25 Thread Aaron Lynch
all my redhat netscape problems were fixed automaigically by installing the 4.5 rpm from contrib.redhat.com Greetings folks, I finally got my ppp working. Many many many thanks to everyone who helped (directly or indirectly) - you guys are great! And they said Linux has poor

[newbie] alt.os.linux.mandrake - wow! ;-)

1999-03-25 Thread Tom Berger
Hi! Well, I just checked alt.config. I am really impressed ;-). Everyone who haven't already posted a approving reply to my proposal of "alt.os.linux.mandrake" in news:alt.config is still invited to do so. tom -- "The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum." (Finagle's Law) Thomas

Re: [newbie] Installing:

1999-03-25 Thread jowilker
I used what you suggested and Mandrake loaded without a hitch. John Tom Berger wrote: On Don, 25 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Don, 25 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: Hi: I changed the BIOS setting so that my system would boot from my CD-ROM E: drive. Did you enter 'E:' or 'CDROM' in your BIOS

RE: [newbie] httpd user

1999-03-25 Thread Aaron Lynch
you shouldn't change the group of the server. it's better to explicitly change the permissions on the user, public_html directory and all the files in it. You sure you've done this? I use a shell script to automate it. #aarons shell script to add users and change permissions on their #local

Re: [newbie] upgrade kde?

1999-03-25 Thread Tom Berger
On Don, 25 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Don, 25 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: I'm just started to learn linux by installing (after redhat 5.2) a mandrake 5.3 taken from a cd bundled with a magazine. It is well working, and literally I enjoy linux/mandrake. But I saw the cd installed "kde 1.1-0.1 alpha

Re: [newbie] Alright! time to nuke NT

1999-03-25 Thread Michael Doyle
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, you wrote: Greetings folks, Okay, I'm writing this in KMail. I like it but will have to move my mail over. I'd like to continue using Netscape mail for awhile at least...but I can't seem to get into the [mail] part of the Netscape preferences area without hanging

[newbie] Partitions?

1999-03-25 Thread David Leathers
Hi I'm somewhat confused about how to write or name the partitions that I will set up during install. Here is the way that I think they should be written. Let me know if I'm wrong. I also have a 3.2G IDE drive to install Linux to I have listed the MB value that I think I should set these to.

Re: [newbie] httpd user

1999-03-25 Thread PJ : Biztech
I'm getting confused then. in httpd.conf it says don't use the user and group nobody, it suggests creating a user and group called www. My main question was how do I set that up properly. As for my permissions on my public_html directory, here it is let me know if it's fine. [root@gibor

Re: [newbie] alt.os.linux.mandrake - wow! ;-)

1999-03-25 Thread Scarlett
Tom, I tried earlier today to post an approval at dejanews. Never could get it to work! I just used the link to news:alt.config and found the proposal and posted a reply to the one dissenting vote I saw. Well, it's just like Michael said earlier, there's one in every crowd! I really would

[newbie] XServer for 3dfx chipset?

1999-03-25 Thread Agi Subagio
How to run Linux Mandrake's XServer (XFree86) with 3dfx Banshee Graphics Card?

Re: [newbie] XServer for 3dfx chipset?

1999-03-25 Thread Paul A. Bernicchi
Hi Agi, Well, there is. You can setup a late version of the Linux kernel (anything newer than 2.1.119 should do) with vesafb and use the XF86_FBDev server with it. Anthony D'Amico has a nice introduction how to do this at http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/, where he describes how to get

Re: [newbie] KDE

1999-03-25 Thread Nick Elvester
I had similar problems, for the KDE I had to choose only 1024*768 and 24bpp color for my xfree86 settings. It seems GIMP may not work with less that 16bpp color, when I tried it at any less, I had the symptoms you describe. Hope this helps. From: jowilker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Your comments please:

1999-03-25 Thread Nick Elvester
IRC sound like a good idea to me as well. From: G_REEPER [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Your comments please: "alt.os.linux.mandrake"? Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:52:42 -0600 On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, you wrote: Hi! Well I don't know about

Re: [newbie] KDE

1999-03-25 Thread Nick Elvester
I had similar problems, for the KDE I had to choose only 1024*768 and 24bpp color for my xfree86 settings. It seems GIMP may not work with less that 16bpp color, when I tried it at any less, I had the symptoms you describe. Hope this helps. From: jowilker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL