Re: [newbie] Alright! time to nuke NT

1999-03-26 Thread Steve Philp
Kuraiken 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 netscape. Only a

Re: [newbie] Error message on closing kde.

1999-03-26 Thread Steve Philp
Reg Wainwright wrote: 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?

Re: [newbie] KDE Problem

1999-03-26 Thread Steve Philp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] drivers for viper 330 8 meg

1999-03-26 Thread Steve Philp
Rick Murphy wrote: 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. What sort of

Re: [newbie] Linux is Wonderful

1999-03-26 Thread Steve Philp
Geoff Jackie Barkman wrote: 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

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

1999-03-26 Thread Nick Kay
At 13:25 25/03/99 -0500, you wrote: 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

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

1999-03-26 Thread Tom Berger
On Fre, 26 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Fre, 26 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: 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

Re: [newbie] Partitions?

1999-03-26 Thread Tom Berger
On Fre, 26 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Fre, 26 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: 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

[newbie] Can Gnome and KDE peacefully coexist?

1999-03-26 Thread Ray Wingler
I love KDE. But Iam curious about gnome as well. Can I set up a different user acct. for each? Thank for any info, Ray

[newbie] Sound and Modem (again)

1999-03-26 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Greetings: Ok, I bought, from a linux systems distributor, a linux-compatible 56K modem and a SoundBlaster AWE64 soundcard. I cannot get either to work with Mandrake up to now. Modem: My computer manufacturer had disabled COM2; from the BIPS setup, I reenabled it; dmesg gives me - Serial

Re: [newbie] Your comments please:

1999-03-26 Thread ndk | Ralph |
Has anyone thought about an icq channel for manderake maybe this is the way to go? - Original Message - From: Dave Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 26, 1999 10:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Your comments please: think an irc channel would be good. But

Re: [newbie] KDE and Other WinManagers

1999-03-26 Thread PJ : Biztech
I got windowmaker to run by running a command called wmaker.inst then startx. Then I can switch back to kde by startx kde In window maker you can switch to Afterstep so I haven't tried to modify the startx to get into afterstep. hope that helps a little. pj Bernardo Rodrigues wrote: Hi,

Re: [newbie] Sound and Modem (again)

1999-03-26 Thread Steve Philp
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Greetings: Ok, I bought, from a linux systems distributor, a linux-compatible 56K modem and a SoundBlaster AWE64 soundcard. I cannot get either to work with Mandrake up to now. Modem: My computer manufacturer had disabled COM2; from the BIPS setup, I

Re: [newbie] Netscape 4.5 stable?

1999-03-26 Thread Tom Berger
On Fre, 26 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Fre, 26 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: Aaron Lynch wrote: all my redhat netscape problems were fixed automaigically by installing the 4.5 rpm from contrib.redhat.com Hi Aaron, I was wondering, is NS Comm4.5 worth downloading? I heard many tales of high