Re: [newbie] About soundcards...

1999-04-20 Thread Hidong Kim
Jose Alberto Abreu wrote: And how does one configure a soundcard manually (when the card included drivers for every OS except Linux)? --- "Free your mind... and your ass will follow" Bono, U2 Get your FREE Email at

[newbie] Samba mounting

1999-04-20 Thread True Death
How in the heck do you mount smbfs drives? I've read the Samba HOWTO... it has NOTHING, and the example in the samba docs doesn't work. Another problem (or so it seems) is that if i don't put all the machines in the /etc/lmhosts file, it takes forever to find a machine. I've tried 3 programs

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer 5.0 setup

1999-04-20 Thread Jeanette Russo
I have gotten it to work. I have both the Red Hat player and the ELF version installed on my computer. I am running Mandrake 5.3 the 2.0.36 Kernal and Netscape 4.08 which came with Mandrake. This did take a lot of playing around to do. I had to uninstall and reinstall a couple of times and

RE: [newbie] Samba mounting

1999-04-20 Thread Birchall, Richard
True Death [EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: How in the heck do you mount smbfs drives? By using "smbmount" and "smbumount". There is lots of info here (long URL): http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?ST=PSshowsort=datesubjects=smbmountgr oups=*linux*+%7C+*redhat* If you're running Linux kernel

[newbie] Re:Installing Fonts

1999-04-20 Thread Diego Cisneros
Hello! If not have cyrillics fonts you can get its in http://www.usoft.spb.ru or http://www.iplabs.ru and after the installation then: In KDE Control Center - Desktop - Lenguage - First; select Russian(ru) and restart KDE. In Netscape : Edit - Preferences - Appearance - Fonts - For the

[newbie] Can't get a loopback device

1999-04-20 Thread Jean-Paul Koziol
I have recompiled 2.2.6 per the Redhat how -to but when I run mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.6.img 2.2.6 I get the following: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/loop0 as a block device (maybe "insmod driver" ? )Can't get a loopback device any help for it -- Cordialement

[newbie] soundcard problems revisited...

1999-04-20 Thread Adam Wright
I posted a message on here about 4 days ago, but unfortunately my question got lost in all the responses and never did get answered. Here's what I have. I recently installed Mandrake 5.3 in a system in which I could never get the soundcard to function properly. I then removed the card and

[newbie] new problem

1999-04-20 Thread M C Z.
I got everything installed (at least I think I did). Now I find out my video card (S3 86C365 4MB AGP) is not supported by XFree86. Does anyone know of anything I can do? I can't afford to buy Accelerated-X which does support my card. Thanks in advance, Mike

[newbie] unix and shell programming CBTs

1999-04-20 Thread Charley Sparks
I have cbts available for unix and shell programming. if you have the bandwidth, and want a copy drop a note to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] where I am the net geek. I will send them out tomorrow if there are any interests Charley these are high quality commercial products !

RE: [newbie] Diamond S220

1999-04-20 Thread Birchall, Richard
hevnsnt [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: Has anyone tried linux with a Diamond S220? For some reason it doesnt seem that I can get over 800x600.. Anyone know why? A couple posts ago, someone was talking about the Viper 550, and someone mentioned a site that they should read, I checked out that site

Re: [newbie] how to get apps on KDE desktop

1999-04-20 Thread Linda Mike
I wish that I was even as proficient as you to be able to install a program. I still can't figure out how to install a program and so it makes me not want to even use the OS. Linda At 09:09 AM 4/19/99 -1000, you wrote: Hi there, here is a very simple question from a very new user. I just

[newbie] Upgrading x11amp?

1999-04-20 Thread Tom Varghese
Anybody tried upgrading the default x11amp on the mandrake cd (v0.65 I believe) to 0.90? Am getting a lot of error msgs regarding dependencies. Tom. -- The Unofficial Ricoh CD-ReWritable Page http://www.arrakis-ttm.com/cdr/ MessageBoard: http://www.delphi.com/mp6200

Re: [newbie] Installing Fonts

1999-04-20 Thread Lloyd
Sebastian Vaisov wrote: Hello, newbie I need to install cyrillic fonts to linux. I'm using Mandrake 5.3 with KDE. I need cyrillic fonts in netscape. How could I install the fonts? Anybody could talk here russian? I believe there is a HOWTO on cyrillic fonts included on the

[newbie] Re:Installing Fonts

1999-04-20 Thread Diego Cisneros
Hello! If not have cyrillics fonts you can get its in http://www.usoft.spb.ru or http://www.iplabs.ru and after the installation then: In KDE Control Center - Desktop - Lenguage - First; select Russian(ru) and restart KDE. In Netscape : Edit - Preferences - Appearance - Fonts - For the

RE: [newbie] Upgrading x11amp?

1999-04-20 Thread Nichols, Jason
I have. You need to get the newest glibc and gtk? libraries. Read up on it at X11amp's web site. The version I have of them is something like 1.2.0... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 2:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Remote display

1999-04-20 Thread Tom Varghese
Some newbie discoveries for other newbies :) You can run some X progs on your linux box, displaying it on another machine...e.g. your windows machine. Pretty nifty feature, allows me to have faxes sent to my home linux machine, and displayed on my NT machine at work via internet. telnetting

RE: [newbie] Adaptec SCSI card

1999-04-20 Thread Birchall, Richard
sledge151 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: Here's my problem, maybe someone can help. I installed Red Hat 5.2 on a dual boot system and entered the parameters manually (aha1520=0x340,11,7). The OS saw the card and installed fine from there. (I should say that I installed from a Scsi cd-rom) I want

Re: [newbie] I want to use Linux...Can someone help?

1999-04-20 Thread mdclintn
Russ, There is an offical java icq which will run on linux as well as any other platform which allows you to run java apps, but it is slow. I would recommend using Licq, which comes with the mandrake distribution (just type 'licq' at the terminal prompt). Exodus Russ Westbrook wrote:

[newbie] PnP Modem

1999-04-20 Thread Marlon Estrada
Hi, I've gotten Mandrake 5.3 installed and working on my computer. I've also been able to get Linux to recognize my Sportster 56k internal pnp faxmodem using isapnp. Unfortunately, I have to login as a superuser and manually configure the modem with setserial everytime I boot. I'm just

Re: [newbie] VMWARE????

1999-04-20 Thread mdclintn
Hello, It is worth the download to play with it but if want it to play win95/98 games supporting directx or direct draw you are out of luck the current version of vmware does not fully support directx or direct draw. It will run anything else in windows or dos except those which require univibe

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer 5.0 setup

1999-04-20 Thread Jeanette Russo
that's a good question because Real knows about the problem its in their knowledge base. I have no idea why they continue to offer a player which is missing a component to make it work. Jeanette] - Original Message - From: Martin Cleaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[newbie] setting up WinE

1999-04-20 Thread Manny Styles
My ISP uses it's own software to connect to the internet, and I cannot connect without it (banners and all). I'm hoping that I can run the program from wine, but I have no idea how to configure and run it (options). On another note, I'm having difficulties setting up a user account. I

RE: [newbie] Toshiba help

1999-04-20 Thread Usman Malik
Title: RE: [newbie] Toshiba help Thanks for your reply. The specs are as follows: Tecra 700CT notebook computer: - Processor: 120 MHz Intel Pentium processor with 16KB internal cache - Video: SVGA graphics controller with a PCI local bus, VESA Extended VGA BIOS (including VBE/PM), using

Re: [newbie] how to get apps on KDE desktop

1999-04-20 Thread Matt Stegman
The desktop icons are just files in ~/Desktop (where ~ stands for a user's home directory, usually /home/username). To create new ones, you can right-click anywhere on the desktop, and on the menu that pops up, go to the "New" submenu, and choose what object you'd like to create

Re: [newbie] setting up WinE

1999-04-20 Thread Jeanette Russo
It may be better to get a more Linux friendly ISP. From my experience Wine does not work to well and I don't think it would work well to run your internet connection from. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 19,

Re: [newbie] Adaptec SCSI card

1999-04-20 Thread Lloyd
sledge151 wrote: Here's my problem, maybe someone can help. I installed Red Hat 5.2 on a dual boot system and entered the parameters manually (aha1520=0x340,11,7). The OS saw the card and installed fine from there. (I should say that I installed from a Scsi cd-rom) I want to change to

Re: [newbie] Booting from innstall disk.

1999-04-20 Thread Lloyd
Jarl Gaute Vartdal wrote: I've made a bootdisk, just the way You deskribe in doc. (on your cdrom). I have Red Hat already innstalled on my pc, and I've put the LILO boot in MBR. Now when I try to boot from Your innstall disk the pc just read from the disk for about 2 sek. and continues to

Re: [newbie] PnP Modem

1999-04-20 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 07:20:40PM -0500, Marlon Estrada wrote: Hi, I've gotten Mandrake 5.3 installed and working on my computer. I've also been able to get Linux to recognize my Sportster 56k internal pnp faxmodem using isapnp. Unfortunately, I have to login as a superuser and manually

Re: [newbie] Can't get a loopback device

1999-04-20 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 07:36:06PM +0200, Jean-Paul Koziol wrote: I have recompiled 2.2.6 per the Redhat how -to but when I run mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.6.img 2.2.6 I get the following: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/loop0 as a block device (maybe "insmod driver" ?

Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Problem

1999-04-20 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 04:50:32PM +0100, Nick Kay wrote: At 07:15 20/04/99 -0500, you wrote: I have just updated the kernel to version 2.2.5. I followed the directions on the web site and it boots fine except for one thing. As the list of services starting scrolls by, it fails to start

Re: [newbie] setting up WinE

1999-04-20 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 12:59:13AM -0400, Manny Styles wrote: On another note, I'm having difficulties setting up a user account. I type "/usr/sbin/adduser -p [the password I want] [username]", but when I try to login, it tells me that my password is incorrect, and I'm sure I typed it in