Re: [newbie] modem problems.....

1999-06-14 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Brian Erikson wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: 9906140913181894500@ebb I think it might work if you try cua0 or cua1 depending on if it is on serial port 1 or 2 respectively. That is the only selection that works with my

Re: [newbie] Venus 6.0

1999-06-14 Thread Lloyd
root wrote: I have a Cyrix P200 chipped on an ATC-1020+ 430VX motherboard PC with 48M ram. I have recently bought Venus 6.0 and it will not install at all. At some stage before the end of the installation it 'bombs out' with a hex dump to the screen , partially obscured by the

[newbie] Sound!

1999-06-14 Thread Martin Cleaver
I upgraded from Festen to Venus and everything looked okay. But then I found out that NFS didn't wpok (easy to solve: it was no longer loaded automatically :-( Samba didn't work either, but that was solved with the latest bug fix. Now I am left without sound (no snfconfig can be found) and I

[newbie] Strange Ethernet problem..

1999-06-14 Thread Beacham Tim P
I have two Ethernet cards in my machine - one for the cable modem and another for my private network and I use ipchains to masquerade through the cable modem.The problem is the connection is very slow on the private side of the network using samba or ftp back to the server and on the

Re: [newbie] Sound!

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
Martin Cleaver wrote: I upgraded from Festen to Venus and everything looked okay. But then I found out that NFS didn't wpok (easy to solve: it was no longer loaded automatically :-( Samba didn't work either, but that was solved with the latest bug fix. Now I am left without sound (no

[newbie] Upgrades

1999-06-14 Thread Martin Cleaver
There are now no less that 35 rpms in the Mandrake 6.0 ftp upgrade directory... isn't than nearly a new distribution in its own right? (There are still only 6 in the 5.3 upgrade directory...) How am I supposed to know which I need? (I get a Gtk widget error and strnge errors with

[newbie] Partitioning

1999-06-14 Thread Mozart24
I have Mandrake 6.0 that came with Partition Magic, and after using it, everything installs fine, but when it's time to dual boot (it came with Boot Magic too) , it seems like it doesn't see Linux on the new partition. It just hangs when tryign to boot Linux. Anyone suggetions would be greatly

Re: [newbie] Venus 6.0

1999-06-14 Thread Bob Springett
I hope Mandrake home in on this one and do something about it. I was quite dissapointed with the result after Festen. I'm going to try it on another machine and will let you know. I don't know what Mandrake are up to. They announce Mariner is up for beta testing and then out of the blue announce

[newbie] Linux Mandrake Extended Support - Brazilian Keymap

1999-06-14 Thread Rodrigo F Oliveira
Hi, I am brazilian and I would like to tell you about a problem that I have noticed in the new distribution of Linux Mandrake 6.0. Here in Brazil we are used to use a us keyboard (microsoft 105 keyboard) though some of us use the ABNT keyboard (It is the IBM keyboard). But the problem is: we

Re: [newbie] Venus 6.0

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
Bob Springett wrote: I hope Mandrake home in on this one and do something about it. I was quite dissapointed with the result after Festen. I'm going to try it on another machine and will let you know. I don't know what Mandrake are up to. They announce Mariner is up for beta testing and

Re: [newbie] Venus 6.0

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Bob Springett wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: 9906141857202248000@ebb I hope Mandrake home in on this one and do something about it. Something has been done - there are a number of updates for 6.0 by now. I don't know what

Re: [newbie] Partitioning

1999-06-14 Thread Matt Stegman
Are you sure LILO is installed on that partition? The default, when you install Mandrake is to put LILO in the master boot record of hda, but if you're using another boot loader, then that will wipe LILO off your MBR when it's installed. I believe that when you use another boot loader in your

[newbie] Windows!

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
Dear Linux lovers! Whe a try to boot my pc to run linux (linx4win linux for windows) the following problem accur: loading vmlinuz Image File not found... Please . Abort.. What is the problem? Thanks in advance! Victor Heurfano New Linux user

Re: [newbie] Sound!

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
Now I am left without sound (no snfconfig can be found) and I get two error messages when I start KDE: Any ideas on the sound problems? run soundconfig Don't tell me: that's the new name for sndconfig... I ran find several times and couldn't find sndconfig... (sigh - soundless) How many

Re: [newbie] modem problems.....

1999-06-14 Thread Brian Erikson
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: Are you sure you can't use ttyS0 and ttyS1 instead? /dev/cua? devices are obsolete and have been replaced with ttyS devices. If they don't work, did you do anything odd to them (disable the serial ports in BIOS or something like that)? LLaP bero I will

Re: [newbie] Adding IDE CDROM?

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
- Original Message - From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 13, 1999 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Adding IDE CDROM? On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Stephen Anderson wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id:

[newbie] Unexpected Inconsistency with /hda3

1999-06-14 Thread Mozart24
I got this message when booting Linux. It said to run fcsk manually. How do I do this? Is this what I need to do to solve this problem?? ANy help would be great!!! Matt

Re: [newbie] Unexpected Inconsistency with /hda3

1999-06-14 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: 9906142229222370500@ebb I got this message when booting Linux. It said to run fcsk manually. How do I do this? Is this what I need to do to solve this problem?? log in as root,

Re: [newbie] Digest mode

1999-06-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
MartinI had exactly the same problem. So I subscribed to the non-digest list and was then able to post. Alan -Original Message- From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, June 14, 1999 5:00 AM Subject: [newbie] Digest mode Just got

Re: [newbie] SGML files

1999-06-14 Thread Bob Springett
Chmouel, I have since tried sgml-tools with the *.sgml files that came with Festen and they are O.K. The original enquiry was instigated when I downloaded some sgml files from one of the web pages dealing with GTK, otaylor made up part of the URL,(I can find it if it's important).They were files

[newbie] Updating with updates

1999-06-14 Thread Shades
Running Venux, I ran the program called updates on the workbench, and I saw some new updates I wanted to install. After installing the new initscripts, I think, X doesn't not autostart with kdm, when I su root in a konsole window, I can't open windows (no access, with xhost + it works) and the

[newbie] Getting confused with kernels...

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
You should also update your kernel to 2.2.9-27mdk because it fixes a problem that could under some bad circumstances lead to filesystem errors. LLaP bero Should we instead wait for 2.2.10-xmdk? 2.2.10 is out now...(I thought the 2.2.9 was supposed to be _stable_ for a long while?!) --