[newbie] sndconfig and interpolation

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
What config file do I have to change to turn interpolation on? Jeremy

[newbie] Cyrillic fonts/charsets

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Can someone point me towards being able to view Russian web pages. I need a basic set of Cyrillic fonts (equivalents of Times, Helv and Courier) accessible through Netscape. If Gimp etc. can use them too, then that's a nice bonus! Are there such fonts in the distribution, or can +1 give me a

[newbie] Can't get 640x480

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
My problem is that I cant get a resolution of 640x480 (for use with TV voodoo card) I have iiyama VMP 400 monitor 17ins 8MB Matrox Produtiva (SVGA server in Xfree86) I can get 24bpp 1600x1200, and everything lower, EXCEPT 640x480!! My system always resorts to using 800x600even if I don't

[newbie] re: tar gz oops

1999-06-21 Thread Mike Julien
the command should read "tar xvzf kclock-0.6.tar.gz -C /usr/share/apps" Mike Julien

[newbie] Sendmail

1999-06-21 Thread Mike Julien
After a fresh install of Mandrake 6.0 via ftp..sendmail doesn,t work...on the shut down of sendmail the error message is "** Stopping /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail ** Shutting down sendmail: [FAILED]" it has done this on every install of Mandrake 6.0 that I have done...yet I

Re: [newbie] Can't get 640x480

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Sure ... here are a few of my favorites... http://freshmeat.net http://www.linuxberg.com http://www.linuxapps.com there are also several portal sites for linux... http://www.justlinux.com http://www.linuxstart.com http://www.linux.com of course these are just some of the sites...i list htem

Re: [newbie] HTML editor

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Richard wrote: Can anyone recommend a good HTML editor suitable for M6.0/KDE (other than NS Composer)? Cheers! Richard (I'll leave you all alone now!) To avoid problems with netscape I download a fresh copy from netscape as a .tar.gz file...not only can I get a high encryption

Re: [newbie] Tar Gz file

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
The usual way to install programs that come in tar.gz format is to issue the following commands... disclaimerThis is my experience and i mustt say the following step is the ost common way but by no means the only way. Read the instructions for the package first../disclaimer (assume the file is

Re: [newbie] Driver for Creative Labs 3D Blaster Banshee

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Don't know about Creative Labs 3D Blaster Banshee rpm, but a while ago they had a driver for the Matrox productiva in rpm, you had to download the rpm and a modified xf86config, you ran the xf86config, and the card was listed in the card list...it then set the symbolic link to the new xserver

Re: [newbie] Tar Gz file

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, you wrote: %_I have seen that most of linux applications come in either tar or gz file. How do I extract these files? Where do I extract these files? And usually how do I install the programs come in such formats? Typically, when it comes in tar, tgz, or gz format it

Re: [newbie] (no subject)

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, you wrote: Does anybody know if I can import my Windows Netscape address book to my future Linux one? I mean: I start Linux, open Netscape and will Netscape be able to do that? Thanks in advance, bzsolt! Two ways to do this: 1) save out your address book to a floppy and

Re: [newbie] HTML editor

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
I just use either of the two text editors that come with kde. Of course, I have to type in all the code. But I am just learning, so it's necessary that I do it this way. adios, Steve W --- Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a good HTML editor suitable for M6.0/KDE (other

Re: [newbie] HTML editor

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Richard wrote: Can anyone recommend a good HTML editor suitable for M6.0/KDE (other than NS Composer)? Cheers! Richard (I'll leave you all alone now!) You could try AsWedit (free for non-commercial use) or Webmaker, a KDE program (an rpm can be found on your nearest Redhat mirror

[newbie] Slow read performance.

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
I am having a very strange problem with my server and I really need some help. I can write to the server at normal rates averaging around 800k/sec. When I read from the server I only average around 7k to 9k/sec.This is driving me crazy. I have tried different versions of Ethernet cards and

Re: [newbie] Major problems with X under Cyrix P150+...

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
I have had MAJOR problems with my Cyrix board and Mandrake. Random failures in all places, and especially in X, to the point it was unusable. Strange, since the same box has been running old Slackware for a year without a hiccup. So I tried Slackware 4.0, with much better results. So far, no

[newbie] HTML editors

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Star office has somekinda html tool... it looked quite advanced at a glance think it may have some java script utils, dunno if it is though. But try NEdit...the best text editor in the world ever: http://www-pat.fnal.gov/nirvana/nedit.html cuts/pastes columns, macros all the usual pizzaz

Re: [newbie] Major problems with X under Cyrix P150+...

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
You may be having problems with m6 because of the pentium optimization that is built into this release. I can only suggest you upgrade your hardware or try rh6 (sorry mandrake folks, anyone have a better idea?) hih nick@nexnix At 10:25 21/06/99 -0800, you wrote: I have had MAJOR problems

Re: [newbie] Slow read performance.

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
At 09:23 21/06/99 -0500, you wrote: I am having a very strange problem with my server and I really need some help. I can write to the server at normal rates averaging around 800k/sec. When I read from the server I only average around 7k to 9k/sec.This is driving me crazy. I have tried

[newbie] Tar File Error

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
When I tried to tar a tar or gz file, it extracted some of the files, but also gave me some errors. The errors are all the same. Here is an example from my Acrobat Reader 4.0 Extraction It happens in other program extractions too. "tar: Ilinxr.install/install: Cannot chown to uid 1436 gid 100:

Re: [newbie] Slow read performance.

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Beacham Tim P wrote: I am having a very strange problem with my server and I really need some help. I can write to the server at normal rates averaging around 800k/sec. When I read from the server I only average around 7k to 9k/sec.This is driving me crazy. This

Re: [newbie] Major problems with X under Cyrix P150+...

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Nick Kay wrote: You may be having problems with m6 because of the pentium optimization that is built into this release. I can only suggest you upgrade your hardware or try rh6 (sorry mandrake folks, anyone have a better idea?) Sure wait for the soon tobe compiled

Re: [newbie] Netscape Composer

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
same here about both of your topics don -- On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, you wrote: Netscape Composer is very fragile in my M6.0/KDE system. Inserting an image in a web page is a sure-fire way of making Netscape close itself down (er, crash!). This problem occurs with both NC4.6 and 4.51.

Re: [newbie] Major problems with X under Cyrix P150+...

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On 21 Jun, Nick Kay wrote: You may be having problems with m6 because of the pentium optimization that is built into this release. I can only suggest you upgrade your hardware or try rh6 (sorry mandrake folks, anyone have a better idea?) hih You might want to try set6x86 which I got from

Re: [newbie] HTML editor

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Thanks everyone for suggestions. Nice to see asWedit again - probably the first HTML editor I ever used on Suns at college! I recommend it to Steve who said he was starting out with HTML, and it even comes as single ready to run executable if you get it from here:

Re: [newbie] Glint

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Steve wrote: Is it in the 6.0 distr. ? Stevie I don't think it is... but kpackage and gnorpm get the job done. -Tom

RE: [newbie] HTML editor

1999-06-21 Thread Bill Moshier
You might also try Amaya, on www.w3.org. I havn't used it, but the information looks good. Bill -Original Message- From: Mike Julien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 6:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HTML editor Richard wrote: Can anyone

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 - kppp Problem

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Hi, At Mon, 21 Jun 1999 you wrote: Hi there! Since having changed from SUSE to Mandrake, I cannot get a Kppp connection. Dialing is ok, but connecting to the net doesn´t work. After some time, kppp stops. Have tried everything. I had a similar problem a few weeks ago. I think the problem

Re: [newbie] Ide-scsi.o

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Martin White wrote: Managed to get all my CDR stuff working over the weekend (now if i'd been able to get my modem working under NT, id' have told you how on Friday night, not Monday morning !!). To get the ide-scsi module loading on bootup without putting it in

RE: [newbie] Slow read performance.

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
This is a routeing problem most likely try inserting a route to the host(not enough info for more sorry) Thanks for responding! Routing problem eh? Do you mean inserting a route on the Windows PC in the lmhosts file? If you are talking about Linux, where

[newbie] A kernel problem

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Hi In order to solve the unmounting problem in Venus, I did a: rpm -q -a | grep kernel And the results where the following: Kernel-2.2.9-23mdk Kernet-pcmcia-cd-2.2.9-19mdk Kernelcfg-0.5-6mdk So I downloaded the new ones and installed them with rpm -Uvh package Then I edit the lilo.conf to modify

RE: [newbie] Slow read performance.

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Whoops kinda forgot which was the slow side, IIRC it was from linux to windows you were haveing the problem. "route add -host 192.168.1.2 eth1" should do the trick, linuxconf has a section for doing things like this On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Beacham Tim P wrote: This is a routeing problem

Re: [newbie] Major problems with X under Cyrix P150+...

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Thanks - I was hoping for a different answer ;) but I guess I'll have to live with this until a new computer follows me home. Irv On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, you wrote: You may be having problems with m6 because of the pentium optimization that is built into this release. I can only suggest you

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 - kppp Problem

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Hi Andi! Did you forget - I´m a newbie!!! ;-))) Where can I get this newer version of kppp, how do I install it and what relationship does it have with KDE 1.1 regards Hans

Re: [newbie] A kernel problem

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Cesar wrote: Hi In order to solve the unmounting problem in Venus, I did a: rpm -q -a | grep kernel And the results where the following: Kernel-2.2.9-23mdk Kernet-pcmcia-cd-2.2.9-19mdk Kernelcfg-0.5-6mdk So I downloaded the new ones and installed them with rpm -Uvh

[newbie] Updating the kernel

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Hi I updated the kernel to 2.2.9-27, lilo, and the initscripts with the files provided in mandrake's FTP, the unmounting problem seems to be solved, but in it's place the network was unusable, the Ethernet card was correctly initialized by the kernel but for an unknown reason there was no

Re: [newbie] (no subject)

1999-06-21 Thread Rodrigo F Oliveira
Boda Zsolt wrote: Does anybody know if I can import my Windows Netscape address book to my future Linux one? I mean: I start Linux, open Netscape and will Netscape be able to do that? Thanks in advance, bzsolt! Yes, you can.

Re: [newbie] Updating the kernel

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
To get the xwindows to start at boot find your file inittab in the etc directory and look for a line that says the following. id:3:initdefault: Change it to id:5:initdefault and save it. The next time you boot you will boot into the gui login. Lyndon Lininger Sr. - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] Updating the kernel

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
For the network just run thru the setup again or merge any .rpmsave files w/ the updated initscripts as for booting X edit /etc/inittab change id:3:initdefault to id:5:initdefault On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Cesar wrote: Hi I updated the kernel to 2.2.9-27, lilo, and the initscripts with the

RE: [newbie] A kernel problem

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Have you ran lilo after modifying lilo.conf? did you install the initscripts also? How do I ran lilo after modifying lilo.conf? just type "lilo"?. And in the updates directory I think that the initsripts are version 26, not 27 as all the other updates It doesn't matter?

RE: [newbie] A kernel problem

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Cesar wrote: How do I ran lilo after modifying lilo.conf? just type "lilo"?. Exactly. And in the updates directory I think that the initsripts are version 26, not 27 as all the other updates It doesn't matter? No, initscripts isn't a kernel package. LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] A kernel problem

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Cesar wrote: Have you ran lilo after modifying lilo.conf? YES. did you install the initscripts also? YES. You have downloaded it, for sure. How do I ran lilo after modifying lilo.conf? just type "lilo"?. AGAIN, yes. And in the updates directory I think that the initsripts are

Re: [newbie] Tar File Error

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, wrote: When I tried to tar a tar or gz file, it extracted some of the files, but also gave me some errors. The errors are all the same. Here is an example from my Acrobat Reader 4.0 Extraction It happens in other program extractions too. "tar: Ilinxr.install/install:

Re: [newbie] From Gnome back to KDE

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
In an xterm run switchdesk-kde and yes the settings will remain unless you manualy delete them On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, W. Sanford May wrote: I switched from KDE to Gnome easily with the desktop switcher in KDE. But, I want to switch back from Gnome to KDE and I don't see how. I'm assuming

Re: [newbie] From Gnome back to KDE

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
--- "W. Sanford May" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I switched from KDE to Gnome easily with the desktop switcher in KDE. But, Hola, log out, and then switch to KDE using the appropriate box. When you log back in, you'll get a dialog box asking your password and log-in name. At the bottom of the

Re: [newbie] HTML editors

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On 21 Jun, Alex Brown wrote: Star office has somekinda html tool... it looked quite advanced at a glance think it may have some java script utils, dunno if it is though. But try NEdit...the best text editor in the world ever: http://www-pat.fnal.gov/nirvana/nedit.html cuts/pastes

Re: [newbie] Netscape Composer

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On 21 Jun, Don Kelley wrote: same here about both of your topics don -- On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, you wrote: Netscape Composer is very fragile in my M6.0/KDE system. Inserting an image in a web page is a sure-fire way of making Netscape close itself down (er, crash!). This problem

Re: [newbie] Tar File Error

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
I hope somebody can correct me if I am wrong... I think u need to extract it as root. It looks like the tar file is also trying to restore the permissions and ownership of the original files... But the error message is kinda wierd...anyone with better comments...(I'm sorry for going round the

Re: [newbie] Tar File Error

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
NO, this is bad practice, notice the error message states to the effect of "delaying exit" it extracts the files correctly useing your uid/gid. Say i were to include a small suid script or program into a tarball nest it several directories deep with dot prefix that instantly gives the user

[newbie] rc.S File

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
I want to make the little etc/MOTD file for when I log on. I am going to try to program it to say that if root logs in it says Hello James. Something to that effect. The only problem is that I can not find the rc.S file to comment out the line that clears that file at reboot. I looked in

RE: [newbie] Lilo

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Did you try to do the LinuxConf command and install lilo from there ?? -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 9:46 PM To: Newbie Linux-Mandrake Subject:[newbie] Lilo Sighwell today UPS left me a package with my Microsoft Win98 SE update

Re: [newbie] Tar File Error

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Actually it IS bad practice...normally the su part comes when u do "make install"...sorry for giving broken advice...thanks axalon for putting me straight... so what should memphis do? On 21 Jun, Axalon wrote: NO, this is bad practice, notice the error message states to the effect of

[newbie] Problem setting up new account

1999-06-21 Thread Hugh
I have a dumb question. I set up an account in my own name instead of root But I cant figure out how to set permission so I can connect to the internet and my mail account. I know this is a simple thing to do But I have never used Linux or Unix before. Thanks for your time Hugh

Re: [newbie] Lilo

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
I am not sure if there is a SCSI thingg i am missing..(i have never had the fortune to work with SCSI HDD)...but i did that to myself before... I reinstalled Win95 on my system adn forgot that the mBR would be overwritten...i could not even get to my linux system to run lilo again...so i booted

Re: [newbie] Tar File Error

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually it IS bad practice...normally the su part comes when u do "make install"...sorry for giving broken advice...thanks axalon for putting me straight... so what should memphis do? On 21 Jun, Axalon wrote: NO, this is bad practice,

Re: [newbie] Lilo

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure if there is a SCSI thingg i am missing..(i have never had the fortune to work with SCSI HDD)...but i did that to myself before... I reinstalled Win95 on my system adn forgot that the mBR would be overwritten...i could not even get

Re: [newbie] Problem setting up new account

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On 22 Jun, Hugh wrote: I have a dumb question. I set up an account in my own name instead of root But I cant figure out how to set permission so I can connect to the internet and my mail account. I know this is a simple thing to do But I have never used Linux or Unix before. Thanks