Re: [newbie] CRASH!

1999-07-20 Thread darkknight
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Trevor Wilson wrote: A window wasn't responding under KDE, and I couldn't kill it, so I tried to log off and the system stopped responding. I waited a long time and then power cycled it and it managed to boot OK, except now every time it shuts down, "shutting down nfs

Re: [newbie] CRASH!

1999-07-20 Thread Ramon Gandia
Andy Goth wrote: A window wasn't responding under KDE, and I couldn't kill it, so I tried to log off and the system stopped responding. I waited a long time and Ctrl+Alt+BkSp should kill the X server. then power cycled it and it managed to boot OK, except now every time it shuts

Re: [newbie] Man ? (revised edition) :)

1999-07-20 Thread darkknight
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: Well, I personally think no mailer can outdo pine, but I know pine needs getting used to, and it's probably not what everyone will want. If you like Outlook Express, I recommend you have a look at kexpress (a KDE mailer inspired by

Re: [newbie] CRASH!

1999-07-20 Thread Civileme
In that situation, if you have X11 starting by default, use Ctrl-Alt-F2 and a console will open before your eyes. You could login as root, then ps aux kill (number of locked process) Or, for a simpler way, don't bother to login, hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and the system will shut down and restart If you

Re: [newbie] Modem

1999-07-20 Thread Ramon Gandia
Andy Goth wrote: Perhaps someone can identify it as a Winmodem from its name. According to Windows, it's a TOSHIBA Internal Modem (V.34 33.6 Data+Fax+Voice). It's on what Windows calls "Toshiba Modem Port (COM2)" (which ought to I hope "Toshiba Modem Port" is just another Windowsy

Re: [newbie] CRASH!

1999-07-20 Thread Civileme
This isn't windows. To have a system stop responding totally outside of a power failure is beyond my experience. Ihad a motherboard which had an electrolytic cap in the memory power supply (5V) go intermittent, and random bits were flipping, or so Ibelieve. The system did not stop. A LOT of

Re: [newbie] CRASH!

1999-07-20 Thread pup
Trevor Wilson wrote: A window wasn't responding under KDE, and I couldn't kill it, so I tried to log off and the system stopped responding. I waited a long time and then power cycled it and it managed to boot OK, except now every time it shuts down, "shutting down nfs mountd" fails, and

Re: [newbie] OSS

1999-07-20 Thread hamkas
bert, check out the sound howto.. . It mentions something about distorted/choppy effects together with the reasons... hopes this helps u out... Bert Bullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/20/99 02:00:19 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

[newbie] Samba Server Step-by-Step

1999-07-20 Thread Dan Brown
I thought I'd posted this to the list, but I guess not. The guide is at this URL: http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] a good modem

1999-07-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, you wrote: Actually I have two pieces of equipment here. The Cisco AS5200 (with Rockwell chipset Mica modems), and a Lucent Livingston PM3A with the Lucent chip digital modems. Interesting. We use an Ascend device here to answer the phones (MAX TNT) and we consistently

[newbie] Modem Tweaks

1999-07-20 Thread Ty C. Mixon
Ok, I know this has been addressed, and re-addressed, but how do I tweak my 33.6 modem? It is S L O W I'm talking only about 3kb/s being the max my kppp statistics graph ever shows. Thanks as usuall!! Ty -- Ty C. Mixon ICQ #: 26147713 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Modem

1999-07-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, you wrote: What you can do is to see if you can communicate with this modem in MSDOS, perhaps using one of those free communications programs. Make sure its generic. Boot into DOS...not a DOS window, but actually stop the booting process with F8 and select "command

Re: [newbie] a good modem

1999-07-20 Thread darkknight
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, you wrote: Actually I have two pieces of equipment here. The Cisco AS5200 (with Rockwell chipset Mica modems), and a Lucent Livingston PM3A with the Lucent chip digital modems. Interesting. We use an Ascend device here to

Re: [newbie] CRASH!

1999-07-20 Thread Richard Myers
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Ramon Gandia wrote: [...nfs discussion deleted...] All of this is best done in console and not in X or you may incur the wrath of Athena, the goddesd of hard rocks. ^^^ I know, this is the *daemon* of goddesses, right? grin

[newbie] Re:

1999-07-20 Thread Florin Grad
Joseph Gardner wrote: I am in the process of setting up my first linux box and have the opportunity to select a new graphics adapter. I have an STB Lightspeed 128 available which appears to give reasonable output with the SVGA server however I am unsure about the differences between the

Re: [newbie] Cyrix CPU's and Linux

1999-07-20 Thread bxtc
I have it running fine on a 686 166 and a 586 120...and the 586 is on a motherboard I bought for 5 bucks -Original Message- From: Scott Sweeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 1:56 PM Subject: [newbie] Cyrix CPU's and Linux

Re: [newbie] RoadRunner Person

1999-07-20 Thread Matt Stegman
Kansas? Where's that? Oh, that flat piece of land in the middle of nowhere... :) I should start by saying that I got my Road Runner through Multimedia. If you're getting it through TCI (or someone else) you may have to use rrlogin; I didn't. If you're getting it through Multimedia, you

Re: [newbie] DHCP problems (fwd)

1999-07-20 Thread Matt Stegman
You might try to use the "-h" option on pump (to request a specific hostname). Make sure you have the latest version of pump (0.6.7-2mdk I believe). If so, you might want to try a different DHCP client (i.e. dhcpcd). I believe the pump commandline for the hostname thing would be pump

Re: [newbie] RoadRunner Person

1999-07-20 Thread hevnsnt
jeesh.. no need to write a mini-HOWTO, you just did! =) Hey thanks for the info, now I just have to find a way to keep this email around till my service starts. =0 Re: Kansas, oh yeah, well our microwave towers work better here. =) -Bill On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Matt Stegman wrote: Kansas?

Re: [newbie] Cyrix CPU's and Linux

1999-07-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, you wrote: I have it running fine on a 686 166 and a 586 120...and the 586 is on a motherboard I bought for 5 bucks 586 IS a pentium-class machine.

Re: [newbie] Theme problems

1999-07-20 Thread Dennis Podein
Well it's like this . Around the top of my windows I have the ice, glacier appearance ,and the button bars are the buttons on the window taskbar ( close , maximize , minimize , and file ), the buttons are blueish . I want them to return how I originally had them but no matter what I do they wont

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail, modems and cgi (but not together)

1999-07-20 Thread Morpheus The Sinful Weeper
Hey I can help you out , i just figured out how to do it myself im gonna do two things, im gonna tell you how to set up fetchmail and give you the url to a GREAT website with a lot of good information on how to set up almost everything ( except that damn x-windows that has me over the edge

Re: [newbie] DHCP problems (fwd)

1999-07-20 Thread Axalon
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Matt Stegman wrote: You might try to use the "-h" option on pump (to request a specific hostname). Make sure you have the latest version of pump (0.6.7-2mdk I believe). If so, you might want to try a different DHCP client (i.e. dhcpcd). I believe the pump

Re: [newbie] networking

1999-07-20 Thread Axalon
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Civileme wrote: There is also a patch to the system registry for 98. I will make it available tomorrow. It enables plain text passwords. Samba requires them and 98 is set up to encrypt (could it have been planned?) The registry file is also available in the samba

Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-20 Thread Axalon
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote: Yes. Run kdmconfig as root and there is a "Background" tab. You should be able to change the background there. How about changing the penguin logo in the text-based login? Is there a text file for the login message? How are color codes set--by

Re: [newbie] install problems 13.0gig

1999-07-20 Thread jsm
darkknight wrote: On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, jsm wrote: Well , I've been following this thread . I also have the same problem with a 4 gig HD . But I'm still confused . If I create a /boot partition , will the Mandrake install program install the kernel and LILO it it automatically ? And this

Re: [newbie] OSS

1999-07-20 Thread Richard Myers
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Bert Bullough wrote: Greetings all. I have just successfully installed the OSS Drivers for the Turtle Beach Montego cheers I tried it out with an AVI movie and some Mp3z. These both work great but when I play a wave file the audio is choppy, high-pitched, and

[newbie] Mandrake v6 Emacs

1999-07-20 Thread Nicholas Ritter
I just installed Mandrake 6, and everytime I try to use emacs, it errors out in the following way. 1) Wether in X or terminal, run emacs 2) type some stuff, or edit something 3) ctrl-x, crtl-s to save 4) crtl-x, crtl-c to exit .. and I get 'Fatal Error (11).' ...at the bottom of the emacs

[newbie] Mandrake 6.0 install on ASUS P5A ALi chipset

1999-07-20 Thread Seth Rosen
Hello everyone I'm new to Mandrake but I've been a LiNUX user since '96. I need help getting Mandrake 6.0 installed, I keep getting an abnormal termination message at various times through the install process. I'm doing an FTP install from my main server that has the ISO image mounted in

[newbie] Fetchmail Sendmail

1999-07-20 Thread hevnsnt
Ok, here is the most easy way to set up fetch send mail.. http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/916961998/ Download this perl script and it does it for you. =) -Bill

[newbie] Problem with evil theme

1999-07-20 Thread Sean Brzozowski
Can somebody tell me how can I remove the theme from outside of KDE? I was messing around with themes in KDE and now startx returns and error and kicks me back to the prompt. TIA Sean Brzozowski

[newbie] new computer means new linux questions

1999-07-20 Thread Alan Schussman
I'm installing mandrake 6.0 on a new PC, and the first problem I've run into is with X. Xconfigurator identifies my video card (Diamond v770), but is then unable to probe it, and when I try to manually configure it I get a prompt for my clockchip -- and I have no idea what my clockchip is. I

Re: [newbie] Modem

1999-07-20 Thread Andy Goth
What you can do is to see if you can communicate with this modem in MSDOS, perhaps using one of those free communications programs. Make sure its generic. Boot into DOS...not a DOS window, but actually stop the booting process with F8 and select "command prompt only". then fire up

Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-20 Thread Andy Goth
Yes. Run kdmconfig as root and there is a "Background" tab. You should be able to change the background there. How about changing the penguin logo in the text-based login? Is there a text file for the login message? How are color codes set--by ANSI? Look at /etc/rc.d/rc.local,

Re: [newbie] cd-rw

1999-07-20 Thread Axalon
Try the cdrecord homepage: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/nthp/employees/schilling/cdrecord.html On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find a list of CD rewritable drives that are supported under linux?

Re: [newbie] Lost C/C++ Libraries

1999-07-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Ken Wilson wrote: I am doing some C programming on my recently installed Mandrake 6.0. As far as I am aware I have the latest kernel and all the updates. However, I am having troubles compiling a small test program with pgcc(gcc) and suspect the libraries are missing or

[newbie] Question

1999-07-20 Thread Morpheus The Sinful Weeper
So, I'm thinking of running a little BBS or MUD on my linux box how would i go to setting that up ? how do i configure it so people can telnet in and out, check local email, etc point me to a website or some tutorials, ill greatly appreciate 'em thank you btw, i ordered linux in a nutshell, im

[newbie] Lost C/C++ Libraries

1999-07-20 Thread Ken Wilson
I am doing some C programming on my recently installed Mandrake 6.0. As far as I am aware I have the latest kernel and all the updates. However, I am having troubles compiling a small test program with pgcc(gcc) and suspect the libraries are missing or improperly linked as I can't use the log()