[newbie] OCR for musical part

1999-07-29 Thread Cyrille . BERTRAND
Cyrille BERTRAND@ALCATEL_HVT 07/29/99 09:20 AM I'm looking for a Linux software which do a musical partition recognition after a scan (like an OCR for classical caracters). Is this kind of thing existing ? (under Linux or other system). Cyrille

[newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shells, redirection

1999-07-29 Thread Richard Myers
-- Shells, Redirection -- The shell provides the Command Line Interface that you see in Linux/UNIX. The shell accepts your input, processes it, and takes appropriate actions, interfacing with the kernel and the filesystem as necessary. The BASH shell was based

[newbie] UNIX INTRO: Pipes and Redirection

1999-07-29 Thread Richard Myers
-- Pipes and Redirection -- Someone wrote: : OK...I thought I had it all straight in my mind but : I now find the difference between redirection and : pipes really foggy. Is there something absolute I : can put in my mind to clarify the two? EXCELLENT

[newbie] Block device not found?

1999-07-29 Thread Bob Jiggins
Hi Hopefully a quick question (or at least easily answered)! I've just 'upgraded' from RedHat 5.2 + KDE 1.1 to Mandrake 6.0 - and wow, problems abound - enough to go back to win95 temporarily! 1 On boot I see the message 'hard linked hdd to dev/cdrom' but can never mount the cdrom (or play

[newbie] Website

1999-07-29 Thread James J. Capone
I know this is not a help question about the Mandrake Linux but.. I would like to have you all check out my website and tell me what you think. Please if you do not like emails like this. Do not flame it, Skip over it. http://linuxuser.8m.com YOU MUST HAVE A JAVA ENABLED BROWSER TO VIEW IT.

Re: [newbie] Diamond Fire GL 1000 AGP Xfree??

1999-07-29 Thread helmut halfmann
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, you wrote: I see the Diamond Fire GL 1000 (AGP version) under the supported list on xfree.org but I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in using it with X windows.Can I at least get 1024x768-16bit using that card? My distributor has it on sale for 35

Re: [newbie] SBlive! in Mandrake 2.2.9

1999-07-29 Thread Martin White
I'm a little confused as to why it doesn't work (it does for me!), my 'conf.modules' can be found at http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/my_conf_modules.htm if you want to check it out and make sure i gave you the correct syntax, etc. An alternative, but not as tidy method would be to insert the line

[newbie] Re: your mail

1999-07-29 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard htathat linux can only use 64MB of memory by deafault. Is this true? Where can I change this optioinn? It is no longer true with 2.2 kernels. LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] True type fonts

1999-07-29 Thread Kalju Rtli
Sorry, I missed previous messages about fonts. Can I use windooze (.ttf) fonts? If I can, then how? I could not find this utility (mkttfdir)... Where I can look for it? Thanks in advance Kalju On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Lloyd Osten wrote: I need to know if I need font metric files (the FON

[newbie] boot problems

1999-07-29 Thread Christopher Race
Wondering if anyone else has had the problem where, when linux is installed to a partition (i.e. hda1) nothing happens after the "linux" image is chosen in LILO. I've reinstalled multiple times and nothing happens. It's like the hard drive won't 'kick in' and my computer sits stupidly, doing

[newbie] looking at my pc files from Linux

1999-07-29 Thread russ proudman
I'm running Mandrake 6 Linux. It's on a Pentium 166 (cyrix) and I boot Windows 95 from the hard disk and Linux from a floppy. I have 2 separate hard drives. The first one if for Windows stuff, the second is for Linux. This setup works fine but I would like to be able to get files from the

[newbie] changing video card driver

1999-07-29 Thread Joe Brault
How would I change my video card driver after my setup is complete? My icons are quite small, and I am wondering if there is a way to change this? Nighthawk

Re: [newbie] Removing LILO

1999-07-29 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
At 07:08 PM 7/29/99 , you wrote: Hello , here is my dilemma . I have to clean out this computer , remove linux and set it up with windows 98 for my daughter for college . Anyway , I MS Fdisked it , then formatted it . When it goes to boot , LILO kicks in . I thought that would be gone . MS Fdisk

RE: [newbie] Removing LILO

1999-07-29 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On 29-Jul-99 Dennis Podein wrote: Hello , here is my dilemma . I have to clean out this computer , remove linux and set it up with windows 98 for my daughter for college . Anyway , I MS Fdisked it , then formatted it . When it goes to boot , LILO kicks in . I thought that would be gone . MS

RE: [newbie] Removing LILO

1999-07-29 Thread Ezequiel SantamarĂ­a
fdisk /mbr that´s it! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dennis Podein Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 8:09 PM To: Linux Group; Mandrake help Subject: [newbie] Removing LILO Hello , here is my dilemma . I have to clean out this

Re: [newbie] Removing LILO

1999-07-29 Thread Petey
Even though this is a kludge solution, here is what I've done in the past. Boot to a dos floppy. Run windows setup. I don't know what windows does, but both win 98 and win 95 remove LILO and make it boot like windows normally would. At 06:08 PM 7/29/1999 -0500, you wrote: Hello , here is my

Re: [newbie] Removing LILO

1999-07-29 Thread Matt Stegman
Lilo resides in the Master Boot Record (MBR) which is, I think, the first sector of the drive, not included in any partitions. Thus, you can wipe all the partitions without touching the MBR. To clear it, run `fdisk /mbr` from DOS. This will clear LILO out of the MBR. -Matt On Thu, 29

[newbie] Changing/Deleting KDE Desktop Icons

1999-07-29 Thread Art Rowe
On Mandrake 6.0 KDE desktop, I can move icons into folders (eg: updates to a Mandrake folder). However, the original icons reappear on the main desktop, although copies are in the folders. I have tried, both as user and root, to delete the unwanted items, but they reappear when the computer is

Re: [newbie] Re: X lockup

1999-07-29 Thread Andy Goth
I still want to know how to shut either X or the process down instantly. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shuts down X It's supposed to, but it took maybe an hour for it to respond. Usually it's instant, but it wasn't in this case.

Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Pipes and Redirection

1999-07-29 Thread Andy Goth
Input redirection is symbolized by the character. Output is the character, and output with append uses the characters. That's like DOS (except that MORE FILE doesn't seem to work). $ echo this | thisfile -ksh: thisfile: cannot execute [Permission denied] KSH? Korn Shell? This is

Re: [newbie] ISDN configuration

1999-07-29 Thread Travis Kriza
Question, is the isdn line hooked into a router? Or is it going through the linux machine first? If it is going through a router, all you should need to do is set your gateway address to the ip address of the router. Otherwise I am not sure but I believe there are several tools included on

[newbie] Changing/Deleting KDE Desktop Icons

1999-07-29 Thread Robert Sheskin
"Art" == Art Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Art On Mandrake 6.0 KDE desktop, I can move icons into folders Art (eg: updates to a Mandrake folder). However, the original Art icons reappear on the main desktop, although copies are in Art the folders. I have tried, both as user

Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..

1999-07-29 Thread Andy Goth
Has anyone ever bothered pressing Ctrl+D at the shell prompt? Just try it. On my computer, it appears to be another way of logging out.

Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shells, redirection

1999-07-29 Thread Andy Goth
When you encounter an error detected by the shell, it is normally flagged by the shell. In this example, the shell is Korn Shell, and the shell designation is "ksh": $ thisfile -ksh: thisfile: cannot execute [Permission denied] So I was right. I was expecting pdksh, though (the Public

Re: [newbie] Removing LILO

1999-07-29 Thread John Aldrich
Run FDISK /MBR from a Windows disk. This will take care of it FDISK does not remove the Master boot recordwhich is where LILO resides. John - Original Message - From: Dennis Podein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Group [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mandrake help [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..

1999-07-29 Thread Dan Brown
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has anyone ever bothered pressing Ctrl+D at the shell prompt? Just try it. On my computer, it appears to be another way of logging out. Yes, it is. It's also the "end-of-file" character in Unix. Just a bit of theory: In Unix, everything is a

[newbie] lnx4win.exe

1999-07-29 Thread Hoyt
A brief review of lnx4win.exe is at http://linuxforum.com/ Hoyt

Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shells, redirection

1999-07-29 Thread Dan Brown
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternately, you can call a shell and tell it to run the shell script file. "sh printpwd" should do the trick... is this right? In most shells, ". printpwd" (notice the period) will run a shell script as Both of those will run a script, but there's a

Re: [newbie] Konsole problem within Mandrake 6.0

1999-07-29 Thread Axalon
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Dominique Deleris wrote: Hello. I'm having problems using konsole (the KDE console) in Mandrake 6.0. You certainly remember that I am a color-addicted user of VIM ;-) Since I have resolved my color problem in vi (I've removed the "vi-minimal" package, and installed

Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..

1999-07-29 Thread Axalon
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Theo Brinkman wrote: Axalon wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Theo Brinkman wrote: Can you control what Ctrl-Alt-Del does by user? (i.e.: Let root reboot the system that way, but have it just log everyone else out?) - Theo In theory it is not

[newbie] Past messages file?

1999-07-29 Thread sledge151
Where do I need to go to find a collection of the past newsgroups postings? I remember somebody awhile back asking but I don't remember the location. Thanks. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet

Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shells, redirection

1999-07-29 Thread Dan Brown
From: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternately, you can call a shell and tell it to run the shell script file. "sh printpwd" should do the trick... is this right? In most shells, ". printpwd" (notice the period) will run a shell script as Both of

Re: [newbie] Boot from hard drive

1999-07-29 Thread Axalon
You'll need to set the bootable flag on atleast one partition On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Mandrake Linux 6.0 in my hard drive (linux only). It works fine when it boot from floppy disk. But I can't boot from hard drive and error message prompted.

[newbie] Loading modules?

1999-07-29 Thread Dan Brown
Where do I specify what modules to load at boot time? Currently, some modules load, while others do not. Particularly, the tulip and sg modules do not load. I can manually load them as root by typing /sbin/insmod, but that's a bit of a pain. Thanks for any info!

Re: [newbie] Re: X lockup

1999-07-29 Thread William Meyer
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shuts down X It's supposed to, but it took maybe an hour for it to respond. Usually it's instant, but it wasn't in this case. A second is more like it. You've got something stealing cycles in a big way!

Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shells, redirection

1999-07-29 Thread Richard Myers
$ thisfile -ksh: thisfile: cannot execute [Permission denied] On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote: So I was right. I was expecting pdksh, though (the Public Domain Korn SHell). It appears that the maillist switched the order of my two posts. Yes, Korn Shell. In my experience pdksh is

Re[2]: [newbie] Boot from hard drive

1999-07-29 Thread rincosum
My Hard drive partition as following: mount bootable flag devfs type -- / * hda1 linux native hda2 linux swap /home hda3