Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Upgradeing all packages destroys my system]]

1999-09-28 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
Well, for the most part. You can put in a Kernel update, then reconfigure LILO to enable you to access it without the install procedure, but you do of course have to restart the system to use the new Kernel. As for the software part, I guess that I am a creature of habit. So often in Win31 and

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1999-09-28 Thread Anipalace
Hi! I just installed 6.0! During installation the message appeared that there's a failure by configuration the X-Window system. After installation I tried to run the Xconfigurator, but it said that it cannot find the database for the graphic devices... can anyone help me, or tell me where I can

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1999-09-28 Thread Anipalace
Hi! I just installed 6.0! During installation the message appeared that there's a failure by configuration the X-Window system. After installation I tried to run the Xconfigurator, but it said that it cannot find the database for the graphic devices... can anyone help me, or tell me where I can

Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1

1999-09-28 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
Did you install SO51 as 'root'? If so you didn't need to. When I did my install, I was logged on as a regular user, did the download (long time) to my personal folder, put the .tar file into a folder I created under my personal folder, then did the extract. Next I did the install, and that was

Re: [newbie] SBLive under 6.1

1999-09-28 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
I am using an older card called an AW32 PRO audio card (S23A). It has a Crystal Semiconductor chipset (cs4232 I think) with a 1 meg wave table on board. It is an ISA card, but works OK for me. Ernie bay56 wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition??

1999-09-28 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
You just need to be sure that the first partition is in the first 1023 cylinders for LILO to work ok. If the hardware can access the rest of the drive, then Linux should be able to as well. LILO just needs to be able to get at the system files to do its job, and as long as the first partition is

Re: [newbie] display properties

1999-09-28 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
Try CTRL+ALT+F2 to get to another console, then log in as root, and run xconfigurator to fix the X setup. then you can use shutdown -r now to reboot. I think this will work. Also, to get back to the first console, you can use CTRL+ALT+F7, but you will want to restart to see if the above will fix

RE: [newbie] Kernel recompile

1999-09-28 Thread martin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of bay56 Sent: 28 September 1999 03:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel recompile What a bloomin excellent idea you have there - wish I had the know how to help out in making it

Re: [newbie] Where can I find kdoc

1999-09-28 Thread Lindsay Steele
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: I installed the K-Development IDE onto my Mandrake distribution of Linux but it need a few more files/packages to completely setup. One of them is kdoc. I have searched the Mandrake site but I don't find it. Can anyone tell me where I might locate this

Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?

1999-09-28 Thread Jaybird X
pete moss wrote: what do i need to do to get imwheel to startup whenever i startx? :P Ok, this may not be the answer you're looking for but, I copied it from /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel to the autostart folder on my KDE desktop and it runs at bootup. Jay Deacon -- Be the first one on your

Re: [newbie] Ears don't work

1999-09-28 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
This one is a little beyond me. I do not know if the seg fault matters or not. But it may be indicating a problem developing. Do you use another OS on the same machine, and if so, do you get the same problem at shutdown? If not, you could be experiencing file corruption under Linux, and maybe a

Re: [newbie] (k)licq updates - Can I use them?

1999-09-28 Thread Lindsay Steele
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: I'm currently using klicq 0.61.2-1.rh60 and it runs great, but I've noticed that licq is now in version .70.x. I've read that you can have headaches upgrading to that version b/c of the QT libraries. The ones needed for licq 70 are 'ahead' of the ones

[newbie] Linux very slow to load

1999-09-28 Thread Eric Mings
I recently installed Mandrake 6 on a 450 pentium box and, although it runs well, it seems very slow to initially load up. I have redhat 6 running on an old 486 and it loads MUCH faster. Here is the difference, it takes forever for the LILO prompt to come up after the basic bios settings

[newbie] SBLive! under 6.1 - update

1999-09-28 Thread martin
To anyone thats interested, i now have the info that i need to have a go at this kernel recompile to fix the problem with the SBLive! under 6.1 FYI, it is (apparently) simply to ensure that version information for loadable modules is disabled (should really have figured that one out for myself),

RE: [newbie] Linux very slow to load

1999-09-28 Thread martin
Excuse the ignorance, but i've got to ask ;o)... You're not booting off of a floppy here are you ? Everything after the point where your boot speeds up is when everything is then resident in memory, hence on a floppy boot you will notice a considerable speed up. Martin. -Original

[newbie] 2nd CD ROM drive

1999-09-28 Thread Strike, Jeff
I have a second CD drive that my bios sees when booting, but I can't seem to figure out how to mount it. It's an older ATAPI 4x setup as a slave on the secondary IDE channel. I can mount the primary but not the secondary. There's no line for it in etc/fstab and I'm not really sure what I

Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1

1999-09-28 Thread Barry Marler
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. wrote: If I understand the situation, software is installed on a per user basis in Linux. Hmmm. Download any tarball, tar -zxvf filename, ./configure, make, then 'make install' as a non-root user and see what happens. /b Barry

[newbie] Printer problem on a SCSI installation

1999-09-28 Thread ottffss
I have a home built PC with a partitioned IDE drive and a 4 GB SCSI drive. I've installed Mandrake 6.1 in two places. A partition on the IDE drive and on the SCSI drive. On the IDE installation everything works fine (sound card, modem, printer). However, on the SCSI installation the printer

Re: [newbie] seeing above the screen?

1999-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: i used to run slackware and there was a method of viewing previous text on one of the consoles. it was something like shift+pageup or ctrl+pageup. i cant find a method that works in mandrake. anyone know how to do this? Left-shift + pageup. Works here...

Re: [newbie] Email Setup

1999-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hmmm, I just looked at /etc/sysconfig/sendmail and it has the entry DAEMONIZE=yes. However, when I execute /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail status it says: sendmail doesn't daemonize with postfix Do I just need to disable postfix? (I hope I can figure out how

Re: [newbie] Ears don't work

1999-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, you wrote: Thanks, I have since discovered that my system may have another problem - this tar command (generically) appears to do nothing, there is a long wait while nothing actually happens! On the plus side it does not actually crash ;-) and ctrl C gets me the cursor

Re: [newbie] what are these daemons?

1999-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, you wrote: i just got mandrake 6.1 installed and running great. i am trying to customize my system performance a bit. i have been removing unnecessary system daemons from the startup. i cant find docs on these: inet Don't disable thisall your internet functions

Re: [newbie] display properties

1999-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, you wrote: Is there a way to access a line by line shell w/o starting X windows during boot? I configured my monitor (or video card) wrong and I see all funny pixels and my mouser cursor only. I can't tell where my terminal spawning icon is... "linux 3"at the LILO

Re: [newbie] Email Setup

1999-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, you wrote: %_ The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'mail.solberg.com', Server: 'mail.solberg.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E Maybe your server doesn't support SSL email? Mine doesn't so I had

Re: [newbie] KDE Libraries... Where?

1999-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, you wrote: %_Can someone tell me where Mandrake 6.0 puts the KDE libraries? The K-Develop IDE is asking for them but I can't seem to find them anywhere! Thanks Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding:

Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1

1999-09-28 Thread Manny Styles
- Original Message - From: bay56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 12:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1 Just for future reference on yet another install - what's that all about, and where does one get the choice? Regards, Ian

Re: [newbie] SBLive! under 6.1 - update

1999-09-28 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To anyone thats interested, i now have the info that i need to have a go at this kernel recompile to fix the problem with the SBLive! under 6.1 FYI, it is (apparently) simply to ensure that version information for loadable modules is disabled

Re: [newbie] DHCP install for Linux-Mandrake and other problems...

1999-09-28 Thread Rendus Maiman
Thanks for the info dude, now to get more proficient in the use of Linux :) From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] DHCP install for Linux-Mandrake and other problems... Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:31:58 -0400 On Mon, 27 Sep

Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1

1999-09-28 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Barry Marler wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. wrote: If I understand the situation, software is installed on a per user basis in Linux. Hmmm. Download any tarball, tar -zxvf filename, ./configure, make, then 'make install' as a non-root user and

Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1

1999-09-28 Thread Gustavo Viola
I extracted StarOffice 5.1 RPM (as root, which has writing privileges everywhere) to the /opt, default directory in that specific *. RPM. Logged out from root and as _user_ I did a network (2MB) install (opt/SOffice51/setup or /opt/SOffice51/kde/install or something like that) in /home/user.

Re: [newbie] seeing above the screen?

1999-09-28 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: i used to run slackware and there was a method of viewing previous text on one of the consoles. it was something like shift+pageup or ctrl+pageup. i cant find a method that works in mandrake. anyone know how to

RE: [newbie] SBLive! under 6.1 - update

1999-09-28 Thread martin
[snip] FYI, it is (apparently) simply to ensure that version information for loadable modules is disabled (should really have figured that one out for myself), so shouldn't give me any grief to do - don't know if it will effect any other modules mind. [snip] Um, maybe you missed

[newbie] TT Fonts

1999-09-28 Thread Frank Hilliard
I've got Mandrake 6.0 but despite a lot of trying, I still can't see my True Type fonts. I've followed all the suggestions on the FAQ page, all the hints at www.linuxnewbie.org and still nothing. Sigh. There has GOT to be a simple way of linking the Font server to the ttfonts directory. Any

Re: [newbie] SBLive! under 6.1 - update

1999-09-28 Thread Eddie Head
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To anyone thats interested, i now have the info that i need to have a go at this kernel recompile to fix the problem with the SBLive! under 6.1 FYI, it is (apparently) simply to ensure that version information for

[newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?

1999-09-28 Thread Mike Fieschko
"pete" == pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pete what do i need to do to get imwheel to startup whenever i pete startx? :P One way is to put imwheel -k in your .xinitrc See http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll and http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/imwheel/

[newbie] Disk problems

1999-09-28 Thread Strike, Jeff
My system locked up and couldn't get any sort of response from it so I ended up hitting the shudder reset button. Now when it boots up I get a message saying: /dev/hda1 unexpected inconsistency. Run fsck manually. I have to enter the root password and it puts me at a prompt. I run fsck and it

Re: [newbie] Email Setup

1999-09-28 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta I have a similar problem I have setup sendmail useing m4 etc.. I can telnet to port 25 from any enternal site and send a BS message from thier, but when I use pine from another site or any other mailer prog the mail never gets to my server (yes I have a MX record setup

Re: [newbie] seeing above the screen?

1999-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: i used to run slackware and there was a method of viewing previous text on one of the consoles. it was something like shift+pageup or ctrl+pageup. i cant find a method that

Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1

1999-09-28 Thread Sean Pritchard
Download the *.tar file I couldn't get "un"tar in KDE for some reason. In Gnome at file browser find *.tar file, double click find "so51inst" folder in the directory you found the *.tar find the "documentation" folder, it has a *.pdf file in it double click on the PDF file from file browser

Re: [newbie] Email Setup

1999-09-28 Thread Eric Solberg
Doh, I think I've just been degraded to 'clueless newbie'. I was configuring sendmail when postfix was running. The good news is I did this right and it is working wonderfully now. Sorry for the HTML, and thanks for all the help. Eric Solberg On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hmmm, I just

RE: [newbie] Disk problems

1999-09-28 Thread martin
Try 'fsck /dev/hda1' Martin. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Strike, Jeff Sent: 28 September 1999 17:13 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Disk problems My system locked up and couldn't get any sort of response from

Re: [newbie] 2nd CD ROM drive

1999-09-28 Thread Lang Zhi
I have a second CD drive that my bios sees when booting, but I can't seem to figure out how to mount it. It's an older ATAPI 4x setup as a slave on the secondary IDE channel. I can mount the primary but not the secondary. There's no line for it in etc/fstab and I'm not really sure what I

Re: [newbie] 2nd CD ROM drive

1999-09-28 Thread Lang Zhi
I have a second CD drive that my bios sees when booting, but I can't seem to figure out how to mount it. It's an older ATAPI 4x setup as a slave on the secondary IDE channel. I can mount the primary but not the secondary. There's no line for it in etc/fstab and I'm not really sure what I

Re: [newbie] Disk problems

1999-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: My system locked up and couldn't get any sort of response from it so I ended up hitting the shudder reset button. Now when it boots up I get a message saying: /dev/hda1 unexpected inconsistency. Run fsck manually. I have to enter the root password and it

RE: [newbie] Disk problems

1999-09-28 Thread Lang Zhi
Try 'fsck /dev/hda1' Martin. better this way : fsck -y /dev/hda1 so that u need not to answer "YES" every time .. BTW, make sure it refer to correct hd partition (/dev/hdxx) -lz __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [newbie] TT Fonts

1999-09-28 Thread Gustavo Viola
At www.mandrakeuser.org you will find a link to the Font Deuglification FAQ. It can help you out with True Type fonts. Regards, /Gustavo. - Original Message - From: Frank Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 1:07 PM Subject: [newbie] TT

Re: [newbie] CDR-RW

1999-09-28 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Strike, Jeff wrote: Is there any software out there for cdrom burners that has a graphical interface? There's one that's installed with 6.0 but that's text based. -Jeff cdrecord is _the_ cd buring software for linux. There are various gui front ends for it. xcdroast

Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?

1999-09-28 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
It'll work if you use desktopcfg, i assume t'was a blank .xinitrc so you created one? gnome also has session management, you can add 'imwheel -k' in session control of gnomes 'control-center' On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, pete moss wrote: this doesnt work. whenever i put this in ~/.xinitrc, X

[newbie] Multiprocessor and Display

1999-09-28 Thread lalala lalala
Does anyone know if Linnux supports multiprocessors? I am planning on getting Dual Celeron system... Also.. I have a Gateway Vivitron 1572 15inch monitor.. it's not listed in the Xconfig's monitor list. Will this have an effect on Xserver? I chose so many different ones (including the closest

Re: [newbie] Disk problems

1999-09-28 Thread Manny Styles
- Original Message - From: Lang Zhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 9:14 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Disk problems Try 'fsck /dev/hda1' Martin. better this way : fsck -y /dev/hda1 so that u need not to answer "YES" every time .. BTW, make

Re: [newbie] Multiprocessor and Display

1999-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know if Linnux supports multiprocessors? I am planning on getting Dual Celeron system... Very much so. Typically, as you install it, it will automatically detect the multi-processor setup. However, if you install it BEFORE having both processors,

[newbie] conio.h file missing?

1999-09-28 Thread Ty Mixon
It's me again! I'm making another C++ program for school, and we are using cout "press the any key to continue"; getch(); for obvious reasons. My problem is that we're supposed to use conio.h file to define getch(). It ain't there . . . Any ideas what else I could use that would be both

Re: [newbie] Multiprocessor and Display

1999-09-28 Thread Ripcrd6
-Original Message- From: lalala lalala Does anyone know if Linnux supports multiprocessors? I am planning on getting Dual Celeron system... Yes, multiprocessors are supported in the 2.2.x kernels. I saw one demoed at a Linux Users Group meeting w/ Red Hat install. Also.. I have a

re: [newbie] CDR-RW

1999-09-28 Thread byte-runner
yep, ifyoudidainstalleverythingyouhavexcdroastworksgreatforme. Ralph >**OriginalSubject:[newbie]CDR-RW >**OriginalSender:"Strike,Jeff"<>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >**OriginalDate:Tue,28Sep199913:35:13-0500 >**OriginalMessagefollows... >

[newbie] libvga.config and xf86config

1999-09-28 Thread G_REEPER
I have found that one of my many problems with getting quake 2 to run is that it keeps reading the libvga.config file. Since that file has nothing in it set correctly ( i think it's a default file??) for my system. I was wondering if i could copy the info like the modelines from the

Re: [newbie] conio.h file missing?

1999-09-28 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Ty Mixon wrote: It's me again! I'm making another C++ program for school, and we are using cout "press the any key to continue"; getch(); for obvious reasons. My problem is that we're supposed to use conio.h file to define getch(). It ain't there . . .

Re: [newbie] Multiprocessor and Display

1999-09-28 Thread Lindsay Steele
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know if Linnux supports multiprocessors? I am planning on getting Dual Celeron system... It does. Also.. I have a Gateway Vivitron 1572 15inch monitor.. it's not listed in the Xconfig's monitor list. Will this have an effect on Xserver? I

Re: [newbie] seeing above the screen?

1999-09-28 Thread pete moss
well, it works for me now. not sure what i was trying earlier. but it is either shift+pageup/pagedn thanks! :P John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: i used to run slackware and there was a

[newbie] cable modem

1999-09-28 Thread Ralph | byte-runner |
Hey all, I'm getting cable modem sevice hooked up this week. Can someone plz help me with the install in Mandrake. Also I want to set up an ftp server not anon. but with user names and passwords can beroftpd do this? And how hard is it to set up? I'm usaed to warftp and servu on the nt side of

Re: [newbie] Multiprocessor and Display

1999-09-28 Thread Ralph | byte-runner |
Yes it does , works good with my pentium 2 duel 350 box!! Ralph - Original Message - From: "Lindsay Steele" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 6:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Multiprocessor and Display On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: Does anyone

Re: [newbie] cable modem

1999-09-28 Thread Ty Mixon
Just posted: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/ccable.html Original Message On 9/28/99, 4:24:55 PM, "Ralph | byte-runner |" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] cable modem: Hey all, I'm getting cable modem sevice hooked up this week. Can someone plz help me with the install

Re: [newbie] Kernel recompile

1999-09-28 Thread bay56
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:35 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Kernel recompile Unfortunately, bloomin excellent idea or not, at the moment the person(s) who say they have it working aren't being all that quick

Re: [newbie] Ears don't work

1999-09-28 Thread bay56
- Original Message - From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Ears don't work This one is a little beyond me. I do not know if the seg fault matters or not. But it may be indicating a problem

Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?

1999-09-28 Thread bay56
I have no idea if my findings will help find a fix, but since I wanted wheel support for my intellimouse V1.1a - I have issued the command from the console from time to time, but never seen the scroll wheel work - however I often get a response that it is already running (wasn't my doing!) and

Re: [newbie] Ears don't work

1999-09-28 Thread bay56
Many thanks - It's always the way - I just answered another post on this, and here I am reading the solution! ;-) Just have to hope that what's written there is something I can understand! (and fix!) Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct

Re: [newbie] SBLive! under 6.1 - update

1999-09-28 Thread bay56
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 6:30 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] SBLive! under 6.1 - update Recompiling a kernel is not exactly newbie key by key stuff!! Okay, it's not THAT difficult, but lets at least give me a chance

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-28 Thread bay56
I really hope you get a good answer to this from someone who knows for ure - I have the same setup with an LS120 substituted for the Zip (which I gave to a friend!) but to get you started in A direction; I am guessing they will be something like: hda---Primary MasterHD

[newbie] How do I install QT2?

1999-09-28 Thread The Postman
I am having trouble installing QT2 (qt2-2.0.1-6mdk.i586.rpm). I get a dependency problem that says I need libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 That is included in libstdc++-2.95.1-3mdk.i586.rpm So I downloaded and attempted to install libstdc++-2.95.1-3mdk.i586.rpm and got more dependency errors against

RE: [newbie] More PHP woes

1999-09-28 Thread Ken Wilson
The safe_mysqld script should run at boot time if you followed a standard installation. If not, set it up to run at boot time. Remember to have it run in the background by adding the ''. It is best to use safe_mysqld to start and run mysql because after it starts it constantly checks to see if

Re: [newbie] Ears don't work

1999-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: No worries - it has done it since it was installed as far as I know - The machine is the same in both OSes, but I have the two harddrives in caddies, and only one is present at any one time. This means I keep them well apart - I don't wan't anything MS

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-28 Thread Paul Benjamin
Are you using Gnome, KDE, or something else for your desktop?

Re: [newbie] KDE Libraries... Where?

1999-09-28 Thread Paul Benjamin
I agree I have been starting to relearn C and learn the *nux way of doing things. It is kind of discouraging when the Qt examples that were installed with Linux-Mandrake will not compile. (Oh no! "hello world" doesn't work? I think something is wrong!) At least when you are following the

Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?

1999-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: As a side issue - I have felt it must be possible to have the click on the wheel serve as middle mouse button, anyone know if this has been done, and if so, how? Well, the way it works here, it's the "paste" button, but in your /etc directory (I think) there's

Re: [newbie] How do I install QT2?

1999-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: So how do I get QT2 installed? I need it so I can run Licq 0.70.1 I am using Mandrake 6.1 Use the RPM for LICQ 0.70.1. From what I've read it's apparently statically compiled with the appropriate library, so you don't have to install it yourself... John

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: I really hope you get a good answer to this from someone who knows for ure - I have the same setup with an LS120 substituted for the Zip (which I gave to a friend!) but to get you started in A direction; I am guessing they will be something like:

Re: [newbie] Ears don't work

1999-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: Many thanks - It's always the way - I just answered another post on this, and here I am reading the solution! ;-) Just have to hope that what's written there is something I can understand! (and fix!) Yeah...as I said in a message I *just* fired off (I

RE: [newbie] conio.h file missing?

1999-09-28 Thread Ken Wilson
You say for obvious reasons but I can't see anything that obvious. I would suggest going back to the instructor and ask him 1) why are you mixing C and C++? 2) why are you using 'conio.h' which is meant to handle platform specific I/0 as opposed to 'stdio.h' which is

RE: [newbie] conio.h file missing?

1999-09-28 Thread Ty Mixon
Not his fault - I didn't give you all the info. I was simply using getch() for the 'Hit any key to continue' bit. It didn't need to do anything but receive that one character and then go. And we use stdio for everything else. The reason we're mixing them is b/c C++ is C incremented. C++

RE: [newbie] conio.h file missing? (Possibly OT by now 8- )

1999-09-28 Thread Ken Wilson
Okay. Understood. We approached it differently where I was schooled. Java first to make getting your head around OOP easier. Then C++. Assembler was done first term alongside Java and C was done when we started to get into operating system details using the Linux OS as the basis for theory and

Re: [newbie] How do I install QT2?

1999-09-28 Thread The Postman
In that case the RPM for QT2 should just install just the same. But it won't. I want to manually compile Licq. I can't get past installing QT2. This blows. Postman. At 08:52 PM 9/28/99 -0400, you wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: So how do I get QT2 installed? I need it so I can run Licq

RE: [newbie] conio.h file missing? (Possibly OT by now 8- )

1999-09-28 Thread Ty Mixon
That's pretty much what Mr. Simpson wants to do, but the school doesn't even have any *nix stuff set up for teaching. He's hoping to have a Unix class next semester. Ty Original Message On 9/28/99, 6:50:58 PM, "Ken Wilson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding RE: [newbie] conio.h file

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-28 Thread Steve Philp
Thomas Peter wrote: Ok I give . I am tryiong to find my CDw and IM Zip. I can see on boot up that they are being loaded. I even find them listed under block devices. But I cannot find the command string to access them. I want to set up a link to mount them on my desk top as I have for my

Re: [newbie] what are these daemons?

1999-09-28 Thread Steve Philp
John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, you wrote: i just got mandrake 6.1 installed and running great. i am trying to customize my system performance a bit. i have been removing unnecessary system daemons from the startup. i cant find docs on these: inet Don't disable

[newbie] Upgrading 6.0 to 6.1, cant find Mandrake directory!?

1999-09-28 Thread Dominic Wong
I am on 6.0 Mandrake Downloaded 6.1 Mandrake upgrade stuff, and put the Mandrake/ in / With 6.1 bootdisk, created from boot.img(located in instimage/) While upgrading, I selected Local Hard Disk for those files, and selected upgrade files location at / .But it keeps saying the directory is not

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-28 Thread Thomas Peter
Than You Ian. I found the paper I was looking for at "Linux Gazzet ' that gave me exactly what I needed. Every thing I had found was for Par Port and mine is Atapi. Got it up and running on all four drives Thanks again bay56 wrote: I really hope you get a good answer to this from someone

Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Upgradeing all packages destroys my system]]

1999-09-28 Thread Steve Philp
"Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." wrote: This entire thread started out from a message triggered by not running ldconfig after upgrading some libraries. To imagine that it degraded to this level of FUD and disinformation is absolutely amazing. Let's look at the statements made in just this reply (Sorry

[newbie] Star Ahhh!-fice

1999-09-28 Thread David P. Greenberg
--We've all heard tales of woe regarding that mess, Star Office. Well, here's my sad story. I downloaded the thing from the new Sun page. it took me 7 and 3/4 hours!!! That's at 33.6 connected at 31200. I'm NOT exagerating. After getting it, I cracked the tarball w/ kde and it unzipped. I opened

Re: [newbie] Default kernel .config

1999-09-28 Thread Steve Philp
Eric Solberg wrote: Are the config files available for the kernels installed with Mandrake 6.1? I've been customizing a kernel and it is crashing, so I'd like to start from a known working config. Is it documented somewhere what features are enabled in the installed kernels? rpm -i

Re: [newbie] Disk problems

1999-09-28 Thread Steve Philp
Manny Styles wrote: - Original Message - From: Lang Zhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 9:14 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Disk problems Try 'fsck /dev/hda1' Martin. better this way : fsck -y /dev/hda1 so that u need not to

RE: [newbie] CDR-RW

1999-09-28 Thread Rick Murphy
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: XCDRoast -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Strike, Jeff Sent: 28 September 1999 19:35 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] CDR-RW Is there any software out there for

Re: [newbie] How do I install QT2?

1999-09-28 Thread Steve Philp
The Postman wrote: In that case the RPM for QT2 should just install just the same. But it won't. I want to manually compile Licq. I can't get past installing QT2. This blows. The error messages you posted in the first message tell you exactly what needs to be updated if you want to install

Re: [newbie] libvga.config and xf86config

1999-09-28 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, G_REEPER wrote: I have found that one of my many problems with getting quake 2 to run is that it keeps reading the libvga.config file. Since that file has nothing in it set correctly ( i think it's a default file??) for my system. I was wondering if i could copy the

Re: [newbie] licq

1999-09-28 Thread Lindsay Steele
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: I have installed mdrk 6.0 with the standard options and am now trying to install licq. without much success i might add.. I have no particular idea of what i am doing at all.. and am frustrated... I will not let it beat me.. I am reading linux manuals for