[newbie] Config modem

1999-09-29 Thread BodiThun
Anyone got a complete idiots guide to config a modem ??

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 to Mandrake 6.1 - - - Worth the effort??

1999-09-29 Thread Rick Murphy
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Eric L. Damron wrote: > I'm running Mandrake 6.0 with all the patches. If I take the time to > upgrade to 6.1 what will it give me? I liked the things I've found with 6.1. It has Netscape 6.1, the latest kde which will now load gnome applications, xcdroast already install

Re: [newbie] CDR-RW, thanks Paul

1999-09-29 Thread Rick Murphy
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Paul Benjamin wrote: > First you will have to login as root or at least su to root in a > terminal window. > > Next we need to test cdrecord to make sure it is working. cdrecord is > used by XCDRoast to burn the CD. > > At a terminal prompt type: > > cdrecord -scanbus >

Re: [newbie] how do you change screen resolution?

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
Jason wrote: > > how do i change screen resolution in kde! Ctrl-Alt- and Ctrl-Alt- -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] C Compiler

1999-09-29 Thread Dan Brown
From: Regional Webmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I don't have a cc installed on my sys, and for the life of me cannot find > one. Is there a list that describes that packages on the mandrake cd so that Depends on your version of mandrake, but if it's 6.0, you've probably got pgcc on your CD.

[newbie] Mandrake 6.0 to Mandrake 6.1 - - - Worth the effort??

1999-09-29 Thread Eric L. Damron
I'm running Mandrake 6.0 with all the patches. If I take the time to upgrade to 6.1 what will it give me?

Re: [newbie] cant seem to get right resolution.

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: > I can only get the X server to work at 800x600 at 8 bit colour. When i try > to do *anything*, the screen is too small to show all the buttons, and a lot > of times, the screen cant show Apply and OK buttons, making it very hard to > change settings. I know i can

[newbie] how do you change screen resolution?

1999-09-29 Thread Jason
how do i change screen resolution in kde!

Re: [newbie] Starting httpd on boot

1999-09-29 Thread Brett Jones
Rename the link httpd. Make sure the lines you added are correct, there should be a # sign infront of each line (sorry if i forgot to tell you this). The lines added to apachectl should look just like this. Here is the how to I got this info from. The guy who wrote it has a number of other good t

Re: [newbie] C Compiler

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
Regional Webmaster wrote: > > I don't have a cc installed on my sys, and for the life of me cannot find > one. Is there a list that describes that packages on the mandrake cd so that > i can identify which one to install, or do i have to go through them one at > a time... Still I have not much of

Re: [newbie] Forcing Network card to read off of 10baseT

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
Arcana wrote: > > I have two network cards with both BNJ and RJ45 ports on it. > > My Cable Modem is connected to eth1 with 10baseT. My Win98 box is > connected to eth0 with 10baseT. > > The win98 box is set to Static IP, as is eth0 on the Linux machine (I > believe its

RE: [newbie] C Compiler

1999-09-29 Thread RICHARD FRIEDMAN
Rather than "cc", look to see if you have "gcc". That is the GNU compiler that you get with Linux. Rick Friedman Salant Corp. - MIS 800-472-8013 x75105 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The closest thing to heaven on earth is... Yankee Stadium! -Original Message- From: Regi

Re: [newbie] C Compiler

1999-09-29 Thread Ben
Probally need to install the development libraries. You can use your distro cd to "upgrade" and select the the ones you need. ( C development, Kernel etc...) - Original Message - From: Regional Webmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 7:30

RE: [newbie] Re:

1999-09-29 Thread Ken Wilson
But didn't you just love that nice shade of green, for those that can read in html that is. :-) Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL P

[newbie] cant seem to get right resolution.

1999-09-29 Thread jerrud
I can only get the X server to work at 800x600 at 8 bit colour. When i try to do *anything*, the screen is too small to show all the buttons, and a lot of times, the screen cant show Apply and OK buttons, making it very hard to change settings. I know i can TAB through them, but still this proves

Re: [newbie] Starting httpd on boot

1999-09-29 Thread Dan Brown
From: Arcana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > try to run the /sbin/chkconfig --add httpd, it returns the error, > "service httpd does not support chkconfig". Edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd, and add these two lines near the top--like after line 2: # chkconfig: 2345 10 90 # description: Activates/Deactivat

[newbie] C Compiler

1999-09-29 Thread Regional Webmaster
I don't have a cc installed on my sys, and for the life of me cannot find one. Is there a list that describes that packages on the mandrake cd so that i can identify which one to install, or do i have to go through them one at a time... Still I have not much of an idea of what i am doing, but the

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

1999-09-29 Thread bay56
Ah, and thank you for drawing that distinction! Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ - Original Message - From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, Septe

Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1

1999-09-29 Thread Jeanette Russo
Regional Webmaster wrote: > I did not find a way of disableing the mouse autoprobe during install.. One > option that i came across was to copy the cd to hard drive and replace the > mouseconfig 3.9 with the redhat mouseconfig file,(which apparantly didn't > freeze). It seemed a long way around

[newbie] Forcing Network card to read off of 10baseT

1999-09-29 Thread Arcana
I have two network cards with both BNJ and RJ45 ports on it. My Cable Modem is connected to eth1 with 10baseT. My Win98 box is connected to eth0 with 10baseT. The win98 box is set to Static IP, as is eth0 on the Linux machine (I believe its 192.168.1.1 for the Linux and

[newbie] Starting httpd on boot

1999-09-29 Thread Arcana
Okay, I'e worked a bit with the contributions I got from the list but it seems that there wasn't a satisfactory answer, as most of the solutions do not work. Okay, here's the situation. I got the SOURCE code from Apache.org, instead of the RPM from Mandrake, and built it like tha

Re: [newbie] HTML Editor and Graphical FTP

1999-09-29 Thread Jeanette Russo
Bob wrote: > I need good HTML editor and Grphical FTP for Linux. What are some good > ones? > > __ > Thanks, Bob > HoP 4 Life > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/9239/ > ICQ: 5760810 > AOLIM:

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread bay56
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 11:26 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] CDWR and Zip > scsi is the native way to talk to devices like CDRs, which makes > scsi-emulation the more natural way to do it I'm sure not going to

Re: [newbie] Multiprocessor and Display

1999-09-29 Thread bay56
Ah, yes - you could try some hardware monitoring software - Sandra from scisoft, and an assortment from Entech should get you all the info you could wish for - just need to snoop the settings you use in Win - write em down, paste em in! Should be reasonably do-able. Try looking round the sites th

Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?

1999-09-29 Thread bay56
Thanks for that reminder - I am still struggling with finding the right docs for most things at the moment - only been at it since last Friday night! I find 'em sometimes though! Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btintern

Re: [newbie] SBLive! under 6.1 - update

1999-09-29 Thread bay56
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 11:35 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] SBLive! under 6.1 - update > I really don't want to start knocking Mandrake at all here as i'm sure they > have plenty enough to do already (!), but i

Re: [newbie] More PHP woes

1999-09-29 Thread Brett Jones
James Stewart wrote: > > This is mSQL, rather than MySQL. I can't find any scripts that seem > appropriate. > You could read through one of the scripts in the init.d dir and build your own. I'm sure one has made at some time. Look for a msql src.rpm in the contrib directory of one of the redhat

Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1

1999-09-29 Thread Regional Webmaster
try at the boot. linux expertexpert noprobe . didn't work for me, but worth a try none the less. >> > When trying to install my machine freezes after the probing of the >> > mouse. >> > It says that is has found a PS/2 compatible mouse and then the keyboard >> > freezes completely. Any

Re: [newbie] soundcore.o for 2.2.9-19mdk

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
Katie Condon wrote: > > I somehow lost my soundcore.o and cannot recompile right now due to some odd > complications.. could someone send me one or post it somewhere online? > > I need /lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc/soundcore.o That's a buggy kernel. There's an update available. -- Steve Phil

Re: [newbie] newbie-remove

1999-09-29 Thread Ripcrd6
instructions sent. Gone. Brian -Original Message- From: Larry Corrales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 2:57 PM Subject: [newbie] newbie-remove >newbie-remove

Re: [newbie] /etc/mail/relay-domains

1999-09-29 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Eric Solberg wrote: > How do I get this to work? I want to be able to send mail from a remote > site by allowing relaying either from the domain of the remote site, or > preferrably by the site's firewall host (which is what smtp on my host > sees). If I enter eithor of the

Re: [newbie] eth0

1999-09-29 Thread Ripcrd6
Jim Howarth wrote: >Can someone tell me where I can define my ne2000 network cards info for the >kernel. Linuxconf is useless to me. I need a text file... I'm used to >slackware.. all of this stuff was nice and easy to put in but my switch to >mandrake has me near tears > >Jim You could go t

Re: [newbie] newbie-remove

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
Larry Corrales wrote: > > newbie-remove Wrong address. Check the MandrakeSoft website for the correct address. Isn't it about time we put a footer on the bottom of list messages that includes removal instructions? -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Admini

Re: [newbie] [OT] Looking for a card game (euchre)

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
Tony Coronado wrote: > > I've searched google/alta vista/etc but I can not find software for playing the > card game *euchre* on linux (not counting java clients at games.yahoo.com et al) > > Any pointers will be appreciated Yes! Yes! Yes! If you find something, post it, I've been hoping for

Re: [newbie] [OT] Looking for a card game (euchre)

1999-09-29 Thread Ripcrd6
did you look at freshmeat.org or linuxberg? Always check these first, they have daily updates. Brian -Original Message- From: Tony Coronado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 2:47 PM Subject: [newbie] [OT] Looking for a card g

Re: [newbie] HTML Editor and Graphical FTP

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
Bob wrote: > > I need good HTML editor and Grphical FTP for Linux. What are some good > ones? IglooFTP is nice. As for editing HTML, you might try Netscape's built-in editor (if you want WYSIWYG). -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administrator

[newbie] Re:

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
> Christopher John Cogan wrote: > > newbie remove Wrong address. And kill the HTML. -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Re:

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
> Stefan Van Dessel wrote: > > newbie remove Wrong address. And kill the HTML. -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] newbie remove

1999-09-29 Thread Darcy & Emily Baston
newbie remove

Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1

1999-09-29 Thread Regional Webmaster
I did not find a way of disableing the mouse autoprobe during install.. One option that i came across was to copy the cd to hard drive and replace the mouseconfig 3.9 with the redhat mouseconfig file,(which apparantly didn't freeze). It seemed a long way around for me, so i pulled my laptop apart

Re: [newbie] Star Ahhh!-fice

1999-09-29 Thread alann
"David P. Greenberg" wrote: > > --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 tar

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
John Aldrich wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: > > /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrwiso9660 > > ro,user,noauto,nosuid,noexec,nodev00 > > > "ro" for a CDRW Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose > of a CDRW? :-) No. I don't know that Linux supports the kind of drag-n-drop rewri

[newbie] R3m00v3

1999-09-29 Thread Roy Cormier
newbie remove

[newbie] (sin asunto)

1999-09-29 Thread Ing. Carlos Mayorga V.
remove

[newbie] soundcore.o for 2.2.9-19mdk

1999-09-29 Thread Katie Condon
I somehow lost my soundcore.o and cannot recompile right now due to some odd complications.. could someone send me one or post it somewhere online? I need /lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc/soundcore.o thanks... -- --katie

[newbie] /etc/mail/relay-domains

1999-09-29 Thread Eric Solberg
How do I get this to work? I want to be able to send mail from a remote site by allowing relaying either from the domain of the remote site, or preferrably by the site's firewall host (which is what smtp on my host sees). If I enter eithor of these in relay-domains it won't allow the relay. How

[newbie] HTML Editor and Graphical FTP

1999-09-29 Thread Bob
I need good HTML editor and Grphical FTP for Linux. What are some good ones? __ Thanks, Bob HoP 4 Life [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/9239/ ICQ: 5760810 AOLIM: bobifmd National Wrestling

Re: [newbie] More PHP woes

1999-09-29 Thread James Stewart
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Brett Jones wrote: > If you install mysql from the rpms there is a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d that > will do it. Run ntsysv and select mysql from the list, the next boot will bring > mysql up along with other services. This is mSQL, rather than MySQL. I can't find any scripts

Re: [newbie] Soundblaster Live! and Mandrake

1999-09-29 Thread Eddie Head
Katie Condon wrote: > Has anybody had experience with the Creative Blaster Soundblaster Live! > (Value) and the mandrake-linux kernel 2.2.9-19mdk ? > > Katie Condon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes I was having a lot of problem but this page got it working: http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/sblive.html ed

[newbie] Listening

1999-09-29 Thread James Stewart
I've installed mSQL and PHP from the source and both are functioning fine. The problem comes in interfacing the two. I can't make a connection to the msql server from PHP. I have mSQL set up for TCP socket 1114. Do I need to set it up in some other way for internal listening? James. -- Jam

[newbie] Re:

1999-09-29 Thread Barry Marler
--On Wednesday, September 29, 1999, 5:57 PM +0200 Stefan Van Dessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > newbie remove ..in HTML, no less ;-) /b - Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (voice) (706)542-0059 (fax)

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1999-09-29 Thread Christopher John Cogan
newbie remove

Re: [newbie] Default kernel .config

1999-09-29 Thread Eric Solberg
> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you 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

Re: [newbie] Soundblaster Live! issues

1999-09-29 Thread Richard Yevchak
You have to go to ftp.soundblaster.com/pub/creative/beta/ and download emu10k1-0.3b.tar.gz. For 2.2.9-19 use the module for version 2.2.5. If you upgrade to 2.2.9-27 use the module for ver. 2.2.10 Richard Barry Marler wrote: > > Someone posted the Creative ftp site where various versions of e

Re: [newbie] How do I install QT2?

1999-09-29 Thread postman
Why don't I just install the Licq RPM? Have you tried yet? The RPM version of Licq .70.1 will not install because of module dependencies that it calls up. It wants QT2 otherwise it will not install. Any Mandrake 6.1 users out there get this thing to install with any success? Please share your secr

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: > No, it's not. It actualy doesn't matter what you put there rw or ro. > Why you ask? because iso9660 states the format is readonly. > try mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom -o rw -t iso9660 > now run mount, notice it's ro.. > Ahh...now that really makes sense... :-) Than

Re: [newbie] what are these daemons?

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: > I too would also be interested as to why LinuxConf is a security risk. I > don't actually intend to make a direct connection out, I'm relying on Win98 > SE to make my internet connection, but if LinuxConf has other risks, I'd > like to know about them. > Well, as

RE: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: > > Not really, you can't just drag and drop files to it. You HAVE to use a > utility such as cdrecord from the console or xcdroast from with X (and there > are other newer ones appearing all the time). > > These programs don't talk to the CDR using the normal fil

Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1

1999-09-29 Thread Francisco Alonso
Ryan Baxter wrote: > > When trying to install my machine freezes after the probing of the > mouse. > It says that is has found a PS/2 compatible mouse and then the keyboard > freezes completely. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated. > Thanks. > > ryan Do you have a laptop with one

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

1999-09-29 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
John Aldrich wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: > > > 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

Re: [newbie] what are these daemons?

1999-09-29 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
linuxconf provides a web interface as well as the text and gui interface. $BROWSER http://127.0.0.1:98/ you'll have to enable access of course first in linuxconf.. On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Simon Norris wrote: > I too would also be interested as to why LinuxConf is a security risk. I > don't actu

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: > > /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrwiso9660 > > ro,user,noauto,nosuid,noexec,nodev00 > > > "ro" for a CDRW Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose > of a CDRW? :-) > No, it's not. It actualy doesn't matt

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: > OK John, thanks for the confirmation - now can you tell me please - if I > want to emulate scsi (for the burner), then when I do finally make my (full) > reinstall, should I say yes or no to scsi at install time - just wondering > how self propelled the emulation

Re: [newbie] what are these daemons?

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: > > > linuxconf > > Potential security risk. Don't run it. > > Where could I read up about that? I already ran it, but will leave it out > next install if it's that bad. Darn - seemed quite useful too! > Well, All I know is what my mentor/boss told me. He said le

Re: [newbie] How do I install QT2?

1999-09-29 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: > QT2 is more "advanced" than most of the apps out there. > Your only real option is to just install LICQ via RPM and > forget about compiling your own. Again, I just don't > understand why you HAVE to compile it. QT2 really isn't > ready for current distr

RE: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread martin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Aldrich > Sent: 29 September 1999 15:47 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip > > > On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: > > /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrwiso9660 > > ro,user,noaut

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1999-09-29 Thread Stefan Van Dessel
newbie remove

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

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: > > 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

Re: [newbie] Multiprocessor and Display

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: > As I said before, I have 15inch Gateway Vivitron > 1572... I can do 1024 x 768 with true 16 bit colors > w/o problem in win95. What is the "safe" setting for > me if I do choose to custom set my monitor config? > > Probably just going to have to play with it

Re: [newbie] Disk problems

1999-09-29 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 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

Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: > Reading both these web pages only confused me is there just a simple > explanation of how to get this working? > I am using a logitech firstmouse with scroll wheel and can't seem to get it > to work. Three button emaulation is on and it is configured as ps2 logit

Re: [newbie] How do I install QT2?

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you 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 difference between installing QT2 and LICQ is that QT is a programming library, whereas LICQ is a

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: > /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrwiso9660 > ro,user,noauto,nosuid,noexec,nodev00 > "ro" for a CDRW Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of a CDRW? :-)

Re: [newbie] Star Ahhh!-fice

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: > --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 ta

Re: [newbie] How do I install QT2?

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: > All this tap dance to get QT2 installed. And I can't get anywhere with it. > Have I overlooked something? Are there unforseen steps that I am missing > prior to installing the QT2 rmp package? I am sure there is. The QT2 rpm > package wasn't made to not be instal

Re: [newbie] what are these daemons?

1999-09-29 Thread Simon Norris
I too would also be interested as to why LinuxConf is a security risk. I don't actually intend to make a direct connection out, I'm relying on Win98 SE to make my internet connection, but if LinuxConf has other risks, I'd like to know about them. - Original Message - From: bay56 <[EMAIL PR

Re: [newbie] Multiprocessor and Display

1999-09-29 Thread Lee Carlson
Specs for a Vivatron 15, CPD-15f23 are:Horz, 31.5 - 64 KHZ; Vert. 50 Hz - 120 Hz. max res. 1280 x 1024 lalala lalala wrote: > As I said before, I have 15inch Gateway Vivitron > 1572... I can do 1024 x 768 with true 16 bit colors > w/o problem in win95. What is the "safe" setting for > me if I

Re: [newbie] cable modem

1999-09-29 Thread BryanMoorehead
Let me know if you have any specific questions. Mine was pretty easy to set up. Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/29/99 09:27:35 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem From:

[newbie] Mandrake on Fujitsu Lifebook

1999-09-29 Thread Francisco Alonso
Hi folks: This is my first coming to the list and it is looking for help. I have installed Mandrake 6.0 on a Fujitsu Lifebook C342. It works Ok but the only problem is that I don't know the video card and monitor model or specification. So I can't run Xconfigurator succesfully. I have tested so

[newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1

1999-09-29 Thread Ryan Baxter
When trying to install my machine freezes after the probing of the mouse. It says that is has found a PS/2 compatible mouse and then the keyboard freezes completely. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks. ryan

Re: [newbie] what are these daemons?

1999-09-29 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, bay56 wrote: > - Original Message - > From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 2:35 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] what are these daemons? > > > > > linuxconf > > Potential security risk. Don't run it. > > Whe

[newbie] smbmount

1999-09-29 Thread Jason
ok this is hwere im at... im running dhcp and im trying to connect to share from a win95 machine. wheni run smbmount it keeps trying to add the localhost.. 127.0.0.1, which is drawn from /etc/hosts. but im on dhcp.. can someone provide some help here

[newbie] Soundblaster Live! issues

1999-09-29 Thread Barry Marler
Someone posted the Creative ftp site where various versions of emu* are available, one of which works with the 2.2.9 kernel in Venus. Would you mind reposting? I accidentally deleted the message. Thanks. /b - Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology Univ

Re: [newbie] cable modem

1999-09-29 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta Setting up a cable modem is pretty straight forward, might want to check the list archives. "Ralph | byte-runner |" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09/28/99 07:24:55 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC

Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?

1999-09-29 Thread bay56
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 1:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup? > AFAICT, it's *supposed* to scroll in Netscape, but it doesn't do that > here... the ONLY thing it's good f

Re: [newbie] what are these daemons?

1999-09-29 Thread bay56
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] what are these daemons? > > linuxconf > Potential security risk. Don't run it. Where could I read up about that? I already ran it, but will

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread bay56
OK John, thanks for the confirmation - now can you tell me please - if I want to emulate scsi (for the burner), then when I do finally make my (full) reinstall, should I say yes or no to scsi at install time - just wondering how self propelled the emulation is, and whether or not it needs to borro

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread bay56
Good grief - I actually manged to help for the first time - well I'll be damned! ;-) Erm wanna share the url for that paper at the gazzette please? - mine is not quite right yet - sod's law ;-) I'm nearly there myself! Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that s

Re: [newbie] Star Ahhh!-fice

1999-09-29 Thread Jeremy Kersenbrock
David, I installed Star Office 5.1 successfully from a CD-ROM yesterday, so perhaps I can help you out. I installed is as a single user installation, so if you want a network installation or something else maybe someone else will help out. First of all are you shure you downloaded the version fo

[newbie] Real Player G2 Expires

1999-09-29 Thread Jeanette Russo
Has anyone else had this happen? I downloaded another one and it says its expired also? Jeanette

Re: [newbie] Disk problems

1999-09-29 Thread David P. Greenberg
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Strike, Jeff wrote: > My system locked up > I run fsck and it just > says Parallelizing fsck > > -Jeff --Jeff, I'm sure this isn't what you want to hear, and hopefully there's a better solution, but when the exact same thing happened to me the only thing that fixed it wa

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

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
Ty Mixon wrote: > > Ok - then any idea why I got the original error? ldconfig didn't get run after installing new libs. -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EM

RE: [newbie] SBLive! under 6.1 - update

1999-09-29 Thread martin
[snip] > In that same sensible vein - it seems Mandrake could do worse than pay > attention to this in their release strategy - SBLive-value is > hardly rare! > Making sure the kernal is available in a suitably receptive > compiled state > looks like a good move for them too. I know other ways exi

RE: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread martin
[snip] > > (why the blazes don't people accept that burners actually > > come in two flavours of electronics?) I don't much have an opinion on this one (jee's i don't know HOW the things work, i just know how to make them work!), but looking at the CDR howto gives us something along the lines of

RE: [newbie] Soundblaster Live! and Mandrake

1999-09-29 Thread martin
A reply was posted giving the basics of what you needed to do. If you're still struggling, detailed instructions are at: http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/sblive.html > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Katie Condon > Sent: 29 September 19

RE: [newbie] Default kernel .config

1999-09-29 Thread martin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Adams > Sent: 29 September 1999 09:26 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Default kernel .config > > > On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: > > Are the config files available for the kern

Re: [newbie] Default kernel .config

1999-09-29 Thread Richard Adams
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you 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?

RE: [newbie] Disk problems

1999-09-29 Thread Richard Adams
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: > >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) Normaly when fsck drops you into a shell because theres a disk problem