On 11 Oct, Dan Brown wrote:
From: Richard Salts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Another question: How does one unpack and install an *rpm program?
# man rpm
Good Lord, that's a lot of information! Man pages say way too much for
most normal purposes, _especially_ the one for `rpm`. Hell, even
`rpm
On 11 Oct, Jaguar wrote:
I d/l'ed LICQ in RPM from the net...and installed it. How does a person pass
your personal info (read UIN) to the program. Is it a parameter/flag during
LICQ starting, or an OPTION somewhere
Run the program from a command-line first. Run a Konsole or Xterm or
DragonFly. Sounds far better than the others.
On 11 Oct, Pixel wrote:
the panoramix name is unfortunately copyrighted (wishing there were only
GPL ;-)
so i'm making a poll here to know which name it will change to!
Actually, Mandrake brings up a similar memory of knights and dragons for me,
perhaps we had a similarly warped education!!
- Original Message -
From: Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] panoramix must change
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Tom Coleman wrote:
Hi,
I have just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0 on my system. However, I was unable to
configure my graphics card and therefore cannot run X. I have an ATI Xpert 2000 card
and an ADI 5P+ monitor. Does anyone know if this card is supported? If it is
You might be suprised how common, an ocurrance this is. I can vouch for
both denver and san jose airports useing mickeysoft. My fav is still the
atm machine :)
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Jose Alberto Abreu wrote:
"PSM 0x2710]" wrote:
http://www.3dshack.com/cgi-bin/pic.cgi?iotd/airport.jpg
wangtao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
where can i change the display color of the monitor. now i use 256 color.
i want to use 16bits or higher.can anyone help? thanks a lot.
==
From a terminal, type in XF86Setup
This will bring up a simple GUI for changing resolution.
Mike
Richard Salts wrote:
How can I get Mandrake while in KDE back up again after everything on
screen is suddenly paralyzed? How that came about I don't know but I
was trying to resize the 'Settings' menu dialog box of 'Kmail' when
all froze and I knew of nothing else to do but to turn computer
All of them are better than LIZARDg.
Houdini conjures up the name of a magician
DragonFly implies power
I would prefer DragonFly
Civileme
On 11 Oct, Pixel wrote:
the panoramix name is unfortunately copyrighted (wishing there were only GPL ;-)
so i'm making a poll here to know which name
try cntrl-alt backspace to kill the X-Server or use the magic keys...
"Richard Salts" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/12/99 02:36:04 PM
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Subject: [newbie] It Froze !
How can I get
Steve Philp wrote:
My dog ate my pencil.
Tony Zocolillo wrote:
This is a test#2 pencils only!
What's a pencil?
--
Joseph S. Gardner
Senior Designer / Technical Support
Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH
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Earl Karch wrote:
remove
I'd love to but you keep coming back
8-)
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Joseph S. Gardner
Senior Designer / Technical Support
Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH
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Well, I've finally got the DSL line, and I love it!! Didn't take too
much to get it set up (not sure what all I did, sadly) once I set the
Cisco 675 correctly.
Anyhow, my Aussie friend who GM's the game I play on IRC could use
some back up high speed storage for some gaming files (pics, text
giga-snip
The Maxtor drive came with EZ-Drive, but that doesn't affect linux in
any way since it can see large drives with no BIOS changes.
Manny Styles
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Get your FREE Internet
Aren't pencils what people used before even the typwriter?
Original Message
On 10/12/99, 4:11:12 AM, "Joseph S. Gardner" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote regarding Re: [newbie] test:
Steve Philp wrote:
My dog ate my pencil.
Tony Zocolillo wrote:
This is a test#2 pencils only!
"Richard" == Richard Salts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Richard Hello, Mike, Another question: How does one unpack and
Richard install an *rpm program? I think I asked this question
Richard before but I lost that message and so would appreciate a
Richard refresher answer.
[snip]
Dear friends:
Just installed Mandrake 6.1. Like it very much.
I would deeply appreciate help with an urgent problem: how do you
install the RealPlayer Alpha for Linux with the strange extension "bin"?
I looked for instructions on RealPlayer's site and couldn't find them.
This is the file:
REMOVE
-Original Message-
From: Steve Philp [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 1:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Heh, my XWindows screen is enormous... what did
I do wrong?
Paul Stansel wrote:
Nojust get back to your
Hey Scripting Gurus,
I set up a crontab for root to run a script. The script was written for
bash. I found out that cron runs under sh? When the job kicks off, it can't
find ifconfig or grep, which are part of the script. Email is sent to root
"ifconfig : command not found" "grep :
I have just installed linux-mandrake 6.0 on my system. However. I was unable
to configure pcmcia card Hayes-Option (COM 3 IRQ 10 in windows) by Kppp.
Does anyone know how can I configure it? Thanks in advance, Oder.
Dear friends:
Figured it out. You have to log out of KDE, change to su - in the
console, then go back into KDE as root. Then you ./filename. No problem.
Really like Mandrake.
Thanks as always.
Benjamin
--
Benjamin and Anna Sher
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Sher's Russian Web
From: Ronald A. Yacketta
have you but a
#! /bin/bash (or is it !# dang I forget) at the very top of the script?
also try gicing the full path to the command IE:
/usr/sbin/ifconfig
/bin/grep
(above paths could be wrong, just giving examples)
Something along the lines of;
!/bin/bash -u
At the beginning of the script? The idea is to change the shell of the
script currently running to be bash, and when the script terminates, control
returns to sh.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL
I just installed Linux on a SCSI only machine and it is running, though I've
got a resolution problem at the moment. Alan had told me that the only real
requirement was that the / "root" slice had to be withing the first 1024
blocks of the hard drive. Once I moved the install to the first
"Oder Santos" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just installed linux-mandrake 6.0 on my system. However. I was
unable
to configure pcmcia card Hayes-Option (COM 3 IRQ 10 in windows) by Kppp.
Does anyone know how can I configure it? Thanks in advance, Oder.
===
Not ure, but i
Problem was in fstab...
I didn't have
none /dev/ptsdevpts mode=0622 0 0
in there, because I had saved my fstab from my previous install of Caldera ( hey, the
filesystems aren't gonna change, right? ) and used that with this install of Mandrake.
After much digging, I found this
Hello.
I have the Linux Mandrake 6.1(Cassini). With the kernel 2.2.11-2mdk i686
I have a graphic card SVGA ATI 3D Charger AGP 8 MB that is not in the list of offered
cards, although the list of ATI in very big.
I have proven with several ATI (even the generic SVGA), and although it works and it
This work GREAT for me. How do I turn off HTML?
- Original Message -
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: James P. Jendrzejewski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 10:47 AM
Subject: [newbie] Re:
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote:
James...the
Thanks, Matt. I'll look those up.
- Original Message -
From: Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] How to use ns-install that comes with v47 of Netscape
for Linux 2.0
On 11 Oct, Dan Brown wrote:
From:
remove
Thanks very much, Mike. I'll look those up and see about them.
- Original Message -
From: Mike Fieschko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] How to use ns-install that comes with v47 of Netscape
for Linux 2.0
I can see the CDROM ( I mean the content). I would like to try install
WP, see if it works. The problem is: how exactly do I install something
from the CDROM? Any clue will be appeciate.
Julian
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 08,
I'm trying to run Blackbox but I can't figure out how get
Mandrake/KDE/Gnome to run it. I've tried modifying ~/.xsession and
~/.Xclients to no avail. I've got Mandrake 6.1 set up to log in from X. I
tried adding "blackbox" to the Login Manager in the KDE Control Center, but
all that does is
Too late now; I've got another CD with 6.1 - no WP this time.
WHere do you get the rewritable CDROM so cheap?
I should tell my friend about it.
Thanks,
Julian
-Original Message-
From: Sam [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 10:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Karnos, John G" wrote:
I just installed Linux on a SCSI only machine and it is running, though I've
got a resolution problem at the moment. Alan had told me that the only real
requirement was that the / "root" slice had to be withing the first 1024
blocks of the hard drive. Once I moved
Thanks to all.
Especially:
yacketta
bero
Simon Norris
I wound up both setting the path at the beginning, and putting FQFNs any place a
command or file was referenced.
Sort of double redundant but...
It ain't gota be pretty. It's just gotta work!
Thanks,
BRyan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on
Johnglad to hear you got it up and running. However I'm not sure I
understand why you moved your entire linux installation area (free
space) instead of just creating a small /boot partition at the beginning
of your original free space?
I'm not so good at networking stuff yet, so maybe
remove
- Original Message -
From: Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 9:04 AM
Subject: [newbie] panoramix must change its name
YOU HAVE ONLY 24h to answer before the choice is done...
so answer fast :)
the panoramix name is
Where do you find it?
Hugh wrote:
Hi all,
I just found out Comp USA is selling Mandrake 6.5. I thought Mandrake
was up to 6.1? What is the difference between the two?
"Hugh" == Hugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hugh Hi all, I just found out Comp USA is selling Mandrake 6.5. I
Hugh thought Mandrake was up to 6.1? What is the difference
Hugh between the two?
This is called "Linux 6.5" by Macmillan, the outfit which packages /
distributes this
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Never mindI just discovered that no SiS graphic chips work with
Linux...just my luck!
TZ
Well, they're SUPPOSED to at least according to
www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html
They say it *should* work with the XF86_SVGA server.
John
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote:
How do I re-run the setup to install a new video driver? (or anything
else...I still need to load my sound card module) I don't have a bood for
Red Hat...I do have SuSE but I couldn't get past partitioning with it so I
put Mandrake on instead. The books I
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote:
John Aldrich wrote:
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Just because it is not a Winmodem does not mean it is not a Windows modem.
Winmodem is a brand name of US Robotics.
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Under window my modem is known as:
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote:
I didn't see that in Netscape's 'Other Platform' webpage where I went to get
another 'updated' version of Netscape.
Have any idea where I can get a copy of Netscape for Linux 2.2 or is there
such a place? I looked in the Linuxberg website and the only
I've had to do a reinstall and I'm having difficulty with
resizing Netscape so I can see the whole program, top to bottom. Problem
is, the top is in screen (monitor) view but the bottom remains hidden below the
screen.
I'm using GNOME as the desktop and am using Enlightenment to
attempt to
John: I saw that to.. but from what I have seen it don't. it will show
the desktop and tool bar just fine.. when you use the menus (KDE or any
desktop) it shows text as blacked out and boxed...
Every place I go says they support it. SiS says they don't but XF86
does... which it don't obviously.
Joseph S. Gardner wrote:
Hugh wrote:
Hi all,
I just found out Comp USA is selling Mandrake 6.5. I thought Mandrake
was up to 6.1? What is the difference between the two?
That would be Macmillan's version 6.5 NOT Mandrake. Macmillan
redistributes Mandrake under their own version
I had the same problem under Mandrake 6.0, so I hope that this will pertain
to 6.5 as well. The problem was that I had not set up domain
name and DNSaddress
in the ppp client (kppp in my case.) In 6.0 it was under setup
when you brought up kppp to dial.
Hope that this helps.
Ryan
"James P.
"James P. Jendrzejewski" wrote:
Thanks Steve, John, and Leonard,
Apologies to all for sending in HTML format still in WinMode.
I have looked at the resolv.conf and have found all statements in there
with the correct DNS's in the format you have given. I am assuming from
I am running Linux Mandrake 6.0 and KDE. I have set up kppp to use
a 56k modem on cua3 to dial my isp and primarily use netscape. For
some reason after I connect, I cannot open any programs at all, but all
programs that were open before work just as they should. Does anyone
know why?
Thank you
"Matt" == Matt G Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Matt I can pirint localy, and nothing is messed up, I can see the
Matt printer on my network (I'm using samba to get it to work)
Matt And i CAN print to the printer, i don't get any errors, the
Matt job shows up in the windowss
I finally was able to have my modem detected when i setup
a session using KPPP. Under window my setup was com3
with an irq 10 at address 0x3e8. Using the command:
setserial -a /dev/cua0, 1 2 and 3 i was able to find that cua2
had the same address. I then type setserial /dev/cua2 irq
10.
I then
Dear friends:
I am having an urgent problem with my printer.
For some reason, I can't seem to stop, that is, to dequeue the print
job. NO mattter what I do, it won't dequeue:
[root@adsl-77-232-94 sher]# lpq
lp is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job Files
Ryan, I had the same problem recently and was told it was a simple fix.
Then, when I saw it, felt like a right idiot.
In the KPP options, there is a setting that says "configure IP from this
machine's hostname" or something like that. It should not be ticked. When
mine was ticked, I had exactly
Dear friends:
You can see how distraught I am!
I did in fact lprm 7, and not lprm, but for some reason, when I
performed the operation in order to copy and paste it into my letter, I
forgot and typed lprm. I have done this a hundred times in RH. I have no
idea why it doesn/t work in Mandrake.
Hello everybody,
I have a problem with my Zip plus. I have just installed Mandrake 6.0
with the previous version 5.3 I simply run the following command:
insmod imm.o
mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zip where /zip is the mount point I created
but now when i type insmod imm i get the following error
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