Hello from Downunder. As a happy and contented user of Mandrake 5.3 I
was a little tentative about 'updating' to 6.1. I had good reason! 6.1
has more bugs than my bed! For instance; the bootloader won't load LILO
onto hdb1, at least not the first time. Many of the program icons on the
desktop
The thing new users need to understand is that Linux is something
like an accident. First, Linus Torvalds (hope I spelled his name
right!) produced the kernel, then put it on the web. Next others saw
the kernel and added other software until it became an OS. The only
thing is that it did not
I can't afford that either (T1), I just heard that the cost was
dropping, and added it in with the other ideas presented. I will most
likely go with my local cable provider sometime in the next year.
They charge $40.00 per month for unlimited service, and guarentee 512
K per second. I'll have to
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:22:53AM -0400, Paul Hoy wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone know the name of the DNS RPM package that comes with Mandrake?
bind, bind-utils, bind-devel
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, you wrote:
In the KDE environment as root, navigate to the /etc folder, and
right-click the lilo.conf file, then select "text editor". Add the
line below in the image section:
append="mem=128M'
Include the quotes
Yup. you found both the settings that can make you send HTML email in
OutLook Express. It's a shame that the Redmond boys don't set up the
defaults for good net ettiquet. But then the Netscape guys don't do
it either. Go figgure. As far as the Donnie issue, at least from
where I sat, it looked
But it is with such experimentation that we really learn.
Ernie
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear friends;
I hope I can serve as a good object lesson to all other newbies:
I messed with my X Font Server trying to install Win31 fonts into the
ttfonts directory. Didn't work,
Sam wrote:
If any of you are planning on doing some web business with a linux
server, you might be interested in this.
Go to the red hat site and register w/ red hat .com for their mailing
list. You can then sign up to have a full blown copy of Oracle8i mailed
to you for free.
Also,
Civileme wrote:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answerstips/story/0,3656,2259636,00.html
If it is still there, it's a step-by-step.
Civileme
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
Has anyone been able to get an SBLive or PCI512 working with Mandrake
6.1 yet. I know someone was working on
Ditto.
Bryan
Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/19/99 07:49:04 AM
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings)
Subject: Re: [newbie] Items of interest
Sam wrote:
If any of you are planning on doing some web
I just got my CheapBytes
Mandrake 6.1 CD and I can't get it to install.I have a Promise Ultra66, and
a 13G hard drive connected to it. I read theUltraDMA mini HowTO, so to
start my installation I type "linuxide2=0x14c8,0x14be
ide3=0x14c0,0x14ba" This seems to work because I can seemy hard
Same here. Generally what I have found is that if it errors out on
such things, then tells you the name is taken you DID join, but there
was some funky error that prevented you from getting the message. So
you and i have several memberships now. :)
--
Ty Mixon
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What version of Outlook are you using? I have Outlook 98 and that
option is not present.
Ken Wilson
First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is
irrelevant
(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
I am not sure if our problems are one and the same but I had this problem on
my laptop. Occasionally, the system will lock the keyboard and the mouse and
I had to switch it off and on to continue...but a quick look at the clock
showed that the system is still running.
I was desperate and wrote
I have the same problem with you. Please share
with me the solution if you get one. Thanks.
- Original Message -
From: Ken Davis
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 8:50 AM
Subject: mandrake 6.1 and xf86 bugged?
Hi,
I have a
Hello,
Does anyone have experience getting a CMI 8338 chip sound card to work with
Linux. Supports lists the CMI 8330 chip but not the 8338. I've tried every
card driver in the list and no luck. I do get some trace of sound with a
few of the choices, but I have to turn the speakers on full
It's actually Outlook Express 5, the one that's attached to IE 5, rather
than Office.
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From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 2:05 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] (OT) -- About HTML
What version of Outlook are you using? I
Hello,
Is it possible to install an app from one Linux package into another? I
have a SuSE 6.2 with StarOffice (among others) and I would like to be able
to install it in Mandrake. If this can be done, how so? I have Mandrake
6.1 CD-ROM only, not the commercial distribution. When I've tried
And I forgot to mention, it's open to the rest of the world, not just US
like the red hat signup!!
- Original Message -
From: Simon Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Items of interest
As an exponent of the Oracle
Ernie: I share much of what you say in your poster. You have
a very nice insight into Linux, indeed. Maybe this chaos is
the kind of "productive order" needed for new ideas to come
up.
Cheers,
APS
Tuesday, October 19, 1999, 10:26:37 AM, you wrote:
ENWJ The thing new users need to
Thanks for the help. I reinstalled from the CD the kdelib package as
recommended and everything is working fine. I greatly appreciate the help.
Frank Geter
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Philp
Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 2:51
Hi,
I've got Mandrake 6.0 installed and running pretty well (for a while now).
The only real problem I'm having is that sound doesn't play IN CERTAIN
CIRCUMSTANCES. For instance, the KDE startup sounds play fine.
I can do a:
cat test.wav /dev/dsp
just fine and a:
cat test.au
Jeanette Russo wrote:
Sam wrote:
If any of you are planning on doing some web business with a linux
server, you might be interested in this.
Go to the red hat site and register w/ red hat .com for their mailing
list. You can then sign up to have a full blown copy of Oracle8i mailed
From: Ronald A. Yacketta
have you tried to recompile you kernel with scsi support?
what brand is the scsi card? the modules might already be compiled
and you just need to instmod/modprobe them
Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/19/99 11:19:32 AM
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] sound card install and video adjustments
Either that, or choose "xf86setup" to reconfigure your X
instead of XF86Config.
Good luck!
John
Hello,
I have an old (early 1980's) Telebyte TDX 1600 BPI tape drive. I have the DOS
software to run it, but was just wondering if anyone else
has attempted to use something like this with Linux. I believe the card for it
is a Pertec interface? if that helps. I occasionaly get people who
Hi,
Running KDE1.1.1, Mandrake6.0.
Whenever I boot up my notebook(not often- about once a week), I do not
get any sound until I run sndconfig. Everything runs fine on the
sndconfig, and then it tells me that I already have a config file and
would I like to overwrite. I hit yes and I'm
Interesting, I've never even thought of doing that
I have a download directory in my Kpanel, so I usually just wait until I surf
to something I like, open the download directory (which starts a new window)
and drag the link / FTP icon across to it...
Thats what I love about Linux...there's so
- Original Message -
From: Tony Zocolillo
I gave up on getting the SiS5597 on-board video to work and switched to a
ATI Mach 64 2Mb PCI. I did try using the XFree86 3.3.5 but when I run
XF86Setup, I couldn't get it to work...couldn't get it to reconfigure back
to VGA16...so I end up
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Hi everybody.
Iam using Mandrake 6.1 and my Netscape lose my Bookmarks savings every
time when I loggin.
Someone knows what is happening?
Check your ~/.Netscape directory and see if there is a
"lock" file. If there is, delete it.
John
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Well, try going to www.sgi.com and see how much luck you have registering for
their 1400L Server giveaway. It appears you must approach using windows or
else.
Do you mean the following URL I just entered using Netscape
4.7 under RedHat 6.0?
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Is there a way I can enable SCSI support without having to reinstall
Linux? Everywhere I look to install a Zip Drive (parallel) you have to
have the SCSI enabled at Install. And of course. Thinking I would not
need the Zip for anything (and probably still
I have installed the Mandrake 6.1 distribution and I am getting funny
graphical problems.
#1. The very far right of my monitor has very small blinking lines. In
8bit graphical mode I don't see them. In 16 or 24 bit mode they appear.
This didn't happen on Mandrake or Redhat 6.0 or earlier, but
Thanks for the help, everything is working well now.
kdelibs does not fully install, most of it makes it in, but it does not
register with the rpm batabase and some files don't make it. Uninstall the
kcmclock rpm, then run rpm -Uvh on the kdelibs package. If you want to use
the
Brett Jones
I run mandrake 6.0 on a 486 without a kernel recompile. I haven't had
any serious problems with it but then I am only playing right now. I
just did a custom install and left out some of the components I didn't
need.
--- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Ano wrote:
I'd be
Has anyone tried, successfully or unsuccessfully,
to install Mandrake 6.1 on an Intel 810 motherboard?
Does any Xserver support that chipset yet?
Thanks,
Michael
what you put in your ~/.forward file? I've tried several variations, including
this one given in procmail's manpage:
"|exec /usr/bin/procmail"
And it does not work.
Try removing the exec so it looks like
"|/usr/bin/procmail"
just in case your sendmail is configured to deny exec.
That
Dear friends:
I have been using WP8 for Linux for over six months. I used to use WP6
for Dos and Windows years ago when, like so many others, I was persuaded
to follow the standard (pun intended) and switched to MSword 2, 6 and
then even for a while 97.
I do not wish to discuss the merits of
Hi , I am trying to connect my labtop to the
serial port of my PC with Linux , and actually a got it , but the problem is
that the speed of the comunication is really slow , ( for example 5 minutes just
to load the mandrake init page where you enter the login and password) , I am
using
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote:
#2. A few of the toolbar buttons on kfm and a few other KDE apps have
the appearance of being scambled. They still work, but graphically they
look like a scamblet tv picture. This has only happened with the
Mandrake 6.1 distribution. And it has happened on
I have a system with a nic that is currently running win95 and as part
of my home network I can use the telnet client included in windows to
log on to my linux machine (running mdk 6.1) or I can use WS_FTP to log
in and transfer files to and from my linux machine. It's a 486/100 and
I decided to
I'm having the same problem. If I use:
"|IFS=' ' exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #richajoh"
an error is mailed to root that says 'sh: cannot use in command'.
If I use:
"|exec /usr/bin/procmail #richajoh"
I get address richajoh is unsafe for mailing to programs.
Anyone have any
Ken Wilson wrote:
What version of Outlook are you using? I have Outlook 98 and that
option is not present.
Ken Wilson
First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is
irrelevant
(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:09:52AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Is it possible to install an app from one Linux package into another? I
have a SuSE 6.2 with StarOffice (among others) and I would like to be able
to install it in Mandrake. If this can be
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 04:09:35PM +0100, Simon Norris wrote:
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but the applications you install will
mainly depend on the Linux Kernel you're running. If your kernel is
compatible, you should be relatively trouble free. See if you can find the
install spec for
On 19-Oct-99 Michael R. Batchelor wrote:
Try removing the exec so it looks like
"|/usr/bin/procmail"
just in case your sendmail is configured to deny exec.
That should dump the message directly into procmail's
standard input. Of course, you need to verify that procmail
is actually
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 03:55:42PM -0400, Michael R. Batchelor wrote:
Has anyone tried, successfully or unsuccessfully,
to install Mandrake 6.1 on an Intel 810 motherboard?
Does any Xserver support that chipset yet?
Is this a repost? I think I remember responding to this question a couple
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 10:03:21PM +0200, Jose Ramon Delgado wrote:
Hi , I am trying to connect my labtop to the serial port of my PC
with Linux , and actually a got it , but the problem is that the
speed of the comunication is really slow , ( for example 5 minutes just
to load the
Why do i get an error message everytime I try to recompile some program
that uses SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing)? For example, I am trying to
install VMware's Emulator on my Linux Machine (Mandrake 6.1, kernel
version 2.2.13-7mdk) and when I invoke their install script, it gives me
the
Well, I am glad someone else is having the same problem as me. outa 10
disks 4 were able to copy and hold it.
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 20:52:57 -0700 "Ken Wilson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Maybe they meant to call their marque "Imitation". Could explain the
reportedly low quality of their
Has anyone managed to get one of these configured successfully? If
so, I could use some hints.
-Paul
I have the same problem. I wrote a mail to Aureal people asking why they
don't have a driver for Linux and they told me they have plans to support
Linux somewhere in time :) That was 4
I recently installed Mandrake 6.1. I have found documentation and help
regarding setting up PHP, but it seems that this Midgard setup is different.
It seems that my apache files are configured correctly with AddType...etc
..., but I can't seem to get any execution on php scripts. Anybody
When I first boot up I get a respawning error. Saying that it will be
disabled for 5 minutes. I just ignore and login without problems. What is
this? Anybody seen it?
-thanks
ryan
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Just out of interest - what is the telnet client included in windows called?
Aaron
-Original Message-
From: Alan Shoemaker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 5:43 AM
To: newbie
Subject: [newbie] FTP install...
I have a system with a nic that is
Bloody Australia and damn Australians. Place has gone down hill since they
stopped drinking Swan Lager and started on that awful stuff that comes out
of green cans. Still Justin Langer is in the test team so it can't be all
bad. And for the record the Mandrake programme sure knows what Western
Jackal wrote:
I am not sure if our problems are one and the same but I had this problem on
my laptop. Occasionally, the system will lock the keyboard and the mouse and
I had to switch it off and on to continue...but a quick look at the clock
showed that the system is still running.
i
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Why do i get an error message everytime I try to recompile some program
that uses SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing)? For example, I am trying to
install VMware's Emulator on my Linux Machine (Mandrake 6.1, kernel
version 2.2.13-7mdk) and when I invoke their
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote:
SuSE uses RPM. And RPM's are tons easier than tarballs. :)
Yeah...I didn't realize that SuSE uses RPM as well. :-) Good to know.
I was wondering why people keep getting referred to SuSE's web site
to get apps. :-)
John
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Just out of interest - what is the telnet client included in windows called?
Would you believe "telnet" :-)
John
Pablo Costa wrote:
Just uploaded the following to ftp://incoming.redhat.com/libc6
htmldoc-1.7-1.i386.rpm
htmldoc-1.7-1.src.rpm
They are also available at http://shark.ib.usp.br/~pablo/rpms/htmldoc
Or ftp://linusp.usp.br/pub/local/pablo/rpms/htmloc
RPMs are
Anyone have any luck install the SBLive!. I am running Kernel 2.2.13
and when I run the install scripts, it says that kernel 2.2.5 is
required. I have tried the other option which is insmod -f sblive.o and
I get a long list of errors talking about unresolved symbol. Any help
would be
There's two in Win9x - telnet (imaginitive, huh?) and Hyperterminal.
--
Ty Mixon
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ:26147713
Original Message
On 10/19/99, 5:24:26 PM, Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote regarding RE: [newbie] FTP install...:
Just out of interest - what is the telnet
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 08:24:26AM +0800, Aaron deRozario wrote:
Just out of interest - what is the telnet client included in windows called?
telnet.
Of course, there's no pretty GUI for it, so Windows doesn't exactly announce
that it's installed. You'll either have to create an icon for it
WoW bad temper ! :)
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Bloody Australia and damn Australians. Place has gone down hill since they
stopped drinking Swan Lager and started on that awful stuff that comes out
of green cans. Still Justin Langer is in the test team so it can't be all
bad. And
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:16:00PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote:
SuSE uses RPM. And RPM's are tons easier than tarballs. :)
Yeah...I didn't realize that SuSE uses RPM as well. :-) Good to know.
I was wondering why people keep getting referred to SuSE's
Thanks so much ! I was getting tired of little Donny and his big mouth.
Your directions worked perfect. Thanks again
Hugh
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Hugh wrote:
Can someone walk mr through the Kmail filter process?
I want to kill file someone on this list :)
Hugh
--
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 10:27:05PM -0400, John May wrote:
Here's what VMware has to say about the SMP troubles I, and others, are
having. The whole article is quoted for clarity.
--- SNIP ---
Does this mean that Linux-Mandrake is a "lame" distribution?
It sure does. It means that they
Wonder if that has any relation to linuxconf (lilo) not wanting to
recogize my /dev/hdc1 as a valid Linux partition for booting from?
Boot fine from a floppy . . . .
--
Ty Mixon
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ:26147713
Original Message
On 10/19/99, 8:02:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Intel 810 chipset
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 03:55:42PM -0400, Michael R. Batchelor wrote:
Has anyone tried, successfully or unsuccessfully,
to install
Dear friends:
Anybody know if there is a StarOffice mailing list (or newsgroup)?
Benjamin
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Benjamin and Anna Sher
Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
I have just installed linux but my desktop size is now
640*480
how can I make my desktop size
1024*768
Haha,
Actually, I've been getting that error with linuxconf since Redhat 5.0...never
figured out why
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Bloody Australia and damn Australians. Place has gone down hill since they
stopped drinking Swan Lager and started on that awful stuff that comes out
of green
Hello, fellow Linux users. I realize this is somewhat Off
Topic, but I, too, have seen a lot of interest in linux
hardware, so, I'm forwarding this for anyone who might be
interested. :-)
John
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: linux-hardware
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Two more bugs to report:
1) By default, Mandrake attempts to turn on DMA for available IDE devices.
Attempting to copy the contents of a CDROM to my hard drive, I encountered
the following errors:
Um, no 6.1 shiped without the ide patch
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