The same is true if I open the KDE Manager. I see the
frame of its window, the words in it vaguely, but the background of
the desktop shows through. I can't tell how to change a thing,
because I can't read anything. If I try to move windows around,
strange afterimages are left all over the
We pardon you.
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Just a lite-hearted jab.
I'm not sure what fatuous means, bit now that I think about it, my comment was
probably silly and/or idiotic ;-)
Bryan
liz phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/02/99 12:44:45 PM
Please respond to [EMAIL
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Sam Gentile wrote:
I can't get Update to work at all because of firewall issues. How can you
configure it to specify a proxy server?
man wget
Sam Gentile
Principal Software Engineer Viridien Team Leader
toysmart.com
170 High Street
Waltham, MA 02454
It is supposed to have GNOME menus under KDE. They aren't supposed to be
directly under Applications.
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Sam Gentile wrote:
It is not supposed to have GNOME menus under KDE. I am running KDE. None of
the menus have KDE things on them. I don't have my system here but when I
John,
Ok here is what I have so far, I am only looking to setup a small ISP with
10 line access on a Comtrol ISA Rocketport card that I have had since my BBS
days and would like to use it.
I have these 5 Machines on my hub so far: And I am assuming my layout is
correct. If not please give me
Dear friends:
Apologize for an inadvertent error. It was pointed out to me by several
people, and Ramon Gandia gets the credit for solving this newbie error.
By checking the "Send email address as anonymous FTP password" I had
inadvertently (even after Unchecking it) put that line in Netscape's
Foris Gabor wrote:
HI
I was looking for some winedows emulator in the menu made by the kpackage
and did not found wine. Does this have a different name or it is simplz
not there?
And I cannot find the ./configure file.
Any suggestions?
FG
If your Mandrake distribution is on a cdrom,
remove
I have the same problem due to my video card ( Trident 3DImage 975 ).
To make it work well I had to put a Option "noaccel" line in the "Device"
section of my XF86Config.
PHM
- Original Message -
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999
Just make sure your Cable Agreements allows such a thing.
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Rlongo wrote:
John,
Ok here is what I have so far, I am only looking to setup a small ISP with
10 line access on a Comtrol ISA Rocketport card that I have had since my BBS
days and would like to use it.
I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 09:01:47PM -0500, Michael R. Batchelor wrote:
Unfortunately, THAT PC isn't one of the clock sync clients.
So just set up the scheduler on that machine to run "net time /set /yes"
every few minutes. I think the schedule for 95 comes on
Look at:
1 )
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg01311.html
2)
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/3DImage975.html
I have Trident 3DImage 975 too, with the same situation: I ran xf86config,
choose defaults and KDE looks bad.
I apply the modifications sugested in 1 )
Ronald Rand wrote:
I heard you the first time, John. I wrote that second message before I ever
got your first one. This is the Newbie section, by the way. Don't worry, I
won't waste your precious bandwidth because I won't be back. It seems to me
you're wasting more bandwidth by responding to
From: Ronald A. Yacketta
Have you turned on ip forwarding?
"Rlongo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/02/99 06:16:22 PM
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC)
Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting up sn ISP
John,
Ok here is what I
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Joseph S. Gardner wrote:
Rlongo wrote:
Ok here is what I have so far, I am only looking to setup a small ISP with
10 line access on a Comtrol ISA Rocketport card that I have had since my BBS
days and would like to use it.
I have these 5 Machines on my hub so
When I installed 6.1 I don't have Xconfigurator. Or something didn't get
loaded but I do have XF86Config and XF86Setup and when I upgraded to
3.3.5 and ran XF86Setup I had no problems with my SiS card (chips
actually no video card here) except with a occasional cursor hickup.but,
XF86Setup will
To enable NumLock on by default, add these lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
for tty in /dev/tty[1-9]*; do
setleds -D +num $tty
done
That will do it...
Just becarefull since I have crashed linux on many occasions editing this
file.
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:23:05 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sevatio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 09:01:47PM -0500, Michael R. Batchelor wrote:
Unfortunately, THAT PC isn't one of the clock sync clients.
So just set up the scheduler on that machine to run "net time /set /yes"
every few minutes. I think the schedule for 95 comes on
I am having sound problems also. Linux sees the sound chips (CMI8330) and
I can play CDs and line in but no wav files or system sounds. the mixer
works just fine (as far as I know). I went into system sounds ( I think
that is where it is.. ) and enabled system sounds.. anything else I might
be
I am in the exact same problem. I managed to configure my X server with my video
card Trident 3DImage 975. I can't read anything, so weird. Pablo, would you please
copy that portion of your configure file and post it here. I want to try it but I am
not very good at using text editor to edit
I can successfully setup and connect to the 'Net on my cable modem with one
NIC, but I want to add a second NIC for a home network. Is there an easy way
to add another NIC (of different chipset/manuf/style(PCI/ISA)) and set it up
with little/no trouble? I know that L-M 6.0 supports the NIC's I
On Mon, 01 Nov 1999,Dreja Julag wrote:
| is there an easy way I can see what com ports are open on my system? I want to
| install a new modem, yet I have no idea which port to install it to.
| --
| Drew Jackman
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| ICQ - 20177604
Does the same machine boot Win9x?
To install a second NIC just play with the available drivers through
kernelcfg until one of them works. On a similar note - many of the cable
'modems' cache the MAC address of the NIC and will not recognize a new
card until the 'modem's' power is cycled - or you forge the MAC address
through
From: Ronald A. Yacketta
what I did with my two nics is enter the bios and force the IRQ for each
PCI slot that holds the NIC's
I set PCI sloti 1 to IRQ 9 and PCI slot 2 to IRQ 10.
after I booted up and recompiled the new drivers for my rtl8139 and tulip
NIC's with the associated
insmod and
Would I be correct to say that KDE will still turn off the Numlock key by
default?
Matt
From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How?
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:21:23 -0600
To enable NumLock on by
Would I be correct to say that KDE will still turn off the Numlock key by
default?
Matt
From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How?
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:21:23 -0600
To enable NumLock on by
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999,John Aldrich wrote:
| On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote:
| Nope. The common package is needed for either the communicator or the netscape
| (browser only) package.
|
| Umm...isn't that what I said? ;-) Seriously. I said you'll
| need netscape-common and your
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote:
++ 01/11/99 13:27 -0500 - John Aldrich:
I use Konsole here for all my command-line apps, and I have
color *shrug*
John,
does your lynx looks colored in Konsole?
Yep. Sure does. :-)
John
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote:
I was actually more worried about the pm4.zip file being offered. I didn't
take the time to download and investigate, just wondering really.
Me either. :-) I think I heard of someone at PowerQuest
once saying "if you're smart enough to try the FTP server,
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote:
please help me, I can not make this card work fine in graphical
environment (I'm novice), I mean I hope look kde like windows but I
can't read the little words of the icons and the pop up menu leaves a
shadow after use it.
Can somebody helpme please?
It's
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Any idea why the ne2k-pci driver didn't work? Re-reading the ethernet-HOWTO
it says if the current ne2k-pci driver doesn't detect a particular PCI card
to contact the maintainers of the driver. Is this my big chance, my once in
a life time opportunity, for I,
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Thanks for the reply! So, KDE is a Window Manager, as is Enlightenment,
correct? So I don't need Enlightenment, correct? How can I get rid of it or
tell if it is indeed installed? I have the default installation of Mandrake,
that should use KDE, not GNOME. (I
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Could you please elaborate on that? I've created this username on
installation, given it some privileges in the Linuxconf user privileges area
but I still can't can't get e-mail sent out when I am the 'user'. What do you
mean 'Simply by creating the
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote:
How do you get the NumLock Key to come on automatically upon reboot?
Go into your system BIOS and in one of the menues there
should be an option "numlock status at boot" or something
similar. Scroll through the options and you'll be able to
set it there.
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote:
I installed to that directory, yes, and I followed all directions in the
installeation file. Thanks again.
Ok...I'm baffled... It SHOULD work from what you've said..
What happens when you open up Netscape (shut it down and
then open it back up *after*
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999,Gustavo Viola wrote:
| - Original Message -
| From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 10:35 AM
| Subject: Re: [newbie] Resolv.conf
|
|
| On Mon, 01 Nov 1999,Gustavo Viola wrote:
||
I am in the exact same problem. I managed to configure my X server with my
video
card Trident 3DImage 975. I can't read anything, so weird. Pablo, would
you please
copy that portion of your configure file and post it here. I want to try
it but I am
not very good at using text editor to
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999,Foris Gabor wrote:
| Dear Sirs, :)
|
| I would like to set up Wine under my linux mandrake and I have downloaded
| a file (Wine990131-ja.tar.gz). I could unpack it with gunzip and then I
| could copy README.jis and Wine990131-ja.Patch from it with midnight
|
Sorry, but at this moment I am in the work and I don't have LINUX here.
For the moment, follow the guidelines posted at:
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg01311.html
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/3DImage975.html
Tomorrow I send to you my config file.
PHM
You know I havn't noticed.. but I don't think so. when I login using
level 3 since I still don't trust linux yet. the num lock is on.. I never
checked to see if it stays on when I startx and it goes into KDE.
Will check it out though...
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999 17:21:37 GMT "M Thompson" [EMAIL
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Hi John Aldrich !
On 11/1/99 8:32:30 PM, you wrote:
Try Sybase... :-)
Is it free? Can I get RPMs of it somewhere? If not, I'll pass thanks.
I believe Sybase *is* free (for now... later versions MAY
cost money.) Check out the following UR --
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote:
From: Ronald A. Yacketta
Hello all!!
is it possible to run wine on a winblows less system?
I use linux and only linux, but recently I have a need to run a couple
applications that are
winblows.
is it possible? could it be??
If I understand how WINE
Sam Gentile is right. I had the same problem which is one reason why I had
to re-install Linux a lot. It occurred with *one* user out of three (i.e.
it wasn't a "global" problem). As a rule, in KDE, when you click the "K"
button, everything that is under the gnome menu pops up there by
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Ronald A. Yacketta
Hello all!!
is it possible to run wine on a winblows less system?
I use linux and only linux, but recently I have a need to run a couple
applications that are
winblows.
is it possible? could it be??
Ron
Yes. The wine homepage
Hi,
Using Mandrake 6.5 and want to add (create) a icon link on the desktop
to easily start the logon to my ISP.
How do I do it? Is there a template to use, and should I be in root?
Thanks,
Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or Pkunzip? gzip
doesnt seem to want to. . .
--
Seth Gibson
www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710
members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction)
Aggression Takes Its Toll.
You're right, there's something in one of my Linux books about not needing
Windows to use wine, although you also need something else I think to get it
to work.
I'd go to www.winehq.com and see if they have anything about it.
Karen
- Original Message -
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL
Sorry, but at this moment I am in the work and I don't have LINUX here.
I'm just greatful you had those urls! Thanks a million, Pablo! The "noaccel"
option in my config file did the trick and made all the windows solid. I
would still be very much interested in seeing how you've got your
Turns
out KDE is chock full of weird bugs.
Suprise, suprise! And they rant how they have no bugs and Windows is full of
bugs. The song remains the same...
Sam Gentile
Principal Software Engineer Viridien Team Leader
toysmart.com
170 High Street
Waltham, MA 02454
-Original
Is it free? Can I get RPMs of it somewhere? If not, I'll pass
thanks.
I believe Sybase *is* free (for now... later versions MAY
cost money.) Check out the following UR --
http://www.sybase.com/products/databaseservers/linux/index.html
This directly from the web page above. Download links
Wow! Someone who seems to have seen this before! I have a Jaton
Video-87AGP which is a Trident 3D Image 975 chip. Supported, by
all accounts, by the X Server.
Ooh, I'm sorry. I've had all sorts of problems with Trident chipsets.
I stay very far away from them now. Also, everybody (well,
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Seth Gibson wrote:
Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or Pkunzip? gzip
doesnt seem to want to. . .
--
Seth Gibson
www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710
members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction)
Aggression Takes Its Toll.
If you're using
unzip-5.31-6mdk.i586.rpm, on the Helios CD.
/b
Barry Marler
Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology
University of Georgia
(706)542-0742
(706)542-0059 (fax)
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Seth Gibson wrote:
Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or
Thomas Cox wrote:
Hi,
Using Mandrake 6.5 and want to add (create) a icon link on the desktop
to easily start the logon to my ISP.
How do I do it? Is there a template to use, and should I be in root?
Thanks,
ThomasIn KDE, as an unpriveleged user, open the home icon (on your
You're probably right about going for name brand, you get better performance
etc, though the HOWTO gave me the impression that the Realtek 8029 was a
well supported chipset, though I see what you mean, the driver might just
assume it's an ISA card.
Fortunately the vendor I purchased from
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Mrs. Karen Heiby wrote:
Sam Gentile is right. I had the same problem which is one reason why I had
to re-install Linux a lot. It occurred with *one* user out of three (i.e.
it wasn't a "global" problem). As a rule, in KDE, when you click the "K"
button, everything that
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 12:21:40PM -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 09:01:47PM -0500, Michael R. Batchelor wrote:
Unfortunately, THAT PC isn't one of the clock sync clients.
So just set up the scheduler on that machine to run "net
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 10:27:12AM -0500, Joseph S. Gardner wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 09:01:47PM -0500, Michael R. Batchelor wrote:
Unfortunately, THAT PC isn't one of the clock sync clients.
So just set up the scheduler on that machine to run "net time
My Bios has it on as default but that method works for windows not Linux.
Seve
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How?
On Wed,
Dear Ronald:
Thank you so much for suggesting lpc. I am fortunately familiar with it
by now and will use it if necessaary. Still, it would be nice if lpq
worked, too.
Benjamin
--
Benjamin and Anna Sher
Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Remove
RonaldI don't know the answer to your question, but they will send
you a CD with both the linux and windows versions on it for $9.95 +
shipping handling. Just go to the sun website and order it.
Alan
R_Yeo wrote:
Jeanette Russo wrote:
I have seen the Package in the store. Not
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, alann wrote:
David van Balen wrote:
I tried to install plugger under netscape 4.61 (libc5 version of both).
I first tried the rpm and it appeared to install fine but then whenever I
went to a page with audio files, netscape would die.
Since then I have uninstalled
it does indeed but the shocwave site does not like it a bit and I cannot find a
link to get out of the "testing" site. All I am wanting to do is play games...
It is not a big deal, though. Thanks for your help.
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote:
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote:
I installed to
Hey,
I tried to upgrade my kernel (using rpm -Uvh kernel*.rpm instead of
kernel -i kernel*.rpm). Then I forgot to run lilo before rebooting, and
now linux can't boot. I have no other boot media besides the Linux
Mandrake CD (which does not have a rescue option). I have Windows 98 on
this
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or Pkunzip? gzip
doesnt seem to want to. . .
Yesjust use "unzip" :-) gzip is a totally different program.
There's a PKZip compatible program called "zip" strangely enough. ;-)
John
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote:
You're probably right about going for name brand, you get better performance
etc, though the HOWTO gave me the impression that the Realtek 8029 was a
well supported chipset, though I see what you mean, the driver might just
assume it's an ISA card.
Remove
First of all I am now of the opinion that whole problem is out of the scope
of Mandrake as a product, but rather, is a KDE bug that needs to be
redirected to KDE. But I appreciate Mandrake's effort to help! I replied
to Axalon's questions anyway just for the heck of it, in case anyone else is
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote:
My Bios has it on as default but that method works for windows not Linux.
Ahh...Ok. I wouldn't know... I prefer my numlock OFF. :-)
John
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Unfortunately, the application they need to run is Windows-only. Requests
for bugfixes from the vendor are usually replied to with a pricetag, so I'm
not counting the days for the applications to be available on an alternate
platform.
Ah well, this is why I
Hm I got my install going when I turned of the bios on the 1542 .
Ingo
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 4:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [newbie] Can't find SCSI controller
On Wed, 03 Nov
John:
I have a CMI8330 or somthing like that. its a on board chip set.
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 13:21:34 -0500 John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote:
I am having sound problems also. Linux sees the sound chips
(CMI8330) and
I can play CDs and line in but no wav
I use SO for my personal stuff and I use the html editor. I believe it is good
enough as is for general home use, and probably for most general business use.
My wife does occasionally have a problem with documents going between SO and M$
Office 97. SO always opens them fine, but sometimes the
Hi all,
Got the kppp diialer configured and managed to find my modem on the
equivalent of COM4. The test seemed to go OK, so I clicked dial and
everything hung. I had to shutdown the XServer (at least that's what I knew
how to do) There was no response to anything in KDE. I have a HSP K56FLEX
Assuming that your linux partition is on /dev/hda5
From the Mandrake CD copy this to your c:\ in windows 98
1. vmlinuz
2. loadlin.exe
Boot in msdos mode (do not use an msdos window)
Go to the root of c:\
loadlin.exe c:\vmlinuz boot=/dev/hda5 rw
I suggest next time read the corresponding howto.
Seth Gibson wrote:
Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or Pkunzip? gzip
doesnt seem to want to. . .
--
Seth Gibson
www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710
members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction)
Aggression Takes Its Toll.
Thats because they are zipped, not
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or Pkunzip? gzip
doesnt seem to want to. . .
Yesjust use "unzip" :-) gzip is a totally different program.
There's a PKZip compatible program called "zip"
I checked it out and when I ran KDE it dumped my NumLock but it works in
the terminal just fine. SO, its off to find some way to keep the num lock
on when you startx to goto KDE
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 22:51:18 -0500 John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote:
My Bios
I have two physical drives on my computer. One, hda, is for the Linux op
system, the other I would like to reserve for Linux programs.
Question: Is it possible to install Linux programs on a different physical
drive?
Has anybody done this? Would like to know.
Thanks,
Richard
On 3 Nov, cyberclay wrote:
I tried to upgrade my kernel (using rpm -Uvh kernel*.rpm instead of
kernel -i kernel*.rpm). Then I forgot to run lilo before rebooting, and
now linux can't boot. I have no other boot media besides the Linux
Mandrake CD (which does not have a rescue option). I
On 17 Oct 99, at 20:11, R_Yeo wrote:
They said the reason they are calling it
Complete Linux Operating System 6.5 is that ANY revision version is
automatically incremented by .5. Thus, when Mandrake 6.2 comes out, it's
going to be called "The Complete Linux Operating System 7.0" (unless
I'm not sure if "unzip" is a typo or not, but to unzip files zipped by
WinZip i use "gunzip /path/to/file".
The problem I have is unzipping multispanned WinZip archives. The only way
to unzip these is to use WinZip in Windows. After unzipping the file in
Windows, I use WinZip to rezip them
Does anyone know if the new Sun license prevents third parties from burning
StarOffice CD's and redistributing them?
I don't know what Sun's plans are with StarOffice but if they want to have
their product up there with MS Office in terms of product recognition, a
great place to start would be
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, R_Yeo wrote:
Hi,
I have the above and when I insert the card, it is detected as hdlx,
with the x as partitions on the HDD. I looked in my /dev dir and it
only goes to hdhx. Someone told be to use insmod, but I lost the plot
when I was asked to input major and
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