[newbie] kaffe GNU vertual machine

1999-11-28 Thread Robert Benson
Hi Trying to run "kaffe" GNU's Java virtual machine. I used guavac to create the HelloWorld.class file. When I typed: kaffe -classpath /usr/share/kaffe HelloWorld I received: Couldn't find or load essential classes `java/language/Object' java.language.NoClassDefFoundError

Re: [newbie] Where is Mandrake support?

1999-11-28 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Gregg: Thanks so much for writing. You are absolutely right. I have been amazed at the willingness of Linux experts (first on the Red Hat list, where I started, and now on the Mandrake list) to come to the rescue of us newbies as well as more advanced users. In fact, in many cases, I have

Re: [newbie] ATI announces official support for Linux OS

1999-11-28 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote: AxI have one of those too, which is probably why I'm on their newsletter mailing list. I wonder how come you didn't get the [old]newsletter today too!!? :-) Alan Never signed up for it *shrug*, I will be soon, i want a look at the chip

Re: [newbie] install bug?

1999-11-28 Thread touco
yes, and in many different combinations of resolution and color modes. maybe it's the combination of card and monitor that i have. you said that you're using a 17" Komodo. are you also running mandrake 6.5? as i said, i had no problems running 6.0 with the same hardware. ;) Steve Philp wrote:

Re: [newbie] . . .that one question

1999-11-28 Thread David P. Greenberg
How the hell do I get this thing to work?!? David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" **Rock on with glowing glass** -Original Message- From: Seth Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, November 28, 1999 1:50 AM

Re: [newbie] Brand new newbie seeks help.

1999-11-28 Thread Jeanette Russo
I suggest you try my web page I have posted a lot of Links for these resources. You won't have to buy anything. http://www.stormloader.com/jrusso2/index.html Jeanette You don't have to BUY a book but you might want to consider reading through some of the freely available electronic

Re: [newbie] . . .that one question

1999-11-28 Thread Jeanette Russo
Seth Gibson wrote: Greetings all! Im taking a survey for a web project im working on and i was wondering if anyone interested would mind answering the following question: When you were just getting started in linux, what was question (or questions) you had that no one seemed to

Re: [newbie] ICQ

1999-11-28 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Thomas: You can use Gnomeicu in KDE, yes, in KDE. Just type in xterm, as user: gnomeicu -a The -a allows you to run gnomeicu independently of the Gnome desktop. You will NOT see the gnome desktop at all. You can even add an icon to your KDE desktop and in the Properties, Execute box

Re: [newbie] ICQ

1999-11-28 Thread Lyndon Lininger Sr.
For kde I use klicq. Works great and easy to setup. - Original Message - From: "Thomas J. Hamman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] ICQ On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, PadLocke wrote: Can anyone recommend a decent ICQ

Re: [newbie] UPDATE: lost my printer

1999-11-28 Thread Steve Philp
Joe Marcom wrote: Steve: Thanks. I would not have thought that I HAD to run a command line in X. Well, I don't recall whether there's a link to control-panel from the KDE menus or not. I'd assume so. Either way, the command line is alot quicker (and much easier to describe!). Now, I

[newbie] BIOS incompatibilities?

1999-11-28 Thread Ger-Bil Jinn
Are there any known problems Linux-Mandrake has with certain BIOS? It has in the past showed problems with my Windoze 98 and I'm starting to fear that my two year old BIOS might have problems with Linux-Mandrake. Thanx :3)~~

[newbie] Messed-Up Installation or Really Bad Computer?

1999-11-28 Thread Ger-Bil Jinn
Either I screwed up the installation really badly or my computer just doesn't like Linux-Mandrake, but I've been experiencing a lot of problems with my Linux that I don't think should be happening at all: I know Netscape for is even bugger for Linux than for Win32 but mine keeps locking

Re: [newbie] No Sound

1999-11-28 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Ger-Bil Jinn wrote: For those who told me to type sndconfig in root, thanx, but I got one problem: how do I get into root? It's locked so how do I get into it? :3)~~ Remember when it asked for a root password when you installed? Well, I hope you

Re: [newbie] ICQ

1999-11-28 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Thomas: You can use Gnomeicu in KDE, yes, in KDE. Just type in xterm, as user: gnomeicu -a The -a allows you to run gnomeicu independently of the Gnome desktop. You will NOT see the gnome desktop at all. You can even add an icon to

Re: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-28 Thread David van Balen
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, PadLocke wrote: Took a look at Mozilla. Liked it. Haven't heard of Konqueror though. Is it any smaller than Mozilla? Can you point me to a page where I get get it? thanks :) It's KDE's browser which should ship with KDE 2.0 (it's not out yet). From what I hear it's

[newbie] emacs foreground background

1999-11-28 Thread Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia
How do i change the the color of the background or foreground in emacs? Right now it is badge and it is hard for me to see the characters. I would like to chagnge it to white. I'm not sure if you are supposed to change the background, forground, or both. thanks, jas

Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]

1999-11-28 Thread Joachim Holst
On fre, 26 nov 1999, you wrote: "Thomas J. Hamman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. wrote: stable manner. But you have to admitt that they have done a great job with the installer. Any user can install M$'s OS. Now if they'd just stop trying to

Re: [newbie] Unzip

1999-11-28 Thread Joachim Holst
n fre, 26 nov 1999, you wrote: How do I use unzip to unzip a program to install? That depends on the extension. I presume you have a file called .tar.gz or .tgz. You "unzip" these files with the following command: tar xvfz [FILENAME]. If it's called .zip you use unzip [FILENAME]. Nowadays

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1 - First post

1999-11-28 Thread Joachim Holst
On sön, 28 nov 1999, you wrote: Have fun, and welcome! Fair warning - Windows sometimes gets mad at us for using a real OS. ;) Honestly, my NT won't run if I choose restart from Linux. I have to power down and restart. Odd . . . . Must have something to do with the Redmont sloagan: On

Re: [newbie] ICQ

1999-11-28 Thread David van Balen
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, PadLocke wrote: Can anyone recommend a decent ICQ client? The one I just installed locked everything up for me. The good news is that it did a real good job of it :) thanks -- PadLocke the Ogre There are three types of people in this world... those who can count,

Re: [newbie] ICQ

1999-11-28 Thread Jeanette Russo
I have been unable to get LICQ to work so I am using ICQNIX which looks a lot like mirabilis windows version. Jeanette David van Balen wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, PadLocke wrote: Can anyone recommend a decent ICQ client? The one I just installed locked everything up for me. The good

Re: [newbie] . . .that one question

1999-11-28 Thread Robert Benson
How to run kaffe. No one will answere my questions. Robert Benson From: Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] . . .that one question Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 08:22:47 -0600 Seth Gibson wrote: Greetings all! Im

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1999-11-28 Thread Bennett Hunter
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Re: [newbie] ICQ

1999-11-28 Thread Ger-Bil Jinn
Wait, what? There's a version of AIM for Linux? Where? I've been looking all over for one but haven't been able to find it! :3)~~ --- Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a quick question. I also have AOL's AIM for Linux. Does AIM allow you to connect to ICU, too, or

Re: [newbie] ICQ

1999-11-28 Thread alann
Ger-Bil Jinn wrote: Wait, what? There's a version of AIM for Linux? Where? I've been looking all over for one but haven't been able to find it! gaim www.rpmfind.org Alan -- == [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) running Linux Mandrake 6.1

Re: [newbie] ICQ

1999-11-28 Thread Ty C. Mixon
Yea, it's called gaim. Check out linuxberg.com. Original Message On 11/28/99, 4:11:28 PM, Ger-Bil Jinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] ICQ: Wait, what? There's a version of AIM for Linux? Where? I've been looking all over for one but haven't been able to find it!

[newbie] [Newbie] - Out of the box?

1999-11-28 Thread Mark Fitzgerald
Hello All, What I ment by out of the box. I'm not great at explaining things, but I'll do my best. I ordered - Linux Mandrake 6.1 power-pack. The mainboard (mobo) in my new computer, is the Abit-be6-II. This board has the onboard High Point Controller. An ata-udma-66 controller. There is

[newbie] Samba

1999-11-28 Thread Tom Poturica
I have been unable to get samba to work for my 4 network attached machines running WIN95 and 98 so that the printer I have connected to my Linux box can be shared. Can someone shed some light on this for me? Bettrer yet, provid a smb.conf file that I cn try that may cure my problem? I have

[newbie] 13Gb Ide Disk and text lines

1999-11-28 Thread Jesus Roncero
Hi, I've bought a brand new 13Gb IDE Hard Disk and now I can, I've made a 3Gb partition for linux at the end of the disk. The partitions on the disk are the following: 1: NTFS. Primary partition. Windows NT on it. 2: OS/2 boot manager. Primary partition. 3: HPFS: Primary partition. OS/2 Warp 4.0

Re: [newbie] ICQ

1999-11-28 Thread Hugh Semmler
Search for GAIM I think you'll like it works great except for the sound ! At least on mine :) On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, you wrote: Wait, what? There's a version of AIM for Linux? Where? I've been looking all over for one but haven't been able to find it! :3)~~ --- Benjamin Sher

Re: [Re: [newbie] Upgrade from Mandrake Linux 6.0 to 6.1]

1999-11-28 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On 28 Nov 1999, Jaguar wrote: Axalon... First of all thx for the pointer to DrakX, I will get there and give it a try. Secondly, would some nice programmer make a script to _autoinstall_ the updated kernel, ie: step thru _ALL_ the make, make mod, etc so that given a set install DIR, that

[newbie] questions concerning linux

1999-11-28 Thread Jan Herbert
Hello, I've got three questions concerning programing in linux. 1) Is their a linux version of allegro out their? If so were is the site? 2) Were could one find a tutorial on programming in KDE? 3) Are their any utilities out their to compress sprites, sound fx, etc. and put them

[newbie] SoundBlaster 16 PnP

1999-11-28 Thread Gilles Lahaie
Hi folks! I have installed Mandrake Linux 6.1 correctly...BUT Under Windows 98, my SoundBlaster is configured as IRQ 5, DMA 1 and 5. When the system boots under Linux, I always get the following message: "Do not know what to do with CONFIGURE CTL 0028/2249460 (LD2 on or around line 352

Re: [newbie] 13Gb Ide Disk and text lines

1999-11-28 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Jesus Roncero wrote: Hi, I've bought a brand new 13Gb IDE Hard Disk and now I can, I've made a 3Gb partition for linux at the end of the disk. The partitions on the disk are the following: 1: NTFS. Primary partition. Windows NT on it. 2: OS/2 boot manager. Primary

[newbie] Update

1999-11-28 Thread Tom Poturica
I took someones advice to use the tool on the KDE desktop to update Mandrake. I selected all and said GO. It showed all the modules being downloaded and the percent complete but when I expected that the Install would happen, the screen disapeared and nothing further happened. Is there another

[newbie] lilo

1999-11-28 Thread Jeff Mason
When you update the kernel you have to put what in lilo so it uses the new kernel? -- Go Linux Jeff Mason

[newbie] XF86Config

1999-11-28 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello touco, I have been off list but note from the digest your problem with your Trident 3D Image 975 video card. I have the same card with an LG Studioworks 56i monitor and had the same problem. I suggest you preferably do another install and select the components you have but don't probe or

[newbie] Yamaha OPL3-Sax Sound Card

1999-11-28 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello Gregg, My son has that card in his IBM Thinkpad and had the same sndconfig problem. He found his system only worked properly the first time he used sndconfig - repeated attempts caused problems. He re-installed a couple of times. He found he got all the right responses but the sound volume

Re: [newbie] questions concerning linux

1999-11-28 Thread Seth Gibson
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, you wrote: I've got three questions concerning programing in linux. 1) Is their a linux version of allegro out their? If so were is the site? I wouldnt be surprised if there was something similar at least. . .pop over to www.delorie.com for possible links 2)

Re: [newbie] Update

1999-11-28 Thread pete moss
yeah, this happens to me as well. update frequently quits instead of finishing the install. just become root, go to the /tmp directory, and your downloaded rpms are there. for each one do rpm -Uvh file.rpm to get it to work. :P Tom Poturica wrote: I took someones advice to use the tool

[newbie] Installation help!

1999-11-28 Thread Joel Sinclair
Hey all... Totally new to the Linux thing, but not new to the Unix thing. Though familiar with Unix, I have never had to install it, and being totally new to Linux, have no clue why I am having problems. I'm running a Abit BE6 motherboard, Celeron500, 128MB, 13GB Quantum fireball UltraATA66,

[newbie] Kernel Update

1999-11-28 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello list, I have been absent during a re-install of L-M6.1 to try to cure my problem with kppp disabling my desktop. I decided to go for broke and updated the kernel etc with the Mandrake update function on the desktop. All went well except for some annoying unintended consequences. Firstly,

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] - Out of the box?

1999-11-28 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
I am answering this for the last time.. (i realize your new, so know it's nothing personal) Create the rescue floppy from images/rescue/, boot with this disk and "cat /proc/pci", identify in this output the "unknown mass storage controller", there will be two of them, write down the the irq

Re: [newbie] Apache on mandrake 6.1

1999-11-28 Thread Steve Wingate
Ben wrote: The php3 module ( as well as Midgard ) are on the 6.1 cd. What exactly is 'customized' about the Apache software configuration for Mandrake 6.1? I want to add support for php3 and FP2000 extensions. Are either of these features already in and if not, can I just recompile

Re: [newbie] Brand new newbie seeks help.

1999-11-28 Thread Tom Jacobs
Thank you Jeanette, Your page is an excellent source of information. I really like the one page linux manual. Thanks again, Tom --- Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suggest you try my web page I have posted a lot of Links for these resources. You won't have to buy anything.

Re: [[newbie] ICQ]

1999-11-28 Thread Jaguar
I use KICQ, I can't remember the URL so if you'd like email direct to me and I can send the RPM HTH Jaguar PadLocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a decent ICQ client? The one I just installed locked everything up for me. The good news is that it did a real good job of it :)

Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]

1999-11-28 Thread Tom Jacobs
My two cents: Being a brand new Linux user, I still wonder "hmmm why do I have to mount my CDROM just to use it. Why can't I just click on a picture or type d:\". While I am no lover of M$ products in any way. Out of the box, with no other knowledge of computers, Winbloze wins hands down in

Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Upgrade from Mandrake Linux 6.0 to 6.1]]

1999-11-28 Thread Jaguar
Axalon; probably my wording...lemme try again...:) OK d/l and unarchive the new kernel into a DIR, then compile your new kernel for your individual hardware, MODs, etc... that you want to use...THEN use a script ---(maybe not correct term) to finish the install of new kernelie: step thru the

Re: [newbie] Kernel Update

1999-11-28 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello list, I have been absent during a re-install of L-M6.1 to try to cure my problem with kppp disabling my desktop. I decided to go for broke and updated the kernel etc with the Mandrake update function on the desktop. All went well except

Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]

1999-11-28 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Tom Jacobs wrote: My two cents: Being a brand new Linux user, I still wonder "hmmm why do I have to mount my CDROM just to use it. Why can't I just click on a picture or type d:\". I'm not sure if there's any other technical reason why, but I assume it's because of

Re: [newbie] lilo

1999-11-28 Thread Seth Gibson
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, you wrote: %_When you update the kernel you have to put what in lilo so it uses the new kernel? pop open /etc/lilo.conf and just copy one of the other sections,changing the boot= section to point to whatever the new kernel is called. Keep the old section so you can boot

Re: [newbie] UPDATE: lost my printer

1999-11-28 Thread Joe Marcom
Hello again, Steve; Bad news first, this time. lpr /etc/profile lpr: lp: unknown printer lpq lp: unknown printer status all unknown printer

[newbie] Upgrade Linux Mandrake via ftp

1999-11-28 Thread David Loke
Hi people, How can I upgrade Linux Mandrake via ftp? Rgds

Re: [newbie] True Type Fonts

1999-11-28 Thread Dennis
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999 15:19:15 +1100, you wrote: Hi people, where are the TTFs on Mandrake 6.1? I remember adding them during install. The supplied fonts are uninspired or amateurish, ragged-edged, and half of them don't work. This is on excellent hardware on which NT works and displays