[newbie] Logitech MouseMan Wheel

1999-12-30 Thread Michael Hammann
Hello, I'm using Linux Mandrake 6.1. How can I activate my third button and the wheel of my Logitech MouseMan Wheel? Michael.

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake boot problem

1999-12-30 Thread FreeNet
Ron, thank you for trying to help. Since posting my e-mail I found out that PCAnswers are issuing a replacement CD for Linux -Mandrake. The original CDs were faulty. The replacement is available by post to: PC Answers Linux CD replacement Future Publishing 30 Monmouth Street Bath BA1 2BW United

Re: [newbie] can anyone help me to install sound blaster?

1999-12-30 Thread Sam Walker
If you have a SB PCI128 Live, it's not supported yet as far as I know. If you have a std SB PCI128, you should be able to manually select it in snd config. If not you may have an IRQ conflict (if you have an internal modem, check the IRQ there, it's typically the biggest culprit when it comes

Re: [newbie] C++ compiler problem

1999-12-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, you wrote: hi all i seem to be having problems installing programs. I am pretty new to all this,but have downloaded ZZplayer an mpeg player and untarred and ungzipped it but then cannot get it to compile with ./configure keep getting error no acceptable C++-compiler

Re: [[newbie] Thanks for RAM help]

1999-12-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, you wrote: "Payne Stanifer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sure everyone will be happy to know I finally got my 128 MB of RAM working. Thanks for everyone's help. Payne === For the sake of others who might have the same problem,

Re: [newbie] in.telnetd

1999-12-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, you wrote: I've installed Mandrake 6.1 and noticed that I could telnet into my computer. After investigation I noticed that the file /usr/sbin/in.telnetd doesn't exist. However, ftp does work on my computer and the file /usr/sbin/in.ftpd does exist. So, the file I'm

Re: [newbie] CD Writer

1999-12-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know how to setup a CD Writer so it can be mounted on my linux machine? I'm using Linux Mandrake. IDE? If so, try the following in your /etc/lilo.conf: append="hd(x)=ide-scsi" and replace (x) with the letter of your ATAPI CDR (i.e. hda for primary

Re: [newbie] x-server problem

1999-12-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hi all: I'm arbitrarily out of linux for the moment. My Distro's mc or bash# won't see my DOS partition. Has unformatted "empty space" on the drive at the moment (maybe that's why?) Had to use windoze to download xsis.tgz from suSE site to get my distro up

[newbie] HP 2000C printer

1999-12-30 Thread Mike Ladwig
Does anyone know the which print driver (printtool) (Mandrake 6.1) to use with the HP 2000C Printer ? I would like to be able to print in 600x600 mode. The closest driver I found prints in 300x300 mode. -- Mike

Re: [newbie] Changing partitions

1999-12-30 Thread Josh McCaffrey
R_Yeo wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Kevin Sexton wrote: Is there a way in linux (short of reinstalling) to rearrange, or resize partitions in linux, I have on a 4 gig drive a hdb1--small primary windows partition (needed to keep windows happy -drive D: to windows), hdb5--/---

[newbie] newbie rant

1999-12-30 Thread William Temple
salutations i am a new person to linux i want to state that i may be a slow learner but i do not believe i am brain dead. here are my problems. 1. when using my redhat 5.2 system at installation it recognizes my par-port iomega zip and there is no problems. when installing mandrake 6.0 the

[newbie] stop email please

1999-12-30 Thread marcelo pimentel
I recive more de 80 e-mail day from linux news.. I don't like please stop.

[newbie] RE: stop email please

1999-12-30 Thread marcelo pimentel
-Original Message- From: marcelo pimentel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 11:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: stop email please I recive more de 80 e-mail day from linux news.. I don't like please stop.

[newbie] RE: stop email please

1999-12-30 Thread marcelo pimentel
I recently purchashed Linux-Mandrake 6.5 and I am not able to configure the modem so that it connects to the internet. Maybe it's because I have winmodem. Also my provider is ATT. Which modem do you think I should use so that I can connect to the internet? Does the modem have to be the technology

Re: [newbie] RE: stop email please

1999-12-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote: I recently purchashed Linux-Mandrake 6.5 and I am not able to configure the modem so that it connects to the internet. Maybe it's because I have winmodem. Also my provider is ATT. Which modem do you think I should use so that I can connect to the internet?

Re: [newbie] xfm crashing after generating ttf fonts

1999-12-30 Thread Peter Heckert
Hi all, answering myself.. I ve got the answer in http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xfont.html Some of the ttf fonts included with mdk are broken. I'm still curious about which fonts are broken. How can I find out? Regards, Peter Peter Heckert wrote: Hi all, I copied some ttf fonts

[newbie] Printer Drivers

1999-12-30 Thread Toyswins
I'm working on networking Windows and Mac systems at home. I've not gotten to printing yet so this brings up a planning question on hardware. My current printer is supported by LINUX Mandrake, (HP600C). It's connected to my Windows 98 box and I'd like to leave it that way. Is there any

Re: [newbie] RE: stop email please

1999-12-30 Thread Singer XJ Wang
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, marcelo pimentel wrote: I recently purchashed Linux-Mandrake 6.5 and I am not able to configure the modem so that it connects to the internet. Maybe it's because I have winmodem. Also my provider is ATT. Which modem do you think I should use so that I can connect to

Re: [newbie] Changing partitions

1999-12-30 Thread R_Yeo
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Josh McCaffrey wrote: Kind of a way of not letting Windows know you're replacing it, or a way of smoothing your transition to Linux only? Just keep shrinking that Windows partition till it doesn't have any virtual memory left, and you finally have to just put it out of

Re: [newbie] Printer Drivers

1999-12-30 Thread Balaji Prasad
I am working on hooking up my printer with my dual boot Linux/Windows Box. I have the Canon Multipass 5500 multi-functional printer. Does anybody know whether this is supported under Linux. I wouldn't mind if I able to use only the printing functions of this printer (i.e. I do not want to use

Re: [newbie] RE: stop email please

1999-12-30 Thread Balaji Prasad
how does identify whether one has a WinModem or not .. I have a US Robotics 56K FaxModem. Is there a signature to identify a Winmodem ?? From: "Singer XJ Wang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RE: stop email please Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999

Re: [newbie] newbie rant

1999-12-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote: salutations i am a new person to linux i want to state that i may be a slow learner but i do not believe i am brain dead. here are my problems. 1. when using my redhat 5.2 system at installation it recognizes my par-port iomega zip and there is no

Re: [newbie] RE: stop email please

1999-12-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote: I recently purchashed Linux-Mandrake 6.5 and I am not able to configure the modem so that it connects to the internet. Maybe it's because I have winmodem. Also my provider is ATT. Which modem do you think I should use so that I can connect to the internet? Any

Re: [newbie] CD Writer

1999-12-30 Thread M Thompson
If you simply want to mount the drive to view the contents of a CD, you don't even need to append anything to your lilo.conf file. However, if you want to write to the drive, you will need to add the append statement to your lilo.conf file that John mentioned. If you simply want to mount and

Re: [newbie] CD Writer

1999-12-30 Thread Richard T. Waters
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know how to setup a CD Writer so it can be mounted on my linux machine? I'm using Linux Mandrake. David You may want to consider X-CD Roast for your CD burning. You can get information on it at: http://www.fh-muenchen.de/rz/xcdroast It came

Re: [newbie] RE: stop email please

1999-12-30 Thread Singer XJ Wang
What port? PCI or SCSI? On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Balaji Prasad wrote: how does identify whether one has a WinModem or not .. I have a US Robotics 56K FaxModem. Is there a signature to identify a Winmodem ?? From: "Singer XJ Wang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] RE: stop email please

1999-12-30 Thread Singer XJ Wang
I mean PCI or ISA or External? [sorry about that SCSI Thing, mm. if they made SCSI Modems] On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Balaji Prasad wrote: how does identify whether one has a WinModem or not .. I have a US Robotics 56K FaxModem. Is there a signature to identify a Winmodem ?? From: "Singer XJ

Re: [newbie] RE: stop email please

1999-12-30 Thread Singer XJ Wang
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote: I recently purchashed Linux-Mandrake 6.5 and I am not able to configure the modem so that it connects to the internet. Maybe it's because I have winmodem. Also my provider is ATT. Which modem do you think I should

Re: [newbie] Printer Drivers

1999-12-30 Thread Singer XJ Wang
Prehaps you should askin teh SUSE support list. THis is the Mandrake List. Suse != Mandrake. :) Singer On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Balaji Prasad wrote: I am working on hooking up my printer with my dual boot Linux/Windows Box. I have the Canon Multipass 5500 multi-functional printer. Does anybody

[newbie] OpenGL and Xfree86

1999-12-30 Thread Cyril
I have Mandrake 6.1 and a TNT board. I saw the so called TNT driver included with Mandrake 6.1 (xfree 3.3.4-5) is a simple SVGA driver. SO here are my questions : 1- I went to xfree86.org and tried to get xfree 3.3.5 on their ftp site. But which files should I take ? Why isn't there just one

[newbie] https

1999-12-30 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Hello all! I just got my home netwrok back up and online (other pc had a blow vid card and I was to lasy to get another for a few months) enough of the small chat ;) now to the reason why I post. I am haveing problems conntecting to https sites from my win98 box that is connected to the linux

Re: [newbie] Changing partitions

1999-12-30 Thread Kevin Sexton
R_Yeo wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Josh McCaffrey wrote: Kind of a way of not letting Windows know you're replacing it, or a way of smoothing your transition to Linux only? Just keep shrinking that Windows partition till it doesn't have any virtual memory left, and you finally have to

Re: [newbie] RE: stop email please

1999-12-30 Thread Balaji Prasad
It is PCI (I think) ..:-) From: "Singer XJ Wang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RE: stop email please Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:51:36 -0500 (EST) What port? PCI or SCSI? On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Balaji Prasad wrote: how does identify

Re: [newbie] RE: stop email please

1999-12-30 Thread Seung-woo Nam
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote: how does identify whether one has a WinModem or not .. I have a US Robotics 56K FaxModem. Is there a signature to identify a Winmodem ?? Basically, just stay away from any PCI modem.

Re: [newbie] OpenGL and Xfree86

1999-12-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote: 2. I believe NVIDIA is working on Linux driver. You'd want to check out their website. MesaGL. Go do a search. Try on FreshMeat.net John

Re: [newbie] Printer Drivers

1999-12-30 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Balaji Prasad wrote: I am working on hooking up my printer with my dual boot Linux/Windows Box. I have the Canon Multipass 5500 multi-functional printer. Does anybody know whether this is supported under Linux. I wouldn't mind if I able to use only the printing

Re: [newbie] newbie rant

1999-12-30 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On 30 Dec 1999, William Temple wrote: salutations i am a new person to linux i want to state that i may be a slow learner but i do not believe i am brain dead. here are my problems. 1. when using my redhat 5.2 system at installation it recognizes my par-port iomega zip and there is no

Re: [newbie] RE: stop email please

1999-12-30 Thread Shayne McKean
Linux WILL NOT recognize "Winmodems", only hardware modems. I have Mandrake 6.5 and got a USRobotics 56K voice modem which is recognized by Linux when the modem is not set up for plug and play. It needs to be set up for com 4 and IRQ 3 with the jumpers on the card. Good Luck. - Original

Re: [newbie] RE: stop email please

1999-12-30 Thread Shayne McKean
If it has to load "emulators" when the modem is installed in Windows, it's probably (surely) a Winmodem. Hardware modem don't need "emulators", they do the processing themselves, not the CPU. - Original Message - From: "Balaji Prasad" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie] Changing partitions

1999-12-30 Thread Mark Fitzgerald
Hi, Some info on PM 5.0 -- Partition Magic .. -- Can handle .. Dos,OS2,Linux,WinNT,All Wins. -- Will resize, create, delete, combine, logical to primary, -- convert and lots more. It is really nice. -- The current version is 5.0 and it comes -- with drive mapper and boot magic ..etc. -- Comes

Re: [newbie] Sound card

1999-12-30 Thread Audrey Beck
Bob Schmidt wrote: Hi All, I just installed mandrake 6.5, everything went well. I upgraded my kernel to 2.2.13-22, and all that went well. This is my problem, I have an ESS 1869 sound card and for some reason I get errors when setting it up under sound card config. When I watch the

[newbie] xfs crashing on startup when using windows ttf fonts

1999-12-30 Thread Andrew Mitchell
I added the windows ttf fonts line to the /etc/X11/fs/config file, and ran all of the other instructions on the mandrakeuser.org page, and xfs crashes when I try to reload it. I only just did this since until now, I was using xfstt, because I upgraded from Mandrake 5.3 with no truetype fonts to

Re: [newbie] newbie rant

1999-12-30 Thread dotsafe2
I think you have the wrong person. - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 2:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] newbie rant On 30 Dec 1999, William Temple wrote: salutations i am a new person to linux i

Re: [newbie] Sound card

1999-12-30 Thread dotsafe2
sorry, you e-mailed the wrong person - Original Message - From: Audrey Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 1:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound card Bob Schmidt wrote: Hi All, I just installed mandrake 6.5, everything went well. I

Re: [newbie] xfs crashing on startup when using windows ttf fonts

1999-12-30 Thread dotsafe2
you must have e-mailed to the wrong person. - Original Message - From: Andrew Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 11:45 PM Subject: [newbie] xfs crashing on startup when using windows ttf fonts I added the windows ttf fonts line to the

Re: [newbie] RE: stop email please

1999-12-30 Thread Des Wass
As a rule, you could almost bet the farm that ANY internal PCI modem (NOT ISA - and regardless of brand) is a winmodem. On 30/12/99, John Aldrich said: On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote: I recently purchashed Linux-Mandrake 6.5 and I am not able to configure the modem so that it connects to

[newbie] link light

1999-12-30 Thread Karl Ward
Should there be a link light on the ethernet card and the cable modem if the system says the eth0 is up.. Mine is not on but if I re boot back to windows I can use the ethernet card to get on the internet. any answers would be apreciated. thanks

Re: [newbie] link light

1999-12-30 Thread Mike Thompson
What version of linux are you using? If its one of the 6.0 distro's then thats your problem there b/c the dhcp dump is messed up on it. Check your network config and make sure the eth0 interface is set to dhcp rather than static. Also check your conf.modules in the /etc dir and see if the

[newbie] epson 800 and ghostscript uniprint

1999-12-30 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I just installed an Epson Stylus Color 800 printer on Mandrake 6.1 2.2.13-7mdk. I set up the printer with printtool, choosing the Epson Stylus Color (UP) filter and the stc800pl (360 x 360 dpi) color depth. It's working fine, but what is the command for printing at higher resolution? I

[newbie] mandrake 6.1 and Xircom credit card ethernet adapter...

1999-12-30 Thread Coy Thorp
Ok, not sure what driver to load for this card. xircom's site was very little help, and i was wondering if anyone has this configuration on a laptop, and if so, how did they get the NIC to work?

[newbie] Mouse Wheel

1999-12-30 Thread Mike Ladwig
Is it possible to setup the mouse wheel to work in KDE (KDE 1.1.2) ? I would like to be able to scroll with the wheel is web pages, etc. The version of XFree86 I'm running is 3.3.5 and Mandrake 6.1. -- Mike -- *** Using Linux Mandrake 6.1 - 2.2.13-7mdk **

Re: [newbie] Mouse Wheel

1999-12-30 Thread Des Wass
I'm not sure I can help but I may be able to point you in a direction. Poking through the kernel config the other day (as you do), I saw a section for "Mouse Support (not serial mice)". On my 6.0 system, when I had this compiled into the kernel, I'm pretty sure I had a file in /etc call

Re: [newbie] Mouse Wheel

1999-12-30 Thread Jeffrey Crum
Try this page: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xmouse.html#wheel --- Des Wass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure I can help but I may be able to point you in a direction. Poking through the kernel config the other day (as you do), I saw a section for "Mouse Support (not serial

[newbie] Qt lib error on caitoo

1999-12-30 Thread bahriesz
Hi... I tried to install caitoo ( a download manager) on my linux box. I ran ./configure but it stopped at this error: configure: error: Qt = 1.42 (header and libraries) not found. Please check your installation! I have Qt 1.44 installed on my linux. From caitoo's README, it says that Qt 1.42

Re: [newbie] New For 2000

1999-12-30 Thread Hugh Semmler
If you guys want to start a new trend for the new year. Lets try burning guys like this at the stake... Could keep us warm if the power goes out :) Only Joking. Lets impale him Happy new year too you all ! On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote: Start your own 1-900 business or Adult Web Site

Re: [newbie] New For 2000

1999-12-30 Thread Sam
Any hackers/crackers on this list that know how to reverse spam this guy? Start by signing him up for every mailing list you can find. A beta test group I'm on did this to an individual that rboke into our mailing list (we had someone that was able to track down the guys real e-mail address).

Re: [newbie] Corel Linux

1999-12-30 Thread Jeanette Russo
Check the samba site, Don't see the regkey. Anyway I think I can find that key. Right now the corel samba is working so I copied my sambconf to the mandrake 6.0 venus box and smb passwords and now I can see the mandkrake Linux box in my Netwwork Neighborhood in my NT box and when I click on it

Re: [newbie] OpenGL and Xfree86

1999-12-30 Thread Seth Gibson
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Cyril wrote: 2- I would like to test the TNT with an OpenGL program. So how can I install OpenGL ? Is it part of Xfree86 There are 3 ways to do this. . .probably the best way to do it right now is visit mesa3d.org. If you can get Mesa31beta-3, grab that. . .31 final is a

Re: [newbie] link light

1999-12-30 Thread John Penney
Karl Ward wrote: Should there be a link light on the ethernet card and the cable modem if the system says the eth0 is up.. Mine is not on but if I re boot back to windows I can use the ethernet card to get on the internet. any answers would be apreciated. thanks

[newbie] X Startup HELP!!!

1999-12-30 Thread Donny
OK heres a weird problem ive been having recently. Its resulted in me re-installing mandrake 6.1 a number of times, and the same thing happened in redhat 6.1. On occation, ive had to restart, unproperly... without using the reboot command. Ive had to do this when it locks up or something.

[newbie] Linux Petition

1999-12-30 Thread f_pham
http://www.libranet.com/petition.html the link is a petition for programmers to write more drivers for Linux, we need 2,000,000 ppl to sign it so please help.

Re: [newbie] X Startup HELP!!!

1999-12-30 Thread Des Wass
It sounds like your font server isn't running. type /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs status and see what it says. /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start should start it if its stopped. On 30/12/99, Donny said: OK heres a weird problem ive been having recently. Its resulted in me re-installing mandrake 6.1 a

Re: [newbie] Linux Petition

1999-12-30 Thread heretic
I am not programmer, nor will I ever be one but I must say in defence of programmers couple things: a) Its bloody impossible for them to write drivers if manufacturers don't release source code of device. One cannot write driver if one doesn't know how device works. b) Most, if not

Re: [newbie] link light

1999-12-30 Thread Karl Ward
Yes its 6.0 and I can get it to look for info but the is no link light on... From: "Mike Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] link light Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:56:42 -0800 What version of linux are you using? If its one of the

[newbie] Thots on y2k

1999-12-30 Thread Seth Gibson
http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/DeanPannell/DeanPannell4.html Happy new year all. . .XFree86 4 and kernel 2.4!

Re: [newbie] X Startup HELP!!!

1999-12-30 Thread alann
Donny wrote: OK heres a weird problem ive been having recently. Its resulted in me re-installing mandrake 6.1 a number of times, and the same thing happened in redhat 6.1. On occation, ive had to restart, unproperly... without using the reboot command. Ive had to do this when it locks

Re: [newbie] link light

1999-12-30 Thread Seung-woo Nam
The tulip driver included in Mandrake doesn't seem to work very well with any ethernet cards. I myself had the same problem with tulip driver. However, after I compiled and installed tulip driver came on the driver diskette for my ethernet card, it started working fine. Seung-woo Nam John

RE: [newbie] New For 2000

1999-12-30 Thread Singer XJ Wang
ERr, more spam. is there an way to close the list down? -Original Message- From: Owen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 6:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] New For 2000 Start your own 1-900 business or Adult Web Site Business! People

Re: [newbie] link light

1999-12-30 Thread alann
Seung-woo Nam wrote: The tulip driver included in Mandrake doesn't seem to work very well with any ethernet cards. I myself had the same problem with tulip driver. However, after I compiled and installed tulip driver came on the driver diskette for my ethernet card, it started working fine.

Re: [newbie] Linux Petition

1999-12-30 Thread Jones
a) Its bloody impossible for them to write drivers if manufacturers don't release source code of device. One cannot write driver if one doesn't know how device works. Hehe hence the reason winmodems are not linmodems!