AW: [newbie] Some Help - New to MDK

2000-02-04 Thread Friedrichs, Martin /122
I have an ESS Solo1 too. But it doesn't work with 6.1. How did you get it work?? I tried it with ALSA-driver but there was no chance. Thanks for reply Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: george jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 3. Februar 2000 22:56 An: [EMAIL

[newbie] Urgent !

2000-02-04 Thread vishal bansal
Hi folks: I have installed win95/dos along with Linux-Mandrake 6.1 on my computer. I was able to run linux fine until I did this; Using cat /proc/meminfo, it showed me the swap space as 0 and used 0. Thus I edited the file /etc/lilo.conf and added the line append="mem=80M" before the first

[newbie] Considering purchase of this distribution...

2000-02-04 Thread Phillip Middleton
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Re: [newbie] isdn - german-

2000-02-04 Thread Marc Kraemer
Hi ! Habe zwar keine ISDN Karte, aber wenn mich nicht alles taeuscht, giebt es eine sehr gut aufgebaute und strukturierte ISDN HOTWO. Z.B. unter http://www.tu-harburg.de/~semb2204/dlhp/ in Deutsch (http://www.tu-harburg.de/~semb2204/dlhp/HOWTO/DE-ISDN-HOWTO.html) Gruss, marc hi

Re: [[newbie] Modem driver?]

2000-02-04 Thread Paul Derbyshire
At 04:54 AM 2/3/00 EST, you wrote: I don't think this modem is supported in linux. HCF, I believe, is a type of software or "winmodem". I hope I'm wrong, but if I'm not, try an external. You'll be glad you did. Can you get 56K's cheap on the net, that have good data quality and stability? --

[newbie] On my Mandrake 6.0 box...

2000-02-04 Thread Paul Derbyshire
...I can make a "template" file read-only to myself (to discourage accidental edits or deletions of the template), and then rename it without doing the rename as root! Is this normal? :-) I get EACCES or exceptions trying to actually modify it, of course, as should be... -- .*. "Clouds are

[newbie] Four oddball events with KDE

2000-02-04 Thread Paul Derbyshire
Firstly, on two occasions I had the X server "stop seeing" the keyboard, forcing me to save stuff and log off (using the mouse only -- tedious!) and "restart X server". Eventually I tracked it down to being caused when I attempt, in my normal user account, to obtain a KFE with root privileges

Re: [newbie] how to delete Linux partition

2000-02-04 Thread Paul Derbyshire
At 03:21 PM 2/3/00 +0100, you wrote: Here is how I would do : type fdisk /mbr at a DOS prompt to delete lilo and make your computer automaticaly load windows, then boot with a linux CD (I usualy use the slackware70 CD to do this, but you can use any CD that has a live system on it) and, once in

[newbie] A Day in the Life... 1

2000-02-04 Thread Paul Derbyshire
Today. I got my sound card working in linux, compiled a sample C++ program to verify the compiler worked, and later compiled a more elaborate, though still small (1 source file and no OO stuff except iostreams) tool to manage some Web related stuff for me. Experimented somemore with GIMP and

Re: AW: [newbie] Some Help - New to MDK

2000-02-04 Thread Warren Doney
"Friedrichs, Martin /122" wrote: I have an ESS Solo1 too. But it doesn't work with 6.1. How did you get it work?? I tried it with ALSA-driver but there was no chance. Thanks for reply Martin Do a "modprobe esssolo1.o" before you start X you should be able to open the mixer in kde. make

[newbie] Xwin problems (Video Card?)

2000-02-04 Thread Ken Sahr
Hi everyone, Thanks in advance to anyone that takes the time to read this. I've exhausted my minimal linux support and haven't been able to make headway at all with this problem. First let me give you a little background about my relevant system info. I'm running an AGP ATI XPert 128

[newbie] Hi

2000-02-04 Thread Christopher Sinclair
How do I boot from a cd ?

Re: [newbie] Some Help - New to MDK

2000-02-04 Thread Jim Bruno Goldberg
Thanks. I will try it. george jones wrote: I had a similar problem with my ESS Solo1 when I installed 6.1, I have since installed 7.0 and have not had any problems with it. - Original Message - Hi, people. I install the MDK 6.1 here and cant solve some things,

Re: [[newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7]

2000-02-04 Thread Michael Scottaline
Alan Snider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow!!! Mandrake 7 is the nicest linux package I have had experience with (though the others have been only Redhat 5.0, 5.1, 5.9 and Mandrake 5.3 and 6.0 so I am no expert by any means). One big problem: I have a Toshiba Equium 6200M with built-in

Re: [Re: [[newbie] Modem driver?]]

2000-02-04 Thread Michael Scottaline
Paul Derbyshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:54 AM 2/3/00 EST, you wrote: I don't think this modem is supported in linux. HCF, I believe, is a type of software or "winmodem". I hope I'm wrong, but if I'm not, try an external. You'll be glad you did. Can you get 56K's cheap on the net,

Re: [newbie] Hi

2000-02-04 Thread BryanMoorehead
Reboot your PC and run Setup. In Setup, select BIOS Setup? change the boot sequence from "floppy, C..." to CDROM,C... if that choice is available. Hope this helps, Bryan "Christopher Sinclair" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/04/2000 06:52:37 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] unsubscribing

2000-02-04 Thread gcastillo
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[newbie] The saga continues...update:

2000-02-04 Thread Dave
Hey all, Well after a couple weeks, I still can't get the ethernet card working. Here's my update: Running: win98se and Mandrake 7.0 3com 3c905B-TX (3C90x family) Suggestion from subscriber: the module for a 905b is 3c59x (insmod 3c59x) Result: ./3c59x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

Re: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7

2000-02-04 Thread MrWil206
the proper command i believe is soundconfig or something to that effect. -dave

Re: [newbie] The saga continues...update:

2000-02-04 Thread surge
from the looks of that, your IDE0 and ETH0 are both on IRQ 11. Tom On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hey all, Well after a couple weeks, I still can't get the ethernet card working. Here's my update: Running: win98se and Mandrake 7.0 3com 3c905B-TX (3C90x family) Suggestion from

Re: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7

2000-02-04 Thread Ken Sahr
sndconfig is the exact command :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the proper command i believe is soundconfig or something to that effect. -dave

RE: [newbie] The saga continues...update:

2000-02-04 Thread Dave
I tried changing (in the BIOS), the eth0 to IRQ 3...and when I went back to linux, ide0 had changed with it...is there some other way to change IRQs then? thx -Dave -Original Message- From: surge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 8:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Mandrake 7.0 and Apache

2000-02-04 Thread Mike Bergen
I am moving from a Slackware 4.0 distribution to Mandrake 7.0. In Slackware the apache was pre configured to pass out home pages based on the "/home/user" model. I never had to deal with it. Now That I am using mandrake I only get 403(forbidden) errors. I can get the root pages but not any

[newbie] LiLo and Boot disks

2000-02-04 Thread Benjamin Buley
I have Mandrake 7 running in my desktop along with Win98. My setup is based around a new controller card that is booted first, and runs Win98 unless I put in my linux boot disk to stop it. I have no problem with this, but what I want to know is, the bootdisk takes FOREVER to load the

Re: [newbie] IDE harddrive detection in 7.0 fails

2000-02-04 Thread Jared Mahoney
I have Partition Magic installed, and have created a linux swap and ext2 partition. Does the location of these partitions matter whether or not the Mandrake installation program will be able to find them? I am not sure if this is a problem with the install not being able to detect the drive or

RE: [newbie] Hi

2000-02-04 Thread Ingo Bauer
Good morning Christopher; You have to change the boot sequence of your PC's bios Ingo -Original Message- From: Christopher Sinclair [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 7:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Hi How do I boot from a cd ?

Re: [newbie] Hi

2000-02-04 Thread Maria Viskovska
Hi {sorry but me English is bad} for boot from CD you must chenged BIOS.Start your computer and press delet and now is start BIOS setup and chenged boot ...floop tu boot from Cd {used - /+} and press Esc and go tu saveand pressY and enter computer make restart and now is make boot from CD

Re: [newbie] Hi

2000-02-04 Thread Mike
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: How do I boot from a cd ? Just get into your bios (usualy hit delete whilst the computer is checking ram, or else its "ctrl alt shift" or "ctrl alt esc") there you should find an option, often in advanced or something , to set the boot sequence. select the

Re: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7

2000-02-04 Thread Mike
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: the proper command i believe is soundconfig or something to that effect. -dave Its sndconfig Hacktually :-) if you dont want to use Lothar that is. Cheers: Mike

RE: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7

2000-02-04 Thread Steve Wright
Ken Sahr babbled sndconfig is the exact command :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the proper command i believe is soundconfig or something to that effect. hehe, you are both right I think! soundconfig will run the Lothar sound config program while sndconfig will run the RedHat version.

RE: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7

2000-02-04 Thread Nussbaum, George
now all we need is the aureal drivers to come out so that my Turtle Beach Montego II A3D card will work! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- George Nussbaum 444 Washington Street Network/System Engineer Suite 210 Exodus Communications Inc

RE: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7

2000-02-04 Thread surge
There are Aureal drivers for your TB Montego II... try http://linux.aureal.com I have a TB Montego A3DXstream.. and the drivers work fine for me :) Tom On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: now all we need is the aureal drivers to come out so that my Turtle Beach Montego II A3D card will work!

RE: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7

2000-02-04 Thread Nussbaum, George
Thanks for the info!!! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- George Nussbaum 444 Washington Street Network/System Engineer Suite 210 Exodus Communications Inc Woburn, MA 01801 V-(617) 616-4348www.exodus.net

Re: [newbie] IDE harddrive detection in 7.0 fails

2000-02-04 Thread M Thompson
Also... If your HD is connected to an Ultra33 or Ultra66 IDE controller, you will need to use a little magic to enable Linux to see the drive attached to this controller. Checkout the following URL if this applies to you: http://users.nf/linux/addenda6.htm HTH, Matt From: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] The saga continues...update:

2000-02-04 Thread shuxclams
Go into BIOS and give it IRQ 5, then insmod 3c59x and ifup eth0, that should do it. Sean surge wrote: from the looks of that, your IDE0 and ETH0 are both on IRQ 11. Tom On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hey all, Well after a couple weeks, I still can't get the ethernet card working.

Re: [newbie] LiLo and Boot disks

2000-02-04 Thread M Thompson
checkout the following URL: http://users.nf/linux/addenda6.htm Once you successfully boot your system using the above technique, you can "append" this information to the lilo.conf (on the HD) file so you don't have to enter this info every time you boot Linux. HTH, Matt From: "Benjamin

[newbie] Dial-up networking !

2000-02-04 Thread vishal bansal
How do you set up a dial-up networking connection in linux? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [newbie] Four oddball events with KDE

2000-02-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Pauli doubt that "xconfigurator" is absent, just mssspelled by you. Try it spelled this way (note the upper case X): Xconfigurator Alan On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: Firstly, on two occasions I had the X server "stop seeing" the keyboard, forcing me to save stuff and log off (using

[newbie] kppp and modem wait state

2000-02-04 Thread R_Yeo
Hi, I have an irritating problem: During peak hours I have a lot of difficulty dialing up to my ISP, so I want kppp to dial continuously. But, after 3 BUSY replies, my kppp login script debug window shows that it is waiting, for I don't know what. It actually communicates with the modem

Re: [newbie] Remote Telnet; Remote FTP server (they don't work)

2000-02-04 Thread R_Yeo
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Emerald Arcana wrote: Do what you did to turn 'em off. :-) Also, you can re-run "setup" from a console prompt as root and select "system services." Here's where you configure what starts up automagically. Tried that, it didn't work. When I turned them

[newbie] Some Problems with Diamond SpeedStar A50! Help me!

2000-02-04 Thread alvaro beckerig
Hello! I'm trying to install Linux-Mandrake on my computer... During installation, I've passed over all tasks, how create partitions, file copy etc... But.. my videocard isn't working... I have a Diamond SpeedStar A50 videocard with 8 Mb memory... and my monitor is an LG Studioworks

Re: [newbie] can't login as root

2000-02-04 Thread R_Yeo
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, Randall Randall wrote: Okay, got another issue, now. :) I'm trying to install a system without X, and have to go through and delete packages manually, in "expert" mode. It claims to be installing all the dependencies (including things I don't really want (like X

[newbie] Which package does kmail belong to

2000-02-04 Thread R_Yeo
Hi, I've tried looking for the package with: rpm -aq | grep kmail and also using 'find package' and 'find file' in kpackage. No joy Anyone can help? TIA -- Ronald

Re: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7

2000-02-04 Thread R_Yeo
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Alan Snider wrote: Wow!!! Mandrake 7 is the nicest linux package I have had experience with (though the others have been only Redhat 5.0, 5.1, 5.9 and Mandrake 5.3 and 6.0 so I am no expert by any means). One big problem: I have a Toshiba Equium 6200M with built-in

Re: [newbie] FTP Question

2000-02-04 Thread R_Yeo
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, TRUB wrote: Thanks, that helped a bit, but I still get my computer name in the script at the very top. I have created a new /welcome.msg that is working but I did not include my computer name in the description? How can I kill that unincluded part? Still in

Re: [newbie] Hi

2000-02-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Christopheryou need to set your system bios to boot from your cd. Some older bioses do not support cd booting. Alan On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: How do I boot from a cd ?

[newbie] Great IP Masq. Utilities

2000-02-04 Thread shuxclams
I have really got my IP Masq. working well and some utilities that are fairly easy to install and maintain are as follows; LogCheck and portsentry both downloadable from - http://www.psionic.com/, Logcheck parses your Logs and sends mail to you with any attacks or alerts and portsentry is a

[newbie] Problems with ppp (Mandrake7)

2000-02-04 Thread Jackal
I am having problems starting ppp in Mandrake 7. My modem and did not have any problems when I was using Mandrake 6.1 but after the upgrade I cannot use ppp anymore I checked the /var/log/messages and saw a message complaining about module char-major-108 but i have kind of fixed that

Re: [newbie] kxicq

2000-02-04 Thread Mike
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: kxicq-01112000-1.i386.rpm works fine for me in MDK 6.0 w/kernel 2.2.13. It should also work in MDK 6.1, you can find it in www.kxicq.org That's the excact version I have installed here except that I am useing MDK 6.1 I also downloaded kxicq from kxicq.org :-(

[newbie] changing from large to normal icons w/kcontrol panel

2000-02-04 Thread Harry Miktarian
Hello all, Problem, after installing 7.0 v2 I am unable to change the size of the desktop or window icons from large to normal as a user from kcontrol. I had this trouble with the betas also, but finally got it to work. Of course I forgot what the solution was. Any Ideas? Thanks. Harry

[newbie] Free ISP's and Linux

2000-02-04 Thread George Jones
Anyone out there figure out how to access one of those free-isp's like NetZero or AltaVista using Linux?

[newbie] Which release?

2000-02-04 Thread Brand, Christopher
I've heard lots of bellyaching on this list about problems with Mandrake 7.0, they seem to be mostly due to Mandrake-specific enhancements that are a little buggy and not kernel related. Is this an accurate representation? I have a new laptop coming (for work) and I am wondering if I should

Re: [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux

2000-02-04 Thread Chris and Jennifer Reeder
Absolutely. freewwweb.com lets you log on for free as long as you keep your home page set to their page. Go to their website and find the section for "Already have a Browser" The address is www.freewwweb.com I think they are in conjunction with Juno. Chris --- George Jones [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux

2000-02-04 Thread Ty C.Mixon
The software is all proprietary, and for Windows only. :( I do wish the FreeDSL ppl would make a version for Linux! :) Original Message On 2/4/00, 12:15:29 PM, George Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux: Anyone out there figure out how to access one

[newbie] Installation

2000-02-04 Thread Carrie
I'm coming across a problem when trying to install, maybe someone has an idea? Here it is: When I run the installation from a boot disk, i get as far as the kernel loading and then it gives me a segmentation fault and says it can't connect to something (it went by too fast, I didn't write it

Re: [newbie] kppp and modem wait state

2000-02-04 Thread Maria Viskovska
Yeo modem US Robotic 56K is winmodem and winmodem no work with LINUX :-))) - Original Message - From: R_Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 9:49 AM Subject: [newbie] kppp and modem wait state Hi, I have an irritating problem: During peak

[newbie] Set the time in Mandrake?

2000-02-04 Thread Lothar Mandrake
Linux-Mandrake claims that the time is one hour more than the time set in the bios (which is the correct time). Setting the correct time with the "date" command is unsatisfactory, since the erroneous time is displayed again after the next reboot. How do I set the correct time

[newbie] Set the time in Mandrake?

2000-02-04 Thread Lothar Mandrake
Linux-Mandrake claims that the time is one hour more than the time set in the bios (which is the correct time). Setting the correct time with the "date" command is unsatisfactory, since the erroneous time is displayed again after the next reboot. How do I set the correct time

[newbie] chmod/chown problems

2000-02-04 Thread Lothar Mandrake
Is there some special trick to chmoding and chowning in Linux-Mandrake? The reason I ask is that I can't get either to work. One partition of my hard disk, named "/common," is dedicated to files I would like all users to be able to share. Unfortunately, its permissions are drwxr-xr-x.

[newbie] Floppy problems

2000-02-04 Thread Lothar Mandrake
I have a floppy which I use daily in a Solaris 7 environment. When I try to use it in Linux-Mandrake it is usually mounted as "read-only," forcing me to copy the files to the hard disk before I can work with them. Then I have to copy them to another floppy, and copy them back to the

[newbie] Too much lsd?

2000-02-04 Thread Lothar Mandrake
In Solaris I like to keep a little script containing merely the string "ls -Fa" in the /bin directory, enabling me to give this command merely by invoking the name of the script: lsd. In Linux-Mandrake the command lsd already seems to exist. It does not differ from the command "ls,"

Re: [newbie] chmod/chown problems

2000-02-04 Thread Ty C.Mixon
I have an FTP dir that I do the same with and here is the commands I use, as root: chown -R nobody.users /FTP (or /common for you) That makes it so that no one owns it and is thus usable by everyone. Then: chmod -R a+rwX just to be sure that everyone has read write and execute status for

Re: [newbie] Too much lsd?

2000-02-04 Thread David van Balen
lsd appears to be an alias and not a file since "find" turned up nil when I ran a search for it. You can probably put your script in the bindir without screwing up the system but you may not be able to invoke it except through with the full path if aliases have precedence over executables on

Re: [Re: [newbie] kppp and modem wait state]

2000-02-04 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Maria Viskovska" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeo modem US Robotic 56K is winmodem and winmodem no work with LINUX :-))) = No Maria, not his USR. It's an EXTERNAL and the model is a "faxmodem". Most definitely NOT a winmodem. How do I know? I've been using one

Re: [newbie] Too much lsd?

2000-02-04 Thread Dan Ferris
In your .bash_profile file, or whatever shell you use, add the following: alias ls='ls -Fa' then whenever you type ls, it will actually do an ls -Fa. Dan

Re: [[newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7]

2000-02-04 Thread German G. Sanchez Urrutia
Or go to www.alsa-project.org and get a great driver for FREE¡ Michael Scottaline wrote: Alan Snider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow!!! Mandrake 7 is the nicest linux package I have had experience with (though the others have been only Redhat 5.0, 5.1, 5.9 and Mandrake 5.3 and 6.0 so I am

Re: [[newbie] Modem driver?]

2000-02-04 Thread Audrey Beck
Check in the mail archives (beginning to mid January 2000) and try searching on Phoebe. Ramon Gandia wrote up a nice tech page on modems in the expert mailing list. There were some good discussions and recommendations on modems. I don't remember if they were all in expert or in both expert and

Re: [newbie] modem woes

2000-02-04 Thread Audrey Beck
Have you tried using setserial to setup the modem first? Dave Gunter wrote: I am having problems with my modem as well, the jumpers are set correctly and I ran the query in kppp it worked once then I do it again I get a error message "Sorry the modem is not responding" I've tried

Re: [newbie] Backup Image.

2000-02-04 Thread Audrey Beck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a way to make a backup image of the root drive for recovery on tape. I don't know if you can use dd to write an image to tape. I'm using tar for backups. At the end of this message is my program for backup to dat. The mybck variable can be set

Re: [newbie] Books and stuff.

2000-02-04 Thread Audrey Beck
Also, check out mandrakeuser.org and linuxnewbie.org. They both have lots of information and walkthroughs to help you. Lance Borden wrote: Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Firstly thanks to all for your help and does anyone know of any good books on linux and the KDE. The ones I've got don't

Re: [newbie] Hi

2000-02-04 Thread Vic H
Make sure your BIOS supports booting with the CDrom, then go into your cmos setup and tell it to boot in a certain order, such as CDROM,C: A: and the like On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: How do I boot from a cd ? Content-Type: text/html;

[newbie] Fw: Considering purchase of this distribution...

2000-02-04 Thread Phillip Middleton
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RE: Re: [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux

2000-02-04 Thread Carroll Miles
I have an account with WorldSpy.net which is the only free net provider I know of that does not inflict us with a bar on the desktop. And they inform me that they hope to have software available for Linux in the spring of 2000. Other than that, I would like to find a free ISP which serves the

[newbie] Which directory does the kerenl lie?

2000-02-04 Thread Nussbaum, George
I want to run "make xconfig" to enable my sound, but there is no /usr/src/linux...where can I go to run this command?

[newbie] diamond speedstar a50 - finally is it compatible or not???

2000-02-04 Thread Alvaro Beckerig
DiamondSpeedStar a50, is it supported by Linux Mandrake or not ??? I tried all possible configurations, and it doesn't worked! What do I do now ??? Can anyone indicates me a really good video card ??? 'Cause SpeedStar is really a big, big shit! I'm tired! Anyone here has configured Linux

[newbie] netscape .. slow startup

2000-02-04 Thread Bobby Welch
When I first start up netscape after logging in to my account, it seems to take a while for it to fully initialize. It almost seems like it is going to hang, but, it finally starts up. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Any help would be greatly appreciated =)

[newbie] cdrw and fstab

2000-02-04 Thread Bobby Welch
I beleive that someone had posted a solution to fixing the problem with a cd-rw not being reconginzed by a file manager. Could someone please re-post that message .. I would really appreciate it =) thanks

[newbie] mouse and the resolution setting

2000-02-04 Thread Bobby Welch
I am trying to speed up my mouse. I have read that the Resolution setting can be added to the XF86Config file under the pointer section. I have also read that this only works with some of the OSs .. is Linux one of them?? Also, does anyone know what the allowable ranges for the Resolution

Re: [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux

2000-02-04 Thread Jeanette Russo
It says Windows 95, Windows 98 and Mac on the site? Jeanette - Original Message - From: Chris and Jennifer Reeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 1:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux Absolutely. freewwweb.com lets you log on for

Re: [newbie] Which package does kmail belong to

2000-02-04 Thread Ribbo
On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, R_Yeo wrote: I've tried looking for the package with: rpm -aq | grep kmail and also using 'find package' and 'find file' in kpackage. No joy Anyone can help? TIA KDE-Network -- Rib Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian

[newbie] kxicq setup

2000-02-04 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Keep getting error message when trying to install kxicq on MDK 6.1. "no user rba" or something like that. Antone help??? Andy

Re: [newbie] Dial-up networking !

2000-02-04 Thread Lance Borden
vishal bansal wrote: How do you set up a dial-up networking connection in linux? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com If you are using KDE, just start kppp, choose setup, supply the needed info (phone number, name,

[newbie] Retrieving Lost Root Password

2000-02-04 Thread Emerald Arcana
I changed my root password and I must have typed it into the system incorrectly because Linux no longer accepts it. So, what can I do to retrieve the password for root? Thanks.

Re: [newbie] Retrieving Lost Root Password

2000-02-04 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
boot into single user mode at the lilo: type linux S On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Emerald Arcana wrote: I changed my root password and I must have typed it into the system incorrectly because Linux no longer accepts it. So, what can I do to retrieve the password for root? Thanks.

Re: [Re: [newbie] kppp and modem wait state]

2000-02-04 Thread Maria Viskovska
OK I thing USR is US Robotic :- - Original Message - From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] kppp and modem wait state] "Maria Viskovska" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeo modem US

Re: [[newbie] diamond speedstar a50 - finally is it compatible or not???]

2000-02-04 Thread Jaguar
Chech the mail archives and search for SIS...I know poeple have had some luck with that chipset. Your other problem I believe is a known BUG, you have to uninstall KMCLOCK RPM ---I believe that is right...someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Also listed in the archives... HTH Jaguar "Alvaro

[newbie] Printing Over a network

2000-02-04 Thread Patrick Dyer
Could some one tell me how to configure linux to print to a printer over a Windows NT network? I tried using printtool but I am not sure exactly what to do? __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: [newbie] The saga continues...update:

2000-02-04 Thread Audrey Beck
Dave wrote: I tried changing (in the BIOS), the eth0 to IRQ 3...and when I went back to linux, ide0 had changed with it...is there some other way to change IRQs then? thx -Dave I have the same type of thing. I thought it was just me and understanding a new system. My ethernet card and

Re: [newbie] IDE harddrive detection in 7.0 fails

2000-02-04 Thread Audrey Beck
Yes it does. The boot partition has to be below 8 gig. To solve this, just make a 16 meg partition before the Win partition with partition magic. Set this up as /boot when you install. Then set up your / (root) partition to be the other ext2 partition you made. The install will put

Re: [newbie] looking for software

2000-02-04 Thread Audrey Beck
Try looking for one at www.freshmeat.net Guillermo Belli wrote: Hi all: I'm looking for a circuit simulation program like "Electronic Workbech for Windows" that works under Lunux. Is there such a thing? If I could find a program like that, it would help me a lot. Any help appreciated.

Re: [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux

2000-02-04 Thread Audrey Beck
WorldSpy is supposed to have a linux version "real soon now" and I'm waiting. George Jones wrote: Anyone out there figure out how to access one of those free-isp's like NetZero or AltaVista using Linux?

[newbie] Black Box help. (simple)

2000-02-04 Thread jerlin
Well all is fine and dandy, I just need to know where the "menu file" in BlackBox is placed when MDK 7 installs it. Does anyone know where i can get this "menu file".? snip from help file on themes.org A useful way to start configuring your own menu is to copy the default menu to a

[newbie] looking for software

2000-02-04 Thread Guillermo Belli
Hi all: I'm looking for a circuit simulation program like "Electronic Workbech for Windows" that works under Lunux. Is there such a thing? If I could find a program like that, it would help me a lot. Any help appreciated. Thanks. -- Guillermo Belli - Linux User #131340 ICQ #38321312

[newbie] Re: [expert] looking for software

2000-02-04 Thread Frank Arnold
Try the Scientific Applications for Linux page at: http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/index.shtml Frank === On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Guillermo Belli wrote: Hi all: I'm looking for a circuit simulation program like "Electronic Workbech for Windows" that works

[newbie] Re: [expert] looking for software

2000-02-04 Thread Rich Clark
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Guillermo Belli wrote: Hi all: I'm looking for a circuit simulation program like "Electronic Workbech for Windows" that works under Lunux. Is there such a thing? If I could find a program like that, it would help me a lot. Any help appreciated. Thanks. I just