Re: [newbie] how to use a winmodem

2000-02-29 Thread KokWay Heng
Hello, Linux doesn't support WinModem will never support. Rgs, Way On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hi all of the list, I am new in this list and I am from argentina, so sorry for my english. My question is the following: I have a winmodem (HFlex) and I know that it is impossible to use

[newbie] Mandrake and Windows on the same drive

2000-02-29 Thread Pieter Smith
Hi A drive is limited to having 4 primary partitions. Windows gets around this by placing a lot of drive letters in a single primary extended partition. When Mandrake installs, it creates four primary partitions on its own: The boot, root, home and swap partitions. All four of these partitions

Re: [newbie] how to use a winmodem

2000-02-29 Thread michael bjorck
Hello Go to site Winmodems are not modems, maybe thet can help you. http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html Micke On Tue, 29 February 2000, KokWay Heng wrote: Hello, Linux doesn't support WinModem will never support. Rgs, Way On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hi all of the

Re: [newbie] help

2000-02-29 Thread Audrey Beck
Kit wrote: I have an old MOUSE SYSTEMS serial ISA card... with jumpers for setting IRQs and COM ports... so I assume...I can use this card to install a external modem... is this correct? if so, HOW do I do this for US Robotics 33.6 sportster external modem -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Pine

2000-02-29 Thread Rial Juan
On Feb 29 Russell Simmons wrote: I'm not so crazy about n.s.'s mail, and i would like to try Pine to send and retrieve mail on my Linux partition. I am using MD 6.0. Is there an rpm for pine on the distro? If not, could someone tell me the steps I would need to take to get and use Pine?

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Windows on the same drive

2000-02-29 Thread Rial Juan
It's perfectly possible. I usually make a fat16/32 partition with fdisk under dos, and leave the rest of the drive alone (you might consider making a small 16 MB partition at the very beginning of the disk as boot-partition, then later convert it with the partition editor in the mandrake

[newbie] SCSI hidding some EIDE66 drives

2000-02-29 Thread Francois . JUNIQUE
I have a ABIT BP6 motherboard with 2 ATA33 controlers (unused except a DVD drive) and 2 ATA66 controlers (each with a large disk) (these 2 extra controlers are handled by a hpt366 chipset) I installed Mandrake70gpl without any problems (as far as I could see :-)) in addition to a win98 system.

Re: [newbie] DNS problems

2000-02-29 Thread steve . flynn
Are you using a proxy server? Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst "Paul Eppley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 27/02/2000 03:59:45 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) Subject: [newbie] DNS problems I have my dial-up connection

RE: [newbie] SCSI hidding some EIDE66 drives

2000-02-29 Thread Mike Perry
I would hazard a guess that perhaps free IRQ's may be the issue. You may have to play around with your computers bios (if the BP6 is as flexible as the BX6-R2 there are heaps of options). Then again I may be completely wrong :-) Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate

RE: [newbie] SCSI hidding some EIDE66 drives

2000-02-29 Thread Robert
I might have kind of a similair problem I have the abit BE6 mainboard. with also ata33 controllers, got on the first an Samsung harddisk on the second my cd-rom and cd-writer and 2 ata66 contollers with a Western digital harddisk connected to it but when I use the workaround to get my ata66

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Windows on the same drive

2000-02-29 Thread Tony
use lnx4win (on the 70-2 iso) everything goes on your win98 system - Original Message - From: "Pieter Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 5:48 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake and Windows on the same drive Hi A drive is limited to having 4

RE: [newbie] Mylex DAC960P

2000-02-29 Thread Pittman, Merle
make a boot disk with the raid drivers and boot fron that. then you can rub the installation image from the cdrom once booted. -Original Message- From: Bill Beauchemin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 5:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Favorite references for Redhat/Mandrake

2000-02-29 Thread Tony
go to www.emuse.net and download your choice of manuals in the Docs section. - Original Message - From: "rmurphy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Favorite references for Redhat/Mandrake "Lisa J. Harris" wrote:

Re: [newbie] Shutdown errors.

2000-02-29 Thread Tony
same problem , same AMD450 since it appears to be OK on rebooting I have not yet attempted to find out why!!! - Original Message - From: Dave O'Braden To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 10:25 PM Subject: [newbie] Shutdown errors. I have

[newbie] Re(2): newbie SCSI hidding some EIDE66 drives

2000-02-29 Thread Francois . JUNIQUE
Should I mentionned that with win98 I have no problems at all, I can see all my peripherals so I am not that encline to change interrupts just for Linux sake... BTW my computer is not hanging at all, it just doesnt see the extra EIDE66 drives from linux. It really looks like once it has seen

Re: [newbie] Shutdown errors.

2000-02-29 Thread Tony
same problem , I have same AMD450 on Tyan1590s board ,2 Hds (one Win, one 70-2) using AT connector for power. On shutdown only trouble begins after sys halted, reboot cures so is no big deal, it might be nice to know why though!!! - Original Message - From: "Dave O'Braden" [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] how to use a winmodem

2000-02-29 Thread Josh McCaffrey
Winmodems are junk. I wouldn't recommend using one in a Windows box either. ISP's don't like them, cuz evertime I've called tech support, they ask "now, is this a winmodem?", "no? good, now I can help you." And they're never called Winmodems on the box of that nice new system you just

RE: [newbie] Help with @home cable

2000-02-29 Thread Pittman, Merle
Its not your cable modem! Linux does not recognize your NIC card. -Original Message- From: frank gallo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 8:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help with @home cable Hi i'm using mandrake 7.0 I can't get the

[newbie] Setting Up Exim

2000-02-29 Thread Lane Lester
I need to do some more extreme filtering (described below) of my mail. I know that exim will do the job, and I've compile and installed it. However, the configuration is more complex that I wished, and I'm wondering if there's a package or something that will make it easier to set up. Or maybe

Re: [newbie] aureal sound help

2000-02-29 Thread steve . flynn
John, "It will not work" is a bit vague. What happens? Keyboard stops responding. Monitor switches off? All the lights go out? What... Please post the output from the 'make install' command. If it's something like Target install does not exist then you need to re-read the docs which came

Re: [newbie] Favorite references for Redhat/Mandrake

2000-02-29 Thread steve . flynn
In order of "look here first" man apropos man again Essential Systems Administration (has an Aardvark on the front) Using Linux man yet again Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst "Lisa J. Harris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 28/02/2000 04:37:33 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [newbie] help

2000-02-29 Thread Kit
Audrey this is why: all other slots, be it PCI or ISA are taken up... I have a logitech marble mouse connected to com1 ...03f8-03ff IRQ 4 and on the same card, is a 25 pin female plug then, I have a BestData VW-PCI 56k winmodem hooked up to com2 IRQ 9, in windows, and IRQ3 in DOS I do have two

Re: [newbie] here's a couple of toughie's...

2000-02-29 Thread steve . flynn
I don'tknow about Mandrake 7.0 but under 6.5 a call to /sbin/sndconfig as root sorts a lot of cards out. Have you tried that? The odd thing is the playing half of the sample. Is it playing it at double sample rate or anything? Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst Shawn Somers AKA Razer

Re: [newbie] Internet via Cable Modem

2000-02-29 Thread steve . flynn
Well, do you get a connection to your ISP? Can you view any website with Netscape. Can you ping any sites and get a return on them? Is your box configured to use the correct IP addresses for your ISP's DNS? What errors do you get - specifically. Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst

Re: [newbie] Shutdown Error

2000-02-29 Thread steve . flynn
At last - someone who posts some diagnostics with their problem! One problem though. It's in Starwriter format. What about us who don't use Starwriter! Can you not post the relevant part of /var/log/messagesin plain text format? DO NOT POST ALL OF /VAR/LOG/MESSAGES! IT'LL BE HUGE AND PEOPLE

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM Audio

2000-02-29 Thread steve . flynn
I wouldn't know Alan - being a lowly 56.6k owner I'm not going to download the 7.0 ISO to upgrade! I'm stuck here at 6.5 What you say make absolute sense though - we can't compare like with like in here, because chances are, no-one else has the same hardware, software level and setup as

Re: [newbie] Shutdown errors.

2000-02-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just got my 8830 chipset sound ( MX300) working. It is really easy ONCE you have the right things installed. Install using RPMdrake the following (search for them): gcc kernel source make then go to http://linux.aureal.com for the drivers. follow directions and it works great. FlipZ

[newbie] /usr or /root?

2000-02-29 Thread Lothar Mandrake
Having allocated disk space for the /home slice, I have about three GBs left on the disk on which I aim to install Mandrake. Should I allocate a 2 GB partition for the /root slice and a 1 GB partition for the /usr slice, or should I allocate a 1 GB partition for the /root slice and a 2

RE: [newbie] help

2000-02-29 Thread Mike Perry
Hi Kit! I don't understand why you need both the PCI modem and the USR external one. If you mobo is standard you should have 2 serial ports + 1 parallel available onboard and be able just to trash the PCI modem and use the 2nd serial port for the USR. Should be no probs using the external modem

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[newbie] CD Cover

2000-02-29 Thread Thomas . Lofstedt
Hey, Does anyone have a scanned image of the cd-cover for Mandrake 7.0, or know where I can get one? I'd really like it if my CD's looked better(since I downed the free ISO-image). Thomas

Re: [newbie] /usr or /root?

2000-02-29 Thread steve . flynn
I'd personally use 2 gb for /usr and 1 gb for /root, if I were partitioning up in this way I'd expect /usr to need more disk-space than /root, after all, /root is just a userid like any other, but with magical powers! :) Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst "Lothar Mandrake" [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] mount/make/windoz-files?

2000-02-29 Thread Emilio Correa
Emilio Wrote: Hi, I think you can't write on a vfat mounted partition in linux but you can try to do it, in one opportunity I couldn't do it. Good luck Date sent: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:12:57 -0500 From: Russell Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [newbie] Install failure for LM 6.5

2000-02-29 Thread Emilio Correa
Hello, i will try to help you. I think the main problem is on the hard disk partition, may be you have made a wrong type of partition. For example the best way to check it is with the fdisk utility that you must have with your MSDOS (for example). First you have to check if the partition in

Re[2]: [newbie] Favorite references for Redhat/Mandrake

2000-02-29 Thread Lane Lester
steve wrote: In order of "look here first" man Is there a "path" for man pages? My impression is that some pages get installed where man can't find them. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Re: [newbie] mount/make/windoz-files?

2000-02-29 Thread steve . flynn
Emilio, You *CAN* write to a VFAT partitoin from within Linux. That's not usually the problem. The major problem normally seem to be that root can write to VFAT partitions, but other "normal" users can't. It's all down to the manner in which you mount your DOS partitions. You need to

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Favorite references for Redhat/Mandrake

2000-02-29 Thread steve . flynn
There's a place where all man pages should live, but I can't say what it is - I'm at work and have no access. However, I would suspect that installtions which put man pages anywhere other than in this directory are broken! Try 'man man' which will tell you where these pages should live. You

[newbie] Replacing One LILO with Another

2000-02-29 Thread Lane Lester
I replaced Corel Linux with Mandrake 7.0 on my office system. Corel's LILO is still in the MBR, and I'd like to replace it with Mandrake's. However, I need for it to continue to offer Win 98 as a boot option. I presume that Mandrake's LILO provides a menu of choices, as does Corel's. If the

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Re: [newbie] Replacing One LILO with Another

2000-02-29 Thread Kit
If you replaced corel with mandrake...then upon finishing the install...it should of gave you the option installing lilo...thenso it should already have been replaced...but to make sure... boot your new mandrake Linux...and go into drakconfig...and pullup linuxconfig.. .inside that, is a way

[newbie] Boot Error

2000-02-29 Thread Potts, Ross
I get a boot error after configuring the system on a new install. My system is a Compaq Presario 4112 with a P200 for the CPU. It is maxxed out with 72 Megs of memory. It has a 1.6 Gig HDD. Previously I had it configured to boot FreeBSD, but I decided to try MDK 7.0. I went thru the

Re: [newbie] Shutdown Error

2000-02-29 Thread Guillermo Belli
This happens with some chipsets (eg. VIA MVP3) when linux tries to automatically shut the power off. It's not a big issue, so just press the off button after those things appear. On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, you wrote: I am running Mandrake 7.0 and everything works fine until I logout and shutdown.

Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse

2000-02-29 Thread Rial Juan
Try adding the line imwheel -k to your .xinitrc file. Put that line before the other line that's already there. If there's more than one line in it, put it before the last one. On Feb 29 Eunice Thompson wrote: I'd like to have my wheel mouse start when I startx. Usually I've been opening

Re: [newbie] Ram dectection

2000-02-29 Thread Rial Juan
Uhh, sure Steve ment /etc/lilo.conf, right Steve? ;-) On Feb 29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Start linux with either "linux mem=128M" or As root, edit /etc/config and code a line like the following in each stanza: append="mem=128M" Now run /sbin/lilo and next time you

Re: [newbie] Favorite references for Redhat/Mandrake

2000-02-29 Thread Sam
Lane Lester wrote: steve wrote: In order of "look here first" man Is there a "path" for man pages? My impression is that some pages get installed where man can't find them. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Hi Lane, Great question .. lead me to

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Favorite references for Redhat/Mandrake

2000-02-29 Thread flupke
The man pages should be found, but if you want to check where a package (let's say emacs) has installed its documentation files, you can use rpm -qdl emacs and it will list you alle the docs provided with the package. If you see that there is a man page that you can't access just by

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2000-02-29 Thread Don Sell
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Re: [newbie] aureal sound help

2000-02-29 Thread Brent Timmer
Can you play wave files and midi files? For some reason, I can only play mp3s on mine. - Original Message - From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] aureal sound help I just got mine to work yesterday. Here

[newbie] linux books

2000-02-29 Thread Pittman, Merle
Anyone know where you can download some good linux books or docs. Preferably in PDF or PS format. I am mostly interested in Mandrake Linux, but anything would be worth have a look at. Merle Pittman TEL: (709) 724-7598 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Need /usr/bin/expect, where to get?

2000-02-29 Thread dave
I'm trying to install the Multi Router Traffic Grapher (mrtg-2.8.9-2mdk RPM for i586). I don't have this file and haven't a clue what it is or where to get it. Dave PS Any leads to other network activity graphers would also be welcome. I'm mainly interested in graphing eth1's (cable modem) kbps

[newbie] VMWare and Mandrake 7.0 Followup

2000-02-29 Thread Aaron Zuercher
OK, Just a note about my VMWare situation. If you remember from my previous email I had some problems with a version conflict between my C Headers and my booting kernel. What I did was simply goto the CDROM and force a reinstall of the kernel-2.2.14-15mdk.i586.rpm package. This contains all

[newbie] Real easy one.

2000-02-29 Thread Meanie
Ack. I forgot how to get rid of the cute little penguin graphic at login! Anyone remember? -- Meanie

[newbie] Don't send

2000-02-29 Thread Antonio Lino
I don't not why I am in your list. I don't care. Please don't send me more this trash. I really dont care. My inbox is full with your bull-shit. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [newbie] aureal sound help

2000-02-29 Thread Vincent DECOUX
Hello, I do have problems too. Here is a post I sent to some news groups yesterday about it : == Subject : Aureal vortex2 (8830) sound driver for Linux installation Contents : Hello, I have a Dell Dimension PC with a Turtle

Re: [newbie] aureal sound help

2000-02-29 Thread Vincent DECOUX
Hello again Mark, Here is the result of my "make install" : = BEGINNING == mv -f /etc/conf.modules /etc/conf.modules.old gawk -f mod_conf /etc/conf.modules.old /etc/conf.modules echo "alias sound au8830" /etc/conf.modules echo "alias midi au8830" /etc/conf.modules mkdir -p

Re: [newbie] aureal sound help

2000-02-29 Thread Vincent DECOUX
Here, I can't play anything at all ! Brent Timmer wrote: Can you play wave files and midi files? For some reason, I can only play mp3s on mine. - Original Message - From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [newbie]

[newbie] Slow Mandrake 7?

2000-02-29 Thread steve harris
I upgraded my Mandrake 6.0 with 7.0 The system appears to run 10-20x slower. Even the mouse jerks across the screen slower. I have compared the processes running to another existing 6.0 system, but I can't see anything obvious to slow the 7.0 down. I deleted a lot of tasks which are started

Re: [newbie] how to use a winmodem

2000-02-29 Thread Elvis Dieguez
That is not true. Lucent Technology winmodems CAN be made to work under Linux. I have one and I got it to run correctly. Elvis - Original Message - From: John Catral [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 1:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] how to use a

[newbie] Sound volume

2000-02-29 Thread john lin
I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 on my computer without any problem. And I have run sndconfig to setup my (very) old SB16 sound card and it is running nicely. The problem is that every time I log on (either as root or user), the sound volume is always at maximum level and I have to reduce it

Re: [newbie] aureal sound helpI

2000-02-29 Thread Mark
i had that problem till I installed the kernel source. Open uo RPM Drak and search fro kernel. you will find the one you want. it will say source. then let it install all the dependencies it recommends. then run make install and should work like a charm Mark On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you

Re: [newbie] aureal sound help

2000-02-29 Thread Mark
Havent tried, i can play real audio streaming from the web ! that and mp3 is all i need. I got napster working and im ready to go Mark On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote: Can you play wave files and midi files? For some reason, I can only play mp3s on mine. - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] Need /usr/bin/expect, where to get?

2000-02-29 Thread flupke
You'll find it at http://www.tuxfinder.com dave wrote : I'm trying to install the Multi Router Traffic Grapher (mrtg-2.8.9-2mdk RPM for i586). I don't have this file and haven't a clue what it is or where to get it. Dave PS Any leads to other network activity graphers would also be

[newbie] autoboot.bat

2000-02-29 Thread Jbkintree
How does one use this "autoboot.bat" file? The problem described below is what I experienced when trying to upgrade from 6.1 to 7.0 with the $1.95 CD I got from Linux Central. I don't understand how to apply the solution provided below. Autoboot users what: can't load second stage ramdisk,

Re: [newbie] Ram dectection

2000-02-29 Thread Carrefour Esotérique - L'Annuaire de l'Esotérisme
Hi, I tried to put the line append="mem=128M" into my lilo.conf but i've yet an append="hdc=ide-scsi". And 2 appends in the same stanza generate an error message. How can I solve that ? or how can I install the first solution : "linux mem=128M" ?? Thks for your help (I'm really newbie :-))

Re: [newbie] linux books

2000-02-29 Thread Tony
www.emuse.net in docs section on front page - Original Message - From: "Pittman, Merle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 4:19 PM Subject: [newbie] linux books Anyone know where you can download some good linux books or docs. Preferably in PDF or

Re: [newbie] Don't send

2000-02-29 Thread Tony
Then learn to unsubscribe instead of whining like a spoilt child , you are on the list because you chose that option even if you were sleepwalking at the time. - Original Message - From: "Antonio Lino" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 5:38 PM

Re: [newbie] Need /usr/bin/expect, where to get?

2000-02-29 Thread Sam
dave wrote: I'm trying to install the Multi Router Traffic Grapher (mrtg-2.8.9-2mdk RPM for i586). I don't have this file and haven't a clue what it is or where to get it. Dave PS Any leads to other network activity graphers would also be welcome. I'm mainly interested in graphing

Re: [newbie] how to use a winmodem

2000-02-29 Thread Kit
how did you get it to work...? and will a modem with TurboCom ViP dos mode work? it's a BestData VW-PCI 56k modem Elvis Dieguez wrote: That is not true. Lucent Technology winmodems CAN be made to work under Linux. I have one and I got it to run correctly. Elvis - Original Message

[newbie] Permissions problem with X and root

2000-02-29 Thread Anthony Huereca
This isn't really a big problem, but just more on the annoying side. Whenver I log in as a regular user, and then open up an xterm, su to root, and then try to run a GUI application as root, I always get this error: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to

[newbie] network monitoring

2000-02-29 Thread flupke
Hi I want to monitor the trafic and the hosts on my network. So far I understood that I had to work with snmp tools and daemons. The problem is that I can't get things running when just reading the man and howto pages. Can anyone tell me where I can find BASIC informations about snmp and network

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Favorite references for Redhat/Mandrake

2000-02-29 Thread Lane Lester
If you want to work efficiently with rpm, I'd suggest you to read "maximum rpm" available at http://www.rpm.org Thanks! I downloaded the pdf. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux...

Re: [newbie] how to use a winmodem

2000-02-29 Thread Meanie
Elvis Dieguez wrote: That is not true. Lucent Technology winmodems CAN be made to work under Linux. I have one and I got it to run correctly. Elvis What? Who wrote the software? Please post a link to where you downloaded the drivers. - Original Message - From: John Catral

[newbie] Network Support?

2000-02-29 Thread ChOPpY C. Chipper
Hey, Its me again, this time I have a question about Networking using SAMBA: My problem is that my other Windows 98 machine finds this machine, but when i try to connect to it, it says to enter a password, but when I try to set a password in Linux, it says that threre was an error about

Re: [newbie] help

2000-02-29 Thread Audrey Beck
Kit, Doesn't your system have any of it's own serial ports? Not the ones on the card you have your mouse in. Anyway, you don't need a slot. Plug the modem into the extra serial port on the card your mouse is plugged into. However, you'll have to figure out to configure that port to it can

Re: [newbie] Boot Error

2000-02-29 Thread Audrey Beck
You need to install lilo to hda in this case. You need something to boot from. hda1 is the actual partition for /. "Potts, Ross" wrote: I get a boot error after configuring the system on a new install. My system is a Compaq Presario 4112 with a P200 for the CPU. It is maxxed out with 72

RE: [newbie] how to use a winmodem

2000-02-29 Thread Bryan Foster
Check out http://www.linmodems.org for more info. -Original Message- From: Elvis Dieguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 4:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] how to use a winmodem That is not true. Lucent Technology winmodems

Re: [newbie] Permissions problem with X and root

2000-02-29 Thread flupke
It's because the X server doesn't allow another user to connect to it. Type : 'xhost +' (without quotes) in an xterm when still logged as the user that started X. Then you will be able to start GUI applications from another user (root or anybody else, or even from another machine on your

Re: [newbie] how to use a winmodem

2000-02-29 Thread Necrotica
OK...I'll bite. How did you do that? Is there a HOW-TO somewhere on it? -Necro On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Elvis Dieguez wrote: That is not true. Lucent Technology winmodems CAN be made to work under Linux. I have one and I got it to run correctly. Elvis - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] * WINE.CONF Editing ?*

2000-02-29 Thread FredB
Chris, you joined a mailing list. What this means is that ALL messages sent to the list will appear in the mailboxes of ALL members. You can either unsubscribe or sign up for the Digest version which combines several e-mails into one larger e-mail. Fred Buecker From: "Chris" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Shutdown errors.

2000-02-29 Thread FredB
Title: Re: [newbie] Shutdown errors. Did either of you try 7.02? Fred Buecker From: Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:22:02 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Shutdown errors. same problem , same AMD450 since it appears to be OK on

[newbie] Problems with KDE in Mandrake 7.0

2000-02-29 Thread Aaron deRozario
I have recently completed a fresh install of Mandrake 7.0 on my system and fried my old bastardised 6.0/6.1 system. I have noticed a few problems with KDE and am wondering if anyone else has had similar problems. All these problems come from the KDE Control Panel not effecting certain changes I

Re: [newbie] autoboot.bat

2000-02-29 Thread Lane Lester
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one use this "autoboot.bat" file? The problem described below is what I experienced when trying to upgrade from 6.1 to 7.0 with the $1.95 CD I got from Linux Central. Upgrading from 6.1 to 7.0-2 failed for different reasons on two

[newbie] setenv

2000-02-29 Thread Meanie
Ok, I've compiled the MesaGL libs to (hopefully) work with my Voodoo2. The HOWTO says I need to set an environment variable with setenv. The example it gives is: setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH "/usr/local/glide/lib:/Mesa-3.1/lib" Unfortunately, setenv doesn't exist anywhere on my machine. What's up?

[newbie] aureal sound help

2000-02-29 Thread John Dipolito
Thanks for the replys..FLipz has got me in the right direction, found out i didnt have package gcc installed.. not sure what you were talking about with the kernal source. But anyway now I am seeing a little action going on 8) still night right 8( .. when I change to the au88xx-1.0.5 newly

Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse

2000-02-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Eunicehere's how I do it: 1. Start Kedit (pencil pad on the Panel) 2. Type in Kedit: #! /bin/sh 3. Press Enter 4. Type in Kedit: /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel -k 5. Press Enter 6. Save file in Autostart directory exit Kedit 7. Right click your new file in Autostart 8. Choose Properties then

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Windows on the same drive

2000-02-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Pieterfirst off I've installed Mandrake literally 100's of times since version 5.2 and never sen what you are describing. Also, you don't say which version of mandrake you're installing and don't tell just what options you've chosen as you did the installation. But, you should be able to

Re: [newbie] Problems with KDE in Mandrake 7.0

2000-02-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
RickI'm guessing that you're in KDE as root (but are in the user's directory that can't change the desktop options, not in root's directory) and can see the file .kderc in a kfm window. Just right click the file and choose properties - permissions. Change both ownership windows from root to

[newbie] Now I'm Impressed!

2000-02-29 Thread Necrotica
I just have to share this with someone. Ya know, the more I learn about Linux Mandrake the more I love it!! Up until this weekend I ran a dual boot system of Windows 98SE and LM7. I'm an IT professional, and since I need to get certified in it, I decided to blow away my 98 partition and install

RE: [newbie] how to use a winmodem

2000-02-29 Thread Emilio Correa
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[expert] Adding ttf fonts

2000-02-29 Thread Istvan B.
I hev just signed up to this list, although I've been using Mandrake for about 8 months now (RedHat before), so I'm not really sure if this is an already over-discussed issue (I could imagine it to be). I've also sent this message to both expert and newbie, because I haven't receive enough mails