Re: [[newbie] Sound and Modem problems]

2000-03-04 Thread Michael Scottaline
Matthew Loschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Rockwell 56k faxmodem on com1 and irq3 and my sound card is a Riptide PCI Audio Legacy and I have the info on that to. I can't seem to get linux 6.5 to find them. Why, it always returns an error saying that the device is busy. How do I

Re: [[newbie] Hurrah...]

2000-03-04 Thread Michael Scottaline
root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FINALLYsuccess at last...I am NOW sending this message...using linux 7.02 and my external modem... thankyou...everyone...especially Audrey for your help...now I have to install LICQ and bluefish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kit ===

Re: [newbie] Loosing ones partitions

2000-03-04 Thread Tony
Well??? fdisk will not see everything, and some weird things appear sometimes like partitions that seem to be mirages etc. try a program called Ranish Partition Manager which is fairly comprehensive BUT read the manuals first! - Original Message - From: "condeuser" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [newbie] Hurrah...

2000-03-04 Thread dave
Can anyone help me with setting up my Apache...on a DNS host for dynamic IP hosting...such as www.myip.org.? and I need help with setting up the FTP server...also. I haven't done FTP yet but for HTTP just go into DrakConf networking server Apache defaults (something like that) and use

Re: [newbie] Newbie Kills Mandrake

2000-03-04 Thread Lane Lester
Look at my page for links to the rescue floopy how-to: http://www.wcc.net/~peacemkr/linuxindex.html#newbie Warning not IE friendly! Why would anyone care? Or is there now an IE for Linux? g -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [newbie] Word Perfect 8 for Linux install problem

2000-03-04 Thread Lane Lester
Michelle said: I downloaded Word Perfect yesterday. It unpacked normally. When I tried to run the file called 'Runme' it said there was nothing to do. I ended up doing a manual install (running install.wp). I thought it installed everything ok, but the file xwp was not installed. I

Re: [newbie] My Mandrake's Broken! sob

2000-03-04 Thread Lane Lester
It's very difficult to help you, if you don't even know what did you do that resulted in yours being stuck. I would suggest you to reinstall everyhing from scratch and that upon installation you define four different partitions, in that order: /, /swap, /usr/local/, /opt, /home, so that in

RE: [newbie] UNSUBSCRIBE

2000-03-04 Thread Vito Javier Bessone
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Re: [[newbie] Sound and Modem problems]

2000-03-04 Thread RRPotratz
I have that combination on a HP at work and the modem is a winmodem and the sound card is piggybacked on to it. Will probably not work under linux but 1) I haven't tried too hard and 2) I'd like someone to prove me wrong On Wed, 09 Apr 2036, you wrote: Matthew Loschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Re-invoke DrakX, how?

2000-03-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
run RPMDrak and just install the packages. or start the instal process and pick upgrade insteal of new install Mark -- Original Message -- From: Mandrake Magtwo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 16:16:16 -0800

[newbie] Modem and sound problems

2000-03-04 Thread Bill Kinsey
To the linux gurus: I installed mandrake and was able to create the 20mb boot partition below the 1024 cylander ( thanks Michael Scottaline for the advice) but I have problems onceMDK gets started. I get error messages when I run sndconfig and kppp. Kppp tells me that my aztec pnp modem on

[newbie] wheel mouse

2000-03-04 Thread Claus Atzenbeck
Is there any way to use my wheel on my mouse? (It is a Fujitsu wheel mouse). Thanks for your hit! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de General notions are generally wrong. -- Lady M.W. Montagu

[newbie] SCSI devices not recognized

2000-03-04 Thread Claus Atzenbeck
I am using Madrake 7.0 and it is working well. I have a SCSI CD-ROM writer and a SCSI ZIP drive. Mandrake used to recognize the CD writer correctly. I was using kernel vmlinuz-2.2.14-1mdklinus. I was able to mount CDs on /dev/scd0. With kernel vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk mounting CDs on SCSI was not

[newbie] Lnx4win partition resize, how?

2000-03-04 Thread Mandrake Magtwo
I use lnx4win (Mandrake 7.0.2) and it works great. However I did not specify enough space when I first installed it, so I cannot add any more packages. How do I resize the lnx4win loopback device in a way that won't destroy what I already have on it? Thanks!

Re: [Re: [newbie] son of bitch virus spreader]

2000-03-04 Thread Jaguar
According to the virus description someone already posted...the virus sends it's self using the infected persons address book...so it is unlikely this person knew he was infected...and the virus posted its self to the list...and many of his address book contacts. At least he warned the mail list

Warning not IE friendly! was Re: [newbie] Newbie Kills Mandrake

2000-03-04 Thread Sam
True Lane, But I say that to warn doz users before they get there .. sort of a "I told you so" kinda thing. Can't convert them as ezly, if the 1st thing you do is pi** them off. Course if their OS of choise hadn't already done that they wouldn't be trying to access the page now

Re: [newbie] Hurrah...

2000-03-04 Thread kit
okay...exactlyhow can I do this...and does anyone know of a DNS updater...client for linux...that's a RPM file...can't figure out tars yet... dave wrote: Can anyone help me with setting up my Apache...on a DNS host for dynamic IP hosting...such as www.myip.org.? and I need help with

Re: [Re: [newbie] son of bitch virus spreader]

2000-03-04 Thread Michael
Do you know where your CD ROM is located? D? E? or wherever maybe?you have to decide when you create linux boot up disk. It depends on your partition. - Original Message - From: Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 5:16 AM Subject: Re: [Re:

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2000-03-04 Thread wydgett
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[newbie] keymap

2000-03-04 Thread Bernhard Aichinger
hi, i installed my mandrake 6.1 in english and used the de-latin1 keymap. but now i whant an the de-latin1 keymap all the time, in kde, in konsole,... i changed the keymap with the program setup and i added a keybord map in the kde control center. from this time on i was able to use de

Re: [newbie] wheel mouse

2000-03-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Claus/usr/doc/imwheel-0.9.6/ Alan Claus Atzenbeck wrote: Is there any way to use my wheel on my mouse? (It is a Fujitsu wheel mouse). Thanks for your hit! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de General notions are generally wrong.

Re: [newbie] General Help: Mounting devices Modem Trouble

2000-03-04 Thread Piero Caracciolo
At 20:07 03/03/00 -0800, you wrote: Hello! I recently installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 (Deluxe) on my PII 300. The installation went smoothly. I configured the partitions, printer, modem, and dialup connection. The problems begin when I boot into Linux. The KDE loads fine, and all the programs

Re: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines

2000-03-04 Thread Piero Caracciolo
At 18:04 03/03/00 -0800, you wrote: Yes, Alan, supermount works also with my cdroms. But did you find any dox about it? Pieroyep, same here with the ls-120. But my zip 100, my cdrom, and my two floppys (1.44 1.2) all work just fine with supermount. Alan Piero Caracciolo wrote: I'm

Re: [newbie] Word Perfect 8 for Linux install problem

2000-03-04 Thread Michelle Schneider
On Sat, 04 Mar 2000, Lane Lester wrote: Michelle said: I downloaded Word Perfect yesterday. It unpacked normally. When I tried to run the file called 'Runme' it said there was nothing to do. I ended up doing a manual install (running install.wp). I thought it installed everything ok,

Re: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines

2000-03-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Pierosure. There's the good old 'supermount --help' and the standard 'man supermount' (/usr/man/man8/supermount.8.bz2). Alan Piero Caracciolo wrote: At 18:04 03/03/00 -0800, you wrote: Yes, Alan, supermount works also with my cdroms. But did you find any dox about it?

Re: [[newbie] Modem and sound problems]

2000-03-04 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Bill Kinsey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative - To the linux gurus: I installed mandrake and was able to create the 20mb boot partition below

Re: [newbie] KDE's buttons and shourtcuts dont work...

2000-03-04 Thread Eugene C. Zesch
"Pittman, Merle" wrote: Probably wiped out/messed up the ".kde" directory in your $home directory. -Original Message- From: R.Ilker Gokhan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 12:20 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] KDE's buttons and

RE: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines

2000-03-04 Thread William Webb
Yes, I did put a space after "cd" Also, I am going to buy a new modem to use while under linux. Are ISA modems the best way to go? Also, Best Buy said they had some between 39 and 49 dollars. Are they any good? What would your recommendations be on that? I appreciate all the help!, William

RE: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines

2000-03-04 Thread bluebottle
On Sun, 05 Mar 2000, you wrote: Yes, I did put a space after "cd" Also, I am going to buy a new modem to use while under linux. Are ISA modems the best way to go? Also, Best Buy said they had some between 39 and 49 dollars. Are they any good? What would your recommendations be on that?

[newbie] new to Mandrake 7.0

2000-03-04 Thread CMi1255179
Hello. I was able to divide up my hard drive and install Mandrake 7.0 and have it share some space with Windows '95...but I have some questions. 1. I am new to Linux, and have used Windows for about two years...what is the best way to go about and learn Linux? I bought the O'Reily

Re: [newbie] Hurrah...

2000-03-04 Thread dave
Can anyone help me with setting up my Apache...on a DNS host for dynamic IP hosting...such as www.myip.org.? and I need help with setting up the FTP server...also. I haven't done FTP yet but for HTTP just go into DrakConf networking server Apache defaults (something like that)

[newbie] Problem Mounting Floppies

2000-03-04 Thread Dale Morris
When I try to mount floppies I made with Redhat 6.1, I get an error message, "could not list directory contents, file/mnt/floppy.." what do I need to do to -- "So many idiots.. get this working correctly. I'm amazed that I can't mount a ext2 floppy. I so few comets.." edited the fstab as follows:

[newbie] Starting X Programs at Startup

2000-03-04 Thread Lane Lester
Well, I read some, but I evidently didn't read enough. I want xscreensaver to be run at boot time, and I created an .xinitrc in my home directory with the following contents: #!/bin/sh xscreensaver ..but it didn't work. Is there something somewhere that needs to tell .xinitrc to do its

[newbie] re: Netscape toolbar color

2000-03-04 Thread Dale Morris
I changed my color depth to 32bit and that brought back the color on the netscape toolbar. Thanks for the help :) --dale "So many idiots.. so few comets.." H Henry

Re: [newbie] new to Mandrake 7.0

2000-03-04 Thread Lane Lester
2. Also trying to get my Epson 600 printer and Iomega 250 zip drive to work.. When I installed an Epson Stylus 800, I selected the "Epson Color" entry, and that works fine. I don't know the differences between the 600 and the 800. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

[newbie]

2000-03-04 Thread Karekin Madteos
Can anyone help? I can't get MDK to recognize my Sound Blaster card. It gives me the error message "Device or resource busy" during boot and if I try to use insmod. sb.o appears to be laoded as a module along with sound.o, soundlow.o and soundcore.o HELP!!

Re: [newbie] drivers

2000-03-04 Thread Michael
Does anyone know how to set up module options? base IO Port, irq level, and miscellaneous options?

[newbie] Problem with mouse

2000-03-04 Thread Stefanos Fotiou
Hi all I am a newbie newbie to linux and I faces some problem with my mouse. I have a MS intelimouse. Any time I start a Linux XWindows session my mouse is not working. If I logout and login again then my mouse works perfect. In addition any time I run the Lothar programme my mouse stops to

Re: [newbie] new to Mandrake 7.0

2000-03-04 Thread bluebottle
On Sat, 04 Mar 2000, you wrote: 2. Also trying to get my Epson 600 printer and Iomega 250 zip drive to work...went to their sites and didn't see like a Linux driver for them...I though that is probably what they would need...am I right here? I use an Epson Stylus Colour 440 - it's set as

Re: [newbie] new to Mandrake 7.0

2000-03-04 Thread CMi1255179
In a message dated 03/04/2000 6:01:54 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you run printtool? If not run it at the command prompt. Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net How do I run that? 'Smash Yr. Head On The Punk Rock' -Chris

Re: [newbie] Help!!!!!!! Graphic problem

2000-03-04 Thread kit
Have you treid v 7.02 yet...it should set things up better for you. Audrey Beck wrote: Do you know what chipset your card uses? Have you tried picking at least the SVGA driver? Do you know the refresh rates for your monitor? Edwin Chua wrote: Hi guys, Had given up on linux almost

RE: [newbie] test, ignore

2000-03-04 Thread Robert Austera
Couldn't resist Denis, but "a girl took (or is it picked)strawberries"? Robert Austera Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 -Original Message- From: Denis Havlik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 11:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] test, ignore djevojcica brala

Re: [newbie] Networking troubles...

2000-03-04 Thread KokWay Heng ¹úΰ
You could use linuxconf, for TCP/TP configuration. Are you mean show up the Linux box on the Windows Network Neighbourhood? If so, then you need Samba for Windows Networkin'. Regards, Way What software components or config changes need to be made for a linux machine to show up on a

[newbie] Supermount patch

2000-03-04 Thread John Couturier
Hello, To get my USB Camera working I had to move to the stock 2.2.14 kernel. I then applied the usb back-port patch from Suse. All works but I can't get supermount back. There is a supermount patch for Suse 6.3 but it is for a 2.2.13 kernel and it messes up 2.2.14. I'm wondering if

[newbie] Cd-rom trouble upon install

2000-03-04 Thread Trevor Stewart
Hi, I'm rather new to linux (all I have done is used other systems, and installed it on a few computers). I have an old 486 box kicking around and I want to install Mandrake 6.0 on it (I've installed it no problem before, just not on this box). The trouble is when I try to install it, the

Re: [newbie] new to Mandrake 7.0

2000-03-04 Thread Audrey Beck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 03/04/2000 6:01:54 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you run printtool? If not run it at the command prompt. Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net How do I run that? Open an Xterm in KDE and

[newbie] Installation difficulties

2000-03-04 Thread Ratsnake
OK, after admitting that I was quite proficient at installing Red Hat Linux, and after becoming very disilussioned with Red Hat (i.e., the Linux version of Microsoft), I purchased the Mandrake distribution v. 7.0. Now, my hard disk has already been partitioned into 4 separate compartments, as I

[newbie] Sorry to see you go

2000-03-04 Thread Eunice Thompson
Steve, Hi, I was catching up on my mail and I saw your post, stating that it would be your last. I hope this will reach you. I don't know about the rest of the newbies, but I for one will miss your posts. You were extremely helpful, always well informed, and yes even pretty patient. You've