[newbie] USB support?

Does Mandrake 7.0 support USB devices? Kirk vice | versa Translations from French to English, English to French Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn |

[newbie] TV Card

Hi! Does Mandrake 7.0 detect and support the PCI TV/Capture card Flyvideo II ? If so, how can I get it to work? If not, how can I get it to work? Rgds: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack

AW: [newbie] USB support?

According to the manual, not really. USB support in general is still not that good in x86 Linux variants as it is in Windoze. But they are working on it, so chances are great that newer kernel versions will offer better USB support. DJ. Switzerland, Europe. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-

[newbie] Mouse pointer is a white square!!!!

hello all, After the installation of Mandrake 7.0 the mouse pointer is turned to big white square into the X-Windows. it moves all around ok, clics ok, but remains always a white square instead of the arrow pointer. Please help me regards/george

[newbie] lothar and creative SB 128 PCI

Is there annybody who knows how to configure the DB 128 PCI with LOTHAR. I try but I didn't find a way to make that soundcard working

Re: AW: [newbie] USB support?

On 23/03/00 10:19, Drazenko Djuricic [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: According to the manual, not really. USB support in general is still not that good in x86 Linux variants as it is in Windoze. But they are working on it, so chances are great that newer kernel versions will offer

Re: [newbie] IP CHAINS/FOWARDING/MASQ'ing

There is a HOWTO for this. The ipchains quick start tutorial or something like that. Have a look in the Linux Documentaion project. And yes it is an option in the kernel but it is enabled by default in the newer kernels. Good luck. Kingpin. On 22 Mar 00, at 22:49, Jaguar said, I'd rather be

[newbie] Printing

Yello Folks! I am trying to setup printing from 2 Mandrake 7.0 machines to my Windows95OSR2 Server which has a HP695C attached.. This previously worked fine with Mandrake 6.1. On both Mandrake Machines when I set them up they print once and once only (the test print). Afterwards when I try and

AW: [newbie] lothar and creative SB 128 PCI

Hello, I have a Creative Labs SB 128 PCI, too. I made it work with the "sndconfig" tool. DJ. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Emanuele La Rosa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 23. März 2000 11:16 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [newbie] lothar and creative SB

AW: AW: [newbie] USB support?

Well, you might want to try using another Distro. I personally and from a professional point of view like SuSE Linux very much. At work we use their distros on several machines (Mail, DNS, etc.). The advantage of SuSE (current release: SuSE Linux 6.3, SuSE Linux 6.4 is to be released real soon)

RE: [newbie] Install

If you think you install linux on Win98 you are in for a little learning curve :) First you have to make a new partition on your drive (or another drive if you have it). If you don't want to lose your win98 stuff, resize your current partition with partition magic or something of the sort. The

[newbie] Installation problems on laptop

Hi. I’m having some problems installing Mandrake Linux 7.0 on my Texas Instruments laptop and I’d appreciate some help. I realise that laptops can be very problematic, but it’s all I have at the moment, so I would like to install linux on it if possible. I’ll explain the history of my problems

Re: [newbie] Install

If I may add to that, when you use the Lnx4Win to install on any Windows system you are not installing on a partitioned area. It is piggy backed on the Windows and if you have a crash on Windows and have to reinstallguess what? Right, Linux will need to be reinstalled as well. Plus that

[newbie] cant install

Hello All. subj. in second stage install - -X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can`t connect: errno=111 -X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can`t connect: errno=111 data/time skipGtk-warning **: cannot open display: :0 at /usr/bin/perl-install/my.gtk.pm line 139 Install exit abnormally. how fix this trouble?

[newbie] cant install

Hello All. subj. Mandrake 7.0.2 (Air) in second stage install - -X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can`t connect: errno=111 -X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can`t connect: errno=111 data/time skipGtk-warning **: cannot open display: :0 at /usr/bin/perl-install/my.gtk.pm line 139 Install exit abnormally.

[newbie] Oops! Destroy my X server

Hello all: I was trying to run the linux quake 2 and I accidently messed up my X server. Now I can not enter the X windows environmentr. I have tried to run XF86config and Xconfigurator in text mode as a root, but it does not solve my problem. When I test the setup in Xconfigurator, the message

[newbie]

I'm looking to buy a new vid card, and was wondering if anyone has an ATI Expert 98? It is supposedly supported by Mandrake 7.0, but I was just wondering if anyone has had any problems. thanks, bryan __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

AW: [newbie]

Hello, I myself use ATI cards in many of my Linux installations, amongst them also is a ATI Xpert@Work 98. ATI Cards work very well with Linux, really. To make X-Windows work, choose "ATI Mach64" as X-Server. This should work for almost all ATI cards that have a ATI Rage or Rage Pro chip. DJ.

[newbie] FYI - ref site

Hi, I haven't done much than browse through, but there is a site www.setuplinux.com that has a lot of startup info and is always being updated. Its geared towards users coming to Linux from Windows. cheers, philomena

[newbie] I wanna change kernels.

Hello All, I have the -1linus kernel installed and I want to change to the -15mdk kernel, how do I do this? I'm trying to get 7.0 to recognize my Xserver driver module thingy, and my CDROM. Both worked in 6.1. Vern

[newbie] Problem with Lothar

I recently installed the mandrake linux powerpack. I then ran lothar and it recognized a lot of my hardware but not my ethernet card or my soundcard. I then clicked on the bar that says run configuration tool. when i did this, nothing happened. what do I do? can someone help me? alan

Re: [newbie] Printing

Mike Perry wrote: Yello Folks! I am trying to setup printing from 2 Mandrake 7.0 machines to my Windows95OSR2 Server which has a HP695C attached.. This previously worked fine with Mandrake 6.1. On both Mandrake Machines when I set them up they print once and once only (the test print).

Re: [newbie]

-Original Message- From: bryan pryor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 23, 2000 8:15 PM Subject: [newbie] I'm looking to buy a new vid card, and was wondering if anyone has an ATI Expert 98? It is supposedly supported by Mandrake 7.0, but

Re: [newbie] Mouse pointer is a white square!!!!

-Original Message- From: Giorgios Ntouvelos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 23, 2000 3:41 PM Subject: [newbie] Mouse pointer is a white square hello all, After the installation of Mandrake 7.0 the mouse pointer is turned to big

RE: [newbie] Problem with Lothar

well start by telling what network card you have... the chipset might not be supported... and the same for your soundcard Robert

Re: [newbie] LiNuX kPPP Help!

In the kppp set-up see if you have 57600 set as the speed. If so change this to 115,000.I was having the same problem and this fixed it. "ChOPpY C. Chipper" wrote: OK, This is the same problem a lot of people have! I CAN'T CONNECT TO MY ISPL Whenever I connect, it IMMEDIATlEY says that

Re: [newbie] Mouse pointer is a white square!!!!

i have the same problem and my is a s3 trio 3d/2x. so whats yrs? Didier wrote: -Original Message- From: Giorgios Ntouvelos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 23, 2000 3:41 PM Subject: [newbie] Mouse pointer is a white square hello

[newbie] Modem almost connects -- SOLUTION!!!

Dear friends: Below is a solution to a problem that can drive newbies up the wall and straight into a mental asylum. It is completely unnecessary and, in my opinion, should be automatically included into Mandrake's routines. I use the U. S. Robotics 56k external modem, which, according to our

[newbie] KPPP Authentification

Dear friends: See my previous message and solution. Forgot to add: After adding "noauth" (without quotes) to /etc/ppp/options, be sure, if necessary, to REBOOT. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net

Re: [newbie] help can't get mandrake to start install

Chris Smolen wrote: Every time I try to install mandrake it gets to the screen where "initializing CD-ROM is flashing then at the bottom of the screen it says something about second part of install then that is where it hangs. hi chris i had the same problem with mdk7.2 and the problem seems

Re: [newbie] Mouse pointer is a white square!!!!

Giorgios Ntouvelos wrote: hello all, After the installation of Mandrake 7.0 the mouse pointer is turned to big white square into the X-Windows. it moves all around ok, clics ok, but remains always a white square instead of the arrow pointer. Please help me regards/george hi Im no

Re: [newbie] Printing

"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Which driver did you select? I have the HP 890C and ended up using the 550cUP driver. One word of caution, do not change the default printer (spooler ?) name ( ie. lp to lp1 ) because when I tried to print from Nutscrape it came back with an error that it

[newbie] Starting X Stuff

I'm using "plan" for scheduling appointments, and it has a daemon that will report alarms even when the main program is not running. The directions say to put the daemon command in ~/.xsession, but that doesn't seem to work. Is there some other file that would be appropriate for starting this

RE: [newbie] Mouse pointer is a white square!!!!

I got this from Denis. Give this a try: 1) in /etc/inittab set initail runlevel to 3 and reboot 2) in /etc/X11/XF86Config, search for "Device" section, and add "Option sw_cursor" (see "man XF86_SVGA" for details) 3) test by typing "startx" 4) if/when happy set initial runlevel back to 5 If

[newbie] vlan, vpn, tpd, etc? Info please

Hi: Was wondering if anyone had any info on 1. vlan support, 2. virtual privet network support, 3. ip tunneling protocol support, and ect. for linux. Herman R. Willett

[newbie] LS 120 HDD

Hi, i have a Superdisk LS 120 HDD on my PC only (I have no 1.4 Mb Floppy). Linux had recognised it, but i can not use it!! :((. The icon an the KDE is probably for a 1,4 Mb Floppy. I had the same problem under Windows. But i deactivate the standard-floppy-controller and it was all ok.

Re: [newbie] FTP andf Telnet

hi look in your inetd.conf, is located on /etc and make sure that telnet stream tcp blabla is not commented out. exemple: # These are standard services. # ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd #

Re: [newbie]

ati is a good card u wont have anyproblems with it... is canadian made eh!!! lol - Original Message - From: "bryan pryor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 9:14 AM Subject: [newbie] I'm looking to buy a new vid card, and was wondering if anyone has

Re: [newbie] FYI - ref site

Checking out this website and it appears to be one of the BEST peices of info we have received from this Newby group. I want to thank you for this website, should have had this at the begining of my expedition or soon after starting. Between this and the book of commands, they are both very

Re: [newbie] Problem with Lothar

I have NEVER had Lothar do anything for me. I go to a terminal 'Konsol' or 'Xterm' then do 'su'/w password then 'sndconfig' for configuring my sound card (PCI). The 'Run Config Tool' is just for show, to show you your mouse is working or not. don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But

[newbie] Soyo mother

Somebody works with Soyo mother I am trying to instal, this mother is a fucking mother __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [newbie] FYI - ref site

You are most welcome - I will pass along the kudos to the person who authors the website - I received the reference from a Suse list. cheers, philomena At 03:50 PM 3/23/00 -0600, you wrote: Checking out this website and it appears to be one of the BEST peices of info we have received from

Re: [newbie] linux ref book

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did it by : linuxref-book1.rar linuxref-book1.r00 linuxref-book1.r01 linuxref-book1.r02 linuxref-book1.r03 linuxref-book1.r04 Then ran Winrar on those files. don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought

[newbie] Let me reword this

I just bought a scanner, I am trying to use Xsane to scam images Both sane and xsane tell me they cant find the device. What do I have to do so that sane can locate my scanner? I am running Mandrake 7 and my scanner is a Umax astra 610s TIA Hugh

Re: [newbie] LiNuX kPPP Help!

Where Do I put the "noauth" line? I don't think it works... -Julien - Original Message - From: Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] LiNuX kPPP Help! in setup screen for kppp under options try noauth it is

[newbie] Hi...

I am going to download star office from www.sun.com it said choose a platform so I chose "Linux(x86 ONLY)" what is an x86, but the main question I want to know is can i download it?, How do I install it?, How do I run it? or How do I configre it?...please answer me...

Re: [newbie] KPPP Authentification

hey, what did ur previous msg say? as u mentioned in ur last e-mail? Thanks, Julien - Original Message - From: Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Air-New [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 7:25 AM Subject: [newbie] KPPP Authentification Dear friends: See my

[newbie] Mouse Scrolling?

Hey, this is a rather simple problem: How do u set it so that the "scrolly thing" in the middle of the mouse acctually works? I never set it up in Windows, so I have no idea where to begin Thanks so much, Julien

Re: [newbie] Hi...

x86 is short for the intel 86 platform like 386 486 586 and 686 so instead of writning linux for intel 386 through 786 they just right x86 srta like win blows and isntead of writing windows 95 and windows 98 they write win9x. On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, you wrote: I am going to download star

[newbie] wine errors

i am trying to run wine but whenever i start it i get the errors invalid path c:\windows\Profile\Administrator\ for profile directory and can't load win95 user-registery c:\windows\Profile\Adminstrator\user.dat check wine.conf section, {wine},value Profile why won't this run and what profile

[newbie] OK, KPPP connect, but Now What?

Hey, I added noauth to the options file in the kppp dir. Now in the log file, it simply stops at: CONNECT XX. and says nothing more, LiNuX appears to connect. The KPPP dialer minimizes and under details says that it has transfered like 250 bytes. Then, when I go into Netscape,

Re: [newbie] Hi...

_-+Richard Kim=-_ wrote: I am going to download star office from www.sun.com it said choose a platform so I chose "Linux(x86 ONLY)" what is an x86, but the main question I want to know is can i download it?, How do I install it?, How do I run it? or How do I configre it?...please answer

Re: [newbie] Applixware

"Mike" == Mike Tracy Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike If you don't mind downloading large files, try the demo of Mike Applixware (did you already say you did?) I tried it and Mike wasn't very impressed. However I have found that Corel Mike WordPerfect 8 is pretty decent,

Re: [newbie] LiNuX kPPP Help!

Dear Julien: Use a text editor and open /etc/ppp/options You'll probably find "lock" at the top. Just add "noauth" right below. Like this: lock noauth Don't forget to save and reboot, if necessary. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web

Re: [newbie] Mouse Scrolling?

Dear Julien: I don't think the scrolling middle bar works in Linux. At least not yet. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net

Re: [newbie] wine errors

i am trying to run wine but whenever i start it i get the errors invalid path c:\windows\Profile\Administrator\ for profile directory and can't load win95 user-registery c:\windows\Profile\Adminstrator\user.dat check wine.conf section, {wine},value Profile why won't this run and what

Re: [newbie] Star Office

x86 is a type of processor, specifically Intel-compatible (also include AMD). You have one, so don't worry about it. Yes, you can download it. It comes in a .tar.gz file if I remember correctly. Then type "tar -xvzf the_tarred_file.tar.gz" and it'll create a new directory for you. Go into that

Re: [newbie] Mouse Scrolling?

First make sure imwheel is on your computer, by typing "rpm -q imwheel" and seeing if something comes up. If you do have it, scrolling for the most part should work. Also make sure that you don't have "Emulate three buttons" on. To see if you do, as root type "setup" and select the mouse

[newbie] Icons on the start of Mandrake 7.0

Look, I don know why when my Mandrake 7.0 starts the X section, it prompts to me two icons of penguins... The root icon and the icon of a girl. But I am male... :o( What can I do to change the icon to a male penguin? Please, explain me step by step... If someone may help me I got thankfull

Re: [newbie] OK, KPPP connect, but Now What?

Dear Julien: Yes, you absolutely must get the DNS numbers: Primary and Secondary. First type the first number, then click on Add, then the second number and click on Add. You'll see both numbers in the box below. then check on "Disable all other DNS servers" at the bottom of the screen. I am

Re: [Re: [newbie] Applixware]

Michael Scottaline wrote: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Big Snip p.s. yes, Star Office is nice in some ways, but I agree that it's annoying features make it less desirable than some of the other options out there. === Since the rap against it

Re: [newbie] Mouse Scrolling?

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, you wrote: Hey, this is a rather simple problem: How do u set it so that the "scrolly thing" in the middle of the mouse acctually works? I never set it up in Windows, so I have no idea where to begin Thanks so much, Julien

Re: [newbie] OK, KPPP connect, but Now What?

Dear Julien: The winsock.dll problem refers to Windows. I don't know what the Linux equivalent is. But you need to ask someone on our list for help on this incompatibility problem. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net

[newbie] Trying to load Linux

I have a Cryix P150+, trident video card, 16x CD-Rom 24meg Ram 1.2 gig HD Linux-Mandrake locks up evry time at glibc-2.1.1-19mkd and I can't get to load any farther Any ideas?KC9TV Jonesy

[newbie] Problems with PPP Setup.

I am using Mandrake 6 and trying to setup ppp to dial-up my ISP. I tried using the Kppp client, netcfg and the script method but none of then worked. I do not know what I am doing wrong. When I use Kppp and try to connect I get the message "modem is busy".With netcfg it just does not work and

Re: AW: [newbie] USB support?

So far it recognizes my USB Logitech Trackball, which is super! I haven't tried anything else yet. - Original Message - From: "Kirk McElhearn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 2:20 AM Subject: Re: AW: [newbie] USB support? On 23/03/00 10:19,

Re: [newbie] Mouse Scrolling?

Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Julien: I don't think the scrolling middle bar works in Linux. At least not yet. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net You can use a program called 'imwheel' to use the scroll but I think it's only

[newbie] Unable to access cdrom or floppy

When I try to access the cdrom or floppy from either command line or desktop, I get an error such as : /mnt/floppy: Input/output error (same goes for cdrom). They both show as mounted and are in the fstab, but I'm at a loss. Any Ideas?? Thanks... _ Peter H.

Re: [newbie] Icons on the start of Mandrake 7.0

not sure if this will help but try adding another user witha diferent nic other then your first name i have three total users on mine root male with top hat magick male and pinkpanther female magick is the nick but obviously not my first name you can try it no guarntees though On Thu, 23

[newbie] Mandrake 7.0 unable to install ethernet card

Has anyone been able to install Mandrake 7.0 and have it recongize their ethernet card!? I've installed on two completely different systems with only the ethernet card failing to be installed on both. However, the Drakeconfig software was able to recognize all the hardware. I have yet to meet

Re: [newbie] LS 120 HDD

I'm kinda in the same boat as your are, if find out how to activate the drive please let me know. Thanks Paul G - Original Message - From: Eduard Grün To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 11:03 AM Subject: [newbie] LS 120 HDD Hi, i

Re: [newbie] LiNuX kPPP Help!

"ChOPpY C. Chipper" wrote: JulienPut it in '/etc/ppp/options' using a text editor (as root). The only other option in there will be 'lock'. Put 'noauth' wherever you like. Alan Where Do I put the "noauth" line? I don't think it works... -Julien - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] Star Office

Anthony Huereca wrote: x86 is a type of processor, specifically Intel-compatible (also include AMD). You have one, so don't worry about it. Yes, you can download it. It comes in a .tar.gz file if I remember correctly. Then type "tar -xvzf the_tarred_file.tar.gz" and it'll create a new

[newbie] Mac format zip disk

I got the modprobe hfs to load, now I just need to know the command to format it, I tried mkfs.hfs and mkfs -t hfs /dev/sda4 but that was bogus. -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web.