[newbie] Printer fonts

I am looking for a way to set the fonts in the KDE mail client. An "Apperance Tab" is indicated. Haven't locaated that. Also looking for the location of "GZIP'. Want to bring down a later addition of Netscape or another browser. Thanks

Re: [newbie] pppd dhclient

Hi, Try adding "defaultroute" to kppp to make the ppp connection the default route to the ISP's gateway. You should be able to have ppp0 and eth0 up at the same time and each will have a different IP address. ppp will use the ISP assigned IP address and eth0 should be set to a private IP

[newbie] Apache modules

How can I see which modules do I have installed with Mandrake 7.0? (I choose developer installation but I have Apache installed anyway) Thanks for all your support guys.

Re: [newbie] When will Mandrake 7.1 be out? Any clues?

"Chen, PeterX" wrote: Peter 7.0 seemed to come out VERY fast after releasing the Beta.. It seemed like a week or 2.. You probably want to wait for 7.12 to come out... :-) MarkP

Re: [newbie] What's Mandrake 7.0 like?

Betcha 7.1 comes out before W** ME :-) Maybe L-M Ver 8 will be out first :-) MarKP >Joe Fernandez wrote: Wow, thanks all for the responses..greatly appreciated.As suggested by some of you to wait till 7.1 is out that might be a long wait.

Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?

My Matrox G400 works fine... I suggest getting a separate TV Card if you want TV Any suggestions for a good TV Card(cheap)?? MarkP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a good video card with video-out jacks (don't really need PC TV). I have been longing for a Diamond Viper 550

Re: [newbie] User name Password

Spend $2 and get Ver 7... 20 Min or so of work and you will be happy! MarkP Craig R Bathurst wrote: I installed mandrake 6.0 and I forgot my user name password. Is there a way to find the above or do I have to reinstall the OS? Craig "Those who do not learn from History, are doomed

Re: [newbie] I have problems with netscape, when the page contain java

At 04:06 PM 5/2/00 -0500, you wrote: Anyone know how to resolve this, when i enter in a chat with java, this stop.

Re: [newbie] Disk drives

John McCrudden wrote: Is there any way to change the name of a DOS_hda1 drive to something easyer? And where can i get Linux Games like Quake on the net? Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at

Re: [newbie] Multiple Netscape

Gustavo Halperin wrote: When I open too many windows of Netscape , I mean 6,7 or more, Linux is dead. Why is hapend and what I can do. I have Pentium II, 233 mhz with 96 mb. And I use the Mandrake 7.0 Thanks Netscape s**ks... MarkP

Re: [newbie] modem/internet/connection/cdrom2

Wadewhen you decided that your modem was on com2 and therefore changed the configuration to ttys1, did you disable the motherboard com2 in the system bios? Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am still without a connection to the internet. I am starting to wonder if I perhaps

[newbie] how to put GLIB in path so it can be found ?

I am trying to install sane and after I have ./configure of glib1.2.6 and make and make install I get difficulties with gtk+1.2.6 not able to find glib 1.2.6. ie checking for glib-config... no checking for GLIB - version = 1.2.4... no *** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be

Re: [newbie] cd player (was: modems)

On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: On Tue, 2 May 2000, gerald green wrote: the cd player on linux will not play Neither does mine. The cdrom works and the cd player interface appears, even recognising the number of tracks and their time lengths but I get no sound. Strange as my system sound

[newbie] No sound for Desktop!

I have installed Mandrake 7.0 as a dual boot with Windows 98. The only problem I am having is that I get sound ok for my cds but I cannot get any sounds for my desktop! I am using a sound card that I got with my Packard Bell Platinum 4400.

Re: [newbie] CD's + burner for audio

Paul wrote: On Tue, 2 May 2000, KompuKit wrote: is thereor is there not...a application/program in mandrake...for creating/copying CD's using a CD-R or CD-RW ROM DRIVE? If so, what's it called...and where is it on the CD? On the distro there are files called CDRECORD... and

Re: [newbie] CD-player kscd versus Kfind

Alan Shoemaker wrote: Mogensjust a guess here. The problem you describe sounds like an artifact of supermount. Try disabling it. Alan Mogens Jæger wrote: Hello Does anyone know how to tell Kfind, to searche all partitions, but not my CD-rom drive - it's pretty anoying to

[newbie] Trying to hd install LM7.0-2 air and keep getting error

I have been trying to hd install drake but when it gets to stage 2 ramdisk ::: Loading second stage ramdisk ... install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 9 sending termination signals... done sending kill signals... done unmounting filesystem /tmp/hdimage/proc you may safely reboot your

Re: [newbie] Antivir: libz... libgz...

Paul I have installed antivir from cd and it works fine. Could it just be the copy you have? If you think so I will be glad to send you a copy of mine Hugh On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: Hi everyone, me again. Sometimes you teach, sometimes you learn. For installing an antivirus

Re: [newbie] Antivir: libz... libgz...

i never thought i would see the need for a linux anti virii...i know mcafee has one for linux also...http://www.mcafee.com - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 1:50 PM Subject: [newbie] Antivir: libz... libgz... Hi

Re: [newbie] What's the difference between Mandrake 7.0 Powerpackand Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe???

Hi again, How is the PowerPack or Deluxe Mandrake 7.0 behaving? What are your thoughts? Rock solid. This is the first time I decided to install an "easy" Linux distro, I normally use Slackware, but I decided that I really need the RPM support. The only problem I had is that it messed up my

[newbie] Color QuickCam

This has probably been asked before and answered.. but just found the group... I have a Color Quickcam and can't seem to get it to work.. before I got an error saying something abour the paraport being busy.. Since I have clean reinstalled 7.0 and everything else is working fine and now I

[newbie] Can LM7 talk to a CISCO internal DSL modem?

I've got a CISCO 605 internal router. The literature all talks about Windows and NT. How do those devices work? How do I get in and see if Linux can recognize it/communicate with it's OS? Mikey [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Problems during installation of Mandrake

Hello, I installed linux Mandrake before on my computer, but now it is going the wrong way. Last week I installed a new hard disk on my computer (IBM HD 13,5 GB). Because of BIOS problems I was forced to install EZ-bios on my computer. (My PII 266 doesn't seem to support these large disks).

[newbie] Unreal on Mandrake

I don't know if I am to late but, I told some one looking how to install Unreal on his linux box to get a copy of the new magazine maximumlinux cause there is a step by step article in there...Well I found a online link for him...Go to this url it will help alot

[newbie] Root Password

Anyone know anything about how to set super permissions to a user without giving them the root password, or the authority to change the root password once they are granted super user permissions. Thanks in advance. Dave

[newbie] Sorry to be asking on here

Im sorry to be asking on here about a windows question, but i heard people saying that they scan their e-mails and said they might have gotten viruses from this newsgroup. So im using Mcafee and if there are any Mcafee people out there can u please help me. I feel sorta stupid :) Thanx

Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?

Joe, you could always try the various TNT cards that are out there. Most of them will come in PCI and AGP so you should shop around. Wayne At 02:47 PM 5/3/00 -0400, you wrote: The only decent PCI video cards on the market are the 3DFX  VooDoo cards but even with those I don't think you can get

Re: [newbie] Problem installing Star Office and Word Perfect

Check the Corel Newsgroup for WP2k, looks like a lot of unhappy campers. I tried installing it twice and then called and asked for my money back on the WP2k deluxe package I bought. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try going to Corel's website and dowloading the tar package - think it's called

Fw: [newbie] HD problems

-- Date: (No, or invalid, date.) From: mmcmanus To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] HD problems I can not install Mandrake 7.0 linux. It loaded and work perfectly but when other OS's where loaded to compare, it would not install properly. The error

[newbie] CD Rom not accessible

I'm having trouble accessing my CDRom for Music and data. When I click on the CDRom Icon with a windows or linux (mandrake install disk) cd, I can't see any data. When I get into the kscd program, it can't find a disk. When I go to lothar it finds my cd (model: CRW6206A, device:/dev/hdd

RE: [newbie] Disk drives

You can download demo's of games etc from www.freshmeat.net Cam -Original Message- From: bascule [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 4 May 2000 5:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Disk drives hi john, i recognise DOS_hda1 as being the name of both the kdelnk

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Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 7.0 with Packard Bell Monitor

i have a Packard Bell 1020 monitor. I used Generic MultiSync monitor when setting up my monitor for X. I may have done some tweaking, but as I recall all the info I needed was in my booklet for the monitor. Write to me directly if you need further help. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

[newbie] Getting Started: Virtual Desktop

Hey, I have heard about a "virtual desktop", which allows you to scroll around the desktop, at a larger resolution than ur monitor can handle? How do i enable this + set res?

Re: [newbie] console log-in logo

You can either take the entire logo off or joust leave the info on the kernel to do this you must edit your "/etc/issue" file search for the part where it say linuxlogo (or is it linux_logo? cant quite remember) and change the options fore the options you can check the man page on linuxlogo

Re: [newbie] console log-in logo

sorry my mistake =S its not the /etc/issue file but /etc/rc.d/rc.local and btw it the program (and the man pages for it) is called linux_logo; not linuxlogo like i posted earlier sorry for the trouble At 09:08 p.m. 03/05/00 +0100, you wrote: Does anyone know how to remove the penguin logo

[newbie] CD Burners

I recently had a terrible thing happen under my dual boot system w/mdk 7.02 and w98: I lost all my everything(incl 12 hrs music from napster) cuz i tried to put in an old 2gig hd as a backup. I didn't know enough and so... Anyway, I reinstalled and all is good xcept i want to buy a cd rw unit.

[newbie] Documentation

I was given a cd with Mandrake 7.02 on it. No physical docs. Well, it's working, but it was only 1 gold cd and although it seems to be a complete install, reading thru stuff earlier i gather there are even boxed sets with multiple cds and books? Help! I live on an island in alaska and have no

[newbie] Moving files from MsW to Linx

First of all, thanks to everybody who answered my last questiom wich subject was "Installation Problems". I decided that buying a new equipment would be easier than doing download on a 600mb file... Now, I have another question: Linux is able to read files from a FAT32 partition?

Re: [newbie] Can someone answer me these questions three

You don't have to touch hda with your Windows 98 on it. You will be asked to create Linux partitions, which you must be sure you are doing on your second drive, hdb, or whatever it turns out to be. Be sure that when you do your partitioning and formatting that you are working with the space on

[newbie] Help...Laptop XServer Problems

Any help??? I have recently installed Mandrake 7.0 on my HP Pavilion N3215 laptop. I can't get X to work at a resolution higher than 640x480. Mandrake automatically installed the XFree86_FBDev server which is more than RedHat 6.2 did. No matter what I try...and I have follwed the advice of two

RE: [newbie] What's the difference between Mandrake 7.0 Powerpack and Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe???

ok i got a little consused between the different versions of mandrake out there, looking at the web site i can only find thease two differences, gold pack (2000) has phone support, powerpack only has email support(i think) buying the gold pack will give you a free update to the latest version of

[newbie] Literature for C++ under Linux

What Literature would you suggest to buy for (re)learning C++ on a Linuxsystem? Best would bein German language Thanks Gunther ** Hebein, Gunther Cyrill Cand. Pharm. Innsbruck - Austria ** begin:vcard n:Hebein;Gunther fn:Gunther C. Hebein

[newbie] to stop the iloveyou virus spreading do this

if you are running windows nt/98/95 make local_machine\software\microsoft\wab read-only using regedit32 create the following files c:\winnt\system32\MSKernel32.vbs c:\winnt\Win32DLL.vbs c:\winnt\system32\LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs and set the files to readonly,

RE: [newbie] GCC is missing....grrrr

I have sort of the same issue. I did access the RPM files and reinstall it. They put the compiler in the /usr/ area. You will see a subdir for i586, i486, and i386. My problem, even after installing the RPM files, I still get the "gcc c complier can not make executable." error message. Even

Re: [newbie] No sound for Desktop!

-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Donnerstag, 04. Mai 2000 14:05 Betreff: [newbie] No sound for Desktop! make sure that kwmsound and kaudioserver started.unmute the pcm channel if u are using alsa.. I have

[newbie] printing under netscape 4.6

can anybody tell me how i can print under netscape 4.6 to lp0 instead of lp (by default).is there a config script ?

Re: [newbie] I have problems with netscape, when the page contain java

Hey guys, I DIDN"T WRITE THIS! Where's the post I DID write?? What I wrote was: 've installed mandrake 7 twice trying to get LILO to work right. Right now, I boot from the rescue floppy because LILO, which worked the 2nd time, would hang up my login screen in Win98. I have multiple users on

[newbie] Two Questions

Hi all, Just a few questions. But first my configuration. I am running Mandrake 7.02 on a PII 400 with 128M Ram, using enlightenment as a windows manager. Now down to the questions: Samba Problems: I am trying to consistently connect to a directory on a win98 machine. I can connect fine

Re: [newbie] Got this today.

jeff wrote: Hope you all enjoy this as much as I did. Jeff Funniest one I've heard is "Microsoft has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" :-) -- Jayce Steadman AKA [FGC]_G3N3R1C http://www.g3n3r1c.cwc.net/ Shh! Be vewy quiet, I'm hunting wuntime errors! Up 20 hours -

RE: [newbie] installing LM7 from HD...help please

Thx Eric using your suggested set up it worked beautifully...amazing how much room it needed. Now I can run free among the wee linux dwellers, Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Eric MC DECLERCK Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 9:11 AM

[newbie] kppp

Hi ~ any kppp officianados out there ? Every time I go online, I get a whole string of these, sometimes dozens: Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device

Re: [newbie] modem/internet connection/cdrom2

Wade what interface is your modem? If it is a PCI modem you have to set it up as ttyS3. Charles smime.p7s

[expert] Sound Blaster Help!

Well I finally sprang for a new audio card, a brand new Sound Blaster PCI 512. This must be new one as it was the only affordable PCI Sound Blaster card Staples had. So I did all the research on available drivers for Linux and found same at ALSA so attempting my first source code compile I got

Re: [newbie] Antivir: libz... libgz...

Marc wrote: i never thought i would see the need for a linux anti virii...i know mcafee has one for linux also...http://www.mcafee.com Could you tell the exact URL or describe how to find it on McAfee site. It looked there last week and didn't find anything. Thanks, Alex Riechert

Re: [newbie] CD's + burner for audio

ok, lame as it sounds: read the CD-Burning HOWTO, it explains everything you'll need. Short version: cdrecord (yes, the command-line tool to which X-CDroast is just a frontend) accepts .wav files as input for audio-CD's too. It's also covered in the cdrecord manpage. I haven't tried burning

RE: [newbie] boot problem

-Original Message- From: Eduardo Arauz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 9:54 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:[newbie] boot problem I m trying to boot my linux mandrake 6.1 and it sends me an error like this: unable to mount root on .. or

Re: [newbie] No sound for Desktop!

Try running sndconfig as root, Sounds like you don't have your sound card setup On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: I have installed Mandrake 7.0 as a dual boot with Windows 98. The only problem I am having is that I get sound ok for my cds but I cannot get any sounds for my desktop! I am using

Re: [newbie] What's the difference between Mandrake 7.0 Powerpackand Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe???

Which prog messed-up your partition table? DrakX or PartitionMagic? :~The only problem I had is that it messed up my partition table, I have 4Gb :~Extended partition containing all my Linux partitions as /dev/hda1 - :~containing, /dev/hda5,6,7, and 8 for Linux, then 10Gb for Windows on

Re: [newbie] Antivir: libz... libgz...

I would like a copy also when you have the time. Don't worry about speed here, T1. On Wed, 03 May 2000, Hugh Semmler wrote: Paul I have installed antivir from cd and it works fine. Could it just be the copy you have? If you think so I will be glad to send you a copy of mine Hugh On

[newbie] SCSI card for CD

I'm considering a SCSI CD R/W. Any recommendations on the SCSI controller suitable for use with a CD R/W under Linux. Would Adaptec 2904 be OK? It is a PCI SCSI controller? Thanks. M.

[newbie] Realtek driver and eth0 in general

Hi guys Sorry but i am a complete newbie both to Linux and to this newsgroup, so if these questions are too stupid or if they have already been answered before, please bare with me and accept my apologies (but still give me a coherent answer, please) My Mandrake Linux 7.0 works very

RE: [newbie] No sound for Desktop!

Go to utilizes and click on sound, check enable system sounds buttons and then click on the desired actions and their sound effect counterparts - hit apply and you are on your way -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of root Sent: Wednesday, May

[newbie] Installing a lm7, win98, dsl, ethernetwork

I've got an internal DSL modem in my win98 machine (won't work in the linux box), a LM7 machine, and a hub/ethernet setup. Can anyone give me an overview/general steps to connecting the two machines and getting the linux box to see the Internet? Thx, Michael

[newbie] Apache Web Server

hi there ! my name is steven. I am new in Linux. I did install Linux 6.1 and 6.2 smoothly (maybe is my luck). Now I am configuring Apache Web Server, well I have a valid IP address and a working network system. As i try on the 6.1 version my apache web server working find and i can browse

[newbie] Printer newbie help!

Hi, I am not so much a Linux newbie, but a printer newbie! I have a Epson Stylus Color 740 connected to my parallel port, and I tried setting it up on installation, and couldnt get it toprint either of the example pages. Are there any issues I should be aware of with this? Any advice? I

Re: [newbie] Install problems on older machines?!?!

After a week and a half i have found out why my computer stalled during install: i loose the IRQ to my GOLDSTAR 8X atapi cdrom. why is it lost i dont know. When the packages start installing my cd just dies. I can eventually get it to work again by manually switching the power off and back

Re: [newbie] modem/internet/connection/cdrom2

Hi Alan, I sure didn't, I take it I should have though. :) What happened was during install I assigned the incorrect com port, I assigned com3, when it should have been com 2. Thats what I get for talking to someone while doing an installation, huh. Do you think it would be easier if I started

[newbie] About the ILOVE YOU virus

I know alot of you have not seen or heard from me in a while. But working in a ISP...in less than 1.5 hours alot of our customers got the ILOVEYOU thingy. It is nasty. It gets in the machine, changes alot of mulitmedia files to .txt files..and as of now..there is no "double clicking" fix. The

Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem in X

Den ons, 03 maj 2000 skrev du: Anders Linden wrote: Ok, in console (not in X) type 'X /var/log/x.out 21' w/c. Normally you can't see what it is doing and nothing will be happen (system halted) so press CTRL-C. Now start X (startx). Read the created file

[newbie] clock skew detected !

does anybody know what this means when building a new kernel (it happens when issuing the make command): make : WARNING : clock skew detected, your build may be incomplete ! wth does this mean ??? --quay

[newbie] Disableing Supermount and other fstab questions

Hi, How do I disable supermount? Also, I would like my non-root user to be able to mount and umount my CDROM and ZIP drives. What permissions do I need to give to what to do this? As it stands currently I have to SU before I mount and umount. Thanks, Aaron

Re: [newbie] Trying to hd install LM7.0-2 air and keep getting error

I had an error like this when I tried to boot off the CDROM and install Mandrake 7. However If I make a CDROM boot disk and use that the install was fine. Aaron At 07:13 PM 5/3/00 -0500, you wrote: I have been trying to hd install drake but when it gets to stage 2 ramdisk ::: Loading

[newbie] SIGHUP?

Hi all Sometimes I feel like I know a bit about Linux, sometimes I run into something that stumps me. Just now, I found this in a text-file: "give qmail-send a SIGHUP" Can anyone tell me what a SIGHUP is, and how you give it to a running process? Paul

Re: [newbie] Crash after hardware change

Mr A V Moisseenkov wrote: Dear experts, I installed Mandrake 7.0 on a powerful computer, where it worked fine. Than I took the hard drive out and inserted it into my home computer, which is a Pentium 120, Cirrus Logic 5446. Now, when Linux boots and goes through all the text-mode

[newbie] C Programming

Hi, all -- I would like to thank those of you who answered my query about taking a log in GNU c. The program was, indeed, as I had thought, correct, but the linker does not link the math libraries unless the -lm switch is present. Things now work fine. Pete Clapham Department of

[newbie] CRON

Hi, all -- Have any of you configured a CRON table? I would like to have our Linux Server perform a cleanup operation once each day, and CRON would seem to be the way to do this. I have looked at the MAN tables for both CRON and CRONTAB, and they are all but undecipherable. Can you advise

[newbie] Qmial/Serialmail

Hi everyone, Trying to figure out something here. I use Qmail to send mail, but when I am not online and 'queue' mail, it can take upto 2 days before mail is sent out, no matter how long or often I am online. So I tried getting Serialmail to work. Followed the things to set up the package, but

Re: [newbie] No sound for Desktop!

On Wed, 3 May 2000, root wrote: I have installed Mandrake 7.0 as a dual boot with Windows 98. The only problem I am having is that I get sound ok for my cds but I cannot get any sounds for my desktop! I am using a sound card that I got with my Packard Bell Platinum 4400. Did you select "Use

Re: [newbie] Sorry to be asking on here

There was a new worm(love letter)that is nasty. Update your dat files for mcafee now. Mcafee is the only virii vender with dats for this new worm. It is very nasty. I am working with a big company right now to get the worm out of 40 computers. - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] Can someone answer me these questions three

On Wed, 3 May 2000, Tim Schmidt wrote: I hope someone can help me on these Mandrake installation problems. First, I'm trying to install 7.0 on a second hard drive with windows 98 on the first one. Someone told me in order for Lilo to work I have to reformat hda and answer yes for large disk

Re: [newbie] Apache modules

On Wed, 3 May 2000, MC_Vai wrote: How can I see which modules do I have installed with Mandrake 7.0? (I choose developer installation but I have Apache installed anyway) Thanks for all your support guys. Run KPACKAGE and you can see all the _installed_ stuff. Run LSMOD as root, and you can see

RE: [newbie] Sorry to be asking on here

I have not seen anything from this newsgroup. Katana -Original Message-From: Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 7:32 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Sorry to be asking on here Im sorry to be asking on here about a windows question,

Re: [newbie] Sorry to be asking on here

OOps forgot to ask the question but how do u scan e-mails with Mcafee? THanx - Original Message - From: Andy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 9:31 PM Subject: [newbie] Sorry to be asking on here Im sorry to be asking on here about a

Re: [newbie] Root Password

On Wed, 3 May 2000, David Smith wrote: Anyone know anything about how to set super permissions to a user without giving them the root password, or the authority to change the root password once they are granted super user permissions. Thanks in advance. Dave You could add the user to the