Re: [newbie] freewwweb

2000-05-10 Thread M. L. Cates
On Wed, 10 May 2000 00:09:34 -0500 "Caleb McKay" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use freewwweb as my provider (one of them) and have never had any problems (though they are not as reliable I think as www.worldshare.net ). Are you sure you have your user name and password configured right.

Re: [newbie] No freakin clue?!?!?

2000-05-10 Thread Luenin
Ron Greer wrote: Hmm... one of the generic ways to just change video resolutions and test it is by typing: 'Ctrl-Alt-+' for increasing resolutions, and 'Ctrl-Alt--' for decreasing resolutions. DrakConf should allow you to change your resolution from there also. If none of these options

Re: [newbie] Compiler trouble...AGAIN!!

2000-05-10 Thread John Couturier
It looks to me like you have gcc installed but not gcc-c++ the compiler has a lot of modules. Look on your Mandrake CD in Mandrake/RPMS and do ls gcc* you should also make sure that gcc-cpp is installed. -- Original Message -- From: "James McLaughlin"

[newbie] Mandrake Pro...

2000-05-10 Thread Gilles Lahaie
Hi there! Recently, I saw in a magazine that their CD includes the Mandrake version 7.0 Professionnal and in another magazine that their CD includes the Mandrake version 7.0 v.2. Is there really a version Professionnal of Mandrake 7.0? If so, is it the same as the version 7.0 v.2? If it

Re: [newbie] freewwweb(solved)

2000-05-10 Thread Andy
what do you connect at using freewwweb? - Original Message - From: M. L. Cates [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 9:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] freewwweb(solved) I re-registered with freewwweb and apparently did not include a *number* in the

Re: [newbie] Parental Control

2000-05-10 Thread Mogens Jæger
"L. H. LOO" wrote: At 08-05-2000 07:42 AM, you wrote: What if he got himself a spare set of power cords ? It is not that costly. Just my 0.002 cents' concern. How, you may think, did I accomplish this? Well, when I went to work, so did the power cords. While at home, the computer was

Re: [newbie] ALL CAPS and Navigator

2000-05-10 Thread Bob
Anthony, Ok. got ver. netscape-navigator-4.70.mdk and entered "netscape" the reply was no recognized font charsets ?? SECOND PROBLEM: USING XRPM TO UPGRADE TO NETSCAPE 4.7, I HAVE UNINSTALLED AND THEN INSTALLED NETSCAPE-COMMON AND NAVIGATOR F First make sure you installed it

RE: [newbie] MX300 installation

2000-05-10 Thread Seth Hollen
download drivers from http://linux.aureal.com/follow directions put it in /usr/bin or wherever you want. Installing the Driver-1. Unpack the distribution:tar xvzf au88xx*.tar.gz2. Change to the driver directory and become root:cd au88xx*su3. Type the following install

Re: [newbie] Gnome rpm finder

2000-05-10 Thread Michael
When trying to download and install the rpm for quake it crashed. Unhappy.

[newbie] Problem installing Linux Mandrake

2000-05-10 Thread Lopineskeiki
I can't boot from the cdrom sop I crated a boot disk. That woirks and it access the drom but when it gets to the insecond stage install it say's this ... insecond stage install _X11Trans socket unix connect: can't connect: errno = 111 _X11Trans socket unix connect: can't connect: errno = 111

Re: [newbie] Compiler trouble...AGAIN!!

2000-05-10 Thread Necrotica
Try reinstalling the libsdc++ and libsdc++-devel RPMs -Chris On Wed, 10 May 2000, James McLaughlin wrote: I am trying to install some programs that require a g++ compiler. When I goto compile HTDIG. I get this error returned : checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler

Re: [newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02

2000-05-10 Thread David BAUDENS
Michael écrivit : Well, I may have been a bit hasty with the adulation(see my previous post). RPMfind says I have netscape 4.70-6mdk. When I look at hte list of packages , the only mdk specific one i see is 4.61 stable-1mdk. The 4.72's seem to be for redhat. ??? Version 4.73 (menus are

Re: [newbie] RPM TRouble...please help!

2000-05-10 Thread flupke
I suppose that it is because you don't give to rpm the right name of package : Once a package file [foo.rpm] is installed, it is recorded in the rpm database as beeing the package "foo". So you have two choices : Query the installed package : rpm -ql foo or query the uninstalled package

[newbie] syma stole my home

2000-05-10 Thread _lee _kinkade
This morning when i started kde it said it could not open /tmp and it needed to I could not create a text file in my home directory either. I logged in as root and discovered that sympa owns my home directory and i have read only permissions. What is sympa and how the heck could this have

Re: [newbie] lXaw3d

2000-05-10 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Wed, 10 May 2000, you wrote: Hey there I am trying to install the xwTools for my Epson printer. I have a lot of problems - the authors know that there are problems with Mandrake, so they can't help me. I know you were asking for help but maybe you can help me. In a few days I was

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Help File

2000-05-10 Thread Hellmut
Hi Romanator! (Will you be back too?) Hi, MandrakeSoft should compile all of the help from the emails to create a very good manual and help file. Roman -- That's avery good idea, it really should cover all the problems you may get confrontated with when starting with Mandrake. If I had

Fwd: [newbie] RPM TRouble...please help!

2000-05-10 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [newbie] RPM TRouble...please help! Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:30:47 -0600 From: "James McLaughlin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a system running Mandrake 7.0. Whenever I run rpm -Uvh foo.rpm (or ivh)it runs through the

[newbie] RPM TRouble...please help!

2000-05-10 Thread James McLaughlin
I have a system running Mandrake 7.0. Whenever I run rpm -Uvh foo.rpm (or ivh)it runs through the ## and brings me back to a prompt. Then I querry the rpm that I just installed..and it says "package not installed" The current RPM I am trying to work with is the

Re: [newbie] Down with LILO!

2000-05-10 Thread Steve
I use a GUI boot manager called XOSL that works great! Lots of boot options and it has a Windows 95 look and feel. Just make sure to put LILO on your Linux boot partition as it doesn't yet support direct booting of Linux. And before installing any boot manager, always backup your MBR 1st! Here's

Re: [newbie] off topic (but not really)

2000-05-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
basculesheesh, I just reread your orininal message and can't for the life of me figure out how I wrote that response to it. Sorry, I guess I was preoccupied or asleep or something, duh!! Yeah, EOT is good. :-) Alan bascule wrote: thats the point alan, netscape clearly has an option to

Re: [newbie] Got X started, now how to start Gnome?

2000-05-10 Thread flupke
You can start it straight from the text console : xinit -e gnome -- :1 Or first start a "nude" x session : xinit -- :1 And then, from the xterm that will appear (put the mouse cursor in it to give it the focus), start whatever wm you want to try (enlightenment, blackbox, gnome,

RE: [newbie] Got X started, now how to start Gnome?

2000-05-10 Thread Ron Greer
Check, or add a ~/.xinitrc file. Inside that file should be the following format: #!/bin/bash exec /usr/bin/gnome-session -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Anthony Huereca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 3:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Got

[newbie] unable to start progs after connecting with isdn

2000-05-10 Thread quaylar
hi all ive following problem : after connecting to my ISP via ISDN, im not able to start any programs---i always get these error messages on system console 1 : AUDIT : date : 707 X : client 15 rejected from localhost Xlib : connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib : client is not authorized

Re: [newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02

2000-05-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Michaelwhen you click on the link that produces the garbage, hold down the shift key as you click. Alan Michael wrote: David (Mr. Smartypants from France) wrote: Michael écrivit : Well, I may have been a bit hasty with the adulation(see my previous post). RPMfind says I have

RE: [newbie] How do I determine my IP Address

2000-05-10 Thread Ron Greer
From a command prompt, type 'ifconfig' and it'll tell you what you need to know. -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Hank Ingram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 6:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] How do I determine my IP Address When

Re: [newbie] RPM TRouble...please help!

2000-05-10 Thread Fran Parker
May be a silly question, but are you logged in as su or root when you try to install the rpm? In the gui, it tells you you have to be root (although logging in as su in the terminal window works just as well from KDE). I hope I didn't offend by asking. Bambi James McLaughlin wrote: I have a

Re: [newbie] I NEED KPPP HELP (please)

2000-05-10 Thread Vicky
Hi , I am new to this list and linux, I wrote asking for help but no one answered. I have read all the kppp how to stuff to connect to my isp but am obviously doing something wrong since its not working. If any of you have gotten it to work could you please tell me how :)

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Help File

2000-05-10 Thread Romanator
Thanks for pointing this out. ROman "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Romanator wrote: Hi, MandrakeSoft should compile all of the help from the emails to create a very good manual and help file. Roman -- They have. It's in the archives located on their site -- Joseph S.

Re: [newbie] freewwweb(solved)

2000-05-10 Thread M. L. Cates
I re-registered with freewwweb and apparently did not include a *number* in the password when I originally registered . It seems you can enter a password without the number when you register but when you try to connect it is rejected. mike cates

[newbie] Mandrake Help File

2000-05-10 Thread Romanator
Hi, MandrakeSoft should compile all of the help from the emails to create a very good manual and help file. Roman --

[newbie] lXaw3d

2000-05-10 Thread Mogens Jæger
Hey there I am trying to install the xwTools for my Epson printer. I have a lot of problems - the authors know that there are problems with Mandrake, so they can't help me. But one thing have I found - I am missing a file called 'lXaw3d' - does anybody know, which 'packet','program' or whatever

[newbie] unable to start progs after connecting with isdn

2000-05-10 Thread quaylar
hi all ive following problem : after connecting to my ISP via ISDN, im not able to start any programs---i always get these error messages on system console 1 : AUDIT : date : 707 X : client 15 rejected from localhost Xlib : connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib : client is not

Re: [newbie] unable to start progs after connecting with isdn

2000-05-10 Thread quaylar
On Wed, 10 May 2000 21:42:35 +0200 (CEST), Paul wrote: hmmnot familiar ?.weird.yes i will send the contents of this if-up filewhere do i find it ?? On Wed, 10 May 2000, quaylar wrote: Hi, this is what i get on "ifup ippp0": Activating device: ifcfg-ippp0 Loading global

RE: [newbie] How do I determine my IP Address

2000-05-10 Thread Hank Ingram
When running KPPP, click on details. Worked for me in Mandrake 7.1(Hydrogen) --- Hank Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED]Blacksburg, Va Virginia Tech - Administrative Information Services - HR http://fbox.vt.edu:10021/H/hingram/

Re: [newbie] Quake

2000-05-10 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
chacomer wrote: OK...I have the game on CD and seem to have successufully installed it in Linux (Mandrake 7.0). It runs fine, but when I exit the game it locks up my Xserver 100% of the time...the only way out is a Cntrl-Backspace and reboot, because the server is running and won't reload

Re: [newbie] Parental Control

2000-05-10 Thread L. H. LOO
At 08-05-2000 07:42 AM, you wrote: What if he got himself a spare set of power cords ? It is not that costly. Just my 0.002 cents' concern. How, you may think, did I accomplish this? Well, when I went to work, so did the power cords. While at home, the computer was usable by me only.

RE: [newbie] How do I determine my IP Address

2000-05-10 Thread Ron Greer
At the command prompt, type 'ifconfig' It'll give you all the information you need to know :) -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Hank Ingram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 6:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] How do I determine my IP

Re: [newbie] syma stole my home

2000-05-10 Thread Paul
On Wed, 10 May 2000, _lee _kinkade wrote: This morning when i started kde it said it could not open /tmp and it needed to I could not create a text file in my home directory either. I logged in as root and discovered that sympa owns my home directory and i have read only permissions. What is

Re: [newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02

2000-05-10 Thread Michael
David (Mr. Smartypants from France) wrote: Michael crivit : > Well, I may have been a bit hasty with the adulation(see my previous > post). > RPMfind says I have netscape 4.70-6mdk. When I look at hte list of > packages , the only mdk specific one i see is > 4.61 stable-1mdk. The 4.72's seem to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Help File

2000-05-10 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Romanator wrote: Hi, MandrakeSoft should compile all of the help from the emails to create a very good manual and help file. Roman -- They have. It's in the archives located on their site -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL

[newbie] Gnome rpm finder

2000-05-10 Thread Michael
Wow! I am so impressed with the invisibility of the process that got me all these rpms! The new Netscape one is in here(the big list), right? Thanks to whomever posted that one! -michael-

[newbie] unable to start progs after connecting with isdn

2000-05-10 Thread quaylar
ok paulheres the ifup script...u really think the mistake is in there ?..its a default script which came with my mandrake distr..anyways...here we go : #!/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts .. network-functions need_hostname

Re: [newbie] Got X started, now how to start Gnome?

2000-05-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Anthonywhen you enter kde type alt-f2, enter the command switchdesk, and press enter. After you accept the gnome choice and close the switchdesk window you'll be prompted to shutdown x and restart. So, log out and do the startx -- :1 again and you'll come up in gnome. Alan Anthony

Re: [newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02

2000-05-10 Thread Bob
Alan, Is this post an indication of the Mandrake 7.02 netscape 4.7 rpm as being no good?? I just removed the common and navigator with xrpm, after three days of attempting to figure out why I could not access the files. The rpm's made available 7.02 aren't of any use. On Wed, 10 May

Re: [newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02

2000-05-10 Thread Bob
Well, The the ftp sunset does not have the version 4.72 of Netscape. n Wed, 10 May 2000, you wrote: Michaelwhen you click on the link that produces the garbage, hold down the shift key as you click. Alan Michael wrote: David (Mr. Smartypants from France) wrote:

[newbie] Can't telnet

2000-05-10 Thread James L. Brady
Why is it that I can not telnet into my Linux box? I can ping the linux box from any computer and even ping other computers from Linux. But, every time that I try to telnet into it I get an error message. It says something to the affect that the connection was rejected. ??? Thanks,

Re: [newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02

2000-05-10 Thread Rial Juan
With that kind of attitude, I suggest you stick to Microsoft products. Go ahead, remove mandrake from your computer, see if anyone cares. If that's supposed to be a threat, it's definately a hylarious one... Keep it up, you're funny. Hey, if you guys don't make this any clearer(easier?) I will

RE: [newbie]I need Modem Help

2000-05-10 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
-Original Message- From: Vicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 12:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie]I need Modem Help okay I found drakconf :) right there on my desktop, when I look in there nothing is listed for modem. I am so confused , I

RE: [newbie] Down with LILO!

2000-05-10 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Lilo has a few tricks up it's sleave that other boot managers cannot touch. One of the biggest is the ability to SWAP bios settings for drives... This means that you can say, have FOUR hard drives on your machine and boot from ANY of the four drives with ANY os installed. I have WIN2K on a

[newbie] XFree86 4.0 problems

2000-05-10 Thread Nickolay Belostotsky
Hello all! Have just installed X 4.0. Pretty smooth (apart from XFree86 -configure not working for me). BUT: 1. My Cyrillic fonts are gone. That is baaad. I did download the cyrillic fonts package, but during install it said something like 'duplicate font name, skipping'. How do I add fonts

Re: [newbie] CD Rom not accessible

2000-05-10 Thread Jim Brown
I don't know if this will help, but this is what I did. In /etc/fstab, I moved the cdrom line above the floppy line. (just for grins) And also, the device I used was not /dev/hdd it was /dev/scd0. Once I did those two things everything started working. I was reading the www.linux-mandrake.com

[newbie] XFree86 4 xkb hassles (compose/ralt key)

2000-05-10 Thread Dom
Hi I recently installed Xfree86-4 from the contrib rpms on rpmfind.net, I'm otherwise using a stock 7 mandrake installation, and everything functions, except for this one annyoing problem. I've tried contacting the xfree86 guys, but I've not had a reply yet (wishful thinking probably!) and I've

RCPT: Re: [expert] [newbie] Proper Partitioning and

2000-05-10 Thread Steve Olson
Confirmation of reading: your message - Date:7 May 00, 23:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] [newbie] Proper Partitioning and Mount Points Was read at 18:38, 8 May 00.

Re: [Re: [newbie] Modem Help]

2000-05-10 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Marc" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks alot prizna. i am going to buy a new modem. recommend any? == External USR 56K V.90 faxmodem... Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin

Re: [newbie] Question about downloading from ftp sites

2000-05-10 Thread Romanator
Thank you. I will give it a go. Roman N K wrote: If you have a cd burner...you could copy the ISO image of mandrake 7.XX for i386. That is what i have done and burn the image to cdbut remember this file is about 640 or something like that, it has all the files, so there will be no

Re: [newbie] off topic (but not really)

2000-05-10 Thread bascule
thats the point alan, netscape clearly has an option to 'when deleting a message locally, remove it from the server' in the mail servereditpop preferences yet this doesn't appear to work for me, thats all. a new client shouldonly be downloading a few messages because thats all i keep locally ,

Re: [newbie] freewwweb

2000-05-10 Thread Jay Latham
In the freewwweb log in you have to put your log in name as follows: username@freewwweb.com just use username when logging into the mail server. Jay At 11:17 PM 5/9/00, you wrote: I am trying to use 'freewwweb' as my linux ISP. I have entered both of my DNS numbers and I believe I have KPPP

RE: [newbie] No freakin clue?!?!?

2000-05-10 Thread Ron Greer
Well, the next thing I'd do is just try setting it up myself :) If you go to the console, you can type 'xf86config' and it will ask you for a range of questions. You'll need to know a decent amount of hardware. If you're not sure, tell me what you have, and I'll try to give you an estimate of

Re: [newbie] freewwweb

2000-05-10 Thread Charles Comer
Check to see if you have inadvertently turned on default routing anf if so turn it off. You can add "del default route" to the end of rc.local I think. - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 11:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie]

Re: [Re: [newbie] Modem Help]

2000-05-10 Thread Marc
Yea that is what I was going to get probaly. Do you have a guess price on that? - Original Message - From: "Michael Scottaline" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 4:53 AM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] Modem Help] | "Marc" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |

Re: [newbie] watch what you say on this list

2000-05-10 Thread Lance Borden
Apparently so! :) LB Vic wrote: Can we say "booger", "poop", "diarrhea", or "fart"? Vic On Tue, 09 May 2000, Michael R. Batchelor wrote: This "filtering" isn't done by Mandrake, but by someone's site who is subscribed to the list. I've gotten a couple back from the same site

[newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02

2000-05-10 Thread Michael
Well, I may have been a bit hasty with the adulation(see my previous post). RPMfind says I have netscape 4.70-6mdk. When I look at hte list of packages , the only mdk specific one i see is 4.61 stable-1mdk. The 4.72's seem to be for redhat. -michael-

Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Modem Help]]

2000-05-10 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Marc" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yea that is what I was going to get probaly. Do you have a guess price on that? == I think about $80-$90. You shouldn't have to pay more than $100. Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

[newbie] Compiler trouble...AGAIN!!

2000-05-10 Thread James McLaughlin
I am trying to install some programs that require a g++ compiler. When I goto compile HTDIG. I get this error returned : checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using