Re: [newbie-it] netscape

Davide Cavallari wrote: Ho installato per prova la nuova versione beta 6.0 di netscape. Dopo un paio di giorni, il vecchio netscape4.70 è diventato in...bianco e nero(!), nel senso che le varie icone come back, reload, home...non sono più a colori. Non vedendo io alcuna ragione di questo

R: [newbie-it] netscape

Scusa hai installato entrambe le versioni in cartelle diverse? In ogni caso ho letto che Netscape 6.0 è ancora in beta version, mentre mi hanno detto che le versioni sopra la 4.5 hanno dei bug (infatti io mi tengo la mia 4.5 in italiano?!) Non mi stupisco che tu abbia avuto dei problemi. Ti

Re: [newbie-it] netscape

On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 07:39:01PM +0200, Giuseppe Boi wrote: Ma guarda che netscape 4.7 per Linux è di norma in bianco e nero...!! Cosa? e da quando in qua? piuttosto, con quanti colori gira il tuo Xwindow? -- Fabio Coatti http://www.ferrara.linux.it/members/cova Ferrara Linux

Re: [newbie] Error when running LILO

On Mon, 22 May 2000, Phil Murphy wrote: Just a thought. Should boot=/dev/hda be changed to boot=/dev/hda1 as this is where LILO is located on the MBR? Phil I don't think so. You need to access hda1 when you have LILO on a partition (e.g. hda1). If it is in the MBR, that should be hda. Paul

Re: [newbie] Windowmaker woes

Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Hi, Just been messing with my desktops and thought I'd take a look at windowmaker. Trouble is it's now set as default whenever I start x. How do I change back to KDE. Andrew Hello, in the a console use : desktopcfg works fine Younes Zouhair

Re: [newbie] how to kill a runaway app?

vern wrote: If you are using KDE you can use the "process management tool" I use it to ride herd on Nutscrape and the cdburners. In fact I have it permantly installed on my tool bar at the bottom! vern Wade wrote: Hi List, I have found an occasion or two to use the 'Ctrl, Alt,

Re: [newbie] Quad boot(sort of)!

James Little wrote: I have successfully configured a multiple OS machine. 2 Hard Drives. Both 15.3 GB 7200 RPM Western Digitals. 1st Hard Drive: 10GB Windows NT(4.0 and 2000. They can be on the same partition with seperate system folders), 5GB Corel Linux 2nd Hard Drive: 7GB Windows

Re: [newbie] LILO and Windows2000

Hi Koly, I do it with NT, it's probably similar. Just make sure you've got boot disk made from the installation and install your lilo to the partition that contains your /boot dir. Here's a good guide to print out http://linux.nf/ntboot.htm -- Armand Nickolay Belostotsky wrote:

Re: [newbie] Quad boot(sort of)!]

James Little wrote: I have successfully configured a multiple OS machine. 2 Hard Drives. Both 15.3 GB 7200 RPM Western Digitals. 1st Hard Drive: 10GB Windows NT(4.0 and 2000. They can be on the same partition with seperate system folders), 5GB Corel Linux 2nd Hard Drive: 7GB

[newbie] problems with KDE

Hi!..and sorry for my english..im italian Just installed Mandrake 7, but i can login (and run) only text mode: i read a lot and i've tried cntrl + f7 to go to graphic mode (KDE or Gnome i think), but screen became grey and nothing happenedso i tried to type (as user): cd KDE and this is

Re: [newbie] Windowmaker woes]

Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Hi, Just been messing with my desktops and thought I'd take a look at windowmaker. Trouble is it's now set as default whenever I start x. How do I change back to KDE. Andrew Hello, in the a console use : desktopcfg works fine Younes Zouhair

Re: [newbie] how to kill a runaway app?]

vern wrote: If you are using KDE you can use the "process management tool" I use it to ride herd on Nutscrape and the cdburners. In fact I have it permantly installed on my tool bar at the bottom! vern Wade wrote: Hi List, I have found an occasion or two to use the

[newbie] licq - garbled lines

When I use licq (the versio I use is the one included in the Mandrake 7.0 distirbution cd) I stumble over the following problem: If the lines I write are longer than a certain number of characters, the beginning and the end of my message are garbled into a chain of meaningless characters, like

Re: [[newbie] problems with KDE]

marla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi!..and sorry for my english..im italian Just installed Mandrake 7, but i can login (and run) only text mode: i read a lot and i've tried cntrl + f7 to go to graphic mode (KDE or Gnome i think), but screen became grey and nothing happenedso i tried to

Re: [newbie] Question for Denis

:~ Hi Denis :~ :~I've seen reports that the release of LM7.1 has been delayed. AFAIK, 7.1 has been the first (our) distro which has NOT been delayed. :-) Technically, 7.1 "beta" looks very nice now, and I am not avare of any newly found problems which could delay the official release. I do not

Re: [newbie] how to kill a runaway app?

On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 05:01:50AM +, thus spake Younes Zouhair: Wade wrote: Hi List, I have found an occasion or two to use the 'Ctrl, Alt, Backspace' command a couple of times which has been a saving grace, but I have only had a need to kill a runaway (unresponsive)

[newbie] CD Burner wont respond

I installed an IDE cd burner today (finally) and although Mandrake recognizes it, it doesn't seem to be able to access it. I put the slave jumper on, made sure the master cd was set right, plugged it in to the end of the ide cable, and the light comes on when it boots and the POST test as well as

Re: [newbie] Any insight about when 7.1 will be final?

:~I'm planning to do a massive restructuring when 7.1 finalizes, but I'd like to :~wait until then. Anyone have any ideas about when that will be? Friendly piece of advise: If you want to make SURE that 7.1 will really run smoothly in your enviroment, test the beta3 (as soon as it apears on

Re: [newbie] Acer Travelmate Notebook installation

:~However, I cannot install Mandrake 7.0 into my core always using Acer :~TravelMate 332T notebook. :~ :~I got the error message after the installation reboot it, I press ENTER :~at LILO prompt, as follows : :~ :~ :~boot : linux :~. :~... :~initializing rt netlink socket

Re: [newbie] A helpful site

:~On my quest for finding solutions to all sorts of LM problems, i stumbled :~upon a very helpful site: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/index.html :~Of course you might have known about it all along, but for me it was new :~and well worth the visit. :~ :~This is no spam as i do not know the

Re: [newbie] how to kill a runaway app?

Younes Zouhair wrote: vern wrote: If you are using KDE you can use the "process management tool" I use it to ride herd on Nutscrape and the cdburners. In fact I have it permantly installed on my tool bar at the bottom! vern Wade wrote: Hi List, I have found an occasion

Re: [newbie] problems with KDE

marla wrote: Hi!..and sorry for my english..im italian Just installed Mandrake 7, but i can login (and run) only text mode: i read a lot and i've tried cntrl + f7 to go to graphic mode (KDE or Gnome i think), but screen became grey and nothing happenedso i tried to type (as user):

Re: [newbie] reaching maximal mount count

Hi List, Thanks Denis and everyone for all of your help. That 'man page' was very good although I was left with a new question. Where the -i function says "No Postfix", what exactly does that mean? Thanks, b/web Wade PS-It is great to know that Linux is maintaining my system so well

[newbie] two problems

Hi list, here i have two strange problems, the first one is that i cant mount my CD-R and at boot time the kernel doesnt recognize it as an scsi device but on saturday i was able to write a cd using cdrecord!! as a matter of fact the xcdroast recognize my cd-r as a scsi device so how

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

Yes, indded... ^__^ I just read Anthony's reply... now I'm a little puzzled: in a magazine, they said Netscape 6 is more stable, by this point of view... So, I supposed N6 *is* java enabled... Or there is something I have to do, in order to make java work? Sorry if I'm a little dumb, yesterday I

Re: [newbie] problems with KDE

Try startx !!! Nick - Original Message - From: "marla" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 9:08 PM Subject: [newbie] problems with KDE Hi!..and sorry for my english..im italian Just installed Mandrake 7, but i can login (and run) only text

Re: [newbie] LILO and Windows2000

The answer to your question is: Yes, just as long as you don't delete your DOS partitions. As a good rule of thumb, if you have a drive you want to dedicate to Linux, remove it from DOS using FDISK, so when you're in the install program to select your partitions, the big blank space will help

Re: [newbie] SOMEBODY HELP/Sound configurations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Try the following, worked for me... Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 18:58:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Gary Bunker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] A SBawe64 question I have an AWE64 also, so I'm familiar with your card. The explosion is the sound that the startup script throws at the soundcard, and I'm

[newbie] X configuration

Hi... I am still having some problems getting my X running. Running SuperProbe I get, Server:SVGA and S3 trio 2D/3D. Then running XF86Setup, the graphic mode starts alright, but after configuring it, my X shows the mouse cursor as a square. I was told to add the line option "sw_cursor" in my

RE: [newbie] Network is unreachable

From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 8:18 PM Eh, so what's wrong? No access to the rest of the network ;-0 It sounds like you haven't configured your Networking yet. I used netcfg and set up what little I understand Have you set things up in

Re: [newbie] Diamond sound card

Hi, Found it, it's: linux.aureal.com "Aaron Zuercher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/22/2000 05:15:44 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] LM7 installation woes, continued

I'm having the same problem Kenny - Original Message - From: "Kaplan, Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 10:00 PM Subject: [newbie] LM7 installation woes, continued OK. So I've searched various help resources to find out why I

[newbie] Rumors??

Is this STILL in beta?? Boy when will Macro$haft get off their collective butts?? vern "I heard that Microsoft has stopped all the developement on furthure windows versions, and concentrating the efforts on a BSD-based distro with propriatery graphical shell a-la Apple. The distro should be able

Re: [newbie] how to kill a runaway app?

But if the process is a part of another process running in the background with no window to drop the "X" on you need to know the PID and kill off just the "ugly" process. vern "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Younes Zouhair wrote: vern wrote: If you are using KDE you can use the "process

Re: [newbie] LILO and Windows2000

Koly What I meant by my statement is that ANY boot loader CAN have problems. If you run multiple OSs and do not want to have to boot each OS from a floppy then you have to have a boot loader. The one you use, be it Win2000, Lilo, SystemCommander, BootMagic etc., is a matter of personal

[newbie] About keyboard problems in X.

Wrote before about having problem with certain characters in X. Well, everything worked out fine when changing from Swedish to finnish layout. Is this like a bug or what? /Anders

[newbie] On the Internet with @Home

Hi everybody, Well, after many hours, I am finally connected to the Internet through Linux!! However, there is one item. The mail server is responding and is requesting a password. It will not recognize the Windows password. What a learning experience (thanks Randall). Roman

[newbie] DLink DFE-550TX Network Card (PCI)

I have had no luck getting this card recognized by the server. The card works in Windows. The PCI slot in the server is good. What role might an IRQ conflict have with this? Could someone send me clear instructions on how to set this card up. I have access to both the sundance.c and

[newbie] sound setings

Default sound setings are in file /etc/.aumixrc cheers Denis

Re: [newbie] Rumors??

Oh, YES! This is a good way to make a rumor: cut out a part of the mail, so that people do not have a reference, and hope they will not try to search for the original mail! YES! Next thing you know, this will be cited as "a rumor" on another mailing list, and In the end someone may even

Re: [newbie] how to kill a runaway app?

vern wrote: But if the process is a part of another process running in the background with no window to drop the "X" on you need to know the PID and kill off just the "ugly" process. vern snip Just going for the simple first -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby

Re: [newbie] Rumors??

Denis HAVLIK wrote: Oh, YES! This is a good way to make a rumor: cut out a part of the mail, so that people do not have a reference, and hope they will not try to search for the original mail! YES! Next thing you know, this will be cited as "a rumor" on another mailing list, and In the

[newbie] LM7.1

Denis Is there any chance of LM7.1 being releases for Linux-Expo in London next week? -- Regards John the Nadger http://www.mklinux.co.uk http://www.nadger.uklinux.net

[newbie] Xcdroast

Hey there. I have got a little problem. I have been trying to set my 'gear' up, so that I can burn Wav files to a music-CD. No succex until now. I have been trying diffrent programs, mostly 'development-editions' but none has compiled correct, so I would turn back to the xcdroast-version on the

[newbie] Konsole Syntax Error

Hi, I am still having problems with enabling the MAC OS bar as user. It work fine when I log in as root. After reinstalling Linux, my original settings got wiped out. Now, while in root, I understood that the following command would work: chown -R user login.user login /home/user login After

[newbie] Netscape and .png

Hey y'all, When I'm using Netscape and come across a .png image, I get a stupid error message that the file type is unsupported or unknown. Anybody know what I need to do to get Netscape recognizing these? Thanks! Lance

[newbie] Mouse

Hey guys. How do you change the mouse configuration? I want to change from Generic to Logitech wheel mouse. Yes sometimes I am too lazy to RMFM -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface! This message created with Linux!

Re: [newbie] On the Internet with @Home

Roman, I have @home also and the password mail is looking for is the one you gave @home when you first set up the account. I windoze, Outlook or whatever you are using is asks for it once and then saves it. I know Netscape will do the same thing after you enter it the first time.

Re: [newbie] identd response for X-chat

Wade, I put it under Authentication. I also commented out using "#" auth, I don't know if it makes a difference but figued why not. Trevor Wade wrote: Hi Trevor, Do you know if that went under your 'Authentication', 'Finger', or 'Standard' services? Thanks,

Re: [newbie] CD Burner wont respond

Michael, I haven't gotten my burner to work yet either but the following link looks promising, I'm going to try it out: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hremov3.html CD-RW is at the bottom. I'll let you know what happens. Trevor Anthony Huereca wrote:

Re: [newbie] DSL

as far as I know all dsl "modems" are actually routers. Even the internal ones. There are no issues with dsl Win Modems therefore. Dacia --- Dan Ferris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Romanator wrote: Dan, Are you set up to some sort of @Home cable service? I am racking my brains

Re: [newbie] On the Internet with @Home

Thanks. I thought I was going out of my mind. In Netscape, the following was edited in Netscape: Under Edit A) Select Edit-Preferences -Identity. Type in the Email address field: [EMAIL PROTECTED] B) Click on the Mail Servers. Under Incoming Mail Servers, you should see POP C) Click and

Re: [newbie] licq - garbled lines

Hi Piero, I had the same problem. I simply inserted a return just before the end of each line and I never saw those characters again :) I have since upgraded to KICQ, I like it much better. Got it from Tucows. Bambi Piero wrote: When I use licq (the versio I use is the one included in the

[newbie] Can't start KDE

Every time I boot I go straight to the logon prompt instead of the Graphical Prompt. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get my KDE back?

[newbie] setserial question

i finally got my modem to work in mandrake! i had foolishly assumed that because it worked 1 out 50 times at a slow speed that it must have been set up properly but just not be compatible, after all it had been lightning damaged and under windows i have to plug things in at the exact moment and

[newbie] netscape files

does anyone know if i can copy my windows netscape files over to my linux installation to save downloading messages again, to transfer bookmarks folders etc.? the directory structure is different for my profile in windows and my netscape directory in my user home directory bascule

Re: [newbie] On the Internet with @Home

Romanator wrote: Thanks. I thought I was going out of my mind. In Netscape, the following was edited in Netscape: Under Edit A) Select Edit-Preferences -Identity. Type in the Email address field: [EMAIL PROTECTED] B) Click on the Mail Servers. Under Incoming Mail Servers, you should

[newbie] replacing lilo with a new version

ok. I am a newbie with very basic knowledge of linux and needs some assistance. I am dualbooting win98 linux mandrake7.0.I installed it above the 1024 cylinder. Now i read somewhere that the lilo provided with this version of linux do not allow you to boot this way. The problem is that my

Re: [newbie] CD Burner wont respond (Trevor)

Thanks Trevor. I have a dual boot system(or had one) and when I tried to install new hardware in Wandoes somehow my config .sys file and etc got all scrwewed up and now I can't boot into there and/or rescue anything. What is lmouse.vxd and lmul.vxd anyway?? Anyway, I unhooked the cdrw for now

[newbie] Printer access

Hi, How do I allow printer access to other Linux machines on my network? My Windoze machine has access through Samba, but I can't access the printer from a Linux machine. There doesn't seem to be a lpd.perm file. Does Mandrake do this differently? I'm running Mandrake 7. Thanks, Dan

RE: [newbie] Is there a Cakewalk type of software package for Linux?

Check out http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/ While you will not find a close match to Cakewalk, there are many programs there that imitate it for various functions and with similar interfaces. -JMS -Original Message- From: W_GROVES [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May

[newbie] Question for Paul

From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] X configuration Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 19:24:41 +0200 (CEST) On Tue, 23 May 2000, Rodrigo P. wrote: Hi... I am still having some problems getting my X running. Running SuperProbe I get,

[newbie] Look for charting program for linux

I'm a day trader looking for quote and charting programs that will run under Linux. Thanks.

Re: [newbie] CD Burner

The CD RW seems to be faked out to be a SCSI device even though it's really an IDE device. Try linking cdrom - scd0 and read the tutorial on the mandrake site for CD RW it sort of talks about this. Mine used to think it should be hdd and wouldn't do anything but after switching to scd0,

[newbie] slow connection speed

I am using an external 3Com ISDN modem that seems to connect to my ISP and work okay except that it is painfully slow. Netscape shows a stall condition every few hundred bytes of download. When I boot to Windows, the same connection runs fast. Is there a configuration parameter that I'm

Re: [[newbie] Cant start KDE]

"John Watson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time I boot I go straight to the logon prompt instead of the Graphical Prompt. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get my KDE back? Edit your /etc/inittab change the line id:3:initdefault by making the 3 a 5 This should

[newbie] installing software

Hey all. Got a question. After installing a tar.gz file, with the commands gunzip, tar, ./configure, make, and make install, can the directories that were created be the extraction of the files be deleted? Hmmm... am I being clear here? Glennzo...

Re: [newbie] installing software

Glenn Johnson wrote: Hey all. Got a question. After installing a tar.gz file, with the commands gunzip, tar, ./configure, make, and make install, can the directories that were created be the extraction of the files be deleted? Hmmm... am I being clear here? Glennzo... If you mean before

Re: [newbie] Printer access

Daniel.in a console as root type drakxconf and choose the printer tool (printerdrake) to install a network printer. Alan Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, How do I allow printer access to other Linux machines on my network? My Windoze machine has access through Samba, but I can't access

Re: [newbie] Rumors??

On Tue, 23 May 2000 15:20:31 -0400, Vern wrote: :~collective butts?? :~vern == Tue, 23 May 2000 20:55:49 Say Vern, when you burn a copy of the new MS/BSD beta "Reno"...I sure would like to have it also. Your buddy Olly P Biloxi

Re: [newbie] Question for Paul

On Wed, 24 May 2000, Rodrigo P. wrote: Hi... Sorry, I wrote it wrong, this line : option "sw_cursor" I added it on Screen Section, however I get an error doing this: ´Screen Section keyword expected´ Any ideias ??? Thanks. Hi there, Sorry, I gave you wrong information!! This is how it is set