[newbie] Recompiling the kernel

When setting your hardware, is it necessary to always recompile the kernel? And, if it is, would it wipe out the original image? Can some one provide the steps. Roman (Never stop learning what you don't know)

Re: [newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION: Libaries

Jim wrote: Great suggestion! - Original Message - Excellent. I am looking forward to it. Roman From: "Anthony Huereca" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION: Libaries Wow, a company that

[newbie] Need help with KDE .....

Hi My name is Marco, I work mainly in the 3d animation field (Special Fx, composition and so) I was tracking the Linux "evolution" and join it with the Mandrake 7.0 version. I have reinstalled it some times because each time I do something, the Graphical mode dissapears. If i get a new

[newbie] Need help with KDE .....

Hi My name is Marco, I work mainly in the 3d animation field (Special Fx, composition and so) I was tracking the Linux "evolution" and join it with the Mandrake 7.0 version. I have reinstalled it some times because each time I do something, the Graphical mode dissapears. If i get a new

[newbie] NETWORKING

My Mandrake doesn't recognize my REALTEK 8139 - networking-card? Lothar shows the adress -1 and the IRQ -1. What can I do to make it work? Thanks Gunther ** Hebein, Gunther Cyrill Cand. Pharm. Innsbruck - Austria ** begin:vcard n:Hebein;Gunther

Re: [[newbie] CD-ROM not found]

Are you sure it is the CD that is operating?? I had a BTC 32X CD that would NOT install/look at Linux Mag distro CD. I changed the CD and it worked.. HTH Jaguar carlos dominguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I every body I'm new in this list and I have the following problem I have a CDRW (hdc=

Re: [newbie] No login after installing StarOffice!

How do I install StarOffice? I followed the instructions on the CD ROM but it tells me it cannot open file Sorry I cant help you with your problem until I get StarOffice installed :-) Russ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE

[newbie] HD problems during install - cylinder 1024

Installing: Mandrake 7.0 Complete on a 5GB partition Running: Windows 98 WD 15 GB 7200RPM HD When trying to install BootMagic, it says it cannot install since the partition is beyond cylinder 1024. I have the same problem using DiskDrake and LILO (LILO won't install due to this problem). Any

[newbie] running a script when reconnecting pppd

I am sort of new to mandrake but have a very little experience with linux. I have set up a ppp connection that connects on boot and reconnects when the connection is lost. This keeps my computer connected to the internet. There are a few scripts that i need to run each time my connection is

[newbie] Question about Chipmunk on Linux

I was wondering if anyone has compiled the source code for chipmunk(diglog) for linux and had it compile successfully. I keep getting an error saying something about a parse error in some of my math include files. Usually its when a 'log1p' is encountered. Am i missing something, I installed

[newbie] routing

I have a little Network: Mandrake Linux and MacOS. I'm have a modem (on my Linux box) connecting to the internet using kppp. How can I use the internet on my Mac over LAN when my Linux box is online? What do I have to change within kppp or somewhere else? Thanks a lot for your help! Regards,

Re: [newbie] Konsole Syntax Error

Romanno, not really. It should be: chown -R roman.roman /home/roman Alan Romanator wrote: Thanks Paul, command line at 'root' should be: chown -R roman login.roman login /home/roman Thanks, Roman Romanator wrote: Hi, I am still having problems with enabling the

[newbie] DISCUSSION (Documentation)

I have not yet installed 7.0 coz I'm still reading the stuff on installation. My comment is in the documentation (Installation Manual). It only explains or presumes that the user has only one hard disk and that if the option 'Custom' or 'Expert' is installed it is again presumed that the

[newbie] DISCUSSION: Documentation

I have not yet installed 7.0 coz I'm still reading the stuff on installation. My comment is in the documentation (Installation Manual). It only explains or presumes that the user has only one hard disk and that if the option 'Custom' or 'Expert' is installed it is again presumed that the

[newbie] X is dead baby, X is dead

HELP!!! I had my Screen saver on. The monitor started to go off and on. I killed the X server. I booted to runlevel 3 then to startx but I was getting the same thing. I do not know what I did or what happened. last night I just installed Acrobat reader 4 and that was all. Anyway I understood

[newbie] POSTFIX problem

G'day, I have been a Sendmail user uptill now, after installing Mandrake V7.0-2, I find Postfix is now the default MTA, the problem I have with this is all my incomming mail is going to /varspool/postfix/deferred, thus being unavailable for pickup. What am I missing here??? Michael

Re: [newbie] No login after installing StarOffice!

What I did without pbs: Reinstall as root Staroffice; before remove the '.sversionrc' file. Get the java runtime environment 'jre117'.(from blackdown.org : JRE_1.1.7-V1a-glibc-x86.tar.gz, and of course untar it) To complete the installation of Java on Linus before running the application

RE: [newbie] Modem trouble

Well you did not tell us if it's a PCMCIA modem or not. Most of the "CC" series are PCMCIA Winmodems. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 11:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Modem trouble I have managed

[newbie] Token Ring drivers.

Hi, Anybody can tell me where can I find drivers for TR Olicom 3137 or TR Olicom 3140 Thanks in advance, Ismael Rossell

Re: [newbie] Konsole Syntax Error

Perfect. That is exactly what I did. Thank you Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: Romanno, not really. It should be: chown -R roman.roman /home/roman Alan Romanator wrote: Thanks Paul, command line at 'root' should be: chown -R roman login.roman login /home/roman

[newbie] my first idea for LM future

Dear Linux-Mandrake-Employee, i am very pleased to the Mandrake Distro 7.0. In my opinion there are only small changes to do. I use the german distro of LM 7.0 on a Athlon 700MHz. My wish is a better documentation (Reference-Book). I am a newbie and had to setup my Linux-Box by myself. In the

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Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION: My first Suggestion (Installer Problem)

Em qui, 25 mai 2000, Denis HAVLIK escreveu: SNIP Here is what happens: We have a list of packages with their "value". Very valuable packages have number asociated with them which is close to 100, while "junk" packages have a number close to 0 (well, junk packages do not make it into the

[newbie] DISCUSSION - Suites

I agree with Juvenal; sometimes "too much of the same" is installed by the default options. However, one specific type of software I miss are the suites (packages with word processing, spreadsheets and a bunch of other stuff very few people use but everyone wants available if need be). More

Re: [newbie] running a script when reconnecting pppd

Odd! Works for me here on Mandrake 7.0 Can you post up your ip-up.local file? Glyn M. On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 02:05:40AM -0400, thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am sort of new to mandrake but have a very little experience with linux. I have set up a ppp connection that connects on boot and

Re: [[newbie] No login after installing StarOffice!]

"Thomas, Bill" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the second time this has happened to me. The first time I thought it was just me being dumb and messing something up. The second time I believe I can say the StarOffice install did something. I have mandrake 7 set to use the graphic login.

RE:[newbie] Install on 2nd hd

On Thurs. 5/25/2000 Edison wrote: Now in my case, I have 2 hard disks and found out from the demos in the web that I have to go to either 'Custom' or 'Expert' installation to be able to install 7.0 in my second hard disk w/c I want to do Edison At what site did you get this info? My

Re: [newbie] Konsole Syntax Error

Romanno, not really. It should be: chown -R roman.roman /home/roman Alan Romanator wrote: Thanks Paul, command line at 'root' should be: chown -R roman login.roman login /home/roman Thanks, Roman Romanator wrote: Hi, I am still having problems with enabling the

[[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

After following the thread of several of the Discussion Post I thought I should post some of the differances between version 7.0 and 7.1( beta 3 ). I installed 7.1 yesterday and have not had the chance to fully explore it therefore the changes I am listing are the most obvious. LILO is

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION (Documentation)

I fully support the recommendation submitted by Edison Gica. If the talented people at Linux-Mandrake would put intelligible documentation on-line regarding the installing and tailoring of each new release, at least we would have a common point of departure in our quest for solutions. A further

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION (Documentation)

Yes, as some have already suggested, there is a great need for better documentation as Mandrake issues new releases. Could the very talented people working behind Linux-Mandrake create on on-line manual regarding the installation/tailoring of their product. Being an on-line document, it could

Re: [newbie] netscape files

Sorry, I missed this thread before. You CAN copy your windows netscape mail files across to your linux /nsmail directory. It's a simple copy/paste, any filename clashes can be renamed in the process, and they will show as new subfolders next time you open the mail window. I have just done

[newbie] Sound Problems

I have installed Mandrake 7.0 on a machine with an AMD k6-2 475mhz. The motherboard is a FIC VA503A which has onboard sound. In Windows device manager the sound is reported as VIA AC97 PCI. When I run sndconfig, the chips are found but then when I try sndconfig gets to play the sample sound, I

Re: [newbie] speed up isdn conn ?

quaylar writes: hi there... does anybody know hot to speed up net connection for isdn under linux ?...mine is so much slower than in windows.it sucks..there are tricks in windowsso are there in linux too ? thx quay I'm having the same problem, however I

[newbie] GFCC or better firewall??

Does anyone know how the heck to get gfcc to co-operate? It appears to be a stupid software that wont' do as I command it to. It is a dis-obedient software that is arrogant and won't comply, and there are no instructions for it.

Re: [newbie] POSTFIX problem

I know, same here, I lost some e mails because of that stupid program, they were in some stupid unreadable format in the wrong folder instead of in /var/spool/mail/user where pine can pick them up. On Fri, 26 May 2000, Michael Doyle wrote: G'day, I have been a Sendmail user uptill now,

[newbie] cant download from imandrake directory

Hello, I was wondering why they have a silly symlink in the ftp.linux-mandrake.com thing instead of a real directory, I can't get anytjhing out of that imandrake thing, and therefore the site is useless to me. Is there a way around this so I can get to thie files?

[newbie] Netware Client for Linux?

Has anyone out there come across a Netware (Novell) client for Linux? Specifically a graphics driven one? Thanks Peter Smith = Peter Smith Group Technical Manager Milieutech plc c/o Unidata Australia (www.unidata.com.au) 40 Ladner St O'Conner West Australia 6163 Tel: + 61 89 3688600

Re: [newbie] video

On Thu, 25 May 2000, Robert McEntee wrote: Hi Robert What you refer to as moving video is actually the multiple desktop feature of Linux / X-windows. Not sure what window manager you use, if it is KDE, you should be able to set it up from the KDE Control Center. Look for the "Windows" section

Re: [newbie] A sound question

On Thu, 25 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to some great help from two of you out there, I was able to configure my sound card (sndconfig) and now definitely HAVE sound... However, when I select the sounds that I want, I hear them in "test" mode - but they do not occur at

Re: [newbie] HD problems during install - cylinder 1024

On Fri, 26 May 2000, Fu Shanks wrote: Installing: Mandrake 7.0 Complete on a 5GB partition Running: Windows 98 WD 15 GB 7200RPM HD When trying to install BootMagic, it says it cannot install since the partition is beyond cylinder 1024. I have the same problem using DiskDrake and LILO (LILO

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM not found

On Thu, 25 May 2000, carlos dominguez wrote: I every body I'm new in this list and I have the following problem I have a CDRW (hdc= Acer atapi 4x4x32) and a CD-ROM (hdd=BTC ATAPI 24X), but in the desktop i just have one icon to cd-rom to open the cdrw and this make a error trying to read this

Re: [newbie] No login after installing StarOffice!

On Thu, 25 May 2000, Thomas, Bill wrote: This is the second time this has happened to me. The first time I thought it was just me being dumb and messing something up. The second time I believe I can say the StarOffice install did something. I have mandrake 7 set to use the graphic login.

Re: [newbie] Netscape and .png

On Thu, 25 May 2000, StormeRider wrote: I have not heard anywhere that PNG is a standard anywhere. If it is, and Netscape does not support it, then NS is wrong. If PNG is not yet an accepted standard on webpages, then I am sorry for stating this again, but then the person who put the image there

Re: [newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION: Libaries

On Thu, 25 May 2000, Anthony Huereca wrote: Wow, a company that actually listens to it's users! Amazing! The most important thing I can think of is to include all the programming libaries even in a standard installation. For while these people probally won't ever program, they will have to

[newbie] winmodem?

I'm trying to determine if the modem in my Hitachi laptop IS indeed a winmodem. On the front is says Hitachi Mobilized Computing PC card modem with XJACK connector x2 upgradeable 33.6kkps Data/14/4bps Fax I've checked the web, and I'm not really getting anywhere Thanks! Nan

[newbie] Xfree86 Programming resources

I'd like to port a few dos video game emulators (Nintendo, Sega Master System, and a few arcade machines) over to Linux and would like to know where I can get some Xfree86 programming info from. I need it to port the video functions over.

[newbie] Display drivers for Toshiba Tecra 8100

Anybody know how I can get XFree86 to display properly on a Toshiba Tecra 8100? The display card is a S3 Savage/MX 3D Accelerator Card, and I can seem to get XFree86 going. When I choose the S3 Savage driver in the list, XFree won't even start .. When I choose Another S3 drvier (like one of the

Re: [newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION One Step Installation

:~fails and then the computer hangs. Oh you can put in a choice too such as :~Choose your installation method :~1) Text install :~2) DrakX :~ Already done :-)) In 7.1, just press F1 and read the instruction. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis

Re: [newbie] mandrake is a terd

Rogerbut right now you're using one of the support options that MandrakeSoft offers you by messaging here on this 'newbie list', yet you've never stated what any of your problems were/are. You've just ranted at the people who are here as volunteers to help others. Please avail yourself of

[newbie] VNC on Linux Mandrake

Does anyone know how to edit the xstartup file in .vnc directory to allow a Windows client to display the right desktoplike gnome? Luis

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION (Documentation)

I installed 7.0 on a second hard disc, and the key seems to have been that there were already Linux partitions on the second hard disc--it was already ext2. If you establish at least one ext2 partition on the second HD, I think Mandrake will find it. All the distros I haved tried seem to do it.

Re: [newbie] HD problems during install - cylinder 1024

The boot loader can't be installed on a partition that goes beyond cylinder 1024. I believe one solution is to make a small boot partition that is at the very first of the the HD on which Linux is to be installed. Don J. - Original Message - From: Fu Shanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] NETWORKING

On Fri, 26 May 2000, Gunther C. Hebein wrote: My Mandrake doesn't recognize my REALTEK 8139 - networking-card? Lothar shows the adress -1 and the IRQ -1. What can I do to make it work? Have you tried Netconf? That is a textmode program, perhaps that works for you. I have NIC's with the same

RE: [newbie] Diamond sound card

http://linux.aureal.com/ this is the site for the linux drivers, follow the directions and don't forget to enable sound Seth Hollen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Xcdroast

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Mogens [iso-8859-1] Jæger wrote: Hi Mogens, run it, I get the following: Error: Some or all Generic-SCSI-Devices are missing. When Linux starts, can you see that it identifies the SCSI card and the connected devices? Please create first the devices. Run "./MAKEDEVICES.sh"

[newbie] Connection problems

Hi, Recently I installed Linux to find that I couldn't get on the net because I had a winmodem, so I bought a Viking Components 56k External modem(It's serial too, not USB) When I use Kppp to set everything up, the modem is detected and I know it works right. I have all my personal

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION: My first Suggestion (Installer Problem)

I agree with Aaron's assessment, but would suggest that as well as classes of install, certain applicatations (or operations or services...whatever you name it) be offered as part of the setup, ie, star office, or IPCHAINS and WEBSERVER. I am SO freaking tickled to get to put my 1/2 cents worth

[newbie] DISCUSSION POINTS:

I'd like to see the following . Install - Since a lot of people will be migrating from windows to Mandrake the will most probably want to install linux into the smallest possible partition to evaluate it. In doing it may be worth while looking at installing a streamlined version with only

[newbie] DISCUSSION Trash Can

Any way to default to the trash can for deleting items rather than the way it currently is? Nev

[newbie] Newbie list stopped working?

taps screen...is this thing on? Jerry

Re: [newbie] POSTFIX problem

On Fri, 26 May 2000, you wrote: G'day, I have been a Sendmail user uptill now, after installing Mandrake V7.0-2, I find Postfix is now the default MTA, the problem I have with this is all my incomming mail is going to /varspool/postfix/deferred, thus being unavailable for pickup. What

[newbie] adding floppies and cdroms after installation

Hi List, OK, I know that I am the cause of this stumbling block and not Linux Mandrake, as I selected the 'incorrect' method during install. I chose the 'no scsi devices' mode of installation. I have an icon on my KDE desktop for each of my, floppy, cdrom (DVD), cdrom2 (CDRW)

RE: [newbie] speed up isdn conn ?

The fact that you have to set a "serial" baud rate indicates that your ISDN device is probably an internal card with an on board UART. To effectively utilize the uart chips at higher speed you must set the baud rate divisor properly. By default Linux Max's it out to 56K unless told to

RE: [newbie] Netware Client for Linux?

This is not a graphical "function" rather it operates at a module level... "Man ncpmount" Works like a champ. You can even automount Novell Volumes and Mount on Demand (Supermount). -JMS -Original Message- From: Peter Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 12:34