Re: [newbie-it] Memoria a 128

2000-06-15 Thread Andrea Celli
Marco Gattei wrote: Ciao a tutti ! ho installato Linux-Mandrake 7 sul mio nuovo PIII a 128 mega di RAM, ma al boot (e anche in seguito) il kernel di linux mi segnala solo 64M :-((( anche durante l'installazione ne erano stati individuati solo 64, ma io avevo corretto il valore

Re: [newbie-it] Cercando gli rpm

2000-06-15 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: Ciao A tutti! Premetto che sono nuovissimo al mondo linux. Detto questo avrei la necessita di reperire i seguenti pacchetti in formato .rpm (non sono ancora in grado di buttarmi nelle conpilazione): 1) isdn4linux utils e base (credo si chiamino isdn4k.rpm

[newbie-it] Processi

2000-06-15 Thread ettore
Salve a tutti una domanda proprio terra terra.. Processore AMDK6 II 400 Mhz su Asus P5A con 128M di ram Scheda Video Trident 4mega Lavoro principalmente con interfaccia grafica Tutto funziona perfettamente, Mandrake 7.0 configura tutto e non ritengo di avere problemi di incompatibilita'

[newbie-it] Cercando gli rpm

2000-06-15 Thread ettore
Il lun, 12 giu 2000, hai scritto: Ciao A tutti! Premetto che sono nuovissimo al mondo linux. Detto questo avrei la necessita di reperire i seguenti pacchetti in formato .rpm (non sono ancora in grado di buttarmi nelle conpilazione): 1) isdn4linux utils e base (credo si chiamino

Re: [newbie-it] Cercando gli rpm

2000-06-15 Thread freefred
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, a day in the life, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) isdn4linux utils e base (credo si chiamino isdn4k.rpm e isdn4k-utils.rpm) Saro incapace, ma sul sito www.isdn4linux.de ho trovato solo i sorgenti sono pure sul cd della mandrake se ce l'hai. comunque per tutti gli rpm del

Re: [newbie-it] Cercando gli rpm

2000-06-15 Thread Andrea Celli
Per cercare file di qualsiasi tipo il posto migliore e` http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/?form=medium Ha un'indicizzazione completa e aggiornatissime di tutti i principali server ftp. Gli metti "isdn4linux.*.rpm", setti regular expression, magari gli dici che vuoi solo server italiani e giapponesi,

Re: [newbie-it] SoftModem Sidin

2000-06-15 Thread Luca Dentella
Ciao! hai provato a forzare l'inserimento del modulo con insmod -f ./ltmodem.o come descritto sulla pagina http://www.kc.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html ? si', ottengo sempre quello stranissimo messaggio di errore: /home/luca/modem/ltmodem.o: init_module: Device or resource busy da cosa potra'

[newbie-it] conferma messaggi?

2000-06-15 Thread freefred
scusate qualcuno sa perche' mi arrivano messaggi come questi quando scrivo in lista? [...] In order to broadcast the following message into list newbie-it, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] : confirm 5bc52d1e75b25442808e267206fb395f eccetera bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Oh, I know exactly what you mean! ;-) I dunnoleave it to me to come up with a weird one...LOL Jim

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Jim
nie tryjust made it worse.had to wait forever for it to tell me it didn't like that at all...LOL Jim - Original Message - From: "Jim" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner at

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Fran Parker wrote: I looked at the .lxdoom in home/fran directory it is an empty file huh? Maybe that is the problem, huh? What is supposed to be there? boom.cfg and tranmap.dat I don't think it ever got far enough to write anything. (also yes, the wad file is in the

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Dennis Myers wrote: Followup to this thread, I figured out how to edit (hooray!!!) and went in to the above listed /etc/ files and deleted the -p and voila! the error message is gone when I "halt" the sys. I think that I am beginning to get the hang of some of this and am falling in love

Re: [newbie] I am still here...I just switched e-mail addresses

2000-06-15 Thread Jim
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Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Jim wrote: I still haven't recieved any help with this and since upgrading to 7.1 it seems worse I installed MD 7.1, I have a creative cdrw 4224 and I can play music on it just fine under linux, however when I go to access it for files, the light comes on and after a few minutes I get an

Re: [RE: [newbie] worthless software innd]

2000-06-15 Thread Jaguar
type "NNTP" into any search engine...it should give you a HUGE list of news servers.most are pay servers...but there are quite a few that are free Also why not use your ISP's news server?? HTH Jaguar Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm so basically I am toast, I can't have a news server

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-15 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote: I have mine set up as a cron job. Create a .fetchmailrc in your normal user's home directory that will fetch mail from all your accounts, then set up a cron job to run as that user at a specifed interval. I get lots of mail so my interval is 4 minutes. Works

[newbie] Swapping keys - success!

2000-06-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, per Paul's suggestion, I looked up the man pages for xmodmap, the keymapping utility and was successfully able to swap my caps and control (left) keys. This is the steps it took: From a terminal, create the file .xmodmaprc, touch .xmodmaprc Then, you can use vi, emacs, or in my case, I

[newbie] 7.1 one problem, two questions.

2000-06-15 Thread Oliver Stieber
first here's the problem.. squid keeps saying that FATAL: Unknown cache_dir type 'var/spool/squid' and then has Page faults with physical i/o: 197 i don't even have a clue where to start with this one. question 1. where can i find some documentation on hot to mount

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-15 Thread ~-=Mark=-~
Thanks Chris. That sounds like a plan. Mark Never wish for anything bigger than you can carry home in your pocket. Disappointment is almost always guarrenteed. Especially if your pants don't have any pockets in them. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Necrotica wrote: Yes. You can set up fetchmail to run

RE: [newbie] 7.1 one problem, two questions.

2000-06-15 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
See below... |-Original Message- |From: Oliver Stieber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:13 AM |To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' |Subject: [newbie] 7.1 one problem, two questions. | | |first here's the problem.. | |squid keeps saying that | FATAL: Unknown

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread ~-=Mark=-~
Unless I'm missunderstanding you can't display normal CD's with a CDRW because they won't/can't read regular CD format. I'm still having a bit a problem telling the difference between a CD writer and a CD RE-Writer. The reason you can't eject after all this is because as far as the hardware is

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 Install problems ThinkPad 760EL

2000-06-15 Thread ~-=Mark=-~
Ryan, Try this. If you've got a Windows 95 CDROM setup disk lying around copy the entire contents to the HDD including the hidden system files. It won't work without them. The CDROM setup floppy has CDROM drivers on it that will load when the files are accessed and the machine boots. This will

RE: [newbie] 7.1 one problem, two questions.

2000-06-15 Thread Oliver Stieber
-Original Message- From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 June 2000 11:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.1 one problem, two questions. See below... |-Original Message- |From: Oliver Stieber

Re: [newbie] please help

2000-06-15 Thread Mark Wolf
whine whine whine whine :) - Original Message - From: "KompuKit" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] please help I changed ISP's a week ago... the other ISP...only took about ten minutes to come back to me Paul wrote:

[newbie] POP3 trouble under linux-mandrake 7.0

2000-06-15 Thread Everett
Hello A few months ago I installed mandrake 6.1 and I've been playing around with it. I installed a pop3 server software called qpopper and it worked great. Well I just installed mandrake 7.0 a compleate install overwrighting 6.1. Then I reinstalled qpopper but now it want work. qpopper seems to

[newbie] news server

2000-06-15 Thread Morpheus233
my default i guess the news server is active, is there any way to shut it off because i keep getting errors that it can't be access or something, i dont' really care i just don't need it and want to disable the news server -- Juvenal (Morpheus233)

[newbie] [Fwd: Extra Cds for 7.1]

2000-06-15 Thread Eunice Thompson
Does anyone have any idea what and/or where the CD's labeled 3 and 4 are. During the installation of 7.1 they are listed, and also using Kpackage or RPMdrake to add additional packages they ask for one or the other CD. Thanks Eunice

Re: [newbie] Mouse Not Detected

2000-06-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Leobardoassuming you are logged in as a user, open Konsole, type su -, type the root password, type mouseconfig. The rest is self-prompting. Alan "Leobardo López" wrote: I Need Help. Mandrake is Not Detecting My Mouse, What Can I Do to Configure It By Myself. Thanx.

[newbie] Vanishing Video Memory

2000-06-15 Thread A Waters
I have just finished installing LM 7.1 on my Dell Dimension with Intel i810 video chip. Installation went smoothly (thank God!) but I still have a "minor problem". Even though my video card has 4M of memory on it, LM 7.1 is reporting and using just 1M. Consequently I cannot use 1024x768

Re: [newbie] ..it happens and now it happened to me:)

2000-06-15 Thread Jeff
Mark When you say that Xconfigure dumped you out and shut down linux did that occur when it was probing your vid card or when setting your screen res. Charles It did the same thing to me. It occured when I was setting the Resolution. So I just shutdown and rebooted using my boot disk

[newbie] Install did not load Linuxconf (desktop icon)

2000-06-15 Thread root
Greetings, group...I have a question about the recent install that I completed... My PC is a TP600, 300MHz, 96MB, 6.4GB, xircom cardbus (tulip_cb) 100+56k, and Linux Mandrake 7.02. Running pretty well, except the icon for the Linuxconf on the desktop is dead...Can't excecute it, nor does it show

Re: [newbie] Madrake 7.0 configuration help

2000-06-15 Thread David Talbot
At the command line try typing: kudzu If kudzu fails to autodetect your voodoo3 here are your relevant resources: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/index.html http://linux.3dfx.com I too run a voodoo3, 7.0 autodetected it beautifully, 7.1 crapped all over it. This bug was reported to cooker

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-15 Thread Michael H. Collins
My fetchmail does not need a cron job, one can set the interval for checking in fetchmail itself. Necrotica wrote: Yes. You can set up fetchmail to run as a cron job, which will fetch your mail at a specified interval (which is nice if you telnet into your machine from a remote

Re: [newbie] Qt2 - 2.1.1 rpm

2000-06-15 Thread Fran Parker
Hi Ot, I got mine from here...built for Mandrake. Used the netscrappy browser. ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/mandrake/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ (be sure to go down the page below the links...that's were the files are) Have fun, lots there, Bambi Ot Ratsaphong wrote: Can anyone tell me

Re: [newbie] how do i install mandrake over itself?

2000-06-15 Thread Michael H. Collins
I wish I had reinstalled from scratch. I set my box up yesterday at 5:00pm to upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1. It is 9:00am and it is still at it. It is text based, and it shows 50%now. Next time I wipe and go from scratch. hehe TRBishop wrote: Registered Linux User #79449 -- Michael H.

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-15 Thread Necrotica
...if you run it as a daemon. I, however, don't want the overhead of YADR (yet another daemon running). -Chris On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Michael H. Collins wrote: My fetchmail does not need a cron job, one can set the interval for checking in fetchmail itself. Necrotica wrote: Yes.

[newbie] SAMBA

2000-06-15 Thread Pete Clapham
Hi, all -- I have, for some time, been trying to figure out how to use my Linux box to access files and printers on my NT and Warp Server networks. The obvious answer is SAMBA. As one who does not like to bother my colleagues on this list, I wanted to go to www.samba.org first to see how

[newbie] Fortran Compiler

2000-06-15 Thread Pete Clapham
Hi, all -- Do any of you know where I can get a Fortran compiler for Linux? (Yes, I know C is more flexible -- and Mandrake already includes gcc, but I need to compile some fortran programs that some others created). Thanks, pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and

Re: [newbie] Qt2 - 2.1.1 rpm

2000-06-15 Thread Ot Ratsaphong
Christopher, Thanks for the GREAT work you are doing with the rpms. I'd like to one contribute rpms of my own once I become familiar with the rpm documentation. I got the Qt2 2.1.1 rpms thanks. BTW what's a good development IDE for Qt. I'm thinking of exploring QtArchitect. any thoughts?

[newbie] Lost partition/DOS formatting

2000-06-15 Thread Tom Wang
When installing LM7.1 I had it format several FAT32 partitions at the sametime. But one of the partitions can't be found under DOS, even though LM indentifies it as a DOS partition (is shown on desktop) Also, how can Mandrake format a partition in the DOS filesystem? Is it non-MS, even though

[newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO IMAGE

2000-06-15 Thread Chuck Zenkus
Ok...so I downloaded it. Everything installs correctlytill I try to open the drive and insert the "EXT" disc. A No go! Drive door will not release the disc. I an force to cancel what the "EXT" disc has to offer. Any ideas? ALSO! - Anyone know how to

[newbie] LM can't read Ext2 floppies -

2000-06-15 Thread Tom Wang
Why is it I can easily mount a FAT12 floppy no problem, but an Ext2 can't be read by LM 7.1? What's point of being able to format one if you can't access it? Except for LM bootdisks, there doesn't seem much point in formatting Ext2 floppies anyway, since LM reads FAT12 floppies just fine. But

[newbie] ReiserFS? how?

2000-06-15 Thread Tom Wang
Anyone know how to setup the Reiser Filesystem in 7.1? The LM website says to use Diskdrake, but how do I start it? And do you recommed it? someone said it's not stable enough yet. Yet I would think it would be safer than Ext2 which is more susceptable to FS corruption. Thanks. 19!

[newbie] Automatic Email?

2000-06-15 Thread Tom Wang
Is there an email client for LM that will automatically dial out to pickup email at set intervals, then logoff? I have same question about FTP program - one like GoZilla or Filedog (Windows applications). Thanks. Get Your

Re: [newbie] SAMBA

2000-06-15 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
Check out the man pages for smbmount and smbmnt. This pair should do what you want. I have, for some time, been trying to figure out how to use my Linux box to access files and printers on my NT and Warp Server networks. The obvious answer is SAMBA.

RE: [newbie] SAMBA

2000-06-15 Thread Oliver Stieber
excurse the poor gwammer co samba sits on a linux box (or other any othe os it has been ported to) it can access netbios resources on other machines and also provide resources to other machines. (2.0.6 dosn't seem to work with windows 2000 though, i'm just getting 2.0.7 down to see if

Re: [newbie] Install did not load Linuxconf (desktop icon)

2000-06-15 Thread Anthony Huereca
You could just type "linuxconf" in a terminal and let it pop-up for you. You also might want to check the icon's properties (right click on it and select properties or something like that) and make sure it's executing Linuxconf. Also you might want to try running as root when you click on it.

Re: [newbie] Lost partition/DOS formatting

2000-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: When installing LM7.1 I had it format several FAT32 partitions at the sametime. But one of the partitions can't be found under DOS, even though LM indentifies it as a DOS partition (is shown on desktop) Also, how can Mandrake format a partition in the DOS

Re: [newbie] Fortran Compiler

2000-06-15 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~Hi, all -- :~ :~Do any of you know where I can get a Fortran compiler for Linux? (Yes, I know C is :more flexible -- and Mandrake already :~includes gcc, but I need to compile some fortran programs that some others created). included with the distro (g77). If you need later version of

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO IMAGE

2000-06-15 Thread Art Rowe
I had the same problem while trying three different times to install disk 1 and 2 of Mandrake 7.1. I couldn't open the cd drive door and it didn't have a hole to open in manually. The third time, I used another cd driveand manually opned the drawer. However, all three times the installation hung

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-15 Thread Mark Weaver
"Michael H. Collins" wrote: My fetchmail does not need a cron job, one can set the interval for checking in fetchmail itself. How does one accomplish this? -- Mark I love my Linux box... My Linux Box ROCKS!

Re: [newbie] GL Heretic...

2000-06-15 Thread lilbambi
Hi Ronald ... did you do a find on your computer for these files...maybe it just isn't finding them because it doesn't know where they are. Bambi - Original Message - From: "Ronald J. Hall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake/Linux Newbie Mailing List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

Re: [newbie] SAMBA

2000-06-15 Thread Michael H. Collins
It should be running on all linux/unix boxes. Is your basic network working? Mandrake should have set it up, all you needed to do was put the ip numbers in. -- Michael H. Collins http://www.linuxlink.com Admiral of OpenSourcery Penguinista

Re: [newbie] Automatic Email?

2000-06-15 Thread laurent . duperval
On 15 Jun, Tom Wang wrote: Is there an email client for LM that will automatically dial out to pickup email at set intervals, then logoff? I have same question about FTP program - one like GoZilla or Filedog (Windows applications). Thanks.

[newbie] SANE

2000-06-15 Thread mc
I want to test my SCSI scanner with linux mandrake 7.1 but I'm in doubt on what to do. I see sane is installed via the rpm included into the iso image I used, when reading the manual it talks about "saned" but no saned is into the rpm package nor in the filesystem. Must I compile the SANE pachage

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-15 Thread laurent . duperval
On 15 Jun, Mark Weaver wrote: "Michael H. Collins" wrote: My fetchmail does not need a cron job, one can set the interval for checking in fetchmail itself. How does one accomplish this? fetchmail -d fetchmail -help is also useful. L -- Laurent Duperval

Re: [newbie] Mandrake v7.1 with a Voodoo 3 3000?

2000-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: I've read a couple of different places so far that say v7.1 does NOT find Voodoo video cards correctly... So...being a Linux newbie, should I go ahead with the install (because otherwise, I've seen nothing but good reviews!), or wait for a version that does

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-15 Thread Michael H. Collins
From "man fetchmail": DAEMON MODE The --daemon or -d option runs fetchmail in daemon mode. You must specify a numeric argument which is a polling interval in seconds. In daemon mode, fetchmail puts itself in background and runs forever, query­ ing each

Re: [newbie] GL Heretic...

2000-06-15 Thread flupke
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, lilbambi wrote: I'm also trying to get GL Heretic running on my setup (Voodoo 3 3000). I tried to install the RPM but get an error about needing 2 files. I went to RPMnet, freshmeat, and a couple of other places but could not find them. Anyone have any ideas

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Jim
Well Mark you are close therebut the drive performs perfectly in the OTHER OS...reads, writesjust like it was designed to dobut the only function it has in Linux is music...plays fine...the problem is when I put in any of the data cd's I got when I purchased the MD 7.0 package Jim

Re: [newbie] SANE

2000-06-15 Thread Michael H. Collins
Type in xscanimage and hit enter. Should work. mc wrote: I want to test my SCSI scanner with linux mandrake 7.1 but I'm in doubt on what to do. I see sane is installed via the rpm included into the iso image I used, when reading the manual it talks about "saned" but no saned is

Re: [newbie] Automatic Email?

2000-06-15 Thread Michael H. Collins
Fetchmail with diald would work. I think there is another kind of demand dialing too. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 Jun, Tom Wang wrote: Is there an email client for LM that will automatically dial out to pickup email at set intervals, then logoff? I have same question about FTP

Re: [newbie] sendmail

2000-06-15 Thread Glyn Millington
Luc, how are you trying to collect the mail from your ISP? Do you get any messages when you try to poll the ISP? Are you, as your subject line suggests, using sendmail? A little more information might be useful in tracking the problem. Glyn M. On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:25:43AM -0700, thus

[newbie] automatic start of process

2000-06-15 Thread Craig Fels
Does anyone know how I can have my Mandrake 7.0 box start a process automatically? I'm running Squid and would like squid to start when the machine boots. Thanks, Craig

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS? how?

2000-06-15 Thread Anthony Huereca
One drawback to it is that there aren't any tools for Windows to access it. I used to use Ghost 6.0 to backup my Linux partitions and unfortunately it doesn't see the reiserFS. Explore-ext2 doesn't work either, obviously. You mean you can view ext2 partitions from Windows using those

Re: [newbie] Tar and .Gz

2000-06-15 Thread spooky
hi all: well I tried installing a software that has been proven by many scientists to work w/ a PC windows, Linux and Unix systems. I finished unzipping them and untarring them and gave the command './configure and so forth' and guess what message i got my gcc and C compiler is

[newbie] Fvwm2 dependencies

2000-06-15 Thread Glyn Millington
Hi. I'm trying to install the latest version of fvwm2 on my system which runs Mandrake 7.0. One of the unsatisfied dependencies which prevents me installing is the need for a file /usr/sbin/install-menu I can't track this down! Can anyone tell me which rpm I'm looking for? TIA Glyn M.

Re: [newbie] Automatic Email?

2000-06-15 Thread Monte Milanuk
You can set fetchmail up as previously noted, and then either run it in daemon mode, where it automatically polls your ISP every so many seconds i.e. 'fetchmail -d 300' tells it to check every 300 seconds, or 5 minutes. Alternately, you can set it up to run from a cron script, I think the

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Mark Weaver
Jim wrote: Well Mark you are close therebut the drive performs perfectly in the OTHER OS...reads, writesjust like it was designed to dobut the only function it has in Linux is music...plays fine...the problem is when I put in any of the data cd's I got when I purchased the MD

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS? how?

2000-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: One drawback to it is that there aren't any tools for Windows to access it. I used to use Ghost 6.0 to backup my Linux partitions and unfortunately it doesn't see the reiserFS. Explore-ext2 doesn't work either, obviously. You mean you can view ext2

Re: [newbie] automatic start of process

2000-06-15 Thread flupke
You can add your commands in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. This script i executed at the end of the boot process. Or you can see if it is the services proposed by the "setup" program. You could also see if there is a way to include its starting/stopping in the runlevels with tksysv. HTH Flupke

Re: [newbie] Fvwm2 dependencies

2000-06-15 Thread flupke
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: Hi. I'm trying to install the latest version of fvwm2 on my system which runs Mandrake 7.0. One of the unsatisfied dependencies which prevents me installing is the need for a file /usr/sbin/install-menu I can't track this down! Can

Re: [newbie] GL Heretic...

2000-06-15 Thread David Talbot
SDL 1.0.something comes on 7.0, to play GL Heretic it want's you to have 1.1.*. http://www.libsdl.org/ I can't remember what version of alsa it wants, but you can play it without sound... -david talbot At 08:40 PM 6/15/00 +0200, you wrote: On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, lilbambi wrote: I'm also

Re: [newbie] Tar and .Gz

2000-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, spooky wrote: hi all: well I tried installing a software that has been proven by many scientists to work w/ a PC windows, Linux and Unix systems. I finished unzipping them and untarring them and gave the command './configure and so forth' and guess what

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Jim
Mark, it reads everything fine in windoze. I am not attempting to read cdrw disks in Linux I am attempting to read professionally produced cdroms produced by ManDrake Linux that were provided by them in my 7.0 release...the Creative cdrw 4224 is a machine that is supposed to (and does in

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: Mark, ...the Creative cdrw 4224 is a machine that is supposed to (and does in windoze) act as a normal cdrom as well as a cd burner...it isn't the equipment...it is the OS and the way it is attempting to address the hardware. you might be better served

Re: [newbie] sendmail

2000-06-15 Thread Luc Marts
I aint retreiving from my isp at all i am trying to use my own server here goes again i set up server (i will call it myserver) and i have one windows workstation well i set up myserver with madrake 7 i created a account called viperws then i went onto the workstation and using netscape i set up

[newbie] Screen saver

2000-06-15 Thread Darryl Gibson
Hello list, How do I permit my users to change their screen saver settings in KDE? I don't know which file grants these permissions? -- Darryl Gibson Linux Neophyte (tm)

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Jim
Most interesting part of the whole mix...I used the Creative cdrw 4224 to both burn and install the OS...LOL as far as the other hardware I am running an AMD K6-3 450 on a Gigabyte GA-5AX mainboard...Ali Aladdin Bios with the most recent update provided by Gigabyte with 128 megs of ram...Nvidia

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
Jim Is your 4224 shown in the device listings as a CDRW? I am guessing that , if your Zip is like mine, that you had to set it as Master and your CDRW is set as slave. Just to humor someone you don't know, and since you have tried everything else that you can think of, dissconnect your

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Jim
Hi Charles, Actually the Creative CDRW is set as master and always has been.hmmm...wonder if I make it a slave? might force the system to re-install and re-evaluate what the heck it's dealing with? I dunnoI am totally lost on this one...I have sent 3 requests to Mandrakes support, and

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO IMAGE

2000-06-15 Thread Eunice Thompson
I had this problem only when installing on my laptop-couldn't get the darn drive to open!! When I upgraded to 7.1 final from the beta versions I basically just walked away after indicating which additional packages i wanted, because it took so long for the package installatiion to initialize. I

Re: [newbie] GL Heretic...

2000-06-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
lilbambi wrote: Hi Ronald ... did you do a find on your computer for these files...maybe it just isn't finding them because it doesn't know where they are. Bambi Hi. Just tried that, and it could not find them, so... ;-) Thanks for the excellant suggestion though! ;-)

Re: [newbie] GL Heretic...

2000-06-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
flupke wrote: libasound is provided by alsa-lib-0.5.7 libSDL comes from SDL both packages are on the mandrake CD. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ ! Okay, thanks. I'll look for them under those names (thats what confused me!) ;-)

Re: [newbie] GL Heretic...

2000-06-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
David Talbot wrote: SDL 1.0.something comes on 7.0, to play GL Heretic it want's you to have 1.1.*. http://www.libsdl.org/ I can't remember what version of alsa it wants, but you can play it without sound... -david talbot Thanks for the info, I'll go there! ;-)

Re: [newbie] GL Heretic...

2000-06-15 Thread Fran Parker
Thanks Ronald, I have run into that before where something was there but not where the program was looking for them. Sorry it wasn't that simple. Bambi "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: lilbambi wrote: Hi Ronald ... did you do a find on your computer for these files...maybe it just isn't

[newbie] 7.1 install problem

2000-06-15 Thread richard waters
I have a problem with the install of 7.1 I downloaded and burned the 2 disks. I created the cdrom.img bootdisk on a floppy. During boot up if I tried to use my scsi CD-Rom drive with the install CD, the install failed with a warning that the CD rom could not be initialized. Also the scan of

[newbie] Install problem with Mandrake 7.1

2000-06-15 Thread Tim Schmidt
Hello, Just installed 7.1 on dual boot 2 hard drive system. I am getting the following message after the reboot: Stage 1 Hard Disk Error. Any suggestions? Tim

[newbie] NT and Linux

2000-06-15 Thread Fred Hamilton
How can I have Linux and NT 4.0 Server on the same machine and have Linux show up on the NT start menu instead of using the Linux boot manager? Can it be done? I am getting ready to do a clean install of both operating systems. Fred

[newbie] Applications Disc 2

2000-06-15 Thread Victor Richardson
I downloaded and burned both 7.1 ISO images, but during the install it asks for the first applocations disk, then the extensions, and finally a second applications disk. Unfortunately, there isn't one(I think). When it asks should I re-insert the first disk? The install finished without the

Re: [newbie] 7.1, Win2000 and VIA Chip Set

2000-06-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 7:59 PM Subject: [newbie] 7.1, Win2000 and VIA Chip Set Hi to All I have been running Mandrake, first 7.0 and

Re: [newbie] Applications Disc 2

2000-06-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Victorthere's a place earlier in the installatin where you were supposed to tell the installation just which CD's you have and don't have. Nobody has applications CD's 1 or 2 yet because thay are part of the boxed set and the boxed sets are not available yet. Alan Victor Richardson wrote:

[newbie] Trouble booting 7.0 from 2nd drive with System Commander

2000-06-15 Thread Wendell Gragg
Apparently I have done something wrong here. In used System Commander 2000 to partition my 2nd Hard drive as follows: 1st partition: /boot100 MB 2nd Partition /10 GB 3rd partion: swap128 MB I then installed linux mandrake using Drakx. When it asked me about Lilo, I told

[newbie] Sorry!

2000-06-15 Thread Wendell Gragg
Sorry everyone. The message I just sent about not being able to boot with System Commander was in HTML format. I had recently replaced the hard drive and did a complete reinstall and forgot to change the setting. It's corrected now. Wendell

Re: [newbie] Applications Disc 2

2000-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: I downloaded and burned both 7.1 ISO images, but during the install it asks for the first applocations disk, then the extensions, and finally a second applications disk. Unfortunately, there isn't one(I think). When it asks should I re-insert the first disk?

[newbie] upgrading

2000-06-15 Thread KompuKit
Hey, if you have version 7.0 (first version) and you want to upgrade to version 7.02 what would be the best way...and not lose anything... -- Registered Linux User:73821 ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL

[newbie] Simplicity? Interactive example

2000-06-15 Thread michael
Hi all. I have read nhf's and downloaded files. both rpms and tarballs. However, I have reinstalled 7.02 several times, and have lost ssome. So here's what's up. I didn't get a copy of doom or quake on my 3 cd linux complete 7.0 os. I would like to be able to experience either/both of them

Re: [newbie] partition magic

2000-06-15 Thread GAPrichard
Low level formatting is virtually never needed. A (Windows) format /u , yes. Why were you advised to low level your HDD? -Gary-

Re: [newbie] Applications Disc 2

2000-06-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
I think the other CDs that the install ask for are those that will be included with the 7.1 PowerPack. I installed in automated mode and when disk 2 finished it asked if I had disk 3 and 4. Charles - Original Message - From: "Tom Brinkman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]