[newbie] Screen Power Off

2000-06-18 Thread Gustavo Halperin
I did not find in the Screen Sarver some thing for Power Off the Screen after some time. Can I do this in Linux Thanks -- _/_/_/_/.._/. _/._/_/_/_/._/_/_/_/_/._/_/_/_/ _/.._/._/_/_/_/.. ..._/..._/._/._/..._/..._/.._/.._/_/.._/._/...

[newbie] Problem with Xwindows.

2000-06-18 Thread Ashraf \(Muhammad\) Al-Jumayli
I'm having a problem with Xwindows, I tried to configure it but when it was done the window came out huge and it was shifted to the right. I tried to choose different resolutions but it didnt fix the problem, I tried different monitors and it didnt fix the problem either, could it be my

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive

2000-06-18 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Don't know if this has been answered yet, but do you have a disk in the drive? Mike Edison Gica wrote: Hi: i'm trying to install my 100MB Zip drive (external connected to printer port). i tried following the manual but when I click on the icon on the desktop an error

RE: [newbie] Screen Power Off

2000-06-18 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
It's available in most of the control panels for your window manager... I.E. in Gnome, KDE, etc. You can also enable it in an Xterm by typing "xset +dpms" which enables the Energy Star Features of the Monitor... -JMS -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] ETHERNET CARD PROBLEM

2000-06-18 Thread SJN
Hi Mark, Thanks for the advice. On the video card, during installation, I've set to 640x480 at 8bit color depth. I thought as long as the X will start I can troubleshoot anything later after successful installation. Now, my display is at 1024x768 at 16bit color and suprisingly it works...

Re: [newbie] Undelivered mail

2000-06-18 Thread Eunice Thompson
Glyn Millington wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 05:56:07PM -0400, thus spake Charles A Edwards: I received nearly 30 of the following messages this afternoon. The attachment were all replys that I had sent and all did post to the list so why I getting undelivered notices now. Is this

Re: [newbie] Undelivered mail

2000-06-18 Thread John Arkoulis
Yes it happened to me too. On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, also sprach: I received nearly 30 of the following messages this afternoon. The attachment were all replys that I had sent and all did post to the list so why I getting undelivered notices now. Is this happening to anyone else. Charles

Re: [newbie] Screen Power Off

2000-06-18 Thread John Arkoulis
Open KDE control Center and click on DPMS Then you can set it. On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, also sprach: I did not find in the Screen Sarver some thing for Power Off the Screen after some time. Can I do this in Linux Thanks -- _/_/_/_/.._/.

[newbie] Reload Browser continuous

2000-06-18 Thread Jeffrey Morse
Hello, hopefully someone here can help me with this, once connected to the web and I start running netscape or any mail or nntp program it works great for about the first 1-2 minutes and then it stops downloading or uploading completely (stalled) and I have to reload the browser or most of the

RE: [newbie] networking question

2000-06-18 Thread flupke
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Once it's up and running, you don't need much. The problem is that the installers and configuration utilities utilize X windows... Yes, you can do this in textmode... but it becomes very complicated for a newbie to deal with textmode and

Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz

2000-06-18 Thread Eunice Thompson
Roman Bysh wrote: Hi Alan, Thank for pointing this out. Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: flupke wrote: You uncompress the archive : Romanif that's the adobe acrobat reader, why don't you install the one on disc 5 of your powerpack, it's in an rpm and is easy as pie to

Re: [newbie] Please help!!! SB Live

2000-06-18 Thread nikolaos mpenias
Use DrakConf and you will make your card work. That's what i did. The usual problem is with the numbers in the configuration From: Frank van Polanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Please help!!! SB Live Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:42:17

Re: [newbie] Point of reference Hopkins FBI

2000-06-18 Thread nikolaos mpenias
I agrre with you. death to window$ users! I played Hopkins FBI DEMO and it's great! I had no problem with the sound. Do you have sound with other applications? From: Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Point of reference

[newbie] GAIM

2000-06-18 Thread Hugh
Is anyone else having trouble with GAIM? It started about a week ago. Wont allow me to log in the pass word is correct. Say's I dont have a config file when I try. Any ideas? Not a big problem I admit but I hate not having an answer :) Hugh

Re: [newbie] printer

2000-06-18 Thread nikolaos mpenias
Maybe because there is no driver for that model. I have a HP 815 and i have declayed it as a 550 From: KompuKit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] printer Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 18:39:48 -0400 have a HP deskjet 600 it prints

[newbie] SMP impossible on MDK 7.1

2000-06-18 Thread E.B.
I've installed MDK 7.1 on my Abit BP6 (2 celerons 450 Mhz) with 128 Mb and the installation went fine. Now, when I boot and pick up 'Linux' with Grub (which is the option to boot on kernel with SMP support) I got this : Mounting proc filesystem OK Configuring kernel parameters OK Oops: 0002 CPU:

Re: [newbie] Questions

2000-06-18 Thread nikolaos mpenias
Check www.tucows.com There are many programs for mapping and for GPS. Try Grass4.3 I've heard that it's the best. From: "Mark Wolf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Questions Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 06:20:25 -0700 I am looking for a mapping

Re: [newbie] Can't Boot Windblows

2000-06-18 Thread Chris Hall
You probably have your second hard drive set to boot and not the first. Use a linux fdisk program (cfdisk, much better then DOS fdisk) to set things strait. ;-) Hi people, I've just installed MDK7.1 onto the second hd and then I did reformat of the first hd - hda and then a complete

RE: [newbie] SMP impossible on MDK 7.1

2000-06-18 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I'm running 7.1 just fine in SMP mode (though not using hacked Celerons...) Linux Version 2.2.15-4mdksecure, Compiled #1 SMP Wed May 10 14:16:48 CEST 2000 Two 450MHz Intel Pentium II Processors, 511M RAM, 1789.14 Bogomips Total dualcpu.netrslts.com This is an

Re: [newbie] Please help!!! SB Live

2000-06-18 Thread Max Moritz Sievers
Frank van Polanen wrote: Hi! I've installed a few days ago Linux Mandrake 7.1 , I really like it, it works pretty fine! But there's one thing i can't get to work, and that's my Soundblaster Live! I've tried to install the newest Emu10k1 drivers, won't work. I've disabled OS PnP in the

Re: [newbie] networking question

2000-06-18 Thread bascule
hi, thanks for that url, as for my 486 it has 12meg ram, 540mb hard drive, vlb i/o card, trident tgui9440 vlb video card,the processor is reported as a 'Cx486 DX2-S at 66mhz' netgear ea201 nic and a cdrom that i obtained for free from a friend and 'repaired' it is labelled an xcelsior-24x, the

[newbie] Monitor and VideoCard problem

2000-06-18 Thread Rene de Kat
Hiya, I have a problem with setting up my IIyama Visionmaster 350. I know it is supported in the Mandrake 7.1 distribution. When I select it during installation it keeps restoring the setting to Generic Monitor and in the XF86Config file the following is displayed: Section "Monitor"

Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz

2000-06-18 Thread Rene de Kat
Hiya.. untar the file with tar xvfz linux-ar-405.tar.gz or use the Archiver under XWindows. change to the path where it is installed. With tar it installs it to a subdir in ur current dir. type ./INSTALL and the install will start. There is a default installation dir. U can change it but

RE: [newbie] TV howto set it up (fwd)

2000-06-18 Thread Max Moritz Sievers
Am Sun, 18 Jun 2000 schrieb Jose M. Sanchez: My $.02 Have you brought up a mixer for your sound card and ENABLED the Line-in port? It may be off by default. Everything except "MIC" is higher than 0% in "alsamixer". Note that with some of the original Brooktree drivers there was a

Re: [newbie] Doom music again?

2000-06-18 Thread J Walker
In qui, 15 jun 2000, you wrote: Does anybody have music working in Doom? I have Doom working fine with my setup except for the music. I get this when I "lxdoom" from a shell: /usr/games/musserv: midi_setup: error opening /dev/sequencer /usr/games/musserv: No such device Broken pipe

Re: [newbie] downloads

2000-06-18 Thread J Walker
I like Caitoo. There is a Mandrake-cooker RPM available, which makes install easy. Cheers, /J. In sáb, 17 jun 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: Y'all might wanna checkout 'nt' (aka, WebDownloader). Very simple and efficient. r-clk on a link (copy) and the URL will already be in NT, just tell it

Re: [newbie] why is this? - Swap under Windows StarOffice

2000-06-18 Thread J Walker
In seg, 12 jun 2000, Fred Banana wrote: I often have noticed that I get a continuesly higher download speed in linux than in windows. the speed in windows averages about 3.4 kbits/seconds and that seems as fast as we get. in linux I get an average of 5.5 kbits/seconds with spikes around 12

Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz

2000-06-18 Thread Charles A Edwards
If you are running 7.1 then the Adobe Reader is installed during installation of 7.1 Charles - Original Message - From: "Eunice Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 6:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz Roman Bysh

Re: [newbie] ETHERNET CARD PROBLEM

2000-06-18 Thread Mark Weaver
In my experience with 3Com ethernet cards the IRQ's can be set manually with the jumpers on the cards. I suspect that RH and probably Mandrake will share these characteristics since it's a networking commonality. Give it a shot. I had to do the same thing with my 3Com Modem that I'm using.

Re: [newbie] Problem with Xwindows.

2000-06-18 Thread Charles A Edwards
What resolution do you have set. You can change the window positon and size by using the vert. and horz. size/positon setting on your monitor. You have to adjust your monitor settings anytime you install a new OS. It will not effect the display in any other OS you may be running.

Re: [newbie] why is this? - Swap under Windows StarOffice

2000-06-18 Thread Rene de Kat
I don't know the exact details of why linux is faster than windows, but what I do know is is that LinuX has one of the fastest TCP/ip connections there is. You can speed up your windows download speed by using Download accelerator. I use a cable modem and with DAC I get download speeds 4-5

Re: [newbie] why is this? - Swap under Windows StarOffice

2000-06-18 Thread lilbambi
Also more importantly (in my newbie opinion) it is more reliable...have never had a bad download on a file under linux, where that can happen in Windows and cause you to have to re-download. I am sure it can happen under Linux, have heard people in this list talk about it, particularly on large

Re: [newbie] GAIM

2000-06-18 Thread lilbambi
need to get the latest version if you are getting an error with GAIM now, even though it used to work. Something changed on AOL's end I believe. the new one fixes the problem. Bambi - Original Message - From: "Hugh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000

Re: [newbie] Point of reference Hopkins FBI

2000-06-18 Thread lilbambi
a bit harsh...death to window$ "users" ! get real. think about what you are saying before you say it. Bambi - Original Message - From: "nikolaos mpenias" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 7:10 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Point of reference Hopkins FBI

RE: [newbie] TV howto set it up (fwd)

2000-06-18 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
You might want to search the Redhat archives on this subject. Several months ago I was involved in a discussion about this very subject. Someone came up with a patch to the BTTV driver to enable the Tuner card's audio output upon initialization... Reports were that this solved the problem. I

[newbie] rc.firewall

2000-06-18 Thread Ralph Day
rp_filter turns on Source Address Verification to provide some protection against IP spoofing attacks. rp_filter checks each packet to verify that replies to that packet would route back out the same interface it was received on. Take a look at section 15.3 of the latest Firewall and Proxy

[newbie] Installing Audio or Media Applications

2000-06-18 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, Where does every one install their media applications? For example, if you were in 'root' and proceeded to install RealPlayer or Adobe stuff. Do you normally install it to /usr/bin directory or /us/bin/X11R6/bin/RealPlayer7? I noticed that the default settings are /usr/local/.

[newbie] LAN connectivity

2000-06-18 Thread Joe Lore
HI, I am using Mandrake 7.1 and I am having trouble getting connectivity to the net through my LAN. I currently use a Win 98 SE box with internet sharing to provide net to the entire LAN, however, when I provide the IP for that box as the default gateway it just simply does not work. Has

Re: [newbie] Point of reference Hopkins FBI

2000-06-18 Thread lilbambi
I too use Windows for applications not supported under Linux as yet. I didn't so much switch due to a hate situation with Windows, I actually enjoy Win98 as configured on my dual boot system. I can go between Win98 and Linux Mandrake 7.0 in a breeze. I love the variety and I love the challenge

[newbie] cd writer quit working after re-install

2000-06-18 Thread Roland Hightower
After my first install and subsequent re-installs of mandrake 7.0 my cd writer was able to read data cd's like the dvd drive. Now all of a sudden after a re-install it deosn't work. I just get an error msg saying "could not list directory contents file:/mnt/cdrom2". I see the device /dev/hdd

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Install problems, Gnome desktop acting wierd?

2000-06-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote: With your soundblaster first thing is do you have "PNP OS" enabled in your bios? If so, it won't work. Not here. I run a Soyo 6ba+III with an AWE64. In both Windows and Linux I never have set the bios (Award 4.51) to enable 'png os'. I believe setting

Re: [newbie] why is this?

2000-06-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote: I don't know, I seem to get better download times on my Win2k box than either of my Win98 or Linux boxes... let the flames begin!!! Seriously though, on any of your OS's you can tweak the settings to allow different connections. Not all hardware is created

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Install problems, Gnome desktop actingwierd?

2000-06-18 Thread Chris Hall
Ok. Try running the hardware configuration from Darkconf. See if it detects your soundcard. Do you have sound in kde? Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote: With your soundblaster first thing is do you have "PNP OS" enabled in your bios? If so, it won't work. Not here.

Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz

2000-06-18 Thread Dennis Myers
flupke wrote: You uncompress the archive : tar zxf linux-ar-405.tar.gz then you go into the newly created directoy, su to root, and execute the installation script : ./INSTALL (or is it ./SETUP???) Then, the rest should be self prompting. HTH Flupke On Wed, 14 Jun 2000,

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Install problems, Gnome desktop actingwierd?

2000-06-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: Ok. Try running the hardware configuration from Darkconf. See if it detects your soundcard. Do you have sound in kde? Works fine. I should have mentioned I have an ISA SB AWE64. This is just my opinion, but I think it's fairly realistic. All the

Re: [newbie] Doom music again?

2000-06-18 Thread Ronald J. Hall
J Walker wrote: I am answering this to you privately, since I don't really know the answer to your question... My music works fine, I have musserv in /usr/games/, downloaded it from a link I found in the official lxdoom page. I believe that the permissions for your /dev/sequencer must

Re: [newbie] LAN connectivity

2000-06-18 Thread Fran Parker
Hi Joe, Linux is so much better at sharing internet connections than windows...why not use the Linux box for that? If you need to use the Win98SE ... you will probably have to use proxies. So much cleaner with ipchains. No proxies server...just pass/allow and deny as needed. Much easier, at

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Install problems, Gnome desktopactingwierd?

2000-06-18 Thread Chris Hall
So the Drakconf found your card? Isa heh? ;-) Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: Ok. Try running the hardware configuration from Darkconf. See if it detects your soundcard. Do you have sound in kde? Works fine. I should have mentioned I have an ISA SB AWE64.

[newbie] Uninstall The Install

2000-06-18 Thread Marc
I was wondering if I have to uninstall something I installed and how would I go about doing this? I usually install using the commands gzip -cd source.tgz | tar xvf - then cd source/ ./configure then make then make install all as root. Thanks! _

[newbie] KPPP and PPPD

2000-06-18 Thread Melissa and Michael Grover
Still trying to figure out KPPP and PPPD this is the error that KPPP displays as soon as I my modem connetcs with my ISP linux pppd[913]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I linux pppd[913]: couldn't find any secret (password) which would let it use an IP address.

Re: [newbie] Doom music again?

2000-06-18 Thread Chris Hall
Your doing better then I am Ron. :) I have sound in Doom but no music. In Heretic I have nothing. No sound or music. :) Are you running X Heretic? Ronald J. Hall" wrote: J Walker wrote: I am answering this to you privately, since I don't really know the answer to your question... My

[newbie] deletion of locked files

2000-06-18 Thread KompuKit
I just downloaded a program called: xaudio for linux it's a mp3 player,from www.xaudio.com when I tried to delete it...even from root...it says it's a locked file...and has a belt around it... I can't even install it with kpackage. but it won't let me delete it...why? --

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Install problems, Gnome desktopactingwierd?

2000-06-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: So the Drakconf found your card? Isa heh? ;-) Here's what harddrake shows for it. To tell the truth tho, I set it up in 6, 6.1, 7.0 with 'sndconfig' run from a level 3 prompt logged in as root. I can't remember for sure, but I believe 7.1 setup it up

Re: [newbie] Uninstall The Install

2000-06-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: I was wondering if I have to uninstall something I installed and how would I go about doing this? I usually install using the commands gzip -cd source.tgz | tar xvf - then cd source/ ./configure then make then make install all as root. Thanks! try 'make

Re: [newbie] KPPP and PPPD

2000-06-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: Still trying to figure out KPPP and PPPD this is the error that KPPP displays as soon as I my modem connetcs with my ISP linux pppd[913]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I linux pppd[913]: couldn't find any secret (password) which

RE: [newbie] LAN connectivity

2000-06-18 Thread Joe Lore
I saw the potion to set proxies in the install but now I cannot seem to find them. Where can I set the proxies? Thanks Joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fran Parker Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

[newbie] PCI modem

2000-06-18 Thread Rodrigo P.
Hi folks... Does anyone know how to make a Motorola PCI modem work ? I know that linux does not handle PCI very well yet, but is there a way to make it work ? Thanks for the help. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN

[newbie] SB Live issues, still

2000-06-18 Thread Joe Lore
Hi, I got the latest drivers available from the SB Linux developers page but still am not able to get it to work. I followed the instructions as close as I could, however, being a "newbie" comments like "unload all sound drivers including soundscape" mean zip to me. Still when I use the

Re: [newbie] libstdc++ missing?

2000-06-18 Thread KompuKit
I want to install 0.81 licq...onto 7.0 can I do this? HOW Anthony Huereca wrote: You need to install libstdc++-devel too. I'm trying to install licq-0.81 on my newly installed 7.1 box. ./configure gets to the point of checking for vector.h, returns no, and tells me configure:

Re: [newbie] Common XFree86 4.0 Voodoo3 Problem

2000-06-18 Thread Chris Hall
Actually the voodoo3 card is a very popular card for linux. I know alot of people that use it in linux and have no problems for it whatsoever. I personally think you made a good choice. I use to have a voodoo3 card in linux and it was rock solid. wrote: I just ordered a vodoo3 2000 card,

Re: [[newbie] ETHERNET CARD PROBLEM]

2000-06-18 Thread Jaguar
I have the 3COM509B NIC, that functions perfectly in Linux and Windows. I suggest writing down the exact I/O, IRQ (using whatever method you like to retireve these #'s )from Windows and using those parameter's in Linux. If the card works in Windows, it will work in Linux (with the right I/O,

Re: [newbie] Common XFree86 4.0 Voodoo3 Problem

2000-06-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: I just ordered a vodoo3 2000 card, having forgotten what I had read about linux not liking it :-( Has there been any resolution of this issue( aside from ordering another video card)? TIA, -michael- i've got one, pci version. When you get it screw

Re: [newbie] cd writer quit working after re-install

2000-06-18 Thread Jim
there is a fix located at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/pages/ but right now the link is brokenI am having the same problem and have been for a month Jim - Original Message - From: "Roland Hightower" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday,

Re: [Re: [newbie] Point of reference Hopkins FBI]

2000-06-18 Thread Jaguar
Yes I have sound elsewhere in Linux, I think the error is something like "unable to open /dev/dsp". "nikolaos mpenias" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agrre with you. death to window$ users! I played Hopkins FBI DEMO and it's great! I had no problem with the sound. Do you have sound with

Re: [newbie] TNT2 on X4.0..

2000-06-18 Thread Necrotica
The Nvidia drivers work great on my machine. I followed the instructions on the linuxnewbies.org site and they worked flawlessly. Are you sure you followed the instructions correctly? -Chris On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: Does anyone have a tnt2 set up on X4.0 with opengl working correctly.

Re: [newbie] Problem with saving Kmix settings (Solved)

2000-06-18 Thread Roger Pithers
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote: I have successfully configured my AWE64 sound card and used Kmix to adjust the volume etc. According to the Kmix help file I should be able to save these settings by pressing Ctrl-1, but this has no effect. When I boot to

Re: [newbie] Power failures whilst in LM

2000-06-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi Friends 1. What safety measures/preventative action should I take to minimise the effects of sudden power failures. Only way is to eliminate power failures will an UPS, eg., http://www.apcc.com/ 2. I read somewhere that switching off the system

RE: [newbie] LAN connectivity

2000-06-18 Thread Neptali Barrios
Hi, I also need to do that, I share Internet connection when my two machines are in Windows 98, I want to set up my Lan in linux, I don't know how to do that, I want to share files, printer, Internet Connection, etc. I am using Linux Mandrake 7.0. Please anyone help me, I need to set up my Lan

Re: [newbie] LAN connectivity

2000-06-18 Thread Fran Parker
Can't help you there Joe, do not have Win98SE so I do not have this setup that is unique to SE. Like I was saying, I used third party programs to accomplish the same thing since my windows box was the one with the modem. Now I am on Linux and we use ipchains to accompish all of this so much

Re: [newbie] Power failures whilst in LM

2000-06-18 Thread Benjamin Shugar
- Original Message - From: Alan Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 3:13 PM Subject: [newbie] Power failures whilst in LM Hi Friends 1. What safety measures/preventative action should I take to minimise the effects of sudden power failures. 2.

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

2000-06-18 Thread R. D. McCallion
Hi all, Just wanted to send a quick thank you to everyone that helped out, and to finish the thread for the benefit of those searching the archives. As with most problems the solution was simple enough, it was simply a matter of running a different install batch file:

Re: [newbie] TNT2 on X4.0..

2000-06-18 Thread root
Positive. The only difference is that I'm running 7.1. Are you running 7.0 or 7.1? Necrotica wrote: The Nvidia drivers work great on my machine. I followed the instructions on the linuxnewbies.org site and they worked flawlessly. Are you sure you followed the instructions correctly?

[newbie] libasound.so.o

2000-06-18 Thread root
Anyone know where I can find the file libasound.so.o. I need it in order to run GLHeretic. Thanks all!

Re: [newbie] TNT2 on X4.0..

2000-06-18 Thread Necrotica
7.1. Although I did have them working on 7.0 until I accidently reinstalled Mesa. Once I did that I was screwed and I wasn't able to get it back until I installed 7.1 cleanly. Try removing all *.mesa and untill the Mesa RPMs. Remove all of the Nvidia stuff. Then install Mesa and follow the NHF.

[newbie] Help!

2000-06-18 Thread Mike Dempsey
I need to install mandrake without an X based setup. My alpha box won't do X. Please help Mike

Re: [newbie] Power failures whilst in LM

2000-06-18 Thread GAPrichard
I'd like to reply to item one. The cheapest insurance you can have (for your equipment (that is, literally, it's logevity), operational reliability, software (lack of corruption problems), piece of mind, personal free-time, etc.) is a GOOD surge/spike (maybe with RFI) protector, or two,

Re: [newbie] Help!

2000-06-18 Thread Michael H. Collins
I think you have to make a nonX bases floppy to boot from. It is in the images directory on the cd IIRC. root wrote: Mike Dempsey wrote: I need to install mandrake without an X based setup. My alpha box won't do X. Please help Mike Just do a custom install and when it comes

Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz

2000-06-18 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanwhat gives you that idea, it serves as a fully implemented reader on my system. Alan Romanator wrote: I found mine at: http://www.adobe.com However, if you can get through all off the marketing, you will find a download section. Look for Adobe Acrobat Reader, and click on UNIX

Re: [newbie] Help!

2000-06-18 Thread KompuKit
FIRST...i would get out of root and do these things in a root terminal or use drakeconf within your user dir root wrote: Mike Dempsey wrote: I need to install mandrake without an X based setup. My alpha box won't do X. Please help Mike Just do a custom install and when it

[newbie] Starting amd

2000-06-18 Thread Melissa and Michael Grover
When my Mandrake 7.0 machine boots up, it will sit at "Starting amd:" for about 45 seconds, the continue on. the service starts ok. On another machine, their is no delay at all. Anybody know where I can get more information on what amd is? mike...

[newbie] staroffice

2000-06-18 Thread KompuKit
Just installed StarOffice 5.1 however, it said that I didn't have java support... why is this, and how do I fix it...anyone know? -- Registered Linux User:73821 ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] X resolutions

2000-06-18 Thread Victor Richardson
I finally got X working on my IBM Netfinity 3000 server w/ an S3 Trio3D video vard (PII350, 128 megs, 4 megs video, 9.1 gig hd). During configuration (xf86config) I set the resolutions at 8bpp and 24bpp to "1024x768" and "1280x1024", and 16bpp at "800x600" and "640x480" according to

Re: [newbie] PCI modem

2000-06-18 Thread Charles A Edwards
The first thing you need to do is find out if you winmodem or a real modem. Log in as root and from terminal enter the following command # cat /proc/pci This will list all your PCI devices. On this list you should see either Communication controller or Communication device, that listing is

Re: [newbie] TNT2 on X4.0..

2000-06-18 Thread Chris Hall
Trust me I appreciate your help. :) Let me ask you this: I just followed the NHF again and everything went cleanly. No errors or anything. It says everything is loaded but yet when I into my KDE control panel/system information/X Server its says its 3.3.6. What gives? You have any idea why it

Re: [newbie] Starting amd

2000-06-18 Thread Victor Richardson
I have the same problem, except it takes minutes. "amd" is the automount service that (guess) automounts your floppy, cd-rom, drives, and any other device instead of having to type "mnt /dev/cdrom" or "mount /cd" for whatever device you want to use. It may have been corrupted during install. I

Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz

2000-06-18 Thread KompuKit
Don't understand...why you're having so much trouble... I installed it with no problem I have a copy of the tar file on my server Alan Shoemaker wrote: Charlesreally?!? On which 7.1 CD is the RPM located? It in on neither of mine. I installed Adobe Acrobat Reader after my 7.1

Re: [newbie] staroffice

2000-06-18 Thread KompuKit
well, when I try to bring up my server's webpage with a java based sroller it won't run...why Mark Weaver wrote: As far as I know it's always told me that everytime I've installed it. Even when I had JDK and JRE installed on the machine! -- Mark I love my Linux Box! On Sun, 18

Re: [newbie] Starting amd

2000-06-18 Thread Melissa and Michael Grover
I took the amd service out of startup and my system works well. I also made a shell script in the /etc/rc.d with the ability to either shutdown or re-boot the machine. Then put a Kde lonk on the desktop to these scripts. My wife finds them much easier to use :-) now i just need to find a way

Re: [newbie] Uninstall The Install

2000-06-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: Thank you for your help. If a author does not include this should I just rm it or what? Again thanks for your help! well now I need to admit to not being much more'n sophmore newbie myself ;) I don't very often run into needin to uninstall, 'cause I can't

Re: [newbie] kdesu

2000-06-18 Thread Darryl Gibson
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Darrylif there is no /usr/bin/kdesu file on your computer then you need to install the kdesu rpm file from your master CD. Hi Alan, Ok, I did that, and still I can't ls -al, or locate kdesu. I did find a /usr/bin/kcmkdesu file, which I suspected might be a make

[newbie] My tnt2 is now working!! ;-)

2000-06-18 Thread Chris Hall
Thanks all who helped me with this problem. I finally got my tnt2 and x 4.0 working together. Soldier of Fortune and quake 3 absolutely fly. Thanks all. If anyone else is having the problem I was feel free to ask me any questions. I know it can get frustrating. :) Thanks all!

[newbie] telnet failed

2000-06-18 Thread Linux Neophite
hello all, Can somebody help me with my problem. I am on my other linux box server. When I telnet to my new Mandrake 7.0 (Newly Installed) It has an error of: telnet: Unable to Connect to remote host: Connection refused I need some help on this thank you

Re: [newbie] Uninstall The Install

2000-06-18 Thread Marc
Thank you for your great reply Tom! I will do this. Thanks again for your help. Also the "Do you really...?" does get annoying ;) - Original Message - From: "Tom Brinkman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 9:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall The

[newbie] LinuxConf Network Config; Plus Installation problems

2000-06-18 Thread Keith Nickas
Hi, My problem has been getting the install to work properly. While installing, it say's it has a problem with the a base file and the file list's for the rpms. I can get it to work right with a little bit of trying this and that... but when I want to use the linuxconf or Network setup in

[newbie] firewall???

2000-06-18 Thread Mark Weaver
Earlier this weekend I had asked if anyone had any ideas about a firewall problem I was having. I haven't heard anything back yet and I was wondering if that message had gotten lost? -- Mark I love my Linux Box!

Re: [newbie] telnet failed

2000-06-18 Thread KompuKit
you need to install...BOTH the telnet and the telnet SERVER packages from off your CD...with kpackage,as root. Linux Neophite wrote: hello all, Can somebody help me with my problem. I am on my other linux box server. When I telnet to my new Mandrake 7.0 (Newly Installed) It has an

[newbie] 2 Consistent Problems

2000-06-18 Thread Joe Lore
Ok, this is getting confusing so I will just post the issues in this one mailing and hope I get some good answers. I am having 2 problems with my Mandrake 7.1 install (these were the ISO images available online). #1) On bootup the Emu10k1 driver fails. I followed the detailed instructions given

[newbie] I need help with X Windows.

2000-06-18 Thread Ashraf \(Muhammad\) Al-Jumayli
After Installing Linux, I came to Configure Xwindows, but the screen always comes out too big and shifted to the right. I tried using different resolutions but it was no use, and changing the ver/hor for the monitor didn't work either, the window was the same big size and in the same place

[newbie] just a quick one

2000-06-18 Thread Michael Falzon
Hi All Just a quick one. 1 I need user to log in using telnet ( for my bbs ) I need to have no password for the bbs user e.g. when using us a telnet program you wound see linux 1st then the users type at the logon "bbs" then it let then to the bbs. now I have got this working but I

[newbie] help tar files installing

2000-06-18 Thread KompuKit
Whenever I try to install tar.gz files from a terminal... I get the following errorwhy? and how do I fix this? checking whether C compiler (gcc) works...no configure error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables I installed all the gcc files...I could

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