[newbie-it] Englhitment e Gnome??? Problema!

2000-08-17 Thread TriOptimum
Salve ancora: 4)Altro Problema: Oltre alle icone Sputtanate.. la Gnome quando uso comewindows manager ENLIGHTMENT.. non mi salva la posizione delle icone suschermo... ovvero io le metto come voglio .. poi salvo la sessione ed esco equando rientro.. le icone sono di nuovo auto arrangiate

[newbie-it] Boot Log?!?

2000-08-17 Thread TriOptimum
Ciao:3)Qualcuno mi sa dire come fare per loggare tutto ciò che leggo durante ilboot in un file per una più comoda e calma consultazione post-boot??? O se Linux crea già questo file di default e dove lo mette??? Grazie e Ciao!

Re: [newbie] Red hat installation problem

2000-08-17 Thread L. H. LOO
PMJI At 17-08-2000 11:34 AM, you wrote: When I boot the machine successfully from A: drive With what ? I presume you used the win9.X start-up disk. Does you boot disk contain cdrom drivers.Try to access your cdrom drive, then cd\dosutils, execute autoboot.bat from there. NO GO ? Then you have

[newbie] how about CompuServe for Linux?

2000-08-17 Thread Adrian Smith
with all this AOL talk, does anyone out there know if CompuServe (owned by AOL of course) has a Linux software? CS is my main email address and if the world were perfect there would be a CS program that could read my current address book email folders and then life would be good. and while

[newbie] Auto-starting kicq question?

2000-08-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Hmm, I posted this message a day or 2 ago, but I've still not seen it appear so...I'm resending it - with apologies if it appears twice. Anyways, I want kicq (now that I've got it working well) to start as soon as I'm connected to the 'Net. I looked at /etc/ip-up to see how PMfirewall does it,

Re: [newbie] redirecting rpm output

2000-08-17 Thread Daniel J. Ferris
Adrian Smith wrote: i'm having some trouble with an RPM, getting lots of error messages. i'm installing from the command line is there any way to redirect the output to a txt file, such as in DOS one would type "dir dir.txt" um yes :-) You redirect the same way actually,

Re: [newbie]

2000-08-17 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote: I want a file named "tetex-do.rpm" of Linux-Mandrake 6.1 or Linux-Mandrake 6.5. Please give me advice how I download the file. In the time of install Linux-Mandrake 6.1 it want to "mount point" of hard disk. I don't know about "mount point". Please advice how I

[newbie] KDE directory

2000-08-17 Thread Michael Khachiki
Dear Anyone who knows Linux better than me (almost very one) I have installed Kdevlope v1.0 in my with my mandrake but when I go to the C/C++ document section of the program I get an error message asking me to download a tar file and put it in my KDE directory?? What I don't

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] ld-linux.so.

2000-08-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote: Hey Tom, You're hardware is at risk when ld-linux.so.2 goes awry. It will cause your cpu's internal core to increase significantly. Left 'untreated', and if your system cooling is marginal or inadequate, harware failure is risked. I wouldn't let the

Re: [newbie]

2000-08-17 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote: I want a file named "tetex-do.rpm" of Linux-Mandrake 6.1 or Linux-Mandrake 6.5. Please give me advice how I download the file. In the time of install Linux-Mandrake 6.1 it want to "mount point" of hard disk. I don't know about "mount point". Please advice

[newbie] Dependency Problem

2000-08-17 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Re-set due to bounce... Hi. I am trying to install modutils-2.3.14-1.i386.rpm but I'm getting the following error: Dependency Problem: /sbin/is_depmod_necessary is needed by initscripts-4.72-13mdk Does anyone know where I can get this file? Regards, Ozz.

Re: [newbie] eth0 doesn't initialisesnip HardDrake Bug?

2000-08-17 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Is this a bug with HardDrake? "According to HardDrake, the card uses I/0 = -1 and IRQ = -1... is that normal? It doesn't allow me to choose any other values for these parameters... Besides, HardDrake doesn't explicitly display my card as being mounted as device eth0... is that normal also,

Re: [newbie] Cannot install file system

2000-08-17 Thread Paul
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Martin Pagnan wrote: I bought and registered the Linux-Mandrake Complete Pack. It stops at the 'setup file systems' stage of the install and prompts me with the question "Found ppa scsi interfaces Do you have another one?" For the first time through I select yes and chose

Re: [newbie] Mandrake on IRC

2000-08-17 Thread Paul
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Greg Stewart wrote: HEY! I can harldy deal with the remaining 828 unread messages I've gotten from this damnable message board! I couldn't possibly keep up in a chat room!!! I never realised this would be such an active board, but I guess I'm a masochist 'cause just stick

Re: [newbie] Re: Mail Program

2000-08-17 Thread Paul
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pine of course has always been the most powerful mail program for Linux, and I used it religiously years ago, but nowadays a text-only program just isn't sufficient. Depends on whether you want your mail program to show hopping bunnies and play

Re: [newbie] Scanners and Linux

2000-08-17 Thread Paul
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Brian wrote: Hi all, Brian here again... (you know the silly one)g just a quick question, I have a customer who wants to who what scanners will work under Linux, will any or is there a special thing that it needs (like a non brain-dead modem , read non win modem)? Most

Re: [newbie] KDE directory

2000-08-17 Thread Mark Hillary
Don't send html. it is crap. crap. crap.crap. crap. Did I mention it is crap. it is for web pages not emails. Mark Hillary BTW the kde directory is refering to either the .kde directory in your home directiory. Or the /usr directory. (Think it is the first, depends on the error message. Would

Re: [newbie] KDE directory

2000-08-17 Thread Mark Weaver
Mike, It's talking about the .kde directory that is located in your /home directory. Mark Michael Khachiki wrote: Dear Anyone who knows Linux better than me (almost very one) I have installed Kdevlope v1.0 in my with my mandrake but when I go to the C/C++ document section of the

Re: [newbie] Xfree4.0 or 3.6.6 Switching Prob!!!

2000-08-17 Thread Mark Hillary
I think that X 4.0 writes over x 3.3.6 so you may have a prob using both on the same system. I my be wrong, someone will correctr me, but i think it is near on in possible, plus there is no reson to use 3.3.6 and 4 at the same time, just use the one that supoorts you card the best. Mark Hillary

Re: [newbie] Scanners and Linux

2000-08-17 Thread Gary
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 06:32:37PM +0100 or thereabouts, Paul wrote: Most decent SCSI scanners will do. I have a simple Mustek scanner and that performs great (once i have the color settings figured out.) Paul, How did you get yours to work. Sane is installed, but I have yet to get it

Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-17 Thread Eric MC.D
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But - seriously - with the right parts Linux is very easy to install. This doesn't seem ok, having to choose my hardware according to what OS I want to use. You are absolutely correct. I wish I could run Win98 on my Amiga. For that matter, it would be

Re: [newbie] eth0 doesn't initialisesnip HardDrake Bug?

2000-08-17 Thread alexandre_babeanu
Well, that's a good question Is that a bug with HardDrake?? To check if HardDrake works fine, it would be cool to be able to validate the Hardware config using some other way... Is it thus possible to check the hardware config through the command line? What would I need to do (what commands

Re: [newbie]

2000-08-17 Thread Mark Hillary
For the first questtion, find someone with the disk I sure they could send you the file (ask at irc.linux.com [you can even connect if you are useing win]). For the second one type man mount at the command line (Use Eterm it is call). That sould give you the information you need. BTW read the

RE: Re[2]: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-17 Thread JRobertson
Title: RE: Re[2]: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT But - seriously - with the right parts Linux is very easy to install. This doesn't seem ok, having to choose my hardware according to what OS I want to use. You are absolutely correct. I wish I could run Win98 on my Amiga. For that matter,

[newbie] Default Package Choices?

2000-08-17 Thread JRobertson
Title: Default Package Choices? Does Mandrake document the packages that are installed by default with each type of install? For example, if I use the Server install, what packages are installed? Thanks, Jon

Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-17 Thread Goldenpi
I wasn't refureing to os install, I was talking about installing apps. I know the rpm stuff make it easy to install in linux, but under windows you dont even have to open the file. Put in the cd and the install starts itsself. Windows is easeier to install than linux for me, because windows

Re: [newbie] KDE directory

2000-08-17 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Mike, It's talking about the .kde directory that is located in your /home directory. Which is normally invisible; check the View = Show hidden files box in KFM, or ls -A in console mode, to see it. I have been had by this before! (dont follow me,

Re: [newbie] No GnoRPM in 7.1?

2000-08-17 Thread Paul
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Rick wrote: I recently installed 7.1 from the MacMillan 7.1 Deluxe version of Mandrake. One of my favorite utilities has always been GnoRPM. Unfortunately, it hasn't been installed and I can't find it on any of the 7 CDs. Was it not included in this version? I got it here,

[newbie] Mandrake 7.1,xwindows, help!

2000-08-17 Thread Chris _
I've tried everywhere and no one can help me with this problem: Hi i installed mandrake[7.1 -downloaded off the website on tuesday lastweek] without a network card and it worked fine. Xwindows and all. Then i installed a 3com network card into my computer and reinstalled mandrake. and i got

[newbie] One Question One Problem

2000-08-17 Thread William Presho
Hello All Have a question: When the computer first boots it says something about ide bus speed, assumes 33 MHz if this is not correct use idebus=xx. where do I find this. Now the problem: When I first typed xscanimage in the terminal window it worked fine. I then installed Gimp. Now if I type

[newbie] Win Modems Again!

2000-08-17 Thread R J Booysen
I suppose people cringe when they hear about problems with win modems, but I need help desperatley. I want to convert fully over to Linux, but I need my modem up and running first. Whenever I try and connect I get a modem busy signal. Even when I change the device from the /dev/modem to

Re: Re[4]: [newbie] OT ld-linux.so.

2000-08-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote: H... now tell me - how can a program make a CPU hotter ? By accessing more registers or being L1 and L2 cache intensive or what ? Because until today I considered what you said being science-fiction. Roman If you visit the numerous hardware and

Re: [newbie] Re: Mail Program

2000-08-17 Thread Dan O'Rourke
KMail is great! It's GUI is intuitive, and its overall feel is fantastic. I've always felt that Netscape's mail was sluggish. I much prefer Kmail. Recently, I beilieve it was linux journal that gave kmail a very high reveiew as a linux mail client. I have tryed it out and i feel that it

Re: [newbie] Auto-starting kicq question?

2000-08-17 Thread Greg Stewart
Per the /etc/ppp/ip-up file, you really shouldn't make the changes directly there, make a file called /etc/ppp/ip-up.local (use: touch /etc/ppp/ip-up.local or just vi it) and possibly change the sructure of your original entry to: /usr/bin/./kicq there's a 'slash-dot-slash' between bin and

[newbie] System failure

2000-08-17 Thread pierred1
Hi to all Last night, during my Linux session, we had a power shortage in our town. And today, when I tried to reboot, I had these messages: ... check forced mode ... /dev/hda4 file system with errors ... Failed ...unexpected inconsistency; run fsck manually and it returns in a

Re: [newbie] Mandrake on IRC

2000-08-17 Thread patrick darcy
did u know that if u dont read all those 828 emails that your computer just might blow up Paul wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Greg Stewart wrote: HEY! I can harldy deal with the remaining 828 unread messages I've gotten from this damnable message board! I couldn't possibly keep up in

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-17 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
But - seriously - with the right parts Linux is very easy to install. This doesn't seem ok, having to choose my hardware according to what OS I want to use. You are absolutely correct. I wish I could run Win98 on my Amiga. For that matter, it would be really neat if I could run

Re: [newbie] AOL for Linux

2000-08-17 Thread Mark Weaver
yes...I believe you are correct. patrick darcy wrote: i believe this thread started when somone with no money or income had to use aol because their parents did. i could be wrong though, i think not, therefore i am Vic wrote: Oh I think someone was just wanting to see what would

Re: [newbie] Win Modems Again!

2000-08-17 Thread Ed Santiago
R J Booysen wrote: I suppose people cringe when they hear about problems with win modems, but I need help desperatley. I want to convert fully over to Linux, but I need my modem up and running first. Whenever I try and connect I get a modem busy signal. Even when I change the device from

Re: [newbie] Xfree4.0 or 3.6.6 Switching Prob!!!

2000-08-17 Thread Chris Spencer
Actually, its easy to switch between the two. Change the /etc/X11/X symlink so that it is pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 (for 4.0) instead of /sr/X11R6/bin/SVGA (or whatever) that it is in 3.3.6. To see which version you're running, at a prompt type XFree86 -version -Chris On Thu, 17 Aug

Re: [newbie] redirecting rpm output

2000-08-17 Thread Daniel J. Ferris
Adrian Smith wrote: thanks Dan gosh, i hate it when the answer is so obvious that i can't find it. =) Sure :-) One thing you find about MS-DOS, is that Microsoft in their eternal wisdom (thats an oxymoron) decided that they would make DOS work similar to UNIX, which is why you can use

[newbie] SoundBlaster Live! Configuration Issues

2000-08-17 Thread Guy and Jeanne Bergeson
I have installed Mandrake 7.1 in a dual boot configuration on a Gateway computer running a 550 MHz P3. The sound card I have is a SoundBlaster Live! There is some incompatiblity between what windows wants and what Linux wants. Windows seems to need the digital output and Linux seems to need

Re: [newbie] Message Format

2000-08-17 Thread Kathleen Dickason
Outlook's default is HTML (gah) but you can change it :) (Your messages are showing up in HTML format) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What format are my messages showing up in? It should be plain text. But when I get my own message back it doesn't look like plain text. I hate Outlook.

[newbie] Message Format

2000-08-17 Thread JRobertson
Title: Message Format What format are my messages showing up in? It should be plain text. But when I get my own message back it doesn't look like plain text. I hate Outlook. Unfortunately, I have to use it at the office... :( Jon

RE: [newbie] Message Format

2000-08-17 Thread JRobertson
Title: RE: [newbie] Message Format Outlook's default is HTML (gah) but you can change it :) I know that. I *have* changed it. (Your messages are showing up in HTML format) Argh!!!

Re: [newbie] Message Format

2000-08-17 Thread Kathleen Dickason
Sorry, then, I guess it's just that M$ is being evil :(( (I have to use Outlook at work and hate it also) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Outlook's default is HTML (gah) but you can change it :) I know that. I *have* changed it. (Your messages are showing up in HTML format) Argh!!!

Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-17 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
which video card are you trying top use with quake3? I actually had quite a bit of luck with that game so I might be able top help you out. Dacia I've got a Matrox G400 max (dual head; 360 ramdac) with 32MB ram. I've checked out the howto's, but have really not had any luck. Could you

Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster Live! Configuration Issues

2000-08-17 Thread philomena
You could try downloading the latest verison of HardDrake - it will require a an updated kernel, alsa, (both from the Mandrake update site) and and a few other packages - I also got the latest version of the emu10k1 driver from creative labs - after I did that, the card worked like a charm.

Re: [newbie] System failure

2000-08-17 Thread Harvey Janson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would try entering as root:- e2fsck -t /dev/hda4 Answer each question with a "y" for yes. Everytime Netscape crashes, my system freezes, and I have to restart my computer, and run in to the same problem. Hope this helps. Harvey Hi to all

[newbie] popper hung

2000-08-17 Thread Joseph Lee Pereira
Hello, I have found that by repeatedly hitting the Get Mail you basically lock up sendmail. It does not matter what mail client you use, Netscape, Pegasus, etc. One user knowing this trick can lock up mail retrieval for the entire network. Anyone have a solution? Using: Sendmail 8.10.1 Kernel

Re: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive

2000-08-17 Thread Marcia Waller
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[newbie] newbie-saving into floppy

2000-08-17 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear all, Usually I have no problem with opening my floppy disk with my floppy icon until tonight. I tried saving a file into it which just did not work. I gave up on that. Then I went to my floppy icon and tried to open it and got an error message that it was already mounted or busy. I must have

Re: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive

2000-08-17 Thread =*=
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[newbie] kppp and other applications

2000-08-17 Thread pierred1
Hi to all When kppp has succeeded a login (when I am online), I cannot use disk navigator or open for example Netscape. Also, the ''Mandrake update" option is not working. But everything works ok if I am offline. Same for the browser: I have to open Netscape before going online. Is it normal?

Re: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive

2000-08-17 Thread Greg Stewart
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Re: [newbie] winblows files

2000-08-17 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Thanks! Mike "Mike %26 Tracy Holt" wrote: I'm curious, how did you do the correct hex editing? I've changed the other files without problem, but the one that changes the boot logo has elluded me. Is it a registry hack to change the picture? Is there a simple way to do that hex

Re: [[newbie] System failure]

2000-08-17 Thread Michael Scottaline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all Last night, during my Linux session, we had a power shortage in our town. And today, when I tried to reboot, I had these messages: ... check forced mode ... /dev/hda4 file system with errors ... Failed ...unexpected inconsistency; run fsck

[newbie] internal zip drive

2000-08-17 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear Anyone, I did look up the zip drive in the archives and I really can't seem to find the answer that applies to my problem so far. The etc/fstab does have /dev/hdc4 in it. Also, Drakconf says it is now mounted (supermount) but I just do not know how to get my zip icon to open my zip

Re: [newbie] winblows files

2000-08-17 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Thanks! Mike The hex editing is on io.sys. It changes verious messages, such as the starting windows 98 message. You can edit some other messages in there, browse through it. There is no hex editing needed to change the logo. The logos are stored in the files c:\logo.sys

Re: [newbie] Scanners and Linux

2000-08-17 Thread Paul
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Gary wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 06:32:37PM +0100 or thereabouts, Paul wrote: Most decent SCSI scanners will do. I have a simple Mustek scanner and that performs great (once i have the color settings figured out.) Paul, How did you get yours to work. Sane is

Re: [newbie] One Question One Problem

2000-08-17 Thread Paul
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, William Presho wrote: Now the problem: When I first typed xscanimage in the terminal window it worked fine. I then installed Gimp. Now if I type xscanimage I get the following xscanimage: error in loading shared libraries: libgimp.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No

Re: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive

2000-08-17 Thread Greg Stewart
=*= Wrote: I am sorry. I have no idea how to respond to this: ^?þ^@!^@D^@O^@C^@T^@Y^@P^@E^@ ^@H^@T^@M^@L^@ ^@P^@U^@B^@L^@I^@C^@ ^@"^@-^@/^@/^@W^@3^@C^@/^@/^@D^@T^@D^@ SNIP Well, if you parse the ^ and the @ you get the following (of course, mine arrived in chinese!): ?þ!DOCTYPE HTML

Re: [newbie] .rpm installation woes

2000-08-17 Thread Paul
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: I just downloaded a rpm from the RedHat site, and installed it. (ftape, to be able to use the streamer on my box) The installation instructions that come with the package are full of "make" and "make install"; but the rpm only contains a number of

Re: [newbie] kppp and other applications

2000-08-17 Thread Viktor Pechorin
try login as not "root" - as some nonpriveleged user - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 8:13 AM Subject: [newbie] kppp and other applications Hi to all When kppp has succeeded a login (when I am online), I cannot use

Re: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive

2000-08-17 Thread Viktor Pechorin
From: "Marcia Waller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:30:43 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_NextPart_000_0069_01C0089A.C7AD8F00" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express

Re: [newbie] Re: Mail Program

2000-08-17 Thread Viktor Pechorin
Yes, it's great but it's not support codepages... = in Linux only Netscape mail Pine support it. - Original Message - From: Dan O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Mail Program KMail is great! It's GUI

Fw: [newbie] internal zip drive

2000-08-17 Thread Viktor Pechorin
- Original Message - From: Marcia Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 9:30 AM Subject: [newbie] internal zip drive Dear Anyone, I did look up the zip drive in the archives and I really can't seem to find the answer that applies to my problem so

Re: [newbie] internal zip drive

2000-08-17 Thread Paul
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Anyone, I did look up the zip drive in the archives and I really can't seem to find the answer that applies to my problem so far. The etc/fstab does have /dev/hdc4 in it. Also, Drakconf says it is now mounted (supermount) but I just do not know how