Oggetto: [newbie-it] si connette poi va in coma...

2000-09-20 Thread DARIO_ORLANDO
Ciao Alberto, effettivamente la documentazione su Linux e veramente tanta (beh! sicuramente è qualcosa di positivo) ma tra tutti se puoi scarica gli Appunti Linux dal sito ftp del Pluto. Prova a digitare in un motore di ricerca "Appunti Linux" e verrano trovati i link corretti ai vari siti.

[newbie-it] ...e la mia partizione dov'è finita? - RISOLTO - Con correzione ortografica

2000-09-20 Thread DARIO_ORLANDO
Scusate l'errore ma nel P.S. volevo scrivere '' Ma guarda te se uno che sta cercando di imparere Linux deve avere sti problemi già in fase di partenza. '' C'era un NON di troppo. Dario

[newbie-it] Wine

2000-09-20 Thread Giovanni Mazzamati
Saluti a tutta la lista. Ho appena installato Corel photo-paint 9 e tuuto sembra andar abbastanza bene. Ma il mio problema non è questo, io vorrei usare wine per lanciare piccole applicazioni Win con il mio amato linux. Purtroppo i tentativi che finora ho portato avanti non sono andati a buon

Re: [newbie] Modem

2000-09-20 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Mwinold: You might wish to consider the U. S. Robotics 56k EXTERNAL modem. It was recommended to me by some of our gurus. It connects every time. However, please remember that it will work well ONLY for data, i.e. as a dial-up connection to the Internet, NOT for faxing. But many Linux

Re: [newbie] slow printer performance

2000-09-20 Thread John Rye
Fabian Jennings wrote: I have a PC pentium 233 with 32MB RAM, and am dual booting between Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and Win 95. My printer is an HP Deskjet 870Cxi. Under Windows, it prints as expected - 4 to 5 pages of black and white text per minute, or thereabouts. Under Linux-Mandrake,

Re: [newbie] sound and KDM graphical login manager

2000-09-20 Thread John Rye
Alan Shoemaker wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Anyone, Before my computer crash 4 weeks ago I had sound working in Linux but I do not know why it worked finally. Now after my reinstall (without windows 95 this time) I am trying to set up sound and I just get error messages when

Re: [newbie] No user group!

2000-09-20 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, you wrote: Hello everyone , I wonder if you can help me? I live in Maidstone , Kent(U.K.) I am a newbie and struggling. Is there a user group in the area? If not interested in setting one up? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The nearest user groups I know off in kent are:

[newbie] Cryptography in LICQ

2000-09-20 Thread Rob
Hello to all that may be concern about LICQ and why it's isnt working properly. I had went to the MDK 7.2 Beta and downloaded all the LICQ and Qt2 files but I was missing two other files which were libcrypto.so.0 and libssl.so.0. There were no such file that I can find on MDK. I did a search

[newbie] PHP4 / MySQL

2000-09-20 Thread Phillip L. Gillis
Hello, I am new to Linux and have successfully created a dedicated 7.1 box. I have Apache installed and I am wondering how I can get PHP4 - or the latest version from php.net on my system. I see the file I can download . but to be honest I am clueless how to go about getting it from the net and

Re: [newbie] Calling an ICEwm expert

2000-09-20 Thread John Rye
burlington john wrote: ** Reply to message from John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 20 Sep 2000 06:47:03 +1200 I getting to like this interface more and more...now I want to make some changes.. In particular to the terminal/console (what do we call it?) currently it appears to

Re: [newbie] Exporting QIF

2000-09-20 Thread John Rye
Robin Regennitter wrote: hi, I tried Exporting QIF to a directory. But windows wont let me Export but it just says that my printer is not installed. I'm not trying to export my QIF files to the printer for pete's sake. I'm trying to Export the file so that when I go into linux. I can

Re: [newbie] Talk Daemon

2000-09-20 Thread flupke
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alright i had one of my friends telnet onto my comp and log in on an account i made for him. Then i tried to use talk to talk to him but it says "No response from talk daemon" does anyone know why this is? Thanks in advance Check that the

Re: [[newbie] slow printer performance]

2000-09-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
Fabian Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a PC pentium 233 with 32MB RAM, and am dual booting between Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and Win 95. My printer is an HP Deskjet 870Cxi. Under Windows, it prints as expected - 4 to 5 pages of black and white text per minute, or thereabouts. Under

[newbie] Tech Support from Macmillan -- Personal Inquiry

2000-09-20 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: What has your experience been like with Linux-Mandrake, i.e. Macmillan's free guaranteed email tech support? I have been using Linux for nearly two years and have supported it financially by purchasing its CD's. I began with Red Hat's 5.2 Power Pack (or whatever it was called

[newbie] Video Card Installation

2000-09-20 Thread IssxePunK
I'm using linux mandrake 6.5. When I try to install my video card with Xconfigurator I get error messages like -- - there was an error detecting the video ram on your card.

RE: [newbie] Dual-boot question

2000-09-20 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Now, I know some people who use ME and think that it works just fine. Maybe your friend is having some configuration problems...Just a guess. -Original Message- From: Doug McGarrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 12:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

[newbie] Netscape 128 bit

2000-09-20 Thread mdk-newbie-g
In the past I have used Fortify to upgrade Netscape to 128 bit encryption to gain access to online financial sites I use. Unfortunately this product only supports up to version 4.72 of Netscape. Is their a 128 bit Mandrake RPM floating around at a higher version level?...what I've foound so far

Re: [newbie] Error msg's while booting up mandrake linux

2000-09-20 Thread Larry Marshall
These things being said this fact begs a serious and important question. Why in the world are they doing it at all? Continuing to do so is never going to help their standing in the world of desktop OS market share. You're absolutely right. I suspect its done because they realize that lots

Re: [newbie] Yahooooo - nuther part at Fred's

2000-09-20 Thread Larry Marshall
If you haven't already take a look into setting up procmail filters. It's relatively easy, quick, and offers precise, hands-on control over the filters and the messages getting filtered. Can't say that I have. I'm using Netscape for my mail and haven't even had the time to figure out why it

Re: [newbie] slow printer performance

2000-09-20 Thread Larry Marshall
StarOffice is a resource hog. If you aren't running a P3 600+ with like 128MB RAM, it's slow. It's NOT Linux's system (well, the O/S anyhow). Heck Steve, even those numbers don't make it load/run at a decent pace. I've seen nothing like it in the Linux world. I'm praying that Sun does

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

2000-09-20 Thread Larry Marshall
the correct name is. One of my compadres at work has decided to put ME on his machine. He said it crashed a lot. He was unable to even boot the machine today! I Probably while doing its "maintenance" to keep it from crashing :-) can't believe that MS was so stupid as to create this

[newbie] Graphics instalation with Mandrake 7.1

2000-09-20 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Hello, I am a new Linux User and, of course, I have lots and lots of things to know about this very stable OS. As more of the new linux users, I come from windows world, in fact I need to run both OS because wine and vmware can't run perfectly some very specific applications (actually vmware

RE: [newbie] Dual-boot question

2000-09-20 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I believe that ME is a real release at this point but, who cares. It is just a crutch until I become proficient at Linux. And, it's for my wife too... :o) -Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 8:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] sound and KDM graphical login manager

2000-09-20 Thread John Couturier
I believe your sound problem to be an IRQ conflict. How to fix it depends on your sound card and your motherboard. First make sure your IRQ's in the computer bios are all set to auto. The turn off "plug and play OS" in the BIOS. THat is the stupidest thing in the world in first place.

Re: [newbie] Tech Support from Macmillan -- Personal Inquiry

2000-09-20 Thread Larry Marshall
I've only used their support once and got a timely and very helpful response. I am by now an "old hand" :-) at installing, configuring and reinstalling my Linux, etc. But even for an "old hand", it would seem that 2 incidents are just not enough. For a newbie, this is, I believe, terribly

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2000-09-20 Thread A. Nazarov
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[newbie] Linux Mandrake 7.0 7.1 Install Fails

2000-09-20 Thread Felix Miata
Package: installer Version: 7.1,7.0 Current error message on screen: unable to open for writing /mnt/etc/ld.so.conf. Another observed: illegal division by zero These happen after closing "Format Partitions", leaving the last green star on "Format Partitions". It is the

RE: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT

2000-09-20 Thread Jim Chiang
I went into the Frak Config and clicked around a bit and didn't think I did anything but look around and then cancel... Next time I boot Grub comes up instead of LILO? They are both installed?? So confused I have the options now to boot to: linux failsafe windows floppy Problem is when I

[newbie] Sound card configuration problems

2000-09-20 Thread pablito
This is just a gripe. I know that Harddrake (or sounddrake) is just another linux shell that conveniently runs existing teccho programs that most people don't understand, but the various programs in my distribution of 7.1 don't seem to match up, and when I try to upgrade them, they don't match

[OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Mark Johnson
Just curious, how many of y'all: * are programmer folk * are IT folk * are plain user folk Don't get me wrong, I really like Linux and hope it flourishes. And I'm not saying that Linux sucks in any way! But I'm just wondering because, without getting into a flame war, I'm surprised how bad

[newbie] Hard Drives

2000-09-20 Thread direwoof
Seeing how I am going to install Linux this weekend I have a question pertaining to multiple hard drives. I have 3 HD's that will be on the Linux box 6gb, 7gb 30gb. In windows I normally partition the 30gb into 4 7gb partitions so I have smaller clusters and am not wasting space. Do I

Re: [newbie] Sound card configuration problems

2000-09-20 Thread Ian Land
Try running sndconfig from a terminal window as root. HTH Ian This is just a gripe. I know that Harddrake (or sounddrake) is just another linux shell that conveniently runs existing teccho programs that most people don't understand, but the various programs in my distribution of 7.1 don't

[newbie] problems installing ip_masq_H323

2000-09-20 Thread Jim Chiang
Ok. I'm trying to install this module from source. It is to allow netmeeting and other H323 programs to work through the firewall. It can be found at: http://www.coritel.it/projects/sofia/nat.html I downloaded the .c file and followed the directions on the page: *** HOW to build the module:

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Philomena
I fall into the "used to be a programmer and unfortunately fell up into management" type, but I still try to keep myself current. I'm curious also - what type of question during the install would you think is confounding to a new user ? It seems to me that every question during the installs

Re: [newbie] Tech Support from Macmillan -- Personal Inquiry

2000-09-20 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Larry: I basically agree with your point about the economics involved. I do understand the need for limited free tech support. You bring up a good point when you mention that Macmillan/Mandrake would have to charge $100-$150 per box in order to provide adequate free tech support to

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Larry Marshall
Don't get me wrong, I really like Linux and hope it flourishes. And I'm not saying that Linux sucks in any way! Mark...UNIX doesn't dominate the home computer market for one reason. They've failed to get the interface useable by people who don't want to know much about computers. I don't

Re: [newbie] Hard Drives

2000-09-20 Thread lselinger
Seeing how I am going to install Linux this weekend I have a question pertaining to multiple hard drives. I have 3 HD's that will be on the Linux box 6gb, 7gb 30gb. In windows I normally partition the 30gb into 4 7gb partitions so I have smaller clusters and am not wasting space. Do I

RE: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Mark Johnson
Specifically, what was mostly confusing was after I selected that various packages it asked me how many megabytes of the selected packages I wanted install with a slider bar to adjust the "level" I guess. I didn't get it at all -- because I don't know how many megabytes I want, all I knew was

Re: [newbie] Sound card configuration problems

2000-09-20 Thread John Rye
pablito wrote: This is just a gripe. I know that Harddrake (or sounddrake) is just another linux shell that conveniently runs existing teccho programs that most people don't understand, but the various programs in my distribution of 7.1 don't seem to match up, and when I try to upgrade

Re: [newbie] Tech Support from Macmillan -- Personal Inquiry

2000-09-20 Thread Larry Marshall
So, why not offer LM 7.1 at the current price (around $50) and add the option of a package deal on free email support for a certain period of time beyond that, i.e. $50 to $75 for 30 or 60 days of serious tech support, at least as it concerns installation issues and helping the newbie get

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread direwoof
Now you peaked my interest, why wouldn't a new user dwnload the ISO image from the ftp site? I dwnloaded and burned 6 different flavors of the Linux OS that I thought were worth giving a try. Unless you mean by new user "someone that is totally new to computers" Lyn At 10:28 AM 9/20/2000

RE: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Mark Johnson
Agreed. I think my use of "bad" was inappropriate... -Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 10:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?) [..snip...] That

[newbie] Tech Support from Macmillan -- Personal Inquiry -- II -- Correction

2000-09-20 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Larry: I basically agree with your point about the economics involved. I do understand the need for limited free tech support. You bring up a good point when you mention that Macmillan/Mandrake would have to charge $100-$150 per box in order to provide adequate free tech support to

RE: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many ap ps?)

2000-09-20 Thread lselinger
Specifically, what was mostly confusing was after I selected that various packages it asked me how many megabytes of the selected packages I wanted install with a slider bar to adjust the "level" I guess. I didn't get it at all -- because I don't know how many megabytes I want, ---SnIp

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Larry Marshall
all -- because I don't know how many megabytes I want, all I knew was that I wanted packages A, B, and C. I just accepted the default and then it told I find that question odd as well. I suspect it's a subtle notice of how much stuff you've selected but it's too subtle :-) The app

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Adam
i'm a cross between geek/programmer/plain folk - Original Message - From: "Mark Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 10:11 AM Subject: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?) Just curious,

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too manyapps?)

2000-09-20 Thread John Rye
Philomena wrote: I fall into the "used to be a programmer and unfortunately fell up into management" type, but I still try to keep myself current. I'm curious also - what type of question during the install would you think is confounding to a new user ? It seems to me that every question

RE: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many ap ps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Philomena
I think that sliding bar thing is explained more clearly in the install screen on 7.1 - I believe it has to do with ranking the system-importance of the packages you selected so that the install can make a decision on what to install and what to kick out if you don't have enough disk space.

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread KRITZBERG DAVID OWEN
I'm a economics phd student--I write in LaTeX and do some light programming so Linux is nicer than Windows for me. - David Owen Kritzberg (david.kritzberg-at-colorado.edu) Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Philomena
Yup, I'm sort of am assuming that if you know how to get to the FTP sites (even tucows), download and burn the ISO images, then the install of Mandrake couldn't be all that difficult. But, that is purely an assumption. I too downloaded a bunch of distros to try out, and most of my co-workers

RE: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Bigelow . Mike
Hi! I'm new to the list (today) I did a little survey on the Rutgers linux-newbie mailing list a while back. The results were interesting Most are male Most 25 - 40 Most had a wide range (years)of detailed computer experience (DOS, Unix, WinXX, OS/2) (hence the guts to try something new)

Re: [newbie] mail-client software

2000-09-20 Thread pungki
Hi I've downloaded Mahogany from www.tucows.com. It's form is rpm package and tar.gz file. I have also downloaded wxGTK from www.wxwindows.com in rpm package. Then I tried to install wxGTK. It's OK. When I tired to install Mahogany, (I was tried both, rpm and tar.gz), then ./configure, I got

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many ap ps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Austin L. Denyer
This will normally happen if you select packages that exceed the disk space you have ... 100% = all of the selected packages if its less that 100% you did not have enough room to install everything ... it tells you right on that screen =) Even if you DO have room, it doesn't

RE: [newbie] Hard Drives

2000-09-20 Thread Jim Chiang
Lyndon, In windows if you have 7 GB partitions then they are FAT32 partitions. I don't think FAT32 is subject to cluster size issues the same way FAT16 was. i.e. I don't believe you need to worry about partitioning in windows or in linux. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Jim

Re: [newbie] Financial programs

2000-09-20 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Robin: Whether this will work with Moneydance, I don't know, but the way that I moved my Quicken files to gnucash was to have Quicken create a .qif file in my d:/empty folder. Then I switched to Linux and gnucash, and retrieved the files from windows. As I recall, it took a while for gnucash to

Re: [newbie] Only one Linux book opens

2000-09-20 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Mark and All, I am trying to read the books in Linux. My crash happened with Linux to begin with then in the process of trying to fix things I lost my Windows 95 also. I have reinstalled Linux but have not been able to reinstall Windows 95. That does not bother me. I am happy to have a

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread the Duchess of the Antipodes
But I'm just wondering because, without getting into a flame war, I'm surprised how bad the installation of Mandrake is. i'm a 15 year old with no experience whatsoever with anything but windows (unless you count the array of prehistoric apples i played with at school as a child) , and i

Re: [newbie] Kernel compiling?

2000-09-20 Thread Fabrizio Ravazz
Hello, you've got to open an xterm, go to the directory /usr/src/linux and give this command: make xconfig This opens a tcl/tk interface where you can put extra options to your Kernel, once you've finished save exit. Be careful because if you do something wrong your machine won't start

Re: [newbie] Only one Linux book opens

2000-09-20 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Alan and All, Thank you. That sounds like what I need to do. How do I install that Linux tar file from CD#3? I have tried to install it before and had no luck. I do not understand the tar procedure. I am a newbie so could you or anyone explain step by step how to do this? Thank you very

Re: [newbie] sound and KDM graphical login manager

2000-09-20 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Alan All, Yes, I did the edit and changed it to id:5:initdefault: and nothing changed except for one time the gui login manager came up for a couple of seconds while I already was into KDE and then went away. It never shows up at all now. Is there anything else I can do? Sound-I did

[newbie] Drivers and install

2000-09-20 Thread Igor Ortiz
Absolutely newbie on linux. Had installed LM7.1 on a PII 400MHz, have soundpro Cmedia chip on board and a Xerox docuprint C3 printer doing nothing under LM. No drivers for printer. Sound was "recognized" by LM but doesn't work, mpu - parameter not valid, and some other stuffs. Tried to install

[newbie] Supported PCMCIA cards?

2000-09-20 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! As i'm considering purchasing a laptop i'd like to know if there's a list of PCMCIA cards supported by Linux. Thanks! ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Larry Marshall
Mark Johnson wrote: Agreed. I think my use of "bad" was inappropriate... Mark, I've been critical of "Linux" too. My criticisms have been directed at the marketeers and/or the press who are telling unknowing computer users that Linux is a drop-in replacement for Windows. I suspect it might

[newbie] lpr: cannot create problem

2000-09-20 Thread Timothy Hare
Hello, The problem I'm having is: I just installed the LM 7.1 Deluxe system and I can print fine from root but not from users. The command line and Netscape give the following error: Lpr: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/lp/.seq I assume the problem has to do with permissions but I

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Larry Marshall
p.s. i have the wardrobe, though! six t-shirts from thinkgeek.com! and i have a stuffed penguin! and i devour slashdot upon a daily basis... oh, god, *please* tell me i'm not a total failure and i have the makings of a "real" linux user...!! Anyone with a stuffed penguin is well on his way

Re: [newbie] sound and KDM graphical login manager

2000-09-20 Thread pablito
The same thing happened to me with the harddrake that came with 7.1. However, I tried sndconfig from the 7.2 beta distribution and it worked just fine on an ES1868 sound card, with no other tweaking required. I didn't check to see if there was a sndconfig on the 7.1 distribution. This was after

RE: [newbie] Supported PCMCIA cards?

2000-09-20 Thread Ingo Bauer
Good afternoon Joan A great site to start EVERYTHING LAPTOP from is http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ PCMCIA specific info can be found at http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ Ingo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joan

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Philomena
ah.. to be 15... :-) and its not possible to be a total failure at that age - nor at any age ! I think you're doing fine - just calm down, chill and take a dp breath and you'll be able to tackle your display problem. You haven't had fun yet until you get the huge white cursor that takes

RE: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT

2000-09-20 Thread Romanator
At the Lilo prompt or Grub, type in or select DOS, and press the enter key. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Chiang Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 11:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Supported PCMCIA cards?

2000-09-20 Thread Austin L. Denyer
As i'm considering purchasing a laptop i'd like to know if there's a list of PCMCIA cards supported by Linux. Try www.linhardware.com. They list hardware (including PCMCIA) known to work with Linux, along with links to any additional drivers you may require. Regards, Ozz.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 / Trying to get modemto work

2000-09-20 Thread Paul
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Rodrigo Villela LAB17 wrote: I almost giving up. I'll buy an USR 56K.But ISA or PCI ? Any sugestions ? Hi. I'm using an ISA/Supra Diamond 56k modem. Worked fine with Mandrake, right out of the box... Don't know why PCI shouldn't work as well

Re: [newbie] licq 0.85 problem

2000-09-20 Thread Paul
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Joan Tur wrote: Adam escribió: I remember licq 0.85 needs qt 2.2 installed, that *could* be your problem, Hallo! Thanks for your answer but we still haven't found where the problem is 8-) I've upgraded with --force and it still doesn't work (v.2.2-2mdk of qt2)... You

RE: [newbie] can not connect to internet

2000-09-20 Thread Romanator
Lenoard, As we have covered this topic many times over, please check out the Linux newbie newsgroup archives. But, ifyou cannot find them, I haveadded it below. I have used it and have never had any problems with @Home cable since. For your convenicence, Ihave added it below:

[newbie] Mounting new drive

2000-09-20 Thread Goldenpi
I have just inserted my new old 500mi drive, to hold my /home partition. Now, should I use ext2 or dos filesystem? If I use ext2, what is the correct format for fstab? If I just mount it to /home what will happen to the stuff in my /home partition now? I see a reformat looming. - Original

Re: [newbie] No user group!

2000-09-20 Thread dwyatt
Sorry, I can't help you out, since I live in the US. But, interestingly enough, I took a vacation in the UK this past summer and drove right through Mainstone. dwyatt - Original Message - From: Steve Maytum To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000

[newbie] Grub - Lilo

2000-09-20 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
When I installed Mandrake 7.1, the boot manager installed by default was (I think) Grub, which I like. When I tried to oinstall Corel linux on another partition, I found myself stuck with (a badly installed version of) Lilo. How can I go back to Grub ? TIA, Ron the Frog, celebrating Spring on

[newbie] kedit and kless by default ?

2000-09-20 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
When I ran M7.0, the default action when clicking on a text file was to open it with kedit. With M7.1, the default is open it with kless. (How) can one change this back to kedit ? (the line formatting of kless is atricious ;-( TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. --

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 05:12:17 +1200,Duchess wrote: p.s. i have the wardrobe, though! six t-shirts from thinkgeek.com! and i have a stuffed penguin! and i devour slashdot upon a daily basis... oh, god, *please* tell me i'm not a total failure and i have the makings of a "real" linux user...!!

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Larry Marshall
About the only time that I have to go to that other O/S is when I need to scan something as I have a Umax Astra 1220U Scanner and the USB Scanners aren't quite there yet in Linux :-( but they'll get there -- I am confident of that! Patti, it's advertised that 7.1 has improved USB support.

[newbie] PC-2-Phone

2000-09-20 Thread Altoine Barker
I have a situation. I miss using DialPad in Windoze but it isn't supported for Linux. Anyone know of any alternate websites that support PC-to-Phone with Linux or any other PC-to-Phone alternative solutions? I am running LM7.1 with all of the latest auto updates. I installed using the Developer

[newbie] kde vs gnome vs java

2000-09-20 Thread Bruce LaZerte
Just installed Linux Mandrake 7.1, and the latest IBM Java V1.1.8 Under Gnome, a java app I use a lot (PolarBar eMailer) works fine (except for another problem for another email). But under KDE the mouse left click does not properly select list items. Menu items are selected OK though. I

[newbie] kernel patches

2000-09-20 Thread Bruce LaZerte
Just installed Linux Mandrake V7.1 (Helium) with kernel 2.2.15-4mdk. Was having a problem with accessing all the files on a remote smbfs directory, and the folks at www.samba.org told me to patch and recompile the kernel up to 2.2.18-pre8 to fix it. So I downloaded the necessary patches from

[newbie] Typing special characters

2000-09-20 Thread Carolina Kohler
Hi everybody, I have a sort of silly question: How do you type in Linux the following character: ~ In Windows or MS-DOS it's Alt-126, but that doesn't work in Linux, this time I've had to copy and paste it on this message. Thank you, Carol^

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 / Trying to get modemto work

2000-09-20 Thread Carolina Kohler
Hi, I think you can find some information about Linmodems and Winmodems on: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html I hope this can help you, Cheers, Carol^ El mié, 20 sep 2000, escribiste: Barry Premeaux wrote: Mark, When I go Mandrakes home page and pull up the 'Supp. Hardware'

Re: [newbie] Compaq BIOS problem

2000-09-20 Thread Jack Landers
Stephen: I've checked my BIOS and agree that there doesn't seem to be a way to disable PNP on the Compaqs. Only have one possibility to offer you at the present, and there is certainly no guarantee it will work! * Try a call to Compaq Tech Support and ask the Tech who answers how to do what you

Re: [newbie] Tech Support from Macmillan -- Personal Inquiry

2000-09-20 Thread Jack Landers
Wednesday, September 20, 2000 10:14 AM "Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: ... Linux is preadapted to an approach of slow, methodical learning. ... If people would deal with the basics first they'd have far fewer questions and become far

[newbie] EXT2

2000-09-20 Thread Eric Flood
I have a drive I am trying to put peanut linux on. I need the drive to be ext2. Can anyone direct me as to how to do this. I only have win machines up right now (as far as a bootable disk.) Thanks

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Mwinold
i thought i knew everything about computers until i met up with linux! In a message dated 20-Sep-00 09:19:26 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I doubt a first time Linux user would click on Expert, the "psychology" of Linux seems a little wacked but I guess it's not an

Re: [newbie] Sound card configuration problems

2000-09-20 Thread Mwinold
why do people always suggest the most obvious stuff that was already done and listed in there message as "i did this but the wrong thing happened" and then someone has to be %*%*%* and suggest what they already did, its ubsured and ignorant In a message dated 20-Sep-00 09:38:59 Central

RE: [newbie] PC-2-Phone

2000-09-20 Thread Jim Chiang
http://.HotTelephone.com I believe they support both Java and ActiveX -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Altoine Barker Sent: September 20, 2000 7:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] PC-2-Phone I have a situation. I miss

Re: [newbie] EXT2

2000-09-20 Thread Mwinold
In a message dated 20-Sep-00 19:58:38 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: peanut linux ???peanut linux sounds luck someone was a nut when they wrote this version

[newbie] Um... wheres my kde?

2000-09-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Title: Um... wheres my kde? Hi, I have been messing with trying to get kde or gnome (?) up and running, and out of windows manager for awhile, but no one has been able to help me, so I decided to join the mailing list. I have enclosed a reply from some one else's post I found in the archives.

Re: [newbie] Typing special characters

2000-09-20 Thread dwyatt
Um, the tilde key is right next to the "1" key. :) dwyatt - Original Message - From: "Carolina Kohler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 7:53 PM Subject: [newbie] Typing special characters Hi everybody, I have a sort of silly question: How

Re: [newbie] Financial programs

2000-09-20 Thread Barry Premeaux
I wish I had some experience with Quicken in order to tell you how, but I haven't used it. Perhaps someone on the list knows the mechanics of how it is done. I do know that it is doable as that is the only file format that imports to Moneydance and a lot of people have made the conversion

Re: [newbie] Only one Linux book opens

2000-09-20 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Alan and All, Thank you. That sounds like what I need to do. How do I install that Linux tar file from CD#3? I have tried to install it before and had no luck. I do not understand the tar procedure. I am a newbie so could you or anyone explain step by step how

Re: [newbie] EXT2

2000-09-20 Thread Eric Flood
Sorry never mind. Just found it, thanks. - Original Message - From: "Eric Flood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Linux Mandrake List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 7:50 PM Subject: [newbie] EXT2 I have a drive I am trying to put peanut linux on. I need the drive to be

Re: [newbie] sound and KDM graphical login manager

2000-09-20 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Alan All, Yes, I did the edit and changed it to id:5:initdefault: and nothing changed except for one time the gui login manager came up for a couple of seconds while I already was into KDE and then went away. It never shows up at all now. Is there anything

RE: [newbie] USRobotics modem problems

2000-09-20 Thread Aaron Benedict
Carolina, Do you think that this will help with my problem. Whenever I try to start kppp I get an error telling me that the modem is busy. The modem is a non win modem USR ISA PNP modem. Thanks, Aaron Aaron Benedict - [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 95DB 011B A173 B613 948E A51A 0FE4

Re: [newbie] Typing special characters

2000-09-20 Thread Larry Marshall
How do you type in Linux the following character: ~ Hold the shift key down and hit the key marked ~. On most keyboards it's just to the left of the 1. In Windows or MS-DOS it's Alt-126, but that doesn't work in Linux, this This is a keyboard mapping thing. The 126 is simply the number

Re: [newbie] EXT2

2000-09-20 Thread Larry Marshall
peanut linux ???peanut linux sounds luck someone was a nut when they wrote this version Peanut Linux is a micro-version of the OS to use in small devices. It will fit on a floppy. Cheers --- Larry

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