Salve a tutti.
Ho installato Linux da un paio di giorni e ho un problema con il
modem.
Il Kppp lo vede e ci comunica tramite il "query modem" (pur non
ritornando nessuna stringa) ma quando lancio la connessione mi rimane
su "Initializing modem..." e il log su "Expecting OK".
Non capendoci
Ciao a tutti. Sono un nuovo utente di Mandrake 7.1 ed ho un prolema con il monitor
Philips 105MB 15". Infatti alla giusta risoluzione (800x 600) mi viene a mancare una
striscia di circa 2 cm in corrispondena del margine destro dello schermo. Per
utilizzarlo tutto devo settare la risoluzione a
dwyatt escribió:
Um, the tilde key is right next to the "1" key. :)
dwyatt
Ejem... not in a spanish keyboard };-)
- Original Message -
From: "Carolina Kohler" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 7:53 PM
Subject: [newbie] Typing special
Doug McGarrett wrote:
Does anybody know how to write umlauts and ess-tsets
in Eudora for windows? The ALT commands always bring
up some kind of window having nothing to do with
fonts. I don't know where else to ask this, so pardon
me please. (If I could get mail to work in Linux,
I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
This is not intended to
Has anyone attempted to setup Slashcode using Mandrake as a base?
Besides adding mySQL, is it super-evil?
thanks,
-- jon
Dear Paul and friends:
The following instructions are courtesy of Ramon Gandia, one of the
great gurus on our Mandrake list.
There is NO NEED whatsoever to use fetchmail or sendmail or any other
program to configure Pine. In fact, configuring it is one of the easiest
things in the world of
Dear Vic and friends:
This is a duplicate of my message "Configuring Pine -- Instructions". I
should have sent it to the list using the "Pine and dialup" subject
header. However, I hope you all forgive me for posting it again, this
time under the right heading so it will get to the right
Hi to all again, :))
Well, I got a small problem with Mandrake 7.1 Installation, I got one
AMD K6-II 500 MHZ, ASUS PV5A MotherBoard, 128MB SDRAM, RIVA TNT ULTRA,
Ethernet card ne2000 comp., 13.0 GB HD, CD-ROM 48x and W98 Installed in
the first 10 Gb and Mandrake 7.0-2 in the other 3 Gb.
I was musing to my brother the other day that I have spent more money on
linux books in the past nine months then I have cumulatively spent on
windows software in my whole life. I'm not a programmer nor am I
particularly a geek, I simply enjoy being in controll of the elements of
my life.
hehehehehe
you are sooo doomed.
I also picked up linux in a whim. My roommate had a copy of mandrake
5.2 that sat on a shelf for months on end. One day I bought a new hard
drive and I decided to put linux on it. I got it installed on the first
try too but I couldn't get my modem working so I
I can't connect to internet with
linux.
When I try to connect to internet, pppd die and I
can read the following message on /var/log/messages:
Sep 20 19:07:58 localhost pppd[1027]: pppd 2.3.10
started by root, uid 0Sep 20 19:07:58 localhost pppd[1027]: Using interface
ppp0Sep 20
pungki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
May I know where I can find blackbox website , please? I need documentation
about Blackbox, like FAQ, HOWTO or something like that. Because I don't
understand how to use blackbox. Even I don't know how to change background.
:-(
Any help would be greatly
Hello!
I have recently installed Mandrake 7.1. I have two major problems:
1.
First, it seems that I can compile a source file either by gcc or g77,
but I cannot run object file giving command (a.o or a.out - permissions are
ok), instead get a message
bash: a.o: command not found
2.
Hi,
Thank you for your help, all of you. But non of the things you told me helped,
I must have a strange keyboard. :(
I tried all possible combinations and at the end I FOUND IT!
It's ALT GR + 4 (on the upper part of the keyboard, not on the numeric one on
the right).
I hadn't tried the
Hi,
Thank you for your help, all of you. But none of the things you told me helped,
I must have a strange keyboard. :(
I tried all possible combinations and at the end I FOUND IT!
It's ALT GR + 4 (on the upper part of the keyboard, not on the numeric one on
the right).
I hadn't tried
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, you wrote:
But I'm just wondering because, without getting into a flame war, I'm
surprised how bad the installation of Mandrake is.
Hi,
Well I'm just your plain user and the nearest I get to any techy stuff is
designing web pages (though I am learning Java and have
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, you 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...!!
Anyone with
Ralph,
I'm using Pine with a dial up connection. Sorry no one answered your first
post. I only just now saw it on the list.
Using Pine with dial connections is fairly easy.
1) you want to initialize your "Inbox" by launching Pine.
2) then you want to configure your settings for Pine on your
As is the next - If you don't know the answer to why the car above
won't start, should you not suggest "Did you turn the key to see if
the starter would operate" - seems fairly sensible.
I'm reminded of the basic tech support question in the early days of
the PC. "Is the machine plugged into
i just did a fresh install of 7.1 thought this information might be useful to
somebody out there.
i did all the packages, developer install
with the extension x86 CD
and then acrobat reader, compupic, iglooFTP, star office 5.2 and corel photo 9
the disk spaced used for all of this is:
/
On UK keyboards it is the second ALT key (the one to the right of the
space bar).
Sorry, didn't explain it very well - I'll try again:
The 'ALT' key to the left of the space bar is just called 'ALT'. The
'ALT' key to the right of the space bar is called 'ALT-GR'. This on a
UK keyboard.
My
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Vic wrote:
Well, yes and no.
Since pine relies on only the local mailbox in
the Linux mail spool, which only works with either
internal network mail or with a static ip domain
thing, it is not set up to talk to a pop server,
Well, errr, this is not true
You can
Hi guys,
When responding to this topic, please email me directly to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] since I am not subscribed to the list. TIA.
For the question - I am planning on buying a HP DeskJet 930 but I
checked the hardware list on Mandrake and its support is listed as
partial (second out of four
Im a 13 year old nobody who well had all this information from reading pages
about how goodf linux was. So i was trying to get enough money for for a
couple months. But first i tried using a shell cause well there i could
figure out some thingsd i didnt know. Before installing LM i had RedHat
Hello,
I am and user of Mandrake 7.1 and now I would like to improve the video
card.
A lot of people have said me that the ATI RAGE FURY PRO (32 Mb) is a very
good video card on windows environment, but I don't know if It works OK
under Linux.
If you have any experience about this video card
Posted this message and no answers. Please help or any ideas...???
Igor
- Original Message -
From: Igor Ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 11:39 AM
Subject: [newbie] Drivers and install
Absolutely newbie on linux. Had installed LM7.1 on
Hi Adrian,
I believe the auto install disk is one you can use to execute the exact
same Mandrake install which you just completed on another PC - useful if
you're setting up multiple machines. However, I think it will use the
entire harddrive of the other machines, i.e. wipe out any other OS
Yo!
I needs some help. I'm trying to install xfree86.4.0.1as a single
15 meg file onto my LM 7.1 box and I am receiving an error "Only packages
with major numbers =3 are supported by this version of RPM." I'm a newbie
so take it easy on me. Thanks a bunch!!!
Joshs
[EMAIL
Ingo Bauer escribió:
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
I've found what i was looking for!! Thanks, Ingo! ;-)
Paul escribió:
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
Ok i tryed all your suggestions so far, I finally got linux to reconize my
modem. All communication programs show it working, But i still can't get
kppp to dial my ISP..cause there is NO ttyS4 listed (only ttyS0-ttyS3).
Does anyone know the procedure to get Kppp to reconize ttyS4 from the
On 21 Sep 2000, bayet99 wrote:
Hello!
I have recently installed Mandrake 7.1. I have two major problems:
1.
First, it seems that I can compile a source file either by gcc or g77,
but I cannot run object file giving command (a.o or a.out - permissions are
ok), instead get a message
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, pungki wrote:
Hi
May I know where I can find blackbox website , please? I need documentation
about Blackbox, like FAQ, HOWTO or something like that. Because I don't
understand how to use blackbox. Even I don't know how to change background. :-(
Any help would be greatly
Works fine on my machine. Has since 7.0, but 7.1's release was a little
more stable for the card. I will be trying 7.2beta this weekend.
Mandrake
Subject: [newbie] ATi RAge Fury Pro
Date: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 05:06:15PM +0100
Time to reply!
Quoting Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Grace and peace to all of you from our Lord!
And thanks for your great effort , helping us so patiently ,ex planing
and teaching and supporting each person directly or not directly with
your answers. From which I learned
couple things.
Perhaps my next question is a matter of common sense,which I
Yes I know all this stuff, but my modem in WIndows was on COM 5, so that is
why i am looking for ttyS4...i though i made myself pretty clear :)
markOpoleO
- Original Message -
From: "Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 11:45 AM
I'm having trouble installing the drivers for my Netgear FA310TX
card. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
dave.
--
Stop the Iraq Sanctions!
www.nonviolence.org/vitw/
Dear Alan and All, After my computer crash I erased the Linux partitions and
did a clean install of Linux. Everything went well until I came to
configuring X. I believe I just chose the wrong monitor and went into the
Xconfigurator and finally after many attempts got the right settings.
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Josh Shirey wrote:
I needs some help. I'm trying to install xfree86.4.0.1as a single
15 meg file onto my LM 7.1 box and I am receiving an error "Only packages
with major numbers =3 are supported by this version of RPM." I'm a newbie
so take it easy on me. Thanks a
What could be wrong that only root on my machine can play cds? system
sounds, .wav files, MP3s all play for other users but not CDs. Xmms
reads the disk and refuses to play. Please help, I cannot work without
music.
Abe
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now can you tell me why ?when I try to install an rpm from the Command
line (Konsole)and I type :"./configure " ,or " make" ,"xmkmf" the konsole
tells me :"No such file or directory,or Command not found,no target
,stop? all I want to do is
My opinion of Mandrake 7.1 is that alot of the applications/services are
just to buggy and not thoroughly tested before release. I would suggest if
you like Mandrake to get a copy of 7.02 and alot of problems will go away.
Perhaps 7.2 will address these bugs without creating even more.
John
I have ME on one of the computers here and it sucks something fierce. I
had in mind three reasons for using WinME:
1. The new mpg encoding
2. Driver updates so I wouldn't have to search around for them
3. The registry roll back feature.
It just completely fails on 3 -- I get a damn dll
hi there
I am trying to install linux from a download ISO file.
Then Burn a CD and install it. Should i write the whole file as a block
on the cd or am i
supposed to convert it into a linux friendly files. ??
I am doing that under ... windows (oups i said the w word).
Anybody ever done that
Wow. I didn't know that. Disappointing indeed.
I'm pretty sure though that it would work with Win9x and likely Win2K and
WinMe as well as NT though?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic
Sent: September 21, 2000 12:10 AM
To: [EMAIL
as one newbie to another ---
to install a RPM you use 'rpm' -- not any of those other commands. such as:
rpm -ivvh file_to_install-1.0.8.i586.rpm
also, you have to be either root or super user (that got me a few times)
does any of this help you??
Adrian Smith
'de telepone dude
Telecom Dept.
x
Hi Larry,
I am in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain (Atlantic Ocean, in
front of Marrocco - Africa) ; probably you haven't even heard of it, it's a very
small volcanic island, the population is around 80.000 people, but loads of
tourists.
I have a normal keyboard, I guess it must be a Spanish one
Can someone point me to where I may learn how to
install PHP4 and MySQL on top of Apache that was installed by Mandrake 7.1? I
downloaded the mod_php4 rpm but it said I needed apache and some other things as
dependencies . .I know my Apache already works . .any instructions would be
greatly
Linux Uninistall HD/Partion Prob
I resently installed Linux-mandrake, I earased my windows with linux and
gave linux 9GB of my Hard-Drive space. Linux worked in-all, but then I
realized that I could have both linuxWin3X. But I made linux take up 9
gigs, so I put in the boot
I installed a network installation (as root) of Star Office 5.2 by using
command:
./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin -net (many thanks to Austin L. Denyer)
But now, how can I give a user Rights to access the directory to make the
user installation?
The user installation is don by running:
Yes I know all this stuff, but my modem in WIndows was on COM 5, so that is
why i am looking for ttyS4...i though i made myself pretty clear :)
Sorry Mark. Maybe you were clear in previous msgs in the thread but
there's too much mail going through this conference to keep track of
all of it.
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, you wrote:
I think it is http://alu.blackbox.com but a search for it on Google
(www.google.com) would be best
close, but no cigar, it is http://blackbox.alug.org/
The Bible was written by the same people who said the Earth was flat.
Actually, those folks just
There seems to be quite a bit of difference between Red Hat RPM,
and Mandrakes. With Red Hat, I had the option to que packages to be
installed. With 'Drake, I click on a package (say, StarOffice 5.2 off a
Maximum Linux CD), then click install and the only thing that happens is
being
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Yeah perhaps you are right about 7.2 will be better than the last versions.
As usually that's the case. I dont think 7.1 is too buggy. I think that some
features on some programs are not yet implemented as a lot of those programs
arent made by mandrake but
Wrap Netscape in ulimit's and nice's and it can't crash your system.
*^*^*^*
Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes
on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little
pickles at you? -- Real Genius
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Larry Marshall wrote:
Is there any way to make my printer print darker? Right now it looks readable,
but really light. Is there any kind of tool or option that can make it print
out darker? I'm using a Canon BJC-600 color printer if it helps any.
--
Anthony
http://binaryfusion.net
Computers are not intelligent. They
Linksys cards are decent and Staples has them for $20. Watch out for the
version 4 ones though. They are compatible but you have to update the
tulip modules on some systems as the WOL makes them uncompat w/ old tulip
drivers.
*^*^*^*
Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of
hugh wrote:
Does anyone have a location that they like to purchase a new scsi card?
Heck I would even buy used as it's going. Cant find many cards that are
supported for sale. And of those are most often sold in bundles of ten. :)
Any ideas?
I bought my last four SYM8751SP (53c875) for
You mean DVD movies right? http://helo.org/dvd/howto/DVD-Playing-HOWTO tells
you how, although it's not exactly on the easy side. http://opendvd.org helps
explain the problem with playing DVD movies on Linux.
Hello:
I have a DVD drive and no matter what I do or where I look I cannot
Occasionally on boot up I get a message that says "00 stuck keyPress F1 to
continue, F2 for setup
If I press F1 all continues normally. Any idea why this might happen from time
to time?
Thanks.
--
Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux User 348854
Please never send attachments to the list. I just have to go and
find it and erase it. (If I would run it, it might be a virus.)
At 12:32 09/21/2000 +0800, L. H. LOO wrote:
Greetings from a 'lurker'.
I think there is typo in the message below, please cross check with this
from PCWORLD,
Hello,
I am using 7.1 right now and I can't get past this
error message!
I have tried both the CD and HD install - I hear the
drive load for a second and then this message appears
and the system halts. I have a fully SCSI system -
and I had sever problems getting 7.0 installed. I
finally got
I've tried what you told. But I failed. I've tried many combination about
kppp's setting, but it still fail. Then I quit form X. I saw an error message :
"Couldn't find interface ppp0 : No such device. " I think the problem isn't
about setting on kppp. But if I connect to internet from console,
ok im a windows convert
and i am trying to set up gain the one that came with mandrake 7.1
well its give me some error saying thta there is no configuration file
can someone help me with this
its common sense when they post hey i did this and yet you give them a reply
telling them to do the exact same thing that they said didnt work in one
message this doesnt make sense to me. and i have had to deal with it myself
i say hey i ran this program and it killed my system, your reply hey
What is the GR key? I don't seem to have one on a standard
American keyboard. --doug
At 09:21 09/21/2000 +, Carolina Kohler wrote:
Hi,
Thank you for your help, all of you. But non of the things you told me
helped,
I must have a strange keyboard. :(
I tried all possible combinations and at
ITS COMPATIBLE
i use an ati rage lt pro and it works great under linux!
In a message dated 21-Sep-00 11:04:33 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Hello,
I am and user of Mandrake 7.1 and now I would like to improve the video
card.
A lot of people have said me that the
My system starts KDE automatically. I want to start with a command line. How
can I change this?
Phil
Igor:
I did a little bit of searching with Google. Here's what I learned:
1. Cmedia has a website at www.cmedia.com.tw -- pick Tech Support and
Linux drivers update. If your hip is listed, then you're in luck. If it
isn't, try Google (or some other search engine). I got six pages of hits
on
Interesting, the US keyboards do not have such a key. All of the characters
you gave as examples ( { } [ ] \ | @ # ¬ ) are just secondary keys. I've
never seen a US keyboard with third-tier keys. Except for mini and laptop
keyboards.
dwyatt
- Original Message -
From: "Carolina
In a message dated 21-Sep-00 19:41:59 Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My opinion of Mandrake 7.1 is that alot of the applications/services are
just to buggy and not thoroughly tested before release. I would suggest if
you like Mandrake to get a copy of 7.02 and alot of
I am running Mandrake 7.1, Bash, KDE. My Meta key is not producing the same
results as it does in Gnome. Where is the meta key defined in KDE?
Thanks.
Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user 183185
I cant find the 1540 adaptec listed But I thought it was supported
anyone know for sure?
--
Main's Law:
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Hello everybody,
How do I make fortune execute after a user logs in? Just like
/etc/motd. I've read a few articles on how to do this, but I haven't
been able to get any of them to work.
Regards,
Tyler Longren
My next scsi card will most likely be a tekram card. They have drivers for
their newest cards on their website and I believe their older cards are
supported out of the box. You can pick up the U2scsi for around $100 and
the U3scsi for around $190. These are full kits with all of the cables
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, you wrote:
There seems to be quite a bit of difference between Red Hat RPM,
and Mandrakes. With Red Hat, I had the option to que packages to be
installed. With 'Drake, I click on a package (say, StarOffice 5.2 off a
Maximum Linux CD), then click install and the only
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, you wrote:
My opinion of Mandrake 7.1 is that alot of the applications/services are
just to buggy and not thoroughly tested before release. I would suggest if
you like Mandrake to get a copy of 7.02 and alot of problems will go away.
John...could you be a bit more
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Is there any way to make my printer print darker? Right now it looks readable,
but really light. Is there any kind of tool or option that can make it print
out darker? I'm using a Canon BJC-600 color printer if it helps any.
--
Anthony
Mark,
I posted this before, basically you don't need a dev/ttyS4 for COM5 because
coms above 2 are software set by the OS so the modem doen't care what com
port it uses. Use the setserial command with the irq, iobase and uart
opteions (see link in message).
On my modem (USR Internet Gaming
When was the last time u changed the ink cartridge? Have u tried cleaning
the print heads?
From: Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:20:49 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Darker Printing
Is there any way to make my printer print
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, you wrote:
ok im a windows convert
and i am trying to set up gain the one that came with mandrake 7.1
well its give me some error saying thta there is no configuration file
can someone help me with this
--
I have the same problem. AOL ported the IM software to Linux.
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, you wrote:
My system starts KDE automatically. I want to start with a command line. How
can I change this?
Phil
--
In linuxconf change the default boot mode from Graphic/network to text/network.
And don't forget that you need to be root to do this.
Jay
"May the sound
goto www.marko.net/gaim and get the newest version should be 0.10.1
it should fix the problem, and is amazingly better :o]
- Original Message -
From: "John Michael Rice" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 10:21 PM
Subject: [newbie] Gaim problems
hey,
I have been beating my head up against the was trying to get my cdr to
work with mandrake 7.1.
I have tried letting mandrake set it up and it does everything except
remove dev/cdrom and replace it with dev/scd0 so i do that and run
cdrecord -scan bus with the following results:
Cdrecord
Newbie group, please help me get rid of this annoyance!
The DPMS (computer operation suspension for power conservation) function
disabled correctly under Linux Mandrake 7.0, but since I upgraded to LM 7.1 I
can't disable the DPMS from functioning. I have been setting it from KDE by
Use the "tulip" drivers that come with Mandrake. They work perfectly with
that exact card. I'm running 3 of them on my lan with no problems
whatsoever.
- Original Message -
From: "David Lay" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 3:06 PM
Subject:
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Jeff Malka wrote:
Occasionally on boot up I get a message that says "00 stuck keyPress F1 to
continue, F2 for setup
If I press F1 all continues normally. Any idea why this might happen from time
to time?
Sounds like a problem with the signals from your keyboard, or a
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, you wrote:
How do I set DPMS off in another way and get past this annoyance?
-Gary-
First thing I do to stop this is remove kdpms. Log in or su to root. Start
up kpackage. Click on the little magnifying glass and type kdpms and hit find.
When it shows you the
Hello there , I haven't got much time at the moment , but later today will
send more helpful info. Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From: ^xTc` Annonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 1:04 AM
Subject: [newbie] DVD setup?
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