Re: [newbie-it] kppp

2000-10-05 Thread Fabio Coatti
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 06:49:40PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve a tutti nessuno ha idea del perche kppp dopo aver fatto il numero e aver iniziato a colloquiare mi da "daemon died unespectelly" mentre quando usavo la SUSE 6.4 non lo faceva ? Per scoprire qualcosa è necessario avere

RE: [newbie-it] Arieccomi, col modem!

2000-10-05 Thread Simone Ravarotto
Ciro, dicci se adesso ci sei riuscito..! :-)) Simone At 09.38 03/10/00 +0200, you wrote: Ciao Ciro, il comando "pppconfig" dovrebbe essere un'alterazione parlando del "daemon pppd" che e' quello che permette di collegarsi alla rete con un provider di servizi internet ,tramite

R: [newbie-it] Modifica dei sorgenti Linux

2000-10-05 Thread Tosato Diego
Il mio problema è semplice. Vorrei capire il codice sorgente del kernel, non tanto per modificarlo ma per poterlo studiare. Il kernel di Linux mi affascina e vorrei comprenderlo meglio. Premetto che sono studente di Ing Informatica e che il C/C++ lo conosco discretamente. E' soltanto una mia

Re: [newbie] Running Setiathome

2000-10-05 Thread Don W. Jenkins
Thanks! Downloading as we speak. Don J. On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Trevor Reynolds wrote: Dan, You may want to use a GUI on top of Seti go to: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/links.html#links_unix and you'll find some nice accessories. Good luck Trevor - Original

Re: [newbie] Some Emails Returned

2000-10-05 Thread Don W. Jenkins
I got the same problem with AOL, as well as some others. I think I solved the problem by using Pine with SMTP rather than Postfix. I don't know if that will help you. It seems that programs like Netscape Messenger and Pronto which don't use Postfix are all right, too. Don J. On Tue, 3 Oct

Re: [newbie] Automatization bttv and related modules

2000-10-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Hello, I am here again and very happy, finally I could watch tv under linux in my computer and also the net. And I have two question about: Hi Francisco! Well, I had a problem just like yours, even after manually inserting all the modules (insmod), probing

RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!

2000-10-05 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Not anymore - go to www.netcraft.com They're using Win2k with IIS 5.0 Mike Talking about MS Linux, when Microsoft first took over hotmail it was running on Solaris, microsoft moved it over to NT, found out that NT couldn't handle worth a damn, so what did they do...moved back over to

[newbie] Release date for 7.2

2000-10-05 Thread George Labuschagne
Good Day Does anybody know what the estimated release date for LM7.2 is? ___ http://www.webmail.co.za the South-African free email service

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RE: [newbie] Automatization bttv and related modules

2000-10-05 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Thanks Ronald, I will try your solution. Yours sincerely Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Murcia, España (Spain) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Mensaje original- De: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: jueves, 05 de octubre de 2000 7:27 Asunto: Re:

RE: [newbie] installation

2000-10-05 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Santiago, the extensions CD is only present in the power distribution, but you do not need it for run linux Mandrake; with the essential distribution 7.1 can run OK. Yours sincerely Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Mensaje original-De: Santiago

RE: [newbie] problem installing X server

2000-10-05 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
I had the same problems in every computer I have tryed to install 7.1, but it you select at the boot text installation (not graphic installation) everything goes OK. I have installed 7.1 in this way in a Toshiba Satellite 4090 and in two more computer and the X run very well; in graphic mode

[newbie] xawtv

2000-10-05 Thread falcaraz
Hello again As I wrote before, I can watch tv in my computer using cabletv; but I would like to use other tv aplications like xawtv that seems to be the most popular in the linux world. I am trying to install xawtv, everything seems to be OK, I am performed also the .xawtv file in my home

[newbie] getting a printer to work with pdq

2000-10-05 Thread John Hendrickx
I've managed to get my Brother HL-720 printer to work. I'm a bit surprised because I thought it was a Windows only printer. But a combination of pdq and a custom ghostscript file frow linuxprinting.org did the trick. The problem is, or was, that this only worked when I logged in as root. On my

RE: [newbie] Graphical User Interfaces for X

2000-10-05 Thread Sharma, Anoop
Thanks for your help. However every time I use the command StartX it goes into a pretty GUI. Is this the KDE? However If I then go to Configuration menu and select Switch Desktop - Gnome I get a desktop in blue with basic windows called something like NTVDM. I cant get rid of it from

[newbie] Premature end of script headers...*grows gray hairs*

2000-10-05 Thread johan . tegstrom
G'day! I've done a default installation of Mandrake 7.1 on an old P150 at home, set it up as a server with apache etc. Unfortunately, when trying to execute most perl/CGI scripts, it only gives me an error - when i check the error_log file, it says: [Thu Oct 5 13:37:46 2000] [error] (2)No

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-05 Thread A V Flinsch
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, you wrote: smoothing". I can't wait to see what comes of this. I do not notice any degradation of processor speed. Have an AMD K6 II 400MHZ onboard and it from the seti website 'For Linux systems on the AMD K6 processor, only the binaries i386-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1

[newbie] proxy setup on install of 7.1

2000-10-05 Thread Andy . Paton
Hi, My first question to the list, (probably first of many!) Installing Mandrake 7.1 x86, a question is asked about the http and ftp proxy. Which application does these setting correspond to? Which files is this information stored? It does not affect Netscape Navigator so im just wandering why?

[newbie] faxing?

2000-10-05 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear All, Is there a way to fax from a Linux box? I used to do that with Windows often and I would like to set it up with Linux. I have Linux-Mandrake 7 Complete and a Cirrus Logic faxmodem 56k I believe. Would someone help me set this up or lead me to info about doing so? Thank you.

Re: [newbie] configuring a network card

2000-10-05 Thread Mark Weaver
Just my personal opinion, Intel ehternet cards are some of the worst cards on the market. You "can" do much better for very little money. If it were me I would spend the $20 and get a good ethernet card. I recall reading a few posts on this list yesterday that actually listed a few sites that

Re: [newbie] proxy setup on install of 7.1

2000-10-05 Thread John Couturier
I believe its for use if you are installing over a network or the internet itself. Its so it can connect to an outside server and download the packages. JOhn -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 5 Oct

Re: [newbie] faxing?

2000-10-05 Thread Mark Weaver
Yes...in the main menu under Communnication there is a program named "Ksendfax". Applications--Communications--Ksendfax -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly

Re: [newbie] Release date for 7.2

2000-10-05 Thread Mark Weaver
I heard sometime around December this year. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496

[newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Mark Johnson
It seems there is a lot of personal knowledge locked up in a vast amount of heads just here on this list. Significant trivia that just passes day in and day out you can't really concentrate on all the postings because they don't immediately concern you but later, like a year from now, you'll be

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-05 Thread Dennis Myers
Mark Weaver wrote: I run Seti@home constantly and there's nothing wrong at all. Mine is an AMD K6-233. So what's your point? What I'd like to know is the command that he's using to start the program. Everything about Seti@home comes ready to go right out-a the box. All you have to do is

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Vic
Dude that would totally kick butt, a Linux howto search engine! On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, Mark Johnson wrote: It seems there is a lot of personal knowledge locked up in a vast amount of heads just here on this list. Significant trivia that just passes day in and day out you can't really

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Michael
Use PHP. It is probably the easiest wo work with. I wrote a pretty powerful general knowledge base in less than a day in PHP. *^*^*^* 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? --

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-05 Thread Mark Weaver
Ok...that's making a little more sense...Maybe I missed that part. For that I apologize. What specifically are you entering for those fields? I'm assuming of course that you're doing all this while you're connected to the net. Mark Dennis Myers wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: I run Seti@home

Re: [newbie] LinkSys Cable Router Linux MAndrake 7.1

2000-10-05 Thread Mark Weaver
Open a terminal window while you're connected to the net and "su" as root. Now type on the command line "ifconfig". you will see your current IP number in the information that is returned to the screen. Mark Webmaster wrote: Hi: I was wondering, if you set up FTP Server? Im trying

Re: [newbie] More on 7.2

2000-10-05 Thread pablito
The graphical interface has become very flashy, especially the beta version of KDE version 2. Those who like diamond pinkie rings and leopard print upholstry will love the latest improvements. They come with some bugs, however, and KDE seems to have lost the theme manager. Will it come back in

[newbie] interesting AWE32 problem

2000-10-05 Thread Irdial-Discs
Greetings, I am running 7.1, and after tweeking the isapnp.conf file for a few hours, I can now boot into linux with no errrors. I can control the volume of the sound card, and the line in is working, but I cannot play any wavs or mp3s. When I run hard rake, the card is not deteced,

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Michael
There have been several stabs at such a project. The hard part is getting people to contribute. It might work fairly well to copy the PHP manual approach where people write/correct the real manual in CVS but each page of the manual can have comments attached by anyone. So have each HOW-TO owned

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Larry Marshall
It seems like by leveraging perl or python and the rpmfind.net mechanism we could build an infrastructure to capture all this know-how and create "guru" utilities that formally gather and try all the diagnostics gleaned from Simple text parsers are easy...idea parsers (find the how to

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-05 Thread Austin L. Denyer
I run Seti@home constantly and there's nothing wrong at all. Mine is an AMD K6-233. So what's your point? What I'd like to know is the command that he's using to start the program. Everything about Seti@home comes ready to go right out-a the box. All you have to do is untar it to it's home

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-05 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Well, my first install from the Seti@home website was still in the files. That may be why I was getting a core dump. Not sure. Anyway, accessing the file by using the correct path and adding "-nice N " the whole shebang started up again and is currently sitting at "baseline smoothing". I

RE: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Mark Johnson
I want something a little more ambitious; I want to automate the docs. -Original Message- From: Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base There have been several stabs at such a project.

RE: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Mark Johnson
I was thinking more along the lines of a web page that allowed a user with a solution to documented and enforced a structured methodology to generate scripts that could be automatically downloaded by an app similiar to KPackage and utilizied by others. In effect, a best effort attempt at

Re: [newbie] More on 7.2

2000-10-05 Thread Larry Marshall
however, and KDE seems to have lost the theme manager. Will it come back in Noticed this too and just decided it was temporarily disabled. It's pretty unlikely that it'll be removed for good as they've supported that functionality so much. FYI CDs of 7.2 beta 3 are available from

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD??

2000-10-05 Thread Joe Brault
Charles, Thanks for the instructions! They were very easy to follow and helped a lot! Although for some reason it kept failing on the simulation of the burn process... any thoughts? - Joe :) - Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Xfce and KDE?

2000-10-05 Thread Paul
It was Oct 4, 2000, 12:11, when [EMAIL PROTECTED] keyboarded: Hmmm... the only way I can think of is to create a few scripts that move .xinitrc files around. I would not have a clue how to add XFCE to the graphical login selector. Switchdesk does not show it (I checked). But using scripts would

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Michael wrote: There have been several stabs at such a project. The hard part is getting people to contribute. It might work fairly well to copy the PHP manual approach where people write/correct the real manual in CVS but each page of the manual can have comments attached by anyone. So

[newbie] C++ program?

2000-10-05 Thread Joe Brault
Hello all, I have aninteresting question for everyone. I am in the process of totally converting my systems over to Linux because i'm tired of winbloze. However, In order for me to do this, I need to find an ansi-standard compliant C++ compiler that runs in Mandrake. Does such a program

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD??

2000-10-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
Joe What message does the program give when the simulation fails? If it is failing due to buffer you may not have enough Ram avaialible. Try using Alt-Ctrl-Delete to close all your running apps except for Nero, Exlporer, and Systray . Charles - Original Message - From: "Joe

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Michael
You can search text but that is messy and tends to give messy results. Having a more structured approach tends to return more precise data. At the same time it is useful to have direct links from the structured results to more generic discussions as you catch bits and pieces that haven't ever

[newbie] demande info

2000-10-05 Thread hassan Mhammedi
Bonjour J'ai acheter le pack Linux pawerPack 7.1, malheureusement j'ai perdu le N° d'enregistrement pour beneficier du support technique de 100 jours que vous proposer. j'ai un probleme au niveau de la configuration du reseau (la configuration addresse IP , DNS , ...). Est ce que vous

[newbie] Moving Linux to partition

2000-10-05 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo!! Now i've got /boot in /dev/sda6 and / in /dev/sda7. I've bought a new HD and i will use the full /dev/sda for Linux, but i don't know how to change /boot to /dev/sda5 (first extended partition) and / to /dev/sda6 (second one). Moves will be made with Partitionmagic 5 but what about

[newbie] Table of window managers

2000-10-05 Thread Jeff Malka
It would really be great if there existed somewhere, in table form (like PC World magazine usually displays them), a listing of all the X window managers (on top)giving for each (down the table) their memory loads, checkmarks for various capabilities present or not. etc. I know the managers are

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Jeff Malka
The mandrake sites are great, but there is a lot more information than what they cover and most of it is not even in books. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

RE: [newbie] C++ program?

2000-10-05 Thread Mark Johnson
g++ for the compiler, KDevelop for IDE (www.kdevelop.org), you've got it all there if you do a Developer type installation. BTW: every bit of it is all free... -Original Message- From: Joe Brault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 11:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Re: Seti at home

2000-10-05 Thread paddock
Hi -- I had the "illegal instruction" thing, as well, when using the "i686" version, and the "i386" version runs very well. I guess the "i686" version does, indeed, include one (or more) ops of which my CPU is ignorant. Oh, well. I downloaded the program from the Seti site itself

RE: [newbie] C++ program?

2000-10-05 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
Joe, LM has a c/c++ compiler that you can install during the installation process (or after if you choose) check under the development information during install =-Original Message- =From: Joe Brault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] =Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:40 PM =To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD??

2000-10-05 Thread Joe Brault
Charles It doesn't give me a ram error, it jsut says it failed at 8x (being my speed)... - Joe :) - Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD?? Joe What

Re: [newbie] libdb2.so.2 what package?

2000-10-05 Thread Joan Tur
Jon Doe escribió: I am trying to install the new Pan and I downloaded all the required files from the site but I am still getting an Unsatisfied dependancy: libdb2.so.2 Anyone know what package this is in? You can check it at rpmfind.net; just key that unsatisfied dependency in the

Re: [newbie] C++ program?

2000-10-05 Thread Robin Regennitter
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, you wrote: the c++ compiler for Mandrake is using g++ file.cxx -options file you can look up for more info if you type: man g++ Rob Hello all, I have aninteresting question for everyone. I am in the process of totally converting my systems over to Linux because i'm

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Larry Marshall
How 'bout just using the Mandrake sites existing digests...don't they already have tons of info in text format, easy to search by keyword? Just a thought. Keyword searches are generally not sufficient to yield up true answers to questions. All the do is generate a bunch of stuff you can

[newbie] Linux Format

2000-10-05 Thread Jay
-- If anybody here reads Linux Format, the UK based Linux mag, then you already know this fact...Linux-Mandrake received a 10 out of 10 rating for 7.1. They called it the best distro around now. Jay "May the sound of happy music, And the lilt of Irish laughter, fill your heart with

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Paul
It was Oct 5, 2000, 13:35, when Jeff Malka keyboarded: The mandrake sites are great, but there is a lot more information than what they cover and most of it is not even in books. True. But the alternative is not good... Putting the heads of all the Unix guru's on stakes? ;) Paul -- Three

Re: [newbie] Moving Linux to partition

2000-10-05 Thread Paul
It was Oct 5, 2000, 19:31, when Joan Tur keyboarded: Now i've got /boot in /dev/sda6 and / in /dev/sda7. I've bought a new HD and i will use the full /dev/sda for Linux, but i don't know how to change /boot to /dev/sda5 (first extended partition) and / to /dev/sda6 (second one). Moves will be

Re: [newbie] C++ program?

2000-10-05 Thread Paul
It was Oct 5, 2000, 11:39, when Joe Brault keyboarded: Hello all, I have aninteresting question for everyone. I am in the process of totally converting my systems over to Linux because i'm tired of winbloze. However, In order for me to do this, I need to find an ansi-standard compliant C++

[newbie] TNX TO: john,alan,mark

2000-10-05 Thread ZeynalBandari
hi n thank you all , specially john , alan and mark for your recommendations and suggestions. i'll do my best :)

RE: [newbie] C++ program?

2000-10-05 Thread Wignall, Mark T
Try the gnu one ... it's on the Linux Install CD Mark -Original Message- From: Joe Brault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] C++ program? Hello all, I have aninteresting question for everyone. I am in the

Re: [newbie] Linux Format

2000-10-05 Thread Paul
It was Oct 5, 2000, 13:59, when Jay keyboarded: If anybody here reads Linux Format, the UK based Linux mag, then you already know this fact...Linux-Mandrake received a 10 out of 10 rating for 7.1. They called it the best distro around now. Hi Jay, Any idea if there is a place on the web to see

Re: [newbie] Linux Format

2000-10-05 Thread Michael
I'd give it a 9 out of 10. I've used in on servers, laptops, and desktop client machines so I probably tested it more than they did. ; It didn't install w/ OpenSSH which annoys me, the GUI installer shares some bugs w/ non-compat video cards w/ others like RedHat, and the security options should

Re: [newbie] Moving Linux to partition

2000-10-05 Thread Joan Tur
Paul escribió: It was Oct 5, 2000, 19:31, when Joan Tur keyboarded: Now i've got /boot in /dev/sda6 and / in /dev/sda7. I've bought a new HD and i will use the full /dev/sda for Linux, but i don't know how to change /boot to /dev/sda5 (first extended partition) and / to /dev/sda6 (second

[newbie] Solved: Backing up /home dir...

2000-10-05 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I've solved my problem backing up using the zip program: I did: cd /home zip -r /Fitxers/quini.zip quini/* And what's working is: zip -r /Fitxers/quini.zip quini Thanxx!! X-D Joan Tur escribió: Hallo again! 8-) I'm trying to back up my user directory, and i'm trying to do so

RE: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD??

2000-10-05 Thread Wignall, Mark T
Joe, It's possible that the media itself is not rated for 8x writes. I've bought cheap cd-rom blanks that claimed 6x speeds for writes, but it's a crapshoot as to when it works. I just lower the write speed to the next lower speed, and it usually works fine. Mark -Original Message-

[newbie] Um... HELP!?

2000-10-05 Thread Joe Brault
Hello again, I have an interesting situation on my hands... I am redoing my Desktop computer to have Win98 and LinuxMandrake7.0 installed using dual boot. I have purchased the Complete Linux software package that is available( I think that's what it's called) so it has some goodies with it

[newbie] local access

2000-10-05 Thread gilligan
Help, please. When I try to log into my "site" locally I get "Forbidden" access message. I am trying to log in as : http://localhost.localdomain/~xx What am I doing wrong? How can I change this so I can get access? TIA

Re: [newbie] Um... HELP!?

2000-10-05 Thread Joe Brault
Hey other Joe! It's good to know i'm not alone with this problem... Is it possible to re-partition this segment I need now that my computer is all set (I have both os's installed). Without losing any data? If so, how should I go about doing that in DiskDrake..? Thanks in advance! - Joe

RE: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD??

2000-10-05 Thread Larry Marshall
It's possible that the media itself is not rated for 8x writes. I've bought cheap cd-rom blanks that claimed 6x speeds for writes, but it's a crapshoot as to when it works. I just lower the write speed to the next lower speed, and it usually works fine. Lots of hardware have a hard

[newbie] Solution: Error Loading Ramdisk

2000-10-05 Thread Garry Black
I downloaded the 7.2 beta install image and viola .. no problems. So that confirms what others are saying as well that there is a bad 7.1 ISO image floating around and I downloaded my original from the Atlanta site _ Garry Black GGB Enterprises Ltd. Vancouver Canada

Re: [newbie] Linux Format

2000-10-05 Thread Larry Marshall
Any idea if there is a place on the web to see what Linux Format is about? There is No Linux Mag here in Holland, and I hate that. Perhaps I can get a subscription from the UK? Try www.linuxformat.co.uk It's a pricey mag here in Canada but I picked up a copy recently and was very

[newbie] Install on IBM ThinkPad 365XD - experiences ??

2000-10-05 Thread Garry Black
I have the above with 1.3 GB / P133. I upgraded it from Win95 to Win98 (mistake) runs like a dog now. Anybody installed linux to a similar laptop ? problems ? _ Garry Black GGB Enterprises Ltd. Vancouver Canada

Re: [newbie] KPPP and No Dialtone

2000-10-05 Thread bpremeaux
I have not heard of voice mail causing this problem, but call waiting sure does. Just for grins, try '*70' followed by the number. The only way you may know for sure that it works would be to have someone call while you are on line. Barry :-) On Thu, 05 October 2000, Dennis Myers wrote:

Re: [newbie] getting a printer to work with pdq

2000-10-05 Thread Carroll Grigsby
John: I've got a Brother HL-1040. Like you, I figured it would be useless when I moved to Linux. Happily, that wasn't the case. Following Brother's advice, I told Linux that I had an HP Laserjet III. It works - all that I gotta do is pick print, and the file prints. The one drawback is that the

Re: [newbie] My mouse is not visible

2000-10-05 Thread Kevin Scott
Try running gpm as root. You should get the mouse back. Kevin On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Adam Holt wrote: Hello, My mouse is not visible after installing linux for windows 7.1, during the installation process, it is viewable andworks fine, after installation and a reboot, and go to tlinux for

Re: [newbie] KPPP and No Dialtone

2000-10-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Dennis Myers wrote: I will pose the question again, since I still have not been able to find an answer in the Mans and online howto's, knowledge base etc. I have voice mail on my phone line, when someone leaves a message the phone will signal with a stutter tone when you activate or pick up

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-05 Thread Mark Weaver
Ozz...my guess would be the amount of resources that it's using at the time. Clearly something is becoming unstable. I've noticed that lately I can run all kinds of other program while I'm running Seti without any trouble. Even Star Office if you can believe that! However, as soon as I start

Re: [newbie] local access

2000-10-05 Thread Mark Weaver
Gilligan, It'll work better if you try it this way. http://127.0.0.1 You will also have to go out back of where you're living and sacrfice the heads of three squirrels and the guts of one pumpkin to the Penguin god to atone for your sins! -- Mark /* I never worry about the

Re: [newbie] generic scsi device in /dev?

2000-10-05 Thread bascule
thanks joan, i have been trying to get grip to work using cdparanoia as i have read that this is better then cdda2wav but i shall try using cdda2wav and see how it goes, if anyone does however have an insight to 'generic scsi device' i would be interested to learn bascule Joan Tur wrote:

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-05 Thread Mark Weaver
Dennis, Where would one find this Klseti program. I'm currently using Setiathome and Xsetiathome as the graphic. I wouldn't mind seeing what's been put together for KDE though. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-05 Thread Mark Weaver
Yeah...you're right! :) I kind-a wondered if there wasn't something going on with the command and that'll do it everytime. anytime you want to modify the command line syntax you will have to stop the current process to do it. The easiest way to stop the process is just to hit CTRL-C. That will

[newbie] Updating ML and Kernel

2000-10-05 Thread mrweb
Hello, I too am wanting to update my kernel, and have downloaded most of the kernel packages from the ml update ftp mirror, but am not certain which ones I need? Do I need the source headers packages? And all of the others? I was going to use kpm to install the updated kernel packages, is it

Re: [newbie] Um... HELP!?

2000-10-05 Thread Joe Morris
You might have a problem there. You might want to look into buying the complete version of Powerquest PartitionMagic. If you decide to use DiskDrake, you may lose some data. However, I resized my Windows partition with it and it works okay, but I don't know. I don't know how to use the fips

Re: [[newbie] 3 programs in gcc]

2000-10-05 Thread jason yeoh
hi there... type gcc -o run prog1.c run is your executable file and prog1.c is your source file you can use the option -c to compile for object file hope it's help jason "Jacobo Espino" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I try to do 3 diferents programs in gcc, the which most to be exist

RE: [newbie] KPPP and No Dialtone

2000-10-05 Thread Neal Wilkinson
You can also add X3 to the init string and it will ignore the error when it doesn't hear the dial tone. That will get you a quicker dial than the commas. Neal -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October

Re: [newbie] KPPP and No Dialtone

2000-10-05 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Dennis: I'm not sure this will work on your setup, but I can increase the dial tone wait time from the dialler by picking setup, modem, and then changing the busy wait to whatever is comfortable. I use a four second wait -- long enough for me to hear the stutter tone. I don't think that the #70

[newbie] problemas com minha placa de video

2000-10-05 Thread Hun Geng Jo
olá pessoal Estou tendo um problema seríssimo com minha placa de video q comprei há uma semana.. Me parece que o mandrake não reconhece a placa. Minha placa de video eh Viper II Z 200 com chip set S3 savage 2000.. Gostaria muito de saber a configuração da placa.. pois já estou cheio de

Re: [newbie] Samba Assistance

2000-10-05 Thread PatMc
Michael Corbin wrote: I have been given a task at work to get Linux up and running by Wednesday Oct. 4th. The developers want to attach to this Linux system with '95 and NT workstations as though it is a NT "share." I found a reference to Samba, but can't seem to find any complete beginner

Re: [newbie] Updating ML and Kernel

2000-10-05 Thread Robin Regennitter
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, you wrote: the way I did it. was to make sure I have ALSA, kernel, kernel headers, and Riefers. before I install it. first of all I uninstall the old reifers and ALSA as well. Then I install ALSA without any upgrade, no check depency, no replace package.the same

Re: [newbie] Linux Format

2000-10-05 Thread Jay
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, you wrote: It was Oct 5, 2000, 13:59, when Jay keyboarded: If anybody here reads Linux Format, the UK based Linux mag, then you already know this fact...Linux-Mandrake received a 10 out of 10 rating for 7.1. They called it the best distro around now. Hi Jay, Any

Re: [newbie] Linux Format

2000-10-05 Thread Jay
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, you wrote: Paul wrote: Any idea if there is a place on the web to see what Linux Format is about? There is No Linux Mag here in Holland, and I hate that. Perhaps I can get a subscription from the UK? http://www.linuxformat.co.uk And you can subscribe online.

[newbie] aha152x fails when installing..

2000-10-05 Thread bringar
hi, when installing 7.1 the aha152x driver seems to not load properly. i am allowed to install the driver after inputting the correct mem adress and irq settings but when the install reaches the partition step there are no scsi drives listed but looking through the virtual consoles i can see the

RE: [newbie] LinkSys Cable Router Linux MAndrake 7.1

2000-10-05 Thread D.M. (Mike) Mattix
Dominick, The Linksys cable router should be able to be a DHCP server. If you have IP and DHCP client installed on you 7.1 installation then go to network config and set eth0 to DHCP and re-boot. The LinkSys router is suspose to be able to provide a single address point for the DSL/Cable modem

[newbie] lookatseti

2000-10-05 Thread Dennis Myers
http://privat.kkf.net/~juergen.hochwald/linux/lookatseti/e_lookatseti.html I figured this was the easiest way to send you the url for klseti. It even shows the location in the skymap of where the data your computer is analysing came from..(that was nearly an unintelligible sentence.) I have the

Re: [newbie] Linux Format

2000-10-05 Thread Paul
It was Oct 5, 2000, 19:34, when Larry Marshall keyboarded: Try www.linuxformat.co.uk Thanks everyone, I'll have a look :) Paul -- Q: Why did witches stop flying on brooms? A: Splinters... http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux

Re: [newbie] KPPP and No Dialtone

2000-10-05 Thread Dennis Myers
Carroll Grigsby wrote: Dennis: I'm not sure this will work on your setup, but I can increase the dial tone wait time from the dialler by picking setup, modem, and then changing the busy wait to whatever is comfortable. I use a four second wait -- long enough for me to hear the stutter

Re: [newbie] Um... HELP!?

2000-10-05 Thread Mwinold
partition magic also includes a boot loader that will load just about any operating system, but the partitioning software i think just works in windows and dos, but dont quote me on that