Re: [newbie-it] scheda audio

2000-10-20 Thread Fabio Coatti
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 07:28:23PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..di tanto in tanto torno a farmi sentire...mandr7.1 non mi ha riconosciuto la scheda audio ma la fa funzionare comunque...o meglio, gli mp3 si sentono una bellezza i cd si sentono con qualità scadente...che posso fare? grazie

[newbie-it] Help installazione...

2000-10-20 Thread Flavio Bosio
Problema; Ho sotto mano un portatile Acer, più precisamente un TM 313T con floppy e CD-ROM esterno, attualmente senza S.O., il problema è che il CD-ROM esterno non è un Acer ma un AMACOM 24x, il che significa che il Boot Disk in dotazione per l'installazione di winzozz non è in grado di

Re: [newbie-it] linux thinkpad ibm

2000-10-20 Thread freefred
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, a day in the life, marco signoretto wrote: chiedevo... tutti quei programmini tipo la gestione avanzata del risparmio energetico, l'ibernazione ecc. (nonchè vari tasti funzione aggiuntivi per internet ed altro ancora...) c'è modo di recuperarli con linux o è possibile

Re: [newbie-it] Help installazione...

2000-10-20 Thread freefred
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, a day in the life, Flavio Bosio wrote: Problema; Ho sotto mano un portatile Acer, più precisamente un TM 313T con floppy e CD-ROM esterno, attualmente senza S.O., il problema è che il CD-ROM esterno non è un Acer ma un AMACOM 24x, il che significa che il Boot Disk in

Re: [newbie] sound card stopped working

2000-10-20 Thread Renato Tognaccini
"Paulo H.C. Godoi" wrote: I have installed Mandrake 7.1 just recently and everything was just fine! except that a few days ago, I decided to try an MPEG program called MTV. A little bit later I realized that my sound card stopped working. Of course I have finally removed the program, wishing the

[newbie] Account Automatically After X

2000-10-20 Thread SoloCDM
How do I close user accounts automatically after X closes, because X was initiated when selected users logged into their accounts? Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list and my email address.

[newbie] Monitor problems

2000-10-20 Thread Uliq the Butterfly
Hi all, I've installed Mandrake 7.1 recently and during install everything went fine except the monitor/video part. After rebooting and running Xconfigurator i could fix the problem, but at that moment i couldnt find any drivers for my monitor and on the standard driver i couldnt get a screen

Re: [Re: [newbie] Install problems]

2000-10-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does LM 7.1 fully support ATA66? I seem to remember something about 7.2 would but can't recall where or when, I'm getting old and crotchetty. Somebody know about ATA66? -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842 = Yes it does

Re: [[newbie] X windows on start-up]

2000-10-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
"John W" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed LM 7.1 again after trying a few other distros. Thats the problem with Linux being free. You can try as many different distros as you like. Anyhow I opted not to have X start automatically and when I logout of X the monitor shuts down and

Re: [Re: [[newbie] X windows on start-up]]

2000-10-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = Try editing your /ets/inittab file. Find the line that has "id:3:initdefault" (w/o quotes) and change the 3 to a 5 HTH, Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

Re: [newbie] confusing logitech wheel mouse

2000-10-20 Thread ZeynalBandari
thanks jeff ! i noticed something else too. the imwheel file in /usr/X11R6/bin/ had no GID or UID permission , what i did was adding those permissions and then i could run imwheel whithout using su command. thnaks again [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote: hi about

[newbie]

2000-10-20 Thread Israel Fenor
hello to all. my question is: How can i install my Supra Express 33i modem? is a ISA modem. thanks to all

[newbie] unsubscribe

2000-10-20 Thread Ar Christos

Re: [newbie] Account Automatically After X

2000-10-20 Thread Mark Weaver
If I understand your question correctly the user account closes by itself when they log out of their current session. There isn't anything that you have to do. The system takes care of that. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth *

Re: [newbie] Install problems

2000-10-20 Thread Mark Weaver
I've got two ATA/66 HDD's hooked to system. Primary master and slave and they're working fine with Mandrake 7.1. That's all I run as a matter of fact. -- 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 *

Re: [newbie] Install problems

2000-10-20 Thread Mark Weaver
please disregard my previous post on this thread...I'm not totally with it this morning and while I thought I was responding to one thing I was thinking of something else. Not enough caffine in the blood-stream yet! -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my

RE: [newbie] Install problems

2000-10-20 Thread Kelly, Christopher
The ATA/66 is on the board, no card. I have an ABIT BX6 II for my MoBo. Last night I got past the SCSI error and found this error at the HD detection phase of the install: "An error has occured- No valid devices were found on which to create new file systems. Please check your

Re: [newbie] TAR Issue

2000-10-20 Thread Lad . Gaal
Thanks for the info, but now the question is what tar command do I use to exclude this directory? tar cMvf /dev/tape / seems to work so that it will use multiple tapes, what swtch is to exclude ? TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/19/2000 07:31:56 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[newbie] Install Problems - MISSING HEADER

2000-10-20 Thread Joel B
Hey Everyone... I purchased Mandrake Linux 7.1 Deluxe which comes with the following CD's: Installation CD (x86) Applications CD (x86) 2nd Applications CD (x86) Extension CD (x86) etc... After telling Mandrake I have all of the above Cd's it starts installing fine until it gets to the 2nd

[newbie] GRUB install

2000-10-20 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi guys, When responding to this mail please email me directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since I am not subscribed to the list. Thanx. To the problem - I am using MDK7.1 and LILO doesn't want to install properly cos of the cyl 1024 problem so I wanted to install GRUB, but how ? I am not any clever

Re: [newbie] MOBO Change Question

2000-10-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote: I'm about to change my mobo amd cpu. Can (may) I do just that and expect everything to carry on as it does at present except somewhat quicker? I'm moving from Pentium 120 to AMD K6 on an Epox MVP3E Atx motherboard and expect to just powerdown swap cards and

Re: [newbie] Install problems

2000-10-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, you wrote: The ATA/66 is on the board, no card. I have an ABIT BX6 II for my MoBo. Last night I got past the SCSI error and found this error at the HD detection phase of the install: "An error has occured- No valid devices were found on which to create new

[newbie] xscreensaver stopped working in xfce

2000-10-20 Thread Jeff Malka
I am running Mandrake 7.1 and still a newbie at linux. Trying out xfce I entered the line xscreensaver in my home xfwmrc. The xscreensaver worked just fine. Now all of a sudden it no longer starts when re-loging into xfce. The line is still there, but the daemon has to be "restarted" from

Re: [newbie] Monitor problems

2000-10-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
the correct driver for my monitor in the list, i just didnt see it the previous time i guess. I used DrakConf from within KDE to change the monitor and all went well. as user or root? until i started my pc this morning and saw that all settings were returned to the original and i

RE: [newbie] Install problems

2000-10-20 Thread Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG
I haven't even got my install going properly yet, so this may be WAY off base but: Is that 2GB you have left set as a partition (eg: using Fdisk), or just left as unallocated area? Wouldn't the system miss unallocated space (therefore the "No valid devices..." error)? As I said, probably NOT

RE: [newbie] Install problems

2000-10-20 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I have actually tried it as both. That is, with and with out a extfs2 partition. I think that I am going to try Tom's suggestion. -Original Message- From: Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

Re: [newbie] where are the cooker iso s?

2000-10-20 Thread pablito
Does anyone know any site that has iso files for the latest cooker? The linuxberg site doesn't, contrary to what Mandrake says. Trying to download all the files individually is a pain even with a fast connection. By the way, in 7.2 Beta 3 kpackage seems to be broken. The loss of all the kde

[newbie] Installing additional components after installation

2000-10-20 Thread Gerry Kirk
I'm more familiar with SuSE, which uses YAST/2 for a setup tool. With it I can check what programs are installed, do a search of other packages to install, and install something off of a CD. What is the standard tool for this in Mandrake? RPM? Thanks, Gerry

[newbie] Install: 7.1 problems fixed in 7.2 beta 3

2000-10-20 Thread pablito
I could not install 7.1 unless I copied the cd to the hard disk and made a boot diskette for installing from a hard disk partition. With 7.2 beta 3 that has all been fixed and the installation program works just fine off the cds. Those who have problems with installing 7.1 might just go and get

[newbie] updating to 7.2 without downloading everything

2000-10-20 Thread Alex
I have a copy of mdk 7.1 install cd I would like to try installing 7.2 to see if that will boot where 7.1 won't. So my question is can I download all the rpms that have changed since 7.1 and make a new mdk install cd overwriting the old files with the 7.2 ones I've downloaded. Or do I have

Re: [newbie] Installing additional components after installation

2000-10-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Gerry Kirk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 6:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Installing additional components after installation I'm more familiar with SuSE, which uses YAST/2 for a setup tool. With it I can check what

Re: [newbie]

2000-10-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Israel Fenor wrote: hello to all. my question is: How can i install my Supra Express 33i modem? is a ISA modem. thanks to all Hi Israel. Hmm, what specifically is the problem? I installed an ISA Supra Diamond 56k modem in my setup and it works fine. I did disable one com port, and

Re: [newbie] Install Problems - MISSING HEADER

2000-10-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Joel B wrote: Hey Everyone... I purchased Mandrake Linux 7.1 Deluxe which comes with the following CD's: Installation CD (x86) Applications CD (x86) 2nd Applications CD (x86) Extension CD (x86) etc... After telling Mandrake I have all of the above Cd's it starts installing fine

[newbie] DHCP

2000-10-20 Thread dom972
Hi ! I have Road Runner at home but am not able to configure it. My Network Adapter is working. In order to configure DHCP, the only thing I did is enabling the DHCP option when I installed mandrake 7.1. I guess that is not enough to make Road Runner work (Indeed it doesn't...) I went

[newbie] installation problem

2000-10-20 Thread pablito kahlil del villar
hello y'all, im a super newbie at this.. i recently downloaded mandrake 7.1 and was trying to install it earlier but then the installation screens were messed up. all i could see from the messages were "ok" and "cancel" and the rest of the borders of the dialogue boxes. these buttons and the

[newbie] linux newbie IRC chat rooms

2000-10-20 Thread Aaron Zuercher
I'm looking for a good IRC chat room for where linux newbies can get together and help each other and discuss Linux. I know there are already a ton of linux chats out there, but I haven't found a "good" one yet. Alot of the rooms I stumble into are overflowing with tons of newbies

RE: [newbie] linux newbie IRC chat rooms

2000-10-20 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Aaron, I have gotten the most help from this fine group of people right here on this list!!! Just doing some a$$ kissing! Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 -Original Message- From: Aaron Zuercher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 2:58 PM To: [EMAIL

[newbie] The Craziest Thing!!!

2000-10-20 Thread ai4a
Running Mandrake 7.0 Netscape 4.74 Using the system as a Home work Station Have 2 users: userA userB All was working OK until the other day. I made no changes that I remember?? userB still works OK. userA works OK unless I start kppp. Kppp connects OK but after that I cannot start anything

Re: [newbie] Browsers

2000-10-20 Thread GAPrichard
In a message dated 10/18/2000 7:27:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey! Wadda u mean, Larry? You get to BUY betas to test with Micro$oft! And then buy it again (it's now "the product") and do it again! Why buy the same product only once? Capitalism to the

Re: [newbie] Linux question

2000-10-20 Thread GAPrichard
In a message dated 10/18/2000 12:35:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The most time consuming but exacting choice is the expert install. On the screen where you choose package groups there will be a small button at the bottom of the window to "choose

Re: [newbie] Browsers

2000-10-20 Thread GAPrichard
In a message dated 10/18/2000 12:25:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the things I see regularly is people's unfamiliarity with beta-test software, both in terms of expectations and interpretations. I guess it is pretty unique for most people working in

Re: [newbie] g++ compiler

2000-10-20 Thread GAPrichard
In a message dated 10/18/2000 6:11:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /* Sample code - Hello World to test g++ */ #include iostream.h int main() { cout "Hello World" endl; return 0; } This fails under a standard, developer installation of LM

Re: RE: [newbie] linux newbie IRC chat rooms

2000-10-20 Thread ZeynalBandari
hi aaron there r many chatrooms as u already know. irc.linux.com #linuxhelp or #linux ircnet #linux , #redhat and #mandrake efnet #linux my isp is banned of some reason :( chatjunkie #linux but one thing for sure is that they do not take the time to answer u n EXPLAIN as good as this

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] What's everybody's favorite email package?

2000-10-20 Thread Jeff Malka
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote: m Does one have to disable Kmail in order to try exmh? I had the same problem initially, and the answer lies with your /home/user/Mail directory. Exmh looks to create the /Mail directory in your personal user directory. (notice the capital M). Since Kmail

Re: [newbie] Monitor problems

2000-10-20 Thread Rod Baxter
I would certainly turn the monitor off as monitors are quite a fire risk. I leave my server at home running all the time behind a UPS and have never had hardware problems. But the monitor goes off. If I remember correctly from years ago, the problem with turning equipment on and off all the time

[newbie] Re: Copying hdrives

2000-10-20 Thread Kirby J. Davis
Thanks for the suggestions. I tried Norton Ghost 6.5 both through the parallel cable and locally after hooking up my "master" drive as a slave to the PC where I was wanting to copy the master drive to. Neither worked. What did work great though was the Linux dd program. I created my master

[newbie] Zip Drives

2000-10-20 Thread Riker
Hello: I have an internal (IDE) Zip drive in my box. It shows up during the booting process, but I can't seem to access it when I'm actually in linux. All my hardrives, CD-Roms, and floppies show up on the desktop. Is there a way to get the Zip to automatically show up there as well? Thanks,

[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 AND 1.NVIDIA drivers 2. Matlab

2000-10-20 Thread Burak Acar
Hi all, I have 2 questions: I have recently installed Mandrake 7.2 Beta, which seemed to be a necessity for XFree86 to operate properly with NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS card.I was unable to run XFree86 with Mandrake 7.1. I had to install lots of things extra. Anyway, 7.2 sees GeForce2 card and I have a

Re: [newbie] 2 quesitons

2000-10-20 Thread Barry Premeaux
Eddie Torres wrote: Hello all, 1. Can the kernel be updated via MandrakeUpdate? If not, why have it show up there? 2. When is 7.2(final) supposed to be released? TIA --- Eddie Torres www.veloct.net I have successfully updated through the auto update feature, but I learned later that it was not

Re: [newbie] Browsers

2000-10-20 Thread Dennis Myers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/18/2000 12:25:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the things I see regularly is people's unfamiliarity with beta-test software, both in terms of expectations and interpretations. I guess it is pretty

Re: [newbie] Zip Drives

2000-10-20 Thread Dennis Myers
Riker wrote: Hello: I have an internal (IDE) Zip drive in my box. It shows up during the booting process, but I can't seem to access it when I'm actually in linux. All my hardrives, CD-Roms, and floppies show up on the desktop. Is there a way to get the Zip to automatically show up there

Re: [newbie] new problem with memory

2000-10-20 Thread Emerhawk
Emerhawk wrote: I installed another 64 megs of memory on my machine. Total of 128 megs. Linux is only recoginizing 64 megs. Does anyone Know how to get Linux to locate the extra memory. Thanks Emerhawk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problem

[newbie] Netscape

2000-10-20 Thread Marco Kwan
Hi, I'm having problems with netscape. It always seems to stall when I'm download a large page and it stalls, it says and I can't seem to do anything about it. Thanks in advance for you help

[newbie] floppy

2000-10-20 Thread Marco Kwan
hi I'm also having problems with the floppy drive. Whenever I try to use it, and access it through the desktop, it stalls too... The window just says that it's working and stays like that for a long time, with no end in sight. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks

[newbie] Q about the 7.2 beta

2000-10-20 Thread Michael Lueck
Someone with the beta who wants to dual boot with the FAT32 file system. Have they updated the GUI FDisk during install such that you can specify that the extended partition is type F vs the usual type 5? It is annoying to have to do the complete install to be able to get to the text mode fdisk

Re: [newbie] g++ compiler

2000-10-20 Thread Larry Marshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This fails under a standard, developer installation of LM 7.1. Go figure. I just don't know what they're thinking. They're thinking desktop (as in Windon't desktop) not hobbiest or programmer. Yet hobbiest is the level needed to configure the system for use

Re: [newbie] Browsers

2000-10-20 Thread Larry Marshall
Dennis Myers wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/18/2000 12:25:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, much better than the Netscape fonts (which I can not get to change) that I think I will use Mozilla to browse and Netscape for mail, until I can figure out how to get Kmail to

Re: [newbie] Netscape

2000-10-20 Thread Greg Stewart
Are you able to browse *any* web pages? Does this only happen on"big" ones? Or, does it start after one or two linnks? I've seen Netscape stall like this if DNS information isn't set wuite right...but I'm not quite sure what you're describing. Are you on a dial-up? Does this happen to you in

Re: [newbie] floppy

2000-10-20 Thread Greg Stewart
Are you using the icon on the desktop? Maybe the auto-mount ain't workin' quite right. In terminal, su to root, and type: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy then cd to /mnt/floppy and ls. If it stalls in terminal there's something else wrong. But if it works, then your auto-mount is broken.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 AND 1.NVIDIA drivers 2. Matlab

2000-10-20 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
On Saturday 21 October 2000 04:25, you scribled down on a piece of electronic paper: 1. NVIDIA provides kernel and GLX drivers for its cards. I was able to install them in 7.1. (In fact, the installation was problemless however, the results were not satisfactory. I was unable to run an openGL

[newbie] Ktail shows a greyout out screen referring to -c

2000-10-20 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, I can't seem to to get ktail to work. I keep getting a message referring to a comment and -c. ktail should show all sorts of info. Mine is all faded out. Any ideas? Am I missing another file? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293

Re: [newbie] Netscape

2000-10-20 Thread Marco Kwan
I'm only alble to access smaller ones... ones like under 5k or so it says on the bottom... anything bigger than that... it reads a little and then stalls. Well this happens too when I'm using mandrake update. it receives for a while and thing it's just dies. I am using a dialup and it works fiine

[newbie] Graphic

2000-10-20 Thread Kevin A Sadler
Is this where I ask questions. If so here goes. System Pentium 233MMX, 64 Mb RAM. Graphic card Legend 64Mi+, which uses ArkLogic Ark2000PV (generic). Res.(autoselect) 256 colors(8 bits)@ 1024 x 768. Monitor. High Frequency SVGA 1024 x 768 @ 70 hz. Installed Linux-Mandrake, eventually got the

Re: [newbie] floppy

2000-10-20 Thread Marco Kwan
the following is what it says. hope its of help mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy mount: according to mtab, /mnt/floppy is already mounted on /mnt/floppy [root@localhost ketchup]# On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, you wrote: Are you using the icon on the desktop? Maybe the auto-mount

[newbie] frirewall question

2000-10-20 Thread stephen
under mandrake linux is there a way to block workgroups in the firewall especially in the netbios sharing area on ports 137-139 tcp and udp thankyou stephen ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.198 / Virus

[newbie] POP3 Mail Server

2000-10-20 Thread --mike
I am having a problem with my POP3 mail server. I am able to send and receive mail from my Linux box just fine. The problem is when I am at another location using a client such as Outlook express I am able to Recieve mail OK but when I try to send mail I get an error message saying "User

Re: [newbie] 2 quesitons

2000-10-20 Thread Eddie Torres
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, you wrote: Eddie Torres wrote: Hello all, 1. Can the kernel be updated via MandrakeUpdate? If not, why have it show up there? 2. When is 7.2(final) supposed to be released? TIA --- Eddie Torres www.veloct.net I have successfully updated through

Re: [newbie] floppy

2000-10-20 Thread Greg Stewart
In terminal, try unmounting the device... it may not have been unmounted for some reason. umount /dev/fd0 then try the mount command again, and see what happens. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Marco Kwan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] the following is what it says. hope its of help

[newbie] Setting up Java for Star Office 5.2

2000-10-20 Thread Barry Premeaux
I have tried a number of ways to get SO 5.2 to recognize JRE 1.1.8 which I currently use with Moneydance. My 'javarc file currently looks like this: [Install] ExcludeVersion= AdditionalClasspath=OFFICE_CLASSDIR/classes.jar:OFFICE_CLASSDIR/tkt.jar:

Re: [newbie] Install problems

2000-10-20 Thread GAPrichard
Dennise, After LM7.0 was installed I switched my drive up to ATA/66 mode and it worked just fine with Mandrake. I understand that there may be problems when installing and using /66 mode, and with Promise controller cards (which require a patch if I recall what I read in newbie

Re: [newbie] frirewall question

2000-10-20 Thread Greg Stewart
Do you have a firewall script on your machine? this would be using ipchains. The only problem here is if you wanted to block certain workgroups and not other, you can't do that through firewalling unless you have an ip network set up and you have divided the workgroups into IP subnets. Then you

Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.1 vs sound

2000-10-20 Thread John Hendrickx
--- rjaallen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello i am a newbie and i have a problem. i have a cmi 8330 cs sound card which is supported by linux, but the problem i am running into is that i can not get any sound out of my system. i go to the configuration program and get errors, (which i do

Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.1 vs sound

2000-10-20 Thread Kevin . McCann
Here is what I did: Go to the Linux-Mandrake site. Look for the link to HardDrake (LHS under the curly-haired penguin). Download the 3 detect-xxx files and HardDrake. You will also need to go to the LM RPM's and get the alsa RPM. Install all of the above as root - these are all newer than the

Re: [newbie] Monitor problems

2000-10-20 Thread Adam Koch
Subject: Re: [newbie] Monitor problems downsides of leaving it on all the time: heat buildup (computer is enclosed no air conditioner live in the south *haha*) solution -- good fans, take the cover off (that's what i do) Not to be nitpicky or anything, but this is not always the best thing