[newbie] fixed font not found....

Hi there, I remember that some posts here mentioned the failure of XFree86 - 'fixed font not found', and now I'm having the problem, after compiled and installed XFree86 4.0.1, my X just can not be started, because 'fixed font not found'. I can not find those previous posts so please point me

RE: [newbie] why LM 7.2 is in some stores

doesn't the box say that on the outside? I haven't seen any boxed sets yet... Charley -Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 8:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] why LM 7.2 is in some stores Basically the 7.2

Re: [newbie] 7.2 mandrake

Alan Shoemaker wrote: chronos wrote: Hi all, I just wanted to say that I have purchased 7.2 at wallmart and the install went perfectly. I did not have one problem at all. One small question where is the enlightenment window manager ? I didnt find it. Thank you, Chronos.

[newbie] 7.2 Power Pack

Is there a listing somewhere of the apps in the Mandrake 7.2 PowerPack additional CDs? Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185

Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...

On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 19:26:45 -0600, you wrote: I left my settings alone as far as getting the nic to work. As long as you have a kernel module for the right card, you should be okay. I had a DHCP error and the card wouldn't initialize but that was from another problem. Try with no IRQ and I/O

Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...

On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 22:16:25 -0500, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 10:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes... On Sat, 4 Nov

Re: [newbie] why LM 7.2 is in some stores

Basically the 7.2 at Wal-Mart is a "desktop" only version geared for newbies. There is no expert install, no development tools and the KDE is If you look a bit deeper, Eddie, you'll find that every version of Mandrake xx Complete is described as a "desktop only version geared for newbies".

Re: [newbie] 7.2 mandrake

I just wanted to say that I have purchased 7.2 at wallmart and the install went perfectly. I did not have one problem at all. One small question where is the enlightenment window manager ? I didnt find it. Don't know if it's there but you access it by setting up Gnome as your desktop and

Re: [newbie] 7.2 mandrake

Hi all, I just wanted to say that I have purchased 7.2 at wallmart and the install went perfectly. I did not have one problem at all. One small question where is the enlightenment window manager ? I didnt find it. Thank you, Chronos. Chronosenlightenment is on the 2nd (extension)

Re: [newbie] Much Ado About Nothing

Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 05 November 2000 08:52 am, ai4a wrote: If this is the wrong news group to post this to, I apologize. Just tell me to which news group I should post. You're in the right place, but this is a mailing list, not a news group MY system: PC100 Super

Re: [newbie] libstdc++-2.96-0.14mdk (long, sorry)

I just installed v7.2 from downloaded iso's. Everything is working great except when I tried to compile a kde app (kbear). ./configure told me I was running a beta copy of Qt2.2.1 (2.2.1-3mdk). I downloaded the latest from rpmfind.net (qt2-2.2.1-4mdk). However, on rpm -Uvh I am told that I

Re: [newbie] ext CD

what are in ext CD iso? The full Mandrake system is put on two CDs, the -inst and -ext CDs. In their wisdom they don't provide the -ext CD in their Complete shrinkwrap packages and thus you don't have part of it. You can download it from their mirror sites; it's about 550megs. Smile while

Re: [newbie] libstdc++-2.96-0.14mdk (long, sorry)

On Monday 06 November 2000 12:24 am, Bill Witherspoon wrote: I just installed v7.2 from downloaded iso's. Everything is working great except when I tried to compile a kde app (kbear). ../configure told me I was running a beta copy of Qt2.2.1 (2.2.1-3mdk). I downloaded the latest from

Re: [newbie] Much Ado About Nothing

Thanks Tom: After much reading and a little (very Little) thinking I decided to open up my computer case (I just bought this machine I August. An al cheapo at that!! I got what I paid for) and check the cable to the hard drive. It is over 2 feet long and a 40 wire 40 pin cable!!! No

RE: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...

You didn't say if you had it working or not. My /etc/dhclient.conf: request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers; require subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers; supersede domain-name "mydomain.com mysubdomain.mydomain.com"; supersede domain-name-servers 192.168.4.1; You don't really need

Re: [newbie] 7.2 Power Pack

What prompted the question is that the present Mandrake 7.2 seems very incomplete. I had a perfectly functional 7.1 system but decided to install 7.2. The install went smoothly but the resulting system is very buggy. The Kmenu has numerous duplicate entries and numerous entries that do not

[newbie] 2 extension cd (x86)

Hi all, Well I have the 2nd cd in front of me as I write this actually. When I was installing it asked for the second cd and installed a slew of other stuff. When I sifted through the gnome directory I found some enlightenment folders. But they just looked like appelets. Ill just download the

[newbie] problems with proFTPd .......

I switched to Man 7.2 over the weekend and am very happy of having done so. The only problem I have left is getting proftpd fixed .. These are the results I get I seems the process dies immediatley after it is started . Anybody have any suggestions ??? [root@bear /etc]#

[newbie] No user pwd needed on startup

Hallo!! I've installed 7.2 on my laptop and i've changed something... don't know where!! It's booting directly to my user account without asking me for the password! Where are those settings?? Thanks!! ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395

[newbie] freei

Hi all I was wondering has anyone been able to surf the web on linux with freei, I am able to get a connection and surf the web for like 10-15mins then I'll suddenly lose my connection. anybody out there have a solution to this besides pay-forisp, well thanks all...

[newbie] Realtek ALS 300+

Hallo! My laptop uses the sound card + winmodem mentioned above. I haven't been able to find a driver for it 8-( Does anyone know anything about it? Realtek has answered me that they don't support Linux 8'( -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395

[newbie] Solved: 7.2 PCMCIA = crash

Hallo again!! I've been able to install 7.2 on my laptop. The only thing i've had to do is to set "PnP OS: NO" in Bios ;-) Joan Tur escribió: Hallo! I cannot install 7.2 on my laptop. I get a message after choosing language: Configuring PCMCIA cards... And it remains like that.

RE: [newbie] No user pwd needed on startup

Just my guess: You might have set runlevel to something like 2 or 3. I don't remember exactly which file in /etc you need to look. My guess is /etc/init.rc. It should be set to 4 (multi-user) or 5 (multi-user with graphical login screen). Hope this helps. Andy -- From:

Re: [newbie] No user pwd needed on startup

On Monday 06 November 2000 10:40 am, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo!! I've installed 7.2 on my laptop and i've changed something... don't know where!! It's booting directly to my user account without asking me for the password! Where are those settings?? Thanks!! ;-) During the install you

[newbie] Sound 7.2

Hello all, Does anyone have any experience setting up Mandrake 7.2 with an on-board VIA sound card (ASUS K7V has the VIA chipset on it). On Redhat running 'sndconfig' gets the card up and running, but on Mandrake 7.2 I get 'no support for the VIA sound chipset? Where else can I look?

[newbie] smtp Users

Hello list.I was wondering, I have my spammer relay controls on so spammers can't of course steal smtp service from me, but rather than allowing a whole domain to use my smtp, is it possible to allow only a certain user on my system to not only download their pop mail, they can already do this,

RE: [newbie] No user pwd needed on startup

/etc/inittab look for id:#:initdefault: were # would be something like 3 for non gui and 5 for gui Ron =-Original Message- =From: Liaw, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] =Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 12:46 PM =To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' =Subject: RE: [newbie] No user pwd needed on

[newbie] still pppd error

Using Kwvdial I connect and after dialing the # and receiving a carrier detected message Kwvdial says "hmm a prompt sending pppd or something" after a few tries it says "just starting pppd and hoping for the best" after this I try to access a remote web page and get the standard error from

[newbie] URGENT

i have a problem here i lost my root pass...i loaded up the rescue imageand went to edit /etc/passwd as advised. but...i couldnt figure out how to change it...in there it says... root::0:0::/:/bin/bash what do i edit in that to reset the pass? and if there is a better

Re: [newbie] No user pwd needed on startup

"Yacketta,Ronald J" escribió: /etc/inittab look for id:#:initdefault: were # would be something like 3 for non gui and 5 for gui Ron Thanks for your answer... but it doesn't work. The problem I have is that, on startup, under X, it doesn't stop to ask me the user name and password. 5

[newbie] Flash5 in Wine?

Hi, Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use Flash% by Macromedia in wine? Thanks, Andrew

Re: [newbie] URGENT

you could also boot into single user mode, to change it as well

[newbie] isapnp.conf file with entry for 3c509

I need this file if anyone has it and could email it to me I would appreciate it. Thanks -- Eddie Torres www.veloct.net

[newbie] Anonymous FTP Problem

I have Wu-FTPd v 2.6.1 set-upunder Linux-Mandrake 7.2on my other machine. This is the problem: When I connect to the site as Anonymous I can't see any directories! The ftp user home is set under fpt/pub and I have several subdirectories under that. I can manually switch to a specific

Re: [newbie] Flash5 in Wine?

On Mon, 06 Nov 2000, you wrote: Why use Wine when Macromedia has a plugin for Linux? http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ I'm not after the plugin. I already have that. What I meant was, and I'm sorry for the misunderstanding, can wine run the Flash application? The

[newbie] wine prob with IE5

Hi, I've read on the net that it is possible to run IE5 under wine. it even had a screenshot to prove it! However after downloading the IE5setup.exe file and running wine I get an error message. Has anyone got |IE5 to run with wine? Andrew

Re: [newbie] ipchains

bascule wrote: hi dan, i've been deleting mail today so your message appears orphaned but i think you are replying to a mail i sent and i would like to thankyou for replying, you are right, i was confused initially about the transient nature of ipchains rules and needing to run the commands

Re: [newbie] No user pwd needed on startup

You might want to check your inittab file in /etc See what the run level is set to. At 05:40 PM 11/06/2000 +0100, you wrote: Hallo!! I've installed 7.2 on my laptop and i've changed something... don't know where!! It's booting directly to my user account without asking me for the password!

Re: [newbie] Flash5 in Wine?

Why use Wine when Macromedia has a plugin for Linux? http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ Hi, Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use Flash% by Macromedia in wine? Thanks, Andrew -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to

[newbie] uninstalling enlightenment

Hi all, Well I crashed enlightenment trying to install a theme. So then how do I uninstall it correctly ? I need all the commands. Thank you, Chronos.

[newbie] Edited post.

I neglected to say that I had an SB live card, on a dual celeron system with 128 mb ram. Regards, Tweeter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] What the difference between / and /root

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 10:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] What the difference between / and /root What's the difference between ' / ' and ' /root '? / is the

RE: [newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow

Hi Mark, I have an NVIDIA 32 Meg. card and it sure helps me. By the way, how goes the kernel compilation? Roman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 10:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

Re: [newbie] URGENT

TiGereYe wrote: i have a problem here i lost my root pass...i loaded up the rescue imageand went to edit /etc/passwd as advised. but...i couldnt figure out how to change it...in there it says... root::0:0::/:/bin/bash what do i edit in that to reset the pass? and

RE: [newbie] No user pwd needed on startup

The file is inittab and the run level should be 3 for multiuser mode. At 12:46 PM 11/06/2000 -0500, you wrote: Just my guess: You might have set runlevel to something like 2 or 3. I don't remember exactly which file in /etc you need to look. My guess is /etc/init.rc. It should be set to 4

[newbie] Must have sound. I'll do anything.

I am at a loss, in Drake 7.1 and 7.2 my system completely locks up when I try to play any kind of sound. Be it an mp3 or a wav, in any player. I have tried all I know. I miss my mp3's man. This is week 4 w/o sound. If anyone has ANY ideas, please let me know. This is really starting to get to me.

RE: [newbie] Windows

Or the delete key. That's what I did. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 11:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows Romanator, :) that's

Re: [newbie] OT 6th question - SCSI vs IDE OT

Adrian, SCSI in itself is not really faster than the latest UDMA ide interfaces. There is another layer of arbitration that has to be gone through to read from a device as the SCSI bus is an idependant bus. I have seen tests some where they took identical drives (except interface) and tested

Re: [newbie] Anonymous FTP Problem

On Monday 06 November 2000 22:51, Leo Fox wrote: I have Wu-FTPd v 2.6.1 set-up under Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on my other machine. This is the problem: When I connect to the site as Anonymous I can't see any directories! The ftp user home is set under fpt/pub and I have several subdirectories

Re: [newbie] No user pwd needed on startup

On Tuesday 07 November 2000 00:09, Josh V Friberg-Wyckoff wrote: The file is inittab and the run level should be 3 for multiuser mode. At 12:46 PM 11/06/2000 -0500, you wrote: Just my guess: You might have set runlevel to something like 2 or 3. I don't remember exactly which file in /etc

Re: [newbie] Flash5 in Wine?

On Monday 06 November 2000 02:22 pm, you wrote: The macromedia Flash plugin on Netscape in Linux plays fast, I mean like fast forward where all the animations are moving around quickly and the sounds are high pitch and jiggle. The one in Windows 98, it plays normally and at the right speed.

Re: [newbie] How to disable UDMA support during LM7.2 installation

Tom, I scanned through the expert mailing list archive but did not find the article in question. However, while scanning through alt.os.linux.mandrake, I did come across a post that details the same problem that I am faced with and also a workaround. Here is a link to the message on Deja :

[newbie] Laptop and MDK 7.2

I am after someones help in setting up 7.2 on my laptop. I have an Asus L8000 series with an 8MB S3 Savage MX/VX video card. I cannot get 7.2 to work with my video card even though it installs fine, but does die at the install and configuration of XFree. Every resolution I try comes back with

[newbie] Epson Stylus Scan 2000 printer driver??

I tried most, if not all, of the epson drivers which cups made available on install, but to no avail. Coming back from 7.02 has been a thrill; however I still can't figure out this printer thing. Does anyone have any clues for a newbie like me? TIA

[newbie] Modprobe errno=8

Hi all, I just recompiled kernel 2.2.17. The compilation appears to have introduced an error during the bootup as follows: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno = 8 I cannot find any reference to 'binfmt-464c' even by grep-searching the whole file system. Is anyone able