On Friday 24 November 2000 23:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 4x lmfao and you wonder why it took so long takes about 22 mins on my
> machine for full install
>
> > ** Original Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.2 installs and "stuff"
> > ** Original Sender: eryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ** Original Date: Fri,
On Friday 24 November 2000 09:39, you wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> I've started Linux this morning with no problems, used it and shut it
> down... this afternoon i've turned on the computer and get a graphical
> screen asking me for my user name, password and window manager... but...
> the user icons weren
Dear Rich, Yes it works with 3.3.6, I believe. Someone on this list just
gave me some instructions upon how to install that as opposed to 4. I
will probably consider that option eventually. Marcia
4x lmfao and you wonder why it took so long takes about 22 mins on my machine for full
install
> ** Original Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.2 installs and "stuff"
> ** Original Sender: eryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ** Original Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:59:16 -0600
> ** Original Message follows...
>
>
I have 7.2 installed (store version)
I can play wavs,mp3s...and hear them...
but when I bringup a webpage (I'm certain)
has midi files playing...
a window pops up...saying the following:
"open /dev/sequencer: no such device
playmidi 2.4 copywrite...etcetc."
I've got plugger installed...
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 18:25:10 -0500, you wrote:
> Dear All, I just found out that vmware does not work with the new
>Xfree86 version 4. I have already paid $99 for it and downloaded it.
>What would be the best thing to do now? I definitely wish to use it.
>Thanks for your help. Marcia
--
Found an interesting article on hdparm.
The article stresses extreme caution in using it.
I recommend using hdparm -v /dev/hda (put in your IDE drive)
to find your current settings. I was able to get the
buffered disk reads up from 11.5 MB/sec to 13.7 MB/sec.
Didn't think that would be much of an
On Friday 24 November 2000 21:16, you wrote:
> Anyone with windows installed on the front partitions that are
> migrating over to mandrake will probably appreciate grup as it
> overcomes the 1024 cylinder limitation of lilo. A few weeks ago I
> went to onstall SuSE over my mandrake partitions. Sin
Very nice.
Roman
Mike & Tracy Holt wrote:
>
> Cool web pages! I was going to read the review, but got side tracked on how
> nice the web designing was - just wanted to tell you.
>
> Mike
>
> > i have just recently tried out ApplixOffice and posted a brief review and
> > some screen shots on
I've installed 7.2 on two different boxes, now (developmental), and both
installs took 3 HOURS! These boxes are probably minimum, P200mmx with 64M of
ram and scsi 9 gig drives with 50x ATAPI cdroms. Three hours seems out of
line for an install on a clean, formatted HD--at least to me. The l
Does it work with XFree86 version 3.3.6?
Rich Chase
Marcia wrote:
>
> Dear All, I just found out that vmware does not work with the new
> Xfree86 version 4. I have already paid $99 for it and downloaded it.
> What would be the best thing to do now? I definitely wish to use it.
> Thanks
I recently updated to the latest versions of cups 1.1.4-5.1, modutils
2.3.20-1.1, and tsch 1.09.04-1.1 uding mandrake update and they still
appear in the files-to-update window of mandrake update as if I have to
do them again. When I update again it erors and says that the rpms are
already install
On Friday 24 November 2000 07:38, you wrote:
> Question: what if you got the Staroffice5.2 rpm off of the
> App CD from the nasty walmart version of mandrake 7.2?
> I have installed mandrake 7.2 from downloaded ISOs, after
> finding out how "incomplete" the "complete" version was, and
> then, I
Cool web pages! I was going to read the review, but got side tracked on how
nice the web designing was - just wanted to tell you.
Mike
> i have just recently tried out ApplixOffice and posted a brief review and
> some screen shots on my web site. Applix claims (i can't really say for
> sure
:)... yeah...I saw that part, but even after I turned it on I still didn't
see any evidence of threading going on. Thats why I thought I was missing
something.
--
Mark
/ * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat
* in order to get the rats up from below decks
* so they can be kicked
Anyone with windows installed on the front partitions that are migrating
over to mandrake will probably appreciate grup as it overcomes the 1024
cylinder limitation of lilo. A few weeks ago I went to onstall SuSE over
my mandrake partitions. Since it uses lilo and my boot partition was
outside the
Same problems I am having... HMMM>>> Can anyone say rushed release?
> ** Original Subject: RE: [newbie] netgear ea201 stopped working in 7.2?
> ** Original Sender: bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ** Original Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:33:29 -0600
> ** Original Message follows...
>
> i have the a
I just finished installing mandrake 7.2, but when I restart my system and it
goes thru the shutdown process, the system just hangs in the part 'killall'
and i have to do a cold reboot just to get back to mandrake and it has to do
all those fsck things. Anyone can help me fix this problem?
Thank
wow - if you fall from that high horse you're on you might seriously injure
yourself ! What does a user review of a product have to do with knowing how
the platform works ? Only an "expert" is allowed an opinion? If you tell
someone you like a movie, it has nice special effects but the acting s
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
> Are there perhaps any tools which i can use to just tell
> the computer that my windows partition is infact a FAT32
> partition, just by editing the partition table) - this
> excluding fdisk, as i had no luck there...
>
> thanx for your help...
creaktop.yes L
are you stupid?
what does accessing the net have to do with using a word processor?
you must be young.
if you wish to engage in flame war email me privately & do not waste bandwidth.
Adrian Smith
'de telepone dude
Telecom Dept.
x 7042
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4
At 14:00 11/23/2000 -0700, you wrote:
/snip/
i have just recently tried out ApplixOffice and posted a brief review and
some screen shots on my web site. Applix claims (i can't really say for
sure it is or isn't) a Linux native program, not something ported. i found
it mostly useable... a few
According to something I saw on the l-m site, GRUB is now the default
bootloader for Linux-Mandrake 7.2, but LILO is optional in an Expert
install.
- jim
On 11/24/00 12:03 PM, philomena spoke the words:
>I prefer grub for a few small reasons - you can make changes on the fly and
>t
As with my past few emails, I have been goofing around trying to get some
things to works, and the only one I can get is SDL. They all are asking for
some files, (SDL_mixer.h, vector, and others) and I dont know what I could be
doing wrong. I installed 100% of the install on one bought CD. I ev
howdy -- my comments are mixed in below with yours...
you said:
I have a backup of my bootsector, I think i created that with norton, but
when i boot from that it also asks for the location of command.com, and i've
tried first booting from win98 bootdisc, and then using the 'backup of
boo
I prefer grub for a few small reasons - you can make changes on the fly and
try them out without having to remember to run lilo to effect your changes,
and to make the changes permanent you simply edit the menu file- again, as
soon as you save your changes, thats it - nothing else to execute. I
i have the above card in my box, under lm7 and 7.1 it worked fine but now
i've installed 7.2 i cannot get get the card to initialise, i have not
changed the cards internal settings (full duplex non pnp) i have entered the
io and irq in the linuxconf>networking>network devices section but when i
hi,
well, 7.1 is installed, but not working. So i can only run discdrake from
the install menu of either 7.1 or 7.2...
I have a backup of my bootsector, I think i created that with norton, but
when i boot from that it also asks for the location of command.com, and i've
tried first booting from w
Dear All, I just found out that vmware does not work with the new
Xfree86 version 4. I have already paid $99 for it and downloaded it.
What would be the best thing to do now? I definitely wish to use it.
Thanks for your help. Marcia
hi all,
is there a way to import a netscape address book into kab or the kmail
address book, i am trying to find an alternative to netscape messenger but
i'm not spending days transferring addresses by hand!
bascule
In a message dated 11/24/2000 7:42:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have two problems that need addressing.
> The first one:
> I have a SoundBlaster 16PCI Sound Card that I can't get configured
properly,
> therefore no sound. What is the easiest and most effectiv
I am presently running another distro than mdk, so I'm not
familiar with grub. Why would one want to use grub instead
of the usual LILO, especially now that LILO can load anywhere?
--doug
At 19:07 11/24/2000 +0100, Paul wrote:
>On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Kelly, Christopher wrote:
>
>>Ok, here today's
Marcia:
When you attempt the installation with rpm, the rpm will tell you that
certain 'dependencies' are not fulfilled. It will tell you which files you
need (by name). You can search your Mandrake CD for them, and if you don't
find them, you can search the web using keywords rpm and . I
almost a
as root run modprobe sb io=0x220 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330 irq=5
if there is an IRQ error run car/proc/interrupt to check where the conflict lies.
Then adjust the values in the command above for new irq
Cyphfer
On Fri, 24 November 2000, Oder Santos wrote:
>
> On Friday 24 November 2000 18:40, yo
i can't say much about the printer problem, mine doesn't work either =)
as to the sound
i think you have to use sndconfig. i don't think there is any other way.
also make sure your window manager isn't involved.
i have seen some situations on this list where it was simply that the volume was
t
I previously used Mandrake 6.0 with no problems. I configured my Rage LT
Pro card as a Mach64 with no clock settings. Now, after attempting to
install 7.2, my system hangs when the machine attempts to start X. It
doesn't actually start the server, and I get a plain, black, empty
screen. I must col
I was messing around and I read about LinCity. Being an avid SIM fan I had to find it and download it. Well, Im stuck. Im using Mandrake 7.1 and when I try to "make xlincity" it says:
[root@localhost lincity-1.11]# gmake xlincity
gcc -c main.cxx -o xmain.o -O2 -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-ali
Dear All, I just purchased and downloaded VMware 2.0.3 for my
Linux-Mandrake 7.2. I downloaded the rpm file. In the process
installation could not proceed because I needed some C compiler files? I
do not think I did install anything for programming during installation.
What C compiler programs wou
I bought one of those cheap IOMEGA SCSI cards for my iomega 100 MB zip drive
a while ago, has anyone had any luck getting Linux to access these. I dont
know where to even begin. I have a normal SCSI one and it works fine there,
but on my other computer I dont have a SCSI card, so I have to use
Hello, anybody there,
As a real, real newbie I did'nt want to "mess up"
my winblows system since I spend quit al lot of hours to have it
configured as it is now, readily fast and quite reliable. So I downloaded the
486-image to try out on my older system, which is :
proc : Intel 486DX2-66
Believe it or not but I've had this happen three times to me but I could
not repeat the circumstances in which it occurred. I acted hastily twice
and lost all my data however the 3rd time I went straight to Fdisk as
you did tried to create a partition and it said that there already was a
partition
pablito wrote:
> seems like a penguin is an unfortunate mascot for Linux -- a bird that looks
> cute but can't fly, or a Southern Hemisphere bird that people may think
> lives in Linus Thorvald's Finland but doesn't exist there outside of a zoo.
>
> On the other hand, a Window is a great image fo
I have two problems that need addressing.
The first one:
I have a SoundBlaster 16PCI Sound Card that I can't get configured properly,
therefore no sound. What is the easiest and most effective way to configure it
for sound. Please leave no path unexplored.
The second one:
I bought a HP 648C D
- Original Message -
From: "xaos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.2: installation from iso's problem...
PLEASE HELP!
> when each step fails, do a ctrl+alt+F1 or F2 or whichever to see if you
can
> figure out what is at the root of the software failure to begin with.
On Friday 24 November 2000 18:40, you wrote:
> On Fri, 24 November 2000, "Oder Santos" wrote:
> > I have installed Mandrake 7.2 in my Toshiba satellite 315 CDS but
> > harddrake don't detect the sound chip OPL3SA2. It worked fine under
> > Mandrake 6.1. Can someone please help me solve this proble
> Under my laptop, owning a Celeron 500 mhz, Mandrake 7.2 says it's got a
> PIII Copermine... what's wrong?? 8-?
Your Celeron 500 is probably a CeleronII. This is the successor of the
CeleronA and it's based on the .18µ Coppermine core of the PIII. Only
the cache and the L2 associativity have be
Vic wrote:
>
> yeah, and it just flashed this box
> and did nothing after that.
>
> I noticed that on linuxprinting.org
> I had to get a couple of files off of
> that site for the old HP Deskjet.
>
> I think it works now, I just have to
> lpd -Pqueue instead of just lpd.
>
"lpd"? I have always
Hi Phil
I have been playing with my sendmail some more and have figured out a way to get
it to send mail out via pop account. unfortunely I have to put in every domain I wish
to e-mail there. Its the /etc/mail/relay_allow file. Is there anyway I can have
myself and the users allowed
It's been eliminated. One alternative is as follows: Set SysV to
usermode 5. This boots directly to X using kdm and allows you to
select your GUI at login. When you logout from the GUI you are
returned to the kdm screen, from which you can login to another
GUI. If you are uncomfortable boo
Hey,
When I attempt to get backtraces from gdb (either from
bug-buddy or manually from a core file) they often times
do not contain *any* useful information. I can provide
an example if it becomes necessary (I don't have one
handy at this time). Suffice to say that what a bt
reports is only si
I have installed Mandrake 7.2 in my Toshiba satellite 315 CDS but harddrake
don't detect the sound chip OPL3SA2. It worked fine under Mandrake 6.1. Can
someone please help me solve this problem? Thanks in advance, Oder.
hi Jacqueline;
how comfortable are you with messing with your computer? i can tell you one way to do
this, tho there might be easer ways. 1st -- have you backed up your windows system
(or have the CDs to reinstall) on the off chance you kill windows? =)
but yes, you can put linux on you
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Jacqueline Michell wrote:
>My 15G HD now has two partitions: 7.14G (C:) Windows and Windows
>applications that are already installed--AND--7.13G (E:) reserved for
>Linux--not yet installed. (I need to be able to dual-boot to either
>Windows or Linux.)
If you have a C and a
On Fri, 24 November 2000, "Oder Santos" wrote:
>
> I have installed Mandrake 7.2 in my Toshiba satellite 315 CDS but harddrake
> don't detect the sound chip OPL3SA2. It worked fine under Mandrake 6.1. Can
> someone please help me solve this problem? Thanks in advance, Oder.
Run sndconfig from r
First you might want to check the levels by running xmixer from root.
As a last ditch attempt to get it up, try this command line from root
# modprobe sb io=0x220 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330 irq=5
This loads the SoundBlaster module and all the modules that go with it. If you see a
warning about the so
On Friday 24 November 2000 11:39 am, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> On Friday 24 November 2000 08:24 am, you wrote:
when i right clicked, chose
> > properties i got the message 'this is a file, a directory
> > was expected' this happens to every file in /dev/i tried
> > and hangs konqueror each time, wh
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, S. Stubbs wrote:
>Its that darn "supermount" thing again.
>- Original Message -
>Everytime I try to use fd0 I get the following:
>Could nor enter directory /mnt/floppy
>bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: Input/output error
>/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=ext2,dev=/dev/fd0
get the file from http://www.la-sorcerie.de/wine/index.html, but you know, I
think the various documentation files don't correspond with the builds. I
really doubt you'll be able to get Office 97 to work under Wine. I just
know that your configuration file isn't working at all correctly. I have
On Friday 24 November 2000 08:24 am, you wrote:
> having lost my entire home directory i did a brand new
> install and decided to try out lm7.2 and kde2, since the
> offer to test my internet connection failed during setup
> the first thing i did when installion was finished was to
> fire up konqu
Subject: Re: [newbie] Time set
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Cyphfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 24 Nov 2000 06:27:49 PST
On Fri, 24 November 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Dennis Myers wrote:
>
> > Ok, I give up. what does it take to get the clock to stay set in linux.
> > My bios clock is
having lost my entire home directory i did a brand new install and
decided to try out lm7.2 and kde2, since the offer to test my internet
connection failed during setup the first thing i did when installion was
finished was to fire up konqueror and browse to the /dev/modem file to
check where it w
On Thursday 23 November 2000 09:11 pm, you wrote:
> Jon Doe wrote:
> > I have an afga usb scanner that Mandrake actaully detects,
> > but what software do I need to access it?
>
> Jonxscanimage, it should already be installed.
It is installed, says it must be used by the Gimp. Ok, I have alre
In reply to what Mark said... check the following...
/usr/doc/majordomo-1.94.4/INSTALL
/usr/doc/majordomo-1.94.4/README
I read those and got it up just fine...
-Shawn Wells
--
> I tell ya what...I'll trade you my copy of majordomo-1.94.5-4 fo
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, KompuKit wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can get a RPM of:
>
> Majordomo 1.94.5 or higher for Mandrake 7.2
>
try rpmfind.net
--
Chad Y.
Registered Linux User #195191
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
> did you chmod the binary to 755?
>
>
--
Chad Y.
Registered Linux User #195191
Question: what if you got the Staroffice5.2 rpm off of the
App CD from the nasty walmart version of mandrake 7.2?
I have installed mandrake 7.2 from downloaded ISOs, after
finding out how "incomplete" the "complete" version was, and
then, I wanted the Staroffice5.2 and knew it was on the App CD,
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
> did you chmod the binary to 755?
>
>
Yes I did of course chmod 755 /usr/sbin/sednmail
--
Chad Y.
Registered Linux User #195191
I've just recently installed Mandrake 7.2, and I'd like to change my
selection for the default user that the system brings up automatically.
Is there an easy way to do this, any particular files I can edit as
ROOT? Or, do I need to put in the CD and choose UPDATE, and just skip
ahead to the sele
Thank for you information ..
I will try to configure it. I hope i will sussuess
Best regards,
SKLIM
- Original Message -
From: Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] WINE with Office 97]
> On Thursday
Its that darn "supermount" thing again.
Yep, I have the same woes. I do hope someone posts
a fix for you. I will be watching replies to your
message. Unfortunately, I too am newbie like
you and need to have gurus post the fix.
Susan
- Original Message -
From: John Batt
To: [EMAIL P
Hi all:
I'm running the Linux Central Distro of Mandrake 7.2 on a K6II-450. Try as I
might, using sndconfig etc, I cannot get the internal(infernal?!) MIDI on the
SBLive to work. Finally got system sounds and external MIDI to work, but no
joy in Mudville as to internal MIDI. Midi/Karaoke(Ja
I thought it was amusing. :P
Mark
/ * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat
* in order to get the rats up from below decks
* so they can be kicked over the side and drowned!
*
* REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496
*/
<*REPLY SEPERATOR*>>
ok...I've got it working now, but I still don't see the threading working
at all. Maybe I'm missing something here, but what should I be looking
for?
Mark
/ * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat
* in order to get the rats up from below decks
* so they can be kicked over the side
Yes...I have icq and the number is 27816299
Mark
/ * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat
* in order to get the rats up from below decks
* so they can be kicked over the side and drowned!
*
* REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496
*/
<*REPLY SEPERATOR*>>
On Friday 24 November 2000 05:52 am, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> I dowloaded the Red Hat 7.0 switchdesk files as follows:
Many KDE1 apps and system files will not work with KDE2. KDE2
lacks some functions and apps that KDE1 had simply because they could
not be readied for use when KDE2 was rea
Ok, here today's question.
I recently upgraded my winblows OS and it overrode my grub. I used the
rescue disk and I can get into Linux now. It is however, using LILO to boot.
How can I get it back to grub?
Thank you in advance.
Chris Kelly
Registered Linux user 185775
Worked like a charm, Thanks Cypher.
Cyphfer wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 November 2000, William Carling wrote:
>
> >
> > Some Help perhaps? I have an Sounblaster PnP 16 bit,
> > Awe 32 and cannot get my sound running ina KDE session.
> > I am using the Linux Mandrake 7.2 , on an AMD K6-500
> > machine
On Thursday 23 November 2000 07:11 pm, SKLIM wrote:
> Thank Marco
>
> I have StarOffice 5.2 . I just want to make my wine work with
> Office97
While you can use wine to start Office 97, it's almost certain it
will be entirely unusable. The best source of info for setting up and
using wine i
Dear Xaos and friends:
Using LM7.2:
I cannot begin to tell you how frustrated and bewildered I am by the
absence of the old "switchdesk" application in LM7.2.
I dowloaded the Red Hat 7.0 switchdesk files as follows:
switchdesk-3.6-1.i386.rpm
switchdesk-gnome-3.6-1.i386.rpm
switchdesk-kde-3.6-1
As far as I know, in Enlightenment, all you have to do is right
click on what every little border you get with "no border" and
it should give you a menu. At the very bottom of that menu it
should have the option of "Borders." If you click there, another
sub menu will open up and it gives you th
At last someone else who has this problem.
Does the suggestion below fix this?
Fugz
-Original Message-
From: goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 23 November 2000 22:26
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Shut down problem
speed of light wrote:
>
> Hi:
> I am having a shu
Dennis Myers wrote:
> Ok, I give up. what does it take to get the clock to stay set in linux.
> My bios clock is correct. My desktop clock changes every time I reboot.
> I can not get it to lock in to my bios clock. Any Ideas?
>
> --
> Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842
>
>
>
>
I don'
You say you burned the ISOs, did you make your cd's
by burning the disk image or just copy the downloaded file, I ask because
the first time I made the inst. and ext. cd's I just copied the file and
could get nothing to work. See the cd burning help on the Linux-Mandrake
ftp server site if the abov
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