[newbie] 'kill' on the desktop

2000-11-25 Thread bascule
if you click on the kill icon and then on the desktop you lose all the icons and right click functionality on the desktop, i just know i'm going to do this more than once, when a prog.. oh lets be honest, when netscape freezes i never know if i have selcted kill properly or not so i do it a few

Re: [newbie] Connection speed

2000-11-25 Thread Eddie Torres
On Saturday 25 November 2000 20:12, you wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to tell what my connection speed is? I had a > nice little app called speedgadget in Windows, but there's no way I'm > booting into hell just for that ;-) > > Thanks! Use gkrellm, it has an option to show you your connection

Re: [newbie] Connect via netbios?

2000-11-25 Thread Chris Slater-Walker
NetBIOS over the internet is never a good idea. A computer which is set up to receive and share files in this manner is an open invitation to every hacker and cracker to do whatever they want. Chris - Original Message - From: "Jon Doe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Su

Re: [newbie] Connect via netbios?

2000-11-25 Thread bascule
if you are both connected to the internet and not via a local lan then netbios won't help you here (unless you go for some strange vpn stuff), you could set up some ftp space you both have access to (some isps provide web space etc that you can only access by dialing directly in so check this)

Re: [newbie] Shut down problem

2000-11-25 Thread Michael
One of my servers sometimes hangs or goes into a reboot loop when trying to reinit the video card on reboot. Am still fighting this somewhat but upgrading the video cards bios helped quite a bit. Also have seen in Mandrake 7.1 a few times where services refused to die properly so the system wouldn

Re: [newbie] java

2000-11-25 Thread Robin Regennitter
On Saturday 25 November 2000 12:34 pm, you wrote: If your java worked in Netscape 4.75 then it should work in Konqourer. Konqourer used Netscape Plugins so anything that works in Netscape should work in Konqourer. I found that out when toying around with both Netscape and Konqourer. They se

Re: [newbie] 7.2 installs and "stuff"

2000-11-25 Thread Bob Ackerman
I installed 7.2 over Mandrake 6.5 on my 2nd hard disk and it took over three hours but I couldn't get my boot loader to work. I finally went back and repartitioned my 2nd drive and installed 7.2 fresh and it only took about 45 minutes. I believe that since I was "upgrading" the first time, the ins

Re: [newbie] Modem's busy

2000-11-25 Thread Bob Ackerman
I found an internal modem that works with Linux. It is a "ActionTec 56K Internal PCI Call Waiting Modem". On the box it says it supports Linux and was under $70 at WalMart. I had my doubts but I bought it to try it and I'm using it right now. I have had no problems with it at all. I have not tried

Re: [newbie] Apache dependencies

2000-11-25 Thread Mark Weaver
Roger, go to http://rpmfind.net and put the name of that library file in the search box. It will return a page with the rpm's on it that will satisfy this dependancy problem. -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so the

Re: [newbie] Modem's busy

2000-11-25 Thread Romanator
Alan Shoemaker wrote: > > Romanator wrote: > > Huh? In general, do all external modems work well with > > Linux? > [snip] > > Romanwith a stipulation. It must be a conventional > external modem in that it plugs into one of the conventional > com ports (not usb, some usb modems, it seems hav

[newbie] Connect via netbios?

2000-11-25 Thread Jon Doe
My borther-in-law has a windows computer and he is always wanting help and for me to send files over the internet. I know netbios is a big thing with windows and I just wondered if this would be a good way for us to connect over the internet and if so what do I need on this linux box to connect

Re: [newbie] Modem's busy

2000-11-25 Thread KompuKit
first of allmodems are always commonly hooked up on com 2 some times on com3 and 4but hardly never on com1 this is the first time...I've ever heard of a modem hooked up as com1 the mouse is supposed to use com 1...try setting it up on com2 and I bet it works Dennis Myers wrote: >

Re: [newbie] Connection speed

2000-11-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 25 November 2000 08:12 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to tell what my connection speed is? I had a > nice little app called speedgadget in Windows, but there's no way I'm > booting into hell just for that ;-) What do you dial in with? Assuming it's Kppp, e

[newbie] Apache dependencies

2000-11-25 Thread Roger Sherman
I'm trying to install Apache, and while I've found 4 Apache RPMs on my Mandrake 7.2 discs, I seem to be short one dependency - libmm.so.1 Anyone know where I can get it? I can't find it on either of my discs... Thanks! -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071

Re: [newbie] Connection speed

2000-11-25 Thread patrick
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, you wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to tell what my connection speed is? I had a nice > little app called speedgadget in Windows, but there's no way I'm booting > into hell just for that ;-) > if u'r using kppp just click details on the connection . its there > Thanks!

Re: [newbie] Any books available for CodeCommander?

2000-11-25 Thread Romanator
Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Saturday 25 November 2000 06:10 am, Romanator wrote: > > Recently, I have been getting into Code Commander. Does any one know > > of any good books out there for Code Commander? > > Start here: >http://www.infosyssec.org/infosyssec/linux2.htm > > it's one o

Re: [newbie] Size

2000-11-25 Thread Michael
Isn't there a Drake tool for this? Diskdrake maybe? *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Goldenpi wrote: > The only tool I know you can use is the linux cd. There are others but they > cost money. Put in t

Re: [newbie] Modem's busy

2000-11-25 Thread Eugene C. Zesch
Dennis Myers wrote: > > patrick wrote: > > > > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > > > On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: > > > > to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... > > > > all of them will work. > > > > > > this is just plain WRONG nonsense > > > -- > I agree with the ext

Re: [newbie] Any books available for CodeCommander?

2000-11-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 25 November 2000 06:10 am, Romanator wrote: > Recently, I have been getting into Code Commander. Does any one know > of any good books out there for Code Commander? Start here: http://www.infosyssec.org/infosyssec/linux2.htm it's one of the links i turned up recently doin a

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Issue...

2000-11-25 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "yayan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 11:54 AM Subject: [newbie] Internet Connection Issue... > Dear All, > I am new with Linux. > I just install LM 7.0 and it's look good, but one problem I have is internet > co

Re: [newbie] Modem's busy

2000-11-25 Thread patrick
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, you wrote: > Huh? In general, do all external modems work well with Linux? external modems are real modems, just like linux is a real operating system. penguins can be a little honary sometimes though > > patrick wrote: > > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > On Saturday 25 Novemb

Re: [newbie] DNS issue?

2000-11-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 25 November 2000 11:50 am, Paul wrote: > In case you are still having problems: > http://help.earthlink.net/techsupport/generic_settings/settings.html: > DNS1 207.217.126.81 > DNS2 207.217.77.82 or 207.217.120.83 > And I don't even use Earthlink ;) > Paul If I'd followed your advi

Re: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download

2000-11-25 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Dennis Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 9:24 PM Subject: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download > Hi all, I am still unable to find the desktop that shows up on the > linux-Mandrake tutorial for KDE. I have only a tool

Re: [newbie] Connection speed

2000-11-25 Thread skidley
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Roger Sherman wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to tell what my connection speed is? I had a nice > little app called speedgadget in Windows, but there's no way I'm booting > into hell just for that ;-) > > Thanks! > > gkrellm is a nice little app and very useful as it monit

Re: [newbie] Modem's busy

2000-11-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 25 November 2000 07:51 pm, patrick wrote: er 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: > > > to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... > > > all of them will work. > > this is just plain WRONG nonsense > > Tom Brinkman > no , this is not nonsense. external modems work quite well > with

Re: [Re: [newbie] Modems busy]

2000-11-25 Thread Romanator
Michael Scottaline wrote: > > Romanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Huh? In general, do all external modems work well with Linux? > > Tom Brinkman is one of the most knowledgable people on this list, but I'm not > sure what he was refering to as "nonsense". > The short

Re: [newbie] Apache activation

2000-11-25 Thread Michael
Do /etc/rc.d/rc.init/httpd status and it'll tell you if it's running. If not do /etc/rc.d/rc.init/httpd start to start it. If you haven't configured Apache yet it might not start so you may have to set some basic server options like your IP address and document root. This isn't to hard so go ahead

[newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download

2000-11-25 Thread Dennis Myers
Hi all, I am still unable to find the desktop that shows up on the linux-Mandrake tutorial for KDE. I have only a tool bar at the bottom of the page and no icons at all. The K button is a penguin with Linux written in. Is all this normal with the downloaded 7.2 version? I realy like the look of th

Re: [newbie] Modem's busy

2000-11-25 Thread KompuKit
what are you some kind of nutCOURSE they will give me ONE external that won't work with linux... comeon, just one Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: > > to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... > > all of them will work. > > this is just plai

Re: [newbie] DNS issue?

2000-11-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 25 November 2000 11:40 am, Brian P. Trotter wrote: > Bascule, > I use Earthlink as my ISP, and Earthlink provides automatic DNS for > the dialup connection. I have never configured DNS on either the > Mandrake or the 98 PC's. Is there a way I can find out what DNS > servers the Mandra

[newbie] Connection speed

2000-11-25 Thread Roger Sherman
Can anyone tell me how to tell what my connection speed is? I had a nice little app called speedgadget in Windows, but there's no way I'm booting into hell just for that ;-) Thanks! -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719

Re: [newbie] Modem's busy

2000-11-25 Thread patrick
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, you wrote: > patrick wrote: > > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: > > > > to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... > > > > all of them will work. > > > > > > this is just plain WRONG nonsense > > > -- > > > Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Modem's busy

2000-11-25 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanator wrote: > Huh? In general, do all external modems work well with > Linux? [snip] Romanwith a stipulation. It must be a conventional external modem in that it plugs into one of the conventional com ports (not usb, some usb modems, it seems have turned out to be of the winmodem per

Re: [Re: [newbie] Modems busy]

2000-11-25 Thread Michael Scottaline
Romanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Huh? In general, do all external modems work well with Linux? Tom Brinkman is one of the most knowledgable people on this list, but I'm not sure what he was refering to as "nonsense". The short answer to your question is YES. "In gen

Re: [newbie] Modem's busy

2000-11-25 Thread Romanator
Huh? In general, do all external modems work well with Linux? patrick wrote: > > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: > > > to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... > > > all of them will work. > > > > this is just plain WRONG nonsense > > -- >

Re: [newbie] Modem's busy

2000-11-25 Thread Dennis Myers
patrick wrote: > > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: > > > to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... > > > all of them will work. > > > > this is just plain WRONG nonsense > > -- > > Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay > > n

Re: [newbie] Modem's busy

2000-11-25 Thread patrick
Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: > > to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... > > all of them will work. > > this is just plain WRONG nonsense > -- > Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay no , this is not nonsense. external mo

Re: [newbie] Modem's busy

2000-11-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: > to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... > all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [newbie] 7.2 says i've got a PIII ?!

2000-11-25 Thread Joan Tur
Mathias De Belder escribió: > > Good to know... that program answers me i'm forbidden to run it -running it > > as root, of course- 8-? > I'm surprised it won't let you see that file. As a user, just type : > 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' and it should give you the details of your CPU. Ejem... i forgot t

[newbie] Controlling Process Order/Timing

2000-11-25 Thread SoloCDM
I'm trying to force commands following each other in a script to execute one at a time once the preceding command has finished. I applied the command nice with the options to a list of commands and didn't get the results I was seeking. I'm aware that pidof, grep, sed, and a few others can do the

Re: [newbie] Apache activation

2000-11-25 Thread swells
guess what, I faced the same confusion you did. the files are in /var/www/ -- they moved it =/ Took me awhile to figure that out. Using the WebAdmin, you can find out where the conf files are (sorry, I'm at work and don't have access to my home computer here...) Hope this helps somewhat. -Sha

[newbie] Any books available for CodeCommander?

2000-11-25 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, Recently, I have been getting into Code Commander. Does any one know of any good books out there for Code Commander? Roman Registered Linux User #179293

Re: [newbie] Shut down problem

2000-11-25 Thread Goldenpi
I just did. In the bios you must disable power management. - Original Message - From: "Paul Fuggle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 10:58 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Shut down problem > At last someone else who has this problem. > Does the sugges

Re: [newbie] linux install ok

2000-11-25 Thread Goldenpi
Why did you attach these files? Your com port setup under windows needs changeing. They will work with your settings but you will not get directcc to work and hyperterminal will default to 9600. You can change them from device manager. - Original Message - From: "Abraham E Mandac Jr" <[

Re: [newbie] Problem with Floppy Drive

2000-11-25 Thread Goldenpi
Thats a lot of mounts. I see your problem. your floppy is in /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=ext2,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 The fs=ext2 part is the problem. It is set to read linux floppys. I think it has to be changed to either dos, vfat or auto. One of these will work. Im not sure which but one o

Re: [newbie] Size

2000-11-25 Thread Goldenpi
The only tool I know you can use is the linux cd. There are others but they cost money. Put in the cd, turn on, and answer the questions until the partition program comes up. Use that. After it says "partition table of drive hdx has been writen to disk" the partition program will exit and you can

[newbie] Apache activation

2000-11-25 Thread Jim Anderson
Greetings, I've recently upgraded my Mandrake system from 7.0 to 7.2. I had a couple of complications during the install which I won't go into, but ended up with a fresh format & install of a Mandrake 7.2 Workstation. I installed all packages available under the 'Custom' option. One thing I

Re: [newbie] Where is sndconfig, please? -- Urgent!

2000-11-25 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > I've just reinstalled LM7.2, this time selecting the > graphical X boot directly into KDE. > > Everything seems to be fine, but I can't find the > "sndconfig" command and program to configure my sound. > Until I do so, I can't listen to RealPlayer. I tried

Re: [newbie] partition info destruction

2000-11-25 Thread Alan Shoemaker
nomad creaktop wrote: > Ok, I finally made it... > > thanx everyone for the help... I used linux fdisk on the > Lnx-Mdk 7.2 install disk, in rescue mode, it's amazing how > much more powerful it is than DOS fdisk, wow... > Here's what i did: linux fdisk said that the partition with > windows on it

Re: [newbie] partition info destruction

2000-11-25 Thread nomad creaktop
Ok, I finally made it... thanx everyone for the help... I used linux fdisk on the Lnx-Mdk 7.2 install disk, in rescue mode, it's amazing how much more powerful it is than DOS fdisk, wow... Here's what i did: linux fdisk said that the partition with windows on it was an extended linux partition

Re: [newbie] ktop

2000-11-25 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jiten Kumar Ray mt ee wrote: > hi... > i am not able to run ktop in LM7.2 either on command > prompt or on run window. is it removed? > any help? > --jit Jitenrenamed, it is now part of ksysguard. You can run it by pressing ctl-esc or by the command line: ksysguard --showprocesses -- Al

[newbie] 7.2 install

2000-11-25 Thread Geoff Thomas
I upgrade from 7.1 ( which was working well and fast) to 7.2 using 2 iso images I downloaded. The install seemed to go well. When I rebooted, my machine acted like it was running in slow motion. Opening a terminal window took almost 2 minutes. Opening my browser took forever. The machine did seem

Re: [newbie] problem with update

2000-11-25 Thread Robin Regennitter
On Friday 24 November 2000 07:22 pm, you wrote: I've had the same problem. I went ahead and tried manually install it but I got an error about a /var/lib/rmpneededby.rpm. I'm like h. I went ahead and deleted that file that was causing problem. Ever since then, I havent had a problem u

[newbie] Modem's busy

2000-11-25 Thread Clive Deeming
On 23/11/00 Charles Edwards wrote:- That could be 1 reason and if that is the case you may find help at linmodem.org. Depending upon what chipset your modem uses you may be able to find a driver module there. Thanks Charles. Modem is definitely a "soft" modem - a Rockwell HCF Data Fax RTAD PCI. I

[newbie] java

2000-11-25 Thread bascule
how do you get java to work in konqueror, i downloaded the java2 sdk from sunsoft (seemed like overkill to me buts thats all they had for linux) followed the instructions but nothing, settins>configure>browser allows to seet he path but i'm not sure what part of the installed files this refers

[newbie] login manager

2000-11-25 Thread Gary A. Garibaldi
How do I change the background color of log in manager with LM 7.2 -- Thank you. Gary A. Garibaldi Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Registered Linux User: 188550 -- 11:00am up 14 min, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0

Re: [newbie] konqueror

2000-11-25 Thread KompuKit
wow...you (I assume) are part of mandrake (from your address) and YOU don't know what's going on.? INTERESTING indeed Alan Shoemaker wrote: > > 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 ou

Re: [newbie] Where is sndconfig, please? -- Urgent!

2000-11-25 Thread KompuKit
open a terminal... su...to root then just insert the word: sndconfig Mathias De Belder wrote: > > > Everything seems to be fine, but I can't find the "sndconfig" command > > and program to configure my sound. Until I do so, I can't listen to > > RealPlayer. I tried it in the console and in KDE'

RE: [newbie] DNS issue?

2000-11-25 Thread Brian P. Trotter
Got it. Those DNS addresses are dead. I did however look in the /etc/resolv.conf file and see which DNS servers where being used temporarily by PPP, and then set those as the DNS servers on the 98 box. Thanks for the help everyone. Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

Re: [newbie] konqueror

2000-11-25 Thread Alan Shoemaker
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

[newbie] newbie testing

2000-11-25 Thread patrick
hi, i just mandrake 7.2 and am testing to see if im still here -- Love is all u need

Re: [newbie] DNS issue?

2000-11-25 Thread bascule
hmm, really not sure, have you tried giving the win box the mandrake box ip address as dns address? though since i can't imagine the dns server addresses for your isp changing i would try asking them, check their support site if they have one bascule On Saturday 25 November 2000 5:40 pm, yo

RE: [newbie] Internet Connection Issue...

2000-11-25 Thread Paul
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Brian P. Trotter wrote: look at /etc/resolv.conf. You need to add to this: search name-of-your-isp nameserver ipaddres.of.dns.server1 nameserver ipaddres.of.dns.server2 Then you should be fine. And you don't even have to reboot for it :) Paul >Sounds like you may have a

RE: [newbie] DNS issue?

2000-11-25 Thread Paul
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Brian P. Trotter wrote: In case you are still having problems: http://help.earthlink.net/techsupport/generic_settings/settings.html: DNS1 207.217.126.81 DNS2 207.217.77.82 or 207.217.120.83 And I don't even use Earthlink ;) Paul >Bascule, > I use Earthlink as my ISP, a

RE: [newbie] DNS issue?

2000-11-25 Thread Brian P. Trotter
Bascule, I use Earthlink as my ISP, and Earthlink provides automatic DNS for the dialup connection. I have never configured DNS on either the Mandrake or the 98 PC's. Is there a way I can find out what DNS servers the Mandrake PC is using, so that I can plug those servers into the 98 PC? Thank y

Re: [newbie] DNS issue?

2000-11-25 Thread Eugene C. Zesch
"Brian P. Trotter" wrote: > > Here is my scenario. I have 2 computers. 1 Windows 98 computer, and 1 > Mandrake 7.2 computer. They are directly connected via 100mbs Ethernet. The > Mandrake computer has a modem hanging off it, and it is configured to dial > into my ISP. > When I try to use the we

Re: [newbie] DNS issue?

2000-11-25 Thread bascule
not sure brian, but in win you have to set the box to be on a lan and tell it to use dns, i set my win98 box to have the same two dns server entries for my isp as i gave the mandrake box, iirc the place to do this is control panel>network>tcp/ip-network adapter>properties, on the dns tab choose

[newbie] DNS issue?

2000-11-25 Thread Brian P. Trotter
Here is my scenario. I have 2 computers. 1 Windows 98 computer, and 1 Mandrake 7.2 computer. They are directly connected via 100mbs Ethernet. The Mandrake computer has a modem hanging off it, and it is configured to dial into my ISP. I set Internet Connection Sharing up on the Mandrake computer an

RE: [newbie] Internet Connection Issue...

2000-11-25 Thread Brian P. Trotter
Sounds like you may have a DNS issue. Go to a terminal prompt and try to ping Yahoo's IP address by pinging: 216.32.74.50 If that is successful, next try pinging it by hostname: www.yahoo.com If the IP address works, and the hostname fails, it is probably a DNS issue, and that is a little out o

Re: [newbie] Where is sndconfig, please? -- Urgent!

2000-11-25 Thread Mathias De Belder
> Everything seems to be fine, but I can't find the "sndconfig" command > and program to configure my sound. Until I do so, I can't listen to > RealPlayer. I tried it in the console and in KDE's xterm. > This is the first time in two years of using Linux that I have had this > error message. > >

[newbie] Internet Connection Issue...

2000-11-25 Thread yayan
Dear All, I am new with Linux. I just install LM 7.0 and it's look good, but one problem I have is internet connection. My dial-up is working good and could connect to my ISP (connected 48 kbps) but when I run the browser (netscape) no one inetrnet site can I open (it seem that no-connection I've

Re: [newbie] LM7.2 + Netscape 6.0

2000-11-25 Thread Eddie Torres
I suggest you keep both. There are some things like flash plugin that don't work with Netscape 6 yet. -- On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 16:36:12 Andris Maziks wrote: >Please help >When i try to install Netscape 6.0 on LM7.2 box , installation was done >without errors, but also without replacing exis

[newbie] Some 7.2 issues with sound, printing and netscape

2000-11-25 Thread Philip Ferguson
Hello. I just installed 7.2 on my IBM Aptiva (Pentium 233). I'm having a few problems. First of all, my netscape button bar is in black and white, but all other colours are working out fine. Secondly, I have a crystal sound card (the ones that come with an Aptiva) and I can't get it to work

Re: [newbie] 7.2 installs and "stuff"

2000-11-25 Thread Gary A. Garibaldi
I'm not sure why it took that long for your install. It only took me about 38 minutes for a full install using the Alt-E method on the Wal-Mart package with give a person the correct Expert mode menu. What took about 3 hours was all the downloading of KDE2 and other update required for said pac

Re: [newbie] netgear ea201 stopped working in 7.2?

2000-11-25 Thread bascule
in a desperate attempt to get the card to work i decided to compile a new kernel and now i'm ready to atke an axe to my box. after running make xconfig and make dep i run make make bzImage, but, there is no image file or vmlinuz produced as a result, i searced the whole disk but couldn't find t

[newbie] Linux and Novell

2000-11-25 Thread Lauro Jardim
HI, How I connect my linux with novell?

Re: [newbie] Pine 4.30 (was Aurora)

2000-11-25 Thread Mark Weaver
Sounds like a plan Paul. I'm wondering though if their idea of threading and ours are somewhat different. -- 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 LINU

[newbie] LM7.2 + Netscape 6.0

2000-11-25 Thread Andris Maziks
Please help When i try to install Netscape 6.0 on LM7.2 box , installation was done without errors, but also without replacing existing Nestscape installation which is included in LM7.2 , in this case - How to replace existing Netscape installation with Netscape 6.0 Thanks in advance Andris M

Re: [newbie] LinCity - The Game

2000-11-25 Thread Mark Weaver
hm...I just dowloaded the same and upon doing the "make" lincity I received the same error. It appears that there is something wrong with the code of the program that we're trying to compile. These are error messages indicating something to that affect. This program will not compile until the

Re: [newbie] 7.2 says i've got a PIII ?!

2000-11-25 Thread Mathias De Belder
> > > 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 .18=B5 Coppermine core of the PIII. Only > > the cache and the

Re: [newbie] playmidi not working

2000-11-25 Thread mdknewbie-g
KompuKit wrote: > 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

Re: [newbie] 7.2 says i've got a PIII ?!

2000-11-25 Thread Joan Tur
Mathias De Belder escribió: > > 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 > th

Re: [newbie] ktop

2000-11-25 Thread poogle
Appears to have been replaced by Kap On Saturday 25 November 2000 09:53, you wrote: > On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Jiten Kumar Ray mt ee wrote: > >hi... > > i am not able to run ktop in LM7.2 either on command prompt or on run > >window. is it removed? > >any help? > >--jit > > I can't find it either. T

Re: [newbie] Where is sndconfig, please? -- Urgent!

2000-11-25 Thread Paul
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Benjamin Sher wrote: >[sher@localhost sher]$ su >Password: >[root@localhost sher]# sndconfig >bash: sndconfig: command not found >[root@localhost sher]# sndconfig >bash: sndconfig: command not found >[root@localhost sher]# [root@internet paul]# which sndconfig /usr/sbin/sndc

Re: [newbie] ktop

2000-11-25 Thread Paul
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Jiten Kumar Ray mt ee wrote: >hi... > i am not able to run ktop in LM7.2 either on command prompt or on run >window. is it removed? >any help? >--jit I can't find it either. Try gps, that is on my machine also, and very handy :) Paul -- Now I know how many stars there ar

Re: [newbie] vmware

2000-11-25 Thread michael
You could probably insert your 7.2 inst disk and boot and choose expert and development when you are asked, and that should install everything you need(if space is no issue) Richard Chase wrote: > Marcia: > When you attempt the installation with rpm, the rpm will tell you that > certain 'depende

Re: [newbie] ktop

2000-11-25 Thread Joan Tur
Jiten Kumar Ray mt ee escribió: > hi... > i am not able to run ktop in LM7.2 either on command prompt or on run > window. is it removed? > any help? > --jit Try gtop... -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux

Re: [newbie] 7.2 and several problems

2000-11-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 24 November 2000 01:10 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > boot box also has the same problems as above as well as telling me > that I have room for only 39% of the files I chose to install. That > was on a 4gig hd with 2 gig reserved for /home. Should I have made > /usr the larger partition?

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Hangs on 'killall'

2000-11-25 Thread Paul
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Denver Espenorio wrote: >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 thi

[newbie] Where is sndconfig, please? -- Urgent!

2000-11-25 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I've just reinstalled LM7.2, this time selecting the graphical X boot directly into KDE. Everything seems to be fine, but I can't find the "sndconfig" command and program to configure my sound. Until I do so, I can't listen to RealPlayer. I tried it in the console and in KDE's xter