Re: [newbie-it] X window non parte

2000-12-03 Thread Fabio Coatti
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 03:37:31PM +0100, sim82 wrote: Se vedi che i dati sono fuori gamma per il tuo monitor, prova o a metterne a mano di più adatti opuure dai tool di configurazione prova a schegliere dei monitor più "calmi". Sappimi dire cosa succede :-) E se il tuo monitor

[newbie-it] Ma uno come me che non sa niente di informatica ocme cavolaccio fa???

2000-12-03 Thread Enrico Guidolin
Gentili utenti iscritti a questa benedetta (maledetta) lista . mi dispiace io ci ho provato con Linux Mandrake 7.1 (tanto che lo ho comprato in negozio perchè mi dessero il manuale, che alla finenon si è dimostrato un gran che, perchè . vabehh) ma non ci ho capito nulla di come

Re: [newbie-it] Ma uno come me che non sa niente di informatica ocme cavolaccio fa???

2000-12-03 Thread Enrico Guidolin
Vorrei fare una precisazione, io non me la sono presa con Linux! Ma con il fatto che non sono ancora risucito dopo 2 mesi che lo possiedo a effettuare una connessione internet! Scusa ma qua c'è qualcosa che non va; uno come me che sa poco o nulla di computer e che vuole migrare ad un altro

Re: [newbie-it] Ma uno come me che non sa niente di informatica ocme cavolaccio fa???

2000-12-03 Thread Carlo Fresia
From: "Enrico Guidolin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Ma uno come me che non sa niente di informatica ocme cavolaccio fa??? Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 18:12:18 +0100 Scusa un secondo se tu fossi al posto mio (che non sai nulla di

Re: [newbie-it] Ma uno come me che non sa niente di informatica ocme cavolaccio fa???

2000-12-03 Thread Enrico Guidolin
Scusa ma bisogna sempre entrare a fare queste modifiche come root? Ma come si fa? Ho provato a leggere anche gli appunti di informatica dal sito www.pluto.inux.it ma non ci ho capito un santo! Per non dire una Madaonna. - Original Message - From: "Daniele Keyser Soze Surano" [EMAIL

Re: [newbie-it] Ma uno come me che non sa niente di informatica ocme cavolaccio fa???

2000-12-03 Thread Corrado
Enrico, quali sono marca e modello del tuo modem? Corrado Daniele Keyser Soze Surano wrote: Guarda che Galactica non c'entra niente (anche io uso Galactica), il problema è del modem,perchè ogni modem ha una sua stringa di inizializzazione (se non lo inizializzi il modem non sa che

Re: [newbie-it] Ma uno come me che non sa niente di informatica ocme cavolaccio fa???

2000-12-03 Thread freefred
Appunti Linux sulle prime puo' spaventare, e va letto con calma. Ma le ultime versioni dovrebbero contenere anche le ldr (linux domande e risposte) di utilita' forse piu' immediata. se non le hai puoi scaricarle per es. qui: http://www.interpuntonet.it/linux/ bye -- Devil Inside Experiment -

RE: [newbie] Mandrake is losing it

2000-12-03 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
The problem are the configuration files created for each user and the master profile... You could tar off each of the directories, omitting the hidden files, into a temporary directory... I.E. /home/temp Then BEFORE installing 7.2 delete the contents of all the other home directories and

Re: [newbie] Mouseman plus

2000-12-03 Thread Carl Kehley
Dale, Same problem here. It seems to be a bug in the software. Go to level 3, run mouseconfig, and reboot. Your mouse will be working properly, but it will probably still be listed as as a generic. Carl Kehley Dale Peterson wrote: Here is the problem: I have a mouseman plus ps/2 that I'm

Re: [newbie] Reinstall

2000-12-03 Thread Paul
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Riker wrote: Riker, You need to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst for that. Just remove the "offending" entry, and after the next boot you're fine. Contrary to LILO, you do not need to run anything for the changes to take effect, the file will be read at boot time. Good luck Paul

Re: [newbie] CD-Rom Permissions

2000-12-03 Thread Paul
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, R. Edward McCain wrote: Create a group "cdwriter" in linuxconf, add yourself to that group, and then change the group permission on /dev/scd0 (or scd1, whatever the writer really is) to the group 'cdwriter' (chgrp cdwriter /dev/scd?) As my machine now shows: [paul@internet

Re: [newbie] majordomo

2000-12-03 Thread Paul
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: yes...and one that defies being configured and ran. That much it does unwaveringly. Have you looked at ezmlm ? EaZy MailingListManager? You should be able to find info through www.google.com Paul -- I would only believe in a god that loves to dance.

Re: [newbie] RE: Windows can't be written in VB

2000-12-03 Thread eran . sagi
Well You are wrong First Windows Kernel is written in (C Assembly) Second Windows 2K is Win NT 5, Windows ME is just Win 9X Kernel with extensions. I my self work on both linux and Win 2K. and although it is easy to attack M$, but I must say that Win 2K is well stable and efficient OS. So if

Re: [newbie] RE: Windows can't be written in VB

2000-12-03 Thread keldmar
windows 2000 is not that stable it crashed all the time on my system and was just a heap of shit. I would rather jsut keep using my linux 7.2 box then use my windows 2000 box - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 6:41 PM

Re: [newbie] CD-Rom Permissions

2000-12-03 Thread Steven Kinch
Surely you should let ever user have access to thnis stuff. Log on as root and enter chmod -a+x /mnt/cdrom or whatever the device is. Hey presto, everyone can have a go. On Sun, 03 Dec 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, R. Edward McCain wrote: Create a group "cdwriter" in linuxconf,

Re: [newbie] Old wp5 files

2000-12-03 Thread Paul
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Vic wrote: Anyone know where I can find something to convert or read old wordperfect 5 files? WordPerfect 8 for linux will read the old files and put them into most common formats. I don't know if it can convert things to what you want them to be, since you did not mention

[newbie] Download manager?

2000-12-03 Thread R. Edward McCain
Salutations List, I am wondering if there might be a download manager for Linux, something like Go!zilla or NetAnts, that will allow recovery of interrupted downloads, etc. I have not found anything at this point, but I have only searched for about 15 minutes. Thank you. -- Yours, R.

Re: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-03 Thread Steven Kinch
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000, you wrote: Not that I can't recover, but I would like to get some insight to what I did wrong. Last night I decided to install mandrake 7.2 on my system that has 2 hdds with 3

Re: [newbie] CD-Rom Permissions

2000-12-03 Thread Paul
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Steven Kinch wrote: Surely you should let ever user have access to thnis stuff. Log on as root and enter chmod -a+x /mnt/cdrom or whatever the device is. Hey presto, everyone can have a go. *grin* I _am_ "every user" on my machine... But you are correct, everyone should

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-03 Thread Steven Kinch
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000, you wrote: In a message dated 12/1/00 4:54:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if MS ever decided to distribute a flavor of linux I believe they would give Mandrake, SuSE, RedHat, and etc. a very hard run for their money. I am sorry but I don't

Re: [newbie] Old wp5 files

2000-12-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
WordPerfect 8 for Linux (not Corel Office) is free. Get it at linux.corel.com. BTW, in regards to your CV question, Kword is part of Koffice. Look up koffice at rpmfind.net. Other viable alternatives include AbiWord (look it up at rpmfind.net) and StarOffice (www.openoffice.org). On Sun, 3

Re: [newbie] Download manager?

2000-12-03 Thread Tim Holmes
Have you tried freshmeat.net? You can search for software there. That's where I find most of my software. I however do not know of anything off hand. Personally I can't stand download managers, but that's mainly due to their pirate like attitude in Windozs. tdh -- T. Holmes Unixtechs.org

Re: [newbie] CD-Rom Permissions

2000-12-03 Thread R. Edward McCain
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000, you wrote: Surely you should let ever user have access to thnis stuff. Log on as root and enter chmod -a+x /mnt/cdrom or whatever the device is. Hey presto, everyone can have a go. Doesn't seem to work for me... # start session term su password * dir bin

[newbie] Creative PCI128 under Mandrake 7

2000-12-03 Thread falcaraz
Dear Abraham I have a Creative Lab Sound Blaster PCI 128, the module charged is Ensoniq 5880 Audio PCI and works fine!!! Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)

[newbie] Voodoo3 3000 acceleration works!!

2000-12-03 Thread falcaraz
Thanks Eddi Torres and Abe, I gare; finally the Voodoo3 3 has acceleration. I have tryed before to do that using linux.3dfx.com page, but I forced the installation of Glide (the version in this page is older than the present Mandrake 7.2) and then the X system crashed. Chmoulin said me that

Re: [newbie] Download manager?

2000-12-03 Thread R. Edward McCain
I would like to thank everyone for their prompt and helpful response to my inquery - especially the freshmeat tip. On Sun, 03 Dec 2000, you wrote: Salutations List, I am wondering if there might be a download manager for Linux, something like Go!zilla or NetAnts, that will allow recovery

Re: [newbie] majordomo

2000-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Netscape 4.7x in Linux won't do the "above the text" thing for you like it will in Windows. Mozilla M18, Beonex Communicator, and of course the worst of the bunch, Netscape 6 will do this. Although I don't suggest using Netscape 6 since it sucks. -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to

Re: [[newbie] Old wp5 files]

2000-12-03 Thread Michael Scottaline
Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list Anyone know where I can find something to convert or read old wordperfect 5 files? thankya thankyaverrimuch == Doesn't WP 8.0 open old WP formats??? Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

Re: [newbie] Mandrake is losing it

2000-12-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/03/2000 3:20:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tell the installer to omit formatting the /home partition (it IS on another partition right) I just wanted someones 2 cents on this, what good is it to split it up

Re: [newbie] Boot-up Issue 7.1 7.2

2000-12-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 03 December 2000 07:46 am, aifusionextreme wrote: Right ok, Is there a boot log I could look ? look around in /var/log I have heard that mandrake use custom kernels. Do you think that untouched kernel might work ? All distro's use 'custom' kernels. Using a plain vanila

Re: [newbie] RE: Windows can't be written in VB

2000-12-03 Thread S. Anderson
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 06:52:52PM +1000, keldmar wrote: windows 2000 is not that stable it crashed all the time on my system and was just a heap of shit. I would rather jsut keep using my linux 7.2 box then use my windows 2000 box hehe I agree with your windows statement, But i thought i

Re: [newbie] Video card question?

2000-12-03 Thread Paul
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hmm, okay...I'm a little confused now. I thought that with Xfree 4.01 and Mandrake v7.2, if your video card is supported, then you get automagically installed hardware acceleration? Is that not right? Depends. If you upgrade from 3.3.6. a copy of the

Re: [newbie] CD-Rom Permissions

2000-12-03 Thread Paul
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Mike Tetlow wrote: Paul Thanks for the help but how do I change the permissions of the group. I installed yesterday. Load linuxconf (as root) Go to user accounts. Click Group definitions Click ADD Name the group. e,g, cdwriter. No need to do strange things with directories.

[newbie] How to reinstall

2000-12-03 Thread Mike Tetlow
Does anyone know a good surefire way to reinstall since it doesn't look like my cdrom permission problem will clear up. Thanks Mike From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-Rom Permissions Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 11:04:46 +0100

Re: [newbie] CD-Rom Permissions

2000-12-03 Thread Roger Sherman
Has anyone tried what they say to do here? http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/ On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, R. Edward McCain wrote: I have the same problem - and no sound :-( -- I've just started tho. I need to hit the man's and rfc's and see why I got no cd's or sound.

Re: [newbie] How to reinstall

2000-12-03 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Mike Tetlow wrote: Does anyone know a good surefire way to reinstall since it doesn't look like my cdrom permission problem will clear up. Before you try that, do what they say to do here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/ I don't know if

RE: [newbie] How to reinstall

2000-12-03 Thread Steven Kinch
Try the command, as root, chmod 777 (name of your cdrom drive) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: 02 December 2000 16:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to reinstall On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Mike Tetlow

RE: [newbie] majordomo

2000-12-03 Thread Steven Kinch
Sod Netscape of any description. Lord Mark is quite right. Mozilla is great. Also have a look at Opera to be found at www.opera.com. They charge for it in Windows and I have happily paid for it. In Linux, I am not sure if it will do the e-mail thing yet. I will say that Kmail which probably

Re: [newbie] CD-Rom Permissions

2000-12-03 Thread Mike Tetlow
Sweet Merciful crap I got 1 drive working not the cdrw though yeah woho go me Got really no clue how I did it however make sure its set on Group cdrom in your properties So now I'm down to getting the CDROM2 working it still says I don't have permission P.S. I did the reinstall and it came up

[newbie] Grub Editing

2000-12-03 Thread Mike Tetlow
Does anyone know of a way or location of a tutorial so I can make grub set my windows partition as the one it boots after 5 seconds of no response Thanks, Mike _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer

Re: [newbie] Grub Editing

2000-12-03 Thread Mr Monster
Use Linuxconf , and from there its somewhere under default boot options hope that helps Monster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reg. User 153258 - Original Message - From: "Mike Tetlow" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 December 2000 17:58 Subject: [newbie] Grub Editing

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-03 Thread pablito
Take a look at what happened when MS first tried skinnable software, this media player of theirs. Plenty of skinnable windows programs had been out for a year or more. MS had the advantage of having the source code for windows. Their media player was easily the most incompetent skinning job

Re: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-03 Thread John Slezak
Thanks for the info. I've already went crazy deleting paritions left and right. I thought I would be able to just reinstall nt, but it goes thru to doing the exhaustive examination of the hard drives and then tells me I need to reboot and start over. I get to here everytime. Then I've gone in

RE: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-03 Thread Steven Kinch
OK. Let me know how it goes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Slezak Sent: 03 December 2000 20:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hosed my system Thanks for the info. I've already went crazy deleting paritions left and

Re: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-03 Thread jack dugas
John Slezak wrote: Thanks for the info. I've already went crazy deleting paritions left and right. I thought I would be able to just reinstall nt, but it goes thru to doing the exhaustive examination of the hard drives and then tells me I need to reboot and start over. I get to here

RE: [newbie] gates gets linux

2000-12-03 Thread Michael
Wouldn't someone like Linux be able to demand to view suspected parts of Windows source to see if it has Linux code in it if this were at all provable? I do believe other companies have done such to Microsoft before (and in some cases proved their code was indeed in there).. *^*^*^* Have the

Re: [newbie] gates gets linux

2000-12-03 Thread Michael
I'd tend to be one that'd believe he's using it as his way to jump into the Linux market without actually supporting Linux until he is in the position to be the market leader of the Linux market. Something along the lines of what he did with the last big trend he almost missed -- afterall who

Re: [newbie] RE: Windows can't be written in VB

2000-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
no -- 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 Fri, 1 Dec 2000 Eunice Thompson had this to say!

Re: [newbie] RE: Windows can't be written in VB

2000-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Thats exactly what I said the first time I responded. That the "kernel" was/is written in C and Assembler. But I guess that part was overlooked in all the other posts. -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can

Re: [newbie] RE: Windows can't be written in VB

2000-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
thats just the kernel. 7.2 refers to the version of Mandrake that he's using. -- 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 */

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-03 Thread Michael
When in doubt do some research into the best apps for your needs, on any OS, and then clone them or help a programmer you might know (Linux lists are good places to find them) to clone them for you as opensource. Once you got the basics of what you need it is much easier to develop specialized

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Patrick, You are right, of course, Linux is a paradise for coders and programmers, but beyond that truth is another, even bigger truth. That is that Linux is incredibly stable and powerful as a home PC platform as well as a dependable business workstation platform. -- Mark / * Sometimes it

RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-03 Thread Rick Commo
And behind Mark's statement is an even more powerful truth, "if... you can install it and get it going". Because a stable operating system that you can't easily install won't be accepted. And I am in that league for example with my Pavilion 3625 - no sound. Since I don't use it anyway, I've

Re: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-03 Thread Jo
linux should be on a computer by itself without be on the same drive or computer for that matter.the bios has to see which OS it is going to boot. Nothing but trouble is going to happen.. jack. I have 3 OS's on my portable and they boot without interfering with each other. Nothing bad

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
I SERIOUSLY doubt it because; 1) their programmers aren't smart enough to figure out HOW to cause Linux to crash every time the mouse arrow moves. 2) They would have to convince the rest of the Linux world, AND a lot of windows users to pay ridiculous amounts of money for virtually the same

Re: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-03 Thread Jo
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 12:40:47 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the info. I've already went crazy deleting paritions left and right. I thought I would be able to just reinstall nt, but it goes thru to doing the exhaustive examination of the hard drives and then tells me I need to

Re: [newbie] help

2000-12-03 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
On Monday 04 December 2000 03:04, you wrote: i've just installed linux 4 windows! after installation i clicked the icon from the desktop and then windows boot to linux with a lot of text coming then afterwards asked me for the login name then password, i entered the username and password

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot

2000-12-03 Thread erylon hines
On Sunday 03 December 2000 23:35, you wrote: I have a dual boot computer with W2K and Mandrake 7.2 on it. The Windows boots from drive C: and the Mandrake is on /dev/hdb5 . When it was installing I was asked which drive the Linux was booting from and I said /dev/hdb5. I then made a backup

Re: [newbie] Linux v Windows

2000-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
The Point Linux will never win its way into peoples homes until manufacturers decide to start porting their code to linux, so us people at home can use our digicams, scanners etc... just as easy as ever! (without even so much as a chmod etc) why should they wish to do such a thing

Re: [newbie] help

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff Dickman
type startx On Sunday 03 December 2000 18:04, you wrote: i've just installed linux 4 windows! after installation i clicked the icon from the desktop and then windows boot to linux with a lot of text coming then afterwards asked me for the login name then password, i entered the username and

Re: [newbie] help

2000-12-03 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Marlon Guzman wrote: i've just installed linux 4 windows! after installation i clicked the icon from the desktop and then windows boot to linux with a lot of text coming then afterwards asked me for the login name then password, i entered the username and password then a

[newbie] Defrag

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff Dickman
This is probably me just being obsessive... Does Mandrake have a defrag program? -JD-

Re: [newbie] Linux v Windows

2000-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
it _has_ an "install-shield". It just doesn't happen to look like the one thats in windows. Nor should it. there are some things, I would agree, that need to change, but one of them isn't becoming windows, or even Windows-like. Since I became a Linux user two years ago I've watched first RedHat

Re: [newbie] help

2000-12-03 Thread David Grubb
Try startx, but you may have to run xf86setup first - never having used lin4win before I'm not sure if it would have already setup X Windows for you. Also, have a look at the HOW-TO docs (should be able to find them at www.linux.com) if you need any reference material for xf86setup, and let us

Re: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff Dickman
I have MDK and Windows ME on the same system at home, and MDK and Windows 2000 on the same system at work. Both run off the same hard drive. IMO, The bios doesn't care which OS it's going to boot. So long as the MBR or the first sector of the disk contain a boot loader it doesn't matter.

Re: [newbie] Old wp5 files

2000-12-03 Thread Doug McGarrett
Any modern version of WordPerfect will read them. Probably MS Word will read them. (You obviously must run Windows to do that, or maybe Wine works?) Try StarOffice. I don't know if that works or not, but it's free. --doug At 01:51 12/03/2000 -0600, you wrote: Hello list Anyone know where I

RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Rick, what "is" a Pavilion? I've never heard of one of those. Laptop? desktop? what kind of sound card is in it? Mandrake 7.1 has a lot of support for a lot of hardware, and I'm told that 7.2 has even more. Now...as far as sound cards go RedHat has even better sound card support then does

Re: [newbie] how do i get off this mailling list

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff Dickman
Which sounds vaguely like "how to become a registered linux user" :-) -JD- On Sunday 03 December 2000 10:32, you wrote: On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: I liked choice number two... ;) I toyed with the idea of telling him to send each member of this list a buck, and we'd take care

Re: [newbie] CD-Rom Permissions

2000-12-03 Thread Doug McGarrett
Someone on the SuSE list told me how to solve this: do ls -l cdrom (or whatever your mnt file is called). It very likely points to something else. The output looks something like this: ls -l cdrom cdrom - sdc1 change the permissions on whatever the file that is pointed TO. I made mine 444,

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-03 Thread R. Edward McCain
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000, you wrote: You are right, of course, Linux is a paradise for coders and programmers,  but beyond that truth is another, even bigger truth. That is that Linux is  incredibly stable and powerful as a home PC platform as well as a  dependable business workstation platform Er,

Re: [newbie] Linux v Windows

2000-12-03 Thread David Grubb
I'd just like to add my $0.02 here, at the risk of heading OT and being inundated with flames. I whole-heartedly agree Linux is a far-better, quality system than certain other OSs, and I have enjoyed many months of learning and working with it, and I look forward to many more years of

Re: [newbie] Old wp5 files

2000-12-03 Thread Vic
Most excellent and cool. Many thanks and also to those who answered besides. Even tho only lasts 30 days, I just need it for a few days so it did the trick. I noticed a funny little oddity, but I think its just because of the printer script I am using off of linuxprinting.org the wp8 will not

Re: [newbie] help

2000-12-03 Thread BobC
Marlon Guzman wrote: i've just installed linux 4 windows! after installation i clicked the icon from the desktop and then windows boot to linux with a lot of text coming then afterwards asked me for the login name then password, i entered the username and password then a word localhost

Re: [newbie] how do i get off this mailling list

2000-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
it sounds more believable sometimes if you tell'em it costs more. I know...thats evil. -- 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

[newbie] Crystal 4235

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff Dickman
Does anyone know when the subject sound card will be supported? It's built onto my motherboard. I'd rather not have to install a second card for sound... -JD-

Fwd: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-03 Thread R. Edward McCain
forwarded as an experiment. This message was bounced earlier. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 22:26:32 -0600 From: R. Edward McCain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 03 Dec 2000, you wrote: You are right, of

Re: [newbie] Video card question?

2000-12-03 Thread abe
Unfortunately you do not automagically get hardware acceleration w x 4.0.1 and mandrake 7.2. I had to use the same procedures to make it work that I used with 7.0 and 7.1. I've got an A7V (Via KT13) and linux works great on it. Abe "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Hmm, okay...I'm a little confused

[newbie] Fwd: ScanMail Message: To Sender, action taken by attachment blocking.

2000-12-03 Thread R. Edward McCain
Any clues why Microsoft exchange is bouncing my messages to the Linux list? I have NOT, repeat, NOT attached any files to the forwarded message in question nor the original message. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: ScanMail Message: To Sender, action taken by attachment

Re: [newbie] help

2000-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
the command you're looking for us startx -- 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 Sun, 3 Dec 2000

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot

2000-12-03 Thread Christopher Trojan
If you're willing to spend $30, you can download Partition Commander from the web, and it's got a really nice partitioning/resizing utility as well as a bootloader. It's gotten me out of a lot of trouble. erylon hines wrote: On Sunday 03 December 2000 23:35, you wrote: I have a dual boot

Re: [newbie] Multiple XF86 config files. HELP

2000-12-03 Thread S. Anderson
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:49:29PM -0500, John and Marcie Alexander wrote: I am a newbie trying to install the Nvidia drivers. I am trying (as a learning experience) to set everything up via tar balls. I have quite a few references telling me what I need to do - but in the /etc/lib

[newbie] video blueing

2000-12-03 Thread phuqwit
Has anyone ever experienced a blueing of the monitor colors? When i switch my monitor between boxes (no KVM switch yet) I experience a strange problem: The colors that are normally white appear as a light/baby blue. This is incredibly infuriating as I have the rest of my system configured

RE: [newbie] Creative PCI128 under Mandrake 7

2000-12-03 Thread Abraham Pinzur
Thanks, Francisco. It seems to be working fine. - Av - -- Av Pinzur / Crisp Graphics [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crispgraphics.com/~newav -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 03 December, 2000 05:21

RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-03 Thread Abraham Pinzur
Well stated, Ed. I too appreciate the stable platform, but the apps are sometimes a different story. I installed Linux for the express purpose of getting more experience on the nitty-gritty end of things... =) - Av - -- Av Pinzur / Crisp Graphics [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] Grub Editing

2000-12-03 Thread Abraham Pinzur
Mike wrote: Does anyone know of a way or location of a tutorial so I can make grub set my windows partition as the one it boots after 5 seconds of no response I did this just yesterday in Mandrake 7.2. Open DrakConf from the desktop, and there should be an icon for boot options, which will

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot

2000-12-03 Thread Abraham Pinzur
If you're willing to spend $30, you can download Partition Commander URL? - Av - -- Av Pinzur / Crisp Graphics [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crispgraphics.com/~newav -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christopher Trojan Sent:

RE: [newbie] Fwd: ScanMail Message: To Sender, action taken by attachment blocking.

2000-12-03 Thread Abraham Pinzur
Dunno, but I got the same error. Maybe it's a passing server anomaly... - Av - -- Av Pinzur / Crisp Graphics [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crispgraphics.com/~newav -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of R. Edward McCain Sent: Sunday, 03

Re: [newbie] Defrag

2000-12-03 Thread Paul
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Jeff Dickman wrote: This is probably me just being obsessive... Does Mandrake have a defrag program? Yes and no. The file system is so smartly built that it fixes defragging by itself, on the fly, in background. You need not do anything for it. Paul -- We are Microsoft

[newbie] disk space

2000-12-03 Thread Annuit-Coeptis
Hello guys: Hear is my thing, I`m using mandrake 7.2, when i make th installation i decide to install everything in the distribution with out think how big, and how many disk space will use. Now, after test a few tools and aplications i have decide to remove thouse that I dont use. Using

[newbie] cannot send mail with kmail

2000-12-03 Thread root
Hi all, does anybody have any idea why the kmail "send" button stopped functioning. i use mandrake7.0. thanks for any help.

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot

2000-12-03 Thread root
add this lines to your lilo: other=/dev/hdxx label=w2k table=/dev/hdx map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 note that you need to put the right xx in other and table. this work for me. good luck. erylon hines wrote: On Sunday 03 December 2000 23:35, you wrote: I have a

Re: [newbie] Defrag

2000-12-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
ext2, which is Linux's standard filesystem, does not need a defrag programme. Neither does ReiserFS, which comes with Mandrake as an alternative to ext2. Only inefficient filesystems like M$ FAT and NTFS need to be defragged. A Linux defragmenter does exist, but it was designed for the older

Re: [newbie] video blueing

2000-12-03 Thread John Rye
phuqwit wrote: Has anyone ever experienced a blueing of the monitor colors? When i switch my monitor between boxes (no KVM switch yet) I experience a strange problem: The colors that are normally white appear as a light/baby blue. This is incredibly infuriating as I have the rest of my