Re: [newbie-it] Stampante HP Deskjet 710 - Porta parallela

On dom, 10 dic 2000, Giulio wrote: La mia stampante non da segni di vita. C'è modo di controllare invece di essere un problema di stampante sia un problema di porta? Come faccio, cioè, a controllare che l'output arrivi alla porta LPT1? Se è una 710, non credo che sia completamente

Re: [newbie-it] make

Io ho controllato prima che il mio scanner fosse riconosciuto con SANE_DEBUG_MUSTEK_PP=128 scanimage -L probabilmente tu dovrai dare qualcosa del tipo: SANE_DEBUG_PRIMAX_SCAN=128 scanimage -L La prima parte e` quasi analoga ad un export SANE_DEBUG_PRIMAX_SCAN=128 e eleva la

[newbie-it] errori nel kernel debian

Ciao a tutta la ML ho scoperto durante il caricamento del kernel che nel momento di acquisire i moduli dà una serie di seganalazioni di errori tra cui il mancato caricamento del device sg della scsi generica richiamata durante la cnfigurazione del kernel stesso. Domande: dove mi scrive i log (

[newbie-it] BIOS - Compaq

C'è qualcuno che abbia un Compaq Presario e sia riuscito a far funzionare le periferiche PnP? C'è un modo di disattivare il riconoscimento delle PnP sul BIOS di un Compaq?

R: [newbie-it] knapster..installazione

ciao, dove posso scaricarlo knapster.. - Original Message - From: Daniele "Keyser Soze" Surano [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 3:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] knapster..installazione Entra nella consolle da root,e vai nella cartella di

[newbie-it] modem lucent per compaq

per chi ha installato su compaq linux e ha problemi con il modem in questo caso lucent, forse è la volta buona domani vi dirò se funziona davvero come sembra.. :)))

Re: R: [newbie-it] knapster..installazione

peppesan wrote: ciao, dove posso scaricarlo knapster.. I siti sono "i soliti": http://freshmeat.net per esempio: inserisci "knapster" nel motore del sito. Corrado

Re: [newbie-it] errori nel kernel debian

On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:58:42PM +0100, Skywalker wrote: Ciao a tutta la ML ho scoperto durante il caricamento del kernel che nel momento di acquisire i moduli dà una serie di seganalazioni di errori tra cui il mancato caricamento del device sg della scsi generica richiamata durante la

[newbie-it] Mandrake 7.2

Ciao a tutti ho da poco istallato la Mandrake 7.2(Molto bella!!) e ho già un problema... come faccio a fare in modo che all'avvio non parta direttamentel'utente che avevo dato come "primario"(non root) durante l'istallazione

Re: [newbie] cd player problem

On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Wilson wrote: Finally got the graphics card and sound working again. Only thing is the cd player only plays through the right channel even with MusicMatch but mp3's play normally through both channels. Is there something I need to do to get a cd to play in both channels?

Re: [newbie] Grub questions

On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Joe Lore wrote: I recently installed Mandrake 7.2 and have a few questions about the boot loader, grub. How do I get Windows to be my default OS in the list. Count from 0 up in /boot/grub/menu/lst, for each "title" you find, and change the "default" into that: e.g.

[newbie] OT Mandrax??

-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:35:51 +1100 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hi peoples, Did you also notice that sometimes the reply-to address is garbled into [EMAIL PROTECTED]?? When I don't see

Re: [newbie] Linux networking?

On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Michael Khachiki wrote: can some one help me with networking Linux? I want to get two Linux machines networked and I don't know any thing about it. I need manual that can tell me how to go about it and what programs I need? Check the networkingsection on

[newbie] How to use themes with KDE 2 and md7.2

Hi, I have looked at KDE pages and I think I could get everything to to work, except when I installed md 7.2 with KDE I did not get the Theme option under the LookNFeel section of the KDE Control Center. The instructions on themes.kde.org talk about copying files to certain directories,

[newbie] booting up - a real newbie question

Apologies for the silly question in advance, but I have found this a bit of a riddle. I have managed to install Mandrake 7.2 deluxe on my machine, but when it reboots, it does so straight into Windows 98se and not Linux. Could anyone tell me what I have done wrong, and what I need to do to sort

Re:[newbie] how to use gnomba?

i am using LinNeighborhood. look for rpm at tucows.with this i am able to mount windows share but only as root that too which are not password protected. but i would like to know more about gnomba. also how to mount windows share which are password protected ( of course i know the passwords but

[newbie] HELP - StarOfiice 5.2 does not print !

all you guru's my epson stylus 740 is setup fine under LM 7.2, but SO 5.2 does not print anything to it. In the SPadmin i added the driver from the cups databse directory. 'usr/share/cups/model/epson'. when i send a print job to the printer, it appears very briefly in the print job queue. any

Re: [newbie] booting up - a real newbie question

On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, John Carlarne wrote: Sounds like Lilo or Grub were not installed. Did you make a boot-diskette during the installation? If so, use that to boot from, into Linux. Then log in as root, cd to /boot/grub and run ./install.sh That should set up Grub on your system. Note: First

Re: [newbie] HELP - StarOfiice 5.2 does not print !

On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Ashley Moore wrote: all you guru's my epson stylus 740 is setup fine under LM 7.2, but SO 5.2 does not print anything to it. In the SPadmin i added the driver from the cups databse directory. 'usr/share/cups/model/epson'. when i send a print job to the printer, it appears

[newbie] GUI and Mail

I'm having a headache with LM7.2. It's my GUI(kde) I can't go all the way to the left of the screen and I have to 'hover' to the right hand side of any buttons I want to press('OK', 'CANCEL', 'CLOSE' etc) this happens after about 15 mins of working within kde. Any assistance (if you

Re: [newbie] I'm Becky and have installed Mandrake 7.0 as a server and

Hello Becky ~ prolly it's best do to a fresh install { if you back up your /home + /etc directories from your old system , that 'might' bring you about back to where you were } best wishes Richard Aegina, Greece _ -- sent on Linux 100% Virus

[newbie] KDE Menus

Hello All, When I upgraded some programs their links went away in the menus. The last one was Pan. I can add the programs again thru the menu editor but I was wondering if there was an easier way... I'm using Mandrake 7.2 with KDE 2.0 Thanks, -- Paul Linux User #191842 http://counter.li.org

RE: [newbie] KDE Menus

update-menus -v -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Hildmann Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 9:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] KDE Menus Hello All, When I upgraded some programs their links went away in the menus.

[newbie] I'm seeing RED on my BJC-4200

OK, I have a BJC-4200 working on 7.2. It works ok except for a slight problem. It prints red letters rather than black. How do I fix this. John

[newbie] BA Infospeed and Linux

I am at a loss. I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and use BellAtlantics Infospeed DSL. I have followed all the steps at the Roaring Penguin site and at http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/prog/linux/pppoe.html and I still cannot get it to work. I believe the Ethernet cards are setup ok because when I run

[newbie] gvim editor default background color

can anybody help me to change the default backgroud color in gvim ( graphical vim editor). i tried help but of no use. i am sorry if it is not right place to ask such question thankx in anticipation. jiten

[newbie] Star Office Color Printing in Mandrake 7.2 -civileme

Civileme: Thanks for your suggestions!  I checked in with the Mandrakeforum.com, but the solution I found didn't solve the problem yet -- I'm still working on it. The Epson printers I am using are different models. I found that the Star Office bar graphs, when saved as jpegs, look great on

Re: [newbie] chmod syntax

Roger Sherman wrote: Hi! I just copied my mp3 dir from the winbites partition of my PC to the Linux, in my user profile, and when I checked the permissions, it listed as access being given to user, group, and others. Now, what I want to do is to make it so only user has access, and the way

Re: [newbie] KDE Menus

Speaking of menu editing, anybody know how to change permissions so that all users (or one) can edit the menus? I'm talking about Gnome here, but interested in KDE too. _paul r Jose M. Sanchez wrote: update-menus -v -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Win4Lnx]

I only have one partition that occupies the entire disk. If I can't find a solution to this. Partition Magic may be the only way out for a smooth installation. Mark Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never tried, but as it is basically a scaled-down version of PM it should. This may be the

[newbie] Permissions

Can someone help me with this one? I just installed M 7.2 using KDE-2. I find that even as root, I cannot access the CD Rom or floppy drives. When I look at the properties in X-Win, I see that as root, I have All permissions. When I check in console, I see the same. What can I do to fix this?

Re: [newbie] configring CD_RW, Ricoh RW7060S

I dont know what the problem is - but you shouldn't need a driver or anything for the Ricoh - I have the exact same model and I can read and write to CD's and I didn't have to do anything at all! I have read in other messages that some people have problems trying to use multiple CD (or DVD)

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

Ian Land wrote: Well, that's only true if you use a window manager like KDE. Others, like Gnome, use double-clicks. So, a single-click is not "the Linux way". The Windows gui can be configured to act like Internet Explorer, which also means single-clicks. This isn't an OS question, it's a

[newbie] USB support

I have been searching and can't find how to turn on USB support in Mandrake 7.2 with the standard kernel. Can someone point me to a howto? Thanks -michael-

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

I have a Logitec laser mouse with 2 buttons and a scroller. I am thrilled with mandrake's support of it in the kde environ. windows requires other drivers and so it's just another proof of linux' superiority imho. David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Ian Land wrote: Well, that's only true if you

Re: [newbie] USB support

-michael- wrote: I have been searching and can't find how to turn on USB support in Mandrake 7.2 with the standard kernel. Can someone point me to a howto? Thanks -michael- USB was turned on by default in my install. You still have to load the individual device driver (mouse, webcam,

[newbie] No sound from CD Player

Now I have no sound from CD Player. I think that when I installed KDE 2.0.1 something happened to the permissions because I have had trouble with a few things and had to change permissions to get them to work. Is there any way to change all permissions back to their default? I don't know if

[newbie] Help: Sound and Iomega Zip drive

Hello, I am new to Llinux and am working through reconfiguring my system. Although I have been able to solve many of the problems myself, I am still stuck on a few things. First, I cannot get sound to play. There are no error messages and I cannot figure out what the probelm could be. I

Re: [newbie] booting up - a real newbie question

At 09:40 12/10/2000 +, you wrote: Apologies for the silly question in advance, but I have found this a bit of a riddle. I have managed to install Mandrake 7.2 deluxe on my machine, but when it reboots, it does so straight into Windows 98se and not Linux. Could anyone tell me what I have done

Re: [newbie] Perl error message on locale

At 12:05 12/10/2000 -0600, Dennis wrote: Whenever I use an editor like gedit i get the error message seen in the attached screen shot. Hope it's ok to send something like this, it's the first time i've tried and I don't know how resource intensive it might be for others to recieve. --

Re: [newbie] USB Webcams . . .

What programs are you trying to use it with? -Paul R KompuKit wrote: i'm having a terrible time setting up my: creative labs videoblaster II USB... I have 7.2 installed... Paul R wrote: On this topic, I'm also looking for a good TWAIN compliant video conferencing program for my USB

Re: [newbie] how to use gnomba?

On Sunday 10 December 2000 05:39, you wrote: jiten wrote: i am using LinNeighborhood. look for rpm at tucows.with this i am able to mount windows share but only as root that too which are not password protected. but i would like to know more about gnomba. also how to mount windows share

[newbie] runlevel problem

Hi, I just finished my install of Mandrake Linux 7.2 on the same partition of windows, it loads, I choose my OS, and Linux starts to load. After scrolling some text, it asks me for a runlevel. What do I type in to get the KDE desktop? When I type in the numbers 0-7, it spits it out saying

[newbie] Bell Atlantic Infospeed DSL

Joe, I'm using BA Infospeed also, and aside from stumbling on the first few attempts to set it up, I basically have had no trouble. I too use the Roaring Penguin software. You need to make sure that your net card is not initialized at boot time, and that it has no IP address asigned to it. Run

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

They are certainly getting there. Roman -michael- wrote: I have a Logitec laser mouse with 2 buttons and a scroller. I am thrilled with mandrake's support of it in the kde environ. windows requires other drivers and so it's just another proof of linux' superiority imho. David Raleigh

RE: [newbie] USB support

In my case I have a scanner Epson Perfection 1200U and I have to do the next: a) create the devices typing: mknod /dev/usbscanner0 chmdo 666 /dev/usbscanner0 b) charge the usb modules and the scanner module; I have included these lines in a script file, I run it every time I like the scanner

Re: [newbie] Bell Atlantic Infospeed DSL

Hi, Well I do believe that it is being initialized at boot up and I am not sure how to stop it. Also how do I check to see if it has an IP address? Joe - Original Message - From: "Glenn Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 6:34 PM Subject:

[newbie] Star Office 5.2 with mdk 7.2

Hi, I have mdk 7.2. I burned my own ISOs and installed it. It is all updated through mandrake update, and I have it all set up with the internet just fine. However, I have explored the CDs from crappy macmillan walmart mdk7.2.on which I found on their 3rd or 4th CD the star office 5.2 rpm and

Re: [newbie] Perl error message on locale

I apologize to the list, this sort of attachment is used all the time where I work, but then that's on a LAN and outsider e-mail attachments we scan first and then read, so I didn't think hard enough about it . That said I am still looking for an answer to why the perl error message telling me to

Re: [newbie] Star Office 5.2 with mdk 7.2

Hi, I found the best thing to do is just let it install and it sets itself up for that user. Hope this helps you out. Regards Anthony Daniell - Original Message - From: S. Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 9:52 AM Subject: [newbie] Star

Re: [newbie] Robotic ISA pnp and linuxconf

That's the modem I'm using, and I had to go to "windows" and move the modem to com 2. Then go into bios and disable PNP os, disable any physical com 2, that should give that device clear and free usage of com 2 settings. - Original Message - From: "-michael-" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

It was actually me that originally wrote One of the "bad habits" is having to double-click when a single click will do. For those of us who use both OS's it's quite distracting, and I think the Linux way makes more sense. So it's only kde that does it. Good! I'm glad that

[newbie] wine

Hi ! I am having a problem with wine. By default in Mandrake 7.1 wine is auto configure the wine.conf files. When I would like to install windows application , i am having an error message and I can install it. This is the error message : err:reg:_w95_pasrse_dkv RegSetValueEx failed (

Re: [newbie] V7.2 questions!

*grin* even better! -- Mark ### ## ...it's not a bug, it's a feature ## Registered Linux User # 182496 ## !-- Pine 4.31 -- # On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 Romanator spake passionately saying! How about a crazed penguin with a balpine hammer?

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

- Original Message - From: "Doug McGarrett" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux : : It was actually me that originally wrote : : One of the "bad habits" is having to double-click : when a

[newbie] Prgs in KDE open real slow

After a new install of Mandrake things in KDE seem to start real slow. I'm waiting around 15 to 20 seconds for things to show up in KDE Looking in through KDE control center for memory I show: Total physical memory = 130.66 Free physical memory = 3.04 Shared memory = 0 Buffer = 7.92 Total Swap

Re: [newbie] Help: Sound and Iomega Zip drive

From one newbie to another The best solution to installing a sound card is; log out and go to "console" mode then use use "sndconfig" to install the sound card. As far as the zip drive is concerned, you may need to unmount the drive. The quickest way to do that is hit ALT-F2 to bring up the

[newbie] Bell Atlantic Infospeed DSL

Joe, under DrakConf section 'startup services' make sure that 'ADSL' is un-checked as well as 'network'. Next, in the LinuxConf button, click 'networking'. In the client tasks tab click 'Basic Host Information. Under the tab for Adaptor 1, see that there is no ip address for the card, and

Re: [Re: [newbie] chmod syntax]

try chmod -R 700 /home/rog/mp3 Cheers --Al "Ronald J. Hall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roger Sherman wrote: Hi! I just copied my mp3 dir from the winbites partition of my PC to the Linux, in my user profile, and when I checked the permissions, it listed as access being given to user, group,

[newbie] listing comport

Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:56:10 MDK 7.2..when I run this tric: ls -al /dev/modem And it returns this string. rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 3 21:09 /dev/modem - /dev/ttyS1 Is it telling me that I have an actual modem connected to ttyS1 and it is finding it there? Or is

Re: [newbie] listing comport

On Sunday 10 December 2000 10:12 pm, you wrote: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:56:10 MDK 7.2..when I run this tric: ls -al /dev/modem And it returns this string. rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 3 21:09 /dev/modem - /dev/ttyS1 Is it telling me that I have an actual modem connected to

Re: [Re: [newbie] chmod syntax]

Konqueror (KDE2), GMC (GNOME) and MC (console) can change permissions graphically. In Konqueror and GMC, all you have to do is right click the file/directory and select propeties. In the properties window you will be able to change the permissions. MC is a bit trickier, but much more powerful.

Re: [newbie] Linux v Windows

Why are so many Linux user so interested in how popular Linux is with the mainstream public. Screw the ignorant masses. If they want a seamingly (until you have to do something other than write memos) idiot-proof OS, let them use MS. I use Linux because it is powerful and stable and

Re: [newbie] Linux v Windows

Mark Weaver wrote: At present, Linux is still relatively complex to set up and use, however it is progressing at a rapid pace. But until it reaches the point that your average Joe Bloggs (sorry Joe, just picking a name out of the air :) who works in the bakery down the street, can go

Re: [newbie] V7.2 questions!

h...I prefer a balpine hammer for such a thing. -- Mark ### ## ...it's not a bug, it's a feature ## Registered Linux User # 182496 ## !-- Pine 4.30 -- # On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 Romanator spake passionately saying! I pulsed laser will work.