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2000-12-12 Thread Corrado
Ciao, scusate ho un p§oblema alla tastie§a :- Allo§a, ho appena installato la 7.2, ma il desktop come use§ Co§§ado non è cambiato, le icone sono semp§e le stesse... cosa devo modifica§e??? Come §oot o alt§o use§ c§eato ex novo, tutto okay... ç§azie... domani cambio tastie§a, iu§o... :-)

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2000-12-12 Thread Cannon, Andrew
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Re: [newbie] HP 722c

2000-12-12 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 01:45, you wrote: Has anyone had any luck setting up this printer or a similar one on Linux? I am using RedHat7, but I tried figuring it out on my Mandrake machine using the file from linuxprinting.org, but I had no clue how to do it. If anyone has any guidance, it

[newbie] Screen Flickers

2000-12-12 Thread Robert Pena
Just installed Linux for Windows carefully reading all info and checking update on hardware compatibilies. After rebooting the screen has vertical flickering lines with multiple penguins and mouse cursor. HP Pavilion 500MHz AMD K6-II 280 Ram ATI All In Wonder 128 32MHz 10 G Harddrive I

Re: [newbie] Another KDE2 2.0.1 ?

2000-12-12 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 04:30, you wrote: - Original Message - From: "civileme" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Another KDE2 2.0.1 ? On Monday 11 December 2000 15:43, you wrote: Really can´t understand.

[newbie] VI

2000-12-12 Thread Victor M. Moreno
Hello, In others distro of linux I was able to use the arrow keys when editing a file with vi. Now I have installed Mandrake 7.2, but when editing a file with vi I am not able to use the arrow keys because control character appears. Does anyone knows how to resolve this problem? Do I need the

Re: [newbie] HP 722c

2000-12-12 Thread traumax
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 17:16, you wrote: On Tuesday 12 December 2000 01:45, you wrote: Has anyone had any luck setting up this printer or a similar one on Linux? I am using RedHat7, but I tried figuring it out on my Mandrake machine using the file from linuxprinting.org, but I had no

[newbie] Problems with windows disk after change of XFree server in 7.2

2000-12-12 Thread Morten G. Dyndgaard
Hi I have a dualboot machine with windows98 installed on my primary harddisk (hda) and Linux Mandrake 7.2 on the other one (hdc). After installing Mandrake 7.2 with the new Xfree 4.0.1 graphics server, X seemed a little unstable (I have an ATI rage card), so I wanted to change the Xserver back

Re: [newbie] HP 722c

2000-12-12 Thread Paul
http://ww.linuxprinting.org/database.html is the place to look for printers and drivers Civileme Linuxprinting.org results in "unknown host" traumax Try 3 w instead of 2 w. www.linuxprinting.org works. Paul

Re: [newbie] HP 722c

2000-12-12 Thread traumax
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 19:29, you wrote: http://ww.linuxprinting.org/database.html is the place to look for printers and drivers Civileme Linuxprinting.org results in "unknown host" traumax Try 3 w instead of 2 w. www.linuxprinting.org works. Paul Thanks. I missed the

Re: [Re: [newbie] Date wont stay set] Solved

2000-12-12 Thread Mark Weaver
If you "uncheck" - Store in CMOS - in the date time tab of Linuxconf that will fix the problem. I had the same trouble with my workstation at work and that fixed it. -- Mark ### ## ...it's not a bug, it's a feature ## Registered Linux User # 182496 ## !-- Pine 4.31 --

[newbie] Apache

2000-12-12 Thread Dave DeGear
I've got my telnet and ftp servers working ok and would like to try playing with Apache. If I install the latest Apache rpm files should I worry immediately about any security problems with this. I'd like to have it running while I'm learning but not if I introduce too many security leaks.

Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z31 ?

2000-12-12 Thread Joan Tur
Anthony Daniell escribió: Hi, You should check out http://www.lexmark.com I contacted them and they said they had drivers for the Z32 and Z52 printers. But you never know what you will find untill you look. Nothing about Linux Z31... thanks anyway Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] SB AWE32

2000-12-12 Thread Michael, Steve
When you run sndconfig what shows up? It is /usr/sbin/sndconfig Run it as root. I have it running under 7.2 and it works fine. -Original Message- From: Jim Kempton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 4:08 AM To: newbielist Subject: [newbie] SB AWE32 Hey

RE: [newbie] SB AWE32

2000-12-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Eh, does your midi playback under KDE's Konqueror work? What happens when you click on a .mid file? Do you get audio? Thanks. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael, Steve Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 11:53 AM To: '[EMAIL

[newbie] kmail

2000-12-12 Thread bascule
hello people, getting ready for crimbo? (imagine this said with a thick accent and you might realise that i'm not neccessarily a big fan of this time of year - i'm a sufferer of s.a.d., solvency adjustment disorder) well a nice pressent for me would be if someone could tell me if it is

[newbie] problem updating glibc

2000-12-12 Thread Thomas Matelich
I've been having problems with MandrakeUpdate, so I went to get the cooker version, which requires rpm 4 which requires glibc 2.2. So I download them and I cannot get glibc to install. I've gone to console mode and when I try to rpm -Uvh glibc-2.2-20mdk.i586.rpm, It runs for a while then prints

Re: [newbie] problem updating glibc

2000-12-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 12:55 pm, Thomas Matelich wrote: I've been having problems with MandrakeUpdate, so I went to get the cooker version, Do Not use cooker rpms, for anything. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK

2000-12-12 Thread Paul
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, L. H. LOO wrote: When you installed Linux, did you partition the hard disk ? You can delete the linux partition by using DOS (pure, no Win) to delete the non-DOS partition, or use the Linux installation proceed untill where you can use fips to delete the Linux partition,

RE: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK

2000-12-12 Thread Paul
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Kelly, Christopher wrote: What is Fips? Fips is a program on the mandrake cd, which enables you to change the sizes of partitions. It is freeware, and comes with no warranty. It is a substitute for Partition Magic, without a graphical interface. Paul -- To do is to be -

Re: [newbie] VI

2000-12-12 Thread Paul
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Victor M. Moreno wrote: Hello, In others distro of linux I was able to use the arrow keys when editing a file with vi. Now I have installed Mandrake 7.2, but when editing a file with vi I am not able to use the arrow keys because control character appears. Very strange... I

Re: [newbie] Screen Flickers

2000-12-12 Thread Paul
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Robert Pena wrote: Just installed Linux for Windows carefully reading all info and checking update on hardware compatibilies. After rebooting the screen has vertical flickering lines with multiple penguins and mouse cursor. Looks like you did something wrong with the

Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK

2000-12-12 Thread Adrian Smith
maybe you just need a new job? =) i had an friend who was in IT with the same problem. he spent all night setting up a linux box at work. his supervisor came in the next day and said (and i quote) "nice linux machine. get rid of it." i assume you have to go back to windows? why not just

Re: [newbie] SB AWE32

2000-12-12 Thread Paul
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Jim Kempton wrote: Hey Just installed 7.2, great! Can't get my AWE32 to work which worked fine under 7.1 and everything before that. Log in as root in a console login (outside of X, to get there press CtrlAltF2). Run sndconfig. Sound works. Log out. Press CtrlAltF7. Sound

[newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-12 Thread Thorsten Schramm
Hi there! I have a problem with my new Linux-system. It's an old computer with the following components: AMD K6-2 300MHz, 64MB SDRAM(66), Gigabyte 586s2 (SIS5582 Chipset), ATI@work, and an old SB16! I installed the system (by automatic install) and everything seemed to work. The first thing I

Re: [newbie] kmail

2000-12-12 Thread bascule
whoops! for 'thick accent' read 'thick sarcastic accent' apologies to those with wonderfully broad and rich dialects! bascule On Tuesday 12 December 2000 6:51 pm, you wrote: hello people, getting ready for crimbo? (imagine this said with a thick accent an

[newbie] where are default config files?

2000-12-12 Thread Liaw, Andy
Hi everyone, I have just installed LM7.1 on a machine that will be shared by several people via remote VNC connections. I would like to customize some settings for all users. Obviously when a new user account is created, some config files with default settings (eg., for bash, KDE, VNC, etc.)

[newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-12 Thread Paul
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, John Rye wrote: I would have thought that a space was an undesirable if not illegal character in a filename let alone a directory name. Is this not the case? If it were illegal, I think that someone would have made a program alteration that would prevent you from putting

[newbie] Internet access through MS proxy server

2000-12-12 Thread Jeremy Sudderth
Hello Everyone, Here is a situation that I think you will all love. My company is sick and tired of Windows. They just hired me and after hearing that I said we should go to Linux ( Yipee ). The problem is that they are not totally sure of me yet, which I can understand, so they want a

[newbie] Will RedHat RPM's work with Mandrake?

2000-12-12 Thread Michael
I'm starting to learn PHP3 and Postgres and the book I just got has a CD in it that says it has everything I need to install PHP and postgres under RedHat Linux. Since I am using Mandrake 7.1, I was wondering if this will work? The Mandrake website says I can use RedHat RPM's, but I just wanted

RE: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-12 Thread Mark Lee
"I don't want to get off on a rant here but ..." I really have an issue with some of the board manufacturers that put on-board video on their MBs. Yes, it keeps the costs down but it's a pain when you come to add another (better) card. Thorsten, I feel your pain. I had a similar issue with an SiS

[newbie] 7.2 -- XFree -- is my monitor going to blow up?

2000-12-12 Thread Adrian Smith
hi Paul -- thanks for responding. i checked my config file and it contains ViewPort 0 0 already. does this mean i should try changing those settings? or would my problem be something else? thanks yet again=) Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adrian

RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility lists?

2000-12-12 Thread Vic
Yamaho was OVER Plextor??? whoa On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Rick Commo wrote: There was a recent article on burners in a local computer rag that you pick up free at grocery and computers stores. The Yamahas were the most highly recommended followed by the Plextors. Of course the cost a

Re: [newbie] SB AWE32

2000-12-12 Thread Bob Schmidt
Hi all, I wanted to ask a question about soundcards as well. I have mandrake ver 7.2 and downloaded and installed kde ver 2, and hard drake doesn't see any sound card. I have an older SB pro card in the computer. I run sndconfig and can set the card up, but if I go back into kde it still

Re: [Re: [newbie] VI]

2000-12-12 Thread Michael Shimniok
Crazy notion, but maybe your TERM environment variable is wrong? Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Victor M. Moreno wrote: Hello, In others distro of linux I was able to use the arrow keys when editing a file with vi. Now I have installed Mandrake 7.2, but when editing a

Re: [newbie] Will RedHat RPM's work with Mandrake?

2000-12-12 Thread Adrian Smith
hi Michael; i'm still learning linux, but from what i understand Mandrake is based on the Red Hat system and that most red hat rpms will work for mandrake. however, it has also been said on this list that it is best to use mandrake rpms when you can. so i would suggest look for the mandrake

[newbie] Bell Sympatico

2000-12-12 Thread Vagabundo
Hello I have a dsl from Bell Canada Anyone out there that knows how to set it up? Please? TIA -- Best regards, Vagabundo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] WordPerfect 8 and LM 7.2

2000-12-12 Thread John Batt
When I try to install WP8 I get the following error: "Can't Find libm.so.5" Where can I find this lib? John Batt

Re: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-12 Thread Mark's mail
Wait...I thought spaces "were/are" illegal in *nix? Mark On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:25:28 +0100 (CET), Paul said: On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, John Rye wrote: I would have thought that a space was an undesirable if not illegal character in a filename let alone a directory name. Is this not

[newbie] install mandrake 7.2

2000-12-12 Thread Philippe Van den Broek
I'm not able to install mandrake 7.2. When I boot from the install CD, I get a nice "welcome" screen with the option of typing F1 or just "enter" to go on with normal installation. After entering, the install program should do some pre-install checks, but in my case it does nothing = black

Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK

2000-12-12 Thread Mark Weaver
Maybe he oughta just bonk the butt-head with a ball-bat and ship him to Redmond, Washington for some mental readjustment. Mark On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:58:52 -0700, Adrian Smith said: maybe you just need a new job? =) i had an friend who was in IT with the same problem. he spent all night

Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility lists?

2000-12-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 03:23 pm, Vic wrote: Yamaho was OVER Plextor??? whoa . or vice versa depending on who you believe. It's pretty obvious after checking all the hardware reviews and the cdr NG's that Yamaha and Plextor are way ahead of anything else in terms of

Re: [newbie] WordPerfect 8 and LM 7.2

2000-12-12 Thread A V Flinsch
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 10:52, you wrote: When I try to install WP8 I get the following error: "Can't Find libm.so.5" Where can I find this lib? John Batt [alex@homer alex]$ locate libm.so.5 /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libm.so.5 /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libm.so.5.0.6 [alex@homer alex]$

[newbie] Linux on a single floppy disk

2000-12-12 Thread CastleKidd
Does anyone know where I can download a linux OS that will run completly off a floppy. I remember reading something about it a while back. Thanks ~Lance

[newbie] cdrom deletion error

2000-12-12 Thread chronos
I deleted the wrong cdrom when trying to setup gnome toaster. I issued the command cd /dev rm cdrom In -s scd0 cdrom. How do I add my cdrom back in ? I get the error message no such file or directory. Also it says to be sure I have access etc. What command do I type to reset it back ?

Re: [newbie] Internet access through MS proxy server

2000-12-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 03:37 pm, Jeremy Sudderth wrote: Hello Everyone, Here is a situation that I think you will all love. Not one bit, it was practically unreadable _very small_ text Jeremy The IT man Not to single you out Jeremy, there's a lot of newbies posting in HTML

Re: [newbie] Another KDE2 2.0.1 ?

2000-12-12 Thread Daniel Velzi
Now understand, Civileme, really thanks for your time. On Monday 11 December 2000 15:43, you wrote: Really can´t understand. First Mandrake quit 2.0.1 version of KDE, but can download it, but not installed because some guys from the list said it´s bad. And now in

Re: [newbie] Linux on a single floppy disk

2000-12-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 08:13 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where I can download a linux OS that will run completly off a floppy. I remember reading something about it a while back. Thanks ~Lance http://www.google.com/and search 'loaf'first link you'll get

Re: [newbie] Internet access through MS proxy server

2000-12-12 Thread Jeremy Sudderth
Sorry about that folks. Forgot that the default setting on Outlook Express was to send html. Fixed it now so every thing should work fine. Jeremy The IT man - Original Message - From: "Tom Brinkman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 6:31 PM

Re: [newbie] Apache

2000-12-12 Thread Daniel J. Ferris
Dave DeGear [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've got my telnet and ftp servers working ok and would like to try playing with Apache. If I install the latest Apache rpm files should I worry immediately about any security problems with this. I'd like to have it running while I'm learning but

Re: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Spaces are not illegal at all - you can use them as you wish. I personally like to use spaces in file and directory names in order to keep my stuff organised. Most programmes support this, but there are a few that I've encountered that don't. I don't think it's a good idea to use spaces

Re: [newbie] kmail

2000-12-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
When you add a new mail account in Kmail's configuration settings, you get the option of having a POP or local mailbox account. I don't know about the root thing though... On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 05:51, bascule wrote: hello people, getting ready for crimbo? (imagine this said with a thick accent

Re: [newbie] WordPerfect 8 and LM 7.2

2000-12-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 09:52 am, John Batt wrote: When I try to install WP8 I get the following error: "Can't Find libm.so.5" Where can I find this lib? John Batt http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ and search 'libm.so.5' will tell you it's "compatibility libraries needed by old

[newbie] MandrakeUpdate problems

2000-12-12 Thread Tagbo Ekwueme-Okoli
I have a 650 MHz Duron running LM 7.2 When I try to install packages using MandrakeUpdate I get an error saying that the packages have been installed. However, the installed version number and the current version number in MU are different and the packages continue to show up every time I bring

Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility lists?

2000-12-12 Thread Vic
Oh (duh on me) ok so just those two, good thing I have my sites set on a plextor already, do the newest ones sold on http://www.jdr.com work? I would think so but not sure, just wanna make sure that all Plex's that I would buy are compatible. On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: . or

Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK

2000-12-12 Thread Paul
On 12 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Maybe he oughta just bonk the butt-head with a ball-bat and ship him to Redmond, Washington for some mental readjustment. Mark i had an friend who was in IT with the same problem. he spent all night setting up a linux box at work. his supervisor came in

Re: [newbie] cdrom deletion error

2000-12-12 Thread Paul
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume you had an IDE cdrom. Was it on /dev/hdb? hdc? hdd? Make a new link cd /dev rm cdrom ln -s /dev/hd... cdrom and that should do it. Paul I deleted the wrong cdrom when trying to setup gnome toaster. I issued the command cd /dev rm cdrom

RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility lists?

2000-12-12 Thread Paul
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Vic wrote: Yamaho was OVER Plextor??? Because of the price. Plextor is quite more expensive. Paul whoa -- Cowboy Coffee: A brew strong enough to float a horseshoe in. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2

Re: [newbie] SB AWE32

2000-12-12 Thread Paul
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Bob Schmidt wrote: Hi all, I wanted to ask a question about soundcards as well. I have mandrake ver 7.2 and downloaded and installed kde ver 2, and hard drake doesn't see any sound card. I have an older SB pro card in the computer. I run sndconfig and can set the card

Re: [newbie] where are default config files?

2000-12-12 Thread Paul
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Liaw, Andy wrote: Afaik, these are in /etc. You'd have to look for the proper names, but they should (mainly) be there. Paul I have just installed LM7.1 on a machine that will be shared by several people via remote VNC connections. I would like to customize some settings

Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility lists?

2000-12-12 Thread Paul
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Vic wrote: Oh (duh on me) ok so just those two, good thing I have my sites set on a plextor already, do the newest ones sold on http://www.jdr.com work? I would think so but not sure, just wanna make sure that all Plex's that I would buy are compatible. I recently put in a

Re: [newbie] Word Perfect 8

2000-12-12 Thread Len Lawrence
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, John Batt wrote: Is there anyone else out there having trouble getting WordPerfect 8 to install in LM 7.2. I had it working great in 7.0 but after installing 7.2 it won't install. Yes, neither the graphical install or text based install will work. It worked fine in

Re: [newbie] Linux on a single floppy disk

2000-12-12 Thread Pcnews
At 09:13 PM 12/12/2000 -0500, you wrote: Does anyone know where I can download a linux OS that will run completly off a floppy. I remember reading something about it a while back. Thanks ~Lance This web site has links to different distributions and descriptions.

Re: [newbie] WordPerfect 8 and LM 7.2

2000-12-12 Thread Len Lawrence
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, John Batt wrote: When I try to install WP8 I get the following error: "Can't Find libm.so.5" Where can I find this lib? John Batt I imported libm.so.5 from RH6.1 but it did not help; neither did a symbolic link to libm.so.6.It looks like the underlying wine