[newbie-it] Protocollo elettronico

2000-12-14 Thread cosscara
salve a tutti, una domanda di office automation: c'è qualche programma di protocollo elettronico sotto linux? Sono a digiuno dell'argomento, sto studiando e mi piacerebbe risovere il probleme senza piegare il capo all'infame Bill. Grazie per qualsiasi consiglio. -- saluti

Re: [newbie-it] Protocollo elettronico

2000-12-14 Thread Fabio Coatti
salve a tutti, una domanda di office automation: c'è qualche programma di protocollo elettronico sotto linux? Sono a digiuno dell'argomento, sto studiando e mi piacerebbe risovere il probleme senza piegare il capo all'infame Bill. Grazie per qualsiasi consiglio. Cosa intendi per

Re: [newbie-it] Protocollo elettronico

2000-12-14 Thread Andrea Celli
cosscara wrote: salve a tutti, una domanda di office automation: c'è qualche programma di protocollo elettronico sotto linux? Sono a digiuno dell'argomento, sto studiando e mi piacerebbe risovere il probleme senza piegare il capo all'infame Bill. Grazie per qualsiasi consiglio. --

[newbie-it] Intel 815e

2000-12-14 Thread WhiteBase
Qualcuno ha capito come si installa la mandrake 7.2 su una scheda madre con chipset Intel 815e (Asus CUSL2)? mi da' questo errore durante l'avvio da cd: IDEO AT 0X1F0-0X1F7, 0X3F6 ON IRQ14 IDE1 AT 0X170-0X177, 0X376 ON IRQ15 e si blocca. ~~~ Francesco Aldrovandi

[newbie-it] SoundDrake

2000-12-14 Thread RedKey
Ho installato Mandrake 7.2, ma non sono riuscito, tra le altre cose,a far funzionare la scheda Audio. Sulla guida di installazione del Manuale utente esattamente al sottocapitolo 14.3 si parla di SoundDrake, da cui sembra sia possibile abilitare la scheda audio. Come faccio ad accedervi? In

Re: [newbie-it] Protocollo elettronico

2000-12-14 Thread trasca
Fabio Coatti wrote: salve a tutti, una domanda di office automation: c'è qualche programma di protocollo elettronico sotto linux? Sono a digiuno dell'argomento, sto studiando e mi piacerebbe risovere il probleme senza piegare il capo all'infame Bill. Grazie per qualsiasi consiglio.

Re: [newbie-it] SoundDrake

2000-12-14 Thread Daniele \Keyser Soze\ Surano
Controlla che da bios non sia abilitata la funzione "Plug And Play OS". Poi entra come root,e senza far pardire X scrivi sndconfig. Fa tutto lui. Ciao - Original Message - From: "RedKey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 3:57 PM Subject:

Re: [newbie-it] SoundDrake

2000-12-14 Thread Giga [TechOperator]
Hi RedKey, Prova con Alsa Driver che e' presente nel CD d'installazione di Mandrake 7.2, anchio avevo problemi con VIA chipset bisognera ricompilare kernel, percio' prima leggi manuale di Alsa. -- Best regards, Gigamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, December

Re: [[newbie] securing Mandrake]

2000-12-14 Thread tabanna
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: install portsentry and a firewall either pmfirewall or guarddog Psionic~ "PortSentry" http://psionic.com/ _ ~ that's good :) Program sends e-mail reports, to root, hourly, or, as often as

Re: [[newbie] securing Mandrake]

2000-12-14 Thread Eric Hall
I thought I'd ask because I've started seeing suspicious IPs in /var/log/auth.log and /var/log/secure and wanted to lock all possible doors before whoever decides to walk through them. IPCHAINS is pretty cool ;-) http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html -- Eric (the Deacon remix)

Re: [newbie] Word Perfect 8

2000-12-14 Thread Eric Hall
also don't know nothing 'bout history. don't know much about biology. don't know much about a science book. [...] Heh...I love that song ;-) -- Eric (the Deacon remix) http://www.firekite.com

Re: [newbie] SB AWE32

2000-12-14 Thread Jim Kempton
Hey all Thanks to all who've replied, but I'm still not there. Updated the locate database, searched again with locate sndconfig in a console as root and searched from Konquerer as root. sndconfig is not on my installation, so can I get it somewhere or is there another tool I could use? Tom

Re: [Re: Re:[newbie] Changing KDE to Gnome]

2000-12-14 Thread Michael Scottaline
Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blackbox is faster than both :-) Yes very much so and is able to use the apps of both KDE and Gnome. Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!"

RE: [newbie] Internet access through MS proxy server

2000-12-14 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Linux can participate in an NT domain using Samba. Must you use socks? Why not use Linux as a SOCKS, Masq machine? This works quite well and is easier to set up. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy Sudderth Sent: Wednesday,

RE: [newbie] MD7.2 Stability

2000-12-14 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I hope you did a clean install to a reformatted partition(s). Most problems of this nature involve "upgraded" systems. I too experienced strangeness until I went back and reformatted and installed cleanly. This cured all such problems. 7.2 is far more stable and solid than 7.1 in my

[newbie] mounting cdrom problems

2000-12-14 Thread Emidio Gabrielli
Dear Sir/Madame, I installed the last version of Linux mandrake, but I have problems in mounting my cdrom, model: hp cd-writer 9100 series In particular, I have the following problem when I mount it mount /mnt/cdrom mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only mount:

[newbie] Possible Intrusion

2000-12-14 Thread SoloCDM
The following message was output when /etc/cron.daily was executed by run-parts through crond. Is it a mistake by the programs in /etc/cron.daily or is it real? 12/12/2000 11:26:51 slrnpull started in expire mode. 12/12/2000 11:26:51 Reading /var/spool/slrnpull/slrnpull.conf 12/12/2000

[newbie] mkinitrd problems

2000-12-14 Thread Victor Richardson
I am trying to upgrade my current 2.2.15-4mdksecure kernel to 2.4.0-0.13mdk, and whenever I do a mkinitrd, I get an error: #mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.0-0.13.img 2.4.0-0.13mdk error: -d option is not supported on Linux error: -d option is not supported on Linux Error creating temporaries. Try

Re: [newbie] SB AWE32

2000-12-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 14 December 2000 03:33 am, Jim Kempton wrote: Thanks to all who've replied, but I'm still not there. Updated the locate database, searched again with locate sndconfig in a console as root and searched from Konquerer as root. sndconfig is not on my installation, so can I get it

Re: [newbie] Problems With The Audio Mixer (/dev/mixer)

2000-12-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Try a different mixer, like aumix (console-only). Can you upgrade to 7.2 final by downloading it (get the ISOs or use MandrakeUpdate) or buying a CD from a Linux store (either online or offline)? If you can do without a big shiny box and a manual (there's plenty of documentation on the CD and

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I had 64MB earlier this year. With this, running GNOME 1.1, I constantly had over 50% usage of my 128MB swap. My HDD was constantly churning, and my system was pretty slow. After my upgrade to 192MB, things were *much* faster. I only really needed my swap when running VMware. I did not gain

Re: [newbie] Linuxconf in DrakConf does nothing

2000-12-14 Thread civileme
On Thursday 14 December 2000 08:28, you wrote: -- Eric (the Deacon remix) http://www.firekite.com Flames spewing from his pointy little head -michael- warns all who read that the above url points to a website which won't allow entry without IE 5.5 service pack 1 whatever

Re: [newbie] mounting cdrom problems

2000-12-14 Thread Michael O'Henly
What is on the CD that you're trying to mount? This is, for instance, the message you would get if you tried to mount a music CD (since music CDs don't contain a filesystem). M. On Monday 11 December 2000 05:15, you wrote: Dear Sir/Madame, I installed the last version of Linux mandrake,

Re: [newbie] CDRW problems cont'd

2000-12-14 Thread Michael O'Henly
On Wednesday 13 December 2000 20:48, you wrote: [root@localhost dennis]# ls -l /dev/cdrom1 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Dec 13 20:26 /dev/cdrom1 - scd0 [root@localhost dennis]# Here is what I see when listing the dev, does anyone see a probable cause for why I can not access

[newbie] AvpLinux?

2000-12-14 Thread s
Could someone explain to a newbie how to get the AvpLinux to work? I installed from cds thru rpmdrake, but can't seem to get it to work. TIA, -s

Re: [newbie] AvpLinux?

2000-12-14 Thread SKLIM
Sorry ...what is AvpLinux ? Can someone explain to me ? Best Regards, SKLIM - Original Message - From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 4:37 PM Subject: [newbie] AvpLinux? Could someone explain to a newbie how to get the AvpLinux to work?

RE: [newbie] AvpLinux?

2000-12-14 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Is that a different distro? -Original Message- From: SKLIM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 9:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] AvpLinux? Sorry ...what is AvpLinux ? Can someone explain to me ? Best Regards, SKLIM - Original Message

[newbie] Slrnpull in Expire Mode

2000-12-14 Thread SoloCDM
The following message was output when /etc/cron.daily was executed by run-parts through crond. Is it a mistake by the programs in /etc/cron.daily or is it real? What can be done to rectify the problem? 12/12/2000 11:26:51 slrnpull started in expire mode. 12/12/2000 11:26:51 Reading

[newbie] How to make xcdroast executable for users?

2000-12-14 Thread hellmut
Hi! Does anyone of you have a clue how I can make xcdroast executable for users? chmod +x user /usr/bin/xcdroast didn't work. -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | | | |

RE: [newbie] 2.2.18 Kernel for Mandrake

2000-12-14 Thread falcaraz
But you probably don't need the 2.2.18 to have your scanner working. I have the 2.2.17 and my epson Perfecto 1200USB scanner is working fine. The mandrake kernel has the patch to have the USB running. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: "Kevin Tambascio"

[newbie] NEED HELP SETTING UP ROAD RUNNER CONNECTION FOR MANDRAKE 7.0

2000-12-14 Thread Travis Mcbride
I am getting an eth0 initilization has failed error message at bootup. Can anyone tell me how to fix this. The machine recognizes my ethernet card and I know I have the right module setup. Thanks Travis __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping -

[newbie] A good external or similar modem to use with MD 7.2 / Harddrake + Sounds

2000-12-14 Thread John Carlarne
Hi there, Unfortunately, my computer came with a conexant win modem with a via chipset/ chaintech main board. Harddrake has apparently detected my sound apparatus and appears to work a bit, however very quietly. It chose the via technology option from the list. I am getting in contact with my

Re: [newbie] AvpLinux?

2000-12-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 14 December 2000 02:37 am, s wrote: Could someone explain to a newbie how to get the AvpLinux to work? I installed from cds thru rpmdrake, but can't seem to get it to work. Out'a curiosity I did a Google on avplinux, but i didn't get back any links that weren't in Russian.

[newbie] NEED HELP SETTING UP MY CABLE CONNECTION FOR MANDRAKE 7.0

2000-12-14 Thread Travis Mcbride
I need help setting up my cable connection. I am unable to connect through netscape. The error message says that all the local hosts are unknown. I recieved information from the support team on how to set my connection up. I did exactly what they told me to do and it didn't work. Network

Re: [newbie] A good external or similar modem to use with MD 7.2 / Harddrake + Sounds

2000-12-14 Thread civileme
On Thursday 14 December 2000 17:12, you wrote: Hi there, Unfortunately, my computer came with a conexant win modem with a via chipset/ chaintech main board. Harddrake has apparently detected my sound apparatus and appears to work a bit, however very quietly. It chose the via technology

Re: [newbie] About GeForce 2 MX

2000-12-14 Thread Terry C
It will not be a problem. nVidia's driver works for their entire range of graphics processors. I also have an GeForce2 MX card (terrific video card) and it also is using the XServer for the GeForce 2 DDR. No problems. If you want to do accelerated 3D in Linux, such as for games, you will need to

Re: [newbie] AvpLinux?

2000-12-14 Thread s
Oh sorry. No that is an antivirus from out of Russia. It's is highly respected for Windows and about the only one who makes one for Linux. I can't seem to get it to work. I'm sure it's something simple that a newbie like me just don't know. -s On Thursday 14 December 2000 15:01, you

RE: [newbie] MD7.2 Stability

2000-12-14 Thread John Carlarne
Hi, I had a similar problem for a little while after changing some of my sound server settings. I had to reeboot to get out. However, after restarting a couple of times it seemed to work fine again. Take care, John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] AvpLinux?

2000-12-14 Thread civileme
On Thursday 14 December 2000 09:37, you wrote: Could someone explain to a newbie how to get the AvpLinux to work? I installed from cds thru rpmdrake, but can't seem to get it to work. TIA, -s AVPLinux is the Kaspersky AntiVirus Program for Linux. It allows a linux server to scan

Re: [newbie] NEED HELP SETTING UP MY CABLE CONNECTION FOR MANDRAKE 7.0

2000-12-14 Thread Joseph Red
Most likely you need to enter the DNS server addresses. That is picked up by DHCP in Win9x, but if I'm not mistaken, Linux needs to have it specified. If you can't ping www.yahoo.com, but you *can* ping 204.71.200.74 (the address that www.yahoo.com resolves to on my box) then that's the issue.

Re: [newbie] NEED HELP SETTING UP MY CABLE CONNECTION FOR MANDRAKE7.0

2000-12-14 Thread Roger Sherman
Actually, DHCP picks it up for me in Linux...I never specified my DNS numbers, or IP, or anything...not even the host name. Do you have DHCP turned on? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Joseph Red wrote: Most likely you need to

Re: [newbie] AvpLinux?

2000-12-14 Thread Roger Sherman
That sounds like the Linux version of the virus scanner I used in Windont - AntiViral Toolkit Pro. One of the better scanners I'd used... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, SKLIM wrote: Sorry ...what is AvpLinux ? Can someone

Re: [newbie] NEED HELP SETTING UP MY CABLE CONNECTION FOR MANDRAKE 7.0

2000-12-14 Thread Joseph Red
I had this issue when I first installed. Is it actually loading the module or crapping out? I have had it recognize the card but not load the module. My first guess would be that you aren't passing proper IRQ info to module. Ok, my second guess, my first was DNS :) I'm sure there is a way to

Re: [newbie] A good external or similar modem to use with MD 7.2 / Harddrake + Sounds

2000-12-14 Thread Dennis Myers
Best Data External Modem, I plugged it in restarted the computer, kudzu found it, and I set KPPP to use it no problem. Worked like a champ. Best Data Smart One 56SX 2 external modem. It's rated highly on all comparisons I have found on the web. Web site ' http://www.bestdata.com/products.htm

Re: [newbie] AvpLinux?

2000-12-14 Thread bascule
this question will either appear highly intelligent or completely show up my ignorance, only your replies will tell, oh well, once more... is it correct that with tcp/ip packets can arrive out of order and are reconstructed properly at the receiving end?, if so, then how can any intermediary

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-14 Thread Adrian Smith
ya know, truth be told, i didn't really *see* much difference. of course i have always asked the question "if your computer now opens a program 14 milliseconds faster, do you really know it?" also, i added ram just before upgrading to 7.2. so that somewhat makes it hard for me to make

Re: [newbie] Linux on a single floppy disk

2000-12-14 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
[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 lrp (linux router project) is probably 1. not what you read about 2. what you want.

[newbie] Differences between 7.1 7.2

2000-12-14 Thread Kelly, Christopher
So, what are the differences between MDK 7.1 and 7.2? Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-14 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
I guess I failed to make my point. There should be no double clicking at all. There should be group select and drag. There should be no nono nonono alt or ctl + mousebutton clicks ever. Only one mouse button, never two, should bring up a menu. We don't have this because the people at kde and

RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-14 Thread Mark Johnson
huh? why would less options ever be favorable for a linux environment. It's all about user preference and flexible configurations. I don't think it's about shoulds and shouldn'ts, I can't imagine any moral reason why a user should be disallowed from activating double clicking, or for that

Re: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-14 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Mark's mail wrote: Wait...I thought spaces "were/are" illegal in *nix? Mark On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:25:28 +0100 (CET), Paul said: Are you kidding? Try mkdir "directory with spaces" ls rm -r "directory with spaces" but directory.with.spaces is easier, right? ;-} I would have

Re: [newbie] PPPD dies unexpectedly

2000-12-14 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded from 7.0 to 7.1. My 56k external USR modem did great with 7.0. However, I have followed the HOWTO's and simply cannot get PPPD to function in 7.2. The modem connects just great everytime, but not PPPD. Any help would be appreciated. I am

Re: [newbie] A good external or similar modem to use with MD 7.2 / Harddrake + Sounds

2000-12-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 14 December 2000 10:12 am, John Carlarne wrote: Hi there, Unfortunately, my computer came with a conexant win modem but I would be most keen to hear from anyone who has bought an external or similar modem that was dead easy to configure with hard drake and works really well.

Re: [newbie] Internet access through MS proxy server

2000-12-14 Thread Jeremy Sudderth
Agreeably so, but at the moment I am forced to go through the NT machine. I got samba up and running without a hitch, in fact my boss was amazed that in 37 minutes I had done a complete install of MD7.2, had it up on the network and printing through the NT server. Now if I could just get it on

[newbie] kdevelop 1.3 not working

2000-12-14 Thread Phil
Hello, I have kdevelop-1.3-linux-i386 which is a precompiled version that uses a shell script to start it. Kdevelop starts but fails to build any project types. During the create project phase I'm told that there is an error in configure.in and that the qt 2.2.1 libraries have not been found

[newbie] kde cdrom icons and 'eject'

2000-12-14 Thread bascule
i have just upgrade to kde2.0.1 and i have found that the 'eject' options off the right click menu for my cdrom desktop icons no longer work, mount and unmount still work but the 'eject' option was really handy (mount will still close the tray) anyone else found this - got a fix? bascule

[newbie] install mandrake

2000-12-14 Thread Michael zhao
can i install mandrake to substitute the redhat on my computer? thanks, Michael

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-14 Thread -michael-
I guess everybody's entitled to their opinion, but to put down the hard work of the KDE developers (never used Gnome but I bet they've put lots of blood, sweat and tears into it as well) is something that I for one bristle at. The configurability of the KDE interface is clearly deeper than you

Re: [newbie] mounting cdrom problems

2000-12-14 Thread Michael zhao
mount /dev/cdrom -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom note: /mnt/cdrom should be a existing path - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] mounting cdrom problems In a message dated 12/14/2000 6:35:33

[newbie] Hostname

2000-12-14 Thread Geoff Thomas
Where in the startup files is Hostname set? I'd like to permanantly change my hostname. Currently, the hostname is my ISP IP address (???) GT

[newbie] Modem U.S. Robotics 56K FaxModem External

2000-12-14 Thread Marc Perna
Hi! Well, I'm beginner in Linux and i have begun with Mandrake and Gnome Graphical enviroment. I had a Internal Supra and when i read the problems with Winmodems i decided buy a Mode U.S. Robotics 56K FaxModem External and now I have the following problems (in Gnome): To Configure my

[newbie] setiathome 3

2000-12-14 Thread Graham Kerr
Hi all Ok Ive been using mk 7.2 now for sometime without too much hassles... But when my setiathome client is finished its work unit, and tries to connect to the site for more data... it won't! ... Unless I su root, then run the program againthen it will collect its data and go on its

RE: [newbie] setiathome 3

2000-12-14 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Setiathome expects to be able to read write to the ~/setiathome directory. Make sure that the ownership and permissions are correct for this directory. It sounds like they are not. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Graham Kerr Sent:

RE: [newbie] mounting cdrom problems

2000-12-14 Thread Helsby, James
Any mount entry in the /etc/fstab file, can be automatically mounted, by calling mount to the mount point. Ie, you have a nfs mount set up, that isn't currently mounted. Call the mount point "mount /mnt/nfs_mount" and it will mount. Provided it is in the fstab file. -Original Message-

[newbie] can't mount floppy, Input/output error

2000-12-14 Thread Donnie Green
I just loaded up Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and the floppy drive will not mount. The error that I receive is: mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only /dev/fd0: Input/output error The entry in /etc/fstab for my floppy is: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto

RE: [newbie] Internet access through MS proxy server

2000-12-14 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
You mentioned that your MS Proxy was running Socks. Are routing services turned off? Could you route to the Linux box? I.E. Find some way to give Linux direct access to the internet by utilizing routing... If the NT machine only provides access via socks your might be SOL. I'm unaware of a

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-14 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Mark Johnson wrote: FYI, I asked for 6 button mouse for Christmas! yhs: 1 2 3 1+2 1+3 2+3 1+2+3 count 'em. Windows users have bad habits. Pandering to them has seriously harmed linux software, and continues to do so.

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-14 Thread Anthony Daniell
Hi, you could always get the code for kde and rewrite it yourself to do what you want, as for myself I don't know jack about programing and am new to linux. Even with the double clicking it blows windoze out of the water. You could also make sugestions to the kde and gnome teams about this. My

RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-14 Thread Mark Johnson
well, in this case this has nothing to do with Windows, but rather gaming... But honestly, I don't understand why a multi-button mouse is a bad thing? It seems like an ergonomic issue. I guess this is the first time I've ever heard that having more than one button on a mouse is a bad thing...

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-14 Thread Anthony Daniell
Thats true, I believe that linux should not become like windoze windoze sucks and makes people lazy. Been their done that and now am learning linux. I installed suse linux 7 pro and with 3417 apps it took about 6.5 gb of my hard disk. There is so much in linux. I looked through the minues in

RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-14 Thread Mark Johnson
This is really nutty. I don't get it that a system must have some sort of arbitrary difficulty to be considered legitament. What's up with that? I took a human factors course in CS in college (VAX VMS/Apollo Suns (no windows around)). We studied lawsuit cases where system failures caused

Re: [newbie] can't mount floppy, Input/output error

2000-12-14 Thread bascule
try knocking out various options from the fstab line and then mounting, start with the sync option, that gave me a problem in lm7.02 irc, bascule On Thursday 14 December 2000 11:47 pm, you wrote: I just loaded up Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and the floppy drive will not mount. The error that I

Re: [newbie] GIMP

2000-12-14 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Mickey Soltys wrote: I have been messing around with the version of GIMP which came with Mandrake-Linux7.2 . It appears as if there is no way to save files. When you select FILE from the menu, there is no save or save as option. Has anyone else noticed this? Thanks and apologies if this

RE: [newbie] A good external or similar modem to use with MD 7.2 / Harddrake + Sounds

2000-12-14 Thread Barry Allan
Tom Brinkman said: "If you explore the modem related info there, it's believed that any hardware modem built around a USR or Texas Instruments chipset are the best. You needn't have to buy an external modem. They cost more and what with cable and all, take up space. Plus they deprive you of

Re: [newbie] install mandrake

2000-12-14 Thread Anthony
Yes. can i install mandrake to substitute the redhat on my computer? thanks, Michael -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.

Re: [newbie] mkinitrd problems

2000-12-14 Thread Anthony
That's the right syntax. Maybe you didn't have SCSI support checked during the configuration process? I am trying to upgrade my current 2.2.15-4mdksecure kernel to 2.4.0-0.13mdk, and whenever I do a mkinitrd, I get an error: #mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.0-0.13.img 2.4.0-0.13mdk error: -d

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-14 Thread Al Baker
Here's a quick rule of thumb, don't install every package, especially ones that you don't know or specifically need, you could be creating security holes. Go look around for security documents, it'll show you things that you need and don't need. Also, mandrake7.1 (and 7.2) has a security level

Re: [newbie] Hostname

2000-12-14 Thread Al Baker
You can fire up linuxconf, or I think hosts are defined in /etc/hosts --- Geoff Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where in the startup files is Hostname set? I'd like to permanantly change my hostname. Currently, the hostname is my ISP IP address (???) GT

RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-14 Thread Roger Sherman
Especially for us blackbox users... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Mark Johnson wrote: well, in this case this has nothing to do with Windows, but rather gaming... But honestly, I don't understand why a multi-button mouse is

Re: [newbie] install mandrake

2000-12-14 Thread Al Baker
Yes sure, don't "upgrade" but just go for a full blown installation (format partitions good thing too). Don't forget to backup old important files. --- Michael zhao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can i install mandrake to substitute the redhat on my computer? thanks, Michael

Re: [newbie] mounting cdrom problems

2000-12-14 Thread Al Baker
mount /mnt/cdrom --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/14/2000 6:35:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mount /mnt/cdrom shouldnt it be 'mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom' ~Lance __ Do You Yahoo!?

[newbie] USB scanners

2000-12-14 Thread Anthony
What are you using to scan? My USB scanner is detected according to HardDrake, though it does say "Kernel Module: unknown" in the description. When I try using xscanimage with the GIMP, it says "xscanimage: no devices available." Are you using some different program, or is my scanner just not

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-14 Thread Eric Hall
windoze sucks and makes people lazy. Hehe...a lot like cars and electricity. Both break down and can cause serious injury, but they still make our lives easier ;-) -- Eric (the Deacon remix) http://www.firekite.com

Re: [newbie] About GeForce 2 MX

2000-12-14 Thread Jamie Kerwick
I would like these instructions, I have been having a nightmare getting my GeForce 1 card working properly. i.e no 3D accelleration. Cheers Jamie From: Terry C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] About GeForce 2 MX Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000