Re: [newbie-it] SoundDrake

2000-12-15 Thread RedKey
Grazie per la tua attenzione al mio problema, comunque premetto che sono alle prime armi. Per quanto riguarda il setting del BIOS, credo di averlo settato bene, nel senso che ho settato tutto su PnP, tu intendi questo? Fammi sapere, Ciao ;) --- "Daniele \"Keyser Soze\" Surano" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie-it] Aiuto: XFree 4.0.1

2000-12-15 Thread Fabio Coatti
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:21:19PM +0100, Stefano Salari wrote: Saluti a tutti. Ho appena installato la Mandrake 7.2 e mi sono accorto che lanciando startx mi viene avviato l'XServer 3.3.6 invece del 4.0.1 che ho scelto durante l'installazione. Qualcuno mi sa dire come avviare il server

Re: [newbie-it] Re: [newbie-it] fastweb e linux: funzionerà?

2000-12-15 Thread Corrado
Daniele \"Keyser Soze\" Surano wrote: Vanno bene tutte le schede di rete, però ti cosiglio di non prendere una schifosa economica. Già ti devi sentire MOLTOOO FORTUNATO di avere fastweb. Non sai cosa darei A Napoli arriverà forse tra 3 anni.forse. Fortunato tu, rispetto a me,

Re: [newbie-it] Re: [newbie-it] fastweb e linux: funzionerà?

2000-12-15 Thread Walter Triacchini
sono contento di sapere che qualche fortunato con la 7.2 e' contento. Io ho una 7.2 ufficiale e non sono ancora riuscito a far funzionare tutto, con un tipo di installazione mi va la stampante ma non la rotella del mouse, con un'altra non suona e non stampa, e via dicendo, oppure conflitti tra

[newbie-it] sparizione hard disk

2000-12-15 Thread bosva
ciao, problemino: pentium 133 hard disk1 da 1.6 giga con windows95 e partition magic hard disk2 da 13 giga (il bios però ne prende solo 8.4) partizionato tutto per linux e con suse6.2 ho provato ad installare redhat7.0 sul suse, l'installazione è andata bene, redhat7.0 si è installato e si

Re: [newbie] AvpLinux?

2000-12-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
AvpLinux, I believe, is a version of AntiViral ToolKit Pro (AVP, since renamed to AVX) for Linux. Since there are no real virus treats to Linux (due to its better, more secure design and general lack of interest by virus developers), this is not a programme to detect Linux virii. Instead, this

RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-15 Thread abramo
whatever. this is a dumb conversation. try playing quake3 or UT with only a single mouse button. Mice have more then one button because people use them for more then navigating their desktop GUI. Oh yes, in windows everything on my machine is set to single click but in windowmaker I like

[newbie] USB Scanner

2000-12-15 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Dear Antony; first of all you must be sure you have the usb module (Mandrake 7.2. install the patch for the 2.2.17-21 kernel and it is avalaible). Afterthat it is important to know if your scanner is supported; in the sane page (http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html) I can not see

[newbie] DIVA T/A ISDN modem

2000-12-15 Thread SKLIM
Hi ! Did anyone know how to setup DIVA isdn modem at Linux Server ?? I need some guild line .. Best regards, SKLIM

[newbie] Webmin can't be reached

2000-12-15 Thread Sven Hohage
Hello, I' m running in a problem. I run 7.2 and before reinstalling everything yesterday evening things were fine with webmin. Now I can't reach localhost:1 anymore!! In Linuxconf I checked Webmin is running. Must be Netscape?! I sit behind a proxy and I've told Netscape to ignore

[newbie] Gone for the Holidays

2000-12-15 Thread CMC
I sent several Unsub requests- why am I still getting mail. I need to cancel untill my return from my holiday.. Merry Christmas Everyone

RE: [newbie] Gone for the Holidays

2000-12-15 Thread John Hart
Well, Merry Christmas to you too ! ! ! ! ! John Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 843.529.0678 x417 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of CMC Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Hostname

2000-12-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
As root, load linuxconf. Go to Networking - Host name and IP network devices - Host name. You can change your host name here. In versions of Mandrake before 7.2, you could set your host name in the file /etc/hostname. I have found that this file no longer works, and if you have it you can

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 05:34, Adrian Smith wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Webmin can't be reached

2000-12-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Sven Hohage wrote: Hello, I' m running in a problem. I run 7.2 and before reinstalling everything yesterday evening things were fine with webmin. Now I can't reach localhost:1 anymore!! In Linuxconf I checked Webmin is running. Must be Netscape?! I sit behind a proxy and I've told

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I agree. If you start forcing methods of doing things onto users, then it is just M$ all over again. The key to Linux is choice. I don't want a Stalin/Hitler/Ze Dong/Gates telling me what to do! I personally hate single clicks. I find that I can configure my window manager (Sawfish) to do

[newbie] Switchdesk

2000-12-15 Thread The BOFH
When I installed MDK 7.2 a month or so ago, it came up in Gnome. I swear that at that point I used switchdesk to change to KDE. Now I'd like to play with Gnome some more but I cannot find it on the system anywhere. I've persused the list archives, and found some messages indicating that I

Re: [newbie] Webmin can't be reached

2000-12-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 15 December 2000 10:37 am, Sven Hohage wrote: Hello, I' m running in a problem. I run 7.2 and before reinstalling everything yesterday evening things were fine with webmin. Now I can't reach localhost:1 anymore!! Try adding a 's', ie, https://local host name... .

RE: [newbie] Switchdesk

2000-12-15 Thread Helsby, James
Try using init 5, that will bring you to the gui login screen. You can then choose kde, gnome, sawmill, etc. Cheers, James -Original Message- From: The BOFH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 9:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Switchdesk

Re: [newbie] Switchdesk

2000-12-15 Thread Paul
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, The BOFH wrote: When I installed MDK 7.2 a month or so ago, it came up in Gnome. I swear that at that point I used switchdesk to change to KDE. Now I'd like to play with Gnome some more but I cannot find it on the system anywhere. I've persused the list archives, and

Re: [newbie] No sound from CD

2000-12-15 Thread Jim Crossley
UPDATE: I replaced my sound card and everything finally seems to be working fine. The old card (SoundBlaster PCI128) was driven by the es1370 driver; the new one (SoundBlaster Live! Value) by emu10k1. I don't know whether the card or the driver was to blame. Contrary to some advice out there,

Re: [newbie] Hostname

2000-12-15 Thread Jim Crossley
Hi Geoff. Geoff Thomas 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 The hostname is set by the hostname command, /bin/hostname. But usually that's done by a startup script

[newbie] Special characters

2000-12-15 Thread Roger Sherman
Can someone tell me how to access special characters, specifically the upside down ? and the n with the ~ over it as used in Spanish? I was typing a bunch of ? in a row and accidentally hit a couple other buttons...an upside down ? came out, and I can't reproduce it! Thanks! peace, Rog

[newbie] Virtual P with rc.firewall

2000-12-15 Thread SKLIM
Hi ! I am currently setup a new Linux at my office. I am having a problem with rc.firewall. The problem is how to make a virtual ip allow at rc.firewall script. My Linux Server : Installation Diald - Done Installation rc.Firewall - Done Virtual IP - Done Acctual IP : 192.168.0.1 Virtual IP :

Re: [newbie] About GeForce 2 MX

2000-12-15 Thread Robert Pena
I was wondering is the GeForce also a video capture and TV out card? Or does the company make one. I am told my ATI All In Wonder is giving me so much trouble in actually seeing KDE desktop because of possible refresh rate settings.Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Re: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-15 Thread John Rye
Meph Istopheles wrote: John, Whoa! Talk about obsessive;-). But dude, isn't life just a little dull explicitly playing by the rules? I honestly don't know how many, but I've had (in RH 6.0 likely ~will~ have in mdk 7.2 after installing this weekend) numerous files with

Re: [newbie] USB scanners

2000-12-15 Thread Jon Doe
On Thursday 14 December 2000 08:40 pm, you wrote: 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

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

2000-12-15 Thread John Carlarne
Hi All, Just a note to say thanks for all your kind advice. I will let you know how it goes. John

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-15 Thread Adrian Smith
hey Rog, glad to point you in the right direction. i wouldn't pay $173 for 128M either. that's why i have waited so long to upgrade. and i don't normally recomend companies or products or venders, but crucial did me right, so i'll give 'em a plug now and then. prices are dropping like

Re: [newbie] setiathome 3

2000-12-15 Thread s
You could try chmod or chown it. Anytime (read: most) something only works in root, you need to change permisssions. -s On Thursday 14 December 2000 23:16, you wrote: Hi all Ok Ive been using mk 7.2 now for sometime without too much hassles... But when my setiathome client is finished

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

2000-12-15 Thread s
You probably still need to setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart 16550A port whatever irq whichever spd_hi And you probably need to put this in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file to run each time you boot. I think you still need to do this even if its a external. Just input the above line when you find

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

2000-12-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
For starters, try going through your BIOS and setting "Plug 'n Play OS" to "no". This worked for my SMC PCI card, which uses the Realtek RTL8029 driver. On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 03:12, Travis Mcbride wrote: I am getting an eth0 initilization has failed error message at bootup. Can anyone tell me

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-15 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
One more time: I want to be able to select a rectangle full of files and drag the lot to another directory using only the mouse. I want to be able to copy with the right mb, place with the left mb, and paste with the middle. I want to be able to call up a menu for gnome and Enlightenment complete

[newbie] Soundcard permissions

2000-12-15 Thread Roger Sherman
Or at least I think it's a permissions issue. A user on my PC is unable to use anything that requires sound; every time he does, a box pops up that says: Couldn't open audio Please check that: 1 you have the correct output plugin selected 2 no other programs is (heh...silly) blocking the

Re: [newbie] How to make xcdroast executable for users?

2000-12-15 Thread Adrian Smith
hi, i haven't seen anyone respond to this yet. when i had mandrake 7.1 i downloaded the latest version of xcdroast for the site of the person who is writing it. in the readme it said that the program will not run for anyone other than root. if this is the same version in 7.2 (and i think it

Re: [newbie] Hostname

2000-12-15 Thread Roger Sherman
What is the benefit of setting your hostname, as opposed to letting DHCP set it when it logs in? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Jim Crossley wrote: Hi Geoff. Geoff Thomas wrote: Where in the startup files is Hostname set?

RE: [newbie] Special characters

2000-12-15 Thread Ignacio Horcas Calvo
- Original Message - From: Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-Mandrake newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 9:07 PM Subject: [newbie] Special characters Can someone tell me how to access special characters, specifically the upside down ? and

Re: [newbie] Hostname

2000-12-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 14 December 2000 05:36 pm, Jim Crossley wrote: So if for example you wanted to name your box Merle, you would put this line in /etc/sysconfig/network: HOSTNAME=merle.localdomain I like, HOSTNAME=Tom.BigDaleEarnhardtFan DOMAINNAME=BigDaleEarnhardtFan I've been wonderin

Re: [newbie] Lixus just crashed

2000-12-15 Thread Roger Sherman
Yeah, X crashed on you, not linux, I believe. It happens to me sometimes if I have a whole bunch of programs opened and decide, what the hell, let me throw Netscape into the mix. It doesn't happen as much since I started using Blackbox instead of KDE...I'm hoping it happens a little less when I

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

2000-12-15 Thread NeoMatrix
Did you install a dhcp client and set you card to get info thru dhcp? If you haven't installed dhcpcd from the mandrake cd. then type ifup eth0 This will bring up eth0 interface . Sofian Get a Free Linux Guestbook at http://www.iamnewbie.com On Thursday 14 December 2000 18:40, you wrote:

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Vic
Uhh, some dude/dudette said it. (Sorry just messin!) :) I think I am way off, I was going to say W.C. Fields but that is not right, he is the one who said 'Anyone who hates kids and dogs can't be all bad.' On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: "You can please some of the people some of

Re: [newbie] USB scanners

2000-12-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jon Doe wrote: On Thursday 14 December 2000 08:40 pm, you wrote: 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

[newbie] error in Enlightenment

2000-12-15 Thread Noam Shifrin
Hi, If someone could help me with this problem it would be much appreciated. When I tried to install a theme in Enlightenment I suddenly couldn't access any of the menus or even log out. After restarting the 'puter and logging back in I could see the theme had stuffed the Enlightenment

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Even MacOS X (yes, the Mac!) is going to have options for multi-button mice. Even then, people still have the choce to keep their 1-button mouse if they want. People have the final say in what they want, not some monolithic corporation that doesn't really care about you, only about their

[newbie] Lixus just crashed

2000-12-15 Thread blinddog
Bizarre thing just happened, I was going thru news and my screens just disappeared and I was deposited at the logon propmt, my CD kept playing, my interenet connection remained and I just logged back in. I was running KDE2 Kmail Netscape 4.75 PAN newsreader Cd player Internet login script and

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

2000-12-15 Thread bpremeaux
Try this and see if that doesn't bring it back: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 You could substitute auto for vfat. Barry :-) On Thu, 14 December 2000, "Donnie Green" wrote: I just loaded up Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and the floppy drive will not mount. The error

[newbie] Konqueror - The KDE Crash Handler

2000-12-15 Thread Jose Ricardo Sabino
I use Konqueror as a browser and the error Handler often close the application with the SIGSEGV 11, it is a bug in Konqueror as reported in the general tab of the error handler. The following error is shown in BackTrace tab: ... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols

RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Mark Johnson
Doesn't this just make you sick! What is the world coming to, sheesh! Keeping Up Appearances http://newsletter.webtechniques.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eBgu0BTFgu0Ph0CCaZ Eazel's Andy Hertzfeld is on a quest to make Linux the most user-friendly operating system available. By Yvonne L. Lee.

Re: [newbie] error in Enlightenment

2000-12-15 Thread Cody Powell
Try deleting your ~/.enlightenment/user_autosaved.cfg and see what happens. Cody Noam Shifrin wrote: Hi, If someone could help me with this problem it would be much appreciated. When I tried to install a theme in Enlightenment I suddenly couldn't access any of the menus or even log

[newbie] Default /etc/fstab

2000-12-15 Thread Jim Crossley
In trying to update my kernel, I forgot to include the supermount patch, so when I booted with the new kernel, an init script disabled supermount, removing the entries in /etc/fstab! And then like a dummy, I went and removed the line for /mnt/cdrom from the file thinking supermount would put it

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 15 December 2000 05:16 pm, Adrian Smith wrote: hey Rog, glad to point you in the right direction. i wouldn't pay $173 for 128M either. that's why i have waited so long to upgrade. and i don't normally recomend companies or products or venders, but crucial did me right, so i'll

Re: [newbie] Soundcard permissions

2000-12-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 15 December 2000 05:25 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: Or at least I think it's a permissions issue. A user on my PC is unable to use anything that requires sound; every time he does, a box pops up that says: Couldn't open audio So, what do I change permissions for? This permissions

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-15 Thread -michael-
On Friday 15 December 2000 15:51, regarding Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux, you said: Uhh, some dude/dudette said it. (Sorry just messin!) :) I think I am way off, I was going to say W.C. Fields but that is not right, he is the one who said 'Anyone who hates kids and dogs can't

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Mark Weaver
Man! hasn't this thread died yet? Geez! I miss my Pine! Mark Roger Sherman wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] No sound from CD

2000-12-15 Thread Jim Crossley
UPDATE: I replaced my sound card and everything finally seems to be working fine. The old card (SoundBlaster PCI128) was driven by the es1370 driver; the new one (SoundBlaster Live! Value) by emu10k1. I don't know whether the card or the driver was to blame. Contrary to some advice out there,

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

2000-12-15 Thread Mr S Ganesan
There should not be any problem with the config of eth0. It might fail in the initial stages for u may not have given the proper ip addrress etc.Pl go to DRAKECONFIG and do the needful. Try giving the ip of 127.0.0.1 for the loopback and 192.168.1.1 with netmask 255.255.255.0 Give ilt a local

[newbie] Konqueror - The KDE Crash Handler

2000-12-15 Thread Jose Ricardo Sabino
I use Konqueror as internet and files browser and the error Handler often close the application with the SIGSEGV 11, it is a bug in Konqueror as reported in the general tab of the error handler. The following error is shown in BackTrace tab: ... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging

Re: [newbie] Hostname

2000-12-15 Thread Geoff Thomas
Roger Sherman wrote: What is the benefit of setting your hostname, as opposed to letting DHCP set it when it logs in? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Jim Crossley wrote: Hi Geoff. Geoff Thomas wrote: Where in the

[newbie] Pine has a problem...

2000-12-15 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi List, I have a little problem. I'm getting an error message from Pine that I don't understand. I'm hoping someone can help me understand what Pine is trying to tell me. When I attemtp to send a message I recieve an error message that goes like this: [Mail not sent: .0.0 Can't create

Re: [newbie] Pine has a problem...

2000-12-15 Thread Mr S Ganesan
please reload pine the prob will be solved On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, I have a little problem. I'm getting an error message from Pine that I don't understand. I'm hoping someone can help me understand what Pine is trying to tell me. When I attemtp to send a message

[newbie] pcmcia eth0 not started by network script

2000-12-15 Thread Olof Liungman
Hi, /etc/rc.d/init.d/network fails to start my pcmcia ethernet card, apparently because I'm missing the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. How should this file look? I've taken a peek at ifcfg-lo (loopback), but it contains some data I do not have for the eth0 device, such as

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-15 Thread Roger Sherman
So what are ya trying to say? ;-p peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 15 December 2000 05:16 pm, Adrian Smith wrote: hey Rog, glad to point you in the right direction. i wouldn't pay $173 for 128M

Re: [newbie] Soundcard permissions

2000-12-15 Thread Roger Sherman
OK Tom, I'll give it a whirl...thanks! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 15 December 2000 05:25 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: Or at least I think it's a permissions issue. A user on my PC is unable to

RE: [newbie] Konqueror - The KDE Crash Handler

2000-12-15 Thread Abraham Pinzur
Not sure what it means, but I've gotten similar errors on several occasions both in Konqueror and also when exiting KDE's Control Center. I'd be happy to hear if anybody's got any tips. - Av - -- Abraham P. (Av) Pinzur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crispgraphics.com/~newav -Original

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Have you even *looked* at alternatives that *can* do these things? Before you start bitching, I can say that I'm sure that Sawfish can do at least half of these things, and its configurability is getting better all the time. Try looking at the settings instead of just complaining when all of

Re: [newbie] Default /etc/fstab

2000-12-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
My /etc/fstab says /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 This is from a clean installation of mdk7.2 (not an upgrade). As you can see, it is no different to your line. On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 08:11, Jim Crossley wrote: In trying to update my kernel, I forgot to include

RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Vic
I hope that he does not think its "the os for everyone" some will like it, some will hate it, and if he does maek it, I hope hje will consider making hsi version of the os still configurable and do what *the user/operator* tells it to do instead of doing what *it* wants to do. I choose to use

[newbie] DHCP

2000-12-15 Thread Michael (Nozy) Falzon
Hi all Just need to know if some has setup a dhcp with 2 network i have one but it not working to will subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 { range 10.1.100.100 10.1.100.150; # Unknown Clients Get This Pool pool { range 10.1.100.100 10.1.100.150; allow unknown

[newbie] kmail problems

2000-12-15 Thread angus
Hi, I wonder if anyone can help! I have logged on to the net but when I try and use kmail to check/retrieve my email nothing happens. There's definitely mail on the server waiting! I have added an incoming account. I presumed the correct type to add was "pop3" rather than "local mailbox". Then I

[newbie] Nice?

2000-12-15 Thread -michael-
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg -- ~enjoy!~ -michael-