Re: [newbie-it] Aiuto: XFree 4.0.1 - Risolto

Ciao. Scusa se ti rispondo un po' in ritardo. Beh in realta' ho rinominato il vecchio link con il comando mv cosi' come lo usi per rinominare un file qualsiasi # mv X X.bak dopo ho creato un nuovo link simbolico al file che mi interessava con il comando ln # ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 X Il

[newbie-it] Problemi con Sound Blaster Awe64 Gold

-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Problemi con Sound Blaster Awe64 Gold Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:11:31 +0100 From: Michele [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Premetto di essere un neofita con Linux e cercherò di essere il più chiaro possibile nel spiegare il mio

[newbie-it] Aiuto non riesco ad Installare i file della mia G-Force 2 GTS

Ciao a tutti, io ho Linux Mandrake 7.1 con su una scheda video Matrox G400 32mb Ram e fin qui tutto bene Linux va che e una meraviglia solo che ho preso una G-Force 2 Gts perche? perche e piu potente perche se no. cmq ho scaricato i driver dal sito NVIDIA " http://www.nvidia.com il file

R: [newbie-it] Problemi con Sound Blaster Awe64 Gold

-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Problemi con Sound Blaster Awe64 Gold Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:11:31 +0100 From: Michele [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Premetto di essere un neofita con Linux e cercherò di essere il più chiaro possibile nel spiegare il mio

Re: [newbie] Opera for Linux

On Sunday 17 December 2000 04:31, you wrote: I bet you money that Java will be implemented for the final version... It already is in the windows version, plus it went semi free, you have a choice of sponsored mode (with ads) or pay. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

Abe Lincoln said that I will let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,,, and Bob Dylan said that... - Original Message - From: "paddock" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux "You can please

Re: [newbie] DNS Server

please go to www.redhat.com and d/l the pdf of dns ok i have done it under mandrake linux stephen - Original Message - From: "Michael (Nozy) Falzon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 10:48 PM Subject: [newbie] DNS Server try to setup a dns server

Re: [newbie] Winmodem

ARG... no more HTML!!! no more backgrounds either - Original Message - From: skalvin To: Lista correo Mandrake Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 9:23 AM Subject: [newbie] Winmodem hi! Has

Re: [newbie] Mike Scott Mandrake Newbie

you won't need luck just a good understanding of boot records and hard drives, and study a bit on linux partitioning schemes. Partition magic works wonders, (although in my dual boot machine I use both PM and lilo so I have a second chance to change my little mind as I boot.) and

Re: [newbie] Winmodem

ARG - Original Message - From: skalvin To: Lista correo Mandrake Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 9:23 AM Subject: [newbie] Winmodem hi! Has anybody installed a winmodem in Linux? I've Mandrake 7.2 and my modem is a Lucent Winmodem

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

Hi Paul, I did manage to get the problem fixed. I installed an earlier version of Sendmail. The one that comes with Mandrake 7.1. And everything worked great right out-a the box. The only thing I can come up with is there's something about the version that came with Mdk 7.2 wasn't quite right.

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

DUDE!!! I did not think anyone else would remember that song - Original Message - From: "-michael-" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 9:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux On Friday 15 December 2000 15:51, regarding Re: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

I thought Thomas Jefferson said that. tdh -- T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.unixtechs.org/ "Real Men use Vi." * Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001217 08:19]: Abe Lincoln said that I will let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,,, and Bob Dylan said that... -

Re: [newbie] DNS Server

Thanks . - Original Message - From: "stephen galowski" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 12:25 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] DNS Server please go to www.redhat.com and d/l the pdf of dns ok i have done it under mandrake linux stephen -

Re: [newbie] Winmodem

get rid of the winmodem and get something that linux will support. really! less trouble/ - Original Message - From: Ed Tharp To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Winmodem ARG -

[newbie] How to print a man page?

How would I go about printing a man page?

Re: [newbie] Soundcard permissions

KompuKit wrote: I have the same problem...except that I can hear/play mp3s,wavs midis, thru xmms... but when I try to go to a site that has midi music playing I get a popup window saying CAN'T OPEN /DEV/SEQUENCER then something about playmidi 2.4 I have Mandrake 7.2 with plugger

Re: [newbie] Kernel problems

On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Andrew F. Brown wrote: Hi I am trying to install the 2.2.18 kernel to my linux partition in the hopes that it will support my USB CD burner. The problem i keep running into is any time I try a "make clean" or a "make bzImage" it gives me an error saying that it can't make

[newbie] Problems with Creative SB Vibra16!

I'm having problems setting up my sound card Creative SB Vibra 16. It worked great under 7.0 and 7.1 but now it keeps setting up on IRQ 7. I don't know where to manually changed this. I edited the moudels.conf file and specified the normal settings under which this sound card has worked

Re: [newbie] Winmodem

Hi, I got my Lucent modem working nce with Mandrake 7.1 kernel 2.2.15. I just followed the instructions provided at http://www.walbran.org/sean/linux/linmodem-howto-all.html Good luck Hello to everybody Renato

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

On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Hey Mark, I did manage to get the problem fixed. I installed an earlier version of Sendmail. The one that comes with Mandrake 7.1. And everything worked great right out-a the box. The only thing I can come up with is there's something about the version

Re: [newbie] cdrecord

-michael- wrote: try this for audio cd's what about mp3's onto cd's will this work? No. At least not if you want to play them in a non-mp3-understanding audio cd player. You must first convert the mp3 files to a format understood by cdrecord (cdr, wav, au). You can use mpg123 to do

[newbie] ISDN

: DIVA T/A ISDN Hi ! Linux User Needs help, how to configure DIVA T/A ISDN Modem I have check the eicon.com at http://www.eicon.com/pubs/21109801.txtis support Linux. And I have follow the in intsruction but still not working ... Best Regards SKLIM

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

True. Many Windows consumers wouldn't give a flying flip as long as it works. And, I can see reason. Now that PC sales are down, what's next? Service? Hardware? Browser? In home digital PC didn't blast off as big as people thought. From the marketing end, companies are already running focus

Re: [newbie] How to print a man page?

There are several ways to do it. Try searching on "printing man pages" in Google. Doing that a while ago I found this: man -t [command_name] | lpr ...which outputs to my Postscript print in a proportional font. Very nice. On Sunday 17 December 2000 06:23, you wrote: How would I go about

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

I tried knocking out various options, I tried supermounting, I tried defaults, and nothing seems to be working. Any other suggestions?? From: bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] can't mount floppy, Input/output error Date: Fri, 15

Re: [newbie] ISDN

On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, SKLIM wrote: : DIVA T/A ISDN Hi ! Linux User Needs help , how to configure DIVA T/A ISDN Modem Take a look at www.wurtel.demon.nl (there is an english page too) that is very good with setting up ISDN. It helped me too. Paul -- There is only one thing in the world

Re: [Re: [newbie] More disk space for the Linux partition]

I got the GUI diskdrake running. However, I don't know how to use it to give the linux partition more diskspace and reduce the size of the windows partition. Of course, without loosing data. Thanks. s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux has a utility that does the same thing. Diskdrake. Located

Re: [newbie] Winmodem

win modems don't work with linux. really - Original Message - From: jack dugas To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 7:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Winmodem get rid of the winmodem and get something that linux will support. really! less

Re: [newbie] How to print a man page?

Jon Doe wrote: How would I go about printing a man page? One possible way to print say, the manpage for man itself: $ man -P cat man | lp The -P option specifies the "pager" man should use. Using cat as a pager is stupid, unless you just happen to want to pipe the output to the printer!

Re: [newbie] How to print a man page?

Actually, the -P option is probably unnecessary. Most versions of man (men?) are smart enough to allow this: $ man man | lpr Jim Crossley wrote: Jon Doe wrote: How would I go about printing a man page? One possible way to print say, the manpage for man itself: $ man -P cat man |

Re: [newbie] DNS Server

stephen galowski wrote: please go to www.redhat.com and d/l the pdf of dns ok i have done it under mandrake linux stephen - Original Message - From: "Michael (Nozy) Falzon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 10:48 PM Subject: [newbie] DNS

[newbie] Corp Server 1.0/Sparc: how to get all packages installed?

Hi; I'm trying out the corporate server iso images and I am not sure how one goes about getting everything installed off of both cdrom images. I've got 128 Mb ram on my SS5 system. I've allocated 1 gb to /usr (dedicated a 1gb drive for this), 150 mb for /, 100 mb for swap, about 300 mb for

[newbie] Is there any docs for Corp.Server 1.0 install for sparc?

I'm trying to understand all of my options for installing on a sparc system. I'm having a little bit of a problem right now with getting the hostname/domainname setup correctly -- seems that i'm always stuck with the default of localhost instead of the machine name I've picked. Also not sure

Re: [newbie] Problems with Creative SB Vibra16!

I have the same card. I had to run sndconfig I ran it as root from a KDE term window. It gave me a warning about running it from a GUI, but it work just fine. It set up my card in about 1 minute, including the sound checks in wav and midi mode. Cyphfer On Sun, 17 December 2000, "Pablo

Re: [newbie] cdrecord

You'll need to convert them to .wav files first. mpg123 does it, and so does xmms ;-) try mpg123 --help or mpg123 --longhelp or man mpg123 On Sunday 17 December 2000 12:27 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 17 December 2000 02:53, regarding Re: [newbie] cdrecord, you said: try this for audio

Re: [newbie] Winmodem

Rumor has it, a FEW WinModems WILL work with Mandrake 7.2, but on a whole, no --= WinModems will not work with Linux. Why you ask? I'll tell you! WinModems are about 45% software driven. They get rid of some of the actual hardware components to save costs, and they attach a lot of the things

[newbie] Problem installing KDE2.1 beta

Hi... Here's what I've done so far... 1. A clean install of Mandrake 7.2. 2. Downloaded all the KDE2.01 RPMs. Followed instructions for installing them (rpm -Fvh *.rpm; rpm --rebuilddb; update-menus -v). 3. Downloaded all the KDE2.1beta RPMs. 4. Did rpm -Fvh *.rpm. Got two failed

Re: [newbie] Installing without X

Well I think there is, in the install it will ask you for that information. But you may just want to install the Server. It doesn't really come with the X Windows GUI. So you can try that. Not sure why bother installing it if you can't use the X Windows, but the above might help you with

[newbie] KMail and bigger attachments

Hello, I'm interested if you have also made the experience that KMail becomes very slow when the attachments are slightly bigger ;-) I mean are 10mb extraordinary these days?? KMail even slows down the whole system! -- It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.                          

[newbie] Re: unsubscribe

[newbie] Need help Samba Start-up

Hi I have a clean install of Mandrake 7.2 power-pack. I have chossen the recommend install all option. I have updated all packages that were available in the normal/security update area. I have Samba-Common and Samba-Client 2.0.7-18mdk installed. I finally got around to modifing my smb.confg

[newbie] Default Icons in Sawfish and Gnome

Hi! I recently installed Mandrake 7.2 and had just begun to play with it when I had an X lockup and ultimately needed to reboot the system to regain control. Even the keyboard shortcuts wouldn't take me to a virtual console... After the reboot neither Gnome nor Sawfish were graphical environment

Re: [newbie] CD From Mandrake???

no...didn't know they are doing that... .Riker wrote: Hi, Gang: Was just wondering if any of the other fine folks that bought the retail box from Wal-Mart - who registered - had received their free upgrade CD to KDE 2.0 final? Riker .. -- Registered Linux User:167369

[newbie] Installing without X Update!

Thanks to those of you who suggested pressing F1 on the main screen. Choosing Expert I was asked later if I wanted to "try" running the X server, saying No got me past that problem. Now at least I have a running system! Next step: how to get the Matrox G450 card to run! Thanks, Steve.

[newbie] CD From Mandrake???

Hi, Gang: Was just wondering if any of the other fine folks that bought the retail box from Wal-Mart - who registered - had received their free upgrade CD to KDE 2.0 final? Riker

Re: [newbie] CD From Mandrake???

Nope. Never heard of an upgrade CD to KDE 2.0 final. Guys, correct me if I'm wrong but we'll be able to download it. Roman KompuKit wrote: no...didn't know they are doing that... .Riker wrote: Hi, Gang: Was just wondering if any of the other fine folks that bought the retail box

[newbie] Modem Question

Dear techies, I am running linux mandrake 7.2 complete edition. I have a US Robotics 56k Voice Win modem that is hooked up internally and is running on com 2. Please let me know if this modem is compatibly with the operating system or any other linux os's. If it is, please provide some

Re: [newbie] Modem Question

Franklyn, I would like to point out that Winmodems are not modems. However, I think the following links will explain: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html http://www.linmodems.org/ Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear techies, I am running linux mandrake 7.2 complete edition. I

Re: [newbie] Modem Question

I forgot about this link. It's go a wealth of information. You may want to make a print out for yourself. http://walbran.org/sean/linux/linmodem-howto.html Roman

Re: [newbie] Default Icons in Sawfish and Gnome

Hi Traci, Have you tried right clicking on the desktop and select "application". You will have the option of selecting the icons for your application by clicking on the dropdown arrow. Select Devices. Select the icon and OK. It's important to note that by default, it will check System first. If

Re: [newbie] ISDN

Thank Paul Thank for your information that you have give me. Thank U Best Regards, SKLIM - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 12:16 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] ISDN On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, SKLIM wrote: : DIVA T/A ISDN

Re: [newbie] Default Icons in Sawfish and Gnome

Romanator wrote: Have you tried right clicking on the desktop and select "application". You will have the option of selecting the icons for your application by clicking on the dropdown arrow. Select Devices. Select the icon and OK. It's important to note that by default, it will check

[newbie] cdrecord doesn't work.

when I run cdrecord -scanbus it returns this: Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 0,0,0 0)

[newbie] breaking out of a gui

Hello All, Using Mandrake 7.1 only for a short time, used Caldera and Corel before, in either of them when xwindows hung Crtl, Alt and Backspace was all I needed to go to a textconsole, I can't find a keycombination that does the same in Mandrake, so a reboot is my only option here, am I missing

Re: [newbie] cdrecord doesn't work.

try cdrecord with dev=0,0 Graham On Monday 18 December 2000 7:11 am, you wrote: when I run cdrecord -scanbus it returns this: Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: