Re: [newbie] Twice mail

2000-12-23 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Stefaans Mostert wrote: > Is there anybody else that recieves the mail twice? > I checked it is not one html and one text but all text.Beckey espesially > you seem to be sending it all twice. > Yes, all the time. There was a comment a while back about this. -- Len Lawrenc

[newbie] c/c++ development

2000-12-23 Thread Michael
anyone can tell me where I can find c and c++ development reference?   Merry Christmas! Mike

Re: [newbie] Printer print

2000-12-23 Thread L. H. LOO
At 23-12-2000 +, you wrote: >Anyone got any idea how to adjust the print size in Linux? I had to get a >new printer that is compatible with Linux, and I should be happy that it >works at all, however - it is printing so tiny Just for reference. If the printer is not in the supported list, us

Re: [newbie] Twice mail

2000-12-23 Thread L. H. LOO
I got dupes rather frequently. So I just delete them. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. At 23-12-2000 -0600, you wrote: >I get some mail twice...I can't remember exactly who it was. Hasn't >happened for a couple of days though. > >Mr. Smith

Re: [newbie] set SUID

2000-12-23 Thread L. H. LOO
Thank you, I did as root set "chmod 777 pppd" since I am the 'only' user of my Linux box. Will do as you suggested. BTY, I am using TurboLinux 6.1 (Chinese). Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. At 23-12-2000 +, you wrote: >It quite simple really. As root issue this command > chmod

Re: [newbie] Shared IRQ's

2000-12-23 Thread tweeter
abram wrote: > > yes, that could be your problem. SBLive cards typically share IRQ's > well but 3dfx cards and linux do not. There are a few ways for you to > fix this confilict: I had the exact same problem. what I did, was I disabled usb, and serial ports to free up some IRQ's and it worked f

[newbie] More Alsa and the Ac97

2000-12-23 Thread Traci Collins
Hi! I read the thread on Alsa and AC97 with interest. I also have one of the Athlon systems with the Via 82C686A sound chipsets. As I understand it, this chip is not supported by the OSS drivers installed as part of Mandrake 7.2 but it is supported by the Alsa drivers. Based on the advice from the

Re: [newbie] after installation

2000-12-23 Thread Romanator
Navigate to run, and type in: jcc Press the key In fact, you can create a desktop link. The application name is: jcc I've been very happy with Code Crusader. You may want to check out the GNU web site for additional info. By the way, clicking on the tar.gz or tar.bz should open or unzip the file

Re: [newbie] help,please...

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Weaver
There's a program on your system that will help you backup files from your system to the tape drive. It's called Taper. If your tape drive is the only scsi device on your system you would start the program like this. taper -T st0 Once you issue the command in a terminal window th

Re: [newbie] Printer print

2000-12-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
s wrote: > Anyone got any idea how to adjust the print size in Linux? > I had to get a new printer that is compatible with Linux, > and I should be happy that it works at all, however - it is > printing so tiny that my tired old eyes can hardly see it. > Not to mention how unprofessional it look

Re: [newbie] RAMDISK ERROR ON MANDRAKE 7.2 INSTALL

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Weaver
At this point guys I would strongly suggest getting the 7.2 CD's from cheapbytes. I too had the same problems and as soon as I got the disks from Cheapbytes and tried them out everything went flawlessly. -- Mark ### ## ...it's not a bug, it's a feature ## Registered Linux User # 1824

[newbie] Printer print

2000-12-23 Thread s
Anyone got any idea how to adjust the print size in Linux? I had to get a new printer that is compatible with Linux, and I should be happy that it works at all, however - it is printing so tiny that my tired old eyes can hardly see it. Not to mention how unprofessional it looks. The cups se

[newbie] Power down TFT screen

2000-12-23 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I've got a problem with the TFT screen of my laptop. It powers down after 2 minutes of inactivity (right) but a bit later the screen "powers on" without showing anything (i just see it's on), and if i touch any key it powers down and it doesn't work any more. The only thing i can do is t

Re: [newbie] uninstalling Xfree 3.x

2000-12-23 Thread s
Hey Jamie, Did you have any luck? I messed mine up once. I'm fixing to get brave and try again. -s On Thursday 21 December 2000 08:12 pm, you wrote: > Thanks for the info. i'll try that tommorrow, along with setting up my new > sb live platinum card. (out celebrating xmas tonite!!) > > Jamie >

Re: [newbie] Disable Auto-logon for 'default' user

2000-12-23 Thread s
Go into UserDrake, in 'preferences' and uncheck the box that that states something like 'autolog support' for that user. -s On Friday 22 December 2000 09:13 pm, you wrote: > When re-installing Mandrake 7.2 I accidentally set a user > account to auto-logon by setting it to 'default user'. How > d

Re: [newbie] Playing CDs: great controls but NO SOUND...!

2000-12-23 Thread Michael O'Henly
Thanks. This does seem to be the problem -- I just don't have an audio cable for my CDRW. Fortunately, it's pretty standard hardware so I should be able to pick one up. M. On Saturday 23 December 2000 18:10, you wrote: > Did the CD sound work under any other operating system. e.g. Windows? >

Re: [newbie] Playing CDs: great controls but NO SOUND...!

2000-12-23 Thread Revenant
Did the CD sound work under any other operating system. e.g. Windows? I've had the same problem a couple of times. Every time it has been because I'd been working inside my computer and forgotten to reconnect the sound cable from the CD-ROM to the sound card. Revenant. Michael O'Henly wrote:

[newbie] Print command

2000-12-23 Thread mcoady
With Mandrake 7 when I try to print a specific file with the lpr command I get the message: printer unknown. Yet the installed printer - a HP Laserjet 4L - prints just fine within WordPerfect. And the command # printtool reveals that that printer is operating at lp0. Is there some further conf

[newbie] re:scsi tape drive

2000-12-23 Thread Dale Kosan
I would like to see the scripts,could I schedule a cron job every night to do all the "dirty" work

Re: [newbie] NVidia on 7.2

2000-12-23 Thread Greg
Greg wrote: > > Having a problem trying to install the NVidia drivers on MDK 7.2. Was > following the instructions on the user org website. Noticed it was not > included to run "ldconfig" after renaming the lib files. > > Anyways, the sys is as follows: > > Asus V7100 GeForce2 MX 32M AGP vide

[newbie] NVidia on 7.2

2000-12-23 Thread Greg
Having a problem trying to install the NVidia drivers on MDK 7.2. Was following the instructions on the user org website. Noticed it was not included to run "ldconfig" after renaming the lib files. Anyways, the sys is as follows: Asus V7100 GeForce2 MX 32M AGP video card Abit K7T-Raid motherbo

[newbie] Macromedia Shockwave Player

2000-12-23 Thread Johnny Kwan
Does Macromedia Shockwave Player has a Linux version. A site keeps telling me that: "This page contains information of a type (application/x-director) than can only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in." I already have Flash Player installed and running properly. Can anyone please help? ICQ

Re: [newbie] Freezes when playing MPEGs?

2000-12-23 Thread Revenant
Stefaans Mostert wrote: > Revenant wrote: > > When I play MPEGs my computer freezes _hard_. I can't switch to other > > shells and the only way I've found to escape it is to reboot. > Go look in /var/log/messages/ > Tell us what it says there Thanx. It says: Dec 24 08:33:59 revenant syslogd 1

[newbie] Voodoo5 [was uninstall XFree86-server]

2000-12-23 Thread abram
hey, anybody tried this with a Voodoo5 agp? I play a lot of quake and I would love to get that fixed DGA mouse input from 4.02. Guess I'll try these directions later on and report my experience. For you other linux gaming nuts with V5's, two days ago I was finially able to recompile the tdfx-4.

Re: [newbie] floppy problems

2000-12-23 Thread Paul
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, a r wrote: >Sometimes it won't read new discs that I insert. It doesn't even click and >the light goes on. > >Is there a way to "refresh"? > >Supermount is in control of it normally but I tried the mount command just >in case. Unfortunately the response was "floppy already mo

Re: [newbie] Merry.....

2000-12-23 Thread abram
u..bushmills Abe "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: > > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > >I worked on a Dutch island (Bonaire) some 30 years ago. The > > Heineken we bought there was Dutch bier. The Heineken y'all get in the > > states well Pabst or Strohs prob'ly makes it. > > C

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-23 Thread abram
hey, That GeForce2 GTS isn't a 3d prophet2 is it? The kt7 and 3d prophets don't play nice together in any OS. Learned that one the hard way ;-) Abe Martin Sprenger wrote: > > SM> What vga card do you have? > > At the moment I have my brothers Geforce 2 GTS installed. I also have > a ELSA E

Re: [newbie] Shared IRQ's

2000-12-23 Thread abram
yes, that could be your problem. SBLive cards typically share IRQ's well but 3dfx cards and linux do not. There are a few ways for you to fix this confilict: 1. Some BIOS will allow you to change IRQ's on a slot by slot basis so you could simply assign a free irq to one of the devices. I'd cha

[newbie] Where did all my bash commands go?

2000-12-23 Thread Jim aka ripperman
I changed the PS1 for my bash promt. I put it in the .bashrc file in my home dir. After I did that it seems like some of the bash commands got lost. I am trying to compile a program and make and all its descendants come up with "command not found". The proggie I'm trying to compile was

[newbie] Getting sound through a SB 16 PCI

2000-12-23 Thread Jim aka ripperman
I just picked up a Sound Blaster 16PCI hoping it would be old enough to be automagiacally detected and configured. Its detected sure. Boot-up says its loaded the right module and all. No error messages, and Hard-Drake has it listed as an Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI with kernel module ex1371

[newbie] CD-RW and CDRom

2000-12-23 Thread johnc
I have just recieved a new sony CD-RW(xmas came a little early). I am curious about enableing the scsi emulation in the kernel. Bt doing so will I then lose the ability to use the standard CD-Rom drive? I am not terribly concerned by this as the new burner is considerab;ly faster any way but w

[newbie] Bon Nadal

2000-12-23 Thread fjhduque.teleline.es
Hi All >From Calvia Mallorca Bon Nadal Happy New Millemium :-) -- Windoze es un virus con interface de usuario Linux is a Best S.O. LINUX User #179844 -- --

Re[2]: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-23 Thread Martin Sprenger
SM> What vga card do you have? At the moment I have my brothers Geforce 2 GTS installed. I also have a ELSA Erazor II (Riva TNT). I'll try again with the other card in a few days. I don't think it's the VGA card. I think I can install fine when I enable my onboard IDE controller. I don't want to

Re: [newbie] Merry.....

2000-12-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Tom Brinkman wrote: >I worked on a Dutch island (Bonaire) some 30 years ago. The > Heineken we bought there was Dutch bier. The Heineken y'all get in the > states well Pabst or Strohs prob'ly makes it. Cheated again, I knew it! ;-( Oh well. My father was with the 101st combat engineer

Re: [newbie] scsi tape drive...

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Weaver
I'm not sure, but I think the taper program does that for you. If you abslutely prefer that everything be .tgz'd or tar-gzipped before being depositied onto the tape drive I have some bash script that someone from this list wrote and gave to me that will do that job very nicely and you can grab

RE: [newbie] Login manager

2000-12-23 Thread skalvin
Yes! It happens the same to me. And when I select an icon, apears a black box. - Original Message - From: a r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 4:58 PM Subject: [newbie] Login manager > Hi, > > Can anyone help me this is a little long but bar

[newbie] floppy problems

2000-12-23 Thread a r
Hi, Have had a problem with my the floppy on my drive. Sometimes it won't read new discs that I insert. It doesn't even click and the light goes on. Is there a way to "refresh"? Supermount is in control of it normally but I tried the mount command just in case. Unfortunately the response was "

[newbie] Login manager

2000-12-23 Thread a r
Hi, Can anyone help me this is a little long but bare with me (please!)... When login manager loads and presents the login screen the background behind it is configurable once you login (assuming KDE) via the control centre and then system/login manager. Now there seems to be a bug coz when I t

Re: [newbie] scsi tape drive...

2000-12-23 Thread Dale Kosan
Thanks,now I can use the drive! Can I tar.gz to the tape using /dev/st0 ?

[newbie] Shared IRQ's

2000-12-23 Thread Terry Bullard
I've been trying to get my soundblaster live value card working with Mandrake 7.1.  The modules soundcore and emu10k1 are loaded and the mixer is not muted.  The only thing i've found is that both my graphics card (a voodoo 3fx) and the sound card both have the same irq - could this be causi

Re: [newbie] uninstall XFree86-server

2000-12-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 23 December 2000 03:08 am, Adrian Gunawan wrote: > I am using linux mandrake 7.1 and i want to upgrade > to version 4.0.2 > but the way that u told me doesn't work > i think cause of the rpm version i guess > so do u have any idea about this ? These are packages built to be compatib

Re: [newbie] Twice mail

2000-12-23 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey Stefaans, > Is there anybody else that recieves the mail twice? > I checked it is not one html and one text but all text.Beckey > espesially you seem to be sending it all twice. You know, I think this was covered previously. I forget, but I think it was something to do with the majordom

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-23 Thread Mr. Smith
Mr. Sprenger That has happened to me but not with the Mandrake install cd but with my bootcd I made (yeah...I wasted one ;-)...literally it didn't work). Hmm...I don't know how to fix it or I probably wouldn't have thrown my cd I made away. Mr. Smith > Hi *!*@*, > > I'm trying to install 7.2

Re: [newbie] after installation

2000-12-23 Thread Meph Istopheles
Morning, > On Friday 22 December 2000 11:50 pm, Michael wrote: > > I have downloaded SN451.tar.gz and SN451.tar.bz2,but i dont > > know how to install with this type of file. On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: > good place to start http://mandrakeuser.org/basics/bsource.html For more

Re: [newbie] Twice mail

2000-12-23 Thread Mr. Smith
I get some mail twice...I can't remember exactly who it was. Hasn't happened for a couple of days though. Mr. Smith > Is there anybody else that recieves the mail twice? > I checked it is not one html and one text but all text.Beckey espesially > you seem to be sending it all twice. > > Cheers

Re: [newbie] Im Sorry,

2000-12-23 Thread Ed Tharp
as a spokes person for "Richard" I would (note tongue protruding from cheek) take great umbrage at the use of " dick" in the preceding post like Mr. Kerr said ( currently with tongue in correct placement) "Merry Crimbo" and to all a good night - Original Message - From: "var1x" <[EMA

[newbie] RE:unsubscribe

2000-12-23 Thread Ian P. Zoda
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Velzi Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 12:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ---> mbr in the windows partition (Alan) Well, I wasn´t followed all post. But I believe the real problem

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-23 Thread Stefaans Mostert
Martin Sprenger wrote: > > Hi *!*@*, > > I'm trying to install 7.2 on my machine. > I got an 800MHz Thunderbird on an ABit KT7-RAID. I have disaibled all > IDE controllers on the board. There is an IBM DDRS 9 GB SCSI drive and > a Pioneer DVD-304 drive connected to my Advance Peripherals 2941 U2

Re: [newbie] set SUID

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Weaver
It quite simple really. As root issue this command chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/pppd However, make sure you have enabled pppd to be user accessible in Linuxconf. I would check here first before doing anything else. Mark On Saturday 23 December 2000 02:41, you wrote: > Season's Greetings, > P

[newbie] Can't read CD drive after install 7.2

2000-12-23 Thread Bob Paddock
I just installed 7.2 from CDROM, and that all went fine, reading every thing from the CD set. However after I reboot the CD drive no longer functions. I get messages like "Don't have permission" even when I'm logged in as root. Or some long line about "bad FS, bad super mount ... on /dev/hdc"

Re: [newbie] scsi tape drive...

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi Dale, There is an awesome little program on your system called Taper. It is very intuitive and easy to use program. Assuming that your Tape drive is the only SCSI device on your system the command line syntax for activating this program us taper -T st0 This will start the program in the

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Weaver
Now THAT is awesome! I love this OS. It seems there are more ways to skin this cat then you can shake a stick at and they just keep coming! Thanks, I'll give that a try and let you know how I make out. Mark On Friday 22 December 2000 22:24, you wrote: > Mark, > > In the event that you have on

Re: [newbie] Im Sorry,

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Weaver
for REAL...var, just relax...dude! unplug for a bit. Mark On Saturday 23 December 2000 00:52, you wrote: > Hey now... > > var1x wrote: > > How about you not be a dick about a simple request? > > > > Beckycould wrote: > > > Sorry, I'm Sorry, Please forgive me. I'm SOrry. Please Forgive Me. > > >

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-23 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > Not a bad idea, but most mice out there still have only one or two buttons. That was the doing of Bill Gates. > While three-button mice are cheap nowadays, many people will not switch to > Linux if they have to buy a new piece of hardware, no matter how cheap it is.

Re: [newbie] Im Sorry,

2000-12-23 Thread Romanator
Hey now... var1x wrote: > > How about you not be a dick about a simple request? > > Beckycould wrote: > > > > Sorry, I'm Sorry, Please forgive me. I'm SOrry. Please Forgive Me. > > Please I'm SOrry. Sorry. Please. Oh Please forgive my mistake. Oh HTML Sorry > > Oh Please. Sorry... > > > > I'm S

Re: [newbie] Where's sndconfig ?

2000-12-23 Thread Joan Tur
Paul escribió: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Joan Tur wrote: > > Hi Joan, > > you can only run sndconfig as root. > It should be in /usr/sbin/sndconfig > > Paul But it isn't 8-) It's a full installation using the two CDs... but i can copy it from the laptop. But i still don't know why 8-? > >I ha

Re: [newbie] after installation

2000-12-23 Thread Romanator
> Michael wrote: > > after installation mandrake,how can I get started? > I want to develop c/c++ program,where should I put the source code?it > is said that the source navigator is the best choice,I have downloaded > SN451.tar.gz and SN451.tar.bz2,but i dont know how to install with > this type

[newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-23 Thread Martin Sprenger
Hi *!*@*, I'm trying to install 7.2 on my machine. I got an 800MHz Thunderbird on an ABit KT7-RAID. I have disaibled all IDE controllers on the board. There is an IBM DDRS 9 GB SCSI drive and a Pioneer DVD-304 drive connected to my Advance Peripherals 2941 U2W SCSI Controller. After a lot of prob

[newbie] Twice mail

2000-12-23 Thread Stefaans Mostert
Is there anybody else that recieves the mail twice? I checked it is not one html and one text but all text.Beckey espesially you seem to be sending it all twice. Cheers Stefaans

Re: [newbie] Merry.....

2000-12-23 Thread Graham Kerr
GOT SOME NEWCASTLE ALE TOO :-}} hiccup... On Saturday 23 December 2000 11:51 am, you wrote: > On Saturday 23 December 2000 04:03, you wrote: > > Erylon Hines wrote: > > > Graham Kerr wrote: > > > > MERRY CRIMBO EVERYBODY :-D > > > > (Ive got 142 cans of beer and a bottle of Glenfiddich..

Re: [newbie] Hi Fellow-Penguin Newbies! Anyone know anything about Primary and Second Servers?

2000-12-23 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
>When I disconnect my Primary Server from service- I want the Secondary >server to automatically take over providing the websites I am Hosting. > >My question is: > >Does MY DNS Info at the Open SRS Database tell the world to look at my >Primary IP and if it is "down" will traffic automatically

Re: [newbie] Merry.....

2000-12-23 Thread poogle
On Saturday 23 December 2000 04:03, you wrote: > Erylon Hines wrote: > > Graham Kerr wrote: > > > MERRY CRIMBO EVERYBODY :-D > > > (Ive got 142 cans of beer and a bottle of Glenfiddich...) > > > So you wont get any sense from me for a while ;-) > > There is no REAL beer in Scotland, we've

[newbie] Hi Fellow-Penguin Newbies! Anyone know anything about Primary and Second Servers?

2000-12-23 Thread Beckycould
When I disconnect my Primary Server from service- I want the Secondary server to automatically take over providing the websites I am Hosting. My question is: Does MY DNS Info at the Open SRS Database tell the world to look at my Primary IP and if it is "down" will traffic automatically look f

Re: [newbie] Hosting Primary and Secondary

2000-12-23 Thread Stefaans Mostert
> Beckycould wrote: > > Hi Fellow-Penguin Newbies! > When I disconnect my Primary Server from service- I want the Secondary > server to automatically take over providing the websites I am Hosting. > > My question is: > > Does MY DNS Info at the Open SRS Database tell the world to look at > my

Re: [newbie] Im Sorry,

2000-12-23 Thread Stefaans Mostert
Roger Sherman wrote: > > Is it just me, or does this sound a little sarcastic? > > peace, > > Rog > > http://www.slammingrooves.com > Registered Linux user #190719 > > On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Beckycould wrote: > > > Sorry, I'm Sorry, Please forgive me. I'm SOrry. Please Forgive Me. > > Please I

Re: [newbie] uninstall XFree86-server

2000-12-23 Thread Adrian Gunawan
I am using linux mandrake 7.1 and i want to upgrade to version 4.0.2 but the way that u told me doesn't work i think cause of the rpm version i guess so do u have any idea about this ? thanks for ur info --- Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 22 December 2000 07:41 pm, Adr