[newbie-it] DOSEMU

2001-02-03 Thread Ruben Patanè
Sono un nuovo utente linux (da 3 giorni), ho installato dosemu.rpm su Mandrake 7.2 Il pacchetto viene installato ma non micrea l'icona, cosa devo fare? Vorrei sapere un altra cosa, per installare i programmi bisogna per forza loggarsi come root? Grazie.

[newbie-it] Domanda

2001-02-03 Thread BEPPE
Ciao a tutti, volevo porre una domanda.Accidentalmente l'altro giorno installando il Linux (mandrake 7.2) o fatto partire l'installazione con L' Xfree 3.86 mi sembra,e non con il 4.01. Volevo chiedere se sia possibile aggiornare il sistema con la versione 4.01 direttamente in Linux ed

[newbie-it] laptop

2001-02-03 Thread Gabriele Semplice
Salve linuxmandrakiani Ho un problema nell'installare x su un portatile compaq presario 1200 modello 12xl302 con una scheda video trident cyberblade i1 agp 77 Faccio l'installazione di l.m. ma alla configurazione di x non so che monitor, scheda video e risoluzione scegliere. Mi aiutate?

Re: [newbie-it] Domanda

2001-02-03 Thread Luca
che scheda video hai? - Original Message - From: BEPPE To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 3:38 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Domanda Ciao a tutti, volevo porre una domanda.Accidentalmente l'altro giorno installando il Linux (mandrake

R: [newbie-it] laptop

2001-02-03 Thread Gabriele Pelizzari
Io ho un laptop presario 1200 xl 109 ed ho verificato che la versione di xfree4.01 non contempla il chip della mia sk video cyberblade trident, mentre lavora correttamente con la versione di xfree3.3.6 prima di installare i pacchetti della versione 3.3.6 prova a verificare se c'e' una

Re: [newbie-it] Domanda

2001-02-03 Thread marco
Il 15:38, sabato 03 febbraio 2001, scrivesti: Volevo chiedere se sia possibile aggiornare il sistema con la versione 4.01 direttamente in Linux ed eventualmente che differenze dovrei veder. Usa drakconf Ciao Marco

Re: [newbie-it] Domanda

2001-02-03 Thread Luca
allora in genrale passare dalla 3.3.6. alla 4.0.x dovrebbe migliorare la velocit di visualizzazione di finestre e oggettti su desktop. Per te che hai un scheda nvidia inoltre c' la possibilit di abilitare il supporto 3D della scheda, in particolare con i giochi. In effetti a me era capitato lo

Re: [newbie] missing swap file

2001-02-03 Thread Goldenpi
Swap partition must be set up in /etc/fstab. If you set it up during install the installer should have done it. Windows doesn't come with partitioning tools. 95 and 98 come with fdisk which doesn't work on ext2 or swap partitions and millenium doesn't come with anything. - Original Message

Re: [newbie] disk partitions

2001-02-03 Thread Goldenpi
did you change the partition in /etc/fstab? - Original Message - From: Quaylar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 3:24 PM Subject: [newbie] disk partitions hi all... short question regarding disk partitions. as my original 500 MB /usr partition

Re: [newbie] Can anyone tell me the byte size on a DL ISO burned toCD?

2001-02-03 Thread Goldenpi
BIG. usually between 600 and 650 meg. It took me weeks to get it over my modem. - Original Message - From: Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 5:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can anyone tell me the byte size on a DL ISO burned toCD?

Re: [newbie] Mozilla question

2001-02-03 Thread s
Nope on the printer port I guess. Supposed to be local. I told pmfirewall to leave nothing open. Netstat -l after inserting ALL : ALL. Doesn't seem any different. (Can that prevent me from rsyncing, telneting, and minicoming to my Agenda hand held device?) Active Internet connections

[newbie] server install of 7.2

2001-02-03 Thread Martin Cleaver
If I do a work staiton install, then there's no smb server etc, and if if I do a server install then for some reason there is no RPMDrake, MandrakeUpdate etc... :-( It is, one assumes, because people setting up servers know more and don't want RPMDRake... but without it, \I can't find the

Re: [newbie] Mozilla question

2001-02-03 Thread s
Ok, I went in to startup services and turned some more stuff off, whatda' think: Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 *:32768 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0

Re: [newbie] disk partitions

2001-02-03 Thread Quaylar
At 08:42 03.02.2001 +, you wrote: did you change the partition in /etc/fstab? yes i did...the new user partition is correctly mounted..but its too small...anyway... - Original Message - From: Quaylar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: [newbie] Mozilla question

2001-02-03 Thread Altoine Barker
type netstat -a or netstat -a -n this should list all connections. Established and listening. You are right, I don't see any difference at all. But I bet if you go to securityportal.com or securityfocus.com and do a scan of your computer, you will find that what you see in your netstat

Re: [newbie] Can anyone tell me the byte size on a DL ISO burned toCD?

2001-02-03 Thread Altoine Barker
It took me a hour and a half to do it by DSL. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BIG. usually between 600 and 650 meg. It took me weeks to get it over my modem. - Original Message - From: Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 5:57 AM

[newbie] problems printing through samba with cups and HP722c

2001-02-03 Thread Fireman71
Trying to set up a box running LM7.2 as a print server for a couple of win98 machines. Currently i have samba set up correctly as far as i can tell. All the machines can see each other and talk to each other fine. On the windows machines i can open up network neighborhood and see the linux box.

Re: [newbie] mandrake with GF2mx

2001-02-03 Thread Ribbo
Todd, Thanks for your suggestion and yes i think im going to GF2 GTS Tanggal 02 Feb 2001, Todd Flinders nulis, Likely, your GeForce2 MX will work fine for 2D. However, setting up GLX (the 3D driver) for my GeForce2 has been extremely troublesome for me. The instructions are easy enough

Re: [newbie] The Lists

2001-02-03 Thread poogle
I don't know - I'm hoping someone else does Poogle On Saturday 03 February 2001 01:31, you wrote: Aren't the forums and the newbie/expert lists separate things? For one thing, you have to go to the forum, whereas the lists show up in your mail box. (Some 300 last weekend). -- cmg [EMAIL

[newbie] Enabling Aurora

2001-02-03 Thread Romanator
Hi all, Just trying to get Aurora to start up during boot up and shut down but it's not happening. I'm running mdk7.2 development. Thanks, Roman

[newbie] The new Hearts game

2001-02-03 Thread Marcia
Dear Anyone, Have any of you downloaded and installed the new hearts-1.2pre1.tar.gz? This is for KDE2. I have LM 7.2 with KDE2 and I would like to install this however I am a tar newbie. I have read and studied everything about tar and I still do not get it. What would be the exact steps to

[newbie] backing up under mount point / how?

2001-02-03 Thread Tyrone
Hi, I have 4 mount points /dev/hda5 / /dev/hda7 /usr /dev/hda8 /var /dev/had9 /home I wish to backup everything on /dev/hda5 so I can reformat it, then copy it back. However since this happens to be the / partition I know there are a lot of special entries and files there like /dev /mnt

Re: [newbie] Can anyone tell me the byte size on a DL ISO burned toCD?

2001-02-03 Thread Dennis Myers
Can you go back to the d/l site and get the gpg keys? If so they are also a file on the first install disk. If the keys match I think you should have all the files. Somebody jump in here and correct me if I'm wrong. On Sat, 03 Feb 2001, you wrote: Thanks so much for the replies, but I

[newbie] Swap file on two hard drives?

2001-02-03 Thread Dennis Myers
Hi all, after two days of shear frustration I am back on line. So after a major problem with the WD hard drive, not wanting to take an upgrade and files corrupted etcetc I discovered that the silly thing will take a complete format and reinstall of 7.2 In the process it saw an old

[newbie] double messages

2001-02-03 Thread DragonLord
have just signed up to the newbie mailing lists when the mails come down, I'm getting 2 of each and ideas DragonLord

RE: [newbie] Swap file on two hard drives?

2001-02-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dennis Myers Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Swap file on two hard drives? Hi all, after two days of shear frustration I am back on line. So

Re: [newbie] The new Hearts game

2001-02-03 Thread Michael O'Henly
What you're looking at are the programs' "sources". This means that you'll have to compile it on your system. Usually this isn't a big deal, even if you don't understand what's actually happening while you do it. I'm not familiar with the package you mentioned, but here are the general steps:

RE: [newbie] Dell laptop

2001-02-03 Thread Elanchezhian Kuppannan
Dell is posting some XF86Config files on their support website. I downloaded one for my inspiron 8000 and made a change and it works fine. (ok for now) Also, browse thru the linux-dell-laptops yahoogroups (egroups). Have fun! Regards, Elan Original Message Follows From: "Myers,

[newbie] OK. Let's try this....

2001-02-03 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, Guess no one could make out what I was on about with the tape drive, so lemme try another angle: What is the lm7.2 way to install new hardware -- particularly hardware with it's own scsi card? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor,

[newbie] Installation of .bin files

2001-02-03 Thread BamBam
I'm new to Linux and I've figured out how to install software using kpackage and gzip, but I can't figure out how to install software that comes in the form of a .bin file. Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3

2001-02-03 Thread Mark Weaver
why? is 7.2 broken? it's been my experience that upgrade-itis is hazerdous to your computer's health. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Romanator wrote: Date: Fri, 02 Feb

Re: [newbie] missing swap file

2001-02-03 Thread Mark Weaver
yes...including an operating system that works! -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Goldenpi wrote: Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 08:40:14 - From: Goldenpi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] dns quit working

2001-02-03 Thread Todd Wells
For reasons I don't understand, DNS abruptly quit working on my Mandrake 7.2 box. It was working earlier today, then I was trying to configure Samba and it seemed to quit sometime around then. I don't believe I did anything related to DNS, but it quit working. I can ping by IP address all day,

[newbie] More on DB2 and slocate (cron daily problem)

2001-02-03 Thread Jacqueline Michell
Thanks to Meph and others who replied to my original question. I've looked a little further and can give some more details, so I am going to send this again. Does anyone know what DB2 refers to? All I want to do is _get rid_ of the following daily message: From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3

2001-02-03 Thread -michael-
On Saturday 03 February 2001 12:29 pm, regarding Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3, you said: why? is 7.2 broken? it's been my experience that upgrade-itis is hazerdous to your computer's health. 7.2 isn't exactly *broken* on my box, but I am having relatively frequent experiences of video problems

Re: [newbie] Installation of .bin files

2001-02-03 Thread Vic
Those can be run approximately two ways. In either a text or virtual terminal you can type ./executablefile.bin where executablefile.bin means the file name of the binary executable. Hope this helps. Vic On Saturday 03 February 2001 03:06 pm, so spoke BamBam: I'm new to Linux and I've

Re: [newbie] Acroread 4 is juts plain ugly

2001-02-03 Thread John David Molina
El Domingo 28 Enero 2001 22:57, escribiste: I mean I do not know why Xpdf cannot read a number of pdf files. Does anyone know what could be the reason? Zaldi Yep!, that's a problem. I have many pdf files that neither the Xpdf nor the KGosthview can open, and I just need those files. Other

Re: [newbie] 45G HS only formats to 7.7 G?

2001-02-03 Thread John David Molina
El Sbado 27 Enero 2001 12:27, Goldenpi escribi: My 20gig is only showing up as 8gig. I know that is the bios. Its some weird costom-made chip by hewlett-packard and my motherboard wont take an upgrade. So I need a new motherboard. Until then, linux is dead. The drive is currently storeing

RE: Re: [newbie] Is there anyone run linux on Intel 810?

2001-02-03 Thread =?x-unknown?q?Pe=F1a_Arellano_Fabian_Erasmo?=
Hi, Here you have the information. Greetings. Fabian. 1)less /proc/pci 2)less /etc/modules.conf 3)lsmod 4)ls -al /dev/dsp 5)ls -al /dev/audio 6)ls -al /dev/mixer --- /proc/pci

Re: [newbie] Installation of .bin files

2001-02-03 Thread BamBam
I get a permission denied error when I follow the instructions below. I'm logged in as root if that helps. On Saturday 03 February 2001 14:14, you wrote: Those can be run approximately two ways. In either a text or virtual terminal you can type ../executablefile.bin where

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3/8.0 - getting ready

2001-02-03 Thread Richard T. Waters
Whenever a new release comes out I have always been in the habit of doing a full install, rather than an upgrade. Of course this entails some backing up and restoring of information. I have seen some discussions regarding how many partitions is best for an install, and I notice there are (as

Re: [newbie] Installation of .bin files

2001-02-03 Thread Altoine Barker
There should be one "." (dot) and one "/" (slash) infront of the executable (binary. we call them binaries in *nix environments). The other way that you can try is: sh binary.bin If you still get a permission error that is because you have a program on your computer that will not allow you to

Re: [newbie] More on DB2 and slocate (cron daily problem)

2001-02-03 Thread Altoine Barker
-- At this point, I just want to get rid of the DB2 message! Thanks a lot to anyone who can point to a solution. Jacqueline Michell Jacqueline, Let us start with your slocate problem first. Did you upgrade it to a version beyond 2.2-6mdk? I did and had the same problems.

[newbie] Re: More on DB2 and slocate (cron daily problem)

2001-02-03 Thread Meph Istopheles
not have anything really useful to add, but my confusing statements may clarify something for someone (maybe even me). Let's start here: We're looking at an anacron job. Looking at /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily tells us only: 20010203 that isn't the least bit helpful. Then /etc/cron.daily

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3/8.0 - getting ready

2001-02-03 Thread Digital Wokan
I'm with you on that, Richard. But then, I don't have a "production" system. My current setup is to have a /, a /backup, and a swap partition. Everything that's truly important gets copied to /backup regularly so I don't have to reset everything if I do a reinstall at the next Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved

2001-02-03 Thread -michael-
On Friday 02 February 2001 05:26 pm, regarding Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved, you said: Hey, I've never seen 'em change by anything or anybody but the USER ; BTW what happened to my fonts? when i opened this post i am all of a sudden getting those giant dotted letters?

Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved

2001-02-03 Thread Meph Istopheles
I'm into KDE 2.1 now, but I really appreciate your input as I have been wanting to play with Pine for some time now. I just found the user friendliness of Kmail setup appealing. Pine seemed to be a bit more esoteric. Do you know of a good howto on it? Hmm. Not really. But there's

Re: [newbie] Enabling Aurora

2001-02-03 Thread Anthony
http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20001108042008 might help you. Hi all, Just trying to get Aurora to start up during boot up and shut down but it's not happening. I'm running mdk7.2 development. -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key

[newbie] KDE 2.1beta2 Install

2001-02-03 Thread Dennis Myers
I am trying to update my desktop to the 2.1beta and using Chris M.s instructions, I get a conflict of kdelibs for the new 2.1 with the old KDE1.99. how do you put the --nodeps flag in the command line? Does it go in after the rpm, or after the -Uvh, or after the folder names, like "art*

Re: [newbie] More on DB2 and slocate (cron daily problem)

2001-02-03 Thread Altoine Barker
When I refer to database managers, I am referring to mysql, postresql, ODBC, and the like. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- At this point, I just want to get rid of the DB2 message! Thanks a lot to anyone who can point to a solution. Jacqueline Michell Jacqueline,

RE: RE: Re: [newbie] Is there anyone run linux on Intel 810?

2001-02-03 Thread lqlee
thanx a lot. 1) I got my 810 sound work indeed it works but I cannot listen since mixer is set mute. 2) you have not 810 sound card your sound card is Creative Soundblaster thanx again. === ÐÂÀËÃâ·Ñµç×ÓÓÊÏä

RE: [newbie] motherboard compatibility: asus

2001-02-03 Thread Don W. Jenkins
My 2cents-I have been trying to get 7.2 to install on a BCM I810P, but it doesn't seem compatible with Linux. KDE, Gnome, and X have problems with it. Don W. Jenkins www.jinxinker.com www.maxfarce.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Enabling Aurora

2001-02-03 Thread Romanator
Anthony wrote: http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20001108042008 might help you. Hi all, Just trying to get Aurora to start up during boot up and shut down but it's not happening. I'm running mdk7.2 development. -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to

Re: [newbie] Acroread 4 is juts plain ugly

2001-02-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I've noticed that some Linux programmes (both console and X) have problems opening files that have spaces or capital letters in their path (including the filename itself). This includes Xpdf and KGhostView. The simple solution is to rename the file and move it to a directory path where it will

RE: [newbie] motherboard compatibility: asus

2001-02-03 Thread Rick Commo
I did a quick check of Linux Hardware Database http://lhd.zdnet.com/. Went to the Motherboard reference. Only saw two BCMs listed there the QS750 K7 and the QS754 K7. Doesn't mean that Linux can't e made to work on the I810, but it would seem to be a strike against it going into the game.

[newbie] Re: egcs

2001-02-03 Thread Christopher Molnar
Since I was sent the following question by someone with an address of localhost.localdomain I am posting the answer here: On Wednesday 31 January 2001 19:36, you wrote: What did you mean with: 9. get egcs from unsupported mirror directory Why I have to get that? If you do not install

[newbie] KDE 2.1.2 update problems

2001-02-03 Thread Richard Bozzato
I've just updated KDE to 2.0.1 using Drake update, which has resulted in the following problems: * I can start Kmix only from root. Starting from other accounts generates the message "C-Media PCI" (my sound card is a C-Media PCI) is invalid" or words to that effect. As I can

[newbie] HP612A/lp0 not working

2001-02-03 Thread Bill Barto
OK, I've sent in some info b$ on this and nothing works. Let me try it again. After numerous tries at setting up this printer nothing happens. Have tried PrinterDrake and linuxconf from root. The most constant error message I receive is regarding lp0. Trying to run tunelp "tunelp lp0 -s" gives

[newbie] Apache 1.3.14 help

2001-02-03 Thread Kit Goins
I had to completely re-install 7.2 download version...due to buying a new 20 gig HD I installed a complete workstation unit...but now I want to install the apache RPM's I tried installing the 3 files. Apache 1.3.14 Apache-common 1.3.14 Apache-suexec 1.3.14 but for some reason...it says this:

[newbie] Setting up NIC under 7.2

2001-02-03 Thread Rick Commo
Hardware: AT Motherboard / 80MB ./ Cyrix 8x96 chip @ 233Mhz D-Link DFE-530 TX+ Brand new installation went great except for graphics, which tested fine, but on the reboot the screen was black. Booted as single and fixed that. Now, how do I configure the DFE 530 TX+ for eth0?

[newbie] video conferencing software for Linux

2001-02-03 Thread Kris Kanyon
I was wondering if there is any video conferencing software available for Linux?? Something similar to Net meeting, or icuii??? Someone told me about a program called SANE??? Thanks for you help. Alan.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3/8.0 - getting ready

2001-02-03 Thread Christopher Molnar
On Saturday 03 February 2001 17:57, Richard T. Waters wrote: Whenever a new release comes out I have always been in the habit of doing a full install, rather than an upgrade. A person after my own heart! Of course doing a backup first of all your data is a good idea! Of course this entails

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1beta2 Install

2001-02-03 Thread Christopher Molnar
On Sunday 04 February 2001 20:32, Dennis Myers wrote: I am trying to update my desktop to the 2.1beta and using Chris M.s instructions, I get a conflict of kdelibs for the new 2.1 with the old KDE1.99. how do you put the --nodeps flag in the command line? Does it go in after the rpm, or after

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.2 update problems

2001-02-03 Thread Christopher Molnar
On Sunday 04 February 2001 01:03, Richard Bozzato wrote: I've just updated KDE to 2.0.1 using Drake update, which has resulted in the following problems: * I can start Kmix only from root. Starting from other accounts generates the message "C-Media PCI" (my sound card is a C-Media

Re: [newbie] HP612A/lp0 not working

2001-02-03 Thread Christopher Molnar
Can you post the contents of your /etc/modules.conf here? (If you have anything top sevret remove it)/. -Chris On Sunday 04 February 2001 00:52, Bill Barto wrote: OK, I've sent in some info b$ on this and nothing works. Let me try it again. After numerous tries at setting up this printer

Re: [newbie] video conferencing software for Linux

2001-02-03 Thread Christopher Molnar
On Sunday 04 February 2001 02:03, Kris Kanyon wrote: I was wondering if there is any video conferencing software available for Linux?? Something similar to Net meeting, or icuii??? Someone told me about a program called SANE??? Thanks for you help. Alan. I second this, if anyone knows of