[newbie-it] Programmi

Ciao a tutti,quando entro in una directory Linux tipo usr\sbin cisono tanti file eseguibili che si riferiscono a programmi o utility di vario genere.Ora vi chiedo: ma perchè alcuni partono e alcuni no? Per es. l'altro giorno ho provato a far partire SNDCONFIG.Ho provato miglia di

Re: [newbie-it] Programmi

On Sunday 04 February 2001 09:05, you wrote: Ciao a tutti, quando entro in una directory Linux tipo usr\sbin cisono tanti file eseguibili che si riferiscono a programmi o utility di vario genere. tieni presente che /usr/sbin e' una directory particolare, da cui per es. solo root puo' lanciare

[newbie-it] Problemi di recupero della partizione Linux

Ciao a tutti, ho da poco effettuato l'installazione di Linux Mandrake 7.2 sul mio computer (Athlon 700, 128 MB ram, mb KT7 Raid, 15GB HD, Hercules 3D Prophet Geforce II MX), in una partizione F: da 2GB. Ho però riscontrato alcuni problemi: se al boot scelgo Linux come OS , non riesco a far

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi di recupero della partizione Linux

Il 13:28, domenica 04 febbraio 2001, scrivesti: [CUT] Ora, io avevo visto il giorno prima, un mio amico procedere all'installazione della stessa versione, e durante la sua installazione (la stessa che ho scelto io) , venivano richiesti anche alcuni passaggi che io non ho effettuato (tipo il

[newbie-it] partizione windows

Qualcuno saprebbe dirmi come faccio a vedere dalla distro la partizione Windows presente sul mio Hard Disk? Sul desktop della Mandrake non è presente nessuna icona "windows"... Più che altro vorrei vedere la partizione per poter riprodurre gli Mp3 che ho salvati con Napster sotto Windows e

Re: [newbie-it] partizione windows

Yasu wrote: Qualcuno saprebbe dirmi come faccio a vedere dalla distro la partizione Windows presente sul mio Hard Disk? Sul desktop della Mandrake non presente nessuna icona "windows"...Pi che altro vorrei vedere la partizione per poter riprodurre gli Mp3 che ho salvati con Napster sotto

[newbie-it] Pacchetti RPM

Ciao, dopo aver5 scaricato dalla rete un paccehtto RPM come faccio ad installarlo?? Non mi dite con RPMdrake perchè ho già provato e mi installa solamente quelli del Cd. Ciao Beppe

[newbie-it] PHP+ apache

Qualcuno ha installato Apache e php? Lo chiedo perch ho installato tutti i moduli necessari ma le pagine php non mi vengono visualizzate corretamente (ad esempio phpinfo). Ho installato la versione 1.3.14 di apache (quella sul CD di Mandrake 7.2). Grazie, federico

Re: [newbie-it] Pacchetti RPM

On Sunday 04 February 2001 17:04, you wrote: Ciao, dopo aver5 scaricato dalla rete un paccehtto RPM come faccio ad installarlo?? Non mi dite con RPMdrake perch ho gi provato e mi installa solamente quelli del Cd. da console il comando e' rpm -Uvh nomeprogramma.rpm (dato come root) bye

[newbie-it] database per Linux

Qualcuno sa dirmi se possibile troavare da qualche parte un database sul tipo di Access o Lotus Approach che funzioni sotto Linux? Possibilmente non totalmente astruso come Adabas di Staroffice. Grazie

Re: [newbie-it] PHP+ apache

Il 18:34, domenica 04 febbraio 2001, scrivesti: Qualcuno ha installato Apache e php? Lo chiedo perch ho installato tutti i moduli necessari ma le pagine php non mi vengono visualizzate corretamente (ad esempio phpinfo). Ho installato la versione 1.3.14 di apache (quella sul CD di Mandrake

Re: [newbie-it] database per Linux

Dipende dal tuo obiettivo. Access è senza dubbio il più semplice, ma permette un massimo di 30 accessi contemporanei, per il web occorre valutare. Per Linux abbiamo Mysql,InteBase, Postgresql per istruzioni di normale amministrazione vanno benissimo. Personalmente ho provato Access, Oracle, Mysql

[newbie] Corel Office 2000

I tried installing it on Mandrake 7.2... the fonttastic installer didn't work. That is a reported problem... however I have not managed to solve it with the available suggestions (removing the link to init.d in etc and forcing the install of the fonts.) Does anyone have any further

Re: [newbie] How do I uninstall Linux?

kill the partition and you kill the installation. to clean your MBR of the bootloader at an A:\ prompt type "fdisk /mbr". -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Deception wrote:

Re: [newbie] Enabling Aurora

Oknow, where would one find info on how to "use" and operate Aurora? -- 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, Romanator wrote: Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 22:22:43 -0500 From:

[newbie] KDE2.1

Hello all,quick question.After upgrading to to 2.1 my floppy and cdrom icons on the desktop no longer function right.Used to be if I mounted a disk and clicked on the icon it would open with Konqueror.Now I get asked wich application do I want to open it with.I have specified Konqueror and

Re: [newbie] dns quit working

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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.

[newbie] USR 5610 Modem on 7.2

Hi Everyone, I cannot get my Modem (US Robotics 5610) to work under Mandrake 7.2 The box said it was Linux compatible, but the inside paper said it needed kernal 2.4 for support. Everything else on the install works great! 1. When will Mandrake have a new release with 2.4 kernal on it? 2. Or,

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

Can someone please tell me the point of having several partitions on the same drive for one GNU/Linux installation? I can't imagine that it would be much faster, and there is not really much risk of losing data with only one partition, especially with new filesystems like ReiserFS. I simply

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

I can answer that in one word - "Updates". It is far easier and safer to do a clean install than to do an update. Part of the clean full install includes formatting. For myself that would be deadly as my /home partition has a lot of source code, documents, etc. So that is partitioned. Also,

Re: [newbie] USR 5610 Modem on 7.2

On Sun, 04 Feb 2001, you wrote: Hi Everyone, I cannot get my Modem (US Robotics 5610) to work under Mandrake 7.2 The box said it was Linux compatible, but the inside paper said it needed kernal 2.4 for support. Everything else on the install works great! 1. When will Mandrake have a new

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[newbie] Synching Palm device to Kapps

Is there a way to sync a Palm device (in this case a Palm V) to Kaddress, Kmail and Korganizer? Thanks, Aaron -- Aaron Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

Thanks for the help so far, Chris. Does an install really need formatting to be clean? I remember when I switched to MDK7.2 from 7.1 I simply deleted everything on my Linux partition save /home and then ran Drakx. So if partitioning is really better, can someone please suggest what I should

[newbie] Sound Blaster 16 PCI Configuration

I installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on my HP Pavilion 4540 about two weeks ago. I haven't succeeded yet in getting it to use my Sound Blaster 16 PCI sound card. I am currently trying to use pnpdump to get the vendor ID and serial number from the card. Using that information, I hope to manually

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pay me On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 03:33, Brian Overby wrote: -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson

[newbie] HD bad sectors

One of my old hard drives has some bad sectors. (I know from previous Windows work.) If I use this hard drive for /home or swap, will Linux care? Does it just avoid these sectors? Or am I in for corrupted files and lost data? Rootbus

RE: [newbie] LAN settings - (was: Setting up NIC under 7.2)

Jose, Thanks. Yes, I had rebooted. I still have to do some more playing around. My knowledge in this whole area is just generally rather weak. I would have presumed that the LinkSys actually provided the DNS server names once it got them from Verizon, my ISP. Currently I have all my

Re: [newbie] HD bad sectors

Does it just avoid these sectors? Or am I in for corrupted files and lost data? You will be if you use it as is -- assuming ~anything~ even writes to it without complaint. Run fscheck on it. There are lots of differnet options available in the man file. I have a few 580MB drives one

Re: [newbie] Cd recorder works but-----

Vic wrote: I wish to have my cdrom recognised by xcdroast, the stupid app is looking for a scsi drive and not a /dev/hdb drive. What can I do ? In order to use a cdrom burner you have to use scsi emulation for that device. Here's how to do it: Determine what device your burner actually is.

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster 16 PCI Configuration

I have the exact same cardusing 7.2 you first have install the package Timidity and its related package timidity-instruments. then if you still can't hear sound... go to a prompt (as root) and type in: sndconf you don't have to go thru all that other garbage "Coy L. Scott" wrote: I

Re: [newbie] Cd recorder works but-----

I got that part to work, but the cd rom read only drive is not recognised by xcdroast, linux will recognise it, but not the app because the app wants a scsi drive, how would I go about making the first drive as a reader get recognised by xcdroast so I can direct copy a cd in the reader to the

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster 16 PCI Configuration

I had the same problem...with mineuntill I installed timidity DON'T unload module es1371...only allow the system to, when you shutdown. thats the way its supposed to work "Coy L. Scott" wrote: I installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on my HP Pavilion 4540 about two weeks ago. I haven't succeeded

[newbie] need to update

sorry for using this list for this... but I must... If anyone was listed...on my Licq list...please send another message to me...so I can have you back. I recently installed a 20 gig HD...and ended up having to format my previous install...without saving everything first.

[newbie] Apache 1.3.14 help

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] Requesting info about ntp-4.0 audio clock drivers - jrt

Hi: I am attempting to set up a stratum 1 ntp server using the CHU Canada time signal as a reference clock. Is anybody successfully using or tested the ntp audio reference clock drivers either on a i386 or the sparc? Background: The newest version of NTP has some neat drivers that should

Fwd: [newbie] USR 5610 Modem on 7.2

No, I have the exact same modem and mine worked on 2.2.17. Look in KDE System control and see what irq and ioport its on and then setserial it. Then set kppp to the same com port. That's all it is to it. 2.4.0 just does it all automagically. -s -- Forwarded Message --

[newbie] Problems with 7.2 and external modem

After putting 7.2 on a machine i got from work (pentium 120, 32meg ram) i decided to put it on my network and replace an older machine that i was using as file/print server and firewall ip masqer. I attached the external 3com/USR 56k Voice Faxmodem Pro Model #525 that i had been using under 7.1

[newbie] usb dsl alcatel mandrake 7.2

looking for any docs. or advice on installing this installing usb alcatel one touch dsl Thanks, Bill winmail.dat

Re: [newbie] USR 5610 Modem on 7.2

I had a 5610 working under SuSE 6.4. the biggest problem is knowing what I did as I moved it to an NT server and replaced it with an eternal. Basically you can do it using setserial with autoconfig at the end. That is about all I remember other than the fact it worked and did not need 2.4.

Re: [newbie] Enabling Aurora

http://aurora.mini.dhs.org/ probally has what you're lookign for, since it's the official homepage of aurora. Oknow, where would one find info on how to "use" and operate Aurora? -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.

Re: [newbie] Enabling Aurora

Anthony wrote: http://aurora.mini.dhs.org/ probally has what you're lookign for, since it's the official homepage of aurora. Oknow, where would one find info on how to "use" and operate Aurora? -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to

Re: [newbie] playing MPEG - VCD

lionel dausab wrote: I am unable to play MPEG vcd format on the included gtv mpeg player with mandrake 7.2 How can I overcome this problem? Hi Lionel. I use MTV. It works pretty good on my v7.1 setup. You do have to register it though, to get the full version. ($10, I think). Hope this

[newbie] Auto Start Up to User in KDE2.1 Beta 2

Hi everybody, For some bizarre reason, my auto login does not auto start in /usr/home/roman. It is always starting at the KDE prompt - with root and user. I am using KDE2.1 beta 2. I'm sure it's something very simple. Any ideas? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 High Energy Penguin

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.2 update problems

Thanks, results are as follws: rpm -qa|grep kde kdelibs-sound-2.0.1-2mdk kde1-compat-1.1.2-7mdk kdesupport-2.0.1-1mdk kdegames-2.0.1-1mdk kdepim-2.0.1-1mdk kdeadmin-2.0.1-mdk kdetoys-2.0.1-1mdk kde-i18n-British-2.0-1mdk kdegraphics-2.0.1-1mdk kdemultimedia-2.0.1-1mdk kdeaddutils-2.0-3mdk

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

Thanks to Meph, Al, et al for the speedy replies. You all have sent lots of info. Much research will be done here and I'll update the list with my results in a few days. Thanks. Jacqueline. Shop online without a credit card http://www.rocketcash.com RocketCash, a NetZero subsidiary

[newbie] kodak dvc323

does anyone know if I can get drivers for a kodak dvc323 video camera mandrake 7.2 detects the camera but it doesnot support it . your help will be greatly appreciated! Julio

[newbie] Apache Aliases in Mandrake

Hello All I am setting up a server (web mail ftp telnet etc) i host domain names and such for ppl and also my own domain i an unclear at present on how to do one thing. (well alot but for now this is the most important) pretend my domain is mydomain.com i have one single static ip address

[newbie] RPMs

Can anyone tell me how to install rpms that I have downloaded, this is the first time I actually install one so any help will be appreciated Thanx! Julio -- Life gets boring when your computer is working good and there's nothing else to troubleshoot .

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

DB2 is IBMs relational data base manager. - Original Message - From: "Jacqueline Michell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "newbie list" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 4:41 PM Subject: [newbie] More on DB2 and slocate (cron daily problem) Thanks to Meph and

Re: [newbie] RPMs

At 12:32 04.02.2001 -1000, you wrote: Can anyone tell me how to install rpms that I have downloaded, this is the first time I actually install one so any help will be appreciated Thanx! Julio either use "kpackage" (to have a gui) by typing "kpackage" at a console in X, or install them by

Re: [newbie] RPMs

To install and RPM, the easiest way is to open a terminal window and, at the command prompt, type "su" followed by your root password. You need to be the root user in order to install software on your system. Then, in the directory containing the downloaded RPM, type: rpm -ivh

[newbie] install a PCtel winmodem HELP

Hi all! Anybody could help with info to install a PCTEL winmodem? thanx

[newbie] Sounds in Gnome

Hello, everibody. I know this is an old issue, but nobody was able to help me, so forgive if you heard this before :-) As root audio in Gnome is okay, as user Gnome is mute... In KDE I have no problem at all, as user as well... Any hint? Smiley

RE: [newbie] install a PCtel winmodem HELP

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bogdan Gugiu Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 6:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] install a PCtel winmodem HELP Hi all! Anybody could help with info to install a PCTEL winmodem?

[newbie] Can't get a dhcp lease

I'm a Linux newbie. I just installed Mandrake and chose DHCP since I have an internal DHCP server. My windows WS gets a lease fine, however my linux box never gets and address. I can't get out on the net. Can someone steer me in the right direction or provide me with a location to a good

[newbie] Getting Star Office 5.2 to show up under user menu on mdk7.2

Hi everybody, For some reason Star Office 5.2 only shows up on my menu bar while logged in as root. Is there a way for me to have this on my menu bar under user? An help would be appreciated. Roman Registered Linus User #179293

Re: Re[8]: [newbie] The NVIDIA Kernel Compile

No kiddin'? I got the .95 to work with 2.4.0 pretty well using a patch someone made for them Then nvidia released the .96 a few days later. I'm still running the .95 on 2.4.0 I downloaded the 2.4.1, but have been hesitating about installing it due to the reports of it's filing structure.

Re: [newbie] Auto Start Up to User in KDE2.1 Beta 2

Just the opposite with me. Mine was broke due to some mysterious take over by enlightenment. Then with the last ditch effort of a subsequent removal of this windowmanager, mine would no longer autolog in no matter what file I checked and edited. Until I installed kde2.1.b2 and now it

Re: [newbie] Getting Star Office 5.2 to show up under user menu on mdk7.2

I'm guessing that you installed it as root. I'm pretty sure Star Office needs to be installed with the user account. M. On Sunday 04 February 2001 15:51, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, For some reason Star Office 5.2 only shows up on my menu bar while logged in as root. Is there a way

Re: [newbie] Cd recorder works but-----

On Sunday 04 February 2001 12:56, you wrote: I got that part to work, but the cd rom read only drive is not recognised by xcdroast, linux will recognise it, but not the app because the app wants a scsi drive, how would I go about making the first drive as a reader get recognised by xcdroast

Re: [newbie] Cd recorder works but-----

On Sunday 04 February 2001 16:04, A V Flinsch wrote: Note to Mandrake folks -- This seems to be a common problem. Why not change the install and setup programs to automatically setup all ide cd drives as scsi emulation? Mine was set up automatically when I installed 7.2. (Took me months to

Re: [newbie] Auto Start Up to User in KDE2.1 Beta 2

s wrote: Just the opposite with me. Mine was broke due to some mysterious take over by enlightenment. Then with the last ditch effort of a subsequent removal of this windowmanager, mine would no longer autolog in no matter what file I checked and edited. Until I installed kde2.1.b2 and

Re: [newbie] kodak dvc323

On Sun, 04 Feb 2001, you wrote: does anyone know if I can get drivers for a kodak dvc323 video camera mandrake 7.2 detects the camera but it doesnot support it . your help will be greatly appreciated! Julio Try going to the Kodak web site and sending an e-mail to them if they don't show

RE: [newbie] LAN settings - (was: Setting up NIC under 7.2)

Given that you have 4 machines set up to get their IP allocations via DHCP, you must have initially contact the ISP and asked for 4 or 5 ip's. SOME ISP's allocate IP's based upon the machines NAME... Let's say you have a LAN with 9 computers, but the ISP is only giving you 5 IP's... In this

Re: [newbie] Getting Star Office 5.2 to show up under user menu on mdk7.2

You have to run Star Office setup as a user. BTW does Linus know you use him? Check your sig. On Sun, 04 Feb 2001, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, For some reason Star Office 5.2 only shows up on my menu bar while logged in as root. Is there a way for me to have this on my menu bar under

Re: [newbie] Getting Star Office 5.2 to show up under user menu on mdk7.2

or with the /NET option. On Sunday 04 February 2001 18:57, you wrote: I'm guessing that you installed it as root. I'm pretty sure Star Office needs to be installed with the user account. M. On Sunday 04 February 2001 15:51, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, For some reason Star Office

Re: Re[8]: [newbie] The NVIDIA Kernel Compile

Well, 2.4.1 running with the nvidia .96 drivers. All is well, AFAIK. Time will tell about the files structures. Still no automount. I guess I'll mess with the patch in the future (maybe later). My son wants me to cut his hair now (as I am a person of many talents :) ). Can't really tell

[newbie] OS boot order

i recently installed mandrake 7.2 with the lnx4win feature, and i love it! the only problem (or invonvenience) that i have faced is the OS boot list that comes up allowing you to chose what OS to go into (linux, windows, and the other options). linus is on the top, though...and while i think

Re: [newbie] TV Tuner cards -- recommendations?

WinTV with Stereo SAP audio also comes with FM tuner. Hauppauge is the brand name. http://www.pcupgrader.com/tvtuners.htm will take you to the pictures. Http://www.hauppauge.com is their website. I didn't have to do anything to set it up. LM7.2 had it done for me. Seve Original Message

Re: [newbie] Stuck! Can't update anything with Mandrake Update.

Try typing this into a terminal: rpm --rebuilddb On Monday 29 January 2001 10:19 pm, you wrote: How do you rebuild the rpm database for mandrake update? - Original Message - From: "Me" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 7:53 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] OS boot order

yo you got lnx4win working i still can't get it working ive been trying to find a solution for a week no answers. Maybe you would know since you actually have it. Can you tell me what exactly you did when you installed lnx4win because i just cant get to my gui for some reason . - Original

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[newbie] What is the commandline X config program?

Hello all, Can someone please tell me what the X config program is from the commandline.  I used to use YAST from SuSE, and now I cannot remember what other programs there are to configure it. Thanks =) SkYE ざんこく な 天使 の ように。 “Zankoku na tenshi no