[newbie] Text out of the screen (console mode)

Hi all, I've just installed 7.2 and almost all goes well but when I switch to console text mode some characters at left side are not visible because they are out of the screen (about two characters are outside the monitor). X works just fine on my Millenium G400. Thanks in advance and sorry for my

Re: [newbie] remove me

The idiot bit it totally uncalled for. There is no need for this behaviour on these pages!!! - Original Message - From: "mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 7:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] remove me | On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, Traumax wrote: | > S

Re: [newbie] mount point

Tanggal 06 Feb 2001, mike smalheiser mengatakan, > hey there, > i was wondering what the difference is between mounting my cd-rom > drive, and creating a mount point for it. and i was wondering if you could > tell me how to create a moint point for it. thanks alot just create a new empty di

Re: [newbie] WindowMaker beeps every hour!!!

Hi John, doesnt sound like a problem, perhaps that sound coming from your dock application. if you run X from tty1, from windowmaker hit ctrl+alt+F1 and look at the screen. is there any error described. or maybe it comes from one of the dock you use. try to load wmaker without the docks with "wm

Re: [newbie] Remove!!

Jason Ashman wrote: > > On Monday 05 February 2001 11:49, you wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Please remove me > > > > Henk Buwalda > I find it utterly amazing that this kind of thing still happens! i belong to a macintosh discussion group as well, and i have to say that this had happened only twice

RE: [newbie]

In essence all a mount point is is a directory in you file system ie. /mnt/cdrom or /mnt/floppy. they are only empty directories until you mount a device to them. What mounting does is attach the device, in this case you CD-Rom, to that directory in your file system so that you can access it. I'l

[newbie] DrakFont

Hallo all   I,m having trouble adding windows fonts from the Mandrake 7.2 tools with : Drakconf - DrakFont. When I reboot the machine and starting X server, there are error messages like this :   _FontTransSocket UNIXconnect : Can't connect errno = 111 failed to set default font path 'unix/:

Re: [newbie] Swap file crash and burn

Does it boot off the floppy? >> Original Message << On 2/5/01, 8:00:42 PM, "The Conways" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding [newbie] Swap file crash and burn: > My Linux partition wasn't recognizing or using my swap partition. So I used > Diskdrake so that t

[newbie] mount point

hey there, i was wondering what the difference is between mounting my cd-rom drive, and creating a mount point for it. and i was wondering if you could tell me how to create a moint point for it. thanks alot mike _ Get

Re: [newbie] video conferencing software for Linux

Add me to the list of people who would like a video conferencing client for Linux. There is an open Hxxx something project for open source ip telephony, would this project have anything to do with video as opposed to voice conferencing? Traci -michael- wrote: > > On Saturday 03 February 2001 10

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hey there, i was wondering what the difference is between mounting my cd-rom drive, and creating a mount point for it. and i was wondering if you could tell me how to create a moint point for it. thanks alot mike _ G

Re: [newbie] DirectPC on Linux?

Jon Doe wrote: > > Does anyone know or know where I can find out if anyone has been able to use > the DirectPC internet service, uplink and downlink with linux? > My cable company still doesn't have internet access yet. > > -- > Registered Linux User #181996 There is a company, Helios, which pr

[newbie] WindowMaker beeps every hour!!!

I'm running LM 7.2 and have been using WindowMaker lately, and it beeps exactly every hour. I can't figure out what it is. Has anyone had this problem?? Thanks, John

Re: [newbie] Monitor goes dead.

Thanks for the reply. I found a combination that works; 8514 compatible, 1028 X 768 @ 87 Hz, interlaced (no 800 X 600). Phew! (G) I found the manual on the monitor, in the back the was a chart showing "factory preset display modes." This was one of them that appeared on the list in Mandrake

[newbie] Linux and DSL

I've just signed up for verizon DSL. I'll be on in about 3 or 4 weeks. Anything You guys can tell me about getting it to work with mandrake 7.2? Thanks

[newbie] Swap file crash and burn

My Linux partition wasn't recognizing or using my swap partition. So I used Diskdrake so that the partition was recognized as the swap partition. I think maybe at this point I should have rebooted but instead I used Linxconf to set the swap partition. At this point I did reboot, but now I can't

[newbie] RE: HP612C won't setup/ ATTN: Christopher Molnar

Here is my /etc/modules.conf. NOTE: the is also an /etc/modules.conf~ in that directory. Sorry, can't seem to copy & paste in Netscape. I have attached the files. Thanks !! Bill pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias sound-slot-0 es1371

RE: [newbie] USR 5610 Modem on 7.2

Oops! My apologies. It appears that the file has been moved around on the server. It's new location I'm not certain of, although some digging through the main site could probably turn it up. To save us all some time and effort the contents of the file are following Bill's message. --Ori

Re: [newbie] remove me

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RE: [newbie] USR 5610 Modem on 7.2

tryed first link it went no where.. Thanks, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] USR 5610 Modem on 7.2 Keith, I have the same modem, and had the s

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

Since my last question was not as dumb as I thought, let me see if I can get lucky twice. If I understand what you are suggesting, since I have 128 meg of memory, I would make the swap 256meg. It seems to me that in the past I have read that once the swap gets above 128, Linux doesn't do much wi

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[newbie] lpr: : temp file write error

Hello, I cannot print on a printer attatched to a computer which uses Linux mandrake 7.0. I get the following error: lpr: : temp file write error I cannot print even as root. The problem araised while using kghostview Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Fabi

Re: [newbie] Upgrade to 7.2 on a Dual Boot Laptop

make sure you have boot disk for your current linux system, this way if anything goes wrong you can use a boot floppy and run fdisk /mbr and still get to windows (maybe you knew that :-) ), then boot from the 7.2 cdrom or if your notebook doesn't do that then make a linux boot floppy from the

RE: [newbie] USR 5610 Modem on 7.2

Keith, I have the same modem, and had the same problems. Thanks to a member of this list(I won't mention Jon's name ::coughs::) I was able to get the correct information and get it working with Mandrake 7.0 under the 2.2.14 kernel. (Oddly enough, my papers required 2.3.* or higher. I tried down

Re: [newbie] DirectPC on Linux?

I don't think it will run on a Linux box. I have DirecPC with 9 machines sharing the connection. But DirecPC uses their own software to run it, and unfortunately that requires windows. I can say that DirecPC is an outstanding product for those without any other options. For $39.00 a month we ge

Re: [newbie] DirectPC on Linux?

I don't think it will run on a Linux box. I have DirecPC with 9 machines sharing the connection. But DirecPC uses their own software to run it, and unfortunately that requires windows. I can say that DirecPC is an outstanding product for those without any other options. For $39.00 a month we ge

Re: [newbie] X question

Sarah Barwig wrote: > > Hello, > > In short, how do I get KDE or GNOME to run. All I can get is twm. > > In long: > > I've just installed Mandrake7.2 on two boxes. (My first ever attempt at > linux installation, so I'm feeling pretty good at this point.) > > The first installation on a Dell I

[newbie] DirectPC on Linux?

Does anyone know or know where I can find out if anyone has been able to use the DirectPC internet service, uplink and downlink with linux? My cable company still doesn't have internet access yet. -- Registered Linux User #181996

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster 16 PCI Configuration

First of all, what version of Mandrake are you running... and YES...this is the package I refer to...below... but you also need the package called: timidity-instruments these packages should be on your CD...somewhere... "Coy L. Scott" wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: KompuKit <[E

[newbie] X question

Hello, In short, how do I get KDE or GNOME to run. All I can get is twm. In long: I've just installed Mandrake7.2 on two boxes. (My first ever attempt at linux installation, so I'm feeling pretty good at this point.) The first installation on a Dell Inspiron 7500 went swimmingly. Everything

[newbie] Upgrade to 7.2 on a Dual Boot Laptop

Can someone please advise as to the procedure to upgrade the Mandrake installation on a dual boot laptop. I understand that Linux cannot be upgraded from within the program. I'd like to retain the dual boot and not impact Win 98.   Thanks

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster 16 PCI Configuration

- Original Message - From: KompuKit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, February 4, 2001 11:51 am Subject: 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.

[newbie] [Fwd: Any one knows a driver for the OKIPAGE 4w led personal printer]

Jose Egipto Dias wrote: > > Hi! > > I have a Okipage 4w led printer and i'm having dificulties finding a > driver for the printer, can any ones knows were i can find the drivers? > > THX -- Linux, the choice | Twenty two thousand days. Twenty two of a GNU generation -o) | thousand

Re: [newbie] GRUB customization

Erik Salisbury wrote: > > i asked this earlier, but i'm not sure i was clear. is there a way that i can > make it so windows is the first item listed in GRUB and thus the default OS to > load...i use windows more often and would like not to have to wait by my computer > everytime to turn it on, s

Re: [newbie] Not a question

If it'll read, it'll burn. How about describing your Burner and the problem so we can help you? Is it SCSI or IDE? Can you mount the drive? Have you gone through the tutorial? http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/ --- graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > my CDRW is holdin

[newbie] No audio cd to blank cd copying apps

Neither xcdroast, eroaster, nor gtoaster will do it, on the fly direct audio cd to blank cd copying. Is there a way I can make an iso image using good old commandline stuff? That is, if it is possible to make an iso of an audio cd and then burn that to a blank cd.

Re: [newbie] remove me

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Re: [newbie] remove me

On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, Bill Roddie wrote: > I am always amazed at the people who have the wherewithal to get signed up to the list, but completely oblivious to get off it. I'll get you off it for $20 (inflation)

Re: [newbie] cant open linuxconf (gui)

I can open the termincal based linuxconf but the GUI one within KDE (click on drakconf then linuxconf)   what i am trying to do is set up a webserver that is up and in the httpd.conf i have added the virtual host now what i need to do is set up so when i add a user a directory is made automat

RE: [newbie] Network neighborhood

no flames from me, good friend. You're not emailing the group, but me as an individual. I will send the conversation out to the group though, along with my comments: SWAT requires you to: configure /etc/hosts configure /etc/lmhosts enable SWAT in /etc/services and in /etc/inetd.conf configu

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Re: [newbie] Not a question

graham wrote: Thanks for your help, I'll give it a try - what are the commants for creating and deleting devices in /mnt?  (you said to delete /mnt/cdrom2 and create /mnt/cdrom1 Graham /mnt/cdrom2 and /mnt/cdrom1 are directories.   What he wanted you to do was to make certain that the mount-point

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

Michael Scottaline wrote: > > Roman scribed: > > > > No I have never used a network installation. Can you explain? > > > > -- > > Roman > > Registered Linux User #179293 > > High Energy Penguin Powered Email > == > Root typically installs SO (about 120+mb). Then each user ins

Re: [newbie] Not a question

> put a premade cd into the drive .go into the GUI which results > from clicking on the 2 file folder-icon in the bottom of your screen. go up > one level. click on the cdrom labelled icon which doesn't have a lock on > it...what happens If I do this I can only see 1 CD rom icon and it doesn't h

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

Many many 1 thanks!! It is working I think. On Monday 05 February 2001 05:00 am, so spoke A V Flinsch: > On Sunday 04 February 2001 21:06, you wrote: > > Did you rerun lilo & reboot? > can you append the ouptut of > ls -la /dev | grep cdr > > and > > cdrecord --scanbus >

[newbie] StarOffice 5.2 - KDE integration kinda flakey

Hello, I recently installed StarOffice 5.2 (SO) on my Linux-Mandrake 7.2 system, and I must say it is really cool. The only problem I have with it are some inconsistencies and cosmetic problems with its integration into KDE. The folder entry for SO in the K menu does not have an icon to the le

Re: [newbie] Not a question

On Monday 05 February 2001 09:38 am, regarding Re: [newbie] Not a question, you said: > Rob wrote: > >The only thing I am having > > problems with is my CDRW - I have followed the tutorial but it still > > will not work. I thinkj it may be something to do with permissions and > > the fact t

Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86

As for your kernel, let us see if we can't pass any command line boot commands. When it shows your linux booting up, hit the "F1" key. type in vga, or vgalo and hit me back I got this tip from another subject on this list. Cheers, -- Al > > xf86config, xf86cfg, and XFree86 -configure > -- >

Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86

Better yet, don't use xf86config as I have problems with it also. Use xf86cfg and XFree86 -configure, instead. I did a locate and I found xf86cfg to be located in /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86cfg Cheers, -- Al -- .--. ` |__| .---. |=.| |.-.| |--| ||ABORT|| | | |'-'| |__|~')_

Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86

Better yet, don't use xf86config as I have problems with it also. Use xf86cfg and XFree86 -configure, instead. I did a locate and I found xf86cfg to be located in /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86cfg Cheers, -- Al -- .--. ` |__| .---. |=.| |.-.| |--| ||ABORT|| | | |'-'| |__|~')_

Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86

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Re: [newbie] Not a question

Rob wrote: >The only thing I am having > problems with is my CDRW - I have followed the tutorial but it still will > not work. I thinkj it may be something to do with permissions and the fact > that the CDRW is showing twice both as an IDE drive(which it really is )and > configured under LM as a

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

Why they dont put CDROMs aswell as CDWriters as scsi-emulation by default, is anyones guess, anyone know a reason not too? I have had no problems having CDROM as ide-scsi

[newbie] Not a question

Hi there all this is my first post. I have been following the group for some time and have learnt a lot. I am using LM 7.2 and it is excellent`. I finally took the plunge and bought myself an external modem. So now I can surf the net on LM-and it configured my printer and other stuff. The onl

[newbie] ftp installation

Is there any documentation on setting up a ftp-based installation? I have an extra PC with no CD-ROM, but a 3Com NIC installed. I have installed Mandrake 7.0 on another machine and have wu-ftp working with anonymous logins. I tried mounting the 7.0 CD to /home/ftp/pub/7.0, but received

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

Woodrow Hill wrote: > > Looking to put a TV Tuner card in my box. Any personal > recommendations for a card? I'll need to it work with Linux and WinNT > (until I can get the latter off my system completely...) > Thanks for the advice! > > Woodrow H

RE: [newbie] remove me

I got a check from a desperate soul once...I still didn't tell them. -Original Message- From: Philomena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:09 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] remove me I think I'll have to make my fortune elsewhere - somehow, n

RE: [newbie] remove me

I think I'll have to make my fortune elsewhere - somehow, no one seems to send the money ! :-) cheers, philomena At 02:48 PM 2/5/2001 +, Bill Roddie wrote: >-Original Message- >From: philomena [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:19 PM >To: [EMAIL PR

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-Original Message- From: philomena [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] remove me If there are alot of people asking the same thing then presumable they do that for a reason. Maybe they are just thic

RE: [newbie] OS boot order

when machine boots and yu c start-up for linux hit f1 the type lnx4win, that's it... Thanks, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jas Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 2:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OS boot order yo

Re: [newbie] Remove!!!!!!!!

Henk Buwalda scribed: > > Hi, > > Please remove me > > Henk Buwalda Henk, No one on this list can remove you, but you. Go to the Mandrake site and read the directions if you haven't saved your initial welcoming message Mike -- "Many loads of beer were brought. What di

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

Roman scribed: > > No I have never used a network installation. Can you explain? > > -- > Roman > Registered Linux User #179293 > High Energy Penguin Powered Email == Root typically installs SO (about 120+mb). Then each user installs their own *account* in their ~ directo

Re: [newbie] Monitor goes dead.

I had a similar problem with an S3 TRIO and the only way I could get the card to work was during the installation processes. Boot from the CD and hit F1 when the CD first boots (you should see and option for it). Then type 'vgalo' in the command line. Once I did this, my video came up and worked p

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RE: [newbie] Dell laptop

try the dell laptops group at egroups. they got my 5000e running (I'm typing on it now!) everything works, sound video, even the lucent win modem! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Dell_Inspiron_5000e seth -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff

RE: [newbie] remove me

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Re: [newbie] remove me

These requests are facsinating - I'm assuming you don't read ALL the other posts from people asking the same thing, and then, the highly sarcastic/humorous and occasionnally serious responses from others on the list ?? Common sense - try looking where you signed up - there are instructions on ho

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

Michael Scottaline wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 user? > > > > An help would be appreciated. > > > > Roman > >

[newbie] slocate and logrotate

Hi , I am running Mandrake 7.1 and I have the following problem. The process logrotate,  executed each day by cron daemon, runs for hours (about 8 hours), when it stops, slocate process starts and it takes all the morning to do its job therefore I almost  dedicate my CPU to perform these two proc

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

Mike White wrote: > > 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

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

s wrote: > > On Monday 05 February 2001 12:23 am, you wrote: > > 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

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

On Sunday 04 February 2001 21:06, you wrote: Did you rerun lilo & reboot? can you append the ouptut of ls -la /dev | grep cdr and cdrecord --scanbus > Ok did that, no response, its either dumb or broken. > > On Sunday 04 February 2001 06:04 pm, so spoke A V Flinsch: > > On Sunday 04 Febru

Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86

On Saturday 03 February 2001 09:13 am, you wrote: yeah I know. it's a pain. Now I'm using i810. Guess I'll have to switch between graphic card when I get into windows. > Hi, i was reading about your problem.. i have the same > one, but i have a ATI 3D RAGE (also supported) but the > stup

Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86

On Friday 02 February 2001 12:50 pm, you wrote: version 4.0.2 > What X version are you working with here? > > Cheers, > -- AL > __ > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at > http://webmail.netscape.com/

Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86

On Friday 02 February 2001 12:53 pm, you wrote: I'm using kernel 2.4 > Also, what kernel version are you using? You may have to recompile to > provide support for you card. > > Cheers, > -- Al > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thursday 01 February 2001 11:34 am, you wrote: > > > > well, so mu

RE: [newbie] Problems with 7.2 and external modem

some more info this problem: Feb 4 03:52:47 hp1 ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/modem at 115200 Feb 4 03:52:47 hp1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-108 Feb 4 03:52:47 hp1 kernel: registered device ppp0 Feb 4 03:52:47 hp1 pppd[2157]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0

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Re: [newbie] Trouble with update

Hi All, It seemd that a new CUPS update with libcups1 will be available shortly. Now I come to the problem about PHP update. I have configured my PHP4.0.3pl1-1mdk with postgres database module. Security updates to PHP4.0.4pl1-1.2mdk is currently available, but when I do the update using "Mand

Re: [newbie] What is the commandline X config program?

At 16:10 05.02.2001 +0800, you wrote: >Hello all, there are: XF86config XF86Setup setuptool > > >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. > > >