[newbie-it] Problema con USB e Sony DSC50

2001-02-06 Thread Paolo Borzini
Ciao a tutti, ho il seguente problema : Ho installato 10gg fa la distro Mandrake 7.2 su di un PIII 700Mhz con 128Mb di ram e du porte USB. Ho provato a collegare la mia CyberShot DSC50 tramite porta USB per poter scaricare le fotografie. Con l'utility USBView (aggiornata alla versione 1.01) vedo

Re: R: [newbie-it] partizione windows

2001-02-06 Thread Andrea Celli
Daniele Micci wrote: Il 19:36, luned 05 febbraio 2001, scrivesti: Purtroppo non ho l'icona che dici sul desktop. Non c' un modo per crearla? Ciao e grazie Beh, in generale se vuoi creare un collegamento ad una data cartella sul desktop (KDE) fai cos: vai alla cartella che desideri

Re: [newbie-it] Scanner Acer 620st

2001-02-06 Thread Andrea Celli
Paolo Manfrin wrote: Ho da poco installato linux mandrake 7.2 e ho la necessit di far riconoscere uno scanner ACER modello 620ST ma non so neanche da dove cominciare, qualcuno sa come risolvere il problema? - Che programma di gestione mi consigliate di utilizzare? Gli scanner che

[newbie-it] Emulatore DOS di Mandrake 7.2

2001-02-06 Thread Ruben Patanè
Qualcuno di Voi sa come si configura e si utilizza l'emulatore DOS fornito con il 2° CD di Mandrake 7.2? Grazie!

[newbie-it] RAM

2001-02-06 Thread Loris
Dopo aver installato MDK 7.2 ,ho variato la mia ram da 64 a 128 mb.Il sistema la riconosce da solo o si devono cambiare dei settaggi da qualche parte? Ciao e grazie.

Re: [newbie-it] RAM

2001-02-06 Thread Corrado
Loris wrote: Dopo aver installato MDK 7.2 ,ho variato la mia ram da 64 a 128 mb.Il sistema la riconosce da solo o si devono cambiare dei settaggi da qualche parte? Ciao e grazie. Io non ho avuto problemi, l'ha riconosciuta da solo. Se noti che il sistema nettamente pi veloce, allora li ha

Re: [newbie-it] RAM

2001-02-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01.09 07/02/2001 +0100, you wrote: A quanto detto prima, devo appunto aggiungere che io uso proprio Grub Corrado Non difficile. cerca la directory di Grub apri con un editor il file menu.lst ed aggiungi mem=128M ,cmq con Mandrake 7.2, puoi usare anche DrakConf per settare la memoria

[newbie] Remove

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[newbie] Windows Font in Mandrake

2001-02-06 Thread Royke
Hallo all I have to post this again because I have sent it using HTML format (sorry)... 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

RE: [newbie] remove me

2001-02-06 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
No -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Overby Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] remove me

RE: [newbie] Remove!!!!!!!!

2001-02-06 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Error: 3202 - Request refused. If you are reading this then your request was not processed by the server. This indicates an error in the command format or syntax received by the server. Please resubmit your request using the correct syntax. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Condescenscion

2001-02-06 Thread -michael-
I was under the impression this was a newbie list! I half-expected, though wasn't able to handle, the 'we know more than you do' attitude of the folks on the freeBSD IRQ channel who convinved me to forget about trying freeBSD by their cold shoulder...I just hope that those people who have a

Re: [newbie] Linux and DSL

2001-02-06 Thread Glenn Johnson
Get Roaring Penguin's roe software, install it, configure it, and reboot. Jeff Filapose wrote: 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 -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] DrakFont

2001-02-06 Thread Altoine B
If you installed your linux from a disc and you still have it near you, you can reinstall drakfont on your computer after you do my fix that I had posted earlier. You have to do the "fix" first, because reinstalling drakfont. I take that back, try it and let us all know if that works.

[newbie] Presario Notebook Conexant Combo - Ethernet 10/100 NIC Driver

2001-02-06 Thread elizur
Hi, I have a Presario Notebook and i am looking for a network driver for the Conexant Combo controller Conexant Combo controller has both an Ethernet 10/100 network connection and a 56K V.90 modem connection. any help will do. 10, Elizur Eli.

Re: [newbie] HD bad sectors

2001-02-06 Thread L. H. LOO
At 04-02-2001 -0500, you wrote: 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? Yes, very likely. I try to install Linux on an old drive with bad sectors and almost blow my top; Suggest scan your

Re: [newbie] lpr: : temp file write error

2001-02-06 Thread Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Condescenscion

2001-02-06 Thread Matt Schroeder
It is a newbie list for Linux. Nobody said it was a newbie list for automated email lists. There is a difference. The only thing any human has to do with a subscription to automated email lists is to use his or her index finger to power on the server that does all the receiving and sending and

[newbie] Lilo problems......

2001-02-06 Thread Quaylar
hi all. i have following problem: i want to make a backup of my existing root filesystem which resides on a 500 MB IDE disk, hda for this to work i chose a second 500 MB IDE disk and copied the whole disk via norton ghost, hdb then i rebooted, mountet the duplicate (hdb) and installed

[newbie] For the love of GOD!!!!!

2001-02-06 Thread Kelly, Christopher
For all of you who wish to be removed from this list (and there seems to be a hell of allot of you today!!), Go back to the page from which you signed up for this list. You will then see the very simple instructions, which you should've read in the beginning, telling you how to remove yourself.

RE: [newbie] Kernel Sanders

2001-02-06 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Ok, I'll bite. How do we complie it for optimization? I am interested in doing this also. Moose -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 4:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel Sanders

Re: [newbie] Kernel Sanders

2001-02-06 Thread Tom
On Tuesday 06 February 2001 03:07 am, -michael- wrote: Does anyone know where I can get the 2.4 kernel precompiled for manrdake 7.2? Thank you! Julio Someone told me today that the 2.4 kernel customized by Mandrake would probably not be out for a while...something about no automount

[newbie] CNET reviews top 7 linux distro's

2001-02-06 Thread Mark Johnson
I think there was a post a couple of days ago asking about the various distro of linux. I stumbled on this and thought it might be interesting... http://linux.cnet.com/linux/0-2136864-7-1473248.html?tag=st.lx.1518529.bpg.2 136864-7-1473248

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

2001-02-06 Thread Dave Sherman
The same thing happens to me! Actually, up until now, I thought it was kmail beeping to tell me I had new messages, since I get a lot of email. But now that you mention it, the two do not exactly correlate, and since you also have this... Hmmm ... have you checked the wm docs? I never have

Re: [newbie]

2001-02-06 Thread Dave Sherman
Creating a mount point involves editing /etc/fstab, and adding an entry for the mount point you wish to have. A typical cdrom entry might look like this: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0 Mounting your cdrom is simply a matter of typing:

RE: [newbie] For the love of GOD!!!!!

2001-02-06 Thread Bryant Morrison F47743C
I second that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kelly, Christopher Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 6:30 AM To: 'Newbie' Subject: [newbie] For the love of GOD! For all of you who wish to be removed from this list (and there seems to

[newbie] burners

2001-02-06 Thread Pavel Zubkov
I know lately we all been reading alot about burners and everybody get tired of it. but somehow it is a big problem especially for the people who are new to linux. i have another burner problem. i have tried all recomendations that came up on this mailing list but so far nothing helps. here

Re: [newbie] For the love of GOD!!!!!

2001-02-06 Thread Vic
I have actually gone in and put their e mail addy in the unsub blank for them just to be nice, and hopefully the machine sent them an unsub request confirmation. I have been on and off this list a few times when I had to take the server down for more than a week so there would be no annoying

RE: [newbie] burners

2001-02-06 Thread Bryant Morrison F47743C
Which IDE device is the burner, hdb, hdc, hda? Have you tried to manually mount the drive from the command prompt: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pavel Zubkov Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 9:42

Re: [newbie] Linux and DSL

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel B. Haun
On Tuesday 06 February 2001 05:16, you wrote: Get Roaring Penguin's roe software, install it, configure it, and reboot. Jeff Filapose wrote: 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?

Re: [newbie] mount point

2001-02-06 Thread Vic
Hi To create a mount point all one must do is create a directory that they wish to mount the device onto such as: cd /mnt mkdir cdrom Then they can do a mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom assuming that your CD rom is on device hdb. I hope this helps, if not please question me again and I

Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86

2001-02-06 Thread Robin Regennitter
you can su to root then issued the following command: cd /usr/src/linux make xconfigurator then you can configure what you want to include and exclude. once you have done that then you can: make deps make bzImage make modules before you install the modules. you should backup your

[newbie] disk problem

2001-02-06 Thread Igor Andreevich Rubinsky
i've got a disk problem, i have a syscommander delux, then 2000meg FAT - partition 0, + 8000 meg FAT - partition 1, + 1 meg FAT - free. when i try to install linux from the onlyhard drive my syscommander resizes the first 2000 meg FAT to 1500 meg FAT + 470 meg UNIX + 70 meg free. i don't

Re: [newbie] mount point

2001-02-06 Thread Juan Carlos López
information about boot aurora?? thanks juank - Original Message - From: "Vic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] mount point Hi To create a mount point all one must do is create a directory that they wish

[newbie] WindowMaker beeping -- eureka!

2001-02-06 Thread Dave Sherman
To whomever asked about WindowMaker beeping every hour, do 'man wmCalClock', and you will see that one parameter you can send to the applet is to beep every hour. I checked my wharf applet, and sure enough, in the command calling wmCalClock there is the switch to make it beep every hour. The

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

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel B. Haun
Christopher Molnar wrote: 7.3 NO, No, no. 8.0 YES, Yes, yes! Seriously, this will be a lot of major enhancements, this won't be 7.3. And give it a few more months. I am not sure if you already subscribe, but if you find the list Cooker Changelog you

[newbie] Install problems with 7.2

2001-02-06 Thread Gene Moreau
I've been trying to do a fresh install on 7.2 and been running into a problem with DiskDrake, but I'm not sure exactly. I have a disk with no partitions on it, so I tell diskdrake to do AutoAllocate. it seems happy with that. Says it's writes it to the disk. Select format all partitions. it

RE: [newbie] disk problem

2001-02-06 Thread David Pilcher
The latest version of lilo does not require the kernel to be in the first 1024 cylinders. I've never tried using system commander, but I guess that you could loose it and use Grub or Lilo as a boot menu instead. Suggest you check out

Re: [newbie] Windows Font in Mandrake

2001-02-06 Thread bascule
i had this problem after using drakfont to import windows font, i didn't find out how to fix it but i did get rid of it by launching X and going straight to drakfont and removing the windows fonts that drakfont put into../fonts/drakfont/ if i browsed files or anything the screen

RE: [newbie] Install problems with 7.2

2001-02-06 Thread Bryant Morrison F47743C
What kind of IDE chipset is the mb using? Is DMA enabled? Does the kernel correctly identify the drive controllers? This sounds like a hardware related problem. Has this hard drive been installed successfully with another OS? As a last resort, boot up with some Slackware bootdisks, cfdisk,

RE: [newbie] disk problem

2001-02-06 Thread Bryant Morrison F47743C
I have used System Commander Deluxe with Linux many times and had no problems. If you are using System Commander as your boot manager, install lilo to the first linux partition. Do not install it to the mbr because that is where Sys Commander sits. After installation, Sys Commander should

RE: [newbie] Install problems with 7.2

2001-02-06 Thread Gene Moreau
Not sure of the IDE chip set off the top of my headhave to go look, but have had no problems with this drive in the same machine with NT, Mandrake 7.1. Like I said before if I just keep trying and it eventually works and lets me finish the install with 7.2. It then has no problems after

[newbie] no internal mail

2001-02-06 Thread bascule
i have noticed that for a week or so that i have had no mail for root from the system, investigating /var/spool/mail shows no entries where i could have sworn there used to be a directory or file (file i think) named 'root' or similar, i have mailx and procmail installed according to kpackage,

[newbie] Default Windowmanager

2001-02-06 Thread RuRoUni KeNsHiN
Hi! When I boot up my computer it automatically goes to Enlightenment. I have no idea why it goes straight to it. When I log out from Enlightenment I get the normal Login KDM prompt. Its just weird that it automatically goes into Enlightenment without even asking for a login. Any thoughts?

Re: [newbie] WindowMaker beeping -- eureka!

2001-02-06 Thread John MacCallum
Thank you!!! It was very loud and would make me jump out of my seat!! On 2/6/01 2:12 PM, "Dave Sherman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To whomever asked about WindowMaker beeping every hour, do 'man wmCalClock', and you will see that one parameter you can send to the applet is to beep every hour.

[newbie] adding new window manager to kdm list

2001-02-06 Thread Liaw, Andy
Hi, I've downloaded and installed xfce in my LM7.1 box. Can someone tell me how I can add it to the menu at the login screen? TIA! Cheers, Andy

[newbie] DrakXServices not working

2001-02-06 Thread Shawn Seley
Hi, I've been having problems getting DrakXServices to work correctly. Even after a brand new install of fully recommended features (only non-standard aspect is ReisnerFS on all partitions) DrakXServices appears to do nothing. I click on a service (like httpd for apache) click OK, go back to

[newbie] sound card problems with 7.2

2001-02-06 Thread Chris Russell
I have a good install of 7.2 with one exception. I can't get the sound card to work. I have tried a dozen different sound cards with no success. In HardDrake, the sound card shows up but has no IRQ attached to it. If I type in IRQ5, I get an error that it is busy or in use. How do I find

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

2001-02-06 Thread Todd Flinders
I had always heard in the old days to have /var on its own partition as a security feature. It prevents a hacker from getting a log to flood the / partition. That may be wrong or irrelevant now, though. --- "Richard T. Waters" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since my last question was not as dumb as

[newbie] Screen Capture of processes loading at boot up

2001-02-06 Thread Alan Carpenter
I have noticed people posting there startup file??? Where is this file's location?? I have a few modules failing, and I would like to get some help on them. Or is it a screen capture somehow?? Thanks for your help. Alan

RE: [newbie] double messages

2001-02-06 Thread DragonLord
Funny, but its getting a bit tiresome when downloading my mail and it says over 400 emails and most are duplicates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Ashman Sent: 04 February 2001 04:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] CNET reviews top 7 linux distro's

2001-02-06 Thread Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there was a post a couple of days ago asking about the various distro of linux. I stumbled on this and thought it might be interesting... http://linux.cnet.com/linux/0-2136864-7-1473248.html?tag=st.lx.1518529.bpg.2 136864-7-1473248 That is the

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

2001-02-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Gigi Giorgi wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] GRUB customization

2001-02-06 Thread Altoine B
You don't have to switch anything around to have your windows partition as the default. Just open up "DrakConf" and click on "Tools for booting". Choose "Configure LILO/GRUB". Click on your windows partition and choose "Default". Click "Ok" and save. You are now good to go. Cheers, -- Al --

Re: [newbie] double messages

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel B. Haun
On Tuesday 06 February 2001 17:32, you wrote: Funny, but its getting a bit tiresome when downloading my mail and it says over 400 emails and most are duplicates Are you using a regular email program? Have you checked the settings in the configurations settings to make sure it is deleting

Re: RE: [newbie] Kernel Sanders

2001-02-06 Thread Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'll bite. How do we complie it for optimization? I am interested in doing this also. Moose Give me a moment. I'm administrating my website and that topic will take me a little while to properly put together. But you will thank me. smile Cheers, -- Al

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

2001-02-06 Thread Roger Sherman
OK...in return, can you make my next 6 rent payments? Come on... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Henk Buwalda wrote: Hi, Please remove me Henk Buwalda

Re: [newbie] Can't get a dhcp lease

2001-02-06 Thread David Bliss
Try http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/DHCP/ - Original Message - From: Kerr, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 6:40 PM Subject: [newbie] Can't get a dhcp lease I'm a Linux newbie. I just installed Mandrake and chose DHCP since I have an

Re: [newbie] sound card problems with 7.2

2001-02-06 Thread eryl
Chris Russell wrote: I have a good install of 7.2 with one exception. I can't get the sound card to work. I have tried a dozen different sound cards with no success. In HardDrake, the sound card shows up but has no IRQ attached to it. If I type in IRQ5, I get an error that it is busy

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

2001-02-06 Thread Anthony C. Cheng
What if more memory is added? How would one increase the swap partition? On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Todd Flinders wrote: I had always heard in the old days to have /var on its own partition as a security feature. It prevents a hacker from getting a log to flood the / partition. That may be

Re: [newbie] Default Windowmanager

2001-02-06 Thread s
Oh that d*mn enlightenment. It just takes right over don't it?! You can change your .xinitrc to startkde and .Xclients to startkde and even your autologin to startx, but it won't go away. No! You will have to uninstall that thing. -s (well, try the file thing first and hope). On Tuesday

[newbie] two sound cards

2001-02-06 Thread Anthony C. Cheng
I have two sound cards installed, one pci and one on the motherboard. I'd like to use the pci sound card. Most of the programs, however, are using the one built on the motherboard. How do I set the pci card to be the default sound device? Also, what is the difference between /dev/audio and

[newbie] How to configure SBLive! to play .Mid and .KAR files on Mandrake 7.2 - Step by Step ?

2001-02-06 Thread Marcelo Leandro Faria - Armateus
Please! I need to do it works fine ! Thanks! Marcelo L Faria Balsas-MA Brazil South America Earth

Re: [newbie] CNET reviews top 7 linux distro's

2001-02-06 Thread eryl
Altoine B wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there was a post a couple of days ago asking about the various distro of linux. I stumbled on this and thought it might be interesting... http://linux.cnet.com/linux/0-2136864-7-1473248.html?tag=st.lx.1518529.bpg.2 136864-7-1473248

Re: [newbie] two sound cards

2001-02-06 Thread Todd Flinders
If you have not already done so, refer to your motherboard instruction manual and turn of the onboard audio. --- "Anthony C. Cheng" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two sound cards installed, one pci and one on the motherboard. I'd like to use the pci sound card. Most of the programs,

[newbie] How to configure CDRW HP9300 on Mandrake 7.2 to burn Data and Audio CD-R(W) - Step by Step ?

2001-02-06 Thread Marcelo Leandro Faria - Armateus
Please ! Pentium III 600 64 MB RAM HD 13 Gb Mandrake 7.2 + WindowshelpME SBLive! Problem: CDRW HP9300 to burn CD-R(W) to Data and/or Audio. Tanks! Marcelo L Faria Balsas-MA Brazil South America Earth

[newbie] How to do Avision 260C Scanner works on Mandrake 7.2 - Step by Step ?

2001-02-06 Thread Marcelo Leandro Faria - Armateus
Please! Pentium III 600 64 Mb RAM HD 13 Gb SBlaster Live! CDRW 9300 Mandrake 7.2 + Windowshelp ME Problem: How to do Avision 260C Scanner works on Mandrake 7.2 ? Step by Step. Thanks! Marcelo L Faria Balsas-MA Brazil South America Earth

Re: [newbie] GRUB customization

2001-02-06 Thread s
Well, if you want to do it the easy way... -s On Tuesday 06 February 2001 11:20 pm, you wrote: You don't have to switch anything around to have your windows partition as the default. Just open up "DrakConf" and click on "Tools for booting". Choose "Configure LILO/GRUB". Click on your windows

[newbie] Missing ncurses.h when installing ALSA sound card drivers

2001-02-06 Thread Olof Liungman
Hi, I didn't get any reply to my first posting so I'll try once more and keep my fingers crossed... Problem: When installing ALSA sound card drivers the compilation of the utils package stops with the error "missing ncurses.h". How do I install this file in the easiest way? Background: Dell

Re: [newbie] remove me

2001-02-06 Thread Jesse C. Chang
Brian Overby wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] yeye tryed it .. dident work and istead of shouting and getting all spazm like why dont you just shut up if you havent got anything positive to say? .. and oh.. in case you dident notice the conference group here is

[newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-06 Thread KompuKit
I accidently clicked on a gnome app...while in KDE... now ...everytime I reboot...or restart..KDE comes up... but also the gnome file manager...and desktop icons come up...then I must CLOSE them (by Xing them out) How can I stop this...? -- Registered Linux User: =

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-06 Thread Romanator
KompuKit wrote: I accidently clicked on a gnome app...while in KDE... now ...everytime I reboot...or restart..KDE comes up... but also the gnome file manager...and desktop icons come up...then I must CLOSE them (by Xing them out) How can I stop this...? -- Registered Linux

RE: [newbie] burners

2001-02-06 Thread Pavel Zubkov
On Tue, 06 Feb 2001, you wrote: Which IDE device is the burner, hdb, hdc, hda? Have you tried to manually mount the drive from the command prompt: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom i have tried mounting manually, no changes what so ever. my burner is hdb, cd rom is hddand i have an

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-06 Thread KompuKit
For some reason...I don't see this hidden file.. (yes i have SHOW HIDDEN selected) where is it...? in my user dir? /home/kit ? or in the root dir ? Romanator wrote: KompuKit wrote: I accidently clicked on a gnome app...while in KDE... now ...everytime I reboot...or restart..KDE

Re: [newbie] burners

2001-02-06 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 06 February 2001 21:03, you wrote: On Tue, 06 Feb 2001, you wrote: Which IDE device is the burner, hdb, hdc, hda? Have you tried to manually mount the drive from the command prompt: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom i have tried mounting manually, no changes what so

Re: [newbie] double messages

2001-02-06 Thread Jennifer Awburn
I would try unsubscribing, make sure you don't get any messages for a day or so and then re-subsribe. -Original Message- From: DragonLord [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, 7 February 2001 9:38 Subject: RE: [newbie] double messages Funny, but

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-06 Thread Romanator
KompuKit wrote: For some reason...I don't see this hidden file.. (yes i have SHOW HIDDEN selected) where is it...? in my user dir? /home/kit ? or in the root dir ? The .Xclients file will be in /usr/home/kit -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 High Energy Penguin Powered

[newbie] Missing strstream.h when compiling ncurses...

2001-02-06 Thread Olof Liungman
Hi, this relates to an earlier posting of mine. I tried to compile ncurses 5.1 from scratch since I need ncurses.h for another software package, and the compile breaks with missing "strstream.h" (apparently belongs to the c++ library). What have I done wrong, such that I seem to miss so many

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-06 Thread KompuKit
I don't have a /usr/home/kit I didn't make that partition Romanator wrote: KompuKit wrote: For some reason...I don't see this hidden file.. (yes i have SHOW HIDDEN selected) where is it...? in my user dir? /home/kit ? or in the root dir ? The .Xclients file will be

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-06 Thread Romanator
KompuKit wrote: I don't have a /usr/home/kit I didn't make that partition You must have a /home directory folder for user. Every one has one. It's not a partition but a directory folder. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 High Energy Penguin Powered Email

Re: [newbie] Missing menus under Index in KDE Control Center in KDE2.1 beta 2

2001-02-06 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 06 February 2001 19:56, you wrote: Hi everybody, I installed KDE2.1 beta 2. Several days ago. When I log on as root and click on the KDE Control Center button - the entire selection under the Index tab is blank. However, I can still access it from the taskbar. This is the 3rd

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-06 Thread KompuKit
yes...I have a dir called: /home/kit and the file is not there but not a dir called: /usr/home/kit Romanator wrote: KompuKit wrote: I don't have a /usr/home/kit I didn't make that partition You must have a /home directory folder for user. Every one has one. It's not a

[newbie] Cant do direct cd copy

2001-02-06 Thread Vic
Hello Well I got my first cdrom recognised by the scsi emulation, and I can get eroaster to at least read the cdrom, but I cannot make anything do a direct cd to cd-r copy, with anything I try, any audio cd, any data cd, I do not understand what I am doing wrong, is it possible to make an iso of

[newbie] Cable Modem

2001-02-06 Thread Mike Riffle
Just had cable access installed. Unfortunately, my provider does not offer static IP addresses. Can I still configure it under LM 7.2? Mike Riffle Morgantown, WV USA http://web.mountain.net/~kneiper/rifrak.htm Montani Semper Liberi NRA NMLRA Friends of Fort Frederick Prickett's Fort

Re: [newbie] Swap file crash and burn

2001-02-06 Thread The Conways
It will still boot, but the xwindow won't start. I tried linuxconf to change the mount point for the swap file, but it didn't work. By the way where should the mount point be for the swap file? I tried to create it at mnt/swap. Jim - Original Message - From: "Sevatio Octavio" [EMAIL

[newbie] KDE2.1beta2

2001-02-06 Thread Dennis Myers
Have installed the subject utility and everything went well. I had no dependencies or other errors on the test, so I went ahead and installed. There were several notices about files not removed because they were not empty. Now I have tried the install of some other rpm packages such as OPERA

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster 16 PCI Configuration

2001-02-06 Thread Coy L. Scott
I was running Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Complete. However, tonight I installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Powerpack Deluxe. I have determined that TiMidity++ 2.10.0-1mdk, and timidity-instruments 1.0-7mdk are both installed. Just in case I don't understand how to verify that a package is installed, I'll

[newbie] Prozilla

2001-02-06 Thread Dennis Myers
Hi all, I tried the Prozilla utility again. this time I d/l'd the tar file. I still get a message about wrong architecture. If someone has this running successfully could you tell me which version you installed? To date it will not allow me to put it on my machine. TIA, -- Dennis M.

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster 16 PCI Configuration

2001-02-06 Thread KompuKit
ok...it's a process of elimination... I have 7.2 complete... install the app called: xmms and it accompaning packages...then try to play something with that... what are you trying to play/hear? midi, wavs, mp3s ...what? then if you don't hear anything...still bring up the app,called: Kmix

[newbie] join

2001-02-06 Thread KeK
how to join the maling list ? Ika ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

[newbie] I got the recompiling kernel blues =)

2001-02-06 Thread Alan Carpenter
Ok so let me start from the beginning =). I recompiled my kernel to 2.4.0 with some success. Here's the first problem I ran into after booting into my new kernel. During the boot up process I got a "failed" message something about can't find /lib/module/2.4.0-0.31mdk. So I went to that

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem

2001-02-06 Thread johnc
On Tuesday 06 February 2001 20:21, you wrote: Just had cable access installed. Unfortunately, my provider does not offer static IP addresses. Can I still configure it under LM 7.2? Mike Riffle Morgantown, WV USA http://web.mountain.net/~kneiper/rifrak.htm Montani Semper Liberi NRA

[newbie] Mandrake online classes

2001-02-06 Thread johnc
I found this today via the Mandrake site. They are online tutorials/classes about running your Linux box with Mandrake. www.mandrakecampus.com. I have looked at the lessons and they are easy to follow and very informative IMHO. -- John W

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem

2001-02-06 Thread nlilly
The previous message was correct if you need a static IP address. There are problems with this however. If there are interruptions in your service occasionally (as is the case with North-east Ohio's RoadRunner service) you may come into conflict with another machine using the address you

[newbie] Linux Compatability Question

2001-02-06 Thread Ryan
Hello. I'm building a Mud server and was wondering if Linux mandrake supportedsystems which useDDR sdram. And.. does it support ATA/100 hard drives? I know it does scsi.. Thanks a bunch

[newbie] MandrakeCampus

2001-02-06 Thread -michael-
I thought I was right...the people at Mandrake ROCK! WoW -michael-

RE: [newbie] Remove!!!!!!!!

2001-02-06 Thread SJN
You can check-in anytime you like But you can never leave... Hotel California Eagles I say, "Death to False Linux... errr I mean Metal!" regards Joe RLU# 186063 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Henk Buwalda Sent: Monday, February