Re: [newbie-it] Pagine MAN in Italiano

2001-02-28 Thread Andrea Celli
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: E' sul primo disco. Avverte pero' che le pagine sono datate! Grazie. Alberto La "datazione" e` dovuta a diversi fattori: - le "man pages" sono un po' "abbandonate" a favore di info. Quindi spesso la documentazione piu` aggiornata e completa sono i nodi info. - le

[newbie-it] Configurazione monitor Hitachi CM640ET - 17''

2001-02-28 Thread Alessandro Pizzi
Sono per la prima volta alle prese con Linux. (Iper-absolute beginner). Ho installato Mdk 7.2. Cercando di settare il mio monitor Hitachi CM640ET (17") ulilizzando le finestre della interfaccia grafica sono riuscito ad errare il settaggio ed ora quando si avvia la parte grafica il monitor mi

[newbie-it] Samba (ole')

2001-02-28 Thread a . marcedone
Visto che io non la conosco, qualcuno di voi sa' per caso come impostare - o togliere - quella maledetta richiesta di password che mi da' Samba quando tento di accedere al server linux con una macchina windows? Tanto per capirci, ecco il mio file di configurazione: # Global parameters [global]

Re: [newbie] filenames - bright green with * after them

2001-02-28 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:55:57 +1300 "Robert Fleming" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several files on our system appear bright green with a * immediately after them when a directory listing is performed. What does this indicate? That their 'executable' bit is set. In most cases that will mean

Re: [newbie] untar commands?

2001-02-28 Thread Randy Meyer
Bill Barto wrote: Could someone please tell me how to uncompress and install a tar.gz file? I have been trying for hours checking the docs and can't seem to make it work. My BIOS ate my 40G HD and I installed new controller card. MFG only has e-mail support and wife is crying about "the

Re: [newbie] untar commands?

2001-02-28 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:24:46 -0500 Bill Barto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tar -zxvf 'wholecompletefilename' Could someone please tell me how to uncompress and install a tar.gz file? I have been trying for hours checking the docs and can't seem to make it work. My BIOS ate my 40G HD and I

Re: [newbie] filenames - bright green with * after them

2001-02-28 Thread Quaylar
At 21:55 28.02.2001 +1300, you wrote: Several files on our system appear bright green with a * immediately after them when a directory listing is performed. What does this indicate? wde i think this is indicating that they are executable --quay -- -Quaylar-

[newbie] Installation Error @ step Setup Filesystems

2001-02-28 Thread Hans N.
I recently submitted a problem with installation to the customer service (follows). Although I have not received the remedy, I thought I'd pose the question here since I'm sure I will not be the only one to have this problem. On a side note, I was wondering how advantageous a secondary hard drive

[newbie] Aurora hangs showing only left bar

2001-02-28 Thread Timo Hoderlein
Hi evereyone, I have already tried to install Mandrake 7.2 several times. The install process goes smoothly, but when the system boots for the first time, the graphical boot manager Aurora freezes and shows only the left bar. There is also no reaction of mouse or keyboard. If I choose failsafe

Re: [newbie] SPAM

2001-02-28 Thread Mark Weaver
Adam, What is it that you're trying to say? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, adam wrote: Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 21:08:43 -0600 From: adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To:

Re: [newbie] SPAM

2001-02-28 Thread Mark Weaver
Ummm...Ok, I'll bite. what is it that you're trying to say? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, adam wrote: Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 21:08:25 -0600 From: adam [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] SPAM

2001-02-28 Thread Mark Weaver
I was wondering what was up with that too, but it wouldn't do them any good sending that way cause the filters take care of those kinds of things. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Tue, 27 Feb

Re: [newbie] SPAM

2001-02-28 Thread Mark Weaver
Anthony, It's right there on the message. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Anthony Daniell wrote: Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:41:54 +1000 From: Anthony

Re: [newbie] untar commands?

2001-02-28 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Bill: To uncompress a tar.gz file, simply do the following: As user, type tar -xzf xxx.tar.gz For example, to untar (uncompress) the mozilla browser suite, do as follows: tar -xzf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.8-MathML-SVG-XSLT.tar.gz It is sometimes preferable to put your tar.gz file

Re: [newbie] untar commands?

2001-02-28 Thread Robert Fleming
tar -xzvf filename should do it wade - Original Message - From: Bill Barto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:24 PM Subject: [newbie] untar commands? Could someone please tell me how to uncompress and install a tar.gz file? I have been

Re: [newbie] SPAM

2001-02-28 Thread Anthony Daniell
Hi, sorry about that, Thanks for that also. Just visiting this planet, Please sign the Linux Driver petition http://www.libranet.com/petition.html http://ants.www4.50megs.com/linux.html http://www.50megs.com Anthony Daniell - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [newbie] Installation Error @ step Setup Filesystems

2001-02-28 Thread Buzz and Nan
The Neat thing about Linux is you can you boot it from anywhere. I boot Linux-Mandrak 7.2 on a secondary hard drive without hassle. When I tried upgrading to Kernel 2.4, however doesn't like it much. Partition Magic is a good tool for resizing and creating partitions. Also helps in creating a

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[newbie] Fwd: RE: firing up kppp and root

2001-02-28 Thread L. H. LOO
ms raju honoured me by posting the below question direct to me. As I am a dummy newbie myself, the message is forwarded here for other gurus to help out. TIA, Regards Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 05:42:06 -0800 From: ms raju [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: firing up kppp and root To: [EMAIL

[newbie] filenames - bright green with * after them

2001-02-28 Thread Robert Fleming
Several files on our system appear bright green with a * immediately after them when a directory listing is performed. What does this indicate? wde

[newbie] Linux-Compatible Player for Windows Streaming Media?

2001-02-28 Thread Coy L. Scott
Is there a Linux-compatible player for Windows streaming media?

RE: [newbie] Linux partitioning

2001-02-28 Thread Daryl Johnson
It allows you to use several different kernels more easily. Some people have a need for it, some don't :o) regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: 27 February 2001 23:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

Re: [newbie] ZipCD 650 USB CD recorder and Mandrake 7.2

2001-02-28 Thread MarkP
A boss at work is having trouble getting one of those running under Win MarkP Keith Christian wrote: Has anyone gotten this (ZipCD 650 USB) to work with the stock store-bought Mandrake 7.2? If so, are there any config file changes necessary? Should the ZipCD USB be plugged in before

Re: [newbie] Xwindows configuration

2001-02-28 Thread AndyMonks
in install try fbdev. that is more copatable.

[newbie] problem with powersave

2001-02-28 Thread Jacob
My computer goes to sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity. I did whatever I could find in howto and there is no effect. When I use setterm -powersave powerdown and like I get a message cannot (un)set powersave mode. I've seen the discussion about this message on the Internet, they suggest that

[newbie] logs..

2001-02-28 Thread Dale Kosan
Hello, in the /var/log directory I am seeing a whole bunch of tar.gz logs, I assume these are old and that logrotate generated them.Are they safe to delete if I don't need them? Thanks in advance

Re: [newbie] VMware(again)

2001-02-28 Thread marcia
Dear Fabian, Esteban, and Sridhar, Thank you all very much for your help. I have successfully installed and configured(I believe) Vmware 2.0.3 on my LM 7.2 and I am very pleasantly surprised about that and thanks to your help. However, I am having problems installing my Windows 95 version 4x. I

Re: [newbie] VMware(again)

2001-02-28 Thread Ryan Le Gros
LOL! Finally someone who is actually completely non window/dos verbal, the wave of a new generation is here! Anyways to safely exit dos all you gotta do is the three finger salute: ctrl+alt+del. If you are talking about exiting dos from within the VMWare client, I have no clue, havent really

Re: [newbie] DEVELOPMENT setup

2001-02-28 Thread drowelf
I too noticed that the 7.2 installation runs through a lot of options I am used to choosing. One being the "type" of installation. What I did was to simply choose recommended install and then using rpmdrake, install all the libraries, compilers and help files i required. Not as simple, but did

Re: [newbie] Startup files

2001-02-28 Thread bpremeaux
The first time I had that problem, I had to go into the BIOS and set the time there. Then it was into the KDE Control Center to set time relative to my local time zone. Barry :-) On Mon, 26 February 2001, "Cory Weber" wrote: ok, I have Mandrake Linux 7.0, and a small problem, it keeps

[newbie] ZipCD 650 USB CD recorder and Mandrake 7.2

2001-02-28 Thread Keith Christian
Has anyone gotten this (ZipCD 650 USB) to work with the stock store-bought Mandrake 7.2? If so, are there any config file changes necessary? Should the ZipCD USB be plugged in before Mandrake is booted to be detected, or will Mandrake detect/configure without a reboot? Thanks! ===Keith

Re: [newbie] Xwindows configuration

2001-02-28 Thread angry
you didn't mention what card you have Derek Rayne wrote: Hi there, I am still stuck on configuring my Xwindows, I am having very bad luck, even if I try the standard VGA or SVGA. Could my card be not one supported? Richard Wegner Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Can't install because /dev/hda is missing

2001-02-28 Thread Miark
Hi all, My xfs was hosed and I wanted to try ReiserFS, so I decided to do a fresh install. Everything seems fine up to the point of making a boot disk, including formatting two Reiser logical partitions and a Linux swap partition. I tried the following: 1) Primary FAT32 partition for C: 2)

RE: [newbie] VMware(again)

2001-02-28 Thread Esteban Villeda
Marcia, to install Win on your vmware is as if you were installing on a real machine. The first thing I recommend is to have a boot disk which may include fdisk, format and cdrom access (ask someone close to you who has given tech support). Start your vmware with the disk in your floppy, and

Re: [newbie] Zip drive unmount

2001-02-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Andrew Lazarewicz wrote: Hi! I know this was covered before, but I can't find it. I can mount (by inserting) a zip disk as a user, but I have to unmount (umount) as root. What is the best way just to eject a Zip disk as a user? Thanks! - Andy Andyif it's supermounted then

Re: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM-solved and update

2001-02-28 Thread Scott Faulkner
On Monday 26 February 2001 16:01, you wrote: I took the suspect ram sticks back to the shop where I bought them and the tech put it in a windows box and booted it up. It booted right up, so they said the memory was tested ok. They gave me an exchange anyway, but I thought it interesting

RE: [newbie] Adaptec SCSI Installation AVA 1505

2001-02-28 Thread Daryl Johnson
Well, the full story is : Portbase = 0x340this is jumpered on the board IRQ = 9 this too is jumpered on the board SCSI ID = 7 which is fairly standard recconect is enabled parity is enabled synchronous is enabled delay = 500

Re: [newbie] where is Mesa includes in LM7.2...

2001-02-28 Thread Matt Schroeder
My install had Mesa going in it. (Download version w/ extension CD) Ot at least it had some working implementation of GL since it runs Xtraceroute just fine. --Matt - Original Message - From: "B.V.L.S.Prasad" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie] VMware

2001-02-28 Thread =?x-unknown?q?Pe=F1a_Arellano_Fabian_Erasmo?=
Hi Marcia, I'm glad it worked. I am not familiar with DOS at all either. But as long as VMware concerns, make sure the devices are "conected" to the virtual machine if you're trying to use Fdisk on a floppy. Look on the "Devices" part of the VMware menu. If no one on this

Re: [newbie] aurora images

2001-02-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alan Carpenter wrote: Can you help me install aurora?? What packages do you install?? Is there any special setup involved in setting it up??? Thanks so much, Alan Alanthe package is Aurora-7.2-17mdk.i586.rpm on your installation CD. After installing it to get it to run all that is

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration

2001-02-28 Thread abe
I did but I'll double check. Thanks for the idea! Abe Adam Greene wrote: Kill the non-NVidia GL libraries as per NVidia's FAQ. - Original Message - From: "Digital Wokan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Linux partitioning

2001-02-28 Thread Mark Weaver
Daryl Johnson wrote: It allows you to use several different kernels more easily. Some people have a need for it, some don't :o) regards Daryl :) the kernels don't get that big. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"

Re: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM-solved and update

2001-02-28 Thread Linux Tests
It might have been just as easy for the tech to wave the RAM back and forth in the air a few times - lightly touch it to his forehead - chant "Ibeebeebeeeboo" five times - blinking the lights off and on with the other hand while twirling about ... He'd have come to the same conclusion ...

Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this iscrazy.....!!!!

2001-02-28 Thread Mark Weaver
stephen galowski wrote: please use the unsubscrice command please Stephen, please turn off the annoying receipt request. It's really bad manners on a mailing list. thanks -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes

[newbie] Final KDE2.1 installation

2001-02-28 Thread Romanator
Hi all, I have KDE2.1 beta 2 installed. Will the latest rpms upgrade me to the final KDE2.1 release? Or, do I have to uninstall some files? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 The Original Tux Email Thread Creator

Re: [newbie] (OT)Half-Life server question

2001-02-28 Thread Mark Weaver
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: This is off-topic... Does anybody on this list run a Half-Life server? I was wondering, if I want to setup a Linux Half-Life server, do I need to perform a server installation of Mandrake? Or can I run it in the Normal installation? Thanks, Moose Kelly,

[newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release?

2001-02-28 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, Does any one know when Mandrake will start posting KDE2.1 Final Release? Will we be able use the update feature? Or, is there an alternate ftp site? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 The Original Tux Email Thread Creator

Re: [newbie] logs..

2001-02-28 Thread eryl
Dale Kosan wrote: Hello, in the /var/log directory I am seeing a whole bunch of tar.gz logs, I assume these are old and that logrotate generated them.Are they safe to delete if I don't need them? Thanks in advance Not a problem--nuke em. And, I always change my /etc/logrotate.conf so

Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this iscrazy.....!!!!

2001-02-28 Thread Robert Reed
LOL!!! --- Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: stephen galowski wrote: please use the unsubscrice command please Stephen, please turn off the annoying receipt request. It's really bad manners on a mailing list. thanks -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals,

Re: [newbie] Final KDE2.1 installation

2001-02-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, you wrote: Hi all, I have KDE2.1 beta 2 installed. Will the latest rpms upgrade me to the final KDE2.1 release? Or, do I have to uninstall some files? The new rpms should upgrade you if you do the package all at one time or individually, either way. But, where did you

Re: [newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release?

2001-02-28 Thread MarkP
Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, Does any one know when Mandrake will start posting KDE2.1 Final Release? Will we be able use the update feature? Or, is there an alternate ftp site? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 The Original Tux Email Thread Creator On mandrakeforum.com they

Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this iscrazy.....!!!!

2001-02-28 Thread Ryan Le Gros
cause we said it isnt. and we are the overgod of mailing lists. Ryan - Original Message - From: "stephen galowski" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this iscrazy. others in

[newbie] MDK Tractopel

2001-02-28 Thread Oliver L Plaine Jr
the management wrote: New story on (http://www.mandrakeforum.com) The first Beta of the upcoming Linux-Mandrake 8.0 (Traktopel) is available -- Wed Feb 28 21:08:38 2001 Well fortunately they said Tractopel meant "plow" in French. Unfortunately I am handicapped with struggling

Re: [newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release?

2001-02-28 Thread Naidine \Dede\ Leedom
Just got this today. Dede To go to Linux2order, click here: http://www.Linux2order.com/ - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 7:24 PM Subject: [newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release? Hi

Re: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM-solved and update

2001-02-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, you wrote: It might have been just as easy for the tech to wave the RAM back and forth in the air a few times - lightly touch it to his forehead - chant "Ibeebeebeeeboo" five times - blinking the lights off and on with the other hand while twirling about ... He'd have

[newbie] A few more questions...plus a big THANKS!

2001-02-28 Thread Derek Rayne
I am having problems again with my Linux system. Here is the basics about it... Linux Mandrake 7.0 is the version Pentium 133Mhz system 80mb of RAM Permedia 3000 video card (4mb) Sony 100SX monitor (SVGA) 10.2gb hard drive for Linux ONLY Zoltrix external 33.6kbps modem Zip 100 External Drive

Re: [newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release?

2001-02-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, you wrote: Hi everybody, Does any one know when Mandrake will start posting KDE2.1 Final Release? Will we be able use the update feature? Or, is there an alternate ftp site? Hey Roman, I don't know how others do it but I use gftp from the KDE desktop to down load, that

Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this iscrazy.....!!!!

2001-02-28 Thread stephen galowski
others in other mail list have said it is ok so why not mark stephen At 12:17 PM 1/03/2001 Thursday, you wrote: stephen galowski wrote: please use the unsubscrice command please Stephen, please turn off the annoying receipt request. It's really bad manners on a mailing list. thanks --

[newbie] Mandrake on Ebay

2001-02-28 Thread CastleKidd
I was looking around on Ebay and noticed that they were auctioning Linux Mandrake 7.2 and RedHat 7.0 for like 3 dollars. Has anyone ever used this route before? Is it worth it or should I just go to the store and get it? Thanks ~Lance

[newbie] Kmail won't connect

2001-02-28 Thread Dennis Myers
Actually it isn't just Kmail, Netscape can't find any servers either. This just happened on my other box and came out of nowhere. Kmail says it can't find "mail.earthlink.net" and netscape has a socket problem. I have checked and double checked my addresses and password. My Kppp dials up and

[newbie] Installing problem...

2001-02-28 Thread Pajunen Lauri Anffi Henrikki
Hello! I hope this isn't the wrong list to ask this... Well anyway Stats: Pentium III 800Mhz Abit VH6 133Mhz Seagate 20Mgb NVidia Geforce II 32Mb Sound Blstr. Live! 128Mhz of memory A basic Lan card (listed as compatible, can't remember it now) Well I started to install Mandrake (newest),

Re: [newbie] aurora images

2001-02-28 Thread Romanator
Randy Meyer wrote: Alan Carpenter wrote: Can you help me install aurora?? What packages do you install?? Is there any special setup involved in setting it up??? Thanks so much, Alan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

[newbie] Installing Kernel

2001-02-28 Thread Robert Reed
I'm trying to recompiling the kernel using: $ make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install But however, I get an error saying something like I can't target 'dep'. Stop. Can someone tell me what this means, and how to fix it? __ Do

Re: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM-solved and update

2001-02-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, you wrote: On Monday 26 February 2001 16:01, you wrote: I took the suspect ram sticks back to the shop where I bought them and the tech put it in a windows box and booted it up. It booted right up, so they said the memory was tested ok. They gave me an exchange

Re: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM-solved and update

2001-02-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, you wrote: On Monday 26 February 2001 16:01, you wrote: I took the suspect ram sticks back to the shop where I bought them and the tech put it in a windows box and booted it up. It booted right up, so they said the memory was tested ok. They gave me an exchange

Re: [newbie] Installing problem...

2001-02-28 Thread Robert Pena
I know your pain with trying out Linux. I tried Corel Linux 1rst edition and I couldn't get it past the video card configuration.Most of the forum help I got from Corel was intolerant with newbies.I tried Linux4Windows but I only got as far as a half hour loading of the K desktop. I was informed

[newbie] subscribe

2001-02-28 Thread Ron Hossack

[newbie] Matrox G450

2001-02-28 Thread Michael Lueck
I seem to remember that Mandrake 7.2 does not directly support the Matrox G450 card. Is there an updated RPM or something to support that card? Matrox has a beta driver on their site as well - any tips on getting that installed? I am running XFree 4x that comes with 7.2 TIA! Michael Lueck

[newbie] cd-rw install

2001-02-28 Thread KompuKit
I'm trying to setup scsi emulation in mandrake 7.2... HOW do I do this...? I tried the redhat approach...but everytime I reconfigure lilo... it says theres a syntax error. this is what I did... at the end of /etc/rc.local I put: insmod ide-scsi then at the end of /etc/lilo.conf I put:

Re: [newbie] SPAM

2001-02-28 Thread Oliver L Plaine Jr
On Tuesday 27 February 2001 05:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I posted that I had not come across this - I have now ! My question, I use Kmail and would like to bounce these but there does not appear to be a filter rule "bounce" does anyone no how to do this ? If not will forwarding

Re: [newbie] How to upgrade libstdc++?

2001-02-28 Thread Peter Lund
On Tuesday 27 February 2001 12:08, you wrote: Sourcecode of Licq? Sorry if it's a dumb question, I'm still very new to Linux. The Sourcecode are the basic code for the program, and need to be compiled in order to run. The rpm file are a compiled program made ready for a specific