Re: [newbie-it] Windows sotto linux

2001-03-01 Thread Loris
Ciao a tutti, c'è qualcuno che conosce WM-Ware? (E' un'utility per linux che, pare, riesca a fare girare due sistemi operativi uno all'interno dell'altro). Dove se ne può trovare una versione free? Io ne ho una versione trovata sul CD di una rivista, ma pare che necessiti della versione 4 dir

[newbie-it] gv

2001-03-01 Thread Tommaso Leddi
Una domanda ai felici utilizzatori della distribuzione Mandrake 7.2 : E' normale che facendoin shell (bash) : gv venga fuori: gv: command not found Ho installato dai CD tutto l'installabile, e mi sembra di aver caricato diversi pacchetti di ghostscript. Mi manca qualcosa? A voi che

Re: [newbie-it] Fax

2001-03-01 Thread Andrea Celli
Tommaso Leddi wrote: Questa mattina dovevo spedire un fax. Ho guardato velocemente se esisteva qualche programma adatto tra quelli di Mandrake 7.2, ma non ho trovatot nulla. C' invece qualcosa? ci sono diversi sistemi per spedire fax (hylafax, efax, mgetty-sendfax) con diversi front end

[newbie-it] Aggiornamento a Kernel 2.4.0

2001-03-01 Thread Francesco Speranza
Ho comprato l'ultimo numero di Linus C. e ho provato ( per la prima volta ) ad aggiornare il kerner alla versione 2.4.0 seguendo le istruzioni allegate ma dopo ripetuti ( e ripetuti)tentativi i risultati non sono stati positivi in quanto dopo l'installazione non riesco a risolvere

[newbie] Difference between a Linux link and a shortcut in prior OS

2001-03-01 Thread Randy Meyer
Using LM 7.2 I want to set up an icon on my user account KDE desktop that will launch Netscape and display the index.html file that is the entry point into the Mandrake Reference Manual in the /usr/share/doc/Mandrake/en directory. I dragged the index.html file from Konqueror to the desktop and

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

2001-03-01 Thread Patrick Gaerlan
Which file should I download, the tar.gz or the src.rpm file? Thanks! On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 00:38:25 +0100, Peter Lund wrote: 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 distribution,

Re: [newbie] Difference between a Linux link and a shortcut in prior OS

2001-03-01 Thread Kelley Terry
On Thursday 01 March 2001 01:12 am, Randy Meyer wrote: Using LM 7.2 I want to set up an icon on my user account KDE desktop that will launch Netscape and display the index.html file that is the entry point into the Mandrake Reference Manual in the /usr/share/doc/Mandrake/en directory. I

Re: [newbie] cd-rw install

2001-03-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
KompuKit wrote: 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

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

2001-03-01 Thread root
I have the same proble with my system (PII 350 TNT 16mb 64mbRAM) i have installed all the patches for nvidia and with xfree4.0.2 but when i start X seems to start but my screen is black and i cant see nothing... i have change xf86config about 54435454 times and i steel cant make it work :/ its

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

2001-03-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Derek Rayne wrote: 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

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

2001-03-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Dennis Myers wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Kmail won't connect

2001-03-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Dennis Myers wrote: 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.

Re: [newbie] Kmail won't connect

2001-03-01 Thread Michael Scottaline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

[newbie] usb cd writer

2001-03-01 Thread Jamie M. Dyer
Is there any chance of getting my HP usb cd writer to work?

[newbie] Modular 560 USB modem: drivers please

2001-03-01 Thread John Carlarne
Hi, I have a Modular 560 USB modem that a friend leant me because my other modem is a windows modem. I have tried to locate drivers for my USB modem, but cant find any. Does anyone know where I can find some that might work? Many thanks in advance. John

Re: [newbie] VMware(again)

2001-03-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 00:06, marcia wrote: 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

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

2001-03-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Avifile (http://divx.euro.ru/) is wonderful for viewing ASF and DivX ;-) files - even better than Windows even though it uses Windows DLLs. Streaming support is being worked on. On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:07, Romanator wrote: "Coy L. Scott" wrote: Is there a Linux-compatible player for Windows

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

2001-03-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
You may be able to use Red Hat 6.x RPMs or SRPMs. SRPMs may be better since you can compile them for your Mandrake system. It'd be best to wait a few days for the official Mandrake ones, though. On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:33, MarkP wrote: Naidine \"Dede\" Leedom wrote: Just got this today.

Re: [newbie] Difference between a Linux link and a shortcut in prior OS

2001-03-01 Thread Randy Meyer
Kelley Terry wrote: You can edit the link by right clicking on it and select properties. In the opened window you can edit the name directly and also change the icon by clicking on it and selecting a new one. Permissions do remain the same as the file it's linked to for obvious security

Re: [newbie] usb cd writer

2001-03-01 Thread Ed Tharp
I would also like to know that... I have the same USB CD writer - Original Message - From: "Jamie M. Dyer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Newbie (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 4:31 AM Subject: [newbie] usb cd writer Is there any chance of getting my HP usb

[newbie] Missing Libraries?

2001-03-01 Thread John bale
Hello all, I was trying to install rpm files but it did not go because of dependency missing file, this file is liblcms.so.0. Could you please point me to the location of this file? Thanks in advanced. B.Rgrds John. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email

Re: [newbie] eth0 won't start on boot... / [expert] Network weirdness

2001-03-01 Thread Tim Holmes
Are you sure the card itself came up? As root run ifconfig and look to see if it shows the card and it's interfaces are all up. Now having had to edit /etc/modules.conf to add all those entries, I had to add the alias and options for io as well. Did you install some new hardware about the

Re: [newbie] Difference between a Linux link and a shortcut in prior OS

2001-03-01 Thread Kelley Terry
On Thursday 01 March 2001 03:48 am, Randy Meyer wrote: Kelley Terry wrote: You can edit the link by right clicking on it and select properties. In the opened window you can edit the name directly and also change the icon by clicking on it and selecting a new one. Permissions do remain

Re: [newbie] Installing Kernel

2001-03-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 05:24 pm, Robert Reed wrote: I'm trying to recompiling the kernel using: What kernel? on what LM version? $ make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install Several missing steps. See page 3 below, but you should prob'ly go thru the whole

RE: [newbie] Kmail won't connect

2001-03-01 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Kmail won't connect Don't think so, cause I'm able to connect to everything on the other computer. It is just the one computer that I have windows on one disk and linux on the other. It acts like the MSwin winsocket problem I used to have on occasion with windows but don't

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

2001-03-01 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release? Cool, so I can copy them from there to a temp folder in my /home and then if things go askew as they do frequently I still have them after a reinstall. Thanks for the info. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] usb cd writer

2001-03-01 Thread Franki
I got one too,, 8200 series burner, except that I have a 9200 series 12x burner in mine... works the same as it did before, just faster. it apprears that these things are quiet popular. hope someone has done it.. I want to use it for backup purposes. Frank Hauptle / / _

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

2001-03-01 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release? OOps, come to think of it is /var one of those partitions that would be under /home if you don't specifically make a partition for it when installing? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Difference between a Linux link and a shortcut in prior OS

2001-03-01 Thread Randy Meyer
Kelley Terry wrote: Permissions are the same. The name of the link can be changed independently of the original file. If you log into kde as root or another user with access to the original file only then can you change the name of the link. You can also 'su' in a terminal and then 'rm -f

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

2001-03-01 Thread brk
RR! Run from that shop. FAST. Don't look back. Not all ram is the same, there are different types with different internal funtionality. Windows does not, as a rule, use ram as agressivley as Linux does. Just "popping" the ram in to test it is not enough. The bios needs to be

Re: [newbie] logs..

2001-03-01 Thread Tim Holmes
For the most part I would have to say yes. It is safe to delete those. But I would go through them first. Just to make sure there aren't any isntall logs it there that you may need later for some support issue or something else. That's one reason why I keep install logs else where as well.

[newbie] Mustek scanner... slow!

2001-03-01 Thread Joan Tur
Hi! I've got a Mustek ScanExpress 6000 SP. It uses the g_NCR5380.o module for the Scsi ISA card. It's working but it's by far slower than under windows... Has anyone got that scanner scsi card? Help !! Thanxxx!! ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Starting programs ?

2001-03-01 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I've configured kppp to start netscape upon connection to internet but i don't know how to get more than one program started instead of only one... If i specify a file (chmod -x) containing one line for each program only the first one starts and, after closing the application, the second

Re: [newbie] Modular 560 USB modem: drivers please

2001-03-01 Thread Matt Schroeder
I went to the Modular Tech. website and there's a statement that a MMX CPU is essential. That's a pretty big tip off that this modem is ALSO a winmodem. There are USB winmodems. It says nowhere that this modem will not work in Linux but it does say minimum PC specs are a Intel 266 MMX or non

Re: [newbie] I want to burn Audio CD from MP3

2001-03-01 Thread Joan Tur
"Blomquist, Niklas" escribi: Hello All, I having some problem to burn Audio CD from MP3. I can burn normal CD, but If I try to brun Audio CD (with gcompust) it refuse to pad the CD. If I use Gnome Toaster, i'll get the error: cdrecord: Track 1 has unknown length cdrecrod: Cannot open

Re: [newbie] winmodems, cdrw and dvd

2001-03-01 Thread Joan Tur
carjam escribi: I have a winmodem. I saw someone give a link a while ago to a page which gives instruction for getting some winmodems to work. Where is it? linmodems.org -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de

Re: [newbie] untar commands?

2001-03-01 Thread Tim Holmes
For the most part, if you download a tar.gz file, it has the source and that's what you're isntalling from. So you have to compile and install. The basic formate for that goes in 3 commands. ./configure That will configure the install information so it can be installed. make That command

Re: [newbie] Modular 560 USB modem: drivers please

2001-03-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 01 March 2001 10:40 am, Matt Schroeder wrote: I recommend an external standard serial modem. The port nobody uses anyway... I have a ZOOM 56K external that Mandrake detects just fine. Which is all fine and good, most external serial modems work well, altho they take more

Re: [newbie] VMware(again)

2001-03-01 Thread marcia
Dear Anyone, I just tried formatting my drive as the vmware instructions suggest. How do I know what my drive letter is? I used A:\ FORMAT C: /S and just got an error message of invalid drive specification. Does anyone know how to use DOS and format the drive so I can install my WIN95? Any help

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

2001-03-01 Thread Andrew Rice Jr
Alan... have you tried to use a newer version of Linux Mandrake 7.2? You will find out that it supports more video drivers than 7.0 AcidBurna - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 3:00 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] A

[newbie] What's wrong with my DVD?

2001-03-01 Thread Matt Schroeder
I have been running Mandrake 7.2 Kernel 2.2.17 and at bootup I see that my DVD is assigned to dev/hdd (Pioneer 6X) Yet when I try to use the DVD drive for a cdrom it does nothing and says the device doesn't exist. What didn't I do to get it to work? I try to mount it and it never works... In

Re: [newbie] graphical login background..

2001-03-01 Thread Adrian Smith
howdy. i didn't notice if anyone had answered your question, and i'm a few days behind on email, so if you haven't found the answer yet, it is located at: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/troubles/tquick7.html right at the top of the page. i used this method with 7.2 it works perfect. have a

[newbie] ** Off Topic ** Comando DOS

2001-03-01 Thread Édison Andrés
Hello All, anybody knows how can i do a program that give an input of the user? thanks. -- dison Andrs Rivera Norea Ingeniero de Sistemas Departamento de Informtica Universidad de San Buenaventura Medelln - Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos

Re: [newbie] VMware(again)

2001-03-01 Thread Buzz and Nan
1. Place your floppy disk with format.com an fdisk in the computer and boot. 2. Fdisk the drive make fat16 or fat32 hit ESC and make it active. 3. reboot the machine and format the drive with format c: /s You can install Linux anywhere after (If you haven't allocated the hard drive for Win95).

Re: [newbie] Linux partitioning

2001-03-01 Thread Anthony
Your partitioning scheme, with 3/4 root, 1/4 home, and the rest swap sounds good to me. You definitly want /home on it's own partition, so that if you ever need to reinstall or upgrade, you can just format the root parititon, but keep all your /home files safe. I'm reading up on setting

Re: [newbie] Help on g77 installation

2001-03-01 Thread Anthony
Are you in the directory that the readme file is in? There should be a file called "configure" in there somewhere. You have to be in the progam's directory to run ./configure correctly. I have Mandrake 7.2 and I'm trying to install g77. Accordind to the installing instruction I shound run

[newbie] Gnome Menu Edit was: Difference between a Linux link and a shortcut in prior OS

2001-03-01 Thread Paul Rodríguez
While on this topic, sort of, does anybody know how to change the permissions on the gnome menu edit? I want to allow users to add programs to the menu. -Paul R -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Randy Meyer Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001

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

2001-03-01 Thread brk
why not just spool him to a black hole? - Original Message - From: Ryan Le Gros [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this iscrazy. cause we said it isnt. and we are the overgod

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

2001-03-01 Thread Dave Sherman
No, /var is on the root ( / ) partition if it is not its own partition. Dave On Thursday 01 March 2001 08:03, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: OOps, come to think of it is /var one of those partitions that would be under /home if you don't specifically make a partition for it when installing?