Re: [newbie] Partition information?

2001-03-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
The problem with df is that it only lists mounted partitions and it omits swap partitions. I believe there is a programme called gpart that can identify partitons, even damaged ones. On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 06:03, Michael O'Henly wrote: > Oh, boy. I don't know if Linux is up for that! :-) > > Try

Re: [newbie] Mandrake needs a readme file fro KDE2.1 Final Release RPMS install instructions needed

2001-03-09 Thread Gerry
You know, the dependencies are there for a reason.. Only override if you have the stuff needed but it's not recognized by rpm. And now, a little clip from Discworld! :) Dead man: "Am i going to hell ?" Death: "If that's what you want.." (find the hidden meaning and shut up, 8beta-threaders) Ge

Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?

2001-03-09 Thread Dennis Myers
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Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?

2001-03-09 Thread nlilly
Here are what the metioned services do; you decide if you need them: IRDA = IR communication.  Do you use an IR device? XFS  = The Xfont server.  Normally required for X windows to run... rawdevice =  is used to bind a Linux raw character device to a block device. fetchmail = is a  mail-r

RE: [newbie] STOP

2001-03-09 Thread Jeff Norris
I agree. This 'was' one of the better groups that I subscribe to. A true wealth of information by some very knowledgeable people. Now it has proven to be a chore to receive messages only to delete them because about half are crap and have nothing to do with Linux. There are many, many different fo

RE: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?

2001-03-09 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Certainly! For starters, I learned xFS is necessary to run X. It's a font server, apparently you can tell xfree86 not to need it somehow by editing some files, but I'm not sure why you would want to. And fetchmail only seems to be necessary if you are running a mail server (or I was told if you

Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?

2001-03-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Sorry, I am not trying to answer the question here - I am merely adding to it. There are some other services I have queries about. I have looked at the services section at mandrakeuser.org but it hasn't been updated since Mandrake 7.1, so it is missing a few entries. * drakfont: I do use TrueT

[newbie] STOP

2001-03-09 Thread John Arkoulis
This is becoming annoying. STOP THAT THREAD PLEASE

Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta

2001-03-09 Thread KompuKit
Thanks Greg...but we know satan has them decieved...BIGTIME... all we can do is TRY...(and TRY, we must) Greg wrote: > > better get right with god now before its too late > all he was trying to do help you > --- PcNews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree and couldn't have said it better! > >

Re: [newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta Mandrake 8

2001-03-09 Thread Digital Wokan
It can be really rough doing distro beta testing. I couldn't even consider doing it if I weren't on a cable modem. When you deal with Cooker/betas, you have to accept the fact that you may download stuff that may not even be an installable OS. So you try again later in the day/week and see if t

Re: [newbie] 8.0 beta

2001-03-09 Thread Michael O'Henly
On Friday 09 March 2001 18:26, KompuKit wrote: > enjoy ...while you still can... Or what? Please. I've tried to ignore this thread for several days. I'm not confrontational by nature, but I've really had enough. I take part in this mailing list because I often need help with

Re: [newbie] 8.0 beta

2001-03-09 Thread Michael O'Henly
On Friday 09 March 2001 18:26, KompuKit wrote: > enjoy ...while you still can... Or what? Please. I've tried to ignore this thread for several days. I'm not confrontational by nature, but I've really had enough. I take part in this mailing list because I often need help with

Re: [newbie] Mandrake needs a readme file fro KDE2.1 Final Release RPMS install instructions needed

2001-03-09 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 09 March 2001 20:17, you wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Do to the lack of a readme file, I ran an rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force > *.rpm, as I was getting all sorts of dependency errors while upgrading > from KDE2.1 beta 2 to KDE2.1 Final Release. Bad idea. I had to reinstall > MDK7.2. > > I'm ba

Re: [newbie] don't unintialize XFS!

2001-03-09 Thread nlilly
Here are what the metioned services do; you decide if you need them: 1)IRDA = IR communication. Do you use an IR device? 2)XFS = The Xfont server. Normally required for X windows to run... 3)rawdevice = is used to bind a Linux raw character device to a block device.

Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta

2001-03-09 Thread Greg
better get right with god now before its too late all he was trying to do help you --- PcNews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree and couldn't have said it better! > > At 09:23 AM 3/8/2001 -0600, you wrote: > > >Please keep the religious masturbation of the list > serve. I realize that > >y

Re: [newbie] Unable to upgrade Mandrake rpms for KDE2.1 Final Release

2001-03-09 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 09 March 2001 18:09, you wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I just downloaded all of the Mandrake rpms. However, I cannot get the > upgrade to work from KDE2.1 beta 2 to KDE2.1 Final Release. I copied all > of the rpms to the same folder, and typed in: rpm -Uvh *.rpm > > The following is breakdo

[newbie] cdr file formats

2001-03-09 Thread Linuxgirl
Are there any cd recording programs for linux that will let you record a .bin image (like cdrwin for windows) or .cdi image (like diskjuggler for windows) ? Thanks,

Re: [newbie] change animated .gif to open source format?

2001-03-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
PNG format does not allow for animation. The best format to use would be MNG, the multiple-image version of PNG. It does not contain any proprietry compression techniques (like GIF does). You probably could convert the image using something like The GIMP. On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 08:15, Franki wro

Re: [newbie] 8.0 beta

2001-03-09 Thread Michael O'Henly
[What, you mean GOD reads this list? Well, Leapin' Jeeezzz, if I'd only known...!] Yo, Big Guy! (GOD)! Can you _pulllze_ make KDE 2.1 Final save the default to US=Letter when I'm printing? Please. I'll be good, l promise! M. On Friday 09 March 2001 19:19, Kompu

[newbie] don't unintialize XFS!

2001-03-09 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Hey, thanks for the info. But if you see my post "I seem to have made a mistaek myself", it's not a good idea to uninitialize xFS, it's needed by X. You can tell xfree86 not to use it by editting some files, but there's no need to do this. -Paul R -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [newbie] Firewall (Dave!)

2001-03-09 Thread John C
I have looked into Freesco and actually had it running at one point. I am wondering if you just used NAT or if you added any goodies yourself? I am on a cable connection and currently use the NetBSD from www.dubbele.com. The NEtBSD solution works...I guess as I don't know much of navigating thru

Re: Even further off. Re: WAAAYYY OT! (Was: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta)

2001-03-09 Thread Digital Wokan
I'm sorry for that last one. I'm going to attach a cord to my computer that gives electrical shocks when I click "reply". At least then I'll really want to respond to something.

Re: [newbie] 8.0 beta

2001-03-09 Thread Michael O'Henly
On Friday 09 March 2001 18:26, KompuKit wrote: > enjoy ...while you still can... Or what? Please. I've tried to ignore this thread for several days. I'm not confrontational by nature, but I've really had enough. I take part in this mailing list because I often need help with

[newbie] Mandrake needs a readme file fro KDE2.1 Final Release RPMS install instructions needed

2001-03-09 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, Do to the lack of a readme file, I ran an rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm, as I was getting all sorts of dependency errors while upgrading from KDE2.1 beta 2 to KDE2.1 Final Release. Bad idea. I had to reinstall MDK7.2. I'm back to square one KDE2. Which rpms are need to upgrade to

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2001-03-09 Thread Derek Field
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Re: [newbie] New 8.0 thread

2001-03-09 Thread Michael O'Henly
I'm running the beta on a dual-boot system. Overall, I think it's pretty good for the first go-round but there are several pieces still missing. Many people have reported problems with sound, you can't yet burn CDs, there are some packages still to be added, etc. I'm booting into 8.0 using GRU

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1

2001-03-09 Thread Michael O'Henly
On Friday 09 March 2001 09:46, you wrote: > Has anyone managed to upgrade to KDE 2.1 from Mandrake 7.2? Is there a > comprehensive explanation of how to upgrade? Thanks for any advice, Oder. These are NOT official instructions, but they were written for people testing the Mandrake 2.1-for-7.2 RP

Re: [newbie] Partition information?

2001-03-09 Thread Alan Shoemaker
DRX wrote: > I have gone and lost the paper on which I had written > down what partitions on the hard disk contain which Linux > partitions. Is there some way to get informaion about this > in Linux -- some kind of command I can give, or some kind > of application I can run? > > The bes

Re: WAAAYYY OT! (Was: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta)

2001-03-09 Thread Riker
To this stupid thread! I invited a friend over to experience the wonders of Linux Mandrake and to learn just what it could do for him. I thought, "I will show him the message list so he can observer, in action, the support he can expect." Low and behold all this garbage was floating around and he

Re: [newbie] So very off topic....

2001-03-09 Thread Michael O'Henly
On Friday 09 March 2001 17:12, you wrote: > Agreed, this is the wrong place to talk about it. But I didn't bring it > up. As far as those on the list that are most upset about those of us who > may try to share our Christianity, they never seem to understand that we > are trying to help them.

Re: [newbie] KFM problem

2001-03-09 Thread Alan Shoemaker
jhun bacala wrote: > Greetings, > > My LM 7.0 hangs up when trying to browse the folder /mnt > with a win98 directory on it. What seems to be the problem? > > jhun jhunif I remember correctly, there is a need for there not to be any uppercase characters in the names of the mountpoint direct

[newbie] New 8.0 thread

2001-03-09 Thread Roger Sherman
So, Im planning on installing 8.0b tomorrow, but I hear LILO wont work with it yet, and that Ill have to use a boot disk with it. But I also heard the feature to make a boot disk doesnt work yet either...what should I do to be able to boot into the system once installed? Or do I have it all wrong?

[newbie] Cable modem: solved

2001-03-09 Thread falcaraz
Well, It was easy than I expected. The cable modem configuration from Drake wasn't successfull because the location of dhcs was impossible. I runned windows and then winipcfg to know if the IP, DNS and Gateway where fixed (the advertisment said "automatic") and there where!!. The next thing to

Re: [newbie] So very off topic....

2001-03-09 Thread mark
Agreed, this is the wrong place to talk about it. But I didn't bring it up. As far as those on the list that are most upset about those of us who may try to share our Christianity, they never seem to understand that we are trying to help them. Most seem to think we're trying to get you into it

Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta

2001-03-09 Thread Romanator
Why don't we stopped responding to this and the thread will die out. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 The Original Tux Email Thread Creator Rob Regennitter wrote: > > On Thursday 08 March 2001 07:23 am, you wrote: > > (PERFORMING THE EXORCISM) DIE THREAD DIE! (SPLASHING THE HOLY WAT

Re: [newbie] Made LILO mistake -- Please Help

2001-03-09 Thread Jack Gillis
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 01:27:38 -0800, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Yes! and thank you very much. >Jackedit (as root) the first line of /etc/lilo.conf to >read: > >boot=/dev/hda7 > >and save it. Then in console mode as root, execute lilo, >like this: > >/sbin/lilo -v

[newbie] Unable to upgrade Mandrake rpms for KDE2.1 Final Release

2001-03-09 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, I just downloaded all of the Mandrake rpms. However, I cannot get the upgrade to work from KDE2.1 beta 2 to KDE2.1 Final Release. I copied all of the rpms to the same folder, and typed in: rpm -Uvh *.rpm The following is breakdown of the error messages: error: kdebase-2.1-2mdk.i58

Re: [newbie] Firewall

2001-03-09 Thread Dave Sherman
On Friday 09 March 2001 08:36, Quaylar wrote: > At 18:24 08.03.2001 -0600, you wrote: > >On Thursday 08 March 2001 12:23, you wrote: > > > Hi, > > >First I want to thanks Mark Johnson and Glen > > > Leinweber for help about C functions. > > > > > >I have a question about firewalls. I have

[newbie] automatic login?

2001-03-09 Thread Jose Ramon
Hello to all! We are trying to do a machine for connect to Internet, but we need that this thing perform an automatic login, that is to say, the machine has to perform a login automatically after has been powered on. Somebody know how to do it? Thank, and sorry for my english

Re: [newbie] Partition information?

2001-03-09 Thread Dale Kosan
"df" maybe?

Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta

2001-03-09 Thread mark
The fact that you would rather talk about sex and pedophilia than religion shows how far this generation has fallen On Thu, 08 Mar 2001, you wrote: > > Please keep the religious masturbation of the list serve. I realize that you feel >superior in your religious standing, but what you don't

Re: [newbie] How to find help about C functions

2001-03-09 Thread Gerry
> Hi, > I would like to learn more about some C/C++ functions, > for example: strrchr(). How can I find descriptions of > functions? There's man pages for all c/c++ functions.. Type.. man funtionname ..in the shell to access them. You can access them in konqueror as well. Just open konqueror a

Re: [newbie] GRUB Question

2001-03-09 Thread -
How does this relate to the subject, 'GRUB'? Apparently, you have Mandrake 7.2 running so the subject isn't 'GRUB'; it's "drive access from a working LM7.2". That aside, ---Most likely, with two hard drives, if you have Windows, it's on hda1 and LM7.2 is on a second HD alhough it could just as

RE: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1

2001-03-09 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1 I do not know the root of your problem, but I am running 7.2 with KDE 2.1 and it is lightning fast. I can open 5 or 6 different functions like Konqueror on line with Kppp in a 56k modem, have rpmdrake going, open a console and run kedi

RE: [newbie] HP CD Writer 9500

2001-03-09 Thread Wehling, Rich
Thanks . thought I would not be able to use the new cd burner for a while ... I take it there are "generic" drivers in the 7.2 distribution for HP cd writers .. -Original Message- From: KompuKit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [newbie] X windows crashed

2001-03-09 Thread Randy Meyer
Kyle Baker wrote: > > Did you just install KDE 2.1? Because when I installed its RPMs > I encountered the exact same problem. Instead of going into X > it would just kick me into a non-GUI login screen. Couldn't > ever get around it so I just re-installed (I was needing to do a > clean install

Re: [newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta Mandrake 8

2001-03-09 Thread Vic
I was using the ADSL connection thingy. I could config it later with linuxconf tho. Setup was for static ip. On Friday 09 March 2001 04:39 am, so spoke Neville Cobb: > I had the same problem an could not connect to the internet via a modem > after the installation. Following your install were y

Re: [newbie] automatic login?

2001-03-09 Thread Matt Schroeder
Sure, it's an option right in the install of Mandrake 7.2 When it asks if you want to automatically start X answer yes. Then when it asks you if you want it to automatically log in a user say yes and enter the user and password. Good luck! - Original Message - From: "Jose Ramon" <[EMA

Re: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1

2001-03-09 Thread Michael
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > take a very close look at the programs that are running automatically at boot time. >That could be the source of your problems. > > Abe > Is there anything in particular I should be looking for? Michael

Re: [newbie] 24 hrs -- not just for the military

2001-03-09 Thread Kipling Cooper
* Shane Roppel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07 Mar 01 18:23]: > I'm not big on the whole military time thing here... could someone tell me > how to change the time format kde2 to 12 rather than 24? FWIW, the 24hr clock is used by many who work shifts, such as medical staff (like my mother) and railwayme

Re: [newbie] change animated .gif to open source format?

2001-03-09 Thread Ed Colmar
I'd like to see it! -e-

[newbie] Question about zope default username and password

2001-03-09 Thread Gary Nielson
I recently installed Mandrake 7.2 and want to use Zope. However, you need the username and password to log into the admin screen. I found the file, access, that contains the username, but the password is encrypted. The username for the root user is superuser. But nowhere can I find the password. C

[newbie] ftp server Broken

2001-03-09 Thread Vic
Hi Does anyone know how to fix the ftp server software in Traktopel version? Mine is broken

[newbie] Grub startup delay is not working !

2001-03-09 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I'm using mdk72 & grub. The problem is that i've got an startup delay of 5 seconds in /etc/lilo.conf, but on startup the default OS won't start until i press Enter. My lilo.conf has the following line: "timeout=50" Also when i type #lilo it works but "Warning! BIOS drive 0x82 may not

RE: WAAAYYY OT! (Was: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta)

2001-03-09 Thread Kelly, Christopher
The Bible actually does say that the earth is a sphere/circle. I believe that it is in Job. Moose -Original Message- From: KompuKit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 12:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WAAAYYY OT! (Was: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta) Oh Lord...

[newbie] startx monitor problem

2001-03-09 Thread martijn
Hello, i have configured my monitor with drakxconf as a custom. When I test this configuration it looks ok but starting startx go's very slow (upto 4 minutes) and my desktop looks realy strange. I have installed lnx4win on C:. Starting with startx - -8bpp or startx - -32bpp doesn't help.

Re: [newbie] OFF TOPIC - about the ridiculous 8.0 betaresponse

2001-03-09 Thread Adrian Smith
no kidding. get a life people. or get a web site and post you venting there. all the whining is far more offensive than the original comment. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Jay needs a Guinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12:10:43 PM 3/7/01 >>> In this day o

Re: [newbie] I seem to have made a big mistake myself.

2001-03-09 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Paul Rodríguez wrote: > I'm not sure what I did, my system was running SO nicely! > > But I think it is because I turned off the XFS (X Font > Server) from the startup services. All of a sudden, my > system crashed (or rather swicthed to run level 3 and froze > at sending processes the term signa

RE: [newbie] Cable modem

2001-03-09 Thread bob mike
ITs NOT the irq.. U have to call your cable modem connection company and talk to them. They can give u the settings you need. If this is @home, you have to convice them to send you to senior tech support. Also you dont need dns stuff for setting up your cable modem. All you need is hostname.. (ur

[newbie] can´t listen audio on xawTV or KwinTV

2001-03-09 Thread Emilio Correa
Hi, I wanna know why I couldn't listen TV audio when I am watching TV (by anntena) with kwinTV or xawTV. I have LM7.2 and WinFastTV 2000. The audio outlet of the sound card is connected to the audio inlet of the WinFastTV 2000. Despite this, I can listen a normal Music

RE: [newbie] Grub timeout!!!

2001-03-09 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Tom, use your windows bootdisk and do a fdisk -mbr. Then reinstall Grub. It sounds like something got hosed. Moose -Original Message- From: Thomas Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Grub timeout!!! I ru

Re: [newbie] Partition information?

2001-03-09 Thread Michael O'Henly
Oh, boy. I don't know if Linux is up for that! :-) Try "df" at the command prompt. Cheers. M. On Thursday 08 March 2001 16:09, you wrote: > I have gone and lost the paper on which I had written down what > partitions on the hard disk contain which Linux partitions. Is there some > way t

Re: [newbie] SB32 is not working

2001-03-09 Thread Lúcio Costa
At 19:17 09/03/2001 +0100, you wrote: Hallo!! I'm using mdk72.  I use harddrake to set up SB32 -sndconfig is not installed by default (i'm using su)-.  It plays 8 and 16 bit samples with no problem but when i reboot it no longer works.  And i cannot use harddrake again: i cannot choose the IRQ an

RE: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1

2001-03-09 Thread Mark Johnson
You know, I understand all this but you'd think that you could run all typical daemons without adversely effecting the performance of your machine. At home I run both 7.2 and W2k, I counted 40 services running on W2K and the machine works fine. However, my 7.2 is a bit sluggish. I tried to disab

[newbie] Partition information?

2001-03-09 Thread DRX
I have gone and lost the paper on which I had written down what partitions on the hard disk contain which Linux partitions. Is there some way to get informaion about this in Linux -- some kind of command I can give, or some kind of application I can run? The best thing would be if I co

RE: [newbie] How to find help about C functions

2001-03-09 Thread Mark Johnson
If you have all the development man pages installed correctly, you should be able to do: man strrchr -Original Message- From: Branislav Karic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] How to find help about C functions H

Re: [newbie] xmess

2001-03-09 Thread Gerry
> Has anybody had any luck using (non-windows) emulators > such as xmess (included on LM 7.2) to work? I was > excited to play some of my old Commador64 and atari > games, but don't really know how to get started. For Commodore 64 you should use The VICE, which gives 99,99% accurate emulation..

Re: [newbie] Grub startup delay is not working !

2001-03-09 Thread Philomena
Hi, GRUB doesn't use lilo.conf, it uses a file called menu.lst in the /boot/grub directory. You just need to edit that file, set your timeout . You may need to run install.sh to install grub onto your MBR, if it isn't there now. cheers, philomena At 06:17 PM 3/9/2001 +0100, you wrote: >Hall

Re: [newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta Mandrake 8

2001-03-09 Thread Miark
My 30-hour download of Traktopel finished last night :-) When I tried to install it, I go a million errors related to problems with packages. I'd get the pic of the bulldozer, then a window reporting there was a problem loading bzip, info-install, libgpml, etc. I got this a couple of times, so I t

Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?

2001-03-09 Thread Jeremy Hughes
> Paul Rodríguez wrote: > > Hi, I'm in the process of trying to secure my system. I have > pmfirewall set up and working well, but there are a lot of holes > still. One of the things that I am trying to do is minimize > unnecessary startup services, both for speed and security. I've shut > a b

Re: [newbie] Newest Gnapster has BIG BUG in it

2001-03-09 Thread Vic
Uh oh, I bet that could be, as the Sprint router that my backbone provider goes through has been having serious speed problems lately. Dang, its gotta be corrupt download then. I'm running the new Traktopel 8 version, I hope that one';s compilers are not buggy. On Friday 09 March 2001 03:37 am,

[newbie] system sounds

2001-03-09 Thread KompuKit
I can't get any system sounds... I hear Licq sounds, MP3s, midi's, wavs...if clicked on separately... but not any systems sounds...why? do i need to install ALSA -- Registered Linux User: 167369 <= http://www.kompukit.com => [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Hi-res bit depth on Nvidia cards

2001-03-09 Thread Ravi Sohal
I have been playing around with the 7.X and 8.0 Mandrake distros on two machines. One has a Riva TNT card, the other has a GeForce 2 MX. Under Mandrake, I can't get either to run in true color at higher than 1024 x 768. I thought this was a problem with X but the current Red Hat beta will allow

[newbie] Gnu-pop3d problems...

2001-03-09 Thread Arlé Mooldijk
Hi All, I've got a problem with gnu-pop3d in combination with Linux Mandrake 7.2 (I don't know if it also happens with other Linux distributions). Gnu- pop3d is installed from gnu-pop3d-0.9.8-3mdk.i586.rpm. What happens is the following: gnu-pop3d is started with 'service gnu-pop3d start', this

Re: [newbie] kde2.1 help

2001-03-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 08 March 2001 05:41 am, Dale Kosan wrote: > Sorry if this has been answered before, I am trying to install the new > kde2.1 final on my Mandrake 7.2 box.I downloaded all the rpms and did a > rpm -Uvh *.rpm --test, this is the result: You might want to see if you get any reponses

Re: [[newbie] Linux PDA: would you use one?] Not based on . . .

2001-03-09 Thread donald hinds
I wouldn't based on my experience with LM-7.2. I can only boot in graphical mode, even FAILSAFE crashes with a Kernel Panic. I can't install a USB (model supported by Linux-USB.org) modem, can't install Wordperfect 8 (2 CDs & download tried), I can install Corel Photopaint 9 (1 CD and one download

[newbie] SB32 is not working

2001-03-09 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo!! I'm using mdk72. I use harddrake to set up SB32 -sndconfig is not installed by default (i'm using su)-. It plays 8 and 16 bit samples with no problem but when i reboot it no longer works. And i cannot use harddrake again: i cannot choose the IRQ and DMAs i choosed before (they aren't a

[newbie] 8.0 beta

2001-03-09 Thread KompuKit
BELIEVE as you will...that is "your" (entitled)...decision... I speak truth...and only truth... it is not my fault...if others can not accept the truth... I only SHARE the truth !! I forgive you for your "misunderstanding"...of the truth... I will never water down ANY truth,,,to do so, would

Re: [newbie] adsl and connection loss

2001-03-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 08 March 2001 10:15 am, Quaylar wrote: > i know for sure that its not the isp, because they say they dont have an > idle timeout.. > > --quay and you've never caught 'em in one of their lies ? yet ;) -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, he's

[newbie] RPM Updating

2001-03-09 Thread John Rye
Sometime ago there was a series of posting regarding upgradeing/updating RPM to current versioning (4.???). I haven't been able to locate those posting. Could someone point me in the right direction, I remember there was a progression involved. I'm currently running L-M7.1 and rpm-3.0.4 and ke

Re: [newbie] 8.0 and just!burn

2001-03-09 Thread Roger Sherman
Thanks, Jim, FireBurner did the job! BTW, www.fireburner.com, in case anyone was wondering... On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jim Lyons wrote: > At 12:44 PM 05/03/01 -0500, you wrote: > >I downloaded the 8.0 isos last night, and want to burn them to disc, but > >I'm not quite sure how to go about it. I have

RE: [newbie] 8.0 Beta

2001-03-09 Thread Hans N.
This is not a forum for religion. Keep in mind that the entire world is not Christian...It is highly offensive to push your religious beliefs upon someone who comes here for advice on a computer operating system. If I, and the many other users who clearly come from areas that are traditionally NON

[newbie] KDE 2.1

2001-03-09 Thread Oder Santos
Has anyone managed to upgrade to KDE 2.1 from Mandrake 7.2? Is there a comprehensive explanation of how to upgrade? Thanks for any advice, Oder.

Re: [newbie] OFF TOPIC 8.0 beta response

2001-03-09 Thread Ed Tharp
just to keep this up... (with tongue firmly implanted in right cheek) and when did the almighty leave you in charge to decide what is or is NOT "political correctness" (ands heck ain't you from an island name Ireland, if-n you-n a Celt? and by the way do you all know what the phrase (excuse please

[newbie] I seem to have made a big mistake myself. [resolved]

2001-03-09 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Phew!   Ok, folks.  I've learned the XFS is very essential to running X.  I've also learned how to start the XFS from the command line.  I turns out I was able to just "ctrl"+"c" the "sending all processes the TERM signal", bringing me to a login prompt at runlevel 3.  I logged in as root a

[newbie] Can ADOM run on Linux-Mandrake?

2001-03-09 Thread Kipling Cooper
Hi there! The short question is in the subject, here is some detail: Compiling adom from source seems to go fine, but then when I run it, it dumps core (which I do not yet know how to analyze) Is this easy to do? Installing adom from the rpm (adom-099g15-3.i586.rpm) seems simple enough, requir

Re: [newbie] KFM problem

2001-03-09 Thread Thomas Adam
Hello, I have had the same problem as you... here are a few things that you could try: 1. Make sure that your Win98 partition is mounted before you browse the directory. I know that LM mounts these folders automatically but that sometimes can cause it to hang 2. Failing that, make sure that

Re: [newbie] UNREGISTAR??

2001-03-09 Thread Philomena
go here and follow the instructions: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 At 05:59 PM 3/7/2001 -0800, you wrote: >how can i unsubscibe from this mailing list? > > >__ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. >http:/

[newbie] Example using tee command

2001-03-09 Thread Mark Johnson
Would anyone happen to know how to use the tee command? I have written a shell script call mailfile and I was trying to do something like this: tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep "foobar" > foobar.txt | mailfile foobar.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED] however that doesn't work like I thought it would. I lo

[newbie] Fwd: KDE2.1 and sound

2001-03-09 Thread Mick Featherstone
I have recently upgraded to KDE 2.1 following civileme's instructions and noting other information on the list. I have a problem with sound: Previously it worked fine with KDE 2.0, I have a Soundblaster live player 5.1, I get no sound on start up, System sounds do not work, however directly p

Re: [newbie] My gimp is stuck on print to file

2001-03-09 Thread Mark Weaver
Jeff, If you installed and setup Cups then you could check for your printer in the Cups admin tools that are under the configuration menu and printers. But that might have little or nothing to do with Gimp acting strangely. Besides..uninstalling and reinstalling Gimp isn't going to have any effe

Re: [newbie] How to find dependencies?

2001-03-09 Thread DRX
On Tuesday 06 March 2001 09:58:58 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: >Now if locate or whatprovides turn up nothin, then go to, >http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/and search libXaw.so.7 > which returns XFree86-libs-4.0.1-28mdk-i586.rpm (among many others >and other distros) > When I clicked on

Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?

2001-03-09 Thread Randy Meyer
Jeremy Hughes wrote: > > > Paul Rodríguez wrote: > > > > Hi, I'm in the process of trying to secure my system. I have > > pmfirewall set up and working well, but there are a lot of holes > > still. One of the things that I am trying to do is minimize > > unnecessary startup services, both for s

Re: [newbie] foolish question

2001-03-09 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
On Wednesday 07 March 2001 17:17, Emilio Correa wrote: > Hi, I lost the task bar in KDE, How can I restore it? It should come back when you run "kpanel"; right-click on the desktop, go to the menu-item "run command" and put kpanel in the space provided. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of th

Re: [newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta Mandrake 8

2001-03-09 Thread Neville Cobb
Vic wrote: > > Hello list. > > Upon installing the new Beta Mandrake Traktopel 8 > release on a system using an AMD K6-400 cpu, > 192Mb system ram, S3 Virge video card, 10Gb Quantum harddrive UDMA 33, > with VIA chipset, AWE64 Soundblaster ISA card, a zip250 > using the zip zoom card (aic7xxx),

Re: [newbie] Newest Gnapster has BIG BUG in it

2001-03-09 Thread Michael Scottaline
mandrake wrote: > > Hello sorry about OT, > but there is no gnapster lsit, > but i know some of you do gnapster. > > The latest release has a bug, it wont even compile. > > I would do the rpm instead, or wait for the stable > release. > > > [root@kittypuss gnapster-1.4.2]# make =

Re: [newbie] Made LILO mistake -- Please Help

2001-03-09 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jack Gillis wrote: > I just made a mistake in installing. I forgot to tell the > installer to put LILO in hda7, my boot, partition. It went > into the MBR and that messed up my IBM Boot Manager. I got > that straightened out with fdisk /newmbr but now I need to > get LILO onto hda7 so Linux will

[newbie] no postscript printers in linuxconf

2001-03-09 Thread Rooms Frédéric
Hello, I try to print with lpr under mandrake 7.2. I installed the rhs-filters, printtool, control-panel and of course the lpr rpm. When I add a printer with linuxconf I can't choose a postscript printer. Has anyone a solution ? PS: I have installed once again the ghostscript package. Fré

[newbie] KFM problem

2001-03-09 Thread jhun bacala
Greetings,   My LM 7.0 hangs up when trying to browse the folder /mnt with a win98 directory on it. What seems to be the problem?   jhun -Click here for Free Video!!http://www.gohip.com/free_video/

[newbie] Where are the KDE Header files?

2001-03-09 Thread - Ron -
Hi all.. When trying to compile knapster (among others) I often get the message below. I have check my CD distro (7.2) and the KDE 2.0 upgrade cd to no avail. I seem to have all the other development stuff okay and can usually compile and install without problems. What RPM do I need?? I check

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