[newbie-it] Sound

2001-04-07 Thread Mavricijo Babic
Ho un soundblaster del tipo creative AVE 64, qunado guardo su DarkConf vedo cche e installato, pero se qunado voglio ascoltare qualce CD or qualce Mp3 non sento nesun sound. Cosa posso fare, sono un pricipante su Linux? Grazie

R: [newbie-it] linux sul secondo hard disk

2001-04-07 Thread bartosz szarata
io sono riuscito instalare linux sul secondo disco solo da instalazione expert facendo partycioni. -Messaggio originale-Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di emi80Inviato: sabato 7 aprile 2001 0.09A: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Oggetto: [newbie-it] linux sul

R: [newbie-it] Re: Modem Conexant

2001-04-07 Thread Demis
E' bello vedere che SIAMO riusciti a superare un ostacolo cos difficile! Le prime volte che ho utilizzato il driver Olitec avevo cambiato anche la stringa di inizializzazione da ATZ in AT e risultava l'unico modo per far funzionare il mio modem. Adesso non funziona +! Ho

[newbie-it] SUSE 7.1

2001-04-07 Thread Francesco Speranza
Con Linux Magazine di aprile e' uscito il CD di SUSE 7.1. Volevo provare questa versione con il kernel 2.4 ma il cd non parte all'avvio.Ho provato in vari modi ma non ci sono riuscito. Sul readme si legge che alcuni bios non potrebbero supportare il boot di questo cd . Come devo fare per

Re: [newbie-it] linux sul secondo hard disk

2001-04-07 Thread Francesco Speranza
Potresti impostare l'HD ide per Linux come primario e quello con Win come secondario ( come ho fatto io... ) e in questo modo mandrake si installera' direttamente sul primario senza alcun problema e senza nessuna partizione. - Original Message - From: bartosz szarata

Re: [newbie-it] linux sul secondo hard disk

2001-04-07 Thread bosva
emi80 wrote: Un po' di tempo fa c'era stata una discussione sul fatto che linux mandrake potesse essere installato sul secondo HD. A riguardo avrei una domanda da fare: ho aggiunto un altro hard disk al mio computer e vorrei installare linux sul secondo. Il problema e': se sul primo

RE: [newbie-it] SUSE 7.1

2001-04-07 Thread Rocco T
On 07-Apr-2001 Francesco Speranza wrote: Con Linux Magazine di aprile e' uscito il CD di SUSE 7.1. Volevo provare questa versione con il kernel 2.4 ma il cd non parte all'avvio. Ho provato in vari modi ma non ci sono riuscito. Sul readme si legge che alcuni bios non potrebbero supportare

Re: [newbie-it] linux sul secondo hard disk

2001-04-07 Thread Lele
bosva ha scritto: emi80 wrote: Un po' di tempo fa c'era stata una discussione sul fatto che linux mandrake potesse essere installato sul secondo HD. A riguardo avrei una domanda da fare: ho aggiunto un altro hard disk al mio computer e vorrei installare linux sul secondo. Il

Re: [newbie-it] napster C.

2001-04-07 Thread Corrado
ioadamo wrote: ciao a tutti Qualcuno di voi sa per caso indicarmi qualche clone di napster che funzioni sotto linux e i risultati che avete ottenuto. Io ho usato Knapster, Gnapster, Lopster, napster, ma non sono riuscito a scaricare quasi nulla perch molti server rifiutavano la connessione

[newbie] Space

2001-04-07 Thread Michael Falzon
Hi All need more space how can i do this with out reinstall O's Mandrake 6.1 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/hda7 1.9G 1.7G 144M 92% //dev/hda1 23M 786k 21M 4% /boot/dev/hda5 5.6G 3.0G 2.2G 58% /home/dev/hdc 612M 612M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom/dev/hdd 631M 631M 0 100%

Re: [newbie] a.out .. I couldn't run it

2001-04-07 Thread Jesse C. Chang
Did you try: ./a.out ? Also, I'm not sure if it matters or not, but is the path of a.out in your .bashrc file? Jesse -- !! Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [___] `|' "I have the simplest tastes. I am always /|\ satisfied with the best." -- Oscar Wilde

RE: [newbie] ADSL setup

2001-04-07 Thread Dan Sampsel
Dave, Thanks in advance for the help.what's already been provided is greatly appreciated. 1. Ran netconf. verified corrected outlined info. 2. Quit netconf; had to manually restart network. A. error reported: done-with error Bringing up interface eth0 determing IP info for eth0 via

Re: [newbie] LM 7.2 LM 8.0 Beta 3 experiences

2001-04-07 Thread Carlos Arigs
El Sbado 07 Abril 2001 11:58, escribiste: Alan was gracious enough to try an help with the KDE 2.1.1 update for LM 7.2, but to know avail, all I got were pages of dependancy errors. So i reinstalled LM 7.2 two more times after that because once software updates would not work, and could not

[newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Value

2001-04-07 Thread Terry
Many thanks to all those who helped with my problem of upgrading to KDE 2.1.1 .. I was finally able to get things working (after spending literally hours weeding through all the dependency issues there were). Everything seems to work just wonderfully, except for my sound card. The module is

Re: [newbie] Shutdown with power down; how?

2001-04-07 Thread Nathan Russell
On Saturday 07 April 2001 11:24, Craig Hagerman wrote: While I am on the subject, where can I change permissions to allow non root users to shutdown from a terminal. (I am the only user.) Tried using sudo?

[newbie] Verisign Digital IDs and Linux. Do they work?

2001-04-07 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, Has any one bothered to get a digital ID from Verisign? And, what is a challenge phrase? Is it worth getting? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Turbo Charged Penguin Email

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Value

2001-04-07 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 07 April 2001 11:23 am, you wrote: Many thanks to all those who helped with my problem of upgrading to KDE 2.1.1 .. I was finally able to get things working (after spending literally hours weeding through all the dependency issues there were). Everything seems to work just

[newbie] linux on a notebook

2001-04-07 Thread inf rarood
hello can anyone tell me if i can fit mandrake on a notebook/and how to do this i am using 7.2 thanks in front

Re: [newbie] linux on a notebook

2001-04-07 Thread Dave Sherman
A notebook PC is no different than a desktop PC. If you have enough hard drive space, RAM, and a powerful enough CPU (at least a Pentium), you can install Mandrake Linux on it. However, you should be aware that Mandrake might not have full support for your hardware. This is less of an issue

Re: [newbie] Creating Calendars

2001-04-07 Thread David E . Fox
On Monday 02 April 2001 09:57, you wrote: Dear All, I do a bi-montly 5 page newsletter using MSWord. I use the calendar Wizard for the calendars and events. I want to begin to do this I wonder if you could take the template file from MSWord that does the calendars (I'm not sure what it is

Re: [newbie] Partition Corrupted.

2001-04-07 Thread David E . Fox
On Tuesday 27 March 2001 08:21, you wrote: I have 64 MB SWAP in my Linux Mandarake 7.2 box, i want to make it 125MB, can i do it without re installation ? Can i do it without data loss ? i If you have extra space somewhere else, you don't even have to resize your partitions if you add

Re: [newbie] LM 7.2 LM 8.0 Beta 3 experiences

2001-04-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
g wrote: I just erased LM 8.0 beta 3 and went back to LM 7.2 because i was having problems with screen resolution and other oddities. I haven't had the greatest experience yet with LM 7.2, and it could be because my pc is about 5 or 6 years old Dell Dimensions XPS R400 addl 256K Ram

[newbie] hjow do i resize my /home partition?

2001-04-07 Thread Jeffrey C.
i need a little help on how to resize my /home partition, i have a 1.2 gb hdd. i want to resize the area of my harddisk where my programs are installed for linux. since i dont need a whole lot of /home space, i would resize the area where packages are installed so i can load more. i have a 512mb

RE: [newbie] linux on a notebook

2001-04-07 Thread Jeffrey C.
--Original Message-- From: "inf rarood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 4, 2001 9:44:05 AM GMT Subject: [newbie] linux on a notebook hello can anyone tell me if i can fit mandrake on a notebook/and how to do this i am using 7.2 thanks in front if you have a hdd big

[newbie] XFree86-4..

2001-04-07 Thread H . J . Bathoorn
Hello everyone, I've been looking all over the place: How do I get Mdk 7.2 NOT to use XFree86-4.x..x. but good old XFree86-3.3.6 when starting X. I mean which file (and where) can I edit, using DrakConf etc. is not an option if Xwindow will not start. Otherwise: how do I uninstall

[newbie] KDE 2.1.1 + Mozilla 0.8.1 for LM72

2001-04-07 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Just wanted to pass on the good news that KDE 2.1.1 (the upgrade from KDE 2.1) is now available in i586 rpm format from: http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org All of these i586 rpms (just issued on April 7) have been built from the Cooker site and made available on LM72 (i.e. using our

Re: [newbie] linux on a notebook

2001-04-07 Thread Robert F. Trettel
Check out this site http://www.linux-laptop.net you should find anything here. Enjoy yourself R.F. Trettel - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey C." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 4:43 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] linux on a notebook --Original

[newbie] Removing a full directory via command line

2001-04-07 Thread Andrew Iovannisci
Hi all, Is there a way to delete a non-empty directory via the command line without going through the trouble of removing every file and sub-directory first? -- Thanks, Andy Mandrake 7.2 KDE 2.1 kernal 2.2.17 Registered Linux User # 202836

Re: [newbie] Removing a full directory via command line

2001-04-07 Thread Jesse C. Chang
Andrew Iovannisci wrote: Is there a way to delete a non-empty directory via the command line without going through the trouble of removing every file and sub-directory first? rm -r directoryname Jesse -- !! Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [___] `|' "I have the simplest

[newbie] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar!

2001-04-07 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: My deep apologies. I assumed that the KDE 2.1.1 files (and the Mozilla 0.8.1 files) at Texstar (http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org), which claims be an exclusively LM72 rpm site, would have produced rpms that work with LM72's rpm version 3.0 and that they would also supply rpms for all

Re: [newbie] LM 7.2 LM 8.0 Beta 3 experiences

2001-04-07 Thread g
gwhat size is your hard drive? 400MHz internal/ 100MHz external L1 cache = 32 KB L2 cache = 512 KB System Chip set = Intel 440BX AGPset Data bus width = 64 bits Address bus width = 32 bits DMA channels = 7 Interrupt levels = 15 Sys BIOS chip = 2 Mb (256 KB) Sys clock = 100 MHz 30 GHz

Re: [newbie] Vmware

2001-04-07 Thread Syamsul Anwar
many thanks I'll try to set to these :) On 6 Apr 2001, at 20:09, Nima S. Panahi wrote: Well, I guess I will answer since I don't see anyone answering this. Correct me if I am wrong, but are not the ports at /dev/par0 and the such /dev/parport and the such? /dev/lp0 and the such? On Thu, 5

Re: [newbie] Update problems

2001-04-07 Thread s
I've found that force is never good. When using updates, I tell it to quit and then get what it says it needed, then retry. If what it needs isn't on the update list, check your cds (in rpmdrake), or even rpmfind.net. -s On Saturday 07 April 2001 09:32 am, you wrote: I am running LM 7.2. I

Re: [newbie] Removing a full directory via command line

2001-04-07 Thread Andrew Iovannisci
On Saturday 07 April 2001 20:30, you wrote: Yeah, use rm - r directory name make sure that there is no alias for rm that asks for confirmation for deletion, otherwise if you delete a large directory structure, you will get to confirm lots and lots of files. Ahh, I have an alias rm="rm -i"

Re: [newbie] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar!

2001-04-07 Thread Stan Finley
I just installed the KDE 2.1.1 rpms from texstar without a hitch on 7.2. Works fine here. Stan - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Sher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: [newbie] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar!

Re: [newbie] Removing a full directory via command line

2001-04-07 Thread Jesse C. Chang
Andrew Iovannisci wrote: Ahh, I have an alias rm="rm -i" that is forcing me to confirm the deletion of every file. So, how do I get rid of the alias? unalias rm Jesse -- !! Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [___] `|' "I have the simplest tastes. I am always /|\

Re: [newbie] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar!

2001-04-07 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Stan: Could you please send us a copy of your TexStar KDE 2.1.1 directory of rpms and a second directory of DEP (any dependencies which you had to install prior to installing KDE 2.1.1? This would be a great help, indeed. Thank you so much. Benjamin On Sunday 08 April 2001 01:04, you

Re: [newbie] Removing a full directory via command line

2001-04-07 Thread Digital Wokan
Prefix it with a backslash. That overrides aliases. \rm -r /home (just kidding about the /home part) Andrew Iovannisci wrote: Ahh, I have an alias rm="rm -i" that is forcing me to confirm the deletion of every file. So, how do I get rid of the alias? -- Thanks, Andy -- Digital Wokan,

[newbie] Trying for the KDE 2.1 from KDE 2.0

2001-04-07 Thread g
i was not able to update all my LM7.2 packages under DrakConf, Sotware update, rcvd following msg when i tried updating gtk+licq, licq, kdelibs and kdelibs-sound licq is needed by gtk+licq Force or Quit Same for kdelibs and kdelibs-sound I choose quit on both these. So i then went and

Re: [newbie] XFree86-4..

2001-04-07 Thread Steve Helder
I was able to get the option on which version of XFree86 to install when installing in expert mode. I also choose development, but don't think that should matter. The Mandrake installer asked me I think right at the X server configuration. Steve - Original Message - From:

Fw: [newbie] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar!

2001-04-07 Thread Stan Finley
- Original Message - From: "Benjamin Sher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Stan Finley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar! Dear Stan: Thanks so very much. I will try again. May I ask if you could send this

Re: [newbie] LM 7.2 LM 8.0 Beta 3 experiences

2001-04-07 Thread Dan Sampsel
Alan Shoemaker wrote: g wrote: I just erased LM 8.0 beta 3 and went back to LM 7.2 because i was having problems with screen resolution and other oddities. I haven't had the greatest experience yet with LM 7.2, and it could be because my pc is about 5 or 6 years old Dell

[newbie] Internet security + Harddisk optimise danger + Wheel mouse.

2001-04-07 Thread Charles Darcy
Hi, I've just installed Linux Mandrake 7.2. It's early days yet, but after years of frustration with that other poor excuse for an OS, I'm really looking forward to a stable, sensible environment. All is going well so far, but I do have a couple of concerns, mentioned below. I very much

Re: [newbie] XFree86-4..

2001-04-07 Thread Anthony
On Saturday 07 April 2001 18:15, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hello everyone, I've been looking all over the place: How do I get Mdk 7.2 NOT to use XFree86-4.x..x. but good old XFree86-3.3.6 when starting X. I mean which file (and where) can I edit, using DrakConf etc. is not an option if

Fwd: Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 and XFree86 4.0.3

2001-04-07 Thread Anthony
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 and XFree86 4.0.3 Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 09:33:27 -0600 From: Salvatore "Eric" Indiogine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], msoltys [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recently I upgraded KDE 2.1 - 2.1.1 with XFree86 4.0.3. I had

Re: [newbie] Internet security + Harddisk optimise danger + Wheel mouse.

2001-04-07 Thread Dennis Myers
I can address only one of the issues, and that is security. I have installed PMFirewall in the past, but now use Linux-Bastille. It is a free firewall and has a very nice gui for configuration. It will explain a bit about what each of the selections are about and advise what is the best thing

Re: [newbie] Removing a full directory via command line

2001-04-07 Thread Daniel J. Ferris
I think I sent that message to your real e-mail address instead of the list. Whoops. :-) Anyway... At the command line just type: unalias rm Then rm will no longer be aliased by the shell. Just please PLEASE remember never to run rm -r as root or you face the very real danger of trashing

[newbie] Bt878 ATI TV Wonder VE

2001-04-07 Thread Jeff
I have this Tv card and didn't even think it would work in linux but it shows up in HardDrake. So I went looking around and saw that it should work with bttv. It doesn't work with Kwintv as is. Before I start downloading kernel 2.4 and switching around stuff I'd like to make sure that it's not

[newbie] KDE 2.1.1 for LM72 -- Success After All!

2001-04-07 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Well, looks like I was wrong again. But this time it's a pleasant surprise. Let's go back to the KDE 2.1.1 upgrade for LM72 site from Texstar at: http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org This site has i586 rpms for LM72 that will allow you to upgrade your current KDE to the final version

[newbie] do you remove a sound card

2001-04-07 Thread Michael Falzon
Hi All Just one thing how do you remove a sound card Why ? had a old sb 8 bit card, with the new m/b it does not have 8 bit ISA port so i had to remove the old card Michael FalzonLast Of The BBs SysopMozy's Swamp BBs Red Dwarf BBshttp://mozysswamp.yi.orgRegistered Linux user #204397