R: [newbie-it] ASDL

anch'io ho stipulato quell'abbonamento con la telecom.E ricordo che ho cercato di configurarlo ma non ci sono riuscito. su un newsgroup pero' un ragazzo aveva postato la stessa domanda e gli avevano risposto che USB per il momento non funzionava. Bisogna neccessariamente avere la scheda di

[newbie-it] Problemi con kmid

Ciao, ho un problema con l'applicazione kmid. Mi dice che /dev/sequencer non e' accessibile (sembra usato da un'altro programma, mentre cosi' non e'). Come posso fare per rimediare ? Grazie, Alberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie-it] antialiasing dei font

Non vorrei dire una "boiata", ma credo che per l'anti aliasing tu abbia bisogno di un kernel 2.4.x... cosa l'anti aliasing? osva

Re: [newbie-it] antialiasing dei font

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 23:20:19 +0200 Andrea Colanicchia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ovvero, visto che molti hanno riscontrato problemi nel passare al Kernel 2.4.X, perch le distribuzioni non sono ancora ben aggiornate, non vorrei fare i vari upgrade e poi scoprire che non mi funziona tutto per

[newbie-it] problemi con kde2.1.1

ciao a tutti ho installato kde2.1.1 ma 1-non vedo pi il control center, ovvero vedo solo il pannello ma mancano tutti i moduli 2- si crasha nsplugins all'avvio de kde da che cosa pu dipendere e cosa devo settare? ciao

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

g wrote: 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 =

Re: [newbie] Trying for the KDE 2.1 from KDE 2.0

g wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] RE: cannot install

Maureen L. Thomas wrote: Thanks Civileme, I quess I'll start saving for a different HD. I am currently using 7.2 , was going to try 8.0 beta but have no way to download (no burner). I did finally get to the second drive (also a WD 10.4) and was able to get GRUB to work and can now go to

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

Just because I can't help myself, RTFM! OPTIONS -d, --directory Remove directories with `unlink' instead of `rmdir', and don't require a directory to be empty before trying to unlink it. Only works for the super-user. Because unlinking a

[newbie] upgrade RPM 3 to 4 -- Where?

Dear friends: I recently heard that Red Hat has produced a special RPM package that will allow Red Hat 6 users (who use rpm version 3 to upgrade packages that are built with rpm version 4). If so, does anyone know where I can find this information, and, more importantly, what is the opinion

RE: [newbie] upgrade RPM 3 to 4 -- Where?

No But if you find it please let me know Have a nice day -Message d'origine- De: Benjamin Sher [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: lundi 9 avril 2001 07:13 :Newbie Objet:[newbie] "upgrade" RPM 3 to 4 -- Where? Dear friends: I recently heard that Red Hat has produced

Re: Griff, you're fired Re: [newbie] stupid ftp server broken

Vic, Just how many times have you fired "boogerbutt" this year? :) Mark On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Chubby Vic wrote: Thank you so much for the advice, I can now log in from here. I don't know how to thank you. Please excuse Griff's abuse of my system, I fired the boogerbutt. On Sunday 08

[newbie] Alan - Help, I can't take it anyore. Trying KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.01

OK, lets just try the first upgrade and see if that will work. Sorry, thanks for playing but no upgrade for you. error: failed dependencies: kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.0-5mdk I downloaded kdelibs-2.01-2mdk.i586.rpm and it is sitting in the download directory

[newbie] RH 6 src.rpm for Mozilla 0.8.1 -- URL!

Dear friends: If you would like to download the Red Hat 6 src.rpm file for the recent Mozilla 0.8.1 of March 26 (compatible with LM72), go to: http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/software/RH6/SRPMS/ The exact name of the file is: mozilla-0.8.1-1.src.rpm 06-Apr-2001 02:10 29.9M This will

[newbie] Need help installing 2 NICs

I'm setting up a firewall system for a DSL connection using 7.1. I'm using 2 identical ISA NE2000 comp. cards. Win98, on the same machine, recognizes both of them and sets them okay. I'm assuming I have to get Linux to recognize these before I can assign them as eth0 and eth1. The installer

Re: [newbie] Alan - Help, I can't take it anyore. Trying KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.01

In my experience and humble opinion, Upgrades are always evil! It either doesn't add something, or it's unstable. I've tried this with many OS's, meanwhile Windows is the worst at this, but I did upgrade 7.1 to 7.2 and it burped or something because it wouldn't read my .bashrc. The system would

RE: [newbie] Alan - Help, I can't take it anyore. Trying KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.01

Title: RE: [newbie] Alan - Help, I can't take it anyore. Trying KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.01 If you do what I did, that is install using the --nodeps, the files should work fine and your installation can proceed. Just load up one or the other with nodeps and then the next one should have no dependency

[newbie] compiling kernel

hello Since a while I've been having problems compiling the 2.4.x kernel on LM7.2 and what should I put in the processor type section. I am current ly using a Duron 700 and I choose the Athlon/K7 as processor type to be compiled for. BTW is there any guide to intalling glibc 2.2 on mandrake.

[newbie] Slow hdd access

hi all I'm runing mandrake 6.1 with a ata 100 m/b and ata 66 hdd i'm sure that the drive is not way running up to speed, how do i set it up to run faster ( i have try to use webadmin it ok till i have to reboot ) Michael FalzonLast Of The BBs SysopMozy's Swamp BBs Red Dwarf

[newbie] I think I got through 2.0 to 2.0.1 now 2.0.1 to 2.1

Thank you everyone for your help. I think I made it to 2.0.1 even though when i click KDE about it reads 2.0, so maybe I didn't. But I am now trying for 2.1 and here's what I have, it appears kdeaddutils 2.0.3 is not liked: #rpm -Uvh * package kdeaddutils-2.0-3mdk is already installed

RE: [newbie] Slow hdd access

Try Mandrake 8.0 -Message d'origine- De: Michael Falzon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: lundi 9 avril 2001 16:22 :[EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet:[newbie] Slow hdd access hi all I'm runing mandrake 6.1 with a ata 100 m/b and ata 66 hdd i'm sure that the drive is

RE: [newbie] Slow hdd access

Check the hdparm settings. Moose -Original Message- From: Michael Falzon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Slow hdd access hi all I'm runing mandrake 6.1 with a ata 100 m/b and ata 66 hdd i'm sure that the

[newbie] DiskDrake w/ PartitionMagic

I recently installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on a machine that already had a single Windows Me partition on a 60G IBM hard drive. Although I'd already purchased a copy of PartitionMagic (v. 6.0) I wanted to put Mandrake through its paces, so I used DiskDrake to reduce the size of the FAT32 partition

Re: [newbie] Sound card not working in KDE 2.1.1

Hello Terry When i installed KDE i miss to install package (arts) after i have installed that it works fine for me BR/Kjell mndagen den 9 april 2001 12:57 skrev du: Can anyone shed some light why my sound card won't work after I upgraded my LM 7.2 running KDE 2.0.1 to 2.1.1? This is

RE: [newbie] Apache/virtual hosts

I did it a few times. have you made the ip aliases for your external connection? the easiest way to set it up is to use linuxconf,, this is one of the thins that linuxconf does without messing things up. or you can add them via editing httpd.conf. can't remember the syntax, but next time I am

Re: [newbie] Apache/virtual hosts

try using Webmin. also do you have more than 1 ip address for each web site. Thanks Bill Nash - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 1:54 PM Subject: [newbie] Apache/virtual hosts Does anyone have any real (working)

[newbie] PcTel and Mandrake 8.0

Hello: Has anyone had any luck or even made the attempt at getting the Pctel micromodem working the 8.0 betas that are out? It works great in 7.2 and I would like to get it working in 8.0 beta3 so when the final version comes out, I'm ready and can make the transition. If any has any idea

Re: [newbie] Apache/virtual hosts

Put the following in your httpd.conf file. (of course replacing what you need to to make it fit your system) NameVirtualHost IPADDRESS VirtualHost IPADDRESS ServerAdmin Admin_email_address ServerName www.first.com DocumentRoot /home/www/first ErrorLog

Re: [newbie] cc1plus?

[cclay@www cclay]$ make test g++ test.cpp -o test Generally, 'test' is not a good name for a test program because there exists a shell builtin / external program also called 'test' which will most likely not do what your test program does. command line: warning: "system" re-asserted

Re: [newbie] RH6 Mozilla src.rpm fails

I must sadly report that my attempt to rebuild the RH6 src.rpm of mozilla 0.8.1 has failed. Lots of error messages have caused the rebuilding to abort. Haven't tried the src.rpm. How did it just abort? Did you get a signal 11 or something? I built mozilla (0.7?) once from source just to see

RE: [newbie] Apache/virtual hosts

Bill, No I'm using the same IP for all three sites... Isn't that what virtual hosting is all about? I have an additional IP but I want to run all three sites from the same machine and one IP, so I can have an IP for my workstation. Where do I get Webmin? Jason -Original Message-

[newbie] Bootnet.img problems

I know this is supposed to bea mandrake forum but I commonly see posts about Suse and other distributions. I'm currently using Mandrake 7.1 but not wanting to buy any more cd's but still wanting to upgrade I decided to attempt a network install of redhat. If anyone knows how to do a network

Re: [newbie] cc1plus?

Since you apparently have this cc1plus file could you please tell me which package provides it by issuing the following command: rpm -qf /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/cc1plus Thanks cclay - Original Message - From: "David E. Fox" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [newbie] Apache/virtual hosts

virtual hosting can be anything.. I have 7 seperate domains with different IPs running from one box with apache.. I am not sure, but I think if you have 3 domains, all with the same IP address, I think you will have troubles unless you want them to all have the same page... Although I think

Re: [newbie] locked cd roms

new system (Athalon 750, 250 meg ram etc...) with mdk 7.1 and a GoldStar CD-RW. It seemed to work fine, and I even burned a couple of CD-r's and I recently upgraded as well, but I don't have a cd-rw (at least not yet). I don't know if this is really apropos, but "locked" cdroms are usually

[newbie] problem with too much ram

Hi everyone, I have a problem with adding RAM that I hope someone can help me with. We have a Compaq SP750 (dual P3 866 Xeon) that had 1.5GB of RDRAM. When we added another 512MB to bring the total up to 2GB, the LM7.1 installed on the machine refuse to boot. It gets to the place where it's

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers

Todd, Oh, if you figure out the "off" thing -- where the screen just goes black (I'd love it if I could get that to stop so the screen saver really did just run indefinitely, though I turn off the 'xset s noblank' man xset for the myriad of options available. Yes. I've tried

Re: [newbie] Sound card not working in KDE 2.1.1 .. fixed - new problem

Thanks Kjell!! That did the trick all right. Terry Now if only I can figure out how to get Konqueror working properly with Java ... lol Anyone have any luck with this one? I've tried Sun's JRE, IBM's JRE, and Blackdown's .. Sun's wouldn't work, IBM's worked the first time and quit after

Re: [newbie] cc1plus?

rpm -qf /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/cc1plus Says gcc-g++-2.95.2-12mdk.i586.rpm . Actually, I goofed a little, there's a 2.95.3 subdirectory underneath /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/ . Here's what my system reports for 'rpm -qa | grep gcc' gcc-cpp-2.95.2-12mdk

Re: [newbie] problem with too much ram

Most motherboards have a certain amount of RAM it will support. A lot of them stop at 1.5 GB. The one I have does support 2 GB. But you should check the web page for the Motherboard and find out if that board will support the 2GB All I know is I'm jealous... 1.5 GB and a dual processor

Re: [newbie] Slow hdd access

First of all, unless you have the newest kernel, 6.1 does NOT support ata/66 or ata/100. Second, try hdparm settings like hdparm -u1 -c1 -d1 -m8 -a8 -X66 /dev/hda # or hdc or wherever you have these hdds. check before with three tries of hdparm -t /dev/hda only the third result is likely

RE: [newbie] Apache/virtual hosts

virtual hosting can be anything.. I have 7 seperate domains with different IPs running from one box with apache.. I am not sure, but I think if you have 3 domains, all with the same IP address, I think you will have troubles unless you want them to all have the same page... Although I think

RE: [newbie] problem with too much ram

Don't be jealous... The machine is being used by the whole dept. (about 5 heavy duty users) for running large computational tasks. It originally came with 512MB RAM, but one user's "modest" job brought the machine to its knees. That's why we are adding RAM like that. (We actually have 2

[newbie] mdk7.2 kernel 2.4.3

Hi all Well I did it and for someone as new to linux as me I am positively beeming ;-) And for all the others who had a problem out there this is what you do 1 # cd /usr/src 2 #rm linux (it is a symbolic link pointing at the current kernel) 3 #tar -xvzf linux-blah.tar.gz 4 #mv linux

Re: [newbie] problem with too much ram

"Liaw, Andy" wrote: Don't be jealous... The machine is being used by the whole dept. (about 5 heavy duty users) for running large computational tasks. It originally came with 512MB RAM, but one user's "modest" job brought the machine to its knees. That's why we are adding RAM like that.

RE: [newbie] Apache/virtual hosts

I just talked to a Linux guy in my company and he said the he is running 4 different web domains on the same machine with the same IP for all the domains. He says you tell the people hosting your DNS server that you want all your domains and sub-domains i.e.. www, ftp and mail for each

RE: [newbie] NIS XFree86 login problem

For those that may come across this in the future, I have solved my own problem as usual. Make sure that the server and client machines are using the same user id and group id for the users files. My Debian machine had a userid of 1000 while the Mandrake machine was using 501. Once I chown and

[newbie] Dual processor MB ?

Hallo! I'm thinking about upgrading my CPU (K6-3-400) and, as i'm using linux 95% of my time i suppose it's better a dual processor architecture, isn't it?? If so... what MB should you suggest? And what processor/speed ?? Thanks ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] problem with too much ram

On Monday 09 April 2001 15:18, you wrote: Hi everyone, I have a problem with adding RAM that I hope someone can help me with. We have a Compaq SP750 (dual P3 866 Xeon) that had 1.5GB of RDRAM. When we added another 512MB to bring the total up to 2GB, the LM7.1 installed on the machine

Re: [newbie] compiling kernel

On Monday 09 April 2001 10:46, you wrote: hello Since a while I've been having problems compiling the 2.4.x kernel on LM7.2 and what should I put in the processor type section. I am current ly using a Duron 700 and I choose the Athlon/K7 as processor type to be compiled for. BTW is there

[newbie] RealPlayer

I recently switched from Windows to LM 7.2 and, while it has been a challenge, I am quite pleased. I do have a couple of issues, though. I am using Realplayer as a Netscape plugin and the quality of audio is awful. It seems to download in fits and starts with inadequate buffering. Changing

Re: [newbie] compiling kernel

hi well /usr/src/linux/include/asm/ points to asm-i386/ which seems ok to me. by any chance, does the 2.4.x kernel need glibc2.2? cheers dooshiant Original Message Follows From: A V Flinsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie]

[newbie] Frequency update cd's?

I kep seeing in the newsgroups abut this frequency update cd that mandrake supposedly sells on there website, yet I can't find it. Am I blind or does someone just not know what they are talking about?

Re: [newbie] How long should upgrade from CD take?

Well, no that's not normal. It should take about 30 seconds to a minute for the next screen to appear and begin loading packages. Whatever you were trying to repair the installation for is keeping it from upgrading. Come back with more details, or easiest thing - reinstall from scratch. -s

[newbie] file server

My uncle is wanting to designate a computer as a file server at his office. He wants his employees to save their work on the servers harddrive, and he wants the server to automatically back the files up on a second harddrive that is inaccesible from the other computers. Would this be difficult

Re: [newbie] Sound card not working in KDE 2.1.1 .. fixed - new problem

I used sun's from the 2.1beta2 downloads, and put the path in settings/configuration. Something like: /usr/java/bin/java, or was it /usr/java/lib/java? Anyway, do a locate and add that path in your config. -s On Monday 09 April 2001 02:47 pm, you wrote: Thanks Kjell!! That did the trick

Re: [newbie] Frequency update cd's?

Jon Doe wrote: I kep seeing in the newsgroups abut this frequency update cd that mandrake supposedly sells on there website, yet I can't find it. Am I blind or does someone just not know what they are talking about? Jon: Go to the Mandrake homesite -- it's the first entry on the page. Just

Re: [newbie] RH6 Mozilla src.rpm fails

Dear David: Thanks so much for writing. Well, I tried to rebuild the RH6 mozilla 0.8.1 src.rpm again, this time with a --target=i586 and failed again at exactly the same point JSHTMLPreElement.pp nsJSHTMLPreElement.cpp make[3]: *** [nsJSHTMLPreElement.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [install] Error 2

Re: Griff, you're fired Re: [newbie] stupid ftp server broken

Well, sometime last summer, I had to boot Allen because he was lazy and did not want to get things done when I asked him to, then I found out that he was spamming from my server, I found a huge list of e mail addresses on a zip disk on my desk in here that he left out one day, I noticed a whole

Re: [newbie] Frequency update cd's?

On Monday 09 April 2001 03:31 pm, you wrote: I kep seeing in the newsgroups abut this frequency update cd that mandrake supposedly sells on there website, yet I can't find it. Am I blind or does someone just not know what they are talking about? I got mine less than a week after placing my

Re: [newbie] Telnet vs SSH

you can shutdown with telnet log in as a user, su to root and then shutdown -r now - Original Message - From: "Tim Holmes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 1:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Telnet vs SSH The difference is in security for the most part.

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers

Meph Istopheles wrote: 'xset s noblank' Yes. I've tried it, but it's ignored. Are you sure it's noblank...? Positive. I will say that I have worked on one system that I absolutely could not get it to stop blanking. My next suggestion would be to look in the BIOS, but now I'm guessing.

Re: [newbie] ATI XPERT 98 card

I use this video card and have no problem @ 1024 X 768. I think it failed beacause you picked 3D mode. I tried 1 time and got blank screen like you got. If you choose automatic install, The program will let you test graphic card at each mode. Remember: do not try 3D mode @ Linux-Mandrake 7.2. It

Re: [newbie] compiling kernel

On Monday 09 April 2001 19:27, you wrote: hi well /usr/src/linux/include/asm/ points to asm-i386/ which seems ok to As it should for an Intel system., don't think the amd is all that different. me. by any chance, does the 2.4.x kernel need glibc2.2? Not that I know of, I compiled a 2.4

Re: [newbie] Alan - Help, I can't take it anyore. Trying KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.01

g wrote: I downloaded kdelibs-2.01-2mdk.i586.rpm and it is sitting in the download directory w/all the other files? each says it needs the other. You can specify more than one file on the command line to be installed. Assuming that all the required rpm files are in ~/rpms, you can do the

Re: [newbie] Weird compile-time error for GAIM

Nathan Russell wrote: -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux/CORE perl.c:34: EXTERN.h: No such file or directory perl.c:38: perl.h: No such file or directory perl.c:39: XSUB.h: No such file or directory The hints are all there, just not easy to pick out. (answer below) Look at how it's

Re: [newbie] Need help installing 2 NICs

Lon Lentz wrote: 2 identical ISA NE2000 comp. cards. Win98, on the same machine, recognizes same here both of them and sets them okay. I'm assuming I have to get Linux to recognize these before I can assign them as eth0 and eth1. The installer You must first know the io and irq addresses

Re: [newbie] compiling kernel

s wrote: BTW is there any guide to intalling glibc 2.2 on mandrake. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/Help___How_To/Glibc-2_2/glibc-2_2.html The only thing he missed was also putting /usr/local/lib in the ld.so.conf file. Almost everything that gets installed from source will put things in the

Re: [newbie] Bootnet.img problems

Adam Willcox wrote: I know this is supposed to be a mandrake forum but I commonly see posts about Suse and other distributions. I'm currently using Mandrake 7.1 but not wanting to buy any more cd's but still wanting to upgrade I decided to attempt a network install of redhat. If anyone

[newbie] anti-aliasing and X problems :(

I'd recently upgraded my Mandrake 7.2 installation to KDE 2.1.1, XFree 4.03 and QT 2.3 using the officially available RPMs. There was a "use anti aliasing for fonts" option in "Styles" section of KDE Control Center, so I ticked it, rebooted it and...there doesn't seem to be any difference??

Re: [newbie] Re: I want Micro-EMACS

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, abe wrote: What? I do all of my text editing/writing in emacs and I have the downloaded verison. I can't imagine that the "complete" version wouldn't have it since the download version is basically the first to disks of the other versions. Fire up drakconf, start

Re: [newbie] anti-aliasing and X problems :(

You didn't specify which XFree86-4.0.3 rpms you were using. Last I heard (and admittedly it's been a week or so since I thought about it), only the 4.0.3-3 supported aa fonts. But you had to update glibc to 2.2 to use them. The other alternative is to compile qt, kde and xfree86 yourself

Re: [newbie] cc1plus?

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, cyberclay wrote: Since you apparently have this cc1plus file could you please tell me which package provides it by issuing the following command: rpm -qf /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/cc1plus Thanks cclay On my 7.2 system cc1plus is in

RE: [newbie] compiling kernel

I'm also getting this problem. When I boot the new kernel I get the follow module! module! error net-fr-1 I imagine that it has something to do with the network. I'v tried changing all the thing that could be changed with out success. I'v gone throught the whole complie process. Checked Lilo