Re: [newbie] Aureal Vortex 2 is weird

2001-05-13 Thread Michael D. Viron
Adam, First, please try not to post in HTML if you can avoid it, as many people (especially those using text based e-mail clients), will see a lot of extra stuff. Now to the question: I've never really tried heavy gaming on a Mandrake system, but decided to reply anyways--have you checked to

Re: [newbie] install problem?

2001-05-13 Thread Ed Kasky
I finally had the time to play with this - it seems that lilo does not automatically get configured for the correct root partition. Using the Promise Ultra 100 controller, I checked what the install had automatically set the / partition to be for lilo. It was set to hde1 even though I

Re: [newbie] Detect only 2GB from 20GB

2001-05-13 Thread Kheb
On Sat, 12 May 2001 06:04:53 -0700 (PDT), Goh Huade said: Hi, I just buy a new IBM 20GB hard drive, while installing mandrake 7.2 it only uses 2GB. It is unable to view the rest 18GB, Any idea? Check the pines back of your hard disk, you have that change it, for works correctly

Re: [newbie] Scanner not working...

2001-05-13 Thread Michael D. Viron
Pentium 133mhz processor 80mb RAM about a 10mb hard drive (IDE) about a 8mb hard drive (IDE) 10 and 8 mb hard drives? You'd be hard pressed to install Mandrake 7.2 on 18mb worth of drive space. Michael

[newbie] USR internal modem

2001-05-13 Thread Allen Joseph M Hernandez
Hello to everyone! Total newbie hereI need some advice. I have an old Celeron 400 system I just rehabilitated and I want it to run Linux. Problem is I only have cds for 7.1 [kernel 2.2.14]. Installation went well except that it's having issues with the only modem

Re: [newbie] useless shockwave

2001-05-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Try installing kdebase-nsplugins-2.1.1-13mdk.i586.rpm from the Mandrake 8 CD (I'm assuming you have LM8 here). Otherwise, get a package of the same name from http://ww.rpmfind.net for LM7.2. In the KDE control centre, there should now be a section in the Konqueror settings for Netscape

Re: [newbie] Which distribution to use as server?

2001-05-13 Thread Lanman
Ted; Firstly, you can install either 7.2 OR 8.0 , and instead of installing as a server, you can install as a workstation and use the server packages/services anyway. The 2 things to watch for is that your machine will not be as secure, because the xserver will leave ports open to the

Re: [newbie] useless shockwave

2001-05-13 Thread Sam
BTW be sure that netscape-plugins is also installed - I didn't know that it isn't installed by default in LM8 (at least in my machine), and was scratching my head for a while, wondering where I'd gone wrong. :P You might also want to install plugger while you're at it. On Sunday 13 May 2001

RE: [newbie] USR internal modem

2001-05-13 Thread Franki
well, your first step should be checking to find out if it is a winmodem, ,go and look at 3coms site,,, if it is, head over to linmodems.org and see if it is one that can be setup.. The server setup is something you will have to read up on,, use man apache. mandrake can install it for you

Re: [newbie] curious

2001-05-13 Thread Tim Holmes
iIf you check out the webmin, there's something in there for MajorDomo. So yes, you will be able to manage and config THE MAJOR from webmin. You just have to install it first. The RPM may be on the downloaded disks. Just make sure you have all the requirements when installing to avoid errors.

[newbie] USR Internal Modem

2001-05-13 Thread lee
I have an old Celeron 400 system I just rehabilitated and I want it to run Linux. Problem is I only have cds for 7.1 [kernel 2.2.14]. Installation went well except that it's having issues with the only modem I have left that's any good. I just wanted to ask for advice on how I can

Re: [newbie] USR Internal Modem

2001-05-13 Thread Randy Kramer
lee wrote: Gotta make sure it's not a winmodem. So 1st make sure your bios is not set to plugplay 2nd...if your modem has jumpers that take it out of plugplay..do those too. I have no idea if this 3com does or not. Perhaps a more knowledgable soul can chime in here.Then configure your modem

Re: [newbie] cable modem - attenuator - bad md5sums

2001-05-13 Thread skip
bascule now, when i did this sort of thing with dial up i only had one bascule md5sum fail, but with my new super fast cable job (70 Kbyte/s bascule ish) despite gozilla claiming that all downloads were bascule successful the md5sum is different in every case ... I'd try using a

Re: [newbie] Chmod chown and files with spaces in their names..

2001-05-13 Thread skip
franki When it runs, it errors on alot of directorys because some of franki the old web sites have spaces in their directory or file names.. Franki, Try using the printf action of the find command to quote the file names: find . -type d -printf '%p'\n | xargs chmod 755 find .

RE: [newbie] Chmod chown and files with spaces in their names..

2001-05-13 Thread Franki
cool, I'll do that...thanks. One last thing I wanted to ask in my logs, I am getting reports that files are world writable, even though they are owned by apache and chmod 644 or 755... has anyone else got that from the logging in mdk7.2??? regards Frank -Original Message- From:

[newbie] USR Internal Modem

2001-05-13 Thread Lee
Cool Randy..I appreciate the education there. I did hear some drivers are being(have been) written for the winmodems,I think that's really cool.I'm anxious to try a usb modem with linux on a laptop setup...but that's another post..and 1/2 :) Hava good week folks.. Lee At 12:43 PM 5/13/01

[newbie] USB Mouse and Mandrake 8

2001-05-13 Thread =?windows-874?b?U2FyYXZ1dCBUZWVwcHJhc2FuIFwovtXoqNTrx1wp?=
I just install Mandrake 8 and found that I cannot use my M$ USB Intellieyes mouse under KDE. how to slove the problem?, by the ways the mouse works fine during installation.

[newbie] Scroll Wheel

2001-05-13 Thread Lee
Hi Folks.. I hae to leave posts unended so here's my take on the wheel. first I wanna thank those that answered me. I have indeed gone thru the rigamarol(sp) of mouse config on the install.I also remember seeing a box somewhere to enable the wheel..darned if I can find it again.In either case the

Re: [newbie] Numlock in X

2001-05-13 Thread Paul
It was Sun, 13 May 2001 13:46:37 -0600 when Adrian Smith wrote: are you using 7.2? i still haven't gotten that to work either. so far there has been no solution that i know of. if there is i'd love to know also. if you have 8.0 i have no clue. numlock has worked for me in 7.0 7.1 8.0,

[newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-13 Thread tazmun
Hi all.just a quickie question that has been bugging me. I was under the impression that the Linux OS was a more efficient program then windowsbut the only 2 programs I have for true comparison since I run them on both OS's is Star Office Netscape 4.7. The windows OS unfortunately

Re: [newbie] About to take the plunge with a Asus av133 - any issues? - jrt

2001-05-13 Thread Robert Fargher
On Sunday 13 May 2001 18:48, John Turnbull wrote: Are there any known issues with installing Mandrake 8.0 on the mew (Mid April?) Asus A7V133 motherboard with a 1.1GHz T-bird and PC133 memory? This is the board that has the Promise ATA100 IDE controller built in. I have a 1 GHz Thunderbird

[newbie] RPMdrake hangs after Mandrake 8.0 installation

2001-05-13 Thread Benny Daton
I've been installed Mandrake 8.0 on my Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT notebook. Everything works fine, except my soundcard is not being detected and when I run RPMdrake, it stop and hanged. I tried to re-installed it, but the same problem always occured. BTW, these things don't happen on Mandrake 7.2