[newbie-it] problemi di scansione con SANE

2001-05-22 Thread Daniele Morabito
Ho installato  il pacchetto SANE 1.0.4-2mdk sulla Mandrake 8.0. Utilizzo come scanner un Epson GT-700 photo; tutto funziona bene eccetto il fatto che non riesco a scansire i microfilm negativi: la scansione si blocca segnalando Errore durante la lettura: Errore durante l'I/O sul dispositivo.

Re: [newbie-it] isdn e 7.2

2001-05-22 Thread Marco
allora cari amici di listvi sto scrivendo la mia prima mail con k mail :) scusate ma la felicita' e' enorme.mi connetto con il mio asuscom isdn interno (grazie a Germano) pero' secondo me devo ripulire qualcosami spiego: per connettermi devo aprire il Drakconf/configurazione

[newbie-it] Mandrake 7.1 e modem ISDN USB

2001-05-22 Thread Cristiano Alegiani
Ciao a tutti, ho installato ora la mandrake 7.1 presto l'aggiornerò alla 7.2, ho il problema che non sò come configurare il mio modem: un Atlantis Mistral 128k USB, qualcuno sà indicarmi come fare? Vale il discorso della discussione 7.2 e ISDN? Grazie a tutti Cristiano

[newbie] Hardware questions

2001-05-22 Thread CBoy168
I checked the list of compatiable hardware and i'm putting together a new linux machine that is going to run mandrake 8.0. I'm currently considering a voodoo 5 5500 or more likely a geforce 2 or 3, but neither of those is on the list..should i consider something else? Also, i have a yamaha

Re: [newbie] invulnerable processes

2001-05-22 Thread Todd Flinders
For particularly stubborn processes, use: kill -9 PID --- bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have just had to reboot to kill two processes that i otherwise couldn't kill; cdda2wav and cdrecord, both were left running after xcdroast crashed, and although i issued the command 'kill (pid

Re: [newbie] how to install CD writer with Mandrake?

2001-05-22 Thread Todd Flinders
To link ide-scsi to hdd, type: ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom1 Although, this was probably already done for you if the writer was installed during the Mandrake installation. --- John Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2001 05:26, Walter Luffman wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2001 06:21,

Re: [newbie] Sound and Network card setup problems

2001-05-22 Thread Todd Flinders
After you've installed Linux Mandrake 7.2, just use Linuxconf to setup the LNE100TX. Crazy, I know, but that is what worked for me. With Linuxconf, I just chose the tulip driver it offered me in the drop down list. milt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installed Mandrake Linux 7.2 the other night. It

Re: [newbie] Another sound problem

2001-05-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
1. The path to run should be /usr/sbin/sndconfig, not user/sbin/sndconfig. 2. sndconfig should be run from a root console, not as a user, and not within X. 3. Try reinstalling the sndconfig RPM, found on your Mandrake CD, by typing 'rpm -Uvh --force sndconfig*.i586.rpm' On Mon, 21 May 2001

Re: [newbie] What is kapm-idle?

2001-05-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
The official word from Mandrake is that kapm-idle is a daemon that measures resource usage for other processes. In the process, it fools resource managers like top into thinking that it is chewing CPU cycles. Don't despair, however, for it is really doing nothing of the sort. The programme

Re: [newbie] Virus infection

2001-05-22 Thread Mark Weaver
UmDan? there wasn't any attachment to that message. at least none that I received. fortunately windows does not live at this address either, but I think you grossly misunderstood this poor soul. I think all he wanted to do was warn everyone that he'd been infected in case anyone received

[newbie] CD Writer

2001-05-22 Thread Jordan Elver
Hi, I am going to buy a cd writer soonand I was just wondering if anyone has any suggestions or good experiences to share? Thanks, Jord -- Jordan Elver while (!asleep()) sheep++;

Re: [newbie] invulnerable processes

2001-05-22 Thread Civileme
On Monday 21 May 2001 20:41, bascule wrote: i have just had to reboot to kill two processes that i otherwise couldn't kill; cdda2wav and cdrecord, both were left running after xcdroast crashed, and although i issued the command 'kill (pid here)' they were still running, repeating the command

Re: [newbie] Boxed Set

2001-05-22 Thread Riker
I have never seen the PowerPack there, only the desktop version. I usually have go to Staples for that. Riker On Monday 21 May 2001 09:58 pm, you wrote: Do they offer the PowerPack at Walmart? --- Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I live in Quincy, IL in the Midwest of the US. It was

Re: [newbie] Problems with RPM

2001-05-22 Thread Civileme
On Monday 21 May 2001 12:01, Terry S. wrote: I want to install some programs on my computer, but when I try to use Mandrake's Software Manager, it keeps telling me that the packages I'm trying to install are already installed. I can verify that none of the packages are installed by using:

Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8

2001-05-22 Thread Civileme
On Monday 21 May 2001 08:01, Irv wrote: From: Pelle Poluha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8 Hello! I'm working as a developer and needs a stable environment to develop and test deployments in. So I want to switch from Windows. I need stability

[newbie] Konqueror: files in reverse alphabetical order

2001-05-22 Thread David McClamrock
Hello! One morning I woke up, logged in, and found that Konqueror was displaying my files in reverse alphabetical order. Before that, it had been displaying them in the correct order. Can somebody please tell me how to reverse the reversal and get A,B,C ... instead of Z, Y, X ... ? If so,

Re: [newbie] idsn problems

2001-05-22 Thread Civileme
On Monday 21 May 2001 12:14, Holly K. Hill wrote: I've installed Mandrake 8 with KDE and everything seems to be fine, except for problems with my ISDN modem. I specified in setup that it is on Com 1. When I try to dial up, all I get is 'initializing' then it goes to speaker setup, back to

Re: [newbie] boot loader problem

2001-05-22 Thread Damien GIRIER
i also have a problem of boot : i installed a partition /boot of 10 MB but i can't use it because it is on the second HD but i installed lilo (graphical) on the hda and it appears as non graphical. i tryed to make it with drakeboot(?) but it appears to be already in this mode but still the same

[newbie] imap/ipop3d UW problem

2001-05-22 Thread Quaylar
hi all ! does somebody of u use the imap/pop server from the university of washington ? i am experiencing following problem : May 21 18:25:44 localhost ipop3d[3448]: Can't open INBOX (file /var/spool/mail/user): not in valid mailbox format what does this mean ? if i open the mail file i can

Re: [newbie] Problems with RPM

2001-05-22 Thread Terry S.
Thanks for the answers, but I have tried those, and they still don't have any effect on Software Manager. Things work just fine at the command line, just not in Software Manager. If I try to use rpm -e packagename from the command line, it just tells me that the package is not installed on

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 with Orinocco Wavelan card

2001-05-22 Thread skip
Jason I have the following machines installed with Mandrake 8 Power pack: ... Jason Orinocco WaveLan IEEE802.11 Silver card Jason Mandrake 8 would install the wavelan_cs module, but that does not Jason work. I have similar problems. I've been looking all over for

[newbie] Mandrake Business Troubles

2001-05-22 Thread Riker
Gang: I was sent an E-mail with a web page attached that said Mandrake was having money troubles and fired all of their American CEOs. I'm at work so I can't mail the page as it's at home, but if anyone is interested I will mail it to the list for anyone to check out, if you like. I'm a

Re: [newbie] Home networking

2001-05-22 Thread Pedro _
See http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cmlan.html bye From: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Home networking Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 10:27:06 +0100 The network that I will have is 1 linux machine connected to 2 win 98se /ME

[newbie] Single user login

2001-05-22 Thread Mark Johnson
Somehow I accidently enabled the single user mode which logs my username directly into Enlightenment for some reason at boot up. How to I put things back into multi-user mode.

Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8

2001-05-22 Thread Irv
On Monday 21 May 2001 23:42, you wrote: I have three machines, running 7.2 and kde 2 One is a P2450 with 128mb ram, and it flies with kde2 the other, is a P200mmx with 64 mb of ram,,, this one is a gateway system but I put kde2 on it anyway, and I'd have to say that one isn't even that

Re: [newbie] Single user login

2001-05-22 Thread Tim Holmes
Load DrakConf and in the section for boot, there's an option to turn Aurora, and to give you a prompt on who it is that you log in as. This is in 8.0. If memory serves correctly, you are using MDK 8.0. If not let me know. tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real Men use Vi. *

Re: [newbie] Playing .avi's

2001-05-22 Thread Sam
Hello Glen, You'll need to install the developer package for XMMS. In Mandrake 8, that would be libxmms1-devel. On Tuesday 22 May 2001 06:44, Glen Scheel wrote: Hello All, I'm trying to get a player going for Divx avi's. I tried to get avi-xmms going but when I try to run ./configure I get

[newbie] RE:problems setting up telnet, ftp and ssh on Mandrake Linux

2001-05-22 Thread Diane Mairs-Ingram
Hi all, I have mandrake linux installed on machine that I want to be able to telnet, ftp or ssh into from other hosts on the LAN. So far I have enabled the inetd daemon and commented out the respective lines in the inetd.conf file, for telnet and ftp. I have added the same user on the

Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8

2001-05-22 Thread Terry C
Please let us know as soon as you have the disk optimizer available for testing, I'll be happy to test it for you. I am using and IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100 hard drive and I'm not getting the performance I should from it yet. TC --- Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 May 2001 08:01, Irv

RE: [newbie] Multiple Processors

2001-05-22 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Install the SMP kernel... It's on the CD... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michael Graveen Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 7:31 PM To: Linux Mailingliste Subject: [newbie] Multiple Processors Hello, I've just installed Mandrake 8.0

RE: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8

2001-05-22 Thread Franki
I expect that there is a confict with some driver with some systems or something,, That might be why it only effects some systems... There is no other easy explanation Its got to be a conflict of some sort, otherwise it would effect everyone... regards Frank -Original Message-

Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8

2001-05-22 Thread Irv Mullins
On Tue, 22 May 2001, you wrote: Please let us know as soon as you have the disk optimizer available for testing, I'll be happy to test it for you. I am using and IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100 hard drive and I'm not getting the performance I should from it yet. TC I wonder if the new kernel is

Re: [newbie] RE:problems setting up telnet, ftp and ssh on Mandrake Linux

2001-05-22 Thread Todd Flinders
Make sure you have installed and are running the telnet and ftp deamons. For example: service telnetd status --- Diane Mairs-Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have mandrake linux installed on machine that I want to be able to telnet, ftp or ssh into from other hosts on the LAN.

Re: [newbie] RE:problems setting up telnet, ftp and ssh on Mandrake Linux

2001-05-22 Thread skip
I have mandrake linux installed on machine that I want to be able to telnet, ftp or ssh into from other hosts on the LAN. Diane, I'm feeling fractious today, so please pardon the blunt response, but if you're willing to enable telnet, why waste your time setting up ssh? By leaving

Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8

2001-05-22 Thread Todd Flinders
hdparm -Tt /dev/hda or whatever --- Irv Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2001, you wrote: Please let us know as soon as you have the disk optimizer available for testing, I'll be happy to test it for you. I am using and IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100 hard drive and I'm not

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Business Troubles

2001-05-22 Thread Paul
It was Tue, 22 May 2001 08:33:42 -0500 when Riker wrote: I was sent an E-mail with a web page attached that said Mandrake was having money troubles and fired all of their American CEOs. I'm at work so I can't mail the page as it's at home, but if anyone is interested I will mail it to the

[newbie] Fwd: that sucks

2001-05-22 Thread Riker
I hope Mandrake doesn't end up like the other Linux companies. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/05/22/009242mode=thread

Re: [newbie] RE:problems setting up telnet, ftp and ssh on MandrakeLinux

2001-05-22 Thread B.V.L.S.Prasad
You have install telnet server and ftp server (wu ftpd) from the CDs.. they are not installed by default... I had this problem...the above was the solution...hope the same with you.. prasad. On Tue, 22 May 2001, Diane Mairs-Ingram wrote: Hi all, I have mandrake linux installed on machine

Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8

2001-05-22 Thread Todd Flinders
Yes, I'm especially interested in Civileme's tool he's working on to install a Maxtor controller card. I wonder if I should get that for RAID 0 instead of the 3ware. 3ware has good support, but only goes up to ATA 66. How important is ATA 100 anyway for RAID 0??? Should I even be concerned

[newbie] Word Perfect 8 install problem

2001-05-22 Thread Charles Wackerman
I recently bought a copy of Corel's WordPerfect 8 for Linux. I am using Mandrake 7.2 OS. On three different occasions I have followed the instructions printed in the QuickStart install guide and on all three occasions I have been unable to install -- I get a message intiger expression

[newbie] Mandrake still looking good

2001-05-22 Thread Riker
Okay, I was a little worried that Mandrake was having troubles, but now it would seem things are still good. Look here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/pr-deny.php3

Re: [newbie] Fwd: that sucks

2001-05-22 Thread Todd Flinders
Yes, this can be troubling. However, Chris Molnar wrote a reply on Slashdot that was interesting. I'm very bummed that he quit. He was definitely a large help to this list! It was because of him that my KDE 2.1 on 7.2 was so easy. Chris Molnar, Civileme, and Todd Lyons are three developers

[newbie] lm 8.0 and midi with sb live value

2001-05-22 Thread bascule
having just done some surfing i have discovered that midi doesn't seem to work for me, i have a sb live value and wavs amd mp3s work fine, i read on expert archives a reference to making /dev/sequencer a symlink to /dev/midi0, but my /dev/sequencer is a device file in its own right, should i

[newbie] rpm --rebuild the kernel?? and some stuff..about postfix and sendmail compatability, and a comment on the speed of kde2

2001-05-22 Thread Franki
Hi all, Just wanted to ask a couple of questions and pass judgement on stuff :-) Firstly, can you download the kernel src file and use RPM --rebuild on it So that it is created as a i686 or above ?? or do you have to do the whole normal compile?? I ask, because I am considering upgrading my

Re: [newbie] Fwd: that sucks

2001-05-22 Thread poogle
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 13:35, you wrote: I hope Mandrake doesn't end up like the other Linux companies. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/05/22/009242mode=thread A much more positive link http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/business/890 so let's

Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8

2001-05-22 Thread Irv
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 13:23, you wrote: hdparm -Tt /dev/hda or whatever Thanks - I ran that on the 8 gig disk I use for Mandrake, first with 8.0, then 7.1. Mandrake 8.0 scored higher than 7.1 - so, it looks like disk i/o is not the cause of the dramatic slowdown (going from 7.1 to 8.0), I'm

Re: [newbie] Real Player Installation Problem?

2001-05-22 Thread TezcatlipocA
I launch it by going to the Kmenu-Multimedia-and clicking on the Real Player launcher it created there. But when I click on it it seems like it's going to star it. I can even see, for an instant, that it takes a space on the applications dock on the panel. However, after an instant nothing

Re: [newbie] how to install CD writer with Mandrake?

2001-05-22 Thread TezcatlipocA
I got my CD-RW drive to work by following the advice on the Linux-Mandrake Demo pages. It is detailed, understandable and visual. No trouble. I got it to work and I'm all happy :). Just go to: www.linux-mandrake.com-click on Demos-click on Tutorial area-and click on CD-Recorder. Follow the

Re: [newbie] Real Player Installation Problem?

2001-05-22 Thread TezcatlipocA
Hi Sher, I really apreciate your help. I would really like a copy of RP 7 but unfortunately I do not have a broadband connection. I use a 56k modem. Do you by chance have it on your webpage? Another thing is if Real Player would not work on 7.2 why does it work on Gnome then? I installed

Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8

2001-05-22 Thread Tazmun
These results are not for sure, because right now I'm not sure if I have a defective promise ultra 66 card or a motherboard that is having a conflict with the promise card.(abit BF6 motherboard, 20 gig 7200 rpm 100ATA Maxtor Drive, 30 gig 7200 rpm 100ATA Maxtor Drive, promise ultra 66 pci

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-22 Thread Marcia Waller
On Monday 21 May 2001 21:10, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Lanman and All, Thank you for the ftp site and suggestions. I did get the new cups. How would I check to see which version of cups is running now? Run the updates first, and delete your Epson printer, then do a fresh config for the

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Re: Fwd: [newbie]LimeWire

2001-05-22 Thread John Farrell
On Tue, 22 May 2001 11:02, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Being Java based, LimeWire should be expected to be quite slow and memory-hungry compared to a native GNU/Linux app. I have found LimeWire to be a *huge* resource hog, eating up all of my RAM (all of 256MB) and most of my CPU cycles (I

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-22 Thread s
Thanks for your input Sean. I have an Epson 777, that I read is essentially the same as a 680, and had used 680, 760 860 drivers in past with success (before the addtion of 777). The 777 and others were real bad, while the 680 were only little better. I had never had to play around with

Re: [newbie] Free86 key sequences

2001-05-22 Thread bascule
it should be one of alt-f(7-12) bascule On Tuesday 22 May 2001 14:47, you wrote: When breaking out of X to go to another virtual terminal (using Ctrl+Alt+Fxx), how do you bring X back up? I noticed that doing this doesn't kill X like doing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, so I would think that there

[newbie] kmix labels

2001-05-22 Thread bascule
having a sound blaster live means having lots of mixer entries that i don't understand, having played around i have found which one is the volume control for my second cdrom and which controls the line-in, it would be nice if there was a way to relabel the sliders to reflect what they control

Re: [newbie] Fwd: that sucks

2001-05-22 Thread poogle
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 14:40, you wrote: Yes, this can be troubling. However, Chris Molnar wrote a reply on Slashdot that was interesting. I'm very bummed that he quit. He was definitely a large help to this list! It was because of him that my KDE 2.1 on 7.2 was so easy. Chris Molnar,

Re: [newbie] CD Writer

2001-05-22 Thread Todd Flinders
Plextor and TDK's are rated as the best in the Windows' world. I haven't personally tested them in Linux, but when this was discussed before, someone said they were successfully using a Plextor. --- TezcatlipocA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Creative Labs 4224E. Old and slow but it works.

[newbie] Sound setup problems

2001-05-22 Thread milt
At 11:29 PM 5/21/2001 -0700, Todd Flinders wrote: After you've installed Linux Mandrake 7.2, just use Linuxconf to setup the LNE100TX. Crazy, I know, but that is what worked for me. With Linuxconf, I just chose the tulip driver it offered me in the drop down list. Thank you. I managed to get

[newbie] Mandrake expert dot com

2001-05-22 Thread s
Hi all, Ok, how does this thing work? Are we supposed to wait around and hope for an answer or can we come back later to retrieve any possible answers. The later didin't work for me, so now I'm afraid I, in essense, 'hung-up' on someone. I went back and signed into the my question' page,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake expert dot com

2001-05-22 Thread D. Hoyem
s, When I first purchased Mandrake, and that was 7.0 it was for those people that had purchased a Boxed set and had registered it, so I assume that it is still that way and in reality thats the only way it could be or they would go broke. --- s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Ok, how does

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 with Orinocco Wavelan card [OT]

2001-05-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Jason: When/where/how did you get the 8.0 Power Pack? I'm still waiting. Regards, Carroll Jason Chan wrote: Hi, I have the following machines installed with Mandrake 8 Power pack: Asus A7V with AMD Thunderbird 750 CPU 128 MB RAM IBM UDMA 100 30G HDD Matrox G400 32MB Orinocco WaveLan

[newbie] Problem Starting Mandrake 8.0, bad unregister

2001-05-22 Thread Hans N.
This e-mail pertains to users of Logitech's QuickCam Express connected to a usb port. For about a week or so I've been trying to install Mandrake 8.0. I originally attempted an update (from 7.2) and ran into a problem post-install when attempting to boot Mandrake 8. The error didn't make much

Re: [newbie] CD Writer

2001-05-22 Thread pavelz
I have Matshita CDRW 7585, works good, no problems so far. I have a Creative Labs 4224E. Old and slow but it works. I would recomend you to check the supported hardware list on LM web page. TezcatlipocA On Monday 21 May 2001 12:34, you wrote: Hi, I am going to buy a cd writer

Re: [newbie] Mandrake still looking good

2001-05-22 Thread s
wheewww. -s On Tuesday 22 May 2001 12:41 pm, you wrote: Okay, I was a little worried that Mandrake was having troubles, but now it would seem things are still good. Look here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/pr-deny.php3

RE: [newbie] Boxed Set

2001-05-22 Thread walt
Best Buy has the powerpack on sale this week..I am going to go buy it on payday walt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Riker Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 8:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Boxed Set I have never seen the

Re: [newbie] Free86 key sequences

2001-05-22 Thread Todd Flinders
Ctrl-Alt-F7 is where X is hanging out. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When breaking out of X to go to another virtual terminal (using Ctrl+Alt+Fxx), how do you bring X back up? I noticed that doing this doesn't kill X like doing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, so I would think that there would be a

Re: [newbie] Free86 key sequences

2001-05-22 Thread Israel Reid
When breaking out of X to go to another virtual terminal (using Ctrl+Alt+Fxx), how do you bring X back up? Try Alt+F7 Isra -- Linux es aburrido... con Windows nunca sabes cuándo se va a colgar.

Re: [newbie] Boxed Set

2001-05-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
I've gone the Staples route for 7.0 and 7.1; Walmart for 7.2, but this time I signed up for a PowerPack Box directly from Mandrake that's to be shipped ...as soon as it's available. Hoo, boy, there hasn't been this much tension and excitement around here since I sent in a couple of Wheaties

Re: [newbie] Word Perfect 8 install problem

2001-05-22 Thread Chales A. Punch
Charles Wackerman wrote: I recently bought a copy of Corel's WordPerfect 8 for Linux. I am using Mandrake 7.2 OS. On three different occasions I have followed the instructions printed in the QuickStart install guide and on all three occasions I have been unable to install -- I get a

Re: [newbie] kmix labels

2001-05-22 Thread Todd Flinders
Hold the cursor over the meter for a moment (in Sound Mixer) and a help box comes up telling you what the particular meter will adjust. --- bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: having a sound blaster live means having lots of mixer entries that i don't understand, having played around i have

Re: [newbie] Free86 key sequences

2001-05-22 Thread Michael D. Viron
that should actually be ctrl+alt+f(7-12) depending on how many are being used for command-line virtual terminals. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:27 AM 05/23/2001 +, bascule wrote: it should be one of

Re: Fwd: [newbie]LimeWire

2001-05-22 Thread Brandon Caudle
From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fwd: [newbie]LimeWire Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 01:02:09 + On Mon, 21 May 2001 12:41, Lanman wrote: On Monday 21 May 2001 7:12, you wrote: On Mon, 21 May

Re: [newbie] Free86 key sequences

2001-05-22 Thread Brandon Caudle
From: bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Free86 key sequences Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 00:27:55 + it should be one of alt-f(7-12) no because you have killed x via ctrl-alt-backspace so you have to restart the

[newbie] Re: StarOffice 5.2 and Mandrake 8.0 - major problems!

2001-05-22 Thread Daniel Meier
Oops. I guess you're right (I grew up with the metric system and European letter sizes..). Unfortunately this insight doesn't solve my problem. However, it means that SO's horizontal ruler does not measure correctly - and the placement of letters on the screen is screwed up. I wonder whether

RE: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8

2001-05-22 Thread Hans N.
I use a 40 gig Maxtor ata100 on a ata66 onboard controller and don't have KDE performance problems. I was also wondering if I were correct in making this observation: I have read somewhere that version numbers in program names typically list the major revision number first, the secondary revision

Re: [newbie] Fwd: that sucks

2001-05-22 Thread Todd Flinders
You can mail order the boxed set, I'm sure. Yes, here is the URL. It ships at the end of May: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/buyit/getit?wslang=en --- poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2001 14:40, you wrote: Yes, this can be troubling. However, Chris Molnar wrote a

Re: [newbie] Installing apps under linux

2001-05-22 Thread Barry Premeaux
One neat thing about Konqueror is that it can look at the contents of .tar.gz file. You can actually read the 'README's' before you extract the files from the archive. Barry :-) Todd Flinders wrote: tar -xvzf somepackage.tar.gz cd somepackage At this point read README and INSTALL. A

Re: [newbie] Sound setup problems

2001-05-22 Thread Todd Flinders
Hmm... I just thought of something. What have you tried to get the sound working? Because I recall that the KDE that came default out of the box had sound issues. I don't think this affected xmms or CD playing, though. But you might upgrade KDE using MandrakeUpdate if you haven't already done

Re: [newbie] Mandrake still looking good

2001-05-22 Thread Romanator
s wrote: wheewww. -s On Tuesday 22 May 2001 12:41 pm, you wrote: Okay, I was a little worried that Mandrake was having troubles, but now it would seem things are still good. Look here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/pr-deny.php3 I wouldn't worry about Mandrake. They have

[newbie] nic

2001-05-22 Thread Brandon Caudle
I recently bought a linksys router for my dsl the router i bought it the one with one ethernet port and one HomePNA. I have no cat 5 run through the house so i wanted to see if any homepna adapeters are supported. any currently? thanks brandon caudle

Re: [newbie] Virus infection

2001-05-22 Thread John Morine
I received no attachment either... UmDan? there wasn't any attachment to that message. at least none that I received. fortunately windows does not live at this address either, but I think you grossly misunderstood this poor soul. I think all he wanted to do was warn everyone that

Re: [newbie] Sound setup problems

2001-05-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 05:57 pm, you wrote: At 11:29 PM 5/21/2001 -0700, Todd Flinders wrote: After you've installed Linux Mandrake 7.2, just use Linuxconf to setup the LNE100TX. Crazy, I know, but that is what worked for me. With Linuxconf, I just chose the tulip driver it offered me in

Re: [newbie] Another sound problem

2001-05-22 Thread Anthony
I have the exact same card, and I can't get mine to work either, and I've heard of some other people with similiar cards (soundblaster ISA's) not getting their cards to work either. From what I've gathered however over the past few weeks from this list and MandrakeForum, ISA isn't supported

Re: [newbie] Sound setup problems

2001-05-22 Thread milt
At 06:12 PM 5/22/2001 -0700, Todd Flinders wrote: Hmm... I just thought of something. What have you tried to get the sound working? Because I recall that the KDE that came default out of the box had sound issues. I don't think this affected xmms or CD playing, though. But you might upgrade

Re: [newbie] Tape Backup drive?

2001-05-22 Thread Mick
Okay, sorry 'bout that. I'm not sure if it is IDE or not. It's defintely not SCSI! The data ribbon cable (from the tape drive) connects directly into the data ribbon cable on my floppy drive. It uses QIC 120 mb cartridges. As for the question Have you tried using any standard devices in /dev?

[newbie] Can I purchase Mandrake 8.0 from Canada

2001-05-22 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, I was wondering if I can purchase the Powerpack from the Montreal office? I live in Ontario, Canada. Roman

[newbie] Which departments would require a donations?

2001-05-22 Thread Romanator
This is a tough one. Which departments would require the most donations? If you select no preferences, where would the donations be sent? Would it be spread out out evenly? Roman

[newbie] Funky fonts back to normal in 8.0

2001-05-22 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, I installed all the fonts I could find. And, voila! The web pages look normal again. Lucida Console looks kinda nice. Thanks all that helped. Roman

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Detecting USR Modem

2001-05-22 Thread John Morine
Well Ed...I wish I could explain exactly how I got it working; but I cannot. I got totally frustrated and yanked everything out of my computer and went through everything I could think of to make sure there were no conflicts as I put everything back in. Then I defaulted the BIOS and

[newbie] digital photo interface or How do I make gphoto work?

2001-05-22 Thread Dennis Myers
Has anyone gotten the latest gphoto to run in 8.0, and if so how. I have followed the instructions and am getting nowhere. Since they changed the setup on it I can not get a GUI and I can not get kamera to come up in peripherals. Again the documentation is lousy for programming illiterates

Re: [newbie] What is kapm-idle?

2001-05-22 Thread s
you know, I read all that in several posts, but it seems weird that it sometimes (always on mine) it shows 0% usage when I have setiathome, kmail, real or xmms going, usually with a browser minimized or opened. My machine always smokes. However, on a family member's machine I just put 8.0 on

Re: [newbie] CD Writer

2001-05-22 Thread Paul
It was Tue, 22 May 2001 15:21:23 -0700 (PDT) when Todd Flinders wrote: Plextor and TDK's are rated as the best in the Windows' world. I haven't personally tested them in Linux, but when this was discussed before, someone said they were successfully using a Plextor. In a linux hardware