[newbie-it] MDK 8.0 apostrofi e parole accentate

2001-05-26 Thread Luca
Salve a tutti, sono oramai un fedele utente di MDK dalla versione 7.0 arrivato alla 8.0 noto lo stesso problema. ho impostato i font Arial su KDE e sui vari programmi che uso, ma su alcuni di essi, es. Opera 5 mi appare un piccol quadrato anzich apostrofi e parole accentate, come posso fare a

Re: [newbie-it] 7.2 e ISDN

2001-05-26 Thread Giuseppe Foti
Salve, ho ancora problemi con la scheda ISDN. Vorrei comunque ringraziare Germano che mi sta aiutando; purtroppo non sono riuscito a risolvere il problema (sicuramente a causa della mia incompetenza). Il file /etc/rc.d/init.d/isdn4linux alla riga 159 contiene solo un numero (il 15) e nulla più.

Re: [newbie-it] Fine iscrizione

2001-05-26 Thread Mr_Brain
Il 20:50, venerdì 25 Maggio 2001, Sebastiano Cordiano ha scritto: On Fri, 25 May 2001 10:42:09 +0200 Sapete dirmi perche' da un po' di tempo (da meta' aprile mi pare) questo sympa non mette piu' l' indirizzo della lista nel campo Reply-to ma lascia quello del mittente? Almeno da me e' cosi'

[newbie] SSH2 deamon

2001-05-26 Thread jhun bacala
Hello everybody!, I have installed SSH2 in my LM v7.0. What should I do to be able to start sshd2 start at boot time. Thanks in advance Jhun, -http://www.nccc.com.ph

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Probe Problems

2001-05-26 Thread gizim69
well i tried that and it's not there i searched for it! anything else? On Sat, 26 May 2001 12:31:15 + George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 25 May 2001 19:12:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some odd reason while installing linux it did NOT probe for a sound card and if

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Probe Problems

2001-05-26 Thread poogle
On Saturday 26 May 2001 03:47, you wrote: well i tried that and it's not there i searched for it! anything else? On Sat, 26 May 2001 12:31:15 + George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 25 May 2001 19:12:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some odd reason while installing linux

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess

2001-05-26 Thread poogle
On Friday 25 May 2001 23:44, you wrote: Dear All, I have not been able to install the new cups 1.1.8. Has anyone successfully installed this in LM8? I am the one who has been asking for cups printing help for my Epson Stylus Color printer on LM8 for days now. I installed all of my cups

Re: [newbie] SSH security update

2001-05-26 Thread ZeynalBandari
hi! thanks for your suggestions. i checked the version and it was the latest released. then i check the ssh_config and noticed all options from host and below were out commented. fixed that too, tested n didnt work. then i tried with new keygen to update rsa1 , rsa and dsa keys. ssh-keygen

[newbie] md5sums checking downloaded ISOs

2001-05-26 Thread lauritzen
I downloaded the L-M8 ISOs today, burned them to CD, and tried to install. It keeps freezing just after the first screen with the (enter or more options choices. I'm guessing, according to my research of similar reports of these symtoms in the newsgroups, the ISOs are corrupted. Somewhere

Re: [newbie] md5sums checking downloaded ISOs

2001-05-26 Thread victor sosa
i have the same problem, but when DRAKX try copy the file system to hard drive --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I downloaded the L-M8 ISOs today, burned them to CD, and tried to install. It keeps freezing just after the first screen with the (enter or more options choices. I'm guessing,

Re: [newbie] Linux Certification

2001-05-26 Thread Civileme
On Thursday 24 May 2001 07:09, Mark Johnson wrote: I was thinking about going for my linux certification because I figured that would allow me to really learn linux and be systematically taught by some people that really understand the system. But perhaps I'm begin naive. Any thoughts about

Re: [newbie]cups printing again

2001-05-26 Thread Civileme
On Thursday 24 May 2001 18:46, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Some packages are costumed to use lpr as the command to print; but cups have changed this. Now the command for acroread, kwriter, etc. must be xpp. Try it, in my case all those packages are now printing fine, I have configured my

[newbie] Masq. and Firewall

2001-05-26 Thread Rod Upfold
My son uses ICQ, a Java chat program (?) and a last night he tried to connect to some URL that he uses his camera with (he is using Win98). The two chat programs would work and then he would lose his connection to them and then he would have to restart his his chat programs to get reconnected

[newbie] Mandrake Update fails every time

2001-05-26 Thread Alex Potter
Each time I try to update my installation, rpmdrake fails, saying the packages already exists. The installable files shown in the updates only list are all newer versions than those installed. Is there any way of forcing this program (Software Manager) to *update* rather than just perform an

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails every time

2001-05-26 Thread Civileme
You need to remove the resources you do not want to use from the lists if you want the update to work properly. Then you must specify the external source precisely. There are very few updates available as yet, but I would suspect that if it is aaying already installed on packages defnitely

Re: [newbie] SSH2 deamon

2001-05-26 Thread Michael D. Viron
First, please try not to post htmlized e-mails to the list. Many people using text e-mail clients (such as pine), will get all kinds of extra html specific junk and / or will see it in a very small font size. In answer to your question, ssh2 is included as part of the sshd daemon--which means

[newbie] windows 2000 dual boot

2001-05-26 Thread Haroon A. Qureshi
hello, i just purchased mandrake 7.2 and wanted to configure my system to dual boot between windows 2000 and linux. when i installed linux, i lost my windows (i wasn't able to boot to it) and ended up rebuilding my system. i now have windows 2000 (advanced server) on my system and would like

[newbie] md5sums checking downloaded ISOs

2001-05-26 Thread Kelley Terry
To check the md5sums on the iso: md5sum mandrake80-inst.iso md5sum mandrake80-ext.iso To chect the md5sums on the burned cd: md5sum /dev/cdrom The dev(ice) in the above statement can be determined by looking at the /etc/fstab file to see where the cd reader is mounted. -- It said uses

[newbie] StarOffice and Netscape 6 in Hotmail

2001-05-26 Thread Simon Zarate
The problem with StarOffice saving Microsoft Office Documents can be resolved unselecting the option Save with the same format and parameters that have the original document. My linux Mandrake 8.0 freeze every time that i try to save word or excel documents, i unselect this option and work

RE: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot

2001-05-26 Thread Haroon A. Qureshi
lilo wouldn't boot up windows anymore and it had taken over the master boot record. i was unable to free it up. when it owuld try to boot windows, it would hang. haroon -Original Message- From: Tanel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 10:08 AM To: Haroon A.

Re: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot

2001-05-26 Thread Tanel
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Haroon A. Qureshi wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 and Windows 2000 professional, and everything works just fine. How did you lost your Windows? I have never experienced this, but exactly the opposite - Linux won't boot up after installing Windows. i just purchased mandrake 7.2

[newbie] source file in .tcshrc for root from Gnome

2001-05-26 Thread Marc Audard
Hi, I use Gnome 1.4 and define a panel icon to launch a root KDE terminal. I have installed some software (that need sourcing a file) and have put a source file command in my .tcshrc file. Logging from the shell (su - ) is OK, while I noticed that when clicking on the panel icon, after being

[newbie] LM-8.0-review

2001-05-26 Thread etharp
OK, I have tried LM 7.0, 7.2, and now 8.0. (purchased the power pack editions of 7.2 and 8.0 at best buy stores in Charlotte NC). I believe it was worth every penny each time. now in truth, i do not have any reason for even having a computer, but I have three or four running in this house,

RE: [newbie] Any way to increase or change the fonts in Opera 5

2001-05-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Romanator Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 2:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Any way to increase or change the fonts in Opera 5 HI all, I just downloaded Opera 5. Very fast.

Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard

2001-05-26 Thread h3rb
Wrong...KT7-RAID and KT7A-RAID both have 4 ide ports! On Saturday 26 May 2001 14:04, Pauwel Demeyer wrote: The problem is there are no MB's who have more than 2 IDE-connectors (as far as I know, so the best is getting an extra card with again two IDE-connectors on it) Original

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-26 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I thank all of you for giving me the suggestions for my printer. I have done most of them and none have improved my situtation. I installed all of my cups rpm's from my LM8 again. Nothing is working I got everything configured and whenever I try to print it just pours out an

Re: [newbie]cups printingMess(cont)

2001-05-26 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I checked my services that should be running in the Mandrake Control Center and there was no cups listed at all. It was before but since I reinstalled the cups it is not there. There is nothing for a printer there. Is not Cups and lpd supposed to be listed? Why would it not be?

Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard

2001-05-26 Thread OOzy Pal
Does the BE6-II supports 133Mhz Bus? --- tazmun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could go with one of Abit's BE6 series..they have a total of 4 connectors for EIDE.the second 2 connectors are an onboard High Point Technologies controller that although it is not true SCSI sets itself up

RE: [newbie] Putting the hdd image file on effectively

2001-05-26 Thread Michael Mitchell
Thanks folks, I'm trying to download the iso's as we write. It's getting clearer this will take a while! Cordially, Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of s Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 4:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie]

[newbie] Modems?

2001-05-26 Thread OOzy Pal
Sorry guys for asking so much. I am trying to buy a new system and want to make sure that it Linux-ok. Anyone knows a good modem that work fine with Linux? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions -

Re: [newbie] How about processors

2001-05-26 Thread Civileme
On Saturday 26 May 2001 14:34, OOzy Pal wrote: Hello Guys I am going to be running mainly Mandrake 8.0 and later and Windows 2000 Pro. Which of the following do you recommend. PIII 1.3Ghz P4 1.4Ghz AMD Thunderbird 1.33Ghz 266 Well, you can probably buy two T-Birds for the price of a

[newbie] How about processors

2001-05-26 Thread OOzy Pal
Hello Guys I am going to be running mainly Mandrake 8.0 and later and Windows 2000 Pro. Which of the following do you recommend. PIII 1.3Ghz P4 1.4Ghz AMD Thunderbird 1.33Ghz 266 OOzy = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You

[newbie] Slowness

2001-05-26 Thread Irv Mullins
A note for those who, like me, found Mandrake 8.0 and KDE just too slow to be usable. Today I loaded RedHat 7.1 (Seawolf), and things are fast enough. i.e. an xterm comes up in 2 seconds, kwrite in 3., and Konqueror in 7. Compare these to 15 - 45 second times I was experiencing with

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Probe Problems

2001-05-26 Thread etharp
in the console, had you signed in as root? On Saturday 26 May 2001 03:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well i tried that and it's not there i searched for it! anything else? On Sat, 26 May 2001 12:31:15 + George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 25 May 2001 19:12:38, [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Actiontec Internal Call Waiting modem setup

2001-05-26 Thread Chase Brady
Thanks to all who replied to my plea. I am writing this response from Linux. I have no sound, no USB support, and no printer, but I am at least connected. First things first, right? The problem was indeed an IRQ conflict. --Chase -Original Message- From: Chase Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] How about processors

2001-05-26 Thread tazmun
I'd be awfully tempted to try the AMD for finacial reasons. I believe all the P4's require the new expensive rambus where if you get the right mobo the thunderbirds can use the DDR ram that is quite cheap.(check out micostar's offering.don't have a clue for Linux though, all the chipsets etc

RE: [newbie] Modems?

2001-05-26 Thread walt
I just purchased the BestData 56K datafax internal modem model # 56SF today and it works fine in Linux! Had no problems at all. Mandrake picked it up without me doing anything. And it is not too expensive. Got it from CompUSA Walt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Probe Problems

2001-05-26 Thread etharp
in the console, had you signed in as root? On Saturday 26 May 2001 03:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well i tried that and it's not there i searched for it! anything else? On Sat, 26 May 2001 12:31:15 + George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 25 May 2001 19:12:38, [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Modems?

2001-05-26 Thread tazmun
That's going to depend a whole bunch on whether or not your still going to have an ISA interface in your new mobomost ISA modem would be well supported I think(I prefer 3Com-US Robotics)however if you only have PCI slots you really have to be careful your not just getting a winmodem even

Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard

2001-05-26 Thread tazmun
http://www.abit-usa.com/english/index.htm I suggest you view the preceeding URL for info on Abit motherboards. They have a product line that supports Pentium and AMD with all the modern chipsets available today for the most part with 4 eide ports(be aware that the extra ports require another

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I thank all of you for giving me the suggestions for my printer. I have done most of them and none have improved my situtation. [snip] This problem is the same even though I started over and even got the new cups 1.1.8 installed. With this new cups which I

Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard

2001-05-26 Thread s
And I just got a new one for my son, an asus cubx, and it has 4, with some mention in the book about 8 devices and raid. It uses the old tried and true 440BX chipset tho. (Got it on sale :-) for 80 bucks). -s On Saturday 26 May 2001 02:24 pm, you wrote: Wrong...KT7-RAID and KT7A-RAID

Re: [newbie] Reply-To header needed

2001-05-26 Thread skip
Mark At any rate it would be very helpful and cut down on a lot of Mark extra traffic if you would please add a reply-to header to the Mark message headers. It's been missing for quite some time now and Mark while I can't speak for others, for myself and Pine it would be Mark

[newbie] USB Scanner w/LM 8.0

2001-05-26 Thread Derek Rayne
Hi there, I recently upgraded my Linux system to Mandrake 8.0 and boy it works like a charm. I went on the web site called www.linux-usb.org and it mentioned that my scanner (UMAS Astra 1220U) was supported with a certain version of Kernel. Well, I have that version, but how do I configure my

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails every time

2001-05-26 Thread Jay DeKing
I use Mandrake Update as a reference tool only. It has never once removed the previously existing version of anything I have updated. What I do is open a terminal window and login as su, then run Mandrake Update to see what needs an upgrade; I open a browser window and go to whichever mirror

Re: [newbie] Slowness

2001-05-26 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
What kind of computer do you have? My Pentium III 800 with Mandrake 8 don't runs, fly; xterm 1 second, kwrite 1.5 seconds, Konkeror 3 seconds to run. CPU now, with kde, kmail runing, a terminal, kap runing, 5% used Perhaps an old Pentium 166 or a bad installatiob? El Sáb 26 May 2001

Re: [newbie] Modems?

2001-05-26 Thread s
I been using a 3com/USRobotics pci Faxmodem (aka 5610) in several distros and versions. Never a problem In additon, the isa Diamond SupraExpress is also very easy to setup and works flawlessly in various distros and versions. Oh, I have set up the isa Creative Modem Blaster (or rather 8.0

Re: [newbie] Modems?

2001-05-26 Thread Anthony Hologounis
I use an external USRobotics 56k. works fine... I think that most brand name external modems will work fine under linux On Saturday 26 May 2001 18:29, you wrote: Sorry guys for asking so much. I am trying to buy a new system and want to make sure that it Linux-ok. Anyone knows a good

Re: [newbie] Reply-To header needed

2001-05-26 Thread Mark Weaver
And...you have what relation to this list as far as the list servers go as well as the list admin? -- Mark * what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a

Re: [newbie] Adding unused disk space to partition - how?

2001-05-26 Thread D. Hoyem
You might want to try fips. I'm not sure if it will do it for a Linux partation but I know that its works on a FAT32 system. Do a search for it on www.goolge.com/linux Its very easy to use. --- Ken Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my Linux machine I have a ~10G HD. When I set it up I only

Re: [newbie] Reply-To header needed

2001-05-26 Thread Mark Weaver
Now tha was informative... -- Mark * what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :) On Sat, 26 May 2001, Paul Cox wrote: On Saturday, May 26,

[newbie] Questions during Install

2001-05-26 Thread Damodaran Raja
Hi all. I have a three year old Compaq Presario computer that I want Mandrake 7.2 installed in. When I inserted the disks and rebooted the computer, there was a problem with detection of the CD ROM. I was asked to pick a cd rom from a list. Mine [Matshita] wasn't on the list. I picked *ide

Re: [newbie] USB Scanner w/LM 8.0

2001-05-26 Thread s
Here a link for ya'. http://www.mostang.com/sane/ -s On Saturday 26 May 2001 07:10 pm, you wrote: Hi there, I recently upgraded my Linux system to Mandrake 8.0 and boy it works like a charm. I went on the web site called www.linux-usb.org and it mentioned that my scanner (UMAS Astra

Re: [newbie] case change?

2001-05-26 Thread David E. Fox
David Fox's example of building things up in pieces is a perfect way to figure out how to do things in shells. It's made even easier by the history capabilities of modern shells like bash and tcsh. You got that right, thanks for the compliment. Indeed, ctrl-r (in bash) is one of my favorite

[newbie] Gtoaster observation.

2001-05-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Just thought I'd pass along that I do have Gtoaster working fine here with my Plextor CDRW and Adaptec 2930 SCSI card. I worked with it for 2-3 hrs the other day, about ready to pull my hair out. I kept checking to see if it would work using dummy runs, but it kept reporting an I/O error at

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-26 Thread Marcia Waller
Marciayou might try removing CUPS completely and going back to lpd. I just did this, as an experiment, in reaction to your comtinuing CUPS problems. Here's how I did it: remove the following (since you installed a 1.8 version you'll have to allow for the version differences)

[newbie] Early Install problem mandrake 8

2001-05-26 Thread lauritzen
I am now attempting to install from purchased mandrake 8.0 CDs from the powerpack. I have a Dell Dimension XPS 266 w/ 196MG Ram. I currenlty have WinME installed and running. I initially try booting from the install CD. I get the first splash screen with the options to hit enter or F1 for