[newbie-it] Mandrake 8

2001-05-29 Thread Marc (aka: Verbal)
Si tratta veramente di un ottimo prodotto... ma qualcuno mi spiega COME DIAVOLO usare il mio Elsa Microlink ISDN USB ? :) se avvio una connessione kppp, mi chiede solo modem su seriale... esiste un /dev/ per questo ta ? CU S%N!Ciaociao Byez ! \\marco[www] http://verbal.webjump.com |||

R: [newbie-it] Installazione flash media 5.0

2001-05-29 Thread Verbal
ma hai scompattato il pacchetto in /ROOT/ ? .. apri il file tar-gz in archiver (sotto KDE o dove vuoi) e scompatta in /ROOT/ poi batti i due CP da terminale o shell... in alternativa basta che ti copi tu via file-manager i due file in oggetto sotto la /usr/lib/netscape/plugins e poi

Re: R: [newbie-it] Installazione flash media 5.0

2001-05-29 Thread Andrea Celli
Per favore, se proprio vuoi usare outlook express, ti prego di utilizzare due accorgimenti: - non usare formati MIMe: molti reader di posta li digeriscono male - sistema il baco della traduzione italiana di outlook, che ha sostituito l'header Re: con R:, altrimenti puoi vedere da solo cosa

[newbie-it] antivirus

2001-05-29 Thread Enrico Noseda
Mi potreste indicare un antivirus free compatibile con mandrake 8 e di facile installazione (sono nuovissimo di linux ma mi sta divertendo). Grazie! Enrico N. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at

[newbie-it] Mandrake, Suse e altro

2001-05-29 Thread Wintozsucks
Ho un Mandrake 7.2 Power Pack, 5 cd + manualotto d'istruzioni, di cui non ho più bisogno, se serve a qualcuno lo vendo a poco prezzo. Ho anche altro materiale Linux più recente che posso eventualmente masterizzare per i poveracci, come me, che non possono scaricvarsi dalla rete 500 o + Mb. Se

Re: [newbie-it] antivirus

2001-05-29 Thread Andrea Celli
Enrico Noseda wrote: Mi potreste indicare un antivirus free compatibile con mandrake 8 e di facile installazione (sono nuovissimo di linux ma mi sta divertendo). Grazie! Puoi trovare qualcosa sul sito della McAfee, o fare una ricerca su freshmeat.net. Pero`, si tratta di programmi per

Re: [newbie-it] antivirus

2001-05-29 Thread Mr_Brain
Il 11:09, martedì 29 Maggio 2001, hai scritto: Mi potreste indicare un antivirus free compatibile con mandrake 8 e di facile installazione Per l'uso domestico non e` proprio indispensabile... i virus per Linux sono pochi (si dovrebbe parlare di worm, ma sempre di programmi nocivi si tratta

[newbie-it] disco di avvio mandrake 7.1

2001-05-29 Thread emi80
Sul mio computer ho sia Windows che Linux Mandrake 7.1. Siccome devo reinstallare Windows, come faccio a fare un disco di avvio per Linux dato che quello che avevo fatto durante l'installazione mi si e' danneggiato? grazie

[newbie-it] AUDIO IN MANDRAKE 8

2001-05-29 Thread Francesco Speranza
DOPO AVER FATTO UN AGGIORNAMETO PER VIA RETE CON MANDRAKE UPDATE NON HO PIU' IL SONORO SU MANDRAKE 8 . POSSO SENTIRE I CD E GLI MP3 MA NON IL SUONO DEI GIOCHI O QUELLO DI AVVIO E CHIUSURA . COME POSSO FARE PER RIMETTERE A POSTO TUTTO SENZA FARE L'ENNESIMA REISTALLAZIONE ? GRAZIE FRANCESCO

Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again

2001-05-29 Thread s
On Monday 28 May 2001 10:52 pm, you wrote: On Monday 28 May 2001 21:54, s wrote: U really should use a downloader. Netscape seems to convert binarys to ascii or some sh*t. Anyway, nt webdownloader is a good one. Go to rpmfind and do a search for nt. It's an easy rpm install and

[newbie] Another Voodoo enigma? 3.3.6 installed.

2001-05-29 Thread s
OK, I'm convinced there is something seriously wrong with the XFree86 setup/server in 8.0. Some may recall when I tried to use 8.0 on my spouse's amd k6-2 450 last week and couldn't get it to use 4.0.3, so no 3d acceleration or aa fonts, etc. I was lucky enough that it at least

[newbie] Unfolding discussion about XAW - Trouble with XAW on Pinnacle Studio PCTV

2001-05-29 Thread Martijn de Keizer
Hi, I thought I'd best post this messages and the earlier messages in the bottom because I migh not be the only one having trouble with XAW and a Pinnacle TV card. - Intel on-board chip- set, Unfortunaltely I don't know the exact specs. - The computer has dual boot Lilo - The TV and videocrads

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 installation freezes

2001-05-29 Thread Civileme
On Monday 28 May 2001 12:19, Nathan Owens wrote: I'm finally trying to install Linux on my computer, and chose to use Mandrake. Once I got the CD's burned from the CD images, I tried rebooting. It starts, but then hangs up soon after. I believe it's related to my hard drive, but I don't know

Re: [newbie] suspend to ram

2001-05-29 Thread Civileme
On Monday 28 May 2001 12:09, mp wrote: under linux mandrake 8 possible? thank you Ummm Not sure what you want... If you put the mount parameter noatime in the file /etc/fstab, then the disks will not be spun up to change the data time parameters, and if you set power management properly,

Re: [newbie] hang on boot right after install

2001-05-29 Thread Civileme
On Monday 28 May 2001 06:55, Adato,Leon,SOLON,ITSS wrote: I have tried 4 times to install Mandrake 8, with the same problem each time. The installation runs fine (always recommended, but I've selected a variety of options - no networking, minimal apps, etc). I've installed on two different

Re: [newbie] IRQ problem.

2001-05-29 Thread Civileme
On Monday 28 May 2001 08:31, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, if you've been reading my msgs, then you know that I've got an Adaptec 2930cu SCSI card and a Plextor CDRW. Its working, but there are quirks. I may have found part of the problem, and what I need is help on what to do about it. When I

Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again

2001-05-29 Thread Jose
I had the same problem when I upgraded to Mandrake 8. LimeWire would not install, no matter what I did, plus Mozilla kept giving me segmantation errors. I got around that by going back to 7.2. I also had problems with Ximian's Gnome. I'll just keep 7.2 until more patches for 8 come down.

Re: [newbie] EMACs: How save after editing a text area?

2001-05-29 Thread Nico Krzebek
(X)Emacs is able to read write remote files using FTP transparently. The only difference is how you enter the your file name. To access a file located on another machine (with running FTP server!) /user@host:file eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/public_html/index.html You can even use tab

Re: [newbie] make: commnand not found

2001-05-29 Thread Paul Aprendiz
Thanks it WORKS! paul From: Kelley Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul Aprendiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] make: commnand not found Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 08:59:53 -0600 Paul Aprendiz wrote: I dont have 'make' command installed (Mandrake 8.0) Can you

[newbie] Mandrake 8 Text Install / Second CD

2001-05-29 Thread Richard Turner
I've been installing LM8, and the installation confirms as successful (Ihave to use text install). But on boot the system fails due to a series of"Permission Denieds" after etc/rc.sysinit.I've tried reinstalling a number of times but get the same result. The lasttime I noticed that the

Re: [newbie] Fixing Ugly Fonts corrected with Verdana

2001-05-29 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 00:12, Romanator wrote: Hi all, I fixed my font problem by selecting the KDE Control Center-File Manager-Appearance. Change -Courier or A.D. Mono to Verdana ref. Click on Apply and exit the Control Center. Restart Netscape, Opera and Konqueror look very good.

Re: [newbie] EMACs: How save after editing a text area?

2001-05-29 Thread Randy Kramer
Nico, Nathan, everyone: Thanks for your responses! I realize my question was a little misleading, so I'll try to ask it differently: If you use Emacs to browse the web, do you ever fill out forms that have a space for free form comments, sort of what I call web email? Those are HTML textareas

Re: [newbie] ESS Solo-1

2001-05-29 Thread Dave Sherman
When I ran into a similar problem with this card in my ThinkPad (no errors reported, hardware detected correctly, driver loaded fine), it turned out that Aumix had its volume levels set to zero for all items. All I had to do was run aumix (as root -- won't work as a user) and turn up the

Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again

2001-05-29 Thread Sam
Hi Marcia, what you need to do is key in the following in a terminal window to start the installation: java -classpath LimeWireOther.zip install To launch LimeWire after installation, you might want to create a link to the executable script for convenience e.g. in my case a link pointing

Re: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot

2001-05-29 Thread Terry
Haroon, I had this same problem the first time I tried to install LM 7.2 on my win 2000 machine here at work. It totally wiped out my Windows partition. The only way I was able to get it to work properly was to use Partition Magic to resize my windows partition so that it didn't take up the

Re: [newbie] hang on boot right after install

2001-05-29 Thread tazmun
This may have well been covered before but it is easy to overcomplicate things sometimes. I believe in all Linux Systems in your CMOS Setting under PNP there is a choice on most motherboards for PNP OS installed Yes or No Many windows boxes have this checked yesfor linux it must be checked

[newbie] email to 2 domain names

2001-05-29 Thread Tom
I have 2 domain names pointing to my IP address.. I was wondering how in postfix you can set it up so that if I send to either domain, postfix will deliver it properly.. I have the same username for each domain. Can anyone help? Thanks, Tom

RE: [newbie] Running two DNS on network

2001-05-29 Thread Mark Johnson
I've already got permission from the IT group. I should have mentioned that originally in my post. I'm just trying to figure out if it's feasible. -Original Message- From: Jeanette Russo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 8:23 PM To: Mark Johnson; LinuxNewbie

Re: [newbie] suspend to ram

2001-05-29 Thread James Bond
I am not the original poster of this message, but since I own a laptop this is something that I'd like to know how to do as well. I will describe the process in hopes that someone knows how. Suspend to RAM or Hibernation, is when the computer copies the contents of the RAM of the computer

Re: [newbie] Running two DNS on network

2001-05-29 Thread Dave Sherman
What you might want to do is just run a caching dns server, which is simple to set up easier to maintain than a normal dns server. Read the dns-howto, the instructions are pretty straightforward. Dave On Tuesday 29 May 2001 08:45, thus spake Mark Johnson: I've already got permission from the

[newbie] Grax

2001-05-29 Thread jgarrido
Gracias de todas formas, con respecto al pais, soy de CHILE Chao. So long and thank for al shoes, jajaja.

Re: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot

2001-05-29 Thread Randy Kramer
haroon, Just to provide a little more information (IIRC): 1. Yes, it's better if there is free space (i.e., not within a Windows partition) on the disk. Partition Magic is not the only way to free up some space. 2. Some of the installation modes (what are they -- beginner(?), (?), expert)

[newbie] Kmail

2001-05-29 Thread Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA
Title: Kmail Anyone, In the setup of Kmail for receiving email I can choose sendmail or smtp. When I select smtp I find no way to identify my smtp user. If I cannot setup kmail to identify it self how can I send email? Jon H

Re: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot

2001-05-29 Thread Ed Kasky
I have a dual boot system with win2k but use a second hd on which I installed Mandrake. I didn't like the way it handled the windows partition. Once you get it installed you'll need to recompile the kernel using xconfig to enable ntfs support so you can see the partition... Ed At 09:15 AM

Re: [newbie] Kmail

2001-05-29 Thread Dave Sherman
Perhaps someone will correct me on this, but I believe SMTP-Authentication is *not* supported in kmail. Your mail server will need to be set up to relay for you -- this is (generally) highly insecure, and makes it easy to spam (even with other safeguards in place, such as using a RBL server,

Re: [newbie] Another Voodoo enigma? 3.3.6 installed.

2001-05-29 Thread Carl Fletcher
I installed 8.0 on a celeron 433, 128 ram and voodoo3 2000 tonight. I wasn't given a choice of versions concerning XFree86 and it installed 3.3.6. I have a K6-2 450 with Voodoo 3 2000 that installed fine (although I have had problems with past Mandrakes). Try: Xconfigurator -expert as

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails every time

2001-05-29 Thread Terry
Thanks for the suggestion, however, when I tried to uninstall some packages in order to upgrade them (cups, rpmdrake, rpm, rpmtools), a box appeared saying that all these other packages would be removed to satisfy dependencies. I clicked on ok, and software manager closed without

Re: [newbie] Kmail

2001-05-29 Thread s
Add? -s On Tuesday 29 May 2001 09:22 am, you wrote: Anyone, In the setup of Kmail for receiving email I can choose sendmail or smtp. When I select smtp I find no way to identify my smtp user. If I cannot setup kmail to identify it self how can I send email? Jon H

[newbie] write and print Greek with LM8?

2001-05-29 Thread Sven Heinicke
emacs and xemacs-mule provide ways to enter greek letters, and you can save your files in different formats like iso-8859-7, iso-2202-* and others. I don't know greek and I have not idea out good the input methods are. I don't know about printing. Emanuil Giuris writes: How can I write and

[newbie] Mandrake 8.0 Installation - Monitor Selection for Laptop?

2001-05-29 Thread Sullivan, James
Greetings all - Hoping that someone can assist a total Linux neophyte with a minor? install problem. I am trying to install Mandrake 8.0 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 _laptop_. Using the standard installation with recommended devices selected install proceeds fine until the monitor selection screen.

[newbie] 8.0 is almost Windows-easy (long)

2001-05-29 Thread Walter Luffman
To all those who have been reluctant to try Mandrake 8.0 because of others' reported problems: Go for it! I've been playing around with Linux on my desktop since Red Hat 5.2, and have stayed with Mandrake through the past few releases, but I am by no means an expert when it comes to *any*

Re: [newbie] stupid yahoo ads, can kmail or linux filter them?

2001-05-29 Thread Jennifer Williams
hullo! there is a program called adsubtract, it filters out adverts on various websites (yahoo, excite etc). i don't know if there is linux version of this though. and i had a question of my own, i was wanting to dual boot linux with winme, but i keep getting an error saying it can't write

[newbie] Just wondering a few points!

2001-05-29 Thread Derek Rayne
Hi there, I am wondering a few things... SUBJECT #1: E-MAIL Can any of the e-mail programs (like K-Mail, Evolution, etc...) that are on here be configured to read and send messages via Yahoo e-mail (the free one)? I don't want to keep on using Netscape to load up the Yahoo e-mail page to read

[newbie] Fixed my perl problems, sort of...

2001-05-29 Thread Franki
Hi all, I have had no end of problems trying to install modules with the standard mdk perl installs... I got them to make and install now,, and here is how I did it in case someone else whats to know.. I downloaded the source for perl 5.6.1 from cpan, then opened it on my windows box, I

Re: [newbie] terrible browser fonts

2001-05-29 Thread Skip Montanaro
try drakfont, install windows fonts and choose them in your web browser. I've been following this thread with interest because I am similarly afflicted. I don't recall needing to install windows fonts in earlier versions of Mandrake, nor do I have Windows around to install fonts

Re: [newbie] EMACs: How save after editing a text area?

2001-05-29 Thread Skip Montanaro
Randy My original question can then be phrased as, if I do manage to Randy fill in that box in Xemacs, what do I do afterward to tell Xemacs Randy I'm done, and it should save (send) the data back to the web? Sounds like you're using w3 inside XEmacs as your web browser. I haven't

[newbie] Supported DSL Modems

2001-05-29 Thread jafisher
I've been searching the web for a PCI DSL modem that I can use (at least be supported). Any sugguestions, I cannot find one . . .

Re: [newbie] terrible browser fonts

2001-05-29 Thread poogle
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 14:09, you wrote: try drakfont, install windows fonts and choose them in your web browser. I've been following this thread with interest because I am similarly afflicted. I don't recall needing to install windows fonts in earlier versions of Mandrake, nor

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Problems in mandrake 8.0

2001-05-29 Thread Kheb
Try this in /etc/modules.conf # ALSA Portion alias char-major-116 snd #options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0666 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-es1938 # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # OSS/Free portion - card #1 alias

Re: [newbie] X shutdown

2001-05-29 Thread Kheb
Forget the Framebuffer =( (or teach me please =), try a minor resolution. I have this in lilo.conf: vga=0x0f06 it's working for me. This say kudzu about mi Video Card: class: VIDEO bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: Card:ATI Mach64 desc: ATI|3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133 vendorId: 1002 deviceId: 4c42

Re: [newbie] Just wondering a few points!

2001-05-29 Thread Jeanette Russo
Why don't you sign up for Yahoo pop service it is free and works good, a little slow but you can use any mail client that can use POP. I used the RP8.bin file. Follow the directions to install it on the real site. The RPM one won't work with Mandrake 8 only Redhat The scanner, I don't have one

[newbie] Another 8.0/1.0 question

2001-05-29 Thread Tom
Software packages that work in 8.0, will they also work in Corporate 1.0?? Looking through the screen shots etc. for 8.0, there's Evolution 0.9 and other packages also, I'd assume.. Will they work with the Corporate version? Thanks, Tom

Re: [newbie] Fixing Ugly Fonts corrected with Verdana ref font in Control Center

2001-05-29 Thread mp
hy everybody! someone posted to be cautious with the fonts, well, he was RIGHT!!! my xserver refused to start with couldnt find fixed fonts, but that was about three restarts after i changed the fonts. i read on mandrakeuser.og that it is a problem with finding that particular font and to do

Re: [newbie] suspend to ram

2001-05-29 Thread mp
hy, thats a good explanation, but one thing is wrong: the ram is still under electricity, nothing else. no fan, no disks, no video, nothing--no noise. when re-powering no boot is necessary and the computer is redy in some seconds. regards Am Dienstag, 29. Mai 2001 09:49 schrieb James Bond:

Re: [newbie] suspend to ram

2001-05-29 Thread James Bond
Actually, that's not true. You can remove the battery from a laptop and unplug it as well and hibernated data will still be there because it is stored on the hard drive. A hibernated computer uses no electricity whatsoever. The time saving comes from the fact that drivers and startup

[newbie] fvwm

2001-05-29 Thread hellmut
Hi! I have been advised to use fvwm to start 3d games, cause it isn't so performance eating like KDE. Well... how do I start it? Cheers, -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | |

Re: [newbie] terrible browser fonts

2001-05-29 Thread mp
ok, i think i got it now! drakfont, import the windows fonts. kde control center-fonts- switch everything to i.e. arial, but not the fixed font (dont know how to change this one with x server still starting. then look and feel-styles - UNCHECK antialias (its fucking ugly). then in the kde

Re: [newbie] suspend to ram

2001-05-29 Thread mp
ok, i mean suspend to ram under windows 98 i.e. with desktop computers. with laptops it might be different, as every laptop-manufacturer does its own solution and suspend was realized long before win could do it. so it is done by bios or proprietary programs. but i think that the method of

Re: Fwd: [newbie]LimeWire

2001-05-29 Thread John Farrell
On Monday 21 May 2001 22:41, Lanman wrote: Quick question here,...What is LimeWire ?? LimeWire is a pure Java gnutella client (they call it a servent). There's more on gnutella here: http://gnutella.wego.com/ John

Re: [newbie] Windows Font Installer takes a very long time to install fonts in LM8

2001-05-29 Thread Ric Tibbetts
A V Flinsch wrote: On Monday 28 May 2001 20:45, Romanator wrote: Hi all, I was trying to install the Windows fonts in Mandrake Control Center. I have been waiting 15 minutes and it is still installing. Is this normal? The version of drakfont included with 8.0 takes a very long time to

[newbie] Java ?

2001-05-29 Thread Dave DeGear
I have a high speed connection and our provider supplies us with a site to check our download speed. The site is speedtest.telus.net but when using Netscape 4.77 with the plugin package I still get a java error. This site works fine when I reboot to Windows but I can't get it to work under

[newbie] USB

2001-05-29 Thread Dennis Myers
I don't seem to find a man for the usb stuff. I have checked and the files are there and usb is active on my computer but I am not getting a connection with the digital camera or scanner. Well, the scanner because I have'nt figured out how to get sane or xscanimage to work. Anyway, any

Re: [newbie] ESS Solo-1

2001-05-29 Thread Paul-H. Gagnon
Linn Crowser is right! I found all controls in Sound Mixer set to minimum.. Now enjoying the music. Thanks Linn! Paul At 20:15 28/05/2001 -0500, you wrote: Paul-H. Gagnon wrote: Greetings all! Anyone using sound module ESS Solo-1 with v8.0? Control Center identifies the module as

Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again

2001-05-29 Thread Dan
Can I make a suggestion? Try Phex. It was really easy to use. All you need is the http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/ There's no real installation. It run right out of your home directory. http://www.konrad-haenel.de/phex/ --- Marcia Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I printed out

Re: [newbie] Another Voodoo enigma? 3.3.6 installed.

2001-05-29 Thread Todd Flinders
Or try: XFDrake -expert --- Carl Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 8.0 on a celeron 433, 128 ram and voodoo3 2000 tonight. I wasn't given a choice of versions concerning XFree86 and it installed 3.3.6. I have a K6-2 450 with Voodoo 3 2000 that installed fine (although I

Re: [newbie] Java ?

2001-05-29 Thread s
it worked in netscape 4.77 for me, but konqueror didn't do much. However, I haven't messed with loading sun's or ibm's java since my last reinstall, so konqueror is functioning on whatever gets installed or can find from netscape. -s On Tuesday 29 May 2001 05:05 pm, you wrote: I have a

Re: [newbie] Supported DSL Modems

2001-05-29 Thread s
You're probably going to have to go external. Alcatel Speed Touch Home is a nice one. -s On Tuesday 29 May 2001 02:02 pm, you wrote: I've been searching the web for a PCI DSL modem that I can use (at least be supported). Any sugguestions, I cannot find one . . .

[newbie] Java ?

2001-05-29 Thread Charley Sparks
Same topic.. any one had any luck with the HotJava Browser from Sun? I belong to some Veteran's chats on Talk City and I have to use Windows if I want somthing reliable Thanks Friends

Re: [newbie] Java ?

2001-05-29 Thread Sam
Hello, I've just tried the throughput test at the page and I didn't encounter any problems running it using Netscape 4.77 under Mandrake 8. You don't need to install the netscape plugins package to get Java working in Netscape and neither is installation of a Java Runtime necessary - however,

Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again

2001-05-29 Thread s
How can one make these two apps work behind the basic tinyfirewall setup in 8.0? If I shut down the firewall, I shut down the forwarding also, so that won't work. (On lan.) -s On Tuesday 29 May 2001 05:33 pm, you wrote: Can I make a suggestion? Try Phex. It was really easy to use.

[newbie] Samba and MS access

2001-05-29 Thread Lpwangmd
Hello all, Does anybody have experience with file locking under SAMBA with MS access. I would like 2 users to work with an access file. I've read alot about op locks and file locking and seem to get more confused. I have LM 8.0 with Samba 2.07 (yes I know about the security update, I have

[newbie] linux4windows aka mandrake 7.2 trouble

2001-05-29 Thread Alexei A. Frounze
Hey folks. 1st of all, I want to make it clear, even though I know DOS, windows, program very well (Pascal, C/C++, ASM, 3d, OS dev), I don't know much about unix and linux, so please excuse me when I say something silly about *x. OK, Today I got Linux... Having never worked with it, I ordered

[newbie] 2.4 routing question (easy one)

2001-05-29 Thread Ed Colmar
Hey Friends! I've gotten my mandrake security firewall all set up, and it's working great. Lan traffic can get out, IP addresses are getting translated, and outside queries are dumped. Great! But now I throw our Web and FTP server into the mix. It's going to live

[newbie] Voodoo3 question

2001-05-29 Thread Jerry Mulvaney
In trying to get #D working well, I noticed this in my XFree86 log: (EE) TDFX(0): DRI requires Voodoo3 or later, disabling DRI. No generic here, it's a 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000. XFdrake and XConfigurator w/ expert both see it as a voodoo 3 2000. Any ideas?

Re: [newbie] Java ?

2001-05-29 Thread s
I tried it a while back, a year or so, and it wasn't very good then. If memory serves, it was quite unstable - actually almost usable (crashing and freezing), and it didn't render html that well either. Of course it may have improved by now. -s On Tuesday 29 May 2001 06:15 pm, you wrote:

[newbie] rpmdrake

2001-05-29 Thread JohnB
hi, i just installed mandrake 8.0 and am trying to configure the rpm app to get the packages from an ftp site. * specifically, ftp://ftp1.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/mandrake/8.0/i586/ * when i add this site, the dialog just spins and spins saying that its gonna add it but

Re: [newbie] Java ?

2001-05-29 Thread Jeanette Russo
No Hot Java is still slow and unstable and Sun is no longer developing it so it will not be getting better. Jeanette s wrote: I tried it a while back, a year or so, and it wasn't very good then. If memory serves, it was quite unstable - actually almost usable (crashing and

[newbie] Multiple Processors

2001-05-29 Thread Michael Graveen
Hello, I've just installed Mandrake 8.0 but it only found 1 processor. I am running dual 700MHz P3 processors on a Tyan Tiger 133 motherboard. How can I get Mandrake to recognize both processors? Thanks in advance, Mike

[newbie] MK 8.0 crashes on reboot.

2001-05-29 Thread Carl Levin
It seems to go well though the install process. Then, when I am lulled into a false sense of security it fails to go into KDE - as requested in the set up - and seems to start to reboot. It gets to "detecting usb ok" and then freezes. I have tried a number of ways of installing ie. update,

[newbie] Multiple Processors

2001-05-29 Thread Michael Graveen
Please ignore my last message it went out by accident. It has already been answered by the list. Sorry. Mike --- Hello, I've just installed Mandrake 8.0 but it only

Re: [newbie] Multiple Processors

2001-05-29 Thread Paul
It was Tue, 29 May 2001 19:52:36 -0500 when Michael Graveen wrote: There is a kernel with SMP support. You'll need that. Hello, I've just installed Mandrake 8.0 but it only found 1 processor. I am running dual 700MHz P3 processors on a Tyan Tiger 133 motherboard. How can I get Mandrake to

Re: [newbie] Java ?

2001-05-29 Thread h3rb
Works fine for me. On Tuesday 29 May 2001 18:05, Dave DeGear wrote: I have a high speed connection and our provider supplies us with a site to check our download speed. The site is speedtest.telus.net but when using Netscape 4.77 with the plugin package I still get a java error. This

Re: [newbie] what is a compressed image?

2001-05-29 Thread David Savolainen
Eric, H... No LM version has paused at that stage longer then half a minute or so at that stage for me, usually just a few seconds. I don't know why it would lock up at that stage. What is your hardware configuration? This may well be beyond my expertise, but hopefully someone else will

Re: [newbie] rpmdrake

2001-05-29 Thread s
How long did you wait? It takes it a while. -s On Tuesday 29 May 2001 07:07 pm, you wrote: hi, i just installed mandrake 8.0 and am trying to configure the rpm app to get the packages from an ftp site. * specifically, ftp://ftp1.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/mandrake/8.0/i586/ *

Re: [newbie] Modems?

2001-05-29 Thread s
http://lhd.datapower.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?_catid=11 -s On Monday 28 May 2001 07:58 pm, you wrote: Where can I find information about this? Kheb On Sat, 26 May 2001 19:13:43 -0500, s said: I been using a 3com/USRobotics pci Faxmodem (aka 5610) in several distros and versions. Never

[newbie] Windows 2000 Policy's working with Linux

2001-05-29 Thread gizim69
In my local school we have a windows 2000 network running multi user policy's that restrict users to some parts of the system and network. Is there away that a user can login with Windows 98se or 2000. And linux will handle the policy? linux will restrict the user? and not use the windows

Re: [newbie] Java ?

2001-05-29 Thread Dave DeGear
I wonder what my problem is? I get the message Reading File then Starting Java and then Done except that the file size options don't show up on the screen. I am supposed to be able to select files sizes up to 10meg for the test. Under Netscape Preferences I have selected, Automatically

Re: [newbie] Java ?

2001-05-29 Thread Dave DeGear
On Wed, 30 May 2001 07:35:40 +0800, Sam wrote: Hello, I've just tried the throughput test at the page and I didn't encounter any problems running it using Netscape 4.77 under Mandrake 8. Well, I wonder what I could be doing wrong? Do you have Enable pluginJVM enabled under the Netscape

[newbie] DCOPserver

2001-05-29 Thread Danny Gordon
I went to log in as root taday and got this error. There was some error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list /root/.DCOPserver-x1-6-00-80-c8-dd-2f-f8_:0 Please check that the DCOPserver program is

Re: [newbie] Java ?

2001-05-29 Thread s
Mine is setup the same way. I haven't done anything to it, it just worked. I don't use netscape too much, so I don't know how to fix yours. Maybe check the helper applications and make sure it's listed. There's an 'add' if it isn't. -s On Tuesday 29 May 2001 09:22 pm, you wrote: I

[newbie] cdrom

2001-05-29 Thread Rod
how come when i installed the cdrom and i bring up diskdrake0.9.3 it shows 2 cdroms one bus type scsi and the other atapi/ide and its a atapi.Ive installed two different brands and this still happens Rodney [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Just wondering a few points!

2001-05-29 Thread Walter Luffman
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 10:56 am, Derek Rayne wrote: Can any of the e-mail programs (like K-Mail, Evolution, etc...) that are on here be configured to read and send messages via Yahoo e-mail (the free one)? I don't want to keep on using Netscape to load up the Yahoo e-mail page to read my

Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again

2001-05-29 Thread Marcia Waller
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 18:33, Dan wrote: Can I make a suggestion? Try Phex. It was really easy to use. All you need is the http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/ There's no real installation. It run right out of your home directory. http://www.konrad-haenel.de/phex/ Dear All, Thank you

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Re: [newbie] AdvanSys SCSI Adapter ? - OK

2001-05-29 Thread LinuxKH
Hello Civileme ! On Tue, 29 May 2001, Civileme wrote: You are not quite out of the woods yet. Now to install you need to run the regular install CD boot from it, type F1 at the splash screen and then type expert On the first screen you will not add any modules from a floppy on the

Re: [newbie] Kmail

2001-05-29 Thread Kelley Terry
You're absolutely right. My isp (Sisna) switched to smtp authentication and I looked for alternatives. I like mozilla best and am using it to send this email. I wrote one of the maintainers of kmail and asked about future plans for smtp authentication and he said Maybe it will be in KDE

[newbie] ntfs support?

2001-05-29 Thread Adam Willcox
I've heard alot about the ntfs support module being really really buggy. One can read horror stories of it completely destroying some people's ntfs partition and needing a format. Is ntfs support really this buggy? I'm running windows2000 on my first drive and mandrake 8.0 on my second

Re: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot

2001-05-29 Thread John W
i now have windows 2000 (advanced server) on my system and would like to get it to dual boot with linux. the drive is ntfs formatted. any advice would be great. thanks in advance, haroon _ Do You Yahoo!?

[newbie] Need help on PCI Modem installation

2001-05-29 Thread Frederic O Kho
Guys, Pls. help. I have Mandrake 8 installed and it could not detect my internal modem. The modem specs are: Manufacturer: Cirrus Logic, Inc. Chipset: CL-MD5620-DT Memory: 32K DSP RAM UART: 16550AN This modem works well in Windows. Any of you have this problem? Thanks. Deric

Re: [newbie] Need help on PCI Modem installation

2001-05-29 Thread gizim69
This is what you call a WINMODEM they use the OS (This case Windows) to use the modem. Linux does not support WINMODEMS Never will You have to get a HARDWARE Modem or a External Modem. On Wed, 30 May 2001 14:03:58 +0800 Frederic O Kho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guys, Pls. help. I have

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