[newbie-it] RealPlayer 8 basic

2001-05-30 Thread Enrico Noseda
Ringrazio tutti per l'aiuto che state dando ad un neofita a cui piace linux ma che per ora perde molte ore per fare ben pochi progressi. Esempio: ieri ho scaricato Real Player 8 basic (versione linux)e poi ho eseguito chmod U+X rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin e poi ./rp8. E' patita

[newbie-it] /var/spool/mail/root

2001-05-30 Thread Enrico Noseda
Scusate l'ignoranza ma mi viene segnalato in root che ho posta in /va/spool/mail/root ma come faccio ha leggerla? Da terminale root o da dove? Grazie e abbiate pazienza! _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at

[newbie-it] /var/spool/mail/root

2001-05-30 Thread Enrico Noseda
Scusate l'ignoranza ma mi viene segnalato in root che ho posta in /va/spool/mail/root ma come faccio ha leggerla? Da terminale root o da dove? Grazie e abbiate pazienza! _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at

Re: [newbie-it] /var/spool/mail/root

2001-05-30 Thread Fabio Coatti
Il 10:10, mercoledì 30 Maggio 2001, Enrico Noseda scrisse: Scusate l'ignoranza ma mi viene segnalato in root che ho posta in /va/spool/mail/root ma come faccio ha leggerla? Da terminale root o da dove? La cosa migliore è entrare in shell da root e lanciare pine o mutt. -- Fabio Coatti

Re: [newbie-it] Risoluzione

2001-05-30 Thread andrea
Per uccidere X e passare alla shell digita: CTRL ALT BACKSPACE (attenzione, non CTRL ALT CANC (o DEL)). Puoi anche passare alla shell non uccidendo X digitando: CTRL ALT 1 o CTRL ALT 2 o, generalmente, fino a CTRL ALT 6 Per cambiare risoluzione al volo, quando stai in X, fai: CTRL ALT + o CTRL

[newbie-it] DNS

2001-05-30 Thread Marc (aka: Verbal)
Ho installato una scheda ETH0 in una rete ethernet... tutto bene... configurazione perfetta !!! Abilitando il protocollo su server DHCP mi viene assegnato il mio ip ed entro in rete... ma come faccio ad abilitare il server DNS (che viene visto perfettamente) per risolvermi i dns ? Se faccio

[newbie-it] voce sintetica

2001-05-30 Thread luca laghi
Eiste un programma che trasformi in voce un testo scritto? Luca

Re: [newbie-it] AUDIO IN MANDRAKE 8

2001-05-30 Thread Mr_Brain
Il 07:14, mercoledì 30 Maggio 2001, Francesco Speranza ha scritto: COME POSSO FARE PER RIMETTERE A POSTO TUTTO SENZA FARE L'ENNESIMA REISTALLAZIONE ? 1. non scrivere tuto in maiuscolo, equivale a gridare 2. si dice reiNstallare 3. hai controllato che all'avvio della modalita` grafica parta

Re: [newbie-it] RealPlayer 8 basic

2001-05-30 Thread Mr_Brain
Il 10:08, mercoledì 30 Maggio 2001, Enrico Noseda ha scritto: Fatto questo ho provato ha vedere se funziona con KWvideo ma non si è innescato realplayer anzi netscape mi ha detto di scaricare il Plug-in. Hai fatto l'associazione dei file video (credo siano i *.rm) con il RealPlayer? Per

[newbie-it] 2 problemi

2001-05-30 Thread CyberDevil
1' problema: ho 4 sedi di una ditta messa in rete tramite cdn 64kb gestite da dei router: sede a: 192.168.11.* router 192.168.11.1 dominio e gruppo di lavoro SEDEA sede b: 192.168.21.* router 192.168.21.1dominio e gruppo di lavoro SEDEB sede c: 192.168.31.* router 192.168.31.1dominio e

[newbie-it] Hard Disk rallentato

2001-05-30 Thread Daniele Micci
Ciao a tutti, oggi mi sono deciso ad installare il nuovo LM. La nuova versione sembra, da quel poco che sto vedendo e provando, piuttosto buona. Ma ci sono alcune cose che non riesco a far andare come vorrei. Come sempre, se qualcuno vorrà darmi una mano a risolvere questi problemi avrà i miei

Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again

2001-05-30 Thread s
Tho there's a java (/usr/bin/java) in our path, I still had to type /usr/java/bin/java --jar phex.jar. You may too. -s On Tuesday 29 May 2001 10:50 pm, you wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] ntfs support?

2001-05-30 Thread John W
On Saturday 29 May 1999 22:17, you wrote: 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

[newbie] Support for IP-Masquerading already compiled

2001-05-30 Thread ETSoft
Hello is this function already compiled in the standard installation of mandrake 8.0 ?? -- Best regards, ETSoft mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Unusably slow printing in 8.0 using 'official' HP DeskJet drivers?

2001-05-30 Thread Michael Carr
I was wondering whether anyone using 8.0 is experiencing prohibitively slow print-outs with the bundled HP DeskJet drivers. I'm currently running 7.2, and while eager to upgrade I've heard horror stories about the downloadable version's use in conjunction with other distros. Thanks in advance,

Re: [newbie] Just wondering a few points!

2001-05-30 Thread Michael Scottaline
Walter Luffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC Yahoo! mail is a web-based mail application, which means you must use a web browser to read your mail.  The sort of e-mail programs you mentioned are intended for use with mail that is actually downloaded to your computer; with Yahoo! mail

[newbie] More hardisk space

2001-05-30 Thread Phil Curtis
Hello all, I used to use Novell Netware and I could used to be able to merge two disk volumes (disk partions±) together, to create a large volume (i.e. 10gb on HD1 + 20Gb on HD2) could give me a 30Gb volume. Is it possible to do the same with Linux? What I mean I create a directory called /work

[newbie] Please remove me from list!

2001-05-30 Thread GAVINPALMER
Would you please remove me from the mailing list, thank you! regards Gavin Palmer

RE: [newbie] Kmail

2001-05-30 Thread Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA
Title: RE: [newbie] Kmail It is hard to imagine that requesting an smtp server AND a user name is all that hard to do and has been neglected through so many revisions of kmail. There is so much functionality in the rest of kmail to be made so useless by this small feature. Netscape mail

Re: [newbie] suspend to ram

2001-05-30 Thread Terry
I thought that suspend to ram effectively meant sleep to a laptop, whereas suspend to disk meant hibernate. That is how it's referred to on my Compaq laptop. Terry Suspend to RAM or Hibernation, is when the computer copies the contents of the RAM of the computer and also

Re: [newbie] y los modems???

2001-05-30 Thread victor sosa
yo tambien tengo ese modems, lo que pasa es que tiene chips intel que necesitan un driver, pero para el kernel 2.4.3 no hay drive(me imagino que tienes LM8, verdad, esta es la razon por lo que no lo reconoce en la instalacion. estoy buscando otra forma de pornelo ha funcional y si lo pone ha

Re: [newbie] Java ?

2001-05-30 Thread Terry
I couldn't get it to work either. When I pass the mouse over the grey box where the applet is supposed to be running, the status bar says Applet timer can't start: ERROR. Terry On Tuesday 29 May 2001 18:05, you wrote: I have a high speed connection and our provider supplies us with a site

Re: [newbie] Need help on PCI Modem installation

2001-05-30 Thread h3rb
NO one is gonna find any modem there...There is none listed. And it says most winmodems, however some are supported. MODEM: Most modems and ISDN adaptors are supported. Most Win-modems are NOT supported. On Wednesday 30 May 2001 03:39, Eric Lauritzen wrote:

Re: [newbie] y los modems???

2001-05-30 Thread jgarrido
Hola Victor Mi distribucion es la 7.2, igual no me la reconoce...

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

2001-05-30 Thread Randy Kramer
Nico, Thanks very much for the response! However, I seem to have confused the issue -- AFAIK, reading and writing remote files using FTP is *not* what I want to do. The closest and most accurate analogy that I can come up with is this: while browsing websites with Xemacs w3 mode, I come across

[newbie] Lexmark Z11 Printer. Has anyone got one to work with mdk8

2001-05-30 Thread h3rb
Has anyone got a Lexmark Z11 printer to work with mdk8? I have tried both drivers and the one won't even send any info to the printer. And the sumsum one will send data to the printer. But it just prints out a bunch of yellow lines. If you did get it to work...how! Thx, h3rb

Re: [newbie] Which SQL to use...

2001-05-30 Thread Michael D. Viron
Paul, For the distribution, you'd be better off using Mandrake. This is primarily because Mandrake (especially if you select medium security) tends to close a lot of the security holes that in Redhat are left open. As for which SQL server you use, that is going to really depend on what the

Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z11 Printer. Has anyone got one to work with mdk8

2001-05-30 Thread Paul
Has anyone got a Lexmark Z11 printer to work with mdk8? I have tried both drivers and the one won't even send any info to the printer. And the sumsum one will send data to the printer. But it just prints out a bunch of yellow lines. If you did get it to work...how! Thx, I have heard

Re: [newbie] Support for IP-Masquerading already compiled

2001-05-30 Thread Jeff
I have it already in my default install. All the modules can be found in /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter for my install anyway. The Masquerading is way different with iptables though. Theres a faq http://netfilter.samba.org/netfilter-faq.html and also a howto

Re: [newbie] MK 8.0 crashes on reboot.

2001-05-30 Thread Carl Levin
I have an SIS 8meg pci card. It seems that 7.2 didn't have a problem with it. It seemed to have a problem with my sound card as well. Ensonique / soundblaster pci. Ditto on the 7.2 , it does fine. The machine's a Dell p166 with 48 meg. - Original Message - From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] kppp

2001-05-30 Thread Terry C
I tried dialing into my ISP yesterday and was greeted with, pppd has unexpectedly died. I brought up the debug window and found that the login would progress to connected at 115,200, and the bottom of the window would say starting pppd, and then after s short period of time the window would pop

Re: [newbie] font antialiasing

2001-05-30 Thread Randy Kramer
I'd like to try to answer your first two questions, I can't readily answer the third. Marc Audard wrote: What is the purpose of it? To make fonts more easily readable. Is there a gentle soul to explain what the fonts antialiasing is? 1. When a character is displayed on a monitor, it is

[newbie] Modem KPPP

2001-05-30 Thread WGreg11990
When ever i start up the internet Icon, and go to connect a message pop's up and said i have another KPPP running . i have Linux 7.1 dual boot win 98 machine How do i stop it or find out if another KPPP is running in the back ground and make my modem work.

Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z11 Printer. Has anyone got one to work withmdk8

2001-05-30 Thread Terry Smith
Negative report here. I think I have a Lexmark Z11. At least it looks like one but it's been rebadged as a Compaq IJ300 and came with my windoze Compaq 'bundle'. Anyhow none of the likely Lexmark drivers work (CUPS 1.1). The Compaq drivers (for the wrong printer) will get something to the printer

Re: [newbie] suspend to ram

2001-05-30 Thread James Bond
You may be right. My laptop doesn't call it suspend to RAM but from what you said that makes sense. I think I mixed up the two. Sorry for the confusion. I thought that suspend to ram effectively meant sleep to a laptop, whereas suspend to disk meant hibernate. That is how it's referred

Re: [newbie] font antialiasing

2001-05-30 Thread James Bond
I'm no computer expert, but I do know what antialiasing means and I can try to extrapolate its meaning to fonts. Antialiasing is when a computer blurs a line to make it smooth. Whenever a computer makes a line at an angle, it is never smooth. You may notice this if you make a slanted line in

[newbie] xscanimage

2001-05-30 Thread Dennis Myers
I am trying to get my scanner working. I have installed sane and am trying to install xscanimage. When I use the rpm package, I get a dependency for libgimp-1.1.so.18 . There is no libgimp-1.1.so.18 any where to be found on rpmfind or on the CDs. Only 1.2 version. Has anyone got this thing to

Re: [newbie] font antialiasing

2001-05-30 Thread Marc Audard
Hi, Thanks. Is it also possible to enable antialiasing in Gnome Control Center? Marc

Re: [newbie] font antialiasing

2001-05-30 Thread Dave DeGear
I've gone in to the KDE Control Center under Fonts and can't find an option for antialias. Where exactly would I find this? By the way, is there a way to set up the Samba from a Menu? I haven't been able to find it under the Control Center. Thanks. ...Dave Quoting

Re: [newbie] Scanning (was xscanimage)

2001-05-30 Thread Terry Smith
I just sent a message indicating I had added a HP PSC 500 printer to my linux box last evening. It's an 'all-in-one' unit which prints, scans and copies. It's being discontinued and I got a good deal. Works well on the windoze side of the house. I'd like to use the scanner under linux. I know

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

2001-05-30 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
There is a bug in the version that is on the CD. You need to upgrade DrakFont (sp?) from cooker to the latest version and then run it again. Eric Indiogine On Monday 28 May 2001 18:45, Romanator wrote: Hi all, I was trying to install the Windows fonts in Mandrake Control Center. I have

[newbie] hsp56 mr laptop winmodem

2001-05-30 Thread Pablo García Durán
I want to thank all the people who tried to help, but I couldn't find anything useful yet. If the solution ever comes to my hands, I'll tell you all. Hopefully, Linux is not vital for me, although I was willing to get unsticked to Windows. Well, they say Windows 2000 is not that bad.

[newbie] running web servers for 2 different domains

2001-05-30 Thread Tom
Where can I get help on setting up web pages for 2 domains? They both use the same IP, but only one is recognized. I'm using Corporate Version 1.0.. I see that people here are using 8.0, so, not sure if this is the place to ask, or if I should be on some other mailing list? Thanks,

Re: [newbie] More hardisk space

2001-05-30 Thread Ric Tibbetts
The short answer: Yes, it's possible. The slightly longer answer: You need to look into LVM (or Logical Volume Manager) to do this. The following links should help you along with that. Part 1 of Logical Volume Management by IBM. This is part 1 of a 2 part set. (note: there are many white

Re: [newbie] running web servers for 2 different domains

2001-05-30 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 11:13 AM 05/30/2001 -0500, Tom wrote: Where can I get help on setting up web pages for 2 domains? You have to hand-edit the httpd.conf file stored in /etc/httpd/conf/ to include vhosting for the 2 domains. Help on this is available from the docs on httpd.apache.org or from the list. Also,

[newbie] Nvidia Drivers, what's reccomended

2001-05-30 Thread John W
I have tried the nvidia kernel and GLX 1.xx drivers and cannot run any games other than the standard penguin comand and the *tris variants with the exception of Chromium. What a well designed game by the way. Reminds me of my days as a kid in the arcades. When I try mesa gears or reflection

[newbie] Networking Question

2001-05-30 Thread Terry Smith
One more message from the 'newbie' trenches I need a little expert help on getting my machine to recognize network file systems. At work I've got LM 8.0 installed on a Micron Millenium running a ~500mhz PII. We're on a Sun-based intranet supported by a bunch of clever folks who know Unix

[newbie] Cooker Kernel Updates

2001-05-30 Thread A. Rick Anderson
I've heard that the Cooker kernel updates fix the PS/2 mouse and TP Trackpoint problem. What is the best way to download and install these patches? All that I have is a 56K Modem from a Win2k machine. [the sound / modem support on a TP is from a custom digital signal process and LM doesn't

Re: [newbie] Nvidia Drivers, what's reccomended

2001-05-30 Thread Sal Portillo
Hello You might try the following guide: http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00022.asp It explains how to install the Nvidia drivers from tar files. Thsi skips the rpm's which might have been built for a different kernel. also check out the Linux newbie site:

Re: [newbie] fvwm

2001-05-30 Thread Paul
It was Tue, 29 May 2001 23:41:52 +0200 when hellmut wrote: 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, You can adapt your ~/.xinitrc: add exec fvwm to the bottom (or create the file if it is not

Re: [newbie] xscanimage

2001-05-30 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 30 May 2001 10:36:24 -0500 when Dennis Myers wrote: I am trying to get my scanner working. I have installed sane and am trying to install xscanimage. When I use the rpm package, I get a dependency for libgimp-1.1.so.18 . There is no libgimp-1.1.so.18 any where to be found on

[newbie] Samba Configuration for File server

2001-05-30 Thread Gabe Austin
Is it possible to have my linux box act as an NT 4 server for filesharing?I have LM 8 with the version of Samba that was included in the ISO image. I know how to configure Samba to share out shares and I can actually do most of the configuration in the smb.conf file. What I want to do is

RE: [newbie] LimeWire Again

2001-05-30 Thread Morrell, Mike A
It might help if you could include the error message in your post. -Original Message- From: Marcia Waller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 11:51 PM To: Dan; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again On Tuesday 29 May 2001 18:33, Dan wrote: Can I make

[newbie] soundblaster pc1 128

2001-05-30 Thread Magnus Stenemo
Hello! My soundblaster pci 128 doesn't work in Linux-mandrake 8.0. Do I have to make a new kernel, or how can I get my card to work?? //Magnus

Re: [newbie] Routing problem

2001-05-30 Thread Dave Sherman
If you use the route command, your entries will not be saved to any files on disk, therefore a reboot will erase your routing entries. Use Linuxconf instead, and it will save your routing entries for you. I believe the actual file is /proc/net/route, however there may one or more other files

Re: [newbie] font antialiasing

2001-05-30 Thread s
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 09:48 am, you wrote: How can we see if this option works or not? I don't have a definitive answer for this -- partly is, do they look good, but that's not the entire answer because fonts can look bad for other reasons. Hope this helps, or provokes clarifying

Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again

2001-05-30 Thread Marcia Waller
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 05:24, Dan wrote: You shell is probably not looking in the proper path for the java command. In my situation I type in the complete path: /usr/java/jre1.3.1/bin/java -jar phex.jar This is the path based on Mandrake 8 with the java run time environment RPM from

[newbie] a quick note

2001-05-30 Thread Michel Clasquin
The browser wars are over. Galeon is browsing perfection. IMHO anyway -- This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC

Re: [newbie] soundblaster pc1 128

2001-05-30 Thread Ivan Emilov
I have the same Sound Card And it works perfect with no problems i dont think that the problem is in kernel. If you want you can download the OSS sound driver and install it. I am shure that it will work properli after you install it :))) At 20:06 30.5.2001 'ã.'§ -0400, you wrote: Hello! My

Re: [newbie] More memory, more swap file?

2001-05-30 Thread James Bond
I think that with the amount of RAM you have, you can leave the swap file as is. The general rule of thumb (that I've heard anyway) is that you don't need to make your swap file more than 100mb regardless of how much ram you have. Of course, if you're doing video or graphics editing, then

Re: [newbie] nVIDIA TnT2

2001-05-30 Thread OOzy Pal
No, no games. I don't play games. I just want Mandrake to run fast enough. I used to have PIII 450 with Asus AGP-V2740 (AGP Bus, Intel740TM accelerator) and Mandrake was so slow. I hope nVIDIA runs fast enough. OOzy --- Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OOzy Pal escribió: What do you

Re: [newbie] Modems?

2001-05-30 Thread TezcatlipocA
Hi Michael sorry for answering a little late. Well the modem itself was at $56.95 when I bought it. I had to pay shipping too, which was 2day air. -Original Message- From: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: TezcatlipocA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, May 27, 2001 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] More hardisk space

2001-05-30 Thread David E. Fox
I used to use Novell Netware and I could used to be able to merge two disk volumes (disk partions±) together, to create a large volume (i.e. 10gb on HD1 + 20Gb on HD2) could give me a 30Gb volume. I am not sure if you can *physically* merge the two partitions into one physical volume. But you

[newbie] Mail like MS Outlook

2001-05-30 Thread OOzy Pal
Hello Guys Is there a Linux mail programs like MS Outlook or even better. I like Outlook's address book. I also like it when I just type the name of the person I want to email and if this person name is my address book, Outlook will automatically substitutes the name with the email address. I

Re: [newbie] soundblaster pc1 128

2001-05-30 Thread TezcatlipocA
Yes it does work. I have the same card but you have to change ther driver to the Ensoniq 1371es or something like that. I don't remember how it is named but there's only two. TezcatlipocA -Original Message- From: Magnus Stenemo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Mail like MS Outlook

2001-05-30 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
1. Aethera, part of KDE. Not 1.0 yet but worth trying out. It is on the Mandrake 8.0 CDs but you need to upgrade to the latest version. Check http://www.thekompany.com 2. Evolution, part of GNOME. Also not at version 1.0 yet. It is also on MDK 8.0 CDs. Again new version is out. Tried

Re: [newbie] Unusably slow printing in 8.0 using 'official' HP DeskJet drivers?

2001-05-30 Thread A V Flinsch
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 07:52, Michael Carr wrote: I was wondering whether anyone using 8.0 is experiencing prohibitively slow print-outs with the bundled HP DeskJet drivers. I have a Business InkJet 2200 attached to a win98 machine. Printing from Linux to it via a samba share is

Re: [newbie] Nvidia Drivers, what's reccomended

2001-05-30 Thread hellmut
Hi! I have a K6-2, 450 mhz, 256 megs ram and an ELSA Erazor III Pro videocard (TNT 2 chip). I also installed the RPM's for Mandrake 8 and it runs very well, only one time the X-server lost connection and dropped me to a shell. Games are also working very fine. Do you have Mandrake 8 and XFree

RE: [newbie] Mail like MS Outlook

2001-05-30 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of OOzy Pal Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 4:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mail like MS Outlook Hello Guys Is there a Linux mail programs like MS Outlook or even better. I

Re: [newbie] More memory, more swap file?

2001-05-30 Thread Romanator
No. I would leave it the way it is. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I have an AMD K6-2 400 Mhz CPU with 128 megs of RAM (and 16 megs of video RAM) and a swap file of 256 megs of RAM. I will be

[newbie] extra information, plz help!

2001-05-30 Thread Alexei A. Frounze
Got extra information... When I install linux (Linux for Windows aka Mandrake 7.2) from the CD in the text mode (e.g. no fancy GUI) I can see something which I don't see normally in GUI. Namely, at the end of copying of all of the software from CD to linux file system file, I see such error

Re: [newbie] Just wondering a few points!

2001-05-30 Thread Romanator
Derek, Subject #2 1. Log in as root 2. Navigate to www.real.com and download the Unix .bin version of Realplayer8 3. After downloading it, open a console and type in: chmod 777 rp8_xxx_xxx_cs1.bin Press the [enter] key 4. Type in: ./rp8_xxx_xxx_cs1.bin Press the [enter] key 5. I usually let it

Re: [newbie] terrible browser fonts

2001-05-30 Thread Romanator
For me it only applies to Konqueror. I always check the web page at www.netscape.com. I noticed the bold characters which are links look almost comical. The first character in any of the bold words is smaller than the other - going up and down. I'm also stumped on this one. I installed all of the

[newbie] Linux Modem

2001-05-30 Thread Guillermo Fraile
Hello, I´ve a Linus Mandrake v7.2. The modem I have, Diamond SST, don´t works correctly. Could you advice me about modems compatibles with Mandrake ? I prefer external models serial port. Thanks and advance Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping!

Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again

2001-05-30 Thread Dan
The answer is you can't play an .exe file in XMMS. You need to download files with .mp3 extensions. (The neat thing about gnutella clients is you can share any type of file) Regarding the desktop icon. I don't know for sure but I think you'd have to write a short shell script. (Still working

Re: [newbie] More hardisk space

2001-05-30 Thread Ric Tibbetts
This is exactly where LVM comes in. You set up a Volume Group. This can combine multiple disks (or even partitions) into a single logical unit, which you then work with as a single disk. The articles I indicated outline the philosiphy of Logical Volumes Volume Groups much better than I will

Re: [newbie] font antialiasing

2001-05-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Dave DeGear wrote: I've gone in to the KDE Control Center under Fonts and can't find an option for antialias. Where exactly would I find this? By the way, is there a way to set up the Samba from a Menu? I haven't been able to find it under the Control Center. Thanks.

[newbie] Package Problems (Nvidia Drivers)

2001-05-30 Thread Albion Baucom
Upon upgrading from the 0.9-769 Nvidia drivers I encoutered a problem which I have not been able to resolve. A pre-uninstall query of my RPM database gives the following: rpm -q NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769 NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769 rpm -q NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 Fine. Looks good. Then

Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again

2001-05-30 Thread Randy Kramer
Dan wrote: Also I gave you some bad information regarding the export PATH thing. This won't make it permanent. I need to either edit the .bash_profile to add that line or create a symbolic link into /usr/bin. If I figure it out, I'll let you know. Unless someone knows the answer? You

Re: [newbie] IRQ problem.

2001-05-30 Thread etharp
damn, civleme, first I sware I saw a TYPO, from yu last week, and now humour what next... will we will discuss M$ dot NET. winner XP? BIG GRIN really we all thank you. On Wednesday 30 May 2001 19:42, Civileme wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2001 07:03, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Civileme

Re: [newbie] IRQ problem.

2001-05-30 Thread etharp
Beowulf? tell us more about it. On Wednesday 30 May 2001 19:42, Civileme wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2001 07:03, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Civileme wrote: Well, the IRQs are assigned in groups to certain slots on the motherboard. There are also ways in the BIOS of manipulating the IRQs

Re: [newbie] Linux Modem

2001-05-30 Thread s
I'm not sure about SST (that's a new one on me), but diamond offers an isa modem that works in Linux called the SupraExpress (I have that one), their pci version is a winmodem and probably won't work (actually I have one of these too, in my son's computer). However, there are a few drivers

[newbie] Copy *.* to *.bak -- how?

2001-05-30 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Let's say I have the following files: File1 File2 File3 etc. Now, normally to make a backup copy of each, I would do the following: cp File1 File1.bk cp File2 File2.bk cp File3 file3.bk etc. My question: Is there a SINGLE command that would allow me to create backups for

Re: [newbie] y los modems???

2001-05-30 Thread John David Molina
Estimado Pepe: No estoy seguro, pero probablemente tu modem sea un winmodem. Revisá en la página del fabricante de tu modem para verificar eso. De ser así, la mejor fuente para saber si tu winmodem está soportado es lin-modem.org (o era linmodem.org?, no recuerdo) Allí se ofrece soporte para

Re: [newbie]cups printing again

2001-05-30 Thread John David Molina
El Jue 24 May 2001 13:16, Marcia Waller escribió: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration but will not print from any application. If I try to print

Re: [newbie] necesito saber.....

2001-05-30 Thread John David Molina
El Vie 25 May 2001 14:21, jgarrido escribió: Hola lista Soy nuevo en la lista y necesito saber si por aca hay alguien de habla hispana, ya que no soy muy bueno escribiendo en ingles... De antemano Gracias -=PePE=- Yo hablo español. Pero no soy precisamente un guru de Linux. Apenas un

Re: [newbie] Modems?

2001-05-30 Thread John David Molina
El Sáb 26 May 2001 19:29, OOzy Pal escribió: 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? OOzy Any external modem should work. They are always real modems (not winmodems). -- John

Re: [newbie] Copy *.* to *.bak -- how?

2001-05-30 Thread newbie-mandrake
try something like bash# for i in *; do cp $i $.bak; done sherwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear friends: Let's say I have the following files: File1 File2 File3 etc. Now, normally to make a backup copy of each, I would do the following: cp File1 File1.bk cp File2 File2.bk cp File3

Re: [newbie] Modems?

2001-05-30 Thread Barry Premeaux
John David Molina wrote: El Sáb 26 May 2001 19:29, OOzy Pal escribió: 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? OOzy Any external modem should work. They are always real

Re: [newbie] IRQ problem.

2001-05-30 Thread Civileme
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 07:03, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Civileme wrote: Well, the IRQs are assigned in groups to certain slots on the motherboard. There are also ways in the BIOS of manipulating the IRQs assigned. So using the BIO assignments and switching slots might be what youwant to

Re: [newbie] Fw: Cron root@mandrake run-parts /etc/cron.hourly

2001-05-30 Thread Tim Holmes
Touching the file creates it, but then it complains about the permissions later. I then went and did a chmod news:news /var/log/news/nntp* and it still complains. So I said SCREW IT! I went and did a chmod -x /etc/cron.hourly/in-cron-nntpsend. So it doesn't try and run that every hour,