Re: [newbie-it] Problema con modem isdn w6692

Uso MDK 7.2. e non conosco il tuo modem, però se draknet te lo riconosce (nel senso che ce l'ha in lista) dovrebbero esserci i driver e se hai configurato correttamente la tua connessione da KPPP, allora, potrebbe essere un problema legato alle stringhe di connessione. Fai questa prova: apri

Re: [newbie-it] Back up mdk 8.0

qualcuno, per caso, conosce un prg che crei immagini del hd in modo che se serve si possa ripristinare il tutto senza reinstallareoppure un prg di back-up che si comporti bene :o) come sempre grazie a tutti e...vi saluto dump - per fare i backup

[newbie-it] Back up mdk 8.0

ciao, qualcuno, per caso, conosce un prg che crei immagini del hd in modo che se serve si possa ripristinare il tutto senza reinstallareoppure un prg di back-up che si comporti bene :o) come sempre grazie a tutti e...vi saluto by Spider

Re: [newbie] More USB stuff

Just a Logitech mouse with the red light in it that requires no mouseball, it has original USB plug, just plug I don't know if it is really true USB mouse or winblows is supposed to have some stupid USB driver emulation stuff, but with the USB to PS/2 adaptor it works very well in Linux so

Re: [newbie] Linux compatible vid cards

I have tried and tried and tried. I have installed many times and many types of rpm's src rpms and tar balls! I find it hard to believe that I seem to be the only in the world who has just the right hardware combination for this not to work. Perhaps it is because it is a PCI card I don't know. I

[newbie] KDE Icons

Hi, Does anyone know where the icons for the menu items in KDE are stored? I keep trying to add items to the menus and then can't find the icon in the list. But I can find the icon manually. So, I need to know where to copy the icon too? TIA, Cheers, Jord

[newbie] What happened to switchdesk in LM8.0

Hi everybody, Remember switch desk. I thought it was a great way of changing the window manager. Have they omitted it or just renamed it to something else in LM8? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility

[newbie] error in Netscape 4.77

I have installed Mandrake 8.0. When I open Netscape, I have the following error: could not fdopen() the new stderr: Invalid argument I click ok, then Netscape starts and work. Why do I have this error? How can I correct the error? Thanks in advance for your help. bye kakuako

[newbie] configuring c-media sound card.

I cannot get this sound card working. It worked well with windows and suse, but now, I'm using mandrake and I cannot make it work. I found IRQ conflicts (soundcard-vga, soundcard-eth1, soundcard-usb), etc, etc. So, disabling usb I manage to not have conflicts. But now, it doesn't work anyway.

[newbie] USB Ethernet

Hi, I have a Linksys USB Ethernet adapter, I believe I read somewhere that is was supported, but I have no clue how to get it installed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! -Jason ___ GO.com Mail

Re: [newbie] Singel Network Firewall (SNF)

i installed it last night. it takes just about 20 minutes to install and has no GUI but as it said you have to loggin throught a browser. since i am still waiting to get another ethernet i have to wait. in the meantime i looked for documentation. there was no documentation in cd 1 that i had

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Printer setup on 8.0

The case that one cnot enter something with the keyboard is a known problem of the Mandrake Control Center. It happens to me, too, but only sometimes. If you close the Control Center or printerdrake and open it again, it should normally work. But as mentioned there are better alternatives

[newbie] problems with modem

I have problems with my Conexant 56 k-flex winmodem. not detected is the message i recived. what i need to do? Thanks.- _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:

Thomas Adam wrote: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 [Thomas]: What are your major/minor numbers, for the /dev/fd0 file?? This can be found, by typing in the following: ls -l /dev/fd0 brw-rw 1 ed floppy 2, 0 0 Apr 14 04:06 /dev/fd0 mount -a Does that

[newbie] Looking for commands to check for files on LM8 i.e. CTAGS 5.0

Hi list, What were the commands for checking the files that are on my Linux OS? I need to check the ctags installed on LM8.0. I think the commands begin as follows: qa | ctags or qa grep ??? Any help would be appreciated. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email

[newbie] Printing from Star Office.

Hi all, thanks to help and advise from this list I now have a working network install of Star Office 5.2 I cannot however convince spadmin to set up the printer for the network install. The printer being an HP Deskjet 520. On print test page the busy light flashes once and that is all. On

[newbie] Limewire, Phex

Has anyone done a successful install of either of these? I get an error message with limewire that says to try the download again and be sure to use binary mode. Phex gives me a core dump. Not real important cause I don't have anything on my system that anyone else would want. But, I

Re: [newbie] Looking for commands to check for files on LM8 i.e. CTAGS 5.0

Roman, It would be 'rpm -qa | grep ctags'. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 04:41 PM 06/09/2001 -0400, Romanator wrote: Hi list, What were the commands for checking the files that are on my Linux OS? I need to

Re: [newbie] Looking for commands to check for files on LM8i.e. CTAGS 5.0

Michael, Excellent!! My memory ain't what it used to be. Thank you, Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility Michael D. Viron wrote: Roman, It would be 'rpm -qa | grep ctags'. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web

Re: [newbie] Two printing problems...

On 08 Jun 2001 13:08:36 -0700, David E. Fox wrote: First, when I try to print envelopes in StarOffice 5.2, nothing happens, not even an error message. Printing letter (8.5 x 11) sized documents works fine. Does printing envelopes work in the Windows version of Star Office? I'd check

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Re: [newbie] Limewire, Phex

Yes I'm running LimeWire on LM8. What you need is to have a Java runtime installed (e.g. Sun's or IBM's) and the Other install version of LimeWire. Then copy-and-paste the following line into a terminal window and execute. java -classpath LimeWireOther.zip install To launch LimeWire after

[newbie] FreeType

I am trying to run Freetype on LM8. I did compile it and install but I don't know how to use it. What should I do to run it. = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail -

[newbie] OPTi sound card problem

Hello friends, PLEASE DON'T MIND IF THE MAIL IS TOO LONG. PLEASE HELP ME TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM My OPTi sound card is not properly supported on Mandrake. Every time I boot I have to run sndconfig to configure the card. While the configuration is being done the first sound sample where Linux

[newbie] mutiple moniters

Has anybody ever delt with mutiple moniters in linux? Is it it possible? Is their a How-To?

Re: [newbie] mutiple moniters

On Saturday 09 June 2001 19:12, you wrote: Has anybody ever delt with mutiple moniters in linux? Is it it possible? Is their a How-To? There is a program called xinerama and there is a how-to here, http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO.html. I have not actually done this myself

[newbie] Winmodem translator

If a winmodem understands only windowstalk but not Linuxtalk, would it be feasible to create a bidirectional translator in Linux so there'd be bidirectional communication between Linux and a winmodem?

[newbie] LM8.0 installation

I ordered a LM8.0,however to my dismay,I could not proceed form one step of installation.The boot CD will boot ,after loading the Ram disk and it gives error and aborts the installation.I confirmed that it was a CD problem.However LM support choose to ignore all my e-mails and fax asking for a

RE: [newbie] KDE Icons

The icons stored in : /usr/share/icons -Original Message- From: Jordan Elver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 3:44 PM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie] KDE Icons Hi, Does anyone know where the icons for the menu items in KDE are stored? I keep

RE: [newbie] nfs error ?

I think that your problem is PERMISSIONS ! Just make sure, that the user logged in to the Linux box have permissions on the Win machine. -Original Message- From: LinuxKH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 6:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] nfs error ?

RE: [newbie] Fwd: OT:Mayor problems with MBR need help desp.

if you'll do 'fdisk /mbr' you'll erase all your mbr data, including the WinNT OS Loader. -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 8:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Fwd: OT:Mayor problems with MBR need help desp.

[newbie] white on white text problem

I am getting white text on white backgeound, but only in tcl/tk apps and then only in some input boxes, they can be made readable by clicking on them, but for something like choosing a timezone from a dropdown list it becomes guesswork. Is there a utility to set one's tcl/tk colours globally?

Re: [newbie] LaCie USB HArd Drive on a Dell Inspiron 7000

civileme wrote: Umm it may not work at all under linux. Does it have a special windows driver? In MS windows98 it needs one and, funny enough, in W2k on the laptop while W2k on the desktop PC mounts it without the need of a special driver. The way to set it up for mounting is to

Re: [newbie] LaCie USB HArd Drive on a Dell Inspiron 7000

On Saturday 09 June 2001 12:02, Serafim Dahl wrote: I use a Dell Inspiron 7000 on which I have installed Linux-Mandrake 8.0. It is a standard out of the box installation with no modifications and I use the precompiled kernel. I also have a LaCie 20 GB USB hard drive that is found (by

Re: [newbie] Window Manager Options

On Saturday 09 June 2001 04:45, Tom Woolley wrote: I have my machine set to boot to runlevel 3. When starting X from the command line, how do I get it to give me a list of window managers to choose from rather than automatically starting the default window manager? Thanks, Tom

Re: [newbie] Why does mouse go skitzo ?

Hi Paul, I had precisely the same problems some time ago. I always attributed it to hardware incompatibilities. I bought a new mouse and the problem went away. I ended up using the bad mouse with another machine and it works fine though. Good luck! David John Farrell wrote: It's the