Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake8 e la rete

2001-06-14 Thread Lux
Ma per far funzionare komba devo installare samba oppure funziona anche senza? At 01.34 14/06/01, you wrote: prova komba, il client samba di kde... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Esiste un programma per sfogliare la rete (Lan) che mi permetta di vedere server e client Windows? Mi

[newbie-it] MandrakeUpdate che non parte

2001-06-14 Thread Ghiro
Salve, ho appena installato la mandrake 8.0 in italiano. Volevo chiedere se' e' un problema diffuso il fatto che non si riesca a fare partire il MandrakeUpdate. Se avete qualche consiglio da darmi lo accetto ben volentieri ;) Ciao -- =--Ghiro--

[newbie-it] Fwd: Compilazione kernel: make: wish: Command not found

2001-06-14 Thread Stefano Salari
Ciao a tutti, Ho provato a compilare il kernel 2.4.5 sulla mia Mandrake 8.0 ma mi sono beccato un errore lanciando make xconfig: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts' cat header.tk ./kconfig.tk

[newbie-it] Plugins di Netscape

2001-06-14 Thread Daniele Micci
Ciao a tutti, come faccio a far vedere al Konqueror i plugin installato per Netscape? Ho scaricato ed installato il plugin per Flash 5.0. Con il Navigator funziona: risulta installato col comando 'about:plugins' e riesco a visualizzare animazioni Flash sui siti. Se apro gli stessi siti col

[newbie-it] chiocciolina

2001-06-14 Thread Bongio
Salve a tutti scusate ma non riesco a capire che tasto devo premere per far apparire la chiocciolina: e' una cosa importantissima, fa parte della mia username per l'accesso a internet.. Grazie Carlo

Re: [newbie-it] Matrox G400 e PDesk per Linux

2001-06-14 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 22:22:27 + freefred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 14 June 2001 01:28, Marco wrote: Salveho visto sul sito Matrox i driver e il PDesk per linux che abilita il dual-H sulla G400.allora volevo gentilmente sapere se qualcuno li aveva montati e se

Re: Fwd: [newbie] How to revive CUPS?

2001-06-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
The HP LaserJet 1200 is a native PostScript printer. It understands also PCL and does 1200 dpi with the lj5gray driver (in Mandrake 8.1 also the pxlmono driver will work), but to make all features available use it as a PostScript printer. Go to http://hp.sourceforge.net/ and download

Re: [newbie] LILO fatal error

2001-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I'm not too sure on this one. Try typing man lilo.conf at a console and reading that. Also look at the Linux Documentation Project (www.linuxdoc.org). On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:51, OOzy Pal wrote: Hi there is a line there that says: lba32 I am editing /etc/lilo.conf is there other one?

Re: [newbie] Render Capability

2001-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
At a command line: $ xdpyinfo | grep RENDER RENDER If this comes up with word RENDER, then you are ok. On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:59, OOzy Pal wrote: How can I know if my Xfree or Xfree driver in my system has the RENDER extension? = Regards, OOzy -- Sridhar Dhanapalan.

[newbie] Odd GUI problem

2001-06-14 Thread serafim
I used to use KDE. Due to a problem, which I attributed to KDE but later found out that it occurred because of a malfunctioning mouse, I switched to Gnome for a while. Now, that I found out about the malfunctioning and replaced it, I have switched back to KDE again. Oddly enough, I get the

Re: [newbie] Multiple Identity Mail Program With Password Protection?

2001-06-14 Thread poogle
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 16:56, you wrote: On Thursday 14 June 2001 02:53, civileme wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2001 15:36, Curtis Matthiesen wrote: Hi there, I was wondering if someone could tell me if there is a mail program out there that allows for multiple identities and also

[newbie] mkbootdisk with reiserfs

2001-06-14 Thread s
Hi, Can anyone help with making a boot disk for a system with reiserfs? If I use drak floppy and choose the reiserfs module, I get a kernel panic attack when trying to use it, cause I've set up reiserfs on my / and /boot partition. I've manned mkbootdisk and mkinitrd, but don't see an

Re: [newbie] Fw: Anacron job 'cron.daily'

2001-06-14 Thread Paul
Should I be worrying about this? Brett. - Original Message - From: Anacron root DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified No, not necessary. In the /etc/rc.d/cron.daily (I think) check for a file that does something with DB2. Found it, then chmod -x it, so it

Re: [newbie] Fw: Anacron job 'cron.daily'

2001-06-14 Thread n6tadam
Hi, You could of course, comment out the line in your /etc/crontab file, which runs the scripts in cron.daily :-)) That, is probably an easier solution.. Thomas Adam - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 12:45 PM

[newbie] Memory setting

2001-06-14 Thread Szakacs Gyorgy
Hi! I have 192M memory in my computer but the linux can see only 64M. How can I solve this problem? As far as I know I have to edit the lilo.conf file, but I need more precise information about it 'cause I really a begginer! Thanx in advance - Szaky -

[newbie] Mandrake text based configuration.

2001-06-14 Thread Cliff Gosden
I am having trouble getting my Radeon SDR 32 to work with LM 8 I want to try configuring it through configure Xfree86 having loaded LM8 in text mode. What is the command for Mandrake setup? Can anyone offer any guidance? Cliff Gosden

Re: [newbie] Editing Lilo boot menu

2001-06-14 Thread Terry
Thanks to everyone that helped. After going to a prompt and running LILO, my boot menu updated just nicely. Thanks again! On Wednesday 13 June 2001 10:52, you wrote: Folks, I'm having trouble removing old entries in my LILO boot menu. I went through lilo.conf and manually removed the

[newbie] Network Card

2001-06-14 Thread Benjamin De Troch
Hi! I've got a cable connection to connect to the Internet, but Mandrake (version 8) doesn't find my network card (NE2000 compatible) while windows recognizes it immediately :-( How do I solve this? Desperately waiting for someone to help me out, Ben

Re: [newbie] Network Card

2001-06-14 Thread bascule
hi ben, with my netgear ea201 ne200 compatible i have to specify the io port everytime i set up this card as it is in non plug and play mode, i imagine that you can get this info from windows device manager bascule On Thursday 14 June 2001 2:59 pm, you wrote: Hi! I've got a cable

Re: [newbie] Network Card

2001-06-14 Thread Benjamin De Troch
Thanx for the tip! But where can i specify this I/O-port? I've checked it out and windows says my network card uses IRQ number 5 en IO-ports 300 to 31F... What do i do with that information? Do i enter it somewhere in Harddrake?? Ben - Original Message - From: bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Console Fonts

2001-06-14 Thread Adams, Jamie
Hello List, This isnt a life or death problem, heck it isnt even really a problem, just something thats been niggling at me for a while. Is it possible to change the font (or res) in which the console runs? The reson that i ask is that when you boot the Mandrake Installation CD, all the kernel

Re: [newbie] A Bastille and Xinetd question

2001-06-14 Thread Paul Cox
On Thursday, Jun 14, 2001, Leif Madsen wrote: I just installed Bastille, and everything seems to be good, except for this message: Message from my_log_on_name@local_machine on no tty at 21:03 ... SECURITY ALERT: TMPDIR problem on host 'local_machine': The TMPDIR defense script is no

Re: [newbie] Fw: Anacron job 'cron.daily'

2001-06-14 Thread Paul Cox
On Thursday, Jun 14, 2001, n6tadam wrote: You could of course, comment out the line in your /etc/crontab file, which runs the scripts in cron.daily :-)) That, is probably an easier solution.. Easier but wrong! Doing that would make none of the scripts run in cron.daily, which isn't

[newbie] gcc and g++ output

2001-06-14 Thread Adam Royall
I downloaded LM 8 when it first came out, and installed it on three computers: mine, my roommate's laptop, and my roommate's desktop. The two desktop computers are P3 450s with over 128 MB of RAM. The laptop is a P3 mobile 700 (I think that's the clock speed) with 128 MB of RAM. Anyway, the

Re: [newbie] Network Card

2001-06-14 Thread bascule
as i recall i've done this in two places, one during the install itself when the routine probes for cards and doesn't find it, after installation i ran linux conf and under -from memory- networkinghosts adapters? something like that, you specify host and domain name and can configure up to

Re: [newbie] Render Capability

2001-06-14 Thread OOzy Pal
hmm. It didn't come up? I am using nvidia tnt2. I downloaded the latest driver from nvidia and installed it but still render did not come up? Any other ideas? --- Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At a command line: $ xdpyinfo | grep RENDER RENDER If this comes up

[newbie] more ehternet

2001-06-14 Thread YouLikeMyGame
I bought a HP 10/100 PCI Ethernet Card with AMD Chipset off the net anyone used it and know how easy it is to set up with Linux? I havent got this ehternet card with Linux down yet... hey im 15 i got a while

[newbie] Setting up CD drives

2001-06-14 Thread Darren G
Ok, here it is, Im not computer stupid, but I am not Linux smart yet. Recently installed Mandrake 8.0. And well, here is the problem... I got 2 CD drives (both LITEON). 1 52x reg rom, and 1 burner. I was wondering how I configure them to be what they are supposed to. Example: My 52x ROM wont

[newbie] LM8-command not found

2001-06-14 Thread Norman Teferle
Dear all, Thanks Sridhar and Serafim for your responses and help. However, I was only partly able to solve my problems. using ./myscript.ksh still gave the message : command not found however using sh myscript.ksh worked fine. using: perl myperlscript.pl enabled me to run the perl script,

[newbie] ERROR: Failed to initialise share modes

2001-06-14 Thread franky
Hi! My server is Linux mandrake 7.2 and i use Samba 2.0.7. All stations is Win Me. When some Win station go on the serveur the network shutdown for all other station excep for this one. If i do smbstatus after one win station whas on server i got this return: Samba version 2.0.7Service uid

Re: [newbie] Printing with 8 - repost

2001-06-14 Thread poogle
On Thursday 14 June 2001 10:34, you wrote: I've not received any suggestions for this problem so am trying one last time. I can't seem to get my HP LJIII to print. The printer and cable work fine under DOS. It's connected to the only parallel port (lpt0? - LP1 in DOS). I try to set up

[newbie] WinMODEM Drivers

2001-06-14 Thread Solver
Could someone please link me to drivers for HSP56 Audiomodem Riser? I know it's pretty FAQ, but then I shall be one of those to ask it. It's a winmodem, but I've heard that it IS possible to write working drivers for WinMODEMS under Linux. I have Mandrake 7.2. Solver.

[newbie] Kernel compilation

2001-06-14 Thread Solver
Hello, I'm new to Linux but not new to programming languages. If I want to make some modifications to the Linux Kernel, which are the source files I need to edit (perhaps ones in /usr/src ?), and how do I then make the changes apply. Thanks, Solver

[newbie] vnc complicating boot process

2001-06-14 Thread VVeakling
Hi, I'm running LM8 on a pentium 733, 384 MB RAM. My problem is that when linux is booting in graphical mode, it hangs on the XFont Server step, and there seems to be nothing i can do to move on. I switched the boot process to text mode, and noticed that the xfont server step passed fine, and

Re: [newbie] WinMODEM Drivers

2001-06-14 Thread D. Hoyem
Solver, Start here looking for the driver and there is also a discuss list for linmodems. Go to linmodems.org to start your search. Don --- Solver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone please link me to drivers for HSP56 Audiomodem Riser? I know it's pretty FAQ, but then I shall be one of

[newbie] IPTables and Bastille

2001-06-14 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Right now I have my internet connection up and running (adsl using rp-pppoe 3). I would like to set up a simple internal firewall for my laptop. I've used Bastille before (1.2) but always come up against the same problem. (BTW I do need to install iptables before installing Bastille,

[newbie] needing package imlib-dev for LM8 is not on 2 cd set!!!

2001-06-14 Thread Pere Castañer
How I can install de imlib-dev for xine if there aren't package available? Anyone have it? I seeked in the cd's but is not there... Well thanks anyway

Re: [newbie] Kernel Configuration

2001-06-14 Thread Ted Wager
Richard Warren wrote: I know this is a stupid question, but how do I check the Kernel's current configuration? I keep seeing instructions saying, make sure XYZ is configured in the kernel. While I can find a lot of information on reconfiguring a kernel, I can't find any on checking

[newbie] Wow

2001-06-14 Thread Paul
Hi all, Just got the new pc in. 1.2Ghz Athlon and 256 megs. I started part of the Linux MDK 8 install, just to see if the ATA100 Maxtors (2 x 30Gb) would be detected. Well... they are. And man, is that machine FLYING!! Happy me, next weekend there's something to PLAY!! :-) Paul -- Experience

RE: [newbie] WinMODEM Drivers

2001-06-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of D. Hoyem Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 1:40 PM To: Solver; Linux Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] WinMODEM Drivers Solver, Start here looking for the driver and there is also a discuss

Re: [newbie] Netword Card Problem

2001-06-14 Thread civileme
On Thursday 14 June 2001 12:56, James Bond wrote: I have mandrake 8.0 installed on an IBM Thinkpad. I also have a Netgear FA410TX PCMCIA netcard. This card is successfully detected by mandrake (when I go into KDE control center and click on pcmcia next to slot 1 is says Netgear FA410).

Re:[newbie] RAM full

2001-06-14 Thread civileme
On Thursday 14 June 2001 10:52, Gunner Carstens wrote: Hmmm, It would be unusual if the RAM weren't nearly full regardless. The linux kernel believes unused memory is wasted memory. Memory full is a NORMAL condition. Let's see what your hardware is. If you have an MVP3 chipset

Re: [newbie] WinMODEM Drivers

2001-06-14 Thread civileme
On Thursday 14 June 2001 13:26, Solver wrote: Could someone please link me to drivers for HSP56 Audiomodem Riser? I know it's pretty FAQ, but then I shall be one of those to ask it. It's a winmodem, but I've heard that it IS possible to write working drivers for WinMODEMS under Linux. I have

Re: [newbie] Netword Card Problem

2001-06-14 Thread James Bond
I don't know what I did, but now at least the light on the network card turns on. So I know that the network is being detected by Linux and the card is being correctly initialized. However, I still can't access the internet. I get host not found errors whenever I try to type in a URL in

[newbie] Strange Print Problem

2001-06-14 Thread Barry Premeaux
I cannot print through Kups. I can print a file from a terminal (pr test /dev/lp0) without a problem. My first thought was that perhaps my print driver was corrupted, and reinstalled the printer. This didn't correct the problem, so I removed cups and reinstalled. Still unable to print either

Re: [newbie] Render Capability

2001-06-14 Thread Carlos Arigós
El Jue 14 Jun 2001 12:59, escribiste: hmm. It didn't come up? I am using nvidia tnt2. I downloaded the latest driver from nvidia and installed it but still render did not come up? Any other ideas? For me, render is OK. (xdpyinfo | grep RENDER returns: RENDER Is your

Re: [newbie] Render Capability

2001-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
What version of XFree do you have? You need one from the 4.x series. Try version 4.0.3 (standard with Mandrake 8) or 4.1.0 (the latest). You can find your version by typing X -version at a command line. Also, have a look around http://www.xfree86.org. Maybe you'll find something

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: [newbie] What is the kudzu function in LM8

2001-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I've had some really weird stuff happen when I post to the list (and to no one else), too. Several times I got my message bounced back with a note from a server saying that a particular user's mailbox is full. Odd, huh? On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:19, Romanator wrote: Bravard, Paul [EMAIL

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Wow

2001-06-14 Thread Jay needs a Guinness
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Wow Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 00:58:59 -0400 From: Jay needs a Guinness [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 14 June 2001 09:33 pm, you wrote: Lucky dog! If you are trying to make us feel jealous you are doing an

[newbie] kups paper size...

2001-06-14 Thread mooseman
X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit i have a problem with printing from my lm8 pc. i can print ok, but for some reason, my printer keeps throwing a page size error. it seems that it is being told to use A4 paper.

[newbie] DVD Question

2001-06-14 Thread Charles A. Punch
What is a CSS-encrypted DVD?

Re: [newbie] DVD Question

2001-06-14 Thread h3rb
What is a CSS-encrypted DVD? Cryptanalysis of Contents Scrambling System CSS is a scrambling system used in the distribution for movies on DVD ( Digital Versatile Disc ) a high capacity CD like storage system. Its main purpose is to prevent the unauthorized duplication of disc contents. This

Re: [newbie] Wow

2001-06-14 Thread h3rb
Damn..I feel for ya. I had a 1.2g tbird/512pc133 about 7 months ago. I am now awaiting the palimino so I can go dual palimino's with UW2 scsi! (of course the 1.2 will turn into my 11th linux server that is just laying around doing basicaly nothing!) h3rb On Thursday 14 June 2001 21:33,

[newbie] Printing with 8 - repost

2001-06-14 Thread Ken Knecht
I've not received any suggestions for this problem so am trying one last time. I can't seem to get my HP LJIII to print. The printer and cable work fine under DOS. It's connected to the only parallel port (lpt0? - LP1 in DOS). I try to set up local printing from KDE 2 and I get a choice of

[newbie] Netword Card Problem

2001-06-14 Thread James Bond
I have mandrake 8.0 installed on an IBM Thinkpad. I also have a Netgear FA410TX PCMCIA netcard. This card is successfully detected by mandrake (when I go into KDE control center and click on pcmcia next to slot 1 is says Netgear FA410). I'm currently trying to get @Home to work with this

[newbie] installation on laptop

2001-06-14 Thread Dominic Myers
Please note: I've sent this here message to everyone, including MandrakeExpert and was wondering if you might be able to offer any ideas? Hey, before I start can I say thanks for all the help! I don't know if this helps with your request for further data but here goes: Right, I fdisk'ed the

Re: [newbie] A Bastille and Xinetd question

2001-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:07, Leif Madsen wrote: I just installed Bastille, and everything seems to be good, except for this message: Message from my_log_on_name@local_machine on no tty at 21:03 ... SECURITY ALERT: TMPDIR problem on host 'local_machine': The TMPDIR defense script is no longer

Re: [newbie] Gnome will Not Come Up

2001-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Probably a stupid question, but do you have *all* of GNOME installed? One missing package is enough to screw things up. Also, try running this as root at a console: chksession -l GNOME should be in the list. In the directory /etc/X11/wmsession.d/ there should be a file called

Re: [newbie] RAID controller support in LM8?

2001-06-14 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 17:49, Paul Rodríguez wrote: Also, wasn't there supposedly problems with Linux and the Promise controller? -Paul R Depends The Promise FastTrak works badly in non-RAID mode in linux. There is a proprietary driver for RH 7.0 which won't work with anything else,

Re: [newbie] gateway athlon problem

2001-06-14 Thread civileme
On Thursday 14 June 2001 01:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is my first linux install.. the entire install process went without a hitch, but when i tried to boot linux it hangs on INIT 2.78 or right after that (Press I for interactive setup) i followed a post on how to fix this (below) but

Re: [newbie] Linksys-Net gear ethernetq

2001-06-14 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 20:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Linksys 10/100 and Netgear 10/100 ether cards and i do not know how to install them under linux i do not know teh driver i have the disks but can someone tell me how to make it so i can get on the net with my ethernet? i got a

Re: [newbie] STB TV Tuner problems

2001-06-14 Thread linuxmaxx
I had the same problem but I dont know wether the solution is the same. The problem is about some missing libs and I found them each and installed If you want you can contact me over ICQ and send you the libs. Must be around 13 of them. On Sunday 10 June 2001 09:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: [newbie] What is the kudzu function in LM8

2001-06-14 Thread Romanator
Bravard, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bravard, Paul wrote: Will Return Monday - 2July2001 That's strange. I snet an email to the newbie list and i received the following autoreply. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Powered by the Tux Email Responder

Re: [newbie] Wow

2001-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Lucky dog! If you are trying to make us feel jealous you are doing an excellent job. I'm still chugging along with a Pentium II 350 (albeit with 256MB of RAM). Next time you play a game, think of us poor underprivileged saps who aren't fortunate to have a brand-spanking-new state-of-the-art