R: [newbie-it] Scheda Audio ISA Opti Audio 16

2001-06-22 Thread luca laghi
Ora dico una sciocchezza: è possibile che il modulo isa-pnp necessario alla tua scheda non sia installato? Nel mio caso è proprio così e alla prima occasione glielo metto. Ho qualche dubbio sul come, ma ci proverò. Luca Mi rendo conto della pochezza del problema: ho una scheda audio Opti che

R: [newbie-it] Red Hat????

2001-06-22 Thread Mealli Diego
Perchè mai bisogna sempre tenersi aggiornato su tutto certo che quando dopo mesi di attesa finalmente esce mandrake 8.0 la scarichi dal sito compri le riviste che contengono i cd e al momento dell'installazione si inchioda il computer arrivo solo a una conclusione per il momento la mandrake deve

Re: R: [newbie-it] Red Hat????

2001-06-22 Thread Fabio Coatti
Il 10:38, venerdì 22 giugno 2001, Mealli Diego scrisse: Perchè mai bisogna sempre tenersi aggiornato su tutto certo che quando dopo mesi di attesa finalmente esce mandrake 8.0 la scarichi dal sito compri le riviste che contengono i cd e al momento dell'installazione si inchioda il computer

Re: R: [newbie-it] Problemone MDK8.0

2001-06-22 Thread Andrea Celli
Mealli Diego wrote: Ciao un semplice consiglio, disinstalla la mandrake e installa la Red Hat che è sicuramente più stabile e la 7.1 .. i pareri sulle distro sono sempre moolto personali. comunque, se la pensi cosi` della Mandrake, perche' frequenti questa ML? Altra regola di buona

[newbie-it] a qualcuno funzionano licq o gnomeicq?

2001-06-22 Thread Gigi Cyber
Ciao a tutti, vorrei sapere se qualcuno di voi è riuscito a modificare con successo il file .lcq.conf in modo da farlo funzionare. Io ho il problema esposto alla faq 3.11 di licq.org, ma non ho ben chiaro come si fa grazie a tutti

[newbie-it] Bastille e ....redhat

2001-06-22 Thread max
Salve, ho un problemino con Bastille: se non lo disattivo (linuxconf - controllo - pannello di controllo - verifica lo stato dei servizi - ecc) non mi funziona la rete locale che è costituita da linux e winz via samba (..e funziona benone!). Ho provato a cambiare il file di configurazione

Re: [newbie-it] Cambio di scheda video

2001-06-22 Thread Daniele Micci
Il 20:46, mercoledì 20 giugno 2001, hai scritto: ciao a tutti come sempre :) allora ho cambiato scheda video e naturalmente X non parte, la scheda in questione e' una Hercules 3D prophet 4500 Kyro non credo che sia supportata dal pinguino...ora: 1. come faccio a configurare X? 2. posso

Re: [newbie-it] scheda video cambiata

2001-06-22 Thread Ferdinando
bisogno di un comando per riconfigurare la scheda video, ho provato Non uso Mandrake però se non ricordo male al suo interno ha anche il comando Xconfigurator di Red hat, provalo e al limite (visto che è migliore lo strumento di Mandrake) dopo lanci di nuovo Hardrake. Ferdinando

Re: [newbie-it] Bastille e ....redhat

2001-06-22 Thread Ferdinando
Ah! A proposito di sicurezza, visto che si parlava della redhat, mi pare che sotto questo aspetto la penultima distro avesse qualche serio problema Ci dovrebbe essere anche una specie di worm specializzato per i server realizzati con la red hat che sfrutta una debolezza del

Re: [newbie-it] a qualcuno funzionano licq o gnomeicq?

2001-06-22 Thread freefred
On Friday 22 June 2001 15:01, Gigi Cyber wrote: Ciao a tutti, vorrei sapere se qualcuno di voi è riuscito a modificare con successo il file .lcq.conf in modo da farlo funzionare. Io ho il problema esposto alla faq 3.11 di licq.org, mh parla di un problema della mirabilis con icq 2000 prova

R: [newbie-it] Red Hat????

2001-06-22 Thread Dal bosco Michele
usa la suse 7.2 che e meglio :) - Original Message - From: legion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Red Hat -Messaggio Originale- Da: Mealli Diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data invio:

[newbie] X and Windows Key.

2001-06-22 Thread Eduardo Dominguez
I finally made AltGr key combinations work on my Microsoft Elite Keyboard. But now the Windows key, when pressed, freezes the keyboard. Can anyone tell me what is the configuration for this key for an xmodmap file ? thanks in advance.. -- Eduardo Dominguez Follow-ups to

[newbie] XFree 4.10 install problems..

2001-06-22 Thread Eduardo Dominguez
I am trying to install X4.10 from RPM. I get a dependency error for package perl(strict) which so far havent found anywhere. Searching for that on google returns nothing relevant. -- edmz Good day to let down old friends who need help.

[newbie] Re: Connect w/ ISP, but unable to surf/ver. 8.0

2001-06-22 Thread Rita F. Koenigs
Well, I'm hesitant so far to get my hands dirty for fear of getting into a mess that I can't get out of ... I had MandrakeLinux and the modem installed by a tech center employee at CompUSA -- OS on Monday; modem on Tuesday after I tried to get 4 old modems recognized. I'm completely new to Linux,

[newbie] Sound Woes

2001-06-22 Thread Adams, Jamie
My soundcard, a Yamaha OPL3 (inside a toshiba laptop - Satellite 2520) is not detected by MD 8.0, though it was picked up as a compatable.sb in hard-drake on ver 7.1. Can someone tell me how i can get this sound card working once again please? I was wondering wether i just needed to compile

Re: [newbie] Re: Connect w/ ISP, but unable to surf/ver. 8.0

2001-06-22 Thread Michael Scottaline
Rita F. Koenigs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: big snip In KDE, I went to the start menu, Configuration/Networking/Netconfigurator. I went, under Client Tasks, to the Name server specs/DNS... There was an error with the current settings which mentioned how /etc/resolv.conf needed to be

[newbie] Sound Woes

2001-06-22 Thread Adams, Jamie
My soundcard, a Yamaha OPL3 (inside a toshiba laptop - Satellite 2520) is not detected by MD 8.0, though it was picked up as a compatable.sb in hard-drake on ver 7.1. Can someone tell me how i can get this sound card working once again please? I was wondering wether i just needed to compile

[newbie] Nvidia drivers.

2001-06-22 Thread Sque
Hi List. I used software update and updated the kernel and other software for 7.2, all went well. Sadly I didn't do it after installing the video drivers from Nvidia as they wont the old version of the kernel. Im very much a newbie and am unsure which way to go. I got the source for the drivers

Re: [newbie] Re: Is this some kind of Linux virus?

2001-06-22 Thread etharp
I had a problem with some windows software that added itself to my windows sig file and made itself the home page, even if I changed my home page the next reboot after it changed back. I wrote the company and explained that in MY state it is a violation of the law to make unauthorized changes

Re: [newbie] Re: Is this some kind of Linux virus?

2001-06-22 Thread etharp
I had a problem with some windows software that added itself to my windows sig file and made itself the home page, even if I changed my home page the next reboot after it changed back. I wrote the company and explained that in MY state it is a violation of the law to make unauthorized changes

[newbie] Install problems

2001-06-22 Thread Joe Finnie
Hi My previous letter was not so clear, sorry about that. Anyway I have an old pentium 200, and i have a 10 gig hard drive but the bios can only see 8 gig. I have windows 95c on it. I then installed LM 8, suprisingly it could see the other 2 gig so i installed it to there. Unfortunately I couldnt

Re: [newbie] XFree 4.10 install problems..

2001-06-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 22 June 2001 01:36 am, Eduardo Dominguez wrote: I am trying to install X4.10 from RPM. I get a dependency error for package perl(strict) which so far havent found anywhere. Searching for that on google returns nothing relevant. I used XFree86-4.1.0-1mdk cooker rpms on 8.0 with

[newbie] nautilus cannot view any htmls...

2001-06-22 Thread jan
Hi, on my Mandrake 8.0 system, nautilus cannot view any html document. Everything else works fine. (e.g. pictures and text) Even the local htmls on my computer dont work. I always get the message that he got an error while he was starting to view it. What might that be? Any idea? TIA Jan

Re: [newbie] gaim compile issues

2001-06-22 Thread paul r
Thank you, Eduardo. That helped, but I am now getting the following error: In file included from internal.h:5, from ZAsyncLocate.c:15: sysdep.h:54: conflicting types for `sys_errlist' /usr/include/stdio.h:553: previous declaration of `sys_errlist' In file included from

[newbie] cooker

2001-06-22 Thread paul r
Taken from the cooker FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerfaq.php3 Cooker is the development version of the Linux-Mandrake operating system, whose official producer and publisher is MandrakeSoft, Inc. * MandrakeSoft homepage: http://www.mandrakesoft.com * Linux-Mandrake:

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers.

2001-06-22 Thread s
If they are rpms then go to run level 3 (ctrl+alt+backspace) and log in as root, then type: cd towherethedriversare then: rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_kernel.xxx.rpm and rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_GLX-xxx.rpm (whatever they are exactly called). Then type: exit, startx, and see if

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers.

2001-06-22 Thread Miark
There's more to it than installing the RPMs. You have to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to include Load glx in the Modules section, and change the line that reads Driver nv to Driver nvidia That should help. Miark - Original Message - From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Error: Winbond Super-10 detection....

2001-06-22 Thread OOzy Pal
Yes, somthing like that. But, I did not have this before. I installed LM8 a month ago and didn't have this problem until I reinatlled LM8 again --- Jeffrey M. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 22 June 2001 01:14, OOzy Pal wrote: Hello My linux is on runlevel 3. Everytime I rum my

Re: [newbie] OpenGL

2001-06-22 Thread Miark
Jamie, To play Tuxracer, you must make sure that 1) the stock driver for your video card supports accelerated graphics. (For instance, the stock NVidia driver does not). I don't know squat about your video card, so I can't help you any more here. 2) To use OpenGL, X must be OpenGL-ready via

Re: [newbie] Desktop Publishing

2001-06-22 Thread Jeffrey M. Reed
i've had some decent success with good ol' StarOffice. a lot of people hate that too...but hell man, these programs are FREE. me? i just run M$ Office and Flash and Photoshop using WINE. and yes, it DOES work. just my two cents On Wednesday 20 June 2001 14:25, Bryan S. Tyson wrote: On

[newbie] broken files through rpmdrake: nautilus, vim, perl

2001-06-22 Thread paul r
I tried to upgrade some programs via rpmdrake, now broken. How do I get them to a previous state? I tried to upgrade nautilus, bad idea I suppose, now will only run as root. It seems too many dependencies to uninstall and reinstall. How do I revert to previous state? For some reason vim will

[newbie] Realplayer is noisy

2001-06-22 Thread OOzy Pal
Hello I downloaded RealPlayer 8 from www.download.com. I tried to install but I get a message saying package already installed. I look for realplay, realplayer, rplayer , with no help, I type find -name *real*, I get every name that has the word real but not realplayer or somrhing similar. So

[newbie] Sane Mandrake (Scanner)

2001-06-22 Thread DStevenson
I have had sane 1.0.4 installed and have only been able to scan gray mode. Color only gives a IO problem. Mandrakes cooker now has version 1.0.5 of the sane RPM's as well as version 0.78 of xsane. However, once I have removed the old software and re-installed with the lastest version,

[newbie] WINE runs Windows proggies! ok?

2001-06-22 Thread Jeffrey M. Reed
http://www.winehq.com/ read it...love it...learn it... i would LOVE to help all you guys figure this out but everyone's problems are going to be different. you all have different PC's and different setups. if you have any GENERAL questions about how to set up Mandrake alongside Windows and

[newbie] EMAIL TEST (SORRY)

2001-06-22 Thread Franki
Hi all, I don't usually send tests to mailing lists.. but I am getting mail from everywhere but these mailing list, so you can understand my confusion... apologies again regards Frank

Re: [newbie] WINE runs Windows proggies! ok?

2001-06-22 Thread OOzy Pal
Hello Jeff Which version do your prefer the one from www.winehq.com or the one from www.codeweavers.com. --- Jeffrey M. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.winehq.com/ read it...love it...learn it... i would LOVE to help all you guys figure this out but everyone's problems are

[newbie] Your article is premature in articel http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3387/1

2001-06-22 Thread Romanator
Hello list, Editor's Note RIP: Linux on the desktop. Ken Reichard mentions that it is official that Linux on the desktop is dead. Is he the official who decides? His standards? Linux is still evolving. Maybe the desktop isn't ready yet but keep your eye on Mandrake. I'm sure the tide will turn

Re: [newbie] Error: Winbond Super-10 detection....

2001-06-22 Thread Juan Carlos
Talking about that message. Yesterday I was installing some rpm but yesterday I reboot and the system sometimes it looks work well. RPMs: libvga..., glide..., quake2 I reboot and I was playing Quake2. OK. Today when I reboot LM 8.0 I can´t get X works, only text console, and a message

[newbie] KMail auto reply with file attachment! Possible??

2001-06-22 Thread Richard Davies
Hi, Is it possible to have Kmail auto reply to any mail coming in addressed to info@ I want the reply to be a short plain text message with two attached PDF files. I used to be able to do this under Outlook when windows would run but don't see any options to do it under Kmail. Thanks in

[newbie] wordperfect dependency

2001-06-22 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I am in the process of installing WP8 (download version) on Mandrake 8. I know that there is file that absolutely must be upgraded for a successful installation. I have seen mention made of it on this list. Before I get started, does anyone remember which file it is that I am

Re: [newbie] RE: [nwebie] CD-RW at hdc inaccessible

2001-06-22 Thread Miark
Probably two. But now that I try it with one, the result is the same: Cannot open SCSI driver Does that offer any clues? Miark - Original Message - From: Dave DeGear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 5:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] RE: [nwebie]

Re: [newbie] EMAIL TEST (SORRY)

2001-06-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Frank: Every so often, some randomly selected members are removed from the list for some unknown reason. The only known cure is to resubscribe. (At least its easier than reinstalling the OS). Carroll Franki wrote: Hi all, I don't usually send tests to mailing lists.. but I am getting

Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-22 Thread Michael Leone
From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install error On Thursday 21 June 2001 08:15 am, Randy Kramer wrote: One followup question: Must I restore those attributes for any (functional) reason after the defrag? (I mean, is there any reason something (in Windows)

Re: [newbie] Your article is premature in articel http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3387/1

2001-06-22 Thread Romanator
Carroll, Daniel Christle was right on. This is a partial quote that I really liked from the article: I think it's time to be careful and thoughtful on how the Linux community portrays itself. This doesn't mean that we are to give up the enormous amount of introspection that the community

[newbie] Multiple NIC's with Multiple dhcp connections!

2001-06-22 Thread h3rb
I have 4 ethernet cards in my one server. Here's a breakdown of thier usage! eth0 = static IP from a cisco uBR 924. This is used for my web server/ftp server. eth1 = dhcp from another cable modem for a game server eth2 = dhcp from the cisco uBR924, internal network, for samba server eth3 =

[newbie] PartImage - Very useful for O/S Fiddlers

2001-06-22 Thread Lin Kenham
Hi everyone. As one who enjoys messing with Linux, I dont risk my system by fiddling with major updates or reconfiguring. Instead I have 3 different systems, Caldera, Mandrake 7.2 and now Mandrake 8.0. So it doesnt matter if I destroy one. What we need is a quick way of restoring them.

[newbie] moving drives

2001-06-22 Thread Michael Falzon
Hi All ok i'm using mandrake 8.0 it running ok but i had slow started to run out of drive space on both windows and linux, so to fix this i have move my windows to a new drive so now linux is on /dev/hda and windows is now on /dev/hdb Lilo is booting up ok for linux, but not for windows

[newbie] cable modem, router problem

2001-06-22 Thread Jim Downs
First of all thanks to everyone in advance, and I apologize for the long post! I am unable to connect through my router to my cable modem. I subscribed last week to Road Runner service here in the New York City area. In order to set up a quick LAN I purchased a Netgear RT314 Gateway Router and 2

Re: [newbie] Install Questions

2001-06-22 Thread Mr S Ganesan
DEAr Sir, I have a curious problem. I loaded MKL7.2 on my system and was working properly. It has two SCSI harddisks of 8GB each with AIC Adaptec 7896 adapter and twin PIII500 processors. When I tried to load MKL 8.0 on the same it stops at loading aic7xxx and nothing happens for a long time and

Re: [newbie] CD-RW at hdc inaccessible

2001-06-22 Thread Miark
When I boot, that first screen that lists all your hardware lists both CD drives as PIO 4. Would that have anything to do with my problem? In other words, should my CD-RW drive be anything else? Are there any BIOS settings that may be interfering? Thanks, Miark - Original Message -

[newbie] VIM was: broken files through rpmdrake: nautilus, vim, perl

2001-06-22 Thread paul r
After updating some files, vim was giving me the following error and not starting up: vim: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory Uninstalling vim-enhanced fixed this, but I need vim-enhanced's PERL interpreters. How should

Re: [newbie] Volume Control in KDE?

2001-06-22 Thread Ed Kasky
Thanks - this worked. Kmix is now a panel icon as well when I start KDE... Ed At 02:49 AM Friday, 6/22/2001, bascule wrote -= there is a kconfigkdesoundmixer dialog with a 'load volumes on login' setting but i don't know if this launches the panel icon as well, also a long winded way is to

Re: [newbie] CD-RW at hdc inaccessible

2001-06-22 Thread Paul Cox
On Thursday, Jun 21, 2001, Miark wrote: Dennis, yes, I've got hdc=ide-scsi in its proper place. You might check in /etc/fstab to make sure /mnt/cdrom is going for the right device... here's mine (my CDRW is at /dev/scd0 also which /dev/cdrom links to): /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount

Re: [newbie] Connect w/ ISP, but unable to surf/ver. 8.0

2001-06-22 Thread civileme
On Thursday 21 June 2001 20:16, Michael Scottaline wrote: Rita F. Koenigs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 8.0.  I have been attempting to surf the internet without success -- after logging onto the network using KDE kppp. I use http://www.nocharge.com, a free internet provider

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers.

2001-06-22 Thread Tim Faircloth
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, s wrote: If they are rpms then go to run level 3 (ctrl+alt+backspace) and log in as root, then type: cd towherethedriversare then: rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_kernel.xxx.rpm and rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_GLX-xxx.rpm (whatever they are exactly called).

[newbie] Can't find char-major-4 and 180

2001-06-22 Thread Miark
Hi all, After boot and at the login prompt, I would get can't find module char-major-180 and then can't find module char-major-4. It would scroll on for a couple of screens with that message. I read around and found out that 4 is related to the serial ports, and 180 is related to USB. I don't

[newbie] Lnx4Win to Setup L-M 7.2

2001-06-22 Thread Jianrong Yao
Hello, Friends, My computer uses Windows 98. After using Lnx4Win to install Linux-Mandrake 7.2, Windows 98 still runs well when I choose it. However, Linux-Mandrake cannot start up if I take this choice. The following information is displayed on the screen. Request_module[block-major-7]:

Re: [newbie] Lnx4Win to Setup L-M 7.2

2001-06-22 Thread Jeffrey M. Reed
On Friday 22 June 2001 22:16, Jianrong Yao wrote: Hello, Friends, My computer uses Windows 98. After using Lnx4Win to install Linux-Mandrake 7.2, Windows 98 still runs well when I choose it. However, Linux-Mandrake cannot start up if I take this choice. The following information is