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

2001-06-25 Thread Andrea Celli
ioadamo wrote: .. - DVD..per i dvd il problema è risolto con xine+decss, io ho trovato la versione red hat in www.freshrpms.net ciao Ci ho provato questo fine settimana. Gli rpm che ho trovato per Xine non si installano perche' manca la libreria

R: [newbie-it] installazione MDK 8

2001-06-25 Thread gblinux
ciao a tutti, grazie andrea e stefano per le informazioni. Comunque mi sembra strano che ci siano problemi con la mia scheda video (s3 virge 86c325 ) dal momento che tempo fa avevo installato, su altro HD che poi mi si è rotto, la MDK 7.2. E funzionava tutto correttamente (sia kde sia gnome).

[newbie-it] cambio distro

2001-06-25 Thread luca laghi
Attualmente il sistema operativo installato sul mio computer è linux Red-Hat 7.2.16 e vorrei passare a Mandrake. Cosa capita durante l'installazione: il nuovo sistema operativo formatta la partizione Linux facendomi perdere tutti i dati o la home directory viene conservata? Luca

Re: [newbie-it] installazione MDK 8

2001-06-25 Thread Stefano Salari
Dunque, ho dato un'occhiata su internet per cercare di capire quali fossero i pacchetti da installare e sono una marea! Prima di lanciarti in un'opera ciclopica di installazione di rpm, prova a controllare il file /etc/X11/X Quello e' un link al server X che e' configurato per il tuo sistema.

Re: [newbie-it] installazione MDK 8

2001-06-25 Thread Stefano Salari
Ho visto che da me il file /etc/X11/X punta a /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 che e' il server di XWindows. Ciao. Steo. __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it

[newbie-it] Il modem, questo sconosciuto

2001-06-25 Thread Andrea Mistrorigo
Dopo aver rinunciato (per ora) a configurare il winmodem, provo con un modem esterno(vecchio r sconosciuto, 33.6) che mi dà questo messaggio come log Jun 25 19:44:52 andy pppd[2535]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0 Jun 25 19:44:52 andy pppd[2535]: Using interface ppp0 Jun 25 19:44:52 andy

Re: [newbie-it] installazione MDK 8

2001-06-25 Thread freefred
On Monday 25 June 2001 14:51, Stefano Salari wrote: ...ed ora la doccia fredda: Ho visto sul sito di kde (www.kde.org) che per far girare l'ambiente sono necessari questi rpm: kde-i18n-Brazil-2.1... 26-Mar-2001 08:13 1.4M kde-i18n-Catalan-2.1.. 26-Mar-2001 08:13 614k

Re: [newbie-it] Il modem, questo sconosciuto

2001-06-25 Thread dragx
Andrea Mistrorigo wrote: Dopo aver rinunciato (per ora) a configurare il winmodem, provo con un modem esterno(vecchio r sconosciuto, 33.6) che mi dà questo messaggio come log Jun 25 19:44:52 andy pppd[2535]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0 Jun 25 19:44:52 andy pppd[2535]: Using interface

Re: [newbie-it] cambio distro

2001-06-25 Thread Stefano Salari
Attualmente il sistema operativo installato sul mio computer è linux Red-Hat 7.2.16 e vorrei passare a Mandrake. Cosa capita durante l'installazione: il nuovo sistema operativo formatta la partizione Linux facendomi perdere tutti i dati o la home directory viene conservata? Luca

Re: [newbie-it] Il modem, questo sconosciuto

2001-06-25 Thread freefred
On Monday 25 June 2001 17:57, Andrea Mistrorigo wrote: Dopo aver rinunciato (per ora) a configurare il winmodem, provo con un modem esterno(vecchio r sconosciuto, 33.6) che mi dà questo messaggio come log Jun 25 19:44:52 andy pppd[2535]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0 Jun 25 19:44:52 andy

Re: [newbie] Installing wine under linux and ADSL-connecting

2001-06-25 Thread OOzy Pal
Hello I just installed CWs Wine. It worked fine and yes you need to instal itcl. As a matter if fact LM 8 poped asking me if I want to install itc. If you are running LM 8. Then just run the software manager and search for itcl. Then install it. I am  not sure if you can run photoshop and

Re: [newbie] Installing wine under linux and ADSL-connecting

2001-06-25 Thread OOzy Pal
Hello check out this. Some version works and some don't http://appdb.codeweavers.com/appview.php?appId=17 OOzy On Monday 25 June 2001 01:14 am, Paul wrote: things). i'm looking to try and run things like photoshop (still coming to grips with the gimp, but i would like to use both) and

[newbie] User groups

2001-06-25 Thread Mark Lucas
Can I make a user a member of more than one group?

[newbie] Where are my hdds ?

2001-06-25 Thread strab dogg
Hello , I got 3 hdds . One of them is linux , one windows and one archive . If i downlaod linux stuff under windows how do i copy them to linux under linux ? If i checked the dev/ folder there are my HDDs but how do i open them and copy stuff from them ? strab

Re: [newbie] Where are my hdds ?

2001-06-25 Thread Paul
Hello , I got 3 hdds . One of them is linux , one windows and one archive . If i downlaod linux stuff under windows how do i copy them to linux under linux ? If i checked the dev/ folder there are my HDDs but how do i open them and copy stuff from them ? Have a look at /mnt/windows.

Re: [newbie] gnome chess starting on login

2001-06-25 Thread A V Flinsch
On Sunday 24 June 2001 14:15, Dan Gordon wrote: No i tryed playing the game one night did not like it and closed it as normal, when i logged off i did not click restore session but the darn thing now starts each time i login... strange but true ? When i do top or gps i can still see it

[newbie] Installation Problems

2001-06-25 Thread preston smith
Hi!! Thanks for all the help and hints that you have given me over the past few days. Today, I bit the bullet and did the installation. Of course, there are a couple of problems. I obviously selected the wrong generic monitor profile for my Darius HRV-1024 monitor - when I boot into MD 8.0

Re: [newbie] gnome chess starting on login

2001-06-25 Thread Dan Gordon
That did the trick, thanks Alex :-) On June 25, 2001 06:07 am, you wrote: Sounds familiar. It took me a few hours to figure out where it was coming from.. Take a look in ~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc and remove any references to gnome-chess -- Regards, Dan Gordon Powerd by KMail

Re: [newbie] Linux bashing again by Intel??

2001-06-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:09, Patrick Hubers wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: ... or you haven't explained it well enough. You should feel lucky that you have this kind of free community-based support -- you'll never have it in the M$ world. There, you'll have to pay through the nose

Re: [newbie] IBM Thinkpad trackpoint

2001-06-25 Thread Nico Krzebek
Same problem here with my TP570. Since you've already checked the archives, you've read that there's supposed something wrong with with the ps2 patch that Mandrake applied to their 2.4.3 kernel. So the easiest fix would be to use a different kernel (you currently find 2.4.5 on Mandrake cooker

[newbie] TT fonts in Konqueror -- Failure?

2001-06-25 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Am I missing something or is it not the case that the same True Type fonts that look (and print) so beautifully in Netscape 4.x and Mozilla (I have a dual-boot LM 8.0/Win98) fail in Konqueror? I have tried every trick in the book (increasing the size of all the Konqueror browser

[newbie] Kword 1.0 survey -- Solid? Reliable? Feature-rich?

2001-06-25 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Just taking an informal survey as I consider switching from StarOffice to Kword (the current Kword 1.0 version in LM 8.0, NOT the latest Koffice 1.1 beta). What's your verdict? Is Kword 1.0 reliable? Solid? feature-rich? Are you happy with it? If so, did you switch from

[newbie] Commandline for diff or similar function

2001-06-25 Thread John Rye
I have two text files, one of around 900 lines and another of about 1600 lines. Both files have duplicated lines. I'm trying a get a third file which contains ONLY the unique lines from these two files. Initially it seemed that 'diff' would be the answer but for the life of me I cannot work

Re: [newbie] User groups

2001-06-25 Thread Mark Lucas
Thanks for the response. I don't use X since my Linux box is running as a server on my network. Is there a way of doing this in console mode? Mark - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] User groups

2001-06-25 Thread Adams, Jamie
I believe that you can do this from within linuxconf, again from a root terminal. Cheers Jamie -- From: Mark Lucas[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 June 2001 14:21 To:Linux Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] User groups Thanks for the response. I don't use X since my Linux box is

[newbie] install probs.

2001-06-25 Thread Darren
Hi guy's. Like some of you newbies out there I've managed to stuff up my install of Mandrake 7.2 and had to reinstall again. Fair enough but the bloody thing hangs, always in different places on either cd1 or cd2 if it gets that far. Is this a common problem or have I got stuffed cd's. I'm

Re: [newbie] Kword 1.0 survey -- Solid? Reliable? Feature-rich?

2001-06-25 Thread Randy Kramer
Benjamin, I've never used Kword, but before you pick a word processor, spend a little time with AbiWord. It's at version 0.7.14 now, it's cross platform, multilanguage (including Russian) and has an active development community. Randy Kramer Benjamin Sher wrote: Just taking an informal

[newbie] for those who used to ask about SMP motherboard for Linux

2001-06-25 Thread =?windows-874?b?U2FyYXZ1dCBUZWVwcHJhc2FuIFwovtXoqNTrx1wp?=
http://nlug.org/smp/

Re: [newbie] Commandline for diff or similar function

2001-06-25 Thread Paul
It was Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:42:20 +1200 when John Rye wrote: I have two text files, one of around 900 lines and another of about 1600 lines. Both files have duplicated lines. I'm trying a get a third file which contains ONLY the unique lines from these two files. Initially it seemed that 'diff'

[newbie] Scanner

2001-06-25 Thread Mark Lucas
Does anyone know if there's a driver for the UMAX 600P. Unfortunately it is not supported by SANE. Also once installed can I share the scanner of my network (SAMBA/Win98/W2K)? Mark

Re: [newbie] Scanner

2001-06-25 Thread Jim Dawson
Is it a USB, Parallel, or SCSI model? There are SANE drivers for some UMAX Parallel and SCSI models. If it is a USB model, look for a new scanner. It is unlikely that there will ever be SANE drivers because UMAX refuses to release the specifications on its USB models. Even if the scanner is

Re: [newbie] Scanner

2001-06-25 Thread Mark Lucas
It's a parallel port scanner and the SANE website says that there it is unlikely ever to be supported. Win4Lin or vmware sound like they might do the trick though. I have no requirement to access the scanner from Linux only from the Windows machines. How do Win4Lin and vmware work and where do

Re: [newbie] Scanner / SANE I/O problem

2001-06-25 Thread Andrew Lazarewicz
** Reply to message from DStevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:49:35 -0400 Thank you -- that is very helpful. I will look into this avenue and keep you posted as well. Let me know how it goes with your efforts. - Andy -- Andrew R. Lazarewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED],

[newbie] ctrl+s under X not always working...

2001-06-25 Thread David Filion
Under X, my control+key combinations are not being recognized by all the X apps. Some apps, like nedit, return the actual control code (such as dc) instead. ie. ctrl+s should save the file, but I get the control code dc3 being inserted into the file instead. Keyboard: MS natual elite.

Re: [newbie] Kword 1.0 survey -- Solid? Reliable? Feature-rich?

2001-06-25 Thread Paul
It was Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:17:14 -0700 (PDT) when David E. Fox wrote: I find that true of Abiword as well. It imports some stuff OK, but there's no option to save it _back_ to Word format once I'm done editing. At least with Star Office, I can keep the document as a Word doc throughout the

Re: [newbie] ctrl+s under X not always working...

2001-06-25 Thread Miark
David, Ctrl-s is, by default the stop key combination which basically freezes or stops the screen. You can change it by adding the following to the .bashrc file in your home directory: stty stop ^T where T is the letter that you assign to stop instead of s. I happen to use T, but you can use

Re: [newbie] Concating a split file

2001-06-25 Thread Miark
DoH! I can't believe I didn't think of that! Well, it worked like the charm that it is. Thanks. Miark - Original Message - From: David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Concating a split file Now that

Re: [newbie] install probs.

2001-06-25 Thread Miark
Darren, I experienced the same thing for almost two months. All I can say is, thank God for Civileme! The problem: I was using a ATA66 hard drive and CD device on the same IDE port, using a 80-pin IDE cable. I think I had the choice of 1) using a 40-pin cable or 2) moving the CD drive to the

[newbie] Mandrake firewall

2001-06-25 Thread Michael Heffner
I just installed Mandrake's firewall last week and all seemd well. However I now need to add a static route in the machine to pass vpn traffic to our vpn hardware. Where and how can I add this route so that the internal machines can access the machines on the other side of the vpn, and it remains

Re: Re: [newbie] Scanner

2001-06-25 Thread Jim Dawson
Win4Lin and vmware allow you to run a 'virtual' windows computer on your Linux box. However it sounds like you want a way to share your scanner with the Windows machines rather than use the scanner on the Linux box, so I don't think either program will work for you. If you do want to give

Re: [newbie] Your article is premature in articel

2001-06-25 Thread Michel Clasquin
Hmm, that's a funny name for a thread ... On Monday 25 June 2001 16:51, Mark Johnson wrote: Let me play devil's advocate: Does the desktop even have a chance in linux? First of all, the desktop is rarely defined by all the people who raise this issue. At which point does a business desktop

Re: [newbie] Scanner

2001-06-25 Thread Miark
If you can share your scanner as a device on a Microsnot network, then you can continue to do so with Win4Lin because it fully supports M$ networks. Miark Win4Lin and vmware allow you to run a 'virtual' windows computer on your Linux box. However it sounds like you want a way to share your

Re: [newbie] Installing wine under linux and ADSL-connecting

2001-06-25 Thread Miark
I use Win4Lin instead of VMware, and it runs Photoshop as normal. If price is a concern, Win4Lin the better choice because it's only $80 (or close to that). Miark - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 12:14 AM Subject: Re:

RE: [newbie] Your article is premature in articel

2001-06-25 Thread Mark Johnson
-Original Message- From: Michel Clasquin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 3:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Your article is premature in articel Hmm, that's a funny name for a thread ... On Monday 25 June 2001 16:51, Mark Johnson wrote:

[newbie] SM56 help

2001-06-25 Thread Lucas Aguilera
I have a modem SM56 Motorola and Mandrake 8.0. I installed the linux's driver but don't work. I tried to create internet connection but i don't kwon what is a device? Please help me Sincerely Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] cannot reboot into Win from Linux...

2001-06-25 Thread Ivan Tomasic
hello! i've installed Windows ME and Mandrake 8.0 on my Toshiba 1755 laptop, and have the following problem: when i reboot from Linux, and select Windows in LILO, Windows cannot boot--the machine switches itself off halfay through... the only way for me to go into Win after Linux is to actually

[newbie] Thought on Hardware purchase?

2001-06-25 Thread Paul McKelvey
Hi All! i'm considering the purchase of a box to run linux, but being brought up a Macintosh man i don't really know what i'm looking for in hardware... I got this quote done and would like some opinions on how good/bad it looks. I'm especially interested in the role the sound card and

[newbie] mandrake 8.0

2001-06-25 Thread Absolutezero
Title: i can't even get linux to boot on my machine, i have 8.0, and i keep getting the error can't find root error 22:05 2205 any answers? FEEL THE FREEZE

Re: [newbie] ATI Rage 128 freezes X?

2001-06-25 Thread A V Flinsch
On Monday 25 June 2001 16:12, Dan Ray wrote: Howdy-- I'm a relative-newbie; certainly new to Mandrake's (excellent, IMO) distro. Here's a problem I'm having that I've never seen before; certain apps (in particular, ones that I know use GL or Mesa) completely freeze my machine. In a

[newbie] boot up error

2001-06-25 Thread Mafiajoe3
hi. i hope that someone can help me with this problem. i have been using linux mandrake for a while now. i started with 7.1 and have worked up to 8.0. in the past i had never tried to re-compile the kernel but once i got 8.0 i wanted to try it. it took me a while to get the right config so it

[newbie] Shred??

2001-06-25 Thread Mandrake
Hello list. Ok,so I know what 'move to trash' does and 'delete' obviously, but I have no clue what 'shred' is for, why it is needed, and who wrote it. Sorry for so many questions at once. Just curious Thanks

[newbie] Parallel Port

2001-06-25 Thread Miark
Hi all, To install the parallel port in Win4Lin, the guide instructed me to first determine the parallel port's address and mode in Linux by cat'ing /proc/parpart/0/hardware. Problem: I don't have /proc/parport. I know my parallel port works in Linux because I can print. So how do I determine

Re: [newbie] Shred??

2001-06-25 Thread Miark
It's a difference of increased security. That is, when you shred a file, not only is it deleted from the directory listing, but the blocks that it occupies on your hard drive are zeroed out so that the file is impossible to recover by any means. Miark - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] boot up error

2001-06-25 Thread Michael D. Viron
Joe, First, please try not to post htmlized e-mails to the list. Some e-mail clients add all kinds of extra html tags, reduce the size of the font such that it is unreadable, change the color to a grayish color, or for that matter make the font larger, making it much more difficult to read

[newbie] ICQ? Firewall?

2001-06-25 Thread Ross Slade
I _think_ the first two are attempts by LICQ to resolve the ICQ server being blocked by my firewall. Is that right and how can I avoid it? (it works fine most of the time) Jun 26 10:22:20 bunyip kernel: PUB_OUT REJECT 11IN= OUT=ppp0 SRC=203.14.156.30 DST=203.14.156.1 LEN=91 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0

Fwd: Re: [newbie] User groups

2001-06-25 Thread Chris Keelan
-- Forwarded Message -- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: Chris Keelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] User groups Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:38:39 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References:

Re: [newbie] Linux bashing again by Intel??

2001-06-25 Thread Michael Leone
From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux bashing again by Intel?? or you haven't explained it well enough. You should feel lucky that you have this kind of free community-based support -- you'll never have it in the M$ world. There, you'll have to pay through

[newbie] Can't access /~username

2001-06-25 Thread Ross Slade
This is driving me nuts... bunyip.apna.org.au is accessable just fine, but attempts to go to bunyip.apana.org.au/~username fail: Error 403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~rosco/index.html on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.19 Server

Re: [newbie] TT fonts in Konqueror -- Failure?

2001-06-25 Thread tazmun
I have been dissappointed in netscape and konqueror with the displayed fonts. Some of them are absolutely horrible to try to read. I can change the encoding to something to improve it sometimes, but it will never stay set there. I'm puzzled as to why this is such a problem compared to windoze.

Re: [newbie] Kword 1.0 survey -- Solid? Reliable? Feature-rich?

2001-06-25 Thread tazmun
I haven't used it much yet, but from what I can see my only comment is that I didn't see any support for microsoft office formatted files like you see in Staroffice. Tazmun - Original Message - From: Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001

Re: [newbie] Your article is premature in articel http://www.lin

2001-06-25 Thread David E. Fox
Let me play devil's advocate: Does the desktop even have a chance in linux? Well, it's been on my desktops for the last six years, so yes. :) The reason I ask this is because I wonder how many of us really use office-type products. I might fire up Word here at work because I have to I've

[newbie] Looking for nice GUI for iptables

2001-06-25 Thread grassi, adriano
Hi all, how are you? Does anyone know of a nice and easy to use GUI for iptables? Thanks for your time. Regards, Adriano Grassi

Re: [newbie] Kword 1.0 survey -- Solid? Reliable? Feature-rich?

2001-06-25 Thread bpremeaux
I spend more time in Staroffice5.2 simply because I take my documents back to Word. Kwork imports just fine and works quite well. But, the limited 'Save As' options leaves me hanging when I want to take a document back to the office. Barry On Mon, 25 June 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote:

[newbie] ftp-server

2001-06-25 Thread Magnus Stenemo
Hello! I would like to set up a ftp-server, so my friends can have access to my divx and mp3s. they should have an own account, and they should only have access to my ftp. How do I get them to the same dir then they log in?? sorry for my bad english //Magnus

[newbie] Re: Digest for list newbie

2001-06-25 Thread Michael Leone
From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] moving drives While it's possible in some cases to run windoze on a partition other than hda1, it's certainly not the norm, True. and almost always won't work. Windoze won't tolerate it, Not (quite) true. You can do this

[newbie] Weird no such file or directory message

2001-06-25 Thread R. Tyler Shaw
This has me really frustrated. Say I'm in /usr/games and I type /Maelstrom from a console window. Bash types back at me, No such file or directory, even though there most certainly is such a file, and if I ls or dir it tells me there is. What's going on here?

Re: [newbie] Thought on Hardware purchase?

2001-06-25 Thread Tim Holmes
Well the processor and motherboard are kind of intertwined. For example, the motherboard you chose there as the A7V133. IT supports the 200/266 FSB. In order to take advantage of that you'll have to get a processor that supports that. Currently the smallest processor that does support that

[newbie] To Die or not to Die?

2001-06-25 Thread OOzy Pal
I have been hearing a lot about Linux is dead in the desktop. What is up with that. I don't think Linux will die. I heard one Open-Source programmer saying. If a commercial company can put 50 programmers to do a certain job. Then I can put 500 programs to do something similar (the whole world