Re: R: [newbie-it] problema all'arresto

2001-06-28 Thread Andrea Celli
Mealli Diego wrote: i file di core vanno rimossi! sono enormi e la maggior parte delle volte inutili Se non sai utilizarli si. In genere conviene evitare che si creino a utenti non-sviluppatori che non saprebbero che farsene. Sono invece utili per root. Puo` servire sapere che programma di

Re: [newbie-it] installare lo scanner gt-7000

2001-06-28 Thread Andrea Celli
Luca Miselli wrote: .. al momento ho letto che il scanner epson gt-7000 è supportato, ma non ho capito come installarlo Non puoi aspettarti che tutti conoscano il tuo scanner. Dicci almeno se e` parallelo, SCSI o usb ? Il supporto per gli scanner e` nel 99% dei casi gestito

Re: [newbie-it] scheda video ASUS

2001-06-28 Thread Gigi Cyber
Io ho una geforce2mx400 e funziona molto bene. NVIDIA è una delle poche aziende che fornisce drivers anche per linux. Li trovi sul loro sito Ciao --- Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, vorrei acquistare una scheda video ASUS V6600 MX da 32MB per un PC su cui poi

[newbie-it] scusate per le infomazioni incomplete

2001-06-28 Thread Luca Miselli
Scusate, non avevo detto metà delle informazioni necessarie ho installato mandrake 8 da LinuxC Macchina Pentium III 450 sheda madre asus P3BF modem 3com voice 56k Message Pro (non rilevato) scanner USB epson (non rilevato) monitor samsung 19 pollici scheda video matrox G400 problemi

Re: [newbie-it] scusate per le infomazioni incomplete

2001-06-28 Thread randall.flagg
Ciao, per quanto riguarda il modem, ti suggerisco una cosa semplice, ma che talvolta uno dimentica (il sottoscitto quasi ad ogni distribuzione che prova...) imposta come settaggi addizionali del modem la stringa ATFX3 che resetta il modem alle impostazioni di fabbrica e lo setta per l'italia (in

Re: [newbie-it] scusate per le infomazioni incomplete

2001-06-28 Thread Stefano Salari
Macchina Pentium III 450 sheda madre asus P3BF modem 3com voice 56k Message Pro (non rilevato) ...Hai provato a tenerlo acceso accendendo il PC? La Mdk 8 ha un sistema di rilevamento del nuovo hardware che parte all'avvio. Tenendo acceso il modem durante il boot dovrebbe riconoscertelo e

Re: [newbie-it] scheda video ASUS

2001-06-28 Thread Stefano Salari
Io ho una geforce2mx400 e funziona molto bene. Io ho la GeForce 256 DDR. E' piu' vecchiotta, ma e' ugualmente supportata e confermo che funziona davvero bene! NVIDIA è una delle poche aziende che fornisce drivers anche per linux. Li trovi sul loro sito Ciao --- Daniele Micci [EMAIL

Re: [newbie-it] A chi utilizza MDK 8 : chiederei un piccolo piacere

2001-06-28 Thread Di Matteo G
Purtroppo questo modulo non esiste, ma a cosa serve. - Original Message - From: Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 3:12 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] A chi utilizza MDK 8 : chiederei un piccolo piacere Il 11:47, mercoledì 27 giugno 2001, hai

Re: [newbie-it] A chi utilizza MDK 8 : chiederei un piccolo piacere

2001-06-28 Thread freefred
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 15:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Utilizzo MDK 7.2 e sarei tentato di installare MDK 8, ma il problema nasce dal kernel 2.4 visto che probabilmente sarei costretto ad utilizzare il 2.2 visto che per il mio lavoro debbo avere la compatibilità SCO. Tale compatibilità si

[newbie] Mandrake 8.0 Sound Detection

2001-06-28 Thread Adams, Jamie
Hello, I have posted this once before, but after much searching on the net for a solution, and much fiddling with my config im still having no luck. My sound card, a Yamaha OPL3-SA2 inside a Toshiba Sattellite 2520CDT. The soundcard was previously detected under Mandrake 7.1, but not with 8.0.

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

2001-06-28 Thread Tim Holmes
Turn off your NumLock, or Scroll Lock. You may have to activate NumLock to deactivate Scroll Lock, and then turn off NumLock, but once those are all off, everything will work fine. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! Uptime:

Re: [newbie] No supermount after compiling 2.4.5 on LM 8.0

2001-06-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 28 June 2001 05:18 am, Artwi wrote: After compiling kernel 2.4.5 everything works fine but LM 8.0 reports: modprobe: Can't locate module supermount mount: fs type supermount not supported by kernel What's worse, supermount doesn't work even with previous kernel now. How can I

Re: [newbie] webmin not working..

2001-06-28 Thread jgarrido
Hola Guillermo: Segun el sitio de Linux Mandrake, esto son los modems soportados por el Sistema. La mayoría de los módem y adaptadores ISDN son soportados... Yo no soy para nada avanzado en esto llevo solo 2 dias, yo tengo un Modem Pctel y no me funciona para nada, tambien he leido y

[newbie] Fixed Nvidia drivers

2001-06-28 Thread Sque
Hi guys Your tips were helpful but my main problem was during Mandrake 7.2's install. Seems you only get Xfree86 4.0.1 as a active option during expert install, an option which I wasn't getting with the recommended or Custom install. After fixing that the driver installed and worked fine.

Re: [newbie] Hard Drives

2001-06-28 Thread Terry
From the response I got back from civileme, Linux can only recognize a max single drive size of 127 GB. A little bit strange that windowz can see a slightly larger hard drive than Linux ... hopefully Linux will fix that .. can't have windowz one-upping them now, can they? :-) Terry On

[newbie] help

2001-06-28 Thread zhu jun

[newbie] Testing tinyfirewall

2001-06-28 Thread Harry Giles
OK, I have set up my firewall. What do I need to test it? Also, should Bastille firewall be disabled at startup? Harry G

[newbie] Linux Gaming

2001-06-28 Thread Adams, Jamie
Hiya, You guys must be sick of getting mails from me by now :) When i attempt to play Tuxracer or GLTron, the display dosnt render on my screen properly, the display splits into three/four vertical bars, each displaying the same portion of the screen (left hand side i think). Could anyone shed

Re: [newbie] Hard Drives

2001-06-28 Thread civileme
On Thursday 28 June 2001 13:34, Terry wrote: From the response I got back from civileme, Linux can only recognize a max single drive size of 127 GB. A little bit strange that windowz can see a slightly larger hard drive than Linux ... hopefully Linux will fix that .. can't have windowz

Re: [newbie] Testing tinyfirewall

2001-06-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 07:46 pm, Harry Giles wrote: OK, I have set up my firewall. What do I need to test it? Also, should Bastille firewall be disabled at startup? No, why would you wanna disable it? It should be run as a service from boot. Go to

[newbie] Install error - Segmentation Fault

2001-06-28 Thread Sean Shaghaghi
I have been trying to get Mandrake 8.0 installed for the past couple of days. However, I seem to be getting an error called a segmentation fault around the part of the install where you select the packages you want. I want to install linun, but I can't. I am running a Celeron-533, 256Mb ram, two

[newbie] open and shut case

2001-06-28 Thread Jennifer Williams
i don't if this article has been shared with you all yet, but i found this interesting article at the econmist site. thought some of you may find this of interest. jennifer An open and shut case May 10th 2001 From The Economist print edition

Re: [newbie] Hard Drives

2001-06-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 28 June 2001 08:34 am, Terry wrote: From the response I got back from civileme, Linux can only recognize a max single drive size of 127 GB. A little bit strange that windowz can see a slightly larger hard drive than Linux ... hopefully Linux will fix that .. can't have windowz

[newbie] Creating /dev/scd1 ?!

2001-06-28 Thread Joan Tur
Hi! I've deleted /dev/scd1 and it's where my ide DVD was redirected using hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf -i've got a scsi cd recorder at /dev/scd0-. What commands do i have to pass mknod to create it again? Thanks! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] / partition

2001-06-28 Thread Eric L. McClure
I've used diskdrake but cannot expand my / partition. It is almost full and I get an error saying just so. Funny thing though, my 512 sound card does not work properly in win98 but perfectly in 8.0 and beos. thanks for any help, eric

Re: [newbie] WordPerfect Install in LM8

2001-06-28 Thread David E. Fox
How does one install the libc5-1.0-2.i386 source rpm? After that is install= ed=20 then how do I install the WordPerfect ? Any help will be greatly appreciate= Generally, you install source rpm's by putting the source rpm file in /usr/src/RPM/SRPMS, and do a 'rpm --rebuild

[newbie] DNS

2001-06-28 Thread Jason Chan
Hello, I have two machines running Mandrake 8.0 with Bind DNS server. Machine A is the primary DNS that stores master zone records, and Machine B is the secondary DNS that stores slave records of the zones in Machine A. Zone transfer from Machine A to Machine B is set. In the past, zone

[newbie] Postfix, where is spam controls?

2001-06-28 Thread Mandrake
How do you get to the spam control panel for postfix? Webmin? If so, where is it? Thanks -- Linux is cool

[newbie] Archiving old mail under Kmail.

2001-06-28 Thread Richard Davies
Hi, As my mail folders are currently just over half a GIG I have an urgent need to do something to compact them. This is the idea I have at present but have no idea if I am even vaguely on the right track here. I am looking for a script that will automatically once a month scan through my

Re: [newbie] Creating /dev/scd1 ?!

2001-06-28 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 28 June 2001 23:50, Joan Tur wrote: Hi! I've deleted /dev/scd1 and it's where my ide DVD was redirected using hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf -i've got a scsi cd recorder at /dev/scd0-. What commands do i have to pass mknod to create it again? Thanks! ;) -- Joan

Re: [newbie] Some reviews for those looking into hardware...

2001-06-28 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Jason: A sidelight about Anandtech. Anand has just finished his freshman year at North Carolina State University, and the site is celebrating its fourth anniversary. In other words, he was about 15 or 16 years old when he started. Impressive. Regards, Carroll Jason Guidry wrote: As per

[newbie] Gateway hangs at What type of CD-rom do you have

2001-06-28 Thread Baker, Tyrell
Linux Mandrake 7.2 loaded on a Gateway machine. Does not have Cd-rom listed on CDROM Type, therefore, can not continue installation. Any suggestions?? Tyrell O. Baker

[newbie] Uninstall RPMs

2001-06-28 Thread Juan Carlos
First I install Freeciv: rpm -i freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm Now I want to uninstall it: rpm -e freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm error: package freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm is not installed The system says it is not intalled, but It is really installed: rpm -qa | grep freeciv freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk

Re: [newbie] Uninstall RPMs

2001-06-28 Thread Miark
Try rpm -e freeciv Miark - Original Message - From: Juan Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:49 PM Subject: [newbie] Uninstall RPMs First I install Freeciv: rpm -i freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm Now I want to uninstall it: rpm -e

Re: [newbie] Uninstall RPMs

2001-06-28 Thread Juan Carlos
Thanks. It works pefertly. On Thu 28 Jun 2001 17:45, you wrote: Try rpm -e freeciv Miark - Original Message - From: Juan Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:49 PM Subject: [newbie] Uninstall RPMs First I install Freeciv: rpm

Re: [newbie] Installing RealPlayer8.bin file -- Instructions

2001-06-28 Thread OOzy Pal
Hello I tried all sort of instruction. I read a lot in the newbie archives. The problem is Realplayer audio is noisy. It is just scratches not sound. Please help. Dear friends: You can get RealPlayer 8 from RealPlayer home page at http://www.real.com by selecting the free RealPlayer 8

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 - Installing from the net. Frezzes.

2001-06-28 Thread David E. Fox
I have downloaded an executable netscape-installer that connect to internet to install Netscape6. It try to download 11 files or parts. But every time I I've had the same problem. It's better to just download the larger tar.gz file from ftp.mozilla.org directly. You'll probably want to

[newbie] Install From Hard Disk

2001-06-28 Thread Skinky
Hello all, Does anyone know of a tutorial on how to install Linux Mandrake 8.0 from hard disk? I put all the files in a separate partition and made a boot floppy with the hd.img file. All goes well until it looks for the files to install. It can't find the files. The partition is Primary

[newbie] mouse curson pointing to a shifted grid

2001-06-28 Thread Travel GZ
Hi, On my Compaq 1200 xl106 laptop I installed Mandrake 8. After using KDE for an hour or two, suddenly the mouse seems to work on a shifted frame than the monitor! Meaning, in order to click on a button (or anthing) my mouse cursor actually doesn't sense the button is where I see it but

[newbie] CDRW won't burn

2001-06-28 Thread Geof Steichen
I have tried all the steps in the CD-Writing HOWTO to get my cdrom burner to burn but no luck. I have created the image using mkisofs; I have tested the CD-image by mounting it using the loop0 device and inspected the data; I have issued the cdrecord -scanbus and gotten:cdrecord -scanbus

Re: [newbie] Some reviews for those looking into hardware...

2001-06-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 28 June 2001 03:44 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Jason: A sidelight about Anandtech. Anand has just finished his freshman year at North Carolina State University, and the site is celebrating its fourth anniversary. In other words, he was about 15 or 16 years old when he started.

[newbie] mouse in X

2001-06-28 Thread Willy Sutrisno
hi, im using mandrake 8.0 and XFCE is my window manager. I'd like to know what is the command you put in the kdm, to load XFCE. I have tried xfce, but it cant work. oh ya, by the way im using xfce 3.8.3 because i cant load my xfce from kdm, so im force to load it from the command prompt. but

[newbie] I need help!

2001-06-28 Thread Ricky Parks
I downloaded from you site the Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and the Linux-Mandrake 8.0 ISO images and I read the install .txt but I could not figure out how to install it from my harddrive. What do I have to do? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard E. Parks

[newbie] another shutdown problem

2001-06-28 Thread Kevin Fonner
When I shutdown Mandrake the last thing it says is Power Down and then my computer locks up. At one time it actually shut off my laptop but now it just sits their. I know it's not waiting for me to turn it off because I have to hold down my power button to force it to the off position.

[newbie] Which Version Should I use?

2001-06-28 Thread Aaron
I am looking at installing Linux Mandrake and would like to know which if the following versions would best suit my needs. I will be using this machine as for web development if that makes a difference. 8.0/i586 8.0/i486 Corporate Server The box this is going on contains: Tyan S1832DL Tiger 100

[newbie] ext2 file system

2001-06-28 Thread Kevin Fonner
Does mandrake use the Linux ext2 file system? Because I have a copy of partition magic 6.0 and it is supposed to understand the partition and it is not demonstrating it that way to me. Kevin

[newbie] Install - SCSI module causing problem

2001-06-28 Thread Nickos K
Hi fellow Mandrakers, Installed Mandrake 8. Detected all my hardware. Even the onboard SCSI adapter (that is disabled in BIOS - since *not* used). Message (prior to error): scsi0: Adaptec AIC7xxx yada, yada, yada aic7880: single channel a, scsi id=0, 16/255 scbs ERROR (follows): VFS: Cannot

[newbie] curious ....

2001-06-28 Thread Rita F. Koenigs
There seems to be a lot of talk about Windows (even before the Appeals Court decision) being a competitor of / annoyance to the Linux OS I'm wondering about FreeBSD or MAC OS X any potential competition there? ... any way to combat the OS monopolistic intent of M$?

[newbie] Any fix yet for PGP and Mandrake 8?

2001-06-28 Thread Jon Doe
I have been gone for a while and was wondering if anyone had figured out how to get PGP6.5.8 intalled on Mandrake 8.

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 - Installing from the net. Frezzes.

2001-06-28 Thread s
You can also get 6.1 in a 28 meg tar.gz form from netscape. I must say that it is alot better than 6.0. I haven't used it alot, but it hasn't crashed on me yet while 6.0 crashed every dern time I opened it. (Of course I must say that for the record, konqueror is still my fav and the jury's

Re: [newbie] help

2001-06-28 Thread s
lol With what? Are you drowning, being mugged by hoodlums, your building burning down around you, or perhaps with Mandrake? -s On Thursday 28 June 2001 09:06 am, you wrote:

Re: [newbie] IDE CD Writer

2001-06-28 Thread s
It'll probably recongize it but may not set everything up like scsi emulation. Here's what Civileme wrote on how to set up: SCSI Emulation is in two parts--first a message to the kernel to tell it to assume emulation is done Second is a modprobe of scsi and a link to the appropriate SCSI

Re: [newbie] curious ....

2001-06-28 Thread Paul
It was Thu, 28 Jun 2001 20:25:59 -0700 (PDT) when Rita F. Koenigs wrote: There seems to be a lot of talk about Windows (even before the Appeals Court decision) being a competitor of / annoyance to the Linux OS I'm wondering about FreeBSD or MAC OS X any potential competition

Re: [newbie] curious .... ADD 'WHAT I LEARNED AT USENIX!'

2001-06-28 Thread Jeff Reed
On Thursday 28 June 2001 23:25, Rita F. Koenigs wrote: There seems to be a lot of talk about Windows (even before the Appeals Court decision) being a competitor of / annoyance to the Linux OS I'm wondering about FreeBSD or MAC OS X any potential competition there? ... any

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 - Installing from the net. Frezzes.

2001-06-28 Thread Jay needs a Guinness
(Of course I must say that for the record, konqueror is still my fav a You have got to try Opera. That is the creme-de-la-crop web browser for Linux. -- Jay ~May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend~ http://www.mrsnooky.com

Re: [newbie] Uninstall RPMs

2001-06-28 Thread David E. Fox
Now I want to uninstall it: rpm -e freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm error: package freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm is not installed A common mistake - the -e requires the rpm name, not its filename. What's stored in the RPM database is the name 'freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk' which is the rpm.

[newbie] Netscape 6 - Installing from the net. Frezzes.

2001-06-28 Thread Juan Carlos
I have downloaded an executable netscape-installer that connect to internet to install Netscape6. It try to download 11 files or parts. But every time I try to install it, it stop in any of them, it stop download, stop redrawing status window and do nothing at all. Any of you know an rpm

Re: [newbie] Burning Man8.0 install CD from ISO image

2001-06-28 Thread Randy Kramer
From: Dennis Gans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I'm about to burn the Mandrake 8.0 install CD-ROM from the downloaded iso image and looking for some guidance. I have already burned the ext. CD from the downloaded iso image and was worried when I tried to explore the files on the CD and could

Re: [newbie] StarOffice freezes in 8.0

2001-06-28 Thread Jay DeKing
I solved the problem, but not in the way I had hoped: I went back to LM 7.2. My research on the StarOffice forum found a lot of people with the same problem but most of the accusations directed at my video card (Diamond Stealth III S540), but the same card works fine with the driver provided

Re: [newbie] mouse curson pointing to a shifted grid

2001-06-28 Thread Kevin Fonner
I had the same problem with my Compaq 1400. When I did a cold reboot (Completely shutting off the system) it went away. For some reason just rebooting the system didn't help. Kevin - Original Message - From: Travel GZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June