Norman Teferle wrote:
Dear all,
can anyone tell me what command line arguments I have to use to compile
Fortran 77 code on my Mandrake 8.0 box.
The programs were compiled on IRIX6.5 using f77 with following command
line options: -32 -O1 -C -r8 -static -check_bounds -c file.f -lv77
Some of these
I installed LM 7 on a 1.2 gig extended partition. Now I see that /root
partition is nearly full, yet I have 300 MB free in /home. How can I
give more space to /root or specifically /usr.
Thanks
George Baker
South Africa
John Rigby wrote:
Hi Roman,
Well, intuitive it is not! :-)
Took a clue from you and re-used an icon that failed previously and
went to OPEN WITH on a RClick on it.
It works, but boy, is it slow to come up!
Next little one:
How do I open/import webs from the Doze side?
--
Cheers,
At 02:32 AM 7/16/01 +1000, you wrote:
This is about a *charity* that is giving computers to *poor* people. Chances
are that these people have hardly ever touched a computer, leave alone owning
one (no insensitivity intended). Do you think they can afford a copy of
Gotta add to this as this is a
Judy,
Yes, add the user option, which allows any user to mount.
But I would also make a backup copy of fstab ;-)
Mike
- Original Message -
From: Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Managing Zip, CD-ROM, and
I'm not a lawyer, but I think the charity would still be
responsible to pay unless the M$ install CDs were included
with the donated computers (unlikely, but who knows?).
I don't know why the donors wouldn't give 'em the CDs too,
though; any replacement they bought would probably already
come
It worked! It must be magic! Is it a bug??? Why did it happen?? I have no idea. I
may pose that question to the KDE mailing lists.
Anyway, my day is now complete along with my desktop.
Thanks much... Tom.
s wrote:
It may not help, but you could try deleting ~/.kde directory and reboot and
Dear all,
Thanks one and all who helped me solve my dual boot (NT/Linux) problems.
NT sucks and had to use the start sectors of my HD - the WinDOS
partition I had created (during Linux install) was at the end...
therefore, I had to blow the whole lot and start again!!! What a
nightmare I had
Hi Paul,
K=KDE the other one :-)
Dave covered it Newbie style for me thanks!
I aim to K.I.S.S. and that means GUI solutions wherever possible and
it was simple .. when someone shows you! :-)
I wouldn't have known how to get to /mt/windows !
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 23:19, you
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 15:26, you wrote:
Thanks for your advice,
but I am not sure, how to configure these things. Could anybody tell me
what should stand in /etc/fstab file for floppy disk and for CD-ROM?
I tried to use various settings, but CD-ROM is still unmountable reporting
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John,
I'm not sure what you mean when you say KDE doesn't recognize your Windows
partitions but Gnome does. The ability to mount a vfat partition is part
of the linux kernel (or a kernel module), but the GUI you are using.
Are you saying that
John Rigby wrote:
Hi Judy,
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:35, you manipulated electrons to produce:
Hi John--
Never fear, I noted your first message and said here's a guy with
a great idea! I certainly will send you tales of my many painful
encounters with this beast of an OS.
I'm
Hi Civileme and folks,
This little gotcha is typical of what we need for THE Book:
The missing bit is actualled the Menu Bar
It was not there on my Konqueror.
I found it by accident after Right Clicking in the body of the screen
while not connected in browsing mode.
There was this odd
Can't see how to do this:
Gnome automatically recognises my Doze Drives but K does not.
How do we make (preferably under the GUI like Gnome) K recognise them?
I need to attach some from them as email files.
Hi John,
What do you mean by K?
Winders drives normally are mounted at boot through
Hi,
I have my CD drive connected via the SPDIF internal socket to my SB live
card. At the moment, I cannot play CD's though linux (LM8.0)
Has any one any experience of this, what settings do I need ?
Thanks in advance
Glen Swindell
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 20:10, you wrote:
I'm running both right now, each one loading a different site, and
which mozilla
shows only one such file in the path.
Dear friends:
Just found out today that you CAN run Galeon and Mozilla simultaneously!
How?
Well, you can't run them both at
Hi everybody,
I just wanted to ask is someone knows how to configure a webcam in LM80?
Which software should I use?
Any suggestions?
Thakns,
Tomek
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- Original Message -
From: Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Linux-Mandrake Newbie (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:18 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Re(newbie)Linux Magazine 8.0 Installation
impossible!!Help appreciated
MACK , if this was a cover version from
Many of these computers have been donated by companies. These companies buy
licenses, not CDs. In other words, they may have only one CD even though
they've installed on multiple machines. This is a common way to keep
licensing fees down.
This can create a major problem because the new owner
tazmun wrote:
[snip]
here..but what does pwd stand for again? And I keep
hearing about kdesu is this just something your typing
into the console shell from kde window manager. I was
wondering if someone could go a bit more into detail on
this command and exactly how to use it. Also what
Tried it and it worked like a charm.
Thanks for the reply.
Now if I can only get my desktop going...
Tom.
Miark wrote:
Tom,
These refer to USB ports (180) and serial ports (4). I know
this happens if you've got them disabled in your BIOS, as I
have. If you don't need the ports, then add
Hi,
I recently installed Linux Mandrake 8.0. I am unable to play mp3 music.
When i launch the XMMS window and submit a MP3 file for play the system
hangs (No response, Key board and the mouse become non functional), Any
suggestion to get XMMS stuff going???
Is there means to play .rm and
Civileme!
My install did not place my three Win partitions on the KDE
desktop. Neither did it place the two CDROMs there. Although I have two
floppies, the install placed only one non-specific floppy on the desktop
and made it inaccessible to me as a user.
Using the info you provided
Hi;
FYI: (In case no one has posted this before)
There is a bug in 8.0's KDE installation of Lisa reLisa.
It doesn't see the config files in ~/.kde/share/config/lisarc
~/.kde/share/config/relisarc
If you move the files generated by the control panel into ~/.lisarc
~/.relisarc browing of
civileme wrote:
[snip]
Either you haves a very corrupt install insofar as KDE is
concerned or you are just unfamiliar with the desktop.
There should be icons on the K desktop which say mnt win_c
or similar.
[snip]
ÇivilemeI've just done 3 installs, 2 with 8.0 (powerpack)
and 1 (from
http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=squidguard
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:20, Romanator wrote:
Has any one heard of an available rpm for SquidGuard? So far, I've only
been able to find the tar ball version.
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
su is not the root of your
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 02:25, Miark wrote:
And while I ponder Konqueror, I have one other question: I
have Enable Web Shortcuts turned on, and I _thought_ this
would allow me to type, say av and go directly to
altavista. Instead, Konqueror sends it to Google as a search
term. Should that
Thanks for your advice,
but I am not sure, how to configure these things. Could anybody tell me what
should stand in /etc/fstab file for floppy disk and for CD-ROM?
I tried to use various settings, but CD-ROM is still unmountable reporting
various erros messages...
Thanks
Jan Sedivy
[EMAIL
On Saturday 14 July 2001 13:44, you wrote:
On Saturday 14 July 2001 12:32 pm, David E.Fox wrote:
been runnin Linux on for years. I bought an OEM HDD that only came
with IBM's version of ez-bios on a floppy ($135 from MegaHaus
Dickinson, TX).
snip That same dir on the new
7200 rpm 2mb
It was Thu, 19 Jul 2001 01:43:15 +0530 when Alwan Sadagopan wrote:
Very strange. Sounds like a problem in IRQ's, when a soundcard hangs up a
system.
See what cat /proc/interrupts shows, perhaps there is something in it that
tells more. Shared IRQs are possible, but not all systems/cards like it
I have been looking at Grip and it's interface seems simple and easy to
use however I noticed it talks to other mp3 encoding programs. None of
them seem to be installed. I was wondering which one would be best to
do mp3's? lame? bladeenc? I3enc? mp3encode? their are others also
listed.
Trying to install koffice 2.0.1 and kfinance 0.2.0 and keep getting the
message that the C Compiler can't create executables. I have installed
gcc and gcc -c++. This is the config.log I get:
Thanks
George Baker
South Africa
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running
They are just animated GIF files. Could they be done with a simple screen
capture programme? I know both GNOME and KDE have applets designed to do
this, and The GIMP can do this as well. KDE 2.2 (IIRC) will have a feature
where you can press your Print Screen key and capture your desktop to
MACK , if this was a cover version from news vendor , the disk was corrupt!
Do you live in UK or USA? If UK could send a working copy. Let me know
*Ouch* well, I guess they tried...
anyway, looking at your system specs you may want to be cautious. I
installed 8.0 on a system very similar to
Hi Sridhar,
Thanks again for your help!
But what I'm trying to do is avoid the command-line wherever
possible and use the long-awaited friendly gui.
Especially as I will have to teach it to a lot of utter computer
novices in the not distant future.
I personally already have enough troubles
Hello: I use linux on my laptop at home and work. It
usesthe samefixed
IP address both at home and office. I recently
installed the IBMJDK (using rpm)
when I was connected to my office network and the
installation was smooth.
But when I took my machine home, it will go through the
start
I have put the following line in a page.
td bgcolor=#ff00fffont size=7 color=#FF face=Arial
Black, Photina Casual Black, TahomabcenterL.V.Gandhi's
Pages/center/b/font/td
I have seen big letters in winme,
netscape 4.77
ie 6
in mdk 8.0 galeon and mozilla.
But in konquerer and netscape 4.77 in
This is already happening in a big way in governments across the globe. I
have posted numerous lengthy messages about this in the recent past. You may
want to look through the list archives for them if you're interested.
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 23:05, Andy Weller wrote:
Another topic that has
I have installed LM 8.0 on my system. Everything seems ok except for the
following:
1. When I boot, and after the logon prompt is displayed, a bunch of
messages appear stating
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4 and
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-180.
2.
Just another innovative way for M$ to compete:
http://netscape.zdnet.com:80/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2790355,00.html
I have also read (on CNet) that M$ is pulling MP3 codecs from XP. If users
want to use MP3s, they have to either buy the plug-in for Media Player from
M$ or use something else.
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 02:55, Charles Darcy wrote:
I didn't know about the Cooker packages. Is it where the candidate
update packages for the next release of Mandrake exist ?
Yep. Be careful when using them -- they haven't been fully tested and some of
them are incompatible with the current
Hi Dan,
The nVidia drivers that come with Mandrake are not 3D
capable. You'll need to go to nVidia's web site to download
the proper driver RPMs and the Installation Guide.
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux
Miark
- Original Message -
From: Dan Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 00:57, civileme wrote:
On Sunday 15 July 2001 03:54, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 05:17, civileme wrote:
On Saturday 14 July 2001 09:03, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Hey everyone,
I ran InteractiveBastille and configured my system security
Hi Charles,
You are durn tootin' right!!
Cheers,
John
Until then, when you need to use a terminal or write a script for
something, this list will get you very detailed resoponses. That is
what makes it easier than Winduhs in my estimation. I can actually
get someone to explain (in plain
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 00:57, Tim Holmes wrote:
Maybe somebody can shed some light on this subject.
I write a lot of scripts, and I go back and revise them as well. Well I
keep noticing files that have a ~ at the end of the file. For example,
one of the first scripts I tested when learning
By the way, the formatting in the installation guide annoyed
me so much that I completely re-did it; first for myself,
but also because I thought nVidia may also like to post it.
Well, I was wrong on the second count. I sent it to them,
and all they said was that they would incorporate more
From the K menu, select
K Multimedia Sound Sound Mixer
Mess with the sliding controls--you'll get it.
Miark
- Original Message -
From: Glen Swindell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 7:34 AM
Subject: [newbie] Playing CD's through SB live
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 08:13, Johnix wrote:
I'm haveing trouble with printer Okidata Ol400e is supported but
Ol400 is not. I'm useing Mandrake 7.2. Any idea's would be
appreciated.
Try setting it up as a HP LaserJet II. Although I have not done that
with Mandrake, it worked great for me
I had this problem on my laptop and felt like a dork when I figured it out.
go into your desktop (KDE or gnome, whatever) configuration tool (where you
change the colors and all) and select fonts on the right hand side. you
should be able to choose what fonts and sizes you want where.
if you
According to Mandrake Real Player is already installed. How do I get it
to work with Mozilla?
Thanks,
Kevin
Here's an extra FYI for anyone following this thread. I heard somewhere that
Bill Gates and his wife were involved in a charity that gives computers to
kids in schools. You'd think that Bill would jump at the chance of getting
some good PR for a change, and help these schools. He can certainly
Roman; I haven't seen one for LM 8.0, only for Mandrake SNF, and that's a
version of 7.2. Maybe you can pull it off of SNF ??
Dan LaBine
On July 18, 2001 08:20 pm, you wrote:
Has any one heard of an available rpm for SquidGuard? So far, I've only
been able to find the tar ball version.
Hi Civileme,
Have responded to part of this in other post.
Interesting how it all happens, what?? :-)
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 02:00, you manipulated electrons to produce:
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 12:36, John Rigby wrote:
Hi folks,
Can't see how to do this:
Gnome automatically recognises
Hi all,
I would like to make a request..
Dialup seems to be a constant problem that is always popping up on this
list...
I suggest that mandrake still offer redhats netcfg as it is better for
unusual configs then the mandrake install..
I have tried the mandrake tools before, and ended up
I just dl'd and applied the 2 disks for the 8.0 frequent update.
XFree86 is now at version 4.1. I see that the XF86Config-4 file is using the
NV driver rather than the NVIDIA that I had downloaded from the NVIDIA
website and installed.
Is the driver from the NVIDIA website compatible with
It was Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:15:24 -0700 (PDT) when Jim Lynch wrote:
You might try xvidtune for this.
Paul
I don't see an option for this in Mandrake Control
Center in the X Control.
Any other way I can do this? The refresh rate should
be higher for this monitor.
Thanks in advance if you can
Just reinstall them (tarballs) and edit your xf86config-4 file again.
Anytime you change the kernel, you have to redo the nvidia drivers. They are
still compatible, or at least I've read they are (don't know from personal
experience).
-s
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 11:31 pm, you wrote:
I
Hi Sridhar folks,
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:39, you manipulated electrons to produce:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:01, John Rigby wrote:
Hi Sridhar folks,
Well put, Sidhar, but missing the key point:
Use as distinct from support.
I would argue that GNU/Linux has _better_ support than does
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 03:07 am, you wrote:
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 05:04, s wrote:
On Monday 16 July 2001 09:03 pm, you wrote:
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 02:25, s wrote:
Can anyone brief me on the set up of a joystick?
If you're using a 2.4 kernel, add the following to
Matthew , if nobody has offered before you recieve this e-mail , contact me
and i'll help where i can Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I'm interesting in creating additional Linux demos. Does any one know
what Mandrake is using to create their demos for their web page?
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
su is not the root of your problem
but the start of a new journey
Has any one heard of an available rpm for SquidGuard? So far, I've only
been able to find the tar ball version.
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
su is not the root of your problem
but the start of a new journey
If I only had the time!!!
Robert wrote:
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 16:02, Kevin Fonner wrote:
I have been looking at Grip and it's interface seems simple and easy to
use however I noticed it talks to other mp3 encoding programs. None of
them seem to be installed. I was wondering which
George,
It would help us if you posted the partitions you have and what size they are.
Michael
--
Michael Viron
Registered Linux User #81978
Senior Systems Administration Consultant
Web Spinners, University of West Florida
At 12:21 AM 07/19/2001 +0200, George Baker wrote:
I installed LM 7 on
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