Re: [newbie-it] questione drivers.....

2001-07-20 Thread Luca Miselli
infatti io mi sono arreso, disinstallo mandrake e riprovo linux con RedHat... - Original Message - From: Andreas Voigt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 12:39 PM Subject: R: [newbie-it] questione drivers. Eccone un altro. E via!

Re: [newbie-it] Cercasi consigli per gli acquisti

2001-07-20 Thread CaMiX
Grazie a tutti per i consigli. Io ho già letto quello di Medri (non ho capito proprio tutto, ma cmq abbastanza). Solo che è troppo incompleto. Per quanto riguarda Appunti di Informatica Libera, lo posseggo sia in html che in pdf. Il mio problema è proprio la stampa (personalmente non riesco a

Re: [newbie-it] questione drivers.....

2001-07-20 Thread Germano
Penso che il consiglio di Sandro sia molto sensato se mai non dovesse funzionare allora quello di Marco è quasi giusto perchè si è dimenticato di dirti che serve anche il pacchetto isdn4net.rpm. Colgo l'occasione per dire a Marco che è vero che c'è open source ma sarebbe cortesia anche citare

[newbie-it] Sound

2001-07-20 Thread baldo78
Ho una scheda sound Blaster 16 compatibile. Il mio problema è: riesco ad avviare sndconfig, i test vanno bene poi il suono non si sente ho provato a rilanciare sndconfig, ma da errore nell' accedere a dev/audio se faccio fuser -v /dev/dsp mi dice che c'è un processo in corso. Come devo fare?

[newbie-it] consigli generici installazione utility

2001-07-20 Thread Danilo Finocchiaro
avrei un problema, ecco: ho installato linux mandrake 8 da pochi giorni e, appassionatomi non poco , ho scaricato delle utility da internet. queste hanno estenzione tar.z. non riesco a installarle e neanche a farle funzionare. vi ringrazio per l'attenzione dedicatami finocchiaro danilo [EMAIL

Re: [newbie-it] Sound

2001-07-20 Thread Mr_Brain
Il 15:33, venerdì 20 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Ho una scheda sound Blaster 16 compatibile. Anch'io :)) Il mio problema è: riesco ad avviare sndconfig, i test vanno bene poi il suono non si sente Posta il tuo /etc/modules.conf (o /etc/conf.modules), magari e` questione di moduli..Inoltre,

Re: [newbie-it] consigli generici installazione utility

2001-07-20 Thread bellotti
Danilo Finocchiaro wrote: avrei un problema, ecco: ho installato linux mandrake 8 da pochi giorni e, appassionatomi non poco , ho scaricato delle utility da internet. queste hanno estenzione tar.z. non riesco a installarle e neanche a farle funzionare. vi ringrazio per l'attenzione

Re: [newbie-it] permessi come utente

2001-07-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Salve, ho da poco installato mdk 8.0 e ho configurato oltre a root un'altro utente.So che quest'ultimo non ha tuuti i privilegi come su ma vorrei avere la possibilità di visionare i cdrom. Posso vedere la cartelle contenute nel cdrom, ma mi viene negato, l'accesso ai file ! come posso fare?

Re: [newbie-it] nvidia driver

2001-07-20 Thread bellotti
Gigi wrote: il primo consiglio e' di scaricare dal sito della nvidia i src.rpm e compilare quelli in con il comando rpm --rebuild per ottenere un pacchetto rpm per la tua mdk, nel caso tu avessi un altro kernel installato. Ti sara' cosi' piu' semplice disinsallarli quando vorrai farlo.

[newbie-it] Motorola SM56 PCI Speakerphone Modem

2001-07-20 Thread Sergio Dogliani
Ciao a tutti... vorrei un aiuto in merito al mio modem: un Motorola SM56 PCI Speakerphone. C'è qualche sistema per farlo funzionare sotto Linux? Ho appena installato da pochi giorni la versione Mandrake 8.0 ed il mio modem non viene riconosciuto e non riesco a farlo funzionare. Sotto Windows

[newbie] Webmin and samba

2001-07-20 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi Guys When accessing swat I am prompted for a username and password, using the obvious such as root and passwd etc. don't seem to work. Does anyone know what the usname and password are ? And with webmin, what is the port number to access webmin. ie http://localhost:4000 ?? Thanks. Mark

RE: [newbie] Webmin and samba

2001-07-20 Thread Adams, Jamie
The URL for Webmin is https://localhost:1 (note the 's' after http) -- From: Mark Annandale[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 July 2001 15:03 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Webmin and samba Hi Guys When accessing swat I am

Re: [newbie] Sound Card

2001-07-20 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 21.44 18/07/01, Alwan Sadagopan wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] importing messages from MS Outlook

2001-07-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:27, srinivas sastry wrote: hi i want to import the mail messages from MS outlook to kmail and didn't know how. can anyone help me . i'm using mandrake 7.2 thanks sastry Run kmailcvt from a command line, or click File - Import in Kmail. -- Sridhar

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.2 Safe When??

2001-07-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Look here: http://dot.kde.org/995344211/ It says that 2.2 is due on August 6. On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:01, John Rigby wrote: Hi Mandrake folks, Any idea when 2.2 will be considered safe for us Newbies?? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley:

Re: [newbie] kmail-configuration of multiple mail accounts

2001-07-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Click Settings - Configure KMail. In the resulting window, click Network and open the Sending Mail tab (it should be open already). You can add accounts in the Incoming Mail section -- just click Add. If you need more info, there's always the Help button. On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:27, srinivas

Re: [newbie] Falshplayer and Konqueror

2001-07-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Install the package kdebase-nsplugins (it's on the Mandrake CD) and open the KDE Control Centre. There should be new options for plug-ins. On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 07:10, Riker wrote: I've gotten flash working in Netscape and Mozilla but have had no luck in getting it to work with Konqueror. If

Re: [newbie] STAR OFFICE FONTS

2001-07-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Have a look at http://OpenOffice.org/. Sun Microsystems released all the StarOffice code they could (some had been licensed from third parties) under the GPL. The code has been ported to GTK+ to become OpenOffice. It should be _far_ better than StarOffice 5.x, especially in font handling and

Re: [newbie] Update Programs Via Mandrake Update?

2001-07-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 04:02, Curtis Matthiesen wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:13, Curtis Matthiesen wrote: Mandrake Update only provides security and critical bug fixes. Chances are that the newest CUPS version isn't there, or that your chosen update mirror hasn't been updated yet. Do you

Re: [newbie] login Manager

2001-07-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=964 On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:10, Kevin Fonner wrote: I wish to under stand the login manager better. Can you use GDM to login to the system? It seems to be more configurable then the regular login manager. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two

Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?

2001-07-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Links is *the* best text-only browser out there, bar none! A few weeks ago, I accidentally wrecked my X setup while trying to upgrade to XFree 4.1. I was too lazy to try and fix it at the time, so I spent the next few days doing all my ordinary web browsing in Links. It is really refreshing

Re: [newbie] Browser testing grounds

2001-07-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 07:36, Miark wrote: Strange. I just pointed Konqueror at www.prepaid-phone-cards-gbs.com and not only are the floating tables not floating, but the Mandrake and Apache images at the bottom of the page don't appear at all! The Mozilla trio (Mozilla, Galeon, and

Re: [newbie] Still LM8.0 Box crash/hang up ?

2001-07-20 Thread Norman Teferle
Civileme and Paul, Many, many thanks to you for your replies on my post yesterday. Thankfully I do not have the Southbridge686B problem chip and my BIOS settings were also not the reason for my crashes. Yes, my Etherexpress pro 100 is built into the motherboard (Intel D850GB). I was able to

Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?

2001-07-20 Thread s
On Friday 20 July 2001 03:23 am, you wrote: Links is *the* best text-only browser out there, bar none! Well, won't argue with you there. I just spent about an hour playing with it and the mouse support is handy dandy! I didn't realize it had that. :-) -s

[newbie] reiserfs

2001-07-20 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hi, is there any no-destructive way of converting to reiserfs ? When I reinstalled yesterday, I decided to try it out, but messed up a little. (I formatted one drive as ext2 nand the other as reiserfs) Colin Jenkins ICQ:

Re: [newbie] Prolems with WINE and Eudora

2001-07-20 Thread Paul
I installed Wine-codeweavers and many apps works fine (the launch is VERY slow, but they work). However, Eudora does not work well: even if I set it to store the mails and the accounts infos in a custom direcotry, it tries to find them in its own dir. Details: Eudora in c:\progs\eudora,

Re: [newbie] Still LM8.0 Box crash/hang up ?

2001-07-20 Thread Paul
My question now is: Can I configure (in the BIOS maybe) my AGP video and my onboard network card to use different interrupts in order to happily live together or do I have to stick with my extra PCI network card? If I have to get another card would not be the end of the world. Hi Norman, You

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: Re: [expert] Help -- the superblock could not be read ...]

2001-07-20 Thread etharp
could we ask to have you quote instead of send attachments to the mail list, and ask that you keep the questions and answers in the open. it would seem to me, that way we could all learn from the problems and answers that way thanks On Thursday 19 July 2001 09:57, Randy Kramer wrote: Colin,

Re: [newbie] login Manager

2001-07-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 18:31, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Each display manager (it's not really a login manager) has it's own set of configuration files or shares some of the files from others. XDM, the great granddaddy of them all, is the basis for the others. IIRC, GDM is not based on XDM at all

[newbie] ATTENTION: anyone with nVIDIA driver problems

2001-07-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
If you have problems with OpenGL games and apps crashing with the latest nVIDIA drivers, try typing this at a console: # export __GL_SYNC_VBLANK=0 Run your game/app from the same console. If it works, add it to your ~/.bashrc file. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major

Re: [newbie] Kernel Probems

2001-07-20 Thread s
Well, don't know if it's an omission from your narrative or in your work, but did you edit and run lilo? Did you square away your system map and all that stuff? (LIttle short cut here: make install it does all that stuff for ya). Here's my routine: 0. rm -f /usr/src/linux, rpm -Uvv

Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 8.0

2001-07-20 Thread robert wydler haduch
bob; when i purchased 8.0 from mandrake direct, they included an extra copy of cd 1 and cd 2 with the comment that the boxed cds were not correctly burned. you may want to talk to mandrake about it At 08:13 PM 7/19/2001 +0200, you wrote: I purchased today Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack, but the

Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?

2001-07-20 Thread James S Bear
Java works fine. In fact, Opera was the first browser to support java 2, as far as I know, but I know it was before netscape or explorer Quoting Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Opera 5 for Linux works great for me, although I think Java does

Re: [newbie] One boot off and one boot on

2001-07-20 Thread James S Bear
W2K first, but to make life easier, format the drive as FAT32, not NTFS. The mandrake installer will make it simple to dual boot. don't try the MS dual boot with Mandrake, as far as I can see, it's not even an option. Quoting idea.list [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can anyone help please? I

[newbie] Internet Problems

2001-07-20 Thread George Petri
Hi! I recently set up a network and fooled around with my networking config files and now DNS lookups don't appear to work :(, which explains why I have been recently using Outlook Express to send emails... Basically, I can connect to the Internet with no problems but once I'm online, I

Re: [newbie]will Konqueror run on a gnome desktop?

2001-07-20 Thread Ravi Malghan
can Konqueror be run on a gnome environment? Thanks Ravi - Original Message - From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux? Konqueror is my fave. Opera, mozilla, galeon, and slipknot (or something or

[newbie] Printing

2001-07-20 Thread James S Bear
I've got a printer on the network with an IP address. How do I print to it? It is an HP color laserjet 4500 N. thannks jim Ignorance is underrated

[newbie] dial-up

2001-07-20 Thread James S Bear
Not only do I have two NIC cards on my machine, but I also have a 56K modem. Into my network, I have a T1 line. How can I configure my machine so that I can dial into it and get the internet service? Ignorance is underrated

RE: [newbie] Kernel Probems

2001-07-20 Thread Adams, Jamie
Another small question, do i have to use a special Mandrake kernel or can i just use any old run of the mill sources? -- From: s[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 July 2001 12:33 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel Probems Well, don't know if it's an omission

Re: [newbie] Kernel Probems

2001-07-20 Thread s
You can use either, but you're probably better off with the Mandrake ones. -s On Friday 20 July 2001 08:58 am, you wrote: Another small question, do i have to use a special Mandrake kernel or can i just use any old run of the mill sources? --

[newbie] Dial on demand

2001-07-20 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi Guys Has anyone come accross a simple explanation on how to set up dial on demand on mandrake 8. I would like the rest of my family, on their 'doze' PC, to access the net using the modem on my Linux box. I have the two machines networked together and can ping either machine from either

Re: [newbie] Internet Problems

2001-07-20 Thread George Petri
- Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems -- /etc/resolv.conf (note: I use an isp

Fw: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems

2001-07-20 Thread George Petri
oops, forget to send to list! - Original Message - From: Tomek Nowinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems Check out your resolv.conf You should have before you connect to

[newbie] Internet college classes

2001-07-20 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I am considering taking some computer college and/or internet classes. My area college has internet instruction using webct software which supposedly works with Unix. Does that mean that it would work with Linux? Unfortunately, they offer no classes teaching linux but several for

Re: [newbie]will Konqueror run on a gnome desktop?

2001-07-20 Thread s
ummm, good question. I don't know. I'm guessing not, possibly due to the qt/gtk thing. I don't use gnome, and have maybe spent all of 5 minutes total looking at it (not my type g). Type /usr/bin/konqueror into a terminal to see. -s On Friday 20 July 2001 08:09 am, you wrote: can

Re: [newbie] Internet Problems

2001-07-20 Thread George Petri
I'm using Windows 98, the DNS server is there but the Default Gateway section is blank! Why is this? Thanks again, George - Original Message - From: Tomek Nowinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet

Re: [newbie]will Konqueror run on a gnome desktop?

2001-07-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Yep. IMHO, it's the only way to fly :-) Since version 1.0.x, GNOME has been as solid as a rock for me. I found KDE 2.0 to be simply unusable, but from 2.1 things got really good. I love GNOME for its ultra-configurable Panel and its equally versatile Sawfish WM. At the same time, I love KDE

Re: [newbie] Internet Problems

2001-07-20 Thread Ravi Malghan
I think the problem is with the default gateway on ur machine. When u are not connected to the internet having the default gateway set to 192.168.1.1 is all right. Before dialing to the internet delete this static route and u should be able to browse the internet. FYI to delete the route

Re: [newbie] Internet Problems

2001-07-20 Thread Tomek Nowinski
Well, in this situation there are 2 options: 1. First, try to go to MORE and then push the bottom of REALESE ALL and then RENEW ALL. It should renew your IP configuration and you should see default gateway. 2. If this doesn't work... maybe somebody else can help you, just because I don't what

[newbie] driver for PCTel's HSP 56K Micromodem

2001-07-20 Thread karthigan srinivasan
I have Mandrake 7.2 installed on my Compaq Pressario 7599. It has PCTel's HSP 56K micromodem in it. Can someone tell me if there is any driver available for this modem? I appreciate your help in advance. Regards, Karthigan Srinivasan.

RE: [newbie] kmail-configuration of multiple mail accounts

2001-07-20 Thread srinivas sastry
hi sridhar thank you very much for your reply. i could be able to configure 3 to 4 of my mail accounts. but there comes a problem with my principle mail account. all it says when i click checkmail is : the server says the password is wrong. but when i use the same in netscape

RE: [newbie] importing messages from MS Outlook

2001-07-20 Thread srinivas sastry
hi i tried both methods and i couldn't get anything. i couldn't run kmailcvt as it is not available in my distribution . i'm using mandrake 7.2 . i did run find / -name kmailcvt which couldn't find anything of that sort. secondly i couldn't find Import command in kmail. is my kmail

Re: [newbie] AVI player in mdk8?

2001-07-20 Thread Dan Ray
Any help, or a pointer to another avi player, is appreciated. MPlayer is excellent. http://mplayer.sourceforge.net The only thing I found about installing it is to pass the argument to disable compiler version checking in ./configure, as it doesn't seem to like gcc 2.96. Do './configure

Re: [newbie] Old Kernel- Safe to delete?

2001-07-20 Thread =/\\= Majki =/\\=
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 6:29 AM Subject: [newbie] Old Kernel- Safe to delete? I recently compiled my own kernel. It seems to be working pretty well, I've been using it for a week or so now... so is it safe to

Re: [newbie] How do I change the refresh rate of my monitor?

2001-07-20 Thread =/\\= Majki =/\\=
To change the Refresh Rate... Edit the following file: /etc/X11/XF86Config Look for the Monitor Section: (example below) Change the values for VertRefresh and HorizSync HorizSync 60.0 VertRefresh 56.0-76.0 Well, it doesn't set maximum possible refresh rate. I have Samsung

Re: [newbie] slow performance whist downloading normal ?

2001-07-20 Thread Rob
On Friday 20 July 2001 22:38, you wrote: On Friday 20 July 2001 00:54, Rob wrote: Whilst downloading from the internet my general machine performance seems to fall away terribly. the machine is no slouch 900 athlon 512m memory only on a 56k modem too. is this sluggishness normal? What

Re: [newbie] GeForce2 MX

2001-07-20 Thread =/\\= Majki =/\\=
So NOW when I launch tuxracer (just for instance--this actually happens with ALL full-screen gl apps), the screen blanks, I hear the monitor tick to a different frequency, my speakers play the first note of the music, and then nothing; I hang with a black screen. If I hit "esc" and

[newbie] Noatun bombing

2001-07-20 Thread Miark
Noatun keeps bombing on me(MDK 8.0). I think that deleting any noatun settings files will probably fix it (like nuking .kde when KDE goes to hell in a hand basket), but I can't seem to find them. Any suggestions? Miark

Re: [newbie] driver for PCTel's HSP 56K Micromodem

2001-07-20 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Karthigan: Yes, there are. It takes some effort, though. Check out the following websites for more information: www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html linmodems.org www.medres.ch/~jstifter/linux/pctel.html HTH, Carroll karthigan srinivasan wrote: I have Mandrake 7.2 installed on my Compaq

[newbie] -deferglyphs 16

2001-07-20 Thread Kevin Fonner
What exactly dows this switch do and is it important? I looked in the help and didn really understand it. When I removed this switch it solved my duel screen graphical login problem.

Re: [newbie] Update Programs Via Mandrake Update?

2001-07-20 Thread Curtis Matthiesen
It isn't always good to have the latest version of a package. Newer versions can sometimes break compatibility with other packages. When a distro is made, the distro maker tries its best to ensure that all packages work well with each other. Official updates are also tested for this, and so are

Re: [newbie] AVI player in mdk8?

2001-07-20 Thread Paul
It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:08:10 -0400 when Dan Ray wrote: Any help, or a pointer to another avi player, is appreciated. MPlayer is excellent. Thanks for the tip! This is excellent indeed!! :) It plays just about anything one could need!! bye bye aktion ;-) Paul -- Is it weird in here, or

Re: [newbie] Sound Rights???

2001-07-20 Thread Michael D. Viron
It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:44:27 -0400 when Kevin Fonner wrote: I have that happen also. You need to make the sound devices accessible for everyone: chmod a+rw /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/midi* That is actually not the preferred method of making sound available for other users. The preferred

Re: [newbie] Nvidia installation FAQ !

2001-07-20 Thread Kernell32
Shouldn't it be make install ? That article repeats the README file from the tar and if i remember right that didnt work. Just untar the tars and type make install in both kernel and glx directories. Then add: load glx and replace: nv with nvidia in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file as it says

Re: [newbie] Sound Rights???

2001-07-20 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 20 July 2001 21:09, you wrote: It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:44:27 -0400 when Kevin Fonner wrote: I have that happen also. You need to make the sound devices accessible for everyone: chmod a+rw /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/midi* That should cure your problem. Paul snip Sound is a

Re: Fw: [newbie] Problem with automounting CDROM and floppy

2001-07-20 Thread Ján Sedivý
This is what my fstab file looks like and supermount is what you are looking for I think. This is from LM 8.0, which version are you using? /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount

Re: [newbie] Tribes 2 for Linux Error Message

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
Miark, Can you provide any additional instructions? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey Miark wrote: Jim, Have you installed the GLX and nVidia driver RPMs from the nVidia web site? If not, you'll need to. You can

Re: [newbie] Creating a link to application on the Gnome desktop

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
Hi Dave, I guess the launcher is in the Gnome Control Panel. I still think it would be much easier to right-click on the desktop and add the link. Hopefully, they will add this in their future releases. Thanks for responding. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your

Re: [newbie] Creating a link to application on the Gnome desktop

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
I'll try anything. This should be interesting. Roman s wrote: If you can't find the launcher, can't you do a ln -s /usr/bin/whatever /home/you/Desktop/whatever I used to do it that way a while back, but haven't in a while. You don't get to choose a perty icon. ;-) -s On Thursday 19

Re: [newbie] AVI player in mdk8?

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
Sorry, I just caught the end of this thread. Where can I find mplayer for Linux? Is it included with the Powerpack? Roman Paul wrote: It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:08:10 -0400 when Dan Ray wrote: Any help, or a pointer to another avi player, is appreciated. MPlayer is excellent.

Re: Fw: [newbie] Problem with automounting CDROM and floppy

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
Jan, Try inserting user as shown below: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,user,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,user,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,user,dev=/dev/zip 0 0  Roman Jan Sedivý wrote: This is what my fstab file

Re: [newbie] Internet college classes

2001-07-20 Thread Terry C
Marcia, webct is a browser based interface and I have used it with Netscape on Linux before without any problems. Taking Unix classes can be very helpful to you as you learn Linux. There are some differences, but over all much of what you learn for Unix will apply to Unix too. TC --- Marcia

[newbie] CableModem 3Com - via USB not Detected!

2001-07-20 Thread webmaster
Hello! I've just installed Mandrake-Linux 8.0 and found this great list, with you message on it. Well... I have a PC with a cable modem, connected via USB port. It is a 3Com Cablemodem. The point is... I do not reach any internet access with it.. I think it's not even detected. But when

Re: [newbie]will Konqueror run on a gnome desktop?

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Yep. IMHO, it's the only way to fly :-) Since version 1.0.x, GNOME has been as solid as a rock for me. I found KDE 2.0 to be simply unusable, but from 2.1 things got really good. I love GNOME for its ultra-configurable Panel and its equally versatile Sawfish WM.

Re: [newbie] Boot Problem

2001-07-20 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On July 20, 2001 12:04 am, Juan Carlos Conde wrote: Hello All. I had a dual boot with Win98 and LM8.0. Today I delete Win98 and I install Win98SE. After that I can not choose to boot Linux now. How can I restore the Boot Manager (I belive LILO is its name). If you don't have boot disk, as

Re: [newbie] Sensors

2001-07-20 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have kobian MB. But installing lm_utils didn't show the CPU temp etc.Has anybody working sensor with this MB. Or have I done any mistake un configuring. I used all defaults mostly but for ISA as I don't have isa slot? On July 20, 2001 02:08 am, civileme wrote: gkrellm would be a good

Re: [newbie] STAR OFFICE FONTS

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
John Rigby wrote: Hi there, If nobody here can fix it ( most things seem to be! ) send off a note to SO. If enough people NICELY complain, it will be fixed. The axle that squeaks gets the grease - THAT'S life! :-) On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:03, you manipulated electrons to produce:

Re: [newbie]will Konqueror run on a gnome desktop?

2001-07-20 Thread s
On Friday 20 July 2001 12:56 pm, you wrote: On Friday 20 July 2001 14:51, s wrote: ummm, good question. I don't know. I'm guessing not, possibly due to the qt/gtk thing. Ummm, Yes, if you have KDE installed on the machine. If you do not, then you need konqueror-embedded which does

Re: [newbie]will Konqueror run on a gnome desktop?

2001-07-20 Thread s
On Friday 20 July 2001 11:09 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 21 July 2001 01:51, s wrote: On Friday 20 July 2001 12:56 pm, you wrote: On Friday 20 July 2001 14:51, s wrote: ummm, good question. I don't know. I'm guessing not, possibly due to the qt/gtk thing. Ummm, Yes, if you

[newbie] Konqueror and Flash

2001-07-20 Thread Riker
Gang: Thanks for the tips! It works fine. Again, thanks! Riker

[newbie] OpenGL and Mplayer help needed

2001-07-20 Thread nkey
i am currently trying to install Mplayer so that i can view AVI's with DivX support. I downloaded mplayer-0.17-1.20010501.i686.rpm i am using Linux Mandrake 8.0 on an Athlon 700mhz machine with 128 MB RAM. I have a KA7 motherboard using GeForce 256 (generic) GeForce 256 DDR graphics card on PCI

[newbie] Mozilla and Java-Plugin

2001-07-20 Thread NMF
Hello All. I play chess on-line at pogo.com and I want to use my linux box all of the time I can play it with Netscape 4.77 but when I try it with Mozilla in Mandrake it says to down load the java2 plugin so i do and it will never work even after it is down loaded I can see it it in the

Re: [newbie] How to auto-mount USB digital camera

2001-07-20 Thread ultima
-- Dr. Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Friday, 20 July, 2001 7:03) : I'm not sure about auto-mounting, but I can definitely say that Linux Mandrake works well with the Sandisk CF reader. Basically, you plug it in, run modprobe usb-storage, and then you can mount /dev/... whatever it is, and you can

Re: [newbie] Internet college classes

2001-07-20 Thread Paul
It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 21:51:29 -0400 when Kevin Fonner wrote: Hey Terry, I think what you learn for Unix will apply to Unix too!! ;) Kevin I agree. I am using Linux fulltime at home for more than 1.5 years, and because of that I can find my way on big HPUX machines very well :) Paul -- Do

Re: [newbie] AVI player in mdk8?

2001-07-20 Thread Paul
It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:39:48 -0400 when Romanator wrote: Sorry, I just caught the end of this thread. Where can I find mplayer for Linux? Is it included with the Powerpack? Go to http://mplayer.sf.net and there it is :) Another tip that Dan wrote: do ./configure --help and use the parameter

Re: [newbie] Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem

2001-07-20 Thread Dennis Myers
snip Heeheehee drivers needed for an external serial modem? I'll be amused for hours! Civileme snip Dang, you are easily amused, so did you hear the one about the traveling modem salesman? .eh, oh well, never mind. It really isn't as good as drivers for external serial modems.

Re: [newbie] How to auto-mount USB digital camera

2001-07-20 Thread Dr. Evil
Thanks. I will try that when I get a card reader. In the meantime, based on some other postings I saw on this list about mounting floppy and zip disks, I put in a line in /etc/fstab to mount the camera, and a desktop icon to the mount point, and have been able to view and transfer the

Re: [newbie] Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem

2001-07-20 Thread tazmun
- Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Newbie Linux-Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem snip Heeheehee drivers needed for an external serial

Re: [newbie] AVI player in mdk8?

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
Sounds good. I'll check it out Roman Paul wrote: It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:39:48 -0400 when Romanator wrote: Sorry, I just caught the end of this thread. Where can I find mplayer for Linux? Is it included with the Powerpack? Go to http://mplayer.sf.net and there it is :) Another tip

Re: [newbie] Quick question...

2001-07-20 Thread s
http://mail.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/?S=A -s On Friday 20 July 2001 11:01 pm, you wrote: Hey gang, What was that web address for the small program that checks if the NVidia tarball was installed correctly? Thanks, John

[newbie] Websphere(Fpbuilder) can't ftp

2001-07-20 Thread John Rigby
Hi folks, Gotta be something simple: 1. iglooftp ( very familiar to cuteftp users!) no probs. 2. Can't get the help files . 3. When attempting to upload inside FPB, it reports no server contact. -- Cheers, John Fablor now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] C Compiler

2001-07-20 Thread civileme
On Friday 20 July 2001 20:56, George Baker wrote: A V Flinsch wrote: On Wednesday 18 July 2001 17:03, you wrote: 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

[newbie] System speaker busies out /dev/dsp

2001-07-20 Thread dan
Anybody else noticed this? Do something to cause the system to beep at you (like trying to tab-complete an impossible string of characters) then use mpg123 or something. The sound device /dev/dsp is busy for sometimes 60 seconds or so after the last beep. What's the deal? Do I have something

Re: [newbie] Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem

2001-07-20 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 19 July 2001 18:59, you wrote: Hello People Just to let you all know the results concerning Linux compatibility with the Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem. Thanks to all who replied, much appreciated. I've decided to give this modem a go since I'm getting with Telecom

Re: [newbie] Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem

2001-07-20 Thread civileme
On Friday 20 July 2001 00:12, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 19 July 2001 18:59, you wrote: Hello People Just to let you all know the results concerning Linux compatibility with the Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem. Thanks to all who replied, much appreciated. I've decided