[newbie-it] alsa live update

2001-07-22 Thread bosva
ciao a tutta la ML mdk 7.2 nella lista aggiornamenti che ho, lanciando Updates dal desktop, trovo: alsa (3.6MB), aggiornamento da 2.2.17_0.5.9c-21mdk alla versione 2.2.19_0.5.10b-4.1mdk gli dico di fare l'aggiornamento e mi esce questo msg: kernel=S 2.2.19-4.1mdk è richiesta da alsa

Re: [newbie-it] alsa live update

2001-07-22 Thread Daniele Micci
Il 15:28, domenica 22 luglio 2001, hai scritto: ciao a tutta la ML mdk 7.2 nella lista aggiornamenti che ho, lanciando Updates dal desktop, trovo: alsa (3.6MB), aggiornamento da 2.2.17_0.5.9c-21mdk alla versione 2.2.19_0.5.10b-4.1mdk gli dico di fare l'aggiornamento e mi esce questo msg:

[newbie-it] address book

2001-07-22 Thread bosva
ciao a tutta la ML problemino incomprensibile: uso netscape mail e nell'address book ho raccolto gli indirizzi in diversi subfolder (amici, parenti, colleghi...) fin qui tutto ok ma uno di questi subfolder (amici) si rifiuta di aprirsi...anzi ogni volta che ci clicco sopra per vedere la lista

Re: [newbie-it] alsa live update

2001-07-22 Thread Daniele Micci
Il 15:44, domenica 22 luglio 2001, hai scritto: [CUT] ...quindi non mi conviene forzare...caso mai aggiornare il kernel...giusto? (e credo che sia ancora troppo presto per me lanciarmi in simili operazioni..eh eh eh) grazie mille daniele! Credo di sì, ammesso che la mia idea di base fosse

[newbie-it] Ancora Konqueror e...

2001-07-22 Thread CaMiX
Ciao a tutti! Riguardo al Konqueror era effettivamente un problema di codifica. Ma come si fa ad evitare che usi la codifica automatica (setto su Preferenze Konqueror quella che mi pare visualizzi correttamente i caratteri ma poi il browser ne utilizza un'altra finché da Visualizza-Imposta la

[newbie-it] Mdk 8 - Perche' non funzioni?

2001-07-22 Thread Franco
Ciao a tutti. Sono nuovo della lista e probabilmente i miei problemi saranno gia' stati discussi e per questo perdonatemi. Ho dovuto reinstallare Mdk 8 e da quel momento ho un sacco di problemi. - CD-Rom (da root) : Impossibile accedere alla directory /mnt/cdrom. - Zip 100 scsi e Floppy (da

[newbie-it] Strani problemi...

2001-07-22 Thread Pie
Il mio problema è duplice ed è questo: -installando La Mandrake 7.2 riesco ad utilizzare il caro pinguino su di un AMD K6/3 400 con 256Mb con periferiche CD SCSI edue HardDisk EIDE (premetto che sull'hardisk primario vi è installato win2000 e sul secondario Linux appunto)e fin qui ci

Re: [newbie-it] address book

2001-07-22 Thread bosva
Daniele Micci wrote: Il 15:41, domenica 22 luglio 2001, hai scritto: ciao a tutta la ML problemino incomprensibile: uso netscape mail e nell'address book ho raccolto gli indirizzi in diversi subfolder (amici, parenti, colleghi...) fin qui tutto ok ma uno di questi subfolder (amici)

Re: [newbie-it] Mdk 8 - Perche' non funzioni?

2001-07-22 Thread Sandro
Il 12:23, domenica 22 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti. Sono nuovo della lista e probabilmente i miei problemi saranno gia' stati discussi e per questo perdonatemi. Ho dovuto reinstallare Mdk 8 e da quel momento ho un sacco di problemi. - CD-Rom (da root) : Impossibile accedere

Re: [newbie-it] Strani problemi...

2001-07-22 Thread Sandro
Il 12:29, domenica 22 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Il mio problema è duplice ed è questo: -installando La Mandrake 7.2 riesco ad utilizzare il caro pinguino su di un AMD K6/3 400 con 256Mb con periferiche CD SCSI e due HardDisk EIDE (premetto che sull'hardisk primario vi è installato win2000

Re: [newbie-it] Cd rom SCSI e setup di mdk 8.0

2001-07-22 Thread ferdi bau
--- Fabio Coatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:41:55PM +0200, skywalker wrote: Il 00:15, domenica 22 luglio 2001, scrivesti: 21:38, mercoledì 13 giugno 2001, Marco: ho appena scoperto il perche', se si installa mdk 8.0 da cd rom scsi, il setup puo'

Re: [newbie-it] Cannot stat mountpoint...

2001-07-22 Thread OKreZ
On Sunday 22 July 2001 01:52, you wrote: Ciao a tutti, Durante il boot mi e' normalmente scattato il check delle partizioni perche' ho superato il numero massimo di avvii. Tutto corretto quindi, ma il check mi da' questo messaggio: Controllo le quote d'uso del filesystem: Cannot stat

Re: [newbie-it] alsa live update

2001-07-22 Thread bosva
Daniele Micci wrote: Il 15:28, domenica 22 luglio 2001, hai scritto: ciao a tutta la ML mdk 7.2 nella lista aggiornamenti che ho, lanciando Updates dal desktop, trovo: alsa (3.6MB), aggiornamento da 2.2.17_0.5.9c-21mdk alla versione 2.2.19_0.5.10b-4.1mdk gli dico di fare

Re: [newbie-it] address book

2001-07-22 Thread Daniele Micci
Il 15:41, domenica 22 luglio 2001, hai scritto: ciao a tutta la ML problemino incomprensibile: uso netscape mail e nell'address book ho raccolto gli indirizzi in diversi subfolder (amici, parenti, colleghi...) fin qui tutto ok ma uno di questi subfolder (amici) si rifiuta di aprirsi...anzi

Re: [newbie] Strange Power down on shutdown-solved?

2001-07-22 Thread chris
On Sunday 22 July 2001 07:07, you wrote: I thought some of you would be interested to know that since I changed out motherboards I no longer have the shutdown problem that prints out a bunch of errors and then does not shut off. Now the system shuts down and turns itself off. The MoBo is a

[newbie] re: strange pwerdown on shut down

2001-07-22 Thread chris
Dennis myers wrote I thought some of you would be interested to know that since I changed out motherboards I no longer have the shutdown problem that prints out a bunch of errors and then does not shut off. Now the system shuts down and turns itself off. The MoBo is a Soyo Sy K7VTA pro and

Re: [newbie] I want to register a miracle...

2001-07-22 Thread Miark
Alex, My question to you guys is the following: How this can be possible (under Linux) not to have a driver but to use my modem ? Maybe someone will enlighten me, because I am really puzzled... My external modem is this: MR56SVS-EX2 by TAICOM. Winmodems have no brains, so Winblows has

Re: [newbie] AVI player in mdk8?

2001-07-22 Thread Tim Holmes
How do you open the w32codec-0.18.zip? I can't open it with the Archiver, and it asks for that to be present before I do a make make install. Config files successfully generated by ./configure ! Please check config.h and config.mak files, tune CPU and optimization flags if you don't like these

Re: [newbie] zip files

2001-07-22 Thread s
You should be able to unzip it from a terminal. The command is real complicated tho: unzip whatever :-) (zip is another app you can find on your cds. Install it.) -s On Saturday 21 July 2001 05:59 pm, you wrote: When I click on a zip file KDE opens it up in Archiver and then Archiver

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver install. - command not found error

2001-07-22 Thread s
make is an app (for lack of a better word) found on the cds. Install it. make-3.79.1-5mdk -s On Saturday 21 July 2001 08:06 pm, you wrote: When I run 'make install' I get the following output: make: cc: Command not found make: *** [nv.o] Error 127 Could someone let me know what what I

Re: [newbie] adsl/ethernet adapter... (more problems with the NIC now)

2001-07-22 Thread Chris Slater-Walker
Try looking for modules.conf instead. ChrisSW - Original Message - From: mike cola [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 3:03 AM Subject: [newbie] adsl/ethernet adapter... (more problems with the NIC now) actually i spoke prematurely... the card fails

[newbie] ok i´m online.. now for some security..

2001-07-22 Thread mike cola
i tried typing InteractiveBastille at the console... how do i start it? i´m online so i wanna be smart and get it locked down mike cola ...Who's the big winner tonight...? Mikey! Mikey wins! Mikey's the big winner...!- Trent Double Down (Vince Vaughn)

Re: [newbie] AVI player in mdk8?

2001-07-22 Thread Paul
It was Sun, 22 Jul 2001 03:10:24 -0400 when Tim Holmes wrote: How do you open the w32codec-0.18.zip? I can't open it with the Archiver, and it asks for that to be present before I do a make make install. This is very simple. mkdir /usr/lib/win32 cd /usr/lib/win32 unzip path to

Re: [newbie] ok im online.. now for some security..

2001-07-22 Thread Paul
It was Sun, 22 Jul 2001 02:53:31 -0700 when mike cola wrote: i tried typing InteractiveBastille at the console... how do i start it? im online so i wanna be smart and get it locked down mike cola Start LinuxConf and go to security-firewall. That will get you through the process. Paul --

RE: Re: [newbie] ok im online.. now for some security..

2001-07-22 Thread mike cola
actually i went looking in linuxconf... i couldnm´t find it.. i know i might be able to if i look further but i´m sure someone on this list mentioned there was a commandline way to start it.. and i´m a command line kinda guy. at least i have been becoming more of one since using linux more..

Re: [newbie] Of M$ attacks

2001-07-22 Thread Robert
I tend to disagreeevery MS users needs to know this. rob Hi all, Read this: In a preliminary license for its wireless Internet tools, the software giant appears to be floating a trial balloon by explicitly banning the use of open source code. Microsoft's language, which

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM lens cleaning?

2001-07-22 Thread Frans Ketelaars
tazmun wrote: I've never tried this, but I might be tempted to try a good blast of air with the tray open.but only if it is disfunctional already. I have never actually had one die that way yet(dusty lense). Mine all seem to just not be recognised by the motherboard bios or the

[newbie]disk partitioning

2001-07-22 Thread George Baker
I am trying to get my hands on another hard drive. If I can't, can I with my existing setup: * Save my '/home' to my '/mnt/DOS_hda1' so that after I have resized '/home' I can copy it back to my new /home. (I understand that if you resize a partition you loose all data?) * Having

[newbie] Maximum Linux

2001-07-22 Thread Glenn Johnson
Hi all. Has anyone here had a subscription to Maximum Linux magazine? If so, have you heard or seen anything about what's happening with our subscriptions now that the maggy is defunct? -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #175132 Powered by Linux Mandrake 7.2!

Re: [newbie] Dial on demand

2001-07-22 Thread Mark Annandale
Thank you for the reply On Sunday 22 July 2001 12:31, you wrote: first off, read man pppd without the quotes then you will edit your file /etc/ppp/options you should add the demand and idle=xxx lines to that file the idle =xxx the xxx should represent whatever time out you desire, in

[newbie] archives

2001-07-22 Thread Charlie Oriez
I've managed to misplace the welcome message which I think tell me where the archives are for this list. :-( I don't want to repeat questions already answered. Anyone have a link? -- Microsoft, Windows, Windows 98, Bugs, Lacking features, IRQ conflicts, System crashes, Non-functional

[newbie] No sound

2001-07-22 Thread Mark Shaw
Machine is an AMD T-bird 1.2GHz in an Asus A7V133. This mobo has onboard audio, which works fine under Windows Me. Under Mandrake-Linux 7.2 I get no sound at all. HardDrake finds it and seemingly installs it without errors, but then when the midi sample plays nothing is heard. sndconfig finds

[newbie] Boot managers

2001-07-22 Thread The Lockabys
Greetings all... This is my first post to this group, and I am a newbie in every sense of the word. I've just installed Mandrake onto a second drive, (the 'D' drive, which is primary slave), and since lilo is installed here as well, I can't boot to Linux. With the installation method I used, I

Re: [newbie] nVidia driver installation

2001-07-22 Thread Terry C
Dan, I have been following the various threads concerning nVidia drivers. I was hesitant to use the 1.0 drivers at first, but they ended up being my best option and work great for me. Tuxracer and Chromium look great full screen. I followed the instructions from nVidia for the 1.0 drivers using

Re: [newbie]disk partitioning

2001-07-22 Thread Paul
It was Sun, 22 Jul 2001 12:54:22 +0200 when George Baker wrote: * Save my '/home' to my '/mnt/DOS_hda1' so that after I have resized '/home' I can copy it back to my new /home. (I understand that if you resize a partition you loose all data?) Correct, resizing usually means

Re: [newbie] archives

2001-07-22 Thread Paul
It was Sun, 22 Jul 2001 07:58:51 -0600 when Charlie Oriez wrote: Go to www.linux-mandrake.com, follow the link to mailing lists, and at the bottom there is a link to the archives. Paul I've managed to misplace the welcome message which I think tell me where the archives are for this list. :-(

Re: [newbie] I want to register a miracle...

2001-07-22 Thread Tim Holmes
Another thing to add to this point. Everybody is absolutely right, but another thing that will make Linux faster then Windows9x and WindowsME, is that Micro$HAFT thinks their god. So they made everything for themselves. Micro$HAFT wrote their own version of TCP/IP. Pretty much what they did

Re: [newbie] Of M$ attacks

2001-07-22 Thread Frans Ketelaars
civileme wrote: [...] The mos frightening is their sharred source Initiative. If unwary open [...] Ummm, Netscape Communicater/Composer 4.77 suggests replacing 'sharred' with 'shared'. It has some other (more appropriate? ) suggestions :) -Frans

Re: [newbie] Maximum Linux

2001-07-22 Thread Romanator
Steve wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi all. Has anyone here had a subscription to Maximum Linux magazine? If so, have you heard or seen anything about what's happening with our subscriptions now that the maggy is defunct? They've closed the magazine - a few

Re: [newbie] advanced editor or editing c programs

2001-07-22 Thread Romanator
civileme wrote: On Sunday 22 July 2001 10:10, Kevin Fonner wrote: I am starting to learn c and I noticed when I was typing in some basic programs into advanced editor the my { were coming out as |. At first i thought they just were not being displayed right but then I noticed that

Re: [newbie] Maximum Linux

2001-07-22 Thread Geof Steichen
Not a word...I have written it off. Geof ** On Sunday 22 July 2001 05:29 am, you wrote: Hi all. Has anyone here had a subscription to Maximum Linux magazine? If so, have you heard or seen anything about what's happening with our subscriptions now that

[newbie] Draknet

2001-07-22 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi Guys Where do you find Draknet ? I've looked through all the CD's and done a search under software manager. Regards Mark -- Mark R. Annandale Linux User # 223589 Sent by KMail 1.2 / Mandrake 8 -- No Micro$oft products were used in the compilation of this document. --

[newbie] Looking for resource in Portland, Oregon

2001-07-22 Thread Michael Mitchell
Hello, This is a request for any Christian Mandrake gurus in the Portland metropolitan area to assist in a missionary project. We have 20 Toshiba laptops we'd like to configure with Mandrake and StarOffice. I'm such a novice, this is not something I can likely do well, given I've never

Re: [newbie] Dial on demand

2001-07-22 Thread etharp
might be the lock, I do not use a lock on either configuration but I don't think so. if you want to have demand dialing going on any time the linux box is running just add the ifup ppp0 line to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file with a good text editor. to get it started from any

[newbie] of Nvidia drivers, X , GUIs, and swap files

2001-07-22 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
Well, there's some random chatter here as well as some doubts about Nvidia drivers, X Window System, swap files and then something else. I proudly compiled and installed the Nvidia 1251 kernel driver and glx libs. I say proudly because it's the first time I compile anything at Linux (I

Re: [newbie] Memory use

2001-07-22 Thread David E.Fox
On Monday 09 July 2001 08:10, you wrote: Would the amount of swap in use be a good benchmark to judge whether your system would benefit from more RAM? I mean, if in normal use you don't use any swap, then you have a very sufficient amount of RAM. Not necessarily. I have, for example, 256

Re: [newbie] Maximum Linux

2001-07-22 Thread Mafiajoe3
last i heard, they we going to change the subscription to another mag. but i never got anything, and last time i tried, the website is down. so we can't even ask. if ya ask me, i think we won't see anything done with our subscriptions. Joe

[newbie] What's kapm-idled?

2001-07-22 Thread Dan Ray
Every now and then gkrellm reports that my CPU is totally pegged for some length of time. I see from 'top' that the culprit is something called 'kapm-idled'. Guessing from the second word of that, I'd say it's a daemon that's preventing kapm from running while the machine is in use. So, two

Re: [newbie] Maximum Linux

2001-07-22 Thread eryl
Steve wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi all. Has anyone here had a subscription to Maximum Linux magazine? If so, have you heard or seen anything about what's happening with our subscriptions now that the maggy is defunct? They've closed the magazine - a few

Re: [newbie] C Compiler

2001-07-22 Thread George Baker
civileme wrote: 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

[newbie] Debian package

2001-07-22 Thread George Baker
I downloaded koffice from tucows but it is a Debian package, ending in .deb. How do you install it. -- Thanks George Baker South Africa

Re: [newbie] Screem crashes

2001-07-22 Thread =/\\= Majki =/\\=
- Original Message - From: "Dennis Myers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie Linux-Mandrake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 12:24 AM Subject: [newbie] Screem crashes I have upgraded per the Mandrake security web site, to get xcdroast and screem to work. But, screem still

Re: [newbie] Tuxracer

2001-07-22 Thread Terry C
I did the install from the mandrake rpm's on the nvidia website and followed the instructions on that site. Tuxracer was working, it's great fun, but now it won't. I should be starting X with gdm. Here's a copy of the appropriate portion of /etc/X11/prefdm: if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ];

[newbie] nv_check.sh -- where to get?

2001-07-22 Thread Peter Marchetti
Where do I get the nv_check.sh script? PStryder

Re: [newbie] No sound

2001-07-22 Thread skinky
- Original Message - From: Mark Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 2:00 AM Subject: [newbie] No sound Machine is an AMD T-bird 1.2GHz in an Asus A7V133. This mobo has onboard audio, which works fine under Windows Me. Under Mandrake-Linux 7.2 I

Re: [newbie] Of M$ attacks

2001-07-22 Thread Frans Ketelaars
etharp wrote: I KNEW he made a typo it was bound to happen, i bet his typo record is better than NASA's On Sunday 22 July 2001 12:51, Frans Ketelaars wrote: civileme wrote: [...] The mos frightening is their sharred source Initiative. If unwary open [...] Ummm,

[newbie] Configure, make and make install MPlayer problems

2001-07-22 Thread Romanator
Hi all, Well, I can't for life of me figure out why the MPlayer tar ball is not configuring. Has any one else been succesful in configuring, make and make install MPlayer in LM8? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility

Re: [newbie] Those little things......... REAL Beginner stuff

2001-07-22 Thread John Rigby
Hi Civileme, Arghhh Big Bill STILL has me! I kept doing C+A+del !! THIS went into the Newby book under EScaping Big Bill However, the other weirdos are still a problem. For Newbies it is difficult to locate things by name. ( Same as Doze, but I KNOW Doze :-) ) I hope the Kmail

[newbie] RPMS - tarballs --- Can it be done ?

2001-07-22 Thread Rob
Is it possible to somehow strip an RPM of the deps info etc and make a tarball from it? I have no immediate need to do this but it might be handy to know how to do it should the need arise. TIA Rob

Re: [newbie] NOW: philosophy of the Newby book

2001-07-22 Thread John Rigby
Hi Roman folks, Actually the whole point of the project I envisaged from Day One was to AVOID the consequences of too many choices ( philosophically, choices=conflicts) and to help the BASIC USER community not the even the ADVANCED USERS - they LIKE being annoyed! :-) In fact, it is

[newbie] RealMagic Hollywood +

2001-07-22 Thread Magnus Stenemo
Hello! Does anyone got a Sigma Designs RealMagic Hollywood + to work in Linux MD 8 ?? //Magnus

Re: [newbie] Boot managers

2001-07-22 Thread D. Hoyem
Stan, If you select Configuration -- Other -- Mandrake Control Center --- Boot you will be able to make your boot disk, you might also be able to change LILO or what ever you use to hda from teh Boot selection. Hope that helps Don --- The Lockabys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all...

[newbie] USB cameras for Linux: the D-Link DSB-C100 report

2001-07-22 Thread Dr. Evil
I initially bought the Logitech Pro, which has a high resolution and a CCD. It porbably gives great photos, but the guys at Logitech don't want me as a customer, so I returned it (Logitech doesn't publish any specs for their products so there are no Linux drivers). Instead, I got the D-Link

Re: [newbie] What's kapm-idled?

2001-07-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
kapm-idled is a kernel daemon that is used to measure how free your CPU is (or something like that). Basically, it is _not_ taking up this CPU time -- it merely looks like it in apps like top and gkrellm. In other words, you can safely ignore it. Newer versions of the system monitors will be

Re: [newbie] Boot managers

2001-07-22 Thread John Rigby
Hi there Stan folks, As a real Newbie myself, might I add this? When asking for help, nominate at least the distribution details of your system. The official Mandrake Versions - latest 8 have MANY options out there from raw downloadable bits and pieces to build your own, (free) halfway

Re: [newbie] Primary master hard disk fail

2001-07-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 07:03, civileme wrote: On Sunday 22 July 2001 04:00, Marcia L Waller wrote: Dear All, I have had LM8 installed and running for awhile and tonight my screen went black so I rebooted and got a very unwelcome message during boot up-Primary master hard disk fail. I was

Re: [newbie] Of M$ attacks

2001-07-22 Thread John Rigby
Hey Civileme folks, Civileme, did you mean attic or arctic ?? :-) There is nowhere on earth that is safe. But for what it's worth people, all of this is simple, grade One, everyday business tactics. Despite how you feel about Big Bill, he did one great thing for this planet: He proved

[newbie] stylesheet and pages

2001-07-22 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I had a cell in a table as given below which gave bigger fonts in winme ns and IE and also in mozilla and galeon. But in ns and konq in linux gave small fonts. td bgcolor=#ff00fffont size=7 color=#FF face=Arial Black, Photina Casual Black, TahomabcenterXYZ/center/b/font/td Now I wanted to

Re: [newbie] NOW: philosophy of the Newby book

2001-07-22 Thread John Rigby
Roman, Have you looked at TWIKI? I am trying to find time to do it, but I actually have to make a living unlike all you rich guys who have all day to play with exotic programs :-) http://www.twiki.org It looks like a great collaboration solution and I am planning to get it up on the fablor

Re: [newbie] stylesheet and pages

2001-07-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
You probably just need to change the font settings (font selection size) in Netscape and Konqueror. All the browsers should implement the HTML properly (except maybe IE), but some browsers will render the page on a smaller scale than others. On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:08, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I

Re: [newbie] stylesheet and pages

2001-07-22 Thread John Rigby
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:39, you manipulated electrons to produce: You probably just need to change the font settings (font selection size) in Netscape and Konqueror. All the browsers should implement the HTML properly (except maybe IE), but some browsers will render the page on a smaller

Re: [newbie] Fwd: New column

2001-07-22 Thread Michael Falzon
Hi Randy Good one man this is cool If you keep this going a i have copy sent to me ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) I'm a old bbs sysop ( www.mozysswamp.org ) that has a lot of linux user that need my help but i not as good as i make out to be :- this wound help me out i don have a mailing

[newbie] Tuxracer

2001-07-22 Thread Terry C
After commenting about how wonderful Tuxracer is with the nVidia 1.0 drivers in full screen I went back to play it and it wouldn't start. I tried to start it from a terminal and it said: segmentation fault. Yesterday trying to run Chromium I had the same thing happen. What's going on and what can

Re: [newbie] Those little things......... REAL Beginner stuff

2001-07-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
ctrl-alt-backspace is supposed to be an emergency measure only, to be used when there is no other alternative. It will kill your entire X-server, which is often unnecessary. If you have GNOME loaded, you can log out by using the menus obtained by either clicking the footprint or by

Re: [newbie] Configure, make and make install MPlayer problems

2001-07-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
It works fine for me. What is the configure error? On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 08:17, Romanator wrote: Hi all, Well, I can't for life of me figure out why the MPlayer tar ball is not configuring. Has any one else been succesful in configuring, make and make install MPlayer in LM8? Roman

Re: [newbie] Debian package

2001-07-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
You can use alien to convert it to an rpm. You can look up alien at rpmfind.net. On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 07:02, George Baker wrote: I downloaded koffice from tucows but it is a Debian package, ending in .deb. How do you install it. -- Thanks George Baker South Africa -- Sridhar Dhanapalan.

Re: [newbie] NOW: AND Appreciation

2001-07-22 Thread John Rigby
Hi Michael and folks, Oh - this wasn't meant to be a List Of Appreciation, I simply used these two people as examples. Of course there is yourself and many others - I didn't mention -even Roman who is enthusiastically helping in this small but ambitious project. In the preface to the

Re: [newbie] Of M$ attacks

2001-07-22 Thread civileme
On Saturday 21 July 2001 21:24, Robert wrote: I tend to disagreeevery MS users needs to know this. rob Interesting and frightening. The mos frightening is their sharred source Initiative. If unwary open source coders sign up for a peek at the microsoft software, thereafter the

Re: [newbie] AVI player in mdk8?

2001-07-22 Thread Paul
It was Sat, 21 Jul 2001 20:15:04 -0500 when Dennis Myers wrote: gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory This indicates something is not proper with the gcc setup. It can't locate something called cc1plus. Don't know what it is, I did not have this problem

Re: [newbie] Fwd: New column

2001-07-22 Thread John Rigby
Hi Randy, On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:54, you manipulated electrons to produce: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: New column Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 18:18:03 -0400 From: Randy Donohoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

[newbie] advanced editor or editing c programs

2001-07-22 Thread Kevin Fonner
I am starting to learn c and I noticed when I was typing in some basic programs into advanced editor the my { were coming out as |. At first i thought they just were not being displayed right but then I noticed that adanced editor was color coding the code and that it wasn coming out right.

Re: [newbie] Those little things......... REAL Beginner stuff

2001-07-22 Thread John Rigby
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:26, you manipulated electrons to produce: The same is true of KDE! Miark Well, *I* couldn't at the time! Was driving me nutz! :-) Nobody has answered the other questions tho. WE really need a common troubleshooting FAQ for M8 I am trying to build it up from