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

Non offenderti, ma quando accedi a /mnt/cdrom hai inserito qualcosa nel lettore? Perché ho notato per caso che dà quell'errore se non vi sono dischi presenti... e lo stesso suppongo per le altre periferiche. Non so se è una cosa nuova della Mdk 8.0 perché è la prima che utilizzo, ma cmq sono

Re: [newbie-it] address book

Il 19:00, domenica 22 luglio 2001, hai scritto: [CUT] ok...proverò a cercare i file di configurazione...se intanto sapeste darmi un suggerimento su dove trovarli...ve ne sarei grato... grazie mille a tutta la ml e a daniele osva Penso vengano creati all'interno della cartella

[newbie-it] visualizzazione caratteri

Ciao a tutti, da un paio di giorni mi capita - sotto KDE - di vedere alcuni caratteri visualizzati male, quasi illeggibili. Succede col Konqueror, succede con Konsole, ... Credo dipenda da alcune modifiche al server X: qualche giorno fa ero entrato nel Mandrake Control Center, nella sezione -

[newbie-it] Scheda video

Ciao, ho cercato per giorni driver per Linux che potessero far vedere al PC la scheda video (Hercules 4000XT) ma sembra che non esistano ancora. La mia domanda è: a chi devo chiedere di svilupparne? Alla Hercules oppure affidarmi agli sviluppatori privati che incontrato la stesso mio problema

[newbie-it] Barra applicazioni

Ciao a tutti. Ho un problema con la barra delle applicazioni (o meglio panel) del KDE. Vi spiego; ho installato LM 8 Kernel 2.4 e all'inizio funzionava tutto bene fiono a quando un bel giorno, durante il caricamento il KDE arriva fino al panello e non lo carica più così mi sono trovato senza

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

Il giorno 23-07-2001 1:59, Sandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Il 12:23, domenica 22 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Potresti dire come hai reinstallato la mdk8. Sei partito da zero ho hai fatto l'update. Oppure hai reinstallato mdk8 su se stessa? Ciao Sandro Ho reinstallato partendo da

Re: [newbie-it] Scheda video

Il 11:19, sabato 21 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao, ho cercato per giorni driver per Linux che potessero far vedere al PC la scheda video (Hercules 4000XT) ma sembra che non esistano ancora. La mia domanda è: a chi devo chiedere di svilupparne? Alla Hercules oppure affidarmi agli sviluppatori

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

Il 08:01, lunedì 23 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Il giorno 23-07-2001 1:59, Sandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Il 12:23, domenica 22 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Potresti dire come hai reinstallato la mdk8. Sei partito da zero ho hai fatto l'update. Oppure hai reinstallato mdk8 su se

Re: [newbie-it] Barra applicazioni

Il 13:50, lunedì 23 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti. Ho un problema con la barra delle applicazioni (o meglio panel) del KDE. Vi spiego; ho installato LM 8 Kernel 2.4 e all'inizio funzionava tutto bene fiono a quando un bel giorno, durante il caricamento il KDE arriva fino al panello

Re: [newbie-it] visualizzazione caratteri

Il 20:50, lunedì 23 luglio 2001, hai scritto: [CUT] Prova ad aprire il COntrol Center, quindi: LookFeel Stile (o style se in inglese) qui vedi se l'opzione utilizza l'anti-aliasing per i caratteri e le icone è spuntata. altrimenti spuntala e riavvia KDE. Se vuoi cambiare font, inoltre e

Re: [newbie-it] visualizzazione caratteri

Il 14:54, lunedì 23 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao Sandro, grazie per la tua risposta. Ma non è questo il problema. I fonts sono leggibili, ed uso l'antialiasing senza problemi sin dalla prima installazione del Mandrake 8. Solo da alcuni giorni, a volte, risultano illeggibili piccole parti

Re: [newbie-it] visualizzazione caratteri

Il 03:16, martedì 24 luglio 2001, hai scritto: [CUT] Alla luce di quanto hai riportato credo che si tratti di qualcosa inerente alla scheda grafica o all'impostazione di X. Riguarda, infatti, il refresh dello schermo. Non ti ricordi quali nuovi settaggi hai fatto a X? Se puoi cerca di

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

Il giorno 23-07-2001 20:44, Sandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Uhm, il contenuto della partizione ext2 della installazione precedente è stato azzerato (cancellato) oppure hai installato da zero sopra i dati che avevi? Azzerato e rifatto partizioni. OK, prima di tutto controlla il file

Re: [newbie-it] visualizzazione caratteri

Il 22:55, lunedì 23 luglio 2001, hai scritto: [CUT] Era quel che pensavo. In realtà non ho fatto modifiche all'impostazione del server X. Ero entrato nel MCCenter per verificare i passi della configurazione per rispondere ad una email di qualcuno in difficoltà proprio con il risettaggio di X.

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

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' durare circa 2 ore (come nel mio caso :) ), pare che ci sia un baco nel kernelquesto problema si manifesta solo in fase di installazione (e

Re: [newbie-it] visualizzazione caratteri

Il 05:27, lunedì 23 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti, da un paio di giorni mi capita - sotto KDE - di vedere alcuni caratteri visualizzati male, quasi illeggibili. Succede col Konqueror, succede con Konsole, ... Credo dipenda da alcune modifiche al server X: qualche giorno fa ero

[newbie] Ishmail

Hi all, Is there any one using ishmail for e-mails?...if so pls give me a quick lesson on how to set it up Thanks Ivan -- Ivan Miranda General Instrument Engineer/IT support Po Box 8746,Doha,Qatar Ph:974-4402524/4402773 Fax:974-4323380

Re: [newbie] stylesheet and pages

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:03, John Rigby wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] NOW: AND Appreciation

Citizens of the Mandrake Newbie List! Please... We don't need a argument on who contributed more than everyone else. While I truly appreciate John's very kind words (thank you!), it must also be remembered that this is a _community_ list. We are all equals here, and we should all help each

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

Good on you! It's great to see newbies from the Windos world experiment with the new OS instead of just sticking with the defaults. Don't get me wrong, KDE is a very nice environment, but it is a little too Windos-like for me. I think a major reason why GNOME doesn't have more users is that

[newbie] Mandrake going public......... not really off topic :-)

Hi folks, The need for caution is great when a company moves away from dockside into the deep sea. It is full of sharks who make their living precisely from the salmon-run as the rushes of companies to float happens every Spring. :-) A mandatory tale to research is that of a nice fellow

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

Roman-- 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? I had a couple of problems, which I fixed, and then it configured and installed great. Say more about is not

[newbie] Konqueror

Hiya, this is a little OT, sorry in advance. I like to do a little webdesign in my spare time (though i havnt done any in a while due to my phone line being cut g). The last time i did any was in Windows, using IE to check out how the pages looked. Netscape always had a problem in that pages

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again)

Here is a snip of the nvidias own readme that you find from the same section of nvidias homepage there where you can download the tars. This snip concerns the tar install prozess . I repeat: Use the tars not the rpms and follow the instructions from THIS readme DONT use the instructions that

Re: [newbie] Maximum Linux

What happened to the magazine anyway? I was out of the country for a vacation and when I come back this is what happened? Doh! Anyway, kind enough to give me a brief explanation of what happened? --- Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: last i heard,

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again)

i used to get segmentation errors when using OpenGL - it was because i hadnt installed the kernel properly - there is a shell script called nv check which checks if everything is installed ok get it at : http://www.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/nv_check.sh just cd to the dir and type : $ sh

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again)

Thanks. I already used the nv_check.sh script and it said that everything was OK. Based on the information I have been seeing I am thinking that I need to try installing the 1251 drivers from the tarball instead of the rpm. Should I uninstall the drivers I installed from the rpm first and then

[newbie] Russian(KOI8) in Mandrake 8.0

Hello All, I`ve installed Mandrake with Russian(KOI8) language. But in KDE there are strange characters, not russian. I`ve heard that there is some error in Mandrake, how to fix this problem? -- Best regards, Alexander mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Primary master hard disk fail

Dear Civilme, Thank you for the information. I have the Award Bios. How exactly do I do a low-level format? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 20:07:25 + civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 23 July 2001 19:30, Marcia L Waller wrote: Dear ALL, Thank you

Re: [newbie] Primary master hard disk fail

Is there anyway that I can reformat my disk either with Norton or using the HDD low level format in the BIOS? I have a feeling this hard drive is not dead but could have been hit with a virus? Strange characters show up with the boot up messages for hdb drive. I do not care about saving

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again)

On Monday 23 July 2001 21:18, Terry C wrote: Thanks. I already used the nv_check.sh script and it said that everything was OK. Based on the information I have been seeing I am thinking that I need to try installing the 1251 drivers from the tarball instead of the rpm. Should I uninstall the

[newbie] USB modem

Hello All, I have USB modem. How I can use it with Linux? -- Best regards, Alexander mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] stylesheet and pages

civileme wrote: [snip] software, I decided I would use .png and .mng in place of .gif. There is even a little program called gif2png you can search for on the web. I really don't want to support what amounts to a legalized protection racket, run by attorneys. Civileme

Re: [newbie] Primary master hard disk fail

Thank you for your reply. I will try to find how to do the low-level format. If I do need a new hard drive what would be a good and inexpensive one that will handle Linux just fine? Thanks. Marcia On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:48:48 -0500 tazmun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anyway that I can

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 and digital camera miniDV ?

Hi i have a firewire card and a sony cam now sony cams are a little more complicated cause they use different encoding (i think) but i got them working now you need to install libraw and i recommend gscanbus to have an eye on your firewire filesystems etc libraw is available from the rpms dir

RE: [newbie] Proxy and NAT

I like the discussion, but here's one question that's baffled me: How does the NAT distinguish between sessions with clients who whish to talk to the same port on the same IP ? My Theory: The NAT or the Foreign IP server will issue a unique port number for each session, and the NAT will then

Re: [newbie] A job using linux?

The idea that someone with a minimal amount of Linux knowledge can easily get a job in the IS industry is generally a myth, sort of like being able to go from a job working in a gas station to earning $70K a year just for attending an MCSE boot camp. (Perhaps before the .com bubble burst it

Re: [newbie] Proxy and NAT

The Cisco PIX firewall does it like this: clientA: 10.0.0.1===(PIX)123.4.5.6:5677Server clientB: 10.0.0.2===(PIX)123.4.5.6:5678Server What I'm trying to say here is that, where there are a limited number of valid Internet addresses available to the outside (Internet) interface of the

RE: [newbie] Sound Card and Printers

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alwan Sadagopan Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 9:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Card and Printers Hi, A couple of clarifications: 1. Sound Card - When i configure my sound card using

Re: [newbie] Linksys Cable/DSL Router

For those with DNS problems: Try the following DNS adresses in this particular order: 208.179.42.162 204.107.129.2 12.28.140.20 Put it in /etc/resolv.conf and/or in KPPP's DNS setup. I've put it in both.

Re: [newbie] Primary master hard disk fail

Hi Marcia I agree with Tazmun, you need to go the the drive manufacturers website and download the utility made specifically for your drive to do the low-level format. However, I would also search the manufacturer's site for a drive-testing utility and run the diagnostics test first. The test

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 and digital camera miniDV ?

btw. if you want to download an avistream from your cam use dvgrab its a comandline tool you use it like : dvgrab test.avi and it will save the actual playing stream into the file test.avi nice tool but you dont see whats comming you can only whatch the resulting file with an apropriate movie

[newbie] How do I create a new user without logging in?

Help, I have forgoten my old password for my linux mandrake 7.1 and I can't log on. Is there anyway to make a new user without logging in. I have used partition magic to partition my harddrive. Can I create a new user from windows? I have checked all my manuals and the internet and I can

[newbie] MPlayer install: NCurses problem

I am trying install mplayer-0.17-1.20010501.i686.rpm. It needs some files because dependencies, one of them (libtinfo.so.5) #rpm -i mplayer-0.17-1.20010501.i686.rpm error: failed dependencies: libtinfo.so.5 is needed by mplayer-0.17-1.20010501 I could find it into ncurses-5.2-4.i686.rpm in

Re: [newbie] Primary master hard disk fail

- Original Message - SNIP hours at least usually. I had one maxtor drive that I tried to convert back to fat after running ext2 filesystem and it just wouldn't properly run format, fdisk until after I did the low levelthat was a couple of years ago and the drive is still in

RE: [newbie] Proxy and NAT

The Cisco PIX firewall does it like this: clientA: 10.0.0.1===(PIX)123.4.5.6:5677Server clientB: 10.0.0.2===(PIX)123.4.5.6:5678Server Gotcha, the NAT is responcible for port allocation... This scheme cannot be used with streaming protocols, according to Cisco; I've never tried.

[newbie] X won't start default font fixed

Hi I got home from work today and turned my computer on, and was confronted by the error message could not open default font path unix/:1 Fatal server error: could not open default font fixed and X would not start. I have been told that one way to fix this problem, at least temporarily, is to

[newbie] Sony vaio F701/X problems/go to NT?

Send below message a few days ago but have had no response. Just sending it again because if I cant get X working on my computer I am going to have to go for NT instead (I even tried Redhat 7 but no luck). I am trying to get a sony vaio f701 working with X. I have tried using Xconfigurator

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

s wrote: I been using if for months. The lastest vs. (.17) was so easy too. I've been reading about others having trouble, but it was da...da... da: movies for me. I've run out of ideas to assist these individuals with their problems, they seemed to have done what they were supposed to

[newbie] New user

Thanks for your help Alan. One problem though. I can't figure it out.This is it from the start.I boot/restart my machine.It logs into DOS and I have a couple options: Linux, Windows, and others.I hit enter on Linux and then it starts scrolling telling me what things arebeing started up, at

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

Dan Ray wrote: Roman-- 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? I had a couple of problems, which I fixed, and then it configured and installed great.

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

John Rigby wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] New user

At 07:17 PM 07/23/2001 -0600, Eric wrote: Thanks for your help Alan. One problem though. I can't figure it out. This is it from the start. I boot/restart my machine. It logs into DOS and I have a couple options: Linux, Windows, and others. Ok...are you using lnx4win, or an actual

Re: [newbie] Primary master hard disk fail

yep absolutly correct and the bad battery will cause the bios to lose it's settings as to what and where the hard drive is On Monday 23 July 2001 17:15, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: This message is -NOT- caused by a virus! It is caused by the drive's own seek mechanism being unable to recalibrate

Re: [newbie] Maximum Linux

I got this response a while ago, maybe May or so. I still haven't seen anything. Mr. , Maximum Linux did cease publication with the April issue. We will be offering a replacement magazine and will have the details finalized soon and inform our subscribers. It is taking longer than

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

On Monday 23 July 2001 08:16 pm, you wrote: s wrote: I been using if for months. The lastest vs. (.17) was so easy too. I've been reading about others having trouble, but it was da...da... da: movies for me. I've run out of ideas to assist these individuals with their problems, they

[newbie] Mdk8 and PATH environment variable problems !

Hi folks. First of all, excuse me for my poor English. I have 2 mdk-8 linuxes box : 1 on my notebook and 2 on a desktop pc. I have had serious problems to define an alteration on a PATH variable to my desktop box. On my notebook all works fine. I had altered the /etc/rc.local file to

[newbie] Help me with Software Manager

I have faced some problems with this feature (software). First of all it seems that I don't know how to use it. When I tried to update some packages I did : 1-Define Sources 1.1-New 1.1.1-Type of source = security updates 1.1.2-New source's name

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

IIRC (haven't tried it in a while), if you try to install a .src.rpm file as if it were a binary .rpm (rpm -ivh file.rpm), it will extract to the directories under /usr/src/RPM. On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:18, Michel Clasquin wrote: Is it possible to somehow strip an RPM of the deps info etc and

[newbie] Can't Print Anymore???

Hi there, Well I had my Lexmark 3200 working for a day but now today I tried to print out something and now it won't work at all, even if I'm logged under root or any of my other users: The URL that I followed the instructions on how to get it working are here:

Re: [newbie] Boot managers

Hello Steve, You must be new here! Have a read of the archives - esp anything with my name in it. On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 01:47, you manipulated electrons to produce: Um are you allowed to use this list for reference material for what I assume is a commerical book? -- Cheers, John

[newbie] qwest.net and dsl lan setup question

Hi all, I am so happy--- just configured my very first network! (Other than AS400 stuff) I am definatley a newbie when it comes to networks so please forgive me if this seems like a silly question.. I have just connected to the internet using my linux mandrake 7.2 box..

[newbie] Getting the basics going

Hi folks, I went and put my 2 cents worth on the Forum: How to move mandrake along.. hot subject, eh? In catching up with the support pleas here, I've noticed a distinct non-recognition by people of their own status! Some of the self-proclaimed Newbies only talk in acronyms and I

Re: [newbie] Getting the basics going

3. Cannot figure out how to operate CDRW Writer! ( M8 knows it's there, but I'm only allowed one CD - I have 2, both identified) Hi John, Linux treats CD-writers as SCSI devices. Since most modern CD-RW's are IDE, there's some work to be done. (MDK 8 did it all by itself for me though.)

[newbie] Alternatives help like Win4Lin?

Hi folks, This may seem like blasphemy, but might also be a sane solution for those who try it and it just won't go... It appears I can either: 1. Spend untold time hoping for a fix ( a week spent looking so far!) 2. Buy a lot of new stuff ( what do I do with the old?) 3. Quit

Re: [newbie] Konqueror

Jamie, Take a look at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/BrowserFormattingIssues -- it won't answer all your questions, it might not even answer any of the questions you've asked so far, but it may provide some useful information. Randy Kramer Adams, Jamie wrote: Getting to the point, my

Re: [newbie] New column

On Monday 23 July 2001 00:18, Randy Donohoe wrote: I'm writing to ask your help in evaluating a column I'm considering submitting to some sites and newspapers. The column is called The Curve, and is basically a tutorial on Linux for the raw beginner. Randy, meet John Rigby. John, meet Randy.