R: R: R: [newbie-it] non riesco a leggere i cd

2001-07-29 Thread kokkix
Il problema penso stia in dev , cioè i file cdrom e cdrom2. Per prima cosa devi controllare se i tuoi cd vengono riconosciuti dal kernel per fare questo ti basta digitare in un console il comando dmesg che ti da la lista che ti compare durante l'avvio , controlla tra le righe , dove ci sono

Re: R: R: [newbie-it] non riesco a leggere i cd

2001-07-29 Thread CaMiX
Io l'audio lo leggo con /dev/scd (perché ho il lettore che è SCSI). Penso che se imposti nel lettore software kde (ad es.) il tuo dispositivo (che se non è SCSI avrà un nome diverso immagino) dovrebbe funzionare. Adios CaMiX Purtroppo la cosa non è cambiata di molto, perchè adesso sia da root

Re: [newbie] gnome

2001-07-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 08:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I've switch from kde to gnome and I don't know howto setup icons. I would like to create a icon for internet connection. I would also like to setup an icon for gimp. Any help would be appreciated. Method 1: Right-click the desktop and

Re: [newbie] Mass-copying to different filenames

2001-07-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Have you tried looking at man mv, or even man bash? On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 02:46, Randy Kramer wrote: Excuse me, but I want to jump in here with a third request -- how about a simple way to do: copy secret.* lies.* In other words, I have files like secret.txt, secret.txt,v, and secret.lock,

Re: [newbie] write permissions in gui.

2001-07-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
My point exactly! This reminds me of a clever quote: The only intuitive interface is a nipple. After that, it's all learned. Whoever wrote that is a genius :-) On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 13:17, etharp wrote: my reading of this would mean that to be truly intuitive something would then be

Re: [newbie] upgrading XFree86

2001-07-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:13, Scott wrote: I want to upgrade XFree86 from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. Can someone tell me what how many and what rpms I need to install? I definitely want the new font server. Does that come separately? Also will the new installation need to be configured? I'm running

Re: [newbie] write permissions in gui.

2001-07-29 Thread etharp
SNIP I was just trying to illustrate that a clear mind, like that of a child, can learn new things much more easily than one that is fettered by many habits that have accumulated over time. Like the old maxim, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. OK, NOW you've done it... got me gonig,, as

Re: [newbie] write permissions in gui.

2001-07-29 Thread Romanator
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 09:56, Romanator wrote: On Saturday 28 July 2001 06:48 pm, Judith Miner wrote: Sridhar wrote: I taught myself MS-DOS when I was three years old. Since I had no previous conceptions on what an OS should be like, I learned rather

[newbie] Uninstalling LICQ and Mandrake-Linux

2001-07-29 Thread webmaster
Hello !! I have 2 very newbie questions: 1- I had a disk with WinME and Win2000Server in dual boot. I then installed Mandrake-Linux 8.0 in a free partition, with all success. It modified my boot with this screen that lets me choose the O.S. tu use. Ok, now I plan to remove my Mandrake-Linux

[newbie] How To Fix Disk Issues?

2001-07-29 Thread Jude Lucien
Hello all. I'm having two issues, sort of related. The first one is that since I reinstalled Win98 on my first disk I'm having swap issues. The second is that the 13GB second drive that Linux resides on is only using 1.4GB of the available space. On bootup I get the error message: Activating

[newbie] Samba with Win2k on mdk 7.2

2001-07-29 Thread Franki
Hi all, I have just put samba 2.2.1a on my 7.2 box, and for all intents and purposes it appears to be working great.. I have a win2000 pro box on the same network (LAPTOP)... and the linux box (zues) is showing up in my network places problem is, I can't get into it,, when I try, no password

[newbie] Network installation in Linux Mandrake

2001-07-29 Thread Andrea Fachiri
I have been trying to install a simple home network first in Linux Mandrake 7.0 (last year) and now in 8.0 but I can't find the proper instructions.Eventually the network should connect two PC in Windows to the present one in Linux , but I have meanwhile installed Linux also on a second PC for

Re: [newbie] Network installation in Linux Mandrake

2001-07-29 Thread Geof Steichen
You want to look at SAMBA. It allows you to access both Windows and Linux machines. There are lots of posts about SAMBA on this list. Also do some searches using your browser to find info on installing and implementing SAMBA. It is not too hard...hardest part seems to be syncronizing the

Re: [newbie] write permissions in gui.

2001-07-29 Thread Judith Miner
I don't want to protract what is essentially an off-topic discussion for this list, so this will be it from me. I don't know what would give someone the impression that I was saying Windows is intuitive and Linux is not. I explicitly stated to the contrary. Also, it is ridiculous to dump on

Re: [newbie] Network installation in Linux Mandrake

2001-07-29 Thread Dave Crouse
OK-- I'll take a stab at this.even though I am sure I am not the best one for ithere is how I did mine.keep in mind i am a COMPLETE novice to this myself.. First I had to get an ethernet hub.(this is what all the computers connect into)then I installed

Re: [newbie] write permissions in gui.

2001-07-29 Thread Romanator
etharp wrote: On Sunday 29 July 2001 11:43, Romanator wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: snip damn and I was 12 befor I built my first (dc powered) underwater habitat, I wish we had things like solar arrays and lazers back in those days Is it true that you weren't allowed to use pointy

Re: [newbie] Sound card drivers

2001-07-29 Thread erylon hines
Yeah, if you tried make while su'd to root, then it probably isn't installed. Find it on the mdk CD (so you know where to look). Open kpackage, let it go through it's search for programs, then, the easy way is just to click the open tab and search for it in /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS. Click

Re: [newbie] Samba 2.2.0 for Mandrake 7.2,,,,,,,,Found it. LINUX ROCKS AS A DESKTOP :-) !!!

2001-07-29 Thread erylon hines
On Saturday 28 July 2001 09:03, Franki wrote: Hi everyone someone asked about recient samba compiled for mandrake 7.2 well I found 2.2.0, which is fairly new... I just rediscovered Gimp, boy has it gotten better since RH4.x days,,, and I also just discovered ICEWM how good is that

[newbie] Lockup kills KDE

2001-07-29 Thread Mark Shaw
I just had a system lockup while trying something with Electric Eyes -- no keyboard, no mouse, no nothing. After a while I resorted to hitting the reset button. Now I no longer get the same login screen -- what I do get is what seems to be a standard vanilla KDE login prompt (no choices of

[newbie] urpmi error message

2001-07-29 Thread D. Hoyem
Hi all, I'm trying to update my gcc package to resolve a dependency problem when I do a a urpmi XFree86-4.1.0. from ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS.cooker/ This is what I get: [root@localhost /root]# urpmi gcc-2.96-0.58mdk unknown data associated with db3 at

[newbie] FTP and mail server setup...

2001-07-29 Thread Tuan Duc Tran
Could anyone please tell me how to setup FTP Mail server on LM8.0 or Redhat7.1. Are there any free FTP mail server software for Linux? Thank you Tuan _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

RE: [newbie] FTP and mail server setup...

2001-07-29 Thread Franki
well, its not as easy as just running a setup file, you need to do a bit of learning.. it also helps to know what your setup is and specific requirements. Start looking at postfix, qmail or sendmail for your mail server, (I'd suggest using postfix, it comes with mandrake and is fast and

Re: [newbie] Network installation in Linux Mandrake

2001-07-29 Thread etharp
there is good step by step instructions at: www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/networking On Sunday 29 July 2001 13:22, Andrea Fachiri wrote: I have been trying to install a simple home network first in Linux Mandrake 7.0 (last year) and now in 8.0 but I can't find the proper

Re: [newbie] write permissions in gui and the Holy Grail

2001-07-29 Thread Miark
- Original Message - From: Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] write permissions in gui. Also, it is ridiculous to dump on everything Windows does just because someone likes or prefers Linux. The Mac and

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.4.6

2001-07-29 Thread skinky
Hi Paul - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know if the kernel 2.4.6 that is available on rpmfind.net now has all the fixes for the Via/Southbridge686b-bug? Not sure what 'bug' you mean (I'm not up with it in the slightest), but if its any help, my

[newbie] Services installed by LM8

2001-07-29 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
Where can I find info/documentation about the services LM installs? I mean, other than the man pages and reading the scripts. I'd like to find out more about how they are configured. This is partly because the ALSA service isn't working properly in my sys. It failed to install the

Re: [newbie] Konqueror Problem

2001-07-29 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
Konqueror as of time being is not a full fledged browser. It doesn't support XML and other thingies. Probably the offending sites use these thingies. I think Nautilus has the same problems. You should use Netscape/Mozilla as your primary browser. --Jeferson L. Zacco aka Wooky [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] subscribe

2001-07-29 Thread Tim Wells

RE: [newbie] Peer to peer programs

2001-07-29 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I think your use of peer to peer has confused a few people. Peer to peer is inherent in any machine that has the ability to share files or resources with any other network/internet connected peer on a network (hence the term). The media has picked up the terminology to describe file sharing

Re: [newbie] subscribe

2001-07-29 Thread etharp
ohhh. goodie.. another nice morsel (hunched backed rubbing hands together, helping witchy stir the bubbling caldren) On Saturday 28 July 2001 16:53, Tim Wells wrote: Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again) NEED HELP FROM KERNEL GURU!

2001-07-29 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
I feel so good to be able to help a fellow newbie...two weeks ago and I didn't know how to compile these drivers myself /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use kernel-headers system headers, /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2: #error but headers from an

RE: [newbie] Mass-copying to different filenames

2001-07-29 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Oh, yes the EXEC command in FIND is extremely powerful... I.E. find / -iname *.doc --exec cp {} /Documents \; Omit the outer quotes of course... Translation... Starting from the root, find every file with a suffix of .doc then execute a copy command to copy that file into the /Documents

[newbie] Cable Modem

2001-07-29 Thread OOzy Pal
Hello Guys I just got a cable modem and I would like to check the site that I am working from school (i.e. show it to my professor) how can I set up my http server to do that? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!?

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem

2001-07-29 Thread etharp
well...first we need more info about your system and network. but the really short answer is run apache. do you have a static IP number? what happens if you type in that IP number to a web browsers address window from a box connected to the internet? On Sunday 29 July 2001 22:06, OOzy Pal

[newbie] Really small LAN of 2

2001-07-29 Thread Dennis Myers
I have two computers connected via a hub. Localhost (linux) is the Samba server and also a client, AJ is an windows box client. Currently, AJ can connect to the internet through localhost using localhost firewall also, AJ can ping 127.0.0.1 but can not ping the localhost 192.168.0.1 Localhost

[newbie] KMail Auto-download

2001-07-29 Thread Stan Lockaby
Does anyone know how to get KMail to auto-download new messeges when it is opened? TIA, Stan

Re: [newbie] Mass-copying to different filenames

2001-07-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 01:37, Randy Kramer wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Have you tried looking at man mv, or even man bash? Yup, more than once. 4405 lines in man bash. Read it while trying to deal with other problems. Is there something I've missed? Randy Kramer I don't think so. I

Re: [newbie] HTML differences in Konqueror, Mozilla, Nautilus, Netscape, etc

2001-07-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:21, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: Hi all, I was making a webpage to tell all rea newwwbies (TM) like me how to get sound going on with Quake3 ( should someone be interested- I doubt it- mail me) when I went to check how did the page looked when viewed from Linux

Re: [newbie] Konqueror Problem

2001-07-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Could it be JavaScript? Konqueror's JavaScript support is not very good at present. Nautilus should not have the same problems, since it is based on Gecko (the Mozilla engine). Galeon is the same. On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:29, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: Konqueror as of time being is not a full

Re: [newbie] Really small LAN of 2

2001-07-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:41, Dennis Myers wrote: I have two computers connected via a hub. Localhost (linux) is the Samba server and also a client, AJ is an windows box client. Currently, AJ can connect to the internet through localhost using localhost firewall also, AJ can ping 127.0.0.1 but

RE: [newbie] Mass-copying to different filenames

2001-07-29 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
A nice bash for loop with a file wildcard will do it... As will the RENAME command... find also will work with -exec... Ah the possibilities with Linux... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Sunday, July

Re: [newbie] write permissions in gui.

2001-07-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 09:56, Romanator wrote: On Saturday 28 July 2001 06:48 pm, Judith Miner wrote: Sridhar wrote: I taught myself MS-DOS when I was three years old. Since I had no previous conceptions on what an OS should be like, I learned rather easily. Surely you must realize

Re: [newbie] pretty graphical editor

2001-07-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Jed has always been my favourite. It comes from the same family as Emacs, but it is small and light. Text colouring is turned on by default. On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 01:36, Randy Kramer wrote: Romanator wrote: Check out Cooledit. Roman, Actually, I did once, but I'm looking again. I guess

Re: [newbie] Upgrading RPMs with source

2001-07-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 00:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If, for instance, I have the KDE 2.0 packages (RPM, of course) installed...and I download the KDE 2.1 source code (instead of the RPMs), what should I do? Should I uninstall (rpm -e) the KDE 2.0 packages *before* compiling installing the

Re: [newbie] Mass-copying to different filenames

2001-07-29 Thread Randy Kramer
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Have you tried looking at man mv, or even man bash? Yup, more than once. 4405 lines in man bash. Read it while trying to deal with other problems. Is there something I've missed? Randy Kramer

Re: [newbie] write permissions in gui.

2001-07-29 Thread etharp
On Sunday 29 July 2001 11:43, Romanator wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: snip damn and I was 12 befor I built my first (dc powered) underwater habitat, I wish we had things like solar arrays and lazers back in those days Is it true that you weren't allowed to use pointy objects like

Re: [newbie] urpmi error message

2001-07-29 Thread Michael D. Viron
Don, It would help to know which version of Mandrake you are using. If it's 8.0, you should be fine. If it is 7.2, you can't install the cooker rpms since they are built for 8.0 not 7.2. There are now several ongoing threads on the expert list to try to get cooker rpms / srpms that work with

Re: [newbie] FTP and mail server setup...

2001-07-29 Thread etharp
have you had a look a webmin? On Sunday 29 July 2001 16:00, Franki wrote: well, its not as easy as just running a setup file, you need to do a bit of learning.. it also helps to know what your setup is and specific requirements. Start looking at postfix, qmail or sendmail for your mail

Re: [newbie] urpmi error message

2001-07-29 Thread D. Hoyem
Thanks for teh response. Sorry,, I'm using Mandrake 8.0 but when this error: gcc-2.96-0.58mdk unknown data associated with db3 at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/urpm.pm line 1048, F line 39. Comes up I'm back at the waiting for a input, nothing happened. Am I being thick? DEon ---

[newbie] HTML differences in Konqueror, Mozilla, Nautilus, Netscape, etc

2001-07-29 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
Hi all, I was making a webpage to tell all rea newwwbies (TM) like me how to get sound going on with Quake3 ( should someone be interested- I doubt it- mail me) when I went to check how did the page looked when viewed from Linux browsers (I'll explain: even though I managed to configure

[newbie] Fw: Linux boxes not connecting?

2001-07-29 Thread tazmun
OOPS - Original Message - From: tazmun [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jeferson Lopes Zacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 6:05 PM Subject: Linux boxes not connecting? TIA --Jeferson L. Zacco aka Wooky [EMAIL PROTECTED] -wrote- (I'll explain: even though I managed to

Re: [newbie] HTML differences in Konqueror, Mozilla, Nautilus, Netscape, etc

2001-07-29 Thread Jan Wilson
* Jeferson Lopes Zacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010729 16:59]: Oddly enough, all browsers managed to make my page look somewhat different. Even Mozilla and Netscape, which I though were close relatives, behave totally different about tables, width and bgcolor (in a table/tr/td tag.). Konqueror

Re: [newbie] Really small LAN of 2

2001-07-29 Thread Lanman
Are you using Linux-Mandrake 8.0? If so your firewall is probably preventing the ping from happeneing. Bastille automatically does not trust ANY incoming TCP/IP packets coming in on ANY network card in the Linux box (Localhost), therefore it thinks that AJ is a hacker trying to break in to

Re: [newbie] partitions

2001-07-29 Thread Paul
I used the df -h command to check partitions and it showed me /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb5 but no swap. Can someone tell me why swap isn't listed. df is DiskFree. This will only show you the diskspace that is available to the users on the system. Swap is a system resource, you can't use it to