[newbie] Scanjet HP3200C

2001-08-04 Thread L.V.Gandhi
Whether anybody is working with this scanner in Linux. I need help to make it work in linux. Sane doesn't list this scanner. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED],  [

[newbie] how I add other hard disk to LM8

2001-08-04 Thread Ebrahim Elmahdy
Hi every one! I have hard disk 3.2 GB with linux M8 "hda" and I want add other hard disk "hdd" My hdd has two partitions of FAT32 I need let linux M8 to work with this hard Disk to save data but I can' t do this I need help with breve step . -- Thank you. Ebrahim Elmahdy mailto: [EMAIL PR

[newbie] Mandrake 8.0 and vmware 2.0.4

2001-08-04 Thread emammendes
Hello Perhaps someone on the list can help me with some vmware questions. I don't know what I am doing wrong but every time I run vmware vmnet0 is disconnected and parport0 is used by another device. What am I doing wrong? Mandrake 8.0 (host) and Windows NT 4.0 -pack 6 (guest). BTW, I instal

Re: [newbie] weird apache log

2001-08-04 Thread Tim Holmes
It's CodeRed trying to infect you. Don't worry, yo'ure good to go. There are three other worms floating around. If you look through the log and see the same info except with in there, that's the first strand of the worm. There are also two worms going around that try and run a cmd.exe on t

[newbie] USB Printing with EPSON 777 - ?

2001-08-04 Thread Sevatio
Have any of you the experience of getting the Epson 777 to print via USB interface? (OS: LM-8.0) Thanks, Sevatio

Re: [newbie] sound

2001-08-04 Thread s
Check in kde control center (if you're using kde) to see if the option for arts server is checked to start at boot. -s On Saturday 04 August 2001 04:04 am, you wrote: > Hi! I'm haveing trouble with sound. I am useing mandrake 7.2 and have an > sb16 sound card. I have configured my card so that

[newbie] Kernel compilation

2001-08-04 Thread Rafael Lepra
I have successfully installed 7.1 in my computer, but since I have a Motorola SM56 software modem I need the drivers for it. This drive exist but it only works with kernel 2.4.x. I have never tried to compile a kernel and I am a real newbie to Linux, thus the kernel how-to is a little criptic to

Re: [newbie] weird apache log

2001-08-04 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not 100% certain, but I think it may be a request generated by the Code Red worm, trying to find an NT IIS web-server to infect. I've seen similar requests coming in on my DSL router. Dave On Saturday 04 August 2001 13:57, thus spake Jon Doe:

[newbie] Re: (newbie) sound no sndconfig

2001-08-04 Thread Steve Maytum
When running as root , i have opened a terminal and used the command:- " /usr/sbin/sndconfig " (without quotation marks). You will probably get a warning not to do this as root. However i suffered no ill effects as a newbie when this was applied. Check with others if you wish for the disadvantage

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: Re: newbie help2. please reply.]

2001-08-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 04 August 2001 09:15 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 23:27, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Saturday 04 August 2001 12:29 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > > Having one partition is like putting all your eggs in one basket. > > > If / fails, then you lose all your user /h

Re: [newbie] system clock

2001-08-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 03 August 2001 09:30 pm, Scott wrote: > I keep resetting my system clock to the correct time and date and it > will be ok for a few days and then it messes up again. Like now it > reads "22:28 Fri 3 August 2001". ( It's Sat Aug 4). Why is that? First you've got 2 clocks, system an

Re: [newbie] sound no sndconfig

2001-08-04 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 10:18:37 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: > I can't find sndconfig on my system. Can I add it?(mandrake 7.2) > Also I'm wondering how is it that people get spammed? > The only time I have been spammed is when I went to a chat room. Going > to chat rooms seems to be a

[newbie] sound no sndconfig

2001-08-04 Thread johnix
I can't find sndconfig on my system. Can I add it?(mandrake 7.2) Also I'm wondering how is it that people get spammed? The only time I have been spammed is when I went to a chat room. Going to chat rooms seems to be a way of saying come on everybody spam me. Is there other ways someone can leave

Re: [newbie] Increasing Print Darkness

2001-08-04 Thread s
QT-cups. Increase the dpi. -s On Saturday 04 August 2001 10:14 am, you wrote: > How do I change the darkness of printed documents? > TIA > > Dan

[newbie] 6 button gamepad won't work

2001-08-04 Thread ptz
My 6 button gamepad won't work. I am using kernel 2.4.x. I put "alias char-major-13 joydev ns558 gamepad" int modules.conf. Please help. THANK YOU.

[newbie] pppd problem

2001-08-04 Thread Nicolás Gómez
hi.after a couple of months of well-work of my ISA modem, I cannot connect to the internet. Both the gnomedialer in gnome and the kppp in kde says the say message the gnome dialer says " the pppd daemon has died unexpectly" and kppp stays in " Expecting: CONNECT " after that, the modem hangs

Re: [newbie] flash in opera

2001-08-04 Thread Willy Sutrisno
> Opera in GNU/Linux currently does not support Netscape plug-ins. This means > there is no method of viewing Flash in Opera 5 for GNU/Linux. Of course, you > can always use Netscape, Mozilla or Konqueror. > hem... thats too bad. that means some of the webpages I cant load it properly, coz I only

Re: [newbie] Spam mail

2001-08-04 Thread Charlie Oriez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 04 August 2001 07:03, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > I read that the list administrators send the junk mail to different > organizations. Could someone indicate one of them? I have some spam I want > to send to them in order to stop the spammers.

[newbie] HP scanner software

2001-08-04 Thread chard
New to Linux and Mandrake. I have a USB HP scanner that I want to hook up and use on my Linux box. Can anyone on the list recommend some good software to use Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!

[newbie] Increasing Print Darkness

2001-08-04 Thread Han2097
How do I change the darkness of printed documents? Papers come out about half as dark as they should be. (It works fine in Windows, so it's not my printer). I've played around with CUPS and not seen anything worthwhile in there. My printer is an Epson Stylus Color 600, if that makes any dif

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: Re: newbie help2. please reply.]

2001-08-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 23:27, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Saturday 04 August 2001 12:29 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > Having one partition is like putting all your eggs in one basket. If > > / fails, then you lose all your user /home data as well. Also, a > > multiple partition setup can speed up dis

Re: [newbie] cups

2001-08-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Open kups or qtcups as root and try configuring your printer. Then try printing a test page. Also, try using xpp to print a postscript page. On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 03:58, Philippe Schottey wrote: > Yes, i did but nothing is said about problems with postcripts... i think. > > On Saturday 04 August 2

Re: [newbie] 6 button joystick won't work :(

2001-08-04 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 04 August 2001 14:07, ptz wrote: > I am using a SB live! soundcard with a 6 button gamepad attached to the > gamepad port. Harddrake will not detect it. I looked at the kernel howto > and hardware compatibility howto. The hardware compatibility howto said > the gamepad should be compat

[newbie] X windows crash at startup - I'm stuck!

2001-08-04 Thread Dave Esquer
Help all, My fresh install of Mandrake 8.0 won't let me start up the X windowing system. I've tried Xconfigurator and XFdrake and changed the card to generic VGA and nothing seems to work. I've tried Mandrake 7.2 and no go there too! I've dinked withe the BIOS setting the AGP setting to 1x but

Re: [newbie] One last Apache question

2001-08-04 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Assuming you are using ftp, the real danger is in the fact that ftp sends login and password in plain text over the Internet. Use ssh if you want encrypted authentication -- actually, ssh encrypts the entire session, from login to disconnect. If y

Re: [newbie] home directory limits

2001-08-04 Thread Tim Holmes
Well... back to the issue at hand. :0) What do you get from this command? [timh@r2d2 timh]$ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hde5 13G 1.8G 10G 15% / /dev/hdf6 9.8G 794M 8.6G 8% /backup /dev/hdf5 9.8G 438M 8.9G 5% /

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: Re: newbie help2. please reply.]

2001-08-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 04 August 2001 12:29 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Having one partition is like putting all your eggs in one basket. If > / fails, then you lose all your user /home data as well. Also, a > multiple partition setup can speed up disc accesses, particularly on > larger drives such as yo

Re: [newbie] StarOffice5.2 Install attempt

2001-08-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 03 August 2001 04:09 pm, Marcia Waller wrote: > Some things have worked well but others have not. I reinstalled > StarOffice5.2 which I > had installed and used successfully in both LM7.2 & 8. This time when > I installed it everything > went fine and then at the end of setup it said to

Re: [newbie] Another about Uninstalling Mandrake Linux 8.0

2001-08-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 04 August 2001 12:52 am, Michael D. Viron wrote: > Actually, the correct (and somewhat safer) procedure is: > > 1. Boot into linux (toms rootboot, or other single floppy distro) > 2. Login as root, if required > 3. Run linux fdisk, delete all ext2 partitions (windows fdisk > usually

[newbie] 6 button joystick won't work :(

2001-08-04 Thread ptz
I am using a SB live! soundcard with a 6 button gamepad attached to the gamepad port. Harddrake will not detect it. I looked at the kernel howto and hardware compatibility howto. The hardware compatibility howto said the gamepad should be compatible. Please help. THANK YOU

[newbie] Spam mail

2001-08-04 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
I read that the list administrators send the junk mail to different organizations. Could someone indicate one of them? I have some spam I want to send to them in order to stop the spammers. Thank you. Olaf Configuration: Celeron 333A, 128 MB, 6+3 GB HD, SoundBlaster 128 PCI, Realtek Ether

[newbie] hp

2001-08-04 Thread Philippe Schottey
could it be my problem is related to the fact that when i do gs -h my printers are not in the device list?

Re: [newbie] cups

2001-08-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Have you tried looking for your printer at http://www.linuxprinting.org/? On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 01:39, Philippe Schottey wrote: > Help, > > I've installed Mandrake 8.0 and i think it is great but.. i can not print > ostcript files. I tried with a HP dj843V and a HP dj610C but cups just wont > print

Re: [newbie] sound

2001-08-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Try running sndconfig (as root). On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 19:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! I'm haveing trouble with sound. I am useing mandrake 7.2 and have an > sb16 sound card. I have configured my card so that I can play music cd but > I have no sound when it comes to games or window startup an

[newbie] hp

2001-08-04 Thread Philippe Schottey
Wel, it helped a little, the HP dj610C did it good one time. But, the second time it al was printed on one page and the second time, and that's really strang, evrything was printed in mirror image??

[newbie] cups

2001-08-04 Thread Philippe Schottey
Help, I've installed Mandrake 8.0 and i think it is great but.. i can not print ostcript files. I tried with a HP dj843V and a HP dj610C but cups just wont print the postcripts. The dj610C only prints the first page and the df843C prints evrything on a single page. Philippe

[newbie] sound

2001-08-04 Thread johnix
Hi! I'm haveing trouble with sound. I am useing mandrake 7.2 and have an sb16 sound card. I have configured my card so that I can play music cd but I have no sound when it comes to games or window startup and shutdown. Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks Get your own FREE E-mail address at http:/