Re: [newbie-it] posta del 9 Agosto

2001-08-13 Thread Stefano Salari
--- Tommaso Leddi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: 17:25, venerdì 10 agosto 2001, viger71: ti consiglio di cambiare i caratteri che usi per le e-mail prima che qualcuno ti maledica, ciao. Non maledicetemi ;) Non so cosa sia successo ai caratteri. Probabilmente il tentativo di

[newbie-it] Off-line funziona con Mozilla e come? Ma serve?

2001-08-13 Thread viger71
Scusate se insisto ma la bolletta che arriverà acasa sarà piuttosto salata e non posso chiudere e riavviare la connessione per 10 righe di e-mail, quindi sarei riconoscente a chiunque sia in grado di darmi chiarimenti a riguardo. Hai mai pensato di staccare il modem? Visto che gli altri sono

Re: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not

2001-08-13 Thread James S Bear
A little trick I learned, from a command line: supermount -i disable Reboot Locks should be gone. Apparently(somebody could clear this up for me)there is a bug in supermount? jim Quoting Donnie Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What does your fstab look like for your floppy drive and cdrom? I had the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake vs. SuSE

2001-08-13 Thread freddy . mena
The first time i tried linux (seven months ago) I had two distros: mandrake 7.0 and suse 7.0. The suse install guide has at the last page a happy dancing lizard; i guess it means you would be happy if you can install it, i could not..., while a could install mandrake 7.0 without (almost) big

Re: [newbie] zip250 way too slow

2001-08-13 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 06:39:21 -0400 etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: with Tom's permission, I would like to use his line as my sig.txt file for a while. It's also important to understand that there's no answers available from this list, only opinions. Some of them just

Re: [newbie] ISDN USB configuration

2001-08-13 Thread Paul
The Mandrake 8.0 can't recognize the ISDN USB Siemens Santis Communicator do any one now how I' can it work A look at www.linux-usb.org shows that there is no reference at all to that card. I can't find anything about it. Not even the Siemens site shows anything about drivers or support. I

Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8

2001-08-13 Thread etharp
I am gonna snip out a lot of this so that it don't get to long to read On Sunday 12 August 2001 23:10, Linus Drouhard wrote: I think we're heading down the wrong path. Just the fact we know your video card is agp and not sharing a slot is a big help and a good start. No, there isn't

Re: [newbie] Installing Programs

2001-08-13 Thread Paul
I occaisionally download programs from the net for my box, however, some ti me the rpms are in rh6.0 or rh7.0 format. and that would mean they are optimised for the 386(?) cpu. Correct. An .i386.rpm is optimised for 80386. which means my only alternative for a good install for the pentium

RE: [newbie] Samba (client problems)

2001-08-13 Thread Brandon Caudle
what sp do the w2k machines have on them? Brandon Caudle -- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) Larkhaven Golf Course Charlotte, NC There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. -- Henry Kissinger From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Home network Samba question

2001-08-13 Thread Brandon Caudle
There is one problem they will both be fighting for browse master so on one set the wins support = no wins server = ip of other smb server Brandon Caudle -- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) Larkhaven Golf Course Charlotte, NC There cannot be a crisis next week. My

RE: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not

2001-08-13 Thread Mitchell, Edmund
Thanks to both of you, I will try those tips. What is supermount? What is it trying to do? What will disabling it do to my system? What functionality will I lose, and how can I replace it, or work around it's loss? Thanks again! Edmund P.S. -Donnie, I brought my fstab to work with me today

Re: [newbie] Fw: Cron root@tbird run-parts /etc/cron.daily

2001-08-13 Thread Michael D. Viron
Paul, This can be 2 things: Either you have multiple syslog logrotate config files under /etc/logrotate.d/, in which case you delete one. Or you have more than one sylog logrotate config in the same syslog file under /etc/logrotate.d/, in which case you edit the syslog file such that it

Re: [newbie] Mandrake vs. SuSE

2001-08-13 Thread Tim Holmes
I've installed and used both, so I'll give you a bit of insite. INSTALL Mandrake 8.0 -- 45 minute install with basic configurations added SuSE 7.0 -- Almost 2 hours to a login prompt I don't know anybody personally that could not isntall Mandrake. I was the first out of a group of 5

Re: [newbie] Strange Disk Access Messages

2001-08-13 Thread George Petri
On Sunday 29 July 2001 01:29, etharp wrote: I don't think so On Saturday 28 July 2001 11:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I was accessing (find command) my E: a while ago (hdb6), and I got this: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hdb:

RE: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not

2001-08-13 Thread Paul
Thanks to both of you, I will try those tips. What is supermount? What is it trying to do? What will disabling it do to my system? What functionality will I lose, and how can I replace it, or work around it's loss? Supermount is a nice feature of Linux (not sure if it is mandrake

Re: [newbie] Who is nobody?

2001-08-13 Thread George Petri
From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Who is nobody? Actually, you need to check /etc/shadow for the passwords. However, you will find that most of the ones you are talking about have an * in the password

Re: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not

2001-08-13 Thread Peter Watson
I don't know if this helps, My CD and floppy behave just as you describe when the drives are empty (ie Input/Output error, you do not have access rights, little padlocks showing) However when I insert media into the drive the locks go away and everything works fine. My fstab lines are:-

[newbie] Slow Printing using Cups

2001-08-13 Thread Geof Steichen
Does anyone know why printing with cups is so slow? I have used other distros with this printer using lpr and it prints near the rated speed but with cups drivers, it prints quite slow. The printer is Hp855c parallel on AMD K7-900, Asus A7V mb, 256MB ram, MDK 8.0 I have tried all 4 of the

[Fwd: Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8]

2001-08-13 Thread Frans Ketelaars
[heh, forgot to send to the list] Linus Drouhard wrote: I can't get midi files to play, except in sndconfig. See other responses below. I don't know what most of this means. Thanks for your help. On Friday 10 August 2001 2:36, Frans Ketelaars wrote: Adams, Jamie wrote: It seems

Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder missing???

2001-08-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 18:40, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Interesting. Why would a source distribution be ok, whereas a binary not? It is apparently some sort of legal loophole. I'm not a lawyer so I don't know the specifics on this. What about CDEX? I had a quick look around the CDEX website

Re: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not

2001-08-13 Thread James S Bear
Right. And that's what mine do when supermount is working. Sometimes, though, it does not and those locks do not come off. When supermount is disabled, I never see locks. jim Quoting Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't know if this helps, My CD and floppy behave just as you describe

RE: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not

2001-08-13 Thread James S Bear
You won't lose functionality, I don't believe. I believe it is a security thing. I've been running mine this way for quite some time based on advice from somebody from this list. But, you'll notice, there are a lot of i believes in my advice. Please, somebody correct me if I'm wrong. jim

[newbie] LimeWire problem

2001-08-13 Thread Dwight Lowie
I've installed the latest version (1.6d) of LimeWire and am having similar problems as I had with earlier versions. It hangs on the opening window where it's supposed to start the setup Wizard. I've downloaded and installed Java 1.3.1 and have it in my path. I've set J2SE_PREEMPTCLOSE=1. I've

Re: [newbie] Driver installing

2001-08-13 Thread Solver
I know. However, these drivers do work, they just don't get installed. I heard people use this driver. Solver - Original Message - From: etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Solver [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 13,

Re: [newbie] Slow Printing using Cups

2001-08-13 Thread s
Believe it or not, upping the dpi also fixes this sometimes. At least it did mine. I have an epson, but with default settings, it prints extremely light and really slow. So upping the dpi not only makes it look better, but make the output come about normal. Don't know if it will help you

Re: [newbie] Plancks constant... ;-(

2001-08-13 Thread s
On Sunday 12 August 2001 09:58 am, you wrote: s wrote: On Saturday 11 August 2001 10:46 am, you wrote: PSS Anyone -ever- got Kwintv to compile and work under 8.0? Nope and I tried. I even had trouble trying to install the dependencies. I think the biggest insurmountable obstacle was

[newbie] Re: Basic Question

2001-08-13 Thread Dave Burrows
Running L-M 8.0, Celeron 133, 64MB RAM; using Gnome/Enlightenment (yes, it's all very slow and so on but hey, the machine was free and it's what I could afford.. it'll let me learn some fundamentals as I build a better box for L-M) Description of issue: When certain apps are open (for example,

Re: [newbie] Installing Programs

2001-08-13 Thread Tim Holmes
A RPM that was created for i386 will work just fine for ix86. I wouldn't even worry about it. It will do the trick and work just fine. I highly doubt you'd even notice the difference. But if you're hell bent on installing and configuring more up to date software then you can go the tarball

Re: [newbie] Xawtv -still- locks system up tight! ;-(

2001-08-13 Thread texstar
I bet you are using KDE with the aRTS sound server with Autosuspend if idle for 60 seconds. You start up xawtv, sounds great, looks great, then after 60 seconds Kablooie! On Sunday 12 August 2001 09:49 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, Gradio works fine, and I used the Mandrake RPM software

Re: [newbie] Driver installing

2001-08-13 Thread D. Hoyem
Solver, Go to linmodems.org and there you wshould find some help on resolving your modem problems. I'm not familiar with the pctel modem, sorry. Don --- Solver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know. However, these drivers do work, they just don't get installed. I heard people use this driver.

RE: [newbie] Installing Programs

2001-08-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Holmes Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Programs A RPM that was created for i386 will

[newbie] HTML editor sought

2001-08-13 Thread Andrei Raevsky
I am looking for a good (decent) HTML editor for Mandrake 8.0 Is there something similiar to Ultra-Edit or CuteHTML available? Could anyone reccommend something light, simple, but a little more specialised that vi or any other editor?

Re: [newbie] zip250 way too slow

2001-08-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 13 August 2001 05:39 am, etharp wrote: with Tom's permission, I would like to use his line as my sig.txt file for a while. It's also important to understand that there's no answers available from this list, only opinions. Some of them just happen to be, or are intended to be

Re: [newbie] HTML editor sought

2001-08-13 Thread Dave Sherman
I used to use UltraEdit myself, but on Linux I use nedit. It does syntax coloring, auto-indent, etc. Dave At 07:05 PM 08/13/2001 +0200, Andrei Raevsky wrote: I am looking for a good (decent) HTML editor for Mandrake 8.0 Is there something similiar to Ultra-Edit or CuteHTML available? Could

Re: [newbie] Fw: Cron root@tbird run-parts /etc/cron.daily

2001-08-13 Thread Paul
It was Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:44:50 -0500 when Michael D. Viron wrote: Either you have multiple syslog logrotate config files under /etc/logrotate.d/, in which case you delete one. Or you have more than one sylog logrotate config in the same syslog file under /etc/logrotate.d/, in which case you

RE: [newbie] mp3 encoder missing???

2001-08-13 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Thanks. I was reading on the site you posted (very interesting btw). However the material there bears out my original assertion that the MP3 format itself is not proprietary. It is by definition open. (unless I'm now confusing discussions, it's crazy trying to keep track of so many

Re: [newbie] Who is nobody?

2001-08-13 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 13 August 2001 09:02, thus spake George Petri: Here is an excerpt of my /etc/shadow file: games:*:11513:0:9:7::: named:*:11513:0:9:7::: sympa:*:11513:0:9:7::: gopher:*:11513:0:9:7::: ftp:*:11513:0:9:7:::

Re: [newbie] zip250 way too slow

2001-08-13 Thread civileme
Well, is it USB or parallel (external and plugging into the computer) or mounted within and attached to a SCSI Card? Or is it IDE? IDE is attached by a 40 pin cable to a plug on the motherboard SCSI is attached by a 50 pin cable (or 68 pin cable or 80 pin cable with adaptors) Parallel

Re: [newbie] 2.4.7 kernel

2001-08-13 Thread civileme
On Sunday 12 August 2001 22:19, Terry C wrote: I remember civileme saying that hard drives were limited to ata33 in Mandrake 8.0 because of some problem in the kernel with the Via chipset. Does anyone know if this has been fixed in the 2.4.7 kernel? If so, has anyone compiled the 2.4.7

Re: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not

2001-08-13 Thread civileme
On Sunday 12 August 2001 23:04, James S Bear wrote: A little trick I learned, from a command line: supermount -i disable Reboot Locks should be gone. Apparently(somebody could clear this up for me)there is a bug in supermount? jim Supermount was written for the 2.2 kernel and

[newbie] Xawtv -still- locks system up tight! ;-(

2001-08-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, Gradio works fine, and I used the Mandrake RPM software manager to completely uninstall and then reinstall Xawtv, including manually del. the .xawtv file in my home directory. Still though, after running through the installation (it scanned and found all channels), and the sound was playing

[newbie] Java for Mozila

2001-08-13 Thread Lanman
Has anyone ever figured out how to get java running in Mozilla? I'm running Mandrake8.0, and I prefer Mozilla to Netscape, and for the life of me I can't get the java plugin OR runtime environment working. I'm not interested in developing java-based apps, just interested in learning how to

[newbie] Interfacing a Mindspring Visor

2001-08-13 Thread Terry Smith
Hello, Another newbie question from someone with a new toy...specifically a Mindspring Visor Deluxe (Palm Pilot clone using Palm Software). I have a synchronization cradle that hooks in on the USB port. Could someone get me started with some answers to very basic questions. 0. Does the LM

RE: [newbie] Java for Mozila

2001-08-13 Thread Mitchell, Edmund
Hello Dan, This worked for me: Assuming you have the jdk downloaded and installed, just set a JAVA_HOME environment variable in your .bashrc file that points to the bin directory of your jdk: #for example: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/src/jdk1.3.1/bin After a restart, StarOffice will find it

Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder missing???

2001-08-13 Thread Paul Cox
On Monday, Aug 13, 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: What about WinAmp's plugin which is not Franhoffer based nor has royalties associated with it? The plugin that comes with WinAmp is a decoder, not an encoder. They don't mind you listening to an .mp3, it's creating one that's the problem.

RE: [newbie] mp3 encoder missing???

2001-08-13 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Maybe you can clarify a point. Either in this discussion or another I recently had, we were debating the legalities of the MP3 file format itself. I asserted that the MP3 FILE format was not considered to be proprietary since it was by definition open. Now I've been convinced that the problem

Re: [newbie] HTML editor sought

2001-08-13 Thread Oren Gozlan
Try to use bluefish or quanta plus, or the best... vi -- - Oren Gozlan Mobixell Networks Inc. p: +972 9 776 0121 f: + 972 9 740 7373 c: +972 54 536 047 www.mobixell.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - On 13 Aug 2001 12:24:01 -0500, Dave Sherman wrote: I used to use

Re: [newbie] joystick module

2001-08-13 Thread s
To be honest, I haven't messed with that. Most games, I just set the buttons, and it operates as it should. Descent3 and FlightSim play very well like this (as do others, that I still prefer to move with my mouse tho), except Heavy Gear 2. I think I'm going to have to do the jscal thing

Re: [newbie] HTML editor sought

2001-08-13 Thread Tim Holmes
HTML email's are EVIL! But I use Quanta, or Vi. Quanta is pretty handy. I used that to start out with since I'd forgotten a lot of my HTML. Now that it's refreshed my memory I've gone back to vi, or vim. Quanta is installed standard. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] HTML editor sought

2001-08-13 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Monday 13 August 2001 13:05, Andrei wrote: I am looking for a good (decent) HTML editor for Mandrake 8.0 Is there something similiar to Ultra-Edit or CuteHTML available? Could anyone reccommend something light, simple, but a little more specialised that vi or any other editor? My

RE: [newbie] Samba (client problems) with win2k

2001-08-13 Thread Franki
Hi all, I have had a similiar problem, I have samba 2.2.1a running on my server and with win98 machines, it works great. but the win2000pro boxes can see the server and browse its shares, but can't access anything, IE, I have user shares setup, so that if the user is franki on the windows

RE: [newbie] Samba (client problems)

2001-08-13 Thread Franki
all windows 2000 machines have servicepack 2 installed. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: Brandon Caudle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 13 August 2001 9:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Samba (client problems) what sp do the w2k

Re: [newbie] Re: Basic Question

2001-08-13 Thread Dave Burrows
Right you are, of course; it's a Pentium 133 not a Celeron 133. The rest of what you write about will take some time to sort through as I am using Gnome and not KDE. Thanks, Civilme, Dave On Monday 13 August 2001 19:41, civileme wrote: On Monday 13 August 2001 12:02, Dave Burrows wrote:

Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder missing???

2001-08-13 Thread Paul Cox
On Monday, Aug 13, 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Now I've been convinced that the problem lies in the encoder decoder patents held by Fraunhoffer which is really the big problem... However, I'm still splitting this hair... According to the postings, you COULD theoretically create a MP3

Re: [newbie] libgtkxhtml.so.1 -- where can I find it?

2001-08-13 Thread falstaff
s, What's your flipping problem? s wrote: You ain't on my list, man. And fix your freaking clock. -s On Sunday 12 August 2001 09:49 am, you wrote: please remove me and my gsm number from your list I dont't want to accept any more mail and sms Thank you! Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] libgtkxhtml.so.1 -- where can I find it?

2001-08-13 Thread s
What's it to you? -s On Monday 13 August 2001 02:14 pm, you wrote: s, What's your flipping problem? s wrote: You ain't on my list, man. And fix your freaking clock. -s On Sunday 12 August 2001 09:49 am, you wrote: please remove me and my gsm number from your list I dont't want

Re: [newbie] HOW DO I ISTALL AUDIOGALAXY SATELLITE???

2001-08-13 Thread Miark
Jeremy, Having no GUI, the Linux binary from AudioGalaxy is more or less useless. (Or perhaps I just don't know how to use it.) At any rate, use xsatellite instead because it's ready and rarin' to go under X. You can get it from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xsatellite/ Miark

[newbie] Is Writing to Windows Partition From Linux Safe?

2001-08-13 Thread TezcatlipocA
Hi, What I want to do is download files from the Internet and save them on my computer. However, I want those files to be accesible when I'm using Windows too so I want to use Linux to download them and save them to a Win folder like My Documents! Is this a safe practice? Would it case any

Re: [newbie] About the GNU General Public License (GPL)

2001-08-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 13 August 2001 02:49 pm, Ah Pook wrote: If you don't want your code to be GPL'd, don't steal GPL'd code 'Course that's only valid if everybody plays by the rules. Somethin M$ isn't famous for ; ... unless they get to make the rules ; How Microsoft can turn that

[newbie] Test

2001-08-13 Thread Edward Medica
Testing Mail list

[newbie] Printing envelopes from Mandrake on a Deskjet

2001-08-13 Thread Dr. Evil
I have a Deskjet 882c printer. It works fine with kword (sucks with printing graphics though). It has a handy little slot on it for putting in envelopes. However, I don't see how to get Kword to make use of it by orienting text the right way and formating it in the correct position. Any

[newbie] Oups! and etc.

2001-08-13 Thread Gonzalix le Druide
Oups!! I installed SO without enabling java first... How can I enable it now, without uninstall SO? Besides, I have another problem: pppd. When I try to connect, Linux says Can't find the pppd demon. Make sure that it's installed. So, as you see, I have very basic problems. And the order to

[newbie] Network Printer on Win98

2001-08-13 Thread Guilherme Cirne
I have just installed LM 8.0 for the first time and I'm having trouble getting my network connected printer to work. I have a 2-computer network. On one computer I have LM 8.0 and on the other I have Windows 98 with an HP DeskJet 695C printer connected to it. I have setup the printer under

Re: [newbie] Is Writing to Windows Partition From Linux Safe?

2001-08-13 Thread civileme
On Monday 13 August 2001 15:57, TezcatlipocA wrote: Hi, What I want to do is download files from the Internet and save them on my computer. However, I want those files to be accesible when I'm using Windows too so I want to use Linux to download them and save them to a Win folder like My

Re: [newbie] Re: Basic Question

2001-08-13 Thread civileme
On Monday 13 August 2001 12:02, Dave Burrows wrote: Running L-M 8.0, Celeron 133, 64MB RAM; using Gnome/Enlightenment (yes, it's all very slow and so on but hey, the machine was free and it's what I could afford.. it'll let me learn some fundamentals as I build a better box for L-M)

Re: [newbie] Re: Basic Question

2001-08-13 Thread civileme
On Monday 13 August 2001 14:17, Dave Burrows wrote: Right you are, of course; it's a Pentium 133 not a Celeron 133. The rest of what you write about will take some time to sort through as I am using Gnome and not KDE. Thanks, Civilme, Dave On Monday 13 August 2001 19:41, civileme wrote:

Re: [newbie] libgtkxhtml.so.1 -- where can I find it?

2001-08-13 Thread falstaff
s wrote: I did not send any freaking message to remove myself from your list!!! So why I am I being subjected to this tirade? What's it to you? -s On Monday 13 August 2001 02:14 pm, you wrote: s, What's your flipping problem? s wrote: You ain't on my list, man. And fix your

Re: [newbie] 2.4.7 kernel

2001-08-13 Thread s
On Monday 13 August 2001 06:27 pm, you wrote: My hd is so much slower than yours! Using 60GB IBM DTLA-307060 7200rpm and Soltek SL-75KAV mobo with North Bridge VIA VT8363A (KT133A) chipset (and South Bridge VIA VT82C686B?) on AMD T-Bird 1.0GHz. Using kernel 2.4.3-20mdk with udma2 (ATA-33

[newbie] using usrdir

2001-08-13 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have the following directives set in httpd.conf file. UserDir public_html #directive for home directory Directory /home/*/public_html AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Allow from all /Directory still as user(lvgandhi) I am unable to access http:/localhost:80/~lvgandhi/index.html

[newbie] pppd script

2001-08-13 Thread Gonzalix le Druide
Hi, When I tryied to connect, this is what happens: -Aug 13 21:20:00 localhost pppd (4697): pppd 2.4.0 started by gonzalo, uid 501 Idem...: Using interface ppp0 Idem...: Connect ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS2

Re: [newbie] Network Printer on Win98

2001-08-13 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 13 August 2001 15:10, thus spake Guilherme Cirne: I have just installed LM 8.0 for the first time and I'm having trouble getting my network connected printer to work. I have a 2-computer network. On one computer I have LM 8.0 and on

Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes from Mandrake on a Deskjet

2001-08-13 Thread Charles Punch
Both Star Office and Word Perfect8 can print envelopes from an envelope slot. I use them both on a HP 632 deskjet. K word seems like it may be nice in the future, but it lacks a few desirable abilities. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 "Dr. Evil" wrote: I have a

Re: [newbie] 2.4.7 kernel

2001-08-13 Thread Terry C
The last time I ran hdparm on Mandrake 8.0 I was using a different ata100 hard drive and was getting timing buffer disk reads of only 21 MB. I am now using a new IBM hard drive and I'm getting: /dev/hde: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.78 seconds =164.10 MB/sec Timing buffered disk

Re: [newbie] Lilo skips Windows98

2001-08-13 Thread Richie de Almeida
Hiya, It looks like there's some fooferah in that lilo config... that 'map-drive' stuff are physical designations of your hard drives, 0x80 is your hda and 0x81 is your hdb or something like that... Anyways, going from when I used to have a dual boot with Windows, just the first three

[newbie] Damn Radeon

2001-08-13 Thread Richie de Almeida
Remember when having Radeon in your basement was a bad thing? But more to the point, has anyone out there had any success using an ATI Radeon AGP card with Xwindows 4.1.0? X starts up and runs, it even starts KDE but there is absolutely no video signal (I know KDE starts because that pompous

[newbie] Desktops

2001-08-13 Thread Dave Burrows
On Monday 13 August 2001 19:41, civileme wrote: If you cannot turn it off, set the number of desktops to 1 and it won't happen any more. What is/are the advantage(s) to having multiple desktops available at any given point? -- Dave Burrows 741 Cleveland Road

Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes from Mandrake on a Deskjet

2001-08-13 Thread Dr. Evil
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I have never been able to get Star Office to print! I need to look into that. In the future, Kword is going to be fantastic. MS may have some real competition from that corner. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Different ways of starting X???

2001-08-13 Thread Tim Holmes
I use xinit to start xwindows. I have a .xinitrc in my $HOME that reads: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cat .xinitrc exec enlightenment For KDE that would read exec startkde. But the key stroke you're looking for to close down xwindows, is CTRL+ATL+BACKSPACE. tdh -- T. Holmes -

Re: [newbie] Different ways of starting X???

2001-08-13 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:01:27 -0400 Kevin Fonner [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: KF Oh and by the way I remember their was a key sequence to force X to KF shutdown What was that? ctrl+alt+bkspc Mike -- You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and

[newbie] MIDI

2001-08-13 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I will be taking an Intro to MIDI class at the college this autumn. Of course, they will be using Windows for the MIDI editing and playing instruments I am sure. Has anyone here used Linux for MIDI? Has anyone setup a MIDI keyboard to their computer and used Linux for MIDI? Could

Re: [newbie] Xawtv -still- locks system up tight! ;-(

2001-08-13 Thread s
I found another tuner app with potential called zapping. Mostly needing gnome stuff, but all dependencies are on our cds. It looks good and has some neato features. I had trouble configuring kwintv, but I haven't given up, and zapping seems a little unstable. But maybe it'll work better

[newbie] OpenSSH

2001-08-13 Thread SK
Hi! I am having some error message when start to configure OpenSSH. Below are the step I do. When I like to configure the OpenSSH with the command : ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh \ --libexecdir=/usr/libexec/openssh \ --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --with-ipaddr-display \

Re: [newbie] OpenSSH

2001-08-13 Thread Paul
At half way it show me an error message : configure: error: *** zlib missing - please install fict or check config.log *** Fire up rpmdrake and search for the package zlib or zlib*. That will point to the library you need. Install that and you should be fine. On RPMFind.net it is

Re: [newbie] Unable to mount second drive

2001-08-13 Thread DStevenson
Have a look the dmesg, this will show the partitions on the drive hdb: hdb1 hdb5 for example, hdb5 being ht emountable partition. On Monday 13 August 2001 19:55, Travis Olds wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Ray Booysen wrote: I have a P2 350 running Linux Mandrake 7.1 . I am unable to

Re: [newbie] Second VFAT partition invisible in MDK

2001-08-13 Thread Velanche Stewart
Well, it almost worked. :-) Linux was able to find the second VFAT drive after following your instructions, so I thank you for that. However, Windows did not find the drive after I rebooted there. When I did fdisk in Linux, it said that the drive was a hidden Windows 95 VFAT drive. I toggled

[newbie] Keeping Mine own copy of cooker???

2001-08-13 Thread Kevin Fonner
I have serveral computers in my house and even more in my office. I find while I'm learning linux that I am downloading files from cooker all the time and I get fustrated with some of the servers when they get slow. Is their any way that I can set up my own private mirror of some sort so

[newbie] Different ways of starting X???

2001-08-13 Thread Kevin Fonner
OK, Ive got a new interesting problem... If I type startx from a command prompt then X starts up fine... Hoever if I type X then it starts up with that sort of grey screen with a pointer on it but never gets any graphics. I know kdm tries to start x with an X command so why is this

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-13 Thread Peter Rymshaw
OK, I tried JDRadio's suggestion of new memory by removing my 63MG and replacing it with a new 128MB (bought at BestBuys for $19.95 after rebates) and reinstalled without specifying mem. It's running nice and fast, but no change otherwise. I still get the error message if I shutdown without

Re: [newbie] ISDN card does not run under Mandrake 8.0

2001-08-13 Thread Paul
It was Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:00:00 +0200 (CEST) when Marco Verheul wrote: Hello fellow Mandrake users, I can't get my isdn-card working under Mandrake 8.0. I read diferent kinds of documentation en wil try to explain what I did until know. I hope somebody can give me directions . Sorry for the

Re: [newbie] About the GNU General Public License (GPL)

2001-08-13 Thread Ah Pook
8/13/2001 11:28:40 AM, X - A - W - K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have some free time you can read this While I hate to respond to something that will undoubtedly generate 11,000 other heated responses, let me save you some lawyers' fees: If you don't want your code

Re: [newbie] About the GNU General Public License (GPL)

2001-08-13 Thread civileme
On Monday 13 August 2001 14:28, X - A - W - K wrote: If you have some free time you can read this Some Questions Every Business Should Ask About the GNU General Public License (GPL) On May 3, 2001, Microsoft publicly described its Shared Source approach to source code licensing.

RE: [newbie] About the GNU General Public License (GPL)

2001-08-13 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Title: Message Microsoft FUD... What do you expect? -JMS -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of X - A - W - KSent: Monday, August 13, 2001 2:29 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] About the GNU