Re: [newbie] Sensors (was AA fonts)

2001-08-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 17 August 2001 01:26 am, s wrote: Did you lose some of your sensors functionality with the newer kernels? I did and couldn't get em back until I went back to the old kernel. Any ideas there? (I ran sensors-detect, but it didn't come up entries for my rc.local file...) No

Re: [newbie] Sensors (was AA fonts)

2001-08-17 Thread s
On Friday 17 August 2001 02:18 am, you wrote: On Friday 17 August 2001 01:26 am, s wrote: Did you lose some of your sensors functionality with the newer kernels? I did and couldn't get em back until I went back to the old kernel. Any ideas there? (I ran sensors-detect, but it didn't

Re: [newbie] installed xine, weird occurence

2001-08-17 Thread Len Lawrence
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, antoine rivoire wrote: hi all. i have just installed xine 0.5.0 from tar gz files. i have followed the usual procedure, tar xvzf xine-*.tar.gz configure make install and that went fine, compiled for 5 minutes, but now i am unable to find the file that launches the

Re: Usability in linux (was RE: [newbie] ERROR 2002: Can't connectto

2001-08-17 Thread Len Lawrence
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Mark Shaw wrote: My other peeve: inadequate commenting. Oh, and using KR style or any of its variants (whenever I pick up anyone else's code the FIRST thing I do is column up all the curlies and remove all the tabs). Not to start any holy wars or anything Me

Re: [newbie] Swap Space

2001-08-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
If you're using over 200MB of swap, your system would be moving slower than some continents. There is nothing really _wrong_ in having over 200MB of swap, but there would be nothing to gain. If you need over 200MB (assuming you have a decent level of RAM), either you're doing something _very_

Re: [newbie] GIF software

2001-08-17 Thread Peter Watson
On Friday 17 August 2001 08:27, Len Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Andrew wrote: Thanks civilme, I'm not going to use this .gif thing for my daily use. It's just an assignment from school about producing a gif animated banner. I know this is an easy piece if I did it in windogs,

Re: [newbie] GIF software

2001-08-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:27, Len Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Andrew wrote: Thanks civilme, I'm not going to use this .gif thing for my daily use. It's just an assignment from school about producing a gif animated banner. I know this is an easy piece if I did it in windogs, but

RE: [newbie] Other screens than :0?

2001-08-17 Thread Jesse Hepburn
The :0 represents display 0 on your system. If you had a second graphics card you could use :1 to display on that monitor (with the second card) Cheers, Jesse -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 11:26 PM

RE: [newbie] installed xine, weird occurence

2001-08-17 Thread Jesse Hepburn
Not that I use Xine that often, but I remember it being installed to /usr/local/bin I prefer Mplayer, as it is more stable and easier to install. Cheers, Jesse -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Geof Steichen Sent: Thursday, August 16,

RE: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install

2001-08-17 Thread Jesse Hepburn
I also have a similar setup, and have never noticed any slowdown in ME. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Barbara Pfieffer Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK

Re: [newbie] Other screens than :0?

2001-08-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Do you need a second card? I thought you could just place display 1 on a different tty. For example, if display 0 is on tty7 (accessible with ctrl-alt-F7) than you can put display 1 on tty8 (accessible with ctrl-alt-F8). I haven't tried it with different X displays, but I can do this with

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Oracle

2001-08-17 Thread A V Flinsch
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 20:07, Miark wrote: Hi all, A friend of mine asked me to recommend a Linux distribution that would best work with an Oracle database. I normally recommend Mandrake for anything and everything, but I don't know squat about databases, and I figured he deserves a

Re: [newbie] installed xine, weird occurence

2001-08-17 Thread antoine rivoire
hmmm, still no sign of it. ha well, must have done something stupid during the install, thanks for ur help. On Friday 17 August 2001 10:12, you wrote: Not that I use Xine that often, but I remember it being installed to /usr/local/bin I prefer Mplayer, as it is more stable and easier

Re: [newbie] Swap Space

2001-08-17 Thread Chris Biggs
Don't worry about it... let Linux do one of the things that it does best- manage memory. It's a good thing that it's making good use of your physical RAM and accessing the HD less. - Original Message - From: David Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001

RE: [newbie] Swap Space

2001-08-17 Thread Adams, Jamie
Just a note.. Linux believes that unused RAM is wasted RAM, it will always try and use as much as it can. Swap is much slower than actual ram, so if it isnt using it, be pleased! -- Jamie -- From: Chris Biggs[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Keyboard doing the wrong thing

2001-08-17 Thread Olly Marshall
HI, I've just installed Mandrake, and am using the KDE interface. I have noticed that number keys are doing odd things. Before you say it, its not a NUM LOCK problem All the number 2 keys (both above the main keyboard and on the number pad) are producing a backspace (that is deleting the

Re: [newbie] Keyboard doing the wrong thing

2001-08-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Double-check your keyboard settings in the Mandrake Control Centre. It looks as if it's set incorrectly. On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 21:17, Olly Marshall wrote: HI, I've just installed Mandrake, and am using the KDE interface. I have noticed that number keys are doing odd things. Before you say it,

Re: [newbie] Swap Space

2001-08-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Linux uses superfluous RAM is used for disc caching, speeding up drive accesses. So increasing your RAM can increase your hard drive speed (if what you're accessing has been cached). On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 21:05, Adams, Jamie wrote: Just a note.. Linux believes that unused RAM is wasted RAM, it

[newbie] nvidia openGL issues

2001-08-17 Thread Liam O'Connell
Hi there, I am having issues using the nVidia drivers with LM 8.0. I've downloaded the RPM's from the nVidia website and amended XF86Config-4 as described in the readme, and the 'nvidia' driver seems to load OK (X works as normal except that it flashes up a nvidia logo on startup). However, I

[newbie] Ess56PI modem installation failure

2001-08-17 Thread Hugh
Hi,mandrake linux users and specialists, I encouter difficulty while installing my Ess56PI modem.The Ess2898 chip based internal PCI modem is not that sort of winmodem.It's installed in PCI slot 4 using IRQ 11.It works just well under win98 and win2k. After installing mandrake linux 7.0 ,I

[newbie] xcdroast

2001-08-17 Thread Scott
I have just installed a Philips 804 CDRW and XCDRoast 0.98alpha6-RH(Test Release). When I try to master a disk to make a data disk i get the following message: Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660. Can anyone tell me what the problem is? Thanks, SW Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Sensors (was AA fonts)

2001-08-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 17 August 2001 02:51 am, s wrote: the latest yet. I just went back to 2.4.3-20. I did notice a new service called sensors and it uses /etc/sensors.conf (in freq3 I guess). I didn't explore that finding too thoroughly. I really like gkrellm and I don't know if they could work

[newbie] More keyboard issues

2001-08-17 Thread Olly Marshall
I have narrowed the keyboard problem down to this; At the logon window, the #2 works fine. After any user logs on, the #2 starts to perform the same function as the backspace key. What happens at logon that would change the keyboard info ?? Also, I am using xWin32 to access the

Re: [newbie] More keyboard issues

2001-08-17 Thread Robert MacLean
I had this exact problem. Try removing the keyboard from the machine, and blowing air into the actual port and the plug (a blow job? ;). What I found was that I have a small amount of dust or dirt or something and that had caused it to do weird things. Robert MacLean - Original Message

RE: [newbie] almost got it!

2001-08-17 Thread Mark Johnson
I struggled with the premature end of script headers for 3 days, I figured out the the cgi stuff was being run under suexec, if you rename suexec to say suexec.sav then restart apache this should get rid of your problem. Addmittedly, this is not the correct solution, but I don't know how to get

Re: [newbie] xcdroast

2001-08-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
You're probably making a disc with Rock Ridge extensions. This is a method of preserving UNIX-style file permissions on an ISO9660 (standard data CD-ROM) filesystem. If this is the case, then you can ignore the message. There are a few other options that can also create this message. If you

[newbie] RE: Usability in linux

2001-08-17 Thread Mark Johnson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Usability in linux (was RE: [newbie] ERROR 2002: Can't connect to Why can't programmers put informational error messages in there

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

2001-08-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Peter: Maybe you've already sorted this out, but just in case go to nlpagan.net/linux.htm. Towards the end of the page (look for a link to Mandrake User Organization), there's a note about repairing this problem that affects some VIA-based systems. I've never found out why it works, but it does.

[newbie] cdrecord

2001-08-17 Thread Newacct
I want to make a direct duplication of one to cd to another cd in mandrake 8. cdr= scsi, rico mp7060s cd-rom= ide, atapi Well how can i do this in the console? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Network Printer on Win98

2001-08-17 Thread Guilherme Cirne
At 13:53 15/08/01 -0400, you wrote: If you are at least getting smbclient to work, you are almost there! Now the problem is how Cups' filters treat the remote winblows printer. Cups tries to run thru the Linux/Unix style printer filters which feed GIMP/GHOSTSCRIPT or some other ratherizer. The

[newbie] Ugly fonts - Anti-aliasing

2001-08-17 Thread Guilherme Cirne
Hi, I read on the Mandrake website (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/features.php3) that anti-aliasing is integrated into Linux-Mandrake 8.0 to provide a nice improvement in how fonts are displayed. But on my system the fonts look very ugly. One example that comes to mind is the Add New

Re: [newbie] Open hardware (and graphics cards)n

2001-08-17 Thread paul rodríguez
Thanks, Sridhar. These were some pretty cool sites, I particularly liked the first one, never seen that one before. What I was really looking for, however, was whether or not there was a site that specifically listed hardware that not only was linux comptable, but also published all of their

RE: [newbie] Ugly fonts - Anti-aliasing

2001-08-17 Thread Adams, Jamie
The Anti-Aliased fonts are not activated by default. I dont know if they work in Gnome, but if you wantt hem activated in KDE, open the Kde Control Center , head to 'Look and Feel' and theres an option in there somewhere to use Anti-Aliased fonts. You will have to restart X to see the effect.

[newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread Kirby Urner
I have 2 hdd on IDE 1, cdrw cdr on IDE 2. I've created a linux partition + swap on 2nd hdd. Is infamous VIA bug going to be problematic (that's my bus) VT82C686 is what windows ME properties says. haven't tried MDK8 yet. floppy old and corrupting disks (new machine but migrated drive), but

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

2001-08-17 Thread Peter Rymshaw
Thanks Carroll: I didn't know about this, but bookmarked it so I can apply it later. Right now I'm having problems with lilo and cab only access rescue command line, from which I have been shutting down by ctrl-alt-del. The problem has never shown up with this or a Restart shutdown, so I

Re: [newbie] Is swap being used?

2001-08-17 Thread Joan Tur
alex escribió: How can swap be checked to determine if it is doing what it is supposed to do? I use gkrellm to know what the system load is... try it! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org

[newbie] Audiograbbers and tape media

2001-08-17 Thread chris swain
Im looking for a program that will allow me to grab audio from a cassette player and store it as a music file of some description. Windows has a prog called cooledit which does this but linux should have something similar. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Ugly fonts - Anti-aliasing

2001-08-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
For the moment, anti-aliasing is only officially supported in QT-based applications, which includes anything made with KDE. GTK+ (the base of GNOME) does not have anti-alaising in an official release yet. The GTK+ 2.x development series has had it for a while, though, and should have a stable

Re: [newbie] Audiograbbers and tape media

2001-08-17 Thread s
On Friday 17 August 2001 10:41 am, you wrote: Im looking for a program that will allow me to grab audio from a cassette player and store it as a music file of some description. Windows has a prog called cooledit which does this but linux should have something similar. I know cdparanoia will

RE: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread Jason Guidry
That message indicates a defective disk--register your product and notify tech support. We have replacements. aaahh. I think that's why the GPL is more customer service friendly. but apparently it also takes people who know how to serve. It may seem simple, but I've had my experience with

[newbie] Audio conference

2001-08-17 Thread Jason Guidry
sice we've had some on and off-list discussion of audio and linux, I'd like to point some of you to http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/workshops/linux2001/ I will definately be spending some time here. as soon as the hell that is the first few weeks of school dies down. This is particularly

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread Kirby Urner
At 11:44 AM 8/17/2001 -0500, you wrote: On Friday 17 August 2001 09:56 am, Kirby Urner wrote: I have 2 hdd on IDE 1, cdrw cdr on IDE 2. I've created a linux partition + swap on 2nd hdd. Is infamous VIA bug going to be problematic (that's my bus) VT82C686 is what windows ME properties

Re: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install

2001-08-17 Thread Ed Colmar
Not quite sure I follow you here... Shutdown the machine, then do what from there? Direct boot? Boot from a win boot disk? Thanks for the help! -ed- Excuse my jumping in here, but, did you load LM 8.0 and do you have the infamous via 686b southbridge chipsets on the computers. I am

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread Kirby Urner
Either you are ME are wrong then, 'cause that's sound System Properties includes these entries: VIA Tech VT82C686 PCI to ISA bridge VIA Tech VT82C686 Power Management Controller Wait, I get it. This is about talking to my ISA Ensoniq sound card yes? Anyway, is this info sufficient

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread Kirby Urner
There were more including the Abit's, but they were dropped by AMD from approval at the same time the VIA-IDE bug started being hyped last March. Sorry to learn that, as this is what I've got. Sounds like MDK8.1 might have some fixes/workarounds. Thinking to wait. I don't think dma is

[newbie] cdrom device busy

2001-08-17 Thread Scott
I just unstalled a cd rewriter (running 8.0) and was just burning a cd for the first time. After I did this I put in a cd and tried to read the contents by clicking on the desktop shortcut. The window never opened. (I have already done: cd /dev rm cdrom ln -s scd0 scdrom and the shortcut

RE: [newbie] Mandrake and Oracle

2001-08-17 Thread Dorian_750
Is there a detailed install for Mandrake 8.0 and Oracle 8i? I have tried and failed to install on 8.0. Thank you, Dorian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of A V Flinsch Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 6:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] cdrom device busy

2001-08-17 Thread Scott
After sending the last message I sutdown the system. It took several tries to log out and then on shutdown it stopped at an error message that said Kernel Panic and Supermount Panic. I finally shut off the power and started back up again. SW On Friday 17 August 2001 15:07, you wrote: I

RE: [newbie] cdrom device busy

2001-08-17 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] cdrom device busy Hi, looking at the first message was the soft link listed a typo when you show scd0 scdrom? it should have been ...cdrom. I did not have to do this with my install, but that is neither here nor there. Since you had it going it made the link so what I

RE: [newbie] removing boot manager

2001-08-17 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] removing boot manager Should have proof read before I sent the message, it sounds a bit confusing now that I read it. Look for the words linux boot floppy for clarification. Also to the list I appologize if I've been sending HTML the dang windows machine reverted on me

Re: [newbie] Other screens than :0?

2001-08-17 Thread emammendes
Hi ya That is exactly what I want. I don't think I need a second video card. I can get full screen with vmware but I can'get fwin (full screen for win4lin). I think fwin tries to start a new virtual screen and my video card won't allow it. How to put display 1 on tty8? Many thanks Eduardo

RE: [newbie] cdrom device busy (OT}

2001-08-17 Thread Charles A Edwards
Dennis. Shame on you. You're sending in HTML. Charles ((-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWO Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 3:46 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie]

[newbie] anybody use jed?

2001-08-17 Thread Mark Johnson
I'm trying to use jed with brief emulation. I added this to my .jedrc file: () = evalfile (brief); but it doesn't seem to take... any suggestions? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] jerky mouse movement

2001-08-17 Thread Miark
Try mousedrake for which you may have to su first. Your mention of /dev/psaux is curious. From mousedrake I just choose wheel mouse and I'm good to go. Miark - Original Message - From: Jay Latham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:55 PM Subject:

Re: [newbie] Re: Mozilla/Java symbolic link

2001-08-17 Thread Ola Lidén
No, Java is still not working. I run Mozilla nightly build 2001081008, but I had the same problem with 0.9.3. I have made the symlink corect. But I have not installed Java, only downloaded and unpacked jre.xpi should I do any instalation of Java? Ola On Thursday 16 August 2001 09:29, you

Re: [newbie] Ugly fonts - Anti-aliasing

2001-08-17 Thread Guilherme Cirne
At 08:45 17/08/01 -0600, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 August 2001 08:32, Adams, Jamie gave up his right to remain silent by saying: The Anti-Aliased fonts are not activated by default. I dont know if they work in Gnome, but if you wantt hem

Re: [newbie] anybody use jed?

2001-08-17 Thread A V Flinsch
On Friday 17 August 2001 16:15, you wrote: I'm trying to use jed with brief emulation. I added this to my .jedrc file: () = evalfile (brief); but it doesn't seem to take... any suggestions? First copy the /usr/share/jed/lib/jed.rc file to ~/.jedrc then edit it. I usually use the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Oracle

2001-08-17 Thread A V Flinsch
On Friday 17 August 2001 15:14, Dorian_750 wrote: Is there a detailed install for Mandrake 8.0 and Oracle 8i? I have tried and failed to install on 8.0. There is no detailed set of instructions available for Oracle8i on Mandrake 8.0, exactly what problems are you having? -- Alex Steve

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 17 August 2001 02:02 pm, Kirby Urner wrote: Yes, I have reconfigured ME to do a DOS-style boot, allowing non-Windows access to DOS prompt if I want it. config conflict. Just make sure you have a Mandrake boot floppy handy so you can rerun 'lilo' to restore lilo to the mbr. Is

Re: [newbie] modem

2001-08-17 Thread Robert F. Trettel
HI, I use a Zoom external V.92 and works great. Linux had no problems with it( under $100) Have a great day Robert F. Trettel - Original Message - From: Dean Morrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 5:26 PM Subject: [newbie] modem I've got an

[newbie] Partition Party

2001-08-17 Thread dic98
Okay, I'm about to reinstall my Mandrake system off of my 7.2 cds and I'd like to hear people's recommendations on partition sizes and any specific files I should make sure I have. Just FYI I've got the whole box set with all seven cds. There will be two frequent users of this system and

Re: [newbie] Two newbie Q's

2001-08-17 Thread etharp
On Friday 17 August 2001 13:41, Mitchell, Edmund wrote: Hello all, Trying to round out my Linux education (this may take a few years ;)): On bootup, I can save a second or two by stopping the process(?) daemon(?) that's checking to see if I have installed or removed any hardware. I think

Re: [newbie] modem

2001-08-17 Thread dic98
I second the motion. I've got a Zoom 56Kx Dualmode External, it rules. I connect at 37/38 to my local provider with the kppp set to 57600 (turned out to be the best speed for me) and it gives a rock solid 6kbps transfer rate. It cost like $50, so it wasn't bad at all. Peace, Isaac

Re: [newbie] modem

2001-08-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 16 August 2001 17:04, you wrote: HI, I use a Zoom external V.92 and works great. Linux had no problems with it( under $100) Have a great day Robert F. Trettel - Original Message - From: Dean Morrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 17,

Re: [newbie] cdrom device busy (OT}

2001-08-17 Thread Dennis Myers
I know, I know, see my last message, I was using Outlook at work and the dang thing reverted to HTML on me. This is embarrassing, like passing gas in an elevator, everyone knows who did it. : ( Sorry again, On Friday 17 August 2001 15:12, you wrote: Dennis. Shame on you. You're

[newbie] PROBLEM: Installing XMMS 1.2.5

2001-08-17 Thread TezcatlipocA
HI 2 EVERYONE, I finally got my Audio Galaxy Satellite to work thanks to those who helped me, so I thank all of U :) However, now I want to install the latest version of XMMS (1.2.5) but when I run the ./configure command it gave me an eeror message. These R the last lines it gave me :

[newbie] Not prompted for additional cds (resubmitted)

2001-08-17 Thread dic98
// sorry if this is bad ettiquette but i'm resubmitting something i sent // to the list three or four days ago and didn't get a response // if that's not ok please let me know just for the future // i really need help with this because i've got mission-critical apps // on the extra cds and it

Re: [newbie] Not prompted for additional cds (resubmitted)

2001-08-17 Thread Kirby Urner
I'm reinstalling 7.2 on a pretty old box (Eve - 266 MHz PII, 32MB Ram, junker Everex Monitor, etc) and I am not getting asked whether How much hard drive space ya got? Maybe install is thinking by the time you get the basic install done, there's no room left for the fancy/extra stuff. Just

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[newbie] Printing from StartOffice?

2001-08-17 Thread Dr. Evil
I am currently using Mandrake with StarOffice. I can create and print documents easily from Kword, but StarOffice does a much better job importing MS documents, so I would like to be able to print from that. However, I can't print from it. Also, when I save the documents as Postgscript, the

Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Windows

2001-08-17 Thread Richie de Almeida
Typically deleting the partition is not enough, I recommend performing exorcism if one truly wants to banish Windows from whence it came... Richie On August 16, 2001 09:22 am, Jesse Hepburn wrote: Does anyone know how I would go about uninstalling windows? Can I just delete the partition

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread Kirby Urner
I notice Abit KT7A is green lined at Mandrake website, meaning tested. My KT7E uses same VIA KT133E /VIA 686B chipset. So maybe I shouldn't be fearing some VIA bug after all (savvy guy Brinkman was suggesting Abits could be problematic, yet none of the Soyo MBs listed at Mandrake are green

Re: [newbie] Not prompted for additional cds (resubmitted)

2001-08-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 17 August 2001 19:22, you wrote: I'm reinstalling 7.2 on a pretty old box (Eve - 266 MHz PII, 32MB Ram, junker Everex Monitor, etc) and I am not getting asked whether How much hard drive space ya got? Maybe install is thinking by the time you get the basic install done, there's

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

2001-08-17 Thread JDRadio
Peter, When you boot the boot disk, it should come to a prompt boot: type linux enter and it should now be booting. Carroll is right about the VIA bug but don't know if it applies as you never said what the motherboard chipset was, or I missed it as I had to reinstall linux CAUSE I downloaded

Re: [newbie] cdrom device busy

2001-08-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 17 August 2001 15:30, you wrote: Thanks, I did what you said and it worked. However I put that cd I just burned back in to read it, and the problem happened again. It seems to be something about that cd. I don't know if that makes any sense, but it seems to freeze the device up.

Re: [newbie] Ugly fonts - Anti-aliasing

2001-08-17 Thread Richie de Almeida
Not all fonts are created equal! Some are bitmap-based and I don't think anti-aliasing applies to them-- try to favour the adobe type fonts or true-type fonts as these are vector based and they will look better even without anti-aliasing. If you're running KDE, you can get a little extra

[newbie] Ugly solution to printing found, but I need something better

2001-08-17 Thread Dr. Evil
I have figured out a way to print from StarOffice under Mandrake8.0: In StarOffice, print to a file, which generates a postscript file. Take that file and use gs -sDEVICE=pngmono to generate a png file. Use Imagemagick to resize the file to a smaller size. Open the file with Konqueror and

Re: [newbie] removing boot manager

2001-08-17 Thread Richie de Almeida
You can configure a bootdisk from Mandrake Control Center. You can also uninstall LILO by runnnig /sbin/lilo -U /dev/hda. You might also want to run fdisk and make sure your win98 partition is marked as the active/bootable partition. Booting up with a win98 rescue disk and typing SYS C:

[newbie] Re: modem

2001-08-17 Thread unclerichard
Hi, I've just installed MD8 and am naturally on a steep learning curve. My first problem is getting my modem operational I know Linux is not good with winmodems which I have. Before going down the replacement road with my modem where do you suggest I look for possible drivers? The modem is a

RE: [newbie] removing boot manager

2001-08-17 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] removing boot manager Did you make a boot floppy during the initial installation? If so you are good to go. If not go to Mandrake control centerbootmake boot floppy or something close to that(I'm not at the linux computer yet) Make the boot floppy for the partition you set

Re: [newbie] cdrom device busy

2001-08-17 Thread Scott
Thanks, I did what you said and it worked. However I put that cd I just burned back in to read it, and the problem happened again. It seems to be something about that cd. I don't know if that makes any sense, but it seems to freeze the device up. SW On Friday 17 August 2001 15:45, you

Re: [newbie] jerky mouse movement

2001-08-17 Thread civileme
On Friday 17 August 2001 14:55, Jay Latham wrote: I've just switched from Debian to Mandrake 8.0 on this computer mainly because I could never get sound to work with Debian. I'm a little confused because debian puts most of it's config files in different directories than mandrake so for give

Re: [newbie] cdrom device busy

2001-08-17 Thread civileme
On Friday 17 August 2001 15:22, Scott wrote: After sending the last message I sutdown the system. It took several tries to log out and then on shutdown it stopped at an error message that said Kernel Panic and Supermount Panic. I finally shut off the power and started back up again. SW

RE: [newbie] removing boot manager

2001-08-17 Thread Dean Morrell
Neat, Sweet, Petite. Good to go on all fronts. Thanks for the help. (I understood the first time :) At 12:32 PM 8/17/2001 -0700, you wrote: Did you make a boot floppy during the initial installation? If so you are good to go. If not go to Mandrake control centerbootmake boot floppy or

[newbie] modem

2001-08-17 Thread Dean Morrell
I've got an old 56k winmodem. Any recommendations for a replacement that'll work with Mandrake 8? Price is an issue... Dean -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. - Voltaire Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] anybody use jed?

2001-08-17 Thread civileme
On Friday 17 August 2001 16:15, Mark Johnson wrote: I'm trying to use jed with brief emulation. I added this to my .jedrc file: () = evalfile (brief); but it doesn't seem to take... any suggestions? First of all, that's already there if you cp /usr/share/jed/lib/jed.rc

Re: [newbie] anybody use jed?

2001-08-17 Thread civileme
On Friday 17 August 2001 16:15, Mark Johnson wrote: I'm trying to use jed with brief emulation. I added this to my .jedrc file: () = evalfile (brief); but it doesn't seem to take... any suggestions? Oh yes, one more suggestion http://ibogeo.df.unibo.it/guido/jed-quickref.html

Re: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install

2001-08-17 Thread civileme
On Friday 17 August 2001 13:36, you wrote: Not quite sure I follow you here... Shutdown the machine, then do what from there? Direct boot? Boot from a win boot disk? Thanks for the help! -ed- Boot from LILO to windows after doing a power-down. Your hard disks could be keeping the mode

Re: [newbie] modem

2001-08-17 Thread civileme
On Friday 17 August 2001 17:26, Dean Morrell wrote: I've got an old 56k winmodem. Any recommendations for a replacement that'll work with Mandrake 8? Price is an issue... Dean Devoid of any manuals or other throwaway items, and some marked as 33.6 but all 56K and ISA and internal (make

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM: Installing XMMS 1.2.5

2001-08-17 Thread s
It seems to be looking for an older version that what we have on 8.0. Just a suggestion, try finding the mandrake rpm equivalent on rpmfind.net or one might be listed in the software manager if you configured an update or cooker site (tho there will probably be other dependency problems with

Re: [newbie] Swap Space

2001-08-17 Thread dic98
Okay, I think I've got my head wrapped around the whole swap size issue. Let's play the game of I say what I think swap is, and then you either pat me on the head or break out the dunce cap. Here goes: The point of swap is to serve as a safety net for RAM, when you're all out of RAM your

[newbie] Re: {newbie] Is swap being used?

2001-08-17 Thread alex
The general response to complaints that MDK 8.0 is slow seems to be to install more ram. I realize that ram is inherently faster than swap and swap is only supposed to supplement existing ram. If adding more ram increases the speed but just using a larger swap provides no

Re: [newbie] Not prompted for additional cds (resubmitted)

2001-08-17 Thread civileme
On Friday 17 August 2001 20:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: // sorry if this is bad ettiquette but i'm resubmitting something i sent // to the list three or four days ago and didn't get a response // if that's not ok please let me know just for the future // i really need help with this because

Re: [newbie] Two newbie Q's

2001-08-17 Thread Richie de Almeida
Like some of the other responses have said, you're best bet is to find a way to get your high-speed on Linux but in the meantime if you must download from Windoze just save it to a FAT or FAT32 partition as its the only FS Windows has in common with Linux... Richie On August 17, 2001 01:41

[newbie] Is there a way to get the DNS for a dial-up connection?

2001-08-17 Thread emammendes
Hello I hope I am firing a stupid question but I wonder how I could know the DNS address of my ISP.. Many thanks Eduardo NetZero Platinum Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinumrefcd=PT97 Want to

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread civileme
On Friday 17 August 2001 21:06, Kirby Urner wrote: I notice Abit KT7A is green lined at Mandrake website, meaning tested. My KT7E uses same VIA KT133E /VIA 686B chipset. So maybe I shouldn't be fearing some VIA bug after all (savvy guy Brinkman was suggesting Abits could be problematic,

[newbie] IP Masquerade LM 8.0

2001-08-17 Thread Michael Picco
Has anyone successfully set up IP Masquerade under Mandrake 8.0? The most current HOWTO doesn't address this particular kernel. Where does one go for information? Thanks, Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] removing boot manager

2001-08-17 Thread Dean Morrell
I installed Mandrake 8.0 a couple days ago. What a ride. I installed it on a machine with Win98se already running. Now, I like the os, but I don't want a boot manager on this system. I'd much rather boot from a floppy to access the os. Can someone help with removing the boot manager and

RE: [newbie] IP Masquerade LM 8.0

2001-08-17 Thread Nadin Merali
Hey From what I understand, there is no ipchains in 2.4, they use iptables. Below are two links, one to a script and one to an article which goes in depth. (I haven't read it, I found another script and just used it). http://www.bastille-linux.org/jay/soho-iptables-nat.txt

Re: [newbie] Partition Party

2001-08-17 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:19:24 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: big Snip Alrighty, I'll put down what I was thinking of doing and you can tell me why it's dumb, why it's perfect, or perhaps just tinker with it a little bit: / 250MB /swap 200MB /usr 10 Gig /home 9.55 Gig

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