[newbie-it] fotocamera

2001-08-25 Thread gian
Ciao a tutti. sapete dirmi un programma che supporti la fotocamera canon power shot a10. ho provato con gphoto ma sembra che non la supporti. forse neanche l' usb?

Re: [newbie] Galeon stopped working

2001-08-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 12:27, Jim Dawson wrote: Recently Galeon stopped working on my Mandrake 8 box. When I start it from the command line, I get no error messages of any kind, it just doesn't do anything. All of my other browsers, including Mozilla, work without any problem. Does anyone have

Re: [newbie] mplayer

2001-08-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 13:32, Paul wrote: It was Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:19:14 -0500 when Tom Brinkman wrote: Earlier in this thread wine was mentioned. I've thought that the pertinent Windoze .dll's were ? either present on the Linux system in a dir, or linked to those on your Windoze

Re: [newbie] Query: How to enable chooser in GDM, KDM, XDM under 8.0?

2001-08-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:26, George Petri wrote: I have been having significant problems with the chooser as well but AFAIK: Setting * CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a chooser In /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess seems to have no effect in XDM. Keep the Xaccess file like

Re: [newbie] Sharing files with windows 9x

2001-08-25 Thread Luke Randall
Ok, I was messing around with it a bit and now everything works basically. EXCEPT: I can see the linux computer on the Windows 98 machine under Network Neighbourhood but when I try and click on it it tells me that the computer/sharename doesn't exist. I've refreshed the Network Neighbourhood list

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 /etc/lilo.conf

2001-08-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 08:11, Marius Petravièius wrote: Sveiki, newbie, Could somebody send me default /etc/lilo.conf file or remind one line from it: vga=??? Please help me You can configure /etc/lilo.conf in the Mandrake Control Centre. There, options like 'vga=' are

Re: Re[4]: [newbie] Russian language in Mandrake 8.0

2001-08-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 15:02, cr0acker wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2001 11:43, you wrote: On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 17:25, cr0acker wrote: Hello Sridhar, Saturday, August 25, 2001, 7:01:53 AM, you wrote: SD On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:50, cr0acker wrote: Hello Sridhar, Friday,

Re: [newbie] AudioGalaxy

2001-08-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:02, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I started an account at AudioGalaxy and thought I had downloaded and installed the linux application correctly. It tried to download a song but was unsuccessful so when I went back to try again it just told me my satellite was not

Re: [newbie] Hardware failure?

2001-08-25 Thread C.H. Close
Possible failed memory stick?? For everybodys information:- I had a machine recently that went unreliable and finally failed to boot. The cure: I removed each memory module and lightly cleaned the gold fingers with a rubber ink eraser. On replacement of the modules the machine booted fine and

Re: [newbie] just wondering

2001-08-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 05:47, Tim Holmes wrote: Those links are all find and dandy, but not for a MAILING list. Those are unwritten and accepted ruls for NEWSGROUPS, which this is not. The reason why those are so accepted and enforced on news groups, is because 100% of all newsreaders I've

Re: [newbie] Galeon stopped working

2001-08-25 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Saturday 25 August 2001 04:27, Jim Dawson wrote: Recently Galeon stopped working on my Mandrake 8 box. When I start it from the command line, I get no error messages of any kind, it just doesn't do anything. All of my other browsers, including Mozilla, work without any problem. I had the

Re: [newbie] just wondering

2001-08-25 Thread Tim Holmes
Yeah, somebody else mentioned this to me, and also said that Pine did as well. I guess it was the version I used at the time. I only used KMail and Pine long enough to know I hated them. Been using Mutt for some time now. But this topic seems to have gotten well out of hand. I even had a few

Re: [newbie] Sharing files with windows 9x

2001-08-25 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 August 2001 04:56 pm, thus spake Luke Randall: Ok, I was messing around with it a bit and now everything works basically. EXCEPT: I can see the linux computer on the Windows 98 machine under Network Neighbourhood but when I try

Re: [newbie] Sharing files with windows 9x

2001-08-25 Thread Michael D. Viron
In this case, I just disable the firewall temporarily while I share the file or printer, then restart the firewall. That's ok if you are right there at the machine (or within a few minutes of its location). However, if you are trying to remotely administer a machine, that becomes less

[newbie] laptop - kppp eth0 connections

2001-08-25 Thread Michael Scottaline
I have a laptop [500mhz Celeron w 256mb RAM] that I used to connect via an external modem (the builtin is a winmodem) to my ISP. Several months ago, I bought a pcmcia ethernet card and have been connecting via my office lan. Obviously my /etc/resolv.conf now reflects that connection. If I were

[newbie] Re: Any Damn Browser Campaign (was: religion in linux OT TID)

2001-08-25 Thread Charlie Oriez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From: Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] I agree that IE is very good (duck rotten fruit), what bugs me is I have to develop web apps, and IE does everything differently, very differently. it's annoying have to code 2 different versions

Re: [newbie] tuxracer getting bad framerates

2001-08-25 Thread s
On Friday 24 August 2001 10:31 pm, Jeremy Davidson wrote: I finally got Tuxracer to work -- had to tell RPMDrake (Software Manager?) to install the mesa packages. Now, however, it runs at about 1-2 fps. I looked around for a mesa config program, but I haven't run across anything yet. What

[newbie] Default monitor best

2001-08-25 Thread Kirby Urner
When I installed MDK8.0 it gave me a generic super VGA monitor. Thought I'd be clever and tell it I had a Viewsonic 17G (cuz that's what I've got). Something in the synch settings didn't work. Good-bye X, hello trying to find the silly .conf file (or reinstall if you're a true newbie (hey

Re: [newbie] just wondering

2001-08-25 Thread Michael Leone
Yes, I'm curious to. I suspect it was Code Red or some other Windoze email worm embedded in the HTML that couldn't have caused any Code Red is *NOT* an email worm, and has *NOTHING* to do with HTML. It is an MS *SPECIFIC* infector, altho web servers on other OSes may have problems, due to

Re: [newbie] Galeon stopped working

2001-08-25 Thread A V Flinsch
On Friday 24 August 2001 10:27 pm, you wrote: Recently Galeon stopped working on my Mandrake 8 box. When I start it from the command line, I get no error messages of any kind, it just doesn't do anything. All of my other browsers, including Mozilla, work without any problem. Does anyone

[newbie] SNF packet forwarding problem.

2001-08-25 Thread John Turnbull
I have installed Mandrake SNF on an elderly HP Ventra with a 200MHz Pentium Pro in a test-bed configuration. I have it set up with eth0 (ne2k-pci card - 192.168.3.34) connected to the LAN side of my network and eth1 (3c59x - 192.168.4.34) running through a crossover cable to a laptop acting as a

Re: [newbie] IBM Thinkpad 600X / Opinion on Tops vs. Bottoms

2001-08-25 Thread Dave Burrows
On Saturday 25 August 2001 11:50, h3rb wrote: I have a 600x. Mandrake 8.0 would not install on it. This may or may not be of any help since your specific issue was not detailed but I read on the L-M site that Thinkpads use a non-standard timing scheme of the psaux port which was not figured

Re: [newbie] IBM Thinkpad 600X

2001-08-25 Thread civileme
On Saturday 25 August 2001 11:50, h3rb wrote: I have a 600x. Mandrake 8.0 would not install on it. Although RH 7.1 instaled flawlessly. h3rb On Friday 24 August 2001 01:21 am, you wrote: I just got a used IBM thinkpad 600X from a computer show. I was wondering if anyone had any horror

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 /etc/lilo.conf

2001-08-25 Thread Tim Barnard
I use vga=ask, you then get an optional list during boot that lets you select the screen resolution. Tim - Original Message - From: Marius Petravièius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 3:11 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 /etc/lilo.conf Sveiki,

[newbie] System menu

2001-08-25 Thread Frank Chen
Hi, all: Can I change the font and its size ofsystem menu under KDE or GNOME? --Frank

Re: [newbie] just wondering

2001-08-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 01:57, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2001 10:03 am, Michael Leone escribió: Kmail. Then again I'm no security expert. I don't have to be. I quit using M$ products to connect to the Net, mail or news years ago. EVERYBODY needs to be a bit of a security

Re: [newbie] Galeon stopped working

2001-08-25 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Saturday 25 August 2001 17:56, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Galeon releases are tied to specific versions of Mozilla. Make sure you have the version of Mozilla that your Galeon version was designed for. Good advice, but in this case it was, and I still had to delete those config directories

[newbie] grip problems - playing cds in lm 8.0 with cooker upgrades

2001-08-25 Thread bascule
i have a feeling that my problem may not be linux per se but i would be gratefull for any insights... i have lm 8.0 (freq3 plus cooker kde2.2) if i try to play my copy of pomegranate by heidi berry in grip it just cycles through the track titles and doesn't play anything, the cd is brand new

Re: [newbie] kernel.2.4.9 problems

2001-08-25 Thread A V Flinsch
On Saturday 25 August 2001 12:37 pm, you wrote: I'm using LM 8.0, and i decided to upgrade my kelnel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.9. And after I compailed and instaled kernel, my linux box can't boot as I wish. Well I use my console in resoultion 1024x768 with 32k color palette (VGA=791) and when I

[newbie] X session do not work

2001-08-25 Thread Gabriel Arcos
Hi, I get the following error while X session try to get open: "could not open default font 'fixed'" and session shutdown. I try to fixed with XFdrake but still no working. How can I fix this problem?

Re: [newbie] X session do not work

2001-08-25 Thread Paul
It was Sat, 25 Aug 2001 17:13:17 -0400 when Gabriel Arcos wrote: Hi, I get the following error while X session try to get open: could not open default font 'fixed' and session shutdown. I try to fixed with XFdrake but still no working. How can I fix this problem? Looks like xfs (X Font

[newbie] Stystem Menu

2001-08-25 Thread Idea.ListBT
Hi Frank Sorry can't help with your query but just to let you know that the html code that you include in your message cocks up my outlook express (yes I am still using OE :-) ). OE is inviting me to download an additional font in order to read your footer - it won't take no for an answer and

Re: [newbie] X session do not work

2001-08-25 Thread Gabriel Arcos
well X font server looks working OK. I don't know if this is importan but yesterday I build gcc 3.0.1, before installation I had 300MB of free space in / maybe gcc get all this space?. I review the error and the last thing it report is: XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X

Re: [newbie] Stystem Menu

2001-08-25 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Idea.ListBT wrote: Hi Frank Sorry can't help with your query but just to let you know that the html code that you include in your message cocks up my outlook express (yes I am still using OE :-) ). OE is inviting me to download an additional font in order to read your footer - it won't

Re: [newbie] Stystem Menu

2001-08-25 Thread Idea.ListBT
It must be my OE (though I've never seen this before) because I've also read an older message from Pascal Goguey and this invites me to download a Japanese font! Pascal? - Japanese? - Nah! (I think I may have been 'got at'). Dave, I wannabe a Penguin head too, S. idea.list - Original

Re: [newbie] Sharing files with windows 9x

2001-08-25 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 August 2001 08:14 am, thus spake Michael D. Viron: In this case, I just disable the firewall temporarily while I share the file or printer, then restart the firewall. That's ok if you are right there at the machine (or within a

Re: [newbie] Well, Hell - hey Civileme!

2001-08-25 Thread John Simmons
OK let's see the output of /sbin/ifconfig cat /etc/sysconfig/network The KDE tools are perhaps the wrong toolset to be using--in an xterm, try draknet or use the mandrake control center, but better yet, reinstall and use the detection at install time in expert mode (nowhere near as

Re: [newbie] Well, Hell - hey Civileme!

2001-08-25 Thread John Simmons
As promised, here's the results of running those commandline tools: This is after a clean re-install (including re-partitioning the drive) of LM 8.0. I haven't installed anything else, haven't changed any of the settings from how they were installed, and STILL can't do anything but ping.

Re: [newbie] Mailing list in spanish ..De acuedo

2001-08-25 Thread Nicolás Gómez
100% de acuerdo - Original Message - From: geRcO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 2:09 AM Subject: [newbie] Mailing list in spanish ..De acuedo Yo tambien me adhiero a la propuesta !!! donde me inscribo ??? geRcO

Re: [newbie] mplayer

2001-08-25 Thread David E. Fox
Please note that mplayers web site says that soon the Windoze codecs will be phased out for an (better) open source solution. (can't wait) Does mplayer work better than aviplay or divx or the other stuff that's out there?

Re: [newbie] Well, Hell - hey Civileme!

2001-08-25 Thread John Simmons
At 02:34 AM 8/26/2001 -0400, you wrote: cat /etc/resolv.conf # search satx.rr.com search viewplan nameserver 24.28.131.114 nameserver 24.28.131.113 # ppp temp entry lsmod Oops, forgot this one... :-) cat /etc/modules.conf pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia

Re: [newbie] Resending question 2

2001-08-25 Thread Hugh Cecil
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:59:19 +0300 Solver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A question then. Can Linux users get HTML stuff, like newsletters, under KMAIL, or must they choose Plain Text? Solver You shouldn't want to use HTML mail. People shift to Linux to get away from all that crap. See the links

Re: [newbie] X session do not work

2001-08-25 Thread civileme
On Saturday 25 August 2001 18:08, Gabriel Arcos wrote: well X font server looks working OK. I don't know if this is importan but yesterday I build gcc 3.0.1, before installation I had 300MB of free space in / maybe gcc get all this space?. I review the error and the last thing it report is:

Re: [newbie] Well, Hell - hey Civileme!

2001-08-25 Thread civileme
On Saturday 25 August 2001 19:32, John Simmons wrote: As promised, here's the results of running those commandline tools: This is after a clean re-install (including re-partitioning the drive) of LM 8.0. I haven't installed anything else, haven't changed any of the settings from how they

[newbie] looking everywhere for urpmi help

2001-08-25 Thread Jason Guidry
`i've read everything I can get my hands on involving urpmi.* including man pages and list postings nothing i've done will add the rpms on the web to my rpm list. ive tried the following... [root@localhost jasong]# urpmi.addmedia RPMfind http://www.rpmfind.net and I get the following...

Re: [newbie] Stystem Menu

2001-08-25 Thread Frank Chen
Hi: That may be caused from my choosing a font to display my letter, and the encoding is big5! I'll choose western charsets afterwards. Frank - Original Message - From: Idea.ListBT [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 6:08 AM Subject: Re: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] X session do not work

2001-08-25 Thread Gabriel Arcos
I reinstall xfs as you told me but still don't working, after X fail to get up the system tell me: Press return to continue INIT: switching to runlevel 3 INIT: Sending process the TERM signal - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Gabriel Arcos

Re: [newbie] X session do not work

2001-08-25 Thread Gabriel Arcos
hummm I do all the fonts information with mkfontdir and then try to restart xfs but faild to restart, I try to view the status with service xfs status but tell me xfs do not exist but pid file exist. then, I use service xfs start and all looks OK but when I try to get the status again the same

[newbie] rsync return value

2001-08-25 Thread bascule
does anyone know if there is a return value when running rsync that i can use in a script that i want to write that will update my local copy of cooker and then run urpmi.addmedia --update but only if rsync changes anything make sense? i've just started reading up on shell scripts, i don't

Re: [newbie] Well, Hell - hey Civileme!

2001-08-25 Thread civileme
On Sunday 26 August 2001 03:33, John Simmons wrote: At 02:34 AM 8/26/2001 -0400, you wrote: cat /etc/resolv.conf # search satx.rr.com search viewplan ^^^ DELETEor comment out that line nameserver 24.28.131.114 nameserver 24.28.131.113 # ppp temp entry lsmod

Re: [newbie] X session do not work

2001-08-25 Thread civileme
On Sunday 26 August 2001 06:03, Gabriel Arcos wrote: hummm I do all the fonts information with mkfontdir and then try to restart xfs but faild to restart, I try to view the status with service xfs status but tell me xfs do not exist but pid file exist. then, I use service xfs start and all

Re: [newbie] rsync return value

2001-08-25 Thread civileme
On Saturday 25 August 2001 06:00, bascule wrote: does anyone know if there is a return value when running rsync that i can use in a script that i want to write that will update my local copy of cooker and then run urpmi.addmedia --update but only if rsync changes anything make sense? i've

[newbie] No Sound for CD

2001-08-25 Thread Matthew Harrison
Hey Gang, Slight problem. When I try to play a cd using CD Player, I get no sound from the cd even though it says its playing. But, I get sound from KDE themes and whatnot. I have a SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1 running on a 700 Celeron, 392 mb ram, a 20 gig HD running Win2k Pro, and a

Re: [newbie] No Sound for CD

2001-08-25 Thread Ton Strijbosch
On Sunday 26 August 2001 06:35, Matthew Harrison wrote: Hey Gang, Slight problem. When I try to play a cd using CD Player, I get no sound from the cd even though it says its playing. But, I get sound from KDE themes and whatnot. I have a SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1 running on a

[newbie] CD/RW drive - using...

2001-08-25 Thread Paul H Upton
Just got my cd/rw drive running under Mandrake 8. All I need to do now is figure out how to use it! I want to be able to copy other cd's and backup data on to them too. I have found the tools on webmin but cant figure them out... I'm working remotely across an ssh session as the Linux box is

Re: [newbie] mplayer

2001-08-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:34, David E. Fox wrote: use GCC 2.96 because it does not support MMX, but in my computer the mplayer works perfectly, eventhough my GCCis 2.96. They may be referring to the gcc 2.96 built by Red Hat specifically, and not a generic build (or mandrake) of 2.96. Mine is

Re: [newbie] mplayer

2001-08-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:23, David E. Fox wrote: Please note that mplayers web site says that soon the Windoze codecs will be phased out for an (better) open source solution. (can't wait) Does mplayer work better than aviplay or divx or the other stuff that's out there? Unlike other

[newbie] Simple eth0 question

2001-08-25 Thread Jon Doe
Ok, I have a cable modem hooked to eth0. I do ifdown eth0 this should shutoff my internet connection right? If this is true, why does my cable modems data light still flash? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com