RE: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-24 Thread Hans N.
I wont include the message, but if I were a Freudian Psychiatrist, I'd have a hay day with it and all that talk of ego, spelling errors, all lower case letters :^)~ Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of george Sent: Monday, September 24

[newbie] Help with CRON

2001-09-24 Thread Duke Glover
Hello all, Quick one for you I need help with cron on Mandrake 7.0 I want to schedule a script, using cron, that will run every Saturday at 11:59pm. Now on Solaris I would do it like this 59 23 * * 6 /my/script.sh > /dev/null 59 = minute 23 = hour * = day of the month * = month of the ye

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-24 Thread Ed Kasky
It has been my experience that most of the offenders don't even know the difference between html and plain text let alone know how to change a setting. "I thought all I had to do was turn it on and just go..." }B->) I can't tell you how frustrating it was for me to get some members of some l

Re: [newbie] Login Manager

2001-09-24 Thread David Robertson
It didn't exist in my system either, but I found that just "GNOME" didn't work - it had to be "DESKTOP=GNOME" David On Monday 24 September 2001 9:44 pm, you wrote: > On Monday 24 September 2001 03:35 pm, Dave Naylor wrote: > > Hi > > > > On Monday 24 September 2001 21:24, you wrote: > > > > Its

Re: [newbie] Login Manager

2001-09-24 Thread David Robertson
You need to create a file /etc/sysconfig/desktop and just insert the line "DESKTOP=GNOME" (without quotes). There should be a setting in /etc/X11/prefdm that specifies gdm if the preferred desktop is gnome - I can't remember the details but I think the file is OK as it comes in LM 8.0, so all I

Re: [newbie] Login Manager

2001-09-24 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Check in /etc/inittab for "prefdm" (I don't remember where prefdm is, and I'm not near a linux box at the moment). Within that file, is the definition for which login manager you will be using. Just change it to the desired login manager "kdm,gdm, or xdm"... Ric Dave Sherman wrote: > -B

RE: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-24 Thread Hans N.
Visionteck and PNY both have GeForce 2 MX400 64 meg PCI cards. I believe Visionteck also has a 32 meg GeForce 2 MX200 PCI card as well. Just my 2 cents. Oh, and a side story, kind of sums up Frank's post. One day several years ago, I walked into a Best Buy. I wanted to ask the customer service de

Re: [newbie] browse directories with appache?

2001-09-24 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 September 2001 04:00 pm, Jon Doe wrote: > Ok, how do I let my visitors browse files in a directory, so I don't > have to build an html page for each directory and file? > As of right now it keeps saying you don't have permission to accces

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-24 Thread D. Lee Wiggers
Some of us "refugees" do appreciate the help very much, are not rude ever, no matter how provoked, and would prefer not to be tarred with the same brush as those who are rude and/or hostile. Frankly, as a lurker extraordinaire, I would rather associate with the guy who gave up an old video card

Re: [newbie] Other screens than :0?

2001-09-24 Thread Ric Tibbetts
No, you don't need a second card. You can run multiple X sessions on a single card. I had a quick glance at the log file, but am unsure of the nature of the problem. How do you start X now? (xdm?, or startx?) Ric Jesse Hepburn wrote: > The :0 represents display 0 on your system. > If you ha

Re: [newbie] Login Manager

2001-09-24 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 September 2001 03:35 pm, Dave Naylor wrote: > Hi > > On Monday 24 September 2001 21:24, you wrote: > > > Its annoying me that I cant figure this out, but how does one change > > > from the default KDM Login Manager to say GDM? > > > > 1.

Re: [newbie] Login Manager

2001-09-24 Thread Dave Naylor
Hi On Monday 24 September 2001 21:24, you wrote: > > Its annoying me that I cant figure this out, but how does one change > > from the default KDM Login Manager to say GDM? > 1. Make sure that gdm is installed (it probably is). > 2. Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop, and change KDE to GNOME

RE: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-24 Thread Franki
yeah, but its still not the redhat site, have you been on that??? There must be thousands of people on this list, and probably 20 of them have proven to be "nasty" posters... that still leaves alot (the majority in fact!!!) that are here because of linux instead of politics or personal amateur ps

[newbie] Solved: RC1 & korganizer

2001-09-24 Thread Joan Tur
kdepim installed. Sorry about that silly question O8) Es Mon 24 Sep 2001 21:59, Joan Tur va escriure: > Hallo! > > Where's korganizer in RC1 ?? I cannot find it... i know it's in a kde* > package, but all of them are installed but devel ones 8? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Login Manager

2001-09-24 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 September 2001 03:12 pm, Dave Naylor wrote: > Hi > > Its annoying me that I cant figure this out, but how does one change > from the default KDM Login Manager to say GDM? 1. Make sure that gdm is installed (it probably is). 2. Edit the f

Re: [newbie] X window on Toshiba Sat pro 4600

2001-09-24 Thread David Robertson
Well, I don't know much about the Toshiba, but you could try to send your mail in plain text, rather than html. A lot of GNU/Linux users are a bit picky about things like that (not me , of course!) Are you sure that the screen resolution isn't just set too small? You should be able to adjust i

Re: [newbie] Installing Samsung ML4500 printer on 7.1 - Not!

2001-09-24 Thread Miark
Oy--sorry Gordon, I don't remember anything else. I've installed the printer several times since then, but it's always been as part of a full Mandrake installation :-( Miark - Original Message - From: Gordon Burgess-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, Septe

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-24 Thread s
On Monday 24 September 2001 03:19 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > I recently made the serious error of replying to a question (on this > list), to a person seaking advice on a modem. I "did" make the mistake > of recently switching my mail software, and I missed turning off HTML. > I've corrected that.

Re: [newbie] Vortex!! 2500 au8830 based - don't work :(

2001-09-24 Thread skinky
On Sunday 23 September 2001 06:00, you wrote: > Question: Vortex!!- 2500 au8830 based chipset -don't work :( > what i may do? How to problem? Help me please > I already have au88xx*.tar.gz. Unpaked successful. > When i try install the driver it say about errors.PnP OS -dizabled

Re: [newbie] Vortex!! 2500 au8830 based - don't work :(

2001-09-24 Thread David Robertson
On booting, go into the bios settings and you'll find an entry for "plug and play" bios somewhere - disable it, or set it to "no." then reboot. After unpacking au88xx.tar.bz2, you'll need to edit the Makefile to allow for whatever kernel you have. Good luck David On Saturday 22 September 2

Re: [newbie] kde locks up

2001-09-24 Thread s
On Sunday 23 September 2001 03:50 pm, civileme wrote: > I would guess off-hand that the power supply voltages need to be checked. > 2.2 is right for K6 speed 450 or higher. It was 2.2. I'd forgotten this was an adjustable setting. I remember seeing switches/jumpers on mobo for this now.

[newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-24 Thread Ric Tibbetts
I recently made the serious error of replying to a question (on this list), to a person seaking advice on a modem. I "did" make the mistake of recently switching my mail software, and I missed turning off HTML. I've corrected that. However, I don't think I did anything to warrent being called

[newbie] X window on Toshiba Sat pro 4600

2001-09-24 Thread Pedro Montero
I have installed Mandrake 8.0 on a notebook Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 but I have problems configuring the X Window. I have a Trident Cyberblade card. Basically, the KDE appears much smaller than the screen size. This is the first time installing Linux so if anybody have any idea about the XF86Co

Re: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-24 Thread Gary Chisholm
If you like, I'll donate you an older card thats sitting here collecting dust (older Voodoo), as long as you use you're money to buy Power Pack 8.1 when it's release. Email me back if you like to have it. Gary Chisholm "MUD" Just another Mandrake User ;) On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 14:18, Hylton Co

Re: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-24 Thread Randy Kramer
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: The software > manager is not being displayed completely under this video card and I > therefore want to increase my video card. Tell us more -- do you need higher resolution or what? Is the screen display bigger than the CRT so that you have to scroll? I'm just

Re: [newbie] Running W$/DOS Apps on Samba

2001-09-24 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Yes, and no. If you install Windoze software "from a Windoze machine" onto a samba share, then yes, you can mount that share, and run the application, and save to that disk space "from the windoze box". This is commonly done. If you're asking if you can run the app from the LInux box, then no

Re: [newbie] Samba Clients Passwords

2001-09-24 Thread Roderick Scotto
I had the same problrm 2 days ago.. I solved. you must add the windows users in the samab by typing smbadduser and create user and password.. then when ever you click on the folder form the windows machine enter the samba password (the one that you assigned to the smbadduser) to change the pas

Re: [newbie] Installing Samsung ML4500 printer on 7.1 - Not!

2001-09-24 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Miark wrote: 013401c1451c$e2912b50$0100a8c0@mike"> Gordon,Have you tried following the instructions that came with printer? I have a ML-4600, andfollowing the directions on the driver CD, I had the printer working in less than 5minutes.Miark- Original Message -From: "Gordon Burgess-Par

Re: [newbie] Running W$/DOS Apps on Samba

2001-09-24 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 September 2001 01:34 pm, Nicolás Gómez wrote: > Hi ... i have a question for you > > I have 4 windows 9x machines connected to a Mandrake 8.1 Release > Candidate Server running samba > > The question is. Can the Windows Users run

RE: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-24 Thread Franki
ok, fair enough, but you don't need "That" flash a vid card to do what you want.. for alot less then a Voodoo or Nvidia, you can pick up a PCI 8mb with a sys chipset... alot less money and alot better suited to your system There is no point in coupling video cards designed with a 1gig CPU

[newbie] Running W$/DOS Apps on Samba

2001-09-24 Thread Nicolás Gómez
Hi ... i have a question for you I have 4 windows 9x machines connected to a Mandrake 8.1 Release Candidate Server running samba The question is. Can the Windows Users run an app made for DOS/Windows on the Linux server and save their changes there?.. I know that Samba is like Novell...

Re: [newbie] What program for news ??

2001-09-24 Thread Joan Tur
Es Sun 23 Sep 2001 16:06, Sridhar Dhanapalan va escriure: > > -bottom left: connecting - jobs 0/1 (when trying to dl the list of news > > groups from news.rafastd.org, my fidonet news server) > > > > And then i get a gnome error: > > "PAN application has failed (fatal error)" and it hangs 8( > >

Re: [newbie] Samba Clients Passwords

2001-09-24 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 September 2001 01:11 pm, Nicolás Gómez wrote: > Windows 95. I wish that the 9x Machine enter to the Samba Machine > like if it were entering in another Windows Machine.. OK, then as someone else said (Michael?), you will need t

Re: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-24 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Franki, wish I was joking. Unfortunately I am unemployed right now and the only machine I have besides a 486 is this P I I got 5 years ago. The software manager is not being displayed completely under this video card and I therefore want to increase my video card. I figured the Voodoo 3 would be

Re: [newbie] Samba Clients Passwords

2001-09-24 Thread Nicolás Gómez
Windows 95. I wish that the 9x Machine enter to the Samba Machine like if it were entering in another Windows Machine.. - Original Message - From: "Dave Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba Clien

[newbie] Install CD won't bootup on mac g4

2001-09-24 Thread Ben Bargagliott
I am trying to install Mandrake Linux 8 on my new mac g4 733Mhz with 384MB RAM. i downloaded both .iso files for ppc from the mandrake linux download page. i burned the intall iso file on a cdr using toast titanium 5 using the "iso 9660" burning option. when i restart my computer and hold down

[newbie] RC1 & korganizer

2001-09-24 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! Where's korganizer in RC1 ?? I cannot find it... i know it's in a kde* package, but all of them are installed but devel ones 8? -- [root@quinipt RPMS]# rpm -qa|grep kde kdelibs-2.2.1-1mdk kdegraphics-2.2.1-1mdk kdenetwork-2.2.1-1mdk kde-i18n-es-2.2-2mdk kdeadmin-2.2

[newbie] OT: mail from microsoft...

2001-09-24 Thread Franki
Hi all, I just had this forwarded to me, its legit... am I the only one who thinks this is sorta funny??? Do we really want these guys in charge of our privacy with Passport and .net ??? We apparently can't blame them when things go wrong, and with them, things always go wrong at some stage... s

RE: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-24 Thread Franki
ummm, Just my opinion, although I suspect that it will be reflected by others... 1. A P100 will have nowhere near the power to supply a geoforceII or III.,. and if you can aford one, why not update the whole system. 2. I have never seen a PCI geoforce, and Pentium systems never had AGP to my rec

[newbie] Trying to automate aumix -L

2001-09-24 Thread Robt. Miller
I want my sound levels adjusted on bootup with the aumix -L command. From what I've seen it should go in the rc.local file but when I put it there nothing happens. Is there a special syntax or something more required than aumix -L ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Installing Samsung ML4500 printer on 7.1 - Not!

2001-09-24 Thread Miark
Gordon, Have you tried following the instructions that came with printer? I have a ML-4600, and following the directions on the driver CD, I had the printer working in less than 5 minutes. Miark - Original Message - From: "Gordon Burgess-Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Newbie List" <[

RE: [newbie] Samba Clients Passwords

2001-09-24 Thread Mark Johnson
Are you using Win95 or '98... if you are you have to set it up so that you enable logins on the Windows machine because if you don't it'll try to login to samba with an invalid user name. It's in the Samba docs, it just not real obvious - this is such a common problem I don't understand why they

Re: [newbie] åÓÔØ ÔÕÔ ËÔÏ, ÇÏ×ÏÒÑÝÉÊ ÐÏ ÒÕÓÓËÉ!

2001-09-24 Thread user
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[newbie] Video cards

2001-09-24 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Am just about to get myself an updated video card. I currently have a Trident Tgui 9440 1 Mb card running on a P I 100 Mhz and it just doesn't cut it in most cases. I am looking at either getting a Geforce 3 or Voodoo 3 32 Mb card and I wonder if there was any preference to either one as I curren

[newbie] analog delphi for linux

2001-09-24 Thread user
Say me please where download analog delphi5 for linux with russian language support+library libjpeg v6.2 or highter? (Boralnd Kylix - full copy of Delphi -only for Linux) I have OS - Linux Mandrake Russian Edition v 7.0 Full(4cd) based on: gcc 2.95.2, glibc 2.1.2, XFREE86 3.3.6,

[newbie] HP CD-Writer 9100i - can't smthing :((;

2001-09-24 Thread user
Question: about cd-writer supermount is ON Mandrake say me "Can't get content of CD -rom", when i click on cd-rom icon. And when loading Linux it say "Bad ...block, or too many file system mounted on hda" How get access to see, read© content from installation & other(iso, jouli

[newbie] Screen settings

2001-09-24 Thread Andrew Appleton
Hello,   First time trying Mandrake, previously I have been using Slackware (since about 1997 I think...). Anyhow, the Xconfiguration seems to have changed slightly - I cannot seem to manually set the H & V synch of my screen, all I can do is change the resolution. I have tried using both Xc

Re: [newbie] M 8.x configuring lilo & aurora, Xconfig

2001-09-24 Thread John W
If you make a change to LILO be sure to run /sbin/lilo at the root prompt to effect the change. I have noticed making changes using the control center does not "always" update LILO. John At 01:09 AM 9/24/01 -0600, you wrote: >Michal, > >The default installation would have installed the "Cont