RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread Sevatio
Jose, That's very interesting what you said. However, this wasn't a problem when I had the machines running LM7.2. Also, it's not a problem when running Windoze98. Sevatio >> Original Message << On 10/23/01, 4:51:06 PM, "Jose M. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [newbie] Mac vs Intel architecture deliberations

2001-10-23 Thread Robert
Okay to answer you question, and please I don't want to get into a Mac and PC arguement I have no favors in either, I bought it with MacX with Mac9 for older application support if I understand that correctly. Classic environment? In my post I stated that what I said was the impression I got SO

Re: [newbie] Burping a printer?

2001-10-23 Thread Len Lawrence
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Joseph Zitt wrote: > Printing to an Epson Stylus Color 880 via CUPS under Madrake 8.0... > > Occasionally a random print job goes awry and, instead of printing > thePostscriptdocument properly, it prints the Postscript code, which is, > of course, huge. When this happens, I

Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread hosey
Sevatio wrote: > AC97 sound doesn't work very well with LM8.0 . That's why I had to buy > soundcards for my machines with this piece-of-crap motherboard. > > Sevatio > > >>>Original Message << >>> > > On 10/23/01, 9:22:06 AM, Michael <[EMAIL P

[newbie] Sorting mail

2001-10-23 Thread Paul Schwebel
Okay, now that I have my DSL connection up and running, I can get to the problem I _really_ wanted to ask about! This may be a simple case of RTFM, but if someone could point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. I use an email forwarding service, pobox.com. If you're not familiar with it

Re: [newbie] cdrecord and my ricoh burner

2001-10-23 Thread quaylar
At 15:51 23.10.2001 -0700, you wrote: >On Tuesday 23 October 2001 02:42 pm, you wrote: > > hi ppl > > > > > > i have lm 8.1 and cdrecord version 1.10 > > i just tried to burn an audio cd (mp3 files converted to > > wav) with eroaster and upon clicking the "burn" button i > > got this : > > > > scs

Re: [newbie] audio cds in 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Paul Rodríguez
I did try your fix, but it didn't do it. Here's the output of "symlinks cd*" in the root dir and in /dev [root@localhost dev]# symlinks cd* /dev/cdrom: No such file or directory /dev/cdrom0: Not a directory [root@localhost /]# symlinks cd* dangling: /cdroms/cdrom0 -> ../ide/host0/bus1/target0/l

Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1, the saga SOLVED!

2001-10-23 Thread Paul Schwebel
Dave and Paul, I'm not sure what fixed things. I reinstalled Mandrake last night because I have played around with so many files that I wasn't sure of the original state of the install. I made sure I had bind utilities installed, and carefully configured my rp-pppoe software, initially with NO f

Re: [newbie] Doing Lynx4win in Windows XP

2001-10-23 Thread ddcharles
Hi, When you installed XP, you installed it on NTFS, which can NOT be used. sorry. David Charles On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Joshua Kurtz wrote: > I'm trying to install Mandrake on the same partion as Windows > XP. According to the help files you can do it with Windows > 95/98/ME. At the install prom

Re: [newbie] How can I determine if I'm root in a script

2001-10-23 Thread ddcharles
Hi, you can check to see if you are root, i.e.: `whoami` == "root" if that returns true, you are good to go. (btw, those are backticks around whoami) HTH, David Charles On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Mark Johnson wrote: > I'm trying to write a bash script to install some files but it must be run > as

RE: [newbie] How can I determine if I'm root in a script

2001-10-23 Thread Feras Al-Qadi
check also the value $USER it should give root for root or try this which is tricky username=`who am i | awk '{print $1'}` now $username holds the logged in user name juts copy the line above as it is don't forget the ` this tills linux to execute what is inside -Original Message- Fro

[newbie] Interesting stuff about XP

2001-10-23 Thread Franki
Hi Guys and Gals,, Did you people know that XP home will only network with 5 PC's peer to peer, ?? it doesn't support domain networking at all and has a maximium of 5 PC's it can network with... I just saw this in an M$ email (directly from M$)... ===

Re: [newbie] How do I release my IP number?

2001-10-23 Thread Paul Cox
On Tuesday, Oct 23, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This question is directed to Paul Cox, and is completely unrelated to the > original topic. I am sending thought the mailing list since someone maybe > wondering the same thing. My question is about the kernel and uptime on > Paul's signature,

[newbie] Burping a printer?

2001-10-23 Thread Joseph Zitt
Printing to an Epson Stylus Color 880 via CUPS under Madrake 8.0... Occasionally a random print job goes awry and, instead of printing thePostscriptdocument properly, it prints the Postscript code, which is, of course, huge. When this happens, I can't get the job to go away. I've tried cancellin

Re: [newbie] File/Printer Sharing with Windows

2001-10-23 Thread Ron Allen
Hi Dave, Wow, thanks for the detailed help! I'm going to try getting it set up tonight. Sorry for the lateness of the thanks, BTW, I wasn't at home last night and didn't get my email. Ron *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 10/22/2001 at 8:39 AM Dave Sherman wrote: >Ron, Samba can do

Re: [newbie] audio cds in 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Yeah, I'm running 8.1. I'm not quite sure how to check where my cd rom really is, but taking a look at HardDrake, my cdrom is listed as existing at /dev/hdc. And that seems to be what is listed in my fstab: /dev/hda6 / reiserfs noatime,notail 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm

[newbie] Epson Printer

2001-10-23 Thread Linus Drouhard
Hi everyone., I recently purchased an Epson 777 printer based largely on recommendations from this forum. I like the printer, but do not like the cost of the replacement cartridges. Does anyone have any experience with the Jet-Master refills and "chip resetter"? http://ww

[newbie] Where did Shred go?

2001-10-23 Thread Jon Doe
Where did shred go in KDE 2.2.1? Did they take this feature out or do I need to enable it somehow? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Circular dependancies?

2001-10-23 Thread Texstar
You can even put more than one rpm on the same line. I do this when one package requires the other and the 2nd package requires the 1st. rpm -Uvh blah-blah-mdk.i586.rpm liblah-blah-mdk.i586.rpm On Tuesday 23 October 2001 07:28 pm, you wrote: > >[root@pengo packages]# rpm -i libGConf1-1.0.4-

Re: [newbie] Circular dependancies?

2001-10-23 Thread Michael D. Viron
>[root@pengo packages]# rpm -i libGConf1-1.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm >error: failed dependencies: >GConf >= 1.0.4 is needed by libGConf1-1.0.4-2mdk > >Is this my fault for trying to install from the 8.1 RPM's or should I be able >to do this? Get around it by doing an 'rpm -i libGConf1-1.0.4-2mdk

RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Yeap, that's the bug, but it's not Linux's fault at all! It also happens with my Winblows machines. Linux at least TRIES to do something about it. Windows doesn't. Reading the timer.h and timer.c comments in the kernel code is most informative. It not only describes the nature of the problem b

Re: [newbie] apostrophe in Mozilla

2001-10-23 Thread Spencer Collyer
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 21:44, you wrote: > While viewing web pages in Mozilla 0.9.4, I notice that all of the > apostrophes get replaced with a y with two dots over the top. Do any > of you guys know how I get rid of this? Not a big deal, but kind of > annoying. TIA, > Fred Sounds like the

Re: [newbie] Mac vs Intel architecture deliberations

2001-10-23 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
> Do you find that winME is less stable than say > winNT or 2000? I do, Win2k runs like a dream, WinME has added clunkyness Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public

[newbie] loadable modules in 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Russ Kepler
All, I'm an old hand to UNIX as well as Linux, but after not updating my system for 6+ years have now replaced my old hardware with new and grabbed a Mandrake 8.1 to go with. Most things are working OK, but one issue I'm having is that loading of scsi modules is somewhat spotty. After manual

RE: [newbie] Circular dependencies?

2001-10-23 Thread Johnson, David
Dave, Thanks for the tip. There's now a TON of dependencies on mozilla that I don't yet have installed, but your trick DID work. I am thinking I may just attempt to make a network boot disk and use that to do an upgrade to 8.1, to help avoid some of this frustration... -Original Message---

Re: [newbie] Circular dependancies?

2001-10-23 Thread Onur Kucuk
DJ> Hello all, DJ> I've been trying to install Galeon onto my LM8.0 machine where the only x DJ> environment I have is KDE. I'm downloading the RPM's from the Mandrake site DJ> (which means that they're the 8.1 RPM's) because my CD-ROM drive has died and DJ> I no longer have access to the or

Re: [newbie] Circular dependancies?

2001-10-23 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 October 2001 16:53, David Johnson spouted off about "[newbie] Circular dependancies?": > Here begins my problem: > > When I try to install the Galeon rpm, I get: > > [root@pengo packages]# rpm -i galeon-0.12.1-2mdk.i586.rpm > error: fa

Re: [newbie] Gnome apps mouse focus

2001-10-23 Thread skinky
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 03:41, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: | On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:27:59 +, shipahoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:57:19 +0200 | > | > H McM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > Remove a package called imwheel. | > | > That worked. Thanks. | > | > It m

[newbie] Circular dependancies?

2001-10-23 Thread David Johnson
Hello all, I've been trying to install Galeon onto my LM8.0 machine where the only x environment I have is KDE. I'm downloading the RPM's from the Mandrake site (which means that they're the 8.1 RPM's) because my CD-ROM drive has died and I no longer have access to the original disks. Here b

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-10-23 Thread Mike Leone
> > I personally believe that Microsoft Internet Explorer is the best web > > browser out there. > > > > For any platform. > > > > Period. > > Perhaps if you like the following: > > 1. The browser is automatically installed and starts up at every boot whether > you want it or not (which explains w

Re: [newbie] Xwidnows or KDE problem

2001-10-23 Thread Robin Ballantine
You could try setting your bios to "normal" as opposed to "optimum". If it's a hardware problem, this might help by putting less strain on it. On Tuesday 23 October 2001 5:06 pm, you wrote: > I am all sorts of problems with either the xserver or KDE, not sure which. > At times it just decides to

[newbie] apostrophe in Mozilla

2001-10-23 Thread Fred Schroeder
While viewing web pages in Mozilla 0.9.4, I notice that all of the apostrophes get replaced with a y with two dots over the top. Do any of you guys know how I get rid of this? Not a big deal, but kind of annoying. TIA, Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http:/

Re: [newbie] learn C++ for Linux-Mandrake

2001-10-23 Thread Lars Thilander
> on 10/12/01 7:45 AM, Marco Paul Mancheno Herrera at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Somebody can say me, where do I find a free book or tutorial about C++ > > for Linux?? Marco, You find Thinking in C++ , written by Bruce Eckel at http://www.mindview.net/Books Lars Want to buy your Pack o

Re: [newbie] aRts not working

2001-10-23 Thread Sevatio
Is aRts set on using Control Center? What Mandrake is this? Sevatio >> Original Message << On 10/22/01, 6:33:02 PM, Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding [newbie] aRts not working: > ok, i've been toying around for a few days... I got MP3's to play on KDE

Re: [newbie] windows on linux

2001-10-23 Thread etharp
that's right. I am the only one around here with a viable excuse to be an ass, (being as I _AM_ an ass, and if you don't believe it, ask my kids.) PARTICK_u_lurly for no reason. (permission to see the doctor to remove toungue from cheek sir?) > > What's with the unnecessary attitude? Last I h

Re: [newbie] Suggestions on FTP and Firewall software on LM81

2001-10-23 Thread Paul
In reply to Great Dragon's words, written Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:02:14 -0500 In mcc go to system and then to services. Check if proftpd is checked to run on boot... Paul >Thats what I thought. Now I just have to find out how to get inetd to work >with proftp. If I run inetd and try to connect,

Re: [newbie] Mac vs Intel architecture deliberations

2001-10-23 Thread Matt Greer
on 10/23/01 3:02 PM, Robert Pena at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have hardly seen Mac crash but as far as multitasking goes I > get the impression it is slower than Linux and Windows. What MacOS are you talking about, pre 10 or 10+? As a big time Mac fan I can assure you Macs using 9 and earlier

Re: [newbie] Mac vs Intel architecture deliberations

2001-10-23 Thread Robert Pena
WindowsME is a joke if I want to say do some video capture or producing. If all I do is download email, surf the net, work on documents, play with some photos with Adobe, or do my finances I never see a crash or get a blue screen of death. Although, the Mac does come with Quicken, personally never

[newbie] Compaq Presario 1700t (modem)

2001-10-23 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I wrote about this a couple of days ago but did not get any responses. To my dismay I discovered that I have a Compaq 56 K V90 HCF miniPCI internal modem 14F1:1815 Conexant chip. I, also, have a Compaq 10_100MiniPCI ethernet NIC card that also has the conexant chip. When I ordered th

Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread Sevatio
AC97 sound doesn't work very well with LM8.0 . That's why I had to buy soundcards for my machines with this piece-of-crap motherboard. Sevatio >> Original Message << On 10/23/01, 9:22:06 AM, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-

Re: [newbie] Suggestions on FTP and Firewall software on LM81

2001-10-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 01:31 pm, you wrote: > I was wondering what would be the best freeware FTP and firewall setup. > Would I need a program or any executable or would it be better to just > modify things directly? I know FTP needs a daemon and the firewall could > just use the IPTABLES. W

Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread Sevatio
I have two machines with the GA-7ZX-1 mobo. LM8.0 made the system clock very inaccurate. LM8.1 made that same system clock even worse. I'm very disappointed with this problem. Although adjtimex can be used to help this, it still results in timekeeping that is less accurate than my childhoo

Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1, the saga continues

2001-10-23 Thread Paul Schwebel
Thanks Dave, I will check on this and post you back. Since my system is not really "live" yet (I'm still dual booting from WinMe) I did a complete reinstall last night. I had tried so many leads that I wasn't sure what state my system was in, and (sigh) didn't document as I went. I will this tim

Re: [newbie] Suggestions on FTP and Firewall software on LM81

2001-10-23 Thread Great Dragon
Thats what I thought. Now I just have to find out how to get inetd to work with proftp. If I run inetd and try to connect, it replys "connection rejected" if I run /usr/sbin/in.proftpd manually it works fine, of corse, its permanently loaded From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAI

Re: [newbie] AOL and Mandrake 8.0

2001-10-23 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:30:01 +0100 Adrian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cleverly noted: > I'm a bit late with this one! I had a chat with AOL's online help, I > wrote a > large paragraph of my situation, saying what info I needed , or thought > I > needed, to get AOL going in Win4Lin. His answer, "AO

[newbie] Suggestions on FTP and Firewall software on LM81

2001-10-23 Thread Great Dragon
I was wondering what would be the best freeware FTP and firewall setup. Would I need a program or any executable or would it be better to just modify things directly? I know FTP needs a daemon and the firewall could just use the IPTABLES. What is the best. __

Re: [newbie] modem problem

2001-10-23 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi everybody... > I have linux mandrake 8.1 installed on my computer. > I have an internal modem and as you know I can not connect internet using my modem... > I heard that some programs are developed to solve this problem, but I couldn't find >any

Re: [newbie] Can't run any GUI from root shell?

2001-10-23 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
If you are in KDE, hit ALT-F2 then type "xhost +localhost" and hit enter. This will allow for local access. On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Jon Doe wrote: > What would cause this? If I open a terminal window, su to root and type say > kpackage, I get this error: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by

Re: [newbie] Installing a new program

2001-10-23 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 12:47, you wrote: > The main program I want to install is Netscape 6 (though I've now played > with Galeon and Konqueror, both of which actually look like they're > pretty good). From the NS site I've downloaded the installation file, > but that's a .tar.gz file and tha

RE: [newbie] AOL and Mandrake 8.0

2001-10-23 Thread Chris Huston
aol no workie... period Please be aware that aol changes windows registry settings, updated/pollutes your network setting... denudes ie, changes your modem dialing string.. and then when you update your windows, using windows update... or when you install software that looks for the windows

RE: [newbie] windows on linux

2001-10-23 Thread Adrian Lynch
GO ON SON, HIT 'EM He was only joking, sometimes there's no other way to say, or point something out with out coming across like you're being a smart arse, thats why you should litter your email with symbols, then you can only hope that people take it as info and not someone having a go! Now shak

RE: [newbie] AOL and Mandrake 8.0

2001-10-23 Thread Adrian Lynch
I'm a bit late with this one! I had a chat with AOL's online help, I wrote a large paragraph of my situation, saying what info I needed , or thought I needed, to get AOL going in Win4Lin. His answer, "AOL does not support Linux", 10 minutes of arguing later and it ends with a "thank you and good b

RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread shadowbuilder
No, i've experienced no problems yet, but i disabled the onboard sound because i got a Soundblaster Live Platinum card for my anniversary from my wife :) (she bought it not knowing i had onboard sound) so i never got to test the AC97 sound for myself, but a mate of mine also uses this MB (that's w

Re: [newbie] windows on linux

2001-10-23 Thread Matt Greer
on 10/23/01 11:14 AM, Steve Borrett at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> There's wine, the windows emulator. It takes a windows application and >> translates the calls it makes into something X can handle, so you can run >> the app right in X. www.winehq.com > > > Just because I am in a pedantic m

Re: [newbie] Unable to boot into X

2001-10-23 Thread Paul
In reply to Saul Lugoye's words, written Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:56:44 +0100 >I can't tell what happened, but I'm no longer able to boot straight into >X. I have to first logon and then startx. > >This is the copy of my /etc/inittab: >. >. >id:5:initdefault: >l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5 Check to see

Re: [newbie] Xwidnows or KDE problem

2001-10-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:06:24 -0400, Jon Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am all sorts of problems with either the xserver or KDE, not sure which. > At times it just decides to freeze and I mean full blown windows freeze. I > have to power down to get out of it. Then sometimes if I open konquer

Re: [newbie] windows on linux

2001-10-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:14:09 +0100, Steve Borrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >There's wine, the windows emulator. It takes a windows application and > >translates the calls it makes into something X can handle, so you can run > >the app right in X. www.winehq.com > > > Just because I am in

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-10-23 Thread shane
you are kidding right? the browser that loads virus directly from web pages? the browser that for a while featured "write once, write anywhere, even over your system files" technology? the browser that doesn't even pretend to try to be standards compliant? ...and talk about small! try upgr

Re: [newbie] windows on linux

2001-10-23 Thread Steve Borrett
>There's wine, the windows emulator. It takes a windows application and >translates the calls it makes into something X can handle, so you can run >the app right in X. www.winehq.com Just because I am in a pedantic mood, I would like to point out that saying "wine is a windows emulator" is an o

[newbie] Unable to boot into X

2001-10-23 Thread Saul Lugoye
Greetings. I can't tell what happened, but I'm no longer able to boot straight into X. I have to first logon and then startx. This is the copy of my /etc/inittab: . . id:5:initdefault: # System initialization. si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0 l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1

[newbie] ISDN in USA

2001-10-23 Thread Chadwick, Tim
I just installed v8.1 & I have a USR (USRobotics) Sportster 128k ISA modem. Upon Mandrake installation, I was offered the options of "Euro-ISDN" or "ISDN with no D channel support". Neither of these will work in the US. Does anyone know definitively if ISDN4Linux supports D channel? If not, what d

RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Nope it's common to all Winbond equipped motherboards. Read the timer.h and timer.c kernel files (which is where I originally found all of this) for more info on the problem. If your motherboard does not have the Winbond timer chip you are fine. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] How can I determine if I'm root in a script

2001-10-23 Thread Michael D. Viron
You could try 'whoami'. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:18 AM 10/23/2001 -0500, you wrote: >I'm trying to write a bash script to install some files but it must be run >as root. Is th

Re: [newbie] Terrorists strike at my Netscape mail?

2001-10-23 Thread Newbie
Yeah I like the new K mail myself, one of my buds just ditched winblows to go to Linux, yaaay! He said he likes K mail because it reminds him of Eudora, the only thing that was holding him back until I showed him Linux and K mail. On Tuesday 23 October 2001 02:54 am, you wrote: > Here's a funny

Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread Michael
You have no problems with the AC 97 sound? shadowbuilder wrote: > > I haven't come across this bug before, was it just in the early revisions or > has it been sorted? I use my PC to dual-boot with Win98se (for the games)and > Mandrake8.1 and i haven't experienced any problem with the time at all

Re: [newbie] Mac vs Intel architecture deliberations

2001-10-23 Thread Newbie
Do you find that winME is less stable than say winNT or 2000? On Tuesday 23 October 2001 03:10 am, Robert wrote: > Just to put in my two cents. I have three machines. A 1GHz which I use to > use for WindowsME is now a Linux box, WindowsME laptop which handles great > and is just for strict use n

RE: [newbie] Xwidnows or KDE problem

2001-10-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
It sounds like a hardware or video driver problem to me. LM8.1 has been rock stable on 6 machines I installed it on. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jon Doe |Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 12:06 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sub

[newbie] Xwidnows or KDE problem

2001-10-23 Thread Jon Doe
I am all sorts of problems with either the xserver or KDE, not sure which. At times it just decides to freeze and I mean full blown windows freeze. I have to power down to get out of it. Then sometimes if I open konqueror file browser the scroll bar just goes crazy and no files show up, have to

RE: [newbie] Doing Lynx4win in Windows XP

2001-10-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
You can't. Linux cannot write to the newer XP NTFS file system and hence will not run. The Lynx4win doesn't even have NTFS file system modules for older version of NT. BTW: Performance is abysmal under Lynx4win. You are better off installing it on another drive. -JMS |-Original Message--

RE: [newbie] windows on linux

2001-10-23 Thread Adrian Lynch
I think he means the other way round!! -Original Message- From: russell hobman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 October 2001 16:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] windows on linux goodaye, the program you would be after is WIN4LIN3 you can find out more about it here > ht

RE: [newbie] windows on linux

2001-10-23 Thread Adrian Lynch
Wine? If not, please go easy on me!! I have no work to do and I'm bored. Has anyone read all of Sridhar's footer's, some are bloody funny :o) -Original Message- From: Dechao Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 October 2001 21:44 To: newbie Subject: [newbie] windows on linux Doe

Re: [newbie] windows on linux

2001-10-23 Thread russell hobman
goodaye, the program you would be after is WIN4LIN3 you can find out more about it here > http://www.netraverse.com/ regards, russell. --- Dechao Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know what and where is the program that > I can run windows' > applications from linux box? > > > Che

RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread shadowbuilder
I haven't come across this bug before, was it just in the early revisions or has it been sorted? I use my PC to dual-boot with Win98se (for the games)and Mandrake8.1 and i haven't experienced any problem with the time at all within either OS. I am glad to hear that Linux tries to work round it tho

Re: [newbie] windows on linux

2001-10-23 Thread Matt Greer
on 10/23/01 3:44 PM, Dechao Wang at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anybody know what and where is the program that I can run windows' > applications from linux box? > There's wine, the windows emulator. It takes a windows application and translates the calls it makes into something X can handle

[newbie] windows on linux

2001-10-23 Thread Dechao Wang
Does anybody know what and where is the program that I can run windows' applications from linux box? Cheers, Dechao Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How can I determine if I'm root in a script

2001-10-23 Thread Paul
In reply to Mark Johnson's words, written Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:18:02 -0500 Check the value of $UID. It should be 0 for root. Paul >I'm trying to write a bash script to install some files but it must be run >as root. Is there a way that I can get my script to check to see if it has >root priviled

[newbie] Doing Lynx4win in Windows XP

2001-10-23 Thread Joshua Kurtz
I'm trying to install Mandrake on the same partion as Windows XP. According to the help files you can do it with Windows 95/98/ME. At the install prompt when I type Lynx4win(spelling) it runs fine until it trys to access the install files on my hard drive then I get this error "I can not acces

[newbie] How can I determine if I'm root in a script

2001-10-23 Thread Mark Johnson
I'm trying to write a bash script to install some files but it must be run as root. Is there a way that I can get my script to check to see if it has root priviledges and if not exit out? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Gnome apps mouse focus

2001-10-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 3:41 pm, you wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:27:59 +, shipahoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:57:19 +0200 > > > > H McM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Remove a package called imwheel. > > > > That worked. Thanks. > > > > It makes you wonder

Re: [newbie] Mac vs Intel architecture deliberations

2001-10-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:35:27 +0100, Steve Borrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I know that several distributions (Mandrake, SuSe, and > > > Debian) come in PPC flavours, but I sometimes wonder > > > if they will continue to find it worthwhile to develop > > > for PPC. Although I exp

Re: [newbie] Gnome apps mouse focus

2001-10-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:27:59 +, shipahoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:57:19 +0200 > H McM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Remove a package called imwheel. > > > That worked. Thanks. > > It makes you wonder why imwheel is there in the first place. I've been wonderin

Re: [newbie] Terrorists strike at my Netscape mail?

2001-10-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:54:28 +0100, Graham Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a funny thing! > > I opened Netscape to get my mail the other day and found my Newbie folder > which had several hundred messages in it, to be completely empty. > > When I downloaded my mail, nothing came dow

Re: [newbie] gnome desktop (M8.1, Gnome, Desktop)

2001-10-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:23:54 +0200, "Robert MacLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > All of a sudden all my desktop Icons are gone, I also can select the > desktop itself (drag left mouse button over desktop), right click. > It's almost like the desktop is gone. I'm using the version of gnom

Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread Robert MacLean
how do i turn it off? ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 4:41 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH > Both the VIA

RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Both the VIA and ALiMagiK boards utilize Winbond chips. There is nothing wrong with these boards, but there is a -BIG- bug with the Winbond clock/timer chips. These Winbond chips are what keeps the real time clock going during power offs, etc. It seems that the Winbond clocks will randomly chan

RE: [newbie] LISA

2001-10-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
LM8.0 put the lisa configuration files in the wrong place! You need to move the reslisarc and lisarc file that the KDE Control panel creates to ~/.reslisarc & ~/.lisarc respectively. Use the control panel to add your subnet broadcast address and workgroup computers you want scanned. Lastly, yo

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-10-23 Thread Matt Greer
on 10/23/01 1:57 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 5. You don't want to ever use Java. In a move against Sun, Java support has > been > discontinued in IE6. > Actually I dont ever want to use Java in a webpage. I hate java applets. Most people forget or don't realize there's

Re: [newbie] Installing a new program

2001-10-23 Thread Mohammed Arafa
u can do that with rpms or if u r using a later version of lm browse to the folder and click on the file. the file associations are two programs that install rpms.. kpackage and urpmi. urpmi is the default and auto installs very nice (especially in 8.1) - Original Message - From: "Franki"

Re: [newbie] Gnome apps mouse focus

2001-10-23 Thread shipahoy
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:57:19 +0200 H McM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Remove a package called imwheel. > That worked. Thanks. It makes you wonder why imwheel is there in the first place. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] modem problem

2001-10-23 Thread etharp
a question with out the error message or hardware spec (make, model, etc.) is some3 times very hard to provide a complete answer for. what type of internal modem? what is the error message? some internal modems sing in Linux and some will cause you a steep bit of learning On Tuesday 23 Octob

[newbie] wintv card in mandrake 7.1?

2001-10-23 Thread Matt
Hi, Very new linux person here! please be gentle!! Ive installed Mandrake 7.1 and am comming to grips with things, ive figured out how to browse the windows network its attached to, use the router that all the other machines use to acess internet, got a later version of Netscape, setup email, go

[newbie] Gnome apps mouse focus

2001-10-23 Thread shipahoy
Hi I did a reinstall of mandrake 8.1 and have lost a setting somewhere. When I used to run Gmome apps like Pan and Sylpheed in KDE the window focus would follow the mouse, now I have to click in a frame to focus it. For example, in Sylpheed if the mouse is in the message view frame, and I scro

Re: [newbie] Installing a new program

2001-10-23 Thread Derek Jennings
For a newbie installing packages in RPM format is MUCH the easiest way to do it. You should look for the program in the format 'programname-version.i586.mdk.rpm' The 'mdk' indicates it was written for use in a Mandrake system. If you cannot find an RPM in that format on the site you are se

[newbie] gnome desktop (M8.1, Gnome, Desktop)

2001-10-23 Thread Robert MacLean
Hi All of a sudden all my desktop Icons are gone, I also can select the desktop itself (drag left mouse button over desktop), right click. It's almost like the desktop is gone. I'm using the version of gnome that comes with M8.1 I looked in ~/.gnome-desktop and they are there. Any ideas? Also ho

[newbie] Terrorists strike at my Netscape mail?

2001-10-23 Thread Graham Watkins
Here's a funny thing! I opened Netscape to get my mail the other day and found my Newbie folder which had several hundred messages in it, to be completely empty. When I downloaded my mail, nothing came down from this mailing list despite the fact that there were definitely messages on the serv

[newbie] Full of questions tonight

2001-10-23 Thread Robert
Just noticed after importing the bookmarks from Netscape my Galeon scrolls smoothly and pricely, but only through the Netscape's weblinks. Before Netscape didn't only after I downloaded and installed the Flash plugin into my user account, didn't feel like doing a system wide installation. Is t

[newbie] Word of advice

2001-10-23 Thread Robert
I too was in the same boat as you about a month and a half ago. I had Sound Blaster internal PCI modem. I tried the software and the settings. It was just easier to sell the card and pick up an external hardware modem. Linux used it without a hitch and life got interesting in surfing the web throu

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-10-23 Thread Pascal Goguey
Hello! > Don't forget MacOS and MacOSX. The latter could qualify as a form of Unix. > > I wonder why MS sees Linux as a threat and not these other Unices. I > suppose since it can run on the x86? Because Linux is dangerous for MS, and MacOS, HP-UX, Solaris, etc are not. The reason is simply tha

Re: [newbie] modem problem

2001-10-23 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:50:55 +0200 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: > hi everybody... > I have linux mandrake 8.1 installed on my computer. > I have an internal modem and as you know I can not connect internet > using my modem... > I heard that some programs are developed to solve this pro

[newbie] modem problem

2001-10-23 Thread yakup.kaya
hi everybody... I have linux mandrake 8.1 installed on my computer. I have an internal modem and as you know I can not connect internet using my modem... I heard that some programs are developed to solve this problem, but I couldn't find any information anywhereç... If there is somebody there who

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