[newbie-it] Problemi col modem esterno

2001-10-27 Thread sedoglia
Ciao a tutti! Ho una mdk 8.0. Il mio modem esterno motorola 56k mi da un po' di problemi, infatti mentre sono connesso capita bruscamente che cade la linea. Avete qualche idea? Ho impostato il firewall dal mdk control panel. Sarà per quello? Vi ringrazio in anticipo. Ciao

Re: [newbie-it] U.S. Robotics Sportster ISDN TA

2001-10-27 Thread max
Il 10:22, domenica 28 ottobre 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti, inutile precisare che sono un completo newbie per quel che riguarda Linux e proprio per questo, spero di trovare aiuto in questa mailing list. Vi espongo il mio problema. Mi è capitato fra le mani questo modem, uno Sportster ISDN

R: [newbie-it] U.S. Robotics Sportster ISDN TA

2001-10-27 Thread Zambo
Grazie mille Max per la risposta. Perdonami ma per quanto riguarda l'installazione del modem parto proprio da zero. Mi spiego meglio: il modem non è plug'n'play, giusto? Dunque che moduli devo installare nel kernel per farlo funzionare e come questi devono essere installati, come modificare le

[newbie-it] U.S. Robotics Sportster ISDN TA

2001-10-27 Thread Zambo
Ciao a tutti, inutile precisare che sono un completo "newbie" per quel che riguarda Linux e proprio per questo, spero di trovare aiuto in questa mailing list. Vi espongo il mio problema. Mi è capitato fra le mani questo "modem", uno Sportster ISDN della U.S. Robotics e mi chiedevo se fosse

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi col modem esterno

2001-10-27 Thread LukenShiro
Oggidi' alle ore 15:58, sabato 27 ottobre 2001, Voi, Nobile [EMAIL PROTECTED], avete realizzato: Ho una mdk 8.0. Il mio modem esterno motorola 56k mi da un po' di problemi, infatti mentre sono connesso capita bruscamente che cade la linea. Avete qualche idea? Per la serie, siamo un pochino

Re: [newbie-it] Supermount

2001-10-27 Thread Stefano Salari
--- Speranza Francesco [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ho installato da poco MDK 8.1 e ho cercato di settare il supermount tramite diskdrake ( ho invertito le selezioni attivando solo supermount ), ma al riavvio i miei due cdrom appaiono chiusi dal catenacci e danno il messaggio non hai

RE: [newbie] Named and internet connection sharing question

2001-10-27 Thread Franki
Thats strange, I have a crappy old Ppro system with buggar all ram, and its been running KDE non stop on my desktop for ages, not a single freeze, so it may have something to do with your hardware, ie a device that is causing a conflict for an IRQ or something, when in doubt remove all

Re: [newbie] Cannot write to fat32 partition !?

2001-10-27 Thread Joan Tur
Es Divendres 26 Octubre 2001 23:17, en Neville Cobb va escriure: Just tried mine and also could not also write, I found that the bit below was missing from the fstab line compared to my other vfat partition to which I could write to. user,exec,dev,suid,rw,umask=0, Thanks! That was it! ;)

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.2.1 on LM8 again....

2001-10-27 Thread s
On Saturday 27 October 2001 02:25 am, John Hokanson Jr. wrote: Okay, I downloaded all the Texstar RPMs that I supposedly need. Now I'm at a complete loss as to what I should do with them. I keep getting comflicting answers. Thanks in advance - John Well, I stick 'em all in a

Re: [newbie] Kicker icons gone

2001-10-27 Thread s
On Saturday 27 October 2001 02:06 am, michael wrote: On Friday 26 October 2001 03:38 pm, you wrote: Best solution for now is to use Texstar's 8.x kde rpms, qt2, and deps. http://www.pclinuxonline.com Tom: I can't find them there. I searched using 'obj-prelinked' then 'kde rpm's'

Re: [newbie] Suggestion to Mandrake

2001-10-27 Thread poogle
On Friday 26 October 2001 6:52 pm, you wrote: Hi... Guys, am I right to say that when user interface is being tested, so far, it is the techies that are doing the testing and evaluating about the user friendlyness of the OS and about the control you have over ur system. I think u

Re: [newbie] FTP site?

2001-10-27 Thread s
On Saturday 27 October 2001 05:23 am, NDPTAL85 wrote: Does Mandrake have an ftp site you can download from? I don't think so, but here's a list of mirrors: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3#586 -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] See what MSN.com has done?

2001-10-27 Thread lykaslair
At 11:58 PM 10/26/01 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. wrote: Visse said earlier Thursday that the message would be shown to people using browsers that we know don't support (W3C) standards or that we can't insure will get a great experience for the customer. W3C refers to the World Wide Web

Re: [newbie] Kicker icons gone

2001-10-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 27 October 2001 03:06 am, michael wrote: On Friday 26 October 2001 03:38 pm, you wrote: BTW, the newer cooker kde rpms incorporate objprelinking, but you won't get any speed benefit unless you also get the qt2 rpms and a few other deps. Best solution for now is to use

[newbie] Mandrake 8 runs, 8.1 won't

2001-10-27 Thread Dennis Herrick
I've been working on getting 8.1 installed for some time. . . what happens is that linux starts to load, a screen or two quickly scrolls by and then a hex dump. Here's the specifics: I have a Gateway 300mhz with 2 hard drives . . . The master ide drive (with XP) is a 3.2 gig Quantam, the slave

Re: [newbie] Kicker icons gone

2001-10-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 00:06:19 -0700, michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 October 2001 03:38 pm, you wrote: BTW, the newer cooker kde rpms incorporate objprelinking, but you won't get any speed benefit unless you also get the qt2 rpms and a few other deps. Best solution for

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 runs, 8.1 won't

2001-10-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 08:30:15 -0500 Dennis Herrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been working on getting 8.1 installed for some time. . . what happens is that linux starts to load, a screen or two quickly scrolls by and then a hex dump. Here's the specifics: I have a Gateway 300mhz with 2

[newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
Okay, here's the deal. My Linux box is currently a Pentium Pro 200Mhz (256 L2 cache) with 64 megs of RAM (esentially it's an workstation that used to run NT). I don't want to get rid of it because it's got a lot of goodies including a built in NIC, SCSI, and great case cooling (yes, I know

[newbie] LISa

2001-10-27 Thread Frank McKenna
HI Folks, I am trying to browse my LAN but I keep getting an error message saying that LISa is not configured. I have gone into LISa and also the web site and checked the configuration. I still can't find where my mistake is. The only filed that I have not completed is the Host name look up

Re: [newbie] running wine ?

2001-10-27 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Along these lines, running wine for me gives: [paul@localhost paul]$ wine /mnt/win_c/windows/calc.exe fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_KEYBOARD_DetectLayout Your keyboard layout was not found! Using closest match instead (United States keyboard layout (phantom key version)) for scancode mapping. Please

Re: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread Randy Kramer
John Hokanson Jr. wrote: My questions is esentially asking for what would yield the best speed boost? I'm leaning toward dual PPros, but not if there are known SMP problems under Linux. I'm also intending on upgrading the RAM. Almost without asking the next question, my suggestion is to

Re: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Saturday 27 October 2001 09:33 am, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:06:09 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] With these concerns aside, you are probably still better off with an extra Pentium Pro. My guess would be that your kind of board is better optimised for PPro, and that

Fwd: Re: [newbie] See what MSN.com has done?

2001-10-27 Thread Dennis Myers
Darn, this was supposed to go to the list, I was not watching. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] See what MSN.com has done? Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 10:36:36 -0500 From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 27 October 2001 01:58 am, you

Re: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:06:09 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, here's the deal. My Linux box is currently a Pentium Pro 200Mhz (256 L2 cache) with 64 megs of RAM (esentially it's an workstation that used to run NT). I don't want to get rid of it because it's got a

RE: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread Franki
I'd go the two pentium pro 200's myself, with a good dose of ram... but there wouldn't be alot in it either way I'd say... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Hokanson Jr. Sent: Sunday, 28 October 2001 12:06 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:47:50 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 October 2001 09:33 am, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:06:09 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] With these concerns aside, you are probably still better off with an extra Pentium

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] See what MSN.com has done?

2001-10-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:53:15 -0500, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darn, this was supposed to go to the list, I was not watching. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] See what MSN.com has done? Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 10:36:36 -0500 From: Dennis Myers

Re: [newbie] See what MSN.com has done?

2001-10-27 Thread Michael Leone
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read: THEIR standards. Specifically, their use of VBScript, I believe. IE supports it; other browsers don't (or don't support it well). So when they start getting around to using VBScript to dynamically write the HTML part of the page, other browsers (probably) won't

Re: [newbie] running wine ?

2001-10-27 Thread Onur Kucuk
--- Paul Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Along these lines, running wine for me gives: [paul@localhost paul]$ wine /mnt/win_c/windows/calc.exe fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_KEYBOARD_DetectLayout Your keyboard layout was not found! Using closest match instead (United States keyboard layout

Re: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Saturday 27 October 2001 10:09 am, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:47:50 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 October 2001 09:33 am, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:06:09 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] With these concerns aside, you

RE: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread Franki
I'd also check for a newer bios then the one you have, it never hurts if you get the right one.. and it might help with how much ram the board will accept.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Hokanson Jr. Sent: Sunday, 28

Re: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread Randy Kramer
John Hokanson Jr. wrote: I'm guessing that I'll get the other PPro, making sure they're the same steping. I'll also look into getting 512k models, as well as punching my RAM up to 128mb or 256mb.. If you do both (add RAM and add a second processor) it would be interesting (to me, at least) to

Re: [newbie] See what MSN.com has done?

2001-10-27 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Saturday 27 October 2001 10:28 am, you wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read: THEIR standards. Specifically, their use of VBScript, I believe. IE supports it; other browsers don't (or don't support it well). So when they start getting around to using VBScript to dynamically write

Re: [newbie] Some questions...

2001-10-27 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 12:33 am, you wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:43:31 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Am I to understand that KDE 2.1.1 is simply slow? Just out of curiosity I fired up GNOME 1.4, and it ran MUCH faster. I've heard that KDE 2.2.1 fixes a lot

Re: [newbie] Awright! Where is .emacs in 8.0?

2001-10-27 Thread Mark David Hamilton
The best .emacs files are the ones you make yourself ;-) I don't recall one being created for me by default. The Emacs HOWTO that is in the HTML howto folder (I am running LM8.0), discusses this. This HOWTO is also online if you don't have it on your system:

[newbie] Ext2 - Ext3 Conversion?

2001-10-27 Thread Sevatio
I'm looking for information on how to convert Ext2 - Ext3. Where's a good place to go and read about all this stuff? Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Process Manager

2001-10-27 Thread Barry Premeaux
s wrote: On Friday 26 October 2001 10:07 pm, Barry Premeaux wrote: I liked kpm as my process manager in 8.0, but I don't see it in 8.1. What replaces it in 8.1? Barry It's still there in the menu called: applications monitoring Process Management -s

[newbie] RE: Alsa or xmms? SBLive configuration Howto.

2001-10-27 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
|Jose, I tried it and now I have no sound. When you say delete |all memory |resident modules and references in /etc/modules.conf do you |mean the ones |relating to sound only or everything in modules.conf? You remove ONLY sound related modules from /etc/modules.conf. I hope you made a

Re: [newbie] tiny firewall

2001-10-27 Thread Lee Roberts
I should have reread your info below when I was ready to start the install. I did do the file limits and ended up with the su problem but I found the limits file and remarked out the appropriate line. I had another problem in that after the install of bastille, I started the firewall from the

Re: [newbie] Ext2 - Ext3 Conversion?

2001-10-27 Thread Paul
In reply to Sevatio's words, written Sat, 27 Oct 2001 20:11:26 GMT I'm looking for information on how to convert Ext2 - Ext3. Where's a good place to go and read about all this stuff? Since this involves formatting (the internal structure of the format is different) I think it is simple (and

[newbie] Apache 1.3.20 and SSI don't work

2001-10-27 Thread Stumpie
Hi all, I've got a problem with Apache I can't solve on my own. I'd like to work with Server Side Includes, but I Apache is giving me a bit of a hard time. After configuring my box running Mandrake 8.0, Apache served the default page saying everything was OK. That page contains SSI and those

Re: [newbie] Process Manager

2001-10-27 Thread Barry Premeaux
s wrote: On Friday 26 October 2001 10:07 pm, Barry Premeaux wrote: I liked kpm as my process manager in 8.0, but I don't see it in 8.1. What replaces it in 8.1? Barry It's still there in the menu called: applications monitoring Process Management -s

Re: [newbie] running wine ?

2001-10-27 Thread Andre Dubuc
On Saturday 27 October 2001 18:43, you wrote: Joan, I've never been able to get the wine that comes with Mandrake going; however, Codeweavers wine has run great for me. You can get it at http://www.codeweavers.com. HTH! On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! Does any of you know

[newbie] Microsoft Case's Judge

2001-10-27 Thread Sevatio
Here's an interesting article about the Judge for the Microsoft case. Sevatio Below is the link and article text: http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/business/44067_microsoft25.shtml Microsoft judge sold her tech stocks to avoid conflict Thursday, October 25, 2001 By TED BRIDIS THE ASSOCIATED

[newbie] KDE 2.2.1 on MD8...the saga continues...

2001-10-27 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
Okay, I'm 99% certain I'm going to have to upgrade to XFree86 4.1.0 if I want to have any chance of installing Textstars RPMs. I also have a LOAD of other dependencies I still need to satisfy. I went to the Xfree site and tried running the Xinstall.sh script with the -check flag. However, it

[newbie] CD-Writing problems...again

2001-10-27 Thread Derek Jennings
It's a subject that keeps coming up, but I've been unable to get it to work by referencing previous answers. MY CDWriter on /dev/hdd which was autodetected and worked perfectly under 8.0 will not work under 8.1 CDRecord gives me this response :- [root@Derek derek]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8 runs, 8.1 won't

2001-10-27 Thread Dennis Herrick
After you have successfully booted edit your lilo.conf with the nobiospnp append and then rerun lilo. Yes. that solved the problem! thanks Charles . . . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] RE: Alsa or xmms? SBLive configuration Howto.

2001-10-27 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Too bad, I find the SBLive support in LM8.1 the best yet. I've had no trouble other than initially having to figure out all the nuances of configuration. That the KDE control panel sets the Alsa-ctl config, sampling rate, Midi settings, etc... Are all yet undocumented AFAIK. -JMS

Re: [newbie] RE: Alsa or xmms? SBLive configuration Howto.

2001-10-27 Thread s
Yeah, I think it was your advise (to someone else) that I followed to get my new sbl 5.1 optimized couple weeks ago. shrugs So, I thank you. :-) -s On Saturday 27 October 2001 10:34 pm, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Too bad, I find the SBLive support in LM8.1 the best yet. I've had no trouble

Re: [newbie] See what MSN.com has done?

2001-10-27 Thread Andre Dubuc
On Saturday 27 October 2001 21:27, you wrote: This is complete crap. Almost all of the browsers they blocked out support enough HTML 4.0 to make the site perfectly viewable. I find it hard to believe that MS even cares about W3C standards as there are a lot of proprietary HTML tags

[newbie] Network

2001-10-27 Thread Feras Al-Qadi
If I want to have a network of one server let us say three stations, I in windows we use WINDOW NT Server for the server and WINDOWS NT workstation for work station now what about LINUX, do we have OS for sever and other for work stations, or is their any special installation for both thanx in

[newbie] Where to place 'xset' command?

2001-10-27 Thread Gregory Margo
What file should be used to hold commands to be run at the start of an X session? I need to run an xset command to adjust the mouse acceleration. I'm running Mandrake 8.1 with kdm starting Gnome. thanks, gm -- + Gregory H. Margo

[newbie] Graphical ESCPUTIL version?

2001-10-27 Thread Michael Leone
I have an Epson Photo Stylus 870, and I used to have a program that performed the same duties as the command line escputil program that is included with the gimp-print drivers for CUPS - it would show ink levels, etc. But escputil is a command line program, and this would show inklevels

RE: [newbie] Word processor

2001-10-27 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Abiword! -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Admin |Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 12:35 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Word processor | | |Hello: | |Looking for a word processor to use under lm8.0, which needs |to be

Re: [newbie] problems installing 'kylix'

2001-10-27 Thread Damian G
what kind of kylix are you trying to install? i installed server developer with no problems at all.. From: Michael Dannhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] problems installing 'kylix' Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:54:06 +0200 Hi, My system

Fwd: Re: [newbie] LISa

2001-10-27 Thread Derek Jennings
Here's what you do. Enter this into your rc.local (I actually put it into my Samba start up script) lisa -c /root/.kde/share/config/lisarc Then create a file /root/.kde/share/config/lisarc Insert this into the file changing the IP numbers to suit your system.

RE: Re: [newbie] LISa

2001-10-27 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
It works for me, I set it up under the GUI. I get a strange problem in that Konq reports that it cannot contact localhost. Very strange since localhost resolves properly and everything else knows what localhost is. Anyway this busies Konq out (where you are probably getting the crash). If I

[newbie] graphics tablet

2001-10-27 Thread David
hi I got a loan of a Genius Easy Pen graphic tablet to try from my local PC shop. It fits into a serial port but so far I have not got it working. I have not found much information on these and the mandrake 8.1 control center does not seen to mention them .. Does anyone know how to get them

Re: [newbie] CDDB

2001-10-27 Thread Roger Sherman
In case anyone is interested, I've found a command line program that will access CDDB while ripping CDs...its called rip, and you can get it at rip.sourceforge.net. On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Roger Sherman wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:16:54 -0400

Re: [newbie] running wine ?

2001-10-27 Thread Roger Sherman
Joan, I've never been able to get the wine that comes with Mandrake going; however, Codeweavers wine has run great for me. You can get it at http://www.codeweavers.com. HTH! On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! Does any of you know how to run a windows program using wine?? I get

Re: [newbie] Awright! Where is .emacs in 8.0?

2001-10-27 Thread Michael Barker
Mark David Hamilton wrote: The best .emacs files are the ones you make yourself ;-) I don't recall one being created for me by default. I agree the best are your own. I have customized extensively in the past. I could swear I remember having a default .emacs upon install of Mandrake 7.0

Re: [newbie] Radeon VE

2001-10-27 Thread Joan Tur
Es Divendres 26 Octubre 2001 22:46, en Charles A Edwards va escriure: I have attached a portion of my FX86Config that relates to the diffs between mine and yours. 1) I have no module section 2) My screen section contains multipule multiple entries including accel Could you please send me