[newbie-it] aiuto con Xwindow e un Thinkpad iseries

2001-11-10 Thread frank sar
Perchè non riesco afar riconoscere a Xwindow il monitor LCD TFT del mio Notebook Thinkpad?Vi prego aiutatemi. Francesco Sarli _ Scarica GRATUITAMENTE MSN Explorer all'indirizzo http://explorer.msn.it/intl.asp

[newbie-it] VIA 82C686B AIUTO!!!

2001-11-10 Thread ruben . patane
Ho un problema che mi affligge dalla 7.2! Il kernel non riconosce perfettamente la mia scheda madre AOPEN AX34 con il Chip VIA VT82C686B. L'Hardware monitor di Mandrake mi visualizza con il punto interrogativo i 3 Bridge tra cui quello dell'agp e il CHIP VT82C686. E' per questo motivo che Xfree

Re: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length)

2001-11-10 Thread Ed Kasky
Quoting liberally from Ethernet Networks by Gilbert Held: The IEEE 8023 standard for 10BASE-T using unshielded twisted pair at 10 Mbps, maximum segment length is 100 meters or 328 feet... Now if you want to get really technical, the 100 meters was originally meant to consist of 3 segments.

Re: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length)

2001-11-10 Thread Derek Jennings
No trouble at all with CAT5 at that distance. If you do not want to drill holes wireless is good. (but cables are cheaper) I use wireless at 11Mbps from Melco/Buffalo I have a PCMCIA adapter with a Melco wireless card in the desktop PC upstairs and a wireless hub colocated with my cable modem.

[newbie] good clear home networking documentation?

2001-11-10 Thread Paul Rodríguez
anybody know of any good, easy to understand home networking documentation? Specifically for connecting two Linux computers through a hub or router? -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

[newbie]

2001-11-10 Thread Aaron Peterson
Hello, This is a problem I haven't been able to solve. Hi. I'm very new to Linux so I bought the 3 CD pack for Mandrake 8.1 expecting the installation to be pretty much trouble free. Unfortuantely, after the initial setup/ welcome screen using the boot disk and bootable CD-ROM, the setup said

RE: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length)

2001-11-10 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Heh, I've run many single drops of over 200 meters on Cat-5e using 100BaseT w/o problems to connect buildings together. Everything is in the shielding. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ed Kasky |Sent: Saturday, November 10,

Re: [newbie] good clear home networking documentation?

2001-11-10 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 17:56, Paul Rodríguez wrote: anybody know of any good, easy to understand home networking documentation? Specifically for connecting two Linux computers through a hub or router? The networking HOWTO? Dave -- An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less

Re: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length)

2001-11-10 Thread Lee Roberts
There's a limit of 100 meters (over 300 feet). So, 40 feet is no problem. At 05:37 PM 11/10/2001 -0500, you wrote: Hi, everybody. I have a DSL connection coming in to the upstairs computer. I'd like to connect (withought having to get a new modem) a computer downstairs to the same connection.

Re: [newbie] w.xplorer slow because linux ext2 ?

2001-11-10 Thread Michael
Yulliansyah wrote: I want to install Mandrake 8 to my 2ND Harddisk and here's the problem : data : I have 2 HARDDISK with partition like this : HD 1 : 20 GB (Windows 98) C: FAT32 - 8 Gb - Primary - Active *. Ext E: FAT32 - 6Gb - Logical F: FAT32 - 6Gb - Logical HD 2 : 4.2

[newbie] thanks / linksys wireless card on linux/mandrake

2001-11-10 Thread tek1
first, thanks to all of those who kindly answered my question abt linux working on athlon-based systems. :) second, has anyone gotten their linux system (on a laptop) to work in a wireless networked environment, particularly using linksys' wireless router + wireless pcmcia card? thanks.

Re: [newbie] Installing WordPerfect 8.0 under Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-10 Thread James F. Marshall
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 19:52:30 -0800, shane wrote: ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm and libc-5.3.12-35mdk.i586.rpm were both needed to install wp 8 under 8.0. Yep, they did the trick. -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Sourcing Linux Journal

2001-11-10 Thread Michael
\ Paul, you might want to pick up this months Linux Journal (you can get it at most Barnes Nobles). The cover article is on building the ultimate Linux box - it will probably help a good bit. peace, Rog Roger Could you send me publisher/subscription details of Linux Journal. I

Re: [newbie] w.xplorer slow because linux ext2 ?

2001-11-10 Thread Hans N.
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:27:46 +1300 Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Yulliansyah wrote: | When run windows Explorer it become very slow. Drive G: in theorycal should be |invisible but it Visible and have an icon like a CDROM icon. It sounds really odd for Windows to even notice your Linux

Re: [newbie] [ OT ] Recommended AMD Athlon 1.x Motherboard

2001-11-10 Thread David E. Fox
Anyway, I would like to ask your opinion to what Socket A Motherboard for AMD Athlon 1.x Ghz would you like to recommend to me? I recommnend Asus K7V - mine's a K7V133 - zero problems since I put it in back in March. I haven't been successful at lm-sensors but I haven't had any heat problems

RE: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-10 Thread Rafael Lepra
Stephen, I am a newbie, but from what I know it is perfectly possible that you cannot receive your mail but at the same time you can send. The problem is that each task is performed by different protocols. You need a SMTP server for sending mails and ussually a POP server for recieving. And, as

Re: [newbie] problems with staroffice6beta

2001-11-10 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 20:56, tek1 wrote: i installed staroffice6beta in /usr/bin/staroffice6beta/ when logged in as root. when i log in using my (non-root) normal user account to try to run staroffice, i get the following message: the program cannot be started. the configuration file

Re: [newbie] Delete dead Nautilus?

2001-11-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:17:01 -0800, Gregory Margo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 04:45:41AM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:12:40 -0800, Gregory Margo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the Gnome desktop w/sawfish under LM 8.1. For the first few days I

Re: [newbie] w.xplorer slow because linux ext2 ?

2001-11-10 Thread Yulliansyah
hi Michael, my windows normal now let me share my experience : first condition that cause windows slow was : HD 1 : plug in to PRIMARY MASTER CDROM : PRIMARY SLAVE none : SECONDARY MASTER HD 2 : SECONDARY SLAVE second condition --- Normal now : HD 1 : PRIMARY MASTER HD 2 : PRIMARY SLAVE

[newbie] problems with staroffice6beta

2001-11-10 Thread tek1
i installed staroffice6beta in /usr/bin/staroffice6beta/ when logged in as root. when i log in using my (non-root) normal user account to try to run staroffice, i get the following message: the program cannot be started. the configuration file '.sversionrc' does not support the current

Re: [newbie] problems with staroffice6beta

2001-11-10 Thread tek1
thx dave. i'll try the installation with the /net switch. thx again. :) At 21:27 01/11/10 -0600, you wrote: On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 20:56, tek1 wrote: i installed staroffice6beta in /usr/bin/staroffice6beta/ when logged in as root. when i log in using my (non-root) normal user account

Re: [newbie] Sourcing Linux Journal

2001-11-10 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 10 November 2001 19:55, you wrote: \ Paul, you might want to pick up this months Linux Journal (you can get it at most Barnes Nobles). The cover article is on building the ultimate Linux box - it will probably help a good bit. peace, Rog Roger Could you send me

[newbie] RE: AMD boxes

2001-11-10 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
I run an AMD 850MHz box that I built myself. I used a FIC motherboard and 512 MB ram. Used my old modem an action tec PCI and it had built in audio. I still dual boot (trying to remedy that) and everything works better and faster in Mandrake than in winblows. The video is better, speed is

[newbie] Mail Folder Lost in Transition from Netscape to Mozilla

2001-11-10 Thread Traci Collins
Hi! When I upgraded from Mandrake 7.2 to 8.1 I kept my /home tree intact and reformatted all the other partitions for a complete re-install. One of my most important goals was to keep the mail folders that I had established to hold on to important old mail. In several of my accounts everything

Re: [newbie] Sourcing Linux Journal

2001-11-10 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Michael wrote: \ Paul, you might want to pick up this months Linux Journal (you can get it at most Barnes Nobles). The cover article is on building the ultimate Linux box - it will probably help a good bit. peace, Rog Roger Could you send me

[newbie] WordPerfect 8.0 Font Installer Crashes

2001-11-10 Thread James F. Marshall
I have WP 8.0 (commercial CD) on Mandrake 8.1. I have gotten past the problem requiring libc5 and ld.so2.0, and I have been able to get xwp running with the small number of fonts installed by default. However, I am having a serious problem trying to install additional adobe type 1 fonts. In

Re: [newbie] problems with staroffice6beta

2001-11-10 Thread tek1
david, thx again for your suggestion. :) i installed staroffice (under root) with the /net switch. when i logged out of root and logged back in under a normal user and tried running s.o. from the home directory, the same message (as before) was displayed. however, this time when i

Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?

2001-11-10 Thread Derek Jennings
Athlon works just great with Mandrake as does K6. You do not have to do anything. Any applications you compile on your Athlon will by default get compiled as i686 architecture and will include extensions to the instruction set like 3dNow This is why for example the developers of mplayer

[newbie] w.xplorer slow because linux ext2 ?

2001-11-10 Thread Yulliansyah
I want to install Mandrake 8 to my 2ND Harddisk and here's the problem : data : I have 2 HARDDISK with partition like this : HD 1 : 20 GB (Windows 98) C: FAT32 - 8 Gb - Primary - Active *. Ext E: FAT32 - 6Gb - Logical F: FAT32 - 6Gb - Logical HD 2 : 4.2 GB (plan for Linux Mandrake 8.0

RE: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?

2001-11-10 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
While you may have experienced this, it's NOT symptomatic of Athlon systems, or even 750's. It's more likely you were running into another problem preventing the first stage kernel load... I.E. it wasn't finding the partition table, etc. At Init you didn't even have a running kernel. -JMS

RE: [newbie] mandrake/linux and upgrading cpu+motherboard

2001-11-10 Thread Franki
I upgraded my mb and cpu from a celery 450 to a athlon 1.4 gig and it worked flawlessly, just make sure that your hard disks are in the same positions they were before, ie if it was a primary master before, it must be a primary master after the upgrade. rgds frank -Original Message-

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] intruder? or FFE?

2001-11-10 Thread Derek Jennings
Just to make sure there is no way Samba could be advertising your shares over the internet you should use the 'hosts deny' facility of Samba (Globals page in SWAT) to exclude the IP address of your internet gateway. If you have more than one network interface (like for example a dial up

Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM

2001-11-10 Thread skinky
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 16:31, Dennis Myers wrote: | On Friday 09 November 2001 16:11, you wrote: | | Other relevant bits are: Soltek SL-KAV75 mobo and Athlon TBird | 1.0GHz CPU. | | If this is the same board as listed on the soltek site as a SL-75KAV | then as you look at the attached URL you

[newbie] Procmail question: timed checks?

2001-11-10 Thread Paul
Hi everyone, Is there a way to make procmail do certain rule-checks on certain times? I set it up to forward specific things to my work mail address, but it does not need to do that in the weekend. Wat I can think of is 2 INCLUDERC files and a cronjob that sets up one or the other. One empty

Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM

2001-11-10 Thread skinky
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 17:44, Tom Brinkman wrote: | On Friday 09 November 2001 06:34 pm, skinky wrote: | On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 11:09, Tom Brinkman wrote: | | Regular' kernels will only address 'bout | | | 900+ mb of ram. So if you want to use all that ram, you'll need | | to install a

Re: [newbie] re: staroffice

2001-11-10 Thread Traci Collins
Still on the general topic of StarOffice. I am using the 6.0 beta and I seem to have messed up the database integration some how, or perhaps I'm just not sure what I should look for if it is working properly. I went through the StarOffice installation prior to doing the Adabas installation. The

Re: [newbie] 'Lost' Win95 FAT32 partition

2001-11-10 Thread King C Lee
Dear All, After re-installing the system several times, I finally figure out tht the problem is due to the LILo. After I remover the MBR under DOS and reset the partition type by Linux fdisk, I can get back the partition under Windows again. I think the problem is specific to the LILo version

[newbie] The votes so far for my easier reading poll

2001-11-10 Thread Dan Jacobs
So far the would like to see more top posting folks have the lead: OK-// No Way-// Either Way-// Against changing the topic of a thread w/o changing subject line-// Please snip replies-/// The third vote on pls snip is from me. It's a good idea, so could you please snip unnecessary pieces

[newbie] GRUB

2001-11-10 Thread Dan Jacobs
Can someone familiar with GRUB please tell me how to alter the MENU.LST file to make windows the default OS? I cannot use linux for internet access, so until then, I'd like to make windows the dedfault OS. Here is the file as I know it: timeout 30 color black/cyan yellow/cyan i18n

Re: [newbie] mandrake/linux and upgrading cpu+motherboard

2001-11-10 Thread Ed Tharp
windows would have worked if you would have gone into the device mangler, err... manager and deleted the info about the old MB and stuff, and let winders discover the new hardware. I have a computer that I have upgraded since it was a 286/10 with 2.5 megs mem. and a 30 meg hd. copies the files to

Re: [newbie] GRUB

2001-11-10 Thread Robin Turner
Can't you just do it from the Mandrake Control Center? Dan Jacobs wrote: Can someone familiar with GRUB please tell me how to alter the MENU.LST file to make windows the default OS? I cannot use linux for internet access, so until then, I'd like to make windows the dedfault OS. Here is

[newbie] Pine Crystal Sound Card on LM 8.0?

2001-11-10 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: My SoundBlaster Awe64 card is apparently dead or dying. I happen to have a Pine Crystal Chipset PCI Sound Card (CS4281, 3D Spatialization, AC '97 Codec). It came with my new IBM 667 NetVista computer. Is this supported by LM 8.0? Please remember that I am still using LM 8.0.

[newbie] [ OT ] Recommended AMD Athlon 1.x Motherboard

2001-11-10 Thread Mandrake Newbie
Sorry for this OT. Anyway, I would like to ask your opinion to what Socket A Motherboard for AMD Athlon 1.x Ghz would you like to recommend to me? I am planning to build my all-in-one server for my small Internet cafe. Also, what UPS is good for this kind of server would you like to

Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?

2001-11-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 10 November 2001 12:57 am, Epicurus wrote: On Friday 09 November 2001 04:55, you wrote: just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? are there any issues which i need to be careful about? thanks. I've got Mandrake 8.0 runing on an Athlon-750 and

[newbie] Here is an odd one for ya... ;-)

2001-11-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I'm running v8.1 (d/l version). I have a 52x CD-ROM as /mnt/cdrom and a Plextor CDRW as /mnt/cdrom2 (/dev/scd0). As my normal user, I can open a shell and type in df /mnt/cdrom2 and it gives the normal results. As -root-, I can do the same thing, and it never gives a result. Also, the usual

Re: [newbie] BT Alcatel adsl modem - help please anyone who got it to work

2001-11-10 Thread Derek Jennings
Neil I don't have the BTOpenworld service (NTL Cable is a breeze), so I cannot help directly, but just in case you do not get any first hand help from this list you might have luck with the linux-usb pages at http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/ Do a search on Alcatel and you will get a list of

Re: [newbie] GRUB

2001-11-10 Thread Ed Kasky
In the readme that comes with Grub, it explains how to change the default os - Yours is set to 0 right now. To make windoze the default, change the line from: default 0 - default 2 Ed At 04:07 AM Saturday, 11/10/2001, you wrote -= Can someone familiar with GRUB please tell me how to alter

Re: [newbie] [ OT ] Recommended AMD Athlon 1.x Motherboard

2001-11-10 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Mandrake Newbie wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1005399492-1851-1381 Content-Type: text/plain Sorry for this OT. Anyway, I would like to ask your opinion to what Socket A Motherboard for AMD Athlon 1.x Ghz would you like to

[newbie] lack of real estate (screen res. problems)

2001-11-10 Thread David Reynolds
Okay, this seems like the place for someone with relatively little Linux experience to go with base maddening problems. I've worked with computers for years but finally made the plunge to Linux a month or so ago. The monitor I'm using is ancient, but worked fine at 800x600, 16M colors on both

[newbie] imwheel

2001-11-10 Thread Chris Ashmore
this is what I have LM 8.1 d/l version, MS optical wheel mouse. tryin to install imwheel 9.9.1mdk I assume that is the one from the install CD. it says sorry can not procees request all packages returned errors Is there a way to see those errors? any sugjestions on how to fix this? Want to

Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?

2001-11-10 Thread magnet
just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? are there any issues which i need to be careful about? thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I sincerely hope so! I have mandrake 8.0 running on 6

Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?

2001-11-10 Thread magnet
just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? are there any issues which i need to be careful about? thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I sincerely hope so! I have mandrake 8.0 running on 6

Re: [newbie] lack of real estate (screen res. problems)

2001-11-10 Thread Paul
In reply to David Reynolds's words, written Sat, 10 Nov 2001 12:12:54 -0600 I cannot get more than 640x480 screen dimensions, and the computer thinks this is the _only_ setting available for a Nvidia Geforce2 MX-200 3d accelerator card (except it's listed as Geforce2 DDR (Generic) - this

Re: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-10 Thread Paúl Mancheno H.
Hi I supposse that you're using a pop3 server and another smtp server in wich you don't need the password or the password is fine... check very well the configuration of you Kmail 'cause It with me works very well bye El Vie 09 Nov 2001 12:01, escribió: Hi All People, I encounter another

Re: [newbie] Help Required

2001-11-10 Thread David E. Fox
1.How will you eliminate duplicate rows from file 'a' and store the same in file 'b'? First - it's best to use a subject line that's descriptive. Saying help required doesn't really help much. Better to say something like 'help with filtering' or something. There is a Unix tool called

Re: [newbie] file access speed

2001-11-10 Thread David E. Fox
I have a directory on a windows partition that currently contains thousands of very small files that I need to routinely access. Will My guess is that migrating them to a reiserfs partition would improve both access time and space utilization. VFAT is still a big space waster with small files

Re: [newbie] lack of real estate (screen res. problems)

2001-11-10 Thread Paul
In reply to David Reynolds's words, written Sat, 10 Nov 2001 13:29:42 -0600 You should drop to a command level, leaving X. Then run Xconfigurator: [root@tbird paul]# which Xconfigurator /usr/X11R6/bin/Xconfigurator There is a text interface when run outside of X, and that should get you

Re: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-10 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 10 November 2001 12:40, you wrote: Hi I supposse that you're using a pop3 server and another smtp server in wich you don't need the password or the password is fine... check very well the configuration of you Kmail 'cause It with me works very well bye El Vie 09 Nov 2001

Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?

2001-11-10 Thread Robert
So have I with LM 7.2 and 8.0 and although there is still a big question with the VIA chipset everything works as it should. I have no problems at all. On Friday 09 November 2001 08:54 pm, you wrote: El Vie 09 Nov 2001 04:55, escribiste: just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on

[newbie] motherboard suggestion for stable system

2001-11-10 Thread Paul Rodríguez
I am building a system for the doctor's private practice. Stabillity is the number one concern. We will have windows and linux running on separate hard drives untill we can tansition the database to Linux, after which, I'd like to have a RAID system for increased data reliabillity. Do you

Re: [newbie] motherboard suggestion for stable system

2001-11-10 Thread Roger Sherman
On 10 Nov 2001, Paul [ISO-8859-1] Rodríguez wrote: I am building a system for the doctor's private practice. Stabillity is the number one concern. We will have windows and linux running on separate hard drives untill we can tansition the database to Linux, after which, I'd like to have a

Re: [newbie] [ OT ] Recommended AMD Athlon 1.x Motherboard

2001-11-10 Thread R C
On Sunday 11 November 2001 12:39 am, you sent me this message: Sorry for this OT. Anyway, I would like to ask your opinion to what Socket A Motherboard for AMD Athlon 1.x Ghz would you like to recommend to me? I built my system using the AMD 1Ghz processor in a AOpen AK73 series MB (1394

[newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length)

2001-11-10 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Hi, everybody. I have a DSL connection coming in to the upstairs computer. I'd like to connect (withought having to get a new modem) a computer downstairs to the same connection. Can I send a cat5 cable down throught the wall from the router to the downstairs computer? (approx. 30-40 feet) Is

[newbie] How do I make a DivX ??

2001-11-10 Thread Paúl Mancheno H.
Hi... How do I make a DivX from my DVDs?? and What Software i need for that thanks -- Usuario Registrado de Linux #232544 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length)

2001-11-10 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 16:37, Paul Rodríguez wrote: Hi, everybody. I have a DSL connection coming in to the upstairs computer. I'd like to connect (withought having to get a new modem) a computer downstairs to the same connection. Can I send a cat5 cable down throught the wall from the