[newbie-it] Caratteri microscopici

2001-11-17 Thread elio
Perchè Mandrake utilizza caratteri microscopici. Come fare per settare dei caratteri più grandi? Ciao Elio

Re: [newbie-it] Caratteri microscopici

2001-11-17 Thread LukenShiro
Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 11:29, sabato 17 novembre 2001, Voi, Notabile elio, avete dipinto: Perchè Mandrake utilizza caratteri microscopici. Come fare per settare dei caratteri più grandi? Se ti riferisci a Konqueror, vai nelle impostazioni di questo - navigatore konqueror e file manager, e

Re: [newbie-it] Caratteri microscopici

2001-11-17 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 11:29, sabato 17 novembre 2001 hai scritto: Perchè Mandrake utilizza caratteri microscopici. Come fare per settare dei caratteri più grandi? Ciao Elio Ciao, per cambiare le impostazioni di tutti i programmi KDE, vai nel menu K - Configurazione - KDE - Aspetto - Caratteri e scegli i

[newbie-it] mandrake 8.1 floppy inaccessibile

2001-11-17 Thread seygues
credo di trovarmi in questa situazione descritta tra gli errata di mandrake. Mandrake Linux 8.1 - Errata Error scenario: The floppy drive is not accessible for use. Why: The PNP_BIOS does not initalize the floppy controller like the BIOS.

Re: [newbie-it] Montare una partizione windows

2001-11-17 Thread Milko Ferioli
Hai ragione scusa, Dunque la versione la 8.1 e la directory /mnt/vfat creata l'unico file vfat.o che ho trovato si trova /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/fs/vfat/vfat.o.gz Facendo il Mount da shell mi risponde: [root@localhost milfer]# mount -t vfat /dev/hdd1 /mnt/vfat mount:

Re: [newbie-it] Montare una partizione windows

2001-11-17 Thread LukenShiro
Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 14:27, sabato 17 novembre 2001, Voi, Notabile Milko Ferioli, avete dipinto: /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/fs/vfat/vfat.o.gz Il modulo c'e', ma AFAIK quando non viene caricato il sistema e' normalmente impostato per comprimerlo con gzip, affinche' non occupi spazio

[newbie-it] Netscape, Konqueror e Java

2001-11-17 Thread Daniele Micci
Ciao a tutti, per la serie problema che va, problema che viene, vi scrivo per un nuovo problema con Mandrake 8.1 (il secondo, in realtà... devo dire che finora la 8.1 mi sta soddisfacendo in pieno). Ho reinstallato, da un CD su cui avevo copiato i files, la Blackdown Java-Linux 2 Runtime

[newbie-it] Problemi di visibilit periferiche

2001-11-17 Thread Domenico
Ciao ragazzi, sapete dirmi come devo fare per utilizzare il drive floppy e i miei due CDROm ? Cliccando sull'icona del floppy mi da questo errore: Impossibile montare il dispositivo. mount : /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Un 'altra cosa : perche' non ho accesso alle directory bin,

Re: [newbie-it] Netscape, Konqueror e Java

2001-11-17 Thread LukenShiro
Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 14:56, sabato 17 novembre 2001, Voi, Notabile Daniele Micci, avete dipinto: dopo aver installato il plugin, Netscape non parte più. Conseguentemente, nemmeno Konqueror riesce ad utilizzare Java. Lanciando Netscape da console, ottengo questo errore: INTERNAL ERROR on

Re: [newbie] NFS mounts

2001-11-17 Thread Derek Jennings
There is a good tutorial on NFS at www.mandrakeuser.org On Saturday 17 November 2001 06:38, Brian Parish wrote: Can anyone help me with NFS? I understand that NFS shares are created using /etc/export, but what do I put in there? The /etc/exports publishes a list of folders available to be

RE: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?

2001-11-17 Thread Franki
I recently stopped using Reiserfs on the server boxes, I swaped to ext3, the reason being that recently I have had some data corruption on both mdk7.2 and mdk8.1 and in both cases, it appears that reiserfs was the problem, for one thing, it apparently doesn't like postfix much. ext3 is abit

Re: [newbie] Web page design

2001-11-17 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Thursday 15 November 2001 22:34, you wrote: Hello, What program is the best to design web pages without knowing now to program. I have been using frontpage 2000. You probably already have two GUI setups on your system. Both Netscape 4.x and Mozilla contain a Composer module. Not the

Re: [newbie] Help

2001-11-17 Thread Stephen Kitchener
Hi, On Saturday 17 November 2001 03:55, you wrote: I downloaded the mandrake 8.1 ISO from one of your FTP sites. I used winimage to open the ISO and extract the contents to a empty folder. I need burned all of the contents to a CD. When I try to boot from the CD it tells me searching for

[newbie] cheap notebook?

2001-11-17 Thread kenn yahoo
i'm looking to install mandrake on a CHEAP notebook ... anyone have any suggestions on a good choice? unlike desktops, i have to get the component choices right from the beginning. thanks, kenn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Terminus (game) problems.

2001-11-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I'm running v8.1 and I reinstalled the space combat/flight game Terminus. It installed just fine, but I'm having a problem running it. Whenever I type in terminus from a shell, I get the following: [darklord@darkforce darklord]$ terminus terminus: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: [newbie] Terminus (game) problems.

2001-11-17 Thread Onur Kucuk
--- Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running v8.1 and I reinstalled the space combat/flight game Terminus. It installed just fine, but I'm having a problem running it. Whenever I type in terminus from a shell, I get the following: [darklord@darkforce darklord]$ terminus

Re: [newbie] Terminus (game) problems.

2001-11-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 17 November 2001 09:20 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I'm running v8.1 and I reinstalled the space combat/flight game Terminus. It installed just fine, but I'm having a problem running it. Whenever I type in terminus from a shell, I get the following: [darklord@darkforce darklord]$

[newbie] procmail recipe

2001-11-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Arthur, In your email of 10/31/2001 to the list you attached a procmail recipe to your email. Could you please email it to me. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:38:06 -0500 (EST) From: Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] cheap notebook?

2001-11-17 Thread Franki
I can tell you that mandrake seems fine on a Compaq Armada M700, it has a winmodem lucent Mini-PCI, but lucent winmodems can be made to work now I believe.. They have a great screen to, I am typing this on one now... :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] No music CD player sound?

2001-11-17 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 17 November 2001 21:48, Roy Hershberger wrote: Hi, I'm new here and hoping someone will have an idea about how to fix my problem. I have a Soundblaster live 5.1 sound card that I can't get a music CD player to work with. When running Grip it recognizes the music CD and plays

[newbie] gnome ppp

2001-11-17 Thread lee
Hi Folks, I'm trying to get gnome ppp to work on my box here. It'll start the connection,but the daemon dies unexpectedly just after logging on to my isp. Has anyone had any luck using this method for connecting? the internet dialer seems to work ok(on another box),but as the link to

Re: [newbie] cheap notebook?

2001-11-17 Thread kenn yahoo
that's interesting .. i have an armada 1550MDT in the closet ... it's old and needs a bigger hard drive, but maybe i could make that work??? thanks for the advice ... - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 8:57 AM

Re[2]: [newbie] cdrom and floppies! Again.. or yet?

2001-11-17 Thread Onur Kucuk
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom will be the answer :) Onur Kucuk RCdOF I've tried that too! ;-( RCdOF Oops! now I got it permissions problem!;-/ RCdOF I think there is a problem with the links RCdOF When I eject the 'cdrom' the cdrom2 is ejected, like: RCdOF eject cdrom (cdrom2

Re: [newbie] gnome ppp

2001-11-17 Thread lykaslair
At 10:56 AM 11/17/01 -0500, Lee Martin wrote: I'm trying to get gnome ppp to work on my box here. It'll start the connection,but the daemon dies unexpectedly just after logging on to my isp. Has anyone had any luck using this method for connecting? the internet dialer seems to work ok(on

Re: [newbie] Old Dell 466/L (OT)

2001-11-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 16 November 2001 20:14, you wrote: Jon Dowd [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent Friday, November 16, 2001 6:04 PM :Iomega has a site listing lots of BIOS entry key commands. Yes, it does. And the Dell site has the correct answer. http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document.asp?DN=1012573

Re: [newbie] Calibrating monitor image

2001-11-17 Thread Warren Post
Perhaps you're looking for the gamma adjustments that are documented in the man pages of XF86Config (around line 760 or so). You can adjust overall gamma, or -- for your color tweaking -- adjust red, green, and blue gamma separately. I'm wrestling with these settings myself, although I should

Re: [newbie] Old Dell 466/L (OT)

2001-11-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 16 November 2001 20:14, you wrote: Jon Dowd [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent Friday, November 16, 2001 6:04 PM :Iomega has a site listing lots of BIOS entry key commands. Yes, it does. And the Dell site has the correct answer.

Re: [newbie] Help

2001-11-17 Thread skidley
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nickolas wrote: I downloaded the mandrake 8.1 ISO from one of your FTP sites. I used winimage to open the ISO and extract the contents to a empty folder. I need burned all of the contents to a CD. When I try to boot from the CD it tells me searching for boot record :

[newbie] Lynksys etherfast PCMCIA card installation

2001-11-17 Thread Dave Burrows
Hi, All; I'll try to be as specific (without being wordy) as possible.  If more information is needed, I'll try to provide it.  Thanks in advance for reading and for any assistance that you may be able to share. Trying to install my Linksys fast ethernet card (PCM100) in an IBM laptop 380ED

[newbie] VNC

2001-11-17 Thread Steven Spears
Has anyone tried running a VNC server with Mandrake 8.1? I've tried but have had no luck, not that I claim to know what I'm going. But if anyone could point me to a site or where I could find some information, I would be thankful. Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] diagrams

2001-11-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
tek1 wrote: i too am looking for a visio substitute on linux, but just doesn't seem like the s/w is there yet. kivio looks to be the closest, but they said that importing visio files is low on their priority list of things to do... :( pls let us know if u find something though. i will

Re: [newbie] VNC

2001-11-17 Thread windstar
Hi, try this one: http://www.uk.research.att.com/ Has anyone tried running a VNC server with Mandrake 8.1? I've tried but have had no luck, not that I claim to know what I'm going. But if anyone could point me to a site or where I could find some information, I would be thankful. Ivo :)

Re: [newbie] Lynksys etherfast PCMCIA card installation

2001-11-17 Thread Derek Jennings
Dave Few suggestions for you to try From this mail http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/tulip/2001-October/003717.html You already have the tulip.o file, so you can skip everything up to ... Edit the file: /etc/conf.modules . alias eth0 tulip.o options tulip.o full_duplex=1,0,1 debug=0

Re: [newbie] diagrams

2001-11-17 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, Thanks for the recommendation but the link shown is not activeresults in unknown host Can you supply an active url? Thanks, Bill Try http://lem.ch.unito/linux/E/2/ -- it's a listing of a number of Linux CAD, drawing and painting tools with descriptions, comments and

[newbie] taskbar empty

2001-11-17 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, While working on my laptop without a mouse, I somehow selected to not show running tasks in the taskbar. I now have my mouse backhow do I re-configure to show the tasks in the task bar? thanks in advance, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] problems creating floppy installation disks

2001-11-17 Thread kenn yahoo
I've downloaded the three ISO images for MandrakeLinux 8.1, created CDs, and successfully installed Mandrake on a desktop PC (so i can assume that there's no problem with the CD itself) but now I want to attempt an installation on an old Compaq Amada laptop I dragged out of the closet

running 'kylix' was Re: [newbie] problems installing 'kylix'

2001-11-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Yeah, Mine started after a while as well (thanks). Dunno why tho, didn't leave this widget running all night though. Funny thing: I installed the crossover-wine and presto: all the icons were ther (they weren't before) on the taskbar. Then. I moved my /home/harm directory to

Re: [newbie] VNC

2001-11-17 Thread Steven Spears
Thanks! Actually, I found the site and some others that were helpful and now I have it up and running on my local network as well as over the net. It works pretty good for what I need it for. All I had to do was edit one line and I was up and going. Oh, yeah, had to change the router to

[newbie] Sleep Mode

2001-11-17 Thread xsturm
Well I tried to edit out the file in my XF86Config-4 file about DPMS but that didnt seem to really make a difference either. I also tried to use the command xset s off but that didnt work either. Any ideas? I might just have to recompile the kernel I have without power saving. let me know

[newbie] avi mpeg

2001-11-17 Thread Jaime Rafael Cabrera Letona -REDES-
Alguien sabe qeu herramientas puedo bajar para ver los formatos avi y mpeg en linux. gracias. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] VNC

2001-11-17 Thread Marcia
Dear Steve, I am interested in using VNC. I have LM8 on my desktop and Windows 98/LM8 dual boot on my laptop. Is this like using IP masquerade or is it very different from that? Exactly what other information did you research to learn how to set it up? What line did you edit and exactly how?

Re: [newbie] cheap notebook?

2001-11-17 Thread tek1
what driver are you using for the linksys 802.11b pcmcia card? i thought that there were no linux drivers for it...? thanks. At 17:58 01/11/17 -0800, you wrote: I've installed Mandrake 8.1 on several different laptops and can say that it has generally been simple and straightforward.

Re: [newbie] hmmm.. two questions.

2001-11-17 Thread David E. Fox
One: Is it standard for mandrake 8.1not to come with gimp? Is it perhaps that I do not have a full set of libraries? I'm sure gimp is there - use rpmdrake to look for the gimp RPM and install it. It might not be installed by default, depending on how you decided to install your system. Can

Re: [newbie] Nice new NEWBIE website for Linux users

2001-11-17 Thread David E. Fox
Basicly all Linux's will have 99.99% the same commands. Now going to something like HP's Unix you will find that the commandline options are different sometimes. I use HP Unix at work. I'm so sorry :) David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] ssh

2001-11-17 Thread David E. Fox
Last login: Mon Nov 5 19:51:56 2001 from localhost.localdomain /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name home.97fx:10.0 in add I think taht should be 'home.97fx:0.0' for primary display. [root@home root]# xmms _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for home.97fx Is

Re: [newbie] cheap notebook?

2001-11-17 Thread Robert
What are you asking? For a distribution or a specific laptop model? If this is of any help I installed Linux-Mandrake 8.0 on an HP N3215 running 475Mhz AMD K-6, 128Mb, 4Gb harddrive, and a Cyberblade graphics chip powering a passive matric LCD. The installation was great but there is no

Re: [newbie] Color of root terminal

2001-11-17 Thread David E. Fox
How to change the color of root terminal(both fg and bg) in 8.1? I used to do it using settings, schema and white on black and save seetings. Are you referring to an xterm or konsole (X console) or one of the virtual terminals? (I don't think colors on VC's can be changed, but I could be

Re: [newbie] problems creating floppy installation disks

2001-11-17 Thread David E. Fox
okay, let me tell you one more thing .. i've discovered that, while i can read the installation instructions on the cd, i can't run the programs in the dosutils directory ... what am i doing wrong? Those are for DOS. Hopefully, you aren't running it.

Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?

2001-11-17 Thread David E. Fox
Yes, sorry... I meant my Swap to be 2x my RAM so I would go for a Swap partition of about 130 MB or so. Is Root where the actual OS is That's a good choice. Root (the / partition itself) contains directories and files needed by the system. At minimum, it needs to have enough room to store