Re: [newbie-it] consiglio su un editor html

2001-11-21 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 08:12, mercoledì 21 novembre 2001 hai scritto: Ciao alla lista, per esigenze lavorative mi trovo ad dover creare pagine html. Solo che non so quali programmi sono in giro e soprattutto la loro qualità. Vi sarei grato se qualcuno potesse consigliarmi un programma di questo tipo.

Re: [newbie-it] Konqueror e Java

2001-11-21 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 08:41, mercoledì 21 novembre 2001 hai scritto: Nella configurazione di Konqueror ho attivato tutti i comandi, mi pare solo due, relativi a Java. Però, quando vado nei siti di informazione, tipo Ansa ed i vari quotidiani, nella striscia sotto l'intestazione, dove scorrono le ultime

[newbie-it] CD-W inesistente

2001-11-21 Thread Maurizio
Ho installato la MDK 8.1Ho creato un dischetto di bootHo installato Grub sull'HD dedicato a LinuxFacendo il boot da floppy il CD-W viene regolarmente riconosciutoFacendo il boot da HD il CD-W e' inesistente Quando faccio il boot da HD dmesg mi segnala:"hda: no response (status = 0xd0),

[newbie-it] hda5 pieno

2001-11-21 Thread Luigi De Pascale
Salve a tutti. Ho rifatto il danno di cui avevo gia' parlato. Nell'installare una sfilza di pacchetti mi sei e' riempito hda5 e l'installazione non e' andata a fondo. Che posso fare? ciao Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De

[newbie-it] Webcam

2001-11-21 Thread Daniele Micci
Ciao a tutti, vorrei acquistare una videocamera/webcam da collegare via porta USB al mio computer. Ho visto alcuni modelli Philips. Vorrei avere qualche consiglio: qualcuno usa una qualche webcam USB sotto Mandrake 8.1? che modello mi consigliate? Grazie in anticipo per le risposte... Daniele

[newbie-it] web cam

2001-11-21 Thread seygues
io possiedo una cam creative, ma mandrake non la vede. Se qualcuno l'ha già montata e sa come si fa magari mi puo' dare consigli. La creative mi pare non sia presente nell'HD elencato da mandrake. Mauro

[newbie-it] Mandrake e masterizzatore SCSI

2001-11-21 Thread Franco
Ciao a tutti. Rieccomi con ancora problemi con Mandrake, stavolta in versione 8.1. Collegati ad una scheda scsi ho uno Zip 100 e un masterizzatore che hanno sempre funzionato. Ora mentre lo Iomega non presenta problemi, il masterizzatore non viene attivato a causa di ... scsi non trovata o non

Re: [newbie-it] web cam

2001-11-21 Thread Gino
io ho una Vesta della Philips.i drivers sono direttamente nel kernel a partire dal 2.4.6 (anche la 2.4.5 li ha ma non funzionano)purtroppo non sono riuscito a farla funzionare perchè la mia cacca di portatile è fatto a livello dei bios e risorse in maniera abominevole, sembra... Cmq...quel

Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake e masterizzatore SCSI

2001-11-21 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 17:14, mercoledì 21 novembre 2001 hai scritto: Seguendo la ML ho modificato la stringa devfs=mount in devfs=nomount in lilo.conf e finalmente il masterizzatore funziona, ma... inserito un CD musicale nel lettore CD-Rom IDE (o ATA?? o come si chiama) ecco apparire Errore di lettura o

[newbie] Question about installing PHP 4.0

2001-11-21 Thread E Estes
I downloaded a file "php-4.0.6.tar.gz" and I opened it with Archiver and extracted it to a directory "PHP". I tried doing the ./configure and I got errors. Here is what happened: [root@192 PHP]# ./configureloading cache ./configure.cachechecking for a BSD compatible

Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?

2001-11-21 Thread sarah white
alrighty... what flavor of linux are you running? i know that it does like the swap, root, and home though. im running mandrake 8.1 and its pretty cool like that with the graphical install... it has autoalicate. :) - Original Message - From: sarah white [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Joystick setup

2001-11-21 Thread sarah white
Title: Joystick setup i cant find shit for drivers for the A4tech stuff for linux... if you find any let me know:) - Original Message - From: Craig Williamson (ENZ) To: 'Mandrake Newbie' Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 6:15 PM Subject: [newbie] Joystick setup

Re: [newbie] hostname

2001-11-21 Thread sarah white
edit that... change it to whatever you want... leave that IP though... its your loopback... but you prolly knew that:) instead of all the locahoast stuff.. edit it to be what you want:) - Original Message - From: NDPTAL85 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 19,

Re: [newbie] hostname

2001-11-21 Thread sarah white
i know you can do it by command line... my b/f did it the other day... i can get back to you on it in abou tan hour. 2.54am mountain time here. - Original Message - From: NDPTAL85 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 8:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Firewall Log Question

2001-11-21 Thread Derek Jennings
These are all on ports 137 and 138 which are reserved for :- netbios-ns 137/tcpNETBIOS Name Service netbios-ns 137/udpNETBIOS Name Service netbios-dgm 138/tcpNETBIOS Datagram Service netbios-dgm 138/udpNETBIOS Datagram Service Perhaps you are running

Re: [newbie] Xwindows wont start

2001-11-21 Thread sarah white
we have had this problem too with mandrake 8.1. there are tow commands... try this one first. logon as root and at the command type: depmod-a then theres: int3 here is the help page for that problem for linux mandrake 8.1 http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1354lang=en - Original

Re: [newbie] Question about installing PHP 4.0

2001-11-21 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
E Estes wrote: I downloaded a file "php-4.0.6.tar.gz" and I opened it with Archiver and extracted it to a directory "PHP". I tried doing the ./configure and I got errors. Here is what happened:[root@192 PHP]# ./configure snip> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no checking for working

Re: [newbie]

2001-11-21 Thread sarah white
haha... solaris... isnt that a sun system... you know star office... thats from sun systems too! so you are familiar with it! - Original Message - From: skidley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 9:38 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] On Tue, 20 Nov 2001,

Re: [newbie] Password On Grub/Lilo

2001-11-21 Thread lee
I know in Bastille there's an option for that. :-) Lee On Monday 19 November 2001 16:44, you wrote: Hey group, Does anyone know how to password lilo/grub on boot to where you have to have a passwd to boot whichever partition you want or to make any changes like as to boot into single

Re: [newbie] Search Files Name

2001-11-21 Thread lee
Yes on the command line type whereis then add your file,with the standard space between whereis and the filename. Lee On Tuesday 20 November 2001 22:37, you wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, SKLIM wrote: Hi! I need help again on Linux Command. Does anyone know what is the command for

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers + glms (cpu temperature sensors) for LM8.1

2001-11-21 Thread Onur Kucuk
CD Hi, CD I'd like to install the latest nVidia GeForce drivers in LM8.1, but CD the nVidia download site only provides rpm's up to LM8.0. Is there any CD chance the LM8.0 drivers rpm will work with LM8.1 ? Not unless you downgrade your kernel, but dont even think about it :) You can use

Re: [newbie] kword on printing

2001-11-21 Thread antoine rivoire
yep, i installed star office last night and it works shame but, i really like kword... On Wednesday 21 November 2001 4:27 am, you wrote: My son had a similar problem with a report for school. I just tried it now and had the same problem. Maybe it's a new feature, but for now, I'll

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers + glms (cpu temperature sensors) for LM8.1

2001-11-21 Thread Robert MacLean
you can. i have 8.1 and run the latest and greatest nvidia drivers. how you ask? www.mandrakeuser.com has the 8.1 version, simple huh? ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Onur Kucuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Charles Darcy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Apache + Perl5 + PHP406

2001-11-21 Thread AOL Systems
I hope this will might help you with ur problem although it will be time consuming but you will later on appreciate it.This is one of the most tweak configure APACHE+PHP+PERL config from the source but i only use later version of this applications so i hope it will still help you. Apache URL:

[newbie] AOL help Simple Samba

2001-11-21 Thread AOL Systems
Pls help me how to configure simple Samba configuration.Pls give at least a brief config using the source.Pls Thanks! Respectfully AOL www.aolsystems.com www.aolsystems.com/autonotix Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie]

2001-11-21 Thread Derek V
How do i stop all these emails:(:( --- sarah white [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: haha... solaris... isnt that a sun system... you know star office... thats from sun systems too! so you are familiar with it! - Original Message - From: skidley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] kword on printing

2001-11-21 Thread Steven Spears
I don't know what is causing it, but I messed around with the fonts and found some that worked. I can't remember which ones, but from limited use, It looks like a font problem. Try some others and see what you get. Hope this helps, even if it's a little. Steve On Tuesday 20 November 2001

Re: [newbie] Wine and Starcraft under 8.1...

2001-11-21 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Carl Lafferty wrote: at one point you had helped me get it working by changing some wine options from internal emulation to external emulation of some of the DLL Files. Not completely sure where I did it now but you were the one that told me how. ;) Yep, but this is a little

Re: [newbie] Software Manager

2001-11-21 Thread Gonzalo
He says that he can't add new sources to install rpm packages throw software manager, not even a floppy or other folder. If it's Mandrake 8.0, i believe that software manager was broken in that version (si es en Mandrake 8.0, esa vesión de Sofware Manager estaba rota) From: RomLi [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] remote access via a modem?

2001-11-21 Thread Richardson, Martin
mgetty cheers, Martin -Original Message- From: Alan Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2001 5:20 To: Newbie List Subject: [newbie] remote access via a modem? Is there a program or a server that will run, that will

Re: [newbie] Software Manager

2001-11-21 Thread Gonzalo
Puedes usar kpackage, gnorpm o en la consola rpm -Uvh xx.rpm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs

2001-11-21 Thread Terry Smith
Thanks Jon. I've picked up a network card and I'll supposedly get a self-install kit on Friday from the local cable provider. Sounds pretty painless. Where's Ashland? (MA?) Terry Smith Jon Dowd wrote: I am connected to the internet via a cable modem on the Ashland Fiber Network This

[newbie] Reload Xinetd

2001-11-21 Thread Ethan
How do I reload xinetd under LM 8.1 ? thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Hack My Linux

2001-11-21 Thread David ..
The only problem with most firewalls, atleast mine, is that if you do a scan within your 'intranet' all ports(well not all, but the important ones) will be found open. You need to have someone outside of your network do the scan. If I was the run the app within, then it would show that the

[newbie] VM Ware

2001-11-21 Thread Caspar Kennerdale
I am on windows 2000 at work and have a copy of vmware I have a cd copy of a bootbale version of manadrke 7.1 from a friend of mine- this was successfully used to install on a 'virgin PC' However on VMware it doesnt recognize the CD- initially it says 'there is no bootable CD' so I have made a

RE: [newbie] Software Manager

2001-11-21 Thread RomLi
Hi Gonzalo. My Madrake version It´s 8.1. Sorry, I confuse this list of mails with the list in Spanish but THANKS for help me. :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Search Files Name

2001-11-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 08:17 pm, SKLIM wrote: I need help again on Linux Command. Does anyone know what is the command for search a files? For Example : I like to serch a files call 123456 'locate 123456' If you want to make locate case insensitive, use 'locate -i search_string'

Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs

2001-11-21 Thread Derek V
CAn someone tell me how to get off this mailing lsit?? --- Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Jon. I've picked up a network card and I'll supposedly get a self-install kit on Friday from the local cable provider. Sounds pretty painless. Where's Ashland? (MA?) Terry Smith

Re: [newbie] AOL help Simple Samba

2001-11-21 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 06:48, AOL Systems wrote: Pls help me how to configure simple Samba configuration.Pls give at least a brief config using the source.Pls Thanks! Samba includes a simple smb.conf file that is self-documented. I based three of my Samba setups on that file, with a few

Re: [newbie] Question about installing PHP 4.0

2001-11-21 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 05:58, E Estes wrote: I downloaded a file php-4.0.6.tar.gz and I opened it with Archiver and extracted it to a directory PHP. I tried doing the ./configure and I got errors. Here is what happened: [root@192 PHP]# ./configure loading cache ./configure.cache checking

Re: [newbie] Reload Xinetd

2001-11-21 Thread Michael D. Viron
'/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinet restart' from the command line as root. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:46 AM 11/22/2001 +0800, you wrote: How do I reload xinetd under LM 8.1 ? thanks.

[newbie] DVD on 8.1

2001-11-21 Thread Gerard van Winssen
Hi, I've installed 8.1 on my systyem more more or less succesfully. I haven't configured everything yet, first things first. The DVD drive won't work, I read some postings on mandrakeforum and the DVD playing howto. With VLC installed and running, and with A movie rom in th drive I klick the

Re: [newbie] Proper rpm procedure for cross-dependency?

2001-11-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 06:54 pm, skidley wrote: So when ya get the source does that have a suitable .config already selected or is it wise to do your own make menuconfig like with vanilla source. I guess that's what I would do as I have one saved that works for me and I would only need

[newbie] making the cd's

2001-11-21 Thread MCollins
when making my mandrake cd's from the downloaded files, can i create a data cd as i would burning any other cd? or is there more to it than that? thanks fyi: if this question (or the last one) is in the archives i apologize. my work uses a web blocker and i can't access a lot of message

Re: [newbie] Apache + Perl5 + PHP406

2001-11-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi, Sorry to cut in. Reading your posting I have certain questions to ask. Kindly help . 1) Some line begins with ' ' similar to answering a posting. What do they represent for ? such as ./configure \ --with-apache=../apache_1.3.19 \ --with-crt=/etc/ssl/certs/server.crt \

Re: [newbie] making the cd's

2001-11-21 Thread Richard Wenninger
You must use the option to Burn from ISO image. Just copying the ISO file to a cd image won't work. Most CD burner software packages have this option somewhere. On Wednesday 21 November 2001 12:09 pm, you wrote: when making my mandrake cd's from the downloaded files, can i create a data

Re: [newbie] kword on printing

2001-11-21 Thread Dave
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 07:29 am, you wrote: I don't know what is causing it, but I messed around with the fonts and found some that worked. I can't remember which ones, but from limited use, It looks like a font problem. Try some others and see what you get. Hope this helps, even if

[newbie] Digital cameras, usb and devfs

2001-11-21 Thread Terry Smith
Hi all, I've gotten way behind on my emails on this list. A while back (before Mandrake 8.1) there was some discussion of gphoto, gphoto2, creating and then directly mounting a digital camera directory, etc. I understood most of it. Now I understand that under LM 8.1, the new kernel and devfs

[newbie] Whereis WordPerfect??

2001-11-21 Thread Terry Smith
Before I wiped out my partitions with a clean install of the very wonderful LM 8.1 I had a working version of WordPerfect 8.0 for linux. I'd like to reinstall it (or a newer version if it exists), but I can't find it anywhere on the web. What's the current version (or most recent anyway) and

Re: [newbie] Proper modules.conf for CS423x Sound Card?

2001-11-21 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:13:29 -0800 (PST) James F. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:23:11 +0100, Frans Ketelaars wrote: Here are the sound lines that I have in /etc/modules.conf. I commented out following line 1: 1 alias sound-slot-0 ad1848 Now, during

Re: [newbie] making the cd's

2001-11-21 Thread skidley
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when making my mandrake cd's from the downloaded files, can i create a data cd as i would burning any other cd? or is there more to it than that? thanks fyi: if this question (or the last one) is in the archives i apologize. my work uses a

[newbie] Boot error after Installation of 8.1

2001-11-21 Thread Mike Myers
Last night I installed 8.1. When I boot I get only "Boot error" displayed on the screen. I did create a boot floppy and it will boot from that. Prior to Mandrake I had free BSD installed. It is installed on an IBM 390X laptop with 128 MB ram and 6.4 GB Drive. I have installed it twice

Re: [newbie] Still Crashing on restart, every time...

2001-11-21 Thread Derek Jennings
Hmm... Thats a 3com driver isn't it. I'm using that one without any problems. Is it a PCMCIA card? You do not have NFS defined do you? That can cause hangs on power down. Have you tried stopping the network before you shut down? What are the last messages in the syslog. Any clues? On

Re: Re: [newbie] motherboard suggestion for stable system

2001-11-21 Thread Jim Dawson
Just from the 'specs', not much. On paper the only real diference between a low-end 'server' and a desktop would probabally be that the Server will generally have a higher-output power supply. The main difference is the quality of the components and construction. 'server grade' hardware is

Re: [newbie] Whereis WordPerfect??

2001-11-21 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:11:54 -0500 Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before I wiped out my partitions with a clean install of the very wonderful LM 8.1 I had a working version of WordPerfect 8.0 for linux. I'd like to reinstall it (or a newer version if it exists), but I can't find it

Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?

2001-11-21 Thread sarah white
yup... thats right! - Original Message - From: sarah white [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 2:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions? alrighty... what flavor of linux are you running? i know that it does like the swap, root, and

Re: [newbie] Mounting new HDD and creating new partitions.

2001-11-21 Thread Miark
No KDE or Gnome? Hmm, in that case I think you'll need to use fdisk. Miark - Original Message - From: Tomek Nowinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 9:34 AM Subject: [newbie] Mounting new HDD and creating new partitions. Hi, I have

Re: [newbie] Whereis WordPerfect??

2001-11-21 Thread sarah white
star office is good. it comes with 8.1 - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 12:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Whereis WordPerfect?? On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:11:54 -0500 Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[newbie] Partition Magic for Linux

2001-11-21 Thread xsturm
Hello, Does anyone know where I can get a full version of Partition Magic for Linux? thnx Andrew -- It's a beautiful day...don't let it get away... ~U2~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Partition Magic for Linux

2001-11-21 Thread Miark
Their website is at www.powerquest.com, but I don't know of any Linux version. I used their version 7.0 to prepare Ext2 partions not too long ago, and subsequently it became impossible to boot into Linux again. I found out later that their idea of Ext2 is a little different than everybody

Re: [newbie] Partition Magic for Linux

2001-11-21 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:11:41 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Does anyone know where I can get a full version of Partition Magic for Linux? thnx Andrew There is no such animal. PM, any version, can only be installed if you are running Windows or DOS. It does not run on

[newbie] zip drive and cd rom locked out

2001-11-21 Thread Jim Snyder
Hi I think I have overcome some of my mount problems as mentioned in a previous email but now I have no access to my CD ROM or Zip Drive. The permission appear to be set but I cannot access them as root or a user. Is there a lock file somewhere I am overlooking? Many thanks in advance. Jim

Re: [newbie] Whereis WordPerfect??

2001-11-21 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 21:11, you wrote: Before I wiped out my partitions with a clean install of the very wonderful LM 8.1 I had a working version of WordPerfect 8.0 for linux. I'd like to reinstall it (or a newer version if it exists), but I can't find it anywhere on the web. What's

Re: [newbie] Whereis WordPerfect??

2001-11-21 Thread Terry Smith
Thanks Charles and Sarah. I do have Star Office 5.2 installed at home (from the PowerPack) and today, at the office, installed Star Office 6.0 Beta (downloaded from Sun). I think SOffice 6.0 is a real improvement...it read all my Windoze MS files (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) perfectly.

Re: [newbie] making the cd's

2001-11-21 Thread D. Lee Wiggers
In NeroFile then Burn image Good luck 11/21/01 11:27:25 AM, skidley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when making my mandrake cd's from the downloaded files, can i create a data cd as i would burning any other cd? or is there more to it than

Re: [newbie] AOL help Simple Samba

2001-11-21 Thread Randy Kramer
Dave Sherman wrote: My Aunt MAUREEN was a military advisor to IKE TINA TURNER!! OK, so what's the rest of the story? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] ALSA --which services to start?

2001-11-21 Thread James F. Marshall
I cannot get sound to work, as explained in other posts. According to the SysV-Init Editor, the three following services are started, available, and on when I boot: alsa, alsasound, and sound. Yes, three different services with three different scripts. Is this too many? Do they conflict?

[newbie] formatting floppies

2001-11-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hello all, Since mdk8.1 I'm burning floppies like hell. It's not the drive itself, I tested that, so it's got to be Mandrake. I know Linux is more demanding on floppy quality, but 2 good floppies out of 10 is overdoing it :( Anybody else have similar troubles? Harm Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Whereis WordPerfect??

2001-11-21 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Terry Smith wrote: Thanks Charles and Sarah. I do have Star Office 5.2 installed at home (from the PowerPack) and today, at the office, installed Star Office 6.0 Beta (downloaded from Sun). I think SOffice 6.0 is a real improvement...it read all my Windoze MS files (Word, Excel and

[newbie] Configuring a LAN card

2001-11-21 Thread Paul Schwebel
I'm setting up an old PC with Mandrake 8.1. It has an Intel Etherexpress Pro 10+ ISA card. I've tried to configure the card using the Control Center, but when I try to load the driver, it fails. When I try using ifconfig at a root console, I get no such device and the like. I've checked the

Re: [newbie] Proper modules.conf for CS423x Sound Card?

2001-11-21 Thread James Marshall
Frans Ketelaars wrote: What does 'cat /proc/asound/cards' report? 0 [card1 ]: CS4236 - CS4237B CS4237B at 0x534, irq 5, dma 13 This seems correct as far as it goes. In OS/2 Warp, the card also uses irq 9 and several additional ioports. Do you use devfs (it's standard in

[newbie] Sound Problems -- sndstat

2001-11-21 Thread James Marshall
Sorry. See attached sndstat. For some reason, cut-and-paste is not working at the moment between gedit and Netscape. How do I enable the sound devices in CONFIG? Which configuration file is that? Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.5.11 emulation code) Kernel: Linux localhost.localdomain

[newbie] WINE rpm problem

2001-11-21 Thread Roger Sherman
I just did a full reinstall of 7.2, and then unzipped my backed-up /home /bin /etc directories in their proper places. But now I'm having a problem that has me baffled - when I installed, I specifically told it _not_ to install wine, as I prefer codeweavers wine. So, I tried to rpm -ivh

[newbie] Security warning?

2001-11-21 Thread Chris Ashmore
Sorry this is so long but what does this mean? I am very very new to this. Security Warning: Change in World Writeable Files found : - Added writables files : /home/samba - Added writables files : /tmp/.ICE-unix/9451 - Added writables files :

[newbie] Desktop Floppy Icon?

2001-11-21 Thread Roy Hershberger
Somehow the icon of my floppy drive on the desktop has become corrupted and is no longer linked to the drive. It showed up as a generic icon and no longer lists the mount feature when I right click on it. How do I restore the proper drive link to the desktop. Roy Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] Mounting WinNT Partitions

2001-11-21 Thread Rich
Is it possible to mount WinNt NTFS partitions in linux? If so, what is the correct format to use in fstab? mount -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Whereis WordPerfect??

2001-11-21 Thread Ethan
errr... can I have a copy of it too... I'm interested in it as well.. thanks so much. Carroll Grigsby wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Terry Smith wrote: Thanks Charles and Sarah.I do have Star Office 5.2 installed at home (from the PowerPack) and today,at the office, installed Star Office

[newbie] Re: mandakeuser.com was ( nVidia drivers + glms (cpu temperature sensors) for LM8.1)

2001-11-21 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:22:26 +0200, Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can. i have 8.1 and run the latest and greatest nvidia drivers. how you ask? www.mandrakeuser.com has the 8.1 version, simple huh? ___ Robert MacLean hi,

Re: [newbie] AOL help Simple Samba

2001-11-21 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:48:17 +0800, AOL Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pls help me how to configure simple Samba configuration.Pls give at least a brief config using the source.Pls Thanks! Respectfully AOL try the default samba.conf and base from there. some of the options

Re: [newbie] Boot error after Installation of 8.1

2001-11-21 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 13:26, you wrote: Last night I installed 8.1. When I boot I get only Boot error displayed on the screen. I did create a boot floppy and it will boot from that. Prior to Mandrake I had free BSD installed. It is installed on an IBM 390X laptop with 128 MB ram

[newbie] ftp server jail settings

2001-11-21 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
hi to all, this is for neil but I figure that the list may want it to. I am using proftd so those using other servers may need to read the manual that their ftp server provides. To prevent ftp users from roaming around the filesystem just add this line at the end of /etc/proftd.conf

Re: [newbie] Software Manager

2001-11-21 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
hi gonzalo, kindly relay to RomLi that the source that is being added may contain a 'malformed' rpm. this is if the package does not conform to the Mandrake standard or if it is corrupted. try using the commandline to add a new source (i think user has to be root) like this

Re: [newbie] AOL help Simple Samba

2001-11-21 Thread AOL Systems
Thanks! Respectfully AOL www.aolsystems.com Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:48:17 +0800, AOL Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pls help me how to configure simple Samba configuration.Pls give at least a brief config using the source.Pls Thanks! Respectfully AOL

Re: [newbie] Software Manager

2001-11-21 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
ooops. i read this later than my response. just refer to it. ;-) ciao! On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:12:05 +0100, "RomLi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gonzalo. My Madrake version It$B4s(B 8.1. Sorry, I confuse this list of mails with the list in Spanish but THANKS for help me.

Re: [newbie] VM Ware

2001-11-21 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:55:35 +, Caspar Kennerdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip This seems to read the floppyt , starts t read the cd and after a few minites gives the message ' this is not a mandrake cd' does anyone have any ideas? is this because the cd is a copy

[newbie] Question about installing a .tar.gz file

2001-11-21 Thread E Estes
I'm really new to linux and Ihave no clue what todo with these types offiles. Iright-clickedand opened it with "Archiver" and extracted it to a directory I made but after that point I'm simply stumped. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: [newbie] Mounting new HDD and creating new partitions.

2001-11-21 Thread Michael D. Viron
Tomek, First, you need to create the new partition(s) on it. You can do this from the command line by doing fdisk /dev/hdx --where x depends on where it is on your ide cable (ide0 primary is hda, ide0 slave is hdb, ide1 primary is hdc, ide1 slave is hdd). After that, you need to create the

Re: [newbie] Security warning?

2001-11-21 Thread Michael D. Viron
Chris, This is part of the e-mail that cron sends on completion of the 'logcheck' entry in /etc/cron.daily . Basically these are items to let you know that something changed since the last time it ran. It is not a good idea to disable it, and in fact is a good idea to check on the items it is

Re: [newbie] Question about installing a .tar.gz file

2001-11-21 Thread Michael D. Viron
Typically a .tar.gz file isn't directly installed. Instead, you usually: 1. run 'tar -xzvf whatever.tar.gz' from the command line 2. run './configure' (to configure it) 3. run 'make' (to compile) 4. run 'make install' (to install) Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978

Re: [newbie] Reload Xinetd

2001-11-21 Thread Ethan
that's strange. I am running LM 8.1 and issued the command as root in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ driectory. typing xinetd by itself gets no response. And I believe that xinetd is the default - for without it, ftp and other services cannot run... man xinetd shows that sending the signal SIGUSR2 will

[newbie] sound doesn't work - mandrake 8.1

2001-11-21 Thread joe
Can someone help. the new install of mandrake 8.1 broke sound. It worked in 8.0 and still works in my windows(for games) partition. - the proper sound card is identified in Harddrake, - I've turned off Plug 'n Play in the bios (someone said that might be a problem) - Here's the relevant (I

Re: [newbie] Reload Xinetd

2001-11-21 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
hi, refer to my previous answer. there exists a xinetd executable in the /usr/sbin which is in the root PATH. you should execute the script located at /etc/rc.d/init.d / which is not in the PATH variable. if you enter xinetd restart then you are referring to the one in sbin. either you

Re: [newbie] Question about installing a .tar.gz file

2001-11-21 Thread Mithrilhall2000
Thanks a ton. I was hoping someone would take it slow with me. Most people I ask assume I know a lot about linux already but I don't. And I'm really glad you told me how to do it in shell. I started messing around with linux because of the power I hear it possess. Thanks again -

Re: [newbie] Still Crashing on restart, every time...

2001-11-21 Thread Grant Fraser
Promiscuous mode? I've never heard of promiscuous mode. Does that mean it sneaks past your firewall at night to find cheap thrills on the internet? On November 21, 2001 07:16 pm, Steve Weltman wrote: Hi Derek, Thanks for the fast response. I am using the 3c905TX, which is a PCI card (in a

[newbie] No sound - LM 8.1 as user but sound appears when log in as root

2001-11-21 Thread Ethan
Hi all, when I log in as a user, I do not get the login sound but when I login as root, I get the login sound for the KDE desktop 2.2.1. Can any one advise me on how to get sound again. thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] office 2000 shares

2001-11-21 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 19:54:42 -0700, Frank McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Has anyone attempted to share Microsoft Office 2000 Pro from a share on a Mandrake 8.0 using Samba. What would I have to do to set this up Thanks in advance, Frank McKenna

Re: [newbie] Reload Xinetd

2001-11-21 Thread Ethan Lee
many thanks. that worked, but may I ask why are there 2 differing "versions" of xinetd ? Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> you are using the xinetd from /usr/sbin. you may have issued xinetd from a directory other than the one specified or you didnot type the fullpath.either

Re: [newbie] Reload Xinetd

2001-11-21 Thread Ethan Lee
many thanks. that worked, but may I ask why are there 2 differing "versions" of xinetd ? Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> you are using the xinetd from /usr/sbin. you may have issued xinetd from a directory other than the one specified or you didnot type the fullpath.either

[newbie] JPilot is not working...

2001-11-21 Thread Steve Weltman
Are there any JPilot experts out here? I would very much like to use my Palm Vx for handheld stuff, but jpilot isn't working either (well, not after I changed stuff). I changed some configurations in the mail sync program and now the application fails to open and gives a segmentation

Re: [newbie] Reload Xinetd

2001-11-21 Thread Ethan
thanks for your help. It worked. Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> hi, refer to my previous answer. there exists a xinetd executable in the /usr/sbin which is in the root PATH. you should execute the script located at /etc/rc.d/init.d / which is not in the PATH variable. if you

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