Re: [newbie-it] 8.1

2001-11-23 Thread Alessandro Rontani
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 17:04:00 +0100 (CET) Luigi De Pascale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve a tutti, io ho una Mandrake 8.0 Di recente ho preso i dischi della 8.1 e mi chiedevo se installarla. Visto che molti di voi lo hanno gia' fatto, lo consigliate? si.. certo... ci sono un sacco di

[newbie-it] installazione xine divx 4.02

2001-11-23 Thread luigi pinna
ho avuto problemi con la compilazione di xine(per usare il dvd) in pratica quando compilo le librerie non riesce a creare delle directory e non termina la compilazione. un problema analogo l'ho avuto con il codec divx: non mi fa compilare i sorgenti. il tutto su una mandrake 8.0 qualcuno è

[newbie-it] modem Aztech Um 9800

2001-11-23 Thread Savoldi Augusto
FiestaCiao, sono nuovo di Linux e gradirei cortesemente un aiuto. Ho installato Mandrake 8.0 su un Pentium II (338Mhz) su scheda madre QDI con chipset Intel 440 BX e ram=256 Mb Al sistema è collegato il modem esterno USB Aztech UM 9800;ho scaricato dal sito madre i driver per la mia versione di

Re: [newbie] Internet access setup questions

2001-11-23 Thread bascule
i would consider all your macines to be at risk without a firewall on the 'ics' box, i would recommend what i use in a similar setup which is mandrake single network firewall (snf) but i admit i'm used to cable modems which are simple ethernet setups, i don't know about dsl modems so i can't

Re: [newbie] Accounting software for Linux

2001-11-23 Thread Anguo
- Original Message - ±H¥óªÌ: Nelson Bartley I'm currently looking for accounting software for linux. Does anyone know of any? or any open source groups currently attempting to develop these types of products? Thanks, Nelson Gnucash must be what you're looking for. Anguo Want to

[newbie]

2001-11-23 Thread Scheer Istvn
Hi! When an FTP has been ran in a shell (foreground), how can I put it into the background, when I want to exit from shell, and I do'nt want to cancel the FTP process? Thanks @ Best Regards! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] booting in console mode and seeing booting logs to diagnose problem

2001-11-23 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
Anguo wrote: Hi all! I have been looking in the archives for the answer to the first question below, but so far, I haven't found the solution. I am sure that the answer is simple. Do you know it? I dual boot win98 + Mandrake 8.1 Questions: 1- How can I use the boot disk to boot into

[newbie] installation problem with linux 8.0

2001-11-23 Thread Parthasarathy
Hi, Happy thanksgiving and happy holidays ! I have installed Mandrake 7.0 on my machine. I wanted to upgrade that to 8.0 And I have downloaded mandrake 8.0 [all the three files] and burnt on 3 cds. Now when I tried to boot the machine with new burnt CD it doesnot boot. Can anybody suggest me how

RE: [newbie] office 2000 shares

2001-11-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Yes you can do this. Although why you'd want to is another matter. First the problems. Since Winblows constantly goes to different modules, doing this puts a lot of traffic on your network. Office is a big (and bloated) application in itself, compounding the problem. For 3-6 users this may

Re: [newbie] booting in console mode

2001-11-23 Thread Anguo
- Original Message - ±H¥óªÌ: Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been looking in the archives for the answer to the first question below, but so far, I haven't found the solution. I am sure that the answer is simple. Do you know it? I dual boot win98 + Mandrake 8.1

Re: [newbie] transgaming wine install

2001-11-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 23 November 2001 08:58, Robert MacLean wrote: i'm not sure. where do i check what directory it's installing to? do i have to specify it? Well No. The makefile will automatically determine what directories it goes in. The point I was trying to make (inarticulately) was that if you

Re: [newbie] Importing Fonts

2001-11-23 Thread robin
The import fonts utility does hang sometimes - it usually means there are some weird fonts in Windows. I've never known it affect any programs, though. The only thing I can think of is that you have imported a font with the same name but different properties over one of your X-fonts, though

Re: [newbie] booting in console mode and seeing booting logs to diagnose problem

2001-11-23 Thread Anguo
Ouch! I just saw this: http://www.linux.com/howto/LILO-crash-rescue-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.4 You MUST make emergency boot disk from time to time and whenever you make changes to the partition. Insert a blank floppy which, of course, I didn't do... so the partition table on the boot floppy doens't

Re: [newbie] booting in console mode

2001-11-23 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:31:13 +0800, "Anguo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - $B1H%s*L(B: Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip does this mean that you can now enter your system? precisely not. I can't. the graphical login is a hindrance

[newbie] Tuxracer restarts Xserver

2001-11-23 Thread Erylon Hines
I don't play games much, and, in fact, I haven't opened Tuxracer since I installed 8.0 a couple of months ago. Strangely enough, my Xserver restarts when I click on its icon in Amusements. I get a black screen with the outline of my mouse cursor in the upper left corner, then the Xserver

Re: [newbie] transgaming wine install

2001-11-23 Thread Robert MacLean
the gaming version of mandrake has transgaming wine installed. and they say it can run counter strike out the box ;) maybe it's worth it? then again$89 is a lot in good old South Africa where the currency is worth nothing ___ Robert MacLean - Original

Re: [newbie] transgaming wine install

2001-11-23 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
same here in the excitingly-wild, vacation-haven philippines. heck, that price tag (excluding the shipping costs) is almost equal to my whole month's salary. i guess ill just have to make do with the download edition then hope I can make wine (and its derivatives) work 8-(. ciao! On Fri, 23

[newbie] howto-intro

2001-11-23 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
hi gang, i am looking for a how-to that has an introduction which goes like 'breaking the myths', i.e. open-source is just a hobby, linux is a hackers-toy,etc. i read some how-to that has that in the introduction and am searching for it but I cant find any (known case of not finding

RE: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Eh, actually there is a BIG need to perform a cold boot. I went into the specifics of this in prior postings, but the Nvidia chips must be re-inited completely as the NV drivers cannot handle the state the chipset was left in by XFree86's drivers. In addition the Nvidia modules get aliased by

[newbie] opengl not supported

2001-11-23 Thread Grant Fraser
I am running LM8.0 with a motherboard that has the sis620 chipset. The video driver is xfree86-3.3.6 experimental 3D. It did not want to work with xfree86-4.0.6 There is supposed to be another driver but everytime I look for it I find only dead links. I seem to have the latest glibc files

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-23 Thread Traci Collins
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 07:31, Robert MacLean wrote: there is no need to reboot. when you are at the command prompt, edit the config file and type startx. it will then attempt to load x. if it fails it will kick you back to the console. otherwise it will work Hi! I am wondering what I

Re: [newbie] booting in console mode and seeing booting logs to diagnose problem

2001-11-23 Thread Anguo
Hi all! I have been looking in the archives for the answer to the first question below, but so far, I haven't found the solution. I am sure that the answer is simple. Do you know it? I dual boot win98 + Mandrake 8.1 Questions: 1- How can I use the boot disk to boot into the console mode

Re: [newbie] booting in console mode and seeing booting logs to diagnose problem

2001-11-23 Thread Anke Max
Gidday Anguo You couldn't download one of those linux on a floppy distro's and boot from that could you? (Tomsboot?) I'm only guessing here. Then you could make the changes you need to and reboot. Also I've read somewhere about a command something like chroot where you can (I think) change from

[newbie] lm8.1 won't boot up properly after adding new partition.

2001-11-23 Thread Anguo
Hi all! I dual boot win98 + Mandrake 8.1 Questions: What would it take to solve this problem? Would reinstalling lm8.1 be quicker and easier? The situation seems pretty bad and a search on google makes me even more confused as to what could be the solution. Problem: KDE or any other window

Re: [newbie] Accounting software for Linux

2001-11-23 Thread Andre Dubuc
On Thursday 22 November 2001 19:04, you wrote: Hi Guys, I'm currently looking for accounting software for linux. Does anyone know of any? or any open source groups currently attempting to develop these types of products? Thanks, Nelson Hi Nelson, I don't know whether you want a

Re: [newbie] formatting floppies

2001-11-23 Thread Randy Donohoe
Things do not seem to work the same from computer to computer in linux. I have formatted 5 floppies in a row with no failures and my fstab looks like this: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 No comma but a space after auto. So

Re: [newbie] Services OT - was Ftp server

2001-11-23 Thread Len Lawrence
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: i dont think one is installed by default. I may be wrong so double check using Mandrake Control Center-Services. Huh? Where is this Mandrake Control Centre? The nearest I could get

Re: [newbie] Accounting software for Linux

2001-11-23 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 18:04, Nelson Bartley wrote: Hi Guys, I'm currently looking for accounting software for linux. Does anyone know of any? or any open source groups currently attempting to develop these types of products? Thanks, Nelson AppGen has free Quicken and Quickbooks clones.

Re: [newbie] Internet access setup questions

2001-11-23 Thread Randy Kramer
David, 1. You might want to ask this on the expert list. 2. My home network is very similar to yours, coax instead of hub, dial up instead of DSL, and a Dos box running IPROUTE instead of Windows with ICS. I don't know exactly what ICS does, but IPROUTE ($50 shareware from, darn, can't

Re: [newbie] formatting floppies

2001-11-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 23 November 2001 15:19, you wrote: Gidday folks (sorry coundn't find the original posters name) I can't help wondering if the fault lies with the floppy drive being used rather than the system formatting incorrectly rgrds max I thought the same at first. So I kicked ol'

[newbie] problem with netconfig for ppp on LM8.0

2001-11-23 Thread Ian K.Harrell
Greetings, I installed LM8.0 on a computer at work and ran into a problem. During installation i configured a dialup (ppp0) account to our ISP using a 3com external modem on ttys0 After rebooting and loading into linux for the first time i made sure that the dialup account worked by logging in

Re: [newbie] howto-intro

2001-11-23 Thread Michael Viron
Try looking at http://www.linuxdoc.org/, which is where most of the howtos, guides, and mini-howtos are located. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 07:45 PM 11/23/2001 +, you wrote:

Re: [newbie] Internet access setup questions

2001-11-23 Thread bascule
that site you mention randy, i have been there before and it identified my ip address as being that of one my isp's boxes 4 hops up the line from me, it reported open ports such as http (80) that i know are closed on my firewall, be carefull anyone that uses this bascule On Friday 23 Nov

Re: [newbie] Services OT - was Ftp server

2001-11-23 Thread bascule
it's the drakconf package if you don't have it installed, if you do try 'drakconf' from a console bascule On Friday 23 Nov 2001 3:05 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: i dont think one is installed by default.

[newbie] dvd/mpg

2001-11-23 Thread dbrn
I'm having a problem with dvd and mpg playback. It doesn't seem to matter which program I am using I only see the top left portion of the movie. I am running mandrake 8.1 on a thinkpad a21p Any ideas? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Fw: Re: [newbie] Internet access setup questions

2001-11-23 Thread Charles A Edwards
Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 10:58:04 -0500 From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet access setup questions On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:33:26 -0600 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. Okay, I realize this is

Re: [newbie] booting in console mode and seeing booting logs to diagnose problem

2001-11-23 Thread bascule
On Friday 23 Nov 2001 10:53 am, you wrote: if you have a boot disk for your system and all you have done is rearranged your partition scheme (sucessfully one assumes!) i.e. no kernel changes etc. then you should be able to boot with the disk and when you get to the lilo prompt type: linux

[newbie] 2nd Request: No more emails, please!`

2001-11-23 Thread JIM W CURTIS
Administrator... Please remove my name from the email list. Thank you, Oklatex Jim Curtis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] empty messages anyone?

2001-11-23 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Anke Max wrote: Tks Max! The same here, just attachments but not only from Dave... I don't open ANY attachment also! []s Ricardo Castanho Gidday Ricardo Yes, Everything I get from Dave Sherman I think the name was, is

[newbie] (fwd) Re: SoundBlaster Live! + Livedrive HOWTO

2001-11-23 Thread Rog
Earlier today I saw on one of the lists someone (Tom + Linda?) was wondering about the Live Drive, and whether it had support yet. The following may answer that question... On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:08:43 +, in alt.os.linux.mandrake Steve Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Hamelin wrote:

[newbie] Accounting software for Linux

2001-11-23 Thread Nelson Bartley
Hi Guys, I'm currently looking for accounting software for linux. Does anyone know of any? or any open source groups currently attempting to develop these types of products? Thanks, Nelson

Re: [newbie] Accounting software for Linux

2001-11-23 Thread D. Lee Wiggers
Try mybooks. Good reviews I downloaded it last week, but haven't installed yet. Lee 11/22/01 4:04:32 PM, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:04:32 -0500