Re: [newbie-it] Modem interno

2001-12-03 Thread Sandro
Il 18:30, domenica 2 dicembre 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti, un po' di tempo fa qualcuno ha scritto di aver risolto il problema del modem internosu un laptop della Acer. Ho provato a seguire le istruzioni ma quando lancio lspci, tra i dati che ottengo, non c'e' traccia di alcun modem

[newbie-it] SLMDM-2.04-00_20mdk.src.rpm file

2001-12-03 Thread Massimo
Installando sul mio laptop la release Mandrake 8, mi sono accorto che non veniva riconosciuto il modem HARM5600 (winmodem). Dopo qualche ricerca, ho trovato una nota che il file SLMDM-2.04-00_20mdk.src.rpm, risolve pienamente il problema questo in una vostra e-mail di assistenza. Dato che non

[newbie-it] Modem ADSL Ericcson HM 120dp

2001-12-03 Thread Marco
Ciao a tutti, sapete se il Modem ADSL Ericcson HM 120dp è utilizzabile con linux? Grazie Marco

Re:_[newbie-it]

2001-12-03 Thread Stefano Salari
--- tatiana_morosetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: dunque: nessun problema a formattare perchè il comp e' vuoto e posso pasticciare quanto voglio. io ho provato a fare questo: da lin ho creato spazio per win (installando di nuovo la mandrake 8.0, che mi da la possbilita' di creare

Re: R: [newbie-it] mdk8.1 e permessi partizioni windows

2001-12-03 Thread Stefano Salari
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: funziona, grazie. Come fai a smontare DevFS? ...Cioe', a disabilitarlo all'avvio? Devi aggiungere la riga devfs=nomount nel lilo.conf (oppure se usi grub nel suo file di configurazione ...che pero' non so qualse sia ;)). Ciao! Steo.

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Re: [newbie-it] Modem interno

2001-12-03 Thread Luigi De Pascale
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, [utf-8] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti, un po' di tempo fa qualcuno ha scritto di aver risolto il problema del modem internosu un laptop della Acer. Ho provato a seguire le istruzioni ma quando lancio lspci, tra i dati che ottengo, non c'e' traccia di alcun

Re: [newbie-it] mdk8.1 e permessi partizioni windows

2001-12-03 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 14:04, domenica 2 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: funziona, grazie. Come fai a smontare DevFS? ciaoMatteo Ciao Matteo, per disabilitare il devfs è sufficiente inserire la stringa devfs=nomount nel file di configurazione del tuo

Re: [newbie-it] SLMDM-2.04-00_20mdk.src.rpm file

2001-12-03 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 18:58, venerdì 30 novembre 2001 hai scritto: Installando sul mio laptop la release Mandrake 8, mi sono accorto che non veniva riconosciuto il modem HARM5600 (winmodem). Dopo qualche ricerca, ho trovato una nota che il file SLMDM-2.04-00_20mdk.src.rpm, risolve pienamente il problema

Re: [newbie-it] drivers nVidia

2001-12-03 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 20:35, domenica 2 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: Scusa ma come hai fatto a risolvere il problema, dove hai trovato i drivers? sul sito www.nvidia.com quale drivers hai scaricato per la Mandrake 8.1? Scusami ma sono alle prime armi, e avendo reinstallato il tutto già tre volte non

Re: R: [newbie-it] mdk8.1 e permessi partizioni windows

2001-12-03 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 12:09, lunedì 3 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: funziona, grazie. Come fai a smontare DevFS? ...Cioe', a disabilitarlo all'avvio? Devi aggiungere la riga devfs=nomount nel lilo.conf (oppure se usi grub nel suo file di

Re: [newbie-it] Modem ADSL Ericcson HM 120dp

2001-12-03 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 09:28, lunedì 3 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: Ciao a tutti, sapete se il Modem ADSL Ericcson HM 120dp è utilizzabile con linux? Grazie Marco Ciao Marco, sul sito di Linux Mandrake trovi un archivio dell'hardware. Hai provato a guardare se il tuo modem c'è nell'elenco? Inoltre, il

[newbie-it] mandrake 8.1 audio

2001-12-03 Thread Jacopo Ortis
Ciao, ho un problema con l'audio. quando si carica kde sento la musica di sottofondo ma poi non avverto + nessun segnale sonoro e non riesco a sentire i cd musicali. Non ho trovato nulla al riguardo. Qualcuno mi sa dare delle indicazioni? Con win98 sullo stesso computer funziona tutto. la

Re: [newbie-it] mandrake 8.1 audio

2001-12-03 Thread Luigi De Pascale
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Jacopo Ortis wrote: Ciao, ho un problema con l'audio. quando si carica kde sento la musica di sottofondo ma poi non avverto + nessun segnale sonoro e non riesco a sentire i cd musicali. Non ho trovato nulla al riguardo. Qualcuno mi sa dare delle indicazioni? Con win98

Re: [newbie-it] Modem ADSL Ericcson HM 120dp

2001-12-03 Thread Marco
Daniele ha scritto: sul sito di Linux Mandrake trovi un archivio dell'hardware. Hai provat o a guardare se il tuo modem c'è nell'elenco? Inoltre, il consiglio in que sti casi è sempre quello di scrivere al produttore e chiedere se esistano driver per Linux. In genere non se ne

Re: [newbie-it] Modem ADSL Ericcson HM 120dp

2001-12-03 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 15:59, lunedì 3 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: Ciao Daniele, ho fatto entrambe le cose. Nulla sul fronte del database Mandrake mentre dalla Ericsson mi hanno risposto di chiedere al mio service provider ... A quel punto ho risposto loro che volendo sapere se esistevano driver per

Re: [newbie-it] mdk8.1 e audio

2001-12-03 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 17:50, domenica 2 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: Non riproduce nessun suono, ne di kde, gnome C. tantomeno cd o mp3, completamente muto! Ho controllato il bios e PnP OS Installed è disabilitata. La scheda la riconosce nel setup di installazione (senza darmi modo di verificarla o

Re: [newbie-it] Modem ADSL Ericcson HM 120dp

2001-12-03 Thread Marco
Daniele ha scritto: premesso che non ho l'ADSL e non sono quindi la persona più adatta ad aiutarti (e perchè mi rispondi? ti starai chiedendo...) Mai al mondo! Grazie comunque ;-) Ciao Marco

Re: [newbie-it] installazione xine divx 4.02

2001-12-03 Thread Stefano Salari
--- luigi pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: il ./configure (che da me parte solo se faccio sh configure) E' strano, la shell dovrebbe eseguirti lo stesso lo script. Hai provato proprio a lanciare ./configure (cioe' con il ./ davanti?) mette come fine della riga :no mentre nei restanti a

Re: [newbie-it] drivers nVidia

2001-12-03 Thread Milko Ferioli
Ciao Daniele, ma il drivers l'hai scaricato dall'elenco che trovi sotto la voce "ftp"? Ciao Milko Daniele Micci wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Il giorno 20:35, domenica 2 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: Scusa ma come hai fatto a risolvere il problema,dove hai trovato i drivers? sul sito

Fwd: Re: [newbie-it]

2001-12-03 Thread Renato
-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:14:53 +0100 From: viger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Il 14:42, domenica 2 dicembre 2001, hai scritto: Qualcuno conosce il comando x disinstallare il Lilo??non lo ricordo più Da linux ci

Re: [newbie-it] mdk8.1 e audio

2001-12-03 Thread Mauro Ongaro
Ciao Ragazzi, da neofita come voi, per la prima volta e con grande soddisfazione, ho scoperto da me, come far funzionare le schede audio che su mdk 8.1 sembra abbiano alcuni problemi !!! Purtroppo sembra un errore ( o piu ) di Mandrakesoft. Per passare al succo della faccenda, bisogna

[newbie-it] programmazione java su linux

2001-12-03 Thread kroton
Salve a tutti, Mi sto cimentanto nella creazione di pagine web ed il liguaggio html direi che è piuttosto accessibile. Ora desidererei alpliare le mie conoscenze in altri linguaggi tra cui: Java e javascript su linux. domanda: cosa mi occorre? (in più ripetto alla microsoft). dove trovo

Re: [newbie] INSTALL STAR OFFICE

2001-12-03 Thread robin
Damian G wrote: after you downloaded the .bin files, you have to run them. watch for the file's access permissions. usually you won't be able to run them right away. in KDE, right click on the file and in properties turn execute permission on. Don't forget to be root use the /net

[newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Matt Greer
I think my KDE has a memory leak, although I've not been able to find any info on the possibility at kde.org. When I first turn on the computer, KDE is using about 80MB, just now it was using 250MB (ouch!). I got those two numbers from gtop. The memory usage builds up slowly over time. I just

[newbie] Modem Conection

2001-12-03 Thread Lúcio Costa de Almeida
Hello folks !!! Can Anyone help me? One Friend of my, both a pc: AMD Athon 1GHz, 256 RAM, 2 HD's 20Gb, (Window$, Linux) 1 DVD (LG), 1 CDRW (LG) And the problem --Fax/modem: USR 3cp5610a I can't do this modem worked in Windows or Linux, I tryed all COM Ports, in Window$, (COM1 and COM2); and

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Ed Tharp
this has been gone into for ever..but what you are veiwing _Might_ have to do with the cache use by linux. I don't think it is a memory leak (this ain't your win 95 box) On Monday 03 December 2001 04:08, you wrote: I think my KDE has a memory leak, although I've not been able to find any

[newbie] programming

2001-12-03 Thread VAROL, Volkan
Title: programming Hi, Is there a Linux programming equivalent of this mailing group? i.e. newbie? Thanks for any suggestions. Volkan Varol This message and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the addressees. If you receive this message in error, please delete it

Re: [newbie] can't eject cdrom

2001-12-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 03 December 2001 07:43 pm, ethan wrote: I tried that and got this : umount /mnt/cdrom umount: /mnt/cdrom: not mounted [root@Echelon ethan]# eject eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument [root@Echelon ethan]# eject eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid

Re: [newbie] can't eject cdrom

2001-12-03 Thread ethan
nope. tried that as well: eject cdrom and /dev/cdrom gives: eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument Tom Brinkman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> On Monday 03 December 2001 07:43 pm, ethan wrote: I tried that and got this : umount /mnt/cdromumount: /mnt/cdrom: not

[newbie] Data Socket problem with proftpd

2001-12-03 Thread Neil R Porter
Hi all I have proftpd setup at home and here at work i'd like to access it. At home I tried it out and it works fine over the home network... using cuteftp here at work produces the following log... basically it hangs a while on Connecting data socket... and then says Failed to establish data

[newbie] Zoom USB Modem

2001-12-03 Thread Steven Spears
Hello, Gang: Has anyone gotten a Zoom USB modem to work in Mandrake 8.1? My friend bought Mandrake on a whim and is trying to get it setup, but the only modem he has is this USB modem. I don't know the model number right off hand, but was wondering if anyone had any luck at all with USB

[newbie] Smart Card Reader and Linux

2001-12-03 Thread Terry Sheltra
Here's an interesting question. I just received a USB Smart Card Reader for my credit card in the mail today. Does anyone know if these are compatible with Linux, and if so, how to go about using it? Would really hate to have to dual-boot into Window$ just to use the smart card reader.

[newbie] DVD's, TV-out vid cards and Mandrake 8.1

2001-12-03 Thread Caveman
Hello all, My roommate and I are trying to put together a multimedia server to output mp3's and DVD's to our TV/stereo set up. I'm trying to decide on which video card to use that contains as many options and features as possible, while at the same time being as low cost as possible. So far I've

[newbie] Test Message Please Ignore

2001-12-03 Thread Ivan Offalich
This message is to validate my subscription. There is nothing more to see. Please disburse. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] apache public_html help needed

2001-12-03 Thread Matt Greer
On Sunday 02 December 2001 09:54 pm, you wrote: I know I had set this up right on a different CPU, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. For some reason I can't get my ~dherndon43/ directory to work. I'm getting a: Forbidden You don't have permission to access

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Matt Greer
On Monday 03 December 2001 03:08 am, you wrote: I just shutdown kde and looked at my memory with top, and despite all the kde processes being gone the memory usage didn't drop by much at all. At runlevel 3 with X/kde shutdown, and nothing but top being ran by me directly, I had about 70MB

Re: [newbie] Wine under 8.1...Anybody?

2001-12-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Paul Rodríguez wrote: I'm no expert on Wine and wine debugging, but I would suggest you download the latest CVS builds from http://wine.dataparty.no . These will always be the latest version every day. And they are easy to download/install. I have had them running with no problems

[newbie] Where is the kernel configuration?

2001-12-03 Thread Jones, Alan
I am using Mandrake Linux 8.1 Standard edition on my PC. I have only been using Linux for about two weeks. I want to modify my kernal. According to my Linux for Dummies book, there is supposed to be a /usr/src/linux directory, but I don't see it. I appreciate help on this subject because I want

RE: [newbie] Where is the kernel configuration?

2001-12-03 Thread Ingo Bauer
Hi Alan; Looks like you did not select to install all needed kernel rpm's during you'r initial install. You can find them on your install CD's Ingo -Original Message- From: Jones, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 12:54 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

RE: [newbie] apache public_html help needed

2001-12-03 Thread Dennis Herndon
Outstanding, thanks for the info. I will try this out when I get home tonight. -Original Message- From: Michael Viron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 23:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] apache public_html help needed In order for apache to be

Re: [newbie] KDE Died (The Blue Screen of Death)..... why?

2001-12-03 Thread Miark
Rob, Just a guess: before you startx, do a rm -f .DCOPserver* and then startx. KDE fails to load for me about once a week. This always fixes the problem for me. Miark - Original Message - From: Robin Regennitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 30,

RE: [newbie] apache public_html help needed

2001-12-03 Thread Dennis Herndon
Yes I did see that item in my httpd.conf file. I didn't realize it was malformed Thanks for this info. Here;s a snippet from the apache faq, it might help. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#forbidden -- Why do I get a Forbidden

Re: [newbie] DVD's, TV-out vid cards and Mandrake 8.1

2001-12-03 Thread Caveman
Oh yeah, forgot to include my computer's specs: standard Gateway motherboard PII 400MHz Processor SoundBlaster 512K PCI card 1 AGP slot, several other open PCI slots 2 PCI 10/100 Ethernet cards (both work fine in Linux) 1 ISA generic 56K modem 128M PC100 SDRAM 10GB Maxtor HDD DVD-ROM drive (I

Re: [newbie] DVD's, TV-out vid cards and Mandrake 8.1

2001-12-03 Thread Mark D'voo
i have a geforce 3, the tvout works great on it and Xv is now supported, so you should get a decent frame rate. If you unplug your monitor and just have s-video plugged in, it will automatically boot up to your tv. I have it setup so that when I press ctrl-alt-F8, it displays on the tv

[newbie] Top posting poll

2001-12-03 Thread Dan Jacobs
Well, the tide of messages regarding all of your opinions has ended, and I am happy to report the following, in order, winners: 1. Top posting ok 2. Please change subject line when replying and changing main point of previous message 3. Please snip replies 4. Please bottom post to keep

Re: [newbie] can't eject cdrom

2001-12-03 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, ethan wrote: Hi, Ethan! I've seen these msg just now! I hope it helps! I had recently something this! I messed up the symlinks! Try in this order: 1.type 'eject' as root! if it work, you have permissions problems! as root,

[newbie] kernel updates...

2001-12-03 Thread Eric Caron
Ok, so I did try to update the kernel using mandrake-update. Everything went well (or so I thought) until I rebooted my machine. A lot of things were missing in the new kernel, such as mounting fat drives and networking. Is there any way to restore these features? Do I need to re-install or

[newbie] Wine problem resolved (mostly).

2001-12-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, grabbing the latest cvs build (stripped) from WineHQ worked. It was odd though. I removed the Mandrake Wine version, deleted .wine from my /home dir, and then installed the new Wine. Tried running it on SC, and it said it could not find the .wine folder. So...I made a .wine directory. Ran

[newbie] console PIM

2001-12-03 Thread bradw
Im looking for a PIM that has the look and feal of pine. You know, somthing i can run on the console over ssh. Any ideas? -- Brad Wyman bradw at sta-care.com PGP Fingerprint: 8B1E E12F 3982 0D54 E01C DFD3 898B 6CA3 ED6F 3E56 -- Arthur Dent: What's so unpleasant about being drunk? Ford Prefect:

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Randy Kramer
Ed Tharp wrote: this has been gone into for ever..but what you are veiwing _Might_ have to do with the cache use by linux. I don't think it is a memory leak (this ain't your win 95 box) I don't think there is anything inherent in Linux which will prevent memory leaks -- it comes down to care

Re: [newbie] security: tcpd daemon with /etc/xinetd.d/

2001-12-03 Thread Kathy Montgomery
My installation of xinetd (from the downloadable CD images) came with tcpd capabilities already compiled in, so that I did not have to add the tcpd information to my xinetd.conf file. When I make changes to the host.allow and host.deny files, xinetd restricts access accordingly, without any

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Matt Greer
On Monday 03 December 2001 12:17 pm, you wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: this has been gone into for ever..but what you are veiwing _Might_ have to do with the cache use by linux. I don't think it is a memory leak (this ain't your win 95 box) I don't think there is anything inherent in Linux

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Richard Wenninger
yes.. but when that process terminates... the memory should be returned to the system, right? in which case... the OS never lost track of it. On Monday 03 December 2001 12:59 pm, you wrote: On Monday 03 December 2001 12:17 pm, you wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: this has been gone into for

Re: [newbie] security: tcpd daemon with /etc/xinetd.d/

2001-12-03 Thread civileme
On Monday 03 December 2001 09:24 am, Kathy Montgomery wrote: My installation of xinetd (from the downloadable CD images) came with tcpd capabilities already compiled in, so that I did not have to add the tcpd information to my xinetd.conf file. When I make changes to the host.allow and

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Randy Kramer
Richard Wenninger wrote: yes.. but when that process terminates... the memory should be returned to the system, right? in which case... the OS never lost track of it. Maybe there are different levels of memory leak? In many cases after you shut down a Windows program which continued to use

Re: [newbie] Booting LM8.1 problems

2001-12-03 Thread Derek Jennings
This is known as an 'X respawning' problem. It can occur for a variety of reasons. The most common is a misconfigured video driver. To get around it get your friend to try doing this:- Wait for it to pause to catch its breath, and then hit Ctl+Alt+F2 to get you to another console window Log in

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Ed Tharp
On Monday 03 December 2001 15:47, you wrote: As I understand it a leak is returned to the OS after the program finishes. The problem with leaks is they can cause problems while the program is running. There were problems with different versions of windows, where the memory was NOT

[newbie] losing eth0 on reboot

2001-12-03 Thread Grant Fraser
Sorry if this has been flogged to death. When I reboot the machine eth0 fails to initialize. The cure so far has been to go through the mandrake control center network setup and the security and firewall setups. The first attempt to run the security and firewall setup gives the error message

Re: [newbie] Galeon and Java

2001-12-03 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 04:38, Allen Herndz wrote: I have a pretty old version of Galeon on my mdk 8.0 (0.10.2), and I just wanted to know how to get Java working. I have a very slow connection and I can't make the rpms work coz I don't have the Mozilla srces. Just looking for any quick

[newbie] Test

2001-12-03 Thread Warren Post
Just making sure that my posts are making it. Happy Monday, everyone. Warren -- http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] GUI file search -- mini help

2001-12-03 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Kfind isn't bad. 3 methods to use it: Applications -- File Tools -- Find Files or Alt+F2 runss a launcher you can type kfind there. or from the console kfind. It's not really useful to run a GUI program from the console for long peiods of time because the console needs to stay open for the

Re: [newbie] Galeon and Java

2001-12-03 Thread Mark D'voo
to get java working, run mozilla as root (is this safe ?), go to java.sun.com, it will tell you that you need the java plug-in, say ok, when it takes you to the new web page, click java for linux, it should download and install, restart mozilla, and java should work, java should now also work

Re: [newbie] bash script

2001-12-03 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
On 03 Dec 2001 16:47:11 -0500 Paul Rodr$ByH(Buez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok Lets say I have files in Dir2 which I have symlinks for in Dir1. So the contents of Dir1 include links to all the files in Dir2, plus files of its own... I want to delete all of those symlinks in Dir1 for

Re: [newbie] Galeon and Java

2001-12-03 Thread Rich
On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 12:27, Mark D'voo wrote: to get java working, run mozilla as root (is this safe ?), go to java.sun.com, it will tell you that you need the java plug-in, say ok, when it takes you to the new web page, click java for linux, it should download and install, restart

Re: [newbie] XFree upgrade question

2001-12-03 Thread tek1
hello. i have 2 basic questions abt xfree86: 1. how can you easily tell what version you are running? 2. i believe that i'm running 3.3.6 (because it mandrake software manager, under installed, i found xfree86-server-common 3.3.6), but i'd like to upgrade to 4.1.0. what is the best way to

Re: Re: [newbie] KDE Died (The Blue Screen of Death)..... why? NOWVIRI LERT

2001-12-03 Thread Michael Leone
Content-Type: audio/x-wav; name=YOU_ARE_FAT!.MP3.scr followed by giberish. I tried to reply but it bounced. I am trying again by removing the underscore. Could just be a spammer. It's a Windows virus. The gibberish is the encoded virus executable itself. --

Re: [newbie] kapm-idled?

2001-12-03 Thread Travis Olds
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, NDPTAL85 wrote: In top what is kapm-idled and why is it taking up all of my CPU time? Is it just marking how much idle CPU time there is? Not quite its actually the kernels advanced power management process. What normally happens when your machine is idle, has nothing to

[newbie] mulitple desktop managers

2001-12-03 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
hi gang, i read a tip in the muo board about loading two desktop/window manager. i know about changing consoles so im looking for the direction on how to load an additional window manager in another console. simply invoking in another console the startx (actually Xtart) produces a lock

Re: [newbie] Galeon and Java

2001-12-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 03 December 2001 07:55 pm, Rich wrote: On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 12:27, Mark D'voo wrote: to get java working, run mozilla as root (is this safe ?), go to java.sun.com, it will tell you that you need the java plug-in, say ok, when it takes you to the new web page, click java for

[newbie] Re: mulitple desktop managers

2001-12-03 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:05:07 -0500 Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi gang, i read a tip in the muo board about loading two desktop/window manager. i know about changing consoles so im looking for the direction on how to load an additional window manager in another console.

Re: [newbie] mulitple desktop managers

2001-12-03 Thread Derek Jennings
The simplest way I've found (without having to remember complicated commands) is to simply hit CTL+Alt+F2 and then log on as root and type gdm This will put you straight into the gnome log on window and from there you can open the window manager of your choice. Its a helluva good

Re: [newbie] can't eject cdrom

2001-12-03 Thread ethan
you know what's strange: I tried to insert a normal CD into the tray and it mounts. So eject command is able to eject the cdrom after that, once I insert the audio cd inside, eject also can eject the cdrom now previously eject cannot eject the audio cdrom. Does anyone have an idea of

Re: [newbie] mulitple desktop managers

2001-12-03 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 01:38:43 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The simplest way I've found (without having to remember complicated commands) is to simply hit CTL+Alt+F2 and then log on as root and type gdm This will put you straight into the gnome log on window and from there you

Re: [newbie] mulitple desktop managers

2001-12-03 Thread Mark D'voo
from any command line you can just run: startx -- :1 or if you want three graphic desktops startx -- :2 if you want to run gnome startx /usr/bin/gnome-session -- :1 mark On Tuesday 04 December 2001 21:22, you wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 01:38:43 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [newbie] Modem Conection

2001-12-03 Thread Brian P.D. Smyth
Lúcio Costa de Almeida wrote: Hello folks !!! Can Anyone help me? One Friend of my, both a pc: AMD Athon 1GHz, 256 RAM, 2 HD's 20Gb, (Window$, Linux) 1 DVD (LG), 1 CDRW (LG) And the problem --Fax/modem: USR 3cp5610a I can't do this modem worked in Windows or Linux, I tryed all

[newbie] Alternative to QuickTime

2001-12-03 Thread ethan
Guys, what's the best alternative to QuickTime ? Ran into a site that requires QT but problem is that its only available for Windoze and Mac... /thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Alternative to QuickTime

2001-12-03 Thread mycal62
try this url : http://www.heroinewarrior.com/quicktime.php3 -- Mike McNeese Springdale Ar. USA __ If you only see obstacles in your path You have stopped seeing your goal. __

Re: [newbie] mulitple desktop managers

2001-12-03 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:40:15 +0600 Mark D'voo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from any command line you can just run: startx -- :1 or if you want three graphic desktops startx -- :2 if you want to run gnome startx /usr/bin/gnome-session -- :1 mark thanks mark but i encountered this while

Re: [newbie] mulitple desktop managers

2001-12-03 Thread Mark D'voo
true, it doesn't bother me though, If you are using kde you can press alt-f2 (run command), and type it in there, then you won't see any of the debug info On Tuesday 04 December 2001 21:57, you wrote: On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:40:15 +0600 Mark D'voo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from any command

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Randy Kramer
Ed Tharp wrote: well now... i guess it depends on your dafinition (spelled the way i wanted) of what is a memory leak. i would have bet that was abiword cacheing the documentsand I have noticed the same behaivior with Adobe Photoshop. it does make re-opening the same file somewhat quicker in

Re: [newbie] How to execute .jar files on LM 8.1

2001-12-03 Thread tek1
what exactly are you trying to do? you usually run .jar, if it has a class in it that defines the main() method, as: java -jar FILE.jar At 22:35 01/12/03 -0500, you wrote: How do run .jar files on Mandrake 8.1? I still have not figured it out. -- Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in

Re: [newbie] How to execute .jar files on LM 8.1

2001-12-03 Thread Jon Doe
On Mon, 03 Dec 2001 22:46:37 +0900 tek1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what exactly are you trying to do? you usually run .jar, if it has a class in it that defines the main() method, as: java -jar FILE.jar That is what I am doing, this is what I get and it doesn't have anything to do with

Re: [newbie] mulitple desktop managers

2001-12-03 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
it should not but I still dont see where the second manager went (did it come up?). i thought the loading failed as is implied by the the 'Fatal Server Error'. ciao! On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 21:02:23 +0600 Mark D'voo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: true, it doesn't bother me though, If you are using kde

Re: [newbie] How to execute .jar files on LM 8.1

2001-12-03 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 22:52:03 -0500 Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 03 Dec 2001 22:46:37 +0900 tek1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what exactly are you trying to do? you usually run .jar, if it has a class in it that defines the main() method, as: java -jar FILE.jar That is

Re: [newbie] bash script

2001-12-03 Thread Paul Rodríguez
With some [read LOTS] of help on IRC, I found way to do this: find dir1/ -lname /dir2 | xargs rm this find all files in dir1 which link to dir2 (it's important to know whether you want to find files that link relatively or absolutely), then pipes this info to xargs and rm. Try it just up to

Re: [newbie] Alternative to QuickTime

2001-12-03 Thread ethan
from what i can see, it provides only the libraries needed to run quicktime movies. Are there any executable binaries that can be used as plugins to Linux Netscape 6.2 ? thanks... mycal62 wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> try this url : http://www.heroinewarrior.com/quicktime.php3 Want to buy

[newbie] Internet connection sharing

2001-12-03 Thread Brian Parish
I have just dedicated one of my machines as a Linux server. Installed Mandrake 8.1 and chose server partitioning. Almost everything works great! That is it does immediately after I set up internet connection sharing, but after a server reboot I can no longer use the shared connection until I

[newbie] How do I uninstall?

2001-12-03 Thread The Willis Family
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hello newbie, Is there an easy way to uninstall Linux on a machine? I have to reclaim some space and unfortunately Linux has to go for now. Thanks, Rudy Willis - -- Best regards, The Willis Family mailto:[EMAIL