[newbie-it] Come fare per...

2002-01-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Salve a tutti, volevo chiedere come fare per trasferire o leggere una mia cartella che ho sulla partizione windows sul mio linux mandrake 8.0. E se per cortesia qualcuno conosce un sito dove trovare i driver per un conexant, tenendo presente che è un winmodem. Grazie per l'aiuto

Re: [newbie-it] Come fare per...

2002-01-21 Thread Fabio Manunza
Ciao Anch'io possiedo un Conexant, per cui posso immaginare perchè ti interessi sapere come trasferire file da win a Linux. Io lo faccio senza alcun problema, soprattutto con quello che scarico da Internet per il pinguino, quindi nel caso tu avessi problemi, ritengo possa essere solo una

[newbie-it] Non leggo i file di testo!

2002-01-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ho una mdk 8.1 e utilizzo kde. Non riesco + a visualizzare i file testo correttamente con konqueror (e in generale con tutti gli applicativi x testo kde) Al posto del testo compare una pagina bianca con qua e là uno strano simbolo (credo si chiami dagger) Inoltre se provo a salvare un file

[newbie-it] Videolan senza ggi.h

2002-01-21 Thread Alberto Zanoni
Ciao, ho provato a scaricare il .tar.bzip2 di videolan, ma ad un certo punto della compilazione mi compaiono questi messaggi: manca il file ggi.h nella directory opportuna. Qualcuno può magari mandarmelo, per favore ? Grazie anticipate,

[newbie] HCF Modem. Any hope?

2002-01-21 Thread Colin . Speirs
Title: HCF Modem. Any hope? * This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed.

[newbie] Sound card recommendation for IBM Aptiva 2168 using Mandrake 8.

2002-01-21 Thread Brian Durant
Hi again, Does anyone recommend a PCI sound card for an IBM Aptiva 2168 using Mandrake 8?? I know that Linux in theory supports many sound cards, but I would like to find a card that is easily recognized by Mandrake 8, as I am a newbie to Linux and would like to avoid the worst difficulties,

Re: [newbie] Sound card recommendation for IBM Aptiva 2168 using Mandrake 8.

2002-01-21 Thread Carlos Arigós
El Lun 21 Ene 2002 08:14, escribió: Hi again, Does anyone recommend a PCI sound card for an IBM Aptiva 2168 using Mandrake 8?? I know that Linux in theory supports many sound cards, but I would like to find a card that is easily recognized by Mandrake 8, as I am a newbie to Linux and would

Re: [newbie] Sound card recommendation for IBM Aptiva 2168 using Mandrake 8.

2002-01-21 Thread Derek Jennings
Unless you had a particular need for amazing sound quality (which seems pointless to me when the case fans make such a noise), I would suggest a cheap BRANDED card like a Creative Sound Blaster PCI Linux detects it straight away, and it works in all modes. All for only £12 derek On Monday

Re: [newbie] HCF Modem. Any hope?

2002-01-21 Thread Carlos Arigós
El Vie 18 Ene 2002 12:16, escribió: *** ** This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed.

Re: [newbie] wolfenstien.

2002-01-21 Thread stoimen bardarov
the most games,you can find for linux are at locky.com:) reg. timoty _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] 8.1, gateway solo 5300 laptop, fe575 3com nic

2002-01-21 Thread Paul Kraus
I just setup a dual boot system running xp pro and mandrake 8.1. I installed xp first on a fat32 4.5 gig partion. I then installed manrake on another 4.5 partion and used default install options. Everything worked great. Not one problem. However when in linux/kde I don't have any connectivity to

[newbie] Kernell version

2002-01-21 Thread N E N I S T E R
How can I check my redhat (7.2) kernell version ? Regards Nene Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Kernell version

2002-01-21 Thread John Alex Rodriguez
uname -a shows more than the kernel version. N E N I S T E R wrote: How can I check my redhat (7.2) kernell version ? Regards Nene Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Speed up printing?

2002-01-21 Thread Mike Cochrane (MC)
I'm printing a large .pdf file to my trusty old HP Laserjet Series II from Adobe Acrobat. It is VERY slow going. Can anybody suggest a workaround that might speed things up? All I need is draft quality. (Running KDE 2.2 and CUPS). Thanks! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Can't run install disks

2002-01-21 Thread Wheelock
I'm trying to boot ML 8.1 Gaming Edition and it seems to be hanging in the when it's installing the kernel. As it's checking the devices it seems to be hanging here: IDE1 at 0170=0x177,0x376 on IRQ 15 My P3/800 has a: Quantum FireballP LM SCSI hard drive I'd love any help on figuring out

[newbie] Dial-up connection problem

2002-01-21 Thread Mandrake Newbie
Hello everyone! =) I need your help. I don't know how to connect to the Internet using my dial-up connection. I am using Speed Com+ 56K external modem (serial) running on Mandrake 8.1. I hope you can give me a HOW-TO on how to connect my dial-up to the Internet. Please forgive me if this

Re: [newbie] HCF Modem. Any hope?

2002-01-21 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 21 January 2002 08:34 am, Carlos Arigós wrote: El Vie 18 Ene 2002 12:16, escribió: * ** ** This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they

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2002-01-21 Thread Arturo Sciacca
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Re: [newbie] How to speed up Linux Mandrake 8?

2002-01-21 Thread shane
so i have 2.4.8-26 and am using Reiserfs. haven't seen any trouble except when i use realplayer i start using swap, until then no swap at all. (512megs) so how bad is the vm speed problem? is it worth updating? On Sunday 20 January 2002 11:48, you spoke unto me thusly: Install a newer

Re: [newbie] Dial-up connection problem

2002-01-21 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 22 January 2002 03:22, you wrote: Hello everyone! =) I need your help. I don't know how to connect to the Internet using my dial-up connection. I am using Speed Com+ 56K external modem (serial) running on Mandrake 8.1. I hope you can give me a HOW-TO on how to connect my

Re: [newbie] no sound with xawtv

2002-01-21 Thread chuck
yes, I tried that, as well as toggling the mute setting just to be sure. I'm thinking maybe there is a module that needs to be loaded that hasn't been. On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 23:22, Mario Michael da Costa wrote: chuck wrote: I can't seem to get any sound out of xawtv with my wintv card. I'm

[newbie] AMD CPU bug

2002-01-21 Thread shane
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/23749.html anyone know anything about this? i have not personally had more than 2 crashes with mandrake since i started using it with 7.1, and i am on an athelon, but the news makes it sound like only _some_ cpus are affected. if you use the fix and are

Re: [newbie]

2002-01-21 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:55:00 +0100 Arturo Sciacca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: subscribe newbie See this link to subscribe, note the email address :) http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] Dial-up connection problem

2002-01-21 Thread Franki
install wvdial off your mandrake cd's then go to /etc in an xterm (as root) and type 'touch wvdial.conf' then type wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf it will go and find your modem, query it, and put its details in /etc/wvdial.conf... then, edit that file, and fill in the blanks for dialup number,

[newbie] Can't run install disks

2002-01-21 Thread Bryan Wheelock
I'm trying to boot ML 8.1 Gaming Edition and it seems to be hanging in the when it's installing the kernel. As it's checking the devices it seems to be hanging here: IDE1 at 0170=0x177,0x376 on IRQ 15 My P3/800 has a: Quantum FireballP LM SCSI hard drive I'd love any help on figuring out how

Re: [newbie] Sound card recommendation for IBM Aptiva 2168 using Mandrake 8.

2002-01-21 Thread Erylon
On Monday 21 January 2002 03:14, you wrote: Hi again, Does anyone recommend a PCI sound card for an IBM Aptiva 2168 using Mandrake 8?? Mandrake has never failed to detect and configure any of the Creative SoundBlaster cards that I've ever tried, up to and including the SB Live!. Support

RE: [newbie] AMD CPU bug

2002-01-21 Thread kayaturk
The bug only effects 2.4 kernels and they will be fixed automatically with 2.4.18 kernels hopefully. It has been known for windoze 2k and patched for more than 1 year. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of shane Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002

[newbie] supermount kernel

2002-01-21 Thread Franki
Hi all, Since the newer cooker kernels seem to be fine with supermount, why has mandrake not put on in updates that will allow people to use supermount without resorting to installing cooker kernels? Is it because mandrake never add functionality to a distro instead prefering to leave it to the

[newbie] cleaning /tmp

2002-01-21 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I have been having problems with losing my user accounts so I have been looking at a lot of possibilities. One I have found isI remember checking the option to clean /tmp . However, now when I reboot, there is a lot of stuff remaining in /tmp from my faulty user.

Re: [newbie] Dial-up connection problem

2002-01-21 Thread skinky
On Tuesday 22 January 2002 22:22, Mandrake Newbie wrote: On Tuesday 22 January 2002 05:41, Dennis Myers wrote: I need your help. I don't know how to connect to the Internet using my dial-up connection. I am using Speed Com+ 56K external modem (serial) running on Mandrake 8.1. I hope you

Re: [newbie] Dial-up connection problem

2002-01-21 Thread Erylon
On Tuesday 22 January 2002 01:22, you wrote: Hello everyone! =) I need your help. I don't know how to connect to the Internet using my dial-up connection. I am using Speed Com+ 56K external modem (serial) running on Mandrake 8.1. I hope you can give me a HOW-TO on how to connect my

RE: [newbie] Dial-up connection problem

2002-01-21 Thread Franki
you can use kppp from within gnome as well ,, just open an xterm and type: kppp and off you go, i used to use kppp from within icewm all the time. still think wvdial is better thought, console tools like this are awesome,, and use very little resources, unlike kppp and others. rgds Frank

RE: [newbie] Superblocks corrupted after a change in fstab ....

2002-01-21 Thread Franki
why not just boot from your mandrake install CD, and at the prompt, type rescue then when you are in and running, type, chroot /mnt and from that point on, you essentially have your own system running, with the exception that its using the kernel off the CDROM... fix your problems, and reboot

Re: [newbie] Kernell version

2002-01-21 Thread Michael Viron
uname -a as already mentioned or 'rpm -qa | grep kernel' will show you the kernel or kernels you have installed. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:29 AM 01/07/1996 -0600, you wrote: How

RE: [newbie] no sound with xawtv

2002-01-21 Thread Andris Maziks
Hi, Check out tuner type in tuner module options... BR, Andris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of chuck Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 8:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] no sound with xawtv I can't seem to get any sound

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2002-01-21 Thread Paul Kraus
Ok I need to be able to access / change MS Office Files. If I can do this accurtly then I can completely remove the need of Windows. Also there some kind of Term Emulator I can run? I need to attach to a unix host and have it support sco ansi ect. Any one have any good links to beginers info? I

Re: [newbie] How to speed up Linux Mandrake 8?

2002-01-21 Thread Assassin
Yes, just like you said. - Original Message - From: FLYNN, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 January, 2002 16:18 Subject: RE: [newbie] How to speed up Linux Mandrake 8? Do you mean that when you click on, for example, Konqueror, you get a startup box on the kicker

Re: [newbie] supermount kernel

2002-01-21 Thread shane
On Monday 21 January 2002 11:14, you spoke unto me thusly: Is it because mandrake never add functionality to a distro instead prefering to leave it to the next version of the distro?? sarcasmlike the way the slackers don't have anyway to update like a software manager or maybe a way for

[newbie] Zip/KDE annoyance

2002-01-21 Thread Todd Slater
This is probably more a KDE thing than Mandrake, but hoping to get some advice. I can mount my zip using the desktop icon in KDE. I deleted the old zip icon, created a new one, specified Device and Mount Point, and everything is cool. Until I log out and back on. Then, another zip icon

Re: [newbie] Zip/KDE annoyance

2002-01-21 Thread shane
have you tried using save settings? just wondering On Monday 21 January 2002 14:06, you spoke unto me thusly: I can get it to work, it's just annoying to have to keep doing that everytime. -- When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say

Re: [newbie] AMD CPU bug

2002-01-21 Thread shane
2.4.18 huh? and here i just did 2.4.17 today... ;-) On Monday 21 January 2002 11:25, you spoke unto me thusly: The bug only effects 2.4 kernels and they will be fixed automatically with 2.4.18 kernels hopefully. It has been known for windoze 2k and patched for more than 1 year. -- One of

Re: [newbie] How to speed up Linux Mandrake 8?

2002-01-21 Thread shane
ok, to answer my own question, i added the 2.4.17-7mdk kernel to my system and it seems markedly faster, though i haven't actually timed it. open office for example seems to open about twice as fast. just in case anyone wondered:-) On Monday 21 January 2002 09:46, you spoke unto me

Re: [newbie] Gnome Mouse Scrollig

2002-01-21 Thread Nelson Bartley
oh.. hehehehe NB On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 21:01, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: You can uninstall imwheel with the root command: # rpm -e imwheel On 20 Jan 2002 20:28:28 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you! you are a god. Now the real test, how do I remove it.

[newbie] which kernel should I run LM 8.1

2002-01-21 Thread Gerald Waugh
Current kernel 2.4.8-26mdk I looked around the LM site and could only find 8.1/RPMS/kernel-2.4.8-34.1mdk.i586.rpm I thought I seen on this list 2.4.10 -- Gerald Waugh Registered Linux User 255245 Register at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie]

2002-01-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 21 January 2002 21:11, you wrote: Ok I need to be able to access / change MS Office Files. Well on your system you have KWord and Abiword. They are both able to import MS Word documents, but not able to export to Word You also have KSpead and Gnumeric which can import from Excel,

[newbie] DHCP trouble with Comcast.net

2002-01-21 Thread Steven Bradtke
Previous to the recent switchover from @Home's network to Comcast's own network, I assigned my firewall machine a static IP address and everything worked fine. However, now I've got to use DHCP to lease a dynamically assigned address from the network. I can't get this to work. I keep getting

Re: [newbie] DHCP trouble with Comcast.net

2002-01-21 Thread Matt
On Monday 21 January 2002 03:30 pm, you wrote: Previous to the recent switchover from @Home's network to Comcast's own network, I assigned my firewall machine a static IP address and everything worked fine. However, now I've got to use DHCP to lease a dynamically assigned address from the

Re: [newbie] DHCP trouble with Comcast.net

2002-01-21 Thread George Czerw
Steve, I'm NOT using a separate firewall, but it sounds like you have a bad DHCP configuration, and you could run into this problem whether you have a firewall or just a single machine. 1. Make sure that /etc/resolv.conf contains the IP addresses of the Comcast DNS servers in your area AND

[newbie] VAIO C1XE with XFree86 3.3.6

2002-01-21 Thread YUKKI
Hi all i tried to install to Mandrake8.1-ja with X 3.3.6 well i couldn't work X when i was intall soon. then i was setting no start x with boot up. so i was login console and rewrited /ete/X11/XF86config but its not work and i cant understan error massage... Someone have XF86config for vaio?

Re: [newbie] remove from e-mail list

2002-01-21 Thread Felix Barreto
Please remove me from your "newbie" e-mail list. I simply do not have time to read this much e-mail. My e-mail address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Felix Barreto "There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less

Re: [newbie] XF86 set up in non graphical mode

2002-01-21 Thread YUKKI
i had a same problem. you should to chose step "i can set up your computer to automatically start X upon booting would you like X to start when you reboot" to NO than you can see the console after reboot. and you can reconfigure /ete/X11/XF86Confiug or XF86Config-4 otherwise i don't know how to

Re: [newbie] which kernel should I run LM 8.1

2002-01-21 Thread Brian Parish
34.1 is the latest stable, released kernel. You'll find much later kernels on the cooker, but these are still classified as test versions and are not recommended unless you either know a lot about what you are doing, or are happy to potentially have to deal with interesting problems, or both!

Re: [newbie] remove from e-mail list

2002-01-21 Thread Brian Parish
Felix, go to http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 you can remove yourself there. Brian On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 15:20, Felix Barreto wrote: Please remove me from your newbie e-mail list. I simply do not have time to read this much e-mail. My e-mail address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] can't login

2002-01-21 Thread Brian Parish
Bill, If you choose expert and upgrade during the install, then no - your data will remain untouched. Try this first choosing no packages for installation. Chances are it will fix it magically! No warranty implied though ;-) Brian On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 15:07, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi,

[newbie] Security and services that are running?

2002-01-21 Thread Mick
Hi list, Being new, and currently enjoying an installation that's up and running (even if it did need a few tweaks here and there) I came across an article about 'Armoring Linux'. It was all about how default installations leave a lot of unneeded services running and provide access for