[newbie-it] Librerie...

2002-01-25 Thread Emma e Gigi
Salve a tutti!! Visto la mia Ignoranza crassa riguardo a Linux (o Lynux:) ) rieccomi qui per tentar di capire qualcosa. Dunque ho un CD in cui vi è incluso WOrd Perfect 8 e Photo Paint per Linux. Mi dice che devo avere le librerie glibc 2.0 o 2.1 Dove devo guardare per verificare

Re: [newbie-it] Scheda di rete

2002-01-25 Thread syd
Alle 00:58, venerdì 25 gennaio 2002, mike ha scritto: semplicemente non trova il modulo da assegnare alla scheda, che quindi non funzia sai per caso che tipo di scheda sia? o almeno che chipset monta? Sulla scheda c'è scritto: RTL8139C inizia ad aprire una shell e, : # ifconfig eth0

[newbie-it] Samba aiutamtemi !

2002-01-25 Thread max
Salve a tutta la ML. Chiedo disperatamente , un manuale di samba in italiano per lo studio e la messa in rete di mk801 in una rete mista winzozz ! (o almeno una documentazione completa che mi guidi spiegando i concetti fondamentali della configurazione ! ) . Grazie a tutti bye Ps. se li avete

R: [newbie-it] Librerie...

2002-01-25 Thread luca laghi
Salve a tutti!! Visto la mia Ignoranza crassa riguardo a Linux (o Lynux:) ) rieccomi qui per tentar di capire qualcosa. Dunque ho un CD in cui vi è incluso WOrd Perfect 8 e Photo Paint per Linux. Mi dice che devo avere le librerie glibc 2.0 o 2.1 Dove devo guardare per verificare

Re: [newbie-it] Samba aiutamtemi !

2002-01-25 Thread Brunini Alessandro
On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 12:14, max wrote: Salve a tutta la ML. Chiedo disperatamente , un manuale di samba in italiano per lo studio e la messa in rete di mk801 in una rete mista winzozz ! (o almeno una documentazione completa che mi guidi spiegando i concetti fondamentali della configurazione

RE: [newbie-it] Samba aiutamtemi !

2002-01-25 Thread Gigli Cesare
Scusate, come ci si toglie dalla ML? Ho provato con majordomo e con newbie-it, ma nulla! Cesare Gigli SIGMA DGT/SAA Responsabile Progettazione Rete * +39.06.65964.603 ** +39.335.7128098 7 +39.06.65964.700 -Original Message- From: Brunini Alessandro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: [newbie-it] Scheda di rete

2002-01-25 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 11:59, venerdì 25 gennaio 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Scheda di rete, syd ha scritto: Sulla scheda c'è scritto: RTL8139C ok, se indovinassi allo stesso modo i numeri al lotto... Allora ragazzi, ho letto attentamente il post di mike è

Re: [newbie-it] Samba aiutamtemi !

2002-01-25 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 12:14, venerdì 25 gennaio 2002, max ha scritto: Salve a tutta la ML. Chiedo disperatamente , un manuale di samba in italiano per lo studio e la messa in rete di mk801 in una rete mista winzozz ! (o almeno una documentazione completa che mi

[newbie-it] koffice

2002-01-25 Thread Eugenio Odorifero
Sono passato a mandrake 8.1 e il nuovo koffice e non vuole saperne di caricarsi: è successo anche a voi? Cosa devo fare?

[newbie-it] problemi con la soundblaster live

2002-01-25 Thread Eugenio Odorifero
Salve a tutti, ho la mandrake 8.1 e con la mia soundblaster live funziona terribilmente: - su xmms suona normalmente per qualche secondo poi però si blocca con tutto linux appresso: ovviamente, una volta riavviato, segnala errori sull'hard disk a a non finire... stessa cosa con tutti gli altri

Re: [newbie-it] Samba aiutamtemi !

2002-01-25 Thread relo
At 12.14 25/01/02, you wrote: Salve a tutta la ML. Chiedo disperatamente , un manuale di samba in italiano per lo studio e la messa in rete di mk801 in una rete mista winzozz ! (o almeno una documentazione completa che mi guidi spiegando i concetti fondamentali della configurazione ! ) . Grazie a

Re: [newbie-it] Librerie...

2002-01-25 Thread Andrea Celli
Emma e Gigi wrote: Salve a tutti!! Visto la mia Ignoranza crassa riguardo a Linux (o Lynux:) ) rieccomi qui per tentar di capire qualcosa. Dunque ho un CD in cui vi è incluso WOrd Perfect 8 e Photo Paint per Linux. Mi dice che devo avere le librerie glibc 2.0 o 2.1 Dove devo

[newbie-it] unsubscrive

2002-01-25 Thread Gigli Cesare
unsubscrive Cesare Gigli SIGMA DGT/SAA Responsabile Progettazione Rete * +39.06.65964.603 ** +39.335.7128098 7 +39.06.65964.700 -Original Message- From: Andrea Celli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: venerdì 25 gennaio 2002 17.23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it]

Re: [newbie-it] unsubscrive

2002-01-25 Thread Andrea Celli
Gigli Cesare wrote: unsubscrive oppure scrivi alla ML un messaggio con la parola 'unsubscrive' senza errori (scrive - scribe). Avevo detto di scriverlo giusto, io l'ho scritto sbagliato apposta Altrimenti non sarebbe arrivato in lista. Non credi? ciao, andrea

[newbie-it] Samba help dice grazie a : relo gigli cesare mike,bruninie marco.seno

2002-01-25 Thread max
grazie di cuore a relo gigli cesare mike,bruninie marco.seno - Original Message - From: relo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Samba aiutamtemi ! At 12.14 25/01/02, you wrote: Salve a tutta la ML. Chiedo

RE: [newbie-it] Samba help dice grazie a : relo gigli cesare mike,bruninie marco.seno

2002-01-25 Thread Gigli Cesare
Prego! -Original Message- From: max [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: venerdì 25 gennaio 2002 18.17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie-it] Samba help dice grazie a : relo gigli cesare mike,bruninie marco.seno grazie di cuore a relo gigli cesare mike,bruninie marco.seno -

[newbie-it] java

2002-01-25 Thread luigi pinna
ho installato l'ultima versione di java (1.4.0); qualcuno mi sa dire dove tiene le classi? ho cercato d'installare la versione java di icq ma lui non ha trovato le classi da includere e personalmente non so dove possano essere (hanno eliminato il file classs.zip che era quello che mi serviva!)

Re: [newbie] less

2002-01-25 Thread Bo Rosén
tor 2002-01-24 klockan 23.35 skrev Spencer Collyer: It's acript pointing to less.bin. I'm not sure nut it looks like it has something to do with enabling UTF-8. Cheers, Bo Seems a bit small to me - 61 bytes? This is what I get when I do the same thing on my LM8.0 system: Want

[newbie] HP Printers

2002-01-25 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Hello Everyone, Can any of you with late model HP printers let me know about drivers and support?  I'm looking to buy one this weekend and would like to have a bit of information before I outlay the cash. Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Tiny Emacs

2002-01-25 Thread Charles Muller
I am trying to learn how to use the Emacs package that came with ML 8.1, but the program runs as a tiny window in one corner of my screen, with microscopic menu fonts. Is there a way to make this window larger, with larger menu fonts? Regards, Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Digital

[newbie] That perl problem again

2002-01-25 Thread Robin Turner
Every time I've tried to install a perl program/module I get the following message: Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code This despite the fact that Mandrake (8.1) seems to have installedPerl in one of the locations looked for by the make program. I trawled the

[newbie] Deleting footer text with procmail

2002-01-25 Thread Ralph Slooten
Sorry if this seems unethical, however has anyone managed to make a procmail formulae that can delete this annoying Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com; Yes, I understand that one is supposed to read this, and trust me I have (like 1 times

Re: [newbie] Using Xfce

2002-01-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 25 January 2002 00:50, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Thursday 24 January 2002 13:49, Derek Jennings wrote: Off topic. I took Sridhar's comments to heart and spent some time researching which applications executed fastest for use with my XFCE based laptop. The performance differences

Re: [newbie] HP Printers

2002-01-25 Thread Ralph Slooten
Try looking here: http://www.linuxprinting.org/ They have a great selection of drivers and such :-) Helped me get my Epson C80 working perfectly Ralph On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Hello Everyone, Can any of you with late model HP printers let me know about drivers and

[newbie] KDE 3 and Mandrake 8.2

2002-01-25 Thread maurizio . laudone
Hi guys, DOes anyone know if the new Mandrake 8.2 will have KDE3?...I tried the beta (which was a bit too beta for me...'cos I'm not a developer)of KDE3 and I found it very good anywayfaster and lighter than even .great improvement from KDE2...and it looks even nicerso i was really

Re: [newbie] Cron

2002-01-25 Thread Anke Max
Derek said on Thursday, January 24 A nice way to administer cron jobs is with webmin Just install the webmin package and put https://localhost.1 in a browser URL line. You will get a warning message about a self certified certificate the first time you run it. Just accept it. Note

[newbie] Basic Network

2002-01-25 Thread poogle
I have a network card in my PC and a pcmcia network card in my laptop, both are recognised/configured , I have crossover RJ45 cable and now I want them to talk to each other. (both running 8.1, Windows not involved here) I have read the books and rtfm but still don't understand what to do. Can

Re: [newbie] internet monitoring

2002-01-25 Thread Anke Max
Paul Kraus asked on Thursday Is there a way to setup up Linux so that it restricts access to all internet sites that I don't specify? Can this be done an a user/usergroup setting. Example. I only want some people to only be able to access. www.cnet.com (and all child sites www.cnet.com/*.*

RE: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-25 Thread Paul Kraus
Is openoffice and staroffice the same thing? Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of shane Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 4:39 PM

Re: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-25 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Paul Kraus wrote: %_Someone posted earlier that star office was on the mdk8.1 cd's. Where is it located? I can't find it. On the three cd set it is on the commercial one. -- Gerald Waugh Registered Linux User 255245 register at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] HP Printers

2002-01-25 Thread Daniel Anderson
Hi, I recently bought a HP Deskjet 841C and it does great. I think Linux has drivers for many models of Deskjet and Laserjet. Dan On Friday 25 January 2002 04:00, you wrote: Hello Everyone, Can any of you with late model HP printers let me know about drivers and support?  I'm looking to

Re: [newbie] Basic Network

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 07:03, poogle wrote: I have a network card in my PC and a pcmcia network card in my laptop, both are recognised/configured , I have crossover RJ45 cable and now I want them to talk to each other. (both running 8.1, Windows not involved here) I have read the books and

RE: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-25 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Star Office It is not on the d/l'd version only on the boxed sets cause it is proprietary. You can d/l openoffice.org though. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Kraus Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 2:49 PM To:

RE: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-25 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Paul Kraus wrote: Is openoffice and staroffice the same thing? No it's not. OpenOffice is an opensource version of StarOffice, even though I believe that StarOffice is opensource too. Once apon a time StarOffice (Sun Miscrosystems I believe) released their code to

Re: [newbie] internet monitoring

2002-01-25 Thread Scott
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Anke Max wrote: Is there a way to setup up Linux so that it restricts access to all internet sites that I don't specify? Can this be done an a user/usergroup setting. Example. I only want some people to only be able to access. www.cnet.com (and all child sites

Re: [newbie] Cron

2002-01-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 25 January 2002 13:02, Anke Max wrote: Derek said on Thursday, January 24 A nice way to administer cron jobs is with webmin Just install the webmin package and put https://localhost.1 in a browser URL line. By the way: This was a type. It should read

Re: [newbie] Basic Network

2002-01-25 Thread Derek Jennings
There is a nice two pager on NFS in the documents section at www.mandrakeuser.org One thing to remember the tutorial does not make clear :- You must have exactly the same users in both computers, and they must have identical user id numbers. So for example user 'poolgle uid=501' on computer A

Re: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-25 Thread Derek Jennings
Granted StarOffice 5.2 and OpenOffice are very different beasts as described, but StarOffice6.0 and OpenOffice are all but identical. I have them both loaded, and the only difference I can detect between them is the splash screen when they open. derek On Friday 25 January 2002 14:35, Ralph

Re: [newbie] internet monitoring

2002-01-25 Thread Mark Lucas
The simplest way I can think of to achieve this is to use squid (proxy server) and squidGuard. You can set Squid up as a transparent proxy so that is automatically intercepts all calls on port 80. Squid Guard is very configurable and can block/allow site by user, time or ip address. You can even

Re[2]: [newbie] Automatic Windows Mount

2002-01-25 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi, My windows driveis automatically mounted when I go into Linux. How do I turn this off? comment the entries in your /etc/fstab by placing # marks before each line. mine would look like this: #/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat ro,uid=501,gid=506,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 #/dev/hda5

Re: [newbie] HP Printers

2002-01-25 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey, Can any of you with late model HP printers let me know about drivers and support?  I'm looking to buy one this weekend and would like to have a bit of information before I outlay the cash. I have a DeskJet 930C and it printed the test page during MDK install pretty fine (but *so*

Re: [newbie] Swap Partititon

2002-01-25 Thread Randy Kramer
Mario Michael da Costa wrote: I don't really know how true, what i am about to type below sounds, it is what was told to me by a more tech savvy friend. The swap partition must be at least as big as the amount of physical ram in a machine. This is because in some cases the entire contents

Re: [newbie] internet monitoring

2002-01-25 Thread Derek Jennings
Looks like you need Squid and SquidGuard Squid is a first class proxy server. If you have a number of clients sharing an internet access, then Squid will substantially reduce latency by caching frequently served pages locally. SquidGuard is a plug in for Squid to administer browsing

Re: [newbie] HP Printers

2002-01-25 Thread JOHN HEMMER
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Hello Everyone, Can any of you with late model HP printers let me know about drivers and support?  I'm looking to buy one this weekend and would like to have a bit of information before I outlay the cash. Trevor I've used a 930c for 2

[newbie] Open TCP and UDP ports

2002-01-25 Thread Mario Descalzi
Hello, my name is Mario Descalzi amd am a programmer acting as system administrator;if your advise is to "ask your system adm." that would be me again. Have Linux Mandrake 7.0 with two ethernet cards one (192.168.1.1) for LAN and the other (www address); also have a Voice over IP (Planet

Re: [newbie] Basic Network

2002-01-25 Thread poogle
On Friday 25 January 2002 14:04 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 07:03, poogle wrote: I have a network card in my PC and a pcmcia network card in my laptop, both are recognised/configured , I have crossover RJ45 cable and now I want them to talk to each other. (both running 8.1,

Re: [newbie] Trainging / Documentation

2002-01-25 Thread Randy Kramer
Paul Kraus wrote: Is there any good documents, books, or pdf?s (preferably free and downloadable) that will help me learn linux quickly? I don?t need all the unix background or this is how tho mouse works crap. I am a systems admin for NT and 2000 I just want to learn linux. The

Re: [newbie] Trainging / Documentation

2002-01-25 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 24 January 2002 08:14 am, Paul Kraus wrote: Is there any good documents, books, or pdf's (preferably free and downloadable) that will help me learn linux quickly? I don't need all the unix background or this is how tho mouse works crap. I am a systems admin for NT and 2000 I just

[newbie] Ogle question...

2002-01-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Hi. I setup Ogle for use with my Toshiba SCSI2 DVD player. Its /mnt/cdrom and /dev/scd0. I'm using Ogle's GUI and it works, but it always looks for /dev/dvd, I think. I copied the /usr/share/ogle/oglerc file to /home/darklord/.oglerc, and changed the path from /dev/dvd to /dev/scd0. This seems

Re: [newbie] Swap Partititon

2002-01-25 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 24 January 2002 08:39 am, Paul Kraus wrote: Ok now this is confusing. 4.1.3.1. The most simple Is where you have just two partitions: one for the swap space, the other for the files1. Tip: The rule of thumb for the swap partition size is to choose double of the size of your RAM

Re: [newbie] Tiny Emacs

2002-01-25 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Charles Muller wrote: I am trying to learn how to use the Emacs package that came with ML 8.1, but the program runs as a tiny window in one corner of my screen, with microscopic menu fonts. Is there a way to make this window larger, with larger menu fonts? Regards, Charles Muller

Re: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-25 Thread Randy Kramer
Paul Kraus wrote: Is openoffice and staroffice the same thing? Almost. StarOffice was/is the Sun product, which became open sourced. When it became open sourced, certain features / programs incorporated in it could not be open sourced because they were proprietary to other companies.

Re: [newbie] Basic Network

2002-01-25 Thread Randy Kramer
poogle wrote: No I only want to be able to move files between machines for now, for example if I download something bigger than 1.44mb, I don't want to have to burn a CD just to get it onto the laptop, and I don't want to connect the laptop to the internet to download it again. (Windows has

Re: [newbie] What gives?

2002-01-25 Thread Peter Watson
On Friday 25 January 2002 03:51 am, you wrote: Hi All, I used urpmi to update, then left it for a few hours. What is the smiley face bouncing around my kde desktop? its AMOR - amusing misuse of resources - if you right click on it you can quit. It usually lives in K Amusement

[newbie] display hash marks in tool bars problem

2002-01-25 Thread Andy Gay
I get hash marks periodically in an otherwise nice display running my SVGA 56 hz 800x600 16 bit color on an Intel 815 video set up (my actual chip, not listed explicitly is Intel 82815 graphics controller) Although I can get rid of the hash marks with a 640x480 display setting, that's not what I

[newbie] OpenOffice

2002-01-25 Thread Paul Kraus
I can not install the software. I am running a gateway solo 5300 laptop. 733 mhz p3 with 196megs of ram. I click on setup it starts but right before the first dialog appears it locks. Screen has background install image and the options box is completly blank except the next button. You cant

[newbie] Network Connectivity issues

2002-01-25 Thread Paul Kraus
On my gatewaysolo5300 I am running a megahtz pcmcia nic. When I install it finds this device and installs two drives both for the same card. One on eth0 and one on eth1 both are setup for dhcp. Neither work when I first boot. I have to go into command center and then I have to go to network,

[newbie] I can't install HP Laserjet 1200

2002-01-25 Thread Bryan Wheelock
I have been going around in circles trying to install a LJ 1200 on my mandrake 8.1 system. When I go to control center > printer >configure I set cups to start automatically on boot add printer local printer name printer 'printer" select HP Laserjet 1200 the drop down menu vanishes, so I then

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Automatic Windows Mount

2002-01-25 Thread Derek Jennings
putting 'noauto' in the option list ought to do the job I think. As in /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat noauto,ro,uid=501,gid=506,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 Check out 'man fstab' and 'man mount' for a full list of options. derek On Friday 25 January 2002 15:09, Roman Korcek wrote:

[newbie] OT(?) - header info in pine

2002-01-25 Thread Roger Sherman
Is it possible to check the header info in pine? I don't see a command for that amongst the list at the bottom of the terminal window... peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Swap Partititon

2002-01-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 24 January 2002 11:18 am, Paul Kraus wrote: That's the confusion. I am running 196 megs on my laptop so I should double this. But on my home system I am running 512mb so should I then make a 1gig swap? If not why? Just because ;-) Seriously, the old rule of thumb was

[newbie] OT: Journal File Systems

2002-01-25 Thread Barry Premeaux
I apologize for this not being strictly Mandrake related, but I found this link off the Newsforge.org site. Its an excellent write up on Journal File Systems. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have. http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=1154 Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] autologin to wrong desktop

2002-01-25 Thread Harry Ellis
My Mandrake 7.2 automatically boots to user Harry, which is good, and Enlightenment, which is inconvenient. I want to end up in KDE. It always did until I played around with Enlightenment for awhile. The odd thing is that if I ever change users, KDE shows as the default, and the computer loads

[newbie] postfix: can't receive email

2002-01-25 Thread ajax
I sent something earlier but I don't think it got through. I'm having problems receiving mail with postfix. I had it working before but now it isn't. When I send email to my computer from a remote address , it doesn't make it and I get an email stating that the connection was refused(at the

Re: [newbie] Configuring a scanner w/Sane in LM 8.1?

2002-01-25 Thread Erylon
This hasn't helped me much, with my parallel port scanner. I have a Microtek e-3 plus, which is supported , but I can't get it recognized. Also, I can't get xscanimage as a drop-down option with gimp, either. I created a symlink to /usr/bin/xscanimage in my ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins directory,

[newbie] cannot hear cd

2002-01-25 Thread paolo brusasco
I cannot hear cds neither with kscd nor with grip. I read mails in last days but couldn't find an answer; I'm afraid there is a little stupid simple thing to do but I tried hard and can't find. I hope someone can help, thank you for reading this. BYE. I am trying to listen from an ide

[newbie] Security

2002-01-25 Thread Curt Tresenriter
I have bastille configured for medium security and just ran the 'who' command and found two users logged in. Being that I am the sole user, it seems that there are other things I sould be doing to harden the system. I'm used to Zone Alarm notifying me of any attempts to break in. Is there

[newbie] argggggg installing software

2002-01-25 Thread Paul Kraus
I have tried to install enlightenment and eterm. now both of these fail because they need other rpms installed so I download those rps and they fail because the need other rpms to install. this is utterly ridiculuos. Is there so way to have to software retrieve the files that it needs or am I

Re: [newbie] cannot hear cd

2002-01-25 Thread Anthony
There's an audio cable that goes directly from a jack on the back of your CD drive to a connector on the soundcard inside the computer. Open your computer's case; If you don't have this audio cable connected, you won't be able to listen to audio CDs. Chair, Anthony paolo brusasco wrote: I

[newbie] cannot hear cd solved apologize

2002-01-25 Thread paolo brusasco
I found a cable and connected it and cd works. I am sorry and apologize but was confused by two facts - audio cds worked on previous os without cable, this is very confusing - aux and cd plugs on motherboard are shown in picture but not listed in components list. thank everyone

Re: [newbie] cannot hear cd

2002-01-25 Thread bascule
if you don't have a cable from your cdrom to your soundcard then you will have problems, the traditional for computers to play audio cds was to transfer the sound in analogue form along a cable from the cdrom to the soundcard, even when cdroms first became capable of digital audio extraction

Re: [newbie] argggggg installing software

2002-01-25 Thread Steve Weltman
On Friday 25 January 2002 01:41 pm, you wrote: If you have already installed (with the base install) a copy of enlightenment or eterm, UNINSTALL them first (find all the parts of it the same way...dependencies). Install the new copies from scratch. I just got done doing apache server and a

Re: [newbie] cannot hear cd

2002-01-25 Thread Kaj Haulrich
paolo brusasco wrote: I cannot hear cds neither with kscd nor with grip. I read mails in last days but couldn't find an answer; I'm afraid there is a little stupid simple thing to do but I tried hard and can't find. I hope someone can help, thank you for reading this. BYE. I am trying to

[newbie] help installing openoffice.org?

2002-01-25 Thread Todd Slater
Finally getting around to trying to get openoffice.org installed, and I know this has come up here before. I dl'd and extracted it in my home directory. Ran setup -net. Specified install directory as /usr/share/openoffice. Installed fine. changed to /usr/share/openoffice/program and ran

Re: [newbie] ESS Solo 1 Audiodrive

2002-01-25 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:18:06 -0500 Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I began this thread yesterday. I have a new machine with two drives and installed RH 7.2 tonight on hdb (I know, I know, but I'm just seeing how the other side lives :-)). The ESS Solo 1 was automatically detected,

RE: [newbie] Security

2002-01-25 Thread FLYNN, Steve
What were the two users? If one was logged in from :0 and the other from a pts* terminal, don't worry - they are both you! Command 'w' should give you some information... -Original Message- From: Curt Tresenriter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January

Re: [newbie] KDE 3 and Mandrake 8.2

2002-01-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 25 January 2002 05:36 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, DOes anyone know if the new Mandrake 8.2 will have KDE3?... Nope. I mean I dunno, an' I've been usin 8.2 most all this year ;) Still don't have a clue ; My best guess, is kde2.2.2,.. 2.2.17, maybe 2.2.18 kernel,

Re: [newbie] cannot hear cd

2002-01-25 Thread Randy Kramer
paolo brusasco wrote: I can't understand what does it mean what a fellow wrote some days ago, that one should look if audio cable is connected from cd to soundcard-I don't have audio cables or jacks and audio cds work under windows-i-am-trying-to-leave-but-it-looks-hard. What they are

Re: [newbie] help installing openoffice.org?

2002-01-25 Thread Nelson Bartley
Now that you've installed it w/ the -net, you need to run the setup program again for each user, so the program can install settings in their home directories. You'll find the soffice executable in the location you install it to after you run setup from each user. Make sense? NB On Fri,

Re: [newbie] help installing openoffice.org?

2002-01-25 Thread Todd Slater
On Friday 25 January 2002 06:58 pm, Nelson Bartley wrote: Now that you've installed it w/ the -net, you need to run the setup program again for each user, so the program can install settings in their home directories. You'll find the soffice executable in the location you install it to

Re: [newbie] argggggg installing software

2002-01-25 Thread Bill Davidson
On Friday 25 January 2002 04:41 pm, Paul Kraus wrote: I have tried to install enlightenment and eterm. now both of these fail because they need other rpms installed so I download those rps and they fail because the need other rpms to install. this is utterly ridiculuos. Is there so way to

[newbie] Openldap cannot start (HELP)

2002-01-25 Thread SKLIM
Hi! Linux firends I am having a problem install OpenLdap into my Linux Server. After configure it ..when I try to start the Openldap at init.d it give permision deny to start /etc/openldap/slapd.conf My domain name is edns1.leader.com.my and below is my slapd.conf setting. Please correct

[newbie] trouble installing 8.0

2002-01-25 Thread m!ke mcgranahan
i have an old dell 486/66, with 32mb of ram, 1.5gb of scsi hard drive space. when i run the install (boot from floppy, to install from cd, with the cdrom.img image located in the images directory) i get this: in second stage install install exited abnormally =-( alt-f3 shows: warning, ramdisk

RE: [newbie] trouble installing 8.0

2002-01-25 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Use a etxt install. Hit F1 and select text for a text only install. -Original Message- From: m!ke mcgranahan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 1:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] trouble installing 8.0 i have an old dell 486/66, with

Re: [newbie] trouble installing 8.0

2002-01-25 Thread m!ke mcgranahan
i tried that... same result. thanks though any other suggestions? mike - Original Message - From: FLYNN, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:32 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] trouble installing 8.0 Use a etxt install. Hit F1 and select text for

[newbie] Changing UID of xscreensaver

2002-01-25 Thread Nelson Bartley
Heyo, I'm trying to run the sonar screen saver and it sais I need to change the UID to root so I can use the ping functionality. How do I do this, as this seems like a pretty cool screensaver. NB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] trouble installing 8.0

2002-01-25 Thread FLYNN, Steve
At the risk of sounding flippant, stick some more memory in, if at all possible! I think it a text install is too memory intensive, you're a bit stuffed really. I'm not sure if a network install would require less memory... do you have facilities for a network install? -Original

Re: [newbie] Security

2002-01-25 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 25 January 2002 15:38, you wrote: I have bastille configured for medium security and just ran the 'who' command and found two users logged in. Being that I am the sole user, it seems that there are other things I sould be doing to harden the system. I'm used to Zone Alarm notifying

Re: [newbie] trouble installing 8.0

2002-01-25 Thread Nelson Bartley
Have you tried it with one of the smaller 2.2 kernels? I know there is a way to boot to the 2.2.19 based installer when using CD's. Is this posible when using floppies? Might be something to consider. My biggest question here is, is it really worth the time to try and install the i586 based LM

Re: [newbie] ESS Solo 1 Audiodrive

2002-01-25 Thread tester
Terry Smith wrote: Short version: Got one, doesn't work :-( Longer version: My new linux box has returned from its original birthplace in San Francisco (Micronux Computers) with a new mobo. The week old machine had quit on me a couple of times finally, on Jan 6, dropping out altogether.

[newbie] Ogle GUI

2002-01-25 Thread Jim Dawson
I can use Ogle (0.8.2) to view DVDs in CLI mode, but when I open it in GUI mode, it crashes when I open a DVD. Does anyone know what might be wrong? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Installer Distorted

2002-01-25 Thread tester
Tighe!!! wrote: Alright, I'm really tired of trying to get Linux Mandrake installed. I am on an old-world Mac (7200/90) and I've attempted to install Linux... around 20 times, seriously. First I kept trying LinuxPCC, which didn't go too well. So a friend told me of Mandrake Linux, and in my

[newbie] good 486 distr? (was: trouble installing 8.0)

2002-01-25 Thread m!ke mcgranahan
thanks for the reply. i didn't realize lm 8 was optimized for the 586 (newbie). i guess i'll use my older red hat 6.1. thanks. mike - Original Message - From: Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] trouble

Re: [newbie] Trying to install Linux-Mandrake

2002-01-25 Thread tester
Jeff wrote: Hey Everyone I need some help I am trying to install Mandrake 8.1 on my laptop. When I get to the screen where it says it is configuring PCMCIA or whatever...hehe...it seems to lock up!!! Does anyone know why it would be doing this? I have a new Toshiba

Re: [newbie] trouble installing 8.0

2002-01-25 Thread m!ke mcgranahan
i do have facitilities for a net install. perhaps i'll try that. this is just an old computer i found in my parents house. it is not my primary computer. mike - Original Message - From: FLYNN, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:45 PM

[newbie] Baad gvim!

2002-01-25 Thread Chris Keelan
Anyone know how to get gvim to behave? I'm running Mandrake 8.1 on my desktop and I cannot get it to recognize any font changes. With a 17 montior, the default font is just too small but editing the .gvimrc file doesn't seem to work. I'd be happy with 9x15 or 10x20 system fonts, but gvim just

Re: [newbie] Trainging / Documentation

2002-01-25 Thread tester
Paul Kraus wrote: Is there any good documents, books, or pdf?s (preferably free and downloadable) that will help me learn linux quickly? I don?t need all the unix background or this is how tho mouse works crap. I am a systems admin for NT and 2000 I just want to learn linux. The

Re: [newbie] argggggg installing software

2002-01-25 Thread Paul Kraus
Is there compiled list of all the files on the cd's and a description of what they are for? this would help tremedously. On Friday 25 January 2002 07:56 pm, you wrote: On Friday 25 January 2002 04:41 pm, Paul Kraus wrote: I have tried to install enlightenment and eterm. now both of these

Re: [newbie] Ogle GUI

2002-01-25 Thread Carlos Arigós
El Vie 25 Ene 2002 22:29, escribió: I can use Ogle (0.8.2) to view DVDs in CLI mode, but when I open it in GUI mode, it crashes when I open a DVD. Does anyone know what might be wrong? Hi, Jim. Are this 6 rpms installed? a52dec-0.7.1b-2.i686.rpm libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3-1.i686.rpm

Re: [newbie] When is Mandrake not Mandrake?

2002-01-25 Thread tester
Mark Lucas wrote: I have been downloading, compiling and installing sources - new kernel, modules etc. When does my Mandrake 8.0 distro cease to be Mandrake and become a 'generic' Linux (if thewre is such a thing)? Just a questions out of idle curiosity. Mark

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