Re: [newbie-it] skeda audio Yamaha

2002-02-03 Thread Pollo
Il sab, 2002-02-02 alle 19:29, Tom ha scritto: ciao Sono alla prima installazione di un sistema linux e come temevo i problemi nn mi stanno mancando :) Ho una skeda audio Yamaha opl3 - sax sound system e dalla configurazione del' HardDrake mi da questi parametri I/O

Re: [newbie] Harddrack

2002-02-03 Thread Walter Logeman
I assume you mean 'harddrake' Try typing 'harddrake' (as root, without the 's) in a terminal. Then if it doesn't run properly, paste the error messages into an email and post that to the list. Depending on your hardware, it could be that the detection process is just taking a long

Re: [newbie] Strange CD error installing 8.1

2002-02-03 Thread Onur Kucuk
CR While trying to boot from CD and install, I get to the point where it tries CR to load the second stage ramdisk and it errors out saying it cannot CR uncompress the second stage ramdisk. In the logs it tells me trying to load CR /tmp/image/Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.bz2 as ramdisk. CR In

Re: [newbie] RaiserFS or Linux partition

2002-02-03 Thread Spencer Collyer
On Sunday 03 February 2002 03:20, you wrote: Before I attempt tonight to try another install should I use RaiserFS (Seen somewhere in the instalation guide) or a linux native partition? Will RaiserFS create any sticky situations for a newbie? thanks for your help ;x Richard Whatever you

[newbie] direct connect

2002-02-03 Thread Stojs
Is it possible to run direct connect under linux? Using wine or something? Thanks in advance, Stojs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Having trouble accessing USB Zip drive

2002-02-03 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey, Can someone please let me know how I access USB Zip drives using linux I had a hard time trying to make it run until I tried the most basic thing. 1. Create a dir called zip (or anything you like) in /mnt 2. As root type mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip 3. Modify /etc/fstab and add an entry for

Re: [newbie] Canon Digital Ixus

2002-02-03 Thread Joan Tur
Es Sun 03 Feb 2002 02:02, en Javier de Lázaro va escriure: Does anyone has this lovely camara working under LM? I use 8.1 Yes. Mine is a Digital Ixus 300. How can I do it? I use gtkam to dl the photos. Try installing it. -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain Yahoo AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395

Re: [newbie] backup app for LM 8.0

2002-02-03 Thread skinky
On Sunday 03 February 2002 17:48, shane wrote: once you get used to tar another option, if you find you haven't enough room for a full backup is to (after a fresh install) make the replication disk. you know where it asks if want to make an install disk that remebers everything you just

Re: [newbie] Canon Digital Ixus

2002-02-03 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, [iso-8859-1] Javier de Lázaro wrote: Dear List: Does anyone has this lovely camara working under LM? I use 8.1 I recently bought a Canon PowerShot G2, and it works like a charm with gtkam (gtk frontend) and gphoto2 (backend). How can I do it? Well, that would depend on

[newbie] emu-tools

2002-02-03 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi, I installed emu-tools 0.9.4 but whenever I am trying to run emu-config it gives me: SOUND_MIXER_PRIVATE3: Invalid argument I checked the tools' docs for such a thing but it is not mentioned there. Can anyone please tell me what it means and how to fix it? TIA Roman Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] backup app for LM 8.0

2002-02-03 Thread skinky
On Sunday 03 February 2002 14:20, mike wrote: No flame intended, so hang on, backup (pun intended) and tell us just what you are doing and why. I want to backup the system ( meaning the whole system / , and /home included ) because i'm very tired of reinstalling ( no negativity intended

[newbie] monitor power management

2002-02-03 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi, I am using XScreenSaver and the only saver selected is Phosphor. Now, I tried to set power management options in both XScreenSaver and KDE control center (hope I got the name right) to different values but neither seems to get noticed by the system. It always freezes phosphor's output after a

RE: [newbie] read this steve flynn!

2002-02-03 Thread Tom Harris
woops! wrong email... [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: 02 February 2002 19:32 To: Newbie@Linux-Mandrake. Com Subject: [newbie] read this steve flynn! Steve, Please can you send me a copy of 6.5 on a CD

Re: [newbie] Am I being hacked?

2002-02-03 Thread ed tharp
this is code red or nimda worms (or some worm close to it) and the solution is to run linux. then, if you care, block the IP sending the requests. since you don't run IIS, you will not have a problem other than the bandwidth used by the rouge windox. you could try and figure out the admin

[newbie] error message

2002-02-03 Thread Derek Fowler
Hi, I am trying to install new drivers for my NVIDIA card, but when I type make, I I get the error below...anyone suggets what I need to do to fix ? Thanks rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o Module-linux nv_compiler.h NVdriver cc -c -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-multichar -O

Re: [newbie] Another web site crash with konqueror

2002-02-03 Thread Pen Gwynne
Worked for me also, again I also have plugins installed and Konqueror brought up the page no problem. Went to Google and did a search on nsplugin. Thought I saw what was the right PRM and clicked on it. Got the dialog asking to Open or Save. That brought up MandrakeUpdate (or

Re: [newbie] Various questions

2002-02-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 02 February 2002 02:18 pm, marvin wrote: If you do upgrade to 2.2.2, I suggest usin Texstar's rpms. http://www.pclinuxonline.com I used these with 8.1. I'm now usin Mandrake's that come with 8.2 (on 8.2b1). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi,

[newbie] Evolution: importing contacts

2002-02-03 Thread Terry Smith
What with two boxes, two distributions, and various 'this is best choice today' email clients, I've got stuff scattered all over the place :-). I've settled in to Evolution 1.0.4 running on the new box and would like to 'import' the contacts from my older evolution directory. I've copied

Re: [newbie] error message

2002-02-03 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 17:38:16 + Derek Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2002 4:09 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 14:56:53 + Derek Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to install new drivers for my NVIDIA card, but when I type make, I I get

[newbie] Switching partitions?

2002-02-03 Thread Andre Dubuc
My / partition (/hda5) is too small (only 243MB) and is currently running at 87.1%. I want it to be at least 1GB. Another partition /var (/hda9) is 1.1GB and only has 10% usage. I would like to switch partitions -- i.e., copy contents of /hda9 to my unused /hdc which is only a one 1G

Re: [newbie] sound blaster 16 (isa) problem

2002-02-03 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 18:45:24 +0200 Veysel Harun Sahin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have an isa sound blaster 16 sound card and using linux mandrake 8.1. I can see my sound card at harddrake. When I try to configure my sound card in harddrake I am getting the message modprobe error:

Re: [newbie] Am I being hacked?

2002-02-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Sunday 03 February 2002 09:08 am, ed tharp wrote: this is code red or nimda worms (or some worm close to it) and the solution is to run linux. then, if you care, block the IP sending the requests. since you don't run IIS, you will not have a problem other than the bandwidth used by the

Re: [newbie] 8.1 installed - networking trouble

2002-02-03 Thread ChuckS
From: Dennis Myers Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.1 installed - networking trouble Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 18:26:48 -0800 (PST) You might try just doing and ifup eth0 and see if the network comes back up. I've seen this before and am trying to remember the fix. Let you know if I come up with a better

[newbie] su

2002-02-03 Thread Geoff Thomas
I've been using su to change to root for admin. tasks. Suddenly it won't work and it says file limit is exceeded. What gives? GT

Re: [newbie] Related Problems

2002-02-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
shane wrote: i have both heard this before, and used it. but i have no real understanding of it i fear, i am just wondering if someone can point me to a place where it is well documented or perhaps tell me exactly what this shutdown sequence is called. i always wondered. On Sunday

Re: [newbie] Am I being hacked?

2002-02-03 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 13:33, Todd Slater wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2002 09:08 am, ed tharp wrote: this is code red or nimda worms (or some worm close to it) and the solution is to run linux. then, if you care, block the IP sending the requests. since you don't run IIS, you will not have

Re: [newbie] su

2002-02-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Geoff Thomas wrote: I've been using su to change to root for admin. tasks. Suddenly it won't work and it says file limit is exceeded. What gives? GT Sounds like you just installed Bastille and picked that option. You can change a line in the Bastille configuration file that limits file

[newbie] Samba Question

2002-02-03 Thread Mithrilhall2000
I'm setting up Samba and I think I have just about everything perfect. I have a user on the linux computer (Ex. login name: bob password: test) and I have the same user on my Windows XP computer with the same login name and password. When at my Windows XP computer I do a search using the IP of

Re: [newbie] su

2002-02-03 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 03 February 2002 14:15, you wrote: Geoff Thomas wrote: I've been using su to change to root for admin. tasks. Suddenly it won't work and it says file limit is exceeded. What gives? GT Sounds like you just installed Bastille and picked that option. You can change a line in

Re: [newbie] Am I being hacked?

2002-02-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 03 February 2002 19:49, you wrote: On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 13:33, Todd Slater wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2002 09:08 am, ed tharp wrote: this is code red or nimda worms (or some worm close to it) and the solution is to run linux. then, if you care, block the IP sending the

[newbie] Still more troubles

2002-02-03 Thread Plexishex
Well another install and the same problem. Lilos' 3 options (linux, linux-fs?,failsafe) all lead to the same thing, linux starts to load then it just restarts. Having made a bootdisk I got a msg to insert the first cd, which led me to rescue. Now the problem is I have no clue to linux, almost

Re: [newbie] 8.1 installed - networking trouble

2002-02-03 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 19:47:32 -0500 ChuckS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed 8.1 and network was working fine out of the box. After doing MandrakeUpdate(all packages updated except the 3 kernel related) I lost the network (the 3com ISA 3c509b NIC) I can ping 127.0.0.1 but not eth0

[newbie] pdf and postscript

2002-02-03 Thread Paul Rodríguez
I have someone making me fliers in quark or illustrator. At first they sent me a pdf, but I need to be able to edit the file (in Linux, of course), so I asked them to send it to me as a .ps file. They did, and while I can read both the pdf and the ps in ghostview, i still cannot properly edit

[newbie] Error during Install

2002-02-03 Thread Greg Smith
I have a Dell PC with a PII-333 processor, 384MB RAM, an on-board ATI Rage 3D video card and two 10GB hard drives. Windows 2000 Pro is installed on a partition on the first hard drive and I'm trying to install Mandrake 8.1 on the second hard drive. I chose the auto allocate fuction in the

[newbie] Sound from a VMWare workstation

2002-02-03 Thread Greg Smith
Is anyone having trouble getting sound to work from within a VMWare workstation? I'm running VMWare version 3. I've tried to configure the sound from within Linux Mandrake 8.1 using the sndconfig command in a terminal. All I can get is a very quick noise that sounds a s if it is the start of a

Re: [newbie] Related Problems

2002-02-03 Thread shane
many thanks for the link! On Sunday 03 February 2002 11:49, you spoke unto me thusly: Personally, I've printed it out ( there's a printer-friendly version too) - just in case ;-) Kaj Haulrich -- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. -Juan Jimenez shane registered linux user

Re: [newbie] backup app for LM 8.0

2002-02-03 Thread Anke Max
Gidday Lyvim and Jim (and others) I have to say thank you to you guys for answers to questions I was going to ask soon, and thanks to Mike for asking. rgrds max On Saturday 02 February 2002 18:28, you wrote: Mike, I know how bad it can be when you're starting from ground zero. I had the

Re: [newbie] Am I being hacked?

2002-02-03 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Sunday 03 February 2002 02:33 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2002 09:08 am, ed tharp wrote: this is code red or nimda worms (or some worm close to it) and the solution is to run linux. then, if you care, block the IP sending the requests. since you don't run IIS, you will

Re: [newbie] Samba Question

2002-02-03 Thread Anke Max
Gidday Mithrilhall I know nothing of XP, but I am using Samba (via webmin). Do you have a samba user of the same name and password? In webmin it's easy, you tell it to convert all linux users to samba users. rgds max I'm setting up Samba and I think I have just about everything perfect. I have

Re: [newbie] Sound from a VMWare workstation

2002-02-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Greg Smith (by way of Greg Smith ) wrote: Is anyone having trouble getting sound to work from within a VMWare workstation? I'm running VMWare version 3. I've tried to configure the sound from within Linux Mandrake 8.1 using the sndconfig command in a terminal. All I can get is a very

Re: [newbie] Related Problems

2002-02-03 Thread Marc Oestreicher
2/3/02 11:44:19 AM, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2002 16:31, Marc Oestreicher wrote: Hi I am brand new to linux. Welcome to Linux. It;s a lot of fun. You will be amazed at how good it isbut.. there is a lot to learn. Signing up for this list is a

RE: [newbie] Samba Question

2002-02-03 Thread Mithrilhall2000
Where do I find webmin. I am still very new to Linux. As for users and passwords. I have the same user and password combo on my Linux and Windows XP computer. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anke Max Sent: February 3, 2002 3:04 PM To:

Re: [newbie] su

2002-02-03 Thread Hal Wigoda
First do a df and see if any of your file systems are out of space. This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_000C_01C1ACC0.ECC1B2A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've been using su to change

Re: [newbie] Samba Question

2002-02-03 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 17:29, Mithrilhall2000 wrote: When at my Windows XP computer I do a search using the IP of the linux computer and it shows this: Name Folder Comment 192.168.1.3 unknown If I double-click the IP address shown above I get a login prompt and I type in

Re: [newbie] Is mail to the list for some, or all, people moderated ?

2002-02-03 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
you are lucky. mine sometimes pop-in my inbox after two days. its the mail-time-electron-flux (replace that with your favorite name for the lag-monster as it wont mind being called names ;-) ciao! On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 02:55:27 GMT marvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I`m

Re: [newbie] Is mail to the list for some, or all, people moderated ?

2002-02-03 Thread Chris Keelan
Mon, 4 Feb 2002 09:46:39 -0500: In attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] transmitted: you are lucky. mine sometimes pop-in my inbox after two days. its the mail-time-electron-flux (replace that with your favorite name for the lag-monster as it wont

[newbie] vmware 3,.0 and samba

2002-02-03 Thread Wayne Petherick
Has anyone here got vmware 3 and samba to work? I have been through the setup shown in three different texts, as well as half a dozen websites. I cannot get XP to recognise the host filesystem. I have been trying to use the support section on vmwares site, but the whole site seems to be down.

Re: [newbie] Is mail to the list for some, or all, people moderated ?

2002-02-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Chris Keelan wrote: Actually, do you have your /etc/packetsize.conf to 'useMetric = yes ' ? (Mandrake does this by default, being a French distro) If you are sending metric TCP/IP packets, they're larger than American packets and will therefore, travel much more slowly. Especially over

Re: [newbie] Is mail to the list for some, or all, people moderated ?

2002-02-03 Thread Chris Keelan
Sun, 03 Feb 2002 21:55:39 -0500: In attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] transmitted: Actually, do you have your /etc/packetsize.conf to 'useMetric = yes ' ? (Mandrake does this by default, being a French distro) If you are sending metric

Re: [newbie] Harddrack

2002-02-03 Thread Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos
I am executing from the KDE, with user root. It does not appear no message of error, simply stops the computer in the window of inicialização of the applicatory one. T+ --- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Saturday 02 February 2002 12:44 am, Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos

Re: [newbie] Is mail to the list for some, or all, people moderated ?

2002-02-03 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:02:01 -0500 Chris Keelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 21:55:39 -0500: In attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] transmitted: Actually, do you have your /etc/packetsize.conf to 'useMetric =

Re: [newbie] sound blaster 16 (isa) problem

2002-02-03 Thread Joseph Braddock
I got my SB16 to work by removing the options sb isapnp=1 line in my /etc/modules.conf and replacing it with: options sb io=0x220 irq=9 mpu_io=0x300 dma=0 dma16=5 Otherwise, it kept trying to use irq=5 which was in use by another adapter. Of course, you want to do acat /proc/interrupts to

Re: [newbie] backup app for LM 8.0

2002-02-03 Thread Andy Gay
I could use a simple data backup do store nothing but a /data directory in my /home/me/data. I would like to compress (tar, I guess) it on floppies (I don't have a whole lot of data-.maybe 10 meg uncompressed) and be prompted when to change the floppies. Is there a utility for that? Thanks.

[newbie] Hi I need help with a Konqueror bug

2002-02-03 Thread Meowth
I need to know how to fix a midi bug in Konqueror, every time I load a web page that has a src embedded midi file, Konqueror disappears and leaves just a dialogue box behind that does nothing. How can I fix this? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Is mail to the list for some, or all, people moderated ?

2002-02-03 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 20:56:58 -0500 Chris Keelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 09:46:39 -0500: In attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] transmitted: you are lucky. mine sometimes pop-in my inbox after two days.

Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Reboot..how often]

2002-02-03 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 01 February 2002 10:58, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: How come many of you have server up times of many days and even months? I find that after approx. 2-3 days I need to reboot my MDK 8 box else the modem will not respond when I use kppp and the Software Manager only partially

[newbie] Killing a printing process that is printing junk

2002-02-03 Thread Walter Logeman
I have no way of stopping the printer from the gui as far as i can see. Is there some way? I have rebooted both the printer and linux but it wants to print out the useless file! (I dont have the right driver for the printer but that is another story.) I am learning to use the CL and

Re: [newbie] pdf and postscript

2002-02-03 Thread Walter Logeman
In terms of reading the postscript file, you probably don't have the needed parser with ghostscript. Linux, unfortunately is not strong in publishing, even with TeX. I saw there was a program in development called killustrator, could that be of use? I hope it will be soon, as i am hoping