Re: [newbie-it] driver

2002-02-05 Thread Andrea Celli
Stefano Salari wrote: ... I driver di NVidia sono generici e vanno bene per qualsiasi scheda. Ma non per qualsiasi kernel. Se lo hai ricompilato, o hai scaricato un kernel aggiornato da Mandrake, devi ricompilare anche i driver. Una volta installati devi modificare .

[newbie-it] Problemi con CD-ROM

2002-02-05 Thread Alessio Vicini
Ciao a tutti, ho ricompilato il Kernel della mia MDK8.1 per abilitare il supporto dell'emulazione SCSI in modo da poter finalmente utilizzare il CD e il masterizzatore IDE. Ok, fin qui tutto bene. (Tra parentesi, ho anche abilitato il supporto al mio processore PIII anzichè quello generico per

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con CD-ROM

2002-02-05 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 12:08, martedì 5 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: [CUT] Il problema è che, pur riuscendo a masterizzare senza problemi, anche accedendo come root, il sistema mi dice che manco delle autorizzazioni per leggere da CDROM e MASTERIZZATORE Le cartelle in /mnt appaiono con un simpatico

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con CD-ROM

2002-02-05 Thread Alessio Vicini
No, in effetti, non sapendo esattamente di cosa si trattava l'ho lasciato come stava. Devo necessariamente ricompilare il kernel per disabilitarlo vero? Mannaggia, speriamo che vada tutto bene (ehm... non sono ancora molto sicuro del mio operato...) Daniele, mi puoi magari dire quali sono le

[newbie-it] filmati

2002-02-05 Thread guido
salve chiedo, per favore, se qualcuno conosce delle applicazioni per aprire i filmati (.avi, dvd, ecc). Non ci sono riuscito, ho utilizzato: xmovie, gtv, mpeg2video (da linea di comando). Utilizzo da casa mdk 7.2 (perchè riconosce da sola la scheda ISA OPTI qualcosa) ma anche con mdk 8.1

Re: [newbie-it] configurazioe di un USB ISDN TA

2002-02-05 Thread Baobab2
Io continuo a provare e riprovare per far funzionare sto modem ISDN USB sotto mandrake 8.1 ma non ne vuole sapere in nessun modo ... e sono costretto a collegarmi sempre con WINZOZZ ! :'-( nessuno ha prorpio idea di dove posso andare a vedere? devo per forza cambiare modem ? grazielo

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con CD-ROM

2002-02-05 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 13:49, martedì 5 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: No, in effetti, non sapendo esattamente di cosa si trattava l'ho lasciato come stava. Devo necessariamente ricompilare il kernel per disabilitarlo vero? Io credo sia sufficiente, in lilo o grub, sostituire devfs=mount con

[newbie-it] Barra degli strumenti

2002-02-05 Thread lux
Ciao a tutti, In Konqueror ho tolto la spunta sulla voce impostazioni -mostra la barra dei menu quella con i menu File, Edit, Visualizza, ecc. e non riesco piu a farla tornare. Qualcuno di voi sa come fare? Grazie anticipatamente, -- Ciao, Lux :-))

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con CD-ROM

2002-02-05 Thread Alessio
Alle 20:51, martedì 5 febbraio 2002, hai scritto: Il giorno 13:49, martedì 5 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: No, in effetti, non sapendo esattamente di cosa si trattava l'ho lasciato come stava. Devo necessariamente ricompilare il kernel per disabilitarlo vero? Io credo sia sufficiente,

Re: [newbie-it] filmati

2002-02-05 Thread Vittorio
usa MPlayer è ben recensito qua: http://linux.html.it/articoli/dvd_linux1.htm guido wrote: salve chiedo, per favore, se qualcuno conosce delle applicazioni per aprire i filmati (.avi, dvd, ecc). Non ci sono riuscito, ho utilizzato: xmovie, gtv, mpeg2video (da linea di comando).

Re: [newbie-it] filmati

2002-02-05 Thread luigi pinna
--- guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: salve chiedo, per favore, se qualcuno conosce delle applicazioni per aprire i filmati (.avi, dvd, ecc). Non ci sono riuscito, ho utilizzato: xmovie, gtv, mpeg2video (da linea di comando). Utilizzo da casa mdk 7.2 (perchè riconosce da sola la

Re: [newbie-it] Informazione su LISa

2002-02-05 Thread Natalo
come hai usato Samba per dialogare con la macchina win, devi usare NFS (network file system) per condividere file tra macchine Linux e/o Unix. ciao, Andrea Dopo il tuo consiglio ho controllato meglio i servizi e demoni installati nella Mandrake di entrambi i pc (Fisso e portatile),

Re: [newbie-it] Informazione su LISa

2002-02-05 Thread Natalo
Germano ha scritto: Se non ho capito male penso che tu abbia il mio stesso problema: riesci ad usare Samba ma quando cerchi di vedere la rete da Konqueror in stile windo..s ti da errore. Ti posso solo dire che io ho configurato a mano sia il file di Lisa direttamente che tramite il

[newbie-it] per Cyber Penguin

2002-02-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Innanzi tutto ti ringrazio per la prontezza della tua risposta, per la stampante, da buon profano, ti posso solo dire che sono riuscito a configurarla correttamente , indipendentemente dal driver scelto, solo dopo aver usato CUPS.Unica diffettuccio e' che la stampante devo ricordarmi di

Re: [OT] SASA ( was Re: [newbie] Is mail to the list for some, or all, people moderated ?)

2002-02-05 Thread FemmeFatale
Agreed, give yourself credit where it is due. I've been um.. being a dilettante with linux for oh... 3 weeks ? :) Fun stuff I assure you. another acronym i rarely here now but liked: SARS as in, Don't give me any SARS! Smart Ass Remarks Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: On Mon, 04 Feb 2002

[newbie] On the Subject of clocks ... Need Enlightenment

2002-02-05 Thread FemmeFatale
yes OK Bad joke in subject line I literally need a clock in Elightenment. I'm so frigging clueless... Every other WM. has one... Even that weirdo TWM. I have tried all the WM's Mandrake 8.x has to offer by default. I don't remember if there is one in Blackbox (haven't played with it much).

[newbie] New problem with Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread FemmeFatale
I've downloaded installed Ximian's Gnome product. Before that I used some default Gnome that came with the mandrake installs CD's. Both times, I've had the problem where it (Gnome) for some reason cannot find my host address. It seems any other Window Manager works fine. Gnome even connects

Re: [newbie] On the Subject of clocks ... Need Enlightenment

2002-02-05 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
use the command xclock -digital -brief this will open up a small clock window displaying the time in digital format. do a man xclock for more details. Since you seem keen to stick with enlightenment edit the file $HOME/.enlightenment/file.menu and add the foll line there: MY_CLOCK NULL exec

Re[2]: [OT] SASA ( was Re: [newbie] Is mail to the list for some, or all, people moderated ?)

2002-02-05 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey, Oops. The dangers of plain text humour. There is no metric setting for TCP/IP packet sizes. I was kidding. Back in the day SmartAss SysAdmins used to blame slow performance on fat electrons which tend to get stuck in the curves and bends of printed circuit boards. Sunspots

[newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey all, I am mainly using KDE, but wonder what Gnome could offer. Now I would like to know why each of you is using the one and not the other - ie. what is your personal preference and why, what option does it make the right one for you. And please let's not talk about other WMs, I would only

RE: [newbie] Putting LM on for-sale computers

2002-02-05 Thread Franki
nope, not that I am aware of, linux is open source, so as long as you stick with only open souce or equiv license, then you can load it on as many as you like. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nelson Bartley Sent: Tuesday, 5

Re[2]: [newbie] [OT] NOT acronyms (was Wanting to replace / or run these windows apps.)

2002-02-05 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey, snip As far as Windows emulators go, there are several options. 1. You can try Wine (WINdows Emulator), /snip WINE means Wine Is Not an Emulator. ;-) BTW: How about LINUX = Linux Is Not UniX? What do you think everyone? Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

[newbie] Re: common acronyms

2002-02-05 Thread Walter Logeman
There is a lovely little tool bar applet in KDE - dictionary It does wonders with acronyms. eg -seeoutput below. Trouble is the applet is not persistent on the pannel / toolbar - I keep meedign to reinstall it. Walter ~~~ Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon] AFAIK // n.

[newbie] Setting Up Bastille

2002-02-05 Thread Charles Muller
I am trying to set up Bastille for the first time in LM 8.1 The directions in the user manual say: To launch it, you need to run the command BastilleChooser from a terminal as root I suppose I may well be the most ignorant beginner on this list, but does a terminal mean the commad line?

[newbie] usb-storage

2002-02-05 Thread Alan Patterson
Title: usb-storage I have a digital camera and flash card reader I want to use with Linux. I have Mandrake 8.1 installed. I have been trying to follow guidelines on how to setup usb and that part seems to work fine. However, my usb devices are Mass Storage devices that need the usb-storage

RE: [newbie] Setting Up Bastille

2002-02-05 Thread Franki
yes, a terminal means an xterm, which if you open a GUI and go into the menu, you'll see a menu item called Terminals there are lots of choices, I like Gnome Terminal, which you may or may not have installed.. but any of them will suffice. As for running as root, you can either log in as root..

Re: [newbie]

2002-02-05 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
Can anyone recommend a good Howto site? I'm looking to set up an anonymous ftp (proftpd) and my samba server. you may have all the doc's installed anyhow - have a look in /usr/share/doc Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270)

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Robin M. Weare
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 01:20 am, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey all, I am mainly using KDE, but wonder what Gnome could offer. Now I would like to know why each of you is using the one and not the other - ie. what is your personal preference and why, what option does it make the right one for

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:20:30 +0100, Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I am mainly using KDE, but wonder what Gnome could offer. Now I would like to know why each of you is using the one and not the other - ie. what is your personal preference and why, what option does it make the

Re: [newbie] New problem with Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 01:52:34 -0700, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've downloaded installed Ximian's Gnome product. Before that I used some default Gnome that came with the mandrake installs CD's. Both times, I've had the problem where it (Gnome) for some reason cannot find my host

Re: [newbie] xmms has gone haywire - wont play.

2002-02-05 Thread Walter Logeman
 Delete  .xmms directory in your home  that will fix it That was cool.  I renamed it and when restarting xmms it created a new one.  Nice. BUT it still wont load at all now.  I uninstalled some visualization plugins maybe i shouldn't have. ANYWAY I am now on a path of reinstalling xmms

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Jean-Christophe Berthon
I prefer the look'n feel of Gnome, but I'm using KDE. I'm connecting to a remote Linux machine over the network and bringing the desktop up to my local computer. With Gnome, I have lots of traffic running over my network, while it is greatly reduced with KDE. But after for functionnality, I

[newbie] Re: Sound from a VMWare Workstation

2002-02-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Greg Smith wrote: You're a genius! I figured out how to edit the file then set the devfs=nomount option, ran the lilo command from root and re-booted. The sound works great now. Thank you. One question though. When I changed that line, what did that do elsewhere on the system?

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) wrote: Thanks for your help... Here's the info you asked for: * I tried mount /mnt/zip and got mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device Okay. * My /etc/fstab: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zipauto

Re: [newbie] Samba Question

2002-02-05 Thread Anke Max
Gidday Mithrilhall Sorry, I could have given more detail. Samba can have it's own password and user list as well Webmin is a https web browser based administration program which you can use from a win pc To use it point a web browser at https://your_server_ip_address:1 If it's not installed

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread s
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 03:20 am, you wrote: Hey all, I am mainly using KDE, but wonder what Gnome could offer. Now I would like to know why each of you is using the one and not the other - ie. what is your personal preference and why, what option does it make the right one for you.

Re: [newbie] Sandisk USB CompactFlash Reader

2002-02-05 Thread Larry Varney
I have a multi-card reader, both Compact Flash and Smart Media. Hard Drake would recognize it as a 1-Gig SCSI drive, but I was never able to get LM to see any SM card in it. Perhaps it would have worked with a CF card, but that's sort of moot. Anyway, I went out and bought a SanDisk

RE: [newbie] Sandisk USB CompactFlash Reader

2002-02-05 Thread Alan Patterson
Title: RE: [newbie] Sandisk USB CompactFlash Reader , another CF reader, usb-storage problem! I must be missing something really simple here. I've done a fresh install of LM8.1 and I don't even have the /dev/sd* files. So I don't even know where to start with even mounting my device!

RE: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-05 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
I edited my fstab and replaced the existing ZIP entry with the following: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 Did not reboot, since I'm told that the changes are automagically made. Typed mount /mnt/zip and got mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a

[newbie] has anyone used Partimage?

2002-02-05 Thread mike
Hi, I looking for someone who is, or has used Partimage successfully in mandrake 8.0 or another version pre 8.0 to ask questions of. Specificly I need to know the proper syntax in creating the .img file and how to make it write it. when I tried to make a part.img of a dir it told me it

Re: [newbie] Putting LM on for-sale computers

2002-02-05 Thread Randy Kramer
Franki wrote: nope, not that I am aware of, linux is open source, so as long as you stick with only open souce or equiv license, then you can load it on as many as you like. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My question, is there anything wrong with me putting LM on a

Re: [newbie] Setting Up Bastille

2002-02-05 Thread Paul
On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 10:52:44 -0500 Randy wrote: I would su to root, by running su, then entering the password. When you are done doing what you must do as root, switch back to your user account using su your_user_name and entering your password. Going back to user after su can also be done by

RE: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-05 Thread Vijay Ramachandran
You don't need to reboot, you can do a 'mount -a' to mount all entries in fstab. Vijay Mel Roman writes: I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always assumed that fstab was read once when Linux boots, and didn't look at it thereafter. If that's the case, then you'd have

Re: [newbie] Setting Up Bastille

2002-02-05 Thread Randy Kramer
Charles Muller wrote: does a terminal mean the commad line? Yes, at least in this context. And how do I run it as root? I would su to root, by running su, then entering the password. When you are done doing what you must do as root, switch back to your user account using su your_user_name

Re: [newbie] EBDE TOO BIG

2002-02-05 Thread Derek Jennings
Did he by any chance just use Mandrake Update to upgrade his kernel? derek On Tuesday 05 February 2002 00:41, Steven Spears wrote: Has anyone seen this error before. It's my brothers linux box and he gets the graphical LILO loader, hits linux and then this thing pops up. Never seen it

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Derek Jennings
Well of course you should use the one you like best... Personally I prefer KDE, mostly because I love the way the KDE applications not only pick up my themes Window Decoration, but also all the buttons and drop down boxes pick up the theme as well. It just looks so pretty (I use the

Re: [newbie] xmms has gone haywire - wont play.

2002-02-05 Thread Derek Jennings
ANYWAY I am now on a path of reinstalling xmms and getting an upgrade while about it. I have the rpms from http://www.xmms.org/download.html It tells me there I need:  mikmod 3.17 or better req - I have 3.1.6 later I have spent hours finding likely files that might fix one

Re: [newbie] DSL 2 Connect

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Rodríguez
In Mandrake Control Center, go to network configuration, click on expert, then click on the Configure Internet Access button. Use the pull-down menu to select eth0. That is the first ethernet device detected by your system. SHould work fine. - Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 08:23, Juan

Re: [newbie] Sandisk USB CompactFlash Reader

2002-02-05 Thread Larry Varney
Alan Patterson wrote: , another CF reader, usb-storage problem! I must be missing something really simple here. I've done a fresh install of LM8.1 and I don't even have the /dev/sd* files. So I don't even know where to start with even mounting my device! Any help ? When the

Re: [newbie] pdf and postscript

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Thanks, Steve. I can view the file fine, just not with a text editor the way I believe I would be able to with a post script file. What sucks is that this job was done as a template to be used for Linux classes we are offereing here in NY. So, if we can't edit them in Linux, all that work was

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Randy Kramer
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:20:30 +0100, Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am mainly using KDE, but wonder what Gnome could offer. Now I would like to know why each of you is using the one and not the other - ie. what is your personal preference and why, what

[newbie] Smart Media Reader - Not Under Linux

2002-02-05 Thread Larry Varney
I checked the Sandisk website, and this is what they have to say about the reader I bought: Please Note: SDDR-55 is not mass storage compliant (not supported under Linux). Use drivers included with device or linked below. So, it looks like I'll have to be content with having to attach

[newbie] NFS trouble mounting

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Rodríguez
I'm having trouble mounting a folder with NFS. It was working fine before, but now, when I type: mount [ip address]:/home/user /mnt/user it just gets stuck there, it won't give me back my prompt to type in more commands, it just waits, not even ctrl+c or ctrl+d do anything. I set up /home/user

Re: [newbie] EBDE TOO BIG

2002-02-05 Thread Steven Spears
No, just a fresh install. Shut it off and then started it again after a while and boom, it came up. Steve On Tuesday 05 February 2002 10:19 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Did he by any chance just use Mandrake Update to upgrade his kernel? derek On Tuesday 05 February 2002 00:41, Steven

[newbie] boot question

2002-02-05 Thread Frederic Rooms
Hi, I need to reinstall Windows 2000 on my computer. I expect Win2000 to erase my boot sector which will kill my opportunity to launch linux. What can I do to not reinstall my system ? Does the booting work with a floppy disk ? What do I have to do ? thanks a lot fred Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Moving Linux to a larger HD

2002-02-05 Thread Randy Kramer
Rick wrote: currently, my Linux installation is on an 8GB hard drive. I would like to put it on a 20GB hard drive. I know how to partition the drive. My question is simply, once the 20GB drive is ready, can I just do a straight copy of the existing filesystems to the new drive? Then I would

Re: [newbie] Samba / Unix Compile

2002-02-05 Thread Jim Dawson
SAMBA is available for virtualy every operating system that has an IP stack (with the possible exception of MS Windows, of course... The only reason I could think of to run SAMBA on a Windows box would be to have Win9x or NT Workstaion computer be a domain controller.) -Original

Re: [newbie] boot question

2002-02-05 Thread skinky
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 06:32, Frederic Rooms wrote: Hi, I need to reinstall Windows 2000 on my computer. I expect Win2000 to erase my boot sector which will kill my opportunity to launch linux. What can I do to not reinstall my system ? Does the booting work with a floppy disk ? What

Re: [newbie] multiple NICs problem

2002-02-05 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 18:57:24 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Due to an FS corruption, I re-installed 8.1 from scratch on my system. I have been having problems with my NICs ever since. I have 2 NICs - one useing the ne2k-pci driver, and the other using 8139too. Previously, the ne2k

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread skinky
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 22:20, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey all, I am mainly using KDE, but wonder what Gnome could offer. Now I would like to know why each of you is using the one and not the other - ie. what is your personal preference and why, what option does it make the right one for

[newbie] Knowing partition and mounting NTFS

2002-02-05 Thread Kevin Old
Hello all, I am wondering if someone can tell me how to know what partition certain operating systems are on? For instance.I want to mount a NTFS from within linux (I know how to do that for vfat so I assume I do the same except the file system type is ntfs instead of vfat) Someone said

Re: [newbie] On the Subject of clocks ... Need Enlightenment

2002-02-05 Thread Tim Holmes
I use Enlightenment full time, and have done so for over two years now. For a lot of E users, they are provided a clock by another app. Many use the app gkrellm. Here's a screen shot of the two I have running on my desktop right now. There's an option of it displaying a clock, as well as

[newbie] Moving Linux to a larger HD

2002-02-05 Thread Rick
OK... currently, my Linux installation is on an 8GB hard drive. I would like to put it on a 20GB hard drive. I know how to partition the drive. My question is simply, once the 20GB drive is ready, can I just do a straight copy of the existing filesystems to the new drive? Then I would connect

[newbie] Mandrake 8.1, VMWare and Networking

2002-02-05 Thread Greg Smith
I would like to attach to a network share on a MSWindows machine. I'm stumped!! Even just a referral as to where I can read up on this. I have found lots of info on Samba and how to connect to a Linux share from an MSWindows machine, but not the other way. Greg Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] Java in Konquerer

2002-02-05 Thread Greg Smith
I am having a problem getting Java to work from the Konquerer browser. I have set the Enable Java Globally to on in the Settings. Is there something else I'm missing? Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Knowing partition and mounting NTFS

2002-02-05 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Knowing partition and mounting NTFS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin Old Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 1:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Knowing partition and mounting NTFS Hello all, I

Re: [newbie] Java in Konquerer

2002-02-05 Thread Onur Kucuk
GS I am having a problem getting Java to work from the Konquerer browser. I GS have set the Enable Java Globally to on in the Settings. Is there GS something else I'm missing? GS Greg Do you have any java runtime envoriment installed ? The default that comes with mandrake is kaffe,

[newbie] Cannot get Date Change to Stick after Reboot

2002-02-05 Thread JOHN HEMMER
Hello, The system date for my system is wrong. I can set the date and time with the date command to be correct and all will be okay. I can even log out of system back to the K Desktop Environment log in window and relog into the system, and the date will be correct; however when I shutdown and

Re: [newbie] NFS trouble mounting

2002-02-05 Thread Bryan B Whitehead
you might have a firewall blocking some ports? try: showmount -e [ip address] to see if your server is exporting the fs correctly also make sure you have nfs services started up on your client box. make sure portmap is running on both boxes. and you can communicate on those ports (no

Re: [newbie] Java in Konquerer

2002-02-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 12:31, Greg Smith wrote: I am having a problem getting Java to work from the Konquerer browser. I have set the Enable Java Globally to on in the Settings. Is there something else I'm missing? Greg Yes.. you need to install the RPM kdebase-nsplugins You will

Re: [newbie] personal organizer

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Thanks! On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 17:34, Brian Parish wrote: No, you can get the rpm and all the required dependent rpms from the cooker. Just put them in a directory. Become root and say: rpm -Uvh * (without the quotes) and you should be in business. Here is a list of what you'll need off

Re: [newbie] New problem with Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread FemmeFatale
Thank you muchly if that works Sridhar ;0 Femme Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 01:52:34 -0700, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've downloaded installed Ximian's Gnome product. Before that I used some default Gnome that came with the mandrake installs CD's. Both

Re: [newbie] On the Subject of clocks ... Need Enlightenment

2002-02-05 Thread FemmeFatale
Very cool! Ty Mario! ;) one question... what's the NULL Statement do in that? I didn't try the man pages... didn't know there was a section for clocks..didn't think that (being too simple) would be in it. DUH... i'm stupid it seems ;P Femme Mario Michael da Costa wrote: use the command

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Miark
I've been using KDE for a long time. Initially I tried both KDE and Gnome, but I ended up using KDE exclusively because the mouse behavior was so bad in Gnome. It's hard to describe. In KDE I set acceleration to 4 and threshold to 1, and life was great. I messed with Gnome many times and could

[newbie] Problems with LM 8.1

2002-02-05 Thread Hakan Duran
Hi, I am a newbie in linux. Recently I installed LM 8.1 from 3 CD-ROMs, which I have burned from ISO images that I downloaded from internet. My system is like: Pentium 133 128 MB Ram ATI Mach64 RAGE/GT 3Com Etherlink III ISA (3C509b-TPO) 2 HDs (1 GB-Windows 95 4 GB-Windows and Linux) CD-ROM,

[newbie] new installation questions

2002-02-05 Thread Ravi Malghan
I did a fresh installtion of 8.1 on a Mircon laptop. I have the following queston/problems 1. The installation does not seem to recognizing the mouse correctly. It always shows up as big white square instead of a pointer. 2. It default logs in in as a user userx. How can I change this to

Re: [newbie] new installation questions

2002-02-05 Thread Kevin Old
Ravi, Have a look hereit's your best bet..http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/micron.html Kevin - Original Message - From: Ravi Malghan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:37 PM Subject: [newbie] new installation questions I did

Re: [newbie] Problems with LM 8.1

2002-02-05 Thread Kevin Old
Hakan, First of all, I'd go back and reinstall your Mandrak installation and this time use Expert Mode. I think that should fix most, if not all of your problems. Then, come back and let us know your questions. 4) There is a network at my workplace, which uses Novell netware. I have a

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1, VMWare and Networking

2002-02-05 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 06:27, Greg Smith wrote: I would like to attach to a network share on a MSWindows machine. I'm stumped!! Even just a referral as to where I can read up on this. I have found lots of info on Samba and how to connect to a Linux share from an MSWindows machine, but

Re: [newbie] Re: common acronyms

2002-02-05 Thread Walter Logeman
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 05:19 am, you wrote: Walter, Where does a person find this applet? How does one installit?TIA Charles I am using KDE - on the panel - what in windows was called the task bar - find a unused space on the right hand side, right click - Add Applets dictionary.

Re: [newbie] Problems with LM 8.1

2002-02-05 Thread Joan Tur
Es Tue 05 Feb 2002 23:01, en Hakan Duran va escriure: 1) There is no DrakeConf in either Gnome or KDE Program you have to run is DrakConf; open a terminal window and type D followed by tab and you'll be shown all programs beginning by D letter... Notice that D and d are different ;) --

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1, VMWare and Networking

2002-02-05 Thread Randy Kramer
Greg Smith wrote: I would like to attach to a network share on a MSWindows machine. I'm stumped!! Try this: http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/SambaMount I'm going to revise it soon, because it would be more clear if I mentioned that this is what you need to use to mount a shared

Re: [newbie] Setting Up Bastille

2002-02-05 Thread Randy Kramer
Paul wrote: Going back to user after su can also be done by doing exit. Is easier and takes up less stack. Paul, Thanks! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sandisk USB CompactFlash Reader

2002-02-05 Thread Joseph Braddock
I was able to get my PNY SmartMedia reader to work by changing vfat to msdos in /etc/fstab. My entry for it is: /dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia msdos user,noauto On Monday 04 February 2002 05:09 pm, you wrote: Does anyone have one of these working? I have plugged it into my USB port, and Linux seems

[newbie] how to change property: default user login without password

2002-02-05 Thread Ravi Malghan
My linux installation logs in with a specific user without prompting for a password. How do I change this so that it will ask for a username password? Thanks Ravi

[newbie] how to edit .login?

2002-02-05 Thread Todd Slater
If I want to run fortune when a user logs in, how do I edit the .login file? I searched in my home directory, and cannot find this file. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 06:55, Walter Logeman wrote: I have evolution open in KDE. However i have a problem. on my 1600 x 1200 screen all the gnome aps fonts are too small and i cant change them. It seems they are set in another program sawfish? Use Gnome Control Center (gnomecc) to

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Walter Logeman
If I still worked for my previous employer I might be very interested in GNomes mail client (Evolution??). I have evolution open in KDE. However i have a problem. on my 1600 x 1200 screen all the gnome aps fonts are too small and i cant change them. It seems they are set in another

Re: [newbie] Smart Media Reader - Not Under Linux

2002-02-05 Thread Joseph Braddock
Out of curiousity, what's your fstab got in it for the device? On Tuesday 05 February 2002 10:42 am, you wrote: I checked the Sandisk website, and this is what they have to say about the reader I bought: Please Note: SDDR-55 is not mass storage compliant (not supported under Linux).

Re: [newbie] SCSI Emulatio

2002-02-05 Thread Roger Sherman
To both Dan and Joan: Thanks! That did the trick :-) On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Joan Tur wrote: Es Tue 05 Feb 2002 06:28, en Roger Sherman va escriure: Pardon my asking this question, which I know has been answered a bunch of times, but I have tried unsuccessfully to find it in the archives -

Re: common acronyms (was Re: [newbie] su)

2002-02-05 Thread tester
Chris Keelan wrote: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:03:33 -0500: In attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] transmitted: IIRC - If I Remember/Recall Correctly YMMV - Your Mileage Migh Vary RTFM - Read the F**k*ng Manual STFW - Surf the F**k*ng Web DAYOR - Do

Re: [newbie] Opera in spanish?

2002-02-05 Thread Pascal Goguey
Le 02.2.6 à 4:07, Joan Tur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) écrivit: Hallo! Does any of you have opera (5, 5.05TP1 or 6TP3) running in spanish language? Opera in Spanish is quite rare. Most of the Operas I know of are in Italian or German. And Opera doesn't answer... Opera never answers. It just puts

RE: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread JSheble
I'm not suer I count since I only tinker with Linux from time to time, but when and if I ever run in X, I use Gnome. It's way faster (at least on my machine it is) and I like the way it looks and behaves better than KDE... Am I the only one on the list who uses Gnome? It looks like everyone

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Jose Mirles
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 19:15, Dave Sherman wrote: On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 06:55, Walter Logeman wrote: I have evolution open in KDE. However i have a problem. on my 1600 x 1200 screen all the gnome aps fonts are too small and i cant change them. It seems they are set in another

[newbie] Need help on Cisco806

2002-02-05 Thread Tuan Tran
Hi all, I just bought a Cisco806 router. This is education price (about 50% off) so I can not get any support from Cisco. Now, I have Cisco IOS Firewall Features Set software which also available for free download. I don't know how install this software on this router. Do I MUST use console port

Re: [newbie] how to change property: default user login without password

2002-02-05 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 19:08:50 -0500 Ravi Malghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: My linux installation logs in with a specific user without prompting for a password. How do I change this so that it will ask for a username password? Thanks Ravi fire up mandrake control

Re: [newbie] Setting Up Bastille

2002-02-05 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
while on the topic of Bastille, are there any documentation that i can read on before plunging on to the configuration of Bastille? i have been to the page and i have not found any manual, in any form, which can provide some information on what to expect before configuring the firewall.

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On 05 Feb 2002 18:15:02 -0600 Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: snip Am I the only one on the list who uses Gnome? It looks like everyone responding to this thread is running KDE. Personally, I have found that Gnome (with the Sawfish WM) is far more configurable,

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread shanon loveridge
--- Jose Mirles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2002 19:15, Dave Sherman wrote: On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 06:55, Walter Logeman wrote: I have evolution open in KDE. However i have a problem. on my 1600 x 1200 screen all the gnome aps fonts are too small and i cant

[newbie] fstab problem

2002-02-05 Thread Greg Smith
I have successfully configured the fstab file to mount the vfat partitions that are elswhere on the hard drive, but I can't get the ntfs partition to mount at boot. Below are the lines I am using in fstab to mount the partitions on boot. The vfat partitions mount automatically, but the ntfs

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