Re: [newbie-it] Portatile: scelta

2002-03-07 Thread Luigi De Pascale
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Stefano Sebastiani wrote: Dopo mesi e mesi di attesa ho deciso: Mi faccio il portatile. Si ma quale? Chi di voi mi indica un portatile linux like? Meglio se intel free (AMD!), con un modem che funzi ecc. ecc. Se poi si trovasse in vendita da CHL sarei felicissimo.

[newbie-it] CDROM

2002-03-07 Thread luigi pinna
salve a tutta la lista, un paio di settimane ho completato l'installazione dei front-end di xine 0.9.8 riuscendo a far finalmente funzionare il programma. Il problema è nato nel periodo successivo dato che improvvisamente linux ha cominciato a rifiutarsi di montare i cdrom; prima il

Re: [newbie-it] Portatile: scelta

2002-03-07 Thread Andrea Celli
Corrado wrote: . scaldano meno; comunque la Compaq so offrire sia portatili basati su AMD che con Linux preinstallato, credo che anche IBM venda portatili con Linux preinstallato. ciao, Andrea

[newbie-it] scanner parallelo

2002-03-07 Thread luigi pinna
Salve ancora a tutti altro quesito: qualcuno di voi ha installato (funzionante) uno scanner parallelo? Io ho un Canon FB630 che è supportato di sane 1.0.7 ma neccessita di librerie (mi sembra libieii1284) che gli permettano di far funzionare la porta parallela. Io le ho installate ma SANE

[newbie-it] Configurazione e Compilazione Kernel

2002-03-07 Thread Stefano Lena
Ciao, mi sto avventurando nella ricompilazione del kernel con MDK8.1 2.4.8-26. Seguendo un po' la list e un po' linux pratico penso di aver completato una configurazione se non proprio snella almeno senza un bel pacco di codice inutile. Dopo aver preso le dovute precauzioni ( salvataggio dei

[newbie-it] gcc

2002-03-07 Thread Tommaso Leddi
Sto facendo delle prove di compilazione usando gcc. Ho un sorgente t.c che è brevemente così: - /* prova */ #include math.h #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { printf( %f /n, sqrt( 33 ) );

Re: [newbie-it] gcc

2002-03-07 Thread Stefano Salari
--- Tommaso Leddi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Sto facendo delle prove di compilazione usando gcc. Ho un sorgente t.c che è brevemente così: - /* prova */ #include math.h #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h int main(int argc, char

R: [newbie-it] winmodem lucent arm

2002-03-07 Thread gian
Ciao Anche a me non me lo vede, speriamo che qualcuno provveda a far si che lo riconosca. Per quanto riguarda la scheda video linux me la vede come una intel corporation 82440MX AC'97. windows me la vede come una nomagic magicgraph128xd. Se riesci a far funzionare il modem ti prego dimmelo.

[newbie-it] La connessione mi cade dopo 20 Min

2002-03-07 Thread nicola
Sono un paio di giorni che ho un piccolo inconveniente, ho installato senza errori MDK8.1 ma la connessione a Libero cade dopo 20 min, può dipendere dalla stringa di inizializzazione del modem? Prima non avevo nessun problema, ma ora mi capita che il modem non si inizializzi, nel senso che non

[newbie-it] C6 o non C6

2002-03-07 Thread Claudio Duchi
esiste un clone di C6 il programma usato da tin per le chat? e se si dove trovarlo? ciao Claudio

Re: [newbie-it] L'audio non si sente !!!

2002-03-07 Thread fabrizio
Alle 02:17, lunedì 4 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Alle 00:13, venerdì 1 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Alle 11:06, venerdì 1 marzo 2002, hai scritto: PERCHE NON SUONA ?? Ciao Prova a vedere se il deamon alsa è in funzione; o se il livello del volume di Kmix è a zero; o se non

Re: [newbie] Problems with Harddrak

2002-03-07 Thread Onur Kucuk
CALdS Hello all !!! CALdS I install the Mandrake 8.1, in a Pentium III with a motherboard of Asus. CALdS After I try run the harddrak, but the computer stop run and I have of CALdS initialize again. CALdS Don't appear anyone error message simply, it stop. CALdS

[newbie] Linux Unix Question

2002-03-07 Thread Paul Kraus
How do you know what /dev/device is your tape drive for using tar? Linux how do you create as script that will issue a command such as mount that normally only superuser can use? I want to me able to mount and dismount network resources without having to switch to SU. The mnt directorys already

Re: [newbie] Firewall setup

2002-03-07 Thread Dr Joe Brand
iptables and Bastille are installed, but drakconf still can't find them. I've removed them and reinstalled them to no avail. I think there is a problem with drakconf and the wizards it uses. When I start drakconf the following message apears in the shell window Subroutine _ redefined at

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:04:55 +0800 (WST) Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: Get MASSIVE cooling into that system ASAP If you want to OC an Athy. I kid not... Have at least 3 - 4 80mm Fans going in your PC. No joke, otherwise you do risk

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-07 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Thu, 07 Mar 2002, Ashley Reynolds wrote: %_On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: Get MASSIVE cooling into that system ASAP If you want to OC an Athy. I kid not... Have at least 3 - 4 80mm Fans going in your PC. No joke, otherwise you do risk frying the CPU. The heat issues

Re: [newbie] installing rpms

2002-03-07 Thread Heather Reed
- Original Message - From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] installing rpms Heather, No thickness or slowness is evident. Your willingness to ask simple questions is I am sure appreciated by

Re: [newbie] virus scanners (again)

2002-03-07 Thread Dan LaBine
Todd; I'm using Mcafee on a Linux file server for 65 staff members, and it's running fine. You have to run it from a command line, but other than that, it does a great job. Lanman On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 22:35, Todd Slater wrote: I know there was a recent discussion of virus scanners, and how

Re: [newbie] Linux Unix Question

2002-03-07 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 19:20, Paul Kraus wrote: Linux how do you create as script that will issue a command such as mount that normally only superuser can use? I want to me able to mount and dismount network resources without having to switch to SU. The mnt directorys already contain the

Re: [newbie] installing rpms

2002-03-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:45:49 - Heather Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] installing rpms Heather, No thickness or slowness

Re: [newbie] installing rpms

2002-03-07 Thread Damian Gatabria
-- Mensaje reenviado -- Subject: Re: [newbie] installing rpms Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:57:46 -0300 From: Carlos Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] my home drectory and then in a console do the following: rpm -ivh name-of-app.rpm The ivh means: Install

Re: [newbie] star office and jre

2002-03-07 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 10:28 pm, you wrote: sorry for asking a dumb question? 1) where is the archives? 2) and shouldn't there be a link in the list signiture? As I know this question must have been asked hundreds of times... I have installed the IBM jre it (the loader) is at

[newbie] video conferencing

2002-03-07 Thread Paul Rodríguez
What programs are people using (or know about) for video-conferencing? I am setting up Mandrake computers for my whole family and would like to set up some video-conferencing for us. I need an easy and convenient way to set up a video-conferencing connection with Linux and non-unix users.

[newbie] Konqueror 2.2.1 Javascript problems

2002-03-07 Thread Mike Cochrane (MC)
I'm using the Konqueror web browser from the Mandrake 8.1 installation (KDE 2.2.1) and have several sites on the WWW that won't work when the Javascript option in Konqueror is on. One of those is my bank from which I do my on-line bill paying. Netscape works OK on those sites but I'd like to

[newbie] Text Entry Boxes with GTK Themes

2002-03-07 Thread BelCollan2
Hello, I've been playing about with themes for gtk. I seem to be having trouble with the darker themes that have light colored text. In the gnome configuration tool, under themes the text entry box always stays white, so when a light colored text is set, you cannot see it. This is the case

Re: [newbie] Touchpad Utilities Needed

2002-03-07 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 07 March 2002 12:02 am, you wrote: I am very pleased to have Mdk 8.1 running on my Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop. 8.1 detected my touchpad mouse without a hitch in installation, for which I was greatful. The USB external mouse works great too. Is there going to be a decent touchpad

RE: [newbie] Konqueror 2.2.1 Javascript problems

2002-03-07 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Konqueror 2.2.1 Javascript problems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Cochrane (MC) Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Konqueror 2.2.1 Javascript problems I'm

Re: [newbie] Network card configuration

2002-03-07 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Frans Ketelaars wrote: The first thing I would check is if HardDrake recognizes your NIC. It should It is detected under the Mandrake Control Centre (MCC) correctly. Next step? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] How to Mount NTFS Partition

2002-03-07 Thread John Richard Smith
OK, I've read how to mount Vfat partitions, and accomplished it, but how do you mount NTFS partitions in linux. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Mandrake memory capacity

2002-03-07 Thread Bryce_Johnson
Does anyone know what the limit is for Mandrake's memory capacity. I installed Mandrake 8.1 with 2GB of RAM, were doing a lot of compiling here and it will only recognize 1GB! I was just curious on whether or not it would utilize that other 1GB of RAM. Bryce Johnson (RC)2 Technologies Group

Re: [newbie] Mandrake memory capacity

2002-03-07 Thread Hamster
I may be wrong about this, but I think its possible to compile support for that much ram into the kernel, but its not done by default. Does anyone know what the limit is for Mandrake's memory capacity. I installed Mandrake 8.1 with 2GB of RAM, were doing a lot of compiling here and it will

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 01:34 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: This thing is running quite well and seems real snappy running X Now I want to know about fine-tunning it. What are people using for overclocking? I've got a 1.4 Tbird runnin at 1.55 on a Soyo k7vta pro, almost a year now.

[newbie] agbrowser simple question

2002-03-07 Thread paolo brusasco
hallo. does anyone use agbrowser? I have tried to use it from distribution mdk 8.1 and also the newest version downloaded, but both don't start agsatellite (if not running), and say agsatellite not running when agsatellite is running in a console. the tips I found say that: I should

Re: [newbie] Network card configuration

2002-03-07 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Thu, 07 Mar 2002 14:20:05 +0200 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frans Ketelaars wrote: The first thing I would check is if HardDrake recognizes your NIC. It should It is detected under the Mandrake Control Centre (MCC) correctly. Next step? Have you run the

Re: [newbie] installing rpms

2002-03-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Heather Reed wrote: - Original Message - From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] installing rpms Heather, No thickness or slowness is evident. Your willingness to ask simple

Re: [newbie] Mandrake memory capacity

2002-03-07 Thread Michael
I remember something about 900MB being the limit unless you have the Enterprise edition of the kernal. It doesn't get upset it just ignores any memory past that. The advice was being given to skinky a frequent poster. Perhaps he (or others) can help. Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does

Re: [newbie] Mandrake memory capacity

2002-03-07 Thread LtCdData
On Thursday 07 March 2002 20:27, you wrote: ive had 1 gig of ram ok was the ram added after the kernel had been installed ? i remember seing something about high mem kernel in the boot log file but it wasnt there after i reinstalled the kernel while the high ram was in place I remember

Re: [newbie] HSP56 Pctel modem OT- ET's favorite rant

2002-03-07 Thread g
et, they should only be used where they were built for... and same really goes for intel. ed tharp wrote: I don't figure it will get better, they just won't get any of MY money, or time. i have seen it 4 different times only a few months ago. don't get your hopes up it is getting any

[newbie] Re: How do I make the german [UNKNOWN] _ with a keystroke combination

2002-03-07 Thread JOHN HEMMER
Mel, You may not need to - please read the following: Euro-English: The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt ENGLISH as the preferred language for European communications, rather than GERMAN, which was the other possibility. As part of the

Re: [newbie] installing rpms

2002-03-07 Thread Jussi Aalto
Hi Heather There's a nice feature in Kpackage called 'Find Package'. On toolbar just hit the find button (or from keyboard Ctrl-F), fill in the name of the package and click 'Find'. If you don't remember the full name just type for example gai (no quotes) and it finds all packages whose name

Re: [newbie] How to change X resolution

2002-03-07 Thread Joan Tur
Es Jueves 07 Marzo 2002 01:11, Michael va escriure: Try Ctrl Alt + on the numeric keypad only and Ctrl Alt - on the keypad as well. No good for laptops sorry. Michael It works... in my Pc, not in my laptop... thanks anyway ! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain Yahoo AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395

[newbie] Boot up problems

2002-03-07 Thread Eric Estes -=RCN Mail=-
Installed Mandrake and manually created the partitions between two hard drives. Rebooted and now it does this: Loading linuxEBDA too big and it just hangs there. Maybe I made a partition too big or something. * * Mithrilhall's Linux* *

Re: [newbie] agbrowser simple question

2002-03-07 Thread paolo brusasco
Miark wrote: Here's the trick I use: don't waste your time with AgBrowser :-) If it included AG's Linux client, then it might be useful. But you must have the client anyway, so you may as well use a normal browser which gives you lots more freedom. Miark - Original Message - From:

[newbie] Mandrake8.1 / new computer / mouse cursor ceasure

2002-03-07 Thread John Richard Smith
I am sure this is not a new question. My Mouse cursor keeps on freezing , nothing , not ever Control-alt - delete, I have to crash the OS and reboot , going though fsck etc. I would welcome a few thoughts , where should I start looking. What is it a sign of. I don't lack memory. swap partiton

Re: [newbie] Linux Unix Question

2002-03-07 Thread Brian Parish
Paul, sudo may be the easiest answer for the mount issues. If it's not already installed, it's available on your LM distro. Just install it, grant yourself access to mount as root, then make an alias or script that precedes the mount command with sudo. HTH Brian On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 04:20,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake8.1 / new computer / mouse cursor ceasure

2002-03-07 Thread Brian Parish
John, First, let's try to get you out of the freeze without potentially creaming your system. Have a look at: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/arecov4.html This covers how to recover or at least crash your system with the lowest likelihood of doing damage in the process. I have a

Re: [newbie] Boot up problems

2002-03-07 Thread Brian Parish
Eric, This is most easily resolved by booting from your LM CD1, selecting the expert mode, choose upgrade, choose no packages to install, and let the installer do its stuff. You'll be up in 10 minutes. HTH Brian On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 12:15, Eric Estes -=RCN Mail=- wrote: Installed Mandrake

Re: [newbie] installing rpms

2002-03-07 Thread Brian Parish
Heather, Just to close the loop on this... I see from a later post that you got it installed. Congrats on that! I'm confused regarding the: what I got at the console was a list of the various commands that could be used by rpm Which command caused this? Presumably an rpm command I guess,

Re: [newbie] installing rpms, OT to Brian

2002-03-07 Thread Brian Parish
You are most welcome, and yes - support is a lot of what I do. Thanks for the feedback. Brian On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 14:16, FemmeFatale wrote: Thx much, your explanation was concise wonderfully phrased. :) Ever consider a job as a support person!? :P I know I appreciated the answer as it

[newbie] kdeinit: Fatal IO error.

2002-03-07 Thread Wei Wang
I was playing a CD and just quit from kmanager. Suddenly got this message in the bash: /kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children. [root@china software]# KLauncher: Exiting on signal 1 What does this mean and is it really fatal? Many thanks, Wei Want to

Re: [newbie] gaim - I did it - here's how :-))

2002-03-07 Thread ed tharp
might be nice to know what program or command line you were using to install the rpm? On Thursday 07 March 2002 11:06, you wrote: Well - after struggling for hours, and lots of help from the kind folks here, I got gaim reinstalled from the rpm. In case any other newbies are in the same

Re: [newbie] OT, I know this is a LM List, but...

2002-03-07 Thread Jussi Aalto
Hi FF I too have couple of partitions, thanks to fdisk (the Linux one). Great program, eats happily M$ partitions : ). 9 on hda, 6 on hdb. Red Hat 7.2 is on hdb and 'fdisk -l /dev/hdb' tells me: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hdb1 149

Re: [newbie] Mandrake memory capacity

2002-03-07 Thread Michael Viron
For 8.1, you need to install the enterprise version of the kernel, which is compiled for more than 1 GB of ram. Not sure what the max on it is...I think it was well over 2 GB, though. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://findaschool.org/~mviron At

[newbie] Sharing resources between linux mandrake machines and windows

2002-03-07 Thread Costin
Hi all! I have a bus topology network of 6 pc's on windows 98 and using winproxy (set up on NAT) on one of them to get them out on the internet. The network is working fine on windows platform but I want to evolve. For a few days I installed on two of them mandrake 8.1 with KDE. The server is

Re: [newbie] gtk/gnome themes

2002-03-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 07 Mar 2002 11:22:40 -0500, Paul Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to change the color of the title bar in the window that is selected. How do I do this? I am running Sawfish under Gnome. I looked at the theme I was using (found in

Re: [newbie] How to change X resolution

2002-03-07 Thread Roberto Armenteros
Two ways of doing it. The easiest one is to go to use drakconf type drakconf as a super user in console and go to the display section. Or go to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and edit the screen section, and choose the proper defaultColorDepth 16 or 24 and make sure that the subsection corresponding to

Re: [newbie] virus scanners (again)

2002-03-07 Thread Dimitris Ioannou
Ï/Ç Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 20:19:32 -0800shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: maybe i misunderstand. they are affraid linux will give a virus to novell? fire them, they are brainless mouse jockeys. the number of crossplatform virii is pretty low. like zero. if

[newbie] Key correspondent to characters ]}º

2002-03-07 Thread Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos
I use the Mandrake 8.1, and have problems for use the key correspondent to characters ]}º. Somebody know a solution for this problem. T+ = Carlos Alberto L. dos Santos (TOCA) Eng. de Computação - Puc-Campinas(SP) - Brasil [EMAIL PROTECTED]