Re: [newbie-it] File Midi

2002-04-05 Thread Tommaso Leddi
Il 10:57, giovedì 4 aprile 2002, Sebastiano Cordiano scrisse: Mi sembrava di aver capito che non bisognava ricompilare il kernel, ma forse vuole avere lo stesso i sorgenti o almeno la struttura di directory. Ma i moduli dove sono? Sono spaesato, devo procurarmi i sorgenti del kernel che

Re: [newbie-it] ICQ

2002-04-05 Thread Sergio
In effetti purtroppo il Licq non funziona piu' bene da quando quelli dell'icq originale hanno cambiato le cose. Ora io uso con successo gnomeicq, che comunica perfettamente anche con icq2002a. On Thursday 07 March 2002 11:44, you wrote: Ho provato ad aggiornare LICQ alla 1.1 ma dopo aver

Re: [newbie-it] ICQ

2002-04-05 Thread Germano
Che versione hai di GnomeIcu? Io ho la 0.96.1 e continua a darmi problemi. Che sia dovuto comunque al Firewall? Ciao, Germano Il 10:56, venerdì 05 aprile 2002, Sergio hai scritto: In effetti purtroppo il Licq non funziona piu' bene da quando quelli dell'icq originale hanno cambiato le cose.

Re: [newbie-it] mp3

2002-04-05 Thread Andrea Celli
Brunini Alessandro wrote: Salve, qualcuno conosce un buon programma (Frontend) per la conversione da mp3 a wav? Ho scaricato adesso l'ultimo eroaster (forse e` anche sui CD di Mandrake) che scrive i CD convertendo al volo da mp3 a wav. Era quello che ti serviva? ciao, Andrea

[newbie-it] Cambiare moduli al volo.

2002-04-05 Thread Luigi De Pascale
Qualcuno sa come si fa a informare il sistema di un cambiamento nel modules.conf senza fare un reboot? Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini

Re: [newbie-it] Grave--Aspetto coferma e/o smentita

2002-04-05 Thread Luigi De Pascale
On 5 Apr 2002, Brunini Alessandro wrote: Ho installato StarOffice 5.2 sulla nuova MDK 8.2 Ebbene si sta ripresentando il problema che era della MDK 8.0 e che era scomparso nella 8.1. Di cosa sto parlando? Dei caratteri che sembrano mangiati dalle tarme... Qualcuno può confermare e/o

Re: [newbie-it] File Midi

2002-04-05 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:28:58 +0200 Tommaso Leddi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ho trovato questi pacchetti installati: $ rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-2.4.8-26mdk kernel-headers-2.4.8-26mdk kernel-doc-2.4.8-26mdk Purtroppo, (confermatemi) i sorgenti non fanno parte dei miei 3 dischi della

Re: [newbie-it] Grave--Aspetto coferma e/o smentita

2002-04-05 Thread Luca
Salve alla lista. Ho installato StarOffice 5.2 sulla nuova MDK 8.2 Ebbene si sta ripresentando il problema che era della MDK 8.0 e che era scomparso nella 8.1. Di cosa sto parlando? Dei caratteri che sembrano mangiati dalle tarme... Qualcuno può confermare e/o smentire? Grazie. Un saluto.

Re: [newbie-it] Grave--Aspetto coferma e/o smentita

2002-04-05 Thread Brunini Alessandro
Il ven, 2002-04-05 alle 15:04, Luigi De Pascale ha scritto: Smentirei le basi: io non ho avuto il problema ne nella 8.0 ne nella 8.1. Luigi Bè... ne parlavano anche alla Mandrake ai tempi della 8.0... Cmq a quanto pare il problema sembra essere mio :(( Qualcunoi sa dirmi come mai,

R: R: [newbie-it] MDK 8.2, dove?

2002-04-05 Thread Di Fresco Marco
Senti anche il LUG piu` vicino a te. Scusa, cos'è un LUG? Linux User Group http://www.linux.it/LUG/ vedi il telug(Teramo) anche se e` lontano mi sembra si fossero organizzati per spedire CD (?) Gli darò un'occhiata! Grazie. Di Fresco Marco

R: [newbie-it] [REPOST2] [LUNGA e 1/2 OT] Lettere drive in Win dopo installazione linux

2002-04-05 Thread Di Fresco Marco
Nel pannello di controllo sotto la voce Sistema ho trovato il modo di assergnare la lettera ai drive, ma al ravvio non cambiava niente. non c'e` anche un'opzione memorizza/rendi permanente/... ? C'è la voce Applica, ma quando la clicco (cliccavo) mi chiedeva di raviare il PC, ma non

Re: [newbie-it] Sorgenti Linux

2002-04-05 Thread Massimiliano Violante [FREEMAIL]
x Andrea Celli, grazie del consiglio e della disponibilità.. Vengo spesso a Roma ma non so neanche il CNR dove sia Aspetterò la versione 8.2.. A proposito... appena sai che è stata allegata a qualche rivista fammelo sapere.. Saluti Massimiliano --- dovrebbero

Re: R: R: [newbie-it] MDK 8.2, dove?

2002-04-05 Thread Mauro Scacco
At 20.56 05/04/2002 +0200, you wrote: Senti anche il LUG piu` vicino a te. Scusa, cos'è un LUG? Linux User Group http://www.linux.it/LUG/ vedi il telug(Teramo) anche se e` lontano mi sembra si fossero organizzati per spedire CD (?) Gli darò un'occhiata! Grazie. Di

Re: [newbie-it] MDK 8.2, dove?

2002-04-05 Thread Pollo
Se non hai un buon collegamento e hai fretta di averla, puoi cercare tra i vecchi messaggi di it.comp.os.linux.annunci. C'e` parecchia gente che spedisce a casa, per un prezzo ragionevole, i cd scaricati delle varie distro. Se ne trovi uno della tua citta`, risparmi anche sulle spese

Re: [newbie-it] Grave--Aspetto coferma e/o smentita

2002-04-05 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 14:54, venerdì 5 aprile 2002 hai scritto: Salve alla lista. Ho installato StarOffice 5.2 sulla nuova MDK 8.2 Ebbene si sta ripresentando il problema che era della MDK 8.0 e che era scomparso nella 8.1. Di cosa sto parlando? Dei caratteri che sembrano mangiati dalle tarme...

[newbie-it] Variabili di ambiente?

2002-04-05 Thread Pollo
Mi piacerebbe sapere come linux gestisce le variabili di ambiente (penso che si chiamino così, correggetemi se sbaglio) tipo PATH, CLASSPATH ecc. Ho capito che per aggiungere directory dalla bash devo usare ad esempio export PATH=/home/pollo/bin, ma come faccio a togliere delle directory?

Re: [newbie-it] Variabili di ambiente?

2002-04-05 Thread ENx
Ciao Pollo, tutto ciò che riguarda le variabili d'ambiente è abbastanza lungo da spiegare e non credo di esserne all'altezza, ma ti dirò quello che so. Le variabili di ambiente servono per memorizzare dei valori che potranno servire al sistema e ai programmi. Per esempio $PATH contiene tutte le

Re: [newbie-it] Variabili di ambiente?

2002-04-05 Thread LukenShiro
Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 23:49, venerdì 5 aprile 2002, Voi, Notabile Pollo, avete dipinto: Ho capito che per aggiungere directory dalla bash devo usare ad esempio export PATH=/home/pollo/bin, ma come faccio a togliere delle directory? Inoltre, le directory che aggiungo manualmente devo

[newbie] samba

2002-04-05 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hi all, having a small problem with samba. when trying to access my winxp box from lm8.2 server (using gomba) I get the following error... Error returning list: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED this box is the only one that is setup to fully log on to the domain controller, and is the only one

[newbie] KDE 3 test

2002-04-05 Thread falcaraz
I followed the civileme way (message in newbie list): First of all I haven't enought spaces in my /opt directory, so I did: mv /opt /usr/share/opt and then ln -s /usr/share/opt /opt. then cd /directory with the kde3 packages, in my case /disk/kde3 urpmi unixODBC (civileme wrotte unixodbc but

Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper (cdparanoia)

2002-04-05 Thread Jesper Nyholm Jensen
Hi, I haven't installed cdparanoia yet, but just reading about it, it doen't seem like it encodes the wav-files in the mp3-format, but just outputs the wav-files? Is this wrong? If not cdparanoia does not live up to my criteria (input cd, output mp3s), and I would like a reference to an

Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper (cdparanoia)

2002-04-05 Thread Jesper Nyholm Jensen
Hi, I got the answer elsewhere: use cdparanoia to rip the cd, use Lame to encode. Thanx anyway. -- Jesper Nyholm Jensen On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, I haven't installed cdparanoia yet, but just reading about it, it doen't seem like it encodes the wav-files in the

Re: [newbie] Dialin in Kppp

2002-04-05 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 09:16:16 +0200 Gerard van Winssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled inquisitively: Next question is; when dialling in, there must be a '0' dialled first to get on the external phone network followed by the rest of the phonenumber of the ISP. How do I configure this in Kppp??

[newbie] Unavailable Space on dos-format floppies

2002-04-05 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi Y'all Another dumb newbie question. I have this here floppy disk formatted for dos, with an entire website on it. According to readings under both Windows and Linux it is 41% full. Anyway in my tireless quest to do all my work in Linux and rid my box of Windoze forever, I did some work

Re: [newbie] Java in Mandrake 8.1

2002-04-05 Thread Walter Logeman
tek1, On Sat, 06 Apr 2002 00:31, in Re: [newbie] Java in Mandrake 8.1, you wrote: before installing sun's jdk, you might want to uninstall kaffe via mandrake's software installer.  you might have to tell konqueror and some other programs where sun' jdk is though after installing it...

Re: [newbie] GPRS on linux

2002-04-05 Thread Gerard van Winssen
Op woensdag 3 april 2002 01:14, schreef u: I am trying to do this on a timeport 250 You need to use the infra red link in my case to my laptop running 8.1 Try infra red howto and mobilix.org I havent cracked it yet. But once you have the ir link working the kppp part should be

RE: [newbie] Dialin in Kppp

2002-04-05 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Dialin in Kppp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerard van Winssen Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 1:16 AM To: Mandrake-Newbie Subject: [newbie] Dialin in Kppp Hi, I installed MDK 8.2 on a compter of a bussiness

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Mandrake8.2/X-CD-Roast Configuration Problem

2002-04-05 Thread John Richard Smith
On Thursday 04 April 2002 19:23, you wrote: John Google says This permission warning and the following set-uid bit warnings can be safely ignored, if you want to run X-CD-Roast as root only. ...and... So do as root something like that: (and read the Manual) chown root:cdwrite

Re: [newbie] Removal from Mandrake Mail List

2002-04-05 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Skhumbuzo Mhlongo wrote: Hi All I need to be deleted from mandrake list please HELP John Have you tried throwing away your PC? ** This email and any files transmitted with it

Re: [newbie] divx again ...

2002-04-05 Thread Roger Sherman
Have you tried Xine? On 4 Apr 2002, - addy [ISO-8859-1] däudsch - wrote: good eve to all of you a divx content question again i have mplayer , correctly installed . i can play mpeg 1/2 and normal avis w/o probs ... everything is working but i can't play divx ... i downloaded

Re: [newbie] Unavailable Space on dos-format floppies

2002-04-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:20:33 +0100, Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Y'all Another dumb newbie question. I have this here floppy disk formatted for dos, with an entire website on it. According to readings under both Windows and Linux it is 41% full. Anyway in my tireless

Re: [newbie] KDE3.0

2002-04-05 Thread Roger Sherman
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: *laughs* Damian flaked on me, so Civilme to the Bat-Rescue! Into the KDE-Mobile my linux comrades! Now thats *got* to be a major blow to the ego, eh, Damian? ;-) -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com

[newbie] I just found the strangest thing...

2002-04-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I loaded gdict (I would assume that this would work with kdict as well), which is set to use the server dict.org on port 2628. I then entered the word defenestration (without the quotes). Here's what I got: defenestration n. mythically from a traditional Czech assasination method, via SF

Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper

2002-04-05 Thread Roger Sherman
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, What's a good MP3-ripper? One that just takes a cd as input and outputs the MP3s. -- Jesper Nyholm Jensen My personal favorite is a command line ripper that will rip the CD, query CDDB, do all the name change, etc, and convert it to

RE: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing...

2002-04-05 Thread Tony S. Sykes
I can comment on Defenestrate, and that is correct to throw something out of a window, as for the other, looks like artistic license. Tony. -Original Message- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 April 2002 14:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] I just

Re: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing...

2002-04-05 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi Sridhar, I loaded gdict (I would assume that this would work with kdict as well), which is set to use the server dict.org on port 2628. I then entered the word defenestration (without the quotes). Here's what I got: defenestration n. mythically from a traditional Czech

Re: [newbie] divx again ...

2002-04-05 Thread - addy däudsch -
still doesn't work , did as i am told cvs the libavcodec ... configure mplayer, and the configure file said that libavcodec is enabled now ... make and make install but still doesn't work ... some avi's goes even some divx but most of them make mplayer crash an my console freeze ... ara Xine

Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper (cdparanoia)

2002-04-05 Thread Tom
On Friday 05 April 2002 05:24 am, Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, I got the answer elsewhere: use cdparanoia to rip the cd, use Lame to encode. Thanx anyway. http://plf.zarb.org/rpm/8.2/i586/notlame-3.91-3plf.i586.rpm it's called 'notlame' for quasi legal reasons. There's notlame for

Re: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing...

2002-04-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:30:50 +0200, Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Sridhar, I loaded gdict (I would assume that this would work with kdict as well), which is set to use the server dict.org on port 2628. I then entered the worddefenestration (without the quotes). Here's what I

Re: [newbie] ICQ linux

2002-04-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:07:06 +0200, Baka Attila Tamás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I had a problem with all icq clients eversince I used Linux. They seem to work, BUT most of the messeges do not arrive to me and most of what I send do not arrive to the recipents. I have no firewall and

Re: [newbie] ICQ linux

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 12:25, Sridhar Dhanapalan escribió: On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:07:06 +0200, Baka Attila Tamás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I had a problem with all icq clients eversince I used Linux. They seem to work, BUT most of the messeges do not arrive to me and most of

Re: [newbie] KDE3.0

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 11:11, Roger Sherman escribió: On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: *laughs* Damian flaked on me, so Civilme to the Bat-Rescue! Into the KDE-Mobile my linux comrades! Now thats *got* to be a major blow to the ego, eh, Damian? ;-) ;oP anyway it wasn't my

[newbie] 8.2 auto-login

2002-04-05 Thread Paul Rodríguez
How do I configure my box to auto-login in 8.2? Right now it auto-logs-in to generic X, I want it t o get into Gnome. - Paul R _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Removal from Mandrake Mail List

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 11:03, Roger Sherman escribió: On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Skhumbuzo Mhlongo wrote: Hi All I need to be deleted from mandrake list please HELP John Have you tried throwing away your PC? ..or changing your email adress! ;o) .. or even

Re: [newbie] KDE3.0

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 14:08, Damian escribió: El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 11:11, Roger Sherman escribió: On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: *laughs* Damian flaked on me, so Civilme to the Bat-Rescue! Into the KDE-Mobile my linux comrades! Now thats *got* to be a major blow

[newbie] USB TV BOX (MPEG USB TV Station).

2002-04-05 Thread Tomek Nowinski
Hi, Just wanted to ask if somebody has a KWORLD MPEG USB TV Station. Does it work in Linux?How can I configure it?? Thanks for help. Greetings, Tomek Tego nie znajdziesz w zadnym sklepie! [ http://oferty.onet.pl ]

Re: [newbie] Sound problems with Dell OptiPlex GX1

2002-04-05 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On 03 Apr 2002 13:40:03 -0800 James A. Peltier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Mandrake 8.2 yesterday hoping that it would properly detect and configure my CS4232 based sound card. When this didn't happen my heart sank and I began to cry Why GOD!!!? Why doesn't it work!!? After

Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?

2002-04-05 Thread john rigby
Hello Ed, Thanks for the response, but afraid I can't follow it. - Original Message - From: ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical? I have now even bought a Jetway moboard

Re: [newbie] Re: Michaels Minutes (WAY OT)

2002-04-05 Thread john rigby
Ha folks, Well, the awful truth is that if it simply plugs in and works.. Years ago my own Technicians used to go into major installations and avoid the what's the password routine by looking on the side of the monitor or the deskpad, first. Amazing how many

Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?

2002-04-05 Thread john rigby
Hi Civileme, Thanks for the info. However, you didn't answer some of the points such as re getting FROM text to GUI via the command line. Is there a way? Couple of others I've prefaced with if you wouldn't mind. 2. As I paid for the presentation of 1000's of programs with the

[newbie] questions

2002-04-05 Thread Oder
I have recently installed MDK 8.2 on my toshiba satellite 1800-s208 - intel celeron 1.1GHz with DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Installation went smoothly but I still have some problems: when I run xine, it appears for a second and then vanishes; in the desktop I have 2 icons of floppy - Floppy and Floppy2 -

Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?

2002-04-05 Thread Bob Read
PMFJI late, but have you tried typing startx from the command line? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Likely dumb questions...but

2002-04-05 Thread Charlie
Howdy; I now have MD 8.2 (single boot, no other OS) on this old clunker and it seems everything works... well mostly.. sort of. Specs: ABit BX6 Rev.2 PIII 500 MHz 512 MB SDRAM Riva TNT 16 MB Soundblaster Live! Value Digital (2) Maxtor HDD 13 GB (original) and 60 GB Liteon 40X

[newbie] courier-imap pop3d says AUTHFAILURE

2002-04-05 Thread Robin
Every time I try to start courier-imap's pop3, I get a message AUTHFAILURE, and that was all. I did a search on their FAQ, I can only come up with it's a authentication problem. Can anyone give a me clue? Thanks Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Where are the old versions?

2002-04-05 Thread Bruce Zink
Hey; I'm having trouble getting 8.2 to install on my machine. I'd like to try 8.0 or 8.1, but the Mandrake download site only points to 8.2, 7.1, and 8.0 for PPC. Where do I find the others? = - No, I'm a good man. I'm just not a very good wizard.

[newbie] very scary stuff. Your rights ARE vanishing - being assasinated...

2002-04-05 Thread john rigby
Hello folks, This is not off-topic! This is a probable reason that we are all having more and more email problems. One of my fears about the development of the fabulous tool we call the Internet is the prediction made by Kilneth nearly a decade ago: Without positive loop feedback it can

[newbie] Clearly missing something

2002-04-05 Thread Bruce Zink
I recently acquired the source code for an Intel NIC card driver (from an Intel web site). The documentation tells me to use make install to compile/install the driver. Unfortunately, that command gives me the message bash: make not found or something like that. Likewise, man make

Re: [newbie] Where are the old versions?

2002-04-05 Thread Charlie
Bruce Zink's message on Friday 05 April 2002 02:15 pm, stated: Hey; I'm having trouble getting 8.2 to install on my machine. I'd like to try 8.0 or 8.1, but the Mandrake download site only points to 8.2, 7.1, and 8.0 for PPC. Where do I find the others? = - No, I'm a good

Re: [newbie] Lost messages on VC12 - RESOLVED

2002-04-05 Thread FemmeFatale
Michael wrote: Thanks Jim, i wanted to know how that worked. Thanks for the update. Paying attention Femme? Jim Fazio wrote: List, Just in case anyone else is interested. My problem stemmed from the fact that I must have chosen LOW as my security level, instead of

[newbie] Video editing using Linux

2002-04-05 Thread Jim Dawson
I want to do some video editing, e.g. record the hour long home videos onto hard drive and cut the 58 or so minutes of boring footage out, then recording it back to videotape. I don't need anything too fancy, just basic edits and perhaps some simple character generator capability. I assume I

Re: [newbie] Instant monitor stanby button

2002-04-05 Thread FemmeFatale
Baka Attila Tamás wrote: Hi! I'd like to make an instant monitor standby button for my (KDE) desktop. I know that there is lock, but I'd like to use some buttons like 'b' for changing music in xmms. HOW? Baka Attila Tamás This is what I found in a small web surf on Mandrakes site

[newbie] KDE3 sound server problem

2002-04-05 Thread Linux Maniac
Hi! I installed kde3 from rpm. When it boots, it says that it can't start the sound server (I guess arts). I think oss works fine as mplayer and xmms works fine. What can be done? BAT -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Likely dumb questions...but

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
Second silliness that I'm sure is something simple: I can read and write to preformatted floppies but can't get a CD to open in either drive. Even as 'su' You do not have enough permissions to... What have I messed up? Hints would be greatly appreciated. TIA Charlie no idea

[OT] Re: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing...

2002-04-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 05 April 2002 17:30, Roman Korcek wrote: a few more times. The term itself is probably derived from the German word Fenster (window). Probably from Latin fenestra - same idea. I vaguely remember the Defenestration of Prague, when the Czechs applied their traditional vote of no

Re: [newbie] Where are the old versions?

2002-04-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Saturday 06 April 2002 00:15, Bruce Zink wrote: Hey; I'm having trouble getting 8.2 to install on my machine. I'd like to try 8.0 or 8.1, but the Mandrake download site only points to 8.2, 7.1, and 8.0 for PPC. Where do I find the others? Check out the mirror sites. Our local one

Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper--Install error

2002-04-05 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 09:19:11 -0500 (EST) Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My personal favorite is a command line ripper that will rip the CD, query CDDB, do all the name change, etc, and convert it to either .mp3 or .ogg. It's called Rip, and you can get it from rip.sourceforge.net. I

Re: [newbie] KDE3 sound server problem

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 19:39, Linux Maniac escribió: Hi! I installed kde3 from rpm. When it boots, it says that it can't start the sound server (I guess arts). I think oss works fine as mplayer and xmms works fine. What can be done? BAT just try disabling aRts, you probably just

Re: [newbie] 8.2 auto-login

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 13:11, Paul Rodríguez escribió: How do I configure my box to auto-login in 8.2? Right now it auto-logs-in to generic X, I want it t o get into Gnome. - Paul R well, if you log out, it gets to the graphical login manager, right? if so, you can select Gnome from

Re: [newbie] How do I install the Sources?

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 12:20, Alejandro Fernandez escribió: Hi! I don't know why, but the kernel sources are not installed in my machine. I installed everyhing from scratch selecting developent instalation but the sources are not there. Which package includes the sources? Can I install

Re: [newbie] KDE3.0

2002-04-05 Thread Roger Sherman
On 4 Apr 2002, tester wrote: Now do these urpmi unixodbc (and from the reply install every match with urpmi Let me make sure I understand...I type the above, and it shows me this: The following packages contain unixodbc: libunixODBC2-devel unixODBC-gui-qu unixODBC unixODBC-gui-gtk

Re: [newbie] problems with 8.2

2002-04-05 Thread Blood Slap
I didn't see that v42 there, but here's my config files are attached. - Original Message - From: Blood Slap [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 7:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] problems with 8.2 It is not mobility or pro, it's just an ATI Expert 2000

Re: [newbie] questions

2002-04-05 Thread Robin
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 11:07, Oder wrote: I have recently installed MDK 8.2 on my toshiba satellite 1800-s208 - intel celeron 1.1GHz with DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Installation went smoothly but I still have some problems: when I run xine, it appears for a second and then vanishes; try run it from

Re: [newbie] Clearly missing something

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 18:21, Bruce Zink escribió: I recently acquired the source code for an Intel NIC card driver (from an Intel web site). The documentation tells me to use make install to compile/install the driver. Unfortunately, that command gives me the message bash:

Re: [newbie] questions

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 16:07, Oder escribió: I have recently installed MDK 8.2 on my toshiba satellite 1800-s208 - intel celeron 1.1GHz with DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Installation went smoothly but I still have some problems: when I run xine, it appears for a second and then vanishes; in the

Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?

2002-04-05 Thread john rigby
Hi Bob, Thanks. No! I assumed there *was* a way - but no amount of playing with Help possibilities came up with *that* destruction! Will go try on the other machine when I get a second. Cheers, John - Original Message - From: Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie] Likely dumb questions...but

2002-04-05 Thread Charlie
Damian's message on Friday 05 April 2002 04:24 pm, stated: no idea about your firewall, but this may be caused by supermount not mounting your cd's.. try inserting a cd in your drive and, in a terminal, type: mount /mnt/cdrom and see if you can check it then. HTH Damian

[OT] Re: [newbie] very scary stuff. Your rights ARE vanishing - being assasinated...

2002-04-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Saturday 06 April 2002 00:22, john rigby wrote: Hello folks, This is not off-topic! This is a probable reason that we are all having more and more email problems. Well strictly speaking it _is_ off topic. Off topic doesn't mean useless or completely irrelevant (obviously that shouldn't

Re: [newbie] Go back to 8.1???

2002-04-05 Thread Linus Drouhard
On Wednesday 03 April 2002 12:58 pm, you wrote: Tim Cruikshank wrote: On Tuesday 02 April 2002 23:17, you wrote: Hi all, I recently installed MD 8.2 on my computer. Many things went well, but I cannot run PrinterDrake or any followon installation from the CD's. Locks up everytime.

Re: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing...

2002-04-05 Thread Charlie
Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas's message on Friday 05 April 2002 03:41 pm, stated: On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Yep! I got the very same answer on kdict! For those like me to that use regurlaly dictionaries Beware.

Re: [newbie] Where are the old versions?

2002-04-05 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Friday 05 April 2002 07:47 pm, Robin Turner wrote: On Saturday 06 April 2002 00:15, Bruce Zink wrote: Hey; I'm having trouble getting 8.2 to install on my machine. I'd like to try 8.0 or 8.1, but the Mandrake download site only points to 8.2, 7.1, and 8.0 for PPC. Where do I

Re: [OT] Re: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing...

2002-04-05 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 05 April 2002 05:10 pm, Robin Turner wrote: On Friday 05 April 2002 17:30, Roman Korcek wrote: a few more times. The term itself is probably derived from the German word Fenster (window). Probably from Latin fenestra - same idea. I vaguely remember the Defenestration of

[newbie] Internet Time Limit

2002-04-05 Thread John Lynch
Hello, my exams have finished so I am now messing around with Linux. I pity you all. When I boot up Mandrake, the internet works fine for a set time, at which point it stops working completely. However this imposed time limit ONLY exists if I have booted up Windows XP than Linux, otherwise

Re: [newbie] KDE3.0

2002-04-05 Thread James Thomas
I actually just downloaded and installed KDE 3.0 and have been playing with it for a bit. Anyway, all I did was download all of the KDE 3.0 files for Mandrake 8.2 (there's a link from kde's main site). Then I (as root) cd'ed into the appropriate directory and just did: urpmi *.rpm and it

[newbie] ipchains and Mandrake

2002-04-05 Thread Payal Rathod
Hello all, Me and my friend have installed Mnadrake 8.0 3 times and all the times we found out that ipchains was not getting installed at all. 2nd and 3rd time anticipating this problem we were on lookout for ipchains package to be ticked. We install in expert mode with security level to medium

Re: [newbie] FIDO - The grandaddy of the Movement.......

2002-04-05 Thread dfox
A number of people expressed interest in the early days of Pre-net when FIDO happened. A wonderful example of what people can do together. Here is I didn't interact much with FIDO, but I remember that I almost was going to be a fido node once. I had gotten the software and was printing out

Re: [newbie] ipchains and Mandrake

2002-04-05 Thread Brian Parish
ipchains is the old stuff - iptables is used now. HTH Brian On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 12:45, Payal Rathod wrote: Hello all, Me and my friend have installed Mnadrake 8.0 3 times and all the times we found out that ipchains was not getting installed at all. 2nd and 3rd time anticipating this

Re: [newbie] Video editing using Linux

2002-04-05 Thread Carlos Arigos
El Vie 05 Abr 2002 19:30, escribió: I want to do some video editing, e.g. record the hour long home videos onto hard drive and cut the 58 or so minutes of boring footage out, then recording it back to videotape. I don't need anything too fancy, just basic edits and perhaps some simple

Re: [newbie] ipchains and Mandrake

2002-04-05 Thread jeff
unless i'm wrong, the new kernels don't have 'built-in' support for ipchains. which isn't to say you can't use ipchains with the new 2.4 kernels...but you'll probably need to build a new kernel with ipchains support or try loading ipchains as a module. and, i would recommend that you get

Re: [newbie] Unavailable Space on dos-format floppies

2002-04-05 Thread dfox
I have this here floppy disk formatted for dos, with an entire website on it. According to readings under both Windows and Linux it is 41% full. Hmm. The way you describe it there's probably two places where you're losing space: 1) ext2fs needs somewhat more overhead than FAT does 2) ext2fs

Re: [newbie] ipchains and Mandrake

2002-04-05 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Friday 05 April 2002 09:57 pm, Brian Parish wrote: ipchains is the old stuff - iptables is used now. does 8.0 have a 2.4 kernel, if not than ipchains is what he needs! -- Gerald Waugh : Registered Linux user # 255245 http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com Front Street Networks LLC - ph.

Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?

2002-04-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:39:03 +1000, john rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Ed, Thanks for the response, but afraid I can't follow it. - Original Message - From: ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Not why

Re: [newbie] ipchains and Mandrake

2002-04-05 Thread Payal Rathod
Hi, Thanks for the mails. But I can use ipchains properly with Mandrake 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2 without any kernel recompiling, then why not with 8.0? has anybody faced such a problem with 8.0? Thanks and bye. -Payal --- Gerald Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 April 2002 09:57 pm,

Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?

2002-04-05 Thread civileme
john rigby wrote: Hi Civileme, Thanks for the info. However, you didn't answer some of the points such as re getting FROM text to GUI via the command line. Is there a way? Couple of others I've prefaced with if you wouldn't mind. 2. As I paid for the presentation of 1000's of

Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.

2002-04-05 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
Somehow, it looks like that there may have been more issues than there was with LM 8.0 or 8.1. It might be a good idea to have a bug fix release before the boxed version comes out. If only to blunt possible smear campains that may come from Redmond. And besides, many complain that Linux

Re: [newbie] no subject

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
El jue, 04-04-2002 a las 19:43, Alberto escribió: Salve a tutti. Ho riscontrato dei gravi problemi con iptables sotto manndrake 8,2 realise. In sintesi dopo n'istallazione pulita partendo da disco formattato il servizio iptables non si avvia. Ho cercato tra i servizi attivi e non ci sta. Ho

Re: [newbie] Where are the old versions?

2002-04-05 Thread civileme
Bruce Zink wrote: Hey; I'm having trouble getting 8.2 to install on my machine. I'd like to try 8.0 or 8.1, but the Mandrake download site only points to 8.2, 7.1, and 8.0 for PPC. Where do I find the others? = - No, I'm a good man. I'm just not a very good wizard.

Re: [newbie] ftp problems in 8.2

2002-04-05 Thread Paul
On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 16:07:30 +0100 Jamie wrote: I found that i had to change the ftpd.conf file and change it to inetd instead of standalone mode.(one of the directives is set to 'standalone' change it to read 'inetd'). Also i found the proftpd and wuftpd don't like to live on the same

Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
El sáb, 06-04-2002 a las 03:46, Seedkum Aladeem escribió: Somehow, it looks like that there may have been more issues than there was with LM 8.0 or 8.1. It might be a good idea to have a bug fix release before the boxed version comes out. If only to blunt possible smear campains that may

Re: [newbie] questions

2002-04-05 Thread civileme
Robin wrote: On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 11:07, Oder wrote: I have recently installed MDK 8.2 on my toshiba satellite 1800-s208 - intel celeron 1.1GHz with DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Installation went smoothly but I still have some problems: when I run xine, it appears for a second and then vanishes; try