Re: [newbie-it] nome macchina

2002-04-11 Thread stefano bigotta
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 01:46:50 +0200 tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alle 23:58, mercoledì 10 aprile 2002, hai scritto: Come lo cambio il nome della macchina? linuxconf ti permette di cambiare il nome della macchina e tutte le impostazioni di rete in modo automatico ciao stefano

Re: [newbie-it] nome machina

2002-04-11 Thread LukenShiro
Un bel di', a molte leghe di distanza, il nobile tom detto' al suo fido scrivano codesta missiva: Come lo cambio il nome della macchina? hostname -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 * MDK 8.3-cooker - 2.4.18 puro

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[newbie-it] floppy e cd-rom...

2002-04-11 Thread Emiliano La Licata
At 23.05 10/04/2002 +0200, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 è accaduta una cosa assai strana, quando tento di aprire il floppy e il cd-rom il sistema mi dice accesso negato... Cosa può essere accaduto? ciao a tutti grazie

Re: [newbie-it] file audio .vqf

2002-04-11 Thread Luigi De Pascale
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, LukenShiro wrote: Un bel di', a molte leghe di distanza, il nobile Taschetta, M. - MXPCP detto' al suo fido scrivano codesta missiva: Ti prego, dimmi che hai un generatore automatico di queste introduzioni e che non le scrivi a mano ogni volta. Luigi -- Not all who

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Re: [newbie-it] file audio .vqf

2002-04-11 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 16:15, giovedì 11 aprile 2002 hai scritto: On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, LukenShiro wrote: Un bel di', a molte leghe di distanza, il nobile Taschetta, M. - MXPCP detto' al suo fido scrivano codesta missiva: Ti prego, dimmi che hai un generatore automatico di queste introduzioni e che non

[newbie-it] OT: cambio di indirizzo

2002-04-11 Thread Di Fresco Marco
Salve a tutti, la mia domanda non riguarda strettamente Linux, ma la mia iscrizione a questa lista. Al momento sono iscritto con un indirizzo Yahoo, ma siccome dal 24 aprile non potrò più scaricare la posta di questo indirizzo con il mio programma di posta elettronica (e con qualsiasi programma

[newbie-it] [REPOST] Suddivisione di Linux su + partizioni

2002-04-11 Thread Di Fresco Marco
Ri-invio questo messaggio che avevo provato a inviare con un'altro indirizzo (vedere mia e-mail con soggetto OT: cambio di indirizzo) e che non è mai arrivata! Ciao a tutti, provando a installare linux (nel tentativo del messaggio con i problemi delle lettere sotto Win), ho notato che oltre a

[newbie-it] Qualche informazione in più su floppy e cd-rom....

2002-04-11 Thread Emiliano La Licata
At 15.09 11/04/2002 +0200, you wrote: At 23.05 10/04/2002 +0200, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 è accaduta una cosa assai strana, quando tento di aprire il floppy e il cd-rom il sistema mi dice accesso negato... Cosa può essere accaduto? ciao a tutti grazie Lavoro

Re: [newbie-it] Epson Stylus Scan 2000

2002-04-11 Thread Massimiliano Violante [FREEMAIL]
Questo l'avevo già provato ma niente La parallela sembra morta - Original Message - From: ENx To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Epson Stylus Scan 2000 Su quale posrta hai collegato la

Re: [newbie-it] OT: cambio di indirizzo

2002-04-11 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 18:06, giovedì 11 aprile 2002 hai scritto: (...) Ho provato ad inserire il nuovo indirizzo sia tramite la pagina specifica del sito della Mandrake sia inviando un messaggio a [EMAIL PROTECTED] con nell'oggetto subscribe newbie-it (senza virgolette| Il messaggio l'ho spedito tramite

Re: [newbie-it] nome macchina

2002-04-11 Thread nicola
Alle 09:50, giovedì 11 aprile 2002, hai scritto: On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 01:46:50 +0200 tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alle 23:58, mercoledì 10 aprile 2002, hai scritto: Come lo cambio il nome della macchina? linuxconf ti permette di cambiare il nome della macchina e tutte le impostazioni di

[newbie-it] Konqueror

2002-04-11 Thread nicola
Buona Sera a Tutta La ML!!! Oggi ho una domanda facile, facile. Come si fa a rimuovere con konqueror il fatto che i link già visitati siano in un colore differente? Ho provato a cancellare semplicemente la cache ma non basta, qualcuno ha qualche suggerimento? Grazie Nicola

Re: [newbie-it] Konqueror

2002-04-11 Thread Luigi De Pascale
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, nicola wrote: Buona Sera a Tutta La ML!!! Oggi ho una domanda facile, facile. Come si fa a rimuovere con konqueror il fatto che i link già visitati siano in un colore differente? Ho provato a cancellare semplicemente la cache ma non basta, qualcuno ha qualche

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Re: [newbie-it] come entrero' in linux?

2002-04-11 Thread Paride Desimone
At 14.06 09/04/02 +0200, you wrote: Devo rasare l'hda dove c'è winz (tengo a precisare che winz non è per me ma per mia sorella;) una volta formattato anche grub come faro' a ri accedere a linux? avete qualche idea sul da farsi? tenete presente che il floppy mi si è bruciato!! e quindi

[newbie-it] programma??

2002-04-11 Thread tom
Ciao a tutti Prima che incominciassi ad adoperare il pinguino mi era parso di sentire che ci fossero dei programmi che permettessero di emulare l'ambiente dos sotto unix..avevo sentito bene? Vorrei utilizzare un programmino di chatt scritto per winz (che non ha corrispondente linux) La

[newbie] Drakconf detects wrong amount of video RAM

2002-04-11 Thread Mads Paulin
Hi, I just installed Mandrak 8.2. I have tried to change the resolution of the screen, but drakeconf detects a TNT2 card with 4 mb RAM. the card type is correct but the amount of ram should be 32. Also, it detects the card as a pci card. This hsould be agp. I am running XFree 4.2 Any

Re: [newbie] Login

2002-04-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 09 April 2002 11:26 pm, Brian York wrote: How do you keep users from showing up at the login screen for mandrake 8.2? Thanks Brian If you use kdm then as root open KDEControl Centre (kcontrol) KDEControl CentreSystemLoginManagerUsers either select UID threshold or else set

Re: [newbie] Drakconf detects wrong amount of video RAM

2002-04-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 11 April 2002 9:40 am, Mads Paulin wrote: Hi, I just installed Mandrak 8.2. I have tried to change the resolution of the screen, but drakeconf detects a TNT2 card with 4 mb RAM. the card type is correct but the amount of ram should be 32. Also, it detects the card as a pci

Re: [newbie] How to read and write to a Win XP partition

2002-04-11 Thread luca braglia
Thank you very much for all your reply, I think I will give a try to the Michael solution and create a FAT32 partition. Luca Michael Viron wrote: If it is a NTFS filesystem, the linux kernel only supports read / experimental write on NTFS 4.0. The NTFS which is used by Windows 2k / Win

Re: [newbie] Drakconf detects wrong amount of video RAM

2002-04-11 Thread Mads Paulin
I think that the detected amount of video RAM is used to detect which colordepths are available at a given screen resolution. My problem is that i want my monitor at a resolution of 1280x1024 at 24 bpp in approx. 75 Hz. I cant get all three things in linux although I can i Windows. Everytime i

RE: [newbie] problem with individualization

2002-04-11 Thread Baka Attila Tamás
Hi! I guess you changed the language in the KDE control center. (If not than stop reading) If you change in KDE it will change sttings for KDE only. Or if you changed elsewhere, try reinstalling (formatting / only, not /home) BAT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Re: X server won't start

2002-04-11 Thread Onur Kucuk
Thursday, April 11, 2002, 10:33:58 AM, you wrote: MV Hello, MV I'm running Mandrake 8.1 and had it configured to startup running KDE under my MV username. Now I can't start X anymore. I suspect that the changing the screen resolution MV with Mandrake Control Center messed things up. Before

Re: [newbie] ATI Radeon, XFree 4.2 and Mandrake 8.2: Are they getting along?

2002-04-11 Thread Walter Logeman
Charles, all, I am just reading along here... = My Machine = Dell i8100 laptop ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility Mandrake 8.1 Linux 2.4.9-13smp i686 [ELF] Upgraded to Xfree86 4.2.0 (rpm still thinks its 4.1) Do rpm -q Mesa. You should have Mesa-4.0.1-4mdk. Su to root and launch glxgears from a

Re: [newbie] Drakconf detects wrong amount of video RAM

2002-04-11 Thread Derek Jennings
The resolution/colour depth is controlled by the stanzas in XF86Config-4 for 'Subsection Display' You can only use the resolutions declared here. If you put in more stanzas be careful not to overdrive your monitor or else it may be damaged if the scan rate is too high. You can read all about

[newbie] enlighentment and antialiased font ?

2002-04-11 Thread - hybrid -
i did as they sey on the mandrakeuser.org site copied that file , but as i restartet the x server it kicked me back to the login screen had to redo the changes as root then it worked again ... --- ... XP , while X stands for cra Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Where Can I find cdrtools packages v1.11a19 or newer

2002-04-11 Thread John Richard Smith
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 18:01, you wrote: On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 04:45:49 +1200 Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your current sources directory is /root/Desktop/. I would not recommend installing it from there. Create another directory called cdrtools like so root# mkdir /cdrtools

Re: [newbie] problems with 8.2

2002-04-11 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:56:26 -0600 Blood Slap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd also like to add, just incase it means anything, that in HardDrake, it says my graphics card is pci and not agp. AGP slots are just glorified pci slots which allow for an increase bus speed through deception beyond

Re: [newbie] ATI Radeon, XFree 4.2 and Mandrake 8.2: Are they getting along?

2002-04-11 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 22:07:58 +1200 Walter Logeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles, all, I am just reading along here... = My Machine = Dell i8100 laptop ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility Mandrake 8.1 Linux 2.4.9-13smp i686 [ELF] Upgraded to Xfree86 4.2.0 (rpm still thinks its 4.1) Do

[newbie] Dual boot problems

2002-04-11 Thread anbolb
I recently got Mandrake 8.1 standard edition, having read it was good for those with absolutely no idea about linux, like me. I installed it alongside my usual Windows 98 on the same hard disk, and although the bootloader menu shows Windows I can't boot into it; the screen reads Loading

Re: [newbie] Re: Can FreeCell be Moved?

2002-04-11 Thread Bob Read
Thanks Gary, Problem is that I want to move it to a new instalation on a new drive. Bob Gary Montalbine wrote: Hi Bob, I upgraded to 8.2 from 8.1 without losing the score in Free Cell. Gary Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] /dev/dvd

2002-04-11 Thread Oder
HradDrake sees my DVD in a toshiba notebook with DVD-ROM/CD-RW as hdc; dmesg | grep hd showed hdc, but nothing is telling to xine and the rest of the OS that /dev/dvd even exists. I pointed the dvd drive with ln -s /dev/hdc/ /dev/dvd but does not work. The standard CD-RW works fine. How to I

Re: [newbie] problems with 8.2

2002-04-11 Thread Blood Slap
rather than upgrading or reinstalling, could I not just switch to another version of XFree86 in the control center and see if that helps? - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 5:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie]

[newbie] What file do I change?

2002-04-11 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hi all, Running MD 8.2 here. What file would the the root user modify if he wanted the change to be seen by users when they logged in? For example if you wanted them to see a Fortune Cookie message. Thanks Scott Burrows GSBE/EDIView/BSBE OSM Support perotsystems(tm) Office: 407

Re: [newbie] Re: Can FreeCell be Moved?

2002-04-11 Thread Gary Montalbine
Hi Bob, I upgraded to 8.2 from 8.1 without losing the score in Free Cell. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

AW: [newbie] Dual boot problems

2002-04-11 Thread - hybrid -
what do you mean w/ 'on the same disk' ? do you have different partitions ? or did you install win98 and linux and exactly the same partition ? - keep the X in your system - -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Im Auftrag von [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] What file do I change?

2002-04-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:10:23 -0500, Burrows, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Running MD 8.2 here. What file would the the root user modify if he wanted the change to be seen by users when they logged in? For example if you wanted them to see a Fortune Cookie message. For console

Re: [newbie] officially ms free

2002-04-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
James Thomas wrote: Alas, I can't do this as I need Windows to: 1. Play Games 2. Use my Scanner - it's not yet supported under Linux that I can find and scannerdrake doesn't recognize it. Once game manufacturers start producing more games under Linux, I'll glady make the final switch.

Re: [newbie] officially ms free

2002-04-11 Thread shane
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 22:43, Charles Muller opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: When I read this, I was just wondering if this is in Mandrake 8.2. My scanner (USB) also didn't work in 8.1, but 8.2 automatically recognized it and it works fine. it is

[newbie] Linksys Ether16 ISA Card

2002-04-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a mini-tower that I am trying to use as a firewall for my DSL. I need to nics and I only have one ISA Slot and one PCI Slot. The PCI card is a netgear and it is working fine. The ISA card is a brand new Linksys ether16 card. I can't get it to work. It won't auto detect and it is not in

AW: [newbie] officially ms free

2002-04-11 Thread - hybrid -
--- ... XP , while X stands for cra -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Im Auftrag von Ronald J. Hall Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. April 2002 16:34 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [newbie] officially ms free James Thomas

[newbie] winex ?

2002-04-11 Thread - hybrid -
any suggestions for configure/compile winex ? i've got some probs at the end of make ... anybody knows when winex 2.0 will be released ? s * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 'We do what we can We give what we have Our doubt is our passion And our passion is our task

Re: [newbie] /dev/dvd

2002-04-11 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:33:23 -0300 Oder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HradDrake sees my DVD in a toshiba notebook with DVD-ROM/CD-RW as hdc; dmesg | grep hd showed hdc, but nothing is telling to xine and the rest of the OS that /dev/dvd even exists. I pointed the dvd drive with ln -s /dev/hdc/

Re: [newbie] problems with 8.2

2002-04-11 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 07:09:44 -0600 Blood Slap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rather than upgrading or reinstalling, could I not just switch to another version of XFree86 in the control center and see if that helps? No it is not that easy. When you ran the installation the first time and selected

Re: [newbie] officially ms free

2002-04-11 Thread Charles Muller
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 23:35, Shane wrote: it is indeed 8.2. it seems the hp5370c is not yet fully supported, but they are in the making so to speak. I see. Well, I hope they come up with the support soon. In my case, I am using an Epson GT 6700 (in Japan). Chuck -- Charles Muller

RE: [newbie] What file do I change?

2002-04-11 Thread Burrows, Scott
Thanks Sridhar! Scott -Original Message- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 10:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] What file do I change? On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:10:23 -0500, Burrows, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all,

[newbie] Where Can I find cdrtools packages v1.11a19 or newer

2002-04-11 Thread John Richard Smith
Having rebuilt cdrtools-1.11a20-1.src.rpm, all new files are :- /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586/cdrtools-cdda2wav-1.11a20-1.i586.rpm /cdrtools-cdrecord-1.11a20-1.i586.rpm /cdrtools-libscg-1.11a20-1.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] officially ms free

2002-04-11 Thread James Thomas
Alas, I can't do this as I need Windows to: 1. Play Games 2. Use my Scanner - it's not yet supported under Linux that I can find and scannerdrake doesn't recognize it. Hi James. If I might ask, what games? I was hanging on to a Windog dual-boot installation just because a few of my

[newbie] Strange thing happening!

2002-04-11 Thread Graham Watkins
For the past few days whenever I start up my system, when I get to the graphical login screen (GDM) my first attempt to log in as a user always returns me to the login screen. On the second attempt, I manage to get in. Don't know what's causing this or how to stop it. I'm using Mandrake

OT: Games working with TransGaming (was Re: [newbie] officially ms free)

2002-04-11 Thread Michael . Hughes
but TransGaming tends not to work well with brand new games. Will games like Medal of Honor, Return to Castle Wolfenstein work on TransGaming??? _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to

Re: [newbie] problem with individualization

2002-04-11 Thread Hakan Duran
Thanks Baka, I think I will install 8.2 if I decide to reinstall the system. This is one of the biggest challanges of Linux in general, I believe. MS somehow succeeded to solve this problem, however some work still needs to be done for linux. Hakan PS: BTW I did change the language in KDE

[newbie] New hard-drives, now what? :)

2002-04-11 Thread Charlie
Hi all; A situation has developed here in 'Garlic City' that requires me to replace my old Maxtor 13 GB hard drive (primary master) with something slightly larger. As in a 40 GB, or (another) 60 GB. It has to do with a friend's old P200 machine and a little 11 year old that wants a computer

Re: [newbie] Reiser Question

2002-04-11 Thread Jussi Aalto
Hi On Thursday 11 April 2002 05:25, Femme wrote: I had some problems with X. It crashed, hard. Mouse/keyboard, evertying stopped working. Somehow, through a miracle I think, I got it to reboot by hitting teh reset button or just banging keys. Needless to say, I lost all the mail I'd

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade

2002-04-11 Thread K Montgomery
Did you indeed install the source in your home directory, as this line implies? cp ~/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot If you installed the source from an RPM, I think the default location is /usr/src, which is why I ask. I also ask: Did you get any fatal errors during the kernel

Re: OT: Games working with TransGaming (was Re: [newbie] officially m s free)

2002-04-11 Thread shane
On Thursday 11 April 2002 10:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: but TransGaming tends not to work well with brand new games. Will games like Medal of Honor, Return to Castle Wolfenstein work on TransGaming??? well the site gives

Re: [newbie] Reiser Question

2002-04-11 Thread shane
On Thursday 11 April 2002 11:56, Jussi Aalto opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I have experienced a couple of TOTAL lockups too and survived them even though had to do master reset. I waited for a while before resetting hoping that the system wasn't too

Re: [newbie] Reiser Question

2002-04-11 Thread FemmeFatale
Jussi Aalto wrote: Now about the filesystems, what I've been reading is that Reiser and XFS are at their best in servers and since the writer of that article knows Linux a lot better than me, I believe him and stick to ext3. IDKITHABSIA Cheers, J. Thx J. I'm considering EXT3, even

Re: [newbie] Reiser Question

2002-04-11 Thread civileme
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thursday 11 April 2002 03:42 am, you wrote: Well I'm officially very ticked off. I had some problems with X. It crashed, hard. Mouse/keyboard, evertying stopped working. Somehow, through a miracle I think, I got it to reboot by hitting teh reset button or just banging

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade

2002-04-11 Thread ai4a
K Montgomery wrote: On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 22:24, Danny Luker wrote: My first post to this list! I'm running Mandrake 8.1 with rieserfs on a 256MB AMD K6 clocking 350 MHz (older machine) and all is well. I just purchased a Sharp Zaurus SL5500 and much to my disappointment it does

Re: OT: Games working with TransGaming (was Re: [newbie] officiallym s free)

2002-04-11 Thread Paul Rodríguez
You don't need wineX to play Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Idsoftware (the company that makes the game) has released Linux binaries. The binary is an installer based on Loki's open source installer. (http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/wolf/) With a copy of the Windows version of the cd, you

[newbie] non PnP ISA modem

2002-04-11 Thread C.J.Kent
I have an internal non-PnP ISA modem that is working fine under windows and was working fine under Red Hat 6.1. I've replaced Red Hat with Mandrake 8.2 and cannot get the modem to work. The system is unable to detect the modem and when I tell it that it's /dev/ttyS2 it can't find anything. I

[newbie] NVIDIA RPMS - newbie experience

2002-04-11 Thread Andrew Olear
I just had a run in with the nvidia driver installation last night on mandrake 8.2 Although I thought I was following the directions right I wasn't. I was in X and I shouldn't have been when doing the compile. When I booted to the console only logon as root and did my thang' it worked fine

Re: [newbie] Reiser Question

2002-04-11 Thread FemmeFatale
civileme wrote: Now on Reiser, use the rescue CD to boot, modprobe the reiser stuff then try what do you mean by modprobe the reiser stuff??? Can someone enlighten me here? reiserfsck ... reiserfsck --rebuild-tree To do a complete fix if journal playback doesn't do it. So

Re: [newbie] Reiser Question

2002-04-11 Thread FemmeFatale
shane wrote: On Thursday 11 April 2002 11:56, Jussi Aalto opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I have experienced a couple of TOTAL lockups too and survived them even though had to do master reset. I waited for a while before resetting hoping that

[newbie] transparent users

2002-04-11 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Is there a way to see what commands a remote user is running on my system? - Paul Rodriguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] How to for FTP server

2002-04-11 Thread shane
On Thursday 11 April 2002 17:57, Duke Glover opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Hello Mandrake gods, I have tried, tried, and tried some more and have so far been unsuccessful at getting an FTP server up and running. I've read the how-to's (most make

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade

2002-04-11 Thread Danny Luker
Hi Kathy, Thanks for your reply ... On Thursday 11 April 2002 03:18 pm, you wrote: Did you indeed install the source in your home directory, as this line implies? cp ~/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot If you installed the source from an RPM, I think the default location is

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade

2002-04-11 Thread Danny Luker
Hi Charles and thanks for your reply On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:22 pm, you wrote: K Montgomery wrote: On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 22:24, Danny Luker wrote: My first post to this list! I'm running Mandrake 8.1 with rieserfs on a 256MB AMD K6 clocking 350 MHz (older machine) and

[newbie] test

2002-04-11 Thread Carlos Arigós
-- Carlos Arigós Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina Linux MDK 8.2 10:33pm up 54 min, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.06, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Good News and BAD News - '/home' less

2002-04-11 Thread Terry Smith
Short ver.: Any way to recover a deleted directory on a ext3 partition? Details: Although I've remained subscribed to this list, over the last 6 weeks I've been running a RH 7.2 distro off of my hdb drive. BOO! Last night, after downloading the new Mandrake 8.2 and burning 3 cds I installed 8.2

Re: [newbie] Soundcard Q somewhat OT, was:NVIDIA RPMS

2002-04-11 Thread FemmeFatale
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: From what I've heard, somebody really needs to update and streamline the Aureal soundcard drivers at Sourceforge. I hope it happens soon, cause I don't want to get another soundcard, this one is great. HTH, LX IIRC aureal as a company is dead isn't it? Just

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade

2002-04-11 Thread ai4a
Danny Luker wrote: Hi Charles and thanks for your reply On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:22 pm, you wrote: K Montgomery wrote: On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 22:24, Danny Luker wrote: My first post to this list! I'm running Mandrake 8.1 with rieserfs on a 256MB AMD K6 clocking 350

Re: [newbie] Re: Can FreeCell be Moved?

2002-04-11 Thread Bob Read
Michael, Thank you! It was a bit more complex than that, but your clue led me to the solution. Again -- Thank You. Bob Michael wrote: Surely the freecell scores is just a saved file somewhere in your /home directory? Hang on... Yeah. Try looking in ~/.gnome/ for "freecell". Thats where mine

[newbie] Kernel upgrade

2002-04-11 Thread ai4a
Hi Danny Luker, Ref:My Last post about mrproper or distclean Either of these commands will delete your .config file in usr/src/linux directory. No big deal, you can copy it from /boot. If you have not deleted the file yet, cp .config .Config (note the cap 'C'). Now the .Config file will not be

Re: [newbie] non PnP ISA modem

2002-04-11 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:59 pm, C.J.Kent wrote: I have an internal non-PnP ISA modem that is working fine under windows and was working fine under Red Hat 6.1. I've replaced Red Hat with Mandrake 8.2 and cannot get the modem to work. The system is unable to detect the modem and when I

Re: [newbie] non PnP ISA modem

2002-04-11 Thread Joel Esler
I assume you know as well, but you need to make sure you are logged in as root, before you run setserial... if not, find the command on your system using the find / -name setserial* command my .02 J On Thursday 11 April 2002 10:56 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:59

Re: [newbie] way to pin windows to dekstop in gnome?

2002-04-11 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
Right clik on the top window frame (bar) and select always on top. On Thursday 11 April 2002 02:59 pm, you wrote: Is there a way, or a window manger/window manager theme that would let me pin a window to the dekstop (i.e. keep it always on top) in a convenient way? - Paul Rodriguez

Re: [newbie] What file do I change?

2002-04-11 Thread Michael Viron
either /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile, or /etc/motd. Michael At 08:10 AM 4/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: Hi all, Running MD 8.2 here. What file would the the root user modify if he wanted the change to be seen by users when they logged in? For example if you wanted them to see a Fortune Cookie

Re: [newbie] Community

2002-04-11 Thread Damian G
El Jue 11 Abr 2002 04:04, John Lynch escribió: Hello everyone, Before I say anything, I just want to say I don't want to start any old arguments. Well, a while ago some people were saying that only problems to do with Mandrake should be posted in here, while a few others wanted to be able

Re: [newbie] Community

2002-04-11 Thread John Lynch
LOL, thankyou ;-) msn is dead easy, I wipped it up in an hour, I'm lazy I know. It'll ONLY work if a lot of people join though. John From: Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Community Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 01:13:51 -0300 El

Re: [newbie] Community

2002-04-11 Thread Joel Esler
I know! On MSN? Isn't that like, voting for the enemy? Or is it using their weapons against themselves??? Hmm.. Joel On Friday 12 April 2002 12:13 am, you wrote: El Jue 11 Abr 2002 04:04, John Lynch escribió: Hello everyone, Before I say anything, I just want to say I don't

Re: [newbie] Community

2002-04-11 Thread shane
On Thursday 11 April 2002 21:40, John Lynch opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: LOL, thankyou ;-) msn is dead easy, I wipped it up in an hour, I'm lazy I know. clearly if the same thing was done on the expert list it would be a php nuke site on someones

Re: [newbie] I am at a loss as to what the disks are for

2002-04-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Disc 1 will give you a basic system with X and IceWM. To use KDE and GNOME you need Discs 2 and 3. On 11 Apr 2002 16:03:36 -0600, Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux Mandrake's disks contain not only the OS but loads of applications, too. Imagine Microsoft giving away Office XP Pro,

Re: [newbie] Soundcard Q somewhat OT, was:NVIDIA RPMS

2002-04-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 21:52, FemmeFatale wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: From what I've heard, somebody really needs to update and streamline the Aureal soundcard drivers at Sourceforge. I hope it happens soon, cause I don't want to get another soundcard, this one is great. HTH, LX

Re: [newbie] way to pin windows to dekstop in gnome?

2002-04-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 11 Apr 2002 17:59:23 -0400, Paul Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way, or a window manger/window manager theme that would let me pin a window to the dekstop (i.e. keep it always on top) in a convenient way? That's depends on what window manager you use. Sawfish (GNOME's

Re: [newbie] How to for FTP server

2002-04-11 Thread Jay
Are you using a firewall? Make sure the ftp port is open (port 21), or for passive ftp (port 20). It is safer to use passive mode. -Jay Quoting Duke Glover [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Mandrake gods, I have tried, tried, and tried some more and have so far been unsuccessful at getting an

Re: [newbie] New hard-drives, now what? :)

2002-04-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:37:30 -0600, Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all; A situation has developed here in 'Garlic City' that requires me to replace my old Maxtor 13 GB hard drive (primary master) with something slightly larger. As in a 40 GB, or (another) 60 GB. It has to do with a

Re: [newbie] How to for FTP server

2002-04-11 Thread Jay
Are you using a firewall? Make sure the ftp port is open (port 21), or for passive ftp (port 20). It is safer to use passive mode. -Jay Quoting Duke Glover [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Mandrake gods, I have tried, tried, and tried some more and have so far been unsuccessful at getting

Re: [newbie] way to pin windows to dekstop in gnome?

2002-04-11 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Thank you, Sridhar. That sounds very interesting. I shall have to look into that. - Paul Rodríguez On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 23:49, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 11 Apr 2002 17:59:23 -0400, Paul Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way, or a window manger/window manager theme that

Re: [newbie] New hard-drives, now what? :)

2002-04-11 Thread Charlie
Sridhar Dhanapalan's message on April 11, 2002 10:17 pm, stated: 13GB is probably a bit over the top for 'system' (non-user data) purposes. If you like, you can probably make another 'data' partition on the 13GB drive, taking some space from the other partitions. 500MB is way too big for