[newbie] Conextant HSF modem on LM 8.2

2002-04-12 Thread ivan
Hi all, Any one using Conextant HSF modem with LM 8.2 ?.I down loaded the drivers from conextant website and tried to install the RPM.When i say hsfconfig,i get a message saying that there is no pre-build HSF modules available for you exact kernal and then tries to re-compile with the

[newbie] alsa is already running

2002-04-12 Thread F. McKenna
Hi All, I just replaced my Matrox Mystique video card with a Radeon. As the subject line says it appears that a cople of instances of ALSA aappears to try to be running. Does anyone know the command line to cancel this or which file that I would have to edit? TIA Frank McKenna Want to b

Re: [newbie] Very Newbie Question

2002-04-12 Thread Damian G
El Vie 12 Abr 2002 20:53, Barry Premeaux escribió: > I have MD 8.1 installed on my first drive and wanted to do a separate > install for MD8.2. I put in a second drive and installed MD 8.2 which > installed its version of LILO in MBR. After reading the LILO info on MUO, > I learned that I needed

Re: [newbie] Apache server not in browse list

2002-04-12 Thread Michael Viron
Actually, this would be samba, not apache, since apache is a web server only, not a file-sharing program like samba. Most likely, the problem is occuring because your windows machine and your linux machine are not in the same workgroup or domain. If they aren't, windows won't see the linux box d

Re: [newbie] Stopping X

2002-04-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 22:09:28 -0400, Brian York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to shutdown x windows after it is started. I can change > the login in but 98 percent of the time i want to start x anyway Firstly, switch to a virtual console on a different TTY: ctrl+alt+F2 At

Re: [newbie] Stopping X

2002-04-12 Thread Joseph Braddock
If you are just wanting to get to the console outside of X, you could press . That would create a new session in linux (you would have to log in again). When finished doing whatever it was that you were doing, you can press to return to your X session. Joe On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:13

Re: [newbie] Stopping X

2002-04-12 Thread civileme
Brian York wrote: >Does anyone know how to shutdown x windows after it is started. I can change >the login in but 98 percent of the time i want to start x anyway > >Thanks >Brian > >_ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at ht

Re: [newbie] Stopping X

2002-04-12 Thread Brian York
force fully logs me out to the X windows login i want to completely quit X Thanks Brian On Thursday 11 April 2002 22:24, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Brian York wrote: > > Does anyone know how to shutdown x windows after it is started. I can > > change the login in but 98 percent of the time i wa

[newbie] Very Newbie Question

2002-04-12 Thread Barry Premeaux
I have MD 8.1 installed on my first drive and wanted to do a separate install for MD8.2. I put in a second drive and installed MD 8.2 which installed its version of LILO in MBR. After reading the LILO info on MUO, I learned that I needed to go back and reinstall the original LILO and then edi

Re: [newbie] Stopping X

2002-04-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Brian York wrote: > > Does anyone know how to shutdown x windows after it is started. I can change > the login in but 98 percent of the time i want to start x anyway > > Thanks > Brian Hi Brian. I'm a little confused as to what you want to do here, but if its just quitting out of your Xserver,

[newbie] Stopping X

2002-04-12 Thread Brian York
Does anyone know how to shutdown x windows after it is started. I can change the login in but 98 percent of the time i want to start x anyway Thanks Brian _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want

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

2002-04-12 Thread Charlie
FemmeFatale's message on April 12, 2002 05:59 pm, stated: Fine; but what the _h_e_ double hockey sticks do I do with the other 112 GB? ;-) Thanks for the suggestions, I'll be doing a lot of reading before I re-install the system I do believe. C. Give it to me! :) Femme _

Re: [newbie] KDE 3 Menu

2002-04-12 Thread FemmeFatale
> On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 13:32, shane wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 April 2002 05:50, Brian York opened a general hailing > > frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > > > > > I changed something but don't remember where i did it at. I have the KDE > > > menu for my K button instead of the Mand

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

2002-04-12 Thread FemmeFatale
> > Fine; but what the _h_e_ double hockey sticks do I do with the other 112 GB? > ;-) > > Thanks for the suggestions, I'll be doing a lot of reading before I > re-install the system I do believe. > > C. > -- > Charlie in Edmonton, AB., Canada Give it to me! :) Femme -- Good Decisions You

[newbie] KDE 3 and Font path

2002-04-12 Thread Dr Joe Brand
Hi, I installed kde 3 the other day on LM 8.1. All went pretty well, except I have been getting missing font error messages. Can anyone tell me how get the fonts back? And where they are located? Is there a path somewhere that I need to set up? Joe Want

Re: [newbie] NFS unmount hangs system.

2002-04-12 Thread Sevatio
I had the same problem. You just have to make sure nfs and nfslock doesn't run and doesn't startup at boot. And most importantly, make sure autofs doesn't run and startup and boot time. Sevatio Seedkum Aladeem wrote: > Hi, > > At boot up, the system has the following fstab and mtab: > > >

Re: [newbie] Networking inquiry

2002-04-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 12 April 2002 10:03 pm, Belgarius wrote: > (Actually, that subject line should be *utter* newbie) > >I've taken the plunge here, and installed ML 8.2 on another machine, one > that I hope to eventually use to replace my present Windoze server system, > but have already hit a stumblin

Re: [newbie] KDE 3 Menu

2002-04-12 Thread cc tsim
Open a konsole and type the following update-menus -v >From: Tagbo Ekwueme-Okoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE 3 Menu >Date: 12 Apr 2002 18:02:50 -0400 > >Try deleting/renaming your .kde directory, logging out and logging back

Re: [newbie] bastille logs

2002-04-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 12 April 2002 9:39 pm, shane wrote: > On Friday 12 April 2002 12:35, Jay opened a general hailing frequency and > transmitted to all open stations: > > lemme rephrase, i know what services it is blocking, i want to see what > attempts it is loggiong as blocking. anyone know a good log m

Re: [newbie] KDE 3 Menu

2002-04-12 Thread Tagbo Ekwueme-Okoli
Try deleting/renaming your .kde directory, logging out and logging back in again, that worked for me. On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 13:32, shane wrote: > On Tuesday 09 April 2002 05:50, Brian York opened a general hailing > frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > > > I changed something but d

Re: [newbie] Networking inquiry

2002-04-12 Thread shane
On Friday 12 April 2002 14:03, Belgarius opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: >My intention is to use the Linux system as my primary server, and move > the user files and so forth to it, as well as make use of it's FTP, mail, > and http servers to host my

[newbie] Networking inquiry

2002-04-12 Thread Belgarius
(Actually, that subject line should be *utter* newbie) I've taken the plunge here, and installed ML 8.2 on another machine, one that I hope to eventually use to replace my present Windoze server system, but have already hit a stumbling block head on. My present server system runs under 98S

Re: [newbie] bastille logs

2002-04-12 Thread shane
On Friday 12 April 2002 12:35, Jay opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: lemme rephrase, i know what services it is blocking, i want to see what attempts it is loggiong as blocking. anyone know a good log monitoring tool? picking through all those log files

Re: [newbie] officially ms free

2002-04-12 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. > > > > > >Hi James. If I might ask, what games? I was hanging on to a Windog >

Re: [newbie] officially ms free

2002-04-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Paul R wrote: > > I'm looking forward to my copy of Return to Castle Wolfenstein I ordered > from http://www.TuxGames.com You can buy the Windows version, and > download the Linux installer from IdSoftware. So it really is a Linux > game, it just uses the game files from the cd. TuxGames sells

[newbie] Apache server not in browse list

2002-04-12 Thread John Bodden
I have installed and configured my Apache server. I am not able to see the server in the Net Neighborhood on my Win machines. If I do a search for the IP or hostname (using WINS) the Win machine will find the Apache machine and I can access the shares. This is a Mandrake 8.2 box, configured to us

[newbie] Installation Problems

2002-04-12 Thread Michael . Hughes
Hi, I just installed ver 8.1 on my system. This is a dual boot and during install it asked me to install LILO which I did. then it said to remove media and it rebooted the pc. Goes through POST, then starts to load everything. Gets to the point where it tries to boot from the CD ROM, then trie

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

2002-04-12 Thread Frans Ketelaars
file:/usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/ref.html/ts-deleted-files-recovery.html It's about ext2, but since ext3 is build upon ext2 IIUC _maybe_ it's of some use. Good luck! On 11 Apr 2002 21:11:54 -0400 Terry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Short ver.: Any way to recover a deleted directory on a ex

Re: [newbie] IDE for C/C++

2002-04-12 Thread Rich
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 08:06, rsch77 wrote: > Hello all, I need an advice. > Does anybody know a good IDE for C/C++, and where I find it ? > Thanks in advance, > I like Anjuta, which can be foune on Sourceforge... Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

[newbie] IDE for C/C++

2002-04-12 Thread rsch77
Hello all, I need an advice. Does anybody know a good IDE for C/C++, and where I find it ? Thanks in advance, Rodrigo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Reiser Question

2002-04-12 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 03:34:42 +0300 Jussi Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK guys, this is not funny, where the heck do you find these "last > resorts"?? This has obviously something to do with "secret handshakes" > etc. Which man pages do I have to memorize and cat-when-asked to get > "insi

Re: [newbie] documentation of CDROM libraries

2002-04-12 Thread Michael
Use RPMDrake or kpackage and go through slowly. If you highlight a package it will tell you the files it installs and a brief description of what the package is for. I hope this is what you were looking for. Charlie wrote: > > Ellen Slater's message on April 12, 2002 03:36 am, stated: > Let me

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

2002-04-12 Thread Michael
Reply in text below Terry Smith wrote: > > 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

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA RPMs

2002-04-12 Thread Greg Smitih
Thanks everybody for your help. I've got it working. It turns out that I had done way too much messing around. I re-installed the OS and ran the NVidia upgrade instead of the full install. The next time I started the machine I saw the nvidia splash screen and Tuxracer works perfectly. Now

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

2002-04-12 Thread Charlie
Sridhar Dhanapalan's message on April 12, 2002 01:17 am, stated: > > LVM? Is that a "virtual machine?" Sort of software RAID without fake RAID > on "hardware" like the cards that are too expensive? Linux already has an excellent

Re: [newbie] documentation of CDROM libraries

2002-04-12 Thread Charlie
Ellen Slater's message on April 12, 2002 03:36 am, stated: Let me try again: Does there exist a written list of all the libraries, programs, etc. provided on the CDROMs (v8.1)? (besides the documentations in the /usr/share/docs) I am still getting acclimated with all the docs provided. __

Re: [newbie] transparent users

2002-04-12 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Paul Rodríguez wrote: > > Is there a way to see what commands a remote user is running on my > system? Ctrl-Escape? Hylton Conacher on KDE 2.1.1 on kernel 2.4.3-20mdk#1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade

2002-04-12 Thread Danny Luker
Thanks Charles ... I'll give this a spin and see what happens! I hope this is all that is missing. ;) And that I have not already broken something else. Much thanks Danny On Thursday 11 April 2002 10:06 pm, you wrote: > Hi Danny Luker, > Ref:My Last post about mrproper or distclean > > Eith

Re: [newbie] documentation of CDROM libraries

2002-04-12 Thread Ellen Slater
Let me try again: Does there exist a written list of all the libraries, programs, etc. provided on the CDROMs (v8.1)? (besides the documentations in the /usr/share/docs) I am still getting acclimated with all the docs provided.  - Original Message - From: Ellen Slater

Re: [newbie] Moving the home directory.

2002-04-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:40:46 -0700, Seedkum Aladeem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hi, > > For some reason (most likely my self), the home directory ended up in a > partition where I do not want it to be. Can I move the home directory to the > partition where I want it to be? > > Can I log in as

[newbie] documentation of CDROM libraries

2002-04-12 Thread Ellen Slater
Is this a written list of all the libraries, programs, etc. provided on the CDROMs (v8.1)? (besides the documentations in the /usr/share/docs) I am still getting acclimated with all the docs provided.   

[newbie] compiling 'fly'

2002-04-12 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hi all, I am having problems trying to instal PWEBSTATS (perl util.) I installed 'GD' but the found I needed to install 'fly', that is where the problems began. when I typed 'make', I got a number of errors relating to other files required, which I installed from rpm's. Now the error is.. gc

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

2002-04-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:09:51 -0600, Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > d

[newbie] Moving the home directory.

2002-04-12 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, For some reason (most likely my self), the home directory ended up in a partition where I do not want it to be. Can I move the home directory to the partition where I want it to be? Can I log in as root and move the home directory? the home directory for the root user is on the partition

Re: [newbie] non PnP ISA modem

2002-04-12 Thread C.J.Kent
Thanks to everyone who replied. The problem was that I didn't have setserial installed and didn't have a clue where to find it. But now that's fixed and everything is working perfectly. So thanks again to everyone who replied. CJ C.J.Kent wrote: > I have an internal non-PnP ISA modem that is