Re: [newbie-it] 8.3 di linux c problemi?

2002-05-17 Thread Mario Lodi Rizzini
-- Initial Header --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 17:10:26 +0200 Subject : Re: [newbie-it] 8.3 di linux c problemi? Alle 15:20, giovedì 16 maggio 2002, hai scritto: ciao, ho letto un msg in lista

Re: [newbie-it] Audio CD

2002-05-17 Thread ku68
Il gio, 2002-05-16 alle 19:22, Nicholas Wieland ha scritto: Salve a tutti: ho un problema nell'ascolto di CD Audio con Mdk 8.2. Premetto dicendo che è almeno una settimana che smanetto senza venirne a capo. Tutto sembra configurato alla perfezione: mi sono loggato come root ma il risultato

Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Ispell

2002-05-17 Thread Fabio Manunza
Lo riposto perchè mi pare non sia arrivato... -- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Ispell Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 20:12:18 +0200 From: Fabio Manunza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alle 19:57, giovedì 16 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Salve a tutti, Grazie

Re: [newbie-it] Sympa... questo sconosciuto!

2002-05-17 Thread LukenShiro
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Paolo Tomiato wrote: mi daresti un parere comparativo sui 2 gestori (sympa e majordomo)? Mai organizzato un servizio di mailing list, mi spiace ;-) Come per altre cose, l'unico modo di capire quale dei due per te va meglio e' provarli entrambi .. -- LU #210970 LM #98222

[newbie-it] mp3 su xmms

2002-05-17 Thread Taschetta, M. - MXPCP
Cari tutti, ho un cd chieno chieno di mp3, ma il nostro simpatico amico xmms non li vede. se uso Konqueror per accedere al cdrom, mi appare il fantomatico lucchetto... cosa puo' essere secondo voi? grazie per il consueto aiuto marco

[newbie-it] Per Fabio...

2002-05-17 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Ehm... quasi mi secca dirlo ma... RTFM !! Dopo questa operazione scoprirai che ispell -d italiano nomefile fa proprio quello che vuoi. Il divertimento di Linux, almeno per me, è proprio quello di leggersi tutti i manuali Guarda che nessuno ti ha obbligato a rispondermi... Se devi scrivere

Re: [newbie-it] Audio CD

2002-05-17 Thread Nicholas Wieland
On Fri, 17 May 2002 09:23:32 +0200 ku68 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao, a me funziona tutto alla perfezione senza aver modificato nulla. Probabilmente è banale ma hai guardato le impostazioni del mixer sonoro? Multimedia - suono - tasto dx su mixer sonoro. Guarda se il volume del cd è

Re: [newbie-it] mp3 su xmms

2002-05-17 Thread Nicholas Wieland
On Fri, 17 May 2002 13:00:12 +0200 Taschetta, M. - MXPCP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cari tutti, ho un cd chieno chieno di mp3, ma il nostro simpatico amico xmms non li vede. se uso Konqueror per accedere al cdrom, mi appare il fantomatico lucchetto... cosa puo' essere secondo voi? grazie

[newbie-it] Scanner riconosciuto ma......

2002-05-17 Thread ku68
Ciao, casualmente ho scoperto che in mandrake control center - hardware c'è l'opzione scanner. Ho provato a lanciarla e mi segnala di aver trovato qualcosa su /dev/usb/scanner0 e mi chiede se deve configurarlo. Rispondo di sì ed un msg mi avvisa che lo scanner è correttamente configurato e che

Re: Re: [newbie-it] organizzazione della lista [was: 8.3 di linux c problemi?]

2002-05-17 Thread LukenShiro
On Fri, 17 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] Mario Lodi Rizzini wrote: Come diavolo si fa a trovare qualcosa nei thread se: 1) si sbaglia l'oggetto (in tutti i sensi, sia grammaticamente che sintatticamente) Semi-concordo, ma un minimo di tolleranza e' sempre consigliato di fronte a errori di battitura

Re: [newbie-it] Audio CD

2002-05-17 Thread paolo brusasco
io ho smanettato giorni per scoprire che per sentire i cd devi mettere un cavetto audio tra cd e scheda audio/motherboard. normalmente nei pc nuovi non c'e. io ne ho recuperati uno l'ho messo e funziona. questo perchè linux non suona i cd tramite il cavo digitale. se invece installi il plugin

Re: [newbie-it] Audio CD

2002-05-17 Thread sandro
Alle 15:25, venerdì 17 maggio 2002, hai scritto: io ho smanettato giorni per scoprire che per sentire i cd devi mettere un cavetto audio tra cd e scheda audio/motherboard. normalmente nei pc nuovi non c'e. io ne ho recuperati uno l'ho messo e funziona. questo perchè linux non suona i cd

Re: [newbie-it] Audio CD

2002-05-17 Thread paolo brusasco
beh, io avevo provato con mand 8.1 e funzionava. adesso ho riprovato ma non mi ricordo come si apre il cd da xmms e quindi non so se mi rifunziona. ciao. paolo. sandro wrote: Alle 15:25, venerdì 17 maggio 2002, hai scritto: io ho smanettato giorni per scoprire che per sentire i cd devi

Re: [newbie-it] Per Fabio...

2002-05-17 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 13:07, venerdì 17 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Guarda che nessuno ti ha obbligato a rispondermi... Se devi scrivere queste cose, preferisco che tu stia zitto... Ti ringrazio comunque per il saggio consiglio finale... sei forte!!! Yak,yak!! Non te la prendere, non c'è nulla di offensivo in

Re: [newbie-it] ispell

2002-05-17 Thread Stefano Sebastiani
Ispell è il dizionario che ti permette di controllare l'ortografia durante la stesura di un testo. Per abilitare questa opzione in kword vai in Impostazioni -- Configura Kword. da lì ti sbizarrisci.. Vale. Mi associo alla richiesta di aiuto, anche io ho grossi problemi, mi dice che non è

Re: [newbie-it] ispell

2002-05-17 Thread Beppe
Ispell è il dizionario che ti permette di controllare l'ortografia durante la stesura di un testo. Per abilitare questa opzione in kword vai in Impostazioni -- Configura Kword. da lì ti sbizarrisci.. Vale. Mi associo alla richiesta di aiuto, anche io ho grossi problemi, mi dice che

[newbie-it] Boot lento:-(

2002-05-17 Thread Massimo
Ciao a tutti, ho una mdk 8.2 e mi sembra che il boot sia notevolmente lento Nella schermata introduttiva l'indicatore di avanzamento resta immobile a circa il 60% per un minuto, poi riparte. Il problema potrebbe attribuirsi all'automount dei dischi??? grazie

[newbie-it]

2002-05-17 Thread Beppe
buona sera oh gloriosa mailinglist! ho due quesiti da porvi... scusate in anticipo la mia ignoranza ma è solo da pochi mesi che i secoli bui di windows sono finiti per me ^_^ 1° posso obbligare il sistema a vedere una periferica che io so esistere, so essere supportata ma che non viene

Re: [newbie-it] Boot lento:-(

2002-05-17 Thread LukenShiro
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Massimo wrote: ho una mdk 8.2 e mi sembra che il boot sia notevolmente lento Nella schermata introduttiva l'indicatore di avanzamento resta immobile a circa il 60% per un minuto, poi riparte. Il problema potrebbe attribuirsi all'automount dei dischi??? L'indicatore

Re: [newbie-it] Audio CD

2002-05-17 Thread Nicholas Wieland
Il plug-in non funziona :( Ciao e grazie, Nicholas

Re: [newbie-it] Sicurezza internet.

2002-05-17 Thread jv
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:44, venerdì 17 maggio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] Sicurezza internet., ku68 ha scritto: Scusate ho letto che è possibile ricevere dei virus anche in linux. non ci sono virus veri e propri, solo qualche worm... ma, ipotizzando che

Re: [newbie-it]

2002-05-17 Thread LukenShiro
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Beppe wrote: 1° posso obbligare il sistema a vedere una periferica che io so esistere, so essere supportata ma che non viene riconosciuta? cosa devo andare a toccare e come? mi bastano delle informazioni generali e magari dei link, poi mi informo da solo, è che non ho

Re: [newbie-it] Windoz 98 e samba

2002-05-17 Thread LukenShiro
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Paolo Astengo wrote: Il mio desiderio è quello di avere directory diversamente abilitate per i diversi utenti. In questo modo i dipendenti dell'amministrazione potranno accedere solo alla dir \\Frankli\admins, i progettisti a \\Franklin\design ecc.. La butto la' perche'

[newbie-it] impostazione locale

2002-05-17 Thread Biss
Dopo aver ricompilato il kernel 2.4.18 su una mdk 8.1 quando utilizzo urpmi esce questo avviso: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = it_IT:it, LC_ALL = (unset), LC_MESSAGES = it_IT@euro, LC_TIME =

[newbie] WOOHOO! (Was: Hardware Issues)

2002-05-17 Thread iceburgh69
WOO HOO!!! Runningthe Mandrake installer in Expert mode worked out well. I got the test screen for Mandrake. The first one was buggered up and didn't work right, but the second one worked out QUITE well. I'm testing my internet connection on my computer, and with any luck, the next thing I do

[newbie]

2002-05-17 Thread Aurélien Grosshans
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] VIA 8233A Audio Problem on MDK 8.2

2002-05-17 Thread andyjn
I ended up trying the Relatek driver, but with the same results :( So in the end I've put a SBLive5.1. I'll wait a month or so and look for a new driver from VIA. Thanks for the support. Andy - Original Message - From: Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 16 May 2002 22:02, Kaj Haulrich wrote: /snip Lyvim, what makes you think the American government is so special ? Or for that matter, Microsoft? Sure, it's a big unscrupulous corporation, but is it doing anything much worse than most other multinationals? The strength of

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-17 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 May 2002 8:54 am, Robin Turner wrote: On Thursday 16 May 2002 10:32, Miark wrote: Shane and I were talking about M$ products and the government. I thought y'all might be interested too. First, the Peruvian government is putting

[newbie] cups printing problems

2002-05-17 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hi all, since installing 8.2 I have been having trouble printing top my canon bj330. Some times things print ok and other times I get some correct print mixed in with garbage (odd characters, wrong line spacing, blank pages.) I initially thought the problem was with printing from winxp using

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-17 Thread iceburgh69
Do you have any idea how much it costs for the right to put the Microsoft logo on a box? Bill Gates is a clever thief. Ever hear of MS- DOS? That wasn't Gates' brainchild, it was IBM's. Only because they forgot to secure their rights to it. When I first started with computers oh so many moons

Re: [newbie] InteractiveBastille

2002-05-17 Thread poogle
On Friday 17 May 2002 07:08 am, Michael Adams,wrote : I have stepped up from 7.1 to 8.2. IPChains just always seemed beyond me. Now i have InteractiveBastille as an alternative i am willing to give it a try. Is there any newbie traps with answering the complex questions wrong? Better

[newbie] Sendmail

2002-05-17 Thread Robin Turner
Since upgrading, I've noticed that sendmail claims to have sent mail but none of it seems to go anywhere (other than my Sent Mail folder in KMail). This includes test messages sent to myself. I'm connecting through a dialup connection to our university's server. pop3 works fine. sendmail

Re: [newbie] LAN and COX cable modem

2002-05-17 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Friday 17 May 2002 12:19 am, Eric McClure wrote: It is a very easy setup. I live in Phoenix and currently have four machines on three different platforms running on it using a router I picked up and a hub for about $150.00 if I remember right. Cox told me to run a firewall and I said

[newbie] Edditing the 8.2 KDE Aplication Menu?

2002-05-17 Thread andyjn
Maybe I'm missing something, but I cant seem to edit the whole Application Menu using MenuDrake. Either using System or Root the editor does not show all the available applications and anything I've added is not shown. Problem I've got is that I've screwed up the What To Do? Menu, and now

Re: [newbie] Sendmail

2002-05-17 Thread Laurent Jourden
You don't need sendmail if you use a standalone pc Did you specified the smtp server of your University in the configuration of Kmail. it should be something like smtp.nameofyouruniversity.edu This is where kmail send your messages Laurent En réponse à Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-17 Thread Brian Koppe
Ever hear of MS- DOS? That wasn't Gates' brainchild, it was IBM's. Only because they forgot to secure their rights to it. Know of any sources to support this? Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] =-O NO TEXT!!!

2002-05-17 Thread Brian Koppe
EEK! Unfortunately, I haven't been in Gnome for awhile so I'm not sure what may have caused this, but I see no text! On the desktop there are icons but no text under them and in Nautilus there is no text for the file names/folders/etc Anyone have a clue what I'm missing? I could have

Re: [newbie] Sendmail

2002-05-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 17 May 2002 13:10, Laurent Jourden wrote: You don't need sendmail if you use a standalone pc Did you specified the smtp server of your University in the configuration of Kmail. it should be something like smtp.nameofyouruniversity.edu This is where kmail send your messages I

Re: [newbie] =-O NO TEXT!!!

2002-05-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 17 May 2002 13:27, Brian Koppe wrote: EEK! Unfortunately, I haven't been in Gnome for awhile so I'm not sure what may have caused this, but I see no text! On the desktop there are icons but no text under them and in Nautilus there is no text for the file names/folders/etc

Re: [newbie] LAN and COX cable modem

2002-05-17 Thread Eric McClure
Yes, an old 266mhz machine with Mandrake 8.1 on it. Currently I'm playing with different firewall software on it. Haven't really deceided which one I like though... On Fri, 17 May 2002, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Friday 17 May 2002 12:19 am, Eric McClure wrote: It is a very easy setup. I

Re: [newbie] LAN and COX cable modem

2002-05-17 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Friday 17 May 2002 07:45 am, Eric McClure wrote: Yes, an old 266mhz machine with Mandrake 8.1 on it. Currently I'm playing with different firewall software on it. Haven't really deceided which one I like though... Keep us posted, what you tried, what you liked, waht you didn't like. Good

[newbie] mp3's left side only.

2002-05-17 Thread Franki
Hi people,, I have recently discovered mp3's and have downloaded a heap of them.. For some reason they all play left channel only.. even though the player identifies them as stereo. I have tried to play them on windows and linux, and used kde media player and xmms, as well as MS media player

RE: [newbie] hardware requirements

2002-05-17 Thread Ken Walker
As far as I am aware Mandrake 8.1 upwards will only run on Pentium 1's and upwards..no support for 286/386/486. Same applies to RH Please correct me if I'm wrong FreeBSD will still run from 386 upwards. :o) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

[newbie] Samba issues.

2002-05-17 Thread Franki
Hi again people, Forgive my emails, I have not been able to post for ages and as a result, have a few questions.. forgive my indulgance :-) I have mandrake 8.2 installed on my home server. and its setup using samba-2.2.3a-10mdk when I copy a folder of images to a share on the server, it

Re: [newbie] SCSI pci Card Scanner.

2002-05-17 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Mike, Yes it worked! I used insmod -f with the path to the driver and all goes well. Thank you very much Mike McNeese. I am most grateful to you and your ability with Linux. Regards, Malcolm Candlish. On Wed, 15 May 2002 02:10:47 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Malcolm Candlish wrote:

Re: [newbie] Partition Check Hangs

2002-05-17 Thread K Montgomery
Serkan and everyone, I think I have a similar problem. I'm currently running 8.1 and when I try to upgrade to 8.2 from CD (booting from floppy), it crashes after I tell the install I have no SCSI devices. Below are some of the messages on the screens at the point of the freeze. (Forgive me if I

[newbie] Kmail funnies

2002-05-17 Thread Alan Dunford
May I please request a little help. When editing my own text in Kmail (2.2.2, Mandrake 8.2) , or attempting to cut and paste comments from other received mails, I can create a terrible mess as the pasted text can appear at several points in the document or as fragmented pieces of text.

Re: [newbie] mp3's left side only.

2002-05-17 Thread rsch77
Hi Franki, I think the problem you experience is a hardware problem. Make sure that your sound card's output is not damaged, nor the audio cables, nor the right speaker. It's the only thing I can imagine that might be wrong. Regards, Rodrigo -- Mensagem original --- De

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-17 Thread darklord
On Friday 17 May 2002 06:37 am, you wrote: On Friday 17 May 2002 06:24 am, Brian Koppe wrote: Ever hear of MS- DOS? That wasn't Gates' brainchild, it was IBM's. Only because they forgot to secure their rights to it. Know of any sources to support this? The history of MS-DOS is

Re: [newbie] mp3's left side only.

2002-05-17 Thread darklord
On Friday 17 May 2002 10:48 am, you wrote: Hi Franki, I think the problem you experience is a hardware problem. Make sure that your sound card's output is not damaged, nor the audio cables, nor the right speaker. It's the only thing I can imagine that might be wrong. Regards, Rodrigo Or

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-17 Thread darklord
Didn't Gates also use a lot of CMP and Unix stuff as well? (ah well, take whatever is out there, use it for your own - I guess a leopard can't change its spots after all! grin) Sorry, gotta correct myself here...that was supposed to be CPM. ;-) --

Re: [newbie] Samba issues.

2002-05-17 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: Franki wrote: when I copy a folder of images to a share on the server, it results in a bunch of files that I didn't copy. they start in the same of the real files, but there is some data stuff added to the file name... (the real file with the

Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games

2002-05-17 Thread darklord
On Friday 17 May 2002 12:46 am, you wrote: *Pounces in cat-like fashion.* THANK YOU! You just eliminated any need for me to install WinBlows at ALL! I was SERIOUSLY hoping that I wouldn't have to deal with it's discount fertalizer again. And now I don't have to. *Happy tiger-dance.* This is a

Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games

2002-05-17 Thread darklord
On Thursday 16 May 2002 08:09 pm, you wrote: No, I get a 20fps drop in linux... so in windows if i avg say.. 80FPS, in linux I get 60fps. Go figures That is odd. Femme, I know you are bright person (where's my shades! grin) so you've probably checked everything that can be humanly checked

[newbie] DHCP Server

2002-05-17 Thread Ricardo Marques
Hi. This is my first time with Linux. I'm trying to install a DHCP Server in a Mandrake 8.2 without sucess. Please, could anyone help me? How can I install a DHCP Server. I've tryed the expert instalation without sucess. I'd like to add the botton DCHP Server in the configuration wizards

Re: [newbie] Kmail funnies

2002-05-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 17 May 2002 3:43 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: May I please request a little help. When editing my own text in Kmail (2.2.2, Mandrake 8.2) , or attempting to cut and paste comments from other received mails, I can create a terrible mess as the pasted text can appear at several points in

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-17 Thread Miark
Robin, Check out http://www.gnu.org.pe/preyres.html Man, I'm reading through the response letter again. If I didn't hate M$ so much, I'd feel sorry for them because Nunez has utterly cut Microshaft to pieces!! It's a slaughter! It's so beautiful, it brings a tear to these old man's eyes.

Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games

2002-05-17 Thread D. Olson
On Friday 17 May 2002 11:29 am, you wrote: actually the worst performing game i have in linux, is the linux version of quake, i wonder how the windows running in wine would compare. i may just try that.. Quake? Or Quake 3? If it is Quake, then I have a tutorial RPM on my site for a

Re: [newbie] Edditing the 8.2 KDE Aplication Menu?

2002-05-17 Thread Miark
I have no answers, except a word of encouragement. I, too, had that problem. After installing Q3, I used MenuDrak to add it. But after many attempts, it still didn't show up. Two days later, I opened my menu, and there it was--no idea why. It may require a logout/login to a window manager, or

Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games

2002-05-17 Thread shane
On Friday 17 May 2002 10:09, D. Olson opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Quake? Or Quake 3? If it is Quake, then I have a tutorial RPM on my site for a very nice Quake engine, and it runs really fast on my computer. sorry, actually it is quake 2

Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games

2002-05-17 Thread D. Olson
Hmm... Can you point me in the direction of getting Quake 2 to work? I use an NVidia card.. If that matters. Thanks! On Friday 17 May 2002 01:19 pm, you wrote: On Friday 17 May 2002 10:09, D. Olson opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Quake? Or

Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games

2002-05-17 Thread shane
On Friday 17 May 2002 10:36, D. Olson opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Hmm... Can you point me in the direction of getting Quake 2 to work? I use an NVidia card.. If that matters. i haven't run 2 in a _long_ time, but i think the page i used to get it

Re: [newbie] Partition Check Hangs

2002-05-17 Thread civileme
K Montgomery wrote: Serkan and everyone, I think I have a similar problem. I'm currently running 8.1 and when I try to upgrade to 8.2 from CD (booting from floppy), it crashes after I tell the install I have no SCSI devices. Below are some of the messages on the screens at the point of the

RE: [newbie] Samba issues.

2002-05-17 Thread Franki
Thanks daRcmaTTeR Ok, so if we assume thats what it is.. how do I convince the win2000 pc that its talking to a win98 machine?? is it possible that this install is setup as a master server and as a result win2000 assumes that its NT is there a way around this??? It wasn't doing it

[newbie] Interner connection speed

2002-05-17 Thread Klemm
Hi Very wondering about the speed I get I use ADSL internet connection and the downstream speed should be 256Kb/s I made some test and all monitors show that it gets no more than 63 kb/sek Could there be some settings somewhere that are restricting that as it was almost that max speed untill I

Re: [newbie] Edditing the 8.2 KDE Aplication Menu?

2002-05-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 17 May 2002 11:57 am, andyjn wrote: Maybe I'm missing something, but I cant seem to edit the whole Application Menu using MenuDrake. Either using System or Root the editor does not show all the available applications and anything I've added is not shown. Problem I've got is that

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 17 May 2002 07:20 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 15:02, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Lyvim, what makes you think the American government is so special ? Kaj Haulrich Denmark There's no intimation here that this is an isolated case, Kaj. I just don't have any

RE: [newbie] Samba issues.

2002-05-17 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Franki wrote: Nope, destination is a reiserfs partition, in fact for that particular test, it was my home directory. There have been no other issues with the system with regards to using reiserfs.. Its a standard 8.2 install, (was installed not upgraded.) The other

[newbie] laptop volume control after resume

2002-05-17 Thread Paul Rodriguez
I can control my laptop's volume with the fn+PageUP/PageDOWN keys. But after i resume my laptop from sleep (it sleeps when i close the cover) I lose keyboard volume control. Gnome multimedia applet still works, though. Anybody know how i can fix this? Is there some sort of deamon that needs to

Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games - Quake (original)

2002-05-17 Thread D. Olson
On Friday 17 May 2002 01:53 pm, you wrote: * Setting are apparently not saved anywhere. Can I set up a config file? Umm... I think that they are supposed to be in your home directory in a .twilight folder or something... * There is no option to turn mouselook on permanently--at least that

Re: [newbie] tar; sane; snapscan; how to

2002-05-17 Thread John Richard Smith
On Friday 17 May 2002 16:02, you wrote: i`ve done sevral how to search with google on how to get my usb agfa snapscan 1212u to work with with mandrake.(xsane) i`ve downloaded the latest packs/drivers for snapscan1212u and sane-backends. How do i unpack this files? and where do they go?

[newbie] krootwarning?

2002-05-17 Thread Charlie
Hello group; This has me puzzled. Not that puzzled is an odd occurrence for me but. On a new install yesterday, (new hard drive to replace her dead 6 year old one) MDK 8.2 download edition installed as easily as ever and configured as easily as ever. Except for one minor thing; Every

Re: [newbie] krootwarning?

2002-05-17 Thread Charlie
Ooops; Not exactly total clarity there? She logs in from console because (maybe) that's the way I set up her machine the first time she used Mandrake and she's used to it. The krootwarning thingy is there when she does startx and the desktop is loaded. I hope that's clearer. It's been a

Re: [newbie] krootwarning?

2002-05-17 Thread Derek Jennings
Yes its annoying isn't it. Whats happening is this. KDE has an application called krootwarning setup to execute whenever a desktop starts up. It checks to see if the user has logged in as root, and if they have it will put up a banner telling them that logging in as root is a seriously bad

Re: [newbie] UPDATE Can't even get beyond user name!!!

2002-05-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 17 May 2002 8:29 pm, Dave Conroy wrote: Hi Derek, and others Monday, May 13, 2002, 4:08:47 PM, you wrote: DJ No problemo - Linux and particularly Mandrake is getting so easy to install DJ it is nice to come across a case where it just does not want to work. DJ It is surprising

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-17 Thread Derek Byram
On Friday 17 May 2002 21:47, you wrote: On Friday 17 May 2002 07:20 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 15:02, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Lyvim, what makes you think the American government is so special ? Kaj Haulrich Denmark There's no intimation here that this is an

Re: [newbie] mp3's left side only. (found problem.... I think.)

2002-05-17 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Franki wrote: Hi guys.. It appears that I have blown the left channel on the sound cards on both the laptop and the linux box.. I have a cable that I plug in to the output of each to plug it into the main house sound system.. that cable must have a short, because

[newbie] Linux version of Windows Media Player

2002-05-17 Thread Thomas Beno
I have only recently become acquainted with Linux through Mandrake-Linux 8.2. Is there a Linux version of a media player that will allow one to log onto Internet radio stations? If so, where can I go to download it? Tom Beno Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Mozilla RC2 anyone?

2002-05-17 Thread Charlie
On Friday 17 May 2002 04:13 pm, you wrote: Hi Charlie, I just installed that version last night and thought it was blistering. In fact it seemed to start a lot faster then RC1. No complaints here. ~~ Howdy daRc; It is seemingly a lot

Re: [newbie] krootwarning?

2002-05-17 Thread Michael Adams
I was curious about this one myself. It was low on my priority list though. Thanks Derek. Thankyou thankyou thankyou. Of course if that is not the only thing this little doohicky does someone better jump in real quick else it is and ex-program. Michael On Sat, 18 May 2002 10:36, Derek

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 17 May 2002 06:48 pm, you wrote: On Friday 17 May 2002 21:47, you wrote: On Friday 17 May 2002 07:20 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 15:02, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Lyvim, what makes you think the American government is so special ? Kaj Haulrich Denmark

Re: [newbie] How to restore lilo?

2002-05-17 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Carlos Jimenez wrote: Hi I had a dual boot (windows, linux) and i had to format Windows partition. My problem is that i lost lilo. How can i restore it, using the mandrake CD? I'd thank if someone could explain this step by step. Another question is how can i create a

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 17 May 2002 23:48:39 +0100, Derek Byram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 17 May 2002 21:47, you wrote: On Friday 17 May 2002 07:20 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 15:02, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Lyvim, what makes you think the American government is so special ?

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-17 Thread shane
On Friday 17 May 2002 17:50, Carroll Grigsby opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Actually, Derek, it's worse than that. From what I've been reading at www.theregister.co.uk, it seems that the UK government is setting up their web sites so that you will

Re: [newbie] Linux version of Windows Media Player

2002-05-17 Thread Charlie
Friday 17 May 2002 05:42 pm,daRcmaTTeR wrote: - Original Message - From: Thomas Beno [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 7:21 PM Subject: [newbie] Linux version of Windows Media Player I have only recently become acquainted with Linux through

RE: [newbie] Samba issues.

2002-05-17 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Franki wrote: Its NTFS yes, but two questions.. why would the filesystem make a difference to smb?? and also, I have had this laptop for ages now, and have never had this issue before with previous linux installs.. So I am abit lost as to the reason... rgds

[newbie] XMMS

2002-05-17 Thread Thomas Beno
OK. I got in my manual and set up XMMS, went to Shoutcast.com and downloaded one of their site addresses and got it to play stereo on my computer. Now, three things. Does M$ own all the radio stations accessible with Windows Media Player? If Icecast and Cool FM are supporting open source,

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-17 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 16 May 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: The government taxes the individuals, while it's buddy MicroSh*t provides a spy conduit by which the government can track individuals that don't like the taxes, while MicroSh*t taxes the individuals, while the government

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-17 Thread Derek Byram
On Saturday 18 May 2002 02:26, you wrote: On Friday 17 May 2002 17:50, Carroll Grigsby opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Actually, Derek, it's worse than that. From what I've been reading at www.theregister.co.uk, it seems that the UK government is

Fwd: [newbie] Downloader / nt-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm

2002-05-17 Thread John Richard Smith
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [newbie] Downloader / nt-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 11:29:18 +0100 From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NT downloader - 3 CD download later - I like the

RE: [newbie] Samba issues.

2002-05-17 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Franki wrote: Thanks daRcmaTTeR Ok, so if we assume thats what it is.. how do I convince the win2000 pc that its talking to a win98 machine?? well...I recall when I was setting up samba to run on my Mandrake 8.2 machine on sunday afternoon that there was a setting in

Re: [newbie] Mozilla RC2 anyone?

2002-05-17 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Just wondered if anyone else has tried Release Candidate 2 of Mozilla 1 yet. I 'updated' it today and it doesn't really seem to be too terribly much better than RC1 was. There are a few bugs that I noticed immediately so if you don't like broken toys it may be a good idea to hold off.

Re: [newbie] Glad i don't surf with Windows

2002-05-17 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Michael Adams wrote: Check this out http://www.coolspyproducts.com/ispynow/?code=myo0510 Michael I hate those products with such a passion... they make me think 1984 was being optimistic. :( -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux.

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-17 Thread shane
On Friday 17 May 2002 20:05, Derek Byram opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I have learned a lot from this thread and others on this list, believe me. I'd never fully understood the implications from just reading The Register which I have linked on my

Re: [newbie] Linux version of Windows Media Player

2002-05-17 Thread daRcmaTTeR
- Original Message - From: Thomas Beno [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 7:21 PM Subject: [newbie] Linux version of Windows Media Player I have only recently become acquainted with Linux through Mandrake-Linux 8.2. Is there a Linux version of a media

[newbie] cron job

2002-05-17 Thread Miark
I have the following entry in my crontab to run every morning: 05 03 * * * tar -czf /backup/`date +%a`_www_backup.tar.gz /www But it's apparently _not_ doing it. However * Crond is running. * Other entries in the crontab are being performed. * Running the command manually works fine: tar

[newbie] OT:Fun sig lines from this list--any to add?

2002-05-17 Thread DAVEinDSM
I am sure there are more of these that deserve my attention...(and probably been posted before).these are just some I thought were funny or true or both :) Pretty sure some of these would make good bumper stickers.but it would be more fun to plaster them on the front of a

Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games

2002-05-17 Thread FemmeFatale
darklord wrote: On Thursday 16 May 2002 08:09 pm, you wrote: No, I get a 20fps drop in linux... so in windows if i avg say.. 80FPS, in linux I get 60fps. Go figures That is odd. Femme, I know you are bright person (where's my shades! grin) so you've probably checked everything

[newbie] kdm problem

2002-05-17 Thread shipahoy
Hi I did a fresh install of Mandrake 8.2, but without installing KDE2. I then installed KDE3. This went well, and KDE3 is great. My problem is that now I can't get into KDE3 from kdm. It takes me to IceWM instead. Now, gdm does take me to KDE3, and Xstart gives me the option of 11KDE which

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