Re: [newbie] 8.2 on ATI 8500DV?

2002-05-22 Thread shane
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 08:10 pm, Nelson Bartley opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > I'm wondering if anyone has installed 8.2 on a computer using the 8500DV > video card? I just tried installing a few minutes ago and it passed the > inspecting serial devi

Re: [newbie] Modem Installation Help

2002-05-22 Thread Xecut1on
Its in .c format so i did a make and itsaidihave to edit the "makefile" and I have no idea what to edit in it.

Re: [newbie] Modem Installation Help

2002-05-22 Thread Xecut1on
Maybe I am missing some of the files i gotit off a "bobo"(lol) site where did you get yours?

Re: [newbie] Modem Installation Help

2002-05-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 08:58 pm, you wrote: > I just got a copy of mandrake 8.2 and it says my modem is a winmodem (PCTel > HSP56 Micromodem) and will not install it. I have the linux driver for my > modem but I don't know how to install it. I'm very new to linux cans omeone > please help me out

[newbie] java runtime environment

2002-05-22 Thread Michael Kovary
Allright. After copying the file into the mozilla plugins directory, both mozilla and galeon completely crash and exit whenever I try opening a page with java. I've also tried symlinking to the files, and they don't crash but want me to install it. _

Re: [newbie] 8.2 on ATI 8500DV?

2002-05-22 Thread mycal62
Nelson Bartley wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > I'm wondering if anyone has installed 8.2 on a computer using the 8500DV > video card? I just tried installing a few minutes ago and it passed the > inspecting serial devices stage, went to go graphical, then just a black > screen. I know my monitor can do

Re: [newbie] re: java runtime environment

2002-05-22 Thread Michael Kovary
could you simply paste the contents of your text file into a mail message, because whenever I try to download it Hotmail send me into an endless loop of re-entering my password. >From: "Kurt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Michael Kovary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [newbie] re: java runtime

[newbie] 8.2 on ATI 8500DV?

2002-05-22 Thread Nelson Bartley
Hi Guys, I'm wondering if anyone has installed 8.2 on a computer using the 8500DV video card? I just tried installing a few minutes ago and it passed the inspecting serial devices stage, went to go graphical, then just a black screen. I know my monitor can do the resolution it's asking for, so I'

Re: [newbie] Heavy Gear II binaries.

2002-05-22 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 21:11, Kirtis B wrote: > I just spent a whole 4.95 on my windows copy of Heavy Gear II in the hopes that i'd >be able to find binaries for the linux version of the game. But alas my search has >produced nothing and i fear that my 4.95 has gone to waste. > > Can anyone help

Re: [newbie] VPN Connection

2002-05-22 Thread William R. Nash
Thanks for you help setting it up was not that hard. i was just overlooking 1 routing table. Thanks for your help. Bill Nash Message__ BestRegards, William R. Nash. Consultant Century Solutions Group, INC. Tel: 770-420-5546 Cell: 678-910-4505 Fax:

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-22 Thread shane
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 06:44 pm, Dick Mazierski opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > What I can't understand is, with all the complaints about Star Office > 6.0, why Sun Microsystems or Mandrake have not stepped in and offered a > solution to the problem.

[newbie] Modem Installation Help

2002-05-22 Thread Xecut1on
I just got a copy of mandrake 8.2 and it says my modem is a winmodem (PCTel HSP56 Micromodem) and will not install it. I have the linux driver for my modem but I don't know how to install it. I'm very new to linux cans omeone please help me out? Derek

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-22 Thread Dick Mazierski
Jim Dawson wrote: > I suspect that it may be the security level that LM is configured for. > > -Original Message- > From: Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 22 May 2002 15:29:26 +1000 > Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files > > On Wed,

RE: FW: [newbie] setting up a dnscache.

2002-05-22 Thread Franki
thanks heaps, I'll give that a go... I heard somewhere that djbdns has some sort of caching server as well, so I might look into that too... thanks again. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 23

Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again

2002-05-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 06:47 pm, you wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:25, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > Brian: > > According to my notes, it's nspluginscan, not nsplugin. Then you'll have > > to close and reopen KDE. If all has gone well, the Netscape Plugins > > option will show up in the Konquer

[newbie] Heavy Gear II binaries.

2002-05-22 Thread Kirtis B
I just spent a whole 4.95 on my windows copy of Heavy Gear II in the hopes that i'd be able to find binaries for the linux version of the game. But alas my search has produced nothing and i fear that my 4.95 has gone to waste. Can anyone help me out here, or am gonna have to reboot? KIRT --

[newbie] New Frozen Bubble and js question

2002-05-22 Thread D. Olson
Frozen Bubble 0.9.3 came out today, as far as I know... Does anyone know if you can emulate keystrokes somehow with a joystick? I REALLY want to play this game with my joystick. Thanks! -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ "Outlook is a petri dish. I don't know why anyo

Re: [newbie] Lilo vanishes

2002-05-22 Thread Joseph Braddock
Boot off of CD1 and when the installer displays, type rescue (instead of doing an install or update). Once rescue mode loads, you should have an option to reinstall lilo. Select that and follow any prompts or directions. When done, you should be able to reboot and have lilo be the boot manag

Re: [newbie] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)

2002-05-22 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 18:44, Robin wrote: > I'd say it was half turn-on and half turn-off. The man's enthusiasm and > idealism are infectious (I saw him here in Turkey and was impressed) but > his dogmatism and bile are off-putting. Stallman is the Bakunin of > software. the Same goes for Eric

[newbie] Internet & Networking

2002-05-22 Thread John P. Chambers
Here is my problem as best I can define it. Running Mandrake Linux 8.2 Pro Suite Connected to a Linksys BEFR41 4 port router with a NAT firewall, DHCP Server (Running) When set up everything was fine and I could get to the internet. However, I was not able to log onto the local net and could not o

Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again

2002-05-22 Thread Robin
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:25, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > Brian: > According to my notes, it's nspluginscan, not nsplugin. Then you'll have to > close and reopen KDE. If all has gone well, the Netscape Plugins option will > show up in the Konqueror configuration menu. However, I've found that those

Re: [newbie] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)

2002-05-22 Thread Robin
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 16:25, Tom Brinkman wrote: > OTOH you're wrong (ie, 'more important things to do') I'd offer > OpenOffice as opposed to StarOffice, 'nv' vs. 'nvidia' drivers as > examples. OpenOffice only came into existence because Sun were enlightened enough to release the code

RE: FW: [newbie] setting up a dnscache.

2002-05-22 Thread zeynalbandari
hi ! i hope this can help you . it's a very simple simple cache that i used once and it worked as far as i recall. you can download a file called root.hint from the authoritive organisation in your country , mine is internic.se , and place it in /var/named/ 1. install bind9 2. copy the secret

Re: [newbie] Sendmail Setup Info

2002-05-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 23 May 2002 05:56, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 2002 13:47:40 -0400 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am interested in setting up Sendmail on my linux machine to provide > > email for my domain. > > > > As I have never set this up I am interested in how to do this. Can > > a

Re: [newbie] Sendmail Setup Info

2002-05-22 Thread Derek Jennings
As always Mandrake user is your friend http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/index.html#mtuw Having played with it recently I can vouch for Postfix being significantly easier to configure than sendmail. derek On Wednesday 22 May 2002 6:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > I am i

Re: [newbie] CheckInstall 1.5.1 on ML8.2

2002-05-22 Thread David Johnson
I got it working. Turns out that the RPM I installed from ML CD's was causing the problem. I had to force removal of the broken RPM before building the software from source. Now it's working fine. Thanks for the help On Tuesday 21 May 2002 03:29 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Tuesday 21 May

Re: FW: [newbie] setting up a dnscache.

2002-05-22 Thread Randy Kramer
Franki wrote: > thanks Mr Randy... You're welcome! Just to be clear, I've never set up squid either, but I have done a fair amount of reading on it -- I plan (hope?) to set up a squid server for use in a classroom environment with (intentionally) limited access to the Internet. We expect that m

Re: OT: signatures WAS: [newbie] DivX Player - Solution found

2002-05-22 Thread Stormjumper
ha! never guessed that such an innoculous qn can generate a discussion that delves into physics. anyway, thanks for all the answers. :) - Original Message - From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 1:48 PM Subject: Re: OT:

RE: [newbie] Sendmail Setup Info

2002-05-22 Thread Franki
Title: RE: [newbie] Sendmail Setup Info start looking at postfix..   if you don't need sendmail for a specific reason, and you don't know sendmail.. then postfix is for you.   reasons. :   1. Postfix is really easy to setup and in most cases the defaults will get you most of the way there.

Re: [newbie] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)

2002-05-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 23 May 2002 02:09, darklord wrote: > On Wednesday 22 May 2002 12:18 am, you wrote: > > Now in this article he's warning us about non-free software in other > > areas. My personal opinion is that although he seems rather extreme at > > times, it's merely because he's ahead of his time. Th

RE: FW: [newbie] setting up a dnscache.

2002-05-22 Thread Franki
thanks Mr Randy... I don't think squid is necessary in retrospect.. first of all, there are only currently 5 other systems on the network, and two of them are test servers that serve no other purpose but testing cgi scripts. (win2000 and linux) the others are workstations, and we have very diffe

RE: [newbie] Am I back on???? (and a mini ADSL router question.)

2002-05-22 Thread Franki
I got a static IP address with this account.. I also have my own NS server on one of my other servers, and I have two domain names.. my posting troubles have ended forever. Incidently, does anyone know if there is a ADSL router like the Cisco 827 that can do full adsl routing, (as opposed to bri

RE: [newbie] SNF access

2002-05-22 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] SNF access Sorry, windows 2000 did it again. It doesn't seem to retain the plain text setting from boot up to boot up. My appologies for the html.  Dennis m.(small m cause I feel a bit small for making this mistake again.HeHe) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [newbie] Slow keys SOLVED

2002-05-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 23 May 2002 16:56, David wrote: > Michael Adams said onto me: > -- > > |On Wed, 22 May 2002 12:52, Gerald Waugh wrote: > |> On Tuesday 21 May 2002 08:17 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > |> > Michael Adams wrote: > |> > > When typi

Re: FW: [newbie] setting up a dnscache.

2002-05-22 Thread Randy Kramer
Franki wrote: > I'd love some tips,,, is this a question for the expert list? I suspect so, especially if you don't get any answer in the next 24 hours. I can't help you, I can spell DNS, I've read about it, but never set it up. Uuh, wait: Maybe I can help on squid -- it can save on total bandw

[newbie] Konqueror rolling up its windows?

2002-05-22 Thread David Reynolds
I recently upgraded to both KDE 3.0 and ML 8.2, so I'm not sure which is causing the problem. However after about 3 weeks of more-or-less error free operation, Konqueror has begun to display some strange behavior, no pun intended. I got home one day to find the Konqueror window I had been using

Re: [newbie] Partition Check Hangs

2002-05-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 08:41 am, K Montgomery wrote: > Civileme, > > Problem is now solved. I dropped my clock rate back to normal > (350, ) and I got past the hanging point. Then I think I > got as far as selecting the security level, and the fsck of my > Linux partitions kept giving a "code

Re: [newbie] Slow keys

2002-05-22 Thread David
Michael Adams said onto me: -- |On Wed, 22 May 2002 12:52, Gerald Waugh wrote: |> On Tuesday 21 May 2002 08:17 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: |> > Michael Adams wrote: |> > > When typing away in Kmail or KWrite some key strokes take a

Re: [newbie] cable modem question

2002-05-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 21:16, you wrote: > I have linux 7.1 and i dont know a thing, but want to learn. I am on a > cable modem but dont know how to configure linux to operate on the cable > modem. I have internet through at&t broadband. Could someone give me a step > by step instructons? Thanks

Re: [newbie] cable modem question

2002-05-22 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 03:16 pm, Raymond Whipple wrote: > I have linux 7.1 and i dont know a thing, but want to learn. I am on a > cable modem but dont know how to configure linux to operate on the cable > modem. I have internet through at&t broadband. Could someone give me a step > by step inst

[newbie] kde3 taskbar wont work

2002-05-22 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
I posted this on the expert list and got no responses. Let's see how it goes here. I really like kde I have Mandrake 8.1 with kde3 installed. All has been fine until a couple of nights ago when I decided to scan some pics with kooka. I had problems with this in 2.x, however tried it. Well my

[newbie] cable modem question

2002-05-22 Thread Raymond Whipple
I have linux 7.1 and i dont know a thing, but want to learn. I am on a cable modem but dont know how to configure linux to operate on the cable modem. I have internet through at&t broadband. Could someone give me a step by step instructons? Thanks.   Raymond

Re: [newbie] Hercules Fortissimo II

2002-05-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 10:14 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2002 18:07:19 -0600 > > FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Google loves: > > Bsd - http://www.google.ca/bsd > > Mac - http://www.google.ca/mac.html > > Linux - http://www.google.ca/linux > > US Govt. - http://www.go

Re: [newbie] harddrake & new video card

2002-05-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 05:59 pm, Michael Adams wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 2002 01:40, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Monday 20 May 2002 02:11 pm, s wrote: > > > You wouldn't know the exact video ram of a 128mb card or how I > > > could find it, do you? That's what I was looking around for > > > when I d

[newbie] Lilo vanishes

2002-05-22 Thread Ian Brooksbank
I installed Mandrake Linux 8.1 on th D drive of a compaq deskpro 2000 Pentium 166 with a standard Compaq P50 monitor, and in doing so my Windows 98 installation on the C drive suffered quite a bit.  However I got Linux running,  it worked just fine, and at Boot up Lilo would give me the choi

Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again

2002-05-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Brian: According to my notes, it's nspluginscan, not nsplugin. Then you'll have to close and reopen KDE. If all has gone well, the Netscape Plugins option will show up in the Konqueror configuration menu. However, I've found that those damn popups still appear on some sites. I'm not sure why, b

Re: [newbie] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)

2002-05-22 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 15:04, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > LX, > > I'm sorry, but I'm coming into the thread a little late. Whats this about > freedom and BB conections? > The other messages that have hit the list may not have made it to your ISP yet; as of this message Tom Brinkman and I both have

Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again

2002-05-22 Thread shane
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 00:02, Brian Parish opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > Maybe it's because I have a lousy cold and a foggy brain (please insert > sympathy here), but shouldn't installing kdebase-nsplugins result in > Konqueror finding a flash playe

Re: [newbie] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)

2002-05-22 Thread darklord
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 12:18 am, you wrote: > Now in this article he's warning us about non-free software in other > areas. My personal opinion is that although he seems rather extreme at > times, it's merely because he's ahead of his time. These are problems > that will come to pass either s

Re: [newbie] RPM FILES

2002-05-22 Thread K Montgomery
I believe it means that package file was built (optimized?) specifically for the PowerPC (Apple) architecture, as opposed to, say, i586 (Intel). - Kathy On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 11:55, John Richard Smith wrote: > What does the does .ppc mean as in .ppc.rpm > John > -- > John Richard Smith > [EMAI

Re: [newbie] A little advice.

2002-05-22 Thread Chris Ames
Thanx. I didn't know about Easynews until now. I'll have to check it later. Right now, I have a truck that needs a new water pump desperatly. I've never tried Pan, so I'll have to take a look at it. This whole thing is a learning experience. I had Mandrake once before, but my roommate who load

Re: [newbie] Partition Check Hangs

2002-05-22 Thread K Montgomery
Civileme, Problem is now solved. I dropped my clock rate back to normal (350, ) and I got past the hanging point. Then I think I got as far as selecting the security level, and the fsck of my Linux partitions kept giving a "code 4 or signal 0" error (that may not be exact, sorry again). So I b

Re: [newbie] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)

2002-05-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 02:39 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: > Mind you, the Stallman piece is interesting; his line is that, as > Linux contains rather a lot of GNU material, it should be called > GNU/Linux and not enough credit is given for the involvement. It is called GNU/Linux. Only the kerne

Re: [newbie] Slow keys

2002-05-22 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 01:45 am, Michael Adams wrote: > > It not the memory thing. It may be to do with my choice of the > US(international) keyboard. All KDE apps wait to see what the next > character typed is and then place accents (grávès?) on the vowels. Nice > feature, but how do i turn it

Re: [newbie] KDE loses sound...

2002-05-22 Thread John Richard Smith
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 04:04, you wrote: > Anyone else notice that from the Control Center -> Look n Feel -> > System notifications, that if you preview an AU sound file that it > not only doesn't play, but you lose sound until the next time KDE > is restarted. Is this a known bug or just somethin

Re: [newbie] Video again

2002-05-22 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 05:07, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 12:53, Nicolas VERITE wrote: > > Le mer 15/05/2002 à 10:59, Robin Turner a écrit : > > > Has any one here had any success getting Mandrake to download > > > from a camcorder via USB? > > > > > > Sir Robin > > > > With or w

Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again

2002-05-22 Thread Jason Pearce
Hi Brian, try nsplugin at the command line I think that is what i did but it was a while ago good luck cheers jason On Wednesday 22 May 2002 17:02, you wrote: > Maybe it's because I have a lousy cold and a foggy brain (please insert > sympathy here), but shouldn't installing kdebase-nsplugins r

Re: [newbie] Locked cdrom and floppy drives

2002-05-22 Thread Simon Matthews
I have had similar problems on my Dell Inspriron 4100 notebook. This i think is caused by the floppy and CD sharing hardware interfaces. I did read somewhere on the Mandrake website about this and have solved the problems i was having by changing the method the floppy is mounted from automatic us

Re: [newbie] VPN Connection

2002-05-22 Thread Brian Parish
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/VPN-Masquerade-HOWTO.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/VPN-HOWTO.html On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 21:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was looking at setting a VPN also so i could use my server resource like > printer and connect to my PIM. > Bill > > > > VPN = Virtual P