Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader

2002-06-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 23 June 2002 12:44 am, you wrote: > Dennis Myers wrote: > >On Saturday 22 June 2002 10:47 pm, you wrote: > >>On Saturday 22 June 2002 07:30 pm, Dennis Myers did speak unto the > >> huddled > >> > >>masses, saying: > >>>Hi all, I bought a PNY compact flash card reader, usb type and had se

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-22 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, shane wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 21 June 2002 03:32 am, Len Lawrence did speak unto the huddled > masses, saying: > > > > You want an RPM of OO1.0? You have plenty of bandwidth? > > > Then try Rangers version > > > http://www.pclinu

Re: [newbie] Can't browse the 'net

2002-06-22 Thread civileme
F. McKenna wrote: >Hi all, > >Like it says in the subject line I can't browse the 'net. Mandrake 8.2 >dials out with my 33.6 modem and connects to my ISP but I can't browse using >Konq, Netscape, or Mozilla. > >I have made all three users part of the PPP group but I am not sure where to >take it

Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader

2002-06-22 Thread civileme
Dennis Myers wrote: >On Saturday 22 June 2002 10:47 pm, you wrote: > >>On Saturday 22 June 2002 07:30 pm, Dennis Myers did speak unto the huddled >> >>masses, saying: >> >>>Hi all, I bought a PNY compact flash card reader, usb type and had seen >>>where several folks were able to use it on Mandra

Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-22 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, shane wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 20 June 2002 10:15 pm, Len Lawrence did speak unto the huddled > masses, saying: > > > > Try Star-office, it is more solid and user friendly. > > > > Already have SO 5.2. > > do yourself a favor an

Re: [newbie] setting mouse speed with xset on start-up scripts

2002-06-22 Thread Steve Jeppesen
Sorry Derek, meant to send this to the mailing list! Thank you for your help Derek. I ended up just adding it to ~/bash_profile since I am the only user, and I hardly ever log in as root. Also tried adding it to /etc/profile as su but it still reported that file was readonly. No problem thoug

Re: [newbie] Can't browse the 'net

2002-06-22 Thread Scott
On Saturday 22 June 2002 09:20 pm, you wrote: > Hi all, > > Like it says in the subject line I can't browse the 'net. Mandrake 8.2 > dials out with my 33.6 modem and connects to my ISP but I can't browse > using Konq, Netscape, or Mozilla. > > I have made all three users part of the PPP group but

[newbie] Can't browse the 'net

2002-06-22 Thread F. McKenna
Hi all, Like it says in the subject line I can't browse the 'net. Mandrake 8.2 dials out with my 33.6 modem and connects to my ISP but I can't browse using Konq, Netscape, or Mozilla. I have made all three users part of the PPP group but I am not sure where to take it from here. Your help woul

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread dfox
> I know that Alsa and another sound system (forgot its name at present) should > not be run in tandem, but what else is there? I don't think there's an ad hoc list, but there are certain things you wouldn't want to try and use together -- like sendmail and postfix; i's pretty obvious that you c

Re: [newbie] sound card advice

2002-06-22 Thread Scott
On Saturday 22 June 2002 05:32 pm, you wrote: > Scott wrote: > >On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:36 pm, you wrote: > >>On Saturday 22 June 2002 11:58 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: > >>>Soundblaster? It's about the most well known one around, and > >>>although Linux may not support the latest top of the rang

Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader

2002-06-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 22 June 2002 10:47 pm, you wrote: > On Saturday 22 June 2002 07:30 pm, Dennis Myers did speak unto the huddled > > masses, saying: > > Hi all, I bought a PNY compact flash card reader, usb type and had seen > > where several folks were able to use it on Mandrake 8.2. I tried > > mount

Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader

2002-06-22 Thread Joseph Braddock
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 21:30:09 -0500 Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I bought a PNY compact flash card reader, usb type and had seen where > several folks were able to use it on Mandrake 8.2. I tried mounting it but > it is not coming up. I used mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/co

Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader

2002-06-22 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 June 2002 07:30 pm, Dennis Myers did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > Hi all, I bought a PNY compact flash card reader, usb type and had seen > where several folks were able to use it on Mandrake 8.2. I tried > mounting it bu

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.3

2002-06-22 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 June 2002 05:14 pm, tom brinkman did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > I believe Linus is right tho, best way to make Linux vulnerable > and suck just as bad as Micro$oft crap, is to start taint'n it with > closed source bi

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread civileme
Michael Adams wrote: >On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:32, darklord wrote: > >>On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote: >> >> >> >>>What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! >>> Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, >>>f2c, R-base, amphetamine

[newbie] compact flash card usb reader

2002-06-22 Thread Dennis Myers
Hi all, I bought a PNY compact flash card reader, usb type and had seen where several folks were able to use it on Mandrake 8.2. I tried mounting it but it is not coming up. I used mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash reply is /mnt/compactflash does not exist. What or how do I create a

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 04:39, Miark wrote: > > ...toggle to the flat list where you have a POSIX sorted list of all the > > packages you can install with your selected packages checkmarked. > > > > What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! > > Undoubtedly, you will enjoy lea

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:32, darklord wrote: > On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote: > > > > > What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! > > Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, > > f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml,

Re: [newbie] sound card advice

2002-06-22 Thread tom brinkman
On Saturday 22 June 2002 03:42 pm, Scott wrote: me: > > http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hres2.html#Sound > > > >has two links, one for OSS and one for ALSA. Check out both > > for supported devices, but I'd try for a card supported by ALSA. > > You should also take a look inside

Re: [newbie] Windows, small OT on Linux-nonfb

2002-06-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 02:09, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Sat 22 Jun 2002 15:59, robin wrote: > > nonfb = non-frame-buffer. Sometimes necessary with older video cards (I > > had to use it for a while - I think it was on my Trdent 3DImage). If > > normal linux is working fine in X, you should never nee

[newbie] Package description on rpminst

2002-06-22 Thread Gustavo Rahal
On rpminst I can't see the information from rpm packages like description, size etc... Shouldn't package information come with the hdlist file? Only the packages from plf repositary have those type of information. Gustavo ___ Y

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.3

2002-06-22 Thread tom brinkman
On Saturday 22 June 2002 03:06 pm, Jordan Elver wrote: > Jordan Elver > http://www.jordanelver.co.uk > "testing? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up > it is perfect." --- Linus Torvalds That's sort'a humorous, but on the serious side... http://www.linuxjournal.com/arti

[newbie] How to start developing linux software

2002-06-22 Thread olaf_lists
Hi, I recently studied C and now I'd like to write some linux apps. I need documentation but I wasn't able to find it in internet. My goal is to write a GUI app (GTK, I found some docs about it), but I also need to connect directly to Xfree to achieve better performance. My final goal is to po

Re: [newbie] does apt-get really work in Mandrake?

2002-06-22 Thread dfox
> I started using mandrake about a week ago. Before > mandrake I used conectiva. Although I have a little > experience with urpm I think it is better than apt. >From my limited experience I've had better success with rpmfind, actually, especially rpmfind -newer. But I am thinking that the (recent

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.3

2002-06-22 Thread tom brinkman
On Saturday 22 June 2002 03:06 pm, Jordan Elver wrote: > Hi, > Been searching the net for info on Mandrake 8.3 i.e. when and what > it will include? Anyone know of any links or anything please? oLurk (don't post) on the cooker mailing list. It is _not_ intended to be a discussion or support

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread FemmeFatale
darklord wrote: > On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote: > > > >>What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! >> Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, >>f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml, happy, hugs, haskell, >>nasm, n

Re: [newbie] Windows, small OT on Linux-nonfb

2002-06-22 Thread FemmeFatale
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Sat 22 Jun 2002 15:59, robin wrote: > >>nonfb = non-frame-buffer. Sometimes necessary with older video cards (I >>had to use it for a while - I think it was on my Trdent 3DImage). If >>normal linux is working fine in X, you should never need it. >> >> > > And I can add

Re: [newbie] Windows, small OT on Linux-nonfb

2002-06-22 Thread FemmeFatale
heh Thx. Wondered if thats what it was. robin wrote: > Steve Jeppesen wrote: > >> Don't know about nonfb, but I had to use failsafe within the past few >> days. >> It is kinda like safe mode in M$, but only root can log in...at least >> for the problem I had. >> > nonfb = non-frame-buffer. S

Re: [newbie] sound card advice

2002-06-22 Thread civileme
Scott wrote: >On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:36 pm, you wrote: > >>On Saturday 22 June 2002 11:58 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: >> >>>Soundblaster? It's about the most well known one around, and >>>although Linux may not support the latest top of the range cards, >>>you implied that you wanted a cheaper,

Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping Tools

2002-06-22 Thread Ralph Slooten
Woops, sorry for the jumping-to-the-conclusion ;-) Search for "mencoder commands" and "mplayer" ;-0 Greetings Ralph On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Jordan Elver wrote: > Doh, I only subscribed today. Will check the archives :-) > > On Saturday 22 June 2002 3:33 pm, you wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Jo

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.3

2002-06-22 Thread civileme
Jordan Elver wrote: >Hi, >Been searching the net for info on Mandrake 8.3 i.e. when and what it will >include? Anyone know of any links or anything please? > >Cheers, >Jord > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from Ma

Re: [newbie] GCC problems

2002-06-22 Thread civileme
Matt Dalen wrote: > >> insmod is used for loading kernel modules. That means you need to be >> in root mode and logged to /usr/src/linux and >> >> make mrproper >> make deps >> make modules install >> >> (and of course hello.c would have to be added to the kernel modules >> source code and app

[newbie] print screen?

2002-06-22 Thread Josef Lowder
Does the keyboard "Print Screen" key work with Linux in the same way as it does with Windows? ... so a captured screen image automatically goes to a clipboard and can then be pasted directly into any graphics app? I have tried using "Screen Capture," but that seems rather cumbersome by compa

[newbie] Re: downloaded mandrake 8.2 (ftp), need directory struct. for disk 3

2002-06-22 Thread iggy
On Saturday 22 June 2002 02:37 pm, you wrote: > hello to all the good people out there. > > i downloaded via ftp mandrake 8.2 download edition (over dialup! yes, it > took weeks! dedication baby!). anyway, i have disks 1 and 2 already as > they came w/ a magazine i bought. the problem is that i

Re: [newbie] mozilla files

2002-06-22 Thread Jure Repinc
J or M Montgomery wrote: > Hello folks, > Can anyone tell me where Mozilla keeps the mail boxes, addresses and > bookmarks. > > I want to back them up but there is no thing ing my /home directory. > > I am using build 2001 09 2020 with Mandrake 8.1. > > Thanks > John Montgomery The exact path

[newbie] Graphical login after KDE3 upgrade

2002-06-22 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I've removed Kde 2.2.2 and installed Mandrake's Kde 3.01, but I can no longer get to the graphical login. It's trying to get to it continuosly, and I cannot get to a console using ctrl+alt+f1 (or 2, 3, 4). If I start in maintenance mode, normal boot without X I can then use startx wit

Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING (OT) Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway

2002-06-22 Thread Anne Wilson
civileme wrote: > Well, I will say this once then shut up. > > Sorry John Rigby, I don't agree. I think your philosophies are warped > and skewed from reality. > > For a long time businesses were closed communities. Everyone followed > what some people studying Henry Ford had concluded: tha

Re: [newbie] sound card advice

2002-06-22 Thread tom brinkman
On Saturday 22 June 2002 11:58 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: > Soundblaster? It's about the most well known one around, and > although Linux may not support the latest top of the range cards, > you implied that you wanted a cheaper, so I would just go for an > older sort. They are cheap. As far as easy

Re: [newbie] Virus in Linus OS ...

2002-06-22 Thread s
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 04:31 am, FARSHAD wrote: > hi > i have heard there aren't any Virus in Linux OS , is that right ? > how do work Linux which virus can't infect that .. > what's your idea ? > bye ummm, no viruses really. There have been few limited worms and trojans, but basically i

Re: [newbie] Modules build errors

2002-06-22 Thread s
On Saturday 22 June 2002 11:49 am, Richard Ingram wrote: > Hello, > Just installed Mandrake 8.2 on my Dual PentiumPro box and decided to fine > tune the kernel, make bzImage builds no problem but when the modules build > I get the following compile errors: The first thing I think of when someone

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread s
On Saturday 22 June 2002 12:35 am, civileme wrote: > > Well in one of mandrakesoft's least ergonomic moments, I actually like the way they are all put in one list in alphabetical order. I think redhat's and suse's way of doing it is tedious. :P Mandrake - the lazy man's OS. :D -s W

Re: [newbie] mouse speed

2002-06-22 Thread tom brinkman
On Saturday 22 June 2002 12:04 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:43:12 -0500 > tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 69ยข ?, that IS inexpensive ;> Look in Control Center | > > Peripherals | Mouse, and clk on the Advanced tab. I believe > > you'll find the adjustments you

Re: [newbie] MPlayer

2002-06-22 Thread tom brinkman
On Saturday 22 June 2002 11:18 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > alias ="" > > > > The command needs to be enclosed with either single or double > > quotes. Put your aliases in bashrc at the end of the file after > > the last 'fi'. Try it, you'll like it ;) > > Thanks Tom, > > Your reply has

Re: [newbie] mouse speed

2002-06-22 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:43:12 -0500 tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 21 June 2002 10:04 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > > I'm using a cheap wheel mouse I got for $0.69 from newegg.com, and > > it works pretty well, but sometimes a single-click gets interpreted > > as a double-click. Is

Re: [newbie] MPlayer

2002-06-22 Thread John Richard Smith
On Saturday 22 June 2002 17:28, you wrote: > > Thanks Tom, > > > > Your reply has stimulated my thinking, I had noticed various > > pieces of threads where people were setting up aliases and had > > thought of perhaps doing something with this device , but my > > knowledge is a bit lacking. It's

Re: [newbie] mozilla files

2002-06-22 Thread Ralph Slooten
/home//.mozilla//<*.slt>/mail or thereabouts On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, J or M Montgomery wrote: > Hello folks, > Can anyone tell me where Mozilla keeps the mail boxes, addresses and > bookmarks. > > I want to back them up but there is no thing ing my /home directory. > > I am using build 2001 09

Re: [newbie] sound card advice

2002-06-22 Thread Ralph Slooten
Soundblaster? It's about the most well known one around, and although Linux may not support the latest top of the range cards, you implied that you wanted a cheaper, so I would just go for an older sort. They are cheap. As far as easy to configure... auto-detected should be easy enough ;-) Gre

[newbie] mozilla files

2002-06-22 Thread J or M Montgomery
Hello folks, Can anyone tell me where Mozilla keeps the mail boxes, addresses and bookmarks. I want to back them up but there is no thing ing my /home directory. I am using build 2001 09 2020 with Mandrake 8.1. Thanks John Montgomery Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] Modules build errors

2002-06-22 Thread Richard Ingram
Hello, System Info: Tyan S1668 Dual PentiumPro@180MHz 224MB RAM TNT2 32MB Promise Ultra66 Card Netgear FA311 Ethernet SB AWE64 15GB Quantum LCT15. Just installed Mandrake 8.2 on my Dual PentiumPro box and decided to fine tune the kernel, make bzImage builds no problem but when the modules build

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread Miark
> ...toggle to the flat list where you have a POSIX sorted list of all the > packages you can install with your selected packages checkmarked. > > What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! > Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, > f2c

Re: [newbie] MPlayer

2002-06-22 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: > On Friday 21 June 2002 14:32, you wrote: > > > Rather than store the commands and then fetch 'em with cut'n > > paste, put them in bashrc as aliases. If you put them in > > /etc/bashrc they'll be system wide. Put in your users .bashrc, > > th

[newbie] sound card advice

2002-06-22 Thread Scott
Can someone please recommend a decent, fairly cheap sound card that is easy to configure with 8.1? Using compaq 5220 pc. Appreciate it, SW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie]

2002-06-22 Thread dfox
> But I am, at least sometime (LAME, GIMP, data crunching, ... of course for > the kernel... ONLY GCC!) What makes you think that Mcirosoft's compilers generate any better code than gcc does? gcc is far more flexible in my opinon when it comes to compiler optimization and instruction scheduling.

Re: [newbie] rpm

2002-06-22 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 June 2002 06:41 am, T C did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > I still don't have ksetiwatch > working, (it was at one time) but seti@home still runs there is a ksetiwatch rpm on the cds if that helps. personally i find that

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2002-06-22 Thread dfox
> I was inspired by this to try running setiathome, but I keep getting an > error message: Did you first create the account? i.e., setiathome -login Other than that I am not sure of this error message but gethostbyname is a syscall that looks up a internet host 'by name' so my guess is that for

Re: OT was Re: Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-22 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 June 2002 07:52 am, Ralph Slooten did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > Forking Rolling On the Floor Forking Laughing ;-) you forked twice? can we assume all 4 ralphs are doing fine? - -- "The universe is a figment of its o

Re: OT was Re: Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-22 Thread Stormjumper
lol. should have guessed something like that... my bad. :) - Original Message - From: "Ralph Slooten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 10:52 PM Subject: Re: OT was Re: Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0 > Forking Rolling On the Floor Forking Laugh

Re: [newbie] MPlayer

2002-06-22 Thread John Richard Smith
On Friday 21 June 2002 14:32, you wrote: > Rather than store the commands and then fetch 'em with cut'n > paste, put them in bashrc as aliases. If you put them in > /etc/bashrc they'll be system wide. Put in your users .bashrc, > they'll be just for that user. > >Example, I use this alia

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2002-06-22 Thread robin
dfox wrote: >>downloaded, unpacked and chmod'd setiathome, but every time I type in >>"setiathome -graphics 6" as per the README's all I get back is a command not >> > >Prepend ./ because the current directory isn't in your PATH. But you might >as well not add the -graphics parameter as graphic

Re: [newbie] perl modules

2002-06-22 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I got the following Could not fetch modules/03modlist.data.gz Warning: Cannot install IO::Socket::SSL, don't know what it is. Try the command i /IO::Socket::SSL/ to find objects with matching identifiers. cpan> q Lockfile removed. [root@localhost lvgandhi]# perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan shell

[newbie] samba: duplicate smbd process causing connection issue

2002-06-22 Thread Stormjumper
i'm running mandrake 8.2. i've configured smb.conf, and got it working, so that it is accessible from a win98 machine. one strange issue is every now and then, i will not be able to connect from win98, with the error dialog box: //mandrake is not accessible no permission to access resource wh

Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping Tools

2002-06-22 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Jordan Elver wrote: > Does anyone know of any good dvd ripping tools or resources about dvd ripping > etc? Hehehe, been looking at any mother e-mails on this list. The last 3 days there have probably been 15 about mencoder and mplayer. -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g

Re: OT was Re: Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-22 Thread Ralph Slooten
Forking Rolling On the Floor Forking Laughing ;-) Sorry, it just spang ti mind when I wrote it ;-) On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Stormjumper wrote: > hmm, what's FROFFL??? > - Original Message - > From: "Ralph Slooten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 2

Re: [newbie] Re: Mencoder Commands

2002-06-22 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Chris Spackman wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:19:49 +0200 (CEST) > Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "mencoder -dvd 1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=633 > > -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -o Matrix.avi" > > > >

OT was Re: Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-22 Thread Stormjumper
hmm, what's FROFFL??? - Original Message - From: "Ralph Slooten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 2:59 AM Subject: Re: Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0 > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, johan wrote: > > > ROFL > > I will double that ;-) Or just make it FROFF

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Re: Mencoder Commands

2002-06-22 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: > Well I have your lame rpm and it installed itself flawlessly. Great stuff ;-) At least I know it works on other systems. > I'm currently repeating the process but with all 163 chapters of the > film, this will take a while, no compression as ye

Re: [newbie] locked floppy drive

2002-06-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 21 June 2002 11:13 pm, you wrote: > On Friday 21 June 2002 10:28 pm, you wrote: > > That's pretty cool. Things have come a long way since I first installed > > Linux! > > > > Sir Robin > > You said a mouthful there! I started with Mandrake v7.0 (well, TBH a unix > variant running on an

Re: [newbie] Windows, small OT on Linux-nonfb

2002-06-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sat 22 Jun 2002 15:59, robin wrote: > nonfb = non-frame-buffer. Sometimes necessary with older video cards (I > had to use it for a while - I think it was on my Trdent 3DImage). If > normal linux is working fine in X, you should never need it. > > And I can add to that, that it uses the lovel

Re: [newbie] mouse speed

2002-06-22 Thread tom Brinkman
On Friday 21 June 2002 10:04 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > I'm using a cheap wheel mouse I got for $0.69 from newegg.com, and > it works pretty well, but sometimes a single-click gets interpreted > as a double-click. Is there a way to adjust the sensitivity for > this in Mandrake 8.1? I looked in Contr

Re: [newbie] rpm

2002-06-22 Thread T C
Yes it did, thank you. I was under the mistaken impression that I needed to use the package name as its listed in rpmpkgs. I still don't have ksetiwatch working, (it was at one time) but seti@home still runs fine and I'll try to find out why ksetiwatch and ksetisaver don't work another day when I

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread darklord
On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote: > What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! > Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, > f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml, happy, hugs, haskell, > nasm, nano, nedit, cooledit, an

[newbie] Re: [newbie] How to use icc instead of gcc

2002-06-22 Thread olaf_lists
>Well, I am the LAST to recommend significant compilation with a >closed-source compiler., but here goes Me too, but in certain situations a faster code is much more important. >Now the links are set up so your 'makes' will all use icc. Maybe a bit "hard" solution, I plan to use icc only for f

[newbie] DVD Ripping Tools

2002-06-22 Thread Jordan Elver
Does anyone know of any good dvd ripping tools or resources about dvd ripping etc? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk "A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." - Doug Linder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Re: Mencoder Commands

2002-06-22 Thread Chris Spackman
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:19:49 +0200 (CEST) Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "mencoder -dvd 1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=633 > -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -o Matrix.avi" > >(all on one line) > > Broken down this

Re: [newbie] Sound card Base PCI A3D

2002-06-22 Thread Paul
In reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s mail, d.d. Sat, 22 Jun 2002 13:12:00 +0200 (MEST): >sndconfig tell me it found a sound card "Aureal Semiconductor|Vortex 1" and >that it isn't supported. > >- Why does sndconfig not find "Base PCI A3D"? It finds the sound chipset, which is Aureal in your case. >

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Re: Mencoder Commands

2002-06-22 Thread John Richard Smith
On Friday 21 June 2002 16:27, you wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > "mencoder -dvd 1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts > > > vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=633 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr > > > -o Matrix.avi" > > > > 15.26 BST > > > > I found a file called test.avi which is 5 minute

[newbie] Sound card Base PCI A3D

2002-06-22 Thread yvan_linux
I'm not able to get my sound card (Base PCI A3D) to work. I checked all the sound HowTo in /usr/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.14/sound/ but my sound card is not listed. I used lothar and sndconfig but with strange results. sndconfig tell me it found a sound card "Aureal Semiconductor|Vortex 1" and that it

Re: [newbie] Windows, small OT on Linux-nonfb

2002-06-22 Thread robin
Steve Jeppesen wrote: >Don't know about nonfb, but I had to use failsafe within the past few days. >It is kinda like safe mode in M$, but only root can log in...at least for >the problem I had. > nonfb = non-frame-buffer. Sometimes necessary with older video cards (I had to use it for a while

Re: [newbie] MPlayer error

2002-06-22 Thread Ralph Slooten
You could start by trying the latest MPlayer relese, maybe that'll help? On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I have mdk 8.2 with kde 3 in /opt and gcc 3.1.1. > I compiled MPlayer .90 rev 4 with --enable-gui option. It compiled and > installed ok. I made a menu item with application as gmp

Re: [newbie] locked floppy drive

2002-06-22 Thread darklord
On Friday 21 June 2002 10:28 pm, you wrote: > > That's pretty cool. Things have come a long way since I first installed > Linux! > > Sir Robin You said a mouthful there! I started with Mandrake v7.0 (well, TBH a unix variant running on an old Atari Falcon was my first 'Nix exposure) and had to