Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Avviare Gnome o KDE

2002-06-23 Thread Benedetto Santarella
Fatto, Gnome parte mentre KDE no, ho anche provato con startx kde-session, ma anche questo non funziona!!! N.B. Kde e' sicuramente installato e funzionante ! [newbie-it] Avviare Gnome o KDE wrote: Come posso scegliere Gnome o KDE quando lancio startx? possono esserci molti

[newbie-it] ragionevole proposta

2002-06-23 Thread gheblond
Propongo di mandare una e-mail di qualsiasi tipo (va bene di tutto) a chiunque chiede di sapere come si fa ad uscire (a cancellarsi) da questa ml. Della serie... per ogni e-mail del genere te ne arrivano centomila!!! ciao a tutti

[newbie-it] gimp e web

2002-06-23 Thread Arwan
Ciao! dovrei ridurre una trentina di foto a dimensioni predefinite, e abitualmente creavo una art gallery con Photoshop: il programma produceva da solo una pagina html con tutte le immagini dentro, ridotte a dimensioni da me stabilite, caricandole da una cartella che lui stesso creava. Quindi

[newbie-it] evolution account

2002-06-23 Thread Arwan
Ciao ! Qualcuno mi sa dire come si impostano piu' account su evolution? Ho creato i primi due, pero' del secondo non riesco a dare la password per scaricare le mail, e, ovviamente, quando faccio invia/ricevi va in errore. Trovo la casellina con ricorda la password ma non quella dove

Re: [newbie-it] Il demone esound rinnega Gnome.

2002-06-23 Thread Giuseppe Ferruzzi
LukenShiro wrote: Se non usi una seconda scheda sonora, puoi disattivare le richieste con un alias sound-slot-1 off in /etc/modules.conf Giuseppe Ferruzzi wrote: Ho provato ma mi rimane ancora la scritta modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0 Ho definitivamente risolto

Re: [newbie-it] evolution account

2002-06-23 Thread Giuseppe Ferruzzi
Arwan wrote: Ciao ! Qualcuno mi sa dire come si impostano piu' account su evolution? Ho creato i primi due, pero' del secondo non riesco a dare la password per scaricare le mail, e, ovviamente, quando faccio invia/ricevi va in errore. Trovo la casellina con ricorda la password ma non

Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader

2002-06-23 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 seen where several

[newbie] OT: Gnome Panel Level ??

2002-06-23 Thread gikoreno
Hi everyone, I know this is off topic, but maybe someone knows what's up with this... I just created a floating panel in Gnome, and added a "Desk Guide". Then I played around with the settings of the panel, and when I got to Panel/Properties/Level, I changed it from "Default" to "Below".

Re: [newbie] Upgrading Gcc to 3.01 from bugy 2.96 under Mandrak 8.2

2002-06-23 Thread Duane King
I say 'buggy' becouse it does not compile some libs correclty; I was/am trying to compile and install the newest version of Mplayer (As said in the email- see, I DID tell you the prog), but due to the fact that some of the libs (like LAME for example)compile incorrectly due to a very small bug in

[newbie] Missing posts

2002-06-23 Thread Anne Wilson
I know others have remarked on strange things happening, but I seem to often miss posts that start a new thread, picking it up on a reply. But then I know I'm getting some others through replies to replies, and that includes some that I have posted myself. Anyone any ideas as to what's

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

2002-06-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sun 23 Jun 2002 02:43, Michael Adams wrote: I thought the answer to this one (showing what is starting Ok) was to remove quiet in the lilo.conf stanza, then run lilo. Yep, Right you are but I'm not the only user over here and some do like the graphical version, so that's the default:o) I

Re: [newbie] Missing posts

2002-06-23 Thread Jure Repinc
Anne Wilson wrote: I know others have remarked on strange things happening, but I seem to often miss posts that start a new thread, picking it up on a reply. But then I know I'm getting some others through replies to replies, and that includes some that I have posted myself. Anyone any

Re: [newbie] OT: Gnome Panel Level ??

2002-06-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 03:28:10 -0400 (EDT), gikoreno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I know this is off topic, but maybe someone knows what's up with this... I just created a floating panel in Gnome, and added a Desk Guide. Then I played around with the settings of the panel, and

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.3

2002-06-23 Thread Jordan Elver
I have looked on Mandrake site and no mention of 8.3, I assume you mean the latest cooker from one of the mirrors? On Sunday 23 June 2002 12:27 am, you wrote: 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

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Problems with Win4Lin and Acrobat Reader 5

2002-06-23 Thread Derek Jennings
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems with Win4Lin and Acrobat Reader 5 Date: 23 Jun 2002 03:01:32 -0400 From: Terry Sheltra [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the replies that I've gotten .. both Win4Lin and Acrobat 5 are run natively, not

Re: [newbie] Problems with Win4Lin and Acrobat Reader 5

2002-06-23 Thread Derek Jennings
Sorry Terry I misunderstood your problem. Have you tried disabling AntiAliasing in KDE? That can sometimes fix problems with difficult fonts? derek On Sunday 23 June 2002 08:01, you wrote: Thanks for the replies that I've gotten .. both Win4Lin and Acrobat 5 are run natively, not within

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-06-23 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 15:59:59 -0400 KC1DI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all just joined the list.. and need some help.. I have had no sucess trying to configure my audio in Mandrake 8.2.. I Have an SIS onboard audio card get the error message /dev/dsp not valid device when KDE starts up

Re: [newbie] Missing posts

2002-06-23 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Jure Repinc wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I know others have remarked on strange things happening, but I seem to often miss posts that start a new thread, picking it up on a reply. But then I know I'm getting some others through replies to replies, and that

Re: [newbie] MPlayer error

2002-06-23 Thread L.V.Gandhi
Thanks for the detailed reply. for the command [lvgandhi@localhost lvgandhi]$ gmplayer -ao oss trackmatte.mov Can't find codec for audio format 0x706C6351 ! Audio: no sound!!! gmplayer -ao help Available audio output drivers: oss OSS/ioctl audio output nullNull audio

[newbie] [newbie ppc oldworld] no CDRom device found

2002-06-23 Thread Yvon Thoraval
that' my first trial of mandrake ppc. The steup ppc 9500 usiong an ATA tempos sonnet card cdrom : yamaha CDRW 2100 S Firstevall, when running Install Mandrake PPC 8.2 this stops execution by an error message : Sorry, can't setup BootX Then i did that manually using : vmlinux, all.gz, No

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.3

2002-06-23 Thread tom brinkman
On Sunday 23 June 2002 04:21 am, Jordan Elver wrote: I have looked on Mandrake site and no mention of 8.3, I assume you mean the latest cooker from one of the mirrors? You can make CD's from the cookers mirrors http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=1539lang=en but I was referring to

Re: [newbie] MPlayer error

2002-06-23 Thread Ralph Slooten
Looks more like mplayer does not know how to play the sound track in the movie... nothing to do with your sound system, just the file format you are playing. Try a mpeg file or something... it should work. Ralph On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, L.V.Gandhi wrote: Thanks for the detailed reply. for the

Re: [newbie] Screen problem I8100 +ATI Radeon + 1600x1200 +Mandrake 8.2

2002-06-23 Thread Walter Logeman
I wrote a while back that I had my machine working ok with mandrake 8.1 but now, with LM 8.2 I get a crashed screen if I do not add an Option noaccel in XF86config-4 Even with that option in the screen is slow and has waves as I move windows around etc. Has anyone got this combination to

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-23 Thread darklord
On Saturday 22 June 2002 09:16 pm, you wrote: But the full Emacs and XEmacs are. Micro Emacs was a cut down version to work on Micro Computers. I had a copy on my Amiga, in the good/bad old days. Ah, the Amiga I had an A1000 and other models... I still miss that under the CPU

Re: [newbie] [newbie ppc oldworld] freeze when installing mac53c94

2002-06-23 Thread Yvon Thoraval
that' my first trial of mandrake ppc. The steup ppc 9500 usiong an ATA tempos sonnet card cdrom : yamaha CDRW 2100 S Firstevall, when running Install Mandrake PPC 8.2 this stops execution by an error message : Sorry, can't setup BootX Then i did that manually using : vmlinux, all.gz, No

Re: [newbie] Package description on rpminst

2002-06-23 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 21:25:42 -0300 (ART) Gustavo Rahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Upgrading Gcc to 3.01 from bugy 2.96 under Mandrak 8.2

2002-06-23 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 00:45:10 -0700 (PDT) Duane King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AS for my problem, I did a standard upgrade/install from source; Yet when I do a --version, I get th old one.. as if its not taking, strangly enough - any ideas on this? Different versions of gcc will

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-23 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 June 2002 09:12 am, shane did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: anyone real close to there want to mail a CD with OO.o rpms for 8.1? if nobody replies i will see if i can burn one tues or wednessday for ya. wait, i am

Re: [newbie] MPlayer

2002-06-23 Thread RichardA
By the time you have a clever bash script that presents you with choices and so on, you might as well put 'ok' and 'cancel' buttons on it and call it a GUI! RichardA John Richard Smith, Saturday 22 June 2002 19:04: On Saturday 22 June 2002 17:28, you wrote: Thanks Tom, Your reply

Re: [newbie] CyrixInstead

2002-06-23 Thread Stormjumper
yes, it works. i'm running on a Cyrix, same type, but slower. threw in 256mb ram, and it's actually pretty snappy to use. - Original Message - From: poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 11:57 PM Subject: [newbie] CyrixInstead I've finally persuaded

Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader

2002-06-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 23 June 2002 10:59 am, you wrote: On Saturday 22 June 2002 09:00 pm, Dennis Myers did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: tried mounting it but it is not coming up. I used mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash reply is /mnt/compactflash does not if i understand

Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader

2002-06-23 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 June 2002 10:23 am, Dennis Myers did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: H, now it tells me wrong fs type, bad option,bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems. I changed it to /dev/sda to see if that would

Re: [newbie] mozilla files

2002-06-23 Thread Warren Post
They're in the hidden directory .mozilla in your home. Thus for user foobar, they're at /home/foobar/.mozilla. (The dot preceding mozilla is what makes it a hidden directory.) Being hidden you won't see it with ls. Use ls -a or set your favorite graphical file manager to show hidden files and

Re: [newbie] How to change colors in Xterm?

2002-06-23 Thread jerry
setterm. see man setterm for usage. On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 11:30:17 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For terminals, I prefer light text on dark background, but the blue that is used for bold is hard to read on a black background. How do you change the default colors for

[newbie] Can't start KDE 2.2.2

2002-06-23 Thread rsch77
Hello all, I've installed KDE 3.0 in /opt/kde3 and now I can't start KDE 2.2.2. The graphical login window has two inputs for kde, KDE and KDE3 and both lead me only to kde3. I can only start kde 2 as root, typing xinit /usr/bin/startkde. It doesn't work when I log as a normal user. Xtart also

Re: [newbie] Screen problem I8100 +ATI Radeon + 1600x1200 +Mandrake 8.2

2002-06-23 Thread Serge
On Sunday 23 June 2002 17:03, Walter Logeman wrote: I wrote a while back that I had my machine working ok with mandrake 8.1 but now, with LM 8.2 I get a crashed screen if I do not add an Option noaccel in XF86config-4 Even with that option in the screen is slow and has waves as I move

Re: [newbie] Some e-mail clientes

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charlie wrote: | June 18, 2002 02:35 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: | snip On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, shane wrote: | | |Are we talking about multiple users or multiple email accounts here? If |it's the first, (multiple users) then I would strong recommend that you

[newbie] Kernel--to set version or not to set verion...

2002-06-23 Thread jerry
for compatibility issues / changing hardware / removable usb devices etc... when recompiling the kernel, is it better to have the versions on modules symbols set or not? I've yet to successfully recompile one and I think this might be why... Also, when recompiling with ALSA (sound) durring

Re: [newbie] mozilla files

2002-06-23 Thread John Richard Smith
On Saturday 22 June 2002 20:34, you wrote: June 22, 2002 10:45 am, 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] compact flash card usb reader

2002-06-23 Thread Joseph Braddock
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 23:00:58 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if i understand you correctly (i likely don't) just make a /mnt/compactflash directory. I did that and I get mount: fs type fs=vfat not supported by kernel. So the line I have in fstab is: /dev/sda1

Re: [newbie] mozilla files

2002-06-23 Thread Jure Repinc
John Richard Smith wrote: One thing that puzzles me is, If abook.mab is your addressbook,then why does it only have what seem to be configuration matter in it, no email addresses , and I do, I asure you, have over 500 email addresses in my mozilla addressbook ? John Automatically

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-23 Thread Miark
But the full Emacs and XEmacs are. Micro Emacs was a cut down version to work on Micro Computers. I had a copy on my Amiga, in the good/bad old days. Emacs' and MicroEmacs' feature/command commonalities may have been identical long ago when ME was first developed. But the key bindings are

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-23 Thread Miark
That is what I wanted to check. Downloading impossible at 28.8 kbs. Why impossible? Download only at night, and use a download manager so you can resume the download each night. Shouldn't take more than two nights--it's not _that_ big a download. Miark Want to buy your Pack or

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

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miark wrote: |I was able to assure him as a professional peer - my own background is |thirty years of clinical and industrial psychology - that what he |experienced was... | | | I have, on occasion, thought it remarkable that Frasier | Crane, a

Re: [newbie] mozilla files

2002-06-23 Thread Charlie
June 23, 2002 02:20 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: snip One thing that puzzles me is, If abook.mab is your addressbook,then why does it only have what seem to be configuration matter in it, no email addresses , and I do, I asure you, have over 500 email addresses in my mozilla addressbook ?

Re: [newbie] mail servers

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 et wrote: | seems to be having a problem in the l;ast few days, let me see if this one | gets thru to the list as well as you personal mail | | Sorry Ed that I'm a few days late in answering but this one got through just fine. Mark -BEGIN PGP

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

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Adams wrote: | On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 13:17, FemmeFatale wrote: | |and this is wrong how? :) | |daRcmaTTeR wrote: | |On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Roger Sherman wrote: | |Whatever... | |Roger! ag...you've become a top poster. O no!!!

Re: [newbie] GNOME

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 robin wrote: | Aru Sahni wrote: | | When I first installed MD on my computer, I chose GNOME as my GUI, but | find it takes up too many resources. Which one should I take (i.e. | KDE) and how do I change it? | | Thank You | | Definitely not KDE! (see

Re: [newbie] GNOME

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles A Edwards wrote: | On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:27:00 +0200 | Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | |On Wednesday 19 June 2002 08:38 pm, Aru Sahni wrote: | |When I first installed MD on my computer, I chose GNOME as my GUI, |but find it takes

Re: [newbie] How to change colors in Xterm?

2002-06-23 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 06:26:17 -0600 jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: setterm. see man setterm for usage. On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 11:30:17 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For terminals, I prefer light text on dark background, but the blue that is used for bold is hard to read on

Re: [newbie] Can't start KDE 2.2.2

2002-06-23 Thread Michael Biddulph
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 4:40 am, rsch77 wrote: Hello all, I've installed KDE 3.0 in /opt/kde3 and now I can't start KDE 2.2.2. The graphical login window has two inputs for kde, KDE and KDE3 and both lead me only to kde3. I can only start kde 2 as root, typing xinit /usr/bin/startkde. It

[newbie] how to uninstall ximian?

2002-06-23 Thread Gustavo Rahal
how can I uninstall ximian on mandrake? Gustavo ___ Yahoo! Encontros O lugar certo para vocĂȘ encontrar aquela pessoa que falta na sua vida. Cadastre-se hoje mesmo! http://br.encontros.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Problems with Win4Lin and Acrobat Reader 5

2002-06-23 Thread civileme
Derek Jennings wrote: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems with Win4Lin and Acrobat Reader 5 Date: 23 Jun 2002 03:01:32 -0400 From: Terry Sheltra [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the replies that I've gotten .. both Win4Lin and Acrobat 5

Re: [newbie] sound card advice

2002-06-23 Thread Scott
On Sunday 23 June 2002 12:28 am, you wrote: 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

[newbie] Aureal Vortex2 Soundcard

2002-06-23 Thread Linus Drouhard
Please help with suggestions. My son has a computer with the following specs. Motherboard: FIC VIA 503+ K-6 III+ 450 running at 500 MHz Sound Card: Aureal Vortex2 Video card: TNT2 32MB Network card: Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI Card 384 MB Memory 1 generic cd reader 1 Samsung 8x8x32 CD-RW 1

Re: [newbie] Was Boat Anchor - Now K7S5A Sound

2002-06-23 Thread Linus Drouhard
snip The ECS K7S5A is high performance, but before 8.2 was little better than a boat anchor itself. With 8.2 you need to do some tweaks: 1. edit /etc/modules.conf and find the line that starts alias sound-slot-0 pcm-snd-i8x0 and delete it and the line following it. then put in

Re: [newbie] Was Boat Anchor - Now K7S5A Sound

2002-06-23 Thread civileme
Linus Drouhard wrote: snip The ECS K7S5A is high performance, but before 8.2 was little better than a boat anchor itself. With 8.2 you need to do some tweaks: 1. edit /etc/modules.conf and find the line that starts alias sound-slot-0 pcm-snd-i8x0 and delete it and the line following

[newbie] test

2002-06-23 Thread Terence J.Golightly
testing Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] file system

2002-06-23 Thread Dan Cox
I'm curios about the different file systems available to linux. Specifically are there certain file systems that are better for nfs partitions or other types of servers. What are the advantages of and/or disadvantages of xfs, ext3, etc. Any comments and links are greatly appreciated. Dan Cox

[newbie] Japanese Input

2002-06-23 Thread g2
Hi, how can I input Japanese characters in Mandrake Linux 8.2? Is there something like IME where in i can choose my input locale? what RPMs should I install? thanks! -- g2 intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

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

2002-06-23 Thread Roland Hughes
Do you have a nic also? I had the same problem and had to do a ifconfig eth0 down to get the modem to talk to the apps. Roly On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 18:20, 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

[newbie] Web server on CD.

2002-06-23 Thread Franki
Hi guys, I seem to remember somewhere that there was a version of apache that ran directly off a CD.. (as in AUTORUN) anyone know anything about that? A friend has to distribute a CD of html files that have to have access to com objects and stuff on windoze boxs.. and none of the machines are

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

2002-06-23 Thread Frank McKenna
Thanks Roly, I do have a NIC. I will give this a try and see how that works. I am trying to set up a DHVP server for my intranet though. Could you please tell me the command to bring my NIC back up. Thanks again, nuch apreciated Frank McKenna You don't have to like it you just have to do